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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 21, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 8.

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SAN FRANCISCO.

MAN, when spurred on with the desire for gain, can accomplish marvelous things. In 1848 San Francisco was a village with a population of 300 persons. In January of that year gold was discovered; and now, but fifty-eight years from that time, there is a population of over 400,000. What was then but a waste of sand dunes is a city covering 30,000 acres of land, with 850 miles of streets, 270 of which are paved; and having 264 miles of street railways. There are eighty-three public schools besides many private and parochial schools; 145 daily, weekly, and monthly publications, in a dozen prominent languages, including Chinese and Japanese; and the city ranks first in the world in the use of the telephone, of which there are over 45,000, or one for every ten inhabitants. In 1854 the San Francisco mint was established, and up to June, 1905, the coinage had amounted to $1,600,000,000.
The Five Idols in the Joss Temple of Lung Gong, Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal.
The Five Idols in the Joss Temple of Lung Gong, Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal.
Many nations are represented on the streets of this great city. What a field for foreign missionary work in our very midst. And when God's people see and awake to the opportunity, the same zeal and labor that has in half a century made this the third city in commercial importance in the United States, will in a shorter period, by the help of all modern improvements and appliances it affords, make it and many more of America's cities strongholds for His truth. And from the foreign inhabitants of these cities foreign missions will be supplied with an abundance of workers.