C. 538. From the
cylinder of Cyrus.]
"He hath made the deep as dry,
He hath smote for us a pathway to the ends of all the earth."
In 1825 Stephenson built his first railway passenger locomotive, which
may still be seen in the Darlington railway station, in England. It was
the beginning of the great revolution in land travel. The late Prof.
Alfred Russel Wallace, scientist, wrote:
"From the earliest historic and even prehistoric times till the
construction of our great railways in the second quarter of the
present century [the nineteenth], there had been absolutely no
change in the methods of human locomotion."--_"The Wonderful
Century," p. 7._
[Illustration: MANUSCRIPT WRITING
The process by which the books of the great library of Alexandria,
Egypt, were made.]
For nearly six thousand years men had traveled in the old way. Why
should these revolutionary changes in travel by sea and land come
abruptly just at this time?--Because the time foretold in the prophecy
was at hand, when the last gospel message was to be carried quickly to
all the world--"to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.
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