THE STEAM ENGINE FULFILLING PROPHECY.
The work that our great and beneficent Creator enjoined upon man, in the day when God made man in His own image and after His own likeness, was that he should be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it. And notwithstanding his fall in and expulsion from the garden of Eden, man has gone on to obey the Divine injunction, and is succeeding nobly.
Man has succeeded in subduing the earth so far already that he can tell its shape and its size and its weight and its motions, almost to perfection. Whenever God has had any special work for any man to do, whether that work has been prophetical, apostolical, or mechanical, God has always prepared a man for the work that He has placed before him.
Hence, when God was about to destroy the world by a flood of waters, He said unto Noah,
