MODERN INVENTIONS AND THEIR RESULTS. 3 



hourly transactions in the Exchanges of London 

 and New York. And with the results of this 

 one invention, ever and anon more and more 

 marvellously revealed, we may again unhesitat- 

 ingly inquire, Who will venture to set bounds 

 to the changes which may ensue over our globe 

 to its farthest limits, and throughout its un- 

 numbered families, from the Electric Telegraph ? 

 As we contemplate such inventions, and attempt 

 to anticipate their results, we are called to form 

 a still more elevated conception than we had 

 previously entertained, of the genius of man, by 

 whom such powers of nature have been disco- 

 vered and controlled, and to raise a new song 

 of praise to that God whose " inspiration giveth 

 men understanding." 



2. But there are other most valuable inven- 

 tions of recent days, which society at large is 

 not so ready to remember ; perhaps, because they 

 stand less closely connected with the daily pur- 

 suits and material enjoyments of the world. To 

 these inventions, it may be alike profitable and 

 pleasant often to turn our thoughts ; and that 

 the more, because, even in a still higher degree 

 than in the cases already noticed, they tend to 



