and from a distance appeared the same as an orange.
With the seeds from the best specimens Mr. Hill is growing a number of vines and thinks that the new fruit will become established and prove a favorite, as the taste of the orange and cucumber blend in an excellent manner and make a pleasing combination.
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UNION WITH CHRIST
There is an operation in surgery when an
organ has gotten detached; the only way
for it to be kept in place is to cut it, and cut
the near-by muscles, and then sew the two
wounds together. In process of healing, the
organ grows fast to its support. The surest
way for a heart to grow fast to Christ is to
bring its own bleeding side to the side of the
Christ who was wounded for it, and the two
will become one. (Text.)—James M. Stifler,
"The Fighting Saint."
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See Christ, Union with.
United States and China— See America's
Attitude.
UNITY
The Rev. S. Miller Hageman predicts the unity of all human designs in this verse:
All things yet shall work together, and so working, orb in one,
As the sun draws back its sunbeams when the dial-day is done;
All things yet shall gather roundly, and unite, and shape, and climb,
Into truth's great golden unit, in the ripe result of time.
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One of the Greek poets sings of two devoted friends who visited the shop of Vulcan, and desired to be joined in a closer and indissoluble union. Vulcan took out their hearts, accordingly, laid them on his anvil, and with many sturdy blows with his hammer welded them into one.
A mightier power than Vulcan in a
gentler way joins human hearts to one
another and all to Himself at a forge
whose fire is love. (Text.)
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J. D. Freeman, in "Concerning the Christ," says:
A building may include a multitude and
variety of compartments. The town hall of
Leicester you will find a building of this
sort. The town council room is beautifully
decorated with fine paintings, and the light
streams in abundantly through stained-glass
windows. It is an inviting place. But in the
basement you will find apartments with bare
walls, cold stone floors, plain benches, and
iron doors with padlocks. These rooms are
occupied by a less attractive set of people.
Yet all the rooms above and below are part
of one scheme, and the beautiful council
chamber can not disown the repellent cell of
the prison.
The same principles hold true of our
life. You can not dismember your soul.
You are not a lumber-yard where materials
displace each other as they are
carted in and out; you are a structure.
You have your council chamber where
reason and conscience deliberate, and
also the dark cells where unholy desires
lurk and lawless passions rage. (Text.)
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Unity Broken—See Separation.
UNITY FUNDAMENTAL IN NATURE
As the glass reflects the face, so the creation reflects the qualities of Him who made it. Among other attributes, It speaks of His unity.
Notwithstanding the wide diversity that
presents itself to our view in the countless
varieties of living beings, it yet is true that
all vegetable and animal tissues without exception,
from that of the brightly colored
lichen on the rock, to that of the painter
who admires or of the botanist who dissects
it, are essentially one in composition and in
structure. The microscopic fungi clustering
by millions within the body of a single fly,
the giant pine of California towering to the
height of a cathedral-spire, the Indian fig-tree
covering acres with its profound shadow,
animalcules minute enough to dance in
myriads on the point of a needle, and the
huge leviathan of the deep, the flower that a
girl wears in her hair, and the blood that
courses through her veins, are, each and all,
smaller or larger multiples or aggregates
of one and the same structural unit, and all
therefore ultimately resolvable into the same
identical elements. That unit is a corpuscle
composed of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen,
and carbon. Hydrogen, with oxygen, forms
water; carbon, with oxygen, carbonic acid;
and hydrogen, with nitrogen, ammonia.
