TABLE OF CONTENTS.

[CHAPTER I.]

Three Theories of Creation Reviewed in the Light of Admitted Facts [9]

[Section 1.]

The Plutonic or fire theory stated [15]

Centro-centrifugal theory [16]

Heated Nebulous theory [17]

The increase of heat in mining shafts no evidence of a hot center [19]

The admitted sedimentary nature of primitive granite destroys the Plutonic theory [22]

The theories of metamorphic rock not sustained [23]

Mining shafts increase in heat according to chemical action [25]

Causes of volcanoes and geysers explained [26]

Geologists dissatisfied with the fire theory. Submarine volcanoes [28]

Diatoms found in the earliest stratified rock [31]

[Section 2.]

The Neptunian theory stated [32]

All matter created at once in cold gas. God’s power needed to move matter. The first cosmological division [33]

Probable length of it. The first condition of our globe in form [35]

[Section 3.]

The facts of science support the Neptunian theory. In quantity, order and constituent elements of rock [36]

The three ways that gases combine into rock [36]

How rock can swim in water [38]

Explorations made of the Atlantic [39]

We once had a hemisphere of land, and one of water [40]

The climate was tropical, as attested by shells, coral, coal, and saurians [41]

Also by tropical animals, flowers, and tropical vegetation [42]

Water raised the mountains [45]

Sea bottom seen there [46]

Rise and depressions of earth. Cause of glacial epoch [48]

[Section 4.]

Such a world physically adapted to man [50]

The accumulating evidence that our earth is essentially a ball of water [53]

The reasons the Antediluvians had no rainbow [54]

[CHAPTER II.]

The Neptunian Theory was first Brought to Light in the Book of Job, dated in the Stars. Epidramatic Oratorio [55]

Orient the place for such a poem [57]

First question established [58]

The indictment against piety amended [59]

The prologue ended with Satan confounded [59]

These persons all representative characters [60]

Starting the drama of history. Piety endures the trials of all ages [61]

Job rewarded on the field. Flood passed [64]

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]