Cohering Currents by T. E. Bowen

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 17, 1914

Cohering Currents

By T. E. Bowen

A LITTLE boy was experimenting with his batteries. An electric magnet had been made; and after completing his circuit through his magnet, and exhausting his experiments upon jack-knife, needles, pins, etc., he thought of tacks. Getting a handful of common carpet tacks, with his strong current from several dry batteries his magnet would pick up from the table every one — a great black ball, one hanging to the other like a swarm of bees clinging to a limb. By simply moving a wire and cutting off the current, the whole bunch would immediately be made to fall, a mass of individual carpet tacks, without any cohesion whatever.

As I watched him, I thought, What a beautiful illustration of how God unites into one His earthly believers! By His heavenly current of divine love, He holds together His children upon earth. But with the unseen heavenly current severed — well, there are so many illustrations all over the land, it is unnecessary to mention the sequel.

T. E. BOWEN.