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it. H Hesperian Student. M IK! ifi VOL, SJ. University of .Ycbraslitt. SO. 8. sKi,,rr.:innsK Qui non Pi-ollolf, I'lcll olt. 1871. A Cry for Mttht. What iHi'uit, IIaon? A ItonlUt, child 0m w Uo by lil ii.'iii" ' Htylotl. Hi-cntiKi- tn whatlMruo nml ronl Mono ho llnilH liln high lilcnl. For o"i. -ulijocllvo thought In his mind objective ronl It Ion ho iIouh llnd. i:orn Honllulbo through lifts. In sucking your nlin, your dinner, your who." What I tlmt. lliwonJ A Nominalist, boy; lie make of ronton but n toy. Uo hold tlmt classes can't exist. On mimes uluno ho does ln-lst; Itli typos' wilvoi every mystery Of thl"wurld'x changeful history, IlelolM! with him that lovo and ranio i:l-i. Mko nil thing, but In namo." What l that, Ilnvon? "A Concoptunllft, child; HI? look li ctrangu, IiIh manner wild, For all that ih.os till -J world contain Is ono vast thought In lilt full brain. A follow or of puro thought Ik he, No solid matter can ho see. Of Abolard a pupil bo, nd lenrn to trust not what you soo." What arc you, Ilnvon Y " Why, really, when you como to auk, You sot me too covoro a task. To day, I'm llocuHnUH, friend; To morrow, Plato's to tho end; Tho third, I swear by Abolard; lho fourth why. boy! this Is too hard, Nay. nay, ir you'd a text-book' innko He whatsoe'er you think will take." Pucker Quarterly. The Holy Trinity in Uic Kuiii bow, Mini in the Solar Light. There Is ono God, and it is said of I work is consumatlon; Ho porftcts what Flzeau's experiments for measuring tho velocity of artificial light, showed that "Oxyhydrogon light llowcd hack about 28,000 feet to the source whence It emanat ed.'1 Tho circulation of light and of elec tricity, which mo manifestations of one force, may probably account for the influ ence of the sun upon lho planets, and of lho planets upon each other. But light is not wasted. It is as a garment to God. lie, and not an ether, stands behind it. And, as He Himself is spirit and not mat tor, so also light is not material. It cannot bo decomposed and set apart into original and different elements. In the Holy Trinity of God, oriyiiuttion of all things belongs to tho Father. Yet Tho Father is never seen, or folt.ornoard. So in the solar light, the actinic constitu ent, which gives no sensible proof of its presence, except by elfect, is " tho great consolidant;" and "its more abundant presence and prevailing power are inti mated by thu prevalence of its proper sign, "tho blue, the bright, tho beautiful blue." In the Godhead, tho Second Person, or the Son, has alone been manifested to tho senses of men. Tho luminiferous con stiucnt of light, of which yellow is tho proper sign, is, therefore, tho revelation of tho presence of tho Second Person. The bright solar orb is His proper emblem. The Holy Ghost, tho Third Person in the ever blessed Trinity, like tho Father, is not seen, nor heard. Ho is felt. His Him, that "He coveroth Himself with light as with a garment." Consequently, iin God is one, His covering is one; and that covering is tho blended colors of tho prism, or pure wiiito light. Hut, although there is only ono God, then ate three Persons in the Godhead. These three Persons are tho 'Father, the Son, and tho Holy Ghost. And, although the pure white light is one, in ilisuTrini ty of primary colors, tho blue, the yellow, and the red. Tho blue is conceived to be the emblem of the Father, tho yellow of the Son, the red of the Holy Ghost. Tho three Persons in tho Godhead are ono and inseparable; so, in His covering of light, nothing can decompose, or per manently separate, tho primary colors. Neither the "Corpuscular Theory" which afllrnicd that tho light" consists of particles dat ted out from luminous bod ies ;" nor tho " Undulatory Theory," which asserts that tho universe is tilled with an ether that is in constant vibratory motion, which motion, being "communicated to the retina of tho eye, produces tho sensa tion which wo call light," aro capable of proof. Tho Corpuscular Theory has been abandoned ; the Undulatory Theory is of no value whatever, for it has nover been shown that there is such a thing as lumi niferous ether. When It is proved that there is an ctfw pervading either tho whole universe, or any part of it, it will bo time enough to consider tho "Undulatory The. ory." Honor to Prof. Farraday for say ing " If there be an ether!" Thcro is a flux and reflux of light. M. lias been begun. In tho solar light, His emblem is tho red color; His constituent is the calorific. As tho actinic ray is the consolidant, so the calorific is tho solvent. It is the Holy Ghost that melts the stub born heart; it is His constituent in the natural light that gives warmth and heat. Yet as tho Father, the Son, and the Ho ly Ghost are one God, inseparably one, so in the rainbow, and in tho solar spectrum, the lines of blue, yellow, and red do not run separately, but aro intertwined and intermingled, so as to form ono lino of light. Yet is tho blue readily distinguisha- ble from the yellow, and tho yellow from tho red, precisely as God tho Father, God the Son, and God tho Holy Ghost, though ono God, aro yot three Persons. Tho colors of ilowers, of metals, and of all other objects in nature aro derived from the solai force called light. Although there is over a unity of this force, still, the actinic element is more apparently ac tivo in tho winter and early spring, and in high mountains; the luminiferous element is seen in tho spring and early summer, when yellow flowers aro common; and lho midsummer and autumn ftive evidence of tho calorific element. But always and everywhere, tho threo elements work to gether, oven as tholr author, tho Holy Trlnlnty of God. The revelation of God to man is not perfect; that is, much is loft in darkness. So, in the solar spectrum.arc lines that are called " non.luminous," or "dark lines." Yet in God is " no darkness at all," and tho non-luminous lines will, perhaps, at some far future time, bo cleared up. It would be interesting to follow these matters further. They are as old as Ni cone Christianity, and some knowledge of them is ncessary to understand stained windows and oeclesiological emblems. In the domain of science, they aro well set forth In a llttlo book called "Solar Hieroglyphics," edited by Hew J. Grior Ralston. From this little book, I quote the, following to show how the rainbow might be, and probably was a now phe nomenon in tho days of Noah, and not an object of familiar notice from the earliest times. " Such objections though they allege and truly allege that the laws of light and tho refraction of light were tho same before as after tho deluge, cannot thus ex cuso their skepticism. For before they can ofler an excuse for tneir professed disbelief, they must first prove that tho electric condition of the earth and its at mosphere was the same before as after; and that clouds were formed, and rain de scended on the earth. And this they are not able to do. It Is impossible to prove, by any kind of evidence, that the temperature of the atmosphere above, in relation to the sur face of the earth, was the same during the the ante-diluvian period as at present, or was similar thereto. And it is well-known that ' when the temperature above is high er than on the surface, no cloud can bo formed;' and Hence, as a general rule or fact, Egypt is without rain. And in the cosmogony of Moses there is a reference to an early antediluvian and prc-adamlc time when ' the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon tho earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.' And it cannot be reasonably denied that a corresponding condition of the atmos phere prevailed until the time of the.del ugo; neither can It be rationally denied that the liist appearance of the rainbow was at tho time, or soon after, when God announced His unconditional covenant of providential goodness and mercy on be half of all the creatures upon tho earth, and said ' I do set My Bow in tho cloud; and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Mo and the earth.' Ilonco our belief that the rainbow was first scon by tho post-diluvian inhabitants of tho earth." 0. 0. Dakij. Three. TIIKIU SAVINGS, UOTU WISE AND FOOLISH. DKAMATIS IMntSON.K. Isiiaei. A wise person, Maiue. A handsome Hondo. EuwmosYNE. Neither wise nor hand some. Sunday afternoon in dog-days finds our trio on tho vine-shadowed veranda tho nearest approach to coolness wo can dis cover, though far from being an Arctic region. Israel reads, stopping occasion nlly to cast glances in Mario's direction ; but that impurtablo damsel gives no sign from the lounge where slio lies playing with Tattycoram, before the open window. Tattyeorain is a kitten which Marie adopt ed while sho was reading Little Don-lit. As for myself, I am day-dreaming, as usu al, between the snatches with which Isra el now and then favors us. "Nothing so thin, but has two faces; and when the observer has seen the ob verse he turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this penny heads or tails." Iskakl: (throwing aside his book ) What have you to say to that, Marie? Does that meet your views of life? Mahik: (starting.) Did you speak? I believe I did not catch what you were saying, l was watclung tnc slnulows ot that ivy leaf dancing in tho sunlight. What was it? Israel repeated. I have noticed, that somehow when Muric opens wide her blue eyes upon a young man, with even the most trivial request, sho is ?ure to get her wish. It is their babyish look of in nocence that does it, I suppose. I can seldom resist it myself. Mahie: What do I think of it? Well, I don't see but that it is true enough, though the simile is not very elegant if it is Emerson's. Ask Si about it: sho al ways has views. I haven't. Isuael: (lazily.) Well, Sis? Myself: (promptly.) True enough so far as it goes. Only it is a game between ourselves and some mighty power with a formula somewhat after this fashion-, heads, I wins tails, you losel Ishael.: Bather an unprofitable gamo that, on our part at least. But I can not think so. The game seems to me to be in our own hands chiefly. To continue tho thought, often a dextrous turn of tho hand will bring us heads if wo wish, or again some carelessness will turn tho reverse side of the penny, to the detriment of ourselves and the advantage of our op ponent. Life is not altogether controlled for us by either a good or an evil power. We make or mar it ourselves irrespective of fate. Do you not think so, Sis? Just hero it may be proper to remark that I was christened Euphrosync. Why my long-su tiering parents saw fit to inflict upon me this high sounding cognomen I have never yet discovered. However I seldom get the full benefit of it, except when some unusually heretical opinion expressed with my accustomed audacity, calls forth tho dispairing protest of tho whole family to whom my shortcomings are a never failing source of grief and amazement. Among the many "pet. names" with which I am saluted, "Sis" is my most cordial detestation. Israel de lights in raising my " ire," as ho calls it, and that is his special form of address. This fact doubtless added some little ac cidity to my reply, Myself: As for mo I do not wish to claim any part or lot in It. I prefer to shift lho responsibility on some ono elso rather than to own to such a ruined pleco of work as most men's lives aro. Of what uso aro 'we, and 'why was such a miserable race created? 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