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the threshold of the house eastward, and proceed 

 by way of the burning bed of the valley, which the 

 Arabs call &quot; Wady-en-Nar &quot; or valley of Fire, to 

 their destiny in the Salt, or Dead Sea. One 

 source, a course by the valley of fire; no affluents; 

 yet, behold! without the threshold of the house 

 they are &quot;to the ankles,&quot; a thousand cubits on 

 their way, and they are &quot;to the knees,&quot; again a 

 thousand and they are &quot;to the loins,&quot; once more 

 a thousand cubits are measured, and &quot;it was a 

 river that I could not pass through; for the 

 waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that 

 could not be passed through.&quot; Behold! further; 

 &quot;every living creature which swarmeth, in every 

 place the rivers come shall live, and there shall be 

 a very great multitude of fish .... and the waters 

 of the sea shall be healed, and everything shall 

 live whithersoever the river cometh, and fishers 

 shall stand by it, and by the river upon the bank 

 thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow 

 every tree for meat, whose leaf shall not wither, 

 neither shall the fruit thereof fail ; it shall bring 

 forth new fruit every month, because the waters 

 thereof issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit 

 thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof 

 for healing.&quot; 



The Holy Waters were a type of the law of 

 expansion of the Christ Life. 

 The principle of expulsion. The 



We formerly heard much of the &quot;struggle for of Ex P&quot; l8ion 

 existence,&quot; and &quot;the survival of the fittest&quot; as 

 laws of life. Now the emphasis is placed upon 



