The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22


which, by its vibration or wavelets, trans.
mits sunlight and heat as such to our earth
Query first: Do the waveets of lighter, act
ing on heavier substances, intensity the
mobility of the heavier? This is opposed to
our experience. If this were true, the waves
of Lake Michigan would produce such sky
ward seas of the hard soil of the state that
we could not occupy our places here today.
Our upper, lighter atmosphere is often in
motion when the lower, more condensed
strata are in state of comparative rest.
So in deep waters, when there is a tremen-
dOus storm on the surface the deeper, more
condensed strata are at rest.
Wave force is lost in distance. The larger
the number and unlikeness of media the
sooner lost. And in the extreme upper
strata of our atmosphere where the wavelets,
according to this theory, must be very in
tense and in order to affect the lower, denser
strata, the light ought to be far more in
tense. But we find the reverse true. The
more distant waves are from their cause,
the longer become their arcs and the less
pointed their force. Is it at all reasonable
that waves in substance without weight
Gf such substance could be put into
motion) would produce waves in ponder
able substance? But in science we must
not assume anything. And in deductions
by pure reasoning, we cannot ignore actual
human experiences. The advocates of this
theory make an assertion, correct one,
which L want you to take notice of. 1t is
this: Atmosphere is necessary condition
to visiOn." This assertion seems more pei
tinent to the conclusions which we will
arrive at.
Scientists assert (and truly that magne-
tism and electricity are but single force
but existing in different states. You dis
turb magnetism and electricity results. II
you disturb magnetic currents, electrical
currents result. Electricity may be trans
mitted into motion, magnetism, sound, heat
or light. Transversly, magnetism may be
transformed into electricity. Now we have
arrived at the core of our theme. But, be-
fore entering upon it, remember what has
been said about magnetism being capable of
transformation into electricity, solar at
traction being magnetism, and above all,
fix this in your mind, viz: Darkness and
cold have no visible effect on magnetism.
With these predatory remarks we make bold
to assert that the light of today-what we
call daylight-is not sunlight as we have
been taught to believe, but is electric light.
Solar magnetism (hitherto called attrac-
tiOn) coming to us through etheral space,
meets with no resistance because ether is
impOnderable, therefore it is not converted
into electricity till it reaches our atmosphere
where resistance and consequent light and
heat begin. Heat and light are produced by
electric energy. This does away with the
unreasonable and inexplicable idea of light,
per se travelling through that dark field un-
absorbed and unexhausted, and the parallel.
or equally erroneous idea of heat traversing
that cold space without losing its energy.
that ascent in the balloon the higher you
went the darker and colder it became. This
course Of reasoning meets with no valid OBJ
jectons as did the other. Ourupper strata
of atmosphere being very attenuated, offered
but little resistance and consequently there
was but small, or feeble, conversion of
magnetism into electricity; the correspond
ing light and heat were very feeble. 1t is a
fact well attested that the thermometer runs
low as you ascend and light grows more
feeble. But they are intensified as you
come toward!the earth through increasingly
denser atmosphere. Here is where we can
appreciate that statement of the scientists
that Atmosphere is a necessary condition
to vision" Now we can understand why
| it is that light seems to move with the same
velocity from start to finish. Magnetic force
does not vary in its outward manifestation
as to time in space. At the axilary poles
the magnetic center of the earth is nearer
the surface, the atmosphere is more dense.
consequently the electrical display called
''aurOra bOrealis." Scientists admit that
this is electrical. Why could they not have
expanded this idea and called all light cleo
trical? 1t certainly is.
You will say that light comes from the
sun, as such, for you can see the sun out
yOnder in space emitting light You do not
see the sun. You only see the effects of its
electricity in our atmosphere. You will say
again, "How is it that astronomers can see
Venus in its transit of the SUM-" They do
not. When any planet passes between the
earth and sun that planet absorbs the mag
netic rays of the sun, leaving umbra OF
shadow behind 1t. 1t is this umbra, or
shadow, that is seen to traverse the suns
disk.
The finale of this argument is this: What
we call sunlight is electric light. What we
call sun heat is the result of magnetic
energy being transformed into electric
energy. In the transformation some energy
passes over in the nature or form of heat.
No energy is lost I'm nature. What is not
manifested in one way passes over into an
other form or mode of existence.
l wish to repeat what have said before:
/ ilO WIN otuuiCo hdJuIC, SbuultS IIc lIOuR0U
of God. This world is full of alarmists who
know not God, who seem to have no con-
| ception of Omniscience, or His goodness in
Providence. How often do we hear these
people say, wOefully, too "'The time is COM
ing when our forests, our coal fields, our oil
or petroleum fields and our natural gas
fields will become exhausted. What will
we do then, poor things?" These people
will cry disaster in the face of the fact that
as human necessities arise, Divine Provi-
dence has always inspired man to dis
covery, that fully and better suits our need.
These people leave the thought of an alwise
and gracious God out of their calculation.
| Understand me, God uses mans mind as
means to mans providence. He inspires
mans mind TO discover what He has pro-
yided for our needs. l have confidence in
the wisdom and goodness of my God.
have no patience with these alarmists.
Old things must, and are, giving way tC
newer and better things as the human minC
inquiries after God i'm nature. He who love.
not his place in natures great school, is
stranger to the higher, spiritual pleasures
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