Beings the most varied in endowment, things the most diversified in form and function, events the most remote from each other in time and space, must all be related and connected in virtue of the ultimate and all-embracing purpose for which the universe exists. An external purpose revealed under time-relations must be an _all-harmonious evolution_ and an _orderly totality_--a Cosmos. Let us now turn to the record of creation as given in the Sacred Scriptures--the Mosaic Cosmogony--and see how that account conforms to the laws which on logical grounds we have deduced as the Laws of the Divine Manifestation. The fundamental prerequisite for a right interpretation of the sacred narrative is a clear apprehension, first, of its general purpose, and, secondly, of its special literary characteristics. On these two points, therefore, we offer the following preliminary considerations: 1. _The design of the sacred narrative is to teach Theology and not Science._ A cursory reading of the narrative will convince any one that its purpose is not to enlarge men's views of nature, but to teach them something concerning nature's God. It says nothing about the forces of nature, the laws of nature, the classifications of natural history, or the size, positions, distances, and motions of the heavenly bodies. From first to last, every phenomenon and every law is linked immediately to some act or command of God. It is God who creates, God who commands, God who names, God who approves, and God who blesses. Strike out the allusions to God, and the narrative is meaningless. Clearly, it was never intended to teach science. It has obviously one purpose, to reveal and keep before the minds of men the grand truth _that Jehovah is the sole Creator and Lord of the heavens and the earth_; and it leaves the scientific comprehension of nature to the natural powers with which God has endowed man for that end.