. Christian herald and signs of our times. ere was no time for him to get out of thepath of the log. His comrades looked over,expecting to see him crushed and mangledunder the huge descending log. It rolled on,gaining velocity at every yard, but just be-fore it reached the man .it struck a rock orsome other projection and gave a greatbound into the air. It passed clear over hishead and struck the ground again severalfeet beyond him, rolling harmlessly to thefoot of the declivity. The lumberman saidthat they had rolled thousands of logs downthat same bluff, but never before had heseen a log lea
. Christian herald and signs of our times. ere was no time for him to get out of thepath of the log. His comrades looked over,expecting to see him crushed and mangledunder the huge descending log. It rolled on,gaining velocity at every yard, but just be-fore it reached the man .it struck a rock orsome other projection and gave a greatbound into the air. It passed clear over hishead and struck the ground again severalfeet beyond him, rolling harmlessly to thefoot of the declivity. The lumberman saidthat they had rolled thousands of logs downthat same bluff, but never before had heseen a log leap into the air as that one was nothing incredible about it, forthe projection which caused the leap wasplainly visible to all, but it was remarkablethat the only log to strike the projectionshould have been one that would havecrushed out a human life if it had notstruck it. Special providences and answersto prayer are often disbelieved and ridiculed,but this incident shows how, without amiracle or suspending natural laws,God can. EXTEMPORIZED FLXERAL NEAR DELAGOA BAY IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. been proved that the mixture of nickel withsteel has precisely the results most neededin the construction of ships. It doubles thestrength of the steel, and as it is much light-er than steel, it will reduce the weight of theship, and so need far less power and lessfuel to propel the ship through the which, nickel does not corrode nortake on barnacles, so that a ship made ofnickel-steel would never need to be laid upfor scraping. If the facts are as alleged,there is little doubt that the metal will comeinto general use in the construction of ships,the advantages being too obvious to beoverlooked. It is much to be wished thatsimilar advantages could be secured for thechurch. Its progress, although rapid com-pared with former times, might be still fasterif it were stronger, had less weight to carry,and if it could be kept clear of the barnaclesof worldliness, inconsistencie
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