ferous system, where we met with heated rock, and were changed to vapor. 8. Now pressing our way past the permian, triassic, lias, oolite, welden, chalk, tertiary, drift and alluvium, we rose into the air above an eagle's flight, where we could look down upon what was going on below. 6. The earth's crust had been "broken up." The western half was hurled away to a great distance. South America was thrown out and twisted around, leaving an enormous chasm for the waters beneath and on each side to fill, rushing in, until the earth would seem convulsed to its center. 10. An enormous tidal-wave started over Siberia, which, when it reached the vicinity of the ark, was still twenty-two feet abreast. The islands of Australasia swayed out into the mighty deep. Greenland was turned completely around. The Pacific Slope was lifted up, and out of the sea. 11. The waters pressed so heavily upon Asia, that it sunk, giving the sea possession until the earth had established itself in its new polarity, removed two thousand miles from its former place. 12. My journeyings since have been romantic indeed. Whenever the sun kisses me, I turn to vapor, and ascend to visit other climes. Rising in June from Havana, I am wafted high in the heavens over Peru, to be poured down upon the plains of the Argentine Republic. 13. Rising from thence in December, I am precipitated upon the valley of the Sacramento. I am the only drink designed for mankind. The lily and the forest tree, alike seek my acquaintance, I hang the rainbow on my brow. I bear up the largest ships, and turn the machinery of the world. I lave the brow of the sick, and relieve the wounded and dying. 14. I can float upon the surface, or sink deeper than any metal. I have visited the highest mountains, and descended to the lowest deeps. I ride upon the whirlwind and make the largest storm. 15. I am older than the earth, more subtile than air, and yet I am only one of the humblest of all God's creatures, a drop of water. QUESTIONS. 1. In what condition did man find the earth? What prospects lay before him? What was the local name of Adam's home? To what might it more generally be applied? To whom was the earth committed? Gen. 1: 26. How was it given? 2. What may be said of things entrusted? Does this remark include the earth? Under what circumstances should it remain a garden? What would take the garden nature away? Where were these conditions applied? What graphic language embodies them?* Gen. 2: 16, 17. 3. What became of man when he rebelled? Of what was this an emblem ? What was about to roll over the earth? When man ceased to be loyal, was it unreasonable for God to change "times and seasons?" What prophet alludes to this? Dan. 2: 21. 4. Upon what did God determine? Gen. 3: 17. What was the effect upon the years of his probation? 5. What part of God's curse against sin changed man's probation? Personified, what does water say? 6. What is farther said? What now? Approximately, how long had he been hidden. from sunlight? 7. What then? How would he ascend? What did he go past? With what did he meet there? Into what was he converted? 8. What did he now pass? Where did he rise? What could he do? 9. What changes had taken place? What became of the western half? What followed? 10. What rolled over Siberia? How high was it about the ark ? What of the islands of Australasia? What of Greenland ? What of the Pacific slope? How long did the waters have possession of Asia? How far was the old pole from the present? 12. What have been his journeyings? What is the effect of the sun's kiss? Rising in June from Havana, over what does he float? Where alight? 13. Rising from thence in December, where does he alight? What is said of it as a drink? What does he hang on his brow? What are his deeds of mercy? Where does he ride? What does he make? 15. What of his age? What of his subtility? What does he profess to be? MAN'S ORIGINAL STATE. LESSON LXXV. "Thou madest man a little lower than the angels. Thou didst set him over the works of thy hands." Heb. 2: 7. 1. The Scriptures speak of man's home at first as a garden. This term is probably used in its figurative sense. Garden naturally suggests family residence, home, comfort and plenty. 2. Such in general must have been the earth between the parallels of eighty and twenty, but especially in the region of the home of our first parents. 3. With the sun's rays ever cheering him, and yet of sufficient slant as to give a moderate temperature, he encountered no adverse winds, no chilling storms to render him nervous and discontented, no treacherous frosts to nip the flower, no moulding mildew to blast the fruit, no with |