"Knowledge shall be increased."
"But thou O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of the end : many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." Dan. xii, 4. Who, when he looks over the present age of Railroads, Steamboats, Printing Presses, and Magnetic Telegraphs, can doubt that we are now in the "time of the end," and that the above prophecy is having its fulfillment. The following testimony on one item of modern improvement is to the point: "In the year 1272, the wages of a laboring man were just three half pence per day; and at the same period the price of a Bible fairly written out was £30 sterling. Of course, a common laborer in those days could not have procured a copy of the Bible with less than the entire earnings of thirteen years! Now a beautiful printed copy of the same book can be purchased with the earnings of one day! "Take another view of the same subject. An ordinary clerk cannot make a fair manuscript copy of the Bible in less than three months. With a common printing-press, work equivalent to printing a copy of the whole Bible can be done in ten minutes; and with a steam-press of the most improved construction, the same work can be done in one minute. "Christian reader, why was it that God, in his providence, reserved the discovery of the art of printing till the age of the Reformation? and why is it that even the power of the press has been multiplied threefold in the age of Bible and Tract Societies? Is it not that his people may at once proclaim the message of his love to all who know it not? Woe be to us, if, with such a power placed in our hands, we fail to improve it."