The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-04-15

each square foot of standing-room. In
other words they would stand fifteen
deep on each others heads What
shall we think of the tciSdOm that tells
us that the Millennium is miD thou
sand years orf The answer is found
In lsaiah's prophecy NXiX, IN.
Are we asked how the Millennium II
at once introduced would avert the diff.
fiCultics of the first statement, two
hundred and ten people for each
acre OF the habltablc earth? We re-
ply that the Scriptures clearly init.
mate that the rapid increase of our
race Is associated with mans fallen
condition; rs our Creator declared to
mother Eve after her dlsobcdience, IL
Will greatly multiply thy sorrows aud
thy conception" Genesis Ill, 1G).
The Earth Shall Yield Her Increase.
The Scriptures also intimate that
with the return OF humanity towards
perfection the average increase will be
less, and that eventually the human
family will come to the condition
where there will be neither marriage
nor giving in marriage and where sex
conditions will be lost In uniform
standard Of humanity Cmbodying the
qualities ut present displayed in the
two sexes. Further, Gods promise for
the Millennium is that under his bless.
ing the earth will yield her increase
and the waste places be reclaimed,
springs breaking forth in deserts.
Furthermore. recognizing the Divine
power in connection with the matter
we can readily see how vast con.
tinents can be raised in the Atlantic
and in the Pacific Ocean. But aside
from these miracles which properly
enough could accompany the Millcn-
NAL Kingdom of Christ, what can the
world who ignore the Bible expect?
In other words what shall they expect
who claim that the present order Of
things is TO continue, saying, IAN things
continue as they were from the begin
ming of the worId?' Oh Peter Iii, A.
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 it's
present dense population. The people
living in the world for the past six
thousand years. according to what we
believe are trustworthy evidences,
would number altogether about twenty
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-
hnr pptl1 nd CtonIinCy IN,
as, as n school-boy with his pencil
could readily demonstrate.
But we need not look a 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 tbCO hundrcf
gears. What will be the price Of coal
as the vanishing point is neared? and
how will mankind do without it, and
without wood for fuel unless the Mil
lennium come promptly with its mirac-
ulous provisions?-the 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 ell
tire world. at the present rate, will be
insane. How opportune it would be
for the Millennial Kingdom of the
great Life-Giver to be ushered in with
its uplifting influences, mental, moral
and physical!
Last but not least the combination
OF wisdom and sefishness in our day,
known as Unions and Trusts, is so in
fuential that prices in every commod-
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, If the
Millennium be not ushered in in the
interim to lift the poor and needy out
Of the dunghill'-using the scriptural
figure Of the work Of the Kingdom!
psalm cXiii, ~
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