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"HOW EEADEST THOU?"

LUKE X.

OR,

THE FIRST TWO CHAPTEES OP GENESIS

CONSIDERED IN REGARD TO THE DIRECT TEXT.

BY
EDWARD DINGLE.

LONDON:
S. W. PARTRIDGE & CO., 9 PATERNOSTER ROW.
18 86.

PREFACE.

The schedule of this small work has been on my hand for many
years with the purpose of one day pubhshing it, but although my
object was to give the proper attention required, by the due compari
son of the two chapters on their pure grammatical spirit, and not to
introduce any scientific points therein, I found, to altogether leave
that out which forms the actual object of the two chapters, especially
the first, by the introduction of natural law, I have not felt at
liberty to carry out this purpose untU my discoveries on those roots of
Universal Law over Physics were much advanced. Having, however,
of late been enabled to not only prove that " Let light be " initiates
to us the universal third term, or power over all, but to obtain by the
aid of these chapters the "square of the circle," and the true law
whereby to find "the earth's two leading distances," by optical
principles, with other points of import, in my work, " The Balance
of Physics," and the recent discussion by eminent men on the true
reading of these chapters, which appeared in that Review, The
Nineteenth Century, on these points, being not very satisfactory,
I decided to set aside (pro. tern.) another object, and place these
Papers before the public alone, under the motto of "Psalm Ixxxiii,"
trusting some help will be found by readers of God's Holy Word.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
THE SCRIPTURE LETTER, ... . .3
EVIDENCE OF THE FIRST DAY, . . . . 7
DO., SECOND DAY, . . . . 10
DO., THIRD DAY, 11
DO., FOURTH DAY, . 17
DO., FIFTH DAY, . 20
DO., SIXTH DAY, . . .23
GENESIS — CHAPTER IL, . . ... 26
THE SACRAMENTAL TREES, . . .37
THE FALL, ... 44
THE FLOOD, . . . .... 52
THE RAINBOW,  . . 58
THE CALL AND OFFICES OF MOSBS,  63
THE GREAT PYRAMID,  .68

THE
FIEST AND SECOND CHAPTEES OF GENESIS
EXAMINED IN THEIR SIMPLE IITEEARY EEATUEES.
MOTTO — ^PSALM LXXXIII.

It will, I have no doubt, appear rather presumptuous for me to take
up this subject, when such giants in letters as Professor Huxley,
Max Miiller, Dr. K^ville, and Mr. Gladstone, the English Premier,
have of late been so employed ; but they have so left it that nothing
is settled, while Professor Huxley ridicules in scorn, as like the wheel
of Sisyphus, : all attempts to secure evidence to prove the Divine
narrative agrees with fact as seen in the sciences.
Dangerous as it may be, yet I remember that one of old with a few
sling-stones satisfactorily settled one grand difficulty, and with the
first he used, having still four to spare ; while ultimately the whole
brood were doomed by his successors and associates. If, therefore,
I can but settle one point a great gain toward getting the wheel at
rest is obtained.
The first point to be attained is — what forms the special Hne, in
object, that, or any narrative has to instil 1 A difference here if not
perceived by the critic may lead to much rejection of the path in the
text to accept the details. At the same time we are bound to say,
when attesting the value of any directly assumed history of facts, with
Professor Huxley, " And be it observed that I am not here dealing
with a question of speculation, but with a question of fact." We take
this on its issue under observation and experiment to the letter.
A host of failures is no proof the ultimate object sought is not
attainable at alL B

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I propose to deal with these chapters under different heads for the
benefit of more clearness than could be otherwise secured, and as the
earliest cause of the conflict was as to whether Moses meant by the
six days of Creation, at eve to morn, for the period in designation, the
same time, as the day and night ones, I propose to prove that there
never was the least excuse for such an idea, although so long of
Middle Age error, as well as so tenaciously fought for in hundreds of
treatises by the Church, modern; had there been the proper care
in collating the Mosaic text in those days the truth would have been
honoured as in other cases. We are too apt, whether in science,
doctrine, or theology, to take the views we learn from our predecessors
like children, or from others called authorities, and then hold to them.
In the first condition of youth, this is as it should be ; but not
longer from reverence of the elders, or established divines, although
these have their claims, but from a consciousness of our own respon
sibilities and experience.
Por when we attain to years of puberty we have to remember we
are directly answerable to the new responsibilities thereof j and, so,
are in demand toward God and His truth, to examine and judge
according to the facts for ourselves. Here it is the Church of Jesus
as well as sceptics have failed, alas, in more cases than one. Hence
the delusions so easily established in hosts by false traditionists as the
priests of error, for slavishness in thought to them. Had truth
been attended to, as I assume herein to clearly prove, no advantage to
scientific scepticism would have existed on the point of the Mosaic
claim to perspicuity ; an evident demand on any writer, much more
the one inditing, for the inspiration Divine.
No one, certainly, can have a right to object to Moses using the
common term Day on two different lines of thought for its meaning,
who do the same without the least idea of literary imperfection, con
stantly, for any especial beginning to the end of an operation. It is
done throughout Scripture ; and we do it not only for a time from
degrees of less or more actual physical light or darkness — as the
Mosaic institute, herein at least, confines its use — but for periods of
human action such as the reign of Queen Elizabeth, to call it her day
of sovereignty.
The whole question upon which honest criticism can work is, that
which is by honourable minds demanded on other occasions. Will
the context show the character of the case 1 In this Moses is per
fectly clear of blame. Inattention of the Church, here, to his text
has of course given the enemies of the Bible great advantage. It was
on the truth, to fact discovered, in the first chapter of God's Book,

THE SCRIPTURE LETTER. 3
claiming, with all the rest, to have been received by direct inspiration
of Jehovah; while, that the record had no want of one evidence in things
seen, for such authority, was more in demand than any other part, as
it proceeded to narrate a succession of facts concerning our universe
occurring before a man existed to witness about it. He being only of
its end in time to otherwise only judge of it. It stood therefore
before natural evidence on a very crucial ground, which I accept.
The only excuse we of the Church now, or those before us had, was
that, Hke our Sublime Master, this revelation beginning about things
of the first and lowest law, as to actual obedience to truth in action,
accepted it ad valorem as inspired with all other parts of the sacred
volume ; and so needing no proof by scientific investigation. Hence
the Church followed the pursuit of their Master (who had given the
other before, and came to initiate personally much more important
points of right toward God and man, and especially sent them forth
to that leading object for the blessing of all Hving or succeeding).
This fact, however, did not justify such inattention to the other parts
of the Divine record, that on a mere question of grammatical accuracy
it could be attacked, — and no one be able to do other than stick to
the ideas of preconceived prejudice, which a little careful attention
would obviate difficulty on.
This point of the argument for the sceptics was left open to them.
If the first chapter of the book was found by observation on its subject
wrong, who is called to accept the remainder as truth ? Responsible
as scientists were to God and Moses to see they had no real ground,
and not be beating the air ; yet much neglect remains on us to confess
regarding the enormous mischief which has followed, of which the
last part of Mr. Gladstone's first paper gives a very true and eloquently
graphic description ; and which involves, that the scientific sceptics are
the ones who have let loose all the passions of their now many
readers, to initiate Socialism, Nihilism, Boycotting, and every other
evil and cruel agency to disrupt the order and peace of society. A
tiger let loose is not easily got back to his den.
Of late years I have met with many true believers in the
inspiration of Moses (or its source whence he received his narrative, if
given before him) — who accept the idea that the Evening and Morning
days were long periods ; yet I do not remember one who took the
impression from the text of Moses direct, but was open to allow the
geologists had proved it, as only thus to be seen. This feather must
also be torn from scientists. It is mischievous, as it sets science above
revelation in evidence instead of following it on each point.
To assist the reader and make the evidence plain for the Evening

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and Morning-made-period-values in time, I shall introduce the first
day by a dialogue ; but as the Bible demands to be held as a whole,
as inspiration of the Spirit of Truth, God over all for its author, I must
first put in the absolute dictation of two passages of Holy Writ on the
leading principle for the entirety — the first being that for the full
compass of the initiation of this part of the Mosaic writings, although
not rightly divided in chapters by the translators ; the other of the
full value declared respecting the six days, long or short, by Moses in
that record, he received (and here directly by his full statement) from
the vn-itings of Jehovah Himself on Mount Sinai, The which cannot
even be supposed to have been received by him from earlier records,
inspired or not, or hidden in the Egyptian colleges, to see which
Jehovah arranged for him ; and of that makes especial note as of much
importance to his early valuable learning ; that he should have free
access to as God's future teacher of truth. Moses himself leads us to
no idea of his receiving any information, direct, but the contrary, until
he met the Lord at the " burning bush " ; and ever after only so
places his receipts to the account for a guide to the Exodus, his
especial business in time.
This does not touch the value of his record before that day, as
the early monarchy of Egypt had the opportunity to as securely
get hold of the first revelations, with the history of earlier times, by
the preservation of them by Noah and his descendants, as by a
similar fact occurred, amid all the unholy and insulting dogmas and
practices of Rome in the Middle Ages ; and secured (notwithstanding
the objects of its priests to introduce idolatry and the mercenary
claims of especial rights) to keep, but in silence, the pure Bible, for
Luther to attempt, after finding it, the restoration of the faith in
holiness, and undefiled, for others after him to carry it on.
The first passage I claim to quote is the final summary of the first
record respecting the earliest ages of this universe.
It has this place of importance because, although quite wisely put
last by Moses, it presents to us the first point to be considered in the
effort to unravel the whole skein of error by revealing the principle
God declares that He was acting by, all through the previous narra
tive, historically, to attain its end. It is a revelation on the head of
the law therein.
Thus : " These are the generations of the heaven and the earth
when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth
and heaven." This is added, in respect to all other dependent
organical workers, under light and the ethereal firmament (or outer
heaven of globes to rule them by law, or what we call gravitation),

NATURE MADE GENERATIVE. 5
which Moses clearly meant to include under all the balances of
physics, as a chief factor, which light over dead-weight set at work,
so teaching what a true universe can alone be to have that title pro
perly. Here nearly ends the fijst account, but only at the seventh verse
the actual second chapter of facts begins, when it enters on the special
points requisite to explain how Jehovah operated to start the intel
lectual and moral education of man. Yet to be considered hereinafter.
What we have to assist us is this. The term generations is never
used when a miracle is wrought, although it is of an act of God equal
to go on with that law in health, if meant as a blessing, yet may be
in judgment. So it binds us down to the scientists' claim, so far,
that the previous account has to be connected with facts, no matter
where found now, by experiment and observation, if even in the
earth's bowels, as left thereby for a memorial tablet of history past.
Miracle and operation by or for generations, imprimis for association,
are equal as to being the direct act of God, but at antithesis as to modes
of procedure, in titles of the Law. Wheat growing is not called
miracle. Hence, by this rule, all the questions of the time required
for the development of the earth and heaven claimed by scientists, on
their general record, is to the honour of Moses initiated before their
day, whether they or others had the perceptive judgment by the text
of Scripture throughout, as well as directly here, to own it as seers.
The next point is, that as to the writer's use of the term " day," it
was here made certain he claimed the common right we do to use the
expression for any subject from its beginning to its degree of termina
tion. Eor by aU translations the six Evening and Morning periods
are called a day (singular) at this place. Hence, objection to it by any
one, for the six periods themselves, was at least silly ; and also, unfair
as to Moses' character for an explicit writer, as we shall show further.
Also, the Redeemer in His answer to the disciples as to the period
before His return to restore the kingdom to Israel, although asked only
respecting one period — the day especial for preaching to the Gentiles —
answered in the plural ; and no other times could be more entirely in
the Great Father's power than those before man could meddle with
their agencies of operation (Acts i. 7).
We need, next, to consider the concise but absolute declaration of
the Ten Tables in the 20th chapter of Genesis, when we shall be more
at liberty to proceed to particular points at issue. It is this :
"Eor in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all
that in them is, and He rested on the seventh day."
Here we have a concise, but absolute statement, which cannot

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possibly be merged with the modern passion of sceptics as the mere
dreamy idealism of nature's man of genius ; to which state of
degradation, at a level with Socrates, Confucius, and Mohammed,
modern philosophers want to traduce the character of the inspiration
of the Bible — of Jesus and the Prophets. But here we have either,
by Moses, a direct falsehood as to the source this, with all the
acknowledged purity and rectitude in full of the tables, was secured
through, or we must receive it as the true Christians do. As, in fact,
Jesus fully did avow of it (Matt. xvii. 18). Also, on the points at
issue, the declaration is as clear as a heavenly trumpet sound could
be ; and so involves the same issues as the first chapter of Genesis.
That long or short (remaining for the further examination of the first
chapter to prove the time might be) both that first stroke of mighty
creative power, " The Heaven and the earth (both singular, as the
first Heaven ethereal is in Genesis) with the sea, and all that in them
is," were all of first existence from the first eve, or commencement, of
their times. Hence, it must mean, as the first chapter clearly does,
all the gases and most refined agents of " weight by measure," as well
as of the most dense, as the principle of working out its destiny is
also declared to be. There is, therefore, no room for any weak con
cession respecting God collecting together the sources of light, or
using up " Old Clothes " of the past of those in darkness. There is
no setting before mankind God impotent to actually create matter,
any more than to use it. There is no allowance of a material eternity,
but only of His own, of His essential spirit, the Maker of all before
this. By this the Christian examiner may calmly stand on evidence.
Science, truly collated, wiU corroborate it, and has.* It also demands
at our hand either a simple, child-Uke admission of its truth by the
assurance of Divine omnipotence, or we must enter on scientific
analysis in evidence to prove it ; to which, in deference not only of
the Bible, but our children's well-being, sceptics of the shallows of
science have driven us in this modern age ; for the young will read,
dangerously meddle, and get entangled with the unhallowed specious-
ness of false reasoning in evidence. We are now committed to a very
careful examination of our subject ; and so, for clearness, as stated,
propose to deal with the first day by a dialogue. But this necessity is
put on the Church — I mean that we ourselves learn more of the
beauties of the Bible and God's love in giving those first chapters,
which our own carelessness had left on our minds more in the
character of a myth, with others, than to have any intelligent idea
about them.
* See " Balance of Physics." Partridge & Co., 9 Paternoster Eow, London.

EVIDENCE BY THE FIEST DAY. 7
First Eve Begins.
1st Question. — What, according to the Mosaic text, in strictness, was
the first thing made 1
Answer. — That, " in the beginning, God created the heaven and the
earth." Or actually made both for first existence.
2nd Question. — ^What state does he say the earth was then in ]
Answer. — That the earth was "without form" (waste, by new
translation) and void. The old is here the proper word, a
nucleus ; not a chaos is meant, but a true seed state.
Srd Question. — In regard to light, what was its state then?
Answer. — ^And darkness was on the face of the deep.
4th Question. — What was the next point for a succession in time to
the earth's existence in its earlier state, thus ?
Answer. — "The Spirit of God moved ('hovered over,' by one
translation * ; new do., marg., ' was brooding ') upon the face
of the waters."
5th Question. — In what sense as to time do you hold this?
Answer. — It is in the active tense, and therefore occupied a time,
degree unknown, of this evening and morning day.
6th Question. — What was the result of this in a clear connection of
time?
Answer. — "And God said. Let there be light; and there was Hght."
7th Question. — What followed this ?
Answer. — "And God saw the light that it was good."
8th Question. — What is fairly to be implied by that ? as God must
know that all His works were " good."
Answer. — -That the light had, as it always does tend to do, by awaking
heat against rest, brought the unformed earth into form as
proposed ; and both operated, and filled it with the new and
only " Power " suited to these physics, as such, known ; light
itself, so that, as of the hen over its egg, all had life ; or was
no longer void of inherent active agency, as at first it was
"without form and void" thereof. So powerless in toto ;
unable to raise this third term of physics, the life-giver.
9th Question. — Have you other just evidence from the history to that
effect ?
Answer. — Yes. The unformed nucleus, with nothing but self-
darkness from surface to the depth — i.e., from the face of both
subjects is implied, — the heaven and the earth, — by the
• Translation by a Scotch divine. Rev. F. W. Gotch, M.A., LL.D. (Trin.
Coll., DubUn).

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central depth, could not be a scientific subject to work a
rotation by, and so must be first set into action, as even a
snow-flake must, to get a circular form by light and heat ;
under heat against gravitation or weights greatest, and in fuU
to the centre ; so our next statement settles this.
10th Question. — What is it ?
Answer. — "And God divided the light from the darkness." Both
now existed, but subject to another line of action.
11th Question. — What do you infer from the idea of darkness and
light, before this existence together interiorly, and yet
separately ?
Answer. — A mingled degree of both as gloom, but not total darkness,
of which we have the arranged type of Divine provision often
alluded to in Scripture, the hen sitting on her eggs before
bringing the chick out into clear light, is the first state.
Light, here, was as a circular emanation from the breast of
Jehovah ; and so light means the lightest weight created, with
all the new resources of electricity to • ingraft its properties of
power into dead matter, to give its form by and in its womb,
" The heaven," and then to work it all.
12th Question. — What follows?
Answer. — And God called the light "Day," — that is, of its full, clear
operation by an offset line through the heaven over the earth
to one side ; and the darkness He called night, as we observe
between day and night may, from the state and action of
light ; incorporating itself into soils by day most highly.
ISth Question. — Do you hold this to have been both the first occasion,
by the Scripture's direct dictation, of any diurnal rotation,
and of both a day and night of it in fuU or not ?
Answer. — Clearly it can have no other meaning. The earth could not
have it before, and the previous statement that God's Spirit
moved on the face of the waters involves that both the heaven
and earth were both sheer fluids, let their differences as such
be what they might ; and so, no solid or other feature for an
axis of rotation was condensed ; which is equally the case of
the natural nucleus of all vegetable and animal existence
now, before the same agencies evolve the formj to command
any regular sets of motion. Also, a day and a night period
entire are now taught by the elegance of the inscribed ellipse in
full, although as to the expression respecting days many of the
earth's revolution to regular times, after the sun and moon, &c.,
were made for the regulation to equal times, this passage does

EVIDENCE BY THE FIRST DAY. 9
not add the hke expression, "And God saw aU. good," or
reduced to regular equals of time. It is clearly left out here
in feUowship with the need afterwards attended to, to secure
these perfect times or days.
14th Question. — In what sense is the word " day" here used, I ask?
Because so many have claimed that Moses never used it, except
as of a full diurnal time, no more or less, as to this history.
Answer. — But this term, in this first place, is used, so that their idea
is clearly refuted. Eor here it means the same as we first find
a child can understand it of, and as a blessing in contrasts of
nights given. It is only used as of the mean value of the half
the diurnal period, or otherwise what becomes of the time
for night ?
loth Question. — Have you any other evidence of the narrator using
the term as of any wholes of time, as we often do — that is, the
day of any thing, or its period of existence ?
Answer. — Certainly. This act began and was complete for a day to
be so caUed, as of the daylight part of the rotation only, and
the night as to its share of that whole ; and was thus by the
direct statement of Moses, or rather inspired writ, fuUy accom-
pHshed, as the one and the other began and ended during the
latter part of the evening and morning day it was divided in ;
that is, this first is one in fuU of aU rotations. Now, a part
cannot be equal to the whole, as most savans aUow, is an axiom
of self-evident truth ; so, this first evening and morning period
was longer, and without date, as to diurnal motions or other
declarations of Jehovah's ; but this rotation of the earth was
a unique lesser period within it, but had not, as] yet, its own
settled time by this record, although of a fact in circles
operating, and further on caUed (v. 14) entire also "days."
16ih Question. — This seems clear enough, and pays but a smaU com
pliment to the intelligence of a host of past commentators on
the passage, and proves how much insult has been heaped on
the Bible thereby, as to perspicuity. Have you another point
to show before we end this Day ?
Answer. — Yes ; one as certain as the last. The final statement is,
"And there was evening and there was morning, one day."
Observe it is not called in the new translation, here, the first
day even. If that is right in the alteration (which here
I accept as most probable), and to place the comma before
" one day," then while it was the first, the object is clearly to
show that this class of period, caUed a day, had its beginning.

10 " HOW READEST THOU ? "
and aU through the six, as the first start to a direct advance to
morning, or a steadily continuing progress in the brightness of
the light, that most beautiful gift of God, so that both the heaven,
or firmament ruling the earth, gravitationaUy in its velocities to
proportionment, had a steady advance to the eye, over aU, of
the Creator ; which on the needed, constant requirement for
light as a power ingrafting as matter, new through time, to
keep up the consistency of action to reaction in weight by
measure, must become so. It would appear to any observer (if
on another planet he could exist afar to look from it, and as
the earth's dark part, the night, could only be a mere spot in
the whole creation) that the general fact was, each morning
became the eve toward another brighter morning. Now, to
go from evening to morning, if a day in regard to the
diurnal motion, could only to be aU the time in the darker
shades of the earth's night period. To make one day, it must
proceed from either morning to morning again, or evening to
evening in full. Hence, there never has been the least excuse
for the old Rome-descended idea, or the insult of sceptics as to
the Mosaic perspicuity on this head. It is settled by correct
attention on the first day, and wiU be fully confirmed in each
other as we go on. We find, however, that as to the Bible, being
of God's subscription to human learning on science, as weU as
of aU other points of truth it undertakes to teach, that, as by
the twentieth chapter of Exodus, so all the evidence historical
of the two first chapters of Genesis, what is actually declared
therein, by the letter, is presented to stand or fall on facts seen
in nature ; and we take it an honour to the Eevealer and Care
taker of His Word, so far as the original is concerned, that
by science universal, not merely partial, or of the bigotry of
scepticism that decides without knowledge or a fuU hearing,
it can be proved to be so.
The Second Day.
This day is easily disposed of, on our previously acquired evidence
in regard to the needed length of the day, although only proposing to
be occupied with the formation of one subject, — the second heaven, —
our home firmament for flying creatures to be ruled by, as weU as of
aU its other functions not needed to be mentioned in a proposed
synopsis respecting the agencies at work by the stream of the
universal power, light over inertial opacity for the development of air,

EVIDENCE BY THE SECOND DAY. 11
by and with relative changes below. In the first place, it is clearly
presented to have required this evening and morning period to get it
up, which, even if it was of a rotation only, could not be so to Divine
omnipotence by miracle ; and the key to all the means already quoted
of the conclusion for the first stage of revelation declares it, too,
was for an operative subject only to be secured by such a mode as to
be attributal to the Divine wiU under naturaUy generative, decimaled
resources, already stated. So, any requisite new quantity of light, the
power, or new chemical properties needed therein, as they must be at
the Creator's creative gift for use on that principle, so here. It is on
this point modern scientists wiU not see, wiU not admit the force of
evidence. Yet, clearly, as our atmosphere is subject to chemical
decomposition at use, to be recomposed into other elements of life in
the common exchanges of all nature, so, when up in full, as its weight
must not and does not alter in its entirety, as Mr. Davey's clever new
motor declares, it must be subject to other gaseous agencies to be
restored in its weight and character ; and as that weight is the neces
sary cause of its foUowing the earth's path as a factor to her attrac
tion, it is clear that it required to be derived from the first to its last
globule of oxygen and nitrogen, as it must now be kept up — that is,
by some fluid-working force which made it and keeps it, as the
natural separator from the lighter first firmament of less impact to
resistance, although of greater whole weight for its functions.
Now, the two lightest factors of a decimal system are one and two
normal; so, of these, as automatical agents in nature, no heavier
abnormal component could be so easily attained, unless by mixture
from the earth with others of heavier constituents. So air was clearly
raised according to this synoptical key to law, physical, by a force
of light, " the power " sufficient, as assisted with ether to its vortex
draft, to secure its present action ; and I maintain that, to the truly
unbiassed mind, enough is said in the revealed compass of this day's
dictation to secure the proof at our known acquaintance with
chemistry. Hence we proceed to the
The Third Day.
This era has two very decisive features, both of which, however
soft the early material of the earth might and must be, would require
especial agencies of diversity to bring about, at the hand of any
inventor, simUar results. It is evident to simple science that if an
experimenter on law begins with all waters or fluids to get on by
progression to densities for solids, that, as always the chemist can mix
gases to get, by an electric shock in aid, water, and even mix fluids to

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get a solid, that a system of literal narrative for the progress of our
earth by a constant admixture of more of the unit value in streams to
be absorbed into the older nucleus, vriU secure, at elliptical reactions,
greater densities by progress, and to any degree. Then a next great
point for a synoptical key for the successes to that of the last day
could provide us with no more eminent material and valuable point
than the upraising of land, or the more solid mixtures of matter
acquired to so great an unnatural position for rest and settlement as
land, than is in the first part of this day presented, after the more
solid mucks for it had been developed by the extracts for air. Now,
no experiment in chemistry, or other practical science, can assume to
imitate this, except as by design, to allow a time of graduated with
drawal of the rising over power in real matter used to operate for it,
as fluid courses over heat and faUing pressures, after an especial
degree of their use in fiery expulsive action is set at work. This, the
power Hght " To be," places, certainly, in the hand of the Creator, by
evidence to its constant use and action in aU nature, as over all for
ever at due ratios incorporatingly. But if the use is not equal to
secure the time and value in cooling cohesion for the newly ejected
matter to stick and remain ; the operation of natural attraction in all
the reclaiming mass is against success in the operation, so that the
new mass (like the island, some years since, thrown up near SicUy,
which the British Government took possession of), so ejected above
water, must faU back again to its place in gravitation by simply the
weight greater than water and its want in cohesion exactly. This is a
point aU the objectors to the Scriptural account of nature's begetting
have carefuUy avoided the least attention to, although it most
distinctly belonged to the geologists, of the class who worship nature
herself (to set design by God's hand aside by) for this certain once and
often developed event of the earth's history, so dependent on a time,
at use.
Truly, then, this point is, in all its scientific definition, a fact that
has occurred ; and could not work, except to exact design in the use of
aU the earth's, the heaven's, and that of light's forces, — that multiplier
and heat awakener for the expulsion and degree of graduated with
drawal, — such properties of mutual communication ; or ever have
secured them for the forge. It did occur, and the literality of the
statement is secured from the toils of any enemy to prove the objec
tor's ignorance of true science by practice. But it could not be done
under a law of action to weight by measure in twenty-four hours,
or for aU the after successions of the same class to any time of
present regulation ; and the cohesive force must be first inlaid. The

EVIDENCE BY THE THIRD DAY. 13
second part of this day appears distinctly to have been written on
a forethought of the blunder on time of modern ages ; and so,
although a synopsis of any invention requires to be like the
declaration or specification patent key, as complete, but as con
cise, as possible to assist, in future, the full understanding of
its use by the inventor, as well as those who desire to act with
the same agents; yet the writing here gives us what otherwise,
except as it was meant to meet human inattention to aU the
other parts in a question, ought not to be required — that is, the
second declaration found in the twelfth verse to that of the eleventh.
The previous passage, ending the first stage, having given the affix of
testimony, that to aU the laws initiated for nature, God saw the due
proportion secured between soUds to continue above the waters, — now
designatively caUed seas, — as of weight to measure, proportionaUy
laid down by the expulsion of the matter for air, on proportions for
each to abide. Now, the synopsis having so presented the law and
fact, has no statement, and by the other part, no propriety to
give the idea that all the land universally to be thrown up should
be held then to have been ejected. Hence, even the declaration,
"good," or brought to its due proportions in time (for the diurnal
motion to the other periods of time had not arrived in fuU by
the regulators) is absent here again. Hence, with a law of propor
tional growth, and of force, over aU parts by a constant addition of a
multiplying third term, to prevent the same closing, it is properly left
open, as of imputative right to the author's meaning on this point.
Like as Ught and darkness were promiscuously blended, while the
brooding action of the first day went on, and then were more particu
larly set to visible separation and use, although mutuaUy active by all
the first principles of law before ; so, here, the new fiuids, caUed seas,
were separated from the land to visible sight, to have individual
characters, but with such a separation as onward, longer, to belong to
an universal ledger of all the forces of exchange as to growths like
other parts until balanced for times. Now, as these gone before
were of the especial great changes to design, so the foUowing
features are initiated ; and whether there were or not earlier develop
ments vegetative aUowed, or useful to exist in the common boil of
all the mucks and lighter fluids circulating while air was develop
ing, or before the land appeared, there is no pretence to declare,
although the boUing heats of all the mixed fluid masses at work
before would involve none, probably.
But, as land is the first natural feature for flora to sight, there
is no ground for argument on the text about it. God's great object

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is to give the features that fuUy and clearly could not, by any
afterward analysis of science, lead to a conclusion against his claim to
the design and gracious operation for the existence of aU the features
provided for man in the earth, and aU the universe around, so to
preserve man from any excuse for the worship of nature as equal alone
to such a whole set of existing conditions such as we see ; although
made the agent in her operations to carry on the new wonderfully-
powerful and minutely-beautiful creations and operations active, after
aU was ready for the construction thereof. Also, to attest the book
it is attached to, by science, to be of Him.
Hence, the points to be secured to prevent excuse for modern
idolatry are the presentation of those points of the creation progress
most perfectly assuring to the student of science that it was only the
hand of Jehovah, who made all and works all. This second part of
this day not only initiates the certain requirement for a setting of
the exact natural material belonging to the common law of circulations
as they are already presented, and, therefore, to be rightly selected of
the earth's bodUy substances to that end for dependent organisms
under all life circulations aU through them, and of her body ; subject,
also, directly, for these particular circulations to the same agents of
light and ether, and to them added the air ; but, also, it is necessarily
a self-evident fact that the new organical operators, under the natural
mechanical submission to light, ether, earth, and air, should have such
a start at a due period, that this time of their first united existence,
and the condition, should not be of any imperfect value amid all the
congeries of atomic operators, life-giving and destructive, or that the
seeding forces should overcrowd on others to their destruction, or be
subject to run out by the same insufficiency of resources so as to
become extinct until any new and more perfect successions of the
same general character, more fitted for the ingrafted teaching of
universal progress to an especial age of the perfect for man, were
made to take their places ; and this rule had its same value for aU
animal life. Hence, the electrical ratio to each species to provide its
seed must start in the progenitors by design.
Now the solid earth above the seas is the most especial position for
this testimony to design for any bodies subject to life operations under
light, ether, and air ; and, so, is the object this narrative has in view.
This statement was enough and rightly placed for the view. For it
is clear that if the powers of aU the vegetable creation to provide suc
cessors is of a chemical condition under the grander forces at work on
their bodies, it demands that the juices which form the proper seeds
must exist to provide the seeds, or the same successors wiU not ever

EVIDENCE BY THE THIRD DAY. 15
appear; then, the preparation for the first must be as certainly of
substances so set into connection from and yet off the earth's material
resources, that at once when the forces of development over aU, general,
are brought to act for it, they wiU, and then alone, be able to produce
the proper juices that at the stage of their powers for deposition and
cooling soUdifications will produce the same species again by the seed
so formed, or by offsets of the roots or branches.
But before this, and continuingly, the earth's vaster claim must
demand at her usual action aU at work of roots in Law.
Hence, this was aU that was required to be set in its first grand and
visible connection with creation-progress to the object the synoptical
key of its history was required for so far.
But while the eleventh verse declares this to have been the Divine
purpose, the next verse also adds it under that elegant mode of most
litterateurs — an elUpse of language in grammar, that God did it and
saw it aU " good."
Now, surely, for the attention of common school-boy attainments,
there could not be a liberty left open for Moses to put it into such a
declaration for blunderers as like the foUowing mode of expression
for the same exact meaning as this, pleonasticaUy.
And the earth brought forth grass, and it was so that God saw good
grass, and God saw herb yielding good seed after its kind also good,
and God saw good trees bearing good fruit, wherein is the seed thereof
also seen good, after its kind, and it was aU so. And God saw all
doing, good ; and when did Moses say all this was done and seen
good in aU these processes and successions? The answer is,
between the evening and the morning of the third day — and this,
too, after the first part for the raising of the earth's land above
the seas by the law of natural forces set to work, as of the
generative agents to get them up and secure them. Surely there has
been a marveUous condition of blundering amongst the scholiasts of
past ages on the point of whether the least excuse exists for supposing
the days running directly from Eve into a Morn were of the mere
diurnal motion value, or had any ground whatever for accusing the
narrator with a want of perspicuity.
But, pray, what term better than " day " would the classics of Cam
bridge or Oxford, or of French and German coUeges, want him to
use ? Era, age, aeon, &c., &c., are aU used without especial defini
tion as to their periods, and for various degrees thereof ; and as the
point here was of a character in distinctions respecting light as over
darkness, and the daylight part of the earth speaks best by its
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power, or weight least, bringing power by its need as the initiator
of Ught visible, as well as of matter new and powerful, to work aU
the changes by a common multiplier, ever absorbed into the subjects
A^, B^, for emission by pressure again, it is clear that the wording
is the most perfectly weU chosen possible.
Now, the point this synoptical key had for its leading end being
like aU specifications of the patentees, modern, to preserve the full
claims of the inventor that it was his work, it follows that with
regard to the geological successions of all plants it was only requisite
that future observed facts should agree with this era before the other
globes of Heaven were extant, that the earliest flora had a sufficient
supply of material for their first existence without them or to go on
with them afterward, if suitable to the earth's own progress.
Men of the day, in their crude observation and perhaps self-wiUed
determination not to believe even scientific evidence if it favoured the
truth of the Bible, may say that without the solar light, light itself
could not exist to develop vegetation. But of this they have not only
no proof but, also, are totally at fault by geological facts respecting
the differences in the fossil state of the earlier coal-measures as com
pared in constituency with those more modern. How is the
sun's rotation and force of support kept up but by a supporting
agency ?
The earth's state, as placed here before us, was of a mucky, soft con
densation of the soil, by infant growths only attained ; and light was,
also, pure and primitive in the same degree to the draft on supply by
the record, — a soil easily decomposing.
It was all, therefore, of one hot-bed condition, or more like our
winter supply by natural agents artificially applied, than by the sun.
The very state of closeness too in draft, or under shade, by ether.
So, it was the state ferns, lichens, and pine-firs profit by most.
But when the solar body became the superior draft recipient of the
universal power, light from God, its action not only had to rotate time
also, but as a disintegrating operator on aU substances, and as a partial
extractor of them and user thereof, mingled with his gases by light
to carry it off into ether but subject to the earth's attraction also ;
and the silicates, and metals his body must be made of for the state
of consanguinity involved, so that crystalisation and f ossUisation would
be harder to heat. Is it not so in the palseontological table of the
geologist ?
Is not this as Professor Gossen presented the state of early light, to
prove to children the truth of the Bible herein 1 Enough, then, on
this era of time and history.

EVIDENCE BY THE FOURTH DAY. 17
Fourth Day.
This period begins with the declaration that lights should be made
(literaUy, I understand, lanterns or light-receivers and holders, as
different from "Let light be"), so these bodies must be held to be
those requiring a supply at first and for ever, to keep up their whole
objects or times with the earth's feUowship. Subject they must be, if
on law unique to hers by its radiation and loss to their weight power.
The first mentioned are those two which do the eclipses, and so
regulate on breadths to lengths, by time orders — a complete design,
visible, of the perfect chronometer, and to secure the rotation around
her home centre at steady times.
Here we have another of the objects in point on evidence to the
absolute need for design in the settlement of aU the parts for the
make and setting together, for the present use of man. Parts of a time
keeper at human make may have a motion in the circles it has to
provide, subject only to its own resistance by deadweight, and that of
air, under the force of the spring. But it will not keep time without
perfect attention to other balances needing to be fixed by accurate
design, and these must be the last parts added, and the more if one
circle is to be secured, timed to the others.
For any true scientific idea of the sun and moon being at aU at
work in gravitational draft on the earth for her motions, and to get
a balance of the forces set in against collapse together, but to secure
the accurate evidences of the two total eclipses on action to reaction
by these two standards in optics, they must have, also, the circulating
forces for sustained motion, as common factors, by the ruling firma
ment, with her.
The most powerful of all these is now known to be a magnetical
guidance by electricity, to carry the line of power, oblique, to the axis.
Had these two bodies been extant at her first development from any
unformed soft fluid nucleus, their attraction must have ruined aU
hope of her form, or any other globes, at the stated feature of open
ness in ether, to get a pure spheroidal figure to work her elUptical
revolution by.
Nor could the earth by evolution under light have developed her
home atmospherical firmament at all thereby. So all other globes
must have been made as the original nucleus for her was — i.e., by
instantaneous fiat, as declared. Are we to ignore gravitation at option ?
Here we get this next demonstrable evidence, when true science as
it works by experiment is aUowed to operate and give evidence for
direct designs possible.

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For if these secondary bodies had not been so made and fitted with
all those forces for rotation and revolution to their especial offices, to
show the standard distance for others of the earth from the sun ; and,
then, been exactly set, or so fixed to her in the firmament, before the
other globes were made as finishing regulators, nothing but general
confusion of substances could have followed. Even the earth must
have ruined their formative settlements from unformed nebulous
states, to draft it all to her.
Men of modern science, if they admit Newton's expression of
gravity at all consistently are pinned down to this ; or to show how
gravitation is not ignored by other means to work pressures by draft
on mass to mass in mutual attraction to the hand of Jehovah always
at work.
But all the associated forces of nature they have found at home
they have determined to ignore, because they see clearly the con
clusion their admission astronomically, and for a true action between
all parts universally, must attest the Genesis synopsis, which alone is
true to universal law in aU the forces at work. Or they are blinded.
Next, with regard to this day's voice in dictation as to Moses being
at aU undefined respecting the " evening and morning" day.
Let us only put this statement into the full pleonastic, but inelegant
form, as we did the other before.
V. 14 — "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night, and there were good lights
in the heaven dividing the day from the night ; and let them be for
signs, and it was so, and God saw good signs ; and let them be for
seasons, and God saw good seasons ; and for days and years, and it
was so, and God saw good days and good years." Could aU this be
during one rotation only 1 — days are here !
When does the history tell us God first saw signs, seasons, days,
and years, and all complete, or good ? The answer is. Between the
evening and morning of the fourth day. Here, in fact, is the only
place the term day is used for a fuU rotation in Gen. i.
But observe, the narrative has never said that the day of daylight
and night's darkness was " good " or settled into its determined value
in time for constant rotations until not only the sun and moon with
all the other agents to gravitational and heat associations by light
from each to each were set over the earth to accomplish that accurate
rate, elliptical, by her axis of force, the ecliptical angle by it, which
now so assures the days to the orbit is certain to return. The earth
has the early origin of the clock's face.
Also, while this expression " good " on this point is left out between

EVIDENCE BY THE FOURTH DAY. 19
the first evening and morning era, the second day does not announce
it of the firmamental air raised on that second such era either. It had
to get its balance in full for this also. Clearly, also, what is said was
" good " on the third day was not to interrupt this suspension or close
it ; but belonged only to the certain demand for the exact chemical
fitness and setting by selection of the resources of the earth's soils for
all vegetable life-starts in species throughout, while the variations
both in the velocities of the diurnal notation of times, and the con
dition of the atmosphere as to weight and measure, going on with the
upraising of land towards the more perfected initiation of the earth,
to suit the need of the human family (to which the chapter points aU
the design, and which all human science and experience declares true
to Divine kindness for provision by aU need) — all was open to progress
and fitness thereby to work well when the sun and moon and stars
were made, as congener-factors to the whole set of the earth's universal
laws. Thus the science, here, is perfectly, unique outside aU small-talk in
boasting of our philosophical savants. Would a watchmaker say of
his instrument on time that this was attained " good " or perfectly,
before the full regulators were added ; yet, for that, and all the parts
first put together, it would require the skill of superiority to find
material, selectively, and make for it others fittingly or " good " in
parts, and so to set them into action together when aU were complete.
Is common-sense gone out of the world altogether ? There may be
those who turn the world upside down, but not for the fresh breezes
of heavenly better hopes (like Paul the Apostle worked) as to the
evolutionist's science.
By the suspension of the title " good " to these earlier developments
we get the standard key for aU the changes in vegetable Ufe and the
earth's plates of her crust ; whereby the geological and working testi
mony exactly confirms that accurate knowledge for it God has to make
and set new species by ; and the blunderers only prove it could never
have been by human genius in suggestions, that the history could be
written, even if man, as stated here, appeared perfect in powers from
God's hand at the first make. But how amusingly, and yet sadly
absurd, it is, when we remember that the conclusion respecting the
narrative is not yet arrived of all that actuaUy occurred, and being so
told by the writing itself, that the modem theorists also maintain, to
gratify their own pride of attainment, that the corroborative facts
were never known before our day (which is pretty certain as to
geology), and yet maintain that human genius initiated this key to all
the great branches of physics; nay, that man is only a progeny

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developed by natural successions from the irrational ape to be equal
for it. The moderns have certainly taken great care to show to what
degree of appreciable descent they have been retrograding toward, and
helping the whole race of man at a grand pace thereto for the future,
as to a character for mischief. With the diurnal motion not settled,
the solar draft — by axis to axis, to steady the settlement of snows in
winter to summer heats — not extant, or the lunar aid in balance, — no
star in the upper vault of the firmament ruling all, — yet, with soil,
hght, and land, and varying lengths of day and night, on an infantine
roUing axis, it is clearly presented, that the vegetable, or any early
animal life, must be subject to great changes — some to become
extinct, or reduced in consideration — and all needing, whether for a
new or old species, the hand of the creator to order their state and
locations, to become indigenous to soil and climate ; while hardness
must be expected over earlier softness, as the succession to the end of
the fourth day, or after it, went on toward the final settlement of
time's orbital. So the principles of the narrative foUow the facts
from geology. A grander development, so far, for a concise, but most
explicit specification claim, as to who was the maker and inventor,
could not be supposed by a man of judgment at the patent office.
Now, cut off all the solar light from the earth now, and all things, to
her depths, must crystallise into ices. But how about the sun himself,
if his bodily conditions are of the universal in law, unless that, to his
immense pressure in radiation for the loss of heat, he too, and all
extant, must be supplied under that fiat, " Let light be " for ever, to
prevent the recession of his orbital forces by chills within to increase
inertia, and Hke conditions. Then, where is the difficulty for the
earth being supplied first, and made first for the standard, central in
line, to the eclipses ; and that this was the case, all the discoveries of
the geologists, respecting' her earHer formations, prove, as well as of
the astronomical to reach to in optics, or with Jehovah to see aU is
" very good " at last. Fifth Day.
On previous points in evidence, abeady proved, I need not dilate
respecting this stage of time.
There are, however, those of import in it, which Mr. Gladstone, as
weU as Mr. Huxley and others, have passed over ; but by an extract
I have seen of the President Elect's for the next meeting of the
British Association, it has not escaped the discernment of Sir WiUiam
Dawson, C.M.G., M.A., LL.D., F.G.S., Principal of M'GiU College,
Montreal, Canada.

EVIDENCE BY THE FIFTH DAY. 21
One is, that no authority exists by the literal statement of this stage
m animal life for all the characters to have then first begun therein ;
hence, we have no right to assume it was meant. It is of swarms,
especially. But let us apply our presented principles for the especial
evidence of direct design; and, also, that leading chief one carried
aU through the record of the six grand ages ; that one morn, attained
in superior light to the earlier eve, is in recognition that light was the
eternal ingrafter of all constituent masses for the powers by advance,
thereof, to become latent in greater degrees, throughout time ; so that
this improver becomes a means to get higher values for ingenious
developments in design, and the elasticity of lives as time went on ;
then the place this declaration is put, as after the solar and other orbs
were added, becomes of vast significance.
Now, as solids in silicates and metallic ratios increase in values of
their varieties for inductions, so do the resources suit advance in such
objects over earlier means if of the entire associations of fluids under
electricity at its increase. Hence, the associated alHance of the sun to
impregnate by his bowel operations, under digesting light received,
so to develop a perfect seeding flow (like man and aU animals for
their deposit into a womb female), and by the certain upper pressure
all round of the ethereal vault, ruling time, and all in true scientific
association universal, throwing off to the earth's draft these streams of
his departments (as the greatest drawer of the elemental firmament
around him, to secure its lift to smaller and aU Hghter masses, — all
the discoveries of the opticians by the spectroscope associate in
evidence for this era, to be the one with geological proofs also, that
it was not in the earUest ages of her existence the earth could either
provide the dense and also more elastic forces in soils to obtain those
numerous and powerfuUy-winged and finned races of velocity which
this fifth day was the first equal to, and the geologists so to find
them. We thank the geologists for their evidence on this point, for
the three eras of especiality, whether of the first developments of
flora — fauna-winged, and fauna heavy, of Hugh Miller — they have
secured abundant proof of.
And we gladly own that not all of them have fallen into the snare
of the tempter respecting any evidence against the truth of God's holy
Word, we are herein attesting by their aid also. Not that they should
need it, as the other historical and moral evidence is enough to show
that it was alone by Divine inspiration able to appear for all these
pouits on instruction. Men, however, who ignore the weU authenti
cated history since man's day of his workings, and Jehovah's, for his
civilisation, are sure to only corrupt all they touch. It is of bias

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innate by the "Fall." Prior to this era it is the geologists find the
vast development of the volcanic and crater remains. For if the
earHer mucks were to be ejected by especial forces of light and heat, to
the forcing for them; yet they would rise with less of the forces of plate-
variations for easy operations intact, to the two continents of the first
witnesses by that certain act of design, the raising heavy weights
above their natural place in gravitation to cool and remain. Also, the
recent deep-sea soundings have been declared to set aside all the
theories for the earth's changes from the earliest ages to be of
overturned continents ; but that the two have been stable as wholes,
although of changes within each. A point, I maintained in print, in
my earliest works, was a necessary fact by the forces within of action
to reaction, to produce a first development eastward for that vast
continent (called of Three), securing at once reaction over the axis for
the female one of the Americas.
It was a certain fact by the reaction over one constant ecliptical
angle for aU the forces to act by to get the pole of circuits from the
beginning. So, here, we have another witness to the Mosaic inditing,
as scientific perfection. But, as yet, the solar vast forces were only
operating so as to settle the earth's extended expansions of land
gradually, hence the flying forces and swimming ones would be liable
to decline, as the time of her cooling from her first matrimonial
expansions developed the more solidified weights of the soil and less
inflated state of the air and seas toward a medium. Hence, here the
geological discoveries assist us again ; for they admit that the
swimming and winged monsters of an earlier age to that for the main
period of the mammalia have decUned in those terrible forces of
vision, movement, and destructive powers, as the further settlements
to the earth's cooler state of rest became a fact for the safety against
such volcanoes and denizens of fierce animals to get those of more use
to man. Then to appear is man himself. So they fell extinct to
make room for others of progress to the design.
Is it possible that any savant would suppose a synoptical key to the
object of an invention conld be more perfectly worded for evidence ;
the object being to conserve the author's gift of it, and all it speaks of
to human intellect for evidence throughout in after ages, unless they
want the Bible to be so big that, for aU curious details to be
mentioned, it would require a waggon and four horses to take it
about. Is there any end to human curiosity on mere points of asking
for?

EVIDENCE BY THE SIXTH DAY. 23
The Sixth Day.
No part will more particularly attest the purpose for conciseness,
with perfect fulness of the whole record, than this day's statement
does, especiaUy as associated with man's first appearance ; and, so, the
need of the second record respecting him, as to God's love and right
eousness in dealing with him, — as a being with reason and a free
conscience in respect to moral joy, by integrity to truth kept or lost, —
is required to finish the Creation full testimony. So, much belonging
to the mere creation order is left out here, to be supplied, as soon
enough, in the second chapter of law, that this clearly appears enough.
First, Why was it, that the animals of the palaeontological table,
specified especiaUy as the larger mammalia, were not found therein, nor
could, before the age of the great winged bodies had passed away.
The answer, if we allow the law, as of properties universal, to decimal
receipts and recessions, which is carried through for the rule to action
by reaction on circles thereof, for the automatical operations of all
physics, right through this and all the Genesis, is thus provided.
Cooling powers going on from the earth's matrimonial first state
(at the make and connection of the sun, to rise her afar from him in
the ethereal heaven), becoming of a graduating inwrought balance,
and therefore of a hold on soUdifications, secondary, to make and
set, as the further factors of her generative resources, animals of more
use and immediate command to the human reach and rule ; so they, now
especiaUy, appear in the greater weight ratios to the progress in time.
No part says they were the first animals of the serpent or milk-giving
classes, &c. &c., except as to values inferred. But if we look over
the zoology of the earth, we at least find serpents of especially fitted
features for their indigenous attributes under the peculiar climates and
soils for their support now ; as well as of others, — the wild animals as
we call those fitted only to live in that particular climate, and keep
up stock thereby, yet not fit for domestication proper.
These last are, however, succinctly set before us in this day's
account for the general recognition that the soils fit to make them of
must, while springing from the earth's then attained condition in the
impregnations of light as matter, be removed from their mere first,
and then necessary association with the earth to act only to her forces
of the bodUy rotation and revolutionary rights (her claim by all
physics d, priori), and now to be so set that the new action should by
light, ether, air, and food, make them new factors as species to exact
design for their evident destiny at the consideration of men of sense
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up the due attention to such subjects ; and so, the more to be assured
that the giver of this unique history of his works is He who added to it
9U the associated instructions for the working of the human system
by faith therein, and was, and is the One True God by an inspiration
divine, claiming worship.
Now, the Christian Church were so perfectly satisfied with the
other sufficient and abundant evidence that the Bible must be inspired
that as no especial call until of late demanded these studies on the
gross need in proof, they did not attend to it ; and, no doubt, by
such neglect lost much beautiful evidence of the Divine wisdom on
its wording; yea, unhappily fell into such errors through want of
attention to it, that much evil has resulted therefrom by heeding the
wretched traditions of mankind. So their prejudices by pride in
the flesh are what we have to fight against as well as that of others.
But light cuts its iron veins.*
As I shaU have to deal with man and his bride, and, also, the
difference between the domestic animals, fruits, and herbs when col
lating the next stage of the narrative, I need not especially enter on
it here, except to notice that as to the mere formative operations up
to Eve's creation all is consistent with the statement in Exodus xx. 6,
spoken of there as made to the finish within the six evening and
morning periods, by which time, by the constant successions of a
brighter period as of morn to the previous eve, the glowing beauties
of creation were secured with the fullest blaze of solar light, and the
highest possible, so far, of cooling gentleness and quietude of the
earth's nights, and with the responses within her own veil of the most
glowing and beautiful colouring by solar metaUic substances con
densed and transmitted through aU the earth's body for the floral and
animal creation of all feature distinctions by the soils. "AU good."
The fact that these colours follow in the full general sense the
degrees of light the soils receive on the lines it works through as the
climate-giver from without, — being a proof to that general principle for
the earth's and aU made, it having the entire universal properties by
circulating matter associating to and from all globes, of true factoral
conditions alike,— is another point in the evidence of the Record's
correctness to a pure law of science not to be questioned. Even
metallic beauties in crystals and metals foUow much the same climatic
lines of development ; but as these are dependent more especially on
the forces of violent bondage to take their Hues of rise by the earth's
pressures, so the forces of heat that settled the axis of rotation may
* The mistake on the stile has been, not seeing it was all suitable to the maker
of a chronometer, worked by electricity at supplies of light.

EVIDENCE BY THE SIXTH DAY. 25
be expected to throw up gold or silver, or other riches of these classes
nearer the colder regions, as they are found, than the chief beauties of
flowers, birds, and insects. This first part does not conclude until the
general principle God worked for aU on is added in the next marked
chapter (which was divided off by an error, and has thus led to much
mistake and false controversy), for the final passage to the fifth and
sixth verses are entered for the summarising part of the first position
so far fitted generally for human use as on the land thrown up at first
plantless, and then also only able to develop the common softer dews
of the hot-bed class, which, although they condense into large drops, do
not develop to the same electrical class of changes that we admit for
the difference in rain-falls to form and faU by solar and forest influ
ences, on the foUowing days.
This passage had no right to be mistaken as the first of a period
just before man was made at aU.
It is clearly a witness to the whole progress previously carried out
for human comfort at actual use — i.e., from the dewy seasons of the
first coal-measures up to rains and man himself, who now becomes the
especial object of the next stage to be dealt with.
That loss of the woods is a loss of rainfalls, but not of dews, is of
human modem experience.
I conceive it would be a libel on Divine love to suppose that this
necessary initiation into law for infancy, now, — that is, that the
heavens as a designed time-keeper to enable mankind to keep their
labours by its operation, and historically note them, on the same
principle as we teach it early to chUdren, — was not provided for the
testimony of God's design and love to the earliest races of mankind.
Hence, I hold that Enoch and the Antediluvians had the revela
tion of the first chapter of Genesis. Why do kind fathers now give
their young boys and girls a watch, and by it, on observation to find
it is a weU-made one ; or to be " seen good " as all required ? Men
certainly needed it as much 3500 years before Moses' day as afterward.
Moses simply transmits it to us. We shall find they made a better
use of it than moderns did.
So here ends our first lesson ; may it be blessed by the Spirit of
Truth.

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GENESIS, Chapter II.

Foe this we begin at the proper stage as to a right division to gain
God's purpose thereby — i.e., the 7th verse.
This next narrative throughout being about Jehovah's moral deal
ings with man, it is— if such blunders were not so common throughout
the modem divisions of the text — a curiosity that the previous part
of this chapter was not added to the first. What a heap of false
criticism about when the first rain-drops fell might have been saved
the geologists ! The first part ends with the idea that aU fraitfulness
of the soil from the time of the first coal-measures, as assisted by either
the refreshing dews of night or the showers of rain, day or night, were
proposed to be of use to man ; and so his absence, then, is noted
here, as the object for whom such was to be raised.
Now, the question next is, that as he is already stated with his
partner to be made (chap. i. 27), how and why in detail he was, as of
creation for God's Divine image, made fit for that particular and
responsible office already presented to us ; so that this character given
him might be honourably sustained. Such a narrative all the mad
nonsense of the evolutionists has only the more proved there was need
for, that God's Word to His own justification as the first educator of
mankind. His created offspring, should so teach the truth about it,
against imputations unjust to Him.
The seventh verse, therefore, in commencing this part of the
history declares man to have had his physical constitution by a gener
ative fitness in the derivative soils Hke all other species of the earth ;
but by an especial arrangement requiring the last and most peculiar
attention for it of Elohim for axes and aU by them.
Now, the fact that this trinitarian idea " us " is never introduced
before, shows the result must be as found so meant, significantly, to
show the development of character in great eminence of peculiarity ;
which, whether men deUght in the idea their oldest grandmother was
a monkey, or their first progenitor direct from God's hand — most are
very satisfied to be proud of and declare it now exists. They are
rationally different from beasts, — i.e., a different species of sense be in
them.

MORALS — FIRST INCULCATION. 27
So far, then, the objectors can have no dispute about the consistency
of the Scripture text. Man is, thus, become a living soul, but one of
great pecuUarity in the elevation of his powers and purposes thereby —
i.e., of a soul meant to Hve for ever.
The next verse teUs us that after this (for here we have, clearly,
the declaring consecutive events about man, as for the purpose of
graduated mental results) God planted a garden eastward ; and, in
a province peculiarly fitted, we must suppose, for its flourishing state,
being so entitled "Eden" (pleasure or delight, " Geogr. of Scripture"),
but which as classed, here geographicaUy, gives the certainty that Adam
first saw the wUder world of the indigenous earHer formations of
animal and vegetable relatives. Then, was to be introduced to a new
and more fitted set for his comfort in food and gardening operations,
and, at evidence before his most fixed attention by the love of his
Creator to him ; and thus in certain proof who it was held that posi
tion over aU creation law and His own weU-being as. associated with it.
No doubt as yet, let his talents and powers be what they might, he
did not know quite as much as the self-satisfied querists of Scripture
in the present day do about such laws. Hence the more need of this
early initiation to him of whence they came, who ruled them for good,
with himself for the future— if, simply, alone for Adam's own self-
government in that as yet infant state as to experience. So, what was
the law for his own being to keep his majestic estate 1
No one, we might suppose, could expect other than this account of
the Creator's first dealing with man, if prepared to aUow the least
consciousness of action to the first source at all. It is simply by
example, rightly used and required, of a Father, for his own honour
also. Again, no one could, with the least judgment for reflection, by
knowing anything of the human forces in the graduated power of
a generative brain (to receive and coUate facts, and fix, to use them by
the memory), but would aUow the great force and variety of them,
all through the garden scenes, required degrees for each, in time, to
produce any hallowed effect. For which Adam had a claim, for his
moral responsibilities to stand on justice, that such time for observa
tion, reflection, and rest should be aUowed him, while so many new
and surprising wonders were done before his face.
Also, it accords with the Divine use of all miraculous operations in
the due grace of a Divine Father's purposes, so well attested in after ages,
historicaUy, that took place. Let the reader remember that consistency
is always expected of the just ; and we only show it here for the
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What, then, is the consistency, if those of this age, — of pressure to
get of the paternally placed government a good, oraUy-directed educa
tion for the young, that their moral and inteUectual condition be
not surely neglected, even for mutual peace and order,— refuse to
admit that education must so have been first begun, it being weU
known that its neglect at first renders it a burden to unfit persons to
keep it going on afterward. Sheer ignorance detests the efforts required.
Is it not certain that it is even now only to pressure, by those
already benefited by earlier pressure to gain it, that it is carried on,
as an alien effort to the natural indolence and preferred employments,
— play ? But the value once found by the elders aids to support it
for all progress in some jealous degree for family dignity.
The planting this garden is placed, in time, before Adam was put
into the scene. Then, the witness before him of the Creator's all-
sufficient power and kindness begins. Observe, neither transplanted
or made, of the new, to grow, but of that previous, if suitable in kind
planted. In this planting the garden we have the ante-typal feature of that
constant plan of the wealthy one in gains, who first selects a fertile
spot for his future palatial residence; then plants the surrounding
shrubberies required for cooling in summer heats by shades from the
solar ray, and for shelter from cold winds at night, and in winter, for
other plants, by the hardier ones.
Thus is presented to our mind the uniting for him, after Adam
was made, of a large number of useful woods and aromatic shrubs, — ¦
which the geologist can often find the specific remains of in the earlier
deposits, where the fossilised bones of man do not exist, — with the new.
The next act of creation, after Adam is there, is of that so
constantly attained after residence first begins ; but here the new
creation of proper domestic fruits, flowers, and vegetables, of the most
suitable character for gratification in taste by sight, smeU, and appetite
for the possessors, and his children's delight in due time, comes in.
Is it not certain that the geologist cannot find any of these especial
Asiatic fruits, so concisely introduced as " every tree that is pleasant
to the sight, and good for food," as weU as those of some more valuable
timbers for building, except in the aUuvial deposit — leaving their
remains in evidence to when their first creation began, as to
associations with each other and man. Also, do not some vegetables
and fruits foUow the hand of man as he emigrates to orders given ;
and, although able, in proof of their especial time and fitness for the
purpose, to change in degree of assimilation to soil and climate,
remain for his pot at hand.

THE FOUR RIVERS. 29
What I apprehend about the four rivers is this. First, the '
narrative proposes to declare that this garden was situated in a
position so that there was already a river going through it, fit for the
irrigation and hand-watering it, as best it might ; but especially here
a point has not been noted. It is stated to have been going out of
the province of Eden, in which the selected spot for the garden was
found. It is not stated to have its source in the garden itself at all, as has
been generaUy held for pictorial ideal representation. But it went
out of Eden to water the garden as in its course. This might aid,
with the other rivers named, the finding the spot, for that it passed
through the garden from end to end is impHed. Then comes this —
" And from thence it was parted, and became four heads," &c. The
names are then given of four rivers, of three of which there can be
no mistake, as the names now remain at the Scripture titulars, as
though no change for their paths, geographically, took place since,
not even by the convulsions of the Noachian flood ; or, if not the name
unchanged, the geographical line of their compasses is declared. Our
Nile is clearly the Gihon of that statement, I should think. Now,
here I anticipate the translators have missed the point proposed. It
is Eden is divided off by them on its four sides. AU sections of land
find their natural boundaries from others. Often those land measures
are rivers. Here, this is what is proposed, to show the boundary
lines of the province of Eden, which is thus a separated enclosure
from the rest of the world, with its own especial river, and the
Paradise garden, for which Eden (pleasure or delight, " Geography of
Scripture ") had been chosen for the site.
Neither the NUe nor the Euphrates could have the same name, with
historical propriety, if even the Flood par excellence as a disturber of
first geographical positions, had so utterly altered their lines of flow.
But even if the name Gihon, for compassing the whole land of Cush,
be not connected with the son of Ham, as names in Scripture are often
repeated in different families, yet no such change of geographical
aspects is set before us by the Flood universal ; as the idea taught is a
settling back at the drying of it, by the land surfaces to their places
on the axis mostly as before.
I pass over, now, the moral point respecting the two trees of life
and knowledge for a future consideration, to go on with the more
simple Creation narrative.
The next passage to that about the rivers states the fact that,
besides the previous one of the eighth verse, as to the time for Adam
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the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden, to dress it and keep it.
Man's mission, physicaUy. This is the second place Lord or Jehovah
is used, the first being also in relation to the whole finish of the
object after man to own his Lord or Ruler ; although, at first, it is
after the same general account up to Eve's existence to include his
claim over her. Here it is introduced more especially, as bearing a
significance in respect to the responsibiUties of the first male. Thus,
it immediately introduces the vitally important point respecting the
sacramental purpose, unto Adam's faith, for the use of the two trees
before spoken of in the ninth verse, as new to the earth, or now made
to grow there. Following the next Creation question, we have this
important declaration of this Jehovah, our God and Ruler, Lord.
"And the Lord God said. It is not good that man should be alone ;
I will make a help-meet for him." It is important here to notice that
before this announcement, out of which, when effected, immediate
employment for Adam's intellect was to proceed in naming animals,
the sufficient evidence of God being the creator of him and all he saw
had been attested by the newly upspringing of the excellent fruit-
trees for food already introduced. Hence, Adam's mind was first
prepared, by evidence, to see the importance of obedience in regard to
the two trees, without distraction of interest about the animals, now
to appear, or Eve. While their existence, so especially secured in
evidence to God's omnipotence and design, both for their making and
object in love to Adam, brought the same results as for the claim
about the central trees. The garden scene, altogether, must have
been large, as a river was to water it, and Adam, even with Eve to
keep and dress it, would have an oppressive idea of labour at once.
But this first announcement under the help-meet feature became a
second evidence of the Creator's powers to bring into life active
creatures as weU as the automatically-growing plants. Creatures, also,
particularly endowed with inteUectual instincts the more fitting them
for their domestic offices to hand than the animals he might, and no
doubt had time to contemplate before he was put into the new
Paradise in Eden.
If Jehovah says, " He that believeth shall not make haste,"— that
is, needs no imtoward hurry after the soul is at rest as to eternal hope,
it is incredible that he begun to use Adam at a hasty rate for the
abnormal use of his powers of consideration and reasoning, so perfect,
yet so infantine. "And out of the ground the Lord God formed
every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air ; and He brouo-ht
them to the man Adam to see what he would call them ; and whatso
ever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof."

NAMING THE ANIMALS. 31
That these newly-formed creatures were no more to be confused with
those made before Adam of the more general indigenous classes to
climate and soil, as the new fruit-trees are to those of the earlier eras
from the first of the lowest coal measures, is sufficiently made plain
to any but mere caviUers by the especial trait marked for them, as of
the help-meet order-set before noted.
What is the earHer gift of a kind father to his chUdren next to that
of the nicest and most wholesome fruits of the table to fix their love
and obedience to his command ? Certainly not the highly-scented fox,
or the voracious wolf, but the gentle dog, cat, horse, and beautiful
birds of song and feather all the more fitted for domestication, or the
poultry-yard, of joy at morn and even-song.
Thus graciously did Jehovah act toward Adam at the second
especial gift in that garden, day by day becoming a more glorious
Paradise at his hand.
Now, remembering that all beUeve Eve, was with Adam at the final
gift in the older creation story of the first chapter of events (ver. 27),
what was the precious idea of the twenty-four hour evening and
moming holders on the caU for Adam to name the animals ?
This, that as they confused this especial gift with all other animals
made, then Adam had the task to name all the creatures — wild,
voracious, poisonous, and tame — in such part of daylight, we suppose
(or through midnight also, for it would be rather short for the task),
as by one rotation of the earth provided him time.
So, in our pictures of Eden we have lions, tigers, rhinoceroses,
aUigators, and serpents for the idea infinitesimally at liberty to the
artist's choice of animals, whose location somehow afterward was to
become like the marsupialia denizens of the ocean-divided island of
Australia and aU lands extant afar off. Why, then, were they all
included in the first narrative together, wild and tame ? The answer
is plain on that page. God proposed to give the whole to the human
u^e and dominion whether fitted or not for domestic purposes. So,
after Eve was made, that fuU additional present was stated. But
from the especial labour of thus naming them all they were exempt,
except as to choice in time and discovery, as history over zoology has
narrated up to the gorilla papa. But aU boys and girls are to this
day aUowed to name their favourite pup, pet dog, pony, or home-fed
lamb, pigeon, or laying hen.
So the analogy, human, to Jehovah's kindness for the infant
experience in joy at possessions Adam acquired at His hands is per
fect. Only let the Bible be read properly.
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32 "HOW EEADEST THOU?"
animals, of whom no thought of their existence could then enter
Adam's mind, the alpaca (never more than a half-tameable animal) is
at present an evidence, beside all the uses made of flesh, bones, or
skins of others. Yet Adam might have seen some wilder animals
before his transmission to Eden.
Serpents, too, are some of them harmless, and not all of one
geological depth for their remains, and as helpers to keep down insect
denizens of the garden themselves useful to the "balance of produc
tion," their shining coats could add to the domestic use and beauties
of the Paradise. Let the one used by the enemy of mankind get
there, or be, as it might.
Here we arrest our own statement of views and take the statement
of a celebrated scientist, who in his paper of the Nineteenth
Century against Mr. Gladstone's,* places before us this passage.
Whether it is found to corroborate the Scripture statements of the
beginning of manhood or not I leave the reader to judge. It is cer
tain that Professor Huxley claims to be as complete a master of his
subject as most men, and, so far as facts have been stated therein,
we do not question it.
The reader will have already seen, we do not here support aU
Mr. Gladstone's views against his opponents. I only quote the
following passage for its intrinsic value, in degree, respecting those
set forth on my papers.
" It is not by any means certain that man — I mean the species
Homo sapiens of zoological terminology — has ' consummated' the land
population in the sense of appearing at a later period of time than any
other. Let me make my meaning clear by an example. From a
morphological point of view, our beautiful and useful contemporary —
I might almost caU him colleague — the horse (Equus caballus), is the
last term of the series of which he is a member. If I want to know
whether the Equus caballus made his appearance on the surface of
the earth before or after Homo sapiens, deduction from known laws
does not help me. There is no reason that I know of why one should
have appeared sooner or later than the other. If I turn to observa
tion, I find abundant remains of Equus caballus in Quaternary strata,
perhaps a Httle earlier. The existence of Homo sapiens in the
Quaternary epoch is, also, certain. Evidence has been adduced in
favour of man's existence in the Pliocene, or even Miocene epoch. It
does not satisfy me. (We are glad of this. — Ed.) But I have no
reason to doubt that the fact may be so, nevertheless. Indeed, I
think it is quite possible that further research will show that Homo
* December, 1885.

ANIMAL SYMPATHIES WITH MAN. 33
sapiens existed, not only before Egims caballus, but before many
other of the existing forms of animal life ; so that, if aU the species
of animals have been separately created, man, in this case, would by
no means be a consummation of the land population.''
We haU this passage in aU its scientific value with pleasure. If
Professor Huxley had been so long beating the air, as to these facts
being opposed to the direct and necessary inspiration of the Bible to
get its statements, by not reading it first for himself — as a host of
other opponents have done, because they took the equaUy inattentive
examination of Christians (who do believe, at least, in its Divine
gift) — that is no excuse before the Giver of all truth.
By one sentence he, it is clear, is looking out for the possibiUty of
some evidence against the inspiration of Genesis, except as he speaks
of the Hebrew prophets equal to their grand declarations by sheer
natural powers of human genius. For which, such results as have
foUowed the twenty-second and other psalms, the fifty-third chapter
of Isaiah, and the whole Book of Daniel, as to the history of king
doms leaves no one an excuse to suppose genius equal to.
One thing is certain from Mr. Huxley's science thus quoted. The
horse need not merely be caUed "almost a. colleague" of man, as weU
as his contemporary at present, but God's Word places this aid to
agricultural ease for an actual one, in that work, by Divine purpose
in His creation and time for it except as to equal intelligence.
But more, what does the learned Professor mean by a morphological
point of view, but, thus, to corroborate the scriptural inference from
the written Word, that a set of animals, so peculiarlj' of a chosen con
dition in their constitutional settings, by aU the forces of exchange for
use and health of the body, were once made (and about the time man
was), whose systems by direct design were equal to foUow man in his
claims given to possess the earth from quarter to quarter thereof ; so
that the Shetland Isles even now, with aU the changes the earth has
seen for destructive action since sin came in, of soU and cUmate, as
well as the Steppes of Siberia, and the Pampas of South America, can
find a home with man of the grand race of Asiatic, Arabian Equus
caballus. And they so assimilate to the soU as to roam there wUd,
free. We thank the Professor for his aid from science.
Regarding the strata referred to, we do not enter on the point ; it
is enough to gain, that the able geologist finds full evidence that the
object and condition, as weU as time to appear, of God's final gift in
animal Hfe (before Eve came in to absorb Adam's affections) are the
same as Moses' writing declared.
But this point appears clearly-'— that, even before the last act of
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34 " HOW EEADEST THOU ? "
Divine kindness in time, the measure of period Adam was existing,
without supposing an unreasonable one of solitude, is quite uncertain ;
and that what he had to view, contemplate, consider, meditate upon,
and reaUse, as of Jehovah's goodness to him, already required far
more than one rotation of the earth to accomplish.
Creative kindness next makes the just remark, all the experience to
emigrants supports ; let the other provision in plants, seeds, or animal
assistance to occupy a new wild be what they may ; although much
help as of mates for work be on board for transit, or ready to march.
" But for Adam there was no help-meet found." The translators of
the new edition have put "answering to" in the margin of the first
use of help-meet; when it immediately foUows the gift of all the
trees and garden-ground for his tillage only.
Here the same idea, I apprehend, belongs to a second use for the
most perfect. So, with the earliest helps sent for the first object of
employment comes the same expression under another head ; that of
what the wife is as a social friend, as well as of domestic use for the
garden purposes perfectly ; or rather, the modern improved state of
women is here implied, as not for the labours of keeping and tilHng
the garden. Her domestic time and attention to the house and the
family are carried in an honourable separation, as a helper to animal
demands of that use. Sin brought her to field labour.
Could anything be more beautifully, tersely, and concisely worded
to be condensed as required into as small a compass as possible for a
key to law natural in physics and divine in object.
The calm innocence of infant conditions together between the sexes,
as of man with his wife in privacy, is what ends this part of the
history of the ages past of earliest manhood. Sin had not entered
yet to beget harm, or shame.
If, however, Adam had this last sleep, and his first contemplation
of the beauty and suitableness of woman to be his social partner in
life, as he had seen of male and female attached even in other animal
connections for their love and offices, with all other matters of his
first courtship in making Eve his actual wife, I should imagine — let
his primal forces of brain endurance be held to be what they might —
he must have had powers far above the human scale altogether, or
been fit for an asylum by the time it was aU so hurried along and
over. The six twenty-four hour ideas of time for all the creation was in
direct opposition to the letter of the Scripture history for it, and this
sceptics ought to have seen as weU as others who took their views
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PEOPEETIES OF LAW. 35
biography should have been a guard against that as authority to
faith. What the scientific summary of these chapters of Genesis attest,
to practical evidence on experiment and observation is more than the
three points of Hugh MiUer and Mr. Gladstone, and start for proof
on the absolutely-required first make of one-over-aU equalised
medium or firmamental heaven, and a first nucleus of aU organical
factors in it, as the womb for the due gestation into a spheroid of that
matter " unformed " like aU other germs for secondary seeds, animal
or vegetable ; but as I have already entered on the evidence for their
successions by the forces of proof from natural science by gravitation
to close, and heat to separate, et multis aliis other properties universal
in law, I need do no more than direct my reader to the work, " The
Balance of Physics," to see their number and true features consistently
attended to herein.
If we have phUosophers who choose to learn the need and actual use
of these weU-known properties of physics for any condition of matter
of our universe, for the make or action done of trustiness and states
given for them, so that their imagination runs loose for aU space to be
fiUed with matter, able also by itself to aggregate for action and then to
work actual designs seen, which we copy in timepieces, and then to get
rid of such infinite forces of fixation and overwhelming powers against
proportion as at aU attainable, so that they have this aU-space filled
with nebulous matter, but to fit their fancies not subject to gravita
tion or attraction for associations natural, or used by a Creator, we
can only leave them to their fools' paradise of science ; and if there
are examiners to allow it, have our time occupied with hearing about
the earth's ability to throw off such a vast mass as the moon, with
nature's power to fit both for the eclipses ; whUe gravitation shows us
the earth's dews, snows, and volcanic ashes cannot refuse at her call
a return. With regard to the lightness of possible gases of matter being out
side our experimental forces to retain them for observation, their
existing nature to the use of the microscope beats all such efforts
hollow. The wonderfuUy-refined subjects it presents of animal life in the
living animalculse to be so seen, declares to us that to our earlier ideas
of refinements, as weU as the enlargement of light bodies in the upper
ether, there is no more stint to the hand of Jehovah than in the
decimal figures themselves for the fractions of a normal unit, or its
mass addition.
AU these very minute creations observed, prove that fluids to pro-

36 " HOW EEADEST THOU ? "
portional solidity exist, so that besides the revolving currents of
their bloods there must be a proportionately-propelHng and feeding
exterior and interior set of the most refined gases, supplied, also, by
air to them aU at their digestive forces from it for them. For without
communication with our common firmament at time they cannot live,
or without solar heat reaching their residences.
So there is no difficulty by these facts of certainty in believing that
the refined currents of the solar and astral streams actuaUy feed the
earth's system, now they are appended, or that her's support, chiefly,
the lunar satellite, as I proved must be a fact by a lecture years ago on
the tidal evidence ; and the spectroscope has demonstrated that metallic
elements are in the solar radiations. Hence, hereby we see, with the
grand Mosaic theory in its whole, that aU given to Adam is a real
universe, or is " Verse " in all the attributes of its law, as a imique
structure of one God over aU, its Maker, and only so fitly caUed
imiversal at all. An universal, magnetical, and electrically worked
timekeeper.

THE SACRAMENTAL TREES.

In my previous papers I have left this subject out of comment along
the direct line for its time of presentation to Adam, because of the
entirely different character in its purpose to other gifts from God
these trees bear, and its great importance.
It introduces the more valuable points, but at the same time, the
more demand on his and our thoughtful consideration respecting
man's especial moral features and destiny, in regard to his being made
in the " Image of God " as one to be endowed above other animals
with a happy consciousness of rectitude to truth by a Hving
conscience. Even now, it is an adage to hold that thieves value this as toward
each other for self-satisfaction.* We wUl quote the passage : — "And
the 'Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of
Eden, to dress it, and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the
man, saying. Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat ; but
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evU, thou shalt not eat of it,
for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
Even if we could admit that God could on starting a moraUy
responsible being into the world neglect a testimony to His own
character for hoHness, as " becoming His house for ever," and not at
once denounce sin and show that His Divine standard " could not
bear with sin with the least degree of aUowance," but alone consider
this subject under the head of manifest love to Adam in the declara
tion of the result by disobedience as to his own satisfaction in the
status of his attributes by moral conduct, as we shaU see, it would be
that which a gracious father, placing a man at first on the ground of
primary innocence into existence, could not neglect, or make more
gracious, or more useful A chUd's weakness being admitted
(Rom. viii. 3). '
Up to this time, nearly aU I have seen written, or heard from lips,
respecting these two trees is, at best, that in some way or other they
are figurative to teU of some unknown mystery ; but with no idea
* . . . The mind 's the man,
The soul, not the flesh, is first.
And self-respect is a kingly crown,
When fortune does her worst.
Chables Mackay.

38 "HOW READEST THOU?"
that their purpose and meaning was, in regard to simple and valuable
as weU as literal facts needed in Adam's case, and not merely a pretty
piece of mythological poetry at best. Symbolical of no one knows
what. Professor Max Miiller, too, will excuse me if, to do a service to
mankind, I quote and also foUow a proverb he gives in his postscript
on solar myths for use on this so-generally-held Bible myth : " There
is a radicalism in scholarship, too, which despises all measures which
do not go to the roots of things." *
As the passage in the Bible respecting the two trees presented man
to himself as in a mirror for his satisfaction in nobility of God's pur
pose, and in attestation to the fact that he was made in God's
image, so is he now found by the anthropomorphic evidence every
where. Fond of the idea of some class, however low, of self-conscious
dignity within, as well as to the minds of others for that of moral
honour. Now, without some sort of standard which the party himself holds
could have been broken, and yet has not, by resistance to temptation
to do it, with power in himself enabling him to do evil if he had
chosen, no such an idea can be awakened in the mind of a man or
developed in that of a child. And to man or child, it is of such a
class that it must be "set" for him, or he is left to his choice
under the impulses of his sensual desires and instincts only, like a
wild beast, however more various and impulsive the record must
remain of the greatness of his passions. If not, why do men always
try to invent excuses for their sins against their own and the pubHc
good, even to themselves. Nor is self-respect self -invented by man.f
The first statement, that Adam was piU into the garden, and,
therefore, had his first existence elsewhere, is in the eighth verse,
directly previous to the creation of the choice fruits for his use.
Now (ver. 16), it is again repeated, notwithstanding the evidently
wise purpose to keep the account as concise as possible, because, after
seeing the facts before in evidence to the revealer's omnipotence as
God, maker and ruler of aU, this was the period when his pleasant
means for the employment of time was stated to him, and so at once
was revealed the pure root of righteousness toward God, and the only
certain means to maintain intact the attributes of his body and spirit
in a perfectly harmonious connection with aU his practical surround
ings of law, so as to preserve life and health of body as weU.
The want of which self-command is weU known to be a practical set
* "Solar Myths," Nineteenth Century, December, 1885.
t "For there's no virgin-fort but self-respect."— James Russell Lowell.

man's SELF-EESPECT. 39
in and cause of natural death to man. Unhappiness of mind is known
to be a cause of death, even without suicide, as weU as the loss of due
restriction over food, labour, rest, and sleep for the use of the brain,
&c. The repetition is, therefore, here clearly not as to a time for
Adam's first residence, but to narrate the object and law.
It was the time for his initiation by education into the pleasant
theme of his very agreeable manual employment to escape ennui by
Ustlessness ; and to show him his destined adornment of highest honour
possible — his crown of glory — the ability to apprehend the moral
attributes of abstract right and wrong ; and that blest point of trust,
the keeping truth. It must be, therefore, on the abstract standard in
values and aU results, if set most effectuaUy for good.
It, also, placed him at once on the alone ground of hope to secure
eternal possession of Hfe and aU, so kindly and pleasantly given ; so
that, see what he might of death before in the wild world (that he
might know what it meant), his own fear of extinction of being and
joy was met at once with the freedom of heaven, where his visiting
Creator throned Himself, now, in an adopted part of the same class ;
but suited especially to His own attributes. Does true education ever
begin otherwise in principle ?
I think it is evident, then, that the two trees present a feature of
no tyrant class of establishment by the Maker ; but only that which,
while requisite to the glory of God in the witness to His own like
ness, as the Holy One, was as needful for the perfect and highest
satisfaction in aU Adam could have, or learn by progress.
Hence, to Adam before temptation overcame him, the tree of know
ledge of good and evil must have given him the highest satisfaction
by the very imminence of the trust committed to him ; and which
could not be left out at that time without injury. It presented his
highest crown of glory. In fact, by aU the known attributes of man
now, it was then, as its principles are at present, most coveted, how
ever meanly and falsely sustained, as to the opinion of others ; and so
must have given him his highest pleasure. In fact, here was his bane,
also, as we shaU trace by his undue aspirations for such a claim.
By the side of the tree of knowledge of good and evU was the actual
tree provided for Adam to secure all his possessions by, " The tree of
life." Both stood near each other, and both in the most central and
no doubt most conspicuous place in the garden.
One could hot be touched, and if the forbidden one, but that the
other stood beside it to warn of the danger, and provide the remedy
against any weakness by the force of temptation. It was the call for
God's help.

40 "HOW EEADEST THOU?"
The purpose of this tree requires some especial attention. It is
distinctly stated to have had an absolute covenant of eternal life in it
at one acceptance of its value, by the simple fact of trast in God, by the
name given it, as of the covenant against fear of death from any cause,
by eating of it.
After the faU that is thus attested : " Now, lest he put forth his
hand, and take also of the tree of Hfe, and eat, and live for ever :
therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to
till the ground from whence he was taken" — i.e., the unadorned wild
world, where such growths as he had been provided with were not
spontaneous, but needed to be carried, and the two trees were lost tiU
the end, when mercy restores them to heal this bruise also, to the
honour of Jesus for the family redeemed (Rev. xxii. 2). The tree of
knowledge of good and evil having in the meantime been also made
a tree of Hfe's good extended.
Here, we have a clear statement that so absolute was the covenant
in the tree of Hfe, that even after sin had come in to initiate all its
evUs into the future generations of mankind — all having been consti
tuted so, on the law of the six days (Genesis ii. 4), to reward the
right rule of self, or to let evU have its own reapings — if Adam had
but eaten once he would have perpetuated his own being to reap of all
the sorrows and miseries mankind have fallen into for his own despair,
to this day.
Hence, it follows, that if Adam had before he was tempted of evil
in any way by warm or excitable passions in another or himself thrown
his future weU-being on God's covenant in humility for peace and
security, by a well-meant and certainly right distrust of his own
power to meet aU temptation — of which either in measure, class, or
time he could, as yet, know nothing — then, God would have secured
to him the garden and his own Hfe in peace, as a just one to truth and
grace for ever, at his claim by taking of the tree of Hfe.
Nothing could, then, have touched his self-consciousness for probity
abstract, as the tree of life by its very name, gift, and existence proved
that he was not expected by God to be able to secure Hfe and bUss
eternal by any sufficiency in the finite powers and smaU knowledge of
Hfe's and death's issues he had or could attain to. Yet by experience
he might rise therein. Now, the original, here, is peculiar to this
effect, but although given has never, I believe, been so noted.
The marginal translation gives instead of, " Of every tree of the
garden thou mayest freely eat," by some translators, we have the
correction, " Of every tree of the garden eating thou slmlt eat." The
tense is absolute as to the future, if Adam did eat of every allowed

THE FIEST HOPE OF LIFE ETEENAL. 41
tree of the garden. But, thus expressed, whUe it gave fuUy the
Hberty, "freely," it did more if the tree of life, also, was included,
and eaten of, then, it secured the perpetuation of the Hberty as
assured for ever. Eat, of aU, including the tree of life, and eating,
thou shalt eat of aU but one for ever.
The difference is fuUy significant of the fuU character of the cove
nant ; and the importance to Adam not to neglect the value signified
in the title given to him of the one tree. That of Hfe secured only
thereby, and, so, necessary.
Now, to Adam, who had before seen the wUd world and its
elements, which initiated him doubtless, without the aid of any
geologist for his teacher, into what he had to fear by disobedience —
i.e., death; and without causing which to miUions of animalculse and
general insect life he could not even tread the garden itself; this
mode of expression must have been much more important than our
more modern translators (the improvers adopted) of the Bible could
discern. It needed a spiritual judgment to accept it as not obsolete.
It spoke, with the title in the tree of life. To you alone belongs the
Divine Hkeness not to be delivered over to an irrational non-
inteUigence in regard to the hopes of a future day ; and, with better
powers left than those of fear ; but security, on the only ground,
finite, it can exist by is at your hand for choice by Divine admonition,
and even command. So, don't ignore the value in Jehovah's gift of
the tree of Hfe.
It was, however, neglected ; and, so, treated as a not-needed thing
by Adam ; and we have to trace how ? and why ? to learn its lessons
now that another "door" to eternal Hfe is provided. Adam rejected
it in seK-conceit, like Christ is by many now. Ornamental, but not
useful for Hfe eternal.
Before I proceed further, I may here note, that aU the translators
admit that the expression Lord God, may be quoted as Jehovah-God.
This never occurs in the first narrative of facts for the six days, untU
the summing up at the finish after man was made.
Thus, inculcating God's beginning to act as a covenant-giver to a
receiving inteUigence in man and woman only. Although acting by
one of the decimal order by generative numbers, as the maker of aU
other parts of creation. Thus, it initiates (whUe it joins the first
with it) this, as of the new declaration to law. ResponsibiHty moral.
Food and numbers for their balance, as the phUosopher, Mr. Sadler,
taught many years ago, were, otherwise, to depend on the sufficiency
in each species to keep their own races from extinction by the
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42 " HOW EEADEST THOU ? "
enemies and aU causes of death. To man only was the hope given,
or proposed, of eternal life, as the only one equal to appreciate it.
Not seeing this by Christian believers has led to one of the advan
tages the sceptical geologists have had over the assumed statements of
the Bible in the f orgetf ulness of the exclamation, " Doth God care for
oxen ? " Yes, for all in their purpose ; but not as to eternal life. For
how has He made them to know, as responsible beings, the value of
the tree of Hfe. Even on that, the hope to Hve for ever, was then
only so placed before man. Death, in common with the transitory
state of all-changing nature, was before him, also, if he neglected it as
the point of faith in God, only accepted, as weak in the flesh to sin.
Yet, so bigoted have Christian men been on this point, that I was
once nearly refused admission to a meeting, because I held death
came in before man sinned, to the lower parts of creation. Christians
are often so incapable without an everlasting repetition of things taught
before, or clearly involved in the previous writings to remember them,
that the words, "by sin came death," were only meant to apply in
respect to the parties the apostle is speaking of, — " man " — not cats
or maggots — that they must conclude so it came to all creation.
Hence it is, that even those who have had intelligence to believe that
God did not merely plaster the old waUs of the earth with pictures of
death in all the previous stages of being, or proto-plasticaUy, have
given all the honour to the geologists to find he had no such love of it,
except as it had been a reality needed of the earHer ages, to prepare
the soils for man, and teach lessons, as far as times can, of his own
eternity ; and the grandeur of his elect purpose, before man in the
first Adam was. Sin kUls individuaUy. Do oxen sin ?
This evidence, now, men thinking themselves very scientific have
turned into the idea, that man must be older than our record in the
Bible ; as if eternity in times and doings could alter to have a period
previous to their first man the less to be accounted for.
So far we have traversed as to the need and value of the two trees.
So far aU scientific reaUties agree with their need and value. And if it
be, that while men are employing officers to watch the poor lest, by their
rapacity, the children should be prevented from the required teaching
of exactly the same class, — the kindergarten style, to wit, — or by the
children's love of play with a story attached to it of right and wrong.
Why, ye savants, this care, and expense, and coercion, if, from the
low stages of monkeydom's love of self-will and froHc, man could rise
to see the value of early revelations to the youthful minds to attain to
knowledge for the advantage over the world's garden by its culture ;
and health, with Hfe's sources preserved and handed down to

HUMAN INCONSISTENCIES. 43
posterity, if nature could do it alone ? Does nature secure this love
of advance for the Cockney Arab ? Do your own chUdren now show
such a very great Hking for it as to need no teaching how to preserve
self-restraint 1 Can a baby be self-taught, in fact, at aU 1 If you wUl
worship a dead uninteUigent native female, the mere agent you use as
a help for iUustrations to the chUd, how could your ape progenitor
devise the idea, or generate the power of progress for what he had
not ; or any descendant start for knowledge ?
Men actuaUy refuse the self-evident testimony of nature, — that as
aU her actions are by proportions of the mass to heap, that she must be
as a whole finite to space, the infinite ; yet, whUe refusing to God the
creatorship of all, they initiate for nature a progress of mental appre
hension and progress themselves, as to mental glory to be secured.
Surely our savants, so-caUed, and so popularly held for their upholding
rebeUion against God's own revelations — as the One Spirit eternal and
inteUigent, as the Christian is taught to hold of Him — must be very
largely of that class the satirical phUosopher of Chelsea said most
EngHshmen were ; and much deHght to secure that honour (Prov.
xxvi. 11).
The evidence to the fact, that bodies could be made with the law
of action to reaction on constant suppHes of pure matter, under the
covenant " Let Hght be ; " and, hence, that Adam could, to the earth's
forces of rotation and revolution, be so, that man might be kept under
the pure and good by preserving means to eternal Ufe, and by constant
radiation met by constant fuU recuperation, I have already proved in
the work " The Balance of Physics ; " so far as his mere physics were
at first concerned.
We may notice here, that the tree of Hfe being lost to time (for
human safety against the eternal perpetuation of the lost estate), that
One who had supernal attributes against temptation could alone be fit,
since that " FaU," to be the actual Divine standard in righteousness
equal to meet the Father's dignity for the atonement by substitution ;
hence, in that respect, "The FeUow of God." Then, also, to supply
the place of the tree of Ufe to faith, of whom to eat secures in spirit,
again, "Eating thou shalt eat." That is for ever. See the passage in
John vi. 58. Hence, one equal to it must be Jehovah Himself in
man. Immanuel, God with us, infinite against all temptation.
But we now proceed to the " FaU."

THE FALL.

It would be manifestly unwise for me to drop the inquiry without
some attention to this point of history.
We have so far proved, that according to Divine writ Adam had a
sufficient time to acquire a solid judgment ; and so, a fully responsible
view in regard to " Him with whom he had to do " as his Creator ;
and the need for his happiness in fuU under his covenant by faith
unto eternal possession of his Eden Paradise.
To shorten those days passed in Eden before Eve was given must put
into the hands of caviUers an objection to God's justice by the serious
liabilities at the fall into error, by involving that here no fair time
was aUowed for him, and then Eve, before the temptation, in test of
their wisdom, humility, and obedience, was allowed respecting the
advice to place the future on faith, by accepting God's care as his
choice for it, under the sign of eating off the tree of Hfe. Such
objections have been raised.
But God has said, "All His ways are equal;'' and, therefore, to do
Him believing justice, we are caUed on, without absolute date or
different detaUs, to aUow the time was sufficient altogether, as before
shown. If not left to some choice under a degree of mUd temptation, Adam
could not know his honourable point of trust for self-government
under the force of truth Hke Jehovah is at all ; and if not alone when
receiving the first declaration of the law and covenant, if he sinned,
all the results could not be placed so on him, that, as by one man came
sin, one man by obedience could make the desirable sacrifice, by
atonement for aU the seed.
The first chapter teUs us, that as to her own responsibility and
personal weU-being, the same was in time put before Eve together
with Adam. So it must become a point of communion by them in
Eden afterward, as the gift of judgment for language had already been
given, and so taught to Adam, as the naming of the animals implies ;
and aU this was done before the Rest of Jehovah. But the seventh
day was initiated also for the continued support of aU (John v. 17).
The whole course is, therefore, clear to be accepted as true history.

INORDINATE SEEKINGS OF SELF-ESTEEM. 45
even by the witness to a perfectly divine love in the Father and
Maker of man's first start for existence, beyond just complaint.
On this rule to lay the door open for sin in the first and most
inexperienced estate to be justly pardoned, and, yet, Jehovah's standard
in hoHness be secured. Paid the Apostle exactly traces in the weU-
known chapter read over the dead at funerals (1 Cor. xv.), completely.
I could do nothing to add to the evidence here. Our only
questions are. What could possibly induce Adam to throw away aU
care for himself and his grand state of partiaUy sustained integrity ?
and why should a tempter, wiser how to bring it about, be aUowed
to enter the garden to test him, instead of his being left to himself ?
Also, what could induce Adam to risk it at aU ?
I think, taking the last question first for the answer, we have
already accounted for the neglect of the tree of Hfe, and the constant,
present state of mankind corroborates it.
AU are found of self-esteem, and that of their neighbours for
assumed probity, even if they leave out that of the highest import
ance, God's praise of it in its degree attained.
Neither can exist at aU unless temptation by some agent to act on
the natural feelings for wrong-doing exists and is overcome. So,
for a proposed community of goods and possessions of any class,
Adam, Hke others, needed a first easy lesson to learn justice to the
claims of others. God's first must be, here, claimed, and for ever.
But the passion for self-applause is apt to be inordinate to our real
powers as revealed ; and Adam, although he had this revealed testi
mony in the tree of life, that it would be xmwise to take all the
eternal future in his own strength, had, also, the certain temptation to
ignore it in hope to keep his estate by his own powers. But if
he so acted he must see, that it was by no neglect of Jehovah's advice
how to make the future a covenant of security for happiness and life
for ever. The pledge, " Eating, thou shalt eat,'' was before him with
its memorial record in the midst of the garden to secure it. But this
required humiUty. No doubt the apparent ease of overcoming temp
tation, whUe the garden was so fuU of the best supplies for food,
variety, and luxury in fruit to satisfy aU his wants, was his snare ;
although the consciousness of what his loss would be if he ate of the
forbidden tree, ought to check him from the false effort to stand
before God in his own forbearance ; and, although thus he distrusted
the God of wisdom on any requirement for a tree of life, as for life
by faith at aU, or God's taking charge of it if he wished it, aU did
not hinder the great ambition, which the " Word " made man could
alone fulfil

46 "HOW EEADEST THOU?"
Then, as this was the state of things before the eye of Jehovah,
who by the gift of the tree of life showed he knew that man,
although endowed with aU the most wonderful forces of mind and
heart a mere creature made of dust alone could have at his hand,
would be found weak before temptations, many, at some future day,
when it would be too late to impute aU sin to one man's failure, that
one divine man's righteousness and self-sacrifice in devotion of mercy
might be the substitute, and atone for the other's fault ; so, God at
once aUowed the wilHng act of the evil one for trial and conviction
of sin, — at doubting God's superior wisdom in providing the true way
for life, by faith, — to test and prove His sufficient care to Adam.
For God did not, as modern savants do, prophesy, that a being of
the mere finite Hfe in material dust itself, and so of the finite only to
its own proportions for support, could have, even at His gift, a
co-equaHty to His own forces of resistance to all evil. Yet needing
to be taught righteousness at its best standard. The perfect of law.
God cannot make of mere dust His own equal. Cavillers enough
would be raised had it not been so early brought to the point for an
open door, good for all. True, fuU Sonship is of the Spirit of God.
Neither Eve nor Adam had the least real justification that they had
listened to another than Him they knew was their Maker and God.
Yet, while there was no force whatever in their mutual excuses to
justify themselves before God, He in His mercy had a ground on
which divine compassion could be extended, to find the way of relief
for His heart to show its concessions and resources in holiness ;
different from what it would be if they had faUen only on self-
responsible grounds by after temptation ; the tempter being wiser and
more subtle than themselves. We, now, always allow in such cases
for the inexperienced, but not for the experienced ones the same excuse.
But the battle of truth against error had become intensified. It
was, now, of Satan's influence over man, or God's. The latter took
it up to the most add to human future happiness and His own glory.
But do we see in either case the real greatness of the temptation 1
Eve had been accustomed to see the glory and beauty of her appear
ing Lord. He who at the Father's word, " Let it be so," had clothed
the Hlies of that garden and trees with their blossoms and fruit,
clothed. Himself, in garments, to meet their state of sense, and so
visited the scene for their further instruction and joy at His presence,
which before they sinned was the highest pleasure to them without
fear. But woman is especially open to two weaknesses, the which are
from attributes of law she had ; as these attributes themselves make
her the more fitted for the household duties of order and nursing.

eve's TEMPTATION. 47
The one is admiration of the beautiful to the order for the eye and
a choice by it, and by taste in that class of things.
If the tree of knowledge of good and evil had a fruit apparently
abhorrent to the eye for food, it could not have been a ground of
temptation at aU ; but neither could it have been a means to gratify
self-satisfaction by its conquest. It would have been a thank-you-f or-
nothing indenture in Paradise.
But, whUe our first mother has been often meanly charged with
being the cause of aU the mischief resulting to her offspring by mere
woman's curiosity, that is not true of her.
He who visited her in the garden was He who appeared in robes of
glory to the disciples on the Mount,* and the tempter's great point
was to make her dissatisfied with her beautiful form and fiesh, a^ the
more humble of the two.
" Thou shalt be as Gods " carried the great ambition to the soul of
this passionate one for the glorious and beautiful to sight for its
possession in change of dress.
Before this idea came, it was but suitable to her state and natural
for her to think aU was best, that the great Clother of Forms earthly
should so appear as more exalted and above them and her. It was
needed for the impression that had to be taught in awe. But under
that dazzling desire now awakened she fell. Yet nothing gone before
could be in righteousness altered at the actings of God for their good.
They had to learn that His wisdom is in aU things the better, and
by sad experience of their own presumption, as others have since ; and
found it hard to accept in their self-sufficiency, although the whole
world is in proof of what man is in the flesh.
Had the way to ruin been not so easy as by simply eating a fruit
(as scoffers now cavU, "because of just eating a tempting sort of
apple ! "), then these scoffers would have complained that a higher
original means to understand responsibUity to " Trust," as of a rational
being free to the force of truth, was a shame, to so early tax an
infantine inexperience.
But the tree of life being trifled with demanded a settlement of
the value in it as early as possible; and as the great temptation
I have presented was suggested by a most crafty enemy to God and
man as his head effort, so God in His glorious mercy has found means
to provide on that head that it shaU lead to human actual attainment
thereof, as we see in Moses and Elijah with their Master on the
mount of transfiguration, and as Paul the Apostle taught in the
chapter already noted (1 Cor. xv.). The desire was wrong, but no
* See Matt. xvii. 2, and Acts iii. 20.

48 "HOW EEADEST THOU?"
great dishonour except as discontent, and by such an instigator, to believe
God was a Har and deceiver in mean jealousy, to be rightly disobeyed.
If men, now, are presumptuous enough to treat with contempt the
offer of safety for ever, and in that glory, — under the access for it, of
asking it in Jesus' name, but wiU trust for it in their own strength
and deserving, — surely there is nothing incredible in a narrative that
so places our first inexperienced parents before us, by features proved
by hosts of evidence to be only possible by Him, our God Immanuel,
over aU, clothed in fiesh, and yet the infinite one in spirit to holiness
paying the debt, and as of his free gift in a purpose eternal.
But if the especial temptation on the mind of Eve was so great,
what was the case respecting the stronger mind of Adam, of whom
the Apostle says he was not deceived ? He must have plunged into
doom with his eyes open, committing the first wilful suicide by
despair. The answer to this is also abundant by regard to one common fact
often occurring.
Woman had been given in aU her pristine beauty of appearance
and fitness to be Adam's social partner, as his bride ; and we have seen
he had time to enjoy the gift. His real help-meet over all others.
That Satan found her alone near the trees is clear. He had
watched his opportunity, and saw where to attach his spider's web
for its power to enclose her by its meshes. In a woman's haste to
judge for herself, all full of presumption, as women now are often,
that they are equal in judgment to man, she waited not to consult
Adam — he might object, and the prize be lost ; nor to wait and con
sult the heavenly shining one. Satan's temptation was carefuUy
drawn on her to refuse the idea. So she feU by a double act of pre
sumption. Then, as is always the case, when the veil is rent that she had been
deceived, for no such change as had been promised by the deceiver
took place, she hastens to bring Adam down to her own' level How
could she suffer the mortification of admitting her error all alone ?
She merely tempts with the fruit. Of Satan to him, then, she says
nothing. The narrative is very concise here. But Adam knew she
was doomed to death, and so was lost to him and all his joy in her ;
and thus it was, the paradise they shared together was gone. He,
too, stays not to consult his heavenly visitor on his next round of the
garden walks, most Hkely each Sabbath — where was the use for it ? *
Adam cares, just now, less than ever, for the tree of Hfe. So great
* The song "Annie Lawrie " seeks to enshfine this idolatry of woman in false
glory.

ADAM S TEMPTATION. 49
is his dismay and despair that to eat of the tree of knowledge as a
tree of death is a refuge from a life of sorrow. Paradise to him is no
longer such. How often do the same Hues of causes lead to the mad
plunge into the river-waves of eternal doom !
The fact of being ordained, by that image-feature of God, to be
a Hving soiU, on paraUel grounds of eternity for existence, d, priori
for a joyous first hope, is thrown overboard altogether. Adam would
die with Eve, but could not Hve without her in God, or trust to Him
for any remedy without her. No expression, "Father into thy hands
I commit my spirit," is his. His very despair and rash act proves his
fuU beUef in the consequences she was sure to reap at the Divine, just
law and fiat — that at first needed for their mutual joy. He was not
deceived is plain.
And, yet, to get rid of the fear of that eternal doom of the future,
the modern evolutionists, whUe denying the possible annihilation of
matter, bolster themselves up, and Hke serpents of succession in
Satan's spirit, try to seduce others, inexperienced, to believe it, and
teach the annihUation of the essential spirit of the human soul, as
etemaUy individual by God's declared Covenant.
They caU it a deliverance and a kindness, to draw off the attention
from the evidence for the Bible's inspiration in Divine plenary power,
to beUeve there is no such future, whUe careless to strip the better
hope from those who hold it through the one only possible Saviour.
WUl that rule a fact ? Yet the latter thriUs through the bosom of
many now, as it has in all ages ; and the fear remains to others, as
false evidence can give no secure assurance, much less bring the false
refuge to, actuaUy, be at hand. Imagination gives no law, but may
feed on the true, blessedly.
The mom of the seventh age is to be Hke others brighter than the
last which was its eve — another burst of glory. And of Eve's desire.
Life, and mental power in Adam were required to be associated by
the mutual responses of the physical to the mental powers by the
electric organ of the brain, for a conduit, so that error affects the
whole state at a loss, as not conforming to aU its environment. This
is fuUy admitted by the anthropomorphic phUosophy. Combe had it
blindly in his work, " The Constitution of Man." So, the state first
given and not preserved perfectly must involve advantage to the
passions in error, and secure the dominion of sin for an ever-increasing
ratio, by its beginning multiplying to its own progress in triumph.
Natural death was, therefore, at once initiated into the pot of human
life for Adam ; and by the rules for inheritance under generative suc
cessions to all the race, and by physical connection to aU the creation.

50 "HOW READEST THOU?"
Combe, therefore, simply proved man's lost estate, and unless
a super-human means was provided from outside to arrest the
rapidity of the Fall, the utter ruin of all was certain.
All experience has taught the same by historical record, of, the
success to resist it depending on the inhabitants remaining under the
focus of that first witness outside Eden, where God met, first, man's
ruin for the teaching in Christ, as the one to alone turn it to human
greater advantage, if He, as the future Tree of Life for acceptance,
was fed on in the soul's retreats and declarations. And God promised
it in Eden at once.
Thus, phrenology, with chemistry, anthropology, and palaeontology
by geology, all attest the Bible system to be the only pure and holy
source of fact ; as well as the fully-authenticated history over the
whole code of true ethics. Divine and human. What were the morals
of even Greece and Rome ? Bad ! What is boycotting ? Worse ! *
Milton, whose entire ideas I do not profess to maintain, was a
true believer in the Biblical account ; and on its facts he wrote his
grand poem, of which we have no equal as an epic. Homer could not
find such subHme conjunctive imaginations as Milton did from the
Bible. But what Milton had correctly, and which was the source of
his greatest power, was in that he simply and directly borrowed from
the Bible, and connected its views, as he held them, into his poems,
which carried the cheerfulness of hope under the relation to the
"Lost" and "Found" again, by that fuUy efficient and benevolent
resource, a God- Jehovah, the Life-giver, Omnipotent ; so to feed
a pure imagination. (Rom. viii.)
Of other poets we have, for those endeavouring to consecrate
despair, Byron, SheUey, Poe, et multis aliis of the fashionable croakers
on our shelves, like the latter's " Raven," doling out " Lost Aiden,"
with its eternal " Nevermore." Enough ! let their genius be great as
it may, 'tis dismal.
Why make so much of it if there be no pearl-like truth in the
original story? Yet this is the popular thing to a vast number of
the scientific savants, also, to croak about, by their researches into the
living arcana so vast in aU nature. The " horrors," only, out of the
"beautiful" They profess not to believe in the possible annihilation of matter,
but they can accept that condition for the essential spirit that animates
it, to fancy, for a false rest, there is no responsibiUty unto its doom
for sin before God. They cavil that any God exists, self-eternal, to
make aU things ex nihilo, or, out of what does not appear, for self-
* See Revelation xiii. 17.

ADAM'S TEMPTATION. 51
existent matter in infinite space ; but wUl have matter itself to be the
thing omnipotent, so far as objects seen are before our eyes ; able,
also, to go on to infinite changes chaotic for ever.
Thus out of mud they get mind, soul, inteUect, spirit, in which,
however, they wUl have it, exists no miraculous power, for that they
throw overboard altogether, as though such an emanation from dead
mud, or atomic matter, agglomerated somehow, be not the very idea of
an absurd miracle in essence. But if mud has not eternal mind of and
in it, then mind itself must spring ex nihilo. This is the consistency
of the modem savants. Mind out of mud, which has it not, instead of
both by the creative gift of one magnificent Mind, eternal. One thing
remains clear. If the second offer of a Hving tree of mercy be rejected,
which is suited by aU the pure perfections law can demand, and acting
by a way our common law courts account our debts should be paid, so
that the magistrate cannot justly refuse the compensation to abstract
justice, i.e., by substitution, — one taking the penalty who has no
charge before God or man against him, — and this be refused, con
temned, and treated as Adam dealt with the tree of Hfe, — ^man must
now take the result of such a decision on what f uU experience has sup
plied the evidence of need for. Doom to the soul that can never die,
with aU the just judgments for his baseness, ingratitude, and insult to
God, as it is of His Christ, to fuU experience. If this be now
neglected in human fixity of pride and hate to the humility justly
demanded of a mere finite creature in righteousness, there can be no
future hope provided. The second scorn of such a refuge, if treated
with leniency, would be sure to be foUowed by a third, more inured,
daring state, expecting it could be so dealt with for ever. So, no good
could result from any change, whUe it is impossible that the Christ
could be caUed on to suffer twice, and this last time for such deter
mined rebels to God's order for maintaining His righteousness and
finding the way of mercy for the weak (Isa, Isvi. 24 ; Mark ix. 44
to 48). This doom had also been declared, as richly deserved, not
simply, "Thou shalt surely die," but. Dying, thou shalt die,* as was
the hope. Eating, thou shalt eat for ever.
* Marginal translation, paragraph arrangement, Eeligious Tract Society. The
true parallelism of holy justice in God at once declared to Adam.

THE FLOOD.

I SHOULD not satisfy my own conscience without some attention to
this point of many objectors.
I do not, however, propose to deal with the geological question very
deeply, as what the professors have admitted wUl answer my purpose.
It is allowed by them, I beUeve fully, that signs, by their
investigations, are sufficient to prove the fact of Noah's Flood, in
some great degree, has occurred ; and if any surveyor only examines
the hills I live near, those of the Devonshire Dartmoor, he will see
clearly that over it, at some very modern date, the swirl of vast forces
of water have passed, and almost constantly thrown the before that
finished forms of, but now broken masses of granite from the bruised
hiU tops in the general direction of from west to east, showing the
greater velocity of the under solid crust to that of the loose waters,
grindstone like, by the diurnal direction. At Sheep's Tor access
to the top is not possible by the east, that side being so striped.
Exceptions by the incHnes are few. The manner the once open ways
to the interior of the lime cavity on Brixham Hill were filled by a
debris throw of convexity for the deposit in the path, and yet left the
interior caverns free from its effects, while the paths below the
openings, having the deposits dashed into confusion, also proves
that, since that hill was thrown up by the plutonic or healthful rises
of the land, man had visited the coasts of Britain, with aU the
evidence of his being half nomade and savage; as a hunter, from
some scattering of an earlier line of generations ; and, by a vast
outward convulsion of a rising sea, had his implements and game
left to fossUise therein. This, too, must have been of a very
comparatively modern convulsion, and the water level would
foUow over the earth. My point is, however, the question by the
simple text of Scripture respecting the Ark and the animals it
had to ship for transport to the emigrant, Noah, from one old world
to the same made new.
By the witness of the Bible itself, nothing of the sort was
arranged for, or ordered, such as we see in the pictures of artists, so

THE PRESERVED ANIMALS IN THE AEK. 53
commonly on the cottage waU. Let us first of all remember the blunder
made by Christians and sceptics alike respecting the expression (in
the second chapter, nineteenth verse), "And out of the ground the
Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the
air," — already dealt with in regard to the fact that the term " every,"
in each case, is not of aU that existed, but is mediated to the value
proposed in the paragraph, as help-meets to the cultivation and
acceptable uses of man in domestic relations, travel, &o.
Then, as the object at the Flood was clearly to assure Noah and
his chUdren of what they would, on the same principle, desire of
zoology to keep for their own use at hand in landing again, is
what was meant in this case, where the same word is used ; and
if any doubt arose, the connected text at once suppHes a key to
the degree the associations of animal Hfe in the Ark were to
extend. Now, as the Ark has its measure preserved, and the engineers
admit it to have been about the size of the Great Eastern, large
enough, then, for a famUy of eight to find conveniences for them
selves and a very large number of the most choice creatures of, and
belonging especially to, that last creation in the Garden of Eden,
before Eve appeared as the queen of the stage, whether of the clean
or unclean. This first question to deal with is as to the propriety
to use, etymologicaUy, the term " every " under a meaning already
apparent by the object in view, here, again, if the context is
carefuUy put in to that end for sufficient evidence ? In fact, the
previous witness in Eden to the tender care of the great Father
against chUdren's fears, although not yet come on the stage, ought
to have been a guide against the idea that roaring Hons and yeUing
tigers, or hissing serpents, with poison-fangs, had any business there
and were so arranged for.
Let us suppose we had the wealthy Mr. Peel, of the Swan River
settlement, preparing in London docks for the required transit, by
the Great Eastern, for his first landing. Would any one doubt
that he had room for aU he could need of animal and vegetable
means in Hfe, or seeds secured, for a new settlement of his famUy,
and that those only did he care to be burdened with ?
Also, if a child asked one who had been to visit such a scene.
What has he got to fiU such a large vessel? If the answer was,
"Why, dear, he has gotten everything you can think of," would
not the chUd be laughed at if he wished to visit the ship, in
hope to see Hons, tigers, and all the carnivora, even aUigators,
as the inhabitants of fresh waters, — to draw them from life ?

54 "HOW READEST THOU?"
The reproof for such a blunder would be to him, — not to the
one saying "every animal" or "every bird," as the object was for
famUy care and benefit ; not to make a hopeless mass of work
on a long voyage (and the trip, so Hght now to Australia, has in
times past cost nearly the same period, or over twelve months,
to provision for), or to starve for need of food and water.
Yet, now, in Australia some of the unclean animals of Scripture
are actually being imported — if the translation " weasel" (Lev. xi. 29)
be correct — to keep down to the needed balance of food for man
the numberless increase of rabbits, also an importation. The camel
has been found a desirable aid in that vast island ; it was unclean
(ver. 4) ; yet it required time, force, and experience to see it and
get him there.
But for Noah, God, who knew the classes and their objects for
domesticity to flourish, brought what Noah would not think of
to his hand. A great boon in itself, the Australians had no first
aid or thought for. Now, aU these exact species belong only to
the geological stage to which man was in office.
But, by the connected directions, we are left no excuse to common-
sense for other idea than what I have already presented. Thus,
Noah was instructed as to his stores for this long voyage.
"And take thou unto thee of aU that is eaten, and gather it to
thee, and it shall be food for thee and for them."
There could be no guide in regard to what food, unless it was
bounded by the terms, "All that is eaten," to such as Noah and
the domestic animals could feed on. In fact, even hay or straw
could hardly be included; at least, mostly grain, and of the best
for each class of animals; and there is not one of the domestic
classes but may be kept in good condition thereon. So what
was for Noah would mainly suit his habitans.
But there was no tinning meats then invented, we may suppose,
to feed Hons and tigers on. Then comes, no doubt, the quest.
But these animals exist now ! Whence came they ? Nor was that
time come for such a change in genera that the lion should eat straw
like the ox. No miraculous sustainment is presented.
To find food fitting to keep aU the imiversal land and fresh
water creatures alive in the Ark during the long period of the
Flood would, indeed, be a labour hopeless for a lifetime, even if
God brought the animals to him, long as life had been already to
Noah ; and we must remember that all the fresh- water fish of modem
species must be included, if their existence now depended on the
Ark being turned into a vast aquarium for it.

THE RESTORED ANIMALS BY NEW CREATION. 55
Let the matter be scripturaUy examined — and admit, if you
like, the useful camel and valuable, sagacious elephant of the species
now extant — and yet the Great Eastern would be, no doubt, large
enough. Of unclean birds the species Raven is stated to have been there,
and both for future home scavenger purposes as weU as to destroy
insect grubs, are useful, and constantly breed near the handler of the
plough to keep plagues down to their Hmits of proportion.
But next we have to consider, How did the innumerable indigenous
creatures of zoology — bestial, ornithological, entomological, and fresh
water piscatorial — come again into existence if not preserved in the
Ark? They do exist ; so, first, we may, as a means to get the only rational
answer to this question, try another. How — looking to the fact of
their modem localisation, — always owned to be that naturally indigen
ous to soil and climate — could, or would, they be so dispersed, as they
must depend for it, if landed in Asia, on the wiUing (or somehow,
unwilling) act of man for it ? And why do they not exist at aU in
Asiatic scenes ?
Certainly, no man in the early fraU barks of the East could care to
aUow, much less secure for a passage, the AustraHan yeUow serpent,
whose bite is instantaneous death, or even the comparatively useful
kangaroo, or the comparatively useless seeds of its especial flora,
although one weak serial is found there amongst it, and, yet, leave
out even a domestic dog and a host of valuable pottage herbs?
Where is the least ground to suppose the omithorhynchus of her
rivers, the AustraHan devil, so-caUed, and other entirely peculiar
animals came from Asia ? Are they found there now ? Men are cast
away in their wild voyages to be left to make the best of a difficult
bargain, and find that if Adam or Noah had been left to the indi
genous classes, subject to appear at first, and after the Flood reappear
at God's fiat in mercy, they could stUl find means of subsistence. If
the soil was to reappear, why should not the purpose of Divine omni
potence be to again clothe the everlasting hills with grasses and
forestry, and on the covenant mercy presented by Noah on landing,
find the different feeding classes required to make the restoration
complete, aa weU as in regard to the promised harvests? even if
the seeds of aU sorts of desirable, but perishable, fruits of the earth
fitted for human food had been kept, of which Noah had no orders.
But as a matter of the narrative, not a word of instruction was
given about this, except for the food of aU the enclosed creaturehood.
Pleasant employment for the voyage was thus found ; no more.

56 "HOW READEST THOU?"
It is by such careless ways of dealing with Jehovah's character as a
covenant-keeping God, as we find in old, sUly traditions, even Christians
have held, — that we set sceptics at work on a base ground, — but which
is, as to the Bible's authority, only beating the air. The promise
made to Noah respecting his harvests involved fuU restoration to all
lost, except that which He refused for the future — the great longevity
of human life.
AVild animals prepare the land in some degree. Even the native
Australian needs to find his species of semolina wUd, — but under the
harvest covenant also, although the intrepid travellers, whose Hves
were lost, could not, by want of habit, exist thereby.
The treadings of the wild cattle keep down much strong vegetation
(as weU as manure the soils), from that overflowing of the earth's
surface which makes its subduing to the human hand the more
difficult. They were stUl needed as much after the Flood as before —
" Those cattle on a thousand hUls." That all nature was to be set at
work again, is in the fuU meaning of the harvest covenant.
No doubt Jehovah from the earlier partial upheavings and floods,
admitted now by scientists to have never been of full continents,
preserved the fittest, because they were equal to bear the changes,
although possibly in a degraded condition ; as we often find in change
of soil and station under the ruling for us, for elasticity in life of the
electric supplies by light. The Universal Power over life, natural.
But this is not for miracle, or evolution, as the latter is meant by
Darwinians. It is, as of old, at God's hand direct ; for generativeness
in law at omnipotent intent to unite aU wanted to work the "good."
But reaUy what is a miracle, which savants object to altogether so
fiatly? Is it not such a change, that the elements assume an entirely new
mode of action, which was not at work by them at all before through
out nature 1
Now, if nature had, at one time, her thesis of action set to develop
a condition, either organical or inorganical only — so far the action
could go on, we might hold, as of the natural ; but she has aU her forces
then necessarUy at work to enforce this ; and this only exclusively by
gravitation to heat. If she has forces that carry this on, well ; if it be
only injured it must be by design against God's previous setting for her
at action. This even must be done at some commanding wiU having
the power against her old forces of action to set it at work. This may
come, then, to the bane of man by error in his own use of his sustained
gift of mind by the Eternal One. Even a new design for embroidery
has a value, as new to the hand and will of a mind in skill doing what

scientists' INCONSISTENCIES. 57
nature does not and could not alone. So; the evolutionists who mostly
refuse to deny the possibiUty of the miracles of the Bible, clothe
their goddess Nature with having had the power to work on the same
capacity as that for the miracle by miUions of them in time past, and
don't see it. Why so enrobe her to rob God ? *
In this paper I have introduced the practical evidence of the Dartmoor and
Cornish hills in regard to the Noachian Flood, and it deserves much attention
by geologists.
It being now admitted by those employed in the deep-sea soundings that no
continents have ever been submerged, as true science to the action of a fixed
ecliptic angle for action to reaction demand, must be the case, it is evident ; that
the hills would by increasing plutonic forces be thrown up with sharp but healed
edges, even for chasms in mountain districts. So no such broken ridges of loose
stones heaped one on another would exist.
But if a vast depth of the ocean waters held a temporal surging sway over
these crests, then, those of some height, but still much under a great weight of
water, would have the soil before settled round them washed away, and a state of
boulders, which no ice deposits could account for, might exist, not otherwise.
The highest hill-tops would stUl be free by dint of less weight of the waters
plunging against them. But, for this, the waters must have great power over the
meaner crests as Dartmoor presents in long ridges of vast stones left piled on
one another, and to an extent no human hand could do it.

THE RAINBOW.

Although, I beUeve, the opponents of the Bible have placed but Uttle
stress on this subject, of the sign in promised continuance for the har
vests, I apprehend the cause is, that the Scripture, on introducing it,
does not verbaUy say it was, then, to appear for the first time ; but stUl
objection has been raised on the ground that such an idea was impHed,
The refuge of Christians of integrity being, as I apprehend it, a
very weak one; when they have merely allowed, that if it was a
pre-existing phenomenon it stiU might be made a sign in proof to the
eye as a promise, and was so thus.
Now, I do not think any of the Jews who proposed to Hve on the
other side of Jordan would have said there is a pre-existing rock, or
stone-tumulus, and that shaU be a sign that we claim a right to the
Abrahamic covenant, exclusively of those covering the main features
of the neighbourhood ; but that, as a matter of fact, they felt they
had to raise the memorial record in a new thing ; and on the same
ground I am quite at one with those who hold that it was so
implied in regard to Jehovah's gift of the rainbow.
Then, I know that geologists wiU be down on me in their usual
shaUowness regarding scientific matters, as they have been in the time
meant for rain to appear first, in chap. ii. ver. 6, by not seeing the object
of the point in hand. So, because rain existed, without doubt before
the Flood, as well as before even the fifth day by the record read
arightly, yet, I take the buU by the horns, and propose to show that,
by evidence from modem scientific facts discovered, there would be
more colour-refiecting power in the rains raised from the earth after
than before the Flood.
In this I must depend on scientific evidence entirely ; so, if the
ordinary reader wished it, for whom these papers have been chiefiy
written, I could not remit it on this subject. It is really a very fine
one, and of great value to science, as weU as in the evidence to the
Bible's truth and grace. Let us but at first suppose that it was
unknown to Noah and his children, with what interest would they
look out for the first sight of what it was to be ? It is clear that
Noah's sacrifice was an immediate act to his elderly inteUigence on
the import of putting aU his future, at once, on the blood of a
sacrifice, which he had from Cain and Abel's day understood to be a
permanent point on the blessing or the curse of God; so that to
secure himseK and his future, he began it at once on landing from
the Ark, to prevent the atonement by blood unto death, for Ufe,

THE earth's FIRST BALANCES BROKEN UP, 59
Again, it is but Httle likely that to a climate so centraUy Asiatic,
or rather continentaUy (of Europe, Africa, and Asia), as that of the
mountain of Ararat, that rain could be wanted very soon on the so
recently saturated earth's crust, while the east wind to dry it up had
only continued so long as to release Noah for his being Uberated from
his prison refuge, of which they would be glad to be clear as soon as
safe and feasible, as the record by the raven and the dove shows us.
Then, if the first rainbow ever seen was caught sight of by one of
the famUy, with what intense astonishment and delight he would stay
to gaze at it, and then haste with the cry, " The rainbow ! the rain
bow ! Come and see ! come and see ! " and what a rush there would
be of all the rest to that point. What worship of the Giver in joy.
" No flood again ! " " Harvest for ever ! "
But poetry, the scientist wUl say, is not the evidence about it you
promised. First, then, I must suppose the reader has, so far, examined the
complete proof I have already provided him with in my work, " The
Balance of Physics," that the finish of the earth's own state at the
time for man to appear was, that to which unchanging values, without
any over-strain to the crust, by the forces of heat within, or, yet any
unattained value of the highest, between electro-magnetical forces for
motion by Ught, to the dead-weight, should belong for the reactions to
time-results, equal. Then, it f oUows, that any operation of Hght poured
out to the increase of it for heat in overplus would be foUowed by
a wrench to the crust of the earth, or as the Scripture calls it, " On
the same day were all the foundations of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened;" for with the increase of
the interior heat of the earth's bowels there would be an increase (by
the pressure of air and ether around) of an equaUy proportionate
radiation of the different gases and fluids that form rain ; which, Hke
the Ughtest volcanic dust thrown up, would aggregate by mutual
attractive values in the upper heaven to fall again, as now, and to the
same proportion of overplus.
Of course, to the scientists of such magnificent minds as those who
expect nature in any of her parts, or the whole, to get up heat, or keep
it up, without the fuel for it, I can only say, Stay where you are if it
is your determination.
Thus, however, Jehovah, by the covenant, " Let Hght be " — or run
from me to the rule of proportion for aU I want done — kept in His
own hands the means to a judgment, or a regulated state of times and
their blessing before or after the Flood.
Now, to the common engineer, this must be self-apparent. If he

60 "HOW READEST THOU?"
wanted an engine to do the highest work of velocity possible nature
could supply for his boUer and the machinery by all her resources, he
would then have, at use, revolving agencies at the highest safe state
for equUibrium to the Hne proposed.
But the line itself might rise and fall to alter the strain on the
soHds at various periods ; so that the speed, also, in a medium, might
be alterable at the mediated power of his machine.
If she rose into a higher medium or sunk to a denser, that, fit to
suit the highest of aU, would not suit the condition for aU pressures
alike. A friend of mine not long since spoke of her escape from the loss of
life by being hindered from entering a captive baUoon-car in Paris, by
its being already fuU, and it burst and all there were kUled by its rise.
So, the earth's traverse, from causes I have fuUy proved in the
earlier work, must be by ellipsis to rise and fall, between the greater
increase of the solar gases, or decrease to the greater or lesser density,
according to the distance the earth rises in ether to the sun's greater
condensing attraction of it to vary the pressures.
As in the case of an engine to be made equal to the greatest, safe,
mean-speed, at the ocean level for the draft and fuel equal in, and
for her, or to go over the Himalayas ; so, of the earth ; the time to
over-press her valves with heat, so that she should over-boU, and throw
off her water without whoUy bursting the soUd rings of crusts holding
it, must be at a given season ; and only to be kept up so long that
the danger in a new density of the outer medium, air or ether, should
lead to no further change.
Then, if the boiler and valves contained at first a fuU but only
efficient proportion of both the metaUic substance needed, and its
elasticity for strength thereby alike, — when the overplus fuel was put
on to produce the stretch, — that would cause the greater evaporation
of fluids, which of metal before had been reduced, so as not to taint
the air ; and would, by the force at operation in the bowels of the earth,
certainly disengage an overplus degree of the metalHc-earth-features,
which would not (as by our modern means is often found for hindering
our mine-waters not poisoning surfaces) besufficientlysubject to thedrain-
value of the earHer ages ; and so they must rise in the waters into air.
Now, by the difference in the earth's circle for the first act to force
by the different pressures of ether so to begin the operation, it might be
used in so much safety for the reaction, that aU the fiuids would rise
to cover the highest mountain top, — or a complete boU over aU the
pot of Hfe, — without danger to getting up a degree to burst the boiler
itself ; and as I have, and shall have, more evidence to show that a

OVERPLUS LIGHT AS FUEL THE CAUSE. 61
seven day's order by the square of the circle decimal, wUl cause to the
earth a complete growth-fiow of change to order ; so also for disorder,
or to go beyond the graduated scale of progress, her system aUowed
this operation to start on ; and the forty days would be enough, no
doubt, to complete the operation to the fuU as HteraUy stated, as it
is over a lunar circle tidal. I cannot wisely enter with figures into
this treatise ; but I have the less need, because I have done so by the
most simple characters before, and no one can expect me to repeat it
when once in print.*
But this, now, comes, by modern experiment, respecting the rain
bow to our hand in evidence.
If light caused the fiood as of a greater degree of unit fuel poured
out from the Creator's bosom in wrath, then all the ethereal heavens
must feel it, and the sun as the greater condenser draw his share to
the greater degree of his mass attracting it.
For his system to suit in the common law of generations, or the
links of material exchange to be the true part of a real universe, or
unique in laws, he must, also, have had given him similar constituents
of the metaUic class under chemical changes, that the earth has to feed
her system ; and thereby to throw her from him for her rotation to be
forced by Hght as matter, and for her revolution on proportions. For
this we have the discoveries of the spectroscope in proof. As his
radiated gases into ether right through air present the various colours
of the metaUic earths, thus linking his waves through those of ether
to our eye ; not something done by nothing. Those from him radiated
are subject to be greatly condensed by the smaller but soHder focus of
the earth's attractive body for sight.
Engineers well know that if the action by an expansive force on a
retainer is above equUibrium to its elasticity for safety in reaction, the
collapse is subject to a similar degree, although it may not lead to a
burst outward or inwardly.
Then, the cormpting force in circulation of aU metallic drugs are
known to be Hable to such excess, and so to carry off too high a degree
of the same forces by magnetical attraction at first for mutual action.
Hence their injury to Hfe. A stated period in a circuit of various
densities being used to secure it equal to not bursting is wanted then ;
so the date in the year of the Flood is given. The second month, the
seventeenth day of the month, is that stated.
* That the exact balance of equality was before attained between the electro-
magnetical and gravitational properties on the equinoxial is proved, if we admit
the fact of any universal flood of the seas at all ; as otherwise, the result of more
light than for equilibrium must cause volcanic action instead, with, perhaps, a
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62 "HOW EEADEST THOU?"
The earth, then, had just passed her natural periheHon, and had a
far stretch in ethereal pressures to rise before her greatest power to
bear light, in current, to reach the extreme bearing of the apheUon
safety. Hence the time chosen was not liable to be disruptive,
although stretching her bowels; and the length of the time for
the flood to be rising being only of forty days, — although the
earth was thus hastUy expanded as a baUoon, — her solid coverings
were not subject to burst by the liberty to rise for freedom into
ethereal, liquid, less densities ; but too far would have lost to her the
outer pressure aid thereof to secure the valves. Hence the over-force
was remitted in a due time.
The fuU importance of the date given is, therefore, of the greatest
significance in a scientific sense, beyond aU previous perception about
it ; and the length of the period to drown the inhabitants, although
so much over what could be needed for that end alone, is conclusive
on the purpose to secure the scientific accuracy also ; for aU animal
life, even that in the Ark, would soon be extinct, except of fish,
possibly, of some classes not suffocated. The cooUng had to be slow.
We know that if glass is overheated it may be aUowed to cool safely,
if not too rapidly reduced by external chiU ; and this simple example
is enough to prove the earth's requirement of a proportionate time to
recondense her soHds back to their previous offices before the east wind
was employed to dry the earth.
The fuU value of the words of the margin by the new translators,
" I have set my bow in the cloud," involves a present, lately, for a work
done, in respect to a care in the continuance and force of the previous
break-up within, that the earth's harvest seasons should return to order.
But with this follows a certainty ; that, as the earth's crust over
her bowels must contract as retaining agents over interior bowel-
heats on her circulations ; so, like the patient whose life is saved by
mercury, she, for ever, must feel the effect of that past, brought in
by sin ; and be subject to decompose her metallic solids above the degree
of the normal par, of the pure and good, to eject them into the air, as
her degree of new contraction would be in the ratio of the expansion.
Thus, the fact, aU through, corroborates both the first creation as
aU pure and good for health and longevity ; and now the effect of
the first great judgment for sin to produce natural causes for a sure,
although, at first, graduated reduction of the time of human capacity
to resist causes of death (see chap, xi,). Some of the ejected metallic
gases, so refiecting light in the heavens, being possibly antidotal to
others in a degree; but where physic is needed death at last is certain.
Hence comes the rainbow.

THE CALL AND OFFICES OF MOSES.

Some attention to this in regard to the BibHcal record wiU be
desirable. Our principal point wUl be, not so much as to his weU-knovm
autobiography after the scene at the " burning bush," which is com
plete and indisputable as to its source ; but in respect to the narrative
of historical facts prior to his birth.
For this we shaU have to take up the record respecting the
incidents in Egypt which brought him to that seat of learning and
science first.
The question at issue amongst disputants has been. How did he
acquire the information respecting the subjects of prehistoric events
to those of his own memory ?
Now, whether he got it by direct instruction from the Creator, as
he clearly says, by revelations, he had it to carry out his own office
of the Exodus ; or, by the existing records preserved by Noah and
other hands, one thing I have (with others), both in this work, and
much more largely in another printed last year, demonstrated : that it
must have come to some human official at the direct, verbal initiation
of the Creator Himself, Genesis i, proved to be true.
Hence, Professor Huxley's idea of a knock on the head from the
severity of Paul the Apostle, I should expect if not receiving it as
direct inspiration to be literally believed, as weU as by its connected
points, at the hand of Moses, the undoubtedly inspired man of truth,
for his own records thereunto,* Let it be enough, then, that we
herein admit it to have been plenarUy inspired. It is certain that the
Scriptures record his being so bom, and his life secured, that he had
fuU access to aU the learning of the Egyptians, and that this is made
of some especial import regarding a part of his mission.
For the Exodus alone this could not be of so much importance, as
any other mode of safety for his infancy and early Hfe could have been
utiHsed by Jehovah to that end.
It is certain that natural wit and contrivance brought about his
* And also as to wisdom in inditing the earlier history, as no doubt by his care
we get it appended by the Spirit of God.

64 "HOW EEADEST THOU?"
rescue from the waters of the Nile, at the desire and management of
his mother and sister. But other children have been saved from
cruelty in their enemies on simUar resources.
It is most probable that through the attendants the more merciful
tenderness of Pharaoh's daughter to that of her self-glory-seeking
father had become known to Moses' friends, and that the line of her
walks nearest their dwelling was also known. Such things get out.
This narrative of a mother's anxiety and a sister's sympathy with
it, and solicitude for her young brother's safety, makes it the more
sweet and touching, that a miracle had really nothing to do with it.
It was accompHshed by the depths of maternal love overruled to
God's end.
Their acute management is also enough to secure that the mother
shaU nurse the chUd, and thus had the power to engraft upon his
young heart different sympathies than those so endangering to their
national aspirations as would otherwise foUow the education of
Pharaoh's adopted son by his heiress' choice. No impressions are so
strong as those of infancy.
The successor by adoption, even over the heads of natural heirs, is,
in the East, common to our day.
He had to be taught what was his true nationality, and amid the
sunny glories of Egypt's princedoms to value it above all. Yet,
to be so careful and reserved that no suspicion (although it got out at
last by one hot-headed act) should arise to make Pharaoh suspect his
class of preferences. For his real descent could not be unknown to
aU in Pharaoh's house (Exodus ii. 6).
The meekness of his natural temperament to his mother's wishes
must have been great to lull suspicion so long as he did. In this the
natural ground for Jehovah to work on for that after state spoken of
under the severe exercises of experience, and as conscious of the
presence and service for His nation's God, approves the old adage,
" The child is father to the man," as far as nature herself is concerned.
The hastiness at much temptation broke out again, after the
Egyptian was kUled, before the smitten rock.
There had to be another who alone could say of himself, " I am
meek and lowly of heart." The submission all through life and on to
the Cross of Calvary proved that.
There can be no ground for any idea but that Moses and his famUy
looked forward to his taking Pharaoh's seat as the one only means by
which the Jews could be set free from their hard bondage at first.
To them the incident respecting the kiUing of the Egyptian must
have appeared to ruin it aU.

MOSES' MISSION. 65
Hence the reflections of Moses must have been most bitter, and self-
instructive as to hasty passions getting the better of him in future.
But indignation at a wrong was ever sharp within his breast, and
so he was as prompt as before at the weU in Midian.
It is clear, also, that Moses was as much taken by surprise as Paul
was on his way to Damascus by the miraculous vision to be found
over the burning bush. Hence, it appears certain that here his cour
version and mission started at once, as in the apostle's case in another
place and period. Of any earlier revelation or interview from that
sublime person he met there Moses gives us no idea, while after it,
except for his business of the Exodus, he also says nothing ; but the
narrative is evidently carried on therefrom, to be set before us as of
the future completeness of his Hfe.
Clearly, then, any mere assertion that Moses himself got his infor
mation on times prior to his own day by direct verbal inspiration,
although it must have thus come to some one, is without the least
Scripture authority.
What we have to trace is, whether we have not sufficient evidence
that it was given before the Flood to some one of that earlier day,
and that that record became accessible to Moses by his advantages as
the directed superior student of the mysteries of Egypt ; so that, like
Luther and the Bible (hidden and perverted to suit the authority and
self-seeking purposes of an idolatrous priesthood), he found these
most interesting records amongst the archives of Egypt's colleges, and
then, under the impressions of his mother's instruction, saw the value
of the treasure, and kept it in secret, to bring it perfectly in due time
into the Hebrew text, and so had it at hand when he wrote his
Genesis to go before his Exodus as directed by God's Spirit.
Have we not had a simUar experience beside Luther's in the salva
tion from the waste-paper basket of the Sinai monastery for our
recent aid to the Sinai translation of the Bible ?
The years spent in Midian would be useful for this, and by secret
preservation be a glad study to such a mind as that of Moses. The
contemplative man, thrown out of the line of usual resources for study
afterward in Midian.
Then Pharaoh's aroused jealousy when he heard about the defunct
Egyptian did us some service, while it brought Moses to the spot for
this, and also to teach that Jehovah's ways are not those preferred by
men. By Moses' earHer hopes Israel might be reUeved of labour ;
but, Hke Joseph, he could only think of Goshen for their better
residence in Hberty restored. Jehovah knew of a better land, pro
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66 " HOW READEST THOU ? "
to the promised seed, yet to appear by Israel. A part of the law of
restitution of all things to the right owner found worthy to reign there
from his birth, and there to be at first only proclaimed king (Luke xix.).
The martyr Stephen places the points of the biography of Moses
thus : " And Moses was instructed in aU the wisdom of the Egyptians,
and he was mighty in his words and works." That is, to Egyptian
values. This is placed by this recorder long before he arrives at the point
of Moses' conversion at the bush.
Hence, it clearly is intended to imply what the Egyptians found
him to be, the man of great attainments in knowledge and action
to their appreciation. A senior wrangler of their colleges — B.A.,
naturally. No doubt, then, he took the learned and active princely interest, as
the recent Prince Consort did, in those features for the national glory
of his expected future reign, and in a very generous and exalted
spirit, although far above it aU in his most cherished hopes.
Hence he would be found often at the working-field of his Jewish
kindred, and while his knovsn skUl in great works of engineering
would cover his deeper sympathies for them from Egyptian observa
tion, it led, notwithstanding all his care, to the causes for his exile.
This Egyptian initiation would also the better fit him and make
him enjoy his office by the memory of what God showed him in the
mount, to copy the tabernacle there presented, with the more ease,
which would be a fuU charge for it alone to bear.
The question may arise. If the inspired delivery is of the creation
history as a synoptical key to all nature's forces, for the instruction
about it, and aU for human assistance to understand its laws for their
own inventive imitations, why was it not, as in other cases made
known when, and by whom, it was first given for delivery, and what
miracles attended its gift, like for the Tabemacle of the Exodus, if of
value in grace to the Antediluvians ? as it must be.
I think the answer is plain, by the first of Genesis itself. There,
each work in the processional progress from the earth's nucleus and
ethereal womb to the finish, is presented as of the "good" to be
"seen" so. Hence, again, we have the idea before us, "nature is her
own interpreter" on this, and as to the voice for who made her;
as He, by it, is His own interpreter to make His being and goodness
plain. Is not this the idea of Paul the Apostle in Rom. i. 20 ?
No other miracle is, therefore, needed in proof of miraculous word
ing than the two chapters themselves ; as Mr. Gladstone justly argued
on only partial parts of aU the grounds to be found.

MODES OF PROCEDURE. 67
Beside the need for the command of the secretly preserved
archives of Egypt, God did not want a man whose youth was such
that his heart was broke down by slavery, but one who felt at home
in palaces before aU Pharaoh's priests and princes ; so the over-ruling
of His hand for a due purpose is fuUy before us without a direct
miracle then needed.
In fact this class of evidence to His Godhead is often far more
powerful by using His own created natural agencies to an end, than
any need to interfere by a miracle can do. And the history of Moses
is supported by hosts of witnesses not found of the writers of our
Bible, Language was, we find, initiated to Adam, and he was exercised in
its use even before the "FaU." Can we trace evidence that geometry
and numbers were not only v^ith hieroglyphical writings known, prac
tised, and even taught of God before the Noachian Flood, and carry
evidence in regard to the fact, that such a flood was held, by those
early inhabitants of Egypt's kingdom to have occurred 1
The most simply natural form of committing to the eye of an absent
person our ideas is, that of figures formed in likenesses of things ; and
like the recent day of the North American Indians, have a plan and
expression, that those accustomed to them may read the characters
and combinations with facility, no doubt by learning it from their
earUest forefathers.
It is a common thing to say, this or that nation invented characters
for details in history and arithmetic first ; but merely, in proof, that
this is aU we know of the history thereof, is not in evidence secured,
they were the first inventors thereof. ' Moderns have invented things
anew, known long before by the Chinese — that ancient nation.
If we accept the making of Noah's Ark at aU, geometry and decimal
numbers were connected with the buUding thereof. So neither
Egyptians or Arabians could be the inventors, although they might
improve the character for facUity of recognition, or, as our algebraistic
mathematicians have used it, for rapidity but not finish. But I have
proved that by the decimal numbers of the Mosaic history the universe
is worked ; and on the Sabbatic number of Genesis the First, the
gravitational centre of those numerals has presented the " quadrature
of the circle " at last, proving, also, that for practical accuracy no other
is its equal, or can assist, but is an intruder for a finish.
But have we here a Hne of proof preserved, that Noah's Ark did
exist, and must have been the resource for the preservation of other
things beside natural lives ? Human chronology, for instance.
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68 " HOW READEST THOU ? "
contains a high encomium on Moses, at its end, as a man mighty
through intercourse with Jehovah ; yet, there is not a word respecting
its beginning before liis preparation for the Exodus.
To proceed for our earlier clue to find the source of the first inspired
edition of the history of the Creation, and mankind, we must look to
the Divine mode of dealing with man, after sin came on the board,
for the means to preserve the principles taught, as we have studied
them, by the tree of life ; then, to the Ark of the Covenant Moses
had to make, and teach the certain adoption of the priestly especial
family of Israel ; and what has been found in modern days to have
been the main object of the Egyptian joint-monarchs, Shufu and
Nem-Shufu (whose names as the royal buUders are stated " to have
been discovered by Col. Howard Vyse in 1837, roughly painted on
the undressed sides of the stones in the upper chambers of construc
tion, which were never opened until he forced a way up to them),
placed there a copy of the Covenant Ark in their Pyramid.*
In the book these points are, now, quoted from a mass of facts, and
with much of the mere imagination of the authors mixed up with them,
may be found ; but all I need is those points that are certain, as we
are assured of them by all the writers to have been those of actual
discovery. This pyramid called the Great Pyramid of Gizeh was the standard,
as to its style of building, on which all the others were raised. It is
the largest — a point of some import, as we shall see, for the totally
different object to be secured from that of any of the others. It was
impregnable to fire.
In Moses' day it had never been entered ; hence its object, if we
can trace it, must have had, in Egypt's memorial records, the resources
for its purpose in the secrets of its forms, interior, and simple con
tents, those placed by his predecessors.
Moses' youth is set down at about the year 1500 before Christ, so
this vast temple of records must have been sealed up against his
intrusion over 1000 years. He could borrow nothing from it ; but
might from the records that were a guide to its features, always kept
for Egypt's renown in her coUeges.
These facts are attested by the writer I quote from, in that no
opening to its private contents was ever made until the son of Haroun
Al Eashid of the " Arabian Nights' Entertainments," under the idea
that all the riches of the Mussulmans' great antediluvian king of the
earth were there stored, broke in. Thus, this inquisitive king,
* A Miracle in Stone ; or. The Great Pyramid of Egypt. By Joseph A.
Seiss, D.D. 2 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Eow, London.

THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZEH. 69
Al Mamoun, in the Mediaeval Age broke into it, but finding no such
riches as he expected, and having no key to the rich value of Avhat he
did find there, had to escape himself, by a trick, the danger his
tyranny in compeUing it had raised amongst his poor workmen.
The work aUuded to gives a drawing of the line of access to the
interior, and the rise to the two chambers, with what is in the higher
one, or upper store-room, caUed the King's Chamber. This was
meant (Hke other parts described so much more fuUy than I need for
my purpose) for testimonial retention, to show the object of the vast
buUding, that so far I must quote from them only, leaving the reader
afterwards to examine that work and aU its views and calculations for
his own satisfaction.
It will, I think, be seen that the remaining tradition had more
than a mere fancy for its origin, that this hiding-place was built to
preserve for posterity afar the true riches of the earlier world's natural
king. Who could have that claim but Adam, the first Father of
aU? In regard to dates there appears much earlier value for the effort by
chronologists. The act to buUd an abiding witness for future evidence
and assistance, to secure the " way to heaven " by the Tower of Babel
is put down in Scripture chronology as the first most important point
to be secured by the uninspired hand of man at his own inteUectual
idea for the benefit of posterity, and to have been about 2947 years
before Christ.
The date given in the diagram for the closing up the entrance to
the Great Pyramid is 2527 B.C.
Hence, from Babel to the Great Pyramid was about, but rather
over, four hundred years.
Now, the point we have to examine is this. That as man, in any
of his ideal objects of importance, if it be frustrated by difficulties,
any, but especiaUy by mutual disagreement on religious controversy
(being always pertinacious and stiff-necked, to carry out his scheme),
whether the frustration of the Babel desire did not crop up into a
degree of determination in Egypt ; and so far as the evidence in the
Great Pyramid presents it, was a success ?
The idea is, that it was proposed to be emblematical, and that the
falHng Hne from the entrance was to present the history in Eden of
the lost estate to doom and darkness. Then, that the sudden rise
upward from the bottom, with recovery from a weU of pure waters, there
found, and finding the same way back again toward a place (nearly by
another Hne straight to the base of the rock natural) for the measure
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70 " HOW READEST THOU ? "
to a point where another new Hne, horizontal, or of natural gravita
tion, finds a chamber (caUed the Queen's Chamber by the discoverers
modern), by which nothing was gained, as it had no contents ; whUe
this line has again to be retraversed to reach by the continuation of the
first ascending Hne into the chief chamber of aU discovered (caUed by
moderns the King's Chamber), in which the whole soHd treasure, for
which so much buUding and care had been taken to preserve, was an
empty polished granite coffer ; which is found to be a correct repre
sentative of the Ark of the Covenant afterward to be made by the
pattern Moses saw for the first time on the Mount SinaL This is
made a clear point.
It is thus certain that whatever the builders had additionaUy pro
posed to teach, it was chiefly aU of especial connection with this
coffer that the fall and then rise, first into a chamber where ease to
nature in the line of action is presented, but nothing got by it, to try
again by the principles of the first line of rise intimated hieroglyphic-
ally, and there to find this emblem of the real treasure secured. A
sign of a true Hfe-covenant, brought down through time.
Thus, man's first estate is presented as in Eden we traced it before,
by self-confidence downward at once, sinking into darkness and black
despair, when a well of water is found for hope in God's promise of a
triumph yet in the woman's seed.
After retracing his steps back to the point of actual disobedience in
type he ascends on a true line, but again deviates into a chamber of
disappointment, " The Law " by self -righteousness ; while now acknow
ledging by experience he is a sinner weak by nature, and thus learning
by his mistake, that the true line wiU never admit of any hope but in
a covenant of grace, finds in the King's Chamber the Ark of the
Covenant, which was the retained remembrance of God's earlier
presentation to those who . had Hved before that immense treasure-
house was built.
The whole is typical of what occurred in Eden and immediately
afterward was presented by God. So the truth of the Mosaic records
connected therewith are on evidence.
Even that the subterranean chamber was evidence amid so vast
and evidently determined an effort to allow no expense to be spared —
never made perfect, shows us an emblematical idea that the lost
estate, which Satan desired to make for ever, was, yet, not so fuUy an
accomplished fact as to be without hope in God to all. The error
I conceive the author of the book I quote from, with that of many
others he cites, is this : That this building could have been the result
of any divinely authorised purpose, although it did, no doubt, propose

THE CHERUBIM AT THE EAST OF EDEN. 73
to carry on to futurity the great points of truth which had been
received from Jehovah, and by His over-ruling hand has appeared in
a due time.
It is under this view I propose to consider it; that is, as an
effort to revive the object the building of the Tower of Babel was
proposed for. We, therefore, now go back to a consideration thereof.
Its simplicity of point, and as a hiding-place God might allow for our
use now. But first, we must search the antedUuvian point and object
from which, those who sought to present the great saving truths of
heaven for posterity had their earlier antitype, as to hieroglyphical
figures to present it all by.
When Jehovah had driven out the first parents of mankind from
Paradise it is stated that " He placed at the east of the Garden of
Eden, cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to
keep the way of the tree of life."
Dr. Morrison* translates this as, " The cherubim and the fire enfold
ing itself — i.e.. The same Shekinah, divinely sustained flame of God's
glorious presence, in witness to His zeal to teach mankind the truth,
which He again rested in the earth by the tabernacle of witness at the
next great stage of progress for the glory of Christ, as the king of the
Jews, and High-Priest also to Israel, His priesthood nation ; and by
them for mercy through Him to aU mankind.
The late Mr. Craik, of Bristol, one of the greatest masters of this
century in the original Chaldee, stated that what was placed at the
east of Eden was proposed to be an attraction, not something to drive
votaries away from its locality.
All the mythological concoctions respecting an oracle to foretell
events had their perversions for false prophets in this of the true
original in God. Here, it was that Cain and Abel came up before the
Lord to be accepted or rejected; and it was by a determination never
again to appear before it, Cain went into the land of Nod (" vagabond "
or "wandering," — "Geography of the Bible"). A spirit remarkably
common in this day — to rather perish than submit to be saved by
another. Now, with this cherubim and the Shekinah fire, is connected that
especial fixable part of the altar testimony — the Ark of the Covenant,
as Moses had to make his copy by what he saw of it on the Mount,
in a long-after age.
It was, therefore, a sort of solid witness for a copy, before the day
of Moses, and which may have been on any memorial writings, or
traditions of the great Hope placed for a refuge to human frailty,
* Dr. Morrison's "Eeligious History of Man."

72 "HOW READEST THOU?"
and, as we have described it, respecting the " Way," or principles of
the tree of life. How could it be forgotten, when the Ark Noah
was saved in was, also, another enlarged copy of its make and pro
portions? That the view I have taken respecting the mythological import, by
the deviation from the upward line, after it had been fairly taken,
straightly, for the King's Chamber, is correct, I conceive is of a notable
fact, as discovered in the purpose by the builders to prevent the object
to get rest in the Queen's Chamber, thus.
Job is a most likely man to have preceded the building of the
Great Pyramid. His error was the value to be set on his personal
righteousness, eyen after he had owned salvation by the expected
Messiah, promised, as though it helped to secure life eternal, instead
of its being so mixed with sin, that the great gift stood only on mercy
through the atonement of Christ the same as ever. It is a common
error, and must have been known early. To notify this it is stated,
" That two ventUating tubes have recently been discovered in the so-
called Queen's Chamber, which the buUders left entirely closed over
with a thin unbroken scale; which not only shut them from aU
observation, but rendered them of no practical effect whatever." My
interpretation is quite enough to account for the reaUy important and
plainly-proved purpose in them. Job's length of days indicates his
era by the proportions m the decline of longevity, by causes I have
before noted ; and as shown to have become gradual by the eleventh
of Genesis. " This room has, therefore, always been noted for its
noisome smeU, for the atmosphere there was left without circulation
for four thousand years. On the hidden sides of the waUs these air
channels were open, but on the visible sides within the room the
surface was smooth, even, and unbroken, the same as any other part.''
" They were discovered by an accident." With aU the idea of this
and other writers, that the Pyramid was proposed to indicate more
than was already known, I do not agree. There was nothing of new
prophecy intended to be shown whatever. It was never God's way
of proceeding.
In a book of universal history I have before me, Egypt is placed as
the first to be recorded of nations after the Flood. Babylonia is after
the Jews. But let us turn to the Bible, and things vriU get into order.
By it no binding the human concourse into a kingdom begins until
the effort to build the Tower of Babel The purpose was clearly one
cosmopolitan by the then existing peoples of the earth ; but as fore
seeing the future dangers in a great loss of records of import by the
extensions required even for a peaceful settlement of successions.

TRE CITY AND THE TOWER OF BABEL. 73
The statement is so far clear, that the terrible judgment the
inhabitants had suffered of the antediluvian period, with its cause, as
narrated in Scripture, had, up to this time, operated to preserve the
race from wars.
So of the inhabitants generaUy, about 100 years after the new
settlement began, they being of one language and one speech, said
one to another, " Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly ;"
and again, as to the purpose, "Go to, let us buUd us a city and a
tower, whose top (may reach) is unto heaven." "May lead to secure
heaven," is meant. Dr. Morrison translates it, "And one lip.'' Also,
the different statement to language, " and one lip or speech," cannot
both mean the same as of one idiom only ; but the latter means one
set of ideas ; and this again by the connection with the object in the
tower, must mean one set of ideas as to how to secure heaven ; or
that great change Enoch had shown a memorial testimony to, who
reached there by walking with God. Hence, being so faithful as to
be the exact contrast to Cain by keeping near the east of Eden, whence
VGod taught men the principles of such hope, and which, now, this
early, new nucleus of mankind sought to perpetuate by the building.
This was to be both a city and a tower. In fact, an ecclesiastical
central metropolis and collegiate sanctuary for the future benefit
of mankind. A grand design; but they mistook how far they
were equal to it. And so they forewent what Jehovah proposed
to secure for the same object by Moses, Aaron, and Solomon. Hosts
of such unauthorised efforts have since then been made, and ended
in a complete Babel of confusion of opinion — like the Ritualistic
Churchmen and Evangelicals of Oxford and Cambridge of this day,
&c. &c. An utter failure ; so that God had to come in by others ;
although, as in the Pyramid case, some important first principles
may remain in each record.
The words "Go to, let us," plainly show this was all democratic, so
that no superior authority existed to secure any result able to stand
the test of continuity, required at aU.
Thus, out of this comes the first royalty — that of Nimrod ; who, in
spite of the great scattering, made Babel "the beginning of his
kingdom," and built three other contiguous cities.
Although this is stated, to its purpose and order, in the previous
chapter, it is clearly on a point after the period the eleventh begins
on, again.
He being stated to be a great hunter before the Lord, appears to
have had so much more influence than others that his views were the
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74 " HOW READEST THOU ? "
wars became justifiable to men's consciences by the supposed demand
to secure the views, held as truth, for a coUegiate system unto the
benefit of mankind. He was the first representative of Mahomet and
the Pope of Rome's ideal justification to hunt up heresiarchs, so as to
scatter those of other views, their followers. A religious persecutor.
But here, as in other cases, we find the popular voice selects the
priesthood and kings for the views God looked on as heresies most
readily, as always.*
Now, our question chiefly is this. If Jehovah looked on this effort
so that it became scattered in His disdain for their sufficiency and
success by it to His mind, how can we trace the probability that He
would allow the Great Pyramid to be built if it was, after aU,
a stiff-necked determination of the Egyptian kings to go about the
same thing, and to succeed in what the Babylonian populace had so
signaUy failed in.
In the first place, as to Jehovah being the direct author, as some
have believed, to get it so far, as narrated by the observers of the
Pyramid, to a true likeness to Jehovah's teaching, it may be observed
that God never has sought to build and hide His testimony many
centuries of the human existence, and to make it a difficulty to find it
out, or read it afterward, even when using figurative agents instead
of a direct letter. The statement in 2 Peter i. 20 in witness. It
would be to the sceptics a readily accepted and reasonable black
letter, that Jehovah worked for truth so as to hide its testimonies
some thousand years away from our studies. But as a finaUy aUowed
effort to preserve by human builders, direct, the evidences at hand
to the operators of what had been preserved from the teaching of
God in the earliest ages, it is quite another matter. In fact,
it has more value against scepticism in our day as to the history
of the Bible respecting the earliest times in Eden's garden, than if it
had been by a new revelation. It stands on common historic evidence.
Nor does the Bible ever give us a revelation without stating
directly that it was so proposed of Himself. Nature herself in
proof being openly caUed to witness for Genesis i. and Exodus xx., as
by God's record and "seen.'' But that prophecies of Enoch, who
lived before the Flood, had existed to be handed down we have a
statement of in the Book of Jude, and one of a very decided,
important, and far-reaching character, although the actual record of
how it was known to that apostle we know not. A host of early
books of value in their times we know now are lost, their object
* I have in this work endeavoured to keep quite impartial between the errors
of either sceptics or Christians, as required.

PHARAOH, BY NAPOLEON TO WIT. 75
being, no doubt, superseded by recent events and writings. But
however lost, it is at the faiUt of men.*
In respect to our point as to the cause of this Egyptian effort not
ending in a scattering also, without a finish, let us remember that in
Egypt at that time was a settled government previously established,
and it was of a class autocratic, so that aU must obey.
A similar object for renown, and to present the philanthropic
object of a future benefit proposed for mankind, to escape past
necessities, took place in France when Napoleon set at work to get
up his celebrated code of laws to establish his name. Their being
only of a civU import does not affect our point in evidence.
The statement history records is this, that while the code was
making, any irreconcUable differences amongst the lawyers was
decided by the emperor himself, as he was determined to have the code,
so the imperial stamp of the foot at once stopped further disputes.
This authority was wanting at Babel from the first, and only ex
isted after the dissentients from the leading orders and Nimrod had left.
In Egypt no such difficulty occurred ; so the degree of success, how
ever the intent of what was a simple representative of first principles
was attained, is of no wonder.
Now, the mode of expression used in the cause of the quarrels at
Babel is rather of an intent on the part of God to let the matter work
out its ruin by the natural difficulties to agree about Him who is the
Way, the Truth, and the Life, held more correctly by some than
others so as to divinely infuse a spirit of dissension than any other
mode of his operation. See 1 Kings xxu. 22 for a simUar mode of
• I may here note, that of course Moses might have found the first of Genesis
amongst preserved Israelitish resources, but this would not alter the value on the
same head of Egyptian papyri to his research, and both existing would assist the
said shepherd Philistion to get the pyramid built by Cheops, as such records as
the Jews kept formed a useful aid to Ezra, chap. v. 17.
In Dr. Seiss's work there are a host of speculations, that I pass over, as the
chief point is the connection with the past and the cherubim at the east of Eden,
but he seeks, in some degree, to get up the idea that Job or Melchizedek might
be the shepherd who suggested the building of the Pyramid, but neither by the
chronology could have lived so early, if the chronologies are accurate. Abraham,
a contemporary with Melchizedek, is put down at the earliest as of 99 years,
1913 years only before Christ ; Job, 1520 B.C. But the age Job attained, and the
character of that book, by Elihu, make it probable he was before Abraham's day.
Yet it is not probable beside other reasons that he preceded Abraham 600 years
back to the day of the Pyramid. Job must have retained more of the ante
diluvian health than Abraham, or at least equal to it. But this point by the
Egyptians was no doubt left out for keeping all the glory to themselves, savant
like to this day. Who the wise stranger was must be unknown through time.

76 "HOW READEST THOU?"
impressions to lead to the condemnation of those opposed to Jehovah's
will, although here by Jehovah Himself for a good object.
There is another remarkable likeness to the actions of our modern
autocrat. Napoleon Bonaparte, recorded as of tradition exterior to that
in the Pyramid. Bonaparte at first associated and rose to eminence
on the new popular wings of atheistic socialism, the leading feature of
what men caU progress in our own day since his.
But as Romanism had left a vast number of votaries and been the
firm supporter of tyrannical authority provided it was supported in
return, he ultimately re-established that faith in France.
His nephew, here also, foUowed his example, seeking to re-establish
it all over Europe ; but the socialistic views were against his support
in France itself, by length of time for progress, and also Protestantism,
which has more backbone than either of them, succeeded in crushing
him, France being half-hearted in his cause.
Then from Egypt we get this, which I condense.
A stranger caUed Philitis, a shepherd was, as a noted person resid
ing in Egypt near the building while it proceeded. " The priest
consulted by Herodotus describes him as a shepherd, to whom rather
than Cheops the Egyptians attribute this edifice. The precise words of
Herodotus are, " They commonly caU the Pyramids after Philition,*
a shepherd who at that time fed his flocks about the place."
The impotence of Nimrod to finish what had been proposed in
Babel is made certain, and in the following account Asher is said to
have gone out of Babel and built Nineveh.
There, probably, would be found other evidences of " The Voice "
in Eden.
In this case the probability is that dissent made it for him all too
hot to please his persecuting monarch, so he left to establish in
Assyria a new empire and opinions more to his satisfaction ; no doubt
taking his sect with him.
This places the kingdom of Assyria next in the order to that at
Babel he left behind to his sovereign.
Then, in Egypt afterward founded, we have this Cheops, so gener
aUy titled, receiving a stranger of great intelligence on truth, and so
becoming persuaded of the possibility of doing a great thing others
had failed in, and much inspired with it for his own glory, he
tyrannises over his people to succeed and secures his triumph. AU
this is natural enough.
But like Napoleon while about it, he was looked at as disregarding
the host of gods of the Egyptian endless Valhalla ; and, after his
*' I quote only from Dr. Seiss.

PHARAOH, BY NAPOLEON TO WIT. 77
success, returns to the old superstition as recorded by the historians,
as thereby his kingdom was the better secured from fear of a rebellion
to lose his crown. His buUding of an aUen temple, in principle, could
not easUy be disturbed, and its sealed class of testimony need not
concern the priests or the people further.*
Remembering, now, how the shepherds of Israel were found to have
preserved outside Pharisaic influences the expectation of our Lord's
Advent, and the wise men of the East the same, we have no difficulty
in finding for this Philistion, the shepherd of the plains of Egypt,
who had been, or his forefathers, driven from Babel as too truth-
holding to suit Nimrod's pride of the flesh for his doctrines, to have
been a probable reality, and who successfuUy got the opportunity by
a simUar pride of the flesh (but as less influenced by or less able to
judge about true doctrine, or concern themselves respecting it), to secure
these two Pharaohs' hearts, so that their object succeeded with his.
This, also, more fuUy accounts for the hate the early Egyptians had
to the shepherd class altogether, than a mere conquest of the land will.
It is the difference in faith, where enmity never dies.
We have, now, an easy solution of the question how it became so
silent a class of testimony, so that, whUe professing to the Egyptians
to be seeking to build a mere monument to their own glory, Cheops,
under the instruction of another, proceeded to actually estabUsh his
success, wherein the Babel community had failed. To season his
cheese with that idea, he had to submit to leave his own gods and do
them no honour, but to deceive his own uninstructed masses and blind
his princes and priests. But when it was built to return to them as
narrated for safety.
Thus, that a record should be found in this Pyramid, typically
representing in soUd stone the degree of truth, which had been best
held by the persecuted Babylonians, and that the chief evidence of
the covenanted testimony toward a hope to attain heaven by a chamber
to which the free air of heaven had means to reach from above left
open, — in contrast to that of the horizontal line, straight off, in error,
for false ease, by the abstract, but hopelessly strict line of the law again,
in which Adam so faUed, and men now do by the ten commandments,
— and in that King's Chamber find a representing coffer, Hke the Ark of
the Covenant given afterward with the cherubim for Moses to get made,
is aU fuUy accounted for, and simply shows that men zealous for the
truth as it had been taught at the east of the Garden of Eden were
amongst the scattered ones by Nimrod's persecuting spirit.
The reason no ark is especially mentioned in the first relation of
* This, also, accounts for Jehovah allowing it.

78 "HOW EEADEST THOU?"
the cherubim (chap. in. ver. 24) is accounted for by aU being at God's
creative gift at once ; and it is the same in other similar circumstances
— e.g., chap. x.
Psalm Ixxx. ver. 1, shows, with many other passages, that it was
the ever-Uving creatures and Shekinah glory that formed the chief
point as to the testimony of God, but as a significant creation class of
resting-places was needed, it is easUy seen why the representatives of
those figures were left out by impotence to copy them ; and that of
the ark made, as of the most importance to preserve, next to them.*
Is it not likely that the Egyptians had, also, records preserved of
earlier revelations and facts left amongst their writings, if not even as
possibly secure for their curiosity from the same parties ; so that all
Moses wrote of the earlier ages, he so found ; and that was God's pur
pose in so overruling his destiny that they were open to his research ?
His capacity of mind, as we know it, and his mother's teaching,
would teU him of their value, and the other parts of this history
account for his keeping it aU secret for promulgation under more
auspicious circumstances.
His forty days on the Mount was not too long to get established on
his memory the many things he had to make by it ; and even aU the
Lord Jesus did and taught, his disciples were led to understand would
depend in narration on the powers of their memory to the degree of
help by the present and indweUing Spirit of God ; so that variations
of what each declares, or even discrepancies if they could be found,
would only the more prove that important point — that there had
been no collusion ; and, so, leave aU men on a righteous condemnation
if they receive not the grand whole, on the same principles of coUateral
witnesses we condemn a scholar by who refuses that class of sufficient
evidence on common history. Even where Moses was to die was by
direct revelation, and so he was helped along about the Exodus.
The Apostle Paul teaches us, justly, that common-sense, if the
heart is seeking the truth, is enough by the heavenly bodies to
condemn those who worship idols, instead of accepting that evidence
of one true God and Creator over aU (Rom. 1 21). The Lord
Himself appeals to common-sense in judgment often. See Luke xii.
57 for an instance.
However, one thing the Pyramid discoveries prove by the whole
line of progress within to the coffer found in the highest point toward
* Of the sectarian diSerences on these points in emblems, although the
Egyptians had them not, yet the Winged Bulls of Nineveh show evidence to the
idea of preserving a copy of that at the east of Eden afterward presented to Ezek.
chap, i., — ^winged cherubs, &c.

THE PYRAMID WITNESS COMPLETES EDEN'S. 79
heaven, with fresh air purposely left open for the site ; that whether
Moses is claimed to have gotten his narrative of the facts, occurring
before his day, by direct inspiration, or by a reserved testimony he
found amid the archives of Egypt (which I leave open to all to their
judgment) the Pyramid has, as claimed by Moses, proved that the
Eden scenes are fuUy corroborated by infaUible evidence, cut in solid
stone ; as the coffer and aU the line to get at it could only be
accounted another testimony respecting the God-set-tabernacle of
witness, up to which Cain and Abel came as before the Lord ; and to
say the best, or least, of it, we have abundant witness that the ante-
dUuvians had acquired such early features respecting the "True
Balance of Physics " on the same decimal gtounds that Moses in his
first chapter presents it by, and by the entire aid of which the
discoveries of the present writer were made, whether of his last work
so entitled ; and aU those of the earlier ; but more crude in the range
and evidence. But some of which had fuUy been proved, and to the
public in printed pamphlets and books, of which one set was entitled,
" Hints from the Dawning ; or the Creation Story considered under
the Laws of Light and Motion." The second, " How Globes are
Raised and Moved."
In the present age we have plenty of imitators of those bigots
passed away. Amongst men of science there are the followers of
those they profess to despise, the unworthy rejectors of the dis
coverers, GalUeo and Copernicus ; whUe others go so far as to reject
the Godhead over aU nature and law entirely, and are the most
bigoted of men in each case. " The unhappy Jews
Who crucified the Lord of Heaven and Earth
Were but the types of modern prejudice ;
For were the Saviour to descend again.
Amid the money-changers of our marts.
To preach the doctrine that He taught before.
The self-adoring hypocrites would swarm
In every market-place, and shout His name.
With curses on His innovating creed.
And slay Him, if they could, a second time."
Charles Macket.
" It is time for Thee, 0 Lord, to work, for they have made void
Thy law."— Psalm cxix, 126.
Edward Dingle.

o. W. PARTRIDGE AND CO., 9 PATERNOSTER EOW, LONDON.

THE BALANCE OF PHYSICS.
Bt the same Author.

CONTENTS.

Preface: — Introductory; Law; Space; Matter, or Primary Character
Finite; Inertia; Proportional weight, or Gravitation ; Pressure; Heat,
or Substractive Force ; Fluidity and Solidity, or "the Dry;" Digestive
Operation; Electricity; Integral Transmutation, &c. &c.,; Galvanism
and Magnetism ; Friction ; Vacuum ; Enumerative Operations by
Numbers ; Form ; Generation ; Limbs ; The Universal Firmament or
Ethereal Heaven; The First Nucleus for a Globe ; " Material Light,"
The Power of Centrifugal Force ; The Metallic Bases, Colours, &c. ;
Above and Below ; Time ; Brooding, Hatching, and Feeding : The
Earth's Gestation "Seen Good" by Light Good; The Earth's Rotation;
The Second Heaven, or Firmament of Air ; Gases, Earths, Metals, and
Crystals; Land and Sea; The Carboniferous Flora and its Successions;
The Birth of Numbers ; The Quadrature of the Circle by Geometry ;
The Test by Spherical Trigonometry ; The Quadrature of the Circle
by Arithmetic ; The Rotation of the Integers carrying Ellipsis or Life;
Evidence from Decimal Proportion; Living Factorship or Organisation
for a Chronometer ; The Multiplying Power of the Cube ; Evidence
by the Cube — the Earth, Standard for all ; The Mass and Surface of
a Sphere ; Trisection of the Hemispherical Arc by Double Intension ;
Trisection of any Arc less than the Semicircle ; The Heart or Life
Organical Boiler Valve; Coinage of Gold and Symmetrical Arms;
The Solar System; The Moon; Testimony of the EcHpses; The
Moon's Distance by Horizontal ParaUax ; Moon's Diameter by the
Micrometer ; The Moon's Librations ; The Inequalities of the Orbital
Velocities Lunar ; To find the Earth's Solar and Lunar Distances by
the Eclipses on Optical Ratios ; Proofs by the Standard Axial Ano-les •
To get the Earth's and Moon's Diameters ; The Earth's and Moon's
Velocities ; The Diameter of the Sun ; The Central or Sun's Axial
Angle to the Earth's ; The Sun's Rotation ; The Periodic Time and
Orbit of the Sun ; First Paper of Additional Evidence on Roots ¦
Second Set of Additional Evidence on Roots; Third Set of Additional
Evidences ; The Comparative Proportion in aU Properties of Transmu-
tative Law for the Globules of Light to Ether ; Conclusion.

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