p. 16 | Great Cities by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 24, 1911

Great Cities.

By Editor

Of the ten largest cities in the world three are in the United States. These cities in their order of size are as follows: London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Chicago, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Philadelphia, Moscow. There are eight cities in this country having over a half million of inhabitants, as follows: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore, Pittsburg. Five cities of over 25,000 population to 100,000 made remarkable growth during the last ten years. Oklahoma City, 539 per cent; Muskogee, Oklahoma, 494 per cent; Birmingham, Alabama, 245 per cent; Pasadena, California, 232 per cent; Flint, Michigan, 194 per cent. There were nine more of this class that doubled their population. The great growth of cities is not healthy; and the foreign element of growth is largely in excess of the native. What a problem these cities present! How are these great masses to be reached by "the everlasting Gospel"?

Signs of the Times.

We do not mean the name of this journal, but the signs of the times in which we are now living. Jesus our Lord reproved the people of His time because they did not "discern the signs of the times." He told them that they could discern the face of the sky and the signs of the weather, "but how is it ye do not discern this time?" There were more evidences, more certain witnesses, of that great epoch than there ever were of weather changes. This is equally true of to-day. The eternal day is sometime to shine; and God has given many signs, tokens, evidences, that its dawning is about to break. From every phase of life come the evidences, heralds of that dawn foretold in divine prophecy. Should we not seek to know them? Shall we merit the divine rebuke, "How is it ye do not discern this time?"