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lng of the spirit, as is seen in Joshua, when he and the elders put “ dust upon their heads,” when they enquired of the Lord to know why Israel had been defeated before Ai (Josh. 7 :6 ). It is identified with man’s mortality, as the wise man stated when he said, “ All are of the dust,” and that which is of the earth, earthy, “ shall return as it was” (Eccl. 3:20; 12:7). And dust, as the bodily substance of man’s earthy house, is stated to be “ dust and ashes,” denot ing its frailty (Psa. 103:14). It is well we should take into account the frailty of the earthly house in which we dwell, that we may be prepared for whatever contingencies may arise.' The Possibilities of the Body As particles o f dust floating in the air have a mission, so man’s body may become the slave of sin (Rom. 6:6-14), or the temple of the Holy Spirit’s ministry (1 Cor. 3:16). Someone pnce analyzed a cubic inch of air in Glasgow, and found there were 7,600,000 dust particles in it, and the smallest number of particles ever found in a cubic inch of air was 3,400. “ Without this floating dust,” we are told, “ the sky would not be blue, there would be no rain drops, no clouds, no gorgeous sunsets, and no brilliant sun rises.” Thus dust particles have a mission; how much more the combination of dust as classified and adjusted in the make-up of man’s body! Ruskin has explained the possibilities that lie in the mud f* or slime of a damp path in a manufacturing town. He says: "Exclusive of animal decay, we can hardly arrive at a more absolute type of impurity, than the mud or slime of a damp, over-trodden path, in the outskirts of a manufactur ing town. I do not say ‘mud of the road,’ because that is mixed with animal refuse; but take merely an ounce or two of the blackest slime of a beaten footpath, on a rainy day, near Ia manufacturing town. That slime we shall find in most cases composed of clay (or brick-dust, which is burnt clay), mixed with soot, a little sand, and water. “ All these elements are at helpless war with each other, and destroy reciprocally each other’s nature and power: competing and fighting for place at every tread of your foot; sand squeezing out clay, and clay squeezing out water, and soot meddling everywhere, and defiling the whole. Let us suppose that this ounce of mud is left in perfect rest, and that its elements gather together, like to like, so that their atoms may get into closest ■ relations possible. “ Let the clay beglh: Ridding itself of all foreign sub stance, it gradually becomes a white earth, already very beautiful, and fit, with help of congealing fire, to be made into finest porcelain, and painted on, and be kept in kings’ palaces. But such artificial consistence is not its best. Leave it still quiet, to follow its own instinct of unity, and it becomes, not only white, but clear; not only clear, but hard; not only clear and hard, but so set that it can deal with light in a wonderful way, and gather out of it the love liest blue rays only, refusing the rest. We call it then a sapphire. “ Such being the consummation of the clay, we give sim ilar permission of quiet to the sand. It also becomes, first a white earth; then proceeds to grow clear and hard, and at last arranges itself in mysterious, infinitely fine parallel lines, which have the power of reflecting, not merely the blue rays, but the blue, green, purple, and red rays, in the greatest beauty in which they can be seen through any hard material whatsoever. We call it then an opal. “ In next order the soot sets to work. It cannot make itself white at first; but, instead of being discouraged, tries harder and harder; and comes out clear at last, and the hardest thing in the world: and for the blackness that it had, obtains in exchange the power of reflecting all the rays of the sun at once, in the vividest blaze that any solid thing can shoot. We call it then a diamond. “ Last of all, the water purifies or unites itself; contented enough if it only reach the form of a dewdrop; but, if we insist on its proceeding to a more perfect consistence, (t crystalizes into the shape of a star. And, for the ounce of slime which we had by political economy of competition, we
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