West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-09-14
IN THE BEGINNING.
GcHeffr 4.
FIRST ARTICLE.
Written Specially For The Argus.

the earth"
The Bible does not say how long PERIOD
elapsed between the beginning when God
created the heaven and the earth. and the
beginning of the creative week used in per.
feeting it for man; nor do biologists agree
amongst themselves as to the period of this
interval.
Scientists Of a skeplical turn Of mind have
for long time been seeking to prove that
man was on the earth long before the period
assigned in Genesis, aud every bone found
in the lower elays or grayels is scrutinized
with view to making the scients, a world .
wide reputation as the man who has given
the lie to the word Of God; but there is
wide distinction between seeking to prove a
theory and searching tor the true, and the
summary of the recent findings OF such men
as Profs. Dana, Wright, Silliman, Pasteur,
Virehow, Sir +. w. Dawson, l.. l.. d., r.
X. s., each in his particular line Of research
declares that the history in Genesis is in
everything trustworthy, and as remote as
possible from the myths and legends of
'%''~'N"N HN"AhNAaahf AiaA HO A1GN Oh science
is more certainly established than the regency
of man in geological time, and that he Is the
sole species of his genus, and of his family
or order, separated by great gap from all
other, and every attempt to find transition
from animal to man has ended in total
failure.
To see any truth clearly we must look
from the standpoint of divine revelation.
We must see light in His light. Then look
ing abroad through nature under the guild
ance of natures God, the effect will be TO
expand both heart and intellect, and TO fill
us with admiration and alteration as we
catch glimpses of the glory, majesty and
power of our Almighty Creator, wrought
out by Him alone drought His hosts of
agents and innumerable agencies. 1t is APP
Proprlate to keep in mind the great apostles
caution to Timothy, "Avoid profane and
vain babblngs and oppositions of science
falsely so-called," whatever discrepancies
may be found between the Bible testimonies
and the guesses of biologists are the errors
OF the latter whose PHILOSOPHERS have not yet
reached a thoroughly scientific basis or
| development
The beginning in Genesis relates not to
the universe, but merely to our planet. 1t
was then that the morning stars sang to-
geiher and all the angelic sons of God
shouted for JOY when the Lord laid the
foundations of the earth aud made the cloud
the garment thereof, and thick darkness its
swaddling band. A still earlier beginning
IS mentioned in the Bible, beginning be-
fore the creation of those angelic sons of
God; as we read, 'In the beginning was the
word and the Logos was with the God and
the Logos was God; the same was in the
beginning with the God. All things were
made by Him, and without Him was not
anything made that was made. The only
begotten has the high distinction above all
others of being the beginning of the creation
God-Jehovah's prime agent, a God a mighty
one, who was in the beginning with the God
the almighty one
Our Lord stands pre-eminent, next To-
Jehovah, "1he hrst-born of every creature.
Other beginnings came in turn as the various
angelic orders were one by one created, and
these beginnings were in the past so that
their hosts could shout for JOY when our
earih's creations, related in Geuesls, had
their beginning.
The earth was in existence but empty and
without order. The ordering Of affairs in
our heaven and earth IN preparation of the
Paradise Of God. Mans everlasting home
IS related as seven epoch days, as members
of the creative week or greater epoch day in
which the Lord God made earth and heaven.
Though the length of these days is not in.
d'caled in the narrative yet we find saiisfac.
tory evidence that one Of these days was a
| period Of seven thousand years, and. hence.
that the entire creative week would be 40.
ooo years, period reasonably ample for the
work accomplished therein-the ordering
and filling Of the earth, which already was
in existence, but without form, and void.
This seventh day Of the creative period
called Gods rest day is also divided into
periods Of 200 years each. In other words
the landmark or time-element is thus given
Of mans entrance seven thousand years be-
fore the earth is perfected. All His work is
perfect, and during this seventh day period
lie has permitted evil to work blight and
injury only to test, to prove, to refine, to
polish and to make his own holiness, grac-
ious character and plan the more Respondent
in the sigh, Of all His intelligent creatures.
The Serplural account agrees with what
Is known as The Valian theory, tha, during
the lgneus age the oceans went % the skies.
along with measureless fund Of mineral
and metallic sublimaiions forming into an
anular system and returned during the ages
IN grand installmenis, some Of them linpcr.
ing down 20 The age Of man. Such vapors
as remained after the heavier rings had fall.
en- must fall through The channel Of least
resistance and greatest attraction and Ger.
tainly as vas, ayalanches Of telluuo-cosmetic
SHOWS. Then, too, such a canopy, or world.
roof mus, have tempered the climate ND 10
ihe poles, and thus afforded pssiurage 20 the
mammoth and bis cogensrs Of the Arctic
world, making a greenhouse earth under a
green house roof
Light IS prime essential throughout
nature and we find it FIRST in The divine order
when ihe time came for the divine energy 20
operate upon 'hs waste aud empty earth 10
prepare BE- for main. Possibly electrical en-.
efa.es we're ihe agencies, o- possibly the
collapse " some n he heavier rings Of
aqueous and mineral matter and thus The
light end ddrknsls. day and night, became
dis'ing1shabIe though neither stars nor
moon nor sun we're in any degree discern.
able through the heavy rings or suaddIing