New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-07
HOLLOWNEsS OF THE THEORY OF DE-
VELOPMENT
BY THE REV. DIR. M'CosH.

by TIE REV. DIR. MC0sH.
/ invite Won into temple III which are sym
bols and inscriptions fitted to instruct 10 the true
character and history of world. That temple Is not
made by human hands, but by Him who created the
heavens and the earth. 1t is larger grander, and yet
simpler than the rOckcut temples OF India, than the
counnar vsas OF Egypt than the cathedrals raised by
the pety Of the middle ages Some of the great passes in
the Alps Andes and Hmalayas bear some likeness to 1t
IN length and hight but they are bare and STERILE
whereas this covered both sides with figures full OF
meaning At the grand entrance are two forms which
two tables stone. representing law. moral and natural
The the left IA an altar with howes and fruit on
view and extends on till the sides are lost In
is an object which no distance lessen-the
Rock Of Ages with throne set on It which cannot be
moved and the Ancient of DAYS seated on IT, and in the
midst a lamb as II had been sain." and midway be-
meek sufferer stretched upon H. hut with halo round
his head. and above him, spanning the arch rainbow
formed by the refraction OF nh, the pure E %mte
eth in what is inaccessible TO mortal ewes ana
full of glory On each side OF this extended gallery are
symbolic figures and these grow out OF each other and
carr on eontinued history from the past into the
World are bnsilv employed in drawing the pictures on
this palace OF the great King. am to engage you for
little while in looking at them and reading the nscrip-
CREATION ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES.
l. Those the religious side They have been written
at sundry times and in divers parts" by holy men as
they were moved by the Holy Ghost The first inscrip
ton that meets eye is Gin the beginning" endrche
the word used by the old Greek philosophers whom they
we're indulrinc after the origin and principle OF all
things How far back into the remote this carries us
we cannot tell but then Good created the heavens and
the earth" Then brooding darkness but It is
cloud OF seeds from which the worlds are formed 'The
earth was without form and void but the wind OF the
S c t there upon ana and G s6t ap Tsa%
and heneeforth there is systematic order;
and at the close OF each day period God declares all
things TO he very good AS yet there is no sun or
the evening and the morning constitute the first day
we not of what length for the clock Of time is not
Scripture In the second day there is the rising of the
aerial and the sinking OF d,v,dt che t1 fluid In 5ae
the same day life appears and has a developing
power In it, for the earth brought forth grass, and
herbyeldng seed after his kind, whose seed Is In itself
after his kind" On the fourth, two solid lights appear
NTH day rises out OF the night we see the waters phg
ing forth the moving creatures and we have fishes and
fowls with moving creatures and monsters, oil with
power OF evolution for the waters BRING forth aiter
their kind and every winged fowl after his Kind and are
the earth sixth day dawns, and We see reptiles and
beasts all after their kind. and In this epoch appears
the command TO be fruitful and multiply and replenish
the earth. This the special work q Eohim The one
God with plural nature, who, finishing the creation,
the living creatures TO develop by the with
which he has endowed them.
Another vision joins on and we have not Elohm, but
the son. Jehovah. the lawgver, the coyenantinaker,
and have exhibited TO us the relation in which man
OF the ground but with divine breath breathed
into him; he is put under law with promise of life and
teriOus of all the records. tempter indicating
earlier fan. suddenly intrgdes, and he he
lower passions his Instruments and benceforth man
exhibits devilish prOpenstes VI pride and rebellion on
lust on the other. is sin propagating ITSELF
actual sin developing from original sin IA seed and
and the multiplication Of the race is with sorrow and
has TO earn his bread with the sweat OF his face
"A hta hndN haQt Tn fran whit
There new appears a figure with an inscription con-
tanning the whole history Of mankind In eptome. You
ace Being possessed evidently OF superhuman power.
but with truly human nature IRE having his heel bitten
II forever. The attached writing Is, will put enmy
SeS seed II shall brHse thy head ana thou shalt brnss
his heel" Henceforth there are two seeds and each
must Contend till the good gains the victory 4
seed-Rot seeds, as Of many, but seed. as of one
the Holy Ghost who brought from ont of the formless
creation and His parsonage represented as suffer
stroylng the power Of evil. Heaeeforth world is q
OF contest Man Is warning with the unwilling
SOIL with pryation, DISAPPOINTMENT loss, disease. and
conflicting interests and passions; one race
portion Of human history Is a history Of wal,
To RESTRAIN excessive wickedness the earth is visited
races and the rainbow Is made 70 give assurance to the
earth The purpose Of God Is uaed the i
OF men; but the people, wherever they CO. propagate
the evil, and change the ncorruptible God int an |
image made like TO corruptblo man, and :" to |
birds and fourfootsd beasts and creeping THINGS" To
preserve seed who may know the trsth special man
and special seed apart Out OF this seed
the father both Of history and poet who in LANGUAGE
creation written the lnnexibe law on granite Of
Sinai, and, himself q prophet, spoken Of . greater
Prophet to come Their greatest poet himself |
great WARRIOR portays the contest between the good
and the evil going the world in warlke imagery
aud feeling that he himself not the 70 build the
sDrtDal temple, because his hands have been mDrued
n blood. points TO king who IN his majesty rides
e,oaue rously becsuso of truth. mooknosa and fxhk