In Half a Day by B.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California, U.S.A. · Sep 16, 1930

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 57, No. 36.

In Half a Day

By B.

ON AUGUST 13 Captain Frank Hawks flew from Glendale, California, to New York City in 12 hours, 25 minutes, and 3 seconds, or from the Pacific to the Atlantic in half a day! His actual flying time was 11 hours and 46 minutes. His speed was never less than 200 miles an hour, and his indicator was close to 250 miles an hour most of the trip. This is, of course, a world record for long-distance flying.

About a century and a quarter ago Meriwether Lewis made a record trip from the Pacific Coast to Washington, D. C. His time was 326 days—nearly 8,000 hours. Hawks crossed the continent about 650 times as fast as Lewis did! Hawks made it about six times as fast as our best transcontinental trains.

Richard Bedford Bennett, leader of the Canadian Conservative party, who has taken the place of Mackenzie King as the premier of Canada.

Twenty-five hundred years ago the prophet Daniel, by divine inspiration, declared that in “the time of the end” “many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased,” Daniel 12:4. After a study of this prophecy Sir Isaac Newton, the great scientist and Bible student, avowed his faith in Daniel’s prediction, and expected it would be fulfilled literally, saying that at some future day men might travel at the rate of fifty miles an hour. This, of course, two centuries ago, was a most daring prophecy for Newton to make. Half a century later, the infidel Voltaire cited this prediction of Newton’s as proof of the utter foolishness of belief in Bible prophecy, alleging that the study of the Bible had led Newton to make a fool of himself.

In view of subsequent history, who made a fool of himself, Newton or Voltaire? B.