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Bf r. B. DAVISON
Rutland, Vt
AS PHOTOGRAPHERS
THE TCKGUE0F FIRE.
Jan. 10. '09 (Arts 2:1-21).
It la the city of Jerusalem. In an
oppor room a company of men and
women, 120 In number, are gathered
aa they have met for more than a, '
week waiting, watting. It la the
second Lord'a day after the Ascen
sion, the 10th day of the gatheitn, 1
the Day of Pentecost, and tho third t
hour of the day nlno o'clock In the j
morning.
"Suddenly there cornea a sound
from heaven as of a niching mighty
wind." There la no wind, no sale,
no disturbance of tho atmosphere,,
but a "sound" without shape, or
movement to account for It, as If a
mighty wind were rushing, not along
the ground, but straight from on
high, awful as a hurricane, mysteri
ous, supernatural.
Flro Crowned WltiiexRe.
Then as the astonished company
looks up they see visible evidence of
the phenomenon. John sees Peter's
head crowned with a to;igue of lire: j
Peter sees James crowned with fire;
Nathaniel sees Mnry crowned with
lire: and round and round the cries- j
tlr.l flame, burning, flashing, pinning !
like that which centuries lefore,
Moses belwld at the Hiniilng Mush,
alts upon each of them, crownl'is j
but not consumlt'g, the supernatural, !
outward evidence, and n!m of t'io
S,ilrlt's proton. o, tho cnilcnil' l a id j
enililer.i of thfir future work. ;
Hitherto they had lven guided ,
and controlled by a llvlns Person. I
Henceforth they are to ir.t dircied
by r.n ln.lw lliiv.; Spirit ", 'u shall ,
equip and empower them to stand .
before klng.-i, to conrnu:i:l sytm
fOKroi!, to Hilvn. e coum lis, to still
mobs, to confront She lcr.rned, to Il
lumine the Be sin li i ., c.n.l to Inflame
tho cold, to the rttcrinn.'t I'C'-ts of '
tho earth. !
CliW'tlniiltyN Symbol. , !
The symbol of Christianity U a '
Tongue; the only Instrument of thi?
grandest war ever wage! Is a
Toiikuo; b':t the tong-ie la a tongue
of tire, a human organ, but a super- .'
human power. Tho multitudes of .
original believers were not mere n'ib- j
rerlbera to a creed, or adherents of a j
religion, they were living, sper.klng, j
burning agents In the grat movo- i
ment for the universal dl.Ti'.slcii of
God's message. i
Tho tongue of fire this Is tho I
method of world evangellzrtlon. Not
tongues alone, but tongues of flro. j
Those disciples could talk before, j
but their words were powerless, i
There Is no evidence that their tettl- i
mony ever effected anybody for good
up to this time, but when Peter used
the tongue of flro on that same day ;
of Pentecost, 3000 people surrender- j
e.1 to Its power and accepted the new j
religion. i
Fiery Tonguotl Heroes.
And Christianity has spread over I
the world In Just this fashion. No !
, loss than 22 men are named In tho I
Acts of the Apostles who were "wit- i
nesses," and flaming evangelists of
the truth. It has always been so,
from tho Itinerant workers of the
first generation down to our own
times. What a list of fiery tongued
heroes of the cress the world has
known! During tho Middle Ages
Waldenslan evangelists kept the fires
of the gospel story burning among
tho mountains of Italy. When the
Reformation broke out, It was like
the literal breaking out of Are all
over Europe. Luther, Calvin, Zwin
glt and Knox were flro klndlers In
the cold and the darkness. John
WIckllff, In Kngland, Ave centuries
ago, trntned men and sent them
through the villages of Kngland to
preach Bible truth to tho people.
Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, John
Bunyan, glorious old Puritans, with
all their Imperfections, were repre
sentatives Of tho tongue of fire.
John Wesley kindled a blaze that
has spread like a prairie conflagra
tion In the Methodist Church. Georgo
Whltefleld had a marvellous tongue
of fire. And time would fall to men
tion Nottleton', and Edwards, and
Finney and Baker and Knapp and
Peter Cartwrlght and Moody and
many others, who through their
of tho tongue of fire, have melted
hard hearts, and burned down na
tional barriers, and conquered op
position, and thawed - out hyperbo
rean regions and raised spiritual
temperatures, until waste places
have been transformed Into gar
dens, and the wilderness has re
iolced and blossomed as the rose,
(lift for All Men.
Bear In mind this gift of tongues
hi not for special and particular per
sons. In the original bestowment
we are distinctly told that It "sat
upon each of them." They were all
waiting, they were all expecting,
and they were all equipped. Not all
eifuully eloquent, but all equipped.
Not all called to public borvlce, but
all equipped. Not all equally con
spicuous, but all equipped. Not all
sent abroad us traveling evangelists,
but all equipped. Each, in his or her
j.daio, wis equally endowed with
power from on high for his appoint
ed wo:!:. Tho tongue of fire was
ready for every emergency, every op
portunity In the life of every Indlvi
tli '. How Important that we should
cry:
Come Holy Ghost, for Thee I call.
Spi.it cf V.:;'iil:i, Come..
Picture Takers of the Air Get
Wonderful Result During
Rapid Flight
CAMERA FASTENED ON BREAST.
HlrOn May He I'wd In Clerman War
Manoeuvres HeHrrh by Doctor for
Imt I.lttle MpiM-ngcr UroiiRlit
About Invention.
Paris, France Pigeon photo
graphers, who through the Invention
of Jules Neubronner are now recog
nized professionals of the skies, are
hailed In Paris as the natural reflex
action of the present furore for aerial
navigation. Birds, says the French
man, have become photographers at
the moment when men are trans
forming themselves Into birds.
The extraordinary function per
formed by the carrier pigeons when
In rapid flight they take, by means
of an apparatus strapped to the
breast, a series of pictures so quick
ly as to be almost In unbroken con
tinuity and of such sharp outlines as
to lend themselves to veritably mar
vellous enlargement Is something
hitherto undreamed.
The origin of the Idea Is' peculiar
and carries one back to liii) when
a certain Mr. Neubronner, a chemist
of Cronberg, conceived the Ingenious
Idea of sending pigeons to all tho
physicians In neighboring villages so
that when a prescrlpton was needed
In a hurry the pigeon might be dis
patched at once and tho medicine
ready and waiting when called for.
This eaved time and often life.
Others took up the "overhead ex
press." In Franco and America It
was practised. In 1S48 when the vil
lages near Cronberg were equipped
with their own chemists this was no
longer necessary, but some years ago
Dr. Jules Neubronner, the son of
the former, revived this method of
communication between his o.Uce and
a sanitarium at Falkensteln, but the
use ho made of his serlul post was to
have rare medicaments, ordered by
telephone, borne to him by tho faith
ful little messengers.
A trusted pigeon wriose goings and
comings could be reckoned on with
clocklike regularly disappeared once
a whole month. It was In trying to
find out what had become of the ex
press bird that led Mr. Neubronner
to think of photography.
He gathered a number of pigeons
into a big room and took pictures of
them in a flight of twenty metres to
the second. After preliminary trials
during the course of a jurney by
express train he made his first ex
periments with pigeons as photo
graphers and got proofs a centimetre
square that were relatively satisfac
tory. After this he proceeded to perfect
'a rrwss, using a special apparatus
consi.uCted under his direction with
a view to securing. the clearest Im
pression In the smallest possible
space.
This was fastened to the breast of
th pigeon by a sort of elastic har
ness passed across the back. A small
rubber bulb working automatically
at regular intervals controlled the
lens Instantaneously. By this means
views were taken, but enlarging the
tiny camera will permit the register
ing of pictures every half minute In a
fight of ten miles.
Suggested by a mishap' to one of
winged messengers of his pharmaceu
tical post, Dr. Noubronner's original
idea has become enlarged to the
point where the German Minister of
War has Interested himself In a pro
cess which he believes will be valua
ble In the study of topography.
The Inventor has been Invited to
give demonstrations before the bat
talion of aerostatics of Relnlcken
dork, and Major Gross, as a proof,
has asked him to make photographs
of tho waterworks at Tegel.
Recently at a lecture given at
Cronberg Dr. Neubronner showed a
pigeon fully caparisoned, and en
largements of the photographs were
thrown upon a screen. The pigeon
In his strange cuirass looked the
veritable warrior and seemed to feel
the dignity of his offlco.
T'he'use of the carrier pigeon as a
messenger, brought about by the
curious faculty which permits them
to find their way back to their nests,
no matter from how great a distance,
is of ancient date.
Two historic examples of their
worth may be recalled.
In 1815, thanks to these mes
sengers, Rothschild was informed of
the results of the Battle of Waterloo
three days before the English Gov
ernment and was able ' to make his
famous coup at the Bourse.
In 1870, during the siege of Paris,
the service of the pigeons In trans
mitting messages overhead boyond
the enemy's lines is well known.
TO RKPAIK DKMTKTIAX HATII9.
Building Around Famous Roman
Ruins to Re Removed by 1011.
Rome, Italy. Tho Minister of
Public Instruction has sanctioned ap
propriations for tho purpose of de
molishing the bulldlngH around the
Baths of Diocletian, which are to be
Isolated and as far as possible re
constructed and adapted fcr hr.ltMng
tho arthaoologlcal exh:i;itl?.i cf IPU.
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