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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 2, 1911

By Rail to India

ALL the time the work of shortening distances is going forward in the world. The old idea of a railway from Europe to India seems coming forward. A representative of an international band of promoters said recently in London:—

The capital required for the undertaking is very much less than has been stated. The length of the line to be built to connect the existing Russian and Indian lines is only sixteen hundred miles. . . . As to the possible success of the enterprise from the purely financial standpoint, it is hoped that, given the possibility of taking passengers and mails from London to Bombay in eight days six hours, at the very moderate estimated speed of twenty-eight miles an hour, or with a speed of thirty-three miles in exactly seven days, and with a daily service, the transit traffic would be developed from its very first days.

While commercial interests are linking up the world by steel rails for the benefit of trade, we think of all these developments in relation to the problem of world evangelization.