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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 11, 1915

A Remarkable Feat

THIS is an age of wonderful accomplishments. One of the greatest engineering feats ever performed in war time was completed in September:—

When Russia faced the prospect of again being closed to the world through the freezing of the harbor at Archangel, it was quickly decided to build a line to Ekaterina, an open port within the arctic circle, which, because of a twist in the Gulf Stream, is ice-free the year round. The American engineers called to the work confronted the problem of building a standard-gauge, double-track railway for six hundred miles across a terrain composed chiefly of swamps. Owing to the short summer, the time of the work was brief, and progress had to be made at the rate of one hundred miles of new track per month, and the contract demanded completion by the first of October.

But the American engineers began their battle with characteristic energy, and excavating and grading machinery was exported from the United States. An order for scores of heavy locomotives was also filled in this country, being delivered at Vladivostok.

According to report, the Russian wilderness has given way before the onslaught of the engineers, and the road was completed three weeks before the time set. Thus a new record has been established in speed and obstacles overcome.— Cincinnati Times-Star.

Let us remember that every railroad built and every development in the line of ease of intercommunication is intended by God to serve as a means of spreading more rapidly the knowledge of Christ’s coming kingdom.