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is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come thence they return 
again.” David says: ‘‘The waters go up by the mountains, they go down by the 
valleys.” Another passage reads: ‘‘ He causeth the vapors to ascend from the 
ends of the earth; he maketh lightning for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of 
his treasuries.” Physicists, by laborious research, have learned that water is 
taken up in the atmosphere in a state of vapor, carried by the winds to the cold 
summit of mountains, there precipitated in rain, and brought down by the val- 
leys to the sea again. But they have learned, with all their study, little more 
than was plainly told them in the Bible thousands of years ago. ‘ 
It is now well known that the earth is the food of plants, and is in these so 
elaborated that they become food for animals. ‘These plants and animals which 
feed upon other plants too coarse for us, furnish food for men. Thus science 
has reached the conclusion that the food which forms man comes from the earth, 
and the earth is his nourishing mother. But 3,000 years before we learned this,. 
David said: ‘‘ My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret 
and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eye did see my 
substance yet being unperfect.”’ 
After Franklin determined that lightning was electricity, and had invented. 
the lightning rod, the beautiful idea was finally grasped that every pointed blade 
of grass, and leaf, and twig, directed sky-ward, was practically a lightning rod, 
and was continually conveying electricity from the clouds. But long ages ago 
we were told by God’s own word that He maketh ‘‘a way for the lightning of 
thunder.”’ 
Recent scientists claim credit for discovering what they call the law of evolu- 
tion. But it has been well suggested that the doctrine of evolution was first ad- 
vanced in these time-honored words: ‘‘The thing that hath been is that which 
shall be; and that which is done is that which shall ke done; and there is nonew | 
thing under the sun.” 
The sun’s heat is supposed to be the physical cause of the centrifugal force 
which keeps the members of the solar system from falling into that luminary. 
The Nebular hypothesis involves the supposition that the sun is losing its heat. 
Hence it must be losing its repulsive force; and the necessary result would be 
that planets, as they revolve around the sun, would slowly fall toward it, their 
orbits making a gradually diminished spiral till they finally reach the sun. The 
arresting of the enormous motion thus acquired would, it is supposed, produce 
sufficient heat to melt the whole mass and even dispel it into a Nebulous state 
again. Is not this quite consistent with the announcement of Scripture: ‘‘ All 
the heat of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together 
hke a scroll; and all the host shall fall down as the leaf falleth from the vine, 
and as the falling fig from the fig tree;” and ‘‘the elements shall melt with fer- 
vent heat; the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up.” 
