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Show MAN'S DOMINION. ' T fi J 8 Last week Thursday was the day on which the jr f M coronation of the King of Great Britain was to 1 iliB take place. i' pfB All the nations of the earth had, for months, i ik M been preparing for the groat event. Representa- j ''M $' j tives of all nations had gathered in London; the I) ff i fl war-ships of all the principal nations were rest- i &j I rl ing on their anchors at Portsmouth waiting for J j "$; the hour when their sleeping great guns should j j 'B awaken and roar in salute of the newly-crowned 1 1 "j , I King. All England was excitement and London I ;.i ',! had become a tumbling sea of surging humanity, m A r all expectant of the great event. m 'i'i ,)l Suddenly a swift and potential notice was ffl $ '' served upon the world, that no divinity "doth I M Wm hedge a King" about. A pain seized him just as K fl.'B it does common people, under it he fainted just II M'riB as would a common individual, .and when the II i lB men of science investigated they declared at once . II M 'CfB that the only chance for life was through the 1 :J!"jlB operating table and knife. Millions of people in ' ' ' ()B the morning envied the King because of his glory j K " pfl and his power, at night not one of the millions j l , jB would have exchanged places with him for a II iv.llB thousand thrones, and thousands were whispering: j l i-jfl "Thus passes away a glory from the earth." J BiB The innate weakness of poor humanity was h 1 $ never more pointedly shown, never was there, a llH 'lfl more direct lesson of how frail a foundation all ii n''$M earthly hopes rest on. Hi J ," H But those lessons have been served on mankind M i 'V 1 from the first. There is another feature about HlKM it, however, which, though no longer new, con- il tinues a wonder of the world. Had the same mis- fortune come a day or two previous to tho corona- I l" A .9 tion of King Edward's mother, only sixty-five L ii years ago, it would have been a month or perhaps l forty days before it would have been known in 1 $$ New York; from four to six months before the M '- men in the seaports of Australia and India would i- M have heard of it. But in an hour, even In far-off Hl-fl Siam, the word had been flashed, all civilization ilfMH had heard the news, the preparations for festivals Bp '; M were stopped and tho day of the proposed corona- Bf M tion was turned into a day of prayer. H i Only out at sea did English subjects celebrate HI ffl the day. Quite possibly in ten years more the Bfi'iH air will carry soundless messages to the plunging mf j ' fl ships to keep them in accord with the moving If1 B world on shore, for man's dominion over the earth if ( M and its elememts is extending daily and the if 'i M divinity of mind over matter is more and more If ' fl asserting itself. There is still another fact worth ; If M noting. Had the same affliction assailed the King's fll'l' m mother on coronation week, the surgeons would fflw J have stood helpless before Her Majesty, and the My B day appointed for coronation day would have been 811 oflj tho day of her death, for no other science haa Jwll 1 advanced so rapidly as has that of medicine and BI '' l surgery during the past three score years. If IBfl1 'H man's utter weakness under disease is revealed, Bfif r the strength of man in combatting disease is Bf more and more magnificently demonstrated, and BL Bl tho proof that his dominion over even "the pesti- BIHHl lence that walketh at noon-day" is shown. IBflH The notice that it all serves upon mankind, BIBPB especially upon the youths of the world, is that BBHBB there is nothing impossible to brave workers in BBBB all the world's flolds, that all can, if they but try BHB with earnest souls, bravo hearts and persist- BBHHB ent brains, do about any glorious thing that they jHH try to do, for tho promise is still good that man fl9H shall have dominion over all the earth, and that Bfl includes not only what is material to the senses flBB but the viewless elements within the earth and in BBBfl the air and ether above it, HHBB |