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ts and measures as God's religion does. The Pyramid, having four sides, would divide this circle into four parts, which make 112 pounds, or a hundred-weight; or, if multiplied by five, the faces of the Pyramid, 448 would give 2,240, or a ton. In the descending and ascending passages a person must stoop to pass through them, but when the Grand Gallery is reached, they can stand upright, for this gallery enlarges seven times the proportions of the others. The first passages are only four feet high; this is twenty-eight. The first ascending passage is 1,542 inches in length--the time, taking inches for years, from the exodus of Israel from Egypt to Christ. Christ brings enlarged liberty. He was symbolised by the ton--the end of weight scale. "When the fulness of time was come, God sent forth His Son." Again, thirty-three inches in this gallery is an open sepulchre with fifty-six empty graves in miniature, carved out, telling, again, by a strange coincident, the life years of the Saviour and His resurrection; also the number of those who rose immediately after. For "the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept arose and came out of the graves after His resurrection" (Matt. xxvii. 52). Another remarkable feature is, that at the end of this gallery, the wall bulges forward about four inches, as if it were going to fall in. This gallery, on the floor is 1,882 inches; on the roof, 1,878 inches. This explains to us our very times. The shadow of war--Russia and England appearing as if they would fight every day. But they know not the counsels of God, nor His sublime purpose. Surely, as the text declares, "Our God is great in counsel and mighty in work; and His eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men." More next Sunday evening, God willing, about His own marvellous witnesses. Let us praise and adore Him. "_And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles_, _in the midst of many people as a_ LION _among the beasts of the forest_, _as a_ YOUNG LION _among the flocks of sheep_: _who_, _if he go through_, _both treadeth down and teareth in pieces_, _and none can deliver_."--Micah v. 7. [Picture: Coat of Arms with Lion and Unicorn] "_His glory is like the firstling of his bullock_, _and his horns like the_ HORNS OF UNICORNS: _with them he shall push the people together to the_ ENDS _of the_ EARTH."--Deut. xxxiii. 17.
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