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1884.I On Electricity and its Present Applications. 
“Journal of Science ” for December, 1883, adduces some 
passages from the Apocalypse to show that the inspired 
writer of that book considered lightnings, thunders, and 
earthquakes as being results of one and the same agency, 
though perhaps not of much scientific value as bearing on 
the question : these passages are sufficiently interesting and 
apposite to be re-quoted : — 
“ I saw the seven angels which stood before God, and to 
them were given seven trumpets. And another angel came 
and stood at the altar, having a golden censer ; and there 
was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it 
with the prayers of all Saints upon the golden altar which 
was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which 
came with the prayers of the Saints, ascended up before 
God out of the angel’s hand. And the angel took the censer 
and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth ; 
and there were voices and thunderings and lightnings, and 
an earthquake ” (Rev. viii., 2 — 5). Again, “ The seventh 
angel sounded, . . . and the temple of God was opened in 
heaven, and there was seen in His temple the work of His 
testament ; and there were lightnings and voices and thun- 
derings, and an earthquake and great hail ” (Rev. xi., 19). 
And again, “ The seventh angel poured out his vial into the 
air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of 
heaven from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were 
voices and thunders and lightnings ; and there was a great 
earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, 
so mighty an earthquake and so great ” (Rev. xvi., 17, 18). 
Notwithstanding the amount of work he is known to per- 
form, Electron is also fond of dancing, and his favourite 
place for enjoying this pastime is in the neighbourhood of 
and around the poles of the earth. There, in a bright frosty 
evening, mortals may often get glimpses of his holiday gar- 
ments fluttering and corruscating in all the beautiful hues 
of the rainbow, mysteriously vanishing and reappearing as 
he disports in the fantastic evolutions of his mystic dance. 
- It is not to be understood, from the repeated references to 
the favourite resting-place of Electron as being in the earth, 
that the sea receives less of his regard than the dry land. 
On the contrary, there is every probability that the sea is 
even more abundantly and unvaryingly his place of abode 
than the land. Water is far more congenial to him than 
land, and in it he can stretch out and rest himself more 
complacently than on land. His passage between the clouds 
and the sea will of course give rise to the usual phenomena 
attending similar transitions on earth, but there is nothing 
