TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Three Theories of Creation Reviewed in the Light of Admitted Facts [9]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
The Six Days of Moses Full of Scientific Suggestions Showing the Work of God to the End of Time [100]
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]
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]
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]
The account of the fourth day in figure of metonymy [116]
Recent coal periods [119]
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]
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]