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had come when God would call into being the sen- 

 tient creatures. 



The scientific accuracy of what now follows is 

 too apparent to call for long discussion. He who 

 runs may read its verification in God's great 

 volume, whose pages are the earth's strata, bound 

 in their illumined cover of brown clod and green 

 grass and varicolored flowers, like a missal made 

 by some gentle monk's fine art, inscribed, illumined 

 and bound, as a lasting work, for the glory of the 

 great Creator. No scientist can question the ac- 

 cordance between the sequence of the remaining 

 epochs of creation and that of the fossil evidence 

 written in the rocks. The Book of Revelation 

 reads like a perfect transcript from the Book of 

 Nature. Yet the pages of this vast volume were 

 not laid open in the Mosaic days, to be read as 

 now we can read them. With seven seals was it 

 sealed from every eye except that of God alone. 

 How then could its writer have made his tran- 

 script, page by page, as it would now seem when 

 we are able to compare the two? 



God also said: Let the waters bring forth the 

 creeping creature having life, and the fowl that 

 may fly over the earth under the firmament of 

 heaven. 



And God created the great whales, and every 

 living and moving creature, which the waters 

 brought forth, according to their kinds, and every 

 winged fowl according to its kind. 



