Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-24

from the night; and let them be for signs,
and for seasons, and for days and years"
'And let them be for lights in the firma-
ment of the heaven 10 give light upon the
earth, and IL was So"
"And God made two great lights; the
greater light TO rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night"
"And God set them in the armament of
the heaven to give light upon the earth.n
"And to rule over the day and over the
ness, and God saw that IL was good. "--Gen-
esis 1S.
"And the evening and the morning were
the fourth ay."-C'encsis i;1410
This of all thus far is the
eRANpRsT OF THE CREATION.
The complete illumination of the heavens
by day and night. The text is precise. In
no case does IL say God created the sun and
the moon on the fourth day. But 1t does
say God created the sunlight and the moon
light, and both appeared in the sky on the
fourth day. He set their lights in the firm
ament! Where else could he have put
them, to radiate their light over all the
earth. And the stars also, where could
their light shine on the earth, IL not through
the armament of the atmospheric To the
ancients, az well as ourselves, the move
ments of the sunlight and the
nTe mSonsht s the thrGass sSse the the sTn
the seasons the days and the years.
Milton in his description of the creation with
poets license describes the evening of
the first day as the time of the full moon.
This could not be because the moonlight did
not appear until the evening of the fourth
day.
THE LAWS OF NATURE
had their beginning in eternity. Astronomy
says they are still the same One, still at
work, is that when the moon changes from
old to new it is invisible for four days. No
one can dispute this. Such being the fact,
the work of the present creation, or rehabilit-
alton of the earth, began on the evening Of
the first day, and the moon, undergoing its
monthly change, its light could not be seen
in the armament of heaven until the fourth
day. On that evening and the morning the
lights of the moon, the stars and the sun
were all visible on the earth. Can anything
make the texts clearer or jostle 1t out of har-
mony with sciencel
This ends the work of restoring the earth
or rather fitting ii for the abode of man,
who is to appear. The next thing is to peo
pie it, This came as follows:
The fifth day-The creation of the fishes.
The sixth day-The creation of the ami
mails contcmporaneous with man.
THE CREATION OF MAN.
$50 God created man in his own image, In
the image of God created he him, male and
female created he them, and called them
man,
These are the primitive, or pre-Adamite
races, or 'men" who began to call upon the
name of the Lord, to worship him, IN the
udyS VI EIHOS UIe son OF oeCn, Tue son OI
Adam the son of God. In the days of Noah
their daughters married with the sons of
God (the descendants of ADAM, when for
the wickedness prevailing on the earth they
were destroyed in
THE SECOND HISTORIC DELUGE,
when the atmosphere was again changed,
limiting the period of human life to the term
of 100 years.
The second chapter of Genesis contains
the history of Adam and Eve, and their de-
ScpnlpptS inserted nv the Scribpc IN npt.t
them with the Israelites, as shown in the
book of Chronicles and in Luke.
And God blessed the seventh day and
halowed it.
And the heavens and the earth were fin
ished. q. Il. TEST.