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page 1When ordering MILLENNIAL DAWN, always say whichvolume is wanted.----------NOTICE the special terms on Old Theology Tracts to Children-Colporteurs on page 8. Others are not expected to takeadvantage of these terms, except such as may get the tracts withthe intention of employing children. We would like to have allthe earnest ones of our readers on the OLD THEOLOGY list,for at least five numbers each quarter. You can certainly usethese, with friends, in letters, etc. The regular rates quoted (page8) are certainly liberal, even for those who have no money.====================R1142 : page 1VIEW FROM THE TOWER.How few there are who put together and see the relationship ofthose three statements of the prophet Daniel: (1) "Many shallrun to and fro" [referring to the general and rapidintercommunion between the people of earth]; and (2)"Knowledge shall be increased" [the direct consequence of theintermixture of various peoples and their various ideas]; and (3)"There shall be a time of trouble such as was not since there wasa nation."Many who can see that the great and general increase ofknowledge, of our day, is the result of the interchange of thoughtamong the people--by means of printing, railroads, telegraphs,etc., etc.--fail to see that this very increase of knowledge is notproducing happiness and contentment, but that, on the contrary,it is producing discontent and unhappiness; and thisincreasingly, as the knowledge increases; so that ere long it willlead to a fratricidal strife, and in general to just what the prophethas foretold--"a time of trouble such as was not since there wasa nation."It can not be denied that the grandfathers of the presentgeneration, with a less degree of general intelligence than theirchildren of to-day, with fewer of the comforts, conveniences andluxuries, were much more contented, and hence really muchhappier, than their children who possess these favors which arethe results of increased knowledge. Shall we conclude, then, thatknowledge is an injurious thing, and not a blessing?The Negroes of the South were probably happier fifty years ago,in slavery, than they now are; and though now possessed ofmany more privileges than were ever before accorded them, yetthe reports are that a race war, between blacks and whites, is tobe feared. It was an increase of knowledge that led public