The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-02-14


with Modern Science was delivered evening bssor,
the Mercantile Association, in Hope Chapel Hs ar,.
discourse, Wednesday evening, having been devossa
to review Of tho three first days of creation the thess
latter days treated Of He introduced bis lss.
ture by stating that In his lecture the other evening"
he had examined the fret half Of Mosess history Of ths
creation, and given analysis of It, showing that
divided into two parts referring to the
Of tho globe and the universe the other to the creaou
OF organized animals Science gives . very clear
msntsry the simple words Of Moses giving sketch 1
the history Of creation Astroogists naturasts AMI
geoogsts all sgree that the point Of departure for tho
devslopement Of the globe must have been gaseous
state The second state ofievelopemen tho sepAra
ton Of the waters from the waters The hypothsss of
Alexander fyes the modo of separation Of ths
forty miors OF runs Mneraogy and geology givs .hs
hstory OF the third sts9s in the soidoson Of matse
work OF the fourth day belongs the preceding epoch
that s the rsgus,ion OF the solar system This ths
period when the Physical external conditions Of the
sytem formed for the preservation the life ths
organized bergs without this steady equilibrium Il
was Impossible for animal life TO exist What the
state OF The earth during the rrscedr epoch, Immense
changes cf volume Of mster and consequent changes In
the mechanical lave Of motions Amid suon rsyoluticns
life possi5s ard therefore these chemical tions
must have tubsided before animal existence commenced
The day Of twenty four hours phy'ca imp ossib
eore that time but hepcsorth, have the days. the
easous, and the years. Why Is 1t said that cd made
he sun the moon ard the stars q. that time Ths
word employed Is "raadsn not tcreated'--it simply
means, therefore, arrangement The Hebrew word
10 create Is only employed three times in this history
he rst time is VIII. God created the heavens and the
earthwhen he created the animals and lastly when hs
created man in other relatonf 1t only means manestA
on or arrangement of In the work OF the fourth
day, theietore have creation but ths manasta-
tiop Of the great luminarss, the and stars
II compare the third and fourth days Of ton
cordinG to this hypothesis will arrive at the
zion ba. the third day thoss uminares afforded no
light TO this globe The earth must have In Of its
stages passed through the same condition as that Of the
at present We observe the body Of the dark
spots the midst OF which find less dark and they
are conetantly changing, phenomenon which Is sK
psiEed by the theory, that the Is not ncandes
cent matter but gaseous The lecturer explsnsA
his meaning by reference TO diagram What now s
this light Of the sun? II reason analogicslly vs
find that this heat could not take place with out an
immense etuvia of electricity. Many experiments
he therefore believed that the heat and light Of the
proceeded from the combination Of around It,
suppose globe In tho condition indicated Of chemical
combinations II Is impossible to estimate the euvia of
electricity which attends it, and still traces Of
sohe hei s subject this electrical action The
phenomenon the Aurora Boreals must be referred to
ha electrical action We may therefore infer that in
the first three days OF creation the earth was luminous
.n Hf % and the sun could mot HSob y, Ata
trbutIon ef light and hsat-day and night-sea-
and climates--coud not exist but
as this chemical action Of the earth ceased then the
globe was supplied with lpht by the sun and heavenly
bodies. Let passto the creation Of the animals
Az and chemists the account Of the
frat four days OF creation, seelogsts afford
knowledge OF the two last days The ss.l which
tread the laid before cur eyes aud explain
perfectly hese two days The Of the earth is
pofed Of layers or strata having their peculiar cbarAs
ter and which supeposed over the other in the
order all the globe The lecturer entered in
to short explanation OF the character Of those strata
he meteorological character OF these strata Ia not the
but this character not important tho
mic remains found in them which indicate to not only
the history the animals which then existed 5ids
on which they preyed showing that they have been sur
pijsec In the midst Of fe and kuried by violent
revolution After each epoch We find that there must
have been new satiop, the remaius in the next
strata oJnd to be dinnct species from the former
Let usesomine the different Of the world charao
ttized by these oes reain' 1t lie nom them must
the duration oi the epochs and the separation
Of from the other We find that these generations
supplied The.e are ,our estinst asss Of special
character by which We viii be able to trace
Of tho inorganized matter; tho secondary is the rspt
epoch; and the tertiary the epoch OF the mammais
The second period by the scarcity Of ami
mas and the great abundance Of water the GLOBE
that 1t may therefore, be called the oceanic psod
No organic remains Of that period have been found
then defned but small Islands scattered
the globe Tho great fact of the time the predomi-
The @ s a1
Hilary animals. The fishes were improved in thsir
orm.i the plants, also were more highly improved;
and the variety OF all much greater than In tho proceed
Dg period. In this time, also We had continents ap
pearing instead Of the isands Of the former epoch We
have also chthyosaus, and the other immense and
pscious genera eptary animals and after tho crsta
pried begns We find that all these olasses Of AMI
make their appearance and the large mammalia give
character to the period Anterior to this we do ana
these nammsla The forms Of animal life arc now i'm
proved, including also the vertebrete. But now
the head Of all this animal creation is still want
ing We do Tot find man in this fossil state;
In tho midst of this tertiary period have the Great ion
si man. which is the crownipg aot Of creation In the
we have tn. marine snima. second the repti.ry AMI
mails third the mamneia; and fourth and last, man.
Here we have progress and variety a increasing | We
period second the nsular period; third the marital
period and fourth the continental period. These
cessions are not continuous deveopement-they have
ection with each othsr-there revolutions
between them, 20 that each epoch is new creation,
but in admirable harmony with the great intellso-
tua plan OF God That is the elesrest result of ths
investigation OF geology. Now, in this history We
see thst the two last days of Genesis ars clearly
indicated. Moses say. that in the fifth day God
created the great whales and winged fowls Whalcs
here generic term and DO not mean our cetaceans
Moses maes the difference between the fifth and sixth
days just &c ogy clearly demonstrates that Is
The division made after the creation Of the birds The
last day isithe creation OF tie msmmaia and but
both there separate worh' Why mawmaia sepa-
rated from the other animals Because they are OF
longs IN the account of the creation OF man the word
created IL repeated three times II 20 show that
was the niost distinct and perfcct Of all creations
new being is to be created after and superior TO man "
nust be on psn Man IL AZ the head OF the other
animals ard that plan s now exhausted as nothing su-
peror can be made On After those six days finish
ed find tha seventh dsytbs day Of reposs or this
last day it i said that al which G % did very good
The work each was subjected 70 approval by God
with tho exception oi day-the separation Of tho
waters from tie The Of this Isl that this
was not new creation but ra ther neeston But on
the seventh day God declared that the work good
The globe completed and fitted for man. which was
he great object q the whole creation Now we have The
week Of and organized beings cut proportionatey
to the time has 70 live the earth which Is
represented by cur week Of seven days. but u would nss
be In analogy to compare these s,tronomi-
cal days 70 the great cosmogonc week OK the
devsoIemtnt OF the globs We ind like analogy In
history ana now We have 70 expect the great Sab
bath ct history prCpkesied or n the Revelations and
other portions of the globe Here have the beautiful
rythms Of Development Of the sobsmsn and history
The erre,pondence between tse history Of Moses aud
modern science l. clearly there made ous and we fol-
low The Developments Of soenee find them explain
rg but not charging these grand steps OF Moses This
correspondence has beer very ofen doubted IL s SAID
that MotCg wrcte before this knowledge Of science vns
attained by But this not necessary Moses
ereat prophet. We have seen Daniel ana lsaaAh'
propbeyiug the advent OF Christ ia is grand outlines
20 Mo.es was prophet of the past and gave the
Grand outline, oi the developenent OF the globe,