Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-02-01

more men and more teams, and says this
is one of the best winters ever known in
this country for getting out pine logs.
The first Of tho course of lectures up
on the Six Days of Creation, by Mr..
Gill, was delivered agreeable to notice.
on Sunday evening last. These lectures
have been commenced in spirit Of re
weren't investigation. rather than that of
discussion. That we must accept the
truths Of science is fact which all must
admit, and if Christian Biologists sue
coed in making the Books Of Nature and
Revela,io; agree, the former will most
assuredly confirm the latter.
To give any thing ike a synopsis Of
these lectures would be simply impassa
bic, since they will Of necessity go over
an extensive fed and involve very many
scientific conclusions. II is but just TO
remark that this first lecture bore unmis
taxable evidence Of having been prepared
with great care, after very extensive re-
search.
The idea advanced. that day in c-ea
lion means an inl' finite period Of time.
ages uprn ages. perhaps, was not claim
ed to be original, but 1t was necessary 10
repeat it in preface to these lectures
And that NJ ,ses, or whnever MAIDS the
divine record. existed ages after the first
creation, must of necessity he allowed.
The art of writing WAS then known, ms
Moses "wr0te these ihinls in book"
Aud, also, that Moses wrote by retro
specIive prophecy, or by the aid of it, or
fy inspiration in some way, is moi merely
matter Of conjecture. since ;ine and
things, must have existed long before the
birth of that writer.
Beginning with man "a 80 now find
him. aud with the earth, as we now fird
it, wa pIuuge into strata of rock two
hundred feet thick, anil then into another
two thousand feet thick. and still into an
other. and then another Till We reach the
molten center, and there we find that it
must have taken untold ages To have re
versed the process anI fnund our way To
the surface. And then leaving this bal
for a season Ia nscartain its own source,
md contemplate the vast universe, We
Q, back Ia time when sun. m ION. earth
and stars. and every thing else, were one
interminable mass Of fiery vapor. with
ont form and void" All is motion, and
atoms assimla,e, cohese, adhere aud fiy
of in pcrfcc, order ill there is system
ATTIC revolution of thousands Of different
bodies. aud
Worlds on worlds compose this universe"
Aud now from the center of the sun We
must travel one hundred and twenty
millions of miles and then scnraely open
one half Of creation, this is an idea too
vast for human wisdom to comprehend
Nay. science has grasped it and brought
IL within tue reach Of mans mental Wis
ION, as well Ms made it capable OF ma,h
ematica demonstration.
Blu, beyond this gaseous mas. of fiery
vapor. this llinitabIe space Of incohersnt
matter science has never entered. Here
darkness was upon the face of the deep"
Here, too, was the first eight" both
from Science aud Revelation.
N.te.-lIerschel having pointed his
telescope towards the miIky.way. counted
wo hundred aud fifty eight thousand
stars which passed. by it in forty one
minutes. Science records the fact
search and you will find il. And W hat
has not science accomplished? And
what may it not vet accomplish? And
what is more wonderful than the art of
man! Creation itself. aud that only.