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2, And darkness was upon the 
face of the deep. 
And the spirit of God moved 
upon the face of the waters (may- 
him, that which flows, 7. e., fluid). 
3. And there was light. 
4. And God saw that it was 
good, and (after that) God divided 
between the light and the dark- 
ness. 
5. The light he called day and 
the darkness he called night. 
7. And God made an expanse in 
the midst of the waters, and let it 
divide the waters below it from 
those above it. 
8. And God called the expanse 
heaven. 
It was not pronounced good, 
9. Let the waters be gathered 
unto one place and let the dry 
land appear. 
10. And God saw that it was 
good (7. e., done or completed). 
12. And the earth brought forth 
grass, the herb yielding seed, and 
the fruit-tree yielding fruit where- 
in is its seed. 
And God saw it was good. 
Both the above are put into one 
stage of development, the third. 
14. And God said: Let the lights 
in the firmament of heaven (so in 
the Hebrew) divide between the 
day and night, and let them be 
for signs and for seasons and for 
days and years. And it was so. 
TRANSACTIONS OF THE 
[APR. 2, 
A beginning implies a time be- 
fore motion, and of course no light. 
Science has no explanation of 
the cause of motion but God’s will. 
The earth at first was fluid. 
Light followed motion. 
The spectroscope tells us that the 
poor light of nebulous matters be- 
comes good light, such as that of 
the sun, while the body is still self- 
luminous. And only after the light 
is thus perfected comes an opaque 
crust and day and night. 
After the crust had become 
opaque it was still so hot that a 
large part of the water was in the 
air as clouds and vapors, and the 
next step in world-making was to 
get ridof them. 
The end of the process was in- 
dicated by such atmospheric trans- 
parency that sun, moon, and stars 
were visible. 
The early atmosphere was not 
good, for it was loaded with 
poisonous gases. 
When the deposition of the 
waters was completed, they cover- 
ed the globe as a rind covers an 
orange. But the continents lay 
just below the surface (Dana) and 
soon began to emerge. 
The completion of the continents 
was effected in the Pliocene. This 
fixes the date for the event in 
Genesis. 
In the Pliocene the earth brought 
forth the flora of to-day, including 
grass, herbs, and fruit-trees of 
living kinds. 
No farther advancement has 
been made in the vegetable world 
since the Pliocene. 
Both completions occurred in 
one period—the Pliocene. 
Atsome time the daysand nights 
began to be unequal, and seasons 
were introduced. Astronomers 
cannot tell when nor how the axis 
became inclined. The evidence of 
geology is that in the earlier ages 
there were the same plants from 
each in turn and so getting a sort 
of ‘composite picture.” Nothing 
can be more fitting to wkat is believed to have been the earth’s earliest 
condition. 
