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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 11, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 37.

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A New Round-the-World Record

By W. A. S.

BECAUSE of the fact that the gospel commission bids us go “into all the world,” and “to every creature,” the development of facilities for getting into all the world is a matter of practical missionary interest to us. It is in our own generation, when the time has come for a quick work in evangelizing all nations, that God’s providence has brought into service means of travel and intercommunication that no other generation ever thought of.
In July and August, Mr. Mears, a representative of the New York Sun, set a new record for travel around the world. The course of his journey and the time schedule are of interest, as our missionaries are called to pass over the same routes:—

Mears’s Round Trip

July 2, 1 A. M.—Sailed from New York on Cunarder “Mauretania.”
July 7, 8 P. M.—Arrived Fishguard, four hours late.
July 8, 2:20 P. M.—Left London for Paris.
July 9, 1:45 P. M.—Left Paris for Berlin.
July 10—Left Berlin for St. Petersburg.
July 12, 5 P. M.—Left St. Petersburg for Vladivostok.
July 14, 12:30 P. M.—Encountered washout at Ekaterinburg (18 hours’ delay).
July 20—Passed through Manchurie, Manchuria. Had made up ten hours.
July 21—Arrived Harbin. Changed plans; started for Yokohama via Fusan, Korea.
July 24, 6 P. M.—Left Yokohama on C. P. liner “Empress of Russia.”
August 2—Arrived off Victoria, British Columbia. Delayed by fogs twelve hours. Across Puget Sound by yacht and hydro-aeroplane to Seattle, arriving 8:17 P. M.
August 2—Left Seattle at 8:25 P. M.
August 5—Left Chicago at 11:30 P. M.
August 6—Arrived New York at 10:10 P. M.
Total time for record journey, as planned, 35 days, 21 hours, 35 minutes.
Former record, held by Andre Jaeger-Schmidt (of Paris), 1911, 39 days, 19 hours, 43 minutes.
Only recently the Canadian Pacific steamship line has reduced the time between Hongkong, China, and Vancouver by two days. Now their fastest schedule is seventeen days from Hongkong to Vancouver, and nine days from Japan. Think of it, the Orient only nine days distant from the New World! How wonderfully the highways have been prepared for the rapid spreading abroad of the gospel message for this last generation! W. A. S.