Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-31
Questions and Answers.

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Question 4. BY Miss Nettie Renee
hansen, Edge Hill. Mo-: "Was there
a shower of stars in 1882"
1t may be promised, that my young
friend had been talking with a most
estimable mother in Israel, who had
spoken of the above named phenome-
non, and exhausted her stock of ad-
jectives in describing it, and although
she had failed to exhaust her subject
had completely swamped the credulity
of her hearer, who began to think that
any thing so wonderful never could have
occurred. But willing to give the mat
ter still stronger test appealed to the
writer in respect to the fact.
AnsWer. There was not a shower of
stars. but there was of naeteors.
For many generations before 1888,
and ever since, The sentinel sta, 9
have set their watch in the sky" to
give light upon the earth and to rule
over the day and over the night, and
to be for signs and for reasons, and
for days and for years, and God has
seen that it is good.
The great difference between i star
and a meteor is, that the former exists
at immense distance from our earth,
whilst the other arises within and from
our atmosphere, and so the one is per-
manent, the other transitory.
Question 5. BY the same party:
"Can you explain the fact of the show
er?"
AusWer. In 1888 the writer was on
ly eleven years old, and so could only
regard the matter with blind childish
wonder, and of all the explanations Civ
en- at the time by older scientists he
remembers but one.
There was at that time in New York
City a very popular Presbyterian di-
vine, DR.. Cox, who was the present DR..
Talmage, only great deal more so.
With him everything was skyey, rain
bowy, moony and starry. One Presby-
terian clergyman called on another to
explain the phenomenon, and the ex-
PLANTATION was that DR.. Cox's mind had
exploded. The explanations given
then by scientists were based on what
were then supposed to be granite sci
entifc facts which sixty years have
shown to be the stuff that dreams are
made of, so that the true solution must
assume the unity of all true science
and start fully abreast with to-day.
Three hundred years ago our faith
ers said that God created man OF the
dust of the earth. To-day for dust
Gesenius reads elementary principles.
Three hundred years ago men said that
there were four elements: fire, air,
earth and water. To-day chemistry
has taken all these apart and proved
them composite substances, and substi-
tuted for them Carbon, Hydrogen,
Oxygen and Nitrogen, and proven
that all known substances in Nature
result from their combination in differ
ent proportions. 1t has been reduced
to demonstration that man was Gre
ated perfectly en- rapport with all his
surroundings, for, according to DR.. w.
B. Carpenter, the blood, which is the
elementary principle of his life. is COM
posed of Carbon Al, Hydrogen %,
Oxygen 6, and Nitrogen 3. Other
scientists, as justly famed as DR.. Car
penter, have given other formula for
the blood, but their variations are on
ly needed to explain the difference in
temperaments of men.
But all agree that the first result of
this combination of aeriform substances
in the blood is magnetic iron.
To-day 999 of every 1000 students oil
Scripture regard a miracle as some
thing to be gaped and stared at in
childish wonder and never under any
circumstances to be Investigated and
explained.
But those that believe that God made
all things in wisdom and goodness, and