New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-20
The Six Days Of Creatieu.
BY Fsoy. rAYLgR LEWIS.

ZION, peiOrt inc HUNK FN>So~as~~n -
the stuvey.snt Institute The Professor said in select,
ing the six Days of the Creation for his lecture he did
so as he was dssirous select subject Of sufficient
Importance and to convey to them information on
.ubjcc, which has been lat,ery much mooted. some
stated that it was impossible to reconcile the Mosaic
sccoun, of the Scripture with science and others
tended that IL was With the stter he deeply symps
thzed and particularly with Mr. Taylor. who endesv-
ored to reconcile the creation the space Of ak cr
nary days In this one thing he considered the chief
difficulty consisted He night differ with Mr. Taylor
in some things but in the aim and end. He would
endesyor 10 present clearly rs possible what hal
been the subject OF his thoughts for years and hoped
they might be able 10 understand the reasonngs which
led him 70 these conclusions and would be less dim
cui to do so, his arguments would be scripturd no
geological He, however. nigh, be wrong in his views
but be had weighed them we'd and believed them en-
titled 20 consideration For any light we have on the
subject we indebted the Bible but not 10 geology
and lie would rather cut oft the night hand OF any favor
lite systeu OF science than truth Revelation
From the Bible we have all right and all lght-without
light is but darkness The light OF science and what
we derive from nature como aud 70. and wear out but
that which comes from the ghthsnd OF Col lasts forever
The Scripture not designed 10 teach Us tas OF
that or any particular systembut merely designed
10 teach morality und religion. aud II we closely examine
will md the greatest physical TRUTH the grsndest
moral certainty, and that they will In the end accord
all their parts. The Bible designed tn teach pre-
csely what does teach, and must take Il rs the re
cord itself would discover the designs for which
it given to II We lock up the bible, We know
nothing and there is end 10 all our knowledge OF the
creation The word Genesis simply meens the produe.
ticn st thing from another by physical causes, and
this the Interpretation gwen by some OF the greatest
lights OF antiquity to the word not outstanding The sp
parent contradiction seems 10 involve. The hfst re
ccrd we receive OF the creation Of the world not poet
ical mythical II Is the relation OF SO many facts
and Is be- received the TRUTH no matter whether
agrees or disagrees with our ideas OF s accuracy, and
10 80 dana. h. "A
revelation There are here, however four things 70 be
considered The matter Of fact Is one thing; the mode
OF announcing that fact Is another. The conception Oh
by the mind third, and the emotions to when uiat
coneeutou gives rise Is fourth. The rising of the sun
is the announcement OF fact aud gives rise 10
different emotions In the RiAd OF the ordinary man. tne
scientific man. the poet and the Philosopher revels
ZION il the awakening In the soul OF certain image or re-
presentation and words the explanation OF that image II
God then would reveal anything o. US, or means 70 I'm
press image soul by direct inspiration oinust
come with reverence be it spoken TO where We are,
aud make use OF thote which will best eonyeyto
us the fact He desrer aud the impression Tie Is to make
or He must bring up 10 the third Heaven "a ne DID
ST Paul and there reveal things which we dare not
utter ON earth There has been fault found with the
way WI ich the special preternatura icngtaenng OF
the day announced when said Joshua com nsnded
the sun to stand still. but in what other manner could
the fact be told and the idea conveyed so windy andpo
tently II you are TO speak at all you must speak IN
language that will be understood and convey tr image
you desire TO impress on the soul But it said that
would he useless for the object He had La view, and be-
fore doing lie must have invented new language 70
accord With scence-not only as 10 exists now, but
10 has existed In all agcs. from the time of the
record of the creation to the present time lie must
have been philosophical and scientific, and have
encountered our minds no; only with sill the dli-
culties and distinctions and renements but with tie
meanings have been attached 70 the words In Latin,
Greek and AngloSaxon Thclecturer went ON here 10
plain how unless man was gited with all science and
knowledge time when God only desired announces
lpn her han
it, He then alluded 10 another expression OF the
Scripture where thunder IL called the voice Of the
Lord"-sod even now. Notwithstanding the light Cd
science 1.-The voice OF the Lord conveys terror to
the guilty soul The Scripture does not profess 20
teach any science. Mahonict doeB-nor does ~.
Paul announce 10 tho distance between the second
and the third heaven, but conveys TO tho mind Ia
the most conceivable and popular way the fact or The
idea necessary Thus, when wishes b express ine'
Bile glory of God IL says, The Heaven Of Heavens
not contain thee II the manner in which the Tact u re-
vesed disIlesses scienye. rather pcrbaps our
ignorance should distinguish between the fact itss
and the mode OF lie revelation aud see II II IA not done
in the best manner in which an infinite idea could oe
conveyed 10 finite mind. When Moses says, I'm tie
beginning God created the Heavens and the Farm ne
rsens to ssy the creation the work Of God and not
produced by chance, and tis Is not conception, butt
iath-and IL u not paenHnsaoa but asunsHoA-not con
ceived perceived, but understood Inc wofdto Gre
ate In Hebrew mesns fashion, 10 abrcste and so Lu
ther snslaed IN German and IL u only latferly that
has come be understood In the Lstin and metsphys
cal sense TO make something out Of nothing He did not
refuse however 70 receive In the latter sense tough
be did not think that Moses here referred 20 the begc
ming Of material creation The lecturer here read sew
ersl passages out Of Scripture 10 show the meaning he
attached to this mode Of expresson And the eaFt1
was without form and void" This expresses tina. u
consisted OF water air earth mud and slime, all mixed
together and not In any particular form And
darkness NE face of the deep and the spirt 81
God moved the THU cxpression oi the spri
Of God moving the waters was the vis prnitica sp
piled 10 bring into shape and though t was the winds
that Effected this not the less the spirit Of God.
"And God said let there he light'-when the work a
creation commenced Il s evening, and how long 70
ill the hght came, iI twelve hOurs-or WIS
twenty four hours I'LL the next evening The Lecturer
here went into long argument To prove that va the
attempt 10 cOntne 10 certain space OF ume, pc
nod which the mind cannot conceive, becsu.e OF u
vastness and inmenfity that created tbs difficulty
Light was described the rainent Of God. and
knows where t dweleth and other things invisible
from darkness but the Godhesd Ia invisible from tho
immensely 81 bis brightness The lecturer went on tO
show that Dsvd, Solomon any Of the prophets
had ever mentioned alluded the length Of the days
OF creation and that 40 period could BE- assigned but
that every day marked by transition from lower
TO higher state and by the letting In Of sudden light
How this Effected would be 10 challenge God a. the
Atheist does TO forth from his hiding place and
manifest himsef openly before he would be conynced
The lecturer then went on % show that the sersl and
solar day different aud that clocks here mga,
as wei attempt TO marx and regulate me period Of the
long night az the poles ~ endesvor 10 ascertain
that WA not III the fourth day that the sun and moon
were made 10 give Light and FIX the day and night and
thst even the sun wss larger body than the earth
his proved nothing for might be merely the balance
wheel which guided and txei the other stars, and the
earth was created first as being the most worthy Thai
Jupiter might possibly be yapor and Saturn mere bag
CT gss and ss far Is we know everything was made 70
subeerye for the benefit Of the Garth, that we
know for certain nothing unless whse has been
revealed, nor we're we likely ever TO know anything,
Tor the ways Of God no, our ways, and uodsind
year, but One day HIM The Lecturer contend
ed that science with all ts distinctions, MAJ yet pre-
che 10 lie angasge and required that God should, IN
the language OF Hb revelations, be precse, and speak
according 10 the changes and language OF science when
he could not otherwise be understood Mr.. Taylor asked
tie Geologsts several questions u why God could not
create the world 10 twenty four hours well q v
long eycle,-and they again ssked him several quoon,
and both had % be answered Bot then tbers srs Two
ether questions 10 be sked y. could nos 81 s
ste all things In day, In ons instant r-s 49, w.
only know He did not. Il wO not az al h.Sh IT,
and we can only ind hight In HIM, snd @roesn nnn.
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