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Show "What Doest Thou Here?" H And, behold, the Lord passed by and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not In the wind; and after the wind an earth- jH quake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord jH was not In the fire; and after the fire a still small voice. And it was so, when Elijah heard It, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, fl and stood in the entering in of the cave. And IH behold, there came a voice unto him and said: What doest thou here Elijah? At the seaport of Norddetch of the Frisian is-lands, is-lands, a tower is being erected, to be completed in the coming summer where is to be probably the most important wireless teleghaph station in the jH I world. Germany is alert to place., guards around her dominions. From this, statloa she can talk tt half the world. There may be winds , to .rend the. mountainsfand lire ale in pieces the. rocks; there may be earthquakes ; there may be fires; but after the winds, the earthquakes and the fires, the still small voice, will come to her, will tell her what is being done in England, In France, in Holland, in Sweeden and Norway, in Italy, in Austria, in Russia, in the Balkans and more important still, how her great ships are faring out on the North sea, out" on the stormy Atlantic, out on the Mediterranean. Medi-terranean. Hurricanes may roar, earthquakes may take up their march and change the face of Nature, fires may convert cities into scrap piles, but they cannot still that voice which riding on the wireless air, a new Mercury, brings Its messages, mes-sages, in whatever language they may be spoken, to the listener. It was not a figure of speech which told how of old the voiqe said to Elijah: "What doest thou hero?" That voice has been ringing down the ages smce the beginning of time, only men's ears were dulled and could not hear, only man's genius had not invented a way to arrest and interpret that voice. How many a gallant ship might have been saved from collision or from merciless breakers could that voice have been heard; what wars , might have been avoided could that voice have been heard? "What messages could have been sent from sinking ships, how many could have been 'forewarned that a hurricane was on its march? What other calls are in: the air that' we cannot yet hear with our dulled ears, that wait until men's genius picks them lip and brings then! to us? Are those voice's waiting to tell us of the mysteries of the Beyond? How planets and suns are peopled; of tlic hew lights that are shining just beyond our vision, of the character of the .music that is being performed la the realms where music was born? Who can tell? But as of old," "there came a voice and said: What doest thou here?" So that voice is ever coming to us all. What doest thou here? Is today's work better than yesterday's? Suppose an accounting ac-counting were to be asked for; is everything done in honor and in truth? Is the work performed honest and the best you can do? The account that tells of the building of thla' station at Norddetch tells of the different countries coun-tries from which messages' will come, the different differ-ent languages in which those messages will come. It will bo doing here what sprayer has been do? ing through the ages. They ascend In all tongues, the viewless machinery receives them all, at the further end of the line in the great central sta-a sta-a nation had the inherent right of self-preservation in the stars they are all received and translated. trans-lated. The best work that mortals can perform is after all but to now and then steal a secret which Nature has had working' since before the mcrning stars sang together. |