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To the same purport, hear him again, as with fervid eloquence he 

 points the progress of creation to be " Godwards," in his concluding 

 paragraph on " The Two Records: " 



" In the history of the earth which we inhabit, molluscs, fishes, 

 reptiles, mammals, had each in succession their periods of vast du- 

 ration ; and then the human period began, — the period of a fellow 

 worker with God, created in God's own image. What is to be the 

 next advance ? Is there to be merely a repetition of the past ? — an 

 introduction a second time of man made in the image of God ? No. 

 The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds 

 no example of dynasties once passed away again returning. There 

 has been no repetition of the dynasty of the fish, of the reptile, of 

 the mammal. The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man 

 for its inhabitant ; but it is to be the dynasty — " the kingdom" — 

 not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself 

 in the form of man. In the doctrine of the two conjoined natures, 

 human and Divine, and in the further doctrine that the terminal 

 dynasty is to be peculiarly the dynasty of Him in whom the natures 

 are united, we find that required progression beyond which progress 

 can not go. We find the point of elevation never to be exceeded 

 meetly coincident with the final period never to terminated, — the 

 infinite in hight harmoniously associated with the eternal in dura- 

 tion. Creation and the Creator meet at one point, and in one per- 

 son. The long ascending line from dead matter to man has been a 

 progress Godwards — not an asymptotical progress, but destined 

 from the beginning to furnish a point of union ; and occupying that 

 point as true God and true man, — as Creator and created, — we 

 recognize the adorable Monarch of all the future ! " — p. 178. 



In reading his fourth lecture, on " The Mosaic Vision of Crea- 

 tion, " we can comprehend the origin of that strong expression of 

 Dr. BucKLAND, when, speaking of Hugh Miller, he said, — "I 

 would give my left hand to possess such powers of description as 

 this man ! " For, certainly, there is to be found all that is lofty in 

 poetry united with all that is accurate in science, — all that is grand 

 in description, combined with all that is vast in space and time. He 

 presents this prophetic vision of the Past as it must itself have been 

 presented to the mind of Moses who wrote this " record of appear- 

 ances :" — indeed he assumes that, in writing Genesis, this " Prophet 

 of the Past " is describing as from actual observation. Concerning 

 this he says : 



" It seems, then, at least eminently probable that such was the 

 mode or form of the revelation in this case, and that he who saw by 

 vision on the Mount the pattern of the Tabernacle and its sacred 

 furniture, and in the Wilderness of Horeb the bush burning but 

 not consumed, — types and symbols of the coming dispensation and 



