"Christians were pouring out "great tides of population, creating a great civilization, and great and powerful nations," while the Muslims were "falling away into a feeble, half-depopulated, always decaying state, that augurs final extinction at no distant period." A similar picture appeared if one compared "the populating forces of the Puritan stock" with "the inferior superstitions, half-Christian stock and nurture of the South American states." There were other signs of God's grace. Protestant American Christians enjoyed a stronger "tide of health." Wealth grew more rapidly "under the condition of Christian living." More talent could be found in "a Christian people." God gave these advantages to Christians so that "salvation will become an imbred life and populating force, mighty enough to overlive, and finally to completely people the world." The whole Gospel plan rested on a Church which has "within itself a stronger law of population, as well as a mighty power to win over and assimilate the nations." Christians "have more truth, beauty, weight of character to exalt their predominance." Most importantly, "God is in them by his all-informing, all-energizing Spirit to be Himself unfolded in their history, and thereby "over-people... eternity itself.""