Curiosities of Heat

The little class which has been introduced to the reader came together the next Lord's Day interested and expectant, yet not knowing what to expect. They had chosen a course of...

While the lessons which have been reported were going on, the religious interest in the church was deepening. Mr. Wilton did not cease to make his sermons instructive, but, in a...

During the week, Ansel, Peter, and Samuel were busy reviewing and fixing in memory what they had already learned of the nature and laws of heat. They were not only interested in...

"You must know, Mr. Wilton," said Mr. Hume, "that my mind is full of objections, whether I speak them out or keep silence. I have looked so long upon one side only that I find i...

Another Lord's Day comes, and the members of the class are, as usual, all in their places. They find the subject increasing in interest after leaving the review of the laws and...

Mr. Wilton preached the sermon spoken of at the close of the last chapter the next Lord's Day morning. The more he thought upon the matter and inquired the mind of the Spirit, t...

A week has passed since Mr. Hume made his frank confession. He went home no lighter of heart than before, yet he felt in some respects different, for he had attempted to do what...

"To-day we come to that subject which we should have looked at a week ago, if that I hope not unprofitable discussion of the uses of trials and the ministry of pain had not prev...

"To-day we review the modes in which heat passes or is conveyed from place to place. It is evident that if heat were confined to the very place or point where it is generated, i...

"The book of Nature is my Bible. I agree with old Cicero: I count Nature the best guide, and follow her as if she were a god, and wish for no other."

"We now turn our attention," said Mr. Wilton, "to a new theme. In the vicissitudes of day and night and of summer and winter heat is transferred _in time_. We now are to look at...

The reader has already learned that after Ansel had confessed himself an anxious inquirer and professed himself willing to obey Christ, he remained three or four weeks still in...

"As I announced a week ago," said Mr. Wilton, "we will to-day take a rapid review of the effects and laws of heat. Will you tell us, Peter, the first and chief of these effects?"

"When Jesus had fed the five thousand men upon the mountain side by the Sea of Galilee, he said to his disciples, 'Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.' Th...

"We saw at our last session that the most prominent and permanent features of the earth tend to produce differences and great extremes of temperature. These variations of temper...

Another Lord's Day comes, and no change has taken place with the class which calls for mention. Ansel still walks in darkness, ready indeed on every occasion to manifest his con...