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Show F THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. HBbAHBhk A Cnrloun Tlirnrjr rrr.-nlril by Clerc'- HHHHPA. mull In M. The Hor. J. S. Vnughan In BVMHBVMVMHBVJkllie Dublin Review a question BVHBVHBVBBM-oJlgIon, Ills tho re HBVMHBVMHBVMVMVMVMV'tlon tho the pro- HBVBVBVBVBVMVMwof tho tho HJHBSBSBSBVMVMVJCio on "thu Vnd mid thu QVaWVHHVHVHVTiths in JBflHJBVMVMVJpKv hen the archangel bounds tho pBVBSBSBSHr trump tho dead to arise pBVBVHHpPi from their graves and como to judg- pBvVVMv inunt the whole of this plutiot will BVMVMV vanish with them for their bodies will BBVVV couipriso all thu matter of which it is HBVMVF pB This novel position Is bused on stntls- P tics nnd sclouce and is tlcfumlvd with H ' the exactness of mathematical calcu- P' utlnns. He notes the tendency of HB ) Hcicnco to rcdueo substances hereto- E-. , furo ri'gnrilud uselcmculary.and argues HBVBV that la thu end only nun universal pBwR. elemental substaneu will be recognized. JBvVBV Noxt bu refers to "tho scleutltlo fact pHBIBV that the absolute nrnouut of matter, or. JBVXVBm In nther 'voids, thu sum total of all BVMVMW that c.l i in tho material universe. Is m ever' u constant ipiantitj." Nothing HP 1C,V' l' argues, is cieuled exeunt K human souls, unit they are put In H "rarthly tabernacle kneaded together K from u.Nistlug inatler'' and biibject to V tiliv laws & He maki'ii Iheu remaikablo deduc- L tinnx from tho facts ulreadv given. B 'I'lio weL'lit of tlio oitrth is 0.WU.O0O,- OlHl.OUtUKJ'MXCJ.lKK) lini!.. Thu popula- Kf Tun of theeattli In (Im yesr UDOO will v. a-.'O.'i'JO.OOD.OOO.OOO.tlUl). Unless !vcry out rf tlice pi'iple ret'irui.'d lib HHHHHB. body to tho earth, he remarks, "tliero would bo steady nnd Inconvenient diminution of its bu k." As tho dead multiply tho entirety of existing mat-tor mat-tor will' bo nbsorbed by their bodies. Henco the conclusion that tho earth must disappear with the dead. "When overy soul of man that has ever lived, from" Adam to thu linnl era el.' of doom, has claimed his body," says Mr. Vnughan. "will thoro bo anything nt all left of thu present llttlo" orb on which wo dwell?'' Ills nnswor is that nothing absolutely nothing will remain. re-main. Mr. Vnughan thinks ho can cvon computo the day of judgment. It will come, he says, "when so many persons shall have lived from tho beginning that, on reclaiming their bodies, thu whole substance of tho earth will bo utilized in meeting the demand." |