Show B Y COLLEGE I A successful ful opening a good attendance opening alith OMINE OHI LINE OF WORK TOR FOR THE TERM notes on class exercises furnished by students description of tho courses offered etc tile the B Y college opened last week with over one hundred students of whom 21 were in the pre pr c department and tle the re bainder in the college 0 proper ir fol owing awing is the daily pro gramme of citations recitations for the pre present ent term the same attention ile be given it JOHN ill ANDERSON NATURAL THEOLOGY at first this argument seems very complex but it is r simple the order of nature seems to be something very broad and to discuss the order order of nature seems a long iong discussion we wa begin like this we know that it never happened to us to set pet things in order except we did it intentionally our starting point P in reason h 5 if I 1 r wel we glance at the desks in this room a and nd fi find nd them in straight rows it will ivill take no argument to convince us that chat so no intelligent person arranged hern so when we ive find similar simi Ial examples outside of our own in tell joell cc we know not what iso could have produced such results except an intelligence like our own wn now there is order in all alic aspects of nature if t here were ivere not lot science would be impossible science is merely the discovery and ATTENTION attention is our capability to center our minds upon a thing and keep it there for any desired lenth length b of time that we cultivate our faculties to the extent that we can put our whole effort to a study when prosecuting it is very essential unless we ve can do this we will not accomplish com much in life joone wishes to pursue any an certain course in life he must exert his efforts in that direction the desired end will not bo be reached if he allows himself to wander from one thing to another the men who have achieved most in life educationally are men who have centered their whole mind on the subjects which they were studying men of strongest 0 intellects hay have e cultivated their power of attention or concentta con concentration centra tion and ascribe their superiority rity to other men in intellectual power to that one thin thing ALVIN alvi ALLEN ATTENTION X attention in the capability to concentrate prolong and change mental effort people complain of having poor memories but such is not the case cage there are no poor memories except through the lack of atter attention tion if ono one does not retain a thing in his mind it is because he be has failed to give attention to that certain thing who if they were to receive some severe injury would not remember it always just so with any thing else if classification of the plans and the he orderly arrangement r found in in nature science is never a m mere ere set of facts no subject is a science science until it is discovered that the facts can be classified according b to a certain plan and that the facts simply represent certain laws no now iv science invent these laws it simply finds find them for example the law lav of leaf arrangement is first that the leaves are opposite on the stem the next kind of leaf arrangement is that in which leaves are a alternate ternate and in boid going 0 around the stem stein once from leaf to leaf you pass three leaves in the next nex t higher bi her leaf arrangement in in i goll going ig around twice you pass fay five e leaves in the dext higher arrangement in going around three times you pass eight 0 leaves etc in this way we see that nature has worked an example there is something intelligent about it tho the leaf law is as follows after we get tile the first two fractions by adding 0 their numerators for a ne new w numerator arid and their denominators for or a new denominator we got the next highest order of leaf arrangement science found these as facts and they were afterward termed the laws of leaf arrangement the series is 12 1 2 13 1 3 2 25 5 38 3 8 5 13 8 21 etc in which the numerator represents the number of times wo iva go around the stem and the denominators the number of leaves we ire pasq IV V II if GRIFFIN |