West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-09-21
IN THE BEGINNING.
SECOND ARrlcLr.
WIillen Specially For The Argus.

Written Specially For The Argus.
The fifth creative epoch day. Now the
warm waters Of the earth swarmed with life,
from the ielly-6sh to the whale May be,
judged by the proiusion of life in the warm
southern seas at the present time, reptiles,
living partly in the water and partly on land,
belong also to this period during which
presen, continents and islands were gradually
rising and again subSiding, at one time del.
uged by larger or smaller rings coming down
and at another washed w tidal waves No
wonder the remains Of she'll hsh, etc, are
found IN the highest mountains, or that the
| immense beds Of limestone in all parts Of
the world are composed of comglomera,e
shells.
The Bible does not assert that God
created separately aud individually the
myriad kinds Of fish and reptiles, but merely
that 10y divine purpose the sea brought forth
its creatures Of various kinds. We are not
to dispute the findings of scientists with
regard to the processes by which the
| creatures Of the sea were produced, but that
all came about as results of divine intent and
arrangement, and further that the facts of
nature no less than the words of Genesis,
show that they were brought to the condition
in which is, Of its own kind. where the lines
of species cannot be overridden. This is
Gods work by whatever means brought
about. This day or epoch corresponds well
with the Replilian age of the scientist.
Evening and morning, day five, $4,000 years
from the commencement Of ordering the
earth for mans home and kingdom.
The sixth creative epoch day. The crust
of the earth had now become thicker by
hundreds of feet of sand and clays and coal
and shells and various other minerals, from
crumbling rocks thrown up by earthquakes,
from rings once surrounding the earth and
from animal and vegetable deposits, as
sufhciency OF the eaTth's surface was now
above the sea, and we'll drained by mountain
ranges and valleys to be ready for the lower
animals. Three kinds, FIRST, cold-blooded
breathing creatures; second, beasts of the
earth, or wild beasts; third, cattle, domestic
animals, suitable to be companions and
/ special service for man. The air had been
| purified of elements unsuited TO breathing
animals, absorbed from il 10y the rank vege-
tation Of the carboniferous period, as the
excessive hydrocarbons had been absorbed
from the oceans by the minute she'll fish
preparatory to the swarming OF the sea
creatures which breathe. Here again we
have no quarrel with the evolutionists. If
God chose lie could have brought all the
different species of animal life by develop
OF one from another, or tie could have
developed each species separately from the
original protozoan SHINE. The method is
not revealed either in the Bible or the rocks.
II is, however, clearly revealed that in what
ever way lie did accomplish it, He stamped
II with His signature. He has fixed the
animal species, each after his kind, in such
a manner that they do no, change; in such n
manner that the ingenuity of the human
mind has not succeeded in assisting them to
change. This is the Cenozoic period or
fourth main division of the geological record.
The fifth division is the Qnarternary, the
| age in which mans first appearance is indi-
Gated in the stony leaves of the geologic
testimony. We assume that il was Just at
the close of the sixth epoch day that God
created man; because his creation was the
last, and it is distinctly stated that God
finished His creative work, not on the sixth,
but on the seventh day. The division of
man into two persons, Two sexes, being
evidently the final act
The Scripture language does not forbid
the possibility Of the plants, water.creatures
and land-creatures being more or less devel-
oped or evolved in their variouy kinds, but
there is a wide difference in the language
used when referring to mans creation. The
latter is specific declaration of the direct
exercise of divine creative power, while the
others are not, but rather imply a develop
menL "And the earth brought forth grass,
etc. " "Let the waters bring forth the
creeping creatures" "Let the earth bring
forth the living creature after his kind"
The first chapter of Genesis treats the
matter briefly and in its epochal order and
should be divided from the commentary at
the end of the third verse of chapter two.
The first and pricipal account gives the word
"God' tElohin, a plural word signifying
mighty ones'0 when speaking Of the
Creator. The second or commentary &C.
count points out that it was Jehovah God
Who did the entire work in the day, 10000
years, that lie made the heavens and the
earth, thus grasping the whole as one still
larger epoch day, including the work Of the
six days already enumerated. As this. the
personal name Of the Creator, was no, made
known until Moses day and to the Jews
only. the divine oracles must have been
committed to their keeping as the apostle Of
the GentIes declares, and the prophet.
"You only have ! known Of all the families
Of the earth"
This explanatory account calls attention
to the fact that Jehovah, the Father Of al,
was the Creator Of all, whoever may have
been used as Ills honored representative,
and instruments. Il declares that Jehovah
God formed man Of the dust Of the ground,
and breathed into his nostriIs the breath Of
lives, and the man became living being.
a special creation BY his Maker, made ia
Ills own image, a moral and intellectual
image Of The great Spirit Being, fashioned
appropriately % DIS earthly conditions and
nature "ln lis own likeness" Like a.
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