Mr Gladston's Views on the

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 17 June 1890, Page 2

Mr Gladston's Views on the

''■■'■■•' The New Yoi^ M(^«i^?^;xpr^i« special cable' from jbiM^ir'^jb':— Gladstone's second arfiftf^,3!fr'"(}oo4 Words/ written in- <M|l|^n«a^iion, of the recent assaults on {tie |^i>?e, d«&l« with the creation irj; A"^i^ily^bb»rao'' teristic and original fearer. $ Glad. Btone^onteods th'aV^^rOpenirjg of the book of (Jenepif'^nitifutei » ' plain and Bjtwg]itior*ju& Birratirf of the pr|'Adamite period. : ' He maintain* that |it; Is' neither poetic nor scientific in meaning, nor can it be^corttideredso to. interpret 1 tion, but it was, lie says./i-- diyeot communicatfeta, fram. God to tea^h primaliveflSW his proper place in creation. Aad to give hint a 'ooßcop' tion in a broad outline a* to wfraf Wf . Maker had ij Ben Ben ftb^t b« hiirtfehiU, Ha considers the days -of creation' tip be neither solar nor geotogwal, bu^ •simply convenient historic, dmsiofyf without any occult rttcttiittg. -- - .... Only in respect to the creatiqa qf ligjitfdoes Qrladstoiiir wtitnV to a rigid scientific criticism. Hi dir castes the events which aT© der cribed with the object of showinj that the book of Genesis is a tr« account of the evolution of the worfi * and with a view of leading, unjj^ $» conclusion that the ordainer ofnatur and giver or guide of the story o creation ate one and the same.