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any ignoble use of the name and method.

COPYRIGHTED 1914

INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION

LONDON, ENGLAND, AND BROOKLYN, N.Y.

SCENARIO OF

THE PHOTO-DRAMA OF

CREATION

IS PURELY A PHILANTHROPY

The PHOTO-DRAMA of

CREATION

COOPERATION IS DESIRED

Our large collection of illustrations has cost years of labor by

hundreds of artists, and all this means an immense outlay of money

before the exhibit could start. Next comes heavy expense for suitable

Opera Houses and large Auditoriums; as well as for electric light,

advertising, the traveling expenses of the exhibitors and their

maintenance. So stupenhdous a work of education, worth more than a

year’s schooling, should be done at pubblic expense! But since that

was not possible, our Association has started the project, trusting that

it will appeal to other philanthropists and BE EXTENDED

WORLD-WIDE.

This is not a solicitation—we never solicit! We merely state the

facts and thus give opportunity to all to cooperate as much or as little

as they may desire. We will help them by supplying pictures, or they

may cooperate with us.

The Divine Revelation, the Bible is the

Wisdom from Above, the Noblest Science

and the Best Instruction.

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The DRAMA IS UNSECTARIAN and INTER-DENOMINATIONAL

The education which it gives is broadening and makes for faith

in God, a deeper love for Him and for the Bible, and a broader

Christian sympathy for all mankind.

1914 C OPYRIGHT 1914

A LL R IGHTS R ESERVED

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PUBLIC AUDITORIUMS RATHER THAN CHURCHES

are used, so that all—Catholics, Protestants, Jews and others—

may feel the freer to come. The Exhibits are Free , so that all, rich

and poor, may be profited by this philanthropy.

Scenarios of Each Part of the Drama have been prepared, so

that the lessons of these lectures may be retained for further future

study. These should be in every home. We have provided these free

in paper form at the Exits.

RESERVED SEATS TO THE INTERESTED

There is a call for the Scenario in better form. Accordingly we

have provided them in handsome paper covers at 10 cents each Part

and in cloth binding at 25 cents each Part. The purchasers of these

are generally the more deeply interested; hence to them go the

Reserved Seats free.

INTERNATIONAL

BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION

London, England; Melbourne, Australia;

BROOKLYN, N.Y., U.S.A.

Deluxe Edition, complete, $1.00 . This cloth-bound, gilt-

edged edition contains all the short lectures (96) and nearly 400

illustrations, printed on fine coated paper. Each purchaser is entitled

to Reserved Seat tickets to all three Parts of the Photo-Drama of

Creation, free.

Page 1

GOD’S GLORY IN THE HEAVENS

OUR PLANETARY SYSTEM

HE reverence of Jehovah is the beginning of

wisdom.” Only the foolish say in their heart,

“There is no God.” “Day into day uttereth speech, and

night unto night showeth knowledge.” “The heavens

declare the glory of God.”—Psalms 3:10; 14:1; 19:1, 2.

An appreciation of the infinite Power of the Creator

and of our own littleness should make us teachable. The

study of Creation is the “Key of Knowledge.” Using this

Key we begin to realize that the only worthy ambition is to

co-operate with our Creator’s beneficent designs

respecting His Creation.

The planets of our System compared with our Sun are

as nothing. Imagine the Sun’s diameter that of a large

flour barrel: Jupiter would compare as a small orange,

Earth and Venus as peas, and Mercury and Mars as

raspberry seeds.

The Sun is three hundred thousand times the size of

our Earth. A train at thirty miles an hour could go around

the Earth in one month, but three hundred and forty years

would be required for it to travel the circumference of the

Sun.

SIGNS OF ZODIAC

Our day and night are the result of the Earth’s

rotation on its own axis, while its motion around the Sun

marks our year. Planets nearer the Sun have shorter orbits,

and hence, shorter years, while remote ones have longer

years. A year on the planet Mercury would equal three of

our months. On Neptune, farthest off, a year equals 164 of

Earth’s years.

Yet our Sun is only one of the fixed stars, of which

the most up-to-date astronomical methods estimate there

are one hundred and twenty-five millions. Around each of

these .fixed stars undoubtedly revolves a planetary System

like our own. Thus reckoned, there are one thousand

million worlds. Even this is not the limit. If we should

stand upon the farthest and dimmest star, we should no

doubt from there see as many more beyond. We are

appalled at the greatness of the Universe.

The zodiacal signs illustrate various sections of the

heavens, visible at different seasons.

RELATIVE SIZE OF SUN AND PLANETS

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Page 2

THE FIRST DAY OR EPOCH

RINGS IN FORMATION

HE Genesis account tells nothing about the formation

of the Earth itself. It says, “In the beginning the Earth

was—without form and void”—shapeless, empty. There

were neither mountains nor valleys, trees nor shrubs,

rivers nor oceans, but the Earth was. How long before that

it had been created, is not stated. The account of the Days

of Creation given in Genesis relates not to the construction

of our globe, but to the ordering of it for human habitation.

There are various theories regarding its formation.

We follow the one most closely harmonizing with the

Bible. It is called the Vailian theory. It assumes that

Saturn’s rings and Jupiter’s belts illustrate Earth’s

development as a planet.

The Earth was once molten, as indicated by the

igneous rocks of the Azoic period: so called by scientists,

but not discussed in the Bible. When the Earth was

molten, its water and minerals were thrown off a great

distance in gaseous form. As these cooled and took shape,

they constituted great rings at a distance from the Earth.

Gradually the motion of the rings became different

from that of the Earth in proportion to the distance from

the center of gravity. These rings of water and mineral

gradually approaching the Earth would be kept off by

centrifugal force, particularly strong at the equator. The

“brooding” of Holy Energy developed a light, probably

resembling the Aurora Borealis—not sunlight. The Sun

did not appear until the Fourth Day.

“Let there be light! and there was light.” Thus,

briefly, is summed up the result of the 7,000 years, styled

the First Day. Not that God’s Word would not have been

sufficient for any miracle, but because He prefers to work

out His glorious designs along natural lines.—Genesis 1:3.

There are scientists who claim that the Earth still has

one ring about it, an electrical ring which, falling, will in a

few years destroy fermentation, microbes and parasites,

and greatly assist plant and animal life.

RINGS FURTHER DEVELOPED

RINGS MORE FULLY DEVELOPED

Page 3

THE SECOND DAY OR EPOCH

“LET THERE BE LIGHT”

HE expressions “evening and morning” and “day”

cannot be understood to signify twenty-four-hour days,

for neither Sun nor Moon was visible until the Fourth Day.

The Earth was swathed in impenetrable darkness.

The word “day” applies to any period, or Epoch, as

for instance, the “Day of temptation in the wilderness”—

forty years. (Psalm 95:8.) Note again, that we read of the

“Day of Christ,” evidently referring to the thousand-year

Day in which Messiah is to be King over all the Earth.

(Isaiah 2:11.) In the common affairs of life we use the

word “day” similarly, when referring to Caesar’s day,

Napoleon’s day, etc.

We follow the theory that each of the Seven Days of

the Creative Week was a period of seven thousand years.

This, seven times seven thousand, equals forty-nine

thousand (7x7,000=49,000) years, ushering in a grand

Jubilee Epoch.

As one after another the encircling rings of water and

minerals approached the Earth they would spread out like

a great canopy, but would not be permitted to fall upon the

Earth because of the circumambient air, referred to in

Scripture as a “firmament.” Saturn’s rings have not yet

fallen.

God made the firmament in the second, or Palaeozoic

Day, and separated the waters which were under the

firmament from the waters which were above the

firmament. (Genesis 1:7). The strongly mineralized waters

above the Earth, held off by the “firmament” and

centrifugal force, greatest at the equator, gradually

concentrated at the two poles, where later they broke and

then reached the Earth, forming layer after layer of

mineralized earth deposited by the water which rushed

from both poles toward the equator.—Genesis 7:11, 18.

These rings, or belts, of water and minerals followed

each other as great deluges upon the Earth—perhaps

thousands of years apart. The Deluge of Noah’s day was

the last, of pure water only, heavier minerals being

attracted first. Hence minerals are generally under several

layers of shale and soil.

SATURN AND EARTH — SIZE COMPARED

THE FIRMAMENT ESTABLISHED

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