Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-07-21
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The testimony of the Rock by Hug h
Miller is certainly one of the most re-
markable books published for many a
month. Permit me to make an extract or
two. The first is taken from the Mos
alc Vision of Creation'-page 207-9.-
may remark that Mr.. Miller Is describ-
ing the order Of Creation as it may have
passed in vision before Moses in the
Midilan desert. He adopts the opinion
that the sun, though made on the first
Day Cor period OF time) when God
said let their be light SILL it did not
penetrate the mists Of the earth, and shed
It's full rays upon ii until the fourth day,
when more full account of lis Creation
IS given. After having given the vi
sion of the first three days, he thus pro-
ceeds:
And while the fourth evening falls
on the Prophet, he becomes sensible, as
it wears on, and the fourth dawn ap-
proaches, that yet another change has
taken place. The Creator has spoken,
and the stars look out from openings of
deep unclouded blue and as day rises,
the planet of morning pales IL the East,
the broken cloudlets are transmitted from
bronze to gold, and anon the gold becomes
fire, and at length the glorious sun arises
out Of The sea, and enters on his course
rejoicing. 1t is a brilliant day; the waves
of deeper and softer blue than before,
dance and sparkle in the light; the
earth, with little else to attract the gaze,
has assumed a garb of brighter green
and as the sun declines even amid richer
glories than those which had oncircled
his rising, the moon appeared full orbed
in the East-to the human eye the second
great luminary in the heavens-and
climbs slowly to the zenith as night adj
vances, shedding It's mild radiance on
land and sea-
Again, the day breaks; the prospect
consists, as before Of land and ocean
There are great pine woods, reed cover
ed swamps, wide plains, winding rivers,
and broad lakes and a bright sun shines
over ALL
But the landscape derives its interest
and novelty from a feature unmarked be-
fore. Gigantic birds stalk along the
sands or wade far into the water in quest
OF their ichthyic food while birds of
lesser size float upon the lakes, or screarl
discordant in lowering Aocks, thick az m
8ccts in the calm of a summer evening,
over the narrow seas, or brighten with
the sunlit CLEAN Of their wings the thick
woods. And ocean has It's monsters
great 'tanninim' tempest the deep, as they
heave their huge bulk over the surface,
to inhule the life sustaining air; and ont
Of their nostriIs goeih smoke, IS out of a
seethiug pot or cauIdren.' EIonstrous
creatures. armed in massive scales, haunt
the rivers or scou- the fiat, rank meadows;
earth, air and water are charged with an
imaI life; and the sun sets on a busy
scene, in which unerring instinct pursues
unrcmittingiy lis free simple ends-the
isupPort and preservation Of the indiyidu-
ii, the propagation Of the species, and the
; protection and maintenance of the young
! Again, the right disccnis, for the Gflh
daJ has closed: and morning breaks Oh
the sixth and last day Of creation. Cat
tie and beasts Of the fields Craze on the
plains; the thick-slliuned rhInoscros wal
lows in the marshes; the squat hippopo-
t0mus restles among the reeds, or pluDg-
es suiIlen.ly into the river great herds
Of elephants seek their food amid the
young heritage Of the woods, while ami
mails Of fiercer nature, the Hon, the leop-
ard, and the bear, harbor in deep caves
till the evening, or lie in wait for their
prey amid tangled thichets, or beneath
some broken bank At length as the day
wanes and the shadows lengihen, man,
! the responsible lord of creation, formed in
/ Gods own image, ia introduced upon the
/ scene, and the work of Creation ceases
+oiSfc4 upon IiIG edi H. me III Ldli'
once more upon the prospect, and there
dawns yet another morrow-the morrow
of Gods rest-that divine Sabbath in
which there is no more creative labor,
and which, blessed and sanctifed,' be-
You'd ali the days that had gone before,
has as It's special object the moral eIeva-
ton and final redemption of man. And
over IT no evening is represented, in the
record, as falling, for its special work is
not Completed P.