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cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation,and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind;when distress and anguish cometh upon you.Then shall they call upon Me, but I will notanswer; they shall seek Me early, but they shallnot find Me; for that they hated knowledge, anddid not choose the fear of the Lord. They wouldnone of my counsel: they despised all myreproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit oftheir own way."— Prov. 1:24-31.By the space of a thousand and [six] TWOhundred furlongs.— This can not be interpretedto refer to the 2100 mile battle line of the worldwar. A furlong or stadium is not a mile and thisis without the city whereas the battle line iswithin the city. See Rotherham's translation.A stadium is 606 3/4 English ft; 1200 stadii are,mi., 137.9. The work on this volume was done inScranton, Pa. As fast as it was completed it wassent to the Bethel. Half of the work was done atan average distance of 5 blocks from theLackawanna station, and the other half at adistance of 25 blocks. Blocks in Scranton are 10to the mile. Hence the average distance to thestation is 15 blocks, or 1.5 miThe mileage from Scranton to HobokenTerminal is shown in time tables as 143.8 andthis is the mileage charged to passengers, but in1911, at an expense of $12,000,000, theLackawanna Railroad completed its famous cutoff,saving 11 miles of the distance. From theday the cut-off was completed the trainmen havebeen allowed 11 miles less than the time tableshows, or a net distance of 132.8 miles. HobokenFerry to Barclay Street Ferry, New York is 2.0miles. Barclay Street Ferry to Fulton Ferry, NewYork, is 4,800 feet or 0.9 mile. Fulton Ferry,New York, to Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, is 2,000feet or 0.4 mile. Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, toBethel, is 1,485 feet or 0.3 mile.Shortest distance from place where the winepresswas trodden by the Feet Members of the Lord,Whose guidance and help alone made thisvolume possible. (John 6:60, 61; Matt. 20:11.)miles 137.9