PART I

God's purpose in endowing plants, animals and man with reproductive power--The question of the origin of life a natural and proper one--Difference between creating and making--How God now creates or reproduces the flowers, insects, fishes and animals--The mamma and papa plants and the baby plants--The mamma and papa nature in the stalk of corn--The two natures united in the same flower--Separated in other plants--The office of the wind and insects in fertilizing the flowers--The mamma and papa natures united in the same oyster--The life of the baby oyster--The two natures separated in the fishes--The eggs and the baby fishes--How seeds are made to grow and how eggs are hatched--The beautiful lives of parent birds--The bird's nest, the eggs and the baby birds--Why the eggs of animals may not be exposed in a nest--The nest which God has prepared for them--The hatching of the egg or the birth of the animal--The creation of Adam and Eve--God created man with power similar to his creative power--The purity of parentage.