The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-02-18
INVENTION AND PROPHECY

course, is the fact that invention anC
improvement have arisen by seeming
ly slow successive stages. But hat
they been more suddenly thrust upor
the human race what an excitement
would have been caused!
For instance, to change instantly as
a means of transit from the horse OF
the camel into the long serpent-likt
train, which rushes and Kisses ovei
the surface of the land at fifty miles
an hour, and within which are seer
men quietly reading or steering, OF
surveying the quickly passing land
scape, would have surely brought
forth marked expressions of astonish-
ment.
Again, to see men able to overcome
the power of gravitation and to rise
and soar like a bird high in the air
and then quickly disappear in the far
distance-in other words to see them,
as it were, "mount up with wings as
eagles would have been a marvel
Gus sight in days gone by.
Again, to come to the edge of the
CLASSY sea and to witness a few men
disappear in a strange looking craft,
which eventually glides beneath the
waters like a fish; or to hear the
voice of a relative or Of notable
singer or the full music of an orches-
ira proceeding from box upon Ia
BILE; or to see a man talk to his
friend who is actually at very great
distance, by simply speaking through
a small funnel-like contrivance; or to
touch a switch and find ones vicinity
illuminated by powerful light; or to
enter an immense vessel, equipped
with many conveniences for human
comfort and pleasure, and in a short
time find ones self upon another con-
tinent, the other side of the world
all these and many other such-like
marvels would have caused our friends
of long ago to think they were living
in land of endless entertainments.
Indeed, the fairy-fction writer's of
the past did not conceive of such Won
ders.
But this is in fulfllment of prophe-
cy; the "shall" of SO many a predic-
ton may now be turned into the pres
ent tense-'knowledge has increased,
many are running to and fro they
do seem like torches 'chariots are
raging in the streets, and run like
hghtnings.' Nahum 2:3,4; Daniel ~:
A. Also the swift beasts" of Isa-
lab 66:20-literal, 'swaying furnace
as Of a train in rapid motion-are
now rushing toward Jerusalem.
Moreover, we are witnesses to the
foretold slime of trouble upon the
nations, and the increasing prosperity
Of the Jews and their return to the
hand of their forefathers. (Romans
l1:25) These prophecies in their full
fillment point to the fact that we are
on the eve of an entirely new dispen-
sation. Thinking men realize, too,
that the present-day marvels are but
in their infancy. Foregleams of
greater wonders are still reaching the
ears of the public, and we may rest
assured that, when these discoveries
and inventions are all utilized for the
general welfare and happiness of man.
kind, the coming age will be superior
in every way to any which has been
witnessed in the past.
What, then, if this new age be ush-
erd in by the roar of thunder? What
though mankind be afflicted by fore
boding fears? What though the
many idols be heaved up and dashed
TO a thousand fragments upon the
ground beneath? If day is breaking
the sunlight of which will illumi-
nate and bless the groaning millions
then with clarion voice ringing
through earth and sky let us say
LET 1T COME!
True are the words of the prophet:
eve are living, we are dwelling,
In a grand and awful time.
In an age on ages telling,
To be living is sublime.
Hank! the rumbling in the nations,
Iron crumbling with the clay.
Hark! What soundeth? IT'S creation
Grooming for a better day!"
Now there is one of these fore
CLEANS before the notice of the writ
err: A London newspaper speaks of a
new age-a rubber age--or the age
of silence, to be made possible by the
discovery of Manchester chemist.
One night, working alone in the
solitude of his laboratory, Mr.. S. ].
Peachy, one of the lecturers of the
College of Technology,
that it is possible to vul-
canize rubber swiftly by means of two
cheap gases at mere fraction of the
cost OF existing processes. The whole
is SO simple that any un-