TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.
Three Theories of Creation Reviewed in the Light of Admitted Facts 9
Section 1.
The Plutonic or fire theory stated 15
Centro-centrifugal theory 16
Heated Nebulous theory 17
The increase of heat in mining shafts no evidence of a hot center 19
The admitted sedimentary nature of primitive granite destroys the Plutonic theory 22
The theories of metamorphic rock not sustained 23
Mining shafts increase in heat according to chemical action 25
Causes of volcanoes and geysers explained 26
Geologists dissatisfied with the fire theory. Submarine volcanoes 28
Diatoms found in the earliest stratified rock 31
Section 2.
The Neptunian theory stated 32
All matter created at once in cold gas. God’s power needed to move matter. The first cosmological division 33
Probable length of it. The first condition of our globe in form 35
Section 3.
The facts of science support the Neptunian theory. In quantity, order and constituent elements of rock 36
The three ways that gases combine into rock 36
How rock can swim in water 38
Explorations made of the Atlantic 39
4We once had a hemisphere of land, and one of water 40
The climate was tropical, as attested by shells, coral, coal, and saurians 41
Also by tropical animals, flowers, and tropical vegetation 42
Water raised the mountains 45
Sea bottom seen there 46
Rise and depressions of earth. Cause of glacial epoch 48
Section 4.
Such a world physically adapted to man 50
The accumulating evidence that our earth is essentially a ball of water 53
The reasons the Antediluvians had no rainbow 54
CHAPTER II.
The Neptunian Theory was first Brought to Light in the Book of Job, dated in the Stars. Epidramatic Oratorio 55
Orient the place for such a poem 57
First question established 58
The indictment against piety amended 59
The prologue ended with Satan confounded 59
These persons all representative characters 60
Starting the drama of history. Piety endures the trials of all ages 61
Job rewarded on the field. Flood passed 64
Surrounded by universal idolatry 65
Certain chapters Messianic 66
Resurrection reached 68
The enemies boast of the secular arm of law 69
The Reformation reached 70
The voice of space 72
Dead organic matter, as fossils, speaking 73
An explanation of the story of Joshua’s miracle. The three friends silenced. Secular education personified 75
True loyal prayer, against unsupported illegal faith, and prayer without faith 77
The Copernican system seen by Job, with the sedimentary nature of granite 79
5The rotundity of Earth with the inside water 81
The birth-place of ancient icebergs 83
The telegraph seen and dated 84
Description of certain fossils 85
The grand future of the church of the living God 86
CHAPTER III.
All the Scripture References to Cosmology are in Harmony with the Book of Job. Earth Standing in Water. Flood Caused by Overflow of the Sea. Once in a Ring of Gases. Above the Waters 87
Moses gained his first ideas of Creation here 88
Power born in the hand of God 88
Gravitation accounts only for centripetal power 89
A steam world born but not yet swaddled 92
It is swaddled in gathering and condensing 93
Tracing gases into rock 95
To what days the Mosaic time is unadapted 96
What the Mosaic days of creation do mean 96
General and Special Providence 99
CHAPTER IV.
The Six Days of Moses Full of Scientific Suggestions Showing the Work of God to the End of Time 100
Section 1.
The work of the first day 101
Meaning of deep 102
Figures of speech. A ring of waters in fluid gases first called firmament 103
These days are not literal 104
Section 2.
The work of the second day 105
Meaning of create. Must be read in the light of scientific facts 107
6Moses’ point of observation. First firmament tangible 107
Moses, in vision, confined to the history of our globe. The history of other planets not given 109
Section 3.
The work of the third day. The steam world commences to liquify 110
The scientific problem of a probable pole-changing solved 112
One end only in sunshine 112
Why it did not rain on the earth 113
The cause of the first chilled climate. When it turned to torrid 115
Section 4.
The account of the fourth day in figure of metonymy 116
Recent coal periods 119
Section 5.
The work of the fifth day. Contrasts are found in the sea, diatoms begin in the Gneiss rock 121
The whale of the Miocene is the contrasting animal, as morning 122
The order of the existence of animals by Moses agrees with facts 123
Science and the Bible claim substantially the same thing in reference to Special Providence 125
Section 6.
The work of the sixth day. Beasts are the evening. Man is the morning 127
Our race sprang from Adam 128
The cleansing of the air was essential to the introduction of man 129
Recent volcanoes argue the correctness of the Mosaic account 130
We have not even yet reached the climax of good breathing 132
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