Telegram-herald., 1891-04-05
FORCE OF FIGURES
Ingenious Argumeaf showing Their
Moral significance.
TIE BIBLE alIHEalIEMLf Built
Fail ana Aa~istis.I Exps.itiea OF the
kesiRFaeaa EsIatiea az Eixares u
fasass Essnts and Cyeiss-
sls1lEeaaee Of axAkEkseR."

Most people HotilG Enile 81 tAe SO
gsstson q = moral significance attaen-
illg 10 Ihe multiplication table or a sum
IA addition, bat he who will reserve MS
Judgment uatil ne has perussd this
column may think differently. Through
al history and among ali peoples, eer-
tam moral ldeas have been associated
With certain numbers, but 40 cultivated
scientific mind has, until the present
generation, attached serious IMPORT
a1ce 10 these supersGlsons. Everybody
knows the disFep1table character OF
the number 10, for instance, and every
body has fesf . vague Squeanlsnness
when thrown into rs company too IN
tlsnateiy. while Nobody would boldly
confess. even TO himself, thz. DC seri-
ot.sly believes that Ii dxfers morally
from al other numbers. But among
the discoveries OF the nineteenth CEN
tury, Dot the least a the absolute GER
sA1nty that every number has rs own
particular moral significance. TINS
trusn Is 80 patent 10 him who viii tsce
lI that the belief - not unsarFanted
that a number IS never found N nature
dfssoc!ated from its Own moral charae-
ter. To illustrate. VINO III Gralt
Rapids, reading over the TELEGRAM
HERALD vote for mayor, "a that vote
stood on AEr.i /, would look 10 any
thing but tile slze OF the number ex-
pressing the vote OF his fayorits candl-
date? j. +. Turner had 3fJ. and =. +.
thl had 3U3. VINO would not say that
Turner was ahead IN the race, and who
would dream 10 possible that Mr.. UhPs
number might possess an intrinsic qua
ity that makes it far preferable 10 MI.
Turner'S larger number. Who would
imagine that 800 i a better prophecy OF
success than 343, or wee versa! There
are many independent WAYS OF answer
ing this seemingly frivolous question.
but the one best adapted 10 popular
exposition Is TO point out the use made
of numbers IN the Bible
Mersi VI Gaming of Numbers
II stands demonstrated fact today
that from tienesls To- Revelation every
number contained N the Bible, great
or small. whether relating to chronol-
egy, history, geography, population or
the commonest matters, IS used with
reference to certain fixed moral and
spiritual meaning attaching to that
metlcal structure OF the Bible would as
well expect Co lind potatoes growing on
treess a. 10 find the number or or 5
or Is or l53 or any other number away
from certain invariable moral sur
roundings. When. for Instance, q GER
tain miraculous draUght of fishes num-
bered an hundred nifty and three fishes,
il would create painful moral con-
fusion IN the mind of the expert to
read $50 or 200 tisheslnstead of the very
number 153- This principal applies to
every number OF the BiDbIe, directly or
indirectly. To enable the reader 10
understand what IS here meant, q para
graph OF preliminary instruction
will be necessary. The ancient
Hebrews, Greeks and Latins made use
of their alphabets for the expression of
numbers. The Arabic figures used by
US today were unknown Everybody
knows the Roman system, IN which
expresses one, V five. X ten, and so on.
Every letter of the Hebrew and Greek
aIphabcts has numerical value, the
first letter standing for /, the second
for ?, etc. In Hebrew: A!eph, /; Beth,
2; Glmmel. 3; DAleth, 4, ETC. In Greek:
Alpha, l.; Beta, 3; Gamma, 3: Delta, 4.
etc. After the nine digits are named
the following letters express tens and
hundreds: For instance. IN Greek. Iota
expresses 10; Kappa, %, etc, down to
ko, which means loo; Sigma, 200, etc.
down TO Omega; which signifies 500.
The Hebrew alphabet IS read IN the
came way. Every letter of thee
ancient languages having its numerical
significance, IL may readily be seen
that every word OF those languages will
have numerical value If the numbers
II ali the Letters OF the words be added.
English U.sd 90 illustrate.
For instance. let The letters Of the
English alphabet be given numerical
values ike those OF the Greek and
Hebrew. calling 4 1, = =. G. 3. etc.
down Ca j. which would mean 10. : loo
and z 500. Take. now. the letters OF
tlse name Of John smith. and ascertain
the numbers they s.ana Cor. 10, O 60,
lis, y 80, = 10o. N 40. 0. I 200. II :.
Aiding these numbers together, their
sun Is found 70 DC 4s5, and that would
he the number of John Smiths name.
The process Is very simple and Il need
rot psfpissx anyb0dy. Every wort Il
the Gre K, Belgew and Latin Language
may be counties IN that way. 1t now.
upon analyzng this number OF Jona
Smiths name. and also the numbers of
many other names 0f men Consplcu0us
tor sofae mental cr moral tralk tirsi
aiso eharactsTizes John smith. VIVA,
would Dc sAOaght Il the resemblance
am0ag these many persons extended ID
The numbers OF sheir names Sapposs.
for instance. that every ore uf tGe
numbers were zxact!y diyiSiale by 10 A
nunabeu tbs associated would lneyitah >
paftake OK the character Of it. asso-
Citations. The number - would soon
acquire the identical trait that char
acteriscd MI tire men into whose names
the number enter, under the menta
law Of the ASSOCIATION Of IDEAS. Now i,
ia Nineteenth century discovery that
the entire literary structure OF tue
Hshie. IN both the Old and New Testa
ments. - siso a numerical one. and &
has teea through this discovery thu;
the morss significance of numbers has
lssn sseertained. The demonstration
which IS to follow Will be better under
stood & an Interpretation OF few
numbers he gwen mere.
Interpretation 90 Srr.eers
cne - always and everywhere tie
symbol 81 unity ard completeness. two
j. the nafn5er ~ harisnity "a dlssip-
rnssbed from deity above and TIE brute
below, three = the nurnber Of absolute
nerfeetiuu. essential perfection a. Dis.
finguished from specialized forms OF
perfection: four isthe number OF city
s,rder ard perfection. Eve 5 the nuns-
feF &C iaw, "a distinguished from the
spirit; sx = the number OF securiarlty
wurldliness, seven = the spiritual nur,.
her. eight = the nnnaber of reSBTvec.
ton. renewal. regeneration; nine j. the
number Of Judgment. ten j. the nnfn.
her Of chro0oiog cal completeness. the