THE SURE WORD CANNOT FAIL.
The psalmist, speaking of the heavens and the earth, says: "They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed." Now read the following from "A Bird's-eye View of the World," by the eminent French geographer, Onesime Reclus, and you will see how facts sustain the prophecy:— "In three or four generations the year 2000 will dawn on men dismayed at the sight of exhausted continents, worn-out islands, rivers run dry, forests consumed, the world ripe, and famine at the gates. The planet will be old, but, more than that, it will be mutilated." He has put the time off too long, but he shows the fact that the world is getting old and worn out. This one fact is sufficient to show that the end cannot be far off. The sure word of prophecy cannot fail. Soon the time will come when this old earth, the scene of so many bloody wars, will be renewed, and made to blossom as the rose; and then "the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever."