ning the Atlantic ocean and uniting the earth under one everlasting covenant, set one foot upon the sea. And it turned its face as it were the sun, out over the broad expanse of ocean, and lifted up its hand to heaven, and sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever, that the time of slavery and piracy and murder upon the sea should be no longer. And where are slavery and piracy and murder upon the sea now? They are among the former things that have passed away; they are never to return. There is not a nook or a corner upon the bosom of the waters where an intruder could hide from the flaming eyes of this mighty angel. This mighty angel will guard the sea from all intruders until the sea shall give up the dead that are in it.
Another general characteristic of the sun is to prolong life. When the steam-engine came into existence the average length of human life was about twenty-one years, now it is over forty-one in Christian countries. The death rate of the great city of London, the world's metropolis, at the present time, is but a small fraction over eighteen per thousand in a year; this will
