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deep on each others heads. What
shall we think Of the qeisdODi that tells
us that the Millennium is ffty thou
sand years off? The answer is found
In lsaiah's prophecy xxx, IA.
Are we asked how the Millennium If
at once introduced would avert the diff
fcuitieS of the first statement, two
hundred and ten people for each
acre OF the habitable earth? We re-
ply that the Scriptures clearly init
mate that the rapid increase of our
race is associated with mans fallen
condition: as our Creator declared to
mother Eve after her disobedience, II
will greatly multiply thy sorrows and
thy conception Genesis iii, 49,.
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 10 the condition
where there will be neither marriage
nor giving in marriage and where sex
conditions will be lost in 4 uniform
standard Of Humanity embOdying the
qualities at 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
in ion with tho fap
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-
NAL Kingdom of Christ, what can the
world who ignore the Bible expect?
In other words what shall they expect
things is to continue, saying, "All things
continue as they were from the begin
ming Of the world?" I'll Peter lii, 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 its
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-
Der could find standing room in Tex
as, as Il 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 UNI
less the Millennium be ushered in. AL
ready there is shortage of timber.
What will he 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
it 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
'hS Nh'iiN supply VI thS "oiiu WIN w
exhausted in less than tWO hundred
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 i'm this direction is
terrific Some have estimated that i'm
less than two hundred years the en-
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 selfishness in our day
known as Unions and Trusts, is so in
fiuential 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 i'm In the
interim to lift the poor and needy out
of the dunghilf 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 win
be done, on earth as it is done in
heaven" and to labor intelligently as
cO-workers 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
quicklyv
THY Kingdom come. and thy will
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