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space in a gaseous form. If so, no language 

 could better describe the condition : 



" Emptiness and desolation " " Without form and 

 void? 



irit of God moved upon the face of the 



waters, or fluids, which would represent all the 

 materials of which the globe would ultimately be 

 formed. God is represented as acting directly, be- 

 cause t; I ;uv only his method of action. Now 

 : y scientific man knows, that if the materials 

 IS form according to the theory 

 of I . the first f. rce called into action would 



.it binds planets in their 



orbits, and from which the invisible atom cannot 

 :pe. The rushing together of these elements 

 under the action of this force, which gives the earth 

 its form, might well be called the moving of the 

 Spirit of God. If (lod is the Creator of the earth 

 and the controller of all its cb no language 



could b chosen to represent movements pro- 



duced by this : iich must necessarily have 



been the first called into action to bring the parti- 

 cles together. For it is gravitation alone that acts 

 upon all matter and at all distances. 



Now when this force was brought into action, 

 we look into the nature of matter by the light of 

 chemistry to see what results would follow. And 

 when we have transcribed the words of Moses, we 

 have the exact result which the latest revelations 

 of science show must have followed. 



" And God said, Let there be ligJit ; and there was 



