Wedding Incident—See Renunciation.
Wedge, The Entering—See Sabbath
Desecration Gradual.
WEED DESTROYER
Man's enemies are not by any means confined to those he meets in his daily work. He has soul enemies which he has to reckon with constantly. Just as sure as the farmer can depend on a certain preparation to kill weeds, so can man depend upon a higher power to keep down and destroy our open and secret sins.
There is no dispute that we must meet the
weed question with a certainty of success
and at the same time it must be done in a
very economical manner. In addition to
what we may do with our cultivators and
weeders and the growing of such crops as
rye and winter wheat, by which we can destroy
a certain class of weeds before they
mature seed, we can also add that there is a
system of weed destruction which is found
in spraying. This is a matter which has come
to the knowledge of men during the past few
years. I learn from my reading that the
first step in this direction was taken by a
party in France. From that beginning it
was taken up by men here in America, and
it has now assumed a very practical form.
The first spray was copper sulfate, or blue-*stone,
but this would be somewhat difficult
to obtain. The present material which is
largely used is a by-product turned out by
the steel-mills. This is called sulfate of
iron. This by product has been thrown
away, but now it can be used for the destruction
of weeds by making a solution of it
and spraying fields that are infested with a
certain class of weeds.—O. C. Gregg, The Northwestern Agriculturist.
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WEEDS, WARFARE AGAINST
Charles H. Spurgeon once said:
An old wall is so interpenetrated—every
nook, crack and crevice—by the notorious
ivy that, tho you may cut the vine at the
roots, you can never thoroughly destroy it,
till the wall itself is leveled.
Most weeds spread chiefly from their seeds, hence care should be taken to prevent the formation of weed-seeds. The more thorough we are in keeping out weeds, the easier our work. While we may not hope to get rid of all weeds, we may greatly lessen their numbers by keeping up a continual warfare against them.
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Weighing Effects—See Probation.
WEIGHT DIMINISHED BY ASCENT
A writer, speaking of variation to be seen in the column of mercury in a barometer, says:
If you prop up the tube, and watch it carefully
from day to day, you will find that the
height of the column of mercury will continually
vary. If you live at the sea-level,
or thereabouts, it will sometimes rise more
than thirty inches above the level of the
mercury in the cup, and frequently fall below
that height. If you live on the top of
a high mountain, or on any high ground, it
will never reach thirty inches, will still be
variable, its average height less than if you
lived on lower ground; and the higher you
get the less will be this average height of the
mercury.
The reason of this is easily understood. When we ascend a mountain we leave some portion of the atmosphere below us, and of course less remains above; this smaller quantity must have less weight and press the mercury less forcibly. If the barometer tells the truth, it must show this difference; and it does so with such accuracy that by means of a barometer, or rather of two barometers—one at the foot of the mountain and one on its summit—we may, by their difference, measure the height of the mountain provided we know the rules for making the requisite calculations.
The higher one ascends, the less
weight oppresses the climber. This is a
truth also of the moral life. The higher
one ascends, the less obstacles and
weights he encounters. In the valley
the demoniac writhes; on the mountain
top Christ appears in His glory.
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Weight Yielding to Persistency—See Perseverance.
Welcome Home—See Song as a Welcome Home.
Well-digging—See Miracles, Evidential Value of.
Well Done—See Early Religion.
Well Known, The, Unknown—See Local Pride.
