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Introduction
A day at the Falls‌
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his past summer as my family was driving through upstate New York, we decided to stop at Niagara Falls. The view is simply breathtaking.
From the rail above the Niagara River you can see
three giant waterfalls. The volume of water that flows over the Falls is difficult to take in. In a minute there are 600,000 gallons of water flowing over the waterfalls on the Canadian side and 150,000 gallons on the American. The air is filled with spray. The roar and noise is deafening. You try to imagine how many gallons of water have flowed over these Falls in the last hundred years. It is truly beyond comprehension. But as I stood there overlooking the waterfall, my mind was drawn in a different direction. Instead of thinking about the astounding beauty of nature, I began thinking about the horror of hell. Humanity is like a river that starts small, and grows as it threads its way through life. But, like the Niagara river, at the end, there is only one place to go. Over the Falls. I began to compute. Last year over 55 million people 5
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