Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-12-07

the world for some quick and universal
movement. A celebrated electrician gave
me telegraph chart Of the world. On
that chart the wires crossing the CONT.
nents and the cables under the sea look
ed like veins red with blood. On that
chart 1 see that the headquarters Of the
lightnings are in Great Britain and the
United States. In London and New
York the lightnings are stabbed, wait
ing to be harnessed for some quick dis
patch. That shows you that the tele-
graph is in possession of Christianity.
Old Fashioned Christians.
1t is significant fact that the man
who invented the telegraph was an old
fashioned Christian-Professor Morse
and that the man who put the telegraph
under the sea was an old fashioned
Christian-Cyrus W. Field-and that
the president of the most famous of the
telegraph companies of this country was
an old fashioned Christian-William
Orton-going from the communion table
ON earth straight to his home in heaven.
What does all that mean?
do not suppose that the telegraph
was invented merely to let US know
whether -four is up or down, or which
FLY won the race at the Derby, or
which marksman beat at Dollymount
l suppose the telegraph was invented
and built to call the world to God.
In some of the attributes Of the Lord
we seem to share on q small scale-for
instance, in his love and in his kind
ness. But until Of late foreknowledge,
omniscience, omnipresence, omnipo-
tence, seem to have been exclusively
Gods possession. God. desiring to make
the race like himself, gives US a spe'
cies Of foreknowledge in the weather
probabilities, gives us species Of ON
niscience in biography, gives us a spe-
cies of omnipresence in the telephone,
gives US a species Of omnipotence in
the steam power. Discoveries and in
ventions all around about us, people are
asking what next?
will tell you what next. Next, a
stupendous religious movement. Next.
the end Of war. Next, the crash Of des-
potisms. Next, the worlds expurgation.
Next. the Christlike dominion. Next,
the Judgment. What becomes OF the
world after that care not II will have
suffered and achieved enough for one
world. Lay it up in the drydocks Of
eternity, like an old man-of-war gone
out Of service, or fit it up like ship
of relief to carry bread to some other
suffering planet, or let it be demol-
ished. Farewell, dear old world, that
began with paradise and ended with
Judgment confagration
Training For Heaven.
One summer I stood on the isle of
Wight, and 1 had pointed out to me the
place where the Eurydice sank with
200 or 800 young men who were in
training for the British navy. Yo g.
member when the training ship went
down there was a thrill Of horror all
over the world. Oh, my friends, this
world is only a training ship. On 1t
we are training for heaven. The old
ship sails up and down the ocean Of i'm
mensity, now through the dark wave of
the midnight, now through the golden
crested wave Of the morn, but sails on
and sails on. After awhile her work
will be done. and the inhabitants Of
heaven will look out and find world
missing. The cry will be: where is
that earth where Christ died and the
human race were emancipated? Send
out fleets of angels to find the missing
craft " Let them sail up and down,
cruise up and down the ocean Of eterni-
ty, and they will catch not one glimpse
Of her mountain masts or her top gall
lants Of floating cloud. Gone down!
The training ship of world persisted
in the last tornado. Oh, let it not be
that she goes down with all on board,
but rather may it be said Of her passen-
gers as it was said Of the drenched pas
sengers Of the Alexandrian corn ship
that crashed into the breakers Of Nell
ia, "They all escaped safe to land. "