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Page 76
In this grand apotheosis of man which nature teaches, progress
lias already been made. Man has already outgrown his harmony with
the environment of mere matter. He has given his hand to science, and
been lifted up above the earth into the voids of infinite space. He
[Page 266] has gone on and on, till thought, wearied amidst the
infinities of velocity and distance, has ceased to note them. But he
is not content; all his faculties are not filled. He feels that his
future self is in danger of not being satisfied with space, and
worlds, and all mental delights, even as his manhood fails to be
satisfied with the materiel toys of his babyhood. He asks for an
Author and Maker of things, infinitely above them. He has seen
wisdom unsearchable, power illimitable; but he asks for personal
sympathy and love. Paul expresses his feeling: every creature--not
the whole creation--groaneth and travaileth in pain together until
now, waiting for the adoption--the uplifting from orphanage to
parentage--a translation out of darkness into the kingdom of God's
dear Son. He hears that a man in Christ is a new creation: old
things pass away, all things become new. There is then a possibility
of finding the Author of nature, and the Father of man. He begins
his studies anew. Now he sees that all lines of knowledge converge
as they go out toward the infinite mystery; sees that these
converging lines are the reins of government in this world; sees the
converging lines grasped by an almighty hand; sees a loving face and
form behind; sees that these lines of knowledge and power are his
personal nerves, along which flashes his will, and every force in
the universe answers like a perfect muscle.
Then he asks if this Personality is as full of love as of power.
He is told of a tenderness too deep for tears, a love that has the
Cross for its symbol, and a dying cry for its expression: seeking
it, he is a new creation. He sees more wondrous things in the Word
than in the [Page 267] world. He comes to know God with his heart,
better than he knows God's works by his mind.
Every song closes with the key-note with which it began, and the
brief cadence at the close hints the realms of sound through which
it has tried its wings. The brief cadence at the close is this:
All force runs back into mind for its source, constant support,
and uplifts into higher grades.
Mr. Grove says, "Causation is the will, creation is the act, of God."
Creation is planned and inspired for the attainment of constantly
rising results. The order is chaos, light, worlds, vegetable forms,
animal life, then man. There is no reason to pause here. This is
not perfection, not even perpetuity. Original plans are not
accomplished, nor original force exhausted. In another world, free
from sickness, sorrow, pain, and death, perfection of abode is
offered. Perfection of inhabitant is necessary; and as the creative
power is everywhere present for the various uplifts and refinements
of matter, it is everywhere present with appropriate power for
the uplifting and refinement of mind and spirit.
[Page 269]
SUMMARY OF LATEST DISCOVERIES AND CONCLUSIONS.
_Movements on the Sun._--The discovery and measurement of the up-rush,
down-rush, and whirl of currents about the sunspots, also of the
determination of the velocity of rotation by means of the spectroscope,
as described (page 53), is one of the most delicate and difficult
achievements of modern science.
_Movement of Stars in Line of Sight_ (page 51).--The following
table shows this movement of stars, so far as at present known:
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| APROACHING. || RECEDING. |
|------------------------------||-------------------------------|
| Map. | Name. | Rate || Map. | Name. | Rate |
| | | per sec. || | | per sec. |
|-------|-----------|----------||--------|-----------|----------|
|Fig. 71|Arcturus | 55 miles ||Fig. 69 |Sirius | 20 miles |
| " 72|Vega | 50 " ||Fr'piece|Betelguese | 22 " |
| " 73|a Cygni | 39 " || " |Rigel | 15 " |
| " 69|Pollux | 49 " ||Fig. 69 |Castor | 25 " |
| " 67|Dubhe | 46 " || " 70 |Regulus | 15 " |
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