its vital activities are reduced to a minimum and with its closely protected coat can resist the coldest temperature of the winter. It can withstand heat also, and its life is preserved through decades. Thomson says: "One of the factors that assisted the Allies in overcoming the food crisis in the darkest period of the war was the virtue of Marquis wheat, a very prolific early ripening, hard red spring wheat with excellent milling and baking qualities. It has enormously increased the real wealth of the world in the last ten years. In 1918 upwards of 300,000,000 bushels were raised in North America, yet the whole originated from a single grain planted in an experimental plot at Ottawa by Dr. Charles E. Saunders in 1903.” TOPICAL SUGGESTIONS: 1. The laws of astronomy and geology prepare the soil and furnish water supply with fertilization processes for man's sustenance through vegetation. 2. The seed with power inherent to absorb from earth, air and water the necessary particles or chemicals for food supply and reproduction. The structure of the seed. The wonderful provision made for preservation. 3. The fruit useless without power of man to handle, assimilate, and appropriate the fruit. 4. The building processes from the lower to the higher forms of life until man, the crowning glory of creation, is reached. 5. The functions of the blossom and its various parts. 6. The mountain, mines and forest contributing limitless provisions for man. 7. Vegetables and fruits in their seasons. 8. Form and structure to suit the needs of man. H IV CHEMISTRY AVING seen from previous chapters the wise provision made for man in the solar system, the preparation of the earth for man and the many safeguards thrown around animal life and vegetation and the seed for preservation, also His wisdom and goodness in providing moisture in form of rains and heat from the sun, we must look further into the great storehouse and see what lies within the scope of Chemistry. Having provided man with soil, moisture and seed, we look about for means for producing food for man's preservation. We see that he needs a helper in the form of tools for cultivation, also for transportation and communication. In the laws of Chemistry we see the merging and combination of ingredients and material changing form and structure. The iron ore is changed from the rough, apparently useless piece of rock to the bright and glistening piece of steel. The sand is changed by a combination of chemicals and heat to the clear or many coloured glasses. From the rock charged with silver, gold and other precious metals by the application of the laws of Chemistry, we break up the rough combination, and in place of the seemingly worthless piece of stone we have the many metals for use as our purposes may require. Having secured the iron and steel from the ores, we proceed to shape them into tools, implements and machinery. We form the products of same by a process of rolling, moulding and cutting under a high degree of heat, and we have our plows for turning over the soil, our harrows for breaking up the clods, our machinery for planting, cultivating and reaping the crops. Also from the laws of chemistry and physics, affinities, expansion, contraction and expulsion, we have our railroads built of steel, our locomotives and cars for transportation, our automobiles and motor vehicles for industrial, commercial and social enjoyment. We have our telegraph and telephone systems for communication, our great merchant vessels for transportation over ocean and sea. In the moving-picture world the film bows obeisance to the laws of Chemistry, and we have the delights and educational processes growing out of this wonderful addition to man's life. The artist and the great producers of art would throw a halo around the brow of Chemistry, were a personification produced. The painter mixes paints and colours to produce the Madonnas. Michael Angelo, Rembrandt and other great artists could never have brought to life, so to speak, their wonderful productions without the use of these laws. The food we eat, the water we drink, the clothes we wear, the air we breathe, the wonderful functioning of the physical mind and body crowd in, around and under these great laws. The power of assimilation of foods, the preparation of same by salivas, juices, and chemical processes besides the strength and power of reproduction, all bow their homage to the king of chemstry. In the congealed waters or ices and the liquid air, under the laws of Chemistry, we see a transformation in the forms almost miraculous, although in the case water to ice and ice to water the transformation is most common. But here in the use of ices we see a great contribution to the welfare of mankind. The sufferers from fever and kindred diseases amid the blazing suns of the tropics, or in the summer heats of other zones, pay their tribute to the cooling draught or application of ices, as they toss upon their beds appealing for relief. The surgeon, as he applies his scalpel to the suffering and broken patient, can better perform the operations demanded when using the processes of anesthetics to the parts affected and under their calming influences. The preservation of foods, meats and vegetables follows upon the application of ices and salts, as these foods remain long in transit or in storage. The many colours, pleasing to the eye, the beautiful harmonies in dress, house colouring effects, landscape scenes and spectral combinations in nature, all call for praises of these wonderful laws. The diamond, amethyst, emerald, onyx, or even the beautiful pearl, whose architect builds twixt heavy walls in deep ocean or shallow waters, all with one accord speak the great Creator's wonderful provision in the laws of Chemistry. The white marbles of Vermont, the dark slabs of Tennessee, the black coals and oils of the mines and wells, if they could speak, would unravel a tale of wondrous history, pictured amid the fires, frosts, and combination of chemical action, bringing them to a place fit for humanity's use. In the fertilization of the soils by the common combinations of carbon dioxides and water, humus and bacteria, we have a contribution to the welfare of man which adds largely to his wealth and common comforts, making the earth to produce more bountifully and to blossom forth as the rose, where, formerly, only weeds might grow. The newspaper, the phonograph record, the telescope and microscope, the thermometer and barometer, all exult in their praise of Chemistry. So, whether in the air, ocean, earth, animal and vegetable life, or, as we may say, in all the elements we see the great Creator's provision through the laws of Chemistry for all and every need, where man may work in harmonious action and common accord with His evident purpose working out the summum bonum for mankind. The commerce of the world may be carried upon the bosom of the ocean, the whirl of wheels in factory amid the din and mutterings of machinery, the transportation of products from one end of the earth to another, the growing and groaning of vegetable life as it presses its way through the soil and grasps from earth, air and water, the combination of chemicals for growth, reproduction and fruits; all these may cause our admiration and wonder, but we can never arrive at a full appreciation of these marvelous creations and their functioning until we begin to study the Hand which guides and stabilizes the harmonious whole. As one poet says: "Till all the world take up the strain, Consider nature's God." But aside from the general laws of Chemistry as mentioned above, we must consider what may be called the fundamentals of creation. The ancients thought the earth was supported on a gigantic elephant, and the elephant on the back of a monstrous tortoise, and as J. Arthur Thomson says in his |