The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-04-26
From the Free Christian Commonwealth.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE FORETOLD.

THE ATLANTIC CABLE FORETOLD.
''Their line rs gone ont through all the earth"
PSALM XIX: A.
AS this wonderful thread now belts
more than half the world, we prefer
this, to the exegesis of referring the
line to musical string, as ordinarily
explained. II aoas singular providence
that suffered cable after cable to break,
until the time, n the great dial ofnations,
aOould permit the pltaas to be completed.
1t was not until the grandest problem
ever solved by any one of the nations
on earth had been finished forever.
Had that mysterious line been compile
ted few years sooner, Uould not the
intensely jealous aaaocrats Of the old
World, learning the extent Of our reUerSes
IN the late struggle, hare decided to strife
q 6Jo,0 and settle the question? Would
not the Southern C0rafederocy, that fear
.tM product ofg,tiN and daring, been rec
ognized at once, and the hopes of our
race been turned back for centuries on
the dial plate of human hope.
But the struggle ended, the last fet-
ter having dropped from redeemed
nation of bondmen, the work of bind
ing the nations of earth went on. The
first fashings across the ocean were the
kind wishes and mutual fervent pray
ers for continued peace. The patriot
rejoiced with grateful fulreverence,a and the
Christian with adoring love to God;
that the cable was to bind more and
more closely the interests of mother
and daughter-and all that is hopeful
in the universal sonctJfed brotherhood
of man. w. II. V. ID.
The foregoing quotation from the
Philadelphia Presbyterian is painful
evidence of the degeneracy of the
times. How any ordinary Bible read
er could so pervert that beautiful
psalm, as to make its sublime utteran-
ces terminate in telegraph line is diff
ficult to understand. Darkness GER
tainly covers the earth and gross dark
ness the people. This original COM
mentator infers that because the line
has gone through more than half the
world it certainly was indicated by the
Psalmist. He seems to forget that
there are other things more widely ex-
tended than Morse's poles and wires
he certainly forgot Ayers Cherry Pecto-
raj. Jacob Townsend's patent medi-
cines, wooden clocks, and great many
other Yankee notions. These all have
had a wider extension than the tele-
graph-"this grandest problem eUer SOLE
ed.n The time too when this great e.
vent was accomplished affords the wri-
ter particular comfort. [ wonder if
this same w. III. V. D. is not one ofthe
individuals who panied the hearts OF
Gods people some years ago, on the
premature announcement of itssuccess,
by applying the same language to the
Atlantic Cable, that was used when the
glorious Redeemer was firstannounced
to our world, "Glory to God in the
Highest" How the application OF
this language which is associated with
the most wonderful record God has
given of Himself, could be made to a
mere human operation, and yet escape
the censure of the press is almost as
great a mystery as the telegraph itself.
According to the reasoning ofthis wise
commentator the propitious hour had
not then arrived-there was wise
providence in the failure which soon
became evident. If the lines had
proved success at that time and had
continued to the time of that 'fearful
product of guilt" the "Old World
would have reversed the order of Gods
providences. AS the old World with
her weekly communications was so en-
tirely ignorant ofall American transac'
tions the Atlantic Telegraph would have
been invaluable. How wonderfully il
would have affected England and
France, to learn by telegraph that the
little bell in Washington had every
American citizen at the end of its
tongue-and how completely terrified
and submissive all Europe would have
been lest its tinkle should be heard ir
the Court of st. James and elsewhere
. The writer of the above article is Ger
tainly wrong-wrong in his premises
wrong in his conclusions-wrong al
through. But the concluding anc
most overpowering thoughtof the wri
ter is its power to bind the two nation:
-"mother and daughter" by this won
!, derful submarine handcuff. Now
whenever it is proved that four thous
: and miles of prepared wire will bind