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Excerpt from Moral View of Rail Roads: A Discourse, Delivered on Sabbath Morning, February 23, 1851, on the Occasion of the Opening of the Cleveland and Columbus Rail Road ON readmg this verse, one mlght naturally suppose that the prophet lived In the days of Bad Roads and Locomotlves But It was not so his charrots of hghtmng were characts of War - armed and sent forth by the n of Babylon, to effect the conquest and rum of the city of nineveh From the passage however, I shall take occasion to speak, not of war, which has proved such a curse to the world, and yet, has Often been over-ruled for good but of the developement and progress of a new power, tch, we trust, 18 destined to supercede war and to Introduce Into our world, a new order of thlngs, tch seems to betoken the rapid falfil ment of prophecy Behold, I create new Heavens and a new earth' and the former Shall not be re membered, nor come Into mind In the wilderness shall waters break out and streams In the desert and a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, the way OF holiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.