Recently a flower was exhibited that was grown in a cellar by acetylene
gas. But let no man be anxious. The summer’s sun is not seriously
threatened by acetylene! The scientist knows that there is a large
amount of condensed sunshine stored away in the acetylene that was
released. There are a few soldiers of supreme genius that divide
honors. There are a few poets of the first order of greatness. There
are a few statesmen of equal rank. But Jesus is alone, one star,
shining down upon the little hills.--N. D. HILLIS.
(1687)
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Dinocrates, a Macedonian architect, once proposed to carve
Mount Athos into a statue of Alexander--the left hand to hold a
city of 10,000 population, and the right hand to be a basin to
receive the perpetual flow of the mountain and give it to the
sea below. Jesus, a mightier architect, is carving all humanity
into a kingdom that, like a stone cut out of the mountain
without hands, shall fill the whole earth.
(1688)