3. "And GOD said, Let the waters under the Heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear." Then it was that these continents were upheaved,--other than those which had been continents before; and the sea sank into the cavities which had been ordained for its reception. _Then_, "GOD saw that it was good." The sentence of approval which had been withheld from the work of yesterday, because that work, (namely, of dividing the waters from the waters,) was incomplete,--is freely bestowed to-day. And it may have been to teach us that no incomplete work is "good," in GOD'S sight.--Next, the Creator called into being every extant form of vegetable life. So that, instead of a world of waters, which was all that was to be seen yesterday,--not only cliffs, and mountains, and bays,--but green hills, and fertile valleys, and grassy meadows had come to view,--with lakes, and rivers, and fountains, and falls of water. Again it is written, concerning Earth's green furniture, "GOD saw that it was good." "And the evening and the morning were the third Day." 4. "And GOD said, Let there be Lights in the firmament of the Heaven to divide the day from the night: and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years." And so it was. Sun, moon, and stars, came to view[291]; and this globe of ours, no longer illumined, as, for three days, it had been, rejoiced in the sun's genial light by day,--and by night in the splendours of the paler planet. And thus was also gained an easy measure for marking time,--the succession of months and years, as well as of days. "And GOD saw that it was good." "And the evening and the morning were the fourth Day." 5. "And GOD said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life." Thus the inhabitants of the sea and of the air were called into existence; and it was from the sea that GOD seems to have commanded that they should derive their being. He saw that it was good, and He blessed the fish and the winged fowl; "and the evening and the morning were the fifth Day."