Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-04-14
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THE CREATION.

From "a article on Sunday n the Ninsle,u,h Century"
the North British Review for Feb.l75l.
Let Us look INTO tins miraculous account
of the creation. II is a strange story, aud
every well-bred child IA Chusicndom knows
1t by heart; but few bearded men can agree
about It, although no one Is willing to give
itup. u Is so strange aud tue.
In The beginning how high aud awful
an archway into the scene In the Begin
ming G0d (not found out by Arguments of
design, deduced from first principles, but
known without doubt, as the father is
known Of h, children) crcatcd The hcagens
and The carth la the beginning (Whefcu
was the World the city ct God had been
founded the solar system aud our world
had been sci 40 motion; bat the earth was
without form, and yod aud darkness was
upon the face oi the deep, which covered
II around Dat the sp,rt ol God moved
upon the face of lhc waters once more:
aud then began that preparation oil the world
for the Iuhabu4ion ul man, which Is COM
monty called the Creation but, ia reality
the world had been made unknown irons
before, even ia tie beguuinI.
l. For unknown icons the sun had been
their satellites, bot no ray Of light bad yet
reached the face OF Our deep, either because
the sun had not yet grown luminous, or
more likely because the yaprous darkness,
that brooded over our waters, was still too
thick. But at last 1t came though not ia
sudden aud full blaze enough TO show the
figures of either sun or moon; aud sun
less grey morning arose upon the earth, TO
be followed bs a moonless evening; for
God divided the hight from the darkness >
aud the morning and the evening, namely,
the day aud the night, were the first day =
the day OF the coming of light therefore of
necessity the first the day OF the FIRST glad
tidlugs of the sun; the Sunday OF the a.
Weakening week Oft time.
H. Under the impulse Of this new-come
accession Of mullled solar radiance, the
waters divided part arose, namely, tue
horrld mist, and fashioned itself INTO sphe-
raj aud unbroken cloud; part remained be-
low, as 1t was, namely, the liquid element;
aud the atmospheric or skyey element stood
between them. The day aud night OF this
worldwide subllmatlon were the second
day One might well conjecture that the
AR was 50 far CLEARED IN the course of the
daytime OF this day, that even tie reflected
light of the moon might penetrate, though
Asllli to faint t. reveal her form aud m that
not impossible case, II has been appropriate
ly invested with the name oi Monday.
Ill. The next process was the standing
out of the dry land or earth, and the gather
ing of the water into seas followed by the
sprlnglng OF tender grass, or those seed.
less plants called acotyledons of the herb
yielding seed. or the monocoty ledons; aud
Of the iruit tree yielding lrut after his
kind, whose seed Is IN itself upon the earth,
the GROWING class of dicoltyiedons, capable
otpropagauon by gratis aud cuts their seed
being in themselves upon the earth. This
was the third epoch; that of the coming
forth of the continents and islands, and tueir
getting covered with the three kinds of
plant, in their right order of succession !;
first, with stony lItchens, muddy tunguses,
tender MOSES. ferns aud the like; then,
with reeds, grasses, palms, aud al. manner
of herbs yielding seed but whose seed IS
not Ia themselves aud, thirdly, with the
completed vegetable, whose Brush type IS
the oak with Its acorns. This Is the Tues
day of our week the day OF the manlesta-
tion OF vegetable organization and lrrltabill-
ty, call II Life who will sacred IN the
Scandinavian form of the old Pagan my
thology, which cann,t but be dear 10 the
Imagination OF the men who use the Eng
lish tongue, to Tyr or Tuesco, the god of
battle or conflict, the divine symbol OF effort
yet IN process
Nv. While vegetation ran rot over the
dripping earth land that under leaden sky,
stli unbroken by a streak of blue, or even
trayersed by blood-red beamless orb ma
ture could not untold her ulterior res ources;
bet that vast exhuberauce of every kind Of
plant swiftly appropriated aud solIdlied
enormous volumes of the atmospheric oIs-
tute and 1t is Just possible that they also
sucked IN aud assImilaied opake vapors or
gases now not known; SO as to clear the
way for the true arising of the sun on the
morning Of the fourth day, to be duly fol-
lowed on the evening by tile appartion of
the moon and stars the lrradlatlous of the
solar heat, as well as other obvious powers,
having meanwhile been working towards
the same magnificent result. Such was the
splendid work OF the chronological We'd
nesday, now symbollzed and known to US
as the day of Wooden, the Nalorous Person
OF the mullipe:sonal godhead of our Morse
iorelathers, corresponding with the Hercules
OF the EygPtlan-Greek lheopsophy Her
cules, going through his twelve labors,
was the Sun. going through the signs OF
the Zodiac; SO that our familiar name is a
good one for this the day OF the sun, moon,
and stars.
V. The Thursday, or fifth of this mar
'eiious octave, was made memorable by a
new and strange display of creative power,
more than worthy of our ancestral concep-
ZION OF Thor the rhunderer or god of sheer
might. IL was then that animal life begun