The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1869-12-23


The following is the leading ed
itorial article in q late number Of
the New York Herald:
ga New Heaven ana q view Earth. .,
/. And, Isaw new heaven and
new earth; for the first heaven and the
first tearth were Assed away and there
was no more sea. uf-1rH
Q. And !, John, saw the holy city.
New Jerusalem, coming down from
God out Of heaven, prepared as bride
adorned for her husband.
So says st. John. the divine, in
bis wonderful book OF Revelations.
70 what does he retcr2 There
were no steam engines, steam.
boats, steamships or railroads ih
bis day, no electric telegraphs, no
newspapers, and Of many others OF
our modern discoveries and inven-
tions he was as signorant as Nebuc-
hadnezzar. TO what, then, does
the prophet refer in our tcxH Tie
subject naturally divides itself into
four heads First, tho new heav.
en- and the new earth. Secondly,
the first heaven and the first earth.
Thirdly, the disappearance of the
sea. And, foGrthly, the holy city,
the New Jerusalem.
The prophet saw the new heav-
en- and the new earth. How? In
vision. What was il? In our
opinion it was the new heaven and
the earth which will be the fruition
Of all the glories of the new age
upon which we have entered, we Of
this blessed nineteenth century
1t is the new heaven which the dc.
velopment and expansion of the
liberal, catholic aud benefcent
ideas Of the age will open to the hope
and the faith of mankind. We do
not expect it from the Puritan
schools Of New England, nor from
the High Church, Low Church,
or Disseuters Of Old England; nor
are We very sanguine that it will
come even from the Ecumenical
Council; but it is coming. Yes,
brethren, it's coming may be seen
without the aid uf the telescope,
or even Of pair OF specs. And
the grand and potential agencies
that are bringing it with the rush
and the roar Of the tidal wave oil
an earthquake are the locomotive,
the steamship, the lightning tele.
graph and the newspaper. Father
Hyacinthe has given US some glo
rious glimpscs of the new heaven
that is thus approaching, when one
faith, one Church and one des!i nv
shall fuse into universal brother.
hood all the nations and tribes ol
earth 'R,thout distinction ol
race or color "a iFH '
Secondly, the new heaven and
tho new earth will come together
as the first heaven and the first
earth pass away. We shall have
then the new earth in the fulness
of time, when the Suez and Darien
canals, and continental railroads
and land and ocean cables, steam
ships and newspapers, shall have
blended into one might and no.
mogeneous confederation all the
nations, races and tribes of the
globe. And then there will be nc
more wars, for the worlds congress
will settle all provincial disputes
and the affairs Of every corner o.
the globe will be reported at head
quarters every morning. There
will be no more standing armies
or fleets of war ships eating oui
the substance Of the people; no feu
dal aristocracies, no more destruc
, tive famines, because the telegraph
and the steam engine and the news
paper will serve to equalize, from
season TO season, the products AM
the comforts of the various section
of both hemispheres. This, W,
think, is the new earth foreshadow
ed by the prophet, with the new
heaven which he saw.
Thirdly; no says, "And there
was no more sea-" By this Orien
, tai figure he means that such will
be the union of the whole family o
, mankind, in tho full development
of the connecting agencies OF steau
and electricity, that there will b,
"no more sea" to divide The ma
tions. AS the sea between Europ,
) and Americans abolished by th
, Atlantic cables, so there will be, il
Q the fulfilment Of tho Scripture, "n,
s more sea" to divide any one cor
? ner Of the earth from any other. /
will be bridged by steamships an,
!, underlaid by cables in every direC
Q ton. tsi
Fourthly and lastly. we are cal
: ed TO consider tho new city, th
New Jerusalem, which ST. job
t says he saw coming down fror
God out of heaven. This sublim
d vision, we think, may be expIaine
as meaning that the new Jerusa
!. lem will be as new In its moral AZ
3 poets as If descended directly fror
D heaven. What city will it be? W
do not think it will be the old Je
rusalem, for that is played out
: nor Constantinople, nor Rome, nc
Paris, nor London, nor Great Sal
Lake City, the new Jerusalem
the Latter Day Saints; but W
think IL will be New York. An
whyP Because, after the openin
of the interooeanic highway OF th
n DArien Canal, New York will be
O come the great commercial, polit'
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