The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

mother Eve after her disobedience, ST
will greatly multiply thy SORROWS and
thy conception Genesis iii, 16).
The Earth Shall Yield Her Increase.
The Scriptures also intimate that
with the return of humanity towards
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
standard of humanity embodying the
qualities at present displayed in the
two sexes. Further, Gods promise for
the Millennium is that under his bless
and the waste places be redeemed,
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 Millen-
MUM 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, All Things
continue as they were from the pc
ginning of the world?" Gil Peter
iii, ~.
Some may inquire, What about the
resurrection nf the millions who have
been only gradually working up to its
present dense populate n. The people
living in the world Tor the past SIX
thousand years, according to what we
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-
Der could find standing room in Tex
as, as a school boy with his pencl
could readily demonstrate.
But we need not look a thousand
years ahead. The world Will flnd II
self in great trouble very shortly I'M
one hundred years from now? Al
ready there is shortage or timber.
What will be the condition of things
one hundred years fl now? Al
ready our capitalists are buying up the
coal deposits N speculation, realizing
that its rapid consumption Is making
it more valuable every year. Already
biologists are calculating the numDGr
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 in the world Will be
exhausted in less than two 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 mirac-
ulous provisions ?-the taking of fuel
from our atmosphere, and from water,
bv 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
service.
other scientific men have been
studying the increase of insanity and
telling us that progress in this direc
ton is terrific. Some have estimated
that in less than two hundred years
the entire world, at the present rate,
will be insane. How opportune it would
be for the Millennium Kingdom of the
great Life Oliver to be ushered in with
its uplifting influences. mental moral
and physical
Last but not least the combination
of --fsdom and selfishness in our day, |
known as Unions and Trusts, is so in
huential that prices in every commod- |
ity are rising. Yet the trusts are not |
quite ripe vet. 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 |
interim to "lift the poor and needy out |
of the dunghi1" the scriptural |
figure of the work of the KingdomI |
psalm cxiii, y.
49, 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; thy will |
be done on earth as it Is done in |
heaven" and to labor intelIigently as /
co-workers with Cod Let US pre-
pare as pupils in the school of Christ