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Letter respecting Professor Lewis and N. C. Converts,
respecting Rev. Mr. Hough and the Ohio Association,

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from a young Gentleman now residing in Denmark,

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from Dr. E. Bryan, giving an account of the Progress of the N. C. in the
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Book Operations, by H. M. Saxton,

Cincinnati Swed. Aux. Printing and Publishing Society, Report of,
Communication from Rev. Mr. Fernald,

Detroit Auxiliary to A. S. Printing and Publishing Society, Anniversary of,
General Convention, Proceedings of,

New Discoveries in the East,

Society, American N. C. Tract and Missionary, Anniversary of,

Spiritual Sense of the Word-why was the revelation of it so long delayed?

Spiritual Attraction and Equilibrium,

Tafel, Dr., at Home,

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THROUGHOUT the Divine Word that principle which we call Caloric, and which is the fundamental stimulus to all vitality, is signified by the term Fire. This, we are taught by an author whose pages are almost sacred in the eye of reason, corresponds to love-in a good sense to celestial love, in an opposite sense to infernal love. And Newchurchmen have always delighted to trace out the striking and beautiful analogies which are presented between the love or heat of the soul and that glorious emanation from the natural sun which executes the will while it images the nature of God. But the subject is of such vast and central importance in the true philosophy of mind and matter, that no time is wasted and no labor is fruitless, which comfirms or amplifies our conception of its truths.

The Divine Love is the sole self-existing spiritual substance. It is life itself, and every vital manifestation in its extent and degree is a token of its presence. We follow its progressive development from the animalcule in the rain-drop, through the manifold phases of animal life to the perfect form of man, that wonderful being who is at the same time an inhabitant, a spectator, and an actor in two worlds. And now by the medium of a special revelation, we are enabled to pursue these manifestations of Divine Love by successively ascending steps, until they pass away from the sphere of our cognizance in the ineffable and unapproachable splendors of the third heaven. All the passions and emotions of the mind, however dissimilar in appearance, are modifications of the life's love; and hence the ruling love is the

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determining force of the whole spiritual organization. If these spiritual propositions be true, then our assumed correspondence between love and heat necessitates the two following deductions: 1st, Heat is the essential exciter to natural life. 2d, Heat is the only primary natural force.

The truth of the first proposition is almost apparent to all who have noted the hatching of an egg or the luxuriant vegetation of a hot-bed. The difference between summer and winter proclaims it with striking clearness. In the cold season the vegetable world is reduced to its minimum of vitality, retaining only a spark which the returning spring may kindle into the annual flame. Many animals lie during the whole winter in a condition of torpidity and apparent death. The geographical distribution of plants and animals is an analogous exemplification. The gigantic vegetation and almost incalculable forms of animal life which characterize the torrid zone, gradually disappear as we proceed toward the poles, until at last we find only a few Mosses and Lichens, rein-deer, and savage and stunted men-the scattered inhabitants of a frozen and desolate region. These effects of heat are not confined to the land; the sea also gives its testimony for the truth. The Gulf Stream is a broad current of water issuing from the Gulf of Mexico, and sweeping for many hundred miles athwart the Atlantic in a north-easterly direction. Coming from a tropic clime it is warmer than the vast body of water through which it forces its wonderful way, and with which it is finally amalgamated. Now the marine plants and animals which are found in this current, are more numerous and of higher grades of development than those which exist just beyond its borders, showing the vitalizing power of heat under circumstances in which no other hypothesis can account for the effects.

The question of the identity of the imponderable agents has for some time engaged the attention of the scientific world. At first it came in the shape of a pleasing but fanciful speculation. Its plausibility became more and more apparent with the progress of research, and vague intimations were given out from the oracles of science of a real fundamental unity in the forces of nature. But now the greatest names in Europe and America are enlisted in its favor. Light, in the language of Mrs. Sommerville, who has put to shame the male sex in scientific acquisition--light is luminous caloric-and caloric is invisible light. The same wonderful relation which so obviously exists between heat and light, has been discovered between electricity and magnetism, and in fact between all four of the Imponderable Agents. Chemical force, which was long considered a separate causative principle, has at last fallen under the same category, under the name of Actinism. The three degrees, in which not only heat but life itself displays its properties, are beautifully exemplified in an analysis of the solar ray. This ray consists of three combined elements-Heat, Light, and Actinism-but separable by the prism. They have been thus isolated and made to act singly upon vegetable tissues. Actinism, the lowest degree of heat, acts specifically upon the roots of plants. It is the mere power or chemical affinity which

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