The English Language

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 20, 1870

The English Language.

THOSE who have thought upon the subject, have seen the providence of God in making the United States the theater of that work which should be accomplished, just before the end, for the salvation of men. It is here that the great movement on the Advent doctrine has especially taken place, and has done, and is still doing, its work. It is well; for here is freedom of speech and religious liberty, such as exist in no other nation. Here are representatives from all peoples, through whom the truth can be sent to all the nations of the earth. But it appears also, from the following item, that the English language possesses advantages over all others, which would render it very appropriate that the great gospel work for the last days should be accomplished by an English-speaking people. It says:—

There is no other spoken language so cheap and expressive by telegraph as the English. So the electric wires are becoming teachers of our mother tongue in foreign countries. The same amount of information can be transmitted in fewer English words than French, German, Italian, or any other European language. In Germany, and Holland especially, it is coming to be a common thing to send telegrams in English, to save expense and insure precision.