The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-01-07

Of the land animals. after ths planets he'd
provided them With food.
9-"And God essated man In his own
image. in ths image Of God created be himi
male aud female created be them" "And
the Lord God formed man OF the dusl OF
the ground and brsathed into bis nos,riis
the breath OF life, and man became a llv-
! ina soul"
Such are ths nine historical statements
az recorded bY Noses many centuries be-
fore any human being ala or coull know
these facts aud the order Of their occur
renee. nut the scientific Investigations OF
ths biologists during the present century
have p owed these statements Of progress
in she sarth's development and the cover
ing 10 With growing plants and hlling 10
with animal life, absolutely a true record
Of what was done aud Of ths order IN which
10 vas done. AZ the Years have rol ed on
and the PLANTS and animals have died, vsst
numbers Of them in all ages aud In all
lands, have been changed 20 stone and en-
tombsd In accommodating strata. avsiting
the hammer OF the Geoloeist 20 break them
out and bis skill 20 read the record of thsiI
lives aud dsatha These records ass 50 &C
curate and 80 perfectly unde stood that
those made In distant lands agree In oil
essential particulars.
When Barrande found a series OF fossil
In a certain rock in Bohemia. and philliIs
found the same In ENGLAND. and Hall in
AmsfioA, all knew that these rocks VIE
formed In the same age in all the lands
But there is another vital question con-
nsctsd with this lesson; Did God create
man in his own image OF make him from "A
monkey? DR.. Rice. author OF the notes on
the sunday school lesson in the Times, IL
NOT certain whether man was created OF
developed from the monkey. But II words
mean anything. Moses says Adam was exc
ated. God created man in his own image,
in the image Of God created he him; male
and female created he them" Here create
10 used three timos, imply ing n new being.
and not the making over Of an old one, lie
created bin male and female" Monkeys
are male OF female; not male and female.
Man was made of the dust OF the earth.
No monkey is dust. Adam was made Of
the sarth. as his name implies. and not Of a
monkey. which ls fssh and blood. In
fact. no record can be stronger that man
was made from the dust aud not from the
monkey.
THE Lord God. formed man from the
dust Of the ground" For long time ate
Moses said this no one oOuld tell whether
IL was true or not bat chemistry has come
90 our aid and the test has bean applied,
aud We find all the chemical elements In
the dust OF the earth that enter into the
composition Of our bodies. All the thir-
teen chemical elements which enter into
the human body are found In all soils, and
are necessary 10 their fertility. Oxygen.
hydrogen. nitrogen. carbon, sodium, potss-
stun, calcium. magnesium, sulphur, phos-
phoruA chlorine, iron and iodine are the
elementary substances which enter into the
composition Of mans bones, flesh. brains
skin, hair and other parts Of bis bodr, an
they all are found in the dirt of the street
and the soil Of the field or the dust Of the
primeval forest.
Moses knew nothing OF this. how hap
prned ID then that he said man Was formed
Of the dust Of the ground" rather than Of
the flesh. colored marble, as he could have
done had he been making mp a fabulous
tale. Mechanically calculated the
chances are more than a million TO one
that Moses would not have hit upon the
only earthly matter in the world that oould
could have furnished the materials for
mans BODY. Bat these are only a few
things In which Moses recorded what was
then supefhuman knowledge.
c. q. SWALLOW.