Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-03
REV. c. H. RIcKETTs
 SPEAKS TO WORKERS.
Continues Shop Talk Series at Rich
 mond Mediator Company.


 Revelation was the topic upon which Rev. Charles H. Rfcketts spoke at the Y. M. c. A. shop talk at the plant of the Richmond Radiator company We'd nesday noon. Rev. MT. Rieketts said there are no more facts in the field of nature today than there were in the earliest ages. Nothing whatever has been created here since the original work of creation was completed. Not a single star has been added to the Armament, not another gallon of water to the worlds arterial system, not an- other day of sunlight, since. the time when Adam and Eve lolled about in Paradise. As a vast reservoir of facts the natural world is today what it was in the long yesterday and what it will be in the, perhaps, still longer tomor- row.
 Neither the mental Or the moral world has added single principle to what they had at the dawn of time. Black was never white even in that far distant time when things were mostly black. The principles of harmony un- deriving music have not changed since Jubal. though he was making music on the reed. The sons of Asaph and Beethoven bowed to the same laws. Back in ancient Greece old Archimedes was trying to prove with lever and fuicrum about the same thing that boys now do in Yale and Harvard. Schools and colleges are still using the theo- rems,, of Euclid and Euclid is quite venerable. Enough can be said along this line to show that in a sense is Is true that there is nothing new under the sun" af
 Why is it that the phrase-the heav- ems above. the earth beneath and the waters under the earth, means so much more to us than 1t did to the ancients |? One word answers the question, and or-I iz more about the world in all its depart ments because its rich treasury of Knowledge has constantly yielded to investigation. While the starry heavens we look at are the same as those before which the primeral savages of this country bowed in wonder, they mean vastly more to us than to them because of revelation. Man has studied the heavens with the aid of science and they have rewarded him with many of their secrets. They open the door to our inspection just in proportion to our a use for the knowledge they impart. More than 5000 of them have been put upon the chart of the celestial he1ni- sphere. We know their distance from the earth. their size, their revolutions and their relation to the earth. This is revelation.
 For untold ages eclipses of the sun have occurred. Once men stood in their presence, qual1ing with fear; now we look upon them with understanding Once incantations were resorted to for the purpose of driving away the evil spirits back of them; now. we look through the telescope to see what is back of them. The differences between the former fear and the present un- derstanding is explained by that word, revelation. Today there is not SO much iron in nz age. The application of chemistry and machinery revealed to the world the possibilities of the iron trade. While chemistry improved the process, ma chinery greatly cheapened it.
 That steel could be made out of iron was a gradual revelation.
 In closing, Rev. MT. Rieketts spoke of the goodness of God in opening up to us so large world for our use and study.