THE BATTALION.
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To me there is nothing in it beyond the lustre which may be
reflected from its connection with a power of promoting hu
man felicity.”
Washington lived, labored, suflered and rejoiced not for
himself, but for the cause of humanity ; and when at the ex
piration of his second term he committed the welfare of his
country to the benign Father, his work was done, and the
future prosperity of his country was an assured fact.
Happy it is for the United States, happy it is for the
American continent, happy it is for humanity that the world
produced a Washington.
On the 22nd of February 1782 a star appeared in the
constellation which was destined to shed its lustre' over the
entire universe. That star has guided the people of the
United States in the past. It is the guide of the American
people at present and will be the guide of the human race
until eternity. A. M. Hilderbrandt.
the chertioh of the wohud.
fl Sunday HdcjUt Hectare Delivered by
Dr. T. C. Bittle.
“ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was
upon the face of the deep.”
This is a sort of preface to the history of all things. In
the beginning of your Bibles, opposite these words stands the
date, 4004 before Christ. It is the comment of the translators
and others, but it is entirely out of place. The “ beginning ”
here spoken of lies back of the history recorded in succeeding
verses, by a gap of—we know not how many millions of years.
The interval or gap may be represented bv the time that
would be required for a universe of the most highly attenu
ated gaseous matter—such, say, as could be found in your
most perfectly formed vacuum receiver, to assume motion in
space ; begin to gravitate about a neuclus, or a number of