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 The 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 Moses’ 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 INTRODUCTION.