10 IKature'0 .Miracles. 



which have been formed by the settling of 

 sediment, in water. 



While we are forced to these general conclu- 

 sions in regard to the building of the world, 

 and to its subsequent distortion by the series 

 of upheavals that have occurred from time to 

 time, and to the successive "ages" of the layers 

 of rock foundation of its crust, there are many 

 mysteries that remain unsolved and many 

 questions will present themselves to the mind 

 of the reader. One of these questions is, 

 Where was the water and where was the earthy 

 matter before its precipitation? Matter, in- 

 cluding water, can exist in the gaseous form, 

 and we only need to assume that there was a 

 core of intense heat, to understand how all 

 the material that we find on the earth and in 

 the earth could have been held in suspension 

 in the gaseous state until the cooling process 

 had reached a stage where the various combi- 

 nations and recombinations could take place 

 in the great laboratory of nature. If we study 

 the constitution of the sun (and with the 

 modern appliances we are able to do so), we 

 find that it is made up of some and perhaps all 

 of the same materials that are found here on 

 earth. If there is no water existing, in the 

 sun, as water, there are the gases present 

 which would produce it if the conditions were 

 right. And, for all we know, that flaming 

 mass of burning gases may some time go 



