The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-08-21


One Of the greatest achievements accomp".se'
by the Atlantic reicgraphic Cable 70 hs suos
some Of the newspapers 70 reading .ns D'o'e,
and quoting v.r,ous texts which, In this opinion Of
these eminent theologisns, are highly applicable
70 the ,ubject. For example, iss1ing New York
journal quotes the following to show shat the
idea 20 far from being new or original, 10 simply
fu,filment Of prophecy, and carrying oas OF eng
gestions made by the inspired writersr:
pssLMs xix.--Their line Ia gone ont through
oil the earth, and their words TO the end OF the
worid.e
Jon xxxuH: ss--Canst thou send the light
oings, that they may 90, and say unto thee mere
we arel
REVELATIONS, x:1.-And saw another mighty
angel como down from heaven, clothed with
cloud: and rainbow was upon his head, ana DIS
face was - II we're the sun, and his feet a. plIars
Of fire.s
2. And be had in hts hand little book open ana
he sat his right foot upon the and his ieft foot
upon the earth:
8. And cried with q loud voice a. when lion
roareth, and when he had cried, seven thunders
uttered their voices.
T. And when the seven thuuders had uttered
their voices, I was about to wrte and heard
voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those
things which the seven thuHders uttered, ana
write them not.
s. And the angel which 1 saw stand upon the
sea and upon the earth lifted MP bis hand 70 hea'
ven, .s
6. And sware by him that liveth forever and
ever, who created heaven and the things Una.
therein, are, anu the earth and the things tnas
therein are, and the sea aud the things when are
thereis. that there should be time no longer.
jon 1xxyu 3. He drecteth IL (hfs yoics) un-
the whole heavens, and his lightning 70 the eno'
Of the earth.
JOB XVIII: 26-when he made decree for the
rain, aud q way for the lightning and the fnnn-
der.
Jon xxxym: 25-Who hath divided water
course for the overfowiugo of waters, or way lot
the lightning OF thunder.
PRovsRBs, VIII: % When be gave to the sea MS
decree that the waters should not pass his coui'
mand.
Our theological contemporary insists that the
ooipcid Of tho seven thunders and seven voices
in the Evan gelists vision with the seven wires OF
the cables the several illusions to the sway for the
lightning; the inquiry whether the lightning can
be made to speak; and the direct reference to the
| Insulation of the cable by giving decree to the
sea, that s'the waters should not pass bis CON
maud, )" have obvious reference to the Ocean Tele
graph
Such an application of these texts was never
dreamed of before. When David declared In one o.
the most sublime of compositions that heavens
| declare the glory of God, and the armament shew
eth His handy work, and when, expressing In thu
same poetic strain the idea that, In these heavens
| all men, no matter how remote, may read, as 10
| book, the greatness and goodness OF the Divine
Architect be added "Their fine is gone ont through
| all the earth, and their works to the end OF thu
world" he could scarcely have imagined such
"wresting of Scripture as the application of tina
| verse to slime" of wire and gutta percha at tn
| bottom of the Atlantic. When the patriarch Jo'
asked who could open the clouds. to make way To-
the lightning and thunder, he probably had So
perior power in his mind to any that operatin,
at ya,entia or Trinity Bay. The climax is reached
however, in the Book of Revelations, where tn
"seveu thunders' are made to coincide with tn
seven wires, and the prediction that Time shall b
No longer, Is contaminated in the success of Cyru
| W. Field.
| We have had come notable evidences that whei
religious newspapers intrude upon the secular
field, they are apt to make botch of it, aud, OF
the other hand, the shrewdest of secular journai
seem equally out of their element in the business
Of expounding and interpreting Holy Scripture.