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Show JS THE EARTH LR(iE ENOUGH? If the earth is to hold the resurrected resur-rected myriads of mankind, as the Scriptures declare (Bzekiel 10:55), the resurrection must take place soon, as enough of mankind have now been bor.i to r.early fill It. In 1S15 its population pop-ulation was 067,000,000, based on estimates es-timates of Volney, 1804. of 487,000,-000: 487,000,-000: Plnkerton. ISOo, of 700,000,000; Malte-Hrun, 1810, of 640,000,000; Morse, 1812. of 766,000,000; Graberg Mill lien-iso. IblS. of 686.000,000; Malbi. 1S16, of 704.000,000. and Halbi. 1S43, of 73H, 000, 000. Within the just fiftj ears the population has doubled, due to fewer wars and inproed nie! bods of food production and medical med-ical skill in prolonging life. Modern chronologic, taking their stand on the Bible figures, accept the present year, 1913, as the eur of man on earth, 6041. Adam lled 930 yeais, so that from his death to the present time is 5111 years, or, counting count-ing three generations per eentury, 153 generations. Ignoring the Deluge, and the great wars aid pestilences which have often obliterated nations, and counting the earth'B population as a steadily growing number from Ad'im's day to ours, we have 153 generations gen-erations of 338,500,000 each, or 51,-025,500,000. 51,-025,500,000. The total number of human beings who have lived does not exceed half this number, or, say 23,512,750,000. Will the earth hold these when they are resurrected, is an interesting question. Let us see. In a square mile there are 27,878,400 square feet. In a million square miles, therefore, there are 27,878,400.000,000 square feet, or 1082 square feet for every man, woman and child that ever lived 2164 square feet for every pair. Australia, with 2,946,001 square miles, would provide fc? every pair of humankind hu-mankind a city lot 40 ft. wide by 160 ft. deep; Europe, with 3,860,000 square miles, would provide them a vegetable garden 40 by 200 ft.; North ' America with 6,446,000 square miles, would provide a barnyard 40 by 850 ft.; South America, with 0,837,000 square miles, would provide an orchard or-chard 40 by 370 ft.; Africa, with 11,-50S.708 11,-50S.708 square miles, would provide a grain lot 40 by 0?2 ft; and Asia, with 17;25U,800 square miles, would provide a pasture 40 by D34 ft. The Islands would add another plot 40 by 200 ft., for other purposes. The whole would make a plot 40 ft. wide by over half a mile deep, abundantly abund-antly large enough, under perfect conditions con-ditions of earth and climate, to support sup-port two people when "The earth shall yield her increase" ( Ezekiel 34: 27). "The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose," "I i the wilder-ne.s wilder-ne.s shall waters break out" a d "The parched ground shall become a pool" (Isaiah 35: 1,; 6, 7), when "The pastures pas-tures of the wilderness do spring" and "The fig tree and the vine do yield their strength" (Joel 2:22), when "They shall sit every man imder his vine and fig tree" (Micah 4:4), when "The desolate land shall be tilled" and "This la-d that was desolate des-olate shall become like the garden of Eden" (Ezekiel 86:84, 35). The Wandering Jew. |