The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-10-28

manliests itself in the foaming
mountain stream or the plunge of
Niagara, or is revealed in the deluge and
dew drop, the glacier or snow spangle, and
as it unseen feeds the luxuriant vegetation
of the tropics when no rain falls; so out of
a few elements we see the world appear
from the unseen and all things fed from the
INVISIBLE.
(c) Besides, Personality revealed in
the many intentions of existing forces
the perfect proportions and symme-
try, and balancings of dangerous elements
we see. His Eternity, Omniscience and
Omnipotence in unrolling all these wonders
from so few elements, and urging all on
according to original plan.
We turn to the commissions, chemical ex-
ploSions, electric storms and turmoil of the
creation, as unseen elements develop
through agony into the things which are
seen. What economy of materiai Thir-
teen elements are 99-l00 of all used in
making this world. The union of silicon
and oxygen forms one-half the solid
crust of the earth, and shows its beauty OF
capitalization in quartz, agate, opal and
jasper.
Aluminium and oxygen unite, and the
product Is best known as sapphire and
ruby.
These products combined form clay.
United in different proportions with pot
ash, we have granite. Oxygen united
to calcium and charcoal, produces the lime
stone rocks.
There is increase of power, and an add
ing something, from gravitation to cohesion,
to chemical combination, up to vital force.
Hydrogen imprisons oxygen in water.
Nitrogen dilutes it in the air, and this great
afrite destroying all things by fire is held
as slave to work for man. 1t supplies the
fires for all animal heat, all the furnaces of
civilization, and burns up the dead matter
in nature, confagration which burns the !, a
III autumn, glow and the grass to its russet
shroud
The sunbeam breaks up the smoke of
creation into food for the plant, starting
vegetable life with its many varieties, typ
eS, and uses.
Another advance is made, and another
class is formed of matter more highly or
ganized. Animal life begins. The last
step is taken and matter reaches its high
est organization and purpose in man, com
ing nearest to the enclosed personality and
being the first meuium of its expression.
Now, as LIE Conte has it, 'the evolution
Of the world of law and order by forces
within itself, is according to the theory that
forces cannot be DESTROYED, incOnceivable.
Such growth can be only by constant in
crease of the whole sum of energy, that is,
by an increasing infowing of Divine en-
ergy. Because, the same quantity in a
higher condition must emhody a greater
amount of energy"
Back of these world movements, guiding
the growth of the creation epochs, originating
and combining elements, and rolling along
a plan involving with the greatest economy
of elements, thousands Of intentions with
no mistakes to mend, is Personality.
"TO adapt the same substance to a thous-
and different ends, to adjust each of Its
properties to thousand different condi-
tons, covering, with their complex net
work all the known universe, implies a
power nothing less than Infinite, and an in
telligence not less than Divine" To have
in grasp in one plan all these different ends
and intentions, to sum up in man, the
types of lower creations, to support his life
by Transforming less highly organized mat
ter into the forces which he uses, to ar
range the proportions of compound, to give
definite energy and affinity to elements, to
direct them through million types, variety
and changes to a good end, shows back OF
all, Omnipotence, Omnscence and Infinite
Goodness. As in the case Of man, so here
we ask, "where is the Infinite Personal
typ of whom all these appearances and
laws are revelations.
All earthly energy comes from the sun.
With the speed Of light we are at the sun
in little over minutes, and there we find
a mass 1900 times greater than the
earth, with storms rushing 100 miles sec
ond, and sheets of fame many times the
size of the surface of this world, rising to
the height of $4,000 and even $4,000 miles.
Here we discover that the source of its
power is heat. And what is heat? In a
bit of matter are minute globes swinging
in the ether, like the sun in its surroundings,
and the mode of motion as it Oscillates on
it's ether waves is the force we call heat.
By contraction of its mass, the sun keeps
a constant supply of this energy. What
keeps the motion? Pressure. Who press
es? Infinite personality by the ar
rangements of the creation. o, that He
would reveal Himself! With the speed of
thought let us instantly pass oyer 80 times
the distance already travelled, and stop at
Saturn.
| On and on thirty times farther to Nep-
tune, where we are at the most distant
point of our solar system, 2,770 million
miles from the sun, with our earth out of
sight and the sun reduced to a small star.
The original ncbula had stretched to this
point and Neptune had whirlcd off. These
worlds of our system are in process OF
change, and OF the same clements as the
earth.
Now we pass into the starry heavens and
with the flight of Imagination pass space
2I0,000 times the first stage of our journey
ill we reach the nearest fixed star. 1t,
too. is a sun and we have nothing new to
find there. On again four times farther
than the whole distance already passed to
Sirius, then twice as far as that to Rigel,
and we are scarcely out into the stars OF
the first class. AS we move onward
consultations engulf us, system after system
comes out from the distance, changes into
splendid globes thousands of miles apart
which closes together far behind us. About
US lie dead worlds that once glowed like
these suns. Before US we see clusters
which seem to be one star, but as we come
nearer they reveal beautiful colored worlds;
once amongst them they are immense suns,
here golden, crimson and purple, there blue
orange and white, shedding light Of won
drous glory over the dead worlds and send
T ing storms of different colored fires thous
ands of miles high, while about these suns
comets are flashing and meteors following
with spangIing of glory. Away in the
, distance is a film, which now resolves
itself into nebulae covering the abyss be