wide mission. And now he starts out to accomplish his mission, and to run the race set before him. The fire between the wheels has been set in order, and a man's hand has lifted the wings of the cherubim; and as he moves, the tremendous roar of his exhausting steam comes down upon the devout ears of the lonely exile as the roaring of a lion, and cries with a loud voice as when a lion roareth. Daniel says that the voice of his words was as the voice of a multitude.
Now, there are no two metaphors that the inspired writers could possibly have used that more fitly represent the noise produced by the action of the steam-engine, than that of the roaring of a lion, or that of the voice of a multitude. St. John says, "And when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices." Here, as in some other places in the Bible, a definite number is put to represent an indefinite number, and seven symbolizes the perfect activity that would follow on the earth and upon the sea when this mighty angel began to cry. Seven thunders uttered their voices. Now, is it not a common expression to say the thundering locomotive, or that the train
