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 -which we find, according to recent estimates, to be 57,000,000 square miles, or over 36,000,000,000 acres.

What would this mean as to space for each individual -who has ever lived in the world according to this very large, liberal estimate? It means that there would be twelve hundred and seventy-five acres for each little village of two hundred families (one thousand persons). Quite a sufficiency of room, all will agree, under the new conditions promised; but if more space be necessary, let us have a little of the faith which father Abraham exercised when he counted that God, to keep his promise, was able to raise Isaac from the dead. With this faith we will see readily that it will be quite within the divine power to raise vast continents from the depths of the oceans, or indeed to give a literal as well as a symbolical fulfilment to the declaration, "There shall be no more sea."

Our conclusion then must be that those who hold to the teachings of the Lord and the faith of the Apostles and primitive Church have not been put to shame in any degree by the wisdom of this world.

Now let us look on the other side of the question, and see if it be not true respecting the worldly wise as was written nearly three thousand years ago, "The wise are taken in their own craftiness*' "They hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai." Esther 7:10.

THB OTHER, SIDE OF THE QUESTION* OPPOSERS OP THB

MILLENNIUM SILENCED AND SHAMED, "OUT o# THINE OWN MOUTH WILL I JUDGE TKBEI.

Those who stand loyally in support of the teachings of our Lord and Hs Apostles in * espect to the coming Kingdom "under the whole heavens" have generally been content to be on the defensive. Those wlao trust fully in the proztdse of God to Abraham, "la thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed," have too long endured the sneers of the worldly wise and refrained from pricking their bubbles of self-complacency, piide, sarcasm and folly set afloat by

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