Harmony of Genesis and Geology.—It is not necessary to dwell on this subject. The correspondence has been demonstrated of late years by very competent men whose writings are accessible to all. In particular this has been done by the three men on this continent who have the best right to speak on this subject from their knowledge of physical geography and geology,—Dr. Guyot, Dr. Dana, and Sir William Dawson. I have been most indebted to the late Dr. Guyot's little book on “Creation.”

In the one of these, the written record, we have an account of the genesis of the earth as it would have been witnessed by a spectator who had lived through the unremembered ages; in the other the combined results of the researches of geologists within the last few ages. The one is ocular; the other scientific. This accounts at once for their essential sameness and their superficial differences—which do not imply any contradiction. Professor Huxley showed in a lecture in New York that there were contradictions between geology and Milton's picture of creation in “Paradise Lost,” but he made no special reference to the Bible account—we may believe out of reverence—and he did not attempt to prove that geolpgy contradicted Genesis.

I believe that if you would ask a geologist to write for us a true account of the production of our earth in as brief a space as the first chapter of our Bible, he would confess his inability to do so.