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254 such we would respectfully say, that the secret source of knowledge, front whence comes the astonishing prognostications that have bewildered sages and philosophers and all classes of people, are now open to but a few.

The world had to wait two thousand years for even one to receive the mantle and be invested with the tremendous responsibility. He who is not fit to be a student, cannot hope to aspire to be a teacher.

Again, the truth should be able to stand alone, regardless of he who utters it. You do not need a commission from on high to enable you to help in spreading the light.

Friends, we are nearly at the end of our present edition. Weigh well the proofs given here of a divine purpose, a divine plan; not the arbitrary wish or thought of one being, one soul, but the concensus of all soul, all being.

Consider the mathematical demonstrations exnibited in this work and in other works upon co-ordinating lines, and then ask yourselves the question:

COULD ALL THIS COME BY CHANCE?

We should emphatically say not. Men may juggle with mere words, which are at best but arbitrary representatives of ideas. We see this done in the pulpit and upon the rostrum, as well as in the press. But figures are facts. Figures will not lie. They have the habit of speaking truth in tones of thunder. All the arguments ever brought up against the dogmas of the church, would not have shaken her hold upon the minds of the people in an age. But the cold, sharp, unyielding and glittering blade of the sword of truth, has been wielded by the mailed hand of mathematical law, and the props of superstition are gradually