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indefinite and obscure that which God has made very plain. It is the
worst kind of infidelity; for with many who profess to believe the record
of creation, it is infidelity in disguise. It charges God with commanding
men to observe the week of seven literal days in commemoration of
seven indefinite periods, which is unlike his dealings with mortals, and
is an impeachment of his wisdom.
Infidel geologists claim that the world is very much older than
the Bible record makes it. They reject the Bible record, because of
those things which are to them evidences from the earth itself, that the
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world has existed tens of thousands of years. And many who profess
to believe the Bible record are at a loss to account for wonderful things
which are found in the earth, with the view that creation week was only
seven literal days, and that the world is now only about six thousand
years old. These, to free themselves of difficulties thrown in their
way by infidel geologists, adopt the view that the six days of creation
were six vast, indefinite periods, and the day of God’s rest was another
indefinite period; making senseless the fourth commandment of God’s
holy law. Some eagerly receive this position, for it destroys the force
of the fourth commandment, and they feel a freedom from its claims
upon them. They have limited ideas of the size of men, animals and
trees before the flood, and of the great changes which then took place
in the earth.
Bones of men and animals are found in the earth, in mountains
and in valleys, showing that much larger men and beasts once lived
upon the earth. I was shown that very large, powerful animals existed
before the flood which do not now exist. Instruments of warfare are
sometimes found; also petrified wood. Because the bones of human
beings and of animals found in the earth, are much larger than those of
men and animals now living, or that have existed for many generations
past, some conclude that the world is older than we have any scriptural
record of, and was populated long before the record of creation, by a
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race of beings vastly superior in size to men now upon the earth.
I have been shown that without Bible history, geology can prove
nothing. Relics found in the earth do give evidence of a state of things
differing in many respects from the present. But the time of their
existence, and how long a period these things have been in the earth,
are only to be understood by Bible history. It may be innocent to
conjecture beyond Bible history, if our suppositions do not contradict