Recent discoveries, scientists tell us, show that there is just as truly a movement in the solid part of the earth as there is of the tides. In other words, that there is a tide to the whole earth; very evident in its liquid part, but just as truly a fact in its solid materials. One of the great difficulties has been to determine it on account of the fact that the observation must be made from the earth itself, a most difficult thing to do, indeed, but new devices have been invented by which scientists have come to the conclusion that the earth itself swells and heaves periodically. This is another fact to show that God's universe is a living universe, and that the earth itself is a living body; but not as some of the philosophers have dreamed, with a conscious intelligent soul—that is another thing.