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Collectanea.
stored in the Divine mind , until we see the whole creation finished , and standing to this day a witness to the truth of God ; hearing testimony , not only that " the hand which made it is divine , " hut that the same hand made it which penned the Scriptures ; and that the thoughts towards man" which dictated the Scriptures were the thoughts which guided the hand of Omnipotence when it spread forth the heavens as a curtain . —Morrison ' s Religious History of Man .
ANTIQUITIES . —On Fore Street Hill , Exeter , lately has been found a copper coin of the Emperor Vespasian—IMP . CJES . VESPASIAN AVG . cos . VII . P . M . Reverse : a female figure in the attitude of Grief , seated under a palm tree , with the inscription JUDJEA CAPTA , struck , no doubt , in commemoration ofthe victories of Vespasian ancl Titus over the Jews at the destruction of Jerusalem , which was considered by their contemporaries as the most prominent achievement of their reign . The Jewish historianJosephussays" that after the triumph was overVespasian
, , , , resolved to build a temple to Peace , and there lay up the golden vessels and instruments that were taken out of the Jewish temple as ensigns of his glory . " This coin is in very good preservation . Also several other small coins of CONSTATS , VICTORINUS , ancl TETRICUS , ancl also one of CLAUDIUS , but all greatly defaced . —II . H .
SCRIPTURE GEOLOGY . —It is stated as a fact , by Moses , not in the first chapter of Genesis alone , hut in many other parts of his writings , that in six days Gocl created the heavens and the earth ; while it is as confidently stated by modern philosophers that there are facts in nature totally at variance with such an assertion . Both cannot be true . The matter is worthy of inquiry , and a few words will fortunately suffice , ft is curious , we had almost said providential , that , at the very time the objections to the Mosaic account are beginning to be noised abroad
, certain electrical discoveries have been made which have confounded the wise as much as they have astonished the simple . It is not necessary for us to allude to them here , farther than to say , that we believe no truly scientific person now can hesitate for a moment to grant , that the operations of nature which , under ordinary circumstances , might require thousands of years to perfect them , might , under strong electrical influencebe produced in an incredibly short space of time ; within a
, period , in short , directly in proportion to the degree of electric influence brought to bear on the materials employed . If , therefore , ive find , from the Mosaic account , that the earth must , at one period , have been under a peculiarly excited electric action , all objections to rapidity of formation become as uiiphilosophical as they always have heen unscriptural . It is too generally supposed that light dawned gently at the first , and broke in upon the earth by degreesmuch in the same manner as we now see
, the sun breaking through a cloud . But such a supposition is at variance with all the rest of the description . —The light " WAS "—instantaneously burst forth in the darkness—in the very atmosphere itself . In this condensed atmosphere light or fire burst forth ; and if its poiver and effects are , at this clay , so wonderful , when proceeding from a body ninety-five millions of miles distant from us ; what must they have been , acting in such a powerful atmospherein immediate contact with the earth ! Let
, it be remembered that the earth was then under water ; and let the attentive observer of nature say , whether there he any phenomena in the stratification of the earth , so far as they can be discovered , which arc not explained , by the shell of the earth being under water while undergoing this concentrated action of electric fire ? or whether there be any one ,
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Collectanea.
stored in the Divine mind , until we see the whole creation finished , and standing to this day a witness to the truth of God ; hearing testimony , not only that " the hand which made it is divine , " hut that the same hand made it which penned the Scriptures ; and that the thoughts towards man" which dictated the Scriptures were the thoughts which guided the hand of Omnipotence when it spread forth the heavens as a curtain . —Morrison ' s Religious History of Man .
ANTIQUITIES . —On Fore Street Hill , Exeter , lately has been found a copper coin of the Emperor Vespasian—IMP . CJES . VESPASIAN AVG . cos . VII . P . M . Reverse : a female figure in the attitude of Grief , seated under a palm tree , with the inscription JUDJEA CAPTA , struck , no doubt , in commemoration ofthe victories of Vespasian ancl Titus over the Jews at the destruction of Jerusalem , which was considered by their contemporaries as the most prominent achievement of their reign . The Jewish historianJosephussays" that after the triumph was overVespasian
, , , , resolved to build a temple to Peace , and there lay up the golden vessels and instruments that were taken out of the Jewish temple as ensigns of his glory . " This coin is in very good preservation . Also several other small coins of CONSTATS , VICTORINUS , ancl TETRICUS , ancl also one of CLAUDIUS , but all greatly defaced . —II . H .
SCRIPTURE GEOLOGY . —It is stated as a fact , by Moses , not in the first chapter of Genesis alone , hut in many other parts of his writings , that in six days Gocl created the heavens and the earth ; while it is as confidently stated by modern philosophers that there are facts in nature totally at variance with such an assertion . Both cannot be true . The matter is worthy of inquiry , and a few words will fortunately suffice , ft is curious , we had almost said providential , that , at the very time the objections to the Mosaic account are beginning to be noised abroad
, certain electrical discoveries have been made which have confounded the wise as much as they have astonished the simple . It is not necessary for us to allude to them here , farther than to say , that we believe no truly scientific person now can hesitate for a moment to grant , that the operations of nature which , under ordinary circumstances , might require thousands of years to perfect them , might , under strong electrical influencebe produced in an incredibly short space of time ; within a
, period , in short , directly in proportion to the degree of electric influence brought to bear on the materials employed . If , therefore , ive find , from the Mosaic account , that the earth must , at one period , have been under a peculiarly excited electric action , all objections to rapidity of formation become as uiiphilosophical as they always have heen unscriptural . It is too generally supposed that light dawned gently at the first , and broke in upon the earth by degreesmuch in the same manner as we now see
, the sun breaking through a cloud . But such a supposition is at variance with all the rest of the description . —The light " WAS "—instantaneously burst forth in the darkness—in the very atmosphere itself . In this condensed atmosphere light or fire burst forth ; and if its poiver and effects are , at this clay , so wonderful , when proceeding from a body ninety-five millions of miles distant from us ; what must they have been , acting in such a powerful atmospherein immediate contact with the earth ! Let
, it be remembered that the earth was then under water ; and let the attentive observer of nature say , whether there he any phenomena in the stratification of the earth , so far as they can be discovered , which arc not explained , by the shell of the earth being under water while undergoing this concentrated action of electric fire ? or whether there be any one ,