decreased and it becomes a liquid. Increase heat to 212 degrees, it becomes a gas and occupies 1730 times the space it occupied as a solid. So all matter increases in bulk as it is heated. Gas at the sun below must hold the gas above up as far as it can, and when it meets the gas from the next sun-where upward expansion from the two are equal, of course it can go no farther. Gas is composed of spherical atoms, each one from the sun held up and forced up by pressure from the sun,-held up and pressed up by pressure from the next one. A pile of these atoms has the force of expansion by heat at the sun, so must force them up and hold them there until they become cold enough to contract into solid matter; then they begin to fall again, by gravity, to the sun, or center from which they expanded. If there was only the force of heat in nature, all matter would be expanded into space as gas, never to return; and if there was only the force of gravity or contraction in nature, all matter would finally be concentrated into one vast body. In either case all would be silence and death.

When Sir Isaac Newton discovered the force of gravity or contraction, by wondering why the apple fell to the earth instead of into the sky, if he had wondered also how it came into the tree top he would have discovered the law of heat expansion, the opposite of gravity, or the other great force in nature. It was the force of expansion by heat acting on the soil which sent the sap up through the pores of the tree to the apple blossom to build the apples; and it is the same throughout all nature. It is the force of heat generated by the friction of decay or chemical decom

position of food in our stomachs that warms our blood, feeds our tissues, muscles and nerves, and sustains our life; but it is the force of gravity, or contraction, that collects the substances, condenses and ossifies the bones, muscles and tissue, finally bringing the ripeness and wrinkles of old age and death.

When matter returns to the sun, as solid matter crystalized into separate elements, and is expanded into gas tens of thousands of times its bulk when solid, and is swelled up into space, it is composed of a perfect mixture of all the elements in matter and nature. It is forced up into intensely cold regions of space, where it contracts into solid matter, and gathers into worlds. It separates again into different elements, such as water, air, and the various minerals, as it goes through its evolutions-returning to the sun, thus to start force to again release it at the end of another journey.

This outpouring of matter and energy from the sun in every direction in space, and a continual returning of this matter and energy, guided by the minor forces in the great circling orbits of the planets, moons and other bodies, is an everlasting movement, until the suns fail.

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Lockyer says the visible universe, as distinguished from our own universe, is less extended in some directions. They are most numerous, the bodies,as a zone which crosses the Milky Way at right angles; the constellation of Virgo being so rich in them that a portion of it is termed the Nebulous region of Virgo;—this being at right angles to the Milky Way is on the plane of the sun's equator, and as Mr. Heald says, is exactly where we must expect to find the condensed crystals of

this expanded gas,-where new worlds should be forming. The negatively charged Nebula is the supposed cause of rotation from electrical disturbance.

From outworn theories in astronomy, we find that the stars are supposed to have "influence" upon us of

the earth!

BOOK TWO

From conquering Rome taking possession of the socalled Holy Land at the time Jesus worked, suffered and died that cruel death on the cross, there may be excuses for the Jewish church showing great resentment against a member (Joshua or Jesus) for offering to reform the holy order of a holy church; but corruption had done its deadly work among even the anointed and leaders of church. Kill the rebel! And they did; but that murder has had far-reaching effect. The old hymn, Dies Ire, says:

The Jews were wrought to cruel madness,
Christians fled in fear and sadness;
Mary stood the cross beside.

Ignorance in the population had prevented any perceptible change from the preaching of the reformers, Jesus and John. A woman at the well,tradition tells us, heard Jesus speak, telling of all the "things that ever I did." Astonishing! a fortune-teller abroad! Others reported the dead had been given life again, by a rebel against God, who had in His wisdom assigned Death. Then, too, Jesus had driven devils from insane persons into swine, and drowned the bad spirits with the hogs!

Intelligent and religious mortals everywhere have had lasting sorrow over the loss of Jesus, in His early prime; but traditions (His writings evidently destroyed, as He was not an ignoramus), having with the Father's care been preserved through all the cen

turies since! Some idol worshippers,holding to the idols of the earliest of mankind, had the audacity to revive the dead forms of "altar," "died for us," so His cruel death, a matter of course, as taking the place of a slaughtered beast ,and priests grabbing for the "burnt offerings." But such a stretch of cruel fancy seems horrible! Shame, like fanaticism, has no bounds. This being an age of reason, there need be no more hesitation, as when the Roman judge, sentencing Jesus, said, "What is truth? I find no fault in this man." The coming of a Christ, a man of God, was the belief of pious Hebrews; and when that one came, “eating and drinking," living with common folks, he was despised, forsaken, crucified. From the world's terrible warrings and cruelties in every form, surely it was the Christ-when He preached Love, Compassion, and Peace!

Greater the preacher-so few are great and conscientiously pious-then the greater thinker; divine nature being nearest the Divine Being. Are divines related to the Good Samaritan, or too many to the despicable Levites?

Brooks, the good man and famous preacher, said:

That makes us purer, makes us wiser, too,

And every beauty coming on a beam

Of God's sweet sunlight, brings new truth to view.

"Keep, O pleasant Melvin stream,

Thy sweet laugh in shade and gleam!

On the Indian's grassy tomb

Swing, O flowers, your bells of bloom!
Deep below as high above,

Sweeps the circle of God's love."

-Whittier.