The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1841-11-11

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seph and his bse.hrea in Egypt Tie
leriureSs minute description u This. made
4 clear ihai The painting was inlended "a
Ten, and did irll, graphically, he history
or J0seph's reception az his hrethren.
when the famine drove lhem into Egypt
70 buy bread. thus corrOboraiing The mar
EaIion Of Iile sacred text
Geological investigations and speerla-
lions have for some years orenpied much
Of Mr.. Durbin's attention, and he has ex-
amined the suhleci. particularly IN refer
ence 10 The history II ihe Creation = Civ
en- by Moses. and the account Of The De-
LUCE. In his mind. all idea Of The disele-
paney said 10 exist between recent geolO-
gicsl discoveries. and the facts stated in
the Bible. hlese investigations have ne
moved. The question Of Time. consider
Cd with reference 10 the creation. he re-
garded a. irrelevant. but The successive
order y described hy Moses. he pronoun-
ced as fully established by geology. The
earth. he assumed. was Al first entirely
surrounded by water; in The process Of
lime, the waters reeeied 10 their present
boundaries, and the dry land appeared,
upon which soon sprung up \ luxurianl
vegetation; next, The marine animals came
into existence; ihen land animals; and
lastly man was created. This was the
order. The time which interviewed be-
tween these successive creations nav
have been thousands Of years. In proof
Of this order, il Is 10 be found, that afier
The primitive fDcks, in which no orgsnic
remains exist, came what are called ihe
Transition rock. Here organic remains
Of plarls are first seen, imbedded in lime
stone. slaIe, and sandstone,
Then came The secondary rock, in
which appear the marine animals. Some
Of the Saurians and Ichthyosaun Qizanls
and FISH lizards here found are thirty
and forty feet long. and ten feet high!
On the top Of the secondary there is usa-
ais the chalky stratum, which forms The
foundation Of The Tertiary rocks, in which
the remains Of land animals appear. This
is the invariable order, and il is remark
able that in all these strata no organic re-
mains Of man are lound. Now these ge-
illogical facts agree precisely, the lecturer
went on 10 say, with the successive order
Of creation. as given by Moses. First,
the waters were gathered together, and
the dry land appeared; then t" God said
let the waters bring forth abundantly the
moving creature that hath life" &c. Then
" God made the beasts of the earth after
his Kind" &c. and last Of all man was
created.
The proof from natural phenomena
now existing all over the surface Of the
globe, OF ahe deluge, the lecturer though,
fully sufficient TO corroborate the Mosaic
history. The immense boulflers," as
they are called, or portions Of rock remo-
we'd from their natural positions, and car
ried away hundreds and thousands Of
miles from their true positions, were evil
dcncss not 10 be mistaken, and their ex-
isicnce, he thought, could not be account
ed for on any other theory than the action
Of water.
We cannot, Of course, in a notice like
this, cover all the ground taken, nor give
all the illustrative facts produced by the
traly eloquent lecturer. ALI We expected
was TO give some general idea Of the man.
ner in which the subject was presented,
and TO gather as many interesting facts as
possible from the beautiful lecture.
The lectures before the Wilbur Fisk
Literary institute have opened with fais
promise; and as the object Of this organ
izalion is to make, in the language of the
lecturer, knowledge the handmade Of
religion" we sincerely hope that il may
prosper in an eminent degree.