The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-11
LIGHT.

God Is light. In single sentence
of three short words he gave even the
most advanced philosophers of our
time their grandcst conception OF BE.
ing who is everywhere at each and
every moment of time, Light is the
crown and glory Of the visible world.
1t is the source Of life and energy TO
the body. SO far as we know 1T IS
the most beautiful and glorious of all
the material works of God. The first
born of creation, il is the ethereal body
and form of the Omniiic word at which
ii flashed into beauty. II Is the chosen
being through which the Divine energy
Everything that lives and grows IN the
whole kingdom Of nature derives
strength and stimulus from the light
There IS no life beyond the reach Of
light. If the light of the sun should
be put out in three days there would
not be 4 trace of vegetable or animal
life left on the face Of the globe.
The ocean of water which is always
floating in thc air above MS would de-
scend in dcluges of rain and drifts of
binding snow, The rivers, the lakes
and the sea would be changed to solid
ice. The temperature OF the whole at
mosphere would fall 200 degrees be,
low the freezing point, and no plant or
animal could live in such "A cold for an
hour, 1t is the silent and peaceful
light which keeps the world from be-
coming such an icy grave, such a vii.
derneSs of death at any hour. And
yet of this subtle and mysterious
agency we know nothing, except its ef-
fects. We see all things by the help
Of its light, but the light itself VIC can
not see. We cannot weigh It in the
balances, we cannot measure its form
or dimensions. We cannot touch it's
body or substance. We cannot hear the
sound of its coming or going Its
presence in every drop makes no change
of taste IN the purcst fountain. We
cannot estimate the limits Of its power.
It's waves are shot from the sun. moon
and more distant stars with such ter
rife force that it looscs no velocity in
flying thousand million leagues.
The vibrations of air in producing
the highest note of sound upon the ear
are about 5000 in n second. The waves
or impulses of light IN producing the
sensation of color upon the eye are 500
millions of millions in Il second. The
force with which rays of light are shot
from the sun to carry them so fast and
so far IS thirty thousand million times
greater than the force with which
leaden bali would fall from your hand
to the floor. If ray of light equaled
the weight of a grain of sand. "A single
second Of sunshine would shatter the
earth TO atoms.
The heat of the surface of the sun.
which sends MS our light is so intense
that to equal 1T on one square rod of
ground we would be Obliged to burn
one thousand tons OF coal day. The
great fire, which the breath OF the AL
mighty has kindled TO keep our earth
warm, sends out two thousand million
times as much light and heat as the
hal. ,,Eh Il ~.
fountain flows on free and full from
age to age.
God mas made covenant of the dny
and night, that the laws of growth
and decay and the seasons Of sowing
and rcaplng shall remain unchanged as
long as the earth stands, Should God
forget this covenant so far as TO in
crease or diminish III the least the
length of time in which the great earth
wheel turns on Its axle, it would de
range and IN the end destroy the whole
Kingdom of nature. It is only because
the hand of the Almighty turns the
axle of the earth with perfect uniform.
ity beneath our feet, that we are able
70 walk our streets by day or sleep
in orr houses by night. The vast globe
of the earth swings in empty space with
no support save the upholding word OF
the Almighty God 1t flies in it's orbit
est railroad train. it rolls upon its axis
so swift that IL point on the surface
OF the equator moves as far as from
Boston 10 ST. Louis in q single hour,
1t is this rolling of the earth on IFS
axis that brings the day and night.
And the revolution is completed in ab-
solutely the same time from age to
age, The greatest astronomers the
world has even seen, skeptic and Chris
tan alike, solemnly declare that the
sideral day has not varied in 5000 wears
the one hundredth part OF second
lf In ninety generations Of men The day
had grown longer or shorter by the bun.
drcdth part of the time that it takes
the heart TO beat once, astronomers
could detect the change, But instru.
mcntS that can measure eighty ono
thousaDdths part of second in space
and the observations that have been
continued 5000 years of time, can dis
cover no variation. IT is impossible for
any one OF us TO move our hands =
single yard or to walk the length of q
tWo-horse wagon with 4 uniform mn.
ton. The inventive genius of men has
never been able to make a wheel nor
form one revolution with perfect mi
formlty. The unseen hand of God Las
been turning this vast earth for 3O00
years and men have been watching tba
revolutions with the incest SCRUTINY fiji
they have counted more than a million
and yet IN all that time they have NOT
detected the hundredth part of a second
of irregularity,
The heavens declare the glory OF God
by their vastness of extent. We think
1T a long voyage TO cross the Atlantic |
ocean, yet we should have TO travel thai |
distance 10000 times before we could |
reach our nearest planetary neiphbor
revolving in company with us around |
the sun. To reach the most remote of |
the little family Of planets belonging
to our system, we would have to travel |
a million times as far as from PhiladeI. !
phia to San Francisco. Our earth is |
$4,000 miles in circumference, and vet