The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-06
The Atlantic Telegraph.
sEnsfoN BY REV. W. H. Mc'cARER.

The Pastor of the Walnut Street
Presbyterian Church, on yesterday
forenoon, preached sermon sugges-
ted by the great event of last week,
the completion of the Atlantic Tele
graph, which is of sufficient public
interest that we give some of the
thoughts of the Preacher, especially,
as we have not occupied our columns
very fully with articles on the i'm
portant event, l,.
Introducing the services with the
Hymn, = , A. e
Waterman, tell us of the night"
he took as his text, Dan. xii a verse,
q, Many shall r5tit to and fro ultd kao,o-
ledge shall be increased"
| After some Introductory remarks on the
| second coming of Christ, he referred to the
successful laying of the Atlantic Gable, by
which the Old World and the New are.
! brought into intimate connection the
! great ocean barrier broken down in such
! way, that it can no longer interrupt the
/ an event which is to give such
| new and mighty impulse to human
| thought and human activity-to have
| such tremendous influence upon hu
man happlness-upon the Church also,
7 with whose condition the worlds destiny is
! so inseperably involved. This ought not to
! take place without consideration, or with
| out thanksgiving to the Author of all
! blessings for its successful accomplish
ment. 1t is one Ofthe grand events of the
! AEGEAN institution by which knowledge
/ viii be increased and the race of man
] be brought into closer sympathy.
than ever before. 1t is the SOMETHING, 1t.
seems to me, that we needed to complete
! the agencies already in use to realize the
very last possibilities Of the readiest or
swiftest humane intercourse. BY H. the
whole world, the whole human family, is
soon to be in s. state of rapport. What is
known, of Importance, at any one point
7 upon the globe is INSTANTLY, almost, TO. be
known everywhere; and thus the heart of
humanity is to have common LlTO6 or
pulSatlOn.
Abiding to the great increase of knowI-
edge and the enlarged intercourse of peo-
pie and nations, so characteristic of our
times, the speaker said, just at this time,
God crowns the energy of one man-Cyrus
Wells Fields-with success. He stretches
wire loom beneath the ocean, and the
shuttle OF thought flies back and forth be-
tween the hemispheres, weaving not only
the web of truth and beauty and intelH-
gence, but weaving bonds of golden SYM
pathy between remote peoples and ma
tions-no longer remote, but, by that
hearts occident feel the beating of Orient
hearts, and everywhere man clasps the
hand OF his fellow man, wherever his cline,
wherever his home.
IT'S SOCIAL RESULTS.
1t bripgs the people of all nations to q
| conscious, - of brotherhood. We are now
neigabors, II. 4r neighbors to all the world.
If we may not hope TO know what hap
pens by the hearths of distant relatives,
the tattle and gossips of homes and neigh
borhoods, we can know the general condi-
tlons and circumstances amid which they
live. No great, gloomy event can east its
shadow over country, but we will know
of the darkness and pray for its removal.
No national eyentsend jubilation through
out a land, but the glad tiding viii instant
ly be ours, and our praises along with
theirs Will ascend on high.
IT'S POLITICAL RESULTS.
And the civil and political effects-what
need we more as illustrations and evil
dences than the first news the Cable
brought of Europe-Europe, that we sup
posed was wet with blood, lengthening
that nine miles of slaughter at the north,
| waters of Venice - beautiful Venice,
bride of the seattle news that the
war had ceased, that Austria, the heredi-
tary foe of religious and civil liberty, had
been humbled, brought down from her
| high estate, and that constitutional gov
eminent was about to triumph. OF the
! possible or rather probable results of this
peace, we can here say nothing. 1t is
enough to know that freedoms battles are
being won.
Also, the news from England from Lon
/ don, of the loud, deep, prolonged anathe-
ma of the people at the failure of reform
| What hearts are there here in this country
! that beat in sympathy with the disfran-
! chised masses in Great Britain! And how
many there that know that while their
| prayer, goes up on nigh, How long, Oh,
/ Lord how long?" free people of Ameri-
/ ca stand by them in that prayer, bidding
/ them TO be strong and despair not! The
! Courts, the Governments of Europe cam
not but be affected by the consideration
! that while they act, the World, yes, the
nelo World, as well as the old, looks on to
approve or reprobate. All this while the
unifycation OF the nations is going on, and
\ the people, the world over, will be getting
| to feel more and more that God hath made
of only one blood all the nations of the
! earth. The man that dwellS on the other
| side of the globe-I communicate with
| him in an instant of time; transact bust
4 ness with him; make faith with him; 1
4 entrust to his honor, by single dispatch,
thousands of wealth. He is more than my
eighbor-unconsciously he becomes my
I brother. ..4 p
/ ITS COMMERCIAL RESULTS. S'-
| The telegraph (oeeanic) will alsotend to
the diffusion of wealth; it will prevent
combinations, monopolieS, money panics;
| keep prices steady. 1t is bound also to
| work an entire revolution in business mat
tiers. There is to be a broader, more equal
1 and fairer field of competition laid open,
wisdom are to carry the palm, and where
! the tricky STOCKHOLDERS, bulls and bears,
| and other panic makers are to have less
i chance than heretofore. affF s4ftRaft
ITS RELIGIOUS RESULTS
| We might dwell very much at length
| upon all these topics, but, brethren, what
| we have to do is to contemplate it as a
beneficial work of God, and designed by
Him to hasten the day when the world
shall rejoice in the blessings of the
Gospel of Peace, for which we
. should render him the gratitude
of our hearts. This will, this must be the
result-not must neceSSarily-but must
with the blessing of God. And only seek
ing you, along with thanksgiving for the
many blessings of a temporal kind that
this new channel of INSTRUMENTATION
4 Will undoubtedly confer upon the world
to pray that it may subserve the interests
OF pure and uIadeHled religion That as God
4 has hitherto made use of every human
discovery, every improvement in science
| as q means of fnrthering the interasts 81