In 1838 the first ships to cross the Atlantic under steam power
alone--the "Sirius" and the "Great Western"--came into New York from
Liverpool, a few hours apart, forerunners of the fleets that furrow all
the seas today, making quick pathways for the gospel messengers to all
lands. Verily, they are a gift of God's providence to this generation,
when all the world is to hear the gospel message.

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An account of the capture of Babylon, B.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,