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THE STEAM ENGINE

"And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings." This cherubim that the prophet saw is so inert in itself that it cannot move its own wingsa man's hand must move them.

Then the prophet says, "And when I looked, behold, the four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. And as for their appearances, they four had one like-ness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel." Now it is as plain as plain can be, that inspiration is here showing that this cherubim's motion and its locomotion are produced by the pattern and form of its own wheels; for the prophet says they were "as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel."

The immortal George Stephenson, the inventor of the locomotive engine, himself proved that the power that gives it motion came directly from the sun. And the curves of motion that it produces from the patterns of its own wheels are as celestial and eternal and divine as the