Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-25
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
DIR. Warren's Illustrated Lecture.


This lecture should be heard, and its
illustrations seen by every intelligent
reader who can make it convenient to be
present in Fulton hall tomorrow evening.
1t is of class of scientific lectures too
seldom presented to popular audiences.
Its illustrations will be of very satisfac-
tory character, and the reputation of the
lecturer is such that no further word of
endorsement is needed.
Among the views thrown upon the can
vas by the calcium light will be the solar
system, with the planets all revolving in
view that will never be forgotten by any
one who may see it. Other movable
illustrations will show the motion of the
tides. of the moon, and comets, and
eclipses. NebulR and star clusters in the
far depths of space will also be shown, as
we'll as the spectroscope and the different
kinds of telescopes, the construction of the
latter being intelligibly shown and ex-
planned upon the canvas.
The large chorus of the high schools,
numbering from one hundred and fifty to
one hundred and seventy-five pupils, in
for the first part of the programme, will
sing during the evening from the illumi-
mated canvas, "My Country it's of Thee :"
and 1.-THE Spacious Firmament on High" J"
The music will be very attractive feature
OF the evening programme.
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late work of DR.. Warren, which, will give
the reader "a taste of his quality:
Distance and Power.
The two thoughts that overwhelm us are
distance and power. The periOdtof mans
whole history is not sufficient fpr an ex-
press train to traverse half the distance to
Neptune. Thought wearies and fails in
seeking to grasp such distances it cannot
comprehend one million miles, and here
are thousands of them. Even the wings #
imagination grow weary and drOOp. When
we stand OIL that outermOst of planets, the
very last sentinel of the outposts of the
king, the very sun grown dim and small in
the distance, we have taken only one stepOf
the infinite distance to the stars. They have
not changed their relative positiOn-they y
have not grown brighter by our approach.
Neptune carries us around a vast circle
about the centre of the dome of stars, but
we seem no nearer its sides. In visiting
planets we have been only visiting next
door neighbors in the streets of a seaport
town. We know that there are similar
neighbors about Sirius and Arcturus, but a
vast sea rolls between. AS we said, we
stand with the Outermost sentinel; but
into the great void beyond. the king of
day sends his cornets as scouts, and they
fly thousands of years without for one in
slant missing the steady grasp of the
power of the Sun. 1t is nearer almighti-
ness than we are able to think.
eff We cannot solve the problems Of the
present existence of worlds, how little can
we expect to fathom the unsoundable
depths of their creation and development
through ages measureless to man! Yet
the very difficulty provokes the most
ambitious thought. We toll at the prob
lem because it has been hitherto unsolv-
able. Every error We make, and discover
to be such, helps towards the final solution.
Every earnest thinker who climbs the
shining worlds as steps to higher
thought is trying to solve the problem
God has given him to do