What does he resemble? 10. What other principles might account for the increase of heat? Have we sufficiently stopped to consider the theory? What does it resemble ? Where did many of the ancients locate hell? How did they take our Saviour's figures of speech? Is the hell described by our Saviour the less to be dreaded, because illustrated by figurative language?* Matt. 25: 41-46. BRARY UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA ORIGIN OF VOLCANOES. LESSON LII. "There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it."--Ps. 18: 8. 1. It is not the nature of fire to create, but to separate or destroy. Hence it is the chosen emblem of the results of Satanic influences upon the human soul. Men burn with lust, burn with passion, burn with shame, and they will burn with condemnation. Under the destroying nature of sin, we have the origin of the term hell fire. 2. Metals lie in a fused state, somewhere beneath the earth's crust. Some kind of rock beneath the crust must be a supporter of combustion. There is nothing in the granite, gneiss, mica slate, hornblende, quartz rock, clay slate, primary limestone, talcose slate, cambrian, upper silurian or old red sandstone, that will support combustion. We know that rock formed during the carboniferous system, will burn, which is not true of any rock formed since. Hence, a priori, we should reason that this is the system that originated volcanoes. 3. Compressed steam is admitted to be of sufficient force, to account for both volcanic and earthquake action. Where, then, is this steam genera ed, and by what means compressed, for such terrible expansions? Reason points, at once, to the deposits, between the old red sandstone and the permian, as the place where fires exist, originating the steam, resulting in the upheaval of mountains, the raising of extensive plateaus, or in the lifting of the fiery jet to the clouds above. 4. Here lies deposited the purple atmosphere, that once hung, like a bow of promise, completely around our globe. Here lie those hidden. oils, that once leaped from every hill, and trickled through every valley. 5. Oil, mixed with organic matter, is known to ignite spontaneously. In the decompositions of the vegetable matter, deeply hidden with these oils, we have sufficient cause for the origin of volcanic fires. 6. The carboniferous deposits are rightly situated to give the greatest compression to steam. |