The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-03-10

PROPHECY
FULFILLED
About Wonderful Inventions
of Today
Geo. H. Daniels Speech at a
Recent Banquet

George H.. Daniels, in the March
Four Track News)
From the earliest time transporta.
ton has been an important feature
in the development of the church.
You will remember what serious
times st. Paul he'd in his travels, and
It is curious to note how clearly va
rious forms of transportation Of today
were outlined in the Old Testament
scriptures, and especially in the
prophecies OF FIVE to seven hundred
years before the beginning of the
Christian era
For instance, Nahum. in the fourth
verse of the second chapter of his
prophecy, evidently referred to auto
mobiles, as follows;
The chariots shall rag in the
streets, they shall iostle one against
another in the broad ways; they shall
seem like torches, they shall run like
lightnings."
He no doubt had in mind the crowd
ed condition Of the street cars and the
elevated railways in New York when,
in the eighth verse of the second
chapter, he says:
stand, stand, shall they cry but
none shall look back"
Ezekiel the Chaldean prophet, said
two thousand six hundred years ago;
81 looked, and behold, a whirlwind
came out Of the north; a great cloud,
and a fire Unfolding itself; out Of the
midst thereof came the likeness Of
four living creatures, and every one
had four faces, and every one had
four wings.
and they had the hands OF a man
under their wings, on the our sides,
and their wings were stretched up
ward.
"As for the likeness OF the living
| creatures, their appearance was like
burning Goals of fire, and like the APP
pearance OF lamps; it went up and
down among the living creatures;
and the fire was bright, and out Of the
fire went forth lightning.
And the living creatures a and
returned as the appearance Of a fash
@. lightning.
Now as | beheld the living crea-
lures, behold one wheel upon the
earth, by the living creatures with his
four faces.
THE appearance of the wheels and
their work was like unto the color Of
a beryl; and they four had one like,
ness; and their appearance and their
work was, as It were. a wheel in the
middle of a wheel"
To my mind his vision of two thous.
and six hundred years ago may refer,
at least. partly, 10 the innumerable
adjuncts Of transportation OF the pres.
ent-the most wonderful age of the
world.
The whirlwind that came out OF the
north is the Trans-Siborian railway,
which will be a large factor in revo-
l~utionizing the commerce OF one-half
Of the world.
The outstretched wings are the
white wings that CLEAN on every sea
and lake where a ship may sail.
The hands under the wings are the
countless hands Of the toiling mil
lions who make up the vast army
engaged in one capacity or another,
by the great transportation interests
Of the busy world of commerce Of 10
day.
The lamps are the millions Of lamps
that, on sea and land, in every coun'
try on the globe, burn clear and
bright In darkest night or purest star
light, to guide those who go down 70
the sea in ships" and for the safety
Of the world on shore.
The fire is the fire in countless fur
naces, forever burning, TO make the
power that propels the great steam.
ships and the swiftly flying trains. in