The Creation StoryH. Altemus, 1896 - 57 pages |
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Page 49 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 23 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun : which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course.
Page 44 - And it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its...
Page 22 - Thou makest darkness, that it may be night ; wherein all the beasts of the forest do move. 21 The lions, roaring after their prey, do seek their meat from GOD.
Page 31 - ... smallest value here, is that of the close observer of human nature; of the student of human action, and of the methods which Divine Providence employs in the conduct of its dealings with men. Certainly I can lay no claim to be heard here more than any other person. Yet will I say, that any man whose labor and duty for several scores of years has included as their central point the study of the means of making himself intelligible to the mass of men, is pro tanto perhaps in a better position to...
Page 27 - Mosaist, in his endeavor to expound the ordinary development of the visible world, had no such resources. His expedient was to lay hold on that which, to the mind of his time, was the best example of complete and orderly division. This was the day; an idea at once simple, definite, and familiar. As one day is divided from another, not by any change visible to the eye at a given moment, yet effectually, by the broad chasm of the intervening night; so were the stages of the creative work several and...
Page 37 - Medium is diffused, that shines with its own proper lustre. This seems fully to reconcile that Difficulty which some have moved against the description Moses gives of the Creation. Alleging that light could not be created without the Sun. But in the following instances the Contrary is manifest, for some of these bright Spots discover no sign of a Star in the middle of them...
Page 46 - The proof from science of the existence of plants before animals is inferential, and still may be deemed satisfactory. Distinct fossils have not been found : all that ever existed in the azoic rocks having been obliterated. The arguments in the affirmative are as follows : 1. The existence of limestone rocks among the other beds, similar limestones in later ages having been of organic...
Page 31 - ... work, what are the terms, and what is the order and adjustment of terms, through which he can convey most of truth and force, with least of incumbrance and of impediment, to the mind of man, in the condition in which he had to deal with it? Let me be permitted to say that the only specialism, which can be of the smallest value here, is that of the close observer of human nature; of the student of human action, and of the methods which Divine Providence employs in the conduct of its dealings with...
Page 49 - Dana1 writes of the narrative in Genesis as follows. Speaking of the relation between the Mosaic narrative and the ascertained facts of science, he uses these words : " The accordance is exact with the succession made out for the earliest species of these grand divisions, if we except the division of birds, about which there is doubt.