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THE FIRST

CHAPTER OF GENESIS: ITS VALUE.

By the Rev. G. R. Lindsay, M. A.

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|TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY:

A second mysterious caso of-m) man turning black has been dis- covered at Hull, (England.). The vietim is Mr. Shillto, of Bykos Street, a tall, well-built man withi fair hair. Ho is a soaman, like

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This is the season for the rail- |way companios' sales of damagod and unclaimed property and salvage (writes แ Manchester Guardian correspondent). Many strange lots are offered and often good bargains are secured. A the sale of the L.M.S. Company at Dorby a bag of Lyle's sugar: fetched £3. 108,; a box of butter,: £3: two bags of cowhair, 89.1 a stroot organ £5 ha.; a bag of hors, 3s.: a case of 192 dolls. £6 5. Persian rug, 26 108; un- brellas, from £4 10s, to 78. & doz.:{i five golf clubs and bag, 168.; | bamper of clothing, £5; diamond yardrop, 216; box of miscel laucous jewellery, £1 12s. 6d. ; and a hamper of gloves, £10.

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According to the Chancellor ofi the Exchequer, the way to ensuru In long life in to become a duke, An investigation of the facts con- firms Mr. Snowden's impression. la addition to the Duke of Connaught there are to-day Hix dukes over 70 years of ago, while the average age of the 26 non- Royal dukes is 57, ospite the youth of the Duke of Norfolk. Including the three Royal dukes, two of whom are young men, tho Average age is 55. The Archibi- shops, go several better; with average age of 68.

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A considerable amount of light Babylonian account us day from has been thrown on this chapter night. In Genesis wo have no by the discovery in 1872 of some multitude of gods but Und God: slay tablets on which is written no primeval matter from which an account of the Creation from the gods ariso, but "in the beginn- the religious standpoint of the ing God"; here the heavenly Arts, Vienna. Director Eigen Babylonians, Many similarities bodies are not deition 'to. be berger has discovered the picture! with the account in tonesis worshipped, but the handiwork of of the "Head of an Old Man, may be observed, and this God; bure man is the crown of which he declaros to ho-beyond is not surprising, for the Creation because he is made in doubt a genuine Rubons. As ho Hobrow and Babylonian 'proples the likeness of God.

stater, the picture was badly wors allied branches of tho This chopter conveyed to affected by repainting. He sup.. great Semitic raco. But this the lebrews, and it still con- poses that the necessary work for Babylonian record has dons moro veya to us, tho loftiest conserving was left undone for

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than anything else to confirm the conceptions of God and of His longer than a century. Up to the roal divine Inspiration of the relation to the world and mon. It present the neglected picture had narrative In Genesis and its glorifies God and dignifies man.been ignored. The Director lai unique religious worth.

It is a standing witness to the positive that it is an early work The Biblical account, when fact that the nation of Israel of Rubens, from the end of his compared with this legend, enjoyed a peculiar revelation of Italian period, painted about 1608. prosente differences which are divine truth. It contains nothing According to his statement, the even more striking than the inconsistont uither with the style, technique, and colouring for resemblances and it is these zovulation of Jehovah or with the vouchsafo its origin. It is do- diferences which reveal its fuller revolation of Jesus Christ, scribed as bighly Impressionistic auritual value. The Babylonian The first vored of GoDosis oxcludes and modern in fealing, sucli legend IN full of grotesque atheism, panthoism, polytheism, as Rubens only painted ant polytholstic idoas.. It materialism; denies the eternity his old age. The hond has doscribes the Croation as an of mattor

the striking resemblance to the ono in teacher episode in the history of the gods, eternity, solf-existence, omnipo-the Rubens picture of the "Adorn The Bible places it in its right tanée, and wiedom

the tian of the Magi," shown at the position in the drama of human Creator.

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history: the former represente The Christian romombers, too, Tho nowly-discovorod picturo, the gods themselves, as ovolved that Goniosis was part of Dr. Ligenberger says, was ob from chaos: the latter, assumes Obrist's Bible, the Old Testament.viously done after the same model God to be before all things and It is not simply historically inter- as the head of the old king in the Independent- of them.

The osting, but spiritually valuabio, "Adoration of the Magi." The formor losos itself in a medley of It is part of the great continent new hood is to be found to the so- dellion; In the latter there is but of truth where men and women called skotchbook of Rubens,

may still broathe the pure ale of collection of sheets One living and true God,

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The wild grotesquonons of the God's righteousness and power, by Rubens's engraver, Paulus Babylonian story is in striking and in which they may, over and Pontitis, by the master's order. 12 pontrast to the beauty, dignity anon, hear His voice as clearly and under his supervision after and amplialty of the story which as when the words wore first drawings, studies, etc., from the 50% lang famillar to us from child- uttered to move men to worship land of Rubens. The new plöture hood. Thireligious teaching of the one, eternal Creator God, In is declared to have served as

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