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by a vast aggregation of atoms, is converted 

 from the invisible to the visible. This universe 

 was made from nothing nothing visible, nothing 

 tangible, nothing the human eye could see or the 

 human finger could touch. There was a time when 

 the stars and planets, suns and worlds were trans- 

 parent ether, as impalpable as the viewless air, 

 and scattered as star dust in the measureless void of 

 space along the forgotten highways of the past eter- 

 nities. Silence reigned profound in the pulseless 

 regions of the air, where, motionless and dumb, 

 the atoms hung in dark and lifeless space. There 

 was nothing in all this universe nothing but cold, 

 darkness and silence. But these are the home of 

 atoms, the star-dust which Deity had scattered by 

 the breath of his power through the highways of 

 space in the beginning of primeval creation. While 

 these were nothing to man, they were the founda- 

 tion stones of all created things. This nothingness 

 of space was the fallow ground of the universe and 

 the formless shadow of suns and worlds. It was a 

 universe in solution as viewless as ether, and as 

 intangible as mind. The electric energy of space 

 was yet unstirred by the divine fiat or shook into 

 vibrating force by the word of Creative Power. 

 Other suns and worlds and a universe of universes 

 shone forth in the realms of space when the Crea- 

 tive Word was spoken that lit this newer universe 

 into being. 



"Let there be light," and from His lips that spoke 

 no word but love and truth and power, the light- 

 ning of electric life and glory thrilled every atom 

 with vibrating cosmic energy, and life-evolving 

 force. Then the electric clothing of light and life 



