Great lenses are so sensitive that
one cannot go near them without throwing them discernibly out of shape.
It were easy to show that there is no solid earth nor immovable
mountains. I came away saying to my friend, "I am glad God lets you
into so much of his finest thinking." He is a mechanic, not a
theologian. This foremost man in the world in his fine department was
lately but a "greasy mechanic," an engineer in a rolling mill.
But for elasticity and mobility nothing approaches the celestial ether.
Its vibrations reach into millions of millions per second, and its
wave-lengths for extreme red light are only .0000266 of an inch long,
and for extreme violet still less--.0000167 of an inch.
It is easier molding hot iron than cold, mobile things than immobile.
This world has been made elastic, ready to take new forms. New
creations are easy, for man, even--much more so for God. Of angels,
Milton says:
"Thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest."
No less is it true of atoms. In him all things live and move. Such
intense activities could not be without an infinite God immanent in
matter.
THE NEXT WORLD TO CONQUER
Man's next realm of conquest is the celestial ether. It has higher
powers, greater intensities, and quicker activities than any realm he
has yet attempted.
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