Show GLI SHDTHE CREATION GLAnsro51 Inpiteof declinin healUi nml the burden of yean 1 vigorcusjninttllext and strong In fat and dcmon trates a he approaches ap-proaches the end of his earthly career his right t the title of Th I t Grand Old Man He b recently written annul defence of tho beginning of the Book of GencHSj agnint the attack of the skeptics taking the true ground namely tliat I J neither poem nor a philosophic disquisition but a revelation from G t showman show-man his proper place in the calo of creation and what his Maker h done for him m FrotRtoiiofnotlc of his argu 0 mont winch has come by cable I appear Tbat hJ takes the ground that the ds the creation were 0 neiUierSfirnoreolo5lc I This l corrcct3srevea1cd t thwlropljct Jo p ss3itW Tliere are many thing connected with thestoryol CTiatlou ttIoll in the ttr4 chapter of Genet which ire not compre hended tJ the critics Ind thy ofen I indulge in flightsof fancy not warranted war-ranted by the text The first VCIMS In the bcgin I Te fr n te Ln A ning God created tho heaven and the earth is Uuarry connected In time or rather only divided by the fame period which n mentioned men-tioned In reference t the 1 days works of the Almighty How maoyagts rollod itetweeh the time wTien God pake aud chaos heardjaud the worlds were evolved out of proex ktcnt element an J the time when He raid iLet there b light and there was light is not revealed vealed In LheUIblical account TJiirlng that geological epoch such gradations and evolutions and successive changes may have occurred oc-curred is would i understood put to rut alfthe carping criUcums ol i would be Wise philosophers who claim Uiat heir Uieories are the ails COlOnel oliscience The grand old man i doing 2 good work even though he may not grasp the full facts or comprehend the great truths cf the creation of thl planet And he mu t command the admiration even hisenemlec by his Igor fcitband his fidelity t the matured convictions of a well ordered Jife t onerr t fir |