The Restlessness of Modern Cities

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 9, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 31.

The Restlessness of Modern Cities

The busy whirl of modern cities is well analyzed by a newspaper thus: An immigrant reaches New York every 42 seconds, a passenger-train arrives every 52 seconds, a new business firm opens every 42 minutes, and a new building raises its head to the skies every 51 minutes. In the incessant clatter and activity of a city, one's devotional aspirations would nearly be drowned. Nothing is more to be feared than the pandemic restlessness that cities breed. No wonder both science and revelation call us into the idyllic quietude of country life.