Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-20
RELIGIOUS GLEANINGS.
"Truth Shall Spring Ont OF the Eartl,,"
and Sermons are Found
in Stones.
The Red SEA- at the Exodus-rhe oid
Song Christian Enter
prise.
TrsrIwoNY OF RocKs.

! AS the subject OF en- evolution has of
late been brought into prominence by the
action of one Of the leading assemblies
Of the United States, it may be OF interest
to some of our readers to hear testimony
! from the geological observations of one
| of the important societies of Great Bit
| ain. Prof Hall, i. r. s., in an address
before the Victoria society, gave an &C
count OF the wo.k, discoveries, and gen
eral results of the recent geological and
| geographical expedition to Egypt, Arabia
and Western Palestine, of which he had
charge. Sketching the course taken
by him (Which to q considerable extent
took the route ascrbed To the Israelites)
he gave an account Of the ply sicalfatures
Of the country, evidences of OLD sea
margins 200 feet above the present sea
margins, and showed that at one time au
arm of the Mediterranean had occupied
the valley of the Nile as far as the First
cataract, at which time Africa was an
island Gan opinion also arrived al by an
other of the institutes members, Sir w,
Dawson), and that, at the time of the
Exodus, the Red sea ran up into the Bit
ter Lakes, and must have formed bar
rier TO the travellers progress at that
period. He then alluded TO the great
changes CT elevation in the land eastward
OF these lakes mentioning that the waters
OF the Jordan valley once stood 1892 feet
ABOVE their pre- sent height, ana that the
waters OF the Dead sea, which he
found lOoO leet deep, were once
on level with the present Mediter-
ranean sea margin, or 1892 feet above
their present height The great physical
changes which had taken place in geOlop-
iCAI time Vyarn apibapaad
whilst the rocks in Western Palestine
were generally limestone, those OF the
mountains of Sinai were amongst the
most ancient In the world. The various
geological and geographical features of
the country were so described as to make
the address condensed report of all that
Is now known of th0m in Egypt, Pales-
tine and Arabia Petrma.
Ihere was also contributed by Prof
Nlrehoh review OF the question OF
evolution, aud the results Of in
vestlgatlons in regard to the subject of
the origin OF man, as to which 1t had been
SHOWN by Sir William Dawson, that
geology divided the chronology of animal
lie into four "grcat periods;n in the
hrst-or Eozoic-in the geological az IN
me olnle records, were found the sreat
reptiles; and the last, or Tertiary. was
again subdlyided into five "periods, - and
IL was only in the last of these. the
modern" period, that the evidences of
mans presence had been found.
AGAIN, as regards his ape descent.
tne formation and proportions of the
skuii and bones of the ape considered
most like man were found to be SO differ |
EN- from those Of man as to place ipsu |
pera6le difficulties in the way of the theo- |
~, In the gorilla, the high crest on the |
skull, which was also found in the hyena,
was aosent In the man. Also, among 9th.
er points, II the capacity of the brain of
tne anthropoid ape were taken at ten. that
oI man even IN his savage state was TWEEN
", SIX, or nearly thrice as much, a very i'm
portant TACT when, as 1t was known, any
appreciaole dlminuton in the BRAN of
man was at once accompanied by idlocv.
AS =, REGARDS the transmutabiity of species,
= bafrande's sarguments against the theory
lounGed ON the results OF a life of re.
search among the ,ossil strata, had not
YET oeen overthrow ;and modern research
clearly pointed to the fact that one great
par To the transmutab.lity of species law
~ the refined and minute differences in
.ne molecular arrangements in their