LIFE COMES UPON THE WORLD: 

 ROCK MAKING 



While the earth was gradually cooling, long before 

 it had become cold enough for its surface to be folded 

 into mountains and valleys; while the rain water 

 was busy wearing away the rocks, and while the 

 underground water was storing up the many minerals 

 hidden there, living things began to grow. 



It was not upon the land that these living things 

 commenced to grow, but in the water of the vast 

 ocean. They were such tiny particles of life, those 

 first plants, that no eyes like ours could ever have 

 seen them. But God was working in and through 

 them. It was because of His thought and His love 

 that they had appeared upon the world. Those in- 

 visible plants were cared for, even though they were 

 seemingly lost in the vast, surging sea. For God is 

 everywhere, in the tiny ocean plant as well as the 

 massive mountain. His care is for each and every 

 thing upon the earth, under the earth, in the water 

 and in the air which is about the earth. 



Then other forms of life appeared. These were 

 the tiniest of tiny shell-forming animals. Both those 

 very, very small plants and shells increased in such 

 countless numbers that they filled the vast ocean 

 with their minute forms. 



Ages and ages rolled by, and during all that time 



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