d star, rainbow and insect, was meant to be so
provocative of thought that any man who never saw a human book might be
largely educated. And every one of these thoughts is related to man's
best prosperity and joy. He is a most regal king if he achieve the
designed dominion over a thousand powerful servitors.

It is well to see that God's present actual powers in full play about
us are vastly beyond all the dreams of Arabian imagination. It leads
us to expect greater things of him hereafter. That human imagination
could so dream is proof of the greatness of its Creator. But that he
has actually surpassed those dreams is prophecy of more greatness to
come.

I desire that my readers of this generation shall be the great thinkers
and inventors of the next. There are amazing powers just waiting to be
revealed. Draw aside the curtain. We have not yet learned the A B C
of science. We have not yet grasped the scepters of provided dominion.
Those who are most in the image and likeness of the Cause of these
forces are most likely to do it.

THE MAN WHO NEEDED 452,696 BARRELS OF WATER

A man once had a large field of wheat. He had toiled hard to clear the
land, plow the soil, and sow the seed. The crop grew beautifully and
was his joy by day and by night. But when it was just ready to head
out it suddenly stopped growing for want of moisture. It looked as if
all his hard work would be in vain. The poor farmer thought of his
wife and children, who were likely to starve in the coming winter. He
shed many tears, but they could not moisten one little stalk.

Suddenly he said, "I will water it myself." The field was a mile
square, and it needed an inch of water over it all. He quickly figured
out that there were 27,878,400 square feet in a square mile. On every
twelve square feet a cubic foot of water was needed. A cubic foot of
water weighs sixty-two and a third pounds. Hence it would require
74,754 tons of water. To draw this amount 74,754 teams, each drawing a
ton, would be required. But they would tramp the wheat all down.
Besides, the nearest water in sufficient quantity was the ocean, one
thousand miles away over the mountains. It would take three months to
make the journey. And, worse than all else, the water of the ocean is
so salt that it would ruin the crop.

[Illustration: Breaking Waves.]

Alas! there were three impossibilities--so many teams, so many
miles, so long time--and two ruins