Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-02-04
CREATION


had cooled down little and lit his
pipe, he said: 81 have an idea, and
want to say it out and put 1t in
cold type and see how 1t looks and
hear how it sounds. Can | go on?"
He was given the right of way and
this is what he gave out:
THE Creator, first of all, made
the earth, the land and the seas, and
divided them the one from the other.
Afterwards He made man and all
the animals. He doesn't tell us what
material he used when He made the
earth. i was taught at Sunday
school, when n little boy, that the
world was made "out OF nothing, ="
all at one and the same time. He
does tell us, however what material
He used when He manufactured
Adam the first man, viz 1.-The dust
OF the earth. - Our bodies were made
OF the earth on which we Iive-the
soil We tread, cultivate and some
times despise but never appreciate as
we should. The earth-dirt and soil
and man are very close kin. AMI
mails, | mean all the brute creation,
were made OF exactly the same ma
terial, that Is, their bodies were.
Woman wasn't. She was not made
OF dirt until II had been prepared, A"
taken through a process, perhaps
disinfected. The only difference be-
tween man and the lower animals, e"
seems TO be that he breathed n
soul" into the former. He breathed
life" into all alike, but only man
became "a living soul" The differ
ence between man and the lower an
imals may be one OF degree rather
than kind" The lay Reader was
interrupted at this point and asked
what on earth, he was driving at?
He said, as he rs-lit his pipe, "Why
just this; The soil OF the earth has
certain constituent elements, lime.
potash, phosphate, ammonia, etc
present I'm all virgin soils. The
bodies OF all animals, incldinG man,
are composed OF the same elements
and constituent parts. Chemical an
alysis shows this TO be the case. So,
tie Creator didn't take one thing
and make an entirely different
thing, after all. " When the Bible
says that we are "of the earth
earthly" and "all flesh is bluegrass"
u corrected him, that the Bible
didn't say that all flesh is "blue-
grass, " but just plain "grass" -
any Kind OF old grass, he said ii was
all the same except that perhaps
bluegrass flesh and blood was OF a
little higher order, he thought, than
some other kinds, just as some
plants and grasses are OF coarser
grain than others, although made OF
the same general material, etc., and
he went on: The earth leproduces
more earth in plants, vegetables,
birds, fishes and animals, for an an
alysis OF living organisms and the
soil show identically the same con-
stituent parts. Plants OF all kinds
have life" The great Creator
"breathed" into them, too 1.-THE
breath OF life" They move, eat.
drink, select, reject, reproduce, get
sick, decay and die just like animals
do to degree. The Bible is true
then when 1t says, we are "of the
earth, earthly" We say, "mother
earth. " That's right. The earth is
the mother OF all living things. God,
the Creator, Is Father OF all. Our
"llfe" was brealhed into an inert
body OF dirt-earth. The earth is
the passive agent in reproduc-
ton, just like all mothers. The
Great First Producer, "breathed"
Into man the power, and to him
alone, to reproduce. The woman, her
self, was a reproduction from man. E"
The Reader was called down again.
and reminded that he was getting in
to deep water, and asked again what
he was driving at. He flew OFF the
handle, and said he was talking for
the benefit of people who had some
sense and not for wooden heads. He
went on:
The constituent element OF the