The Creation of God

The expenditures of the human body, or the waste products which arise from the activity of the master tissues, are thrown off by the excretory tissues, as the lungs, the skin, t...

In plant life the permanent fabric consists of only three elements--carbon, hydrogen, oxygen. We know that plants alone convert inorganic or mineral substances into organic matt...

Saved from what? Ignorance? Superstition? Bigotry? Or stupidity? From idiocy or imbecility? Or, are we to be saved from poverty, hunger, starvation, misery and wretchedness, dis...

We have seen that the principal elements, the most active, that enter into the composition of plant life, that form the food substance for the support and nourishment of animals...

"And the occasion he laid hold of was this: The Ethiopians, who are next neighbors to the Egyptians, made an inroad into their country, which they seized upon, and carried off t...

The Colossus, or brazen statue of the Sun, was placed across the mouth of the harbor of Rhodes, its legs stretched to such a distance that a large ship under sail might easily p...

Dry truth, real knowledge, hard facts, are less interesting, less entertaining, than a plausible fable or a fanciful story. While the latter is listened to, with eagerness and p...

Religion, supernaturalism, ecclesiastical control of human affairs, have done more harm than the good they have ever effected. For several thousand years they have been doing th...

Writers and thinkers with a strong theological bias, seem to fear that the world would go to pieces if the scriptural God or Gods were deposed. They seem to apprehend that the m...

This earth we live on is a planet, and belongs to the solar system of planets. It shines brightly, and appears to other worlds as other planets do to us. It is nearly 25,000 mil...

That was the shout, with the commencement of the new era, when the tallest man in the nation appeared in the midst of the people that had assembled at the call of Samuel (1 Sam....

What is sin? If we are able to ascertain what sin is, we shall probably understand why salvation should be extended to the one that sins, or to a community of sinners.

The beginning of intellectual development consists of observant experience. By frequent and repeated observation man acquired a familiarity with the subjects of that process--a...

Why man should claim that the terrestrial God, the God that was created on this earth, extends his sway beyond the limits of this globe, is not easily accounted for. It is an as...

We have seen that the work done by the master tissues causes a loss, or produces a certain amount of waste material, consisting of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen, and so...

By the word chemistry we understand the science which investigates the composition of all material substances, taking them apart or separating them, by a chemical process, and d...

The Hebrew monarchy established under Saul 1095 B.C., continued and cemented under David, and weakened and ruined under Solomon, terminated in the year 975 B.C., lasting altoget...

The Chaldeans were undoubtedly great admirers of nature at the time we first hear the name of Abraham mentioned in connection with the Bible, about the year 1921 B.C.

(1) God could not have created the earth, as a planet distinct and separate by itself. This terrestrial globe belongs to a system of planets, and they are all not only dependent...

We have thus far discovered that this terrestrial globe is composed of sixty-four elementary substances; that fifty belong to a class called metals, and the remaining fourteen a...

As to the region where the deluge occurred--on the northern edge ascend the Persian mountains; on the east the steep and lofty parallel chains of the Indo-Persian boundary mount...

The mind, the brain, the senses, had reached a stage of development that might well be called childish, with sensuality and selfishness predominating. Fighting, cruelty, and lus...

The custom of six days' labor and one day's rest is a human invention, and is based on the principles of economy, power-saving, labor-saving, and had been a recognized instituti...

The political methods of governing nations which had their origin in the ages of barbarism, ignorance, and brutality, left the rotten remnants to construct upon them a system of...

These are the materials of which vegetables are made. Vegetables derive all the materials of their fabric from the earth and the air. Plants can possess no simple elements which...

If any person with a, reasonable amount of intelligence will seriously reflect, he may gain sufficient information to satisfy himself as regards the true nature of the condition...

During these several centuries we hear nothing of miracle or of prophecy, of any importance. In fact, we have passed the only time God or Jehova made himself at all conspicuous....

Food may be considered in its relation to two purposes--the nutrition of the tissues, and the production of heat. Under the first of these heads will be included many other alli...

God, such God as we know of now, like all other things and beings on this terrestrial globe was evolved very, very slowly in the minds of man--crude, ill-shapen, ill-fashioned,...

John ix, 1: "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man, which was blind from his birth." Verse 6: "When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and h...

We pass on through the extravagances of the succeeding chapter to xvi. Seven angels and seven plagues and seven vials of wrath. The first vial of wrath was poured upon earth; th...

Verse 6: "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm, for love is as strong as death; jealousy as cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which...

The Christian era, like the Chaldean-Abrahamic era, and like the Mosaic-Jehovistic era, was introduced in a mysterious manner. Both the Mosaic and the Christian were accompanied...

II. The Earth, 21 III. The Chemical Aspect, 39 IV. The Sun, 51 V. Genesis--The Creation, 67 VI. Genesis--The Garden of Eden, 80 VII. The Deluge, 92 VIII. The Scriptural God--The...

Man must pass through infancy and childhood before he reaches manhood and maturity. Races and nations also had to pass the stages of infancy and childhood, with all their mistak...

The most prominent men in the Old Testament that were endowed with high imaginative powers, were not many. The most noted among them were Isaiah, 681 B.C.; Ezekiel, 591 B.C.; Da...

the records show, 4,320,000 years. The Indians divide this time into four principal periods: First period, that of innocence or simplicity, 1,728,000 years; second period, 276,0...

reader we are still in Chaldea, near the Gulf of Persia; near the river Euphrates; near the garden of Eden, where God created man; where we found gold and precious stones; the p...

divorcement, whom I have put away? or which creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold! for your iniquities you have sold yourselves, and for your transgression is your mot...

clothed in garments down to the feet, girt about the paps with a golden girdle. Verse 14: "His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow." Verse 15: His feet like...

26: "Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord." Now, Adam lived 930 years, Seth 912 years, and Enos 905 years. God during this period was wholly occupied with these peop...

This man is unlike the visionary, romantic dreamer Isaiah, whose imagination and nervous exaltation kept him more or less in a state of excitability and carried him into regions...

and they together shall be against Judah," etc. He talks in a confused, mystified fashion, alluding now to this people, now to that; at one time to the Tribes and at another to...

Verse 3: Four great beasts came up from the sea. The first was a lion and had eagle's wings. The second was like a bear, it had three ribs in the mouth between the teeth, etc. T...

as it were a sapphire-stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne." Verse 2: "Go in between the wheels even under the cherub, and fill thine hands with coals of fire,"...

have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk; eat O friends; drink ye, drink abundantly, O beloved."

Verse 14: "O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rocks, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy...

Verse 7: Faces of men with hair of women and teeth of lions. He sees breastplates of iron. There is sound in the wings, sound in the chariots running to battle, etc., etc.

"Around it stood the seraphim; each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly," etc.

Verse 16: "Awake O north wind; and come thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden and eat his pleasant fruits."

crime. Abel kept sheep. Cain tilled the ground. Cain brought vegetables to God, and Abel brought the firstlings of his flock and fat. God's taste ran in the meat line; he was so...

himself, he ordained new rites, and such as were contrary to other men. All things are with them profane which with us are sacred; and again, those practices are allowed among t...

pale horse. The first had a crown, the second a sword, the third a pair of balances, on the fourth sat Death and Hell. There were seals opened, etc., etc. The fifth seal was the...

Luke viii, 43: "And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed by any." 44: "Came behind him, and tou...

overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck, and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of the land, O Immanuel." This really means the son which the p...

afar; the Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name." This is supposed to mean, Christ being sent to the Jews complaineth o...

the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow, etc. He saw another angel with a seal--for various tribes, etc.--very fanciful, very fantastic, ve...

will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and prosper and shall execute justice and judgment in the earth"--meaning, Christ shall rule and save them.