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Just as its parent predecessoi-, the first Frencli Revolution, after 

 killing off France's Royal Family invited others to do the same 

 while they publicly proclaimed there was no God, declared the Bible 

 to be only an invention of the priests, and claimed the whole earth 

 as the possession of Communistic man, without any superior over 

 him for evermore. But whatever other nations may choose to do, 

 the bulk of the British nation, because it believes the Bible to be the 

 inspired word of God, and obeys Bible teaching, will never be guilty 

 of anything after that Communistic sort, and will never seek to de- 

 stroy either its Royal Family or its national weights and measures 

 divinely given to the origines of its race as an historic heir-loom in 

 the mysterious beginning of time, and in antiquity vastly more re- 

 mote as well as sublime than any of the names quoted by Mr. Sandford 

 Fleming. 



Hence the British nation will be under no perplexity on this 

 abstract subject of time-keeping, though some of its requirements do 

 crop up more and more conspicuously as the world grows older, and 

 the fulness of the Gentiles begins to come in. For, if the nation 

 does really desire to continue to run in the national paths prepared 

 for it by God, and as they may be read off now with increasing dis - 

 tinctness in the sure word of prophecy, it has only to consider what 

 Prime Meridian will best suit its own people, wherever they congre- 

 gate in the greatest numbers. And it has something of that kind to 

 consider and legislate for at the present moment, as thi;s : 



On the very same principle that for two centuries past, the British 

 have held their Prime Meridian to be that which passes through 

 England, London, Greenwich ; so now in this present age, when the 

 hundreds of millions of living souls of India have been given us by 

 Providence for fellow-subjects, the Prime Meridian of the whole 

 nation should, in fairness and justice, be removed from Greenwich, 

 not westward, but eastward. And if the question be next raised, 

 " how far," then due regard to numbers, climate and geographical 

 aptitudes for British life, manufactures and commerce as over-ruled 

 and directed by the only true religion, bring us to the general 

 Meridian of Egypt. And in Egypt more particularly and precisely 

 to the exact Meridian line of that both ante and anti Egyptian 

 Monument alluded to by Isaiah, viz., the great Pyramid. For that 

 is the pillar " matzaybah," announced by the Messianic Prophet as 

 destined to come forth in the latter day as a sign and a witness to 

 the Lord of Hosts ; and it is now found by scientific examination, 

 and weights and measures, proof to contain, conformably with the 

 Bible, religious and prophetic testimony of its own, from before the 

 beginning of any of the nations, to the glorious futui-e of the Anglo- 

 Saxon people, American as well as British. But only for just so 

 long as they obey God in the national paths and within the national 

 bounds which He, with omniscient knowledg-e of the future through 



