Troubles and afflictions are intended under the dispensation of divine
grace to bring out the deeper capacities of the soul. Experiences which
are calculated to deaden the careless mind will develop consecration,
zeal, and devotion in the thoughtful.
Scientists subject radium to every conceivable test. In an
ordinary temperature it never ceases emitting light, heat,
and electricity. It was at first imagined that this perpetual
threefold emanation would cease, or at any rate be diminished,
if the substance 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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