aoo THROUGH LIBRARY WINDOWS 



weary sufferer, whose pain made sleep impossi- 

 ble and who longed for the breaking of day. 



A sunbeam is inconceivably brilliant and 

 swift and penetrative and surcharged with 

 electric power. It is a miracle worker, its mira- 

 cles transcend all fiction and fill worlds with 

 beauty and life. The Sun, though 94,000,000 

 miles distant, raises the vapors, moves and pu- 

 rifies the oceans, directs the course of winds, 

 forms the clouds, fructifies the earth, distributes 

 its light and heat and color through every re- 

 gion, not only of our globe but of its vast plan- 

 etary system. Light is the fleetest force in the 

 universe, a worthy messenger of the gods; it is 

 the twin of Life, the terms interplay: "God is 

 Light," "God is Life," "God is Love"— 

 trinity in unity! Is not light the life of the 

 world? Is it not the colorist of nature, the art- 

 ist of the sky, whose pictures are matchless, 

 transcending all human genius? 



Light is the astronomer's necessity; he must 

 have it or the heavens were a blank. We can 

 take but the merest bit of it into our eye and 

 yet by great ingenuity we make a lens twenty- 

 six inches fn diameter and bend all possible rays 

 to a focus, then magnify the image and thus 

 are able to study the whole heavens and note 

 its millions of worlds and the millions and bil- 



