were exposed to intense cold. But it was discovered that radium when immersed in liquid air, which is extremely cold, immediately evolved more light, heat, and electricity. Then it was plunged into liquid hydrogen, of which the coldness is almost incalculable and inconceivable. The radium only glowed still more intensely with its emanations of light, heat and electricity.
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TRIAL REFINES
In the English county of Cornwall are
great beds of what is called "china clay."
You may take up a lump of this substance
and examine it in vain with the view of discovering
anything admirable or beautiful.
But one day you may be traveling in the
English midlands, where you may be invited
to inspect the factories in which are made
the exquisite Royal Worcester porcelain or
the equally precious Wedgwood ware. You
will be fascinated by everything you see.
The same dead, cold, repellent, ugly clay
you saw in Cornwall you are now admiring
with ecstasy. It has been brought to the
potteries, and touched by the fire, and painted
by the artist, so that it rivals even the loveliest
flowers in delicacy and beauty.
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TRIBULATION THE PATH TO GLORY
But know for all time this:
There's blood upon the way the saints have trod,
The singer of a day shall pass and die.
The world itself shall pass, who passed them by;
But they of the exceeding bitter cry,
When Death itself is dead and life is bliss,
Shall stand in heaven and sing their songs to God. (Text.)
—Ethel Edwards, The Outlook (London).
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TRIUMPH BY SELECTION
A moral reason for the survival of the fittest is given by Walton W. Battershall in the Critic:
The weak give way that stronger may have room
For sovereign brain and soul to quell the brute.
Thus, in the epic of this earth, harsh rhythms
Are woven, that break the triumph song with moans
And death-cries. Still rolls the eternal song,
Setting God's theme to grander, sweeter notes,
For us to strike; fighting old savageries
That linger in the twilights of the dawn.
(Text.)
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TRIUMPH IN DEATH
In the Boxer riots many Chinese Christian
converts laid down their lives with
cheerful courage "for the sake of the
Name." One Chinaman who was captured
by the Boxers and was told he was about to
be put to death, asked permission to put on
his best clothes. "For," said the martyr, "I
am going to the palace of the King." His
wonderful and serene faith so imprest the
cruel murderers that, after his death, they
dug out his heart to try and find the secret
of his courage. In North China the blood of
the martyrs has proved, indeed, the seed of
the Church.
"To the palace of the King" is
whither all Christians are wending their
way. (Text.)
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TRIUMPH IN DEFEAT
Out of seeming defeat often springs the truest triumph, and even despair has often been the prelude to genuine victory. Especially does the sacrifice of self achieve glorious conquest.
One of the noblest of the world's heroes
was Vercingetorix, who roused Gaul against
Cæsar. Tho he lost his own life, he saved
thousands of other lives. When he perceived
that the war was lost he had the
fortitude to acknowledge defeat and to
recognize that he was the man whom the
Roman commander most desired to capture.
Assembling his officers, he informed them
that he was willing to sacrifice himself in order
to save them all. In due time he was
led in chains through Rome, as part of
Cæsar's triumphant procession and stabbed
to death afterward in the darkness of his
prison cell. To-day, on his rock-fortress,
known now as Alise St. Reine, stands a
gigantic bronze statue of him, proud, fearless,
and strong, as on that last day of his
freedom, with his hands on his sword-hilt,
and his head turned toward the little hill
across the valley where his allies were scattered
and his cause was slain.
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