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Rh upon the earth, and lifted up his hand to heaven and swear by Him that liveth for ever and ever, that time shall be no longer. And is it not a commonly accepted idea, and often expressed, that the steam-engine has annihilated time and space? Now when a thing is annihilated, what becomes of it? Why, it is no longer. The dictionary says that annihilate is to reduce to nothing, to destroy the specific form of a thing. Now that is just exactly what the steam-engine has done with time and space. It has destroyed the specific form of the thing and reduced it to nothing.

Without the steam-engine our ocean cables could not have been laid nor made; but with our telegraph wires under the sea and over the land, time between all the centers of population and trade is no longer, in the sense that it was, and it never will be any more. There will always be time just about the same as there is now. The Rev. John Wesley says himself that matter is eternal. He says that God did not make matter to destroy it. If matter is eternal, then motion is eternal; and if motion is eternal,