The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1910-04-06

some may inquire, What about the
resurrection of the millions who have
died? We reply that the world has
been only gradually working up to its
present dense population. The people
living in the world for the past six
thousand years, according to what we
believe are trustworthy evidences,
thousand millions. But more than
twice that number could be buried in
the State of Texas in separate graves
and more than eight times that num-
Der could find standing room In Tex
as, as a school-boy with his pencil
could readily demonstrate.
But we need not look thousand
years ahead. The world will find it.
self in great trouble very shortly I'M
less the Millennium be ushered in. AL
ready there is a shortage of timber.
What Will be the condition of things
one hundred years from now? Al
ready our capitalists are buying up the
coal deposits on speculation. realizing
that Its rapid consumption is making
1t more valuable every year Already
biologists are calculating the number
OF tons of coal not yet mined and tell
ing us that with the present average
Of increase in the consumption of coal
the entire supply of the world will be
exhausted in less than tc0 hundred
years What will be the price of coal
as the vanishing point is neared? and
how will mankind do without 1t. and
without wood for fuel unless the Mil
lennium come promptly with its mlrac-
tilous provisions?-th taking of fuel
from our atmosphere. and from water.
by methods which will, no doubt. be
simple. when mankind come to under
stand them fully, but which at present
are so expensive as TO be of little serv-
Ice.
Other scientific men have been study
ing the increase of insanity and telling
us that progress in this direction Is
terrific Some have estimated that in
less than two hundred years the en-
tire world at the present rate. will be
insane How opportune 1t would be
for the Millennial Kingdom OF the
great l.ife-Giver to be ushered in with
Its uplifting Influences mental, moral
and physical,
Last but not least the combination
Of wisdom and selfshness In our day,
known as Unions and Trusts. Is SO In
fiuentlal that prices In every eomnod-
ity are rising Yet the trusts are not
quite ripe yet. Their managers have
not fully learned their power Grad
ually the upper and the neither mill
stones will apparently be drawn closer
together. while necessity will force the
masses through the hopper How
great would those giants" become
within another century or so. II the
Millennium be not ushered in In the
interim TO lift the poor and needy out
of the dunghlli' the scriptural
figure of the work OF the Kingdom.
psalm exiii ~
My friends. let us stick to the Bible
and its Millennial theory. SO doing
we will be guided by the wisdom
from on high and enabled To pray
with the spirit and the understanding
also, "Thy Kingdom come; they will
be done on earth as it is done In
heaven" and to labor intelligently as
coworkers with God. Let us pre-
pare as pupils in the School Of Christ
for the great work whereunto God has
called us by the Gospel Message.
Even so. Come. Lord Jesus; Come
quicklyE
"Thy Kingdom come. and thy will
be done on earth. even as In heaven