p. 10 | Missionary Facilities by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 27, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 39.

Missionary Facilities

By Editor

Missionary Facilities.—The great inventions and improvements in the matter of speedy transportation are fast bringing the far-distant points of earth into closer proximity. Man claims the credit, and the people of the last half century are especially disposed to self-aggrandizement. But it is all in the providence of God, in whom is all power and wisdom. This is the day of God's preparation, and these wonderful facilities—railroads, telegraphs, steamships, etc.—are brought for a purpose in His work. He is preparing to "cut it short in righteousness." Will Christians note these things, and utilize the wonderful modern inventions in the spread of the Gospel, rather than confining them to commercial and pleasure and war purposes exclusively? See what is being done in Africa, by which missionary work in the Dark Continent may be so rapidly advanced. A press correspondent gives us this information:—

"General Kitchener announces that the Nile railway will be completed to Khartum by September 1. Khartum is just half way from Cairo to Uganda, the distance from Khartum to either place being about 1,250 miles. As the trains are already running from the Cape of Good Hope 1,300 miles northward to Buluwayo, it follows that more than 2,500 miles of Cecil Rhodes' 'Cape to Cairo' road are now finished. The distance from Buluwayo, northward, to Uganda is about 1,300 miles. Adding 1,250 more from Uganda to Khartum, it will be seen that half of the great railway is already built."