The Age of the World. The Rev. L. J. Templin contributes to our excellent following interesting paper on the ' Age of the World' a theme which has occupied the attention of students has been a pregnant subject for theologians to discuss and is of interest to all intelligent persons: Scarce a generation has passed away since it was the almost universal belief among the common people that the earth in both its material and form was only about 6000 years old. When geology began to teach that the sands and tens of thousands but by millions of years it was arraigned as being in opposition to the word of God being infidel if not atheistic in its tendencies. But now few if any persons who have any just claims to be considered intelligent question the great an tiquity of the earth. But only those who have given special attention to the subject are aware of the vast amount of evidence in favor of this view that is pre sented by the present condition of the rocks composing the solid crust of the earth. To give even an abstract of all the proofs that exist in favor of this doctrine would require a large volume; much less can it be compressed within the narrow limits of a magazine article. A cursory view of a few repre sentative facts and general principles is all that can be attempted in the present discussion. There was doubtless a period in the earth's history when its whole mass was in a state of igneous fusion. When it had become sufficiently cooled to permit the existence of water on its surface currents would be formed and erosion would begin. The eroded mate rial would be deposited in still water and form sedi mentary rocks. These would be laid down in hori zontal or nearly horizontal strata. The cooling of the earth would cause contraction and this would produce subsidence in places and upheavals in others. By these means the strata already laid down would be broken contorted and tilted at various angles leaving the edges exposed. As erosion would go on new strata woul
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