Signs of the Times, Book 1 - Ellen G. White

March 13, 1879
The Great Controversy Between Christ and
His Angels and Satan and His Angels
Chapter 7--The Flood (Concluded)
The entire surface of the earth was changed at the flood. A third dreadful
curse now rested upon it in consequence of man's transgression. The
beautiful trees and flowering shrubbery were destroyed, but Noah preserved
seed and took it with him into the ark, and God by his miraculous power
preserved a few of the different kinds of trees and shrubs alive for future
generations. Soon after the flood, trees and plants seemed to spring out of the
very rocks. In God's providence, seeds had been scattered and driven into the
crevices of the rocks, and there securely hidden for the future use of man.
As the waters abated from the earth, the mountains and hills appeared in
a broken, rough condition, and all around them was a sea of roiled water or
soft mud. In the time of the flood, the people, and the beasts also, gathered to
the highest points of land, and as the waters disappeared, dead bodies were
left upon the mountains and hills, as well as on the plains. The surface of the
earth was strewn with the bodies of men and beasts. But God would not have
these remain to decompose and pollute the atmosphere, therefore he made of
the earth a vast burying ground. He caused a powerful wind to pass over it
for the purpose of drying up the waters, which moved them with great force,
in some instances carrying away the tops of the mountains like mighty
avalanches, forming hills and mountains where there were none to be seen
before, and burying the dead bodies with trees, stones, and earth. The
precious wood, stone, silver, and gold, that had made rich and adorned the
world before the flood, and which the inhabitants had idolized, were sunk
beneath the surface of the earth. The waters which had broken forth with
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