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 A Criticism of Millennia If opes Examined* l

reached a place where a sufficient number of people have been born into the world to about reasonably and properly fill it, if they were recovered from the tomb. On the con- trary, looking into the future, we see not only an impossibility of long continuance under present conditions, but we see likewise that even three centuries more at the present rate of increase would add to the numbers of the dead 69,000,000,000, or over double the number of our above Eberal estimate of all the past dead making the total num- ber 87,000,000,000. Add to this number of the dead, at the dose of three centuries future, the number then living at present rate of increase, viz. 16,000,000,000, the total would be over one hundred and three thousand millions. There would then be room for an argument on the possibility of God's promise of "restitution of all things spoken." (Acts 3: 1&-21.) The awakening of such a host would furnish only one acre of at present useable land for six persons. Three centuries are not far ahead either!

The more we investigate this question upon a proper basis, the more strong our faith must become in the promises of the divine Word respecting the ''times of restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets since the world began,'* and which are to commence, with the second coming of our Lord. (Acts 3: 19-21 .) They are. surely nigh at hand: these facts agreeing well with the Bible testimonies. See Millennial Dawn, Vol. II.

In the %fct of the foregoing we find all of Brother Eaton's figures quite erroneous. His revised figures are more than three thousand times too large ; while those first presented were more than seventy millions of times too large t Let us all the more closely stick to the $aok to God's Word. < The Word of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple." Psalm 19:7.

ANOTHER CALCULATION PROVING OUR FIGURES.

Another calculation would be to take the known beginning after 1,600,000,000 ad viewing the whole as a wedge, reckon a grad- ual percentage of increase from the one number to the other. Reckon- ing thus, and counting three generations to die each century, the total of 24-A

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