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pits. They are written in the rocks and on 

 the flowers of the field and the trees of the 

 forest. 



Let us then look a little at the underground 

 foundation of all this beautiful earth. And 

 before attempting that, the question may arise 

 in some minds how we know what is so deep 

 down under the surface. Fortunately this is 

 a question very easily answered. At some 

 period after the rocks were formed the crust 

 of the earth was broken by volcanic eruptions 

 at various places and times, and turned up, as 

 in the formation of mountains, so that the 

 edges of the various stratifications of the 

 rocks, from those near the surface down to the 

 lowest rocks, are exposed to view. Another 

 means of knowing what the various forma- 

 tions are has been by borings of deep wells. 

 These borings, however, are only confirmatory 

 of what was well known before through the 

 upheavals that are plentiful in all parts of the 

 world. There is abundant evidence that all 

 of the rocks and all of the strata of every name 

 and nature (except perhaps igneous rocks) 

 were originally laid down in water. This is 

 evidenced not only by the stratifications them- 

 selves, but by the evidences of sea-life every- 

 where present in the earth's crust. Before 

 the upheavals in the earth's crust began, the 

 whole surface of the globe was a great ocean 

 of hot water. The substances of which the 



