The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-07-01
WIRELESS MESSAGE OF GOD
Sunday Sermon BY the Rev. David
James BurreIi. D. D., LID.
A Man Who Would Hear the Word Through
the Scriptures Must Divest Himself
OF Prejudice,

New York CITY. The Wireless Mes
sages of Cod was the subject OF the SER
mon preached by the Rev. David James
Burrell ID. d.. LID, in the Marble Col
lcgiate Church, Sunday. lie took his text
from | Corinthians il:li: The natural man
receiveth not the things OF the Spirit OF
God, for they are foolishness unto him;
neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned" DIR. Burrell said:
great principle is here laid down which
governs in the universal realm OF truth,
to wit. the principe OF mutual adjustment.
1t you strike tuning fork which is keyed
to middle G. it will awaken a response in
another ii keyed to the same pitch, but not
otherwise. This is the basic fact in wire.
less teegraphy. On Cape Cod there is
transmitting station, consisting of four
steel towers with bunch of wires suspend
ed from the top and meeting at common
point ike an inverted cone. II the power
be applied to the apex of this cone, the
wires begin to tremble, and this current,
oscillating at a rate OF, say, 100000 vibra-
tions per second. create series OF CORE
spending vibrations in the surrounding
ether; just as stone cast into pond
sends out cOncentrlc circ.es OF water. ms
ether wave speeds outward with incacua.
bic rap.dity in search OF its receiver. Now,
there is such 4 receiver at Pol Dhu, IN
Cornwall and the wires ut Pol Dnu are
precisely attuned to the transmitter. that
Is, adjusted to an oscillation OF 99y,OJO per
second, so that the message sent from the
station at Cape Cod meets no response un,
til It finds its sympathetic station az FOL
Dhu, and this welcomes 1t.
The system of wireless te.egrlphy whlch
is Justly credited to MarcOni is not an IN
vention, but a discovery. He. mas simp.y
lighted upon a process which has been
going on perpetually in space. he sun AZ
the great source and centre ol energy IN
our solar universe is constantly sending out
messages of light. Ii i scientifically
demonstrated fact that a beam ot light Il
simply an electric message, that Is, ylora
ton OF ether. And here the principle holds
that no message can be received except by
some object which is symplthcticaEy at
tuned to welcome II. Let US suppose, as
Professor Puyin suggests, that 4 beam ol
light intended 20 convey the color red IL
sent out from the sun. IL goes forth repre-
senting a certain number OF ether waves
per second and speeds through space until
ii reaches the earth, and here. intent upon
its eager quest. 1t passes without pausing
through al the meadows, since no grass
blade II adjusted to receive II, passes over
all gardens. no daisy or buttercup, no mig
nonctte or hetroua being disposed to vel
come il. until it finds a rose, and here 1t
paIses and finds welcome, becase the rose
has been urec. se.y co-ordlnated vita i.
Let us 90 a lite further now, and we
shall lind spiritual ana 'ogv For this
process. which has been discovered to be
SO prevalent in nature, has infinite fed and
scope OF operation in the province OF spir.
ltual things. God, as the Ereat transmitter
OF truth, bears to the spiritual world re-
laton corresponding with that OF the sun
in the natural world. Let US assume that
there is God. and that we are created in
His image and after His Likeness; it fo.-
lows, as an inevitable conclusion, that He
will somehow reveal Himself TO His chill.
fran and hold tpfrh tnarn Rut
here is the application of the principle re-
ferred to. The man VINO would hear the
wireless messages OF God must himself be-
attuned. or adjusted to the nature end
character OF God.
Let Us begin with nature. for this is the
universal medium through which God com
municates with the children OF men Now
there are some who look through nature to
natures God and hear Him speaking in
everything about them. as it is written,
"There are so many voices and none OF them
ia without signihcatiol." Such persons,
though they dwell in the desert OF Midian.
find every common bush atire with God. "
At night the heavens declare His glory to
them and the armament showeth His han.
diwork. This was in B-yans's mild when
he wrote:
'To him who in the love Of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she
speaks
a various language"
But there are others who hea7 no voices,
and see nothing that is not visible 10 ileshy
eyes. like Peter Bell, OF whom Wordsworth
says:
~ primrose By the rivers brim
\ yellow primrose was to hin
And it was nothing more
Whence this difference? 1t arises from
the iaet that some souls are sympathetic
with God and Others are not. There was
Co,eridge, who was so deyOuC.y inclined,
so open to the reception OF spiritual truth
that, walking in the vale OF ChlmOIniS, he
heard the snow csDped mountaizs and ice
falls echoing His name:
God! Let the torrents like a shout oil
nations
God! sing ye meadow streams with s.ad'
some voice;
Ne pine groves with your soft and soul
ike sounds;
Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal
forest;
Ye wild goats sporting round the cages
Yc eagles, playmatcs of the mountain
stream
Ye lightnings, the dread arrows OF the
winds;
Ye sounds and wonders of the e'emcats
Utter forth God aad fill the hi!.. with
praisei
The wisest Man that ever lived got les
sons in theology from the ravens, the Lille.
OF the iield. the growing wheat. But, alas!
there are those who have no ears 70 hear
the song which l. within the song OF birds
and the visions which arc within the beauty
ot the natural world. They are bound down
TO things material. dreaming no dream,
and seeing no visions; Of the earth, earthly
Great God, I'd rather be
pagan, sucked in a creed outwo-n
90 might ], standing on this pleasant lea,
Have Rmpses that would make me les:
forlorn,
Have sight oi Proteus rising from the sea
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed
horn
II IS the misfortune OF all misfortInes r.
be thus bond slave to the five senses: 4
see nothing beyond the range Of physica
vision and the circumspection Of the finger
tips. This Is TO be agnost.cs indeed; tC
nave no clairyoyauce, no spiritual appTe
henson, no second sight, no faith IL il
an eternal and immeasureab.e calamity q
stand in the midst OF universe where the
ether u vibrant with messages OF truth and
be so deeply absorbed in our little plan.
and pursuits and physical sciences" that
we hear no voice OF Cod
Let US turn now 10 the Scriptures which
claim 10 be divine revelation. There i
an attempt IN some quarters 10 reduo,
them to the level Of other literature, anC
those who approach them in this atttud,
viii find precisely what they find in oshe
boo,ls and no more. Here, as elsewhere
we find what we are looking for. and hea
what we are listening for. The mere stu
dent OF literature finds in the Bible myth
and parallels, songs and chronicles of sur
passing beauty, but there are others VIII,