Nebular light in space may be produced, as Lockyer says, by meteorites bombarding each other; but I contend, there is little or no heat in nebula. It is nebulous luminosity we see, or reflected light; but nebula is without heat, for no heat could exist in the severe cold of the attenuated ether of space. Heat can exist only where there is an atmosphere, and then it must be constantly supplied with fuel to overcome the law of constant repulsion and diffusion. Cold is the absence of heat and exists everywhere. It overcomes disintegration and preserves the universe. It enforces the universal law of the electric attraction and cohesion of atoms and worlds.

Cold must predominate to preserve the universe. There is a billion times a billion more cold in the universe than heat. There always has been and there always will be. The Creator so constituted creation when He made it an electric organism. The heat of the sun, compared with the cold that surrounds it, is as a mustard seed to Jupiter. The earth's heat, in comparison to the cold that surrounds it, is as an orange to the solar system.

Then what folly to talk of the universe having begun in white heat, and the earth having been a molten world, and the suns great burning spheres. There were periods when the earth had greater internal convulsions, caused by electrical conditions adjusting themselves to permanent spherical solidity. These were largely local and temporary convulsions. All parts of the earth have also been subjected to the torrid heat of the tropics on account of the earth shifting its poles slowly and gradually through the past ages. All parts of its surface have been covered with water many times by the shifting of its land and sea surface. Especially was this the

case while it was settling down to its present density under the law of electrical attraction, and before it attained its present specific gravity.

As a student of nature, and not as a professional scientist, I published "The New Cosmogony" over three years ago, and no less an authority than Prof. T. J. J. See, the eminent scientist, has since discarded the nebulous heat theory, established by La Place and Newton, that our solar system was originally a heated mass of nebula, or fiery mist.

Professor See, in an article in McClure's Magazine, holds that in the beginning, "there was no heat, but a cold so intense that it reached 273° below zero centigrade-cold enough to make liquid air and freeze it into ice air. The sun was a nebulous mass filling all the space now occupied by the solar system-a formless swarm of ice masses floating like some great flock of birds in blue space. Heat began to develop with the compression of the gaseous bodies in response to the law of gravitation. Instead of the sun growing colder, it is constantly growing hotter by reason of a steady process of shrinking, and this is a condition that applied for a long time to the stars and planets. Instead of the earth making its first appearance as a white, hot body, it really appeared as a vague mass of gas frightfully cold. As it gradually took to itself form and motion, it began to shrink and generate heat. The cold nebula of our globe, after taking on motion, probably threw off the moon, as it had itself been thrown off from the sun. Being comparatively small, the earth nebula shrank rapidly and generated heat quickly; but never grew hot enough to vaporize iron."

I agree fully with Professor See when he says that in the beginning "the earth was intensely cold."

But when he says, "It grew hot by compression," I cannot fully agree with him. I do not accept the theory that the heat of suns and planets is created by contraction. This heat is too uncertain and irregular in quantity, and too local and spasmodic as to time, to be relied on. A constant as well as a sufficient supply of heat energy must be provided in order to account for the sun's and earth's heat supply. Compression is only a small factor in heat production. This is apparent from the volcanic eruptions on our earth, which are uncertain as to time and locality, as well as to the supply of heat generated, and indicate the irregularity of internal compression and its lack of reliability for sun heat or earth heat. Compression creates solidity, and solid things can never be very hot. If the sun obtained heat from compression, he would soon lose it by becoming too solid for further compression, and his heat would long ago have disappeared. Extreme cold shows many wonderful properties and results, as is proven by the discovery of liquid air. It is said extremes meet, and extreme cold produces almost as many marvellous transformations as extreme heat, and is nature's original normal condition of matter.

When the divine fiat "Let there be light" was pronounced, the dual forces of electricity began their creative work of sun-building and world-building under the law of attraction and repulsion. Thus under the divine decree and impulse electro-magnetism took possession of matter and began forming magnetic sun centres and earth centres in the pliable mass of stellar nebula floating as frozen air in the solar expanse. It began forming circular lines of spiral nebula around condensing magnetic centres.

And the sun grew, and the planets grew, fed by incoming tides of visible nebula and invisible atoms drawn by electric force, and laid by magnetic energy in orderly layers of condensing matter in the sun's centre and the earth's centre. All were built out of the same material, the invisible atoms, or matter in solution, diffused through all space. Thus were the foundations of the worlds laid. And the law of evolution under the guiding force of electricity, in the course of ages, developed and perfected suns and worlds and all organic life forms. But the law of evolution is the law of Deity, and electricity is "the word of His power," the creative energy of the universe. And by all the force of law and logic, the act of the agent is the act of the principal, and infinite wisdom laid the foundations of the sun and world and built the organic forms of human life, and upholds the universe. This He does by His electric machinery and directing power.

He upholds the universe by His invisible electric word and by His far-reaching arm of magnetic power. And without His magnetic touch our bodies would crumble to dust. Without His creative intelligent design, there would have been no universe. And without His magnetic grasp the universe would dissolve into invisible atoms as at the beginning, and the electric light of the suns expire. He touched the electric button that gave impulse to all atoms, created all suns, evolved all worlds, and sent them singing in harmonious motion through all space, for all eternities. God is a great electrician. In His divine simplicity He made but one matter, the atom; but one force, electricity; and but one type of creative existence, the electro-magnet. Thus He created the "matter and persistent force," which Herbert

Spencer says has produced all things. He scattered these atoms as invisible star dust through all space; so that wherever He blew His breath or sent a wireless telegram, a new world sprang into existence, or the nucleus of a sun became luminous.

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God is a great inventor, and man gets his inventive genius by parental inheritance from God. came by the law of heredity, and man himself is becoming a great inventive electrician. He handles a ship, blows up a mine, and transports millions of human beings by electricity. God does better. He handles a world, throws off a planet, or hurls a self-luminous sun through space by electric energy.

Then do I believe in a personal God? Certainly I do. A personal God is impersonal in the laws that govern His universe; but personal in His government and intercourse with His spiritual children. Man is personal with his fellow-man, but impersonal in the means and rules of conducting his business. He uses servants and agents to represent him, steam to propel his cars, electricity to telegraph, and machinery to run his factories. He does wonders by merely pressing a button or sending a telegram.

God does likewise. He makes a thought, an unspoken word, an invisible force, as intangible as air and as viewless as a soul, create and control all the varied and complex creations of the universe. He does not need to be large in person; He is large and infinite in wisdom and power.

The pressure of a child's finger only strong enough to lift a kitten blew up Hell Gate, and started the mammoth wheels of the Columbian Exposition.

God does not need to be so large or grand as to be impersonal or invisible to be the Ruler of the universe. We are told in Sacred Writ that "man was