Another Wonder by James White

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Mar 18, 1875

Another Wonder.

By James White

WHEN the invention of the telegraph was first announced, and the results authenticated, every body wondered how it could be, and it really seemed too strange to believe, even after we had received the news from every part of the country in a day. But soon the process was explained, the machinery exhibited, and it was brought down to the comprehension of every school boy who had learned something of the laws of electricity. And now, having settled down to the telegraph, not only as a matter of fact, but as a necessity without which Railroading must be only a partial success, we are again astonished by new discoveries. A Mr. Galley of Rochester, N. Y., has invented an instrument or system, we are at a loss to tell just what to call it, by which not only several messages at once, but messages in opposite directions at once, are sent over a single line!

With some knowledge of telegraphy and telegraphic instruments we are as much at a loss now as at the first invention. We have heard the project suggested, and never hesitated to say it was an impossibility. But the papers say it is accomplished. We confess we are no longer judges of what is and what is not impossible.

Another American invention. Another link in the interesting chain of events to which we are introduced in Rev. 13 : 11--18. Have all our readers had the privilege of reading the book entitled, United States in the Light of Prophecy? If not, we recommend to them to procure it at once. J. H. W.