The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-10
SIX DAYS
Was Required By the Almgk ty to
Complete His Work.
But the Climax Was the Creation Oh
Man and His Bride-Sermon BY
Rev. L. Dewitt Tai
mage, ID. ID.

l., 81: "And the evening ana the nnorn'
ing were the sixth day."
From Monday morning to Saturday
night gives us weeks work. IL we
have filled that week with successes
we are happy. But am going to tell
you what God did in one week. Cos
mogony, geology, astronomy, ornithoi-
ogy, technology, botany, anatomy are
such vast subjects that no human life IS
long enough to explore or comprehend
any one of them. But have thought
might in an unusual way tell you III
tie of what God did in one week and
that the first week. And whether you
make it week of days or a week OF
ages, care not, for 1 shall reach the
same practical result Of reverence and
worship.
The first Monday morning found
swinging in space the piled-up lumber
of rocks and metal and soil and water
from which the earth was to be builded.
God made up His mind to create hui
man family, and they must have house
to live in. But where? Not roof, not
q wall. not door, not a room was ut
for human occupancy. There is not pile
of black bassalt in Yellowstone Park or
an extinct volcano in Honolulu so inap-
propriate for human residence as was
this globe at that early period Moreover,
there was no human architect to draw
q plan, no quarryman to blast the
foundation stones, no carpenter to hew
out a beam, and no mason to trowel
wall. Poor prospect. But the tipe was
coming when being called man was to
be constructed, and he was to have
bride, and where he could find home
stead to which he could take her must
have been wonderment to angelic in
telligences. There had been earth
quakes enough, and volcanoes enough,
and glaciers enough, but earthquakes
and volcanoes and glaciers destroy in
stead of build.
A worse-looking world than this never
swung. It was heaped up deformities,
scarifications and monstrosities. The
Bible says it was without form. That
is, it was not round, it was not square,
it was not octagonal, it was not a rhom-
bold. God never did take any one in
His counsels: but if he had asked some
angel about the attempt to turn this
planet into place for human residence
the angel would have said: mo, no!
Try some other world; the crevices Of
this earth are too deep; its crags are
too appalling; its darkness is too thick"
But Monday morning'came. think it was
spring morning and about half-past
4 o'clock. The first thing needed was
light. It was not needed for God to
work by, for He can work as well in
the darkness. But light may be neces-
sary, for angelic intelligences are to see
in it's full glory the process of world
building But where are the candles?
Where are the candelabra? Where is
the chandelier? No rising sun will roll
in the morning, for if the sun is already
created its light will not reach the
earth in three days No moon or stars
can brighten this darkness. The moon
and stars are not born yet, or, If created,
their light will not reach the earth for
some time yet
But there is need of immediate light.
Where shall it come from? Desiring to
account for things in natural way
you say and reasonably say, that heat
and electricity throw out light indie
pendent of the sun, and that the metal
lie bases throw out light Independent
of the sun, eud that alkalies throw out
light independent of the sun. Oh, yes;
all that is true, but do not think that
is the way light was created The rec
ord makes me think that, standing over
this earth that spring morning, God
looked upon the darkness that palled
the heights of this world, and the
chasms of it, and the awful reaches of
it, and uttered, whether in the Hebrew
of earth or some language celestial I
know not, that word which stands for
the subtle, bright, glowing and all-per-
vading fluid, that word which thrills
and garlands and lifts every thing it
touches, that word the full meaning OF
which all the chemists of the ages have
busted themselves in exploring, that
word which suggests a force that flies
100, GOO miles in second and by undu-
lations $1,000, 900, 900, 900, 900, 900 in a
second, that one word God utters-
Light! And instantly the darkness be.
gan to simmer, and the thick folds OF
blackness to lift, and there were scin.
tillations, and coruscations, and flashes
and billowing up of resplendence, and
in great sheets it spread out northward,
eastward, westward, and radiance
filled the atmosphere until it could hold
no more of the brilliance. Light now
to work by while supernatural intelli-
gences look on. Light, the first chap
ter of the first day of the week Light,
the Joy of all the centuries. Light, the
greatest blessing that ever touched the
human eye. The robe of the Almighty
is woven out of it, for he covers himself
with light as with garment.
Now it is Tuesday morning. A deli.
cate and tremendous undertaking is set
apart for this day. There was great
superabundance of water. God by
the wave of his hand this morning
gathers part of it in suspended reser
voirs and part of it II orders down into
the rivers and lakes and seas. How t.
hang whole Atlantic oceans in the
clouds without their splitting over ex
cept in right quantities and at righ
times was an undertaking that no on,
but Omnipotence would have dared
But God does it as easily as you would
lift glass Of water. There lie hoist'
two clouds each thirty miles wide ant
five miles high and balances them
Here He lifts the cirrus clouds AM