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RAPIDITY OF TRAVEL

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 12, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 37.

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RAPIDITY OF TRAVEL.

ONE of the significant features of these times is the amount of hard study and work that is put upon the question of how to get from place to place in the shortest possible time. It had been deemed about impossible to construct faster vessels for ocean travel than some of those recently built, such as the Campania, Lucania, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, etc. But now comes the new Hamburg-American liner Deutschland, that has beat all previous records, having sailed 3,085 knots at the average speed of 23 knots an hour.
Few people recognize the significance of all this. The Lord Himself is inspiring all these wonderful inventions and improvements in our time. The Lord Jesus Christ is soon to come. The world is filled with the evidence of it, and it is the Lord's design that the knowledge of this great event shall be fully known in every nook and corner of the habitable globe.
Politics and questions of that kind are the all-absorbing themes with the most of men now. But the corruptions and the evils that are coming into the world because of the wickedness of men are fast filling the hearts of men with perplexity and distress. This distress and difficulty will soon occupy the minds of all. It will be impossible for it to be avoided. And in that time thousands will want to know what all this means, and what will be the end of the trouble manifest upon the whole earth. Then, in a very brief space of time, the Lord will have His agencies proclaim to men what His own Word has been telling them all these years. The Word has made it plain that the end of all things is at hand, but men would not believe it. But here are circumstances that compel them to reflect seriously upon the appalling conditions of our times.
How wise and good it is for the Lord to have everything in readiness, so that men in every part of the world may be reached quickly, and thus get the help they need! It has been Satan's studied plan to have all destroyed. That has been his object in bringing all this evil upon the world. But the Lord has laid world-wide plans to thwart him in his efforts, and it will be seen that He will save every one who is willing to accept the salvation so graciously offered. T.