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Zealand. Numbers went, more were going, when suddenly 
the cry was heard, there is gold in Australia, and that gold far 
more abundant, and infinitely more pure than the American. 
A reaction took place, the current of emigration was changed, 
and set in for the golden shores of Australia. Then followed 
the struggles and efforts made to reduce the distance, to cut 
through continents, to annihilate space. Steam communica¬ 
tion was established; and now we behold all the ends of the 
world being brought together. This is indeed the work of 
God, and it is marvellous in our eyes. 
But is the work finished ? No, it is only commenced ; it is 
but an earnest of what is to come. The world is made to be 
inhabited ; and the inhabitants of the crowded cities of Europe 
will no longer remain satisfied with being there pent up. But 
now that channels are formed to carry off the various streams 
of emigration, they will flow along them to the fair realms 
which wait to receive them. 
And yet a few more years, and it requires no prophetic 
voice to declare, that, vast as Australia is, it shall be peopled ; 
cities and towns shall arise, containing their temples of the 
living God ! The New Zealand isles shall be a new Great 
Britain, and the whole earth shall be filled with the knowledge 
of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. 
MOUNT TARANAKI, OR EGMONT, FROM WARF.ATF.A. 
