Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-08-25

by the Israelits, as the "days of tempta
tion," and in Genesis iv. 2, "the days that
the Lord God made the earth and the
heavens" Thus geology supports the
biblical statement of creation taking place
in succession Of days. Again, geology
shows that all carboniferous vegetation
shows that the three orders of growth,
herbs, plants and trees must have been
developed without the sun, exactly in ac-
cord with the Mosaic assertion. Third,
natural philosophy sustains the Bible.
Light was long supposed to be substance;
it is known now to be only form of mo-
tion, and God knew it when he said, "Let
there be light" this being the only in
stance when "be'' is used instead of the
work make. And in obedience to Gods
word, light instantly began to move.
Job did not understand what he said
when he described the sun and stars sing
ing together; but we know the connection
between sound and music. And when
1900 B. C...the Bible refers to the fact of the
refractiOn of the suns rays at the ends of
the earth, Job xxxviii. II, no one could
understand it then. The Bible plainly
referred to the weight of the air, Job
xviii: 25, when it said, "to make the
weight for the Winds" but Galileo
thought he had discovered it; and Sol
Omon knew the natural course of the
winds when in Ecclesiastes l 6, he said
"the wind returneth again according to
his circuits" When the inspired writer
said in Job xviii, "He stretcheth out the
north over the empty space, and hangeth
the earth upon nothing" he proclaimed
for the first time the great fact of gravita-
tion and ether beyond the atmosphere;
and how many dreary centuries before
man could understand it! Solomon again
said: Gall the rivers run into the sea,
yet the sea is not full into the place from
whence the rivers came, hither they re-
turn again." Ecclesiastes 7 but he nor
any other man knew that he spoke of the
fact of the evaporation of water 3. How
does the Bible stand the test of chemistry:
Moses said man was made out of dust of
the ground, and it is scientific fact; for
lime, phosphate, silex, gas and water en-
ter in the composition of both. When
Peter wrote: "The earth standeth out of
the water, and in the water perished;
but the heavens and earth which now by
the same word are kept in store, reserved
into fire against the day of judgment,
and perdition of ungodly men," he re-
ferred unwittingly to the chemical COM
position of water and air; for oxygen is
the greatest feeder Of fire known, and it
kept from consuming the rocks and metals
by the presence of nitrogen in the air, the
lazy giant and water is composed of hy-
drogen and oxygen: hydrogen being the
most inf1ammable substance known, and
need only to he separated for the total
destruction Of the world. 4. And what
do we find from comparative anatomy of
the order Of creation of living beings as
told in Genesis? What shows the grade
to which animals belong to-day? the pro-
portion of the brain to the spinal column;
and we find that the brain of fish has
the proportion of 9 to to the spinal col.
umn, of reptiles 2! to l, birds TO /, of
mammals ! to and of man 33 to l, prov
ing exactly what we are told in Genesis
of the order of creation.-Ihe ReU. Dr..
PiersOn at Mt. HernOn.