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340 principle of the treatise is that, as the Bible is a revelation from God of things that man could not have found out for himself, all that the Bible says on any matter is to be accepted implicitly, in the plain sense of the words, and without sophistication, however strange it may seem to the natural human reason. Hence, in all those essentials of Christianity which consist in the doctrines of the fall of man, atonement by Christ, and restoration and sanctification through Christ only, Milton is at one with the great body of Christians. Altogether, what the treatise makes clear is that, while Milton was a most fervid theist and a genuine Christian, believing in the Bible, and valuing the Bible over all the other books in the world, he was at the same time one of the most intrepid of English thinkers and theologians.

1em  MILWAUKEE, the largest in the of,, is situated on the west  of , 100  north of its southern end, 80  north of , and 1000  north-west of  by , in 43° 3′N. , 87° 56′W. (44 min. W. of ′). The of  is 600  above the.



The Milwaukee and unite in the centre of the  portion of the, about half a  from their entrance to, where they are joined by a third and smaller —the. A 6  from  to, and 3  broad, stretches in front of the , which commands a fine  view, the  rising along the  80  above the level of the , then gradually sloping westward to the Milwaukee , and again rising on the west and north to a height of 125. The also rises to a commanding elevation south of the  of the. Few present so many natural attractions of site, as indeed its   indicates (“the beautiful hollow or ”); and  has added to. In the parts of the  there are  of  from 70 to 100  wide, lined on both sides with s and s, behind which stand handsome s with spacious, s, and , giving the appearance of a continuous. The material used for is largely the -ed  made in the vicinity, from which Milwaukee is sometimes called the “ .” The, tempered by the , is remarkably pleasant and y. The mean , as shown by the records of twenty s, is 46°·7  The coldest  is  (average 22°·37), the   (70°·4). During the last nine s the average has been but 20 per 1000, showing it to be one of the iest of. Besides a full complement of the usual and  institutions, there is adjoining the  the al  for   volunteer s, consisting of several s situated in s of 400  extent, which serve the purpose of a. There are numerous s belonging to the s and other s; and the ’, which embrace a large membership and own some valuable , have done much to create and keep up the practice of among the s. Two excellent al  are also established here. Before Milwaukee was known only as an  -post occupied by a  d, who is generally spoken of as the founder of the. The total inhabitants in numbered only 700; in  there were 1712; but in  the  amounted to 9666, in  to 20,061, in  to 30,118, in  to 45,246, in  to 71,440, and in  to 115,578 (57,475, 58,103 ). In the  was estimated at 130,000,—more than one half of them of foreign parentage, a very large majority being. Notwithstanding the multitude of alities represented in the, there are few more orderly and -abiding, the number of  employed being less than one for every 1500 inhabitants. Another feature worthy of mention is the large proportion of who own their own s, and this is true not only as to the  and al, but especially as to the ing. Although the, formerly very large here, has now greatly diminished, the growth and prosperity of the  have not materially suffered, owing to the development of  , for which the low s, y , and advantageous location make it well adapted. About a sixth of the are engaged in the  of, s, , , s, , s, and , , and  (of which one million of s are  made), and in. Milwaukee has become famous for its “ ,” of which there are one million of s, valued at 8,000,000. The  is very large. The entered and cleared in  was 5,322,373, being about as large as that of , , or. The Central, the Milwaukee and, the Milwaukee and Northern, and the , Milwaukee, and   have their head offices here, and the last-named,  4000 s of lines, has immense s in the   near the. Milwaukee is by a  and a common council of thirty-nine. The and   are under the charge of the board of, 