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Updated: June 23, 2025
The wind was as hot as if from a blast-furnace; the air was thick and oppressive; the light of day was growing dim. Kurt, mounted on the seat of one of the combine threshers, surveyed with rapid and anxious gaze all the points around him, and it lingered over the magnificent sweep of golden wheat.
But one finds that steel can't be made without accidents. We had a blast-furnace explosion the other day, and killed eight. They are mostly foreigners, though 'hunkies, they call them." Then Andrews pressed a button, summoning his secretary.
These laborers of the borax mines and mills, like the stokers of ships, and coal-diggers, and blast-furnace hands like thousands and millions of men, killed themselves outright or impaired their strength, and when they were gone or rendered useless others were found to take their places.
These works were established in 1790. In 1827 they came into the possession of the late David Reeves, who by his energy and enterprise increased their capacity to meet the growing demands of the time, until they reached their present extent, employing constantly over fifteen hundred hands. The first process is melting the ore in the blast-furnace.
He continued to pursue his experiments in assaying for about two years, during which he had been working entirely after the methods described in books; but, feeling the results still unsatisfactory, he determined to borrow no more from the books, but to work out a system of his own, which should ensure results similar to those produced at the blast-furnace.
This is the Christian method of making men good, first, know His love, then believe it, then love Him back again, and then let that genial heat permeate all your life, and it will woo forth everywhere blossoms of beauty and fruits of holiness, that shall clothe the pastures of the wilderness with gladness. Did you ever see a blast-furnace?
The soul must raise the brute in him, with all its appetites, to purity, a mighty task, accomplished with much pain, yet in infinitely shorter duration of pain than if left in disembodied spirit-life; and, indeed, we may come to look upon pain in this world as one of our best privileges because of its powers of purification within a time-limit, and to know that by the mercy of the God of Love we may take our hell of cleansing in this world rather than in those worlds of disembodied spirits where progress is of infinite slowness revolving and revolving upon itself, as a sand-spiral in a blast-furnace, without hope of death.
Farther on, the recurring flare from the tall vent of the blast-furnace lighted the haze depths weirdly, turning the mysterious sea bottom into fathomless abysses of dull-red incandescence for the few seconds of its duration a slow lightning flash submerged and half extinguished.
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