was to be revived and blessed with fruitfulness sometime
during the third day, or thousand years. In ancient time a day was
counted when it had a majority--that is, when it had passed the half.
The prophet here says we were to be revived, or raised up, on the third
day. So, if you again take these three thousand-year days, you will find
that two of them are to be completely passed, and during the third we
were to be raised. The number we have given, 2,520, exactly meets the
interpretation--2,000 complete, and 520 make a majority for the third day
by the twenty over the half. These prophetic figures tally well with the
existing state of things. About the beginning of this century England
assumed to lead the world. It is a remarkable coincidence that, in the
last century, the question of how to multiply the population was a
subject of debate and legislation in the British Parliament. But what
legislation failed to do, God in His providence did at the appointed
time.

It is a curious fact, and well worth noticing, that the famous witness of
the Lord of hosts in Egypt, the Great Pyramid, forecasts what the number
of Israel and Judah would be in the year 1882. As Israel is symbolised
in the Grand Gallery, it is found that the cubic contents of the same, in
inches, is about 36,000,000; thus by some this is interpreted to mean
that inches stand for individuals, and if so, then England proper will
have this number in 1880. Whether this is a true interpretation or not,
we all know that these figures will be about right. The Queen's Chamber
of the Pyramid symbolises the number and condition of the Jews.

From these two prophecies, so sublimely fulfilling, let me invite your
attention to another that is now maturing. It, too, is parallel with the
other two. We refer to the peculiar growth, power, and progress of the
English language. After Israel went into captivity, they were to lose
their language and take or form another. "For with stammering lips and
another tongue will He speak to this people" (Isa. xxviii. 11). We will
all agree that the English language is not the Hebrew; and if we are
Israelites, then indeed God is speaking to us in another tongue, for few
of us read His Word in Hebrew. It is read to the millions in the
English; hence the millions hear God speak to them in another tongue than
that of Hebrew. Between the English and Hebrew languages there is an
intimate relation, especially back a few year