The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-05-29
THE CREATION.
DE-. TaImage Discourses Upon an
Important Topic
The Firss Great work Of the Creator
light Drives Away DsFkness-The Last
Great Creation of An-Ons
Weeks Work.


the evening and the morning were the
sixth day" He said:
From Monday morning to Saturday
night gives us a weeks work If we
have filed that week with successes we
are happy.
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 build
ed. God made up His mind to create a
human family and they must have
house to live in. But where? Not a
wall, not a door, not a room was Mt for
human occupation
But the time was coming when q be-
ing called man was to be constructed
and he was to have bride. and where
he could find homestead to which he
could take her must have been a Won
derment to angelic intelligences. There
had been earthquakes enough, and vol
canoes enough, and glaciers enough,
but earthquakes and volcanoes and
glaciers destroy instead of build A
worse looking world than this never
swung. 1t was heaped up defOrmities,
scarihcatiOns and mOnstrOsities- The
Bible says it was without form That
is, 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 councils, but if He had asked some
angel about the attempt to turn this
planet into a place for human resi-
dence, 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. I think
it was a spring morning and about half
past four o'clock. The first thing
needed was light
The record makes me think that,
standing over this earth that spring
L. 4
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 know not, that word which
stands for the subtle, bright, glowing
and all pervading fluid; that word
which thrills and garlands and lifts
everything 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, 600 miles in a second
/ and by undulatiOns T27, 900, 600, 900, 600 in
! a second; that one word God utters-
Light! And instantly the darkness be-
| gan to simmer, and the thick folds of
| 1blackness to lift, and there were scin-
tillatiOns and cOruscatiOns and flashes
and billOwing up of resplendence, and
in great sheets it spread out north
ward, southwark, eastward, westward,
ana a riO1dnCS nlIeQ the atmosphere
until it could hold no more OF the
brilliance. Light now to work
by while supernatural intelligences
look 81. Light, the first chapter
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 it covers himself
with light as with a garment. oh!
/ I oil aH
the first thing created that week. Good
thing to start every week with is light.
But now the light OF the first Monday
is receding. The blaze is going out.
The cOlOrs are dimming. Only part of
the earth's surface is visible. 1t is 6
o'clock, Z o'clock, 8 o'clock; observation
and darkness It is Monday night
"And the evening and the morning
were the first day
Now it is Tuesday morning. A deli
cate and tremendous undertaking is SET
apart for this day. There was a great
superabundaRce OF water. God by the
wave of his hand this morning gathers
part of it in suspended reservoirs and
part OF it he orders down into the rivers
and lakes and seas. How to hang
whole Atlantic oceans in the clouds
, without their spilling over except in
right quantities and at right times was
an undertaking that no one but ON
Impotence would have dared No won
der, long after this first Tuesday of ere
: alton week, Elihu COMPOUNDED Job with
the question: ''Dost thou know the
t balancings of the clouds?'' Hal
5 of this Tuesday work done, the Othel
half is the work of compelling the
; waters to lie down in their destined
places So God picks up the solo
ground and packs it up into five eleva
: tiOns which are the continents With
his finger he makes deep depressiOns il
= them, and these are the lakes, while a
l the piling up of the Aleghanies and
} Sierra Nevadas and Pyrenees and Alp:
and Himalsyas the rest of the water
start by the law of gravitatiOn to tn,
lower places, and IN their run dOvvE
5 hill become the rivers, and then al
around the earth these rivers come int,
! convention and become oceans beneath
as the clouds are oceans above. Three
quarters of the earth being land. moth
ing but Almightyness could have cageC
the ThTaa-frgurtb that fhav- o-r,Tr