Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-24

cleared rs to deny that OF the day anu night.
But while the sun shone during the day
there was no moonlight ut night. The moon
changing from old to new was too near the
sun TO be visible, hence its light would not
be seen In the evening sky until the fourth
day. As this is the operation OF the present
law, can anyone deny its existence in the
ages OF the pastl Furthermore, as that lum
mary influences the atmosphere ana the
tides, II is the cause of earthquakes like
those OF Charleston and Costa Rica, storms
and mighty winds frequently, when IL.
changes from old to new. Such being the
fact now, by the law of analogy, IL Is easy TO
discern what In part caused the wind to
move upon the waters, cleansing the atmos-
phere and producing the first day.
The first day passing, the earth sub.
merged, the sun shining and sucking up the
moisture from earth and sky, we come to the
second day.
WHEN THE ATMOSPHERE CHANGED ITS CHAR
ACTER
And God said Let there be a ornament
in the midst Of the waters, and let IL divide
the waters from the waters. Gen. i-6
"And God made the armament, and di-
vided the waters which were under the
armament from the waters which were
above the armament; and it was so. Gene
sis i, Z.
"And God called the armament Heaven.
And the evening and the morning were the
second day.h-Genesis /, 3.
Here we have record of an act or law of
the Creator in dividing the waters in the
atmosphere from those on the earth, AMI the
operation of the present self acting princi-
pie in the atmosphere through the action of
sun, by which the earth receives ram, snow,
dew and mist, fertillzing the land and con-
tributing to our happiness. AS will be seen
it was q complete change in the character of
the atmosphere from its previous condition.
1t paved the way for the appearance OF man,
and the fine particles of water in the atnos-
phere cause the beautiful blue sky, and
radiate the light OF the sun, moon and stars
in the heavens above us. Without these the
sky would be black. and the sun, moon and
stars would shine alike when above the
horizon during the day. Heaven, earth and
sky would lose their radiant beauty.
IL has been urged by some, the creation of
the armament by the separation of the
waters required the work of ages, but as
science affirms, the sun can draw 10000 solid
miles of water from the earth in one year,
the question arises why should it take these
untold ages to do the work.
THE LEGENDS.
In Dopneiley's Ragnaro<. that brilliant
writer gives many of the legends, coinciding
with the Mosaic record. Among them are
the following, which may be of interest. He
says: "All the coSmogonies begin with an age
of darkness; damp, cold, rainy dismal time.
The Babylonian legends say: There was
time IN which there existed nothing but
darkness aud an abyss of waters wherein
resided most hideous beings, whichfswere
produced of two-fold principle. The Hin
doc legend says: The supreme Being, alone
existed; afterward there was universal dark
ness. The Cholula legend says: In the be-
ginning, before the light of the sun had been
created, this land was in darkness and void
of any created thing. The Quiche legend
says: Once more are tine gods in council. in
the darkness in the night of desolated un-
Iverse. The persons of the godhead were
enveloped in the darkness which enshrouded
q desolate world"
And strangest of all. MIR. Donnelley gives
that OF the Thlinkeets, of British Columbia,
about the Great Crow or Raven, Yehl.
Every dark, damp, and chaotic was the
world in the beginning; nothing with breath
or body moved there except Yehl in the
likeness of a raven he brooded over the mist;
his black winds beat down the vast confu
sion; the waters went back before him and
the dry land appeared"
How came these people with this mighty
factl Certainly they had no acquaintance
with the book of Genesis, yet the analogy
is remarkable.
representing the spirit Of God broouing over
the waters, then dispensing the darkness
with mighty wind, the similarity is strik-
ing If not complete.
. Last of all the Chinese legend says:
''In the age after the chaos, when heaven
and earth had just separated. after the chaos
cleared away, heaven appeared first in order,
then EARTH then after they existed, and the
atmosphere had changed its character man
came forth"
Here is closer analogy still. Genesis
says God created the armament and called
it heaven. The fourth commandment em-
phasizes this, and says, sin six days the Lord
made heaven 1.-THE frmament) and earth (the
dry land), the sea, and all that in them is"
The Chinese legend states the appearance
of heaven (the firmument), then earth (the
dry land), and a change in the atmosphere,
preceded the advent of man.
The change in the atmosphere Is followed
by the third day, when the waters assuage,
causing the appearance of
DRY LAND AND VEGETATION.
Sand God said; Let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together III one place,
and let the dry lana appear. and it was so.''
Genesis g.
"And God called the dry land earth; and
the gathering together of the waters called
he the seas; and God saw that it was good"
Genesis /, 10.
"And God said; Let the earth bring forth
grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit
tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed
is in itself upon the earth; aud it was So"
Genesis IL.
"And the earth brought forth grass, and
the herb yielding seed after his kind, and the
tree yielding fruit. whose seed was in itself
after his kind, and God saw that it was
good. d."-Genesis 12
"And the evening and the morning were
the third day."--Genesis 13.
THE WATERS.
The gathering together of the waters on
this day can by accounted for in many ways.
One was by the indentations in the crust of
the earth forming the bed OF the ocean. An
earthquake could do this, 'when the
mighty wind" passed over the waters on the
first day, with the same ease it sank the
great pier in the Lisbon earthquake AS the
gathering together of the waters formed the
seas the Inference is conclusive that such
was the fact. When the waters were ga tn
cred into the seas the dry land appeared. It
will be observed that the dry land was not
created on this day, neither was vegetation.
One simply rose, or appeared above the wa
ters-the other as the text says. was upon
the earth. This demonstrates that not only
the land, but all vegetation was submerged.
In this condition it was Dormant, but
when. the water was withdrawn from
the surface of the earth, ana
vegetation felt the beneficial influences of
the sun, which it could not do in the dark
ness or under the water, then the earth began
to put forth grass, and herb, aud fruits
"And God saw that it was good.n
In this connection / have spoken of the
condition of the earth before the cataclysm
| preceding the advent OF man. Some claim
| the granite is composed of the remains Of
| animals, but the primeval rocks show state
| of fusion--caused by heat-when there was
| neither plant, nor herb, nor ram. But as
| the earth cooled, vegetation and life ap-
peared. Speaking of the iguanodon,
A GREAT LIZARD,
nearly fifty feet long, which existed in the
a.