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ment (Rom. f :21-32). At no period in earth's history did.men know God more fully than during the years followingthe flood. One would have e ected that the lessonof the great doud, rhich taught G ~ righteous S judgmentagainst sin, woul'd have been a lasting one. Wit4 such ademorlstration of God's power, it would be-only reasonableto suppose that mankind would no longer striveagainst Him, and against His servants the prophets andsaints. But not so. Like Lot, they preferred their ownway to the way of God. They chose the course of pride,fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness. And thus,seeing that they could not dwell together in peace, Godallowed mankind to separte themselves from Him,'evenas Abraham permitted Lot to. go hfs own way towardSodom. God does nothing without a reason-His desireis to prove to men through bitter experience the folly oftheir conduct. . ,G.n. 13: 14-18.. And the Lord asideunto Abram, after that Lot wuseparated from him, Llft up now thane eyer, and look from the placewhere thou art northwud, and southward, and eastward, and westward :15 For a11 the laad which thou eest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seedfor ever. 16 b d I rill' make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so thatif a man caa number thedust of the earth, l h shall thy wed also k num-bered. 17 Ar'm, walk through the land in the length of it and in thebreadth of It: for I will qlve at onto thee. 18 Then Abmm removed hbtent, and came and dwelt In the plain of Mamre, which is in Htbron, andbuilt there m ahar ullto the LORD. .While God promised Abraham the whole land of can-(figurative of the world-see Rom. 4: 19, and aposterity as nullrerous as the dust.of the earth, we perceivethat this prolnise has a deeper significance. Thoughmankind, like Lot, chose the wayward cotme, God'soriginal covenant will be fulfilled nevertheless Theworld will yet be His? and will be thickly populated withhis own children, all In complete harmony .with Himself." For thus saith the. Lord that creatd the heavens; Godhimself that formed thp earth apd made it; he hath establishedit, he created ~t not In yam, he formed it to be. I0