Your ShelfYour Projects

Speeding On

9%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 4, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 44.

Read the full edition

Speeding On

FROM POLE TO POLE

PUNTA ARENAS, THE SOUTHERNMOST CITY OUR SOUTHERN OUTPOST
PUNTA ARENAS, THE SOUTHERNMOST CITY OUR SOUTHERN OUTPOST
HAMMERFEST, THE NORTHERNMOST CITY OUR NORTHERN OUTPOST
HAMMERFEST, THE NORTHERNMOST CITY OUR NORTHERN OUTPOST

Speeding On

AT our quadrennial World's Missionary Conference held in Washington last summer, attended by over two thousand representatives, including about one hundred seventy-five from foreign lands, witness was borne to the fact that the message of the soon coming of Christ is being swiftly carried to “every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” In a review of the last four years the mission secretary stated:—
During these four swift years thirty-three new countries and island fields have been entered, counting the great provinces of China and India as separate countries, which they really are in their vastness of population and differences of language. Thirty-three new fields, thank God! and nearly every one in the great Catholic and heathen zones, representing a population of two hundred fifty millions newly brought within our missionary boundaries, with a score of new tongues thanking God for the “blessed hope.”
The Lord, who gave to John that vision of the last message flying to every nation and tongue, is able to finish the work and cut it short in righteousness.
He has wonderfully prepared the way. A few years before the hour of God's judgment struck, in 1844, men were traveling about the world just as they did in the days of Abraham or Solomon, as fast as horse or sailing ship could take them. But as the hour came for a message to be carried swiftly to all the world in one generation, the whole six thousand years of man's history was changed, as to means of locomotion. Suddenly came the steamship, the railway, the application of steam and electricity to locomotion, production, and communication. In these last days, for the evangelization of the world in this generation, it has been done.
“He hath made the deep as dry, He hath smote for us a pathway to the ends of all the earth.”
Changes have come within the decade that indicate the arm of the Lord made bare. In the last four years three great kingdoms and one Catholic republic have removed legal barriers to gospel work, two of them with special decrees mentioning our own work and opening a wider path for the message.