The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1918-11-09
ssS The Promise of Resurrection From the
dead the Only Light of Hope for Humanity st

lace and note that The billions OF |
humanity from creation to the pres
enl time that have existed upon the |
earth but short time then pass into |
death, breaking up the dearest of
family ties, and leaving behind the
most precious treasures of the earth,
we wonder if il is all of life to live or
all OF death 10 die; and were il not
for Gods promises of a resurrection
of the dead and a better life beyond
this evil condition for all the will
ing and obedient. this worlds
drama would be dark one indeed.
From Bible chronology man has
been upon this earth little more
than 5000 years, and of course the
Bible statement is true, and should
any one be inclined to question The
Bibles reliability on The point Of
chronology the way is open to qucs-
tioning its claim of being the in
Spired word of God, and any one who
doubts the Bible being the inspired
word of God, Il don't mean inter
polations of the Bible) is not
in condition of heart to be taught
its deep truths nor TO receive the
comforts of the blessed promises
therein made for man.
The resurrection of the dead is the
most prominent feature Of Gods
Great Plan Of Salvation for man.
Some one has fooliShly said there
would not be room enough on this
| earth for all the people, were they
resurrected, who have lived upon the
| earth and died since creation TO the
| present time; but such statement is
/ absolutely without foundation Tor
truth.
According to Bible chronology
5000 years would reach from the
! creation of Adam down to 1872 A. D,
| Now for the purposes of making a
/ mathematical calculation of the hui
| man race and for the purposes OF
avoiding fractions we will compute
the number of all possible persons
that have ever lived on earth during
the 5000 years from creation to
/ 1872 A. ID.
i Get your paper and pencil and lei
us assume that il is 5000 years since
/ the creation of man and that there
! were as many persons created at tho
/ beginning as there are now UakinG
our stand at the year 1872, the cSti
mated population of the earth a
{; that time, was fourteen hundred
million 1,i00,000,000). As a matter
of fact, the human race began will
! only one pair. And further, let u
suppose that there never were few
4 er than 1,iO0,000,000 at any tim,
during this 6000 years (hut as mai
ter of fact the flood, at one time, re
II duced the population of the eartl
II to only eight persons.) Again le
/ us be liberal and estimate thre
generations to century or thirty
| | three years TO generation (thougl
II according to Gen. 5, there were bu
II eleven generations from Adam {
II the flood, a period of 1856 years -
( about $50 years to each generation.
Now let us see: 5000 years are GO cen
turies: 3 generations TO each cen
tury would give us 1870 generation
since Adam; and 1,4O0,OOO,OOO to
/ generation would give 252,OOO,OOO
900, as the total number of our rae
! from creation to the present tim
(1S72), according to this very libcI
al estimate, which is certainly NOR
than twice the actual number. Til
present population of the earth I
date is estimated TO be about 1000
900 900; but our very liberal estimat
and calculations of the human rae
from creation to 1872 should NOR
. than convince the responsible mine
ed, that the estimated 200 mi
lion more persons since 1SI
to date can easily be provided for
the resurrection.
Where shall we find room enoug
for this great multitude? Let us mea
ure the land and see. The state
Texas as a cemetary would at Tn
There are 27,87S,400 square feet
mile, and therefore 6,6O7, ,1SO,SO'
900 square feet in Texas. AllowiI
10 square feet as the surface cover'
by each dead body, we find tn
Texas contains 1000 square mile
rate, hold 660,71S, 10000 bodies,
1 nearly three times as many as OF
exaggerated estimate of the numb
of persons that have ever lived upt
the earth. Persons standing occ
DIV, and at an average about one al