tells us, life has not always existed on the earth, and that the earnest observer may remark the very point from which it began. Life, then, began by a miracle; that is to say, by a direct intervention of creative power, contrary to what are commonly called "the laws of nature," or rather, before the existence of these laws.

2d. They have concluded that, as the Bible tells us, man is the youngest and last created of all the organized beings that the almighty God has placed on this earth.

3d. They have concluded that, as the Bible tells us, all the terrestrial animals, the large mammiferæ,—the elephants, the horses, the cattle, the rhinoceri,—are among the later creations which appeared on the earth before the creation of man.

4th and lastly. All geologists agree with the Bible in maintaining that the grand scale of geological fossiliferous periods is naturally divided into three great parts, which they have named Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.

All are agreed, says the celebrated geologist, Hugh Miller, that what chiefly distinguishes the first of these three fossiliferous periods is not its shells or its fishes, though it possesses