ut Palestine will not be fully settled down to a peaceful
possession till 1957. Then the government will be fully established and
acknowledged all over the world. The kings and Gentile nations will have
gone up to Jerusalem and given in their adherence. Then all the world
will be federated to David's throne. The year 1957 I arrive at by the
same rule as the other--1,335 when added to 622, makes 1,957. "Blessed,"
says Daniel, "are they who see that time."

The world is to undergo some marvellous changes these next few
years--mechanically, politically, socially, and morally; the telephone,
the phonograph, the microphone, the telemachole and coming improvements
will transform our modes of labour and learning beyond our present
conception. God times inventions and improvements to the advancement of
His kingdom.

I do not regard inventions as mere accidents, but as the outcoming of a
Divine intent through human agencies. Watts and Wesley both did good
service for the Church and the world. Edison and others of kindred minds
are scientific prophets. "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness
thereof." All is made subservient to the progress of the kingdom of
heaven. The doctrine of the evolution of man as taught by Darwin is
neither complimentary to man or God; but the doctrine of devolution is.
Man is a developing creature; a creature who takes centuries to grow in.
The devolution of God is through man by means of all the increasing
facilities and agencies that make man stronger, wiser, and better. The
secret powers and forces of nature are revealed to man in the ratio of
his ability to apply them, on the same scale as we instruct our children.

In the latter days, or the period spoken of by Daniel, nature will be
Divinely prompted with an impulse of generosity not now known, for then
men will be wise enough, strong enough, and good enough, to use the same
and not abuse. The prophetic teachings glow with promises of regaling
plenty, peace and good will in those days. "I will multiply upon you man
and beasts; and they shall increase and bring fruit; and I will settle
you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your
beginnings; and ye shall know that I am the Lord" (Ezek. xxxvi. 11).
Again: "I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the
field, that ye receive no more reproach of famine, among the heathen." I
submit and believe that all this God will do by what men are pleased t