"90. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowls that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." That is to say, the moving creatures, the fishes which still live, which have escaped destruction in the deep waters of the oceans or lakes, and the fowls which were flying wildly in the open firmament, are commanded to bring forth abundantly, to "replenish" the desolated seas and earth. "23. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. "24. And God said, Let the earth _bring forth_ the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so." God does not, in this, _create_ them; he calls them forth from the earth, from the caves and dens where they had been hiding, each _after his kind_; they were already divided into species and genera. "28. And God blessed them," (the human family,) "and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply and REPLENISH the _earth_." Surely the poor, desolated world needed replenishing, restocking. But how could the word "replenish" be applied to a new world, never before inhabited? We have seen that in chapter ii (verses 16 and 17) God especially limited man and enjoined him not to eat of the {p. 335} fruit of the tree of knowledge; while in v. 22, ch. iii, it is evident that there was another tree, "the tree of life," which God did not intend that man should enjoy the fruit of. But with the close of the Tertiary period and the Drift Age all this was changed: these trees, whatever they signified, had been swept away, "the blazing sword" shone between man and the land where they grew, or had grown; and hence, after the Age of Darkness, God puts no such restraint or injunction upon the human family. We read: Ch. i, v. 29. "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and _every tree_, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; _to you it shall be for meat_." With what reason, if the text is in its true order, could God have given man, in the first chapter, the right to eat the fruit of _every_ tree, and in the following chapters have consigned the whole race to ruin for eating the fruit of one particular tree? But after the so-called Glacial Age all limitations were removed. The tree of knowledge and the tree of life had disappeared for ever. The Drift covered them. Reader, waive your natural prejudices, and ask yourself whether this proposed readjustment of the Great Book does not place it thoroughly in accord with all the revelations of science; whether it does not answer all the objections that have been made against the reasonableness of the story; and whether there is in it anything inconsistent with the sanctity of the record, the essentials of religion, or the glory of God.