Creation of 



of the land animals, when the 

 beneath the tread of the mammoths, the 

 and the megatheriums. We gather their bones in 

 almost all parts of the earth. Look at the huge 

 monsters that have been dug up in our own country, 

 and in South America. In the far north, their 

 tusks supply ivory for exportation. This Tertiary 

 and post- Tertiary period, perfectly corresponds to 

 the picture of the sixth d rk. It was the day 



of land animals. 



Hut, before the close of the sixth day, the record 



is : "And God said, Let us wake man in our image 



r our likeness? The appearance of man, then, 



according to the Hible, was the closing scene in the 



,t drama of creation. 



Now, without entering into the disputed question of 

 chronol< v -y as to the number of years man has been 

 upon the earth, or of the unity of the rare, we know 

 of no scientific man who does not consider that man 

 wa> the- last term in the series, whether he believes 

 in development or direct creation. Man is not only 

 the last term that has appeared, but he is the last 

 term possible, according to the plan of structure 

 sketched in the first fish of the Silurian waters. 

 We have then the six great epochs completed. If 

 there had been in the universe some intelligent be- 

 in- like man, before whose eyes the whole scene of 

 creation could have passed, the grand pictures that 

 would have attracted his attention would have been 

 in the order we have described. 



First. The gathering of the elements by the mighty, 



