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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 11, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 15.

The Sun and the Day

1800.—The Sun and the Day.

In the history of creation there was evening and morning before the sun was created. How can it be that there was light and darkness three days before the sun and moon were created?

First of all, we can not believe that the Lord is so limited that He could not give light apart from the sun. The sun is the light-bearer; but it is a generally-accepted rendering, we believe, that the language of Gen. 1:14-18 shows that, tho they did not appear, the sun and moon were created in the very beginning when the earth was, but that the heavy mist or cloudbank surrounding the earth had entirely shut them away from the earth until God said, Let them appear in the heavens; so that if any one had been on the earth, he would have seen them for the first time, the light previous to that time being diffused through the heavy clouds of vapor hanging over the earth; just as now, for limited times, it is impossible to tell where the sun is. The great part of the vapors may have been deposited in the form of water upon the earth, and the remainder of it left in the atmosphere in the form of clouds or invisible moisture.