And I
want you especially to think of those two words of which we were speaking a
little while ago--God _created_, and God _made_.
Before God speaks to us of the FIRST DAY, with its evening and its morning,
He tells us that "in the beginning" He "created the heaven and the earth."
(_Day I_.) Then--we do not know how long after--God spoke, and commanded
the light to shine out of the darkness; so that where the dark had been
the light now was. "And God saw the light, that it was good," and divided
it from the darkness. The light God called Day. Then after the night had
passed, the light returned, and there was morning. "And the evening and the
morning were the First Day."
(_Day II_.) Again God spoke, and that great globe of air which surrounds
the earth was formed--the blue sky above us, and the clouds, the
treasure-house for the rain. "And God called the firmament," or expansion,
"Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the Second Day." Upon this
day we do not read of anything new being made; and it is not said, "And God
saw that it was good," as after the work of the other days.
[Illustration: "THE JOY OF HARVEST."]
(_Day III_.) Again God spoke, and the dry land appeared'; so that upon this
Day there were already in existence earth and sea, air and water, day and
night. And God Himself saw that all was good in the world which He had
made. Then He adorned the earth with verdure and beauty, and brought out of
it grass, corn, fruit-trees; each "after its kind," "And God saw that it
was good.
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