Wrinkled, pitted, knotted, furrowed, scarred, nothing that we can show on Earth resembles it.

Moon and Earth were called into existence by the Creator probably at the same period of time.

In the first stages of their existence, they do not seem to have been anything better than masses of gas.

Acted upon by various forces and various influences, all of course directed by an omnipotent intelligence, these gases by degrees became liquid, and the liquids grew condensed into solids until solidity could retain its shape.

But the two heavenly bodies, though starting at the same time, developed at a very different ratio.