our yard fruit trees, grape-vines, and rosebushes, which resulted in an abnormal growth of both fruit and foliage. We then applied the battery to garden seed, with the same abnormal results, all of which was in line with our reasoning. Again, under a shade tree in our yard, with the small battery in hand, we became satisfied that the action of the heart was accelerated, and, later, that the senses of sight and hearing were also quickened; and to our mind all of these tests pointed to one and the same conclusion, namely: that this deity reached much farther into the mystery of life than we could see. "That nothing walks with aimless feet," is forcibly urged upon our reason. In brief, we were forced to regard this deity or law, as underlying the first principles of vegetable and animal life. It stimulates

the action of the heart and feeds the brain. It vitalizes the sap of the oak in the valley, and that of the flowers in the ice and under the snows of the Alps, giving vitality and force, not only to animal life, but to every fiber of tree and plant.

More acceptable authority will eventually track this factor to the same goal that we did many years ago. And when this law of nature is more fully translated, electricity will be found to be God's authorized life-principle of nature's forces.

1887.

The Sun and Solar Worlds.

GIVE US A GREAT TELESCOPE.

WE will endeavor to arrange this pa per in a way best calculated to entertain intelligent people.

We will treat it from our own standpoint, so far as opinion not quoted shall be made a part of the effort, that we alone may be responsible for such heresy as may be discovered in philosophy, theory, or logic, minus accepted indorsement; not forgetting that much of what is accepted in the study of astronomy is deduction from these factors.

It is safe to say that the mind of the student is improved by the study of any

of the natural sciences, but we know of

no other so well calculated to inspire reverence and adoration of the Deity, as the study of the starry universe, and the laws that regulate and govern it. Nor is there another study so well calculated to give breadth and elevation to intellectual capacity, as the study of the heavens.

A broader knowledge of the skies gives us a better knowledge of their Maker; for example, they who supposed the world to be flat, and "to rest on a rock all the way down," knew less of the great Architect of the universe than did Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, or the great Leverrier, who told the Berlin astronomers where to look for an undiscovered planet. We refer to the won derful discovery of Neptune.

To our reason the more comprehensive our understanding, especially of this

science, the nearer we approach the Deity. Every new discovery in the grand study of astronomical wonders is the opening of another window in the skies of the soul.

While the god-like spirit in man may lift him up and press him on to the discovery of countless worlds, and worlds beyond, through unborn years and the whirl of the ages, the lapse of time may add its many fold to his accumulated knowledge of that which God "hath wrought" in the skies, still there will remain a boundless expanse of undiscovered worlds, which can only be considered as co-extensive with infinity.

The universe is as broad as eternity is long. Let us consider the length of the one to be the breadth of the other.

Of this boundless expanse, the solar