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which Ilumboldt applied to the hundred and fourth 

 Psalm. 



We are astonished to find, in a description of such 

 limited extent, the whole geological history of the 

 earth so accurately sketched by a few bold touches, 



The Mosaic record goes further still, and speaks 

 of the day of rest. We have no evidence of new 

 creations since man appeared upon the globe. We 

 arc not told in the Bible that the evening and the 

 morning were the seventh day. God rested from 

 the works of creation on the seventh day, and we 

 have no evidence that that day is completed yet. 

 All of the moral relations of this rest and the esta- 

 blishment of the Sabbath are foreign to our present 

 purpose, which is simply to compare the two records 

 so far as they both extend. But when the Bible 

 passes on to the moral history of the race, we have 

 no positive revelations of nature that enable us to 

 continue the comparison. And this work has been 

 clone so fully by Hugh Miller, whose works are 

 known to almost every reader, that nothing would 

 be gained by a lengthy discussion. But certainly 

 nothing is more natural than that six days should 

 stand as representatives of the six great epochs in 

 creation, when God appeared only as a Controller of 

 matter and the Builder of the universe, and that the 

 seventh should stand emblematic of that epoch 

 when, creation having ceased, the great manifesta- 

 tions of His character were those of the Sustainer 

 and moral Governor of the universe. 



We have now completed the work which we pro- 



