The Century illustrated monthly magazine . e aresisting medium surrounding these bodies ?Are they in motion ? Some of the parts of eachnebula must be approaching us, some recedingfrom us. Is it possible to make our spectro-scopic observations sufficiently delicate to de-cide between these two directions with theclues afforded by our knowledge of their realshape ? These and many similar questions atonce suggest themselves with regard to eachindividual nebula. And some of these can cer-tainly be answered, as respects some particularnebulae. The answers so obtained will havethe most important bea
The Century illustrated monthly magazine . e aresisting medium surrounding these bodies ?Are they in motion ? Some of the parts of eachnebula must be approaching us, some recedingfrom us. Is it possible to make our spectro-scopic observations sufficiently delicate to de-cide between these two directions with theclues afforded by our knowledge of their realshape ? These and many similar questions atonce suggest themselves with regard to eachindividual nebula. And some of these can cer-tainly be answered, as respects some particularnebulae. The answers so obtained will havethe most important bearing on the larger ques-tion of the mode of formation of the solarsystem. In the spiral nebula; we have an ex-ample of the working of the nebular hypothesison a comprehensible scale, and we may hopeto make some further steps ou-vard by the lightof the knowledge which seems now to be open-ing to us by the application of an unexpectedlysimple method. Edward S. Ho I den. THE NATURE AND METHOD OF REVELATION. GRADUALNESS OF IIRST the blade, then theear, then the full corn_ in the ear. This pic-ture Jesus himself drewof the foreseen diffusion ofhis kingdom. The king-dom was to be as if a manshould cast seed upon theearth. He plants it andleaves it; he sleeps and rises, night and day. Meantimethe seed springs up and grows, he knoweth not how. Itgoes through, one after an-other, the stages of develop-ment up to the ripeness of thefruit. A parable, it need notbe said, is framed to illustrateone point, and is not to be pressed beyondthe intended scope. As rain and sunshine arerequired for the growth of wheat, so we aretaught elsewhere that divine influences areneedful, and are never disconnected from theoperation of the truth in the minds of is enough complementary teaching ofJesus to preclude any mistake, or one-sidedview, in this direction. Yet the parable showsthe confidence of Jesus in the perpetuity andprogress of his kingdom. There resides in it,so he
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