The Newtown bee., 1902-03-28

ENoRAN e yer forgot their Deliverer, but they did. They were deficient in the spirit of loyalty. He had brought them out of Egypt,-and tS..e whip, and the and the shackles.
 am reminded of an incident just before the abolition of slavery,-a touching and pathetic bit of real life A mother and child Ia bright little girl of eight summers) were to be parted on the auction block. The gentleman who purchased the mother had no need of the child; but out of pure compass sion, and by large expenditure, he prevented the separation. The child in perfect transport of joy fell at his feet overwhelmed with gratitude. Emancipation came, she refused it's provisions; financial loss came to her benefactor and the actuality of want,- she was urged to accept home and life's comforts elsewhere, ,-she scorned the suggestions; terrible epidemic almost decimated the family ,and every servant fled, but she stood firm. When questioned as to the reason for such fidelity she answered simply, but with the emphasis of a universe, ''He bought mev' O noble soul in ebon setting! Israel, He bought thee! Civilization of to-day, He bought thee! My soul, He bought thee! Shall this child of nature teach us, and cause us to mourn over our infidelity?
 l came to this text with great joy. There is perfect feast of blessed soul inspiring truth. We are always doubly blessed in sharinga blessing. God still miraculously increases our store as we, for His sake, break to others.
 1.-The Lords portion is His people, J o, wondrous thought! In disloyal, vacillating, selfish Israel He found something to cherish and have faith in. Of all the galaxies in nature that was never irresponsive to His will, He pass. es by-''The Lords portion is His people,"
 Will you pardon me if I lead your thought even higher than the Weiss horn towering with its majestic mates, Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa, nearly l5,0oo feet above the level of the sea where the brilliancy of such constella tions as Scorpio and Sagittarius is dazzling with indescribable glory! Ii we rise to even greater heights anc greater glories, we will rejoice in His workmanship. When I think of God. natural possessions, for instance Light-that prodigally free gift. IT
 me second of time single ray travels l55, 900 miles, making tour of tn. globe before one can give thought it wings of words! Our sun, over a mil l lion times larger than the earth, ant l SO far remote that cannon ball sho | directly toward it, and maintaining it full speed would be twenty years il reaching it-time for many of us t. grow old! Yet the sun affects tn, earth appreciably by his attraction il moment of time. But what are ever these stupendous truths to the aston ishing facts which modern optical in l quiries have disclosed and which teacl that every point of a medium througl which a ray of light passes, is affecte, with succession of periodical move ments regularly recurring at equal in tervals, no less than 800 millions 0 millions of times in a single second
 That it is by such movements, com municated to the nerves of the eye tha
 we are enabled to see: nay, more, tha it is the difference in the frequency o recurring, of diversity of color. Tha
 for instance in acquiring the sensation of redness our eyes are effected AS
 millions of millions of times; and il acquiring sensation of violet 7O7 mil lions of times per second
 Rev E. F. Burr's talks on Astronom
 make us curious. Let us take four ney to the clouds and beyond.
 GOD HAS GLORIOUS POSSESSIONS HERB The first stage of our aerial journey i reached. Here is body, not self-lu mlnous; 1t has one or more like bodie revolving around it,-our earth an, its moon belong here;-there are host of such systems which are called Sate] lite-Systems. On our journey we eu counter several of these primary sys tems, formed into a larger neighbo1 hood and revolving about a self-lumi