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LETTER IX.

"AND GOD SAID, LET THE WATERS BRING FORTH ABUNDANTLY THE MOVING CREATURE THAT HATH LIFE, AND FOWL THAT MAY FLY ABOVE THE EARTH IN THE OPEN FIRMAMENT OF HEAVEN. AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES, AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT MOVETH, WHICH THE WATERS BROUGHT FORTH ABUNDANTLY, AFTER ITS KIND, AND EVERY WINGED FOWL AFTER HIS KIND: AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD. AND GOD BLESSED THEM, SAYING, BE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY, AND FILL THE WATERS IN THE SEAS, AND LET FOWL MULTIPLY IN THE EARTH."-Gen. i. 20-22.

My dear Children,

Though the sun had shone with brightness and glory, on all the newly created beauty of the third day; yet still, up to the morning of the fifth, all was hushed and silent; life had indeed pervaded the vegetable world, yet still it was inanimate; but now the creative word has gone forth, "let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that hath life, and fowl that may fly in the open firmament of heaven." Instantly birds of every wing lighted on the trees of Eden, and the air became vocal with their song; while the great whales and fish