| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: developed, and this is the only sense in which gravity can be said
to be converted into heat. In no case is the force which produces
the motion annihilated or changed into anything else. The mutual
attraction of the earth and weight exists when they are in contact
as when they were separate; but the ability of that attraction to
employ itself in the production of motion does not exist.
The transformation, in this case, is easily followed by the mind's
eye. First, the weight as a whole is set in motion by the attraction
of gravity. This motion of the mass is arrested by collision with
the earth; being broken up into molecular tremors, to which we give
the name of heat.
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: and hypocritical prayers.
But this is true indeed that such prayers as have been offered
hitherto when men were babbling and bawling in the churches were no
prayers. For such external matters, when they are properly observed,
may be a good exercise for young children, scholars, and simple
persons, and may be called singing or reading, but not really praying.
But praying, as the Second Commandment teaches, is to call upon God in
every need. This He requires of us, and has not left it to our choice.
But it is our duty and obligation to pray if we would be Christians, as
much as it is our duty and obligation to obey our parents and the
government; for by calling upon it and praying the name of God is
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