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SERMONS IN STORIES.

BY A BANKER.

he persistent assaults of the socall- ed Higher Criticism upon the Mosaic iccount of the Creation. having raised doubts in the minds of a

few as to the authenticity

i truth of that portion of the Bible,

rhaps a brief investigation as to any greement which may exist between g ological facts and the biblical des- cription of the sequence in which the

‘urth, and the life upon it, was created, may help to dissipate the fears of those who would regard with regret any ap- parent victory of the Crities over the old Book.

Now none of the Critics would aver that geology as a science was ever in- itiated, or that there existed the slight- est knowledge of palceontology when the book of Genesis was written, what eve the date may have been to which in their wisdom they have been pleased to assign it; therefore it can be incon- tes:ab'y proved that the successive order ot cre ution as detailed for each succeed- ing “day” or, agrees absvlutely with the ficts as reveiled by geology, we are t:d-.y entitled to our belief that such an exa t and accurate synchronism could only kave been narrated by Divine in- spiration. It is conceivable that if wr.tt:n without that inspiration perhaps one or two of the “days” might have beer in their right place, but that that should have been so in the case of al! is certainly not conceivable for the chances against it would be no less than 5,040, that being the number of changes in which seven figures are cap- able of being transposed.

We may in the first place premise that few educated people understand the word translated “day” to mean a solar day of twenty four-hours, but that each “day,, was an on of very pro- longed duration. This is indicated in alrnost as many words in Genesis ii, 4. “In the ‘day, (not days) that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant, etc,“ the whole seven ce ons being alluded to as one day.

We read that “In the beginning” God created the heaven and the earth, and that darkness prevailed over the earth. Now geology shews that the primary strata or plutonic roeks, as they are called, were at one time in a state of confussion, and that necessarily an enormous volume of dense and impen- etrable vapor raust have arisen from the molten basalt and other igneous rocks, which entirely obscured the sun’s light, causing absolute darkness to prevail,

To prove this, it is only necessary to observe the workmen paving a street with asphalte (one of the primary recks), and remark the dense fumes arising when the heated irons are applied. Subsequently, as the earth cooled down, these fumes and vapours became more attenuated, and although the sun was not yet visible, yet it exerted sufficient influence through the mists to cause the alternations of day and night. On this day the spirit of God “brooded” (R.V.) upon the face of the waters, and geology tells us that Life, at first of alow type, now appears on the earth. ‘Throughout the second and third periods the earth continues to cool down, the vapours rising now and forming dense clouds which will obstruct the sun. During this latter period the earth producec vast quantities of rank ‘and luxurious vegetation, almost sorely cryptogams and other plants not requiring the direct rays of the sun, the coal measures being then in course of formation. Geology reveals absolutely no traces of animals o birds at this epoch. In the course of the fourth day the mists and vapours which hab hitherto enveloped the earth cleared off, and the sun which had been created in the beginning causing the days and nights of the first day at length appeared. “God made the two great lights.” Now the Hebrew word translated here, “made,” viz, ’asah, has quite another meaning to that describ- ing the creation of the heavens and the earth, dara, which means to make or create out of nothing, the former word not bearing that interpretation. For instance, it is employed in the sentence **Jeroboam made priests of the lowest class.” This does net of course mean that Jeroboam made the men but only caused them to perform certain func- tions. In like manner the sun now per- formed the functien of “ruling” the day and the night.

The fifth day was the day of the great amphibious “monsters” (R.v.), viz, the iguanodons, megatherlums, ichthy- osaurus, and innumerable other great Saurians, whese remains are now being unearthed in such profusion, geology proving that until after the close of the coal period not a trace or vestige of these animals existed on the earth.

And on the sixth day “God made the beast of the earth after his kind, etc.” Geology now shows us that after the age of those great monsters,— cattle, horses, deer, lions and tigers, ete., which had hitherto been absent, | now appear in vast quantities over the

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gist, Geikie. speaking of this period remarks,““The great reptiles, too, which were the dominant animals of the earth’s surface now wane before the increase of the mammalia” (Text Book of Geology, page 836

And lastly “God created man in His own image,” geology confirming this by the entire absence of any human re- mains until the late tettlaty period; ¢ this time causing to grow “every aa that is pleasant to the sight and good for food”: to which Science remarks that “the principal flowers, fruit trees, and cereals appeared only a short time previous to the human race” (Agassiz). Finally “God ended His work which He hi id made,” and Science again con- firms by re marking “As far as our pres- ent knowledge goes, no fresh. species of plants or animals were created after man.” (Kinns)

Thus the sequence of creation, as detailed in the Bible, is absolutely con- firmed by the discoveries of science, the very rocks themselves bearing wit- ness with their ancient testimony to the verity of its pages, enabling us (if such testimony were needed) to believe in the Holy Bible as being the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth.

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THE MIND.

BY A BANKER

Mankind is composed of body, soul, and spirit. Now the soul is not the spirit, any more than is the body, though more closely all- sed, the soul and spirit, it appears certain, never being parted; though it is equally certain that both these two elements of the human be- ing are parted from the third or corporeai ele- ment immediately the principle of ‘* life” ceases to exist in the latter. Man appears, therefore, to be, like his Creator, if it be per- missible, with the deepest reverence, to use the simile, a sort of trinity: three different and dis- tinct essences or elements composing one human being. And it is conceivable that in these cases where children are born absolute idiots, that is with an unformea and undevel- oped brain, involving the complete absence of any mental faculties, in other words, without spirit, that they also do not possess souls.

The body therefore appears in one sense to be the most important of the three component elements of mankind, for not only is the power and vigour of the spirit subject to the quality of the brain; but, more important, the fate of the soul, the ego, is determined, for indefinit: eons, by the acts of the body. it is probable that the soul is but passive during r its connec- tion with the corporeal body; the spirit, how- ever, exerts very great, though not complete, authority over it.

Now, the reason why the spirit does not ex- ercise complete control over the body is that extraneous members ot the spirit world, cither angels or fallen angels, also, as it were, dwell around us or within us, prompting us either to good or to evil.as the case may be; and although it is not given to them to have alse lute control over us-——for in that case man would no longer be a free agent—yet the power they are able to exertis very great indeed; so great, in fact, that even a St. Paul lamented that the good he would do he could not, on account of the sin which dwelt in him, causing him to cry out for deliverance from the body of this death. Now, if the spirit gives way to these fallen angels, it becomes in the course of time com- pletely subject to them; they absolutely control it, and cause it, from a pure and holy state, to degenerate intoa depraved and wicked con- dition. It is true that even a fallen angel can b:, apparently, transformed into an angel of light if by so appearing, wrong-doing can be promoted. In fact, in many cases men are perhaps even prompted to do acts of charity, and toabstain from more flagrant sins, in order that they may be lulled inte a state of false security, and be deterred from transferring their homage to their Creator.

The possession of mind is notlimited to man, for those brilliant created beings, the angels, have doubtless powers of mind beyond those which are conferred upon him in the primary and corporeal stage of his existence. Possibly when the soul and spirit at the great generai resurrection are re-united to the body, raised from corruption te new life, and all its grosser and earthly nature by a sudden transmutation transformed into ethereal incorruptiou, then the powers of the mind will be very largely augmented; for what we know not now we shall know hereafter; and many a problem which to our limited understanding is at present a pro- found and unintelligible niystery, will then be altogether within our grasp; in fact, we shall ther be equal to the angels, and_ possibly even we may have many of their high functions to perform. To them will be assigned the duty of severing the wicked from the just at the Last Day (Matthewxii. 39). To us however will be allotted a similar duty, for it is stated that we shall judge (fallen) angels (1 Cor. vi. 3). But at present we are a little lower than thuse ang- elic beings, for we are tied and bound with the chain of our sins, whereas they are pure and holy; we are temporarily subject to infirmity, they cannot know pain or sickness; our powers of body and mind are limited by our earthly nature, they know no such bourd’, Both angels and men, hcwever, if rebellious against their Almighty Creator, are hurled into the same dreadful place of punishment, there in common to suffer a terrible penalty for their crime. But happily for man, His supreme love has provided a Substitute, upon whom all our sins may be laid ifwe only will. Wether the death of the Son of Ged will avail in any way for the remission of the sin of rebellious angels, it isnot for us to know: all we know s,that He took not on Him the nature of angels bat was made like unto us.

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