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18 Before him heathen oracles were dumb and the fires upon their altars went out. Idolatry and polytheism are rapidly declining Human sacrifices cease wherever His light enters. . The act of sacrificing 70,000 human beings at the consecration of a single temple in Mexico will never be repeated. It has banished slavery from the world, it has diminished the frequency of wars - has led the way in all essential human progress, has given to the world a higher standard of benevolence and has led men to labor disinterestedly for his fellow. And what it has done it is still doing.The Earth is being filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. 2. But X is the light of the world in a more specific sense. There is an important sense in which he makes his way into the darkened hearts of men. "The natural man receiveth