The Marvel of Nations by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 11, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 24.

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The Marvel of Nations

By Uriah Smith

OUR COUNTRY; Its Past, Present, and Future, and Its Place in Prophecy.

BY ELDER URIAH SMITH,

Nearly fifty years editor of the ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD.

Night Scene of the Late Panic in Wall Street.

“THE MARVEL OF NATIONS,” was first issued twenty-five years ago, and more than a quarter of a million copies of this volume have been sold. The large circulation of the book demonstrates the demand for a work setting forth in broad, liberal terms the nature of our Government; the remarkable growth and progress of the nineteenth century in the arts and sciences; the development of the country’s natural resources in mineral, agricultural, grazing, and timber lands; the great improvement of our agricultural resources, such as the production of corn, wheat, cotton, etc.; unlimited manufacture of iron, steel, lumber, cotton and woolen fabrics; the system of railway trunk lines traversing the country in every direction. Surely we are living in the time which is foretold in Dan. 12:4, the “time of the end,” when

“Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”

There were more than a quarter of a million copies of the first edition of “The Marvel of Nations” sold. The paper used in the manufacture of these books, if each sheet was spread out, would cover a farm of about 450 acres. The cloth used in the covers would, if cut in a strip nine inches wide, extend 47 miles. If the books were laid end to end, they would make a path 31 miles long; and if piled one on top of the other, they would make a pyramid over three miles high. Eternity alone will reveal the results accomplished by the sale of this wonderful book, in the way of circulating a knowledge of the times in which we are living, of the rapid development of our own country, and the knowledge and progress of the grand principles of truth portrayed in the Scriptures and their relation to, and bearing upon, the events which are now occurring IN OUR GREAT COUNTRY.

The numerous calls for a revised edition of “The Marvel of Nations,” have encouraged the author to undertake the work, and no pains have been spared in a careful revision of the text, in statistics, of the increase in productions and manufactures, the discoveries in the field of art and science. The manner in which the author correlates the Third Angel’s Message and the fulfillment of the prophecy as related to these events, MAKES THIS WORK ONE OF THE MOST DESIRABLE OF ALL TWENTIETH-CENTURY BOOKS.

“The Marvel of Nations” will be a subscription book. No pains have been spared by our artists in preparing suitable and appropriate illustrations for the work. It will contain about 340 pages; 150 illustrations, colored emblem of OUR COUNTRY; table of contents; list of illustrations, and general index. Ready for delivery about midsummer. Price and exact date of delivery will be announced later. Will be printed in four languages, English, German, Danish, and Swedish.

The revised edition of “The Marvel of Nations” will be one of the most rapid-selling books that we have ever issued, it being a twentieth-century publication, giving up-to-date statistics, having a direct bearing on, and connection with, the Third Angel’s Message. It is desired by the publishers that we have at once the names of a thousand persons who will engage in the sale of “The Marvel of Nations.” Send your name to your State agent, and if in the REVIEW AND HERALD territory send to the REVIEW AND HERALD PUB. CO., and if in the Pacific Press territory, send your name to the Pacific Press Pub. Co., and arrangements will be made with you so you can engage in the sale of the book when it is first issued.

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Address your TRACT SOCIETY; the REVIEW AND HERALD PUB. CO., Battle Creek, Mich.; or the PACIFIC PRESS PUB. CO., Oakland, Cal.

Growth of Uncle Sam— As he was one hundred years ago and as he is to-day