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THE COLUMBIAN. Bl.OOMSBUPrt I 7 jglaturday ftight PIGEONS NOW USED Chalks o a a oToTb fl fl fl o o 6 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. 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