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Show We n:..v ite;e pause aad tjujtiiie, uhnt was ace ;n;il!hed by the teloiinatiui ? Was the tui" Church of Christ established? establish-ed? Was Ihe tme Gospel preached? We are eotnptlltd to answer Nc;l ut the Lord moved upon the minds of those men to preform a work in iheir jreners-ti jreners-ti ins, which had a s;lutoiy efiect, ihe minds if men become more snecepiahir f iiraspijiji and cuiiipiuticnding new truths and not altogether to fely upon the arm of iJesii, Cotemperaneous with these refoimen lived Copernicus, who can deny that lit was etnlmeil with insp.iation suitahle for t!i'; accumpJishtnuiil of Ins wuik, the writin? cf that inniifittal b iuk in wlr.ch he so clearly tlemonstratti the uio.ioii ol the earth and ;iie rev)li.iiion ot ihe pUn ets around the sun, a truth accepted by all the Chirstiati nations. in ancient Rome the theory whs taught that the earth was, and tint lit whole habitable wojld a cornpiistti in t!i divisions of the eastern coimni'iif.Sut in tho year 140a, this lln-i.ty was piuvti, absolute y ialse. in fulfillment of the vision shown to Ni'phi wlu-n he beheld h man atnoiij; the GenfuS. and the Splnt o( God c.uue down and wrought upon the man, nd he went forth up jii the many waters unlii the seed ul my bieihern who were in the promised land. This gteat nchitvmci.t pentd the way lor tho; t siabi.siiuient of a great common wea'lh in the new woild, a overumetilitoi often thv pattern of those in the con 1 tie? of Europe, Asia and Ahic 1 lor G d had commanded that tlitie should he no King upon this, raised up unto the Gentilts hut it shall be a land o liheity but after manv years i fhaid si 1 uy liiiii h,j (icedcm, a kepubhcait form of government is estal-iisiied, estal-iisiied, a dcclaiMtioti cf Independance drafted. Constitution adopted granting gran-ting Religious liberty 10 ail, liberty to wotstiip God ns the Conscience directs, libt rty to speak of the convictions of the mind, hbeiiy to advai.re. 1 luinan hiitory siiould be a record of . rogress a tecoid of continual advancement advan-cement from a lower to a higher platform plat-form i,f intelligence and well being, E ch generation should pas on to the next, the tieasuic which.it has inherited hcnelicialiv modified by its own experience, experi-ence, and enlarged by the acquisition which i'selt hat gained. Truely ths nmeteentb century, hi witB4ied rapul prortss beyoud all preceed.-nt, tot it h beheld the overthrow over-throw ol the beftier th:.t prevented prog re it, the geniu. of the age tends to abolish serfdom and slavery, to develop new arts and science, to utilize the forces for-ces of the elements for the comlort and Convenience of man. From the cieation ol the world down to the middle of the last century nearly all the work of the woild had been done by the muscular labor ot man and animals, ani-mals, now the time had come lor the invention of labor saving machine! y which were made to do the woik of human hands. In 1764 James Watt began his work of inventing the steam engine; meanwhile Hargrtaves, Aikwiight and Cronipton had invented machines lor making cloth. In August,i7S7, while the national con veution was at work at Philadelphia framing the Constitution they were invited in-vited to behold a sight, the world had never seen. It was John Fiich gliding up the stream in the first ptactcal steam boat ever constructed. In the year 181a John Stevens of New Jersey appeared before Cougiess with a plan for a railroad. Two years later Geoige Stevens of England completed and run the rocket, the fust practcle locomotive in the world. It was not until un-til September, i82S.that the first tailway lor passengers was opened in England. Six years later rail '.vay trains were run-ing run-ing m Ameiica, this great discovery was pred cted by the Prophet Nahum in the in the following language the shield of his mighty men is made red, the Valient men are in scarlet, the Chariots shall be with naming torches in the day oi his preperation and the fir-trees shall be terribly shaken. The Chatiois shall rage in the streets, they shall iostle against one another in the broadways.they shall seem Jiketorches.run like the lightnings Nahunu ch.)Another Prophet predicts, their roaring shall be lite a lion.they shall roar like young lions, and lay hold on the prey and shall carry it away safely, who could have predicted these achiev-tnents achiev-tnents with more accuracy hundreds of years before they came to pass; true, they did not call them steam engines, but remember they were not in existence exist-ence and they could onlv describe the picture as it appeared to them, but we behold the reality. In 1832 Sm'l T. B. Mors, conceived the idea of the Electric Elec-tric Telegraph,and 1837 Congiess grant-ed grant-ed him thirty thousand dollais to aid his great enterpiise. In 1844 Prot.Morse sent his first message over the electric telle-graph.the telle-graph.the words were, "What hath God wroinrhl?" D JWNFALL AND RISE Or THEOLOGY THEOL-OGY AND SCIENCE. Continued. Thus it was found that the same mysterious mys-terious force which flashes out in the midnight storm was ready to convey across continents the messages of man. This is the first invention which isappar-entlv isappar-entlv final, in the race of improvements, all other Inventions may be superceded, but what agency conveying intelligence can ev.r excel that which is instantaneous. instantan-eous. But while mankind had progressed in science they had remained stationary in religion, and how could it be otherwise. I nventiunand discoveiy aie but the tin-folding tin-folding of the laws, attributes and object of nature to man's limited understandings, understand-ings, the action of divine will on the human mind. Jacob Jacobson (To be Continued) Writ en for the Regist.k, That the results of the reform.iton was beneficial in its effects was visihle on every hand; and there is no doubt nut that the early reformers were inspired inspir-ed of God to constimate a preparatory work, lor the restitution ol all things spoken by the Holy Prophets. Th?y succeeded in removing much supestition in short, they ere agents in the hand of God of paving the way for the coming forth ol greater light, yet none ol them knew t!;at t.iey were inspired. The writ ings i f Luther, Wa'anchthon and Calvn w.-re never considered as inspired Luther himself never professed t j have divine Authority for his teachings, but on the other hand detiounctd the veiy idei of inspiration. HUtoiy informs us that in the year 155 there was a certain community it tou.'h perhaps but lew in number)who oebeved in d vine inspiration and aut'tority, ihey protested against infant baptism, and the right 1 f a distinct class to preach lor hire, thev also asserted that God would continue to reveal His will to chosen persons by visions and dreams; they also claimed that God in His o.vii time would erect to himself a noiv cnurch with a perfect organization, nd would set apart for the execution . I Hw design, chosen instruments d-vmelV d-vmelV a.ted and preptetl for this Weal work by the aid of His Ho' Spif I Aee Mosheim Vol s p. t8 Of Lnthei H ny be truthfully Mid that U was the ot God t0 hew' don lhe K'eal edifice of Popery which stood in the way of human progress, the Churches which under ihe leadership ol Luther, Walanrh , 5 ,,nKle,Calvin'Knoxa"dHenry VIII ol England seperated from Rome were mailed Protestants, which name impli4 .that they were merely a protest against Kotne, hti teachings and authority. 1 he fight of protesting once being granted, ,it lullows that others have the right to 'ptst against them. |