The Newtown bee., 1902-01-24

touch each other; and yet so great are THE FORCES THAT HOLD THOSE ATOMS
 TOGETHER that the steel seems to be single sub- stance. Touch one end of this bit of steel with a hammer and the impact communicates itself from atom to atom until it is felt at the other end. Apply great heat to this piece of steel and the atoms revolve about each other and soon become liquid. You can not touch single atom without mov- ing all the other atoms.
 Now society is body something analogous to this bit of steel. You cannot touch one member of society without some one near feeling the in- fluence of your action. This is why society is so feverish, fitful and versa tile. We atoms are in whirl; and yet as clearly related and bound to- gether, and so fearful the force that is holding them together, that to in- fluence one is to influence many. Can you not remember when the first real knowledge of sin came into your heart? When you were living in innocence and knew little of evil, and while in the delight of such peaceful life, some other heart whispered into your soul the foul words that ever since have stained your life? When some incarnate fend opened your eyes to the sin in the world! Oh! the bitter bangs of sorrow and remorse suffered by countless numbers through the first whispered word that opened their child eyes to sin! A curse upon the influence that blighted childish hearts so early!
 Yet again can you not remember
 when your life was plastic for young
 manhood or womanhood, and character
 was to be made, how some noble life cast its shadow over you and you re ceived an impetus for better things
 and righteousness became the goal
 toward which you worked?
 Unconsciously that life was a con
 stant inspiration to you, and, as you
 look back, you can thank God for tht
 escapes you have had because of tht
 influence for good that life cast ove
 you.
 In electrical science there is no flea
 ture of more interest than the subjec
 of induced currents. Take two wire
 and place them side by side yet with out touching each other. Men send l; current of electricity through one ant
 there is a reproduction of it in tn
 other. This accounts for the fact tha
 when you listen at the telephone yo'
 can often hear other voices. Tn wires have not crossed, but there is al induced current from another in tn
 one to which your phone is attached It is due to this that
 I WE CAN TELEGRAPH FROM A MOvIN : TRAIN.
 A wire is run from the baggage ca <. into proximity to the wires on the te ] egraph poles placed along the tracl s Then the wire is brought back into tn car to complete the circuit and attacf S ed to an instrument. Now it is sai 0 that the current passing over the wire - on the poles induces similar thOug l. weaker current in the wire runnin |, from the car and vice versa. Thus b n use of delicate instruments message
 can be sent.
 n Now the whole question of nor; }. influence in life is the question ( n induced currents.
 f Why is it that when you stand r the presence of person or frien e whom you know to be selfish an n worldly, you find you instantly have e fight the same temptation in your oW j. life. The strong current of selishne e in that life so strongly charged, il $ duced a similar current in your Tiff $ and you had to fight vigorously again e it.
 }. Just so when you have stood befO e friend whose life was pure and u n selfish, your entire being seemed g have been lifted out of seltishness al is you have felt strengthened to bett
 battle the evil tendencies of life. \ le life is so pure that it does not fe if some induced current when befo Id that life which is ignOble and bas a and no life is ignoble that does n S. receive some induced current when is proximity to pure life.
 te Influence is all the more powt ;h full, because unconsciously exerte y and unconsciously received. ''Sor ot nameless influence.n says Bishop HuI