Running To and Fro

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 8, 1901

Running To and Fro

Speaking of the time of the end, the prophet Daniel wrote that “many shall run to and fro.” Dan. 12: 4. Is there much running to and fro in the earth to-day? Everybody knows that there is. The following forcible statement on this point was made recently by the Scientific American:—

“In every sense of the word, we are living in an age of locomotion. A very large proportion of the people are on wheels the greater part of their time, and traveling to an extent undreamed of by those who lived but a generation ago. If, at any given hour of the day or night, on any day in the year, every train of cars, every surface car in our cities, and every vessel on the oceans, lakes, and rivers in the world, could be stopped, and a census taken of people on board, and if to this number were added those who were waiting at depots or docks to get on board, there would be found enough people to populate a nation.”