THE SIXTH DAY.
THE ANIMAL WORLD.
"Every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills."—PSALM l. 10.
"… God … who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven."—JOB xxxv. 11.
"Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?"—ECCLESIASTES iii. 21.
Now that we have come to the last of those wonderful working-days of which God has told us, I want you—just as we all did when we had reached the SIXTH DAY in our readings—to read over again all the verses in the first chapter of Genesis down to verse 26, and to notice carefully the words which God has used in speaking to us about what He created and made. And I want you especially to think of those two words of which we were speaking a little while ago—God created, and God made.
Before God speaks to us of the FIRST DAY, with its evening and its morning,
He tells us that "in the beginning" He "created the heaven and the earth."
(Day I.) Then—we do not know how long after—God spoke, and commanded the light to shine out of the darkness; so that where the dark had been the light now was. "And God saw the light, that it was good," and divided it from the darkness. The light God called Day. Then after the night had passed, the light returned, and there was morning. "And the evening and the morning were the First Day."
(Day II.) Again God spoke, and that great globe of air which surrounds the earth was formed—the blue sky above us, and the clouds, the treasure-house for the rain. "And God called the firmament," or expansion, "Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the Second Day." Upon this day we do not read of anything new being made; and it is not said, "And God saw that it was good," as after the work of the other days.
[Illustration: "THE JOY OF HARVEST.">[