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RAiN UNKNowN pEFoRE THE FLooD.--- May ] request (through the medium Oi your columns,} from my clerical brethren, the statement of any reasons they may have to offer, in refnlafion of an opinion ] hold, that rain was unknown in she world till ,he time of the deings. This opinion ground on Genesis iE 6s 6, compared with Genesis ix, B, and lA. In the former passage we are told that sslhe Lord God had moi caused 1t to rain upon the earth,n but that He "salered the whole face of the ground by . mist" that vent up from the earth; and in the latter passage Il was in.imated thss the rainbow was seen foF the first time not till after the deluge. Hence it appears to me easier and safsy to suppose that there had been neither yais nor .aiabosc before the flood, than to suppose that the fall of rain had heen m ordinary occurrence for up- wards of 1900 years, without the rainbow being freqpenfiu seen as 1t is now and the conclusions to which am led is, that preri- ousiy 10 fhe saiUersal delnge, there had been no rain; but that instead of il "there went up mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground 7 and that, conse- qaently, not till afler the deluge was the rainbow seen, when the Lord God said unto Noah, 'sI do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall come to pass," &c. What form of words can, indeed, more plainly intimate, rather would say, declare, that 1t was then so ''set'' torthe Grsf lime, and ,hat therefore, both ii and that, wherein i. was 4set," where objects alike unknown before the flood fad the rainbow been manifest d before the flood, how could it be sign iha. there should be no repetition of the same awful catastrophe? On the other hand, how could it have been oiherrise than n.aai fested, had the fall of rain, one of the causes of it, (as its name imporis,} been an ordinary occur rence9 To suppose that rain had been com stantly falling from the days of Adam until the time of Noah, without having once-noi 10 say ofien--in the course of one thousand six hundred years by the refraciion of the rays of ihe run, produced rainbow, would be, t appears to me, 10 suppose the inter- venation of repeated miracle to prevent it. = Correspondent of the Church and Sfate GazeHe.