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istan and the Soudan, and into the former the Bible has al-
ready gone in great numbers, and missionaries stand at the
doors waiting the privilege of entering in.
Is it not impressively significant that the missionaries
sent forth during this century have seemingly without -any
human supervision, been impelled to go to every land,
island, nation and tribe of the earth.
"Oh, Criurch of Christ, behold at last
The promised sign appear;
The gospel preached in all the world.
And lo! the King draws near."
VI. Rich Men.
"Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your
miseries that shall come upon you. . . . Ye have
heaped treasures together for (in) the last days." James
5:1, 8.
The accumulation of riches, in the hands of a few men, is
specially characteristic of the present tunes.
It is needless to mention the financial kings who, through
trusts and various manipulations, continue to add to their
enormous estates.
If Adam had lived to the present time and accumulated
$10,000 additional wealth each year of his life, this vast
would not several
aggregate equal individual fortunes
which have been amassed in recent years.
What limit these colossal estates shall attain by joining
"house to house" and "field to field," none can tell. But we
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know that "woe" has been uttered concerning and that
it,
it is distinctively a sign of the last days.
VTL Israel.
God's sun-dial.
If we want to know our place in chronology, our posi-
tion in the march of events, look at Israel.
God says of Israel: "I will make a full end of all the
(5) Isa. 5 :8. Woe unto them 9. In mine ears said the Lord
that join house to house, that lay o f hosts, Of a truth many houses
field to field, till there be no shaii be desolate, even great and
place, that they may be placed falrj without inhabitant,
alone in the midst of the earth !