Days of Creation. 



of the globe together. It is what we shoift 

 if the Bible had never been written. 



And here we notice the criticism of that once 

 famous book, Nott and Gliddon's " TYPES OF MAN- 

 KIND," that Moses made a sad blunder when he re- 

 presented light as being created three whole days 

 before the sun and moon were ordained to give 

 light upon the earth. The very thing which they 

 refer to as a blunder, will stand while chemical 

 scir ;iains, showing either that Moses was 



inspired, or that he was in science far in advance 

 of the authors of the "TYPES OF MANKIND." 



If the earth were thus formed, it must have been 

 ial change occurred, or at 



least a change so great as to 1 >ncd a new 



r of things. 



And this period rd as a geologic day. No 



could have been used to describe 

 the beginning and close of such a period. It was in 

 the great movements of God's work, what the day 

 is in the w..rk of man, and therefore "j~w," was the 

 : word that could be used ; and no modern critic 

 that I know of, even of the most orthodox school, 

 now contends that " y~m " means simply twenty-four 

 hours. It may mean that, and it may stand for any 

 length of time. \Ve have only to pass to the second 

 chapter to see that Moses uses the same word to 

 embrace the entire time which he had before de- 

 scribed as constituting six y~>ins. " These are the gene- 

 rations of the heavens and the earth luJien they were 

 created, in the DAY that the Lord God made the earth 



