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Bible teaches us that animals were created long be- 

 fore man, and since man's creation they have been 

 inseparabty linked together from the first day of 

 his creation to the mythical future spoken of by 

 St. John, when he saw in heaven " round about the 

 throne the beasts and the elders and the number of 

 them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and 

 thousands of thousands." 



The word earth means our own world, the planet 

 which we inhabit and the space around the heavens. 

 The Bible tells us there are three heavens, the first, 

 second, and third. The first is the atmospheric 

 heaven, or the expanse ; the second is the astronom- 

 ical heavens, comprising the stars and planets ; and 

 the third is the highest heaven, the throne of God and 

 the home of the heavenly hierarchy and all spiritual 

 life, for " the Lord hath prepared His throne in the 

 heavens, and His kingdom ruleth over all." 



It is evident the Creator has used a uniform 

 gradation in all the things visible to us, and we 

 must conclude that it is extended beyond our 

 vision. The existence of an effect infers directly a 

 cause. Every just consequence is founded on some 

 known truth, by virtue of which one thing may fol- 

 low from another. 



