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nature's electric law of life, growth and beauty. The 

 same law of mutual attraction and wireless teleg- 

 raphy creates the lofty elm, the towering oak, the 

 blade of grass and the waving fields of golden grain 

 in the Autumnal harvest. 



Dr. Burrell makes an apt and beautiful illustration 

 of these truths of nature in their analogy to spirit- 

 ual laws. He says: "This process which has been 

 discovered to be so prevalent in nature has infinite 

 field and scope of operation in the province of spirit- 

 ual things. God as the great transmitter of truth 

 bears to the spiritual world a relation corresponding 

 to that of the sun in the natural world. Assuming 

 that there is a God, and that we are created in his 

 image and after his likeness, it follows as an inevita- 

 ble conclusion that He will somehow reveal himself 

 to his children and hold converse with them. But 

 here is the application of the principal referred to : 

 The man who would hear the wireless messages of 

 God must Himself be attuned or adjusted to the 

 character of God" 



This is superlative truth that all wise men should 

 consider and not have occasion to lament, like Charles 

 Darwin, at the close of his long life of physical investi- 

 gation, that he had starved his spiritual nature. 

 For our thoughts depend on our receptive natures 

 and our lives are just what we make them, and our 

 future is according to our character and the inscru- 

 table laws of life and destiny. 



O ! the wisdom of the wisest ; O ! the goodness of the good ! 

 Gleaning through the sweep of ages where Divinity hath stood, 

 Shining footprints of celestials, through the mystic gleaming bars, 

 Of the ever past and present speaking in the earth and stars. 

 How they teach the lofty spirit of the beautiful Beyond, 

 Of God's uttered truth and goodness, if but yearning souls respond. 



