When things all move so fast, Christian men must be wide-awake if they
would have morals and religion keep pace with material progress:
Such is the pace at which we live to-day that, while millions
of people in this country have not yet got up to the stage of
“civilization” represented by the use of gas, but when they
encounter it casually employ it suicidally, other millions have
outgrown and discarded it, and will have none of it even for a
curling-iron or a chafing-dish, let alone for lighting. To put
it briefly, the use of electricity for lighting in New York
State alone has increased over 2,000 per cent in ten years, and
the use of electricity for power, also from central stations,
has increased in the decade nearly 1,200 per cent. And yet the
electricians are inclined to think they have only just started
in. (Text.)--_The Electrical World and Engineer._
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