And the evening and the morning were the Third Day."
(_Day IV_.) Again God spoke, and the two great lights, sun and moon, were
set to give light--day and night--upon the earth, and to order the seasons.
"And God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the
Fourth Day."
(_Day V_.) Again God spoke; living creatures swarmed in the waters, and
"winged fowl" flew "in the open firmament of heaven." It is now, in
connection with air and sea being filled with living beings, to which God
gave not only the same power to grow and multiply with which He had endowed
the trees and the herbage, but in addition to it, power to move from one
place to another at will, power to enjoy, and to go in quest of that which
seems to them desirable, that we have again the word, "God created," and
also a new word, never before used about day or night, earth or sea, sun or
moon, tree or flower--"God blessed."
You remember how we noticed, when we were reading about the work of God
on the Fifth Day, that as soon as He had made, not stones or plants, but
fishes and birds, He blessed them. God made these living creatures happy,
each in the place suited to the kind of life He had given it. And again of
this Day's work we read, "And God saw that it was good.... And the evening
and the morning were the Fifth Day."
Now let us read verses 24 and 25 very carefully. These verses tell us of
part of God's work on the Sixth Day; and we notice that this Day begins,
like the former ones, with those three words which we have read so many
times in this chapter--"And God said.
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