CHARLES B. 
GENESIS. 
After such a flora, we are told 
that God created great whales and 
living water creatures and fowl. 
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GEOLOGY. 
After fruit trees and the other 
plants, whales and other water 
creatures of living kinds, and fowl, 
of present species, made their ap- 
pearance. 
After all the above, we read: 
Let the earth bring forth the liv- 
ing creature after its kind, cattle 
and creeping thing and the beast 
of the earth. And it was so. 
Here, so far as I can see, is perfect agreement in the 
statements and in their order. 
As to all other matters pertaining to life, its ex- 
istence prior to these last three epochs, its mode of 
development, and many other things, about which 
‘*science’’ gives us facts, or theories, it is silent, but 
silence is not falsehood. 
I have purposely said nothing about man, or to what 
horizon he belongs. I have but little to say now. Until 
geologists know much more than they do, it will be im- 
possible to speak with certainty of the date of his ap- 
pearance. 
Our inflexible canon is to be applied here also. 
‘* The account is responsible only for what it says.”’ 
AsI read the record, God made cotemporaneously 
with, or subsequently to the cattle and beasts, a pair of 
human beings whom he named Adam and Eve. 
barred by this literal view from adding, 
never made any other men.’ I do not know whether he 
did or not. Indeed there are intimations in other parts 
of Genesis, that are hard to understand on any theory 
other than that a prior race existed. Irefer to Cain’s 
fear that whoever met him would kill him, and to the 
sons of God marrying the daughters of men. 
Ido not know what the truth is. The lesson taught 
by the failures of others, shouid teach us to wait in pa- 
tience, believing that the ae can take care of itself. 
After living plants, and present 
water animal, and fowl, cattle and 
other living land animals, and 
beasts made their appearance. 
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‘‘and God 
