Recent science has enabled us to solve enigmas of the physical
universe which once seemed forever impenetrable. Cholera has
been, for example, through long ages “a pestilence walking in
darkness.” There was no denying the plague; it demonstrated
itself in the most awful manner, but none could divine its
active principle, the secret of its power. But at last the
cholera-germ has been tracked out, and the fatal pest never
before seen by human eyes can now be studied under a powerful
microscope, large as the human hand. The immense significance of
this discovery to our race who may say?
For ages sin has been preeminently the pestilence walking at noonday,
and the world has stood aghast before the obscure and terrible
destroyer; but the glass of revelation in the hand of Jesus Christ
has shown large and vivid the fatal principle which has tainted and
decimated the race.--W. L. WATKINSON, “The Transfigured Sackcloth.”
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