p. 10 | A Great Country

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

A Great Country

According to the last census the population of the United States aggregates 101,100,000, an increase of 21 per cent in the last decade; twenty-five times as much as when first counted in 1790. This aggregate includes the Philippines, Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Alaska, and the Panama Canal Zone. Within its own proper border its population is 91,972,266. The population of Texas now is nearly as large as the entire country was then. The increase is less rapid than in any decade but one.

Another war instrument is a monster motor search-light, illustrated above, of the United States Army. Other nations possess them also. They will be used for spying out land enemies and finding flying-machines. Ready for service it weighs over five and one fourth tons, can travel sixteen miles an hour, climb a twenty-five per cent grade, run over soft ground, and climb over a log ten inches through. The engine propels the machine, and supplies a current of electricity for two powerful search-lights, which can penetrate the darkness for several miles. (Courtesy "Popular Mechanics.")

This enumeration will probably alter Congress, giving, on the present ratio of one Representative to 194,000, 474 members instead of 392 as at present. Some of the States have made a great gain, Washington, for instance, 120 per cent. Ten States fell below 10 per cent increase. The rank of the States in population is as follows:

1, New York; 2, Pennsylvania; 3, Illinois; 4, Ohio; 5, Texas; 6, Massachusetts; 7, Missouri; 8, Michigan; 9, Indiana; 10, Georgia; 11, New Jersey; 12, California; 13, Wisconsin; 14, Kentucky; 15, Iowa; 16, North Carolina; 17, Tennessee; 18, Alabama; 19, Minnesota; 20, Virginia; 21, Mississippi; 22, Kansas; 23, Oklahoma; 24, Louisiana; 25, Arkansas; 26, South Carolina; 27, Maryland; 28, West Virginia; 29, Nebraska; 30, Washington; 31, Porto Rico; 32, Connecticut; 33, Colorado; 34, Florida; 35, Maine; 36, Oregon; 37, South Dakota; 38, North Dakota; 39, Rhode Island; 40, New Hampshire; 41, Montana; 42, Utah; 43, Vermont; 44, District of Columbia; 45, New Mexico; 46, Idaho; 47, Arizona; 48, Delaware; 49, Hawaii; 50, Wyoming; 51, Nevada; 52, Alaska.

One bad omen is the great increase in city population, and in some of the States an ac

tual decrease in the agricultural districts.

The increase in New York State alone was 1,844,380. "More than one half of the States have fewer people than the New York increase." The total population of the State is 9,113,279, which is 2,500,000 more than all New England, and more than double that of the aggregate population of the Pacific States. New York City now numbers more than the State without the city.

How are these vast millions to be reached with the Gospel of Christ, the Gospel which sanctifies and saves?

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