A Race for Life.-

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 14, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 11.

A Race for Life.—

Charles G. Gates, son of the great financier, made a great race for life February 16 to 19 from Yuma, Arizona, to New York, covering the 3100 miles in eighty hours' time, breaking all previous transcontinental records, an average for the entire trip of 38¼ miles an hour, at times through New York State at 73 miles an hour, and from Albany to New York 143 miles in 143 minutes. Mr. Gates supposed he had blood-poisoning, and that the only physician who could save him was his family physician, Dr. Fellows Davis; hence the trip at a cost of over $7000. Men are all afflicted with blood-poisoning. The virus of sin has wrought its work on every soul of Adam's seed. Its fruit is a fretting leprosy which ends at the casket and the grave. No earthly power can forever postpone its cruel work. It not alone destroys the body, but the soul. It has eaten out much of the moral fiber of mankind, and has left us a race of degenerates. Yet there is hope. There is a balm that will heal, a Physician who can "save to the uttermost." The humblest and poorest can reach Him quicker than Mr. Gates with his millions reached his New York physician, quicker even tho he had started at Albany. "He is not far from every one of us." He comes to us in the fulness of life and power to save. He will touch the moral nature and heal the soul. He will enter the very citadel of sin and destroy the power of the enemy; and tho the physical man succumbs to the diseases of sin, the Life-giver will raise to life everlasting those who sleep in Him. But O, how few appreciate the assured boon sufficiently to leave all and seek God! Men will do all things possible to put off for a little while temporal death, the death of the body; how little most of them prize the value of the soul! How little will they venture to secure eternal life!