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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
188
'Tis
done!
the
angry
sea
consents,
The
nations
stand
no
more
apart,
With
clasped
hands
the
continents
Feel
throbbings
of
each
other's
heart.
Speed,
speed
the
cable;
let
it
run
A
loving
girdle
round
the
earth,
Till
all
the
nations
'neath
the
sun
Shall
be
as
brothers
of
one
hearth;
As
brothers
pledging,
hand
in
hand,
One
freedom
for
the
world
abroad,
One
commerce
over
every
land,
One
language
and
one
God.
The
sermons
preached
on
this
occasion
were
literally
without
number.
Enough
found
their
way
into
print
to
make
a
large
volume.
Never
had
an
event
touched
more
deeply
the
spirit
of
religious
enthusiasm.
Devout
men
held
it
as
an
advance
toward
that
millennial
era
which
was
at
once
the
object
of
their
faith
and
hope.
Was
not
this
the
predicted
time
when,
"many
should
run
to
and
fro,
and
knowledge
should
be
increased?"
So
said
the
preachers,
taking
for
their
favorite
text
the
vision
of
the
Psalmist,
"Their
line
is
gone
out
through
all
the
earth,
and
their
words
to
the
end
of
the
world;"
or
the
question
of
Job:
"Canst
thou
send
forth
the
lightnings,
that
they
may
go
and
say
unto
thee,
Here
we
are?"
Was
not
this
the
dawn
of
that
happy
age,
when
all
men
should
be
bound
together
in
peaceful
intercourse,
and
nations
should
learn
war
no
more?
Such
was
the
burden
of
the
discourses
that
were
preached
in
a
thousand
pulpits
from
one
end
of
the
country
to
the
other.
Even
the
Roman
Catholic
Church,
so
lofty
and
inflexible
in
its
claims,
soaring
into
the
past
centuries,
and
almost
disdaining
the
material
progress
of
the
present
day
as
compared
with
the
spiritual
glories
of
the
Ages
of
Faith,
did
not
ignore
the
great
event;
and
in
laying
the
foundation
of
the
new
Cathedral
of
St.
Patrick,
the
largest
temple
of
religion
on
the
continent,
Archbishop
Hughes
placed
under
the
corner-stone
an
inscription,
wherein,
along
with
the
enduring
record
of
the
Christian
faith
and
the
names
of
martyrs
and
confessors,
he
did
not
disdain
to
include
a
brief
memorial
of
this
last
achievement
of
science,
and
the
name
of
him
who
had
conferred
so
great
a
benefit
on
mankind.
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