There is the most striking contrast between the spirit of modern scientific thought in regard to man, and the spirit of the New Testament; and nowhere is this found more than in the views which are taken of the nature of man. Science tends almost entirely, just now, to think of man as he was. The New Testament thinks of him as he is to be. The spirit of the one and that of the other are not necessarily antagonistic. These two ways of looking backward and forward may be only complements of each other; but at present one is seeking very diligently the origin, and the other has descried the destiny, of man. The one is looking for man's physical genesis, and the other has pointed out his spiritual regenesis. The one looks at the planting of the seed: the other follows, with the same eye, the flower and the consummate fruit which that seed is to bring forth.