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Dr. Carpenter rightly calls the microscope a revelation. 

 Every Bible-reader knows who it was that once said, " I 

 thank Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that 

 Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, 

 and hast revealed them unto babes ; " and who that knows 

 anything practically of that revelation is ignorant of the 

 fact that " Light I light ! more light ! " is the constant cry 

 of every devout student, and that " the True Light, that 

 lighteneth every man, has come into the world," and is 

 the Sun of Kighteousness ? 



The so-called bull's-eye lens for transmitted light, 

 the mirror for reflected light, and a good spot-lens for 

 dark-ground illumination, with the lower powers, and 

 condensed light with the higher, are the chief instruments 

 necessary in the management of light ; and with these, 

 in practised hands, wonders may be done. But, I will 

 not tire your patience with what, I fear, may have 

 no interest for you, but at once introduce you to our 

 cabinets. 



You will remember that in the " seances " of the so- 

 called spiritualists there was a cabinet in which the cheat 

 was " got up ; " no light, of course, was there ; all the 

 cleverly contrived tricks were performed in the dark. 

 Our " seance " is made clear with light, either natural 

 or artificial. We shall see the truth of that saying that 

 " all things are made manifest by the light, for whatso- 

 ever doth make manifest is light." * We may and shall 

 have difficulty in comprehending some of the figures 

 connected with the measurements of several of our higher 

 class of objects. Were all truth made perfectly clear 

 to my mind I should doubt the truth of its being 

 divine. I have found the two revelations namely, 

 nature and the Bible to be an exact representation one 

 * Eph. v. 13. 



