New-York tribune., 1878-04-17
THE LECTURE PLATFORM.
SCIENCE EXPLAINING THE CREATION.
LECTURE BY THE HON. J. b. MOTT.

LECTURE BY THE HON. J. d. MOTT.
The Hon. j. B. Mott delivered a lecture be-
fore the Young Mems Christian Association, last evening
upon the relations between Science and Religion, taking
for subject the history OF the creation as related in
the Book Of Genesis "The object of this chapter the
lecturer said is not to teach material but moral truth,
and by using the material, to illustrate moral truths
Two questions are by the passage And God said
let there light whether 1t divine utteranco,
and what created bv those words. 1t is held that
the words created the and the solar SYSTEM aud
II that is established it shows that the uterauce
divine. When the history written, the land
was filed with worshppers OF the sun. and the writer
sought teach them that this object Of their alteration
law The next creative words were Let there be
armament The terms armament and atmosphere are
was any atmosphere, and If so, could not have
been any such thing as crepuscuar lght, SIR John
powers OF the atmosphere there could no twilight aud
WOasOn says that II 10 not for an atmosphere the
sun would BOt have any magnitude, but appear
only as a speek OF light Consequently no other
language than there was light could have been used
All tDat was described in the first days creation light
appears the fourth day rs lights On the FIRST day
there atmosphere, ana therefore there could DC
only hg On the fourth day there was an atmosphere,
which produced crepuseular light 'Frmament OF
agent called atmosphere. Amer the ornament had be-
transparent that 10 could not be distinguished
from the vacancy beyond tne word Is never again used
by itse but in conjunction with the word heaven Inc
word mentioned IN the 10Th ana 2Sth verses, should
he translated heavens Therefore, when read OF the
armament OF heaven applied TO lights 10 divide and
rule day and night we TO understand by It an at
mOspneric law which produced crepuscuar lgnt: Inc
EXPLANATION Of the brief sentence there was light, Ia
furnished science, because science has discovered the
and properties of air. and also the laws Oh hgHt
and their material relation to each other
The lecturer discarded the theory that the light men
toned I'm the second verse nebular light lie con-
tnued God divided the light from the darkness and
made day and night AT this time the earth must nave
been rotating It's axis otherwise the atmosphere could
NOT obtain its position the second day III day ana
night were established they must nave been estaDshed
al this parcu ar time, aud the words divide the light
from the da kno So created the first twentyfour hours
that the earth rotated on It's AXIS when God divided
light from darkness OF the laws that caused this
the attraction OF gPtvitatlOB; but this alone
not suhi lent for the purpose, and God there
fore impaired propulsion ana Lapiace says that II
The original language OF the K the evening and
the morning day, ami this means day for itself,
wItbOut any reference what before what fol-
lowed The word day was used on account of the poy,
erty OF language aud Intended Indicate period
of time and cannot be cOnfounded with eOsInea day,
for by s duration 10 must have been day Of adeter