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