, 1879-07-20

signed to Mr. StOrr8. This cneered the dr0op-
inc spirits OF the people, who greeted the an-
appreciation.
The meeting then took recess for dinner,
which was served at the Bluff House for all who
came.
at 2 o'clock 2. m,. the primary Sunday School
teachers occupied m hour In discussing the
modes of teaching. This Was followed bv =
diseourse on history by the Rev. ", E. Bains
Prof. Paige occupied half an hour in
+ TALKING UPON SCIENCE.
He believed that science VAS going to do 4
great work for the human race. The child
should be educated in the mysteries of science,
to contract vicious habits. 4 scientific man
could not BE- found who Was addicted to the use
Of tobacco and liquor. People generally have
the idea that man must have great brain to
study science. This was not SO. It Was the
easiest and simplest thing in the world. We
were every moment and everywhere Ia Natures
great laboratory. We need not 60 TO schools
or across the water to begin the work. Any-
where that we could Dick up blade Of grass, an
insect, or anything that God had made, made
us ready to commence the studT Of Nature.
Ho Then gave brief account OF recent visit
to the g Bad Lant1s " Of Dakota with mules and
ambulaDces. He Saw there that at one time the
mountains had been In an active state Of erup-
ton There was every evidence that the nouu-
tainn we're OF an immense hight, aud that there
had been an ocean there. Perhaps there vas q
time in the past when the earth was subjected
to greater degrees OF cold tran now. The IN
tense heat OF the equator produced immense
clouds Of Vapor, which arose and passed to the
poles, where they fell in SHOWS uud formed
glaciers. There had been many glacial periods,
when the mountains Of ice slid down
towards the poles, grinding aud destroying
everything before them. He terrified his nerv-
GUS listeners by stating that he believed there
would still be
when the accumulated Ice Of the poles would
become Intensely cold and all life would bo de-
stroyed. He somewhat calmed apprehension,
however, by stating that he didn't think this
terrible event would occur for 81, COD years. He
had found some fifteen or twenty species Of ex
tin tint aDimals: % They we're % not 5 difficult to
easily secured He had found the
yertcbra Of serpent six inches
IN diameter, which must have been part OF a
repti1e at least seventy-tye feet in length. He
which had yet been known to have existed on
the earth. Tile circumference OF the Versebra
was twenty-fiv inches, and the leg must baye
been FIVE feet IN circumference He estimated
that this animal must have bcen eighty feet In
length aud eighteen feet high. He believed it
was T. savage lizard. In conclusion, be said be
bslieYed that man had reached the highest state
OF physical development. He had DOW attained
the perpendicular position, und there was no more
Improvement in that direction for him. He be-
lisTed, however, that his brain would continue
to grow and expand to the end OF creation. He
knew not what there was In the hereafter, but
II he knew that he could attain Unlimited intel
ngencc, unlimited thought, and see and under
stand all there was, be thought It would be tue
grandest heaven he could possibly conceive OF.
When man could See, and hear, and know all
that God has made in the universe,-ln the
countless millions OF worlds around us,-it
seemed to him that no bad reached the highest
possibility Of happiness.
DR.. A. Gurney spoke a few moments on the
Trinity, which concluded the chief exercises Of
the day.
IN TIE EVENING
Prof. D. Heae1e delivered panoramic lecture
on Solomou's Temple and Jerusalem, which was
OF an interesting character and we'll received by
the audience. The pictures, thirty-fve or more
in number, gave views OF the outer court Of tie
temple aud Its surroundings, the inner courts,
and holy house, and view OF the ancient and
OF the modern city.
TO-DAY. ).
The principal features OF the exercises to-day
will be sermon bv Bishop Andrews 10 the
morning, sermon by Bishop Bowman IN the
afternoon, and a sermon by the Rev. q. j.
Mdgeway, OF Cincinnati, in the evening.