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FORCE OF FIGURES
Ingenious Argument Showing Their
Moral Significance.
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Yesterday mornings article On the
moral significance OF numhers closed
with brief exposition Ut the meaning
of the principal numbers from unity 10
81. II will be evident 10 one who gives
the matter . momcnt's thought thai
the larger composite numbers cannot
have an independent significance. t.
cause they Will partake Of the char
scter OF their factors. Take, for ex-
ample. the number IS. Its factors are
and and 8; the number OF humanity
10y the number OF essential perfection
by the number of resurrection; and
| this last 10 itself the cube Ut the num-
Der of humanity. II IL only the prime
numbers which have mora! or spiritual
| character of their own, and the mean-
| ing OF most OF these has not yet been
| angs there 10 no reason To believe, be-
cause SO many Of them have been die.
covered with meanings. The number
l lo3, u may be mentioned, Is one that
enters into the most beautiful and
| astonishing combinations OF all the
numbers that have yet been explored.
Dominant Characters.
Now, bearing in mind what was said
Yesterday when the name OF John
Smith was employed as an illustration,
II is evident that the name Of every
person mentioned in the Bible, If the
letters of II are added, will have its own
numerical amount. The astonishing
| fact has been discovered that the chief
personages of the Bible have the num-
bers of their names perfectly cores
| pondlDg with the dominant character,
personal or official, of the men who
bear the names. But this is not all. 1t
| Is known that all texts and passages OF
Scripture having doctrinal or moral
color Will give nnmerical aggregates
perfectly correspondent with the ideas
involved IN the text. 1t is the purpose
l OF this article to give a sufficient num-
her of examples Of this principle to en-
| able the reader to see somewhat OF this
marvellous internal structure Of the
sacred writings.
scripturai Application.
Let the number eight be first selected
for the test. Any other one would an
swer as well. 1t is evident that there is
but one chance in eight that any num-
Der taken ut random will contain eight
as q factor, and there is but one chance
in sixty-four that it will contain eight
as factor twice. Eight. let it be re-
meEbered, is the number OF resurrcc-
ton and renewal. Taking the name
Jesus, and adding the numbers indi-
| Gated by the letters Of the name, We
find that the sum is SSS; that Is, SUI
perlatlvc expression OF tho idea of re-
Il !. ~
with types of Christ, more or less
strongly IMPLYING the Messiah. Let rs
look ut the numerical competition OF
some of these. Noah is the most PROM
lnent of all the ancient type5 of Christ.
His number is "a, or times 8; Abra-
ham, 24S, pr times 81. the number of
Jesus multiplied by tho number of
! deity; Isaac, 206, or times times 5;
Samson. 696, or times 81. The aggre-
gate OF all IN the ark, except Ham. is
sSS. Ewes name spells 10, and that is
the number of femi1inity. Mary is
| 152. or s times 10. The phrase Mother
| of Jesus" is ll52, or times times IS.
Christ, 1850. or 8 times 1S5; Saviour,
! 140S, or times times %; Messiah, 256,
1 or times s times 4.
Results From Whole Sentences.
Phrases and texts and whole pas
| sages give the same results. Gle that
| was dead came forth bound hand and
foot with grave clothes, and his face
| was bound about with a napkin" gives
| 950i, multiple OF s. "And he said,
young man say unto thee arise. And
he that was dead sat up and began to
| speak, and he delivered him TO his
mother" gives 1896 or s times S times
III. The epistle for Easter eve, con-
tanning the Likeness To baptism OF
Noah's ark "Wherein few that Is eight
souls were saved 10y water" yields the
/ number 65,0SS, which is times times
0 times us. This result never fails
wherever the principle may be tested.
Tho Number "Thirteen.''
Turn now to another number.
| Thirteen is the number of SIN and
| atoncment. and there IS but one chance
! in Is that Il given number will contain
/ Is rs factor. Lamech. the first polyg-
amist, and Allah his wife yield l69, or
: - times Is. Sometimes a name may
have belonged to persons OF op-
pos,te character. In euch cases,
snort descriptive phrases take the
numerical character. Judas Yields
! nothing rs name by itself, because 1t
is the name OF the betrayer and also of
a cousin of Jesus. But Judas, guide
10 them which took Jesus" is 412l, or
Z Is times 3iT. "One of you is devil"
Is times 1871. "Man who took not God
for his strength" - times 13 times IL.
"Who Is called devil ana satan," Is
times SHINES 10.
Most Remarkable illustration.
P,rhars the most remarkable Illus
! ;ratlon OF this IL found IN the numeri-
cal value OF the inscription which
Plate wrote in Greek, Hebrew and
Latin for the cross, "This is Jesus of
Nazareth, King Ut the jews" The
Greek sentence Yields IL tunes 555--ths
number of sin and atonenent multi
piled by the superlstlve expression of
the law. In Hebrew II Is % timos Ill.
In Latin IL ~ ~ timcsTi.
The above examples could be so null
tipiied that they wonld fiji every PAGE
of the TELEeRAN-HTRarp. The rule
holds for all hunters In every part of
the scriptures 20 which the test has
been applied. This article has been
able 70 do no more than barely call al.
tention 20 the fact OF this remarkable
structure Ut the litter of the sacred
writings. Il - now a demonstrated
lact that numbers possess moral
.tautfeaaea tfst whsffter fhts xient.