The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-27

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would like to hear what shall be said
against it's objections and its claims.
Bishop Warren, of the M. E. Church,
has written book on the location of
the Garden of Eden, in which he argues
with much force, from scientific stand
point, that it was at the North Pole.
He says it is at the poles that the melted
globe first cooled down to that point
where it could sustain vegetable and
animal life, and therefore the appear
ance of animals, and of man himself,
must there have first taken place. In
proof of this, he cites the evidences of
much warmer climate, such as the
coal measures of the frigid North, with
their remains of tropical vegetation;
and cites the remains of elephants found
in Siberia, to show that the climate
grew cold, and is now becoming warmer.
The Bishops book has attracted no lit
tie attention from the ingenuity of its
reasoning, and the wealth of illustra-
tive proof which he adduces. The
Bishop is an advocate of the fre-theory
of the origin of worlds, and / suppose
would interpret the waters" and ''the
floods" and 1.-THE seas" spoken of in
Genesis and Psalms, upon which the
earth was founded, as applicable to the
fiery liquids which compose the interi-
or of the earth, and which were first
separated by the fiat of Almighty God.
Prof. Woodman, with bis water the
ory, certainly seems to have the letter
of the Scripture in his favor. He holds
that the foundations of the world are
literally laid upon the seal and ''estab-
lished upon the floods" of aters. That
the continents and ISLANDS are rooted
down deep in the compressed waters of
which the globe is largely composed,
because Of their compassion, harder
than any known substance. He holds
that the North pole of thdearth origin
ally pointed toward the syn, as the sun
was one great magnet, md the earth
was another. This accounts for the
collection of the great land masses ap-
proximately in the norfhern hemis-
phere being drawn thus HI the attrac.
tion of the sun. The nnrthern hemi-
phere was light, the scen4 Of the earli-
est vegetable and animal life, the sun
never sank below the hpf In the
southern hemisphere, wiIer and eter-
nal darkness reigned. The north polar
regions were tropical and unhealthy,
the north temperate zone, the land of
even temperature and conditions, was
the place where creation reached it's
highest perfection in the lower families
of life, and was crowned by the crea-
tion of the perfect man. At this time
the magnetic poles and poles of rota-
tion coincided. At this time such was
the position of the sun that no rainbow
would appear in the sky. II would like
a little clearer explanation of this.)
The North pole, pointing toward the
sun, was not far from where the pres
ent Straits of Gibraltar now is, and of
course, by attractive selection, would be
composed of lodestone, forming a high
mountain, projecting toward the sun.
Under these very favorable conditions,
everything reached great perfection
and man attained to an immense age.
At the time of the hood-the earth was
wrenched in the direction of it's rota-
tion, and acquired its present axis.
The convulsion tore the American con-
tinents from the Eastern, which had
been heretofore united. The proof of
this is the general indented outline of
the eastern and western shores of the
Atlantic, which show a rough corre-
spondence to each other, and the fact
that deep sea saunders find an abrupt,
bottomless chasm in the winding chan
mel of the subter-A tlantic valley, which
marks where the separation took place.
The ancient fable of Atlantis, is a
reminiscence, not of a sunken conti-
nent, but of time when the eastern
and western continents were contigu-
Gus. The present British Isles were car
ried from the neighborhood of Gibral-
tar to their present position, and the
ron of tho poIa hrOka off and ma O huriad
in the sea where the present magnetic
pole is supposed to be, and this is the
cause of the declinatiOn of the needle
when passing over that place.
The waters were converted into steam
by the heat evolved by this conyulsion,
producing a rain forty days and forty
nights; an immense tidal wave rolled
over the eastern continent, sweeping
every living thing to death, (''the four
dations of the deep were broken up;"
great subsidences and elevations took
place., and Noah's ark, with its living
freight, was landed high and dry on
Mt. Ararat. The Professor Goes not
claim that the Biblical account of the
flood teaches that the whole world was
submerged though it is scientifically
not improbable. In year the tidal
wave caught among the mountains of
Asia, had subsided, and the new peopling
of the earth, (''the land" l. e., Western
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