Whatever  may  have  been  the  physical  changes
that  took  place,  there  came  a  day  at  last  when
they  were  completed.  The  work  was  accepted
and  pronounced  "  good,"  and  that  day,  the  end
of  this  epoch,  the  day  of  approval,  was  the  fourth
day.
Another  epoch  begins.  Animal  life,  which
commenced  untold  ages  back  in  the  Protozoans,
Mollusks,  Radiates,  and  Articulates  of  the  Paleo-
zoic Period,  and  which  had  passed  through  so
many  stages  of  progress,  found  its  first  culmina-
tion in  living  species  of  fowls  and  fishes.  "  God
saw  that  it  was  good,"  and  this  day  of  approval
and  announcemeiit  was  marked  in  the  sacred
record  as  "  the  fifth  day."

Another  period  opens.  Modern  "  beasts  and
cattle  "  walk  the  land.  Man,  the  master  of  all,  ap-
pears. The  day  of  entire  completion  came,  the  day
when  God  looked  upon  his  work  and  pronounced
it  "  very  good;"  this  day  was  the  sixth  day.
In  these  verses,  from  the  eighth  to  the  last,
the  writer  has  given  a  third  use  of  the  word,  an
epochal  day,  a  day  of  announcement,  a  day  of
completion,  having  no  reference  whatever  to  the
length  of  the  day,  as  when  I  speak  of  Independ-


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ence  Day,  the  term  has  no  allusion  to  the  length
of  that  day.
Again,  in  the  fourth  verse  of  the  next  Chapter
there  occurs  yet  another  use  of  the  word,  and  this
the  more  interesting  because  it  is  the  only  phrase
in  either  Chapter,  that  purports  to  tell  us  how  long
was  the  time  in  which  God  created  the  earth  and
the  heavens.
