The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-11-07

that true to its design in this chapter and
verse, it at once comes to the period
when, all geologists admit life first made
its appearsncs in the earth for that was
not, as these Spiritists maintain, until the
ocean was formed; for they say, "Life
began in the ocean," which, il they mean
animal life, as they appear to, they may
have borrowed from Moses, for certainly
he got clearly the start Of them in an
nouncing It.
So then this verse (Gen. I q, 80 far
from being in opposition to the discov.
cries Of science, Is really an extraordinary
anticipation OF what geology teaches.
"The earth was Tor, as others translate
il, 'had becowe) desolation and empti-
ness, and darkness upon the face of the
raging deep, and the Spirit of God brood
ed upon the face Of the waters" INC
Caul and Dathius translation.) The
next verse, however, according to our
opponents, "settles beyond controversy
the fallible character of the book (Bible)
in which it is recorded"
"And God said, Let there be light,
and there was light. And God saw the
light, that it was good and God divided
the light from the darkness, and God
called the light day and the darkness
he called night; and the evening and
the morning were the first day."
Light say these critics, "mudo be.
fore the sun, the luminous center from
which it proceeds. Day before the revo.
luton Of the earth upon its axis; for
how could the earth revolve before the
sun, whose influence alone enables it to
revolvc, had an existence 7" Daylight
before sunrise" seems indeed perplexed
problem for these crudite scientists. They,
now, leaving their geological ordinance,
discharge their astronomical battery at
the Scripture. But they might have
spared their pains in this, had they but
taken pains to have read tho Bible with
attention. Had they but observed the
difference the Bible makes between tho
words create and made, and been honest
enough to avow it, they would have seen
that the former word is used to designste
the formation of the world out Of nothing,
while the latter signifies the production
Of bodies from preexisting materials.
Thus the world is spoken of as being both
created and made. soon the seventh
day, God rested from all his works which
God created and made" "These are the
generations of the heavens and the earth
when they were created in the day the
Lord God made the heavens and the
earth" "For thus saith the Lord, that
created the heavens, God himself, that
formed tho earth and made il He hath
established it; He hath created it not
in confusion; He formed it to be inhabi-
tcd." Is all this senseless repetition
No, it is purposely and wisely intended,
clearly to distinguish creation from for.
nation and making. These verses and
others show, that the earth was first ere.
ated, called into being, and that it was
q distinct work from the making, forming
or shaping Of materials already created
| l have before this shown. that God in
the beginning created the Universe, which
includes, Of course, the sun and moon
But what does bosstful science know a.
bout the relative ages Of the earth or sun
Nothing, absolutely nothing as q scien
tifc certainty. 1t has theory, howev
er, a thing more easily spun into being
than it is to give single fact bearing OF
the subject. The theory is that OF La
Place, which was that 1.-THE whole sola
system was one spherical mass Of nebulou
or vapory matter. This sphere received
from without) an impulse which causet
it to revolvc on its axis. In consequence,
it became Aattened at the poles and swol
len in the equatorial region. And ii
consequence Of the greatness Of the cen
trifugal force at the equator and the con
tomporaneous condensation and contrac
ton Of the nebulous mass, free revolv
ing ring detached itself in the region o
the equator. This ring, not being of uni
form density, and in consequence of con
traction, broke in one or more places, ant
these fragments, in obedience to the lsv
of gravitation, became a sphere or spheres
that is, planet or planets, all necessaril,
revolving from west to east, round tn
parent mass. Another ring was formed
in like manner, and another planet CAM
into existence. and 80 on, until the who'll
solar system was complete, similar pro
cess with regard to some Of the plsnets
and thus they got their moons"
Thus, by this theory we sec, that al
the planets existed before the sun became
luminous, or, if the nsbulous atmospher,
and the rings which we're detached from
it were luminous, then the earth had al
independent luminosity Of its own. Blu
however, that may be, according to thi'
theory, which so far as facts are concern
ed is as baseless as the shadow ofs vision
yet it is one Of the products Of boastfu
modern science, and 50 far as it goes,
say, it follows that the earth existed be
fore the residnary parent globe could b.
called sun, er could perform the offic'
Of luminary to the system.
Did the earth have light during thi
period? Then it must have derived j
from some Independent source. but her'
would call attention to the assumption
of our opponents-the seemingly vel
founded assumption and yet founded no
on single fact-that the sun was jus
such an orb, and afforded light in tn,
same way, as it does now from before, Oh
from the time when the earth first swun,
on its orbit. But, according TO science
as | have just shown, you perceive hov
completely this quiet assumption is de
molished, demolished not by Moses bu
by LaPlace. -.. ....s. .--.
Now will these spiritists, who came t,
town to shed light in this benighted regio,
and upon us poor wanderers in darkness
and brought here such an apparatus 70
Matching out prodigiously large broot
Of scientific moonshine and spiritua
wickedncss, please tell US what light IS