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Show AVQNRERFUi C'ALGULATIOS. s ,,A W8ia" thnr pndertakes to coiitey &aamngfxtai of 1 f hCpoinIff' liori'.of JJhfnar " :, ' r s -"-s. !!Tneijii.id cannot grasp tho real Import of fo vast 11 number, 1 Four-hundred mil-ltousl mil-ltousl WMiatdocS It; nieniif Count' ft. 2S'igltt and tlay, without rest, or food, or1 sl)!cp,.yQU.i:oiillitne Ula weary-work yet,, ttetwrdays haitpa.sslfd before you counted (he llrst million, mid more tliuii ns many years before the-end of the tedious task can be reached,'' He also snpiioscs this mighty multitude to tnke up its line of march, in a grand, procession, placed in single fileat six'feet apart, and marching at the rate of thirty miles per day,, except on the Sabbath, which, U'.gtveii to rear, "Day after day the moving column ad1 vnhccsf, tho head pushing on Tar toward t Hie rising sun, now bridge the rcitle,. now bridges the" Atlaiitic. And now the! FawEc is recrossed, tut still the long pro-1 ssion marches on stretching across high , mout'itains, and siiuny plains, aud broad, rivers, through China pud India, and the-Enropfenii the-Enropfenii kingdoms; and on again over! the stormy bosom of this Atlantic. But! the circuit of th? world itself affords uot ! standing room. The endless column will doublo upon itself,' nnd double again and . again, and shall girdle the earth eighteen j times beforo the great feservpir which, furnishes these numberless multitudes 1st exhausted. Weeks, mouths, and years j roll away,, and still they come men, wo- j men, and children. Since the march be-, gan, tliu little child lias become a man, 1 and yet,, on they come, in unfull.ng .numbers, .num-bers, jfot till the end of fortyone year's will tbo last of tbo long procession have passed." , Buch Is China, in. its population; nnd if Homer could preach eloquently pn 'the vanity of man as a mortal, with equal eloquence, had be seen or rontcuipUtcd ; the, millions of China, could he bavol preached on the vuulty of man as an Individ Indi-vid uall |