The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-09

Tss TrrEoaAPa AND rtfx CsuRoH.-A new
use for the Atlantic telegraph has beeu dis
coyered-a new effect of its working which
probably had never entered into the minds Of
lis projectors or those actively concerned in the
work Of laying the cable. 1t is its utility in
Spreading the light Of the Gospel in difasing
religion, and in concentrating praise and prayer
10 tie Almighty. When the success of the great
enterprise wss announced the other day in the
Fulton street prayer meeting, several sugges-
tons of this character we're made. One gentle
man called for prayer that the cable which
now unites two worlds may be blessed as new
instrument in Gods hands for the diffusion of
tie Gospel and for the Fastening on of that day
when all hearts shall rejoice in the Saviour"
Another saw in 1t the means for the fulflme0t
Of the prophecy that the knowledge of the Sa-
viour should be communicated to oil the ends
of the earth. The clergyman was aware that
the facility thus provided would be improved
by the powers of darkness, which would be
ready to serd with lightning epeed in6delity,
pollution, vice and crime; but still, he prayed
that the cable might bind together these great
nations which possess the Bible and the Gospel,
and that the event might be improved for the
spread of true knowledge and the blessed in.
tiuences Of the Gospel
And that through this instrumenalny we may hear OF
the outpcurDgs Of the spirit and that each city may Say
gs.her" and lie response shall be, We win co." and
this great irstrumentaty shall c,rcumvent the obe
nation shall speak to nation. and kingdom to Kingdom,
nom the rising to the settling Of the sun.
Another Clergyman in the same meeting
claimed the electric telegraph as q direct reve-
lation from heaven, narrating the fact that
during all the preliminary processes of
the invention, Professor Morse made it
the subject of daily prayer and one Of
the gentlemen present suggested that when all
the apparatus was perfected that meeting
should send Christian salutation to some SINH
cert of prayer. Finally the congregation joined
in singing the very appropriate verse
Watt, watt, yawinds, bis stsry-
And yoa, ye waters, roll
TIL, like soa OF glory,
spYesos from pole TO pole.
But not in this city alone was the event hon.
ored on account of its connection with religion.
II was announced ct the semi-centennial dinner
of the Alumni of the Andover Theological Col
lege, in the presence of about thousand
guests, including large proportion of clergy
men. We are told that the news was received
with enthusiastic applause, and that in honor of
the event and acknowledgment Of its impor-
tance the doxology was Immediately sung and
prayer and thanksgiving offered, in which the
officiating divine, Rev. DR.. Haws, made use Of
ia Wo hon tod
instrument, so far as our agency is concerned,
to the building up Of the truth
The Importance of telegraphic communica-
ton between the Old and New Worlds had been
hitherto considered in commercial, political and
social points of view alone. We question if it
had ever been considered in the light of its re-
lgious effect. This gives 1T new, and to
many the most desirable and important phase.
And so all interests, for eternity as we'll as for
time, have been promoted by this great enter
prise and its successful termination.
There was probably not pulpit in this great
metropolis from which the subject was not al
luded to yesterday; and in anticipation of that
We had despatched our reporters to the churches
Of some of our most eminent divincs We were,
however, somewhat disappointed to learn that
almost all Of these clergymen had taken their
congo for the summer, and were ruralizing here
and there, while their churches were either
closed or their pulpits occupied by clergymen
of lesser note. We give sketches of the re.
marks of come of those that were left, but
doubt net that in all the churches throughout
the country the event was duly consecrated.
LAST OF THEIR RACE.-The steamships Prince
Albert, Arago and Nova Scotian, that are now
severally due at this port and Quebec, may be
regarded-so far as concerns the carrying of
news between the two continents-as the last
Of their race. Their day is done. No more
shall we look with intense anxiety for the
arrival Of the European steamer bringing the
latest news, and that may have such tidings to
communicate a. the fall Of Sebastopol, the
storming of Delhi, crash on the Paris Bourse
or the London Stock Exchange, or the invasion
Of Great Britain by the modern Gauls The
latest news that they will have had from one
continent will have been covered up in the dust
Of time when they reach the shores Of the other
1t is within the recollection of those who still
are young how anxiously the fast sailing
packets between New York and Liverpool used
to be watched for, and what excitement their ar
rival used 10 create in this citv Their On ntains