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to the truthfulness of the Word of God. There is enough in the Bible about the Jews and Palestine that he did not know to make a very good-sized library of books. He was going to bring in the Millennium on the gallop without the coming of Christ. It was just around the corner. .First, he did not know that there was going to be a World War. Second, he did not know that Great Britain was going to drive the Turks out of Palestine and offer protection to the returning Jews. He did not know that the old aqueducts of Solomon would be cleaned out, repaired and bring abundance of water into Jerusalem. He did not know that the disintegrating limestone of Palestine would constantly renew the productiveness of the soil. He did not know that the greatest deposits of fertilizer in anyone place on the globe lay waiting for "the time to come" in the bottom of the Dead Sea. He did not know that the J ordan would be harnessed to give light, heat,