w many were they at the
end of two hundred and fifteen years? Three millions. That is a good
many. We had at the time of the Revolution in this country three
millions of people. Since that time there have been four doubles, until
we have forty-eight millions today. How many would the Jews number at
the same ratio in two hundred and fifteen years? Call it eight doubles
and we have forty thousand. But instead of forty thousand they had
three millions. How do I know they had three millions? Because they
had six hundred thousand men of war. For every honest voter in the
State of Illinois there will be five other people, and there are always
more voters than men of war. They must have had at the lowest possible
estimate three millions of people. Is that true? Is there a minister
in the city of Chicago that will testify to his own idiocy by claiming
that they could have increased to three millions by that time? If
there is, let him say so. Do not let him talk about the civilizing
influence of a lie.

When they got into the desert they took a census to see how man
first-born children there were. They found they had twenty-thousand
two hundred and seventy-three first-born males. It is reasonable to
suppose there was about the same number of first-born girls, or
forty-five thousand first-born children. There must have been about as
many mothers as first-born children. Dividing three millions by
forty-five thousand mothers, and you will find that the women in Israel
had to have on the average sixty-eight children apiece. Some stories
are too thin. This is too thick. Now, we know that among three million
people there will be about three hundred births a day; and according to
the Old Testament, whenever a child was born the mother had to make a
sacrifice--a sin-offering for the crime of having been a mother. If
there is in this universe anything that is infinitely pure, it is a
mother with her child in her arms. Every woman had to have a sacrifice
of a couple of pigeons, and the priests had to eat those pigeons in the
most holy place. At that time there were at least three hundred births
a day, and the priests had to cook and eat these pigeons in the most
holy place; and at that time there were only three priests. Two
hundred birds apiece per day! I look upon them as the champion
bird-eaters of the world.

Then where were these Jews? They were upon the desert of Sinai; and
Sahara compared to that is a gard