space back again to earth in a twinkling. It comes like a sweet sea-breeze blowing in through the church windows on a hot Sunday, and relaxing the feverish tension of
crowded worship.—Mackay Smith, Harper's Magazine.
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ILLUSTRATIONS, STRIKING Colonel Zell, at the time when Grant was up for the Presidency, and when the Democratic watchword was, "Anything to beat Grant," was addressing an enthusiastic meeting of Republicans, when a Democrat sang out, "It's easy talkin', colonel; but we'll show you something next fall." The colonel was a great admirer of Grant. He at once wheeled about and with uplifted hands, hair bristling, and eyes flashing fire, cried out: "Build a worm-fence 'round a winter supply of summer weather; catch a thunderbolt in a bladder; break a hurricane to harness; hang out the ocean on a grapevine to dry; but never, sir, never for a moment delude yourself with the idea that you can beat Grant."—Chambers's Journal.
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Image in the Soul—See Restoring God's Image.
IMAGE OF GOD REPRODUCED
Star photography is one of the most refined
and delicate of the arts of modern
science. Two factors enter into the production
of the photo. It is the star which makes
the picture, but the artist-astronomer is essential
also. He has to expose the sensitive
plate and to direct the telescope to the star,
and the star by its light does the rest.
So when the gaze of the soul is set
on God, He reproduces His own likeness
by His own light. It is ours to
point the telescope; His to paint the picture.
(Text.)
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Imagery—See Evangelization.
IMAGERY OF THE MIND
Thought is an artist painting its pictures
on the mind, so producing its imagery on
the walls of one's immortal nature. If evil,
the mind becomes a mystic shrine painted
with such figures as were found in some
of the chambers of Pompeii, where excavators
had to cover up the pictures because
they were so foul. If good, the mind is like
the cells in the convent of San Marco, at
Florence, where Fra Angelico's holy genius
had painted on the bare walls angel imaginings
and celestial faces. (Text.)
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IMAGINATION
Pure and noble imaginings become a
power for good. A healthy imagination is a
well-spring of pure pleasure, and by reading
and keeping our eyes open to the world we
store our minds with pictures which will in
after life bring great satisfaction. George
William Curtis says: "One man goes 4,000
miles to see Italy, and does not see it, he
is so short-sighted. Another is so far-sighted
that he stays in his room, and sees
more than Italy." We should train our observing
faculties to see all of the beauty
that lies about us, even to those finer tints,
which it is said only the artist's eye discerns—"the
light that never was on sea or
land."—James T. White, "Character Lessons."
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See Dreams; Panic Through Fear.
IMAGINATION CAUSING DEATH
The British and Colonial Druggist discust
the death of a young woman at Hackney
under circumstances in which a certain insect
powder largely figured. As the powder
appeared by Dr. Tidy's experiment to be
perfectly harmless, the suggestion was not
unnaturally made that the deceased, who was
possibly of a hysterical, highly imaginative
turn of mind, took the powder in the full
belief that by its means her death might be
accomplished. The writer of the article, we
think wrongly, brings forward two remarkable
instances of what may be regarded as practical
jokes with melancholy terminations. In
the case of the convict delivered up to the
scientist for the purpose of a psychological
experiment (the man was strapped to a table
and blindfolded, ostensibly to be bled to
death; a siphon containing water was placed
near his head and the fluid was allowed to
trickle audibly into a vessel below it, at the
same time that a trifling scratch with a
needle was inflicted on the culprit's neck; it
is said that death occurred at the end of six
minutes), fear must have played no inconsiderable
share in the fatal result, and we
do not know whether all the vital organs
were in a sound condition, tho they were
presumably so. The old story of the case of
a college porter is also one in point. The
students entrapt him into a room at night, a
mock inquiry was held, and the punishment
of death by decapitation decreed for his
want of consideration to the students. It is
small wonder that, under the dominion of
fear and belief in the earnestness of his
tormentors, the sight of an ax and a block,
