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footsteps ought to "go 'way back and sit down," 

 and cease talking about the heat of the sun. 



They should quit telling us the Beneficent Creator 

 is burning up 18,000,000 of his most magnificent 

 and beautiful worlds to heat his little, insignificant 

 planets. They estimate our sun burns up thirty 

 quintillion cubic feet of itself annually, and 18,000,- 

 000 of suns are doing the same, making the equiva- 

 lent of a world destroyed every year and a sun every 

 decade. 



These statements are so unreasonable and appal- 

 ling they refute themselves. I mean no disrespect for 

 these learned but misguided scientists who have for 

 two hundred years built all their theories on heat, 

 which Langley now says truthfully is nothing but 

 a sensation. Thus they built the universe on a 

 sensation, and to sustain the old traditions they 

 want to keep it there. They said the earth be- 

 gan in heat, that it was a ball of fire a few miles 

 below its surface, and the suns were great flaming 

 furnaces burning up with quenchless fire. They made 

 the Great Creator a fire demon and world destroyer. 



If Prof. Parker's testimony is to be relied on, 

 nine-tenths of them waste their time on useless 

 calculations and data. They have a wonderful 

 faculty of putting the horse before the cart. For ex- 

 ample, Prof. Huston of Princeton, says. "Electricity 

 is being constantly produced during the phenomena 

 of every day life. It is produced by chemical action, 

 differences of temperature, the motion of condtict- 

 ors and magnets and the various physical and 

 chemical processes that occur during the life and 

 growth of plants and animals." Now, this is mis- 

 leading, because it states facts backward. It is 



