Under the above caption, Missionary L. E. Glenn, of the Pentecost Band, writes to the Herald of Light as follows:
*“A great barrier to mission work on the Upper Nile and in Central Africa has been overcome by a new railroad just opened in January, from the Red Sea to the Nile. You will no doubt feel that the Lord’s hand is in it when we tell you that this line of 325 miles of railroad was built under a tropical sun and in spite of great obstacles, in just fourteen months. The distance from the Red Sea to the Upper Nile can be covered in a few hours. Heretofore it has been a long, wearisome trip of about five days and nights from Alexandria to Khartoum by way of Nile Valley and part of the distance the trip was made by Nile steamers.
“Now all the great Western Sudan is in close touch with the outside world by this miracle of