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Show A NEWSPAPER MILLENNIUM. The New York IL raid considers itself it-self qualified to handle any question from the making of a wooden nutmeg to the solution of the most intricate theological problem. Its reporters can unravel the knottiest points; its specials can obtain special "revelations" from hidden sources, and its editors can penetrate to the very centre of the arena of mysteries or make believe they can, which with many people is as pood as the genuine article. One of the latest subjects on which it has thrown a flash of its magnetic light is the millennium. The millennium is pure to come now, for the New York' llrnill declares so. We quote from an eastern contemporary : The Herald sees the millennium coming! In a column article it reviews re-views the historical progress of the human race; the advance that has been made within the memory of men now living; the noted reforms that liave been begun and accomplished in this country during this century; the achievement an! maintenance of popular popu-lar liberty; the -defense of the sacred right of private judgment in matters of theology and religion; the abolition of slavery; the pending extinction of caste; the social reforms that are on toot, re eivin the encouragement of the best men. It concludes : ''The solution of the many questions, ques-tions, religious, social, political, which now agitate the world will in like manner man-ner be accomplished. There may be rumors of war and actual wars wars devesting and bloody; there may be wild and apparently inextricable eoufu sion; men s hearts may fail them for fear; but out of all the fire and tumult, cut of this other chaos, this later deluge, a new heaven and a new earth will emerge, and men will find themselves them-selves under nobler .conditions than ever. One language, one religion, one nationality, one brotherhood will no longer be the vain dream of the poet, but a living present tact. ill not this be the millennium V" If anybody doubts the millennium after that, he or she ought to be held up as a model of hardened infidelity. One tiling, though, strikes us as a little strange in the calculation, and that is : The Bible gives the idea ot a milleuium, and declares ic will be brought about by Divine means; but the Herald, while appropriating the first biblical idea, ignores the interposition inter-position of Deity in the matter, so far as we can see. We think, the lLrald is right when it says the millennium is coming, but have an old fashioned belief be-lief that other agencies, besides tiioce named, will bring it about. |