Identifier: godinnaturerevel00wood (find matches)
Title: God in nature and revelation
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Woodman, J. M. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Revelation Natural theology Bible and science Religion and science
Publisher: New York, S(an) F(rancisco, etc.) J.G. Hodge & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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proxima-tion to truth ? * What was the result? 9. As the ages passed away what resulted ?How far beneath the surface do the largest storms affect the ocean ? * Would water, compressed beneath the earth,be likely to be disturbed, until the breaking upof the earths crust ? * How does the compressed drop speak of hisprospect ? 10. What are some of the changes to whichwater upon the surface is subject ? Do not the relative circumstances of our beingcause our lives to greatly contrast with others? * Is man therefore completely a creature ofcircumstances ? * May he not often control them ? * Is this power given to anything else ? * 11. How were the deposits made ? What is the depth of debris supposed to accu-mulate upon the earths surface during the lastfour thousand years ? Ans. From ten to fourteen feet. What average would this give per year. Ans. Four-hundredths of an inch. At this rate how long would it take to accumu-late thirty miles ?* Would not the earliest deposits be more rapid? *
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DEPOSITS OF THE SEA, SETTLING TO THEIR OWN SPECIFIC GRAVITY. 318 2d HISTORY OF A DROP OF WATER. 397 How long had the drop of water been con-fined ? 12. How do such calculations impress us ?How did prophets express time, reckoned by God? Ps. 90:4. Of what is the sea composed ? *What may be said of it ? 13. What is essential, in all labor, to preventweariness ? What is very generally agreeable ? WThat is better ? What may ever be said of the post of duty ? * cesxso- HISTOEY OF A DEOP OF WATEE. LESSON LXXIII. For He hath founded the world upon the seas, andestablished it upon the floods. Psalms 24: 2. 1. The deposits appeared at the surface. InMoses language, The dry land appeared.Great changes were now evidently to take placeupon the earth. Hitherto most of the depositshad been made from the water. 2. But now they were to come largely from theair. An atmosphere of purple carbonic gas,many miles deep, still completely encircled theglobe. This, with the unoccupied nitrogen, bythe slow pro

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