The candle and the lamp gives us light by the help of the air by which they are sur rounded. We could not hear each other speak, if it were not for this valuable blessing of air. The ship sails by means of the wind, and the rice is ripened by the air. The firmament was made to "divide the waters from the waters." Thus they were divided into two parts. God gathered together a large quantity of water, which floated on the earth immediately under the air, and he mingled a suitable quantity with the air, that the atmosphere might be continually changed and kept in motion by the change of the quantity of water that is mingled with it. How wonderful are all the works of God!→ "He hath made the earth by his power. He hath established the World by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding. When he

uttereth his voice,

there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth. He maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. He stretched out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth

upon

upon nothing." "And God called the firmament Heaven." God hath prepared his throne in the heavens. This word is often found in Scripture in the plural number. Paul says that he knew a man in Christ that was caught up into the third heavens. It is generally supposed that he means himself. So that we find by what he says, that there is a third heaven. This is said to be the heaven of heavens, the place where God dwells, where the holy angels are, where the spirits of good men made perfect dwell. The second heaven is called the starry heavens, and they are said to declare the glory of God, and the firmament to shew forth his handy work. This reaches from the Moon to the fixed Stars. The firmament is called Heaven. That is the aerial heaven, or the atmosphere is here meant. This is the place which contains the dew, rains, hail, snow, wind,

thunder

NOTE. As the Creation of the World is a very interesting and important subject, it was thought proper to divide it into two Lectures that the attention of young persons may not be wearied, es pecially in a climate like this, where the heat free quently makes children fall asleep.

thunder, and lightning.

It is the place where the birds of the air fly about; you often call it the sky. "And the evening and the morning were the second day." We must stop here, for fear your attention should be wearied.

III. CATECHETICAL QUESTIONS on the

SUBJECT.

1. What are the words of the Text?" And God created the Heavens and the Earth."

2.-Where are they to be found? Gen. chap. 1 verse. 1.

3. What is the meaning of the word. Genesis? It means generation, original or beginning.

4.-Who wrote the Book of Genesis? Mo.

ses.

5. Where did Moses write this Book? Some suppose in the land of Midian, while he was a shepherd. Others think he wrote it in the wilderness, while he was the leader of God's people Israel.

6. What number of years is it supposed the Book of Genesis contains the history of? It is said to contain a period of 2369 years. 7.-Must not every house have a builder?

Yes,

Yes, every house is builded by some man.” 8. Must not the world have had a Maker? Yes, he that built all things, is God.

9. Is not God called the Creator? Yes, he is said to be "the Creator of the ends of the earth."

10. Why is he called the Creator? Because he created the world.

11. What is creation?

The making of

all things out of nothing, by the word and power of God.

12. What did God create? "The heavens

and the earth."

13. When did God create them?

the beginning."

"In

14.-What did God make the first day? Light and Darkness.

15. How was the earth when first made? "Without form and void."

16.-What was upon the face of the deep? Darkness.

17. What was that which moved on the face of the waters? The Spirit of God.

18.-What were the first words which God spoke? "Let there be light, and there was light."

19.-When God saw the light, what is said of it? "That it was good."

20. What was the next thing God did? "He divided the light from the darkness.” 21.-What did God call the light? Day.

22. Night.

What did God call the darkness?

23. What did God make the second day? A firmament.

24. For what purpose did God make this firmament? "To divide the waters from the waters."

25.-What did God call the firmament? Heaven.

26. Where do good children go when they die? To heaven.

IV. PRACTICAL ADDRESS.

How astonishing are the events rea

corded in the first

short and yet how

chapter of God. How simple is the description here given us of the Creation of the World. How dignified and beautiful is the language of God. "Let there be light, and there was light." He spoke and it was done, he com manded and it stood fast. How dark and ignorant are the minds of the young. It is God

alone