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The signs of the tireat upheaval and change in human destinies This planet we call ours is in some respects like ourselves: it was born; it has had its infancy, its youth, its full priinnings of decay Absorbed once ain thrown forth a its companion-stars, our race will no more inhabit it We shall have had our day--our little chance--we shall have lost or won

Christ said, "This generation shall not pass away till all My words be fulfilled," the word "generation" thus usedsinificance of the Saviour's utterance e ieneration He alluded to i in His own day In the depths of His Divine wisdom He was acquainted with all the secrets of the Past and Future; He had no doubt seen this very world peopled by widely different beings to ourselves, and knew that e call the hu tribe perely presumptuous idea is that which pervades the minds of the majority of persons--nahest forhest form WE can see!

How absurd it is to be so controlled by our limited vision, e cannot even perceive the minute wonders that a butterfly beholds, or pierce the sunlit air with anything like the facility possessed by the undazzled eyes of an upward-soaring bird! Nay, we cannot exa of a common house-fly without the aid of a microscope--to observe the facial expression of our own actors on the stage we look through opera-glasses--to form any idea of the wonders of the stars we construct telescopes to assist our feeble and easily deluded sight; and yet--yet we continue to parcel out the infinite gradations of creative Force and Beauty entirely to suit our own private opinions, and conclude that WE are the final triuence! Alas! in very truth we are a sorry spectacle both to our soberly thinking selves and the Higher Powers, invited, as it were, to spend our life's brief day in one of God's gardens as His friends and guests, who certainly are not expected to abuse their Host's hospitality, and, ignoring Hiround!