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vibration or current of wireless electricity, and each 

 planet will receive only such current as it attracts 

 and to which it is attuned ; so the message of Deity 

 to the souls of men will only reach and affect those 

 souls which are attuned to receive them. This in 

 the vast realms of nature is the law of electric or 

 mutual attraction, and in the invisible realms of 

 spirit the same universal law applies. This great 

 principle of mutual attraction, receptivity and mut- 

 ual adjustment governs everywhere in the universal 

 realms of nature and truth. 



Rev. David J. Burrell, in his sermon on " Wireless 

 Messages of God," sets forth some strong scientific 

 reasons why the natural man cannot discern spirit- 

 ual things. Under this universal law of mutual 

 adjustment he says: "If you strike a tuning fork 

 keyed to middle C it will awaken a response in 

 another fork, provided the latter is keyed to the 

 same pitch, but not otherwise." And he applies it to 

 men who respond to spiritual influences and those 

 who are spiritual non-conductors. 



This is the basic fact in wireless telegraphy. At 

 Cape Cod there is a transmitting station consisting 

 of four steel towers with a bunch of wires suspended 

 from the top and meeting at a common point like 

 an inverted cone. If the power be applied to the 

 apex of this cone the wires begin to tremble ; and 

 the current, oscillating at a rate say of nine hundred 

 thousand vibrations per second, creates a series of 

 corresponding vibrations in the ether, just as a stone 

 cast into a lake sends out concentric circles. This 

 ether wave or message speeds outward with incal- 

 culable rapidity in search of its receiver ; and it will 

 gross the ocean to find it. 



