250 TEANSACTIONS OF THE HORTICULTUEAL 



there are only about seventeen different molecules, and some of them 

 enter his tissues as by accident, not being essential to his well-being 

 or health. 



Oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen are about all we need 

 to use as correlator as mechanic, the same rules that use these simple 

 elements run through all nature, each member being true to the 

 mandate that bids it enter its form — be it the solid rock, or gems 

 of beauty, or vegetation, whose bloom is full of fragrance, sweetness, 

 and beauty. The luscious fruit to please the eye and gratify the 

 taste, all animated nature by the transmutation of the elements are 

 mechanically made into form. 



Here let me remark, lest I be misunderstood, the mechanical 

 forces are but secondary laws; back of them all is the great Master 

 Mechanic, whose volition has constructed the universe out of chaos 

 and who must have made the law that governs the molecules with a 

 mechanical precision — a master mind, a being that defies the per- 

 ception of every sense, and which at best to the intellect is but a 

 negative object, that can be comprehended only by analogy or 

 abstraction. 



Sir Isaac Newton advanced the theory that there was some 

 subtle agent in nature that bound matter together, which, investi- 

 gated after his day, it would be able to demonstrate. Strabo taught 

 that all things were in motion and undergoing changes, that the 

 earth was augmented and diminished, that there was attraction and 

 repulsion. 



Since these savants' days, the magnetic forces have been dis- 

 covered as the moving, propelling agent that set in motion every 

 atom in nature. 



Let us then reason by analogy. We know the earth has form, 

 also motion. We know it has a pole around which it revolves. 

 There is a magnetic current that deflects the needle; there is a per- 

 petual force in this magnetic current. We know there are vast 

 commotions in the sun, and when watched through the telescope, 

 the least perturbation in the sun disturbs the magnetic current of 

 our earth. The telescope reveals a like condition in the entire solar 

 system. The spectroscope reveals that our solar system is con- 

 structed with the same molecules, unless it be the sun. The sun 

 has two elements entirely unlike anything on the earth. All the 

 members of our system being under magnetic impulses, every atom 

 that enters into these bodily forms must be magnetized, held in posi- 

 tion by a two-fold force, a centripedal energy to draw towards a cen- 

 ter, also a centrifugal, to roll away — a law of attraction and 

 repulsion, a positive aud negative energy. We may reasonably 

 infer, if this magnetic energy was withdrawn from the molecules of 

 the earth, it would at once be dissolved into cosmic dust, and our 

 beautiful earth would pass away in an instant, as the Apostle Peter 

 has it, "with a great noise." 



