showing what modifications the electric wave undergoes under such new circumstances. It will serve, if it endures, to throw light upon the velocity of galvanic electricity, and enable the electrician to investigate the general laws of the fluid, when thus constrained. The Atlantic Telegraph can also be employed in determining the difference of longitude between observatories, or stations, in Europe and America, and may be brought into use for certain astronomical purposes.

It is, in short, a piece of philosophical apparatus on a grand scale. The electrician will cherish it with the love of the astronomer to his telescope, or the chemist to his retort. Its connection with further discoveries is a certainty in an age of physical inquiry.*

Among the rewards of science on this occasion, is the universal homage yielded by the multitude. No longer regarded as an aristocrat of high pretensions, living in the seclusion of a grand, but selfish and useless domain, Science is welcomed as the handmaid of industry and the arts, and obtains from the masses to-day the most triumphant honours. This restoration to her true position is proof of her native dignity and worth. Never has Science received so hearty and gracious a demonstration to her praise. Whilst Jupiter places at her feet the thunderbolts of the firmament, and Neptune the trident of the Ocean, and Vulcan the miraculous implements of Cyclopean forges, the crown of glory is placed upon her head by the Queen of Beauty, amidst acclamations which fill the conclave.

7. The benefits which the telegraph will confer upon the cause of Religion, are as certain as that Religion's is the greatest cause on earth. Christianity has, in the first place, a common interest in all that relates to the advancement of society. Whatever cultivates good-will among men, facilitates commerce, stimulates industry, enlarges the sphere of free institutions, benefits the press, and aids science and knowledge, advances religion too. Every new discovery is tributary to the kingdom of Christ. Of how much use to religion has been the telescope, the microscope, the compass, the loom, the printing-press, the steam-engine! Thus will it also be with the Atlantic Telegraph, through the general relation between the progress of society and the cause of truth and righteousness.

But further than this. Religion derives a direct advantage from

The "London Morning Post" says, that it is understood that the Atlantic Cable transmits the electricity with sufficient rapidity, but that it retains it, time being required for its discharge, after it has been communicated to the wire. The first signal is transmitted instantaneously; but the wire does not readily part with the charge, and the electricity it retains prevents the effect of a second signal from being perceived on the distant instrument. This difficulty, which was experienced in the Telegraph to the Hague, was overcome by discharging the wire after each signal, and this was done by sending the electrical current in the reverse direction. Such an arrangement does not seem to be sufficient to put the Atlantic Cable in satisfactory working order. Science, however, will doubtless discover a remedy in due time.

the use of the telegraph, like the secular interests of society. A knowledge of the state of mankind in every nation constitutes the basis of evangelical effort, and stimulates the prayer and zeal requisite to carry on its operations. If the angels of heaven were to descend, as visible messengers, to report daily the condition of the world, they would perform the service that the telegraph, in the name of heaven's King, is commissioned to do, through the inspirations of its swift-winged words. Every agent on earth is God's agent to execute his will. The luminary that compasses the circuit of the heavens, and the time-defying spark that pervades the cable of the deep, have each, in their origin, purpose, and results, a relation to Deity. God carries forward the plan of redemption by means of the vast system of events, which, each and all, small and great, old and new, make up the glory of Providence. Telegraphs ride over mountains, and leap through the seas, that they may prepare the highway of the Lord, and be the forerunners of the chariots of his salvation.

It is easy to realize that this great invention of the century impresses upon the mind and heart of the religious world the idea of UNITY, and thus aids in creating a power, antagonistic to the injurious separations and alienations, too long prevalent in the Church. A better era is at hand. Unity is the familiar lesson among the religious demonstrations of Providence. Unity is the loving truth of Gospel grace. Unity springs from genuine Christian intercourse, like the morning light, to bless the world. Unity gladdens the train of enlarged evangelical efforts among the millions of mankind. Unity is celebrated by the moral influences of each worldrelated event. Unity is transmitted, with the love of God, to the Church, in every new memorial of His power and glory.

Such is a brief view of the general blessings radiating from this work of light, whose success we are met to celebrate.

It is not, indeed, to be disguised that the telegraph may also be employed for purposes of evil. If Satan transformed himself into an angel of light, it is no marvel if he still use the agency of light in strengthening his influence and dominion. But, for the purposes of the wicked, light is the most hazardous and self-destructive of all weapons. The devil, in his attempts to quote Scripture, was overwhelmed by the replies of the Son of Man. All assaults upon the cause of truth and liberty through the telegraph, will be repelled by the avenging power of right, in the Providence of the Most High.

IV. Another thought is transmitted through the Atlantic Telegraph, as a commemorative lesson to the immortal minds that celebrate its achievement. It is that this great event is among the most impressive, as well as the latest of the providential indications of THE APPROACH OF THE MILLENNIUM.

The age in which we live is intense with activity, change, and progress. There seems to be a marshalling of events to terminate a great and triumphant campaign. Behold the nations of Europe

sighing after a better day amid the gloom of ancient systems, the Ottoman empire expiring in desolate impotence, the great and portentous commotions that have swept over India's plains, the Jews looking to Palestine with revived national aspirations, the unfolding of the gates of China to the intercourse of a longexcluded world, the grand preparations on the Pacific's shores, the opening of Central America as the highroad to the recovery of the kingdoms farther south, the numerous and industrious explorations in Africa, as if to connect her, in time, with the general movement of this electric age; and above all, behold the progress of Christianity in every land, and especially the existing revival of religion which is gilding the mountain tops, and breaking in with glory upon the darkness of thousands and ten thousands of human hearts;-all these, with other providential declarations in the political and religious world, announce a crisis in human history. The horoscope of Time points to great changes in the zodiac of nations; and all the events on this world of wonders seem to be propelling it towards a sublimer destiny. The kingdoms of the earth, as at the Advent of Christ, are in providential training, with a great expectation; and just at this period, the telegraphic achievement towards universal progress and unity startles continents into awe.

What is the consummation, foretold by this combination of uniform signs? It is no less than the MILLENNIUM—when the Lord shall reign King of nations as He is King of saints. This event, according to Prophecy, cannot now be far distant. Its exact period is, doubtless, beyond the computations of the human mind. Biblical scholars differ about the time of the commencement of the latter-day glory, mainly because they differ about the commencement of certain eras, spoken of by Daniel and John, in reference to the duration of the reign of Antichrist, whatever may be meant by that term. Many students of prophecy in the Protestant Church have fixed upon the year 1866 as the one that is to witness "the beginning of the end." Assuming the year 606 (the time when the Emperor Phocas conferred on Boniface III the title of Universal Bishop), as the year for the commencement of the persecution of the Church, they add to it the 1260 years, which mark the precise time of the reign of Antichrist, and thus arrive at the result of 1866, as an important era, preliminary to the Millennium, if not actually introductory to it. Some, however, reckon the 1260 years from the year 756, when the Emperor Pepin gave temporal dominion to the Universal Bishop, and thus fix the millennial epoch in the year 2016. Admitting this latter computation to be the most probable, the interval between 1866 and 2016 is not longer than might be expected, for putting into complete and successful operation all the means requisite for the full introduction of the Millennium; although God may bring it to pass at any period, like the sudden and universal illumination of the firmament by His messenger lightnings.

There can be little doubt that the millennial glory is to begin

before many years. One of its antecedents is the preaching of the Gospel to every creature, a great spiritual work, which is in the course of victory. The prediction that in those days "many shall run to and fro, and knowledge be increased," is being remarkably fulfilled by the aspects of the times. The text places intercourse and knowledge in conjunction; just as the railway and the telegraph, which are the champions of each, and each of both, are usually found in juxtaposition. The telegraph will soon sway its amazing power in every realm; yea, it already reigns. "There is no speech, no language; their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world." The quick, pervading nature of the telegraph is suited to a day of knowledge. Its cord harmonizes with the universal song, "Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace, good-will toward men." Soon will it announce that nations have beaten "their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks," and that "the earth is filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.'

Nor is there any agent in nature that so well symbolizes the instantaneous transactions of the resurrection morn. "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." Amidst these scenes of miraculous transition, there shall be "NO MORE SEA," and "TIME SHALL BE NO LONGER."

Help us all, heavenly Father, to be prepared for these great events of immortality! And may our beloved land, with its banner of stars as an ensign among the nations, be among the foremost to promote the glory of the latter-day, and to utter with its telegraphs. and its voices, "the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever!"

THE LORD HATH NEED OF THEM.—MATT. 21: 3.

(By the author of "Learn to say No.")

OUR Lord Jesus Christ, when he was upon the earth, appeared as a poor man. Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor. Though he was in the form of God and thought it not robbery to be equal with God, yet he took upon him the form of a

servant.

Jesus, during his estate of humiliation, gave occasional proofs of his power and glory; and a little before he was to submit himself to the greatest humiliation and suffering on our account, he would make one triumphal entry into Jerusalem. But though as God he was King of kings and owner of all things, yet as man he

was poor; and though he could, when he pleased, dispose the hearts of the people to do him reverence, to precede and to follow him crying, Hosanna, still he voluntarily continued in that state of poverty that he had not any beast to ride upon in this display of his kingly office; and as he needed one, he sent two of his disciples into the city to bring the animal he required. He might by his word have created one as easily as at first he said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind," but he chose to take one already made by him by the ordinary operations of his providence. So now, when he would have silver and gold to carry on his work in building churches, printing Bibles, teaching the heathen, he might, if he saw best, just command it to rain down out of the skies, or to start up out of the earth. But that is not his way; and he has created enough of it already, and it is all his, too, whether it be yet in the bowels of the earth, or in the chests of the rich, or scattered about, a mite here and a mite there, in the pockets of the poor; it is all his, and he suffers it to remain where it lies hoarded, or where it is employed in serving the purposes of commerce until he has need, and then he calls for it.

The horses, the ships, the railroad cars are his, and sometimes he has need of them to carry him in the person of his ambassadors to preach the Gospel. He might create the carriages or the ships for the occasion, if he chose; or he might put wings to his servants, if he chose; or, by a miracle, he might multiply copies of the Bible, and give them to myriads of angels to fly everywhere through the air, and drop one into every house; but this is not his way. He makes use of the ordinary means, and bids men be his servants in all this work. When he had need of the ass and her colt, he might have moved the owner to bring them to him, or he might have summoned one of the angels and sent him for them. So now, he might appear visibly before you, or speak to you out of the clouds and call for your money, or say, Take this animal, or that grain, or that piece of jewelry, sell it and give the price to me; or he might commission an angel to fly down and tell you what things in your possession the Lord has need of; but this is not his way now. His way now is to speak to you through his word, by his providence, and by his ministering servants; and they tell you that the Lord has need of men to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature-that everywhere amongst the heathen there is need of schools, and of funds to carry on those schools-need of Bibles and religious books, and need of money to print and distribute them. His servants, the officers of the Missionary Board, publish the fact that the Lord hath need of men and money to carry on his work, and the ministers in every pulpit repeat the call, and every missionary paper reiterates the message in every family into which it goes. The Lord hath Need, The Lord hath Need, THE LORD HATH NEED, rings in the ears of all God's people, from one side of the country to the other.

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