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Genesis And Geology Hand In Hand.
them as literal days . Does not the particularity itself carry evidence on the face of it that the successive acts by word followed each other in the order stated ? What else could be meant by dividing the whole relation into six numbered successive dayseach of
, them beginning and ending with evening and morning ? Could we , without doing gross violence to the sacred original , suppose that all or any of these days are out of chronological order , diverse from our own usual diurnal course ? But if there
were any doubt , do not our souls yearn to hear the voice of God to set at rest for ever the question of his own appointed measurement ? And God has surely spoken , for a fourth biblical proof should be deduced and accepted from God's own words .
IV . For God spake in the twentieth chapter of Exodus and Gth verse , " Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work , " & c , and in the llth verse , " For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth , the sea , and all that in them is . " Is it not , therefore , quite clear that Ave have the same
length of time between the intervals of the Sabbath to work in , as God chose to occupy in making the earth complete ? And when we know that the Hebrews , taught by Moses , who was taught by God himself at the delivery of the law , just 3 , 355 years ago , and about 2 , 300 from the first
six days , kept this commandment in and with days as our own literal days , without any notification of difference up to their time , or any degree of any calculable difference from our own time , have we not proof positive from God ' s own wordsand His approval of Moses'
teach-, ing , and the observance of the Hebrews , that the first six days were clearly such days as they had then , and such days as we have now ? V . It is well also to note that the custom of
heathen nations has been to measure by weeks . We can imagine that the sun and moon would teach them clays and months ancl years , but weeliof seven days is a special measure , apart from the teaching of nature , and only to be traced as kept by them from the tradition handed down to them
through Noah and the time of the Deluge , so especially affqrding an external evidence of the first week related in the Bible composed of the first six days , and the first seventh day being the first Sabbath . But if we have progressed on the line of Genesis purewe think we see a geological
, friend , who chose the line of geology simple ; has he learnt any proof of the same ? He thinks he has a sure geological one . He has learnt from the earth that the g-lobe is flattened at its poles , and he arrives by long , and , to a scientific inquirer , satisfactory calculations that the earth is depressed
at the poles in the exact degree of variation from the spherical , which a semi-fluid mass would acquire , from the length and force of the diurnal axial revolution of the present time . But that same axial revolution is 'the length of
Genesis And Geology Hand In Hand.
our day of twenty-four hours , and the earth must , have acquired that revolving whirl while it was in a fluid or semi-fluid state . Consequently geology is said to evidence uhat days similar in length to our days began on the earth—it may have been , ages and ages before Adam , and never changed
since—even at the period—how interminably long ago we know not—when there was no hard crust on the earth , before even the cooling of the igneous imstratified granite , the lowest of the rock series—subsequent stratified rocks taking the form of the polar depression of the earth ..
Therefore , according to this calculation , the same diurnal government would be simply continued , through the first six biblical days up to our own time . Give , then , Geology her own , her honoured place ,, for she comes laden with collateral testimony—¦
she confirms the evidence of the Bible . She is hand in hand with Genesis . Although it is so , the great Scriptural lesson , taught and impressed so strongly of God is not only the six days in which He made the world and its fulness , but the seventh day on which He
rested—to give us the right and claim to rest also , one day in each week , —and this day in seven given of God Himself , to each living soul we have as a loving- present of time from Himself , wherein to refresh our bodies after the weary six days work , and wherein our souls may rejoice in offering fitting- worship to Him in prayer and thanksgiving . '
This day no master or service has any right to take from any one of us—for God gave it to our souls to spend it in his service—in contemplation of the blessed rest , aud eternal Sabbatismos—in remembrance of the glorious resurrection life of our Saviour Jesus Christ—and wherein to learn of Him , whom to know is life eternal .
Honesty.
HONESTY .
" An honest man is the noblest work of God . There are times ivhen we feel disposed to regard honesty as an abstract idea having its birth , and being only in the brains of the metaphysical philosophers , practically a myth , unless perchance it is kept in abeyance for the return cf the golden age
, when it may serve to add to the glory of the millaenium . Possibly the nearest description we can give of the virtue which Diogenes ( a very speculative philosopher ) was so long looking for is that it consists in doing by our neighbours as we would wish them to do by us .
The Greeks were certainly a wise nation , but it does not appear that they worshipped honesty as a god , though M . Marcellus dedicated a temple to honour , which , however , in its chivalric interpretation , does not necessarily include the former virtue . That the Argiv . es did not even regard honestv as a necessary attribute to divinity is
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Genesis And Geology Hand In Hand.
them as literal days . Does not the particularity itself carry evidence on the face of it that the successive acts by word followed each other in the order stated ? What else could be meant by dividing the whole relation into six numbered successive dayseach of
, them beginning and ending with evening and morning ? Could we , without doing gross violence to the sacred original , suppose that all or any of these days are out of chronological order , diverse from our own usual diurnal course ? But if there
were any doubt , do not our souls yearn to hear the voice of God to set at rest for ever the question of his own appointed measurement ? And God has surely spoken , for a fourth biblical proof should be deduced and accepted from God's own words .
IV . For God spake in the twentieth chapter of Exodus and Gth verse , " Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work , " & c , and in the llth verse , " For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth , the sea , and all that in them is . " Is it not , therefore , quite clear that Ave have the same
length of time between the intervals of the Sabbath to work in , as God chose to occupy in making the earth complete ? And when we know that the Hebrews , taught by Moses , who was taught by God himself at the delivery of the law , just 3 , 355 years ago , and about 2 , 300 from the first
six days , kept this commandment in and with days as our own literal days , without any notification of difference up to their time , or any degree of any calculable difference from our own time , have we not proof positive from God ' s own wordsand His approval of Moses'
teach-, ing , and the observance of the Hebrews , that the first six days were clearly such days as they had then , and such days as we have now ? V . It is well also to note that the custom of
heathen nations has been to measure by weeks . We can imagine that the sun and moon would teach them clays and months ancl years , but weeliof seven days is a special measure , apart from the teaching of nature , and only to be traced as kept by them from the tradition handed down to them
through Noah and the time of the Deluge , so especially affqrding an external evidence of the first week related in the Bible composed of the first six days , and the first seventh day being the first Sabbath . But if we have progressed on the line of Genesis purewe think we see a geological
, friend , who chose the line of geology simple ; has he learnt any proof of the same ? He thinks he has a sure geological one . He has learnt from the earth that the g-lobe is flattened at its poles , and he arrives by long , and , to a scientific inquirer , satisfactory calculations that the earth is depressed
at the poles in the exact degree of variation from the spherical , which a semi-fluid mass would acquire , from the length and force of the diurnal axial revolution of the present time . But that same axial revolution is 'the length of
Genesis And Geology Hand In Hand.
our day of twenty-four hours , and the earth must , have acquired that revolving whirl while it was in a fluid or semi-fluid state . Consequently geology is said to evidence uhat days similar in length to our days began on the earth—it may have been , ages and ages before Adam , and never changed
since—even at the period—how interminably long ago we know not—when there was no hard crust on the earth , before even the cooling of the igneous imstratified granite , the lowest of the rock series—subsequent stratified rocks taking the form of the polar depression of the earth ..
Therefore , according to this calculation , the same diurnal government would be simply continued , through the first six biblical days up to our own time . Give , then , Geology her own , her honoured place ,, for she comes laden with collateral testimony—¦
she confirms the evidence of the Bible . She is hand in hand with Genesis . Although it is so , the great Scriptural lesson , taught and impressed so strongly of God is not only the six days in which He made the world and its fulness , but the seventh day on which He
rested—to give us the right and claim to rest also , one day in each week , —and this day in seven given of God Himself , to each living soul we have as a loving- present of time from Himself , wherein to refresh our bodies after the weary six days work , and wherein our souls may rejoice in offering fitting- worship to Him in prayer and thanksgiving . '
This day no master or service has any right to take from any one of us—for God gave it to our souls to spend it in his service—in contemplation of the blessed rest , aud eternal Sabbatismos—in remembrance of the glorious resurrection life of our Saviour Jesus Christ—and wherein to learn of Him , whom to know is life eternal .
Honesty.
HONESTY .
" An honest man is the noblest work of God . There are times ivhen we feel disposed to regard honesty as an abstract idea having its birth , and being only in the brains of the metaphysical philosophers , practically a myth , unless perchance it is kept in abeyance for the return cf the golden age
, when it may serve to add to the glory of the millaenium . Possibly the nearest description we can give of the virtue which Diogenes ( a very speculative philosopher ) was so long looking for is that it consists in doing by our neighbours as we would wish them to do by us .
The Greeks were certainly a wise nation , but it does not appear that they worshipped honesty as a god , though M . Marcellus dedicated a temple to honour , which , however , in its chivalric interpretation , does not necessarily include the former virtue . That the Argiv . es did not even regard honestv as a necessary attribute to divinity is