Luther said of it:
"Printing is the latest and greatest gift by which God enables
us to advance the things of the gospel. It is the last bright
flame, manifesting itself just previous to the extinction of
the world. Thanks be to God, it came before the last day
came."--_Michelet's "Life of Luther," p. 291._
While improvements in the art were made through the centuries, it was a
slow process, even up to the opening of our generation. During our day,
however, inventions have revolutionized the printing process.
In this, as in other things, the methods have been speeded up to meet
the necessities of this time of rapid accomplishment. The printing press
is one of the chief of the marvelous enlightening agencies of this time
of the end. By it the printed pages of truth are set falling over the
earth "like the leaves of autumn."
Time fails us to speak of all the wonderful material developments of our
day, when knowledge has been increased, and when men are not only
searching to and fro, but literally running to and fro. The whole earth
is brought within the range of human knowledge, and the light of saving
truth is streaming out toward every dark place where the children of men
dwell.
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