p. 11 | GOD'S ENGINEERING by Louis Albert Banks

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 16, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 49.

GOD'S ENGINEERING.

By Louis Albert Banks

WHAT is believed to be one of the greatest engineering feats on record was accomplished recently in Philadelphia. The old iron span in the Pennsylvania railroad bridge, crossing the Schuylkill River, in Fairmount Park, was replaced by a new structure of steel in the space of two minutes and twenty-eight seconds, accurately timed. The substitution of the new bridge for the old was effected between the passage of two way trains over the bridge only nine minutes apart, that is, one train went over the old bridge, and nine minutes later the train that followed ran over the new bridge. Seventeen hundred tons was lifted out and into place by adequate machinery without delaying a train. That is surely a wonderful piece of engineering for a man to perform, but how slight compared to the engineering of Him who takes care of all the worlds, and never misses track of one! Even in our own little world how marvelous is the engineering skill that brings the sunrise always on time, and never permits the restful night to be delayed a moment overdue. The seasons come and go in orderly precision; seed-time and harvest do not fail. Surely we may trust the affairs of our little lives with perfect confidence in the hand of the Great Engineer. —L. A. Banks, D.D.