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are exactly adapted ; and (2) tlie stability and invariableness 
with which the laws governing all things are maintained. It 
is impossible to imagine two testimonies more absolutely agreed 
than are the voices of Scripture and Science on these points. 
4. God’s method of gradual development. — He does not create 
a perfect universe at once, but slowly builds it up step by 
step. As He first creates it “the earth is empty and deso- 
late," and only at the close of a whole week of progress does 
it become fully ordered and peopled after God's mind. Nor 
is this all. At every stage of the work God surveys the steps 
already taken, and pronounces them “ good." It may seem 
strange to say so. What good, men might say, is the light 
with no eye to see it ? What good is the sea, or the dry 
land, or the expanse, with none to inhabit them ? What good 
are the plants, with none to use them ? But God thinks 
differently. To Him, who foresees and designs their purpose, 
they are “ good" already. His plan is perfect, and each element 
in it also perfect in its kind. But He is in no hurry to carry it 
out all at once, so that its perfection may be seen, but will 
rather develop it slowly and in order. 
It needs but few words to point out the concurrent witness 
of Science on this head also. The whole science of geology, — 
what is it but one overwhelming testimony to the fact that the 
furnishing and perfecting of the earth has been a gradual pro- 
cess, not accomplished all at once, but slowly, step by step ? 
The same principle has of late been applied to another depart- 
ment of Science, and the multiplication of species both of plants 
and animals has been ascribed to a similar process of gradual 
development. To cite this example as established Science 
would be certainly premature. It is only mentioned here to 
show how fully the principle set forth in Genesis is recognized 
by the most advanced leaders of Science as a true one in 
regard to the order and manner of creation. 
5. God’s principle of subordination. — Not only are there 
successive stages of creation, not only successive ad- 
ditions to the sum of being; but each stage, each addition, 
is necessary for that which is to follow, and is introduced in 
preparation for it. This is very beautifully and subtly 
expressed in the arrangement of the work under the six days. 
Attentively considered, these six days are found to fall into 
two corresponding and parallel halves, the first, second, and 
third answering severally to the fourth, fifth, and sixth. 
Thus on the first day, light is called forth ; on the fourth day, 
luminaries or light-bearers. On the second day, the expanse 
is formed, and the waters divided ; on the fifth day, expanse 
and waters are peopled with appropriate creatures. On the 
