And the last mail brings news of three more great States about to be joined to the thirty: Minnesota in the north-west, Deseret in the south-west, and California on the shores of the Pacific.

These three States will cover an area equal to one-half the European continent." Mitchel, in his School Geography (4th revised edition), p.

101, speaking of the United States, says:-- "When it is considered that one hundred years ago the inhabitants numbered but 1,000,000, it presents the most striking instance of national growth to be found in the history of mankind." Let us reduce these general statements to the more tangible form of facts and figures.

A short time before the great Reformation in the days of Martin Luther, not four hundred years ago, this Western Continent was discovered.

The Reformation brought out a large class of persons who were determined to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences.