GUTENBERG'S FIRST TYPES
Reproduced from the first edition of the famous forty-two-line Latin Bible, printed by Gutenberg.
Later came the electric telegraph, for the quick transmission of news. It was in 1837 that Cooke and Wheatstone in England, and Morse in the United States, made their application for patents on the electric telegraph. It was in 1844 that the first long-distance system was successfully demonstrated—when the historic message was sent from Baltimore to Washington, "What hath God wrought!" Now news of events fulfilling prophecy, and news of progress and conditions in all lands, are daily spread before the world by this agency of our wonderful time.
THE GUTENBERG PRINTING PRESS
On which was produced the first printed Bible, in 1456 A.D.
THE FRANKLIN PRESS
Operated by two men, it has a maximum speed of 250 impressions per hour.
As the closing events take place, the Lord has in His providence so ordered it that no one need be ignorant of the signs of the times fulfilling before the eyes of men.
"Speak the word and think the thought,
Quick 'tis as with lightning caught—
Over, under, lands or seas
To the far antipodes."
Here is an incident illustrating the way in which the electric telegraph may multiply and spread abroad the witness borne to the truth of God in some obscure corner of the earth: