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" And God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving [or creep- 

 ing] creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open 

 firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature 

 that moveth which the water's brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every 

 winged fowl after his kind; " etc. 



Vegetation had been created before this, or on the third "day" so called, 

 and land animals appear the next or sixth " day," corresponding to the " Age of 

 Mammals; " so that there can be no mistaking the fact that the Bible writer defi- 

 nitely groups the water animals, including fishes, amphibians and reptiles, togeth- 

 er with flying creatures and birds, in one creational period or epoch, just as 

 modern science does. And from this starting point I followed the whole matter 

 through each way, and constructed my "Mosaic Calendar." 



Let another point be observed. The Bible brings man in on the sixth "day," 

 in common with the " beasts of the earth ; " it gives him " dominion over them " 

 — that is, designated him as the superior creature ; but that is all, and the sixth 

 "day " closes. Now, mark, it is after the " seventh day " has opened that man 

 is spoken of as becoming a " living soul;" as giving names to the animals — the 

 beginning of language; as being man and wife — the beginning of the family, in- 

 stead of tribing or herding together ; as having a consciousness of God — the be- 

 ginning of the spiritual sense; and so on. 



Now, what are the modern facts? Why, we are assured by competent 

 scientists that relicts of man's existence beyond question have been found as low 

 down as the middle tertiary, or age of mammals, in the geological scale; and that 

 man's origin, in whatever mode it may have occurred, was contemporaneous 

 with that of other mammals — that is, within the same creational or evolutional 

 period. And that is in essence just what the Bible sets forth as the work of the 

 sixth "day." Indeed, there is a vast deal of bottom, truth in the old Book yet, 

 which is worth digging for; and although science does not stop nor turn aside to 

 serve the exigencies of any particular theological system, it is nevertheless both 

 interesting and profitable to note how perfectly the most advanced scientific 

 thought of our day, in regard to creational progress, accords with what is revealed 

 and taught in The Book of books. 



SCIENCE TEACHING. 



BY PROF. S. H. TROWBRIDGE, GLASGOW, MO. 



It is much easier to remain in a rut than to extricate one's self from it. But 

 often the end is worthy of the effort. While I would not assert that all methods 

 of teaching run in ruts, I hesitate not to say that the common text-book method 

 of teaching science is in a most deep and dangerous rut. The only way to be- 

 come acquainted with nature is to study nature herself. On account of repeat- 

 ed failures in the past to convince educators and school boards that this is true, 



