The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-01-08
Tas DAWN Or CREATION.
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vaIation.
IN reply % Or. Reville's ..Prolego-
lmonast TO the History Of Religions Mr..
Gladstone contributes an article on
Che Dawn Of Creation" to Tie Nine
seenth Century. Dr.. Reville denied m
authoritative inspired character to the
first book Of Pentateuch. and argued
that an appealto the supernatural is
per 80 insdmissible; that adiyine re.
valation. containing the sublime. doc
trines Of the purest Inspiration. given
20 . man st an age indefinitely remote.
and 10 . State Of absolute ignorance
10 Infinitely hard to imagine; that it is
not favored by analogy; and that It
c~0ntradiots all that we know of pre-
historic man. MI. Gladstone, on the
other hand, confesses his faith in a di-
vine revelation, defends tho account
OF creation giyon in Genesis, criticises
severely. and with much learned re.
reference to the "Iliad'' and the
Odyssey" the attempt to explain
Olympian mythology by the theory of
solar myths. and in conclusion amin
adverts on the theory OF Darwinism,
or evolution. He writes:
There is nothing in the CRITICISMS of
Dr.. Keviile but what rather tends to
confirm than TO impair tho old-fash-
i6ned belief that there is q revelation
In tho book Of Genesis. . [ under.
derstand Che stages OF the majestic
process described in the book of Gone-
sis TO be Ia general as follows: /. The
point of departure is tho formless
mass, created by God. out OF which
the.eartE was shaped and constituted,
thing Of individual existence.(verses
1. ~. 2. The detachment and collec-
tionso OF light. leaving In darkness as it
proceeded the still chaotic mass from
which it was detached oversees 5, 81.
The narrative assigning aspace of
time 70 each process appears to show
That each was gradual not instanta-
neOus 3. The detachment of light
from darkness is followed by the de-
s%tachnnent Of wet from dry. and of
solid from liquid, in the armament and
on tho face of tho earth. Each of these
operations occupies a .'day;" and tho
conditions OF vegetable life, as known
% US by experience. being now pro-
vided, the order OF the vegetable
kingdom had begun oversees 6-l3). 4.
Next come the presentation to us OF
the heavenly bodies, sun, moon, and
stars, in their final forms. when
the completion Of tho process Of
light collection and concentration in
the sun. and the due clearing OF
the intervening spaces, had on
abled the central orb to illuminate
us both with direct and with reflected
light (~versos HID. 5. SO far. we
have boon busy only with the adjust
ment of material agencies. We now
arrive at Tho dawn OF animated being;
and . great transition scems to be
9iarked as q kind of recommends
non ofthe work, for the name of Gre
alton is again introduced. God Great
ed (a) the water. population. (b) the
air population. And they receive his
benediction oversees 2o-23). 6. Pur-
sniag this regular progression from
. the lower to the higher, from the sim
pie ". tho. Complex, The text now gives
US the work Of the sixth :.day," which
supplies the land population. air and
water having already been supplied.
But IN it there Is q subdivision. and
the transition from (c) aafmal to (d)
man, like the transition from mani
mate TO animate. Ii again marked as
q great occasion, a kind of reccom-
uiencement. For this purpose tho
word s~'crsate" is third time employ
ed. God created man in HIS own
image and onc more He gave bone
.diction to this the final work OF His
hands. and endowed our race til its
high dominion over what lived and
what did mol 1.-Two (vorses 24-31).
Looking largely at the latter portion
Of the narrative. which describes the
creation Of living organism. there is
grapd fourfold division. set forth in
an orderly succession Of times as fol.
lows: On tho fifth day. l. the water
population 2, the air population; and
ON the sixth day. 8. the laad popnla-
ton Of animals; 4 the land population
contaminated III man.
Thif fourfold order is understood te
have beenso affirmed in our time by
natural scionce, that it may be taken
n 90 q IN ~ IN okra tod x,nnnl.a;ou n-J -
tablished fact. Then. I ask, how came
Moses, or--not to cagil ON tho word
how camc tho author of the first chap.
ter Of Genesis, to know.tha order. to
possess Knowledge (which natural
science has only within the present
centurySfor the first time dug out oil
tho bowels of the earthP II is surely
impessible t. AVOID the conclusion,
FIRST. that either this writer was gifted
with faculties passing all human ex-
perisnce or else his knowledge was
divine.
So stands tho plea for a revelation
Of truth from God, a plea only to be
met BY questioning it's possibility; that
is. rs Or. Salmon has observed with
great force in y recent work, BY sug-
costing that a being able to make man
. e unable to communicates with the
creature he has made. Thus far only
the fourfold succession OF living orders
has been noticed. But among the
persons Of very high authority in
natural soience quoted by DR.. Reasch,
who held The general accordance Of
the Mosaic cosmosony with the results
Of modern inuuiry, arc Cuyicr md ST,