The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-02-23

reu0vatlvc creation That succeeded the
great cataclysm of the geologis,s. My
position, therefore, is this
LIST. That the geological formations
occurred during the period Of this long
continued cataclysm.
End. That during this geological
epoch, this globe underwent sundry
revolutions, being peopled variously
at its different stages, with plants and
reptiles, beasts and fishes, which we're
fossiized in its rocky crust, under the
wonderful commissions that trauspired
in those long ages before >earth was
renovativcly created an abode for man.
3rd. That the various trees and races
of animal life peopling the earth at
these different and remote geological
epochs, ages prior to the days of Adam,
constitute the fossil remains that the
science Of geology unearths.
4th. That the first chapter of Genesis
moro especially from the third verse
downward--was intended 10y Moses, to
principally unfold succinct view of
the days Of that rcnovativc creation
whereby the earth was prepared for the
place of human abode, at the termna-
ton of that part of the geological
cataclysm in which it is said that the
earth was will out form Old ts', renova-
tom aud void, or empty of the trees
al d races that had existed.
9th. That the six creative days of
Genesis may have been literal days of
twcnty-lour hours each, embracing rem.
ovative creations that had no immediate
connection with the fossil remains Of
the vague cataclysmal epoch of
geology.
9th. That in six days, Cor in periods
involving the decay of light and the
return of it, according to the import of
the Hebrew words,) occurred the
creation in Genesaic order, of plants
and reptiles, Of fish and fowls, and of
beasts and man, as known to exist since
mans formation, in parallel succession
similar to the one observed on more
extensive scale in the preceding re-
mote formations of the geological cras.
9TH. That the trees and plants, the
reptiles and animals that are found in
the fossil remains, were no part of the
creation of the six days of The Mosaic
record, since Moses merely details that
series of renovative creations which
took place at the end of the preceding
cataclysm.
No scientific conflict can be found
between this view of Genesis and the
disclosures of geology and the Bible
is scientifically sustained in the six
days of the Mosaic creation, just as i,
reads.
DR.. Cumming, Fellow of the Royal
Society of England, says: " Nobody
nowadays, who understands the ele.
ments of geology, will deny that this
earth is millions of years old--,hc his
tory in Genesis being merely that of
the constitution Of the dynasty of man,
with all that relates to it. But we main
tain" he continues, that the first
verse in Genesis precisely describes the
great geological period When about
to introduce the dynasty of man, he
tells US, by Moses, that at that period
"the earth was desolation and emp,i
ness ! may call it wreck and
ruin, indicating previous organized
state, but, for some reasons we know
not, then fallen inio ruin"
In Leviticus: "The life of the
flesh is in the blood How did
Moses know that? Modern physio-
logical and medical science has demon
strated that the blood contains a living
principle from which the very life of
the body is derived, as any enlightened
or intelligent surgeon will tell you.
The most accomplished surgeons of the
days Of Esculapius did not know this
fact yet the God who inspired Moses,
! made him write the scientific truth
that the life is in the blood. Here is a
fact-and one fact is worth ship-load
of argument. What will, what can the
infidcl do with it? Until the skeptiC
accounts for the scientific statement il
Leviiicus of this well-known phcnom
ena, what can hinder us from using
modern surgery to yindicate Moses
Psalms cxlvii, lG: "Snow like
wool What does that mean? No
that snow falls in the shape of wool
for everybody will tell you better than
that. He giyeth snow like wool.
Did you ever see see snow fakes as
sumo the shape of wool? never did
What does David mean? Well, under
the light Of modern science, his mean.
ing is plain enough. He was scicntiti
cally correct. The Psalmist revealed
a fact that was deemed absurd and un
natural, till within the last century
but now point.blank science has sus
tanned him 1t is scientifically ascer.
tanned that snow is as essential to keen
up the warmth Of the earth ia winter
that future crops may be grown on the
soil, as wool is on the back of sheep
to keep up its bodily warmth. Snow.
flax es do for the earth precisely what
wool does for shecp,-keep il warm
or prevent the sinkagc to Il temperature
so far under zero that all vegetable life
would fail, In the last century the
disclosures of science have established
this wonderful fact yet the Psalmisi
gave the same information long, long