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

oth'f htiu NluA UP W Nlit ltNti VI lit Zffdl
whales of those pre-adamic seas while eve
~ winged fowl also, was let fly above the
earth IN the open armament Of heaven
The cetacea or water mammals (quadruple-
hearted, lungsed red blooded, vlyiparious.
breasted creatures) we're the highest mani
iestalions of this amazing period and they
belong to the noblest class of all, even that
IN which the animal body of man himself is
included. 1t is touching thing, in the
Mosaic narrative, that God Is not represent
ed has having even seen that 1t was good
when he sald Let there be light and
there was light;' nor yet on the consumma-
ton OF the purely separatiye work of second
causes, which occurred during the second
day bat when the earth Laesi into unre-
strainabe vegetation, during the progress
of the Tuesday or third age, God saw that
it was good; and likewise, when the Sun
had flashed for the first time upon the for
est-green aud ocean-blue of the world, aud
the moon had reached the Memnon-tone
of his ray IN the evening, aud the stars had
joined the chorus at night, again God saw
that It was good But now living things
sported IN the waters and IN the frmameut:
happy creatures, akin to Man, and therefore
nearer to the Creator himself aud so, II is
written ia the scripture for Us to read, God
blessed them
VI. Next came to the grand day of work
In the morning, the animal kingdom was
carried to completion; the uuapparen, Ma
ker seeing it to be good But ali those fish
of the sea, and fowl of the AR, and cattle
upon the dry GROUND, aud even all the
creeping things that creep upon the earth.
were unfinished tll the coming OF greater
than they No order of things IS complete
till u have passed into union with d higher,
any more than the seventh sound of au oc-
tave is complete tlll the eighth or FIRST of d
higher scale have struck The atomic order
Is incomplete until embodied n the mineral.
aud tine vegetable all lifted into the animal
anu therefore all those goodly figures tbat
rested iu the coveus, aud lcaped upon ,he
planes and mountain-sldes Of the farcword
were but ara uncrowncd rab0e mot even
dehnabie as the animal kundom) unul their
nature should have passed INTO mcorpora-
uon and unity with no5ler, that lt to say.
until the coming Of their Lord. So God
made mau ln his own image; in the image
of God created he HIM, male and female
created he them. Aud God blessed them
and God said unto them, Be fruitful aud
multiply, aud teplenish the earth, and SUBJ
due 1t; And God saw every
thing that he had made, and, behold 1t was
very good And the evening and the morn
ing were the sixth day II IS almost frso-
lous, after 50 sublime a quotation as this
To remark that The prime leatu-s of the day.
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Is the divine command To be fruitful or the
extension OF the law Of animal propagation
TO man, notwithstanding that be Is infinitely
more than an animal precisely as an animal
Is much more than d plant having been
made 10 the image of God. Il is doubtless
on thai account that the day of our week,
corresponding with this creative sixth, is
dedicated TO Fugga or Freya, the Scaudi-
naylan Venus, or goddess OF love and gen
Grafton BE that as It may, certainly every
Friday of the year, but Good Friday, above
al, must be dear to the Christian vino is
not overmuch afraid OF the Journalism of
days and years, when he bethinks himself of
the CrucItiXion OF ms God manifest Ia Flesh,
aud Of Tie mother who stood near the cross
S,abat ma,ir dolaro.a
Iusn crucem l4chDmo.a
Dunn pended. fiius's
VII Ga the seventh day God ended his
work which he had made not that the al
mighty will ever cease from working, since
the sustaining of the universe Is standing
aud perpetual mrlce; but that tins partcu-
lar series oi operations, namely What geolo-
gIsts call the palRonlology OF the world, or
the preparation oilts surface for the appear
ing of Man in the image Of God, was done
That which the penman OF tins wondrous
scroll set himself to describe was finished.
The house was thoroughly furnished unto
every good and perfect work. the man aud
has mate had come, and Il now behaved their
life TO begin. And God blessed The seventh
day aud sauc,ihed 1t; because that IN II he
had rested rom all his work which God had
created aud made How daring potuc
license, yet what touch OF nature, to speak
of our netor-weary God resting when the
morning of the seventh terrestrial 9on had
arisen on the darling, for whom his Father
hood had been creating and making during
the SIX weekdays OF the world What
sweet and altogether human, yet godhke
thought to bless The day as though II were
lNluE thlbI -lNt hp plAooiAE WIS llbAbuAD-
ed 10y the Word upon the day-sprng from
on high nor on the dvling waters, nor on
the seas and the earth with lis leaiy cover,
nor yet on the sun aud moon, but only up
ON the animal kingdom and lts KING -
And God blessed the seventh day aud sane
tilted a.
Such Is the genesis of lie present order of
things IN the world told from the divine
side of the phenomenon for twas the man
ner OF patrlarchal thought, not TO look INTO
nature for the Godhead, but TO behold both
nature and man IN God Such was the Mo
sac Cosmogony, or Moses express idea of
how this planet was got IN readiness, and
brought 10 the condition IN which II now
continues for time. Next to its surpass-
ing beauty Is MS philosophical accuracy, and
next TO that It's geological truth, for our es-
peclal wonder; liz sublmity being d thing
apart, and yet arising out of all those par
tlculars of lis literary character. Yetlt was
not written as poem 10 delight the world ;
ii was hot elaborated as a speculation on
the ideal TRAD aud still less was IT raised on
the basis Of observation among the stratums