Discoveries of the Last Half Century
By Editor
The writer of the article entitled Discoveries of the Last Half Century, which we this week present to our readers, appears from his last paragraph to be looking for still greater wonders in the next half century to come. The great body of enlightened nations are also doubtless indulging the same hope. Whereas they might learn from the page of prophecy, that this waking up of the intellect of man, these mighty strides in every department of the arts and sciences, are but the last mighty effort of the mind of man which was to mark the closing up of this dispensation. These are no hasty and ill-grounded conclusions. They are based upon that Word which has said that in the time of the end knowledge should be increased; and though knowledge in the things here mentioned may not be the kind particularly contemplated by the prophecy, it is not excluded from being such, and therefore loses none of its significance as a sign of the times.