316 Natural Theology. 



antly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl 

 that may fly above the earth in the open firmament 

 of heaven" 



We now have brought before us the work of the 

 fifth day. It was the day of animals in the waters, 

 their day, because now in their abundance and 

 magnitude they have possession of the earth. It 

 is said that God created great whales. The word 

 used in the Hebrew is " tanninim," which undoubt- 

 edly means huge, devouring monsters, like the croco- 

 dile, the animal (t*annin) being used as an emblem 

 of the destroying kings. (Jer. li. 34.) 



It is a fitting word to denote those saurian mon- 

 sters that were the tyrants of the earth in the Meso- 

 zoic time. They filled the waters, while huge birds 

 and flying reptiles congregated on the shores. 



This day, like the day of the plants, has a mighty 

 sweep of time ; but it was after the coal period that 

 the huge saurians left their remains in the rocks, 

 and reptiles and bird-like monsters left their tracks 

 on the sandstone of the Connecticut valley. 



11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the liv- 

 ing creature after his kind, cattle and creeping thing 

 and beast of the earth after his kind ; and it was 

 so? 



Here we have the work of the sixth day. The 

 dry land is to have its share of life, which up to 

 this time has been confined mainly to the waters. 

 And corresponding to this account, we find the 

 sixth great epoch of the earth's geologic history to 

 be that characterized by the abundance and the size 



