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CULTIVATE HAPPINESS
“TALK happiness!
Not now and then, but every
Blessed day,
Even if you don't believe
The half of what
You say;
There’s no room here for him
Who whines as on his
Way he goes;
Remember, son, the world is
Sad enough without
Your woes.
Talk happiness each chance
You get, and
Talk it good and strong!
Look for it in
The byways as you grimly
Plod along;
Perhaps it is a stranger now
Whose visit never
Comes;
But talk it! Soon youll find
That you and Happiness
Are chums.”
” which the Pharisees neglected.
Without love in the heart
Faith is essen-
love.
matters
Matt. 23: 23.
we cannot please God.
tial, and faith always works by
Heb. 11:6; Gal. 5:6.
The law of love received in the heart
will make the receiver great in the sight
of God, as was John the Baptist. Matt.
5:19; Luke 1:15. And with this law of
love comes the great peace which only
the converted, obedient heart can know.
Ps. 119: 165. The love of God shown in
obedience brings that peace, broad and
deep as a mighty river. Isa. 48:18;
57:20, 21.
“In keeping of them there is great re-
ward.” Ps. 19:11. Not in this pres-
ent mortal state shall we receive the re-
ward of loyal, loving obedience, though
even now we enjoy Christ's legacy of
peace. “I come quickly, and my re-
ward is with me,” he declares. Eternal
life, eternal peace, eternal joy and love,
will be part of the saint's reward in the
eternal kingdom. * Blessed are they that
do his commandments, that they may
have right to the tree of life, and may
enter in through the gates into the city.”
Rev. 22:14. ‘There we shall drink of
the river of God’s pleasure; there will
be “fulness of joy;” there will be
36:8;
“ pleasures forevermore.” Ps.
16: 11.
In view of the excellent things which
God has provided for us in the great plan
of salvation, who among the redeemed
will not say with the psalmist, “ Great is
the Lord, and greatly to be praised,” and
THE WATCHMAN
DUST AND ITS COMPOSITION
HE, very sound of the word
dust brings to our minds the
hot, windy days of summer,
when the fierce, hot air comes
rushing along, carrying in
its train clouds of
particles, which we call dust.
These it gathers from the
highways and byways as it careers along.
Some of my readers will be surprised to
learn that the atmosphere is full of dust,
even on the calmest of days; in fact,
there is no atmosphere without it. ‘The
air which envelops the highest mountain
peak, or that from the most far away
point of the widest ocean, contains it.
The quantity found may vary, but never-
theless it is there.
minute
A gentleman, who was a great enthusi-
ast on this subject, made up his mind to
take a voyage around the world ; the ob-
ject of this voyage was to see if he could
find an atmosphere free from dust. He
took with him a little instrument, called
Aitkin’s Pocket Dust Counter. With
this he could sample the air, and count
the dust particles. At one time in his
long journey he was 13,000 feet above
the sea level, but the atmosphere was full
of dust. Again he took a sample of
the atmosphere on the open sea, so far
from land that it was impossible for the
air to be artificially polluted, but dust
was there also. After sampling air in
very many places, his journey was
at last <ompleted, and he had to ac-
knowledge that as far as finding an at-
mosphere with no dust was concerned,
his journey had been a fruitless one.
Air taken from the summit of high
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with glad anticipation look for that
“blessed hope, and the glorious appear-
ing of the great God and our Saviour
Jesus Christ”? To “them that look for
him shall he appear the second time with-
out sin unto salvation.”
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mountains is found to contain from 10,000 -
to 200,000 dust particles to the cubic inch.
The beautiful, balmy country air contains
2,000 particles to the inch. The atmos-
phere of towns and cities contains three
million particles to the cubic inch, and
inhabited rooms contain on an average
the very large number of thirty millions
to the inch. Tor those dwellings in
which dust is allowed to accumulate —
through the occupants allowing the habit
of untidiness to master them — the par-
ticles per cubic inch must be more than
doubled. If people only knew how nec-
essary it is, for health’s sake, to have a
clean home, and the great danger there is
of contracting some deadly disease,— for
the germs are in the air, and only wait-
ing for a suitable moment to attack the
vital parts of their human victims,— they
would not rest until everything about
their houses was as free from dust as
it is possible to make them. A dusty at-
mosphere means a germ laden atmos-
phere; the two are inseparable. I trust
my readers will take heed to these facts;
for they are not written simply to fill up
the page, but are truths which we should
not pass lightly by.
In a cubic inch of dust we find, as we
view it under the microscope, thousands
of millions of particles. Fach particle
is a study in itself. We see animal-
cules, spores, pollen, different parts of
deceased insects, decayed vegetable and
animal matter, and microbes, or germs,
both harmless and deadly, by the thou-
sand.
We live, and move, and breathe in an
atmosphere containing about thirty mil-
lion dust particles to the inch. Everv
foot of air contains an average of 200
microbes. Now you can see the great
danger we are exposing ourselves to if
we allow the dust to accumulate in our
dwellings.
A sample of air taken from the pure
air of a Swiss mountain contained one
germ to the yard. A similar quantity