Identifier: everyboysbookofr00prot (find matches)
Title: Every boy's book of railways and steamships
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Protheroe, Ernest
Subjects: Railroads Steamboats
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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es generally. * The ship will lie low in the water, with one 348 STEAMSHIPS mast, and no top hamper or smoke pennant—to reveal her presence directly she comes on the horizon. She will be cheap to run, silent in movement, inconspicuous on the sky-line, and uglier than anything which has yet been set afloat.She will be an embodiment of power, a mere mobile marine fort, without a vestige of the beauty which made old sailors love their ships with an intensity which no landsman could appreciate. Time alone can prove what the marine engineer will achieve. The British Navy, our first line of defence, is the pride of our race, and we look to it to watch with jealous care that precious stone set in the silver sea. Our war-vessels of today are manned by men still feared for their breed and famous for their birth, hardy seamen filled to the brim with the courage of their wooden-wall forbears, and swelling with justifiable pride in the glorious flag that has braved a thousand years,the battle and the breeze.
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IMAGE: HMS Pincher, Torpedo Destroyer, on its trial run. (HMS Pincher (1910))- CHAPTER XXIII RAILWAYS AND STEAMSHIPS AID MISSIONARY PROGRESS STEAM, whether on land or water, in only the course of a century, has worked wonders for the material betterment of the world;it has annihilated distance, has promoted friendship between peoples widely different in colour, thought and habit, has multiplied trade, and has added to the comforts of life generally in a thousand and one different ways. The beneficent work of steam, however, has had a wider, though, in many respects, a less apparent range. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, was a Divine injunction, that, at one time, was terribly hard to put into practice. It may be accepted as generally true, that into whatever part of the world the white man penetrates he takes the gospel with him, at least indirectly. But that is not sufficient to comply with the plainest duty of Christendom; the [349 350 STEAMSHIPS] gospel must be taken to the heathen of set purpose ;it must be the be-all and end-all of specially

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