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Mr. Beddie. — Yes, from all His works. 
Professor Macdonald. — From all that He had made ; but that did not 
exclude Him from doing what He then desired to do 
Mr. Beddie. — Then He did not rest from all that He had made. 
Professor Macdonald. — Then you disbelieve the Bible. (No, no.) 
The Chairman. — But you have not given us any proof from the Biblical 
record that the Adam and Eve of Paradise were created on the seventh 
day. 
Professor Macdonald. — I do not require to prove it. I think the proof of 
Biblical authority is quite sufficient ; and if our excellent chairman and very 
worthy divine requires me to produce proof against his prejudice, I have 
nothing further to say. With regard to the general objections against my 
paper, very much fault has been found with it for being very ill written 
and confused. Now, that I completely admit, and I have already said, in 
passing, that I want to relieve the printer from the imputation of the blunders 
which have been thrown on him. But I say there ls in that paper the state- 
ment of a truth which ought to be believed, — that mankind, the present 
population of the world, were originated from these two sources . God created 
man on the sixth day, male and female, with all the powers and properties 
which the record sets forth ; and there is one characteristic which I may 
notice in passing, which gives us a distinction between the man of the sixth 
day and the man and woman of the seventh day — Adam and Eve. The un- 
restricted use of all the products of the vegetable world and all the fruits 
of the trees was given to the man and woman of the sixth day — the restric- 
tion as to the tree of life and the knowledge of good and evil was entirely 
confined to Adam and Eve. The result of that forms a subject which, in 
mixed assemblies like this, we cannot enter fully into. It is sufficient to say 
that the fall was followed by instant expulsion from Paradise, and Adam was 
prevented from ever again going near to the tree of life, because another means 
was provided for him. Much fault has been found with me on the ground 
that there is a want of proof as to what I have said concernimg the pre- 
Adamic people. To suppose that they could not become equivalent to the 
Adamic race after the fall is, I think, a forced interpretation 
The Chairman. — I cannot conceive from this paper where we are to find 
the Adamic race. Among all the races of the earth how are we to know 
which is the Adamic race ? 
Professor Macdonald. — The Hebrew race 
The Chairman. — They alone ? 
Professor Macdonald. — They and their descendants alone. But the great 
object I had in writing this paper was to ask you to read your Scriptures 
and to read the whole of them. The most important sentence that ever was 
penned occurs in the first chapter : “ In the beginning God created the 
heavens and the earth,” and from that everything springs. There is a con- 
secutive progress in the six days of creation, and the sixth day, marked by 
the creation of man, was so important that it is referred to all through the 
subsequent parts of the Scriptures. “ Six days shalt thou labour and do all 
thou hast to do,” has reference to it, and then we come to the blessing of the 
