. God in nature and revelation. ust, whatwould nature show ? What would be felt? What began to appear ? What agency is sufficient for the lifting ofmountains and breaking of the earths crust ? * What distant prospect might stand before adrop of water, compressed beneath a crust, under-going volcanic action ? * 26 402 HISTORY OF A DROP OF WATER. 8. What might be said of the carboniferousdeposits and burnings? Which are known to be the older mountains,the low or high ? * 9. How did Moses end the fourth period ?Was not the creation of suns the first organ-izing act ? * Gen. i: 12. What did these


. God in nature and revelation. ust, whatwould nature show ? What would be felt? What began to appear ? What agency is sufficient for the lifting ofmountains and breaking of the earths crust ? * What distant prospect might stand before adrop of water, compressed beneath a crust, under-going volcanic action ? * 26 402 HISTORY OF A DROP OF WATER. 8. What might be said of the carboniferousdeposits and burnings? Which are known to be the older mountains,the low or high ? * 9. How did Moses end the fourth period ?Was not the creation of suns the first organ-izing act ? * Gen. i: 12. What did these changes mark ?What are Phienogamous plants ? *What are Crpytogamous ? * 10. With what did the sea swarm ? Were new species of animals produced bydevelopment, or by new creations ? What did each successive creation develop ? What is the order of creation since the carbon-iferous period ? How long a period does this cover ? Ans. Not less than 15,000,000 years. What was still wanting ? How did Moses express it ? * Gen. 2:5. ^fiR^^. DEPOSITS OF UNTOLD AGES, RICH WITH OIL. 326 HISTORY OF A DROP OF WATER. LESSON LXXIV. Let them have dominion over the fowl of the air, andoyer the cattle, and over all the earth, and over eveiy creep-ing thing that creepeth upon the earth. Gen. 1: 26. 1. Man found the earth fitted for his habita-tion. Its face, its winds, and its climates, allpresented the most delightful prospects of unin-terrupted enjoyment and prosperity. That lovelyname, Garden of Eden, which seems to havebeen applied to a local home, given to Adam,was only another name given to the whole earth,committed in trust to him, and his posterity. 2. Gods trusts are conditional. The earthitself was no exception. It would continue agarden under obedience and love to God. Itwould cease to be such under a reign of conditions were evidentlv contained in 404 HISTOEY OF A DEOP OF WATEB. those personal specifications to man, promisinglife in obedience, but death in disobedience. 3. When


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