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FIagrcrnt Profifeera
E ~ ECommel-cial a,d ~ k k~ th , . is~
,al mbers
for forcingan
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increase of ten percent in their wages, and says
that they are "the most flagrant body of profiteers." We wish that statement were true. I t
would mean that nobody has a net income of
more than $25.83 per week, which according to
our best information, is the present average
net pay of the miners in the anthracite region.
However, we feel quite sure that we b o w of
some people that are making more than $28.83
net per week. They are engaged in the fuel
business, too. They have an immense plant on
the seaboard ;and to this they bring b i e n o a a
ooal which costs them about $2 per ton at the
mines. The freight is about $3 per ton more, so
that the coal stands them about $5 per ton
delivered at their works.
First, they bake the coal, at small eqense,
a d out of everp ton get 11,000 feet of gas,
johich they sell for more than twim what the
cod had cost, delivered at their plant. Aa a
!~y-productthey get a large qnantjty of tar,
which is valuable for roofing, paving, paint^,
dyes, and a thousand other usages. As another
by-product they get a large quantity of ammonia water, which they mir with b e and sell a t
$75 to $100 per ton as fertilizer. The coke which
remains is sold to the citizens of the community
at $13.50 per ton.
We assure you that we believe that the gentlemen back of this proposition receive net incomes in excess of $28.83 per week. They are
on intimate terms with the greatest financiers,
the most important politicians, and the highestpriced clergymen in their commmity ; and we
doubt if they could keep up their Packards and
Cadillace in the style they do and mingle with
such a crowd on $28.83 per week. Sad as it is
to have to say it, we are forced to tlie conclu-

mon that the Commercial a d Finuncial Chr*

icle
ran an errata item in their next
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do not think
&sue to take care of this; but
that they wiU do it.

Miners H e n curd A broad

ONDITIONS in the softoaal fielda of h e r ica are always unsatisfactory for the miners. A survey of the year 1921 shows that they
averaged to receive but 149 days' work during
the year. This is a shade lesa than half time.
As a natural consequence the earnings of the
me% while they look large when stated in the
financial papers in terms of So much Per day,
are only half what they appear. Fifty percent
of the miner8 made less than $1,400 Per Year;
forty percent received from $1,400 to $1,900 Per
year; the remaining ten percent are chiefly contractors, who are required to pay loaders and
receive*
helpers oat of the sums
Hereafter it is liable to be hard sledding for
the United Mine Workers of America and other
labor organizations if they can be Proven @ t ~
of conspiracy in restraint of interstate trade.
Chief Jutice Tsft of the Supreme ~ o u ha4
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in effect, repealed the exemption from Prosecution of d o n s granted under the Clayton act.
This puts labor unions on the same basis as any
corporation, the 8-e
a8 in England.
At a coal mine in the scrlthern part of Rnssia
(at Donetz Basin in the Ukraine) there is a
group of thirty-wo American cod miners who
have emigrated from the United States to Bwm
a They admit that at first they were
they had made the change, because there mas
such a sh0rtag.e of food; but they say that they
are now living as well as they did in h e r i a ,
have aa comfortable homes and aa good food.
Their general opinion of the Bussian p p k
is that they are extremely lazy, working o d x
when they must.

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The condition of miners in Britain is deplorable; their present minimum wage is twenty
percent above the prewar wage, while their
living expense is sixty-nine percent above the
prewar figures. Out of 100available for wages
and profits in the British coal-mining industrv, 63 goes for wages and 17 for profits.
The miners have becn making a recent attempt
to change this proportion to one more in their
favor, but -rithout success.

GelCin~Fitel to the People

I-IE United States coal commission, after a
thorough study of the mining situation,
l ! n ~presented a report of what everybody in
2mierica 1;nows to be facts; namely, that coal
is next to bread as an essential; that the a n t b
cite coal of the country is in the hands of a
conscienceless monopoly, from whom thie control should be taken and placed in the hands of
the Goverx~ment;that jobbers and wholesalers
should be licensed; that coal freight rates
should be overhauled; that excessive royalties
and profits should be taxed out of existence,
and that the United Mine Workers of America
should be recognized. The report also siys that
most of the mining camps and towns are dreary
and depressing places in which to live.
Governor Charles W.Bryan of Nebraska has
had the courage to show the people of his state
just how the American people are being held
up and robbed by the fuel companies. Coal was
selling a t retail thronghont Nebraska at $12 to
$14 per ton. The Governor bought coal in Illinois and Colorado, shipped it into the state,
and sold it at $4 per ton below the current retail
price, making a handsome profit besides, which
was turned over to the public treasury.
What has been going on in Nebraska has been
going on in every state in the union. What
Governor Bryan has done in opening municipal
coal-yards can be done by other governors. But
how many of them w i l l do what it is obviously
their plain duty to do?
Governor Bryan s a y that these coal ventures
financed themselves; that no capital was required to start them or to continue them; that
the public paid in cash for their coal, and in
advance for future delivery, and were glad to
do it to avoid being robbed by the usual method
of purchase.
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Bew Labor Troubles in America

HERE have been very few labor troubles
in the United States during the past year.

The reason is that the workers have recei~ed

enough wages to live on. The financiers seem
to have discovered snddenly that workers must
live and that they have a desire to live with
reasonable comfort. Just how long this really
intelligent idea will linger in the minds of the
money-mad is a question; but it has kept
America calm for a year, and that is saying
much in these days.
There is, however, a kind of labor trouble
that is getting more and more pronounced, and
that is the obtaining of an adequate supply of
capable and experienced domestic help. Most
girls today avoid learning housework; at least
they do not think well of the idea of working in
the home of any other woman, no matter how
much she ie willing to pay. As a consequence,
myriads of women are doing their own work
who never expected to do it.
Bzt if a woman is in good health there is no
occupation that is more diversified and congenial than housework. And, again, there are
many housewives that lack the physical and
spiritual strength to wait upon a modern housemaid ; so they do their onn work by preference.
Patrolmen in New York city now receive
$2,100 per year salary and are agitating for
an increase to $2,500, on the ground that the
city which they protect by their services is the
wealthiest in the world and should pay adcquately for the service rendered. Not long ago
$3,000,000,000 in cash were transferred from
one location to another in New York city, under
police protection, and without a hitch.
The city shelters fifty-four percent of all the
gold in the country; many of the securities are
kept there; the most valuable imports and exports pass through that port; the thieves and
gunmen make it a dangerous place for a police
official. AU these are arguments that are used
in favor of 'granting the request.

Women and Child Workera

YORK city progress is being made

INinNEW
the organization of office workers into a
d o n . At the time of the last census the number of women office workers in New Pork was
263,588, of whom 103,7W were atenographen.

Women workers cue becoming more and more

a factor everywhere. Ten statea of the Union
limit them to eight hours work per day, Gfteen
states to nine hours, eighteen statea to ten
hours, six statee have various limits above ten
hours and up to twelve hours, or else have
no laws on the subject. Night work ia prohibited in fifteen states. All but nine states
have laws granting pensions to needy mothers;
the sums paid range from $9 to $25 for one
child, per month.
In the few months that have elapsed since the
Supreme Court nullified the Keating chi.&labor
law there has been an increase of thirty-eight
percent in the number of children employed in
various industries in the United States. This
increase in child labor has been largest in the
New England states, Waterbury, Connecticut,
occupying the first place and the worst place on
the list. The increase in child labor is higher
in cities where the wages of the parents are low.
Working for the Public
ORICING for the public receives a cnriona
kind of reward. The other day the editor
of a liberal magazine, one which ia alwaya
friendly to the workers, went out for a walk in
the early morning. It was chilly, and he put on
a light overcoat.
Two workers that followed him down the
street wore no overcoats; for they were accnstomed to outdoor work. Rut they could not forbear the opportunity to berate the one who did,
and who, uliknown to them, was trying to help
equalize their burdens.
On the way back another worker, gang foremnn of a squad of pa-+-ingworkers, called attention to the same coat, accompanied by profanity and abuse toward the wearer. This illastrates v e v well the present condition of the
world, a condition in which every man'a hand
im against his neighbor.
Probably none of our labor contemporaries
will comment on this paragraph, but it is the
truth I t shows that some workers have not the
slightest conception of justice, and that these
men make it harder for all the rest.
The hasty are inclined to my: W h y try te
do anything for any of themt They are all
alike ungrateful" But that would not be the
truth, and it would not change the justice of
their caw even if it were,

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Queensland Homing Situation

HE workera of Qaeensland, Australia, are
in control of the government of that province, and have taken some remarkable steps
forward in the solution of fhe housing problem.
Any worker may have the government b d d a
home for him, which the government will lease
to him for a term of twenty-five years.
The price charged is five percent more than
the cost of construction. The purchaser must
pay down five percent, and the remainder is
payable in monthly installments which are less
than the rent would be. At the expiration of
the twenty-five yeara the home becomes the
property of the worker. He has paid five percent more than its cost, plus five percent interest on the deferred payments.

Chittiring the Pmm

THE

New York papera have done many

wicked thinas to the cause of the workers
by the ingeniorri lies they have M a t e d over
the country; but the pressmen squared the
account nicely during the last week in September by virtually tying up every newspaper in
New York city and thus teaching the people
how easily, how very easily, they could get
along without what they might have been sup
posed to consider a daily necessity.
The strike of the pressmen was finally settled,
but not until the great New York dailies had,
with their combined energies, issued an eightpaage newspaper bearing the names of all the
pnncipal papers in the city on the title page,
and not having so much dignity or news value
as a first-class weekly newspaper published in
some country t o m .
How have the mighty fallen! We incline to
think that the Lord's hand is back of this enforced humbling of this mighty instrumentality
for maintaining things as they are instead of
M they ought to be.

Public and Prfwte Spankina8

ROM the spanking of these great n e w
per8 we turn with interest to read of another spanking. This time it is lix little boys
that get it. They had been out on the ,night of
Hallowe'en, dealing radiator cape from automobiles. They were caught and led before the
mayor of Lodi, New Jersey; and that worthJ
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mntenced them to be rpanked by that

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parents publicly in the city ball on a g i ~ e ndate,

all of which was no doubt to their profit and
possibly to the enjoyment of some of their companiona
F o r strange as it is, many human beings enjoy seeing other human beings in trouble. The
newspapers are filled with stories of people who
am in trouble; and the excuse they make for
publishing such stories is that this is mhat the
people want. Some Christians find solid comfort when they know that other Christians are
finding it hard to walk in the narrow way. Some
judges enjoy sending men to prison, and some
boys enjoy seeing other boys get wl~ipped.
Tmo little boys, George and Fred, were
brothers of about the same age. George committed some breach of the peace and was chastised. When he came forth to the light of day
Fred enjoyed it heartily, asking in tones of
mockery, "George, did yon fee-ee-el it?" The
mother of the two boys then took Fred in, and
gave him the same dose. Whoever lau&ed at
those six little urchins for being spanked in
publie at the city hall of Lodi, we hope that
they get spanked themselves before the year
it3 over.

Coffee and Sngar Exchange is a t the bottom of

many of the sugar scandals, whereby the people
of America have been coll~pelledto pay exorbitant prices for this necessity, sued to prevent
the Exchange from making sugar quotations
I n its answer the Exchange, after telling of BU
its good works on behalf of its fellow men, remarked in the language of its lawyer:
'The Exchange, by aflording a market for futaz,
transactions, under regulations which prevent fraud and
unfair dealings, fulfils a great economic function, facilitating the marketing of the sugar crop, keeping the
producing and consuming public advised of the trend
of world opinion with respect to prices, and thereby
preventing the control of pricea by a few great d n e r h ,
which with their vast capital might otl~envisebs able
l a ~ e l yto dominate prices, as they notoriously hore done
in the past."

This assurance that the Sagar Exchange ia

all that stands between the public and the American Sugar Refining Company rn'lkes one wonder where the Exchange was when the last two
ram deals were pulled off. The first one is only
two years away, and this last one is still with
us. It pays to hire a good Irrwper; for that
paragraph as it stands is a gem.
As goes steel so goes the country; and the
Steel Tmst has just declared an extra dividend.
Mr. Charles M. Schvab of the Bethlehem Steel
Company is optimistic, saying, "I think it will
make little difference in America how affairs
go in Europe. X'e are a self-supporting, selfcontained and independent people. We need no

IWmational I t e m
N E of the New York Public Schools, Number 39 in the Bronx, has adopted a new
method of instruction. There is a geography
room, with a geography teacher, where a boy
o r a girl may go and study geography all day,
help to realize our full destiny."
if the pupil wishes.
There is a composition room, with a cornpaaition teacher, where the pupil may go and write Unique Coal Storage Plan
compositions all day. Similarly there is a room
UR present scheme of civilization calla for
for history, one for arithmetic, one for English,
immense quantities of fuel. Nost man*

axid one for penmanship. The p ~ p i l may

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leave
one rooin and go to another when they please.
Curiously enough, the pupils seem to make
better progress all around than under the old
method; and 48 out of the 50 pupils declare
that they like the new system better than tlie
old. This system was first tried out in Dalton,
Mass., but is now being tried in a number of
schools in England and in several in this country. The results are being closely watched.

turing plants require large snpplics of c o d

Nuch of the freight carricd by rail and water
is coal, Hitherto most manufacturing establiwllments have contented themselves with carrying small etoclrs and replenishing these only a s
necdcd. This has made it hard for the miners,
because the moment industrial conditions be-,
came depressed the mines were without orders
for their product.
One of the principal reasons why manufactnrers have hesitated to lay in large stocks of
Big Business Nolea
coal is that so many disastrous fires start in
in a while, when placed in a desperate coal piles, due to spontaneous combustion. Excorner, the pot will call the kettle black. perience has shown that there are fewer each
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decker-board fsshion rather than all on one

apex. The reason for this is that by the latter
method of piling there are numerous air spaces
about the base of the pile. These air spaces
become smothered, and gases form which are
combustible.
At Philo, Ohio, the Ohio Power Company has
rolved the problem of how to keep a large stock
of coal on hand. I t recured control of a section
of one of the many canals built by the statc of
Ohio and now disused. This section, a mile and
a quarter long, has been dredged to a depth of
thirty feet and is being concreted. Into thia
great bin enormous quantitiem will be placed
and kept there under water.
In coal thus stored not only is there no waste,
but experiments show that the value of the coal
for steam purposes is actually increased. Whem
ma1 is stored in piles exposed to the air, there
is considerable loss aa a result of heavy rains
washing the finer particles away, and a still
greater loss due to the gases of the coal passing off into the air.
Contrary to all expectations, there has been
such a vast increase in petroleum production
within the past two years as to cause a surplns
of oil, with a consequent reduction of price. It
k expected that present low prices will continue
until far into 1924; and that then prices will
go up and stay up unless new fields, not now
located, suddenly produce another great flood
of oil such ae has come from California and
Texas in the recent past.
With almost every family owning an automobile, and many f d e r owning several of
them, it was supposed two years ago that the
peak of oil production had been passed, and
that rare markets at a large price awaited every
new gusher ; but such han not been the cmm

Absorbing the WaferP o w m

who uses the railway6 much, or who
travels widely by automobile, can hardly
fail to notice how the valuable water power sites
are being rapidly abeorbed. In the United Statea
this absorption is all in the hands of the Wall
Btreet monarchy; in Canada it ia dl in the
hands of the people.
The province of Ontario now has twenty
water powers and thirty hydraulic generating
lants. The Hydro-Electrio Commission, sa it
called, ie supplying electrio light and power

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to 350 Canadian dtiea a d towno, them cromprising practically all the municipalities in the
province.
In its mammoth plant at Queenstown, below
Niagara Falls, it geta advantage of the full
beight of Niagara's falls and rapids, every cubic
foot of water used earning nearly twice as much
revenue as any of the privately owned plants
in the vicinity.
In the United Stater ench an example of wmmon sense and efficiency wodd not be tolerated
for an instant The entire press would be thundering againat it constantly. Just now b e r i p
is helplessbin the hands of a Wall Street fuel
mnspiracy, and is waiting to be tied hand and
foot just aa noon as the same interests can get
full control of the water power sibs.
If it were not for the coming of the b d ' s
kingdom soon, the American people would not
rtand any chance. Their newspapers are their
wont enemies. They could help to curb the
money masters and give the people a chance, if
they wodd; but the money masters own the
papers, and use them against the very ones who
look to them for instruction and advice.
Even in Austria, which Americans are amustomed to look down upon, the new government,
deprived of coal, turned to water power as a
substitute, and k today supplying the larger
cities with light and power. The importation of
foodstuffs has been reduced by one-half; important reforms in agriculture have taken place ;
coi5peration has been introduced; water power
has proven a boon to the people.

Mi4ack Shoah Meet

does have one great public water
AMERICA
power project. During the war search was

made for ib most ideal water power site, so

that there might be m a n u b t a r e d from the.air,
by water power, the immense quantities of nitric
acid which are used in the creation of high
exploaivea Thk same acid i one of the most
important ingredients of modern fertilizers.
The place selected as the site for the manufacture of thia nitric a d d is, next to N i i
Biver, the best site on the continent. It k at
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where the Tennesrrw
Biver flows through a canyon of solid limestone
in which there is a fall of 134 feet in 35 miles.
At the lower end of the canyon the United
Statea ia building a dam whiuh when mrnpletd

will be the largest monolithic structure in existence It is 121 feet high, 4,426 feet long, 160
feet wide at the bottom, with a roadway 46 feet
nide at the top. When completed and in full
operation it will develop 624,000 electric horsepower, or about one and one-half times the total
horsepower nsed in the city of Detroit.
If the United States had not been at war,
the fifty multi-millionaire families that control
the coal industry of the United States would
have fought the Muscle Shoals project tooth
and nail; and as soon as the war was over they
did try to kill it, but the inherent virtues of the
site are so great that Congress insisted that the
work must go on. The War Department tried
to sell it to some of the great interests, but none
of them would bid.

Henry Ford's Ptopwition

HEN Henry Ford offered to lease the plant
for a hundred years, to manufacture a complete odorless fertilizer, ready for the farmer
to use, and to sell it to the farmer direct at cost
(plus eight percent, to take careof maintenance
and depreciation charges); and at the end of
the hundred years the plant was to revert to
the government.
Immediately the coal and fertilizer interests
that had ,wanted the plant junked, so that the
people codd not profit either by cheap power
or cheap fertilizers, became escited; and the
resdt has been what Senator Ladd of North
Didiota characterized as "the greatest fight on
the floors of Congress between special interests
anil the public relfure."
Mr. Ford has not yet obtained control of the
plant; but if he will operate it as he promises
to do, in the interest of all the people, he ought
surely to be given the chance. Why not make
him president, and give him a chance to do some
other things along the same linet Henry does
not like the Jews, and he does not like the Bible
Students. No man can be right in everything,
but his heart is in the right place.
Envy Among Stock-Jobbers
ALL STREET stock-Jobbers, who have
trimmed millions of Americans of their
wrplus dollars, are casting envioua glances at
the success which Philadelphia is making along
the same lines. "While New Pork grafters are
at work Philadelphians should keep ouf" seems
to be the motto.

The Blagazine of WalZ Street is out with a

special article in which it roasts Philadelphia
for harboring abont a dozen shady stock concerns, which it names. I t wants us to circulate
the good news, probably in the hope that New
Pork's past, recent and present sins in this
direction will be overlooked.
But why should we quote a New Porker's
libel of ''Philadelphia, the ~ o n r c efrom which
springeth every conceivable kind of stock-selling
scheme from speculations to downright swindles," when there are hosts of Philadelphians
who codd honestly and wodd gladly just moss
out the word "Philadelphian in the libel and
insert 'Tew Pork" and feel that they were only
doing their duty t
m i n g the Bank8 Loom
ENATOR Marnus Johnson, of Minnesota,
would like to have the management of the
Federal Reserve Board taken out of the hands
of the bankers and put into the hands of anybody else that is honest and just, if such persons can be found.
Senator Johnson is quite correct; it is out
of all reason to expect the great financial interests to operate the most important institution
of the country for the benefit of any other clasa
than its own dear self. But Senator Johnson
has abont as much chance of getting that prize
of all prizes away from those hanciers as we

have.
Come to think of it, unless Magnus is l001iing
for and working for a place in the Lord's kingdom, he does not stand so good s chance M w6
do; for that is the only thing that will ever
make them let go.
We shudder to think of the legal verbiage
that would be let loose if an angry public should
e-ren seem to succeed in prying out of their
hands the fat widlet wherein rests the public's
wealth. How they would yell, "Stop thief I" It
wodd be like a kidnapper crying out against a
mother that had taken her own child from him.

Permanent Inoestmenfs
SLY eight percent of American products
are nsed abroad, and people who are worrying abont b e r i c a ' s foreign market are wasting
their nervous energy. When the newspapers
contain columns and columns abont European
businesa conditions, the crux of the matter lies

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not so much in the desire for a restoration of

markets as it does in the desire for the recovery
of hard cash loaned during the war.
But that cash w i l l mostly stay where it b;
it has been permanently invested. There are
tPFo kinds of permanent investments, those that
pay and those that cannot be made to pay;
and Uncle Sam's investments in Europe, aside
from Britain, are of the latter variety.
Of course the European situation does affect
the whole country somewhat, and especially affects the producers of tobacco, copper, cotton,
wheat, and pork, these being among the principal American exports in point of quantity and
value. The farmers are the principal mfferere.

Viatuationof RaiZrwPb
N RESPONSE to the demand of the people
that they be not left helpless in the hands
of the railroads, to be plucked too frequently
and too thoroughly, and with the hope of sometime inaugurating a real government ownership
of the roads, to take the place of the farce carried out during the war, the Interstate Commerce Commission, in obedience to the wishes
of Congress, has completed a valuation of all
the railroads in the country.
The first result is a threat by the New York
Trnst Company that "there are more than two
hnndred Class I railroads in the country, the
majority of which w i l l seek judicial opinion on
the subject. This in itself is indicative of the
legal and social intricacies with which the whole
problem of railroad valuation is surrounded."
It is as if to say to the rest of the people of
the United States: "Here is a property, for
which you gave the franchises, and for which
yon have paid the full value over and over
again, but which now belongs to us bankers and
to our heirs and assigns forever; and it is so
immensely valuable that you could not possibly
hare the intelligence to even estimate how much
it is actually worth."

Railroad Centennial
MERICAN railroads are planning for a
c e n t e ~ i a lin 1928. I t was one hundred
years previous to that time that Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Maryland, one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence, drove the
first spike i n what is nom the 5,154-mile Baltimore and Ohio railway system.

The total American tracliage, aside from

switches and terminal lines, is now 376,992
miles. The freight cars, utretched oat in a
single line, would belt the earth a t the equator
and go part way around again. The engines
end to end would reach almost from New York
to Chicago; the passenger cars a 1ike.distance.
From the operating viewpoint Chicago has
fEnnUy came to be the acknowledged center of
railway activities in America, and much of our
information as to what is going on in railway
circles comes out with a Chicago date line atW e d
Now we have data from the Association of
Railway Electrical Engineers there that in the
near future they expect to have it ro that persons traveling by rail can maintain uninterrupted telephone servioe with their homes or
businesses, no matter where the train is or what
may be its speed.
It is forecasted that this use of radio will be
of immenae value, not only to passengers but to
railway operators. In the event of a delay or
an accident of any kind full informstion can be.
,lodged immediately with the controlling offices.

Newhgkrnd'8 A.oblean
VER since the Morgan-Mellon crowd drsined
the life-blood of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad, New England railways
have been in a bad way. They are doing an immense business, with not a reason in the world
for its not being a profitable business except that
bankers have robbed the system; and it is calculated that at least $76,000,000 of water must

be drained out of the New Haven stock beforp

real progress can be made.
In desperation and in anger a t the dirty car::,
the delays and the slovenly service, the Govenlore of the New England States have met ani?
proposed to meet the pressing financial obligations of the hard-pressed New England roads i i'
they would consolidate into a single system.
squeeze the water out of their stocks, now misnamed '%bonds,'' raise new cash to the extent of
$15,000,000 by selling some actual stock; and
finally, and most important of a& they have
invited the present managers to step down and
out, as a partial reward for their mismanagement, while they, the Governors, get back their
money, which they feel sure they could do in
-.
ten years.

The Qovernors have made a sensible propoaition, but it ie one which the banks will never
accept. The banks win accept the people's
money to help out in the emergenoy confronting
these roadr; but as for letting the people know
where, when, and how it is to be spent, and for
their seeing to it that it is all paid back at the
earliest moment, Nix. That ia not good banking ;and, besides, it would mt a bad precedent.
Steps are being alowly taken by the Government toward consolidation of the unprofitable
dmerican roads with the profitable ones; and
this is right. It ia quite proper that sections of
the country where t r S c is light should have
adequate semice, and that the richer sections
should do somewhat to help.
At present, if any railroad earns in excess of
ah percent on the value of its individual p r o p
erty, one-half of the excess goes into a transportation fund which ie expended by the Interstate Commerce Commission in the interest of
transportation as a whole. The other half is
retained by the railroad showing the excess

Hartford blew up while crossing a bridge at

Walpole, Mass. The boiler soared a hundred
feet into the air and three hundred feet horicontally, killing the engineer and injuring the
fireman. Curiously enough, the wheels of the
bcomotive remained on the track, aa did all
the passenger coaches attached; and the train
coasted five hundred feet after the boiler of ita
locomotive had parted company with its frame. .
The 60,000 striking shopment of the Pennsylvania Railroad have brought suit against
that system for $15,000,000 f u r their failure to
abide by the rules of the United States Railroad
Labor Board. Our guess is that after this case
has gone through all the courts the men will be
lucky if they get any amount over and above
fifteen cents. What is your guess1
But it will embarrass the Government to have
to declare that a law which is binding upon the
men is not binding upon the masters, and it will
be convenient for many people if this case is
tabled or pigeon-holed; and that may be the
way out. Anyway, the men wiU never get the

earnings.

$15,ooo,ooo.

Courts and Mechaicr

OURT injunctions cannot d

e o r unmake
mechanics; and the railways are still worrying over their shop tronbles, even though
they do have the courts with them. The Lehigh
Valley and the Delaware and Hudson have
finally given up the fight, and after almost a
year and s half the old men have returned to
work.
The Bureau of Lowmotive Inspection of the
Interstate Commerce Commission has been making it pretty hard sledding for what are called
the '%hard-boiledn railroads, pointing out in its
reports instance after instance where lives have
been lost and property has been destroyed because the repaim have not, since the strike,
been made 80 well aa they were made before.
Boiler flues have been hastily put in place
with only friction to hold them, whereas they
&odd always be prosaered (enlarged), and
patches have been put in place which show that
the seams were not properly welded. I t stands
to reason that inexperienced men cannot make
-cult
and heavy repairs as well as men who
have done such work for years.
In one of the instances last mentioned, locomotive 409 of the New York, New Haven and

Persons who desire to become employda of

the Union Pacific railway shops are obliged to
sign application papers which compel them to
join the company's o m union and to submit to
a checkoff of union dues for three months in
advance. The application provides for implicit
obedience to such working conditions and wager
aa may be arranged by this imaginary union;
and it also provides that if the employ4 joins
any other real union his application for employment becomes his resignation, to be accepted or
not when and as the railway chooser.

THE

cauae of the workers mslrer dow pro$resa toward the light. In the month of
January, 1923, a railroad with headquarters in
Harrison, Arkansas, insolvent and hampered
by sbopmen's strikes, threatened to quit operation after s d e r i n g from wrecks and burned
bridges.
A mob gathered and hanged E. C. Gregor,
charging him with burning a bridge. Othem
were whipped and driven out of town. Two
were sent to prison, and are still there. All tho
sufferers protested their complete innocence.
Now the iles of the Bureau of Locomotiov
Inspection at Washington ahow that the en-

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gines were in such condition that they codd
hardly fail to start flres; and it is the belief of
those who have given the matter careful study
that every one of the sufferers was innocent,
and that the fires were due to extreme dryness
of trestle timbers, rank growth of dry weeds
and grasses, and the imperfect condition of the
locomotive ash-pans.
Efforts are being made to get the h v e r n o r
of Arkansas to release the innocent men who
are still in prison, but nothing can atone for the
murder of Gregor or the many other injustices
done by the mob.

Public Ownet8hip in Detroit

ITH all due respect to the Wdl 8tree.t
Jounu~land other like-minded newspapers which have sought in vain to discredit it,
the city of Detroit. is making a great success of
its municipally owned street-ear system. It
bought the system in 1922 for $19,000,000.
In the year in which the system has been in
its possession the wages of the men have been
raised, seventy miles of new track have been
laid, the service has been vastly improved,
$4,000,000 were set aside as a sinking fund,
$1,200,000 were set aside aa payment on the
original purchase price, and after taxes and
paving charges were deducted there was left a
profit of $1,000,000. The fare has been five
cents, with one cent extra for transfers; but
lines have purposely been so arranged as to
eliminate all transfers possible.
It will now be in order for the press of the
country either to keep silent about this victory
for the people, or else to trg to find some flaw
in a method which works perfectly in England
in scores of cities, and could be made to work
thus here, with infinite advantage to the people,
if it were not for the newspapers which work
for and are controlled by the great monied
interests. By any method of figuring which even
the TPull Street Journal can devise, the municipal administration of the street railways of
Detroit has been a huge snccess.

Who Will Be h i d e n t ?
MERICBhTSare beginning to wonder who
will be their next President. Many of our
readers are not 6specially interested in this
subject; for they believe the Lord's kingdom is
at the doors and will be a visible reality in the

earth some time during the term of the next

presidential administration. But we have many
readers of all kinds; and even one who holds
the above views shouId have some interest in
the personality of the man who will be on the
job of trying to govern 110,000,000 people at
the time when earth's new King takes over the
government of the world.
The death of President Harding has made
President Coolidge the most probable Republican candidate. The interests that put Mr.
Harding to the fore for the presidency, overlooking the wishes of millions of h e r i c a n s for
a progressive like Senator LaFollette, Senator
Hiram Johnson or Governor Pinchot, can probquite
ably do about as they wish; and it ~eem
unlikely to ua that any progressive Republican
can be nominated.
s
The press and the politicians will do a large
amount of preliminaFy d a c e boorting of the
progressives; bat when the Old Guard gets
word from the corner of Broad and Wall
Streeb what to do, it will probably be as obedient arr ever. The friends of Resident COOL
idge, and they are many at this writing, are
hoping that be may bring about a reduction of
railroad rates, o r do some other thing in behalf
of the people, in the short time before March
4th, which w i l l make him seem acceptable to the
progressives.
Every mcoessfd politician has some bancia1 backer; and it is understood that Mr. Coolidge's backer until now has been Mr. F. W.
Steams, owner of a Boston department r t o m
Senator Robert M. LaFollette, of Wisconsin,
ie the gifted, courageous and progressive leader
that wol~ldbe our choice among the Republicans.
At eixty-seven years of age Mr. LaFollette ir
still a poor man, but has 8 record of integrity,
industry, zeal, ability and faithful devotion to
the people unequaled by any other man in publio
life in America today.
At present he virtually controls the balance
of power in both houses of Congress, and har
risen to this high position in the face of nationwide, persistent, malicious abuse by almost all
the great newspapers of the pountry.
He would make a wonderful President. But
let
the Old Guard wonld by no means e&
?Battling Bob" LaFollette have any more power
than he now has. From their point of view he
has too much power already. He is always pre-

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renting facts, facts, and more facts that make

him a foe to be dreaded.

0F

DEMOCRATIC candidates there is Senator Underwood, a man of ability, but

counted aa a conservative. He has recently declared war on the Ku Klux KIan, and the Klan
has taken up the cudgel against him. This
makes his political pathway a thorny one.
William GC. MoAdoo is an extremely popular
and capable man. He would make as good a
President as any one could expect, and he may
get the Democratic nomination. If he does get
it, he will probably be elected, aa the Klan has
declared in his favor.
There is Governor Smith, of New York; but
Governor Smith is a Roman Catholic, and no
Roman Catholic
hope to be President of
the United Statea Mr. Bryan is still alive and
vigorous as ever, but has no more chances of
being nominated than has Mr. Wilson.
Mr. Ford is spoken of, and millions would
like to see him made President; but he does
not covet the job and can probably do more for
the country as a private citizen than he could
aa President. Mr. Yord has declared for Coolidge "if he will eniorce the prohibition law."
The man, important factor in Democratic politics, is said to be against Mr. Ford becanse he
recently presented a specially built Lincoln
automobile to an archbishop of the Roman
Catholic Chnrch.

posed to have been murdered by the officials

who had them in charge, and who feared to
have their duplicity uncovered.
The newspapers tell us in one breath that tho
Klan is in full control of the state of Oklahoma,
and in the next that the legislature will paas
laws againat it. Believe whichever statement
seems the more reasonable, but please do not
believe both ; for both cannot be true.
Two facts are clear: One is that the Oklahoma Senate removed Governor Walton from
office by a vote of 41 to 0, and the other is that
Governor Walton is of Roman CathoLic tendencies and is anti-Klan. The Governor is alleged
to have used his office for his own personal gain.
He has appealed to the federal authorities. In
New York State the federal authorities refused
to restrain the Hearst publications from using
letters said to have been stolen from the Kla.u
and bought for the sum of $3,000.

Immigration Problemr
RE is a natural desire on the part of
myriads of the war-oppressed peoples of
Europe to abandon their native lands and cast
in their lot with Anlerica, especially in these
prosperous times. Not long ago there were in
the port of New York eight thousand immigrants detained on vessels in the North River
because the quotas from their countries had
been filled. These unmigranta were suhsequently a d n i ~ t t ~on
d parole. The present law f i : ~
the steamship company $200 for each immigrant
brought.ovcr in escess of the quota, ant1 allows
the Secretary of Labor to require also that the
immigrant's passage money be returned to him.
Among the throng seeking admissio~to brierica were Russians, some of whom had made as
many as three futile attempts to gain entrance.
The En Klnx Elan has announced that its
policy is to stop all immigration, except that
of separated families, and then to institute a
thorough governmental investigation into e v e v
phase of alienism, with a view of obtaining
exact and scientific intonnation upon which to
base a permanent immigration policy.

THE

Cosoip about the Klcrn

E DO not know much about the Klan, escept that it is sweeping the West and
Middle West, besides gaining some foothold in
the East. It is very strong in the South and the
Southwest. Strenuous efforts have been made
to discredit it and put it out of business in the
Bornan Catholic rstate of Louisiana, but the discredit seema to have found aa much of a resting
place on the Catholic officials aa on the Klan.
Two bodies, obtained from a dissecting room
md thrown into a lake, were alleged to have
been the bodies of b o men slain by the Klan.
The two men themselves, at the time their Reducing T a m and Expenrcr
ONSIDERABLE effort ia being made to
supposed bodies were found, were alive and
convey the impression that a reduction
well, and were seen in the custody of Catholie
otecials subsequently, so we are told Their ahodd be made in the income taxes; but there
present whereabouts ia unknown; they .re map ir no excum for it, Those that have the g r e a t a t

incomes should bear the heaviest share of maintaining the governments that have made such
incomes possible.
From the point of view of the bankers a
really wealthy man, with a great income, ought
not to pay any taxes at all; and some of them,
as a result of their own schemes, do actually
pay very little.
There is reason enough for economy. In the
American Declaration of Independence King
George was accused of having "erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of
officers to harass o m people and eat their substance."
Today King George, if living, could d our
attention to the fact that the total aalary list of
the federal government now amount8 to $10 for
every man, woman and child in the country;
that the office-holding class has increased forty
percent while the population was increasing ten
percent; and that out of every forty-seven
males old enough to work, one is now feeding
at the public crib.
Verily, we do love to be governed, managed,
bossed, and lucked around; and the more they
kick us aromd, the meaner they seem to act
when they do it. A person who now goes, hat
in hand, and pays just ten times the taxes he
paid thirty yeare ago on the same property is
frequently made to feel that he is a beggar or
else belongs in some way to the 'lower clawses!'
The new budget system of controlling government expenditures is working excellently. The
last fiscal year of the national government closed
with a surplus of $300,000,000 where a deficit of
$800,000,000 had been expected. Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon has had much to do with
the accumulation of this surplus by the wise
methods he has used in discharging the duties
of his office. He is believed by some to be one of
the very best treasury officials the government
has ever had. Others denomce him as lawless.

W e t h e One Big Wmte

F WE may be permitted to suggest one good
way of cutting down government expenditures we advise in two words, "Illegalize war."
I f this government were to let it be known that
it places war in the same category as murder,
~ubjectto the same laws, it would help.
It would alao help if a Constitutional Amendment were to be passed conscripting all prop-

erty of every kind during the duration of 8 war,

if one should start, and for five years after the
war, so that no one could take any profit. The
Portland, Oregon, J o m a l , says:
<Why not? If in war young men must erposa their
bodies to shell 6re and the bayonet #rust, if we conscript every young mrrn of military age for the shamble4
if we take all that a young man ie or hopes to be and
make him a living breastwork against the d dvance of the foe, if we compel wives, sisters and mothers
to give up their loved ones to go out and fight in national
defense, why not also conscript property, .U property,
for military eervice? If we do not, we place the o5m
buildings, the bank vaults, the indaskisl plants above
the man. We make the dollar a slacker, and the man a
conscript. We pay dearly for all the property we use in
war. P
r
o
min the late war made of its o m e n tuentJ
odd thowand millionaim. Property got prime m d
profita almoet beyond the dreame of avarice. Property .
made eo much money out of the late mar, almost over
night at that, that many of ita ownem cannot b d ways
enough to spend iL Why this difiere!nce in war between
the man and the money? Why confiscate the man, but
license the money to profiteer? Why lay on the man
the iron hand of power, but give property license b
become the hawk and b-d
of the battldeld?"

Enlistments in the army a t this time are very

few, partly due to the high wages paid in industry and partly due to anwillingnesa or inability to answer satisfactorily all the questions
now asked of applicants, especially one respecting the applicant% having reached twenty-one
years of age.

Roman Catholic Patriotism

BOUT everybody has had his attention
called to the s W u l way in which some
Roman Catholic employ6s in the Bureau of Engraving set forth during the T m d t y administration that this was soon to be a Roman
Catholic country in fact as well as in name.
On the face of the $1bill, series of 1917, in the
upper left-hand comer, they have seen the picture of the Pope,'mith the kneeling figure looking straight to it for inspiration; in the same
corner a Knight-Columbus whose sword handle
spells "Leo"; in the lower left comer a bleeding
heart with three drops of blood; in the lower
right-hand corner they have seen the head and
neck of the serpent, fit emblem of the Jemit;
on the back, looped about the large cross, they
have seen the rosary of which are visible thirtytwo beads; and in two places on the back, one
in the upper right and one in the extreme lower

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right corner they have seen how skillfully the
middle bar of the letter E in the word o m haa
been transformed into a croas. It is persistently
claimed in Washington that several men were
dismissed and one sent to prison for a long
term of yeara for thie job.
Occasionally the evidence comes to light
s h o e n g how nearly America came to becoming
a Roman Catholic paradise, through the army's
getting almost wholly under papal controL The
latest story shows how "surplnsy' materi J s mere
sold from the Perryville, Maryland, depot.
It seems that brand-new sheets and towels in
carload lots were sold by Roman Catholic army
05cials to Roman Catholic department stores at
one-fifth the price at which the Government was
at the very time buying the same articles. The
majors and colonels and commanders involved
include such familiar namea as McDonald, John
Doyle Carmody, and O'Leary. The principal
beneficiary was Thompson 4 KelIey, Ino, of
Boston, the home town of the most holy reverend father cardinal WConnell.

Sheek, P ~ a m a sand
, Toweb
T THE very time that the Government wm
buying new unbleached sheets a t $L27, the
Thompson & Kelley Company was buying them
from the Gove-ent
a t twenty-five cents each.
It pays to be religious when yon can bay sheets
in carload lots from the Government for twentyfive cents each, and then sell them right back to
the party from whom you bought them, and in
carload lots, for a nice Little profit of $1.02 per
sheet. wedon't know that the Thompson &
Ke11ep Company sold any of these same sheets
back, but they could easily have done so; for
the Government was in the market.
And then the Government purchased 43,008
new bleached sheets from the Na- at a special
bargain of eighty-four cents per sheet. Bnd at
the same time the Thompson & Kelley Company
was getting them from the Government at ahteen cents per sheet. It surely does pay to have
such frienda ;and it enrely does pay the Roman
Cetholica to stick together and to ~ t i &tb
Protertanta
And then, through this same benevolent
Perrycrllle depot, we learn that "98,995 winter
pajamas, furnished by the Bed Cross, v a n .old
to the Boston firm at thirty cents pair, although pajamas of this kind would be sorely

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needed [by the soldiers] at Per-e

thir
winter."
Thus we are shown how, by the proper handling of funds, wise contributions to charity may
h a l l y help "religion" to gain a firm standing in
our midst. Bnd "religiony'l Just see what 8
grand thing it is ; see how profitable it is 1
Among other items brought out at the heming conducted by a high army official, Mr.
O'Ryan, it was revealed that "Matthew (YBrien,
the architect for the Livermore, CaL, hospital,
claimed in June last only $13,000 as the balance
due him, although in October the controller general of the United States ordered an alleged
claim for $36,000 paid over the protest of
Director Hines of the bureau," and that "a contract for floor wax and a cleaning fluid at eightyreven oents a gallon that could have been made
for between one and two cents was let to the
Continental Chemical Company."
Coming back to the sheets: It seems that the
Government ordered 2,622 sheets sold; but when
the Thompson & Kelley Company came to buy,
they were given 64,920 on that order. Moreover,
they managed to purchase for three cents apiece
1,169,008 towels for which the Government had
~ s i dnineteen cent8 apiFour carloads of these new goods were
shipped to the Boston concern after President
Earding had learned of this fZme of graft and
had ampended further sales- mat a grand
coat^ this will be when the Papacy is in full
controll But how beggarly are these mean
pickin- of a few hundred thowand dollar8
compared with what Prince Ryan and others of
his crowd did to ~8 daring the war!
Erecuiiue Clemency

does not President Coolidge grant

W HYfreedom
to all political prisonerst* Is
the real tre*
he fearful that the
be
Pmers, the r* thieves, the big one%
wed ag&st him next yeart Better B thousand
time89 Mr. Coolidge, to lose the redden^ of
the United States than to let those P*r feuom
rot in the Lt%w?nworth penitentiary another
day. Will Ryan, McDonald, Carmody, O ' L e q ,
Thompson, or =elley be seat Leavenworthf
They
b d while Preddmt Coolidg*
pardoning
the remnining thirty-two p0Eticd prisoners he
*[All freed since above w u written.-Ed.]

'

should also pardon the fifty-four members of

the 24th United States Infantry (Negro) for
their share in the Houston riots in 1917.
These men have been in Leavenworth a long
time; white men participate in riots with almost complete immunity. The Government has
never made any arrests in the case of the one
hundred-odd acts of violence against nnoffending Bible Students, cited in our issue of S e p
tember 27,1920.
And then President Coolidge should make an
effort to see that Vanzetti, the fish peddler,
originally arrested by the Department of Jnstice as one of those famous "Reds," and subseqnentlp held as a bandit, is released. No smoke
screen that the detectives of the Department of
Justice a n ever spread over this case can hide
the fact that this man proved by forty witnesses
that he was selling fish all day f a r away from
the scene of the crime, nor that several who
claimed to identify him as the bandit have
acknowledged 'since that they committed perjury. Send fifteen cents to the Sam-Vanzetti
Defense Committee, Boston, Masa; and read
Vanzetti's own story.
No doubt President Coolidge has enough influence in Massachusetts to free this innocent
man of the framed-up bandit charge. Vanzetti
is now under sentence of death. In his book, in
which he explains how he came to incur the
enmity of the Department of Justice, he says:
"I earned my bread by tho honest ewe& of my brim.
I have not r drop of blood on my hands, nor on my
conecience. I wanted r m f for mry family, bread for
every mouth, education for wuy heart, the light for
every intellect. I am convinced that human history hm
not yet begun ; that we find ourselves in the last period
of the pre-historic. I see with the eyes of my soal how the
ia diffused with the rap of the hew m i l l d 1 ~ . "

How Dare a Foreigner Think?

HERE is a prodigious amount of effort
made in this country to incite hatred
against any foreign-born citizen who shows
either a tendency to think in un-American
ways or an un-American tendency to think at
all. Notice the reported language of Mr. S.
Stanwood Yenken, Preuident of the National
Security League, in an address before our
uigarette friendm, the Y. M. 0. k The Communists of whom he speaks may have wrong
ideas, and we think they do have wrong ideas;

but we do not altogether like the infiammstoq,

nature of Mr. Menken's address to these bodding Christians :
W e have 600,000 Commanisb meeting weekly, pUb
liahing fifty papers, attacking your country, your Qovemment, your right to prosper, to bring up yanr o h
children ss you will, to cnjoy the ad-iantages of thin
country as we know it and our forefathere planne; it.
To fight them more of us must get on the job and help
take care of the U.S. 8."

We remind Mr. Menken that this ia supposed

to be a free country where any man may believe,
if he chooses, that the moon k made of green
cheese; and that if he can get 600,000 other
persons to believe it, he is a re,dar cheese
expert. If Mr. AIenken believes Communism ie
wrong (and i t is) let him bring forth hi8 a r m meuts.
Communism is inadequate; it would be sevi
era1 laps behind a system by which a needy
crowd of hungry profiteers could bay sheets ill
carload lots for twenty-five cents each and sell
them right back to the original owners a t n
nice little profit of $1.02 per sheet. How would
Mr. Menken take care of the needy by any better plan than that? Speak up, man !

PapRotZ and Bank Bandids

AT-ROLL and ba6.k bandits are getting
bolder and bolder. Almost every w e d
brings an account of men driving up in automobiles, murdering bank messengers or pay-roll
guards, and making off, never to be heard of
again. In November sixteen men invaded the
sizable city of Spencer, Indiana, st three o'clock
in the morning, cut all telephone and telegraph
wires leading into the town, blew up the vaults
of both banks with nitroglycerin, seized the
funds and escaped.
No doubt very many learnad the art of using
firearms and explosives in the nation-wide
training school established for that purpose in
1917-1918. On the same day of the Spemcer raid
three robbers held up a bank at Qroton, 5. D.
However, the banks &ow that they lose more
to forgers than they do to holdup men. Of 363
men arrested for bank robberier within a ginn
time recently two hundred aad -&
weaccused of forgeries and eightyonq ef holdupa.
The losses through forgeries and dterationn of
checks the past year amounted in b e r i a b
H t y -on
dollars.

Something about Bells

BY ~ r a a ~ r i cLka r t t (Lomton, ~ w . 1

BOM
F
has
to

early centuries the ringing of bellir

been used to mark divisions of timet,
summon people to worship and prayer, and
to announce tidings of joy and sorrow. With
a delightful jingle they have betokened periodr
of peace and prosperity :
#'Hear the dedges with the belle,
Silver bells 1

What a world of merriment their melody fontdm 1

H o w they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

:.

In the i q air of night,

while the dam that oversprinkle
AU the heavens seem to twinkle
With r c r y d d b delight P

How we shiver with affright

At the meiancholy menace of their tom I
For every wand that 0oata
From the rart within their throoL
Is a gma."

ment of the massacre of those French Proteatants commonly known as the Hnguenota, te
the number, it ia said, of 100,000.
This valiant work was performed by CHBE&
w s , who were such by name only. The real
Chriatitm, however, haa constantly ringing in
his heart and mind the words of Jesus: '%less
them that cwse you, do good to them that hate
you, and pray for them that despitefully us@
you and persecute yon." So shall your reward
be great in the kingdom of heaven.

Concerning Their Manufacture

HE process of casting bells is much the same
Then there are other bells:
today as it was centuries ago. A core of
bricks is built up and covered with soft clay to
"Hear the mellow wedding bellr,
Golden bella 1
the shape of the inside of the proposed bell.
What a world of happineas their hummy f o a l
Then an outer mould or "copeJ*of clap is made,
How it swells1
shaped to the outer surface of the bell. This
How it dwells on the futnm 1
forms a bell-shaped hollow to the thickness of
How it t e h of the rapture that impels
the metal desired. When the molten metal is
To the swinging and the ringing of th, beU8P
poured in, it is left to harden, a process which
In loud vibrating tones bells have declared takes several weeks in bells of large size,.
IVhile bells may be made of various metala,
the outbreak of fire:
yet from earliest times, as far back as the days
*Tear the loud alarum b e b ,
of Nineveh, the metal mostly favored was an
Brazen bells 1
What a tale of terror now their tnrbdf&te1~1 alloy of copper and tin, in select proportions
to bring about the various sounds.
In the startled air of night
How they scream out their affright,
The quality of the bell depends not only on
In their clamorous appeal to the mercy of the 5mlJ*
the method of casting and the fineness of the
Like aching heart-throbs, bells have joined mixture of the metals, but on. the due proportion of metal to the calibre of the bell.
the weeping of mourners:
A good b!:ll, when struck, yields one note
"Eear the tolling of the be%
termed the consonant; and this is said to be
Iron bella 1
What .a world of solemn thought their monody comptlr 1 true when a musician can quite easily deline
its tone.
In the silence of the night

Some Notable Belh

UCIAI";, 1SO A. D., mentions an instrument

L
which rang a bell as the water flowed, to
measure time. Several old Bells are extant in

Many a bloody chapter in historg hss been Great Britain; the oldest are quadrangular,
made of thin iron plates riveted together.
One such, St. Patricks Bell, in Belfast, d a t u
from the sixth century. I t is beautifully adorned
with gems and with gold and silver filagree
work It mearures six high, five broad, fomr
demp-in inchca, not in feet. So in those old
l
Worse still was what occurred on 8t Bar- days belh were d
The most brilliant tones and longest vibm
tholomeds day, August 24,1547. The ringing
of the &mch belk rignalised the commence- tioua came when ?mhw m cut into one mUd
rung in and out by bells.
In Sicily, at Eastertide in the year 1282 & D.,
the ringing of the vesper b e h was the dread
dgnnl for one of the moat terrible tragedier on
record, when nearly every Frenchmm in the
Wand was put to death.

20s

,EN
piece of metaL In the eleventh century a bell
was presented to tbe church at Orleans, weighing about a ton. This giant astonished the world.
The centuries have rolled on 6i.m then, bringing in their train the golden age of beb, of
which more anon.
The bell "Jacqueline de Paris," cast in 1400
Ik D., weighs seven tons; while the one in the
oathedral of Notre Dame, Montreal, Canada,
weighs fourteen and one-half tons.
The largest bell in Great Britain ia h o w n as
V r e a t Paul" and weighs seventeen tons. It is
mtuated in the famous St. Paul's cathedral, h n don. The bell outrivals its near though majestic
neighbor, "Big Ben," which hangs in the clocktower of London's Houses of Parliament. "Big
Ben" weighs thirteen and one-half tons; and
when it strikes, it is heard, ~ d e favorable
r
atmospheric conditiona, at an immense distance.
Still larger bells are fonnd in Eastern climes.
At Peking there is one weighing fifty-three tons;
and in Upper Burma, one weighing eighty-seven
tons. The largest bell in the world in use is at
Moscow; it weighs one hundred and twenty tons.
Even this giant is only half the weight of one
wt in the same city in 1773 & D. Some say
that this huge bell was never actually rung,
having been cracked in the furnace. To give
some idea of its immensity, contrast this with
St. Patrick's bell, already mentioned. This is
nineteen h i ~ h ,twenty-two in diameter, and in
circumference sixty-not inches, but feet 1 So
this bell is large, so large indeed that it is a t
present used as a chapel, the upper part admirably forming the dome1

AGE

m9

high, has five ~tories,and in-encascd in bl.sr

and white marble. It is decorated with reliefs;
and above these may be seen niches in whioh
are placed statues of patriarchs and propheb.
Oiotto did not see its completion; for he died
three years after the structure was commenced.
Still, there it standa to this day as an illustriom
monument to be admked by all lovers of s d p
tare urd art
For sightseers, the famous campanile known
aa the Leaning Tower of Pisa possesses even
stronger attractions. From the platform at the
summit to the ground the height is one hundred
and fifty feet, and the inclination from the perpendicular is as much aa thirteen feet.
The tower, which is about fifty-one feet in
diameter, was begun in the year 1174 by Bonanno, and completed by a Qerman architect,
Wilhelm of Innsbruck
Some have attributed its inclination to the
subsidence of the earth a t its foundation. Others
that it was the original purpose of the designer.
We shall know of this matter in due course.1 Corinthians 15:22.
It is interesting to note that this leaning belfry was one time used hy Galileo in the seventeenth century. I t assisted him to deduce the
principles of the gravitation of the earth.
By the way, this same Qalileo was one time
lmm~lonedto Rome before the ecclesiastics, and
obliged to recant the doctrine that the earth
moved around the sun, and not the then usnal
theory that the sun moved around the earth.
These gentle followers of the Lamb of God even
threatened to torture the old gentleman if he
did not recant. People are more enlightened
now, and the light will yet increase 1-Isa. 30 :26.

TAc Campanile
ELLS became factors of increasing impor- The Chimer
tance as they increased in size; for it was
Boon fonnd necessav to erect high towera ro IT HAS long been the mstom to b;ng several

that the sounds could be heard a t a distance.

Sometimes these belfry towera were built aa
a part of a church edifioe, and rometimes as
quite separate rtructprer. Italy ia renowned for
mah; for there the ball-towerr or campaniles
(from tbe Latin word meaning bell) developed
into d o e r of extraordinaq beauty.
One af the h e r t campanilea in tho world L
&at of 8t. Y u h at Velice, although in beau*
Wetto Boadem's mmpanile exmods all otham
oxtaut. This is at Florenoe. Begun in 1334
A.D., it w u finished in 1350. It is 275 feet

bells of differing pitch together, which are

made to sound one after another and thm play
a p l e tunes. &ch bell waa mng by p d h g 8
reparate rope; and as the number of bells inareased, bell-ringing mumad s h e art requiring mu& talent.
The notes of a peal of eight belh are arranged an a diatonio rolil., tho k u r er largeat
mpplying the key-mte and the trehle or 4-eat tha octrv8, me other bsllr us known ss
the second, third, and w en, asrmtfng from tho
treble to tha tenor.

When bells are rung in their rejplar order

they are said to be rung in "rounds." When
that order is varied, and they exchange places,.
they are rung in "changes." The number of
separate changes which can be rung by the use
of a number of bells seems incredible. It is,
however, defined by a well-horn and easy
mathematical law, and is the continued product
of all the numbers employed.
While two bells permit of only two changes
(lu2=2), three bells will give six changes
(lx2s3=6). Four bells d l render 24 changes
(lxZs3x4= 24). Five h!ls yield as many as 120
changes (Wx3x4x5=120).
In this order of multiplying we can easily see
that six bells will give 720 changes, aild seven
belle 5,040 changes, and eight bells 40,320.
I . the same way eight W e r e n t objects, as
for instance the letters 6f the alphabet-g, m,
d, h, a, i, k, f-may be changed in their order of
position 40,320 times, no order being repeated.
Should there be 9,10,ll, 12 or more bells the
nuxnber of possible changes becomes phenomenally great.

Three Hundred Years Bell-Ringing

HX author of "Moses and Geoloby," who in
his book aimed so admirably to establish
the fact that the fifteen ordered acts of divine
amation recorded in Genesis are corroborated
by geological science in their identical order
(thereby furnishing an additional eevience that
Moses was inspired of God), wrote as follows:

"Wha I was collecting information upon this 8thj d , I had the good fortune to vbit the charming rillage
of Hornchurch, in Essex, where I found an old be&
ringer, Joseph Wright, some eighty yenrs of age, who
gave me much interesting information on the matter.
He had formerly been one of the ringers of the spIendid
peal of W, b e l v e in number, in St. Bride's Church,
Bleet Street, I ~ n d o n ;and on his cottwe walls was
hanging .n~pcconnt if a epecial achievement, which
came off on the 13th day of December, 1 W , when 6,136
Ch.nges, termed an '0-dord treble bob maximus,' was
rung in three horn and fifty-three minutes by him .nd
hlr company. Now, as the number of possible changer
on twelve belle amoants to 479,001,600, suppose twelve
men for a00 daya in every year were to repcat this performance, it would take 300 years to complete all the
479,001,600 dide~entchanges.''

were the outcome. The patterns or tunes were

worked out by experts and given many queer
names, such as T e n t treble bob major," "Grandsire triples," 'Treble bob royal," etc.
In some countries, particularly in Holland
and Belgium, the chiming is accomplished by
mecllanical contrivances. Sometimes as many
as sixty or seventy bells are thus played by
means of a lever or keyboard, so that an infinite
variety of tunes may be produced, with results
that are very beautiful and charmihg.

TIce Curfew
HE oldtime custom of tolling a bell as a
signal for the inhabitants of a town to extinguish their fires and Lights and retire to rest,
is known as the curfew (from couuir, to cover;
feu, fire).
. This wasethe common practice throughout the
various countries of Europe dnring the Middle
Ages, especially in cities taken in war. The
curfew is supposed to have been introduced into
England by 'CVilliam the Conqueror, who ordained, under severe penalties, that at the ringing of the curfew bell a t eight o'clock in the
evening, all lights and fires mist be extinguished. Some suggested that William had
political reasons in this stern measure, to guard
against niglit-time plottings, etc.
It is probable, however, that the ruler enforced an existing police regulation as a precaution against fires at a period when wooden
houses were so prevalent. The precaution was
excellent. Besides this, people were obliged to
keep within doors, so preventing nocturnal
brawls in the streets.
There are still traces of the curfew today,
especially in smaller towns and rural districts,
for the same purpose as the original curfew.

Some Uses of &Us

HILE some uses of bells have gone, some
have corne in. The five o'clock postman,
whose bell-signal indicated his ol?ice to collect
one's letters, belongs to the distant past. The
town crieis bell used in conjunction with hk
cry, "0 yer ! 0 yezl" when he would dispense
the latest news has now gone.
The house-bells, with their rather pronounced
Bell-ringing became a fascinating art in the system of wires, are now passing away, to g i n
reventeenth century. Societies were formed, place to the ingenioun electric push-bells. The
and wonderful feats of accuracy and endurance old expression to arrmrr with the boolr; bell, and

'

GOLDEN AGE
candle" alludes to an old form of etsorcism said
to scare away the devil. Brlt knowledge b increasing.-Daniel 12 :4,
One interesting use of a bedl may here be
mentioned. In the town of Bath, England, a
forty-year-old carp used to ring a bell which
was attached to a float in the water. The oscillation of the bell caused some ants' eggs to fall;
other fish were thus attracted to their dinner.
I t is plain that life is set to bell music in one
shape or another-the dinner bell, yard bell,
school bell, factory bell, jail bell, engine bell,
door bell, fire bell, church bell, clock bell, cycle
bell, ambulance bell, telephone bell; and we
must not forget the little bell rattles seen in the
nursery-relic, no doubt, of the bells on the
fool's cap and wand.

and would fain silence those eounda which seem

to treat lightly their keen distress!
\

THE

Bible &es specid reference to smaJl

bells whicb ornamented the robes of ''glorl, and beauty" of brael's high priest, who waa a
type or picture of Jesus Christ. There ia an
important meaning attached to everything associated with that which God haa arranged. In
regard to the significance of these belln one
tannot do better than read what Prrator Bnssell
d d about them:
"The 'upper robd of blue mpreaented hia fu'thfulnew. The fringe of it wm mrde of golden belle ( p m rnmablJ &aped like lilies) and pomegranates. The pore

egranate, being r choice fruit, &owed that the faithful

performance
of the Bedeemda work of mrifice had
borne
rich fruit-the ndemptian of the forfeited l i b
Tire Language of Be&
of the h-an raca Tbe golden belb nimified that when
W O X D E R F U L is the effect of some kinda w High Pried appears-in glory .ndwbeou@,the fruit
of bells as they strike upon the human of the d c i a t work Kill ba manif& to all-pro=
to all the world, a in the type the
proears. They cause one to pause in reverie and
m indicated bJ the clam
to reflect over the stories they seem to tell. At chimed it to
attention to the f ' i t "
the news of Nelson's simdtaneoaa t r i m @ and p m h i Q : the belb
(800
Exodm
28:
31-36;
"'l'abemde
S h s d o ~p.~ ,30.)
~~
death at Trafalgar, the bella of Chester, Eng-

mWt

to bsh, One
which
points
to
God's
kingdom
when
it is f d l y
then one deep to&
.nd then e t h
tberebl telling &at in spits of viotorJ,
~
~ established
i
a in the earth, is found in Zechariah
14:20: "In that day B b d there be npon the
had lost one of her bravest eons.
bells
of the horses, HOLINESSV ~ P TTEE
~ Lorn.''
During the Great War most of the large bell8
Horses represent teachings or doctrines which
of Europe's warring nations were d e n t , M
tree Or fdse. The pusam in
though too grief-stricken for language. HOW- may
&ow6
that when W a kingdom is
question
beit, wben the armistice was signed thousands
of bells rang out again in glad relief. Some of established all false doctrines which misreprerentTmmOrdjb
Jehovah's character,
nity,"
those bells are so ancient that they h.rs fa the
of
hmeuch as the "trimeteras Britain is concerned, been uad to d e b r a t e nd
tbCQT,.nd s,,,&
rcch
h.n
notable event h i s w ~ from
,
the 8i-(l
nought
confmion to hmaniQ, d l have
of Magna Charta in 1215; m d in .olemu tone6
.nd
ere., d o c h e
me
they have tolled for every ruler since the death pure tone. .f a bell, Pr&
tb.beniCn di.pof King John.
sitions of the Almighty.
At certain seasons, especially a t Christmas
No wonder we read in another plaoe: "Ever7
time, the bella take on a joyous tone. Some areature
. heard I saying, Blessing, &
listen to these with glad and blissful glee. With honor, and glory, and power, be =to him th.4
others. the tears start as memories of bygone sitteth npon the throne, and unto the b b for
days arise; while still othera shiver and moan, ever and evertJ-Bevelation 5: 13.
land, rang ont merry peals, alternating now

..

"The Christmu bells have

again
Their 'Peace 6n earth, g o o d 3 ta men P
Eut many a lip rill curl, and cay,
<Peace and goodwill have had their &JI
And gone Jar, bejond our ken !'

' T e t o'u the

'utrite of

k t rbrflll

To voice the wrath of wuring w i b ,

The bells ring on I No esrthborn oound,
Or loud, or harsh, the whole world round,
Their music or their merssge Btillsl"

Ring Out. W!ld BeHs

7, *

<l,tb

out, wild bells, to the wild sky,

The flying clouds, the frosty light;
The year ia aping in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die1

'%g

'?iing out the want, the care, the rin:

The faithless coldneee of the timee.
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhyme?,
But ring the fuller minstrel in I

'?iing out the old, ring in the new;

Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year ia going-let hipl go;
Bing out the false, ring.in the true l

"Ring out false pride in place and blood,

The civic slander and the epite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of goodl

"Ring out the slowly dying cause,

And ancient forms ofearty strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life
With sweeter manners, purer laws I

"Ring out old shapes of foul disease7

Eing out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring .out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand yean, of peace.

"Ring in the valiant man and free,

The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Rn-o IN THE CHRISTTHAT IS TO BB 1"

West Texas Sand Storms

By J. A. Bohnet

ATCHING the lomerhg clouds rolling to- riedly into their storm cellars, or "fraid holeP
gether in Texas from several directions as a tender-foot Northerner calk them
be
rapidly h t e n s i f e g , One wonders if it
Immediately following the dust ston. cornan electric storm, cyclone, or dust cloud, or hail, the deluge of
and baa Hailstones
or a l l these combmed. We have not long to sometimes the size of a man's fist, ht
wait; withh five or six minutes the questions
are decided. Suddenly the air becomes luridly frequently the size of a walnut, although aome
red ~ t flging
h dust a thousand feet high. The are only as large as a marble. m e n the storm
cloud increases in denseness, and the wind as- h a subsided the gromd is covered with ice
sumes the velocity of a gale. The storm rages from half an inch to three or four inches in
with hurricane fury, bending the mesquite trees
to the emtho such a sight Sand, dust, and
past in snirls Ue the rapids of a
gravel
river. m a t earth elements are in the air stay
right there and are constantly added to by the
fierce wind that whips up whatever else of earth
is loose and sends the earth stream onmard
through space at an mtonishing rate. IVindmills in gear grind through the rapidly passing
elements with a buzz like the rip of the saw in
a s a d . Nothing is visible beyond thirty feet
but the dust stream that beats against the dwellings with a terrifying roar, causing the buildings to quiver and rock on their foundations,
eyery gust threatening to overthrow them.
From the shelter of a safe retreat it is an
awe-inspiring sight. No wonder people go hnr-

depth. The cotton plants are stripped of ever).

leaf, and fie field resembles a desert with lead
pencil-lilie s h b Sticking
~
Up h thee-feet-apd
Over the
The crop
mined* The corn
are
b a n of
fodder and beaten flat to earth by the hail
Trees are stripped of their leaves and thousands of podtry are dromed in the flood of
waters. Streams are over their banks and the
farmer is heartsick as he viewa the devastation
wrong11t by that
The storm here referred to demolished hmdreds of homes along its path and washed out
culverts and bridges.
How gratifying is the Bible assurance that in
the Millennium, now so near at hand, nothing
shall hart or destroy.

tll

Doodle-Bug and Homed Toad Department

(Por Olu h u e Only)

great and benevolent Creator, which will k

exercised
in behalf of suffering humanity dmBy B. R. Kent
ing the Golden Age now dawning, these h
m
I N THE September 26th issue of
GOLDEX death-traps and pitfalls-"the
snares of the
AGE,page 830, is an item of interest by J. A. fowler"-will be destroyed, together with the
Bohnet, relative to the doodle-bug of Texas. He "fowler," him "who has the power of death,
dates that it is not known why the doodle-bug that is, the devil!"
makes funel-shaped holes in the dust. The
truth concerning the habits of this interesting
More about the DoodleBug
bug is easily ascertained, and thus Texaa in
B y J a r s C. Hayet
exonerated.
SEE a notice in T m GOLDENAQCto the
The doodle-bug, like the spider, lives on
effect
that Texas has a doodle-bug. his bug
smaller and less fortunate insects than itself.
The spider's web furnishes not only a home for lives in most of the Southern states, or in all
its owner but a means of livelihood as well; of them, for that matter. His entomological
and woe to the moth, fly o r other insect which title is ant-lion, owing to his method of obtaining his food. The lion does not dig pitfalls, sir
fies or walks into the spideis parlor -vited
The insect'a straggles to free does Mr. ht-Lion, but keeps himself well hidor othe-se
itself, of course, send n quiver throughout the den until mad^ to leap upon his Prey.
pitMr. h t - L i o n , alias Doodle-Bug, digs
entire web ; and Mr. Spider takes notice, rushes
out and gets his breakfast, dinner or supper, falls in the loosest sand to be found in a shady
place, that being where his mother places the
as the case may be.
egg from which he is hatched. There he waita
I n habits, at least, the doodle-bug is kin to neatly hidden at the bottom nntil any ins&
the 'pider' Its
the funnel-sha~ed
such
an ant, spider, beetle, ef.e.,
in the sznd or dust, is also a death-trap to the
hapless little ant, or small insect of similar and stumbles or glides down through the loose
sand to the bottom of the pit, 1~lte11hlr. Antkincl. ~vluchfalls donn this inclined plane. I t
caliper-like mandil
Lion
takes him into
might as well die "instanter" and not exert
and crushes him to death and pulls his carcass
itself to send out any S. 0.S. calls for help; under the sand to suck the substnllcc out of it.
for t1.p dooc!le-hug is always on the watch, an11
the fzll of the s~rlnllant into the trap attracts I t is almost impossible for any insect to get
hole is nlndc in the
his u~idimdt~d
attention. He must eat to live, away; for the funnel-shaped
loose sand which rolls from under the victim
like thc spider; and immediately he sets to
to dimb out Furthennore, he is
as he
work to urldermine the foot1iold of his unhappy met
with a shower of sand that hlr. Doodle
victim as it vainly strives to escape by attempt- throws on him from the bottom of his pit, and
ing 'limb to
This
qdck is foroed back to the bottom, where he is deierks of his head, which send up httle ahoweis voured.
of sand, and which seem to confuse the ant, at
After
Bubstance has dl bean
from
the same time causing that insect to d i p back the
body,
Doodle poises the rl,c,Il
into the jaws of the doodle-bug. Directly, quick On his head, and -vith a qddjerk throws it oilt
a of the pit. Then the funnel o r pitfall is set in
a *'
Our doodle-bug has the ant
loving ( 1 ) embrace, and loses no time in drag- order for the next victim.
bg it under the .oft und Or du8t for the
When Mr. Doodle is old enough he encloses
nest meal.
himself in a concrete chrysalis, made of silk
In thi*g
Over thae tr@e'
in the
and u n d and hardened by a secretion from his
but make
eompari.oe
rorldy
I
body. In time he comes forth a peaceful and
There m e d e J 3 t b - h ~for
~ hman bein@, d e p d d y
fonr--ged
fly
by o m gmt ~ v e ~ther deoil;
~ ,
m-Y
ant-lion dy. The fly floats on the air as grare they who fall and are put out of the way fully as it ie possible for anything to float, withfor 8 time. But thank8 be to the power of our out a earn to disturb ib peatern mind, exaspt
-

The Doodle-Bug

TA

ma

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GOLDEN AGE

that the female fly may consider the laying of

more eggs in the sand, or that memories of the
battles fought in pre-aerial days may intrude.

Doodle-Bugs and Horned Toads

B y H. A. 8ekZedam

N OUR present imperfect condition it is nest

Imatter,
to impossible to m i t e anything or, for that
to say o r do anything that is entirely
without error. (Always excepting, of course,
The Associated Press, which never alters a
despatch and never makes a mistake. I t says
so itself !)
TILEGOLDESAGEis certainly setting a shini n g example in the field of journ3lism by its
entire readiness to correct the ren~ari:nldv few
slips that appear on its pages. I t takes genuine
love of truth for its o m sake to exhibit the
word "Errata" and to list incorrect statements
which probably not one in a thousand of its
readers have so much as noticed.
Among the most enjoyable contributors to
THE GOLDEXAGE is J. A. Bohnet, whose refreshing comments on things he notes during
his travels are always a treat. So it is with the
sincerest appreciation of his abilities that I
point out two slight slips of the pen in his contributions appearing on pages 818 and 830 of
AGENO. 105, of September 26, 1923.
GOLDEN
First, referring to the article on the' ('DoodleBug." BIr. Bohnet admirably describes the
smooth little volcano-crater this little creature
creates in the dust, with the top of the crater
level with the surface of the ground. But from
his article it appears that "no one seems to
know what is the bug's object in making these
funnels!'
He writes from Texas. I t may be that no one
in that state knows the secrets of doodle-bug
life; but we Californians (we are bound to go
the rest of the world one better, you knowvhy, we even claim to have larger mosquitoes
liere than they can produce in all New Jersey,
while our real-estate men have held the world
championship in the Ananias Club for over fifty
years), we Californians know the doodle-bug.
Come f Let us be boys and girls once more
and run out under the orange trees in the back
yard. Look beneath this tree I The whole serface of the ground is literally covered with
doodle-bug holes, varying in width sorose the
lop from onequarter to three inches, and each

one tapering down with exquisite smoothness

to a point but little below the ground level. But
where are the doodle-bugst Ah 1 Watch!
Here come a couple of little red ants. They
seem to be discussing the crop situation, or the
coming presidential primaries, or the League
of Nations or something; for they are quarreling most fiercely. One of them is an Argentine
&it: so of course the other one is knocked out
of the ring. Look out, Mr. Dempsey Ant, you
are slipping right into one of the doodle-bug
craters! The unfortunate ant knows full well
the meaning of that bee- on-tiful cornucopia in
the dust, and strnggles condairely up the
crunibly smooth sides which send him slipping
c l o ~ ~again
n
and again. Hc! rill regain the top
I c.,-ardless, but sudde~lly-T'esuvias
in miniature! There is a quick movement in the bottom
of the hole, and up comes spurt after spurt of
dnst and sand! Xr. Doodle-Bug ia on his job.
IIe spends his days buried in dnst at the bottom
of his hole for that very purpose. The poor
little ant is swept to the base of the death-trap
by the falling eruptions, and is seized in the
hungry jaws of the wicked bug, who proceeds
to treat him B la spider and the fly. In fact,
"Will you walk into my parlor 7 said the Doodle
to the Ant," moulcl be more apt than to call Mr.
Spider's webby creation a "parlor."

The Defense of the Horned Toad

OR are the inmates of this state to be antdone in respect to the homed toad or any
other lovely pet of that nature. It was one of
the impish delights of us boys in the long ago
to send the female members of the family into
shrieking hysterics by marching into the house
with a bull-frog protl-uding from each pocket,
a horned toad clinging to the shirt-front, and
a gleaming, fork-tongued, but quite harmless
water-snalie mapped neatly around each R-risk
Mr. Bohnet, comparing the water clog of
Texas with the horned toad, s a p concerning
the latter: "A full-grown liorned toad emits
jets of blood from its horn ends whcn rnshed
too hard or teased too much." Since when have
the enterprising Texans eqnipped their horned
toads with new patent horns drilled to serve as
sqairt-gunsf In these parts we are a bit oldfashioned, and have not as yet improved on the
liqmid pistol nature has given these creatures,
Let KUw a d e r into the s ~ n vineyarde
y
and

= GOLDEN ACE
this mention of them in THB&LDEX AOBW8b
intended as a mere introduction.
These tiny creatures are found in various
Southern states all the way from Virginia and
Tennessee southward. Their habits and manner
of life are jnst as different as can be. They
are unsightly in appearance, wear scant and
very homely clothing--only a light, thin, scattering coat of hair. It b on thia account that
the doodle-bug seems to be of the color of the
earth in which it works, the finer particles of
dust lodging in the hairy coat. In reality it ia
of a dull flesh color. I t is a diligent worker,
and its habit is to go round and round continually. This bug is not diflicalt to locate when
one knows how to do it. May not these lowly
creatures well represent the great mass of the
common people, whose life in one continual
round of toil and hardships ; who move, as it
were, in a never-ending circle of lowly experience, and who enjoy but a small portion of
the good things which the world affords?
The ladybug does not work. It wears a
beautiful shiny coat of black and red, and continually sits perched high upon some weed or
flower, as if asleep or in a deep meditation.
May not the ladybug well represent the middlemen, a class of non-producers who get in
between the producer and consumer, who do
nothing but study out schemes and methods of
securing for themselves a large proportion of
the good things which labor produces?
Now for an interesting fact concerning each
of these creatures which probably none know
except those who, when children, found amusement in studying the habits of the various creatures with which they oame in contact. It is
written in connection with our Lord's proclamntion of the gospel of the kingdom that "the More about Doodlc+Bugs and Ladybugs common people heard him gladly." It is as disBy. a.H. D.
tinctly recorded that the oaribes and Pharisees
T W A S a little surprise to me a t first to refused to hear Him. Many prophecies forenote that such lowly creatures as the lady- shadowed that it would be the same at this end
bug and the doodle-bug had been given cenaid- of the age. The gospel is sweet music. The
eration in so valuable a journal as THBGOLDEXlowly doodle-bug, though very industrious and
AGE.But I recalled that the wise King Solomon having little time for the higher, finer tl~ilings,
was able to draw some valuable lessons, moral ie a lover of melody. It is never too busy to
and otherwise, from the habitr of some lowly etop its work to hear a melody. When a child
creatures. So I concluded that possibly the we used to find great am~sementin humming a
great Designer of the universe intended that tune over doodle-bug holes and watch them
we ahodd learn a lesson from these lowly area- ceme k the surface; but the ladybug hatar
tares, the doodle-bug and tho ladybug, and that musie aa the parse- road hate the -el.
,
pick up the first horny pet we come to. Here
is a big one. No use waddling away so fast, Mr.
Horny, we have you. Afraid of him? Not at
all. Appearances are deceitful, as usual. Although Mr. Homed Toad resembles somewhat
the traditional picture of his majesty the devil,
his dusty gray back and head a mass of sharp
scales and horns, his beadlike little eyes bearing
a most malevolent aspect, and his fierce-looking
month opening on us as though with dire portent, he is not only harmless, but immensely
beneficial in reducing the insect pests that are
the curse of vegetation. It seems a shame to
bother him, even for a minute or two; but
we want to learn jnst haw nature's Qod has
equipped this little creature with ability to protect himself and "to eat, but not be eaten."
The horned toad is a n unappetizing-looking
morsel at the best, to be sure, but now watch
while I stroke hie horny back and wiggle those
wicked horns. The horns, you will note, are
quite solid a d sharp and not at all like gunbarrels. But the eyes! Do you see how they
are closing and p f f i g out all around like the
"black eye" we used to give each other in boyhood fights?
The mingled fear, anger, and indignation Mr.
Horned Toad justifiably feels at such rough
handling cause the blood-vessel that encircles
each eye to become gorged with blood. Watch
oat now l There it comes1 The vein has burst,
and out shoots a jet of real red blood, right out
of this eye 1 All over my new Sunday snit, toot
Serves me right. I drop Mr. Toad in a harry;
and he scampers away underneath a tall grape
vine, probably on his way to tell Mrs. Horny
all about the mde giant that dirturbed hie
peaceful day.

A Study of the Theory of Evolution, in Two Parts (Part I)

By Herbert M. Shelton, D.P.,N.D.

E war over evolution continues. Here in

T'BTexas
the effort to prohibit its teaching in
the public schoob is still being carried on. The
daily press appears to be in favor of the theory,
although hiding behind what they call freedom
of thought, speech, and press. But these same
papers oppose another form of freedom of
thought, speech, and press by opposing the
teaching of religion in the public schools.
Hearst's International, uarch, 1923, contains
the following bit of editorial matter :
we me
readp
important d c l s
on modern digion, we notice thnt a famous quotation
L applied by Francis Greenleaf Peabody to William
Jenningn Bryan and others who are attacking science
in the name of religion. Bishop Wilberforee had been
talking for half
how at a meeting of the % ~
Society. Be he closed, he turned toward H d e Y and
asked him whether it mu on his mother's or his fatheir
Bide
he c l h e d descent from the mode~s. Hdq
was no fool debater. He arose slowly, stated quietly
that it was no diegrace to -bs deecmded from an ape,

and than delivered this:

w them were an a,whom I should fee..
ubsmed in recalling, it would rather be a man-a man
of r e s t l e ~and versatile intellect-who, not content with
m equivocal success in his o m sphere of activity,
plungea into scientific questions with ahich he h no
real acquaintance, only to obsare them with an aimless
rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearem from
the red point at
digmsim
ful appeals to religious prejudices.'
"Huxley fought in the days when the question m a
open. Today it is s. mere fitful oddity. People who can
think today know that Gcience can tell us nothing about
the essentials of religious truth, and that on the other
hand the churches can tell us nothing about science."

And such answers as this are about all one

gets from those who uphold evolution. They
assume that evolution is science, that the question is closed, is no longer open to debate; and
that only the ignorant and those who cannot
think mill attack the doctrine of evolution.
I have heard Bryan's lecture; but I have yet
to read or to hear a single reply to it that wss
anything other than an effort to discredit his
scholarship and his ability to think. Take the
above quotation from Huxley which has been
applied by Francis Peabody to Mr. Bryan. Is
this an answer to his arguments? It is not. I t
is only an evasion of the issue. The truth is
that theae people are afraid to try to meet their

opponents on the fields of fact and logic. They

well lmow that they have not a fact to stand o n
The idea that an attack upon evolution is an
attack upon science is absurd. Evolution is not
science. This fact is admitted by all true scientists. From its very beginning it has beexi a
spec~dativephilosoplly based more upon hypothesis than fact.
Aristotle (554-322 B. C.) is regarded as tlio
father of the theory of deacent , altf lough he ia
admitted to have been preceded by Empedocles,
who taught, though vaguely, a gradual succession of life forms from the less to the more
perfect. Empedocles, however, did not claim
any genetic relationship for the various species,
but believed them to have been separately eredatccl. Aristotle conceived of a great genetio
chain of organic beings from polype to man.
inaaenced by ~
i
~
d
H, ,as
phy, wc& seems ala.ays to have had some l&d
of evolution a t its base.
Following Aristotle came Leibnitz (Germany,
1646-1716) and Buffon (France, 1707-1785);
next came Erasmns Darwin, grandfather of
Charles Darwin. These men all taught evolation in gome form and advanced many theories
to e x p l h it, The father of modern emlntion,
however, was Lamark (17LL4-1829). He was the
leading zoologist between ~i~~~~~
and cuvier.
He defended all the theories
by
win, except that of natural selection.
I n fact, a h o s t all the methods by which evolution is said to have taken place except that O f
natural selection were advanced before Dal-win.
Heredity, atavism, and the hereditary transmission of mutilations mere advanced by Aristotle.
Buffon is said to have affirmed, and as frequently denied, the mutability of species. Erasmus D a d n first proposed the supposed Iaw of
sesual selection, stated the principle of the lam
of battle, fully explained the idea of protective
mimicry and vaguely taught the theory of use
inheritance. Lamark presented the struggle for
existence and the lam of geometrical increase in
animals, held identical vie~vswith Malthus on
population, referred to the effects of swamping
and isolation as a factor in evolution, and taught
that acquired characters and defects were transmitted to offspring, p~ovidedthat they were
not swamped by breedmg.

216

GOLDEN AGE
Charles Darwin first enunciated the doctrine
of X'atnral Selection in 1858. At this time also
the same doctrine was presented, independent
of Darwin, by A. R. Wallace.
Evolution doctrines made Little progress until
after Hutton and Lyell had advanced uniformantarian views in geology. I n fact i t is stated
that Lamarlis theories were, owing to the great
naturalist Cuvier, ignored and wellnigh forgotten except to be called up at times and ridiculed.
Uniformantarian geology had prepared the way
for the acceptance of evolution when Darwin
and Wallace came on the scene.

Tlu h d i c a m e n t of Scicntbta

TODAY
tarianism

the very foundations of uniformanare crumbling, but those who

boast of their great learning and intelligence
are still clinging with all their might to a doctrine, o r rather to an hypothesis, that cannot
exist if uniformantarianism ia false. And there
is no longer any reason to doubt that it is false.
On the side of the self-styled intellectuals are
to be found many religious people who make a
vain effort to hang on to the Bible with one
hand and evolution with the other.
On May 17, 1922, Dr. Bichard S. L a Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at Yale,
startled the delegates to the annual EpiecopaliRn Convention, which was held at Hartford,
Conn., when he declared that he had proven
tlie theory of organic evolution to hie own sat&
faction. The newspaper report eays:
'
T
a
k
i
n
g one of the strong arguments of the antievolutioniata that the theory p u b God rn far sway M
to make Him no longer a personal factor in life, PIPfessor Lull Mid that thia is not eo.
" T h e erolntionist'e god ia an imminent god, and M
inch, s much more continuous and potent factor in onr
lives than the occasional wonder-working p d of the
older theology,' he said."

Speaking of "the age-old warfare between

science and theology," Professor Lull said :

colleges which was held in Des Moines, Iowa,

in advance of the opening of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Cburch in the United
States, which opened the following day, upheld
the theory of evolution '"from a theological
viewpoint because o m religion is broad enough
to encompass aU the discoveries of science."
In these quotations from Prof. Lull and Dr.
McAfee the following points are very clear :
(1) The god of evolution is a more potent
factor in life than tho God of the Bible.
(2) The God of the Bible is sneeringly referred to as being merely an occasional "wonder-worker."
(3) It is admitted in effect that the "wonderworking" creation taught by the Bible and the
blind chance origin of things taught by what
has been miscalled evolution are sntagonistia
doctrineu.
(4) There is also the a priori assumption
that those who oppose evolution are either ignorant or unbalanced ("'emotiod" aa Prof. L d
politely terms it). These balong to the nonintellectual classes. All evolutionists belong to
the intellectual crowd. (Thris assumption M
characteristic of the modern evolutionist.)
(5) That the Presbyterian religion is brod
enough to encompass aJl the theories and hypotheses of pseudoscience. (Dr. McAfee &
them Udiscoveriesof science.")
How men can hold to these idem and etiU
hold to the Bible, remain in a church, and call
themselves Christians is beyond our comprehension unless, of course, we adopt the characteristic attitude of the evolutionists toward those
who differ from them and say of them, as they
do of us, that such are ignorant and lacking in
intelligence. Not being evolntionists, however,
e
we are not forced to such ~ g e n t h n a n l i k ways
of meeting an opponent.
These men have drawn the line sharply between the theory of creation as taught in the
Bible and that taught by evolution and have
admitted that the two theories are antagonietia
to each other. Let us look for a moment at a
few facts and see, if possible, which teaching
squares with these facts.

<'The past few months have witnessed a recrudescence

of it, partly due perl~apsto the emotionalism brought
on by the war and partly due to uncertainty as to causes
of evolution. Among the leaders in the attack an evolution is W. J. Bryan, who is a formidable opponent, not
from the point of view of knowledge, but from that of
Science Doen Not Recognize Creative Power
influence over non-intellectual clurses."
On the very same day Dr. Cleland Boyd
HE only method known to science by which

McAfee, speaking at a conference of presidents

a new being can come into &stence is
of fifty-seven Presbyterian universities and through one or more parent organisma. So long

as there is no necessary lireak in this metliod of

production we are forced to accept it as the
exclusive one. Looking b b a r d into the past,
we come to a time when the earth was devoid
of life. There were no parent organisma to give
rise to the first living forms.
So here at the very beginning of life we have
a necessary break in the method of production.
Bow she1 we account for the origin of that first
living formt There are two theories: (1)That
of creation, as taught in the Bible; and (2) that
of spontaneous generation, M taught by some
evolutionist^.
Neither of these theories is new. Each has
existed and has marred with the other for thousands of years. The older theory of spontaneous
generation, however, did not stop with the germ,
but generated a full-grown animal. Bristotle,
for instance, thought that fleas, worms, mice,
frogs, and other lower forms of animal life
sprang up spontaneously from the moist earth.
"All dry bodier," he wrote, "which become
damp, and all damp bodies which are dried,
engender animal life!' Virgil thought that bees
were produced from the pntrifying entraila of
a bull.
Van Helmont, a renowned alchemist physician who lived during the reign of Louis X N ,
wrote :"The smella which arise from the bottom of morasses produce frogs, slugs, leecheq
grasses and other things!'
Again, he says:
"Scoop out a hole in a brick; put into it rome Reet
basil, crushed; lay a second brick upon the first so that
the hole may be completelJ covered. Expore the bricka
to the eun, and at the end of a few day8 the d d
the sweet basil, acting aa a ferment, w i l l chrnge the
herb into r e d acorpionr"

Van Helmont also gave full directions for

producing a pot of mice. I t is very simple, and
we do not doubt that he got the mice. All one
had to do was to 6 l l a vessel partly with corn,
and then plug up the mouth of the vessel with
an old dirty ehirt. It requires about twenty-one
days for the ferment arising from the dirty
&kt reacting with the odor from the corn, to
transmute the corn into mice. The doctor, after
solemnly assuring us that he himself has witnessed this faat, says: "The mice an born f d grown; there are both malea and femalee. To
reproduce the rpecies it s d c e s to pair them."
When Sir Thomas Browne expressed donbte
rbout the breeding of mics by putrefaction he

was replied to by another d e n t i s t of -tbat day

in these words:
"So n q he doubt whether in ahmd timM
w o r m are generated; or if beetlea and u u p s in c o d
d u g ; or if butkfliea, lomda, gnsshoppera, hell-!isb,
aclr, and mch like, be procreated of putrid m*t
ter, Prhich ia apt to receive the form of th.t c ~ o t n to
n
which it L by tonnative power diepod. To queation
this ir to question nmoa, mm, and u p e r i ~ ~
U lb~
doubtr thin, lat him go to Egypt; m d there ha rill ffnd
the ddda rvuming rnth rmce, begot of the mud of
Nylur, to the great orlPmiQ of the iphrbitank''
amla,

In one of the early volames of the Royal

Society of London is oontained an illustrated
account of the natural history of the famom
"barnacle-geese." Buds of a certain tree growing at the sea's edge were said to produce barnacle~ These, when they fell into the water,
were transmuted into geese.
This doctrine of apontaneou generation, 8
pagan doctrine, ir taught today in a modified
form by men who pass aa ~cientists.True,they
admit that it is not going on now; but they
insist that it did take place in the paat and that
it originated life on this globe. They do not,
however, get their living beinga from decaping
organio matter, but from inorganic matter.
In 1668 the Italian, Redi, observed that flies
are always prasent around decomposing meat
before the maggots appeared. He devised 8
means of keeping the fties away from the meat,
which putrified as always, but produced no maggots. The aame kind of meat placed in open jar8
eo that the flies could come in contact with it
literally rwarmed with maggots. Next he put
meat into a jar over the top of which he p l d
a wire gauze. The fiies which were attracted to
the meat could not reach it; eo they laid theit
eggs upon the gauze. These hatched in due
time; but no maggob appeared in the meat.
From thir time on until the invention of tha
microscope, it came to be undemtood that Hivey'g dictum, "All life ir from preihistent lifej*
was true, at leaat, of all the higher zmimah
But when the miaroscope revealed the eristena
of baateria (1683) which no m e e n nor stopper8
aodd hold out, the old controversy was renewed.
They no longer questioned that the higher admals arise only by prooreation, but they insisted
that there mioroscopio organisms proved the
existence of a "perpetual abiogenio fount? from
which under suitable conditions the "evolution
of living beings" continued to take place.

Spontaneous G;enemtion WorrieaEbolutionbts made by the chemist in the labarntory and those

EVEN' Professor Harley, who declared: "Tbe compounds made by nature in her great organic
properties of living matter distinguish it laboratory. No amount of analysis and snbseabsolutely from all other kinds of things; and quent synthesis will enable the chemist to prothe present state of our knowledge furnishes us duce even undifferentiated dead protoplasm.
with no link between the living and the not Much less can he produce live, differentiated
living," once discovered a slimy substance which protoplasm.
Protoplasm is not found in an undifferenhe supposed existed in great masses a t the bottom of the seas, and which he contended wan tiated form. The human body, for instance, is
composed of undifferentiated protoplasm and not merely a mass of homogenous protoplasm
constitnted an exhaustless fountain of life. He but is a heterogeneous structure. It is an ak
called this substance Bathybius Haekeli. It was semblage of correlated organs and parts; eacb
not long, however, before the ship Challenger, of which ia composed of r9elle. Each cell is a
Dr. Lionel Beale, and Dr. Carpenter supplied living nnit, an individual in the community of
the proof that his great discovery was a great cells, and is composed entirely of protoplasm.
A typical cell consists of a cell body, a e l l
mistake. Bathybius is now known to be merely
a precipitate of gypsum thrown down from sea wall or membrane, a nucleus, and a centrosome.
Other strnctnres and bodies are found in cells.
water by alcohol.
What Redi had done for the larger forms of but we cannot go into detail here. Suffice it to
iife, Tyndall and Pastern did for the protozoa say that each and every part of the cell is mat26
and bacteria. Tyndall performed almost a thon- of protoplasm; yet this protoplasm is differertiated, so that the nuelens and centrosome are
mtnd experiments.
In his article on Biology in the "Encyclopedia distingniahable from the cell body *which they
Brittanica," edition of 1876, H d e y says: "At exist, while these two parts of the cell-tke
the present moment there is not a shadow of nucleus and the centrosome--are distingnisl trustworthy direct evidence that abiogenesis (or able one from the other. They also perfor111
apontaneous generation) does take place, or has different functions.
The cell, instead of being a mere compound.
taken place, within the period during which the
ia
a complete organism, with varied powers and
existence of t&e globe is recorded." Professor
H d e y says that there is no "direct evidence." functions and with the necessary structure to
He no doubt wanted to believe that spontaneous exercise these powera and functions. If thesA
generation had occurred; but he reahzed that were a mere homogeneous nubstance, it is conhe had to rely upon indirect evidence, although ceivable that under ctertain oonditions the atom5
might fall together and produce such a mhhe had none of that either.
Haeckel seems never to have abandoned the - etanee; but there is no known way by wbich
idea of spontaneous generation ;and many oth- mch a process could produce structure and orers still believe that it did occur in the past, ganization, or could produce the powers of life.
when the conditions of the earth were different.
However, most of the scientists of today reject lk Wonderr of Human Orgarninn
the theory entirely. This can be seen from the C E L L S exercise selective powera which canfollowing quotation from a 'Textbook of His- not be accounted for on any mere physiaal
tologf' by Frederick R. Bailey, A. M.,M. D. He and chemical basis. The cells of the gastric
says: "The overthrow of the long-held biologi- glands and those of the aalivary glands reoeive
cal fallacy of spontaneous generation was soon the same blood, but manufacture different prodfollon-ed by the downfall of a similar theory ucts which perform different functions-the
regarding cells."
k t producing an acid product which aids in
Every living thing, whether plant or animal, the digestion of proteids; the ~econdproducing
is made up of a highly complex compound called an alkaline mbstaiice which aids' in the digesprotoplasm. Protoplasm is composed of a few tion of starches.
simple elements found in the earth's surfaces,
In the blood are a few elements not used in
in the "dust of the earth." There ia, however, a the production of the saliva and gastric juices.
vast difference between any chemical bornpound But the d v a r y and gastric glands do not make

a mistake and talie the wrong elements. They been cut off; but we get Alberta and not scrub "
mlect the needed elements, and reject the rest.
The same blood that supplies the gastric and
the salivary glands also supplies the muscles,
nerves, bones, e t a The same food elements that
go to the mnscles are aent to the bones. Yet the
muscles do not make bones, nor do the bones
make nerves or muscles. Each cell takes from
the blood the element or elementa needed in
building and maintaining its own peculiar
structure or in carrying on its own particular
functions, and rejects the rest.
This same selective power is seen in operation
in the healing of a cut or a wound. There ia a
Wul and orderly reunion of the tissues and
cells on each side of the cut. The circulatory
channels are skilfdy repaired, the nerves are
reunited, muaclea 8nd connective tissues unite
with their brothers on the other side. There are
no mistakea made. Muscles do not unite with
nerves o r connective tissue, nor nerves with
blood vessel; but each tissue connects with its
own kind.
An Alberta peach in grafted into the stub of
a common peach. The roots of that stub supply
the graft with the same' sap they would have
enpplied to the original branches, had they not

peaches. The plant cells exercise the same selective powers and these are not explainable by
any known laws of chemistry.
That the process is no mere matter of chemistry is easily seen if we begin at the beg inn in^
of the development of the individual animal. A
its beginning every animal consists of one cell,
microscopic in size, known as a fertilized ovmn
Under proper conditions this cell begins to
divide and re-divide until there are millions of
them. The one becomes two, the two become
fonr, the fonr are divided into eight, and so o n
.At first these cells are all alike; that is, they
are identical in form, structure, and function.
-the
similarity of these cells is not merely superficial as is the similarity of the ovum of
one species with that of another is obvious from
the following. Take the little sea-urchin while
he is developing, when there is only a little
cluster of sixteen cells and put it into sea water
from which the lime has been removed. They
fall apart and we have sixteen separate units.
Put back the lime and each of the &teen celh
nil1 begin the development of a perfect s e c
urchin on its own account so that sixteen little
animals result.

Beproduction 02 r cutoon now being widely posted in Europe, beuing r title dgdfying
"What !Ihq Would do to Cbrirt Today."

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Religion at the Capital

And then there is Rerbert. At the Foundry
Chnrch (gruesome name for a church) Herbert
F. Randolph, D. D., was to preach on "David
Lloyd George." Herbert, we are surprised at
you. Do you ever remember St. P a d preaching
on Titus" or 'Tespasian" or any of the otber
great men of his time? Did he not rather say
that he was determined to know nothing among
his highly intelligent audience other than "Jesus
Christ and him cmciiied"t But maybe you think
you have something on St. P a d when it comes
to real preaching.

F R E K D at Washington has sent us a

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copy of the Post containing the announcements for Sunday's services. These announcements show that religions enthusiasm in Washington is at a high pitch. Or at least, they show
desperate efforts to start something. For instance, there is the Rev. E. Hez Swem. At the
Centennial Baptist Church he promised to aid
in the salvation of his fellow men by preaching
on 'Why He Wanted to Blow Me Up." Now
listen to us, Hez : The fact that you would
advertise such a topic for a Sunday sermon
shows that you really deserved it, and the way
you should have advertised was, 'Why on Earth
Did He Fail to Blow Me Upt" We answer:
The chances are that he has not been to church
for several years, and therefore is too much of
a Christian to resort to the 1917-1918brand of
religion
Then there is the Rev. Dr. J. E. Byers. At
the Luther Place Memorial Church he was to
have sundry and divers people "Join the Reformation Procession around the Luther Monument." Very good. The Reformation Movement
is dead. We admit it. It should have a monument It does have one. Those who mourn its
departure should parade around the monument
to show their grief. We have no complaint
to make about this highly spiritual procession.
Harry, Clurence, Clifton, and Herbert
HEN there is the Reverend Harry Dawson
Mitchell, D. D., of the National Methodist
Church. He was going to tell all about "The
Recovery of Lost Spirituality in Public Affairs." Harry, we can tell you just what ails
you. When you were howling for war, war, and
more war you were a great man. You were
putting a vast quantity of 'lost spirituality"
into public &airs. We know just how you
could have another chance. Start unother war!
I t is the only way chnrchianity will ever get
another chance; and it i~now or never.
At the McKendree Methodist Episcopal
church Dr. Clarence True Wilson was to preach
in the morning on "Pu'ational and International
Imprecations of the Eighteenth Amendment";
ancl in the same church in the evening Reverend
Clifton K. Ray was to preach on "The Busy
Man." Now, Clarence, where do yon find that
stuff in the Biblel h d Clifton, your topic
does not look like a Bible topic, either.

Freeley, and the 2kombonea

N D at the Metropolitan Presbyterian
Church, in the morning the Reverend
Freeley Rohrer wan to preach on "Personality,"
and in the evening on ''Ehblems of Fell~\~ship."
That's right, Freeley. ''Freely ye have received,
freely give." But it might not do y o u congregation any real hama if you were to ~andwich
in a Bible topia once in a while. h d then again
it might. We don't h o w your congregation.
Maybe none of them want anything a t all out of
the Bible. And if they got it unexpectedly it
might make them ill, or ;Capbe the collections to
fall off terribly, or some other dreadful thing
might happen So go ahead and R o k r 1
It seems that there is a number of Metropolitan churches in Washington. At the one
managed by the Reverend John Compton Ball
it was the 'last opportunity to hear the trombone evangelists." How that reminds us of St.
Paul, of that sublime moment when he stood up
on the Acropolis and said : "Ye men of Athens,
Listen to this," and then pulled out his old trombone from its bag and gave them the "wonderfullest" trombone serenade they ever heard.

Making Religion Eaay

T H E N the Calvary Baptist Church was to
have a sermon on "Making Religion Easy."
That is the dope! That is what the public
wants. If Jesus and the apostles had only been
posted on that, how much they could have been
spared. Jesus would not have needed to be cmcXed, and neither Peter nor any of the other
apostles would have suffered martyrdom. There
would have been no martyrs during the dark
ages; -for there would have been no s a h t s ta

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martyr. Conditions in the churches would have
been modern, j u t as they are now.
Among the advertisement8 Karl Gooseman
haa one in which he sws: "Go ye to the streets
and lanes of the city and compel them to come
i n n Don't be a goose, man I The word rendered
"compe1" should be rendered "constrainJJ or
(t
urge." The Lord never commissioned anybody
to do more than place a kindly extended invitation before the sheep. The goats, wolves, dogs,
and swine were to be allowed to go their way.

Clooia, and John 8.

ND then we see that Clovis 0. Chappell,
D. D., of the Mount Vernon Place M. E.
Church South, was to preach on "Visiting the
City." You did not say what city you had in
mind, Clovis; but if it is New York you had
better take up a good big collection before you
come. And you had better keep off from Broadway, Clovis, and keep out of the cabarets; for
yon might have the bad luck to run into some
of your flock in some of these places, and it
would be hard all around to make explanations
that would exactly fit the facts.
In the First Presbyterian Church the Reverend Dr. John B. Clark mas to speak on the subject, '? am I, not YOU." This is remarkable;
this is fascinating; this is the truth. Now supam You, not I"; that
pose the topic had been ''I
would have been remarkable, and it might have
been famzinating, but would it, have been the
truth? Or suppose he had advertised the topio
as"Am1 Ami, or am I not Amit Lf I a m n o t
Ami, who am I?"

offered np prayers for the Roman navy! and

so it mas important that they should put their
best foot forward. What their worst foot would
have been, on an off day, only heaven in it8
wisdom could know.

Columbm Heard From

writing the foregoing we have heard
SINCE
from Columbus, Ohio, and list without comment the spiritual pabulum which the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Congregational, and
United Brethren churches of that city planned
to spread behre the spiritually hungrp in that
city as their feast for a single Sunday:
Safety First; Disappointed ; Uncle Sam and
the Foreigner; HOWto be Happy Though Married ;Movie Star Salaries ;Can a Woman Come
Back?; The Branded Man; Sermona in Laces;
High Living; He Makes a God from e Tree;
Self-Preservation; Growing Pains; Attractive
Personality; Upper or Lower Berth; "Lea Mi*
erablesn; The Puritan or Cleopat-Which
!L'ype ShalI Survive in Americal; Putting the
Shine on ; Modern S h e - P i t s of Society; The
Job of Being a Father; Good Literatare; Our
Boys in War and Peace.

I N DISTRESS, and in hope that something

can be done to alleviate their condition, the
farmers of Xnnesota have elected one of their
number, M a p u s Johnson, to the post of United
States Senator from that state. Right or wrong,
the farmers of the West feel that there is something wrong in the piling up of uncounted
wealth in the cities of the East, where it is
The &at Foot Forward
squandc- :1 with a lavish hand, while those that
H, Yes, about other religions exercises a t produce tile food of the nation work early and
the capital. Well! The same paper adver- late and barely earn enough to keep alive. We
tised sermons by Mabel somebody on "bmeri- doubt if M a p u s will be able to do much.
canizatioa": some mother's boy by the name of
Rev. .&tauri&was going to tali on "The Boy of
The gypsy moth, which now does considerable
tVinand~r" ; Jason, another good boy that had
damage
in America, was imported into thir
gone wrong, was going to preach on "Thrills at
country by a scientist. He was experimenting
Springfield," arid there were other sermons on on the subject of silk culture, when .the door at
"Scandinavinu llrrsic," "The Railway of Life," the cage was Mfortunately
openad .nd the
"The Hand That Rocks the Cradle:' and other moths
Th. United States Department
equally important Btble topits.
of Agriculture warm that there are three thouBut then, it was " X a q Day" a t the Capital; sand distinct insect pests in other lands that:
and all these churcLrs were going to pray for would flourish here if we were so unfortunak :
the navy, the same as C h i s t a d the apostles as to introduce them.

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T h e Harp of God", with accompanyins q u m t f o ~taking the place of botb
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=The morning following was the first day of

the week ; and early that morning, before it became very light, Mary Magdalene and other
good women who had followed Jesus from
Galilee and ministered unto Him, hastened to
1 the Savior's tomb. When they reached there the
I angel of the Lord appeared nnto them, saying,
"Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesns,
1 which was crucified. He is not here: for he is
risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the
Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples
that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he
p e t h before yon into Galilee; there shall ye see
him: lo, I have told you. And they departed
quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great
' joy, and did ran to bring his disciples word."
(Matthew 28: 5-8) This news to these faithful
women sounded too good to be true. They were
dazed and bewildered; yet with joy they hurried
'away to deliver the message to others who
loved the Lord.
"'Here we have the proof that the resurrection of Jesaa is one of the strings upon the
harp of God, yielding great joy to those who
hear its blessed sound. The first human being
who heard of the resurrection rejoiced. How
much more joy there must have been in heaven
at that hour 1
=Angel means messenger; that is, one who
M sent on a mission as a representative or
deputy, or messenger of God. These holy
messengers or angels always have access to
the Father, Jehovah. (Matthew 18:lO) We
&odd expect, of course, that these holy ones
of the heavenly host would sing praise and give
utterance to joy before the Lord a t every progressive step of His plan. These angels inhabit
the heavens, the high place. And so the Psalmist
writes of them: "Praise ye the Lard. Praise ye
the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the
heights. Praise ye him, all his angels: praise
ye him, all his hosts." (Psalm 148: 1,2) The
Bible abounds with many instances wherein God
has used these holy angels as messengers. H e
communicated with Abraham by His angels
(Genesis 22 :15) ; also with Jacob. (Genesis 81:

ll) God appeared nnto Moses by His angel.

(Exodus 3: 2) He also delivered a message to

Elijah by His angel. (1Kings 19 :5) These holy
messengers of God guarded the interests of
Jesns at all times, from the moment He left the
heavenly courts to Become the man Jesns for the
purpose of redeeming the rorld of mankind.
(Zechariah 3: 1-7) The angel of the Lord
announced to .Mary that she was to be the
mother of the babe Jesns. (Luke 1:31) When
she gave birth to this wonderful child, the angel
of the Lord brought the message to the faithful
shepherds, and the great multitude of the
heavenly hosts joined together with that angel
in praising God-Luke 2: 9-ll.
A child o'er the creatures shall then have dominion;
The lion shall yield at his word of command;
The crocodile's den shall be his pavilion;
And the wild mountain deer ohall feed from his hmd.

Q-ONS
ON "THE HARP OF GOD"
What was done by Mary and others on the morning of

the fist day of the week after Jesus' cmciiixion? 11 254.

Who appeared anto them at the tomb? and what did
the messenger my? 7 254.
What effect did this megsage from the angel have npon
these women? and what did they do? 1254.
What proof have we here that the resurrection of
Jenua ie one of the strings upon the harp of God? 1256.
What effect was produced upon the first human being
who heard of the resnrrection of the Lord ? f 255.
H o w muat this news have been rewived in heaven?
1266.
What M the meaning of the word angel? 256.
Do thee angels hive rccese ta Jehovah? G i ~ ethe
Scriptural proof. 1256.
Is there Scriptural proof that these holy messengem
dng praises in heaven? R 256.
What Scriptural proof have we that God aecs mgclr
for messengers? Give several instances. 256.
Is there any Bcriptural evidence that these holy angela
guarded the intereete of Jesus while here on d ?

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Cite Scriptural pmof aa to what else the an+

Kith reference to JYUBthe LPLa 1 266.

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That ultimately everything will work for good is the feeling of the carefree; it is the prophecy of all. To be assured that such is the future, and that earth's time of greatest
blessing is in the making through present distress, is to possess a foresight supcrliumcm.

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ostensibly is against
P America'sCOOLIDGE
joining the League of Nations;
B ~ S I D ~

m is Wall Street. This is because the American

pe6ple are definitely set against it. Sour grapes.
He is for the World Court, the back-door
entrance into the League; so is Wall Street.
He is against the recognition of the governmcnt of Soviet Russia ; so is Wall Street.
He wants Europe to pay back the money it
baa borrowed here; so does Wall Street.
He wants a reduction in the income taxes piid
by the wealthy, so that a larger proportion of
taxes may fall on those whose earnings are
mnaller; eo does Wall Street.
He is opposed to the levying of excess profita
.-.-? tarea ;so is Wall Street.
He is opposed to the issaance of any more
tar free securities; so is Wall Straet,now, after
d these securities are d y lodged in their
brnlt vaults to the tune of billions of dollars.
This is locking the stable door when the stolen
home is twenty miles away.
He wants the tariff let alone; so doea Wall
Street, and everybody elm with any ."
dollars o r
8enEe.

He wants America's four billion dollar merohrrnt marine surrendered to private interests;
w, doea W
all Street.
He wants the Supreme Court virtually to
" have the power to fix railtoad profits; so doea
Wall Street.
He sees the necessity of a revision of freight
rates, but he wants the railroads let alone; so
doea Wall Street.
He wants the procedure in Federal courts to
be regulated by the courts rather than by statutes made by the people; so does Wall Street.
He wants prohibition enforced; so does Wall
Street.I t has wet goods laid up for many years
and it does not nish the people at large to have
rpCh goods. Wet goods make them dangerous.

He wants Northern industrial centera made

more hospitable places for Negroes; so doen
Wall Street, because it has found Negroes much
easier to handle than whites.
He wants the Federal Government, when it
employs women, to see to it that them i. a
minimum wage below which the Qovernznent
shall not fall; so does Wall Street, whi& now
that it has been freed of this burden by decree
of the Supreme Court, can pay the women a8
it pleases in every other part of the Union.
He wants the immml;ata registration of dl
aliens; so does Wall Street. It h o p thor to .
be able to keep out Bolshevism.
He ia oppaad to granting thetb\.dd*na
bonu8; so is
Street.
He ill opposed to government ownership or
operation of d lnhes; sp ill wall Street
He is opposed to regu&ting profib in d
at the mines; so ia Wall Street
He wanta "greater unity of owmaship" of the,soft coal fields and "common selling agents" for
the product; so doea W
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farmer that would be in any way akin to the
plan that has been d for aiding the railro&
to make their huge profits; so is W
all Street
He wants Congress to hamper him by wholly
needless restrictions as to how he may dispom
of Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford; M, doea W d
Street.
He wants good roads for the automobiles;
so does Wall Street.
I t seems to us that President Coolidge is the
Republican party's logical candidate for President, and that he probably stands well with the
papacy; we shall be surprised if he is not nominated this coming June. But whether he would
be elected may depend on how much the people
as a whole see in his message and his close
alliancb with the superinvisible government.

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Reports from Foreign Correspondents

Rsport h m Cunada

U A D A has received one good financial

"earthquake" in the past few months, and
the mone satraps fear another one. That it
will com seems to be a foregone conclusion
The devastating failure of the Home Bank of
Canada has caused the small depositors first to
quake, then to get mad; and now they are combining into quite a formidable union for purposes of compelling investigation.
Simultaneously three investigations are going
on: The authorities are taking criminal proceedings against the Directors ;the Government
is investigating the internal affairs of the.Bank,
and discovering a condition so putrid that it
almost calls for the use of gas masks; and the
depositors are demanding that the Government
make up any deficit, because the Finance Minister was warned by officers of the Bank yeara
ago that its investments were unsound and that
it should be checked up.
Nothing was done at the time, seemingly;
and upon the bare assurance of the management that everything was in good ahape the
matter rn dropped. Now the depositors are
invoking the Bank Act, and declaring that as
the Government controls a large staff of bank
exaxninethis implies a dired responsibility
with regard to the soundness of the Canadian
Btmka, and therefore the Government must
make good its proteg6's losses.
.What the outcome wiU be remains to be seen.
In the meantime the aroused state of public
opinion bodes ill for the directorate if evidence
of crooked dealing is exhumed, as seems highly
probable. The fact that the Home Bank is pract i d y a Roman Catholic institution, having
been founded by a Bishop (Fallon) and supported by the Catholic institutions generally,
does not increase the public confidence.
Church union affecting the Jlethodist, Presbyterian, an% Congregational Churches con tinnes prominent in the press. Uuch bitterness is
being stirred up and factional vituperation is
much in evidence. The old adage that "when
thieves fall out honest men get their due" may
be true in this case; and no doubt as the fight
waxes more fierce, many interesting trnths mil
come to light.
Paralleling the already published statement
that immense sums of money have been wasted

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axmually by the three denominations in dupb

cation of efforts in the commuuities where three
full-time ministers are needed to do the work
that one able-bodied man could do in his spar@
time, is the growing conviction in the minds of
the people that the salaried minister ir an anachronism.
Already the Southern Saskatchewan Conference of the Mennonite Church has cut o b
its salaried ministry because "a certain aeut
is widely advertising T r e a Minister S e r v i b
[Seats Free and No Collection]"; and they
cannot compete. Some able-bodied miniatem
am now more cloaely emulating St. Pad and
working for a living whilst they preach.
Farming conditions a m as one would exped,
and 8e was predicted in the oolumna of Tgll
G t o m Aan some months ago. When the tra
mendous wheat harvest of the "golden" West
commenced to Bow eastward to the markeb, dl'
the newspapers joined in a c h o m of praise of
the "productivity of our wonderful Prairie
Provinces."
Today they are dent. The crop was big
enough, but in many parts of the West the
farmers cannot get enough money for the wheat
to pay haulage to the railroad. There ia agaip
a despondency, a d e n hstred of conditiozu
that make a year's labor of no avail.
Your correspondent hopes in his next report
to give with some detail a report of the government action against the Alberta district farmers
under the Tau Act. It should be interesting
reading whilst Canada is ao "prosperous."
One flourishing business, however, which
seems to gain momentum with every passing
month is the bootleg t r d c to the U. S. A. The
Belleville (Ontario) rum fleet still busily ship
its spiritons cargoes to Cuba and Mexico in
twenty-ton launches, retuning in txenty-four
hours for another load There is mncli
just now in fear of a freeze-up of Lake Ontario.
An examination of the Mexico shipping record6
should be interesting, n-ith all the names of Canadian lake craft that must appear thereon I
Labor conditions are deplorable. The Toronto
Telegram reports that twenty-fi~e thonsmd
Canadians are crossing the knerican hclul~tiury
line each week because of the slackness of business in Canada. Many of them are discouraged
farmers. Jiany are unemployed artisan&

11!8

to settle the distracted nations and thw

peace in Europe.
J n e n elected, the Conservatives got a much
greater proportion of seats in Parliament than
votes in the country; for they polled only about
seventy-five percent of votes. in the constitnertcies. Their opponents are divided; and the only
hope the Conservatives have at this time is that,
the same conditions prevailing, they +?sped
do aa well or better than before and to-ham
freedom to go their own way.
To Canad.
h the meantime the government of Britain
1919
st,7oa
has little weight in the counsels of the Euro1920
117,336
pean politicians-which may be all the better
1921 -148,477
127317
for everybody; but Europe is going from bad
19-!2
89.999
4G.810
to worse. ~t home unemplopent is tbe giant
1923
:2,887
117,011
stalking throughsthe land, and it is this that haa
Total 486,401
383,945
precipitated the Prime Afinisteis action. Thd
politicians are divided; at the b e e they do not
This gives the total immignrtion from all know what to do to amend the weahem of tbm
countries for these pears, and the emigration to c w t r y ' s industrial situation.
the United States only. There was also a large
Some apparhtly genuinely believe I b t driloss to England, South africa, Australia, and ties levied on all imports will serve to keep
- other countries. Seemingly there is something goods out of the country and so provide mrt
radically wrong with Canada'# immigration at home by safeguarding the homo msni&~~tnrer trom foreign competition, thought it ia
. poliopI
also expected that the duties which d
l be 1I b p o t t h m EngZand
ied (on the goods which am to be kept d l )
will help to pay the taxation of the country and
BITst the present
is in the
its b d e m ; a h the shippin8 ~ 0 of the =citemePt
almys accompm
their s h i p aith
its a generalelection. ~h~ hime Minister, M ~ .tries hope to continue to
the goods a d to satisfy their shareholders d t h
$tanley Baldwin, knom to hericaas
Prohe wsa Britain's fi-cia1 emissary, dgsolved the carrying profits on the goods which
of the corn-Parliament in order that he codd go to the tectionist hopes to
country for authority to introduce measures for m c h e v e r party is in the ascendancy the OPPoprotection; this h a - Mr. Bonar Law, whose sition a always point to fail-;
and in any
p h he took, had promised that the present w e the public are the &ere= at the han& of
government wonid &e no attempt to intro- those who hold the r e b , power and money.
The profiteer is still abroad in the land, not
d m such legislation.
Mr. Baldwin and his supporters say that this only the one who openly takes advantage of a
was a most honorable proceeding on his part, fellow citizen in his need, but the ordinary cornwhereas the Liberal leaders say that he has mercial profiteer. A short time ago it waa
prostituted the privileges of his office and pointed out that two Yorkshire firms, in the
thrown the coantry into confusion in order to wool trade, revealed by their figures that each ,
get a party advantage. For, say they, the coun- had made an average of f140 ($700)profit per
try has already many times expressed itself on year per employ6. Perhaps there is no more
this question; and the late government was ex- shameful fleecing of the public than in soma
pected to proceed with the legislation for the departments of the wool trade. One buys some
amendment of the country's affairs, without underclothing which is said to be good or beat
touching the principles upon which i t lives, and value in woolen wear, only to &Id that when
to try to bring about such relationships with the storekeeper sold the goods the
the country'r European neighbors aa would helg was also "sold"
Many are immigranfs who see a brighter
prospect for steady employment south of the
line, and thas hold up to ridicule both the Canadim Immigration activities in their attempt to
get settlers, and the h e r i c a n law which tries
to restrict their entry.
During the "prospemns" years that followed
the war =hi& made Canada safe for democracy, the Government statistics of immigration
and emigration are as follows:
577782

WWEN AGE
The general condition of the country shows
up as usual. The-people are very patient under
the heavy burdens which they must bear. The
richer people are feeling the pinch of things;
I~utthings do not pinch so hard when a person
has only some thousands of pounds less in income. Lord Derby of Enowsley, near Liverpool, the present representative of the wellestablished family of the Stanleys, said the
other day that he waa approaching the point
where he might have to consider the giving up
of his ancestral home. But worry with scores
of thousands of .pounds a year income can
h d p be the same as when there is worry aa
to bow many loaves can be bought with the
wage of the home provider.
The lab Lord Chancellor has been shocking
the country by his outspoken paganism. He
will not tolerate the idea that there can be a
h e when war will be no more, and he laughs
to scorn those who carry such an idea He will

have nothing to do with any notion of such a

lesgne of nations as a t present exists, and expects to see things go on 8s always. If he limo
a little longer he will see something which d
l
shake his paganism. In any case Isaiah is to be
believed rather than the Earl of Birkenhead.
There is little doing amongst the chnrcher.
A great meeting is called for the Royal Albert
hall by some earnest Christians, when they are
going to declare their faith in the Bible as the
Word of God. There are many who deplore the
falling away from the faith of their fathers.
To our regret we have to say that these apparfrom
ently sincere persons refuse to be rela@
the bondage which their creeds have bound
around them, and decline to have the plan of
God set before them. We have no doubt that
soon they will see that faith in the Bible as the
Word of Gtod is not enough; and that none can
continue to hold faith who does not understand
the Bible, which, admittedly, they do not..

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'

Here and There Throughout the World

NEMPLQYUENT in England is increw

ing, and ia dresdy in the dreadfpl condition that seven millan workers and their dependenb are forced to apply for public relief.
In some of the cities there are skilled workers
who have not done a stroke of work in three
Y-

These men are quiet, bat are broken in spirit;

and their d u e as workers is diminishing. They
are showing plainly the signs of hunger in their
faces, They are clamoring for work, preferring
to work at anything rather than to be idle, even
though they may be paid something for it.
!J!he British ~ o v e r h n e n tis putting out hm
million pounds sterling per week for the maintenance of the unemployed, and an equal amount
is k i n g contributed by the local Poor Law
authorities. The Labor Party sees no solution
of the problem which Britain faces except the
immediate cancellation of all war debts, including
- Britain's debt ta the United States.
~leretoforeBritain has done an enormous
business with all other European countries;
but Europe can no longer buy, and the British
dominions cannot take care of the surplus goods
which British mills can produce. The British
outlook is dark indeed.

A joint meeting of represeptatives of dl the

principai churches of England has juat W :.
held in London, at which resolutions wen pBllbbd .*
calling upon the Government to "institub a
searching inquiry into the fundamental causeu
of the pe'rsistent unemployment which hau
napped the life of the people for so many
years,-th
a view to large and radical meaaures being speedily taken to deal with the e a r n
One of the biahops of the Chnrch of England
present said that the clergy were at this conference "to give voice to a profoundly uneasy ma- .
science." We can see why, as n result of their
always championing the cause of war whenever
the opportunity arises, they should have &at ,that ldnd of conscience.
Where unemployment is so widespread, them
is a natural tendency for wages to go down.
The condition of cinema workera in Lorlclon hm
just come to light, showing that one of them
men, u-orlring from nine in the morning anti1
ten-thirty at night every day in the week, re
ceives as compensation only two pou~ldssterling
per week, barely enough for a single man to
exist upon Another operator, showing pictures
for seven and one-half llours daily, received
only oae pound three shillings per week

* GOLDEN
- D o k to Babyloniaru
BI~MSHlabar men, confronted with their
own miseries, are giving some attention to
doles fiat am passed out to others. Killions
of dollars are paid out every year to persons
whoee only claim to the money is that for some
reason or other they are "distinguishedn
is on the same general level with the
payment of $20,000 a year to Chauncey M.
Depew out of the funds of one of the great life
On the witness stand
Chauncey seemed unable to fhd any reason why
he should get those $20,000 except for his "genera1 standing" in the community.
The labor people just now are pointing out
that while he lived, Lord Nelson received his
pay ss a naval oficer, p+ $15,000 p*e money
for the Battle of the Nile alone, plus $15,000 a
p#u from the King of Naples, plus a gift of
,$W7000 from the E a t India Company, and reoeived a pension during the latter part of hi.
life of $20,000 per year from the Britiah Gova m m n t ; 8nd'"that since his death, up to 1913,
birr &tims, m d e f t h m atirely &own to
the public, have d e d d an additional $2,500,all because they happened to be Nelsona
. i 000,
This
m i w d l e poliq of m m g d b
t i n w e d men and f d e a long after the work
for which they nere duly paid at the time haa
been W e d , antinuea to be a Britieh policy.
me j u d i w are paid amply while in office,
r and paid after they are out of o
b The same
k true of the p r s and of royal* in general.
In the face^ of sach conditions, an socount of
a roJa wedding, such as that of the Crown
of Sweden to one of the Britiah royalty,
recently celebrated in London ia nonsanse.
The newspaper stories givb ua our a of
infosnation about "magdlcbnt gold plate,"
.mmarlet and blue uniforms adorned with deoorations and gold lam,'' "gorgaoas coped' of
the Bishop of London and the hchbishop of
Canterbury, the "crimson and lam cootarneb' of
the choir, etc.; and wzmay add that it does not
take long to give us Oar
either. A little of
it goes a long way. Britain is pa*g well for a
lot of tomfoolery it could do without.

..

AGE

had a parade of its fleet off Spithead, E n & d '

Of the eighty-two vessels in the armada not 8
single ship was mmmiasioned in 1914. The
nPmh'
battleahips
now bat
where- in 1914 the*
fifb-fi-The battleship
had
day, and it
an
Hood, En+dJs
greaht
expensive day*
battleship, carries eight flfteext-inah I MI, .f 8
speed of *rtysne knob an hour. !Rte
bat e i ~ b
airship carrier7 hak no
smoke from behind, like an automobile.
Reports trrrm India are that for the fir& tisue
in years it is expected that the 1923 budget d
l
be balanced. The Indian Premier uay~,in wc
planation of the meana by which this M
result was accomplished:

&a-

UT-~~OU [of ~IMPOOI m d ~ hu

] IIOWA inarsud
to m extent which a few yeam ago naPld not barn been
thought possibla N
for five ~ e uin
r ammu=
don
to b a h m
UThe qp-

**

Mcih indeed in thmflrs

riknth
'O
-**
Both the premiers of I n d . d South bMa
&P

~ m f e m to
a d from *a
want a
.
the E m p h m In other m*
tection iartead of free trade; and it mema
that no^ n d t y will virtul i u to
~
W f o r c ~consent to their
H o w ,
there a g d body of p a 0piIli6n in England that will d w a be
~ for free trade and
ag-t
protection in anp form.

*-

1 ~ - A-

J
"
mrin*
it. nputatipn for
always in tmnbla. Tho Irish &p&lio
now mostly in jail, prisoners of the Irish Free
State, and ia engaged in a hunger strike to
bring about either liberty or death. At brt
account five hundred of the Mteetn thoprisoners were still on strike, with s e w of
them in a dangerous condition
h[elbome has been having a police
with results somewhat
thorn which
panisd Bostonlr a i m k strike some yeRowdies took advano f . the s i M O P to
overtarn cars, smash windows, and rob doPart of the foro, stapd on f i e job, a d tb.
htertaining the h m i m
phcsr of tha s e e m were t a m p o d 7 ilIbd b~
OR the entertainment of the Pr&n d Ipcd.L mutables who aidd in restoring or&.
Canada, South A h h , In*
Australia, The etrike waa due to the refusal of the polia
and New Zealand the British Navy haa just commissioners to dismiss a p a t r o b for h t

IB-ND

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m. GOLDEN AGE
'the commissioners regarded as inadequate reasons.
The Jamaican Government has been inmatigating the question of how to best develop the
island's transportation facilities. The expert
appointed to the job, in hie report to the Duke
of Devonahire, advised against State ownership
or controL
It is a safe bet that th'b Duke hrm a good personal hsncial reason why the railways should
be left in his hands, if they are there now. We
have no knowledge on the subject, bat can guess.
Qenemlly, in h e r i c a , when we h d experts
telling hanciera that a certain enterprise ought
not to be undertaken by the public, we know in
advance why the report was framed that way.
!l%hkwhat a crime against the financiers it
would be if some of the really good and pro&
table thinga of this world should actually get
into the hands of the common people. In a little
while they wodd want something more; and
after a while the people wodd want to run all
their own businesses ; and what a terrible thing
that would be, wouldn't it?

p&kdtmentinEgypt
GYPT has had tbe excitement of an-eltion. Adley Bey, British candidate for the
premiership, according to the London Daily
Herald, received three votes. The Herald saps
that he was so sure of election that he neglected
to go to the polls himself; otherwise he might
have had four votes. Some of the ministera
received no votes at all, not a single one. This
wodd seem .to indicate that if the Egyptians
do not know what they want they at least know
what they do not want.
Ninety percent of the inhabitants of Egypt
are engaged in agricnlture; but the same conditions are developing there aa elsemhere over
the earth. The land is getting into the hands of
the few, with a consequence of strikes and other
labor troubles, which before the World War
were never heard of. There has also been a
rapid rise in the cost of living.
The Valley of Kings, within which lie the now
fi~moasremains of King Tut-ankh-Amen, has
been connected with the outside world by long
distance telephone. The use of the telephone is
spreading greatly. England notices a rapid increase in the number of instruments in use
since the war.

.L.

South America, C u k and A h

OUTH America is a world all by itself, with
its own problems. The Soath American cotinent sets a pretty good example of aani* ar
compared with the rest of the world, bat of lak
is growing somewhat restless. The three gnab
est countries of South America, Argentin+
' : r d and Chile (cometimes called the ABC
countries), determine South Amerioan d e a t i k
None of the other Sonth American countria8
would be able to contend seriously with any one
of these, bat it becomes a different matter when
they face each other. hrgentine haa been expanding its military adminiatration, most unwisely, we think. This haa made Chile d o - ;
and now, although Chile is peaceably disposed,
the probabilities are that it will follow bgeak
tine's bad example.
The present Chilean government is a t ened and progressive. It is organizing coiipes
ative workingmen's banks in the industrial centers, with a view to the social beperment and
uplift of the worken. That is the kind of work
in which a government &add be engaged,
rather than inthe evil work o?mdtiplying armr
with which to force its will upon others.
Cuba would like to ba progressiw, but ir
handicapped. h the interests of emnomty md
efEciency the Cuban legislature p
d a bilZ
consolidating the railroads of the
an
eminently sensible thing to do; but they did not
reckon with the faat that some of the Cuban
railroads belong to h e r i c a n hanciers. At
present the h c i e r s have blocked the way 02
the Cubans by throwing their great power into
an effort to have our State Department take 8
hand in the matter.
In the midst of the general Asistie meled
China has developed a real statesman in the
person of General Yen Hsi-ehan, governor of
the province of Shansi In the eleven years
during which he has been administering the
province he has reduced the soldiem from
50,000 to 20,000, has pat a complete end to banditry and the opium traEc, has built modern
roads. has begun reforestation on a large scale,
and has introduced sheep suitable to the climate.
Early in Kovember, Japan was the scene of
one of the greatest ovations ever given any person on the other side of the world. I t was 8
spontaneous expression on the part of all Japan
in honor of the American Ambassador, aa he

I
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'

GOLDEN A.GE
left for a visit home, following the relief work
in which America played the principal part.
The ship on which he sailed was converted into
a huge conservatory of flowers which came from
$1parts of Japan. This expression of gratitude
is encouraging from every point of view. It
shows +hat, whatever may have been the case
in the past, the Japanese people at this time are
genuinely friendly to the American people.
Newspaper reports show that in Japan, when
- conditions were at the worst, people committed
suicide in pref erenca to facing starvation.

EFos P I of Peace

a symposium in the New York WorId

'president
8'BOM
we c d some items under this head. The
of Pale University says that the preb
ent situation is most disheartening. He sees in
European affairs increased evidences of jealousy, fear, hatred, suspicion, greed, and the disposition of the strong to b d y the weak.
The president of Princeton uni$ersity doer,
not see that the nations are any closer together
than five years ago, or that there is any sign of
their coming closer together. He thinka tlfe best
: thing for the United States to do ia to join the
League of Nations. In our opinion President
Hibben is barking up the wrong tree. President
Hibben is a D. D, and engaged in the work of
making other D. IYa
Bobert E. Speer, president of &e Federal
Council of Churches, says that there ia a d e e p
ening conviction that aaU the people want peace,
that the whole trouble is in bad leaders, that the
mass of the people are convinced that they have
been misused to their own destruction, and that
they are not in the mood to be thua misused
much longer.
Dr. W i a m T. Ellis, the magazine writer,
'bays that "most of the penetrating Old World
observers with whom I have talked (in an eight
months' trip to the Near East) have reached
the conclusion that unless there is a general
return to an obsemance of the principles of
Christianity there is no hope for cidization."
During tlie lifetime of Pastor Russell, William T. Ellis devoted his talents to ridiculing
the efforts of that godly man to estahlisli true
Christianity in the earth. The Presbyterian
Church, of which Dr. Ellis is a spokesman,
served faithfully as a slave at the beck and call
, of the war god in 1917 and 1918.

Having done what he conld to destroy true

Christianity in the earth, and to uphold false
Christianity, it strikes us as interesting at thh
juncture to have him say that unless mankind
comes to an observance of true Christianity
there is no hope for civilization. If civilizatio~
perishes, William T. Ellis will be as largely
responaible for it as any man we know.
Oscar S. Straus, former ambassador to Turkey, says that the world conditions mnce the
armistice have been ruinoua alike to both the
victor and the vanquished, and that the reason
for the unparalleled disastrous r e d ia becam
the peace terms were forged in revenge and not
in justice.
Senator Eorah of Idaho thinkn that up to the
time of the armistice the Uies were carrying
on war against governments; and that ainm
that time they have been carrying on war
against men, women and children who wen not
responsible for the war, and who are being punished in peace as no human beings were ever
punished before. The situation in Germany con&ma thia Every effort is being made to dsatroy the German population.

firopedm
the novelist, aaya of Eruop
that it has no statesman, but a saccession oL
gamb1ers; and that the people of Eumpe are
like passengers in a train driven by a mad
engineer. He is of t&e opinion that the men m
power all over Europe have forgotten mu&
and learned nothing; and that if the press had
opinionr ef
w ZLx-

not aided the politicians it wodd not have been

possible to engulf the whole world in a whirlpool of hatred and faleehood.
Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the scientist and explorer, declares that in his opinion Europe, five
years after the armistice, is in a worse condition than it was in 1918 at the end of the war;
and that the present crisis is greater than any
that arose during the war itself.
Cardinal Uercier saps that the rulers of
Europe are filled with distrust, and that there
is a n s i e e everywhere. The cttrclinnl is right;
and the reason for this distressing situation ir
that Europe has drunk too long and too deeply
of Roman Catholic doctrines. It is Babylon's
mised wine that bas uade Europe a d o a r e .
The Cardinal should chuck up his j o b

GOLDEN AGE
Lloyd George, at the conclusion of his recent
tour of America, made the statement that unless
America joins with England to settle the present European unrest, "civilization is doomed
within this generation to a catastrophe such as
the world has never seen." He wants a pol&
man with a long pocketbook.
The President of Czecho-Slovakia says that
the first requirement of Europe is authority.
This L our opinion exactly; and in our judgment this authoriw can come 'from but one
place. It can certainly never come from any
earthly source; all such sources have been disaredited long ago.
Francesco Nitti, ex-Premier of Italy, says
that Europe is now in a far worse condition
thsn at the close of the war, that all solemn
pledg~made during the war have been violated, that conquered nations have been disarmed, that France and her dependent states
have doubled their armaments, and that every
effort L being made to d o c a t e Germany and
to destroy her economically. He anticipates
that Germany wiU be broken up, and that her
dissolution will bring irreparable disaster to

lars, of the amounts that the United States

Government has advanced to various European
countries. The Liberty Bonds to provide them
funds were sold to the citizens of America up
to their full capacity to buy:
=warp
Latvia

1
2,000,000

Finland
Armenia
Greece

6,0001000
6,000.000
9,000,OOO
14,6oo,OOo
16,000,000

Boumania

16,OOO,~
U,OOO,OOO

Austria

46,000,OOO

Lithuania

Esthoni~
Jugo-Slavia

Czecho-Slovakis
Poland
Russia
Belgium

I ~ Y
France
Britain

58,000,000
104,000,000
163,000,000
e28,000,000
429,000,M)O
1,892,000,000
3,771,000,000

4,747,000,000
$11,~7~004000

This is $100 for every man, woman and child

in the United States: it is almost $4.000.00 for eviry county in the 'Ijnited statem. Thinjc of the '
rlncriea Ear Alreadu Paid
good roads and schools that could be built with
Sm
Premier of
uricq
such a vast sam. It would build homea for one-78 of & ~ m of
b v e m - a h i d --nth
of
people of &e mmtq.
brought about present conditions in Eruope:
~ ~ i l i ~ f o a r h r t m & ~ . t ~ UEbrdr
L f oLaPorn America In,
tln #ttlancIt con^ in the p c l ~ dtreaty, d g h r
UROPE can never pay this smn in money;
h d y an my comakm in rpib of the hat that I
if she sent as all the gold she has it would
aigned it only under protcllt, and under a mnm of
iombodhgofiatarscdunitimrhicbha~~comsonlypay only the interest on the debt for two yeam;
too he."
she cannot pay in goods, becaum b e r i a canHe sees the emno& and industrial structure not afford to let the goods come in and thua
of Europe cracking in all directions, anable to destroy her own market.
best the weight of the vast hordes of bla&
At present Europe cannot make enough to
b p s that have been poured into* Europe by live on, and is borrowing heavily to pay living
France in her effort to maintain her supremacy expenses. She haa cut'down imports until the
force rather than by reason
h e r i c a n farmer has lost hiq marketa and is
General Smuts, like most European states in despair. Experience showa that it is not long
men, sees hope only if America reenters Euro- after the farmer is in despair.before the manupean affairs. But Uncle Sam is chary of acting facturer is in despair, too; for the farmer ir
as Britain's paymaster and sheriff; and most his best customer.
The Federal Council of Churches, that everbslericans see little else to be gained by America's undertaking greater participation in the lasting messer in things that are none of ita
concern, is putting the screws on President
troubles overseas.
But Europeans have no right to feel that Coolidge, endeavoring to force him, if not into
dmerica has shown no interest in their troubles. the front door of the League of Natiom, at
The following is a statement,in xnilliona of dol- least into the back door, tha Werld Court

Franca

'

The Council is becoming more and more polit-

in its aim and methods. Through its efforts

W e e n million persons h_ounded President
Harding, letters and petitions, preceding the
Vashington Arms Conference. Do we all remember how Jesus and the apostles got after
the Roman emperors, telling them how to mn
their business of making the world safe for
democracy? We do not; for they did not.
The Leagt~eof Nations has completed its five
hundredth treaty, an ggreement between Denmark and Latria on the subject of trade marks
It has &staWished peace between I t d y and
Greece over the Corfu &air; i t does sccompliah some good in the world, in spite of all
the evils it condones.
It does not dare concern itself, however, about
the one great question that the whole world is
talking about; namely, the French occupation
of the Ruhr. A league that it courageous
enongl~to intervene where a lesser government
in the transgressor, h t dares ssp nothing where
the groat& military power of all time is the
agpessor, is not the kind of supergovernment
that the world needs. Christs kingdom done
be able to ded with F'hnce.

unemployment in England, has added to the number af

children in central Europe dead or dying of dow s-&
tion, haa multiplied the number of thocrc ahom %.
Coolidge believes must be fed by the charity af tb,
American -yer,
has made mom remote the papat
of the Allied debt to ua, and has hurt hmmmmbl~
the American farmer and manuf~cfxrer."

But conference or no conference France is

inevitably nearing the end of her courae of f o m
and selfishness. There haa been no anemplop
ment there yet, but there soon will be; for the
wbrk of reconstruction, now about two-thirds
completed, wiil be stopped hp lzct of funds.
France has advanced e&ty billion francs to
the people in the mar-devastated areas, and has
set this huge sum aside in rr special bgdget
charged to Germany. If she drives Germany
to dissolution and destruction, as she seema
determined to do, Germany nin newr pay any
of this; and the result will be what all leading
economists see ahead for -are
ba&mptCY.
France, however, is largely an agridtud
nation, and with e i g h t y - h percent of the fanma
owned by the people living upon them, csn .manage to get abng sfter. a fashion, even if the
franc does go the way of the mark But ahe
Pottcmr the Impm'bh
will have to s t o r 3U industrial progress, aad ,
Y THIS time all readers of THE (30mm even military erpenae, if the fraw antiaum
Ben are aware that the United States' pro- to depreciate.
p o d s to France and other countries that an
&
nnbiarPed inquiry be made into Gemanfs abil- Aancd Outkaiming the K
ity to pay the reparations indempitiea have
T PRESLVT the French military &hino
fallen to the ground.
ia worse than the anaan &e
na
- Ta. French Premier, altho& understanding mas, even in the palmiest day3 of the Kaim.
distinctly that these experts would be acting France has a million men under snns, aad &re
wholIy in an adviaory capacity, made such r e airplanes to England8a one. True demoenof
strictions respecting the inquiry that it was not shudders at this new form of ruthless force.
foand feasible to go on with them.
For permitting, in the town of Leveqm, .n
Senator McCormick voices the general opin- inscription stating that the World War waa a
ion of Premier Poincad in America in the fol- war to end war, the French Government has
lowing statement :
ordered fAe mayor to stand trial for non-observ"The contrmptuouh condescension with which U. ance of a ministerial order. This shows that
Poincard conditions his acceptance of the prop& cen- the present French ministry never had any eacb
ference rhows that he has not learned anything, or, if he TTlIronian idea. The farther we go in chasing
has, that he will not confess it. IIe originally proposed Ur.nllson's rainbow phrases the more fatigued
md pmmi.d the impassible to his own people, and sa
overthrew m d succeeded in oEce a man of p e a t ability, we get.
There is a pronounced antagonism in Fraaco
rho had won from England a guarantea of French
against
America. In September a young, man
murity which Af. Poincrrrb promptly repudiatad. M.
Poincm6's policy has reducd the total of German repa- who stole S0.000 from the American Express
ntions recoverable by Frmce, hnu adrlrct enormously to Company, and ~vhoadmitted that he had spent
tho French national debt, h;ls prolong4 and incmacct it in furnishing an apartment for an anmarried

-F

Parisienne, was acquitted by a jury after only

five n~inutesdeliberation. The p n n d of the
acquittal was that the h e r i c a n concern mas
American, that it mas rich, and that it had made
millions through exchange speculations in the
franc. On any such basin a crime becomes a joke.

Doctor Hill& in the Ruhr

HE Reverend Dr. Newell Dwight H i s , of

wondixr that these "barbarous Huns," as the

Germans were called during the nTnr,did not
want to exchange their civilization for on= I
Maybe the 'Buns" waated to show us how to
live !

S t m h g in a P a k e
B U T 'it is possible to starve in a palace, and

that is what is happening in Germany.

Newspaper despatches show that a census of
school children in Berlin, taken without warning by social welfare workers, revealed the fact
that thousands of school children come to d o 0 1
in the morning \vithont b r e a a s t , and that
many of them collapse in the class rooma because they have had no food.
Moreover, these same children are without
adequate clothing, and some of them have neither shoes nor stockhp. In some placer im
Gennany the old foks have committed soicide,
with
the avowed object of saving the food suprJlcl. You can fiod tenr of thousands of rotting old
plies
for the younger and more vigorous, so
nrokeriea in the cotton citiea of central England, and
that
something
might be saved out of the wreck.
*able
sluch in the coal, iron and steel tomu of the
United St&#. But p a shall not flnd one single aach
Dr. Nansen, the Norwegian explorer and diprtramPrs in tho en&
Buhr d e y - - n o t one1 OM day, lomat, states that in one German town which ha
pucing tbmngh the outskirt8 of Essen, I noticed at r visited the people of the town had invaded the
dirt.noa what looked like a splendid villa, aingdady
l i l s s o n e o f ~ ~ h o u m e o n r r c e r t a i n e s t a t # i nm o u n d i n g farms and dug up the potato crop
ffraenwich, Conn. Driring up r little later to the fmnt at night. The police arrested three handred of
oi thin borne, to my rmwmmt I f o d it au m these marauders in a single night, bat the numrputmant bdtiling. The central portion au three bers finally became so great that they n r e
doria Q h , the two rings at either end were two forced to abandon the attempt to presam
dries. The building contained fourteen apartment& order.
In tha reu were manf little gardens. Knowing that
In terms of American money a msir &er
the turnovef, through discontent on the part of the gets $5 a month, a railway engineer $7, and a
workingmen, WM about six montha in certain factories railway superintendent $27. These men muat
in Detroit and Pittsburgh, hipig showed that tha pay $1 a pound for meat and twenty cents a
workers in thin particular plant remained for life, and
that practically t h w m no turnover. The Gennrn loaf for bread, with eveq-thing else. in proporamployern have been v e q wine. The apartment for tha tion.
One hundred thousand Czecho-Slovakians
family war full of air and sunshine, had dl the conranisrrccr of sanitation, opened out upon a little garden, living in Germally have begged their own govin which the workingman's wiie and children had their ernment to take them home because they haw
vegetables, their dowers, a few carrant bushes and goow found the conditions under which they mwt live
berry, raspberry and blackbow rineq r few c h r y treer, in Qennany are intolerable. The United States
contemplates a gift of 50,000,000 bashela ot
During the war to end war, and to make the wheat to Germany.
Many families are unable to buy even h o
world safe for democracy, Dr. Hillis was one of
the chief rooters for war; and as we understood loavcs of bread as their supply for an entire
his program at that time one of the principal week. I n one instance five hundred desperate
things for which he was contending mas the men rashed the bread wagons in a factory dim=
release of the Gennan people from the above trict. Sleeping cars are attached to fd&t
anditions. Xf what he sap is true it is w t t r a i n 8 , t o i I a v e ~

Brooldyn, who won undying fame during

the V o r l b \Far by his "sennous" of hate for
the Qennans, ib back from a visit to the Ruhr
vailey, where for eight months, he sap, the
German Government paid the workers to remain
idle, so as to try to force better terms from the
French. He describes the Qerman civilization
entertainingly, and contrasts it with Britain and
America In trying to prove that the Germans
oan well afford to pay reparations in f d he said :
~.plermmthaassr am not pemitted in tha Ruhr

GOLDEN AGE

Gbmcury II in Chass

TRE

fuel situation is so desperate that college

trained men and highly educated and intelligent women are going out of Berlin in the
fourth class railway carriages and returning
with tightly packed loads of wood that represent the uttermost limits of their strength to
carry to and from the cam.
They carry as much as possible on each trip
. because they cannot afford 10make more than
the fewe$t possible number of trips. In Berlin
itself children crawl around the city parks with
w k s , gathering every fallen twig or l e d or bit
of bark that can be used for hel
Politically Germany is in chaos, aa it is haneidy. The people have lost confidence in the
Reichstag and are unable to agree on any plan;
indeed, the demands of France are such that is
ia impossible to have a p h One cabinet after
another goes down, and one uprising after another ocoars. The central government continues
to function, after a fashion, hoping against hope
to ffnd a way out of the impass&
There has been some mild excitement became
the Crown Prince wished to return from his
-) e d e in Holland, to rejoin his family in Silesia
Holland has no law which codd prevent his
return to Germany; and Germany is milling
that he should return, aa ts private citizen. It
is doubtful whether any Hohenzollern codd
regain the throne of Germany, and there would
be little to fear from any aotivitiea of the
Crovin Prince.
In Bavaria, which has been under the rule of
!
a dictator, there has been an outbreak of antiSemitism. Dr. w n Kahr, the dictator, ordered
the expulsion of three hundred Jews who had
not established the right of domicile. They were
.deported to Vienna, and all their property waa
- ~onfiscated.Their houses were turned over to
German refugees driven penniless from the
Euhr by the French military machme. Bavaria
is the Roman Catholic stronghold of what was
once the German empire.

Austria, Czccho-Sfooakia, Holland

HE recovery of Austria, as a resnIt of the

loan arranged a pear ago, is said to be

remarkable. Unemployment is now only half
what it was at the beginning of last year, and
deposits in savings banks have grown to three
times what they were.

Vienna claims to have regained control of all

her old markets and to have regained her position as the financial center of the neighboring
states. For many of these she now does the
whole money exchknge business. A few year8
ago nenna's condition seemed hopelea.
The "Christian Socialists" are in control of
the Austrian Government. This ia s
Catholic movement, and has the great pow=
of the Church back of it. No doubt the Papacy ,
has made it its special business to &ow that
where it is given a free hand it can bring ordm
out of chaos. It might be able to do it in 8
strictly Boman Catholic country like Am*
but to do it in a Protestsnt country like &rmany is quite another matter.
Between Germany and Austria lies the new
country of Czecho-Slovakia, of which Prague is
the capital. This is the ancient Bohemia, made
illustr;iaus by the reformer John Hma C d o Slovakia has been trying .woman d r a g e for
three years and is well p l e d with the m d t .
The women have alected about fioe percent of
the members of both the House and the Sonate,
and have definitdy i n f l u e n d the making of
for thr
new lam which are working out
intereats of the country aa a whole.
These laws have to do with the organization
of women's technical, industrial and domeatia
schools, and the establishment of child welfare
centers in each city. The women have also rendered valuable assistance regarding food abortage problems.
In the midst of European confusion it is refreshing to find the' government of Holland
showing a cool head under circnmstancea when
an opposite course would have been excusable.
Britain's great new $55,000,000 naval base at
Singapore lies just in the northern center of
Holland's choicest possessions-the
East Indies, Java Sumatra, Celebes, etc., from which
are imported rice, coffee, sugar, indigo, pepper,
dyestuffs, pearls, and other valuable articles.
Some HolIanders began to feel alarm, and
urged that Holland should also build a v t
naval base somewhere in the vicinity. Wiaer
counsels prevailrd : and out of 6,700,000persona
in Holland 2.U00.000 signed a petition urging
the Government not to andertalie such a work
of folly ; and the scare passed. For this act of
sanity Holland deserves the thanks of all good
men and women everywhere.

GOLDEN AGE

n o w anathema &pinut an& moremcnb. The church

Item8 Re8pecfing R w h
cannot
atop new movements, but must join them. \Vh&
N RUSSIA the farmers are reported as
we
pray
for in America is that the Lord w i l l giva WB
taking a great interest in the best of modern

farm machinery. For generations they have

been accustomed to common pastures and a
common herdsman ;and now they are planning,
each village by itself, to have a common wheat
f i e worked by the latest and best methods.
They are handicapped by lack of money and
d
t
,
but advantaged by the fact that the tax
amounts to not more than one-tenth of the crop.
The Government is the only landlord, and buys
all the produce.
a
The coiiperative societies of Russia have just
celebrated the twentyath anniversary of the
formation of their central organization. Americans can hardly comprehend the magnitude of
Buasian coiiperation, but can form some idea of
it when told that America has aeventy-seven
thousand post-ofbs and Busaia'haa one hmdred thousand coiiperative centres According
to their own statement:

ministry that will accept and join new movcmcntr

~ltusaia-ia paasing through a p a t social uld economlo
-eat.
For the first time in human history
great nation t dedicating itself to do good for the.
maaea of hnm.nity, and is striving to attain me"(
God-given for maxi It M a giganti0 tuk, and such &
gigantic tark t unattainrbkwithout tha help of Ood. I cannot ees how ths chiuch can stand add&"

I t may be all right for Methodists to talk that

way when they are in Russia; perhaps Methe
dists might even dare to talk that way in h r ica, for they stand 'very cloee to the Govern
ment; but we would not feel so loecnre about
other religionists that would try it, espeuhllx
if of foreign birth.

I~Strricrmanricip
ONTRBSTINQ 'the spirit which animates
Europe now with the spirit which prevailed
throughout the world only ten o r twenty y.ears
' m a al6pentha M pndy econoda bodiw uld ago, F r a n c e m Nitti, Premier of Italy, at the
hn no firtggt in politics. They made cadchable time of the signing of the Treaty of V e d e a
~ d n r i n g t b s r 6 g i m e o f t h e C n r , d a p i b m m y and one of the world's greatest statesmen, sap
Wkultig; amhad the World Wu, withshd tbr in the Los Angeles Earnher:

i'
r r a r a ~ p u u m d b y t h e m o l u t i o n , w i t b i t s ~ T h e Unitad Statea of dmericr dsferbd S p h
aquent imn blockade, and through it dl emerged mom tbo exception of mering Cuba md the PMUppbo
t L n & ~ S p j l l , a h e i m ~ n
f h l y e n ~ c b e than
d
eYer bdol8."
,
The railroads of Bnssia at this time am t b M q a i r b e d f o s J a p m d e f m t e d ~Hertermr
m
y
rrrsonsble
uld
h
o
d
Great
Britain
carrying about one-third the goods and passen- ddeatedthsBoarr S h o i n d u l g d i n n o . c t r d ~
gers carried before the war. The rolling stock d granted them a liberal conrtitutio~. But th trsrticr
is in bad shape, but ie alowly improving. The o o n c l u d e d . i t . r t l m E ~ r ~ p c u r r u ~ f d e d a o r r p i r u

railroads have asked of the Soviet Government

the privilege of charging one-half the prewar
rates. In Bmerica the railroads took advantage
of the war situation to charge about twice the
prewar rates. Russian mines are now produoing thirty-four percent of the coal produced
before the war, and the oil fields are producing
iifty percent of prewar. The Rmaian army is
now 600,000 in size.
In marked contrast to the attitude of the
dmerican Government, Edgar Blalie of Chicago, appointed by the Baltimore conference
as bishop of the American Uethoclist Episcopal
Church of southern Europe, in addressing thc
all-Eussian church conclave at Voscow is reported to have said :

uldfrrPd,~diqpaJtoh~tr.
nonr,ofthcpromiwrtheyhulmdeintheboarai
&nger; they forgot all principles of UerQ 8nd of lali&ambation which they had d d y pm&imdm
Mr. Nitti admita that all the Allies, including
Italy, lied about Wrm~ncruelties. He trace8

the causes of the World War, showing that

France, Russia, and Italy were each partly to
blame for the difficulty which sprang up betmen
Russia and Austria over the Sarajevo affair.
He cites tho prewar treaty between Russia
and Fmnce, found rrnd published by the soviet&
wherein it was agreed that when the anticipated
war 5110111d1~ over Russia was to see to it that
France s11o::ltl .get the 100% German Saar valley, and saps :

" H i s t o ~records no bargain more qnical or mom

"Revolutions and uphearah are not born of death.
They just show new life, and our hearb should be filled ehamcful. Hnli t!lat hnrrll)le trratp of rapine bccn pubwith gladness. The church is d w y s much affected by lished dur~ngt l ~ c~ a itr would have destroyed all
'
h
upheavvrl. The church should not, then, pro- pathy with F r a ~ c a "

,= SOWEN
\

AGE

as to Mr. Wilson Mr. Nitti says that the eloquenee, force, and simplicity with whic11 he expressed his i d e a r n s that the 'last great wai'
was fought for civilization, for democracy, for
the triumph of all principles of nationality and
&decision made him believed by everybody,
including Germany.

by artificially depressing prices for livestoclr

and inflating prices levied upon the consumer.
So the Federal Trade Commission set about
making an investigation. It made an honest
one; and this was something that apparently
was not expected by either .the & w e d e n t ,
the packers, or the bankers.
"But, unfortunately, President Wilaon, who ~onrinced m e n the packers found that a real honest-body
& of the truth of what & fid,
not to-goodness investigation was likely to c O ~ %
hirmdi
Hedid
act aa he
Hehd the representatives of h o a r , Swift, m d Mar. not live up to his word."
ris got together and signed a memorandam to
Bkhop
Bu*
the Methodist the
tm %e M e v e the sitnation to be
in a
at Gowad% New
~ r i o mand --end
that due considemtion
referring to his ten years' residence aa a Methohnmediatdy given to it
tb.t
.
&t Bishop in Borne, says of the papd power: b done to h d og the pmmnt rnwmnt &
"It is s t i l l true that a l l mad8 lead to Bomt. Borne,
rilt mntinlle to relieve the tension. We belie= that r it
mnthn
tb. ppihl
t.
p b of d-tiny for h p
tb. world The st-.
nothing mdd stop
pro*
pnsent pope, Piua XI,is regarded by some u tha ablest efXltion&n W e mast at le-t g i n the Pd &,mat pope that hm rtdd thr Vatiun for an- credit for having enough seme to want to keep
turia It t reported that twenty-five natiom ots rep- out of jaiL The investigation itself &Owed
merited at his caart What, is he doing to a v o ths oon- their absolute moral rottenness
m t from the rain for which the Vati~arrb k t g e l ~ & the investigation proceeded e t h its kbrn
responsible? He ia simply applying hia old d y e of it had a good wC8
to
what are
md pitting OM
rkinrt
gtaaof the big brisk mm of dmarig
1
neat of inta=m at
vaewen
a rrportnm
me danger center in the actual criria Puce and p m s
.-j pait,
me
mw a
d that m "had to meet deliberate f W e s t i o n of
rehums properly required under legal antho~c
E w p bp foroar tm us 4
,w w
ity; we had to meet schools for witneaaea whem
or r m r t e r a m
(30 to it, William1 You are hitting the nail employ& were coached in anticipation of their
on the head, not only in what you have to say being d e d to testify in an investigation o*
about the Papacy but in your general observa- dered by you [the President] and by the Contion that "if professedly Christian people had gress of the United States; we had to meet s
really been Christian before 1914 there would situation created by the destrnction of letbrs
have been no war."
and documents vital to this investigation; we
Italians are reported aa eager for Germany had to meet a conspiraw in the preparation
to be given a chance. They see nothing to be of answers to the $wfnl inquiries of the COT&
gained by Italy in a Germany that is broken a p mkion-"
into .mall states, each of which is bankrupt and
T h e n the report of the investigation d e d
unable to pay anything in the way of r e v Congress a bill was passed, embodying amendtions. I t d y m a t s her share of the reparations, menb written in the handwriting bf the lobhyand sees no comfort in Prance's determination ists for the packers, ignoring the recommendato ruin the Ckrrnan people so that nobody will tions of the Trade Commission and potting it
receive anythizg.
out of business. A few months later 3. Ogden
Amour, of h o u r and Companp, called at
Bankers and Pa-k
r em
the White House and notified President Hardi3E farther we get into this govarnment "of ing that an illegal merger of the packing mathe ban!cers, by the bankers, and for the nopolies of Amour and Morris was about to
bankers" the less rosy it looks, Take for in- occur; and it has since been put across by the .
stance the r a y the b d - e r s haw handled this bankers, Guaranty Trust Company of New
crooked packing business. The Government Ynrk, Kahn, Loeb & Company, and the J. P.
h e w , and everybody h e w , that the packers Morgan Company, all of them shining
w e n aqueezhg the life out of the stock growers of modern bance. A l l of these concerns am

GOLDEN AGE

"up to their ears" in the packing industry, and C h e r Detecttve Work

are running it on the same principle or !ack of
T IS of no avail to send a policeman or e
principle aa the railroad, sugar, lumber and
detective to arrest a big banker or packer.
other basic industries are ran.
He would run against a pile of briefs, bib,
motions, orders, injunctions, delays, petitions,
Mainfcufcu~fng
the Monarch#
exceptions, writs of error, habeas corpuses, nolle
NEWS despatch states that the United prosses, rulings, and decisions that would soon
States Steel Corporation has made a vol- make him know his place. If he started out to
untary and unsolicited gift of $100,000 to the do it he wodd be in a fair way to land in j
d
Right Reverend J. Af. Gannon, for the use of himself, and without any ceUmate to keep him
the Catholic diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania Just company. The proper work of the police is to
what we wodd expect. We have previously ex- apprehend and bring to justice the little thieves
posed in these columns the red-handed anarchy who more or less interrupt the orderly work of
which existed in Western Pennsylvania some shaking. the loose change oat of the pockets of
two or three years ago, when the workers for the people as a whole; and it must be admitted
the Steel Trust were seeking better conditions. that they are often clever at the job.
Instance after instance was cited ahowing just
Admiration has been aroused by the mark
where and when the so-called o&ials in certain
done
by tmo sleuths of the New York Police
communities set aside all lams and rights of
Department.
They suspected a certain p h to
the people in the interest of the gigantic organibe
a
Chinese
opium smoking den. The. plazation which controls Western Pennsylvania
was
searched
several times, but disclosed no'
and, with its allies, claims to control and does
opium.
At
length,
still convinced that it was an
control the United States.
opium den, the police suddenly crashed through
Here is a good sample of how the partnership a barred door into a room where they found
works. Is the Steel T m t specially interested fourteen Chinese, but no opiam.
in Catholic works of charity? Perhaps, perA careful search took place. In one rpot the
haps! But the Steel Traat is looking ahead;
and when, at any future time, it needs in West- wallpaper bulged. When tapped it gave forth
e n Pennsylvania a few more clerical "gents" a hollow sound. One of the otficers tors away
to put the screws on public officials by threat the paper, bringing to light a magnet, to whieh
ening them with the loss of the Catholia vote wan attached a piece of string. The ol3cer let
unless they do certain things, and when it needs the magnet down the chimney and up ca?ne 8
to get word to Catholics not to do certain things, package containing $5,000 worth of opium,
it knows how to get the results desired. TVe wrapped *th steel bands, to make it responsive
consider this $100,000 well spent, for the purely to the magnet The smokers stopped laughing,
commercial end in view; and no doubt the direc- and went along to jail.
tors of the Steel Trust feel the same may, or
Police officers have to do many things which
they would not have appropriated the stock- they do not enjoy. Seven boys, fourteen to sirholderd money for that purpose.
teen years of age, escaped from a Catholic insti'Tis a grand system, my masters; and just as tution near Syock, pooled their resources for
long ss the priests can control the people, and enough to pay their passage across the Hudson
keep them in ignorance, and just as long as the River, walked thirty miles across plowed fields,
Protestant clergy will faithfully follow the same swvamps and woods and finally landed, late at
system of keeping the people in ignorance, noth- night, in the upper part of the city of Ken York.
ing can prevent the scheme from working in the They had thirty-nine cents among them and
future just nu Ifark Hanna said it would work, were headed for the home of one of the boys,
and as liistory showvs it has worked. Mark was where they hoped to stay over night, and the
right. But if the people should ever get to think- next morning each strike out for a job for himself. The police took them in an automobile to
ing, then the jig will be up.
"The great day of the Lord in neu, it in near, and the police station, the first auto trip thg had
W h greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: ever had in their lives, and the nest day thw
the might). nun h a l l cry there bitterly."-Zepb 1: I+ were sent back to their prison.

A'

The Business Outlook-for 1924

VSIXTESS men all over the world are won- But business is good or bad according to findering what the year 1924 is to bring. damentals. Fundamentals are based upon basio
Amongst h i n c i e r s there is a wide difference industries.
The basic industries are: Lumber, rubber,
of opinion. Ur. Roger W. Babson, one of the
!rorld's leading economists, gave a r e s u d of coal, iron, oil, cotton, leather, wheat, e t c ; and
the situation in New York city recently. JIr. these are all flat-inactive and not in demand.
Babson is at the head of a statistical organiztl Something is wrong when a farmer can take
!ion which has a large clientage for statistical one acre of ground and plow, harrow, plant,
information and business data, and his address' cultivate, harvest, and deliver the products of
\$-as also in the nature of advice to those who that one acre, for one year's time, and get less
are depending somewhat upon his vision of for it than a bricklayer will dram in wages in
one and on+hali days 1
thinas.
.:M Babson referred to the general .optimism
of big business--to the expressions that Nter Fol*eign Goadr Imported at Low
c R O P ~ m countries are maintaining the
through the Steel Trust, the Studebaker Corporation, and other leading industries. He said.
largest armies in their history, in the face
that Wall Street is optimistic about the outlook of a deficit in government immm* Something
for 1924, their optimism being based on what must break. Another Enropean W a r would ternMr. Babson called usurface vision."
,porarily help business conditions in the United
Surface statistics reveal the fact that there States, but when Enrope goes bapkrnpt it will
are 100,000 carload lots of freight daily, an be harmful for the world generally*
Labor has already reached a very low level in
increase of ten percent over a year ago ; that
building permits are thirty p'ercent greater; . the European countries, enabling them to manuthat retail sales are twelve percent more; that facture commodities at a very low price, M
bank deposits are over ten percent in excess of compared with prices in the United Statsk But
a year ago. These, accordin, to Wall Street, Mr. Babaon Uinka that wet are going to get
point to prosperity and are reliable themom- dong fairiy well as long aa the war problams,
the reparations problems, and other strife-pro- .
etera forecasting the revival of buainesa.
Carload freight is a thermometer of produa d ~ h ptoblema
g
in Europe are no4 settled; for
tion; building permits are t h e m m e t e r s of con- these keep many of Europe's laborera employed
straction; retail saies are thermometers of con- in the armiea But what are we going to do
sumption; and bank deposits are thermometers when the world recovers her normalay, and
of savings. The increaae along these lines makes atarts in on production with aU the improved
Wall Street decidedly bullish, using a atock machinery we have today?
Mr. Babson exhibited a good-sized packet
expression,
"But," said Mr. Babson, "what is a thennom- searchlight having a double battery which had
been imported in large quantities from the waratert"
A thermometer is an instrument which tells stricken areas and which, with duty paid, costs
about the present weather; it does not today only fifteen cents, delivered in New York He
register yesterday's weather, nor will it fore- also exhibited a safety razor, made to take the
east the weather of tomorrow.- Mr. Babson Willett blades, delivered duty paid, for only
makes a wide distinction between "snrface" and fourteen cents. He also exhibited a desi-bl*
"fundamentai" statistics. Wall Street sees only sized jackknife, thin model, strong and d ~ a b i o ,
the surface statistics ; and the surface statistics having two blades (such a knife M anyone
are the only ones which find their may into the would like to carry), duty paid, for on17 fifteen
daily newspapers.
cents. If Europe should pay her debts to the
The fundnlnentals are not studied. S o set of United States in merchandise, what wodd be
men can be mqrc blind to financial conditions the reaction heret
than those who study merely the snrface statisThe year 1923 mas very unsatisfactory for
tfcs. The stock market is a thermometer; it producers of coal, copper, oils, fertilizers,
registers the effect of speculative winds, show- leather, rubber, wheat, and other basiG ralr
1.g the present feveridmeas or sluggishness. materials, for the reason of laclL of demand

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'rhere ia too great a difference between the

prices paid the laborers who work in production and the wages paid city laborers, and too
great a difference between the coat of manufacture and the cost to the consumer. But this
condition should not be wholly charged to the
merchant. This difference, called by economists
the %pread,'
Mr. Babeon said would have to
be corrected.
With our own stagnation aa a result of overproduction, what shall we do when peace is restored in Europe, adding their over-production
to our own 1 He pointed oat that the panic of
1854 fallowed the rapid multiplication of the
steam engine; that the panic of 1873 followed
the expansion and development of the railroads ;
that the panic of 18923 followed the over-buildkig of the West. h d the now-looked-for great
period of readjustment (panic) w i l l follow
mhgt? He said: "Z do not how." But he followed with the suggestion that it would be the
outornobile.
T l C I ~ f b r A ~ i b r
M. BABSON gave some S t S W c s bearing
upoxi the automobile induxtry. In part
they were aa followa: At the present rate of
increase, in t h e and one-half years there will
lm mom automobiles than homes (whether he
was speaking of New Yo* state or of the country as a whole is not dear). The growth in
automobiles in benty-three and one-half ? e m
(the age of automobiles) is greater than the
increase in homes in three hundred years.
He said that the automobile depreciation ia
bebeen $7,000,000 and $10,000,000 each day.
This means that the depreciation in the value
of automobiles after they are sold by the dealer
amounts to that amount of money each day. If
the shoe, clothing, and furniture industries are
to survive, the output of automobiles mast be
cnrbed, was his thought.
To illustrate the crazy-madness of the conntry about automobiles he told a story. He was
taking to a young lady who mas going to be
~narried. He advised her how to get started
1-I;ht; where she could get good, durable furniture at reasonable prices, a piece at a t h e until
her home wudd be well supplied. She replied:
"Hum, we're going to rent our furniture, and
put our money into an automobile."
The manufacturers were told to be prepared

for all eventualities during the coming pear.

There are two laws which control the manufaaturer: the manufacturing cost, and the selling
cost. The greater the output the less will be the
cost of manufacture; but, proportionately, the
selling cost is advanced after a certain point in
the output is reached. The costs of hiring sale+
men and advertisic~ automobiles are now
greater than the rec tion made in production
costa This is the reason why the Fard car ia
now sold on the instalment plan., Over nine*
percent of the automobiles sold in the last two
years were sold on time payments.
The remedy which he offers for the present
distressing conditions is for men to have greater
confidence in each other, systematize for greater
efficiency, work for lower taxes and other fan&
mental, rather than superhial, remediea. !Be
need of the hour is to cut out fake optimism
and false standards, and get back to the oldfashioned honesty, thrift, and senice.
We should strive to get back to better budness methods, and not be misled by the present
record-breaking figures of oil production, auto
output, building permits, car loadings, retail
sales, bigh wages, and bank deposita A rapid .
pulse Bird a high temperature do not mean a. '
healthy patient. It is a notable fact, ~mMr.
Babson said, that when businem ia good aad
everybody making money, operations for appendicitis are heavy. Statistics ahon that appendicitis increases at a time of upgrade of budness levdq and'decreams when basinem ia
tobogganing.
Perhaps there is something psychological in
this : When businesa is good money flowa easier,
and the surgeons take advantage of prosperity
to tarn the channel to their own account; or
being told that he has appendicitis the patient
pats too much mnfldence in the diagnosis and .
additionally is not wi'tling to take roo many
chances with death; so he submits to the ordeal

The Outlook id for Lower Mcu

YERTBODY should do what he can to stim-

E
ulate business. The Government is doing
just what it sltould do: I t is trying to hold
business up and create confidence in order that
our people may continue busy arid happy; and,
notwithstanding the sluagishness of the movements and trading in the fundamentals, thazl.
is a general disposition to be hopeful

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Since the upward movement to business activity started in 1920, business should be generauy
good; for there is no reason for an immediate
depression, and the present trend may continue
for a year or two. We are due for a decrease
in wages, cheaper money, and lower prices; and
the downward movement in commodity prices
may stretch over a long term of yeass.
Mr. Babson said that the banks are inter.I
ested in deposits; the stores are interested in
b their sales; the laborer is interested in his
anion; and young people are interested in
dothes, and are pleasure-bent on what they call
cr "good time." But the nltimate thing, he
pointed out, is bread and butter. To this end
he advised the cutting out of loans, the paying
off of debts, reduction in overhead expense, and
the cutting out of all speculation.
In other words, if you are in a yacht, with
menacing storm-clouds in sight, the thing to do
ia to pull in the saiis and stay close to shore.
There w i l l be no real season of prosperity until
after election, in any event. Meantime, business
men are not to low theii heads in the business
squalls that may blow against their industrial
.p =aft&
Mr. Babsan said in plain words that many
people today have the wrong attitude toward
life. They desire merely to be fed, amused, and
taken care of by the ~governmenta. h o s t
emryone wants to ride in the cart, while few
are w d h g to push or pull They want to spend
but not to save. People today are not paying
for their current purchases out of their current
earnings, but are pledging the future in order
to buy. A lack of religion is exhibited in the
present spirit of the times, which is very disconcertiiag to careful observers.
Natural reaourcea do not make communities.
--' Building permits, retail sales, and bank deposits
are not the greatest things. The greatest thing
is &SCAN. The greatest thing in man is his ambition, his objective, his character, when he has
determined upon a righteous course of business
integrity and public service.
tifd Better Than Making Money
R. BABSOS'S advice and summing up of
the business situation showecl that he was
conscientiously tryiug to lead his clientage into
a more wholesome attitude toward their fellow
men; that Lushess eudeavors should be clean,

with a reasonaLle margin of profit based upon

an economical overhead expense; that man^factnring industries should be conducted henestly, the factories should be sauitary, and there
should be a better and closer understanding
between employer and employ8s ;and that them
ahonld be a cooperation that would bring contentment to all; that Life is better than mrrking
money.
But Mr. Babson haa forebodings of the future.
He sees the over-productivity in all commodities with the improved machinery, if the laborer
is allowed to work; that with the over-produotion of shoes, clothing, automobiles, farm machinery, etc., as far as our own needs are concerned, and Europe's inability to buy, there is
nothing but luiemployment and stagnation staring us in the face.
Mr. Babson sees man's extremity; but, evidently, he does not see the real remedy. He
theorizes on the duty of mnn; but he han not
yet comprehended the human heart: That it is
desperately wicked and haa gone to seed with
selfishness, and that the fruit of that selibhness
is now ripening and is white tor the harvest.
the next hvo years we opine that man
ahall have reached his extremity. !The &at
tribulation, prophesied by the writers of the
Bible, such as never was before on the earth,
wUl reach its climax. Men's Wds (powers)
will hang down, and their knees w i l l laabolr together because of the strife and turmoil and
commotion. Then the present anstable, unrighteons, Satanic order of things, which enrichea
one class and impoverishes another, shall melt
like wax and disappear into oblivion,
Then will come the divine remedy-the Lord's
kingdom, with Jesus as King o h r all the earth
and Satan bound for the ensuing thounand
years in order that the nations may learn true
business principles and comprehend the true
brotherhood, and be deceived no more. Ood hsr
promised that He r i l l raise Christ to sit upon
the throne to reign for the blessing of all tho
families of the earth.
"Rejoicing l Rejoicing 1
\Ve advertise the King;
Bejoicing ! Rejoicing !
Hi3 praises high we sing.
Oh, blest arnbussadors tvho go '
' h e witness from our Lord to show,
Thus privileged forth His truth to &ar
And r?rzrti.* the King!"

Best Cure Found for the Blues

I

BY Marjorie Ashelmar,

; it was blue Monday. I had entered the tions, without having the capability to face them
y b " : e a k f a s t room with a grouch. MY mind cheerfully, do not expect a bundle of good fedwm Wed with thoughts of the examinations ing to fall out of the
a&edded for the day at ~ ~ h a om
l . y isn't my
"Neither
a changed mental p@ps,
1
plate 0x1 the table?''
said L ''How Can I eat which might help you to forget the disqpeab1e
breakfast without milk for my cereal? I've got condition for a tima, bs a lasting -; for tb. I
enough to think about without t h o ~ g h bof star- qeU is qaite m e to recar when the temprar).
vation. My brain ~ ' work
t without nourish- relief vanishes.
ment."
"Now, let as consider how your blues tht
v
e h e~ , mY hughtm? & i d e d mY morning m n not r d y a d by the
father; %ut have p m fornotten that
pm- tion. at the table nor by the impending &~ a m
of Y O attending
~
d o 0 1 is to ~
q Y Oi ~nation,
~
but -re ~ w i t t i n g l yh d w dong p
for s e * ~ , that you may becornable to do terday. You spent a day of
fm fm
nomething worth while for others well u for pressing duties, gr8tif+g
imp*
0
Y O M ~ After
?
a h~of
and a night of r e d , to joke, m d to fiy.
w m
sleep, are you not able to perform a trbgseues9.
service for yourself3
'Ton had on your beet dress, your hair -led,
'Tour &st obligation, if able, is to wait on mybe trying to excel;
th.t oome8 hs...
yourself and to relieve others of that burden. owly nar to feeding Pridq a not piti*
Senice, m e charity, beat home- U t e r YOU doing so; md liLe reed., ii
&18.Llammeq.lided to
of
Om Wanb
nesa and Pride get a c h r to sprout they pr.
a t Yo= o m ev-9
then YOU ma7 b e i n to dirt in @.(,wing and soon aord
or
extend your usefnlness for the benefit of others. the
of
pknta
Why hurs about the examinationst Practise the
USO, this morning, selfish
d e of helpfulness, and yoa will aelcome the
examination as one of the means of inm-8
co'ltinned ~ a m ~ e r i n gand
, pride f e d th.t
Joyful
Worker
might
excel.
Therefore heipfd- {
your a d d n e s a "
and
h
d
t
y
in
the
-ground
and
Tes, father, I do feel ashamed of myself;
sdciently
awake
Or
to
PI^
but Joyful Worker has been rwiting her lessons
so well, and I fear that she will gefi a higher this morning*"
"But, father, why did the Lord make the Sab
mark than I."
hdpfal a d h m h l s imp*
- "There, now you can see that yon have re- bath, if it
vealed the two big forces that give people the to sleepy
9 see, mY Child, that Yon are not alone
bluea These are Selhhness and her big brother
Pride. They u d y travel with each other and fault I should have helped YOU mom e a r e f d ~
work together. They make one love ease and to a Proper appreciation of the P n V s e of
envy others. If you want to live a life free from Sabbath- I t was provided for God's peopl*
these masters, you can earn that freedom easier They were to me it as a period of rest from
and better by subduing them before their grip selfish p ~ r s d t sand in hearing the reading of
His law and thinking of His character and ,.
is &ed.
"Cheerfulness and grouchiness are not merely goodness.
"This course ronld cultivate gocllikeness in
moods They are the outward expression of
character, and the prevailing traits of character His people. Part of that likeness would be h e l p
develop and mature with the prevailingthoughts ' fni service and humility. He is the Qiver of all
and attitude of the mind. 'Sow a thought and good things; and although He is all-powerful,
reap an act, sow an act and reap a habit, sow a His humility is maiiifested in extencling mercy
habit and reap a character,' was always as true to a rebellious people, and in enduring blas that the planter reaps the kind that he sows. phemy for ages.
"His Son demonstrated how these principloa
"If yon r a n t to live always hnppy and cheerf 4 begin at once to practiee thinking the kind map be practised on earth. Surely they cannot
of thoughts that produce cheer. If you wait be lived perfectly by i n ~ p r f e c tbeings; but He
until you are in the p r e s e w of unlikable condi- invited as to learn of Him and find rest unto

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a WLDEN AGE
our souls. We learn that He delighted in service desire to serve and to see others happy helps
and sacrifice and that He had no pride to be me to be hopeful and to endure all things.
If we hunger and thirst after righteousnetno,
injured because undeserving ones sat in JIoses'
seat and exercised rulership over the people." then every effort to control our conduct in ab
cord with the original law written in perfd
humanity, produces an inward satisfaction and
I am glad that I learned this cure for the harmony that is truly blessed and that cannot
.
blues while young, and consequently that my be taken from us.

.S

The ~ i ' ~ hof

t s Non-Tobaonista
T H E leading article in OLDE EX AGE So. 109,
entitled "The Truth about Tobaccq" stiaed
-me of our readers considerably. A subscriber
writes that her father had been a constant
smoker for half a century. She put the article
into his hands. He read it and asked her to
destroy all his tobacco and smoking paraphernalia, announcing that he was through with it
forever. Thid gentleman is over eighty years
of age; and although the sudden stoppage-of
the flow of nicotine and other poisons into his
-em
has temporarily made him ill, he stedfastly refuses to have anything more to do
with it.
Another subscriber, less wise, we think, took
personal offense at the article, seeming to think
that anything written against the tobacco habit
d e c t e d against him personally, and ssvored
of meddling@
with other people's nfpairs. But
now the anti-tobacconists are being heard from;
and they think that the article was just right,
but that it did not go far enough.
They contend, and we think their contention
L correct, that non-tobacconists have some
right8 and that these rights are persistently
md increasingly abused by the users of the
a t h y weed. A gentleman who travels widely
writes as on the subject as follows, and there
are not a few of our readers who will concur
with his views :
aAny man haa the privilege of woking who want.
hia

b woke, but he baa not the pridega of blowing

moke in the other fellods face who w a n b to eat

hL

breakfaat or dinner in peace. In dl the hotels m d

restau-b
rmoking is indulged in during meals, to
the utter disgust rnd dbcomfort of many of the guest^
--tolerated b e a m i t t a U i t . The Pullmrn cur
lute gotkn to be smoking CM.
YdonotthiPLthtnenon-anolienPbouldtahthe

position of being prohibitlonistr Let a man a*

hi8 own ail1 and yolition; but I believe it h the d*
of THEGOLDEN BOB to state plainly the proper padtion on the use of tobacco in public plrcerr. Smokera
are the most selfish men in the world, having no regard
for the comfort of nor consideration for 0 t h We
cannot expect to reform them; not is it our b
h
to d o r m them. But we only expect to rtote tha kcb
for the d e c t i o n of the peophn
Others have asked us to say something 1.6-

garding the chewing of tobacco. We hesitate to

express our opinion of such a filthy habit; but
perhaps we may say that a tobacco chewer reminds a cleanly person of nothing so mu& as
a sick creature in need of the servicm of a
veterinarian, a scrubbing brush and a fumigrrnt.
How any woman could ever kiss snah a creature
-the thought appalls as! How could she want to be in the same room with him? How could
anybody want to be in the same roam with him
--except the pigt
Another subscriber remarh that in his town
the other day he was shoved off the sidewalk
by six high-school girh walking abreast, every
one of whom 11-as at the time einoking a cigarette. He r a n t s to b o w what it meam. We
answer: I t means Armageddon! It is merely
one of the signs of the breakdown of all tho
old standards. The women are going to pieces
along with the men. I t is a noteworthy fact th.t
on the Xew York subways the rudest persona
are the misses, still in their teens or early twenties, who alone will elbow and push fellow passengers right and left without a solitary indic11tion of any interest in the welfare of anybod7
except themselves. Selfishness has gone to seed,
and the old order is madly rushing to its doom
in ,mneral anarchy. I t will be followed by 8
better order. T h d Godl

A Study of the Theory of Evolution, in W o Parts

I

O R W Y the cells of a developing embryo do not fall apart, as noted in our last

(Part I I )
dominant or recessive to each other according
to the Mendelian laws, however, since the prod.
act of such a union-a mule-is not capable of
reproducing its kind, not capable of indetlnite
inbreeding, which is the mark of a species. h
such a case the dominant and recessive c h a m
ters are not easily determined Neverthelesr,
the fixed and definite direction of development
ia emphasized by these facts.

iaaue, but cling together, forming a mass of

oelk Finally, when a certain stage in the process of development is reached, a second process
be-that
of differentiation. The cells that
prerioasly were d alike now begin to take on
-.
differenas, so that from one original cell, O r
rather its descendants, are developed the different tissues and organa of a highly or-ganhed
.nirml wj, *th ib -0pmM, C 8 P ~ a Definite
ci
CocJ o f NO&*^ & a m
N THE cross-breeding of varieties we are
tiea and functions.
A.U of these identical eella were fed, noconfronted with the same significant faotr
ished, in esactly the same medium-a homoge- and phenomena that are seen in the croscneous substance-so that if chemistry could ae- breeding of species. The product of crocount for the differentiation, any differences breeding of varieties is capable of indefinita
they might take on, due to any change in the inbreeding so that we can watch the process a
nutritive medium, would be shared by all cells bit fnrther. In breeding a female white rat to
dike. Ifwe a m m e that various changes trke a male black rat the fertilized ovum devclopr
p k ia the mtrienh msdir m that part of the in an environment and of a nutrient medium
bathed in a nmedmm of one charactor saited for the development of white rats; but
Mr
and part of the cells are bathed in a medium of we get all black rats instead. If the prodrrab
aao4hes kind, we woald have e mere h a p b u d of sach a union be interbred, we get both white
procty with ~llothingto mthe dedopp3ad and Mack rats with black predominant Theua
of the ambrp iato mything with any & m s ~ white rat8 if interbred give whites and b h b
to d m
with whites predominant. The blacks if i n b s
Bnt mah .n assumption would be ahsmd, bred give bIacks and white8 with blacka pred,
even if we did not h a d y know that it is not h t . In a very few generati- we can again
tma Firrt, the nutrient media bathing the em- have two .strains, a white and a black one, am
bryo cells are constantly circulating, and are we started with; and each strain will be prw.
fed from the same source with i d e n t i d y the This process can be repeated over and over
ssme elements in the same proportions being again, with alwaps the same-results. No better
fed into them. Second, we h o w that the process proof is needed of the existence of a d e S h
of development is orderly and progresive, and tendency towards a flred goal in development.
And what is here said of rats is true of all
is not a h a p h d one.
The facts are that the tendencies towards dif- other animals and of plants. The same t m
ferentiation are inherent in the fertilized omm, dencies can be seen in the crosaing of the white
and that these tendencies are fixed in definite and the black races.
In the developing of an animal from ovum to
dimtione. The adult animal exists potentially
in the fertilized o m ; and no amount of change adult the development always takes d e h i t e diof environment can change this potentiality into rections from "invisible beginnings to the latest
something else. The facts of crosa-breeding, complex results and complesities of stm~tura,~
3f either varieties or species, demonstrate this the development or growth always follows a
fact in a remarkable manner. I f a mare be bred determinate course to an equally determinate
to a jack, the fertilized ovum develops in an end. In the whole process it seems that the
environment and of a nutrient medium that is power bock of it line\\-s exactly what it is doing
intended for the development of a horse. But and how to do it; and the power back of it ia
it does not develop into a horse. In the o m the law of an intelligent Creator.
The microscope has shown us not only that
of a mare fertilized by the spermatazoon of an
ass we have a mired potentiality, and this de- plants and animals are composed of cells, but
velops into a mixed actuality.
that some orqanisms are one-celled beingr
The horse or the ass cllarncteristics map be These are called mieelled; while the higher

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forms are known 8s mnlticelled organisms. All and powers of mch ceh point ru away from
dls,whether of micelled or multicelled beings, the possibility of such an origin, the process of
- .have certain functions in common known to cell division speaks in stiU more eloquent t e r m
biologists as the common or fundamental fun* There are two kinds of cell division, simple and
tions; the cells of mdticelled organisms have
certain special functions known aa special or
expressed functions.
I t is from some nnicelled organism that. the
evolutionist thinks that the whole animal and
vegetable kingdom is derived. These organisms
\I function only through their fundamental fans
tions, and manifest no tendency towards differentiation or of organizing themselves into a
complex organism, such as we see the fertilized
ovum do. They have existed from the beginning
under almost all conceivable conditions d circamstances and are with us yet, the same simple
. structures they were in the beginning. mhen
one of them divides into two, instead of clinging
together as the divided ovum does, each separate cell goes its own way, lives its own life all
independent of the other, and is not dependent
in anfT way upon the functions of another cell.

indirect. We will c o n b e our remarks here to

the indirect method, or mitoais, as it ia callad.
This process is a rather complicated one, beginning with the cell "at rest," and progressing
upward through a definite and fixed series of
structural changes until a certain point is
reached, when the straeturea in the two cells
that now exist pass backward over the same
aeries of changes, beginning at the end and
rest"
passing back in inverse order to the
condition whence the parent d
l started.
This complicated process, which is carried
oat in an orderly and progressive manner, and
with a d e b i t e end in view, cannot lp explained
by any laws of chemistry and physics, and cannot be duplicated outside of the living cell.
Under conceivable conditions, inorgank elements may come together and form inorganio
compounds closely resembling protoplasm; but
mch compound would be a life.tesa, inert, homoNdrttion and &ahage
geneoar mass, lacking function, struatare, difF SUCH cells were suddenly to develop a ferentiated par& or the Pow- of m p d d n g
I-.
It might increase k bdk in much the
tendenw to
t h q mdd m
-7 that a ery~talincin 8%
only in producing a homogeneous maae of celb,
: with o r without d e h i t e form, bat without any this is not even andogom to d
External f d o m or e m i n f a d
dehite structure. There would be no means of
it to divid% that 4break
conveying nutriment to those & inside the bps might
m m o r of carrying away their waste. T ~ t h o a t it UP lato two or more masses; bat this
be made to resemble the phcnomem
the powers and tendencies tow-ard differentib in no
tioq sa that specid stroctares and wid fm* of cell division. The cell is mom than a men,
tiou would be developed, the mass would soon d~emical~ m ~ and~nunifeats
d , Po-rn that
of startstion and autotoxemia Such a no dead substance, however compleq is capable
, pe*
d m m d d not be likely to s u ~ in
m the of manifesting. Let it be c a r e f d y noted in
mildest conceivable struggle for existence. This ~aming,e
t mere a g ~ ~ t i is
o not
n gr0fwt is well proven by the facts connected with and that m p l e cleavage is not rqmdnction.
. b e bits of tissue from a chicken which Dr. CarShould soch a mass fonn and should it b
d
l of the Rockefeller Institute has succeeded divided aa above stated, the masses thus proin keeping alive for a few years. Artificial duced must either remain separated as two inmeans to supply nutrition and drainage have dependent masses or coalesce and become one
to be resorted to.
mass again. This one mass wonld be homos^.
It
wonld
be
hard
to
account
for
the
origin
of
neous. Such a process could not prodncc a
-*
even the simplest cell by spontaneous genera- mnlticellular organism in billions of years.
tion. I n fact, it is at present impossible. Still Sucl~a process could never be mistaken for
law can the origin of the more complex cells, growth.
with their special structures and fmctione
Such a mass would be governed entirely by
which
compose
the
bodies
of the higher forms chemical and physical la\v\.a-gravitation, them'
d life, be accounted for in this manner.
ical a%nity, col~esiteattraction. etc.! and would
But if the structure, functions, tendencies, k devoid oi either instinct or mtelligence,

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would be incapable of locomotion and of struoturd progression. I t would be wholly inorganic,

wanting in ail those peculiar characteristics that
distingnish the living from the non-living. It
would be lifeless, and could not pass from the
realm of the non-living to the living. This is
as far as "matter, motion, and force," together
the " s e c o n b ~laws'' of matter which are
the ''huinent god of the evolution%"

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~&nraiuml

Puwer Originat~bLS.2

that spontaneous generaITtionIS iswellnotproven

now taking place. It is admitted

by all that there is no proof that it ever took

place. Yet spontaneous generation, as conceived
- of by present-day evolutionists, is a p d y
-chemical pracess; and we know of no reason
why a chemical process once performed cannot
be repeated: If spontaneous generation has not
b k e n phce, it must be admitted that a supernatural act originated life. In other words, the
admitted overthrow of the theory of spontane.
o w generation leaves us no other alte-tithan that of creation as taught in the Bible.
For "matter, motion, and fom2*and mere
"secondarl, agencieg to bring into being spantaneonsly a single cell endowed potentially with
all the characters, capacities, and powers of the
whole Mand vegetable Idngdoms, is
acle such as no creationist ever asked ua to
believe.
For the Creator to have produced such a cell
would have been a special act of creation,
greater by far than the creation of a number
of cellq one for each species of plants and
animals, each possessing p o t e p t i w the
ties and powers of the form i t was to give rise
to, jast as the fertilized o m now does, and
to have supplied special conditions for the im' mediate and rapid development of these g e m
into full-grownanimal or vegetable forms. Only
those who reject miracles and "an occrrsional
wonder-working God" have s d c i e n t faith to
believe in such miracles!
Just as no living being comes into existence
today except through the agency of a preGsistent living being, so none of the higher forms
of life come into being escept under special
arrangements for their development from the
ovnm to infancy. These special arrangements
do not exist in the inorganic world. The devei-

opment of a primordial ovmn into a full-term

or full-grown animal required some special arrangement-an arrangement clearly within the
power of an all-wise Creator.
Lifeless matter is not now r a i d to the plsna
of the living except through the operatiollg of
life, and o w do not develop into complex or- '
ganisms except under special conditions. W e
believe that we arejustified in saying that lifeless matter has never been raised into living
matter except by the operations of life., At the
beginning, a t least, these operations hsd to be
carried on by a Life higher than any known to
earth. That Life ia God.
I n e t h e r God created the horse and other
a n h a l s full-grown, o r created an 0and
supplied the necessary conditions for their dovclopment into what they were to be, we have
not yet found out.
If the primordid cell codd not have mme
into existence by S P O ~ ~ ~ ~ ge~eration
~ O U S
bat
must have been created by an act of &d, I cannot see the logic in the s o d l e d reawning th.t
limits Him to one such creative ~ t .If Gtod ~SZI
create one ce& why cannot He create fla
or even billions of them? Indeed, if "practim .,
makes perfect? in the divine workshop, aa it
does in the hwe wo*d e y t to see Him
do a Clacker and more d d f n i PI- of m*
out of the millionth than oat of the
4,
this last a4.l gi*g
rise to His' m a a b ~ i w
-man.
No one claims that God made the ~ ~ ~ I ' S
and living forms as e -enter
builds a h o w .
Bat Jehovah, no doubt, worked by method j d
IIe now works by method. Was this method
evolution? Did He first create a single cell o r
a few cells, and from these did He by a P r o c w
of evolution bring all the many and varied 4 forms of plant and animal life into being?
If so, the process is not now going on. Not a
single indubitable case of species-making by
this process has ever been observed to occur in
nature. I t seems thnt if this is or has been the
process, we mould be able to point to soma
sinqle pair of cocsisting distinct species along
with the links bet\\-een them. Eut \re cannot.
I t is hardly necessarq- to add thnt there have
been no new species formed during the historia
peripd.
But we are assured that the rocks abound
with evidence of the process; that is, some em-

lationists amme us that mch is the case. Upon

this point, however, geologists and paleontol+
gists seem to be pretty well agreed that these
fossil remains of the anciert world are not connected by any link. Each species stands out
distinct snd separate from every other. .

**

In North America their m a i m .ns known h

taq condition from the eocene, miocew md pod-*
t i a y depositr, m d in South Amuica they hm been
recognized in the cave depositr ai B d All .tbr
U e r but little from living genera,", ,

Who Are the Gutliblet

S in general, as d m WaUaa

Ewhtioniats Make Mankcpa o f Thernrolnm

that no one e m
HE evolutionist has made *at he believes saw a species originateadmit
by
natural
to be his strongest case oat of the case of We may add that they have never seleotion.
seen one
bthe horse. He haa a series of fossil forme, aroriginate
any
other
way. Weismann in the
ranged according to the &ry, beginning with
frankly
a small five-toed quadruped about the she of a "Contemporary Review," 1893, p.=
admitted
that
'St
is
really
Mdt
tu
imagin*
fox and ending with the modern horse. Out of
all the many thousands of progressive W this process of natural selection in its detaila;
that must have existed between these two er- and to this day it is impossible to demonstrata
tremea, he has a mere handfd, and has not the it in any one point."
The above quotations from the " I n t e d o n r l
dightest evidence of any genetic relationship
existing between them. It is not proven and Encyclopedia," together with many thousan&
- not provable that any of these "ancestors" of of other such facts that codd be adduced, demthe horse are even remotely connected with him. onstrate that not only can they not demomtrab
I quote the following from "The New Inter- natural klection or any other method of evolunatiod Encyclopedia," 1915, article on "Eva- tion in its details in the modern wodd, but that
they cannot even demonatmte that emlrPtion by
. htiod":
any method has ever occrvred
'CIt ia rrmghly e8tim8ted t h A t about 3 0 , M N ) 7 o o o yeam
H d e y declared that pale onto lo^ done codd
pave elapsed since ths deposition of tho lowat fosiliffurnish as with h t and primary evidence in
. - annu m c b h of the Cambrian."
favor of evolution. In the last chapter of hia
~ a r s ~ i n C~mbri.IlmckroffoarbQl
& e
dmea of muiPa invertebrate llnimllr [Question: From voluminous work on 'Wammrll of the Westan
what did thas erolve? Why are them no pm-Cambri.n Hemisphere," Prof. Scott discarrsea the varioiardlr?]and hcsr af primitive plank The Cunbriut fields that have been appealed to to supply miW d a , trilobites,
and other clPrr forma
of evolution. Prot Scott, who is aa em- am hi8hly dweloped. [From what ?] Somq u the tri- dence
lutionist,
says in the opening of this chapter
lobites, are old-ferhioned, generalized tps;some of the
that
no
time
has been spent on evolution in the
arart.ca am composite or generaked typea, as the
previoua
chapters;
for he did not consider it
pkyllorrido; bat the urnelids are aa highly specialized

DYEvinism,''

"

r e p ~ t a t i v e aof today. [Thia b some promiLliona of ~ r s l ]The earlieat trilobites

rnrs blind or eyelesr, though t b q may have descended
from eyed forms [of pmCambrian agea, perhope]."
1 "On the other b d certain typea have never made
any proand ahow little advance over their palea
ioic mcesters; such are the foramlnifem. the spongcs,
the corals, certain rnulluska, rur nautilus, king crabs,
h @ a , m d even ceratodus and Hatteria Certain arthropods, as peripatus, scolopendrella. and cornpodeg
are probblp pecslstcnt types."
M their

in

From the article on "Bats" I take the following :

"Few f o o d remains of bats are known. In the upper

eocene deposits in Aix, France. hu been found a ae!ldeveloped bat wng, and in other portloas of tile t c r t : a ~
deposib of the same c o u n q have been found s k u h of
rpccisr th.t very closely resemble thou of modem form*

necessary. The theory he thinks is already too

well established to require such discussion. This
is a colnrnon characteristic of the evoIntionist.
This assumption is a very convenient one, since
it does away with the necessity of furnishing
proof of the theory.
Taking up con~parativeanatomy, embryology, geology, paleontology, eta, he tells how
each of these has been appealed to for evidence
and how none of these has hmished the dosired proof. He thinks the science of gwctica
hardly far ellough advanced to he relied upon.
Sillce the appearance of his book, however, Prot
TTilliam C-iteaotl has given us the verdict of
genetics in regard to evolution; and that verdict is: "Weighed in the balauce and found
wantingeP

* WLDEN
1

Prof. Scatt is one of America's foremost

paleontologists. He says that paleontology has
failed to supply the desired proof. Prof. Huxley
said that paleontology alone could supply such
proof. If paleontology and genetics both negative the doctrine, who are the ignorant and
u n t . g - t h o s e who still cling to the doctrine with all their might or those who reject itl
. . m e .

An Indiscreet Dodor
INCE writing the above it has come to my
attention that one Dr. Charles W.Stiles of

W i g t o n , N. C., has declared that either

AGE

harbored every germ d k w which L cham&&&

d
man or dependent on nun for its life cycle.
" 'Acco*g
h k * mid Dr. Shad m o n g 0hub@ n r h a
af coaftq
hoohrormp n e t . ~ n *J*
oonian epilepey three kin& of mrl.rir, rlaping dcLngbh
fm,ddrtio=amrbmpk
ooogh, y&,,
fenr, louU f.nr,

ehur

G~~~~~

mttt

-tile

purl*

dp,

"R'rom that 'dedpdion and admitting that &hn lplc

viocdalltheae,Dr.Sbddthtitmrutbainrtb:

deducedthattheOudenafEdenmfnCbinr,bscwr
Y
where mm i a h u m to nnrh.
that W O ~ pl.Es

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Usrila
] l d o ~ e r , b d-.d
m
hirnorq
,l i t s u ~ t h . d 8 b o i l o napptit.

Adam had all the diseases of the nosoloi3Y or ,% w*& he % *ppl*r

k.
that Bryan is wrong. I quote here the report gL+ "Ib wonder b he did not eat th. andm .Lo.'"
as published in the San Antonio E g r e s s for
This foolishness of Dr. Stiles ia of intered
April 1,1923 :

T*wn,

Msrch 31.-w m a d J-*

B~
d d of ths theory of evolution be aorrect, Adam
mnrt hrrs ,-ired
for 930
a the
mm todry; En must hrvs bazr created
ahich
by riviaetion; the Oarden of Eden mast have been in
Chinr; and a lot d 0 t h ltutling thinga mast ha*
followed in -w
In dditiun to all that, N o d
d h.n been not omly 8 apable ship a p t a h , but the
world's 5rat m m c f d publio Mth o h ; for he must
h v e ~ d l t h e ~ t n t o t h e u k
out again without ladng r dngb elephant.'
W. Stiler ot Wiimingtan,
U~
M~ r .
md d a n a nsar~hmrta,
N. C,
before th4 W d i q k m Biologial Society hem Satur&?
Bv'~ .=Jf-appoin+
night. Dad'i'ing himrdf
&a

dm

to us here not for its scienuc value, for it haa

none, bat to show to what lengths the80 men
will go to uphold their pet hypothesis It in
really hard to believe that any sane man wodd
put forth such an argument as this ir and claim
to be serious about it,
The basis for his whole argument is contained
ip these
-ptions:

--

tcuvv diur;ud,.
(2) That everg one who ever lived, Adam
included, haa to have a l l the various types of
disease common to the I d * in which he re=

m d ~ mt
~

rbdea.
Neither of these assmnptiona ia correct. If
to
ed attarry on gsrm3' Dr. Stiles
f*
the learned dootor, who ia said to be a wientifh
if
doa not
to belime
research worker, possessed as much real bowlthing8~drgrssrithMr.Bqu~
edge of the true cause of disease as he d q s of
"g-'
to
BvJsIl.id Dr.
the theory of emlution he wodd not have been
'all
which
di*u
been
caught erecting a proof of evolution on this
in th.
-7.
it to be
fomdatioa It ha nemr hnpmadedthtthosegrrmraczbd~ycratedinaome
that a single disease is due to germs. A theory
germs ths theav at
form ,,th
k
tiop
*w obrid,,
~b
of prevention and cure based upon the theory
md
h mirrmls
nat that they do has proven an abject failare. Howmtil attcr the plants, it ir mthinlable that any ever, this much has been dehiteiy established:
of tho numerow gem which anso disease were created Whatever part germs may have in the produeafter A
h Since diseam gvmr are dependent for their tion of disease, germs alone can no more proerisbm~hupon mirnala and plmtr in which % c a m duce disease than gas alone am produce fire.
&ease, it is clear that these germs could not hare been Just as
must be mited with oxygen befom
mated prior to the creation of their victims. A chal- fire is produce,, so germs (if the,, are realfatlenge of this deduction would be admission that the tors in disease prodnotion)
come in eongenna were not created as they a n today, but that they
tact with "suitable soil" in the orpnis~n.If thin
later evolved into diseaue germs; but thi would be m
were
not tme, health would be ir,lposaible.
admission of evolution 1
Bacteria
or germs were evi4lentl)- created, as
"Therefore,' a i d Dr. Stiles, '2 Mr. Bryan's cUlenp b to ba rcoepted, we mast conclude that ~ d r m there are no lower forms from which they codd

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have evolved. Nor could they h a ~ eever been

much aimpler in structure than they now are,
and survived. But they were not created as
disease germs, and are not disease genns. Their
ofice is that of retarning dead organic matter
to the inorganic state. They are scavengers.
Germs cannot live in pure water, which is
devoid of all organic matter. Neither ean they
live in pure blood, which ie deprived of all morbid matter. This fact alone should lead the
i "noted zoiilogist" to aee the fallacy of his aa'sumption. Before the germ theory of disease
cm be ased to substantiate the descent theory,
it is first necessary to prove the germ theory.
But if germs do cause disease and if evolution ia a fact, these tiny creatures change with
i d n i t e slowness. Tuberculosis, pneumonia and
typhoid fever present the same symptoms as
described for them by Hippocrates over three
thoasand years ago. Consiclering the rapidity
with d o h g e m multiply, and the billiona of
generations they have passed through dnring
thh period, one would think they should have
evolved into something else long em this
A few words now about hia second asrmmp.
is an exceedingly childish one. W h y
assrrms that Adam must have had all of

these diseases when he h o w very well thrt

every one now living does not h a w themt
Among the diseases he mentions, measlea,
whooping cough and mhmps are the only o w r
the writer has had; and he has no intention of
having any of the othem Neither have I ever
been &cted with any of the worms and b u g
he mentions. What is more, I know that Adam
and I are not in a claas by ourselves in thh
respect. I do not live in China, yet I have not
been carried off by any of thorn diwthd .
are survived only in China
3[n my opinion Adam never had a boil on Irt
nose, ant1 it is my guess that he did not have'.
cancer in his reasoning f a d t i - that would
have led him to talk as t@s doctor does. Pro&
ably the doctor would have ua thinL that Adam
died of the "Blaek Death," although he doem not
say so. His Ychallengeb amounta to nothing
mom than a farce, and his W e d deduatio~
are but' "ea& wind." No donbt he, like other
evdutionista, is ready fo call all who re!fuae to
mallow such mental excrement "ignorant, n r z ~
rm-minded, u n p r o ~ m , "e b Them men
areguil~ofallthaabusesofwbi~th~oatr
those who oppose their theory;bat none 8ra ro

Mindas t h o s e w h o c a n ~ b u t ~ n o t

.Psychic Phenomena ExpIained

PIBIT messages are qnite plentif'nl which
S
purport to give 4 e human family superior
wisdom fmm the so-cded spirit world. M i s
Wdred. Graham, an English psychic, has
written a book, "Xy Letters from Heaven," in
which she gives credit to the spirits for the
&tire contents, claiming that the thoughts were
never consciously hers. The spiritq have informed her that there is no hell, but that there
ip a heeven in which God dwells.
We think that the devil and his ongels (the
spirits) are responsible for foisting upon the
creed-ridden world the doctrine of eternal torment ; #a t D m tO's "Inferno" and Dorgs pie
tares illustrating it, rind the messages from
heaven received by Miss Graham, are all from
the same, source.
The basis for dl these theories lies in the fact
that Satan disputed the word of God in the
garden of Eden. IYlicm- the Creator told our
first parents that the penalty for disobedience
is death, the adversary, operating through the

serpent either by actions or by giving it mia

as Balsam's ass waa made to speak,
dieted the Almighty in these worda: "Ye abJl
not surely die." (Genesis 3:4) In other mrQ,
the devil said that God waa a liar .when He
said that anybody would or' could die.
Jesus, God's acknowledged Son and the farm&
er of the Christian religion, referring to mbelieving, self-righteous, hypooritid people
said: "Ye are of your fatber the devil, and the
lusts of your father ye will do. He nrm a m m
derer from the beginning, and abode no4 in tha
truth, because there is no truth in him. When
he spenlieth a lie, he speaketh of his own: for
he is a liar, and the father of it."-John 8:44.
All liars 'and self-milled, false religionists are
privileged to claim for their parentage, in the
matter of their thinking, the devil; for he it ir
that injects the thoughts into the minds of them
who believe not. St. John again says thnt fh.
whole world lieth in the wicked one-the devil.
The Bible is very plain on the subject of
\

death. B e c a w of sin, death pasbed upon the

race. Man dies, and becomes extinct in death.
He is as though he were not. 'The dead know
not anything." A man dies, "his breath goeth
forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very
day his thoughts perish." "The s o d that sinneth, it shall die." "All have sinned, and come
short of the glory of Godm-Ecclesiastes 9 :5 ;
Psalm 146:4; Ezekiel 18:4; Romans 3 :23.
The Bible is consistent with the thought that
"whatsoever thy hand tindeth to do [while you
n r e dive], do it with thy might; for there ia
no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave [sheol, hell], whither thoa
'goe6t."-Eclesiastes
9 :10. ,
The doctrine of eternal torment has done
more to break down the morale of the world
than any other one thing, for the reason that it
has done more to dipcourage humanity than
anything else, People found themselves beset
with weaknesses and unable to do perfectly the
thiqgs they would like to do. A lake of fire
stared .them in the face.
In despair they often gave up; and growing
earelem drifted with the tide, o r becoming deaperste, they said: "It I am going to hell I wiIl
see to it that I deserve iL" Therefore they
bridled their consuences and went the limit
Or, beiig too conscientious to do this they
have made escusea for themselves, justified
themseivea, and lowered the standard of Christian deportment, believing that thus a t death
they ahodd be rewarded with an eternaI inheritance with the sainta in glory.
World Not Now Offbed Saivation

people need to
that the world
WHAT
is not now offered salvation. Salvation
8ee.b

is
comes with the second coming of Jesus. H
fwt coming waa to ppvide the ransom-price so
that the world could be turned over to him by
the Father, whose law had been violated.
The scripture which says: "Now is the day
of salvation" (2 Corinthians 6 :2), is a mistranslation. We notice first that it is part of s
parenthetical statement. It is quoted from Isaiah 49: 8, which reads : ''Thns saith the Lord,
In a% acceptable time have I heard thee, and in
a day of salvation have I helped thee."
The context shows clearly (verse 7) that a
Holy One, despised of men (the Lord JeI d a &53: 3), should arise and bring the prom-

ised salvation; that liinga (the Churoh, &son ,

during the Gospel age) shall see aad arise;
that princes (other holy men, chosen before the ,
Christian era) also shall wrahip (when they ,
are raised from the dead-Hebrm ll :39,40); ,
for the Lord Ood is faithful.
The Qoapel age h a been set apart for the
gatheririg of the spiritual meid of Abraham, of
which Jesus is chief, and the Church ia the
under-priesthood .(1 Peter 2: 9) ; and it has
proven to be a day of salvation for the Church; ,
for the judgment begins with the h o r n of God.
Now notice what the rest of Isaiah 49: 8 rays:
"I will preserve thee [Christ Jesus and His
Church, as a composite body-1 Corin12 :121, and give thee for a covenant of the
people [the world at large1,to establish the
earth [in truth and righteousnwa], to aause
[the people] to inherit the desolate heritages
[the Edenia earthly promised blemhga, bat not
yet realized] ; (verse 9) that thoa [the compoaite Christ] mayest say to the prisonera [all in
the g r a v e d o h n 5 :281, Go forth; to them that
sre in darkness [the millions living at the time
the kingdom is put inte operation], Show yourselves. They [the world of mankind] ahdl feed.,
[get the truth of God] in the waya -4
3!i :81, and their pastarea [feeding places] &dl
be^ in all high places [where light and tmth and
heavenly wisdom will be dispensed with la*
.
hand] .*
Noses was given for a mknant, rr mediator ,
of the Law covenant, for fleshly LsraeYs benefit.
Just ao, God has been raising up a greater than
Xoaes (Acts 3: 22) for the purpose of giving
to the world of mankind the Mediator of the
New Law covenant. And when this becomea
operative, the law of Ood will be written in the
hearts of the people so that it shall no longer
be necessary for a man to my to hia neighbor,
or to his brother, "Know the Lord?; for d'
shall know Him from the lemt of them even
to the greatest-Hebrews 8: 8-13.
This arrangement of the Almighty does not
mean that a person can be as e d as he can
be, and get away with it without punishment.
'matsoever a man soweth, that shallthe also
reap." But this arrangement encourages everyone who b o w s of it to do well; they bceame
hopeful; they see that salvation ia on the way;
they show their gratitude by living better lives;
they want to come forth in the resurrection on
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'

aa high a plane of mentality and morality an that the true meaning of these words M the
death condition, and cannot refer to a plaioe. &
possible.
the demons have sinister motives; they a t M
by the magnetism of their voices, and through
8EtcmdTorment" Not Biblical
U T nothing like this is designed of God to curiosity, to receiving information from forbid- .
encourage anyone who believes the diaboli- den sources, and u s d y in the dark and undu
8 :19,20; 19 :3; Deuteronamf
cal doctrines of devils, that God has fueled up a cover.-Isaiah
18
:
9-l!2
;
Leviticus
20 :27.
furnace called hell, and that all the wicked are
to roast in it forever. Preaching the badness of
'God never got a person into the kingdom class; b Hawen a ~ c r c r r u k ?
b u t preaching God as He is, proclaiming His T H ~heaven which Miss Graham describes d
a wonderful place, where disembodied spirgoodness, will do wonders.-Romans 2 :4.
.
its, fairer than mortal mind can conceive, roam
"If I beliwed in that dread p b
at will, untroubled by considerations of money,
m e r e billions writhe in pain,
:
t time o r weather. We suppose the spirits rrhieh
In untold agonies of woe,
she saw are the same that the Metbodia biahop
I'd never m i l e again.
described as being "without body, sham or
parts;
without exterior and without interior,
T
f I believed my friends wem .them,
and a million could be put into a nutahall."
The thought would crush my brain;
The Bible gives ample pmof that there is no
I'd c u m the day that I mu born,
And n m r amib a p k
such thing as intelligence- without a body. Hrrmanity cannot think withoat a body. God H d
CIiIbdi.rtdonedauthf?m,
self has a body-a spirit body; it is an orgosc
I'd weep my eyes away ;
ism,
of the divine nature. That spirit beingo
I would not want my gmahrt fm
are
invisible
to the human eye means nothing;
DnaU then, a singls day.
-.
electrons
and
atoms are invisible to the naked
J
T d wish the world had ncrsr been,
eye; we do not see the & in our siria, The
Nor ever brcathed mankind;
vibmtory rate of certain colors is m great that
-.
I'd wbh oar race would arsa to livethey are invisible to the human eye.
Die-body, md, md mind."
St. Peter claims that the Church w i l l have tho'
divine nature in the resurrection, and St John
Could I bdicns that p o + ~ dhbn
tells ua that jast what we ahall be in the re=IVould wear so foul a stain,
Be m unkind, unwise, unjust,
rection is not comprehanded by as now. He
I'd never anile again1
says : Y t doth not r e t appear what we shall be
[in the resurrection] : but we know that, when
As the plan of God begins to dawn upon the he shall appear, we ahall be like him; for we
mind, the doctrines of demons begin to flee away. shall see him as he is." (1John 3 :2) And Paul
TVhat interest could there be in the demons, the says that Christ is now "the express image of
*spirits," proclaiming the truth on this subject: his [the Fatheis] person."-Hebrews
1: 3.
t h t there is no hell-of tol-ment I The "lake of
Another item of superwisdom doled off
fire and brimstone" theory has been painted in . the psychic from the demon spirits is that while
such black colors, its unreasonableness rrnd m- we are asleep the spirit world has a far greater
scripturnlness shown so long- by Bible Students, opportunity of controlling the subconscions
that no one takes it seriously m y more; and to mind. "Happy marriages," she says, "are genattract attention nnci be listened to the demons erally the result of sonle previous spirit commumutt no longer proc:ldm anything so unpopular nication between the souls of persons on earth
a s Itell-fire and eternal tonuent for the \\icked. before their bodies meet. This accounts for the
So to lead the unwary they once in a while strange feeling that lovers hare of- knowing
tell the truth, as they did i11 t l ~ eclnps of Jesus. each other so well in a short time."
But their trutlls are o t ~ l yI:alt' truths; they do
Perhaps the error in the above is the assampnot go aheacl and explain that "11cU" is an Eug- tion that the subconscious mind is something
lish word use to translate slreol and hudes, and separate and distinct from the person himself,

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a i d that when asleep the subconscious mind

rambles and roams until it meets another subeonscions mind, and finally it finds one that is
oongenial Then, when the bodies of those two
angenial sabconscioaa minds meet there is love
at &st sight 1
We have braha ;we have spinal columns ; we
have a nehvork of nerves. The law of our nature ia that the nerves through the senses conutitute an elaborate and intricate channel of
mmmunication between every part of the body
and the brain by way of the spinal cord. God
made the heart and liver and stomach and kidneyr to function without thou&
The blood
flows, and the different glands perform their
work without our thinln'ng about it. I t is the
involuntary functioning of certain parts of our
bodies that were made that way by God. And
we may rest assured that if our bodies die, as
for instance, when the lungs cease to function,
tbe subconscious mind,which is dependent upon
the nerves and brain and backbone of the individual, is also dead-if there is such a thing.

SpirUPhenomena Exp&ined
E WOULD be at a loss to explain "spirit
phenomena" were it not for the Bible.
There we are informed that the "epirits" are
really spirit beings (not the spirits, sods, or
mbconaciooa minds of humans)-spirit beings
which have hinds and bodies'suitable to their
nab; that these.were once in harmony with
God, but that prior to the flood of Noah's day
they used their power to materialize and have
direct communion with.'hnman beings, corrupting them and turning the world into wickedness.
The spirit-materialized fathers and the human
mothers produced a hybrid race; and the flood
came to destroy this mongrel,'unauthorized race
of people.-Genesis 6 :1-6.
At the flood the hybrid progeny of the "angels
which kept not their k t estate" perished, but
the angels (now bad and known as demons)
dematerialized to save themselves from destmction and were agnin spirit beings. On account
of being out of harmony with the law of God
they were restrained in oar atmosphere and not
permitted to enjoy the privileges of the universe as before.
- St. Peter says: "God spared not the angels
that sinned, but cast them down to hell [Greek,
krrtaw; our atmosphers-not hell], and deliv-

ered them into chains of darkness [confined them

in environments where learning wisdom from
God would be an imp6sssibility], to be resemed
unto judgment." (2 Peter 2: 4) The final d e c k '
ion respecting these fallen angels has not been
determined; these are the ones who are to b.
judged by the glorified Church. (1 Corinthians
6: 3) No doubt some of them will turn to righteousness, while many will be destroyed with
the devil and his' angels.
are*
But the point is, that these fallen an&
now in our atmosphere. They are at the bottom
of all spiritism, dances, fortune-telling, telep
athy, clairvoyance, and all spirit communiodr
tion at the present time. They are at the bob
tom of solar biology, astrology, occultism, d
mediumistic phenomena They are at the bottom of every God-dishonoring creed and belief,
foolish theory, and snperstitioa They are in
league with and promoters of dl dishonesty, ,
unchastity, last, and crime. Their smnsament
is playing horse with the human family; and
the brainier their dupes the greater are thdr
sportive festivals.
When Satan is bound for a thousand yeam,
all evil shall be restrained. m e n the fallen"
angels will not be permitted to peep or mattar; '
and then those who have been used aa m d m m
to communicate and write books, those who have
Wed their minds with the dynamic forces of
spiritualism, will h d their minda aa empty a8
wash-boilem and bass druma.
But the fountain of tmth will then be opened
for the i d l h g and blessing of all. peoples;
and then people will come to know God ind
praise Him for His wonderful wodca to the
children of men.
Men will b d themselves in the r e d o n
on earth, not in heaven; on terra h n a , and not
in any "spirit world" ; they will be eating pot&toes and cabbage, and not angel food; they may
be sailing around in a flying machine, but certainly not with wings ; they will h d the earth
an extremely delightful place on which to live,
and so enjoy it that they w i l l wish to live here
forever; and they will thank God with their
whole hearts when they find that that is exactly
what He has provided for them-when life and
liberty and happiness are opened up for them
by an all-wise God, brought about through the
redemption of Jesus Christ and in His glorioo1
kingdom.

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asWe may be sure that these faithful, holy was what they actually saw and experienced that
angels, as God's instruments, were carefully led them to this conclusion. The knowled@'
watching every step of Jesus from the time of gained by expkience, coupled with .the kno*
His birth up to the moment of His resurrection edge of the Scriptures subsequently aqaired by
With eagerness they would watch and wait to them, not only established beyond e doubt in
d if Jesus fully met all the requirements of their own minds the r e a m t i o n of thq Lord
s'&
law. They evidently knew that Hia full Jesus, but emboldened them to dealme the
compliance would meet with the marvelous re- message on every opportune d o n to othern
ward of a resurrection from the dead. It was and to emphasize this great doatrine of trrrth in
one of these faithful messengers that the Lord their epistles to the church.
sent from heaven to roll back the stone from the
door of the tomb at the resurrection of the
(3-ONS
ON
HARP
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Master. What great joy must have filled the
heavenly courta now when they beheld Jesly &eIait~nabletosupparatbrtthr.ngdrrrQbd
pprogrde
Jd
a
by the power of God, triumphant over death and
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251.
the gravel
Might we expect them to b. looking for tha
-'Lucifer, who became S a w who had 0red011 d J
- ~ h r i s t r 257.
. been associated with the holy angels and who
Who was =t from hm ta rdI b.ck the rtoarr fnrr
had seduced some of their feUow angels, had fm J d tomb? f 257.
k
When tho trimph d Jmaa w death urd tb.g m w
centuries opposed Jehovah and specially tried
a
i&-t .de&oy Jesus. Jesus had been sent into the ma
. orld that He might destroy the works of haven?
l257.
WW
thsrsrvrectlanabJ~lllr~BL
f.Satas;mdnmr,haviagbnnrai.edfromth.
dbJ.bmL)rm
'"dead, He would u l w a t e l y "destroy him that had qrdd #trimPh
.nd
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power of,death, that is, the devil," which defP Ht aL. -)
a
h e t i o n would guarantee the deliv~nmaof the
(iinmpafr .
I
J
-.human race. (Hebrewu 2: 14) Now Jesus had th, h e r d , hortr r f t ~xir
.on. 1 268.
by
vht
it tb.t m
n
~
O. I.lr '
.'.. broken the bonds of death, being
Jehovah to power and glarp, demonstrating the rrdioll of J~ h r k t r1 259.
' fact that He was f w approved by Jehovah.
Being amvincd d His
him. did
. tbrf
He now proved that He was worthy to be prais- dect J d diaciplar in regard to pmalumny
tb,
ed; and without question He received the an- truth? U S Q .
limited praise of all the heavenly host. The

Revelator says: "And I beheld, and I heard the

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and the bensts and the elders: and the number
B R I ~ Td d : 91eesed are the p e m m :
of them was ten thousand times ten thousand,
for they shall be called the children of Clod.'
a d thonsands of thonsands ;saying Kith a loud
mestion :~f peacemakers
children of
voice, Worthy is the Lnmb that W= slain to who are the war
receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and
m s p e t your answer, please),lest yon offd
strength, ,and llonor, and glory, and blessing."the
Revelation 3: 11,12.
=*Itwas not their previous Laomledge of the
EVER& hmdred subscribers tent8ti+
Scriptures anal their faith in them that Christ
ordered '%pressions of Britainn in b o a
Jesus moult1 nrisc from the dead which induced form, but not enough to justify pabliortim;
the disciples to believe that He was risen, but it-ed the book wilt not be paMiahad.

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International Aspects of Prohibition

NE who looks at the world situation aan
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hardly fail to see that Britain need.
friends. The strife in Europe has destroyed

her markets or reduced them to such an extent

that more than a million men are chronically
out of work She needs to get Europe quickly
on her feet if she herself is to be able to endure
the strain much longer. In that work ehe needs
American cooperation and assistance. Uoyd
Qeorge came over here pleading for that very
thing; but while America listened, and applauded, and banqueted, the fact is that it has settled
back into its normal life-long attitude of dimtrust of Britain, and as wual it is Britain's
own fault
Written large across the average American's
opinion of Britain at this writing b the one
word NASSAU. Every h e r i c a n knows what
the word stands for. It is the center of Britain's
liquor fleet, a fleet which has as its whole object
the violation of American laws. Nassan, the
capital of the Bahama Islands, lies just off the
aoast of Florida From Nassau the fleet of
liquor-laden schooners sets out that later lies
oonstantly in Rum Row, up and down the aossts
of New Jersey, twelve milem out a t ma.
It is
very
for British
writera to comfort themselves with the o f t
repeated statements that these boata a- violating no law ;but they are doing somethi-g worse.
Bight at the time when peace and concord are
most to be desired among nations, and especialIp between the British and American nations,
they are serving to irritate h e r i a U I s eutremely.
Whether other peoples admire their coarse or
not, the American people have adopted national
prohibition. If Britain had adopted prohibition,
do you suppose the British Government would
utand for the infestation of its shores by liquorladen boats sent there by any other nation? In
no time there would be cm "Order in Council"
authorizing the eizure of every one of them.
The law^" for seizing them wonld be fonnd

afterward, but they would be seized .ny way,

law or no law.
In the year 1917, before ~rohibitionwss
adopted in America, Nassau cleared 37,821 gallons of liquor, which represents its normal enpply; but in the year 1922, owing to the activities
of the Nassau ram fleet, the number of gallons
had increased to 1,340,443; in other ward&
twen$-nine thirtieths of Nassau's lam was
being reshipped to be old to the bootleggem
that sneak out from American shore8 to h y of
the rum fleet at night.

NQUWtha Shamdear
ASSAU maker no pretense of hiding the
fact that its one claim to notice in ib fortunate geographical position for mnniving to
break American laws. A booklet issued by the
Nassau Development Board says:
"Since 1919 the baacan of the Oonrnment h e ,

largely owing to the eonditionr mpuPaning in the

United Stater car17 in 1920, tlndvgone r ~ondnrful
h~rovemmk
a
revenue for the P 1918-19
of 617,000) wm conbf a1,000 (involving a
d for the year 1921-22 into r menue of 450,000.
Ths rovenut for 192933 L estimated at E626,000, m d
the accumulated snrpl~sfun& of t
h oolony on Much
81, 1922, were f266,SlC The p a b h debt b Wing,
ll. pmddd for. T~~ h.w, rt.te oi .dtd,
mtuu
the ( 3 0 ~ ~ oompti,d,
t
*e
b d s at its
foe pnbb ~ p ~ e m U L ~
b N n g writ on theme u wid], u w b l a "

If the Nassau Development Board were men

of honor, with any intent of doing by their
neighbors aa they would like to be done by,
instead of refening to the above M "this happy
state of affaird' they would have styled it "thia
shameless and inexcusable state of affaird'; for
that it what it really amounts to. They know
where the whisky went, and so do Americaaa
A Britider who visited Nassau explains how
illegal double clearance papera for ships are
secnred. It is all a question of graft. A captain
clears with a cargo d liquor from N
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ostenm'bly for the French island of St. Piem

Miquelon.
"The captain goa out, d loafs about for two or
thns &p. Ee thm goes back md t r p l a i ~that hia
p r w i a c a w haa been m p d . Ha now -tr
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dearam for
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new
docnmentr. E@pped for
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at sa ha hu priedly wht
fmd
Hahg
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thO
lLip
hpdenu'
steer
to an
'Or'
in bdhut, w i t h papera to mpport ha st.tmmt that
rb6
had
M o d without -0."
It is the British flag that makes rum-running

'mad

possible. No h e r i c a n boat can carry rum in

any waters, and accordingly all the liquor boata
out of Nassan go away with the Union Jack
fluttering at the stern. That fine rense of honor
among natiom by whiah one nation is supposed
to have respect for the flag of another ia turned
into a base plan for helping to break Bmerican
laws. Every pemy mode in that way is a n d
in Britain's coffin,
So great t the trade off the Jersey coaat that
it wat mported in November, 1922, that at one
time there were 100 liquor vessels lying in Rum
Bow and that 35,000 cases of liquor were landed
in one night on the Jersey coast. One of the
staple industries of Nassau is sewing the liquor
flash into doth jacketa, for greater convenienoe
in hadling over the &,ipps ride in the open
roadatead.
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SIDES the liquor which is ahipped into
Eow from Nassau there are the big
vessels which sail direct from Glasgom or London to Rrun BOW. They are under bond to
deliver their cargoes elsewhere, but find it
profitable to forfeit bonds and even to sink the
ships after the cargoes are sold.
in R- &ow is
acting as a booze
a dangeroua business on accomt of American
hijackers. A hijacker is another name for a
pirate. Armed to the teeth a squad of hijackera
will board r rum vessel and take all its nrm
and all ita money too, and if resisted will not
hesitata to take life
On one occasion a rum schooner came back
to Nasuau with every man on board wearing
handcuffs. The schooner had fallen into the
hands of hijackers who had talren everything
hsd and left them with h a n d d e d handr

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to make their way painfdy b a a ss bed they

could. The way of the transgressor is hard.
It is not only from Naamu and from tho
transatlantic rum carriers that Britain ia gob
ting rum into the United States. The provims
of Quebec, Canada, imported during 1921mom
whisky than had been imported in t b t prodaring the entire ten years preceding. It need
hard1J be added that most of thia liqmor hdm
it8 way into
W t e d Stabr It a h a d
that at least a t h o w d cases coma w o r n th.
line near Detroit every men*-four houru.
- United States government officials have 6
mated that international bootleggsrr, as thq
are d e d , smuggle into the United States nine
million gallons of intoxicants each month. Britain
Jr~~ow
or may not h o w that the
powerfnl interests in the United States that
succeeded in hsvinS pmEbition adopted
c i r d t i n g literature arging nothing more nor
less than war between the two countries as the
only way of bringing Britain to her senaea But
some in Britain am beginning to think sefioaer)on the subject and the London Daily N e w saw:
8%
-&
th*
~ ~ ~man
l f i

,bwer t~

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the w m
tion, crs -d *thoat a oartsin
tha recard at
thae remukable t r a m d i o n a We ~
o at dlt rank
that the majority 02 Americana bar it w i t h growing
indignation. The merib or otherwise of Prohibition u
e policy hare very little to do with the queatiaa Hem
is a law p d by the Legisistars of the United Sk*
with the undoubted ament .nd mpport of the m s j e
of Americana; md a considerable number d BritLa
dj*
h o t e their "hole cmcrgis to ddating it
meT a f l m t h t
m m md wd
b.
t-a to =ate, mcking OSIOI~LLOPI profit out of the
enterprise, and doing it dl andm cover d the Brit*
h g . Technically, whiah-runaing to America nuy k
aa lawful at it ia undoubtedl~pmfiwle: we SUPpos3
in fact, it ia rn far ar thia country ia concerned. But
it t not ple'wlnt to think of the British flag being used
an a mere cover for the drink muggier, whiah, af* JZ
legal or not, ia what these people are.''
do,,,

war not rmpouribZs

HE Anti-Saloon League, which was the dl..

rect age,
that brought about prohibition
in the United States, is out with a book from
which we quote some belligerent paesages:
internatiod ribtion preaeated now ~sIndt
I
of the adoption of prohibitim by the United Stater d
America t far diflerent from tht pmmted more tb.o

8 handred years ago in America's effort to prohibit the

&ve trade, rime every great nation of the earth is now
committed to the policy of protecting and promoting
both national and
the interests of the liquor tr&,
international. It ie eelf-evident, therefore, that the
American foreign policy in dealing with the international smuggling of intoxicating liquors, must be a very
much stronger policy than that which wan nquird in
the case of the African slave trade.
"The ahation which presents itself today in unall
countries like Iceland, Norway, and Finland, ia worthy
of most careful consideration, especially in vien of the
fad that the international d M t i e a arising in those
countriea in connection with the handling of the liquor
problem are directly due to the f a d that those countries
have followed the example of the states or the federal
government of the United Statea of America .nd have
adopted prohibition.
"American patriotism meann that the American c i h
who professes and practises that virtue must be willing to
promote, to fight for, to live for, and if need be to die
for, those thinp which are recognized M fundamental
ud essential in American civilization. Among thaw
gmat fundamemtale first and forexnost L the right of
life, liberty and the pursuit of happineis, which mernq
the right of all men to be free and to enjoy the privileges of life and happinean whether they hsppen to be
born in New York city, in Au~tzalia,or in India. Another one of the great fundamentals t that of popular
pvernment-govemment of the people, by the people
md for the people, to which the signem of tha Decluation of Independence pledged their lives, their fortnner
m d their aimed honor. The very spirit of Americaninn
precludes the possibility of placing geographical limit.tiom on mch righta m d privileges. The poliq of the
American Qoremment for tha last one handred and
t k d y yeur in ita foreign relotiom har been to inrist
upon the recugnition of the fundamentab of the Americm Conatitution when mch fundament& hrvs bCCP3
eapouaed by omall nations.
"Spain, by the MO of a0anom.k w ~ p o n qhrr campelled Icaland to wpend her prohibition of the liquor
M c , for one year. Spain's prupon loeland in
this connection WPI jut u thnatening u if she had
avrounded Iceland with her warships. By thin action,
ander threat of what p r s c t i d y meant starvation to the
5sh industry, which ia the principal nustdnbg industry
of Iceland, Spain hu rbrolutely disregarded the right
of d-determination of mall natiom and hu cornpall4
Iocl.nd to accept Spmbh niaar sgainrt the protat of
her people and the attitude of her own legislative body.
Thve ir no clearer a s e in modern history, of the COOP
Eion of a mall nation by 8 lugor m d dxonger nation
came rituotion now tkreatenr k the cru of
Norway, where national prohibition hsr been decreed by
u j o r i t y rota of the dtiwr oi t h ~ coumt~~.
t
Hha~rana,

Spain and PortngaI have abrogated &eir trade txu8tfa

with Norway and are demanding that the will of tha
Nomegian people be overridden and that the national
Parliament of Nomay refuse to obey the i;;structiona
of the people, under threat of national economic boycott,
in the interest of French, Spanish and Portuguese win=
This action is in full harmony w i t h the poliq which hu
been purmed by Fronoe in other ~ K S ,one of the most
outstanding of which was Finland, where prohibition,
twice before adopted by the national legislative body,
wan defeated by French threats of economic boycott.
"If the United S t a h Government waa jusUed in
the lKonroe Dockine to protect American governmental
ideals in South and Central Ameria in the h t quarter
of the ninetenth century, what .boat the c ~ r r sof Iceland, Norway and Finland in thia the l h t quark of
the twentieth century, when them countries pre h g gling to uphold the ideala repnrmted in that portion
of our sacred charter known aa the Eighteenth Amendment to the Conatitution? If the Monroe Doctrine waa
j W e d in ita day, and if & comisbnt foreign policy
of the United States Government from the days of
Washington down to the p m t time hu bcan justified,
thm the hour han rlreody rtracL for a new &clamtian
and a nar application of ra old principle in American
foreign relations, for the pmtbctlon of the new ideals
which the American people have bmqmntsd into fundamental law."

The foregoing passages are nicely stated, but

their meaningis not at all obscure. They mean
to convey the idea that the United States should
not htyitate to face a whisky world in arms in
order to defend its prohibition policy, not only
on its own ahonr bat even ia Iceland, Norway,
or Finland. We may add that Poland is also
mentioned in the book, it having recently adopted prohibition Russia is not mentioned; but
Bwaia has h e n dry as a bone for many years.
W, generally, haa been in the dark; he
has been experimenting with imperfect twls
and materials; his knowledge has been limited
to his environrhent. But romance, curiosity and
adventure have sent him over hills and mountains, through valleys and quicksands, across
desarts and seas--combating wild beasts, wild
men, disease and starvation. In the conquest
he hae erected a commercial and political
rtmcture which has become topheavy. He has
not been staying "within the bounds of sstsblished fa&." But a better day is aming.
Experimentation gives place to realib. Christ's
kingdom ia the long-looked-for dominion in
which the desin of all nations ahall come.

M AN,

Man, Wonderful Mad

(A Satire)'

By F.C.Benjamin

Wondexful Man ! Supreme mln of lined clouds, to thrum golden harps, to discozmm
the universe and vicegerent of the heavens meet music and to remodel himself (again),
(?), thy achievements are indeed wonderful (1). into such a glorious thing that everything
When one &pa long enough in this day and will hail him as the supreme thing that built
age to hak back to the beginnin& rur taught by himself from mud-puppy to the great conqueror
many, and then follows the steps of man up and supreme product of all creation.
through the ages to the present, we must admit
Vain and gIorions, wonderful man 1 what
that his &evementa ABS wonderful. Then as an achievement l And well may all bow low to
ans follows him on into the fdnr% that he has tbee; for hast not thou done all this of thyaeli,
pmpsxed fw b e . . , it <a CRU~
beyond 8s well as built a whole universe of hell-fire and
comprehension to f d y appreciate and under- brimstone, a place of eternal torment for thy
stand his greatness, and one can but exclaim: fellow man who may not have believed thy bornMan, Wonderful Mat He not only makes the bast, o r have paid tribute to thy lnst, or been
earth his footstool, but towers among the plan- quite so fortunate in building himself to thy
ets, and rests his palm on the moon.
high estate?
Man, wonderful man 1 Look at the generosity,
Man has destined himself not only to build
up, improve manage and control this universe, love, wisdom, and consideration that individual
but to build up other vast universes for him- man has developed for the good of his feZlow
self, far greater and more glorious than any man ! Collectively there are millions of him ;and
work he has here achieved o r attempted.
has he not selected his own kith, kin, and creed
Consider the foundation and cammencement from this vast horde of beggars and sinners to
of man, as he sametimes explains it; and follow enjoy tbe future glory and power he has providhis jumps from inorganic to organia subdanee, ed and ordained for himself t Has he not aho
from jelly-fish, flying-fish, hoptoad, and on provided an everlasting warm place for his
throngh the fishes and reptiles, changing him- fortunate (1) fellow man, that he also may have
aelf from a cold-blooded reptile to a warm-blood- everIasting life (in torment) and "not sureb
ed animal, doing snch cumin little tricks as die" l i e a yellow dog? Man, wonderful man!
picking the eyes out of cocoanu s and drinking TOhave been so considerate for thy life-servaat
the fluid foa life sustenance, suspending himself who has provided the wherewithal to SUM
by his Iong flexible tail, and proving it all by the thy wants but made such a blooming failure in
fact that some of him are doing it yet.
endeavoring to Lift himself out of the slime and
And then by a simple little twist of the wriet _mire that lnst for temporal power here c a d
-no, of the hip-he
again revised his bone him to live in; snch kindness, such love l Wonremained
construction, discarded his tail, stood and walk- derful! (Better had the poor d*
ed erect, lived in caves and cliffs instead of tree- a ~nud-p~ppy.)
1s there any $ace of honor? or power, ar
tops, and later built mud-huts; and now he lives
in mansions of stone, cement, brick and steel throne that man's ambition and selfishness w i l l
not attempt to usurp and occupy? Can there be
of hi own construction.
Having acquired and developed speech, which anpthing that man will not adtievet Will mot
he now flashes around the world in seconds, he man's egotism always dominatet An inorganid
rides under the depths and throngh the air at substance that had no beginning but just lifted
d l . Yet man has left no trail that he can himself by his own efforts out of the slimy
follow positively to the source of his commence- depths, that just naturally were, into the silverment as taught by many of the intelligent (?), lined clouds, that also just naturally are, surely
both in and out of his schools and colleges.
can have no limits. Man,wonderful man! When
Taking all the numerous accomplishments is thine equdl
Thou most vain, egotistical, ambitions, seasb,
that man has acquired into consideration, with
w& a beginning, is i t vain to contemplate his tyranical, pompons, inglorious sinner of
aspirations and dtimste destination? He creation, well it is that thou art instructed bs
befon
expect8 to make an angel of himself, to pass remove the beam from thine own
through space at the rate of a billion miles or attempting to remove the mote from thy bra*
mom s second, to alight on the ba&
of silver- er's eya n o n hsst builded t m p l e ~of g l e q

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for thine own covering, and prison homes of

torment for thy fellow man.
Thou hast harnessed the horse, the ox, the
ass, the dog, the goat and the iiiwer to thy
will. Thou hast built thyself a calf of gold, and
enslaved and debased thy fellow man for thy
worldly profit. Thou hast charged usury, and
formed customs that are an abomination. All
this hast thon done, and stood brazenly before
thine own altar and demanded that thou be
worshiped.
Man, wonderful man I Thine inconsistency ia
incomprehensible. Thou bast in thine imagination created f i c t i o n and distress and the whole
universe of eternal damnation for all that will
not pay tribute to thy selfish greed and grant
thee powers that thon hast claimed and attempted to usurp.
Man, wonderful man! "Where waet thon
when I laid the foundations of the earth1 Declare, if thou bast mderstanding. Who hath laid
the measure8 thereof, if thou knowest 1 or who

hath stretched the line upon i t ? Whereupon

are the foundations thereof fastened7 o r who
Hast thou
laid the corner stone thereof7
commanded the morning since thy days; and
caused the dayspring to know his place?
Canst thou bind the sweet infinences of Pleiades,
or loose the bands of Orion1
Who bath
put wisdom in the inward parts? o r who hath
given understanding to the heartl
Have
the gates of death opened unto thee? o r hast
thon seen the doors of the shadow of death?"
Man, wonderful man The vanity of thy
egotism is apparent; "for shall the work say
of him that made it, He made me not? o r shall
the thing framed say of him that framed it,
He had no understanding?"
"Come now, and let as reason tagether, aaith
the LORD;though yow sins be as scarlet, they
shall be as white as snow; though they be red
like crimson, they shall be as WOOLIt n
w~ o m m , ye BhaU eat the good of
the land.''

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Smashing Blow to Hypocrisy

NDER the above title the Trenton Evming . emphatic pbtest against the parading of H y p e .nd
Times,of last November 7 t 4 goes after I n b l m ~disguised
,
in the l i v q of God." "Of c m
the preachers for meddling in politics in that there ir
the
danger of
E m ~~
er11
There is getting to be more and 8 Continatal S n n d a Y A t h 8 n i h
co--ty.
But the voters want decent relaxation for
more dinrespect for the men of the cloth, and let-doan.
pr
nn th d. Clegymmwho
deservedly so. They have not enough of their politia
for won
in their vrmorv ight
wrll
own business to +e care of, and so they m u d
t.ct th.t &q mt
fam. thsil prclliv
busybody. The Bible has become to them a dry, b d oi -w
on the paopb
at
me
uninteresting book. They see nothing in it; so .kt,
T,, wy
,w
,
h t
a-t
they must busy themselves with something else. &odd be ~ r tam@re the people at hrgs 8 h 0 6 for
The preachers wanted to close everything down r 1- otupid Sunday. And certhly them h no more
tight on Sundays: Play houses, amusement hum in pmf-ionrl hrcbaI.1 than in golf or antornoanby
parks, bseeball, eh.-derything except boot bili4Z or =d.l-mongaring, or the o h
00 mmY of the P h r i s a "
The Times
legging, a s the prohibition issue did not enter -tlona
m p further: "If wmo s
t
a
only had ths -e
into the election to any appreciable extent.
to form the proper regulation of the lllla of Jcohol,
The Republicans have about 5,000 majority tbcrn e h t a
to the
th.t
in the county normally. The preachers backed b
,
,h,
a hind fuE
[ P lw l put
by the Trenton Council of Churches fixed the over th.p-t
crimbprovoking &erne Ipmhibitim]."
platform and helped to select candidates for
When people begin to think for themselves,
the winning side. But this time the winning
dde lost in praoticallya clean m e e p for the it is a healthy ign- TOOlong the cloth bas done
the l e d %into darkDemocrats, as against the preacher ring. In the thfing, the adv*g,
the abovu mentioned article it myn:
ness. A sorry day it will be for the preacher
-ton
ia not
have the gloom^ old-fdoned when his .job in gon+when his stewardship is
Puritanid S u n b y , after d. BY r, two-toone rots taken away; and he w i l l say: Y cannot dig;
tbr s ~ n epeople of thir community have entered thdr to beg I am ashamedm-Luke 16:3
. -.

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Peace h n g s for Children

DISARMING

the nursery of military t v

which tea& young ohildren their h
t lee
Eons in war, and which therefore make tbe
'deepest and most lasting impression upon their
minds, baa been widely recammended by international peace organizations and by teachers of
young children, as well as by parents.
There are other nursery influenoes as dangerom as toy guns. It is high time to disarm the
nursery and school of military eonga. The influence of such songs is as deep and ~ r slasting
aa that of military toys.
First impressions are h d to uproot But
the songs about army and navy forever, and
bombs bursting in air, are so familiar to all
that many people fail to recognize their true
ehmoter as leseons in wholeeale murder and
delight in wsrfm.
The earliest song tbs writer remembers ir
the gong the French girl Jeannette sings to her
soldier lover Jernnot, as he leaves for the war.
Its last lines are:
'#Oh,if I wen Queen of France,
Or, utill better, Pope of Bomq
Pd have no fighting men abroad,
No weeping maids at home I
All the world W d be at peace;'

BY Atice Para

Or if kings must show thefr mfgli4'

Then let those who ma'--the qusrzdr
Be the anly onea to h,;iit;
Yes, let those who make the qnsrnlr
Be the ody ones to Sght.''
When anyone wishes to arrange r p r o m
for peace exercises for schools, it is extremdz
dificuit to h d appropriate songs in the o r d i
nary books. The demand haa been for nu
songs, and therefore the books lit the demand.
A new demand for peace songs will result in
their creation and eventually in f-ty
with them.
As admiratitm for war and for t h m who
fight has been deliberately and systematicall1;
cultivated, so now peace education may be int&

Eigently and pm6tably cultivated.

Music haa dwaya been recognized ar stimulating to the emotions and m to action. It har
been used in all countries to allure and to stir
soldiers, and even to prepare the futtus
eration to be soldiem.
Songs ean be used and should be used to
teach all children a belief in peace, the benefits
of peace, the human happiness of peace, as well
an an enthusiasm for peace and individual
pledges to live for peace.

Is the United States a Christian Nation? By C h .H e w 9 ~ a s t

Wow the Lnrd in thrf Spirit: d where the Spirit of the Lord is, there k UBKETY."-S~.
Pad

I T S the introduction of 2 Corinthians

W
3: 17
above) I
like to d
attention to an incident which occurred during
(as

would

1921. That prince of humorists--and at the

same time logician-4eorge Bernard Shaw, on
being invited to the United States replied in
this fashion :
''No! I Imow when I
safe; and
is out of
herim
remember
I
the kaiser -7

Libere

war play: 'The

Of
is in P r o p
place--on Liberty's tomb.' Was I m n g ? What 8
Deb rrnd prond of - m ~ 1vr
Bfraid
tao eiuy."

The English poet, W i i Wabon, tbinting

along the same line, writes:
" R m d thing of f o e ,
HOWstrange at lad thy doam;
Libertfs imLeft to adorn h q tomb."
,
IQ(

'

So Englishmen ridicule American liberty! I

have before me as I write a thirty-two-paga
pamphlet, a page for a prisoner, which someone has sent me. The pamphlet is styled 'Tublio Opinion" and contains over sixty editoriala
from the daily press, secular and religious msg.
azines, advocating the release of the thirty-twa
politid prisoners who until recently were held
in Leavenworth penitentiary and who w e n
-der the idamoasEspionege A&,
long rince suspended until the next war.
Knowing that T m QQLDEB AQBhas been a
consistent pleader for the releaae of politic&
-though, of course, for broader humanitarisn
nnd Christian reasons-I decided that if you
would permit me I would like to set down them
facts, and also soma m e s that have come to
my attention.
-

Intending Rgum on MentatW

GOLDEN AGE
h'B'grahal.ootbcregaaprrbarthrmsehafrr

THE

figures that I have refe~enceto are Army

records which show the mental stat- of
the men of the army at the time they were
called into 8erpice. According to Dr. William
J. Mayo's figures the result of the mental examination shows the followinn:
Class A men, mental age 18 or
Class B men, "
" 16 to
C h a C plna,
"
" 14 to
c,
" " 13 to
Claaa C minun, *
" 11 to
Claaa D,
* ." 9 to

Ckerr D minum,

"

over, 41% or
18 8.0% or
16 15.2% or
14 25.0% or

160,000

300,000
640,000

-YlO,OOO
13 23.0% or 600,000
11 17.0% or 460,000
7 to 9 7.796 or 810,000

mpaior to their fellomin the army:

Qrrdr W
8.0%

White drdt Umy

Religiotu objecton
Patid objaoa

16.1%

Qm& 'A*

41%

12.8%

13.2%
M3%
"In their education there fr also an indication d h

guperiority of the conscientious objectors rs &own by

the following:
EighSQod

White drrft -7,

native born
u r n objectmu
Palitidobjecton

U8daatO

O
d
l
m
Call*
mndaats pmbgmd..C

1 %

0.1%

6.3%

1.6%
2.2%

L6%

9.2%

B.2%

78erewea~gmupdmen,nmalltobemm,but
endowed with superior mental ability, and p m s e d of
1
. 3,000,000 mperior education. Their qtwMcationn were mch tlmt
na ahodd lure looked tp thsm for guidance and leaderMr. Edward A. Lincoln, himself an army ex- .hip; yet their lot wad pmamtiau, im-t,
Qraminer, writing in The Nation for November 7, k Y e , d ~ ~ n

commenting on the army reports, says:

I . view of these facts and fignrea, why did
"There ia rr chapter in thin report wbiah dealr with this Qovernment keep these men in prison over
. military offendem, and in thin chapter may be found five years? Would a Christian nation h d thc intelligenca records made by the umocientiow obheartedly hold them in prison year after year,
jectors who were confined in the army prison at Leavenworth. These records, shown in the .ccampanying table, deaf to all appesls?
In answer I would repeat a Scripture text
indicate that the religious and political objecturn rrtsnd
and
add another: "Naw the Lord is that Spirit :
out intelligently. M a reparate race. 'A' @a
wen
three times aa frequent among the religiow objecton u and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
the general run of the draft umy, and among the polit- LIBEBTY"; and "If any man have not the Spirit
i
d objectom tha 'A' grades were ten tima .e frequent. of Christ,he is none of h . "

Bees and Apiculture

ONEX-BEES are insects belonging to the
H
order Hymenoptera Their body ia mp
ported by an external ekeleton of horny snb-

BY H.E. C O ~ ~ Y
6
mostly in the abdomen. By means of w l m k
muscles the amount of air which these tubea
aontain can be regulated and thus the inmet
ean control its specific gravity. Before f3ying
the bee takw in a certain amount of air.
The blind naturalist, Francois Huber, of
Geneva, discovered that bees feel, smell and
hear through their antennae. For a more complete description of the organs of the bee the
reader is referred to any of the many works on
the anatomy of the honey-bee.

stance, called chitine, covered with hairs which

nerve as organs of touch. The body of the bee
is divided into three sections: The head; the
thorax, bearing the wings and legs; and the
abdomen, containing the honey-sack, stomach,
bowels, and main breathing organa.
The bee has five eyes. On each side of the
head is a large composite eye made up of 6,300
mix-sided facets. These two composite eyes enable the bee to see objects a t a long distance
and easily to find its way home. The three Tirree Kinds of &a in a Cdony
amall oceUi, Manrie G i r r d of Paris claims,
EES do not live alone but in colonies or
are for use inside the hive and to enable the
hives. During the Summer season there
bee to distinguish objects at short distances.
will be found three kinds of bees in the n o d
The lungs of the bee consist of rerial tube4 aoiony: The drone or d e bee; tb queen or
,

female bee; and the worker bee or aterile female.

The drones are larger than the worker beee,
and when in the air make a loud and distinct
noise. They do not sting. It takes only 2,000
of them to make a pound, while it takes, acmrding to L'Abbe Collin, 5,100 worker bees to
make a pound. A good colony may contain
50,000 beea
The drones are very h e m eaten and usually
void their dejections in the hive. The worker
bees retain theirs until on the wing. Before the
aoming of Winter the worker beea drive all the
drones from the hive; and since they are not
allowed to rekter, they soon die of starvation.
This sounds not d i k e the driving of Adam
from the garden of Eden
The qneen is long and slender, and ia easily
recognized since ahe is so different from any
other bees in the colony. Except in rare instances only one queen will be found in a hive.
During the breeding season a good queen will
lay and deposit eggs to the number of 3,500
per day.
Mr. Dadant of Illinois observed a queen lay
nix egga in a minute. If a hen could be made to
do this it would take a ravenom eater to keep
up with her. I t takes twenty-one days for the
bees' egga to hatch and develop into fd-grown
bees. Therefore a strong colony will, in a good
season, have 73,500 cells occupied with brood.
I t takes 90,000 qneen eggs to occapy a mbia
inch; and these weigh 270 grains.
Thus a good queen depoaits every day between nix and nine graina of rich tissue-forming
matter. Assuming that she lays only aix grains
of eggs per day, this would mean that she l a p
twice her own weight each day, or more accnntely four timea, ainca half her weight was
egga to begin with. Proof of the above was
made by Cheshire yecus ago.
Whenever oar poultry experts aucceed ip perfecting a hen that can q u a 1 the queen bee, then
there will never be any more danger of a food
mhortage. This may be accomplished in d ' r
now day, the Golden a g a
The qneen lays two kinds of eggr, fertilized
and unfertilized. The former egg produces the
worker or queen, while the latter produces the
male bee only. Proof of this haa been determined by microscopic examination. None of our
raientib men have been able to explain how

this can be done; hence I will leave this puzzle

for the ancient worthies to unravel in the near
future, when they are resurrected.
The qneen may live and do good work for
four years, which is a long span compared with
the average life of the worker, which lives only
three weeks during the honey flow. In poetic
language Romaine Van de Poele has described
the toilsome lot of the qneen, which takes awax
some of its legendary charm:

'Torken, 0 sisters, striving near,

Envy not me whom ye serve here,
Queen but in name. A davg 1 6.U
The endless cradles of your will.
Proudly I soared up to the sun,
And with my lover bold was one.
But for that rapturow moment I
Burdenr must bear, and prisoner dia
You may fare forth to nectar sip
On many roft and bloomy lip;
Xay rest on many a golden heart,
t flow'ry dream to stact
Causing i
Workers, 0 sisters, striving near,
E n q not me whom ye wrve hera
Queenam1nons;Istriw~to~
The endlew a d l e a of your will,
No more the blw, when yon take flight,
Only my dresmr md andha night."

Every worker could have developed into a

queen had it been given the privilege. After the
worker l a m are three days old, the nurse beer
begin feeding them a coarser food than that
given the qneen larva This delays their growth
h e days.
The worker bee does all the work to be done
in a beehive. She gathers the honey, builds
mmb as needed, carries the water, nurses the
young, attacks and drives away enemies, and
in warm weather keeps a steady current of air
flowing both in and out of the hive to keep
down the temperature; and in winter, also, she
must keep the temperature n o d Thus in
the beehive the "women" (workers) do all the
work, while the "men" (drones) do nothing but
loaf around and eat.
The worker bee is very self-sacrificing. She
will starve to death herself before ahe will let
the qneen otarve. In a number of instances
where hires have become short on stores in the
Spring the queen alone has been found alive.
kr proof of this I quote from the London Qw-

terty Review;

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hive having early u h a d ita h r.s found

Bowever, there are $imer when bees otillg
one m e .
The oomb
aorse than at other h a : During a dearth of
t e ,
af life W a r the Par queen her& 'm- nectar, when mbhg gets started in the apiary,
d 7
f r i w m-oly,
dow,' crawl- over the hone~lit is damp rrd M y , -d early in tb
-9
a
Of the
Of
Spring. Bees seem to sting oome people mam
rmOng
of Cart-NaPOleon
Fontah'than o#era Those who
&raid of Bees and
bhu-wm nothiag to thk."
who stand a t r good distance from the hive am

...

me

Raba of Beea

J~~~

in his

w o hon Virginia#*

more h M e to be stung ham ie the one who M

opening the hive. The old English writer, Bptgooddvios to
who
1"give8
bees. He Sam q~o*
from ~
~
~
~
7.fthou wilt hove the iova d thy beeq tht they
tbes aZ hn molt avoid
thrm:
imcbut. or ucleanly; im
impurity
(themdm kg
mod

Jaims that the honey-bee is not a native of

b e d c a Tradition holds that it was b r a g h t
from Europe; but when md by whom i s not
known. When John Eliot translated the Bible
into the lanmage of the brigines of North
America
m d d find no words to q s 8 the and neat) they utterly abhor; thou must not come
terms Bomy and wax.
among them m n e b g of meat (this in important), or
Bas were imported into Florida previoar to having s
brarth. . . man mnst ad
1763, and appeared in KentncAy in 1780, and in p e g or blowing among them, neither M y .tir
New York in 1793. These bees rre the same as
them, nor d u t e l y defend thyself w h tiaJ
to threaten h;
but -7
move W b.1Pd
the common bee of Europe and come under the
by-"
eCienMc term, Apis Melma. They are blanh
free, WY
or grayish in odor. They are fcrand in Central The same writer srys fnrther :
h p e and throughout America However,
'If pa rant to catch any of tbs baa, arbs B bold
these bees are being fast snpplanted by the raeep at them with your hand; md if you cat& then
without p m i n g them, they w i l l not eting. I h m ro
LiguStica
Italian been were h t imported to another a u g h t three or four at a h e . If p w a d b do P1)bee, acih him 'M if ifJ4
-try
by Captain Baldenstein of Switzerland. thing to a
@ bil
to
Them bees were h t imported bt,o America in beheezl pour 6nger
1859 by Mr. Wagner and Mr. Richard Colvin, the
and
cannot
~ w ?
of Baltimore, who secured them from DzizeronJ~
to
the bee
cannot sting ~0 long
the breath is held; f~
apiary in Amtria. ~h~ ltalim bee is
handled than the this closes the pores of the skin. If there is a
more indwtfions and
"doubting Thomas" u ~ b o n gmy readers let bim
black bee.
The CarnoIian bee was introduced into thie t~ itA horae when assailed by bees is often U e d .
country in 1884 It hara not become very widely
distributed, although it is said to possess many Mr. Chaselhdant a Y s that "mstead of rmning
good traits. A stingless bee is said ta &t in away, U e other animals, it will PIMP and
Mexico and
h e r i m Mr. Benton 0kick anti1 it falls overpowered." 'We know/'
tried to import fi.om India mme giant bees he says further, "of a horse, which happened to
which he claims build their comb five to sk feet be loose in a bee-yard, that was attacked by a
in length and from three to four feet wide. few bees. In trying to defend himself against
Other races of bees are the Caucasians, Banata, them by kicking and rolling he upset one hire
m s i a n s , Egyptimq Cypriang and S y r i u . and then another, till tens of thousands of bees
assailed him; and the poor animal mas &ung
Bees Will Sting
to death before his owner could come to the
might easily U e fir&
as
rescue." T6e horse might have lived if proper
universal favorite among insects if it c d d treatment had been administered.
be rid of one bad habit, that of stinging. The
Mr. .Chalon Fowls, of Ohio, had a horse stagentle r- of Italian bees rarely sting if p r o p tioned among the hives. He began to plunge
erly approached and handled. The experienced and kick; and before Mr. Fowls could get to
bee-man may go through a whole eeason with- him the horse was literally covered with stinp.
out being stung.
&e nnhitched and led the anirnnl sway, and

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a GOLDEN AGE

~ h m a x m I.
, t

d e d for a boiler of hot water. Cloths wrung the Son and the holy spirit would doabtlesr
from thb hot water were applied to the trembling horse; and Mr. Fowls says that in a few
momenta his agony was relieved. Soon the horse
was as well as ever.
To show the value of bees in defensive warfnre Della Rocca tells of how a small corsair
equipped with only f o r b or fifty men was pursued and overtaken by a Turkish galley. As the
Turks boarded her the sailors threw some beehives from the masts down into the galley. The
Tarks were defenseleas against the bees, while
the men of the corsair were \equipped with
masks and gloves and easily took possession
of the galley.
It is said that once when Amuraf emperor
of Turkey, was besieging Alba, he ordered the
Janissaries, his bravest troops, to clear a
breach, which had been made in the wall, of
mme beehives. The troops refused
The queen bee rarely if ever stings. However,
there are exceptions to almost all rules, as the
following quotation from Mr. W. & H. ailstrap
of California provas:
uOnce a very joung virgin queen that atung me mu
wall developed uid lrhr proved to be a good queen for
bmbsa The other virgin, a h v q young, that stung
m, w u from a goad-looking alLn
In the dawning New Era we may expect the
bee to lose the desire to sting; and then the
raying will be: "0 Bee, where is thy sting?*

H k h n Apialp E@uiPmcnt'
HE modem bellows bee smoker, invented by
Qninby, has aided wonderfay in the de-

velopment of modern apiculture. With it the

most irritable colony of bees can be frightened
into submission. The amoke causes them to
gorge with honey, and a full bee like a full man
b not inclined to fight Bees can also be frightmed by a carbohed sheet placed over the hive.
The modern beehive was the invention of
I* &. Lmgstroth, a Congregationalist minister.
He was granted a patent to his invention; bat
mbsequent infringements and lawmite deprived
him of all the profits from the invention. Mr.
Langstroth's constructive work in bee culture,
I am mare, overbalsnces all the negative r e s d b
04 his preaching. (Some of the intelligent
ministers, ss he, would no doubt make good
bee-keepers; but many of the more stupid type
who cannot yet diatinguiah between the Father,

accomplish more as agrarian swains.)

The modern beehive is so constructed that
each comb can be removed without disturbing
any of the other combs of the hive. The lower
compartment of the hive is called the brood
chamber. The snrplus honey which the colony
produces is stored in the upper story above the
brood nest. All the bees may be removed from
thia super by means of a bee escape being
placed between it and the brood neat in the
evening and left there until morning.
Comb foundation, mhich was invented
Johannea Mehring, of Germany, enable8 the
apiarist to force the bees to build straight
combs in the frame hive. Recently aluminum
honeycomb has been placed on the market to
take the place of foundation. I t possesses many
advantages over wax honeycomb in that it will
not melt down in warm weather; it a n n o t be
destroyed by web-works ; it saves the bees much
labor, as i t takes about ten pounda of honey;
to make a pound of wax; i t preventa the rearc
ing of drones, eta
I n 1865 Major de Hwckks of Doh, Italy,
invented "I1 Smelutore," the honey-extractor.
Thia is a machine which separates the honey
from the comb by centrifugal force after the
cappinga have been removed by a M
e
.After
passing through the machine the combs m y be
returned to the bees to be refilled. This ssvw
them an immense arnonnt of labor, and enrrbba
them to produce much more honey than where
they are compelled to build a new set of wmlm
each time the honey is taken from them.
Since the advent of the honey-extractor hekeepers are enabled to produce honey by the
ton and to sell it a t only a few cents a pound.
Many less essential inventions than the foregoing have been placed on the market. Some
of them are : The wax press, the capping melter,
the electrio wire imbedder, the steam and el*
tric uncapping knife, the solar wax extractor,
the bee veil, and the swarm catcher.

H o w Mucttbn

ITH the modern inventions of our day

bee-keeping haa become a profitable commercial pursuit. Our census reports and the
other statistics which we have at hand are not
reliable in giving us an accurate idea of the
extent of bee-keeping over the world. It ir

known, however, that there are over 4,000,000

colonies of bees in the United States, worth
8omething over $10,000,000. Interest in this
pursuit is steadily increasing everywhere.
Texaa leads aa a honey-producing state; but
since Mr. J. 6. Harbison introduced bees into
Califonria in 1857, the industry has made immense strides there. At that time he took 116
colonies from Pennsylvania by way of the Panama railroad to Sacramento. He lost six colonies, but was able to find a ready sale at $100
per colony for those which he did not wish
to keep.
The late Mr. E. W. Alexander, of Delanson,
N. Y., kept 700 colonies in one apiary. This is
the largest apiary in the world; and in a good
season Mr. Alexander hse harvested 70$00
pounds of honey from it. Mr. Kirkpatrick harvested 1,320 pounds of honey from eleven colonies, all of which they stored in eleven days.
Last year in South Dakota Mr. Morgan made
an average of 616 sections (one pound eachf.
from his apiary, Spring count
We can appreciate better the immense amount
of work these figures represent when we learn
that one bee mast make 55,000 round trips to
bring one pound of honey to the hive, and that
this pound of meet represents the d e c t e d n w
tar from more than 600,000 separate blosaoma.

How Ihcmaw b Mi&

N YEARS past the bee-keeper made increase
by allowing his bees to swarm. Hiving these
ma,rmswas often =cult.
Once a Mr. Foolkeq

of Louisiana, had a swarm settle on a high

limb of a tree. He placed a hive under the limb
and used his shotgun to dislodge them. Accidentally a shot hit the queen's wing, clipping it;
and she fell to the ground with the swarm,and
was hived.
There is a superstition that the beating of
tin-pans will make a swam settle. However,
this is like many other false suppositions and
deserves with the hemre and other such superstitions to be dropped from the memory of man.
The bee-keeper now prevents his bees from
marming by giving them sdicient room and
ventilation. The comb8 are also examined for
queen cells in the Spring, and these are pinched
off. Where the apiarist wishes to increase the
number of his colonies he may divide them by
the Pellett method, the Alexander method, the

shake-swarming method, or by some other modern way. -

Separate Avrutt
LONG Kith the increase in honey produotion has came an increase in queen-rearing.
The honey producer, as a mle, is too busy to
rear his own queens, and hence purchases them
Queen--

from a large breeder at one dollar each, in most

caees. Every other year he requeena his colonies so as to insure that each colony has a
strong and vigoroua queen.
Last year the Stover Apiaries, of Mississippi,
reared 17,000 queens ;and there are other breeders throughout the United States who produce
like numbers. These queens are reared in mall
nnclei hivea h u t one-third 8s large M the
standard hiw. Afte!rthey have mated in these
hives and have begun laying, they are ready
to ship.
For shipment the queens, with about twelve
worker bees, are placed in a amall mailing a g e
which contains queencage candy, nude from
honey and sugar. If the worker bees were not
placed with the queen, she would die in a few
horns. Queens have been sent in mailing cages
from Boston to China, and from Italy to Hamilton, Illinois, and other places.
Honey producers in the North often went
bees as well aa queens, and the nuclei and pound
package business has developed along with the
queen business. Mr. Anlt, of Teurs, ships thousands of pounds of bees each year to his mtbrne~s
'in%B NO-& m&'hbssaha-, 8;nh xmis9
other Southern breeders are h d i n g this businass profitable. Been u s d y sell for three dollars per pound.

DSseewea and Other Enemies of Beea .

HE bee in some localities has never been

affected by disease, but in many localities

foul brood has wrought havoc to the industry
and p1.8ctically destroyed many large apiaries.
Dr. White, of Washington, discovered that there
are two kinds of foul brood-American and
European. American is the more diBcdt to
cure; and in order to rid an apiary of it, dl
the brood of the colony in which it exists mnst
be destroyed. European foul brood may be
cured by removing the queen from the colony
until time has been given to clean the combo of
all dead hma

GOLDEN AGE
In the warm region of Italy Lice are found on
beea. In New Zealand 7d other parts of the
world bees have been a wked by a paralysis
often called the Isle of b' ght disease. Where
colonies are weak they
SU~c-b to the
attacks of the beemoth, which burrows into
their combs and destroys them.
m e r e the entmnce to the hive is too large,
Inice sometimes enter and do much damage.
Very few birds are fond of bees; but the kingbird is said to devour them by the scores. The
garden toad has often been observed eating
bees. Bears are fond of honey, and often d e
strop beehives to obtain their favorite sweet.
A Muscovite ambassador to Rome relates the
following amusing incident:

(Exodus E 8, 17; 13 :5 ; Deuteronomy 6 :3 ;

11:9; 27: 3; Joshua 5; 6, etc.) John the B a p
tist, the forerunner of Jesus, lived on l o c u b
and wild honey.-Matthew 3: 4.
Many of the Egyptian tombs have been found
to contain honey. In the British Museum on
the sarcophagus containing the mummilied re-s
of ag
Mycerinus will be fomd a hieroglyphic be. The ancient Greek8 were fond of
honey.
~~d~~ honey is ooming
to
valuable sweet. I t contains vitamine B, which
protection ag*st an+
is daimed to be a
mia and beririberi
men~~~~~b
cmardined with Pollio
Elumilius on his hundredth birthday the EmneiBhaor of mine in e
g in
wO0d.E for peror inqnired how he p r e e m his
of
h m e ~ ?llippd dm into a mthOLlOw 4
body.
pOuo
replid:
"Ide&
ne,lJe,
d
rank into a lake of honey up to the breast.
'Wter he bad been them two dap a bsu came to exterius oleoM-Internally by honey, externally
OiL
the -a
To get the honey the bear lowered hixumlf
Cakes
made with honey will not become hard
into the
T& nun grsbm b,and f r i g h ~ ,
with age; for honey absorbs moisture from the
the a n i d
6
m
held on;
palled,
air. Honey vinegar is superior to all other
main force he h& drrm the msn ant ab the mire; kinds of vinegar, including wine vinegar. In
and then being let go, away he troth& more afraid than Denmark and Hanover girls having chloroais
haut, leaving the a n d swrin in a joyful fear."
are sent to the country to take exercise and
Ants often frequent around beehives, but eat honeyThis would doubtless also be a sure cure for
except in tropid wuntries they rarelyQ any
the gout, to which many "Doctors of Divinity"
are subjected. According to Mr. Woiblet washing the hands with honey-sweetened water will
Honey (the Original Sweet) Ita Food Value
ENTIJRIES before the first sugar refinerg kill warts. The writer believes that this gentlebe infallible the Popenaa built, Jacob sent to his unrecognized man
will
no doubt be one of the perfect
Honey
son, the chief ruler of Egypt, some honey together with some other items. (Genesis 43 :11) foods of the Golden age. When made from perThe phrase, "a land flowing with milk and fect flowers by perfect bees it will surely be
honey," ia frequently used in the old Testament. the sweet of sweets.

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Answers from the Street

of a New Pork paper

A CORRESPONDENT
went forth with his camera net long ago,
and as he approached people he propounded
this question: "Does the fear of eternal punishment deter us from wrongdoing more than manmade laws tn Those answering would then pose
for the piatura The answers were about evenly
divided between "yes" and "no."
But their reasons show the great necessity
for a knowledge of the truth of the Bible-not
one of them setting forth the truth on the subject. Perhaps, if any did approximate the truth

his picture was not taken and his a n m r was

passed by. Should we not be taught right principles so that rightdoing would be a matter of
choice irrespective of any present or future
rewardt
Teaching the desirability of righteousness
ahall be the great work of the Millennium; and
by it8 close no one will refrain from wrongdoing
for fear of any punishment, but he will do right,
do justly, love his neighbor as himself, for the
love of it, for the real pleasure he can get out
of it for himseE

N Y O at
~
interested in modern d d A
opments realizes the gimt rtrida made
daring the past fifty years in invention. The
all

wireless, telephone, sewing machines, IWRIOtives, aeroplanes, and other various inventions
have been perfected to the degree that they are
considered indispensable.
As inventions are continually being bmnght
into operation, we look for a time when the race
will be independent. Some have suggested that
when the Golden age opens up, they would not
be snrprised if man wodd have to work only
four honrs per day to accomplish his daily routine work.
We wodd say that four hours would be too
many honrs to spend in manual labor, if efforts
continue to be made to lessen the amount of
manual labor. An eight-hour day fifty years
ago was unheard of. In fact, mch a suggestion
to an employer was almost an invitation for a
time-check.
Foremast in the developments made during
the past epoch of invention, is the wonderful
uses ta which the air is p u t We all know what
miracles 'kmessed electricity" has done; but
we have not given much thought to air, perhaps
because it has not been called to our attention
so forcibly aa has ebetricity, which has its use
in our homes to snch a large extent.
Those who seldom have an opportunity to see
"harnessed air" in operation would perhaps enjoy knowing what wonderful things air can sccomplish when put to the test. An illustration
with which we are all familiar would give a
good introduction to this interesting subject.
Pneumatic tubes are in use in nearly every
department store and in many of the smaller
and exclusive stores as well, for making change,
where the cashier is on the first floor and you
are making a purchase on the top one.
But perhaps the tubes are better made use of
in general offices and in telegraph offices. Where
an office building is fourteen or fifteen stories
high, the tubes are almost a necessity.
If an office located on the second story wishes
to send a message to the top floor, the telephone
could be used, it is true ;but there wodd be the
time consumed in getting connections, and then
perhaps the message would be so long that it
would take a great deal of time to give it over
the phone. So what would be more convenient

thnn to alip the messsge inta D e tube, and yoparty would be reading it a few seoandr btart

Cornpremed Air H a Mmy( U w

THERE are Inany places where air is ord

very extensively; one of these places is at
a railroad shop. Not that air is used alone, but
it is used along with the many other conveniences to "carry OIL"
If a person should go to a railroad shop on 8
visit, he would be surprised to see a "dead" locomotive put into motion by air being put into it.
But this is done very often, especially when an
engine has been standing outside the r o d
house for a considerable length of time, and
mnst necessarily be brought in for repairq or
fired up to make inspection so that it em be
placed in service.
h o t h e r engine can place the engine on t l ~ 9
turntable ;but after it is once on the table, and
the table is set so that the engine can be p h d
in the roundhouse, about the only way an engine
could be put into the house would be by "pin&
ing it in* with bars, or as is usually done,
mnnecting an air hose to the engine, iill it with
air, and then when the hose is disconnected, rrm
the engine into the house on its own power, jpa
as if it had steam pressure in the boiler.
If you should go into the roundhouse, you
would see welders cutting through a thickne~
of steel by means of a good chisel inserted into
an air-driven motor. Passing on a little further,
yon will see a boilermaker riveting some bolts
on the outside of an engine with an air hammer.
Previous to this he probably had cut out the old
bolts by the same means, using a chisel. You
might also see a machinist drilling a hole into
the tank of an engine, preparatory to inserting
some bolts.
Further down at the other end of the roundhouse, you might come across a crowd of men
gathered around a flat car that has been brought
into the house and is standing on one of the
tracks, loaded with engine and tank wheels. Yon
hear the sound of escaping steam, or what
sounds as snch to you; but really it is air
escaping when the wheels being lifted from the
car, by means of an overhead airdriven Boi~t,
are lowered to the floor. You mnst keep at a
safe distance from the work; for when in a
railroad hop, "Safety Firat" ia ~ r a c t h e dby dl.

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SOWEN AGE
Leaving the romdhonse, and going to the
repair track, where freight and passenger cars
are given repairs, you notice an air crane loadmg and unloading car wheels to and from flat
cars. After the wheels have been unloaded, a
maple of men take a pair of them and push
them down to a crossover track and stop, one
of the men going over to a post, opening an air
valve. The wheels being immediately over an
air jaok, it raises and lifts them from the
ground, so that the other man can turn them
, and 'line" them up with the crossover track he
intends to use, after which the air is released
and the wheels come down on the track and can
be rolled to the end of the track.
Going down the track further, you see some
men working on a coach. The coach has been
piaced directly over a pit which houses an immense air jack, used to lower wheels removed
from coaches, without making it necessary to
jack up the car. The old ones then can be repaired and replaced, or new ones applied.
A little further on a man is boring a hole
through a plank of wood two inches thick I n
less than half a minute, the hole ia through,
and he ia starting another. This is made possible by the use of an air motor in which the
motor bit ia inserted.

C M n g Cars with Sand

N THE further side of the repair track,
there appears to be a sand storm in progress, and you have the sensation of being on a
desert. Sand is falling all around yon, and you
instinctively place your hands before your eyes
to protect them. But an obliging gaide hands
you a pair of plain glass goggles, and you go
on in safety as far aa your eyes are concerned,
but a good stiB brosh will be necessary after
you leave.
When yon reach the track from whence all
the sand is coming, you fhd a Negro with a
long spout in his hand. A steady stream of sand
is pouring out of the spout, and is concentrated
on the metal frame of a ballaat atr need for
loading d p h u r . The man is gradually wearing
away the the rust that has accumulated; and
when he has finished the oar, the metal shines
as if it had been polished.
Now, on the car he has jart ftnished, another
Negro is spraying the frame just made clean
by the use of airdriven sand, or what is com-

monly called sandblast, with a h e coating of

what is termed "cement," but which is really a
paint that preserves the car for several years.
Air is also used to drive this paint against the
metal, and there is no spot that the paint does
not touch.
Now leaving the repair track, and going over
to the coach track where all passenger cars are
cleaned and supplied before being placed in outgoing trains, you see men using air as a vacuum
cleaner to clean out the coaches. Of course, this
is a common use; but it is mentioned merely to
let yon see in how many different ways air is
used at one place.
We are all familiar with the use to wbich air
is put in connection with stopping trains in
emergency. The air-braked trains have prevented many accidents that otherwise would
have proved fatal.
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Whitewmhing by Meam of Air

VERYTHING mentioned heretofore hap
pened in one day; in fact, it all happen.
nearly every day in every railroad ahop. In
the larger shops, this would not be a good d e
scription; for it would not cover halt the user
to which air is put.
There are many other waya that air can be
used, such as whitewashing the walls and roof
of the roundhouse, which is done eaoh pear.
One pipe serves as a container of the whits
wash mixture, and another furnishes the air to
spray the mixture. If the men desire to throw
the spray a little further, d that is necessary
is to turn on a little more air. Air is also rued
by the men in the machine shop each evening
before quitting work, to blow off the machines,
leaving them clean for the next day's work.
You might be inqnisitive and wish to learn
where all this air comes from. Surely you
would expect to find a high-powered motor,
perhaps an electric one, running continually to
accomplish all this; but nothing so great aa
that ir needed.
There are several large boilers in the boiler
room, one of which is always fired up, of course
at a minimum power at night on account of the
decreased demand for its use. This boiler furnisher p w e r te operate an air-compressor,
which supplies the air used in tha varioor
parts of the shopa

Jumrrr 3 ~ 4 1 0 ~

GOLDEN AGE

A reservoir tank is placed immediately outdde of the building, which is usually full of air;
and even if the air-compressor had to be shut
down for repairs, a satficient amount of air is
kept in this tank to last quite a while.
At about five o'clock the air-compressor automatically slows up, because the men discontinue
to use the air, except for testing the air-lines
on passenger trains. When an amount of air

has been used out of the reservoir, the compressor again starts operating until it refills
the tank to capacity.
There are various other things which could
be mentioned that would show us what 'tarnessed air" can accomplish; but what has been
written mill give a very good idea We wonder
if the '"miracles" mentioned should not make ar
rejoice in the results obtained.
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,"Peace, Be Still !" By ~

Canned Whole Wheat By May Darrow

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S \TEl3AT is robbed of much of its nutritious value in bread making, and as wheat

in itself contains most of the elements of which

our bodies are composed, we have sought a
method by which all of the wheat value is retained in our food. We recommend the following :
All that is needed for canning whole wheat
is a supply of good air-tight glass jars, a washboiler (with wooden rack for bottom of boiler
to place jars upon), and the wheat itself.
If one uses quart jars a common-sized boiler
will hold from twelve to fourteen jars. I f pint
jars are used, i t will hold from sixteen to eighteen. A pint will serve six people.
In wheat there is more or less chaff and
foreign seeds. Remove the seeds before wheat

is dampened. We take two or three quarts of

wheat at a time and wash it. Use a dish large
enough so that there will be two or three inches
of water above the wheat. The chaff will come
to the top on .stirring, then the water can be
poured off. Do this at least twice and you will
0nd the wheat very clean.
Now 6U your jars good half-full of the
washed wheat. To each quart jar add one tealpoonfd of salt and fill with cold water.
Place the cover on the jar the rame as for
my cold-packed fruit. Place jars in the boiler
on the rack Cover jars with cold water. After
it begins to boil cook for six hours. When you
take them from the boiler be anre that the jars
are sealed air-tight. PLace thorn in a cool p h
fer future use.
With good whole ailL tbir canned wheat ir
daliaioas; and with toast and coffee it makes
good breakfast. This procese it very much
batter than the old way of cooking it in a kettla.

I &d

r dmd m g

beside fair Galilee.

A ~dden
8Wet?p8.ths
I rce r v d y e straitened d;

,
I

I ree a crew, whore &orb fail

To b*g her d e l y thro' the gok
And One I see who ~ e e m sto sleep,
U d u of the rolling deep.
Oh1 can it be Thou hast forgot,
And for Thy loved o w carest not?
"'Mae&,'' I hear the anguhhed cry,
Wnlesr Thou esveat we mud die."
And then I tux Him M he Wds,
Eia loving face, His outspread hands.
I hear Hir whiupered "Peace9be stam
And waiting with my heart athrill
Bse wind and wave6 obey Hir dl,

The centurier haye rolled 8-7;

I stund beaide the au today.
The win& of atrife blow wild and ltrong,
While wrrar of trouble roll along.
And throy the bladmeaa of the night
The etonn increases in ite might
Our wiaest men in vain have tried.
Tostemtheridngofthistiaa
But One I ree who ~ e n u
to deep,
Unconacionr ei ths raging deep.
Oh1 can it be Thou hast forgot,
h n d for Thy children csrcst not?
Ah, no1 Hewsite t o h e a r t h cry, ,
'"Unleu Thou soveat we must die"
Then Ha who he& the qarro+n fall
Will m e r when His children d.
Through faith again I see Him stand;
I Uaten to His bled c o ~ d .
Enraphued now, I h o w thr thrill; .
For lo l I b a r Hia #'Peace, be still."
Through faith I nee a newborn world,
I KC Hib ilag of peace unfurled
And men in homage own Hie away,
whom Btormy win& and w8ow.

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Social Life of the Zulus

~ m d Nsw : T h e f o I I v w i n g u e ~ f r o m a ~ o n t h e U S w iLr fl f e d & Z o r a q " d d f r c n d ~ ~

in the NdJ A W . 1

0. Sunue.lson, Under S e m b q for Native A f h h , Natal, Bmth A f r i q and pub-

Chamh@ of Land
. Marriape Ciutonu
HE native polygamist is the husband d WTHEBE waa no i n d i r i d ~ownership of Lnd
era1 wives, whose statas and position t0under the native modes of government. The
wards
each other are independent and separab,
land was understood to belong to the whole corn
but
who
are uuited in the husband, who hu
munity, and no one had a right to diapose of the
entire
control
and power over all of them. For
soil from which the inhabitants derived their
the
formation
of each family a marriage in ab
support. The paramount chief had the nominal
cordance
with
local custom ia idispensable.
control and distribution of the land; but he had
no power to alienate it from the community, for
which he practically administered it as a truatee. Tlu Native Hut
HE construction of the native hut is symbal
Each tribs had its recojpbed area, controlled
ical. The definition of a thimble may to a
and managed by the chief through his subordicertain
degree be applied to the hut: A diminrc
nate officials and kraal heads; but the para^
ti=
truncated
cone, convex at the d
t
,
d
mount chief, aa head of the nation and trnstee
semi-perf
orated
with
symmetrical
indentatiofor the people, was regarded aa the owner of
the land and was so styled. Each chief of a The hut is symbolica1 of the system which eomtribe or head of a district held his recognized mences with the family.
The center-post is the chief; the companion
area as from the paramount chief, and he allob upright
posts represent the chiefs councilorm
. ted to every father of a family (kraalhead) a and advisers;
the horizontal beams which red
portion of arable land proportionate to his on the uprights are the auxiliaries of the &M,
wants.
his councilors and advisers in bearing up the
The land thus allotted was ensured to the tribal structure ;the frame work and the outside
cultivator as long as he did not change his l o d - cover thereof, with their details knitted and
ity or lose right to the use of the land by con- joined, together represent the balance of the
fiscation or by miscondnct. If he left to settle population.
elsewhere, he had to restore the fields to the
As the -illsika,'' or main upright, with ita
chief under whom he had held them, in order auxiliaries, supports the hut, so the chief, with
that the latter might dispose of them to some his coancilors and advisers, bears up the tribe
other person.
and gives stability to it. As the hut covers and
The bounds of each field were marked with enshrouds the "hika" and its auxiliary u p
precision. The use of the pasture lands was rights, so the tribe surrounds, protects and gives
also subject to rules, and there were commer- security to the chief, his councdors and advisers,
Each part of the hut depends on and derives
cial and personal pasture lands. Cases of dispute were in the first instance submitted to the its strength from the other. As the hut would
arbitration of Ehe neighbors. The last resort not stand without its supporting pillars, so the
was the paramount chief. The sale or transfer tribe could not be maintained without its governing machinery. As the main upright, "ire
of land was unknown among the natives.
sika," and its auxiliary uprights would soon
Notwithstanding that there were rnles and fall into decay and perish from exposure to
usages which protected the inhabitants, there rain and heat, so the chief and his councilon
was 3 rooted sense of insecurity which, however would come to naught and perish if they had
inconvenient and disturbing to the individual, not the protection and support of the tribe.
was in the hands of the rulers of tribes a power
which they were not slow in making use of in Native Idem of Gal
maintaining obedience and order. The land was
AVE the natives any idea of a GFodt Does
any thought of Him occupy their minds or
occupied by a number of little states to which
come into their livest The following few rethe name of tribes was more applicable.
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CAB? SO. 1P24

SOLDEN AGE

tllarks d answer these qnestion~. God is a

sopreme and Almighty Being, known more by
name than recognized as a reality.
tb peatHe spoken of as -1-lu,*
great Ones term also used for an ancestor
and for any person or creature possessed of
peculiar power or sgll. ne * also referred
onewho
to as qm Velinggan~,"
in the bednning;U~omandhlqnthe ~
~ of
~ ~ lthei creator;
, ~
and ar
Ougabadele, nabi linommazi p d n , " expressive of His might and glory.
He is not known as we know Him, as a
of love, ~lirectlyinterested in our welfare, from
whom comes happiness in this life, and by whom
in hope for the life hereafter. That #''His heart
h touched with all
joys md IeeL
om griefs," is a character natives do not associate with God.
Be is recognized in a certain measure as a
regarder of good deeds, and as One who visits
with punishment the evil-doer; but natives aspire not for His approval, nor do they fear His
wrath. Although He is admitted to be the maintainer and sustainer of all things He is, nevertheless, regarded sa a God afar off, and not
near at hand. Natives admit thst there mast
consequently be a designer.
Their arguments are akin to those of the great
philosopher Cicero in his book, 'De Natnra Deorum": 4
f this beautiful world, with all its rich
variety of form, originated in an accidental cornbination of bodies, without any divine intelligence, why should not an accidental mixture of
the letters of the alphabet produce verse, o r
artistic buildings arise by a fortuitous concarrence of atoms 7"
The following
which
been
adred by the natives, will exemplify their
thoughts in this regard. The waters are never
ureary; they know
other law than to flow,
without ceasing, from morning till night, and
from night till morning. But where do they
and
makes them flow thnsT The
clouds also come and go, and give rain to the
earth. Whence come they7 Who sen& them7
The rain doctore do not give UB rain; for how
could they do it? Why do not people Me them
when they go up to heaven to fetch i t 7 The
wind cannot be seen, but what is it 7 Who brings
and makes it blowt Do we know how a r n

apronts? One day there ie not a blade in the

field; go the follo.aing day to the field and you
will find some. Who has given the earth the
wisdom and the power to produce it?
Prayem
*he l a n ~ g and
e the sentiments
used bT the natives are very tOuehing and 'Dlpressive ; but it is to the spirits or manes of
their ancestors that their prayen are addressed.
The
t prophet
h
~Isaiah~has well described this form
of belief: 'They go to the dead for the living?
-Isaiah 8: 19Natives blieve that their ancestors visit them
in the form of serpents, and by appearing to
them in dreams. When a make of the apecies
venerated
a spirit appeanr in a kraal, it is
duted
by the nams of c8fatber(9 ~~~1~ of
presentd to iZ md an animal is hughtered
for it in man). cases.
ha. =tend a
but,
meat is placed in the hut for it
Amongst the natives, M with other race6
opirita are more the objects of fear than of love.
mensacrifia is made to them it dy
w i a~viewof appeasing them. athOrrgh &,
native, by sacrifices eeek
gain favonr
the spirits,
their p-pal
object to
chastisement.
men
made they are ea-oar
throagh the
of blood, -d are of
propitiatory nature. They are neually offered
by a priest, a m p t in -6
of family.sacrificea
whi& may be performed by the head of the
ha&
bled
not be
it
must be received into a vessel kept for the pnrpose. ~h~ bones of the
must ha da
stroped by iire after the flesh hss been con-

,'.

Natiuen and the &kdW Cancam

--

ATI'ES have very little bowledge of a a

N
firmmat
mey werethat tb
heavenly bodies have some iduencein hrunan
affairs. With regard to the -, it ia A d that
there is a hge
laminoas bod in the eaet, from
everg
a spark,
develop into the dorious eye of day, and to be
d t v o d in tho evening in tho
b,
of
the
~ h moon
,
~d ib phaner mbr
mnd
into the everyday life of the nrtiver. Thq 05.
aeme as a do of abstinence the day a f k r the
lrat phase o the moon. They refrain from
important undertakings until the new *e

They compute their tims by the phases af the The Ncrtr've and Hie PaeLdc SCNI
moon, and divide tlreir year into thirteen
UCH may be said of intellectarl prodmonths, for which they have appropriate
tions, enigmas, mrsery tales, and so on.
names, each descriptive of soma natural f*
The natives are poets unknown ta t h d h r e prevailing at the time.
in both their actions and their language;but M
The year commences with the Spring, ths they can neither read nor write it is di5colt to
first month being 'Tncwaba," beginning with produce much of their poetry. They can recite
the new moon, in July. Tncwaba" conveys the with very dramati0 gestures, certain pieces
idea of adornment, trees a d fields then break- which ean be distinguished frmn the ordinary
ing out into green This is 'umfnmfo,'' which discourse, by the elevation of t L sentiment,
means the blossoming of trees and the appear- powerful ellipses, daring metaphors and varp
8nCe of flowers amongst the green leaves and accentuated rhythm. Here is an exsmple:
-@When gray hairs appear in our heads 'giag, thr praises are Ur.8 t l thick
~
h z a whhh
we are aaid to have rea,ched the stage of the
p d e s the rain l
flower in our lives. March is called 'Wmhaa,"
Thy songs of triumph are heard in the rnop~l-

the time when fires are made, winter then commencing to be felt b i n gsouth of tbe Equator).
Natives have namea for the stgeona, eardinal
points, and for soma planets and constellations.
The morning star is called the itw we^" a name
derived from the word "kwezq" to raise, lift
It is ao called because it raises the curtain
o night from creation and lets in the light of
d87. The h o h M known as ''th place when
my vision, which carrier me as a mother d e s
her child, will carry me no further."
The rainbow is d e d the arc of the queen,
and is looked upon aa a beautiful emanation
of her grow. Them ia a belief that an .Rnimrtl
whose colon, amwer those of the- rainbow M
to be found reclining at the place where the
rainbow appears to come into cantad with
the earth. The animal is known as the 'Wmuyama." Ordinary beings may not look without
extreme risk to themselves. Docton may do so
under the protection of their charms. Sacrifices are sometimes offered to this animal as a
water spirit.
A being known aa "Nomkubdwana" is venerated as the princess of heaven. She is described
as robed with light for a garment, and as having
eome down from heaven to teach people to make
beer, to plant, to reap, and to help themselves
generally. We read about a somewhat similar
character in mythology named Prometheas. She
viaits the earth in the Spring of the year.
She ie also described as presenting the a p
pearance of s beautiful landscape with large
forests on some parts of her body, grass-covered
hills and slopes on others, and cultivated fields
on others. She is the giver of rain. She la
redly nature deified -

they go d m the valleys,

Whera the emmy knelt before thea
The cowwily W&M
1 They pray l
They beg that food may be given them4hq rill.
see who will give them any!
We give to our allies, to those whom ae never rrr
come to a#a4k uan

I will give yon a few proverbs:

"Cunning devonrs its master." Literally,
"Medicine root is devouring its owner."
"The bowls always smell of the sour milk.''
We say: "What is bred in the bone will ever
come out in the flesh."
"Death knows not even a king.'' T h e j3yhg
splinter or chip of wood devoured the elephant,"
or "A mall matter kindles a large ke."
Now for a riddle or two:
'There is a thing which has neither legs nor
wings, and which nevertheless travels very fad,
and its progress is not stopped by preoipicer,
rivers or walls." Answer: The voice.
"Do you know a thing which neither walks on
the ground, flies in the air, nor swims in the
water, which nevertheless walks, ascends and
descends 1" Answer: The spider in its web.
Here is a lesson on the force of example :
"Said the oId crab to the young crab, 'Why,
my child, do yon walk into your home sidewaysf
Walk straight.' Said the young crab, 'Dear
mother, when you walk straight, I will do Iik*
wise.' "

ERRATA

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Tmlishedpoemin GOLDEX
entitled "Cbristm1~8Bells," pub
AGBNumber 111, accredited to another author, should properly hare
been credited to the author, E e h Fair

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A Note to Mr. Brisbane

R. BRISBANE,we are great admirers of
your editorials. We diverge from you on
Evolution; for we stand squarely by the Bible
account of man's creation, fall, and redemption;
but in most thing8 you please ns well. You have
been publishing some interesting editorials regarding the world's great men. Bear with ua
while we tell you of our opinion of some of the
great men of the Lord's church.
By the Latter expression we mean the Lord's
true saints, those trusting for salvation in the
merit of Christ'rr redemptive work on their behalf, those who are living with but one motive;
namely, to seme the Lord.
We invite your attention to sewn men who
have arisen in the Christian church. We rewgnize these eeven men as having filled the oScm
of the seven angels or seven messengers of Revelation, chapters 1to 3 inclusive. Like yourself,
the seven men were all writers. They reprerented the most important racial, language and
political groups of the human family.

Bod had created, the instrument by whose subordinate operation God formed the universe.
The fourth was a Frenchman, Peter JValdo,
the messenger to the Thyatiran epoch of the
church, which ended with the beginning of the
WycliBan era, in A. D. 1378. Waldo was the
first to translate the Bible into a modern tongue.

Paul, St. John, Ariua, Wcrldo

HE first was a Roman, St Paul, the me*

wycwi!, Luther, and Ru#cU

HE fifth waa an Englishman, John WyolifFe,
the messenger to the Sardian epoch of the
church, which ended with the Lutheran era, in
A. D. 1520. Wycliffe did for the English people
what Waldo did for the French. He gave the .
Bible to the Lollards, in English.
The sixth was a German, Martin Luther, the
messenger to the Philadelphian epoch of the
church, which ended with the Millennial Dawn
in A. D. 1874. Luther did for the (3erman people what WaIdo did for the French and what
Wycliffedid for the English: He gave the Bible
to the Germans in their native tongue.
The seventh and last messenger to the church
was a Scotch-Irish Bmerican, Charles T. RUEsell, the messenger to the hodicean e@
of
the church, which ended in A.D. 1918. It is
generally admitted that in that year the nominal church lost all ita spirituality and all its
influence by the open stand which it took for
war and against the teachings of Chrhk Paator
Bussell died in the fall of 1916, bat not before
he had put the symbolical langaage of the Bible
into language that everybody can understand.
The Bible is the most important book in the
world. It alone reveals Gtod's plan, and God's
plan is going to go through exactly as originally
laid out, in spite of the politicians, the press,
the profiteers, and the preachers. The men that
have helped most to make God's Word clear to
the people are the greatest men of the age.
For these reasons we put up St Paul the
Roman, S t John the Hebrew, Arim the QrreooEgyptian, Waldo the Frenchman, Wycliffe the
Englishman, Luther the German, and Charles
T. Russell the Scotch-Irish American, ae the
greatest men since the time of Christ.
The names of the human butchers that have
chiefly filled the pages of history hitherto will
fade shortly, and civilization .will be revealed
in its true perspective. Which is the greater, a
great murderer or a great teacher of lovel

senger to the Ephesas epoch of the church,

which ended with the depopulation of Judea in
& D. 73. St. Pad wrote more of the New Testament than did any other writer. Hb writings
are masterpieces of logic.
The second was a Hebrew, St. John, the mesm g e r to the Smyrna epoch of the church, the
era of Pagan peraecatione, which ended with
the so-called conversion of Constantine, in & D.
325. St. John wrote more of the New Testament
than did any other except St. P a d
The third was a Qraxo-Egyptian, UM,
the
messenger to the Pergamos epoch of the church,
the era of the rise of the Papacy, which ended
with the dawn of the Beformation, A. D. 1160.
hius' writings were destroyed by Constantine,
inventor of the doctrine of the trinity, in the
eame year in which that unbaptized heathen
emperor murdered his own son. But to this
day there are thousands who rue glad to say
that they are Ariane; for Aring anlike the
clergy of his own day or of our day, believed
the Bible to be the Word of God and hence
believed that the Son of God was totally and
asentially distinct from the Father; that He
was the h t and nobleat of those beings whom
an

Getting Back to Baal Worship

naminal church may be likened to a man,
of disease, dotwith age, feeble,
ing in childhood pranks, giddy. "There is no
fool like an old fool" The nominal church had
itr bein the days of ~ - d and Se-amis, and reached its ancient glory in B a b y l a
I n the days
Comtmtine he paganized
Christianity and drove Brius to exile; and the
modern Babylon began its ma*ble
growth.
G m d d but
~ rapidlp the ancient forms and
ceremonies have been co&l-feited a d embodied into what now passes for Christianity.
A d now, the licentious, ludicrous and loathsome forms of Baal worship are being openly
practised in the heart of o m *ties in the majeaty of Satpride snd *WOq
*#out a
"Society" has falleP for the c r m m m
monies, and the spineless newspapem bow to
the whims of a silly folk and render great servim to the innovation by h'~age ~ ~ w
November 15th, the New Yo* flaw gave M
the following in headlines and large type:

..

. Sunday's dancea will help many to rid thmc

eeha of intellectual fetters.
Thor of ua who a
to be r-OM
leadem tolerate each otber, but
tiaL'

. ..

other to

What

d a m f-"

the result of the above pobliciQT

Seroie" ; '%Om
c ' W Faint
~ ~in Jm
from S t W s as Girls Dance and Art F l a s h on
~ i ~ ~ t i ~ hd;t6 $ ' ~ ~ ~
proxq, TFombone and Piano Played while Rectsr Db
i, Blank Verse/ "Crowde of women, unable to
enter, surged and beat at the doors of St. BfarKs y e a t e
day afternoon, while inside the budding, which wau pervnded with the odors of incense and at tima in complete
darknem or half-illuminated with colored lights, w u
rendered the rhfihmic sculptuml oratorio upon the
theme of the birth and proof the human SOUL"
" 'I *ht prefer to have a n~n-biblidvehicle,' uid
Dr. Gu-9
'md escap the boomerangs of the
m
e
n
u
in ambush. But h r n the fact that o m
h
pmm
thlt My b. sately
ior sMkd i. audienc. i. Umited to Mother
fajtala of a similar na*,
there to freq b-tire
of mch b i b l i d
rial, alresdy m often handled in our literatureiP*

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Hellenio
T
'o
' h c h geliga in My;
The "show" closed with the words:
U d e m Will Exemplify It Sunday in Dr. Guthrie'lr
u b d cod, the m,
b g hi t ha
delighl,
Church''; "Five Hellenic dmrridenq bled in the id&
came to ~ ~ i and
m ,M~
worn
we
bmnty, will m m b l e r h - 4 ~
the
of true
The Cherub of the Flaming Sword, and Satan,
of '"l'im
p.ttem8 of Greek friezes and dance the
E V~
~ din,
a ring-wd-a-rosy,
of the H m Sod' before the chaP
Birth d
& the Heavenscrp: 'Uelujah, ar *
cd of St Mark's-in-bBouwerie On S l m d ~
Because women are mentioned, let us not
'acal*a
oratorio' conceived by the
part
get the thought that the men were exclnded.
William Norman Guthrie, D. D."
Women merely pred~~minated.Dr. Guthrie is

A Iew ehOies asntenrra

follow:

after the crow& and a fat oollection basket;

and he has hit the trail of the winner. His nest
rmdopatic.
.- .
vdq not m e but we
Sunday performance was devoted to "the s b
md
might
to a fnr
riginal rites of the American Indim." No parbh the beauty ne are' tion
m g
bdg to
of any Christian fihd nw rned
Ths five girla, attired in cuutumes uf the old Greekq
interpret
thres
movemen&
dich
vill
the
Doxology.
His morning sermon was on UThe
a dance
infidual, or = h i c WQ; (2) tb Necessity for Paganism," and the afternoon
axpgroup, or the complete spiritual h i l s t i o n of aez; ae-ce was a s e ~ e L
Miss Edith Dabb, secretary of the Committee
(3) and the mass,or the mile of God. . . . On Sunday
the dances will shoa the problems of evil; they will on Indian Affairs of the Y. W. C. A., had made
interpret the myths of Job, of Adam and Eve. . . . a statement to the effect that Indian d a n m
There k a h g g l b g
obsession attached to the were degrading. And, according to Dr. Qnthrie,
dance of today. P s ~ C h 0 - a a l Mia called a sewer by his Indian service was in part a protest against
some; but it it carries off the filth and dirt, it may
nonsensical
to get Orer the dance oblression. In Onr
help
But there wen chants to 'ye Sun, Moon,
ue going back to the
when dancing Stars, all ye that move in the heavens," and of
was innocence. The human body will q r e e s spirit and
the "Blue Corn Dance." During the service Dr.

the nite-up

-.

mood mom potently in rhJthmic dance than can music,

for Guthrie asked for long silences, in which the
rcnlPtnre,
or p d n ~ g . p h i h , .
'tha Man-Gd'
The dance conc'the Motive congregation might let the mystic beauty of th.
WO--GO~:
. The five Hellenic dancers ceremonies sing in and cause prayerfd m d
of
will r ~ m b o b e"fumq from the material to the celea- tationl
m

...

P"w

...

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* GOLDEN
The folloming Sunday, Dr. Guthrie of the
Episcopalian St. Mark's had to defend his pagan worship; for preachers of other denominations were taking him to task. Unabashed he
d i e d forth, in the presence of a large omwd
on Sunday and a big write-up on Monday.
He said : "Refigion t d a y is a sickly &air
fenced in with doctrines." He cited the Greeks
and Romans of the old days before the Christian era, and drew on law, sports, finance, sex,
and property to support his digression from the
strait-laced dogmas of the Fundamentalists.

AGE

One point Dr. Guthrie made worthy of note

is that Christianity is tinctured with paganism.
He thinks, no donbt, that paganism belongs t o
Christian doctrine, not bowing that the &arch
systems long ago became Babylon; that they
began departing from the .faith in their incipiencp; or rather, that ~
~is the b
~

of a "falling away" which began in the apostles'

day. In defending paganism, as he now teaches
it, he used,the Chinese ritual and readings from
Confucius.

The Cook or The Book-Which?

E HAVE read romewhere an article on
W
With
"The Cook or the Book-WhiehT"
take pleasure
the fragments a t our disposal
we

in reproducing for the benefit of suffering hnmanjty, that the nominal church systems might
see themselves as d h e r s see them-in all their
glory and folderoL
The "cook" referred to is that body of individuals who introduce frolicking innovations
into the church to attract the shekels. The
shekels are %.hat makes the eritter move. Mortgages are paid off, parsons are supplied with
the necessities of life, parsonages are papered,
and new organs are installed, with shekels.
Shekels roll in to the tune of jazz music at festivals, oyster suppers, grabbag socials, pink
teas, trilby shows, butterfly dances, etc. The
"COOK'
is usually composed of the gossiping end
of the institution, old at the business, adept a t
making a first-class, full-measured bowl of
oyster soup with one oyster.
The "booY' referred to is the Bible, that volume where the minister does not get his sermons; that book which contains the law and
order of the new creation--of which they know
BO little; that book which contains the doctrines
and precepts of Ood's appointed mouthpieceswhich long since have been tabooed; that book
which contains the instrnotion for Christian d e
portmentwhich the preachers have repudiated
long ago; that book which mow i r declared to
be filled with mpthr, impossibilities, and the
hobgoblins of the disordered brains of dreamy
mystics-if we are to judge by the writinga of
of the pulpiteera

What the early church did, and what the nominal churches of today do, are two entirely different things. The early church prayed in the
upper room; but the twentiethcentury church
cooks in the supper room, and the young men
and the young women coo in the spoon room.
The "Exchange" says:
T h e early Christians were not oooldng in the sapper
mom the day the holy spirit came; t h g were praying
in the upper room. They were not waiting on tablea;
they were waiting on Qod: !t'hey lrras not writing on
the fire from the rtove, but for the firs from abovc
the^ wem detained by the commnnd of the Lord, md
not entertained by the sunning of men. !I%ey rere
Wed with the power fmPn on high, not M e d with
rtrcr or m W

The upper room of prayer is antiquated; for

m long their prayers have not been answered
that now the very existence of God is doubted.
Drving the World War many said: "If them
i a God, why does He not stop this awful carnage?" How could He stop it when one bunch
of "Christians" prayed for the succese of one
eet of arms, and another bunch prayed for another set, each aide praying that their enemies
should be wiped off the map?
Verily, play has taken the place of prayer,
and feasting the place of fasting. Candid and
wber heartfelt thanks to God are rarely heard,
but the voice of mirth f i b the air. Rejoicing
in the chance of the bye and bye has given place
to the dance of the now and now. The preaahe i s canned sermons (which should have been
w e d long ago) are so stale and dry that art
shows and dramatic stuute are more and more
relied upon to keep up the interest, and moving
picture reeb take the place of preacher Opiela

il.

SOLDEN AGE

The trousers of the men in the amen corner

used to bag at the knees, in the good old days
when they were wont to pray on bended b e e ;
but now the trousers bag in the waistband. If
there are any broken hearts in the churches,
they may stay broken; for the balm of Gilead
has been bartered away. If there are any team,
they must continue to flow; for Mary's a l a b
ter box waa emptied nineteen hundred years
ago, and we have not heard of many since.
Mother told ua that grandma said that there
were alabaster boxes in her day; but, today,
alas l the fragrance we find not.
We have heard of the fire in the preaching of
the days of the circuit-riding evangelist, that
red-hot, peppery Bind from which the blue
blazes of brimstone arose, curling the hair of
the younger generation, and which made the
old folks come across with the "long green";
also, of that variety of fervent zeal which made
the rafters and shingles rattle with emotion as
the dear, good man expounded and expatiated
over the exact philosophy of the "trinity" and
the "immortality of the sod," of which he knew
nothing. No wonder that the fires of old have
consumed the combustibles and gone out, and
are sow replaced with the fire in the range of

the soup room. AS icecream chins the fervor

of spiritual life, putting the giggle into the
girls, the bubble into the boys, and Ming tho
preacher with pans; so we should not expeat
the fire in the pulpit to be &nkindled.
Our "Exchange" friend continues :
UOh, I would like the cooking aqud to put an lea
gravy, but more graw; 1- m p and more advation;
1ham and h,and more heaven; leu pie and
mole piety; to hwe len ma for the cook md mom
we for the Old Book; to put out the b i n ths kitahen,
and build it on the altar; more love md more liir;
get fewer dinnen and get more after sinners."

But the wail falls on deaf ears; for the earn

are stuffed with jazlr and oyster stntIing; the
eyes are blind with conceit and green with envy;
and there is neither eye-aalve nor spiritualobtment for the health and hope and comfort of a
deceived and vainglorious people, who are contented and satisfied to remain in an institution
which the Lord long ago labeled "Babylon," and
which within the last few years has been shown
up in all her vileness. Babylon is described in
the Book that they have rejected thus: "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become
the habitation of devils, the hold of every f o d
spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful
bird."-Bevelation 18:2

Rome Hungry for Money

we never nientioned in these colP ERHAPS
u m n s that the Roman Catholic Church is

hungry for money; or then again perhaps we

did. But it is tme, anyway. It is not the graces
of the holy spirit they are after, not on your
life! They want the cash, and they want it here
and now. Listen to these plaintive extracts from
a mimeographed circular letter dated December
a d , 1923, put out by the Sacred Heart Church,
5964 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh:
"Let every one give at least a dollar a Sunday.'*
V s have nearly 2,200 persons on our mailing list

of weekly contributora, but there have never yet been

it for T Not ior f&es. Pennsylvania does not

tax this particular form of graft. And not for
thanksgiving dinners for the aged poor; for
the same circular contains this interesting pal'8- *
graph to show how the old folks got their dinner
and what that dinner was:
"The Little Sisters of the Poor wish to thant f
h
children for the one hundred dozen of fresh eggs rhiob;
they generously donated to the 250 oId folks in the&
Home for their Thanksgiving dinner. After a& ui
nog is not s bad substitute for turkq!*

But proceeding with this good old game of

sticking up the people in the name of religion
and making them shell out every sou that can
be had, on any pretext:
"Our Own Drama Club and Orchedm, dl our arra

more than 1,600 envelopes in the collectiora. Where, oh

where, are the more than 600 aIackers every Sunday?
Be as regular with your envelope as with you? S m d q
pang people, w i l l give three oneact playa during tha
breakfast."
week December 10th to 16th, every evening at 8: 16.
We pause for breath. Sixteen hundred envel- We don't need ta go to Jewish controiled theatres, with
opes at a dollar apiece is pretty good pay for a dacious program for o m entertainment. Ticketr u,
priest who does not do a solitary thing to earn only Bty cents."
it. That is $83,200 per year. What does he want -UAdollar B Sunday &odd k the minhuma

--

Univer~iQ,W 8 a h i n h d yon M urged Q bo m

"Loet I I I Self-respect by the 274 ~ v r g a n t l dread
y
were discovered by the ashers last geuroUB a8 your F880urrm pe17nitA
<'Bem e to give a dollar r Sunday."
813~idoJ
putting a ten-cent piece into r blank envelop,
jmkd of contributing three percent of their inc~ma" "Error in collection list: Nell Gallegher, 304 8We pause for breath once more. What ir ford Are., &odd be $27.50. A h FrsnL IMy, 62W
Penn Ave., a h d d be $7.00.''
wanted is three percent of the income of twentyrsge earners, who

two hundred persons. In other words, the price

khat this saint of the Most High wants for hia
wrvices is just the wages of eixty-sk ordinary
persons. And for what? Oh, he g ~ t sthat for
teaching faithfully the goepel according to St.
Peter! And what was it that St. Peter taughtt
Oh, yes l St. Peter taught as follows:
'Teed the flock of Ood which is among yon,
taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint,
but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready
mind."-1 Peter 5:2.
You see, this was the way of it. Peter believed this for himself and practiced it himself;
but when it eame to his popes and cardinals
and archbishops and bishops and priests and
other useless and unnecessary furniture around
the place, then he was for their going after the
l o n g green" and getting all they aodd while
the gettkg was good. But we p r o ~ e d :
uCollection at fl ths masaw today u for the Crthollo

Poor Nell and Mrs. Frank. We know of jiut

this once when they were stung for $34.50, bnt
it cannot be helped; not now. Poor things! thq
will h o w better sometime. W e have digresad,
but we w i l l go back to the job and h i s h it:
UYoarneighbor gira r dollar r Sunday.''
"Serenty-six (76) permu in this parish died tblr

year without leaving r single penny toward the tzactian

d o u r new chrmh.Whenx&hgpm d,
kriBw
pmridingformaaeaforpnrrod,knustoh.n~
~tialmmtot&8u?redHsrrtCh~u8
ORPl,instsadaflcrrinpdl~ourmoneytosuw8~
children d o may ~ T U
rry 8 p n , p f ~ par
? dW

Thinking the matter over, mme of our readera may be able to recall where St Peter and
others of the apostle8 urged the brethren &nilarly to dig up every week three percent of their
incomes and to leave a good chunk for P e w
and the rest of the crowd when they died; but
'
we seem just to have forgotten the plaa4
What fools these m o w be.'

An Experience with a Catholic Infant.Home

E cold, raw, bitter afternoon in March, a
0Nmother
carrying her three-monthsold baby

entered a charitable institution, and asked the

attendant if she could interview the Superintendent. The attendant after making inquiries
informed her that the Snperintendent was having afternoon tea, but that she would be free
to talk to her in fifteen minutes.
After quite a lapse of time the Superintendent
appeared, and asked : 'What is your bnsinessP
The young mother replied that owing to ill
health her physician had ordered her to put her
baby into a foster home for eix m o n h , so that
she might get a chance to regain her strength
and also to regain control of her nerves, which
had completely gone to piece^ through the strain
of bringing a small family into the world, and
canng and planning for them during the past
trying years, when the coat of living had been
at its highest peak; m d that having noticed
their appeals to the public, also their account
of the many mothers who had been aided out of

~9 ~tiecrbethP&e

their a c d t circumstances through the help of

the institution, she thought her baby would be
properly oared for, if they wodd take it in.
Mter a little meditation the Snperintendent
asked the young mother why she had neglected
herself and permitted herself to get run down
to ouch a state as to ba unable to care for her
child. Why had ahe not aut down half her hollra
hold duties? Or why had she not taken soma
widow into her home, and given her a roGm fm
in exchange for services rendered?
I n vain did the young mother try to explain
the carer, the trial^, and the womes that had
gradually brought her health down to such 8
low ebb, difKcnlties ora which ahe had .b*
lutely no control.
M t e r a complete inrestigntion into tbr prrt
life of the father and the mother, their rsligien,
financial standing, eta, eta, the young mother
was informed that th. institution would cmre
for her baby at a charge of slx ddlarm a waek
.Witha heavy heart md rlight misgiving rh.

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289

handed her precious babe over to one of the

nlvaea Then she wended her way home, meditating the while a t the cold, unsympathetic
manner and lack of understanding &own by
one occupying such a position.
Not many weeks passed before a complete
change seemed to come over the baby. The once
happy, contented child, who at birth was proclaimed by a reliable physician to be an exceptionally robust, healthy babe, gradually took
on that drawn, haggard, old-mannish look so
familiar on the faces of many babies who are
reared in infants' homer and institutions.
When the time arrived for the babe to be
brought home the mother was informed by the
Superintendent that her child from birth was
marasmio, full of rickets and eczema; and that
nothing could be done for it.
The mother, not willing to accept this d a b
ment as truth, immediately on arriving home
called in her own physician, who stated that the
wretched condition of the child was due entirely
'

m-,

l~ E

to lack of 'care, improper feeding, and lack of

soap and water; but he felt confident that with
proper care, correct diet, some soap and water
for its skin, also a little love included, the child
would thrive.
With a grim determination the mother mt
out to restore her child to health
After many weeks of patient, constant care
the withered skin began to freshen, the little
hollow cheeks gradually Wed out, the limbs
that had hung limp and lifelerr began to
etrengthen. Steadily the child gained in weight,
At the end of nine montha the physician was
called in again. He marveled at the physique
of the child and the chubby, dimpled, contented
faoe that had a few months back looked so
drawn and haggard. The mother was aaked if
she would contribute a picture of the child to
the City Publio Health book to show what
proper care and feeding could sccompliah.
This was the experience of a Protestant
mother with a widely advertised Bomao C a w
lie Infants' Home.

Tolstoy's Worldly Wisdom

T IE

Russian philosopher, Leo Tolstoy, had

big heart, was exceedingly qmpathetio;
alld he reco@ed that the poor groaning crestion was sadly in need of something, He pandered long and hard on conditions as he saw
them. He prayed and philosophized and advised. But like those of other good men of
ranown, his solutions and remedies would not
take effeot. V o d d it be truthful to say that he
conceited in thinldng that he had the power
nniversal goodwa and prosperto bring
ie were hir deductions acted upanf He &d
some v e q good things. We quote:

"

~ s i t i o mwith Bible texts, showing where his

thmghb came from, it would most w d y
have shown meekness and hnnrilit~;he would
also have endured unpleasantness in permitting
others to see his weakness. Those who will not
not honor. Them an -7
honor Him God
such. The Golden Rule coven all three p r o p
6itiona
three activities, in which I continually
In order to be capable of loving men one mast
cise myself, which one cannot exerch too much, and
recognize his own unworthiness and that he h m
which at th. present moment am especidj mce-q
been redeemed by the precious blood of the Lord
to you:
'Tint,in order to be capable of loving men a d Jesus, also by h m b l y m b m i t w himself in
to u consecration
beiq loved by them, one 8hould ~
~ one9#~
h
and imbibing the spirit of Christ,
dcazuad of them sa little u po~ible;bemuse, it I ex- menone fouowe christ he
become fled
pect mu& 1 hall experia- m y privations and shall with the loveof chrilt. mm doing he 4
bd
lo*&
but
reb&g thlm. become lonble; md he viu be loved
we
In this respect there is much to be done.
'rSecond, in order to love men, not in word, but in who lore truth and righteousness, and hated
one must teach
& to do to them ahat
by those who have their evil deeds
up
bp contrast.
d.
Eere there is yet mom work.
The aelfisLneu in seeking the plaudits and
'Third, to d b one to lore men and be loved, onr

mnet learn mehean, hufailib and the art of enduring

f i i n e t h e art of alxt)l r
1mple-t
po~le
u v i n g towards them M to pain no one; and if thir
irn~''&ble, not to insult ayon*b
her b
choose the infliction of the lesser pain."
If he had buttressed each of these three Prop

J m u r SO, 1924

CptDEN AGE

homage ef fellow creatures ia a subtle thing.

"The h a r t is desperately wicked; who can
know it?" Who can fathom its trickery unless
he is guided by the Word of the living God?
T o r the word of God is quick, and powerfd,
and sharper than any two-edged sword, pieming

even to the dividing asunaer of sdd and spirit,

and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
(Hebrews 4: 12) Those who have not felt the
power of God thns are not yet acquainted with
themselves--nor with &dm

The World War Aftermath

all indications Europe is collapsing
F ROM
not only financially but morally. With the

slump in profitable business enterprises, the depreciating of the currency, the in--cnrity of
investments, and the consequent let-kp in commercial activity comes more or less listlessness.
Discouragement and hopelessness are rapidly
increasing; and with the increase comes a l e t
ting down of the bars in morality and religion.
Many returning from Europe, and especially
from Germany, report that they are shocked at
the immorality with which people seem to be
crazed. Dr. Frederick H. Knubel of New Pork,
head of the United Lutheran Church in America, has said:
"As regards both men and women there L a delinite

lapse in European morals as a whole and they are more

lax than in the United States. I saw evidences of it
both in Gennany and France, and I talked with influential people in both countries. They unhesitatingly
declared that, since the war, there has been a decay
of morals, and they attributed it to the reaction trom
war-time conditions."
I t is all right to charge this delinquency to

the war, but what caused the war? Most assaredly the innate selfishness and pride fostered.

by the nice, together with its ignoranm of the

principles of right and wrong, contributed much
toward the World War. False dodrines of the
divine right of kings and clergy, and accepting
the doctrines of Satan inatead of the doctrines
of Christ made the war possible.
It seems as though the present world distress
of the peoples of earth is a just retribution for
the gullibility of the masses in not stnclying and
gathering in a little knowledge on their own
account. Too long we have been taking the
other fellow's say-so. I t has come time for personal investigation of the problems of life, for
looking into the Word of the living God, for
turning wholeheartedly to our Creator and
worshiping H i in fnlness of heart and purpose.
Would that men could see the Golden Bale
in the light of the Scriptures and square and
plumb their lives thereto; and let justim be
tempered with mercy! How rejoiced we ere to
have the lmowledge that the Millennia1 reign of
Jesus Christ with righteousness and trnth is
so near a t hand, and how happy the people will
be when they come to see and understand the
beneficent designs'of an a l l - h e , all-loving C.)od !
-

Mr. Edison's Quaint Humor

that a man will joke and ten
ITaIStrnthnot atoften
the same time. Thomas A. Edison

recognizes himself as being far ahead of his

fellowmen. He said: "It takes ten years to convert the public to a self-evident proposition,
and sometimes more than forty years to interest
them in an obviously good idea."
We readily concur with the above statement,
looking at it from the religions point of view.
Bible Stndents may take encouragement from
this, realizing that theirs is not the only difficult
task. Bat possibly the "ecclesiastical mind" is
the most obtuse of any. As the klngdom of the

great adversary goes down, the fog of the dark

ages goes up. So there is hope. For over fort!:
years the late Pastor Russell gave the trumpet
sound : "The Lord is present !" Gradually but
surely all shall know; and in the Lord's due
time the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
And then Mr. Edison will see that the "selfevident propositions" and the Uobviously gaad
ideas" which he has been laboring to get to the
people have been the direct result of the presence of the Lord, and that his mind waa only
fecundated as the Lord saw fit. Then he d
l
glorify the Lord and praise His name, too.

In the Years that are Gone

IONEERING will some day be a thing of
P
the past. So far as the United States is
concerned, blazing the trails into virgin terri-

tories is even now gone forever. Going back no

further than thirty years ago, there were many
phces which boasted the environments of "first
mttlers."
Many of our books contain vivid stories of
how the country was opened up in earlier days;
how the white man came and dispossessed his
red brother, by marring, treaties, intrigues, and
duplicity; and how revenge was sought not only
by the red man but sometimes by the white.
The hardships of the pioneers stretch over
three hundred years; and it ia really marvelous
to contemplate the horrors attendant on the reclaiming of new territory, the rearing of families while surrounded by hostile peoples, the
clearing of forests, the destroying of wild
beasts and reptiles, aJ1 for the sake of having a
home where quietness, peace, and love should
brighten the lives and hopes of those who cherish family ties, and desire to worship God untrammeled by priestcraft and bigotry.
When once the enemies were pacified, with
what tranquil consanguinity the inhabitants
were privileged to settle down in cooperative
tolerance and goodwill, radiating sunshine and
happiness for the benefit and uplift of the entire commnnity 1 What a contrast to this peaceful scene is the selfishness rnnning rampant in
our day 1
And in these bygone days there was many
a romance-pnre, sweet, hallowed. And sometimes-sometime-these
were marred by hot,
impatient words which brought anguish and despair in their wake. How foolish to utter them
in the first place, and how inexcusable when once

they are said, not to fall prostrate at the feet

of the victim begging his or her forgiveness on
the spot and making amends l
Where love dwells within the humble home,
how pathetic the scene when the parting is without the usual goodbye kiss! What a tragedy to
the repentant one who returns with bated breath
to find the object of his love, on duty bent, overtaken by the merciless storm; and what remorse
and heartache is the fate of one on finding his
beloved companion dead from exposure to the
raging storm became of her fidelity to the one
who had pierced her heart with bitter words!
How often such tragedies have been wrought
we know not ;perhaps more often than we would
think. Bow often me would be only too glad to
recall the deed, the word, the thought. One of
the great sins of humanity is unkindness.
How happy we should be in the thought that
God has arranged a plan for the resurrection
of the dead-a bringing back of the dead to this
mundane sphere, to human conditions. How
blessed the assurance that then we shall know
each other as we have been known-and better;
'for then for a thousand yeara the ram will be
returning to all that was lost in Adam, to mental, moral, and physical perfection. -g
the
process of restoration the wonderful privilege
of munificent restitution will be granted, so that
all hatreds, jealousies, misunderstandings shall
melt into unimpeachable understandings, fervent friendships, and pledges of loyalty and
love, which are the heritage of num h d then
so to abide forever 1
Below we print a very touching poem illus
trating the life and hardship and broken heartr
that sometimes-oftentimes-fall
to the lot of
Adam's crushed and broken children:

The First Settler's Story

From Farm Fe8tlm&, by Will Carleton
(RlntrQ by p.rml8sion of H u p r r L Brathen, L1w copsri~hua t end.)

Well, when I first infested this retreat,

Things to my view look'd frightful incomplete;
But I had come with heart-thrift in my song,
And brought mr wife and plunder right along.
I hadn't a round-trip ticket to go back,
And if I had there waa no railroad track;
And drivin' East war what I couldn't endure:
I hadn't stprted on a circukr tour.

167 girl-wife was as brave se'she waa good,

And helped me every blessed way she could;
She seem'd to take to every rough old tree,
Aa sing'lar as when first she took to m a
.

She kep' our little log house neat as wax,

And once I caught her fooling with my sx.
She hadn't the muscle (though she h d the heart):
In outdoor work to take an active part;

* WLDEN AGE
She oas dtlicim~,both to hear and maThat pretty girl-wife that kep' h o w for M

Beme little independat breakfast ua;

And so the usual parting didn't occur,
Although her eyes invited me to her;
Or rather half invited me, for ,she
Didn't rdvertim to fiunirh kims ha:

Well, neighborhoods meant conntim in those d . ~ ;

The roadn didn't have accommodating w a p ;
And maybe weeks would pass before she'd seeAnd much lar tolk with-anyone but me.
The Indims rometimes showed their --baled
facer,
But they didn't teem with conversational graces.
Some ideas from the birds snd trees she stole, ..
But 'bm't like talking with a human sod;
And M y I thought that I could trace
A half hearthunger peering from her face.

You d w a p had-tlut is, I had-to pay

Full msrkebprb, and go m d n half tha way;
So, with s short "Good-by" I ahnt the door,
And left her as I never had before.
But when at noon my lunch I came to a& .
Put up by her M) delicately neat7
Choicer, somewhat, than Jeaterda j s had bacn,
And T e h h , sweetqed padea she'd put in'Tender and pleasant thoughts," I knew they meantIt seem'd Y if with me her kias shdd mt;
Then I became once more her humble lover,
And mid, 'Tonight I'll a& forgivemu d ka

One night, when I came home unusual la%

Too hungry m d too tired to feel first-rate,

Her supper struck me wrong (though I'll allow
She hadn't much to strike with anyhow) ;
And, when I went to milk the m,
and found(
They'd wandered from their usual feeding-ground,
And maybe'd left a few long miles behind 'em,
Which I must capy if I meant to Gnd 'em,
Flashquick the stay-chains of my temper broke,
And in a trice these hot wards I had spoke:
' T o u ought tdre kept the animals in view,
And dmve them in; you'd nothing el# to do;
The heft of all aar life on me must fall;
You just, lie m
d
,
and let me do it all."

That +-it
hadn't been gone a half a minute
Before I srrn the cold black poison in it;
And I'd have given all I had, and more,
To've only d e l y got it back indoor.
I'm now what most folks "well-to-do" would call:,
I feel today M if I'd give it all,
I
Provided I through fifty years might reach
And kill and bury that half-minute speech.
Bhe handed back no worb, an I could hear;
She didn't frown; she didn't ahed a tear;
Half proud, half d ' d , she stood and looKd me o'er,
Like some one she had never seen before1
But such a sudden anguish-lit surprise
I never view'd before in human eyes.
(I've wm it oft enough s i . in a dream;
It eometimea wkea me like a midnight man.)

Next morning, when, stonofaced but heavy-hearted,

With dinner pail and sharpen'd sx I started
Away for my dafr work, die watch'd the door,
And follow'd me half-way to it or more;
And I w u funt .-turning round at this,
And rsldng for my mud good-by Ides;
But on her lip I aaw a pmudish m e ,
And in her eye a shadow of reserve;
, And ahe b d ahown-perhaps half ~ ~ ~ W M C I

I went home over-early on that eve,

Having contrived to make myself belime
By various signs I kind o' h e w and peaad, r
A thunderstmu was coming from the west.
('!I!ia
atrange., when one dy mumn bllr the hurt,
How many honest ones will take itn part;
A d a e n finst-chssr e a m s said 'tras right
That I should strike home early on that night.)

Half out of breath, the cabin door I m g ,

With tender heart-words trembling on my tongue;
But all within lwVd desolate and bare:
My house hod lost ita soul: h e was not them 1
A pencil'd note waa on the table spread,
And them are something like the words it said:
'The cows have strap'd away again, I fear;
I watch'd them pretty close ; don't wold me, dear.
And where they are I thiilh 1 nearly h o w ;
Iheard the bell not very long ago.
I've hunted for them all the afternoon;
I'll try once more-I think Ill b d them noon.
Dear, if a burden I have been C you,
And haven't helped you as I ought to do,
.
Let old-time memories my forgiveness plead;
I've tried to do my best-I have, indeed.
Darling, piece out with love the strength I lack,
And have kind words' for me-when I get back."
Scarce did I give this letter sight and tongueSome swift-blom rain-drops to the window clung,
And from the clouds a rough, detp growl pmceeded;
My thunderstorm had come, now 'twasn't needed
I rush'd outdoor. The sir was stained with black;
Night had come early, on the otormeloud'a back,
And everything kept dimming to the eight,
8ave when the clouds threw their electric light;
.When, for a h h , m clean-cut w u the rinr,

I'd think I mw her-knowing 'twaa not true.

Through my small clearing dash'd wide sheets of spray,
An if the ocean waves had lost their way;
Scarcely a pause the thunder-battle made,
In the bold clamor of its cannonade.
And she, while I WM ahelter'd, dry, and warm,
Was somewhere in the clutches of this stom1
ZJhe who, when storm-frights found her at her best,
Had d w a p hid her whita face on my breast 1

My dog, who'd skirmishJd round me dl the dry,

Now wnch'd and whimpering, in a corner lay.
I dragged him by the collar to the wall,
I p d d his quivering muzzle to a shawl'Track her, old boy l" I shouted; and he whined,
Match'd eyea with me, M if to read my mind,
Then with a yell went tearing through the wood.
I follodd him, as faithful aa I could.
No pleasure-trip was that, through flood and flame
We raced with death; we hunted noble game.
A11 night we dragg'd the woods without avail;
The ground got drench'd-we could not keep the t r a i l
Three times my cabin home I found,
H d f hoping she might be there, sate and sound;
But each time 'twse an unavailing care:
My h o w had lost itn wul: ehe WIN not thersl

When, climbing the wet trees, next morning nun

Laugh'd at the ruin that the night had done,
Bleeding and drench'd by toil, and mrmw bent,
Back to what used to be my home I went.
But, aa I near'd our little clearing-groundListen 1-1 heard the cow-bell's tinkling sound.
'IIm cabin door waa just a bit ajar;
It gleam'd upon my glad eyes like a star.

"Brave heart.," I said, "for'mch a fragile form 1

She made them ,ede her homeward through t h ~
atom I"
Such panga of joy I never felt before.
Tou've come I" I shouted, and nrsh'd through the door.
Yes, she had c o m e a n d gone again1 She by
With a l l her young life wrenched awayLay, the heart-ruins of our home among,
Not far from where I kill'd her with my tonThe rain-drops glitteid 'mid her W s long strart&
The forest thorns had tom her feet and hands.
&d 'midst the t e a r d r a v e bars-that one c o d
trace
Upon the pale but meetly resolute face,
I once again the mournful words could read,
"I've tried to do my best-I have, indeed."

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And now I'm mostly done; m j story'e.oyer;

Part of it never breathed the air before,
Tisn't over-usual, it mast be
To volunteer heart-story to a crowd,
h d scatter 'mongst them coddentid team,
But you'll protect an old man with hie yearn;
And w h e d e r thb story'r voice can reach,
Thb ir the sermon I d d ham it preach:
%ye flying kite. haul in their white-winged birdr: You can't do that way when you're flying wadi
'Careful with fire,' is good cidrfce we h o w ;
'Careful with words,' h ten timu doubly so.
Thoughta unexpreas'd may sometimer fall back dead;
But God Himself can't kill them once they're &dlrn
Copyrl~bf 1881. b.Harpat 4 Broth-;
Copyrtght 1909. by Will Carleton8
Copyrlnht, l Q 2 b bl M m Aka I
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Eye Accidents in New York City

THE National Committee for the Prevention spattering of some hot marshmallow, and
of Blindness is circulating valuable information on how t o save one's eyea. One of its
astonishing discoveries is that five women injured their eyer in a single month by.accidentally striking the eye with a hot curling ima
Presumably these accidents all occurred in New
York city.
In the-same month 105 eyer were injwed in
industrial accidents, 41 in automobile accidents,
24 in gon explosionq and s ~ e r . leach by meansof air d e r , bursting tires, wood alcohol, slingshots, e f a Some of the singular eye accidents
were caused by the explosion of a cheese, the

the

kick of a grasshopper-

A Belated Ladybug Item

FRIEND writea: "The ladybug simply

A cannot, or will not, endure musia

We

to h d -rnement in finding these bugs

perched upon a plant, and in humming t o them
?O see them %yaway. In part the song went
something like this : 'Ladybug, ladybug, fly away
home ; your house is afire, and the children are
orping: I.
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we were telling her the truth; and we imagined
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With Issm Nambcr 00 we began running Judge Rutheriord'a new boot

"The Harp d God", with accom-yY.
p w t i o ~W
, ng the place of W
Advanced a d Jmrcnih EiibL 8which h8va b n n hitherto p ~ l b l l s b d

*-It will profit us here to consider the Scrip

bra1 testimony given by the Evangelist in proof
that Jesus did arise from the dead three days
after His crucifixion. There have always been
some that denied the resurrection and hence it
is always well to fortify ourselves against such
denial, as well as to strengthen our own faith.
It must be remembered that the writers of these
gospels were not learned men; they were not
such men as would arrange a fraudulent scheme
to deceive anybody. There wonld be no occasion
for them to do this. The fact that they did not
expect a resurrection and gave evidence of that
by their conduct and their speech at and just
after the Lord's death is strong circnmstantial
evidence that their testimony subsequently given is true. Besides this, the testimony itself
bears all the earmarks of truth.
"=At the time Jesus died there was an earthquake. The Roman centurion who stood by
exclaimed, "Truly this was the son of Oodl"
'When the even was come, there came s rich
man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also
himself was Jesus' disciple: he went to Pilate,
and begged the body of Jewa. Then Pilate
commanded the body to be delivered. And when
Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a
clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb,
which he had hewn out in the rock :and he rolled
a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and
departed. And there was Mary Magdalene, and
the other Mary, sitting over against the sepnlchre."-Matthew 2'7 :57-61. .
W'The Pharisees believed in the resurrection
of the dead, basing their conclusion upon the
words of the prophets. They feared that Jesus
might arise from the dead. They knew they
were guiIty of having Him put to death, and they
hoped that would be the end of Him. "NOWthe
next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember
that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive,
After three days I will rise again. Command
therefore that the sepulchre be made snre until
the third day, lest hie diseples come by night,

and steal him away, and say unto the people,

ie risen from*thedead: so the last error ahall
be worse than the first." (Matthew 27: 62443
When the Roman governor heard their FOquest he granted them a Roman guard, sayto them :'Te have a watch :go your Way, m b
it as snre as ye can. So they went, and made the
sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting 8
watch."-Matthew 27 :65,66.
"'The Lord Jehovah must have held thew
Pharisees in derision, who presumed by having
the stone sealed and a Roman guard p W at
the entrance that they could prevent His bringing J a w out of the tomb. God ooald have eaaily
resurrected the Lord without removing the
stone. Be chose, however, to do the htter. Aud
in addition b raising up Jesw as a divine being,
He also removed the body in His own good way
and to His own good plaw, that it might not ma
corruption, even as He had p r o m i s e d - P h
16:10.

Why should we have Scriptnal pmof of the nmr

rection of Christ Jesus? 1[ 260.
L it re~onableto rmppoae that J m d discipla nootd
concoct a acheme indicating His resurrection, con*
to the fads 7 1[ 260.
What convulsion of natuM occurred at the time d
Jesus' death? Ij 261.
Give the Scriptural proof of the burial of J d
body. 7 261.
Why did the Pharisees believe in tba rtmnmtion of
the dead? X 262.
Did the Pharisees specially request of Pilate a Bpecirl
guard to be placed over the tomb of Jesud? and it m,
why? Give the Scriptural pmof. 1 262.
What did Pilate reply to them?f 262.
Could God have resurrected Jesus Christ without
removing the stone? 7 263.
How would this indicate the derision in which Ood
held the P h a h ? fi 263.

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H e is a Christian once a week,

An upright pillar Sunday.
But watch him skin his fellow men,
Beginning early Monday.

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Paleetlne and Gentile Rule
Shifting Sands of Human Teachingm
Intolerance of the Dark Ages
God's Word before Man's Theories
'Mlllenntal Conditions Bflsanderstood
Blblt Study a S m s i t y
Critic's Ylew Too Narrow
Consecmtioa n Pecso~~nl
Mattes
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Mr. Bok's Peace Plan

"mu kkgs of

ths earth g e t themselvm, and the rub take mnnl bq1thtw yahd J h a h ,
and against his anointedu-Pdm S * 8.

ago it was plainly apparent that

A YEAR
1924 would mark another desperate effort
of big business to press the United States into
the League of Nations. Ruling the earth, as
monarchs of all it holds, the leaders of finance
have "set themselves" that the United States
must aa surely enter the League as it did the
War. Hence it was no surprise to us when Mr.
BOYSpeace plan was announced.
The h e r i c a n people love to vote on things.
When they cast votes they feel as if they are
running things, all unconscious of the fact that
the persons for whom they vote and the policies
for which they vote are selected for them by
others months before the ballots are taken.
Mr. Bok gives $50,000, and possibly $100,000,
to the framer of Plan No. 1469, providing for
cooperation between the United States and other
nations, to achieve and preserve the peace of
the world. Mr. Bok trnthfdy says that "this
is the time for the nations of the earth to admit
frankly that war is a crime and thus withdraw
the legal and moral sanction too long permitted
to it as a method of settling international disputes."
He does not say why it is that the Pagan
Itoman Catholic Church and the almost equally
Pagan Protestant churches have for centuries
encouraged war, prayed for its success, and are
even now licking the blood from their dripping
fingers, while they put upon the admittedly godless nations of the earth the responsibility of
admitting frankly what the churches have never
had the courage to admit at all
One thing seems sure and that is that if the
Government ever puts the hated Espionage Act
into operation again, it ought in all honesty to
give Mr. Bok a chance to see what it is like to
live for a while in the classio shades of the
Atlanta Penitentiary.

He says that Uwar is a crime." He my8 it

before there is any war. For saying just that,
and saying it before there was any war, a nmnber of men that we know got a free ride from
New York to Atlanta and return, and free
board, such as it was, for nine months, with a
fair prospect of having it for life.
Mr. Bok and the Associated Press, the same
Press that got us into the World War, have
contrived to gain great publicity for his peace
scheme. The award brought forth 22,165 planr
and several hundred thousand letten. The
chairman of the jury of award is the Hon. E l h
Root, prominent in the World Court, and in the
League of Nations. It ia no hostile remark
against Mr. F&ot to say that the plan releetad
simply mirrors Mr. Boot's personal ideaa
The plan selected proposes ia brief:
'That the United States nhall immdhtaly ante tin
Permanent Court of Intanatid Jnrtics under tbr
amditions stated by Secretary Hughea md Rddmt
Huding in February, 1923; That without lmoming A
member of the League of Natioaa rn at pnreat aoxuitihted, the United Slates ah.u offer to &d
ib pnrant:
&peration with the L e a p and participptb in the work
of the League ad a body of mutud ootlnssl under omditionr which: ( a ) Substitute m o d force and pubh
opinion for the military and emaomia form origindiy
implied in Artidea X d XVI; (8) &f@
tbr
M o m Doctrine; (o) Accept the f.ct that the United
S t a b w i l l a m m e no obligatiann under the Tmaty d
Verdlea except by Ad of Congre~;(d) Pmpor tht
mamberahip in the League ahodd be opened to dl
nations; (c) M d e for the. eontinuiq devdopnart
of international law."

We quote here and there from the argument

advanced by the framer of Ylan No. 1469, with
a few editorial remarks interspersed. He k t
points out that five-sixths of all the nstim of
earth are in the Leagne of Nations, that they

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Leagne, in ~ p i t eof the known wishes of the

hnerican people that it be kept out. He merely
wishes that the United States should take the
remaining steps necessary to full coSperation
United States can take an increasing share is that which
with
the League. Then he approaches the borleadr toward some form of agreement with the world
der-land
of the ridiculous when he says of these
pl now o%.nized, called the League of Nations."
steps :
He then takes up the argument that, although
"They do not involve a question of membership in the
President Harding was elected by an overwhelm- League of Nations as now constituted, but it cannot be
ing vote because he promised to keep us out denied that they lead to the threshold of that question.
of the League, yet the Armament Conference at Any further step tonard cooperation must confront the
Washington, and the President's oft-reiterated problem of direct relations between the United Stater
recommendation that the United States should and the Azaemblp and Council of fifty-four nations in
become a member of the World Court, show that ,r,agm"
the United States has already, in principle, gone
Next he aims to show that the League, not
f a r toward entering the Leaguet. Besides this, having Uncle Sam's pocketbook with which to
the author declares:
foot the bill, has no power to enforce any of its
decisions, and is, in effect, nothing more than a
"The United Stat. Government has accredited its
congregation of politicians, of which the world
representatives to sit ae members 'in an unofficial and
has
had many, without beneficent result to itself.
consulting capaciw upon four of the most important
As
really
to enforcing peace he says:
social welfare commissions of the League, &,: Health,

not abandon the League and will not ,organize a new one, and says :
"The only possible path to c06penrtion in which the

wvill

Opium, Traffic in Women and Children, and Anthrax

(IndnstriP1 Hygiene). Our Go~ernmntis s full member of the International Hydrographic Bureau, an o g r n
of the League. Our Government wau repre8ent.d by an
' d c i d obaer~er'in the B
h Conferen- (Finance
and Economia Commission) in 1920. It sent Hon.
Stephen (3. Porter and Bishop Brent to represent it at
the meeting of the Opium Commianion last May. Our
Publia Heath Bemice has taken part in the Serological
Congrewm of the Epidemioa Cummianion and has helped
in the qwrhental work for the standardization of
sernma Onr Government collaborates with the League
H d t h Organization through the International 0of Public Health at Paris, and with the Agricultnre
Committee of the League Labor Organization through
the Intmxmtional Institute of Agriculture st Rome. In
February, 1983, S
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rw Hughes and President Harding f o d y recommended that the Senate approve our
adhesion to the Permanent Court under four conditions
or m a t i o n e , one of which waa that the United States
should otkially participate in the election of judges by
the Assembly .nd Council of the League, sitting M
electoral collegw for that parpose. Unofficial coopention fmm the United S t a h with the work of the League
includm membership in five of the social welfare commiseionr or committees of the League, in one on emn d c reconstrnctian, and in one (Aaland Ialandr)
which averted a war. American women serve as expert
A~aesacmupon the Opiom and W c in Women Commidom."

<'How far the present League is actually removed

from functioning as such a State is d c i e n t l y exhibited
in ite dealing with Lithuania and Poland over Vilns
and their common boundary, and with Oreace and ItdJ
over Corfu. Ekperience in the last three years has demonstrated probably imperable dif6caltiea in the way d
fulfilling in all pa* of the world the large promire of
Article X, in reepect to either ita letter or ita spirit.
No one now expects the Leagne Council to kg to summon armie~~
m d fleeta, eina it utterly failed to obtain
even m international police force for the Vilna district"

As to the threatened economic blockade

against recalcitrant nations, which was workea
so mercilessly by the Allies, first against the
Gennanie confederation and later against the
Russian Republic, he says that this also is a
false alarm, inasmuch as
"the Council of the League created a Blockade Commission which worked for two years to determine how
the 'economic weapon' of the League could be e5ciently
used and uniformly applied. The Commiseion failed to
discover any obligatory procedure that weaker P o a a
would dare to accept. It was findlp agreed that each
State mast decide for itself whether a breach of thr
Covenant has been commitbdn

Next he shows that the League ha6 studiously

refrained from interfering with the Monroe
Doctrine, and that it may always keep its hands
He thne points out what we have claimed in off, or even "define" for America what America
TEB GOLDENAw; namely, that the United has already defined for itself. In his argument
States has already, in effect, been put into the on this point he lets slip one sentence which

shows that he knows that big business is on the

job of governing the world. The sentence in
question is the second one of the following paragraph :
I t is conceivable that the family of nations may
eventuaUy clearly d e h e certain powers and duties of

relatively local significance which may be devolved upon

Local urrociations of d o n a But the world of busineaa
and fLnonce is already unified!'

Then he argues that the League, after all, is

merely another and better expression of the
principle of confederation which began with the
Protestant churches in the Evangelical Alliance
in 1846 and subsequently extended to the nations in various conferences held at The Hagae
and elsewhere:
'In other womb, the force of c h m m h m ~
t gradually moving the League into poaition upon the fo1111datiom so well laid by tha world'e ledem between 1899
and 1907 in the great international councils of that
period. The dssemblies of the Leagne~and the Congresser of the Internationd Iibor O r ~ t i o x uus
rnccemm to The Hague Confezenam. The Permanent
Court haa at least begun to realize the highest hope d
parpoae of the Second Hague Conferen-. The Sacre
tariat and the L.bor O5im ham become Continuation
Committees for the sdminihative work of the organized world, mch M The Hague Contemm lacked m
wurcea to create but would have rejoiesd to resN

The concluding argument that although the

United States smothered the Leagae scheme
under the greatst avalanche of votes ever
known, yet, after all, it was only jogins when
it did so, is stated in language which mggests
to our mind that the author of Plan No. 1469 is
one of those gentlemen who have no regnlsr
occupation during the week, such as engage the
attention of the rest of us, but who button their
collars backwards and present religion wrong
end to on Sunday.
r t in common Lnowklga tb.s paWa opidon md

An Imaginary SdiZopuy of Big B u r f n e u

"W

E ARE the diredors of the largeat b d h g

house in the world, with headquartem at New
York. It was our concern that bought, for Lord Northclifle, the editorial policy of the twenty-five la*
newspapern of the United States. be a direct nsult d
using their columns we ftd.fUed the promise of om
agente to the Premier of France that we would OW b
it that the United States ahodd enter the World WU
on the side of the Alliaa
'We are the fiscal agents for Great Britain, lordad
down with British aecuritiea of all kin&. Theee dties will be worthla unless Britain malcer rmccarr of
her M e , and through it controls the world to d
her policies.
'We tried to get the United States into the L e a g ~ ~
head foremod in 1919, but failed mtchedly. N o r
would like to get them in by any mute c o m e h b k
What ahall we do? We will lie low until mother pmddenttal par (1924) come8 around, and thea re will
try to get the women vote= on our dda If we gat thglP
the battle is won (maybe).
"How a n we get the women votarr?
am dl
rore over the war. W&l TheTe ir dsu Mr. Bok. WU
he not for yuus editor oi the Lodisr Bonw JownJ,
the moet widely m d mmwn'a paper on earth? Oh, Yr.
Bok, you are just the mm to bring it .boat! AU tbr
ladies know you rad will vofe for anything that rill
look good to you.
M for getting aomthhg that w i l l look good Q
you, leave that to ar. Or nther l ~ . v it
e b Elihu Bod
E e k n o ~ w l u t m r r n tHei8tbeclevexestla;rlcafa
&neriu; he h one of the principal bmtrkm ohrm$OM
of the League,via the -world Court mta No&ingwillgstbyhimthrtdoernotincorporatshill~
WedOnotcamwhtbeidarannefrom,ro~u

theyushiaideu-tbLLtomy,ouri~bto
my, Britain's i d e a
' ~ ~ n t h ~ r r h ~ l r ~ g p t p w0i 4
c ti h
w?~ t o o

a r ~ !DidwanotrustheAnochbdhmatO#e$ua
i n b t h a w a r ? Ysrl WeUl W h 0 i r r t t h e h m d o t t b . t
iditation? Melville Stone. All right 1 Melville Stom

w i l l b s a n t h e P ~ ~ # e s m d ~ t & t t b r
*W*gatr*tJtO*n*d@+Pe-"

And, if you will look at the personnel of the

Policy Committee, you will see that Melville El.
~ p o l i q i n t h e U P i t e d 8 ~ h r v b f a r . l o m gtime, Stone is one of its memlxz-8 and you will knov
without distinction of putl, beem frvorabb to internwhat to expect daring l924 Very likely them
tional oonfeffncea for the aommon welfare, rad to the
will
be an effort to stampede both wnventionr,
e8tablhhment of conciliative, arbitad and judicial means
B
p
u
b l i c ~ nand Democratic, to adharenae to the
for settling international disputed. In no other way can
adopted
plan; but if the conventions will not
tbe organized world, fmm which the Unitad Statem curadhere,%e
csndidatea will, In other womb, t h m
nut ba economically md w
y repamtea, belt the
United
Statea
goes into the League, a n m ,
power at public opinion to the new m d h e r y , devimed
for the p d 5 c settlement d controvemim betyxm ~ l l -willy n a y ; that iq it will if big boeinem 9ur
ftarPrMd~8a~prdl'tor9uW

bring it aboot.

GOWEN AGE

~ 9 4

B I ~ I L T R , N. T,

Bnt Mr. Brisbane says, hnmoronsly and strated its ability to deal with questions at
issue.
pointedly:
5. That credible and widely published records
"You know the fable about 'The Mountain in Labor.'
of
such achievements should be available. which
Much groaning and travailing, and when the critical
could
be cited to the peoples of all lands.
moment came, out popped a little mouse. That was the
6. That no record of nnwisdom, injustice, lack
molmtain'~ baby about which it had been making dl
of benevolence, or inability to carry out its parthe fuss.
'That atoy of the mountain must come back to Mr. poses could be laid a t the door of the central
Edward W. Bok aa he contemplates the result of his authority; otherwise its influence would be im$100,000 peace prize offer. It's s very small mouse that paired or become nil.
be gat for his mmey.
7. That one such central authority exists, and
"That Bok prize peace plan w i l l amuse you. Poor
only
one; that there is sonnd reason for belief
Mr. Bok must feel rather silly paying $50,000 for a
in
its
potent influence in American affairs, and
mggestion that the people of the United States should
do now what four yean, ago they refused to do with that h e r i c a , of all countries, is best fitted to
place this one in proper position before the
7,000,000 votes to spare.
world,
and thus gain the world peace which by
"Go into the World Court now and join the League
on a modified basis is the $50,000 suggestion. It is as no other means can now be gained or preserved.
though aeriow people, dimming what they should haye
8. That central authority is well known to
for dinner, should see a d - m e g doggie drag in a many of the members of the committee which
cat long dead m d offer that aa a solution.
shall pass upon this plan, and it is urgently
"The League of Nations is a d a d cat.
requested for their own welfare, and for the
"The United States doesn't intend to join the hagme welfare of mankind in general, that they give
of Nations, doesn't intend to pay Europe's bills, or be diligent heed to the evidence herein presented,
held responsible for them, and does not intend to en*
any World Court that would c a w the afiaira of the so that they may not thoughtlessly turn down
the best of all possible plans without giving
United States to be submitted to a foreign t r i b d
adequate attention to the key which controls
"Nr.Bok can charge his $50,000 to experience.''
human destinies.
Our Orcn Plan
UR own plan is quite different from that
selected by the committee of which Mr.
Root is chairman, which automatically rejected
1. On July 18,1923, Newton D. Baker, former
every plan that did not favor the League.
Secretary of War, stated before an audience of
Cleveland women :
A PB~CTIC~LBLE
PLANWHEREBY
THE UNITED
STATES
CAX TAKEITS PLACEm~ DO 1"Europ k now more nearly ready for war than it
S~ARBTOWPRESEBVING
WOBLD P ~ c E ,was in 1914, so far aa underlying causes are concerned.
I cannot see how it can be prevented unless some subW
R NOT
~
M A I L ~COMPULSORY
G
THE PRCIPATION OP THE UNITED
STATES
IN EURO-stitute is found. If the devil has it in his heart to let

...

was.

forth upon the human race more deadly inetmmentn of

destruction Zhan were used in this last terrible war, it
The Plan hereinafter set forth seeks to mean8 international suicide so far as the civilized ZUestablish :
tions are concerned."
PEAN

1. That unless something be done speedily

civilization is in a fair way to be blotted out.
2. That a central authority, wise, just, benevolent and able to enforce its decrees, is essential.
3. That such a central authority must have
the confidence of those in every nation who are
molders of public thought and diredors of
public action.
4. That before such central authority can be
given xorId position it should have demon-

Mr. Weeks, the present Secretary of War, has

said :
"The United States is preparing for a war that would
tax us to the utmost in man-power resources?

Viscount Grey, of the British Government,

has said:
"I think it ia certain that if there be another mch
war civilization will never recover from it."

Sir Philip Gibbs, of the same government,

has said:

rn

GOLDEN AGE

"h'o man unless he is drunk with optimism can deny took place; in spite of them another similar but
that the world is very sick, and it may be a sickness greater cataclysm is feared. At Versailles an
unto death.
attempt was made, in the Covenant of the

Ramsay MacDonald, the British Labor leader,' has said :

"There t no d e m e n t in Europe. Governments can
do nothing. They are afraid to do anythmg and they
rtand by and allow things to go from bad to worn
1923 is worse than 1 9 1 P

Lloyd George has said:

uA new chapter opens in the hietor~of Europe and

the world, with a climax of horror mch as maTIkind baa
rmer yet witnessed."

To the foregoing vords of British and American statesmen we add the comments of a fern
journalists, publicists, and educators. Frederick J. Libby has said:
'%irplanea, poison gas and ha.tred mixed together am
@ling the doom of civilization h e r i c a is preparing
for war on B scale so colossal that it has no parallel in
the history of the world. Our civilization will perish
unless we strive for international peace."

TF7. L. Warden, of the London Daily Mail, has

League of Nations, to provide the central

authority which all see is needed. Insofar as
such a central authority exists it has not been
so exercised as to prevent numerous wars, and
it is in spite of such central authority that the
future looks so dark. The United States, thus
far, has been unwilling to entrust its interests
to such central authority; and if Great Britain
is willing to do so there are great numbers of
Americans who believe that her reason for M,
doing is became she believes that, with her
colonies, she can control instead of being controlled. The fact that so many capable men
have given serious attention to the establishment of a central authority shok the world'r
need of just snch an authority. It needs no
argument to establish further the second point:
That a central authority, wise, just, benevolent,
and able to enforce its decrees, is essential.

:
said
.
-~

'The next war will last but a few days I mean it

d i m s i n g here the reasons for it,
3.
literally. And in those few day^, with the air and m.
it
is
self-evident
that the central authority
attacks which have been planned by W q u d
which
was
sought
to be established by the
London and Paris w i l l be wiped out in a night"
Treaty of VersaiUes has been unable to gain .

Jesus of Nazareth, greatest of all prophets,

referring to the same identical items, said:
?Except those days should be shortened, there ehodd
no flesh be caved."-Matthew M :22.
Dr. Bernard I. Bell, college president, has
'said :

the confidence of many of those in the United

States who are molders of public thought and
directors of public action, and hmce it is not
in the confidence of the American publia aa 8
whole. What ia true in America is trae to some
extent in Great Britain and in other mnntries.
"Before the war people often m p p a d that orvr wm If a nation is suEciently great to be admitted
r Christian culture. The w u ha^ revealed or to our- to a council of nations, it is evident that 8
d v e a Civilization is pag611."
majority of ita people must by some meslu
Mr. H. O. Wells, journalist, has said:
become convinced of the wisdom of recognhing
' C W e h r v e a n n e t o t h e ~ a n d n o a n e b w s and supporting a world central authority, o r
the way out."
that nation, and all other nations like-minded,
Dr. H. L. Brailsford, publicist, has said:
will always be a disturbing fador. The only
T h e futnm is very dark. W e . h m h e d the twi- way that the public in general can be convinced
light of civilizatio~~"
of a thing is through the molders of publio
In view of the foregoing opinions of some of thought and the directors of publia acticl, and
the world's most thoughtful men it mnst be these cannot and will not teach and p r a d h
conceded that the first point has been proven; principles of which they are not themselver oonnamely, that unless something be done speedily vinced. Many honest and influential Americana
aidlhation is in a fair way to be blotted out.
will always use their powere to combat any plan
w h i d muld poaeibly result in the United Stat2. Within the past century there have beea boing drawn into another European war. It ir
many international conferences, snch as those undeniably true that if a oentral authoriQ k to
more remntly held at Waehington, Genoa, and function properly it mnst have the confldenoe
Tho Hagaa In qite of thw the World War ef at least a majority of the molders of publie

rtrnrmx 13. 1924

GOLDEN
-AGE

e97

'

When three of Jehoslmphat's osemies formed

of c r t I-lasting life to anybodv. If tlie Bible be
nntl ue, then self-interest is the only law for a confederacy against him, and hc appealed the
rlirll or nations and peace can never come, and case to Jehovah, the attaokers fell out among
can never be maintained if it does come.
themselves nnd destroyed each other without a
of Israel needing to lift a h m d agaimt
now el-ne
some of the claims of the
Let
iu this install*
them
Israelwas
R 1.1e respecting Jehovah's place in the affairs
"the
battle
i
s
not
yours,
but
God's." Sea
that
of men. EIe selected and dealt with one nation
20:
for n time, in order thus to iilustrate what Hia
m e " Sennacherib's general wrote 8 tauntfiy
power will be, world-+&, wllen the due h e
~h~~
nation
was
letter
to Eezekiah, demanding his surrender on
has come for its full
the ground that hie God was not able to care
Israel, and we choose several illustrations.
for him. Hezelurth epread the letter before the
Seven times, within a period . of
450 years, ~ ~with~ the dredt
, lhat tho angel of tho Lord
.
Jehovah visited national calamities upon the
&e
in
Sn
Jews, and the Bible states that in each instance
37: 8-36,
these calanlities were from Him. They are xeN,,
respectssome other ,,dons,
fltc? 3 i ~
corded in the book of Judges. 13 Judges 2: 14, ,born that the Pharaoh who had impudently
as a rebuke for misdeeds, they were delivered demanded: wois ~ ~ h that
~ 1~ s hdo a ,
"into the hands of spoilersJJ; in Judges 3 :8, He obey his
was &med
in u,e Red sea
~ ~ them
1 ~into1 the hand of the king Neso~o- aftev 8 series of defeats that were in some relamia ; in Judges 3 :12, He strengthnned the wects worse than deathr-~xodns 5 :2 :14
king of Noah against them; in Jndges 4: 2, He
1,
hands
am
tisold them into the hand of the Ling of Canaan; for development and testing;
panisbnent,
in dodges 7 :I, He "delinred them into tbe haad abrilham could not in
on? dny poaacls
of Midian"; in Judges 10: 7, He "sold them into tDin
'2heiniqvityof the bOritu
the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands is n,t yet fdT-Genesia
of the children of Ammon" for a period of
reigning in ,
~thne ~
The
eighteen Years, and in Judges 13: He "deliv- a
of spe&al favors at
handr.
ered them into the hand of the Philistines forty
give
years."
answer of peace"; and the ptomise wns ful-a
While yet on the way to Canaan they were m e d . - a n e s i s 41: 16-67.
warned that it was useless for them to fight
a , d expresslp cl-s
respbnsimitp
tor
unless the Lord was with them; and when th:y destradio,, of sodom, and fivesthe
for
did attempt to fight without His approval they i t 1 took them away
I
.
.
r gd~s-h
were defeated, after first being forewarned that kel16:50.
such would surely be the case. See Numbers
0
0
0

*man

&,,

14 :40-45.

Before Moses' death they were warned that

after their period of probation as 9, nation had
ended the Lord wodd bring against them a
fierce nation from afar that would pat an end
to their national existence with one of the most
terrible sieges of history. All of this mas perfectly fulfilled when the army of Titus overthrew Jernsalem after the lapse of seventeen
centuries.-Deuteronomy 28: 49-57.
When the .divine decree had been placed
aminst the house of f i a b
f i a b repnted
and "rent his clothes, and pat sackcloth upon
his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth a d
went s o f t l y there was a mitigation of the penalties against him. See 1Jiings 21 :27-29. .--

The peace of the

is pecaliar1Ythe p-b
lem of the peo?le of the United states, Not
only do the S c r i ~ h r e show
s
that ''dl ths e&&"
shoald reverence Jehovah who "brinmth
Of the heathen to noughf' (Psalm a:
8, lo); not Only
is the nation whose God is the Lord'' (PlObPO
33: 121, bat the Revised Version pronomme a
speoial blessing upon the United States in h
words: "Ah, the land of the rustling wings [the
*meria
eagle-,,
is beyond
riwn d
Ethiopia: that #end& &=adors
by &
even in vessels of pap-?
( ~ ~ 18
d :d
l, 2)
The only land west of or beyond the r i v e n of
Ethiopia is the United States. k special bding is here pronollnad u p n - some m
.

m.

GOLDEN AGE

printed upon paper, that shall go forth to other

peoples.
We are expressly told in prophecy that 01lowing the World War, when European kingdo- would be broken in pieces: "In the days
of these king0 ahall the God of heaven set up a
kingdom, which shall never be destroyed."
(Daniel 2: 44) Why hesitate to give God HYa
rightful place?
Nebnchadnezzar, a great king on the pages of
mular history, did not hesitate to promulgate
s decree regarding Jehovah "that every people,
nation and language, which speak anything
amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces and their
houses shall be made a dnnghi1L"-Daniel3: 29.
Daniel, man of God, thought to help Nebulater by warning him that he was
to mge him to rightabout to go insane,
eoasness and mercy toward the poor, so that
the time of his t r w q a t y might be lengthened.
Nebuchadnezzar was insane seven years and a t
its close was not ashamed to say: "Now I Nebachadnezzar praise and extol and honor the
f i g of heaven, all whose works are tmth, and
his way8 judgment: and those that valk in
pride he is able to abase."-Daniel 4: 27,37.
Darina, another great monarch on the pages
history, sfter the deliverance of Danof
iel from the liond den, "wrote m t o all people,
nations, ahd languages, that dwell in all the
earth; Peace be multiplied nnto yon. I make a
decree. That in everv dominion of mv kingdom
men tkmble and fea; before the God bf ~&.iel:
for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever,
and hia kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and hia dominion shall be even unto
the e n d He delivereth and rescueth, and he
worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in
the earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the
power of the lions."-Daniel
6 :25-27.
One more illustration of a truly wise monarch
was that of the ruler of Nineveh who, when
warned by Jonah that the city was about to be
destroyed, even a s you are now warned that
Christendom is about to perish, "arose from
his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and
covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes,
and he caused it to be proclaimed and published
through Nineveh by the decree of the king and
his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast,
herd nor do& taste any thing: let them not

feed, nor drink water: but let man and beast

be covered with snclicloth, and cry mightily
unto God: yea, let them turn every one from
his evil way, and from the violence that is in
their hands. Who can tell if God will trvn and
repent, and turn away from his fierce anger,
that we perish not7 And God saw their workq
that they turned from their evil way; and God
repented of the evil, that he had said that he
would do nnto them; and he did it not,"Jonah 3: 6-10.
Has not Jehovah declared His ultimate intent
that "nation shall not lift up sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any more"?
(Isaiah 2: 4) Why not be the first nation to
issue a mighty appeal to Him to begin the operation of that law1 But in making that appeal
let the nation speak as a nation, through the
through
mouths of its legislators, and not at
the mouths of those who, professing to teach
the Bible, really disbelieve it, or who, kno\\-ing
this rule against war, mere for mar when they
should have been for Peace.
wait1 Why wait? Was it not for You
that the message was written three thousand
Yea? ago1 "Be wise now therefore, 0 ye kings:
be instructed, Ye judge5 of the earth- Serve
Jehovah with fear, and rejoice with tremblingKiss the Son, lest he be a n g q , and ye perish
from the may, when his wrath is kindled but a
little. Blessed are all they that pat their trust
in him."-Psalm
2 :10-12.
Nicholas Aligel, nine years old, of South
Ozone Park, beat the police to it. Nicholas tired
of school, so he engaged for a day as a traveling
fruit peddler's assistant. Before night his father
and mother and a squad of detectives were alI
looking for him. Worn out with their fruitlea8
search, Nicholas' papa and mamma returned
heartbroken to their home late a t night, only to
find Nicholas somd asIeep in his bed. We do
not know what happened to Nicholas afterward.
Perhaps his parents were so glad to see him
that they said nothing and did nothing; and
then, again, perhaps-but we draw the veil t
u8wn

,
,m h.va

in the

,,,*

Of fighters; each found able as a man

To otrike electria iduence b u g ; ! a raw
Uzutrjed by civ wall d bPrblcaam

Reports from Foreign Correspondents

From England
HE result of the generalelection in Brit&
an mlempected blow for the Consemative party, which has been pleased to consider
itself as the only true w o r t of the British
constitution. The Conservative leaders were not
at all prrpared for the
they received at the polla and which, to their
horror, brought the dreaded Labor government
\vithin view. To very many it is as if the enemy
were already within sight of the city gates.
The present pooition is that there are three
parties elected to the House of Commons, each
approximately as strong as the others; and none
loves the other. Here is disclosed one of the
weaknesses of parliamentary government. No
doubt Britain, the mother of this form of government, will join the general demonstration
of the failure of all forms of human governance.
The wisdom of the world is visibly perishing
here as well as elsewhere, not only b-use
of
the self-interests and class interests so assiduo u s l ~~ought,hut bemuse of the great complaity of the problems which have arisen, and which
do not decreaee but increase rapidly.
The Labor party is by no means
to
the present constitution; so no great changes
are probable even if and when it comes into
power, which event seems near a t hand. There
break
are in it lome
who
the Eonstitution, but the leaders are not of that mind.
It will be one of the ironies (or humors) of
the situation if some of the leaders of that
party are inade Lords of the Kingdom and take
a place amongst that oft-derided company.
Strange things are possible in these days of
upheaval. Out of the melee the Liberal party
has come back.
This may almost be said to be a personal
triumph for Mr. Lloyd George. Some fondly
hoped that bfr. Lloyd George was a spent force,
once and for all. But his trip to America restored his name and fame, and he came back
to a set of circumstsnces which made him a very
powerful force. Also he wrought like a Titan.
Probably Mr. Lloyd George is one of the
signs of the times, and one of those who are to
for the kingdom of peace,
be used to do a
even though indirectly used of Jehovah. His
motives are surely good, and he is no doubt
seriously desirous af amending the conditions
of the people. He ia not merely a politician.

At present the unemphyment Q p n n a n 8

little lower. They are indeed about -4
less
than this time last Year ;and yet there
lpm*OOOpersons getti% u e m p 1 o ~ e n money*
t
Trade shows a slight im~rovemenfthough, a 7
the anthorities, there is no
nor is one to be expected till Europe is settled.
The ChI=istmas season has been a busy one*,
Never were such shopping croadq nor ever h d
the railways a busier time.
The co11ntry has been a c t e d with a bad outbreak of cattle foot-and-mouth disease. As the
policy of Great Britain is not to trust to remetdial measures but to kill and burn all the livestock on the f a m where the disease shows itself, there has been a great slaughter. The total
number of local outbreaks to date is 1,8P6, and 117257 animals have been slaughtered: 62,822
cattle, 30,758 pigs, 23,631 eheep, and 46 goab,
This represents gross compensation amount&
to S1,846,000.
of the trouble has ken
in the
of
Cheshire, one of the most fertile of
En@&
connt.es, and where ite best dairy farms are.
The condition of the county is pitiable; HabukWs
word may be applied: "The flock shall be
mt oefrom the fold, and there
be no
i,the
(Haw
3:17)
well-stded
fields and its farmyards are empty. The
may get some compensation for the destruction
of his beasts, ht the life of the
gone;
he is
the
.
in the
ant.
nfacturer who has had his mill
Now, when so many tmimds have been destroyed, the government department is questioning whether or not it is using the right
method of fighting the disease. I n France and
Belgium remedial measures are tried. Here
they kill the animal, and think aftemmds.

hrn
haw
O
m pears
Austria
seemed
doomed, ht
wY
plaad ago
upon
itB feet
by the combined

efforts of the goman Catholic Church and the

great banking interests which center in America. Something of the same situation now oonfronts Germmy. The bands of a very extensive
are being qnietly
secret o r g a h t i o n of
wrapped closely and more closely ronnd about
the German country and people.

GOLDEN AGE
I n a recent address Herr von Graefe, member
of the German Parliament and speaker for the
German-nationalist party, with great force and
clearness declared that Herr von Kahr, the Bavarian Premier, intends nothing less than the
destruction of Protestant Germany, and the
restoration of the Hapsburg monarchy with itr
ultramontane (Church of Rome) intlaence.
For some time it haa been plainly evident
that all the powers of Germany's leading state*
men were unable to bring about a stable government without surrendering to the Centre Party,
the Catholics. In spite of every effort to stabilize the value of money, the Eeichamark decreased more and more, while prices mounted
astonishingly.
I t was evident that some secret infiuenoe was
working against the Protestant statesmen. Every effort made by them was rejected with disdain by the papers, largely under Catholic intluene, so that the people had no coddenand a general stoppage of industry and bu6ness was the result.
As a consequence of thia secret hihence, the
cabineta cbanged one after another, so that
within the whole Parliament it seemed quite
impossible to find a new cabinet member who
would have the con0dence of the majority, or be
able to undertake the formation of a new cabinet.
But suddenly, in the hour of the greatest
exhaustion of the Reich and of the people, and
amidst the general fear that another dissolution
of the Reichstag waa inevitable, with its inevitable delay of reform and prosperity, the Centre
Party and its famoua leader, Herr Dr. Marx,
came into the limelight

Herr bfarx offered to form a new cabinet,

with the remarkable result that the newspapera,
which had formerly been sowing seeds of distrust, a t once took an opposite course. Them
was evident, all over the country, a systematio
secret political force in favor of the new Government. Prices immediately declined and almost incredibly the Reichsmark rose upon the
foreign exchanges, under the pressure of ultramontane influence.
The tone of the new Government suddenly
hardened, becoming almoct a dictatorship. Of
c o m e this cannot be kept secret, and has re
d t e d in general discontent. The empowering
law, passed a t the inatanc; of the new aabinet,
is not well received by the people; but after a
bitter fight in the Reichstag it was haUy
mpted, and the Reichstag adjourned to meet
again several weeks later.
The adjournment of the lkichstag virtually
means that its members have been sent home
and told to keep their lips closed. Hence a t this
moment all the people are looking intently to
Rome to see and hear what the "Old W
ife"(the
Roman Catholia Church) will command from
there. Meantime, i t does not forget that Probstant Germany has been compelled to surrender
the Rhine and the Buhr to Catholio France, and
Upper Silesia to Catholio Poland.
All in all it may be said that a t this time,
more than at any other thus far, the German
people see fulfilled in their midst the worda of
our Lord that at the time of the setting up of
His kingdom there should be "upon the earth
distress of nations, with perplexity, the ru and
the waves msring."-Luke 21:25.

Significant Utterance- of LIoyd George

living. Only a few yeam ago the foIIowing
utterances by England's greatest statesmaa
to be done. There are too many obstacles in the would have been condemned aa rank sacialian
way, too many enemies who mnst be pacMed, by the capitalietia presa But today they do not
more than passiq notice.
too many friends who muat be &ted
to, too at'
W
l
u
tWnetuP WerbJltUtb6nunrbsL
many interests involved.
ge4ting eomethingbensrareuned, that h n e m plb
Lloyd George is being criticbed now became duced,.nd thrtbynolawof juaticsmdfrirnrv ought
eome of the statements he haa made in the past nsr b belong to him."--8peeob of DseembQ 8,19O@.
have not been too well lived up to. But them
'Who ordained tlut a few ahodd bat. the l a d d
statemente are of intereat, anyway. They ahon Britain rr r pequidte; who made 10,000 peoplr ownera
how far the world's greatest statesmen hsvs u f t h e ~ i I m d t h b r e s t o f u a t m p ~ i n t h b I . n d d
moved forward withip the hirtory of mm now m r M P Whokmqmsbbtartbdmmdthhlp

are not always able to put into

STATESMEN
effect the things that they plainly see ought

" GOLDEN
whereby one man is mpqed through life in grinding
labor. to win a bare and precarious existence for hime l f : and mother man who does not toil receives every
hour of the day, every how of the night whilst he alumbere, more than his poor neighbor receives in a whole
year of toil?"-Speech
of 1912.
"I say to Labor: You shall have justice; yon ahall
haye fair treatment, a fair share of the amenities of life;
and your children shall have equal opportunities with
the children of the rich. Yon shall not be plundered

AGE

nor penalized. Labor must have happiness in its heart.

We will put up ~ i t no
h sweating. Labor is t o have ita
just rew-md. There will be rbnndance to requite ths
toil and gladden the hearta of all.''--Speech of Deermber 6, 1918.

Lloyd George sees what is easily possible;

indeed, everybody sees it. But the thing which
he desires, and which everybody desires, can
never come as a result of human efforts. Experience proves this, positively.

Taking the Clock Apart By Benjamin 1m.h

ARS ago, when I was in the jewelry bnsiY"ness,
several boys came to me, each having

a piece of a clock which they had taken apart.

Each claimed that the piece in his possession
was the most valuable, and they 'all had something to sell. Everything they had to sell, however, was deformed,. twisted and bent by their
violence in taking the clock apart.
Ignorant boys have tom the Bible in pieces;
each piece is a creed. Those creeds are bent
and twisted clock-wheels which the clergy, like
the inexperienced boys, imagine comprise about
all there is of value in the Scriptures, when
really all that each one has is junk.
Yes; those boys got into an argumen1 and
'?let up" till their countenances resembled a
ripe erysipelas-just like the rich master-parsons of flocks who do violence to Scripture.
Those boys knew instinctively that those violently-handled wheels of a clock were of no me
to me ; but if I was silly enough to buy them,
they in turn could buy peanuts.
The men "sent" from theological and divinity
schools hcow instinctively that a few verses of
Scripture with "sedarian fhger-prints on them"
are worse than useless; but they pander to the
heterogeneous mass, and are looked upon as
"wise men."
Those "wise men" have mince-pie dreams,
"and cannot rest day or night," till those dreams
are made into laws. An "office seeker" must
first endear himself to the "wise men," o r he
will be defeated on election day. The '%be
man" wants his dismal nightmare on the statute
books so that he can father a "reform movement," to make saints of ,=by law, that he can
say on the day of judgment: '=ere, Lord, are
the saints I redeemed from the earth with the

mutilated constituent components of an aIann

clock. Please decorate my crown with garnet8
and diamonds."
Those "wise men" who have mince-pie dream
take special delight in argning with one another
about their respective wheels and pendulums,
One "wise man" says that the pendulum is the
most important part; another, that the case in
more important; &ill another declares, in 8
temperature of 1,000 degrees, that the hands of the clock are^ all them is to it; and yet.anothar
answers that the figures on the dial are the chief of the tribe; another remarks that the te).
and the mnscle applied keep everything moving.
Thus we have violence from etart to finish;
force, not connection, ia the fountainhead of
sectarianism.
A wheel, case, pendulum, dial, and key eepe
rated-these are not a clock. 'All scripture ia
given by inspiration for instruction in righteousness.' Not a verse nor a chapter is eamplete in itself. Neither can a toothed wheel,
mainspring, dial, time wheels, hands, o r ~ s r e
be a clock till each part is properly sasembled
and adjnsted between power and resistance.
When this is done, we have a mechanical device
for measuring time. When the Scripture is
Scripture, it is a time guide ;but when we separate i t into creeds, we divide the'"vesture of
Christ," which his murderers had the unlimited
gall to do.
The "wise ones" of today have the 8odacity
to tell us that "the world is growing better";
that it is "safe for democracy." Instead of
preaching "the good tidings of great joy," they
preach war, causing bloodshed, famine, aad pa,
tilence. Christ knew full well when he d:
"Woe unto you lawyere,
scribe%
,

. ..

hypocrites,* that they were, aa they are today, I will apologize. But it is my firm co~lviction
the aristocracy of Satan's realm.
that the choicest maledictions in prophecy canIf I have made any statement that is not true, not do these "wise ones" injustim. .

Antediluvian Giant
AM greatly enthused about the "AntediluI vian
Giants," in TEE GOLD~AAGENo. 109.
On that line I have some information which no
doubt will be of interest.
I was once a globe-trotter; and before I knew
anything about present truth I did not appreciate wonders when I saw them.
In 1907 there was exhibited at various places
throughout the United States a g i a n t a son of
one of the fallen angels, without a doubt.
I will reproduce the history, connected with
this monster, to the best of my ability.
I n the early part of this century two fossil
giants were found in a cave in the Ural MOMtains, on the eastern border of Russia The
larger is something over eleven feet, from the
crown of his head to the sole of his feet. The
other is much smaller, and was considerably
decomposed before petrifaction took effect.
Therefore I will say no more about that one.
The larger giant is in almost a perfect state
of preservation, except that one ear had began
to decompose, also his upper hip and part of
his abdominal wall;part of his stomach is therefore visible. This decay, of come, took place
before petrifaction took effect.
A specimen like this has never been recorded
before or since, with the exception of Mr. Hubbard's find, described in Q O L D E ~AGE
~
No. 109.
I t is probable that this giant did not perish
in the flood; but that he died before the flood
is evident from the fact that he lay aa straight
ae any corpse could lie, and with hands folded.
The finders stated that, due to the surroundings of his tomb, he might have been a chief.
He had neither beard nor moustache, but a
heavy head of long hair, a r o w m e portion
extending from the top of his head to each
shoulder. That also is petrified, and is also
proof that he was laid out with special care.
I do not believe that special care was the order
of the day when those monsters saw the great
deluge corning.

BY J O ~ NC. ~ e f l

Truly,he is a wonderful sight; but I did not

appreciate it then; for I knew not whence it
came.
But someone might conclude : "Oh 1 well,
somebody jnst molded that thing out of cement,
to make some easy money." From here it would
be hard for me to convince you to the contrary;
but try I will.
Let anyoue that doubts the genuinenem of
this narrative gaze upon his own hands, arms
and feet, and notice every detail-the wrinkles,
the knuckles, the nails, the skin, the musclesand then imagine them turned into stone. Portions of this giant are jnst that perfect. His
teeth are as natural in setting as mine are!
Another feature I noticed was what is commonly called the Adam's apple. I tapped on it
with my knuckles. The sound indicated that
there was a cavity therein.
If anyone is further interested in thb, I believe that he will find this giant in the National
Museum in Washington, D. C. I f he ie not there
at present he could be easily located,
No genius could model anything like i t T d y
he is one of those giants that filled the earth
with violence in the daya of Noah.
These which I mention here and those of Mr.
Hubbard's finding are the only petdied giants
on record. But there have been many bones of
this race found throughout the United States,
of which the American Indian is not ignorant.
When some of these bones were unearthed
'during the early days of the MiddIe West, the
red man recited his tradition as follows:
timr
mtbb4rma
b.rr; hap -;
a

whm thundm -ked,

hbk

they

.amtspirif

rhc. ligbw

.nd d
i.
BBnt

tb.t thq

mter
bigflood; m,emd.,,

This is Indian tradition, recorded in hiatory;

and yet it is not so far from the truth. I t was
handed down to them by their ancestors from
the days of Noah.

A Concluding Chapter of hkrogittions

T H E publication of ''Interrogations" in T m the logic of events shows that his chronolog
GOLDENAGENO. 109, being answers to sun- was correct and is correct. Chronology is not 8
dry questions and objections brought foxward
by Mr. Jasper Jones, has produced another
crop of interrogations in the form of five more
letters from Mr. Jones, one from Ludwig Larsen, one from axel %&arson, and one from
Tl~addensTornowicz, all following the same
geuerd Lines. For convenience we consider
them collectively.
=As the letters from Messrs. Jones, Larsen,
Hjalmarson, and Tornowim all come from the
same post-office, are all in the same handwriting,
and as none of these gentlemen appear on our
list of snbscribers at the post-office named, we
assume that this one answer should stdice; and
we d l nut mrry the matter further.
W e are glad to devote a reasonable amount
of effort to assist any one to a clearer view of
Qod's plan, though we do not forget the comin
of %mans 14: 1:
that is
the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful dispnbtions." This Scripture text we &&and
to
mean that we
not expected or even permitconsecrated time in disputing with
ted to
one who, at the moment, semore eager to
find m e t h i n g whi& he
criticize than something which he cwm aomplend.
.We ask Mr. Jones-Larsen-Hjbmon-Tornowicz not to take offense at this statement. We
ask him also to bear in mind our oft-repeated
and self-evident proposition that we do not
know it all, and to be reasonably f l e n t while
we try to give some answers to what we recognize are unusually intelligent miticisms. We
as before, with
from the
letters, interspersed with our answers or oomments on the same.

N-i&
4

of U d m w w the

HE original doctrine propounded by Paator Bussell was su5ciently plausible to d v e every doubt
of the confirmed skeptic-for tho time being. Unfortunately too much of ita credibility depended on the
infallibility of r set of dates, and the parallels
thereon, which the relontleaa logic of events has ahom
not parallel."

proper basis for faith. It should never be

thing more than an aid to faith, but it may k
that, and it is that.'
i8 rooted
tb F-ption

Pador ~~~~~n
~ d e divine
r
inspiratio= ~
n
the -dor,
ternpersILce, M b b l m e m , l u ~ d i Q .nd
apparent logic qanif&
in hie words impmr th.
reader aa favoring that rslmmption. Any careful dud&
of histary must have drown the c o n c l b n that orrr
civihtion was to end in 8 cstrclysm, m d Phis 0- WV
Russell points out (whether it
I do not h o w ) that the Bible pmphOr
veqthing. But it
*=ge
that
Bwriting under supposed divine inspiration, could have
perptntad
-y
egregiOdy fl,
ing the date 1914, the keystone date od hie nhalr
d,
of pmaUd8.$

---

'It was never

of
Bthat he was inspired, nor was it ever om
thought respecting
We prefer
amfi
his O m statement on this mbje& "If it
prove what
Proper for the early Christians
they received from the apostles, who were a d
who claimed to be inspired, how much more important it is that YOU f a y 8atiSfy y0Urself that
these teachings keep dosely within their outline instructions and those of the Lord; gintheir author claims no inspiration, but merely
the guidance of the Lord, as one used of him in
feeding his flock" ( W A TT~o w q June 1,1893)
We could reproduce this sentiment from Pastor
Russell's pen many times. This was always hia
thought of himself and our thought of him.
However, we hold that Pastor Russell W88 right
in regard
19149
as yam next
Prm
tically admits.
'"It in true that evente of stupendous importance did
transpire on this date, but not exactly what wm expected
wheduh
by him a d his followem came to PY
nor
months earlier. Your a t m t to ah e , but
plain this d i s m p a n ~seems h me entirely id*;
and the fact h t m a the arwt mu did not
as per schedule, and that yoar other a n t i c i ~ cha&
cerning thh date failed, m
e
a to invalidate PUT
rhdr
scheme of chronology and parallele b a d themon, w h
harmony and esactness it refutes."

'From our point of view the original d o o t ~ e

'We cannot ndertake here to quote at anJl
propounded by Pastor Russell still solves every
doubt, and would be wholly credible if it was considerable length from Pastor Russell's writ'i3ivorced entirely from any eet of dates; but ings as to his expectatione regarding 1914; but
\

Bm

from his journal, TECE

WATCRTOWEX, for January, 1881, me quote the following paragraph:
'%e s=, too, that not onlp a= de-harvest of
Jewish and
ages parallel in point of beginning, but also in length of dwation; theirs
being in all forty years from the time of Jesus'
anointing, at the beginning of their harvest, A. D.
30, to the destruction of Jerusalem, A. D. 70. So
ours, beginning in 1874, closes with the end of
the day of wrath and end of the times of the
Gentiles, 1914, a similar and parallel period of
forty years. The first seven years of the Jewish
harvest were especially devoted to the gathering
of ripe wheat from that church; three and onehalf of it were while He was present as the
Bridegroom and three and a half of it after
He had come to them aa King and had entered
into glory."

An Error Leaa than One-HaUof One Percent

FBOY
the foregoing it appears that rn
early rn January, 1881, Pastor Russell
expected the end of the Times of the W t i l e e
in 1914 (about October 1). I n the year 1881the
leading statesmen and publicists of the world
expected nothing of the b d ; but they now
admit that the World War, which began on
August lst, 1914, has created a situation which
the king's men
all the king's horses and
put back together againo The Russian,
Qerman, Austrian, Hungarian, and many other
monarchies and kingdoms have disappeared,
never to rise. From January, 1881, to October,
1914, is 405 months. According to your thought
Pastor Russell missed his calculation by two
months; that is to say, he committed an error
amounting to a trifle less than one-half of one
percent.
lSNow it seems to ns that to discern "event8
of stupendous importance" 403 months before
they happened, and to hit upon the date within
less than one-half of One percent of error
such a remarkable phenomenon that the value
of the discrepancy is negligible. However, there
are critical, keenly analytical Bible Students
who hold that the World War began exactly on
t h e , even to the very day; and that th8 exact
beginning of the Times of the Gentiles was not
'606% years B- C., but two months pmvio(This is based on 2 Khgs 25: 8, and the s u p
position that in that year the month Nisan be-

gan on March 27th five days after the Spring

equinox.)

"Touhve
Buggertea

rading for
c~ll,&
ogy of VoIume 11, by substituting the date 1918 for
1914; but the sequel h a proven conclmivelr
pur
-tiom
,,rning
thk date# also, were mw.p,fed**
a

UIt is trne that in the Seventh Volume of

~~~
the snggestion is made that
the harvest of the Gospel age ~ o u l dcontinue
~~TUDIES

on beyond the close of the Time? of the Gentiles.

At the time that book was written it v m believed that the Spring of 1918 would mark the
workend of the

Notabb Ebenb Occurring in 1918

HE Spring of 1918 did not mark the end of

the harvest work, however, in the sense that

the harvesters were not able to find auy more
%heat." But k 1918 the work of hvreat
sto~pedtthe leaders of the ~~~ovement
were implisoned for what mnomted t? Life senten*%
the tracts and plates from whch theu t r ~ b
were printed were destroyed, the Jewish conmissioners landed k Palestine to undertake th%
formation of a new Jewish p i t y , the Ihsian
Bolshevists ~ n n their
o Purpose
~ ~ to overthrow C2qktendom; and ever since that date
the specid effort of those int&sted in Pastor
~ ~ s e teachin@
l h ~
been to annourn the
new message, the mesof the k i n d o w th.t
'billions now living
never die."
''Hence we hold that the sequel proves k t
our expectations regarding 1918 mere fully warranted, and abundantly fulfilled. We think it
also likely that on that date Jehovah, from FXia
vantage point, saw, knew and personally reoognized, whether in or out of Mystic Babylon,
every person who will eventually go to make up
the bride of Christ.
i r m llObiety
-tiOII
of Pastar B ~ P '
& nrido, I believe, ~
I stomp thsnr
J
with ~imerity.His explanation of soma of the phenomena of psst and m
t his to^ h M far M I knor,
-9ue
in i t revelation of hitherto hidden
But
the mistdm which I mpect his followem ham ma& ia
dg
tha dirins nrehtiia h.l ba. ami, & Smraa,
which are to sem =
rppeadir
dim of the Bible; and thst it in snpeduaar to tb
point of impiety to criticize any of the etrrte~~b~~b
a4
~astur]Bussell, although it L patent that romr d

rn CjOWEN AGE
these, now advanced aa facts, were only hazarded by
himself as hypotheses and not conclusive proofs. I believe
Russell was really inspired by an honest zeal to advance
the cause of eternal truth. There is an appeal both to the
heart and to the reason in his earlier writings that I am
eensible of .in none of his commentators. In Volume
VII and in subsequent publications of the I. B. S. A.
the declarations become less and less convincing, the
demands on the readers' credulity more and more exacting; in fact, there seems palpable anxiety to perpetuate
a new system of orthodoxy by insisting on the sacred
character of Russell's words, meanwhile gradually departing from the same spirit, and by d e w even in
actual tenet4 of doctrine."

fessing Cbktians w5o decline to %ome out ad Babylog

by embracing B
m will have part in neither murrection. The plain implication seema to be that ahfaih to repudiata the present political, h a n d , mocial,'
religious and industrial system, and to alianata their
friends, fraternal and b e e 8 8 amciatee, e k , that whoever fails to actively mpport the I. B. 9. & by finaactl
aid and coijperetion in the dissemination of ita litamture ie more blameworthy that the henthen and ia
ring the gravest of all rlangera Of course, a rLilltal
casuist can apply Bible terte to j
w almost any doetrine, but the above seem to the writar mmripkurl
and surprisingly like a revival of medimval e d d & i a l
intolerance."

''If it was proper for Pastor Russell to say of

his writings that "their author claims no inspiration, but merely the guidance of the Lord, as
one used of him in feeding his flock," there is
the same spirit visible in the Seventh Volume,
page 295, where the observation is made in that
book thatt i '+ would be unreasonable to expect
that the Lord would miracdously use imperfect
tools to do an absolutely perfect work, and each
must w e his judgment aa to the value of the
interpretations in this book."
UAnd as to the STUDIES
exhausting the Scriptures, there is the hope, expressed on page 292
of the same book, that 9 h e marriage supper
(Luke 14: 15) will be like 811 the other fessts
the church has hb3, not of physical food, but
of truths divine. That will be the time when
the Lord, the Head of the family, will explain to
us every part of every verse m all His Holy
Word. We shall have perfect memories then, in
which to treasure every word He utters, and
perfect bodies, too, in which to perform to the
full all God's holy will. We have the will to do
it now. We have tried to understandHis Word,
and tried to help others to understand i t ; but
the best we could do was far from perfect."
What is there about a statement of this kind
that can properly be considered as a demand
"on the readers' -credulity more and more ex-

"Present views withhold a resurrection from

none except the wilfully and incorrigibly apoatate, the modern scribes and Phariseeq of the
prototypes of whom the Lord raid: %ow cm
ye escape the condemnation of Cfehenna [utter
destruction] ?" You err wholly in our view8 aa
to the'nece~sityfor salvation of d
g out of
Babylon, embracing Russellism, repudiating
aystemg alienating friends, supporting the L B.
S. & in nny way or cooperating with it in the
distribution of its viewa But some of them
things may and will, in our judgment, ham a
marked effect upon the kind af reward some w i l l
receive and the time when they will d v e it
-'Every religiow eyth.t m snar
0 r m t . i r b o w of rome art to con we&-min&d
proselytee into obedience, to stimaLb letbar& arpti
bars into more active zeal, to dimmqe inqnirJ tbr)
rss calculated to undamina the integrity of tho a@nn
i d to dirrrasde the dieill*
ona frmn bhlidbg

~~

.nd withhoIding remittances.-

*Has anybody ever asked you for any r d f -

tances ? That is one of the things the L B. & A.

does not do. 'Tree Seats and No Collectio& ia

the battle-cry of the Fifth Universal Mae,
&id distinguishes the L B. S. A. from emq
other religious organization on earth.
wOiven r psychic rpplic.th, thia bogey adght r d acting"T
fly become r whip to exd an abject w i l l - m b m b h d
the individual to the Order, to terrorh the -u
n
Some Miaapprehenaion, of tB SA. Tcttchingr ma b~
the m t r a n t m6 ipto
d mfnd
6IOlHE various featurea of thie mwirul revision of ~PP&men*''
-1 B d ~ s d w ~ e I r i l l n o ~ h . n p o i n t oinu t i . ~ a a y o ~ o ~~ ~ ~e ~ y~ a
detail, merely alluding to par recent views concerning
been whipped into will-submission, or ,tamm
thelFlmm&-On The
tht
them rill be a ixed, or brought dose up to m ~ g i o u sdementia
ragurrection of both the just and the anjust. I may
h s ~ misapprehended
s
your -t
-,
but lattai~ by 811-g
they have seen om ~
~
u
poll eeem to ooneidu thrt irr the lut daJs' thorn PITI- they not pleaee drop us a line? To os tire autiar

of Babylon are indescribably funny, an absolute

scream; and we have tried to assist our readers
now and then to a chuckle, if not a good laugh,
at some of her follies--one of the best deterrents to religious dementia we can think of.
'Urnere exist. today a great variety of pseudo-Chrie
tian cults, 7'' of which depend more or less on psychic
phenomena LJ impose on the credulity of their votaries.
Each one declares ite particular doctrine to contain the
only valid interpretation of Holy Writ, and the same to
constitute the true road to salvation. In some way incomprehensible to the writer each one of these sect~
manages to permade its adherents that that power which
is now universal is only holy in its own particular case,
and therefore provea ita truth, but u w i t h othen diabolical."

"Very good! And just here please bear in

mind the eleventh and twelfth paragraphs of
this article. Pastor Russell alone, of all Bible
expositors, four hundred and three months
ahead of time wrote of the close of the Tinies of
the Gentiles. None of the rest of these religions
cults knew anything about it. The evidence is
plain who waa right.
T t seems to me that Paetor Bussell a t firstadvanced
thb view tentatively an a hypothesis, rather than as conclusive truth, that the dead w d d be gradually resurc

rected in response to the prayer of faith. Gradually

perhapa, though I think not explicitly rro dated-[sentence is left d i s h e d ] . But it ia nowhere written that

ing as conclusive what he put forward aa ten*

tive. We cannot say as to this, having no 6
dence upon the subject. To us his suggestion8
on this matter are still tentative. But when we
find that Elijah "cried unto the Lord" before
raising the son of the widow of Zarephath (1
Kings 17: 20-22), and that Elisha "prayed unto
the Lord" before raising the Shunammite's son
(2 Kings 4: 33), and that Peter *'kneeled down
and prayed" before awakening Dorcaa ( A d
9 :40), and that Jesus lifted up His eyes in
prayer before awakening Lazarus (John 11:
41,42), we see no reason to question Paator
Russell's method of reasoning.
#"Webelieve that here aie "authentic human
experiences" in which "the eternal cosmic l a d
were suspended because certain finite creature5
had faith in God and exercised it, and we believe that what happened in the past on a d
scale will happen in the future on a tremendoar
e d e . We believe it just as possible for Jehovah to he interested in earthly hosts as in "celastial hosts." They are all His creatures, are they
not? And if He wishes to show His favor to
earthly beings, are they any less needy of it
than the celestial ones? They may be even no
less worthy.

me~~d of t b OM

the divine plans depend for their consummation on the 44 T I S written that the last days' will be like tho#
before the R d But the Flood came r a adbelief of the faithful. That thought underlies much of
on tlw
~t
is
den,
overwhelming
cataclp, and did not
mystic., that CBCis in the mind.
flattering, no doubt, to &-importance to fancy that world 80 gmdndy and imperaptibly that it was in the
celestial hosb watch their 8 1 i g h ~acts and even world nine years before tha world realized i t It semrs
thoughts with bresthlesa interest, but never in authentic to me that if the old world ended veritably, it tnded
human e-ence
have we
the eternd
dC
lawe eleven years before you say it did; for about that time
suspended be-uee some bite creature failed to observe a c h k came over all flesh, distingui-g
the p-t
not dkcoant h m l e faith, but from ail the centuries which pmeded it. TOme it seems
a rigid *ietp. I
k b g in candor to pthe end
tb
we frequently witneer c o l d conceit diegtlised ul thia
For every true saint I euspect there am one thousand world for 1914; and then when yom expedatiw cons e l f - e l d ones, and the latter comprise the main re- c&g
thia date failed of realidon, to rsviss
liance of tha multitudinous Beds and cults that have M, atatemente, caying that it came legally an that date."
measurably brought true piety into diereputa. It b
"You confuse the days before the Flood with
nritten that the divine plans go fornard
of
the
days of the Flood itself. The days before
the m e ;
my human beings theories
*though ye believe not, yet he abideth faithful'; but the Flood were not s t m % out for nine Yeevery religions sect demands a faith that must be main- merely, bat for a hundred snd twentp. (&nesir
tained against reason. Hence the scoffer atErma that it 6: 3) ;and so far as 1914 is concerned we refer
is all delusion; for whatever you believe in k fact ro you once more to the eleventh and twelfth parafu or you sre concerned."
graphs of this article. It is not a t all trne that
"The sentence in the above which was left our "expectations concerning this date failed of
untinished evidently meant to say ~omething realization." Others now admit for that date
about some of Pastor Russell'e followers accept all that we ever claimed for it.

-mVe

'z-;'fie Xaster a i d emphatically thrt when He come

, w i n every eye should see Him, and warned His diaciples not to be led astray by the false Christe who would
impersonate Him, misrepresenting the hour of His cornin;, saying that He had come when He had not come.
I wish not to be dogmatic, for in truth I do not h o w ;
be dearly h b d e d to d g h b
but thb
of Hi.mming, 88
dhipl- ~0n-g
the tme
would be unmist,&able in ch-der
md
if the
m o g n h d by dl &d,
and not only by a few-muls,
as the impostor C h i & would ba In agea credulow
enthusiasts have been misled by a s o p p o d 'inner light,'
though I W i m on^ positivin makW
criticisrn."

ity of money. Faith is s form of incalculable potenti&

tiea and faith h approaching ita lowest ebb; yet it t
iu from being extinguished, for madrind in not #
rrtiated with humbuggery I"

' W e see no reason to question or comment

a n f l b g in the above paragraph. To Our
mind it tells the tmth, the p1& tm&
nothing but the truth, except that we think the
writer was over-enthusiastic about the faith of
1874. I f there was so much faith then, how
comes it that there is so little now7 The answer
iB that we now see more clearly just how f&o
and untrustworthy was the faith structure of
that He w o ~ dcome that time. Codd a faith that rested upon three
"me~~~t~~also
''as a thief in the night'' (1 Thessdonians 5: 2) fnndamentd and totally u n s c r i ~ h a emom
l
b.
which certainly implies stealth and aecrwy; proper17 considered a vibrant one9
and that "the kingdom of God cometh not with
outward show." (Luke 17:20, margin) We can- Paleatine and CentSlc Ruk
T IS mitten that J U e m ah.ll k W d m domi
not here go further into this matter, All mrip 6'
(dd,
o p p d ) b the Ctentil- until the extnres bearing upon the manner of our Lord's
return are fully and satisfactorily discossed in
Volume 11,S ~ ~ J T SJ ~
R IEE S
Chapter
,
5. The
Bdti.h -hh, .nd
-t
of *th.
PoPal.tio,,
evidence is complete and overwhelming that the
aentiiw
to Jd
-Phie
world at large will never behold Christ with rgency
quatsd in
T-,
their physical eyes; they will come to a mental a,mPb
bitterly tua ~~i~ HM
comprehension of His presence or not at all.
thmdVa, f.vOring=
Read the chapter again; it speaks for itself.
wrymy. They claim h t
1- bpp&
old-Buseir
m
d
mjged
mom
privilega
even under
""The Master queried if there would be faith left in
Turkishraln
&dilmlqdirInrelz.nknilldtb
the earth at His second coming, implying, it would seems
d to atmid thr Jrrn in
that it am doubtful. You say that He came in 1814, non-ful6lm-t d Britioh p
realizing
their
political
aapiratio~
for - t i 4 homa
through the world has no knowledge of this other than
in
Palestine,
where
it
ia
Jleged
that
uo mot man
your assertion; but faith was then dill v i b m t in tbe
dotted
'state lands' m d 'waste hub,' that ha
d.
But in this present c e n m faith of all kimb
the delegates to tha American Jewish ConQ
hse rapidly decayed. A change came and dl anr tbe
d
o
n
Z
i
o
n
m
d
c
a
r
t
u
t
h
a
i
r
~
o
n
r
r
v
inghd~
planet, everywhere among human beings faith am&om
anofha
mrld
war."
men& evawratina. Y it were., leaving men d i d u eioned of tieir wozddd ideahs-cynidi dbd&g
"The Lord said t b t Jeradem v o d
that ~ e m n a ladvation depended solely on the trodden down of the Gentiles until
Timer of
ver
of the
to defend itself from
other wU
ia
th, Gentiles should be fnl6lled; but He did not
--the
wa9
F&ithdwM
in *o"f
my that the veq day that the
the
honored customs, institutionq duties, and pnncipler
Gentiles
ended
the
Gentile
nations
would
all
be
which were aa old m the primal ooze1 Faith decayed in
political, social, class distinctio~;in racial pride and thrown upon the scrap heap at one and the same
frmdy loYalb; in p-tal
aUthO*b and
instant. Every despatch from Engknd ahom
in comubial fideliQ
p e m d honor; in feminine that England is headed ia that direction. When
modes@ and childhood's innocentx; in the relatiom of it goes down, we apprehend that Z i o n h d
l
master and servant; in the balance of the aexei Soldiem be a reality in Palestine. We doubt the wq
lost faith in their colora; co&ituent,a in their rep-of the suggestions that the Jew8 have l e lib
~
tatives; capital and labor mntndly Iwt faith in their erty under British rule than they did -dm
own propaganda Faith decayed in lawas legislators and Russian or Turkish d e , and the data regardthe enforcement of law. Faith decayed in the intrinsic k g the placement of the Jews upon Palestine
economic law of supply and demand, in the d e t j oi soil are out of accord with data on this subject
investments, the integrity of interest, eten in the stabil- which have appeared in our columns from time
On

',"~~~;~u~~-&~~~~mOsn",es$p
,
,

e4

m;

to time. Israel Z a n p d l is not a fit spokesman

for the Jews, in any sense of the word.
*'It seam to me that par argument far M t y
for our planet can hardly h d endorsement in the test,
'One generation pssseth away and another generation
oameth, but the earth abideth for ever.' I am not disputing that the prophecy concerning the destruction of
the earth by h msy be sgmbolical; bat the inference
to be drawn from this particular text would naturally
be, I should think, that the earth abideth 8s long ae the
familiar sequence of birth and death prevaile: Yor eve9
&g w d in a comparative sense, signifying during
many mcces~ivegenerations."

'@Tous it seems that if '"the earth abideth for

ever," then the earth abideth forever, no matter
what may happen to the generations. A n v a y ,
God says of His earth that 'qie hath established
it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be
inhabitedy' (Isaiah 45 :18) ;and in Psalm 78 :69
'Hetells us that the perpetuity of Bis sanctuary,
'the Christ, is like the perpetuity of "the earth
which he hath established for ever." Both are
endless in duration.

ShSflhg &an&

of Human Teachina8

N ALL ages priestcraft has stultified pmgresa and

retarded human enlightenment by piously h
nouncing honest inquiry ae a profane meddling with
wmed myateriea Whenever the logic of inconteatable
f a d exposed the fallacy of theological theorizing, the
'spirituals guidea of mankind condemned the evidence
rs Satanic delusion, ealemnly admonishing the laity not
to imperil their sods' sdvation by trying to h d out
things for themselveaJY
4

day publicly admit that the? are continually

shifting their positions and changing their theories, we know of nothing in reason or in the
Bible that would prohibit others from doing the
same thing with those same findings and theories. Naturally, the child of God is interested
in any discovery that seems to throw additional
Light upon his Father's Word. Why not? Why
leave it all to the guess work of those who cannot agree among themselves even in the resent
and agree still less with those who have gone
before? Must we conclude that in matters of
science the only ones that can be trusted are the
ones who first of all admit that they hare no
faith in their Creator? And this when tliey cannot make even one living cell, to say nothing of
a tadpole or a scientist!
48'%fy c r i t i c h is not levelled against any honart
attempt to reconcile the ~ K oib
; ia against that absence
of candor which pretends to have efEeded such reconciliation when the same will not atand the teat of critical
analysis. Yon admit that almost any line of argument
can seem to h d endorsement in the Biblical text, and
you declare that man ia expectad to aee hir God-given
reason in discriminating truth from ermr. You then
p ~ h to
d supply a masonable interpretation of t
b
Scriptnree (and reasonable it ia, indeed, in soma mJn
essentials, but in o h poinfa it will noP stand a aritieal examination). But here you prohibit the exercim ad
reason wherever the same confates your reasoning. YOU
must admit that man7 of your stdementa h v e hem
proven errora by the remomelem logh of menfa; how,
then, can you lay claim to infallibility, and forbid private recourse to reason?"

"Please see again paragraphs 18 and 19 of

*rPes, verily; just what we have always
this
article and advise us, after reading them,
claimed. But where do we come in on all this?
what
there ia left in this paragraph to answer.
But we read on and then mn into this:
The assumptions you have made regarding our
*'The priestly ideal nor a medirevd condition of prohibition of the exercise of reason by others
& a i ~ , cambining flth, ignorance, equalor, brutality, and our claim to infallibility fall completely to
fanaticism, ecstaticism, and implicit obedience. When the ground in the light oP those statements,
in the course of time sacerdotal & o h proved futile to which we again endorse.
mppress the revelations of rcience, the theologians were
fain to accept part of the conclmion~of sciace, and Intolemnce of the Dark Ages

to tonnulate new theoriea m m i n accordance with the

m e . I observe, however, that tha multifarious latterdry isecta and cults display a ma~kedpredilection for
p ~ ~ ~ d o s c i c nfor
c e , ingeniw rophiatrieus plausible conjcctarar, anomalies and purd0fc4 w h d j they purport to reconcile the Bible to ncienae. But the pkin
truth rccmr to be that, m fu,no OM hsr formulated
any nswnable scheme of t h l o g y whnab;~ the M e
and science are redly lmmght into hvmony."

"P RIVATE

interpretation W ~ I J w dangerow te
Papal supremacy that it was put under the baa,
m d inquisitorial mrb created to discourage it E e
ever, the Bomish doctrine hd thia claim to popular
credibility, that it nu the conseneas of opinion of
atim of chudmm, and did not depend for authrlQ
on the intcrptetrtion of any OM man and his aommartaton. Brian4 Manichers, Nestorims, Waldtnser, blMinasmuch M the so-called rcientists of our gmrer, IaAlardr, urd Eadta were d y exampla d

,:irate interpreters whom the church weeded out w i t h

:horoughness. Galileo was s private interpreter; and m,
with all his orthodox zeal, was Columbw. Luth-9
Calvin, %ox? Wesley, CPrnpbe1~xiUer, smaa from
time to time to reassert the Mienable human right to
libere
thoughL
that in each instance the principal rnxiety of the disciples of these ixmovstors seems to have been to eloae the
door .gaht my funher privakintaprrbtion, one
rll pag
that divine revelation wae each h e
completed in the discoveries of their leader. I n fact
every new reformatory departure in religion eeems to
oommenca with a real il~uminationand the uncovering
of hidden troths, but invsriably the tendency is to
into m inffbble, intolermt, arbitmrp e~w
whereby
the e
~ of kuth-lovera
t
is d ~ n g l dip~~
jnto
to maintain a new odhodor~ to -thematizs
m y oriticim of the me. Interest M centered on ruler
md
formulas. vowa and resolves. types m d
-14forced h - k h Of the s~ri*,
c~nt
worship9 to the prepudice of the oruse of eternal truth."

+*

fila and Ulphilas are one and the same person.

Hence, on page 184 of Volume VIL, instead of
the Ostrogoths being referred to as an Asiatio
race, they would more properly be refered to
as ~
rphey
~ lived ~
east of the ~
~
~i
which separates West Russia from E a t Bussir
'IWe
lmow that it
proven th8t
these natives of East Russia did not o15gidy
come from Asia, but we are quite content to Sw
this word Asiatic c h r r u ~ dto Germanic. We
cannot believe that this desirability of changing
one word for another should argue seriously
against the value of Volume VIL In the paragraph in question the attempt was merely being
made to show that the Ostrogoths came from
e& of tha Adriatic Sea ;and this is p r o m to
&
,,
in any

wordB h m

JfOILSr

meo*

UTN SEClJLAE hisbr~them ir no racord thrt

-We agree very well with the statements
1 even one universal &nuchy arsr arisbd an thu
above, and are faithfully trying to avoid the planet. Babylon had for independent ~ o n t e m p o ~ i e r
EWoattitude of mind and the errors of practice here Egypt, Lydia, Media, Pereia, Greece, -C
pis,
Italy,
Sicily,
Spain,
Gad,
aamrpL,
India
beyond
declaimed against.
tho I n d u plrin, Chinr, etc. A l ( n ~ ~ d g mnph
'1
ncrer
.Uln worh of mch eternal importance to mankind extended wer Italy9 Sicily, Cutbyc, Sprin, Gaul, tba
u the S T I J D IIN~ YHE SCBIPTDBES
should be, if &q British Idea,ScJthig the Oangetic plain, Ceylon, China,
are actually directly referred to in the symbolism of tha Indo-China, etu The u b n d extent of the Bomur doBook of Bevelation, it aeeme strange that mch palpable minim n e embraced
~ ~ 7
b q m d the Elbe,
historial errom ahodd enter aa the following: P.etor Scandinrrir, Sarmath, the bulk of the African aontiBussell mentions the Gotha M m '8eiatic mg' md in nent, the Innirn plateau, India, Ceylon, IndVolume V U thia abtement i~ repeated with uncriticd China, Thibet, J a m Corea, Mdrysh, Siberia, etc.,
fidelity, though it L a fact which has bean a d I m m not to rrpeak of AwhIia, the two Americu md tha
to h i r t o r h ~m d philologiste for centuries past that

the Pacific uchipe@m Even hmxdnty of 6 ~ t a u l '

Gotha rcls a Germanic people, md no evidence aistr Borne FU never d W y .cknowIedged.*
(outdde of the now rejected A r p ~h-)
th&
UTo answer this paragraph properly we need
they ever had home in h h The
~ &mic m'b 5rd
to
quote Daniel 2: 38: *Bnd wheresoever the
refer to tham u inhabiting Sclsdinrrir They rsn,
a o n v e r t c d t o ~ ~ W t l l l U r , l r h o ~ pchildren
ut
of men dwell, the beasts of the &la,
of ths Bible into Qothii and fragmentr of thin % and the fowls of the heaven, hath he given into
exist u t h s d d e d m m p l e o f mitian Qexmanic Im- thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them
gaage. Tbq
ponrPfal
.n &Mme p*; all. Thou art thia head of gold." We think that
and ample data airt concerning their nligian, laws, this is to be accepted aa a hyperbolical s t a b
caetome, inatihtionq drerq phydqrrq ata. to rurmttrlment, a form of language commonly wed in
ably identify them u Qermauic."

ancient times in addressing potentateq and osed

some extent still, as, for eurmple, when the
Pope is called UHie Holinesa" But the Babylonian empire was dominant, powerful, and mfficiently extensive to make Daniel's words intelligible to the eye of faith. Besides, the nativbl
of some of these other countries named were
probably little &e than naked 88mga4 not
properly included in Nebuehadneawifr view of
"earth," civilization, much leu DanieI'~ !&

-In confirmation of the foregoing, the "Stand- to

ard Dictionary," under the word "Goth" quotea

from Baring-Gtould's "Story of Germany" : "The
Goths were divided by the Dnieper into the East
Goths (Ostrogoths) and the West Goths (Visiqoths) and were the most d t u r e d of the Qerman peoples. They had been converted to Christianity by a birbop named Ulphilaa, who transhtad the Bible into old Qothio." Evidently Wd-

* SOWEN

310

succeeding statement of verse 39 that the third

kingdoln should ''bear d e over all the earth"
is to be understood in the same way.

AGE

vention, vice, danger, insanitation, etc., in a world

wherein these things are absent or auperhour? The
lessom would seem superhoua"

87JVepresume the passage which you have in

U G Y teach
~ ~ that pastorB~~~~~~
intevretatia of
mind
is the one which says : "The former
the Bible
the onlyhegospel(good tidings) ;
with
its
'immortal
BOulp
troubles
a r e forgotten, and because they are
m d that to carrJ
and 'hell9dogmas to the heathen is to
bad tiding hid f r o m mine eyes. F o r behold, I create new
and not the true gospeL I would inquire, then, if the heavens [ruling powers], and a new earth
STUDIEShave yet been translated into the 5,000 h- [social conditions] ; and the former [ruling
P W - s of mankind, 00 that the
the Wagandq
powers a n d social conditions] shall not be reB m h the Pygmy, the A b w a q the Veddah, the membered, n o r come into mind." (Isaiah 65:
the Thibetaq
the Miao@ tha ainu, the Igmotep 16,17) Nothing in this leads u s t o suppose that
the h d a m a n Idmders, the K o r i , the h d t , the mankind will not be able to
any of their
Seriy the Aymora4 the Tierra-del-Fnegianay can hear experiences, if they wish to do so, nor t o profit
this witness? Uany dialects mer m materially from
others of the same language as to be mutually unintelli- by them, if the need f o r past lessons becomes
gible, and it is doubtful if even the Bible itself has yet apparent. But we do understand the passage
that t o mean that the things which have m a r r e d o u r
been
everg dialect. It is
the end (end of the world) ahdl not m e until every I1appiness hitherto will not be dlvaya before
nation and tongue has received the witness; yet you me Banquo's ghost, but wiu be o u t of mind,
proclaim the old world ended and the new world begue"
.w"You bid
rejoice and be
glad
the Golden Age is at hand. Then it eeema to me that
WTo om anderstanding, when thing
been
known in
the principal lsnguaes PU proceed to dispel this budding hope for the majority
of earth, the languages that are
wed of mmning people by m o ~ c i n gmnditiom of
inE u r o ~it,
properly be ujdt' have been which to the normal mind must appear monstrous, anad bconceivabla If the Bibb
given a world-nide witness, for the nagon that pmphcda unde&&le,
sn
be
likrally,
kn
virtually the whole earth is under European &
,
to be revolutionizad during tha
domination. The backward races are simply ig- d,
,laWB
snbstituted
sn, aimply mntrsrp to
nored in the fulfilment. B u t the literature of &
,,
haw hm
from imem0Hd
the L B.S. A. i s in thirty-four languages.
antiquity. So far back as 'human records or traditionr
go, eo far back as geological evidence extendq supported
MUZenniaZ Conditions Bfiiunhtood
by the most overwhelming testimony of a l l life's expo((
HE Bible statement is that the old world
not "ence, existence haa been a s h g g l e for survival between
bb ,in& you-rf
the strong and the weak, the acute and the stupid. lhil
be r,,ber4
nor
on the contrary, that it will be perfectly remembered,
been
and
fundamen
se an object lesson throughout eternity. yet in elf-sacrifici~lg factors, the maternal instinct and the
to
the n m made-over-by-Millennium which you her- herd impul~e-The rest was ruthless. Now, in the nW
aid, wherein n a b is to be supplanted by artificial age, the twentieth century, thb struggle seems dW to
law bp bcongruities d
,
para- have become psychic, a wdl contest between entitier,
contriv,ceg
doxes, and the inexhaustible, intricate mmels of na- immeasurably augmenting the ruthlessness of nahrd8
cumbroue imita- struggle, and gradually breaking down the ancient diaturd8delicate mechanism by
tie-in
a world wherein the logical sequence of cause tinctions that
the
in order."
and dect will be su~ersededby each arbitrary =sump'eWhat better reasons could anybody have
tion8 as perhaps emanate from the minds of those whose than the foregoing f o r prayillg from the heart,
experience of the outof-doors has been restricted to city c ' ~ h y%ngdonl come. ~h~ wiu be done in earth
parks, of what use will such lessons be that apply to
as i t is i n heaven"? Is it "monsti~ous,unnatural,
extinct, never-to-be-revived conditions of life? Shall the
it) undesirable a n d inconceivable" to want to get
the tha, and Ule fouy
chugin.
wanior
somebody stronger
Stall victim8 of painfnl mcldent,g, terrible diseases, aTVaY
f r o m a condition
miserable povertg, hopeless incarceration, abusive semi- is always trying t o take advantage of somebody
tude, and the like; be perpetually reminded of past suf- nl01-e noble7 more just, more hones$ mom
f h g ? Of what use will lessons be that apply to sex, Christlike!
ver, commerce, politics) diplomacy, law, parenthood,
bO"This struggle of existence, whether it be matariJ
e - b r d n g , &Aeries, forest-comervation, flood-pre or psychic, ir the negative of Chriat's teaching; or dr

,
,,,

B R W X L TX.
~ , I.

P u r u a z 11, 1924

GOWEN AGE

right and wrong are euphemisms merely, expedients to

disguise the reality of the strnggIe or divert it into new
channels. The Bible understood literally seema to intimate that the laws of nature will not obtain any longer
during the Golden Age. Such a statement must either
be taken on trust, or rejected altogether M preposterous;
for the rational, normal mind io incapable of comprehending conditions of life wherein the laws of nature, aa
we know them, are apparently to be m d "

"It was Christ Himself that taught us to

pray, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven." That does surely
imply drastic changes here below; but it can
hardly be claimed that the inauguration of those
changes negates Christ's teachings, if they come
in answer to a prayer that He taught as to pray.
Wbk stud^ a Neeeasitg

"Y

OUR attempt to formulate theories concerning

these deep mysteries, theories ao contrary to
known facts and laws of nature, seema like a bungling
attempt to reconcile science to untenable hypothesea,
and seems calculated to bring the promise of a Golden
Age into disrepute, rather than to etrengthem faith in

the Eiamt?."
"Ouch ! We have always been suspecting that
at some time or pther either yon or somebody
else would redly find out how little we actually
do know, and that then the jig would be up.
v"Tery few people deaire a epirit+riehm; fewer
yet are willing to forego the rewarda and expedatione
of this lite for a h a t seem to them like shadows merely.
What practically all men and women yearn for is the
return of their youth, a repetition of present life conditions, only under more favorable auspices, and with a
knowledge bought by pmeat-life erperienca d c i n g to
enable them to avoid the mistalcea, the anarea and pitr
talle of this life. At first you aeem to justify thb hope,
but it mxm~to me that a critical
03 your
nssoning andit se illogicst"

"This is a restatement of your argument in

paragraph 56, which we have already answered
h paragraph 57.

8~

young lion and the fatling together; and a Little

child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear
shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of
the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand
on the cockatrice' den,"
"It is in no sense a denial of the truth of this
passage that we have to confess honestly that
we do not know how much of it is literal and
how much of it, if any, is symbolical. We have
confidence that the time will come when its true
meaning will be transparent to all. The wolves
and lambs may refer to men of wolflike or of
lamblike dispositions; we do not know. Ths
fact that we do not now clearly understand a
thing does not mean that it is not true nor that
it can never be understood.
"The passage opens with a description of
earth's new King, that "the spirit of the Lord
shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah; and shall make him of quick understanding
in the fear of Jehovah: and he shall not judge
after the sight of his eyes ;neither reprove after
the hearing of his ears: but with righteoarmesu
shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity
for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite
the earth with the rod of his month, and with
the breath of his lips shall he d a y the wicked.
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his
loins, and faithfulness the girdle of hio reina"
It is evident that this pasaage is partly literal
and partly syrn6olical. The rod, the breath, and
the girdle are qmkslical,
'@Thepassage closes with the statement, 'They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge
of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea" Here
the word "mountain" is symbolical for "kingdom," which it alwaya represents in Bible symbology.

Wlf the promises concerning the Golden Age are to Cn'tic'r Viiw Too Narrow
k considered ~ymbolically, you must revise y o u d m 6 6 N VOLUME VII, page 181, Revelation 11: 18,
you make the statement that whereas the World
k i n e materially."
War waa scheduled, as it were, to break out in October,
"This statement is indefinite and is much 1914, the nations were so angry that they did not wait
oondensed; but we assume it may have reference for the divinely-appointed momwt, but went to war
to Idah 11:6-8, which reads: "The wolf also some months w n e r , thereby fmshting the divine in&all dwell with the Iamb, and the leopard shall tention foreordained from the beginning. Is that con-

lie d o n with the kid; and the calf and the r i s t e n t w i t h a b c l i e f i n t b s o m n i p o t e n w u ~ d ~

" GOLDEN

AGE

of on Infinite Being? k that not equivalent to a con- Fall of Babylon.' Brother Russell rep!;ed: "That ir
ception of the Almighty as a finite being?"
exactly the inference to draw.' May I a&, do yon coneider
that Russell made that reply under divine iupira"This is a restatement of the interrogation
tion?
I should suppose that a work of such eternal
propounded in paragraph No. 9, answered in
importance that it ia to serve ks the only authoritative
paragraphs 10-12 inclusive.
elucidation of the mysterieu of Revelation, ought not to
'% V0l-0
sTrn)IZ6I N
SOBTPTU~EB,
psge embody mere aurmises and inferences. If the above par161, Revelation 9: 13, referring tb the Adventists, in allel is really of value as such, it ought, I ~houldthink,
connection with the other Pmteetant churches, the state- be capable of proving itself both ways, both backwards
ment is made, 'The common ground on which they stand aad forwarde. If it were, we might deduce therefrom
is thie, their afirmation of rpiritirrm in m e form.' The that ainm the Jewish Time of Trouble did not end in
miter L not m Adventbt, nor affiliated with any church; A. D. 13, therefore nominal spiritual Israel was not
but he beliwea in fairness. It seems to him that Advent- completely overthron in 1918 ;or, we might argue that
ism, which rnaintaim that all the dead are still uncon- because Babylon fell in 1918 nominal natural Israel w u
~ciouain the grave, leavw the field leua open to apiritiat mbverted in A. D. 73. You say that the parallels have
delusiom than doer your doctrine, which declares that, not lost their value; but what value can a parallel have
sin- 1878, the righteaur dead are conscious spiritate;for which the relentless logic of events has proven to be no
in another place you diacloae with great particularity parallel? What value can this parallel have except to
Tin "S~iritism" and "Talking with the Deadt'l how the promote skepticism ?"
'w
Powsa
&hit& wmio
impr
raon
subjed of pastor Busseujs inspir*
the
'onate we' the rightcaua dead It occm
that thir doctrine alw exposer the believer to lying tel* tion, see paragraph No. 8. Aa to the date 1918,
t b liring. ~t reaembler see parsgraphs 14 to 16 inclusive. We see nothpathic
ing in nomind q i r i t u d Israel since the Spring
a few
the Roman Catholic belid th.t
-&tiwith of 1918 to indicate that it now has any spiritual
the d d , the -b, e h , hare
life at all. Moreover, this is the general opinion
the lirinnrinnn
"

m,

tc

'

"The ground for including Adventists in

those tainted with spiritism has reference to
their acceptance some years ago of the delnsiona of "Mother Wlite," and not to their sound
theology on the question that the dead are dead.
IIowever, the doctrine that the dead do really
die does not in any way interfere with the doctrine of the resurrection. Chriat really died;
and when He died He was really dead (Revelation 1:18) ; He remained dead until He was
resnrrmted. Thin is the case with all the saints
who fell ssleep in death prior to the Spring of
1878. Since then we understand that we are
living in the special season when the overcomerr are, a t death, "changed in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye" (1Corinthians 15:52) and
do not need to remain asleep in death. But our
doctrine would forbid any intercourse with any
of these; indeed, none of the Lord's people
would undertake it.
TwaOn page 129, Volume VZI, STUDIWIX mn! SCIUPm,it ie remarked; 1 now see that tho J e w i h Time
d l h n b l e did not end until the year A. D. 73. What
them are we to expect in the paralld year 1918P You
:&@t
'BLnoc the year A. D. 78 .on the compleb
m d h r o w of n o m i d natural Ierael in Palestine. w in
yew 19.18, I infez we should look for the

cornpi& m d b w of

~pirikL.lI
&

L *, tha

even of those who are still in Babylon; &d if

this does not indicate that Babylon has fallen,
it is hard for us to think of anything that ~ o u l d
prove it. I t is not easy to convince a pronounced
skeptic of anything, even if self-evident.

Further Misapprehe~iona

"Y 0U

claim that the members of the I. B. 9. A.

constitute the true ecclesia, and that all tho
nominal chumhea are impostors, now under condemnation. '

"This is putting it pretty strong. But in effeet we do say that we feel confident that we
have the truth regarding God's character and
plan, and we see in the Scriptures reason to
believe that before the harvest work is finished
aU the Lord's true saints m i l l see eye to eye
with us on this proposition.
Tr'rOn page 68, Volume V I I af the STUD^, I n o k
the following: 'The Laodicean period of the church
extenda from the Fall of 1874
the Spring of 1918,
8% yeam of prkpsration, and 40 yeam of hamaka
Prior to 1914 you emitted the 3% yeam I would u L r
If the Laodiaan period unded in 1918, what period of
the church do the f
i
n yearn constitute which ham
c l a p 4 rince that date?"
BOThosedve years wodd be eomewhat anal*
gous to the years of the Grst epoch of the ohorcl

before St. Pad began his ministry. We hold

that some members of the true church are still
here, even though the nominal church has ceased
to function as a spiritual assembly.
"'Tf that period did not end there, what place have
theee five pears in the parallel?"

'

crated to the Lord at #at time. As to the glorification of the church in 1918,our present view
is expressed in paragraph 84; we expect Un
fnll glorification of the church in about h
years. The item regarding our expectation6 in
1921 was corrected, and the correction published in THEWATCHTOWER,
in 1920.

*%Weunderstand that the Laodicean period

did end there and that the parallels ceased at b u m m a t i o n a Personal Maiter
that point, with the utter repudiation of the 6 6 S IT necessary to xunind you that Pastor R u d
sects by the Almighty.
plainly taught, and this in the essential point d

8"'Or do you hold that the church is now

Do cnrrent events justify such a view?"

"We believe that uTe are now living in $he

time indicated in Psalm 149 :5-9: 'Zet the saints
be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud npon
their beds. Let the high praises of God be in
their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their
hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen,
and punishments npon the people ; to bind their
kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters
of iron; to execute upon them the judgment
written: this honor have all his saints." We
believe that current events &ow the saints on
this side of the vail engaged in the very work
here mentioned by the Psalmist.
a"% not the logical inference to be drawn tram thia
parallel one that no living repmentatives of the c h d
now remain on earth?"

his doctrine that reassures the neophyte, whereby be ir

led into an interest in the S m m , that consecration h
optional, not obligatory, until the devil in bo~md,and
the wsy made easy? Neverthele8s, thoss Bible Studenb
whom I have met urged and M e d on conaecrrtion,
under threat of divine displeasure for noncompliance.
Was Pastor Ruseellye mom m n a b l e tesching @
milk for babes, a preparation for the rtrong meat d
apphed Rueeellimn ?"

-There is a chance for an honest &sundestanding here, all around. Pastor Russell w u
always consistent in his teachings that c o w
oration now is optional; yet he believed, and hi8
followers all believe, that those who do oonwcrate now, and who are faithful in carrying out
their consecration vows, are greatly advantaged
by that course; that they are far happier hers
and now and will be more advantageously situated in the future for the dispensing of blesrrings
to others. Sincere desire for anotheis w&
"Prior to 1918 we supposed this to be the
fare
may be, and often is, so zealous as to do
logical inference-to draw, but we now see the
harm
where good is the sole motive.
matter as explained in paragraphs 82 and 84.
w?l!hese sisters ond speakem seemed to think that it
w"Then, what does the I. B. S. A. claim to be? bnd
was
permissable to induce conwcration during h n a i d
on what authority does it rest its claim to be the only
legitimate interpreter of the Scripturec-so infallible emotionalism, under the spell of religious mu&. Putoa
Ruseell warned converts to deliberately and cautioudj
that all private interpretation is forbidden ?"
count the cost in advance. One of hia traveling peakc car
"On the subject of its inspiration the I. B. reminded hie auditors that each one of them had dolv
S. A. takes and has always taken the same posi- so afterward."
tion as we hare explained in paragraphs 8, 18
HThis is quite possible; we see no inconsib
and 19.
tency. We think that the cost (and the profit)
*nTou repeatedly refer to the church u, all-eady should first be counted as well as one is able,
tnmslated, eaying that the sleeping eainte were remr- and that later one will see more items of cod;
r&ed in 1878. the high calling ended in 1881, the but one will see items of profit, too, stretching
church was glorified in 1918, and the heavenly way
closed in 1921, when the last member8 of the Meeeiah out toward eternity in an eyer-widening stream
of joy and peace.
presed beyond the vail."

--

W'Have not ort&odox evangelists customarily Wd

*It is true that we hold thdt the saints who
to a bd
hnoM,
hdua
slept were raised in 1878; also that since 1881 -tion?,,
those who enter the hiuh callinn take the daces
that were vacated bf some Gho were ionse"Yes; unquestionably.,,

@"?)o you hold that the Maker of a billion-billion

stars would hold one of hie weak creatures bound who,
in a fit of transient emotionalism, pledged himself to a
step that his sober judgment and n o d intention
disavowed ?"

"Certainly not; even human laws recognize

that a contract that is made under duress is not
binding. Unless the contract represented the
mature, calculated, deliberate design of the one
consecrating, it would not be a consecration
at all.
*v'You have referred to 1925 as a date plainly indicated in the Bible as one of scarcely less importanthan 1914. I n fact, you have announced that in 1925
the second resurrection will commence, and the ancient
worthies reappear in the flesh. I n a February, 1923,
issue of THE WATCHTOWEB
you recommend Bible
Students not to lose faith if the promised events fail to
materialize as per schedule, reminding them that God
will not change His plum Bewuedly He will not! But
would not your mistake concerning thin important feahre of them arme that your knowledm of (fod'r plene
is largely conjeltural? 2ou advevidence in proof
of God's plans being thus and eo, evidence which you
claim to find in the Bible ;then you warn your memberr
not to lose faith (faith in the dockine propounded by
yourselves) if God's plans fail -b harmonize with your
preconceptions of them. But your principal claim to
credibility depends in the accurvcy, exactnee8 and hrrc
mony of your set of prophecies and parallels based
thereon. If the sequel ia to show repeatedly that these
pmpheciea are not fuUilled on your schedule, and that
the parallels bawd thereon are not psrallels, how am
rational people to continue their faith in yourselva u
the earthly r e p m t a t i v e s of celestial purposes?"

'"We cannot be blamed for presenting from

the Scriptures such evidence as they afford
which leads as to believe that a certain event
will take place at a given time. Sometimes the
Lord has let His people look for the right thing
at the wrong time, and more frequently they
have looked for the wrong thing a t the right
time. But all the enemies of the cause of present
trnth in the earth are fervently hoping that the
Bible Students will not be so successful in 1925
in looking for the right thing at the right time
as they were in 1914. If they are, however, it
will be the other fellow that wiU have to do the
explaining, and not we.

well no doubt aa other reaaers of yous periodical, mukt

note with regret such statements as I am calling attention to in the leader, 'Forms of Insect Life,' in NO. 111.
10r'cTo begin with, you refer to the spider as 'one of
the most useful insect friends of man.' I remember,
years ago when I was s small boy?a grown-up acquaintance of mine was quite surprised when I corrected him
for calling oysters insects; in fact, it is ns incorrect to
speak of spiders as insects as it rould be to call bats
birds. Spiders are in a distinct clses by themselves, and
not considered much more closely related to insect. t&n
they are to cray-fish and lobsterr S u 5 e thir for
epiders."

'OaThe editor was about to acknowledge that

this is one more of the mistakes which may be
said to constitute one of his principal claims to
distinction, when he chanced to notice, in the
''International Dictionary," under the heading
Insect, the second definition of the word, which
reads : "Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider
or a scorpion." We pass this d o n g for what it
is worth.

Satanic Powers Malific

66

IN163;THE

second place, I doubt if

& u e warranted

in mch .aomptiona u appear in paragraph 10,

page
paragraph I , p e g 167, and in the concluding
paragraph of the article. If these statements are intended facetiously they certainly would have the effect 02
misleading many readers, who would accept them an
intended seriously. I doubt if there M any authority,
either Scriptural or zoologid, for accepting mch
theories as facts. It ia certainly nnscientiiic to suppose
that thia great class of the arthropods f d y sprang
separately by diverse creations, certain apecia b e i q
created by the will of the Creator of ell things, and
others (even of the same entomological order) being
eeparetely created by the author of sin.
laS"Sofar M tangible evidence M concerned (and of
course there ie a ved desl of it) all in& f o r m ur
interrelated, and are members of interallied specier
Your assumption, on the face of it, seems d o g a u to
w r t i n g that light and warmth, daytime urd mmmer,
are works of a good deity; and that derknesr and cold,
night and winter are works of en eviI spirit. That L
to revert to Dualism, the doctrine of the fir+wodiping
Persians of old. You must hove yourself observed how
animal life ascends by repeated bmchinga from a ownmon stem, each brunch being a mom complex develop
ment of more primitive phyaid formr Peetor Ruasell
conceded the likelihood of the proceaa of evolution Kith
mpect b the lower forum of life below maa.
lW1
doubt if #era L my Scripturd w m t for
mpposing that Satan participated in the work of nut,
riel creation ;in fact, the Gospel of John a6ema fo rt.b

101"Afanyof the articles which appear in T831 QOLDM

Aon are so instructive, sensible and timely, so well calculated to educate the publio in correct thinking, and
10 valuable in counteracting much of the propaganda
rot aflost b j 8 variety of rrli-intere& th.f my&, u otherrnta PortorBuaoellrrpkinedtbrtonlJfhrLpUt

GOLDEN AGE

of physid life run-ired the Flood which had escaped Editorial Comment
corruption by the fallen angele. When, then, could THIS completes our examination of the internoxious insects have been created by the devil? Their
rogations put forward by our good friend
fosrilized remains are found in the old geologic st&
Mr. Jones-Larsen-H jalmarson-Tornowicz, with
If Satan created them, or they were polluted by d one exception. The exception refers to an artispirits, as 'unclean' creatures they must have perished cle which appeared in THE GOLDEXAGENO. 93,
in the Deluge I have read an unauthoritative magazine
article wherein the writer expresses his private opinion entitled "An Average Temperature." The authat insect life is an exotic, properly fore@ to our thor of that article was the gentleman referred
planet, not correlating or hsrmonizhg with our p i e to in paragraph 93, but by an oversight we
tary lifc. Dresmingly he opines that inseds are like omitted to indicate that the article was a contributed one. Very naturally, in view of thh
interlopers from some other planet. 'I%
of course,
&
is *
a patent absurdity, as any one who even casually con- omission, our readers would conclude that the
siders the interrelations of planetary life and the im- article was our own. But while it is extremely
portant role which immta play in Nature's economy, interesting, and quite poesibly correct throughmust perceive.
out, yet it does not in all respects conform
lo7"I can think of no other foundation for year exactly to our ideas.
hypothesis (if, indeed, it is seriously considered as onel)
'*Mr. Jaeper Jones htrs already c r i t i c i d
d e w it should be that bemuse the BkLsdians of lower that article at some length, and we replied to
Mesopotamia worshiped a fly-god, whom name ia rendered Beelzebub in the Bible, and there nsed aa a rpncr his criticisms in %terrogations" in QOWBS
nym for Satan, therefore all noxious insede were origi- AGENo. 109. The concluding interrogation now
nally created by the father-of-liea. To my thinking in hand bears wholly npon that article; and
NC:I
a train of reasoning would be analogous to pm- now that we have made its status dear, we will
nouncing aulphnr matches a work of the devil, becam insert the interrogation with little intermption.
I t contains much valnable matter.
in some countries they have been known aa '1ucife.m."
The implication in tha Bible would more likely be, I
" W e feel sure that the majority of our readshould think, that flies act as Satan's u n c o n a c i ~agentr ers have enjoyed this controversy, and that they
in promoting evil works-but 80 do many, many other must r e a h that only the truth oodd stand
creatures not originally created by him 1"
invulnerable against the pointed attwks made

**Our argument that Satan is probably the upon it in these interrogations. We recophe
author of some of the pests that mar man's the ability and the sincerity of the gentleman
present habitation is based npon a thought wg- who propounded them, and hope for the Lord'e
gested by Pastor Russell in THEWATCHTOWEBbleising upon his mind and heart 8a, he refleeta
for July 15, 1897; and as it covers this subject more fully npon all the many points brought
forward. Under another name this gentleman
well we quote it ;n full:
is known and loved by many of our readers, and
lW%ut if Satan and his faithful have a knowledge many are the kind inquiries as to what has
of curative agencies and skill in their application, let
become of his facile and powerful pen as s
ns not forget that he has great malac power also. This
has already been demonstrated. Take the case of Jannea GOLDENAGEcontributor.

and ~ambres,the celebrated mediame and magician8 of

Egypt, who in the presence of Pharaoh duplicated many Interesting ScienMc Data
of the miracles performed by divine power through
FTER reading Inbmgrtionr' by Jasper Jams
Moses and Aaron. They could transform their rods into
in No. 109 of T h GOLDEN A Q sad
~ your
serpents; they also turned n-ater into blood; they also interesting editorial mmmenta on same, I find it hud
produced frogs, although they could not duplicate the to reconcile some statemeslb made by p a here with
plsguen of lice, ek-Exodus 7: 11,22; 8: 7.
others appearing previously, eepecislly in the u t i d a
l l w ~ ehave every reason to believe that the fallen #AnAverage Temperature: in No. 93 of your maphe.
spirits have learned considerable during the part four I do not Kish to do yon an injustice; but it eemu rr
thousand years and that they have a much wider range if the position defended by yourself war neither tht
of power today. We are inclined to believe that the criticized by Mr. Jonea nor the one which JOU pmgrasshopper plagues and the multitudinous farmer-pests viously maintained.
and the pores and microbes of disease that are a c t i n g
*l6(<I
w i l l try to explain. In the firat plnce* tbe rholr
human and animal life in recent times, may be dhypothesis concerning a future uniformity of tempam~oppearatoreatonmduticleswhichhrp
fatations of the same power for eviLP*

"A

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LhooxLxx,

GOLDEN AGE
peared in !hm GOLDENAak, wherein it Was predicted
that the earth will overcome its ecliptic. In fact, u a l a
the earth's axis becomes perpendicular to the plane of
ib orbit, how ia a uniform temperature in the earth
astronomically possible? Moreover, Eartshorn'e PolEdenic theory seems to harmonize very well with the
Valian-Deluge hypothesis. But in the article in NO. 109
YOU seem to repudiate both the ecliptic change theory
m d that of a Polar Eden. However, the existence of
that very ecliptic seema to be the chief factor in maintaining that present balance of life which ia inable to life. as we h o w life, on this planet.
"'"In your comments on paragraph 4 of 'Interr~gat i o d you make it appear that Mr. Jones is concerned
let& the disappearance of the tropica would tenninata
insect life, etc. You object that insect life in quite
luxuriant even in temperate climate#. Mr. Jones, howemr, waa obviously arguing against your plain statenumb in pasgraph r, page 59% and paragraph 1, page
695, of 'An Average Tempera-'
where you hold out
the erpectation, on the authority of the Scripturts, that
there w i l l be no inseda,no d a y , no wind-storma in the
Golden Age ;inrtead, a continuous growing sesson with
fruits hanging on the keen until
and tubem
lying m t t e d in the ground. But in your commente on
paragraph 6 of 'Interrogations' you admit that decay
w i l l probably continue in the Golden Age. I wiU recur
to that in another parqpph.
"'"I would mommend intenst4 readm of thsw
two artidea to study that phaa of biology which treab
of the inter-relatiom of all life. Lita is a web, and them
a i s t a an absolute mutual dependenca of animal and
regehable life on each other. !l%ey ue interdepenThroughout =tare s balance in preserPed which nuin
mmetimea ignorantly inkrfarcl with, with disaatroua
conaequencea to bimdf. Afany f o r m of Life work dunage to man'a inbmta, but ofbet & name by
q o n d , i q M t a . Inaactr ue benefrdan M well M
p e h h pests they are kept in check by birds, predrceom fnaects, moulda, bnctmb, etu Soma beetlea eat
rire-mrma d C u t - w o ;~0th- th4 gJPIJ moth a*
pillar; the hupngm eatr the larw of coddling motha
.ad the plum cnrculim; another 8pedw esb armyworm; t
b ladybird deatrop d4w;the pnyingmantis feeds on fier, gnate, cabbage-worm, and grasshoppers;waspa am the caterpillad word enemier ;the
Wantubhawk kills tmmtaLr
llYWould you eradicate only 'injuriod insects? It
t mmetimea hard to draw the line: in their larval strgs
motha are very destructive to furm d o r c h u b ; u
adult moths md b u w e a their beneficial pollencurpiag activities have been pronounced of ineatimnble valna
Some fie8 pollenate p h t r , and withant the b e clover
fertilhtion has been proven an impoaaibility. Many
plantesting insed.am grrn ntlimnceq but they also
hdp to keep d o 1 1 1 we& in check. It hu been found

~~

x.

Y.

in some instances where man haa sought to esterminatr

mosquitoes by draining ponds and pools, that the dragon-

flies also disappeared, with a resnltant increw in h o w

flies, stable flies, gnats, and motha, their natural prey.
wap;
Nature often regulates its economy in un#
a cold, wet Spring, with continued late rains, b bad for
crops, but ma, on the other hand, to decimate tbr
chinch-bugs.
lls"Suftice thia for ins&; now let m return to #a
question of decay, and whether it is feasible in Natatds
economy to dispense with this. All living things reqaim
five organic elements for food, but only the green p h t r
are able to take up these in their 'stable' m & d &ndition and manufacture them into elaborata compouu*
the chief of which are the proteins. Plantr draw nitro=
gen fmm t
h mil and carbon from the air, and through
the sgeacy of chlorophyll in the leaf&,
the sun's
radiant energy in applied to manufacture grapesagu.
The chlorophyll and protoplasm in the leaf-laboratorh
build up protein, fate, and starcher. The plant manofactares !I&
the simple orgaaic mmpounda fmrn wkicb
all other compounds are derived, and in the procen
releases free oxygen into the air for anto breathe.
Life consista of the oxidation of carbon compotl~~ds,
md
thia oxygen ia supplied by plants. But planta themaelm
reqnire carbon dioxid; and this in formed by the deuy
of organic subatanae, both plant d animrl. Ody r
trace of carbon dioxid exista in the air, which, if it wem'
supplanted by an excess of oxygen, would make plan8
life impcaible; d hence dl life would did
' - N o w consider what your statement concaniry
decay in 'An Average Tamperatrud implim Blcteoi.
have been tenned 'the ubiquitoar rgenb of decay,' snd
men different f o r m of bscterk mxeed each other fa
the ordin- proceua of putRiactiop. It has bean ~rb
marked thrrt if all bacteria Iould auddenly becomb at
tind, the ground would be littered with unrotbsd ar*
cmes, the chemical elements of which would t e m h
locked up, and
for p h t usen, as higblp
elaborated compoundr The d d h g atable OUW
d
and ammonia would m n be e x h a d ; and no anom
proteidr umld be ~
u for rnimllf food, rras ~
m y more oxygen liberated into the rir to
tht
loot by oxidizing action. The vital atmoaphcnio gui
oxygen, in being continually dimidah4 by ib m i h
with all ldn& of oxidized material, and mu& be mpbishea by p b t action in decomposing carbon d i d
Plants cannot function without COa rr well uni-;
m it follows that without b.ctert them m d k no
decay, and without decay dl life would mother.
'"'CWh~thar h l h t i o n d ~O r
p U hrV0
convepd the i m p d o n that the l o w f o m d a d d
life would disappear in the Golden Age, and man be left
done, with the vegetable kingdom and with hia rnecbrei d contrivaucea. You have givea the impredm tht
made artificial i n v e n t i o ~would
~ ~ m p t d e the chain d
natural Me, aynthetio foodr md commoditic. z
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those made by nature. But without nature to build on,

man could do little in his lahontories. MI Iife,
I
have already remarked, is interrelated and interdependent; fish eat sea-worms;and the sea-worms, the micro-pic sea-dud; bacteria supply food for infusoriq infusoria for cnwbcesne; and these for trout. Birde keep
down insects and aid in seed-distribution; beetles d i e
pose of pntrifying matter; flies are scavengers, as w d
M d i m carriers. Insects purify stagnant waters, and
bsh eat the insects. Man himself is the worst criminal
in di-turbing the balance of nature; but, fortunately,
there are not enough anglen, in the world to deplete
wriously the stock of earth-wo-of
such incalculable
value in working m d making the soil arable, and thereby promoting vegetation. The soil would probably drays remain cold, chard-bound and unfermented wen,
it not for the little-heeded activities of earth-worms in
bowing, eemting, md making it p m h a to water
m d h d c acids, dragging down dak and strsws into
ft, mirinp the dirt with regetable mattex in its digestive
process, and bringing the deeper soil to the top to freshen that already drawn on by vegetable growth.
'**In paragraph 13 of 'Interrogations' you diacloim
the opiaion that all the animal kingdom parhcipatee in
Adam's cnrse, restricting that participation to the domestic animals, which you say have d a e d especially
by contact with man. As a matter of fact, man for his
own advantage has greatly ameliorated the condition of
domestic mimds, to compare their lot with tho& in
wild state. Specific comparisons are almost superfluous.
Zaologista and anthropologists now generally agree that
dl domestic animals are the direct dewendante of wild
qmies, aome now extinct, some etiU exiM contemporaries. Biologists mostly now hold that not all the
&spring of crossed species are infertile, but only ro
with regard ta not cloeely related epecieu: Dogs interbreed with wolves and coyotes; bison with Galloway
cattle. The many breeds of honies are the r d t of
crossing and wazossing between b o original stocks,
Equus sivalmsk and Equw prz&
The latter, now
found as the Mongolian wild-home, w a hunted for food,
and later on tamed by prehistoric man in Europe. Ita
cracked bones are found in the refuae heaps of -the
caves, and its pictnrea .le drawn on the cave wall&
Cattle are derived from everal species, including the
aurochs, or Eumpean bison. Swine are descended fmm
the wild boor of Europe and the wild Malsyan pigo.
8heep were originallJ hairy, with a mperficial woolly
undercoat. Through cclimatic changes and elected
breeding, man was enabled to develop the wool at the
upense of the hair. Tha many vmieties af dog8 have
aprung from blending the atraina of three qeciea af
olf and one of j W . The barnyard fowl came fram
dian jungkfowl How dight the Marmce b
the tuue end the wild mallard! The chain of

wild creatures were brought under Adam's cum by

domestication, in what respect have they adcred thereby? As wild creatures their existence was more p m rioue. Do you imply that if Adam had not Binned,
these creatures would not have domesticated, or that
they would, like him, have enjoyed deathlem life?"

Awrcnt-Dau Scientttr not Infallible

E HAD not intended to interrupt thir
argument; but a question calls for an
answer; and the answer is that if "biologiuta
mostly now hold that not dl offspring of crossed species are infertile" it enables aammon folk who do not swallow all their pabulum
to hold mostly that all the rest of them am
infertile, and to come back to the proposition of
Genesis 1:24 that the domestic animals were
created so. Abel waa a keeper of sheep, hair
or no hair ;Jaw, sixth from Adam, was a cattle
dealer; the Egyptians in the\days of Joseph
dealt in horses, flocks, cattle, and assee (Genesir
47: 17) ; and there were dogs in Egypt when
Moses and his friends started on their excursion. (Exodus 11:7) The trouble with theae
biologists and a host of other pseudo-scientist6
is that they lie awake nights trying to find m e
way to ignore the possibility of the existence of
a Creator; and they are unwilling to admit the
self-evident h t h s of the Bible on even the
simplest subjects. We do not know whether
Abraham got his milk and butter from an anrochs or a plain old bossy cow (Genesis 18: 8) ;
but we know that he got it, anyway.

'W'To revert now to the matter of wind-rtolmr.

Winda are the eiiect of atmospheric tarbdeme c a u d
by inequalitie of temperatsue on the earth% mrhcc.
The consequence is barometric lows and high which
are so familiar to aU M not to requisa aphatiam in
this place. The CtEect of the nm*@nys on lrnd md
waterianotthesame,~w&rtrlaratohlit
m d dower to oool off afterward than ir Imd. At nigbt
m d in winter water M the wumer; in daytime and in
nnmmer water ie cooler than the h d So long M thaae
b day and night, land a d water, them will ba &nospheric circulation. So long M the earth rotda tbas
rill be great c o h t rir-currents. O m omm af domu
u the meeting of two .iroarrents of Men& t e m v
tuns. You eoncede th.t the ecliptic d
l amtinno? !#en
the tomd zone will continue ta receive mon dfnet r a p
from the wn than the higher lrtitndar; t h you d
l
amtinue to have tropical stom or tamdoen. Idefeor&gi&
believe thrt there h a doe tmnedon betmen
the d m - y e u m-spot hcle .od vuiabiIity in the

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leasam. So long u there are san-apots, then, there w i l l

be abnormalities in the seruons. A close connection ia

also believed t. exid between t
b sun-spots, auroral,
uld magnetic storm The latter must continue, then,
80 long an the phenomenon of -+pots
continuLightning effectselectrical discharger into the dr, whfch
lead to the formation of nitric acid a d nitrite8 which
minn wash into the soil ; bacteria transfurm the nitriter
into nitrata available for piant food--so atormr, are not
m d o y e d evil.
l-hother factor in tunperatma irngularitia, i the
presentx of mountain rmgea, which make for unequal
precipitation of moisture. I am not denying that the
p o h icecaps and the b p i - have a great influence on
the a i r a n t s , and especially on what k called the
eries of depressiom, or cgclone belt. But how will YOU
get rid of the polar ice so long M the long polar winters,
directly due to the ecliptic, continue? And how will you
have those ae-nal changes, promised in the Bible to
k t an long 'u the earth remaineth,' without the dip
tic? Indeed, these are to a large extent a factor in
for plmb
bindeed germinat. and
gmw at a low tanperatme (from 400 to 500 B.), but
that optimum which, e t h corn,
rip
go0. Qrowfh and decay, life and death, constitute a
cycle without which any life c o n k a b l e to our eqm
rience M impomible You have conceded decay; then
how w i l l your fruits remain on the treea and your
tubem nnrotted in the ground? That would be m
mesting, a s t e m , aa it were, of the eaaentipl P
ewes of nature.
l-'l"'l' conclude: I rm not definitely pronouncing
pnr uniform temperature hypothesis M fallacions, even
to mT imperfect undemtanding; but I do claim that
m e n b
far advanad
m ~ ~ oofr tthe w e am
mtagonistio to known facb concerning natural lawa
L it mential to religioun faith that the same must be
maintained agaiust reason and common sense? That is
not my opinion. I would observe here that the Valian
hypothcsir WM based on an analogy drawn from Satbut estmnOmenr believe tm
ring
urn's
are sun@ of imrnenm numbers of meteoritebnot
water or gases, which would be invisible at such a V&
distance k u t the collapse of a ring of meteorites could
hardly hare the coneequenar d a Noachian deluge1
Can you cite any first-rate astronomer, who rsnks aa an
authority, who endoroee the hypoth& that the Pleiclder
ia the center of the Universe? It seems to me that ow
reference to them in the Bible concerning the 'aweet
Wuenccd is not oufilcient to justify thh inference.
[The Pleisdes are named three times in the Bible, Job
9 :9 ; 38: 31 ; Amos 6 :8.-Ed.]
I n ehort, I suspect
you have been hasty in citing Scripture as authority for
some of 70- hypotheses. Pastor Russell in witness to
the tact that the Bible has been quoted by many men in
support of great variety of contrary opini-"

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Is Another War Coming? By C. A. T-sr

E BELIEVED that we fought the last

W war to "make the world safe for demm

racf

and to end warn; but we we= fooled

h r d t y we fought to prevent hrmany from

wresting the commercial and military snpm

maw of the world from England ; and it cost
thirteen million killed, twenty million wounded,
and 186 billion dollars, not to mention the aatold destruction of capital. England and France
are now quarreling over the division of the
spoils. England took the merchant ships and
the colonies of Qennany ; and France was to
have been paid mostly by a cash indemnity
which Germany has as yet not produced. France
nnexpectedly seized the ~~h~
with i t the
commercial supremacy of E
~ the veFy
~
~
thing for which ~
~ had fonght.
~
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agsin ratbr than let Frrilling to
keep the Ruhr;soanotherwarseemsineritabla
We alone are able to fi~snosth* threatened
war, so we h d the heroes of France and England traveling through our comtry in specid
trains making a bid for our mppork Don't be
influenced by propaganda If we speak loudly
enough and quickly enough there will be no
war. Let's tell them to pay back the fifteen
billions we loaned them to fight the k t
before we finance the next one. Do yon know
that the head of the average b e r i c a n family,
for generations to come, must pay $400.00 extra
taxes per year for the last wart TeU your rep
resentatives in Congress what you want them
to do.

Oh, For Somefresh Air B~ M. a. atS THEGOLDEN

AGEis full of articles to aid

A
us in keeping our health that we might ba
more m e f d in our work, may 1
an idea
suggest

of mnch value:
Sometimes we attend religious meetings held
in halls which are used probably only on Sundays and Wednesdays. The & of coarse is
tremendonsly fad and very, very apt to adisease,
we d know.
this snggestion
sm
Will yon bdly
in TEE GOLDEX
AGE,advising against the trsc
ditions of old times of not airing the halls whem
dayst
~e~ stand shut up for three Or
Good air is necessary for health and for
keeping the mind clear and alert.

STUDIES IN THE "HARP O F GOD" ('?%WE&%?")

Issue NumSer 60 we began running Judge Rutherford's new book

Harp 01 God", with m C ~ m p n y i n gqudon& taking the place of both
A d ~ n n c e d and Jurenllc blD1e Studla Whlcb have been hltherto published.
\\'ith

?be

s'

"'This Roman guard kept a close vigil over

the tomb during Friday night, Saturday and
Saturday night ; and early S andaj- morning the
angel of the Lord appeared and rolled back the
stone. The keepers testified that the countenance of the angel was like lightning and his
raiment as white as snow, and these watchmen
did shake because of fear.
2eEThe
sabbath day now ended, the dawn of the
irst day of the week being here, the faithful
women were the f rst ones to start for the tomb.
"In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn
toward the first day of the week, came Mary
Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And, behold, there was a great earthquake :for the angel of the Lord descended from
heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from
the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was
like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and
became as dead men. And the angel answered
and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I
h o w that ye seek Jesus, .which was crucified.
3 e is not here :for he is risen, as he said. Come,
see the place where the Lord lay. And go
quicl;ly, and tell his disciples that he is risen
irom the dead; and, behold, he goeth before yon
into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have
told yon. And they departed quickly from the
sepulcl~rewith fear and great joy, and did run
to bring his disciples word. And as they went
to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them,
eaying, A11 hail. And they came and held

him by the feet, and worshiped him. Then mid

Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my
brethren that they go into Galilee, and there
shall they see me."-Matthew 28 : 1-10.
'6There must have been great excitement
about that .time among some of the people of
Jerusalem. 'rhese faithful women ran to tell the
disciples, while the Roman soldiers hurried into
the city to notify their employers of what %ad
happened. "Now when they were going, behold,
some of the watch came into the city, and showed
unto the chief priests all the things that were
done. And when they were assembled with the
elders, and had taken coansel, they gave large
money onto the soldiers, saying, Say ye, His
disciples came by night, and stole him away
while we slept. And if this come to the gooernor's ears, we mill persuade him, and secure yoo.
So they took the money, and did as they mre
taught :and this saying is commonly r e p o d
among the Jewe until thie day."-Matthew
28:

11-15.
QUESTIONS ON "THE WARP OF G O P
Who rolled away the Btone from the tomb? 1264.
What did the fioman guard testify concerning tln
appearance of the one who rolled away the atone? f 264.
Who fir& appeared a t the tomb on the morning ad
Christ's resurrection? 265.
Relate what took place there between Mary Ibgdalene and the messenger who appeared ta her; d
what was the message delivered to her? 1265.
What other wrongful thing did the priests do rhra
they heard of Jesus Chri&s resarredion? 266.

Beloved of God
The glad'ning song of hope and cheer
Proclaims the Presence ever near:
His loving arms around thee twine
Till in His liken- thou dost ahine.

%loved of God! while anthems ring

That hail the presence of our King,
The Harp of God, in golden tone.
Proclaims the joys that thou shalt o m .
A chosen heir with Him to dwell,
: For evermore His praise to swell:
i And share with Him, in sweet accord,
'
Who died for all, our precioua Lord.
"Beloved and chosen 1 c d e d to &and,
Enriched with faith in this dark land;
E'en though thy foes do thee surround,
Xis glorious grace doth more abound.

as

"Beloved of God 1 Beloved by aIl

Who hear the Fatheis gracious cdt
He calls us each and all by name,
His love remaineth e'er the game.
What glories we shall soon behold1
The half has never yet been told.
Oh, happy they who find & w e ,
Beloved of God, in pedect peraeP

The Bible Its Own Defender

Fundamentalists hold that the teachings of the creeds are the teachinga of the Bible.
-

Modernisto, disagreeing with the creedal teachings, openly challenge

the Fnndamentaliats to prove their creeds by scientSc tests and logicsl
reasoning.
I t would seem that the Bible should have eomething to say for itself,
although its professed ministry attempts to settle its authenticity by
ignoring it.

And fairneaa would demand the Bible's testimony in its own defense.
To be properly understood its testimony &odd not be colored by
areedal interpretations.

To provide such an opportunity, the HAEPBIB^ STUDY

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February 27, 1924

THE P R E S S I N G
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Jlachlnery Ellminnting DIuch Labor
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The Present Immigration Law
Reasons for Restriction
T h e Countries of Migration
America a'Comopditan Coontry
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Illegal Entry of Irnmlgranta
The Literncy Test
Condtlons at Ellis Island
Frnuda against 1rnmigran.b
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The Pressing Immigration Question

N THE snbcription list of THE GOLDEN
AGE A man in his position needs to have a greaf
0
we liare a few full-blooded Sorth Ameri- deal of wisdom and common sense, and should
mn Indians. All the rest of us Americans are be well endowed with a sense of pity for the
immigrants, or we are the near or remote children of immigrants, and hence should be interested in the immigration question. Moreover, .there are indications that this will be one
of the outstanding features of the forthcoming
presidential campaign, so a consideration of
the subject is in order.
The management of the Inlmigration Bureau
is in the hands of the Secretary of Labor,
and properly so, we think; for an excess of
immigrants immediately affects the labor market, resultillg in lower wages, with corresponding disadvantages to workers here, only in part
offset by slightly lowered costs of manufactured products which they must use.
Whenever there is a n era of depression here
in America, there is nhva?-s a great hue and cry
against whatever of liberality may exist in the
American immigration policy, sometimes coup
led with a demand that all immigration of every
rort be shut off for a specified term.
Whenever there is an era of prosperity here,
accompanied by the better wages which prosperity brings, thcre is always pressure from
the great en~ployersof labor for a more liberal
policy as repects immigrants. Most of the hard
and rough work in America is done by "foreigners", as they are commonly ternled.
On one occasion the present Secretary of Labor, Mr. Davis, in an after-dinner speech, said
that the reason why he had opened the doors
a t Christmas time and let in 1,100 immigrants
after tlie quota for the year was full was that
he could remember the time when his mother
came into America as an immigrant with eight
little children, of whom the Secretary himself
was onr. Sometimes Secretary Davis has to
pass upon a s many as three hundred appeals
in a single day.
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u n f o r t k t e and sympathy for the poor. Moreover, the laws which he is to administer ahodd
have similar characteristics-anfortmtely not
now the case.

The h e n t Immigration Law

HE present immigration law, passad in

May, 1921, and expiring July lst, 1924, provides that only thr& percent of the number od
foreign-born persons of any nationality living
in the United States, according to the cenws of
1910, can be admitted in any one year; and that
not more than twenty percent of the allotment
for any one m ~ t r can
y be admitted in any one
month.
The law was passed in a panio in 1921, at the
time when the_ Bolshevism scare was at its
height and every immigrant was s a s p t e d by
some gullible Americans of being intent on
overturning the United States Government.
This panic was manufactured by big business,
with the deliberate intent of using it as a smoke
screen behind which to get away with their war
loot. The tools used were the press, the preachers, and the representatives of the Department
of Justice, so-called. The scheme worked PIfectly, as far a s keeping the loot was concerned. The law, while bad in some features,
is not so bad in others.
The good features of the law are that it haa
resulted in a higher grade of immigrants than
came before the law went into effeat, and it
has restricted the newcomers to knerican
shores to such an extent that the labor market
has not been affected adversely.
Changes proposed in the law would provide
for the admission of immediate relatives who
may be in excess of the quotas, in order to
avoid breaking up families; disorstion to ad

humanely in cases where deportation riolaks

common sense; requirement of steamship companies, that they assure themselves before sailing that they are not carrying immigrants in
excess of quota; and a redistribution of the
quotas into ten monthly installments of ten percent each instead of five monthly installments
of twenty percent each.
I n order to improve the character of the immigrants it has also been proposed to base the
allotment on the 1890 census; ta restrict the
quota to two percent with an additional one
percent for selected applicants. The reason for
shifting to the 1890 census is to bring in more
aliens from the north and west of Europe and
less from the south and east.
Before the war Northern and Western Europe provided only fifteen percent of the total
immigration, but during the last two years it
has run about thirty-five percent. The only persons from whom consuls can legally withhold
vises are bolshevists, anafchistq and habitual
criminals; all the rest of the selection is made
on arrival in America
Big Businmn Wants a Hand
IG business wants a hand in formulating
any changes that are to be made in the
immigration law. Now that the war steals are
all safely cached, it does not now need a smoke
screen. Hence it would really like to let in a
great many more of the kind of hard workera
it has used in the past, though it is still timid
about letting in anybody who does not believe
in the divine right of capital to commit every
crime on the calendar.
The United States Chamber of Commerce,
so-called, the official spokesman for big bnsiness, is willing to let the three percent quota
stand a s it is now; to this it would add two percent upon a selective basis, making a possible
five percent in all. About a year ago the packers and the steel trnst had to raise the wages of
their men in order to hold them; and straightway the papers began to be flooded with the
usual wail of big business that there is a labor
shortage which can be overcome only by a more
liberal immigration policy. The National
Mannfacturem' Asaociation openly argues for
and urges the granting of permission to import
alien labor under contract. This is now illegal.
Weary of waiting for labor from Europe, the

usual source. bip business turned to the southern Kegroes. with the result that tens of thousands of them came north to work in the packing houses and the steel mills. It is a wonder
that they did not think of Porto Rico and other
West Indian islands, where there is such an
excess in common labor that the people can
hardly exist. There are no restrictions for
bringing in these, except health and ability to
read and write.

Reaaons for Restriction

HE United States long ago decided that it
could not assimilate Chinese and Japanese,
and accordingly special treaties or agreements
have been made with those countries by which
their laboring classes are kept from these
shores. Objection is made also to aliens from
other lands who do not or will not learn the
English language, and who merely use Americs
as a place to make money which they plan to
spend in later years in the land of their birth.
I t is stated that one out of every two immigrants to America retnrns to the old country
eventually.
The Mining and 8cimti$c Press is anthorib
for the statement that when Japan organized
her government she wrote to Herbert Spencer,
the leading political economist of his time, asking whether or not she should admit foreigners, and the answer was "Emphatically, no!"
Spencer advised the Japanese to grant foreigners only bare commercial privileges, to forbid
them to own lands, to hold them at arm's length,
and to avoid intermarriage-all to prevent the
deterioration of the Japanese type. The deterioration of Chaldea, Phenicia, Carthage, GCrRome, and Egypt came about through admixed
populations, due to conquest or invasion.
We speak of the art of Greece and Italy, the
music of the Germans and the Poles, and the
poetry of the English, recognizing that back of
these there are the temperamental characteristics of pronounced racial types. But we s o m e
times forget that Greece ia full of Greeks, that
Italy is fnll of Italians, that Germany is full of
Germans, that Poland is fnll of Poles, and England is full of English, while b e r i c a is full of
everything except Americans. Mormver, the
melting pot melts poorly.
Nobody could expect very much from a restricted immigration wherein the privilege of

the selection of immigrants is left to other

nations. Europe is naturally not eager to part
with her best citizens. As a result the figures
prove that 44.09 percent of the inmates of
jails and asylums are children of foreign-born
parents. In Michigan one-fourth of the insane
persons in the state were born in foreign corntries, and their support costs the state $4,000,000 per year.
The Government makes seven classifications of
immigrants : Very superior, superior, high average, average, lorn average, inferior, and very inferior. A checking up of 14,000,000 immigrants
shows that there were only 6,000,000 of them in
the first four classifications named, while the
great number of 8,000,000 were of the low average, inferior, and very inferior types.

Reasom for Liberality

HEN Lloyd ~ e o r i ereturned to England
from b e r i a he said of b e r i a that it
ia infinite, and that if developed to the extent
that England is developed it should easily
maintain a popdation of I,~OO,OOO,OOO.~n o m

opinion the time will come when more than this

vast nnmber will iive in what ir, now the united
States and Canada. Indeed, we anticipate
about twice the number.
The New Pork Herald recently pointed out
that if the entire present popnlation of the
world were located in the one state of Texas,
and only ten persons were assigned to each acre
of land there would still be room in the state
for 196,000,000additional persons. Under these
circumstances it is but folly for anybody to
talk of overcrowding America at this time; and
it does not seem just fair to shut the doors to
the worthy and the needy and to say to them:
"Yon shall not come here to make your home."
The Baltimore Swn points out that "by the
time an immigrant gets accustomed to the climate he begins to worry about the horde of aliens
coming in." While this may be stretching it
some~vhat,yet it is a fact that many do not
realize the value of hard-working immigrants
to a country and are hostile to those who s p e d
a foreign tongue.
The ten million foreign-born now in America,
together with those of foreign parentage, repre-sent only one-third of the people of the
Unlted States, yet they mine three-fourths of
the coal, manufacture three-fourths of the

clothing, half of the silk, linen, wool, lace, and

embroidered goods, bake more than half of the
bread, refine more than half of the sugar and
put up half of the canned food.
With the aid of American capital the foreignborn built the Amercan railways, and still do
half of the maintenance work on both railroads
and streets. They also do half of the work in
the blast furnaces, in the carpet mills, in the
hemp and jute factories, and in the copper,
silver, brass, gold, rubber, and leather goods.
To shut out immigration altogether, as proposed by some of the wild advocates of narrowmindedness, would put the United States baaP;
as much as would a fist-class war.
While the inferior rating of many past immigrants is deeply regrettable, yet the-United
States now makes an earnest effort to exclude
convicts, except those guilty of political offenses,
for
PVaeh
loathl ~ a t i paupers,
q
perso- a c t e d
some or dangerow wntagiow disease, ~ o k 8mists, those whose Pasage has been paid by
others unless it can be c0ndnsively ahown that
they
not
to
of the
classes, epileptics, Persons who have been ieSane within five Years previoae or who have
ever had two of more attacks of insanity,professional beggars, anarchists, persons who b e
lieve in or advocate the overthrow by violgovermat Or law, Persons attempting to
b-g in women for h.mnord P W s e s , P e m N
within a Year ~ r e v i o uas contract
laborers, and Persons who cannot read or mite*

*rImmQrant
Count*
OMETHING is to be learned from a consideration of the attitude toward immigrants of other countries which have large
areas of undeveloped land and other natural
resources. Brazil, "the United States of South
herica," is one of these. Brazil pays the
passage of immigrants, takes care of them on
Attitude

arrival, transports them free to their destination, provides them with tools and seeds, and
eapphes them with free medical care for themselves and their families.
Argentine, to the south of Brazil, offers
immigrants free land. Chile, to the west of
Argentine, offers land and implements. New
Zealand, to the west of Chile, offers reduced
steamship fares. Australia, to the west of New

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GOLDEN .4SE

Zealand, pays $60 toward the paxage of selected British settlers, and makes an effort to select
only such as will stay in the country. It does
not want those whose purpose is to hoard their
money and return to the old country. To bonafide settlers it sella land on easy terms and
advances money for improvements.
Immigration from North
to
lia in lg21 was b577, ~ ~ a c all~ of~ whom
c a
were from the United States. Australia's total
immigration for 1921 was a little in excess of
.
percent of her ~ o ~ u l a t i o nThe
into America at the very height of the flood was
only a trifle in excess of one percent. We incline to the thought that the Lord is shaping
things so a s to bring forward the
of the Lands of the southern hemisphere more
rapidly.
Canada forbids the entry of any i m m i ~ a n t
mechanic, laborer o r artisan who possesses less
than $250 in his own right, plus
to his destination in Canada, plus $125 for each
person in his family over eighteen years of age,
pins $50 for each
Over five and under
eighteen years.
The province of Quebec has at least one letk e r touring 'the New England states, endeavoring to persuade French Chadians to return to
(hnada* Canada gladly provided a home for
fort9 Swiss farmers who were denied entry to
the united States m d e r the three percent quota
arrangement.
The Canadian Pacific Railway maintains a
personally conducted immigrant service direct
from Great Britain to the land of their choice
and to the very district in which the new settlers
will locate. This is an excellent idea, and one
worthy of adoption by the United States. The
railway sells these settlers land payable over a
period of thirty-four years, the first payment
not to be made until after two years.
Canada is burdened with the problem of keep
ing her immigrants in Canada after sha gets
them; the lure is always southward. She needs
desperately to keep them at home if she is to
pay the colossal war and railroad construction
debts which have been contracted. Uore people,
more tases paid.
Canada has one growing immigration at which
she now 1001;s as1;ance. I n 1911 the Chinese
population of British Columbia was 19,563;
today it is 40,000. There are about 60,000 Chi-

BIOOKLTX,
S. T-

nese in Cannda altogether, and about 20,000

Japanese. It is claimed illat they monopolize
the fishing and garden tmciting businesses and
'lave incres. ?:I t he drug trafIic.

The Countr' -s of Migration

--

OR a hundred years Great Britain has supF

plied a greater number of new
to
~ United States than has any other countrp.
the

J V the~ ~ ~ ~d come~here ithey are

~
~
welcome. The langlage, the ideals, the literature, and most of the customs are tile same ;
and in a few years even the most diBcerning
distinguish no dieerences beween an immigrant from Britain and a native-born h e r i can. There are now 10,000,000 representatives
,fthe British racial group in berica.
hi^
includes immigrants from Canada. Xany of
the British immigrants come into the United
statesvia canadas
I t seems too bad that any law should hold
up immigration from the ~ ~ i t1 i~~1 h~
yo~mat.
ter where they go, Britishers add an element of
honesty, courtesy, kindness, courage, that makes
them invaluable a s citizens. I n America they
are specially welcomed by the people as s whole;
and yet the present law keeps many thous=&
of them away, and works great hardships on
many who come. I t has happened, not once but
several times, that a whole shiplosd of people,
after selling their homes and businesses, and
planning to sail at a given date, have been cornpelled to wait in idleness for two months because the current quota was e-xhausted. Under
the present law only 77,342 immigrants from
Britain may enter in each year.
Next to Britain, as a provider of citizens f o r
the United States, has come Germany. There
are 9,230,000 of the German racial group in
b e r i c a . m e n Prince Henry was touring
America he aslied some American statesman
whether he had ever been in Germany and was
greatly amused when he received the reply, "Oh,
yes1 I have been in Jlilwaukee, St. Louis, and
Cincinnati many times."
Despite a11 newspaper, political, and pulpit
slop to the contrary, the Germans also are valued citizens of the Iinited States. They are lawabiding, industrious, musical, home-loring, edncnted, and progressive. To have them shut out
also seems a crime against the conntry. The
newcomers soon speak a broken English that is

highly entertaining and enjoyable to Americans; and their children, from the moment they
begin to attend school, never speak anything
but English even in their own hoIues. Under
the present
Germany may send only 67,607
new citizens into the United States each year.

Other Nortiic Countries

HE third racial group, the Scandinavian,
represents a big drop from the British and
German figures ; yet there are 3,750,000 of this
group in America and it is a goodly number.
The Scandinavians are like the Germans, highly
intelligent, well educated, progressive, Protestants-just the kind of citizens Amerioa should
welcome with open arms.
Included in the Scandinavians are the Danes.
Denmark is a small country, but stands out
prominently in h e r i c a n immigration records
because of the prison incident. It seems that
the Danish prison was overcrowded. An addition watt needed, but the funds wherewith to
build it were not a t the moment in sight, so the
Danish government hit upon a more feasible
plan. The 700 convicts were aU pardoned with
the distinct understanding that they should emigrate to America. Tickets were provided, and
the whole lot were shipped to make new and
better homes for themselves in a new and better
land. This was before present restrictions were
in force.
Next after the Scandinavians are the Poles,
of whom there are 3,000,000 in America. The
Poles are naturally bright, but their develop
ment has been retarded by the old Czarist r&
gime and by the fact that they are mostly under
the influence of the Roman Catholic Church.
Under the present law Poland may send in
21,076 new citizens annually, but Poland is a t
tempting to hold aa many of her own citizens
as possible.
The new country of Czecho-Slovakia, lying
on Poland's southern border, is following Poland's example of offering indncementa to keep
her citizens at home, so as to develop her own
resources. Czecho-Slovakia may send 14,557
oitizens to America each year under the present
law.
A Ceecho-Slovakian invited to an hericanimtion conference is reported by The Natidrr as
having said among other things :

so much e~ forcing them in one way or another not ta

speak it. Some Americans think that ~ o ucan make
people love a corntry by driving them to it with a clubus
be Americans, treat us like human
If YOU
beings. Our features may be
from Yours, but
I guess we also are made in God's image. Lincoln
woddn,t haPe been euspieiow of us. He dd

made us love h e r i c a b; the way he would have treated

ns. And once people love America by the way they me
trested, no one needs to Americrniee them."

That is the way to talk. When the workers

in the steel district wanted better living conditions, there were any number of officials ready
to commit wilful acts of anarchy against the
Czecho-Slovaluans in their districts; and now
they want to prove to them what nice people wa
are by teaching them how to spell out English
wordi. Probably they want to teach them how
to spell out such words as "Justice" and "Love.*
If the present generation of Czecho-Slovakiana
in America never get any farther in their spelling lessons than to be able to rrpell %a-t-e" we
should not much blame them.

Southern and h t e m h p a
HE present law, and the proposed h n g e s
in it, have in view the restriction of immi-

gration from the southern and a t e r n -tries

of Europe, Hungary, Italy, Qreece, and Russia.
Them were probably a quarter of a million
people from southern and eastern Enrope that
would have been glad to come to Amerisa in
the last year, but were prevented by the quota.
For example, Hungary may bring in only 5,638
new citizens each year; yet there are applitions for 30,000 American passports on fie,
enough to fill the quota for more than five years.
If the basis is changed to the 1890 census and
reduced to two perent, as is proposed, Hungary would be able to send in only 424 pers6ns
in a year, and would practically be eliminated
aa a source of emigration.
Next to Scandinavia, and on a par with
Poland, Italy is represented in America by
3,000,000 citizens. Under the present law Italy
may bring in 42,057 citizens per year, while the
number that wishes to come averages more than
300,000. If the law is modified in the way proposed Italy would be reduced to 3,912 per par,
and also virtually eliminated.
There are few Protestants among the Poles,
"Nothing w i l l make r people cling to theit knguaga Hungarians, and Italians; ammah'tl.

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higher than anlong tlie British, Gernlans, and

Scandinavians; and they are harder to lift up
to proper citizenship on account of their long
submergence under the beclouding, deadening
effect of Roman Catholic influence. These are
the bedrock reasons for the discriminations
agninst them, and not their industry.
I n recent years most of the hard laboring
work of America has been done by these three
nationalities, and it is work that Americans mill
not do. The question is as to whether it is better
to shut these men out and leave the work undone, or to let them come in and promote material progress while in some other ways they
lower the national standards.
The Italians are successful in America. When
they first come they will do anything-streetsweeping, rag-picking, whatever may need to be
done. I n a few years they are often the owners
of splendid farms, being adepts in the growing
of grapes and other fruits.
Greece is already a small factor as respects
American immigration, inasmuch as she may
bring in only 3,294 per year, and under the proposed changes would be able to bring in but 47.
No objections are raised against the Greeks except by the restaurant and candy kitchen proprietors, whose businesses have suffered severely under Greek competition.
Greece is offering inducements of farms to
the people, having passed an act by which large'
land owners may retain only one-third of their
estates, while surrendering two-thirds to the
uses of the Government for the benefit of the
landless and the homeless. Greece would like
to send many thousands to America, but is
deterred by both h e r i c a n and Greek laws.
The reasons why no immigration is desired
from Russia are well understood by all our
readers. I t is because of the fears of big business that the Russian idea of Bolshevism will
spread throughout America. This it will never
do so long as more than half of the Americans
live in their own homes. The good wages paid
during 1923 have done more to kiU off Bolshe'vistic sentiment than all the futile and foolish
efforts put forth in recent years to prevent
people from studying economic subjeets.
Meyer London, the only Socialistic member
of Congress, speaking some two or three years
ago on the efforts to keep out radicals, mid
bitingly and truthfully :

"The fact that there mas almost no immigration dur

ing the war did not prevent us from importi~lgevery
abominable idea from Europe. We brought over the
idea of deportation of radicals from France, not k
the France of Rousseau, Jaures and Victor Hugo, but
from the France of the Bourbons. We imported the
idea of the censorship of the press and the p q r t
system from Russia, not from the Russia of Kropotkin
and Tolstoy, but from the Russia of Nicholaa IL '80
have imported the idea of universal military service from
Germany, not from the Germany of Heine, Boeme and
Freiligrath, but from the Germany of the Kaiser. Idem
can be neither shut in nor shut out. There ia onlJ OW
way of contending with an idea, and that is the old md
safe American rule of free and untrammeled discumon.
Every attempt to use any other method haa alarpr
proven disastrous."

Egypt may send into the United States only

eighteen immigrants a year; Palestine, F i m e ,
Iceland, Other Asia a i d Laxemburg may each
send in less than 100. Africa, Russian Armenia,
Albania, Danzig, Bulgaria, Syria and Spain may
each send in less than 1,000 ; Esthonia, Latvia,
Belgium, Portugal, Lithuania, and Tnrkey may
each send in less than 3,000. Greece, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Finland may each eend
in less than 5,000. Denmark, France, Hungary,
Jugoslavia, Austria, and Roumania may each
send in less than 8,000. Norway may send
12,202, Sweden may send 20,042, and Russia
may send 24,405. The other countries that may
send have been already named.

America a Cosmopolitan Country

N THE United States there are now twentyfour percent of dl the Jews in the world,
seventeen percent of all the Scandinavians,
thirteen percent of a l l the Germans, eight percent of the Poles, the Slovaks and the Finns,
seven percent of all the Italians, five percent of
the Dutch and the Lithuanians, and three percent of the French and the Greeks.
Talk about a cosmopolitan country! I n America we start off with 54,000,000 full-native white
Americans and 11,000,000 native colored people.
Then we have 6,500,000 children one of whom
parents was foreign born, and 14,000,000 both
of whose parents were foreign born. h d then
we have 14,500,000 people of foreign birth.
These were the figures some time ago.
Not counting the British, who are really the
parent stock, and are not immigrants in ths
eame senee ar other nationalities, there wera i.

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the United States in 1910 Fersons of foreign
birth as follows:
German ..............-...............................-....... f?,500,000
Italian ...............................-........................1,607,458
Russian ...................................................... 1,398,999
Polish ...................-...-.................................. 1,139,578

I n the following statement, several millions

of those listed as foreign born are as t d y
American as those born of native parents; b&
the stateineat serves to show how large a proportion of Work here is done by persons one
both of whose parents were f o r e i ~born, or
~vhowere tl~emselvesborn in sther lands.
This statement is an interesting comparison
of the native and foreign born populations in
the principal industrial states :
Native

Xew Tork ...............,...

....3,365,000
Pennsylvania .........., ........... 4,500,000
. .
nllnols ................................... 2~800,000
Massachusetts ......................l,lSO,OOO
Ohio .- ........--.......
.....,
3,.200,000
Michigan ...................-.-.......1.240,000
Wiwon~in ............................ 740,000
New Jersey .........................l,OG5,000
Xinnesota ...........................
590,000
California l,?>0.000
Connecticut .. . . . . . - . . . . 400,000
20,330,000

Forem Born

5,736,000
3,200,000
2,900,000
2,220,000
1,600,000
1,560,000
1,560,000
1,435,000
1,485,000
1,150,000
700,000
23,545,000

Coming In and Going Out

IIE high tides of immigration were
1850, 1870, leso, and 19c)o. The highest
peal<was reached in 1907, when 1,285,349 were
acllllitted. The fewest arrivals were around
1860, because of the Civil War; 1875, because
of business depression here; and other dates
when there were relatively few arrivals were
1885, 1895, and 1910, for the same reasons. In
the year 1918 only 110,618 in-migrants entered
the country. This, of course, was due to the
war, which did not termina.te until November
of that y e ~ r .
Immediately after the mar, when it looked for
a little time as if some of the American people
were in danger of using their brains and making
an inquiry into the hundreds of millions and
even billions of dollars out of which they had
been robbed by the profiteers, and when it was
necessary for big business to erect a smoke

screen to hide them while they were burying the

loot, the press and the pulpit were busily employed, as was also the Department of Justice,
in making h e r i c a a very uncomfortable place
for people of foreign birth. During tho- years
immigration was small and emigration large,
The following is an analysis by occupations
of those enteringand those leaving fie united
States sincethe passage of the present immigration law. ~h~~~ statistics show that during
the years 1921 and 1922 there was a large loss
laborers ;so large, in fact, that now it is not
an altogether m s n a l thing to find =ative-born
white English -speaking Americans aotnally
working with their hm&.

la-rn

Immigratioa

No occupations..,.,..
131,050
Miscellaneous occupations .... 65,032
Skilled laborers .......-........... .. 51,588
Laborers ...................... .
.
......... 32,726
Fanners and farm laborer&... 18,205
Professional ......................... 10,955

E~~~ZSLIQ

-9u
l4,il3
17,958
100,058

7,728
9,318

nlegdE n w Immigrants
ECRETARY DAVISmade the statement a few
months ago that there are as many illegal
entries into the United States as legal ones,
claiming that there are h e r i c a n financiers
who are engaged in the work of "bootlegging"
immigrants into the country.
.
This would be quite easy. On the Mexican
border all that is necessary is to wade across
the Rio Grande, or to walk across an imaginary
line on the desert. On the Canadian line there
are many places where a rowboat could cross
and about t\vo thousalld miles of land boundarp
besides.
Despatches tell of a man (location not specified) who had a grocery store with the back
door in Canada and the front door in the United
States. It is claimed that tbis man aided hundreds of immigrants to enter the United States
illegally.
Florida has done such a business in providing
a haven for illegal entries that it has gained the
sobriquet of "The Nation's Back Door." The
entries into Florida come from the Bahamae
and from Cuba, the passengers paying from $80
to $2,500 a head for their passage.
A heartless ruse worked many times by the
rascals engaged in this t r a o is to take a 06m-

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pany of passengers out in a boat, carry them

around for a day or two, and then land them on
an uninhabited stretch of land within a few
miles from where they started, falsely telling
them that they are i n Florida,
there was ever honor among thieves it
seems clear that there is none now. One of the
b a t protections the officers of the law have is
that none of these lawbreakers can be trusted.
However, a large number is smuggled into
Florida and into New York and other Atlantia
ports from the rum fleet which lies tmelve miles
out at sea.
Florida, especially, has a great number of
bayous, bays, sounds, coves and inlets, which
make it an easy place of debarkation without
discovery. Tom's Bayou, near East Pass on
Pensacola Bay, is one of the bayous that have.
fignred in the despatches.
Seamen curd Stowawag8

Seamen's Act
any
THE
seaman of a foreign vessel to leave his ocm-

-*

pation when his ship arrives in an American

port and to remain in
as long sr, sir*
before r e s h i ~ ~ h g 'This 'Iaose
been the mew of
a loophole
thousand entering.
last summer there was One occasion
when the authorities found 109 Chinese seamen
who had illegally entered the country. One of
the inspectors claimed at the time that there
me^ three thousand smuggled Chinese in New
York U ~ Yand vicinity. They shipped as seamen
on boata bound for America and deserted upon
arrival. This is considerably cheaper for the
Chinese than the $500 to $1,000 which they have
to pay to get across the border from British
Columbia
Ex-Commissioner Wallis of Ellis Idand says
that there is a well-organized stowaway band
operating between Europe and America which
contrives to aid many to enter. The most persistent stowaway to date is one Oscar Bignall,
who has been deported four times. He worked
each time as a stevedore and hid himseif daring
the confusion of loading.
Occasiol~allythere has been an escape from
Ellis Island itself. Once the police caught a
launch racing from the island with a girl dressed
in male garb. O.n another occasion a Polish

Btwna. N. T.

girl who had been here several years gave her

own pass, her hat and shawl, and all her money,
to a sister so that the sister might land, even
though she herself remained a prisoner.
In other instances some have simply vanished
from sight at the island, with the probability
that they have successfully bribed some p a r d .
This is dangerous business, however; for the
penalty for aiding an alien to enter the country
illegally is a maemum of five years in prison
or a $2,000 fine.

The Literacy Teat

T is only a little better than a century ago
I.books
since the British Parliament had on its
a law which made special provision for
such lords of the realm as were unable to rend
or to write their o m names. It may very well
have been trne that the ones to whom the law
applied were better legislators in behalf of the
people as a whole than some of the tricksters
who knew just how to slip a paragraph into the
law that would nullify all its good effects.
And so experience has shown that there is not
so much in the literacy test as was expected.
Illiteracy,of itself, is not the
thing to
dreaded, although it is an evil, or at le& an
inconvenience, as all must admit. The illiteracy
is about twelve times as high among immigrants
from southern and eastern Europe (Roman
Catholic
conntries) as it is from the protestant
north and west. The illiteracy of
and
Syria is also high.
B~~ when it comes to illiteracy the united
States has nothing whereof to boast. The New
york Journal says on this point:
out ign0"If You hear anybody talking about
'at immigration and 'upholding the Amenard,' remind him that, according to statistics, there am
ten million illiterates in the United Stater, and ten
more that might as
be illiterate becaEr
of their dense ignorance. There m sections in thin
country where 'marriage has no sanctity and commerca
is carried on through barter and trade' the some u io
the equatorial r a o m of Africa It is a good thing to
be patriotic about Your count% but not so good to
fw1ishly ignorant
it."

Ex-commissioner Wallis is much displeased

with the literacy test, which he regards aa value+less in keeping out undesirables. He citen rut
instance where three Italian sisters came to
knerica together. One of the three had awed

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at home and kept house so that the other two

could go to school. The self-sacrificing one was
kept out of the country. Was that a benefit to
the country?
He also cites an instance of a Czecho-Slovak
family, composed of father, mother and two
children. The father was a practical farmer
and wanted to go to the Middle West and settle
on a farm; but he could not read nor write. The
mother and the two children could all read and
write. At first the father thought to let his wife
and children enter while he returned alone to
the land of his birth; but finally he took his
brood all back to his old home, penniless, but
declaring that he would learn to read and write
and be back again some happy day. How was
the United States advantaged by keeping such
a man out of the country?

Distribution of Immigrants
BEFORE the war the number of the world's
people who migrated somewhere each year
was about 5,000,000. The war so unsettled old
routes and motives impelling a change of location that there are only about half that number
now migrating. The young men and young
11-omen wander forth over the face of the earth
looking for opportunity; the old return to the
land of their birth. The scenes of childhood
never lose their charm.
One outcry made against the immigrants is
that they flock to New Pork, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Buffalo, and take up
their abodes in the foreign centers of those
cities, instead of taking up agricultural parsnits. To as this seems like the natural thing
for them to do, at first. XTe think that later
many of them find their way to the land.
SeveraJ. suggestions have been made as to the
best way to effect a quicker distribution. The
vice-consul a t Athens proposed the novel and
seemingly practical plan of dividing the United
States into twelve districts, each of which
should have its own quota, according to the
needs of the population and industries. An objection to this is that it would require registration and supervision of immigrants and would
limit their liberties.
Another registration plan proposes to demand $100 of each immigrant who settles in a
city of a million inhabitants and to decrease the
svnl required proportionately to the size of the

city, so that if he settles mi a farm there will

be no charge at all.
Another plan proposed is that each immigrant be met at the d o 8 and questioned closely
to find out what kind of country he wishes to
live in. He is then to be told just where he can
find what he is looking for, so that he can have
it in mind as an ideal to work toward, even it
he is not able immediately to betake himself
thither.
Senator LaFoIlette has scant patience with
those who criticize immigrants because they
love the land of their birth. He thinks, snd
with good reason, that because a person lover
his home land it is no sign he will not love thia
one. He thinks, on the other hand, that one
who does love his o m land is far more likely
to appreciate the good points of this one. The
fact that a inan has left his own land to come
here shows that there were in his mind some
reasons why this was the more desirable.

Steamships and Immiptcrtion

HILE the present immigration law ia in
operation the captain of a vessel. that
brings these citizens to Amefica necessarily
must be a very capable man. Much of the responsibility of carrying out the provisions d
the law rests upon his shoulders.
Years ago there were several European comb
tries that paid a bonus to the steamship companies for all the emigrants they took out of
those oountries. Under the present restricted
qnota system all thia is changed; but the mns d s abroad indiscriminately issue passport
vises to eligible and ineligible alike, no examination being held even to determine mental fitness. Yet the steamship company must not
bring in ineligible persons, and they must not
bring in too many persons.
To begin with, a steamship captain is penalized $10,000 if he permits a stowaway to eacape. Then he is fined $200 for each immigrant
brought in after the qnota for the month ia
filled, and must refund the passage money paid
by such immigrant and carry him back to bi.
homeland free. If all the other conditions am
complied with he must see that each alien who
lands has a t least $50 in cash.
I n their rivalry to get the immigrant bnainess the steamship companies have been more
than ready to take vast numbers to arrive on

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the first day of the new quota period. This has
brought in the immigrants in great waves and
has handicapped the authorities at this end, beaides being another complication for the s t e d companies.
e steamship companies are about to face
another expense from whieh they have thus far
been spared. All other countries require the
rtsamahip companies bringing in immigrants
to take full responsibility for them until they
are dehitely accepted or rejected. Ellis Island,
at New York, and other immigrant detention
atations cost the United States in exceea of a.
million dollars annually.
On account of complaints that have been
made in the British House of Commons against
the conditions a t Ellis Island it is probable that
the United States will lease land to the eteamship companies and require them to maintain
their own detention statioxw.

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patronage as that to be found among the immigrants a t Ellis Island gives so good food, more
pleasing surroundings, so careful treatment,
and such sanitary conditions aa those given to
immigrants arriving a t New York"
On account of the unfavorable publicity givem
Ellie Island in Britain the British Ambassador,
Sir Auckland Geddes, was called upon to make
a report to his government as to conditions on
the Island, in which he said in part:

"Inoticed in many cornea impacted gmmy dirt tbrf

it WM possible to eay with certainty had been there for
mmydap,ifnotaeekeormontha. Asarermltoftho
pmence d chronic dirt, the buildinp are perrrded
by a flat, stale smell. This i quite dietinct from thr
pungent odor of unwashed humanity. Both am to k
met at Ellis Island. In many waya the e5iciency d the
officials is highly to be praised Still detention on Ellh
bland must be a hateful experience for all of any sendbility who pass its portale. Every immigrant who ir
rejected is told of hie right to appeal to the Searetq
of Labor. This ( ~ ~ g e m m the
t , theory of which u
Conditions at EUir I
i
probably right, L in practice nothing I o r t of diobolin
EPORTS differ ae to conditionr at Ellis For days some mtched mature ir kept in mqerua''

Island, but it is generally admitted that

the quarters are too emall for the throngs that
arer cared for there, and that the employ& are
overworked and underpaid. Men and women
are constantly sweeping and mopping the white
tiled floors; but as fast as they do so, untidy
immigrants Litter the floors again with paper,
bread, orange peels, and banana skins.
The representative of the Immigration Department of Spain, who arrived in h e r i c a by
steerage, reported that he found little a t Ellis
Island to criticize. On the other hand, Whitehead, the British journalist, who came to America to seek aid for Russia, aaid of the Island:
'The food is practically inedible. You are
treated like a criminal and confined like a prik
oner, h d the vermin: the less aaid the better.''
Prof. E. A.. Steiner, of Grinnell University,
Iowa, who crossed from Europe via steerage
M) that he might better study the immigrant
problem, said of the Island about a year ago:
"Ellis Island has become a prison. Unspeakable barbarities have been committed there.
Because of the rigor of the law and an undermanned service, the commonest decencies are
denied to persons of cultnre and refinement."
To criticisms of this nature Secretary of
Labor Davis has replied that "no hotel in the
United States catering to the same class of

Sir Auckland gave an unpleasant account of

medical examinations conducted with makeshift
arrangements, used the word "tragedy" in describing the Island, and undertook the some
what doubtful propriety of suggesting remedia
for what is purely an internal h e r i c a n affair.
He found that the ventilation and sleeping
cages could be improved, advocated a more liberal use of hot water and strong cleanseng and
declared that "the compound smell of old dirt
and new immigrants was so nearly u n i m d
that after leaving Ellis Island it took me nearly
thirty-six hours to get rid of the aroma which
flavored everything I ate and drank."
Thia report caused many British i r n m i p t a
to come by the Canadian lines and to enter the
United States through Canada But if conditions at Ellis Island are bad, they aeem to be
not much better a t Halifax, if we may judge
from the following report in the London Doily
Herald of the experiences of a Jew who w m
detained at that port. He says:
"At five o'clock I was taken out to ham mmathing to
eat, but the sight of the s h f l they gave me nearly turned

tw

me sick Lter they took me to a r o o m 4 bedroom

d e d it-but it waa more like r filthy pigsty. I ham
never eeem wch a place in my life. There were nine
other men in the room. The weather WM very hot, a d

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the windom werc all bo:ted, and there was absolutely
1'0 ~mtilationat ail. It was more like the famous 'Black
Hole of Calcutta.' I was given a dirty sheet, a dirty
!~illo~~case
and a blanket and told to make my bed. At

taight o'clock the next morning I was called before the

hoard, which consisted of one man. He cross-examined
me for about an hour, and in the end he told me that
because I was a Jew he aould have to aend my papers
to Ottawa, and it would cost me twenty dollars to appeal.
I refused to appeal, because I had nothing to appeal
about; whereupon I was taken back to that unspeakable
roonl and locked in it for the next Gfteen day4 being
permitted to leave i t only a t meal times."

More Light on Ellh Island

INTELLIGENT woman immigrant interviewed by the New Pork World summarized her experiences briefly and pointedly aa
follows :

A'

"Berths on d i p , clean but stuffy. Food, good and

clean, but nothing ta serve it with. Resting space limited and not seats enough to go around. Entertainment
and information lacking. Detention of an extra day on
ship due to congestion at Ellis Island. Lack of system
in identihation of baggage on pier. Confusion in p r a
tenting credentials at Ellis Island. Hours of unnecree-'
my delay there. Women's room overcrowded and filthy.
Inability to communicate with relativa or friends. No
food except for children fmm 6: 30 A. M. to 5: 30
P. Af. Night in a cage, with no mattresees or pillow& '
Women with babes sleeping on tiled floor. We were like
animals in a den. Surely one dollar spent on Americanitation a t Ellie Island would be worth ten spent later on.
Indeed the one dollar might make it unnecessary to
mpend the ten."

The New Pork City Merchants Committee

examined the Island three years ago and r*
ported that "facilities on Ellis Island for examining and accommodating incoming foreigners
are woefully inadequate. Sleeping quarters intended for 1,500 frequently are made to accommodate twice that number; and the staff, much
too small, is constantly overworked, with a consequent impairment of efficiency."
During the time that Commissioner Wallis
was in charge of the Island he constantly urged
enlargement of quarters; and three years ago
a bill appropriating $5,600,000 for enlargement
of the station was before Congress; but apparently nothing was done about it.
He made an earnest effort to improve the lot
of the immigrants. Going there disguised he
aas insulted and threatened and found that

immigrants had not been getting towels for ten

years. He discharged several men for callousness and officiousness in dealing with the immigrants.
Any one who desires to do so can help conditions a t Ellis Island to some extent by sending
to the Librarian of the Ellis Island Hospital,
Ellis Island, New York, good literature in any
language. This literature will find its way into
the hands of the very cream of the working
classes of Europe, and will do something to
offset any unfavorable opinions of America
that other conditions on the Island may arouse.
More than 82,000 Bibles were given away at
Ellis Island in 1923; over 14,000 of them in
Italian.
There is little complaint of graft among the
employ6 a t the Island, although there have
been some cases uncovered and punished where
inspectors have allowed diseased or o t h e h
rejectable immigrants to enter upon payment
of a stated sum.
Hardships of Prceent Law
LACE of birth decides nationality accord-

tions that are enough to make angels weep.

Thus, the wife of a British immigrant was s e p
arated from her two-year-old child and her hmband because she had been born in Australia,
though she lived there but the first six months
of her life. The husband and the child were
allowed to land; but the wife was deported,
because the Australian qnota was exhaded. Again, two Russians were deported becauaet,
by accident of birth, their baby was born in
Constantinople, where the father was temporarily engaged in American Y. M. C. & wort;
The whole family was compelled to return to
Europe, although the parents could have entered, as the Russian quota was not exhausted.
The.New York Times cites another case, 887ing that "an Englishman who happened to be
born at Bilbao sixty-eight years ago and lived
there until the age of three was lately deported
on the ground that the Spanish qnota was exhausted, no doubt on the well-known bureaucratic principle that if a cat has kitten8 in the
oven they are classed as biscuit."
The Nation caustically sammukes served
similar cases by saying,

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"Whm Englishmen living in England are threntaned

with deportation as Egqptians because they happened
to be born in Egypt; when Czechs l i h g in CzechoSlovakia are sent home because their parents lived in
what is now Jugoslavia at the time of their birth;
when Romanians living in Be~earabiaare sent home
because the United States government does not recog
nize any changes in the frontier of the old Russian
Empire, we begin to feel that no protest can prevail
against such absurd red tape."

Two or three years ago, under the present

Armenians were barred
classed as Turks, and sent back to almost- certain death at the hands
their enemies. A
little boy, the only one of his family to escape
the massacre a t Sruyrna, was one of those sent
back.
R e v i e h g his ex~efience,E ~ - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ m
Wallis said:
"The longer I remained as U. S. Commissioner of
h'r?

Immigration at Ellis Idand the more sensitive I became

to the needs and sufferings of these groups of foreigners.
Ellis Island would melt a heart of granite. It ia literally
a vale of teara These people have been saving for years,
denying their families every necessity of life in order
that they might get d c i e n t funds to come; and after
of wrifice and saving they come this port only
to be turned b&
h d sent back to what? Destitution
and desolation. No one can picture the scenes of anp i s h and heartbreak at the Port of Xew York. It
becomes necessary at times to carny people bodily and
place them back on the ship. Many attempt suicide
rather than go back to their destitute conntriea."

Frauds againat Immigrants

ORDER to enter America now a stranger

I?.rmust
be quite forehanded. Before the wvar

a steerage passage could be had for $25. During

the war it was possible to cross for $10. Now
the rate from Hamburg to New Tork ranges
from $120 to $160. The head tax is $18; and
the i ~ n m i g a n tmust have $50 in cash after all
other expenses hare been paid. As a consequence there is room for sharpers to do even
such despicable work as to play upon these
poor home-seekers.
Fake shipping agents work among the foreign-born worliers here, offering, for sums ranging from $250 to $1,000, to bring their families
from Europe, secure passports, etc. Their usual
story is that they are about to sail for Europe
and will personally find and escort tlie aged
parentq wife aad children from their European

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horne to their destination in America. Others

actually visit foreign ports, where they assure
their victims that they have influenceat EUia
~
~ and l,
alllalie
~
~it easy
d for them to land.
Before they start for fherica many immigrants are robbed of everything they posses8
by a very simple method. They are given checks
for their valuables and baggage when they
undergo bathing and sterilization, a s required
by the health laws of the city of departure;
and the man who gives the checks absconds
before they return. Another method is to sell
forged tickets to h e r i c a and rob the immigrants so completely that they cannot even stnrt.
The immigrants have troubles enough at Ellis
181md Relatives come for them and do not
recognize them, on account of changes in ap~pear,,,.
s s i o n eHusbands
r
come, to find proof of their
wives' infidelity. Swindlers abound, Picliiockets are on hand.
we how
of an instance where a scotch immileft his baggrtge with a supposedly repatable baggage
h a ~ n gconnectiolur
aith
a leading British steamship line. In the day or
that the man's
was in the we
thi.
to
mncern some one pried off the lock so
rummage through the trunk in search for valuables. .
What a blessing the Lord's kingdom will be,
distributing the blessings of the earth among
the meek and lo\vly and making it no longer
necessary for any to wander far in search of a
home with the risk of suffering great hardships
and financial losses f

A Correction By

Victor

F. 8chmidt

HE article, "Treasures for the Last Days?

T
in GOLDEN
AGENO. 107, contains the statement: "The English boys were even instructed
how with their finger nails to gouge the eyes
from their victims' heads." The statement was
based upon a newspaper report of a lecture.
Further investigation has traced the infonnation to verbal expressions made to the lecturer
while traveling in Canada The statement therefore rests on a weak foundation. The word
"musl;et," occurring in the eleventh line of the
same paragraph, should be changed to '%ayenet." I Ivery sorry that these errors occur&

The New Age and the New Unit of Value

THE

seyeral articles that havc been published

Tlrr GOLDEXAGE,relative to the unit of
ralnc-. embrace one of the most discussed subj, ~ t s .diwctly or indirectly, in the whole world.
'file quittlble tiistribution of this world's goods
is becoming so vital that it is threatening to
overt]~ro\\-time-honored traditions, institutions,
b
and even empires.
These articles have pointed out their respecu~riters'impressions of what would be the
ideal solution of an old established evil, by
can.;ing all values to exchange; viz., the labor
unit, the gold u~lit,the market price unit, or a
standardization of materials unit, etc. They
have a decided longng for a practical ideal,
while each plan seems to show up some hngible
shortcoming, when placed under the present
order of things. We are told in the Scriptures,
howerer, thnt there is a solution. We are told
also that it will not be during the old order nor
of old-order methods.
There is a solution creeping in on U s quietly,
yet very rapidly, doing our work more cornpletely, taking on new forms, laying new foundations. The world perceives it not, or at least
very little, and does not realize the stupendousness of it or of its future. New scientific inven'tions are a part of the solution, all a free gift
costing no more than a chance idea in the mind
of some practical person. These will be the
means of taking the penalty of "the sweat of
thy brow" from the whole race and of releasing
it from the very thing that has been the cause
of people measuring values to such a fine line,
trying in vain to find a perfect unit of value.
It seems from the way things are created
thnt with the idea of private ownership and of
liberty to act at will with one's own possessions, taken together with the fact that each
man has been created a being separate from
another, with a will and personal equation of
his own, we shall never be able to solve the
problem, under the present order, of providing
an ideal unit of value and of giving justice to
all. The new order has a bigger, grander plan;
and we can just begin to see the silver Lining
on the passing clouds.
To the average mind the things going on in
the ever-multiplying technical field are after all
but little known ; and the future that can be
Been is a vision for but only a few. It has
I,!

BY C.P. L ~ O M VM.
~ E.
,

reached a stage. a t the presedt time, when it

is po~sibleto build a machine to perfom n h o d
any conceivable operation that man can think
up. Il7c are only awaiting the removal of the
limitations incident to the old order, such as
greedy financial restrictions, cheap lahor
oppression, lack of time and willful indifference
to progress; or we would be having them now.

Machinery Eliminating Much Labor

E CAN credit the medium through whi&
the cidized nations have obtained their
knowledge to nothing less tl~ana machine. We
call it the irinting press, yet that thing h a
placed strongly before as an example of the
point to be brought ant; +., the "abadanm
of supply." Knowledge is now to be had a l m d
without cost. A days labor will
more
knovrledge than can be absorbed thoronghly i~
a month, and in respect to some thinge, in six
months. Abundance of supply wiU carry the
race over all the present problems of necessity,
which can be compared to buying the world'r
news for the one five-hundredth part of a dafr
work.
It was once regarded as impossible to build
a machine to do bookkeeping; it was thought
that this was one place where the human element could not be avoided. But it is now posaible for bookkeeping to be done by entirely automatic means, and is very nearly done so already.
it is, reports come in from the saleof a large manufacturing concern hand-writtm
Clerks take the reports and punch the.info&
tion on a machine d a r to an adding
keyboard, punching holes in relative positionr
on cards. These may represent the salesman's
ncunber, amount of sales, cash, credit, kinds of
goods, and any other classification that may be
desired. These cards may then be sorted out by '
a machine for any classification wanted, by an
electric contact passing over the holes faster
than one can see.
Thus the total sales of one traveler are o h
tained, his cash, his credits, his whole month'^
business. Then, again, the acccunts of all the
salesmen can be totaled under any of the classifications desired. It matters not how much segregating of coqplex accounts is wanted, the
machine can do it in enormous quantities in a
few minutes.

aa5

The automatic telephone is seen nearly everywhere; but the automatic switches, ~ i t htheir
complex network of ~viresand relays, are but
little known. Advantage is taken of the laws of
magnets, successive electric impulses, and the
laws of numbers. The successive impulses sent
in from the calling d i d excite certain magnets,
which raise certain switches and swing them
around to certain positions, throw other magnets in circuit for another set of impulses, and
other ratchets operate, and so on till the calling
instrument finds its own way through a maze
of connections and wires in from one to three
exchanges, till it gets to the instrument wanted.
When done it rings the bell, as weU as tells any
intruder that this phone is busy. All this is
done with speed and accnracy, and eliminates
the human element. Comparing the cost of
labor saved with the monthly cost of a phone,
the phone is almost a free gdt. He suffers most
who does not have one.
The Panama Canal would not have been completed in anything like the time it mas, but for
the automatic block signal system, which ran
trains hauling dirt through what to a stranger
appeared a veritable network of congestion, but
was order and simplicity to the engineer.
Old Unit u Complicated
BE Ford automobile is an example of what
automatic machinery can do in creating
an abundance of supplies. By old methods the
cost would be prohibitive. The number of people
employed, divided by the number of cars produced, figares out around ten to fourteen men
per Ford per day. Without these methods the
Ford would be no plaything for the small man
and his children.
In previous articles we find ourselves trying
to adapt rigid, stringent limitations of the confused old order to an idea and hope of the
future ideal, a unit of value that mill automatically straighten things out, so that oppression
and injustice cannot exist.
The unit of value we have dways had is
market price. I t embraced the labor factor, the
demand factor, also the supply, quality, and
graft factors. To tah-e out any one to use as
the unit of value seems only te be limiting ourselves the more, rather than obtaining a greater
measure of freedom.
Mi.& and honey were supplied in Adam's time

merely for the taking, with no thought of restriction of any Iiind. It would not be fair to
any that he be deprived by ally social limit of
obtaining the use of material things.
Humans all come short of one hundred percent in their several abilities. Our blaster said
in substance that a poor old invalid outcast has
just as inherent a birthright as the rich man's
son. Whether he be handicapped more than ailother has nothing to do with it. A babe in the
cradle is perfectly helpless, beyond its 01b-n control; yet who would deny it its material wants 1
The stupendous wealth or value that is created today by these modern methods, as me like
to call them, is being absorbed by capitalized
interests, all but the small amount diverted to
keep the workers in about the same old standard
of Living, instead of getting all the value they
create. Yet "the laborer is worthy of his hire."
This hope of a better condition will clear up
in a bright sunlight of realization, a bigger,
grander and better thing than we in our human
shortcomings ever imagined. Treasures are to
be yielded to mankind for the taking. If yon
want to drive on the public highmay, it is yofor the driving. Zf a trip to another city ia
wanted, the train is yours to go on; or it Will
go on without you.
It is soon time that the great waste or &tray,agance will be not in using the things set before
us but in allowing them to go unused, a5 power
of a waterfall that can be either used or let
run to waste.
Just compare such things as free roads, free
schools, a free ocean, and a free air; and we
have some idea of a taste of real freedom, in
things like clothing, food, housing, and all
things for needs and pleasure.
The truth is that the old age is now passing
and the new age is coming in, and we h m
simply to conform ourselves to it or be relegated to the rear. The new has other things to
think about. There will be labor; and it will
grow less in amount, less in severity, less undesirable, and less physical, but more mental and
more inventive, because the great Brchitwt will
have i t so, and it already is so, in a measure.
It cannot be any other way, if the race is to
be brought up to perfection, mentally and physically; for the Scriptures tell as that it will be,
and that this greatest of world events, the new
government, is nigh, even at the very doors.

Zhe Old Order to Give Wau

and who really believe the difference belongs
that
because the law and
A L L of our paat dieeussions have been builded
up along the lines to which we are accustomed; viz., the selfish ways of the supply-anddemand, get-them-or-they'll-get-yoa,
dog-eat-dog
system. Every man for himself is the only way
there is, under the present order of things.
.~t is alsotrue that financial fabric, with
its oppressive cycles of depression and boom,
handled by expert manipulation, will be removed
by knowledge on the part of the people. Indnstrial freedom is on everybody's tongue. It is
their desire ; and their desire they shall have,
and more than they ever dreamed of.
'%ye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love
him"; and who is there who will not love Him,
when he finds out what God is doing for him?
The old arrangement has served its time, has
outlived its usefulness, has been 'weighed in
the balances and found wanting' ; and even the
plutocrats themselves see "the handwriting on
the wall." But it is too late now. They had
centuries of time in which to make the world
safe for democracy, if they only would; but
they would not.
Getting down to values by recognizing that
fnndamentally they should be based upon their
usefulness in sustaining and bettering the haman life, we can see that finding a perfect unit
of value is an impossibility; for no one is able
to put a price on life itself. I n view of that
fact, how fundamentally wrong bartering in
life's necessities really becomes l
Mr. Kent's line of reasoning along the line of
standardizing the price, size, quality, and length
of a working day, is good. Then what discrep
anoies exist within standards, between a better,
against a poorer ton of coal o r cord of wood,
would be a s nothing to quibble over. Human
nature would gladly give all it amounts to, for
the th&d spirit of the idea
To one who can see, the enormous, boundless
possibilities in production by automatic machinery, the quantities that can be mn oat with
a labor charge hardly worth mentioning, are
inspiring indeed. Especially will this be true
when the machinery is run for the general use
of the people, instead of flowing into the hands
of a few who charge as much for the prodnot
aa it cost to produce it by the hand methods,

Own the chine.

This excessive charge does
give
much hlmediate return; and it does hmanib'
much harm, in losing that which it might o w wise have. The barrier of price, even though
not t?X~eSSive,is always 8 restriction to trade.
l'he labor wit has dl to do with getting
the supplies necessary to life. Labor is the
source of all wealth that ever was put to use;
for '%Y the sweat of
brow shalt thou earn
thy bread." It is the only basic, value-pr~dncing
unit. This is proven by the fact that when labor
stops, the production of supplies stop8 also.
Under the new government, the labor charge
will be a small factor; and, judging from our
unemployment figures and the non-producing
classes, it is fast getting small already. Then,
who shall share and how m u d , will be a matter
of little concern; for fie abmdanm of n ~ s s i move the P W of wantties

2 % ~
ScZfA?iwtin# by h o e
N THE other hand, labor is the most andependable element we have. I n a modern
factory the human element is always the thing
to be avoided, for this very reason. It will work
good or bad. One man works differently from
another. Some work fast and some slow. Some
produce work of good quality and some poor.
Some have missed their e g . Some spoil
materials, and some save. All vary from o m
day to the next.
At best, a general average is all that is Qured on, perhaps all that ever will be, so far aa
we know. Man was made by his Creator a free
moral agent, with an individuality, a will, all
his own. God did not want a machine. He made
iron for that. He wanted a man for his personality, his Likeness; and that is the way we h d
him. Indeed, the idea is f a r too grand in perpose for man to struggle always from hand to
month for a bare existence.
There never will be a really h e unit of value;
for there will not be a need for one. Things of
material nature will be in too great abundance.
Men have struggled for centuries for such a
thing, and with one; and we think they would
do well by now, in the dawning of the new age,
the new arrangement, to leave it behind as a
relic of the old order. The new is too big, lov-

able, elastic, and too provident; so why try for

a thing that has had centuries of time to prove
its shortcomings?
The
time-h0nored' supply-and-demand
system of using the "market" as the unit of
value is a hard old master. Labor unions,
tmsts, and associations of big bainass o d y get
matters farther from their true value, because
the unequal and variable human element taltes
advantage of some local monopoly to strain

values, each in its own favor, which may or may

not be with regard to the right.
Our great Teacher told us to think well and
to help each other, rather than force the supplyand-demand system of values. It belongs to the
old order and cannot belong a n w h e w else* me
new calls for equality and for canceLing W
nneveIlnees in every-da?r affairs, too much or
too little, value for value.

I am War By L. D. Clark
AM what I
and exist only because men
I will
not think nor reason. I am the strongest
am,

arbiter the world has ever known.

I am the court of last resort, yet I have never
settled anything. I have destroyed civilizations.
I have overthrown the mightiest of governments. I have humbled and destroyed their
monarchs and peoples. I can overthrow and
destroy the greatest institutions the mind of
man may conceive. I am the creator of hatreds.
At the sound of my voice all nations and
peoples tremble; yet when I call, they obey.
They come to me from the mountains, valleys,
and plains. I force them to leave all peaceful
pursuits. I instil suspicion and hatred in the
hearts of all men. I separate families, rob
wives of their beloved husbands, sons from
mother and father. I rob the maiden of her
betrothed. I send them all forth to mortal combat both on land and s e a

With fiendish glee I watch them in the rain,

the mud, and the filth. I place in their handa
instruments of death, and counsel them to ha#
no mercy. I make brooks and rivers red with
their blood. In my frenzy I scatter their braixu,
limbs, and pieces of flesh on the field of carnage,
and exult in the shrieks of the wounded snd
the groans of the dying.
I beckon to my companions, Pestilence d
Famine, and they follow me. I am the greateat
corrupter of morals that ever confronted man
I disrupt society. I rob men and women of their
faith in God and mankind. I make dupes of tht
churches, and hypocrites of their ministers w b
sanctify murder, and whose hands I redden
with the blood of brave men lying in unknowm
graves.
I scatter human wrecks, misery, poverty, and
death over the face of the earth.
I AM WAR.

A Fantasy, "The Victory Ball"

'(c-f

BY ~ z f m dN O Y ~

1920. by l'rd.rick k S t o k u Company. Thi. poun fr reprinted by s w c i a l prrmisslon from ''Collected Poem& VoL
Alfred Xoyes, through 8 rmcirl arrangement with the publishers.)

The cymbals crash, and the dancers walk.

With long silk stockings and arms of chalk,
Batterfty skirts and white breasts bnre
And shndows of dead men watching 'em t h e m

by

See, there is one child fresh from school.

Lenrning the ropes ns the 0111 hands rule.
God, how that dead boy gnpes and grins
As the tom-toms bang and the shlmmy b e d n r

Shadows of dead men stand by the wall.

Wtttching the fun of the Victory BnlL
Tney do not reproach, beciluse they know.
If they'nt forgotten, it's better so.

'"That did yon think we should and," said a shad+

\Vhen the lust shot echoed and peace was m n d e r
"Christ." laughed the tlesl~lessjaws of his friepd,
"1 thought they'd be praylng f o r world to mendm

Under the dancing feet are the gravea

Drizzle and motley, in lo~igbright waves,
Brushed by the palm-fronds, gnapple and whirl
m y e d matron and slim white girl.

"Pish," said a statesman standing near

"I'm glati they can busy thelr thoughts el.wwheml
\Ye mustn't reproach them. They're wrong,
m
"Ah," stlid the dead men, -80 wem weI"

Victory! Victory l On with the dance 1

Back to the jungle the new beasts prnnml
God, how the dead men grin by the wall,
Watching the fun of the Vlctory Ball 1

Longing for a "New" Day

ANY are looking forward with forebodings
M
of inlpending evil upon the present structure of society. The Lord God, who is nerer

without a witness in the earth, has a people who

are acquainted with the time in which we are
living. By the spirit of the Lor& they are informed through chronology of the import of
passing events. One of the tactics of Satan is
to anticipate the Lord's will respecting the
movements of His people, and then set abont to
thwart that movement; and failing in that he
puts into operation a counterfeit of it, the purpose being to bewilder those who have inquiring
minds and to confuse them.
'We are now living in that era called in the
Holy Scriptures 'the last days.' Before our eyes
a majestic panorama of prophetic history is
unfolding," says Robert J. MacLaughlin, in the
New York Anterica~t.
Then follow abont fourteen more inches of
his article. From the above one wodd think
Mr. MacLaughlin worthy of rapt attention. But
no, that was dl;for the remainder of the article was of far-fetched interpretations of Daniel
and Revelation. The first paragraph was the
bait, and the rest makes the head whirl, He
eaid that the World War was a type of hell,
and a figure of the end of the world; that the
Prussian army is represented by the beast of
e v e n heads and ten horns; that the German

beast is the dragon that was bound for a thousand years (in its quietness), but loosed with
its diabolical voice when it rushed upon helpless Belgiunl in 1914; that as no man can serve
two masters the holy spirit ascended into heaven
in 1914, and as a consequence the daily s a e d c e
mentioned by Daniel was taken away; that the
abomination which followed was the duration
of the war; and that the c'days" mentioned by
Daniel have had a literal fulfilment since 1914.
The he-goat was the United States, crossing
the Atlantic to stick the harpoon into German
autocracy!
Satan has his agents by the hundreds of thousands working overtime to keep his subjects in
the dark and to deceive if possible the very eleot.
How thankful we are that the light concerning
the truth of this great transition period is
shining resplendently upon the pathway of the
Christian, and how energetic we should be in
our efforts to dispel the gloom that overshadom
so-called Christendom ! What a privilege it ia f
The article referred to is so hashed up that
not one in ten thousand can comprehend it, and
not one in a million will believe it. The only
reason why Satan should open the columns of
the papers over which he haa control for such
rubbish is to confuse and to keep eomething
better from getting into print.

Slavery to Money
Y OBJECT in writing is to tell you about
an experience that I have had with Bill
Money. Some pears ago Bill and I entered a
partnership on a farm. I traded on my part,
and my b i d e r then said : T o n and Money are
partners; yon can work together. He lives back
East ;you can pay him six percent on his investment, do his part of the work, and keep his part
of the crop. Sign here, and there." That was
easy.
Well, the first year I managed to pay Money's
six percent, and that was all. The second year
I rented his part and mine to a third party. The
crop mras poor; the stock did badly; and by the
time I had paid Money's six percent I was six
percent behind, on my part. The third year I
worked the place, did well on stock, and paid
up even again.

BY A. H.Kent
At the end of five years, and during a business depression, my contract t o buy Money'.
part ran out. I learned from his agent, however, that by paying a bonus of a hundred and
seventy-five bones I could continue as Monep's
partner; or I could take what I had that was
not fast to the land, and move off. So t h i n e
continued. I could not earn means to bay his
part; and my part is useless to him,because he
gets the proceeds as it is.
I do not know whether Money ever paid any,
on his part. At times I have thought that I
bought the wrong part. But when the depression came, it seemed that I had bought it all,
but that Money held the deed. Then I thongl~t
that Money mas not treating me right as a partner; he did no work, paid for no improvementr
or taxes, and took no risk of depreciation

as0

GOLDEN AGE
I had never seen him, and even doubted the
banker's word that I had a partner, though I
was reminded annually. But alas l those were
only the false reasonings of a befuddled brain.
The truth is that Money never signed a contract
to be my partner, but I did to be his.
And who is Moneyl He is as old as the hills;
he is deaf and dumb ;he is kept in a brass cage
and made to work day and night; he has no
brains, and needs none. He is a slave to his
master, and such am I. I traded in. I signed
here and there. I became his buddy. Truly
Uoney and I are pals; for we work together
for Money's boss.
The Golden Rule means as nearly as possible
absolute justice between man and man, and cannot be lived up to in any other way. A man
may be ever so liberal to others, but he can
rightfully exact nothing but justice from any.
A just man desires nothing but justice from
any and is ready to deal justly with all. He
may go beyond justice on the giving side, but
the Golden Rule does not require it. "Love thy
neighbor as thyself," the one the same as the
other, is the rule of justice, equality.
To apply the Golden Rule to any enterprise
means to leave out interest and profit above
labor cost; these two factors are proven to be
unjust by the simple fact that it is impossible
under any arrangement that could be made for
all people to live from such gain. If their practices were just, could a just God have forbidden
His chosen nation Israel to practise usury and
profiteering among themselves?
Paying Interest a C m R i n g Swtem
HE only reason a railroad magnate or a-

one else can get a profit above an average

wage is that someone else is working for less or
paying more than labor cost for his railroad
service or living supplies. It is only those that
have the advantage of making their o m prices,
or having them satisfactorily made for them,
that can get a profit. If the railroad companies
can first fix their profit and then make their
labor schedule and rates to ensure that profit,
they have a cinch.
Are the people of these United States so
nearly "broke" that they must pay billions on
billions of dollars each year to private interests
for the use of what we call government money,
but which in reality is mostly coined free for

private individuals and can be eel-:rolled by

them? Big business corporations can loan
money anywhere in the world where they car.
get the highest rate of interest, and can exact
from our government almost any price in bonds
or paper for gold to keep up our legal reserves.
Is it not time that n-e .vere establishing a
national currency with its base in charge of the
general government instead of its being controlled by grafters? Let the government hold a
dollar's worth of gold, product, or other value
for every dollar in currency put into circulation
and deal clirectly with the people. Let the government pay out currency for product, and
product for currency, according to the needs of
the people. Let the government operate the
whole money and product exchange system
The railroads are of nest importance to
money and prices in exchanging products, and
should be operated in the interest of the people
and financed by the people or general government. Let the government take the roads over
a t their labor cost valuation less depreciation,
issue common stock or certifxates of indebtedness in payment, five percent of this paper to
be purchased or paid each year at the holder'r
option.
The purchase money should be raised by
direct tax; there ie no way the people c o d
pay for any improvement cheaper. This paper
would be an ideal savings investment, safer
than money in the bank; we doubt whether it
would ever go below par even if it were noninterest-bearing.
If there is such a thing as a national sin, and
if the United States Government is guilty, it
must be that of fostering the practice of interest
and profit. We know of no other sin that a
government openly advocates, practises, protects by law, goes to war about, fights over, and
then saddles the whole burden, war debt and dl,
on the working classes. If the people ever rim
up and cast aside governmental authority, it
will be on account of that burden.
Better a thousand times that men study the
remedy while 'they are sane, and use peaceful
means to right the wrongs; better that they
forgive the past and make amend tor the fu
than to enter the conquest during some time o
stress while blinded to reason by fresh i n j w
tices and fired by the spirit of revenge.
We have only to look a t the gorernmenb in

"t

Europe that were BO hastily established by the

factions that chanced to be on top when time
was called to end the World War, to see what
might have been gained for all classes by a
more careful consideration of individual rights.

It has already become evident that none of them

governments meet the reqairementa of the pes
ple, and that with all others they mast soon be
broken in pieces and consumed by the poof the kingdom of heaven

Some Signs of the Times

VERYTKWG falls in line just as eqected,
particularly at this time; the f a b g away
of the unjust stewards and the searching in
vain for new methods to restore " n o r m a l c ~by
the "bright minds" of the world.
Have you ever picked up a new magazine and
by reading it ascertained just how '%brilliant" is
the mind that conceived the idea? The article
usually begins something like this, "Something
m s be~ done," as if we did not know that already. It reminds us of the mob that stood and
yelled &eir heads off one day, "Great is Diana
of the Ephesians," until the w o r of the city
asked them why they were trying to drive home
fact that was already well known and taken
for granted by everybody.
Another thing that is driving one of the biggest nails into the c o b of the "unholy trinity"
ia this "unknown soldier" stuff. At a royal wedding over yonder, stress was laid upon the fact
that the bridal procession took great pains to
walk carefully around the grave where the
"unknown" lay.
It is almost certain that the poor fellow was
hungry and cold many times during his lifetime,
perhaps died from those very things ; and then
upon his poor remsins was heaped such magnificence as he perhaps little dreamed of while
he lived.
The newspapers fairly wept over thin item,
giving it much prominence in the rotogravure
eections; and front pages by the wholesale were
devoted to unholy bowed heads, standing before
r casket groaning with flowers and perhaps
draped with flags. It made an impression all
right-on
the unknown who is walking the
atreeta, begging for bread.
Does it not remind ae of the queen during the
French Revolution, saying, 'Why not give them
orke if bread is not to be hadt* Imagine the
date of mind, the effect produced npon a starving aoldier, when he beholds these piotures, and
n h articles telling of the swish of ailken

By Harriet J . Howor

akirts, satin trains, dainty laces, gold braided

uniforms, and the hazy atmosphere heavy with
perf m e .
Just a little more oil, yon know, on the W e n
of resentment probably already kindled in
hearts that are bursting with the injustice and
hypocrisy of it dl--flames that sometime may
incite to the tearing of the diamond tiara from
the remaining crowned heada of the world,
the trampling npon the silken train of milady%
gown, and the anatcbing of the jewels from the
proud beautfa bosom-jewels, d k s , braids, that
he has paid for with his blood, while hi6 mother,
meter, wife, and m e t h e a r t wear torn and t a t
tered garments.
Yes, yes! He will doubtless impress upon the
minds of those who are weeping crocodile tethat it is a square meal he wanta and a plrure to
deep, a gift of appreciation in the form of 8
good job, instead of his picture in the paper, a
monument or a costly funeral, when he is asleep
in death and b o w s not anything. Surely them
are symptoms of disease in the body politic
which will require a God-given cure.
Another symptom of disease, this time in the
the body ecclesiastic, is that of the elergpen
wearing off the varnish on their pulpits to
bring home the fact that women's skirts are too
short. Alas, what a waste of good effort! All
styles for the ooming season aeem to indicate
that the skirts map be long, very long indeed.
Isn't it fine, though, that for brief period#
the ministers do have something to pma&
about t What, oh, for what will the next pounding be 1 And what are all these reformers going
to do when a l l are reformed? By that time thety
will doubtless have to reform themlrelvea, or
the new government will have no use for theun.
"And," as the preacher used to my, W o r e I
stop I must tell yon one more thing." It is thir:
The Bible says that in the last days people
would be hiding in the caveg r& and m
o
m

tains. We know that these mean the worldly

organizations, lodges, etc.
Last winter almost every person in our town,
as well as in all the neighboring ones, joined the
Eastern Star, Jlasonic, and Modern Woodmen
of America. I t was almost amazing that a l l of
rr sudden nearly everyone began to wake up to
the fact that he wanted to belong to some
organization.
In olden times there never used to be a mad
rush, it seems, for becoming members ; that step

used to be taken with deliberation; bat last

winter it seemed as though almost everybody
joined something. To me this was one of the
big points : for it clearly indicates that the time
has come M-11enthey are hiding for f e w of what
is coming upon the earth.
To the readers of THEGOLDENAGEthese very
thoughts must have presented themselves at
various times, telling them that the Golden age
is near indeed; and we are all happy beyond
words that it is so.

The Uplifting of the Canadian Indians

K T " R living for a while in Northwestern
Canada and observing how the Indian is
treated, one cannot help wondering whether
civilization, after all, has done much for some
people. Here we have one continuous outrage
going on openly, and no one seema to interfere
or say anything about it.
First of all the Canadian Government gave
to the Hudson Bay Company two sections of
land in each township in parts of Alberta and
Saskatchewan. This seems to have been in
order to establish a market for their old army
rifles, which through the Hudson Bay Company
were traded to the Indians for furs. We said
"traded," but we have another name for it.
A man formerly with the Hudson Bay Company told me that in estimating the value of a
rifle the traders piled the furs as high as the
rifle, and then made an even eschangc. The
estimated value of the furs, mink, fox, marten,
etc., was abont $1,000. The value of the rifle
was about $3.00.
The Hudson Bay traders also had a way of
selling clothes to the Indians. The trader would
put on a new suit of clothes, and allow the
Indians to see him wearing it about the store.
Be !I-ould then sell it to an Indian for six or
seven times its actual value. The Indian would
think it a good suit of clothes because he had
seen the man in charge of the store wearing
it himself.
A11 through the Northwest we find these Hudson Bay posts, and it is very remarkable to note
that there is always a Roman Catholic church
in con~lcctionwith every post. On inquiring
how long these cl~urcheshave been here, we
are told: "Since about 1865."

BY J. Bogard

The Inclien in this cou~ltrybefore the white

man came here lived on meat and fish, and made
the fur into clothing. He had a good time in
that he did not have to work hard, which is
pleasing to the Indian.
But since 1865, when the Roman Catholia
Church baptized them into the "most holy faith''
and the Hudson Bay Company took over the
direction of the Indians' affairs for them, we
can truthfully say that they are in much worse
condition than before.
For instance, the Cree Indian has no profanity in his language; but as soon as the white
people got hold of him, profanity was the Ant
thing he learned. This reminds us of the Lord's
estimate of some of the missionary efforts of
His day. He said to the scribes and Pharisees
(Matthew 23: 15) : "Ye compass sea and land
to make one proselyte; and when he is made,
ye make him twofold more the child o f hell
[gehercm, destruction] than yourselves."
Before coming in contact with the white man
the Indian could live on meat and such thingo
as he coulcl procure for himself. But now sinhe has learned to use flour, beans, etc., he ha6
to have them; and the Hudson Bay Company
sees to it that he does not get them unless he
traps furs to pay for them. I t is no wonder that
under these conditions the Indian race is dying
out.

The Indian's bookkeeping is done for him by

the trader in such a way that no matter how
much he catches he can catch only enough furs
to make a bare living-just enough flot~rand
beans to permit him barely to exist. The Indians out of their present earnings are not a b h
to build houses or any suitable shelters for

themselves, and are exposed to the extreme cold

of minter and the hot sun, mosquitoes, variable
temperature, etc? of summer.
They have neither business nor farming of
their own; and since the hunting grounds they
once owned have been taken over by the white
man, they have no means of subsistence except
the trapping and fishingthey are able to do on
their Reservations.
The only alleviation of this pitiable condition
is that a small sum is given annually by the
Government, amounting to about $10.00 each.
As a result of these things the Indian gopalation of the Northwest is rapidly decreasing and
in a few more years, at the present rate, will
have' disappeared altogether.
It is noticeable that the Hudson Bay posts
and Catholio churches are always located in
strong buildings, this evidently being a precaution lest the Indians forget about hellfire, pmgatory, etc., and set out some day to square
matters with the priest and his associates.
In fact, they did do this in the year 1873, and
again in 1883at Frog Lake, where a large number of persons were killed. It is a significant
fact that in these uprisings they went after the
priests first, and that the others were killed in
attempting to defend these and their institutions.
What I would like to know is : Why was the
Catholic Church so anxious to convert the Indians,and afterwards see them taken advantage
of, unless they expected to share in the profits?
There is a yearly pilgrimage of the faithful
to the Mission at Lake S t Anne, sixty miles
west of Edmonton, in Alberta Those who go
on there pilgrimages are mostly half-breeds,
etc., the full-blooded Indians having gone farther back as civilization approaches.
The priests take the Indians down into the
water; and this is claimed to heal all manner
of diseases. ZlCany crutches, canes, etc., are exhibited which, it is claimed, were wed by those
who were healed. However, I have never seen
any of them healed or any who claimed to have
used any of the crutches which are exhibited.
After going down into the water the priest
wlls each of the faithful. a bottle of holy water
for $LOO. It is ordinary water upon which the
priest hae pronounced a blessing, but which it
ia chimed d
l cure all kinds of ailments, bring
prosperity, etc.
One man who had a cancer went to the priest

to be healed. The priest took him donn into the

water, and pronounced the benedictions on him,
and then received for his services $200. The
man thought that he felt better, and a short
time afterward went back for another treatment, which he received, and parted with another $200. A few weeks later he died, leaving
his wife penniless and without any means of
support, the priest having taken all the money
he had for the holy water treatments.
At Faliere, Alberta, 300 miles northwest of
Edmonton, there is a brick Catholic church. It
is the only brick building within 300 miles in
that part of the country, and cost quite a lot of
money. Nearly all the farms in that vicinity
are mortgaged $300 or $400 each to pay for the
church. And since farm products are bringing
so small a price that the farmers are not able
to pay this money, presumably the next thing
will be that the farma will be sold to satisfy
these mortgages.
While the Indiana have been continually
driven farther north and the white people have
taken their land, the people that have the farms
are in a bad predicament, also. Prices are so
low that it is impossible to sell anything at rr
profit. The nearest city in this locality is Edmonton, about 300 miles away ;and freight raterr
are so high that it is not profitable to ahip
much of the produce to market.
In the Spirit River municipality, having a p o p
dation of about 1,500, two hundred farms were
sold for taxes in the month of November, 1923.
Nearly all of the population would be glad
to leave if they had the money to get away, but
the majority are nnable to do this. Some who
came here a few years ago with as much as
$20,000 cannot get enough money to pay their
railway fare to some other place.
The only ones that seem to have any money
are the priests and the Hudson Bay Company.
These seem to be quite prosperous.
I am glad to know that we are in the time
when the Lord's kingdom is being estabiiahed
in the earth, and that it will bring peace and
justice to all. I n Daniel 2: 44 it is stated: 'Tn
the days of these khgs shall the God of heaven
set up a kingdom, which shall never be d e
stroyed: and the kingdom Mnot be left to
other people, but it shall break in pieces and
consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
for ever." It will bring justice to all and give

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In Isaioll 11:4 it i- .*tated that "with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove
with equity for tlie meek of the earth." I rejoice that the Indian and all other downtrodden

Keeping Germans Out of Ceylon By L. H.DeKretser (Ceylon)

LTIIOUGH five years have elapsed since

the great World War and the signing of

the Treaty of Peace, the old se~ltimeiitsand
feelings of mutual suspicion, distrust, selfishness and hatred are still entertained by the
opposing parties towards each other. Many a
wise, disinterested person openly declares that
commercial rivalry and jealousy were the chief
causes of the great war. The truthfulness of
this statement is apparent in the laws, rules,
and reaqhtions which have already been passed
and .rvh:ch 2re still being enacted from time to
time by all the parties to the great conflict in
restraint of each other's trade.
act in this unbecoming
Truly the nations
manner little realize that they are marching to
Armageddon and creating the very elements of
discord and strife mhich will hasten their o m
clownfall and pave the way for the establishment of Messiah's kingdom, which shall be the
desire of all nations.
Even in Ceylon, which is thousands of miles
away from the actual scene where many of the
bloody conflicts of the great World War were
fought, a legislative enactment was passed not
long ago to lteep the Germans out of tlie colony
for another year. Herewith a few "gems" from
the speeches of those who took part in the debate relative to the said legislative enactment
in the Legislative Coul~cilof Ceylon :
. The Honorable The Attorney-General of Ceylon in introducing the measure said that the law
relating to the landing in Ceylon of former
enemy aliens or any other nationality was contained in Ordinance 19 of 1919, the principal
ordinance and the amending ordinances. The
object of the motion was for the purpose of
cstending the operation of the principle of the
ordinances for a further period of one year,
from August 23rd, 1323. He next gave the defi-'
~litioliof enemy alien; namely, the citizen or
subject of a state with which His Jlajesty the
King had been at war till 1918.

and oppressed people will be lifted up and

blessed under Messiah's kingdom and will have
the opportunity to gain the peace and happiness
which all desire; and I rejoice also that all
oppressors shall be destroy&'

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That spread a net which covered a wide area.

There was reason to believe that Gennan subjects in many parts of the British Empire n-em
welcomed as traders or as residents, but that
they used such opportunities to work against
the government which as extending its hospitality. In some places the restriction might be
limited, but the Government was of the opinion
that restriction should be continued in Ceylon,
The restriction was continued in India till August 31,1926. Here they could extend the period
for one year, and one authoritative pronouncement made in a communique by the Indian Government was worth following; for it was necessary that conditions required the extension of
the period of restriction.

Jealousy among Nations

EIE Hon. Mr. E. IT.Perera, an elected member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon, in
rising to oppose the motion said that he would
ask the house to reject it as being unstatesmanlike and unnecessary and against the best interests of this country.
The presence of enemy aliens in England was
a grave peril, whereas the question of the exclnsion of enemy aliens in Ceylon was inspired by
the inexplicable nerve cells. First of all he
wished to draw the attention of the House to the
Imperial Act of 1910, upon which their original
Act No. 19 of 1919 had been based, showing how
England burned with resentment at the serioua
danger of Germans entering into her trades,
and how differently in the outposts of the Empire that question had been treated.
Three years later, in 1922, the British A d
expired, and former enemy alieps were now free
to trade and free to go about and to settle in
England. But in Ceylon the Attorney-General
raised an a r - w e n t which, with due deference
to his honorable friend, he would say was an
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strongly in the opinion of the Gorernment with
regard to the esclusion of the ene'my aliens was
t.he opinion of the Chamber of Commerce, that
narrow chamber wit.h a big C, which asserted
the voice of a small and narrow ring of traders
with regard to the produce of Ceylon, such as
copra, rubber, etc.
The Hon. Mr. C. W. TT'. Kannangara, an
elected member of the Legislative Co-mcil, said
that he thought that the permanent population
of this island were having a ha-rder time as a
result of their former enemies being shut out
and trade narrowed down. Since England had
accepted them, why should they shut them oat T

If prosperity was to return, there must be free

trade. Were their ex-enemy aliens ahvayu to
h a ~ ethe brand of Cain on them? Were theO
going to be lepers year after yeart I f their exenemy aliens were to be shut out, trade and
prosperity would never return.
His Excellency the Governor of Ceylon,
William Manning, in the course of his speech
in support of the motion said : "There are very
few families in the British Isles vho did not
suffer as a result of the Great War. There are
mnxy fathers Ancl mothers today who still burn
\ritli resentment, and though that law has been
passed I can assure the Honorable Nemberr
that the resentment is still there."

Big Business on the Rack

ocation of Ali B P .and
~ his forty thieves
TH"
has been discovered. I t is at Washington.

It is smeared with oil from top to bottom. Really, we have no heart to discuss the matter. It
is too sickening. But an atmosphere of perjury,
bribery, lying, deception, crookednes?, and pers
men in public life In that city
fidy e x i ~ t among
which makes it in the eyes of decent men a
modern Sodom or ffomorrha
The Department of the Interior is famous for
its sundry and various surrenders of the rights
of the American people to the shameless graftera that go to make up millionaires. When exSenator Fall, of New Mexico, was placed in the
cabinet of President Harding that gentleman
knew perfectly well that Fall would do nothing
to care for the interests of the h e r i c a n people in that important position. Fall's attitude
toward the poor but honest Indians of New
Mexico, heretofore ventilated in these columns,
would be enough to show that he is not concerned about common people; millionaires are
more to his liking.
Well1 President Harding made Fall Secretary of the Interior. The next atep was that
Secretary of the Navy, Denby, turned over the
oil reaerves of the country to his tender care.
And did he care for them? Yon bet he did 1
He cared for them so well that the Sinclair Oil
Company, to which he immediately, and privately, leased the Teapot Dome, in Wyoming,
made $3'2,000,000 in a fern weeks in the increase
in the price of its stock ; and Harry F. Sinclair,
its president, declares that the Dome is worth

$100,000,000. Out of the 26,000,000 b a r d in

the Dome the United States is to get 1,600,000
as its share.
Was this of any benefit to Mr. Fall? Oh1
not to speak of. Mr. Sinclair gave his ran&
foreman $68,000, probably Because he admired
the cut of his whiskers; and, although Mr. Fall
had been unable to pay his taxes for eight yeam
previous, he suddenly blossomed out with fandl
enough to pay $124,500 on his ranch, $3,000 for
prize Hereford bulls, and similar prices for
fancy cows and horses, not to speak of $50,000
for a hydro-electric plant on the premises.
Moreover, it seems that President Coolidge
and Attorney General Daugherty are also involved in this scandal; for although many of
the facts about Fall have been known to the
public for montha, they did nothing until a
sudden movement by two sons of Theodore
Roosevelt precipitated matters.
When Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., voted with
certain brainless Americans at Albany to throw
out of their seats merely because they were
Socialists, the five Socialists who had been duly
elected to the legislature of New Pork Stab,
we thought his political race was run;but ha
has redeemed himself. He is Assistant %emtary of the Navy.
It aeems that his younger brother, &chi@
Roosevelt, mas until recently employed by the
Sinclair Oil Company. He learned of the
$68,000 check and told Theodore, Jr. The latter
advised him to resign immediately and to tell
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mittee. He did so; and as a result the New
President Coolidge, realizing that he is now
in very bad, because he \vas a member of PresiYork Journal says:
dent Harding's Fall-Daugherty-Denby cabii~et,
"No one in Washington can remember a public inand
therefore must have known a great deal of
vestigation which has been characterized by so much
what
was being done with the oil reserves, sudlfing aa this one. The record is a maze of contradicdenly
by a midnight Saturday phone call mantions as to date?, facts, conversations, agreements, transaged to get it into the papers for Suliday that
actions and motives.
"Involved in these inconsisknciee are the word and he was about to make an executive investigathe reputations of wme of the men higheat in the tion. This was on his certain knowledge tllat
countrp's public life and in its business leadership. the Senate itself would demand the cancellation
Most of the pending mysteries are going to be solved, of the oil leases on the following Monday.
end in their solution, one may or the other, the country
At last account Senator Fall was in I V d will be treated to an unexampled revelation of graft, ington, too sick to testify. Sinclair was in Vercorruption, bribery and faithlewncss to public and pri- sailles, too sick to come back and face the musio;
vate trust."
and Daugherty went to Florida, sick.
As soon & Sinclair got word of what was
There is a clamor a t Washington that Denby
coming he beat it for Europe, not taking time and Daugherty should resign. It is a mystery
to enter his name on the boat list as one of the why they now remain in office. Indeed, Presipassengers. He and his wife have gone to Ver- dent Coolidge's own position is far from enviaillea (what a place and what memories!) to able. The Government has just decided that it
rest and to get away from reporters. He is needs $400,000 to make the White House safe
reported to be ill. He is worth perhaps a h m - for the occupancy of President Coolidge.
dred million dollars. Pictures of him indicate
Senator Fall a t one time stated that the
an exceedingly cunning, crafty, cruel character. $100,000, which it was known that he had reHe may be a saint, but he does not look it.
ceived from some source, had come from EdThe worst of it is that there is no law under ward McLean. Senator Walsh, of Montana,
which Fall could have leased these properties went to Florida to see him and found, Arst, that
to Sindair. He just did it. That was all!
McLean did not have $100,000 to his name; and,
As soon aa young Roosevelt had "spilled the second, that he did write the checks, but that
beans," others besides Sinclair began to get they were torn up and never used.
Oh, what is the use7 Thy kingdom come1
anxiom ; and finally another hundred-timesmillionaire, Edward Doheny, of the great Cali- We cannot trust anybody now but the Lord.
fornia oil interests, after spending h e l v e days
wildly telephoning and telegraphing around the Mr. Pagne'a Statement
country in search of Mr. Fall, at length located
EOFICE & m y
PA^, eastern campaign manhim at New Orleans, went there and had a conager for Senator Hiram Johnson, has iaference with him,and then m e on to Washing- sued a statement on this subject which ia highly
ton and admitted that he also had loaned Fall illuminating :
$100,000 in cash.
"The Teapot Dome scandal has formed the only
This loan, you understand, was just a per- course for the President to pursue. The only deosnt
aonal loan to an old friend! That is all! Fall thing for him to do is to withdraw his name M r amcalled him up on the phone and asked for it; didate. He sat in the cabinet meeting with Mr. Fall,
and within a day or two Doheny's son took the Mr. Denby and Mr. Daugherty, when the corrupt oil
old family satchel, and put $100,000 in cash leases were put over on the American people.
"He had a double reaponaibility in that he @dsd
into it and took it down to Mr. Fall. Mr.
over the Senate when, in April, 1922, charger w m
Doheny cannot remember why he sent the made
that these leases were ~uspiciousand a committa,
young man with a satchel instead of sencling appointed
to investigats them.
Mr. Fall a check. Re just did it. That is all!
"He more than any other member of President HardThey are all, all honorable men!
ing's cabinet, excepting, of course, Fall, Denby and
Of course Fall did for Doheny just what he Daugherty, had called to his attention the frot thrt
did for Sinclair, and Dohenfa concern has mmething was wrong. It W M to him that S
m
made untold millions out of the California oil Fall addressed hi# le* in April, 1998, with all tbr
specioua argumenb that are now p r o m to be falsa
depoaits whiah Fall illegally: leased to them.

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"For seventeen months, from April. 1922, to August,

1923, the invc-tigating committee was trying to find
evidence of the crime; and Mr. Coolidge, who as chairman of the Senate had heard the original charges, and
.a a meniber of the cabinet was associated with those
that were responsible for it, made not a single move ?a
m i s t in uncovering what almost daily was referred to
in the public press as a great national scandal.
WIn August, 1923, Mr. Coolidge became President of
the United State.. He immediately appointed Mr. Denby Secretary of the Xavy and Mr. Daugherty to the
Attorney Generalship and would unquestionably have
appointed hh. Fall if that gentleman had not already
retired. Mr. Coolidge's first act as President was to
appoint as his secretary C. Bascom Slemp, a gentleman
who on the floor of Congress had been charged on
December 14, 1923, with having demanded and colleded
money for postoffice appointments.
'51December, 1923, whm the whole country was
beginning to understand the enormity of the crime that

had been committed, this same C. Bascam a m p

to Florida and for three u-eeks was the guest of Mr.
Edward McLean, along with Mr. Fall, during which
time a new alibi was arranged for Mr. Fall. TOsdd fa
the insolence of this particular offenee a atatemait ma
given out, on Ur. Slemp's return from Florida, tM ia
order to how how far the administration was back ad
Fall, the President waa thinkkg of appointing Fall C
the ambassadorship of Mexico.
"The particularly dastardly part of this whole terrible
atlair is the attempt of the Coolidge managers to chargo
it solely against President Harding, a dead man. Aa 8
presiding officer of the Senate, where the Grst charge8
were made, and as a member of the cabinet with&
portfolio, Ur. Coolidge had opportunities of mming
this scandal that President Harding never had. In
honor, decency and gratitude to the Republican
which for twenty yeare has provided bim with pPhl#
office, Mr. Coolidge &odd give up hie mdcavar
force himself on a d e r i n g party."

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Later Information Regarding the 1917 Dollar Bill

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"You can rest assured that this paper m ~ e m 9ob tb

HE Treasury Department is sending out the
United States does not bear upon its face or back say
following form letter :

"You are advised that the plate from which these

notes are printed waa designed and engraved by the
Columbia Bank Note Company of New York and waa
need from 1869 to 1900 in the production of such notea.
From 1900 to 1916 the printing of these notes waa susp d e d . In the latter part of 1916 the demand for mall
denominations of currency was so urgent that the Secretary of the Treasury, exercising the option conferred by
the A& of March 4, 1907, authorized the isme of one
and two dollar United States notes in accordance with
the provisions of that Act. It wad deemed advisable in
the preparation of the plates for the purpose to continue
the use of plates that had been satisfactory from 1869
to 1900; and the only change made was in the printed
words 'Series of 1917' substituted for 'Series of 1880.'
"The foregoing history of the plates from which the
one dollar United States notes, Series of 1917, are
printed, c o m ~ l c t e lrefutes
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the report recently circnlated through the columns of a sensational newspaper
in which it was asserted that emplogds of the Bureau of
Engraving m d Printing in 1917 had surreptitiously
placed the papal crown upon the p!atrs from whwh the
dollar United States notes, Series of 1917, were struck.
'These are distinguishing marks used generally in
the preparation of plates from which money is to be
printed in order that from a men glance of the eye the
print of the genuine can be set apart from the counterfeit. Perhaps, the mark referred to as a cro~sis a distinguibhing
mark for such purpers
and not intended
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picture, portrait or design that is sectarian in chmack.*

Another washington version of the srrme

matter is set forth in the columns of the Indianapolis Times as follows:
'The design in the upper left corner of the 1911
$1 bill does not repre-t
mY particular person-Pope or any one else. It merely a coincidence tht
it bears the resemblance of a human h@. It
in
reality the petals of a flower! This design
fa
since 1863.
.'The 'cross' on the letter 'E' in the word 'ond aa
the reverse side of the blll is an artistic touch by tho
engraver and has no significance.
"The oficial of the treasury who b d control 4
engraving money in 1917 was George Rose. ~ 7 do
8 nat
h o w to which church he belonged, but he was a Pro*
tant. The story that somebody was discharged or mt to
prison, as a result of this particuh design, ia
idle

w e do not know which story to believe, the

16G3 story or the 1869 story, or whether both
alike are false. We hope that neither one of
these statements was prepared by anybody that
had
to do with
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dence in somethi?lg that comes from mashi-ton.

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When God Was Alone

"Prom awrlasting to werlasting, thou art God." (Psalm 90 :3) '"I am Jehovah, that h my name: and mj( glory
I not give to another." (Isaiah 49: 8 ) "To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are dl thhga"
( I Corinthians 8: 6 ) "Hear, 0 ISI-asl: Ths Lmd our God h one-Jehovah."-Deuter01~)m~ 6: 4.

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and other scriptures tell us of a personal God, the Father or Life-Giver of all,
the Great One who inhabiteth eternity. St. Paul
declares that to the heathen "there be gods many
and lords many, but to us there is but one God,
the Father," and one appointed Agent of His in
dealing with humanity--one Lord Jesus Christ
-"and that every tongue should confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father."-Philippians
2 :11.
The Scriptures tell us of "the beginning of
the creation of God." Hence there was a time
before that beginning of creation when Jehovah
God was alone, He "that inhabiteth eternity."
With Him was not even the great Michael, the
great Messiah, whom He hath so highly honored and wllom He declares He will still further honor throughout a glorious eternity. Our
Lord was not with the Father before the beginning of creation; for He Himself was "the
beginning of the creation of Bod: "the &stborn
of every creature." (Revelation 3 :14; Colossians 1:15) He was the fist expression or manifestation of the divine attributes.--John 1:18.
This mighty God, Jehovah, self-centered, selfcontained, is ours, the same yesterday, today,
and forever. He changes not.

Divine Attribute8 Glorious

VERY attribute of the divine character was
the same millions of years ago that it is

today; but that character was unrevealed. Every step of creation has tended to display the
d i ~ i n echaracter more and more, and each s u b
cessive step and development of creation has
brought forth new creatures capable of comprehending the Eternal One. We deem it not unreasonable to assume that Jehovah's creative
power will continue to be exercised throughout
a l l coming time.
Astronomical photography now reveals nearly 375,000,000 suns, around which circle systems
such as the one which circles around our sun,
and of \vhich our earth is a part. We deem it
not anreasoriable to assnme, from the Scriptures, that tlie great work of ordering all these
hundreds of itiillions of planets stretches forward into eternity, and that the work of divine

grace, begun on the planet Earth, will be continued throughout the universe, not only in conjunction with the planetary systems we can &
cern, but probably with millions of planetary
systems too far removed from us to be d b
cerned even by photography.
Doubtless divine methods in connection with
other .rvorlds and their inhabitants d l display
the manifold visdom of God. For instance, We
understand the Bible to indicate that while the
permission of evil in the earth mas wise, it loill
not necessarily be wise nor expedient for any
reason to permit a similar reign of sin aad
death in any other of the millions of world^, io
connection with their ordering or development
and their peopling with glorious creatures who
will show forth the praises of the great Creator
without passing through experiences with ah
and death such as have been permitted in connection with the humanity of earth.

The Permission of Eoil

AN we not see a broad reason for the pemission of evil on the earth-for the permission of the reign of sin and death, which for
six thousand years has apparently disgraoed
the Creator, degraded humanity, astonished tb,
angels, and constituted our race a groaning ere.
ation? Only when we discern that Messhh'~
kingdom will surely bring order out of this coap
fusion, do we begin to get the proper foam upon
our subject and realize something of the gx'eatness of our God.
From the standpoint of the completion of the
divine purposes in connection with humanity,
and from that standpoint alone, can we see ill*
trated divine wisdom, justice, love, and pol-r.
The primary lesson was justice-that sin brine,
suffering and eventually death.
The second lesson was that of divine c o m p w
sion, sympathy, love. This lesson was d
fested in the sending of the Redeemer and in
His subsequent reward of exaltation, and in
His gathering of an "electJ church to be Hi8
associates in glory and in the blessing of ha
redeemed race. The reign of glory, the wign
of Messiah soon to be introduced, will lift up
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raclation and death, and give to each and all the
fullest opportunity to return to human perfection and to divine favor and everlasting life.
In all that r o r k of human restitution, which
will include the awakening of mankind from
the sleep of death, the one great lesson will be
the greatness of the divine power which will be
exercised througli IJessiali, the Godlike One, the
Prince of Life, "the Prince of Glory," the Redeemer, the Regenerator of Adam and his race.
And finally, from the standpoint of the completion of Jehonih's great purposes and dealings with man, will stand revealed the foreknowledge and ~risdomof God, who h e w the
end from the beginning and who foresaw how
even the perlnission of a reign of sin and death
could be made eventually to work oat to His
on-n glory and to the blessing and instruction
@f Iiis creatures on both the human and the
angelic planes. Then will be revealed to all the
glorious character of their Creator and the
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qualities of the divine character which
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w e have just considered (wisdom, justice,
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love, and power) belonged to our Creator in the

great eternity preceding creation. But there
was no one at that time to appreciate God. It
requires a full view of the perfected plan of the
ages to make known to any and to all the glory
of the Lord. As we have just seen, thus far the
secret of the Lord and the glories of His character are known only to His "sons," begotten of
His holy spirit. But the time nears when "the
earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the
glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea"
St. Paul assures us that every feature of the
divine plan which we see in process of execution
was known to Jehovah from before the foundation of the world. He declares that these tliings
God purposed in Himself before the foundation
of the world. . The creative processes, which
have been operating for thousa~idsof years,
were all surely elaborated in the mind of Jehovah before the creative work began. In that
purpose angels had a part-of how many grades
we may not surely know, but they are variously
designated in the Holy Scriptures as "angels,
principalities and powers." Later came the creation of man, "a little lower than the angelsJJ

and cro~vl~cd
with earthly hoqor, dignity and
power, in the image and Lib-e~l~ss
of lcs Creator.
These creations varied not in degrees of perfection and imperfection. E a c h was perfect on
its own plane. Each intelligent creature was r
free moral agent; and hence, whether on the
angelic or human plane, was created in the likeness of God, unblemished but with different
capacities and abilities. Almighty God, i1;finite
in n7isdoi11, justice, loye, and power, purposed
the orderly exercise of His infinite attribute8
as a great Father desirous of giving Iife and
happiness to 15s creatures.
These intelligent ones were designated "sons
of God" so long as they maintained their attitude of perfect loyalty to Him, their Creator
and Father. Not only was it the divine intention thus to give pleasure to e o n s of creatures to be created, but it mas also the divine
will to manifest to His creatures His own greatness and the perfection of His o m goodness,
that they might enjoy Him and He enjoy them
everlastingly.
We are not to understand that Almighty ood
was lonely in that great eternity before creation
begaa. On the contrary, human loneliness t
largely because of human deficiency. What we
lack we seek for in others. But the great Jehovah laclied nothing; He was complete in Himself ; He needed not companionship to complete
or to supplement His happiness. It was His
pleasure to create, that His creatures might
have joy by reflecting as a whole His divine
qualities implanted in their constitutions.
The wreck of the human race produced by
sin He well foreknewv. Nor did this wrecking of
human hopes defeat, nor was it in dnnger of
defeating, the divine purpose. It merely demonstrates to angels and to men the graces of
the divine character and more fully shorn-s unto
all the qualities of God proper to he appreciated and copied.

The Seven-Sealed Scroll

HEN God would illustrate to us His own
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great personality, when He would show
to His creatures how He is working all thinaccording to the counsel of His o m will, He
pictured it symbolicaIly in the Book of Revelation. In that vision the throne of the Eternal
One is graphically portrayed as the seat of
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with angels as ministering spirits. Then is described a scroll in the right hand of Jehovah,
in divine power and keeping. That scroll, written inside and outside, was "sealed with seven
seals," representing the complete secrecy of the
divine purposes related in that scroll. From
before the foundation of the world it had been
in the hand (in the power) of the great Eternal
One. He had given hints respecting it and had
caused it to be symbolized in the Law and to
some extent to be described by the prophets.
But
it was a hidden mystery; for the
prophets understood not the things which they
wrote, nor could any understand them until the
Father's "due time," purposed in Himself.
Not onlywas the divine program thus sealed
and safely secreted, but it was the divine determination that i t should be given only to the One
who would demonstrate His worthiness to be
Jehovah's honored Agent for the carrying out
of those PupOsee predestinated before the
world was. To become the honored Agent, the
Bepresentative of Jehovah, to carry out the
divine parposes, shouu be given only to the
One who would demonstrate His worthiness to
be the great Messiah, the great Deliverer, the
great Prophet, Priest, Judge, King of Israel.
E g h as the Redeemer stood in the divine
counsels and fellowship before He came into
the world to be man's Redeemer, it was not then
granted even to Him to know all the mysteries
But by virtue of His
of the divine prophigh station, His perfection, His obedience, the
privilegewas givento Him firstto become
Redeemer at the cost of
hamiliation
and death; and then, if faithful in this redemp
tive a04 it should be His reward to be glorified, exalted to the divine nature, and to execute
the divine plan to its completioa First, he mmt
maliifest His devotion and loyalty to the Father
ere IIe could be trusted even with the howledge of the divine program.
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LL this is declared in the account. (Revelation 5) The p r o ~ l a a i o nw a
,1 0
is worthy to receive the scroll and to break its
seals and to execute the wonderful purpose:: of
God? None was found worthy! Finally, One
demonstrated His worthiness. Re left the courts
of glory, He humbled Rimnelf, He 'kae made

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flesh." More than this, being found in fashiou

as n man, He consecrated His dl to the doing

of the Father's will, even unto death, the death

says the Apostle,
of the cross. %erefore,"
"God also hath highly exalted him," and has
given Rim a standing, a rank, a title above all
others. (Philippians 2: 7-9) Jehovah commissioned Him to execute all the divine purposes
and handed over to Him the scroll with the
privilege of opening its seals and comprehending its message to the fnlL
In the symbolic picture John saw a freshly
slsin l m b at the same time that the sngelia
messenger declared that the Lion of the tribe
of Jndah had prevailed. Jesus proved b l f
worthy and therefore the privilege of understanding the things of the divine plan, and the
privikge of executing them, r i g h t f d ~
belon
to Elm* The lamb slain mpr-ented the Wo
of Jesus from the day He was thirty years of
age and made His consecration. There He became dead to self and t? the world. I n e n Be
5 n c c e s s f d ~finished t h s great contract He
cried on Calvav: "It is finished!"
This glorious Victor was then acknowledged
by God and by the holy angels to be the worthy
One to whom the Father would entrust the ex+
cution of every feahre of the divine p r o m :
'worthy is the Lamb that was slain to ~eaeim
Power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength,
and honor, and glory, and blessing? (Rev&
tion 5 :12) He has not yet completed His
work there and then entrusted to Him. !h@
Father glorified Him and set Him at His
riglit hand-the place of divine favor-when He
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had finished His demonstration of loyalty even
unto
As yet He
only begun His great
work.death.
me blessing
of has
the church
"the bride,
the
wife,,, is the firststep in the
program; and this
not
complete& ~ ~ 1 lowing it willcome the blessing of tho world, all
the families of the earth.
"To us there is one God," say8 the Apostle,
All wisdom and power are His. Recent eioatrical inventions assist us greatly in apprehending
His greatness. What man can do limitedly with
the telephone, wireless telegraphy, and radio
merely hint to us of the iufi~~ite
resources of the
Eternal One-from everlasting to everlasting,
God. But our knowledge of the divine jilstice
and love satisfies our hearts; our great Creator
becomes our Father in heaven.

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\\it11 Issue Number 60 we began runnlng Judge Itutherford's cew book.

T h e 14arp of COW. c l t b nrmmpnny*g pnsxiom, taklog the p l a u of both
Advanced and Juvenllc b ~ d eStudla wbleb have been hitherto publhhed.

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identical with that given by St. Matthew, likewise the testimony given by St. Marl;. St. John
also gives an accurate account of the resurrection of the Lord. We insert here the testimony
of each of tliese witnesses.
-"And when the sabbath was past, Mary
Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and
Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they
might come and anoint him. And very early in
the morning, the first day of the week, they came
unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And
they said among themselves, Who shall roll us
away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
And when they looked, they saw that the stone
was rolled away: for it was very great. And
entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young
man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long
white garment; and they were affrighted. And
he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek
Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is
risen; he is not here: behold the place where
they laid him. But go your way, tell his disciples
and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee:
theie shall ye see him, as he said unto yon."Nark 16: 1-7.
"''Nom upon the first day of the week, very
early in the morning, they came unto the sepulclire, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they
found the-stone rolled away form the sepulchre.
And they entered in, and found not the body of
the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they
were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two
men stood by then1 in shining garments: and as
they were afraid, and bowed d o h their faces
to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye
the living among the dead? He is not here, but
is risen : remember how he spalre unto you when
he was yet in Galilee, saying, The Son of man
must be deliyered into hands of sinful men, and
be crucified, and the tliird day rise again. And
they remembered his words, and returned from
the sepnlchre, and told all these things unto the
eleven, and to all the rest. It was Mary hfagdalene, and Joanna, and hlnry the mother of
'James, and other women that were with them,

which told these things unto the apostles."Luke 24 :1-10.

2'@"Thefirst day of the week cometh Xarp
Magdalene early, when it mas yet dark, nnto the
sepulchre, and seeth the stone talien away from
the sepulchre. Then she runneth, and cometh
to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom
Jesus loved, and saith unto them, Thcy have
taken away -the Lord ont of the sepulchre, and
we know not where they have laid him. Peter
therefore went forth, and that other disciple,
dnd came to the sepulclhre. So they ran both
together: and the other disciple did outran
Peter, and mule first to the sepulchre. And he,
stooping down, and looking in, saw the h e n
clothes lying; yet went he not ill. Then cometh
Simon Peter following him, and went into the
sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie, and
the napkin, t l a t mas about his head, not lying
with the h e n clotlies, but mapped together in
a place by itself. Then went in also that other
disciple, which came first to the sepnlchre, and
he saw, and believed"4ohn 20 :1-8.
'"Added to the testimony of these four witnesses is that of St. Paul, who had a miradoua
vieion of the Lord on his way to Damasaae.
Conceruing the resurrection of the dead the
A ~ o s t l elater testified: "For I delivered unto
you first of all that which I also received, how
that Christ died for our sins according to the
scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he
rose again the third day according to the
scriptures, and that he was seen of Cephaa,
then of thc twelve: after that, he was seen of
above five hundred brethren at once; of whom
the greater part r e m a i ~nnto this present, but
some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen
of James; then of all the apostles. And last of
all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of
due time."-1 Corinthians 15 :3-8..
QUESTlONS ON 'THE HARP O F GOD"
Compare the testimony given by St. Matthew, 8t.
Mark, St. Luke, and St. John ;and state whether M
is any real difference. 7 267-270.
V h a t did St. Paul say about the rasuneclim Q#
Jesus? 1271.

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LAEOBAND ECONOYICS
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. Erondcasting Items
TrnnkOceanic Efflcieucy
Racllo Sblp Service
TrnnbOeeanic Telephony
Freak TransrnIaaiou Items.
Rntilo nnd Land Vehlclea
Trancmikxion oi Pfcturea
Power Tmnsmigliou
Stntlc, L3ndiug, and Other Troubln
1111pruvementuIn Secrecy
IU~dloIn Gorernmenlul Use
k:ducntlon and the Presa
Itndio and Religfo~~
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SHAMITS
AND S u n a n m e (Poem)
A T l B~~
PHILO~OPH~
Professor James Wnrren Johnson's Letter
Excerpt from Mark Twnln's Wdtlngr
Jirtlge Rotherford's Letter
X~EPLY TO I n o n u r o ~(Pnrt
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S ~ ; D I EInS 'Tar H A ~ OP
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THEtionInternational
Bible Students Associa(L B. S. A), with main office at 124
Rolumbia Heights, Brooklyn, New Pork, for
some time has had in course of construction a
radio broadcasting station. It is installing tmo
sets of broadcasthig equipment, the smaller
radiating 500 watts, md now licensed as Class
A equipment to operate on 244meter wave
length, using the c a l l letters TWBR. The larger
set is expected t? be ready for operation in the
near future. It is believed from experiments
that there will be less interference on this wave
length than a higher one. The apparatus has
been tested for several nights; and reports in& a t e that listeners have heard very distinctly.
The masts for the antenna are constructed
of wood, which will eliminate much di5cdty
that would result from a steel tower's absorbing of electricity. The masts of this station are
200 feet high, and set 300 feet apart. Ur. Ralph
H. Leilier, radio engineer, ~villbe in charge of
the station Mr. L. T. Coben will be manager of
broadcasting.
The purpose of this station is entirely edncat i o n d I t \\dl
broadcast scientific news, news of
inventions, matters of political interest, musical
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programs, both instrumental and vocal, readings on diet, health, hygiene, etc., general reports of world news, Bible instruction, Bible
questions and answers, and featuring especially
Bible lectures by Judge Rutherford, the President of the Association, and a number of liis
gassociates, r h o for some time hare been icctur* - ers of Yho Internatio~lalBible S tudcn ts Association.

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cially Sunday evening, February 2 4 +Thep k
gram vill be put on between 8 :30 and 10:,aq
p.m.; and thereafter the broadcmting w ' , b
.each evening between those hours and on S*;
day afternoon betmeen 3 and 5 p. m. The o m - +
ing program will consist of vocal sol08 b 7 - m
Dorothy Coolie, by Professor John T. Bead.
of Chicago and by Nrs. Cora C. W e b a n of!
Boston, selections by the I. B. S. A. d e
quartet, duet by Messrs. F r a m and T.cRarollchL;
baritone solo by Mr. W.P. Uockridge,
mentd music, piano selections by Professor
Jackson, and a lecture by Judge Batherford.
This will be followed by a series of lednrm
Judge Rutherford, The QOLDBX Am
once each week will give a review of
This station d
lbe devoted entireiy to edueational instruction for the benefit of the publia
on matters of importance along the line above.
mentioned; and the Association will invite -7
educational institution that desire3 to broad&
matters of importance for the people to use ib
station from time to time. Those h a h g nrceiving sets, and desiring to listen in, Toill please ,
take note that the mave length is 244 meters.
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Information can be had by addressing Jbr. ' .,
A. R. G o u , Secretary, 124 Colnmbia Heights, ;
Brooldyn, N. Y,
-U of our readers are respectfully requested
after listening in to address a card or letter to I,.:4
Ri~ciioBroadcasting Station FWBB, 124 Colum-', j'
bin Heights, Brooldyn, N. Y., reporting on the
cficiency of this station and on how they receive
the message.

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neither is engaged in conunercinl Lusincss. \Vc
refer our renders to those wlro are m;lriul';tctaring these sets that you m y eorrespoud with

them directly. We give below the names of

firms ~ j l ~are
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1866 &hlon Lcair. a I V r l i ington dcntist, sent up 1;itcs froill two moun.bin peaka in Virginia t ~ v e ~ ~~ nt yi l cnpnrt,
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and
sent messages from acrids on the Iiitcs. During
tlle next four years hc had a little financial
sasistancle from friends; but Congress langhecl
2 at the proposal to give him $50,000 with mhicli
kto
develop his invention. He clied in 1886, nnI:
rewarded and unknown except by a fenr, but
confident that his discovery 11-ould one day be
of great value to the .race.
The father of -wireless, Signor Gsglieho
Marconi, is even nom less than fifty years of
age. In 1896, on his father's farm in Italy, he
sent his first signal for 100 yards. In July,
1898, he signalled twenty miles. I n 1901 his
rrignals crossed the Atlantic.
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The first broadcasting of music occurred in
the spring of 1909, from the top of the Metropolitan Opera House, at wllich time the great
tenor C a p o sang a portion of the opera
"Cavslleria Rnsticana" This was heard by sevd ships in the harbor. From 1910 to 1916
the only broadcasting done in the United States
;wss done in California
The Bell system transmitted speech bp wirefrom Arlington, Va., to Paris and to Honein the antnrrm. of 1915; bat the Bell people
have had so much to db to care for their great
and growing wire systems, and have such c o d dence in them, and such a good bowledge of
the difEdties of mireless work that they have
not pushed into the wireless field.
Broadcasting in a commercial
was begnn
by the Westinghouse Company at Newark, N. J.,
in the fdof 1920. In THEGo~mmAGENO. 69,
May 10, 1922, the leading article is a compreheSlaive review of the progress made in radio
np to that time. The progress since then has
been so rapid that me are constrained to present .another summary.
' It is believed that at this time there are in
the Uni%&States from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000,
homes which are equipped to receive radio mesaages; it is believed that there are at least
100,000 such homes in New Tork city alone.
,Bntennse co\ner the roofs. In other instances the
,antepnrs conqist of insulated mires dropped out
!of windows, or are arranged vithin t h npnrt~
:merits
in
a
great
variety
of
ways.
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I Many of the new apartments which are being
;wt'inNew Pork are being fitted with rrrclio
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o~dfi
t s, and o rnrlio opsrnta r is i~i.clinrgein earl

building. This operator does d l the tuning in

for tlre entire Iloruc. All tho residents have to
(lo is to press a. button to turn tlre musio on or
to shut it off. These apartments are sold or*
rented before completed.
In the suburbs it is 11ow dScnlt to sell prop-,
erty if there is anything around that tends to,
interfere with the radio connections. A gas
tank in tlie vicinity is very disturbing to a radio
set. I n full many an American home, perhapr
~everaltimes in n week, the neighbors come
the rugs are rolled up, and the guests dance to
music originating hundreds of miles away.

Broadcasting Items
S LATE as a year ago there were 607
licensed broadcasting stations in the United
States, of nrhich forty-four are vest of the
Rocky IIouatains. One of these, the WJZ broadcasting station at Newark, N. J., operated jointly by the Radio Corporation of h e r i c a and the
\Vestinghouse Company, is the pioneer. From.
the time it was first' opened, a t an i n s U t i o n
expense of $50,000, it has been giving free
nightly concerts, from 7: 00 p. m. to midnight,
at an annual expense of $50,000, receiving its
compensation in profits on sdes of radio apparatus.
With the pouring forth of 607 broadcasting
stations into the one medium, the ether, which
must be used by all, to say nothing of the 21,000
other sending-stations in the country, the Gov- '
ernment was forced in Nay,1923, to make allotments of wave lengths to many of the large
sthtions which ]lave heretofore operated on 360
o r 400 .meter wave lengths. The allotments
thus given were respectively 2 4 , 263, 273, 278,
380, 405, 411, 429, 435, 447, 455, 476, 484, 492,
and 546 meter w a e lengths for certain of these
large stations.
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There has been a general complaint of the
me of the radio for broadcasting baseball
scores, cheap humor, and phonograph rworda .
A grocer,in Des Moines has been naing it for
talking to his customers by radiophone, g!nig
them prices on staple goods and advertlung
special sales. Such usages for radio will prob
ably be jllterdiated soon, in the general intererh
of the public.
3fany interesting problems have arisen. Some
o\incrs of copyrighted songs haye protested .

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' protest, we WL
I t seems to as that the broadr BRITAXN the British
cog::
.. casters were right in their answer that hy IUpany has a monopoly of broadcasting, andL'
broadcasting the songs they mere giving them every person having a receiving set is sap ;
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1 an advertisement not otherrrise possible to be posed to be taxed for the ma. tenance of the
- obtained, and thus creating a demand for them. broadcasting program.
There are features- .
The possibility that a single broadasting pro- about this plan that are desirable. The ether is
gram may be duplicated at the same time over kept freer from a bedlam of conflicting waves.
. dl the country was shown in June, 1923, mheq
But reports indicate much difficulty in
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songs and addresses in Carncgie 13311, Xem ins out the plans. In April, 1923, there had,
been 122,946 licenses issued; but it was esti-. :
' York city, were broadcasted at the same mofrom stations in S e n York city, Schenec- mated that fully 200,000 persons had sets of
tady, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, all of these sta- their o m design or assembly, and could listen
tions being connected by direct telephone wires in if they desired. It is claimed that licenses with the stage. The address \~-hichPresident cannot be obtained for these pirate sets; also, ;
Harding was to have given a t San Francisco, that the government broadcasting news service .bat which was prevented by his death, was to contains too many society items and too little '
have been thus brosdcasted at the same instant real news.
in all parts of the United States.
Soutliport, England, has a *eless
theam,
Of the 885 Government broadcasting stations where the audience may listen in on concerts, the impcirtant ones include Arlington, V s , the news of the day, and other features which
,Washington, D. C., Great LaIres, IU., Omaha, are being broadcasted. A London organ-grinder
Neb., North Platte, Neb., Rock Springs, Wyo., gives a similar service in the open; the receivELko, Nev., Reno, Nev., and New Orleans, L a ing equipment has a loud speaker attachment,
These send out time signals, weather forecasts, malting it possible to hear everything received
when the device is standing 200 yards away.
market reports, and general news,
Six great radio stations reach aU parts of the
Newspapers, stores and other commercial
British
Empire; one each in England, C w d a ,
concerns maintain important stations at Boston,
Jamaica,
West Africa, India, and Australia
Medford Hillside, South Dnrtmonth, Springm
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wireless
instruments were fitst in- .
field, Bellows Falls, Providence, Montreal, New
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Darkest
africn
they brought terror to
York city, Troy, Rochester, Lockport, Buffalo,
Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, the natives, who supposed that the new instrp- / ,
Cinainnati, Charlotte, Atlanta, Louisville, In- ments, fitted as they were with searchlights, .
dianapolis, Detroit, Dearborn, Madison, Min- were a new b d of witchcraft by which the allneapolis, Davenport, Iowa City, Ames, Des h s e white men codd see and hear e v e m g .Moines, St.Louis, Jefferson City, Kansas City, that went on in the huts of the natives. They
Dallas, Fort JVorth, Los Angeles, Portland, and were calmed and made patriotic when they were
assured that the English used these magic . .
hundreds of other places.
powers only to learn about their enemies.
In the countries bcrdering on the Pacific
Ocean are 168 broadcuting stations, adjacent Radio Elsewhere Abroad
to or directly on its shores, twenty-one of ~11ich
RAiYCE, G ermany, ~ c a n d i n s r i aHolland,
~ : A ' . - M able t o send mesrag.a
across the Pacific.
Italp are all engaged in broadcasting.
h some places mountam tops are used as The and
French Government requires a license fee
broadcasting locations. The Brazilians have a from each receiving set, demands that dl interpowerful station fitted np on a mountain over- cepted messages be kept secret, and that operolooking Bio Janeiro. The Germans have tion of the set shall cease whenever the Governstretched their antcnnz b c t ~ r ~ ethe
n tops of ment so ordcrs.
k o mountains in thc narnrian Alps. Theso
Holland liss a station at I<ootvyi;, which is
mountain pcalrs are 6,000 fcct high, with al- onc of the ulost po\rc~.fulsending and receiving
moat perpendicular sides where they fncc each stations in tlie ~vorlil. It covers 720 acres, has
other. Thc power will be obtained from lke five ulasts 700 feet high, and was designed to
river beneath.
send and receive messages from Java, 7,500
.:against their being broadcasted-a

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miles away. It operates after snntlo\\n 011 a of tli!. ai+~ny.7'11~ IICIV iti\-r.ntioli follo~rsthe.
wave length of 8,400 meters 01- about fivc niiies. Eurlc!a~llclital principles of spr:c,cli ant1 music;:
There is direct radio cornrnmiicnlio~~both It is c.lni11i~d that this ns\v alphabet an'
ways Betwecn the Unitccl States and Grcnt he acl~t2.(i5 times faster [hall the Alorse co$5
Ilritain, Germany, France, Norway, Hawaii, irlrnitecl eigltty years ago.
Poland, H o l l ~ c l Italy,
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Sweden, Argentine, and
It 11as been fourlc1 possible to send 100 \\-ords.
Brazil. To reach Japan it i s nsuallp necessary per nliilnte ancl to opei-ate duplex, 11-llich means
to have the message relayed. The Gnitocl States sending and receiling a t the same time. It ia
maintains six radio stations in hiaslca; a d espectecl that tile tinlR nil1 come \vllen the radio'
there are important stations in the capitals of apparatns will be able to send and receive at,
Mexico, Honduras, .Nicaragua, Colombia, and the rate of n tliousnnd n-ords pPr n~inute.
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&o in the Cmld Zone.
171e metl~odby 1v11icli mess:~gcs a r e selit by
The most pomerful station in the ~ ~ * o risl dnt radio is as follon-5: Thep arc firyt written on a
Monte Gradern, near Bnenos A y r ~ s Argentine.
,
r:i:i.clli~lethat looks likc an ortlillary tgewriter.
It is of Gcrman design ancl manufactarc.. T l ~ c 'JlI~is1lti11c.Lnrrs a tnpo, a l l ~ l
con~r.l.ol8
installation covers 1,400 acres. Encli OT tho tell t l l ~ruc{io srntljllg app;lrntus n l y h a s pane.
towers is 800 feet I~igli.TIie combined length of turerl reel colltrols a player pinno. The s m e ,
the antenns is seven and one-half miles. The device has been used in sending radio messages
plant has a 10,000-mile radius, wit11 a wave from airplanes. These messages nro sent at
length of 23,000 meters, or about fifteen miles. sndi .l~igllspeeds that eavesdropping is Kell'
nigh i~npossibla;they can he received only on
h s - O c e a n i c Efficiency
high-speed r e c e i ~ ~ napparatus.
g
N T m conrsc of an address bcfore the New
;Yorli Electrical Society, Mr. David Snrno&
Radio S l z i ~Service
Vice President of tlie Radio Coq~orntion of
ROX the S m i Francisco n-irelesa ofEce.
America, in order to dcmo~istratethe efficiency
steamers to~vnrdChina and Australia baa*
of radio service, sent from the spealier's plat- been held for n distance of nearly 6,000 miiea,
form four mesmges to Europe asliing the qucs- c o ~ n ~ n u n i c a t direct
i ~ ~ g re,dnrly each night. Imtioa, "Llom is tlic ~ e i t l r e r ? "I n forty-five scc- agine the satisfaction to the passengers of being
onds 7;ingland rcportcd rainy; in fifty-five see- nl)le to commnt~icntea t any time with their
onds Nonray reported mild, overcast; in one loved ones tliousancls of miles m a y across thei
minntc and fifteen seconds France reported tracldess deep!
lovcly; and in tmo millutes n n d forty seconds
Tlre slriys h a r e great satisfcction in columnGermany reported ,gloomy and cold.
11icatil.lg\;-it11 each other. Instances are on recI n re,dnr practice lilessagrs filed in New orcl wherc concerts have been sent by nireless
York a t a stater1 tilne a r e delivcrerl in Enrope fro111 one ship to nnotllcr, 1%miles apart at'
r!
con~ v i t l ~ iabout
n
tv-o ~ ~ l i n u t cancl
s , rice versa. Tlie sea: nlso of n rndio clless g a ~ ~ lI~ct~veen
American troops a t Col~lei~z
011 the Rllinc: \-<ere tending tcu.111~
011 the cctealners TTcstern World
summoned by ratlio, and ill t\t-clvc minutes the a11t1A ; : ~ c r i c ~I'i,ic:ioii, u ~ i l i ltlrc stcnmers, one
reply came from the co~~llualidcr
that they were goi~ignorth aacl tllc other south, were twelve
litu~c?rcdniiles apart.
on their way.
-\tore thari a year ago thc president of the!
Within tsvo yenrs' time tllc Radio Corporanti
and T ~ l ~ ~ ' r :C(0111p8~~,
~rli
tion'oS,.An~crica,from its six tr;lnslniltil~gstg- ~ \ l ~ ~ c r i c Tclep!lo~lc
cut,
1171th
tio11s a t Marion, Nass., Roeliy Point, L. J., New from liis llornc i l l C o ~ l ~ ~ ~ c t iccr~~vcracrl
l3mnswic];, N. J., and Tucltcrton, Y, J., mas t l ~ ccn!?Caili of tile !:icz~nerAi~ericn,370 miles
handlhlg twenty-five to thirty percent of the out fl'i~lnSc\\- Y~rl;. The sentling n7as done
entire volume of telegraphic rncssngps 1)ctn-een from I)cnl Beacli, :'I. J.; the receiving was done
An~ericaAnd Europe. lfrc.ck-entl radio letter at J<lbcron, N. J. Thr: s\vitchloard \\-as in the
service to Europc is only six cc~itsn word.
7T;nlkcl.-Lisper~ar(lE~ulcli!ig in S e w TorL citp.
The effort to get a s mucll a s possible ont of Tlie scritling \Yas done ol-cr n I V ~ T - ~ : Ieilgth of
the expensive radio instailatio~~s
has rcsnltrcl in 420 ~ n c t c r s ,n1i11 tile receiviug \!-as over a wave
an improvccl t ~ l e ~ ~ a pnlpllnlwt,
l ~ i c the i ~ ~ v c n t i o n1e11::li of ?,SO ~r!f:tcr~.
Tlicrc arc 1101~stations in Wen. Jerscy where
of General Georgc 0. Scluicr, chief signal officer

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'a Merent two-way conversation can be main- yards of where the Citv
tained with each of three ships at sea at the iurned. On the day p;evious, aa - soo* =.<@

vessel was known to be doomed, the.Ass&edJ

Press obtained from Honolulu in- forty-fo*
nlinutes the complete passenger list of the.'&*
ready for publication in San Francisco.. ',-:ZC:4
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As already &timate& radio service t i and
from airplanes is as effective as to or from a'
slip. Ey means of the teletype, messages con:!
be sent or received in typewritten form.. Thu
mom.
striking of the letter A on the teletype h,tha'
Uessages can also be sent to and from sub- air causes the letter A to be printed on-the Me=marines when submerged and between two sub- type on the ground, and vice versa This doem'
,merged submarines.
away with the necessity of sending messsgbir b
*l
code and eliminates chances of error.
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The commercial passenger airplanes b e k
received a great impetus when the Geneva and Paris are equipped with wirele-.
Republic was rammed by the Florida off SO that the passengers may be entertained whila
the coast of Nantucket in 1910 and went down, enroute.
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bat not until the wireless operator had sent o ~ i t
An illustration of the value of radio in air s&the S. 0.S. sign& which made Jack Binns a
vice
occurred a year ago on a mail 0igbt betmen.
hero in every American home. Binns is still a
Cleveland
and Chicago. On account of head
young man. .Indeed, that is one of the most
winds
and
squalls the aviator found that ha
interesting things about radio; it seems to be
would
not
be
able to l a d before dark. He sen4
almost wholly in the hands of young men.
out distress calls, asking that the landing-place
. b o t h e r wonderful illustration of the value be illuminated with flares and search-lights. Su
.of wireless was demonstrated at the time the stations heard the call, the lights were provided,
steamer City of Honolulu was burned and aban- and the crew and mail vere landed in safety,
doned 700 miles off the California coast on whereas death would have been the almost mr*
T h d a y , October 12, 1922. As soon as the tain result otherwise.
ship was found to be in flames, the operator on
board broadcasted the ship's position. Within Trans-Oceanic Telephony
five minutes acknowledgment of the message
OR sereral years the Bell system has been
was received from one station 011 shore aud
maintaining a wireless telephone service three steamers.
Catdina Island and Los Angelea, by
between
After the lapse of two hours the ship's condi~vliich
any
subscriber in Catalina can at any
t i o n . recognized
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as hopelcss, and the S. 0.S.
time
cd1
any
subscriber in Los Angeles. This
call was sent out. This was also imrnetliatcly
line
has
been
mnintrrincd by wireless largely
acknowledged by one land station and by one
because
it
provided
an ideal place to test 'outehip coming ahead fdl speed to the rcscae.
wireless
service.
From
Catnlina, in 19!2l, speech
Thirty minutes later the information was
S. S. Gloncester m tho
was
transmitted
to
the
broadcarted that all were off the boat except
Atlantic
ocean.
In
order.
to accomplish this feat
the capbin, chief engineer, first officer, fourth
use
was
made
of
land
mire
systems on Catalinaoffir, aad firat radio operator. Forty minutes
later a final message was received from shore, and across the mainland of the continent, and.
an answer was sant with difficulty, and the ship wireless across portions of the Pacific and the.
waa abandoped. All of the 263 persons on board Atlantic, making four sections in all.
I n January, 1923, wireless telephone conver.
were saved,and lauded at Los Angcles four
sation mas carried on from New Yorli to Southdays later.
. There are some other interesting items re- gate S tntion, London. Tkc conversation could
garding this disaster. Thc news story of the be carrlcd in but one direction, o g n g to thq
m c u e of the passengers of the doomed ship development of British radio enterprise as 4
w a Fcirelessed from the rescue ship within 300 government monopoly; but the British h e 4 .
telephones are being put into the
itstemoms of steamers in both Atlantic and
P d c Oceans; and shortly i t will be possible
.for any one in the United States to pick up his
.telephone anywhere in the country and con:verse with any passenger on any lin& between
America and Europe or America and the Orient
-aseasily as if speaking to (I person in the same '
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.$ho American accent.
Wireless telephony between b e r i c a and Europe is possible right now, but it would require
such high electric power as to make it very
expensive, The American Telephone and Telegraph Company state that they hope to produce
*apparatuswhich will enable conversations both
'ways throughout the twenty-four hours, and
:which will reach around the world.
.' It is freely predicted that within tmo years
business men in New York or Chicago can converse freely with business men in London or
Paris, using wires part of the way and wireless
aoross the ocean. Nikola Tesla, the electrical
wizard, adds to this his expectation that vith
television apparatus each mill be able to see the
other as the conversation is carried on. Subsequent paragraphs show how ~s extraordinary
thing may come true.

A ship operator 11,000 miles m a y in the Indian

ocean picked up an amateur wireless station
operating s t Galreston, Texas.
In January, 1923, the New York Ti~n.esreceircd a complete message from the great Japanese sending station at Tolcio, 9,000 miles am?.
In llarch, 1923, during four successi~ed a ~ s ,
music broadcasted from the Reneselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., %-as heard at
Invcrcargill, New Zealand, slightly .less than
10,000 miles away in an air line.
Vessages are now sent from London to
Australia by radio, tm-eke thousand miles; but
whether they are relayed at India, as we thinli
liliely, is not ascertainable from the data in
hand. A station \\-orl;ing on 8,400 meters at
Hillside, Oregon, is being heard regularly at
Shanghai. The company operating plans a
series of stations in ~iljna.

Radio a d Land Vehicles

4RAL American Pullman trains have
been fitted with radio apparatus for the
I t has bad freaks, but it ha8 good ones entertainment of pa-eengers enronte. Among
J s o ; and under certain conditions of weather these are the Lackawanna; Lehigh Valley;
extraordinary results are obtained, of which P e ~ s y l v l m i a ; Chicago, Uilwaukee and St.
we list a number of illustrations that have come P a d ; Chicago and Alton; and Frisco systems
to our attention.
radio receiving sets have been applied to
A dance was held ai'Santa Clam, Cuba, to These
only a few of the trains on these roads and not
music sent out from Schenectady, N. Y., 1,450 continuously.
miles distant. Reversing the order, a fifteenThe Lehigh Valley found up011 trial that they
year-old boy in Medford, Oregon, picked up an
could
receive perfectly while passing through
address that was being broadcasted from Hatunnels,
could receive mell while passing any
vana An amateur message sent from Hartford, body of mater,
either still or running, but had
Connecticut, received 8n answer from Hawaii
ditlicnlty
in
receiving
when passing between aa
in four minutes' time. Radio concerts in Philaavenue
of
trees
on
a
level
stretch of country.
delphia have been heard in Paris so clearly that
The Interborougli Rapid Transit Company,
the conversations of the operators in Philadelphia were overheard. Tireless stations in Ger- of New Yorlr city, permitted the nse of a rear
many picked up the voice of a young woman platform of one of their trains for the temposinging in a department store in Newark, N. J. rary installation of a receiving apparatns; and
3 0 t h the vocal and the instrnmental tones mere it was found that the messages conld be recei~ed
clearly underground, even when the train waa
perfectly audible.
rushing through the iron tubes far beneath the
5 : - The broadcasting station of the General Elec-'
- t r i ~Company, at Schenectady, N. Y., has re- waters of the East River. There was found to
ceived acknowledgments from every state in the be considerable interference by induction from
Union, frdm Alberta, Ne\vfoundIand, Panama, passing trains.
In May, 1923, experiments conducted on a
;andfrom ships two thousand miles at sea
T ,French, British and American amateurs have N e w Yorl; city trolley car showed that by radio
.rkpeatedly Bridged the Atlantic on 200 meters. it was quite possible for the car to lteep in constant telephonic commdcation with the power .
k'''&many as 125 b e r i c m amateurs have been h o c ~ c . T t mn? f h ~ r e f o r ebe s q e c t e d soon to*
--Europe in one week.
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&r will be fitted vith mch means of communi..cation, SO that in case of ti-o~bleinstant nord
can be serst to headquarters. Such an arrangement mould obviate the long de1a.c.snThichsometimes occur when a car is confronted with a
b r e a k d o n or other emerger cy.
Reports from Washington are that a fleet of
army tonics can now be connected by radio in
such a way that the master tad; can direct the
movement of the entire Beet while in action,
making any changes in manceuvres which the
tide of battle hlay require.
Transmission o f Ptctures

T H E R E are t o general methods of trans-

mitting pictures, the first of which is a

modification of a method which has been used
more or lass for n generation. The picture to be
- - photographed is graduated into seventeen
ahades of light. These gradations, expressed
in letters of the Xorse code, are automatically
transferred from the photograph to the telegraph key. On arrival on the other side of the
world, a t y p e d t e r is operated, fitted with
seventeen kinds of dots, corresponding to a keyboard bearing the letters A to P,with the red t that all the essentials of the picture emerge,
ready for the dnishing touches of the artist.
Fingerprints can be sent by this same method.
A more startling and almost unbelievable invention is that of C. Francis Jenkins, of Washington. For more than r year he has been able
to aend still pictures a distnnce of 140 d e s ,
now has perfected the device =
of
the
sending of motion pictures a like dis.
tance. In this case the picture is broken up into
thousands of flashes by the retolring of a polished mirror of graduated thickness, and is reproduced by the reverse operation of a similar
instrument, called a radio eye. T h e picture may
be sent or received either by wire or by radio.
.- i Uore x h d e r f u l still, if such a thing be possible, is the pnlliophotoghone, by menns oE which
the hnmnn voice can be so perfectly photographed that when reproduced from the film
npoti wilicli it,is reprcsei~tctlby n \varing strcdc
of light, it c p n o t be distinp~ishcdfrom tllc
origi~lalvoice 'oi' the person malting the record.
By means of this instrument it is possible by
radio to make, at any reasonable distance, n
permanent record of audible speech uttered
anywhere.

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TT IS now ~0
1 ~ ~ v i its
t h &eswlighted, bat *thoat a:-;&d
board, .was propelled hither and thither
radio operator on the baffleship Ohio h*
away. The guns of the Iowa mere not h d , buG
the naval engineers stated a t the time that thq!
could have been fired by the same methods
which the ship mas steered.
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At Pittsburgh a freight train, kith $t&izb''S<
was started and stopped entirely by radio. The i
same has been done with an ~~~~~~~~~~fie!
latter feat having been performed at an dc0.j
trical exhibit in New York city. &I these feats?
the radio did not ~ W P the
~ Yha*m Power,
and stopping and @ding
merely the
hP&e3In the latter Part of J ~ Y 192%
,
a des~ad.
from France reported an airplane as b e g .
away from and being @ded back to a radio
station, s t e e r 4 only by wireless But the d*.
patch ~ ~ d i c a t ethat
d the plane had an aviator
aboard, and the sense which the radio St=ing was done
not e e n t l ahom~
to bd
.
clear to the reader.
The series of
he~.~tion
bTs John
Hammond? Jr.9 have for their object the c m
~ l e t e d a n c e of airplanes, m b m d e s ,
land torpedoes,
does, free balloons, motor
and
battleships,
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by
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that in
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of a
a airdess
bad&
miles
codd destmg
army so that not a
of liie rodd. be left
in it, and all without the risk of a ainglr life to '
the attaclcing party. How very evident that .
nnless those days should be shortened there
shoultI
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time. The General Electric Company, at Lynn,

~;fassnckusetts,has sent power several h n n d n d
feet without mires and in snfficient volume to
operate massive machinery. Its engineers are ;
said to he agreed that when the right kind of .;
motor is devised it lvijl be found that there is!I:,'.
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Fery Lest radio apparatus now in use will be

colnpletely obsolete.
I n tlie s u m l e r of 1922 there mere 202 concerns in America engaged in the nlanufacture
of radio apparatus. I t is safe to say that some
of tlieir apparatus \\-as obsolete before it left
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Niboh ~ e d is
a said to believe that in the
future it will be possible to causi rain to fall
by radio, to drive vehicles of all Idnds by its
:power, and to Light houses, no matter how f a r
:.they are from an electric wire.
':' Dnring the World W a r the Government,
.which has by now issued over a thousand mire- Receiving Sets
.less patents and has three thousand more pendOUGHLY speaking, the cost of a receiving
ing, got the big electrical concerns of the counset is about (1 per mile for every mile of
try together, so that their patents could be used distance from the broadcasting station. There @,
together in radio worlr. The Radio Corpora- are four general typcs. A simple crystal set,
tion of America thus gained a virtual monopoly costing $15 to $40, can receive from broadcasto t radio work in America, not only because of ing stations up to twenty-five miles distance. A
, the patents, but by exclusive traffic agreements,
single vacuum tube detector and receiver, costdirect governmental grants and provisions con- ing $30 to $75, nliry receive up to one hundred
ferring exclusive rights to valuable wave band miles. A vacuum tube detector and amplifying
.lengths. The inventions of Ur. John Hays Ham- receiver, costing $100 to $250, Toill receive veil
mond, Jr., some tTvo hundred in number, upon up to a hundred miles, and under favorable
which he has4been a t work for fourteen years, conditions up to a thousand miles. The most
oonstituted an important part of this arrange- elaborate instruments for home use combine
ment.
radio and audio frequencp amplification and
Discoveriesmultiply. Methods of transmission loop reception, and cost $300 to $300.
have so changed that a single bottle, a vacuum
The department stores alone are selling about
tube, does the work that but a little time ago a million sets annl~ally. No raclio set is fit to
was done by $50,000 worth of heavy electrical purchase unless all the connections have been
machinery. This inyention, the work of Lee soldered; otherwise the wires become loose, and
DeForest, consisting of a single tube of glass reception is impossible. Further, if paste o r
and copper three feet in length by five inches in acid is spread over the wiring, or if there is
diameter, does the work of a high frequency dirt in the receiving box, there mill be trouble.
Many unique ways have been contrived to realternator weighing several tons.
Radio aignds have been transmitted over an ceive by wireless. I n the Western states, in not .
electdo wire, without the slightest interference a fern places, a barbed mire fence functions as
to the lighting circuit, and have been made to an aerial; while at Hammond, Oregon, the I n turn ,on and off street lights at a distance of berjacks have their antenni~swinging from the
four miles, near Lynn, Mass., merely by the tops of trees three hundred feet in height.
At a convention of electrical men in Chicago
pressing of a button. The invention of B. F.
MieEner makes it possible to use electric light Mr. F. W. Dunmore, of the United States Bufor a receiving station, and to reau of Standards, walked around the lobby of
wirer as anteuse the electric light current instead of storage the hotel, carrying i
n his hands a small suitcase
battery f a r Sighting the filaments of the electron out of which came a stream of market reports, C"
tubes. In this operation the current is stepped interspersed with music, much to the mystification of some of the guests.
down from 110 volts to six volts.
On the beaches a t New Pork in the summer of
:Marconi has discovered a method of shooting
radio waves out in a given direction, somelvhat 1023 there were boys with ~virelcsssets rigged
after the manner of a search-light. He has also up in their straw hats. Others have made re'iihwnred a new wave, not previously used for ceiving sets out of bill folders, cigar boxes,
long-distance wireless, which transmits a mes- reading lamps, dinner pails, pocket-books,
a g e 2,600 miles with much less pomer and en- safety-razor boxes, and match boas. A lad in
and much faster and cllcaper than has Rnoxville, Tonnessee, made an i n s t b e n t
h i erto been possible. Mr. Marconi makes the slightly less than an inah square which worked
. cheerful prediction that inside of ten years the perfectly over a &stance of m e e n miles.
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Brnieord Fuote fitted a receiving apparatus

;into an ordinary watch case; and Willi,am H.
Ruf, Xantisquan, S. J., made a morkable re,
ceiving set no larger than a thumb-nail. Some
of his contrivmces were exhibited at the radio
show of the Sational Radio Chamber of Commerce, held at the 71st regiment a , m o q Fn
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ont. If they are not tuned out? sithatiion. l83
liable to develop like that humorously described?
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idea of hg -d
hn ban -?
much eoniu.ion *t
&fined to declare it megal, wecornend md
dm;*
for it is dificdt to *agina a more
part:'
formance. Just listen in on the next radio morriogs
lean! of, and you will probably be regaled a
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"Minister: D o pa, T B i i wewmw-bing-whidb,
mm-ta-ta-tn-web-take this m i d , Mis E l o b
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from the charges of electricity which set

up electromagnetic waves competing with those
of the transmitting radio stations., I n the Summer the static charges wandering around in the
atmosphere become so bothersome, and are so
bothersome a t all times in the tropics, that the
operation of a receiving set is difficult. Also,
.
there are more interfering noises in the Summer
.nd '
&do
pq
tlinn in the TViiter. Sunlight has a dampening omk juim in qd
ir ol.
effect on N o signals, so that the night is the
ehilkn,s mFapb-aa-bang-w~-,
best time for operation.
this bedtime dory this evening by Clamma doe rharJd,
There are pockets in the atmosphere where d w abe~open at the bpt,, be par my
w,
signals fade and become entirely unreadable. -qIophone so10 by go-ts, brnd in r nord mrrroh'
These are offset by regions where the signals program.
"Answer: J-bo Sam in Alabatna.
are specially clear. A ship may enter a fading
"Minieter: I therefom pronounce pa mm and Qora ;
pocket, and be out of touch for as many as
twelre hours. I t may then emerge from the CoUega Glee club in a progrrm af chase W 28!
pocket and, although going away from the send- enfS 8 I J m d in p m m t for&
on P *:
ing station, may hear even better than before trip
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the pocket vas entered. There are such pockets
in the Pacific ocean; there is also a pocket be- * m ~ t o o e m ~
innS~
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are forty-nine known nhanneb for.
tween Xew Fork and Boston, s~~pposedly
caused
in the latter case by a large body of lom-grade
ra&o m e between the 200 meter and l,600
meter wave lengths. Thus, theoretically, it is
iron ore lying between the two cities.
These and other troubles are receiving con- possible for fortp-nine broadcasting stations to
stn~itattention at the llali~lsoC experts, a1111 con- operate in the same community at the sane
siderable has been accouplished in reducing time without producing confusion; but in prss
them. Radio is not to be condemned because of tice! Well! Practice is Merent. The big onss
them. It is of greatest possible benefit as a sap- drown out the little ones. '
p1ement to nire and cable sen-ice, doing many
One of the inventions of John H a p Ham.
h h i n c s that tho)' cannot do; but it is entirely rnond, Jr., whose inventions have s e v c d t h e * .
- d i k e l y 'that it mill ever displace them. If radio been mentioned in this article, has had in =ew
had been discovered first, and the use of mires the promotion of secrecy. I t enables the m'
next, the radio people ~ ~ o u now
l d be ~ o r r y i n g , bling of radio-telephonic messages which can b. .
and have reason to worry, lest the mires, giving unscrambled only by the person a t the other end
direct and secret s e m c e from point to point, nith
special apparatm d e s i a e d
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would elimiqate them from the field.
that end in view. Such messages cannot k
A very efficient radio receiver m11 now bring nnderstood by others, even though they maq
in all sorts of hums and buzzes from elcctric hear the soallcls. The new scrambling and anlight and power Linee, trolley car motors, auto- scrambling device is in m e between C a t a h a .
mobile magnetos, violet rap apparahs, and Tslnnd and Los Angales. Wireless telepkoq.. thunder dorms; and dl these muat be tuned between the two points; thirty miles apart, hrs . ...

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Eudio sencling has becu greatly in~provcdby

UFTS COLLgGE and several of the uni- ',

versitics, nmiicly, thosc of Wisconsin, IO\VO.
the invention of a perfect uricropl~o~le,
not u~acle a11d Xebrnsl~n,arc cllgagyd in broadcasting lec- '
of any tangibla materials, but of what can bc turcs 011 c c o n o ~ l ~ i cnglllec~.ing,
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atllletics, tho
compared. to a sheet of electricity. The thinnest drama, and other subjects o l a popular nature, '
$.-andmost flexible of metals is not sufficiently not beyond tlie unclcrstandill~of boys fifteen to
!!sensitive
to reflect properly the tones of music, twenty-fix years of agc. I t is thus apparelit
- although it does very well for the hunlnil ~ o i c e how the fnrrnprs' boys can all be given liberal, I
in s p e w .
educations \t-itl~outleaving home.
Raclio can be 'the trnnsforn~ationof school
Radio in Goaernrnenfal Use
life. One skilled 1eciuri.r in llistory or gcogIS more than a year since Senator Harry raphy or hygiene c:?n -1iow deliver his lecture
S. New, of Indiana, addressed t h o ~ ~ s a n dofs to the c11iltIr.cn in rr tilousand schools. I n Sew
hi8 constituents through the powerful slnlion a t York city a iiunlber of lligh scliools were recentArlington. Sincc then the Governnient luts de- ly givci~a joint csnlnination in accountancy. A .
cided not to let government stations be used for single instructor broadcastcd the probIem,
broadcasting appeals for votes, even though the n-hich were ansn-ered simultaneously by the
lervice is paid for.
pupils at their dcelts. Courses in radio have
The Congressional halls have been fitted -4th been inaugurated in English schools.
microphone apparatus which enablcs every
The Government is not olily broadcasting
whisper to be heard; and it would be a very news of the markcts, weather, and general news,
easy matter now for everything that is said in but is also giving tallts on education twice rr
those halls to be broadcasted, if there mas any week. I n Le~viston,Ohio, a radio set installed
reason for doing so. I t would be possible to in the high school is equipped with a magnavox,
brodcaat similarly the deliberations of diplo- with the result that farmers and other person8
mats, courts, and conferences. I t was planned within a radius of a mile and a quarter can
that the address which President Harding was hear market reports and nen-s items and listen
to have delivered ii'San Francisco, should be to mnsia while going about their daily tasks.
actually heard by about five million persons. If One can but wonder what is to become of the
their awakening should occur, the new statesmen, local purveyors of advertisements and propaJoseph, Moses, David, Daniel, and others, could ganda \v11e11 llie cream of the news has been
. even now, by the relay method, literally speed skimmed off hours before their papers codd k
their measages through the air to all the nations printed and distributed. A t present the newsof the earth, without visiting them a t all, Inter- papers tliemselves are receiving seventy percent
-'eating things in this line are just ahead. These of their news by wireless. Uni~iterruptedcorninventions are all part of the Lord's plans for munim'tion cveqw-here is evidently to be the
bringing in- the kingdom.
order of things in the new age. Under such
Police authorities are now broadcasting de- circumstnnccs fraucl and oppression become
scriptions of criminals. News of a crime is increasingly CIificuIt.
' - W e d in every direction, and the criminal has
way to flee. The eight high-polrered bandit Radio and Religion
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E HAVE reason to believe that the cause
cars of the Chicago police force are equipped
of true religion will be helped by radio,
.' with both sending and receiving outfits; it'is
c, even planned to equip every policeman with a and our reason for tlinking so appears in this
issue,*on page 355. Eut we foresee that it will
'- receiving ,set, thus to keep every patroluan in
- the city aonstantly in touch with the crime sitn- be the death of many an institution which c&
itself a clmrch but which is merely .a oammer?.
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ation, no a a t t e r where he may be.
. , It is also antioipated tlmt shortly, thl.ouq11 a cia! iiistitution or a dub.
The Lol~clou Daily Herald says of vadlo:
;-,combination of r:tt!io apparatus and pllc1n:).,: 'graph,' the recording or cwurt ?roc*~c(linz.:I: ill "This urill tpllil to divert attention n1ol.c and
:.;:be conducted mcchanicnlly, and tlle court re- more i'rol:l iuatters of which there cn:i he no
exact knowledge and to bestow it upon elllarg:,...' 'porter. will be a thing of the past.
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mother vay of raping that with this new and
interest* field of human interest opening before them many people ell pay less and less
attention to religion; and we think that this is
true. From t?ris aspect alone the denominational
churches ~ o u l dhate reason to fear radio.
But they have more reason. The country
church has been hit hard both by the anforno-,
bile, which takes the attendants to the more
elaborate buildings and services in the cities or
takes them away from service altogether, and
by the radio, which takes the place of either.
It is true that a few churches have installed
receiving sets, so aa to get sermons and masic
from outside, and other churches have broadcaa ted sermons and tried to secure membership
and money by hterest thus created; but any
one can see that the plan is impractical.
The truth can be broadcasted; but error can
be broadcasted, too. A hypnotist in Ridgewood,
X. J, by a prearranged plan broadcasted instructions to a young man in New York to h
his mind upon the hypnctist. In a fern seconds
he became rigid, his eyes wide open and staring.
Ilihile hypnotized his body was pierced with a
needle acd othermise maltreated, as usual. He
came to himself when a Lighted match was held
within a half inch of his eyes, causing them to
blink and relax, but with apparent diEculty.
The demons are doing what they can to abuse
the use of radio. Eimard Berthold, Jr., of
Newark, N. J., besides recei*g the n s d messages by radio mhich others could hear, was
troubled with demons, who shot into his mind
messages which none but himself codd hear.
These messages nere not cnrzied by radio, or
all would hare been able to hear them. He became crazed, and Mled himself and tnro others.
For a long time it X V supposed
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that the
planet Jrfars was trying to get in touch with oar
earth. Jlarconi had detected wave lengths of
150,000 meters, and did not knonr any way by
which snch wave lengths codd be produced on
earth. He subsequently laughed heartily when
he was shown in tile laboratories of ale Generd
Electric Company, at Schenectacly, the source
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have a beneficial efiect upon human life,
the same in character as those employed in th&-*%$
latest treatment for high blood pressure. B
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has been directly employed in the treatment d '4%
cases of rheumatism, neuritis, pr~emnonia,c
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deafness.
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Yen that have not heard a sormd in
years have been able to hear when the radio,'$
headpieoea vere attached. Leo Kuehn, of DO?$.
troit, a deaf-mute twenty-eight years of age, an
intelligent, educated man, learned to speak after - ;
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a few lessons by radio. His b t uttered worda
were: "Eoly, holy, holy." It was a well-bhoosen --3<
tribute to the Author of bis blessings.
A German invention, a radio mimphone,:::
makes it possible for a physioisn in his office to _:
examine the hearts of patients who remain in .,
their homes. New York State is giving lachues :.:
on health by radio; medical advice ia braadcasted free to anybody broadcasting a request".-:
for it. In England a mother vas sumxnoned to-'::
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.-method, ~ h e r e b ythe body is beambed from - -,
the shouiders down, the patient is helped &om ' *=
becoming nervous if ailowed to have a radio- -":'
phone service attached to his ears.
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Hospital, and at Sing Sing prison, and have - --?
k e n greatly appreciated. h d i o has been in- -:.
stalled in Beth Israel and St.Luke's Hospitals, ?;
mith radio service for dl patients able and will- $1;
ing to use the same. Heretoforein biind asy- , -;
lums it has been necessary to have readem; :;
now these are unnecessarg, the radio having .;
taken th2ir place. A radio has-beeninstalled on I,
Cabras I h d , Porto Rico's drearp, shadeless .-:I:;
leper colony. Here these poor unfortunates -?
may hear the mws and the concerts of the - 5
world which they have left.
*...A hotel just completed in Jllinneapolis has
each of its several hundred rooms connected
-- mlth radio p l n p Any p e s t for a small fee can
rent head phones from the clerWs office. and cttn
thus 1i.sten to music nntll he falls asleep. He
Radio and Health
cannot steal the phones; for they remain con-:
!I' IS believed by Henry S Williams, M.D., nected nntll released by an employ6.
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".W religio~~n
are united in a;!ying that r e are in the
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be life's fulfilment, earth's supreme d t 3 and thr
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FROill SPA IN
i \ ~T~~ G~~~~~ stiE
for Sovcnlhr
7, 1923, thief is entering their house; but thrrnks be to'
and hiow and:
is a referellce to the recent uprising in 'he Lord, t h e y shall soon
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but if any may hare drawn from that
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this is to correct any such inference. As a
T'EE a month. ago the S p e a k bf tb. H O ~ '
. matter of fact, the cornmoll soldiers knew nothof Congress, Sajllior M e l q d e s . Aim:
ing of the matter nntil the new order of things (elected by the people), and the Speaker of ,.the
had been established by certain high officers, Senate, Conde de Romanones (not..eIected bpi
who had rerolted and enthroued themselves over the people), sent a. note to the king, 'reminding::
all the people, a s did JIussolini in Italy.
him of his violation of the constitutim.in not.
file sources of ne\rs from Spain are almost opening Congress, a thing that he.~rom* t4
elltircly under the control of the financiers and do, under oath, with his haub on the Goapela:
the c l e r s , r h o coiiperate in their efforts to
But vhat are the 'Gospels to a worldly king?.: ,
make it seem that things are going well for the So i t trnimpired that on the fallowing day ouf
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people, and that they arc satisfied; but this is Spanish Jlussolini, Primo.de Rivera, had a de-:
f a r from the truth.
Cree signed by the king which eliminated thesei
As 8n e4dence that the recent uprising in gentlemen from the speakerships, and at the, .
Spain is a purely Xnssolini movement, let me same time notified them that Spain needs nei-.
draw attention to the fact that mhell our "Ex- ther congress nor senate to d e . Therefore no
cclentissimo senor Unrqnes de Estella primo one lalows when they will open again.
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de Ril-era:' first came ont of Bi~rccloni~
to take
As for me, I thinlc that these Homes
p o s s ~ s s i ~oft ~the government at Afntirid, the .eyer again k opeg. If they never vere of any.
Bishop of Barcoloiln blessed him as he departed. real l>eIlefit to tllc co-on
people, and if we.
I do not mcan to stry thnt Primo de Eivera now have an autocratic g o v e l m e n t which is:
might not have taken pos~e?;siol~
of the ship of ahortlp .to be followed by the <*on Rule" of
state with ~lrst-classinte~itions,and ~vithfinest Christ, which mill be still more autocratic, I"
desires to tlo the b ~ s thc coulrl for the people. fnil to see where there is more need of T o m e s
But it makes little difference what are the in- nrllich are largely given over to foolish talking.
tentions of n gomi captain when the sen is full Thwe legfslators, r:ho have hitherto. done so'f
of pira,tes, sea-~rolres:and the Spaliish capital little for the common people, may a s well keep
is full of'elergy ancl ciiurcll-goers wllo are just quiet.
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that, who "derour \\.idox-S' houses, nrld for a
Thillgs are going from bad to worse for th*.!
pretence make long prayer."-3Latthew
23: 14. common people. They can hardly get enough to i
Evidently the Lord must have hat1 these in eat, but they must not protest. If they do pro+
mind nheri Ue spoke of zome 11-110 '-are within test they get free lodgings, behind bars, and:!
full of dcad IQCII'SI~anes,and of' ail uncleanness" 116thout any notice of when they may go out
(Ilatthcw 23: 107) ; for tl!cp arc still engaged aznin. Uudcr ttlcsc conditions some might think
in the work of tnldng dead rncn ont of an ilnag- this to bc n good time to he n vell-fed priest;
innry purg:ltory irito n lleavcn ovcr wllich they but tlicrc arc p l c ~ ~ of
t y indications that the tima ::
h n ~ no
e control, and into which they tilenlselvcs is near when t l ~ epriests, too, wiU be in for their.::
will ncvcr cnter. Tlicy arc aslccp as to thc times si~nrcof gnashing of-teeth a d will realize that:^
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cow-keepera.-Zechariah 13:5.
Many seem to think that as the people are in
silence tbey approve of the way things are
going; but I get around among them and know
.,- that they are nearly at the breaking point, and
that the "night wherein no man can worii" is
+: already settling down in Spain. Not only is this
- the case in Spain, but the whole world is with
one accord crying out for the need of a wise
.'- and strong one to put its affairs in better order,
and no man is to be found who can meet the
requirements of the case.
out old bgs
and putGreece is bnsy
~a in new ones, occasionally
changing a king
for a plain man like Venizelos; but no common
man is enough for the stupendous job of d i n g
the-people with justice in this day of gigantic
and world-vide money power. What the Greeks
need, and what all nations need, is God. They
do not yet h o w it; but Jehovah will permit
them to suffer until they humble themselves
d c i e n t l y to admowledge their need of the
Messiah He has, in His great love, provided.
.When the world becomes hopeless, then Jehovah
will say to His Christ, "Qo ahead 1 The world is
now in such miserable condition that it is only
too glad that all of its. affairs should be placed
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sod and earth. He fought his fight against sickness, starvation, and loneliness ; and if his health
mas good and his mentality stood the test, he
finally triumphed to the extent of becoming the
proud possessor of his little "quarter sectionyJ; '
or thought he did.
One style of architecture, however, that has
flourished on the prairies is that which delineates the chaste outline of a lunatic asylum.
Behind the gloomy malls of the several institntions of that nature which Western Canada has
built, are buried the records of scores of tragedies when the prairie won the gamble.
However, in a general may, the work of subduing the Last Great Vest went on apace, in
the years that intcrrcned, until the Great T a r
engrossed the attention of the world and the
tide of emigration flowed eastward.
Then Canada heard the "Fall In" played on
the bugles of England's "Contemptible" Army,
she consiclered herself fairly prosperous. Her
farms covered a wide strip of prairie north of
the h e r i c a n boundary line. Her mines mere
busy. Her real estate speculators frenziedly
b d t , on paper, great industrial centers, with
little r e p r d , it must Be admitted, to the posaibility of markets. Money was plentiful; po?
ticiaas and captains of industry rubbed thew
unctuous hands as the tide of unsldled labor
FROM CANADA
flowed in from Central Europe. Farm lands
yeus ago, an aggressive campd@ changed hands briskly, and wheat sold for a
was started in the older lands of Europe to dollar a bushel.
bring out immigrants to our fair land. Sixteen
~h~~ came the m,
years ago it reached considerable proportions,
and many thousands of 13ritain's younger sons me pour-year
Delirium
and daughters made the journey to the Land
4 events of the nest Cnur years were much
of Promise.
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the same in Canada as in some other comestate tries. First came the cdfor meq then for
was activity and bustle. The "1'
dealer; nith a
and e n e r n which had its money, then for munitions; then for money,
soRrce in unbounded optimism, sumeyed his ,en d,
=,itions, but
the demand for
building lots and smc?Ufarm acreages from the the human sacrifice.F~~~~
~ ninemil~
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deph Of the sea
the tops of the highest lions of population, eight hundred thousand
mountains. On the prairies the homesteader men frop her farms and factories
do=
a&nst the Govern- their tools and took up rifles. The inflow from __,
galnb1ed his
merit's on: hundrcd and s i v t ~acres? that he Europe slowed dam, tile esodua to Europe inmould not starve to death in three years. Some- crea,ccl. prices of cormno~itiesrose, as in all
times he tEought he von.
other countries. Factories that formerly made
Upon the promise of new railroad brandies bicycles and typelvriters began to m&e shelland extension lines, he hewed his way into the fuses and such.
Sest succeeded the Great Pcsce, and the wonwilderness, emulated the gopher ( a l ~ a y shis
nearest neighbor), and built himself a shack, derful times of prosperity promised by oll the
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profiteers. TVe have esperienced this great

prosperity for fire years now, as a nation, as
provinces, as cities, and as individuals. The
resalts are n'onderful! For instance, in these
times of prospkritp our national debt amounts.
to Five Billion Dollars I This is on the anthority of Mr. W. R. Xorson in his annual business
review of Industrial Canada.
This debt of $5,OG0,000,000 at five 6ercent
interest calls for $250,000,000 per annnm; and
i t causes the Toronto Globe some concern. It
uses the average citizen some concern, too,
hen he realizes that the country's income from
foreign sales, eqorts, is less than $100,000,000,
which means that the couptry plunges each year
more than $150,000,000 further into debt. This
is 3 very exhilarating national outlook, especially nhen the detail of this enolmous burden
is given some consideration.
The per capita tax is about $450. But as not
e*ry man, n o m u and child is a yrodncing
unit, therefore not a wage earner, approximately but one-fifth of the population can be so considered; so it amounts to about $2,250 per head
for the vage earner. Now, gentle reader (as
the older school of novelist fondly addressed
you), nhen are you going to pay your Two
Thousand Two IIundred and Fifty Dollars?
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money at the rate of $40,000 per hour, and our
Provincial taxes are additional a t the rate of
$500 per year for each wage earner. And then
there are the Municipal or City taxes; and, for
sdme of us who like to perpetrate jokes on the
laws of Canada, the addition of a few , h e %
And to sum up the matter completely,.we add
the tax on our sense of humor as we contemplate the situation in all its beaaty and clarity.

Exodza h m Canada Significant

ARB a m a t nation. Th.t ir, 60111. of
us are; for we can .smilingly delude ourselves into thbd&g that Canada is stin solvent,
and can pay her debts. We can still do this,
despite other little evidences to the con-;
for instance :
During 1923 we lost double the number of
people in emigrati~nthat we gained
immigration. This was no inconsiderable hamid
loss; and this is still more evident when w
consider that the majority of those who left as
were our highly trained mechanics and agridturists-men hard to replace. This makes as
only smile still more broadly, however, because
m e National Debt Baitooning
few of us realize the cost of immigration today.
T IVILL be advisable to pay this amount We forget that the present-day immigrants
qnicldy; for at the present rate of progress come to ns from countries mhere there is a
it will soon be Three Thousand Dollars. Canada debased currency. They are a financial risk as
increased the national del~tlast year by Fifty soon as they Itmd. The majority are without
any capital, and might better be described as
Million Dollars !
reIugces than as immigrants.
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IYherc did this increase come from?
Tlicn what is to become of them when they
I n 1921-22 there was an apparent surplus of
income over ordinary expenditure of $lG,Z3G,- are here? Our national answer is as of yore:
752; but by advances to railroads, eic., this was "Put them on the l'md." So on the land they
(changed into an adtlition to the public debt of go, to face the same fate as thousands of other
$82,25rj,OCO. I n 1922-23 the ordinary revenue citizens who have wrestled n4th Canadian coamas $39!5;613,000 and the ordinary erpendilurc ditions for many years. Let us assume they go
was $331,750,000. Here is a surplus; but again to ~!lbcrta.
Sunny Alberta, where the Prince of Wdea
a patcrnal gorcrnment hands tlic rai1v:ays uld
the inerchnnt marine a nice little sum ~vl~ichand Prince Eric of Denmark have their ranches
ehoms an dditiou again to the debt of $49,293,- -surely this is the Land of Promise! It isof Promise to Pay1
08G, or almqst Gfty millions.
The Alberta government recently got tired
For 1324 Mr. Fielding, our national Vizard
of Finance, computes ordinary rcvenne al$372,- of the co~lstnntpleas of tho farmers that the7;
617,000 and espenditnrc at $333,000,000; so we could not meet their tax pqments; so they pnd
rejoice at n poavible sarplus of :b33,517,000. Eut Lli rough log islalion calleJ the Tax Rccovcq

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blandly tells us that there will be a capitd
expenditme of $23,415,000 and that the dear
old railroads will need $74,500,000. So our surplus becomes a further deficit of $64,398,000. '

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the situation. I t did. I t result~clin 4 3 . 2 3 parcels of farm lands, each of approximately 160
ncres in extent, some much larger; 64.946 parcels of town and village property; and 14,751
parcels of city property, passing from private
' to public ownership.
To put the matter more clearly, tlie Government takes from the struggling agricnlturist
6,924,600 acres.of farnl lands, w h i c l ~at a conservative valuation of $10 per acre amo~uitst o
Seventy Million Dollars! Or, to make it still
more clear, the area confiscated'is one and onchalf million acres more than the total wheat
a m e w e of the whole prorince of Alberta for
19231 In the case of the town and village property, putting each parcel at the extreme17 low
valuation of $259
total value mounts to
more than Three Jlillion Dollars.
In addition is the city P ~ O P and
~ ~ other
Y
revertible property which, added to the foregoing, gives us a staggering grand total of
Seventy-five Million Dollars! Alberta is no
doubt a splendid place to send destitute imnig~lllts-And Alberta was settled, to a great
degree,
intrepid homezteader who gamwith the Government
for a few
years, thoagl~tthat he had won.

One sectinn of its populntinn already cries

loucll\r for sccpr-ion from tile East, a cry that ;. '
has beell lienrd froni other TTestern pro\-illcea
not so Ter? loll^ ago.
&nitoba might seen1 to offer n good field for .
tllc immi,cr:~nt. \\.ere i t not for the confcescd
failure oC i'reniicr Ersckcn to carry 0x1 rcsponsible govermnent. Prenlier Bracken a!xl his
pnrlialnent inherited mucll grief when he a- limed c-ace. and not v e q mmncl? public contidelice. Aftrbr stnizgling along for a time he
llns a t la.ct racitly admitted defeat and h s a
csl!ed j ~ , a conlrnittcc of business men from aZt"
oTer tlie province in an endearor to find a solation of Jlanitobn's problem; and s3e has one.
I,the course of the inquiry a beautiful
tion \I-as nncox-ered: -4gainst a revellue of $26,280,000, froni :\lalli tobn's basic and practicany
I
only i~idustry,fanning, is a tax burden of $32,000,000: and this indebtedness (for it has not
been paid) must be increaed in 1924. Drmtie
m t s in approplintions for echcation m r e prepared; and in point of fact many schwls are
already closed on account of no f m d s ~rherenit11 to pay teachers and to keep u p buildings.
The Uanitobn crop ,,&not good in 1923.
Rust and nd.eeds have mined n large number of
.
farmers, and many are quitting. Possibly the
inadequately
capitalized
imn~igrnnt
vould
like
Ruinous Land- Grab Act
to assume n large slice of this kind of obligaT H E R E is J~~~~~~~ to the Sibert~Land t o Not that n-e desire in the slightest degree
Grab that needs to be mentioned. The Tax to disccurage immigration, far from it; on the
Recomry Act is
lrorrled that it amounts to contrary, \\-c 11-on1d like to see several thousand
The man ~ 1 1 0has a n-orfiycolonists come into Can2.dda and gal"Government takes dmJ'
first
On the
is
considered. lantly assume (and pay) their proportion of
Neither is the n~achine conlPanY that holds our national rlcbt. sa:-, $3,000 each. According
notes and liens against the property as sccuTit~ to our
a h i t t e d to he sourld idcas of
for farm machinery sold to the la~~dholder. finance someolle must pay it ; but who n-ill it bet
The Government or the municipality, as the
case may be, is only concerned-withsits tas
FitOilf ELVGLAND
arrears. Once the title passes, redeluption mithCJ
in
year is allo\ved, if all taxes are paid; Ecclesiasticisnz's SIg Hand
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of
Canterbuv
recently
otherwise the land becomes the absolute prqpsprang a surprise on the country with hia
el-ty of the Government.
tliat during the past thrce years he
statement
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Very naturally, the loan and mortgage cornand
sdmc
otllcrs
had, unofficially, beeu talking
panies are desirous of getting out. Also vex-?wit11
a
Eel,nian
Cnrciinal
of tlie Roman Catholic
naturallyj no one wants to risk liis capital in
Church
on
the
qucstion
of
unity of tlie Church
any entcqlise which is subject not only to such
with Romc. Vithout doubt these
seasonal haznrds as is farming, but also to a of Engln~~cl
. law which destroys all ordinary financial pro- nieil see clearly that forces are on the move
.'. tection. ' Alberta looks like facing some hard wllich necessitate a combination df the churches
-.':.-years;
or else there mill be an exodus of its if they are to ~nrvil-e.
The Archbisl~op'saction has raised much pro- already none too .large population.

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teit both in the Chnrch of England and amongst

-:the free cllurches; for the Protestant religion
is the established religion of the r e a h , and
-. amongst the 'free churches there is still a good
deal of fear of Rome as vell as hatred of her
methods. And, of course, many see that the
%only d o n which these two great systems could
;;hare must be ! i h that of the l a d and t$e wolf,
i':when the one is eaten up by thc other.
"- Rome cannot give way; and if the Archbishop
of Canterbury, or even the King of England,
S , d d accept Roman Catholicism he must lose
= rus office. England is too set in Protestantism
to go over to Rome, though no doubt there will
be yet some lund of understanding between
them. Organized religion is like the business of
the kings: It iu in a poor -,ray, and has no
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of mind and are often seen and heard ih tbs
churches.
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At the present time the miners are bdo-.)
on the question of breaking the agreement they, :
entered into some time ago with the mine-omers respecting rate of payment. The omare making plenty of money, and it h said that .
coal getters are working for starvation wrsges.
I t is evident that there is to be no peace till
the present order of things is dissolved. Wt'e
apparently the sluices of trouble are open in
order that clearance be made for the new era. ,
The whole country has been wrapped in a
mantle of snow, very pretty to look at, and
much enjoyed by some of the yoang folk& But
the storms which brought it have been hard on
the cattle, and the poor of the country and of
the towns have suffered much hardship. Of
course the coal merchants took the chanm to
raise the price of coal.
While things look dark in the a&rs
m w
nature is keeping up and showbg what can be
done. At Uessrs. Sutton & Sons' exhibition
yesterday (Xid-January) they showed, so this
morning's papers sky, onions like cannon 'balls,
weighing over two pounds; carrots two feet
long, a d parsnips nearly four feet long. An
the parsnip was only three feet last year, thare
is evidently a great future for it

Labor Party had a great Ticto@

demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall
the other' night. The speakers were moderate
in tone; for the party is not out for revolution.
Contrary to general opinion, the party is able
to put apparently competent men into the very
many ministerial positions; at m y rate they
proclaim that they are ready to carry on the
government
But while the majority of the Labor members
of Parliament are moderate men, i t lios a "left,"
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chiefly the representatives from Glasgow and Later Information
T IS now a week since Ramsay X d o n a l d
district, who are not at all moderate, but who
seek a complete change in the order and form
-*as rent for by the &g, and kissed the
of gorernment.
Kings hand on acceptance of otfice. And an
\Illether or not Ur. Romsay SlacDondd d
l yet the slcies have made no intimation of hovbe able to keep liis team in hand is u~lcertain; ing noticed any change; the heavens have not
for this minonty rather fears that the leaders fallen.
Some paniclcy persons have bought American
of the party liore too much of the intellectual
and not enough of the r e d labor view. They dollars, believing thnt they would do well to
fear thnt the forward u;aveu~ci~t
will be too themselves by doing so. "Patriotism," that
m o w or be ineffectual, and that tlie much-needed strange thing of which the same people make .
reacijus:ment of the sociallife will not be gained. so much, is forgotten when self-interests are
Consi&rnLle doubt esi=:s in the mlnds of touched But the country is not moved; there
many concerning the relationship of the Labor is no noticeable singing of the "Red Flag," but
Party with the "Th~rdI n ~ ~ r i ~ n t ~ o n sItl . "is there is a disposition to give the Government
feared that even Alr. ~1~~cDonalri
himselE is a chance.
The Conservative party nrhich, by throwing
under sorne sort of 01)ligation to it, and therefore to t h q lenders oC the Russian revolut~on. the country into a general election in order to
This gves consiclcralle cuncern to rcl~glous stl.engtIicn itself, opcncd the door to this "visi' people, because Col~lievlsmor Soviet rule 1s so tnr~on,"now blames the Liberal party for not
definitely anti-religious: it Iiatcs the tenchinqs helping it to shut the door in the face of the
and worship of Jesus Christ. Uony of thc Brit- Labor party. There are now just the right nam- .

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the country; and the situation is e:;actly suited
for trouble. At present they have no ear for
the announcement that the kingdom of heaven
is being set up ; but when the caldron has boiled
and fallen over, some at least will believe.
How different things could yet be if these
men would stop and listen to the Bible message,
- and to the voice of God! They would lose
confidence in Shakespeare's "there's a divinity
which ahapes our ends, rough hem them as me
will," a word which was neverttrne except to
those who sought to be c~nformedto the \\ill of
God; and they would see that God is proring
the wisdom of the world to be a fruitless tree.
He is confounding the wisdom of the worldlywise, and bringing to nought the understanding
of its prudent men.-1 Corinthians 1:19.
There seems to be no immediate danger of
Britain's being subjected to a capital levy. No
doubt tliere are bank balances and large estates
which could be tapped without hurt to their
owners. But the gain got from a levy and
,applied to the reduction of the mar debt and
-taxation would be more than offset by the
s e i m of the money now available for trade.
Trade would be hampered by the loss of its currenay, and there woidd be still.more unemployment than now. The country is in too tight a
oorner for this heroic measure, many years ago
enforced in IsraeL-2 Kings 23 :35.
There are many in Britain who very much
regret the action of the nnscrnpulous persons
who are making money out of the rum-running
in Rum Row, seeking to sell their vile stuff contrary to the law of the United States and the
wishes of its people; and they agree with the
Editois remarks abont the detestableness of
the whole business.
But the implied idea that the Government of
Britain is responsible raises another question.
If th&.situation were reversed and the baotleggers of America were to compass "clry" Britain with whisky ships, would the United States
Government take action against ships flying the
h e r i c a q flag engaged in the trade?
Probably the ncm Labor government is mholly against this detestably vicious trading; but
the world being constituted as it is, even it
could not order its warships out as patrolling
.vessels to destroy the commonly accepted rights
of men.

.Enginenten on Strike
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BOUT 50,000 1ocomoti~-edrivers and fire- ..:
men hare now been on strike more than .
a week. They have succeeded in bringing a :
great amount of discomfort npon the people, ."
and much colnmotion in trade; and in alien-.
ating sympatliy from trader unionism why&
badly handled. The wages award, vhich t h e y 4
said they I\-ould accept and then mould not doyj
so, brought a reduction to 2,400 men, but not .
such a one as to entail s d e r i n g . The leader
the union has thrown the whole country
trouble, ancl scores of thousands into distress, .
because he believes that the railvays can afford :
to pay the present wage. Perhaps they csn '
afford it; but the action in its may seems as
heartless as a declaration of war merely for
balance of power, so often given as the only
reason.
Although therz mas much speculation as to
the effects the ascendancy of the Labor Party
~ o u l dhave npon the mrukets and business in
general, hardly a ripple stirred the economic
situation after the first quiver in the money'
market subsided. The pound sterling dropped,
but it is regaining its vigor.
Tlie "scare" is wearing off and "normal@'
is
being restored. The Labor parties are largely
theoretical; and not being cocksure that their .
conception of government is workable there in
a hesitancy abont putting their theories into
operation. The hancial interests are powerful, .
and they have a way of their own in intimidating others ; they have the medium of exchange
mastered so mell that the fluctuations, up or
down,, will instantly respond to their wishThis time money was depreciated. It was up to
Labor to stabilize the currency of the country.
Labor clid so through its leaders hastily declaring a conformity to the old order of things.
Jlr. J. H. Thomas is the nev secretaq of t h p
Colonies. I-Ie and the Prince of-Wales were ,
guests receiltly of the Australian and Sew Zealand Luncheon Club, London. IIIa speech Mr.
Thomas said:
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turl~ance, nithout any upheaval. British trade, cornmercc, and h a n c e are p r o p s i n g as if nothing had
happened. T e arc all settled do= to'the fact that
there has comc into being, and is governing our great
Empire today, a new party. There r e r e many who wars

the Scriptures. The profiteering class that go

about in America (to quote your language) to
"sldn" and exploit the people are not J e m . A
Jew, in the Biblical meaning of that word, is
one who has faith in the promise &at God made
to Abrahm when He said: '5thy seed all the
nations of the earth shall be blessed." (Genesis
22: 18) There are not many of these at this
time. I d, not think that the so-called American
,Jew will go to Palestine, or even care to go.
But the time w i l l come when the Jews will get
their eyes opened to the fact that He whom
their ancestors after the flesh m&ed is
the Savior of the world.
Judge Ruthfloni's Letter
. I do not give much.weight to
Zangdl'~ .
Broolrlyn? No
J*mry 16?
opinion concerning the Jews, becams c o n f ~ b
cay he is not a J& himself.
Pxo~.Jums VARREN
JO~SOX,
Yon ask me about Emerson's essays on r&g- - Press Club of Chicago,
ion, and Thomas Paine's "Age of Beason."
Chicago, Illinois.
These gentlemen were not Christians. Thef
illy Dear Sir:
did not believe in the Bible, nor in the Lord
yours of January 8 to hand. I thank Yon Jesm Christ, and knew nothing about Godas
for Your frankness of speech. Yo=
plan of salvation. They were men of splendid
lies in the fact that yon do not believe the Bible, ,,,td
capacity, but t b t is not
that is
and'of course do not understand it. If yon qnired.
understood it YOU odd see that it proves itself
I am familiar with gark T-jS
writings,
as of divine origin; for no hUIIlm mind codd m s born and reared in the same state h m
construct such a tremendous and far-reaching
came, a d know much about him.
pian as is there outlined, and which has been while I n g e e with some of the thin@ he &d .
in process of developlnent during the past su ,bout eternd t o r h e and the -tion
thousand years.
infants, I do not agree with him that there is
I note that yon question the existence of
p,,sonddevil. The c f e d by his sedactim
Jesus. Tbis matter is not open to argment. polver has overreached the minds of the majorThe fact that Jesus lived on' earth, taught in ity of peoples of earth today and is driving the
Jemalewas crucified and died, and was nations and peoples headlong into a terrible
raised from the dead, is Bo f dand
~c o m ~ l d e l time
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of trouble such as hns never been known,
established thnt 1 wodd not indulge in a serious and .rvhich js just ahead, and which statemen
discussion 01the proposition.
of the world can see and freely mention, but to
I presume that you doubt also Saul of Tarsus, avert which they know no adequate remedy.
whose name was aflenvnrd chnllged to Paul.
As to logic and reason, the greatest logic, the
The n-isdom of this rorld, I Imow, now rejects most profound reasoning to be found in any
ithc Bible, rejects the Lord Jesus, and hangs its literature on earth, is that found in the Scriphope'upon evolution. This is indeed a flimsy tures. As a lawyer I long ago learned that the
thing upon 11-hich to base a hope. I am reminded very foundation of the kws of civilized nations
of the \I-ords of St. PauI when he said: 'There is tnkcn from the lam that God gave to Uoses.
, -is the disputer of this n-orld? hnth not God The wisdom expressed by Solomon and the
made fqolish the wisdom of this world? For logic of St. Paul are unequaled in any Literature
after thqt in the viisdom of God the world by known to man.
I have 110 doubt thnt pour letter and this
wisdonl knew not God."-1 Corinthians 1:20,21.
answer
d be published in THE GOLDEX AOB
I note what you say about the Jew. Yonr
in
due
course.
1 a s m c yon of my best wishes.
definition of 3 Jew and mint differ entirely.
Sincerely,
Every man vllo is cr natural dcsccndnnt of
J. F.R-BD.
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Abrahrun is not a Jew within the meaning of
perdition from the Protestant Church's program of post-mortem entertainments; it has
talien a long, weary time to persuade American
-Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and
to bear it the Lest they can. I fear that our
-- fetish
is safe for three centuries more. When a
thing is sacred to me it is impossible for me to
be i r r e ~ r e n towvard
t
it. I cannot recall to mind
a single instance where I have been irreverent
except toward the things which were sacred to
other people."-From
Uark Twain's "What Is
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~.-IngezsoUis onIy a name to the present generation, but he n-as a potrer vhile he lived. We print
helov a famous reply t o his charges againat Christ~anity. This little pamphlet, long since
out of print, will be new to most of our readers.-Ed.]

ROB~T
in his now celebrated
M R."Christmas
Sermon," took Christianity

therein. Grief is indeed implied in the statenents \I-I-hich predict some serious disappoint:severely to task, and awakened considerable ments among church people in the end of the
'excitement in religious circles. The Rev. Buck- preseiit age (3lat thew 8 :11,12 ; 25 :30 : Luke
ley, D. D., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 13: 25) ; but none of these say one word about
New York city, declares that the pith of Ur. an eternity of grief and pain. I t is true also
Ingersoll's "Christmas Sermon" is found in that a certain parable (Lulie 16 :19) represents
three charges which he malces against Christian- the downfall of the Jewish polity from divined
ity, and which Dr. Buckley denominates "three favor;
that, as a "rich man faring snmp--'gigantic falsehoods." They are a s follows :
tuously," etc., represented that system, so the
First: "Christianity did not come with ti- trouble into n-hich that people then passed (and
dings of great joy, but with a message of e k r - in which they confess that they have been since)
nal grief."
is represented by the symbols of fire and torSecond: "It [Christianity] has filled the fa- ment; and the simultaneous acceptance to diture with fear and flame, and made God the vine favor of the humble of the poor Gentiles,
keeper of an eternal penite~itiilrydestined to be previously outcasts' from special divine favor,
is represented by the carrying of Lazaras to
the home of nearly all the sons of men."
Third: "Not satisfied with that it [Christian- Abraham's bosom, the bringing of those Irithity] has deprived God of the pardoning power." erto aliens into the family of God as children
Some of the friends of Christ, of the Bible and heirs of the Abrahamic promises and blessand of true Christianity urge that this modern ings. The fire and the tonnent are a s t d y Goliath be answered by some pebbles of truth symbolic a s the other features of the parable.
from our sling, directed not against a great and And el-en then, there is no threat that the rich
8eemingJy honest mau, but at the system of man's grief and torment shall be "etertlal." On
errors which he, no doubt hollestly, snpports; the contrary, the apostle P a d shows most
a d in defense of the truth and of the timid and pointedly that the heart-blindness to the tmth
doubting children of Zion, "Israelites indeed." which led to tile rejection of that nation, and
which has ever. since stood more or less related
Charge I Exanzined
to all their trouble, is to pass away shortly,
REPLY to the first charge that, vhilst during the period of the second presence of our
~e rime Christianity st=&, for much Lor$ The Apostle concludes the subject in any
that is spurious both in doctrine and in practice but a mournful and grievous- s t r h , saying, "0
today, a.
Ingersoll's arrai,ment relieves us the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and
from the necessity of esaminillg these; for his linowledge of God! Horn unsearchable are his
=marks apply only to the inception of the righteous acts and his plans past [mm's] conChristian system, the message with which it ception."-Eomans
11:25-33.
TVe cto not forget, either, that other parable
wm. The issue is a fair one. Christianity
codd not be judged more fairly than by the of the Sheep and the Goats, and the concluding
seiltence relative to the goat class: "These s h d
doctrines' of its founders.
go
awny illto ~~~~~lflstir~g ptuli91611teizt: bnt the
Reversing the order of the statement, we will
demonstrate (1)that Cllristinility did not come rigllteous illto life e t e l ~lal." T\le aclnomledge
with a message of eternal grief, and (2) tllnt it fl.eely that the wor(ls euerktstircg and eter~zul
&a Come with good tidings of greilt joy n-hich here used are translntions of the enme Greek
shall be to g+l people.-Luke 2 : 10.
11-ord, ant1 that they eridcntly mean zciCkouf end.
The New ~ ~ ~ t embodies
~ m ~ a stntcmerlt
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of Cnt we call atteiitiolr to the fact that the penall the doctines and teacl~i~lgsof prirn~tive alty na~ncdupon o r c n the wilfully wicked does
Christimlity, and neither tile term "eter lzal r~otread grief 11-itl1011tend, nor ton?tellt * t h o ~ t
--gn'ef' nor any equivalent term i s to be found end, as many seen1 to suppose; but punisl~ment
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without end. I t is a mistake to suppose, as some

do, that plc.~tisk:,icttt necessarily implies pain,
torture, or any conscious suffering. On the cont r a ~ "capital
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punishmenta' among civilized nations
means
denth
inflicted in as painless a man-.
ner as may be.
True, ererlnsting torment by burning or by
freezing would be an everlasting pnnislhent as
truly as everlasting death nonld be; ancl rice
rersa, an e~erlastingdeath wherein is no con*cionsness of either pain or pleasure would also
an ererlasting pnnislment. Helice Ire sea
that the mere statement "everlasting punishment" proves nothing as to the kind of the punishment. But other scriptures make the subject
quite plain by telling us in just what the punishmeat, which d l be everlasting, mill consist,
saying, "The wages [or punishment] of sin is
deatlb." (Romans 6: 23) Hence the everlasting
punishment declared to be the just merit of
wilful sin will be everlasting death, a death
which will never end, from which there w i l l be
no resurrection, and consequently not endless
torment and grief.
But let as look &ser at this text: "These
shall go away into everlasting punishment: but
the righteous into life everlasting." We note
fie opposite or antithesis
that "lifeJ9is put
of the nord "punishment," as though the inference sl~ouldbe that the pnnishment is death.
Let ns look at the Greek mord rendered 'rpunishmerit." If it were intended to represent torment
i t mould be bnsanos; but no 1 it is kolasirz, the
primary significance of which, according to the
best Greek scholarship, is To c u t of, as when
useless or dead branches are cut off or pruned
. off from a trce or vine. Here, then, the antith' esis is seen: The righteous at the end of the
trial referred to in this parable (wh~chtrial
will last during the 3iillennial age) +I1 enter
e o n a state of everiasting life, vhile the wicked
will be cut off (from life) ererlastingly.
Nor ieed we pass by the statement of reree
41: "Depart from me, Fe cntsed, 111toererlast- ing fire, prepared for the devil mrl his angels."
liere the fire is ns much n symbol as thc sllcep
mld the goats of the prcc.ctling rcrspc arc sl-mbols. As s k c p represent an 01)cdient class and
' goats a wayward c!uss, so Grl: represents sorncthing. I t never represents preservation, but al~ ~ wlintever comes
ways represents d ~ s t r n c t i oto
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out symbols, that the devil is to be.dcjtroy&
--See Hebrews 2: 14; Romans 16:20. - > - . ,.&
Next we examine briefly o m Lordas ref-&
to &henna fire, in which He mentions the worm,
that dieth not and the fire that is not quenchedL
But even here not a mord about endless grief o r
endless torment. Indeed, the referenceis clearly.
not to fire and worms in some other world, but
t o fire and norms which the people addressed
knew of and could see. Outside the south wall.
of Jemralem is the Valley of Hinnom o r G&
henna, once quite deep but now much Wed with:
d6bris and soil. In the days of our Lord this
valley was used aa a place for destroying thegarbage of the city and the dead carcasses of
*;
and to insure quick destruction d
thorough disinfection brimatone is said to hsva
been freely used. .No one quenched those b e s ;
and those carcasses which lodged upom rockq
and did not reach the fire, the worms consuaied'. 1
vithout hindrance. But no living thing wat~ever 7 .
cast into this valley, the J e M laws governing
even the lower nnimaIe being most humane. &d
o m Lord's remarks furnish no saggution of'; .
casting Living bein@ into this or any shdax .
~1ac-r
of torment at all. A similar arptsb
.on, doubtless based on the same facts, is lwed
by the prophet Isaiah; and he s ~ e d e that
a *a.
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fire and Worms feed not upon
but upon "carcasses."-Isaiah
66: 24.
.
The Jews had a custom, however, of refusing.
the usual burial to some of the very vilest crim- .
in&; and, instead, they cast their dead bodies
into this valley with the Nth of the city, thm .
implying that such a one should be esteemed :'
as of the offscourings of society, and that hiu ,
memory should rot; and furthermore that in
their estimation he had no hope of a mmrrec-.
tion-a tomb being to them an emblem of a.
resurrection, of a hope of future Life. O m Lord
expotulded the Law of God in a much more full
and heart-searching manner than the ordinary ',
teachers, and illustrated by His teachings (Mattllerv 5: 21-35) that the thoughts are to be con-' -./
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~itlcredas well as the deeds. The Law said: I
"Thou shalt not lull," nnd " T ~ o ushalt not corn-mit adultcry," and prescribed penalties for
these misdccda. But said the Oreat Teacher,
m a - ~ f y i n gthe Law and making it still more
to bc revercncecl (Matthew 5 :21-25) : 1 put the
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a murderer or an adulterer-a violator of the
Law, whose violation forfeited all right to life
under the Jewish covenant.
It is while thus emphasizing the Lam that our

Lord says: Whosoever shall be angry with his

$vibrother and call him apostate wretch shall be in

: .danger of
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might say today: The person who gets passionately angry with his brother or neighbor,
aud speaks and acts violently, is in danger of or
liable to yet end his life on the gallows; for he
has a mnrderoua disposition in his heart.

Probably only the leading features of this

eat discourse are given; but following on'in
&s b.in of thought the Teacher passes from
the literal Gehenna and its destruction of offal
and fflth, to represent by it the ultimate end of
wilful sin before the higher tribunal, the Judge
f all the earth. He urges all who would have
kerlasting life that although a pleasure or
'habit contrary to God's law be as precious to
them as a right eye or a right hand, they should
gladly part with it and anbrnit themselves to
Qod'a plan of holiness. Then He reasons on the
matter thus: W o d d it not be more profitable
.to cut off these depraved pleasures of the pres. ent brief life and l& accounted worthy of an
endless Life of felicity and perfection which God
has prepared for those who love Him, than to
hold and enjoy all the sinful pleasures for the
present brief life and be accounted of God a s
the filth and offscouring of His universe, to be
disposed of in a n antitypical Gehenna-the
second death?
Admitting, as all scholars must, that the literal valley of Qehenna formed the basis of our
Lord's remarks, it must be admitted also that
that which it was used to typify was somewlut
like it. h d as the literal Gehenna was not a
place 9f torment or grief, but represented the
utter destruction and hopelessness of those (already dead) cast into it, so must its antitype
teaoh the same lesson. Bnd so it does. The
second death is brought to our attention (Revelation 21:'s) as the hopeless destruction of dl
the iind+penitent,
the wilfully wicked, who,
. in spite of the hornledge and grace to be abundantly supplied to all "in due time," will still
. .choose 8in and spuip Qod's righteous way.
Not only hive we seen that the expreasion
eternal grief is not used in the Scriptures, nor

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any equivalent expression, bnt we have examined every test of the S e ~ vTestament outside
of the sylllbols of the Book of Revelation in
which sonie such tlmt~ghtmight be supposed to .
lie concealed, and find that Nr. Ingersoll is mistalzen in his assumption. And if we now glance '
a t a few isolated verses in the Book of Revelation, supposed by many to teach everlasting
torment, and hence everlasting grief, we s h d
find these to be symbols, lib-e all the other features of that book of symbols.
@J
Xevclation 20 :9,lO : These verses reprcsema scene at the close of the Millennia1 age, when,
under the reign of the glorified Redeemer and
IIis glorified bride, the church, all the world shall h a ~ ebeen blessed with full release from
error and superstition ;when all shall have been
brought to an accurate linowledge of the truth
and ability to obey i t ; when the h a 1 test a s to ,
love and loyalty to God shall have been applied
to all the world, then as numerous as the sand
of the seashore; and when this test shall have
separated the unfaithful, wilful "goatsJ' from
the trusting, obedient "sheep." Verse 9 sliovs
the destrl~ctiova of all the disobedient, the
46
goats," just as did Matthem 25 :46. Verse 10
speaks of the devil; and whether it refers to a
system of evil, a form of sin, o r whether to the
literal devil, matters not to our argument. (We
are not called upon to discuss nhether or not
the devil \\-ill have some torment. \re are plainly assured that he shall ultimately be destroycd.)
TQe notice, however, that the verse is highly symbolic; for "the beast and the false prophet?
mentioned are symbols, and hence the torment
of those symbols must be figurative or sqmbolio -.
torments. And a t all events it has nothingwhat-.
ever to do with men, the evilly disposed of
whom, verse 9 distinctly states, are to be destroyed.
Verse 15 of the same chapter, foretelling 04
the same judgment a t the end of the Millennium
of favor, declares : "Thosoever was not found
written in the book of life was cast into the lake
of fire." This might indeed imply t o r m e n t , w e r e i Y
.
not that the preceeding clause distinctly explains
that the lake of fire signifies the second denth,
as also does verse 8 of the next chapter, speak- '
ing of the destruction awaiting the s t m e claea.
Revelation 19: 3 speaks of symbolio Babylon;
her "smolte [rcmerubrance] rose up for ever.*
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one that this statement applies. The symbol as a natnral result of disregarding the r~anl~s
refers to a great syste?jt ~vhosefall froin vast way and follo\viiig instead the traditions of
power misusd is graphically portrayed in SFmen; for the "beast and his imageJ' and their. ,
bol in chapter 18. TTe will not here i d e ~ ~ t i f vworship surely belong to this world; and that '
this "roman7" "Babylon;' as it is not pertinent it will be before the present age is M y ended
is shown by the succeeding verses.-Revelation
to this discussion.
Rerelation 11:8-11 is the only remaining l3:12,13Before leaving this side of this question it
passage to esamine, and it is l,y far file most
difficnlt to make plain; Eecal~sc the average will strcngtiicn it if we shall notice that the
reader has no aclequate co~iceptionof the sig- apostles Peter, Paul, James, and John-aside
)%fication of the connecting s~mbols,the beast from the Founder of Christianity certainly the
and his image of the preceding chapter. These greatest theologians of the Christian church,
represent great reljginus spstelns wIiicll already and the only ones whose teachings can be recog- '
exist and have millions of devotees among nized as of plenary inspiration-have not one
Christian peoples; and one of these, the word to say relative to the'punishment for s i n
"image," will yet, by closer federation of being eternal grief or eternal torment. On the
smaller religious systems, become much more contrary, erery one of them declares in rmeqmvocal terms that life everlasting will be the reinfluential and arbitrary.
l
through Christ t&
mis be in the end or "harvest" of this ward of all w h o - ~ areturn
and
feuowship
with
and *f
age and the t l a m of the new JIillennial w,
which thf! Scriptures declare viU be introduced, d e ~ t r u c t heverlasting will be the ultimate fate ,,
after full knowledge and blessin8
not by peace, 1,nt by a time of trouble such as of all
was not since there was a nation. It +I1 be in under Christ's figdomy W ' Y
rightthe presence of the Lamb, i. e., "in the days of e0U"esS and practise sin- For these testimothe Son of mann ( L d e 17 :26)-in the parot&
nies i% to the reward be&g life, see John 3: 16;
(presence) of the Son of man (a ~ i r i being,
t
5 : 24; 6: 54; 10:23; Romans 2: 7 ; 6: 23; James
11: 18; I Peter 1:
mseen by
sight), n.hile the world in 1 : 12 ; 1Timothy 1 :16 ;
4
7
5,
9
;
1
John
2:25*
For
their
testimonies
general is proceeding with its usual affair+
eating, drinking, planting, building, etc. (Uat- to the pendty milfd sin being death,d e s m .
them 2): 37.38) me thought here is beclouded tion, see Pldippians 3 :19; 2 Thessalonians 1:
to the Eng!ish rearler by the mistrallsIation of 9 ; 2 Peter 2 :1; Acts 3 :23 ; James 4: 12; 1: 15 ;
parolcsia, which is rendered co.mi~tginstead of 1 John 5 :16 ; John 3: 36 ; &tthew 10:28- And
if the scope of investigation be extended to the
preseitce.
Old Testament, the same will be found to be
I t rill be during this period of the Lord's the
of rill ~e holy prophets
presence, and before Be shall hare put d o n
worlrl
beeban.
the
all opposing authority and power, and while
intelligence will be spreacling over the world,
Tile word
in Our common
the
to in Bible is ve1.y misleacling in this connection, inthat the great religious systen;s
Rcv:elation 13 =I1 exercise their power and plying as it does to the mnjority of readers a
allthorib to hinder incrcming light; and by phce of consciousness, of fire and pain- N0thbe ing could be further from the real m e a i n ~of
hiem
doctrine of eternal tornlent
enunciated afres!~and impressed ; and all ~ h othe ~vordhell, as may be seen by consulting .
tormented by XTebsteis "Unabridged Dictionary:' where the
reverence these s ~ s t e m s\\=I1
their doctri71es of fire and b?-imston.e and by primal'g meming is *own to be ('the place of
the F a v e ; called in Hebrew
fear for friends 11-hose eyes ha\-e hccn opcncd the ded''-"or
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s
I
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c
o
~
,
by
the
Crcclcs 1 d c s . " Webster tells
so that they deny the rea,conablencss of such a
bc]icL (Cobpnre Isaiah 29: 13-14) Thus thesc u s f u r t h c r that this word hell comes fmm the
nrill be in?toment s,-, long as the? wors~lip old word "hcle-to hide, to conceal, to cover, to
(reverence) these hnman ~nstitntionsand their roof." And so me find it asecl in old English
doctrines more than ancI instead of tlie Word Literature in referring to the putting of potatoes
in speaking of thatching or cover- .'
of the Lord. But that this torment will be in into nits n ~ l d
the present life is RS ev1c:ent as that it 13 111 come 111g:I hoilsc.
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Turning to the ~ e b r e wand Greek of the original Scriptures, we find the corresponding words
d e o l and hdes to have a corresponding meaning, as Webster avers. These original Hebrew
tu~dGreek words occur in d l seventy-six times
in the common version English Bible, and are

redeem all from the original sentence of death

and restore to perfection pf life and being all
who ~vouldaccept His covenant of life. Long
centuries 213d faithful Jcn-s waited and looked
for the pronlisecl llessiah, who should be their
Redeemer and Life-gi~er.And no wonder, then,
that His birth was announced as good tidings.
,--- ,forty-one times translated hell, three times
<: k w l a t e d pit, and thirty-tmo times translated Tme, the J e v s overlool;ed the part
*r grave. The diiiicnlty is not SO much in the trans- said that these good tidings should yet be unto
. htion--if the word 7 ~ 1 1be given its ~ r i m aall~ people, and supposed that it would be o d r
meaning: *'The place of the dead:' "the grave" to the Jews. True, also, the c i a z e d f e n ~ v ] ~
-but in the fact that for several centuries p ~ have
t
yet heard tile message of ~~d~~faror to !i
. a theological, secondary definition -has beell men tlirongh this Life-giver llare framed creeds
attached to the word 7 ~ e l m-hich
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makes it mean and theories which virtually declare &is angelia
a ~ l a e ' o ftorment for the living, the very re- message a falsehood by teaching that all hope
verse of the 0ri@nal or primary meaning of the of hearing about and believing on Jesw is lim,word, as all scholars know or should know.
ited to the few years and accidental circrun,
We, therefore, call upon Ur. Ingersoll to con- stances of this present life. Let us, neverthecede that he erred in saying that Christianity less, stick to our test and aclcnon-ledge that,
came mith a message of eternal grief; or else whatever be the tidings of today, Cbristianitp
that he specify, giving chapter and verse, not did come with a message of ccgood tidings of
overlooking our citations and explanations great joy, which shall be [made h o r n ] uttto
above.
all people"-not only to those who since His
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(2) Let os now examine the other side of birth and death have died in ignorance of the
this first charge, and see if Mr. Ingersoll mas o?zly name whereby we must be saved, bat also
- correct in claiming that Christianity did not to the billions who had died before God's sdva.
tion was brought to light in the gospel. Does
c o w with tidings of great joy.
It was when the babe Jesus was born that the thi? imply the awakening of the dead? Even so.
mdtitode of angels, inspired from above, sang, I t 1s provided that ' a l l that are in the graver
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth shall hear [obey] his [the Son of man's] voice,
and shall come forth"; and then, as the testiwatowmd m e n p It rnm the
peace,
sent to tell the shepherds of the same great mony of these glad t i d i n e shall reach all peoevent who said m t o them: "Fear not: for, be- ple, the message further is that "they tbat hem
hold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, [obey1 shall ~rv~"-live everlastingly-wcle
be destroyed from
which &dl be to all people. For unto you is such as will not obey
' born .
a Savior [Syria% Life-giver]."among His people.-John 5: 28,25; Acts 3:23.
W h e n it is remembered that the apostle Pad
. Luke 2: 8-14.
This is the message with which Christianity was a most logical and truthful miter, that his
came; and this, not what it now variously de- writings cover all subjects connected with the
clares, is our topic. Men realized that they mere gospel and constitute a large portion of the New
dying and they desired life. God had offered Testament, and when we hear h h say, "Ihavekx
life to Be Jewish nation if they would l~eep not shunned to declare unto yon all the counsel-^
of God" (Acts 20: 27), and yet ethal find not
. perfectly the Law given on Sinai. God
knew that fallen, imperfect men could not keep one syllable about eternal grief, me begin to
h t Law,'trnd therefore codd not secure ever- nndersblid why he codd SO heroically defend
losting Lifa mder it; and the Israelites soon the gospel ~ i l i c hhe preached. h d we C= then .
fomd hom,tme this was 35 one by one they appreciate his exclamation, '? am not ashamed
dfed, and thus proved that by the deeds of thc of the gospel of Christ; for it is the Power of
sight. God unto salvation to every one that believethl"
none of them were justifiecl in
w3s
to
teach Ah, yes! Tha reason that so ~ L Christinn
Y
But
God's
plan
(pomnns 3 : 20)
them, and through them to teach all men, the ministers todny are ashamed of the gospel they
need of a Savior, a Life-giver, who shodd preach is that to a great extent they preach
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Paul did npt believe and did not preach. Bat, covenant, in Christ, was that the obedience of

esiunining the evidences, we are fully assured each should be judged, not by his actual WOthat Christianity did not come with the message hut by his intentions and efforts-the sin-offerof grief, but with tidings of great joy which ing of Christ compensating for all unintentional
shall be made known mlto all people. Ah,yes! ~realmessesand errors, to every one that balievexclaims Brother Pad, qnoting from the eth. The Jews thought these tidings too good
prophet Isaiah, 'HOTV
beautiful are those pro- to be true, and clung to the Law.
claiming good tidings of good things.'-Romans
mho can read &e New T e s m e n t epistles
10:15;Isniah52:7.
' and not be struck with the joyous spirit of the
Hear the apostle P a d again, preaching this writers, even while they mere endnring :&a
i' message even when his life was threatened. He tions for the preaching of these good tidings of
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says: "And me declare unto yon glad tidings, which they mere not and had no need to be
how that the promise [of a Messiah, a Life- ashamed? Judge of the contrast: HOTmsny'
giver] which mas made unto the fathers, God thousand dollars a year would it tske to hire a
hath f m e d the same unto us their children. man of the apostle Pad's ability to p r e d the
Be it knomn unto you, therefore, men and message of eternal grief one hour each week?
brethren,
that through this man is preached unto Ent note that Broth- Paul was so enthusiasth
:
you [not a message of eternal grief, but] the with his message of the grace of God throagh
forgiveness of sins; and by him all that believe Christ, the "good tidings of great joy, whiah
are justified [cleared, freed] from dl things."
shall [yet] be [made known] unto all people,"
This modd indeed be glad tidings to all who that he forsook an honorable, influential and
understand the message. Indeed, the objection lucrative position m o n g men and Writ his life.
- nrg.ed against that early gospel I V that
~
it was in the se+ce of these geod tidkga, often d e r too good to be true. They codd not conceive of ing imprisonment and d p e s , and e m with a
any better message than their Law, which lacerated back in prison singingpraise God,
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oiyered everlusting life to aU who would ohey because he was accounted wort%
a Master and such a gospel
it perfectly. (Romans 10: 5; Galatians 3: 12) the service of
But this gospel with which Christianity cn)lre of which he was not ashamed. Bat hh
to them declared that they codd never merit had no dement of eternal grief in it.
everlasting life under the covenant of works,
So, then, it is not true that Christianity cwna
because all are fallen from perfection and hence with a message of eternal grief; but the aonfrom ability to do perfect works. And tlie glad trary is proven: That i t brought good tidings
tidings of the gospel of Christ consisted in of great joy of ~vhichno sensible man needed
showing that, in Christ, God had provided for to be ashamed.
all men 3 way of obtnini~tg everlasting life;
that as all mankind fell m d e r condemnntion to Charge a n m i n e d
heurk [not to eternal torment and grief), and
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as the aaond
into mentnl, nloral and pllysiczll impel-fection,
gignntic falsehood of Mr. Ingsrsoll's di,
by Adam's disobedience (they, being in his l o i ~ ~ s ,
I;,
statement that "it [ C M ~ Q ]
.
,inherited in a ~ o s natural
t
may all tlie effects has filled the future with fear and flsme, and
of hia fall), and thus lost \ ~ t h dl riglit to
~~d tile lceeper of an eternd penitentiarg
Iife, SO God llad provided that Cllrist sllo~ld destined to be the home of nealy
the eons
, -purci~nsethe life of Adam (and of the race
Y.,Y,
which lost life through him) by the saerjfice of
me gresrune that Dr. Buoklep'P objection L,.'
Hia o m life M it h k o f f e f i j r g on tlieir behalf.
not chriatianitg, but (tad, bar filled as
This provision was made in order that through future nrith fcnr and flame. ~ u ont this p i n t
thin Ibdeemcr (in clue time) the offer of life vc must Rgree dth Mr. Ingersoll. The fact
e ~ e r l ~ t mmight
g
be 13mnkd to each member callnot l,c d i s p n t ~ dthat the flltme is fnU of fear
of the race upon condition of olecl~crlccto His to the civllizod world-fear either for them~ R W S . And. 1)cttc.r tllnn the J e w i ~ Law
l ~ ( \ r . l ~ i f . l ~ selves or for their friends. And after examining.
r e d l y justlficti none--8ebrejt.s 10: 4; C't~li~t:n~~s
the Scrlpturcs, as above, me find that Bod is not
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"Tcn~l~csts
of angry iirc shall roll
'Yo blast the rcbcl uorm,
And beat up011 thc nnhccl soul
In one eternal storm."

responsible for this fear, nor did Chris tisni t~

come with a message to produce such fears.

h d the pages of history clearly show that the

doctrines which produce these fears began to be
introduced in the third century, lvhenthe church
m-

began to
from the
it^ of the faith Christ and the a~ost'es, glVing heed to the seducing inauences
Pagan
P ~ ~ and
~ ~"doctrines
~ ~ P ~ Y
the
ih doctrines indeed, b1asphelnies
md character. (This n=s clearly
predicted by the *pestle. See Timothy
2: 3.) And the
in.
many words, asserts that these fearful (loctrllles
are of human fabrication, saying, "Tllcir fear
toward me is taught by the precept of men."
-Isaiah 29 :13.
We see but one exception that can justly be
taken to Mr. Ingersors statement in this case;
namely, his charge that Cllristinnity makes God
tile keeper of an eternal penitentiary. nTeo~
jeat to the word p e n i t e ~ t t i a ~ yA
. penitentiary
is a reformatory institution, more nearly correspending to the "purgatorf of Roman
c b ; h t the "ell" claimed
both nomanists
Protestants, but which me have
to
without authorization in God's 7Vord and taudlt
men," is
a penitellOnly '%y the precept
tiary, bat a hopeless prison of despair, described
by that admired but greatly mistaken good man,
Dr. Isaac Watts, thus :

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tentiarp
just restraints and
for sins. And illdeed the EiI3le does teach that
the entire earth
s]lortly be tunled into a
vast
(r~llrillgthe llillennial r e i s
of Cllrist) in xllic]l llot only\l<lI a11 rnn1;ind
under the matrajnt of an iron de,
with,
rigllteonsne~slaic1 to the line and justice to theplummet, but that the11 all shall also be brouqht
to an accula:~tcIa~olvIcc?qc.of ~Ilctruth, that they
may be sn~ctl.(Scc 1 'l'illlotky 2: 4) But this
clivillcly arral~gctlp c ~ ~ i t c n t i aof~ ythe nest : r ~ c
is not to be an e t e l l l a l oae. No, thnnl;. God. it
shall accomplish its clesigned object by bringing
to perfection aild harmony with God all ~ 1 1 0 ,
after full linor~ledge,shall delnonstrnte t l l ~ i r
love of ri,-hteousness and tmtli; nild by cuttillg
off from life and hope, in the second death, all
those \\-110,alter 11111 knorvleclge, lore sin. (Revelation 21 : 7,s) Then will come the time when
universe, free from sin,
Gotl ma haye
and free frolu
And tllen there
sllall no n ~ o r cdeath, neither sorrow nor crping ; for tile former things [n;sociated ~i-ithsin]
slid the11have psssecl awn>- (Re\-elation 31:4),
and heapell
ear^
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Child Slavery Increasing

HILD labor of forty-eight varieties continC
uer in the forty-eight stater of the United
States. Child labor does not mean selling newspapers after school nor workng a few hours on
h o l i d ~ ~ aI .t means toiling long hours a t machines in factories and fields, excessive tasks p t
low pay, and no time for educstion, pIay, or
healthy growth.
A fedefal amendment is a necessity. Congress might easily have passed a new child
labor amehdment to take the place of the one
eliminated by the Supreme Court in Nay, 1922;
but it has not done so. I t has lost more time.
Children less than six years old are sometimes discovered to be daily child laborers.
Children less than twelve years old are working
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already secured in several countries; and i t is

the a h of our National Child Labor Committee.
Counting o d y the children bet~veenten and
fifteen years, l,OGO,SjS is the census figure of,
1020; but child labor is increasing. Unemploymcut of men mlcl women is increasing. Children
arc sliovi~lgme11 and moilien out of jobs.
~he:e are states that have enacted and enforced good ia~vsagainst child labor. But even
the people n-ho live in modcl states-and such
states are rare--use goods produced in all the
states. So all people who use food, clothes,
tools, toys and newspapers are'using articles
produced in part by child labor. All states are
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~ v i t b Issue N o m k r BO we began rannlng Judge Hutherford's new book,

In. Harp o l God". w l t l accompan~lngqnrciour takln; the p l a o of both
Advanced and JuvenUc EimL Studha whlch hare been Mtherro poblLh.6

"'St. John, subsequently writing concerning

the Lord, en~phasizesthe fact that they saw with
their own eyes, saylng, "That which was from
the beginning, ~vhicbwe have heard, which we
hove seen with our eyes, rnl&zh we have loolied.
upon, and our hallds have handled, of the Word
)of life; (for the life was manifested, and we
have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto
you that eternal life, which was with the Father,
and was manifested unto us;) that which me
have seen and heard declare me unto YOU, that
ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly
our fellowship is with the Father, and with his
Son Jesus Clirist. And these thirigsmrite we a t 0
Yon, that Your joy may be fdl-"-l John 1: 1-4.
lTxThuq we see there were more than five
hundred witnesses who testified to the resnrrection of the Lord Jesus. This alone should estabLish the fact beyond any question of n doubt;
but when we see the reason for the Lord's
resurrection, the whole matter not only becomes
clear bat brincs great
- joy to the heart of one
who sees it. ;'TI must firtilermore consider that
these faithfill vitnesses of the Lord did not go
to some isolated place to give their testimony
concerning IIis resurrection, but they gave i t
openly before the tribunals, before Jews and
heathen philosophers, coartiers, lawyers, as meU
as the common people. Tlicy (lid not wait until
years aftenvard to begin to give their testimony
co~lcerningHis resurrection, hut did s~ i-ediately after the grcnt event took place. Tliey
were so bold in cteclaring it that had there bccn a
possibility of refuting their testimony me map
be sure that the Pharisees would have attempted
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So persuasive and convincing mas the Apostle's
argument that the Jews who had participatedin ;1
having the Lord put to death "were pricked in ~f.
their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rast -<a
.-*of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall ;:.
we dot" Some of them d e n t i death and .:r;;
martyrdom because they preached Christ and -Zhis resurrecticn. (Acts7: 1-9) me apostles and. early Christians received mu& persecntio~!-,
becawe they t e d e d boldly &at J e m
-raised from tke dasd. Thep ~ o d not
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e n d a n e r t h e m d m by gi*g
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fact that they . W e it i.=ediatel?
and boldll,,
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mhnt was their motive in testifying of
Lord'st
resurrect~ou? 11 274.
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on the contrary, they kncw that they mould

bring upon :Ilcmselves tlic indisnation of the

~ h n i i s e e sand rulers and nvouldexpose themselves to spffering and de3tll.
Peptecost,
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rpsurrcction of the Lorti, the apostle Peter stood

forth before the multitude and proclajmctl t o
the men of .Tntlcn and 311 that clwelt in J c r u s a lem concerning the resurrection of tile Lord. In

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Broadcasting the Tmth

D I0 Station nT B B R , "TVatchtower,"
R Abroadcast
its initial program on Sunday

This station will be devoted to educational

purposes, particularly dong the line of B i b W
evening, February 24. The p r o g r a was as instruction, and broadcasting high-class s
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follows:
music THE GOLDENAGEWill c a r q in esch
issue an outline of the program broadcut
Plum Solor
Pmt L W. Jackron
from this station and at a least a portion of
( a ) Jfinuet In G (Pntlerewskl)
(b) "Soartti,"" ( Schu~lin~in
)
the lectures given by Judge Ruthaford clrPd
Duet- - . . - .J I ~ .F. \\'. Frnnz and U n Corn 0. I V e l l n w other members of the Association
"Huld .Thou 31). Hutid" ( B r i m )
The opening address of Judge Bathedord, J
Solos.----,..-......--.-,,Urs. Cora C. W'ellrnnn
( a ) "The S l t ~ r t pand Sine" (Edward Cumpion)
the
time above mentioned, we p b h h in hill u
/ ( b ) 'The Lunl is JIy Yfirphcnl'. (Helen Llopeklrk)
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(c) "Just as I Am" (E.Cutter, Jr.)
IJroC. John T. Read
"lion Lovely Are Thy D~relllngr" (Llddle)
Solo
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' T h e Penitent" (Vnn d e Water)

Connrvgationul Song
"Slea.*ti Ulble"
Lecture
d u d - J. F. Rutherford
"1::tdio and Divine Prupllecy"
L B. S. L Hawaiian Trio..-.-L e s a r a K A Howlett,
Eric Honlett and R F. Knight
( n ) "KiILm8"
( b) Selection
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hflsa Dorotht Cooh
'*Oh. Dry T h o n Tears" (Teresa Dei Rim)
Solos
Prot John T. Rerd
( a ) "Jehovah Gulde Us" (Jloznrt)
( b ) "Jesus Lover of Sly Soul" (Tours)
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"How Beuutlful Upon t11e Jluutitnlns" ( IIurker)
Congreptiu~tnlSung
"All n a i l the Poser of Jesus' Name"

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Every one on the program is a real artist.

The entire program was an unusual one of highclass entertainment and instruction.
This radio station is located on Staten Island,
at 1111Woodro\v Road.
The Bible Students Association have built a
beautiful residence in connection with the station in which the studio is located. The place
is known as "IVatct~to~ver,"that being the English for the IIcbl-ew word illizpek, ~vilicllreally
means a place from which the truth is sent

forth

Radio and Divine A r , p w

ROADCAS!ITNQ ttre voice by means d
radio is one of the marvels of tb, sga It
is a f-ent
of divine prophecy.
It irr exceedingly inkmating to r e d that I o n
thanaixtyyearaagomanbegaatoaeudwb
less messages. About that time M;r. X a h h
Lewis made some eqerimenb in the mountain
section of Virginia by sending up kibr
miles apart and h m m i t t i n g m e m q p bethem. He applied to Congresa for 5 m & l rid
with which to develop his invention. Contreated the matter as a great joke. kr US6 Mr. Lewis died, unrewlrrded for hia eeorts and
practically unknown.
Less than thirty years ago Mr. .Marconi, on
his father's farm in Italy, sent his first wireless .
signal a distance of one hundred yards. Five
years later his signals crassed the A h t i c
I t is less than ten years now since the Bell
Telephone system transmitted the human voieo
by wireless from Arlington, Virginia, to P d
and to Honolulu.
The first broadcasting of any consequents
mas done by the Westinghouse C o m p a q of
Newark, N. J., in the I"& of 1920. Less
four years Inter, in the United States aloae, it
is estiniuted that there are from three million to
five million homes equipped with appuatru ta

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radio. Today it is not a t Pmphecu
dl U I N X S R ~for one man to speak to an andience
the foret*g
of eTenb
nOPHE=
penona
be heard by
of ooe
all.
long prior to the happenkg of those event&
r e c e h meamgw

h these wouderful achievements man has re- such power

ceived much praise tMd g 1 0 ~ .'SVhile this k

proper, in a sense, it is eminently m o d proper
that we give honor and credit to the Great First
Cause, who made radio possible,
He who made the
man's great central
Power station, which produces the Power to
make the wheels of colllmerce go round, and
and transmits life
which C8UM8 light by
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and
fdngdom; He who
h u g the moon and the stars in the heavens to
redwt the light at night, who made the momtaina and the vdleya, the broad fields and the
r i v e n that drain them, forelmew and foretold
the wonderful radio which we are now enjoJing.
ueat
lmen when H e created the
universe that man would some day use the radio
brodwting a ~ ~ a r a t o a * He lmew long
befon He on.kd
When He
the earth with ether, which carries the waves
induced
the sound of the human voice, He
that it wodd ba empioyMf to
the earth.
memga
and gbcy dw.
-. HirniaoUhnor
In 1886 Ednrd Bellamp wrote a book in
which the mggestion was Inrrde that within 125
7man
at home and
hem a m o n preaded or enjoy a muiCd conce produd at some
pLm. He
the
d*tion
then upon his knowledge
, tdephone b wire. His was h u d l y a P ~ o P ~
b ~ at d e d d o n baaed upon tandble things.
Jehovsh, through a s prophet Job, xmre than
3,000 f e a n b f o m that time, foretold the b s mission of messages without wires. In that
prophecy he raid:
"Cm8t thou send the lightnings, that they
mrrp go, and say a t 0 thee, Here we are?"J o b 38 :35.
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How codd Job know so long in advance that
the radio was a future possibility? mas it because of his superior wisdom? Indeed, nut so.
I n fact he did not understand what he wrote.
From the beginning Jclioval~provided that the
radio e h d d be an integral part of 11;s plan.
Be & Hi8 prophet to write of it in dark
laying%m d in His 0 1 1 ~due time He cnllscs
to bring it to fight for & own good
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the infinite, the divine mind, codd b o w a d
does know --hat the fntare hold& Therefore,
divine prophecy meJehovah for&lling futare events.
But why should Jehovah, 3,000 yeara ago,
foretell the radio? And why shodd man know
m e and power only in recent psro?
of
meanswer is this: Jehovah fontold it for
the instruction of man a t the proper and imporbn,*
to
tant time. He permit^ it t,,
light in =is due tinw to
R8d
pmphecia of the B&b
Ood
men, they wen nitten
men a His instrrunents to rrite. Th, prom
not
they m o t &
a
pe-t
them to mdentanb
sedid
th.q
however, that when
mwfe#
these prophecies to be revealed thaw rbi.n.
wise will mark the falfilment and a&&, menning thereof. The -,
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meaning of that term, are those r h o honor the
Lord by seeking to know and to do Hia holy
wilL The wise are they who seek to apply t
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to tb.
kno\vledg and info-tion
divine standard*
Through a number of Hia prophets Jehovah
foretold the prominent m a t . that r o d d
d d n g the t h e of the end It
be r o a d
that almost all of the pmph&u apply to the
~ ~ Yof, ~e end. By this term is not w n n t the
~d Of time; for time goes 0. e t e m d y . The
time of the end means that period of time durkgwhich there is a change of conditions r&ting to society. The history of the world ia
divided into ages, or dispensations: The first,
from Eden to the Flood; the second, from the
Flood to the coming of the Messianic Idngdom.
The prophecies relate to the closing days of tha
T E ~time of the end is not
latter
;it a&bmces a period of more than one hm- .
drd gears. The
that the time of .
the end begnn in 1799 and has progressed from
that date. From then till now the most momentous events of man's his to^ have t d e n placeThere has been a tremendous increase of b o d edge, not due to the ~risdomof man, bat to th*
fact that it is God's due time for man to know.

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HROUGH the prophet Daniel Jehovah said: CORRUPTION amongst the rulSng factor$ of j
In tho time of the end many shall run to
the world is now made clearly manifest to
and fro md h w i e d g e shall be increased."
the people. This is slso a fdibnent of divine .
Tday people travel by rail a t a rate of ~ r o ~ h e c y *
' upwards
Vmderlip, a noted fintn-9
a
Mr. Frank
of sixty d e a per hour. This rapid
transit is further evidence of the fultilment of few days ago pnblid~said:
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divine prophecy as marking the timebf the end.
&hcke8the g 0 ~ e m - t at ib haut
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The f h t locomotive en,gine mas invented in It haa been attacked b~ mmething far more h g e r o u
m i l i W invasion b7 a f o ~ fa
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- 1831, less than one hundred years ago. Man'
record."
diahon*
ia a
marvelled when the first locomotive p d e d a
train of oars. hiany think that the railway
B U ~why &odd the Teapot Dome oil acandrl
means
of tranait is the result of man's inventive
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o m due time, to bring it to light* m o u g h His I t is the Lord's due time [aHe Mid] w h
prophet h'ahum Jehovah gave a description of that which is
np
a rapidly moving vehicle, which is readily rec- watthew 10 :263
ognized now, as a railway train. Nahum had a
t,,
thers
a et
fay
vision and described it, not knowing its mewfrom the faith
tb lord .nd
apoc
ing; md 2,500 Ye- later Qod permitted m- ties*
more recent timer a grist contraother man to put that vision into operation
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ip =lesiarticd
realms izr
K&nm wrote :
Modernists war against Fundamentdbb, dew"The shield of his mighty men is made red, ing the Lord and the great redemptive ma&&@.
the valiant men are in scarlet; the chariots
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proph*~
11ap.
shall be with flaming torches in the day of his plicable to such at this tima,
profid01
preparation, and the fir trees ahall be terribly m r e written by t , b d 8 f a i w
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shaken. The chariots shall rage in the streets, 2,000
ago:
they shall jnstle one against another in the
uThi6
that int
b
hpr
ph
broad mays: they shall seem Like torches, the7 times&hall come, F~~man
l o m a of
shall ran like the Lightnings. He shall recount their own selves, covetoar, hoe ~ ~ o o d
his worthies ; they shall stumble in their walk; blasphemers, disobedient to paren& m m .
they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and tal, d o l y , without -t~ya d&q
the defence shall be prepared. The gates of the breakem, f& -em,
inc0ntin-G fierca, &.
rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be
of those that are good, tom, h d y ,
dissolved."-Sahnm
2 :3-6.
highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovA quarter of a century ago it mas thought era of God; having a f o r m of godliwsa, b
d
imposeiLle for man to fly through the air. Now denying ~ J Mpower tkreof-'' [2 T h o t h y 3: 1-5)
great ffeetr of .hips ply the air, carrying their
The 8-e g m t ~ m ~ h e twriter
io
said of thh
be
g
r
e
d
wickedne88
lihlg burdens. While this t regarded by mJm tim that there
as a ~noderninvention and the result of his own high places. It is even so.
mcxital acumen, the *Scripture3 show that God
Dhhar
foretold the airships many centuries ago. When
LTL sober-minded men know that the world
Isaiah was giwn by t
b ~~~d a h i o n of &e
is in a sad condition. Fear has taken hold
airplane he said:
of men in every walk of life. Both the ruled and
" X l o are these that fly m a cloud and as the the ders are in
and in perplerih
doves to their Fcindoms 7" [Isaiah 60 :81
The great statesmen of the vorld a p e that
For His own good purpose God foretoId the they know of no adeqnate remedy to meet the
air>llip, and in His own clue time pcr~nittecl djstl.cs3ctlconditioru, The thinkng m m reyer.
mall to put tugether the rnncl~l~lr
Ly which he ently a>l;s: IF tile great Jehovah God, through
His holy prophets, has foretold inventions f o ~
can By,

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of man, is it not reamnable that the

: same God may have foretold, throuzh His
prophets, sometlliug concenri~lgtile preslBntdeplorable condition of mat1 and also what the
h. future holds ?
Soah is a l o t l y the eilse. The purpose of
$7
F. .revealed propllecp dnriag this time of the elid
is to inform the niee arirl thinking people that
God has a complete remedy for the ill9 of ha.. mankind and that this rcrllcrly js set forth in
.. His Word. Hence the rital i~r~ptrt~.ncr,
of nnderstanding divine propkc~pat t l1i.s timc. But
how shall the people understand unloss they
. . are taughtt

Cnderstnnding and obeping the tmth is noabsolutely essential to the welfare of mankind.

The Truth
BE greatest teacher that has Lired c?aearth
was Jesus of Sazareth. 1Ie spoke as no
other man ever spoke. It n-as Re who said:
"'L'lry tr-orcl [as stated in the Bible] ia truthw
Tliat which Jesus held before His hearers aa
paramount to man's welfare was and is the
kingdom of God, Kearlp all His parables related to the kingdom. His discourser related
to the kingdom, and time and again Z e emphasized its importance. He told His disciple8 that
\vIie;i they prayed they sh6dd ask Gad fe? the
Dedication
coming of Iiis I&gdom, that God'a .will dfll;:
HIS radio station is dedicated to the inter- be done on earth as in heat-en.
,
ests of thc lcingdom of the Jlessinll. I t is
Jesus infolmed IIis disciples that M g the
. for the welfare of the conlruon pcople. I t was timc
of the end heretofore mentioned tho dd
the love of God that provided tlle plan for order 11-ould pass a\;-ay, to be succeeded trf tb;.
man's redemption and blessing. Love mast be new and better order of hnman 8ucietf,j, thJ.
the motive prompting the teaching of man con- the passing away of the old ordtr w o e - cerning the di&ne plan.
the end of the world, and that the kingdom 06Since the Lord has permitted the radio to God for tlle blessing of man would s h o e f&
oolite to light at this timc, it surd? is 1Iia good
low.
pleamire that it siioill(l 1~ ~wcdto tc:ich the
;I11 koucst men are interest4 in thst which
people concerning the fullillncnt of I l i.s :I-cat will 11cltterthe race in general. Satetally J e d
prophecies, and that .this teaching sl~vi~lcl
be tlisciples r e r e 1;eenlp interested in the canine ,
without money and without price. This ratlio of the change of dispensation that meant the
station wm builded with money consec-rntecl to fulfilment of the promises which God had made
the Lord. Its purpose is not cor)trovcrsial, hut to tlieir forefathcbrs. Hence they propounded to
to enable the people to ullderstar~clin tltc light of our Lord this q~restion:
the Bible, regardleas of creed or de~ioluination,
'
"Tell ns, when ellall tliese t h i n e lml and
the meaning of the times in wtiich we are living.
what
shall be the sigr~of thy coming and of
Jehovah hrw a u-ell-defined plan \vhicll ITc is
tke
end
of the \ v o ~ ~ l i . l[Ilatthem
f
24: 33
causing to be workt!d 'out in llis own sovereign
The
nnsu-er
tliat
Jesus
gave
to
this
question
way for the bellefit of man.
coultl
not
he
fully
understood
and
appreciated
Knowing from the beginning that a time
t l that time. The I a c b show that Hir
would come when man ~voulddesire soiuc clefi- by t l ~ e ~at
answer
\\.as
intended especially for the benefit
nite information Jehovah caused 1Iis prophets
of
t
l
~
c
pcoplcs
l i v i ~ ~ong earth at the time of the
to write, foretelli~lqthe happening of events;
fullilmerit
of
llis
pl.opllctic n t t e r a n m ; and that
~t
and these events stand 3s sile~ita d p o t e ~ witthose
\vho
arc
\vise
according to the divine
nesses, testifying a s to where we are. The railstn~rdanl
~vonld
be
~satcliing
for the fulfilment
way trabi, telegraph, airsl~ip,mdio, and other
of
tilcse
p
l.opl~ecica.
The
understanding
of
like inventions, with the great irrcrensc of
their
f:lllilnlent
\vill
enable
man
also
to
approxilulowledge, are testifying today i n powcrful
terms to those who think, that we arc? in tlie mate closely tvliat the immediate future holdr.
'l'ho ~hysicalfacts show that the p r o p l ~ e q
p e a t dispensational chanp, passing front the
bld into a new and different order. We have coliteiltecl in the Lorcl's answer to this 811-imkrrched the end of the world. By that I mean portarit question l)egan to have its fulfilmcnt i~
the encl of a dispensation wherein :.rlfishness 1914, and is still in coursc of fdlfilrnent, probas predominatecl. We have come lo i r time in grcssing toward a climas. The answer of Jeror
to the disciples was:
' bhich selhhness has goi~cto seed.

'

"Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there s h d be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers
places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."
[Matthew 24 :7,8]
By this we u d e r s h d that these t h i n e j a t
mentioned wodd mark the beginning of the
mrroms upon the peoples of earth, evidencing
the fact of the end of the old order; and that
from that time forward the old order of things
would continue to disintegrate anti1 it reached
a climax, to be followed quickly by great blessings to the people.
The JVorld War came in 1914, involving the
principal nations of earth. Such daughter of
never befom h o I t weakened the
men
nations involved, and they are s t i l l weak and
even growing weaker. When the war ended and
the representatives of the nations asambled in
Paris, 31r. Wilson, Mr. Uoyd George, and other
distinguished men stated in plain terms:
"The old world t ended. A new order har begun.

We must proceed in r new way?

But there was still more &appointment in

store for the people, for the r e m n that men of

the rrorld were looking at the problems entirely
from the human standpoint. The war furnished
an opport=W for profiteering, and after the
war those who had tasted of profiteering continued the practice. No human power has been
adequate to cope with the conditions of the
world today.
The Lord foretold that. He plainly stated
that following the war there would be such a
condition on earth that would bring distress
and perplexity and cause men's hearts to fail
them for fear; and auch is exactly the condition
that has prevailed and now p n v d s throughout
Emope and
p*
of the earth.Pde
21 :261
The present condition of world distress b not
the final end. Immediately ahead there are
mnnlr things about which the people dtould be
informed.
Jesus declared that when these things jaet
mentioned have taken place then this gospel of
the kingdom shall be reclaimed in all the
world for a witness to J n a t i o n a and that then
the end ahdl come. [Matthew 24: 141 Gospel
means good news. If It i~ good ncios, it must
mean that there fs somethillg good to follow;
md that being true, it becomes the duty of

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every Christian throughout the earth to"-2

claim this good news to his fellow creature. -3
Four thousand years ago God made a pr&-2
be, which promise He bound with Hia oa&, $ '
that through His kingdom all the families of 7
the earth should have a blessing. [&neah 12: 31
For this reason His kingdom b of greatest h-p
portance to men. I t is the deaire of mrp a m i
person to enjoy life, liberty, and haPPine8~It :
b manifest that these blessing.lr are not m j o w
now. Every one recognizes that the P m a t k
an msatisfactory condition of human a k e e d The ;
Selfishness, greed, and dishonesty p
~
h underg bdenst
and &V
people
Th.Lord
know not how to relieve
has the remedy and of this the people
OW- m a t m m e d ~is God's Idndom*
The PUQose,
of
radio
the hdomBy
is pro*
the
lectures given
this place
b
explanation, in the light of divine pro*-,
will be given of the events daily n p o d in
the press. W e the calamities incraw d
the
burdens
men meoPmade mom grimus to
be borne,
theofpurposr
ba,
i8 to point man to a briBh*
bh
j;st abed
it iit
.imporhot
.nd
the
people,
i8 of far to mmimportanm
to
lightan them concrming the PnSeIIt .
' 8
and to point them to th.cO
k=frision for man'8 rGef fmm tba. 60nditio1U
and to the blessings that s h d l follow.
u ne h d kt
divine pmphdeB
beins fme&
and that tbcSe evid(Ala a md
diSpeDJadond chan(ls, 4btthishe
a
httermds
ri+.. gmms,
thq
hail the good neas.
ahodd
Too little heed h a been giwPto tb..bd7 of
the Bible. We need to recognize that it k Godpa
Word given to man for his instruction in righteonsness, that he might b o w the m y && lea&
to pea- and endless happiness
The Lord declared that the dmo would come
when His message should bo poured oat upon
the air. This prophecy must have a fulfilment
The r d o seems to have mot this requirement
Now the time is due, beyond question, that the
gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed b
the people, that it should be said to them: "The
klngdom of heaven is at hand,." This kingdom,
when f d y established and in aperation, JlQl
bring the desire of all g o xwtt01~.

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The Metropalib presa is too much absorbed
with worldly, s d s h matten to be iuterested in
the kingdom of Messiah, hence will not carry in
their d m s that message. The Gomprx A G
magamine and some of the country papers have
promid to carry that message.
Beginning today it is the purpose of this
&ation to broadcast each Sunday and Thnrsday evenine lectures for the instruction of the
people in the Bible. I t will be my privilege and
plerware to give these lectures for the next few
weeks, which will embrace the following sub-

,New York, State Engineer and Suneyor,

Alban7, N. Y., Feb. 25. 1924.
"Just before rctiring last evening I happened to tuno
~in on pour station, and heard clearly and well the last
hvo vocal numben. I understood your announcer to say
that it was the.initia1 broadcast from your station,
which made it more interesting and occasionr this l e t
"State of

w-4.B. D.

"Newark, N. J., Feb. 86, 19%

"Conptulationa on the wonderful broadcasting of
'glad tidings of great joy to dl.'
C

jects:

W B B R

(I) The oreation of man.

(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
ment

That Bountiful Blwings Rererled

"Judge Rutherford'r voice aar very distinct; md dl'
M clear aa a bell, and M loud a8 any station ia tlu air.
Indeed, it is the toice of the Lord, to whom ba dl tb*

Why men have suffered and died.

Tbe great promise to bless mankind.
Redemption and deliverance provided.
The preparation for a desirable govern- honor and glory.

W B B R
With Bountiful Bleasinga Rejoico
(6) The pasaing away of the old and selfish
" h d indeed I did, feasting on the wondtrfal prararrt
order.
h t h vir the radio at honu. Rejoice!
(7) The establishment of a new and desir-

able condition o i society.

- (8) Who w i l l constitute the righteous rulers.
(9) The blessings of life, liberty, and happiness granted to man.
(10) Edenia paradise established in the earth.
My hope is to revive in the minds of the
people a keener interest in the Scriptures and
to plant w i t h their hearts courage to with&and the storma now beating against them,
enabling them to wait patiently on the Lord for

W B B B

Wailed Bitted7 Beausa Reproved

4
7 muat have bean the el?& upon ccclcsir&ci..m
and the p m , coming w u n e q d d l y "u 8 thid in
thr night."-W. H. 8.

"Auburn, Maine, Feb. 25, 19%

Tt is k t h much plessara m cm e t a _roo that wa
had the privilege of heuing lour Iecture Sundry m
ning. We look fomud to the succding lectures, and
thank our heavenly Father thst we cm hear your
a melsyls d good news to the wor1d."-B. C. C.

the establishment of conditions that wiU f

the desire of every honest heart.
On each Friday evening will be given over
this radio instruction on the International Sunday School lesson; each Saturday evening will
be devoted to answering questions on the Bible.
All are invited to w3te out their questions and
send them in.
AU who love the Lord and who have hope for
better conditions for mallkind under the Lord's
righteous reign I greet in His name. To His
loints I send this ~ r e t i n gof love and best
wishes* The blessings
the Lord
you
one and all, Goodnight !

"Niagara Falls, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1924

"Isaw the notice in the New Era Enterprise that you
would bmdcast tonight, and tuned in a fen minuafter nine. I heard all of Judge Rutherford'r lecture om
'Radio in Prophecy,' and enjoyed every word. Tha
music was excellen~BrotherFranz and Brother I
Z
e
d
of Chicago. I greatly enjoyed the piece, 'How Beautifd

Upon the Mountains.' "-Urn J. B. B.

"Wadsaorth, Ohio, Feb. 25,1924

',Mkr mmingharne fmm du. meeting
in&
we tuned in a t 1": 30 and
the last tire numb
on your mopram. The solos were clear and distinct, u
announceis voice, but not wry loud. 'we
The station has 'e'eiv'd
'om~limen- wa; also 'thi
a threteh
wisard 3 1 i l ~ cimit.
~ l ~ ~ wa
t~ responses from people in varions paW of
bothared mmewh& by interferesEayy-E, 1. L.
the country, a few of which we publish:
' V a a r r . Ind., Feb. 25, 1924.
"13ayonnc?, N. J., Feb. 25, 1924.
"Your first announcement came in frririy dear M
"Your programs are scnsihlo; the first of its kind I
b v s hcrrb"-8amucl V. Osias.
7 :30 Central time."-H.
P.

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"Rahway, N. J., Feb. 23, 1924.
"Just a line to let you know that I picked up your
atation about 8: 48 o'clock Sunday evening, and listened
to the mtuiul featurm and the talk by J. F. Rutherford, and enjoyed it nrJmuch. The reception nu very
clear m d distinct. The talk by J. B. Rutherford wao
very elerr m d loud, not amplified. I have a onetube,
three tune circuit, a home make. Keep the good work
up; we d
l be looking for more in the ffituraJ'-

W.H. B.

AGE
"Cincinnati, OGo, Feb. 2S, lM&
' 7 V e had the extreme pleasure last evening of lisbing in on our radio C your station WBBB, and it a m 6

in an dear as a bell on our loud speaker. It was a grat

treat, aa it stormed Sunday m hard thrt ar codd nat
attend aervica While I nu tuning in, I rccidentdly
brought in your ctation and heard all the &ce%
Your
bass a010 war p a t , m d Misr Coolie also wu h,
wcll as Judge Rutherford. We wodd go r l q Way to
hear him. Will you please send ua your rchcdule
broadcasting? That night and what time a n we lhtm
in? We am devoted Bible Students, and don't .~.nt
ta
miss one of your ate-at.6."-W.
(3. lL

rW~msviUe,Vermont, Feb. 26, 19%

'%esponding to the rquest of your announcer at
station WBBR, I am picased to report reception ~t t h ~
Qblbany, Ga, Feb. 28,10984.
point. There w u no interference whatsoever from other
'We tuned fn WBBB Xaat night, but h d nm mccaa
broadcastera, but from 10: SO to the clore there waa
more ar less disturbance from amateur &tiom. During on account of interiarmcea w i f h award rtrtioar
the same period WJZ progrrrm w u d
l chopped with thesrmswamhgth. W e u m d a W - B O
rbtb @
code. l b p t i o n through entire period vu absolutely old model, W D 11 d q & tuba, andcontinuoar, but clarity nnd h n e varied widely. The you on the d a t d o s rlana I rLo had m .oeYfrt.Mc
piano at tima KU the best we hsm ever heard, and at at hl[oatido, Florida, to tune pa in; rPd hr rhl In
got you very well, lldnga Q y l e d mctrie &--Sf.0.
othcr timea it was exceedingly rough Judge Ruthford's voice nu particularly h e ; although not unifonn,
not a syllable waa missed from 8: 30 to 11: 01. Condir'hhgtm, lrl. J, Fab. 96, H%..
tions here tonight were not farorabla Volume of all- "I d T a d 70- rtrtion on XOSL&~,
I94
dationr war above par, but there waa much atmoqheria 1924, at about 9: 00 p.m., when tha
d
disturbance. One noticeable feature of your program Gomrrr baa waa broadcadirig nerr of th. radd, a d
which I predict will be applauded vigoroudj was the listened to your program till you dgned ob. Y m pirno
prompt announamenta. This lack of usual delay, I selections were he. Please send me a ad a porphlet
belleve, is mom important than is appreciated at the telling when you are again on the air md at what meter
transmitter. There nnr ertended dclay occurs we have you are broadcrrating. Hoping to hear par p # m m
listaiers-in operating unstable oufits who start tuning, q a h and hoping that you gain u much p q t W Q u
thiu!:ing they have lost their station. This creates r the larger stations in New York, as I unpa
condition worm than atmospherio or codaJ'-T. T.
a n a new station, I ~main,~--C.
W.

Brief Notice of World News

(Broadcast from Wntchto\ver I\'\'IZBH, wnve length 244 meters. February 25. 19%

'Re

OSE of llis editorials about three years

fro Dr. Prank Crane made the stntenlc~lt
that everybody in the United States ought to
Cbe interested in wanting a better governulent.
A glance into the Teapot Dome at this time
would seem to suggest that he is abont right.
There is a suspicion in the minds of many true
Americans that certain large business intc rcs ts
have too muell to say as to 1~1i;ltshall bc done
a t W a s h i n ~lr~ r i .
Somc of these Americans were snrp1.iscrl four
years ago this month when o gcntlv:llan who
hail a t one t i ~ n eor other r e p r ~ v ~ n tirk
c ~al large
way the Amcric:~n Tobacco Conip;tri!-, .T. .'1
Morgan and Corcyaoy, a n d rllc 1Sc1l Tclcpllone

by tho Editor)

Conipany, predicted that Warren ff.

Harding
would be the next president of the United
State#, and that he himself mould be one of the
fifteen me11 who would p a t that gentleman into
that position.
They were astonished four months later when
these predictions turned out to he true to the
lctter. And when the gentleman in question waa
made Attorney Genertil of the United States,
tllc most iniportnnt oUice within the bestanal of
t11c president, they were dismarcd. Just now
tlic:?- arc parnlyzed. See my daily papr for
particulars.
One thing seems certain: The Republican
nnd Democratic parties, yhich have been fun+

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GOLDEN AGE

tioning for two generations, are showing aII the

d p of dimolutio~
No m e need be surprised if two or three new
p d e a emtar the p o l i t i d a d d this year. If the
Amarilun people really desire an honest-top & e m h o d e a n i n g they probably will con&to
their forcer and get behind one such
but the astute leaders of the old parties
may 50 depended upon to sow discord mithin
the mnka of the political reformers, so that if
there is a new party it will be either twins or
$riplet&
Om m m p&y might prove dangerow to
them, but more than one will make the dedding
pod for the old managers, AE the matter now
stands it ia immaterial to the business interests
.whichof the old parties is victorions next Fall.
Blready a third party has gotten under way.
It has been christened the "People's Progressive
Party." I t s nominee is Bobert R Pointer of
Dearborn, Mich.; and, as might be supposed, it
h a a following among the men who were intera t m i in the candidacy of Mr. Fordo But Mr.
Ford har declared for President Coolidge and
put bimseli oat of the running.
!I!he platform of the new party calls for the
abolition of the FederaI Reserve banking system,which they rtigmath as "the most titania
legaked p d t e ever fastened on human indua*."
They would also do away with the
electoral college and elect by popular ballot;
they would pay the roldiers a bonus.

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in the better things, it ia first necessary for him

to be inspired vith the real hope that the Bible
holds out for suffering humanity. That how
lies in the fact that the present unaatisfactoq
eocial, religioas, financial, and commercial conditions are but temporary; that the wisdom of
this world is fast becoming very foolish; that
a hornledge of the truth d
l bring about the
complete emancipation of the race. This bowledge k near to its realization. We are in the
throes of the birth-pangs of a new era,
The time is ever more certainly nearing when
judgment ahall be laid to the line and righteonsness to the plummet. By means of the radio,
and by other means, the truth on everJ rrabject
shall ultimately
the earth with the Lord's.
glory as the waters cover the 8es. Thbp them
shall not be a single place in all the earth when
a liar, or a thief, or a profitear, o r a p&
or
vain person, or a teapotsil-doma poliwill
feel at home.
Prohibition is having it8 effeots in heathendom. b e r i c a n missionaries no Ion- btr to
explain that liquor is not a
p d t
A press report eays:
"until prohibition came to Amdm Chrktirn mi+
donariea found themselvu hmdiupped by the foaf that
the native people in the m h i o n s q dd& Wirrd tht
liquor was the d u s i v o product of white Chrkti.nr;
for it war brought into t h w loMk by ah* wn, md
the natives naturally came to the condadan th8t liquor
was a thing for which the Chrttirn stood rpoolo~."

Great Britain
UR day is a day of feverishness for kings.
One by one the rulers are having their
scepters removed, and their diadems pawned.
An item of considerable s i g n i s m m cornea
from England. It sayu:

P
money. President Coolidge has approved 0
the proposal of an appropriation of $14,000,000
UTTING liquor oat of business takes

for dealing with rum muggling. New, swiftrunning boatr w i l l be built and life-saving
rtationa will be opened, if the plan is put into

operation.
While it is true that much may be said
a g h t prohihition, there is much in its favor.
.The rum-nmning and bootlegging activities are
demoralizing, snd certain localities are injured
by them. Prohibition ia not the true method
to get rid of any evil. The proper way is by
wholesome educati~n,getting the people interwted in life'r problems, so thnt the desire for
booze and all other evils, gradually diminishing,
would eventually be entirely assuaged.
But in order to get a person so interested in
the problems of life that he will take rr delight

'%ha AfhCinnie Pallistar, who .rru daction agent ta

Premier Ramsap ItPCDonold in Aberavon in the recent
genenl election, In speaking at r Sm&y mating in
Bradford expressad doubt u to whether tho Prince af
Wales would ever ascend to t
h throne, becraa the
'counti). [is] growing up and mbg the old inrtitutionr
eloughing o&' 8hr voiced the riea thrt the sloughingoff procau might c u r y with it the monucby of GraJ
Britoin at no distant &taw

Great Britain has a three-cornered p o l i t i d

situation : Unionist, Liberal, ind Labor. Tho
Labor Party, at present in power, cannot continue in ofice without the support of the Lib-'

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of the best minds in these

C.
:two
Parties should give Britain as good a goviernment as is possible at this time. All lovers
:t of their fellow men will hope that the Liberals
will not withdraw their support from the pres;cmt Labor government and thus throw Britain
into the coniusion of another general ele2tioe
. For the first time in its history a government
reception was held a t the arist~craticHyde
Park Hotel in London, at which only ten perp n t of the guests were dressed in the swdlovtail coats which in Britain are part of the usual
raimelit of gentlemen at the evening meal. This
innovation was a good thing for London, for
Britain, and for the world. The idea that men
or ~romenmust be robed in some peculiar way
. before they can partake of their evening meal
is nonsense.
JJr. UacDonald, the new Premier, began his
administration by introducing a program of
carrying to completion bills already introduced
by the former Premier. This is a sensible idea
JLr. JlacDonald calls attention to the fact that
Critain has only fifty percent of the men in the
building trade that it had before the mar. This
is a great loss to the empire. hlany of these
British ~vorkersare now exnployed in America.
Mr. UacDonald states that his government haa
no intention of making a capital levy if it can
be avoided. It proposes to reestablish wage
boards for agricultural workers so that the
wages may not fall below twenty-five shillings
or ahout S.5.75 weekly. Bow mould you like to
try to support your loved ones on $5.75 per
week? 3lr. JlacDonald hopes that the United
States mill enter the League of Nntiona. I t
mFy be truthfully said that this hope is shared
by millions of Americans, and is not shared by
a majority of n i ~ ~ nd yo n s more.
Mr. I\lacDonald made ti visit to Palestine
r r l y in 1922, anrl was greatly impressed with
what the Jews are accomplishing there. I n his
book, entitled "The Awakening of' Palestine,"
he says of the new Jen-iaii immigrants into
that country :
"They were coung, buoyant, confident. Jlauy of them
had keen intrll~?~ti::rl
~ n t , , r e s t s . and a state rich in such
cilizrnx iu to I ) ( ctrvicd. 'l'hcy took t h e ~ rhard work,
their blisters, their rough fare in gooti part. 'l'hcy were
proving to thelnselvea that manual labor and culture
m mdly good cornliarlions tvhcn one get3 awn? from
rrtilicial rays of life, a d they Here educat~ng m d
: inspiring their f rllow a.

"One goes through Palestine now with the wmm d

many a prophecy on one's lips. One hcrn them u
though the hdln whispered them. The campa on thr
seashore, by the waysides, on the hills, wun to ham
come to the command of the ancient of Days,
to
have been arranged Long, long ago, when it w88 promised that He 'will m b l e thc outed of Iural snd
gather together the dirpersed of Judah from tho four
cornen of the earth.' Time has brought forth wen&
and,the land of Israel again receive8 h a childna"

Early in February Mr. MacDonald was or&ited with having expressed the wish for a ges
ture from Washington for the calling of unother
conference to reduce still further the h u e
standing armies, fleets, airplanes, poison gas,
and other accessories of our preaent d d h ~
tioa Apparently he did not get the g e d w
which he sought After the lapse of two aeeb,
with the help of the -Unionists, sometimer called
the Tories, the Labor government came to the
inconsistent decision to build fin new cruise=
and two new destroyers. In building them &ips
the immediate objective is to provide employment for some of the large number of W e d
workmen now idle in Brit& Them are expert
mechanics in Britain who have done no qork
in three years.
Ever since the war, house rents have been
controlled in the British Isles. A bill has been
introduced to extend this control until 1928 In
justification of the bill it ia argued that in Scotland there are 125,000 homes which contain but
one room, and that in some of these one-mom
homes as many as a dozen people exist Surely
any person with a heart must wish that mch a
condition may be changed.

fiance
HE whole world is uneasy about France. It

does not know why the French have prepared such great air-fleets. As a r e d of
numerous warlike nioves French credit has been
so injured that tllu franc is rapidly following
the path of the German mark. Aleantime, the
saiile pllenomena are \vit~~t~ssecl
in I'mnce whicb
\\ere ~vitncssed in G'c.rrunl~yduring the same
periocl. k'rencli citizc~rsare hicling their money
abroad. There is a feverish prosperity causc(l
by the fall of the franc; but it will come to as
sudderi rr stop u s i t .tiid in Gemm~y,if the
Frencli p- e o- ~ ~ lsutlcl(!~~l?
c
discover that their
paper mouey has lost its viilue.

* GOLD

-1
Fmm d
d that Germany must par in Awtria
t
1
iaJI the danagm which were caused by the var;
RESEST reports from Austria are not ro .<
bat Franoe h d claims that she cannot pay
farorable as those of a few months ago. :
&e United Eltates anything on the vast sum It is clainled that the morale of the Austrian
b o d from this country, despite the fact people has been considerably injured by tha
that ahe hy neized and now controls four-fifths recent revival of prospcritp in their corn-;
ob th4 richeat wal a d ore deposits of Germsay. and that instead of patting forth efforts to

bdependent statesmen of .other countries

dsim that it t the gubtle policy of the present
French government to foment insurrections in
rsrioua parta of Germany until mhat once was
the G)erman Empire is broken up into a halfdo- d armtries like the prerent Ballurn
State&
Frrurcs now haa an air-fleet that.could probably contend mcessfully with the combined airfleets of all porrrible antagonists. I t is claimed
rkro that itr atanding army is equal in efficiency
to the asmi- of any three other Europenn
amntriw.

B.nnanlt

ORRTRLE
H
in

wema have been enacted in

Bavaria recently, where, as in other places
Oarmsny, efforts have been made to split the
oountry. At one tpwn where forty men who
were interested in one of these Separatist movementa had d e d a city h d , rr mob milo reranted their activities sprinkled the building
with gasoline, uet f
h to it; and when the Seprrratiatr undertook to escape from the building,
offering to surrender and begging for their
live4 they were literally torn in pieces with
axea, pitchforks, and rusty sabres as they
emerged from the building. Some, indeed, were
reized alive and thrown back into the fhmes.
In thia a d & twenty-one of the attackem were
themadvss a k
..
Despatches ahow that in districts controlled
by the French those who undertake to form
Beparatiat governments are protected, whqe d
who attack them are arrested. In some districts
any quiet, respectable, peace-loving citizen is
liable to be arrested and held as a hostage if
any attack is IMde in his town upon those who
rre engaged in organizing rebellions @st
oermany.
It is estimated that sixty percent of the Qerban people are uuffering acutely from want of
lood and clothing, and tllat ninety percent of
hem lack many of the actual necessities of Life.
<

Live modestly and accumhte something, th.

people hare fallen into a habit of spending

their money as fast they get it. The Amchancellor of the exchequer has r e m e m e t d
the Austrian people in an o K c a m y y j n r t d
their extravagance and recklesanem.

arnvm
R W. P. (3. Harding, f o m w (3-

&
M
the Federal Ecserve Bank of the Vnit*b
States, has been appointed b a n d d i e m d

t
hl
Hungary. This appointment was mrrd+
League of Nlrtio~la Since the
was made that a.
Earding
appointment there comes newr from B1&drpkQ
the capital of Hungary, that th. Rr'3iagub.
cmvn is in a state of collapse 80to the collapse which has come b the p.pu
money of Russia nnd Germany, aPd. W
seems to be impending in F r a n a

m
-u
b

Spain

wm

N Primo de Rivera, militaq diutator

of Spain, seized the Spanish g ~ m t ,
and estnbIisked there another dictatomhip lib
that of Alussolini, he stated hirr expectation of
maintaining the dictatorship onlp
dapr
Now he says it will take six or seven years.
It is claimed as a consequence that the Bepub=
lican movement is growing rapidly and that it
ia not impossible that before long K b g Alforw,
will be compelled to abdicate and a rep&
will take the place of the presarrt mo-7.

The League of Natfonr

HE League of Xations haa

4
holding r

T
Disarmament Conference at Borne,
in the effort to extend to
other coantrie~tha
Naval

all

agreements reached a t the Vashingtm Disarmament Conference. after weeks of dhcuasion no present solution of the problem
to
be in sight. The Spanish g o r ~ ~ p m ehas
n t withdrawn from official participation, becnuaa thq
Conference refused to agree to the Spnuish de;
mand as to what should be the size of theh flaot''

'IA.

GOLDEN AGE

?-&#

Zionism
X IXPORTLXT conference has jnst been
CURIOU$3LY cnongh, among the nations r e p
resented at the League of Sations Diualmaheld at the Hotel Astor, New York, at
:. ment Conference one of those which declined to which after an all-ddy seesion some of the moat '
haye its fleet reduced was Russia One would influential Jews in the United States, not prehave supposed that Russia has such great prob- ~ i o u s l yconnected with the Zionist movement,
lems at home as to be co~nparativelyipdifferent voted n,nanimously to coaperate with the World
on the subject of naval armament ; but the plea Zionist Organization in the development of Pal- .
has been put fonvard by the Soviet represents- ,estine. The committee expects to appropriate
tives that Russia has four different seas to for this purpose a considerable s u m of money, I
guard, and that these are geographically so not yet definitely agreed upon, but perhap
widely separated as to require a separate fleet amounting to $;5,000,000.Dr. Ch& WeiPnann,
the President of the Zionist Org&z8tion, exon each coast.
The widow of the late premier of Bussia, presses the belief that the Jews in Palestine crur
Nicolai Lenin, has made an appeal to the public afford to borrow this large sum on a strid@
not to waste money erecting monuments to the business basis and to pay six percat intereat
memory of her husband. This is sensible. The on it. It would seem to ns that there should be
Russian people apparently loved Lenin and in this great city a d c i e n t nmlpber of wed*
wished to honor his memory by a monument, Jews, interested in the Mfiknent of the prophs
an idea, of course, borrowed from the custom cies, to let these Zionist patriob have tbn w of
this money for the development of rr Jewish
of the put.
Lenin himself was out of sympathy with such homeland without charging them any intemt at
vain show; so the widow suggested that if all. The Jlosaic Law forbids a J m to mUeat in36.
money is to be spent, let it go for orphanages, terest from his Jewishbrethren.-Lev. 25 S,
hospitals, and the care of the young.
The New York Americm reports that we have
The Russian government is considering the a Zion on a small scale near to New York In
formation of a self-governing Jewish state in the t o m of Woodbine, New Jeraey, estabhhed
the Crimea and the adjacent district on the by the Baron Hirsch fund in 1891, there was
Black Sea It is claimed that in this district not until recently a single Gentile. Them are is
one million J e v s are already residing, and that the town six well-established factories and threa
there is room for at least two million more. hundred homes, fitted with every mdern elHowever, the Bible shoms that the place ~ h i c h tric appliance and labor-saving device Tht
God has especially selected for the Jemish peo- colony was established for refugees from R m
ple is Palestine.
sia, and shows what can be accomplished by 8
Dr. L. T1700d Iread, a professor in the Uni- resolute and industrious people H b e r i c a i q
versity of California, who has jnst returned twenty years' time.
from Palestine, reports that the Holy Land is
now the scene of n U manner of new enterprises, Sgria
and that Palestine and Uesopotlunia give
HE traditional policy of the United States
promise of again becoming p'zrts of one of the
Government has always been for the prinworld's great higir--:ays of trade and travel. He ciple of the open door of equal opportunity for
reports that vork is progressing on the mater- Anlericm traders with th'e traders of other napower project of the Jordan River, ~vhichis to tions. After protracted negotiations such an
provide electric Lights and electric power for agreement has recently been made respecting
the cities of Tiberins, Haifa, Jaffa, and. Jernsa- those areas of Syria which are under Frencb
lem. In Palestine at present there are forty control. There a r e large i~umbersof S y r i m
flourislung Jcwrsh colonies. Ilarshcs are being in America, or persons of Syrian parentage, to
drained; hillsides are being rei'orc~ted ; ade- w!lom this mill be good news.
quate police forces protect the settlers against
interference. An interesting p u t of lus story A rtstralia
is that near the city of Jerusalem, in the placc
I! Il,E Dr. Mead was away, he Jso visited
where David and Goliath had their duel, a dozcn
I\~~stralia.Eis -port is that it costs the
handsome new homcs arc being corlstruc tcd.
English and Australian Governments $5,000 for

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aj

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every &&&man
placed on Australian land,
and that each mch settler is likely to fail urlless
he p e r s o d y has $1;jm more to invest in the
l c h a e - The o ~ ~ o r t ~int bi ewr i c a are

30,000,000 persons Living in comfort. Witnerrc

ing the efficiency of the Dutch Government i~
Ja;-a, he came to the conclusion that under
proper management the tropical regions of tho
nitely betk.
world are due for a vast development. It is
In Auatralia at the pment time boner are only recently that the northern white race,
being
- ~ g
fromthere
One cent to have fomd out how to live properly eren in
Wty cenfr a head. Thia
is because
is rery
little demand for horses anywhere, because of the temperate zones. Hence i t is no wonder
fie ~
i
d
~Of -tor
~ veGcles,
~
a rrnd dso that they have not learned how to fin in the
h u m &e homer eat the food which-is needed tropics.
for the beep. On one ranch the Australian
If you wish to keep ~vellin the tropics, or
cattb king, Sydney Kidman, has just had 800 out of them, eat b r e d made from rhoit. wheat
h o w ahot because they w e n not worth keeping. flour, with none of the valuable minerds o r
other elernenta sifted oat. The bread may not.
Jcrw,
look
ao white, but your health will be better.
TRBVELEB who has lately returned
mhich
do you prefer, white bread on the tabh
from Java report8 that on &at island,
or
health
in your body1
whbh L the aim of New York state, he found

**

Which is the True Church? ( B y 4 Fornrer Roman Catlrolic)

article is
THIS
be
Bornan

written in the hope that it -will

read by
Catholics, and that sceing tbareby the unreasonableness, the nnfeirness to them~elves~and
to their Creator and to
the Word of God, in' taking a stand-o&h, indifferent attitude, they will at least respond to the
divine exhortation, "Come now, and let us re*
ron together." Bxiving at that condition of
mind and heart where they are willing to listen,
not to the commnndments and precepts of men,
but to hearken to the Divine Word, they may
profit thereby, to the end that they, with that
which is true, may prosper, and that which is
false msy be destroyed.
The Catholic Church takes this stand: hit
while the Bible ia the inspired Word of God, she
doe8 not rely thereon for "a reason for the hope"
that is in her, Rather she puts her faith in tradition and in the various teachings as expounded in Bulls and Encyclids, disseminated from
t h e to time by a Pope, who she professes to
believe is infallible.
F o r the purpose of this article it is not my
lntention to deny the infallibility of the head of
the Catholic Church. Rather I prefer to agree
kith my frfendn and quondam fellow members
~f the Catholic Church, for the purpose of showbg them wherein they a r e unreasonable.
The Catholic claims that he does not read the

Bible, because, the Pope being W e , dl

truths arc made botvn through him; and that
it is therefore unnecessary to "search the Scrip

tares."
I t must be borne in mind that in make-up the
Bible is no different from any other book or set
of books. If a Catholic desires to h o w n-hat a
certain Pope, of say the fit'tcenth c e n w , had
to say on a given subject, he must of necessity
go to his library, or to the archives of the
Church, and hunt up the "M.de,'' o r book, containing the pronomlcements made during that
period. Having read, and keeping in mind the
idea that the Pope cannot err, he goes away satisfied that vha t he has learned is "just and true,"

CaiscAirm on Head o f the Church'

SSUlKINQ that Catholics are in agreement
with me thus far, let us take the Catholio
(Butler's) Catechism, and turn to the chapter
on uThe Church," Chapter XI-A, Question 8:
"TO' whom docs the Pope succeed as visible
head of the Church?"
Answer: "To St. Peter, who was: (1) The
chief of the Apostles; (2) Christ's Vicar on,
earth; (3) First Pope and Bishop of Rome."
NOW,let us admit the inPdibility of thi~.
Pope, who succeeds Peter; and let as recall the,
preceding paragraph, viz, that we must seare&,

c
I

?:?he library for this Pope's teachings. Where and he shall send him who hath been preached '

:now do we stand with regard to the Bible?

.:

The Cathqlic is, perforce, ready to accept the

truth of his o m statement that St. Peter, the
first Pope, -as infallible, or to a h i t that Peter
possessed less power than his successors. Admitting that he can know nothing concerning
the succeeding Pope's statements mithopt refer. ring to his writings, the Catholic is unreasonable if he mill not go to the Bible to learn what
Peter, the first Pope, taught concerning the
Fplan of salvation.
While seemingly I have stressed this point, I
claim that from a logical standpoint it is simplicity itself, and can be grasped by any school
child, to say nothing of an adult who sincerely
desires to know the truth.
For the benefit of those Catholic readers who
are willing to proceed 16th me further, let ns
see some of the things which Peter, "the first
Pope," has taugilt. In the foregoing I used the
words "a reason for the hope." These are
Peter's otvn words, not mine. In his first Epistle, or Encyclical, if you ~vill, third chapter,
verse fifteen, l ~ saps:
e
"Be ye ready always to
satisfy evevone that asketh you a reason of
that hope ~vtlichis in you."
This is good advice; and if my Catholic
fricl~clsare altvays ready to satisfy everyone
that asketh them for a reason they are not far
off from knowing the truth. Othenvise they are
suffering from that blindness, that darkness
which covereth the earth, and that gross darkness which covereth the people.
St. Pet- Gives Inairuction

my C!ntliolic friends. let us turn hack

N OIV,
to the Acts of the Apostles. The title of

unto yon [Jesus Christ], whom the heavens

must receive, un.til the times of the restitutim
of all thitags, mhich God hath spoken by the
mouth of his holy prophets, from the beginning
of the world. For Moses said: A prophet &all
the Lord your God raise up unto you of yoru
brethren, like unto me: Him you shuU hear
according to all thine whatsoever he shall
speak to y o u And it eh$l be that werJ s o d
which will not hear that prophet, shU be
stroyed from arn0Iz.g the people. h d dl the
prophets, who have spoken, have toM of these
days [days of restitution of all things]. YOU
are the children of the prophets, and of the
testament [covenant, promise] which ood mado
to our fathera, saying to Abraham: ' A d B
seed shall ail the kindreds of the sotth&
blessed'."
Surely, having'just previously been fined witli
the Holy Spirit, Peter was inspired, by God
when he spoke these morda Surely, if auy hnman being is infallible it was Peter at that
moment. Then, too, consider that he had talkad
and ~ ~ a l k with
e d Jesus. Can any Csthalio doubt *.
what Peter told us on that memorable occaaionl
These are the first words spoken by Peter
after the Holy Spirit came upon him. We are
compelled to pay particular attention to them; ..
for it is only natural to suppose that M desired that Peter's first inspired words should
contain the key to the Truth.
Catholics agree that the Church waa founded
on Peter: That Peter waa given
the keys of
the kingdom of heaven.
I snggest thnt the words of ~ e t e kh, u e qaoted, are the key with which he has opened to ua
the truth concerning that kingdom. And herein
me prove conciusively that the Popes and Bidops of the Roman Catholic Church do not sa*
ceed Peter and the apostles as members of the
True Church, becanue these Popes and Biahops
do not teach what Peter. taught, and becaase
the Catholic Church denies the doctrine of
Peter, that there shall be a dap or dapa of
restitution of all thinp, as contained in God's
pro~liise to Al~mham: "In thy seed shall all
tho ki1111rrda of the earth bc blessed."

this book is self-euplanntory. Here we l e m

that tlie apcetlea mere altogether in one place;
and thnt they, including "the first Pope," Pettir,
)\\.ere d
l iilled with rhe Holy Ghost." (Acts 2: 4)
(I quote froni the Douay Version, the Catholic
Bible.) And the mnltitudes coming to hear these
marvelous men, Peter addressed thern. And
when tllep had heard him, they asked Peter,
%at sliall \I-e do 7" And in Acts 3: 19-25 "tlre
first Pope" told them, in plain, cnsily undrralood language :
"Be penitent, therefore, and be converted. Trite Church Not Human Institution
11-17' thew is the True Cliurch! First, what
that your sins may be blotted out. Tlint whrt~
is not the True Cl~urc.Ii?I I y nrlsmer is
the ti~ricsof reSl.cshn~o~ts
slinll come from the
presauce of the Lord [the heavenly Father], that the True Church is NOT m y human insti-

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GOLDEN AGE

Won, u mch, on thw faos of this earth. Dur- Peter for tlicir first Pope. They must Lelievw
g the h p d age, the Head of the Tme him or condc~n~r
their own beliefs. There is no'
urch, Jams Christ, has bccn cl~oosingn pea- midtllc coursp. 'I'liry must citllcr rrcccpt him o r
far His muno from among tiio Gclitilcs. reject Itim. LT they rcjcct 11im they mast reject

4
hem when complete will constitute
body
!t
mBmben; and together with Jesus, the Head,
the

they are the True Church. n e s e are the seed

of Abraham, through whom the residue of men,
- all tho hdmda of the earth, viIl be blessed.
An+ d
y institution, however commendoble its social works, which sets itself up as
being The Church, is a counterfeit; and the
*th is not in it,
I have written this aa briefly as possible, I
have not referred to the sayings of the proph'eta, I have not quoted the worcls of the apostles
other than Peter. I have confined my remarks
*hat
Peter taught, became Catholics claim
-.

his alleged succcssors. If they accept him thcz

must like~visereject the teachings of the Catholio Church.
I admit that this places them on the horns of
a clilemmn; but I trust that finding tl~emselver
in this yretlicwent they will obey that voier
which, c r ~ n from
g
heaven, said : "Come out of
her, my people, that you be not partakers of herd
sins, and that you receive not of her plagues."
Having taken this step in the right direction,.
they XU then be willing to acccpt G d s IIoly
Word, and prepare themselves to reeeire, not
plagues, but those blessings which arcr held h:.
reserve for those who lorn rightwumeu a&
hate iniquity.

Penn and the Indians

ago, on an occasion when the
M ONTHS
in Philadelphia, a reputable
Editor
waa

gentleman of that city gave him the data regarding the so-called Walking Purchase, details of
which are recorded in T m GOLDENAGE,NO. 92,
pagd 390. It now appears that our informant
.mnot accurately posted on some of these
details In a receat letter on the subject he says:
'Tenhap I did not mdu the division dear between
fbmaking of that b a t y by l%lliarn Penn, and the
umying of it out by hia mnr when it was reopened by
thr Indirnr beamso of dissatidaction on their p u t The

rffgms attided to whatever sharp or questidle p m

t b that ma7 have occurred muat be placed on the sons
d Pem, roeording to histoq.m

W
i
t
h thin introduction we present the following itma on the w n e gnbject from the pen of

one of our esteemed Canadian subscribers,

merely remarking that there is no possible
prejudice on our part against William Penn or
againnt anybody. W e regret it more than any
- one else could regret it if at any time me are so
mininQormed on any subject that our publication of matter which comes to us, cmd which at
the -time we have reason to think is reliable,
afterwards turns out to be incorrect.
. Occasiondy we h d indications among some
of our subscribers of what nearly approaches
mger that we &odd ever ~ u b l i s hanything a t
.

..

all without having p e r s o d y been on the seam

and witnessed the events recorded; but there ia
no publication on earth which i a run, or cod&
be run, on any such bask We am dwap glsd:
to make corrections, and are as glad to make*
these corrections when our critics are unrmson-.
ably severe as when they w e more considerate.
This correction would have been made mon&
ago; but it seemed next to impossible either to
get a correction from the gentleman who firat
unwittingly gave the misinformation, or to 5ndt
out what are the facts, either from that gala
man or from the one whose Setter folIoaa If
the facts below had been sent as sooner, the7
would have been published sooner.
'The ststetmant p r h d j d m in Tgl OOLPU Am
waa h t 'Pmn engaged thh moat expert of rnnnem,' a k
This waa 8n abrolut. fahebod, u William Pean paid,
only two vidta to hh colony, vk, 1682-4 and 169911101,
and was not thtrefora in an? way connected with t
b
Waking P u b nnd Tnrty of 1886, except kwiu
u the colony at the time wan hk own p r o m . Tht
k the pobt at issue; md thm on0 I h r ~ raought to hn
yon correct in justice to William Pam, whom iadef.ttgable labors for the good of the colon7 am h o r n to
those rho have read of a,ll that he had to conttnd
against in dealing Kith the English nobilib, dtu t
b
flight of James I1 to Francs.
"There is nothing in history that can rdect a&A
the nsme of William Perm, ao far ao hh p a s o d trub

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meat of the Indiana L concerned; and the proof of this

lies in the testimonj of the Indians themselves at the
time of hir h a l deputurs from the colony in 1701.
Y t w a s tu?cnue I considered it unjust, and a poor
policy for your journal to pursue, in endeavoring to
rmirch the name of William Penq whose life and

entire fortune wem given up In dent W a m fo thq.

accomplishment of a humane project which no other?
white mrs ever attempted, that I enduvored to p r w d
upon JOU to correct the error you made; but aa thb
seems to br impossible, you m q conaide? thr mrthr
dosed, so far u I am concmedn

The Trailing Arbutus

I wandered lonely whom the plne t m a madr
Against the bitter east their barricnde;
And, guided by its. sweet
Perfume. I found within a narrow dell
The trailing Spring dower. tinted like a shell,
amld dry lenvea and mosses at my feet

BV John G-O~

mitt*

From under dead booghq for whon Iog tha plna

Aloanrd ceaseless overhead, tho blosmdng rtnm
Luted thelr glad sruprim,
While yet the bluebird mootbed kr Iemdrr
HIS feathen mmed by the chill ra breeze,
bad snoadriftr Ungered under ApsU .Llr.

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A a pauain& o'er t h m lonely dower I bent,

X thouat of livea thua lowly, claflrd and pant,

Which yet tlnd roam,

Through care and cumber, coldnarr and d w .
To lend o dweetnesu to tho nngun1.l dny,
And maka the a d earth happier for theIr bloom

Perfect Music
USICAL ability was one of the perfect
M
faculties of mind with which our father
Adam
endowed before his fall. This attriwas

bute has to some extent been handed down

throughout the ages to us, his most imperfect
children; but undoubtedly we cannot begin to
imagine the beauty of melody and the perfect
rhythm of the Song of Adam.
We have an example of an aknoet perfect
word-song in the Bible-the Song of Solomon,
the son of David. David was a musician, and
Soloxnon undoubtedly inherited some of his
,father'e musical abili*. But as the notation of
musical sounds was not h o w n in those days,
Solomon left for posterity the nearest approach
he could make to a written musical composition
in the smooth, euphonioas word8 of his incomparable poem.
Nom if Solomon, being imperfect, could give
us such beautiful word-music, is it not reasonable to gay that Adam's song, as he trolled it
out among the leafy verdure of the Garden of
Eden, must have been the most exquisite music
ever produced on eartht
When E r e came to share his life -ivith him,
how happy he must hare been then, vhen she,
also endowed with a perfect voice and musical
talent, sang with him1 Imngine, if you CW, the
rich, colorful harmony in that duet, the exact
precision of every note cmd plurrse, and the

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graceful outline of e d m a s i d ides, Muancod,

no doubt by the complete beauty of their SIXroundinga.
Adam's song would probably not be plapbIe
by the greatest musicians of this o r any 0thperiod since the fall. We lack his then perfect
appreciation of the wonders of W s creation,
his gratitude for his own exiatepce, and his
faculty of expressing hia aentimenta
After Adam had sinned and consequently had
begun to degenerate in body and mind, his song
lost its beauty correspondingly as he was
dragged to lower and lower levels of thought
by evil influences. His descendants, their minds
becoming more and more warped, lost their
desire to produce song, the perfect form of
music, and began to cast about for artificial
means with which to produce sounds to interpret their musical ideas. The result haa been
the dcvelopment of various instruments, the
violin heacling the list as being most nearly like
the human voice in tonal and ekpressive q d ities.
Since the disobedience of our first parents, ---music has been steadily depreciating in quality.
Satan's influence upon the minds of the majority of individuals has been sncll as to destroy, "
in all hut a few cases, the harmonious thoughts
.
which 31%thc prime requisites for the prodtion of good musio.
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The Lord in Bir infinite u-isdoili has to n

certain exieut kcpt alive in some this faculty of
~ ~ u a i cexpression
d
in order tbat those \\.lie are
appreciative of ruuuio and who can understand
its real meaning may get a little glimpse of
what is coming when there sli:~IlLC IIO worry,
:hatred, strife, or any of the other evils which
:all through the ages have been slowly strangling
dl that is beautiful in the mind of man.
Some people have t h i ~ability of musical conoeption to such an extent that their whole lives
are imbued e t h it. Being imperfect, they consider that they mnst Live for music done, that
it ir the essence of life. We call such persons
Masters and Geniuses, and delight in the truly
great things which the? have to tell us aftcr
their own peculiar manner. Tlicy present before us their hopes, passions, joys, and sorrows
in a charming, irresistible manner. Their music
is wonderful, but not perfect.
I t is evident by certain inspirirlg passages to
be found in the more profound worl;s of the
great composers, that these men were merely
used of God, by means of wllom He has pcrpctaated fine music until the proper time, ~ - h o 110
~i
person shnU be imperfect in mind or bod?-, and
consequently no one faculty will be cleveloged
in excess of another. Then everyone will be able
to make perfect music within their hearts. to
express it with their lips or to produce it upon
their chosen instrument, and to give joy to all.
I n concluding it may be said with certainty
that the so-called Futurist Music of today has
:nothing whatever in common uith the fine nrnvic
of the present, nor does it fore shad on^ the music
yet to be. Ra:her, it is the mautlli~lproduction
of drug addicts, spiritists, ant1 atllcists: m d
the man-handling of good violi~is. flutes, etc.,
necessary to interpret the stuff should be
stopped.
Jazz ie absolutely not to be mentiorled in tlie
remotest connection wit11 music-good or had.
But regarding perfect music, ~viratLetter nrethod of praise is there than a song? Jl'ill not
those awakened out of the sleep of death have
good cause to sing the livelori y day? There are
many other reasons which will become apparent
upon consideration, and n-kich tend to prove
what prominent place music \\-ill have in the
,Pnture order of things, whet1 absolute harmony
of thought, word, and action shall reign over
'the eutire earth.
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Note on the Foregoing BY F. TI'. ~ n w u(Voadiat)

11E foreg8i11g article recalls the fact that
the I.ortl C'iiriat Jesus d s o gave vent to
music. IIc was indeed "a man of sorrows and
ncquai~it~d
with grief'; yet there were occas i c ~ ~\\*lien
~ s l l c s;rllg. The Scripture cites one
instance. It \\--as tlie time of the last supper,
tlle Jicmorial of His death, when, Judas Iscariot
linring left the upper room, Jesus was alone
\\-it11 tlie eleven remaining disciples. We read
in JIatthem 26: 30: "And when they had sung
an hymn, they went out into the J ~ O M
of ~ $I
Olires." Surely'Jesus must have joined in sing- .
ing the psalms that i t was customary to sing at
the Jemish Passover. Horn could He a t that
.
scnson have refrailled His voice when His disciples joined in singing the "Hdel," or song of
praise to God7 Ecre, then, was the first time
silice the fall of the musical Adam over 4,000
years prcrious that perfect music from a huu~trliorganism m-as kenrcl-the flarlessness of
a perfect mice. F o r Jesus was a perfect marh
the exact counterpart of the glorious Adam of
pristine pcrfcction.
.
From this standpoint an added signilical~ce
finds its way into the words of the officers sent
by the JemisIi clergy to apprehend Jesus. Tkey
escuscrl tlicnlselves for failing to bring Him
buck wit11 them by saying, '%?ever man spake
like this ii~rril!" Did they fully understand -drat
Jesus spdce, that they should make this remarkt
Very few, if any, did then. Very few have since.
But one of the things h t muat have entranced
the ears of the officers and made them forgetful
of their errand was doubtless the music of the
voice of that man as He taught the people--the
l~~elodious
q d i t y of that voice, its mellowness,
tlic su~ooth,rhythmic rise and fall of its pitch
lalidiit~perfect color to the meaning of what
mas sad.
TVF wonder also : m a s it the incompnral)le
musical tone in which the word "Mary" was
pronounced that caused Magdalene to recognize
her risen Lon1 ,and to cry out adoringly: '%ahbo~ii. . . I[nstcf9?
TVe remind ourselres also that angel voices
were heard over Bethlehem's fields a t the annunciation of the human birth of this Jesnr.
T l ~ emere tliouglit of angel voices e,nraptnrer
us. A l ~ ~yet
c l t11osc angels sang ordy nithiri tha
111usic*nlr:ulFe to which the human ear is ada~ted u d attuned.

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Heavenly voices make our thoughts rise yet

higher to the very pinnacle of mnaical expresi o n in all the universe, the singing of the voice
of the U o ~ High
t
Himself. "The Lord thy God
in the midst of thee is ~llighty;he uill save, he
will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in
his love ; he will joy over thee with singing!'
(Zephaniah 3 : 17) The joj-ful song of Jehovah
God ! I t transcends illimitably the finite musical
conception of the very greatest of hnnlan art-

i s b of harmony. H
ears-men *pe~fected in the Millenni-a
nersr h th.t '
divine song; nay morn,
nto appreciate it ~UJ,
tho= rho
ooastme
ad
th.midst of
H
.
now rejoices
smr
it
tbe,.=a

tw

a;x

all be changed first, dying to haman bodily lidwith their reomtitations and clothed
bodies, the divine nature.

Watching the Smokers

GEXTLEJIAX who travels, having read
-A THE
GOLDEN
AGE SO.109 on "The Truth

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about Tobacco," determined to take notice of

smokers for one meek, particularly where the
smoking was done in ul~usualplaces or in an
impolite manner. The gentleman in question
does not use tobacco, and the smell of tobacco
smoke is quite offensive to him.
The trareler's first observation was made
while sitting in a Pullman car, where smoking
is not alIonved. The car was reasonably well
filled with ladies and gentlemen. A man went
through the car, presumably headed for the
diner, leaving rr cloud of smoke a t almost every
breath
TVhile engaged in conversing with a wellappearing traveling salesmnn on an ordinary
topic of civility, be presently found himself
breathing an overdose of second-hand smoke.
The salesman with an air of superiority had
lighted a cigarette and nras blowing the smoke
carelessly into the traveleis face, perhaps the
thought of turning his head in consideration of
the other never occurring to him.
The only passenger in an observation car,
early in the morning, was writing a t the desk.
The solitude and satisfaction of the occasion
'wasdisturbed by a fellow passenger tnlting a
aeat about six feet distant smoking and blowing
oat into rings great volumes of cigarette smoke,
fouling the fresh morning air for fully three
hours to come.
In making a get-away from the above disagreeable surrouuclings the traveler in passing
by llle smoking room in an adjoining slcoper,
was met in the passageway by a cloud of cigar
moke as the curtain to the conlportment was
thrown back. The smoker then emerged right

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N. ~uisitiue

into his path, no doubt f&getting that th.

smokiug-room was the place for the Q.W~O d
not the passageway, where it wodd doat to dl
parts in the cas, where many of tho
were still sleeping.
On entering the smoking-room m the nat
ahead to wash and clean up for th.mo*
ha
was greeted with dense volumea of
d
cigarette smoke. Three young men, vba rpprrrc
ently had the heaves, were each trying to OW
the 0 t h in getting rid-of their rtPk Worr
washing. Two middleaged men mm dro ~q
smoking cigara. AIl
to be p d d y at
home in the filth.
Our friend attended a politi<nl meeting d o r e
there were ladies and gentlemen premnt He .
eat through two speeches in an ow-haatad
auditorium, while most of the men and o m o r
two nromen fouled the already poor rk with
tobacco h e r He waa away from homr, md
did not have with him a change of underwear.
To his discomfort his keen-&%
nose detected tobacco smoke in his undermar for tho
next two days.
I n making another distant jump on the train
the traveler was compelled to take a med in the
dining car. Sixteen ladies and five gentlemen
were a t dinner. One of the men iinished his
meal; but instead of going to the smoking car
he proceeded to Light and smoke a cigarette. No
one was accompanying him. He eyed and stared
a t the diners, espccidly the ladies, until he had
finished smoking. Unquestionably he thought
that the proper way to attract attention to himself mas to befoul the atmosphere in as delicate,
polite and courteous a manner as could be done
wvi th an offensive cigarette.
Another experience was whib thr h e

nu bungdrivtn 20 a friend's house in r closed

cab which wtta full of cignruttc, smoke. ,%aolhcr
was while listening with a group at a radio
entertainment, where the tobacco smokc was so
- thick- that it could have been cut with a knife.
:Still another was when in attendance at a mov.:' kg-pioture theatre, where smokingwas indulged
in with apparently no restriction, especially on
the second balcony and upwards.
The traveler also attended a religions meeting, given in a moving-picture theatre, where
rome young men who had come early had been
mroking. The upper stratum was filled with
mnoke. A volume of fresh air was circ~dating
between open doors in the frolit and the rear,
but t
b cloud of smoke above the door casings
waa undisturbed. The speaker in mounting the

platfonn wvns compelled to raise his head into

tlie smoke, half concealing it. In order to see
his audience bettcr in the poorly lighted room,
arld to kccp from strangling, the speaker got
down to the floor level.
Also in four cafis during the week the traveler was compelled to eat while others around
him mere smoking. In one instance young I d e a
( 1 ) were smolcing a t a place where them wan
signs displayed, "No smoking allowed."
One of the noticeable things to a traveler ia .
that smokers w&le boarding trains are carelem
about entering the cam, apparently not thinking which may be the smoking car.
To get the experiences of a steady tmvfor a year, multiply the above by fifty-two1

The Fires of Emotion

BY D.H. copekr~rd

us have a t some time or other felt

'ALLtheofeffect
of strong emotion. Xost of as

waste matter; and because the reguIar ohanneb

of elimination are for the time being clod,
have been, or perhaps are, in love. To such the poisoning of the entire body t&w place. It.
idea w i l l be easily understandable that thought map be days or weeks before the effecta of- s w h
csn cause intense stress of mind and arouse a fit of anger or passion wear off.
auch floods of emotiop,that many times after a
period of intense mental strain even of short Natural Activiw Disturbed
duration, there is a physical reaction equally as
M~TERB. CLVIOX of the Harvard Medid
intense, and extreme lassitude o r tiredness may
School, writing in H u t p e f s d l o J & on
mccced such emotional crises almost to the '%%at Strong Emotions Do to Us," saya :
point of exhaustion.
"The X-rays have permitted M to look into
It may be that there has been an occasion while
they are digesting. If any great excitement L
which has aroused a passion of anger, of jeal- occasioned, tho charning stomach becornen r hbby lpousy, or of grief. The emotion has been sup- active sac, the kneading intestinea c e w their motion&
pressed; no obvious manifestation has been and the digestive glaxlds no longer clecmb the jPiC41
made. In other words, the entire affair has necessary to prepare the food for absorption Thor thm
been kept in tho mind witllout being translated whole beneficent p m x s L brought to r standstill Thir
into physical effort. During the time of such a cessation of the digestive activities, first cleuly demonment;ll state, many physical functi ons have been struted on lower animals, has been prored tmo d m d
interfered with. Appetite has failed, food is not human beings. And it is intereating to nota that th.
rtod
desired; in fact, the thought of food, if such workings of the alimentary canal not o d y
a thought enters the mind, is nauseous. The during an outburst of rage, but do not 8 t u t .kin for
rhythmia pulsations of the heart become irreg- a considerable period after the emotional ~ C P DhlY
ular, blood pressure rises, there is a choking passed off
"Jfany of the worrics and anxieties and excitclmmtr
f d n g in the throat, the digestive arrangeof
civ~lizedlife are of this chancter. The dock-brok~
menta become disturbed; and in many cases,
watching the ticker may become as much disturbed M
where the affected perso11 is physically we&, if he werc confronted with a wild beast. But thr d b
faintness may result. Metabolism, that wonder- tion in which he finds himself usually d&a not q*
ful process whereby nature tears down worn- any exhibition of muscular strength or endurance for
out . h e .and xeplaces it with new, is seriously which the complex internal arrangcrnenta have beam
dected. The ,system becomes clogged with developed. In other worda, becaw of racial hrbrtr,

SOLDEN AGE
srtrbliahed by multitudtr of gsneratlonr of our ances'?ntelligence" and "mind" are often used in.
ion who have had to protcct t h e m e h a and one another terchangeably; but in the writer's opinion there
ficfcb 8bd.J agitated by deep- is a difference, in that intelligence is more a
mted d h t d ~ m
which M C O ~ O O~f little
J
s k a
of the mhd than the mind itselfto ua.
. P h y s i h are b w u a that a large propotion manifestation
is the seat of
~ h brain,
,
the
of the
of d i M e d & m o n
hvecona~orunessand volition, a delicate o r w
to deal are what ur designated 'emotional dynpepsia.'
This dyspepsia is caared, not by what the patient eatr dependent, as are all the organs of the body,
and groatb. The
pan
for
er how he eats if but by ahat ha thinly and feeb
blood
stream
ia
a
system
whereby
the brain, aa
whilst the food ia in process of digestion."
well as the whole body, i r fed; and the waste

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A good many cases of this form of dyspepsia

are found among people who, after eating a
heartp meal, go to a movie and sit through a
' two-hour show of thrills which keep their digestive apparatus in a constant state of inhibition.
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The excitement generated in this way has no
physical outlet, and consequently the entire reaction comes back on the bocly. Normal p r m
esses are seriously interfered with; food which
&odd be in process of digestion remaina in
the stomach and reaches an advmced state of
putrefaction before the '%reakingdown"procesr
which goes on in the stomach is completed, and
the mistare of food mcl gland secretions passes
to the intestines for digestions. The result is
an overtaxing of the elimination machinery
which has to deal with highly poisonous waste
matter with a mechanism abnormally overcharged. A continuation of this condition results inevitably in a brealidown of the machine,
and the various complications which ensue lead
to constant "doctoring" to find artificial methods of achieving Nature's ends.
Possibly the start of ninety percent of stomscb and bowel disorders is in the mind.
There is a much graver aspect to the case
as we go farther into the consequences of this
interference with and interruption of the body
processes.
Autointosication, or eelf-poisoning caused by
the eating of wrong food combinations and aggravated by a course of mental disturbance, haa
far-reaching resulta
Man a Complex Mechanurn
J3E mind is a peculiar thing. It is not a
physical mechanism like the brain, but is a
result of the working of the brain. It is a coordination of ideas, described by Vebster aa the
"intellectual faculty in man." The brain is a
machine compoaed of body substance, "cells,"
and constituting the center of the nervous spstern and the seat of consciousness and volition

matter destroyed in the metabolistia procem is

carried away. The blood stream itself is depandent upon the great digestive and e h h m t i ~ ~
systems for its health. Interfere with the one,
md the other is aflected aatomtically.
a,then, the mind, tho coijrdimtion of id=
b r o ~ h together
t
in ths brain, hsrc the tremendons effect that modern medical denw ~ ~ O W S
clemly that it
upon p
m of digadion
md *tiop
of
matter, thrthe
emotional stress- that distnrb rsd interrupt
-& proces8eq
mind itself i.mbaetivdy affected t h r o w the nkrin of COILcirc-tancea
Interference
w o n and -on
r e d h in a poisoned'condition of th, bled
stream, which in
the b&
throw
improperly feeding it, and failure in urrying
off the metabolistio waste of tha brain, leaving
it clogged with
matter. The imp&d
fmctioning of the brain deb
mind by
slowing up the processes of drdinating stored
information and ideas, Vm~wledge,~
thua resulting in mental confnsion and disorder. Just
aa exercise is necessary to the health of the
body, so is exercise necessary to the health and
well-being of the mind. Impairment of memory
in the aged is one sign of the accumulation of
vitiated brain mattef, cells, which the blood
stream has failed through the years to carry
off, and the consequent la& of feeding v h of
the blood stream, whereby the brain becomes
starved and enfeebled. .

Impreaion and Expression

BRAIN constantly employed in storing
impressions of rr highly inflammatory nature, which in the process of acquisition call
out great emotional stresses, is laying up much
store of troublc for the future.
Bn inflanled mind, constantly dealing with
ideas and thoughts of this nature, is reacting
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destroying not only the body s t ~ c t u r ebut had Lee11 subjected to the acttad treatment that
itself also, literally burning itself up.
the mind had wallowed irr.
The mind finds upreasion t h r o ~ hthe tonme
To read of scenes of debauchery and laat, ta
and the P e e The Pen is really a silent tongue: permit the nlind to reel on fmm point to point
for the expressions of the ton-e are Put in until thc s~lggcsted climax is reached, is to
-written form by the P e n Great s t o m s of emo- arouse ail tlie latent l u t f d desires of fallen
tion
caused by the e~pressionof Pen and liumn~lnat urc. Once amuscd, the mind plays
apostle James evidently knew and toys ,kith the subject until exhaustion set.
mmething of the d e b c t i v e effects of passion in. ,s-i th its consequent reaction ag3inrt tha
ongendetred by speech; for he aays:
physique. A continuance of such indulgence
q v e n ro the tonis a little member, and has a pemallently w e ~ e n i n geffect on the
boruteth great things. Behold, how great a 0rg8"ismmatter a little fire kindlethl b d the tongue
water Won lhe Fin
L a fin, a world of iniquity: r o is the tongue
ammg our members, t h t it d e j k t h t?te zukolr
OXVERSELY, the habitual keeping at thr
body, and setteth om fire tbe course of n a t ~ r e . ~ mind on higher, nobler things has r
d a m e s 3:5,6.
strengthening effect on the entire system.
Today the world is fd of caases of great There is this at least to be said for the h s i e
mb]Pfd
dishrbance. Hate and i n i q u i ~abonnd principles of Christian Science and S e w
to each an extent that every day our emotions Thought, that an adherence to the principles
of anger, paasion or fear are being aromed. of thi"kin~ on good t h i n e ~ r o d n c e sa d d
~h~ mental attimde of tho \rorld is one of pllysical effects which are good. "Let this mind
of be in you. n-hicli was SO in Christ Jesus;' a878
wondering ,,.hat Kill be the
*mswf disordered conditions, ~ l mental
~ i theapostle
~
Paul. (Philippians 2 :5) C d d dl
of
mankind
realize
the f u ~ ~ r l m e n t truth
al
o I thia
#meis *fleeted in the pllysical
is
rcflectcd
amin
statement,
tlral
a
continnation
in
thixJcing
oa
nrrmhrs
of people,
in &e mdtiplication o~~doctors,
delltists, drng the pri~lciplesof truth ~ l righteousness
d
newsscrrily 11m a tonic effect on the body, it would
stoqes, and undertakers.
A further reflection is found in the increase be easier to appreciate that "as a man thinketh
of crime and debnncher3., the terril~leravages in his heart, so is he," to this extent at least.
' of the habit of drug-taldng and dmnl~t~nness, To those \vho have entered into that fulnesa
and the intense irpplicntion of the p r ~ l ~ ltoe of Christ which is possible at this time, it is
pleasure-seeking mid excitement. I t \\*oulcl seem easily recognizable that Paul's use of a human
a t this time as thou& the world were on the body as an illustration of the relationsllip between Christ and His church has a great sigverge of insanity.
The moving picture theatre is not the only, nificance.
or necessarily the chief, offender against good
Illustrating this relatior~sliiphe shows that
health, tlirongh mental suggestion. Poiso~~irlgChrist is the Elcad of this brly, and that the
of the m ~ n dthrough anv source incritnl~lyre- parts of tlltt body are repreae~~tlrtive
of His
acts against the body. Tlie licentious 1)ool; (and body members, the church. A11 inlpulses for
a good m y of our modeni "~rianglc?"and good o r evil come from the head. Tt contains
"probleul" novels, are nothing better tha11 saln- tlic brain, the seat of reason, of intelligent%, of
ciow stories decked out ill the guise of fiction) volition.
a n do as much or possibly more danitxge.
So \\Pith Christ: Ile as the directing Head of
this s\-011rI~riui
hociy sends inipulrc*~,thoughts,
A -1
or a woluall xlceds not be
h parts of His
openly wicked to experience all the sensations ol' 3 spirlruol nature t h r ~ ~ u gtile
of Me roub; for it 11- beeI, d e ~ o r l s t r c lt ~het ~ budy. Tl1c.y automaticidly react to tllese iman evening spent with a rotten 1lovel hM given pulses, and colitinucrl1,v ls-ashed 'nd fell, through
one a species of mental drunkenness, with its the c h n e l oC the Word. as the lnaman body
accompanying symptoms, of almost the same parts are nurtured by the L~loodstream, theyl,
h t r u c t i v e effect as though the physical frame grow spiritually healthy. llldapelideut of tha
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- blood and spiritnd force of Christ they would man," incapable of sane or rational thought!

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That which applies to the body of man appliw l
to the great body of the world It. controlling
:$
mind is the mind of the arch fiend, Satan, whv
has been the god and ruler of this world for
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thousands of years. From this poisonous souma
* -.
have emanated evil thoughts, brutal passions,
base emotions which have poisoned the entire
body. Today the madness is reaching its full,
and the
throes of the world a ~ h m d
are dgns of its sin s i c h e ~ 6 .After this great
emotional crisis has reached ib f.cJ1, and the
world has t u n e d and rent itself in its awfal
agony, mill come the e q d great
~
nmti011,
still the anger of the masses
which
Man'a extremity is W r opportunity. Under :
the healing and helping rulerahip of t
b ml
lennid reign of Christ, peace will m p b tho .
unhealthy excitemant engenderdeb the h
sary of Qod. Great emotional strrsssr will k a.
thing of the past; grief and pain d sorror*
a d death will Pass away for all b e ;
b.p
the in-.
pines& Peace, and joy ~ h d
With ~ b r t . *
ble heritage of the Sons of
~ o m i e r f n lorn
l
God ~ e * to
h
ahdl *P 8 m Y 4
sem-, John:
; and there ahdl b.
~ ~ from
t m their
mom death, neither aom-9 nor d W i
.
ahall there be a W mom pain: f o r
f o m
thin- are paased away."-Revdkrtioa 21: 4.
NO longer
minds doban a d
the Pof
6 the bodies of men*
restrained, the great tempter who for ages has
amused man's worst passions to his awn anandoing, m~nkind-7 -7
cowidor
the ways of God7 and proceed to p d p a b in
blesshm He
designsd to
give to His children.
sanity restored, and reason on.
firmly upon her throne, the mind of man will
Pass by the evil that g o d alone may be indulged in. Patience will have her perfect work;
and with the 1~0nderfu.Ihelp accorded by the
glorified church, out of the mists and confusion
of the past will emerge a happy and prosperorw
world, rejoicing in the Lord and the power of
His might. The close of the Millennial-agewill
see the absolute destruction of all the relics of
WorZd FO*&tinguieAed
evil, and a purged and cleansed universe wilI
of the Most High God:
S A man i h e d with dri& is not q d e resound with the
of wnnected thought o r sound judgment, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: tb.
ma the world "reels to and fro like a drunken whole earth is full of his glory.*-Isaiah
6: 3.

die.
To follow in tha world's n a p today is to
follow the road that leads to speedy destruction. Calm, cool thought is at a premium; and
few today possess the gift of peaceful consideration of cause and effect, or are capable of
expressing sound judgment on the great questions that perplex mankind.
6
Overheated imaginations and emotionally
overcharged mentirlities are attempting to h d
- a may out of a chaos induced by the same kind
of minds. Scores of plans are projected for the
alleviation of present conditions. When a plan
is attempted, however, it fails because it ia not
applicable to a people impatient of rationalism,
because it is too slow. Nen are afraid of radicalism became it is too fast; they hate conservatism because it curtails liberty. The people
are sick in body through poisoned minds, and
rirk in mind through poisoned bodies.
Aa a drink of cold water to a man parched
with fever, come the words of St. Paul to aome
who in his day we= t m b l e d in mind, seeking
a way of escape from an intolerable world condition: 'cBe not conformed to this world: but
be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that ye may prove what is that good,
and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."-Romans 12 :2.
Again, in his letter to the Ephebians (4: 22
25) : "Put off, concerning the former c o n p e n s
tion, the old man, which is corrupt according to
the deceitful lasts [appetites-conceived in the
mind, and reacting on the body]: a d be re, newed in the spirit of your mind; and that pe
put on the new man [a healthy man, made so
. by the healthy mind], which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, ape& every man trnth
with hia neighbor: for we are members one of
another."
In doing this we remove much of the cause of
anger snd paasion between individuals, commanities and nations, thus permitting healthy
minds to conceive healthy thoughts, which
make for amity.

Reply TO Ingersoll-In W o Parts (Part I I ) BJ P P ~ ROI ~ . ~S S C R

. c h u u 8 ~ &
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upheld for the government and blessing

of an

statement of Mr. Ingersoll, charged by His creatures. pardon signifies, according to

E o c t o r Buckley u bk *ird gigantic false- JVebster: "To refrain from exacting r penale;

hood, reads as follows: "Not satisfied with that, to suffer to pass nithout panishment." God h a
it [ChristianiQ] has deprived Qod of the par- ~owllereproposed to do t h i s The original sentence, death-"dying thou shalt dieJ*-has beta
doning power."
W e object to Mr. Ingersou*s position on this carried out to tlie Ictter; dl in Adam die. Inmbjeet. The growing tendency of m n e n t Chris- stead of pardoning that first wilful d n or r a
tim thought is to consider God on a parity with fraining from exacting the penalty, death, or
imperfect h-n
beings in this resped of par- letting us go without the punishment, God h a s
doning transgression. As imperfect h n m a par- sustained the justice of His law and the honor
ents make imperfect lams for their imperfect of His comt, and Yet in love has providd children, and frequently find if necessary to through Christ "eternal life'# for all those who
axeuse or pardm their violation, 80, more and obey him.'' To pardm sin would be an rdmi,
learning to measwe Q O ~by sion on the part of the Judge that His own lamore, they
'
t h d v e a , and to thing of Him m in duty and pendties were unjust, imperfeut o r o&
l a m w e n imperfect adapted to His creatures. God cannot and d
h d t o w t that
or illy adapted, and hence their violation p r o p not admit thisI t may be urged that man's inabiliv to keep
erly excusable o r pardonable.
.S*e
human beings are all imperfect, and God's law perfectly implies that it is unjust
hmnan laws and penalties therefore also imper- toward him. God's answer is that FIe never
feat, there ia evident propriety in the l i b e d made an imperfect creature; that "all his we*
exercise of forgiveness or pardon among men. is perfect"; that the man whom He created
Nevertheless, God, being perfect in justice as (Adam) was capabh of obedience to His Iar,
and that by wilful disobedience he forfeited his .
well as in other qualities--wisdom, love, etcamnot pardon apart from the arrangement right to the bles 'ng of okliencc, life everlastwhich He has m d e for all men thro~ighthe ing; that his ch Jdren received their imperfect
willing sinsffering of .Hi8 Son, our Redeemer. minds and bodies, and dying rather than l i v i n ~
Therefore, while instructing us to love oar ene- abilities, by natural process from their fatber
mies and to do good to them, God does not Adam; and that God cottid not justly set asi&
declare that this is' strict justice always, but His lam, that only perfect and holy beinga shaU
explains the reason: We are not fit to be judger have His favor and blessing, and consequently
of what wodd be the jwt p e d t i e s for sins, could not pardon the sin and receive the sinnen
being imperfect ourselves. We are, therefore, into fellowship with the holy.
to leave to God the full punishment for sin.
And if we could conceive of a way in which
"early
beloved, avenge not yourselves .
(30d could pardon man without violating ITis
for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay own just laws, we can see, too, that it mould be * '
[a just recompense], saith the Lord."
contrary to the interests of His empire so to do;
God, who is perfectly just as well as tnrise, for if man were pardoned for one sin, or for
cannot
or =quit the @ ~ Y Y and distinctly many sins, it wodd be establishing a precedent,
tells us so. (Exodus 23 :i,21 ; 34 :7 ; Numbers an injmions precedent; for if one clrw of God'a
14: 18;N d m 1: 3) He
however, I J r o ~ d e d creamreg might sin and be pardoned, each other
a way by
cnn be jyst and yet jrwtify ' of His ereatores might sin and then likedH
and release justly condemned sinners who de- claim a pardon. And if oile sin could be parsire to return to His favor. Aiid this one just
way is through Christ. No man cometh unto doned withoat infrncting strict justice, so conld
the Father but by E m . God is the great Em- tn-o sins or many wns. And thus ~vouldthe
Jority of righteo~snessand peace of the dirine empire be
, peror of
~ v c r a e and
; the
acreatures are in full loyd;+, to IIis go\-ern- forever nssnilcd, because of a conflict betwen
one prov- God's justice and ESlove. Thercfose GOCIIlm
l e n t . The fallen h m a n race is
luoe of EIis empire. 13s laws, which are con- mitde nnrl declarctd justice the foundation of Hi8
L e d to be holy and just and good, must be government.-Ysah 83: 14; 37: 2

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That sympathy and lore which hi man \\.odd

lead to the disregard of justice and the pardon
of the sinner are not less in God than in man,
but greater; but in God (by divine wisdom)
they are exercised differently, lead to better
results, a d leave His laws, His justice and His
empire strengthened, by the eshibitiori of His
love boving to His justice while blessing the
culprit.
Instead, therefore, of trampling upon His
.onn laws and pardoning the sinners, and instead of cl~angingHis laws and making new
codes of imperfect lams adapted to the various
and changing degrees of human sin and degradation, God took another and wiser as well as a
juster course. He set before His only begotten
Son, our Redeemer, a proposition to highly
honor and exalt E m even to the divine nature
if He would carry out God's plan for human redemption. (Philippians 2: 7-10) h d this One,
"for the joy that was set before him," joyfully
accepted the commission with its attaching snffering and honor.-Hebrems 12 :2
According to this plan, this Savior was to
take the place of Adam and to suffer, the Just
One for tlie unjust, thus to redeem Adam and
all his rights forfeited by sin. Since Adam was
not a spirit being, but a man, the Redeemer had
to become a man in order to give "hiruseif a
ransom [a correspoqdi7~gprice] for all." Having sacrificed His all, His manhood, all future
life mas dependent upon God's promise that He
would raise our Lord from death a spirit being
with exalted powers and honors.
And it n*as so: The m m Christ Jesus gave
Himself a ransom for all; and accordins to
prolnise God did raise I-Lim from dantli (not
again to human nature, which was taken merely
for the purpose of paying our ransom, but) a
spirit being.
This risen Lord now owns the world. which,
by the plan of God, He bought with FIis o m
-precious blood-Uis life giren, Iiis death. Under the divine ~1311,He bought a11 for the very
purpose of blessing 1111. And t l ~ cScriptnrcs
assure us that soon, during the Millennium, He
will take His great power wld rule the world
with an iron rule of justice, backed hp the heart
which so loved me11 that He gore Himsrlf as
their sin-sacrifice. Hia reign, it is declared,
ahdl be glorious; and the poor and he thnt has
no helper shall there find justice and help; and
\

in Iiis day all the r&hteous shall flonriah and

the meek shall inherit the earth, while the amdoer sllall be cut off. Times of refreshing and
restitution shall then begin on earth, and will
eventuate in the blessing of every creature with
a full lrnomledge of God and with a full opportunity for an everlasting life of happiness.
The end of His reign mill iKitness the fullest
snbjection of all things to the will md plan of
God. "He mast reign, till he hath put oU
enemies under his feet.'' (1Corinthians 15 :25)
This will include physical evils, such M sickness, pain and death; and all things inharmonioua with perfection, as well as mental imperfections and moral evil, eia And the destruation of moral evil not only d
l include a u k
causes of ain as weabeaaes and ignorance, but
eventually, as all are freed from them bl-.
ishes, the destruction under Hia feet w i l l include Satan and all who have his spirit of wilful
insubordination to God's beneficent laws, Thor
will oar prayer be fully redzed: ,"Thy ldng
dom come. Thy will be d a e in earth ar it ir io
Amen l So let it be1
Thus, even a hasty glance at the questions
involved shows Scripturally and logicdl7 that
hfr. Ingersoll has erred in resped to the h t
and third of his charges, while he ia right and
Doctor Buckley is in error respectiag the r e
ond charge.
In respect to the latter point, however, it b
but j u t to remember that the term Wmstun
itf' stands for and represents all who are wmiruzlly Christians, the vast majority of whom
now and a t all times have misconceived the
spirit as well as misunderstood the letter of
God's Word. The true church of God, not only
at the first but ever since, has been a 'little
flocli' and a 'peculiar people." The world haa
never recognized the ltnce church, but has always mistaken the mass-the nominal church.
And in writing church history the real church
of God, the true saints, the little flock, has gone
mnoticed, while the nominal mass has h e n
given the sacred name of Christinnity and credited with all the good influences (to which redly
the little flock contributed chiefly), while it
properly stands charged with all the horrible
list oC crirnes of the "clark apu" done in ffts
name of Christianity, but contrary to the Word
of God and opposed by the hearts mcl heads o t
the true cllurch of Christ-His "little %o&*

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Pulpit I W Z i & d Today
nltogctllcr too high; that it takes thc standpoint
IIILST Colonel Ingersoll is thnl~dering of u~ibclicf and therefore not the standpoint
againat the Bible md its inconsistencies proper for the child of God, who reasouably
-became he misinterprets it in the light of the expects that his heavenly Father has given a
coacting creeds of Christendom-professed
revelation, and who, finding in the Bible that
~ i ~ ~ e m p o u n dine rsome
s of the leading pulpits which commends it to his heart and head aa .
rn merting a tenfold greater influence toward being that revelation, seeks to prove rather .
a d e l i t y . They are handing stones and ser- than to disprove its authenticity and ita truthpents to those who look to them for food. Under fdncss. Higher worldly misdom ignores God'q
the nomeof The Findings of the Higher Criti- supervision of His Book; bat the higher heavcia- they assure their confiding eupporters enly wisdom recognizes that supedsion, and
that the Bible is not reliable; that, for instance, therefore studies it reverently and expectantly.the finding of ahelle upon the tops of mountains
The truly higher criticism would reason that
wat~probably the origin of the story of the as the olden-time prophets generally twcd
Deluge in Noah's day, and that now these are scribes, to whom they dictated, so probably did
known to have readted from the u p h e a d of Isaiah; and that as Isaiah'~prophecy covered
the mountains; that it has been discovered that a number of years, he probably had r m d
althougk a whale has an enormous month it has scribes; and while each scribe may have h.d
a small throat, and that consequently the story his own peculiarities, the rame God who aas
of Jonah must be a fable. They proceed to deny able and ~villingto give a revelation of his sill
that Ood created man in His own likeness; and through His prophet Isaiah vm wiRing and
that man fell into sin and thereby lost almost all able to overrule the scribes provided, ro that
of that likeness; they insist that this and other the revelation should reach Hia p q L u Ho
accounts of Genesis are wholly unreliable and designed to give it.
contrary to r e a s m They then claim that reason
The truly higher criticism, instesd of being .
teacher evolution; that only a beginning of surprised that all the psalms of the Book of
man's creation took place in Eden; and that, 80 Psalms were not indited by King David, should
f a r from falling from'divine favor into sin and remember that the book does not claim to be a
degradation, man has g r a d d y been growing Book of David's Psalms, bat a Book of Psalms.
into God's likeness and favor for the past
It ahodd notice, too, that whilst a m a j o r i e of
thousand years.
the p s h particularly claim that David waa
They proceed to say that "higher criticism" their author, some do not name their authors,
ahom that the canon of the. Old Testament One a t least (Psalm 90) claima Moses aa its
,Scriptrues was not completed until after the writer. &d although tmelve are credited to
return of Lsrael from the Babylonian captivity, Asaph, a Levite whom King David made m d and that in that compilation serious errors were cal director in the s e A c e s of the sanctPsrJ, it
made; for instance, that the collection of Psalms ia by no means certain that their dedication
wes merely a collection of Hebrew poetry and should not rend as aome scholars Eidm: "A
d b e d to David because he had written a few Padm f o r Asaph2'-to set to music.
of them, and because of h . repatation; and
Bat no matter; suppose it could be proved
that the other psalms were mitten by various conclusively that one-fourth or one-hdi or dl
parties and are therefore to be considered as of the Psalms had been mitten by aome one
Pninrpired. Similar d h are made reguding else than David, would that invalidate their
others of the Old Testament books ;for instance, divine c nsorship t I t ia nowhere stated that
that not more than the first,twenty-eight chap- David one of all the prophets waa permitted - -tera of Isaiah are really the writings.of that to put his messages into poetic f o r m The J e m
Prophet, that the remainder of the book bear- recognized the Book of P s h as a whole am
Lng his name has distinctive pecaliaritfes indi- sacred ncripture, aa a holy or inspired writing.
.)sting thst it waa written by two or three h d our Lord and the apostles (hhighest
barties &er than those who wrote the &st possible critics, in the estimation of h d ' r pea.
hpantydght chapters.
ple) made no objection to that poprrlaz though8
S a &r
to this "higher crithat it t of thdr daxj but, on th. conbaq, b x quota8 I

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allusion from sixty-one of the l a o m to himself or t e s a e d to by his honordirectly or

.psalms, some of them repeatedly. Our Lord able friends who had been eyewitnessw of the
., HimseIf quoted from nineteen of them. And facts recorded. The first f i n books of the New
f these quotations embrace not only some of thoae Testament are merely histories-good histories,
. . definitely ascriled to Darid but equally those reliable histories, histories written by men who
whose authorshig ia not definitely stated. And gave their lives in devotion to the mattem conin one case (John 10: 24,33) our Lord, quoting cerning which they here bear witnesa The onlx
from Psalm 82: 6 ("A Psalm of Asapli') dis- superhuman influence that could be desired in
tinctly terms it a part of the "Scriptnres" which this would be that the Lord should facilitate
"cannot be broken." This, the highest possible their work by bringing important mattem clesriticism, makes the Book of Psalms entirely ly and forcefully to the attention of these his+
tisfactory to God's humble 'little ones," rjans, and guarding them against miaonderwhether or not it be hid from the wise and standings. This our Lord promised to do (John
prudent according to the course of this world, 14: 26) ; and this we have every resson to bewhom the god of this world hath blinded with lieve He has done. But this "higher oritid' da
the brilliancy of their own earthly learning and clares that the apostle Pad, the ates st of the
New Testament writers, did mt claim d i v h
with their love of honor of men.-Compare
Matthew 11:25-30; 1 Corinthians 1: 19-31; 2 direction or more than ordinary knmldge o r
authority for his -teachings. In proof of tht
Corinthians 4: 4.
The argaments agsinat the s t o ~ pof Jonah statement he cites ns to 1 Corinthians 7:10,
the
and the whale and against the story of the 2% 40. He ar!Des from these citation8
Flood are fully met by the reminder that the Apostle was quite luicertain 8hi..
that the
Scriptures do not say that a whale gc~allow~dteaching. me reason, con-*
thus c a r e f d ~marfrd 0 8
Jonah, bat that the Lord specially prepared a man
great fish f o r the purpose, and that our Lord judgment or opinion and a-17
d
not of
and the apostles refer to both 06 these narra- these particular items w e n f i ,
tives without in any degree modifying o r cor- divine inspiration, not O ~ Y
of divine a d o r reeting them. If they were deceived upon such remainder of his teachings
canpoints we could place no rcliance upon their ization, and very positively 8% but that
saperior dance and inspiration upon other did admission that some thbm hem taught were
points. The "meek'' w u recognize that there is without divine authorization prom that if hh
0ja-mt
much more likelihood that the error lies with teachings had all been merely
the modem critica.-See Isaiah 29: 10-14.
he had the courage which would have told tho
honesty which Ion of hBut these worldly-wise teachers who put light
not affect
for darlineas and darkness for light go farther bation
,
Let
hear
what the Apostle
to a7 r b
and farther into the "outer darkness" in their
efforts to justify their theories and still be tive to the divine authority for his t e d n ~
logical. They openly claim that the apostles aside from what ia implied and stated in the
were not inspired; that their belief in the inspi- citations already mentioned*
He declares that "God hath set" b n t or chief
ration of the prophets misled them; and that,
@though they were good-intentioned men, their in the church the apostles, as rulers and teachwritings a r e very misleading. Indeed, one of ers of all. (And that the early church so recogthese preachers has attempted to prove from nized the apostles is very evident.) He decker
their onn words that the New Testament writ- that he is one of the apostles; points to the
ers did not claim infallibility, or a divine super- evidences of his apostleship, how the Lord used
viaiori of their writing. Hc quotes the preface him not only in imparting to othen through
to the Gospel accortling to I,ulie, saying, "No llirn a knon-ledge of the truth but also in cornBiblical \\writer stio~vsany co~lsciousnessof such municating the gifts of the spirit, vhich at that
sul)c~ninturalinfluences upon him in his work as time outwardly witnessed the acceptance of nll
i1lsurc.d infallibilitp." We answer that it sllould true believers and also witnessed who m n
not require n special inspiration to enable an apostles, since only apostles could impart thoae
. honest man to set forth in historicnl form facts gifts.-1 Corinthians 12: 28 ; 9 :1,2; 15: 8-19.
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Paul announced cent is that the former prove the Bible to k

Every timq therefore, that

himdf an apostle, ha declared (to those who unins~iredand unreliable, and that the latht
appreciate the meaning of that ofice) that he is a reason for believing it to have been mittex
waa on.of thorn specially commissioned of God by men of impare minds, and gives the BooY
and recognized of the church as God's represen- an impure inftuence, md hence.proves that it ia
talithrough whom He would promdgnte not of God and is udit for use by the pure=
and entabhh in the world tho truths concern- minded and the young.
iJWthe
covenant sealed with the preciom
We m m e r that the Old Testament Scriptarea
blood
death] of Christ. Eve- time comprise three classes of writings, via.: Hie
he referred to his apostleship he ~ ~ o ~ tory,
c e Prophecy,
d
and Law. The history neither
himself one of those specially commissioned needed nor c h e d m y special inspiratic
23f th b b sp*it sent down from heavm'' to though we believe that God's supervision of
preach and to establish the g o ~ e L 4 e e1 P* historical writings was exerted to the extent
tor 1:l2
of seeing that such i t e m mere recorded by the
Hir writing8 are toned not only with meek- historians as would be of special value in connesa h t also with that authority which ahodd nection with the revelation of the divine plan ob
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one who h w s what he teaches to be the the ages Bnd so also we believe that W a
truth; unlike the uncertain ''scribes." Not only supervision has to some extent been over modno, bat he -:
"I have not shunned to e m history, by means of which we are enabled
declare unto you [not my own opinions but] to read, upon reliable authority, the fulflhentr
aZ3 thr cowsel of God."-Acts 20 :27.
of many ancient prophecies.
Hear the Apostle: "Icertify unto you, brethThe errors or chronological differences b+
ren, that the gospel which was preached by me tween the books of Kings and Chronicler are,
is not after man. For I neither received it of therefore, not to be considered errors of inspi
man, neither was I taught it, but by the revela- ration, but merely such slight discrepancies as
tion of Jesus Christ." "But though we, or an we might expect to find -in any histo?, and
angel from heaven, preach any other gospel which God permitted for a purpose, n h l e He
than that which we have preached unto supplied this deficiency in the Old Testsment
you, let him be accursed." (Galatians 1:8,11, chronology by a fuller record on these obscuro
12) "For our gospel [message of good tidings] points in the New Testament. Thus we am
came not anto yon in word only, but also in assured of His supervision of the historical f e e
power, and in the holy spirit, and in much as- tares of the Bible as a mhole. At the same time,
m8acan"Be we were allowed of God to be put the Lord thns hid the exact chronology of
in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not events, end hence the knowledge of His times
aa pleasing men, but God.'' ' T e preached unto and seasons, both from Israel and from "the
yon the gospel of God:' exhorting "that ye wise and prudent" of today, whose pride in
would walk worthy of God, who hath called you haman philosoplries impels them more toward
unto his kingdom and glorg"; and we thank adverse criticism of the Bible than toward a
God that %hen ye received the word of God reverent study of its hidden treasures of truth
WSIUE
n EUUD ox us, ye received it not as and grace.
the word of men, but, as it ts in truth, the word
We claim and have shown (STUDIES
1
sT
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of God.'' (1Thessalonians 1:5 ; 2 :4,9,12,13) S C B X P TVolume
~ ~ , 11,pages 44-49) that upon
"Qod hath
dosen you to salvation thnrngh those very points where, by the .historian's erumctihation of the spirit and belief of the ror or our misunderstanding, our faith in the
hpth: whereunto he called you by oar gospel" chronology would be influenced, God has s a p
-2 Theasaloniana 2 :13,14.
plied the needed evidence through the apostles;
But tha moat forcible element of thie attack thns cultivating the confidence of "the meek" ia
upon the Bible is b t which claims that there His supervision of the entire matter, and emue discrepancies of statements between the phasizing His special use of the apostles.
111 Ilis eternal purpose God had designed not
book of Chronicles a d the Looks 01 Kings,
b d that the Old Testament contains uarratives only the sending oP His Son to Le uul's R e
b o indecent for promiscuous readix~p. Tke ar- deeuer uud Uelivurer, but also that N-kenmade

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flesh it should be in the line of the seed of

Abraham, Isaac,Jacob, and David. He designed
also that every item of His plan should be
. accomplished "in due time," "in the fulness of
the times appointed," and he desired that His
reverent children should in due time know of
His good purposes and their times and seasons.
For these reasons it mas expedient thaterecords
be clearly kept, including family genealogies.
And it is in keeping a clear record of these
Pecessary genealogies, the showing of who waa
'the father and who the mother, that most of the
unchaste narratives am introduced, none of
which cases are approved, but many of them
reproved.
The reasons for mentioning these features of
his tory are not always apparent without study.
F o r instance, the narrative of King David's relations with Bath-sheba were necessary becam
her son SoIomon succeeded to the throne, and
his title to it depended on his relationship to
David. Then the account of Absalom's estrangement from his father David made necessary the
statement of his relationship to Tamar; and
the account of Absdom's conduct toward his
f a t h e i s concubines was necessary aa an item
of history to prove that the Lord's penalty
against David for his injustice toward Urirrh
n u fulfilled. Another account of base wickedness in detail is made necessary as an item of
Jewish lustory to account for the almost complete annihilation of the tribe of Benjmnin.
And so with other cases. If the reason for tha
account is not on the surface, let as look deeper,
assured that in e v e n instance there is a good
reason.
Furthermore, the fact that our Lord's anceators according to the flesh were far from perfect beings proves that His perfection did not
result from wolution, but, as the Scriptures
heelare, from His divine origin and His miraculous conception and birth. But evcn its enemies mast concede that these nncl~usteelements
)f Bible history are told briefly and evidently
witliont desire to awval;er~ morbid sentiments or
,to do more than tlie 1listori:in'e simple duty of
Icceping the lines of history free from obscnri ty.
This was specially needful becnu~ethe line of
our Lord's descent mas to be traced and because
for a part of the COUTEF! tliat was Israel's royal
line, or family. And it secrns to have Leeu a
pecnliarity of the Jewish Ilistorian to tell the

story fearlessly, regardless of whether it mlat

ed to king or peasant.
All familiar with ancient history know that
the Jewish social system was much purer than
that of other nations, and few a r e not aware
that today the history of any large city of the
world for one week-, if written as boldly a8
Scripture history, would record more unchaatity than the Bible account of an entire nation
covering centuries.
We do not urge a ,p r o m i s c a m rerding of
these unchaste portions of anCiellt h k k o e
(from either the Bible o r other works) b e f o n
the family or to the pang. The Bible ia POC
a child's book, but a book for Wevex8.''
h d while the New Testament mi& be
given into the h a d a of children, o w &OBS
from the Old Testament ahodd ba read to thoa
of immntnre mind. Such WM the adbtOm in tho
days of the apostles; d e d o n a from th. h r
or from the prophets were read to tb.@ ~ p b
by the scribe4 and the historid boob
open for reference to any who had MO ~ O thQ
b for p e r s o u of matumd minda, the u d ~ & ~
elements of Bible history can work no
the morbid and imp= mind am find, a h ! f a r
more attractive tales upon the counter of e v s q
book store and upon the shelves of every puWa
library. The true Christian can trust himaelf
to read and get a lesson from every d m m t
of God's Book--and it in for sach only, d not
for the worldly nor for children; "that ths
of God may be perfeet, thoronghIy f u d e d
unto dl good works."
While esposing the infidelity which these
"great teachers" are publishing from pdpita
dedicated to God, we are far from accusing
thcm of any desire to do eviL On the contrary,
me believe them to be conscientious, but so mi*
led by their own and other men's supposed
visdom that they can now see nothilsg of God
in the Bible, and have therefore come to revercncc it merely a s an ancient and curioas document, a relic of the remote past upon which
these, its critics, could improve amazingly.
'I'l~cytolerate it as a book of texts from wkicll
to preach sermons (generally in direct opposie eomtion to the contexts) merely b ~ c n u ~the
nlon p c o ~ l estill reverence it 'and can 8s yet b
hetter appealed to thns than in any other way.
They tolerate the Bible only because of what
they beliero ir the srcperstiti@w reverence of

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the people for it. h d they are seeking quietly

and skilfdy to remove that superstition.
Of oourm it is true that some superstitions
do attaah to the popular reverence for the Bible,
aa f o r all mmed things. F o r instance, some
r .
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keep
r family Bible npon the table, unused, as
Et;
-a
sort
of "charm," just aa aome hang an old
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horsedoe above their door. Others use it as an
"oracle"; and after prayer npon any perplexing point open their Bible and accept the verse
upon which the eye first lights as an inspired
anewer to their petition, often torturing the
words oat of all proper aense and connection
- t o obtain the desired answer. And some ignorantly premnme that the English and some that
the German translation is the original Bible,
'and that every word in these imperfect, uninspired translations ia inspired. For this much
of ignorance and superstition the Pro testant
ministers of the world are responsible; for
they @ o d d have taught the people by expounding God's Word, instead of tickling their ears
with pleasing essays npon other topics. And it
ia npon this degree of superstition which they
helped to inculcate that these "mise menJ' are
mow plOQiPg their levers and exerting the whole
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The King in Thorns

weight of thcir influence and learning to overthrow entirely the faith of many, their own
faith having first perished in their culpable negligence of the prayerful study of God's Word
and their pride in human phiIosophies and
speculations.
As a further element of this discussion the
reader is referred to Chapters 11, 111, and S
of STUDIEI
IX THE SCRIPTUEES,
Volume L And
thns me rest our ar,pnent for the present,
urging all who have laid hold npon the hope
set before as in the gospel to hold fast theC
confidence of their rejoicing firm unto the end
-to hold fast to the Book. And how 111uch
easier it is and ~ v i l lbe for those who hnrolearned the real plan of Cod and sccsn its Iw*i!uty
to stand finn upon the Bitlc than for otJ14~s.
To many, alas! as at present misunderstowl. it
is a jumbled mass of doctrinal contradlclinns,
ahjle really it is the announcement of a c l ~ a r ,
definite, grand plan of the ages. So gran~lly
clear and svnlrnetricd is the wonderful plan
that dl who see it are convinced that orily Cfod
could have been its Author, and that the Book
whose teachings it harmonizes must indeed be
God's revelation.
Bv John Jordan Dougla8r

I nw Hlm whom thm court of Pllate stand.,

Calm Oi manner and with folded band8
lo Eh mlld ere8 thm U g h t of love'. d a p uarJ a m of G u m .

I ran Them r h e a Thou c m r e d r t nnught of thcr,

When on Golgotha broke those bitter s e a ;
&d It was then. 0 Pllot of my soul,
I r w all of heaven. watched ita rglendou rdl.

Ha dld not heed the rabble's bitter leers.

H e who k d come t o dry the sad world's team;
Upon Hla bmw I ran a crown of thornXing d th. VLrgia born1

Cloud an cloud athwart the crimson sky,

The day grew dim: the watch of deuth drew nigh;
A sword of blood Iny low against the west,
&d day drooped falnt upon the night's dnrk b m +

Grny crept the morn along the m l s t - c r o r o d hill.

The IClng mas dead. The streets w e n llurhed und
I n that stmnze silence no man ever saw
A woman sobbed; ahe knew no other law.

Not f o r Them th. throne of (2-r

pent,
No pomg, no pageantry of court nnd state:
F o r Thw no home, r a r e In the hearts of them
Cromrb with thm c r i ~ dladcm.
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thm gold of a11 the earth n n s Thlo*

Thine, who couldst smile Its water Into en.:
And

yet

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Thm gmnu of a11 tile hlllr would glitter them

In tho golden nimbus on Thy shluing h e .
The

of all the seas would shloe for Theq

E= yet dentb's ruby s l ~ o u eoo Calvary:

T o T& #a minstrel w i ~ ~ cwould
lj
LKPr the balm of breath+
From th. blua hllk oi vino-clad Nazareth

rttll.

All them are gone. long s l o e . long sinceC~esar,Attlla, proud Boa:~parte and ClaadcamProm f a r Chaloos to deatb-heaped Taruerlanc.
They came. they conquered; but they o r n e d dc:~tb's
Tha f g C of all thelr god. we- formed of clny.
h d s e t they come. earth k l n p a t t b empired rnfgh4
From the blue Baltic to the g r n r Isle of \171ght,
Ernperom and kiugr, grim lords n-ho R-111not p m y
To Him In thorns who tom deuch's mu& away.

The world grows old, the d r a o t bate l a m e yet;

A tl~ousaadfields with scarlet dew nre wet:
B u t out of mist and duat and death Re r k e t h rttll,
Th.U g ln thornr on md GolLoCha'r h U

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was put to death in the flesh and of His glory, that alI creatures shall bow a t the

.- was resurrected a divine being. (1Peter 3: 18) name of Jesus, and that every creature shall

God had promised to rant unto him the divine

to
'1 have inherent life. Only divine beings have
life within themselves and need nothing to suem life. Jesus said: "For as the Father hath
e in himself; so that he given to the Son to
have life in himself." (John 5 : 26) When on
earth he was a man. When he arose from the
dead He was the express image of Jehovah God.
Begotten to the divine nature a t the time of
His baptism in the Jordan, He was born on the
divine plane to the divine nature a t His resurrection. When He arose from the dend He was
both Lord and Christ. (Acts 2: 36) Lord means
one who owns ; one who has power and authority, and one whom his followers acknowledge
as Master and Lord. Christ means the anointed
one, the one appointed by Jehovah to carry out
His great plan. So now being raised from the
dead He is both owner of all things and endowed
with power and authority to carry out Jehovah's
plan. The name Jesns xneans Savior of tho
people. That was His earthly name. It is more
particularly associated with Him as the sinbearer, or one who made His soul a n offering for
sin, who suffered for us and who bore our sinsthe one whom the Prophet describes as "the man
of sorrows."
"'When Jesus arose from the dead God highly
exalted Him and gave Him n name above all other
names. He mas once a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Now, resnrrcctcd from the dend,
He is the exalted one; llence the Apostle dearcs: "Being found in friqhion
a mnn, he
&bl
ed himself, and hr!cnme obcdi~nt unto
death, even the death of the cross. 117ieret'ore
God also hath highly extilted him, and given him
a name which is above every name; that a t the
name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things
i n hcaven, and things in earth and things nrlder
the earth; and that every tongue should confess
that .Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
, the Father."-Philippians
2: 811.
2'T(?odllas decreed t11:lt since the earth was
the scene of Jesus' suffering it shall be the scene

: nature, & i n g him the power and autho;ty

confess that Jesns is Christ and is the Lord.

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April 9 I924

the world which has the continent of Australia

as its center, a.id includes the island of Tasmania on the south, the islands of New Zealand on
the east, and the island of Papna or New Quinea
on the north. These islands include an area of
3,740,006 English square miles, and have a poprrlation of 6,406,000.
The word Australia is a Latin word meaning
Southern. If the map of Australia were wperimposed npon the map of the United States,
with Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, placed
upon JacksonvilIe, Florida, then Sydney, the
capital of New South Wales, 500 miles to the
northeast, would rest npon Norfolk, Virginia;
Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, 900 miles
to the northeast, mould rest npon New Pork
city; Adelaide, the capital of South Australia,
4.130miles to the west, would rest upon New
Orleans; Perth, the capital of Western Australia, 1,750 miles to the west, would rest npon
Phoenix, Arizona; and Danvin, the capital of
the Northern Territory, would rest upon a point
four hundred miles north of Winnipeg. The
h'orthwest Cape, 2,300 miles distant, mould rest
upon San Francisco. Cape Sandy wonld rest
upon Boston.
The area of Australia, 2,972,573 square miles,
ia only slightly less than that of the Gnited
States; the population in 1921 was a little less
than that of S s :-' -)!.k city. A coral reef, the
Qreat Barrier, f'uli~~ivs
the nortl~easterncoast
for 1,000 miles, leaving a channel ten to thirty
6 l e s wide.
- Australia stretches over such a vast area that
one may not speak of its clilllatc too definitely;
pet, as a whole, i t may be said that the climate
i generally hot and dry, but very healthful. The
summer is hot, excessively so, a s it comes at the
time when the earth is nearest the sun. In mid. winter, June, July and August, snow storms

are common in the mountainous and more temperate parts.

Queensland and Northern Australia touch, in
their northern parts, a latitude of but ten d e
grees from the equator. White men, in order to
live and rear properly strong familiea in lmch
a climate, need to pay close attention to their
mode of living.
The rainfall is irregular, some W e t a having as much as forty-two i n c h e ~one year, with
only an eighth of an inch the next year. Thb
makes an a,nl.icultural problem tlpt is d i k d t
of solution. A full half of Australia bar no
rivers at all. Most of this area ir covered with
sand ridges, where little permanent fodder
grows. As in hnerica, improved methods of
dry fanning, and the use of subsurfme water,
are gradually extending the crop arew and
pushing back the borders of the desert.
The pride of all Australians is their beautiful
Sydney Harbor. Upon entering the ptmt of
Sydney one is struck with the beauty of thir
natural anchorage, in which the largest shipr
can find safe shelter. The harbor is skirted by
a series of inlets, o r fiords, some of which eatend many miles inland, and all of which am
banked with natural rock formations mterspersed with wooded glens. It would be dif6cult
to tind a more beautiful as well as useful gift
from nature than is found in Sydney Harbor.
Australia haa animals that are peculiar to
itself. I t has a crocodile thirty feet long, and
lizards up to eight feet in length. There are
forty varieties of frogs, one of which ha^^ blue
legs and a golden back. There are ll0 varietiea
of pouched animals, ranging from the 200-pound
kangaroo down to flying fruit-eaters, smaller
than a mouse. With the esception of the opoasum, an American nn;mnl. pouched an;malr sn
unknown elsewhere.
Among the birds are the black man, the em&
related to the ostrich, and the lyre bird, with itq

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tail feathen rpred in the shape of a lpra
As late aa 1860 the government offered

Domestie .nin\rk including rabbitq have been

imported from England and do well. The rab
bib, indeed, have .becoma a pest. New South
Walw hsr built 17,000 miles of rabbit-proof
fence in an endeavor to exclude them from the
farming diatxictr.
The continent of AnJtralia was first discovered by the Dutch, about fifty yeam after the
dimvery of h e r i c a But the Dutch had their
handa full elsewhere; and it was more than a
century later, or in 1664, that they even gave
the continent a name, when they called it New
Holland. Prior to that time, however, a considerable portion of the coast line had been charted by h t c h navigators.
In the year 1770 Cook carefully uurveyed the
east coast, named a number of the locditida,
and took possession of the country for Great
Britain. Seventeen years later, in 1787, a fleet
of eleven nailing vessels, under command of
Governor Phillip, sailed from England with
1,044 young prisoners from the agricultural d i e
tricts who, for =me reason or other, had dirp l e d the nobility.
After an eight-montha journey the psrty
landed d e l l at Sydney, fourteen having died
enroute. During the next sixty years 140,000
men and women were exiled from Great Britain
to this far distant land, and to the idand of
Tasmania, which lies to the south of it. The
last tonvid ship to West Australia amved
them in 1868.
I t in generally admitted that them exilea,
guilty of being republicans, dissenters and social-reformers, brought to Australia some of
the best blood, brains and character of Britain.
It might have been better for Britain if the
nobility had been sent to Australia, but it would
have been worse for Australia Aa it waa, these
men and women were just the kind of people
best calculated to be pioneers in a new world.
America had much the same kind of rtart.
The climate of Australia has made its development much more slowly than has that of
h r i c a , although both countries have had a
vast desert area to conquer. The first railway
line to traverse the American desert from east
to weat waa the Union Pacific Railway, in 1867;
the Auatralian desert was first traversed by a
railway line from east to weat soma time a h a

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bonns of $50,000 to any one who would fame

his way from the south coast to the north mad,
and return again with anthentie information
about the interior. John M'D&
Stuart mo
ceeded in accomplishing thia in 1A telegraph line over the same route waa briilt a few
years later. Many exploren have lost their
liver in the effort to lay bare the mmtr of t
b
Auatralian continent.
Australia has many curiositien in th.way of
vegetation There are upwanla of 150 varietiw
of gum trees, many of which am of great d a a
Specimen8 of the peppermint memure aa much
as 500 feet in height. Certain native lilies, tF1lips, honeysuckles, ferns, and g ~ l c rp o w to
be trees. The forests p r o d m h o aanddwood,
oedar, pine, and hard wood& Tho .gridproducts are an varied aa the7 a m in the Unikd
States. There ia a hard, warm, spiny plant
called pornpine grass which cmsrm large
in the arid regions and which renderr tra
dil%cult, wounda the feet of homes, and
ha8 no ages yet discovered Nearly all tbe t m
of Auatralh hold thefr leaven the par around;
some of them grow with their roob in the air.
On account of the irregularity of the n i o f d l
the rivem of Australia present some strang.
phenomena The principal river, 'the Murray,
rising in New South Waleq and forming the
boundary between that State and Victoria, ia
usually a great stream, but in a dry year ir
sometimes merely a series of pooh When tho
rains are heavy the stream overflows its b a n 4
and upon this overflow the fertility of the adja.
cent region depends. Thin overilow at time.
reaches for twenty miles on either dde of tha
bed of the stream.
Engineers are figuring on a way of steadying
the flow of the Murray, and have devised twenty-aix locka and weirs in the Murray itself, and
nine in one of its tributaries, besides two great
reservoirs, holding respectively a million and 8
half million cubic feet of water. These w o r b
will cost about $50,000,000, and will render
about 2,200 quare miles amdable for irrig&
tion.
Another great river, the Barcoo, rises within
a few miles of the seaport of Adelaide, and
flows toward the interior
hundred mila+
where it empties into Lake E p ,which has no
outlet. Most rivers elsewhere rise in the i n t e
n o r and flow the other way. In some of t
b

Zx

A u a t d h strermr there u e ilsher whiah have

feathers and are able to fly.
The interior of Australia presents great pos
ubilities for sheep raising. Three hundred million pound8 of wool is the normal annual shig
ment td England. Australia has been making a
desperate effort to use this wool at home, and
hss only recently resumed wool ahipmenta to
the mother country.
Wheat, grape juice, hides, horns, bonedust,
frozen, preserved and salted meata, tallow, oysters, turtles and pearls are among AustraIia's
. valuable products, besides all the agridtural
products which are common to Europe and
America.

Tlb AwtraUan Peopla

THEaE

is not much to be aaid about the

aborigines of Australia They are of Negro
stock, and as black: as the Kegroes of Africa;
the hair is curly, not woolly; the nose is like
that of Europeans. They are inoffensive and
are rapidly dying out, largely due to astonishing dciency in the practice of birth control,
It is estimated that there are not more than
60,000 rmroivors on the entire continent.
Ninety percent of the whites of A t r a l i a are
of British stock, making it the only continent
peopled by one race. The men are ~ u s d
tall, well educated and polite.
Constant effort is made by both the men and
the women to prevent the country from falling
into the hands of the banking fraternity. A
recent example was the act of the women of
Victoria in forming the Housewives Association. This Association collects a fee of twentyfour cents per year per member and worka on
a volunteer basis, without profit, between producer and consumer. The membership is 100,000. Aa a result of their work, they have forced
tho price of milk down from sisteen cents to
ten cents, with proportionate redactions in
cream and sugar.
The men are as independent and aggressive
aa the women. A recent illustration was the
situation which developed at Darwin, the capital and outlet of Australia's hardest problem,
the Northern territory. This great district ia
tropical, yields little, is remote, partly onesplored, and is cursed with white ants and other
insect pests. Darwin itself ia the port of Auatralia which is nearest to the mainland of Asia
It is hot, dirty, always in a ferment, and is an

abiding p h r of the most mired population

imaginable-Hindus, Malays, South Sea Ialandera, Chinese, Japanese, Greeks, ItoliPnr, a d
government oftiF.inln
It happened that on a certain oumabn tba
d m b b t r a t o r of the territory was told that he
must resign. Upon hie removal the Government
decided to govern the territory by aa Adriroq
Council The Darwiaians demanded r ~ ~ r ( ~ ~ l b
tation on the Council. The Government sent
three men to confer with them about the matter.
They held a town meeting, under direction of
the mayor, and nosed the three men to ham
town on the next boat, whereupon the (3ment was obliged to send a ember to the town
in order to obtain a respectful hearing.
~

'PJV&UB
~

E?E thing that has done more than any

to retard AwtraEa's development L t

h
unfortunate fact that every state olr thr
nent haa its own separate gauge rdl-7,
necessitates the constant rehandling of
and the transfer of paauengerr
In Canada, one may board a train st b
treal on the Canadian P a d o and enjoy dthout
interruption every possible comfort from 10: l5
Sunday night until 9: 30 the follonlng Fridy
yevening when he alighta at Seattle, Warhing.
ton, 3,050 miles distant, on the Pscida Coart
In the United States, one may board a trdn
at Washington, on the Southern ,
md
also enjoy without interruption every d o r t
from 9: 50 Sunday night until 1:00 p. m, the
following Friday, when he alighta at San Fmacisco, 3,622 miles distant; and with but OM
change of cars, i. e., the one at Chicago, abiah
may frequently be made in the same station,
one may go from almost any point on the North
American continent to any other.
In Australia, in going from Brisbane an the
east coast, to Perth, on the west coast, the
gauges vary, and one must change cars at Wallangarra, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, W d b
roo, Port Augusta, and Ealgoorlie in making
the journey of 3,000 miles. The trainr do not
connect with one another, and one must remain
over night at transfer points. Freight is mb
jected to the same transfers and even e a t e r
delays.
Australia has 25,729 miles of rnilrosdq of
which 23,150 are owned by the Commonwealth.
A royal commission hsa estimated that b

change all these nihosym to a standard gaup,

aa in- Ameria and C d a , will cost in the
neighborhood of ~ , o O o & K l O . bs aoon rs financial conditiom permitt Anstralia wishes to go
ahead with the change.
Another anfortanate thing is that instead of
building railways in every direction, north,
math, east and west, as waa done in h e r i c a ,
and letting the railwayl develop the country, in
Australia the attempt ha8 been made to develop
the country h t and bring in the railwaya afterward, after their finmeid succees was assured.
Both the people and the railways hsve been
d i i t a g e d bp thh come.
Australia is now quite awake to her railway
problem. Plans are under consideration for
h h g up Northern and Southern Australia by
two routes, either one of which would open
immense areas of pastoral, farming and miuing
land. There is even some consideration of the
London to Australia railway originally proposed in TEB GOLDENAm NO. 9. There is no
resson why it could not be done. Train ferriea
would at first be necessary for part of the way
through the East Indian islands.
The city of Sydney,population 1,100,000, the
New York of Austr*
is planning to build a
municipal railway, partly uhderground and
partly overhead, which will cost approxjmate1y
$P0,000,000. The a t o m prevails in Australia
as in Britain of selling platform tickets for r
a m d sum to those who wish to see their friends
off by train.

Aurtralian Iiulurfrial Conditbu

HE chief occupations of Australians are
stock raising, farming and mining, although
there is a considerable population employed in

manufactures. Anstrnlia is the greatest wwlproducing country in the world; and ar, wool ia
scarce, and in great demand, it is commanding
very high prices. The production of gold, onvery important, has coneiderably decreased.
Over $2,000,000,000 in gold have been taken out
of Australia since its diecovery there in 1851.
The chief of Australia's cattle men is Sidney
Kidman, who owns or controls 48,000 sqnare
miles, an area almost equal to that of the state
of New York. Thid man i a said to be a rough
but unassuming man, who probably o m mom
of the earth than any other one man.
Australia's need is the need of every country
.nd of every enterprise under the mm-markek

Conditions have been favorable in recent years.

for great crops and hence for great exporta, but
the bottom has fallen out of the overaeaa
keta The real situation in Europe is that the
people are so busy paying interest on the war
bonds that they can barely buy the thipga t h q '
need to eat and to wear.
Under a protective tariff, adopted in
Australia has been much benefited in the d e d opment of manufacturing industries. This haa
helped to solve the problem of unemployment,
thougll it haa made England's problem d i 5 d t
With the protective tariff, as in America, have
come large profita to some of the manufacturing
companies, with consequent stock watering h
order to conceal the profib from the pub&

P o p i d d o n Md Inunigrcrtion
HE continent of Australia has but a aar9
population, only 5,500,000; but i t h a r
moat effiaient and interesting method of taking
the census. Several days before a given Srrmd.5I
the postmen deliver to each resideat a m h h t
number of c a n s to~CO-r
~ tho# at hi.
home. On the stated Sunday night the aanrru k
taken for every home, every hotel and e w q
train in the Commonwealth. On Monday morning the postmen collect the paperq ar filled out
The same method is used for regi8tration of
voters and distribution of ballots.
Since the World War Anstralia irr feeling
keenly the need of more people to help c a q
the load of debt, $4,210,000,000, which &a is
compelled to bear. The cornby L large enofertile enough, and h a , in the aggregate, water
enough to sustain a population mamy timer
greater. Yet its irrigation schemes are u m h
veloped, and the transportation system k inad*
quate, and both these mattera need to be matified before any great numbem come.
Lying aa it does off the coaat of A8ia, b
tralia is a natural depot for Asistie immigrants, and it would seem as though o n b a
v i g o m European immigration poliq would
prevent the ~dntinentfrom being overrun with
Asiatica The Australians see thiq and dedrs
jmmi$z=ants,and yet dread to sea them come,
for fear they will not readily find employment,
and will add to Austraiia'o own already h e a v
burdena
Several thousand British immigrants r e d
Australia e r e q month. Some of them repod

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GOLDEN AGE

that they are made none too welcome on their

arrival d e w they have plenty of money. In
every land there a n real-eutate agents who are
very much p l e a d to form the acquaintance of
mybody who has money, no matter where he
hails from. One of these sums the matter up
in a letter to the London DaiZy Herald:

mastprovidehimvlt~thcl~~dmdapdr
of boo& which would nm away with tho lot, having
not*
for recrertion or a U y . Labor mcmbar in
the South Anstxali~~
Legid,ba oppm the d a m on
the ground that it L dibm& vidimhti011 of tha
worst kind, and a form oi chmp whib rlrteq."

T;lbA~~*CoDItnawnt

Y r o l u v a ~ a ~ i n b e s t r r l i . ~ m ~N
t oJANUARY 1, 3.9011 one year after the
be young, and to hare not leer thPrr a thorwnd pounds
opening of the twentieth century, the Com*ling when he lands. No ather p h I h o w hu so monwealth of Australia waa organized out of
little qmpathy with tha emigrant; nowhem doea he what had once been the Australian colonies qf
meet with mch a cool reception, unlea~be bu money New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South
to bum;then the land-agents mck him dry, and he hu
no remedy. Fully ninety percent are out of regalar Australia, West A'llstdh, and the idand of
employment. What I say to all workers in E n g h d is, Tasmania ' The temporary capital L Melbourna
Each of the six states making up the ComIlon't be lared by those highly colored podam d n g
out Australis u the promised land; it M a land of monwealth has six senators chosen for six
h e u k a k . To be aure them ue cert.in wry8 of getting years ;these make up the national senate. Them
on hero, the wayr of influenca and cliqueism; but ii is a national house of repreaenhtivea camposed
you u e of no clique and have no inflmm, your casa of seventy-two members, elected on the bash of
is well-nigh hopeler."
population. The House aontinuem
in
three
,
years
unless
sooner
clmnmd
There is an agreement between the Director

Unlike the American Constitation, and mocb

aaperior to i t in this respect, the Admlian
Constitution defines the power of itr Supreme
Court; and while the Court provides a check
upon the legislature, pet the legislature may
remove any individual judge from the bench
without stating any reason whatever. In prsotice thh works splendidly, and should be adopted in America
Besides the national government, each of the
six original states has its own local senate and
house of representatives. The members of the
New South Wales and Queensland senates are
appointed for life by the British crown. The
proposition is afoot to abolish all the utate senates, as being useless expense.
I n a govenlmental sense Australia is believed
by critics to be overmanned. The Commonwedth employs 43,043 persons, drawing annual
'#The South Australian ko-iemment M introducing salaries amounting to $31,742,045, while the
boy imzni,grants into that state for Labor on farm^. state governments hare in addition 193,049 emThcs boys are being ruthless1y exploited because of the ploy&~,drawing salaries of $133,620,010. All
conditions allorred by the Government. They are paid this ia used for the government of 5,500,000
n-;!:-i. of $2.50 a week, for nbich they hnve to ~ o r k persons. In other vords, one person in every
from tlzylight to dark, learning the art of farming. Of
this amount only one dollar is paid weekly to the boys, twenty-four is a government employ6. In the
the other $1.50 being retained by the Governmeut and United Statcs it is said to be one in forty,
handed to the boys in a lump sum at the end of the which is bad enough in all conscience. Women
engagementu Out of this sun, so retained, hoae~cr,all are eligible to most Australian offices, but in
expenses incurred in bringing the boys from England Victoria they may not sit in either how& The
ue deducted. The dollar n week which the boy receives American national House of Bepreeentativeo,
amounts to fifty-two dollars a year, out of which he 441 members, is found too large for edbient
of Uigration of Australia, Mr. Hunter, and
the British government whereby selected migrants are sent from Britain at the rate of
100,000 a year, the transportation of the selected migrants to be paid by the two governments. There is also an agreement between the
Italian and British governments, sanctioned by
the Australian government, providing for the
estensive migration of Italian labor to Australia This is an abandonment of the one-time
policy of Australia to limit new arrivals to
Anglo-Saxon stock, but it is not an abandonment of the policy to exclude Asiatics. The
Llano Colmist seems to think that the reasons
why some of the immigrants selected in Britain
are sent to Australia at governmental expense
do not reflect very much credit upon either government when it says:

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'OLDEN AGE

-u,

Rz

H q sevantp-tno except for a minorib of not mare tban

is found to be just about the right daa five percent, would not consent to it
This minority beliethat Australi. i.SM.
AtrrtralfoenlIqpnm
to go it alone, and even d a d a m that 'the
USWLB
a pophtion of lesr th.n e m e a t of India by ib 0~
~
1 b.s
.
six miimom on a continent of nearly t h r e entinlJ' m t i s f h o to
~ them @ in h h j l a b
Bqmiles, or fno persona to emh merit, wodd not aff- Auetralia'r intemsta b
square mile- Japan has a pop&tion of si,W,- the least. But the majority think otherwisa
want to be
into
000 and an area of 261,000 square miles, or coneiderably more than 200 persona to each square motherwar;and Yet
rdim
u long
mile. Japan has more people than she knows as they are 8 P& of the British Empin t h . ~
*hat to do with; Australia has room for man, muat do their part when the Empire i8 in d s ~
m a o n & and y indeed, the largest empty area ger- Australia especially feel8 thk r e d i n g
that sh* ha8 a 12,OO&mile conat-line a r ~ dt h 3
in the
~ h h
a bad
British naval forcer alone could keep them
for Australia
all of Anstnli.'r larg. citiu
Australia b determined to remain a whits clear.
me on Moreover,
the
a e m b ; the Anstrsli.n

-be-

mm'r country: Fit, became she ran- only

one race and one general clam of society; seeand, because she does not want an influx of
Asiatics to bring down the wage level; third,
because whites and Asiatic8 do not intermarry,
or if they do the unions do not work out well;
wu th.n
ad fOlutb
and
proposes to profit by it.
J
a
~
ever 60 On the war-path
.gaiolt Britain it might go hard with Austral*
But Britain always has Australia in mind,
knowing that the British navy in her natural
defense, and b careful not to alienate the
friendship of Japan. When the World War
loot was divided Britain took for henelf everything south of the equator and let the islands
no* of the Wnator go to JapanSam
got nothing, not even Yap, for which done he
asked. But he got a nice little debt of $30,000,000,000--his ahare. Lord Kitchener claimed
that 80,000 men can defend Australia against
invasion. If that statement is true it affords
mom D r thought for those 1 0 % American
morons who swdowed the bait that the German nation could invade a land that is able
promptly to pat 4,000,000 soldiem in the fieldTheir mutual Asiatic exclusion policy maker
h s t r a l i a and America natural friends. But
there are many other ties binding them together.

Australia is too loyal to Brihin, and reolbw

her dependence upon the Britinh B e e tea k- ly, to consider having a separate foreign [mlicy,
and for that reason does not have an indtpem
dent minister a t Washington. In Australia it L
that the four Briti. doditirr
Ew
li&, ScotLh, w e k h ad 1ur 4He*
into one homogeneom people. There ir 8oma
antagonism to the Irish, but not more than in
herick
John MdomacL,
th. Brest
on
6rtoally
out of
th.t he vu a S- Feinu.
Doily
Londoq OOmmeILtiw
a
the pmsent
of wrin
eprerpuherr, to fight and die in wan t h ~
I
have been arr8nged by hciers,
politiand derios, cite* an instance of how Aostralh
a. a more or less hapfdc h d
the war-makers:

'-

Mr.
Mr.
Churchill
Birkenhesd wanted to embark On
ci.J"
mth tha Turka, cablea were aent to each Dominion ub
ing for mppon Tha Mvlt
th.t ru hppil, di,
ing to the wu-mongn.
.nd mnging
pn.a
dy to all
br ~~~a
hod th.t it wodd be
M ~ I toSm h t h DomiPionr
~
into
wheneve t h q
liked. The Dominiom ham h.d wmel Thq ua @in(
b to 11eaa sentmental in the future; they are going t.
look Won t h q leap. We us very glad of i t We u
glad to sea Australian Labour declining to be commitbrd
.
to the dinastrour results 'of arefully pnpucd p o w
AuiaircrUcr d Britain
a d secret treatiea which work with 8 f i e n u
AUSTRALIA covet. and enjoys all the libr- hairs
da6nit. o,,jsdirr..,,

ties that go with the word Commonwealth,

Australian labor men who voted for canw*ch she selected as more appropriate than
either Dominion or Colony. But she does not acription during the war were expelled from
reek a separation from the British Empire, ad, the labor anion4 which have declared, by f o n d

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resolutions, that any individuals who hereafter

plunge the organized workers into a capitalistic
war \vi.ll be held pereonally responsible for the
death or mutilation c f any of their members.
'CGe do not know jnst w l ~ a tthis means, but i t
is what the resolutions said.
Australian Militant Labor

TY percent of the workers of Australia

NIX"
are in the labor unions. This great body
4

496

cloth-makers. An a natural consequence the

anti-Labor Government had not been in power
a month before it closed the woolen mills, although the government had made $15,000,000
in profits since the mills were opened.. Now
these profits, besides the nice little margin of
$3.30 per yard difference in price, may g o to
the "regular" financiers instead of to the peopk
This shows why "business men" are in terror
everywhere lest the common people ahodd ham
the running of things, and why there k such 8
hue and cry constantly in all the papera againrt
Socialism; for, be it known, the running ?f
those cloth mills at cost, by the people and for
the people, was Socialism pure and aim+

of well organized men, 700,000 in number, controls wages, as a matter of course; controls the
political situation in some of the provinces, and
for several years controlled the federal government itself. The Labor Prime Minister, Hughes,
mas unhorsed a year aao when the Countw
party, with fourtkn meGbers in the ~ a t i o n 2 OtAer ALobor N w
House of Representatives, and the Nationalkt
RAcTICmy
dl
mrfen
of
party, with twenty-sir members, formed a c o d wnles, and New ZuLod
New
tion against the thirty-two members of the La- are now worldng a forty-fm-hOm rwk;
bor party. I f the L a b r party had been able to in Queensland at
tbve is an
to promuster five more votes it would have remained vide
against Memployment Ba *&
in power; but the party was weakened through
favorable conditim it mast wt
disaffection with Mr. Hughes on account of his mpposd that the idd h.s bea.
TLi.
war enthusiasm. Mr. Bruce is now Prime Min- is
meqd altribntion of
ister and ~Vinisterof External Affairs.
which in 1922 was returned ar follows:
I t is clairied for Australia that tlie condition
8(19,724 penonr poaemd nothing
of the workers there is better than in any other
place in the world. The Government builds
925,461 persona aver&
1 160
314,514 persons averaged
800
homes for them, a t cost, and gives them twenty374,108 persona avenged
2,500
five years in which to pay for the same. I t pays
203,125 persons avenged
13,036
a honus of $25 for each child born, and has
13,718 persons ave.enrged 92,466
paid out $30,000,000 on this nccount since the
997 persona averaged '338,576
law weut into operation.
466 p e r 8 0 ~aver8ged 988,466
The Labor Government in 1913 established
it will be seen that four P e r c a t of
thc Commonwealth Bank, which is now one of
thc largest banking institutions in the world. the people Possess sixty percent of the wealth,
Sltllough the bank is only ten years old it8 and ninet?-sk percent Possess the remaining
profits are larger than those of any other b a d forty percent, while fdteen percent have nothin Australia, yet it has conferred untold bene- i"8 at all but the wages they earn from week
fits upon the workera. This sholr-s what the to weekcapitalistic banks could do if they would.
Emulating Boston's example of four pears
There is an Arbitration Court, with power to 860, Mel~onrnehas had a police strike, not at
city; and yet, after
enforce s minimum wage and prevent sweating. all a nice thing for
Sports and amusements are organized on a pub- police must live, and if not properly paid or
estab- ProperY treated are not imm.ne from acting
lic Lads. The national woolen mills,
lished by the Labor Government, made and cold the same as other human beings. The strike,
to the people a t $1.50 per yard the same grade in Boston, was made the occasion for h~~
A correspondent in Amt*
of woolen cloth as is old at $5 per yard by to ran
writes us regarding the affair:
independent makers.
he coalition against the Labor Government ?Ielboornc has jud gone through the amat cairn
was largely financed by the independent woolen time in its history. In a police strike, seventy of t
b

,,

da

jndingrhr,p8raloilkdbymobr Alltbrpktbgkrr lent playground. The roads are superb, and

rfniimrrrar~tQ.t0mSthegooblruelthmwnautomobiling is popular. The native Tamsfirto hdm$ and
cnnrdl arrisd them ob. Xan niana am extinct. Tanmanil haa r pemnanant
p t a m . h u a r # r w m i t r m d ~ o u t d t h s a h ~ p lpopulation of LS0,000, largely engaged in minrECbhman. Thrcitfru uifith.dbusnbombuded ing. It ia one of the sir onstate6 of tha .
m b o m b r T h ~ t r u ~ m Australian
~
i Commonwealth.
t
L
~ g e t d r t r a a r t m m t h r m i l i t y m d t n r m t l u m - In many respects New Zedand r e d l e a
~ d ~ t m y . i l l t o ~ u ~ c a n & n r r l ~ r a ~ m d r b o o t l OItaly,
o ~ yet there are Uerencer. Italy is 600
miles
long; Xew Zealand is l,000 mile8 long. ta tb horpitrLs

Italy is seventy miles across at the ankle; New

~ h h a d h ~ h y e a Zealand
r s has a strait at that point The toe of
of Labor government, and appears to like i t Italy points southwest and the heel southeast;
The Premier, Theodore, insists that in Queena- the toe of New Zealsnd pointa northwest and
Lnd there k a fairer dhtribution of prosperity the heel northeast Italy is from 37" to 47O north
and happiness among men and women than else- latitude; N w Zealand ia from 34. to 47* south
where on earth. State enterprises in varioua latitade. Italy has ll0,660 aqaare miles (abod
directions have cheapened the cost of living, the size of New York and Perumy1van.k corn
and ahifted the bardem of taxation to the ahoul- bined) ;New Zealand hna 104,751: qornr milsr;
dem of those best able to bear them.
Italy har 35,000,000 population; New Zealarid
Qu&d
Laboritam have their own new+ has in excess of 1,000,000.
papera, not being able at all to trust the others,
Stretching in south latitude from that which
which never f i t a t e to hold the Labor party corresponds to Savannah, Georgia, to northern.
up to contempt, no matter how much good it Maine, the dimate of New Zealand is varied,
accompliahea In 1922 two representatives of but is generally very healthfa Sudden shitt
tbb "regdar" press offered a bribe of $17,500 ing of the winds cause rapid changer whi& an
to one man whom they mistakenly thought they somewhat trying to new arrival& The winters
could "reacb." If this man, Frank Brennan, had are so mild that barns are not needed for the
heeded, it w happened that at that time his vote shelter of cattle. Raina are frequent and well
would ham thrown the Labor Party out of distributed; drooths are of rare occurrence.
power. This ir more proof that the 9egukr" New Zealand lies 1,200 miles to the southeast
businem men h d it advanfageous to have a of Australia, and is a veritable wonderland of
hand in
thinga The Qneensland Labor volcanoes and geysers.
Party is making an effort to abolish its senate,
The Fox, Tasman, and Fnrna Josef glaciers
which, according to cuntom, is - appointed for are more imposing than any in Europe. The
life by the British crown. It hen already passed peaks of these mountains, 12,000 feet high, are
a bill to thir end as the h t step.
only five miles from the sea; and the g h i e r a
Queensland, the immem distriet on the conae down to within 600 feet of sea level. At
northeastern redor of Anstralia, contains vast the foot of these glaciers, literally Mtween the
are- which are suited to stock raising, and sea and the ice, there are natural hot springs.
this despite the tropical climate, which is not Aa late as 1886 there was a violent eruption of
ao generally well suited to stock-growing pur- Mount Tanrmera, in the Hot Lake district, during which the celebrated Pink and White Terc
post=
races, of world-wide fame as natural wonders,
Tantank and N m ZWand
disappeared.
New Zealand is a country which, when discovASthe Switzerland of the South,
ia the size of Scotland, and lies 140 milen ered, had almost no animalm. There wsr the
month of Australia Being in a colder climate moa (a sort of foxdog, now extinct), a rat and
than Australia, it aerves aa an excellent Auatrb two species of bats; and that was all. However,
lira rerort daring hot weather, and b visited it is a natural pamdise for nnimnll; and sinco'
by about 100,000 Anstraliana each summer. The the whites have invaded the land their picats and rabbits have run wild, the latter so
Laland ia noted for the grandest of scenerymountain lakes, forests, watsrfalls, peaks, glens, much so that they have become a pest. The
md plrtea~,all combining to make an exd- coast waters teem with 5 h , and scale are still

'

numerous. There are no snakes in Sew Zealand, there are but few lizards, and only one
kind of frog. There are four species of wingless
birds. TVhile Australia is thirty times greater
in area than h'ew Zealand, i t carries only four
times the number of cattle and leas than four
times the number of ~heep.
The soil and climate of New !Zealand produce
in perfection every American and European
grain, grass, fruit and vegetable, and many
others besides. Ferns grow thirty feet high,
and are remarkable for the elegance of their
forms. Flou-ers and natural fruits are. scarce.
A number of forest trees furnish valuable timber. Flax is widely grown.
Kew Zealand is rich in mineral deposits.
Gold was diaco~eredin 1893; during the next
fifty years the output was over $289,000,000.
Wool, frozen meat, grain, and gold form the
staple exports. Xew Zealand properly keeps a
harp eye on the meat and grain markets of
the world, and xi11 not sell its products to everybody. I t wants to h o w in advance where and
how they will be used; it has found from experience that this inquiry pays.

members of the senate. The house of reprosentatives, elected by the people, consist8 o l
seventy-fonr members and server for thrm
years. Kew Zealand had the opportunity to
enter the Anstralian Commonwealth, but wa6
unwiiling to do so, preferring to be a separate
principality.
The rate of infant mortality in New Zealand
is less than a n p h e r e else in the world. New
Zealand loses in the fist year but 48 babies out
of each 1,000 born; France loses 78, England
83, United States 87. New Zealand is a land
of bachelors; only two-third8 of the men of the
marriageable age have entered the bands of
wedlock. One-third of the marriages me Jziidleas, o ~ to gthe general practice of birth
control.
The people of New Zealand b a n a wida
spread reputation for being maial, intelligent,
industlions and enterprising people, p o e g
vigorom minds and healthy b o w They 8re~
extremely devoted to the mother country. Thh
led to cruelty to conscientious objectom during
the World War, and to some h e examplea of
moral courage on the part of tho- who ate
willing to undergo any possible erperienoea
The PeopLe of New Zealand
rather than slay their fellow men, of whieh rr
at another time,
HE natives of New Zealand, called Maoris, will have more to
are believed to be Caucasians, and are adI
New Guinea
mitted to be the most superior native people of n" Iuhd
any lands occupied subsequently by whites.
EW OUINEB, as its name implies, in the
They still own considerable of their land, and
shape of an immense guinea fowl, with ita
have their own representatives in both Iegisla- head to the west and its body stretching oat
tive chambers. When first known they tattooed along the equator fifteen hundred milea to the
their faces and bodies in striking manner. east, one-sixteenth of the way around the globe.
There are still about 40,000 of them; they adapt New Guinea, next to Australia, is the largeat
tli~inselves to European ways readily. They island in the world; and it msy safely be a i d
ore kind, self-respecting and respectable people. that there is no other tract on the earth's mrTasman, the Dutch navigator who discovered face of equal size of which there ia 60 little
Taen~ania,was also the discoverer of New Zeaif we except the p o h regionr.
land, in 1642; but little was known of the coanNew Guinea, or Papua, has an area of over
try until it was visited by Captain Cook, in 300,000 square miles, and in 430 miles wide at
1769. I n 1840 British statesmen got the native the widest part. There are enormous mountain
chiefs to sign away their rights; and since the ranges rising to a reputed height of 20,000 feet,
war of 1660-1566 they hare quietly submitted with torrential rivers broken by hundreds of
to the inevitable filling up of their country with rapids and waterfalls. The total population t
the tictorious whites.
reckoned at only about half a million.
Eren the New York Times,that mosaio of
New Guinea was discovered by the Pothe moneybags, admits that the Government of guese, annexed by the Spanish, and aubsequentKen. Zealand is the most progressive in the ly partitioned among the Dutch, who took the
world. The king of England appoints the gov- western half, the Germans, who took the northernor; he also appoints for life the forty-eight eastern quarter, and the British, who took the

ra.
"

GOLDEN AGE

routheastern' q&r
and subsequently surrendercd it to Anstralian control. After the World
War the British seized all the German possessions, including the land of the settlers. When
these settlers asked for compensation for their
landa they were calmly told that their possessiona were being seized aa a set-off against the
German indemnity. The settlers themselves
were deported to Germany.
Australia has handled New Guinea better
than it was handled by England in the crown
colony days; but the land is still the Dark
Island, untameable and unknown. There is
doubtless gold to be found; and for that metal
the white man wiU do anything, even risk the

--

fevers of New Guinea Then are great forests

which have not been penetrated and which cam
not be penetrated by any animal except man.
The New York Times says of this land:
rrp, b, ym t b ~~m
hment
ban

--

pw
b d avagery, e p i n g oat
ing d d h b sfter ~ i l dtribe

b~optr~
~ E ago
I you had r very fair ~UZUX of b
g boclnd
on the head and eaten, anywhere a litth behind the
-Q
Ye- ago the pa* of &a m*
Ten
ago much of
and the deltaa of the gnat rive= were p k a ahera you
mold in
.IternOOnlap
dw
tion to
BBV-.
TodoJy ii ya -t
to meet
ww
-bbal
in his horny p a mrrrrt fit a t r d
expedition to reach him."

Signs of Eden

ITH the glories of Eden pictured to O W therefore, represents the perpetual snmmerthm
minds, and knowing the desolation of of the Hoosier state.
Mr. Snedeker writes:
the wilderness condition which has prevailed
h c e the flood of Noah'r day, when we read
"Aa a foretaste of the Golden dgt, 00 roan b kein,
dl
the promises of God to restore the world to thr golden dundeliolu am blooming on our
the
y
w
.
In
Tu;.h
35:1,1!
wa
red:
Edenio conditions, it nataral
'And the desert dull rejoia, d
for ns to seek to catch the faintb~osaomM t b rorr. ~t aha~blorram
eat foregleama of the coming
.b~d.ntl
y? "
utimes of restitution."
The
location
and date d pickThe gradual change to warming is as follows :
er weather in the north is noted
from time to time in T m Oom
December lst, 1922, Converse;
g l ~
Aca. This last Fall and up
January 31st, 1923, Greedeld;
to New Yeais day, it was excep
February 12th 1923, Greentionally warm; and this unseawood; March 29th 1923, North
sonal weather extended far into
Anderson; April 6th, 1923, Anthe north. But old Boreas got
derson ; May lst, 1923, Alesanbwy with wintry blast and snow,
der; June lst, 1923, Gas City;
making twenty to thirty-five deJuly 5 t 4 1923, Elkhart; August
grees below zero weather corn2nd, 1923, Kendallville; September 5t4 1923, Milford; Ocmon in some of the northern
states, pushing Jack Frost well ~ ~ ~w.etd
d
~
l
yeu
l
~ tober 5 t h 1923, Rochester; November 2nd, 1923, Montpelier.
into the Southland.
Mr. James
Snedeker of Fo* Wayne, In&If the above should appear as though hb.
sent
the sccom~anYingat,a rePr* Snedeker was scouring the state for dandelions,
duction of a photograph of twelve dandelions
arrayed in various degrees of glorious splendor, it erplaind that he irrtraveling adem,
~ P P ~ M
to select
V
each one being gathered in the state of Indiana and therefore had
in a different month of the year. The picture, his specimens from various places.

"Upon a showery night snd dill,

Without a sound of warning,
A trooper band surprised the hdl,
And held it in tha morning.

'We were not waked by bugle not*

No cheer our dreama invaded,

And yet at d a m their yellow coata

On the green slopes pa,mddm

..

i
f

Facts about Miracle Wheat

BY J. A. BOAW~

has been mid and written about that the original stool had 214 s t a b , and thJ
Miracle Wheat and ib superiority over Mr. Stoner was rsising this atram of w h d
the more common strains of wheat; and people with a view to eelling it for $1.00 per p o d
Pastor Bussell therein general were thought
fore
made mention of
to be quite well informed
E
d
i
W
Note
the
matter
in his jouron the snbjeet.
nal,
The
Watch
Toww.
HF:
preac4ern
d
the
d
o
o
r
d
a
o
m
l
n
a
t
i
o
d
I t see!ms, however,
churchea barn rilidcd and slanderad the chamc
When
some
time
later
that some ministers are ter of Pastor W I l for over tbirtJ y a m JUthe
agent
of
Mr.
Stoner
that
not informed and are Rutherford'n Lccclarta w, irrltatm the -p
out of courtesy for tho
connnue to pour forth their r p b of hatred at
given to misleading nt- they
P ~ s t o rR u w l l , beaum Mr. Rutherford happear to k
Watch Tower artide,
terances to their con- mccesxor to Mr. Russell u prestdant of tbm Watch
called
upon Pastor RMgregations instead of Tower Bible and Tmrt Society.
sell
and
showed him 8
Besiclea many other Urn these preacher8 roll under
adhering to the deliv- their
t o n g ~ e a the
~ l "Mlrrrcle Wheat" I l c The weuksample
of
the wheat,
ery of the gospel mes- n w of the pIWLcheIYI9 podtion i. men In resorting to
two
grains
of
the wheat
sage. And not only are such ungentlemanly m a n s to befoul men's chaructem
fell
upon
the
carpet of
whose
armmenm
they
cannot
meet
with
logic
and
they n e g l e c t i n g t o reoaon For hypocrltleal mbrcriuge, for f a h e piety.
Pastor
Buasell's
a*.
preach the gospel, but and for decelvlng the people who put confidence La
T
h
e
e
e
g
r
a
i
n
8
were
tlwmdvea
they are engaging in them. the preachern are in a cfas
picked
up
by
him
a d
When
the
peor~le
gst
81UBcltntly
awake
to
the
e
~
o
r
c
evil speaking.
mity of the robbery tm whlch they have beco Bl~b
on request were handed
I t has come to oar Jected by the clergy, both of money and of the true to the writer.
notice that some of the doctrines of Chrtni.nlty ; and when t b e ~ acgpaintI planted fitel tro
ed aith the f a r u mabllng them t o d l r m n k t w m
preachera c o u l d n o t "wolves ln sheep'n clothing" and the true m l n h t u r af
gnirrrr in
gstdsem,
will becow a TarJ
meet the forceful and the Word, the preacher burand rsised from w
vocntlon
logical presentations of poor
The "add" M. of toll- la b h t h ~ d o g ~
but
; tb.
1,312 grain8 of wher+
Judge Rutherford con- test
which anybody a n apply to hin o m nddrctim
Them I planted in tarn,
cerning the "Battle of is whether the mlnlaer p m a e h a for h l r a Preaching
money la not prompted by tb. t r u t b - p m h d n ~
and raked five and on+
Armageddon" and "Mil- for
Anybody may apply that Oa;and If hc dnda
third pounda I in turn
lions Now Living Will motive
himself a ~ l s U n gIn the euppurt of a mywtcm Whlcb
Xever Die," and there- takes u p collectlonrr and hem for moaey. let hlm know planted the sams and
raised eight and onefore they have under- that he b an abettor of a watem founded upon
allre by ile8, with a band of 1Ln a r r g i n g the
half busheh Then I
taken to throw dust kept
t o r c h a a t the h a d of the promaion
into the eyes of their
We a r e rrmlnded kn of the r o d 8 of 8t Jude. wrote to Pastor BnaseIl,
liearers by attenlpting (14-16) : "Behold th. Lord cometh 4 t h tm t h o - telling him that I wantof hla a n t s , to uecllte judgment up60 all;
e d i n t e r e s t e d Watch
to belittle the cl~aracter sand*
and t o convince all tbat a r t nogodly among them of
and work of the depart- all their u n p d l y deeds which they b a n onrrodly Tower readera to have
ed Pastor Russell. One commltted. and of all thelr hard rpctd~ea [ h a n h each a pound of thu
worda. U i o g b t t ] whlch ungodly rinners
wheat for their plsatof these preachers ac- h(untmthful)
a r e spoken agalnst hlm. [See Matthew 23: 40,451
ing, and suggested that
cused Pastor Russell of
These are murmurers, mmplalnem. wnlking after
thelr own lusts: and thelr mouth q m k e t h great
$1.00 per pound should
selling bIiracle Wheat
[untruthful] worda, having rnen'r per80118
be charged for it, and
at $20.00 a bushel and swelllng
[opiulons] in admirstion k t c a r ~
of sdvanta@%"
t h a t e v e r y Watc
buying it back at $4.00
Tower reader who h
per bushel, a most abground space would gladly pay this price to
surd statement on its very face.
I n view of this I think well to present some get a start. 'Tor," said I, "they will send in rn
of the Miracle Wheat facts as I know them to be. dollar or more, anyhow, for the apread of the
gospel; and thus the wheat will be broadcast
Pcrstor RuaseZl Had No Wheat
fairly well; and whatever money may be reTHE first place,
never "ld
for these eight d onbh.l( h ' h e l s of
a pound of Miracle Wheat, and never even
: wheat I want placed in the general fund of the
had 8 pound of it to selL Here are the
Pastor Rnssell learned that Mr. Stoner of Watch T'offer Bible and Tract Society for
Fincastle, Virginia, had some Miracle Wheat, spread of the truth."
un

M UCH

IN

* GOLDEN AGE
To thin Pastor BaweU readily agreed, and
pkebd in his jo&
8 notica of Miracle Wheat
ASTOB REGSELL
preached persistently on the
m b l e at $1.00 par pound. The wheat wm
Bible, and took up uo collections. Thorn
&;I, J. k Wt,set the price at $1.00 per who had confidence in him, and who knew him
pound; Pamtor Busell had nothing to do with so well as one of the highest character and aa
the pricu-makingj nor with the sale of the wheat, one who loved the Lord, freely sent money to

axcept at my sageeation to make mention of it him, wholly unsolicited, to aid him in liis min-

in his journal.
iaterial work Pastor Russell believed that the
I them pTlrchsssd a pet& of this wheat myself shepherd should feed the sheep, and not the
md planted it for other sales which I made; aheep feed the shepherd. Hence he made no
and I paid $LOO per pound. So I wss not charge, and took no pay for preaching the go*

I myself w m pel. All that he had was used in the spread of

the truth as he found it set forth in W s Holy
Word. And for his labor of love and Godly
~Pkldttoa,oltaPound
devotion he has been shamefully traduced by
many
of the clergy, even aa war Jesru l,900
HE lowest yield from one pound sown that
was reported to me wsa eighty pounda, yesrs ago.
W h y do miniatem assail Pastor Bunsell, who
and the highest reported was two hundred and
twenty pounda from one pound sown. Them- has years agp gone to his reward? Why do
they not attack his teachingst The answer to
fore the wheat waa mirock sure enough.
charging others any more than

lmingtopay.

Wheat T&&mnv in Court

the latter question is simple : !Chey cannot E o

had the Bible to prove his every m r t i o n .

HEN nine of the thirty MiracIe Wheat

growem at the court trial had given te, l k C I . r g g D o N o t A w c & t h e G o r p J
HE clergy of today have generally left the
timony in favor of this wheat, the presiding
judge stated in substance that the superioriQ
Bible, and have gone into thmderinga on
of W
e Wheat over all other strains of science, astronomy, mnaio, art, M o w , liver of
wheat had been so thoroughly demonstrated men, noted generals, literatare, temperance,
that any farther testimony in favor of Miracle moral reform, suffrage, war, oonauription, Bed
Wheat would be superfluous The other twenw- Cross, Libem B o n d 8 - a n m g and everyone Miracle Wheat growem were therefore not thing save Jesns Christ and Him mcitIed, of
which latter thing they seem to be woefully and
called upon to give testimony.
People do not m e the m e uMira&:m
ignorant. Their floundering in the p&
Therefore in varions parts of the a m t q thb pit is t d y pitiful. But they do not forget the
same wheat goes by the name of the man who "Offertory." God says to t h : ''keel7 Ye
introdneed it there ;as for instance, in Tennes have received, f feez!/ g i v e r
ree it ir called 'Tobba wheat"; in Maryland,
"Weber wheat": and in some places "Stoner M h c & Wheat of Superior Qualie
HEREVER Jiiracle Wheat has been
wheat" ~ o b & haa called it "knssell wheat"
shown in competition with other strains
that I know of; nor has it been called '%ohnet
wheat." But the preachers delight in slapping of wheat' at the etate and county fairs, it ha.^
at Paator Russell about Miracle Wheat, when always taken first prize and the sweepstake
in reality he had no connection whatever them prize. The Webers of Maryland hold the silver
cup of three rmccessive years of prize winning8
with.
The preachers cannot meet Pastor Russell's with this wheat over all other wheats.
The chief difficulty with Miracle Wheat growarguments on Biblical exegesis, even as 1,900
years ago the preachers could not meet the ing is that the farmer sows it too thick. In thia
arguments of the meek and lowly Man of Gali- case it will not stooL The wheat mast be sown
lee. History repeats itself. The Pastor was too very sparsely. When rightly sown, it stools out
much for the preachers of a nominal Christian- wonderfully. I have frequenay found thirty
ity. They gnash on him with their t e e b l i k e straws from one grain sown. I have found often
Gfty straws, aU of good heading, from a &gh
dogs.

-.-

-.

GOLD,CN AGEgrain I bave seen aa many as ninety stalks

from one grain, and the same six feet tall.
hir. McKnight, the wheat expert, who traversed every wheat district in Europe, testified
under oath that in all his life he had never seen
as many as four stalks from one sown grain of
wheat, excepting Miracle Wheat. Thir teatimoney the writer personally heard in the court
room.
Miracle mheat is all that Pastor Russell proclaimed it to be. If anyone is at fault for charging $1.00 per pound for the Miracle li7heat, it

is the writer. Those who paid a dollar for om

pound never made a ''kid? ;they paid it giadly.
Then why should the ministers do a q Uing" T Buying seed wheat at $1.00 a pound did
not lessen the contributions of the clergy; for
the purchasers of Miracle Wheat would not put
one penny into the contribution plate of tho
nominal minintry. They h o w better. In nhst
part of the Bible do we h d a chum that th+
sheep shall feed the shepherd?
Take away the contribution plate, and h m
many preachers would stay on the job?

Poisoning the Fountains

E HAVE before ua a letter signed by
W
Earl Constantine, Assistant to the Pmb
ident of the National Association of Manufac-

"Many p e r i o d i d m d o p z ~ahq uoattioor La

reprinted matter hued by
Ora l#OO
debatern have been given a m h b a by mail fn
ing the open shop. At katt twJor u m k d i u now Bbtribute our open rhop literaturm thmqhmt their ddu
in 'Packaga Loan Libruia.' PractiulIj dl of Um aOilege and uniremity teachm at mchlaw, pSm d economicr r e a h our PPbHC.bQU.rn
"Tha Department up& the d apccrtorr ad W d
Virginia in their d u d to dealwiththeUpitdY[fiu
Workem. Om position in thin mattar brought
unsolicited lettern of appreciatian from m q opa-&d
amodation in W a t T
i and h a m r ~ p tOi t
b
lager operrtan."
"Among the actiritisr of & Dcpubnclrt betwan
February 14, 1923, and Septemb~SO, 1988, tbr fab
loring may be noted :

turers, 50 Church Street, New Pork. With his

letter Mr. Constantine enclosed another letter
from J. C. Edgerton, President of the Association, remarking that "the enclosed letter has
aroused more than the usual interest and
brought us such favorable expression of opinion from the majority of our more than five
thousand members that I believe you will welcome the opportunity of reviewing the material
therein presented."
To be sure, neither Mr. Constantine nor Mr.
Edgerton ever expected that either of these letters would come into oar hands, much less that
we would review them publicly. But we are in "(1) Pereod help to d e b a h of New Yo* Unhzfavor of shouting from the housetops every
aty. w
m
a
n Cathoiic-Ed]
hookup of big business m5th the clergy; for we "(2) A d d r m before
..
think that the people have a right to know who
Centnl New York Foundrnnd8 Auouahm
Union Theological S&
elm [Proterfurt
are their friends and who are their enemies.
-Ed.l
We cannot quote the whole of Mr. Edgerton'r
~ n i v e r s i bof Pennsylvania
letter to the members of his Association, but
Lynbrooh (New York) High Elchool
we will give extracts from it:
"(3) Special articles for
-

~ m e r i c n nIndustria.
"The National Aesociation of Afanufacturers spec&
Denver Labor Bulletin 'Open Forum' *a
,
cally declared for the Open Shop in 1903, and has conL
i
t
e
r
a
r
y
D
i
g
e
s
t
.
sistently advocated it ever rinn that time. In the eumNew York Herald.
mer of 1920 President Mason appointed an Open Shop
'Con.hctor' ( o r p of Auociated Genarrl CanCommittee and in October of that year the Open Shop
tractors).
Department was organized.
'MfanafN d (Chiago).
"Our efforts may be broadly ddined u 'educational'
Pennsylvania M a n o f . d n ~ rJ o ~ .
They have been chiefly centered upon two branaha of "(4) Securingnmd of d o n l a b e l froxu mvaralpubthe g e n d public-the sehook Md clergy. Thir hra, d
licationr"
come, involved speeches, re~carcher,nmrpaper public- "(8) S p e d Zettm on tb# Opm 8hof to HI@& a d
Catholic clergy."
iQ, pamphl* ate.'

'hbl5dty:
worker grertcr security of stahla, freedam of arprrdoa,
Fur the qwtar AprilJlme f n c l h he rctiv- anda j u a t e r h i n t h e p m d u c t d h L k b 9 a . It c a ~
~ d t h r N 8 t i a u l A n o c i a t i o n a f M . nhardly
~
be nuintained that thh ideal is amcMant with
ca (incfpdin( tb. convention) d r c d 1,413 tho um af oampddon, either apon r fellow-worker or
dumxu in nsrr *rim and 331 in the editorial upon a a elrtplapcr, in tho mattar at
hip in r
~ u m n aThe open hop acmunted for 209 d- hbor
prmu md ao
rcrpedi~dy. T ~ wu
L
"dmoslg tbr matterr apon which wa ham within thr
14% of th. combined total of all publicity?
h&far&~~nrersd6U~hin@kS~th.folloning:
'
"Ow Q O T ~with th c k g y ha8 bssn dirtintuy Val*
"(a) Whem?&outs of Jack ( r ~ r i e n ,hsrd of the condlr W e a r o g l l d t o r s p o r t m m a ~ ~ a f i trtitutiond
r
Mum
proclo#l rhop attitub
the Faderrl Council d
"(b) P~~
of w o w in labor u n h a
C h w with which we h.ve kept in contad for nearly
" ( 0 ) Rubart Bmem and the B~lxsanof Ecommb Be=
three prrr For example, the 1923 Labor Sunday me+ sesl.ch.
nge of tb Federal Conpcil COP^ the following:
"(a) Sign&anco of chrnga of management of New
U C P d o f t h e r i g h t ~ ~ t o ~ w a r York
l r - CdL
mm to a t e with the h r morrment, m y not the
"(e) Msthodirt Socirl Sarrice Pederatian and Dr.
t8prwunlativa of ogrnigd labor abandon aggreadm?~ H A q ward
rtbmptn where they Mnow practiced, to enforce union
"(f) Bonnr system of paying employk
nmnbhip t h q h the Mmment d the clomd shop?
"(g) Nama d Jadrh p d o & d lhop
n.miln
tbar
rimr fandamentally to gin tha ta N a t i d Crtholia W a l h n ComdLn
'(10)

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The Mainstays of Christendom

OOKING ba&
L
am
to

a few yearn we can see quite

dearly the mainday8 of Christendom. I
referring
the daya of the Vorld War,
when the war f e n r waa at its height.
In the year 1915 I waa living near the little
town of Waceca, in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Everyone in the neighborhood was loolring for
the other one to enlist to &&t for King and
Country, as they called it; and everyone could
me where the other fellow was more fit than

himself.
I n this little community to which I refer the
preacher one Sunday told hia congregation that
if there were nine in the congregation who
would enlist, he would be the tenth. He h e w
that there were not nine physically fit; ao he
waa perfectly d e in making the offer. Very
qiritual, very edifying, I am m e , to encourage~membem of his congregation to engage in
killing their fellow men.
Then they made what they called an Honor
Boll, which rerrminr to this day in many of the
OLnrcheu~of Canads It is hard to see ths COP.
aimtency of having an Honor Roll in a c h c h .
The p r e d e r g e b up every Sunday and goes
through the lip service, "Thou shalt not kill";
and on the wall within ten feet of him in a
board ssying, "We have ao many killers in our
chu~ch,and we are proud that we helped to get

By J. Bogard

them them." However, on Februaq 7, 1916,

they put my name on one of the honor rolls, and
I enlisted with the Canadian Engineers.
We went to Ottawa h t to go through romo
trsining. I wan there lea8 than a month when
we were ordered overseas; and as it war in
Ssakatchewan so it was in Ottawa: The presahem were busy. They watched very dosely when
any troops were ordered overseaa, and informed
ua that we should not go without having partaken of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion, as they d e d it, forgetting the Scriptare
statement that "he that eateth and drhketh
unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to
himself, not discerning the Lord's body."-1
Corinthians 11:27.
Pastor Rnssell likened the preachers acting
as recruiting agents to a trained bull which they
have at the Chicago stoclr yards. This ball trcb
as a leader and decoy for the cattle about to be
alanghtered. He meets the bewildered herd and
ingratiate8 himself into their favor; and with
a toss of hb head and a pomporu air he k
comes their leader up the chute to the slaughtering pen. There he has a little niche into
which he slides and is aafe, while the other
cattle push and orowd eeah other on to the
-'I-think
the iUastration t a good one.
I never heard of a preacher being killed or

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GOLDEN AGE

wounded by German bulleta There is also a

goat a t another place which performs a similar
service for the sheep. It ia said that thia goat
chews tobacco.
On Xarch 17,1916, we left Ottawa for England. There we ran into some more mock religi o a We were in camp a t Shorecliff, England.
On Sunday, soon after landing, they had what
they called a mass meeting on S t Martin's
plain. The Holy Altar they had was a goodh e d soap box vith the Union Jack wrapped
aronnd it. The boys were compelled to attend
the church service. Some knew that it was all
mockery, but they were taken there for discipline and to be informed that it was God's will
for them to blow their fellow men to bloody
&reds. The troops were marched aronnd the
roap box, where the minister stood. They were
kept a t a distance of at least one hundred feet
from the minister's stand, and were scattered
over the field to the distance of half amile away.
Then the ceremony started. No one could
hear what was said except those who happened
to be closest. Perhaps they did not want the
men to bear. It was apparently all done to give
the business a religious coloring and to impress
upon the troops that in fighting for-England
they were fighting for the Lord and His cause.
I mnld not hear a word of the service, but I
mappose it was the usual: "As it was in the
beginning, h now, and ever shall be: world
mithout end. Ah-a-me-en." Some of the troops
were seated on the grass, some were standing,
others were talking to one another, some were
d e e p , some were tossing pennies to see who
would pay for the beer aa soon as the canteen
was opened, while still others were angry because they had been brought there.

A r e Sock8 for 35 Centr

N THE Fall of 1916 the Engineers got

Ieveryone
orders to move to Crowboro, in Kent; and
who has been' there will agree that it

ia eome hole. As in other camps the Y. kt. C. A.

bad a large establishment there. They were
mpposed to be giving their services free for
the beneGt of the soldiers, but if you got anything from them you had to pay a good price
for it
A ?air of socks cost one shilling and six
pemce, or about thirty-five cents; and often
when you put tRem on you would find in the toe
8 note from some lady iu Canada who had knit

the socks and given them free with the thought *

that the soldier would get them without cort.
Perhaps she wodd give her name and address,
asking the soldier that received the socka to
write to her.
All of the work about the place waa done by
soldiers or English civilians. Often a detachment of men would be sent to scrub the floor or
otherwise clean up the T hut; and yet those
in charge received a good profit for all that
they sold. Among other things they sold cigarettes and chewing tobacco.
They had a large hall that wodd hold about
5,000 troops ; and they would have concerts,
boxing matches, etc, the performers giving
their services free while the '3'" made money
selling their s t d to the boys at a good prodt
I said that the performers gave their s e h r
free; but there was an exception in the csse of
the boxing matches. The winner would get 8
medal so' that he codd show, when he got home,
how much he had loved hb fellow man during
the war. Sir &u.r
Conan Doyle, the noted
spiritist, lived near there and would often referee the bouts.
The emblem of the Y. K C.A. is a triangle;
and we were led to wonder if the three points
of the triangle represented the three specially
prominent characteristics, spiritism, boxingmatches, and money-making. We wonder what
the name Christian has to do with boxing
matches anyway.

TAe DiZemma o f Heaven

OW do the promoters of the Y. M. C. &
H
harmonize some'of these things with their
professed belief in the hereafterl When they
pass the Pearly Gates do they expect to see the
exdoughboy seated on a white cloud thrumming his golden harp and smoking a Chesterfield cigarette? Do they expect to see a pair of
ex-service men lay aside the golden crowns
which they received for valorous senice on the
battlefield, and put on a pair of mitts and go
at each other for fifteen or tmenty rounds?
Aiter leaving Crowboro we were moved to
Seaforth, Sussex. I t was while we were there
that the Union government came into power in
Canada Tbe Canadian boys who were overseas
were entitled to vote. At that time Colonel
Andersen was in charge of headquartem of the
Canadian Engineers. There was not ruppoaed
to be any campaigning for mtea in the army-

u n i we thought that we could go in and vote

the same ss in private life; but to our surprim
it was M e r e n t
0nlyafew-mletinata~e.ndwere
given ballok Am soon as the ballot waa marked
it was taken from the hand of the voter, and

from the land of the enemj' (Jeremiah 31: IdJ,

he was merely trying to be entertaining.
He might have taken ss his text Micah 4: 3:
"They shall beat their swords into p
-l
and their spears into pruning hooks: nation
shall not lift up sword against nation, neither
given to Colonel Andersen or other officers who shall they learn war any more." But he did n o t
were present, who looked at it care*
and He might have d e d attention to Isaiah 11:9:
asked the town from which the voter came, all "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
of which was in violation of the law guarantee- mountain: for the earth ahall be full of tha
ing the right to vote privately and rmmolest-. knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover fb
edly. Those not voting for the Union govern- sea* But that was not his theme.
ment soon disappeared from headquarters, and , The army chaplain with w held the rank of
were on their way to the front line.
Major. I t would be expected that he muld k
Tbe Union government was a Mion of the an example to the young man whom he mu
varioar parties agreeing to cease contending mpposed to instruct. Instead of this, he Iwd
with one another for the duration of the war, to go about the camp drunk moat of the tiand to amtar all power in the government 80 and in an intoxicated condition med to pkX
that lam' could be made without passing poker with the bop.
.
through the ordinary channels of parliam8~ The morning after the Amnmtm w m signal
t a w procedure. It wna generally understood he condncted a maw meeting in the Amm,
that if the Union government came into power Urnnlrinp Qd
for the victory and for
consaription would go into effect.
so many fellow creatarer; and with a bmdb
Opposing this wss Sir Wilffed Lsurier, who M) strong that it would abneat Irnoalt a dog
contended that the likrties of the people should down, he droned out the chant, W e &a t h a
ban
not be taken away and that the power of goy- thankn, Lord C)od AlmightyP And
ernmenf should continue, as it had been, in the the nerve to call this Christianity1 It ia eno@
hands of the people's representatives; and that b make a graven image laugh. We mast d
there ahould be no conscription. The Union leaat admit that the present order of things u
government went into power with a large mc a failAfter the Armistice was signed the &
C
jority; and Sir W*red Laurier, Canada's
greatest statesman, and the real friend of the troop acted like wild men let out of a esgr
people, died later in grief and disappointment. I n some camps they broke into the -teen&
carried away the beer, and en&
in dnuhm
Tlk "Ch&tZani&" at the C h i
dghta among themselves. At Rill, Seafo*
HERE is a little chnrcb betmeen the camp Bramshot, and other places occupied by Can&
at Seaforth and the railway station. I went dians, them were riots among the troope ia
there one Sunday evening to hear a sermon. It which quite a number was killed. Several ol?kem
waa not long until I discovered that the preach- who tried to control them were also killed. At
er knew that the Canadian got a dollar and ten some places they tore up camps, buildings, e t a
At the entrance to Camp Whitly then waa a
cents a day. He had s little advertising sermon
large
number of small shops and st& for tho
in riddle form, with which he entertained the
boys and hoped to get a big collection. The purpose of selling mall astidm to the wldierr
principal part of the sermon wsa that "Sher- The place waa called Tin-town. The soldien in
lock Holmes" was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's their riots tore up these shops, carried a m
goods, and destroyed everything in Sight The
masterpiInstead ~f preaching Christ and Him cruci- British Government hsd to pay the ahopLcepen
fied, the preacher was trying to make detectives for their lossee, and in turn sent the biU to t .
out of the boys. Instead of ~ a y i n gto the wid- Canadian Government. It amounted to quiL r
ows and mothers who had lost their loved on- large smn. The English civilian population
-and there were many of them in England- were in terror during the rioting, not knowing
'%Brain thy voice from weeping, and thine at what time the troops might d&& to do=
eyes from t e u r :
they ahall come again etroy the entire t o n

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CjOLDEN AGE

The Korld W a r war a grand example of ing the same in their own lim. They are the
lirotherlp lore, and the clergy had a noble part mainstays of Christendom, and wisdom rhJT
teaching the preeeptr of Christ and exemplify- die with them !--Job 12 :2.

Tahiti the Beautiful By C.C. Campbell (Tahiti)

HA.VE been reader of THE GOLDEXAGE fact that without doubt there are no islanda in
Iinterested
for about two years, and have been so much the Pacific deserving of a larger or better d t a
in it that I take pains to see that up than ours, except New Zealand, Aaskalia,
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reveral friends of mine also read it. Several of

my fiends, however, have called my attention
to your article in the issue of September 26,
1923, entitled "A Trip to the Thousand Islands."
All of us are very much surprised at the slight
YOU have given Tahiti
We note that you give a nice little writeup to many islands of much less importance
throughout the 8011th seas; but the BEST AND
MOST IXWBTAXT of all the South Sea islands,
with the exception of New Zealand and Australia, you have alighted to the -tent of giving it
only forty words, while the Galapagos, an entirely unimportant island, has been given a nice
little article of two hundred words.
Easter Island, which is also of much less importance, in an article such as yours, contains
135 words. Samoa, another very interesting
and important island, had a write-up of only
fifty-seven words. Even Lavaka had a writeup of 102 words, and certainly it cannot in any
way be compared to either Samoa or Tahiti
when considering its worth for a write-up. New
, CaIedonia, which is certainly worthy of a splendid h t e - u p , you have dismissed with only sixteen words, while the little island of Nauru has
a splendid mite-up of 146 words.
The Society group, or Friendly Islands as
they are called, yon pass up with the following
remark: "The only reason we stop is that it is
the cross roads of the South Pacific, a convenient port of call between Panama and Australia or Xew Zealand points," conveying the idea
that Tahiti and dl the Society group are not
worth mentioning.
We who are reading your magazine who have
lived here for years, who know all about the
Society group, and who are well posted on all
the Islrrnda of the Pacific, feel deeply the slight
you have given ua because we are aware of the

The Sandwich Islands, and possibly the Philip

pines.
In Tahiti we are proud of the faot t h d we
have without doubt the most intelligent and the
most friendly nativea that am to be fomd
throughout any of the Sonth Sea ;.landr. Paint
Venus, on the island of Tahiti, when Captain
Cook h t landed in 1769 snd which h a at thh
time a monument in his honor, ia certaidy of
sufliuent interest to at I e u t mation. CooYa
Bay, just acroer from Tahiti on the bland of
Moorea, is also of sufEcient interemt to be notad,
and m a q other spots too numerous to be mm~
tioned here.
We who live here, and who have been watching the growth of Tahiti, have aeen the wonderful changes taking place from year to year, and
feel that they are deserving of more than 8
slight. For instance, up to the year 1910 there
had been no progreas to speak of in these
islands. But during 1910 the spirit of progress
on its r o ~ d throughout
a
the world hit Tabiti;
and, while the World War to some extent r c
tarded us, we have after all made wonderful
progress.
For instance, formerly we had no wharf here,
and steamers had to unload their freight on
lighters to be taken ashore. We now have a
first-class wharf owned by the government,
upon which there has been wonderful improvement since your visit here. We had no warehouses suitable for storing freight. We now
have five very nice ones.
We had no shed on the waterfront to receive
the freight as it was unloaded from ships, while
now we have an immense one which has gone
through wonderful improwments since your
visit here. In 1910 we had no paved streets,
while now we have very good ones. We had no
electric lights, but now we have M good aa

any city.

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i Impmamentm

O U B roada around the ialand wen bad, and

had no bridges crosaing the rivers; now we
have beautiful automobile roads nearly everywhere and good bridgea crossing the rivers.
We had no automobiles in 1910; now we have
about three hundred. We had no wireless in
1910. Now we have one as good as any other
place, situated on the island of Tahiti; and we
are commencing to install the wireless on other
islands belonging to the group.
Our exports are constantly on the increase.
In 1910 our yearly export of copra (dried comanut) waa only 12,000 tons; now it is in excess
of 20,000 tons, with thousands of young cocoanut treea planted not yet in bearing, and thousands more King planted every year. Our v e
nilla exports are k r g e and constantly on the
increase. Our avocado pear shipments aere
constantly on the increase' until the United
States put an embargo on their being shipped
to America, which, by the way, we expect will
be removed in due tima

Our climate cannot be beaten throwrhoat tb

to 6bo
w~rld.The thermometer varies from
hi the morning, and runn to from 75' to 95.
according to the season It is never hotter than
95". We 2an boast of the most even tempem
tnre of any plaae in the world. Without doubt
we have the most li-bra1 government that t d
be found throughout the world.
Therefore, with good people, good government, good roads, good hotels, good resbur-ts, good storeq good doctom, good water,
good fruit, good theaters and good ever@hins
we cannot understand the reason for the alight
yon have given ua, and w d d appmchte mi118
it corrected in the colnmns of your a
Yon are generally so fair in your artidea
that it hurts when yon remark that "the only
reason you called waa because yon phad to." Thousands come here on pnrpom to

Tmm,

TEX B C I m w u L ;

and

80-

temrin

and establish splendid homes hem We t d

that the slight will prove to be more of an operc
sight than intentional, and believe that 7- d
l
be willing to give Tahiti its jrut dam.

The Creation of Man

inking persona are interested in the
ALL
th
creation
of man. Recent controversies

between Modernists and Fundamentalist have

intensified this interest with many.
The theories of men, unsupported by reliable
and competent evidence, are of little vdue in
the consideration and determination of this
proposition. Theories are often nothing more
than mere opinion. Such evidence is of little
o r no value.
I shall prove; my contention concerning man's
creation from testimony of the Bible. I t is,
therefore, important that we determine first
whether the Bible is from man or from God.
If it is from Jehovah, the Infinite One, then ib
testimony imparts absolute verity.
In the courts of our land the Bible would be
admitted u.competent testimony under at least
two well-known rules of evidence: (1) That it
is an ancient document coming from the proper
source or custody; (2) that the enbscribing witnesses thereto have certified that i t is W's

revealed Word, written by men at the d i r e c t k

of Jehovah.
Holy spirit means the invisible power of
Jehovah. This power operated upon the min&
of devout men, causing them to write the Scripture as directed; hence it is W s Word. Ia
no other way could it have been posaible for
man to write the record of his own creation.
As to the first rule just menttoned, the origi-'
nal manuscript of the Bible came from the
Israelites, God's chosen people. I t is the oldest
book in existence, which makes it an ancient
document. Nothing short of m i r a d o n s power
could have preserved it from the storms that
have beaten against it for thonsanda of yeam.
Time was when the laws of some coantria
mads it a crime, punishable
death, to have
this Book in possession. God gave courage to
men to possess it still, Many of them mf?ered
torture and death because of having and tea&
ing this Boot Every possible effort of man war
made to efface it from the earth, and all failed,

a GOLDEN AGE

As to the second rule, the subscribing witnessee thereto have certified that it is God's
Word, written by man s t the dictation of God.
That these witnesses lived on earth we have
abundant proof aside fkom the Bible. That
they were competent and truthful witnesses is
borne oat by the undisputed facts.
The testimony of some of the witnesses follows :
David, one of the witnesses, said: 'The spirit
of the Lord spalie by me, and his word was in
my tongue."-2
Samuel 23 :2.
Another witness testified: God "spake by the
mouth of his holy prophets, which have been
mince the world began."-Luke 1:'70.
Still another: "So prophecy of the scripture
ir of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
but hoIy men of God spake as they were moved
by the holy spirit."-2
Peter 1:20,2l.
Still another subscribing witness writes: "All
scripture is given by inspiration of God."-2
Timothy 3 :16,17.
The circumstantial evidence is, if t ~ ~ m
even stronger than that of the direct testimony.
Circumstantial evidence may be properly declared a s physical facts. Physical facts do not
stultify themselves.
In my address on Sunday evening last I cited
a number of prophetic utterances, foretelling
fie great inventions of modern times, about
which no man
have knonP except by the
direction of Jehovah. To this I now add other
prophetic utterances, to wit:
God, through His prophets, recorded in the
Bible long centuries in advance, foretelling that
there \vould come into the world a mighty man,
specifying the place where He would be born
(Micah 5: 2) ; that He would come to His own
people and they would not receive Him; that
He would be despised and rejected of men, a
of sorromrs and acquainted e t h grief (Isa53 :1-3);that He would ride ktoJernsalem
upon an ass, the foal of a like animd,
and offer
IIiuself as king to the Jews (Zechariah 9: 9) ;
that IIe n-ould be rejected by the Jews (Isaiah
53: 3); that He would be betrayed for thirty
pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12) ; that there
would be no just cause for His death (Isaiah
53: 8,9,11); that nevertheless He would be
numbered among the transgressors (Isaiah 53:
12) ; that He would die a violent death, yet not

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a bone of His body should be broken ( P h

34: 20) ; that His flesh would not corrupt, and
that He would arise from the dead (Psalm 16:
10)-all of which and many more rimilnr prophecies were completely fulfilled by Jesua of Nazareth, the great Teacher who lived h u t and
died a t Jerusalem. The fuMment of these prophetic utterances prove the competency of the
witnesses and the trnthfalness of their teatimany.
The Bible record of man's creation in entirely
consistent with the course of man aa recorded
will
in history for thousands of Years past,
be seen before we conclude this series.

HAT is man and how created? The OrthoW

dox theory, expressed by the Funtalists, briefly is:
That man is the product of special c r e a h ;
that he
of bod7, sp=t .nd ic,,l;
the first body was we(Lted;
hOB
then a
body is born, and a t the time of birth God interposes
g , and implants in t b t body
spirit
sodwhich are immortalo
~ hM,
~ an.ru~ to the
~ qwtiO,,
A b: ~

That man is the prodad of evolution. By

meant that banimate mtterbegan to
by what is
as the
law
of
thing%and after millions of years this i n e mate matter developed into a living c r e a k e of
the v e q lowest order, rind by a f u k e longcontinued process of evolution that creature of
a low order evolved to a higher, and still on,
Mtil now we
and
him the
of
Both of the above theories are wrong because
both contradict the Bible.
Both Fmdamentalists m d Modernists admit
the existence of God- The Fundamentfist
says : "The Bible
the word of God.''
The
Modernist says : "The Bible contains the word
of God" They both admit the existence of Ctod
and of His word. The9 me therefore both
estopped from denying His word.
I f we take the Bible as proof then we must
discard the theories of men eodicting therewith, regardless of honesty and good intent.
The position taken must stand or fall by the
testimony of the Bible. I stand squarely by thr
Bible testimony.

a GOLDEN AGE
Blbt.A#oPmtaf~n
HE Bible &a-t
of -tion
is: "Zn the
b
*
&d
,
t
b heawn and
( h e s b1:1)
wae long

before the creation of man. The Genesis accomt

~ b t e that
r
thereafter sod -ed
the earth to
bring forth graaa and h e r b yielding seed. Then
in the cowse of time He created the fish of the
ees and the birds of the at. Cenhries more
. p d and He created the cattle of the field
m d everything that cfeepeth upon the earth,
and the vegeWhy had God created the
tation thereon? Jehovah answers: ''For thua
saith the Lord that created the heavens ; God
himself that formed the earth and made it; he
hath established it, he created it not in vain, he
formed it to be inhabited;
I have made the
earth, and created man upon it."-Isa 45 :18,12.
Thus the positive proof is that long centuries
were employed in the formation of the earth
' and preparingit for man. If Jehovah, the great
Creator, occrrpied so much time and put forth
so much energy in the preparation for man, the
most intelligent m a t u r e on earth, w d d it not
seem strange that the ~ ~ e a hevolved
m
from
protoplsam into a mode^ and from a mode^
into a man, rather than that God should
cise His wisdom and power to create man? We
are not left to conjecture; for Jehovah g W
was created : " b d the Lord
tells how
formed man of the dust of the gromd, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living sod."-Genesis
2: 7.
If the evolutionists are correct then our fore
fathers were at one time monkeys. But the
Lord's Word clearly disproves that conclusion.
It reads: "And God said, Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness; . . so God
created man in his own image, in the imam of
God created he him."-Genesis 1:26,27.
This does not mean that man wan created in
the form of God but in His character image,
possessing the attributes similar to those which
God possesses. The four divine attributes are
wisdom, w
e
e
,love, and power. The first mau,
therefore, was created with a sense of justice,
and he possessed some ksdom; he possessed
the attribute of love, and exercised power over
the other creation of earth. He waa given dominion over all things of the earth.
If these Scripture statements are true then
the theory that man is the product of evolution

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cannot possibly be true. Evolution is based

Upbn theory m s n ~ ~ o r t eby
d reason or bT th.
Scriptures. The creation of man, .
Idescribed
in the Bible, is based,upon the Word of Qocj,
which is reasonable and in complete harmon7
with the history of man for 6,000 years pssf.
TOsay that man, by process of evolution, can
extricate himself from present diliicultier and
raise himaelf to a higher plane is just as -8sonable as to say that a man can stand on the
pavement of the street and by his own boot
straps Lift himself to the top of the budding.
When we f d y appreciate God's Word of
truth cdncerning man's creation and understand
why man sickens and dies, then we can understand more clearly vhy evolution could neyer
release man from his present condition of dfering and distresa

M aa
HE s c r i p h a cited ahow that man

posed of two elements; namely, body

w t of life or breath of life. These tno lmiGd
make the s o d of man. The word mul maamm a
breathing,
being. The term
ap.
plies only to the phyaical organism. Neither
body nor soul 'relates to the life which animate8
the body, only to the sentient being, which i
s
the resnlt of animationl A body is not a man,
although there could be no man without a body.
The spirit of life is not the man, although there
codd be no man with& the spirit of life.
word spirit primarily signifits breath; hewe have the expression "breath of life" or
"spirit of life," both meaning the same thing.
God has M, arranged that man can tzsnrmit the
spark of life to his offspring.
I t will be observed that the Scripdm
not say that God made man and gave him a soul,
I t does say that He formed man of tbe d a d of
the &h.
That is to say, man's or@&
formed from the dust of the earth. GFod than
breathed into him the breath of livm; and them
resulted a moving, sentient being, which in our
English we call a d Every man ia a sent N6
man possesses a s o d
Every creature that breathes is a sod. It
will not be contended that a cow possesses a
sod
When Gtod created the lower an-,
long
prior to man's creation, He designated them
souls. (See Genesis 1:20,30, margin) Thereafter, in giving directions with reference to

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nambering the peaple, God said: "And levy a
tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which
rent oat to battle: one ronl of five hundred, both
of the prsanr, .nd of the beevea, and of the
asses, and of the sheep." (Numbera 31:28) The
reason why the lower animals are designated M
rods is that they are breathing creatures. M a
is of the animal order, the highest. Man did not
evolve from the monkey, although a great manp
men make monkeys of themselves

XnunortcJitu
OW as to the proposition that God, a t the
time of creating the body, planted within
man a divine spark, which ia immortal, and

that the

thing has been implanted in each

one born since; that hence the soul is immortal:

I

guch a conclusion is not warranted by the

Scriptures nor by the well-known facts. Beaides, this conclusion has led millions to a m b
understanding of God's plan. An immortal being is one that cannot die. If God created man
an immortal soul, or gave him an immortal soul,
.nd he ahodd be wicked, then it would methat he would be consciously, eternally alienated
from his Creator. The God-dishonoring doctrine of eternal torment rests entirely npon the
proposition of the inherent immortality of the
soul of man.
There is but one statement in the Bible to the
effect that man is immortal. The advocates of
inherent immortality may say that one statement is sufiicient to prove inherent immortality.
But I reply, No; for the statement mas made
by the devil in contradiction of Jehovah, and
ooncerning this statement Jesus said that it was
the first lie ever told.
The record is this: Jehovah said to Adam,
the first man: 'If yon violate my law by part&ing of certain fruits yon shall die.' Satan said
to Eve: T h y do you not eat of this fruit in the
midst of Edenl' to n l k h she replied : 'Because
God has declared that for us to eat of this will
cause us to die.' To this Satan replied, in substance: 'God is deceiving you; for when yon
eat of that fruit you will become as wise as God.
Te shdl surely not die!
The fact that Jehovah told man thnt death
would be the result in conclusive proof that man
was not and is not inherently immortal. The
doctrine of inherent immortality is a contradiction of every part of the divine plan and has
been the one great error npon which numbers

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of students of the Bible have stumbled and ham

been blinded to the love of God in the making
and executing of His plan for man's blessing.

PAUL, in discussing man and the remrST.rection

from the dead, advises those who

are Christians to seek immortality. A man doer

not seek for that which he already posressea.
If he had a thing why should he seek for it?
Again St. Pad, speaking to those who are
Christians, said concerning the resurrection
that the dead shall be raised incorruptible; "for
this mortal must put on immoWty."-1 Corinthiana 15: 53.
It mast be manifest to every reasonable mind
that if man possessed inherent immortality this
statement of St. Paul coda not k true. If a
man has on a coat he doer not my,I must put
on my coat. If a m a . inherently hur immortality how c d d it be said that tbir mortal mart
put on immortality? Immortslity is offercd-as
a great reward to those who are faithful followem of the Lord, as we shall mlweqwntlr
show. J e w said to H b Church: "Be thou
faithful unto death, and I will give thee a
crown of life." (Revelation 2: 10) This crown
of life meam the highest degree of lifa, tho
state of immortality.
Who then is immortal inherentlyl The apes
tle Paul answers in 1Timothy 6: 16 that God
only bath immortality. Jehovah is the selfexisting One, from everlasting to everlasting.
He, therefore, has always been and always d
be immortal. Both Jesus and the Apostle show
that immortality was granted to the Lord Jesus
at His resurrection. Jesus, when on earth, mid :
"As the Father hath life in himself, so hath he
given to the Son to have life in himself." (John
5: 26) After He had risen from the dead He
said: '? am he that liveth, and was dead; and,
behold, I am alive for evermore."-Rev.
1:18.
Satan is of the angelic order. He ia a spirit
being. He is not immortal, The Scriptares
plainly state that in due time the Lord will
destroy the devil. (Hebrews 2: 14) The angels '
are not immortal. They are spirit beings. The
contention that man is inherently immortal,
then, if tme, would mean that he possessed
something far above the angela
Concerning man, David, the prophet of Jehovah, under inspiration wrote: 'What ia man,
that thou art mindfid of himl and the son of

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~
man, that thor visited him9 For thou haat derful, harmonions arrangement 01
made bim a lit& lower thas the a q e l s , and organism. To say that thia wondtnuiky ma&
hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou creature ev~lvedfrom protoplaam, and from
madest him to have dominion over the works protoplasm to monkey, and from m o n k q b
of thy hands; thou hast put all things mder his man, does violence to reason and dishonor to
feet: all aheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of God. To say that man ir created inheren*
the field; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the immortal means that he cannot die; and them
ma, and whatsoever pasaeth through the potha fore such statement dishonom God and di,
of the sea&" (Psalm8: 4-8) Here the statement pates His plan.
~t i. a W ~ U - ~ O - f a d tht nun d &mi
plainly reada that man ie made lower than the
angels, therefore not immortal. The same dying for centuries. The queetion then -7
Prophet under inspiration writes: Nan "is be asked: Did God create man in a dying
fearfully and wonderfully made."-P-a
139: 14. conditiont The answer from the Bible in, No,
Now I 811bmit vat since both Fu~ldamental- C)otl created the first man perfect. He declrrra
ists and bfodefhidk admit their bellef in God in Hia Word: 'All tha=w o r h of Jehovah a m
(the Fw@anv&asitl
adrnitkng that the Blble perfect.' Then the quastion: Why have men
is
Word, and the ~ o c l e r n ~ a tthat
u it con-( h o m e sick, and why have they been s u @ i n (
taina'0;od's word), b ~ t i nlust
i
stand or fall npon and dying for many centurier paat, and.why do
the testimony set forth in the Scri~tures,and they yet diet These questions I will answer in
that any concl&.on reached in contradiction of a lecture next Sunday evening at 8: 30 o'cloab ,. I t shall be my purpose, step by step in r course
the divine testimony cannot be accepted.
Upon all :1-, ~nli..nce,then, from the Bible of lectures, to cover the oatline of the d i d
plan ; and I feel confidenb that those who foltor
M well ac. ,rr
6 ..+.aneoua facts, man is an
animal, c; creatcre
the llighest order, not carefully from the beginning to the end, at th..
divine, therefore ni-c immortal inherently. He conclusion will better anderstand that Jehovah
is the most wondcrq ' reature that God has is the great G a l of the aniverse; and that Hb '
created on this earti.. ',\ h all the l\isdom and plan, when completed towarda nib, will myylnventim genius thct ~ i ~1. nt,.- a able to dis- m f y Hiis name and Hie Word and prove to all
play he 'annot I J T O C L L : ~ . ~O:, ,<pr;n to ?reduce, that He is a God of justice, wisdom, love, and -..
B mrrchiue that ev,n apnro: u t e a the won- power.
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Luther's Kinety-five Theses

' E I \ ~ been favorei. \\-~..h tile loan of prefer to let his words speak for themaelver. -i
We n t i uEad*%rat
book which we gresG;
It
Principles of the ~ ; . ~ o r r n a t i o n ~ ~ ~
nrize.

and contdns the Ninety-Five l ' h e s ~and the

three pI'iJRary works of Uai.~in Luther. Tfie
book was published in London 111 1bSJ.
John
Uurray, of Albemarle Street, and cn~isistsof
translations from the Erlangen or Frankfort
Edition of Luther's wc,rks, made by C. A. Buchheim, Ph. D., Professur of the German language
and literature in King's College, London.
We publish herewith ths ninety-6- them,
and invite attention to Theses 13 and 27, aa
throwing light npon the claim of one of our
contributore, some years ago; that Lather did
not believe in the inherent immortality of man.
We omit comments of English Doctors of Divinity who presume to tell us four handred yearn
rfter L a t h e i r time jnst what he believed. We
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is

deairc and vith th

of e,ucidrw'
+
a daputation w l
held on
u*a
r:
written proposltlons at Witternberg, mder the p-I L u q of the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Monk d
the Order of St. Augustine, Master of Arb and d
Sacred Theology, and o r d i ~ r yReader of the mute in
that place. He therefom a h thbee who annot k ?.
prevent and discusll the snbject with. w o d l , to do '
In the name of ow
by letter in their
Jecms Chrint. h e n .
"1. Our Lord and Mutar Jsmr Christ in uying: . "
mpent
ye,, &.,
th.t th. ,,hole
ot b.Lin
bc pnite-.
"2.
cannot bc nndustood of
,;
..
that iq
*e c o ~ ~ and
O P .
which %dorn&
nndm the
U3. ~t d m not, horncram, rdcr sold, to i n a d @
t-ce; nay, mch inward peniten- b -ugh& unleaa it
aptwudly produca vuiow d a t i o n a of the %&

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-a3. U q m t i n & ~ d d ? p m J t i a ~ k
"4. T h r & t b r u e a m ~ u ~ u t h e h t r s d
granted to any one, it in artrin tht it t g ~ b 6.
d
d self-that is, true inward penitam-amtinuea;
d y , till aru antrrna into the kingdom ad h g m ~n a r r s ~ t t h e m o r t p e r f c c t , t l u t h , t o ~ f c r .
"I. Tb.Poprhuneitktherillmtheparart0
-24. H m a t h e g a t u p u t d ~ p e o p l e r m r r t ~
remit any penalties, acept t h e e which ha hu i m p o d be deceived by thia ind' ' ' .b d
promire of nlsu from pendtir.
by hiB o m authority, or by that Uf the ornmu
"6. Tbc Pope ha no power to ranit any @t, 6- "95. Such power u the Pope hu arar porktrrl in
cept by decluing m d r u ~ t i n it
g to have bum remit- g c n e d , w c h h u ~ b i r h o p m h i r m n d i o a s r , . n d
t e d b y O o d ; a r a t m a r t b y r c m i ~ ~ a a a ~ ferery
o r ournk in his own pariah, 3n p u h ' d ~ . .
him&; in which crses, d hh pow- wexe dap*
46%6.T b e Pope
I& rightly in p t i n g n!miaguilt muld certain@ nmrin.
cion tc ma!;, not by the power af the kcyr (which t d
"7. God never ~ m t any
s man's @It, *thoat at Ar s o o r d 1 3 f j l i w -Y?mtby t b ~ ~ y o f ~
rune time subjecting him, humbled in nL thingr, to %e
"97 They p m n man, who say that the d & &
authority of hia r e ~ t a t i r the
s priest.
of P U I ~ U ~ 3s
G ~voon as the m a o a ~
t h m into th obrrt
"8. The penitential canm sn impoad only rn &a rattles
living, and no burden aught to be impmed on the dying,
" 2 8 J t kcertainthat,rben thsmoneyI.#1ainth.
mrding to them.
bat tb adchert, avuiob and gain m a y be
'3. H c n a the Holy Spirit acting in &g -t
+*,
fragc of the C h d depend. an the rill d Ood
d
l for un, in that, in hia decrcq he &sys mua- [Who amon# oru mdm orn tell or rbstBa tbr m . .
e m q t h of the artide of death and of
tention is trnr that the orb2?th tbgir was
"10. T h w priest0 act m n g i y and 11Pleunedly;vhq
and the-28th split to muke UJ extra number?--Eb]
hthe~ofthbdying,reaerrstba~~lloPipipmrncer
"29. Who knows n Whar dl tb. rarrL in
.
for plugstory.
desire
..
, r e d m e d from it, mauding to th.
"11. Thoa tam about ch8nging of the ananicrl
told d Solntr Savuin.is and P u h L
penalty into tha pllllty of,purg8-Wq
d y to
"30. N o m m k t i r e o f f h e ~ d h h m o a r t r C
h v t been m m while the bishop were deep.
9 % . Fonncrly the canonid penaltia ms impasd t i o n , m u c h ~ d t 8 t a ~ a n t o f - ~ ~
U31. B u e a s i r r h u e p e n i t e n t , r o r u e m a w r b ,
not after, but before hluti6n, u farb d trrra oonM
y bnp indul,-ceb-thst
ia to my, m a t rua
trition.
"38. Thdawho b ',c\ tllr$ tb~-"ghlcttm ad'"l3. The dying pay all @tia by k t h , d m
of theh 2 adration,
).
dready dead to the canon lam, .nd ue by right nliaed don, they u e made
atunallj dunned a10 ~g vith the.: tczchen.
from them
"33. We mud I T erially b e w a n of hrbo
"14. The imperfect soandnm oz chuity of a dying
that these pudorl- . :T. the Pope are that ' " U.
person necessarily bring with it gre8t f a r , and the 1gift of Ood by v ..-. - L ) ia reconciled to Oab
it is, the greater the fear it brings.
"34 For the ;;-uce coc-eyed
thae pudanr brr
"15. This fear and horror t &at
by W, to
respect
only
to
the
penaltie,
f
sacramental
satidwth,
my
nothing
of
other
t
l
w
,
to
donatitnte
the
painr
of
. purgatory, since it is ve- ~ e i uto the h o r n of despair. which are 4 human appointment
"36. They p
d no ChriEtian doctriue, who'tcrch
. 9 6 . Hell, purgatory, I d
appear to diier u
- despair. almost despair, 'and the paa of mind differ.
that ambition is ad neccasary far those who buy amb
"17. With muls in purgatory it w-rn that i? mud out of purgatuly or buy c o n f w i o d Licenca.
"36. Every t 'hristian who feels true compunction b.r
needs be that, M horror diminishsq eo chrrlty incresseg
of right plent:!. remimion of
"18. Nor d o a it neexu to be p r o d by any -ning
guilt, snn wi&
or any ocriptuma, that thq u outaide of the data of out letteza of .; -2oq.
'#37. Every trc. ."-ristian, rhttba living or dud,
merit or of the --of
chuiQ
"19. Nor doe8 tbu appear to be prored, that the^ hsa a ahare in all ts, Senefib of Christ and of th
u e sum and confident of their own blcseednerr, at l a a t Church, given him by God, cran without letters od dl of thm,though we may be wry sure at if
puaan.
"38. Thc mission, harerm, imputed by the Pap
"20. Therefore the Pope, when he qdu of the
t by no meanr to be despised, nine it 4 u I hm
plenary remiasion of all penalti- does not rn- &ply
aid,,. deckation of the Divine rmkioa
of dl,but only of t h o a impond by hjmaelf.
"39. It L a mod difkdt thing, mn far tbc 8od
"21. Thus thorn preachers af indulgenna an in a r o r
whosaythst,by~eindtrlgcnarofthaPopqamrrnh learned theologians, to d t at the. mane timr in th
eyea of the people the ample adset of pudaar .nd th
I d and ured fmm dl punidmat.
5 :
-2%. For in fnct he ranib to muh in purgatory M n 4 Q d true contrition.
"40. ! h e contrition rcskr md lows punimhmsnt(
penal* which they would hare hd to pry in thh Lit.
while ths =plena of pudanr rshra i$ and aaua
-ding
to t b CUIOIU
.
.
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men to hrb it, or st l e d girsr occasion for them to

& so.
"41. Aportaliarl pudona ought to k prochimad with
-tion,
led tb.p p l a W d f d n l y s u p p a that they
M placed before o h pod worb of chuity.
"42. C k i d h a rhoald be taught that it not tha mind
of the Pope that thr baling of pardona ia to be in my
way comparad to mrh of mercy.

be preached wit+ a hundred ballr, a hundmd procsrrionr,

and a hundred caremonk
"56. Tho trtuura of tha Church, rhna the Popa
gMtr indulgenar, am neither aufRcientl1 nunad nor
h o r n rmong the people of Chrirt
"67. It ir cleu that they M at lout not tanpod
treamrer; for thus are not so readily Irvihd, but only
accumulated by mmy of the pnrchen.
"58. Nar are they the merib of Chriot and of the
"43. Chrbhu &odd be taught that he who giver to
rpoormm,orIen&torneedyman,dOglbB#BT~ srinta; for therq independently of the Popa, uu dwaya
working grace to the inner man, md the cmu, duth,
if he bought pard"44. Because, by a work of charity, charity hcmaes, d hell to the outer mu^
"19. St. Lawream said that thr treuprr of tha
and the man becomer better; while, by means of pardam, he doea not become battca, but only freer from Church am the poor of the Church, but he apoh according to tho iua of the word in his timr
punishment.
"60. \Ye cue not speddng r a y what wo my that
"46. Chrietianr shodd be taught that he who 6ees
any one in ned, and, passing him b ~ givw
,
m o w for the k e p r,t the Church, bestowed through tlu nmritv of
pardons, ia not p m c b m g for himself tho indulgences Christ, am that trauura
"61. For it ia cleu th.t the power of tbr Pop it
1the Pope, but the anger d Ood.
"46. C h r i s t . should be taught that, u n h they done sutiii.iant for the remi-ion of penalties a@ Of
have superfluonr wealth, they are bound to kee2, what t w e r v e d ~
"62. Tho true treasure of tha C h e fr tb. Hal7
fr necessary for the use of their own households, and
Gospel of the glory and grace of God.
by no means to la*
it on pardona
"63. Thia treasure, hoaever, u demrvdy most bPSb
"47. Christians should be taught that, while the^ ue
f
u
l
, because it maken the first to be la&
iree to buy paxdons, they are not commanded to do so.
"64. While the treasurs of indulgenar ir
u48. Christshould be taught that the Pope, in md acceptable, b e u u n it nukes the lut to k 5mk
granting pardons, has both mom need md more desire
"65. Hence the treuruer of ths &upel am neb,
that devout prayer should be mado for him, than that wherewith of old they M for the man of rimoney should be readily pdd.
"66. The tmmrea of inddgencen are no& rhQb
"49. Christiau ahodd-be taught that the Pope's par- w i t h they now fish for the richea of men.
dons are useful, if they do not put their trust in them,
"67. Those indulgences, which the preachen loudly
but most hurtful, if through them they 1the fear proclaim to be the greatest graces, are seen lre be truly
O
f
w
auch aa regards the promotion of gain.
"60. Christians shodd be taught that, if the Pope
"68. Yet they rue in reality in no degree to bo cornwere acquainted aith the exactions of the preachers of pared to the grace of God and the piety of the crow.
pardom, he ~~-ould
prefer that the Basilica of St. Pater
"G3. Bishopr and curater are bound to receive the
should be burnt to asheq than that it should be built commissaries of apostolical pardom with all reverence.
up with the skin, flesh, and bones of his sheep.
"70. But they are s t i l l mom bound to sea to if with
"51. Christians should be taught that, as it would be all t!leir eyea, 3nd take heed with all their ears, that
the duty, so it would be the wish of the Pope, even to these men do not preach their own dreams in place of
wll, if necessary, the Basilica of St. Peter, and to give the Pope's commi:'don.
.'
of his o m money to very many of those from whom
"71. He who speak against the truth af apoctolicnl
the preachers of pardons extract money.
pardons, let him be anathema and accursed.
"52. Vain is the hope of salvation through letters of
"72. But he, on the other hand, who exerta himself
pardon, even it a commissary-nay, the Pope himself against the m-antonness and licence of speech of the
-nrere to pledge his own soul for them.
preachen of pardonq, let him be tilwed.
rr79. As the Pope justly thunders agninst those r h o
"53. They are enemies of Christ and of the Pope,
who, in order that pardona may be preached, condemn use any liind of contrivance to the injury of the trafac
the rord of God to utter silence in other churchea
in pardons.
"74. Uuch more is it h h intention ta thunder against
"54. Xrong ia done to the word of God ahen, in the
aame sermon, an equal or longer time ia spent on par- those who, under the pretext of pardons, use contrivances to the injury of holy chariQ and of truth.
dons than on i t
"75. To think that Papal pardons have mch power
"65. The mind d the Popa neceasuily k that, if
pardons, which are a very small matter, are celebrated that they could absolve a man even if-by an impossithe Mother of God, is madness.
witlr sing!e bells, slngle processione, and single ceremo- bility-he had ~~o!atc.d
"16. We a h on the contrary that Papal pardona
nies, the Gospel, which is r very great matter, should

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cannot take away even the least of venial dnq M rtgordr

its g d t .
"77. Tbo uyhg #at, even if St. Petar wera nor
Pope, he could pant no greater graced, ir blaepbeq
against St. Peter m d the Pope.
"78. We a5rm on the contrary that bath he and any
other Pope haa greeter graces to grant, namely, tho
Gospel, powera, gifts of healing, etc. (1Corinthian8
12: 9)
9 9 . To my that the croru sct up among the inuignis
of the Papal a m is of equd power with the croaa of
Christ, is blasphemy.
"80. Those bishops, curates, and theologians who dlow sach discourses to have currency among the people,
will have to render m account.
"81. Thin licence in the preaching of p a r d m maken
it no easy thing, even for learned men, to pmtect the
revennee due to the Pope against the d d m or, at
dl events, the keen queetionlng of the laity.
"88. An for instance: Why does not the Pope epnpty
purgatory for the eake of the most holy chariQ and of
the supreme necessity of soulsthia being the mod just
of all rewna- if he redeems an idbite number of
aouls for the eake of that mod fatnl thing money, to be
spcnt on building a b a s i l i a - t b being r v q rlight
' reason?
"83. Again: Why do funeral mrsees and .nnimaws for the deceased continue, and why doen not the
Pope return, or permit the withdrawal of the fun&
bequeathed for this purpose, since it is a wrong to pray
for those who u e already redeemed?
"84. Again: What is this new kindneaa of God a d
the Pope, in that, for money's sake, they permit an
impiow man snd an enemy of God to redeem a pimr
mul which loves God, end yet do not redeem that name
pious and beloved mul, out of free chariv, on uwrmnt
of ita own need?
"85. Again: Why ia it that the penitential canom,
long since abrogated and dead in themselver in very fact
and not only by w e , rm, y d still redeemed w i t h
money, through the granting of inddpicea, u if they
were full of life ?
J'86. Again: Why doen not the Pope, whose richer
are at this day more ample than t h w of the wealthiest
of the wealthy, build the one B d i c a of St. Peter with
his o m money, rather than with that of poor believers?
"87. Again: What doen the Pope remt or impart to
thoee who, through perfect contrition, have a right to
plenary remission .ad participation?
"88. Again: mhot greater good would tbe Charch
receive if the Pope, insteed of once, as he d m now,
nas to bestow there remissions and participatioru r
hundred tima a day on any one o f the faithful?
"89. Since it is the ~ l v a t i o nof souls, rather thrn
money, h t the Pope seeks by his pardons, why does
he mapend the letters and pudom grmM long w,
dna they are equally &ccrciou~t

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"90. To repress thew scruplea and arguments d thr

laity by force alone, and not to solve than by giTin#
reasom, is to erpoae the Church and the Pope to th,
ridicule of their aemim, and to mrka Chrirtirn
nnhpp~.
"91. If then pardona wem preached u?cording to tb,
apirit and mind of the Pope, dl these q u 4 d d
be resolved with e ~ e my,
; would not &tit.
"92. Away then with dl thore propheta wbo my b
the people of Chriat : Peas, peed; and th.rr L

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"93. B l d be all thoam pmphetr who my Co thr
people of Christ: Ths cram, the crwo'; m d there ir
no sum
"94 Christians &odd be nhorted to drive to idow
Christ their head through p.inr, deatha, md he5.
"95. And thnr tRlat to enter ke8ven thtoogh maay
tribuLatiionqratherth.ninh~of~
MmmTARor

"I,Martin Luther, Doctor, of the Order of Manh rb

TVittemberg,desiretot&ifypublidythrtcd.inppoaitiona @nnt pontihd indrrlgcpar, u they all them,
have been put forth by m a N m dthough, up b h'
p ~ t t i w , n e i ~ t h i r m o r t ~ d n o m n d
schoolofopr~noranyarilotd~pmabm
condemned me, yet there ue, u I hear, roms
of
headlong and mdacioar rpirit, rho h to -p
me a heretic, u though the mr#ar had bmn thomqhly
looked into and studied. But an my part, M I hva
often done Wore, K) now too I implore dl men, by tln
faith of Christ, either to point out to me a better way,
if such a way hna bseP divinely revealed to my, or at
least to rmbmit their opinion to the judgment d sod

mdoftheChurch. F o r I u n n e i t h e r w , r r r b u t o ~
that my role opinion rhould be preferred to that of dl
other men, nor m a e n s e h M to be willing that thr
word of God ahould be mrds to give phm ta fihlw.
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ments dected here and there from this evidently reliable myork :
"mould it not be most unnatural, if r h were to
break out in a city, and everyone were to keep atill .nd
let it burn on and on, whatever might be burnt, &ply
because they had not the myor'a ruthoriQ, or beam
the fire perhaps broke out a t the tmyor's houle? Ir not
cvuy citizen bound in thia caae to rouse a d call in the
rest? How much more ahodd thu be done in the rpirlt u d city of Ciuiat, if a fin of offenasb r a t
either
at the Popdr government or wherever it may I The k
happens if an enemy attacks r town. !
h0nt ta mum
up the rest earns glory a d t h n h Why thaa &odd
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"It u a d i s h s i n g and terrible thing to
a from hall, md r o w s md mammo~all Chrirth.t tb.
h?
herd of Christendom, who boa& of kmg th.V k od
' g u t u f a CLtr bovtr ai their authority, that no Christ m d the succeraor of St. Peter, livas in 8 worldly
a m mart
it, thfa b i& talk. No o m in Chri, Pomp that no king or a p c r o r can eqarl: w that in
h b m hu m~ 80-Q
to & hum, or to forbid him that calls h i d most holy and mo& rpiriothm to prevemt hum being dona Them ir no author- there is more worldlineru thrrr in tha world itad. Ha
fty in the Chnrch but far rdonndioo. Therefore if the wears a triple crown, ~ h e r e uths mightieyt king only
P o p W to nn ht power to prevent tha calling of mar one crown. If thb
the
of Chrirt
8 free council, ro u to prevent the n f o m t i o n of the and St Peter. it ia a new sort of r t r m b k They
Chnreh, we mart mt rtspect him or hir poaer; and if prate of ita being heretical to object to thir; nay, they
L M d begh to ~fa~mmrrniak
md ,
we
not even hear how u m h r i d b and ungodly it ir.
the ravine of a madman, and But I think that if he s h d d hrrr to pray to God with
mu& d a r p h tbir
in God, axcommnniieab and repel him, as best terns, ha would have to b y d m hi8 croanr; for God
p o w in nothing; he will not endure m y arrogancs His a c e ahodd b.
we m y . For thir t&
doea not posse= it, and he is a t once overthrown by 8 nothing
than to weep and pray ~onrt.ntly -for
For St. Paul aays to the Christendom, and to k m errmplr of 9 humility.
k t from the ScriptCorintbha, 4Th.t God har given as authority for dfi- 'However thir may be, thh pamp ir 8 &cation and not for ~ c t i o n . ' (2 Corinthiaaa 10: 8) block, and the Pope, for th.
d*m
of h u m a
Who will fet this text at naught? It ia tha power of the ought to put it off; for St. P a d up:
fmm
Devil and of Antkhrid that prerenta what would eeme dl appearance of e d ' (1
5: g3) ;.pd
for the refonnation of Christendom. Therefom we must again: 'Provide t h i n g hone& in the &ht of dt -*
not follow it, but oppore it w i t h OW body, our gooh (2 Corinthiana 8:21) A eimple m i t n w o u k Boryh
and dl that we h v a bnd even if 8 miracle were to for the Pope: wisdom and sanctity &rrld zrfr b
happen in hvour of the Pope, against the temporal above the rest; tho mown of pride he shod& h'c.to
power, or if mma rera to be stricken by 8 plague, u hntichriet, M hia preddid for wme hundndr oQ
they sometimes boast haa happened: all thh is to be
They my: H e in ruler of the worid. ThL b
held u having been dona by ths Devil, for our want of f h ; for Christ, whom vice-gerent d ricu ho ol.iaY
faith in God, u w u foretold by Chrirt: 'Them dull to be, mid to Pilrte: 'My kingdom ia not of thir
.rise feLa Chris& and false prophets, and shall shew (John 18: 36) But no vicegerent can hovr eh
great dgm m d wonden; inwmuch that, if it were poa- dominion than his Lord. Nor t he 8 v b g e m u t d
'mble, they shall deceive the very elect' ( a t t h e w 24: Christ in his glory, but of Christ crucified, u S t P a d
t4) ; snd St Paul tells the T h e s s a l o n h that tha nays: 'For I am determined not to knm anything
mrning of Antichrist shall be 'after the working of among you, save Jenu Christ, nnd him cruaUedB(1
Satan, with dl power and 8igm and lying wadem.' Corinthiana 2: 0) ;and (Philippiam 8: 6 7 ) ? 'Let thia
(9 ~o~
8: 9)
mind be in you, which w u .Ira in Jesw W;
hold f a t to th": that Christian who made himself of no reputation, and took upon him' m d o r e let
:
do nothing againat -,
,as St. Paul cays: d the form of 8 senrant.' Again (1 Corinthimm 1
Cdo nothing against C m , but for Christ.' 23) : V e preach Christ c~cified.' XOWt k mrls the/
'for
(2 Corin13: 8) Buf if it does m-g
a g h t Pope a vice-gerent of Christ exalted in heaven, and
(&id, it is the power of Antichrist and the Devil, even some have let the Devil
them
u h l f ,
if it rained and hailed wonders and plaguea Wonden the7 have maintained that the P o p ia above the
and plagues prove nothingB especially in these latter in heaven, and has power over them; which is
d doys, of which fPlae wonders are foretold in all the true work of the true Antichristn
LThenever there is any pretence of fighting ihr
the Scriptures. Therefore we must hold fast to the
words oi God with an assured faith; then tho Devil Turks, they send out some commission for collecting
money, and often aend out indulgences under the rune
w i l l soon cease hir wonden.
Gennam
UAnd now I h o p we have laid the false, lying spedre preted of Ghting tb *kr.
They think
and invetcrab f m b that
a l w a remain
~
such
with which the Bomanistr hove long t e d e d and s t u p
dsd our consciencer. And we have shown that, like all we wfl go on giving m o to ~satisfy their ~ w i
P
~ thatY neither ~~
the rwt of us, they are rubject to the tcmpoml word; greed, though we
that they have no authority to interpret the Scriptures nbaolution money, nor cml oth-not
0futhink-by form without &dl; and that they have no power to goes against the Turks, but all W into the bottomltheir sock. They lie and deceive, form and make covenantr
pmvent council, or to pledge it in accord=or to bind it beforehand, and deprive it of ib Kith ua of which they do not mean to keep one j o t
verily of tb And all t h u is done in the holy name of Christ and
h d o m ;and that if the^ do thi4, thq
fellowship of Antichrist and th.Devil, d hvm noth- st. Peter.
T h h being w, the German nation, tbr bishops md
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tiuY, m o n eqecidj Qermuu, who are of noble nature,

md am famed in dl hirtoriea for uprightneu and
Wth, to be 4unfaithful,
t m d m o u and
picked? God hu comnunded to keep faith and o h e
btha
with a&;
you dare ta c d thh cornWd, hying it down in your h e r e W , antichristian
decretalq #at yon have power ta do so; and through
TO= mouth and your pen Satan Lier as he never lied
before? terching pu to twist and pervert the Scriptures
according to your own arbitrary will. 0 Inrd Christ l
k k d o n u p this, let Thy day of jud-gment come and
'destroy the Devil'e lair a t Rome. Behold him of whom
St. Paul q k e (2Thessalonians 2: 3,4), that he should
aralt him& above Thee and sit in Thy Church, show.Ing h i d as Qod-the
man of sin, and the child of
dunnation. mt e h doen the Pope'r power do, but
*h.and
*%then
sin and wickednea4 leading sodm
to damnation in Thy name7
"The children of Israel in old times kept the oath
tbat t h q had morn, in ignomce and error, to the
(tibeoniten, their enemies. And King Zedekiah aru dertroyed utterly with hia people, becauae he broke the
oath that he had sworn to the King of Babylon. And
among ua, a hundred years ago, the noble King LadM a w v of Poland and Hungary
slain by the Turk
with so -7
of his people, becauee he dlowed himelf
to be misled by Papal legatea and cardinals, and broke
the good and useful treaty that he had made with the
!hk The piom Emperor Sigismond had no g o d fortune after the Council of Constance, in which he allowed the knaves to violate the safe conduct that he had
promised to John Huss and Jerome; from thin haa followed dl the miserable strife between Eohemia end ourd v e a . And in our own tima, God help 1 how much
Christian blood has b a n shed on account of the oath
and bond which P o p J u l i u made and unmade between
the Emperor Naximilian and King Lewia of France1
How can I tell all the lllisery the Popes have caused by
mch devilish insolena, claiming the power of breaking
oatha between great lords, causing a shameful scanad
for the eake of money I I hope the day of judgment k at
hand; things cannot and will not become worse than the
dealing of the Roman Chair. The Pope treads God's
commandments under foot and exalb hie own; if this
is not Antichid I do not know what is. But of thia
a d ta more purpose another tima"
"The Universities 8190 require a good, sound Reformation. I must say this, let it ex whom it may. The
fac't is that whatever the Papacy har, ordered or institutcd is only designed for the propagation of rin and
error. I n a t are the Universities, es at present ordered,
but as the Book of Uaccabees sayr: 'SchooL of Greek
fashion' and 'heathenish manners' ( 2 Maccabees 4: 11,
13) ; full of dissolute living, where very little u taught
of the Holy Scripturea and of the Christian faith, and
tbr blind heathem teacher, Aristotle, ruled even further

th.n Chrirr N o r my advice would be h t the boob of

Aristotle, t
b 'Phyaiu,' tho 'Metaphysics,' 'Of the Soul,'
'Ethics,' which have hitherto been considered the bat,
be altogether abolished, with dl others that profeu to
treat of nature, though nothing can be learned fmm
them, either of natural or of spiritual thinge. Besider,
no one haa been able to understand hb meanin& and
much time has been wasted, and many noble souls vexed,
with much useless labour, study, and expense. I venture
to say that any potter hsr more knowledge of natural
things than is to be found in these book hty heart i a
grieved to see how many of the best Christiaar thir
accumd, proud, knavish heathen has fooled and led
astray with hia false w o r k God sent him as a plague
for our sins.
'?), not the e c h e d man in hb best book, 'Of the
god,' teach that t b soul diea with the body; though
many have tried to save him with vain words, u if we
had not the Holy S c r i p h to teach ua h31J of all
things, of which Aristotle had not the dightest percep
tion? Yet thia dead heathen has conquered, and hos
hindered and almost suppressed the books of the living
God; 10 that, when I see all this misery, I canuot but
think that the e d spirit har introduced this rrtudy."
'<Othen howeyer, far mom shamelessly, arrogate to
the Pope ths power of mdring lawe; arguing from the
wo*:
m h v e r thou s u t bind on earth ah.^ be
bound in heaven; a d whatjoevm thou
loom on
earth
be loosed
heave=' (Uatthev 16: 19)
Christ speaking then, of the binding and loosing of
sins, not of bringing the whole Chufih into bondage a . 1
m
g laws to oppress it. ~ h m
the papal -7
acts
in
things on its o m f a h &;
while it fofibly ,
wrests and perverts the words of God. I admit indeed
that Christiam mu& endurn this accursed t r y m y , a3
they would any other violence inflicted on them by tho
worla, according to the saping of C h h t : mosoev2r
s h d smite thee on thy right chek, turn to him t i n
other also.' (Matthew 6 : 39) But I complain of thirc,
that micked pontiffs boast that they have a rightful
power to act thw, and pretend that in this Babylon of
theirs they are providing for the interests of Christendom; nn idea v:hich they have persuaded all men i n
adopt. If they did these thing3 in c o ~ c i o u sand avowctl
impiety and tyranny, or if it were simple violence that
a e endured, we might meanwhile quietly reckon up the
adrantages thus afforded us for the mortification of
this life and the fulSlment of Baptism, and should
retain the full right of glorying in conscience a t tho
wrong done us. As it is, they desire so to ensnare our.
consciences in the r a t t e r of libe* that we shotld
believe all that they do to be well done, and should
think it unlawful to blame or complain of their iniquitow actions. Being wolves, they wish to appear shepherds ; being antichrists, they wish to be honoured likr

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"Then He appeared for the last time on thc
on several occasions thereafter He appeared un- side of the Mount of Olives to His disciples at
to His disciples and others who specially loved the time of His ascension-Luke 24:50,51;
Him. He did not appear to them in the same Acts 1:6-9. '
body which was crucified, nor with the same
'OOThe question will arise in the minds of
clothing in whidi He was buried. The Scrip many, Did our Lord appear in a spirit body or
tural account is that the clothing and a napkin a huxl-ian body, and how did He get the body if
were folded-up and laid aside in the tomb. Had it was not the one in which He mas c r u d e d l
He appeared in the same body that was crucified, K e may be sure that He did not arise from the
those who were with Him for three and a half dead with a human body; for on one of thew
years would have readily recognized Him. occasions He appeared to the disciples when
Surely Mary would have known Him! He they were in a room with the doors fastened,
appeared to her as a gardener on one occasion, (John 20: 19-26) The only aamer ir that now,
and only when He spoke her name in the tone a6 a divine being, He had the power to create 8
so familiar to her did she recognize Him. The body and clothing and appear a t any time snd
Scriptural account of His appearing to the upon any occasion that He desired. Mary
disciples and other witnewer is briefly noted posed Him to be a gardener ;two of His dis.5who walked with Him thought He warn a s t r u ,
as follows :
"'He appeared on Sunday morning, early in ger in the community.Again, none of the di&the day of E ~resurreotion,
E
to Mary Magdalene plea recognized Him by His body on the m of
near the sepulchre a t Jerusalem.--John 20: Galilee ; likewise on other occasion8 when Ha
appeared unto them. On all these occasionn Ha
11-18.
"OOn the same Sunday morning, to the women was recognized by His adions, His words, and
returning from the sepulchre.-Matthew 28: 9. the familiar tone of His voice. It waa hard to
*'On the same Srindny morning to Simon convince Thomas, who declared that he muat
have some more proof; therefore the Lord
Peter alone near Jerusalem-Luke 24 :34.
"*On the same day to two disciples going to created a body having in it the marka of the
Ernmaus, between Jerusalem and Emmawnails in order that Thomas might be convinced.
And when he was convinccd, Jesus said to him:
Luke 24 :13-21.
2aaOnthe same Sunday evening to the apostles "Thomaa, because thou hast seen me, thou bast
(except Thomas) at Jerusalem.--John 20 :19-25. believed : blessed are they that have not seen,
"'Thereafter He appeared again one week and yet have believed."--John 20: 27-29.
later (Sunday evening) to the apostles a t JeruQ-ONS
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salem, Thomas this time being present.--John
20 :26-29.
I n e n waa the firat time Jesna appeared to Hir dt
""ome days thereafter He appeared on the ciples after arising from the dead? T[ 278.
shores of Galilee to seven of His disciples who
With what body did He appeu? 1278.
had gone back ta fishing.--John 21: 1-13.
Gire the reasone why He did not appear in thc body
-cified- 1278.
"*A little later He appeared to the eleven that
did Mqrqi*7 278.
disciples on a mountain near Ga1iIee.-Matthew
State how many times Jesus appeared prior to Hir a
28 :16-20.
cension on high, giving the Scriptural proof. f 279-289.
"A short time thereafter He again appeared
Did owLard appu i.a rpint or homn bod, .nl
to a company of more than five hundred of His how did xc
the
in
He app.mdl
tW.
foIlowers, gathered by app~int.nIent,in Galilee.
x0, ,dd He a p F in the room in the p-w
-1 Corinthians 15:6.
the diecipla ahen the door WM lacked? f 290.
'#He again appeared to the apostle James
How did the disciple# rccognh Him at tho ra
Galilee and o t h a places? 1290.
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Whrt poor consolation such an incomprehensible, unscr~ptnraldoctrine must be to
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Jesus, it htestded by Hie disciples, wns aeen atter H
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Waa this appearance an apparition, or an imagination inspired by the zeal of His
followers in their attempt to confirm the man-made ph~lo~opliy
wncerning th8
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dn understaking of the beautiful doctrine of the resurrection, fouud in Holy
Writ, not alp wives the mystery of Me after death, but a h m&ea cled God's
. be&cat';;lur for W'I everlssting life on -tho
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N THE First Baptist church of Minneapolis,

IEmmeline
Misa Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of Mrs.
Pankhurst, famous woman d r a g e
leader in England, made the declaration that
"the world is going to pieces." She does not
profess to know how soon Christ is to come and
establish His government upon the earth, bat
nhe thinks that He had better come right soon;
for ahe cannot see how the present order of
things can hold out much longer.
The World T a r , the Jaganese earthquake,
the Jewa migrating to Palestine, a d the huge
preparations for the coming worst war ever
, known, are, according to Miss Pankbnrst, dib
' tinct signs of
the b g d o m of peace under
Christ "The Bok peace plan," ahe saya, "will
never prevent war; there is no human way to
- do it" Her thought is that s i U g women a i d
foolish men, in seeldng truth in fancy religionq
nhbh have not the Bible for their foundation,
' a m dancing the dance of death-plaw
with
death, aa it were.
h speaking of the morals of the day, Misa
Pankhnrst said: "It is hard to be a boy or a
girl now; for they have a slippery slope to
tnvel The candle of Gentile civilization is
b d g down; there will be the last &re-up,
and then shall come the end of the age."

Tlb New Refonnation

M R.

b a n FWE, editor of 2% C e d u r y
Magazine, recently before the Methodist
Minieters' Association of New York, told that
august body that the world needed a new reformation, that it was ripe for a new Martin
Luther. He thought that Modernism had been
M intellectnal movement of negative criticism,
but that it should become a positive movement
m d nail its theses to the doors of our churches
u a challenge to the new reformation, In reading over Mr. Franks "fourteen points" we are

sure these would not bring the relief desired.

Our day has produced its Martin Luther in
the person of Charles T. Russell; and not o d y
the ninety-five theses, but the nine hundred and
ninety-five theses have been dbtributed broadcast, into almost every hame in the United
States and into thousands of homes in nearly
all other countries the world over.
The reformation of Martin Lutheis day wa8
designed to break the powez of the Roman
Church, and resulted in the springing ap of
many protesting denominations. !l!he reformation then started, long ago lost its protest The
new refonnation k not an appeal to Modernism
but a "back to the Bible" movement, back to the
teachings of Jesus and the apostler and prophets of the Bible, the very thing which B.
Frank
calla for in the third of his "fourteen point&"
Because of the general apostaap, unbelief, and
co&ion
in religious c i d e s tha Scripture8
seem to point out that it would be impomible to
renovate the systems. So nauseating have they
become that Mr. Frank cries out a g a h t them,
in his k t Upoint," saying, T h e substitution of
the religion of Jesus for Cbhtianity."
What he should rather have said is: 'Away
with all make-believe Christianity l Let as get
down to the bedrock of true Christianity.' The
vision of some men discerns only Cb-ty,
not Christianity. Charchianity, which eo many
wish to save from annihilation, is in the throw
of death paina; she is dying the death.
The Lord's kingdom is at the door, disrapting the present order preparatory to taking fall
possession of the affairs of the world. When it
shall have fully dawned, h e Christianity w i l l
have its first chance to rule in the hearts of men
Xr. Fra&s ninth "point" is: "The howledge of G Q as
~ the mind and the heart of tha
universe rather than its judge." Does he fail to
discern that God is a being, recognizing Hi

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aP)J to be mind, omnipresentt Bod is a pereon.

No other conaption of GFod can be right.
Qod is a qirit being, having a divine organism, immcaaurably higher, greater,grander, and
more s u b h e than man onn conceive; but a
perma jlmt the samc me cardinal attribute8
of God are wisdom, jnstice, love, and power;
and them cai3rdlnat.e and harmonize within the
being of a glorious character.
Qod mmt at as a judge. The hmnan family
have violated Hia laws. But God's love provided d p t i o n ; His wisdom formulated the
pIan b which it could operate toward man .and
& t h e me time satisfy Hia justice; and His
power is caunhg all things to work together for
the raeomplishment of His will.
Jesus k not Jehovah, never m a , never will
be; and J e w aa God's vicegerenf is carrying
out HL Fatheis plan to completion. When the
vuioua featarea of the redemptive plan are
' acmqhhed, God will receive the human family bad into harmony with Himself; the race
will than be received into covenant relationship,
m Adam nu before ain and m W o n came into
tho world.
!l!lme truths the chmrchea ar6 not teaahing.

Flazt.Mo&rn World
EVEZUXD A. S. Kennedy, ahsphh to
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King Oeoqp of England and -term of
th.World War,
tao
recently in H o b
gave

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from that condition, and if the present in 8

criterion of its progress, it would seem that wa
are fast sinking into the mira
Rev. Mr. Kennedy claims that the world k r,
bad piece of patchwork, a sort of enmy quile
that the world generally is dishonest; that
h e r i c a haa St. Titus' dance; and that the
Engliah have it, too, but not so violently. St,
daua seem to be cawed by
for the advice is given that religion should
teach as to stop and thinlr. He farther said:

Y am told not to talk &out maanplopeat in Eng

Land. The mm and the women &nd on tho
mdintheirdesperation~to~intb,ahd
rninaod. l2leIytdlas,T0~Ulri8J1UudbrnrL

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Y e t I a m ~ t o b e a i l e n t . b o 9 t ~ p I ~
1~8ancant,rottea& weaPPot~rorririntb.t
condition. We ars rotten at it Th church m &&a at
it. Th.d~~aBthachurchktomab.nmnyafrrmn
r b o l u w J c c n q a a t d i n ~ o a n f l f c t d d v g w ~ r i l ,l '

a r e t h e d d . Wathajobdtb.church,.ndifb
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Anhonest confession ie uorely good for tb.

s o d Thismanamrageodytakeshiapartof
the blame, and we think that he in plauing tho
b h m where it M o n p We mggeat that a
wodd be wisdom on the part of the PAMto try keeping stin for ten yeam and letting
the common peopb have a chantm to work out
their own advation; and fhe redta, we feel
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sure, would be quite gratifying.
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!cri.ni* chorch, Philadelphia, which pro90lred

quite a little oomment, for both their quainheso
and mar-truthfulness. "All of as;" he mid, GmpZaW in Rerttrrint of Rad.
#'have bra or three selvea; and the purpose of
IS alleged by the Federal !L'rade Cob
the ehurch is to save men from the c o d i d of
sion that the big dealera in ~ u f a c t u m d
them selvea and to make them one."
farming i m p l e m e n a c h sa the International
Hare we get the idea that man is fighting him- Harvester Compaay, Moline Plow Cornpaw,
&; that the good part, the bad part, and the and others, which operate in the Middle W e s t
indil!ferent part are waging a warfare to the and the retail dealers sated with the Eastern
death. It would eeem, therefore, that when rn Federation Farm Dealers Association, are in a
pa7 our debts, and are kind and gentle to o u r conspiracy in restraint of trade agsinst eo6perc
families, and Bmile at the world, the good part ative enterprises that a m backed by farmers.
L working.
It is said that this combine hss ked tho
If we ask two prices for a suit of clothes, prices of their products and the margin of pro&
raim the rent of our tenants, or tap the oil in the sale of the implements, and are said to
rewmr of Uncle Sam, the bad part is work- have "continuonsly assisted retail dealers' asing. Xf we allow o a r children to do as they ciatiom in carrying out their purposes, and to
please, go where they please, say what they have contributed monoy for this purpose.''
pl-,
without taking any interest in their d- The farmers' coijperative dorm are o m
farm or t h t of their associates, the indifferent ized to supply farming implemenb at greatly
put L working. If the church is to save rra reduced prices. The object of the comb-

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said to be "maintaining a system of espionage."
This endeavor is claimed to have been made
over the entire industry to cut off the supply of
implements not only fiom coSprative associatiom b u t from "irregalar" dealers who would
not maintain the price and profit levels of the
organized members. Today this is done in every
li!ne of business. Retail prices are two to three
+times what they need be if real coSperation
could be put into effect by purchasers.

as "you never can tell" where to repose your

coddence, it is best to follow the Bible admonition :'Tut not your trust in man." This s h o d
be taken to mean that we are not to expect too
much. Of course, we need rulers, semants of
the people; but we should be praying for and
expecting the real Ruler who will bring jnstice,
tmth, happiness, and life to the poor groaPing
creation:
Rev. I h n e r thinkIl that Bolshevism in Bassia
has accomplished some good. He says that Tt .
brought p d c a t i o n in the church by t*g
Dacrth
Low in 1923
away the riches that had been accumulated; .
STATISTICAL bulletin of the Metropoli- these riches never symbolized anything, 'but
tan Life Insurance Company for January were-.partly used as propagauds in foreign
shows some interesting figures in the decrease lands."
of the mortality rate. Tbe figures cover U,000,- We c a n see that the common people are being
000 Metropolitan policyholders, most of whom elevated, coming into their own; and that aa a .
live-in thickly populated districts. According result the time is rapidly coming in which there
to the statistics the death rate for 1923 was 8.9 will be no "ancommon" peopl8-anywhera !RM
per thousand; the 1922 figares ara 8.8; and- Lord win be King over all the'earth in that day.
1921, said to be the record year, 6.7.
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Thqe are said to be the best three yeam in ~ u m in Hi#h
the history of the United States and Canada aa
NE of the greatest sandals that
: compared with the three years previous, which
strack the American people is the Teapot
run from 10.6 to 12.5 per thousand inhahitante. Dome Oil steal, which has blown the lid 08the
The epidemic of Muenza in the early months teapot with such force that the sound has med'
of 1923 prevented it from being the banner year the circumambient air, and our ears aa.
in health statistics.
with the din of deaials, cross charges, and wail*
The death rate for the last six months of 1923 inga of tbose who have thus been brought into, was the lowest ever recorded for this period in the limelight.
any year. The death rate amongst the Negro
As a result of the expo*
Senator Wslsb
palicyholders was a little higher than that of of Montana is being boomed by his friend as
the White policyholders.
presidential timber. We hope that Mr. Walsh
will continue his good work in thh investigsReaciut H a Scheme for Peace
tion, running down all the dues and assisting
EFERRING to the Teapot Dome scandal, in bringing to justice every one who is ePilty.
Rev. Henry Clay Risner of Hoboken, N. J.,
There seems to be also a revelation thirt the
thinl-n that it is about time for the common DepartmenLof the Interior had arranged to do
people to get in command; for, he says, "they with the naval coal reserves exactly what was
are the best on earth and are crncifled on the done to the oil reserves. The Alaska coal realtar of politics." So far as the news item dis- serves were taken from the Navy and transclosed Rev. Risner did not appeal to the people ferred to the Interior Department to be peddled
to accept Jesus as the Prince of Peace, but
,thought that great strides could be made out to private individuals for their enrichment,
towards the desired peace by the United States' depriving the count- of the cod fields set aside
remitting its indebtedness to every nation that for the use of the Pacific fleet and for emergency.
In order to make this transfer plausible to
would agree not to make war for one hundred
the
suffering h e r i c a n citizens and to chIoroyears.
form
their senses to the enormity of the trans-.
With few notable exceptions, when one of the
common people is eIevnted to rulership he loses action, it was said that the Alaska coal was not
very little time in becoming r~nncommon." And, good enough for oar navy. 0 4 course, none of

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us w d d want our ships to burn inferior coal ;

I t is said that this deal has been developing
and therefore the transfer was thought to be for four years; that the negotiations, which
the height of wisdom. However, the Alaska coal were far advanced, were cut short by the death
ir now said to be of a higher grade than the of Carranza.
navy is actually using:
~ 6 press
s
report from which we get our in- x a n n i h ~ e a rBeah
t
formation makes the effort to IninimiZe thh
wholesale thievery by telling us that there ia
nothing very t ~ r i o n sfor
to W O W about- ary, there was demonstrated a device perfected
Pointing to the fimciera who were Personally by Prof. K B. Abbott of Purdrre Universie.
interested in this graft, it refers to t k m as The instrument is called a microphone stetho"little fools," implying that it is an easy matter scope. I t is s o w h a t
to the ordinary
to dispose of them on short notice.
stethoscope, but has an amplitler attachment.
Bnd then in another effort to dull our senses Dr. Abbott, in hia demonstration, attached the
it tells us that these 'little fools" yill soon lose instrument to his person; and the beats of hia
their money anyhow, and that a little grafting heart were plainly heard at a distance of
on their part might be tolerated by us, for "it feet.

does not matter much when they loseit"

We are informed of the fact that property Wk&m Union Pays om

stolen from the Government can always be taken
MPLOYES of the Western Union Telegraph
back, and that the wealth of the country is EO
Company recently w e n bendited by the
great that a few billion dollars would not make distribution of exceas earnings for the laat six
any difference, for the reason that our national- months of 1923. his excess will =o=t
to
deM b but a little more than $300 Per inhabi- about twenty-three percent of one month's 4-

bat. When our national wealth is fdb devel- ary for the majority of the emqloyBs. Messeaoped, it is estimated that each inhabitant would ger boys who have been in the employ*of the

be worth more than one million dollars.

We think that this is a very cheap and delib

eratdy-planned method of maldng excuses for
the ultra rich, who-are setting bad examples for
young b e r i a i n s to emulate. It is such loosemsa of m o d that is M -elringsom
ciazation. We suppose that many of these thieves
ordinarily graded 100 percent h e n ? ;
bpt a thief who steals from the Government is
j d as bad
any ~ i c k ~ o & ethat
t ever waked
the streets.
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TobaeeoDsalinM~han
HE British-American Tobacco Company ia
said to have purchased the largeat Mexican
cigarette factory, and the second largest cigarette factory will pass into the hands of an
American company. The price paid for the fint
factory was $7,500,000.
In order for the Mexican Government to
pacify the minds of the Uexican people regarding this deal, it is arranged that they will obtain
a loan of $25,000,000 from the tobacco interests
of this countrg and Qreat Britain. Senator J.
Hamilton Lewia ir said to represent the tobacco
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company for a certain length of time h

shared in this to the extent of Sll.50 each.
Great Bn'tab

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former ~ ~ t 8mbsador
i ~ h
to
u n i t d S t a t e , sir hued w d e s ,
ringing spd
in ~~~d~~
d w d
Britain =st change. her habit of jeering at
american prohibit.on aa r i d i d o m
of
naming it
a pa&ioua attack upon liberty.
He maintains that the only actual effect of thb
maintenance of the rum fhet off the coasts of
New Jersey is to anger respectable American
opinion against England.
A British judge has decided that when a Brit. ish whisky concern and a British rea captain
enter into an agreement to ship a cargo of
whisky to rum row, the owner of the w h b e
cannot sue the captain for an accounting of what
was done with the whisky. This jnst decision
will muse many Americans to smile broadly.
The Central-Eastern portion of England h m
been aubjected to an earthquake, which shook
up the farnitare of houaes considerably and
frightened ma~17people, but which seems not
to have done any damage.

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military airplaner of today have engine8 as

strong as four European locomotivek M i l i w
men speak of the air raida of sir or reven para
ago as 'Zilliputian raids.n It 1s atimated that
in case of a war between France and Britain,
France can put into w e fifteen times a8 many
of these terrible engines of death as can Great
Britain. Just now there in a race on in whioh
France and Britain are vying with each 0 t h
in multiplying air armament, with Frana far
in the lead.
Within the next year Britain wiU increase
the personnel of her air fleet from 33,000 to
35,000 men, and expects by next April to ham
w i t b ~ w l u t a p p e a r s t o t h e m t o b s t b d a t e n n b m 200 airplanes availabla for home d e f m

A J a g I o - h d Rchtionr
REFLXCTION of the strained relations
between Britain and France is seen in the
fact that the British naval maneuvers this
Spring will take place on the sea route between
France and her african possessions. Moreover,
the fleets which will gather for them naval
maneuvers are the largest that have been
.,~bmughttogether at any time within the h t
four years.
Premier MacDonald haa written a letter to
Premier Poincar6 of France in whch he aaya:
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t has wme .boat that people in thir counhy regard

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oontinent without conaiderstion & our maamable in-

& d U l d a t t h o f U t a r e C O ~ ~ t 0 . hbo*
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ITH the enjoyment of as full power in the
ment; that they feel apprehaIaive of the Lagb militavy

control of the British Government as

d s a r k l ~ e n t a m a i n t a i n e d n o t o d yin LlutarP
l m t a I n o i n w e e t e r n F t . n m ; t h a t t h e y ~ ~ b yeither of the two old British p d e 8 could 4 0 y

t h 4 i n t t m d r h O I P b y p n r ~ ~ t L D t h e m i l i t u yin the aame position, there ars ~hIatioxL8Conorganization of the new S W in Centnl Earope; and, stantly developing which ate
Labor
' M y , that they qudon why all the# sctivitia should ofiiciah do not move in what may be called the
be%n.nrwrlbytheFranchOaranrmantindiracgardd highesbpriced society. For instame, the 36in. c the fd that th. Brit* taxpayer hu to flnd up.'
of ;E30,000,008 a p IU inupon loam m k l in ister of Health and tha Underm,-lur for
were recently entertained at a home
d m e r r i g m d t h s t ~ ~ ~ h a ~ e d r o t Q d P d l aScotland
rgs
where
&cumatarr<#r
made it nec4awq for
'nmrtopyinterestonthedebtof h ~ t o u , t o
them
to
help
wash
and
wipe the dbhea.
meet which Xhmehas heraelfsrpt~tharmadbnor
~ a e n , r w , f u u * c a n ~ a n y r e r i i i c s e q u i ~ Wedonotknoathatthi8hurtthgmi.q
lrmttotheiro~l~''
way. We know of no p a r t h l a ~
rssson why m)r
man
should
expect
Ma
wife
to
dart working
I n a speech in the Honse of Cammono, Extwo
hours
before
he
d
m
i
n
fhe
morning, and
Premier
Lloyd George hsa said:
to
continue
working
tWO
houm
after
he^ ilahhw
"The w u cod ar more than any 0 t h cmmat
night,
without
his
doing
d
h
h
g to giVb
Ieast in cash. Our devutation w u not w grut u the
her
a
lift.
%ybe
she
would
enjoy
a
lit&
red
devastation of France, but it oart ua bun* of milUOM d poundr; .nd the rain to our b P s i a a r h u beea as mnoh aa he would.
greater than that suffered by any other country. W
b o t h e r good joke is on the royalty They
fon, I pmtclt ae+inet the new spirit, which meuwto ham been accustomed to pnnffing titles around
=T: proceml from tbs -ptio*
th.t E @ d is to pa,, among those who for the time being happened
but whea it coma to receiring, it mud lm mma other to be in power. Now they have just made thrm
couniq. Great Britain pap America; ah6 ia to receive of the Labor leaders into barons. Thb ia the
nothing fmm Franca or from Italy. The Chancellor of good old American idea The royaLty over here
tha Erchquer oafs (3t-y
ia in mch a podtion that
dm cannot poaoibly pay No, dm a ~ n o tpay UA, but is composed of o h m* stenognrphem, bri&
b i n t o p a y Frsncainfull. Sheirtorrimbursemeq- layen, carpenters, stevedores, coal heavers,
thing that k going ta h c q Itdr and Belgium; but, railroad men, &men, machidata, and other
fonrooth, aha can do nothing for Great Britaie We classes of royalty too numerous to mention.
were equal in sacrifice; I think it is about time that But in America they are more than baronetag
Great Britain should atad up for her righb in thia they are lords of the redm
matter?'
The Labor Government of Britain in conaid-

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Among military men there is now the poai- ering the abalition of the death penalQ. Promtive conviction that annihilation awaits any inent officials in the Government have expressed
people attacked by: the modern airplana The the common sense opinion that the Treaty of

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VersaiIIes ought to be revised. The new gov- that it abounds with bea~tifnlscenery, delighte r n m a t lnanifesta sympathy for the poor. La ful people, and an ideal climate, projects are
one of the borongha, the local officialserpended under way to make the Kjllarney Lake d i s W
$W09000for the relief of the poor without any a playground for British and American tourauthority having been granted to them to do so. ista It seantl to us h t this ia a good idea,
Tbe previous government had decided ta hold There am multitudes of d t h y Ameriea~
them otacials responaihle for this large sum 02 who would enjoy spending a vacation on tho
money, but the new government canceled the old-sod if thsy could be nure of the luxuries to
obligation, thua &owing a real conoern for which they are aamtomed on this side of tho
strmhg men, women, and children, suffering water.
because of unemployment.
Hebrida
The Labor Government han abandoned the
effort to collect partial reparatiom from k-F O R one nhoL year the people of tlie
many which have hitherto been sought by a
Hebrides Islands, off the west c o d d
twen@-& percent tax 0x1 imports from that Scotland, have had only two or three cleur
country. This tax has been reduced to five per- dam This has made the &g
of crop
cent- The change shows how thornugh17
possible; and as the t l s h h g haa been ununually
poiicy of 2%
is imbedded in the minds poor, the 30,000 inhabitants of the idan& ham
of British workers.
been brought to the border-land of stamation.
Hothouae h w b e n i e a are said to be on ob- Moreover, everything in the islands, Mading
m t i o n in h n d m at three shillings; that ia the peat beds, is water-soaked, so that the d
ta aap, about seventy cents an ounca These souree of fael is unavailable. Crime is v h t d l y
Bemea are hired out 8s table decorations, they unknown among the natives of the Hebridea
are not auppoaed to be eaten. In New York, The people are aR poor together, and ahow a
Flarida bemea have been on 4 e for two nympathetic, friendly interest in each otheis
months, with the prices ranging very hi@+ welfare that ia rafreahing.
%ftycenb to a dollar a box. 4 -

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ELAHD continues to be the isle of earrowu.

Conditions in the west of Ireland are eaid
. to be worse at present than at any other period
uinee the great famine of seventy-five years ago.
Thia is not, however, becauae of any failure of
crops, but wholly because of restricted trade
with England, due to conditions in Engiand
itd.
We are coming more and more to see how
dependent the people of one country are upon
the people of another. It helps ua to realize the
force of the Apostle's ntatement that no msn
live& m t o himself nor dieth unto himself. It
appears that every act of our life ha3 its i h ence upon others, even as the acts of othem
influence our own careers.
of the most prominent, wealthy and
Muential citizens of h e r i c a are of Irish ancestry, and always feel a keen interest in anything affecting the Emeiald Isle. In ~ e of
w the
fact that Ireland has no coal deposits, and
neemingly can therefore never become s great
induntrial community; and in view of tbe fact

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Qmernment h been a n d e
going crisis. The party which han beem
power,
favored the French p o k h
in the Ruhr, has been compelled to re&gn. T)LI
change in publia opinion in Belgium, whicb
caused the majority of the deputies to erpnsr
a vote of no can6dence in the government, wa8
brought about by conditions m the dty of bnG
werp. In that city there has been a long period
increarring
of trade stagation with
t3iscontent
Europe in being stirred by ib minerier to
realize a great truth: It is slowly coming to
discern that in the United States the twentpfive European nationalities live together and
work together under almost ideal conditiom.
Thoughtful people in Europe are asking why it
i8 that the henty-five European nationalitiem
C a n get along together in h e r i c & but cannot
get along together 0x1 their native soiL
All can see that what is needed in Europe ir
a class of statesmen with large enough hearb
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for the selfish Weresta of aome one little com- been expelled from his former position largely
through the influence of British statesmen. Ju&
munity.
at this time he is enroute to France, but u
stopping over in Switzerland, where he is nommc8
too
welcome became he has with him two mom
HE frana continues to fall, and the French
wives
than the Swiss Government appropeople are becoming more and more panicky
- u they aee the same conditions overtaking them
as have overtaken Germany. The f m o ia now -0ny
British and French Governments seem .
worth only one-fourth of what it wss before
to have thought that there are large sup
the war.
At the dose of the month of February the plies ef arms and munitiom in existence in
French Government was obliged to add in one Germany of which the &man Government ir
week a billion francs of paper money in order unwilling to make any accounting. It would
to pay bills due on March 1st. Experience not surprise as if thia statement is true.
The shocking figares have been made publie
everywhere ha^ proven that this method of
bee will not work except for a limited that in the sections of Germany controlled b
period; and it may be truthfully said that after the French-there are now behind Frenoh ban
02 no
debts have been paid by such a method, the 2,335 G)ernian prisoners who are &ty
condition of the one who thua pays is worse personal act of wrongdoing. Them men are
- than before the debt was paid at all.
political prisoners in the strictest seme of the
M. Brisnd, former premier of the French word.
The Kaiser has been heard from again. Re
Qovernment, hss called attention to the fact
that every time the French Government indi- was heard from directly in his memoha when
- ate8 a -as
t o negotiate for an agre+ he denied personal responsibility for sending
*men, with Germany along the lines of the the famoua cablegram I s Peal f i g s ? , head of
eirperts' proposals, the downward rnsb of the the South African Repnblie, at the time of tb
frauc ceases. When the expressions of the Qov- capture of Dr. Jameson and his raidem.
Now he haa been heard from again hrough
emmeat are less favorable, the fall of the frana
is resumed. He thinks thst the iimmcisl s i b the former head of the press department of tb
tion of France is such that war is no longer German Foreign me, who comes f o d
with the declaration that WIlhelm has been fib'
posmble.
The French people are disturbed became bing; and that not o d y was he responsible far
British statesmanship seems to have nearly or the despatch actually sent to Mr. Krugar, but
fully gained control of all Moslem countries he originally drafted a much more violent onq
through the nomination of the King of Hedjaz which would have stirred the British people
(Mesopotamia) to be the Caliph, or spiritual still more than they were stirred by the ow
ruler of the Mohammedan Church. King Has- which he did send.
The trial of General Ludendorff for treaaon
sein is a British appointee, and receives an
at
Munich is said to have revealed from Ludenm u a l grant of $2,000,000 from the British
dorff
s own lips the fact that the only boob hs
Qorernment for holding Mesopotamia open to
ever
read
were military books, and that except
the development of B r i b h oil companies.
from
the
military
point of view, he is lacking
No doubt Mr. Rnssein is worth at least
in
the
common
sense
of a moderately well-bd$2,000,000 per year to the British oil interests,
anced
youth.
We
can
hardly wonder at thia.
and will be worth still more to them if he can
deliver to the British Government the loydty I n a t shorn of wisdom could we expect from any
of the Moslem peoples scattered in the form of mind which rises no higher than that of how
a letter "X" all the may from Austria to Ceylon, best to apply brute force to his fellow man?
and from the West African coast to the back
Reparation Poasibilitiea
door of Chins
The French colonies are practically all among
HE tense situation which has existed for
Moslem peoples. The French choice for the
some time between the Central G e m
Caliphate, Abdul Medjid, is supposed to have Qoremment and Bavaria is said to hare been

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p a t l y kuaened; bushes* ia picking up, and

~und'redsof new factories have been erwted
there L a more hopeful feeling generally. I n in all parts of Germany during the laat four
part this is evidently due to the determination yeara In spite of d handicaps Germany has
\
of the British leaders to give the Germans a also made great progress in rebuilding a merahma by letting their go& into England at chant marine. The bill for reparations constionly &re percent duty, instead of twen~-ak tutes Germanp's only debt, on account of tbe
percent as heretofore.
fall of the mark The German overaeaa trade
Degp&&ea indicate that the
Corn- meaaured in gold is now estimated at Bty-ee~en
rmrnirt Party ia steadily hcressing both in h percent of what it was before the war.
rrnd in the mildness of ita position. !?!he QerGermany and England are agah planningto
mans seam to have di#?overed that nothing ia to compete desperately with each other for the
be gained by violence or bloodshed. Wbat ia to trade of the world. England ia maLing ready a .
be gained will be won by the representatives of great fair project which is to be many times
the people in open wngresa
greater and much more expensive than the San
alIn the -for
payment of the German repa- B'rm*
expo~tion;while Germany
rationq effort is centering hugely upon plans ready inaugurated at Leipsi0 a great fair in
to take away:from the German people the publio which 16000 firms have their wares on eownership and operation of the railroad& The tion
I
Qsrman railroad system has been decided by
This irr nearly double the number of ddbexperts to be the best in the world, and it is the itors at the same fair five years ago. Enormoua
only railroad aystem without a debt, the fall of buildings have been put up to houm the exhibthe mark having wiped out all its obligations. its. h o n g the nations represented at the fair
A writer in the New York Ame*
sees such are R ~ s i Czecho-Slovagis,
4
AHWPY, .
meto the
people in this se+
B o d s , and Switzerland. Ameribuyers
.
of Oe-fs
raitmp that he says: UIf Barn- at the fair are said to have found the p r h r
my MacDonald and the British Lsbor leaders much higher than they had -tad.
now in charge of the British Qowrnment permit the railroads to be taken away from the ampeople,
we
cease to have
ESPATCHES from Hungary ahow that the .
faith in any men in publie life."
present Hrmyi.n h v e - a t
ia m e
The figares of the League of Nations' tram- to shake off the control over it exercised by a
portationa exports show that by taking the can- body of men sQ1ed the Awakening Maggars.
trol of the railroads away from the German Tbese men were used to overthrow the Hungrrpeople aud boosting the tariffs as high aa poa- risn Commnnist Government in 1919, and since
m i , an annual net profit of 800,000,000 gold then have distinguished themselves on at lemt
. marh caa be obtained.
two occasions by kiUing with bomba Liberain
In an address in Berlin, Chancellor Marx has and Jews who were guile of entertaining ophd e d attention to the fact that the fntare of ions different from their own. The despatches
(3e-y
depends hu&y apon the inteuectnalq show that it ia nert to impoaaibie to punish aqy
it 1s
that neither (3ennan labor nor &ap of these men adequately, and th-fore
ital k at this h e rendering to these hard- m d t to have a good gov-mt
of the cormMore than half of
owned by
premed clasaea the assistance which they are
able to render and which they ought to render. the 1
mnobiliQ and the sight bishop&
Of late there has been quite a feverish condition prevailing in the stock exchange at BudaBbipbncm of Stabili&
FTER all that aennsnyhas been through, pest, occasioned by the rapid depreciation of
it is
b a t she still hss the most the Hungarian from. The Government under&ant
industrial organization in the worl& took to stabilize the currency by ~ ~ o m c i n g
the amallest debt, and the lightest t-es.
On that it was its intention to adopt the foreign
lower f
i at ~
the other side ot the question, the fiscal s i b quotation of the crown to
tion ia in chaoa The tares are not properly which the crown cimdated at horns
Speculators took advantage of this mmouncebtributed.
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&em on the markets of the adjacent countries,
thereby wrecking foreign confidence in the
Hungarian currency. The Finance Sniater
resigned in consequence.
Hungary is seeking an international loan;
and the currency situation is not apt to be
stabilized until after a d c i e n t amount has
been received in order to conduct the business
of the country properly, if it does even then.
In the recent panicky storms of Hungary
there were not large fortunes made or lost, as
is often the case in other European countries
and in America Stamation resulting in deaths
was a frequent occnrrence, and the' distress
among some classes was so great that many
people were unable to afford one warm -meal

MY*
Sorry as we are for the ditEculties which
Hungary-faces, we shall be still more sorry for
her if the representatives of the international
bankers appointecl by the League of Nations to
manage her fhal affairs, do not manage those
affairs better than they did the herican.Fedi
erd Reserve Board when they brought on the
farmers' panic of 1921.

CzabSIouakiu
ZECEO-SLOVAKIAhas a Teapot Oil Dome
of its own. It seems that about a'year ago,
the Standard Oil Company arranged to take
over the production and distribution of oil and
gasoline throughout Czecho-Slovakia Not only
is everything involved that looks like a gallon
of oil or gasoline, but even wood alcohol as well.
I t seems that in the excitement somebody
passed out a certain amount of graft, although
it appears that there wru not enough to go
around; and when the matter came to a showdo\m before the Parliament, one worthy representative of the people so far forgot himself as
to throw s bottle of gasoline at the head of the
Premier.
The Premier dodged the bottle and, referring
to our Teapot Dome statesmen, declared that
Czecho-Slovakia is not the only country from
vhich all honesty and justice have disappeared
since the war. The President of the Czechoslovakian Senate and several senators, depntiell. arid cabinet ministers are involved in the

sclrxldrrl

I t must be gratifying to those who regard

America as a part of Christ's kingdom to
how aptly the people of Europe imitate pr i~
all things.
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PAIN continues the war in Morocco which it
has been maging for a decade. The SF

S
iards seem never to be able to get anywhere in

this war. As soon as the tribesmen have beeB

dispersed at one point they concentrate at another, in apparently andiminish&, numbem
Just now Morocco is having a series of extremely severe storms, making military operation8
d i 5 d t . So vigilant are the Moorish tribesmen
that after dusk it is always dangeroua for
Spanish soldier to ahift his position even by 8
few yards. The tribesmen are commanded
a man, Kaid Ali Benamor, who lived for soyears in k n e r i c a
The Dictator of Spain, &nerd Primo Rivera,
has forbidden criticism of the Government
college professors, and hsa declared that he
d l dose any institution which violates thin rule.

nalv
papers say that the Pope .dmirtn
is no doubt trim that more red money comes from Bmetica for the main&
nance of the Papal estabiishment than fkom dl,
the rest of the world put together.
The press report says that he has blamed ths
whole of America This need not necessarily
- darm anybody. I t is true that in 1898 the Pope
who was then in power blessed the fleet of Spain
shortly before it was sent to the bottom of thr
ocean. We are not sure that the blessing of the
fleet had anything to do with its speedy destruction. It does not necessarily follow, therefore*
that the blessing of America by the- present
Pope would bring as any immediate bad luck.
Jdnssolini retains his iron grip upon 'ltaly. '
He is actually the Dictator; bat nominally he
is only Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior,
Minister of National Defense, President of the
Council, Chief of the Commission on Aviation,
and Chairman of the Fascisti Party. He i8
largely admired throughout Italy, in spite of
the fact that Premier Nitti and other love^ of
liberty accuse him of remaining in power by
riolence and intimidation, and denounce him
for abolishing liberty.

TODAY'S
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Students of politics see a possible union of publishing such news, when we have reason to
Italy, Spain, and Portugal, owing to their gen- believe it is authentic. We regard Roman Cathe d community of interests as supporters of olicism as organized, systematized anarchy.
the Papal system.
A new tribe of people inhabiting a region
The financiers of Italy are congratulating along a Siberian river within the arctio circlsthemselves that the lira appears to be almost has been discovered. According to the Petrothe only European currency that has been able grad scientist, Gorodkov, these atrange people
to hold its own with 80 powerful a nation as live nem the P a d a Ocean, speak a distinct
=gland. The credit for this stability of cur- language, live in the most primitive communirency is given to the present policy of the Gov- ties, 8nd have never heard of the Rnaaian Rev*
ernc,ent under the Fasciati leader, who has lation or of the World War.
brotght about an iron rule of "economic disoiWhile thcke was a tendency in Ruaaia under
phe."
the rulership of Lenin to follow peacefd pmBut the Fascisti Party is by no means h ~ v i n g suits and trust to the leadership of the Dictator,
things its o m way. About 138 parties will since his death the political waters' are beginm e in the campaign of the coming election, &ng to boil. It is reported that there are secret
April 6th; and 1,354 candidates will compete treaties between France and Russia, a prospecfor 535 seats in parliament. The press reports tive war betmeen England and Russia over the
state that the great number of parties in the afghanistan situation, and a row in the Comfield constitutes a serious danger for the Fas- munist perty in Rnssia This latter, so the pa&ti; the leaders of the minority parties may pers say, centers about Trotsky's ambition to
engage in political combinations which will become Lenin's successor.
make the corning election hazardous for the
It is hardly likely f h t Russia has settled
element now in power.
down to universal peace; and we may expect
there, rrs in other countries, more or less diaPoland
satisfaction and turmoil amongst the laboring
HAT some one is particularly interested in classes. Possibly the death of Lenin was the
the Faacisti movement is evident. Leading tuning point in her trhsnqilitty.
military men, supported by many "spiritnalY Bussian financiers have had a medimn of exleaders of the Roman hierarchy, are desiroua change which is termed "solid muney"; but it
of having it spread abroad and encompass the now haa a tendency to follow its predecessor
world. The Polish Government has arrested a into the abyss of uncertainty. Only recently
nmnber of priests who are reported to have silver coinage was issued for the first time unbeen in a conspiracy to fasfcn the Facisti on der the Soviet Government, with the hope that
the Polish people. Tbis movement has been it would materially stabilize money conditions.
The Department of Internal Trade has oractive for more than a year, and mas under the
patronage of a nnmber of highly-placed Polish dered a prominent display of price lists in all
100 percenten.
stores, Government and private ;and the C o n cil
of Labor Defense has annonnced that prices
Rursia
throughout the country shall be expressly stated
HE Russian Government established a chain in line with the limitations which the council has
of communist schoolashortlg after the over- put upon commodities, endeavoring thereby to
throw of the Czar's rigime. Millions of dollars maintain an equilibrium of business.
have been expended by Catholics to establish
The silver money first,made its appearance in
and maintain schools which are opposing the NOSCOW, and of course -dlgradually find its
communist schools. Sometime ago the Soviet way into the rest of Russia's vast domain.
Goverilmcnt issued an edict abolishing the about $50,000,000 in silver and copper coinage
Catholic parochial schools.
are being put into circnktion. In order to keep
Several items concerning the arresting of the peasants from hoarding the silver, the
Roman Catholic priests for treason have t e r denominational pieces a r e for much greater
through the daily press, but tliere is a tendency value than the intrinsic worth of the metal, The
to cover up and hide such news. We believe old czarist silver is being rapidly sithdrawn
that we are doing a service for the world in from circalatioh

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AST week the Republican deputies in the
Gmek Parliament withdrew in a body aa a
protest against the Qoverrunent's refusal to
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nasty. Considerable excitement prevailed for

time, and fears were expressed that it might
be the 1 5 4for Mculties which woald imperil
r, the domestia peace of the country. A measure
was introduced implying that the people have
aeased to believe in the divine right of kings,

and that there is no foreign obatacIe to the

establishment of a republic.
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in copllection with the emancipation of tha

! h r b s h women. Several hundred represent&
tive women .bf the nation recently held a c o s
vention in Constsntinoph
Recently there was introduced into the Turb
ish National Assembly a bill to compel y o m a .
Turks to marry more than one wife. Aa show
.
ing the liberal leanings of the !hrki8b P d b
ment, the measure waa defeated. Gtraddy foc
the last twenty years, polygamy baa been 00ing into dkepute, and the Bible idea of no
more than one wife is taking its p h . I t ia.
claimed that the pmtitx of polygamp ante
dates Mohammedanism, and was condoned on13
because of custom and tradition
We are glsd that our day is freighted with am
.
increase of knowledge and ia palsating with
.
justice, not only for the emancipation of woman,
but for the emancipation of all mankind. Thr
reign of Messiah's kingdom now being induced, will bring liberty, happiness, and lii.
privilege5 to all the families of the earth. ' .

SINCE the adoption of a constitution in 1918,

woman safFrage has been the bnrning question; and the sacial problem is one of prominenm as well aa the political question Social
f o m s are manifesting themselves in the pres
ant national regeneration of Turkey, and one of
the most far-reaching of the movements is that

Fruit-Growing in Okanagan Valley, B.C.

&J Pnit G~.O(OW

ND they ah& plant vineyards, and eat f a s h i o b e y change from time to tima !b.
A
the h i t of them^^ (Iaaiah 65:a)Th. f81~1e.rmeet keep cutting out -bdiacaded
fuWmmt of this propheay of Isaiah would grades and graft on the new selections Spmy44

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bring peace and happineats to thousands of ing ia another tedioua job; for pests and tha -'
homes in the beautiful, fertile, hit-growing blight are numeroua and ham to be carefdlj
~oarded&L
O k a l w p Valley*
Plowing, dtivating, irrigating, e b , are soxm
For years 0th- have been eating the fruit.
of
the many jobs that keep the grower going
Transportation companies, brokers, wholeaalfrom
early morning till late a t night.
em, packing and shipping houses, etc., abaorb
a f t e r the fruit is formed and has taken good
most of the fruit,-and the growers themselves
as apples, peaches, apricots-it
get what is left. The troubles of the fruit shape+grower are not production troubles but distrib- must be thinned out to various distances, a e
cording to the class of f d t . This is a long,
uting troubles
Numeroua experiments have been made for tedious job; but it is very necessary to insrue
the better marketing of the fmit, trying to de- average crops each year.
Picking season starts at the end of Juna
vise some system whereby the grower will reCherries
are the first to ripen. From then till
ceive a fair return for his labor and his investthe
laat
apple
is 08,this being at the end of
ment.
October
and
sometimes
into November, there is
The work of the fruit grower is never done.
never
a
let-up.
In early Spring, while the mercury is atill registering frost, he gets out with his h i f e and
k AYi# Gmwem' Red Robbm
saw to prune the trees. This work, to be rightly l
done, requires years of experience.
0 FAB the grower has done his best to
insure a crop of No. 1 fmit; but what conThe work of grafting ia another art with
which the grower must always keep in touch; fronts him now is redly the beginning of him
for feehionr in fruit am like ladiesJ dress trouble&

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In 1914 there waa organized what waa called

the "Okanagan Fruit-Growers Union." This
organization claimed to have over @typercent
of the growers on its membership roh. Through
this medium the fruit grown by ita membera
was to be packed and shipped to varions matketable points.
Other growers sbipped through private packing and shipping companies, or sold direct to
jobbing houses, or retailers.
The retarns received by the grower, after a l l
oharps were deducted, were next to nothing.
Only in the peak-price years of the war did the
grower get a fair return for his labor and goods.
The years 1921-1923 were three disastrous
ones for the fruit grower.
In 1922 the "Okanagan Fruit-Growers Union"
went bankrupt; and in its place there waa
formed a product of the famous coijperative
organizer, Aaron Sapiro, which received the
name of "The Coiiperative Frait-Growers of
B. C." This organization claims to have eighty
percent of the fruit tonnage signed up to pass
through its packing houses. The other twenty
percent are chipping, as before, to private
honsea, or selling diect to retailers, eta
The retarna for the 1923 crop finally came;
and it is now seen that "the laat state of that
. man is worse than the fhL" The coijperative
retptns, so far, do not evenhpayfor picking.
The private houses are giving a h t t e r price,
but not enough to clear all production costs.
The grower who has a round of retail stores

to which he can ship gets the best prices. Aa it

will be readily seen, in the latter method the
fmit goes through fewer ,an&, which mesrrs
fewer to get a profit out of the grower's labof
and produce.
It hah been the hope of all the people hem
that the new Co6perative would aolve the marketing problems; but conditions are worse than
ever before. Land and water trues have to go
unpaid; and in many cases it is hard for the
frnit grower and hia family to get the bare
necessities of life.
The frnit grower like other producers is in
the grip of a colossal economic monster that ia
disheartening-a Satanic system which enriches
one class at the expense of the other, wherein
the large concerns in control live well off the
produce of the land and the labor of the farmer,
.
and give aa little as possible in return.
The only remedy is the set-ting up of Chrhfs
kingdom, "wherein dwelleth righteousness."
Then "they shall not plant, and another eat.
They shall not labor in vain, nor bring
forth for trouble."-Isaiah
65 :22,23.
It d
l be a glorioua day when, under Christ's
reign of equity and justice, the fruit grower
will dress and keep the trees aa did our father
Adam six thousand years ago in the Garden
of Eden. (Qenesia 2:15) Until that time, we
who have named the name of Christ do well to
exercise ourselves in patience and manifest the
spirit of our Master, that we may not add to
the troubIes of an already burdened people.

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M B106V. A.

Wilson of Red Oak, Iowa, wan

yearn of age, Xarch lsth, 1924, according to the court records. He is a subscriber
to THEaOmm AGE,.and reads it without the
aid of glasses. He takes care of a horse, some
ahickens, and does general work on a five-acre

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h c k farm for randm ma Woohey, who h e m u

is past her eighty-Sth year. One peculiar thing
is: He cares for chickens, lives on a farm and
therefore knows some of the good things to eat,
but has never tasted fowl meat. May he live
forever, and never have to wear apectaciesf

Martin Luther Said

"The Church, however, kept the right faith for mom
thrn twelve centuries, nor did the holy Fathers ever or
mywhere make m t i o n of this transubstantiation (a
portentous word and dream indscd), until the counter
fut Aristotelian phrlosophy b e o m to make its inroads
on ths Church within these Lrst three hundred yercr,

during which msny other erroneoar condueionr h ~ v a

dm been arrived st, mch m:-that the Divine uaenca
ia neither ,pnerated nor gemmtea; that the eod ir tb.
*tia
form of the hbody; and other like
nmertions, which are made obmlutcly without nuon or
uuae, u tha C u d i d of C d m y him#lt aPnicran

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FROM CANADA
Canada, with some semblance of an exF k\~
saae treat- in this fair ~
~ during the
~ war, had
i in 1917
~ a debti of $1,382,~
003f 68. Since the close of the wu th.debt bu
in evmts arr they
fid
in this increased and increased oat of dl proportion,
cmd p d d r l y they have oCCmd

corntry daring the past month, he is, forsooth, anti1 today the gross pubfie debt has reahed
no less than $3,219,183,350, or $366 for sveq
living in a fool's paradise.
Your correspondent will be regarded M a man
and
in Canada
TOmeet thia debt the Government has added
psS-t
by the =aobse-g
sg
nd-,
Canadians are
.e r ; bat I desire to assure him that if it were tax P n ta4 until
a
t
the
rate
of
$1,000,000
a day, or more t h
not for 0- dem Lord's promise to the poor
groaning creation I would long ago have given $40,000 every horn that we breathe- SP- at
up hop. Tma it is that looking throngh blue mY d%osd precludes mY going into this matgoggles one sees onlp gfoom in prospect;
oar ter.in detail; d i c e it t~ eay that from Februeyes, however, see also behind the gloom the a W 28, 1923, ~ t i the
l same date this year, the
~i1-r lining which is hid to none who is honest net debt
haeased
$549000,000with himself and with his fellow men
This money ia squandered with the prosCanada, we are told by those who fain would of the proverbial drunken sailor, and with
whistle to keep up their courage, is a land of little re&
for the future* The salaries psid
golden opportunity. I do not deny the asser- civil servants prior to the war amounted to ten
tion. T d y Qod has blessed Canada with million d o h ; a t the close of the wtu the e i d
opportunities, with an endowment sach aa no servants were bleeding the a m t r y to the m' other country can boast of today; but they a m tent of ateen millio-thin
inCrea8e of f
h
misapent opportrmities; it is a squandered millions being due, premddy, to the
M s -aired to win the war.
'. endowment.
But the war ha*g
ceased, and the dove-of
Look where one may, from east to west, from
the rock-bound &hbg coasts of Louisburg to peace having retamed to ParliSmemt Hi% we
the lumber-laden shores of Vancouver, the Look ap atatistica to b 3 how far the a i d mrmonth of Fdmmxy haa not placed before one'a vice costa have been A d ;and we are as=
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view a glimpse of what one may call hope. And tounded to 6nd that thb country is now pa*
if the events of Febrnary, in Canada, be any its mrvanb fifty millions of d o h a par, or
aiterion, if they be portends for 1924, if they five times the amount expended prior to tbb
be shadcast before corning events, then we war, and an increase of e - h
million8 h
may feel certain that the fultilment of God's the &tiwas signed.
. promise to His people, that after a total collapse the blessings will come, is not in the far- Rcbling the E r p a n d i b w
distant future.
GAIN, the population of this country is lew
Politically, financially, industrially, ecclesiaathan nine millions; that of the United
t i c a y , Canada is a seething melting pot; and States, 108 millions. The United States employs
Satan must grin with malignant satisfaction as nine Cahinet ministers to run the affdrs of 10g
he proceeds to stir up the stew. .
milliona at a cost of $108,000, or a t the rate of
one dollar for every 1,000 citizens. Canada, to
An OrOy of Extnroagance
govern nine millions, has sixteen Cabinet minHE outstanding event k Canada during isters, who receive indemnities amounting to
February was the expos6 by Muclean's $229.000, or one dollar for eve- thirty-nhe
Maguzine of the orgy of extravagance at Ot- Persons living in this comtV.
tawa To the watcher on Mount Zion the wonFinancially, Canada is doomed; there can be
der is not that these things h a ~ ebeen brought no come back. It would require 1,000 yeam of
to light, for this squander mania is not of today, human effort, by the best-intentioned Finance
it has been going on for years; but there is a Uinister, to pat Canada on her feet financially. .
great deal of significance in the fact that it The same is true of the provinces. Taken aa a
remained for our day to see these damnable whole, expenditures of Provincial Governments
have trebled in the last fifteen yearn
outrages exposed.

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Ordinary expenditures were $21,169,868 in
1906, or $3.43 per head. In ten years ordinary
expenditures had risen to $53,826219, or $6.71
per head. In 1921 this had grown t~$102,569,517, or $ a 6 9 per head, an increase of 100 percent in five years, between 1916 and 1921, while
the population increased by less than ten per-

years. Only today are they coming to light.

A Cabinet minister at Ottawa has taken advantage of his otricial position. Having learned
that the Home Bank was to go under, he withdrew his deposits. He saved his own ne&
while he left the masses to drown. The same
minister is a professed labor leader1 Is it any
cent.
wonder that there are "Redsn ? !Che wonder ia.
1922 the total expenditures had in- that the masses are not more restless.
But
creased to the staggering figare of $133,000,000 ;
tho increase alone in this one year from 1921 C4pitcrlirrn Ha **:lint3 Strrggm"
to 1922 being fifty percent*greater than the
HAT conditions have not improved is shown
tobil expenditures in 1906.
by the persistent rumors in iinancial circles
that three prominent banks are to amalgamate.
A Camiud of G&
This move q u i r e s Government sanction; but
0 W into this more intimately let as look to get that will not be a m c d t undertaking.
Capitalists are working day and night to oust
at financial conditions in Quebec. Here we
h d that in 1918 the net debt was $43,00O,QM). those now in power and to establish a dictatorIn five years, up to 1923, the debt increased to ship in Canada Bn Ottawa Senator, addmw$$7,000,000, or more than doubled Even the k g a business men's club, advised them to take
booze business is used to save Qaebee; and the the reins of power, and to ignore the masses,
booze business is her only salvation Money is who were not competent to govern.
spent as fast as received, and more money is
The Premier of Ontario waa invited to Monborrowed to enable the bar-room keepers to treal by these people. Whether he will be the
dictator or not is a question; but he has shown
mry o n
h
o
t
h
e
r
avenae
of
escape
for
millions
of
her
he has the desire as well as the ability to
., aitizens' money was the gift made by the Quebec that
establish an autocrnyJ
Government to the Banque d'Hochelaga The
He has repudiated the second -st
group
Banqae Nationale, a Catholio institution, h d - in the Horwe of Parliament (the Progressive
ing itself in the same predicament as that other Party), refused to recogPize them aa a party;
Catholic affair, the now defunct Home Bank, and when charged with high-haadednesa he reappealed to the Hochelaga Bank, which agreed plied: "It is true. What are you going to do
to take over the Nationds assets, provided the about it?" Again, when queried in the House
Government would come across with$15,000,000. as to what mas being done about the thefts in
The Premier of Quebec, B a r k l i k e , waa Government departments he r e p l i e in effect:
"'willin'." The depositors comprised a long list "It is none of your bdsiness."
of Catholic bishops, priests, and church corporations. The bonds of the provinca representing TIra Pit J d Ahead
fifteen millions were handed over to the HockeD U S T R ~ I S T Sare crying
for iml a p Bank; and the Poor, sdeering t ~ a ~ ise r migrants, and ose bl-g
the high taxes
left, without pity9 without sentimenf to Pay the for loss of trade. On the other hand here is a
piper. These are mere samples of the methods glimpse of actual conditions in can&
employed by politicians from one end of Cmada
The total yearly cornamption of cement is
to the other.
seven million barrels. The plants are able to
At present a former British Columbia Pre- tarn oat fourteen million barrels.
mier is facing a charge of haring receired
~
~bnildingi plants l sre capabb
~
of ~tarn- ~
$50,000 of graft. The Toronto Government has ing out hrice as many cars
be
unearthed thefts in certain departments. Tas some
of these plants are idle, while the plant
collectors, and other o5ciaIs in Xora Scotia of the Canadim Car and ~~~d~ Cornpsny,
a d New Brunsmick, have been sent to jail, or Fort William, which represents an investment
are now under arrest, for !laring stolen public of many h a d r e d s of thousands of dofunds. These things have been going on for scucely bcen used since it was built.

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Many shoe factories are without orders because the capacity of the plants is in excess of
the shoe-wearing capacity of our citizens, and
this altogether apart from importations from
Great Britain and the United States.
Canada has big rail mills that have given
employment to thousands of workera. 'Chese
mills are rusting. In the steel and iron industry
there are numerous .other plants that cannot
f 6nd business su5cient to keep their machines
going. The railways in Canada are overextended, and the cities are overbuilt. %lit the industrialists cry out for immigrants!
Donkhobors were brought here in thousands,
and persecuted because they would not become
British subjects, because they would not send
their children to the schools where, the Doukhobor leader said, they would learn how to hate
one another.
. Mennonites were brought here, and promised
that their religious convictions would be respected. They were obliged to leave Canada
because of persecution. Hebrideam were
bmught here; they, too, complained of having
*hen deceived.
During the h m s t , 25,000 Britiahem were
lured to Canada, and left to drift Five hundred of them landed in Toronto, where they
d e r e d wld and hanger until the charitable
- institutions took them in. There was no work
for them;there is now no work for them.

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however, has again gone into the strike-breaking business, and has placed several of the
labor leaders under arrest.
McLacIrlin, the N o ~ aScotian coal miner, is
ntill rusting in the penitentiary, where he must
serve tno years become he objected to the
Gatment meted out to strikers by Government
agents. Conrlitions in the Cape Breton mines
are quiet at present; but trouble will again
break out there as soon
the cold weather
has passed.
In Calgary the stage is being set for a fight

2% Heavens on PDrs
T WAS my intention to refer to affairs
ecclesiastical, but space will not permit: At
a later date I shall tell of the fund amen^
Modernist wrangle, of the fight for and against
Church Union, of the revision of their age-old
Catholics, of the split8
Catechism by the
in varioua local churches and parishes, of Father
Delorme in Quebec, and o t Biebop Fallon's demands on the Government in re the Home Bank
failure. These and many other item8 will be
dealt with a t some length.
The foregoing fmts are but a brief outline of
e-ts
in the shortest month in the year. If
any man,be he Catholio or Protestant, anrchman or atheist Capitalist or Laborite, can see
in these facts any cause to throw hia hat into
the air, my only comment c o n c d g him ia
that that msn is, indeed, either a knave or a fool.
To God's people these eventa are fhe signs
in the heavens which Christ promised His peopie they would see at the time of the end. Verily
the day of deliverana is at hand.

A n o m Labr -8
Coming
HOUSAiiDS of natives are out of work.
But tbe industrialists want immigrants1
W h y ? Any student of the Adam Smith school
of economy b o w s the answer. In spite of these
conditions labor elements are practically quiet.
r In British Columbia there is a strike in the
- lamber camps. The (3overnment at Ottawa, P~tacript

between the miners and the operatora. The latter will appeal to public opinion on the gromd
that the cost of coal is now too high to the poor
citizen, and that the miners are now overpaid.
It is claimed that Calgary miners are higher
paid than those in Cape Breton. This is .
another way of saying that the Cape Breton.
miners are underpaid.
Whichever side i9 right, it is quite certain
that neither the miners nor the operatora are
prepared to compromise; and there is every
likelihood of the greatest struggle ever known
in the wal xrining industry of Alberta on the
&.st of April' next.

THE manuscript sent you of the C a n a d i

I' report
for January, in connection with the
L

failure of the Home Bank the name of Bishop

Fallon waa mentioned as the founder thereof.
You will recall that this was questioned in the
margin of the manuscript aa possibly not being
correct. We have caused a further investigation to be made, and append herewith part of
the repo given to ns by our investigator, bearing upon this matter. No doubt a correction is
in order, bat at the same time there is such good
evidence of Boman Catholic mmippulation that

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it might almost be made the basis of a ahort
Probably the engineers were unwisely led;
special article.
for they were unable to prove hardship. T h q
were led to believe that soms of the hoardings
,B s C H ltom Report on Home Bank Fatlrrrr of the railway companies would come to them
N LEE the Home Bank and Bishop Fallon, I if they held off work or, failing that (as wae
do not know Bishop Fallon's age. He cannot frankly stated), at least the companies =odd
be more than sty-five, if that old. The Home be made to lose much money. No doubt there are always good reasons forr
Bsnk had ita atart seventy years ago-in 1854.
A Bishop hsd some connection with it The these actions; but the sufferers, the general pub
Star (Toronto) s a p that it was Bishop Char- lie, cannot be expected to refrain from coming
bonelle. The institution was then known as the to conclnsiona, and publia sentiment waa entireHome Savings and Loan Company. In the 'fif- ly against the engineers.
The other spasm was the dockers' strika I
ties there waa a heavy migration frbm Irelaad;,
threatened
to be wry seriood; for excepting
and the habit developed among the newcomers
pessenger
m
c
,not only was all the shipping
of entrusting their ihncial affaira to Bishop
held
up,
but
there
waa alwaya the probabilie
Charbonelle, so he established the Home Savthat
a
l
l
the
transport
workers, raiZ and road,
ings and Loan Company. The Bishop gave the
would
join
the
strike.
Happily it did not la8&
bank over into the keeping of a Mr. McDonald.
There
was
no
question
in the min& of the
However, the bank was omed and controIled
victims,
the
pablio,
that
the
dockers have a hrud
.
by the Church. I am told by a Catholia priest
whom I interviewed that when he (the prieut) time because of the scarcity of employment, and
crrme to Toronto in 1884 he was told that thw that there waa mu& d e r i n g . Coupled with
bank had originated with Axehhishop Lynch; this there was an apparent carelessnew anmuatbut that after a little while, alarmed over the ing to indifference in dealing with the men'r
Pail- of a nimilar enterprise in Cincinnati, claims, and that which neemed dloumesa on d e r M b i a h o p P u r d , Axchbishop Lynch the part of one of the chiefs in the employed
withdrew from the undertahg. The cornpan7 -Po
. waa then taken over by the shareholders. It An inquiry waa started by the new Labor
then ceased, in 1884, to ha* any relation with Government;but after the speeches of the men'@
the Church, beyond those of a business nature, leader, and that of the employed spokesman,
though the Church continued to make use of the there was no case left for the employem; and
bank (aa they did to the day of its failure). soon that spasm was past.
The next, already showing on the horizon, is
a f t e r the death of Sir Frank Smith, who waa
a
miners'
strike. In the me-time the trade of
president of the company, the company warr
reorganized, and was incorporated in 1903 un- the country lingers on; there seems to be junt
der the name of The Home Savings and Loan enough of it to keep things from going to p i e m
A huge erhibition is preparing at Wemblq,
Co, Ltd., of Toronto. A few months later, in
one
of London's northwestern suburba It is, of
July, 1905, they got a Dominion Charter, and
course,
the greatest ever1 Things there ate
reorganized under the-name, The Home Bank
hmnming
at present, but what wdl be reported
However, there was practically the same conwhen the exhibition is over is yet a question.
trol from the beginning to the failure. I have It is a British Empire eshibition; and no do&
a great deal more information in this come+ there is a hope that many who do not know
tion, bat I have already taken up more of your what the various countries which form the emtime than necessary.
pire can produce, will be induced to trade with
the nations of the empire.
FROM BRITAIN
But the various members of "the most wonRITdIN has just passed through two derful empire the world has ever seen" do not
spasms of domestic trouble. The first, how- love one another sufficiently to give mutual aid
ever, the railway engineers' strike, was more an (the union during the World War was anusual,
annoyance than r e d trouble; for it was over and gave no proof of mutual love) ;and apparby a compromise before general dislocation of ently there is as much selfishness within the
empire as is found in its outer rehtionshipp.
trade resulted.

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This is remarked upon only to emphasize the

The coderence definitely exdudes Adventists,
fad that there is in thin family of nations Mormons, Spiritualists, and Bussellites, "benothing to indicate that it can bring good-will cause they are not really numeroua enough to
rmong men
be taken into aeeonnr f The Cockney's ?
don't
I
W' seems to be the only pomible comment
*aniwn
in M t e n d o m ' r Center
on that statement
HE Rev. Thomas Phillips of Bloomebury
The Labor ship of state haa met with some
Chapel, Central London, said the other day squalls; bat some good seamanship, and ahanges
that London is pagan. A shocking thing to say in the political atmosphere, have so far helped
Gof the center of Christendom1 at least iu, the the captain through his di&dties. The other
newspapers are stating. But the newspapers parties are finding that in some members of the
have to admit that the churches are almost Labor Government there are new forcar a p
emptied of their former worshipers, and that pearing. Whatever may r e d t to the Labor
formal religion is discounted almost to nothing. party as such, there is no question that it ha8
They claim, however, that informal, meon- de6nitely arrived as a political power.
ventional religion is increasing; and that really
The cost of living is about the h e aa for
the people are better disposed towards the realmany
months past, but is showiag a slight but ity of things than they were. But that reality ia
persistent
tendency to rise. For some w w b
undefined, and in .the meantime all the outward
past
the
weather
has been very cold, and many
evidences of religion are waning.
of
the
poor
have
had
a hard tima The dole, aa
The churches have arranged to hold a general
the
unemployment
money
is called, has saved
conference in Birmingham just before Easter.
the
poor
from
many
of
the
hardships they forThey call it a conference on Chiistian Politics,
sdered,
and
has
been
a real help in time
merly
Economy, and CoGperation. Somehow the Serof
need.
There
are,
a
t
the
time of writing,mon on the Mount and the teachings and dootrines of the apos,es have been forgotten, at l,J25,000 unemployed in receipt of the Gtovarament allowance.
least in the announcements.
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Mr. B& and His Peace Plan

BY L~ROV
Gmmbh

NCE upon a time there was a city d e d But the other citizens would not listen to him,

Bankeropoh This city waa infested with

a gang of automobile thieve& The citizena were
sore pressed at the outrages committed by these
thieves, and sought various means to put an end
to the thievery. They held meetings to devise
pla~s,passed resolutionq appointed commismons, and offered prizes.
The fhieves openly flouted their stolen autos
before the citizens, even towing a number at a
time in order to better display them. The
citizens greatly admired the ingenuity of the
thieves, and vied with one another for the honor
of washing and polishing the stolen cars, often
--recognizing their own among them. They taught
children to admire and reverence the thieves.
One day one of the citizens ventured a saggestion that they catch the thieves, lock them
up, and take the stolen autos away from them.
UThJ kingdom come, 0 Lord;
Thy reignan&
begm;

and immediately set up a howl, mobbed him,

and put him into jail, saying that he was a
traitor and was trying to destroy the government. This was because a great number of .the
citizens each individually secretly cherished the
same ambition, and hoped 'that some day the
opportunity w ~ d come
d
to him also to steal an
auto, not for the sake of the auto so much as
for the honor that went with it.
Then the editor of The Daily Poppikok offered a prize of fifty talents for the best plan
to stop aato stealing, and awarded the prize to
an eight-year-old school boy, whose plan was
that the thieves each send a representative to
fonn a new society whose aim and purpose
ahodd be to stop aato thieving. Then the citizens shouted "Amen! Praise the Lord!" h d
they sincerely believed that the plan would work
.BreakrithThinainmrad
Thr t p d e a at sin.*

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DO W N

countries mixed in. But back of

troabl.
was a slumbering feud over the hog question
and a desired rearrangement of the line fencoo.
To get thin- straightened up it waa d&dd
by a few crazy diplomats (said to be less thsn
f i t y in number) to have a general war.
The diplomats scratched the matchs sab
lighted the embers of hate. A fire started that
-pt
over Eorope; and befont it was etxtinguiahed over 15,000,000 men were exterminated,
E m p was saddled
debb w e g a t i n g
three hadred biuona of
and a good
w e of fiat continent
left f a m i n d & and bankrupt.
I mention the hog feud of the 1110untaIneera
to doW
how closelyit ~h
E - ~
w e - To be m e the &mp -rhog
w0& far1-8 tha. property 0-r rhi&
E - ~q-len,
kt
p-ple
I.la
fact that trahj d i,b+~, N~~ doer
o ~ e s big -eB(L
*brad the
we
wa, dter the
for thm
hogs in evidence just the same.
wM .R d
propertP-and in evw oar
hogs breaking through tb.line fen- from o m
side
or
ohr.
~h~
my
in
Shspe of
a thievieb ,goVBTIM ent th.t -t. to
su
i.lld,or inthe form of a
bend
of c o x z t m e ~piratea who desire to acquire r
monopoly of foreign trade; or tb. hog may IH
mpmmllted
lo*
dgiOlls
tb.8
to impom its dootlines and pera
others,
Some of the bloodiest wara ever waged ham
been brought on by certain mas-bred h o e
they being part political and part ecclesisstid
They constitate a very low
of hog,
coarse bristles, immense bellies and ~ n d i g i o w
1y long snouts, arid for centuries have cauaed
the countries of Europe all kinda of trouble.
Even today this cross-bred species is tolerated
and cultivated in those countries to quite an
edent, despite its well-known tendencies for
rooting.
The more odious and detestable we can maEe
wars appear by telling the truth about them,
2% Hog- Feud Hobmuat of I914
N THE year 1914 a crazy Serbian shot an the better it will be for f u m e generations.
Austrian archduke. This gave rise to a wars an hog fighh and nothing else. Not o d 7
of W W
quarrel between Austria and Serbia, and other are d wars c a d by h o ~ sbut
,

near the border line behveen West

Virginia and Kentucky there ased to live,
about thirty y e m w ,two family tribes known
u the McCoy8 and Hat&&. Some of them
are living yet, but a great many wen exterminated on account of a family feud that W M
w d between t h m Amrdin8 to reports the
q l l l b d started over a hoga hog; that's
Whether the hog wandered off hb ownair
premises and landed in the wrong man's PO*
barrel Or Was shot for maliCi0TlS tiespass, 1 am
not informed; but if newapaper accounts are to
be credited it waa dl on account of a hog that
the fuss started.
of a few yethe
In the
berg of these two f d e a were pretty thor0-7
shot UP, a d dtm O r
k7 a d e r
a hog probably thm
not
worth over five dollars; maybe not that much.
I remember that when I read about these
battles, it seemed to me a mighty foolish piem
of business to Pill fifteen or hen* men on
aecol~lltof a cheap razorback hog.
But when you figure the thing all over, this
' feud was no mom fooliah than are most of the
b18
that ddw
with blood- N'='Y
of them
from qsome
mr& between a faindividuals concerning
matter quite similar in character to this w r back hog case.
Ind@ I th* 1
that emv
Wllifh
ever fowht
started b
)
.
.hog or
by a number of hogs breaking through the line
fence onto other people's property, and that
they differ in no essential particular from the
battles waged by these simple mountaineers
over the razorback hog.
Let M take the late big war that was fought
over
Emope,
example. For
the different nations in Europe have been kept
in a m o i l by the h o e of one matry breding through the line fences into other people's
premises. This has led to many bitter wara and
the slaughter of millions of people, followed by
a driving back of the hog% as far as possible,
and a readjustment of the line fences which the
hogs had torn down.

hnw

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war, at a good safe distance from the firing Iine,

are called profiteer hogs and are all corn-fed

ir a large drove of hogs that fatten off the at public expense. We have in this ~ ~ t r p
rpoils of the strife.
This rapacious and greedy herd gorge their
vitals to the limit and wheeze and grunt with
. satisfaction as the war proceeds. They are what

right now f d y 20,000 of these profiteer h o p

that would easily dress at from $1,000,000 to
$10,000,000 apiece, including, hoofs, snout, and
bristles.
I

Should Welcome a Book Agent with Respect BY Dr. frank

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Cop-t,

We need himbe'aUSe we
Prone to neglect books* He
us a red
inealLng
our attention to our need for food for the mind
and character as well as food for the body.
2. E v a r ~book a@nt an advance writ for
d t n r e and for better citizenship, for education and for the spread of intelligence.
3. Th. book agent &odd be honored because
he
to Our attention as s
the
books we need most m d neglect most Most of
the e n o ~ a l o ~ w
m , ~ m aq
ntholow
tories, reference b o o b and author$ complete
K ~ SM sold
600k w n b ; and these
the
real literary foundation of any household.
4- The book agent a Ae'aells
the kind
of b o o b the publieation of which the pnhlishers
are m*g
to undertake without a -tee
of a certain amount of dea-the khd of books
that could not well be a d d in ordinary book
storea. Yet these are the v e v kind of books we
ought moat to have. The great Andubon had to
get snhscriben for his monumental work before
*
he could find a publisher.
5. Book aSeds are
Persons of character and atmding- Very many of them are
college boys or girls or teachers who are bringing to the business of book s e h g a r e d enthueiasm of culture. The people who sell books as
a rule are worthy to enter any man's door.
6. The book a@nt is a literarp s ~ k a l i s t We
consult an eye specidst, an ear specidst, or a
nerve specialist; why should we not have the
advantage of tallcing with a book specialist
before we purchase our literature! The book
agent explains to ns exactly what the sort of
book is which he represents; and we buy, therefore, something we know about and something
which we need.

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1824, b7 Th. UcClure Nensp.p.r Smdlata (Reproduced by Pomhdoo)

to set down these points in favor of

I WISH
the book agent:

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7. Nearly all books sold by the book agent are

usually in plain and popular langaage.

of the authoritative b o o b on science, theology, \

law
benesr m
right for
do01
room; but it t&ea a college professor to underthem. men & book upon smT of
subjects is brought to our notice by the book
one Written in bagent, however, it b
gnage that we urn ondersad, and
brings
cdture.and knowledge to our reach.
g
e s a n t u ~t .nhonorable and necessary profesdon Every one of ua
or mow.
bwh a din
yer
trJing to i n d n a the j q to -pt hi.
id==. the *ruder is
to g.hd
is
oon&;gaton; the doctor
trling to b h g
to his point of view in regard to our health;
and the real estate agent, carpenter, dry goo&
merchant or any other h d of w e s a man is
endeavoring to meet our wants in the particular
&i&s he has to offer. h d sm& it is ss high
b-ess
to bring to
the goods of the mind,
of the higher v a b s of life mch as rn b d in
boob, as it is to sell any
goods.
9. TJ,, book agentis a -,hpOrtmtfwtor
in oar great educational system. He does much
to disseminate knowledge and right ideas. The
Holy Bible has been sold for years by book:
agents, and many a home possesses a Bible
which it modd not have were it not for the
sgent.
10. When yon buy a book of an agent, you
get a better idea of what you are buying than
yoa do when yon purchase elsewhere; for he is
well acqminted e t h his book and m n give you
the advance information about it which you
desire.
These are some of the reasons, to my mind,
why we should welcome the book agent, should
treat him with respect and Listen to him with
atten tion.

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World War A Means to an -End

BY H.C. Temptc
(6) An increase in military expenditures of
about 320 percent ;
(7) A shifting of wealth through inflation from .
the creditor to the debtor class.

CAREFUL scanning of the public press,

A
and a research of the results of the great
World War, will reveal to the mind of the care-

fnl student the fact that all Europe straggles on

the brink of ruin, and that all nations are face
to face with utter disaster-worn out by wars.
The world's history is a record of wars. In
'former wars there were usually some trophies
of victory; but the World War on the contrary
mmks the beginning of disaster and min, the
downfd of d nations. A cry of Peace, Peace,
hss gone up; but there is no peace.
Modern c i h t i o n is affected with disease
which, if prolonged, means decay and death.
Not-one country alone is aiEected, but all cormtries It i s time we -didly
fete the
'investigate the c a w s , and if possible apply the
remedy.
The nations of Emope feel the &tress most
keenly; for Europe is more directly affected,
having been longer under the baneful inhence
u e a canker saps the we
of militarism,
blood from any nation. Militarbm has been the
direct &me of the downfall of motlf nations in
the. paat The saying is d
y h e : "Whatsoe m 8 man [or nation] aoweth, that shall he
also reap."
'
G total loss of He in dl the wan, of the
nineteenth century was about 4,500,000, including 2,000,000 killed during the nap oleo^ w a q
from 1792 to 1815.
In the World War,the loss of life ia estimated a t 12,991,000, with more than 15,000,000
maimed, and depending for support upon the
nation for which they fought.
At the close of the great Vorld War, when
the AUied nations had hoped for a glorious
victory, Europe saw:

The question now is, Can the 480,000,000

people in Europe hold together long enough to
climb the hill back to health and prosperity?
What is true of Europe is tme, to a more o r
On earth
eveq
less degea,
The standard of living is sinking. I t is harder
for the average man to earn a living for himself and family today than it was k t Year, and
it
harder k t Year than it was the Yew
before. The average man-hard-working and
ind~triom-finds the industrial machine l a
and less productive, so that his very existence
is threatened. The problem of how to msLe 8
living has become an intensely personal oneHe m*s
that something ha8 happened; k
t
as to what it is or why it is, he =p be at a
loss to bow.
I
All this is the evidence that
Gentile
times" have ended ;that man's lease of national
Po-r baa q-;and &at He %horn m
t
it is" ahall rule. (Ezekiel21: 2527) The Lord
foretold these conditions through the prophetm
of old. Daniel apnomced the
myhg,
%ere shall be a time of trouble, su& as never
was since there waa a nation even to that same
time." (Daniel 12: 1) J e m , quoting the same words, added: "No, nor ever W be"
after. (Matthew 24: W ) Haggai foretold the
shaking of the nations, that the desire of dl
nations might come.-Haggai 2: 7.
The world is surely on fie, and the element.
are being consumed as the apostle Peter d e
clared they would be: "Nevertheless we, ae- ..
cording to his promise, look for new heavezu
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteoab
new."
(2 Peter 3: 10-13) For Isaiah tells as:
yt
come to pars in the last days, that the
mountain @inndoml
of the Lord's house ahall
be established- in the top of the monntaina
[earthly kingdoms], and shall be exalted above
the hills [organized societies] : and all nations
shall flow unto it"-Isaiah 2 :2
The rehabilitation and reconstruction of the
world will be brought about by the kingdom of
righteousness mder Christ, for which we ham
long prayed: "Thy kingdom come."

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(1)h increase in the public debts from $26,000,000,000 to $185,000,000,000;

(2) An increase in public debt expenses from
$2,000,000,000 to $26,000,000,000;
(3) A decrease in the percentage of gold reserve held for currency from 23 percent
to 2 percent;
(4) An increase in the cost of living of about
230 percent;

(5) h increase in governmental expenditures

of about 480 percent;

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Big Business in the Saddle

loaded
HAVING
debt of
of manhind
now

humanity do* with sn interest-bearing

which the combined
efforts
can
h e l y pay the inbreak aad hardly that, to m y nothing of the
p r h i p 4 big business natura.lly likes to keep
open what duiceways of profit it posaibl~ern;
md having gone to great lengths in whipping
the Meaican Repablio into eabmisaion to it8
, , t p m , it doea not now
to see an*
anae~on the horizon that Beema likely to interfore.
Hence the altogethet extraordinary act of
our chief apostle of big buhesa, President
Coolidge, in doing what no other president bar
ever done before, allowing the shipment of axnu
"to the Government of Mexico which hau been
recogniaed by the Gov&rn.mentof the United
State&" and putting an embargo on all 0thahipmenta of anns to that countrJr.
On prerioua occasions the United Statas has
put au embargo on ahipmenta of all anua to
Mexico; bat that included the whole earn-,
and all parties in it. Never before has the
United States intervened in a foreign State to
m p ~ r the
t existing anthority ss againat some
other party that wanted to get it.
On thkr subject the Philadelphia Record ssya,
wifh a good deal of the old-time punch of the
editors that used to be:

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Our Philadelphia correspondent who sex&

ua ths foregoing s a p respeoting it: "This is
one of the best 100% A m d u n jokes that I
have men in any newspaper in many para. It
dalicaelp hints that appamnw now, in order
to be a 100% American,. one must $rst be
anhnmed of it and then repudiate all thst our
.lu
for. M w thi.tmm th.
keenly excited by dl revalutbmq
m01emeub. We forefathers to-t
I mu afraid th.t
Cradle
of
Liberty
itself!
H
You might miss .this; md as it P ~ good,
W
We*,
in what was once oru d our most
8t.b papaw, defended our right to crpnymp.th, 1 codd not rearst the t ~ m p b t i mto d it
l.ith the H u q u h moiathisb a&
AuStri.. We to YO%"

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The Ideal By 0. J. W.,Jr.

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5 Psychology vs. Sclbeodomr Mind &dImmortality
vation, &tioq
nutritian, md e w q t h b g which rr
later to p h y W life. Another kt of frcaItim t loutd
in the templa or middle put of the head. Thaa intaL
a
&
&ctive featares of recent Literature"! as p i e hgmt fon# rtndy art, muah, iarrli.m. poetrl, dtoria&ed in that memorable Photo-Drama car; beauty, and physical improvement in the utr, a c h a @
toon, T h e r e It All Cornea From," which ahowa aqd induatrie~ Through these, men becorns u p i .
aad inclined for J f d e v a t i o n [a
improvement] in 8
Sakn operating a typewriter, its ke- repre- physical
mting the intdecb of various educators. All
*A third I& of organa ir locsted in tha forabu&
of thb helpa as to appreciate the stnpendool They
am interested in education, rciencu, philoaopV,
fact that the numerous psychology movement8 physical matter and ita +ea
T h q rtrrdy the d
of our day are no exception to this rde; since v e m e i n a m a t e r i a l ~Theyur~tisb,mhitmb,
the battleground is, firat of all, in the mind.
buildem, designera, invatars,
md makem d
Impressed with the fact of a tendency even thinga They gather md un dab They mah mma
among'stad'ents of the Bible today, to quote thia progreaive, in a technical, mechaPial, inventirq &
misleading phrase "subconscions mind" (d-la&, litarary, orrtoricrl, rerraning, md philorophial
thou@ quite unable to define its meaning, yet wmM.
uAfolvthratofpmartlacrbdorrtbatopdtbr
in repeating it they unwittingly give credence
head.
!rheminWligsntfomrus.ktnctd~
to this error), I herewith submit the following
phpsical in themaelma. ThdJ d t u t e the mbjdm
potent excerpts, culled from varioua sourcea, to mind. Thny are in*
in - 0 1 ~
dm k ~ ,
ahow that this o d t theory is fully dirproved @taal
trn*
ulvafion md starna liie. They h d y
bjT the rational laws of phrenology, the nerooua t h t 3 q i r i t M l f o r c a d ~ M T
i ~h e y m i n t a d d
ayatem, the blood, the brain, and the scienca of in a righteous ChUrtQ, righcpirit[arlj Liirt
- the m i n d - P s ~ c ~ o - ~ o:o ~
e t a 4 hao~inah

we are told (Watch Tower for

-0CCELTISM,
October 1, 1918), has invaded not only
drama and poetry, but ia one of the din-

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q*tGk~tl-fcealtial,~-trnatambthdb
SpoLingof
so-dled latent powemth.
a.b
to .Icnt. d ,
editor,of the Lor h g e l e s RGcwd tella
. llltrition
fm brds llOP@
or
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-QBaguQeothatthebrbdtodaymastbebatk a c t i r i t i a o f t h e d
UWban it L a queation ad lifa p d u d h b
equipped thrn when our immedtb fonbeur ras pub
frorJticl,mrrr)
lia f.dot., itr fmhrmental development L redtricbd. and hedth, th6 arabnun and
~obJ1ibput.iahindedbyq&di&mm fallbsckupcmtboabrrin~~~h~intbrb.;
P b r a b l u r c i c h o u r t h o u g h t a ~ a n d m ~ ~ r y l i mdi tt h e m o r t i m ~ t o t k b r r i n c a n t a n , ~ t b .
kh*thcar*tharammin&mo1to
mbcllm~dthamcdall.**
'Fb*
. mart ,BM* of thir,
-tie&
jmaitself t the dhki'bntion d m t . It hrr chgb ad
wb a +*e
tb
of
of
distribution of n ~ d t t i ain
-Hd
a
This ~ r t a t btwofold:
h
Anabolic or
When fourteen he was Msdez of A r k At eevmtean ha tive,
In
tm
CILtaboliC
in verse or P7=Y q a d o n on
rlSrrcd to
life md desth, us repHdePa
m
h
d- in
one of M m kDguagea H e m d all bolic pn a b t i o p md life am tnrnsport~to &
comcn, urd triumphed."
p b m when they us needed. -ugh
tho cahbolia
"If w would know the truth of oarsdves," onas p
m raate prodmb, impurity and foraign elandated Honorable John C. Ned, %e must interrogate rn &ed out of ths qsbm through the && -1
phrenology. The r d t of my experiences for somb bowels, kidneys, and other excretory organa For thtL
ahing over twoscorn yeus is a revelation put by God reason, health and disesw depand greatly upon tb. '
not in i t d
bimult within the reach of all his intelligent creation, med& oblongat.. But t
b medulla
to be studied and applied in dl the relations aad in participate
the m&im proceu of Lifa The mad&
all the bushem of life."
is simply the power ho"It is the cerebellum that is the laboratory of life, in
BOWthe Mind l h c t i o n a
a biochemical s c E~
very~ one strongly developed in
the cerebellum hu a lwg lease of life. h n & Q is b
6
of the psychid f d t i e a , " we r d in H
.Culture,"are loated in the cerebral cortex. One result of a weU4~1clopcdcerebdlum and medullr NO
wt of these mumria is located in the side of the head, one can erpect to live long and resist &masea a h ha
brain
Throogh thaa bmin centen the r o d stndia buninem, is weak in thm b r j n @When
ten
give
out,
the
t
b
d
d
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i
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GOLDEN AGE

Spceial *am
for Speial FcrcJticr
Aa Dr. Jehli%e has said : "The human brain
ia
the
most remarkable switchboard ever made;',
6 6 0 SAY," mya Dr. Babbitt, Whrt the mind, whom
The
famoua
"gray matte?' is that portion af
mmimmedirt.-iatl.
bnin,hunespecid
a q p f a r ~ i n g w i t h a r f a r ~ r i n g o r the
~ m brain which mn&ta principally of cellr,
a l c a h t i n g w i t h , k o n s p a r w i t h r ~ t h . t w e a n while the "white matter" is composed d
y of
walk withoat lege, or
without ayes, or h e u withoat the connecting and communicating fibem

mm. S u c h i a t h e I o g i c , W C h u t h e ~ d ~ ~ ~ m a a

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P h r m d o g y , o f ~ ~ ~ i r t o o n r t a s c i e n~hv,i&d
o
S&me 7-~rmmoriak'tg
!
,b ham dl ita detaib gaiedad, but itr fundunmtd
S A r e d t of the marveloua discoveries '
'irio.ciplm must be eternally tma"
made in the m r a l BeIda of p b @ d 8
"You cannot h d mind by d b a d h g the brain,'' sap
science
during the nineteenth centmy, the intdProf. W e e k , '%at yon an connect mind w i t h matkr."
For %d,"
Dr. J. L Nariua inform ua, "in not a lectual fashion became essentially materialiatio,
rpuab emti@,but o force h e l o p e d by m o w actiop, and therefore a k e p t i d Prof. Wundt of C)ugenedad and bmmitted by living a l l a over narra to many, Prof. Carpenter of England, and Profs.
ttmer and organa (acting upon the d o w faculties d James and Ladd of America, succeeded in comthe brain thmagh the nerve cdL)."
pletely discrediting the old or traditional pw"me narrs endinp," mya Dr. w. Bur@s in 2nd chology based upon the aasmnption that dl
N e w F i r l d S ~ , " a m i n ~ 8 h s p e o b a m ~ a h mental
e4
life waa simply the expression of the
m d , l i b t h e b r a i n u a c o m p a n d o f w ? i i t a . n d g r a y oariois energies of an indeatructiblq e t h e d
~ , 4 n d a s r m t b b s ~ d o a q ~ d a O nprinciple
u J
within man, named the sod.
kind of tbaght pertaiPing to &-prc~natioa Lib
These investigators, by tha inductin or mtb6blaillthey~~bloodtocnablsthemtoperfannthairfnndha Hemer,uy,'Tbslif.irintb. perimental method of res%arch, elaborated 8
blood,'rpdthonemen~dbrrinamtha~throogb " n d psychology, ineradicably rooted in the
?which life ad d o n a are
But the blood knodedp gained uf the tisllFIb of the brain and
other parts of the nemun organism. !Fhey
tnotlife;far,~taitfirOmtlm~dtbemm

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proved incontethat aR medal phenomena

are manifestatiom of nerve or brain energy;
Inahi&lyinstru&vearticleon~owWe and that therefore, withaut brak there can k
- !Fhidr," by Prof. L A. Hammum, Ph. Dv wm no intellect Hence, the new paych01ogy is a p
propriably styled "phpiological ~ o l o g y . ' '
- rn told :
u O m u f t h e m o r t i n ~ a n d ~ t l a r e L Hence, psychology is no longer studied from ~dtbsmodarn~dyofthe~afth.ham
theu viewpoint of vapory Neoplatonism, but
bninia that them exinban a t r e a d y intimate rurocl. from that of the immovable rock of dmow
t i o n b e t w e e x t t h 4 ~ ~ o i t b . t o r g . n . n d t h esizable
~
science. The momemtoua achievement
q e t h of thought, emotion, d other mentrl phenom- haa naturally dealt an irreparable blow to the
anr It t now a wdl-&abLi&ad fact tbat dl mc1lt8l immortality hypothesis. That the immortd sod
p m a s a are explainabb upon tha b d a of brain
dogma is hopelessly incompatible with true pvtum d activity. The cxpdeacing of mmwtios and
chology has been v e d d again and again!
no d

m d Liib m sithar."

f d d o n a , the pmpth and ranembmce of abjseb,

Note the following argmnent from the writthe formation of judpcntm, and the construction at
long and intriate tninr ob complex ~aeaningr: in ings of the late eminent thinker, Mr. John Fiske :
b r t , dl the vuied opvlrtiona of ths mind of & ub
"Injnria to the nerroua strachvs entail faild
d
y b o d ap in the operatiom of the brain. function, either in tha mental operations t h d m ar
Further light upon the relati- of the ppmmidd in the control which they ere&
over the d o n a of the
neuronm to in-co
hu been rhed by the study of body; there is either pqchical aberration, or lm of conths b h of the idiotic, i m k i l e , md fdlerninded, acioasnesa, or muscular panlyaia. At the moment d
,
and that correlatiom, connections, &OM,
~rsem- death, aa won as the current of arterial blood ceases to
blrges of ideas, memories, sensations, etc, am irnpourbb flow through the a n b d reds, all si,m of consciouswhen them erist no physical comectioru between tho n a r ceua for the looker-; and aftar the nervous a~
b m haa km d v e d into ib elements, what reason
mnltitadinoua pyramidd neruoner and the fiban"
have. re to suppow t&t conrciouQlem nvpinq m y
--of which the latter may be likened to electrio more than that the w e b m d water should d m its
wires. These connect the brain with the outer m p d i o n into oxygen and hydrogen? So fu ae our,

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world and vice versa

hrratrirlcrpcrience~thcrsunbebutonemnd

to mch r question. We hbve no mom warrant in expe

rience for mppconacbusneu to
without r
n m o u system h a we have for mppodng tha propertia of vater to exist in r world datitnb of hydrogen

om=*
,

The wonderful clearness with which the anb t e mind of Prof. E. L. Larkin (noted astmnomer of the Southland) at one time perceivedthese
name rational truths, in f d l harmony with all
the foregoing, may be gathered from an article
published by the New York Jound under date
of April, 1906, headed "The New Psychology,"
all the more remarkable since he now t e h us:
"What mind is, is totally unknown," "and not
the slightest hint of what mind is has ever been
mggested." This need not surprise ua, however,
when we r e c d that he has long shce become an
ardent student and adept of Occultituu.
Ignoring God's natural sciences, su&h aa
physiology, phrenology, eta, and unwilling to
accept Jehovah's written Word-the incontestable science of the Bible (Jeremiah 8: 9)-yet
stadionsly endeavoring to discover a tangible
proof or "sense" evidence for the pagan theory
of the "immortal soul," Prof. L a r b , in companp with other scientih minds, has become a
prey to Occulthn, to account for the relation
between natural and spiritual phenomena This
fact, and it alone, would seemingly explain such
a radical departure from thia truth.
*l%a New &gchOIO(W

HE discoveries now being made in the great

psychological laboratories of the world are
' of the highest possible interest. The leading
pspchologists now assert that the only difference between the minds of the lower nnimnlr
and the mind of man is one of degree merely.
That is, the minds of men are of the same kind
as those of all other animals, only many timea
ntronger, and in the moral and religions faculties which, with those of comprehension and
judgment, take in a larger scope.
CarefuI and long-continued experiments have
demonstrated that even low types of nnimnls
have reason that differs only from that in man
in degree.
Ail organic beings are mere colonies of cells;
i.e., cities of individnal living entitiea At preaent it is unknown what Life is, but each cell is a
center or source of life. Ganglia are nodea or
eallectiona of celb into smaller commonitiea;
,

and in the human brain different combinations

of the same kinds of cells may produce different
faculties of mind. For differing associations of
the same Bind of ultimate corpuscles (there is
but one b d ) give rise to all the phaserr revealed by ordinary chemistry and by the spectroscope. The universe is made up of varying
mmhinea of life c o r p d e s into infinite diversity; and variatioas in thought, from late analysie of mind and brain, seem to be cawed by.
varying clusters together of one kind of brain
cells into ganglia
Mind is now known to be a product of brain
activity; that b, mind is a r e d t . Mice, birds,
and insects have been shown to be possessed of
reason. Animals learn by experience, and store
this experience in memory for long perioda of
time. Love, affection, veneration, love of the
beautiful, gratitude, conscience, consideration,
contrition, sorrow, trouble, cam, m e w , pity,
and many other attributecr, for long deemed to
be hnman only, are now known to be possessed
byanimala,i.nmanycaaestoahighdegree.
Several boob giving thousands of inutanm
are published. The moat rigid scrutiny made
by careful and consemativb aciemtih psychologists during the last twenty yeam has bem
totally unable to d 8 t e c t . q trace in body or
brain, or to find any analogy in nature, concerning the existence of what is popularly d e d
the s o d Blood cells build flesh; stomach cells
digest; and brain cells evolve mind. Psycholioj&ts are incapable of hding any diderenae
in the three processes.
In the present state of psychio science, it is
not known what mind is ;but, whatemr it may
be, it is known that it is c a d by the action of
brain and nerve cells. When this activity ends
all traces of mind come to an end. CeUs that
originate mind are far more complex than those
that perform the office of secretion in glanda
The secretion of mind is of greater complexity
than the secretion of bile or gastric fluids. But
all am developed by the work of cells.
Since compiling the foregoing my attention
has been directed to a related subject published
in a recent issue of the Literary Digest, quoting
from an article on "The Influence of Bodily
Attitudes on the States of Consciousnes~,~
contributed to L'Educatbn Physiqw (Paris), as
followa :
'qh idtumcr of tb. mind on the body bu been
undalr arploited. That of the body
th. miad L no

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476

lam sum, but i t bas been little wnsidered from any idea sprang from Satan's original lie: "Thou
particular aspect. Spe&lng of the correspondence th.t ehalt not snrely die."
0physlcd md m o d C O ~ sod
~ W
m e w Kntient behg, a hina th.t'
the intimats association betrcean oar attituda, breathes and that can think
man or
gestures, walk, expressions, and our state of mind," he
beast.
(Numbers
31
:
28
;
Genesis
l
:
20,30,
marhllrr w,'%e cannot beliere t h t there is compl& =paration betreen the daerent phenomena that we call gins) Nan does not *e
a sod; man is s SO&
--,
splch, idem, a o t i a m , .nd mov-h
- because when alive he both breathes W I ~thinhr
'The impmaiorw whom source in in the dsptba af "God formed man of the dust of the ground
epr -o
and tiseaeo ( c o n ~ e r d~d trmmitfed b . ~ [made an organism], and breathed into his no*
af trils the breath of life [filled his 1-gs Prith
'mrren+the nerve flaid) pasing h u g h
calla, t h l r e s have an influence on our c o n a c i o ~ e m and man became [as the result of beginning
breathe] a living soul." (Genesis 2: 7) C o d
thera are no states of comciouanas that are &y
mpresentative; in every Ldea, even the moat abwa anpthing be
find on 4- motor images that
~~~~~ tha Mind, whatever it be, h the r e d t of the
b e g m g of muSfdar contracti0M. In ths -9
action of the brain and nerpe c&. W h this
none of o m mmles can enttr into action without Betivie ends all trsces of mind mme to an
prnW a
connrrtcd
ur
This wodd not
to be repeated
it m#
and an emotion. The solidarity of the functions of the th.t the tescbing of
hu ban loaL
p q c b life, owing to which intdligenaq d t y d
that
th.
immorta,l
s
o
d
idea
i
s
wown
into our
*6Q Y. h d t p b~ djae=t
om
dmq,.L OM of the best ertabliahed laws of & ~ E I Wrp beingbwe were born aitb ih we nuraed
it, and we fed n p o n i t
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HE foregoing would seem to prom that
there is no such thing as s o d We pmL*
poaely made it read that way; for we desired
=- to have the mind freed of the co-7
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cspted idea of the
j tible something within and yet separab and
- &tinct from the organism. Aa true ecium
cannot get away from facts, men w i l l come to
see pre8ently that the Bible dellnition of "soul?
- ia and has always been correct The preachera
have been and are wrong. The "immortal soul"

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Best comer at k
t ! Paar s t o n n - t o d sod,
Thy restlesl heart ind throbbing brain
No mom shall drire thee to despair l
Sleep now in Jaaq aafdy hid
Until God'r n t h be overput.

Then s h d l the Sun's liftgiving beams

Pierce the Ione silence of the grave,
And thou shalt &and again with men
Epon this earth-no longer bound
With fetters forged by Satan's lies.
Then Truth shall cover all the earth
A8 watera corm the great deep:
Lifc'r m;lateria r h d dl be mlved;
Jehanh'r windom e e d ,
Bli. rightcou judgmatr M y wczl l

That mind does come to an end when a psrc

son stops breathing we r e d in Psalm 146: 4:
"Eb breath goeth forth, he ~
~to
t
earth; in that Wm d.7 hL tho-b
pu2
h.mak u a soul while he h .lim
whem bL L dead he is not a Sod. "%"he d that ShW*
it .b.n die* ( E ~ d i d18: 4; Ad8 3: 1),
d
when dead it .not.
It is the sopla of h h t p that ham h n
redeemed, and in the r e d n t
b
sods shall live a-be
revived fkom *;
for they will be givm new bodiea in which t h q
w i l l function.-Psh 49 :7-15; 1 Car. 15 :3 W

Bg Mr. A. E. P u d
Then thou ahrlt know that 1omm thcm land
Wbo chose the path of a c r i h ,
And followed in the Savioir d q m
From Jordan'r brink to Cdvuy,
h e now in Zion, hngs and pfieab,
Bcigning with Christdl thingr d a na.
Othera, long mourned for, shall return,
And thou with them shalt follow on
To know the Lord. In holy paths
Thy feet shall tread until, at I&,
The Christ shall place upon thy herd
A cman of everlasting life.
&d evermore thy joy shall k

To p m h the m
, t Creator% namq
And aing aloud w i t h dl mankind
Tko wrng af Y m .nd the La&

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last lecture here, proof mas made

from the Bible that God created the k s t
perfeat
The Bible declarer that God is love, and that
$-tics ia the habitation of His throne. His
revealed pfan Proves that
act of
prompted by lorn, and that He devlat- not
&om justice at any time.
Now we behold that the earth h full of aorrow; that every one has more or less of human
ailments, pain, weaknesses, and sickness. AJ
men eufEer bodily pain and mental anguish;
and experience shows that in the course of
time men have died.
Many, therefore, ask the question: Wby
ahodd a just aad loving God permit so much
evil in the world, so much sichess, sorrow,
d e r i n g and death? Could not God have prem t e d aiI such unhappiness? And is not the
isct that He hm not prevented man from suffering and dying, proof that God is not juat
md not loving? Is not the fact that man suffers
and dies proof dao that man was not created

a correct u d e r s tanding of Qod's great program

4 absolutely essential to peace of mind, both
now and hereafter.
The purpose of these lectures ~ I Jto atimdate
the people to the study of the Bible, in order
that they may learn the divine plan. and enjoy
a peace of mind that nothing else brings.

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T H E account of the fall of man h p w y
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told in Holy Writ. The perfect man Adam

was placed in Ed&, the garden of Gtod Eden
was perfect in all of its appointments and en-

vironments. The dimate was just righk The

flowers and the trees, the birds and the beasts,
were all in exact harmony and all willingly s u b
missive to the perfect man Adam, who had the
rightful dominion over the*
God created woman, and gave her to dam
in Eden to be his helpmate and companioa To
this perfect pair God gave command and the
power to mdtipiy and W the earth with a
happy race. But before this wonderful work
perfeatf
of propagating the race began, a terrible thing
. It is true that God could have made man in
oacrured.
mch a way that he could have been prevented
In Eden, the garden of the Lord,was Lucife~,
from ninning. Bad &d done so, man would
a
spirit being of great wisdom and power.
have been a machine, without the power to diePlaced
there as overseer, he came in contact
cam right and wrong. He would have had no
with
man.
He had the power to appear in m e r ahoice between right and wrong. He would not
ent
forms
and
to speak, as the record shorn to
have had the power to exercise his own will.
msa.
He
learned
that God had granted dominThere would have been no free moral agency.
man
and
had
given Adam power to bring
ion
to
Man would have been devoid of.moral sense.
forth
and
rear
children.
Lucifer became ambiEkperience ia the best teacher. God made
like
unto
the
Moat High God, a
tious
to
have,
man perfect, and set before him right and dominion and a kingdom of his
own. He mediwrong. The baneful effects of wrong and the tated upon thia scheme. He concluded
to a e
blessed effects of good could be thoroughly quire control of man and his offspring, and
by
learned only by experience. Being created a this means to set np a kingdom of his own, To
free moral agent, man was given the liberty to accomplish this ambitious desire he resorted to
choose right or wrong. He chose evil. The h a 1
result will show that evil leads to suffering and fraud and deception.
Approaching mother Eve he inquired of her
destruction, while righteousness leads to everwhy
she did not eat of a certain fruit in t!!e
lasting life and endless happiness. This great
midst
of Edcn. To his question Eve replied:
lesson must be learned by experience.
'To
eat
of this fruit would cause as to die; for
The ontvorking of God's plan will also demGod
has
thus given us His law.' To this Lucifer
onstrate to all, in due time, that Jehovah's every
answered
: 'God doth know that in the very day
act is prompted by Iove and is for the benefit of
man; and that in everything He is just. The that you eat of this fruit you shall be as wise as
ultimate goal of everlasting happiness d be God. Tou s!id1 surely XOT die.' This was the
reached by those who do good. For this reason first lie ever told. It was a fraud and deception
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mongful step.
Eve yielded to the seductive iduence of La&fer, ate of the fruit, and thas violated Jehovah's
law. Her husband, Adam, afterwards learned
of what she had done. He knew the law, and
a h knew that death would result from her act
and that he would, therefore, be deprived of her
wmpanionship. Thus he had set before him
'right and wrong. To choose the wrongful course
meant to be disloyd to Jehovah and to die; to
choose the right course meant to forsake his
wife forever. Loyalty waa the test put upon
him. He chose to join his wife in death. He
wiIfuIly violated God's law. He, therefore, became the first suicide. Many men have sinbeen i n d u d to taire a wrongful course because
of the influence of woman. The real test to
which Adam was put was loyalty to God. In
due coarse of time emry man must have hia
. loyalty to God tested.
Jehovah had plainly informed the perfect
-' man that disloyalty would mean death. He had
raid: Zu the day that you oh yon shall dia'
'&an has m i recoby hia enadment of
jhhar that tbis law of J e h d was both j d

re*nsble(
6-..- Id
Hightreasoniadeclaredacrimeagaiastth
of the United Stabs, punishable by
death. If a man in the highest o h ahodd
prove disloyal to tb. nation, de3iberam b,
y. traying the nation, every good aitjsan upon fha
k ~ would
m vote for his death. E v e q other
5 good citizen would say: Tbot is right The
5' majesty of the lcrw must be upheld.
- ' Jehovah had placed man in control of the
earth. He held the highest place in the govern- ment of earth that could b e held. God had made
law plain, and had d e h e d disloyalty and
the penalty therefor. Adam was not ignorant
of the law. Had God refused to enforce His
bw, which had been delibenrtely broken, He
would have denied that He is a Gtod of justice.
Regardless of how much pain it gave Him to
put to death His perfect creature, the majesty
of His law must be upheld. To this every re*
sonable mind will agree. After the violation of
His law there was nothing for Jehovah to do
but to pronounce and to enforce His decree and
judgment. This He did.
There i% no intimation in this divine decree,
neither elsewhere in Holy Writ, that man should
d e r eternal torture. To h m sentenced man
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to eternal torment would h v e meant the chrmg

mg of the law after it hrd been violated. Swh
an'ex-postfacto law in repugnant to (306 snd
to man.
The letter of the hw announced thrrt d d
should be auffered by him who violatea it. Ths
decree, or judgment, entered against Adam b
in ex& conformity themto. Thie judgment L
set forth in the Bible in the following wordsc.
(1) "Unto the woman he said, I will greaw
multiply thy sorrow, and thy conception: in
sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; d
thy.desire shall be to thy husband, and he s h d
rule over thee. (2) hd unto Adam he
Because thou haat hearkened unto the voice d
thy wife, and hsat eaten of the tree of whiah I
commanded thee, saying, Thoa shalt not e a t d
it: carsed is the ground for thy sake; in s a m w
ahalt thou eat of i t all the days of thy life:.
thorns also and thistles ahsll it bting forth to
thee; and thou shalt eat thet herb of the
in the sweat of thy face sbdt thou eat herd,
till thou return antoihe p a d ; for out of it want thou taken: for duat thop & d
dnat shalt thou retarn.
Behold, the maa in
becomeaaoneofus,toh~goOddevil;:
and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take
ahso of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever; therefore the Lard Qod mnt him fort&
from the garden of Eden to till h p o d '
f m m w h e n c o h e w w t a k e n . Sohedmmamb
the man: and he placed at the east of tbs g8rdan of Ed- chernbimq and a
sword
which turned every way, to keep the way of th@
tree of life.*-&neais 3: 1624.

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How ~
o
d
JEHOV~LH might have chosen to enforce Hu
judgment by immediately destroying Adam
He did not choose to do this, however. Had H e
permitted the man to remain in Eden and have
access to the tree of life Adam would haw
continued to live forever. Jehovah, therefore,
chose to enforce 3is judgment by causing Adam
to obtain food outside of Eden. The earth waa
in an imperfect condition. The food that grew
outside of Eden contained poison. Adam now
was compelled to go forth, till the soil, earn hia
bread, and partake of sn imperfect food that
caused him to grow sick The food that man
has been compelled to eat ever since hss beem
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'&;and for tht reaaon experts have diligently man was sentenced to death, God changed the

; rought to find a perfect food. They have not name of Lucifer; and thereafter he hm been

pet found it In W s due time man shall have ..known as the Dragon, that old Serpent, Satan,
that perfoot food restored to him, aa we will the DeviL He has ever since been the enemy of
prove by the Bible later o n
Qod and of man, has opposed righteousness,
. Outside of Eden, under the sentence of death, and has diligently endeavored to blind man ta
dck from partaking of poisonoun foods, Adam Ood's character and plan. He has e d l j idu. and Em began, in harmony with the divine encad men and nations becam of their imperdecree, to propagate the human raca The nab fection. God h a not interfered, in order that
oral result was, and of necessity must be, that man might have a frill complete lesson of the
their children were born imperfect. It wodd baneful effecb of evil; and, in God's due b e ,
be impomble for mart, now imperfect and dying when he has learned hia lesson, man will obey
because of his own wrongful act, to transmit God'a Laws and rejoice in good and righteollaWe to hir offspring and that offspring be per- ness.
Satan for long centuries has been the god of
f*
The Lord, through Hia prophet, makes
thb matter clear to as when He caused David this world; that means the invisible ruler of
- to write: "Behold, I wan shapen in iniquity, those who refuse to learn of God and obey Him.
The Apostle says that Satan has blinded theand in aha did my mother conceive me."minds of men to the truth concerning (30dJa j
- Psalm 31:s.
Every child born in the earth hsJ been be- plan. His endeavor bas been to k e q man in
gotten in an anrighteons condition because of ignorance lest he should know GFod md obey
the imperfection of the parent, and has been Hhp A few men, at all times, have striv*
brought forth a sinner. By the word sinner is vigorously againat Satan and tried to leern
meant that which is imperfwt. Every imper- righteonsneaa and do righteousness W e are
approaching a time when Sataa shdl
fad being in Jehovah's eight is a sinner. St. now
deprived of hi. power and liberty, d nhen 1
Pad, 'the great logician of the Bible, under men shall be fully enlightened as to God's par-'
hpiration, in harmony with this statement pose and have a fOll opportunity to obey right7
wrote: Wherefore, as by one man sin entered eousness and enjoy the bleeaingn that ahall fol- 1
into tJm world, and death by sin; and so death low. Satan l.uw been the one that ia responsible
parsed upan BU men, for that dl have ninned." for the Goddishonoring doctrine of inherent 7
-BomaM 5 :12.
immortality and eternal torment. In due aonrsle j
Adam lived on the earth for 930 years after all peoph will learn this. They will l i k e d
he had been expelled from Eden. During that learn that God's provision has all along the way
entire period of 930 years he waa growing been one of love, which will f o r e m establish
weaker, until he died. Had he remained in har- love and righteoasneas in the hearta of the peomony with C#od he wodd have never grown old ; ple who love and obey Jehovah.
he would have daily renewed his youth, and Since the time of the unhappy event of Eden
wodd Im living now, strong and vigorom and God haa been working oat His great plan for
kppy; and likewise his children.
the redemption, delinrance and blessing of
It is obmrved that every child when born has mankind. This plan of redemption, as revealed
more or less beauty of youth. An it comes to in the Bible, m a g d e n the name and honor and
the age of manhood this beauty is marred; in glory of Jehovah, and proves to every mmerent
old age he is misshapen, deformed, unsightly, mind that He is a God of wisdom, juatice, lovet,
and thus goes down into death. Death is the end power.
great enemy of the human race. It has fed
My next lecture here shall be devoted to the
upon mankind for more than 6,000 years.
promise Jehovah made to bless mankind I
During that time millions of people have gone hope to be able to show that we are nearing the
into death They have not gone into e t e d time when this promise is about to be pat into
torture, however. The doctrine of eternal tor- operation, and that there ia a happy and bleeaed
ment originated with the Devil. At tha time time for the hpman raca just ahead.

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L h e was journeying to Damt.-k- oag suddenly there shone about him a light from
*? heaven. He did not see the body of Jesus, but
!.; -- only the light from our Lord's glorious body.
, He heard a voice saying unto him, T am
. 'Jesusm So brilliant was-this light that for
three days he was blind; and the Lord performed a miracle by removing his b l i n d n k "And
- 1 immediately there fell from hia eyes aa it had
been kales; and he received sight forthwith, and
pose, and was baptized" (Acts 9: 1-19) The
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apostle Paul afterward relating this incident
said: " h d last of all he [Jesus] was seen of me
&ay u of one born out of due time." (1Corinthians 15: 8) Here we have a little glimpse of
what the glorious body of tbe Lord is. Tbese
facts &ow that the bodies in which J e s ~a p
peared after His resurrection mere neither the
body that was crucified nor His glorions spiritd body, but bodies created expressly for the
purpose of appearing unto His disciples. Oru
Lord's human body, the one crucified, raa

removed from the tomb by the power of Gob

Had it remained there, it wodd have been as
obstacle in the way of the faith of Hia diaeipb,
who were not yet-instructed in spiritual tbinga
They were not thus instructed until the giving
of the holy spirit at Pentecost. The Sariptdrar
do not reveal what became of that body, except
that it did not decay nor corrapt.(Ads 2: 27,311
We can surmise that the Lord may ham presemed it somewhere to &'bit to the people in the
W e n n i d age. The Scriptures tell ua that (;tad
miraculously hid the body of More8 (Deutaronomy 34 :6 ;Jude 9) ;and Jehovah wuld just
as easily have preserved and hid away the body
of Jermk Jesns being relmrrecteda divine bein&
the erpress image of the Father, we are sure
that no man a d d look upon Him and live. .
(Exodua 33:20) Chrbt Jesrrrr the Lord m .
heaven k a gloriow being, the faireat of ten
thoasand, and altogether lovdy; and no h m ~ n
eye has ever seen Him sinca He w a glorified,
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except the v i s i o n ~ o u d given
y
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discipIes was that the fact might be fully estab\
lished that H e was resurrected and alive. He
- had power to create a fleshly body and appear
& it and dissolve it a t any time; and withoat
- douqt when- He appeared to His disciples behind locked doors He created the body im- mediately in their presence and dissolved it
when He disappeared. To prove to them that
He waa a real body of flesh and bones He said
to than: "Bandle me, and see; for a spirit hath
not flesh and bones, aa ye see me have." (Luke
24: 39) This was not a apirit bodyybut a body
. of flesh. Tbe body with which He ascended on
high, end which He has in heaven, is a glorious
body which no man can look upon and live
except by the mi ma do^^^ power of Jehovah.
- The a p o d e P a d states :Weah and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.'' (1Corinthirurs
$ $5:
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$3 -"It doth not yet appear what we shall be: bat
c we know that, when he shall appear, we ahall
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n which Jeem rar craeiflsd .Ilvmd
into ha-?
md if not, why not? G i n Mptmd
proof- 1 291Lord's appcanncs to g a d on the m y

~ ~ M C M 294.
Did Saul
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of Jemr at that t h e ? 29%

What dect did the appearance of the Lord to 8+
Pad have upon him? lf 292.
What did St. Paul later us7 abed Jesru, apunto him? 1292.
What does the appearance of the Lord to St. Pml
prove Kith reference to the bodies in which Janu
Weshortly after His res-ection?
R 292.
What became of the body of the Lord that w u
Bed? f 292.
Christ Jtmr in glory pomam what kind ob

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And equally destructive of happiness and contentment are-the morali
sts who would force people to live the co&ed lives of some religious
,
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The Bible is not a book of moralistic practice.
Its theme i s that those factors contributing to unhapp&ess-sicknesq
sorrow, pain, trouble'and death-&& end.
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W E A T H E R is perhaps the most talk-producing subject in the world. I t serves

'as a universal and continual silence breaker.
It comes to the rescue of the embarrassed, and
relieves the nionotony of many trying situations. Nillions of tons of breath are wasted
annually on the subject of weather. When
minds grow slnggish and conversations lag,
how natural it is for most of us to play pingpong with the weather !
He said: "I think the weather is awful."
Slle said: 'Toll sllouldn't
at the
If
it
vere
not
for
that,
you'd
have
weather.
notling to talk about."
JTe may differentiate between climate and
weather. Climate is the normal characteristio
of the weather for any locality. The most
potent causes regulating climate are latitude
and altitude. Pelpetual snow and ice in thc
polar regions and on mountain peaks are the
climatic conditions nornld to such places, wllile
in the torrid zone grasses, fruits and flowers
thrive, and beasts, insects and birds multiply
and sing and play because the environments
are cond~zciveto such activity. Also, sea and
air currents have much to do nith determining
climatic characteristics for any country.
The Eimalnya mountains cause the Indian
monsoon rains. The monsoon is a trade-wind
of grcnt influence on the climate of the ~vorld.
Fro111 Blny to September a steady air current
sets in from the southwest, laden vitli moisture
from the Indian Ocean. A second monsoon from
the northeast prevails from November to April.
The monsoon region extends t o the Pacific as
f a r as Japan. Thus the Himlayas may be called
the father of the weather.
Weatherimay be said to be any meteorological phenomena, or oddities of climate. Any excessive hotness or coldness, dryness or wetness,
storminess, fogginess or cloudiness, sudden
changes of temperature, or prolo~~gecl
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absence of sunshine, are all properly weather-':
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The earth has i t s sunshine and dlo~d~~eriters.;
At Tucson, Arizona, and G M ~ I ~ s oColorado,
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it
is safe for the hotels to advertise '"meals free
on cloudy days"; for in the latter place there'..
have been but six cloudy days in the last ten '
years. Puma, Arizona, is the center of the chief of the sunshine zones in the United States, with
spots of secondary prominence located in southern California, southeastern New Mexico, w e s t
ern Terns, and Z'lorida. These sunshine e n ters receive from eighty percent to eighty-five
percent of the sunbeams aimed at them tmnnal- 1 ~ The
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rainfalls in these-areas are negligible*.
The cloud centers are located in western washington, near the southern portion of Puget
So~tnd,On the southeastern shore of Lake onand in the upper ~ e n i n s d aof Michigan.
From Seventy-five percent to eight7 Percent of ,
the days in these places are either cloudy or
partly cloudy'

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LTHOUGH only eighty miles from the
equator, the city of Pa,
B r a d , boasts
of the .best climate in the world. It enjoys a
perennial climate of what might be called mild
summer. A gentle shower of rain falls almost
every afternoon in the year, which, together
with the wekome trade-winds blowing in from
the Atlantic, tempers tho intense heat of the
sun and gives Para a climate that for epenness
and agreeableness probably cannot be snrpassed.
But we must not think that all around the
world near the equator there is excessive heat,
or even mild summer weather. Let ns remem.
ber that on the 21st of September the sun is
over the equator on his trip southward, and
that at that time the sun's rays are projected
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sunbeams would be dhncing straight up and ditioli and is shallo~v,and the trees were not
.down, delivering their fllll cnergy of heat. An able to stand the increased lack of moisture.
officer on one of the All-American Cahle Co~ti- Jluch rain falls on the ocean near its points
pay's ships writes that on October 12th while of absorption. Tropical regions tend either to
urosing tho equator a t noon, soutLbou~lclon the rainy seisons with a high annual precipitation,
western coast of South dmericn, he mas com- like the valley of the Amazon, with from eighty
. pelled to don a heavy blue uniform instead of to one hunclred and twenty inches, or to a low
- the white duck snit which he had worn for three average, like the Peninsula of Yucatan in Mexmonths around Panama. Before arriving at ico, mith about fourteen inches, o r to none a t
Santa Elena, Ecuador, 150 miles south of the as in the desert of S a h a r a
I n the United States the rainfall figures run
equator, under more direct rays of the sun, he
was wearing a sweater additionally nnder his from ten inches in southern California to ten(
coat. This was a t sea, probably 100 miles out; to thirty inches in the high Western plains,
but overcoats were being .rron~on his arrival a t increasing to twcl~tyto thirty inches in the
Lima,.Peru, which is sometlling less than SO0 llissouri valley, rising to thirty-five through
the Ohio valley to thc Atlantic coast, and inmiles south of the equator.
Perhaps, after all, the best climate in the creasing to sixty on the Gulf coast.
.world ;fi right at home, wherever we live. "The There are many reports that the Arctic research for a better climate," says the Jozrlrzal gions are warming up. Explorers and fisherof Am.er&an iliedicnl AssociLition, "frequently men find the climate moderating about Spitzmeans, as every clinician well realizes, a change bergen, and causing rapid changes in flora and
in something more than meteorologic environ- fauna. Old glaciers have disappeared. For five
ment. It is not the a i r for the Iu~igs,the tem- years these changes have been noticeable. It is
perature for the skin, the altitude for circula- estimated that the United States as a whole,
tion, or such incidents that alone are sought. winter and summer, has warmed up one and
Social, mental and physical changes occasion three-tenths degrees since 1897. One degree in
their OTM beneficial or baneful transformations." temperature is equal to about 100 miles in a
What the poor world is most in need of, then, north and south direction. So warm mas it tmo
is a peace of mind, -a quietness of heart, and years ago in the Swiss mountains that many of
the elimination of the causes of worry, envy, the ice bridges, used for years, gave way.
Seals have been leaving their old feeding
jealousy and seliisliness. These and m m y other
places
in the Polar region and seeking cooler
good things are promised as the heritage of
humanity during tlie reign of Messiah, the king- water farther north. Land is appearing where
formerly there were vast areas of ice. Fossils
dom for which we still pray.
of a tropical fern have been dug up in Greenland, sh&ing that in the antedilusan period
Physical Changes Are Noted
there was a warm climate mith tropical vegeta' : C L I M A T I C changes have been noted in these tion where the glaciers are now melting away.
.
columns from time to time, occasioned by
Scientists generally are a t sea as to the came
::shifting of ocean streams, receding of the ice
of
the earth's warming up. To them, the earth,
zones, and changing of air currents. Mr. Charles
millions
of years ago ( ?), mas a molten mass,
Lathrop Pack, President of the American Forred
hot,
and
for ages it has been cooling. The,
. , estry A&sociation, .in espiaining the reason why
sun dso, say they, i s gradually cooling. So,
:-:manyof the trees in Central Parl;, New Yorl;
as the earth is cooling and the
:;city,died a few years ago, attributed it to chani- scientifically,
sun
radiating
less and less heat, the earth geta
: ing atmospheric conditions, which hare bee11
warmem and Tanner! I t is estimated that the
i:'going on h r over twenty years.
heat in the center of the earth ranges from
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was a decided decrease' in rainfall, 3,000" to 180,000 Fahrenheit. Some think that
'.mu& .of which fell during the summer months, the increase of heat on the surface of the earth
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needed; an increase of wind move- is dne to the disintegration of radium in the
.!:6&erkost
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and n general decrease in hunliclity es- rocks; others attribnte it to radioactivity; and
:: ten*.:
over a five-year period. These were still others think that the earth is radiating
'a,..,
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reaction of some kind is taking place.
come as cold as Labrador. As. England.::&.:
Two summers ago the Laplanders e~joyed dependent on the Gulf Stream for her.;waridi;
their first ret;, summer weather \vitlJn the mem- weather, what a calamity would befall it-if .the:
ory of the oldest inhabitants. The thermometer Gulf Stream should be diverted from its prea-:?. ,'- C.."-..
rose to 86O, and the Eshimos had to lay aside ent course!
their furs.
Man's ability, however, to
himsel?':
There are warm spots in the far north; Little against cold is much greater than his capabilitp i!
heed mas given to tlie reports of troplcal re- to defend himself against excessive. heat and ;
gions north of Porcupine River, latitude 65*, humidity. Changes are bound to take place,
longitude, 144O, Alaska, nntil1912, wmhen a party but perhaps they will come slowly enough to,.':
of explorers noticed that the thermometer be- permit man to adjust himsell without anp :.
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gan suddenly to rise from 40' below zero to special inconvenience.
where the snow mas melting; and they had to
The Arctic Ocean is warming up; icebergs
remove their warm clothing, within a space of are growing scarcer; and in some places the .'
two hours' traveling. They encountered hot seals are finding the maters too hot and are ,
springs, and came upon dense gomtlis of vege- moving northward, according to a report from .
tation. They found large rivers of \vam water Xorway. But the United States Weather Bu-.'
teeming with fish: the country was said to be reau says that this is not so. I t is said to be .
alive with game.
able to produce records that will disprove any."
Great volumes of warm water from the Mexi- claim of permanent shifting. The fact that the
can Gulf. Stream, pouring through from the last two or three years have been mllsnslly
Atlantic into the far north, and from the Japan mild, with the quite unseasonably warm weather
Stream, swinging farther into the north Pacific last fall until the new year, means nothing to
at every earthquake shock, tend to moderate the weather bureau Periods of noticeably
the waters of the Arctic region, and will, we warmer or colder weather w i l l come, but there
believe, in time wear away all the ice and snow
be no change in the general average, is
and relieve the frigidity of the entire north. its viem.
Tlle San Francisco earthquake is said to have
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changed the Japan Stream to a course 1,000 An Unusuall~Mild Winter
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miles farther north, and the recent Japan earthN UNUSUALLY mild winter, at l e d durquake clianged its course aliotl~er150 miles faring the early part, was prevalent this past
thcr north.
season over Russia and North America. As
late as the first of December the thermometer
Other Changes Not Unlikely
registered seventy degrees in the central part
HILE the Japan Stream and the Gulf of Russia; lilacs bloomed in E e f f ; violets were
Stream are pouring great volumes of sold in Odessa; the cherry trees were in bloom
warm watcr illto northern latitudes, the Arctio over n,large area; strt-nvberries in every stage
Occnn is doing its best to disgorge its sui-plus of dereloplnent were found a t Stratford, Oninto the soutli. I n the Strait of Cclle Isle, a tario, December 20th; and the winter gain,
narrow chanliel separating Newvfomldland from wliich begins to sprout under the snow in the
Labrador rnsllcs tlie water froin the Arctic in spring, sprouted and came up.
what is callccl the Labmdor current. This
Generally in the- Gulf of St. Lawrence the .
stream"makes eastern Canada and tlie Sew weather at the first of December is severe. But
England states cool in sulllllier and quite cold this season it was so mild that the inhabitants
in the winter. Some engineers niaintain that of the district were deprived of their u d
this streain could be diverted l)y building a d m , winter ernplo~mentand their ordinary catch of
svhic11 wodd cost $10,000,000 o r more.
fish, and were longing for real winter to come.
Such a b m would force the cold waters out They cared nothing for ripe strawberries and
into the Atlantic, perliaps intercepting tlie Gulf butterflies on the ww~ing.
Stream and causing it to liug tlie American side
Farther soutli, in the United States, houses
of the ocean mther than tlie British Isles. Tliis wliich ordinarily require plenty of artificinl Iieat
would give eastern Canada and h'ewfoundland after October first, were comfortable up until
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nearly Christmas with little 0;. no heat esccpt movements. At the same t h e in the northern '
part of Kcm Y ~ r l istntc tlic mercury diopped
that generated in the kitchen rangc.
On the other hand, the winter weather in the to 3 9 O below, and at Syracuse it got as low as
British Isles was unusually severe. Fogs were 12' below. This sudden breath of frigid air
unusually h e a q . South of London a passenger was quite severe on the dandelions, pear blos-train on the London and Southwestern Railway, sons, and roses in soutl~ernXem Jersey.
%: headed for Portsmouth, lost its may and ran
-. several miles on the road to Sonthampton, beGiant Icebergs Breaking Loose
fore the fact that it
on the mOng track
OR several years it has been necessary in
was discovered.
the spring to watch for icebergs in the
that the 'limate of north Atlantic wntcrs; for they are becoming
The evidence
the northern h e m i ~ h e r ei~gradu"y &anging. more nmllcrous mid larger than formerly. ~n
.--The north polar ice-fields are melting; Ameri- 1912 the Titnllic (the nnsinkablc ship) collided
herecall 'pFins and falls are much longer
one of these, and went d o m e
i=berg
tofore, the summers ate shorter and not so hot,
spring
so
it wm e s h a t d .
and the winters are often shorter snd not so cold. that it
furnish ice for nearly rrll fie homes
Without a doubt, in our 3 n d ~ e n t the
, Lord ;
,the country for the season. I t was one-tGrd
is mtilring climatic conditions such that the of a
in length, and mas sevenb-five feat
vast amble plains of northern Russia, Siberia, out of water. Three hundred large icebergs
. AIaska, ahd Canada can be opened UP to settle- mere located south of Newfoundland last spring
ment. These areas will be needed, at first; for by the ice patrol; and 195 steam&ps appealed
the population of the globe is destined to be to the patrol for infomation, and inshctions
tremendously increased soon by the resurrec- t, fit their p r t i c d a r w e s
broadcast
tion kradnally, every lnan in his own order) twice daily. Additionally, for@-sis ships shi&
of all that are now asleep in death.
were bearing d o n unavares into the icebergs,
T i p e g , Canada, which usually has its dsoreceived warnings,
5-below and 20-below meather in November and
The destrnction of tnro large icebergs that
December, last fall Bad semi-tropical weather. drifted
the
lanes
ac- Three times during that period Jack Frost complished byinto
the rise of nrrecliing mines. This
a
but as many times
mas the first use of explosives for the destructhe whisliers and forced his tion of icebergs ever made. One iceberg of
giant got him
retreat. The Yukon river at Dawson vas open
large dimensions was seen
miles
aa late as November 22-something unheard of; f a r ~ esouth
r
than ~ e p
drift*
and Alaska was extraordinariIy temperate until
- after December 1st. Santa Claus rode deerbacl;
Cold and Hot, Wet and Dry
last Christmas. Some of the leading rneteorologirts of Canada are inched to credit the ~vrum LAST I I ~ Y
was reported to be the coldest
in fifty-two years at Clccago. Nearly the
- weather to the shifting of the Japan current.
, -But old Boreas got b e a d Jack i
n good sllapc whole of June was Nintrg in France, and on
the 19th that country Was shivering amid SllOW.
early in January, and pushed him
I
t 11-asalso frosty and disagreeable during the'
mercpipto the far south.
June
nights in Englancl. -kt xatal, Cape c014- . The temperature soon ,vanled up again. One
&y reported 32O-below weather one day; d d ony, and the Tmnsvnnl of South hfrico, last
the very next afternoon (January 6th) the tl~er- September, a blizzard sIvePt over the co~n*,
mometer rose to 380 above, a chmge of 700 in ,,SO terrifying the natires of that region that
-Ithirtp-ond hours. at Ule cold came q d n ,and explnrtations of tlle whites odd SCar~elrrecon;& r a t o$ J a n u m and February lvere nearer cile them to the s~cuillgmiracle of SnOT.
Follo~vingthe coldest June hi the history of
.-the normal winter weather.
cold snap on the 28th of January evidently England came in July last the liottest weather
;..tied to m&e up for lost time ; for in northeru they ever cxpericnced-123" in -the sun. The
- Ontario temperatures ranged from 40" to GO0 heat extended several thousand feet into the
r'Mo1v zero; this wit11 a high ~ v i ~ lf'ollo\vcd
d
n iur; and a n air pilot going 100 nliles an hour
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to discard his coat. I t was theorized that the

heat was caused by the explosion of a dump of
German shells at the Camp of Domeger. Wind o m within a radius of one and one-half miles
were broken, fragments of the shells fell hvothirds of a
away, but
One was
There were many deaths from the heat, however.
At Bazra, in Asiatic Turkey, in A u ~ s t 719217
the thermometer stood at 12S0, and the toll of
life was heary. This heat wave rested over
nearly the whole of Europe- A severe drouth
)in July and August, lg21,extended Over a lar@
part of Europe wl~ilethey mere having their
heat wave. Glaciers in Switzerland receded.
Normally, from January to June England gets
eleven inches of rainfall, but in 1921 she got
about half the amount. Belgium was also hit
hard. Ireland suffered a t this time; and in
October, 1021, tliere was an excess of heat and
rain shortage that was world-wide, the worst
for the preceding fifty years. For the five
months preceding July the rainfall in London
was only n t r d e over four inclies, the water
shortage being the worst for sisty-four years.
.Water rationing was common, and in some
places mater was selling at two cents a bucliet.
The river Shannon in Ireland, the largest on
the British Isles, had dried up to such an extent
that it could be waded across in many places.
During this terrible drouth a foolish prayer
was offered for the postponement of rain because the first Monday in August is a Bank
Holiday, which depends upon fair weather;
and many thoughtlessly said: "Amen."
The year 1921 was New York's hottest and
driest on rccorrl. The temperature was an
aggregate of 1,043" above normal; the rainfall
was 10YLinches less. New York's coldest ycnr
was 1875, when the average tempcraturc was
4S.G0. Thc avcrngc ten~pc!.aturcfor iifty years
has been sligl~tlyunder 52".
Following the drouth in 1921, some one in
describizq it said :

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caused
and the surrounding district
It is
Jlule the United states known since the.
inaua-ation
of the Weather Bmean, 1871. But .,i
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following
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was very drJ in New -.
York; and shrubs, bushes, and many grasses
,re
klled.
sometimes rain is a hindrance, as in thi
case
of Napoleon, when he was hindered from making .
an earlier attack on Wellington at Waterloo.
B~~ sometimes
it is an advantage; for ~
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J, Carter attributed his
to the
of his first melodrama, lvSch
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on the as a resdtof a heavy
sth of J ~ 1889.
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according to
~ e v o i n t - A farmer wants dry meather and
sunshine so that .he can put up his hay; his
have
rain so that his cows
more grass-to give more milk to get mom
money, to get more land, to
more ws,
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OGS are produced by the condensation of
moisture in the air near the surface of the
earth, or it may be that a cloud has descended
and enveloped the surroundings. Cold air paasing over warm water will produce a fog. W a ~ m ,
moist air passing over cold land will prodace
the same result. The meeting of cold currents
from the Arctic ocean with the warm waters of
the Gulf Stream southeast of Newfoundland
produces a perpetual fog. Paget Sound has
consiclcmblc fog. The fogs in London are proverbially dense, and a person not only sees the
fog hut' feels it and smells it. I n November,
1321, the fog was the densest in twenty years:
trains, cnl) drivers, pedestrians, everybody, hrrd
to stop right where they vere and wait for the
fog to lift. At times this fog mould roil like a
huge blanket with varying degrees of thickness.
reporter said:
'YL"he old spheroid known as the earth is emerging
from what some human diagnosticians might c a l l a
pays )B a year in ouh for 6i.

mere attmk
meteoro108c31 mumps' It has been
accompanied ?y an intermittent fever, manifested in a
world-wide heat wave of unusual lcngth nnd intensity,
in spite of crisiSs and relapses4nrthqu&es, tidal waves,
idoudbursts, typhoons, wnterspouts, hnilstorms, etc."

fog, besides breathing 22,400,000,000 sooty particles of

the fog every day during the season. Scientists by
apparatus are able to weigh
mevcl of
fog,
The latest estimate of tho weight of a henvy fog covcring the 413,494 acres of Metropolitan Lundon is etatud
As late as October water burst through the at the South Kensington meteorological o h to be
Gruben glacier in the Bernese Oberlnud, Switz- 900,000 tons."

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London Herald says :

"There aro many things to be said against a, fog as a

form of hmnan lung-fodder. Bat there are just one or
two things to be said in its defence. Fog is a democrat,
a leveler, a practitioner of fraternity. It puts us dl in
the pcasoup together. No amount of moncy can dispel
- a fog. .
A real fog is a salutary warning to tha
" p p l e who are always chattering about the triumph of
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But in October, 1922, it was demonstrated at

Pittsburgh, Pa, that a fog could be diminished;
for a successful esperiment was conducted on
the Uonogahela river. Au attempt was made
to lay a con~pleteblanket of oil on the river, but
the surface to be covered was so extensive that
the mixture, which spread quic!dy, became too
attenuated wholly to choke off the vapor. This
is too txpensive a method to meet with great
enthusiasm, unless there could be a tau placed
upon the people of that locality.
'When the frost is on the pumpkin" it is on
everything else. It is a beautifier. Those who
have not seen frost on trees, shrubbery, telephone wires, and window panes, do not know
the sublimity of that kind of scenery. When
frost is in season no one objects to it, but frost
out of season is damaging; in the spring, to
the blooming and fruiting of the trees and garden plants ;and in the fall, to the proper maturing of late crops. A heavy late spring frost
may destroy all the prospective fruit in large
areas; such as apples, peaches, oranges, etc.
Alongthe 45" latitude, beginning in TVisconsin and extending west for over 300 miles, frost
rarely nips anything in the bud. The cold of
winter hangs on so tenaciously that when it
does let go, and the sap begins to liven up the
trees and shrubbery, the spring is so l"ar along
that Jack Frost seeks his hibenlaling quarters
in the far nort11. F o r some reason cherries do
not &.well in Uinnesota, while plum trees will
bear * i n abundance. However, killing frosts
visited the northwestern statcs last fall as
early a s September 14th, but after that it mas
unseasonably warm until after Sew Tear's.

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methods have been employed to exAMANY
periment in min-making. Sprayiug the

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;-,,.explosives, conjuriui, prayers, m d electrio
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wit11 pronomiccd success. Elijah, the prophet

of the Lord, prayed that there might be no :
rain; and none fell for three and one-half years.
Tllen he prayed for rain, and a drenching rah
vzns the response.
The Weather Man looks down upon the bringing of rain by any nrtilicid means. He claim
that it will dry up wiiat wetness there is without
producing more. Airplanes have been employed
to throw electrified sand into clouds to make
them shed their tear drops, and witb some degree of success; but it seems to be too much of (
an undertaking to be practical. Scientists, of '
course, are behind the rain-making esperiments.
It is claimed that the droplets of v s t e r in the
air are formed about dust particles; for even '
the infinitesimal electroil lias served a s a nucleus
of condensation in laborntory tests.
Sand particles, charged with positive electricity (the electrons are negative), serve to bring
about the coalescence of vapor particles which,
when accumulated to a certain size, gravitate
to earth as rain. On the theory that a fog is
simply a cloud on the ground, the chemists snp
porting the rain-malring idea say that eleotrical
sand will cause it to be precipitated and d i s a p
pear. An experiment with electrified sand Last
year a t Dayton, Ohio, i s said to have brought
minor success.
A very unscientific and irreverent method of
producing rain is the Baal method-by prayer
a d supplication either to an ~mknoundeity o r
to n deity unknonn by those who pray. The
natives of India have a unique way of appeding to their rain-god. The rain-maker hangs his
assistant, head dounward, and pulls him back
and forth until the rain comes. In Africa, if the
rain-m&cr fnils to produce rain when the attempt is made, he is put to death.
Ever since the clays of childhood me have
heard that explosives produce rain. This tra- 1
clition oddly enough goes back to the centuries 4
before gunpowder was used; but then the
rain was caused by the clash of the weapons
against shields and armor. I t is said that the
Weather Bureau vouches for the fact that great
fires sometimes cause rain. The heated air rises
in volumes, condensing the moisture of the air,
forming clouds; and rain results.
hfr. C. U. BstGeld, of Cdifonlia, is said to
be a rsin-roalting artist. H e used a huge tank'
in which the mystic chemical mixture was a n - 71
fined. This tank \\-as transported to the p h
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where the rain mas wanted. By

ical the mixture started to
brew bre\ted ffie man in the
joy or sorrow began to cry. I t is
i n July, 1921, Hat&ld caused weepings in
Washington state to the extent of 4.24 inches.
Then some farmers in Oregon offered him
$3,000 an inch to produce rain for ?hem. The
next year Hatfield appeared a t the Vatican,
being anxious to explain his secret to the Pope:
TVe have not heard of him since.
"St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain,
Far forty days it will remain.
St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair,
For forty days 'twill rain nae mair."

Xarconi predicts control of rainfall by radio.

All the work, he says, will be done by the sun;
man will merely press the button. The developers of mater power and of radio transmission
of electrical energp produced by water power
mill become exporters of electrical energy to
less fortunately situated countries.

Insurance for Damage by Storms

4TIblES much damage is done by haiL

Periodic Weather Changea and S i g ~ 8

season that massive fields of growing corn were

reduced to poor fodder for the cattle, trees were
stripped of every vestige of foliage, shingle
roofs were so shattered that complete re-roofing
was necessal7, everg window pane on three
sides of the houses was brolten in, and chickens
were killed by the thousands.
Sometimes snow mill pile np on the roof of a
bnilding until it caves in. Ice-floes will occasiond l r ja a bridge untili t dvesway. Hurricanes
leave in their train wrrcliage, dcnlolished buildings, the maimed and tlie killed; ships are dnmaged; crops are ruined, and whole orchards
uprooted.
But the dangers from hurricanes and typhoons a r e limited to the areas which they
frequent. Tornadoes are more numerous, and
are liable to spread their destruction in their
narrow baths over mucIl more of the earth's
s ~ ~ r f a c'Strictly
e.
spcalcing, a cyclone is n cird a r air current covering a v i d e area and is
not dangerous.
The taking ont of insurance for (lamaye accruing from rain \\.as considered n novelty until

are periodic changes of weather .

which we shall not attempt to explain in
this article. We ~~e the seasonal changes
attending the tmrth's relation to the S u n in its
swing in its orbit. The moon has its seasonal1
influence- 'J?here are also storm cycle8 of about
seven days, and the reactionary storm periods1
in between. A l the planets exert their influence, '
diminished or intensified, upon our atmospheria
conditions, according to their relative position. i
The "Bmckner period" is a system by which1
weather propostication may be guessed a&,
The larger cycle is thirty-five years, in which1
are cycles extending from five to ten years.
There will be thirty-five years of dryness, and I
then thirty-five years of wetness. The London 1
Daily Herald informs us that me entered the1
BruclCner dry period in 1921.
There is a "sunspot period" of 55.6 years,'
also. These are cycles of cold periods. The
years 1813,1814 and 1815 led up to 1816, wl~ich,
i s known a s the "year without a summer." We !
are now in the years leading up to 1927, whenL.
the cold spell is again due to culminate. Pel.

Hailstones a s large a s hen's eggs have fallen

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of July, and it was thought that Labor Day]

exceeded that figure. There was a policy writ-;
ten covering the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, ths
premium of which is said to have been $75,000,,
Colleges insure against rain when there is to.
be a football game. State and county fairs;
also try to cover the loss from rainy weatheq
by covering with rain insurance. I t is said thati
summer hotels 1il;ewise carry rain insurance for;
the week ends, and so do also department stores~
on days when special bargains are advertised. .-iI
The consumer, of course, in the end Pays the;
''freighf', together with the taxes, the i n m , i
the overhead, the excess profit demanded withi
the spirit of the times, the interest on the invest-(
ment, e t ~ . Satan's kingdom, Eke Pharaoh's, b:
been a hard taskmaster; and what a load mill be
lifted from the shoulders of humanity when
Canaan, the Lord's kingdom rule of righteow
ness and truth, is reached 1

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1921, it mas

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hapa the cold spring of 1923 was the beginning

of that period.
But another theory is advanced that not all
of the cold should be attributed to the sunspot
msliima of that year, but partically to the terrific explosioll of the ~ ~ o l c a nTolnboro
o
in the
island of Sumbawa, Dutch East Indies, the year
. before (1815) which filled the upper atmosphere
- with hundreds of cubic miles of fine dust. I n a
few months this fine dust covered the earth and
lasted for over two years, interfering with the
proper radiation of heat from the sun.
The prophecies seeill to show that there will
/ b e due in the late fall of 1925 another explosion
of somethhlg which will fill the earth with small
particles of sometlhg-wc Inlow not what. This
time it may be a sylllbolic explosion, antityping
the blowing off of the lid of the Teapot Dome,
which has filed the upper atmosphere with
great hunlrs of reputations and left the stains
of oil everywhe5e.
Signs indicating weather conditions are numerous; some are foolish and superstitious, and
some are based upon fact. Some go by the
goose bone; some by bullfrogs. Some can tell
, ( I ) from the coat of f u r the skunk takes on
svhether a winter d l be severe o r mild; and
from the may the squirrels gather the walnuts
whether the winter \dlbe early or late.
F o r outlying settlements to be surrounded by
great paclcs of wolves indicates cold weather.
The itching of frosted feet is a sure harbinger
of warmer weather within forty-eight llours.
Nearly every one has his s i p ; and it is according to where one lives as to how it works. A
native of africa grieved the rain goddess, thus
'causing a drouth; and the native paid the penalty with his life.
The following by E. B. (Farmer) Dunn, formerly of the U. S. Weather Bureau, taken from
Sciencs .and Iaventioqt, is interesting :
"Clouds are not dwvays an incliwtion of rain or mow.
Certain clouds are really heralds of fair wcnther. A
mottled sky, with light drifting clouds, forctclls fair
rather.
comes before the min, the squall
be of short urntion. If rain comes before the nilid it
may last mThour or two. The heavier the rain the
quicker 'the squall passes. . . I n e n fog sets in before
midnight, the following day is lilcdy to be ralny ; but fi
the day wd
a p p * h fie momlng after
flir.
A general increase of cloudiness at .gunset
nin or mow. T& of cloud forming a dappled
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clouds forming in the north or r e s t with a southerly ot
easterly mind indicates rain or s n o ~ . An eesmssivs
clearness of the atmosphere is an indication of rain or
snow to follow r i t h i n twenty-four. hours A low, overcast sky, with light northerly vind in winter, foretells
snow. Ragged clouds moving rapidly indicate wind and
rain. Dew indicates a fair day. Kind or a cloudy
night prevents frost or dew. A yellom sunset foretells
rain ; a bright straw pllow, r i n d and rain; and yellow
blending into orange, fair weather. A red sunset, a fair
day. A red sunrise a wet day. A gray sunset, a vet
day. A gray sunrise, a fair day. Dark Indian gay
sunrise or sunset, min. Pale green at sunset, rain.
Combined green and red sunset or sunrise, probably rain.
A red disc a t sunset means fair and warmer. Cool
mind over a warm surface of waterI or a warm rind .
over a cool rmrfacc or water, creates fog. Sudden fall
in temperature causes sl~owers. Suddcn rise in temperature, fair weather. High temperature and high humiditp, thunder-storms."
"Not till clouds have hung above us,
BInki~igdnrli thc bright blue LC,
Do we sce the real beauty
God has made for every eye"

freaks and Pranks of Nafure

RY now and then there is a surprising
variation of weather from 1\-11at is normally
expected. This nlny be experienced in any time
of the year, anci almost anywhere. That the
cart11 is under a terrific strain in keeping her
orbital equilibrimn anlid the attractions from
the other planets of our solar system, some
astronomers have oftcn noted. Sometimes
when it is dry, it is d r y ; and \vlien it rains it
pours. A hot 3fay may be follo~t-edby a cold
June; j. cold September may be followed by a
warm October.
When the long drouth of 1921 mas brolren in
Switzerland, rains fell in such torrents that railroad bridges on high elevations were washed
away. There are some localities situated between kills ml~erethere is no attempt to build
bridges. The stream beds are dry lnost of the
time, but after a hard rain the strezuns d l
~\velln<th such rapidity that an automobile
orertn~ccnin the ~ d s oft one lvould have to be .
nban~ollecl
to its fate. ~h~
be
impassable for a day or tmo, and within a week
Will be dry again. Congressman Rainey and
wife had such an experience in Pike Comty,
m n o i s , a few Years ago.
Last May there was a blizzard which extended

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as.fnr as Texas. A fem- years ago in.the latter night, clouds or no clonds, the.ram=$ontih$e&g
: part of May there was sucll a heavy snow stor-~n This last phenomenon mas explained.:by:4~e~
Central Illinois that trains were tied up for owner of the premises, that there wer6 el*?:
twenty to foity-eight hours. S o t even snow- feet of sand covering a clay foundation; W b Z
p1on.s could get through ,in some places. But the sand was always moist, and that on aeeounff$
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of the warm weather moisture wonld rise in W ,
the snow melted quic1;lp and soon \\-as gone.
air, condense, and return to the earth. SOmany:,
rn Sonth Africa, February, 1923, (their people
got to visiting the place that h a y ' . .
snrmqer) the crops mere suffering from .a long
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Was e h a r e d for adIIlitttlIlCe.-':
and terrifflng drouth in the inlmd a$eas of
I t mas reported in August, 1921, that a w i . Cape Colony; and less than a thousand miles
liorth iu Mashonalancl the natives mere resort- clbnic sandstorm disturbance carried more than,
ing to human sacrifice in order to save the 13,000,000 tons of dustsandclirt from New Ides--crops. Yet in the Transvaal, n-hich lies between ico to Michigan, Ohio, Vermont and New Hamp- ,the fxo parched regions, there was wetness shire during a previous winter. Official records :'
abore normal. This was a very ullusual thing. show that the storm traveled a t an average
A nireless expert laid the fre&ish meather velocity of forty-eight miles an hour and blew:
to the radio. But a scientist furnishes a n alibi the dust, which it snatched from the pl& of
for the radio, saying that there is not enough the southmestern states, to the fertile stretches'
electricity used in broadcasting to affect the of the Corn belt and northeastern states- No one
doubts that the wind may transport thousands
atmospheric conditions.
~ d or ,
Tlle abnormal results of the convnIsions of of tons of rock material a t h ~ n s J-t~ile8
more,
but
by
what
Process
the
13,000,000
tons in
nature b e b n to be noticed about Augnst, 1920.
this
stance
mere
estimated
we
have
no
guess*
Since then drouths h m e cawed the starvation
of over 2,000,000 people; millions of fish have
dieci in Europe alone. Floods have cawed Forecaating andlia Uncertainties
damages to the amount of $15,000,000; and FORECASTING the -ant of rainfall by
hunclrecls have been drowned. Tliere have been
the ocean temperature is what Dr. G. F.
two damaging I\-aterspouts ; haiIstones in Cuba JlcE~venhas undertaken to clo. His observations
destroyed three llruldred houses, and many were over the Southern California coastal region lead
killed; heavy hailstor~nswere reported in Rome to the belief that when ocean temperatures are
and Greece; cyclones have Been numerous; cooler than usual the rainfall will be heavier,
lightning strnck many oil wells in Texas and and when the summer seas are warmer the rain-'
Ilesico; glaciers nielted and flooded great areas. fall will be less than the average. h fall of one
Thcre have been no less than t\venty-five vol- degree in temperature corresponds on the avercanic eruptions ;and no less than seventy earth- age to an increase of about two inches of rainqual;cs, of wliicll the most destructive I V ~ Sthe fall.
one in Japan; a i d two great ocean currents
But there is a saying that ali signs fail in dry
Iial-e been shifted.
\\-eather. A man, in noting the severity of
itcather, observed that when he lived
Some of the really odd things are
f o l I o ~ ~ s 3Iarch
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ni011th he always lived during the
I n January, 1 9 3 , in nortlicrn S e w York state, t l ~ r o n d that
) the snow v a s sixteen feet deep 011 a level; in rr.mai11iler of;tllc year.
.. October, 1922, a t Alexandria. Va., the rain fell
One writer says that hundreds of thousands .
in n $$at ten feet square: lllillions of frogs of SCTV
Yorlrers armnge.their pleasures and
disturbecl the slumber of Junction City, ICansas, business affairs, often months in advance, on
after tn-enty-four hours of llarcl rain; in No- special advice of the Weather Man. h o t h e r ,
vember, 19", there was a rain of bloocl upon writer says t11a.t meteorological conditions are
Monte Cqrlo \vluch lasted one and one-half all askc~v,that the atmosphere is behaving in
honrs, covering the roofs, roads, gardens and such a fnsiiion that i t bames all obse~.vation.
sllrubberY%ith the sticlq crilnson.
I t often happens that nhen the Weather 3ln.n
111 Norember, 1921, near Pnrl<ersl)ur,~,
JV. Va., saps "rain" it is fair; a n d n-11cn 1le sacs "Sai?'
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not blame him too sevvrerail, fell for more tllall in-0 ~\-cc]csnpoll 3. patc]l i t rains. Eut ~ v r 11111st
of yroulld about t\\-crlty feet square. Day and ly; for admittetlly he knows n o t l ~ i ~of~ gc,auses

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behind low and high pressures. His barometer

u s him the pressure mhere he i s located If
it were not for the telegraph and radio, he would
not know any more than anybody else. If a
Unorthwestei' hits the western coast at the rate
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miles an hour, he
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of it, forecast the probable
conditions
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500 miles in advanoe of the stolnr
The
'Orecasting and weather reports in
the press are of enonnous importance to
'lasses
e s ~ e c i a uto~ the agriculturists and stocl~raisers ;and until a better method
is
the people and popdarized7
the present measurably unsatisfactory method
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will have sufiice. But every0ne
weather conditions
Own a
eter and f o l l o ~its warnings.
Munich boasts of having the first tower baroin*eter clock. It has a huge dial, neazly twenty feet
. i n diameter, and is situated on the upper out.
side wall of the Nuseum tower; the g;iant indicator shows people for miles around mlietlier
the weather will be good, bad, or indifferent:
Some claim that everyone is more irritable in
hot weather than in cold. Divorce proceedings
usually start in the summer, for the reason that
there is, apparently, a general let down for all
the family, Perhaps 'this theory is advanced
because heat expands and cold contracts the
physical organism.
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When
nature is a ~ l o m*th life, when
verdnre i s springing forth, and \\*hen birds are
mating and happily bringing to maturity their
birdlets, maybe there is an expanding of the
heart-strings in a yearning f o r reciprocal love
which is not forthcoming.
Weather unquestionably, the high and the low
pressure, has something to do wit11 tlie moods.
~~t whether it be one of quicl;ened activity or
h y o r should i t not tend to aflect d l alike,
and if each be rightly exercised should there not
be maintained an equipoise of heart and niind
that would be conducive to the conjugal Bnd
home relations?
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Did God intend the weather to make one peevish and fretful and another peaceftd and contented, or did IIe intencl that onc should be cross
a s a bear and the other as meek as 3 lhmbl
Charging divorces up to seasonal changes of
the wentller is nothing short of subterfuge.
,-. . Knowing how weak we are we sl~ould11ot be
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bend our efforts toward righteousness and

truth and virtue and sobriety.
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Arthur Brisbane, referring to our earth-home j
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a d the atmosphere me hein, said:
lire in a rapid^ rel-olvini5 m m d o d bt~lalad
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hothouse mangement. The atmosphere ~ r o k t s
from inconceirnble cold outside. The nrth's c m t is a
shield behveen us and liquid fire inside the earth. Thus
bebeen htense
heat and intense
we live
warmed 0. a ball turning around a thousand miles an
hour, goingarollud the su at a speed much pafpr
than a million
g
If our atnlorp~cre
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swept away) ST
frecc;e to death in r second. Iftg sblid puud
yalished,
nhodd melt like snoaflakes landing on a red-hot store. K e should be grateful
for such a finely adjusted hothouse residence, instead of
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"Ho~v1)enutiful is the rain!

After the dust and heat,
I n the ljroild aiid fiery street,
I n the narrow laneHow beautiful is the rain."-Lot~~fcll~~.

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\tQen I snw an O M lio15e stnnclill: iiear, on tile street
IIe looked nt me sadly, with gentle, brolvn eye,
And lt seemed that lie whispered. a s I passed him by:

"Kind friend. I am cold. In jour great overcoat

And your mumer 111;tt'sfastelled so snug 'roulid your tlimrt,
You ncror coultl ;?less, since I-ou are so warm,
HOW cllilly I am, starldilr:: Irere in the storm.
"The grocer's boy rlrora me: and horn I did dash
Down tlie street. up the Iriil, nt the stiug of his lash!
wliiie lie sliouted, aucl U ~ F Lme~ the faster to gu
On my poor, weary l e ~ t, h r o ~ hthe Ice and tlle snow.

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A great many otiicr old lrorscs like me.
who. for sorirel~ody'spleasure. are urged to
Then leR, unprotectd. in storm o r In s u n

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just nn old liorse, and I can't speak
But if I could talk. I would say 'please be kind.
For though I nm only n horse. It is true.
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I threw It across him, and fnstened It there.
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A Review of 'the News of the World

(Broadcast from \\'ATCHTOWEIL WBCR, on a wave lenqth of 914 meters, by the Editor)

EARLY seven years ago Smith, Hauser &

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McIsaac, of New Pork, were given acontract
for the construction of Camp Jleade, erecting
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temporary buildings and sheds, and installing a

water and sewer system. The profit was to be
a percentage of the cost of the work, but the fee
was not to exceed $250,000. The United States
has paid for this camp $18,000,000.
The slipshod way in which the government,
'does its business may be seen in the fact that
only now haa the Department of Justice taken
action to recover $7,000,000, claiming that this
is in excess of what it should have been. Who
can tell why this matter was not investigated
before payment was made7 The complaint
charges fraud, graft, and misuse of government
funds on the following items: (1)Large quantities of material wasted; (2) excess employ&
used in unnecessary ~ o r l;i (3) persons employed
without regard to clnnlifications; (4) persons
en~cmrae@d
to Ioaf rather than to work; (5) unskilled labor paid at the rate of skilled labor;
(6) the same men paid on more than one payroll; (7) failure to use proper organization;
(8) delays in the construction, thereby increasing the cost to the United States.

Great Britain
HE new Labor Government, havingmitnessed
with joy the transformation of a coal miner
and nn ex-railroad porter into barons, 113s
added the further achievement of cutting cloxrn
the cost of the court dress from $750 to $75another drift toward the good old American way
of doing things. I n America, when a grocer or
a lawyer or a blacksmith feels that he can afford
t o go to Congress, he is generally pretty well
satisfied if he can afford the $75 necessary for
ffie coat, trousers, and vest which go to make up
his court suit. But after he has been in Mashington for awhile, and has gotten into what
one of Alr. Harriman's admirers referred to as
"the inner circle into which the rest of us may
not enter," he is all too liable to change the $75
outfit for a $7.30 one; that is,he is until Senator
Wnlsh or so~nebodyelse comes along and blows
the cover 'off the teapot. In thcse days of
unrcst mcFupheava.1 'a politician's life is not
a happy one.'
There are twenty-three members of the present British Parliament who served prison sen-

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tences during the days of the madness, due to

their stand against the World War.
Winston Churchill, who, during the World
War, fitted out, or financed out of the British
treasury, several of the expeditions whiih attempted the overthrow of the Soviet Government of Russia, has just been defeated for reelection to Parliament.

T H E o ~ t l o o kfor peace in Emope continuen

none too bright. On this subject tho Londo11 O b s e ~ v e rsays that by comparisop with .
her neighbors, France is now the strongest . :
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armed power 1cnow-n since the days of hsrrr. ,
She has three-quarters of a million h o o p , on :I
a peace-footing, with slvams of machine guns, ".
and a p q m d e n t n c e of airflotillas of
planes in the proportion of ten to one. More- ,
over, although Germmy, Austria, Hungary, and,
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Bulgaria are disarmed, Europe has now a

million more soldiers on a pace-footing than
she had before the outbreak of the World War.

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king business is getting worse and worse.'

THEDuring
thcse times of the high cost of

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living, practically everybody else has been able :

to get an increase in his wages. But it seems
that the king of Belgium is on the payroll for
the eame old amount that he mas on before the
World Tar broke out; and not only that but .
recently some ungrateful Socialist actually wanted to cut his pay still more. If this king
business gets any worse, the few monarchs that
are left in Europe may find it necessary to take
up some other trade. Meantime, the d n d
business continues very good; bat how long it '
vill last nobody can say.
Denmark

NARK supplies forty percent of

the
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world's exported butter. It is claimed for
the Denmarlr butter that although it is of a rich
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golden color it does not contain a particle od

coloring matter; and that a group of six Danes,
once a weck, names the price of butter for the
world.
The Danish method of feeding cattle is to
tetl~crthe cows in a line across the field so that
the grass is cropped as systematically as though

mowed with a mowing machine. By the time

the cows have crossed the field once, the grass
on the f a r side is long enough to start over
again. In cold weather the cattle are blanketed
as they feed in the open fields.
Germany

OUNT Von BERNSTORFI,former German

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ambassador to the United States, is out
with the statement that America alone won the
,World War, and that no settlement of the qunrre1 between France and Germany will ever be
made ~ t iAmerica
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intervenes. But just a t this
moment America has so many Teapot Dome
statesmen on its hands, and is so deeply interested in the outcome of current investigations that
she has little heart to interfere in European
squabbles.
Conditions in Germany continue to improve.
2. recent report shows a decrease of 30,UOO in
the number ,of unemployed. At the same t h e it
is said that a t least one-fourth of all the school
children are in desperate ueed of food; and that
'diseases rare before 1014 are now common, duc
to lack of milk and green vegetables. This want
of food is seen in the fact that twenty-five percent of the patients in children's hospitals are
sufEering from tuberculosis.

Hungary
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T NOW appears that the persons who are
responsible for smuggling the money and
valuables out of Ijungary, and thus bringing
about the depreciation of the Hungarian crown,
were the very detectives employed by the Government and entrusted by the Government with
the task of stopping this very smuggliii~. This
is our own modern American way of doing
things. The Teapot Dome has shown u s that
the surest way for a man to make a great sum
of money in the United States is to get into
some place of honor and trust in government
. servick, <particularly, it would seem, in the
Department of the Interior, which is and h?s
always Leen, a Mecca for grafters. After this.
revelation of up-to-dateness, those mho are engaged in the Americanization of the ITungnrians
. in oar millst will no doubt breathe casier,
feeling thabthey have less to do.

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lending nloncy to a brother a t a less rate of
interest than the going rate charged to other
concerns. If the same rule was to be applied
to American bankers, the jails mould be fd
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NDER the general pidance and direction
of France, Roumania lzas been engaged in
subjugating what x a s once the Russian state of
Bessarabia. The Bessarabians are not enthnsiastic about being absorbed, ho\vever. As a fi
consequence martial la17 has been declared, and -.-,
the prisons are full to bursting. These moves
have greatly disturbed the Russians, and hsve
added to the possibility of an explosion in the . .
Balkans in the near future.
Bulgaria
PECULIm, yet seen~inglydesirable condition prevails amongst the people of
Bulgaria. The people in gencrel l ~ n r ethe lauzli
on the leaders. Tlle p e n t y of Seuilly lias made
i t impossible for Eulruria to lllaintain a stm~ding army of over 20,000, made u p of voluntary
recruits, enlisting for not longer than t~velve
months.
The Bulgarians are a peasant people; and
now that the rigors of luilitnry e e i ~ i c ecannot he
imposed upon them, they smile a t the recmiii~lg
officers and go about their bushless of tilling t l ~ e
soil and herding their flocks. The Government
has tried to have the trenty annuI!ed, or to have
it changed so that conscription might be peimissibie; but their efforts have proven of no avail.
Italy
LIEBODY, somewhere, sometime, made a
O'statement to the effect that tltc best possible
form of government is a benevolent despotism.
There seems to be a measure of truth in this.
I-Iowever much n7e may deplore the loss of the
liberties of the Italian people in the seizure of
the government by Bfmsolini and his follo~~ers,
there is no denying the fact that, in two years,
unemplopent in I t d y has been reduced to onethird of what it was, and the number of days'
nrorlc lost annually through strikes has been
reduced to one-thirtieth. Industries and the
general prosperity of the cowltry hsve increased by leaps and bounds.
The League of Nations is once more proved
to be an international joke in the annexation,

of Finme by Italy. I t will be remembered that

Nr. Wilson was exceedingly anxious that Finme

should not go to Italy. But Mr. Wilson is dead,
and Fiume is even now more certainly Italian
territory than i t was the moment it was seized
by the poet D ' h n n z i o . From the moment the
tonn was seized, no one who has had experience
with the way things go in this wodd believed
that Jugo-Slavia would ever get the city back.
Religion 'in the East
HE business of reIigion in the East seems
to be badly tangled In Russia, a Roman
Catholic Archbishop, Zepliak, has been banished
because the Soviet Government believed that he
interfered vith their administration of Russian
affairs. In Turkey, the ruler of the Turlcs,
,\I.ustapha Kemal Pasha, has not only chased
out the Caliph, head of the Mohammedan
religion, but now proposes to do the same thing
for the Grand Rabbi of the Jews. Probably it
is a good thing for the Pope that he has his desk
in Rome instead of Constantinople, or he might
lose his job, too.
There is a great awakening among the Turks.
I t seems that a real Tmldsh Repnblio is in
process of development The leaders of the
niovement seem definitely determined to westcrnize the country. The schools of learning are
~ro~vded,
with more schools in process of construction. However, one h e r i c a n school was
recently closed on the charge that the principal
taught the Bible. I n a nate to the French
Government the Turkish Government has declared definitely against the teaching of religion
of any ldnd in the schools of the country. This
idea was probably taken from Russia.

Pales tine
R since the advent of Zionism the Jewish
people have been divided regarding its
feasibility. Interest in the movement w i l l blaze
up tvith enthusiasm for a time, and then mill clie
d o n n 'Sometimes the glow of devotion Tvill
seem to be almost extinguished; but the hope of
the Jew of being rehabilitated in the land of
his fathers is so great that the movement tdces
on ever 'increasing life. As opposing Jews
become acquainted with the wonderful strides in
the increasing activities in agriculture, vineyards, orchards, the building of highways, and
constmction of buildings, they have their faith
in the promises of God to their fathers revived;

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Zionistic activities they
ers of the movement.
Doctor Joseph silverman,
Temple ~maG-El,was until his recent trip;te2
Palestine an omoser of the Zionistidmovement:i
I n his advocacy of Zionimn in a-recent qmch$
delivered in New York city he severely mi&!
cized those who opposed the movement. H
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"A.n)r Jew who wilfully & d m the

rebuild the Jew-ish homeland is injuring his people and:
hls falth. Any Jew who remaim aloof lays himeell
open to the charge of indiflereuce to the faith of 8';
large part of Israel.''
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Professor Elwood Mead, of k e TJniversiB it

California, has made an exhaustive survey of.
the various enterprises and conditions in Palestine. In speaking before 300 Jews recently he
gave a gloving description of the possibilities
of this once barren land, which holds enoh a
sacred place in the hearts of Christians, which is
now being reclaimed, and which will eventually
again flow with milk and honey. He stated
that Palestine is destined to become the California of Asia which should result from the
cooperation of Bmerican Jews. Science, skill,
and industry can make the plains of Esdraelon
and the valleys of Jezreel and of the Jordan a .
picture of rural charm and agriculturalopdenoe.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, head of the 5onist
World Organization, has said that Palestine ia
capable of absorbing 3,000 immigrants a month. '
About 1,000 Jewish immigrants per month are'
wending their way toward Palestine a t present.
In the past three years these immigrants have
built 2,000 houses, have planted 2,500,000 trees, ,constmcted many roads, drained swamps, and.
planted many olive and orange groves. Accord- '
ing to the Bible, the Jew w i l I be restored to the ,
promised land, the land itself mill become Like
the Garden of Eden, and the Jew will be
restored to covenant relationship with Jehovah. A wonderful future, therefore, is opening up for
this much misunderstood and persecnted people, ,
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Persia
HE East continues to seethe with the influence of the West.. Persia is feverishly
agitating the formation of a republic. Bfembens
of the national assembly, who advocated this,
have been attacked with fists in the Honse of
Parliament; but this.probably oldy hastena tho

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be altogether out of work in the Shah business. attack upon the United States on account of the
failure of the United States Government to veto
hdia
the California Alien Land Lam.
NE of the results of the World W a r was to

give the people of India a Parliament, the

tluties of which, however, have been closely
'defined and limited by the British Government.
'Jnst at present, the Indian Parliament is on the
war-path, refusing to adopt the finance bill on
the grounds that the entire governmental systern of India is unfair to the people of India,
and a disgrace to civilization. The refusal of
the Parliament to pass this tax measure really
accomplishes next to nothing, llowever; for the
Viceroy of India and his Council, appointed by
the British Crown, can put the law into operation whether the Parliament likes it or not.
Later advices state that the finance bill has
been passed by the Council of State, axid certified by the Viceroy. This is equivalent to overruling the Assembly.
china
because the
C H I N A is in a bad
are supposed
protect the
have degenerated into bandits. Aknost all the
is carried On by rivers.
inland trade of
times in the course of their journeys, the
boats proceeding up and d o n these rivers are
stopped by these official bandits, and each time
are compelled to pay taxes for the privilege of
going further. I\loveover, several of the provinces of China are virtually independent, and
'charge what taxes they see fit.

Mexico
rooting out of the United States of the
THC
~nultitudeof fake oil promoters has causcd
them to retreat to the IIesican capital; nnd
from there they send out their letters to addresses obtained from their confederates across
the line. The postoffice officials are now investigating these companies, who are receiving such
large quantities of mail.
Some of the land that is described in these
letters exists only upon the maps, and most of
the companies have never applied for concessions. Other tracts are sitnated in the hottest
part of llesico, where no American could lire.
a f t e r h e r i c a n s spend their hard-earned
money and then investigate o r move to their
new home, they find out the true conditions, and
therefore sell out a t a great loss to themselves.
The Obregon Government is buying millions
of dollars worth of surplus war material from
tlie United States, which sales have been made
continuously since january.
~t is said that
eight sales have been negotiated amounting to
over thirty machine p n s , over twenty thousand
rifles, five million rounds of ammnnition, and
eleven irplanes.

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ONDURAS has 1)cen engaged in civil war.
Thus far about 2,000 lives have been lost.
The
capital
changed liands ;and a small squad of
Japan
American blue-jacliets, 167 in number, marched
question of the admission
Japanese 100 miles from the coast into the capital to
~ v m t iss UP 'pin.United States Senah e r i c a n lives and interests. n%en the
tor Phelan of California, an O ~ ~ o n eofn tJ a ~ a - blue-jaclie& entered the capitd they mere fired
nese immigration, declares that 3s,ooo Japanese Upon ; but no darnaTe ~ r a sdone, and a statehave
the ment was prolllptly Issued saying that the fir"gentlemen's agreeme~lt" between Japan and ing was s mist&e. It
a mistake, all right.
Presiden't.Roosevelt in 1908; that they have One hundred and skty-seven
h e r i c a nbluegiven birth to large families; and that it is his* j,dcets in H
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behf that Japan is layhlg
foulldation
0, the
would turn the country \\Tong
,s pornanent colonization on the Pacific const side out trnd hmg it on the fence to dry.
.which will spread quickly to other parts of the
.Nest
Haiti
It is claim& by the W a l l Street Jc.,wnl that
Island of Haiti, which for several years
tbe cause of the loss of so many lives in the
has beell under the control of United States
-:Japaliese earthquake last fall, is thegreat qunl1- troops, is now at peace e v e r j v h r e , and the
tity of oil which the Japanese Government l ~ n d troops have been withdrawn from all interior
in
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FROM CANADA
While these
W I T H f e v exceptions, conditions in Canada efforts to bring about some form of~mioq.th&
have not altered to any appreciable ex- Anglicans in Canada are preparingfor a d o m
tent since yaur correspondent's previous report. with the Roman Church. A conference simile
There are, of course, those in gorernment, finan- to that held in Belgium will be staged h Moncial, and church circles who persist in the prac- treal. The h g l i c a n Bishop, Farthing, is hoping
tice of extracting sunbeams from cucumbers ; that the Roman Catholic Ecumenical Council' inbut since they can succeed in deceiving no one 1925 "may start a new movement in the Roman
who thinks-and most men are thinkefs today Church whereby the accretions to the faith may'
-there is no harm done. The man in the street be laid aside. With these additions to the faith
looks on, and smiles a stoical smile at the sight bnce gone," says the Bishop, "we should rejoice
of tlrese once great and mighty ones amusing indeed to be in communion with the Roman
theniselves with their own vanity.
Church."
In churchianity all is not well. If it be trueThe one important accretion to which A.ngli-.
and it very often is true-that when thieves fall cans take objection is the presumed infallibility
out honest nlen get their due, we may expect an of the Pope. That Bishop Farthing has some
early end of unrighteousness, and the posses- grounds for hope cannot be gainsaid; and this
sion of the land by tile meek of tlie earth. is in line with the statement made in the CatlwChurch union has found its way into politics; lic Register (Toronto), as reported in a preit w i l l come u p for discussion in the Federal vious issue of THE GOLDENAGE,that during
Parliament. What Parliament will do about it, the Ecumenical Council the Pope will admit
that he is not infallible.
I am not prepared to say.
Someone has aptly said that miring religion
Indeed, the revision of the Catholic textbolt,
and politics may be either good or bad, depend- '3utler's Catechism," looks Eke a preparation
ing upon how they are mixed. It is a good thing for the radical changes that will take place in
to shake a little religion into politics; but to Catholic doctrine in 1925, provided the Council
shake politics into religion-n-ell, that's another is permitted to go as f a r a s it now purposes.
Not only are Catholics trimming their sails,
story. The Presbyterians, RIethodists, Congregationalists, et d,are shaldng goodly potions but leaders in other denominational systems
of politics into their religious beverages. Can are, perforce, endeavoring to meet the views ofone wonder, i. e., one who studies his Bible, that their adherents-reasonable, if radical, viewa
Jehovah God looks down and laughs a t the which must be met or, a t least, which cannot
spectacle of those who profess to be His minis- be ignored. The word has gone forth that the
ters presenting themselves (by proxy, of course) churches must no longer wndone war.
before 233 lajmen, tlre most of them political
These leaders now admit the a e p a t i o n s
tricksters, in order to have their religious ( 1) made by the International Bible Students Assodifferences ironed out?
ciation, that in the name of Christ the churches .
I t is said that seventy-one Catholics, seventy- preached ~vholesale murder. The Chlistian
six Presbyterians, thirty-eight lIetliodists, thir- Guardian says editorially:
ty-four h g l i c a n s , fire Baptists, four Congrcga"Some of us-many of us--are ready to acknowlede
tionnlists, one Church of Christ, one Ilebrew our fault in truest humility, and seek pardon for our
(prol~ablyslioulcl read one Jew), one Unitarian, ignorance and our lack of the spirit of our Musts+. BPd
pone Latter Day Saint, and three nondescripts, . . . never again, under m y condition, mill var ham
compris$ the professed church affilistiolls of the our sanction or our blessmg. . . . We have made up our
to Be Christians-"
members of Canada's Parliament. Of these 118, minds that we must
or just fifty percent, are directly interested in
The reader may draw his o m conclusions
tlie outcome; the others, particularly tlre Roman from these words, particularly the italicized
Catl~olics,qill, ho\vever, assist tllesc hoIy men words.
in their e orts to do that work which one
Thc Presbytcriart Witness says:
preacher ca 1s "the ideal of Jesus Christ";
'-Thrrc can be no doubt that the Church of Chn'st in
namely, to bring the churclies into one hnrmo- its 11n1trc1paparity ho9 the potucr to end war; and when
nious whole by the process of tearing each ~t s p e ~ L tlw
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d~athblnrvwill he given to war as surdx
a; ~t v:a~ ycar; a g to
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These last-minute, or death-bed, repentances strike will matel-ializc is more than lilcely, in .
of the unsettled conditions of lumberjacks
are now of no avail. Hacl these church leaders

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t&en their stand for Christ ten years ago, there

wodd have been no war. Their lamentations,
- now uttered on the eve of Armageddon, but
:..remind ns that "when the devil was sick, the
$. devil 'a saint would be." The words of Jesus,
' addressed to the scribes and Pharisees, are
surely applicable in om day to these modem
hypocrites and vipers. I 'repeat: In churchirrnity all is not well:
Finances are indeed in hard straits. The boast
is that the Canadian dollar is worth one hundred cents; and tlmt, therefore, Canada is safe.
Such reasoning is worthy of a desperate man
in a desperate position. As pointed out in my
previous report, Canada is financially doomed.
How can one reason that he is financially
sound, when he is sunk so far in debt that he
cannot find a way out7 My opinion is that,
financially? Canada is as sonnd as the minds of
the men who offer snch nonsensical premises
for sensible men to swallow.
xo statesman, politician, hander,or
trialist in Canada today knows just how we
stand enancially; and not one of them mill offer
any solution for the present difficulty.
This is not assumed; i t is a fact. The Cans~ , h t + cam
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ada, for January, 1924, contains many staternents by as many prominent business men
few
regarding tile oudook for 1924; a d
these
men admit that
they canpot make any prognostications.
Your correspondent has nothing to gain by
preaching blue ruin. If it were possible for me
to say truthfully that Canada is safe and sound,
I should say so with pleasure. But I cannot.find
any confirmation for any such statement, and
am obliged to say just those things that are
. . . adxnitfed by men who know whereof they speak.
The trouble in British Columbia between the
lumber bosses and the strikers has ceased temporarily. Backed by Boards of Trade and Fed.,
. . eral powy the bosses have won out. But the
strikers, while admitting temporary defeat, are
.,: determines to bring on another strike a t an
I early date; and i t is expected that this wiII
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involve worlmen from coast to coast.
;- : -Inother words, a nation-wide strike is antici:;',a
pated; md opitalists are moving l~cwenand
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ill Alberta.
Port Arthur, it is said, is the Canadian seat
of Bolshevism; for it contains many foreigners, mostly from Finland, who have brought
their radical views to Canada But the fact of
the matter is that the reddest radicals in Canada
are native sons, men of British stock, who have
reached the limit of endurance, and who state
openly that their objective is rerolution.
Before closing this letter, I desire to remove
from the minds of my readers a mistaken notion
that might possibly creep in: That this End of
talk is destructive rather than constmctive.
The cry today, I know quite well, is for some-thing constructive. We complain that editors of
our daily papers have nothing constrnctive to
offer; and we expect to find something better in
a paper like THE GOLDEX
AGE. The absolute
truth is that there is no snch platform; i. e.,
nothing of a constructive nature that can be
offered, viewed fro& the standpoint of human
endeavorBut to Bible Students there is a constructive
platform, and one that can bring nothing but
happiness to suffering humanity. It is the plan
evolved in the mind of Jehovah God, the cuknination of which n+ll mean the restoratio~~
of
m n to a state of perfection. The tearing-down
Process is now going On, and in the near fnture
"we look for a new liea~ensand a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness."
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FROM GREAT BRITAIN

TER a long spell of cold and raw neather,
there are signs that the wanner season is
nearing. For some time these often misty and
foggy Islands have had whole days of sunshine,
a very welcome change: indeed, this March,
seems likely to break ail previous Jlarch records ,
for sunshine. But the sun has not been snfficiently po~serfulto dispel the cold; for easterly
minds have prevailed, and they me always cold
in Britain. It is said that they come over the
continent from the Russian steppes. Job's
friend. the Temanite, seemed to consider the-,,,
east mind as representing foolishness. Anpay,
J o b mas advised against taliillg too much of it;
and still the \vise miul takes as little of it as is
possible. Infiue~izo,followed by bronchitis and

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pneumonia, has been quite prevalent in Britain;
but the trouble has now abated. It has done
much damage to general health, and has advanced the death rate very considerably; but
its severity and deadliness are not comparable
with the epidemic of 1918.
Besides some show of life in the shrubs and
trees, the birds are beginning to annoyce that
springtime is a t hand. I n couples they are to
be seen playing about, chasing each other, and
hopping about the bushes, playing hide-andseek. Even the sparrows are feeling it, and are
!more chirrupy than usual. The gulls, which in
minter make their home in the London parks,
and up the river in thousands, are now leaving.
They can now do better on the edge of the salt
water than in London, though "feeding the
gullsJ' is a regular feature of London minter life.
The traffic problem in London is acute, and
for lack of a central authority there seems no
ilwediate prospect of a solution of its difficulties. London lias not nearly so many motor
cars or autoinohiles as nlay be seen in New
Porl;, but it is said that London is not the slowest of the gre2.t cities of the nrorld. No doubt
the street trafic is \\.ell clealt with from a policeman's point of view; but standing motors and
horse vehicles 1)locl; tlie streets, and slow horse
tramc hinders it. One main cause of the trouble
is the great numl)er of buses on the streets,
many more thmr the amount of traffic calls for.
The Underground Combine, mliich includes the
Geneml Omnihus Company and wlJcli, with the
esception of some tram traffic in the outskirts
of tlie city, has had a monopoly of the passenger tr&c of the city and suburbs, has lately
had some opposition. At the moment tliere are
on the streets about txTo hundred competitive
buses, owned by seventy different companies;
and the Combine is trying to m n them off the
streets. Their method is to shepherd the pirate
bus, a s the adventurer is called, by having a bas
before apd another after the competitor, so that
there are' three buses where one n-ould suf3ce.
And there is no one who has the power to stop
this business, and the traders of the city are
hampered by it. The Combine thus liolds Lon,don up insorder to servc its own interests.
These competitive buses are called pirates Ly
the monopolists, and even generally so; but
they are no more pirates than those wit11 \vIiom
they fecldy compete. I n the old llorsc-bus days,
pirate buses were often seen on tlic strcets.

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got h e unwary and ;he visitors to the city, and
charged them extortionate rates. -There seems
to be nothing of that now.
At the time of writing, a strike of London
bus-men and tram-men is imminent A t this
midnight the men to the nnmber of 40,000 will .
cease work. It is h a y s the people who d e r .
Filling the streets with omnibuses in order to
fun off competitors hurts the business of the
city life; but the monopolist cares not that the
city is practically held up. Refusing to work
the buses and trams entails a very great hardship on the million who must come and go morning and night by their means; but the striker
seeks his own interest. Every man's hand everywhere is for himself and seems to be against
his neighbor.
While writing of these things it may be
remarked that there are more than a dozen
autliorities in London who have the right to
open up the streets at any time they please,
and to keep the ground open a s long as they
like. As these alwayg seem to wish to find something underground, the streets are constantly
bloclred, so that the main artery of traffic becomes no more than a narrow lane. London is
beginning to prove an example of the futility
of the present order of things. It lacks that
which the world lacks-a
central authority.
One might be tempted to think that the British
officlal loves to pull roads up; for the newspapers report that the great exhibition preparing
at TTren~bley,London, which threatens not to be
ready for the opening day, April 23rd, has been
greatly hampered by the fact that after the
main rdads mere laid to the exhibition and were
set, they were pulled up to allow gas, water,
and electric mains to be laid. That is the British [and the American.-Ed.]
way with a road.
By the end of January4t was reported that '
there had been 636,000 licenses issued in Britain
to holders of wireless receiving sets. No doubt
there are many who have sets who have not
tnlten out a license to hold them. The business
is now beginning to get on the move.
The British tobacco companies' profit in last
year's traclitlg shows over f+13,000,000($65,000,000 s t par). Thcrcz is evidently plenty of monex
for this form of indulgence.
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the above-suggestive title, the 31013ern Publishing Company of Detroit >as

published a little book of ninety-eight pages
which contains many interesting facts regarding tho fmmcial colossus which controls rlnierican credit and therefore American industry and
5'. wages. Some of the facts in this book have
:: already appeared in THE GOLDEN
AGE. I n our
judgment the writers of the boolr have erred in
using too many slang expressions, but perhaps
they felt that the s.nbject is one of such i n l p r tame that ordinary words do not sul3ce. With
this word of regret that the influence of the boolr
is thus impaired me mention some of its finclings.
Without the investment of a cent the Federal
Reserve System began business by legallq. comxnandeering six percent of the capital and surplus of the National Banlrs of tllc United States,
thus raising -ediately,
and litllout any risk
whatever, the huge sum of $200,000,000. For
the enforced contribution of this huge capital
the law limits the xatiOnd ~~d~~
to sis percent interest, although the average earnings of
- National Banks is twelve percent. Raving
pointed out ]low, by lam, this immense m o u n t
obtained
of capiMmas raised mitllout risk
a t relatively low interest, the book then shows
how this method of raising capital mould morlr
in the dry-goods b6siness and says:

"By commandeering capital for the dry-goods business

licensed lootera could colltrol only the dry-goods business. But by commandeer~ngcapltal for the banking
business licensed looters could control ail business!
'l'hnt's the diflerence and that's all the difference. They
c o r n a n d e e d apital n h u e it coulil
control not olle
industry but d industries. They didn't commandeer a
leg or an arm of mdustry, but they did commandeer
the lifeblood of a l l industry and at one lcap raultcd
into a seat of power where their scepteie sway really
governed all American industry."

interest, here is a single item of profit of $36,000,000 per annurn arbitrarily taken from the
National Banks and placed in the care of the
Federal Reserve.
From the outset the Federal Reserve songht
to control the State Banlts; but being unable to
reach them under the United States laws, it haa
resorted to the banditry several times mentioned
in these columns, but not mentioned in the newspapers because the newspapers are directly andcr the thumb of the Federal Reserve System
through the National Banks of their own loca&?
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,As the Federal Reserve System is nlaking it
very uncomfortable for private and State banks,
many of the latter are seeking charters enabling
them to join the National Banh- group- In many
~ l a c c sState
Trust bank colnpanies are consoliclating and organizing with xational charters, thus concentrating the Power of the money illterests.
One instance cited in the book is where armed
"gents
the Federal Reserve suddenly a P
peared at the Cones State Banlz of pierce,
N e h a s 1 ~ 4and demanded and received $311m
in currency for checlis against the bank which
they had been holding for three
in the
of using them as a lever in forcing the
bank into the Federal Reserve System.
Another instance cited is the situation at the
Brookings, Oregon, State Bank, where a t an
expense of not less than $4,000 the Federal
stationed a man for 358
day
catch the State Bank
for the sudden cashing of clieclis. When tllia
did not work the System sent out what it calla
"notice's of dishonor.'' against the bank; and
when the Onitcd States Circuit Court Judge
RTolverton issued an injunction against that dis- ,
honorable and unjust course, the effort wae
made to put the bank out of business by marking against an item on a transit slip the n n a
truthful statement, "Bank Closed."
Another instance is cited where the Supreme
Court of the United States denounced the
methods by which the Federal Reserve System '
sought to gain control of State banks in Georgia, saying in part in its reversal of a lower
court's decisions :
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The pext step was l c g d y to commandeer a

certain percent of a11 the deposits in the Nationa1 Banks, a sum which the law compels tho bank
to carry in its reserve against its deposit liabilities. That sum, at tlie close of business JIny 10,
1922, amonnted to the stupendous sum of $1,806,464,0001 For generations the reserve depos. its have always drawn a minimuni rate of interest of at least two pcrcent per annum ; and thus,
; fjince the law granted the Fcdernl Reserve the
"If wltlxout a word of falsehood,-but a d h g from
. , power to comnandeer these deposits without what we have cnlled disinterested malevolence, a man
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I n TRE G O ~ E XQE
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run upon a bank and ruin itJ we cannot doubt that an that civilization c-ot
possibly bear theburden
action would lie. The policy of the Federal Reserve of six percent interest. ~h~ rewan is sdple.d
Banks is governed by the policy of the United States Even $1, at compoud interest, piles up a debt'
with regard to them and to these relatively feeble com- of
in
years, $1,048,576 in 200 yew,
pehtors. We do not need aid from the debates upon the
$1,073,741,824
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300 years, and in .400 years
statute under vhich the Reserve Banks exist to assume
great that it 'Odd
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that the United States did not intend by $at statute
to sanction this sortof wadme upon legitimate crea- every single solitary acre of land on the face 08
the earth a t $30 per acre, with the tidy sum 04
tions of the States. Decree reversed."

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T l ~ clittlc 1)nol: then cites tlie cspericnces of
$47,209,133,776 left over. In anothclr f o u r cellturies it would provide a sum sui'ficielit to cover a bad; in Alcbama, a compulsory subsidiary oS
every square inch of the land surface of the the Atlanta branch of the Federal Reserve Srsearth with a gold plate weighing eight tons. tern. The name of the bank is not given, for the
This interest game is literally squeezing t h ~reason that if its identification were reyealed
the Federal Eeserve System could easily comlife-Mood out of tho people.
P
NQW the men fiat malie np t h e Federal Re- s s its complete -n. It was a m a l l b&; .
serve System know all about this. They lmom and when the time came for moving the cotton
. that the common people cannot really afford to crop it was c o m ~ u e dto borrow from Atlanta.
percent for the use
PDY anvhere
near
.?t had no othm house of
It
to b r
even something over $100,000 from the Federal M
money- Indeed,
some have
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two percent d l in time bring any civilization at ~ t l h snd
; for the wwysperiod
on j1dy i
to min; and the Lord forbade the Jews to 31, 1920, i t was charged and it paid as high as thirtycharge any interest at all to each otlxr. So it one percent per annum interest! TKOmonths later,
hecomes a matter of concern to note how the when its loan reached as high as $113,000, it was charged
l'ederal Reserve System stands on this matter and it paid as high as eigh;hty-seven and one-half percent per amurn interest."
of accretion.
Prepare for c o l l a ~ e lIn the Year lg20 the
This is legalized murder; that is, it is lealFederal Reserve System, after darging
ized murder if it was legalized, bat if not it is
most exorbitant expenses, made a n average net morder, anpay. xo agricdturalbank urn be
profit of 160.7% on their paid-in capital. This treated that ,vay withont
the burden an
varied all the may f ram 217.4% a t the s e w Pork down to the f a m e r s beneath. b d
f -ers
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branch d o m to 89.3% at the Dallas
beneath cannot bear the bmden and live. me
The
branch was the
One that made same obsenation is true of every other business
less than 110% on its money for
year 1920- man dependent upon fie small b a d f o r mdit.
In
Reserve System The book then narrates the story of the shamelegally cOnlmandeered the
slaughter of the farmers in 1920, so that
: the National Banks into their orrn maw a t s pf~ X less
the great speculative phungers
of mall stnet
percent interest, and then made 160% interest
have tile use of the funds that aefarmon it, the real providers of the capital receiving ers and small business
have had,
a s their share one-thirtieth of the profits.
and bitingly says :
How nTasit possible for the Federal Reserve
"Take now a looli at the financial corpses so slaughcolossal profits' It wodd tereb
'ystern to
Berethey are. LWli 'MI
md don't oyerlao~
not have been possible if tlleg had
a
the hmrh that
them. I n 1921 there
19,625
mate business, using only their o m capital- But business failures as compared 11lth 6,451 in 1919, or an
they had in their hands for manip~lationas increase of 13,171-more
than three for one. And the
they mould the stupendous sun1 of $1,800,000,- liabditics reached the stupendous total of 5627,401.000,
,
increase of .F514,000,000 over 1913-more than five
000 reserve deposits of member banks upon
for one. In the so-cded panic year of 1907, the high
paid no interest at
the tide of busherp fadups, liabilities rere only .$19~,OOO,*,
noble and-considerate way in w11ieh tile System 000, .s
( ~ 2 ~ , 0 0 q 0 0in
0 1921. 1mlJT, 1907
made use of this hugest of all reservoirs of was a 'panic year,' 1021 was rr pandemic year! Bnd
liquid money, we quote from tlic little book here is mother destruction meter, ahmlutely infallible
-the suicidcs. I n the first six months of 1921 there
another true but ahnost unbelievable item:
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ember banks and their stocltholders and dcposltors

furnish this tltaqlc amount of practically $2.000,000,000
at three-tenths of one percent interest, and then member
banks are graciously permitted to borrow from the
FeGeral Reserve System t h e ~ rovn money at rates raying from six to e~ghty-sevenand one-half percent per
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were 4,g1 men suicides aa against 1.810 for the same

period in 1920; 1,382 11-omen as against 961; 214
bogs as against SS, nnd 893 girls as ayainst 137-7,016
s~~lcldes
for tho fiitt six months of 1921 as against 2,996
for t l ~ csame perlod of 1920. 'I'he enormous increase in
men s u l c ~ d c s ~ v etn-o
r and one-half f?r one-tells its
o m story. Tlrcy come from all cla=ps, hankers, merchants, farmers, laborers and profewonai men. Kone

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h o w how many of this enormous increase, the largest

rince statistics have been kept, mere driven to desperation and to de$h from hunger, from u n e m p l o ~ e n t ,
from the loss of life's toil or from the fallure of enterprises in which they had spent their lives. No statistics
can summarize human emotions, but they can tell and
they do tell of the greatest l~olocaustof suicides ever
ravaging this land-undoubtedly due to industrial tragedies staged by the cold-blooded butcl~ergof pro%uction.
This much is certain."

Details are given a s to the shrinkage of farm

palues under the policy of removii* the credit
from the farmer and placing it in the centers of
speculation. Tlie official reports of the Federal
Reserve System shorn plainly that this very
One
it and
thing was done. No one can
can justify it.
'.=me ia what this TraFdy of Drastic Deflation did
measured for the years of 1919, 1920
to the farmer

and 1921:
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'Value in 1941.

5each of these years then? am practically the same

acreage under culti~ation,350,000,000 acres. In 1919,
farm products were worth $39 per acre; in 1920, $26
per acre; and in 1921, $lG per acre. Here is where
the Federal Ccscrre credit crusher pulpified the finest
-at the very foundation of all industry !"

Then follows a sickening story of the may in

which the Federal Reserve Systenl spent its
colossal protits like a drunken sailor, erecting
the most magiificent edifices in all the great
cities where it functions, and quic1;ly "charging
off" the enormous sum of $7,030,582, so a s to
be sure to have that much cached, no matter
what might llappen. If the old idea of hell-fire
were correct (but, t h d God, it is not !) some
of these higll-finance boofieepers ~ ~ o u surely
ld
Le booked for the hottest corners.
In their eagerness to get an-ay with the plnnit is said of the Federal Resene
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structure in Wem 'Elork city:

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banks in New Yo&, in the month of May, 192%
handled almost nine times the loans and dis- .
counts of the xewyork ~
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and did it in bank bddings altogether vahed
a t $10,000,000. On that basis it is necessary for
the Federal Reserve to have buildings costing .
tmenty times as
as
other concerns engaged in the same line of business, in order to transact an equal volume of
business.
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spirit of snperwn
graft
through
~h~ folloming are the
names of so,e
the
d e e e s , controUe,s, etc., withtheir wages when they entered the bank and their wages afternard.
these wages are fixed by the Federal Reserve
he2dquarter~bank, which i s located in mashington and runs everything a s it is bid to do.

Name of Employ4

$13,600,000,000
9,000,000,000
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$ 7,500
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10,000
1,000
6,000
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E. R. Kenzel
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a.m. ~ z b 2,400~ ~ 12,500
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12,500
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5,000
4,000
15,000
R. M. Cidney
I. TV. Waters
2,250
7,200
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1,800
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Uendricks
6,000
18,000
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the salaries of all these men to several times
what they ever earned Before and several times
\\'hat they are worth l The answer is easy. m e y
did it because somebody vanted them to do it.
Who wanted then1 to do i t ? We don't lmom, but
We can guess- If a man is running a gambling
joint and he m'ants to play in millions o r billions
and bet on dead sure things he needs lots oil
money, and in order to get the money he must
''The New York Federal Reserve Bank in cost, in see
it
the men lvl10
the machine bx
eqenditure, in equipment, in splendors purely for the mIiicli it is extracted are well paid.
convenience of its occupants is intended to surpass any
Tile Federal Reserve System has been an inLike building on-nrth. Its coat has been estimated at
to the gamblers '
from $11,000,000 to $20,000,000. Its corner s t o n e calculable
Street;
it
has
been
an
incalculable
disadvantam
qecches and plutocratic gvorificztions-mns laid
to
the
farmers,
the
small
business
men and the
m May 31, 1922. Tlie ices of arcl~itectsand engineers
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notorionsly- and, flagrantly done those things

which it ought not to have done and left undolie
those things which i t ought to have done. It llas
too :
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the

'current net earn~!ig..' From this are deducted $1,251,- :

675 for 'dcpreciation allowance on bank premised;
$2,661,500 for 'reserve for possible losses,' which pmb- .
ably 17on7t occur : $400,000 'reren-e for reli insurmcd
-whatever that IS: $f3,!?96 'reserve for depreciation on .
'Tederal Reserve apologists--on and off the floor of U.S. Bonds'-u-hic.11 prohahly won't depreciate now that
Con@ess-when drivcn into their last rctrcat d r a y s tliep have been sandbagged out of the hands of the ,
hke their final etaad and make their last play in'thc or~ginalpurchasers; 8641,237 sandbagged out under tb
Lfranohise tax' stronghold. Their assertion 1s in effect favorite 'all other' Federal R ~ e r p eblanket. &re are 1
that no matter what may be the abuses and sandbag- $5,203,707 gone out in mere bookkeeping entries with
@ex
and extravagances of this system the I ~ i money'
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the real moncy nhich theso entrles represent still in
gets back to the Government in the share of the mytll- Federal R e e e ~ custody.
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This Ieaves 662,097.225. Fro*
ical 'franchise lax.' Here is where IOU get the facts this is declucted a petty $G,ll9,673 dividends paid 0 s .
precisely aa they are. T h a t hecomes of the lootage of the capital commandeered. From this is deducted $15,the Federal Reserve System for the year 1921 and what 993,086 to be added to the already swollen Federal
proportion of it did your Goverilmellt get?
Reserve Surplus Account. And there is left just 839,;
"The gross takings of the Federal Reserve Sgstem 974,466 for the mnch touted franchise tax.
--extracted from American production .md industry"If yon have followed thcse figures you have seen that
amounted to $122,S64,G05. 'l'hat's what it cu?hor~iou%ly in order to got a petty 'franchise tax' of $59,974,466
c d s its 'earnings.' First there came out tile glgmtjc into the hands of your Government, it cost you just
expense accol~nt,of nhicli you hare already rend, of exactly $G2.830,129 to collect i e t h e precise diflEerenca
$36,066,065, leaving $86,798,540, lyhlch the moustcr betnecn tile l'ctleral Xeserve 'earnings' and the amount
c d s its 'current net earnings.' There is then added to paid into tlie Go\crruent. Ask yourself, Ia a tsx of
this $360,856, which in previous years had been de- $59,974,466, 1%-hichcosts 862,890,139 to coilect, a 'paind u d for 'depreciation on U. S. Bonds,' which ditln't 1esa t&? Is thrre ally more painful t
u levied on
finally 'depreciate.' There is also added $131,.53G under Aluerican industry? That's what this ballyhooed 'fxanan 'all othei b l a n k c ~ m u c I ifavored in the Federal chise tax' amounted to in 1921, and all it amounted to-Reserve System vocabulary. Ton now have $S7,290,332 a tax of $Z9,974,4G6, which cost $621890,139 to collectI"
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Coin Harvey's 0beiisk

and daily ne\vspapers, and are distributing free
plate print to all papers that will take it."
Mr. IIarrep is ;lot absolutely hopeless, howfinancial writings during the campaign of 189G, ercr; he thinks t l ~ c r ei s yet some chance, a
is now actually building a t his home a t Jlonto remote onc, that thc people can be awakened.
Ne, Arkansas, a reinforced cement co~lcretehol- We see no such chance, but me see a better one.
low obelisk thirty-tn70 feet square ancl 130 feet We see that the Lord, just in the time of man's
high, wherein he is placing the reasons why our greatest need, is about to take hold of the whole
situation and bring about the absolute justice
present civilization was ruined.
Mr. Harvey sees just what me see; namely, which all long to see.
One can but admire the courage and honesty
that*the burden of interest is killing mankind.
. Spealting of big business he says, truthfully, of a man ~ v h o \I-ould undertake to erect $4
that these shar1;s "now have the people of the $25,000 monument, the sole object of which iu
United States in debt to them as mnch as one to protect a future civilization from making the
hundred billion dollars, on notes, mortgages, same ~nistaltcsthat have been made in the one
and bon*, a sum more than two-thirds the f a ~ r now +awing to a close. The details of the concash value of a11 the property in the Gnited struction of this obelisk, with its air-tight glass
States. 13 all the worlci, taken 3s a rrl~ole,these cylinders and air-tight apaitments for the reclebts are now as much as the fair cash value of ception of documentary evidence a s to why this i
civilization went down, all make interesting
all the property in the world."
As to the mental food the people at lnrgc can reading. Subscribers who a r e .interested can
'' get-;Mr. Harvey also says truthfully that "the drop Nr. Ham-cp a line, and he will be glad to I
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own about one hundred leadins lnagaziues the description.

REGARD it as a most significant and

Wwho Ethrilled
extraordinary thing that IV. H. Earvey,
America from end to end by his

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simple beauty and pathos.
' T h e r e j n class~ctragedy, ancient or modern,
"Towering up in rugged proportions, that" '>:
is there any painting of human nature compara- strange man Saul comes into view; ajld then
ble to that in the Bible? I t is rich in vivid
descriptions, gems of inspired thought, scenes
that thrill the heart, and records of strange
adventure and romance which have mpre power
to entrance than the creations of fiction.
"The Bible begins with the new earth and
heavens, and portrays the sublime work of cre) ation, over which 'the morning stars sang to' gether.' The espulsion of our first parents from
the floral bowers of Eden; the first murder
which stained with blood the virgin world; the
mighty deluge which rolled its dark waters over
nlountaixi summits, and en,dfed in awful destruction the inhabitants of the earth; the lonely
ark of Soah, riding upon the billows of the
'vasty deep'; and the sudden overthrow of the
visionary tower of Babel-these
with other
momentous events form the first part of the
Scriptures.
"Then foIlo~vthe great transactions recorded
in the history of the Hebrews : such as Abraham
offering his son; Isaac meeting the fair maid
Ftebecco; Jacob reconciled to his brother Esau;
the thrilling story of Joseph at the court of
Pharaoh; and the-finding by the Egyptian princess of the babe Moses in the rushes, who mas
destined to become one of the most majestic
heroes of the Old Testament.
"Tl~ewanderings of Israel in the wilderness
m e depicted-the woes that fell upon plaguestricken Egypt; the miraculous passage of the
Red Sea; the trimnphant song of Miriam and
the Jewish maidens; the awful scenes surrounding the clond-capped Sinai; and the death of
Moses on Nebo, when; according to Jewish
legend, the winds wniled, and the earth cried:
'We have lost the Holy One!'
! "The period of Joshua and the judges is interestingly %described. Portrayed in vivid colors,
the render sees the f'dling walls of Jericho;
brave Gideon, with his wonderfnl fleece and
dauntless little army; valiant Jephthah fulfdling his rash vow; mighty Samson, rending the
lion's jaws, tarrying the massive gates of Gaza,
and heaving from their sockets the gigantic
pillars of the Philistine temple.
"The fascinating story of Ruth, gleaning in
the fields of Sonz nncl becoming the ancestress

David, the ruddy shepherd boy, appears,with

-the sling that carries swift death to boastful
Goliath. Exchanging the shepherd's staff for . the kingly sceptre, the dazzling glory of the ' .
Hebrew nation bursts upon us; and the line of
, illustrious lungs commences.
'Very thrilling are the events during the
reigns of David and Solomon, including the
rebellion of Absalom and the p;rief of his
broken-hearted father; the building of that
most famous of all edifices, the Temple of JernSalem; and the visit of the beautifnl Queen of
Sheba to the court of Solomon.
"Then with the swiftness of a whirlwind, the ,
prophet Elijah appears. The reader beholds
one of the most striking figures in history. ETe
follows this mysterious prophet to the brook
Cherith and to the poor widom's home at S a r e p
ta, sees his triumphant defeat of Baal's prophets on C a m e l ; and then the chariot of !lame
[which separates hizh from Elisha], and he is1
carried away beyond mortal sight. He behold
the sweet face of the little Jewish captive in
Syria, and sees her haughty master, Nnl~man,
a t the door of U s h a and, rising from the
.
waters of Jordan, healed of hia leprosy.
' W e finally come to the charming story of . ,
Queen Esther, her patriotic devotion, and the
overthrow of Haman's fiendish p l o t The no
less interesting story of J o b follows, his sudden
.
afaictions, his sympathizing friends, and their
.
renowned discussions of the problems of human life.
"All the beauty and wisdom of the Padma
and Proverbs are fully described. The helpful . sayings of the wise man are mingled with the
songs of the sweet singer of IsraeL
"We have next the spirited account of t h e c a p
.tivity ; the grandeur of ancient Babylon, and the
,.-startling dreams and fiery handwriting which
terrified her kings ; the brave, invincible Daniel, .himself more than a Iringdom, whom neither
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army of Cyms. The magnificence of ancient
Nineveh is described, together with the visit of
that strange prophet Jonah.
"But the reader has not yet reached the
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clin~&x. He is yet to stand npon the loftiest
summit. Coming to the life of Christ, which is
complete in all its peerless beauty, he beholds
the Child Vonderfnl in Bethlehem's manger;
the white-robed chorus singing peace and good
\Fill; the adoring shepherds and Persian sages,
ancl all the graphic and illustrious sceyes connected with the baptism of Christ; His temptation in the d d e r n e s s ; the calling of the G-alilean fishermen; the parables, which, like wintlo~vs,let in celestial light; and the stupendous
hlirncles which healed the sick, hushed the wild
tempest, and even rent the tomb! His myriad

deeds of compassion; His sweet words of lo&;

His calm majesty in persecution and suffering;
His radiant glory of transfiguration; His agonx
in the garden and death upon the cross, when.
even mute nature felt the pang and mas moved
to sympathy; also the vision of John in Revelation, with its majestic imagery and beautiful
descriptions of the heavenly Jerusalem. No
Raphael nor Angelo ever gave the world wch _
paintings in colors as are here given in inspired
words.
"The Bible is the greatest literary masterpiece of the civilized wvorld."

God's Promise to Bless Mankind

(Broadcast from VATCHTO\VEIt WBBR. on a wave length of 244 meters, by Judge Rutherford)

centuries the land of Palestine

FORhasmany
been sacred to the hearts of Jews,
Uohammedans, ancl Christians. I t is known as
the Holy Land. The reason why is that it is
tlie land where God has foreshadowed the out~orliingsof His great plan. But Jems, Mohammedans, and Christians have long been blinded
to the frill significance and beauty of the wonderful things pictured in Pdestine. The greater
majority have regarded tlie land as sacred solely because of its ancient liistory. The Bible discloses that there are yet things to transpire in
Palestine mhich will malie it dear to all people.
A great deal of that which occurred in the
Holy Land in centuries past foreshadowed even
greater things to conie. I t is exceedingly interesting and important to refer to the things that
happened in the past and, in the light of these
things and in the fulfilment of prophecy, to see
what is to be expected there in the near future.
me Promise Afade t o Abraham
1 PPRQXIUATELY 4,000 years ago there

A
livenin the land of Ur of the Chaldees a
man by the name of ;ihrarn. After~rardshis
name was cliangctl to Abraham, which means,
Father of a multitude, or many nntiol~s. Therc
Jehovah bcgwi to use this Inan to foresl~ndow
things that yill yet thrill with glaclness the
hearts of all' peoples. When Abraham was
seventy-five years old Jel~ovalisaid to him:
"Get thee out of thy country, and from thy
kindred, nnd from thy father's house, unto a
lalid that I will show tl~cc:and I will ~ n a k cof

thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and

make thy name great; and thon shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless .thee, and
curse him that cnrseth thee; and in thee shall
all families of the earth be. blessed.*-Qenesis
12 :1-3.
When Abraham had reached Cannan, the land
now known as Palestine, God made rr covenant
with him, in which corenast He said: "I will
give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the
land wherein thon art a stranger, a l l the land
of Canaan, for an everlasting possession."Genesis 17:8.
Abraham pitched his tent in the plains of i
Mrunre, which is located south of the present i
site of Jerusalem. I t was there that he sat in '
the door of his tent wvhen messengers appeared
unto him. and he recognized that they were ser- .
~ m t sent
s
from the Lord. In fact, they were
angels from heaven, who had assumed the forma
of men to bear n message to Abraham,
Kotwithstanding the promise that God had
made to Ahraham that in his seed should come
the blessing, Abraham had no children. Con- i
cerning this the Scripture reads: "Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in
age; ancl it ceased to be with Sarah after the
manner of women." (Genesis IS :11) The Lord's
messenger now said to Bbralian~that Sarah, Iris
~ v i f e ,should bear him a son. At the appointed
time a son mas born of Sarnk and Abraham,
und they called l ~ i sname Isaac. Abr'aham
one hundred years old wvhen his son Isaac was
born.-Genesis 21 :5.

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The name Isaac signifies laughter. Laughter
means joy. Abraham here and in tlie pictures
following, represents Jehovah God; Isaac represents God's only begotten Son, Jesus of
Nazareth; and Sarah represents the Sarah!Abi.ahamic covenant. As Isaac caused rejoicing
at his birth, so his antitype, the Lorcl Jesus, a t
His birth as a man on earth, caused great rejoicing in heaven and on earth. It was then
that the host of angels sang: "Glory to God
in the highest, m d on earth peace, good will,
b w a r d men!'
I t is exceedingly interesting to follow the
m e and the antitype, and to mark how marvelc\usly the Lord foreshadowed tlie great redelnption and blessing of mankind.
Isaac, the only son of Abraham and Sarah,
grew to manhood's estate. God purposed now
to put Abraliam to a test of faith. Hence I-Ie
said t o Abraham: "Talre now thy son, thine
only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee
into the land of Moriah; and offer l ~ m
there
for ti b&t offering upon one of the mountains
which I will tell thee of!'-Genesis
22: 2.
This is one of the mountdns upon m11ich the
city of Jerusalem was aftenvards built. bfount
Moriah was the site of fie temple. As the
divine plan unfolds, this w i l l become a more
interesting spot tlian heretofore. The Mosque
of Omar is now bnilded upon the site, and the
place is sacred to the Mohammedans. But the
day will come, not f a r distant, milen it will be
even more sacred to Mohammedans, Jews, and
Christians.
Abraham journeyed from Alamre to this
mountain, his son Isaac ~ v i t hhim. Tliey took
with them wood with \vliich to n1al;e fire upon
an altar. Isaac did not l;now the purpose of it.
He had no intimati03 that he was to be the
sacrifice. Beacliing the moulltain, Abraham
builtled the altar; and then Isaac said to liis
father: "Behold the fire and the nrood; but
where is the lamb for a burnt ofl'ering? And
Abraham said. M y son, God will provide himself a +nb fo; a ljurnt offering."- en. 22 : 7 , s .
Having prepared the altar, Abraham bound
Isaac d d laid him upon it. Ilere ~ s a ns supreme
test of faith. God had promised Abraham that
in his seed the blessing of all the ~iationsshould
come; and now He asked Abmliaru to take tile
life of his only son. But Abraham believed that
God was able to raise that son out of death.
At
. - .any rate, he was willing to obey. He tool;.

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his knife in hand, and raised i t k strike the

fatal blow in sacrifice of his son, when an angel
of the Lord called ulito liim out of heaven and
said : "Lay not t l ~ i ~liand
l e upon the lad, neither
do thou anything unto lihn: for now I know
that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not
withheld thy son, thine only son, from me."
-Genesis 22: 12.
Then Jehovah through His messenger said
to Abraham: "By myself h a ~ eI sworn, saitlr
the Lord, for because thou l ~ a s done
t
this thing,
and Hast not \I-ithheld thy son, thine only son*&
that in biessiug I will bless thee, and in rnulfx9
plying I mill nlultiply tlry seed as the stars of
the heaven, and a s the sand ~v\-hich
is upon the
sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate
of His enemies. And in thy seed shall all the
nations of tlie earth be blessed: because thou
hast obeyed my voice."-Genesis 22: 16-18.
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HY mas it necessary for Jehovah to make
this promise? And why did He firmly
bind it 116th His oath? What has this to do
with the blessing of man? The answer is: The
perfect man Adam had sinned, and all of 'his
offspring were dying. God had justly sentenced
Adam to death. He could not change that judgmerit; but He could consistently make a provision that His o m law's requirements could be
met by another, and Adam and his offspring
released from its penalty. I t nVasHis purpose
from the foundation of the world to do this
very thing, and in due time to redeem the human
race, and through the promised seed lift up
man and bless him. The promise and the enacted picture shorn: (1) God's purpose to c s r r g
out His plan, which w o d l result to man's benefit; and (2) I-Iis manner of ca&ng it out.
In this pantomime of Abraham offering Iris
son Isaac, Jehovah is pictured as offering His!
beloved Son, Jesus, as the great redemptim
price of mankind and a s the only may that leads>
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Ceflain t y o f Fulfilment

pronlise made to Abraham is what is

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as tlie great Ahraharnic covenant.
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The word covenant is the solemn exprwsion for,

the word contract. Contracts are of t:.o kinds:
One is unilateral, in which ohly one party is
l ) o u ~ ~tod perform; the other bilateral, in which
both parties are bound to perform. lh this,

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dealt with the Jewish people. The promi- .:
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to Israel through the words of the prophets .
That people were looking forward to a time'.
when their kingdom should become universal;
th8t is to say, when the Jews would have a mi--:
versa1 rule of the earth and all the peoples of
tlie earth mould receive a blessing from and
tl~ronghtheir kingdom. But they did not under- .
stand God's real pim and PUTose. They had
no conception of the great ransom sacrifice. It
v n s not Jehovah's dne time for them to how:
Saul of Tarsns m m a Jew, a Pharisee, and a
It will be obsemed that this oath-bound cove- member of the sanhedrim, the
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tions nor limitations, but was merely a promise and resurrection of our ~~~d jesUdid sad
of Jehovah, bound by His oath. Therc was no
what .these promises meant. ~~t
need for Him to make any conditions to the after he had become a christion, had been be- covenant. ,God merely announced IIis benevo- gotten of the holy spirit, had his mind anmilent purposes toward mankind. The covenant llated md had been
by the ~~~d
does not promise that every Person will be as His special mbmsador, he m-as inspired to
bound to receive the blessing, but it guaraxitees n,rite G ~ 7vord,
& ~ and
the truth
to
that the o ~ ~ o r t u n i will
t y be flmted to every inspiration. ne states beyond a doubt
one for the blessing.
what constitutes the seed of Abraham according to the promise. He wrote : "The scripture,
TIre Blessing of Life
foreseeing that God would justify the nations
HAT is the thought intended to be con- through faith, preached before the gospel unto
veyed by this promise: "In thy seed shall Abraham, saying, I n thee shall dl nations be
all families of the earth be blessed"? This can blessed. So then they which be of the faith a r e -7
he best answered by asking another question: blessed with faithful Sbrah.zm. .
Now to
What is it that man needs above everything Ahrnham and his seed mere the promises made.
IIe s&th not, And to seeds, as of many; but a9.
else?
a will agree that the proper
is: of oric, Arid to thy seed, vhich is Christ. . .
state
of
]lappiF o r as many of you as have been baptized into
u a n needs life everlasting, in
aess. without life he could enjoy nothing. ue Christ, have pnt on Christ. There is neither
coulcldo no good to himself or to anyoIle else. Jew nor Ol-eek, there is neither bond nor free,
nor
for ye are rill
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m e apostle Paul then sho\vs this to be the mr- there is neither
one
in
C111ist
Jesus.
And
if
ye
be
Christ's,
then
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Jesus Christ our Lord;, are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to
the
promise."-Galatinns
3
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9,16,27-29.
?-Romans 6 :23.
This then definitely locates the "seed"; and
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I t was Jesus Christ the Lord who 11.a~fore- throuyj,
whicll is
or invisshado\ved in the offering of Isaac by his father ible, the Dronlise l ~ beu brought to all mankind
.f
Abraham.
in God's tluc time. I t follows cn~iclusivelythat
As we progress in the study of God's plan. the "seed" must first be prepared before the
the more reasonable the whole arrangcrue~lt promised blessing can come.
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T l ~ c r e11:ubeen a p e a t deal of misconception
seems. Tlie perfect man was created. Love
prompted God to do this. The perfect man of the meaninq of the term churdi. Men have
sinned, and was sentenced to death. Justice organized church denominations, both Catloli<z
demanded this. God promised to redeem ant1 ant1 Protestant, and have divided these rnto
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bless manltirtd. The love of Cot1 prov~tlctltl~is. I<onlrrnand Greek, Presbyterian, Methodist, and
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promise and had bound it with His oath, therefore doubly assuring Abraham and his oflspring
that it mould be performed. This promise of
Jehovah is sacred and inviolate. He will fulfil
it. There will never be any deviation from it.
Jehovah has said: "For I am the 2ord, I
change not."-Malachi
3 : 6.
~ h this~ promise
t
~ 1be1carried out, s t . p a d
illmlniable
assured us
he said ~ t l , by
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it was i m p o e s i ~ ~for
e ~~d to
things, in
lie, a e might hare a strong collsolafion," and
of f3ith tllnt ~i~ promise
wdl
a fill
be performed.-Hebrews
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not be carried into effect. They
many other denominations. These all claim to surely it \\dl
be the channels chosen of the Lord for the bless- \vould be eagerly waiting and expecting the next
ing of the people, and the people have been kept day, when the blessing N-ould come.
The apostle Peter saps: "But, beloved, be
in much confusion. According to the Bible, they

not ignorant of this one thing, tliat one day is

God has never promised to use any human with tlie Lord as a thousand years, and a thou'organization to carry out His purpose. He se- sand years as one day. The Lord is not slack
lects His own seed for the purpose of carrying concerning his promise."-2 Peter 3 :8,9.
into effect His sovereign -dl.The word C ~ L Z I T C ~ Only about four clays with the Lord hare
means "a called-out class." I t is synonymous passed since He made tlie promise. That is but
with the term "the body of Christ." The a brief period. TVc are no\\- a t the r e r y time
Church is composed of Jesus, the Head, and dl when the carrying into effect of this promise is/
those faithful follomers of His who through beginning, as Nil1 be shown later. The Lord, -3
faith consecrate themselves to do God's mill, according to His Word, is not at all slack in Eis
prornise, but will carry it into effect in Uis own
and loyally carry out that consecration.
good
timc; and thcn it will result in the greatest .
Jehovah has devoted a long period of time to
benefit
to man.
the selection of this class. The period has been
from the time of Pentecost until the setting up
of the Iringdbm. The word church is synony- Effect of Promise
Christ; Christ meoils
CARRY into effect the promise of G a ,
moos with the
mould
mean that each one of the human
anointed one, and through the Christ the blessrace iliust liavc nil opportunity for life, liberty, .
ings shall come to mankind.
and Iinppiiless; 11nt \jre must renlexnber that God
is, and of necessity must be, consistent. 7\'(3
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must keep in llli~ldthat all men, because of
PPROXIBUTELY 4,000 years have passed Adam's disobedience, x-ere born sinners and
since God ma* this promise to Abral~mi, subject to death. Then the question would
that in his seed all the families of the earth arise: IIow could God consistently assure a
shall receive a blessing. 31my who claim to be blrssing for mankind of life, liberty, and IiappiChristians look upon that promise a s nlerely ness unless some means be provided by Him to
a part of ancient history, having no relation to remove the disability imposed 11- His judgment!
the present or to the future. I t is such a long I t at once becon~esapparent tliat Jebornh ~voulcl
time, from m u ' s viewpoint, since tlie pro~irise mnke some consistent provision, and that conwas given that seemingly its virtue Iias been sistent provision is tlie great ransom sacrifice.
lost. It is not so long ~ 5 t hJehoval~,Jiowevcr.
Everyolie wlio believes God, must believe that
If a man on illonday morning pronlised that on ITe maile 'this pronlise to Abrnham; and ererythe following Saturday he wvould grant to every one ~\-llolins faith in God's V o r d n ~ u s tbelieve
person in the United States an opportunity to that He will carry into effect tllis promise, in
avail himself of a good home, most nE the pco- due t h e . Then evenone who believes in Jehople thraughout the week would be talking about vah. must know that He n 4 l carry it into effect
it, and the time would seem v e ~ yshort. JYlien in a consistent wlvay, and that His consisterlt
Friday was reached, they \vould not say: I t has way oE doing it is through the great redexnptiou,:
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been so long since the promise wvas made that and dclivcrallce which He has provided.
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The Old

B g rrtlll cha,,tbcII?in, in "The t ~ t e r a r yDip?-St"

Y feel s be&r earth is surely coming;

The h t strealca of its d a w ~are i n the sky.
Dark, ancient forms, all bitter and bonumbiug,
Will in that clearer era fade and die.
I sense the tumult of the hateful struggle
Waged by the troops of selfishness to hold
The fortresses wherein their masters snuggle,
Clutching their bags of ill-begotten gold

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From love's dcur hand it spins the trails of space;
h c i only lore, \I? noblest d r ~ n m simpassioned,
CUI brighten it for every human face.
So pray I morn 2nd eve to God, the P!anner,
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\Those eye foresees beyond all rims of time,
To gather soon 1)cneath love's selfless banner
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With Issue Number 60 we began mnnlng Judge Rutherford'a new book,
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purpose of the resurrection of the ished the selection of the members of His body,
;Lord Jesus when understood is further proof which is called the church (Colossians 1:18),
'that He mas raised divine. As n-e Iiave seen, then His merit or ransom-sacrifice will be pre'the ransom must be provided by a perfect sented on behalf of the world of mankind, and '
Jmman being going into death. This ransom- all will reap the benefits of His resurrection.
-price, namely, the value of a perfect human Tlie foregoing scriptures conclusively establish
.life, must be presented in heaven itself as a sin- the resurrection of Christ Jesus from the dead.
bofferine on behalf of mankind. Unless this mas
:done, t i e ransom mould be of no avail and there
QUESTIONS ON "THE HARP OF GOD"
rwodd be no purchase of the human race from
What
did the resurrection of the Lord and, His
?death and its results. The apostle Pad plainly
appearance in heaven have to do with the ransom and
:states that Christ Jesus has entered into heaven the sin-offering? f 293.
:itself, now to appear in the presence of God for
On the typical atonement day, through what cere(Hebrews 9 : 24) He is now a great high monies did the high priest pass in connection with the
!priest who passed into the heavens, becoming sin-offering ? What did this typify? 7 293.
;:the high priest on behalf of those who come to
In the Revelation of Jesus to St. Jolin, what did He
:God through Him during the Gospel age. (He- say about being the One who mas once dead? and what
,,brews4: 1416) On the typical atonement day, power does Ee now possess? 294.
\.?lat is meant by the terms hell and death as used in
'as we have seen, God caused Israel througll the
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;priesthood to make a picture of tlie sin-offering. Revelation 1 : 18? fi 294.'
Up to this time who have appreciated the value of
.The high priest appearing in the Xost Holy and
:sprinkling the blood upon the mercy sent ~ v a sa Jesus' resurrection as 3 part of the divine plan? fl 296.
:typeof Jesus appearing in heaven itself, pre: senting the merit of His sacrifice as a great sinoffering. This ~7ouldhave been impossible 113~1
h o t Jesus been resurrected a divine being.
-'m'Afterward Jesus Christ gnrc mlto St. .To1111
.a revelation by ITis angel, \vliic.ll is recorded as
<the book of Xevelation. I n that Ha said: "I nil1
':he that liveth, and.\vas dcad; nntl, bel~old,I am
.alive for evermore, Snlcn; and Iial-e tlie Iteys
,of hell and of dcatli." (Rcvclntion 1:13) II(~I1
.means the tomb, tlie grave, tlic conclition oi'
. dent11 into which the \vhole human rncc has been
:going for so many centuries. Dcnth is t l ~ cgre:~t
enemy; and in due time tlie Lord \\-ill nbolisli
/or dcstqy both death and the grave, a s n-c slinll
'see later'dn.
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:the resurrection of Jesus Christ and undrr'stands and appreciates the purpose, liis licart
.is made g l d . Only tlioae n-110 arc enliglitcnerl
have yet appreciated the f n c t that the ~ * c s u r ,rection of Jcsus is onc of t l ~ cstrings on C;otl's
wonderful harp. In due time tilc3sc bcncfits will
;be made lrnow~ito all, nntl all sl1:11lrc~cogl~izcs Grave Digger:_"No bier,-no- work!"
-Yale Reord.
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OULD it have been the extraordinary sagacity of Daniel that

enabled IJm, over t r o thousand years ago, to foretell presentday wonders in inventions, progress in education, yet perpleliity
and distress never equaled in tllc history of the morld?
It is upon such"singularly distinpislling feats that the Bible should
be judged as to its infallibility as the' Word of God.
Jehovah, in plan~lingfor man's future, is pernlitti~iga natural 11-orking
out of events and foretold certain signs that mould presage the new order.
The Bible, in its prophecies, provides a means of proving itself of Divine
origin. TVhat man or group of men is there ~viio\I-ould' dare, as a test
of their sagacity, predict what the summer or tlie fall will briug forth?
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Yet to just such tests the BibIe subjects itself.

Looking at world events through the prophecies of the Bible gives you
a view of the future as Jehovah planned that it sliould'be.
The HARP BIBLESTUDYCourse seelrs to emphasize these prophecies
that interpret the world happenings.

The H a p Bmm STUDYCourse consists of reading assignments allotting an houlJs reading weekly, and self-quiz cards, using as its textb001i TEE HAI~P
OF GODby Judge J. F. Rutherford
To facilitate examination of specific tests and prophecies, the set of
seven volumes of STUDIES
IN THE SCRIPTURES
is provicled. These eight
boolrs forlu reference library ~ l l i c hwith
,
topical and Scriptural index,
permit a n analytical esamination of every text.
The UACP
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May 21, 1924

NEW ZEALANDER
BEFORE A
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PROPAGANDA
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Downward Trend of Yankind
Prophetic Chrooology of the Great Ppramld
Bible Chronology
P w l d Built in 2140 B. C.
The Jews Lett Egypt In 1615 B. C. . . . . . . . . .
Christ Returned ln 1874 A. D.
The World War in 1914 . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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0 KandIfAYhis 9,associates
1818, the day Judge Rutherford
were arrested for being
Christians in a time of propaganda, Renry
Ritchie Uquhart, of Auckland, New Zealand,
~ t o o dup before a conrt martial, which subsequently sent him to prison for eleven months a t
hard labor, and told the court some interesting
thngs. I t may even be supposed that he caused
some of the court to do a little thinlingsurely a hard tllixig for rr court martial.
"Ur. President, it is n-ith regret that I find
myself compelled to lodge any objection against
you as a member of this court martial. You are
somewllat of cr stranger to me, and for that
reason alone I naturally wish to think, and do
think, only kindly of you; yet I have an objeotion and, to my mind, a serious one. I t is of
precicelp a simllnr ~intureto that which I hare
against the remaining members of this court
martial.
"The objection has reference to the nature of
the oath you take, as presitlent of this court,
and to the consequent impossible position i t
places you in ~vllenyou seek to try me by the
various clauses of the Army Act.
"The oath referred to, if talten sincerely,
means that you grant to God and to religion
the very highest place of honor and reverence.
Yet when the Prosecuting Connsel marns the
conrt, as he will do imnlcdiately aftemards,
that according to Section 12, Chapter 111, of
the Manual of Military Law, religious or conscientious scruples can have no ~velghta t all
with the conrt, and afford no justification whatever for refusal to obey a military command,
yon will calmly acquiesce in his ruling.
"In other words, when, after acknomledging
God and the truthf of the S e w Testament
teaching by smearing by His name and on His
book in the most solemn manner, the Prosecuting Connsel warns you that from thnt point on
God and His book must be banished from the
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court, and that the accused must on n o acCaun
be permitted to base his arguments 8nd d e f e m
on guidance from the One, or on-the teschingof,
the other, you a r e prepared to accept the s
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tion and t r y me according to the h W A&
alone, an Act which clearly does not r e ~ d z d
the right of a man to be guided by that verg hdj
without acknowledging whom in solemn Oath&
you dare not t r y me.
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"Bluch is said with respect t o the solemnik;
of this oath in yonr own books of military law;:
"For instance, in Rule 30 of W e s of Pms-'
dare', these words occur: 'The person to b&
sworn will take the -book in his right hand
ungloved.' I wish you, Mr. President, to note
that word "nngloved'. It is fraught with deep
meaning. There mnst be no hypocriep about
the act of taking the oath. Bs the flesh of the
hand mnst come in contact with the Bible with*:
out anything intervening, so there must be no
reservations on the part of him who takes anoath-no veil of pretence between him d his,
God. I t is the most solemn of all oaths, one inA
which the man, if he realizes what he is doing,
stands face to face with his Creator.
"Further, me a r e told in this same seetionthat:
'the words of the oath should be said with;
distinctness and solemnity by the person ads
ministering it.'
"Notice, too, that the book must be the 'N&_
Testament or some book containing it8 I want
you to remember, Mr. President, that thin New:
Testament thnt yon have sworn so solemnlj bx"
on many past occasions is the very book the=
effect of whose teachings on the accused before:
you today is to go for absolutely nothing. .
"Yet yonr own books of military law wilt h v e
no trifling with the solemn oath you, as Prei-.
dent, must take and must swear witnesser by.
I n a note to Rule 30 these words occur: 'In the
case of a witness it is well, in the interests of.
truth, to prevent sabterfages such aa -omitting'
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"Then immedintaly after all this, yon agree. ' .
thumb instead of the book, as dishonest wit- that thc Prosecutilig Counsel is right when he
nesses fancy that thns they escnpe the guilt of warns the court that according to military law
any religious o r conscientious scruples urged .
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by
an accused, as reason for disobeying a di y "A&in,-in the administration of the oath, a
tary
command, can have no weight and can
'man's religion has v e v defimte recognition ; for
afford
no justification for refusal to obey.
[a MBT
note to Rule 30 says: 'if the above
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other
words, you are about to try me as
.eremonies are not in accordance with the religif
yon
were
a pure official and not a man of
ion of the person to be sworn, the ceremonies of
God-created
independent
thought and judgment.
his religion mast be followcd, as provided by
The
Army
Act,
in
spite
of
your solemn oath, is - 1
this rule.' Why is it then that after an accused
to
carry
more
weight
with
you
than the teaching
man's religion is thus definitely recognized in
the adminiatration of the oath, you are prepared of the New Testament.
"To be consistent, your oath should have been
'topreside over a court which from that point on
banishes all thoughts of God's dealings vith taken on the Army Act and in the name of the
men from its calculations, and treats a man's New Zealand Government, not on the New
religious convictions as if they were mere paltry Testament and in the name of yonr Creator.
"It is every man's duty to be a man first of
M e s unworthy of any serious considerationt
all,
an official somewhere after that or not at all,
"The paragraphs referred to above then go
according
to the light revealed to him. To do as
on to treat of the solemn Scotch oath, 7 swear
you
have
done at dl previous courts martial,
by Almighty Qod a s I shall answer to God at
acknowledge
God and the New Testament in
the Great Day 08 Judgment.' It tells us further
solemn
oath,
then in accordance with military
that the Jew ir to-be sworn on the Old Testalam
deny
that
the guidance of God and the .
ment, with bia head covered; that the Mohamteaching
of
the
New Testament have anything
medana and natives of India are to be sworn
to
do
with
a
Christian's
refusing to obey a
according to their respective religions. The
military
order,
is
to
act,
not
as a Qod-fearing
whole section, indeed, ispregnant with meaning;
an
official
and
an
o5cial
only. Such
man,
but
as
it impresses on all a deep sense of the solemnity
a
man
tviU
never
command
any
confidence.
of taking an oath, it accords to God and to His
With
much
regret
therefore,
Mr.
President,
I
book the highest reverence and honor.
must
object
to
yonr
acting
as
president
of
thia
"Before you dare try me, Mr. President, yon
martial.
yo&
must take a solemn oath of this natnre; court
"Only on a promise from you and from the
and in taking it you admit your belief in Qod remaining members of the court, that yon would
and in His book. YOUswear by the New Testa- all sooner resign yonr positions than force a
ment became in your Dominion there is no more man whom you believe to be a thoroughly
eacred book to swear by; yon look to God for sincere follower of Christ to do that which he
guidance and ask Him to help you in the feels to be wrong and sinful, would I willingly,
submit to be tried by this court.''
exemtion of your duty.

Diseased Milk
T SENECA FALLS,Nem Pork, March 13,

A
one hundred and tmenty-seven children and
five teachers in
public schools drank milk
the

-which came from a local bottling plant. Within

'two hours seventy-eight children and four
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teachera were U e n severely sick with pains

drowsiness, vomiting,
and diarrlqa Many had to be carried home.
:"onlytwenty-nineof those who drank the milk
showd no signa of illness.

1m the ~tomach,nausea,

Lhvestiption showed that one cow on the

morning ln qnestion had a sore udder. This the
owner had noticed, but had not thought it 00
su5cient importance to discard the milk. The
cow was examined; and'her temperature was
found to be 104 and the milk of a peculiar color.
Laboratory testa showed that the miik contained
large quantities of pus and germs capable of
ansing the type ofillness with which the children were stricken.

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has developed with radio his talk a s a subtle propaganda, inasmuch aa a,$ ..
stations which have been constructed f o r talk on the diEcu!ties of milk distribution mightj% :
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However, the officials of the broadcasting 2.4:
more o r less expensivr, propositions, according station make justification of such talks on thesi
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for ten minutes' rental of the a i r ; anckone hour's ~ 3 big
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y business i s carried on, considering that
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rental costs about $400.
it is instractive. A ~ e r clever
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bit of advertis-',:$! '..
I t is estimated that there a r e 700,000 n d i o . ing was broadcast by a n actress. She gave a,':';!
receiving
sets +tllin a 100-mile radius of xe\v description of the n-ay she "made UP" f o r her,::?::
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.York city, and that there a r e four listeners f o r work on the stage, presnmabIp going into detail. j:;
each set; therefore i t i s possible f o r nearly A t the end of hcr tall< it uras announced that she :;,
3,000,000
to 'listen inJJ a t one time. 3iaI;ing would be glad to send a booklet on h e r talk and .:
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allowance for those not listening in simultane- an autograph picture to those who wrote her,.in
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onsly, and f o r those who nrould be tuned in with care of the broadcasting station.
some outside station, the potential audience is
F o u r thousand requests were received, and ; ,
conservatively e s t u n a t d a t one-half of the no doubt the broadcasting mas paid f o r by the : - '
number of receiving sets, o r 350,000.
manufacturers of tlie cosmetics she professed
I t is claimed that nearlr 900 concerns paid to use. I f any criticisms were made concerning
for broadcasting from I ~ A inF 1923. But this talk by the actress, they r e r e not reported.
these advertisers cannot speak a s they choose;
Of course, there i s a vast difference i n fhe
. . for direct advertising i s not permitted, neither
vien-point of the suffering public. If we mast a r e direct, personal messages permissible. Tlie listen to the difficulties ,the milk companies have
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put out when he finds that he cannot declare the in bntter-fat to meet the lam's requirements, . .
superior quality of his wares to radio fandom. of making delireries n+th sac11 promptness that .I ,
I n fact, the advertiser cannot advertise his the milk will not sour, of keeping the cows
business a t all. Ilo must conform to what is healthy and the stables clean, a n d of the chances .
called the "techniclue of institutional advertis- the milk companies must take mith the milk that -'.
ing," which means t i n t the arinoulicer ]nay comes from where they do not know, in order
introduce him a s the manaqcr o r president of that tlie tliousands of babies may ~t p o d food 1.
such and sucll company, and say a t the close of and keep veil and grom to maturity, then some . -:
his talk, that yon h a r e just' listened to Ilr. So- of us must complain a n d show o u r ugly disposiand-So, president, manager. o r whatnot, of tions.
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But nvhen a n actress tells how she beautifies .,
wishes to do SO, he may hire an orchestra to herself +th lip sticks, paints rose-coIored
broadcast a thirty-minute concert; and, of cheeks, pencils black eyebrows, and offers t o :
course, the announcer teIIs v h o tlie pliilanthro- send her picture, taken in the "ma!ie-up," that
pist is and what compaxiy he is connected mith. is different; for i t affords u s tlie pleasure of
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That the advertisers are studying tile tech- seeing our dnughters learning the secrets of; I
nique of technical ntlvertisin~is c i : ~ n . n i n on dolli116 UP f o r the stage, i n order that they :,
radio bugdom, and tllcse "lugs" a r e critical, and may parade
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over tlIcrn.J9~t is ~ I ~ C ~ I ~ Slook
C ~ foolish!
YCS
said that Patriclc D. p ' ~ x ,of the Cortlcn'? I7:lrnl
~ h :radio people a r e approaching the legisla- .Products Company, recently tnlkcd from T T E . \ I V i r e plinse or the business with caution. I t has ';.
on the problcms of the mill; distril~utor. Ire bcen suggested that when any speech o r promade no mention of the Corden conipnny, gram has bcen paid for thc announcer should
although his connection with tllc conccrri n-ns so stntc a t both tlle beginning oncl tllc cnrl oE
made plain a t the beginning and at tllc end o f such pcrformancc. This is a good i d e a Then.
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:kith some other station. We would f a d t no
one who refuses to listen to advertising.
Advertising has developed into a science.
.Mu& street-= and billboard advertising is
Iflalee, and magazine and newspaper advertising
$s~very little better. Exaggeration, magical
'phrases, and subtle sugg.estions are the rule.
:'Bfter reading Roger Babson's statistics on
advertising, how the npttend of business volume
kollowa the use of increased newspaper space,
,we are convinced that if all advertising were
'done on strictly truthful lines, eliminating the
magi0 and cunning, there would be a horrible
dump in the business activities of the world.
: b d , perhaps, the awakening of radio fans to
the hmnbdggery and overdoneness in advertising is the beginning of saner methods of making
known the virtues of merchandise. Or, mayb&il
better-the
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time shall soon come when
, merchandise and commodities of every sort will
advertise themselves. Then shoddy, imperfect,
a d not best-made goods -will disappear forever.
Many are the instances where speakers have
~ e tod broadcast messages to their f d e s
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"Couldst thou bonsf 0 child of wenkneu!
O'er the snns of wrong nnd strife,
Were thelr strong temptationr planted
I n thy path of llfe?

Maddened by earth's wrong and e v i l

nLonll" 1 cried In sudden ire,
'From the rlpht hnnd clothed wlth thunder.
Shake the bolted flre !
mLom Is loat, and falth is dying:
Wlth the brute the mnn Is aold;

listening in. But watcliful inen were on the job,

who threw the switch; the speech was pocketed;
and there was a hole in the lecture. If there is .
a suspicion that a code message is being broad- ;
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cast the switch is turned-it is so casily done;
and the speaker imagines he has "put one over" ' :
the station, until-he finds out differently.
It is becoming the custom for statioru to
require of prospective speakers advance wpy .
of the tollc for approval before broadcasting. If
any part has been deleted, and if the speaker
undertakes to refer to it, he is taken off the air.
Speakers of national prominence, talking at a
dinner, are also watched for anything which
might be considered idammatorily partisan in
politics or in religion, or other controversial
subjects, in order that their speeches might 38
"faded away" by turning the &witch.
The radio broadcasting stations are under
governmental control and supervision. This is
as it should be; and Foe believe that the present
arrangement and the improvements being made
are preparatory steps fully in harmony with the
advancing stages of the incoming Uesaiania
Idngdom, of which the radio is a most wonderful foregleam and indicator.

T h o u hast seen two atrenmlets gnshlng

From one fonntnin clenr and Cree,
But by widely rarylng channels
Senrching for the seo.

And the dmpptog blood of lnbor

Rnrdenr into g o l d

-Here the dying wail 02 fnmine.

There the battle's groan of pnln:
And, in silence, smootk-face JI:~mmon
Renplng men llke grnln.

"Glldeth one through grecllest rnlle.rs,

Kissing them wlth tips still sweet;
One. mnd ronrlnq d o n the r n o u n t a ~
Stugnntes n t thelr feet.

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Ood. that we shoultl f ~ n Blm?'

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Thus the enrth-barn Titans sny ;
'God, if thou n r t living, llctr us!'
Thus the wenk ones pruy."

"For thyself, while wrong and sorrow

Jiuke to thee thelr strong appenl.
Connrd wert thou not to utter
What the heart m a s t feel.

"Thou the patient Ileaven upbr.liding,"

Spnke a solemn volco w1111111;
'Wenry of our Lord's forknmuce.
&t thon free from slo?

"Enmest words must needs be spoken

When the a n r m heart bleeds o r bnros
TViU i t s scorn of wrong, o r pity
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Cnnst thou for Hls thunders a l l ,
m o w i n g that to gullt's attrnctlon
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Tencl~erw n t of God, be near,
Whisp'ring through t h e day's cool s~lencr,
Let my s p ~ r l thear!

So, nben tho:~gl-tsof ertldoers

Wnken scorn o r hatred more.
Slli~lln mouror111 fellow-feeling
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N THE mouth of two or three witnesses
shall- every word be established," m o t e
the apostle Panl to the Corinthian church2 Corinthians 13:L
. Many at present are disposed to reject the
Bible, claiming that there are no evidpces that
it is of divine origin. They have convinced
themselves and some others that it is merely a
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- - -himself declared that he but silhouetted a great

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er one to follow him.-Deuteronomy
18: 15.
All the prophets of the Bible declared that ;-.

they were delivering messages sent by Jehovah, - ,

whom they represented; and that their descrip *<
tions of the Golden Age to come were by d i h e *.authority. So unreasonable and impossible did -.
some of their prophecies appear at the time . -i
collection of old fables and traditions, compiled 'that the people often doubted and criticised,
:in the early dawn of intelligence; and that and sometimes killed the prophets.-Hebrews . ,:':
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' therefore it has nothing to attract or interest 11 :36-39.
- Tthe so-called advanced wisdom of our day.
Apparently insignificant details were some .:. .
Recent archeological discoveries have thrown times mentioned, as when Micah (5 :2) named - - 5
much light upon heretofore obscure passages Bethlehem aa the birthplace of the expected - I.
and stimulated renemed study in the historical Messiah. It is now known that the Prophet * - .portions of the Bible. Modern scientific inven- merely made pablio mention of the spot that
1
tions and mechanical devices are demonstrating had been selected over 1,200 years before his '
the truth of tlie visions of the prophets of old. day, before there was a hamlet on the spot, and
The antomobiies and steam trains are easily recorded in "Bible Number One," the one writrecognized as the "chariots [which] shall rage ten for the scientist
in the streets, . . shall justle one against anWhen St. Panl wrote: "Death reigned from
other in the broad ways, . . . shall seem like Adam to Moses," the latter date referred to the
torches, . . . shall run like the lightnings, . . . opportunity of salvation offered to the Jews at
.
in the day of his preparation," which the Mt. Sinai, by which they might have secured
.-.
prophet Nahum (2: 4,3) saw in vision.
everlasting life, if they codd have kept Qod's.
:
,
Tlie physical facts of the radio demonstra- law. (Luke 10 :28) St. Pan1 admits that no
tions are as ~niraclesbefore our eyes. If man imperfect Jew was able to keep that Iaw; and
can so utilize the powers of nature that he can that if he or any one else, Jew o r Gentile, were
hear the heart-beat of another 1,200 miles away, to obtain salvation, it must come some other ' :
should it seem an incredulous thing that God, way. (Romans 8 :3) All this has been found
.:
who ordered all tliese laws of nature, codd hear written in the specifications of the Scienmo ..L..
the prayer of His children, even though pre- Bible. Even the date that Moses was to lead
.:7
sented in the secret of the closet? (Uatthem the JewsfrornEgyptwasindicatedoverfour
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' 6: 6)
The big fish caught off the east coast of hundred years before Moses wau born. Many:
Florida in 1917, with a hlackfish weighing 1,500 prominent dates in history are indicated, even . -- '
pounds, another fish weighing 400 pounds, and down to the Vorld W a r of 1914. The year 1925
about 500 pounds of coral in its stomnch, proves is also a specified date.
St. Peter mas arrested and imprisoned for
that the experience recorded of Jon& is not
- impossible.-Matthew 12 : 40.
preaching Jesus and Him crucified. In his de'.' It will be interesting nems to many to learn fense he said to the Sanhedrin: "There is none
that the Bible with which we are so familiar, is other name under heaven given among men,
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in reality the second witness that gives ample whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4: 12) Jeho-vah
had
spoken
forth
the
edict,
and
already
had
evidence of being inspired by divine wisdom,
it
on
record
for
over
2,000
years.
. and that Jehovah is now bringing forth another
"Both the Bible for the people and the Bible
witness to His divine foreknowledge and His
for
the
scientist
mention
that
Qod
has
two
offers
interest in the affairs of men. T h e n Moses led
the children of Israel from Egypt, he was but of salvation: One limited to Christ and "holy
pantomiming one of the features of a plan brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,"
which God had decided upon, the specifications such as niight choose to follow Him by the way
'of which had been d m , eealed and filed away of ignominy and the cross to heavenly glory,
more than five hundred y e w previous. Moses honor and immortaliv-the divine natmej the
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from Moses to John the Revelator. These writ-'

ers were from various wallrs of life; fishermen,..
physicians, herdsmen, lawyers, scribes, priests,
princes, counselors, and kings. Pervading dl.
their writings is one principal theme. No book.
lias eserteci such an uplifting influence upon
individuals or nations. It appeals to the heart.
and mind of man, and presents to him a God of.
love? justice, wisdom and power, ~ h will
o pun:;
ish mqnity and reward righteousness.
..
No book has been so loved by its friends orhated by its enemies. At times tile Bible bas .
been outlawed ; and any one found in possession:
of one, or even a part of one, has been sent to :
prison or the stake. Shortly after the death of
the apostles a great persecution arose against.:
Christians and the Bible. lJ%ole nations went
under a dense cloud of prejudice and cruelty,,
and dropped into ignorance and superstition"
from which they hare not yet fully recovered..
Some of the persecutors acted like demo=.
That period was well named the "dark agesnThe Written Bible does not pretend to be a
treatise upon the sciences. It is a statement of ;
God's pian, of His law; it is a treatise uponrighteousness and morals, and an appeal t~ the.
better nature of man. I t records God's dealin@
with the children of Israel, with whom He had
made a covenant, and of whom He made ma:
tppes. It records their failures withont color-!
ing, and without excuses shows up many indi- '
viduals in their true light.
.
Pictures of future kingdoms and men weme
thrown upon the prophetic screen. Babylo*,
Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome were shown as '
four great world powers, to be followed by the,
kingdom of God. To Nebuchadneazar them
mighty kingdoms appeared as a great man,
wonderful to behold, and the fifth kingdom aa
a cal.amity which knocked his big man all to.
pieces. To Daniel the same four powers a p
peared as four vicious beasts, devoaring each
other in succession, and the kingdom of God a'
a great ,deliverer. H i s t o q shows that Daniel
had the proper view. The four kingdoms sn,
past, and the fifth is now coming upon the roena
-Daniel, Chapters 2, 7, 8.
Not only were nations pictured, but indidd-:
Th Written Bible
nnls were oftan silhouetted ao distinctly that
HAT evidences are there that the Bible is they are quickly recognized by the student of'
of divine origin? Lot us note a few. I t history. Alexander the Great is easily identified
,.is a compilation from thirty or more writers in Daniel 8 :21,22,and 11:3,4.Even the division.
'daring a period of approximately 1,700 yearsof his empire into its four parts is delinedd,
-other offer to be extended Iater to "whosoever
will" of dl the families of earth, to an earthly
Paradise, perfection of human nature, and
everlasting life on earth. "Blessed are the
-'meek; for they shall inherit the earth."
ia
F-..?The failure to distinguish between these two
<offers is m e of the chief causes of confusion in
the minds of many students of the Bible. Both
;Bibles show clearly that the evil and distress in
the world are not of God, but were permitted for
a time that man might demonstrate his inability
to save himself or his neighbor. mhile waiting
for man to learn his lessons, God has been
quietly carrying on a work of His o m .
The Written Bible is in language common to
man, and in its present book form is so compact
that one can c a q it in his hand. The Scientific
Bible is over thirteen acres in size, and has been
- estimated to weigh over 6,000,000 tons. I t is in
the language of the scientist, without n hieroglyph or the scratch of a pen. In addition to
outlining the same divine plan for the salvation
of man that the Written Bible does, it has mines
of scienti6c knowledge, the treasures of which
seem to be ineshaustible. Scientists are eagerly
assaying some of the ore already taken out.
Any person of ordipary ability can write a
record of past events; if he has correct data
from which to c&mpileit. That is history. But
to write that same account several thousand
years in advance is quite another thing. That
is prophecy. This God has done in both His
Bibles. Many of the prophecies have now become history. Many historians have not been
believers in the Bible. Some have never heard
of it; yet their histories are witnesses to the
truth of its predictions. The accuracy with
which those already due have been fulfilled is
good evidence that a l l the unfulfilled ones will
be as accurately f d j l l e d when doe.
The physical fact that these prophecies have
been so accurately fulfilled demonstrates clearly
that Jehovah is w r y i n g oat His plan definitely
decided upon ages ago. He has not interfered
with any one's freedom of mill, though H e has
often restrained the freedom of action of some.
His schedule is on time and not interfered with.

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.. - After the division of the Grecian empire, taments mill be discovered, sooner or later, hid-:
prophecy speaks of Egypt as the ''king of the den amay by Jehovah until the proper time.";
'south," and of Rome or some of its parts as Some have criticized the Bible because, as therf. :
- "king of the north." Daniel 11:17-19 ontlines say, if it came from Jehovah it should cbntain
.

incidents which occurred during the time of

t ark Antony and Queen Cleopatra. Au y s t u s
:C,mar is pictured in verse 20 as 'Y raiser of
taxedJ; and L u l i ~(2: 1) thus describes him.
-Verse 21 tells that Tiberins Czsar, "a viIe per,
>sonshall . . obtain the kingdom by flatteries."
*Terse 25 ontlines ~e second mar between Rome
'and Egypt, a t the time of Anrelian and Queen
r Zenobia
Daniel 11:29 to 45 refer to h'apoleon and his
-career. Verse29 reads: "'At the time appointed
:'he [Napoleon, of France as part of the kingdom
-ofthe north] shall return, and come toward the
. south [Egypt] :but it shall not be as the former
[war under Mark Antony], nor as the latter
[under Anrelian]. For the ships of Chittim
[England] shall come against him; therefore
he &all be grieved."
Admiral Nelson defeated the French squadron in Abonkir Bay, August, 1798, "at the time
appointed"; and this defeat so grieved Napokon that he shortly afterward returned to
France, as foretold. No historian has better
delineated Napoleon than did Daniel in verses
36-45. How could Daniel have foreknown all
- these particulars, 2,300 years hefore Xapoleon
was born, unless inspired by divine wisdom?
In the Bible the exact dates of the birth and
'death of Jesus were foretold, as was nIso the
-great war in 1914.
-. The Written Bible gives the clearest, tersest
description of the mention of the earth yet
,written Professor J. D. Dnna, a writer of
much prestige on geology and natural history,
cays of the Mosaic acconnt of creation :
; T h e ant thought that strikes the scientific readm is
(he e n d m of divinityJ not merrly in the first v m of

the m r d and its successive fiats, but in the mhole order

-of crestion. There is eo much that the most recent
of =ima hare for the first time erplained,
the idea of man a its author becomes utterly
inmmprehhible. By provmg the record true, sclence
-plmw it dirine; for who could have correctly narrated
of e b r n i t ~but God himself ?" "'rhe r a n d
stnnb; and tha
Book of God
the
lave
pondered* the mom
it mntah and illustrate the aacred Word."

. I t i s n o t at dl unreasonable to expect that the

kriginal manuscripts of both Old and New Tes-

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treatises on a.ll the sciences a s well a s on theology. m y not make the same criticism against any versatile writer who does not tell all he
knows in one book?
The physical facts of the universe and. the
mnltituclinous and intricate "Irrms of nature"*.
prove that their Creator and Controller is f a r '.
superior to any being man can imagine. This
little planet that we live on is a wonderland dl '
by itself, and a testimony of the wisdom and .
care of its Creator and of His care for His
creatures. Were it not for "man's inhumanity
to manJJ it could easily be transformed into 8
Paradise, with as perfect happiness ss there is . .
in heaven. God has provided everything necessary to g
r
a
m every proper sense of both body: .
and mind.
The giants air, water, electricity, and 0 t h
yet to be trained, stand waiting t o do man's
bidding a t a moments' notice. These servants
can do more, better and greater work than human servants. They are ready to do the most .
menial service; they wash our clothes, sweep
our houses, cook our meals, light and heat our
homes, carry us over the highways with almost .
the speed of the mallow's Bight, carry our measages to the uttermost parts of the earth on the
wings of the morning, deliver the speech of any .
lecturer or the music of the best opera in our own homes, as perfectly as though we sat in the '.
same hall with the singers, even though they 8nr
actually thousands of miles away.
A11 these servants need is a master. Man has .
the ability to be their master. H e was created
to be s king, not a slave; and a fnll retinue of
most faithfd servants has been provided. God ,
man and gave him the earth for his
Man is just waldng
to this fact He is still rubbing his blinking eyes, as if arorwin6 from a Rip Van Winkle Sleep of severd
thousand Years. It is hard for him to COmPrebend what he actually sees going on
around
him. cod's Word is the key to the mystery.
130th Bibles teach emphatically that man tom
created prrfert and in a e favor of God; that
shortly after his creation he fell from that fis.
vor, and entered the may to sin, which leads to
,.
death. Both Cibles teach that man has been
unable to save himself; and physical facts prove ' .
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that this k Ime. Man needs assistance.. Both

Bibles teach that such assistance has been provided; and that "whosoever will" may recover
all that was lost, a wiser and better man, with
a f d e r appreciation of his Creator. The Son
i'
.&'-:'of Man "came to seek and save that which was
:"--.lost"; and every prophet of God has spoken of
the "times of restitution," the giving back of
that which was once possessed, lost, and later
- found by another. This kingdom of God is the
principal theme of Both Bibles.

AGE

glist ~ n i n gin the sunlight like a mountain '

glass. Tradition had it Allcd with untold weal

hidden away by ancient kings. There w

secret entrance away up the northern face,
i t was so closely fitted that it could not
located from the ground. The ancients
the Great Pyramid at the head of their
the Seven Wonders of the World.
1, its p ~ m i t i v equietand beanty it
for over 2,900years, as mute as the Sphinx,
apparently as useless. About 820 A. D. 'BL,
Mamoun, an Arabian Caliph, determined
The Scientific Bible
possess himself of its hidden treasures. He?
Scientific Bible d g h t with propriety be secured a large force of workmen, promising td
called Bible Number One, since it is the divide with them the wed^ they &odd @
older by several hundred Yews. It is the Great He ~ v a snot able to locate the secret door, so he2
- mamid of Gizeh, in Egypt- I t s ~ e a l i sby its forced an entrance by tearing a large ugly hdaf
geographical loention, its size and shape, its in its beautiful surfnee, as near as he mddi
interior Passage#, their planes of inclbe and estimate the location of the door. Through solid;
their lengths, its chambers and their sizes, loca- msonry of massive stones, securely cementd:-i
. tions and relationship to each other; the granite togctller, he quarried his may t e a o u l y aboat~
-lY
in the zng.'s Chamber, and the lime- 100 feet, where he reached one of the inn=?
stone trimmings of the Queen's Chamber, the passages. Eagerly his men sought &e bnridt
peculiar entrances to each, and inlaid stones in tnasure.
:G$
nrioun places, so located as to indicate events
It was a treasurehome indeed ht its
and dates. No book-binder ever did a neater
none of the gold or gems he -3
- piece of work. All expert investigators testifv
for. Neither ill Mamom nor his rrk-?
Pp-d
is a masterpiece of men had any use for such as they found. The+;
that the
worIrmaaship, and that it could not be dupli- were like the ipornnt
was
today? with
Our modern science and sacking the palace of a defeated liing The kin&
mechanical equipments.
in his precipitate flight had dropped h h bsg:
It is anstornary for
to date their pub- containing the royal jewels of great value. The
l k t i o n s . The Great Pyramid is no exception. soldier found it and picked it up. H~ opened
We find the date Of " c o ~ f i g ~if~Yon
? please, bag and saw the precious sbnes. He
twice: Once in the lanflage
the asa king w o d d want of such worna!
b d d e r , in the
bonomer; the other
pbbles. He threw them away and, showing hipi
ing itself, arid referring to the astronomer. Albag to a comrade, s i d : #see a b;
though constructed by man, it is all too evident dinner-bag I have
N~~ onb wa a;
that no man could have been its architect; for Jlamoon disappointed, but to appeaw the
cadd at that time have lmom what is
a d anger of his workmen he
therein written, anless 7
' divhe i n ~ p ' r a t i ~ n . to hide quantity of gold therein snd let thBm!
;We herewith present some of the evidences and
$;;A.
ask every honest student to test them carefdly, find
Later
the
beautiful
cnsing-stonea
were
rd
aimply upon the facts submitted, and with any
a
n
&:
moved,
with
the
object
of
building
mosqnea
additional data he may secure.
cities. until nearly all of them mere stripped!
from their long restinRpiace and taken to a&rn:
-. Tlb m i d of Gizeh
HE Pyramid of Gizeh is located upon a rocky palaces and public buildings. Like ghouls kb
plateau on the west side of the river Nile, bing the mounded, the vandala continued th&;
h u t eight miles from Cairo, Egypt, and about desecration, until today the Pyramid stands am:
we hundred and ten miles from the sea. The a mighty giant, denuded, wrinkled and premaancient h t o r i a n s , Herodotus and Strabo, de- turely old, yet in its strength defying enemisr
it as wvered with polished marble and and the elements, still guarding the precioua

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f & b ~ ~ r eentrusted
s
to its care until they shall
r
k delivered as directed.
a m& messenger with strict orders to
his message only to certain ones and
1 specified time, So this messenger from
had orders to deliver his t r e s m e s to
i&fhoNes of the min&" scientists, a t a
P
to them. That time is here,
messenger is delivering these hidden
rppd
before their astonished gaze. Like the
b t i o of~this "Age of Hirades," the supply
inexhaustible. We now smile at the
on reported to have been made by the
t of the Patent Ofice at Washthat Congress might a s well close
ce, for all that could be invented
ented. Many in the past have been
anile a t the folly of any one ah0
d such a mighty structure as the
when it could be put to no use.
not until the nineteenth century that it
-y-dawned
upon some scholars that the
lest Pynrmid might contain some scientific
1799 some French savants who
m
p
a
n
i
e
d
Napoleon
on his Egyptian eupedi)r
, t b , made a few enmeys and examinations.
dug into some of the piles of dCbris a t
formed by the chips when the casingere
from their cemented positions
or hnbled down from above, and by
own in
the desert They found
d "enca~etrements" a t fX0 of
e square stones sunk into the
On which the P Y r a ~ d
built837 Colonel Howard Vyse employed
hundred worlimen to assist him. He
rough the mass of dcbns, in some
feet deep, wit11 t l ~ cdesire to locate
e -the originnl base lines. Besides
the foundation, he was fortunate in
three of the oridnal casing-stones still
in thickness they
hidl and had
One of the three is
tons. The cuingso closely that it
the point of joining.
is only abont one-fil't~cthof an inch
the stones together so tightly
to pry them apart. Considering
b k k g e s u r f ~ c thus
e ~ evenly faced, the worlimcn
be en ex per^, mPerior to a11y O E today.

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These casing-stones gave Cobnel Vyse &&

clue to the original exterior dimensions and fa?:
the incline of the sides. H e &O fo-d tho two'
"corner-stones" mentioned by the French say?;
ants. He believed that they. were SUI &.
into the -.
rock foundation to indicate particdar p0inb for measurements. This was v e r s e d by later .
discoveries. curio^ fine-drawn lines were
,
f o a ~ upon
d
them, which were later connected
with others within the structure. No sach '
"corner-stonesJ' are found in any of the other
pyramids. These "socket-stones" are evidently-,
ref erred to in Job 38 :47 : 'Whereupon are the
sockets [margin] thereof made to sink? o r who.
laid the cornerstone thereof I"

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Great firamid Receives Much Attention

1
OLONEL.VPSE published three large volmnes entitled "Operation8 st the Pyramids
of Gizeh." These works aroused deep interest,
and others began to investigate. In 1859 John
Taylor published a work, "The Great Pyramid;
why was it built t and who b d t it?'' He was the
first to saggest that possi5Iy the Pyramid was
of divine origin. Before his death he interested
Professor C. Piazzi Smyth, at that time Royal
ilstronomer for Scotland.
I n 18641865 Professor Smyth spent several
months a t the
He made extensive
measurements and astronomical calculations;
these he published in three volumes entitled,
''Life and Work at the Great Ppr-dF
He
also published "Om Inheritance in the- Great
Pyramid." Later he made other visits to secure
additional measurements and to verify some
previous ones, and in a few points he revised his
astronomical dcnlotions slightly.
William Petrie, father of Professor FhderaPetrie, first suggested that the "topstone",
itself o smuli pyramid, to the form and angles
of which the wIloIe structure conformed, might
in some sense symbolize Christ. In Job 38 :4-7
is mentioned the "cornerstone"; and Christ staid
(Uatthew 21 :1)
to the Pharisees : 'Did ye
never read in the scriptures, The stone which '
the bullders rejected, the same is become the
11~3d OC the cornert" eridently referring to
I'sslin 115 :22 and Isaiah 28 :16. I t is easy to see
llow this ~wrouldbe particularly true of tllc t o p
stone of thc Pyramid. I t mould not fit nnp place
during the proccsR of building; but when the
apex was reached, no 0th.; atone n u ~ fit.
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!&boat 1881 Professor Flinders Petrie, who eorners, sometimes going over the ground
had made p e r s o d visits to the pyramids and times to check possible errors. They took

light pictures of all parts of the

many photographs of the exterior and
roundings.
Later visits mere made by Mr.bforton Ed
1912 md 1914, to examine certain
carefully. They published "'Ppnunid Pas
in three volumes : the first containing n - 4
photographs, drawings and diagrams, and
ing the symbolisms of the Great Pyramid;
second dealing more particularly with
chronological features ; the third taking up
scientific teachings. These are the most
and varied treatises yet published oh the q
*
Pyramid. I t is by the courtesy of Mr. Mo@&
Edgar that we are privileged to present--thm
drawings herewith.
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extensive measurements of their nppcr portions,

wrote hi^ memorable work, "The P v a m i d s and
Temples of Gizeh." He was also enthusiastic in
aescribing the wonderful workmanship of construction, closeness of joints, accuracy of angles,
and exactness of detail evidenced throughout
the entirs structure.
The above books are now rare, but are to be
found in some libraries.
In 1893 Mr. C. T. Russell published his work,
T h y Kingdom Come." Having read Professor
Smyth's work, "Our Inheritance in the Great
Pyramid," he was so impressed with it that he
aevoted one entire-chapter to the theological
teachings of the Great Pyramid. A friend
hearing of his intention requested the privilege
of submitting the manuscript for the chapter on
the Great Pyramid to Professor Smyth for
miticism. Ln returning the manuscript Professor Smyth wrote, expressing much interest. We
quote part of his letter :

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Date o f Pyramid Erection

ROFESSOR S ~ r was
m the first to suggest
possibly the builder had hidden in the
graphical location of the Pyramid and the p e ~ t
liar incline of the interior passages the secret aJ:
the date of its erection. His first
2170 B. C., but later it was revised, and he
been definitely proved to be 2140 B. C.
The date 2140 B. C. rPas 4,064 years ago, &
332 years after the flood, 18 years before N a a
died, 170 years before his son Shem died, l4d(
20 years before Abraham was born. By sa'Pa]
Shem is considered the
later Jeru-Salem, who met and blessed
ham as hc was returning from the
the k i n g vllo had formed the
Nations and

calculation^
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"As I progressed through the pages, the powers, the

opecialtiea and the originalities of the Author came out
magnificently; and there were not a few passages I
should have been glad to take a copy of for quotation,
witli name, in the n t h possible edition of my own
Pyramid book. . . . I ncrely remark here that he is
both good and new in much that he says on the
chronology of various parts of the Pyramid, especially
the First Ascending Passage and its granite plug; on
the Grand Gallery, as illustrating the Lord's life; on the
parallelisms between the Kings Chamber and its granite
against the Tabernacle aud its gold; and generally on
the confirmation or close agreements beween Scripture
md the Great Pyramid."

gestcd thnt Sllern was

Pyramid, and the
some foundation
At 332 years
of the inhabited portion of the earth c o n l d ~ ~
have extended far beyond Mesopotamia
east,, the shores of the Ca
3Iedrterranean seas on the
E , v t on the south. Means of travel
limited, and people mere n
other. I-Iom much was then kno
shape and land formation of th
geographical divisions 1 What
distance of the sun from the e
precession of the equinoxes,

The volume, "Thy Kingdom Come," awakened

the interest of John Edgar, M. A.,B. S a , If. B.,
C. M., and his biother Morton Edgar, of
Glasgow, Scotland. Tbcy determined to test the
theory personally. Providing tl~emselvesyith
the best scientific instruments obtainable, long
steel tapelines scientifically tcstcd, and the
latest cameras for taking Bash-light pictures,
they visited the Pyramids in 1903, spending
several months there. They chec1;ed the records
given by Colonel Vyse and Professors Smytli
and Petrie, I n addition they had the lolver
. passages carefully cleared, at considerable
personal expense, and took many measurements
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rocky cliff, o r p
Lower Egypt
remarked : "That monument stands.in-a.m o d
important physical situation .than aziy
building erected by man." I t might well be &;
to be in the center and a t the same time at-the$
assist the eye.
border of Egypt. Tmenty-five hundred years:";
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In 1865 Mr. Henry Mitchell, Chief Hydrog- ago the prophet Isaiah wrote: "Inthat d a shall?
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Pyramid.
F h t we will notice the location selected on
which to build this "Bible in Stone," as Dr. Seiss
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sent to report the provess of the Sncz Canal.

While in that vicinity he made n survey of the
coast of Egypt, and was struck with the. circular
form of the coast line a t the delta of the Nile.
He made careful examination and found almost
p ~ r f c c tcjuadrciqt, the sides being fonncd by
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-the hills which bordered the lowlands and met
near Cairo. By closer calculation hc found the
..apexof the nngle to be a t the site of the Qrent
;;.Pyramid,about eight milea west of Cairo. This
gigantic structure Btood upon the edge 05 a

Egypt, and a pillar a t the border thereof tb .

Jehovah. And it shdl be for a sign and for a :
witness unto Jehovah of host in the land.08 ..
Egypt."-Isaiah 19 :19.
Professor Smyth observed :hat bWifzrdM
line drawn through the Great Pyramid modd
cross more ]and surface than any other line; -,vhereas its antipode modd touch very little
Innd, csccpt on tho western portion of dlaska . .
lie therefore chimed2that its location mas by i;
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w it would better suit aiI nations. He further mid gives the polar axis of the earth 8s 500,- .
stated that a t a t i t d i d line a t the same point 000,000 Pyramid inches-almost exactly equalwould cross more land surface than any other ing the 500,500,500 British inches. Dividing this
known point. How did Shem know of such an by 2, to get the polar radius, we have 250,000,000 Pyramid inches, as the basis. Dividing this
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location?
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by 10,000,000 we have 25 Pyramid inches, or a.
Pyramid cubit. This is a better standard than
" &uaring the Circle, and Memure Standard
one based upon the quadrant. The Pyramid
NE of the first scientific features discovered the
cubit
figures largely in the mathematical and
in the Great P y h m i d was that its height
astronomical
features of the Great Pyramid.
was to the length of two sides at the base line as
1-is to 3.14159; or, stated otherwise, twice the Number o f Days in tlie Solar Year
height considered as a diameter of a circle is to
HE exact length of the solar year is 365
the entire base line as the diameter of a circle
days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds;,
is to its circumference. Thus the problem of stated decimally, 363.242 days. Three hundred
.- squaring the circle had been actually worked and sixty-five days are usually counted as a
oat and recorded 4,000 years ago.
year, but t h i s runs the time ahead by nearly a
About the beginning of the sixteenth century quarter of a day each year; and in order to
Rudolph Von Ceulen discovered the ratio of the hold it in place an extra day is added every
diameter of a circle to its circumference to be fourth year, called a leap-year. But this in turn
1 to 3.14159. So great did he consider his is a bit too much, as it is not quite a quarter of
- 'discovery that he had it recorded on his tomb- a day over each year. To hold it back, only such
stone in St. Peter's Church, a t Leyden. But he century years as are divisible by 400 are countwas a little over 3,800 years behind time.
ed as leap-years. Many will recall that the year
F o r a long time mathematicians had tried to 1900 was not a leap-year. It was divisible by
find some standard of measures which could be 4 but not by 400.
The length of each side of the Great Pyramid
adopted by all nations. Believing it should in
some way be connected with the earth, they at the base line is 761 feet, 8 inches, or 9,140 .
finally took the distance of the earth's quadrant, British inches. Reduced to Pyramid incher
from pole to equator, and divided it by 10,000,- (Deduct one inch for each 1,000) is 9,13L
000. The result, 39.37 inches, was suggested as Divide this by 25 to reduce to Pyramid cuhib,
the basis for a national cubit. This was adopted and the result is 365.24. The four sides, measby the French in 1799, and later by other ured in cubits, equal the number of days in four
nations, including the United States. This ia years, including tile extra day for the leap-year.
known as the ~ e t % System,
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linear measure.
Distance from Earth to Sun
After critical and exhaustive calculations,
STRONOMERS have estimated the disbased upon comparison of many measurements
tance of the earth from the sun a t b
and cross-measurements, Professor Smyth dietween
91,000,000 and 93,000,000 mile$. Permit
covered that the Great Pyramid had a standard
us
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to quote from "Pyramid Passages,"
of both linear and cubic measure peculiar to
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itself. The linear standard he found to be a
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"William Petrie, father of Professor Flindera petria,:
Pyramid cubit. Other divisions or lengths he reflecting on the fact [the Pyrnmid'a method of Minamed similarly, as the Pyramid inch, the Pyra- cnting $he exact length of tho solar year] . . conmid mile, etc. The Pyramid inch is one-thou- nected it with John Tayloie discovery that the vertical
sandth part longer than the standard British height of the Great Pyramid ie the length of the radiua
a circle, the circumference of uhich equals the t o t d
inch; in other words, 1,000 British inches make of
measurement of the square bn~e. E e came to the con999 Pyramid inches. Applying this standard he clusion that aa the top-stone of the P y r d d , from this
,was amazed a t the mine of information it opened. point of view, symbolizs the sun, ib vertical height
The polar diameter of the earth had been should indicate in come way tha mean dhtanca of tha
found to be 7,899.3 British miles, or 500,500,500 sun from the earth.
British inches. Without entering into the de"The problem ass to find the wale. Thin he ascartails here, it may be said that the Great Pyra- tained to be 10 to the 9th power, as practically shown

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by the Great P p m i d itself; for if a memrement be
made from one of the comer sockets to the central rertical axis of
strudan, and for weq 10 linear f a t
horizontally inwards, 9 linear mlts be measured verti-

d y up-,
when the total horizontal and vertical
meanuremtntr are completed, the original apez of the
Great Pyramid w i l l be reached to within 2 inches according to precise measures. That is, the horizontal
length from one of the comer sockets to the center bears
the same proportion to the vertical height of the Pyramid as 10 does to 9 (6456.63 is to 5813.01 as 10 is to
9). Having found the scale, it was a simple calculation
b h d hoa many miles are represented in the vertical
height of the Pyramid.
"Converting the 5813.01 Pyramid inches to British
inches by dividing these Pyramid inches by .999, and
multiplying this b.y 10 to the 9th power [i s., 1,000,OOO,OOO]y and turning the r e d t into British miles, he
brought out the quantity of 91,837,578 of those miles,
or as near the mean distance of the sun from the earth
u modern adtronomera can determine."

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hearten some, who are about,'to m~e:na.im;i.

despair, to know that He who w&andea' the!
tempestuous winds and waves of Galilee'to"%i,
still''and the forces of nature trembled- at'. 1
that command-will soon with e q d aothori@;
say to the hurricane of horror3 now sweeping:
over the earth, T e a c e ! Be still!" Then tern-!
pestnons passions will stand awed, trembling at:
that command, and will obey.-Psalm 46:10.? I
I n order that all may know that the descrip.7
tiona and measurements herein given are noti
guesses, permit us to make one more quotatioa:
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- -('The measurements which appear in the chut 2 d:
Great Pyramid are derived mainly from the .rdusbh-:
work of Professors C. Piazzi Smyth, and Flindem P ~ I I . '
-'Life and Vorks at the Great Pyramid,' and Tha !
Pyramids and Temples of Gheh.' mhGn we d h ' ,
the difficulties which measurers have to contend w i t h in j
the very confined, dark, slippery, and now -h.t
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dilapidated inssageways of the Pyramid, we can d~
recognize that though these workers may conduct thsk
measureaperations with e v a y care, their ~ a n c I d 0 1 l l
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We flnii'
Aucesaion o f the Equinoxes
when we compare the lisb ot'theae two eminent rCi*
STRON03fERS had long noticed that our tists that there is but little ~~ bebeen th&
entire solar system nas making a circuit

of the heavens. Jehovah asked Job: "Canst

.thou bring forth bizuzaroth [marginal reading
-the h e l v e signs] in his season?" (Job 35:
32) This course through space has been designated the Precession of the Equinoxes. The
length of the circuit has been ascertained to be
25,694 years. Professor Smyth found this also
recorded in the Great Pyramid. The lengths of
the two diagonals of the base at the level of the
surface of the platform on which the casingstones rest, when reckoned in Pyramid inches,
at the rate of an inch a year, equaled exactly
25,694. The same number is again recorded
further up.

(.Tireologyof the Great firamid

AY me cordially invite the attention of the
Fundamentalists and the Xodernists, who
are disagreeing over the interpretation and the
inspiration of the EihIc, to some of the remarkable features of the Great P p a m i d and its
teachings on theological Lines ? I t will also prove
interesting to the skeptic, who doubts the overruling of earth's affairs by a personal God. I t
will greatly encourage the Ilrunble Christian,
who has been making by faith and praying for
more light upon his pathyfay. It may also

measures for most of the upper p& of the -#I

interior system; and the d t s of our o m meamriog
operations, also, closely agree with their iigum~We ma
confident, therefore, that the mesrares uaed
am rr .
near the truth as can be hoped for. They harmonize dl
the teachings of the Pyramid, and are conoborattd orsr
and over again by the namemu time-featnm, which am
based upon Bible chronology. !bey reveal a m n d d
design throughout the e x h i o r and interior propqtiw
of this truly marvelous building. Tho m e a m r e m e
are a l l in British inches."

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All our measuring instruments are scliled

according to the British standard; but thesc
are easily reduced to Pyramid inches by calm
lnting 999 Pyramid inches for each 1,000 Brit
ish inches. Othenvise stated, drop one Britisb
inch for each 1,000; and we have the number
of Pyramid inches.
Rev. Joseph Seiss, D. D., in his work entitled '-.
"3liracle in Stone," has much to say of the
Scriptural symbolism of the Great Pyramid.
I n the publication, "Thy Kingdom Come," Mr.
Eussell devotes considerable space to showing
the wonderful harmony between the Bible and
thc Grcnt Pyramid theologically and chronologically. UTe herewith give a general outline dia- ' -.
gram of the Great Pyramid, also an.enl;uged
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- wme of the measurements given by the three

critical scientists already mentioned.
In symbolism the interior passages of the
Pyramid represent the experiences and opportunities of man since the time of Adam. A
:. - glance at the diagram shows that the only enI--* - trance is away up the north side, about seventy
'.' -. feet from the base. The entrance passage is
about forty-two inches wide and forty-eight
inohes high, and leads immediately south~vard
md downward at the steep incline of 26" 18'
, 10". I t is both difficult and dangerous to de*

an apparent opportunity to leave the downward

path to death and take a turn upward toward
life and favor with God. We recall that Qod
selected the children of Israel from among all
other nations, and made them an offer of life,
if they would keep His law, a s given to them
when they made a covenant with Him at Aft.
Sinai. The agreement was that if they could
keep that law they should have everlasting lifa
(Luke 10: 28) Just a few feet up, the passage
is completely blocked by granite boulders, fitt
and wedged into it so tightly that they

never been moved. This block is known as the

"granite plug."
I11 the Taberxiacle of the Vilderness and t%ed
Temple at Jerusalem, gold represented thingd
divine. I n the Great Pyramid granite is as&
to represent things divine. It R-M impossible
for imperfect Jews to keep the divine law;
therefore the opportunity for salvation by way
of the law was of no avail. The covenant "war
menk through the flesh" (Romans 8: 3); man
could not live up to its requirements. This ia
symbolized by the blocking of the First Ascending Passage by the "granite plug!'
This parsagcmay is so located that it indicates the exmt
year when hloses led the children of Israel from.

scend this narrow passageway. Such has been

the experience of man ever since he mas expelled from Eden. Endowed with perfect life,
high in the favor of God, he a h o s t irmediately
lost that favor by his transgression. "In. the
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
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retnrn unto the ground" is here synlbolized by
the narrow, cramped passageway leading back
to the ground. Man's fall is here plainly shown.
At about the point where this Descending
- Passage
enters the rock foundation, the ground,
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begins the F i r s t Ascending Passage, which leads
from the Descending Passage and is directly
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: over it, at the same degree of incline upward
' that the other is downward. This symbolizes
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From this "recess" the
Downwaki Trend o f Mankind
four feet more and opens into what is-so&
HE Jews were obliged to continue on the times called "The Bottomless Pit' This,'-isthe
downward road with the rest of mankind. largest chamber connected with the Pyramid.
(Romans 3 :20) Down, d o m , down, for 228 feet, It is approximately twenty-seven feet north and
'leads the narrow, cramped passageway, bored south, forty-six feet east and west, and from
through solid roclr, straight as an arrow, at the one to seventeen feet from ceiling to floor, if
same size, squared at the floor, sides and roof. the bottom m a y be called a floor. It is very
A t that point is a small opening to the right rough and uneven, and resembles chaos. Toward
known as "the well," leading a little to the west, the west it is within a foot of the ceiling; and
thence almost at right angles upward for about near the eastern side is a deep shaft, depth
200 fe-et, connecting at the upper end mith and unknown. It was nearly filled with daris. The
near the juncture of the three upper passage- Edgar brothers had it cleared to a depth of
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ways. This opening is very irre,dar, and a t

times almost vertical, and almost impossible of
ascent nithout assistance. As originally left by
the builders, this m a s the only means of access
to the upper portion of the Pyramid. Here a t
last is symlloiized all opportunity to escape
from the road lending to death. Thus is the
offer of salvation through Christ alone pictured.
The Descending Passage continues, below the
well, still in a straight line for nearly thirty
feet more, to a sharp turn to a horizontal direction. Tliis indicates some change in worltlly
affairs. This turn is so located that it indicates
the great Reformation of Lather's time, of
which it gives the date. The Horizontal Passage
extends twenty feet and opens into a small
"recessD' cut on the west side, about six feet
square and fifty or more inches in height. Here

forty feet but found nothing, and did not feel

repaid for the heavy expense incurred. The
name "Bottomless Pit" seems very appropriate.
This is so located that its north edge indicates
the year 1914, the year when the world tambld
into the pit in which it has been floundering
ever since.
All the borings from this long passageway of.
over 280 feet, all the excavations from the
"recessJ' and the Pit must have been taken oat
through the small Descending Passage leadingto the upper surface. One can easily imagine
the slow, laborious work necessary in such nru;
row quarters. Only one man could work at a
time while drilling through the rock, and he
must needs have been an expert to keep such
straight lines. Doubtless all this subterranean
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100 feet below the surface of the rock on which
the Pyramid stands
Let us -9;ne
omelves in the Pyramid as
rigi in ally left by the builders. We are on the
;road that leads to death and cannot retreat;
?or the-crowd behind is'pnshing us on. We
reach the lower opening of the "WeI.l" and step

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the top of the "rampJ' it is seven feet wide;

but the side walls narrow by seven overlappings,
until at the ceiling, twenty-eight feet up, it is
but forty-two inches wide. At the south end the
Gallery ends abmptly, though not perpendiaalarly; for both ends have the same seven overlapping~. Seven is a peculiar number in the
Bible, and We find this to be the same in tho
re at Pyramid.
We turn to look at the mouth of "the well,"
and find that i t somewhat resembles an explosion, as though some power had forced it open.
That reminds us of what St. Peter said on the
day of Pentecost: 'Thorn God hath raised up,
liaving loosed the pains of death; because it
was not possible that he should be holden of
it."-Acts 2 : 24.
Christ "lrought life and immortality to light."
( 2 Timotfly 1:10) JcIe opened up a may for
some to reach the plane of immortal life, ia
heaven, and for others to reach the plane of

aside. FVe accept the proffered aid from above,

lay hold of it '"oy faith," and Are assisted to
climb upward. Reaching the npper end we
emerge suddenly from the west into the largest
passageway in the Pyramid, known as the
Grand Gallery. We are looking east. The
Grand G d e r y leads upward to seemingly nnknown heights ; another passageway leads horizontally south directly under the Grand Gallery ;
and at our left is the upper end of the First

everlasting life, as human beings, on earth. The

Grand Gallery symbolizes the path of the Christian to immortdi ty, heavenly glory and honor,
to which the path is narrow, steep, slippery and
hard to travel, though high in joy and hope.
(Colossians 1:5) Strange to say, the length of
the Grand Gallery indicates the time between
the first lfnd second advents of the Lord.
The drawing, page 531, .mill assist to a clearer
Ascending Passage, blocked at its lower end understanding. At the upper end the inclined
by the granite plug. 811 t h e e meet at "the well." floor ends nbrnptlp at a "step" three feet high,
Looking carefully, we see that the Grand Gal- to a horizontal floor. This extends 4ive feet to
lery extende up, up, up, over 150 feet, at the the sontli wall of the Grand Gallcry. Here again
:same steep incline as the First Ascending Pas- is shown the date 1914 A. D. and, in addition,
,.sage. The floor ia forty-two inches wide, but at that of 1'325, a prominent date in the Bible.

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Tlie King's and Queen's Chambers

F R O J I the south, upper end of the Grand
GaIlePy a small passageway forty-hvo
inches wide and forty-eight inches high leads
through the mall to a small chamber, known as
the Antechamber, which is a little -rider than
I t is about ten feet long, twelve
the
and one-half feet high, and divided into two
apartments. A person must stoop low to enter
this chamber. But as soon as he enters he has'
a covering of granite ; for the ceiling is of granite, sjmbolizing that as soon as one enters the

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the human nature, as "flesh and blood cannot
inherit the b g d o m of heaven"; and he entern':
the King's Chamber. This beautifnl chamber
appropriately represents the throne room, the
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service of God he has a divine covering. But

seemingly he can proceed no further; for a large
granite block is immediately in front of him.
The only way he can go farther is to stoop
aqain, as low as before, under the granite block.
This signifies the entering fully into the service
of Christ: "Whosoever doth not bear his cross,
and come after me, cannot be my disciple."
(Luke 14: 27) As he stoops to lift his cross,
and steps undar the granite block, he immediately steps upon a granite floor. (See draming.) He then has a divine standing as well as
covering. "If any man be in Christ ho is a new

unto us exceeding great and precions promises;

that by [means ofl these ye might be partaltem
of the divine nature." (2 Peter 1:4) It M the
grandest chamber in the Ppamid; and in
approximately seventeen feet north and south,
thirty-four feet east and west, and nineteen feet
high. The floor, walls and ceiling are aJl of
polished granite. Leading from the north and
south walls are two small air channele, extending upward and outward to the outer d a c e .
They supply an abundance of coo4 fresh air.
These signify a place of residence, a dwelling
place, a beautiful ~ymbolof the place whioh
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prepare for His Church, as B e

St. Peter in his great sermon on the day nE
promised: "I go to prepare a place for you," Pentecost, declaring the purpose of God, said:
and "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit TVliom the heaven mast receive until the times
with me in my throne." (John 14: 1-3; Revels of restitution of all things, which God hath
tion 3: 21) Thus in symbol does the Great Pyr- spoken by the month of all his holy prophet8
s amid =press tho words of the apostle Pad: [including the Orcnt Pyramid] since the world
2 "The prize of the high calling of God in Christ began." (Acts 3: 21) It is interesting to note
that the floor of the Queen's Chamber is but a
, Jesus."-Philippians
3 :14.
R e m gto the lower end of the Grand Cfd- trifle above the level of the entrance door of the
lery, we enter the Horizontal Passage? leacling Great Pyramid, and a t the same level of the
south, directb m d e r the floor of the Grand point on the floor on the First Ascending Pas&llery, bnt on a, level plane. This again is sage which designates the birth of Jesus, who
forty-two inches wide and forty-eight inches was born into the world as a perfect human
high, and appears to be a continuation of the being. Note also the Bible connection b e b e e n
f i s t ascending Passage, except that the Grand the first three chapters of Genesis and the last
GeUery has been, so to speak, thrown in be- three of Revelation, especially Genesis 3 and
tyeen, as it were a parenthetical work, as Revelation 21.
Adam lost human perfection, human nature
though God had through the Lam offered the
Jews rtn opportunity which they could not fnlfil, and life, and an earthly dominion. H e lost
in the meantime carrying on another work. nothing heavenly. Therefore nothing of a hemLater, when the Jews come u p through the enly condition, life or dominion could be re"well," God will take up another work with stored to him.
them, and through them with all the remainder
The passagemay to the Queen's Chamber,
of mankind. Again, the apostle Pad states in divided into sevenths, is the Pyramid's way of
words what is symbolized here: "I would not, indicating man's experience during his ''week'
brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this of sin"-six days of labor, one of recuperation,
mystery, . . that blindness in part is hap as given in the law of Moses. The days of the
pened to Israel, ~ t i l ' t h efdness [the full num- Jews were of twenty-four horns each. The daya
ber called to the heavenly calling] of the Gen- of the human family as a whole a r e of 1,000
tiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be years esch. Six days, 6,000 years, of sin and
saved [from their blindness] : a s it is written, death; one day, 1,000 years, for the recovery
There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and of man from death and imperfection, is the
shall turn away angodliness from Jacob: for teaching of both the Bible and the Great Pyra- this is my covenant unto them, when I shall mid. Both teach that there was a time when
take away their sins!'Bomans 11:25-27 ; sin was unknown ; both teach that there mill
come again a time mhen sin will be ~ o w r r ,
Hebrews 8: 10.
F o r the first six-sevenths of its length, or except as a horrible nightmae of the past.
about 108 feet, this horizontal passageway Both teach that though man's experience with
- continues at forty-eight inches Ggh. The last sin and death has been terrible, it will be overfuture good; and that all who
seventh, eighteen feet, has its floor twenty-one ruled for
ma
J
return
to
God's favor, wiser and better f o r
inches lower; and the passagemay is much
the
experience.
Tho two are in such complete
easier to walk in from there to the Queen'g
harmony
that
no
reasonable mind can doubt
Chamber. This is a peculiar seven-sided room,
but that the Jfind which designed the one outseventeen feet north and south, eighteen feet lined
plan of the other. The two
east and west, perpendicular north and south
w a d UP about fifteen feet, and a gabled ceiling Prophetic Chronology o f the Great Pyramid
re&g
a peak a t about twenty feet. I t also
X A letter to Professor Smyth, Mr. Robert
has air channels, symbolizin~a place of hnbitaUenries, the young Scotsman who first rog.. tion. It is lined with limestone, marble, which gested the religious or Messianic'featnres of
beautifully symbolizes perfect human nature. the Great Pyramid, said:
*= "Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit
4T~ornthe north b e e g of the Grand G a l I q , io
upward progression, begin the ye^ of our Sariair lit%
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at the rate of an inch s year. Three and thirty inchyears, therefore, bring us right over against the mouth
of the 'well'."

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The susgestion implied that if the north all

of the Grand Gallery represented the birth of
Christ, and the mouth of the "well" His death,
then all distances north of a perpendicular of
the north mall should indicate B. C. dates, and
all distances south of that line A. D. dates. It
was a challenge, and Professor Smyth determined to test it. It was a cruoial test, but none
other would satisfy.
In rnder that the eorrespondency between the
Bible dates and the Pyramid measurements
may be seen at a glance, we give a brief outline
of the Bible chronology, with citations for verification. The Bible contains a connected record
from Adam to "the first year of Cyms, king of
Persin." After that, the events -not
be connected chronologically from the Biblical record.
The "first year of Cms" mas 536 B, C., accord-ing to reliable secular history. This one date is
reliable in both =cords, and therefore foa
direct connection The fact that the Bible record
was kept 80 complete until it connects with
reliable secular history gives evidence of Providential overruling.
Starting, therefore, with "the first year of
CyIpg" a s 536 B. C., we follow the Bible record
back to Adam. I n 2 Chronicles 36 :20-22 we
read: " h d them that hod escaped from the
sword' carried he [Nebuchadnezzar] away to
Babylon, where they were servants to him and
his sons, until the reign of the Iiingdom of
Persia, to fzdfil the word of JeAova.h by t b
mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed
her sabbaths: for a s long as she lay desolate
she kept sabbath, to fulpl tlrree score and ten
[TO] gerrrs. Now in the first year of C p u s king
of Persia, t l ~ a tthe word o f Jeltovah spoken b y
the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished,
Jehovah stirred up the spirit of C p s king of
Persia, that lie made a proclamation throughout dl Lis kingdom, and put it also in writing,
saying. . ." Then folloms the decree giving
all the Jews permission to return to Jerusalem.
The latzd had Iiad its seventy years of desolation, and the time had arrived for Jehovah to
send them back as He had promised (Jeremiah
25 :11,12), "lvhen seventy years are wcomplished." Tl:ese seventy years of "desolation of
the lad" do not synchronize with the "captivity

of the Jews." There we

Babylon from 617 B. C.
a t least, over 150 years.

Bible Chronology
First year of Cyrus, end o
Desolation of the Land
Beginning of 70 years Desolation of Land 606 B,
. w.
(This was the 19th ye- of the reign of
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61:
13-)
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(2 Chronicler 36 :11)
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Jehoiakim
11 7P ~ W U ~o ?
r 628 'BiCi$ .
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( 2 Chronicles 36: ')
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5 5 7 p e o w ? Or
( 2 Chronicles 33:
Hezekiah
2 9 y ~ p 6 0 ~ ,
(2 Chronicles 29 :1)
l6y-pnri0qor
(2
28:
Jotham
16 Y m P-oI~~, or
(2
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Uzziah
. 52 years previous, or
(2 Chronicles 26 : 3)
Amaziah
. . 29 yearn pmionq or
(2 Chroniclrr.25:
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Joash
4o yurs p-ns,
or
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( 2 Chmnida 24: I]
Athaliah
. . . . 6 years previous, or
( 2 Chmnicles 22 : 11)
Ahrziah . . . . . 1 year previous, or

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Jehoram . . . . . 8 yean previous, or 913 1).:3
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Jehoslmphnt
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(2 Cl,ronida 20: 31)
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919 B.
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3 years previous, or 982 B. C;::,
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prrrio&or
999 B. c.1
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(2 Chronicles 12: 13)
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Solomon
. . . . 40 ycamprious, or 1039 B.,Q.:
( 2 Chronicles 9 : 30)
David
. - . . . 40 years p ~ v i o u sor, 1079 B. C.
( 1 Chronicles 29 :27)
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C.
(Acts l3 : 21)
p e r i d of JudP
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d thrt rhowed the benignity of that dl-gnci0111
HE First Ascending Passage relates almost
Providence
had deferred their destruction for for@
exclusively to the Jews, and God's dealing yenm atter that
their crimes rgrinst Christ"
with them as a nation, not as individuals. We

Jew8 Lefi Egypt in 1615 B. C.

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may therefore call it the "Jewish Age." The

Grand Gallery deals almost exclusively with the
Church, and may well be called the "Oospel
Age." Both have d e h i t e beginnings and endings.
The granite plug at the lower end of the
"Jewish &en denotes the impossibility of the
Jew to keep the Law, but is of such a length
as to indicate, in connection with the Passage-

way, the exact number of years that Bod dealt

with that nation.
,
The accompanyingdrawing will make it plain.
The distance from the north wall of the Brand
Gallery to the lower end of the granite plng i~
1,476.75 British inches. The plug is 178 inches
in length. I f we consider the plng as though it
were a draw in a telescope, and pulled out full
length, ao that its upper end were where the
lower end now is, the total length is 1,648.75
British inches, or 1,647.25 Pyramid inches. Deduct from this the 32.25 A. D.; and we have
1615 B. C as the date when God began to deal
with the Jews! This date corresponds exactly
with the Bible statements as shown in the foregoing Bible Chronology. This was the year
when Moses led the children of Israel frbm
Egypt and organized them into a nation. At
Mount Sinai God made a covenant with-them
"by the hand of Moses." (Leviticus 26 :45,46)
God also said to them through Moses: "Thou
art an holy peopie unto Jehovah thy God, and
Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are
upon the earth."-Deateronomy 14: 2.
The Jewish nation was cast off from God's
favor just before the crucifixion of Christ.
(Matthew 23 :38,39) Having lost God's favor,
the nation soon went to-pieces. Says Eusebius'
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Says Cornil's "History of the People of

Israel":

"On the 15th of Nissn, ir., of April, in the yes? 73

A. D., the h
t d q of the Eseter festival, the same day
on which, according to tradition, the God of h a e l had
led His people out of Egypth bondage into M o m ,
the last bulwark of I d ' s LikQ hrd f J i q and Iarel
WM delivered into bondap"

In the-Great Pyramid this is symbolized by

the First Ascending Passage. Many details of
Jewish history are connected with this passage,
but we have not space here to take them up.
We have noticed that the point of intersection ,
of the two floors indicates the year 151l.25 B. C.
We now measure south, down the Descending
Passage from that point. At 3,037.50 inches we
reach a "turn in the road," which indicates some
great change in the &airs of mankind At that
point the passage takes a sharp turn to a level
plane. The floor of this Horizontal Passage does
not come out to meet @e inclined floor exactly,
M the latter is cut 2.75 inches below the plane
of the horizontal The point of intersection
would, therefore, be up 275 inches from the
lowest end of the passage. Deducting 275
inches, to the point of intersection, we have
(3,037.50 less 2.75) 3,034.75 British inches, o r
3,031.75 Pyramid inches. 3,031.50 yearn, leas
1,51125 aa B. C. leave 1,520.50 aa h D. I t is
interesting to recall that it waa in May, 1521
A. D., redly 1520.50, that Martin Luther appeared before the Diet at Worms, and the name
year in which the official ball was issued, declaring Luther an outlaw, from which resulted
the aplit of Christendom into two camps, the
Catholic and the Protestant. Here, one hundred
feet below the earface of the foundation rock,
hidden for over 3,600 years, written in rolid
atone, was informa5on which foretold the great
Bchism which would came to Christendom, and
the very year that it should start, How did
Shem know what would occur in 1520 A D.?
The past fifty years are often referred to aa
"an Age of Miracles." Within that'time more
enlightenment has come to the nations along all
ecientiiic Lines, more mechanical improvementis
have come, than in all the previous hietory of
man put together. Never before have there been
mch general whooling privileges for the com-

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inon man, to the end that he is able to secure
and enjoy the comforts and even the luxuries
of life more than ever before, allnost all of
which have come within the last fifty years.
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3Vhy is this7
7" Mother has been called to attend to a sick
friend; and only little Johnnie and lfary, ten
and eight respectively, can be left to attend to
the home while Nother is axTay. Courageonsly
they answer: "Oh! yes, me can keep house
while you are gone, Uother. Don't you know
yon have toId us all about it4" Pleased to be
put npon their honor, they mork zealously; but
it is not long until the home sadly showed the
lack of a mother's hand. How they did wish
Mother would hurry and come home l One day,
while they were at school, she returned, tlnd
soon straightened up the home to its old-time
cheerfulness and tidiness. Then she stepped
into a neighbois house for a few moments.
Meantime the children came from school, not
knowing that Xo ther had come. Johnnie opened
the door, gave one glad look of surprise, and
shouted: '%other's got home!" How did he
. know? He neither saw nor heard her. One look
at that kitchen was enough evidence. ;liother's
- "touch" was e v e w h e r e about AJthough she
had come "like a thief," unperceived, the evidences of her presence v e r e plentiful.

Christ Rehrrned in 1874 A. D.

HE Scriptares indicate'that Christ was to
return in 1874, "as a thief." Since that
time the world has beell go111g on in many
respects as before; yet remarkable changes
have come about. Men a r e feeling the spirit of
- Iiberty as never before. Alan has not been quite
so trodden down. He has been eating, bnilding,
marrying and pranting as before, too busy with
- his individual affairs to search into the causes
of the great changes. Christ's disciples asked
Him: "WILat shall be the sign of thy presence
[mistranslated 'coming' in Common Version+ see
marginnl reading in the Reviaed Version,
Matthew 24: 33 1" He told them: World wars,
pestilences, fnmines, earthquakes, distress, and
-perplenty of nqtione, m d great general fear
. among the people as to what m,w coming npon
the world. The pent governments of the world,
- the Big Man of Daniel 2 :44,45, would be going
: ... all-to,piecee; and it would seem U e a 'day of
. ;. destru&on.'-Isaiah
la :413.
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Notice the same prophecy in the Great P ~ t k ,;

mid, even to the date. (See diagram, page 528.)
From the upper point of intersection to the
extreme end of the Descending Passage ia
3,037.50 inches. The distance d o n g the horizontal Passage to the Pit is 350.75 inches, total
3.3SS.55 Critish inches, or 3,384.75 Pyramid
inches. This, less the 1511.25 as B. C. date,
leaves 1,873.50, or the middle of 1574 A. D.
How much easier to walk in a large place like r'",
the Pit, as compared with the previous narrow
passageway l This mas just about the time of
the beginning of the "Age of Uiracles," which
.
has brought such great changes in the affain
of the w110Ie world. Let any one fifty years of
age compare childhood days with tho present.
In other mords, all these great changes for the
better conditions of life are evidences of the
Lord's "touch" npon world affairs, the answer
to the question, What wiU be the sign of thy
presence T

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The World War in 1914

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HE Pit represents a great change in the i
world's affairs in several ways. Whatever
one may be inclined to think of the Great Pyramid's testimony, he must admit the physical
facts of the past fifty years. Suppose that the
Descending Passage had not turned, but antinued in a straight Line until it reached the
vertical line of the north edge of the Pit. again
we take the already measured distance, 3,03750
'inches to the turn. If the line mere projwted,
the distance would be 391.25 inches more, total
3,428.75 British inches, or 3,425.25 P-d
inches. 3,425.25 less the 1,511.25 for B. C. leave

us 1914 A. D.,the year of the great World War.

The nations there plunged into the %ottomless
pit," with less prospect daily of getting outThe vertical line of the north edge of the Pit,
which is also the vertical line of the soath end
of the Grancl Gallery, might properly represent
1914rA.D. Talring therefore the entire vertical
line of over 200 feet to indicate 1914, if we
measure back from the north wall of the Pit,
along the Horizontal Paasage to the north edge
of the "recess," we have 126.75 inches. This
would indicate 126 years prior to 1914, or 1788;
and we recall tliat the I"mch Revolution broke
out in 1789, though the ramblings mere dttinctly heard b e f m . We herewith present nvera1 drawings of the Pit.
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The reason why the Jews were sent to Baby- -I

Let us now return to the upTer portion of the
Pyramid. We show a drawing of the Grand Ion and their land made desolate was '%became .
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Gallery and the "step" a t the upper end.

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We start a t the vertical line of the northl end
of the Grand Gallery; f o r the Gospel Age did
not begin until the death and resurrection of
our Lord, just at Pentecost, 32.25 A. 0.The
length of the Grand Gallery to the vertical line
of the south n~all,right through the "step" is
1,=3.23 British, or 1,881.25 Pyramid inches.
k~hisplus the 32.25 gives us 1913.50, or 1914
A. D. TVe remember that it was in August,

1914, that the World W a r broke out. This is

the top of the vertical line drawn from the
north wall of the Pit below. The abrupt ending
of the Grand Gallery indicates some sndden
change in the experiences of the Church, as
well a s of the world. Let the interested compare this with Revelation 3: 1418.

Laat Jewish Jubilee Due in 1925 A. D.

0 CATCH the Bible significance attaclied
to the year 1925 A.. D., we need for a mo-

ment t o consider the evidence given in the Law

to the Jews regarding the Year of Jubilce. In
the 25th chapter of Leviti'ms will be found the
law in full, which the Jcms were to observe
carefully. These l a m were all types of better
things to come. (1Corinthians 10 :11) The antiItype, therefore, would be on a much larger scale
'than mas the type, and should begin as soon as
the type ceased. Briefly stated, the 1av was:
As soon as the Jews entered the lancl of Canaan
they mere to begin to count; and every seventh
year mas t o be a rest year, but every fiftieth
year was to be a Jubilee year. During the Jnbilee year every Jewish slave was to be set free,
and evew piece of land returned to the original
owner, or heir tl~crcof. ICvcry fifty-tlrst year
the whole nntion mas to start out frcc and eqnal,
rr type of the "rcstitntion of nll tllings," mentioned by St. Peter.-Acts 3 :21.

i t did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt

upon itJ' (Leviticus 26: 35); in other words, .
because they did not properly observe the law
in regard to the Jubilee. God had outlined a
definite number of the Qpes until the antitype
shonld come, and that number was seventy.
(2Chronicles 36 :21 ; Jeremiah 25 :U,12 ; 29:
10 ; Daniel 9 :2) Each Jubilee cycle was flftp: :
years. Seventy times fifty equal 3,500; 3,500
years from the time the Jews entered Canam
mould reach to the antitype. The children of
Israel crossed the Jordan in the spring of 1375 - '
B. C., and were to begin to count from that
date. Subtracting 1,575 yeara from 3,500 wodd
leave 1,925 for A. D. The year 1925, therefore,
would have been .the f2tiet.h o r Jubilee year of
the seventieth cycle.
Following that, we &odd expect that the
year 1926 wodd be, chronologically, the beginning of the antitype, the beginning of the great
Jubilee for all the world, during which every '
son of Adam, who mill, may become a free man,
and return to his f a t h e i s estate, to the inheritance of the earth, and to perfection of mind
and body. Instead of being a period of one year
the antitype will be a period of 1,000 y e w
during which Christ will have ohnrge of the
entire work. If this is indicated in the Pyrac
mid, we should expect to find it in connection
with His resurrection, ascension and return to
establish His kingdom. It w o d d also be after
His special work vith the Church, typified by
the sudden closing of the Grand Gallery at the
aonth e n d
The north end of the Grand Gallery repsents the death of Christ and the end of the
Law Covenant. (Colossians 2 :14,15) This 00curred in the year 32.25 A. D. The "well" represents the resurrection of Christ, which occurred
three days after His cmcifiiion, also in the yea^
32.25 A. D. The restitution blessings are closely
connected with the resnrrection of Christ; and
therefore the date 32.25 A. D., as indicated
the location of the "well," is a logical point for
a time measurement.
All measurements of the pnsznges are along
the center of the floor unless otherwise stated.
'l'he "mcll" ends at the side mall, and is there.
fore 21 inches from the center of tho Grand
Clallev floor. The mouth of the "welln is rough
nnd uneven and some 26 inches wide, so thu

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center'of the opening would be the logical point

at which to begin a measurement. This center
is 39 inches up from the vertical line of the
north wall. As the full length of the Grmd
.. Gallery is 1,815.25 inches this would leavo
:.1:.l,776.25 to be counted. We therefore begin with
the center of the "well" opening as 32.25 A. D.
To this we add the 21 inches to the center of
the floor; then the 1,776.25 up to the "step" or
riser at the upper end of the inclined floor;
- then add 36 inches, f i e distance up-,the"step";

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taken as a whole, Catholic and Protestant. ~ o e s - :

it not appear to have "struck on the rocksJ' and!;
to be quivering like a breken vessel before she
sinks f Revelation 18 :21-23is interesting read-,
ing in this connection. The Bible and the Great
Pyramid run p a r d e l throughout.
To show the minuteness of detail we mention
one apparently insignificant incident: The
prophet Micah (5: 2) mentioned Bethlehem aa
the birthplace of the Uessiah; and this prophecy mas called to the attention of Herod when,

'then horizontally from the edge of the "&eP9'

to the south wall, at its extreme length, ia 61
inches, total (32.25 plus 21 plus 1,776.25 plus
36 plus 6l) 1,926.50 British inches, or 1,924.50
Pyramid . inches. Otherwise stated, 1,924.50
pears reaches to the middle of 1925 A. D.
This would seem to indicate that all special
work for the Gospel Age Church mny be con. .: ridered closed a t that time. A specid work for
world will then be due to begin
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PI tO the condition of the "church" today,
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he asked where Christ should be born (Xat

thew 2: 4 6 ) Tlie Great Pyramid Lad long be.
foreaesignated the exact spot, even before therc
was a hamlet built there. We epitomize: St&
at the esact latitudinal and longitudinal lo-,
tion of the Great Pyramid Consider the lati
tudinnl line 3s a base, and draw a diagonal tr
the northeast, a t the same degr'ee aa the i n c l h
of the interior passages, v i z , 26" 18' 10". Thb
diagonal will ran directly through the town o!
Bethlehem. See diagram. Internal meamre
,merits give the distance; i e., 233 d e r

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; ac:<:3*.HE redemption of man is the most vital 04 with desperation. In previons.lectnres hem pao:
all doctrines taught in the Bible. Redemp have learned that (iod created the first-.with
;
tion means to buy back or purchase at the life and the right to life, b u t t h a t b e c a w od '
forum. Ransom means the same thing. Because disobedience man lost the right to .live and bet.-,
'this doctrine is so vital it should be expected life itself. Yon millalso recall thegreat promise .'
that Satan mould attempt to confuse the minds that Jehovah made to Abraham, saying that in .:
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of men concerning it. Even so it is, as St. Paul

says. Satan has blinded the minds of men lest
God's glorious provision for man should shine
h e a r t s . 2 Corinthians 4: 4-6.
ere is today a great C O X I ~ ~ O V ~betmeen
~SY
the Xodernists and the Fnndamentdsts concerning the value of the sacrifice of Jesus. This
wntroversy is destroying the faith of mmY in
the Bible. Xy purpose is to try to establish in
the minds of the people faith in God's Word,
and ~ a r t i c w i
bn this great pivotal doctrineIf the Bible statement of the phn of redemption
is true, then it must be reasonable and just.
Jehovah, s~eskingconcerning man's fall and
the necessity for his redemption, says: "Come
now, let us renson together, saith the Lord:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as
white as snow; though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool."-Isaiah 1:IS.
Since the great Jehovah God invites man to
then we
mnst find every
Scriptural doctrine reasonable and consistent.
%AllChristians agree that Jesus mas born in
Bethlehem, grew to anh hood's estate, taught
the people of Israel, and *thoat fist
or
excuse was crucified on the cross. All who have
faith in the Bible believe its teaching that before
Jesus mas on earth EIe was in heaven; that He
was the beginning of Jehovah's creation; that
He is the beloved SO. of God; that He W ~ born
S
as a man, died, and arose from the dead. If
these conceded facts nre true, then there must be
a reason why Jehovah nro~rltlsend Iris beloved
&on to earth, and ~ r m i Him
t
to die, and then
w i s e Him out of death.
Spealring concerning this reason, Jesus himself said that He came that the people might
have life.-John 10 :lo.

Abraham's seed all the f e e s of the earth

shall be blessed. You also recall the statemat
of the Scriptures that the blessing which God ,
has for man is life-Romans 6 :23.
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~h~ jndmaent Jehovah entered
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required the forfeiture of his life and the right :
to ]ife.m a t judgment mmt be enforced. Gtod '
could never set it aside; for if He reversed His ,
it wodd mean thrrt *
0decree, or set it
He ia inconsistent; and no one could have faith in His judgment. For thia reason we read that
justice is the habitation of *dSs throne. - Qod
having spoken the decree, it must stand. Sincs ..'
this decree, or judgment, deprived man of th8 ~ g hto
t live,howthen coddmanever~gain]ifeg :
here may rid
A simple
mderstanding the p u o s o ~ y of this vt
t ~ n e Suppse
:
you an in jail b m e of
inability to pay a fineof $1,000, which the wurt
ne jndment of the
had assessed against
con* is final. yon could not be released without
of the
neighbor, rbp
the
possessed the means, appeared before the court,
produced the $1,000 ~d banded it over to tha
court in payment of yonr fine. J.astia w o a
demand that the co&
accept the =one):
and release you from the obligstion.
~ h ,great divine cod
held the judmat
against -,
claiming his life. mejehovah
not eonsistent~yreverse this judpent orset it aside, He codd consistently provide that
man codd meet the reqmerits of the law in the
of adam,
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a
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, bc released from the effects of tihat jndp
ment. I t would be both reasonable and consil~
tent, then, if Jehovah wodd provide for tho
a thing.
doing of
Speaking to men, through His prophet, J e b
vd1 said :"I w
ill ransom them from the power 04
Life, God's Provision for Alan
the graye; I will redeem them from death: 0
. IIE most prccions thing po~scsscdby any denth, I will be tliy plnqes; 0 m v e , I zoill ba
creatt~reis )if,, for \vitl~ovtlife rrerytiung t h y de.stmeti~n."-HOE= 13:lr).
IIere is the pcsitive promise of Jehovah h t
else is useless. Even nom w e observe that man,
with but a m d l spark of life, clings to that in His own due time He wodd ransom, or
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redeem, man from death and would destroy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah. If
aeath and the grave. This promise is inviolate. Jehovah can grant the power to man to beget a - ,
He will perform it. (Isaiah 55 :11) This promise child, then it necessarily follows that Jehovah =
is in axact harmony with the promise which could beget the child by His own power without f
the man. (Uatthew 1:la) Having been begotten God made to Abraham.
by the invisible power of Jehovah, Jesns had '
none of the imperfect blood of Adam in His ;
2QmMcationr of Redeemer
y.
Hence He was born holy, harmless, un- :
THE reuonable man w i l l say: 'Adam was a veins.
defiled, separate from sinners.-Hebrews 7 :26.
perfect man when he sinned and was senFundamentalists claim that Jesus was part
tenced to death; the law demanded the life of a
man
and part God, that God and Jesus were on*
perfect man; a ransom means an exact correand
the
same. In other words that Jesus wm
~pondingprice. Therefore the only thing that
His
own
father. Angels are spirit beings on a
could redeem man would be the life of another
lower
plane
than Jehovah, and the Scriptures
perfect man.
declare concerning Jesus: "Thou madest him a
The Lord, through His prophet says that all little lower than the angels." (Hebrews 2:7)
men have sinned and come short of the glory of And, again, says the same inspired writer:
God; and that there is none perfect, no not one; "Forasmuch then a s the children are partakers ,
that no man can redeem his brother nor give to of flesh and blood, he also himself Likenrise took
God a ransom for him. (Psalm 49 :7) Therefore part of the same!' (Hebrews 2:14) Again say
it would follow that no imperfect man could the Scriptures : He "took upon him the form of
meet the requirements of the law.
a servant, and was made in the likeness of men."
The Modernist doctrine is that Jesus was a -Philippians 2 :7.
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son of God, like any other man; that He mas not
often spoke of himself a s the Son, and
. perfect. If the Modernist's conclusion is correct, of Jesus
Jehovah as His Father. That He was no then there is no possibility that Jesus crsn divine is proven by His own words vhen H
redeem the human race, and there is no means said: "For as the Father hath life in himself;
yet revealed by which man can obtain life.
so hath he given to the Son to have life in
The F'undamehialists insist that Jesus, when himself!' (John 5 :26) "I seek not mine own will,
He came to earth, mas divine, part man and part but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
God. If their contention is true, then B e could If I bear vitness of myself, my witness is not
not be the redeemer of the human race because true." (John 5 :30,31) "The Father himself,
He is greater than man, and God could not which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me."
consistently require a sacrifice greater than (John 5 :37) "I am come in my Father's name."
that of a real man to meet the requirements of (John 5:43) "As the living Father hath sent
His judgment against Adam. Therefore, if the me, and I live by the Father!'
(John 6:57)
Fundamentalists are right, the death of Jesus "My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.'
'does not provide a ransom or redemptive price. --John 7 :16.
Let us see whether the Scripture supports the
Jesus often prayed to His father in heaven.
views of either Modernists or Fundamentalists.
Surely He was not praying to Himself! There
My contention is, and that which I now was a oneness between the Father and the SO:
purpose to prove from the Scripture, that Jesus
at the time of His birth at Bethlehem was a in this, that they mere one in purpose; but they-.
human being; that when He reached manhood's were not one in being. Because of their onenesr
estate, He was a perfect man, exactly equal to in,purpose He said: "I and my Father arc
. &dam in Eden; that IIe was not part man and one."-John 10 :30.
The above scriptures shorn conclusively t h A
part God. In support of this contention I offer
Jesus,
n-hen on earth, until the time of Hi:
the following proof :
Mary was the'mother of Jesns. E a d EIe heen consecration at the Jordan, was a man, not less,
begotten by a human being, I-Ie would 11a~ebeen not more, but perfect in every respect. He wa:
Imperfect, a s a man;but the Scriptures declare then and there begotten to the divine nature
that He was begotten by the holy spirit. Holy and it may be properly said that fromthat time

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forward He mas 'divine; for God counted His
sacrifice coniplete from that moment.
St. Panl, discussing the humanity of the great
Redeemer, said : ' T e , when nTe mere children, .
v e r e in bondage nnder the elements of the
world; but when the fulness of the t i p e mas
come, God sent forth his Son, made of a Tiroman,
made nnder the law."-Galatians 4 :3,4.
Nor mill it do to say that Jcs~zswas an
incarnated spirit ; for that wonid constitute n
k r a u d upon the human race, vhich God could
not approve. Jesns mnst be a man perfect in
everp respect, equal to and corresponding to the
perfect man Adam in Eden, in order to be a
ransom sacrifice. Again say the Scriptures: H e
''was made flesh, and dwelt among us, . . f
d
of grace and truth." (John 1:14) Being a
perfect man He therefore possessed the q&cations to become man's Redeemer.
Under the law Jesns mnst be thirty years of
age before H e reached His legal majority; and
the Scriptures read, that when Re was thirty
years He came to the Jordan to be baptized.Luke 3 :21,23.

Our Lord's Conseeration

T IS m i t t e n of Jesns concerning this time:
'Zo, I come (in the volume of the book it is
written of me), to do thy will, 0 God." "I
delight to do thy will, 0 my God: yea, thy law is
within my heart."-Heb.
10 :7-10 ; Psalm 40 :8.
Thus me see that He had come to do God's
will. The mill of God is expressed in His Word.
By the words of the Prophet above quoted we
see that it is God's will that man should be
redecmcd from the p v e m d from dcnth. Concerning this St. Panl says that it is God's mill
,that all men should be slrvcd from death and
brought to an accurate knowledge of the troth.
'1 Timothy 2 :3,4.
Coming now to the Jordan Jesus offered
himself in full surrender and consecration to
Jehovah to do the will of God ; and there it mas
that God said concerning Him: "And, lo, a voice
from heaven, saying, This is my.belored Son, in
whom I am well pleased."-Alnttlie\vv 3 :17.
Consecration means a full surrender to do the
will of mother; and here Jesus snrrcndered to
'Jehovah to do Jehovah's will. That Jesns u m c
for the very purpose of dying for the human
race is proven by Eis words when He said that

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He came to give His life a ransom.-Ma*
"Therefore doth my Father love me, because
I lay d o n my life, that I might take it again.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I ham
power to take it again. This commandment have
I received of my Father.'--John
10 :17,18.
Why had God given commandment that His
6eloved Son should die? The Scriptures m e r :
"God so loved the world, that he gave bis o d y begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life. For
God sent not his Son into the world to condemn
the world ;but that the world through him might
be saved."-John 3 :16,17.
Loolung back now to AbrahamJs offering of
his son Isaac as a sacrifice, we see how wonderfully and how beautifully Abraham pictured
God, and Isaac pictured Jesus, the beloved Son;
and the sacrifice foreshadowed the great provision made for the redemption of ms~.That
Jesus died f o r the benefit of the people we have
this further proof: "Christ died for our sins
according to the scriptures; and that he was
buried, and that he arose again the third day
a c m r d i n g to the scriptures." (1 Corinthians
15 :3,4) He "gave himself for our sins, that he
might deliver us from this present evil morld,
according to the will of God and our Fatheram
(Galntians 1:4) "For he hath made 31im to be
sin for us, who knew no ain; that we might be
made the righteousness of God in him."- 2 Corinthians 5 :21.
When Jesns was dying npon the cross H e
cried : "It is finished." By that He meant that
the great sacrifice \vhich He had begun at the
Jordan was now complete. Eis death upon
Calvary provided the ransom price; for He dicd
ns a perfect mnn exactly corresponding to
Adam vhen he mas sentenced to death. Adam'e
death mas the result of disobedience. His life was
forfeited. The denth of Jesns mas a sacrifice.
Wl~enJesus Jicd upon the cross, He did not
forfeit the right to live. This is proven by the
fact that Jehovah raised Him out of death a
divine being. IIe was put to dcath in the flesh
and rose again in the spirit, so says the Apostle
in 1 Peter 3:18. Ey dying a s a n q n Jesus
reduced Iris perfect human lifo to nn asset,
valnable thereafter, to be applicd to the release
oE Adam and all of his offspring from the jadgment of death and the effects of that judgment, "

HE persistent cry of statesmen as to t

tho world's perplexities emphasizes the fact t
the nations is &.xed.
Yet the constant defeat o
originators nor removes
a e n t s suggested.
E1or.nti understrrnding of today's eveuts on
purpose as deciared by the grophets.
i3uoch: the first of the prophets, foretold a

its organization.

Isaiah prophesied the failure of wo

prior to Jeremiah; and 109 years after Jeremi
Zephaniah foretold world-wide m e
world distress.
All these prophecies were brought to light as Iong ago
a fulfilme~itcould be even suspected.
I t is in such extremities as the present, when me
that people should inquire as to the workings
To understand properly tlie purpose of events one mns
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article is not an attack upon the life
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insurance
business. Life insurance is a

gopd thing; under present conditions it is a

pecessity; there are circmnstan&s in which, to
be without it, if able to provide it, would seem
to be almost a crime. But we are of those who
. believe that death is shortly to be swallowed up
of life, by the establishment of the Lord's h g dom; and hence we take a glance at life b u r sace one of the businesses which,a few years
hence, will be as extinct as the Dodo. This is
an obitnary, written in advance, so to speak.
m e n Life has come, fear of Death will cease.
b i n e insurance haa been in use since before
the time of Christ; b insnrsnce also reaches
far back into the past; but life insurance is bat
three and a half centuries old, the h t policy
having been written in London in 1583. It was
of 'slow growth for two hundred years, eo much
so,in fad, that it its estimated that at the beginof the nineteenth century there were but
about one hundred p o k d in force on the whole
American continent.
The real beginning of life insrvsace in h e r ica on a large scale came with the formation of
the Mutual Life lhmrance Company of New
York in 1843. Today the total amount of insurin for- in the 260 companies doing buaineas in the United States is tTRice the amount of
the national debt, and leads all other forma of
business and investment.
Life insurance has been growing prodigionsly
of late. Within the past ten years it has doubled
in volume. In 1922 the incomes of the insurance
companies were more than double the amounts
paid to policyholders, so that those who are
engaged in the business are not in any immediate danger of going to the poorhouse. The
year 1923 was a boom year in new insurance
risks; for all racords for new business were
shattered by an increase of seventeen percent
over the previous high year of J920.

The busineiis.as ~ f aas any b&

my:,
be. Half of the population of the c o m e are @
direetly interested in it; ten percent of the
assets of the companies are invested in Government securities; several of the companies are ?
in the billiondollar class; and their actuaries ?
can tell to an almost absolute certainty, out of .
each one thousand of their polioyholderq hon;
many will die each year.
The age when there ia hd&t chance OF;
dying is from twenty-five to twentyeight Tbq' *
vital powers Qowly increasi, from childhood
to that point, and thk slowly g i n way fro14
that point onwad At n i n e & according tq !
imumnm calculators;, the policyhol&r is dead
a n m y , no matter how long he may sctudy :*
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experience of the oornpaaies .her .th.i
out-of a thousand who continue paying &
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46ddhritbiaolmyear*tfyu,innrsd,,
53 mom rill dia baioretha e n a d t h s ~ y e u s
168 mom Mom tlm end oi the 5fth you,
16S mora bedom thm d af the tenth par,
3H marebatorethe~endof~trcntiethyeu,
238 ~ d i e r f t a p a ~ ~ y o ~

Out of l,OOO men who were healthy at twentyfive and who live'for forty years more, statistics
ahow that:
10 beunna rich,
40 fmamm d-ta-ao,
50 am &I
d-mpporting,
360 am dead,
540 are dependent upon 0th-

for subdhn~a .

Tbe Census Bureau shows that in the decade '

from 1910 to 1920 the amount of insuranax in:
force increased eight times faster than the population. I t also reveals the interesting fact that
the crowded cities of the Esst have lower death.
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hare the west& &tie% New ~ o r k , 'worked out, saying &at "from o s&df 'if forBoston, and Philadelphia were wen below the eign experience, and of projects and p r o p o d - -''
average in the number of deaths per thousand; in America today, this committee ia oP-the opinwhile Loa Angeles (probably becsuse so many ion that no plan has yet been devised for
UL persona @I there to recuperate) bad a death. eSciently and economically providing medical
rabb ahnost double the g e n e 4 averags for the - attention, hoepital care and other features o f
whole country.
health consemation, as a benefit of inauranee
. m e r e are said to ba about fifty persona in in conjunction Nth a a s h inmvance benefit
the United States who carrp insurance to the daring short s ~ ~ e s s . "
amoant of $1,000,000 or more. The largest iadi- . Some of the accictent k a m e oomp.niea (-8. r i a policyholders at present are said to be W from ep=ience) contain W mW P
tiona as to the kind of midents for w W they
.s follow8 :
pay nothing that the money sent to them is
w * m m *Adolph zGOrr
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a if
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Lasky Corporation ;
the sewer. Such companieg apparently run not
wmmo, Bodnun
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b* '(for reven- m 1 7 damme
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UnaLer;
little
conaideration
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hands
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anyJxdy
$3,000,000, Pim Dr~Ptmt,dyn.mitb ind p~
kyhg to tell qm truth about imrmak, Prindcr king;
$3,000,000, J. C. Penny, of the Odden B& *
; eipde PYa* M.of ~rinci$e do- not Pay,
the long ran, In the.Golden Bge, the Golden
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Bnie fi be. in fo-ice everywhere.
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Jara there is a g a t
mry
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for $l,!517,8!20. Twenty-four. co.mpanies wem in-.
eump in ta. immaaee l o r 1 4 a mri- of
volved in the settlement,*as'the law forbids the i n d g a t i o n a in whieh the aame dd-thing^ are placing of more than $200,000 by-one campany bmght to light; and then emqthbg setties
. on the lifs of any one person.
baak ahere it ~ Q M
before. Charh E. Hughe%
the preSent FSeoretary of Stata, made bis rep=

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tation in one of .these investigationq *in 1906.
in the f--pen
them.
HEBE: are ssid to be 134 fonns af hwance' The ?ifuhd
There was another in 1921. Tbis h e it waa
in.general w, and mme of the inmmnce
companies wiU take s chsnaa on any Idnd-of the Prndentisl, N m a ~ Y s-billiondollar oom- .
risk. Thotie c a m o n l y known are life, fire, pany. The President was d of pmtting
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the policyholders' m o n q into his crrm private
. marine, accident, health, plate g h ~ tornado,
ha& riot, and weather. But statesmen have bank and there making a large p d t on it,
i n d against assassination, parenta againat besides the profit included in his annual salary
loss of their children by kidnapping, fathers of $75,000. It was found that the -y
had
have i
d r g a i ~twins
t
coming to the home, a self-perpetuating board of directors, the same
students against failure to pasa examinations, being about as soft a thing for the directors as
young men against getting married, married one could imagine. It was brought out that almen against laying violent hands on their though a law vas passed in 1906 r e q k h g in-mothers-in-law, pianists against injary to their sara~ncompanies to sell their bank stocl; p t '
hands, singers against injury to their voices, in this arse the law had not been obeyed up to
violiPisb against injary to their bow handa, fifteen years later, although it h n been obeyed
k a u t y specialists against injury to their hair. a i m The lack of mutuality in a "mutn$." corn-.
One man insured a trick baboon; and another pan7 was brought oat by the f a d that in six
Lasared against delivery of coffins at the v r o n ~ ycus only one policyholder out of 15,fWl,000
hum at night, thq cansing fright and possible had attended a policyholders' meeting.
. mib for damage.
Inmvanoe wmpanies have .boat twenty-&e.
The National Civic Federation is s k e p t i d aa ,percent of their. holdings invested in transporto the value of any health insurance echema yet ! tation facilities and conatitutir the peateat

d g l e capitalizer of industry, besides being ware andHndson, have insured on the group
large 'loaners to the national, state and city plan all who have been with them more than
- govemmenta, by the purdwm of their securi- two yeam. The Pullman Company has also
ties. In W a x , Nova Scoth, the banIra are effected group insurance for its 33,000 emaccused of virtuaUy compelling their patrons to ploy& men and women, without & to the
- fall in line with whatever insurance company workers. The Southern P d c Company hm a
iAey chance to be most interested in; this is on pliWcovering the 90,000 employ4r of that
the complaint of R J. Wickham, President of great system. The United States Steal Corpo- '
t
a
. ration has ib own insurance fund; it -gas
the Canadian Federation of Insurance m
percent of the armal preOne of the prhwipal'sources of profit in the. itaelf only sen*
miums,
has
pgid
all
its losses, and hss saved
insurance business is the lapse, or canceled pol$30,000,000
besidea
The
total number ot emicy. A man.h d a that he can no longer afford
ploy6s
covered
by
group
insurance
at fhb h e
to carry as much insurance as he is carrying, or
cannot carry any at all, and, with some excep is aaid to be about 2,000,000.
I5 the city of London the newspaiem have
tions, loses virtually all he has paid. In 1913
there was in New York state twice as much used insurance of readers as a means of hereasinsurance lapsed as was paid out to the policy- ing the circulation, with remarkable qnd not
always happifying results. In one case s diviholders.
dend
of 5,000 percent WIM declared b x t h e inNew York haa one company, the Postal Life,
surers.
IKilliom of pounds sterling were colwhich has-no agents. The company hss 27,000
policyholders, who have advertised the business lected from the very poor; and when the policies
among their o m friends. The Postal ia said to were declared illegal, the money was kept insell insurance a t seventeen and one-half percent stead of being durned. London banders aeem
lesa-than do the other insumnce compsnies gen- to have as little principle as ham New York
,.
. .
erally in the field, and to have as some of its f5luulci~~k
policyholders the agenta of other compank
W*'.
-.IGroup I0
are now protected against industrial accidents in all parb of the United
U]&OPELWS lom to coiiperate and thns to
:
save money; but d p e r s t i o n spreads slow- States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto ILico. SirIy in America. In Britain there are nearly two teen of the states ham folloaed the example*
established their
and onquarter million people in the great W set by Norway, sadBochdale Coaperative M e t i e a A penny out of own accident funds;while in Ohio,where d u every pound sterling expended for supplies dvely state funds are used for this parpose, it
goes
toward the inmmmaa of the p-=chaser is calculated that at leaat $15,000,000 per year
'
and, if he is married, toward the inmuance of have been saved to the insnripg employers. State
his wife as w
e
n Automatidy, the more he insurance funds show an administrativeexpenae~
spends the more his insurance grows. The plan of about seven and one-half percent as against
thirty-seven and one-half percent in states
works, and works well.
Of late Group Insurance, which is a form of where private companies operate.
ewijperation in insurance, has become remarkImmediately the United States Government,
ably developed in the United States. All the,/ with all its vast resources, wanted to establish
actors, actresses, and theatre employhs of at ita own accident insurance fund for its own
least two of the greatest theatrical organizb employ& the so-called United States Chamber
tions are included in a policy which insures of Commerce passed resolutions opposing the
them all, without cost to the inand with- idea, on the ground that the United States had
out p h y s i d examination.
no right to engage in business of any End, bat
It frequently happens now that copartner- must always hire financiers at a high price to
ahips carry insurapce so that in case of the do the business for them. Wonder if the United
death of one of the partners the business may States Chamber of Commerce uses postage
not be interrupted by the withdrawal of capital stamps, and how it gets them l Wonder if it
! b o railroad companies, the Erie and the DJr bas ever seen a mail wagon in .the streett !l!ho

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New Pork state to prevent the establishment of *th which they keep tJieir f o m wo-.

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See that only 'Gnanciers" have,#. right to don that all employers in'th; btate form t l ! d y e e .
anything is rich.
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into a state-wide mutual insurance m p e n y and;
Xn'tIplainingthe effort that has been made in ' p y premimns in proportion b the ygdttri*

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m e i d d v e state fund for workmen's compensa- rmemployed are entitIed to benefits for sir'
tion, SamtdUntermeyer, the great lawyer, said: weeks, at the rate of one &Har per day for men:
and Uty cents a day for boys and girls and&
and
dtemenb
eighteen.
n o s e on atrile or locked out are not.
made by repment&iva md OCHeirL of.innumm corninduded in the insurance arrangement. w~eoni'
S b t . Inmrreoe Fund. It hardly secms p pubh
o a s i that
in tb.
in ain has its OWE s t s t e s d md state-managedaged
~ b o ha* a
m& downright thievery
h.m fomd life i n m n c e fompany. M

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c d d exid in the insurancs business, but it d o a "

The American Federation of Labor has des h t e monopoly of workmen's compend o n insurance as a national policy. One re*
son for this is the excessive d i f f e r e k in eoet
between private WmPenY n t e s and state ratesIn h e s o t a an attempt has been made
the i m - m a
to disgorge @ of
overcharge. It ia chimed that the history of
private companies shows that w - f i w - r a n t
'ofthe
money re-8
with the corn- p a g k and that only thirty-five percent reachea
the UIlf0l"hII8te w o h e n . The National h80ciation of Credit Men has been warned in f w same tones by one- of it8 1 ~ C t ' that
'
attempt on the part of a state to engage-in the
-ce
basinas
the most dsngemm and
insidious of d Socialistic IIl~~eIXlelltS."Growk~g
because somebody looks at hia bone. A few such '
ever3'bQd~ into Socialiat~

one.
Queeneland, Australia, harr its own rrtate~
,=d md stab-managed inwnrneb
a21 b h of
business, fire, M ~ma,
and ,&dent, is ~
d by &
d rnmpanT,
w h i d -is now in its =,,& year. B
~ hm E
enactments reqniring the p a d Wegraph employ& to deposit
percent of th& earnings
in m d n g . &*, whem it b m g - a
fund a-t
old age. ~ ~ ~may~ be aaith;
i t
dm,
.dy in caseof resignstion o r *qh.
htter
consent of
ofl[iae*

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~h~ SFme c h has d d that usinrnA
,i mt interstate m-erm
and therefam
is not abject to f e d d contrd, but both Pmddent Cleveland and P r k d e n t
mrgd
an&. control & matt- now stsnd, the h w
~ ~ p a n idnpliate
and =&iply &g
eqnsa, some of
d d dP'
be cos

Easton Getting Religfoas

WE ALWAYS knew that some of the best he did he was ashamed to put it on the pmgram :
people on earth live a t Easton, Penns~l- Febraq

godly community it is until we got a program

3: pl&od-7-Instrument
Or&and
h a t i c ~ d w 'me
,
~~~t Huger,"
tamps ~ e s t .
Febrnary 10 : "LincoIn N i g h f ' 4 R e d c A d d r e s b
Haie Qu-giw.nis
and Rot- invited g u e h
February 17: uagnificent 6-ml Pic-'%~r~a~~+
Lde"-Pmf.
and 0rchestrH2 boys in

showing the deeply spiritual themes of the First

Presbyterian Church for February and Xarch.
For some reason or other nothing was said
about what was to be on deck March 2nd and
uniform.
16th. We much fearrfhat on those two occasiomi FeblUIII.
21: LaiPJett.
CoUek Ban-,)
the pastor slipped back into the old habit of ysrch 9: 6 ~ ~ ~ l M-.J*
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But maybe we arc ~rrong;. Sfarch 23: Easton City Band.
preaching the
he may be illnocent 'But whatever lt was that Yarch 30: LPfayette CoUw Chapel Choir-40 JK~IL

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rated. Moreover, by federal eontrol it would

not be neceseary or expedient for the inwrsnoe
U ~ m p l o ~ n t I ~ u x u t z n c .a
companies to spend such vast sums lobbying-aa
E H A V E mentioned the Wisconsin nnem- they now do. Or, at least, if they did spend it,
ploynent insurance law. We mention it it would be ail in one place, ready for invmtigac
again. The Huber Bill, aa it is called, provides tian.

d;
but we never quite appreciated what a

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( ~ c ~ d a hs tm wATCaMWE8 WBBB

a a w m n h g t b of

OB lome time thtn baa been agitation

F
w o r e congreaa
inorease taa 6of
postal clerkn. It has been pointed out that if
+a

this bin pasaea it will take in the neighborhood

of $l30,000,000 annually, to meet the increase.

The Postmaster General has stated that this

inw i l l have to come from the second,
third,andfonrthclasseeofmail
statement has
'publishers, who
daim that the rate is already so high that the
larger publications have more than half of their
output sent independently of the mail;and that
if there is another raise, it will compel them to
organhe more extensive machinery for their
own distribution, taking their publications out
of the haods of the mail altogether. The publishera point aut that the figrrres of supply and
demand make it necessary to pay increases to
get tbe right kind of men, but that these same
figures also &ow an over-suppli of men; for
other avenues of emplopnent in I d communi, ' ties do not pay so well as the postal s e m i .
Here is a good exam* of the tug of war that
continually goes on between those who desire
- mom pay and thorn who have to foot the bill
We do not doubt that the postal.employ6s would
be benefited by a raise in salary, a d that the
- e&iency of the mail service would also be in. d The b i . adls for a h o h n t a l raiee,
k t th% United Statea Chamber of Commerce
h a suggested that the postal eanployh should
be allowed a temporary salary supplement on a
sliding d e , adjusted to the needs of the employ8s in their respective localities until there
can be a readjustment of wages to meet the
prevaihg conditions We would like to see
some sueh sliding scale of wages applied to the
meixnbexa of Mr. Morgan's Chamber of Commerw itaelt.

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me-

by tho =tor)

activities. What is cslled

wme a "political
.
bogey" haa appeared in the pomibfi* of 8 third
party movement. Senator Shipstead refern to
the political agitation aa having a paraUel in the
days of the candidacy of Abraham Lincoln,
when the Bepablican pa* came on the scene.
The Farmer-Labor party of h e t a o t a at a
recent conference amalgamated and d e d its
"
interesb for united d o n in the coming cam.
paign. ,The farmer, labor and other progressive
forces of the State are being brought under the
banner of a single standard Sinm this conference the Nonpartisan League has by almost
unanimous vote aBlhted with the FarmerLabor party and has resolved itself out of existence. Sympathetic interesb throughout the
entire Northwest are q m t e d to sflSliate with
this movement and to bring to a head a formidable third party movement'which is erpected to
meet in oonvention sometime between the conventiom held by the old prtiea.
The irregularities ot the Teapot Dtme Iease
were aired over two years ago in proppasin
and independent jodmah like Thg N
k But . ,
the greatest newa-gathering agemy in the mrld,
the aSm&ted Press, as Iata as &I N o v e m b ~
threw a damper on the escaping steam and emdeavored to lull the p d i a to sleep referringlightly and humorously to the leaking infomation, aa though it were nothing mmnuI a d
hardly worthy of no*
Mr. C3addea h88 maigned aa chief of the Warhingbn rtrir of the
Associated Pfess and has accetpted ,aposition
where he can serpe the Sinciair oil intorests
more openly, as their cbief paMiciQ agent.
As a result of the r e a n t didosurea at Waahington as to where campaign funds come from,
and that some individda contribute heavily to
both partiets, several billa are now before Congress for the regalation of contributions. One
of them restricts individual contributions in
national campaigns to $500 for presidential
electors and to $100 in the election of members
of Congress, and limits these contributions to
one party and to one candidate.

seems to be no end to the Teapot

Dome and other investigations of public
offidah. Some of the witnesses refuse to testify,
and impeachment proceedings are under way.
Some nlrim that these inquiries into the acts of
prominent men are being overdone; that they More Rotknnem
are prompted by politicel cunning, which is tryNOTHE33 graft among the war profiteers
has come to light. I . order to dispose of
ing to pat both the old parties into disrepute.
But while the leaders of the major parties are some of the surplus war stneb the Qovernment
'disturbed, there seema to be no let-up in the employed auctioneers in various places to crl;

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the salea. One B~ltimorefirm, employed 113
days, was paid $230,370.72 Auctioneers in New
York, employed eighteen days 0s ordinary
tioneera, sandbagged Uncle Sam to the tune of
$!W,U0.08 at one time, and $167,747.18 for foar
dapd -services a t another time. A Louisville
firm, for one day's labor, which it is said could
have bean done by any derk in the war department, was paid $24,l&SO. In addition to these,
many ordinary auctioneers who had conscientioua scruples and endeavored to be honest, received $l,000 and up a day for such semioea
During the war the meat peekers were contraated with by the Government to produce a
specially cured bacon for the army. The packers
turned out great quantities of this army bacon.
When the armistice was signed and everybody
knew that the war was at an end, the meat
packers, not having been o 5 d y notified W
the Government that the war Bad ended and
that no more army bacon would be needed, con' tinued the curing of the army bacon; and of
aourae in due time wanted their money for the
ump bacon. that was made for the army aftex.
. the services of the army had terminated. Them
bilbs werer evidently tnrned down.
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Swift L Company sued the Government for
. $t,000,000, which suit war a test auit. The Qov. arnment lost, and therefore Uncle Sam m d
prp millions of d o h to the pmzking intereats
beuume of an * o v e ~ t . " The decision is r
precedent for similar claims which w i l l be made
by other packers.
Frank & Vanderlip, chairman of the Citizens
Federal Research Bureau, which he organized,
dealares that he will resign as director from
many of the organizations in which he has financial interests. Though a big business man he is
out of sympathy with big business; and becauav
of his activiiy ii unearthing nnacrppuloas praa.
ties of some of our pubiic men, his businesa
associates made i t known that they desired hi.
resignation.
One remark in Mr. Vanderlip's letter to his
critics shows the cleavage now manifesting itself between those who are public-spirited and
those who are rolling in predatory weaIth. He

Tork, has been choaen'to succeed Harry M.

Dangherty as Attorney Ganeral, the Deperti
ment of Justice will underga a cleaaing; for it
is said that three years ago Mr. Stone went
before a Senate Committee with ad-d
for r
"tberough-going investigation of the D e e
ment of Justice."
'Y
A boom has been launched to mrrLe Ne*
Yorlr's governot, A. E. Smith, p ~ s i d e n of
t the
United States. Efforts will now be made. te
capture the Democratia nomination. It has been
said that a Catholic can never be presidenti
This is resented; and Judge Tiernan is reported
to have said: ' 9 e defy the American people to
defeat him [Governor Smith] solely because of
his religion." This campaign year promises to
be a lively one.
. Oregon has a state law campelling 111 ehildren to attend the publjc schools. It waa fought
in the courts,'and the Federal District Court
has handed down a decision that tbis law i s
naconsitutional. The argmnent for the adop-:.
tion of the law wss that ."a divided school um.
no more succeed than a divided nation.'' Thorn.
who opposed it thought that it mounted to the
same as thou& it had been entitled "An Aat to
PrePent Parochial and Privats Sahoob from Teaching the Grammar Grades." Oregon is toi
appeal the recent deciaion to the Supremelo*

cIoili.aaiion "
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are reported as o&
H OBRXBLEin conditions
a convict eamp in California-.
taining

It is claimed that prisoners have been hm&

cuffed, chained to trees, and refused food and.
water for forty-ebht hours ; that othem have
been beaten into nnconsciousnesl~;that two bays
were beaten with hammer handles. Most of this ,
crud treatment administered by deputy sheriffais done with no feeling of sympathy and with
ears that are deaf to pleas for mercy.
The Bafeau of Locomotive Inspection ordered
a number of engines out of service of the P e w
sylvania Railroad. The Indisnapolia Chambar
of Commerce protested to the Interntab Comme= Commission about the order. The-national legislative representatives of the transportation brotherhoods then united in a. stinging re
ssid :
buke
of the action of the Indianapolis Chambar
-7 una regret in themrtkr u that men aith rbom I
of
Commerce.
h lnng bean .sacitcd in busin- ue now s~ hlind t6
tbprasant aitnatian in the (3oranmmt at Teahington.*
In the Brotherhoodd letter, it ir pointed out'
Soma p r d c t that ar Harlan F. Stone, of New that there is a rapid increase in the number d I

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because of defective equipment, espe- a year or two moved into Winnipeg with $700
to show f o r their eighteen years' work on the .
fam. nowever, there were eeven children, tbe
$700 were soon spent, the father could not gat
work in the city, and was obliged to seek work
as a farm laborer at a distance. It is terriw
cold in t v ' i p e g in the winter. The family
lived
in two rooms, without heat, and with scant
197 were injure&
covers
for their be&. As they couldnot pay their
*Judged by the production for the month of
electric
li t bill, the service was discontinued;
pebmary, i t is ,estimated that 5,000,000 a n t s
and
one
'tterly cold night, with not a ray of
.mobiles will be monnfacturecl during the year
light
in
the
room, the under-nourished mother
1924. The output in February is usually
felt
her
baby
.grow cold. She ran to the neighlow; but this year it ras the third highest in
bors
for
help.
They came in and found that tha
the history of the automobile industry, being
baby
was
dead.
The time to be conaiderate of
336,363 cars. June of last year-was the peak
the
poor
is
before
snch things happen.
month, with 350,UO cars..
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I n the United States the killing of coal miners Mexico
by explosion is three times as frequent in proNei. York Timss of April 1% Dr.
portion to the miners employed as in Great I N
Frank
Bohn
says
:
Britain It is claimed that two-thirds of the
"There are now a half million bIcricaer f the rkb
fatal and serious accidents at the bituminous
ofATersr.
Fifty-five percent of the people d Sm Am.mines of the United States could have been pretonio,
the
largeat
ciQ in Teraq am M c x i e a r There ir
vented by the very inexpensive s p r i n k b g of
oue county hi Tualr whew threa hmeriop~.v o h the
the mines with powdered shale Explosions in straight Republican ticket, and over 1,800 A k i a m am
three plscea have already cost more tban 200 rotcd straight Democratic by their A m e ~ m
berm* -lives in 1924.
Dr. Bohn goes on to show that in 1920 there
aa8ka
r e r e 1,000,000 Mexicans on this side of the Bie
LTHOOGH war is one of the greatest 'of all Grande, 'that by now the number is p r o w
mrses that eodd a c t mnnbind, yet it half a million more, and that Mesicam laborers
-dab
invention; and in m y ways those are g r a d d y but steadily driving out all other .
d m live on.aftm the war are bendted by these- outdoor laborers in the Southwest. He says
discoveries. One*iwention resulting from the further:
"Nemesis h
a mme f4 judgment. The deqircd dmeyc
World W a r isthe sonic depth-finder, an instmment by meam, of which the plains and hills iean Indian is returning to claim, through the emnomh
-and d e p of the oceanabed m a y be a c m t e l y power of cheap labor, the toileis share in 500,000 aqnus
miles of territory under the a t a m and stripes.''
charted.
Reports from Xexico City are to the effect
~ x p r i e ~ ha*
e e proved that the best depth to
that
1,500,000 acres .of land in Mexico whicb
lay a submarine cable is about two miles below
formerly
belonged to the people as a whole, and
the surface, where it will be subjected to a nniwhich
were
subsequently taken from them by the
form temperature and be free fmm tidal or
acts
of
crooked
ecclesiasticcll politicians and
current movements such as otherwise mould
others,
have
been
redistributed to the people t e
soon wear it out. The United States Governwhose
ancestors
they
originally belonged.
ment is about to lay a cable fro111 Seattle to
Dr.
Bohn
points
out
the interesting fact that .
Seward, Alaska, and has two warsilips engaged
in surveying the route ~ r h e r ethe wble will be at the time Uexim City was captured by the
laid. The sonic depthfinder is being used in Spanish murderer C o r t g more people assemmaking the sumey.
bled regularly in its market-place than then
lived in any city in Gnrope.
I t is said that 400 Mexican laborers who were
INNPEG ia stirred by the death of a firemonthsold infant. The parents had beeq imported into the Minnesota beet-sugar fiel&
tamers. In.1922 they sold their farm, and after by the Minnesota sngar corponrtions hare k
B-dents

atally of locomotives. I..1922 there were 622

accident9 ;in 1923 there were 1,348 accident*
an increase of l l 7 percent. The nmnber killed
ii 'those accidents increased about 100 percent.
The Pennsylvania alone had 181accidents from
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supported the past winter by the charitable
people of St. P a d I t seems too bad that these
poor Mexicanit w e n not paid enough for their
work during the five months of the sugar-beet
season so that they w d d live through the winter. We can hardly believe that it is necessary
to raise the price of sugar in order to give these
workers enough to live o n These poor Mexicans have gone-through a hard winter housed in
primitive shanties, devoid of every comfort. Do
we^ want to raise sngar in the United States if
we have to do it on such a basis as this?
The New York Times reports that a large
company in Montana has made a request
through the Mexican Consul for Mesican laborers, promising equal treatment with . h e n c a n
labor. Does this mean that American labor is
-nltimately booked for the same experiences as
came to these Mexican laborers in the s u e r beet deida of Minnesota?

alh
0 ALL intents and purposes the
T
tion of the affairs of Cnba is in the han&
of
National City Bank of New York and the
aaministik

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Ibyal Bank of Canada These two institutions,

between them, operate eighty-six banlcP in Cuba
and have seventy percent of the deposits in the
island, as against thirty percent held by Cuban
banks. These banks control the railroads of
Cuba and seventy-seven percent of the sugar
production Every family in the United States
is interested in the price of C u b a . sugar, became Cnba is the greatest sugar producer in the
world. The price the Cubans get for their crop
determiues what the American housewife pays.
~ m b i a
HE United States of Colombia are stirred
over charges .made in the United Statea
Senate that funds paid to Colombia by the
United States of America, on account of the
virtual seizure of the Canal Zone during President BoosevelVs administration, have been 'improperly used in connection with the world-wide
fight to controi the oil interests.
The Colombians indignantly deny any irregularities, although they acknowledge that Blair
8 Comeany of ~Nqw York loaned Colombia
#,000,000 prior to the ratification of the treaty,
d it seems that Mr. Doheny is a.partner in
Blair 8 Company. This is the same Mr. Doheny

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whose mn carried $100,000 in a black satchel

from New York to Washington to loan it t a F.
Xr.Albert Fall,Secretary of the Interior aader
President Harding.
Itd
l be remembered that Mr. Doheny loaned
this money to Mr. Fall,not to influence Mr. Fall '
to let the Doheny oil interests take over fhe
United States naval resemea oil in Califomiq' but merely because Mr. Fall was an old friend.
We do not know whether the Government7 of
Colombia is an old friend of Blair L Company
or n o t
It is also pointed out that the Tropical 0%'
Company, operating in Colombia, is a subaidi-.
ary of the Standanl Oil Company; and that the
pipe line now in use at Colombia was negotiatedby Mr. James W. E'lanagan who, at the time the!
negotiations for the line me.made, said that6
he was a friend of the b e r i e a n Secretary of
the Interior, Mr. Fall. How the Teapot Dome"
family doea grow 1 The whole world h fairly,
dripping with oil.
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Aaltch Guirurcr

THE
New York Times paints a hombh pic-'
trve of the conditions which have prevailed 1i
for nearly 300 yeare in one of the world'a worst - -

pest' holsa French (3niana is a penal colony in the tropics, where a white man csn hardly live
at all, where p d c a l l y no food that a white
man can eat can be raised, where the bread
quicldy gets full of worms and ants, and where
the body becomes infected-with little oreatures
that breed so rapidly as to destroy the fieah and
to render amputation necessary. It would not
be possible to exaggerate the horrom of the
French penal colony in French (3If the
half is true, it is enough to make the heart sick
to think that any people s~lpposedto be civilbed, to say nothing of being Christianized,
would consent to the perpetuation of such horrora from generation to generation. Several
Germana have recently been sentenced to this
hell-hole.

B n u i L c r n d V ~ ~
R Alexander H.Rice, a noted South h r i can explorer, has just set sail for a trip of
exploration in which he hopes to traverse the
northwestern part of B d and the southern
part of Venezuela, a district which has never L
yet been visited by white men. .The object ob I

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locating de5nitely the soof Venmela'a
- e a t river, the Orinoco. It ir mppos-d that ih
their head wate1.s the Orinoco and the Amazon
ue.connected, the water flowing in both dim+

tions.

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- e district which will be traversed by Dr.
Bids party is believed to be the least G o y
pert of the earth. It is filled 'with reptiles of
immense size, and a part of the route is through'
a district inhabited by cannibals-not a verp
pleasant prospect for Dr. Rice and his comagmus wife, who will accompany him on the trip.
Dr, Rice goes with a splendidly equipped e x p
ditioa, which includes among h e r things a
radio broadcasting outfit, specially constructed
flat-bottom boats, a sea plane, and a supply of
-bombs with which t o argne vith the cxhnibals
if they b m e too obnoxious in their attention8
k h

tlre pa*.

CaibaWiPsro
ORTY-FIVE years ago in a war between
' W e and P e n Chile seized the two most
pm0table provinces of Pern;iameiy, Tacna and
Ariea The reason why these provinces were
s&ed was that they contained rich nitrate-de-

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&b, which since that time have yielded Chile

a revenue of a b u t $2,000,000,000. Natnrally,

Peru wishes these provinces retprned ;and natd y , Chile does not wish to give them u p The
provinces have been held so long by Chile that
the population has beoome mostly Chilean and
v e q little Peruvian. The dispute has beee re
fend t o President Coolidge for arbitration.

THE London

E c m m k t reports the volume

of shipping during 1923 to be practically
the same as it was before the war. The Trade
Supplement of the London Time3 shows that in
the season from the sumn~erof 1922 to the
summer of 1923, the m a t profits of the ten principal British s h i p n g companies aggregzlted
about $15,000,000. l ' ~ rthe past three years the
dividend of t h ~ s econcerns have averaged
eleven and three .tenths percent.
I t has been brought out in4he British Parliamelit recently that British whisky exporters re&e
a bonae of six'cents per gallon from the
BMsh treasury, and that abont $300,OOU per
year is now being paid ont on his account.

It is claimed that in spite of t& g r e a t ' n u d

bem of persons still employed a t agriceltard
work in England, there are now over 1,000,fewer men on the farms than were employed in
English agrihdture fifty years ago. 'Ihpope;
lation of Great Britain has doubled in the last
eighty years.
Despite all the fabulous expenses that fiav6' been piled upon the Britiah people because of'
the World War, the British Government ha&
within the past year, and in spite of a big tug
i n t e e s , - a surplus of $215,W,O[W)over nnd
above all expenses.
England has beenhaving a strike 08 the air-<
men who carry the,British mails to the anti-,
nent. A new air mail company capitalized at 4
million pounds, and subsidized for ten years by
the Government, undertook to cut the p p of
the fliers to about one-Wth of v u 'it hd ken;
and this seemed to the fie= themaelves a little
bit too much of a good thing. Until now tbb,
rages of these .Biers have ron to the n&@bprj
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A ~ ~ ~ & o m . S ~ r r t ) u r m r t o l
on %rch 25, expecting to
around the w o r k ,
The dangers of aviation are well illustrated in:
this flight by the fact that on the initial journe~t.
across the Channel, the maahine encountered i
heavy fog, and only by a m.mw margin es-.
aped the M s which suddeniy appeared oot'
of t h e f o ~ o n l y f i t t y y s r d aahead..
Same -idea of the di&dties
w3iiati-fak the
British Premier may be gathered from the faat
that in one day, Premier UacDonald has been
required to answer 123 questions. Each of these; '
qnestions must be answered satisfactom to the
House; and if the answer is not satisfactory, it
might mean a t once a vote of loss of cod den^
and the end of his ministry.
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HE Minister of Labor of France reporta '

that aIcohoIism and drunkenness have de- .
creased fifty percent within the last ten years.
I n r e s t i g a h s seem to show that the principal
cause for this is the high cost of living, the
aoricmep not being able to afford the cost of alcoholic liquors.
The London Daily News gives details to show'
that the World War came near being over early
in the year 1917 with .the Germans as winners.
This was due to a great mutiny o f about 100.

?3ivisiom, whicb took place in the French army

early in l917. The knowledge of this mutiny
waa kept from the British troops, as well as the
berman troops, until after the dose of the war.

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OBTO EUCO, which has been making its
P
own lam sipce 1917, is now asking the
privilege of electing its own governor, hitherto
appointed by the president of the United States.
Governor Towner urges that the request of the
Porto Bicans be granted. He considers their
laws and their judidal system above reproach.
He points out that Porto Rim is sex-supporting, its trade with the outside world being now
about fifteen times as great as it was twenty
years ago.
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T H E &&en
of ~ o & d are showing their
love for their fellow children by collecting
-money for the feeding of staming school children in Germany. When' the money reaches
Germany, the food procured is cooked by students of domestic science, all unnecessary expense being eliminated.
c.nnanlr

OTH Britain and France have'been

B
ing that German munition factories be
transformed into industrial factories, and that

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snperfluoue officers who might become the framework of a great German army should be dismissed. Beports at hand indicate that these
demands have been complied with, but in an
eetirely different way from what was expected.
The munition factories, some of them at least,
have been moved to Russia; and some of the
German officers are becoming generals of real
armies in Russia, Turkey, and China It is
claimed that 2,000 airships for war service are
now being built in Russia under the direction
. of Gennan engineers.
The Bishop of Zanzibar in an open letter to
General Smuts, describes the cruelties which he
claims mere practised by ,the Germans against
the natives in what mas, until the outbreak of
the World War, German East Africa The floggings were administered with the condemned
man lying face down on the earth, frequently
as many as fifty lashes at a time. Bn iron hat
was used. A band of iron was passed around
the head aud t igktcncd by means of a vice-lilie

screw pressing especially on the temples. In

chain gangs, each of the eight men was chained
by the neck to one very heavy chain, and not
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released until his sentence was finished. Among
other items of cruelty, a bridegroom was seized
at the church door from the side of his bride
and taken to a post of labor one hundred miles
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away. On one occasion, 800 elderly men were
assembled'; and an order was issued that not
one of them could retnm,to his home irntil a
young man, a substitute, should be found who
would take his place f o r work at the poat
Slaves were bought and sold, but could be redeemed and could even redeem themselves for '
a small amount of money. The Bishop saps that
the Germans have an affable way with Africato whom they are accustomed. This pamphlet *
was written in 1918; we have no knowledge as
to the Bishop's trnthfnlnesa
A despatch from Paris shows that Germany's
reparation payments up to the close of laat
year, were about eight and one-half billion gold
marka, of which amount about two billion @Id.
marh were in cash. Of this amount about one
and one-half billion gold madm went to Belgium, and about two billion gold marks to I '
France. Britain received of this sm about one I
and one-third millions. The remainder was
divided among Italy, Japan, Serbia, Greece,
Poland, Ba*
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Czecho-Slovakia
HI3 latest reports are that there are only
about 50,000 unemployed in tlie entire country of Czecho-Slovakia, and that the industrial
situation in general is very good.

Lithuania
ITHlTANU is under a dictatorship, not different in principle from the dictatorships
which are still rnling over Spain, Italy, HMgary, and several other European countries.
Freedom of speech and of the press is denied;
trial by jury is practically at an end; and in
general it may be said, as is alwa+ the case
under such conditions, that people who have any
brains at all are afraid to make the least use of
them. Without a doubt the same forces that are
back of the European dictatorships would be
well pleased to see all thinkers in America get
the same treatment as in Lithuania.

WLDEN AGE

a
m an
an encouragement to know that t h e , display of blue-and-white flags in the c
b d s kingdom is a t hand, when there will be official dethronement of the. reignin% d p d y ;
: no possibility for anybody to ride roughshod and on the 103rd anniversary of he^ indepen.' over the right8 of others; but on the contrary, dence Greece is again a republic Meenwhile,
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tie the Prophet declares, justice will be laid to the ex-king is in Bulgaria, and has.been trpine
, : ,the line and righteousness to the plummet, and to broadcast a message to the Greek peaple
' ,the waters of truth on all subjects will ouer- nrging them to give him back his job. Fat
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- ,$ow the hiding-places of error and dishonor! , chance of getting it1
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d@sste the happy day!
/. Eithonh
HE new Turkish (3overnment.i~very much
~'ewPork Times contzins an interesting
in earnest in its decision not to have secuarticle on the little republic of Esthonia, lar subjects and religion taught in the same
schools. I t has just closed French and Italian
I population 1,200,000, which came into existence
with the break-up of the old Russian Govern- schools in Constantinople and asis Minor.
.!%.,ment. Esthonia is busy re-learning the Estho- Sixty-one institutions giving instmotion to
nian language, the use of which was. forbidden about 16,000 pupils are affected by the rple.
by the Czar while be lived. Esthoniais an a@.
just put into force,
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d h r a l country, but has a thriving cement in: dustry. I t also manufactares paper in consider. d l ~ t c u a i a
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. able quantity, and has a large woodworking T H E British Government is.-malddg czqefal
.-..@apt, as well as one of the l a r e s t cottQn mills
studies of the Mesopotamian valley with a
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in the world.
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view to the conitroetion of dams WE&will
provide water for a million and oa+haU' m e d r
Ru8uia
suitable for cotton and wheat dtare One of
New Tork Tinus cmtaina 8. despatch these dams, if constructed, will create a lake,
from a Moscow correspondent in which h e covering 400 square miIes, submerging the
says:
present towna of Tizal d Bob*
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#Aftkr six Fears behind. the walls of foreign inmm, misinformation and
Wlssirn scenc~,muarship d propaganda, work is being arried -tially
am Edur.lines." "On the one hmd them t a teadency to diacoumge conceeaions to foreignem; on the
'' ather, an rtttmpt to compete with native bwinem mai
by a minced-phca sellkg campaign for Sbta enbrprim even at a net losa This campaign h a been me
d,
temporarily at I&
Prim h a w been reduced1
fmm about fifteen to twen@-five percent'' "'lb mowty reform, which has d
y achieved th m&tabliabstent of Bus~iaucurrenq on a parity with the ddlu,
b.r hi&& o u t a-writ& hitch."

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Au8tria
HE city of Vienna showed a large surpInrr in
the year 1923. The city runs its own streetcars, wntrols~allthe advertisements and funerah, and mns a brewery. I t makes large profits
from all of these enterprises.

Gnees
HE crowns have been m o v e d from the
Greek military and napal uniform capa
There has been a national aalute of 100 guns, a

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shoct'
to read that in the city of Nazareth, PaI-

Itine,the early home of our Lord, an American

factorp will begin the mannfacture, shortly, of7

automobile tires. These tirea will be ased to
supply the great number of antomobiles now in
Palestine, most of which are of American make.
Nore tban 35,000 Jewish immigrants have
gone to the Holy Laad within the pest three
years. Tbese are for the most part highly educated young men and momen, many being high
school and college graduates. It is .the Keren
Hayesod, o r Palestine Foundation Fund,made
up of free contributions from Jews all over the
\oarld, that makes this immigration possible.
Yore than sixty percent of this fund has come
f ram Jews in the TTnited States. There are now
about ninety Jewish agricuitural settlements in
Palestine.
One of the purchases made by the Palestine
Fonndation Fnnd was 10,000 acres colnprising
the Valley of Jezreel, for which it paid over a

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milliou dollars. Today &is valley, which a little

while ago was a wilderness, is a scene of great
d v i t y . Roads crisscroes it in every direction,
the swampa have been drained, stones have been
m o v e d , fences have been built, homes have
been erd'ed, and the fields are being cultivated.
'Phe fund supplies the immigrants with all
the necessary building materials, farming implements, live stock and other things necessary
to begin the actual work of farming. In four of
the settlements the new immigrants do everything on a cooperative baais; the settlers work
' the land in common and dispose of their surplus
for the common interest of ail.
The parchases of all the Jewish colonies sre
on a d p r a t i v e basis, which is the only sensible
way for anybody to buy, when he can. I t may be
said that Americans in general do not believe in
ooiiperation; for, while coiiperation flourishes
all over Europe, it haa obtained only a scanty
foothold here.
The education of the children of these dew
immigrants is well looked after, and the adult
needs in this direction are supplied by traveling
lecturers and a library of 15,000 volumes.
The Zionist Movement has opened/ oftices
throughout eastern Central Europe to assist
'Jewish emigrants to go to Palestine. There are
such offices in Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, Kovno,
and Trieste. The new arrivals are maintained
free of charge until employment ia found for
them. They are mostly young people, between
the ages of nineteen and thirty. At first they
live in tents. The Americam-Palestine fund hrrs
already reached four and one-half million dollam and has 70,000 contributors, although it ia
only three years old.
The suburbs of Jernadem, Jaffs, Haifa, and
!l!iberias, have been laid out in accordance with
carefully laid plans with wide streets and everything modern and uptodate. Many of the Hebrew women are q d y i n g as bricklayers, stone
masons and piasterers, work which it is generally snppoaed can be done only by men.
is favor to the Jews
Jehovah has manifested H
who have reposed codidence in His promises;
and it may -be expected that He will continue to
do so. Such have looked forward to a time when
they should be established as a people and a
nation under a just Ruler, their Nessiah, who
would deliver them, and through them bring
blessings to others. It has been the faith of the

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Jew in the promises of Jehovah that has caused

him to remain a Jew and not become absorbed:
by other peoples and nationalities. The day ot
his deliverance is at hand. The time for the fuffilment of the words of the prophets has come.! .
Therefore let the Jews look up and take mar-!
To them the Prophet now says: ''fie, give.
light, for thy Light is come; and the glory of *
the Lord is shining forth over than-Isaiah
60 :1, Leeser.

Pcraia
ERSIA is another of the.caunkiea of the
world that have been seized by a dictator.
The Shah has been overthrown; and nnder a
military dictator, Riza Khan, order has been
established over the whole country.
Persia is about one-fifth arr lsrge ~ A I the
United States, with about onetenth the population Most of the business is still done over
Gfteen caravan routes. A group of American , '
capitalists is studying the situation with a view
of bdding a railroad system that will coves
the c o m e .
The adviser to Persia's dictator is an Amencan college man by the nama of Brthur C. Millspaugh. He takes the place of W. Morgan Shus- ter, now president of the Centnry Company,
who once filled that position with great d t
.to himself and benefit to the P e e people.
Persia has been for some yeam the seene of
a battle royal betweem the principal oil cornpsnies, for the reason that beneath the mil are
the richest lakes of petroleum known in the ,
world. A British company controls twentyeight of the thirty-three provinces, and reoently
refused an offer of $100,000,000 from one of the
large international companies atlliated with
Staadard OiL
The control of the five remaining provinces
has been obtained by the Sinclair Oil Company,
of Teapot Dome fame. The terma of -1
zeq u h the Sinclair Oil Company to
and
map the company in three years, to spend $800,000 in eight years in development of the properties, to sell oil in Persia at cost plua ten percent, and to give the Persian Government a
royalty of twenty percent on net profits, and
representation on the Board of Directom.

India

interesting
of affairs, Mahatma
BY.""India
who became the idol of the
1921-22 through preaching
turn

Gandhi,
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the policy of passive msistance te British mle,

has become an apost3e of qnite a different movcme&. As a result of his agitations Gandhi was
in prison, where hs became ilk with appendidia.
A British physician rushed him to a hospital,
performed a d i i m l t operation by the light of a
hurricane lantern, and saved his life. A strong
fiendship grew up between Gandhi and the
a c t o r , and meantime Gandhi was given his
- liberty.
As a result, the traditional friendship of the
Hindu for the British is being restored. But
tbe caste system, which has been the curse of
India in all ages, has been dealt quite a blow;
for Gandhi is one of the common people, one of
the lower castes No doubt the Lard is back of
this whole cir-ce,
gradually lifting up
the Hindu people to a point where full citizen/ ship privilegea will be given to them.

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TREan holding
up of railroad train is
expensive job for somebody. The bills
a

always

have just been premnted for the hold-up of a

t d n in China a year ago. The bills f o r lost
baggap, medical attention, lose of liberty, and
mental anguish amount to qver $350,000, all of
which m b t be made gwd by the Chinese people.

more than one-tenth of one percent of the tow.

population of the country.
In a letter to Sekretary Hughes dated April
loth, the Japanese ambassador to h a r i a
called attention to the *gentlemen's agreeme*
between America and Japan by which Japanme
coolies are esdnded from America,-_and in hi8
letter of protest made the statement that if the
biU then pending in Congress providing for the
absqlute exclusim of the Jgpluiese wsa passed
it would result in "grave consequences." Thr '
House of Representatives passed the bill; and
the Senate, thoroughly angered by what it ts
garded as a Japanese fhnat, also passed the
bill by a rote of '76 to 2.
It ras pointed out in the Senate that Japan
exercises the right of excluding KOCUnese, and Hindus ; and-that all nationa ere&
the right of cantrollbag immigration, withoat .
asking the consent or pemiasioo. of other
tions. One of the Senators stated that he -votd
far the escluaion of the .Japanese with dcsp
regret, but felt &at the Ambasdois btter.had
made it necessary, Thitp apparemtly. l ~ d
tb.
feeling.of pmwticaily the whole Senah
htr. H d r a , the Japanew Ambassador, h&
protested that when he
the e x p r k i o a .
"grave consequences" he had not the remoteat
intention of conveying a threat, bat was me*
pointing out haw diilidt it would be for the
Japanese people to understand the h e n c a p
attitude if the bill in queation beaum a law.
The Federal Council of Churches has written
letters to every Seliator and Repm-entative,
pressing hard for the &cognition in some manner of the "gentlemeds apement," parpody
excluded from the new immigration law.
Incidentally, the same bill which excludes the
Japanise altogether also limits the admissable
imnligmnts after July 1,1927, to 150,000 a year.
JIeantime, on the basis of the 1890 census, there
may be admitted during the nest three years
tmo percent of the foreign-born residents of the '
United States as determined by the cepsus of
that year. This will practically exclude all immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.

Japam
HE New York Telegram c o n t a b a despatch
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from Washington which states that the chief
legal adviser to the Air Service Claims Board
has been suspended by the War Department,
and deprived of records which reveal overpayments to aircraft concerns totaling tens of millions of dollars. This gentleman, Xr. Thomas
F. Lane of Missouri, claims that Japan has
- been furnished blneprints, .specifications, and
patterns embodying all that h e r i a has
learned in the mandacture of airplanes.
Despatches from Tokio report having received clearly a speech made in Esperanto by
James Denson Sayers, a contributor to THE
&LDEN
AGE, broadcast from Newark, New
Jersey. The speech was broadcast from Newark
at 6: 15 P. Jd. and received at Tokio at 8: 15
A. M., only a secqnd afterward. This is one of M-0
the best long-distance broadcasting records yet
ALAYA is the new name -for what used
made.
to be called the Stmits Settlements, and
The number of Japanese now in the United which have Singapore as their metropolis..
States is set at 130,625. This is only a little From Singapore we get the interesting infor:

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mation that hfr. Robert Dollar, the famous ship

owner of San Francisco, has started a line of
eteamers which will provide passeager serPice
around the world at fortnightly intervaln. The
route L from New York through the Panama
Canal to Tokio, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Hongkong,
Singapore,Colombo, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa,
Marseilles, and thence back to New York
Mr. Dollar is eighty years of age. ~e$i$eaa
great fleet of 130 ocean-going steamers, he con.trols the water transportation in a district of
China where 75,000,000 people have no comma'nication i v i t h the outside world, except by
sfearners of his line.

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TEBBIBLE famine ia prevailing 4 the

-{Acentral part of South africa, due to drouth

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and the consequent entire failure of grazing

'for cattle. Money-lenders in the district are
reported as renewing loans at rates of interest
running from 170 to 300 percent. Farmers are
killing their cattle to get the two dollars which
they receive for the skins; and others are returning spans of oxen bought from the spemlaton _and throwing in another span of their
own, in order to pay only one-half the cost of
the span originally bought and returned.

AurttalZa

T malring

HE cotton-growing industry in Australia is

rapid strides, the value of the an'.nnal crop being now in the neighborhood of
$4,000,000. Dnring the past fqnr yeara the
acreage in cotton has inmased eightfold. It is
claimed that Australia has 15,000,000 acres that
oonld,if necessary, ,bedevoted to the production
of cotton. It is evident that from now henceforth the American cotton growers will find the
Australian cbtton fields an important factor
with which they w i l l have to contend.
On April 12th, just outside of Sychey harbor
with a very impressive ceremony, the battle
cruiser "Anstralia" was sunk in accordance with
the terms of the Washington treaty. m e n the
desired spot was reached, o5cers and men were
lined up in their white snits on the'decks, the
seacocks mere opened, a bomb mas exploded in
the hold, the men were taken off, and straightway the vessel began to sink. In twenty-one
minutea the ship turned turtle and disappeared.
As it passed beneath the waves an aeroplane
dropped a wreath on the place where it sank

The Scriptures say that in the age now at

hand: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against n a t i o ~ ;
neither shall they learn war m y more..". We are
witpessing the beginning of these thin@ now.
The great Krupp works are making agricoltuqd
implements ;and some, at least, of the monsttya
of the deep are being buried beneath the wavek .
Sydney is to -have the largest &de-ar&
bridge in the' world. !l!hii bridge, which will
cost $25y000,000 and whioh will t a b six years
to construct, will have a single arch of l,650
feet span. The Q u e b Bridm over St. Lawrence kver has a s p a n of 1,860 feet, the Firth
of Forth Bridge in Scotland has a span of 1,700
feet; but neither of theae is a aingIe-aroh span.
The Williamsbargh Bridge in New York city
has a span of &600 feet. .$'he Sydney bridge
wilI be 170 feet above high water and w i l l carry
four r h a d tracks,besides roadway and foot.ways. Until it is completed, the H
ell Oate
Bridge in New York city will continue to be
the Iargest singIe-arch bridge.
The same article in the New York Times that
t& nr about Sydney's -great bridge also tells
ua of other huge bridms that aze under way.
One is to connect Philadelphia and Camdm at
'an expense of $13,35!5,000 ;b o t h e r is to connect
New York and Jersey City, at an expense of
$17,25OY000
;another is to cross the Detroit rivez
at Detroit; and another the Golden Gate at San
Francisco. The Golden Gate Bridm w i l l be a
combination of cantilever and suspensionbridge,
wif& 8 middle span of 4,000 feet, more than
double the length of the greatest span yet coqstroctea.
The ex-Prime Miniater of Australia, Mr.W d liam M. Hughes, is in America. Mr. Hugha is
profoundly impressed with the conviction that
America and Australia must coiiperate to keep
out the Japanese. Apparently he sees no solution of Japan's own problem, except that the
Japanese themselves must h d some way to
restrict the tremendous annual increase of their
population. From what we can judge of Japanese history, it seems doubtful whether such a
plan for restricting their national development
can be made effective. It seems to us more likely
that Japan will have recourse to arms, probably
with unexpected suddepness. I t might occur
even this year.

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Reports from Foreijp Correspondents

FROM CANADA

ATIONALLY and provincb Uy, Canada i s

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making a dramatit? attempt at houseclean3%.At Ottawa, after some years of peaceful

Your wrrespondenfs personal g u e b,

~ "Born
before C h r i ~ ~ ~ ' '
bn interesting experiment, for it ha8 all th.
e-rHs
of sach, has been tried recently in
Toronto. As reported in the Toronto Telegram,
it ~ e e m athat two yo-g gentleman in holy orders undertook to tell the truth about war and
a
part in it, before a co-ttee
posed of local divines
To seasoned Eamp.igneR in the ckk
war,? and es-y
to those who suffered
bonds, imprisonment, to'rtnre, and abuse for the
principleof pea=, tbia&ted attempt to s-d
for righteousness seems to lack spirit; bat one
m o t help a fellow feeling of sympathy for tb.
anem@ and
it rill dy
nqdt
good fruitage. To quote:

plenty, the axe is presnmably abont to fa&

either a s a result of an honest desire to reduce
..fie Governments elrpemes or for Pxtical
Sons. AS One T ~ Y ~ wthe
S p0rtent0Q.S aIlllOUIlCemenh issuing from the council dumber, one
cannot help wondering just how long the present
government has to live or how mucb of the taxparing attempt is propaganda
Nabrally, the
the edge
axe
and of themen
are the wO*erq Psul
"e@auy.
As far as can be ucertaine4 the
general m n of the men who w i l l be %red" or
'whose income will be reduced are even now only
struggling dong on low wages.
~TOUI ~
n i w
We are hopefully waiting for the a n n o ~ c e - YhO m
beforo
merit that Premier King ha. discovered that he
M*7*
. . to expound
om pt
On hdf hie present ~ ~ l - 9 and
&
Mm Ru=th.
ui-q. the
.,that the Senators and Cabinet Ministen also &-Fw
rho iI ..id h.n lpset
Pafeel that they would like to ahare in the g e n e d m
Scotr
in
-,
d
reduotiom.
th.thehdpttomeetthemmwhorant~~tberu
It is amusing to contemplate a government for tho principle d ths thinghear; w, TO
~ t e m
that needs double the cabinet ministem we11 Soma went in, like himdf, for l d i d w a ; o t h m
apd senators to handle the 8fFaira of eight mil- cPlirted when
atls
he dachxl. Bd d
..
liom of people aa oar neighbors across the line
~~ and -trmmatm afaW
mad
fcmrmda
need to handle the basinem of nearly fifteen tiom a d
t h e s t h a t number. y c r r ~ ' d h q , ' d I l l ~ e r k c r t u ~ o t h eItir
r~.
)hemortddthhgrhrm-Hepb
In Ontario, a bright, m p p y investigation is
tbr
ih.
in
under way of the doings, deed& and &deeds
th,
,a, fitPdl,
fira h d
of the members who occupied the Treasury -.
lilrs a, in imh
we
aoald
son.
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benches in the Iately defunct Farmer govern- ward, chstma Soldiem," md then iill o d m up
ment. again, it is m c d t to see through the- with ram ao that we auld do th8 dirQ work Thourrmoke and determine how much is political capi- arndr of yomen enlistad in a data of d m n h m s ~ ;
tal and how much honest zeal for the cause of
enlisted to seen in anifonn; 0lured
righteousness.
/
by propqsmh The pulpit became a recruiting Suion.
r c h b e a u m r p a r t a f t h e ~ r i n . Thr
The Home Bank failure, saccesaion duty-free T h. .e c h uwere
d t i n g 8ergumta and the oah*
bond issues, and manipulation of publio fun& q
nfi
for private gain are all mixed up together. As
Eight Christian gentlemen, including the ex*
amall a nation as we are, we do not intend any
ntives,
editors, and other prominent members
s ~ d a to
l
dl
the
of
t
b
hternationd BiMe S h d e n b &sopublic attention; but we d endeavor to match
to j.il for a life sentence for sa.ying
that evidence of mismanagement and worse with less than that in 1918. Scores of members
a generous +iring of our o m political garbage.
the organization
went to jail, were mie
Lncidentally, the Ontario "wets" are in joyfal treated, tortured, robbed, for refusing to pes.
hope of getting h n o r back -again, if dear vert their consciences, to forswear themselves,
Brother "Fergy," the present incumbent at and to twist and turn t h e Bible teaching about
Queen's Park, sees in it good political material. war, while the war was going on. Notice the

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In recent issaes of Tmi GOLDEN AGB.fsots
Toronto gathering :
and &gums have been produced to show tho
yd&
seriousness d the dfna'tion, espeoiallg in we*
w. B. Cof S
Cb&
tald the speaker he ma w
y irrit.ting. e m Canada. It is your correspondent% i n t e b
CI W h o in peace,' he k d , 'bot I am not 8 pridrt and tion to continue trr.drive home these facts, bnt
nam d be exapt in tima d pace. I csn't v , space precludes the possibility of any 'extenm*
our men
into
in dm&amea
review this month. However, one interestin8
8 n d t of ihg-mring ~ 0 t i m L ~
itam comes. to light -iq the Montreal Witlrcs*; Mi. Caswell admitted tbilrt he was never in. m-C
*pointed by h 00swmc~1t.d
the anny, nor had he been aMe to serve over- M.nitob. to invehgab conditicrnr d educrtion in t
b
beas. We suggest a careful reading of his argu- Pravinea ia being copfronted with stern f.ch Scn.rc~
for
d
ment, and offer a prim of a niae book to anyone of h L in the Province are being
fun& to c ~ r on.
~ r School districts hard m funds md
whu can see the logic in it.
the mpnjciplitiea am unable. to help them tbugh.''
'?iar. J. E h g wd,who ~ e d e dd, t e d fhrt h did
weC ] O ~ a m p r O d ~ of~ ap prody on
not thfnk it a m necemq at dl for the minkha to ,poplar hculled fmm.the cdlumna of
defend their attitnde in the lut ru."
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'%. R J. Campbell &d: 'Our p d p i b a m turned Tlie Worker,Toronto:
hto resmiting k i o n a and our c h d e a into I don?
Nations
. ?

u O n m d , Chtisti.s Nations,

~mdthehir;heutprid~inthe~)m~
were given chaplain positions.'

Mom power to you, Christian ( T ) miniiten,

keep up the good work; and some day you w i l l
alI tell the truth and agree with those awfd
Bible Students. who have said all these thinfor yoq for a decade.
Another interesting item comes to our attention, and that is a church annoa~cementappearing in the Montreal Daily Star of Christ Church
Cathedral, which appends a "Seats Free, No
Collection" sign to its Sunday program. Perhaps thd l e s ~ e nis beginning to work after halt
a cestnry's effort!

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know wbai. Our own m i n i d m w m bdbrd into the war

and made heroes of by their congrrg.tiom,
their ePLricr
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Ml]rinrrewmore

C d y preparationr

For murdering

war.

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Anything for shying foes,

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T b a t ~ p r- a m o f s r s e l l r

Vempapua for I
m
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~ t h e t r n f h ~ d e u ;
Fooktodothadyin&

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P.trsots to ehear.
Buka, p r i d and p
d
Hypocrites galore,
PrayingtothePrinmofPemS
For victary in war P

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Radio Broadcasting from - Watchtower

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L OUNCEJCENT is made that the Watch
A q o r e r Bible and Tract Sooiews radio
broadcasting station, 'WATCRTOWEB
WBBR,"
located on Staten Island,New York city, which
W a n operation
24 last, using a 2a
meter wave leni@h, has been a u t h o r i d by the
Government to broadcast on a wave length of
273 meters on and after May 14. A revised
time schedule became effective on the same date.
Progrsms are now broadmt on Sonday and
Thnrsday evenings from 9 :10 to 10:30; on
Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evenings
from 8: 00 to 9: 00. The station is silent on

Febw

Tnesday and Friday evenin@. Operation dming the summer months is on Eastern DayLighk
Saving Time.
have been
M~~~ interesting
pof the United States and Cm&
from
from those who have listened to the
of Station m B R . Those who have had di&
culty in picking up the 244meter wave length
a,
we t m t , have better result8 e t h the n w - wave length. Reports of reception are a P P m
ciated. Kindly address W A - ~ S T ~ I I
JVBBB, 124 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y. '

The B i g h t s of Mankind

BY

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carwll ( E ~ ~ W .I

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"TIC#h o r n , s ~ UI
n Ik.arnt,arr tha Lorbr: but t b urtA bdb

L gwm to t h & U r n

116:13. '.

of nns*-Psm

"My Neighbois Landmarl? I quote only. They ur 91 trrrpvlar &n by pamidm of

the following:
thelordroftho~theyanhavenoroomforthe~

%OM

feet. Nay# ahodd tho 0think to-@

-0
p w a d d parnil, ba wider in ita rppicestioa, Qi
mieht Ww?
or =om completel~aeattuctiw of ths c?i.im. at a' ~nnda nrting PI.C~
14
clrrr to the monopol, of c10d's earth, th.p a.
in proving that
From this he has no
& i p h -orb 'children of men.# L there any mm,
woman or child who livcr now, or who era hrrr lived, an exclusive possession of the soil necessitates
or who ever w i l l live, who ia not included among tha an infringement of the Iaw of equal hedom.
children of men? No; all h d in tht m e p i n s ganm For men who cannot live and move and ham
.liption the charter of their 'b-hP
in
their being without the consent of othera cannot
The Bible will instruct the landha and the laborer in be ~
q free dw i those
~~
others.
tkeir right to the usc of the land, and also their right
"
to Living wage, in the following words: 'The husband- mid h a & Slcwrd bg
mmth.tlPborethmustbehtp.rtoknofthehpiff
E SPENCEB then deah with the lnimr
(2 Timothy 2 :6) ;' A d . a h that e ~ xnm
q rhoald a
t
of the present possessors of land:
md drink, and enjoy the good of dl hir W r ; it ia - q t
m d dh t
titla to
the gift of God.'-Eccl*
3 :13."
d property ~a lcgiti~mtk S h o d a ~ p mthinL #I#,
, From "The Christian Sochlbt," NO. 3, Au- let him look in tho chroniclea at rialancq h a d , the.
prem@ve d force, the ckiau of mpark
gnat, 1883, I take the following:
'TheEght to the Ussof ths Euth
themuethewurceatowhichthoatitlamaybtmced.
0
~~ ~~ 6 the
q'Jna= & *n
.n doqOCLLt
h p b o f h" -6
swd to pm,j,,g ~urcsrs.blomrem
~
~
;
n
~
~
~
b
tha ~ t ~ g i ~ i a ~ p ~ m
th.inumtrovertibIeequityof~h~i.ruit
I.1C bird r r d
i. -t.
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htb.@dDhtofd-to*-ofh
&
d
d
M
d
m
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w
d
k
w
)
sufh an which they lita For ssaumixq that 'each of ifnot,wbatbearmaofthap
d
d
t h a u h . f r e e d o m t o d . a i l t h t b e r l l 4 p d d e d b . holdaroldhmaLw~hr*rinfringer not h equal frcsdom af any other, h n each geaemb a right where it did nut p z w h d j clrrirt?

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And~l~1~y~itL~eStth8t~00~mLy~th
~ h U l d 8 tktsildynot
P
AMiifaMrtdtrm,
-thin-ha-~ub-*--*~
fm.lll@mL1.ti*,,,
'aningit;~gtMtodotM.i.b~g..t.r
b.dtiwfoma,annd~cpr
freedom t'h.n
CQ-q-tl?
to
th.
bw
thi, pMpkI
law.' *
He
them
proceeds
to combat the argmnents of
This sentence very neatly p u b out of court
those
who
assert
that
time is a gmat legaher,
their graces the Dukes of Sutherland and Buo-

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ad th.t immemoria possesdon md b.

to
komds of
p- mnatitnte
q ~ wbea h..no Ekip pmhg
slwPrdity of this proposition, but he admib that
great d i 5 d t y mu& attend the resumption of
if
w*n of
at hm.
He
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WY
their
rig6b to the sodb
become the p o a m a h of ~mindividual, and may k held
to ,,m doe8 not advocate the leaving of the present
lu *d h*k
.
I
by him fm
of the holders, who can neither toil nor spin, to,
dadv,, right, tha oh
urth'r surface may be ao held, and evenhall, the whole a m * He Jays:
"Men bring pt ~
v into this
a dilemma by
of tb arth'~mrfacs may be m hdd; and our p h e t
may thua hpw ahgether into private handa Oberva dirobedieueb to the Lw, muat gut out of it M beat they
nor the dilanmr, to which thL l e d . S u p p w tbr can, .nd with ar little injury to the landed cluu u m y
deuch and those other seventy pmna who
o m among them just onbhali of the Scottish
mil He proceeds:
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not @ pm in

-tire habitable glob. to be ro enclod, it follows that

it the lmdommn habe a valid right to its snrircq all
rho IKG not Isadownem have no right at a l l to itr wrLc* Hen- such a n exist on the earth by d e r a n c e

k ldernrhib, ne ahJl do d
l to rwollect that there
In
me othar bcsidar the landed clan to be conridour tender regard for tha v & d inkrtrtr of thr few,
let ar not forget that tb righta of t* many ur i.

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md must remain ao ra long aa the earth ir
-0poliA
by indiridualo. Let us remember, too, that
ihu i n f w t h thnr M c t u i on the mas af mankind in
m ipjlatiea of the gravest nature The fact that it ir
regarded pmres nothing. But our civilidion is
putid. It may by-and-by be @led
that Equity
P
dictatea to which we hrve not yet list.ene& and
rmp m y then lcnn thrt to deprive othem of their

"The tenants, though perfectly n~brnirive, acre to

have expected that they would be dlowctl o little time
to colkei thdr hrnitnre and crop. Th.ir cowtarnation
wan therefore the greater when c caamenament am
nudsto@darn.ndatfintothah-wtbair-.
hculrt Tha old people-,eb
to t
q to srrs their timber.
But the d a h c t o n increased speed, demolishing dl before than ;and when they bad orerthmwn the horwr
~ t o t h e ~ O f t h e d u t o c o m m i t 8 c z i m ai a. a l a g a p u t d h o o m ~ , t h q # t h t a t b a . r r r c k .
iptaior only in ridrldntsa to the crime of t&b# a w g
Them proceedings were carried on witb tbe nmd
tbait.lira oz persod 1ikrtisg*
reckleg melfq. 'l'he cria of the victim, the m&uion,
the despair and horror painted on the f.ceb of one putl,
Pbrt Usurper I8 Satan
and the exulting fetociq of the other, beggar dl dothe devil taking him np into an high
In tb ma
mu P-+,
motmtah, showed -to him all the kng- ing m d di&ing a ahole. ~m~ d a t h .
b m s of the world in a moment of time- And f
m &- ff h m t , md cold, the p p l e being
Power will I instantly deprived of helter, and left to the mercy of
the devil said unto him, 811
give thee, and the glory of them: for that is the wcsther. Pregnant women w e n taken with pzermr
d e l i v e d =to me; and to whomsoever I will tare labor, and sveral childran did not long survive
down tmd barning of
"I au
at the
I give it. Lf thou, therefore, wilt worship me,
the
b
u
m
of
WillChiahoh,
in
which w u lying his
all shall be thine.*-Luke 4 :5-7.
wifda mother an old bedridden woman &f neu one
' * h d the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken hmM '
d
of the
bd.g p-t
unto the voice of the people in all that they 8.7
hof
tb.
=
aht to & dn
unto thee: far they have not rejected thee, bat, thi, .
ce. and prevailed on -tkem to wait till
they have rejected me, that I ahodd not r e i ~
on hL v r i v d , I t d d h d tb.poot
over them"--1 Samuel 8 :7,
. aid vamrn king in a condition d t for*mmnd. He
(3ad was rejected, and the devil became c replied, 'Damn her, the old witahl- She hu lived t&'
aarrper. h d all the sin, crime, want, and m- l a g ; let hex burn' I Fire am immedbtdj mt-to .the
bPPinw the resalt of his diabolical par-. h ~ a d, tha blrngeta in which ahb ru
Mors rhe could be got orb Tbe d d womanf#
destroy 4 hmaanie, ~ nhits tirne is in
d
~
t
e
r
w h i l sha.
t h e ~ w u o n ~ a n
nearly up; for the rightfd King in coming into ,M thrn=*u r i r ainddg

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His o m to reign in righteousness, paw, md

love. But first all the unrighteoas work of the
uuurper will be destroyed; and it map be as
well now to describe a few of the horrors which
haw. been perpetrated to gain possession of
land under the usurpeis rule.
z&,p&d~~n~.n
HE following facts are taken from *The
Christian Socialist' of August 3, 1883. It
mentions the "Highland Clearances" by Alexander Mackenzie. The author of the book takes
his motto, "Tm# Stranger than Fictioa"

'We stand appalled at the long lid of atrocities of

which the Highlanden have been the victim, at the
terriile details of the o p p d o n s done in this mld
wodd under the sun. Take, for inrtance, the' rdminiatnrtion of Sutherland by Mr. S e h , the factor of infamew memor).. In tha,mouth of Mmh, 1814, a great
number of the tenants w h h ~d l he intended to
far himaeli were sumnloned b give Up thew f a m a in
the fdloring May, and by his ordns the huth padarm
warn LLt h to, m order to hasten them removal.

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.nd

pnanting a
I Ih.ll
bat
to -bs'
She d a d t h
qy,e .bore are the word8 of cur e p * ~ ham
-r
bccn ~ ~ l l t r a d i dMr.
d Sell* ~ apat
r upon kid,
'chi*
for the pulpme of satisfying the publio mind,
md putting am md to the cl.marr at the -try,'
u
hirooundoband. Ifthh,dwtthaencbatjrp,
tia,w u the intention it au completely mccedol; for
the crimhl pu acquithi.
Suhieat to my, the
whola
lighted U P
the
46
the bornine 9which
for
d.m
"A a t in 1830 a n t la ~ P W
in hm
to the lhquh of Stdord. The r d t p r o d how we& ' a j&
aCI
ahcn despotic h d u h
appcded
man's fdy
wwh.
at work forty milea
in the
k;
md
all the -=ding
inhabibb
the
sirnil= mhent,
dOT,jing
t b .131
s h e l h or an'#A&,
in
curid d .t
the T h -mt
Q l ~ ~ d v4
i e wrltd an
(ths Timu tbar mat 6d). In 1853 'tb. muncre of
the Roam w u peqetrattd, k u a e th. paoph feebly

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attempted to resist their evidon. The .women a t 4 in

the way d the police. The eherlfi gave the order t a
attack them, and h i d struck tho first blow at a
w o m u ~Such, indeed, w u the sad havoc made on the
female8 on the banks of the C m n that p l r of blood
nera on the ground, that the gmsa and earth were dyed
red with it, that the dogs of the district came and
licked it up; and at laat, such was the staC of feeling
of putid that came from a distance to see thb field
that the ground- WM harrowed up in the night to hide

with their familim to obtain a living, u their fathcn

did before them, by spade culture and 5hing; and for
thia sin against property and the c h which you resent, these ten men us imprisoned, and w& than
insulted by you, and through them w e y working man
in the United Kingdom. Who aet you up to altar tha
d
m and c o m d m e n t r of the Lard God Almighty?
You call them 'parasites' becruw they have doubled
their numbers in s i m years, and say that they ought
not to ba on the face of the earth. God's h t comthe b l d P
nundmeat to man was, & fraitfd and mdtiplj and
"One more instance illustrates the prese'nt system of replenish the earth and subdue it.
Gordon done to d d u e V a w f ?
''What hm
&very-for
land is held the same now as then. k the
mmmer of 1851 a-certain Colonel Gordon had decided What have you done to subdue it? P h y d golf on it?
to ship his tenants bodily off to Canada (Take notice, You play at life! These men and women and their
pleaee, land laws are the s ~ m etoday) from Sonth ~ i s t *families live it in e a m d 4 - f e U i n g , honest, crinu
amongst than; @t P a d than
and in the' Island of Barra. He and hia men adopted & o n
tha lowdown m e t h a of the shvttrader. The poor who ought to have no p h on God's earth to lire upon"I o n a knar a working XUU who
0 t baing 8
. . p p l o were commanded under a penalty of EZ to attend
af
a
remedy for
8 public meeting at Loch Bobdale, where the h q o r t s Toq and ahad
Ikaghtsr2
WU
thh
WU:
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A
good
wu
a
i
t
h
1.7. At thir maeting the nrtiva aue kited m4 in
W P ~ Oand
~ cM
spite of their entreatieq aunt on board, Ons h u t High- one of the rawom th.t
the H i 6 - h
h w
lander, Bmgas J o h n s t o ~ mhtd
,
uo stmngly that th!y on in South Bfria?
a t Magersfontein to help the depopuktbn d t
h Highhandded him. One morning,daring &
it
nr#m we were suddenly awakened by thercnunr at r lands? It ~JOIOI
hold a
yof d e who had bem recaptared in m adjoining ' "BYwhat right do yon and Y
h ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ , & e h s r i n g ~ p e a . f t a h f l r a t u we
p t a roaf W . n d k e a p t h e p a o P I a i n ~ ~ ~ a f * . t i a n ~ d
1
d l ~ e d t o t h a d o o t , m d s r w t h a b ~ - W c r e a -r l r r c r ~ u p a n i t , ~ d d r i ~ o f l l t h - ~ ~
I
haith&&dedh.irandmhtlce,w d ~ ~ ? h t h a h d ~ o r
its
away by tao condabla and 8 gnmnd &tar. But for d m n h t l y ? And what do Jda do
tbs&rofthe&vayouwoPld~Jdaasraonthe
tion? B [ M t b a r t h p r o d ~ i ~ ~ i n t
country, which h u baan misgoverned for. m ~ h r h ?
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rl.m coast of afric~"
t
u knd enough to provide food in phuq to feed
Landlords may be lass brutal than they wen
of tro ha
milliOP-*thoat
eetventy years ago, yet the ol;d tyranny and op .
gre8t8r put d thi8 kndJmiqJ idk Wh.t
?
- pression remain. Starvation ie the preferred
0 nnrr
.nd
weapon today. It must be SO as long as men
~aor th.f
that i t sh.ll not
'are exposed to the temptations which the pos- not multiply upon it?
session of unlimited wealth and absohte power
#'Whatright ham you to keep the Qillianr ad l a n k
engender.
Britons whom l.nd ia mmgfdly withheld from than,
c
~
~
I will now reproduce an open letter published from m p w g that land and obeying
on behalf of the Vstersay GJhsrmen who were r
&
'
O
t
t
h
:
~ d 2 ~ ~ ~ d * h . " , ~
e ~ c t e d tried,
,
and convicted, and sentenced to
thoa ehiihn room to
~ six weeW imprisonment, for returning to the
God
*air b
P There is more idant srcriisland of Vatersay, from which their forefathers fidby th. w,,mhipn of the Golden c a t~~ h one
were evicted fifty years before :
year than the children of Israel sacrificed during tho
&Sii: I wish to thank you for the dip at the tonne reign of Ahab I It is true that they are not taken by
which reveals yoursell, and your chi, and many of force from their parents' arms, but by a more barbamua
your supporters in their true light, 80 that evey work- system. The parents are hdplese to prevent their being
ing man can appreciate the insult which you have in an starved, stunted, and killed by unhealthful s u n o u n d w
unguarded moment thrown at us, while you were defend- -murdered that rou may have gold and land to keep
ing the right of n ladpyto have absolute power to keep a ar a wilderness."
portion of the earth's surface a wilderness Tm of the
"Ill f u e s the land
bed of British to~lerswant more room and better condiTo_hastening Ills a prey,
tiom to o b k h a living. Their forefathers
y m
m b e e wealth accumulates,
q o were evicted from Vatexsay.' Today they retarn
And men decay.".
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Miads

G r a t Sea; Monster

M ,LAMI'S
Tamiami,

great ses-monster was exhibitmi

for months at Uarni, Florida, on board the
y e t
at the Bay front, opposite the
&pal Palm Pa* and Band Concerts. For aught
we h o w it may etill be on exhibition there.
Since this monster was discovered, the people
whose months are in inverse proportion to the
square of their brains have had much less to say
about the imponr;hil;ty of the Jonah story than

C.ptnmd by Capt Chan. H.Thompaon, sooth of 4Lismi

Thin creature measom 45 feet in length.
It weigh8 15 tom, or nearly 30,000 poundn.
Its eirmmferenb is 23 feet nine inches.
Its diuneter is 8 feet and three inches.
Ia mouth ia 38 inches wide and 43 inches deep.
Its tongue ir 40 inches long; a w e d thousand teeth.
Its liver .lone weighed 1,700 P-4 or mom than
tm full-grown men together.
Its tail rneasureb 10 feet, from tip to tip.
Its pectoral 6n ia 5 feet long and 3 feet aide.
Its dorsal fin is 3 feet long, and 2 feet and nine
inches wide.
are four feet long, m,j ita hide is t h
~b
.
inches thick.
It had sadowed an octopus n e i ~ h i l ~i00
g pun&;
black fish neighing 1,500 pounds
j0l) pounds of
c o d also found in its stomach. I t could heye sndlowed
f o w Jonahs without the slightest pangs of indirestion.
It U e d a boat into t h o u a d s of piwlr~ and
e e d the rudder and propeller of a 31-ton yacht
,+ single swishi of itu mighty tail.

fhey once had; for thiL ia a true "fish 8toiy.f

We have mentioned this monster several:
times in THEGOLDENAGZ,and we take delight,
in bringing' it up again and agsln; for it helps
to show us how "willingly ignorant"the dominies:
are that have rejected the Bible and set themselves up as the standard of all that is wise here.
and hereafter. We append the statistics whid
are published in advertising the curiority.

Five hvpoaa thm& and 150 l u g a &'bra

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bullets serred only to increase ita fury, ond five days.
were required finally to kill it.
The actual battle lasted thirty-nine houm-bo days
and a night-in open boat, in open
with the manster dragging a mall boat at e x p r e ~train q a d for
. .
hundreds of da
ScientiAc authorities Mieve th.t
-m am
inhabitant of deptha'more than 1,500 feet below the'
surface, and that it was blown up by some sub-an
or ~olcanicupheaval, which hjured itr diving appahtru
ao that it was unable to return to ita native hunk
The thickness of its hide enabled i t to withstand the
most enormous r a t e r pressure, a preseam almogt inconceivable to man- Itu eyes, which are v e v small, have
no lids and Wem never closed, indicating that i t lived
at 3 depth where eyes were
The creature is not classified in natural hirtorg. T ~ o
genus or species is unknown: and it is not only the molt
wmarkable p l o p i c a l sp&mm. but the 1 ~ - t rincimap .
.. . in history.
.... . .
of the fish tribe known

Obs

Although the largeat fish uer captured, ecientistr

ddm it au only 8 baby of ita tribe, and if it had
l i d to attain full growth it would have been two and
-half
timea sr Iargt.
.
E w q undertaking eatabliahment on the Florida'EYt
CouS from Jacksonville to Key West gave up it3 supply

of formaldehyde to pnstl7s th.monrtar, md mar Piaa

ten barn& were umL

It war mounted by Prof. J. 9.

of W d h p
ton, the celebrated taxidermist, who w u mcommandd
by the Smithson- Institub. Wambeth w a .bo
~ chorsP
to accompmy Admiral P q on hk trip to the P&

Sond?y's F a a ~ i e a r e dwith Blood

Blllfs mint consists in fooling the pepple,'and

Bamnm thought they liked to be fooled. Pad .
of Billy's fooling process is -his measurable
conformity to the ways of others.
But o a r esteemed contemporary is mbtaken
in saying that Billy preaches the gospel of
divine love for all creatures. No; that h e a m
has a few favorites ;that everybody else is going
to hell; and that Christ will render a judgment
according to Sunday's theology, is Bill*
thought In his prayers he i ~ t m e t sQod and
Christ as tii what he wmtn done, and also
i n t o m ua that when he -geb to heaved he'
intends to make other request81
U B a y redly understood divine ,&me, he would not be Uing deer; much leba would he
allow the blood to be smeared over l$8 face. If
Billy h e w what divine love ia and how it
operatea (1Corinthians 13) we doubt &at he
shoot at a deer even ff he were s e r i o d y .
8 ~ h 1 1 ~ t a r t o ~ h i r f & Y m m r c u c d r i t h t Jwould
m
' blood d his h
t dear; a d Mr. Sunday hd this highly in need of food. There are other ways of killing
d f y h g rite perfotmod for him by Bsr. Dr. Willkm nnimrlnfor food or for any other mason beaidea
Way, OM d the pmmknt Epincopd c h g p m ~at taking chance8 of wounding them with lead
,cbru*
bullets sbot from a distance.

0 CONFORM to the ways of the world is to

have the spirit of the world. In the Blue
it says: Z o v e not the world, neither the things
that are in the world. If any man love the world,
the love of the Father i s not in him." (1John
2:15) Men love the world, and have its spirit
in order to be "good mixers" and to be popular.
The National Eunuaw Review is authority
for the statement that &ev. Billy Sunday, who
/ conducted a whirlwind evangelistic campaign at
Charleston, S. C., went deer hunting with some
.of his party, sad adds: "The famous evangelist
caa see nothing incompatible with preaching the
gosgel of divine love for all cresturea a n d ,
hunting innocent deer." It quotes from the daily
press, stating that Mr. Sunday wounded a deer,
and that another member of the party final)y
killed it. Then comes the spedacalar :
"It appears to be ths cudma in 8011th C a d b for

Father Snyder's Wail

E HAVE before us a copy of the wail of

Father Justin Snyder, 0. S. B., of Stephan,
Hyde Co, North Dakota I t seems that Father
Snyder ia a Cathoke missionary among the
Indians. He reaLizes that the Indiana are in
desperate need of material comforts and mskes
an appeal,.not that they may have the thinga
that they need, but something else.
Father Snyder makes an appeal, but it is not
for the Indians. I t is for Father Snyder. If he
can receive enough financial support, he is will. ing to stay where he is and add to the misery
d wretchedness of these poor Indians by
pi-g
before them the agonies of a pnrgstory which does not exiat, a fluning hell which

does not exist, and the doctrine of the inherent

immortality of man, which is totally unwip

tTuaL But let us hear him:
Their home is on tha wild prairies or among the
big hills dong the Mimuri River on the Crow Creek
bemation. Whrt they a U homo u often only a
minerable h o d , and in aome cuw 8 tent Being poor
in the extreme they am w b h ta help much their prieat
'who in continual Gnancirl worries is struggling to
nouriah and save their immortal souls for e t d liir
in heaven." "Thk appeal ~ A Et
b blessing and rppronl
of our bishop, Bt. Rev. Bernud J. Mdwmy, Biabop'q
H o w , 7th An. and 20th St, Sioux Fdh, 9. DP

We have a suggestion: Let the Father and

the Bishop go to work at so much per and s a d
aome real food and clothing ts the Indiana

They will appreciate i t Blorewer, if the Father

w i l l s d ~8 the addresses of the Indiiins, and if
they read English, we ahall be glad to tell them

.w

all about God's great plan for them, and for the
Father and the Bishop ;and it will q t tort any
of them one cent.

Father Sylvester Wants Money

E f i V E another wail from a Roman dream for yeam. Good people us w&ng to g i n to 8.
Catholic priest in Marty, South Dakota, npecfic caae of need or didma. Here ia r real ona
wcwants some money. We quote in part from
"My d e u friend, your offering will Mp; and it d
l
be appmciated. I un willing to qend my life and rll
letter:

"Oar people here are the poorest of God's poor. In

raga and t a k they live in wretched hovela, sdering
from hunger and erporare. b s b g for money from them
ir Iike begging for bread in Vienna. But? I have gone
on with my miaaionary work, tmsting entirely in God
mad the charity of good people. The tiny allowance we
get Imm the annual Indian-Negro Collection ia used

my energies for thin wemy work I look for no eutblf

r e d . Will you, too, do-somethingfor these Indiaxu'
souls? Ths mite robbed them of their land md
libe*.
Let ns, at least, make some amen& by sendiag
than the gift of our Holy Faith 1''

Tell you what, Sylvester. If yon really want

to do something for tho= poor Indians, just
upiPrweek.
.crank up your old Liz; and while yon still have
UFor&yaua I have been 'making the m i s a i d in the price of a tankful of gasoline left from the
my 'Ford,' climbing the gumbo hil)s m d roaming the last contribution, jut head East and get as far
-D.tot.p&
9 0 m ~ t b e F o r d t s t a c k i n r d away as the car will take you. The longer yorb
or bmbaP dmn, far from human help.
are little
stay the worse they are off; and the l e a of yo='
tri8Ia,lnltthepterttrialirto~dans#lfrithoat
unholy
and diabolical faith about purgatory and
m e m S t 0 . m o n t h e work of a v h g Muh. our
hell
&e
r n d i m c h i l d m n , ~ d i n r y ~ ~ ~ b r you
~ gipe them the happier t b y . w d l be,
h
r
charge
for this advice. is the 4%
feq:
- t b a r s k a R w i ~ r b m kTbeyhmwthadtbr Tree Seats and
No
Collections"
tho& to leM it A school witb S W bu been mar

Roman Catholic Civilization

FAIR sample of
would happen in
A
America if
corntry came under Roman
Catholia control is contained in the following

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conaiving after wealth and power all the.mars

repnhensibie,
c%udapest, April 7.-In the puish of B o k m tb.
item published in the Vienna Arbeiter Zeittmg, county
of Boreod, about forty Protestant farman met
'April 10, 1924. The item has reference to the
together.
l l w s e hd formed an aasociafian for Bl'bk
erperienm of a group of International' Bible
reading, in order to read and explain the Hdj S&p
Stodents who endeavored, in modem Hungary,
t o exercise their privilege of worshiping the tnrrs and to eing psllmr Suddenly, mthad
t h e ~ d a m e e m t a n l t h e h 3 1 , ~ t b s b ~
Lord in accordance with the dictates of their and
the Bibles, thm them out into the court, dcol.lad
own consciences. Moreover, these sufferers the man
.nd womeu under arrest, and took them dkC
were threatened with the penalty of death in
t b tarn-ha& Tht sergeant-major on duty, Tapalaqi,
case they &odd spread the news of- their illsmtmmi dl the priaonexa to a flogging of trrmQ-dva
treatment.
d,
and the ,tSnbo, inmediafaif aa '
In the face of this story the current claim of strokes
cuted the punishment T h a they were trkan to tha
the Roman Catholic church in h e r i c a that it is
nearby village, Y d y , where r rimilu B i b l w t u ~
persecuted is enough to make a decent man ill antwidion uisk There the gendumed went from home .with nausea. The Roman Catholic church is tohopae,dlikerire&
tbehynmdamd tbaBibks,
md bas always been an association of heartless, m d d U k t o ~ ~ f l o g g i n g 3 t b r m s t i m r ~
hypocritical religious politicians, keeping the 'k
pcbpbwuehrdd prLaars for t w o - t b n '
people in ignorance, devoted to war and blood- 1 e a d a n d s r t h m i t b 8 t u n L c r r t b e y ~ f m m ~
b e d and every evil work. The fact that it has activities, dmgemm to tb. Strh, tbcJ, raJd dl k .
B religious exterior only makes its heartiear interned in zJ.r
what

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JFSUS

Preparing The Kings

8

warn h p h of

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wtm.

by Jucim J. F. Rothcr(on1)

of Xazareth, after He was raised from titles. St. Pad mentions them a r members d '
the dead and glorified in heaven, dictated to the body of Christ. He say3 that Jesus is the
St. J o b the Book of Revelation.
Head of the body, the Charcb, (Colasri8~81:IS)
- At the time St. John waa serving a prison There has been great copfusion in the minds 04
term on the Isle of Patmos for the alleged the people as to what constitutes the Chareh of
violation of the Espionage Lanr of that time. Christ
&hn
of %s ~ b j & we
Espionags laws have ever been med as a Pre- may consider the kings and the Church as S P
text for the persecution and the causing of d-onymons
r e f e r ~ to
g the Bame c]ass.
ferinJ of those who dare tell thewtruth concernSt Peter, conee-g
the
d.a, o.p:
jng "
"
piae But the Lord
ooedes
ye a n a
s myaI priest.
what seems to be a crlamib to the Cbristi-,
hood, nn hob =tion,
p#e;
th.t
makes it work out to the Christian's good and
ye
shoukl
shew
forth
the
p
h
s
of
him
who
to the L o d s glory. No man has been more
highly honored than the supposed convict, St bath adled Y a out of d a r k a m into
were m! 8
John, to receive at the hands of the Lord of velon~light: which $ time
people, but are now the people d M;wh&
glory this wonderful Bevelation.
h.d not 0bt.ined m
9h t now h m 0.
Book of M M o n giva a brief him
e
r
c
y
.
*
1
Peter
2
:
9,lO.
,,f the cmstimchurch from its -g
.
Necessarily it follows that whoever is a mem.
now. It points out that a time would come when
of this class m a t meas- UP to the stand1 .
the evil powers would be desperately arrayed
ag&d the Lord in s great conflict, that these ard laid down by the Apostle. The Jewsthou#rt
had P
*
'.
the ones ;f o r
wodd maice war sgainst the Lord, and that He that
Him 8
wodd overcome them ;for He ie Lord of lords p r o m i d that they s ~ o d be
d
' and King of kings, and they that are with Him
liar people and a kingdom of Pri*
But % '
are called, and chosen, and faithful.-Beweb m e far
and tw
Jew
be
of that daM.
tion 17:14.
Mter our Lord had aaeeaded am high, men
This is proof that the Lord J e m is the great
King, and that He mast come into His kingdom, organized bodies which. they.designate the
- an? that He will have with Him athm who, by church Many C a M a have long thought W
His grace, will serve with Him aa kings. Speak--their organization is the one here mentioned
ing in another part of the Book of Revelation the apostle Peter. But when rn come to apply
to St. John, Jesas said concerning those that the standard it can hsrdly be aaid that the Cstb '
w i l l be with Him: "They shall be priests of Ood olio church is a hoIy itation and a royal pried;
and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thou- hood. With alE% deference to Cathoiics;
sand years." (Bevelation 20: 6). Thie is another everyone informed of the faeta Imom that there
proof that they will be kings. Only kings reign has been much wrong done in the name of the
with power and authority. The ones here re- Catholia ch&.
ferred to will OCC-UP~the most e d t e d positions
men
'apon the scene the Protesta;lt
in all of h i ' s universe, Jehovah alone excepted. &arch denominations, such as the Lntheran,
It follows then, necessarily, that if these have Presbpterirur, Baptist, Methodist, and others,
m~chan exalted place that Jehovah would take each one in turn claiming to be the chosen ones
mnch time and pain6 in preparing them. Even of the Lord who should constitute the special
SO it has been and is. I t dso necessarily follows associates in His kingdom. Again, ahen we
that such must be exceptional characters.
appip the divinely given standard, we must see
that none of these systems measures n p to the
I&nti/iccrtion of the K i w
requirements. You may ask, then: What earthS IT possible to identify those who will eom- ly organization answers the description and
pose the dass of kings? If so,by what means m a t s the requirements? I reply : There is no .
may we identify them? -Throughout the Scrip earthly organbation; nor did God intend for'
h a this e h ia designated ander different aay e a r t h l ~organization to have this honor.

* GOLDEN
The apostle Paul speaks of this class in these
words, as "the church of the fistborn, which
are written in heaven" (Hebrews 12:23) He
does not say that their names are written on
some earthly chdrch book, nor that they are
designated ss clergy or laymen or have any
p e d a r dress or marks visible to man. The
Lord judges according to the secret intent of
the heart. He b o w s the inmost thoughts.

AGE

plainly told that he must surrender himself unto

the Lord, agreeing to do t4e Lord's KilL Thu r
. ..
is properly called consecration.
The real desire of the one who now con*
crates himself to the Lord is that he might be =
in full harmony with God and enjoy the blea8ings of life everlasting. To him Jesus s a p :- P?
am the way, and the truth, andthelife: noman1
cometh unto the Father but by ma'' (John 1456)
Otherwise stated, one seeking the Lord munt
'
How the Kings Are Selcctcd
, recognize that he was born a sinner, that Jema
L CE the ones here mentioned are to be provided the ransom price for him, and that the,
associated with Jesua as kings and priests, o d y way to get back into b o n y with Gbd is
to exercise faith in this great trnth of the ran-..
we should expect to lind both the q&cations
required and the manner of selection set forth som sacrifice.
in the Bible. Even so it is. St. Paul, in discussThe next step is justification, which meam
ing this matter in his epistle to the Hebrews, being made right with God. The Apoatle sap: '
states that 'the Lord did not lay hold npon an- "By faith are we justifiedn; and again, "By the : gels of whom to make these kings, but laid hold blood of Jare we justiiied"; and ag&
npon the seed of Abraham. By this we under- '?It is Gtod who jusaes.''
Thua wa see that
stand him to mean those who posaesa the faith, there are three steps : (1)Our faith in the Lord
like unto Abraham. Abraham is known as the and in His provisions for us; (2) the applicafather of the faithful, and the &-st essential to tion of the merit of Christ, designated aa Hiu
pleasing God is to have faith. That is to say, life-blood; and (3) the judicial determination .
.one must believe that God exists, and that He by Jehovah that we are right; and this is justiis the rewarder of them that diligently nee& fication. Otherwise stated, when one presenta
Him. (Hebrews U:6) None others are to be himself in full oonsecration, Jehovah sap to
considered. Faith means (1)an intellectual un- him,in substance: 'Became of your faith in-the ,
d e r s h d i n g and appreciation of the Bible as Mood of my beloved Son,because that blood baa
W's Word of Trnth given for the gaidance of been applied for yon, I therefore determine that
man relative ta his salvation, and (2) a coddent through His merit you are right kth mb I
reliance upon that Word.
iwtify yoat
Now, says the apostle P a d : "CBeingjustilied .
Those who are selected to be kings and priests
are taken from amongst men. The first thing by faith, we have peace with God." (Roman8
essential is repentance, which meana a change 5: 1) To have this peace with Gtod meana to be
of mind. One has been following the c o u k of in harmony with Him. He who is justified has
worldly men He determines in his mind that he the right to live as a human being.. There h but
has been taking the wrongful course, and wants one reason why God has j u s u e d any one during
to serve the Lord. That is repentance. The next the Gospel Age, and that is that such might
step is conversion, which meana a change of become a member of the sacrificial body of our
course of action When he t u r ~away from Lord. J e m was .actually perfect when He was
following after the world and seeks the Lord offered aa a aacrih. Those who will compose
Jesus, then he is properly said to be converted. the body members of Christ are counted by
Tbe next step is laid down by the Lord in. these Jehovah as perfect human beings when acceptwords : "If any man will come after me, let him ed; and this perfection is counted to them by
deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow reason of the merit of His beloved Son, Christ
me; for whosoever will save his life shall lose Jesus.
it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake
The next step is the begetting, which meana
shall find it." (Matthew 16: 24,25) To deny the beginning of the new creature in Christ.
oneself means to agree to do what another St. James says that God, by His Word, exerchwould direct. This means that the one turning ing His own will, does this begetting. (James
away from the world and seeking the Lord is 1:l8) St.Peter states that these are begotten

sN

l be
to uhope of-life, to an inheritance incorruptible states that only a little f i ~ & d

of

thd

clssa. (Luke 12: 32) There are f a r more peapb ,

on Jianhattan Island alone than will ever be.af
the heavenly kingdom dam.
Millions of people have been deceived
t
h.
teachings of men to the effect that a Chrihur ' '
can actively engage in the politics of this world
and resort to all the other means enijdoyed W
the world in frandalent achemea, 6nd still be the
chosen ones of the Lord. St. P a d plainly s a p :
"Be not conformed .to this world: baD be YO
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
ye may prove what is that good, and aeaptablei
and perfect Kill of Qod." (Ram 12:2) The
word world here means the order o f society:
Othenvise stated, SLPad says: 'Do not faahiau
yourself after the habits of the world, saying, I
mnst do thm and so becam somebody else does,
because it is the fashion of my community, I
must do what they do.'
Wkoever wilt be a king and p&st -to &
mnst follow the way pointed out by the Lo*.
ndtawaypointed,outbyman, Tobatmum.
formed means to be ma& over. It w a n e to .@,
eontraiy to the downward tandency of hkind. It means to follow .in the footstep d
Jesas. No man-can with one foot follow aftthe world, and with the other foot try to fdm the Lord.. He may succeed in deceiving tho
people, but h e cannot for a moment dmeiti,
the Lord.
.
.
The apostle Peter saya to the Chridian, who
has once started: "For even hereunto were ya
called: because Christ aleo suffered for us,.
leaving us an example, that ye should follow hu
step." (1Peter 3: 21) This scripture h v e a
conclusively that the Christian must follow in
the Masteis footsteps, that he must copy tlu
Naster's example :.and to do so mill entail upon
him suffering at the hands of others, even thowho claim to be Christians.
From time immemorial three elements havd
composed the ruling factors of the earth; nam&
ly, commercial, political, and ecclesiastical organizations, combined together. These a m
called in the Scriptures the world, the ruling
power. These advocate war, and make t e m p
The Training of TRcslc Kings
rary peace. They sanctify war, and urge other,
ILLIOSS have been deceived into the to go to the battlefield and take their fellow
thought that they would go to heaven and creatures' lives. To the Christian the Lord
be forever with the Lord; yet Jesus plainly says: "Thou shalt not 16U" If tha world al.

nmrved in heaven for thorn-w-ho are faithful.

onto the end. Such a one who is thu. begotten
is properly said to be in Christ Jesus: Now
-ad& the Apostle: "If any man be in Christ he
b new. creature." From that time forward
(306 counts him a new creatnre, becaase his
hopea and prospects for . life everlasting a m
heavenly and not easy..
The next step is the anohting. Jehovah does
the anointing through Christ Jesus. St. John,
w a k i n g to these, says: "Ye have an unction
[an anointind through the Holy One, and ye
all know it." The Prophet puts the words into
the month of the Christian thus: T h e Spirit
of the Lord God is upon me ;because the Lord
hstb anointed me to preach good tidings unto
the meek: he hath sent me to bind up the broken
hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and
the opening of the prison to them that are
bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the
Lord, and the day of vengeance 07our God; to
corntort all that mourn" (Isaiah 61: 1,2) Is
he who bas now become a Christian ready for
.
heaven t I amwtr : No.
CBut,' sap one+ 9 hawe always understood
that if I repented and naa converted and bap
tized in water I was ready for heaven if I died
instantly.' This is what we have been taught;
but it is not what the Bible teaches. It must appeal to the reasonable mind thua:
Thd if God ia to select from amongst fallen
men those whom He w i l l exalt to the higheat
places in the universe, they must go through a
conrne of training; and that He would not beget
such to the divine nature and take them immediately to heaven without first giving them s
chance to demonstrate loyalty to God. Jeans
said concernhg the Christian: "Narrow is the
way, and few there be that find it." We cnn
now understand ahy tbe way is narrow. I t is
not an easy matter to be a Christian, but it is
the greatest privilege ever granted to any c m ture in the universe. I t is the inrarinble rule
that he who receives a great and lnsting-relvard
must receive it after strenuous and treinendous
effort.
h

to kill es& 'other, that. is their business. The

commission of the (2hn&an is to do something
elea
The Lord J e m was misanderstood and mbrepresented by the Scribe8 and the Pharisees
and others of the alergy of his time. They
mused Him to be accused of practically every
h e knuwn to the criminal calendar; yet He
was holy, harmless, and without sin. It has
ever been thm throughout the Gospel Bga Any
maq, or class of men and women, who dares to
represent the Lord d d a i v e l y , h8s s e e r e d
persecution at the hsnds of others. Many of
the world, not understanding this, have looked
upon Christians as the offscourings of the
6 It is even so today. And why is it7
Jesus answered that question in these words :
"If ye were of the world, the world would love
his own: but because ye are not of the world,
but I have chosen. you out of the world, there'fore the world hateth you. Bemember the word
that I said unto you, The servant is not greater
than his lord. If they have persecuted me; they
will also persecute you; if they' have kept my
mying, they will kiwp yoma also. But all these
things will they do unto. you for my name's
d e , because they know not him that sent me."
T o h 15:19-21.

T e L o r d makes it a condition precedent that

he who will enter the courts of glory as a

king must do so by way of: the path of sdering.
The adverse c o n d i t i o ~d o r d an opportunity of
proving his loyalty to the Lord. Fidelity, faithfulness, loyalty, is that which is pleasing to the
Lord. The true Christian has never regretted
that he was called npon to s d e r . On the contrary he has been comforted by the Lord's example and His Word.
For instance, as.St. Peter says: "Beloved,
think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
which is to try yon, as though some strange
thing happened unto you : but rejoice, inasmuch
as ye are partakers of Christs sufferings; that
when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be
glad also with esceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye;
for the spirit of glory and of God resteth npon
yon: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on
your part he is glorified." (1Peter 4: 12-14)

What a fraud has been practised upon men to

induce them to join some church and then to
tell them: 'Now if you die you are cerrhin to '
go to heaven,' ignoring entirely the requirementa to be a real associate of the Lord!
The apostle Paul plainly sap that he who is, *
a Christian must be an ambassador 'of Chrbt ;
Aa ambassador ia the visible representative c '
an absent king. Every true Christian them upon
the earth, since the 'day our Lord ascended on
high, has been, and is, as ambawdor of CIpiat.
It becomes the duty of an ambassador to represent the great King of kings and Lord of lords.
His spcialty, hir, vocation, is faithfully and
loyally to represent bia King. To do so, of
course, will mean that he will &em
at the
hands of the god of this world, Satan, and'of
his representatives.
Aii a further evidence thst d e r i n g with ,
Chriat is an essential thing* the Apostle ssp: !
"If we d e r , we ahall reign with h:
if we'
deny him, he also will deny ua." (2Timothp
2: 12) TO deny the Lord would m- to rem
diate His Word, His kingdom, and Hb plan of
arrlvation. To be Hia faithful and loyal a m b
d o r and to proclaim the message of the Lord'a
kingdom would entail d e a h g upon the one
who does these thin* The Apstla mrlrrr it
clear that the latter course is a condition pmsdent to becoming a king.
The Lord Jesus emphasiz= thia fa& when He
says to the one who haa begun to follow id Eia
footsteps: "Be thou faithfuI unto death, and I
will gi+e thee a crown of life." ( M t i o n 2:
10) The crown of life is the higheat element of
We, the divine nature. Our Lord'r statement means that such will be associated with our
Lord; for to such He says: 'To him that overcometh will 1grant to sit with me in my throne,
even as I also overcame, and am set down with
my Father in his throne.*'-Bevelation 3: 21.

h n t 1d.ntiAcation3 s Z m p a d b
AN we tell now just who will be of that &us,
who will be with the Lord, and who will
not t I answer : We cannot. It is not for as to
determine. But we may follow this aa a general
d e : That he who advocates and supports the
unrighteous principles and systems of this present order and denies the Lord and His plan of.
d v a t i o n w i l l never be of that class.

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; . .The apostle says that God has set the mem-

to mind St Paul's definition of the seed: 'Aa

many
you as.are baptized iuto Christ, bsw
,., bers in the body as it pleaeeth .Him. He knows put onofChrist.
And if ye be Christe, them
what they must do, and Hejudges them according to the secret intent of their heart in-doiig are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs eaording to
gs best they c'an what their hands find to do. the promisa" (Galatians 3 :27,29) !Ill01d 6
Ve may approximate who-some of them are by nitely is ked tha purpose for which these king,
.
tJie course that 'they persistently follow. As an aEe prepared.
Many an honest person has wondered whetbe*
$ m m d o r of Christ, each one is commissioned
tb do certain things; h e l y , to proclaim the or not he would go to, heaven. He has no. evi- .
message of Christ's kingdom, to declare His dence that he is rnnning for the heavenly prize ;
plan of salwtion, to bind up the broken-hearted, he is wondering what the future holds. Many
to comfort those that mourn. Anyone who is have said : If only a few wilI be in heaven, whae .
horlestly and ,earnestly striving to do this be- will become of the millions 2 othera t
. muse of his ldve for the Lord and for the Lord's
M~ answer is, These mill have an opportunity
cause me can reasonably expect is pleasing to of receiving earthly bl+ssings. n e s e blesainga
I r. the Lord. But he who advocates war and urges mill be administered to them by the b g s and
young men to go to the battlefield, himself pa- priests of God and of Christ, the -of
Ahing
as a Christian,and at the aame time tells ham according to the promise. Millions of pco'
young men hat if they die upon the battlefield ple now on earth win soon have the opportunity
they will go straight to heaven, certainly wuld of coming to a f d l knowledge of the truth, a d
not be of that class. Such have not the spirit of of unthrstanding W e provisio~and -taring .
Cbrist Jesaa St. Pad says : W any nian have into the blessings that He promised; namely,
not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his."life, liberty, and lmppiwm Concarping tbia &e
' &mans 8:Q.
prophets foretold the umhg tima .of.resbrrrc
*
tion ai man to the condition of perfadion &
aonondofthe Lord
body and d St P W , a t P-:deHE Lord permits His true followers to be &red: "He [Godl shall send;Jemm (Ihrirrt,
~
anto you: whom the
~misunderstood,misrepresdted, persecuted, 'whiah before w a preached
imprisoned, and even U e d for truth and right heaven must d v e until the tima of restitumumess' sake. He permits them to be despised tion of all things, which 130d.hath spoken by .the
amongst men, misrepresented by the public mouth af ail hir, holy p r o w h - t h a world.
pram and the raling powera- These ~ n u e sbeganm-Ada 3:20, !Zl.
Jesus said to H h Spies, and through them
M i d the people ta the h e arrangement of the
Lord. But in God's own dne time He will make to all other Christians who ar; faithtal: UPe.
known to the people who constitute this class which have followed me, in the regeneration, of- kine and priests. Concerning them His when the Son of man shall sit in the throm-of
prophet wrote: "And of Zion it shall be said, his glory, ye shall sit upon twelve thmes, jadgThis and that man waa born in her; and the ing the twelve tribes of Israel." (Matthew 19:,
Highest himself shall establish her. The Lord 28) This meam that they, with Christ Jesus,,
shall count, when he writeth up the people, that will be judging the families of the earth for the
purpose of blessing man. The apostle Paul corthis man was born there."-Psalm
87 :5,6.
roborated this when he said: "Do ye not know
that the saints shall judge the world?"-1
CorlsUura OIIDcc O n e o f R u l ~
inthiana
6:
2
.
HOSE who will compose the ' kings with
Christ Jesus are otherwise designated in
the Scriptures as the new creation. The,Lord The TDmr fw the Kingdom
has employedmanp centuries in preparing them.
I X Z is an important element of the Lord's
This of itself is an argument of the importance
plan. He does everything in due time and
attached to their, selection and qualifications. exactlp on time. We m a y b o w that the time of
N m remember the promise that God made to the completion of the kings, the time of their
&braham when He said : "In thy seed shall all exaltation, and the beginning af their zeign, w i l l
familiea of the earth be blessed" Then call be j u t in the L o d s due time. Jesus, when He

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on earth, said to Hia followers: I.go to

prepare a place for you.
,I will come again,
and receive yon unto myself; that where I am,
there ye may be also." (John 14:53) Based
upon thia, Christisns have been, throughout the
Gospel Age, waiting and hoping for the time of
the coming of the Lord and the setting up of
His kingdom. The apostle Pad pointed out
that 'the Lord Jesus would have a special blesb
ing for everyone who would love His sm.nd
mming.
You may be able to answer the question for
yourself aa to whether or not you are in line for
this special blessing. Do you love the second
coming of the Lord? k e yon anxious to know

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about that? The Scriptures P o y that tb. uo

ond coming of the Lord, the setting up of His !
kiagdom, and the blessing of mantind d06elyb
synchronize with the time of the end of the
. world. Therefore the end of the world is a moqt
important factor in the divine plan, both with
reference to the Christian and with redereace to
the world in general. From the Scriptural proof.
auhmitted you see that the ldngs are Jesus and
those of Hib followers who are faithful untb
death and who shaR partidpate in the h t
in
msux=rechn and be associated
heaven. !j!li%se shall be united with Him for .
the performance of the duties of king8 at the
end of the world.

AVINQ been a snbsoriber to your magazine ~cimcel,whichhrdbeaam~toarCl(l,bmily

. H i,,quite a long time, and reading therein

occasionally the doings of presentday ministers

and some of their enflock,"I am sending you a
clipping from an English paper which might
interest you, if you have not already seen one.
It just shows to what length these so-cdled
*shepherds" will go, to gather their 0ock into
the fold I think the Biahop of Bipon, dong
with the other clergymen, had better-&& up
their jobs, if they can't respect the Creator
better than they do. What do you say?
Tbe clipping which is from a
England,
paper, follows :
The Crertor, reaplendent in r o k of d h b g gold,
md weax+ng a gorgeoar crown, ru pemdad in tho
Church of S t Edward, Holbeck, tonight, in t
h 6.d
performance in England of Hofnumdd'a myatex?
p.arion play, The Great World T h e a h *
"The play ru produced in thih wbarbm church
by Edith Cmig, the bghter-in-law at Ellan Terry,
undathsaaspicesofthaLeebArtTheatra,mdrith
the consent of thb Biahop of Eipon. Lord Hdifu ru
a member of the audience, which waa composed largely
of clergymen.
'The play opened in darknesq the only sound being
the voicer of an invisible choir heard faintly to an
organ uxornpnniibsqt.
"Suddenly there was the odor of incense; snd then
p d a d l y the church waa SUM
with a dim blue light,
pnlrtea and sibyls, & d y
in vestments, moving quickljr and silently up the aide aides to

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~theyrtoodarpactmttlyouMd.th.~s.

umsant a3- in p e
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the woda, nispt
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.ndDerrth.

~aintly,.Mimpmsptibiys a
.ppu;i
~thedtuacmen,dthan~yth.mmrba~
m -in
tho play-m r d e d b.thsd in gdden
rdiuroarHa commanded the Wodd to p q p a pbys
ma.ppnnt4dDafbtobrtrgb~. .
"Thaewn~rki0,thaathortrgrm~
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b
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~bodieamolr,fmmwhomth.reton~cb#an.
tha world g 8 n knightly
''The angel

~rtothsKing,nunp~gown8totlmriah~
6u u e to tho m
t
,
CUItly fabrla for k*, n d
robafor~.ndmgsforth4begg8r;butrbrntb,
dofthobeegarlurhiapart,wbichmsrntmimxy
.tter m b q , b nbdxed.
''Then f o l l o d the grart climu of thr pLf. Th
beggurar.boattokiutheangdwhdn~hia~
appeared aloft singing with angalia voinr, rhib t
b
organ burst forth aith joyous &yS
md t
h dqp
w u flooded with lighL Ha aceeptsd hia lurt, snd fa
on hia knea in pnyer.
"After a b r a pause the .stage w h k w d , md them
w u a pteaque dance by Death, .neerie Bgorq Mom
he dismi.paPd the mak
V h Crcdtor a p p d again in t
h finrl #m, to
blerr tho rcbn, now ghtmta, for 9 pub tbq M
played, with ths exception of ths rich mm, rho lay
pro&+e on tha edge af the stage, ignored b~ tb, ooL
that had bcm srTed."

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W e n Jesos was on ea*

He taught the
p i l e in parables or dark sa-.
His discip k ~
c a m e to Him and asked: "Why speakest.
thou nilto them in parableit He pswered and
unto them, Because it b given unto you to
lrndk the mysteries of the lringdom of heaven,
but to them it is not gimn." (Matthew 13: 10,
11) It will be observed that He did not say,
T o n now h o w the mysteries of God'; bat that
it mns giveil them to know those mysterieb Not
even His disciples understood Him in many
things when they were with Him. On the last
night before His crudxion He was instructing
them in various things that would be helpful to
them in the days to come. On that d o n H e
ssid: ';\Then he, the spirit of truth, is come, h.
will guide yon into dl truth: for he shall not
speak of himself;bat whatsoever he ahall hear,
that shall he speak: and he will show you thin*
tomme." (John 16:13) The spirit of truth he=
mexitioned is the holy spirit,'tha t@
of sod,
the. i n v i s i b power operating apan the mind.
of those who are in covenant relationehip -with
Gtod. Jesus here used the lnascoliaa pronoun in
speaking of the holy spirit
Y"The holy spirit was given. to the d k i p l l e s
at Pentecost, that ie to say, fifty daya after the
nsnrrection of Jemd "Bnd when the day of
,Pentecost wm fully m e , they were all with one
accord in one place- Bnd suddenly there cams
:,a m a d from heaven, aS of a m
g mighty
wind, and it IUed aAl the hpnse where they mere
sitting. And them appeared unto them chven
tungoes,.like as of fire, and it sat upon each of
tliem. And they were all med with the holy
spirit, and began to apeak with other tongues,
as the spirit gave them utterance." (Acts 2: 1-4)
The King James Version of our Bibles tran,
lates the word here holy "ghost," but there is
no warrant for such a translation. It come8
'from the word which means spirit.
=It wss at ~entecost'that for the first time
God's great mystery began to be understood by
the disciples. The mystery of God has been a
stumbling black 'to both Jews and Christians
so-called; but in God's due f&e He will make
h o r n fo all the secret of Hiq mystery; and

then. t
h x i tly .exe;cised b.tbia .will reioico
with excee& joy.
mystery is tb ',&ist,-he great one
through w h m rpiemption, deliverance aprt
blessing will ultimakdy . m e to dl mankin&
who receive Christ and obby ECim. God foml
M o w e d His m y h q for ages
tho use of
varim men, yet all that time kept it secret.
-Death bas been and ia the great enemy of
man. Death is the very opposite of life. Th.
greatest desk6 of man is and dmfs has
to have life everlasting in happinem From the
time of his espdsion irom Eden man h a baao
looktng for something upon wM2to fasten r
hope for life and kappinew. Sakn waa the
cause of death; and when God p r o n o d th4
sentence in Eden He said tbrt the seed d the
woman should brPisa the serpents head. Thir
statement was ia the nahm of e promhe,. but.
it could not then be understood. She Pent+
east some have a n d ~ t o o tha
d meaning of themw o n b to be an ammama Wia-QocYsdue thd
the seed of promise, the seed d the woman,
des60y' Satrin, who haa the power of death..
Nearly two thouaand para rolled by aftslr
. - tbir
before anytbing f'urther waa promised.

Q-ONS
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arth, Irb
td
blcll I 299.
id
dkiples d w a p un-d
His m a ? I 199.
md n, *d
tb,
a bw
ttq d d k
taqht rfber His depuhue? and if SO, hok? n!&S.
%%at is meant by the spirit of truth? 11 299.
'&'hen was the holy spirit given to the diaciph? Gim
the Sariptaral p d 1300.
Whak the merning of the tQm '%dy g h e ? 11 300. '
When did God's m*
bgin to be undcmfmd b
dimples ? fl301.
mut
efld hu th. mm
on Jnr .nd dd
mstiane?
1301.
Define the mystery of God. 1 302.
How did God foreahadow the mysterg? f 302.
(130a3
What is man's great
Who waa the cause of death? (1 303.
At
hd pmnoonad th.ombm in Edq
'The seed of
w,,ma
th,
-,t
the serpenfs hed,' nn&&d?
g 303... . . .
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THROUGHOUT the least civilized parts of
Asia, Africa, and America the untutored
savage, ailing in body or mind, applies to the
"medicine man" of his tribe for relief. The
'medicine man" obtains what help he can from
the demons to whose control he has surrendered
himself. That is all there is to modern faith
healing, faith cures, miraculous cures, and
everything of the sort, except in so far as the
mind of the patient may and does have an
effect upon his body.
The cotton-saint scheme of the Holy Russian
Greek Orthodox Church, exposed hitherto in
these columns, was a crude piece of work as
compared with the b o r e subtle, intangible
"faith" system of separating people from their
money such as is now, and has for centuries,
been worked by the Holy Roman Catholic
Church in connection with vrl.ious shrines like,
for example, that of the Basilica of Our Lady
of Lourdes, in southern France.
. Our esplanation of the apparition claiming
to be the Immaculate Conception, which appeared to Bernadette Soubirous on February
11,1858, telling her to drink of the spring which
is now enclosed within the Basilica, is simply
that Bernadette was deceived by a demon.
Revelation 18:2 says of Mystical Babylon the
Great, that it is "the habitation of devils, and
the hold of every foul spirit"; and we adhere
to the principle of Biblical interpretation which
applies this primarily to the Roman Catholic
- Church and secondarily to the Protestant
daughters. Lourdes claims first honors in the
number of "Holy Candles" sold annually.
Just after the war everything French was
much sought after; and the Lonrdes shrine did
a large business, though with very little advantage to anybody except to those who were in
tbe candle end of the trade. In 1923, in the
month of May, 850 Britishers went all the way

to Lourdes, hoping for some improvement in

their condition, only to return disappointed.
And later, in September, 1923, according to the
London Herald, more than half that number
again took the trip, only to come back disap
pointed, none of them having been cured.
It would seem that if Our Lady of Lourdea
had any favors to bestow, she ought to be very
impartial about it. Why discriminate against
-the British? Were they not the mainstay of
Catholic France during the war against Protestant Germany? If it had not been for Protestant Britain and Protestant h e r i c s , we m y
be sure that Protestant Germany would have
(most unwisely) turned Catholic France into a
German colony.

Nature of the " C U ~ S ' '

HE odya r e s

at Lo&s
are
of a mental sort; mch as that of a cripple
on his way there who was slowly hobbling aaroes
a track. He suddenly saw a railroad train bearing rapidly down upon him, and in dinmay
dropped his crutches and raced to safety. He
was well from that moment.
One does not have to go to L o d e s to h d
cases of this kind, however. An officer in the
Indian army was confined to his bed by asthma,
and could breathe only in an ere& position. 451
party of Maharattas broke into the camp; snd,
fearing death, he sprang oat with musing
activity, mounted his horse and ased his m o r d
with great execution, though the day before he
could not draw it from the scabbard.
Another instance is told by the London Daity
Mail of a performance being given before
company of wounded soldiers at a hospital in
BristoL A feature of the performance waa a
mirth-provoking lawyer, who gave an extremely.
laughable sketch. Among those that joined in
the merriment was a soldier who had been

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rendered deaf and dumb during the fighting in

Flanders. Th_e contagion of witnessing the
mirth of those about him suddenly caused this
man to regain his speech and hearing.
Despite the fact that the Lourdes shrine is a
palpable fraud, Europe and America have many
such, where the unfortunates go, and either are
given temporary relief by the demons, or else
in a moment of mental exhilaration throw away
their crutches only to buy new ones when they
get home, or else they a r e lifted out of what
waa in the first place only a mental condition,
or else they get no relief a t all. The majority
are of the latter kind. There are such shrines
a t Montreal; St. Anne, Illinois; and Holywell,
England.
It seems that most of this healing businese
is done by Saint Anne, the mother of the Virgin
Mary. How anybody knew that her name was
Anne, when the Bible fails to mention it, is one
of those "mysteries" which help to keep the
religion business afloat; i. e., the regular paid
religion trade. But the Bible does mention
Ananias.
The New Pork World tells us that on a July
day in 1921 it took four priests all day to apply
a relic of St. Anne to the a c t e d bodies of
thousands who came to the church of St. Jean
Baptiste, Lexington Am. and 76th Street, New
York city. Without a doubt the bone that was
applied was a chicken leg or an old soup bone ;
and when the performance was all over, the
priests had an uproarious laagh behind the
scenes over the whole farce.'

2% Shrine of St. Coue

E 3fXffHT as well call Cone, the French

druggist, a saint as any of these other
modern faith curists; for he uses the same
methods. But Coue admits that he got his start
by spending thirty francs for an American book

\visliing to let unclean spirits dominate your

being, all you have to do is to repeat this o r
something else designed by the same evil beings
for their own delectation, as will be shown
presen tlp.
Cone was able to mesmerize whole crowds a t
once. kvidently this is a favorite method by
which the demons perpetrate errdr. They a r e
not interested in.getting a solitary convert now
and then. What they want is to get the crowd
all on their side, as they did during the war.
Who was on the Lord's side then? Whcrwas on
the side of the demons?-Revelation 16:13,14.
Cone puts our Lord down to the low level of
a common mesmerist, a panderer to the demons,
in the following language: "My plan is quite
aimple. I t is just the same as ChA&s. Christ
possessed the gift of planting tremendous faith
in sick people. When He said, 'Ariae, you are
cured,' the patient was cured because 'he believed
what Christ told him."
Everybody who has read the Gospels knows
that this statement is untrue. Christ wodd not
even let the demons testify in His own favor.
When they said: "We krow thee who thou art,
the Holy One of God," IIe commanded them to
be silent.
As showing the identity of Cone's methods
with those used for centuries by the Roman
Catholic Church, and by the heathen medicine
men in all countries, from the Ganges and the
Congo to the Colorado and Amazon, the Xew
York Times reports that Cone "had given up
reciting his day-by-dayformda, ancl he admit+
ted that os long as the proper m t n L state i s
wuaktained the Litany of the 8ui& or am9
other litany wodd work just as weU." Does not
this statment of St. Cone show why the Roman
Catholio Church keeps its adherents continually
reciting litanies?
But although Cone gets his powers from the
cooperation of the demons, and although visits
to fifteen of his patients, upon whom he had'
laid his hands, showed that his treatment g e w
less and less efficacious with his absence, yet
Doctor Reisner, pastor of the Chelsea Methodist
Episcopal Church of Xew York city, says:

on hypnotism, which latter ia simply devil

worship, nothing m r e nor less.
Cone visited England and Bmerica in 1922
and 1923; and the world went mild over him,
because he invented a formula
which people
could supposedly mesmerize themselves and
thus calk the demons to their aid by repeating
"lldr Coue has put befoe us a ~03Ideddsysb8L
over and over again, "Ev6ry day, in every way, Without religion his s!s'?rn
is like a motor with na
I am getting better and better." If not satisfied electric power in it. But the Church w y make hh
to retain control of your own personality, and 8ystem a g~eatchannel of power for helping hamcmitJ.

. . . It is a grent mistake for ministers and churches

ailments were. All this is as old as demonism

itself.
A careful census was taken after Cudney left
New Orleans, with the result that not a single
real cure could be foqnd. Yet while he was in
town the crowds became so great that the
newspapers had to print a notice requesting
that no more sufferers come; for the crowds had
This statement shows how readily some of become so large that they b a l d not be handled.
these professional collection-basket passers are
Referring directly to Cudney the Colambua
to endorse anything that looks as if it might Evening Dispatch very wisely and very tmthbring them an occasional nickeL
fully observed :
"All bver the world are ahrinea to which people used
The Shrine of St. Cudney
to make pilto be cared of diseaee; in eveq age
AYBE it is incongmons to refer to an old h.n
&w balm; alW8P
a
houseboat on the Mississippi as s h e ; p~ or pmn tm
m.
but the boat where John Cudney Lived when he ~,ttime
fie fact tm
dy
nothing
was a t New Orleans in the spring of 1920 is as in it. The healers pafter a brief reign, and it
much of a shrine as any of the rest, and in the is seen that they did not M y heal at all."
same sense.
About the same date another editor, not BO
John called himself "rother Isaiah" for the wise, published the following as the opinion of
same reason that some others call themselves the world's most unreasonable and most foolish
"Father" and "Reverend." It helped to give an men : "Clergymen almost without exception,
air of piety and mystery, and was good adver- agree that 'Brother Isaiah's' work has done
tising. It brought the crowds, scores of ailing good."
and crippled men and women, in such uncontrolable numbers that five policemen who endeav- The Shrine of St. a"Maon
ored to keep them in line were swept off their
HE Episcopal Church has gone wild over
feet and pushed into the Mississippi river.
James Moore Hickson, who haa been airThey were easily dragged out, however.
cumnavigating the globe during the last four
Cu@ey's description of how he came by his years, leaving behind him the greatest number
powers shows that he is under the control of of disappointed s d e r e r s that have ever foldemons. He declared that the sand upon which lowed in the wake of a modern "medicine man."
he walked became "sacred ground," like the
Hickson began his work of healing at fourteen
"holy ground" of a Roman Catholic cemetery;
years
of age, when he cured a neighbor's child
that it then possessed wonderful curative powof
neuralgia;
at least so the story goes. If he
ers; and that when some of it was sprinkled
healed
the
child
at all, it is our conviction that
over a worthless oyster-bed the bed became the
he
did
so
by
the
power of mental suggestion;
finest in the south.
and
those
powers
are
St. Cudney had the same ability as St. Coue to another by demons.conveyed from one persoa
to mesmerize whole crowds at once. One of his
In 1919 Hickson was in New Pork city. He
favorite stunts, as reported by the Jacksonville
was
endorsed by Bishop Manning; but that
Times-Uqion, was to change the color of the
means
nothing. He claimed to be an instrument -sun, a t will, to suit the whims of the crowd. As
of
Christ.
That means nothing. In one mail we
a matter of fact, the color of the sun remained
have
had
letters
from as many as three persons,
the same all the time. The color changes, proeach
of
whom
claimed
to be Christ himself. We
duced by the demons, were purely in the minds
sent copies of the letters around to each of the
of the people.
Cudney worked all the tricks of those who three, and asked them to straighten the matter
a r e in league with the demons. He could tell out among themselves. They must have had a
at once the names of his visitors, what they had ,nice time adjusting things. We never heard
concealed about their persons, and what their from them afterwards.
to attack Mr. Coue. He has exalted God by enforcing
the nlarvelous gifts with which the Creator has endowed
men. It k well that he has not tied hie system to any
special religious cult or sect, but leaves it open for wim
religious leaders to appropriate the trhtha he has uncovered by ahowing how religion can be related to these
truths."

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SOLDEN AGE

St. Rickson says that he has "fonnd children

the ea>it+t t r , \vorir upon
because their minds
are absolutely open." That gives the whole
d e m e dead away. Moreover, when the most
absolute h i t h has been shown by a child, as
w3s
a little
at
fornia, February 14, 1920, nothing but d i s a p
pointment resulted.
The poor little fellow, with his legs pitifully
tv-isted and his body undersized and undeveloped, was brought out of the church; and his
high childish voice was heard asking to be
grass ,!.here he ,,auld =walk
td-en
out to
'lone
"lrprise e r e ~ b o d ~ . "'Ic 'lade the
attempt and fell in a heap. If Christ were back
of St. Iliekson, where \iTasHe then? The answer
is that Hickson is mistaken. Christ has nothing
to do wit11 it, even if the boarcl of Bishops of the
Episropal Cliurch did endorse the movement.
Tlie Board is wrong, as it usually is.
Three months later the Baltimore Nezvssaid:
"A sincere effort nTasmade to find some absolute
cures resulting from the healing sertice, but
nothing could be discoverecl that could not be
laid a t the doors of hypnotism or sudden emotional esaltation and belief."
That Hickson's po\v+r is the same as that of
Coue's, namely hypnotism, is plainly evident
from the following description of a Hickson
mission service publislled in the Cleveland
welcs-Lender. The writer ddes
mention
hypnotism, but gives all the symptoms:

cite the following regarding Hickson's work in

that city:
"Hickson, the healer, passes. I n his world-wide tour
there is no continuing city. About fifty cosea of benefit
dalmed in uelboume. The choreh aothonties pay
no heed to the unutbred refl&iona of t b $000 s u f i e ~ m
,,.hose pilgrimage of pin to st. P~~~ cathedralha.
led them into a pit of despair blacker than the night
from which they emerged towards this newly-lit lamp
of healing, which the Anglican Church lately discovered
lost- A
among the ~ossemions it had thought to
young priest approaches a group and, in a voice of
authority, asks them to desist from doing somethingone does not hear what-as i t may disturb t h ~ s'atmosphere: It is apparentthat the atlnasphem
a vev
imprt.nt
part in the pmceedingc- Hi.aplmranm
[
~
~ inhtes
k
~phenomend
~
~
~
l
,w*,
but no he
of s p i r i h a l i ~ ~ # .

One more newspaper clipping regarding St.

Hickson, this time from the People's Pulpit, an
1. B. S. 8. newspaper published in Australia;
and we Pass on to other members of tile modern
"medicine men" fraternity. There is a great
for thought in what the People's
has

"IVitheut in any may impugning the honesty of heart

or the sincerity of purpose of the gentleman lvho is the
center of the healing mission, Ire do not hesitate to
describe the whole movement as a caref~llly&age-manq e d endeavor on the part of the Anglican System to
restore a fast ~ a n i n gprestige,
atkmpt to hide by
magxcal performances the absurdity of its doctrinal
errors, and to secure a t all hazards some semblance of
"I attended one of the sesslons of Hickson's Mission Divine ( ?) authority for -its preposterous claim to be
of Healing. I t v a not in the church five minutes when >he authorized custodian of Divine truth and m e q .
I felt myself to be in a mast inflamed, abnormal, exalted TOour certain knowledge, Bfr. Hickson laid hands upon
h t e . I dld not seem to be myself. The sight of the thirteen sufferers in the vicinity of Melbourne, none of
misshapen. the miserable, a5out me strained my emo- whom were cured, and six of whom died before the
tions to the bllr-ting-point. I found that I could use healer left the city. Contrast this with the record of
my rational faculty only with conslrlerable exertion. I Jesus. (Ifatthew 4: 23,24) '-4nd Jesus went about dl
waa in a mood to believe almobt anything. If a crutch Galilee1 teaching in their SYnagoDes, and preaching the
had risen Ilcfore my eyes and (lanced, I would not gospel of the kingdom, and healing dl manner of
h r e thou=bt it strange. I was immersrtl in the super- sicknesq and all n~annerof disease among the peopla
natural. I telt I co~lltldo something extraordinary if I And his fame went throughout dl Syria: and they
. and he healed
were called upon to do it. I felt an overwhelming brought unto him all sick people
yearning for Cod to come d o a in healing upon this them-'
percent
But even
heal all who came to him,
t r q i c and stricken multitude. I camd not how Be if Mr. Hickson were able
not identify him as a man used
In
healed, wh~therby hands or feet, by straw or star, so that
the
article
referred
to
above
we
read:
'Mr.
H
i
h
i
long aj H~ lifted the heads of those poor,
infa~te,so long ss He stilled the cry of tho= demen&d polnt~back to the early church, which accepted whols
it no and entire Christ'a commission to preach the Gospel and
wh! I
it for an hour, and
. to heal the sick, as the pattern for the church of today';
longer. I must leave or burst. 1 left:"
..
,
. . I
and in prod of thia statement Mark 16:15-18 is quoted. .
From
a
journal
published
in
Melbourne
we
But that gentleman ought to know, and his clerial
i

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m W W E N AGE
confreres certainly do know, that the 16th chapter of as and yet different from the other two." hTO
Mark from verse 9 is spurious. If it be accepted that the real cures are traceable here, either, except of
power to lay hands on the sick and they shall recover' the kind last mentioned.
-,
is truly a 'sign of belief', then it would set the seal of
The
Denver
Times
tells
us
that
the Denver
Divine approval upon Spiritualists and Christian
Church has
District
of
the
Methodist
Episcopal
Scientists, whom Mr. Hickson has the presumption to
formally
approved
faith
healing,
and
has urged
describe 8s guides to 'blind alleys and fool's paradises',
a
l
l
ministers
to
"make
this
subject
an
integral
as well as to various heathen healers who .are not
part of their ministry." We foresee a big boom
Christian at all."

Shrine8 of MiAcellaneou Sainta

RS. ANNIESEMPLE
MCPHEBSON
has been in
the healing business in California. There
is nothing more to be said for her than c m be
said for any of the others cited. The methods
are the same. A three weeks' investigation of
supposed cures a t Fresno resulted in the-discorery of twelve cases of insanity and domestic
strife following her mission there, but no cures.
How does this come about if she is the special
instrument of the Lord, as she thinks? Mrs.
McPherson herself lays the source of her
healing power open to suspicion when she
claims no miraculous'power; for Christ and the
apostles did claim it. Mrs. McPherson makes
her healings dependent upon conversion (submission of the will to the healer), while Christ
and the apostles sought no such mesmeric
advantage.
Dr. Charles S. Price, Vancouver, British
Columbia, is another healer who has been attracting much attention. But a committee that
investigated the basis for the excitement that
his meetings have aroused there found that not
one miracle of healing had been performed and
that no organic lesion or defect had been helped.
The only successes were in cases of functional
or hysterical disturbances, such as the demons
would be able to assist by influence on the mind.
Another plain case of hypnotism.
Another modern medicine man is Mr. Smith
Wigglesworth, who has been plying his trade in
New Zealand. An account of this man's life
shows that he has been under the influence of
evil spirits, who appeared before him, commissioning him for a limited time to heal the sick
and demanding that his patients must all have
implicit faith in the trinity, which, briefly
dated, is that "the Father is the Son of-himself,
and the Son is the Father of himself, and [that]
each of these is another person, who is the same

in correspondence courses in hypnotism as a

result. A San Francisco Rabbi is going in for
the same thing. Just now Rev. Evangelist
F. F. Bosworth advocates it also. Dogs travel
in packs. See Isaiah 56 :9-12.
Porto Rico has a "healer" who, under the
influence of the demons, is aroused from her
trances with great H c n l t y . The Detroit News
reports that a prominent faith healer has been
ordered back to the asylum. They will all be
there yet. A New Pork healer declares that he
got his powers by a revelation that came to
him from heaven in h m h g letters. He will
soon be in s padded cell, yon may be sure.
Lewiston, Maine, has a three-yearsld healer.
What a crime ! Why carry this study in demonism further?

We close with a sane and' sensible quotationr

from the magazine Health Culture:
-'

"Approximately eight persans out of ten recover from

their illness naturally, regardless bb whether thq
receive treatment or not. The tendency of most diaersea
is toward recovery. One patient out of ten will require
erpert, scientific care by e trained physician in order to
avoid premature viait to the unde.rtaker'8. Ose sick
individual out of ten ie enfEerhg fnnn a diaeaaa the
tendency of which is to progress toward a fatal tennination, regardless of any and all kinds of treatment. Thua
it appears that quacks of dl varietiee cm m c c e d d y
treat eight out of ten patients. Doubtlesll one-half of
the people who seek relief from ailmenta of all kinds
are not the victims of any red disease; the trouble liea
entirely above the e p . They imagine themdver nick
when they are not. Obviody, any procedure in which
they have faith and confidence will&relief to snch
sufferera. These medical frauds are aa old aa ancient
history. They vary only to suit the tima and whim
of the people. I n the sixth antury the powder o b W
by scrsping the tombst6nee of sointa, when plrad in
nter or wine, waa in great repute rs a remedy. Eight
out of ten persons who psrtook of thrt concoction
experienced relief. The same number would have b
relieved without taking any treatment.''

Digest of World News

'(Broadcast from WATCHTOWER WRBR on a wave lengtb of 273 meters, by the Editor)

had not been for President Codicrge's

IbeenFvetoITgranted
the life insurance companies would have
the bonus. That is to say, it was

nine billion dollars. ,4t this rate, in about three

years these profits 11-onld r.c,oal the great debt
assumed by thc American pcople for its privihoped by some that the soldiers would be lege of participating in the war that made the
granted a bonus ; but instead, the bonus bill world safe for democracy.
which the President vetoed provided that the
Let us not look so closely at these profits that
d
insurance companies were to have the money we forget profits nladc during the ~ o r l War
until the soldiers were dead.' '
itself. An interesting item on this line has come
In the meantime, of course, the great &an- to light in the testimony of an accountant of the
ciers who use the f m d s of the insurance Department of Justice, that one of the DuPont
companies as they please wonld have continued powder concerns was orerpnid by the governto corner the necessities of life so that by the ment a t least $5,000,000 on war contracts. Who
time the soldier was dead, and his widow had overpaid it, why they overpaid it, and how much
paid his debts, there wonld be nothing left of they were paid for overpaying it is tlie affair of
the bonus; and he would not get it after all.
theDepartment of Justice, and not ours. I t looks
Whoever was the apostle of big business that to as if big business has the American People
fixed up this plan so that the boms would be by the neck or by the heel ;me a m not sure which.
paid by the American people, not to the soldiers
within the past few Years a ~~r
of
who need it, but to the financiers who already instances have occurred in which men who hare
have too much money, was a r e d 100 percent made fortunes out of their business have given
profit American. The President has done wisely the business away, lock, stock and barrel, to
their old employ6s. Among the concerns that .
in vetoing the bill.
.
A -ey
of the homing sitnation made by did this was a bleachery a t Wappinger Falls,
the National Industrial Conference Board dis- capitalized at $1,250,000; the Nash Clothing
closes the fact that daring the last ten years ComPanS', Cincinnati; the Ifmman J3andkhouse rents have risen eighty-five percent, nine chief factow, New Pork city; the Rubin Clothpercent of which was during the last twelve ing factory, New Pork city; besides several
months. This is the national average, despite other large concerns in New York and Chicago.
,
the fact that d-g
the laat year there w e n This is a healthful sign. It indicates that there
substantial d e c r e m s in r m t s throughout the are a few people in the world who have some
South and in smaller cities of the North. These other god besides the almighty dollar.
The Standard Oil Company, and many othel
figures indicate the rapid gathering of the great
corporations
that have made fabulous fortunes
industries into a few centers of population.
f o r their founders, are now pursuing the very
hnomia
wise course of taking in their employ& as stock
holders.
A certain percentage of the employh's
1 ~ r n -the
i past four years, twenty-two
labor ba&s have been o r g a n i ~ din th. salary is set aside tor his investmint in stock.
United States. Four of these banks in New York The company adds to this a like m o m t , and in
city have total resources of $12,000,000, while the end the employ6's investment mually ~ i e l d a
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers him a large return.
Cooperative National Bank of Cleveland, Ohio, ~ ~ ~ ~ fandsming
c t ~ ~ i ~ ~
has resources of approximately $25,000,000.
BE Iron Age, spokesman for the iron and
All the labor banks are making money.
steel industry, acknowledges that in spite
Jones of New
has made the of all fears to the contrary, the abandonment
thatthe aetoarY of the United States of the elemn and h e l v e hoar day baa neither
Treasury declared that for the Year '23 the rneoked the steel industry nor llU* it in the
total profits of corporations in the United States slightest ; but that on the contrary, the
amounted to between eight and one-half and is nor qud to
it was wMethe long day
this article ms
th.
baa
was in force, and the steel trust's earnings for
the f i s t quarter of 1924 were $55,0(I0,000.
over tha Prtaident'a r e t r
eu
'

The larger output of coal per miner in the

United States over that of Europe is explained
by the fact that in America the coal veins are
tllicker and more level than in Europe ;and also
by the fact that the American method of mining,
which leaves one-third of the coal in the ground,
enables the employment of more men at the coal
face. By the method of mining in general use
in Europe, all the coal is taken out of the mine.
Not only is Europe more economical in
respect to the fuel, but i t is mo-re economical
with respect to the men employed, the deaths
due to mine midents being much less in proportion to the number of miners employed than
in America. A part of the large loss of life
among the miners of America is traceable to.
the use of .black .powder instead of other explosives which would be safer. One hundred and
fourteen men have just perished in a mine
explosion in the Benwood, West Virginia, mine.
This explosion ou?urred early in the morning,
only a few minutes after the men had gone to
work.

lhznnportation
S THE steam turbine has largely displaced
other forms of marine engines, i t is not
unlikely that the steam turbine locomotive may
take the supremaicy over other locomotive types
in America, as it has already done in Sweden.
Swedish engineers, famous for their ability, are
now in the United States, claiming that with
their new engine they can save the railroads
of the country $200,000,000 a year. The new
form of locomotive is being considered by the
New Pork Central and Pennsylvania Railroads.
The automobile business has grown within
two decades until now it is estimated that the
passenger tr&o carried in this way is two and
one-half times the combined passenger traffic
of all the railroads in the country put together.
Auto trucks are estimated in the pear 1923 to
have performed about one-fiftieth as much
freight service as was performed by the railroads. Railroad experts estimate that the railroad freight traffic will increase one-third and
the passenger traffic one-fourth within the next
ten years.
The Nautical Gazette calls attention to the
fact that Bmerica's rigid immigration policy is
gradually driving the steamship lines away
from New York city to the ports of Halifax,

Quebec, and Nontreal. Of the t11-enty-seven

ships in the Canadian service, nineteen are new
vessels. The Canadian government gives r
rebate of $15 on every immigrant.
On July 1, regular, permanent air mail service 7FiU be established between New York and
San Francisco. Mails mill leave New York a t
10:30 in the morning, arriving in San Francisco
at about six o'clock on the evening of the fotlowing day.

Political I t e m

--

E of the most encouraging signs.of the

0Ntimes
is that the Governor of Indiana,

having been found guilty of using the mails to

defraud, has resigned his office and has-been
seht to prison. If this performance could he
carried out with all the political crooks there
are in America, there would be fewer office
.holdere; and it would probably .be necessary
to make large additions to most of the prisons.
While public attention has been ,largely centered lpon Fall,Denby and Dangherty in the
&publican capital because of their failure to
protect the government's interests in connection
with the Teapot Dome, yet it is also pointed out
that Lane, Gregory and Mddoo, all .members
of Wilson's cabinet, as well as other Democratia
ofticials of prominence, were given employment
by the Doheny interests practically as roon 88
they were out of the cabinet.
The country has been stirred from end to end
by the Teapot Dome oil scandal; but this is
only one theft out of a great family of other
.thefts of public wealth, about which little or
nothing is ever said. The following is an extract
from the Federal Land Law Office Report of
1914. It is significant that although tbese
California frauds were unearthed by the government thirty-six years ago, no person was
ever sent to prison for perjury or for theft of
the millions of dollars worth of valuable timber
referred to in the report. The following ir a
copy of f i e report:
"A new agent was appointed, who reached hie Bdd
of opemtioq about the fir& of January last (1886) .nd
entered upon the discharge of his duties. The agenta of
the company eoan -discovered hie presence and basirrr
and attempted to defeat the inrestigation. 8ome.dthe
witnesses were spirited out of the country; others ras
threatened and intimidated; spies were employed to
watch and follow the agent and report the muma & dl

persona who conversed with or called upon him; and

on one occasion two persons who were about to enter
the agent's room at hie hotel for the purpose of conferring with him in referto-theentries were knocked
down m d dragged away. Notwithstanding this, the
agent proceeded with his investigation, and succeeded
in obtaining a large amount of evidence. He found
ninety of the entrymen, and procured their afidavits as
to the frauds and the manner in which they were
induced to make the applications and &davits. This
testimony embraced forty-seven of the patented cases.
Severd employ6s of the company gave morn statements
of their connection with the illegal transactions and
of facta within their knowledge. AFEdaviti were also
made by citizens of Eureka and other reliable persons,
among which are the &davits of sisteen business men,
who were asked to make entry applications in the
interest of the company and offered $50 each, but who
declined to do so. It appears that the persons composing
this company went to work systematically and on an
extensive scale; and to enable them to carry through
their scheme they took into their association several
wealthv men. who furnished the necessarv means.
~ r p e A8Urveiors and men well informed in ;egard to
the character and value of the timber were employed to
tocate and w e y the lands. Others were then hired to
go upon the h t e of Eureka and elsewhere and b d
persona who could be induced to eign applications for
knd and bmafer their interests to the company, a
consideration of $60 being paid for each tract of 160
acres ao secured. The company's agent received $5 for
each applicant obtained. No effort seema to have been
made to keep the matter secret, m d all classes of
people were approached by agents and principals of the
company and asked to eign applications Sailors were
caught while in port, and hurried into a d o o n or to a
artain notary public's office and induced to sign applicatiom and convey the lands to a member of the firm.
Farmern were etopped on their way to their homes, and
merchants w e n d e d from their counters-and persuaded
to allow their nmea to be used to /obtain title to the
h d a The oompanjs agents presented the applications
to the registnr and receiver in blocka of as many aa
twenty-56 at r time, paid the fees; had the proper
notices published; hired men to make the proofs; paid
for the landr and received the duplicate receipts; yet
the regietru and receiver and some of the special agents
appear to have been the only persoxu in the vicinity
who were ignorant of the frauds."

A H a d Job for Diogenea

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of Iowa in a speech in
S Congress,BBOOXHART
after expressing his opinion that

stop until these facts are linomn, and they will

not stop until the last criminal practice in the
admillistration of e\-ery department of this
government is cleaned out." The placing of a
man like Harlan Stone at the head of the department is a long step in the right direction.
When the National Republican Committee
sent a detective all the way to Nontana to try
to get something on Senator Wheeler, the
Department of Justice, then under Ur. Daugherty, seems to have cooperated fully.
The Scranton Repztblicnn contains a despatch
from Washington in which Frazer Edwards,
United Press Staff Correspondent, says :
"Still shaking from the oil leasing scandal, official
Washington toda: was shocked by a new sensation which
involved the looting of the treasury of millions of dollars.
'Wholesale duplication of liberty bonds of every issue
since 1918 in the bureau of engraving and printing, and
the implication of treasury officials, are included in the
startling charga made by Charles B. Brewer, special
assistant to the attorney general, in a suit Bed in the
District of Columbia supreme court.
"Brewer sued after he had charged the department of
justice with attempting to seize the evidence he had
collected at the personal request of President Coolidge
and the late President Harding. He said he had refused
to surrender the documents to the department for fear
they would be suppressed and he would be discredited.
'%ewer, in his suit, asked for an injunction restraining Secretary Mellon, Attorney General Daugherty,
Undersecretary of the Treasury Winston and Acting
Attorney General Seymour from destroying nearly
$1,000,000 in dqplicate bonda in his possession.
"Immediately after fling his suit, Brewer met a score
of Progressive senators and congressmen and laid his
charges before them. Representative King of Illinois,
announced that he would intervene and become a party
to the suit."
*

Thinking people have been disturbed by the

evidence repeatedly brought to light that big
business does not object at all to cormpt
practices in politics or business, but that it does
object seriously and strenuously to having those
corrupt practices brought to light. Today, in
America, the man who is most in danger is not
the thief, but the one who dares to call attention
to the theft.

ENA~B

Making the People Law-abiding

HAT are the people to do when the agenta
there has been in the Department of Justice a
of the Government are anarchistst The
conspiracy to protect criminals and to take
papers
are telling how Government agents in
money for doing it, said: "The people will not

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Washington told freely that they had broken Republic in theory; but we shall be a bureaucrocj in
into Senator LaFollette's ofice and desk, in reality, the most wasteful, the most extravagant, the
d-dizing and most deadly form of government
absolute violation of the Constitution and in
which
God in His inscrutable wisdom has evez permitted
mat
honest
violation of all decency as well.
man can feel safe when anarchists wearing to torture the human family."
-Government badges can safely violate the law
of %rious
in this manner?
a (1,000,000 I T IS pathetic, in one way, to learn how excitid
blr. Vanderlip has taken
the administration at mashington
became at
accident policy because of interference with his
mail, the tapping of his telephone wires, and the the meresuggestion that
honest and cspable
placing of dictnphones in his room. How much "d fearless man, Francis J. Heney, had been
longer the American people can and will stand suggested by Governor Pinchot as a man suitinvestigate the T n a s u ~Department,
for such acts of anarchy on the part of the
especially
the prohibition section of that departGovernment officials has become a serions
question.
ment.
It was o ~ n admitted
l ~
in the Senate that 3
During the Wilson administration a person
of the
who, when closely questioned, admitted that he the prohibition enforcement
had " p r e v i o w l ~ "been employed as a detective Treasury Department was investigated by
by the Department of Justice, waited upon the He'e~, so much official c r ~ ~ k e d n e would
ss
that
wonld have a shred of
Editor of THE GOLDEN
AGEwith a silly scheme
to entrap him into publishing some propaganda; respect for anything in the District of Columbia
and when told that he was easily identified as a
In the bright s d g h t of Smday afternoon,
47
aviators in the chemical service of the
detective, angrily informed the Editor that he
might expect at any time to be lured to some United States army from a height of 700 feet
screen aromd the lower part of
place where he would be beaten into an unrecog- laid a
city, completely h i h g the city from .
nizable pulp if he "made too much trouble for New
view, and preventing the people on the lower
the government."
p
The Editofs reply was merely to ask this a d of the' island from being able to see more
gentleman in a kindly way please to define an than a few h n d r e d feet into the bay- It is
'anarchist and to state whether or not men who expected that smoke screens of this nature will
be of some assistance in protecting New Pork
would luidertalie to beat a
into pulp are law-abiding men or whether they from immxliate annihilation when the anticiare anarchists. He admitted rather shame- pated Battle ?f Armageddon occurs.
facedly that it is quite possible in our day for Some M o d e m Inventions
those who have no regard for law and order to
R. RICHARD
B. MOORE,former chief chemist
occupy positions in which they are paid well for
of
the
United
States Bureau of Mines,
maintaining law and order. Surely this is a
bituminous
coal mines of the
declares
that
the
strange condition of affairs.
United
States,
stretching
from
Texas to West
Senator Borah, speaking in Washington on
Virginia,
contain
the
only
large
supply of
the growth of bureaucracy in the United States,
helium-bearing
gas
in
the
world.
Helium
is nontakes a foreview of the next thirty years as
An
airship
filled
with
helium
gaa
inflammable.
folio\\-s :
could remain afloat years, and would virtually
"If these nest thirty yeare are to be aa the last thidy need to be torn in pieces before it could be
years, as everything iiidicates they are, at the end of brought to the ground. In the case of an airship
thirty years we shall have one employ6 or officer for filled with hydrogen, a small leak would be
every ten citizens in the Republic. Every conceivable su5cient to cause an explosion that would
activity of body and mind will be under the surveillance
of thc bureau. Spies and inspectors, guides and &m- utterly destroy it.
A most remarkable machine, exhibited in New
eelors, will leer upon the citizen from every comer, and
Pork,
April 25, a t the annual convention of the
accompany him in his daily vocation of life. Our taxes
Amerioan
Newspaper Publishas Association, is
will be over $100 per capita. We shall be taking more
a
d
o
typewriter
which t o ~ kmrds gram the,
thAn fortp:-pcrcent:-of the natlobal income for governmental espenditures. We shall still be, of course, a air at the rate of sixty-five a minute with only

scram

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one-half of one percent of error. One of the

inventors, speaking of this typewriter, made the
statement: 'We are proud to have been privileged to work out this fascinating problem of
transmitting the printed word through the air
to a sheet of typewriter paper. To have suggested such a thing a short decade ago would
have been to invite the services of an alienist."
The system has been in use for a f u l l j e a r
between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
By the simple device of what is called in
electrical circles "booster stations" it is now
entirely possible for a single broadcasting
station to send messages to every part of the
world. The messages, as they are received and
enter the booster stations, are inaudible but are
audible at the regular receiving stations. The
plan is already partly in effect.
The courts have decided that a broadcasting
station may broadcast a copyrighted piece of
music without infringing the copyright. This
decision, made in Cincinnati, will be appealed
to the Supreme Court.
John Hays Hammond, Jr., the radio inventor,
clhims to have discovered a method of broadcasting by which only persons having specially
constructed licensed sets can hear the program.
Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, director of the Food
Research Institute of Stanford University, in an
address in Washington, April 23rd, expresses
his opinion that recent chemical advances make
it probable that hum= foods, proteins, fats, and
starches may be manufactured synthetically :
"The solution of the world's food and fuel problem

will be the same. When it is achieved, a more profound

social revolution must follow than followed the invention of the steam engine, for the importance of land and
agriculture will diminish and it will remove to a far
more distant horizon the bounds that now tend to limit
the growth of population."

Agriculture and Forestry

DESPATCH from Syracuse states that
students of the New York State College
of Forestry, Syracuse University, are confident
that they have discovered a means by which
sawdust, old boxes, barrels, and odd pieces of
boards, leaves, tx-igs, etc., can be transformed
into new and valuable lumber.
Instruction in agriculture pays. A boy in
Ellerbe,' North Carolina, engaged in the study
of agriculture, produced two 445-pound bales
of cotton on one acre of land, while his father on

an adjoining field produced less than one bale.

New York State will make a very sensible
use of each of the six State schools of agriculture farms during the summer of 1924. Boys
between the ages of thirteen and eighteen will
be given practical instruction in every variety
of farm work at small expense. Their afternoons and evenings will be devoted to recreation and sports.
California is having an epidemic of foot-andmouth disease. The states, one after another,
are quarantining California products in the
effort to prevent the spread of what is recognized as a very dangerous disease to cattle.
New York State is anlong those that have issued
such quarantine. Coilgress has voted $1,500,000
to fight the epidemic.
The effort to confine the foot-and-month
disease in California is being prosecuted vigorously. No eastbound automobiles from California can now enter the state of Arizona, but are
leaving for the east through the state of Nevada
The method of disinfecting tourists who enter
Imperial County, California, is to have them
step into canvas bags, which are drawn up over
the body and tied tightly around the neck. The
arms and the hat are required to be inside the
bag. For three minutes the person to be
disinfected retnains in the bag while a powerful
vapor destroys the germs. The automobiles
themselves are disinfected by pools of disinfectant built into the roadway. Imperial Comty
is the center of the cantaloup district, and hopes
by these strict readations to be allowed to
market its crop in the eastern stateb.
The first year of the coBperative marketing
resulted in the sale of 33,510 cars of vegetables
and fruits in 7'72 cities and town$. This is a
most extraordinary showing for one year's work
and demonstrates what can be accomplished by
cooperation. I t is estimated that the sales for
1924 will be at least twenty-five percent greater
than the record for 1923.
'

Hygienic Note8

made in Syracuse indicate that the

STUDIES
chances of new babier are now very much

better than they were twenty years ago, the rate

of infant deaths per thousand births in Syracuse
having decrcascd from 150 to 89.
The death rate from pneumonia in Pittsburgh
is three and one-half times as great as the

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GOLDEN AGE

natio11aI arerage for this disease. It is supposed

that this is partly due to the smoke and dust in
the atmosphere, and partly to long hours, heavy
and high temperatures in steel mills.
America has a new disease, Mah Jong. Perhaps we might say that it has two Mah JOng
diseases. During the past winter, millions of
Americans learned something of the mysteries
of this peculiar Chinese game. Immense n m bers of Bfah Jong sets are made and sold; and
it is now discovered that in the manufacture of
the little pieces the kind of lacquer used causes
an eruption of the skin similar to that caused
in the d%lg of furs and the manufacture of
those peculiar forms of cosmetics used liberally
in the United States to hide the natural beauty
of cheeks and lips.

Yean Late
EVEN years after the Bible Students made

Seven

their declaration against war and went to

nrison for it. the Pittsburgh Conference of the
~ e t h o d i s tchurch has urged the general conference of that church to declare for an unalterable opposition to the entire war system and
to inform the government that hereafter the
c1111rch can take no part in any- movement
toward war.
Bishop McConnell, of the Methodist Church
of Pittsburgh, in a speech in Louisville, April
19tl1, advocating the adoption of the resolution
said: '?
don'tImind the man's going to war, but
I do object to trying to give that nasty, dirty,
stinking business a halo of sanctity. You can't
get Christ into khaki, and prayers for anccess
of the national arms are not a sweet odor before
the Most High." This is good; but it is seven
years too late.
On the other hand, seventy-four out of eightyt\\-o bishops of the Episcopal Church bitterly
opposed a similar pledge urging that war is
nn-Christian, brutal, suicidal; that the Episcopal Church will never again sanction or participate in it, will not again allow its pulpits andclassrooms to be used as recruiting stations,
and mill not again give financial or moral
support to any war. In view of this stand on the
part of the Episcopal bishops, it is practically
certain that in the next war every one of them
will be put into the front line trenches, including
the eight who for the present are in bad
company.

.Worshiping a Mlo

'51s

side unitarian church of ' N ~

THEPorkjvestof which
the Reverend C. F. F ' o t t ~
is the pastor, has accepted a bronze statue of 8
young man emerging from the form of a gorilla.
One cannot but wonder what use such people
have for a ~ i bwhich
l ~ declares in the v e q
first chapter that a ~ said,
~ d~~t
make man
in Ow image, after our likeness."
intentof the ~ i b l i statement
~ ~ l
~h~
is to draw
to the fact that man is a
direct design of the creator,
with similarmental
of reason, memorg? judgment and d l ,
d,
moral qualities of justlee, benevolence and
love. ~h~ very lowest form of man bas *ktyeight cubic inches of brain capacity, against
thirty-four cubic inches in the highest form of
ape. The gap has never been bridged. !i!he
missing link will never be found.
The following account of the "service" of
unveiling the statue of the new god is taken
from the New Pork Times:
"The Chrgealis' was unvailed while M i a O m .
Leslie, 'the church soloist, sang William Herbert Curuth's evolutionary poem, 'A Fire Mist ,and a Planet,'

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in which occurs the line:

"'A jellyfish and a saurian were in a cave r h m
cavern& dwelt'
"The statne, which is about twenty-eight inches high,.had been placed on a table on the' church platform. It
was heavily draped with blue silk. As the poem mmenced Mr. Potter's three young sons --'tb.
draperies. The congregation wm obviou~lystirred.
"At the morning service Mr. Potter had epokem on the
'Spiritual Significance of Evolution.' Continuiq thia
theme, he asserted that a new religion wos .boat to
sweep the world.
"'Theology and evolution are in codid,' slid Yr.
Potter. 'One of them will perish. It won't be evahrtion.
In the Western and Southwestern uni~ersitiea.prafemom
who teach evolution are expelled, but the new religion
will wipe out these FundamenWe. When I told Dr.
John Roach Straton, my opponent in tonight% debate
at Camegie Hall, of today's unveilingy he said that it
wna a desecration of a holy place and that 'the beut
waa in the sanctuary at last.'
" This church claims the &tinction'of being the d y
church in the city openly to chnmpion the doetrine at
evolution. Through the very great c o w b y of Mr.
Akeley we have been permitted to unveil in thh church
audiGrium hia artistic conception of man'~.awrgmt
riee from loner creatures. I hope that nome une w i l l
perohae this statue that it may be kept in oar chumh
perpatdJ in a place of honor. I know of no con&

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q n b d which eo well erpressee the religious message

which I am trying to preach every Sunday.'"

and that the insects which destroy so much ot

the United States crop are uul;nown.

Cma&

Argentina

THE

RGEXTINA is having ditficulty enforcing its

A
new pension law. The law provides for a
deduction of five percent from salaries to be

Canadian Government has made a protest to the United States Government, and
very appropriately we think, respecting the
diversion of water from Lake Michigan through
the Chicago drainage canal into the Mississippi
Valley. The protest points out that the Great
Lakes are the'common heritage of the United
States and of Canada; and that the water which
has already been diverted has appreciably
injured the Sault Ste Marie, Welland and St.
Lawrence Canals, and the St. Lawrence River
between Montreal and the S e a The Canadian
Government thinks it right that Chicago should
adopt some more modern, scientific system of
disposing of its sewerage.

Mexico

..

applied to a pension fund, an equal amount to

be contributed by the employers. This seems
like a good law, but it is unpopular both with
employers and employks, and Argentina is
involved in serious strikes and lockouts.
%

having formed the opinP ion thatOBREGON,

the recent attempt to overthrow
REsmEm

. the Mexican Government was caused by the'

activities of the Knights of Columbus, has ordered the doors of their lodge rooms throughout Mexi90 sealed, and has expelled the Papal
Nuncio as what he terms "a pernicious foreigner." The reason for this latter step is said to
have been the effort on the part of the Nuncio
to prevent the introduction of a public school
system into Mexico.

Penr
T IS claimed that the northeastern part of

Hawaii
ERHAPS it would not be truthful to say
that .the bottom has fallen out of the
Hawiian Islands; but despatches show that in
various places the roads have sunk from three
to thirty-five feet, with approximately one hundred fissures a foot wide and thirty feet deep
running toward the Kilauea volcano.

Great Britain
BE great exposition at Tembley was opened
April 23rd. King George made a speech
which was broadcast over the world and also
was sent by cable around the world, the circuit
via Canada, Australia, and South Africa back
to London, requiring eighty seconds. The
-speech was not generally heard well in most
places in the earth, although it was picked up
satisfactorily in Poughkeepsie, New York. The
route by which the cable speech went around the
earth was 31,500 miles long.
King George is cutting down the British
payroll. Hereafter there will be no Master of
Music, a job which has been in existence for 250
years. I t is also probable that the present poet
laureate will be the last.
The scrapping of the British p h to spend
$55,000,000 in the constrnction of a naval base
at Singapore has had immediate and wholesome
results in the proposal now made by President
Coolidge for another world conference to consider still further the question of disarmament.
All good men will wish well for this disarmament conference, if it is held.

Peru, lying on the head waters of the Amazon, is one of the world's garden spots, with an
ideal climate much like that of southern California, and would easily support 50,000,000
people, where a t present there is only an
average of about one native to each three square
miles. Investigation made by representatives
of a New York syndicate.demonstrates that a
railroad can be built over the Andes Mountains
into this district at a cost of approximately
$60,000,000. I n this territory it is estimated
that there are 500,000,000 tons of anthracite
coal, and large quantities of iron, copper, gold,
and other minerals. Grapes in this part of Peru Denmark
NEW labor government has taken control
mature twice a year, in July and December.
of the affaira of Denmark; and among its
Travelers who have visited it report that cotton
here grows to the height of a small tree, yielding distinguishing and interesting features it has
annually a ton to every two and a half acres; as a minister of education, a woman, Mrs. Sina

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GOLDEN AGE
Bang, the first woman to hold a cabinet post in
Denmark.

the army. The army is really the mler, and he

is king only in name. Alfonso is said to be well

pleased with the way the military dictatorship

Germany
is working out.
HE Duke of Sagan, husband of the lady who
Once a year Alfonso has the job of washing

T used to be Anna Gonld, wants to sell o u t

Sagan is about one hundred miles southeast of

Berlin. The auction posters advertise the sale
as follows :
"Sagan is a complete independent principality, situated between Silema and Brandenburg ;area about 500
square miles ;66,000 inhabitants, capital city of 15,000 ;
chateaux, gothic church, complete city hall with recep
tion saloons, bronze statue of Frederick 111; the river
h b e r with plenty of bsh, and divers fields, foresta, etc."
Those ~ - h are
o watching for the Lord's hand
in the control of earth's affairs have noted with
considerable interest that within the past five
months, death has removed the three men who
have by some been called the evil spirit of
Germany. One of these was the head of the
Reichsbank who, after the war, gave unlimited
credit to Hugo Stinnes and other great mmufacturers, and then allowed them to pay these
immense loans with depreciated paper money.
The second was Stinnes-himself; and the third
was Helffrich, a bosom friend of the Kaiser,
and perhaps the e e a t e s t enemy in Germany to
the payment of reparations to France. It is
quite likely that with these three men out of the
way, the Dawes plan will be generally accepted ;
and that those who have hitherto been saying,
"Peace, peace," will then be saying, "Peace and
safety," which up until now they have been
unable to say.

and kissing the feet of six male beggars, and the

queen has the same job with six beggar women.
These beggars, carefully selected by the priest,
are thoroughly disinfected for one full week.
before the ceremony. The water for the washing
is poured from a golden pitcher, and the drying
is done with a silken towel.
A Zeppelin service is to be inaugurated soon
with a non-stop service of 6,000 miles between
Seville, Spain, and Buenos Aires, Argentine.
The great aircraft will &rry forty passengers,
and expects to make the journey in three and
one-half days. At present the trip requires two
weeks by boat.

Philippima
EWS despatches indicate that the Faseisti
movement has spread to the Philippines,
where secret societies are springing up like
mushrooms all over the Roman Catholic provinces, with frequent skirmishes between the
members of these societies and the authorities.

Congo A.ce State

N INTERESTING item comes from the
Congo Free State, that on the appeal of a
tribe of African natives the British Government
surrendered control over their territory and
allowed them to become joined to the Congo
Free State, because they did not wish to be
separated from other parts of their race living
Austria
within the area controlled by Belgium. This is
EPORTS from Austria show that the ef- good news; for it shows an increasing disposiforts of the German banks in Vienna an$ tion on the part of European gdvernments to
elsewhere- to depress the French franc have recognize the rights of others.
resulted most disastrously to the banks of
Vienna and also of Berlin, Hamburg, Amster- Palatine
ESPATCHES from London state that Prodam and Zurich. I t is expected that all the
fessor Stewart M c u s t e r , who has been
smaller banks of Vienna will collapse, as the
total loss through the franc speculation is engaged for some time in tracing the outlines
supposed to have been .inthe neighborhood of of the city of Jerusalem as it was in the days of
David, has found in a new excavation, evidence
$100,000,ooo.
which convinces him- that he has penetrated
Spain
into the city of Melchisedec. We do not b o w
.
ING ALFONSOis credited with saying that he upon what evidence this opinion of Mr. McAIprefers a job as general of an army to ister is based; but if his ideas are wirect, this
being a king. I t is easy for him to say this since find will be of +at interest to acientiiic men
the government of hisi b u n t r y was seized by and students, especidy Bible Students.

Getting Ready for Ariaageddon

pleased to learn that the International
I WAS
Bible Students Association had a Radio Sta-

tion. It will do much good. I t will broaden

human intelligence, and educate us.
The other day I listened in on an address by
Dr. L. P. Jacks, D. D., of Manchester College,
Oxford, England, on the safeguarding of our
lives, interests, and souls. It was worth while!
On the same day, an hour later, Dr. Charles
B. Brown, of Yale College, addressed a Iuncheon meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Boston, on business as a profession He urged the
use of the Golden Rule in business, and Likened
present conditions to those of the Roman Empire. H e said that if better methods in the
management of affairs were not adopted in our
dealings with the world, the white civilization
would fall and might entirely disappear.
Already there is a war cloud upon the horizon; and while the President talks of peace
and disarmament, our navy is to be moved to
the Pacific. All authorities agree that another
war will be worse than the World War. Few
have any conception of what it may mean.
Just before the Armistice, Tanbe, of the German Air Service, recommended the use of wornout aeroplanes as vehicles in which to carry
heavy charges of explosives against an enemy.
The world has recognized Taube as an eminently practical man; but at the time Germany had
need of every plane that was capable of flying.
But it is unbelievable that the idea has been
forgotten; and an article in a recent paper leads
me to think that the Germans have developed
it for defensive purposes.
The United States Government has everything necessary to put Taube's idea into practice. It in no way differs from torpedo warfare.
Germany has made wonderful progress in the
'development of the glider, and wonderful re+
ords have been made in other countries. The
glider is a simple little invention, cheap in
construction; and most boys understand the
principle. Launched from an elevation, it will

By John BucMey
coast until it strikes the ground or other obstacle. If it has controls (and there are such controls available) it will follow the desired course.
Warships, fortifications, and heavy ordnance
will soon be things of .the past; and no surface
ship will be able to cross the ocean in wartime.
Our submarines already carry aeroplanes; they
can also carry gliders and explosives. I t will be
an easy matter for the plane to carry a glider
to the required altitude and, from a point beyond the range of any gun on the ship, direct
and control the flight.
When the supply of explosives is exhausted
it can return for more and, with its greater
speed, overtake and harry the ship until it is
no more.
The gliders and explosives may be carried in
a Ford car or on an army truck. They may be
launched from an elevation, or reach higher
altitudes through the use of kites, aeroplanes,
or balloons. I t would be possible for a greatly
inferior army to destroy New Pork city and its
surrounding boroughs.
Dr. Jacks asks: 'What are we d6ing to safeguard ourselves ?''
When war stalks through the land, when the
church spire becomes a target under the claim
of military necessity, when the alien property
custodian sets an example and legalizes robbery,
when murder is compulsory, and man becomes
as an ox, have we any right to expect other conditions than we find in our great cities, where
holdup men and criminals of every variety mnltiply and prosper?
With Dr. Charles R. Brown, I belime that
work is necessary and a blessing; and I believe
that a man should be able to show that he is a
usefd member of society, if he is to encumber
the earth.
I n an earlier article, published in TEIEGOLDEN
h~
such
,a form of attack was mentioned. Our
large cities would be wonderful places to loot;
and an enemy that was a jump or two ahead of
us in preparedness would get the loot.
,

Giant Tree is Laid Low By M. 8. Babich

axmen have "slain: a giant redWESTERN
wood tree in Del Norte county, California.

ty feet in circumference, and was nearly t h m

hundred feet in length.
I t will make 250,000 feet of' lumber, enough
The deed was done at the Hobbs and Wall camp
on Mill Creek. The monster measured twenty- to make fifty houses of 5,000 feet of lumber
three feet across the butt, approximately seven- each. Two men were seven days in felling it.
692

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Two Astronomical ~xc&sions BY E. L.Dockey.

t

HAT a thrill of pleasant eniotions-the word excursion ever undertaken by man. Our train
W--excursion" arouses in the minds of many load will consist then of 120,000,000passengem.
people, especially young people. How we anticiw
pated the pleasure of an excursion days and "All Aboard" for the Big 2Yip
weeks before the time for it arrives! b d when
LL the afiangements for the excwsionh a ~ e
it is all over, how the memories of it linger for
been perfected. The immense train stands
months and years thereafter!
.
in Chicago, waiting for the excursionists. It ir
JVhy is it that an excursion takes such a hold 11:00 a.m. An order goes forth that seems to
on our minds? Day after day we move around make the earth tremble to its very center:
in a certain narrow circle of duties, with which "'Americans, one a& all, msemble! Nezt train
we become so thoroughly familiar that very few for the Moon, Venus, Mercury, and the Sun1
new and fresh ideas come to us a s a result of A11 aboard]!'' How they come Afoot, on horsedirect, personal observation. Taken from this back, in carriages, on bicycles and motor-cyclcs
narrow circle, we are met by sights and events in automobiles, on steamers and trains, and
that crowd in on us from all sides with such even in balloons and flying-=&es
They are
freshness and rapidity that we almost forget rushing. for the train. They come from the
our familiar surroundings. A.n e x c ~ s i o nd- north; they roll in from the west; as a black
ways broadens our minds, refreshes them, and cloud they come up from the south;and in hosts
takes u s out of our old ruts and o m usual lines they swarm in from the east! Every one is now
of thinking.
aboard ! Off we go !I
No doubt many of yon have often spoken of
Let us not forget to wave good-bye to our
some special trip that you would like to take, neighbors in Canada How b e tears stand in
if you only had time and money. I shall not try, their eyes as they think of the f ~ that
t they
however, to intensify your desire for the trip m y never see us again 1
you may have in view ;bat let me take YOU with
~ ~ v i gone
n g one
one examionist hmme on a f a r grander, sublimer, and more ing died, we drop his body on the trak as a
extended one, free of charge l
mile-stone. At the end of a second mile, another
Let us use our imagination and suppose one having died, we drop him also; and so at
that a railroad extends from the earth, m a the end of every mile. But, of course, you are
direct line through space, away off to the sun; still with nrr I
that an excursion train, .managed by
who
leave the
and get out into the
hear this lecture tonight [the r e d a r readers thin air, it grows colder very rapidly. ~t the .
of TEE GOLDEN
AGE],
N n Over this t m k ; end of four or five hoars, or at a distance of
that the train will consist of the finest PdhaJl over 150 miles, we have gone beyond fie
of us atmosphere and have reached the cold, empty
palace dining, and sleeping cars ; that
shall have first-class, nnlimited tickets; that we
lvhere the thermometer
200
8 h d take along an hmense stock of clothing degrees below zero. On with your woolens and
and provisions of all kinds; and that we shall furs! Stoke the fire, and allow your radiators
five orders to our engineers to run the train at to have fullplay!
the rate of forty miles an hour, day in and day
On, on, we go, day after day; for there is no
out, thus going at the rate of our express trains night for us, even though darkness be all around
that rush across our continents, and covering
~h~ M~~~ is oomingtoward
from oul
960* Or
'@o,
per
If we were right like an immense ball. But the astronomen
content to go only around the Earth at this rate, of 0r. party have
calculated our time
our excursion would be at an end in twenty-six or of departure so that there will be no
;
twenty-seven days. But no ;let us go to the Sun! and that the ~
~M ~~ and~~snn
~ h , be, in a
Who will go along on this wonderfd excur- direct line with each other when we arrive near
sion? We managers are all very broad-minded the Moon's orbit, or path. I n other words, we
and large-hearted; so let us invite, nay Per- arrive a t a timc wken there is an eclipse of the
suade, e v e q man, woman, and child in the Sun, seen by those whom we have left behind
United States to go d o n g on thr$ tde greadesd on alc(Ear&.

603

GOLDEN AGE

See the Jioon's rugged, barren, dead surface!

We have now been traveling for one hundred
It is covered with rocks, monntains, and what and sixty long, long years ; and three-fourths 08
looks like huge craters of ~olcanoeslong since our people are gone. \Ye are bowed with years;
extinct, or inactive. Not an animal roams over and yet how bright our memories are of the
its surface. Not a twig nor blade of grass is to times we used to have on the Earth, of our
be seen. Water and air are altogether wanting. happy school days, and of all the experiences
We pass it by; or rather, it rushes past us.
that we passed through in our various spheres
now. We of life! A few more years, and nearly all our
Let us see how far we have
discover that 240,000 bodies have been left passengers will be gone.
behind as mile-stones-240,000 miles we have
A journey of one hundred years still lies
therefore traveled-over eight months have me
been on our journey. Let us not get discouraged, however. Our journey has just be,-.
We have lost only one out of every five hundred
we had on board.
On, on, and still on we go; day after day,
week after week, month after month, year after
year. Our crowd is becoming smaller and
smaller. We have now been on our journey for
seventy long years ;for we are in the year 1994.
The hairs on our heads have all become gray,
and our faces are wrinkled. Having traveled
25,000,000 miles, we ape come to the orbit of
Venus, and are just in time to meet it as it
passes near the direct line between the Earth,
Venus, and the Sun. .There is no transit, however; for the next one will not occur until the
year 2004.

Venru Veiled with Clouds

EXTIS comes along at the terrific rate of
twenty miles a second, while we are crawl- m GreoZness of ou; S m
S A matter of fact, long ago we found that
ing along at the rate of forty miles an hour.
We cannot see anything of the surface of this
the Son is 1,300,000 times as large rs the
mighty planet, alrnu-- .zs large as the Earth, Earth. What!! That does not mean mything
suppose the Sun to
because of its derise atmosphere and the thick to you! ell, then; we
Whether
there
be
completely
hollowed
out
and our insit.@clouds that always hang in it.
are any beings on its surface we cannot find cantly small Earth to be placed in the center of
out on our hurried trip and .during her flight the Sun. We will also swing the Moon in its
orbit at its actual distance of 240,000 miles from
past us.
We keep moving on, anxious to see little the Earth to perform its monthlp revolution.
Mercury, only one-twentieth as large as the The Moon has plenty of elbow room within the
Earth. Do not be in a hurry, however, to get Sun; for there would be a space of 193,000
there; for it will take ninety more years to miles between its orbit and the outside shell of
arrive in its vicinity. After years and years of the Sun. Another illustration: It would take
travel we meet Mercury, named after the Greek 109 earths laid side by side like a string of beads
god Mercury, the messenger of the gods. Truly to stretch across the diameter of the Sun, and
a messenger he is; for he passes by us as an 300,000 earths would have to be melted to make
immense cannon-ball at the rate of thirty miles up the weight of the Sun.
a y?c(mdto make his journey around the S w ; kt last we have arrived in the very a e o s , .
phere of the Sun. What do we see before nst
in a year of only three of our months.

before us when r e leave Uercilry. How every

incident and lesson learned is remembered and
told and retold during this stretch of time l
Nearly all of the books in our train library of
a million volumes have been read so often that
they are beginning to fall to pieces. But a happy
crowd we are ;and time flies very rapidly among
so many lively old maids and equally old
bachelors.
As we are approaching the Sun, it is becoming
hotter and hotter; but we can endure great heat.
Larger and larger the Sun seems to grow as we
continue to approach. But are we able to realize
how very large a body the Sun is? Immensity
of immensity is before us! Years before the
birth of Christ a Greek philosopher became
rather wild in his imagination, as the people of
his time thought; for he claimed that the Sun
is a ball of fire, and a t least as large as the
southern part of Greece.

'

m. WIDEN AGE

'

Ten hundred thousand billions of furnaces

rolled into one ! What a seething, raging, writhing, roaring mass of gases and molten matter!
What oceans upon oceans of flame! Over the
Sun are sweeping storms of flame of such violence that the wildest and most furious of our
hurricanes, tornadoes, and cyclones are tame in
cbmparison! Should such a hurricane as sweeps
over the Sun, moving a t the rate of one hundred
miles per second, occur on the Earth, it would
sweep entirely across the United States from
the Gulf of Mexico to the St. Lawrence river in
Canada in half a minute! It would carry with
i t everything on the earth's surface, cities and
towns included, in a mass of glowing vapors
arising from the cities of New Orleans, Chicago
and New Pork; and these vapors ~ o u l dbe
mixed in a single indistinguishable cloud.
We often talk of the terrible eruptions of the
volcano VesuPius in Italy and the destruction
wrought thereby; but notice that eruption in
the Sun that sends a mass of flames upward
50,000 miles in height! Look a t that one rising
up to the enormous height of 100,000 miles!
One such flame would be sufficient to melt the
entire Earth in a single moment.
How can our minds begin to take in such
sights t Impossible! Impossible !! We have
become so m e d with awe and sublimity, so
astounded by the manifestations of infinite
power, so overcome by the conscious realization
of our own smallness and of the greatness of
the power that God holds in His hand, and so
completely overcome by the intense heat and
light, that we all are ready to fall into a trance.
And thus ends o m journey to the Sun, having
spent two hundred and sixty years in this
eventful excursion of 92,000,000 miles.

Rapid Change8 in Mind-Travel

RESTO! Change! Once more we are in the

P ~ ~ ~ ~ \=9 xtt\~nthe
~ 4 , ~ F;
earth,
back.
ns
,

youth also has come

Let
now take
another jo-ey
of a still greater distance.
go on the wingsof imagination, at
We
the same old rate of forty miles an hour.
h s t e a d of going toward the Sm,we will wing
oar flight like angels, going from the Earth, in
n direction away from the Sun.
The first planet we meet is Mars. It takes us,
however, one hundred and forty years to reach
that planet, which makes us all full-fledged

centenarians by the time of arrival. As we

approach this most nearly earth-like planet, we
.hotice a very peculiar appearance. Venus and
Mercury, which we saw on our other journey,
have no moons. But notice the tiny moons of
Mars ! "They are too cute for anything," the old
ladies of our party exclaim. Onemoon is only sir
miles in diameter and the other is about seven.
I t would be only a pleasant day's journey to
walk around one of these moons. Notice how near
the inner moon is to the surface of M a s ! Thia
moon revolves so rapidly that it makes three
revolutions around Mars while Mars makes one
rotation on its axis. Thiscauses this inner moon
of Mars to rise in the west and set in the east
twice a day.
Let us look more closely a t Mars itself. What
a peculiar distribution of land and water! AU
the seas seem to be long like the Red Sea or
like the Baltic. They look almost like a number
of large canals crossing the land in all dire&
tions. What an idealworld for commercial facilities and intercommunication of all kinds ! What
a high state of civilization must exist here if tL
intelligent beings live on Mars! But we do not
have time to investigate this interesting but
perplexing problem.
We shall now leave Mars and go on toward
giant Jupiter. But how many strange little
planets we meet on our way 1 Over 800 of these
have their orbits between the orbits of Mars and
Jupiter. How small they are! The largest one
is only 300 miles in diameter, while here one
mmes along which is a regular Tom Th-b
among the planetoids, being only fifteen mil88
in diameter. We cannot resist the temptation to
step on this one. How light we are! Gravitation draws us but very little. We weigh but a
few ounces apiece. How easily we can move
about! As for jumping, we can easily spring
up sixty feet and alight on OIU planetoid without the slightest injury. Look a t our athlatcs
It is a reg*
paradise for them* A mn*
of 200 feet is play-work for them*
broad
Their athletics seem more like contests in flying
than anything else. We are so old, however,
that we do not care to indulge very
these sports*
On, on, on, and still on we go. All of us are
now older than Methuselah ever was; and he
died at the age of 969 Years. While coming near
the orbit of Jupiter, we find that we have h

1,110 years on our journey. Marvelous lapse of

time l How can we realize it !
Jupiter, thou art worthy of thy name; thou
art larger than all the other planets put together-1,400 times as large as the Earth-and
yet only one-thousandth of the size of the Sun.
See the eight huge moons circling around this
giant planet! Do you see that great shadow
passing over Jupiteis surface of heavy c l h d s
and belts? An eclipse is occurring. At every
revolution of each of Jupiteis moons an eclipse
occurs. Such a phenomenon is of no special
eccasion to the inhabitants of Jupiter, if there
are any, and if they have means of seeing
through the great envelope of clouds, thonsands
ot' miles in thickness, all around itt On the
Earth astronomers travel thousands of miles to
observe an eclipse of the Sun, caused by the
Moon passing before the face of the Sun.

d i m - C s R o u n d of Saturn
E MAY nat linger long; for yonder, away
ponder, is Saturn, which presents the
most magnificent spectacle of all the planets,
with its ten moons, and its three rings of matter
that revolve around it like so many merry-gorounds. How beautiful and well-proportioned
they are in.all their appearances! Notice that
Saturn also is covered by dense clouds and belts '
like unto those of Jupiter.
W e pass this glorious planet a t the end of
2,200 pears and go on until we meet Uranus, at
the end of 5,000 years. Uranus is nearly 1,800,000,000 miles from the Sun. We notice nothing
striking about it except its four moons, so we
pass on over a great and incomprehensible
stretch of space and time and arrive a t Neptune,
the last planet of our o m solar system. This
planet has one moon and is nearly 2,800,000,000
miles from the Sun. AJtogether we have spent
nearly 7,740 years of continuous traveling to
reach this point from the Earth; whereas our
journey to the Sun took only 260 years.
The cold has become very intense on account
of our great distance from the Sun. I t overcomes us, and once more we fall into a trance.
Presto! Change ! Again we are in the year
1924.
How thankful we are for these wonderful
imaginary experiences, which help us to nnderstmd something of the greatness of the Creator
m t this solar system and all that it comprises!

something about the Stars

FEW concluding ~vordsabont the stars,
and I shall l i a ~ efinished. Thus far I have
spoken only of the Sun, and its planets 11-1:ich
revol~earound it. Immense a s the space is in
which they perform their operations, yet it is
only a very snlall patch in the vast field of the
universe.
The stars are suns; but the planets are not
suns, having no light of their own. Nine hundred rwd ninety-nine out of every thousand of
the heavenly bodies that you can see with the
naked eye are suns. All ef these stars are so
far from us or from any other part of our solar
system that the distances bewilder when we try
to compreliend them. To give yon some idea,
let me illustrate:
As some of you know, light travels at the rate
of 186,000 miles a second ; and so it takes light
eight and one-half minutes to re& the Earth
from the Sun. Light from the Sun reaches Neptune in about four and one-half hours. So all
parts lying within 2,800,000,000 miles in all directions from the Sun receive light that is less
than five hours old. But the light that we receive
from the- nearest star ( a sun), called Alpha
Centauri, is over four years in reacbing us.
Let me illustrate this in another aray : Let the
Sun be represented by my closed band, and I
shall place a few of the planets a t their relative
distances from it. The Earth, 92,000,000 miles
from the Sun, I place in its orbit one inch from
the Sun. Inside of the one-inch circle would
lie t
b orbita of Venus and Mercury. Next I
will plaoe Mars, then the planetoids o r asteroids, and a t a distance of five inches comes
Jupiter, 480,000,000 miles from the S n a Outside of this I place Saturn and Umnus at their
relative distances, and at the distance of twentynine inches is the place for the orbit of Neptnne,
2,800,000,000 miles from the Sun.
As I told you before, it takes light four and
one-half hours to reach Septune, whereas light
from the nearest star travels over four years
to reach us. A simple calculation shows that
this star would have to be placed four and onethird miles from my hand. Think of the immense empty space (so far a s we know) that
lies between the outer boundaries of oar solar
system and the nearest so-called fired star, or
sun 1

fmm 18, X ~ U

SOLDEN AGE

S*

.~k

Truly, our Sun'and its children, the planets,

are very, very far separated from the other
parts of the universe 1
Beyond that nearest star are suns as many in
number as the grains of sand upon the seashore,
each one removed inhitely from us and infinitely removed from one another, as a- rule.
What do these things teach us? I n the language of the Psalmist, we have the best short
answer :
"The heavens declare the glory of h d ;
And the h a m e n t . showeth his handiwork.
Day unto day uttereth epeech,
And night unto night showeth knowledge."
-Psalm 19 :1,2.

as we begin to study the mighty works of

God, we begin to see how little is our home, the
Earth; and how insignificantly little are we in
body and mind and power when compared with
the great Creator aqd Director of all things in
the heavens abcve and in the Earth beneath.
How f a r removed from us He ia in some respects, and yet how near is He with His allseeing eye! "For the eyes of the Lord run to
and fro throughout the whole earth to show
himself strong in the behalf of them whose
heart is perfect toward hira7'-2 Chron. 16: 9.
I n no other natural science is the character of
God as the Almighty One, the All-wise One, and
the All-seeing One, so fully shown forth as in
the study of astronomy. Truly great and won-

derful beyond all our knowledge are God and all

His mighty works. Let us therefore reverence
Him in all our thoughts and words and doings.
The great English poet Addison voices the sentiments of 'a true worshiper of God in his beautiful version of the first part of the 19th Psalm:
'The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal eky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim :
The unwearied sun from day to day
Does his Creator's power display,
And publishes to every land
The work of an Almighty hand.

"Soon aa the evening shadee prevail,

The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly, to the listening earth,
Repeats the story of her birth;
Whilst all the stars, that round her burn,
And all the planets in their turn,
C o b the tidings aa they roll,
And spread the truth from pole to pole.
%at though, in solemn silence, dl
Move round thia dark, terrestrial ball?
What though no real voice or sound
Amidst her radiant orbs be found?
I n reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice,
Forever singing as they shbe,
'The hand that-made us is divine.' "

s.*

Powerful Friends of Zionism

RS. NATHANSTRAWS,
acting in accord with ish colonization centers in Palestine has said:
"They are bound to triumph over the many obstacles
the splendid philanthropy that characterwhich,
under other circumstances, it would be impossible
izes that great family, has given her own perto
achieve.
There is a spirit of cheerfulness and happisonal jewels, valued a t ten thousand dollars, to
ness
beaming
in the faces of the men and women who
the fund for the development of Zionism in
Palestine. Dr. Chaim Weizmann has just re- are building up the colonies; unlike the hods that
Moses led, they do not seem to hanker after the fleehturned to Palestine, carrying back $5,000,000 pots
of Egypt. If the Christian world knew and apprecollected in this country for the restoratio~i ciated what a reconstructed and prospering Palestine
work. The reports of d l travelers who have means for the cause of securing Christian harmony .nd
recently visited Palestine agree that during the brotherly love in the Holy City and throughout Pdealast five years as much progress has been made tine, where discord ha8 contillued for centuries, thej.
in the development of the country as was made ,,would be among the most ardent Zionists, snd would
in the- previous five hundred years.
join hands with the Jews in promoting good will among
Mr. Oscar S. Straus, three times United States all religious communities as well as in aiding th,
Ambassador to Turkey, after a visit to the Jew- nomic reconstruction of the oountry."

The End of the World

( B r o n d a s t from WATCHTO\YER KBBR on a =are length of 273 meters, by Judge J. F. Xn!herford)

HE meaning of "the end of the world" has the earth and made i t ; he hath established it,
been greatly misunderstood. F o r genera- he created it not in rain. he formed it to he
tions people have been taught that the end of inhabited; I am the Lord, and there is none
the world meant that the earth and everything else."-Isaiah 45 : 12,18.
in it would be burned up amidst suffering beGod formed the earth that man might hare a
yond description of human words. Necessarily home fit for a perfect creature to live upon.
this caused dread in the minds of the people. 11-hile man has been going through his trying
Since unpleasant things are not desirable to experiences, the earth has heen in course of
listen to, few havc cared to hear anything about development; and by the time man is restored
the end of the world. When properly under- to a perfect co~lditionthe earth will be like the
stood, however, it i s a n event to be welcomed garden of the Lord, an Edenic Paradise. It
with joy.
1\31 be Paradise restored.
If a man n-as suffering imprisonment and
knew that a t the end of a certain period he The Worlds of the Bible
w o d d be released and restored to his loved
HE period of time from ~d~~
the flood
ones, he I\-ould receive that information with
is described in the Scriptures as "the world
gladness.
that was." Of it St. Peter says: ' m e r e b y the
The human race has long been in bondage to ~\;orld that then was, being overflowed with
understand water, perished." (2 Peter 3 :6) ~~~h and his
evil influences. If the people
that the end of the \\-odd means release from family lvere in that
and were carried
this bondage, bringing to them happiness and over to the new world, which began when the peace, health and strength, this message should flood had ceased. Noah had warned the people
- of the end of the first world and of the coming
be received ,with gladness.
The word "world," a s used in Scriptme, does deluge. A parallel is found a t the-end of the
not mean earth. I t means the social, political, present world, when some are \varning the peoand ecclesiastical order of things controlling the pie about the approaching end.
general COUrSe of man. Everyone will bear witThe world which began a t the flood is menness to the f a d that the history of the,morld tioned as the
evil
(Galatinns
has been written in tears and human blood- I t 2 : 4) Since the world first above mentioned \\-as
has been a long way of suffering and toil, and destroyed in the flood, concerning the present
man has ever hoped for something better. The evil
St. Peter says that it is q e p t in store,
end of the world means the end of such suffering reserved unto destruction wainst ule day of
aqd the beginning of a better may.
jud,ment and perdition of ungodly men."-2
Earth and world a r e not used as synonymous Peter 3: 7.
terms. The earth is the mundane sphere upon
The word god is often applied to mighty creawhich man resides. The earth will never be tures, aside fronl Jehovah. F o r instance, Satan,
destroyed. Staten Island will always be where the devil, is called the god of the present evil
i t is now. When evil agencies have ceased upon world. He is invisible to man yet powerful,
the earth, when the oppression of man has exercising a n evil inffuence amongst men, and
passed away, when the memory of the oppressor has made the w-orld a n unpleasant place in
and misrepresentation have perished, Staten which to reside.
Island will bloom as the rose.
God made a promise to Abraham and bound
Concerning this point, with reference to the it with His oath, that He 11-odd bless all the
earth, the Scriptures declare: "The earth abid- fanlilies of the earth. These blessings will come
eth for ever." (Ecclesiastes 1:4) Again, says through the seed of Abraham; the seed of
the Lord: "I have made the earth, and created Abraham is the great ?Ilessi,ah. F o r this reason
man upon i t ; I, even my hands, have stretched the coming of the Uessiah and the establishout the heavens, and all their host have I corn- ment of His kingdoin haie been uppermost in
mandcd.''
('For thus saith the Lord God that' ., the m-inds of cleoout inen for centuries past.
the heavens; God himself that-formed ' Tlie disciples of Jesus, who werk associate8"

ma

,.

with Him for three and one-half years in Pales- that is, a per'fect rule of action for the gaidance

- tine and who heard the gracious words that fell of man; that under this law Israel might have
.

from His lips, often heard about the coming of

the Messianic kingdom. They were familiar
with the promise that God had qade to Abra.ham,Isaac, Jacob, and to Israel through the
prophets. It was incumbent upon them to learn
the Scriptures. They believed that Jesus was to
be the great Messiah, the King,and that through
Him the promised blessings would come to
mankind: Naturally they were anxious to know
when that event would take place. So anxious
were they that .two of the sons of Zebedee requested that one might have a place on the left
hand, the other on the right hand, of theLord
in that kingdom.
Evidently Jesus' disciples talked. over the
matter of the end of the world and the coming
of the new order. Just five days before His
crucifbion they came to Jesus,as He sat on the
side of the Mount of Olives, and propounded to
Kim this question, which is recorded in Matthey 24 :3 : "Tell us, when shall these things be ?
and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and
of the end of the world?" They knew that with
the passing away of the old order a better time
would come; hence they were keenly interested
as to the time of its coming.
Jesus' answer to this question is all-irnportant. It must be conceded that His answer was
true; for He spake with authority, as no man
ever spake. His words on this and other questions show that it would be a long time after the
question was propounded before the end of the
world should come. H e knew that by the time
it did come His answer would be forgotten by
all except those who were diligently watching
the unfolding of events i,n the light of the S c r i p
tares. He gave His answer, however, in such
plain phrase that all who are anxious for the
coming of that time, and who would therefore be
earnestly watching the development of events,
would be able to discern when the time arrived.

Importance of Year 1914

F COURSE, Jesns was familiar with the

0
from

prophecies. He was the only one, aside

Jehovah, who knew their meaning at that
time, He knew that God had, at Mount Sinai,
organized Israel into a nation and dealt exclndvely with that natian for more than sixteen
eentnries. God had given to Israel His law,

life everlasting if that nation kept the law perfectly.

Jesus knew that Jehovah had given .to Israel
the true religion. Of course, He knew that they
had failed to keep God's law, and that as a
nation and people they had been untrue to their
covenant and had embraced a false religion,
which had been introduced into other nations
by the great adversary, the deviL He knew that
time and again Jehovah had warned Israel that
her repeated violation of &er covenant would
result in'the destruction of the nation.
Jesus knew that this warning was carried into
effect by Jehovah's judgment pronounced upon
Israel and executed when Zedekiah was king;
that then and there God had permitted the nation of Israel to be overthrown and the Gentiles
to establish a universal government in the earth
under Nebuchadnezzar. He knew that Jehovah
had stated in substance that the Gentiles should
continue ruling the earth without interference
for a period of 2,520 years. Of c o m e , these
facts were in His mind when He answered the
question.
The period of "Gentile times" began in. 606
B. C., and ended 2,520 years thereafter. T h e m
fore$the end would be August lst, 1914.
The end of the "Gentile times" would mark
the beginning of the end of the world. Now that
these historical facts are definitely established
in the minds of every student, let us examine
the words of the Master given in answer todhe
question propounded to Him, and consider this
in the light of present-day events.

The Answer of Jesus

ESUS said that when that time comes the
Jwrath
nations will become angry and that God's
will come. The nations embrace particularly those who claim to be Christian nations.
Exactly on time they did become angry ;namely,
in August, 1914. Jesus' answer further reads :
"For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers
places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."
-Metthew 24 :7,8. I t would be impossible for the physical faeta
more completely to fit the conditicns foretold
by Jesus than what we have observed happened

GOWEN AGE
'dnring the past ten years. I n 1914 began the
World War, the worst that man has ever experienced. I t was followed by the greatest famine
that man has ever known, which swept many of
the countries of earth. There quickly followed
pestilence, the like of ~ h i c hwas never known
before. The pestilence I\-as not confind 40 the
war district, but claimed its victims by the hnndreds of thousands, from the frozen zone of the
north to the heated zone of the south. More
people died in tha.t pestilence in one year than
were killed during the World W a r in four years.
During the past ten years there hqve been more
earthquakes, which have wrought greater deetruction, than a t any other time in man's history. Earthquakes are also symbolical of revolution, and there has been a greater number of
revolutions during the past ten years than ever
before.
Now be i t noted that Jesus said that the
World nTar, fanlines, pestilences, earthquakes,
and revolutions would be the beginnz'ng of the
sorrows upon the peoples and nations of earth,
and would testify that the world had come to an
end. I n other words, the period allotted to the
Gentiles to rnle had legally ended, and now-conditions mere beginning which clearly mark the
disintegration and passing away of that order.

of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations. which h u

been submitted to, n11d approved bj-, the Cabinet:
" 'His 3lajcatfs
Goremmcnt view with favor the
establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the
Jewhh people, and mill use their best endeavors to
facilitate. the achievement of this object, it being clea-!7
understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the cirll and religious rights of existing noride\\-ieh
communities in Palestine, or the righte and political
sistns enjoyed by Jews in any other conntry.'
"I should be grateful if you wo~lldbring this dechration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
"Tours sincerely,
"ARTHG'BJAY= BALFOUB"

This was followed by a similar declaration by

other nations; and in the spring of 1918 Dr.
Chaim Weizmann, clotlied with authority froin
the British Empire, went to Palestine and
opened an office in Jerusalem. Since then he
has been putting forth a n effort, together with
his assistants, to establish in Palestine the aation of t.he Jews, for the Jews, and by the Jews.
Dr. TVeiman has recently been in .the United
States in the interest of this movement.

Lack of Faith Apparent

T ITILL be noticed that the end of the worid
and the second coming of the Lord are
closely &ed, and relate to the same period of
Favor lo I m l Returning
time. Jesus said : "When the Son of man cometh,
ESUS furthermore stated that the Jews shall he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18: 8)

Jthe should
be t r ~ d d e ndown of the Gentiles until
end of the Gentile times. Otherwise stated,

the Jews would suffer great persecution, which

would begin to pass away with the end of the
Gentile times. Every Jew knows, and many
Christians likewise, that the Jews have suffered
great persecution ever since they were driven
from Palestine, shortly after the crncifmion of
our Lord.
F o r centuries the ambition of the Jems has
been that they might return and build Palestine
a s a homeland. On November 2nd, 1917, Arthur
James Balfour, speaking in behalf of the British Empire, which had then come into possession'of Palestine under the terms of the League
of Nations, addressed Lord Rothschild, one of
the leading Jems of the world, the following
note:
"Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1911.
"DEAR
~
R ROTRSCR~LD:
D
"
I
hace much pleasure in conreying to you on behalf
of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration
'

The time was, for many years, that all Christian ministers believed the Bible and honestly
tried to teach it. The people have wondered in
recent months why the great controversy now
on between the Nodemists and the Fundamentalists. Meantime the Modernists a r e growing
in strength, and vehemently declaring that they
have no faith in the fall of man and his redemption through the blood of Christ, hence no faith
in the coming of Christ's kingdom f o r the restoration of man. I cite this a s another evidence
of the time in which we are living.
This controversy ought to cause thoughtful
people to turn to their Bibles and carefully examine them in the light of the prophecies to see
what these things mean. Each man is responsible to the Lord according to the knowledge he
has. St. Peter, referring to this same time concerning the end of the world, said this: "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the h t
days scoffers, walking after their own lnsta,
and saying, Where is the promise of his com-

'

ing? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things

continue as they were from the beginning of
the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens
were of' old, and the earth standing out of the
water and in the water; whereby the world that
then was
perished." (2 Peter 3: 3-6) It is
a well-known fact that a great number who
claim to be Christian leaders are now scoffing
a t the statement that the world has ended, that
the Lord is present, and that the kingdom of
heaven is at hand. I cite this merely as corroborative proof as to where we axe.

...

Fear Ooershoulowing the World

HEN the World War canbe, men marched

to the front to the slogan: 'The war will

make the world safe for democracy." Several
years have passed since the war, and democracy is further from being safe than at any
time in the past. Seven nations are now ruled
by dictators, and fear has taken hold upon the
d i n g classes everywhere.
The apostle Paul said that in the latter days
there would be g r w t wickedness in high places ;
and the American people are hanging their
heads with sl~ametoday as the press daily heralds forth the facts of the great wickedness in
high places in Washington.
The conditions in the earth have caused men
to fear. The rich fear the laboring classes and
the radicals ; the poor and the laboring element
fear the oppressive hand of the wealthy; the
business man fears concerning his investments ;
the politicians fear for their positions. In fact,
fear has laid hold of men in all walks of life.
Jesus said that this condition would be another
sign or proof of the end of the world. His words
arc: T p o n the earth distress of nations, with
pel-plesity; .
men's heart's failing them for

soi

fear, and for looking after those thin@ which

are coming on the earth."-Luke
21:25,26.
All these evidences are so patent that we cannot be mistaken as to what they gmean. They
mean this: The'old order is passing out; the
new order is coming in; Messiah's kingdom is
at the door; and the time for Him to begin H h
reign is here. In connection with the things of
the present time Jesus gives a command to Ilia
follawers in these words: 'This gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached in all the world for
a witness unto all nations: and then shall \the
end come.'' (Matthew 24: 14) I believe it to -b
the duty of every Christian to take up the measage and herald it forth to his fellow creature,
advising him that the present distress upon the
earth means the passing of the old order and
the coming in of the new. It is necessary for
man to have this information in order ,that Air
heart may be refreshed and hope implanted in
his breast concerning the better>thingpromised
for his early relief.
From the evidence here adduced it .must be
apparent that we have reached the end of the
old world, and that the present trouble is .dme
to the fact that the world is passing away.
There is no one who is satisfied with .the present
conditions, not even the profiteer: Whst man
desires is a government of the people which will
resdt in the greatest amount of.good;guarantee
equal and just rights to all, and which will
establish amongst the people an everheting
peace, bringing to them the blessings of lifa, *
liberty and happiness. This great desire of
Jew and Gentile, Mohammedan and Christian
is about to be realized. The Lord plainly shows
that with the end of the old world would follow
a better condition of society. I run happy to
tell yon that we are standing a t the very portals
of a new and glorious time of relief for mankind

The Papal Jubilee

preparations are being made in Rome
GREAT
for the jubilee which is to take place from

Decenlkr 24th, 1924, to December 25th, 1925.

This celebration is supposed to take place every
twenty-fire .)-ears, but something has always
happened to prevent it since 1825. All the
cardinals and bishops of the Roman Catholic
Chnreh are supposed to be present a t this Papal
jubilee, as well as are the governors of Roman

Catholic states and the mayors of Roman Catholic cities. It is expected that there will be fully
3,000 bishops and not less than 2,OOO,OOO visiton
a t Rome during the jubilee year. Many new
buildings are being constructed to house the
visitors.
It is noteworthy that international congresses
of all sorts are more and more making their
headquarters in the city of Rome.

Heard in the Office-NO. 11

was joking one day about the things
SMITH
people believe. H e said: "There are some
people who are credulous enough to believe that
'Jonah swallowed the whale if the Bible said so."
"Some believe worse things than that," said
Tyler. "I think the most ridiculous is the doctrine of the Trinity. What can you think of the
mind whose mathematics are three times one
are one?"
"Unless you can reduce everything to logic
and mathematics you call it ridiculous and absurd," put in Wynn.
"So it is," retorted Tyler. 'Vho ever heard
of a being sitting down on the right hand of
himself? Or of a son being his own father and
8 father his own son?"
"There are mysteries which the finite mind
cannot grasp. Even Palmer has to admit that;
and the Trinity is one of them."
"I admit with you that there are mysteries
which are beyond the mind of man to grasp;
but I make a distinction between that which is
opposed to reason and that which is outside the
soope of reasoning," said Palmer. "As I have
before pointed out, the fact of the Limitlessness
of space must be conceded; it may be beyond
our conception, but it is not opposed to reason."
"So is the doctrine of the Trinity," said
,Wynn;"and why do you want to reduce everything to reason?"
"Experience has taught that reason cannot
always be relied upon ;and if we start with false
premises we cannot avoid wrong conclusions.
But while this is true, it is aIso true that terms
are used with some definite thought in them;
and it is unthinkable that God, who desires to
mnvey His thoughts to ns through the medium
of language, should use terms with meanings
destructive of one another. A term represents
an idea; a sentence represents a judgment of
k o or more ideas. The words chalk and white
both represent ideas; and when we say that
chalk is white, this is the expression of our
judgment of the relation of the two ideas. No
one would understand m to mean that chalk
and white are the same.
"In giving us the Bible God has come down
and taken hold upon the language of men that
He might express His will to us ;and it is only
proper to conclude that He intends us to use
oar best powers to diseovez what it is He has
to say.

BY C. E. ~ u i v c rondo don)

.. .. < .

"When \\le read, 'The Father sent the Son,' it

would be violating all the laws of la~iguageand
reason to conclude that the Father sent Himself.
The term father conveys the thought of lifegiver; and the term son, one who has received.
life from another. While these terms mean what
they do, and are used in this relationship, they
must imply that two persons, two beings, art.
meant.
"On a question of this kind it is well to start
by confessing our ignorance. The study oE
science cannot discover the relation of God and
Jesus Christ. It will not be found in botany,
nor in physiolo,gy, nor in mathematics. I t can
be found only in Scripture. It is the Bible that
tells us of Jehovah and His Son Jesus. I t must
be the Bible that will tell us their relationship.
Analogies in nature a r e no good until we have
established the point in Scripture.

Creed Teaching on Trinity

HE creed says of God and Jesus that they
are 'co-equal, co-substantial and co-eter- .
nal.' Texts of Scripture are not given to prove
this because none can be fomd. And we are
discouraged in the use of our reason by the
expression that this is incomprehensible; which
of course is true and always will be true, as it
involves so much contradiction and confusion.
"Pure water may be deep, but it appears to
be shallow because one can see to the bottom;
whereas muddy water appears to be deep, nlthough it may be very shallow. So it is with
truth and error. Truth is clear as crystal, leading the mind easily from point to point; but
error is confusing, and one is soon lost in the
labyrinth of mystery and superstition.
"There are mysteries enough without creating
more. Of all the jargon that has ever been
written in the name of religion nothing surpasses the Athanasian creed. It is such a combination of absurdity and contradiction that it
is difEcult to think that anyone conld possibly
believe it. The creed has been the bone of contention throughout the age; and those who have
tried to explain what is confessed to be inexplicable have differed in their views. And then to
think that this upon which even theologians
themselves cannot agree should be put forth as
an article of belief necessary to salvation i s
absurd in the extreme. I am glad to think that
God is more reasonable than men. Jesus said of r

8(1I t

"T

some that they 'strain at a gnat, and swallow a

camel.' Evidently quite a few have swallowed
the camel."
"It is all very well talking like this, but you
cannot refute the creed," broke in VTynn.,
"Not refute it? Why! it is refuted on every
page of the Bible, and supported by none. The
creed says that the Father and the Son are coequal. Jesus said: 'My Father is greater than
I.' The Bible says that 'the Father sent the
Son,' that 'God raised him from the dead and
set him a t his own right hand,' clearly implying that one is superior to the other.
"There are so many passages of Scripture on
this point that I could go on quoting for half
an hour; but I will give one that settles it beyond question-1 Corinthians 15:25-28. The
apostle Panl is speaking of the glory and power
of Jesus during His reign on earth. He says:
' H e must reign till he hath put all enemies
nnder his feet.' Then, when Jesus has reached
the very apex of the glory of His reign, P a d
says: 'And when all things shall be subdued
nnto him, then shall the Son also himself be
subject unto him that put all things nnder him,
that God may be all in all.' This clearly shows
that the Son is not equal with the Father.

Jesus Received-Lifefrom Cod

HEN the creed says that the Father and
the Son are co-substantial. At the time
of the making of the Nicene creed, which had
to do with the question we are discussing, there
were two factions at the conference that voted
for the creed, and thus obtained a majority in
its favor; but they understood the matter differently. A Greek word was introduced meaning
'of the same nature.' One faction understood
this to mean that although the Father and the
Son are separate beings, yet they have the same
kind of nature. The other faction, the forerunners of the trinity-makers, took it to signify
that they have the same nature, and that
Tather' and 'Son' are two names of one being.
"Are the Father and the Son co-substantial
~ is the
according to the latter thought7 f o that
meaning of the expression i n the creed. Are
the two one being?
. .
''I
have already shown that the terms Father
and Son imply that they are not. There are
many scriptures that could. be given, but I win
confine myself to one. When Jesus was taken by

"T

wicked men and crucified, the whole wor Id was

opposed to Him. His disciples had left Him and
fled; and last and most trying of all, God left
Him. Thep &sus cried out in agony of soul:
'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?'
If the Trinity doctrine is true then this was all
a farce, a make-believe, a wonderful piece ot
deceptive acting. A blasphemous thought. W h o
can believe that our Lord was merely praying
to himself! All the urcumstances contradict the
idea. The words were tme, and were wrung out
of Jesns by the bitter ordeal. The Apostle says
that He prayed nnto Him who was able to deliver Him from death, and He was heard I
could say a great deal more, but I think this
is sdicient."
" m a t is splendid," said Tyler; '? have not
seen it put so clearly before."
" h d now a few texts on the last point. The
creea says that the Father and the Son are coeternal. The Bible says of Jesus that He waa
'the beginning of the creation of God.' (Revelation 3 :14) St. Panl says (Colossians 1:15) :
He is 'the firstborn of every creature.' God is
the great Creator, from everlasting to everlasting, without beginning and without ending;
whereas Jesns is a creature."
"A creature!" said Wynn. "Ideny that."
Y e s , a creature," replied Palmer. "The
Apostle says that He is the first-born of every
creature; He is a creature, and the first one to
be born. This word first-born implies a beginning of existence. He is t h t only begotten Son
There must then have been a time when He wan
not begotten; otherwise the word has no meaning. He is the first-born of every creature in
the sense that He was the first one to be brought
into existence; and He is the only begotten because in His creation He became the only agent
of God in bringing forth all other creatures.
"There are a few passages in the Bible which
if one reads while wearing the Trinity spectacles seem to support the view; but rightly nnderstood, they do not. We have not time now
to go into these;&ut I would recommend that
you read Pastor Russell's book entitled The
Atonement' for an explanation. The scriptures
that I have quoted are so destructive is every ,
way of the doctrine of the Trinity that if t h e * .
Bible is to be our authority, then the doctrine
of the Trinity cannot be true."

.'-.

How the New Testament was Formed

TRE

same Hand that wrote the New Testament brought the various books together
into one volume as we have them today. There
can be no doubt about this. On the point
"McClintock and Strong's Encyclopddia" says :
"Each of the original churches, qecially those of
larger size and greater ability, collected for itself a
completesetof those writings whi& could be proved
by competent testimony to be the production of inspired
men, and to have been communicated by them to any
of the churchea aa part of the written Word of God; so
that in this way a great many col.kctions of the New
Testament S c r i p h came to be a t , the accordance
of which with each
to the books
furnishes irrefragable evidence of the correctness of the
Canon as we now have it."
"This opinion, which in itself is highly probable, is

unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destmction."-2
Peter
3: 13-16.

Vely

Reasonabfe Tradition

EUSEBIUS,
the "Father of Church History,"
who was born in 270 A. D., narrates

tradition, still prevalent in the church in his own

day, to the effect that during the lifetime of
St. John the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and
Luke were in general use throughout the Christian church; that they were laid before St. John
for his approval; that he bore witness to their
truth, but said that they had passed over what
J~~~~
had done at fie b e a n i n g of his
ministry. His friends then expressed a desire
an accoMt of the period
that
shodd
which had thus been passed over. He complied,
and the Gospel according to St. John is the result.
There is no more reasonable way than this to
account for St. John's Gospel; there is no Gospel
with which it would have been more ditlicult to
tamper. It went forth from the churches of Asia .
Minor, and spread thence into all the world. I f
the slightest taint of suspicion had rested upon
this book these biatic cbrdes,
for
long
a time
st.
personalm e ,
wodd have been fiefistto detect the fraud,

rendered
so when we
the mNpulous
care which the early churches took to discriminate
apurious compositions from such as were authentic, their
high veneration for the genuine Apostolic writings, their
anxious regard for each otheis prosperity leading to the
free communication from one to another of whatever
could promote this, Bnd, of coum, among other things,
of those -tin@
which had been entrusted to any One
of them, and by which, more than by
other meana,
the spiritual welfare of the whole would be^ promoted"
"In this way we may readily believe that, without the
intervention of any authoritative decision, either from
an individual or a council, but by the natural procesa of
each body of Christims = k g to pmcum for themaelse#
of what
have
a d to convey to their brethren authentic copies of pened after the death of St- John7 i n A* D*
-kings in which all were deeply'interesbd, the Canon Dr. Constantine Tischendorf, one of the most
truly wise and justly honored men that ever
of the New Testament was formed."
lived, has said :

St. Peter is suppgsed to have been martyred

in Rome in the year A. D. 68. It was several
years before his death that he speaks of parts
Testament having been already
of the
assembled together and in use by
churches, in the following language :
'Ve, according to his promise7 look for new
heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth
righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that
ye look for such t h g s , be diligent that ye map
be found of him in peace, without spot, and
blameless. And account that the longsuffering
of
Lord is sdvation; even as Onr 'Ioved
Brother P a d also, according to the wisdom
given unto him, hath written unto You; as also
i n all his epistles, speaking in them of these
things; in which are some things hard to be
understood, which they that are unlearned and

'

"After the death of the aged John, thorn holy men

who had la~ownthe Lord in the flesh, including the
great Apostle of the Gentiles and the early church,
had thus lost a definite center of authority. It was a t
this time, when the church dispersed over the world was
persecuted without and d~stractedby error within, that
she began to venerate and regard sa sacred the mitings
which the apostles had left behind them as precious
depositories of truth, as unerring records of the life of
the Savior, and
authoritative rule of f.ith a d
practice. Do you ask in what way and
what act was
this done? Certainly no learned assemblies sat to decide
thir quation. If men
Muk, LLoL$md
John had left behind them outlines of the Lordla life,
did it nsed -ything more than their
to eS
their writings of the highest value to the ewly church?
And had not these men stood in such near relatiomhip
to the church as to make it impossible to pass offfo&
writings of theirs without detection?''

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GOLDw

h r l y References to the New Testament

immediately after the death of St.

ALMOST
John we begin to have, from the pen of one

person or another, references to the Gospels and

the vsrions books of the New Testament. Some
of these references are from martyrs who
suffered death because of their fidelity to those
- Scriptures, others are from heretics who vainly
endeavored to put their own writings on a par
with the work of the Lord, others are fram
enemies of the cross of Christ, yet all contribute
to the same general end of establishing the
trust~vorthinessof the record. We can give only
a few of the many lines of evidence which connect the apostles of our Lord and the Gosyels
of Matthew, Nark, Luke and John with the New
Testament as we now have it.
The Epistle of Barnabas, one of the apocrythe Church
PI*' boots, was never =@pted
mnuine?and not
to be gendnely the
work either of Barnabas or of the h o b spirit.
Nevertheless it is known to have been written
by or before the time of St. John's death. This
Epistle contains references to Matthew 9: 13;
22: 14; Luke 5: 32; and John 3: 14.
At about the same time a Jew-hater named
Marcion, endeavored to compile a New Testament of his own, limiting it to St. Lnke'e h s p e l
and ten of St. Paul's Epistles. I t was never
acoepted by the Church, because it omitted other
writings which the Church of that day knew to
be genuine, but it is of value a6 evidence of the
admitted credibility of St. Luke and St. Pad.
Fifteen years after St. John's death one of
his dieoipleg Ignatius, was martgred at Rome;
and on his way to the scene of his death he wrote
several letters which have survived. In theee
letters he quotes feelingly and intelligently
Matthew 3 :15; 16:26 ; and John 6 :41,48,54,
applying them to his own hope of ultimate life
through Christ, the Bread from heaven.
I n a letter written the same year of the
martyrdom of Ignatius, Polycarp, who was also
one of St. John's disciples, quotes 1 John 4 :3.,
Under the reign of the Emperor Hadrian,
some time between 117 A. D. and 138 A. D., o r
less than forty years after St. John's death,
Basilides, an heretical teacher, wrote a long
work, purporting to explain the Gospels, in
which he qnoted from the Gospel according to
St. Luke, an$ also from John 1:9; 2: 4.

AGE

60s

Justin Martyr, who suffered u r t y r d o m at

Mes
in the year AsDthe &man E m ~ e m rto -p1fi the CbFistillll
under penalty of death. On the &at Of
these
in D-1399 less than for@
the death of St- John* he
years
that the writings of the apostles and prophets
Lord's day in the
were then read
blies of the Christians, and himself quoted from
John 1:20-23 ;3:3-5.
Justin
quoted from One of the
a
'prJ'Phal
books of the New
book haring the name
st Jme8p
never accepted by the Church. In this apocryphal book Matthew 1:21 is quoted word for
quoted from another of the
He
apocryphal books of the New Testament, a
spurious
book entitled the Acts of Pilate, never
-pM
the
In this
book there are lengthy r&eernees to
8:15-26, 4550, 6266 ;28 :k15; Mark 15: 615,
3337 ; ~a~
23 :13-%,44,45 ; 24: 12; jobn 18:
39, 40 ; l9 :
; 20 :5-7.
FEflg Ycors Later
T THE middle of the second century, or
about Bty years after St. John's death,
Celws wrote a book ridic&g Christi8nity. In
this book he made sarcastic co-eds
on Matthew 1:
2: 1-15; 3 :13-17 ; 26: 3640; n:
gg ;28 :1-7 ;Mark 1:9-11 ;14: 32-37;15 :36 ;36 :
1-7 ; L d e 1:26-38 ; 3 :21,22 ; 22 :39-43 ;24 :1-7;
.John 1:1,3234; 2 :18 ; 6 :30 ; 19:2&30,34 ;
20 :1-13.
V h t i n n s , hemtic, evidently -& &e influence of demons, in an attempt which he made
a t Rome about A. D. 150 to estdish a new
religion with himself a t the head of it, applied
to himself the titles which St. John applied to
the Redeemer; namely, The Word, the Only
Begotten, Life, Light, Fnlness, Truth, Grace,
the Redeemer, the Comforter. He made such
references to Yatthew 8: 9; 9: 20, and Luke
7: 8, so as to make sure that he had seen these
texts, and qnoted John 10:8 boldly applying
it to himaelf.
Between A. D. 150 and 200 the New Testament
had been translated into Latin and Syriac.
Copies of these translations are in existem
today, and are regarded as extremely valuable
evidences of the reliability of the New Testament books.

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In &D. I70 Muratori wrote a catalogue of ever discovered the Lord was pleased to bring
the books of the Xew Testament which from the to light at the hand of Dr. Constantine Tischenfirst had been considered sacred in the Chris- dorf, at the foot of Nount Sinai, in the Convent

tian church. At the head of the list were Mat- of Saint Catharine, in Xay, 1844. Dr. Tischenthew, Mark, Luke, and John, in the same order dorf had consecrated his life, and made good
use bf his consecration, in trying to find all
in which we now have them.
About the same date two men, Theophilus and possible proof of the reliability of the books 04
Tatian, separately brought into existence works
entitled Harmonies of the Gospels, in which the
attempt was made to mould the four Gospels
into one. These Gospels must have been in existence a t the time, or no such attempted combination of them would have been made.
Irenaeus, about the same time, wrote a work
in which he quoted four hundred passages from
the New Testament, eighty of these being from
the Gospel according to St. John. Irenaeus was
for many years a disciple of Polycarp, who had
himself been a disciple of St. Jahn. Polycarp
died A. D. 165. Tertullian, writing at the same
time, wrote several hundred pages taken frozr
the Gospels, two hundred of these from St. John.

Tire Sinaitic Manuscript

HE next step is the writing of the Sinaitic

T Manuscript. Most wonderful to relate, this

identical manuscript itself has been preserved

throughout the age and is (or was un
recently) i n the Museum a t St. Petersburg.
Scholars can now tell with great accuracy the
date of any old manuscript, by the materials
used, the forms of letters, words and sentences,
spelling, penmanship, etc. The date of the writing of the Sinaitic MS. is fixed as 331 A. D.
There are special reasons to believe that it is
one of ten written at that time by order of the
.Emperor Constantine.
This most valuable of all MSS. of the Bible

the Bible as we have them.

a f t e r many great achievements in deciphering manuscripts unsolvable by others he finally
found himself in the great hall of the convent,
facing a large, wide basket full of old parchments about to be c o d t t e d to the flames. He
instantly reco,gGzed in the heap of papers a
considerable number of sheets of the oldest
Greek Old Testament he had ever seen. I n his
zeal he' betrayed the real value of the sheets;
and it required fifteen years of patient negotiation, backed by Pope Gregory XVI and the
Emperor of Russia, to get control of the MS.,
which, however, was finally obtained and placed
in the Emperor's care at St. Petersburg.
Dr. Tischendorf started on his long quest a
poor man; but his great ability, and the Lord's
blessing upon his efforts, made him before his
death one of the most greatly honored men of
all time. Though a Protestant, he had the unusual honor of a close personal friendship with
Pope Gregory XVI and with the Emperor 06
Russia. No doubt all of this was of the Lord's
arrangement, as without their sanction and
active assistance his errand would have h n a
failure, and the Bible Students of today would
have been without their greatest and most highly prized treasure, a very nearly perfect Greek
text, from which they can determine with dmost absolute certainty just what the Lord and
the apostles actually said.

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The Bible the Word of God BY Hmatius B o r u ~

"Thy thoughts are here, my God,
Expressed in words divine,
The utterance of heavenly lips
In every sacred line.
Thine, Thine, this Book, though given
In man's poor human speech,
Telling of things unheard, unseen,
Beyond all human reach.
No strength it craves or needs
Fmm this world's wisdom vain;
No Wing up from human wells
Or sublunary rain.

"A thousand hammers keen,

With fiery force and strain
Brought down on it in rage and hate,
Have struck thia.gem in vain.
Against this sea-swept rock
Ten thousand storma their d
l
Of foam and rage have wildly spent;
It lifts ite calm face still.
It stands, and still w i l l stand,
With neither change nor age;
The Word of Majesty and Light,
The Church's heritage."

STUDIES IN THE "HARP OF GOD" (ThFSWD.S

1Vlt.h Imue Number BO we began mmlng Judge RaCbcrford's new book.
Harp e t Ma*,with nrcompanyur q a i o q taung me puce ot b t b
Advanced and Juvenllc Eiib 8tOdlr Which hare been hltherto publlrhad.

"'Then unto Abraham Jehovah called and

made him the promise: "In thy seed shall all
the families of the earth be blessed." This was
another reference to the mystery; but that
promise was not understood in its proper light.
Abraham believed God would bless the human
race, but he did not ~ d e r s t a n djust the manner
in which it would be ddne. At the time of this
promise Abraham had no children. Several
years more passed and then Isaac, Abraham's
first legitimate son, was born. Abraham believed that his natural seed, his son, would be
the ruler through whom the blessing wodd
come to the people; but his son Isaac was
merely a type of the mystery, God using him
to foreshadow the greater one. This promise
was renewed to Isaac and to Jacob; and at the
death of Jacob his descendants, who of course
were descendants of Abraham, were organized
into twelve tribes, forming the nation of Israel,
and were thereafter recognized as God's chosen
nation. (Genesis 49 :28 ; Deuteronomy 26 :5)
Then it was that the faithful believed that God's
promised blessings would come through this
nation, His chosen people. But in time they
became slaves to the Egyptians and their hopes
were almost blasted. They were sorely oppressed in Egypt when God sent Moses to be
their deliverer and to lead the people of Israel
out of Egyptian bondage. Moses was also a
type foreshadowing the great One. (Acts 3: 22)
Moses died, and the promised blessing had not
yet come. The prophetic statement made by
Bfoses that God would raise up unto Israel one
like unto himself led the prophets to tmderstand that there would be raised up from the
nation of Israel a great one who would be the
deliverer and blesser of mankind.
w5Joshua followed next in line after Moses.
His name signifies savior or deliverer. But he
also was only a type of the great Deliverer.
'O"Then David beeame the king of Israel. His
name means beIoved one. The J e v s had hoped
that he would be the great deliverer, but in his
old age he abdicated the throne in favor of
Solomon, and yet the 'blessing did not come.
Solomon beeifme the most famous man in the
world for riches and w%dom, and the hopes of

Israel were centered in him, only to be disappointed. Da'vid ahd Solomon were also but
mere types of the great Deliverer.
'"The nation of Israel degenerated ;and under
the reign of Zedekiah, their last king, they fell
into captivity to the Babylonians; and they
continued subject to other nations until they
were finally driven out of Palestine.
-Moved by the holy spirit of God operating
upon their minds, the holy prophets .testified of
the coming of.'this great Deliverer, both of His
sufferings and of His glory that would follow;
but they did not understand. The matter waas a
mystery to them. (1Peter 1:11) Even the
angels pf heaven sought to l001i into it, but
they were not pe?xnitted. Goci's purpose was to
keep the matter secret until His own due time
to reveal the great truth.
, QUESTIONS ON T H E HARP O F WV'
What great promise was made nearly two thousand
years after the expubion from Eden? Quote tbe
promise. 304.
Did the promise havewference to the mystery of God? and was it understood then? 304.
Did Abraham understand the promise? 1304.
Did Abraham have any children at that time? f1304.
Through whom did Abraham expect the blessing to
come to the people ? fi 304.
What wae expected through the ~ e e dof Abraham? 1304.
What effect did the Israelites' enslavement have upon
their hopes ? 1304.
Whom did God e n d to deliver the laraelites from
Egypt ? and whom did he typify? 304.
What &ect did Moses' prophetic statement have upon
the people with reference to the One of whom he
was a type? fi 304.
What is signified by the name Joshua? and of whom
was Joshua s type? r[ 305.
Who was the beloved king of Israel? and what did the
Jews hope would come through him? 1306.
For what was Solomon famous? r[ 306.
What became the condition of I s d under the reign d
Zedekiah ? 11 307.
Did the prophets who testified of the coming of
siah understand their testimony ? fl308.
Were the angels of heaven permitted to undemtand?
1308.
W h y did God keep this mya llccret? 308

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A promise backed up by such authority gives assurance of ita fulfilment.

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by

HE Literary Digest notes in the Brawley, henceforth be a Christian church to the extent
California, News an article in which the that it should never b l k o r sanction another
editor of the News comments on the effort made war, and 'should a t once abolish military train-

bv automobilists to avoid license plates in which ing in its college# and universities.
A Lithuanian gentleman by the name of Litowsky is in America, giving exhibitions of ltia
%re
must be something wrong with our churches, skill in remembering numbera His explanation
-h,
riena
wtutioru.
md duatiod
aothOri- is that he associatea the numbers with the colors
Thb b the k e ~ *O aocce811
tier dfter two thousand years of Christianity, after of the spedof
evew
mnemonio
s m e q bat there are people
five hundred years of modern civilization, and after one
hm&&
g m of
d h u ~ ~it tstill
, oppern who are naturally gifted with most extraordithat in America we have s large c b a who at heart am nary mnemonio powera The hbtorian Macaalsy
pagans, believing in qcmke, incantatiom, msgic n u - vould read a poem once and for s long tima
bers, s i p , and witchcraft Fear k the basis of t b afterward repeat it verbatim; while the Italian
P a w wo*~.
F a
~~~ of d d , and
librarian, Magliah&& literally never forgot
drag on civi.ljzationJ*
anything. He could read a book at any h
e
,
The Digest was right in drawing attention to and afterward repeat the contents of the book
this editorial in the Brawley News. Fear ir a word by word, from beginning end, without a
mistake. During the Middle A m it was chimed
curse on mankind ; it is a drag on d-tion.
But this curse and drag could be at once re- that in one of the Central E*opeaa countries
moved if those who an, and should and do, there were four thousand men who could repeat
know the meanings of the words sheol, h&s
the entire Bible by rote, without an error.
and gehema, and who know full well that these
A n investigation by the Save a Life League
worda do not in the remotest sense of the word of New York dty shows that between 15,000
signify torment of nny kind, even temporarily, and 16,000 persons committed auicide in the
to anybody, would abandon their "professional United States during the last year, 2,000 of
ethics" and tell the people the truth. Nothing whom were disabled soldiers, left in sickness '
could be more wholesome; nothing could be and poverty because of the wholesale graft in
more helpful to mankind.
the Veterans Bureau.
The 500 Methodist young men and women,
representing 110,000 Methodist students in ml- ~ u s i n - - m W * % n '
leges and universities, who met a t Louisville,
T J S ~ SiaS beginning to
0e in the
April 18, 19 and 20, disturbed things in the
united states, aa is o.d
ddaring the
M. E. Church greatly by their demands for of a presidential election. In the month of '
continuous employment for labor, and for a &ril, 60,000 men lost their jobs; and, ar
constitutional amendment prohibiting child la- always the case rnder
mnditioM wager
b~r,.by their protest against the use of injunc- began to f& The total
in &ml18
tionn in industrial disputes, by their demand for the month amounted to about $2,000,000.
for public control of public utilities, and by These figores are based upon a survey of 8,242
their demand that tk:! Methodist Church should establishments.
the number thirteen or any combination of that
number appears. It qnotea the News aa saying:

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Profib in aapper are Iarge. The Anaconda
Copper Company made a net profit last year of
nearly $9,000,000 after all el-penses mere paid.
The profits of the Southern Pacific Railroad
for last year were more than $.14,000,000. The
profits of the International Harvester Company
for 1923 were over $10,000,000. The net profit
of the steel trust for the first quarter of 1924
was more than $50,000,000. The profits of the
Timkin Roller Bearing Company for the h t
quarter of 1924 were abont $2,000,000;and of
the Underwood Typeariter Company, about
$l,oOo,~.
A novel experience is reported from Springfield, Missouri On Saturday, May 10; there wan
a run on the Union National Bank of that 60.
The d e r telegraphed to St. Louis and Kanaas City for help. Kansas City responded by $100,000 cssh, hastily collected on Saturday
afternoon, not a very good time to obtain
money; while St. Louis did the phenomenal
thing of collecting $400,000, and sending i t by
aeroplane, surely a new way of delivering
money.
- The greatly increased use of automobidea in
the United States, an increase estimated at five
million machines in 1924 over 1923, has created
such a demand for gasoline that oil profits, very
amall 8 year ago, have now jumped again to
large figurea The Standard Oil Company of
Indiana reports $4l,000,000 profit for the first
quarter of 1924, after all charges were paid
An indication of the growth of automobile
t r d o in New York city is provided in the fact
that in 1916 there were in the entire city about
forty-five persons per motor vehicle, while at
present there are abont fifteen. In other words,
there are about three times as m y machines in
the streetr now as there were seven yearn ago.
Those who have been studying the problem estimate that in another seven years there will be
in New York i t y about eight persons per motor

vehiclet.

0-SL P o a c J ~
VERY year the postal semice delivers on
an average 112 letters to every man, woman
and child @ the United States, and over 100
newspapers, parcels or other articles Every
hour of every day in the year, 1,4C:0,000 letters
are dropped into the letter boxcs. To handle
this work requires a total of about 351,000 em-

Bmon;nr, N. t

ployes. One-half of all the fanners in the country get their mail by rival free delivery. During the year 1923,65,000,000 letters were camed
by aeroplane. There are over 5,000 postal cars
in the American mail service. I n 1857 it cost
$2.04 to send a letter to Australia; today it
costs five cents, and a letter may be sent to
New Zealand or to the Philippines for only two
cenfa. The post otlices in the United States uao
70,000 quarts of ink annually, and half as many
quarts of mucilage. Six million yards of canvas are used mmally to make the new mailsacks required.
10th in supposed to ba the day for
MAYplanting
(gardm throughomt the North.

It is safe to say that there were no gardem

planted in-thevicinity of Daluth, Minnesob, on
that date; for only two days previous the streeta
and sidewalks of that city were m e r e d with
aluah, and the air was filled with m o w f h k a
At the same time thirteen ahipa wexe j
d
in the ice in the harbor.
We are very sorry for the people of Caliionia, where the epideqia of footand-month disease is raging among the cattle and sheep of
Lo8 b g e l e s County. Human beinga
not very
apt to contract the disesse, although it ia quite
common among childre& The d i m ia sd&m
fatal. Mi& from infected cattle ie rendered d e
for use only by boiling o r pasteurkatiop.
Dr. Richard T. Ely, Director of the Institate
for Research in Land Emnomica md Publie
Utility,has pointed out that in Chester' County,
Pennsylvania, taxes are now absorbing sixtysix percent of the net rent of all farms which
are rented for cash. This is taken to mean that
unless something comes soon to help the farmer,
the Government, by taking the entire income of
the land, will have taken the value of the land.
A woman in Madison, New Jersey, in answer
to an advertisement undertook to raise rabbitr
for their fur and for food purposea She started with nix rabbits, and at the end of a year
had nine hundred. But parties who had agreed
to buy the fur and the rabbit carcnses a t seven
dollars each, failed to keep their promise; and
she went into banlmptcy, the rabbita in the
meantime having destroyed e v e q living
on her farm.

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Ccmrrc

BhTADA is now to have some excitement

similar to the entertainment we have been
having at Washington. Senator J. D. Taylor, of
Vancouver, British Columbia, hae accused the
Canadian Government of using its merchant
marine on the P a d c Coast for smuggling
liquor into the United States. He charges also
that Government officials in Vancouver have
anspired together to defraud marine insurance
companies, that they are reeking with graft,
that dishonest employhs are promoted, that
honest employes are dismissed, and that every
attempt at an investigation has been thwarted
by the activities of officials higher up. The
Prime Minister of Newfoundland is also involved in liquor graft scandals.

Argentina
T H E curious news comes from Argentina that
the Argentine Government has been so dictatorial toward the Vatican that the Vatican
desires a separation of church and state, which
Argentina is not willing to grant. This is the
exact opposite of the situation in Portugal some
years ago, where the Pope then npon the throne
made the most strenuous objections to the proposed separation of church and state in that
country. I t is well known that in h e r i c a the
Vatican seeks, and desires and would heartily
welcome, aa much union of church and state as
i t can obtain.
The students in Argentina universities have
banded together, and succeeded in obtaining the
dismissal of all professors who seem to them to
be reactionary, out of touch with the spirit of
the times.

Great Britain
HE following is from the pen of Ramsay

T
ain,

MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britwritten on December 15, 1915:

'When war break8 out, Chidhi9 u defeated; but

that u no justification for ita snnender and its joining
fh4 -Y.
The temper of hate a d l e g which r i m
d k g wu,a d
hrnds
the wu
a
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checked from
and in Chd
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lim;
fh
of rational thoughtfalnesa and r e h t i o n npon the erron
it,
brought wrr,ad the dm
whichsill
been the messaPe of & &her than relidous
* bodies; the guarrlianunhiP of honest inquiry and s&,

e--b

which ite own b r y h.r b d e d o m to thr Chriati

community, hu been vindicated not by it but by t h o a
opposing. R ir tht neglect which muh the Mure d
the church today, md makes the mnp d Chrirtmu.
tima A Cain'r ercrifice."

Prime Minister MaoDonald haa done the

courageous and manly thing to urge the world,
or at least that portion of the world invoked
--Genhany, France, Great Britain, Italy, and
Belgium- to adopt the Dawes report complete
and put it into operation immediately. Mr.
MacDonald made this proposition within h e n ty-four hours after studying the report.
Britain has once more decided against a protective t a s , this time by a vote of 317 to 252.
An attempt in the British H o w of Cornmom
to nationalize the ooai mines hm been defeated
by a vote of 264 to 168.
The English King has rigned the agmment
for a treaty ertablishing a twelvwnib firnit
within which liquor-laden vcuuda app&
tbr
American e a s t a t their own ria,
Reports from London are that the Brit*
Qovernment han almost d'ecided upon the amstmction of a tunnel under the English Channel
in order to relieve the unemployment situation.
The plan is that the British build half the trmnel, and the French the other half. A French
company is ready to begin work as soon as it
is certain that the British C)overim3ent d
la p
prove the undertaking. I t is proposed to hate
in the center a-chamber which can be h x I e U
by either side in case of an emergency.
I t is estimated that the Dover-to-Calais tunnel could be completed in about six yeam The
channel rock is of soft chalk. The estimated
cost is $300,000,000. When the tunnel is cornpleted, only six hours will be required to go
from London to Paris by train.

aeb*
E HAVE p r e v i o d y called attention to
the deplorable condition of the 4!5,000
peoplewho go to make up the p o p h t i o n of
the Hebrides Islands, off the weet ooart of
Scotland, For two years there has been a
cession of bad weather in the Hebrides, making
it impossible to raise or harvest any cmopa The
British Government is now endeavoring to move
about one-third of the population to Western
Canada, so as to enable the d d e r to earn

a living. The Hebrideans sre loathe to leave

their native land; and many times after full
arrangements have been made for their departare, they abandon the idea of emigration and
return to their cottagen

hznce

THE

New York World says of the new party

that has come into control of French affairs, that "they are the thoughtful French
middle class, whose principles of internal policy
fall midway between the Socialists and the Beublicans. They oppose the iduence of big
L n e s s and of the thud in government, and
they also oppose the reactionary press?
The election shows that France has gone back
to her prei-war democratio liberalism, with a
completeness which has surprised even the most
successfd oandidates. Bs a result of the defeat
of M. P o i n d there was a sudden and heavy
fall in the value of the French frana, and a h
- in the Belgian frana Normally worth twenty
cents each, the French franc haa been down to
about five and a half cents, and ,the Belgian
franc to about four and a half cents. .
Senator Borah says that the defeat of M.
Poincar6 creates the brightest outlook in EUrope that we have had for a long time. He
adds: T h e course of England, the wise, farseeing, courageous policy of Prime 'Minister
MacDonald, and now the course which seems to
be initiated in France, may possibly lead even
the United States out of its war trance, and
atwe na to adopt a tolerant and constructive
foreign policy also." Hopeful man!
The drift toward the control of public affairs
by the common people becomes more and more
accentuated year by year. Until 1910 France
and Switzerland were the only republics in
Europe. Since then Portugal, Russia, Germany,
Austria, Greece, and Turkey, as well as China,
have become republics. Britain has come under
the control of a Labor Government; while
France, Denmark and Sweden have become Socialistic In the United States the present drift
is away from a continuance of government by
Mr. Morgan's U. S. Chamber of Commerce to
government by the people
Despatches from Jernsalem report that several weeks ago, when the natives under French
control in Syria refused to pay taxes, French
airplanes bombed and destroyed sixty villagee,

killing men, women and children indiscriminately. If this report is tme, it becomes one of the
greatest horrors of the time of horrors in whiah
we live.
The Ncrtior, reporta that in the section of
France which was devastated by the World War
an era of grafting has been going on unequaled
by anything before known in history. I t citer,
the shining example of a sugar refinery which
waa bought for 335,000 francs early in 1914.
The refinery was destroyed by war. The cornpany that had bought it asked for damages to
the amount of 10,000,000 francs, and actually '
received 7,000,000 francs-a little more than
twenty times what the property had mst. The
same company received 3,000,000 fm-ca indemnitpfor another factory purchased for 275,000
francs ;and it received 2,000,000 francs for damages to other properties, the actual datuagw
having amounted to only 240,000 f
m The
current procedure is for the common peoph of
France to pay these preposterous claim, awl
then French politicians endeaver to collect tham
from Germany as legitimate reparatiom drrimt

6
seems to be a slight difference beTHERE
tween Germany and the Reparations Commission as to the amounts which Germany hsr
paid toward reparation. The Commission pub
lished a statement showing that up to the end
of 1923 the Germans had paid eight and onehalf billion gold marks ;while at the same time
the Berlin Government issued a statement that
the payments amounted to sixty billion gold
marks. The reasons for these differences of
opinion are too intricate for examination here,
but the general report says:
'?)yafter d a ~ between
,
September, 1919, and JULUt
q 11, 1923, a coal train of 6 f t y cam crwaed the &F
man frontier every qnarter of an hour, dl for the pup
pose of mpplying French, Belgian and Italian indue
tries, without my amaidemtion in retarn. This aar
hudly an indiation of bad faith on the p u t of Germany; and the#, cosl deliveries, which amounted in
round figto a t o h l of 54,000,000 bna, am only
small psrt of the vut tribute that Gemany hu paid
to its former e n d e a from the conclusion of the umi,
tics down to December 31, 1921. Such m o r m o ~pay~
ments Y & m y hru made in four ~earrand- tbr
treaty of V e d a have never beifom b e m nuda a
impo#d upon my people in hbt~q.'@

-ra;.zlrw

a GOLDEN AGE

Statistics compiled by ths Bankers Trust

Company ahor that th. present wealth of the
trenb nations that engaged in the World War
L n o r almost exactly one-h.lt of what it was
before the war omorred The wealth o? Germany haa decreased from $80,000?000,000 to
)5J@%000,000. The
of
Britain
and her colonies has increased from $140,000,w,000 to $149~000,000?00~.
The lwealth the
United States has increased from $200,000,000,000 to $230,000,000,000; while that of France
.remains unchanged at about $60~000,000,000.
An American returning from Berlin states
that meals alone in that city now cost about
$20.00 s day.
At this time there are 300,000 miners on
strike or locked out in the mining districts of
the Ruhr and Saxony. The miners demanded the
seven-hour day and increased wages, and in consequence the mines were closed by the owners.
The ~
P P kP
nt
made Over from
,
top to bottom, and is now quite busily employed
making lommotives, agricultural and textile
m a h e r y , osbra%sters? automobiles, giant
steam shovels, and so on down to and i n d u h g
such emall articles as needles and pins. There
. are Sty-three thousand workers at the Krupp
Plant.

Denmark
W H F E other oomtria are talfdng about
and
dlsamament,Denmark has
completely disarmed. I t has a national militia
of 55,000 which codd be O r g h e d for use inan
emergency, but ha8 dkOntinued
army.

standing

Cz6~ho-Slovakla T
H
E Government qf Czecho-Slovakia is a a
tivelY engaged in breaking UP the greater
estates w i k her border. Within the past year,
350 estates am0RIlting to about 500,000 tlCIX8
have been broken up into smaller portions of
land The owners of the large estates are bdng
recom*=ed for the holdings thus taken from
them.

Awtricr

O N L Y a few reeks ago it was widely reported

that Austria was rapidly recovering from
the effects of the World War. Different reports

618

are now current. In the effort to depmn the

g ~beyond
t
h e n o h franc%the banken of
th*r depth, with the result that sdcider m o =
are now mattem of m y o c a u r e n a Add i t i o d ~a, o*
wave SWW*~ Over that
country.
There
has
of poisonings Soieides h.ve been
besoan epidemic
frequak th.t &
of suicide were r-ntl y reported i.one
Ilight; and in the oity of Budapest, H-ry,
there were 105 sdcides in a single
-

Romxaaiu
IT IS reported that the entire Boumanian
been
including all the .
pp to forty
of age; and tbthoatilitie8 are about to break oat between Bonmania
and
--

,,,

h i Q

ESPATCHES indienta s very aomidorable

immigration of various sorts into Bussia,
United
hdnding group of OO1onhtgfrom
States, hmanyp S~tzerIsna,
bda,
Th, ,ttlen
u. -P*g
podom of
great estates ahid w e n b m h n up by the 90howviet revolution. By my of
fnrther immigrstion imm amark
forbiddenThe name of the city which was once St. Petersburg, and subsequently Petrograd, har been
changed once more by the R e a h . It is now
d d Leningmd Despat&n fLeningrad
declare that in the graves of persona of wealth
who
buried in xUssia
a h d d years ago,
there were found pasports
by the bishop
of St. Petersbnrg, requesting St.Peterto admit
the bearer to heaven and to the full enjoyment
of all its privileges thereafter forever, without
any hindrances. It might be added that although these passports w e n signed by the
bishop, they would have been just an 4cient
3 they had hensigned by a newsboy, a bootbor s bewhiskered seller of vo&
The idea that any
being has any
by which he urn prevail upn S t Peter
or Mq or Jesm or
elre to obG,,
indulgences or other favors for some purchaser
is as fooliah aa the carrying of a rabbifa foot.
All ULt can bs .aid for such a stheme h that it
helps the circulation of money; for it maamplishes nothing else.

,,,,,

a GOLDEN AGE
~ R l t a t i n c d l c ~ o p o t a m i a. rYIt PIS* not content with having aup
pressed the Caliphate, thus ousting Mohammedanism from ita throne, has now decided,
the newspapers say, to oust the heads of the
Greek Church, the Armenian Church, and the
Jewish Church from Constantinople. He ac-

cuses these institutions of being enemies of

progress and hotbed6 of political intrigaes, o p
posed to the welfare of the Turkish Republic
Surprising stories come from the Sinaitic
Peninsula to the effect that it is possible that
parts of the original ten commandments, writ- ten by the finger of God and broken by Moses
a t the foot of Monnt Sinai when he discovered
the people in idolatry, may have been found
The reputed discoverer, Dr. Flindere Petrie, has
a world-wide reputation for scholarship, having
made many interesting dimveries in conneotion with the witness to the Lord in the land of
Egypt; namely, the Great Pyramid, mentioned
'
in the nineteenth chapter of the prophecy of

Isaiah.
Another discovery, perhaps even more aignifiermnt, is that of a library of tablets occupying
forty rooma in the city of U,
the oldest capital of Babylon, founded immediately after the
Flood
China

China and Japan are making wonderBOTH

ful strides in the adoption of Esperanto.

are urging that they be given their immediate

freedom on the following gramda : That they
established a Republic hventy-five yearn ago,
which was supplanted by a colonial d g i m
without their consent; that the Filipinoa had
practical control ef the Islands during tho
World War; that the g o v e m e n t of the Philip
has functioned successfully in the hen&
of the natives ;that the present administration
there is reactionary and militaristic; that government a t a distance ia difIicult; and that the
House Committee of insular affain has voted
in favor of Philippine independence. The arguments offsetting this are generally of a financial sort, which evidently should not have much
weight where questions of liberty are involved.
The P r e ~ d e nof
t the Philippine Senate, 1Y.lc
nd Quezon, d
m that the Filipinos tlwrrselves can. supply all the capital thep mod bo
develop their natural reaonraer. M b Mica
Park, of California, always in the foreffort; d
every good cause, war one of the apeaEsn .t
the hearing in Wanhington in behalf of Pbifig.
pine independence.
In the effort to h d eome argument agrind
Philippine independence, the vice-president of
the American Chamber of Cornmens in the
Philippines indicated where his heart nsr in
the statement that the withdrawal of American
sovereignty from the Philippines would be the
beginning of the end of hglo-Saxon inflnonee
in the Far East, in India and in Egypt. In
other words, we may suppose that it d d mark
an end of the British opium monopoly. Well,
suppose it should, what of i t ?

There ia now an Esperanto University in Peking, with about two hundred students from all
parts of China, Siberia and Japan. All the
lessons are given in Esperanto. I n Japan,
Esperanto teachers are traveling from place toMERICANS who have been in Japan an
place, forming classes and giving lectures conconvinced that war between Japan and tho
tinuously. In China there is a number of d o o b
United
States is coming soon. So many h r i which have course in the new l a n e .
cans were eager to leave Japan, when the d h
cussion of the Japanese exclusion waa at ita
HROUGCH their spokesman a t Wasbingtob, height, that the steamshipe were overcrowded,
JIr. Manual Roxos, speaker of the Philip and thousands of people were d l e to got
pi* House of Representatives, the Filipinos away.

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An

~stro&d

Feast at the Observatory BY Mrs. E.

BRmG you an invitation to the observaI

tory." With these words I waa greeted by
Dr. Minatti, a physicist, with whom I was
46

ac-

(~*br~r?

magnitude, then gradually decreases in bright.

neas. Now, however, we nee it juat in its moot
beautiful deep red luster, which does full jastim
to ita name Mira, the wonderful. Yet after a few'
weeks it is no longer discernible to the naked
eye. It belongs to the class of a o d e d variable
star5 auiong which we distinguish three diiferent varieties; the Mira -'the
Lyra tJpe,
and the Algol type. There are known today
hnndrede of variable atam of the Mira type,
whoae variability, it in assumed, is traceable to
spots, the same as are shown also at times
our sun ,
"Stara of the Algol type give forth a white
Light The m e d caase for their variability
is that planets rotate around them and temprarily darken them to our eyea The iixed rrbr
.
Algol-the k a k d it monster, devil--'n - "the aonstellation Penem, is in dl probability
a giant mmA
Looking at the deep md @owingMira afbets
me pecnliarly. Doea not the singer rnninhcall
Prinae of Life ~~~~~~~~Inaiah 9:
T o me," remarked Professor Xylsrrd, "it ir
a symbol of the glowing love of the Eternal God, .
like a blooddrop out of the ocean of love.''

quainted. "There," he continued, "we will meet

Professor Xyland, who is en route to his, and
who is making only a brief sojourn here. But
hurry, as we shall be called for immediately;
and probably we shall stay up there over night"
To me this meant a great treat The famous
physicist, Professor Xyland, was not only a
man of great learning, but, moreover,-a devout
Christian.
Hardly mas I armed with notebook and pencil, when the automobile which was to take ria
to the observatory came into sight.
I t was a wonderful evening. The weat was
still dipped in gold and purple, from the Isst
rays of the sinking sun, but not for long; for
hardly an hour later the blue silk of the eeltial dome waa decorated with stars.
I n less than an hour we were at our destination, where we met Professors Xyland and
Hennach, as well as a young student of physics,
Eugene Bergolf. After the introduction and
exchange of greetings,-Dr. Minatti whispered
to me: "Professor X ~ l a n die hst our man. '
Like none other he Gderstands how to point
out the glories of the Creator and to help others The Splsndor oftha Storr
LOUD exchgiation of admiration interto see His wisdom. Just ask him questions. I
rapta the epeaker, induced by the msjertie
wiIl make memoranda of ail in your noteb~ok.~
in t h e ' i n a h That sounded promising, as the golden atara Slrim, which had been
beamed don upon me; and involuntarily 1. menL In blnish-white splendor tbia mvereign
thought of the words of the great Ruler of the of light looks down to greet ~ 6 . A d l e r
world to Abraham: "Look now toward heaven, e h r - a n n rotates about it once in
7"Just imae;ine this giant ens, which exaeedr
and tell the stars, if thou be able to number
them!" (Genesie 15: 5) Happily I anticipated the brightness and warmth of our sun by air or
that this e v e e g , or rather this night, would seven thousand times!" Dr. Minatti now waa
permit us an especially deep insight into W s heard to aY. U S i r i ~ B'hmarion
travels many million kilometers daily. In a fairgreat wonder-world.
The guest stepped to the powerful equatorial, 1~ straight line, it rushes throne s-;
and
which he praised aa being a very excellent tele- became of its tmmendom speed, it overcome8
all attraction. From unknown space it cornea
noope.
'Tf it is agreeable to you," he Mid, "we could and travel8 on and on into unknown'atar-worl&
appreciate this glorions
utilize this exceptionally clear and beautiful In order to be able
night for conaideration and observation of some
in it8 full splendor, one would have to aeek
a g r d southern countries. Only there does tbismajestp
of the fixed stars." And hardly had
when he.invited ns to look at the beantifal star of 6re ahow itself in ib incomparable @cence and beauty." *
hllira, at the neck of the Whale.
"Now Arcturw mds ib light to us thm&
'adira, that is, the wonderful," explained the
Professor, "occasionally appears to us, of the telescope," the young physicist interram
oourse only for a few weeka, as a star of first hie colleague. "Tt is well known to oll of un,
s

a7

= GOLDEN

AGE

this red lovestar. Even a glance a t it with the

"It must be even many times greater than the
unaided eye makes ns conclude that it is a SM red A.rctnms," explained Professor Xyland,
d immense proportions."
'%ecause notwithstanding the enormous dislike a fired
"Yes," assents Professor Xyland, "kcturns tance, R e g n l ~b w n down
~
on
w d d actually melt our earth, if it wodd come star of first magnitude. This prince of light
near us. But quietly and majestically it runs ocm~ieaa space in the universe a@i.n~t which
its course, with its planetary princes rotating our solar system with its planeb represents
about it a t distances of thousands of millions of o n b a tiny speck of earth."
The telescope ia adjusted a little toward the
kilometers, their revolutions probably requiring
thousands of years. This king of light, accord- north; and the wonderful and most beautiful
ing to Elgin's calculations, exceeds the size of double-star of the northern hemisphere sends
our sun by 550,000 times-a red ocean of fire, its rays of light to w ; the main star, glistening
compared to which our king of the day looks in magnificent golden brilliance, is circled a b u t
like a little dwarf."
by a sapphireblue sun. The illuminating power
so great
"Looking at the innumerable worlds of light," of this m a m e l o d y beautiful star
joined in Professor Hennach, who had thus far that it can be di~emed
with the aid of the telenmained d e n t and who waa now in charge mPe even in broad k~light
of the instrument, "the thought involuntarily
It ia M though I hear the old seer h i a h
forces i t s d upon one: What immeasurable saying, Wt up your eyes on high, and behold
energies must be at the command of the Creator who hath oreated these things, that bringetll
of this universe I And for what lofty aims and out their host by number: he calleth them [these
purposes were all these glorioua wonderworks th~usandsof millio~li,of shining stars] all by
created t This thought will not leave me, Pro- names l"--Isaiah 40 :26.
%eseor," he remarked to Profeellor Xyland;
Orion I8 a United Fami&
%hat do you think of itY
"On no account do I believe; he answered,
in real it^ only the t e l e a m ~a~ectro"that these innumerable millions and millions
of suns, planets and their satellites, were created only because of their being beautifd to
look at, and will forever ma their c o w e a and
rotate abont each other without aim or purpose.
When we see how upon o w own planet active
life obtains, not only upon land but in just as
&adant profusion in the air and in the ocean
-yea, even the waterdrop is a living world in
*&
no ,
longer discernible to the naked eye,
infusoria, monads, and above all the little wheel
animalcule (or rotifier) with its wonderful little
and
body clear as crystal happily romp
be a c d t to imalong-it wodd
sgine that, mide from o m own tern, all plmetr
ahodd remain desolate and empty. I n fact, the
entire extended natural sciences speak against
t h . Kant, for instance, & thb assamption
an absurdity."
"To the telescope," calls Dr. Minatti; "Regn1- the main star in the Great Lion, a beautiful
giant sun, is looking at ns. How appropriate is
itr nam+Re&,
the 'king star'l Proudly it
W e s to na a royal greeting. This star, glowing forth in bluish white rays, has an oliveadored sun revolving about it"

BtJ'scope,
J! and photography make possible an

insight into the world of k e d stars, m e c e n t

above d conception, SO that astonishment over
the wisdom and greatness of the B d d e r of the
Udverse, e v e w h e r e manifest, b ~ ~ o m eends
less. Then first one begins to realize that it is
God's business to be Creator. Also His Divine
Word ia f d of h e allusions and suggestions
for man to listen to and to heed this symphony,
whose SOU^ waves and light waves lead to the
Z'our~tainhead itself''&lowest tho%'," the m g h t C~ ~ toS Job,
"the ordinances of heavenP "Canst thou bind
the meet iduences of Pleiades [the seven stars,
which are united into one celestial family], or
loone the bands of 0riont"Aob 38: 33931.
& apectroacopical research reveals, the constellation Orion is a united family, which is
bound together among themselves by invbible
fetters. In like manner, unknown powers and
bondr unite the far-apart suna of the Great
Bear into one mighty family of stars in the
heavens. Even to the naked eye the star-be
decked celertid dome provides an elevating
spectacle, in which Job already rejoiced. But
how would he have felt could he have discerned

'

the swarms of ehining suns, star groups, star

fogs, light fogs, light oceans, etc., through modern optical instruments! How he would have
marveled over phenomena like, for instance,
apiral fogs, where thousands of suns represent
a giant Catharine-wheel, whose direction of
revolution is clearly discernible in the form of
the rays1 An incomprehensible richness of creation discloses itself to the gaze 1
"While on my last trip to Africa," Professor
Syland interrupted the awed silence, "I often
had opportunity to observe the southern skies.
At that time the sight of a star of sixth magnitude in the Southern Cross, visible to the Maided eye only in a perfectly clear sky, interested me more than anything else. Seen thmugh
the telescope, it represents a true little jewelbox of celestial gems, compared to which the
earth is only a tiny grain of dust This wonder
star is in reality a shining astral family of one
hundred and ten sung, sparkling in beautiful
opalescence-sea blue and sapphire, ruby,emerald, violet, some sending forth rays of precious
gold and silver lustre-briefly stated, a family
of light glowing beyond measure, whose members are bound together among themselves by
various powers and bonds, and which presumably also have planets rotating about them. How
this celestial roundelay, with its magically beantifnl opalescence, praises the All-.Kise and Omnipotent Creator !"
I caught Toliman, in the constellation Centaur, upon the film. The sight of this double
em, shining in dazzling brilliancy, is overwhelming; no pietnre could possibly reproduce
its splendor. Mentally, I pictured to myself how
these oceans of light and fire are lashed into
waves thousands of kilometers high, like gigantic red and gold colored fountain8 and cataracts
of glowing hydrogen, gushing up and rushing
down again. But never will it be possible for us
human beings to behold such a dreadful, yet terribly beautiful spectacle close by; we would be
driven to flight by the terrific heat before the
flood of light could make us blind.

Tirc Must.iy of Light

HAT oceans )of light, beyond comprehenW

sion, must surround the throne of the
Most High, I thought. No wonder David declares: "Who aoverest thyself with light as
with a garment; who stretchest out the heave-

like a curtain !" (Psalm 104 : 2) Also, it nu

said unto Moses : "Thou canst not see my faas;
for there shall no man see me, and livavExodus 33 :20.
"What is light, anywayt" questioned Dr.
Minatti.
"Science ru, yet gives us no defhite mmmr
to this question," answered Professor Hennach.
"For a long time the emission theory was b
lieved, according to which the sun and also the
other tixed stars cast off luminoua mattef with
great velocity. Now light waves are asmrmed,
that are transmitted through the primary w b stance, the earth'& ether. #Nevertheleas, ewn
this theory does not explain what light ia On
the contrary, one gets into even deeper fogs 04
mystery. In the caee of light waves, one
does not know what undulates, but on no account
is it a substance, as happem with water or sir
waves.)'
"Light to this day has remaineda wondebeautiful, glowing mystery? Profensor Xyhnd
interposed, "which to ns ohildren of men pi,
turee the glory and wisdom of the Creator of the
universe in millions of waya. And the more rs
try to penetrate, the more there are revealed to
us new beauties and powera Greater miracle8
and riches come aantinually to view, and with
them even deeper, more impenetrable mysteries,
which emphasize and give nnrmcqeded meaning
to the words of the great Apostle: 'Qod dwelleth in an unapproaohable light; no man bstb
ever seen him, nor can see him'"-1
Tim. 6: 16.
"Aa far aa I know," I interrupt the depob
which ensued, "they are unable to give a satit
factory explanation of the appearno8 of tbe
beautiful polar lights. Or has science recently
made progress in this direction?"
"No appreciable progress," Professor Xylsnd
took np the question. "The electrical nature of
the polar lights, of course, ie now undoubted.
It is supposed that they are cawed by sn
illumination of the air, which originates from
cathode rays of the sun. One distinguiahee two
kinds of polar lights; ray-emitting, and the sacalled drape or mantle light, which areate
impression of a curtain mspended in the air.
"The polar lights seem to be connected in
some way with the magnetic elements of the
earth. Except for a belt about twenty-five degrees wide surrounding the equator, one a n
observe them throughout the entire earth. Self-

>EN AGE
evidently, however, they appear more frequent1 and more beautiful nearer the magnetic poles.
e disturbances of magnetic needles, so often
observed daring displry of polar lights, point
to a close connection between the polar light
and earth magnetism, although probably produced by a common cause. The color is affected
by the intensity of the phenomena; and possibly
also by the meteorological conditions of the
atmosphere. The effect of the light, as has been
observed to date, is not powerful enough to
conceal stars of first magnitude. The explorer,
G. Kennan, describes in his writings a polar
light observed by himself. Thia must have been
an extraordinarily beautiful one."

&

Dcrcription of Northma LigAtr '

A T OUR request, to a d r e for us thia description, the Professor left the following
excerpt, whioh follows here verbatim:
*

the ends of the bow tou-arda its center; and a h in tha

north a fiery giow showed itself, making the
purple
and floodingthe earth with a rowate gleam. But already
the red hsddisappeared, and an oran& colored lightning
flashed above ha with such blinding brilliance, ao though
the entire atmosphere were audddy on fire.
Y held my breath for a moment in expectation of r
terrific thunder clap, which I believed must n o r follow
thia phenomenon. But neither in the aIrJ nor upon the
earth did an7 sound break the r i l e n ~of the night 11
couldnot imagine that anything could be added to thir
beautitul spectacle. The rapidly c h g i n g red, blue,
green and yellow in the skg were reflected so vividly by
the white blanket of snow that the entire world at tima
seemed dipped in blood. Then again it quivered in r
pale greenish atmosphere, against which the g m t p q h
and yellow bows contrasted in inamcribable beauty.
"But that was not all ! While we wera watching with
unavtrted gaze, the ebbing and rising d thb urltsd
canopy of varicolored lights, the lant nJ of thb Wful revelation broke suddenly, and both boar wem h r r b
tsneody
into m y t h d parallel bema,
wch of which, in regular sumdm k e d tho am
original colm of t h qwctmm.
"From horizon to horiaon, them
n o r m e d two
broad bridga of colored beams, u p which o m ahnod
imagined the bright figurea from another world going
to m d fro. M d e x ~ t i o r ud mmmment and the
ahriek of the nstiver: 'God hmr mucy upon wl' thsw
numeroun beam n o r began to mom rapidly in dancalike faahion and shot paat each other w i t h EU& confusing
-err
that the eye could no longer follow them.

~~

'While we were yet in Anadyrsk, we had the opportunity to aar o m of the h a r t Northern Light dinplaya,
the brillisnes of which setoniebed even the nativea It
wm a cold, duk, but clear wintar night, and not a trace
of the coming phenomenon wdd be obemed in the
a r l y evening h o Serarrl
~
rap of light did flrrh up
in the north; .nd r faint glimmering, lib that of the
moon, appeared on the horizon. But thoss were
OrdUurJ. a
p h t a at ~night, however, Dodd
d e d to uu : 'Qm& I Quick f Come out P Arriving
outride, them appeued to ar r @endor of light and
colon, which kept ur completely rpallbound. The miv e m e e m d to tm on h.A gigantic bow, shining in
all colors of the priama, spanned from the eaat to the
west ;and from its convex edge a long fringe of red and
ydlm light extended toward the mnith. In h o r t interrJq puJll with thir bow, b r d light w a r n appeared
on t
b horizon, and flowed majerfially over the entire
htavmr like great cloudr of phoephoreacent light, that
rolled out of an endlem ocern of light.
''Each put od thir gnrS bow andulsttd, quivered for
r moment, changed calors; and th6 brilliant lights that
amroandad itr edge h h e d back and forth in great
curva, l i b tha flaming sword of the angel at the gate
to paradha Immediately thereafter the large Northern
Light rainbow with itr lights moved dowly towud the
h t h ; and just below the h t , a aecond bow of like
beauty formed itdf, from which a long row of colored
spew hidtowad the North Star, as if a heavenly

'

"The(~~tim&meofthe~reamedtobsa~
gro*
Ueid0wx)pcr of bttered rainboirr Nerer
would I hhve thought that a Northern Light could form
such a beautiful spectacle!; and I am not mhamtd to
admit that ib statalincsr flbd n u for tlL1 m o n a d with
a ms+sntid f e w . The entire d q ham d t h to horizon

~~a~0cea~1ofcolom&dflrq~&adr0
aarlat a d gtsen, c o l m far which hnguoqr has no wordr.
"The aigm in the slq wers n n msrdoru enough
to be herdden of a coming to end of the world Lightning of glorioar quivering color c o d half of the &y
for a moment and d i s r p m l i i sammar lightnhp;
bright green my of light shat q M y m d without
soand toward the zenith; thousan& of dored bcuar
prraad by each other in two beautiful +w4 and h w
glowing waver rolled out of space, breaking through
the ahmophere of the dark earth in long rom of &inrap
'With the dividing of the two born into uniform
ban. the Bpectacle reached the height of its beau*. The
battalion wem presenting their weapons before their firet'boa &appeared, and shortifthereafter t h e - w a d
commanding archan*
With every moment thin phb ah. The colored raga became lean frequent and paler.
nomenon unfolded its mpe-tud
beauv.
The waver of light no longer extended to the zenith;
p e rays of light revolved rapldy like the spokes of and an hour later nothing but a few dimly lighted cloudr
8 great light wheel, the bright streomr shot forth from in the dark slrJ reminded one of the Northern Light

*'KO other

natural phcnommoo ia

80

vm&r,ful, m

mystcrbtu, so k d l o in its s r r p ~ a t u rbrill+

~
t i e h'orthem Liaht. The veil which hider f ~ the
m ere
of mortals the dory of the throne 61 the Highest needla

to be lifted, m d the merent o k e r ia removed from

everyday life and imagines to atand befora &A""Tent Life

Siberia"

hundred pears we would be able to search h a d x

the thousandth part.
A Moon V b l o p o b t d w h
" F WE could observe from the moon the
playing of the sunbeam. upon our earth,
we wodd be witnesses of a fairylike.playing ob
lights. I n beautiful glittering color we would
see the earth hovering above us as our moon,
her shining lights so vividly contlnsted against
the deep black sky that we would hardly be
conscious of the night. We would there see the
beautiful earth thirteen and one-half tima .
earth.
larger than the moon viewed from
Beautifully the emerald waves of the Atlanth
Ocean would glitter W r d m, while in
water surface we would immediately
the reflection of our king of the &YO
"And mith the passing hours, the P d m
would change con tin mu^. Now we
the American Continents. A w h i b - w
seema to lie around the equator; theme ur,
masses of cloads driven bp
ocean. F a r UP north glitter the ice fiel* of the
arctic zone- And now appears a w~nderfnlPi&
trim. The V& Pacitia Ocean shin- in b e a ~ t h l
sea-green ; we even ~ m g n i z enmneidada

-I

EberZasting Life Ne-ary

ta Know Gal
plan ever to
~ T H E Rit is in
0,
as yet p m g b m an
.
&,
the wonders now concealed, will probably remain unanswered for a long time. Under a n y
circumstances, however, this will require no thing more and nothing less than mmmnxci
~JPE!" the Professor concluded.
"To Job," Professor Hennach again took up
the conversation, "the question was propounded: 'Where is the way where light dwelIethf8
Bnd again: 'By what way is the light spmad
out [according to exact translation J ?' (Job 38 :
, 39,24) Job did not answer ; and science only
makes up hypotheses concerning it."
Here Professor Xyland interrupted with the
words : "We answer to the first question: T o
Thee, 0 God, because Thou art the light P "
the wise Solomon, 'the
~
i
;
heaven and hcaven of heavens cannot contain.'
To solve this mystery, we must follow the traces in it
"And once again we
fikb a giant d k o &
of the Divine Sun, just as with the question :
the dazzling picture of our sun. Already we see
What is life ?"
m t a Being of Light, beyond comprehen- Asia and Australia coming view on the m t sion of the human mind, must the Creator be, ern edge, ~&ttering
in W Y colors; China and
whose incomplete works even, as the innmner- J ~ Pshine forth a deep green; the d w r @
able fixed stars probably are, shine in such rich, on the other hand, are yellow. After a short
glowing beauty of colors I" mused the young h e we recognize Europe, e w d aom~im~
ous Imp, which is bathing in the ahining blue
physicist.
"Even our sun alone," Professor Xyland con- waves of the sparkling Mediterranean &a. So
timed fhiB trend of thought, bfnecessity mast i t continues, while the earth indefatigably turns
light W
offer an unheard-of, overwhelming spectacle, if on its &b and thereby lets the
closer by we could admire its flaming, ruddy ever new beauties and charms; m m h g -1play into the darkness of spa=."
geysera of hydrogen, its gold-colored natrium
flames and its emerald-green copper gases, ete.
'CHOW, then," Dr..Minatti interposed, "would
What power and beauty of light this king the glorious sun Capella, which in one day sen&
contains and has around him! His wonderful forth such floods of light as our daystar does in
sparkle greets the m o r n i ~ gwith rays of gold one year, wrap the earth in a blaze of light of
and in the evening places, as if by magic, in indescribable color beauty l Or what a pleasing
the blue of the western skies a glorious purple, sight would present itself to the inhabitants of
embroidered, ss it were, with gold And what such p l a n e k i n case they are inhabited, 0%
immeasurable w d t h he givee us human beings, eoursc+where several suns of different colors
even though he lets us have only a fraction rise! What an unfathomable wonder-work ir
of his power! But even that suffices to pro- this world structure! 'Star differs from star,'
dace life so rich and varied that after many nowhere mechanical or monotoaous; incornpro-

''W

*
*

hensible complexib nnd still all complete harmony. h fact, the entire creation is a beautiful
poem made up of wonderful verses of light,
colors, forms, maadr, powers, and laws."
[Tmfessor," I interposed, "in this beauty of
creation, does our little earth not look like a
black, sinister little dot, when we think of aU
the strife and contenthe eisting misery,
tion; in short, the dark night of s i n and death,
which h u +shed
mankind now for 6,000
years 1"

He was flesh, to have given lodging to the great

Logos, now the Prince of Life; worthy slso ot
a perfect race of human beings, when every one
as a wonder of divine love reflects the image 05
the Creator, and causes joy and pleasure to the
E d e r and King of the aniverse. What, the%
does this six-thousand-year night of the permission of evil mean in the future aiona, when
every new b~-ilEanceand beauty ontdines the
~ ~ O I IhS eclipse
~
of the 8- caused by the
shadows of sin, which permit8 the sunshine ot
. divine love, wisdom, supreme power, and rightGreat Gocl,Thea We Prcrfod
eonsnesa to shine forth only the more bright 1
"HOWall powem and characteristics now dorITH flashing eyes he flared up: "Our term
then ~ r a n d d
l ~~ e l o p ,and
a dark little dot l Next to the throne of mant in man
God it is to me the brightest spot of the entire bring forth precioua fruitsf And earth i t a d
universe. For did not the mighty Logos, the will blossom in beauty never seen beforel Mart
world's Builder who created all these things not hearts be kindled in blessed rapovet
under the direction of the U ~ s tHigh, these the =tisfping joyf vary being nill b r ~ t h .
sovereigns of light and majeatiea of h
t [with love for the g r a ~ o n sCreBbr, 81
for
sparkling eyes he pointed UP to the sky with
hi, fellow creat-8 1 b d
none of the m m t
hand], did He not live here upon thia earth, dowers in the wulth of thh
gbryh
mand was it not ennobled by Him! For what other,
evw
u
bring
flewam
to
p u w s e * you dl lmow' In liLO mer*
as ila
God
by
his
o
m
&,j;and
doubtedly millions of years before the eternal
God had given ~i~ the c o m m i ~ to
o nbring praises and adoration will riae up on wine of
And He
into being these wonderful hosb of stars and lava to the throne of the
to eskblish the lam for
of them, snited to Will Open
the gates
heaven and pow out
each individually, so 1,900 yerrrs ago
new floods of blessings and atreams of love upon dl.
''Then a P w e r f d 'Te D e m ILan~Iamdwork, which He had to accomplish upon our
Great
God, Thee we praise!-will
roar and
earth, waa put before Him1
and came down to thunder all aronnd the terrestrial ball. And in
U TL~~~~
~ ~left ~i~
will join d t a n t l ~
pay the ransom for Father Adam, condemned this dl the heavenly
to death, in order to purchase back for him, and as they did at the creation of thia earthf"
thereby also for all his posterity-mankindThe words filled our hearts with solemn joy.
the Life forfeited by disobedience. Therefore, Moved and touched we took our leave d partno matter if ever so dark shadows hover about ed. The astronomical feast, which had h t e d
the earth, I already see it in the golden bra- until'four o'clock in the morning, will long reliance of future aions completed, in indescriba- main in our memories like a benediction
- from'
ble glory and beauty, worthy, in the days when heaven

hue

"The Science of the Stars "-she%

"Beyond lay stretched the b o d = univene I
There, far as the remotest line
That limits swift imagination's flight,
Un~ndingorbs mingled in ma? motion,
Immutably fulfilling
Xature's eternal law.

cgAbove,below, around,
Tha circling system formed
A wilderness of harmonyEach with undeviating aim
I n silence doquent through depths of spas
Pursued ita wondrous way,''

Pork as an Article of Diet

well known that the Jewish people
ITthisISday
do not eat pork, which i n n e of the

B y Gerald B a w y

The only command God placea upon H b

people in these respects is that they follow Hi8
example and grant full liberty to each other to
follow the dictates of their own C O ~ B W in
B
these matters.-Romans 14:!2,3,13.
The writer of this article has long wondered
what was the reason why swine were forbidden
by God to the JeJust recently he read in a
medical work some fads that fully demonstrab
the wisdom and love of God in the matter. !Che
following quotatioIi is from a work entitled"Plain Home Talk and Medical Common -'
by E. B. Foote, M. D.:
"One of the mod mmmrm caum d blood h p d t h

tr, things.

articles of food forbidden by the law of Moses.

(Leviticus 11:7,8) Our Lord Jesns when on
earth showed His perfect harmony with Hia
Father's will in this respect, not only by
obseming this c0-d
Himself, as all Jews
were required to do, but d s o by His dealings
with the man possessed with a legion of devila
(demons) which He allowed to enter into the
herd of swine, as recorded in Matthew 8: 28-34;
Mark 5 :1-20; Luke 8:2639. Jesus' action in
this respect showed His perfect harmony with
His Fatheis law.
Some might query: Why did J e m permit
the devils to .mter into the herd of swine, thua
causing a considerable loss to the owneru of the
swine? The answer to this question seems to-be
that if those Jews had been living faithfully up
to their law, they would not have been keeping
swine. Apparently they raised the swine not for
their own w e but rather to sell to their Gentile
neighbors, who had no aakples about eating
pork. But Jesus in this miracle showed that
even in doing this they had violated the spirit
of the Mosaic Law; for we cannot imagine that
Jesns would permit the wanton destruction 03
any creature or thing withont a purpose. Evidently His purpose was to show His full harmony with both the letter and the spirit of His
Father's law, and also to show them that if pork
was forbidden to the Jews a s an article of food
because it was unclean, they were not loving
,tl~eirneighbors as themselves when encouraging them in the use of it.
St. Paul clearly shows that the Gospel Church
of this age, from the first advent of Christ until
the glorification of the Church during His seeond presence, is not under the restrictions of
the Jewish law (Galatians 2 :16) ;and that they
therefore may eat without condemnation the
things that were forbidden under that law.Romans 14:14; 1 Timothy 4:35.
God thus places such under a law of liberty,
which in His wisdom He sees will best accomplish the purpose He has in view daring the
Gospel Age. Thia law of liberty in no wise forbids anyone from voluntarily foregoing the ase
of swine's flesh or anything else that one may
perceive to be injurious to health, even a~ it
plaoes no condemnation on those who nre these

..

irthsnaofpork..
A J n l ~ o f d i s l , p m t ~
btmortpernicioarinfl~ontbbblood,~EI
w i t h ~ u b a n i c d g r s d ~ i t r i T
t h
h~
hog Q not bt healthy .nimll. Fmm its birth it w .r
i n v b t e gormandizer; m d to &dy it#
B
.
*
for faod, cmvwng in dald
ga-,
dlthj,
t I n c k l o d g m a n t i n i t a a ~It**
~
ddlominifafllth,mdtWbuta~m
of=
~thereforqitirramanbQedtbrt9.am~
mdargurrhm,beanpickedupfromomp.63tht
am bodiea ue made up of the thinga we lum dun,
what porkater w i l l felicitate h h d with the
tion that mcordmg to phyaiologid terrching he L phyk
d y p a r t h o g l . . Frcrmtheeviiest~ryafrrinq
they hare been w d e d &E mom mbject to mcrofd~thrs
my o t h e r r a ; m n l . . . . a p o r t i r - r i t h
being wormy.
' l b y ua called Trichins, d t
h
d i m t h q produce i n t d m c d d e d 'Triahl

(IPQ

...

...

nimk'
"rhe parasites are a,minute t
& they an mrb tbsir
way to any part of the ydem
' m c h m d a took
in
the form of sn epidemic in mme psrb of
1865, and handled a grest many people on tht dde ad
the Atlantic very roughly.
A ken* inndig&
ing committee in CIlicago reported hrriag found in
twelve hundred hogs elsughtend that one in *-eight
raa affected with a p d b ; m d the rdriee d that
committee waa that in cooking pork the Trichina k
thoroughly m k e d to derrth.1 160 Flhranhait ru
thought d c i m t to do thir
The dhawery af th.
T r i h and the fahlity *ding
their trrrrrmtdon

. .. . . .

...

...

tothehamansysteminmrnf~dltedin.n~
controversy between pork lovera and pork haterr
"At bt
of the Berlin Butchad Am&tim, a
medical profemor net forth the bed msrnr to btroid the
q r d o f T r k b d a HerrrfalIowedbyrmkiaaq
surgeon, Dr. Urban, rho denounced the whola excita
m a t u unfounded, and offed to eat my mount ad
. ..
Tmbmdpork. B u t r h a r l i c e a f p o a k r d a c t b d

GOLDEN AGE
.

with the parasite- waa offered hiw, h~ as taken aback.

It ia report4 th.t he dsclined, 'but the jeen of the
meeting having to&
him, he took a little nibble at
the proffered slim, and h M y left the room. He
proceeded to a neighboring I?hamint a d d m i n b d to
hi=lf so violent an emetic that ths learned doctoir
friends need labor under no rpprehenaiom rn to hia
safety.'
"Still there seemed to be thom who, while admitting
the esistence of the paranits in pork, claim that it u
entirely harmleas if the pork k thoroughly cooked. It
is undoubtedly true that the epidemic c h u d a r of
Trichinhia in Germany proceeded from the habit of the
people of eating raw pork, ham, and saussga My own
opinion is that after r cooking Trichins are not liable
to revive in the human spstem, unlesr there am impurittcr to nouriah them and'to favor their remucitation and
reproduction.
If a man be m f u l o w , or have other
impure dectiom of the blood, ths Trichinr am liable
to be reaumitated and n p d u c e d in the aptem, no
may be b t e d , &ort d d d u k
mattar how much
rcorchbg.
"If it k urged that there am a n h d d a in water,
vegetables, rad wrything we eat, when vi&ed through
the micmsmpe, then I reply that thom conin
wakr md vegetable matter are readily destroyed u mon
u they come in contact w i t h the ga&h juica of the
rtomsch, while pcunsiter existing in the flesh of animals
ue not thur destroyed. Erperimenta have demonatrated

.. .

. ..

that the eggs of the latter may be even dried and

without destroying their life; and that taken into thr
stomach in thia condition, they go through the proof incubation almost aa readily M it they had not been
cooked or dried The animalcuh of water and of vegb
tabla have no wch tenacity to lita The mildest of acid
or sllrrlinr? solutiom will destroy them.
'?t is not improbable th.t Tri&,
after entering
the dmach, an, mmetimea transformed into other
wonnu It hru been contended that ths t r p a o r m
troubla only thore who eat pork; and further, that the
Hebrews, who do not eat the flesh of awine, are never
troubled with this parasite; that d o e fed to any estent
on pork are mbjed to it; and t h t experiment# on r
condemned cruninrl, made by M. Kudmmehhr of
Zittoria, 'with great professional care and minutenof detail, have established the fact beyond contradiction
that an erclusi'~elypork diet will produce tape-worm.'
"But them are unqueatiod1j pork atera rho ban
no apparent dineem whatever. Although tb &W
impuritieu of their die4 find 1,tremain
I . ~ t i n t h e i r r y ~ d ~ e r m ~ # c d t
thair ohildran without manifesting thenMdvm in tho
puent stock..
It may be r quation of no little
imporbce, how much the d h a a a of young msn in
villsger and citiea .re derived fmm porkcrtbg prugeni-'
ton, who pursued tha healthful occupation of tilling the
soil and feeding the pig."-"Medid
Common -"
pcyes 5 6 6 5 .

..

The Vapors Obey God'a Law

HEBE are many in the world today who

understand the wonders of nature ;but they
are few who see and appreciate it as a manifestation of God's wonderful character, as J o b
expresses it after viewing some of the works
of nature: "Lo, these am part8 of his ways;
but how little a portion in heard of him!"Job 26 :14.
Perhaps of all God's work the rain is the
most abused. But let us trace its course and
see that it, a s well as all other works, magnifies
the great Creator.
The vapors which rise from the surface of the
sea, drawn upward by the heat of the tropical
sun, bear the cooling influence to the heated air.
The vapors now begin their circuit around the
earth, carried by the steady trade-winds to the
regions of eq~atbrialcalms, that wonderful belt
of heat and accumulated moietnre, and are there
met with breezes which, in like manner, are
traveling north. These opposing winds are
hden with vapors from the two hemispheres,

BY ~ o r o t h yAMY

(~ngtond)

as the Psalmist says: "He canseth the vapors

to ascend from the en& of the earth." Each
has its mission, and works according to an
appointed law.-Psalms 135:7 ;148:8.

l%e F o e of Rain Dm*

T IS the province of the vapors to aury the
exhalations from north and south into the

upper strata of atmosphere, where the circnmfusion of moistare over the earth in made with
greater velocity and freedom. b MJon as the
vapors enter the more temperate atmosphere
their particlee expand and portiona of ehem
cling together in dropn. Thns as these drop
become heavier, the condensation forms cloudn,
until there is a rainfall.
Some of the moisture-laden currents of air
rest high above the earth and s e g so high indeed that they in no way interfere with the
winds below. The vapors are borne along by
the upper currents of air, which carry them
forward on their journey of. beneficence and

We take a great deal for granted in thir

never-ceasing good But this is only a portion
world and expeet that, as a matter of course,
of the career of the vapors of the s e a
Man may say that divided interests are the everything should fit into our humon; and
ruin of fools, but Wd'a work shows that ex- wishes and wants; and it is often only when
tended ones are the glory of the wise. At the danger0 threaten that we awake to the discovnext meeting at the outskirts of the tropics ery that the guiding reins are held by One who,
mth travelers like themselves coming in oppo- in our careless ease, we had well-nigh forgotten.
rite directions there is renewed pressure of the
When the vapors pour into the earth as 'rain,
opposing breezes which makes these vapors de- or Beep into it as moisture, the soil gives off
scend, to be dispersed by the surface winds on --gases. The roots of the trees, plants, eta, draw
their course of usefulness to man. Taken up them together and, feeding upon them, expand
by all the variable breezes that sport over the and flourish and grow. When this useful deed
northern hemisphere, there is no direction in is done, and when the sun ahines out in all his
which they are not to be found. A portion w>s heat and glory, again the rain is changed into
wanted here, another there. The snow of Ice- vapors, this time taking with them the saltr,
land, the vineyards of Italy, the orange groves lime, and mineral virtues upon which the ahella,
of Spain, and the river which pours over.the coral reefs, and e p h y t e a of the deep, iepend. .
mighty rocka at Niagara, must all be fed at
their appointed seasons.
TheMinionoftheLk~
Bnt the eye would weary which strove to look
HEaE is a mission for every portion; even
sympathizingly over the vast expanse of the
through the saturated ground the rainglobe, Let us now make a mental picture.
drops sink together amidst root8 and rtonea
and-soil, rnoist&ing all before them and replen~ G r o u n d ~ 8 ~
N THE summit of a mountain, over the ishing the springs that run among the hi&rides of which the gorse and heather are Psalm 104:10,ll.
Thunfromageto age,sinoetheprimarymhh
wont to grow and flower together in bright profusion with their beautiful intermidme of hues, wmt up from the sea and watered the face of
all the gromd was parched and dry; a enmmer the whole earth, the mighty work hadl gone on
For not
drought ruled over the spot, and the withered and on, and still continues it^ 00flower beds bore painful witness to the fact. to idlenew and M v i t y do the vapora now
The pretty, tumbling waterfall fed by the mtum, but only to commence afred their labor
atmama from the hills was reduced to a miser- of love, through all the varieties of accidents
able trickle. The farmers wore a gloomy, anx- of climate and of p L w h e t h e r an snow or
ions look which told of a thousand feara about hail, showers or dews, M floods, sp-,
rivers
the crops and cattle. (Surely this teaches us or sea& The waters are still obediently tciltillthe lesson that whether ~d
or great all are ing His word who called them into being.
dependent on each other.) But while thus troub0 ye showers and dens; 0 ye winds of God;
led, relief was coming from afar.-Psa 104:13.
0
ye ice and snow; 0 ye seas and f h d a , even
Traveling toward them upon the wings of the
when
man is mute and forgetful, ye bless the
wind, vapors from the tropical seas were coming
Lord,
and
praise Him and magnify Him forever t
as clouds, to fall ae gracious rain and dews upon
the thiraty earth. They are variable and fantas"There * a Ood--aU Nature epe&,
tic winds that conrse over the northern hemiThrough earth and air and seas and &a:
sphere, but not steady and uniform in their
See! from the cloude His glory breilrr,
direction, as the trade-winds in the tropics.
When the Grst beam of morning rts.
Therefore we cannot reckon on their arrival to
a day, nor to a qonth; but on their arrival at
"The rising mn, serenely bright,
Zaet we may always surely depend. Perhaps in
O'er the wide mrld'a extended firm,
this trial of patient expectation a lesson of
Inscribes, in charactem of light,
great faith is intended to be learned.4ob 38 :

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25-27.

Hia mighty W

r glorio& name.''

- Revising the Dictionary

0 PRODUCE an effed there must first be

a cause. Broadly speaking, all effects obtained can be divided into two great divisions,
good and evil. Good effects are produced from
true causes. A true =use itself has for its
foundation a right principle. It is-based on
reason.
When Jehovah, God of the whole universe,
ssys to His people: "Come, let aa reason together," He is wishing to shm them the effecta
produced from causes based an eternal truths.
All good causes and their resultant effects are
inherent in Jehovah God, "the Giver of every
good and perfect gift."
On the other hand, evil effects have fortheir
genesis evil causes. Thua evil causes and their
deda are the stock in trade of Satan, "the god
of this [present evil] world." He is the father
of every evil gift, including all the cant,humbug,
deceit, and misery rampant among the children
of men.
In the production of both good and evil
effects, language playa a greater part than is
usually acknowledged. Worda are the vehicles
used to convey thoughts. The power of speech
is one of humanity's greatest boons. It came
dire& to father Adam from Cfod Himself.
The control of language means the control of
thought. The apostle James points the lesson
when he says: "But the tongue can no man
tame." We can then readily see how in the marob
of events language sometimes becomes corrupt.
We are living in the time foretold by the
prophet Daniel when knowledge shall be increased. (Daniel 12: 4) The dictionary is a
well-spring of knowledge. It is a most wonderful and helpful book. I t is especially helpful to
a bad speller. But it is often found necessary
to reviae the dictionary. Certain words become
obsolete, and are dropped from ordinary parlance. Others are coined to !illreal or fancied
wants. Aa an example of the latter we will
examine one of these recently coined words.
The great World War, in itself an evil cause,
produced the word carnodage. This word has
now passed into general wage. What is its
definition?
We learned on the battlefield that to csmouflage a battery of kuns meant to hoodwink the
enemy into believing that that particular battery was not there. It it happened to be located

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in a grassy field, it was painted to look like the

Again, a sniper would get himself up to
look like a tree. If he was caught, he waa up a
tree in more senses than one. In plain English,
to camouflage means to deceive. Then why not
use the same word that was used by ns in olden
t i m e d e c e i t l No, indeed l
The war was waged by G&so
said the AlLies. The trouble was, however, that the Germans said the same thing. Beally, it was begun
by Satan in his endeavor to keep the kingship
of the fifth universal empire out of the hands of
"Eim whose right it is"-the Lord Jms Christ,
Head and body. One of Satan's names is "that
old serpent." The word serpent meam deaeiver.
One wonders whether Satan, king of e d , wined
the word camouflage, to eamodaga the true
position lest the people get to know who redly.
instigated the World War.
grass.

~LcMguog.~Prorpsct
E AIW standing on the &old
d the
new age of good causes and g w d eiiWi it be necessary to revise the d i e t i o w in
this age of righteousness? Let as me. Without
going further we can sea good rsasom why
camouflage, and wordn like to it, would ba
deleted. But can it be tbat the matter goen
furthert We look between the wvera of the
dictionary and begin to count the words that
have been used as vehicles of thought, to oonvey
impressions of evil to mankind, under the reign
of sin for six thoueand yeara. We do not go
very far. To count them to a hinh would be
a vast task.
One is amazed at getting only a glimpse of
the multitude of worda explanatory of both
thoughts and actions that are evil. Truly our
language will get more simple and more p-ure
as evil is destroyed from among men. It ir
written that "when the judgments of the Lord
are in the earth the inhabitants of the world
will learn righteousness." And also at the new
or Golden Age it is written that Qod will "tarn
unto the people a pore languagam-Isaiah 26:
9 ; Zephaniah 3 :9.
Let us, then, suppose that the new age is
fully ushered in, and then let ua conatitate ourselves a court of jasticd to determine whether
certain words are now of value to mankind in
these new conditions of life. Our rule of judg-

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AGE

world. They are well known. Judgment on

them does not tarry. I t k written that '%rhea
they [dead people] ahdl rise from the desd,
they neither marry nor am given in marriage ;
but are as the angels which are in heaven."
-Mark 12:25.
PARSON
: What 1 Will there be no gentlemen
going about in pecaliar garments, the livery ob
pseudo piety? No, verily! This word and aU
that it haa meant have been weighed in the balances and found wanting. So into the limbo ofl
forgotten idols it mnst go. It ia written: "They
shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but
none shaU be there, and all hcr princes shall
be nothing." (Isaiah 34: 12) And sgsin it is
written : "And it shall come to p s in~that b y ,
worda which^^ obrdst.
that the prophets [preachers] ahall be ashamed
DOCTOR, MEDI~XE,DO=, Dxsmm: Quite a every one of hia vision, when he hath p e e nice little family; but their judgment is aied; neither shall they wear a m g h [ M b
swift and sure. It is written: " h d the inhabi- @shed] garment to deceive." (Zeohuiah13:4)
tant shallnot say, I am sick; the people that So it seems that the p d e d p e a h r dothw
dwell therein ahall be forgiven their iniquity." have been mere camonflage,
-Isaiah 33:24.
h:
0 bane of humanity, onto whom all
DESPOT,Twafflon: Each man is to be a king have worshipfully bent the laces1 You too rrt
in the new age. Their kingdom is the earth and. last mnst die. Not even your corpse will remain
their dominion the animal creation. Despotic in eight. It is to be buried deep beneath the
and tyrannical actions toward each other will d a r i s of a departed evil sga And so even you,
then be a thing of the past. Thus these words as a vehicle of thought, are forever doomed to
are condemned ;as it is written : "For thou wilt destruction; for it is written: 'They shall sit
save the &cted people; but will bring down every man under his vine and under his fig tree ;
high looks."-Psalm
18:2'7.
and none shall make them afraid :for the mouth
PAIN,
WOE, DISTBESS,SOBBOW,
TBOUBLE:
An- of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken it."-Woah 4: 4.
other little f d y that has left its mark in no
Gtaav~,C O F ~DEATH:
,
Grim monarchs, inuncertain manner on the people. Thank God deed1 This family ia a large one. It incorpothat there will be no place fonnd for these rates aU the misery and seering and evil that
words! So away they go; for it is written: have descended upon a sin-cursed earth. But
"And they shall build houses, and inhabit them ; "death itself shall die." Its condemnation war
and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit assured when on Calvary the Just One died for
of them.
They shall not labor in vain, nor the unjust, that He might bring as all to & m i
bring forth for trouble."-Isaiah
65 :21-23.
In the judgment and destruction of Desth, all
ACCDEXT,CATACLYSM
: These words, also, other evil words are involved. And M, in the
shall' have had their day. I t haa been a long now-dawning new age, Death and his minion8
six-thousand-year day. On these words we mnst shall be no more. The month of the Lord GFod
write "Finia" For again it is written: "They hath npoken it: *'He will mallow- up death in
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy monn- victory : and the Lord God will wipe away tearr
tain [kingdom]: for the earth shall be fall of from off all faces; and the rebuke of hi^ people
the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover shall he take away from off all the earth: for
the sea.*'-Isaiah 11:9.
the Lord hath spoken it" (Isaiah 25: 8) And
ADULTERY:
W&have no space to mention ?he again: 'Toraamuch then aa the M d r e n am
Ghildren of this term. Their name is Legio~. partakers of flesh and blood, he [Jesua] a h
Certain it is that this family has been respon- himself likewise took part of the same; that
&le for most of the crime and misery in the through death he [Jesus] might destror him
ment shall be the one hid d o n by the prophet
*ah many centaria a@: 'To the law and to
the testimony; if they speak not according to
this word, it t becam there k no light in them."
(Isaiah 8 :20) Thas if the worda before the
judgment bau of the new age cannot according
to the Word of God give good reasons f o r remaining as vehicles of thought for the many
millions of restored mankind, condemnation
ahall be passed upon them. They shall be consigned to geiremzu; "they shall be aa though
they were not." The trial is o n Then let the
prisoners come before ns in their families ; for
many a hoary root-word haa brought forth
abundant branches after ita own kind.

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GOLDEN AGE

[Satan] that ?ad the power of death, that is,

the devil."-Hebrews
2: 14,
And therefom having raised 8 train of
thonght we, for the time being, dose the court.
The real work of revising the dictionary will be
a great one. Not only will words be deleted
from it in the new age, but the meaning of

mooan. R Y.

words that spring fro- good and trne roots

~ 1be1fully and perfectly understood. The tme
meaning of such worda as joy, peace, and looe
will be fully discerned, that the pure, clean a&
lovely thoughts of the people m y find their
expression through words from which the sting
of fear and of death haa been removed.
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A Golden Rule Houae

Magnolia Metal Company, 113 Bank really share the same motives. In the New 'Bge
New
city, is out with a little it will be different. Every eompany will then be
like the Magnolia Company; and overreaching
folder in
they assert:
and unfair dealing will be a thing of the past.
Tl"ha c a n s of thin worid in eelfishness It ir at the
Mr. E. C. K i e r , the president of the mmbattom of aU industrial and social trouble.
pony,
declared :
L?t men can be brought to regard other' men aa
brothem, if they can be induced to love their neighborn
' ' I f ~ m e n ~ d ~ ~ ~ n
'am thPmndvea, if men would do unto others as they hatred and rivalry for the G o l b Bda of love and cod d be done by, there wodd be no trouble beheen operation, moat of their troublea would melt away. Thb
u p i t d and labor. Social strife and internatid oob change would bring healing to Enrope; it would rwo-

THEStreet,which York

ni&

would oease.
therefore, individually and aa a wrporntion,
advocate the Golden Bub with dl of our power, as an
aid to 'perrce and good w i l l among men.'
T m m the very iuception of this Companyy neuly
thirty-eight yeam ago, we have tried to do right in 4
our dealing.
=At thY time we wbh to emphasize tJw Gtoldm Enls
m the guidmg principle of our businecm: 'Lb p would
that men should do to pa, do ye elso to them likewise.'
. " F k t : As to our snrpbyda Recognizing the divine
principle that 5w ue o& brotherr' keeper,' we reg&
a r p l q b as broth& and sioters, children of a common
Father, and take the eame interest in them as we do
in ourselves.
"Second: Peopk from whom we buy. It is our da
termination to do unto them M we would be done by;
to attempt to put ourselves at all times in their plscer
u far a9 possible; and to be M genemun as we amrktently can.
"Third: Pmpk to whom we sell. It ia our desire to
be just, fair and gemerour with castometa and, as far an
padicable, to put o d v e s in their places in every
trmsPction, always d y i n g their interest as we would

" We,

lationhe the world.."

A reporter in writing on this snbjeut said:

'The head of tho conanr polled a blank le#srhcrd
fmm hir d d and pointed to the phca w h mat
manufactnrera ham printad the wordr: 'NotiobThir
order n accepted mbject to skikg bmmctianr, or
other cansea bspnd our control,' and in ita plam there
appeared these wordm from Matthew 7 :12 : 'Whr*
yeddthatmsn6houlddoantopu,doya~n,
to them.'
"He picked up a yellow bill of Iading covving a consignment of thirty tom of babbitt metal from a concern
in the West, which had violated itn writtan apement
with the Magnolia Company and had made unjustMabb
demands. Thia in an order involving about $15,000,'
iaid Mr. Miller, 'and I have no doubt that if as took
thecaw to court- should win; but our dap oflitigation am om. We shrill pay the bill and meet all the
other demands of thi. compsny? but rs ahall refrrin
from doing further bdmam with them until they am
the e m of their way.' "

This same reporter, in giving his write-up a

little touch of the human to embellish properly
"'Pourth: The world at large. It in oar desire to the situation around wch noble principles od
shue the burdenr of others as far as we are able, and righteousness and magnanimity, said :

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to gim encouragement and help."

We can say that these are remarkable words,

and we wish the greatest success to the Magnolia Metal Companp for every honest attempt to
put these principles into effect. We realize that
in order to do so, they must meet with many
disaouragementm; for they will find few who

~~

'There u r quaintnetu h t the

[of
the &co building and factory], mch an ahmaphem,
perhaps, u one might have encountered IVty yean or
more ago in almost my mercaatile establishment in
NIw York. Them are, perhap, fifteen or hen9 clerka
and Rtenographers in the o b ; mid every one seemed
ta ndi.t. contentment, kindnea and good cham."

WLDEN AGE

Does this statement demonstrate to us the

'deplorable condition of our own money-mad
day? The conditions surrounding this firm are
unique and worthy of praise and commendation.
Possibly uptoldate business men would think of
the management a s antiquated and "old fogy."
It is indeed a rare exception to the rule. It is
a bright spot in the financial firmament.
SeEshness and a sad lack of brotherly kindness are at the bottom of the world's trouble.
The world has lost its sense of justice. That
sense is being restored, but only in the head-

Authority-Democratic versus Plutocratic By Fretman Be3

-

HE doctors of our physical bodies were slow

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theoretically. Trouble, strife, discord, re~voluare possessing the awakening

tion, and
masses. ~ i ~ ~
in l l ~ ,at the depths
of
which homanity can sink in the
ness, there will come a realization of the peasing
the
of things ;and the merely
head-justice will sink into the heart, and will
pmmpt each one to exercise himself in the general cause and uplift of humanity, and not
for himself only. When the Golden Bule getr
into the heart, it will work wonders!

to learn that they should differentiate between the symptoms of disease and the causes
or real seat of the disease itself. And now our
sociologists, doctors of the social body, appear
to be even more slow to differentiate between
effect'and cause as concerns the social body.
Our sociologists h d the people ignorant and
the wealth unjustly distributed. These are but
the effects of a maladjustment that ahonld be
looked for elsewhere--in the fact that the people are insafficiently equipped with the machinery of organization for authority. At the outset
of our national life, much was done, and much
oredit is due to those who were most insistent
on organizing the people as the rightful source
gf authority. But it is not for us to rest upon
what others have done for us. Ever in the
clash of two opposing forces, as in our case the
people versus the profiteers, continuous planning and continuous work are needed to over. come the enemy's schemes.

The real came of the people's mffering t

not to be found in their need of food, c l o w
and shelter. Let the pdteBrr' 8~th0- k
supplanted by that of the people, and dl such
problems will thd a ready solution Thir mart
have been the view of Jermr, when He told tha
multitude to mnsider the lilies and the birda
(Matthew 6: 26-30) H h idea of the ownerahip
of things is also shown in l3.o w m e r to the
question about tribute money.-Luke 20: 19-26.
Our profiteers are now our Cawrar. Their
authority transcends that of the people; and
when authority ~pealrsfor things, it gets them.
But the people want democraoy; they want a
shifting of*authority from the profiteem to tha
people. Then let ns find men of iduence to
lead the people to what they want.
W e hold that God made juat such a %dm
centuries ago, when He "?aid help on one that
is mighty," and in Jesus of Nazareth provided
the world's future Ruler, the One alone able to
untangle earth's affairs.-Ed.]

The World's Need

farmer a t Farmingdale, N. J.,
A TRUCK
is reported to have sold his potatoes for
seventy-five cents a barrel of one hundred and
sixty-five pounds. A hundred miles distant, consumers were paying six dollars per barrel !
This world's greatest need is a government
able to protect the people from sharks; a form
of government commanding the respect of all,

By L. D. Barnes

and demanding and enforcing absolute right

eonsness. Such a government is now cornin0
into power. Such a government ia now
the world-upheaval, and is breaking into piand consuming all other world powers. Suah a
government is one for which all creation groans,
and one which alone can satisfy the desire 04
all natious.

Phrenology and the Bible By F. C. ~ o i n w r i g h t

W E LIVE
to

in a dgy when almost every

branch of science and learning is being
subjected clam sarutiny. This searching and
examhing of fa& has resulted in the discardling of many of the old, useless ideas, and the
bringing forward of a new, clearer light. Essentially, one of the great studies of mankind ia
man. "Man,h o w thyself."
Phrenology is a branch of science which has
aa ita object the study and betterment of man
through a correct understanding of his organs
and their proper fnnctiona Many think that
phrenology is merely a study of the bumps on
one's head. But its scope is eminently wider;
for the one great principle which the student of
phrenology learns ie this: No real good can be
acquired without working in harmony with the essential laws of one's being.
Again, phrenology should be disassociated
from peychology and the occult.
The body is controlled by impuIses generated
in the mind. The greater the power of any organ of the brain, the greater will be the power
of the individual to act in that particular capacity. The lover of mnaio hse the organs of time
and tune well developed through constant praoti-, and can discern fine distinctions in the
rendering of a piece of mnaic. One less developed in these particular organs would not be
able to distinguish the beautiful harmony in
musia to the same extent as the one with well
developed organs. I have frequently observed
people reading a paper or a book while beautiful classical music is being played. At the same
time others have listened with rapt attention
and evident enjoyment.
In the new era, all such people will be given
ample opportunity to aqnire a taste for musio
by education and practice. As their knowledge
and ability along this line increase, t
w will their
joy and happiness.
Every faculty of the mind was placed in man
for his well being and personal enjoyment.
Phrenology grades these faculties according to
the degree of good their legitimate use ia able
to render. The highest faculties of the mind are
the moral,.or religious, and the intellectuaL Aay

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q n m mea who work r h i ~ e

otkrr
Who dam while othm dyTbeg butld a natlon's pillnm deep
And lift tbem to the sky."

- ~ o g
t o ~ d , \ h only
t
men. c
u
t m*
A people great and strooIIm who for truth e n d honor'r mke

'Stand f
u
t and mfler long.

faculty is developed by constant use. ?he man

whose mind is constantly on his bnsiness, o r on
the acquiring of money, is not only enlarging
his aquisitiveness but dwarfing, or leaving undeveloped, the more important organa of tha
mind, of which reverence, canacientioaazreas and
benevolence are the highest.
True character cannot be developed without
the growth of these three faculties. D e y am
the most important of all; and hence phrenology
shows them to occupy the topmost or highest
position in the head. Stand erect, and have
someone place a ruler on your head, along the
center, from front to back. The middle of the
ruler will rest on reverence. Directly in front ot
the middle of the head will be found benevolence, and immediately behind ia h e m s . On
either side of these grand organs lie imitatiness, spirituality o r faith, hope, and eanscientiousness, in the order named from front to
back And below these latter lie ideality, rub
limity, and cautiousness, supporting all the organa of the tophead.
The Bible tells us that God is leve; that ia,
He is entirely unselfish. The motive prompting
His actions is a benevolent, unseHsh desire to
d v good. Every one who is godlike will have
the same unselfish desire to do good. This ir
true love. I t seems that reverence, benevolence,
and conscientiousness are the only f a d t i e r of
the mind which are entirely unselfish. They a m
termed the superior sentiments, in contrast with
faith, hope, sublimity, and ideality, the nw of
which brings plessure to oneself+;whereas the
others give pleasure to God, and to everybody.
Centuries ago, the prophet Micah showed
what is indicated today by phrenology. In
Micah 6: 8, these prophetio words are found:
"Wiat doth the Lord require of thee, but to do
justly [conscientiousness], and to love mercy
[benevolence], and to walk humbly with thy
God [reverence] 7''
Thus -phrenology agrees with the Bible that
man's chief aim should be the development of
unselfish love.
St. P a d said: "Love is the fulfUing of th.
law."

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fulI-page Write-up6 with that the beggar waa carried literally into Abralurid illustrations of hell and the devil have ham's bosom after he died l
a p ~ e d
p e r i o d i d , giving
We wonder whether the people of Altoom,
~ C G O U X L ~ of a revival of hell-fire preaching in especially the preachers, h o w that the word
81t00- Pa The P T s e of
revlvq 1s gospel meano "good tidings"? The doctrine that
set forth in the title of the d d e , T r d g hell is a literal place for the roasting of the
Eternal Punishment ta Deter Lawbreakers."
wicked eternally is a message of
tiding#'
It war proposed to have "one hundred old- and has no place in Christianity. How many
fashioned sermons on the torments of the wicked know that Paul said: "Iam not aahamed of the
in the future life thundered from the churches gospel of Christ," and that in all his writing#
in Altoona to purify the city." Both Catholics the word %ellmdoes not once occur?
and Protestants joined in thia league of purification; and the Rev. Dr. E. L Milborn, pastor Zk Dwd Am Iktad
of the Christian and Missionary Alliance
EV.
mbthat "this word hell
Church, was selmted as the standard-bearer, his
haa no reference t o t h e g r a d ! And in
mbject b e i i "The Terrors of Hell."
proof he quotes Psalm 9 :17 :"The wicked ahall Mr. Robert W. Smith, a prominent lawyer of be turned into hell, snd all the nation8 that forc
Altoona, had declared that the ministers of the get God." U he were a real Bible atudent and a
gospel were '"firing pea-shooters at heaven, when real heralder of the " p o d tidings" message, he
they should be training heavy artillery on hell." would h o w that the H e b m word dub, t r 8 ~ A mass meeting was called, and a local c i v i ~ lated "turnednin tho text, meam rehumed.
association urged 5,000 of ita members to hear
n o s e who die
into tb mm aq -ter
the sennon to which we have just referred.
the death condition, and there thq resarkr withThe minieter said that he believed in a hell out knowing anything until the ramredion.
which has fue in it, which has brimstone in it, ' "All that are in the graves
rhdl come
which is a place of torment; and ~ssertedthat forthn says Jeane. (John 5 :28,W) The good
it is a place of banishment from God He quoted will enter into their reward, and the evil will
the scriptures which tell of hell being '%neath" enter their judgment trial of a thousand year8
and "down", and that it can be "moved" and to determine whether they am to die agoin o r
"enlarged." He said that the f i e is never extin- to live forever. I f they make a failure in their
gaished, that hell is anything but pleasant, any- trial, they will die agab; they will rekm to the
thing but joy, anytning but happiness; that hell death state, to the Bible hell, and there they will
is what heaven is not. He said that "man by his remain forever; for "the wages of sin ib death."
wickedness may create hell on this earth," that Eternal death is an eternal puniahmentt but it
hell is in the heart of the wicked, that hell is in is not eternal torment. It cannot be torment;
for the dead are dead. When a man dies "hie
the home where drink is.
As the minister gave the parable of the Rich breath goeth forth, he retnrneth to his earth;
Man and Lazarus a literal interpretation, may in that very day his thonghts perish." (Psalm
we not with propriety give his words a literal 146: 4) And when the thonghts are perished,
interpretation? Most assuredly. If we misrep there can be no conscious suffering, physical or
resent him, then we can rest assured that he mental.
"Hell" h the Engliah word
to trandate
misrepresented Jaua.If hell is in the heart of
the wicked, that wicked heart must therefore shaoi and kcrdes,'and has no reference to torhave within it literal fire, literal brimstone, ment. If (;rod were to have a Iiterd burning
literal torment; and, aa an enlarged heart is furnace for the wicked, He would have told us
always a good one, the hell-heart in thia instance in plain language about it. The children of IBbeing enlarged muat necessarily be good. But rael had turned their backs upon God, and were
their chiiaway with such napsense 1 The preacher did not worshiping Bad, and were CLI*
mean anything so foolish. Neither did Jesns dren to pa88 through the fire of Molech, the
mean that the torments of hell could be as- "eternal torment god." But God reproved them
maged by a drcp of water on the tongue, or in the following language: "They have not

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hearkened to receive instruction . . they set

their abominations in the house which is called
by my name . . they built the high places 04
Baal,which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom (Gehenna, "hell-fire," Matthew 5: 221, to
cause their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire unto Molech, which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind,
that they should do this abomination, to cause
Judah to si.u.'--Jeremiah 32 :33-35.
Here is a clear indication that '%ell-fire"
preachers are an abomination to God, that
they are ministers of Baal, and that they are
not authorized to speak forth in the name of
Jehovah. No writer or speaker in the Bible
ever used any word which corresponds to the
tk.eologians' nse of '%ell-fire"1 Jeaar used the
word g e h c r r ~a few times, but a s a symbol 0%
destruction from which there would be no re=r~ction. The "lake of lire" is specScall7 explained in the Bible to mean the "second death,"
the death from which there is to be no r m r rectioa-Revelation 20 :14.
Bev. Dr. Milburn misquotes Bevelation 14:
9-11,saying, "They shall be cast into a furnace
of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of
teeth." A man who finds a reason for such juggling of Scripture aa this surely could find a
reason for doubting his premise. The text says :
"If any man worship the beast and hia image,
and receive his mark in his forehead, o r in his
hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the
wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he
shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in
the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they
have no rest day nor night, who worship the
beaat and his image, and whosoever receiveth
the mark of his name."
As the day of Christ is ushered in thief-like,
that day will be dawning while the world will
be unaware of the fact. As Jesus Himself comes
thief-like, H e will be present for a time before
the Chumh is glorified. The context showa that
this is the correct thought, that Christ will be
present, inaking an inspection of thoae who
claim to be Clrqistians. The "beast and his
image" are given the family name of Babylon
i n Revelation 18. If any man reveres (wor&ips) that system, develop the ecclesiastid

mind ( ~ m in
k his forehead), and supports it
(has the mark in the hand), God's wrath ewatnally shall be meted out to him, 'Tormented
with fire" means that the "tire of God's wrath,"
the "fire of God's jealousy," will burn the error
out of the mind. Brimstone ia added to the
symbol to show that it will be quickly done;
for the Lord is present. I n the presence of the
holy angels and of the Lamb maria that the
spread of the truth which destroys the refuge
of lies takes place on the earth, and not in hell,
the grave. The "smoke" of their torment means
that the destruction of the error will hurt them
so badly that it will never be forgottent

"Eternal Torment" of tha Devil

HE doctrine of "eternal torment" never
made anybody good; it never converted a
s o d ; it never miU The doctrine in of tho d d ;
those under Satania influence are ita advaateu
Jesua said: "God is a Spirit: and tbtjr that
worship him must worship him i n spirit 4in
truth" (John 4: 24) if they would have their

worship accepted.
Hell-fire screechers have been ranting for
about fifteen centuries, and today there ir everywhere a woeful lack of reverence for Qod, !Che
preachers, taken in the net of their own weaving, have repudiated the Bible and are fighting
among themselves; and the bitter pill of truth
which will be forced down their throata wiII
cause them to 'gnaw their tongues f o r pain.'
Any person who will support any system 04
religion which teaches a conglomeration of aonfusing theories either is himaell dishonest or
else he does not stop to think
The Ntoonians want hell preached to deter
lawbreakers 1 It will never work. Error doer
not sanctify. God's wrath (the dying process)
is upon the sinner-world; His vengeance (the
death sentence) abides upon thoae who prove
themselves incorrigibly bad; but His love and
mercy and longsuffering search out and blesr
those who are honest at heart and who a m
themselves desiroua of extending love and
mercy and blessing to others. "Do nnto othem
a s ye would have them do nnto you." "Forgive
ua our trespasses as we forgive those who trec
pass against us."
It is the goodness of God that makcs people
good and brings them to reformation. Cfsd im
the embodiment of love; Him mwoy end-

for ever. St. Paul nays: UDespisest thou the

riches of his [ W s ] goodness and forbearance
and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? But
after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treab
m a t up unto thyself wrath, against the day of
wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of Qod; who will render to every man
according to his deeds."-Roman8
2 :46.
We have reached the cross-roads. n o s e who
preach a mean and devilish god, one who has a
diabolical abyss full of fire for the wicked, must
soon lick the dust; and those who ,teach and
magnify the God of mercies and of all grace
will surely be manifested. God h m an arrangement, already set in motion, which will vindiaate His plan, His chameter, and His people.
The odd and senseless thing about thie matter
in the publicity. Why a newspaper syndicate
&odd waste one page of printed ink, go to
*the expense of having their artist make the

illustrations, have it copyrighted, and give it

the aplroe, is beyond our comprehension Sueh
a flagrant miawe of a vehide for nems and far
what ought to be for the public weal, even if tha
editors are ignorant of theology, will me13
have an accounting when the world ia brought
before the judgment bar of Christ. When will
the newsyapera recognize their responsibility to
hmnankind in the food they dish out for tho
mind to masticate! Snch abominable, Gad&
honoring, demoralizing, garbage food is inexcusable; and it is far worse for the momla 04
the people than are diegusting divorce suits a d
the publishing of other scandale, for the resaon
that them latter can be charged up to w a y f e
humanity and a d i t e d to rome neakne68 d
noon forgotten; but the abo~ninatiomof Qa
trinalemrsrsg.i~eninthenua.ofG)o4fn
the name of truth, and nome few people d
l br
d p enough to believe and be furthex
mined in charaater
them.

A Desirable Government
is a body politic, govA GOVERNMENT
erned or controlled by duly constituted

authority.
A desirable government is one the powers of
which are exercised in a just and righteons
manner for the greatest good to all the people.
Snch government would bring a blessing to all
people who desire to do right and who trg to
do right.
For more than 6,000 years man has attempted to establish a government that in aatisf81
tory. Today the leading statesmen of the world
freely admit that their effort8toward establishing a desirable government have thus far failed.
What honest person would approve the p r e s
ent government at Washington; which is besmeared with oil on every side? Who would
desire a government the administrators of
WE&are 81-waysseeking e e W interest, dving
no heed to the weIfare of the people?
m e r e is not a bvernment on earth today
that satides any reasonable proportion of the
people. Discontent exists everywhere; seWnee8 k always to the fore ;all nation8 are prso-

t i d y bankrupt, and many of them are rcll4

by dictators. Every effort at reformation has
proven abortive. .
The statesmen of the world have attempted,
by leagues and s h i h compacts, to d v e h
diilicnlty. The h a m i e r a have made an attempt.
Church denominations have put forth every effort. All have failed. The reason is that aU ham
ignored God's way. Jehovah bas said: "& tha
heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
ways
than yonr ways, and my thonghtr th.n
your thoughts." (Isaiah 55 :9) Man's extremity should cause him MLlmly to consider God's
way for establishing a desirable government.
In Eden Adam had an ideal governmemt.
When he rinaed he lost it; and every effort
since then has met with failm to establish a
righteous government While some efforta at
reformation have msde progress, not ona hsa
s
d in bringing the desire of the popla
Qod promieed that through the reed of Abm
ham a l l the f d m of the earth ahodd k
blessed. This promise ia csrhin to be
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The need of Abraham ia the Messiah, the

'Qrint. Orthodox Jews have for oentnriea past
expect4 the M e s s i h to establish an ideal government. C h r i s t i a ~have vaguely looked ford to a time of the second coming of the
Lord, the setting up of Hia kingdom; and all
of the denominations have taught their members to pray aa Jesua taught them to pray:
"Thy kingdom come; thy will be done in earth
u it is in heavu~"
then, can we
HOW,
be done on earth

e q m t the will of Qod to

M it ia in heaven? Is
there any hope of reforming those who indulge
in fraudulent practices, in oil -dais, or like
schemes to d e f m d men? Is it poaaible to remedy their wrongs by sending them to prison or
by holding them up to the acorn of mankind?
I answer, No! Long efforta at thh have faiIed.
If we would for a moment oonaider the red
cam why men indulge in mu& wrong, then we
could see that there is but one remedy. The re*
son why men in high official positions become
unfaithful to the people ia became of their weakness, and their weakneaa k inherited by reason
of the fall of Adum. No one should condone the
wrongful course of these high officials. Inddging in abuse of them will do no good. What we
want to see is how the Lord in going to establish
a different condition of affairs.
God provided through His beloved Son r e
dempti& of the human-raoe, and promised that
at Christ's second corning each should have an
opportunity to profit by this great redemptive
prim; that He would then eetabliab His kingdom, and that those who would be obedient to
it wodd be restored. Now we may be anre that
the kingdom of the Lord wiU not be entrasted
to selfish men The lcingdomr of earth are tottering; many have already fallen. The whole
world is in dhtresa and perplexity, and the
d e n do not know what to expect. Cfod, through
His prophet, referring to this time said: "And
in the day8 of these kings ahall the (30d of
heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be
destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to
other people, @t it skall break in pieces and
wnsnme all them kingdoms, and it shall stand
for ever."-Daniel
2 :44.
The time has come for the establishment of
the Lord's kingdom. We know this because the

old order haa ended and in being destroped. If

you would attempt to build a large apartment
h o w on a lot where there are r m e buildings, before laying the foundation for your new
structure you wodd first tear away the old and
clean up the ground. That ia d
p what the
Lord is now doing. He is removing the old ramshackle forms of government, and cleaning up
the ground preparatory to the beginning of Hir
reign of righteousness. We are not gumwing
about who is to be the governor of thb kingdom. (304 through his prophet, looking down
to this time said concerning J e m : "And the
government ahdl be upon hir shoulder; and his
name shall be d e d WonderfuI, Counselor, The
mighty God, The everhating Father,The Prince
of Pesce. Of the increase of hi. govemmnt
and peaae there ahall be no end.w-hhh 9: 8,7.
For centuries Satan has been the god of the
evil wwrld in whiah men have existed. We are
toM in Bevelation 20: 13,that when thr Lord
begins the setting up of His kingdom o r ';gowmment, Satm shall be reatrained that he may
deceive the nations no more. Satan hr been thy
invisible raler of all the world for them many
oenturies; but now there is to be a new invisible
Ruler. The apostle Peter, referring to this,aaid :
'We, according to hb prozniw, look for new
hesvena [invisible ruling power] and a new
earth [a visible ruling power], wherein d d l e t h
righteoasneaa." (2 Peter 3:13) This new invisible rnling power ia the Christ, the MessiaL.
Wha A n Eiuth'n Rulsm
HO then will constitute the e b l e rule^
or representatives of the mighty King of
kings and Lord of lords? These visible rulers
are to be men who have proved their b y d t y
to truth and righteoasnesa, and who shall be
brought forth for that p-ss
I will give you
the Scriptural proof of thir fact. Take your
Bible and read the llth Chapter of Hebrewe.
Them you will see a list of men enumerated
by the Apostle, from Abel to the laat of the
prophets. These were faithful men, who loved
righteousness. and hated iniquity. They were
not popular in the world. On the contrary they
were stoned; they were sawn asunder; they
were slain with the sword; they wandered in
deserb, being deatiktg afflicted, tormented; of
whom the world waa not worthy. They were
loyal to God under the most adverse circum-

stances and conditions. They all died in faith,

and have been sleeping in the dust since. !The
Ap:.rstle in this chapter shows that when the
Christ, the seed of Abraham, the royal family
of heaven, is complete, these faithful men of
old mill have a resurrection. They will come
forth from the tomb as perfect men. The Lord,
through His prophet, concerning them said:
''Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children,
whom thou mayest make princes in all the
earth."'-Psalm 45 :16.
It has long been the custom amongst men to
speak of the faithful of old as the fathers in
Israel, the fathers of faith. This will not be
true when these men come forth from the tomb;
but they shall rather be the children or the offspring of Christ, and shall be made rulere in
all the earth.
Then there will be a new heaven and a new
earth; that is to say, a new invisible ruling
power and a new visible ruling power. Looking
to that time, God's prophet said :"Behold, a king
shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall
rule in judgment." (Isaiah 32 :1 ) Here again
the Lord makes the clear distinction between
the king that rules in righteousness, who is
the Christ, and the princes, the visible rulers
who will rule in judgment. Judgment means
judicial determination according to the law. The
same Prophet says: "On': of Zion [the invisible
d i n g powers] shall go forth the law, and the
word of the Lord [judicial determination] from
J-msalem." (Isaiah 2: 3) It is therefore clear
that selfish men will not be putting in vogue
their laws; but these perfect men on earth will
be the instrnments in the hand of the Lord to
minister to the people the very things they need.
Now in proof that this government will not
be an unrighteous one, we read concerning it:
'With righteousness shnll he judge the poor,
and reprove with equity for the meek of the
righteonsness shall be the girdle of
earth:
his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
. . They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my
holy mountain [kingdom] : for the earth shall
be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the
waters cover the sea'' (Isaiah 11:4 9 ) There
will be no one permitted in that government to
steal the oil that i&in the earth, nor to rob the
people by exorbitant taxation, nor to lay sel6sh
schemes to ,control the masses of mankilrd.
There will be none permitted to opprew the

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stand equal before the law, which shall be administered fairly, justly, and equitably toward
all; and all will be compelled to obey the law.
That will be a happy time for the people.
Concerning it the Prophet says : 'Tu this momtain &ingdom] ahall the Lord of hosta make
unto all people a feast of fat things." (Isaiah
25: 6) Not a feast to a few, but to all the people.
No longer will the fraudulent advocates of p m
hibition be permitted to follow their own selfish course and fill their own cellars with illicit
liquor, while they prosecute ahd punish the poor
f g o w who has some in hi6 pocket.
No longer-shall a few build the houaeq charge,
the poor excessive and oppressive rentu, and
frightem with eviction when the rent axmot be
paid ;for as the Prophet states : "They shall a
every man under his vine and under his fig tree;
and none shall make them afraid." -Micah 4: 4;
Isaiah 65 :21,22.
*
WkI; war I. No mrr
I X TIMES past seliish rulers of the earth,'&
siring.to accomplish some Belfish end, have
f d e n out with each other. Instead of going
thermlves to fight it out they d e c k e d war be
tween their subjects, and enacted m ' d p t i o n

laws compelling the people to go forth and fight

each other while the d e n stayed at horn
Under the r i g h t m reign of Christ, war will
no longer be permitt& Selhhness will .not be
encouraged. Love and righteonanesa will be encouraged and the people will not wish to war.
The Lord will see to it that war will cease; for
the Prophet says : "He . . shall rebuke strong
nations afar off [those that seek war) ;end they
shall bqat their swords into plowshama, a d
their spears into prnninghooks :nation ahall not
lift up sword against nation, neither ahall they
learn war any more."-Micah
4: 3.
Now we see that the nations are being shaken
by trouble. This is the timementioned by tho
Lord when He.says : "I will shake all nationa,
ahd [then] the desire of all nations shall come."
-Haggai 2 :7,
What really is the desire of man? I answer:
A government of righteousness insuring to mrrn
life, liberty and happinem. Is it posrible for
these blessings to comet
, This new government will meet all deairea od
mankind; for it w i l l provide everything th.t

ma. r a n t s A blessing is that which bring8

benefit to people. The greatest of these benefits
is life, which, to be enjoyed, ma& be endowed
with peace and happiness. These are the things
that man possessed in Eden before he sinned.
Tbese things he lost; there are the things which
Jesus' blood purchased for man; and all of
God's prophets foretold that these are the things
which the new government will restore to man.

L&C~ihnaGbd
IFE is the gift of God, through Jesus Christ
our Lord. (Romans 6 :23) This means that
dl who will be granted life erzrlasting must
wmpt the Lord Jesus as the great Redeemer
and Ruler. Adam ainned, and brought death
d trouble upon his offspring. Jesus died to
provide the gift ofi Iife and ita attendsnt bleak
ings. Therefore, aa by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even
m by the righteousness of one the free gift came
upon all men unto justification of life." (Romans
5: 18) Jeans laid down Efis human life that
mankind might have lifa (John 10:10;6 :51)
The coming of the Lord and the setting up of
Hia kingdom are for the very purpose of grant
ing life everlasting to the milliona of people on
earth, if they will accept and obey His new
order and rule.
Concerning this the Apostle said: "Bepent
ya therefore, and be converted, that your sins
may be blotted oat, when the times of refreshing
ahdl come from the presence of the Lord; and
he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was
preached unto yon: whom the heaven must receive until the timea of restitution of all things,
wbich God hath spoken by the mouth of all his
holy prophets since the world began. For Moses
truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the
Lord your Bod raise ap unto yon of your brethren, like unto me ;him shall ye hear in all things
whatsoever he shall say unto yon" (Act8 3: 1922) Then those who refuse to obey him shall not
go to eternal torment, but shall be destroyed.
-Acts 3 :23.
All the prophets foretold this coming restitution of man. (Acts 3 :24) Even those who have
been wicked shall have s chance to live, if they
d tarn away f h m their wickedness, and do
right. (Ekekiel 18:27,28) Concerning these
Jesus said: 'Verily, verily, I say unto yon, If
a man keep my saying, he shall never see

death"; 'Whosoever liveth and believeth in ma

shall never die." (John 8 :51;11:26) Knowing
that the old world is passing away, that the new
government is coming in, that the time of restoration is here, we can now confidently say that
mdlsans now living wiU wuer die. For this
reason the Blble Studenta are proclaiming thia
meesage of good news throughout the earth.

w b . r t u a n d H c r p p ~ ~ r r d -AN hss Iong had a great desire for liberty.

The whole race has been held in bondage
by Satan. Satan's representative8 in the earth
have oppressed the common people. It haa been

a favorite scheme of Satan's represenWivea to

enact and enforce espionage lam denying freedom of speech, and to per8ecut8, imprimon mud
kill men for attempting to emraiae th, liberty
of preaching the gospel of the M e m i d # Lingdom. This blame cannot be laid to mas; for the
wrong proceeds primarily from S a b , tha grert
oppressor. When Satan's g o m r m n ~L
~ ~mtht
ly gone, and the M e s d go=of righteouaness ia in operation, the opprwror rrnd his
present power over man will be no mom
The Devil, thmagh ht -7
v ~ t r r tivea, has taught the peopb that the mu#r w i l l
spend eternity alive in torment and mot in hrrgpinem. This is a frrbe doctrine. "All &a wicked
will he destr6y." (Psakn 145: 20) Tb, obedient
onea shall be restored to peridan of body, of
mind and of he&, and shall dwell togethrnith
their loved ones in happinew.
Many now are blind and deaf and laars and
halt These deficiencies shall pass away under
the righteous administration of tha demrable
government. Concerning this, M 8 r prophet
says : "The wildernem and the solitary place
shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and bloasom as the rose. It shall bloasom
abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto
if the excellency of Camel and Sharon; they
shall see the glory of the Lord, trnd the excellenoy of our God.
.Then the eyes of the blind
be opened, and the ears of the deaf
be m s t o ~ ~ e Then
d - shall the lame man leap 8s
an hart, and the t o n g ~ eof the dumb sing."'Isaiah 35: 1-6.
In order for'man to be happy he mwt be relieved of sickness, given health, have peace and
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these things will be granted: "Behold, I will

bring it health and care, and I will cure them,
and will reveal nuto them the abundance of
peace and trat.LN-J eremiah 33:6.
we liviPg now in the most wonderfal time
of man's hietory to date. We are witnessing the
transition period from a bad condition to a hap
py condition. We are standing at the portals of
the &Iden Age. This is the exme, if exmse is
necessary, for the building of this radio station,
that there might be proclaimed to the people

from this station a measage th& n o d d bring to

the people hope in this hour of distmm We arm
not seeking membership; we are not eeeking
money. We are seeking only to help oar fellow
creature. If YOU have received some a m f o r t
from these leeks, I shall bc glad to have
af
word from Yon by postcard or letter, in
this station- I conmend to YOU a c a d d &d7
of God's Word, especially at this time. I u ~ ~
you that every one who diligently aeek~the
truth of that Word shall receive a bleaaing.

Heard in the Office-NO. 12

Wynn who'made the h
t ieference
ITrTintoiWAS
the discussion on the doctrine of the
ty. He was speaking with Mr. Palmer;
and in the aonrse of the conversation he said:

T am not a t all satided with what yon said the

other day on the mbject of the Trinity. There

are two passages at least which show that the
early Church W ~ I I rij$t in thinking that J e s u
was God. One is 1 John 5: 7, which states:
- 'There are three that bear record in heaven, the
Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost: and
these three are one.' The other is found in John
10: 30, 'I and My Father are one.' You must
admit that these support thejruth of this doe
trine."
'Tes ;that ie a good point," said Tyler, who
was listening.
Without hesitation Palmer replied: ''First, 1
do not agree with you respecting the view of
the early Church. The Christians of the days
of the apostles certainly did not believe in the
doctrine of the Trinity. It became a subject of
discussion during the reign of Constantine, in
the fourth century & D. Athanaeiurr, the bishop
of Alexandria, made a statement which was
challenged by a presbyter named Arina. A great
discussion followed, which qnictly spread and,
from a matter of local interest, became one of
universal concern.
"So 6erious was the antroveray that the
leaders of the Church called a conference under
the instruction of Emperor Conatantine. The
result of that coherence was the Nicene Creed,
which, aa I have before stated, was only made
'possible by the fact that two parties with somewhat different views voted for the proposition.

63t

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BJVc. s.hh6+(-1

The point at issue was #;relation

of the F.tkr
and the Son. The doctrine of the
wu
not prodaimed until later. Tbe ~~t
of
this dogma was the beginning of the dark .gsr,
"The first text you quote m a never ltnolrnr to
the early Chur&, nor to thoire who i b t rtoed
for the Trinity. It t a qurioua
b
not found in any m a , n d p t
tbs tbo
eeventh century. I t h w evidently been h e d u d
by an over-zealous monk in an attempt to prwa
the unprovable. So sum are eeholam on tht
that those who were zeeponsible for the BsriM
Version of the New Testament have d t t e d
this text altogether, and thb n o t w i t h k d i n g
the fad that they were believem ip the a d
"The other past u r on
~ the question ar
to what Jesus meant when He uaid: '
I
and m7
Father are one.' I n John 17: 22, Jemrs pram to
the Father (and yon will note that it t not to
Himself) that His disciples may be one aa He
and the Father are one. If the oneness of Jewu
and God ie that They are members of a Trinity,
then aa soon as our Lord% prayer L ammered,
the TFinity will be destroyed; for thia unity
must then take in all the members of the C h d
"The T G i t y is a unity' of three ; and with
Christ's disciples included, it would be a unity
of many. h'ow it ia clear that the unity Khich
should exist amongat true Christim and the
Father is not that of person and being, but of
spirit and purpose; and J e m here nays that
in the same way as we grid God are one ao He
and the Father are one. I think that this ir quik
dear. The m e thought is aonveyed in the
Apostle's word when he exhorts bcIievem to k
of one mid."

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WWEN AGE

"Yes, I thought you would say gomething like is that if they had nnderstood Him to make thir

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that; but p u are m-ong," said Wynn triumph- claim, then He did pat them right. ECis answer
antly. "1l you will read what follows you will to the charge of blasphemy was, 'Is it not writ-

me that I am right. We read that immediately

rrfter J m said: 'I and my Father are one,' the
Jews took up stones to stone Him; and He said
to them: 'Many good works have I shewed yo11
from my Father; for which of these works do
ye stone meT' And the Jews replied: 'For a
good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy ;
and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God 1' It is eirident from this that the Jews
nnderstood Jesns to say that He was God. Now
if the Jews were wrong in this, then Jesus
would have put them right; and the fact that
he did not proves that they had the correct
thought, and that we are right in believing in
the deity of Jesus."
"Why, Wynn, yon have come down to reason
a t last," burst out Tyler; "and a very good
argument it ia, too." With this they both looked
to Palmer to see whether he could reply. He did
not appear a bit perturbed, however, but quietly
replied : "A little reason, like a little knowledge,
is-a dangerous thing. I might say that it ia
astornary for Bible Students to study the context of the scriptures they use. It happens that
I have noted this argument, and its weakness
lies in not continuing the discussion between the
Jews and Jesus a little further.
' W p n says that the Jews nnderstood Jesus
to say that He was God, and that if they were
wrong He would have put them right. My reply

ten in your law, I said, Ye are godsT' He here

quoted from the 82nd Psalm, a message that
was addressed to the judges in Israel; and He
continued: 'If he czlled them gods unto whom
the word of God came, how say ye of him whom
the Father hath sanctified and sent inta the
world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am
the Son of God?' [John 10 :30-391 Osr Lord's
argument is this : The Scriptures call men in
prominent positions gods; and the Bible cannot
lie. If, then, imperfect men are called gods,
surely it is not blasphemy for the perfect One
whom God has sent, to call Himself the Son
of God.
"If the J e w understood Jesua to claim that
He was God, the Supreme Being, then He enlightened their minds immediately by saying
that His claim was that He waa the Son of God.
In fact, He did not even claim ao much for
Himself; for the literal rendering of thb passage from the Greek reads: 'I
am a son of the
God.' He actually in this expression claimed no
more than every true Christian has a right to
claim; via, that he is a son of God--Jehoval~.
We know of course that Jesus was and is the
Son of God, and that Jehovah was Hir Father
in a special sense.
"Jesus never claimed equality with Qod, but
always acknowledged His Father's authority by,
stating that He had been sent by God."

"In the Day of the Lord's Recompense"

OR some time I have been thinking to sugF
gest that yon send an able investigator
throughout O w o m a and northern Texas for
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the purpose of gathering information concerning the persecutions of the Bible Students thero
during the war.
While on my lecture tour in that territory
during last summer and fall, I heard some very
wonderfhl things. For instance, I heard of a
case where a Bible Student was put into jail
and hia home and its fhrnishings taken from
him, and hia wife persuaded not to live with
him any more. He was released after a time;
and his wife changed her mind and is now living

BY H . H.

with him and is in the truth, The minister who

led the persecution went h a n e and wan taken
to the asylum ; the banker who got ,the Bible
Student's home committed suicide, and the banker who got his furniture died. This is bat one
of many strange things which I heard.
Many who were arreeted and put into jail
were relieved of their money and watches when
locked up; and when on being released they
asked for their belongings, they received only
evaaive a m e n . I am convinced that in many
instances the arrests were made simply for purposes of robbery. I can furnish some l e d
which may be helpful.

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STUDIES IN THE 'WARP O F WD" ~L-AL)n i r h Iuue Number 80 we by.n mnnllls JWge HntkrioMr new book,
Harp of Godm,rltb a c c o m paeatlonq
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taking tho p1.a ot both
M ~ a .d
nd Jurcnllc biol. Stodlr rhW TO
hltbsrto pobllrb.6

'Og!J%en came Jesus, whose coming was announced by John the Baptist; aad He ww
pointed out as the One who would take away the
sj11 of the world. He chose His disciples and
they walked with Him,and He taught them for
three and a half years; yet they did not understand the great mystery. They expected J e w s
to be made an earthly king and hoped that they
might be with Him in the kingdom, probably in
His cabinet; for He was asked if one might
sit on His left and the other on His right hand
in the kingdom. They expected Him to make
Israel a great nation and believed that through
that nation other nations would be blessed.
I n e n he was put to death they were greatly
disappointed, mystified, and in great distress.
(Luke 24: W ) Even after His resurrection t h q
did not understand His mission, and thia is
shown by their words to Him on the day that
He ascended into heaven 'When they there.fore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again
the kingdom to Israel1 And he said unto them,
It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own
power. But ye shall receive power, after that'
the holy spirit is come npon you: and ye shall
be witnesses unto me both in Jerasalem, and in
all Jndea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth. And w h w he had
spoken these things, while they beheld, he was
taken up ;and a cloud received him out of their
sight."-Acts 1:6-9.
"OIn obedience to the command of Jesus, these
faithful disciples went to Jerusalem to the place
known as the upper room, and there waited.
Ten days passed and then it was that the-holy
spirit, the invisible power of God, was visited
npon them; and true to His promise, the disciples began to understand. S1lJesns had now ascended on high and preaihted the merit of His sacrifice before Jehovah; and the acceptance of this was manifested
by the giving of the holy spirit to His dieciples,
who had been His consecrated followers for
three and a half years. Doubtless the angels of
heaven now began to know something about the
great mystery. What joy mast have been in

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heaven when Jesus Christ appeared before tho

Father and presented the merit of His s a d h
and was received by Jehovah! Surely the
heavenly host must have sung Hia p&
They had beheld Him triumphing over deab
and the grave and now exalted to a position in
heaven next to the Father. It must have h a
great joy to the heavenly host, even as contam
plation of it was a great joy to Jesua H i d
"For the joy that was set before him b]endured the cross, despising the ahamet, and ir mat
down at the right hand of the tluom of Oob"
(Hebrews 12: 2) What joy mud have fllld &@
hearta of His disciples when thejr
to rak
dentand the mystery of ood and to see har
wonderfully He had led them and their fath.rr
before them, preparing them now for
lation of this great truth?

QuEsnONS ON 'THE HARP OF

Who annouiii the umbg of Jsnu? md rhst mlidr
particnlumesssgeorulnarmoamrmt? fl309.
How many dhciples did Jemr ehooa? 0 309.
How long did He teach them pexmdly? a309. What wen the expectatim of the dLcipla nd.tirr b
Jems?

7 309.

What afiect did Hia death h.n upaa them? 1808What ru their eqedation after B[ir rammdh,W
why? 11309.
What did Jesas my to them at Iha time of Ht
eion to heaven ? 1
1309.
Where did the disciples tarry .ffer J d Irm.;ra?
and how long before they receired any manifeddh
from the Lord? 310.
How '(M OOd'a power manifested towad them at
tecort? 1310.
How ru the scceptance of the merit of J m m tbr
-8 ering manifested to men by Jehovah? 1 311.
May we beliwe that there war much joy in h a m a rha
Jeau p-ted
the merit of E i a Hir?
and it 14
why? 71 311.
What effect did the understanding of tha m#eq bma
upon the disciples? 7 311.

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"Ascend, beloved, &am His life;

Our days of death are o'er;
Mortality has done its wont,
The fetters of the tomb are bum&,
The last baa now become ths h
t
,
Foreve, crarmoran

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TYPE AND
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A Glance at the Census of Manufactures

HERE is always something of interest to

be learned from the United States Census.
We present herewith a table, which took us a
considerable amount of time and energy to compile, and which accumulates in concrete form
the principal data obtained by the United States
bvernment in its census of manufactures in
1909 and in 1919.
The table shows merely the totals of the sums
expended for labor and materials, and in an
adjoining column the sums obtained for the
product thus manufactured. I t affords a partial
key to the industries of the country, indicating
which are the most profitable; I t cannot show this
positively; for there are various ways of hiding
profits. F o r example slaughtering and packing
appear a t the bottom of the list; but the profits
are diverted into switching, icing and other
charges, so that they can be ascertained only by
great effort. They are actually much greater
than they appear. The packers pay their bookkeepers well.
The table tells its own story so well that comments are superfluous. I t is easy to see why the
liquor interests did not wish to go out of business. Business was not so good for them in 1919
as in 1909. They had to expend more for labor
and materials than they did ten years before,
and they got less for their product. But even
as it was, when they sold their goods they received $2.09 for every dollar expended in their
manufacture; or, in other words, they made an
increase of 109% on funds actually employed
in manufacture.
The drug business comes next. I t also is a
very profitable business, running in the neighborhood'of 100% ; and, as in the case of liquor,
we have the testimony of eminent physicians to
the effect that if all the drugs in the world were
sunk to the bottom of the sea the human family
as a whole would be in better shape than it is
with their use.

It is no surprise to find the ice business so

profitable. Every winter in the ice lakes on the
top of Mount Yocono, along the line of the
Lackawanna Railroad, by modern methods of
harvesting a few men gather thousands of
tons of purest ice in ,afew days, and without
any danger or expense worth mentioning. A
few months later they sell it a t the price which
only a brief time ago was considered a p o d
price for coal, obtained a t a much greater outlay from every point of view.
Turpentine and rosin are profitable; just ~ h y
this is we do not know. Paper is in the huds
of a few great concerns, virtually a trust. The
tobacco profits go to the manufacturers, it will
be observed; those who raise it do not get any,
such profits as those shown.
Salt is profitable. I n Western New Pork, at
.
Retsof, salt is mined a t no more than the cost
of mining coal, probably much less, and is sold
for about $20 a ton. It stands to reason that
somebody must make money out of such an
arrangement. We do not know the actual sell- .
ing price per ton, but judge from the price8
charged for the pulverized product.
Typewriter manufacture is profitable. The
typewriter manufacturers are hooked up in a
trust, and are charging for typewriters about
twice what they should charge. The big increase in the amount of explosives made and
sold is attributable in part to the World War.
A glimpse a t the profits in gas shows plainly
why the financiers that own the big newspapers
are very much opposed to public ownership of
gas works. The profits would then go to the
people, and this the financiers do not wish.
We do not proceed further with the discussion of the table, but prefer to let i t tell its own
story. As we were tlnishing it, we chanced to
have an interview with a gentleman in the lnmber business. To test it out, we said to him: 'W
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CEiYSUS OF 1900.

GROUP OF LXDGSTRIES

sum of Lnhor &

AIateri:~l Costs

Price Obtained
for Products

$2:9.629.666
60.273,OOO
21,096,000
Its
14.2C4,OOO
Turpentine and Rosin
G90.300.877
Paper and Print~ng
246,540,215
Tobacco Xanufactures
7,734,000
Salt
10,298,000
Typewritera
27,116,000
Explosives
73.359;OOO
Gas
4,393,000
Needles and Pins
78,242,000
Chemicals
74,348,074
Musical Instrumenw
157,947,000
Electrical Machinery
373,048,032
Stone, Clay, and Glass P.daetd
71,419.000
Glass
32,073,000
B& Sugar
Rubber Goods
147,882,000
Clay-Products Industry
112,539,000
(i29,524,000
Men's and women's Clothing
Lumber and its Remanufacture 1,142,592,137
Silk
146,337,000
7,99 1,000
Motorcycles and Bicycles
Natural Dyestufi and Extracts
10,975,000
2,358,510,604
Textiles and Products Iron and Steel and Products
2,435,265,363
Fertilizers
76,999,000
Laundria
73,720,068
Chemicals and Products
1,060,047,327
canning
120,905,000
Paper
206,247,000
Cord- and 'Ikine, Jute h o d s , etc. 48,380,000
154,981,000
Knit Goods
Leather and Products
824,985,396
Chocolate and Cocoa
i6,792,000
Shipbuilding
S,482,OOO
Vehicles for Land Transportation 427,583,914,
Steam and Electric Railway Cars 112,325,000
Soap
78,406,000
Petroleum
209,103,000
Beans and Coffee
122,905,000
Other Metals Than Iron
1,038,859,355
79,479,000
Coke *
Cotton Goods
515,610,737
Buttans
18,167,043
1,340,273,480
Textiles Only
Ammunition
19,960,526
3.396,466,373
Food and Mndred Products
Motor Vehides and Parts
191,852,788
Rice Cleaning and Poliehing
20,065,000
Cast Iron Pipe
26,440,627
789,030,000
Flour Mill Products
Railmad Repair Shops
410,411,616
Slaughtering and Puking
1,241,842,000

$674,311,051
141,941,000
42,953,000
25,295,000
l7l79,285,M7
416,695,104
11,328,000
19,719,000
40,140,000
166,814,000
6,694.000
117,741,000
104,743,GM
221,309,000
531,736,831
92,095,000
48,122,000
197,395,000
168,895,000
870,429,000
1,588,274,035
196,912,000
10,699,000
15,955,000
3,086,944,186
3.164,471,535
103,960,000
104,680,086
1,526,598,576
157,101,000
267,657,000
59,122,000
200,143,ooo
992,713,332

Liquor and Beversges

Drugs

CEXSUS OF 1919.
%
Inc.

Sum of Lnbor &

Slaterial Costs

Price Obtained
for l'roducts

183.1
135.4
103.6
77.2
70.1
69.0
46.4
91.6
48.0
127.3
52.6
50.4
40.8
40.0
42.5
28.9
50.0
40.3
50.5
38.3
39.0
34.5
33.8
45.3
30.9
29.1
35.0
41.9
44.0
29.9
29.7
22.2

$288,916,030
199,999,000
76,880,000
30,903,000
1,871,227,710
607,555,838
23,381,000
33,153,000
58,416,000
210,310,000
19,037,000
376,548,000
213,327,486
663,287,000
737,130,284
178.307,OOO
102,937,000
788,107,000
-196,358,000
1,679,277,000
2,207,030,137
496,695,000
38,749,000
39,328,000
6,864,406,123
7,009,088;305
210,404,000
177,384,532
4,241,419,365
479,104,000
603,174,000
134,376,000

$603,895,215
386,369,000
137,005,000
53,051,000
3,012.583.990
1,012,933,213
37,514,000
52,738,000
92,475,000
329,279,000
29,305,000
574,141,000
320,905,149
997,968,000
1,085,528,926
261,884,000
149,156,000
1,138,216,000
283,342,000
2,371,529,000
3,070,072,813
688,470,000
53,106,000
53,744,000
9,216,102,814
9,403,634,265
281,144,000
236,382,369
5,610,299,073
628,288,000
788,059,000
171,807,000

%
Inc.
109.0
93.1
76.9
11.6
66.3
66.7
60.4
59.0
58.3
56.5
53.9
52.4
50.8
50.4
47.2
46.8
44.9
44.4
44.2
41.2
39.1
38.6
37.0
36.6
34.3
34.1
33.6
33.2
32.3
31.1
30.6

30.0
29.1

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product you add about 40% to the total cost of
your raw materials and labor, and you find your
business a more than ordinarily profitable one."
He said substantially: 'Tou have hit it right;
I figure on just about 40%, and I do find the
business profitable."
There are hints here to those who are thinking of going into Business. The figures shob~
some businesses naturally more profitable than
others. P a r t way down in the table is a black
line. Below the line the profits are not so large
as the average. Above it they are larger. One who
has the time and inclination to Study this table

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closely and ponder its items can hardly fail to

lake many interesting discoveries.
Taking the items as a whole, the sum of labor
and material costs for 1909 was about $22,W,000,000 and the selling price about $28,500,000,000, an advance of about 30%; wbile for 1919
the sum of labor and material costs wrrs about
$70,000,000,000 and the selling price $89,500,000,000, an advance of 27%. In the table some
of the items appear separately besides appearing in larger groups, so that the statements of
this paragraph can be taken only as of general
application. Many lines of unimportant manufactures are not shown.
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&erest to truth lovers, to Bible Students, to
those who love righteoukness and peace, will
be held this year a t Columbus, Ohio, July 20
to 27, inclusive, under the auspices of the International Bible Students Association.
That it will be of international interest is
evident from the fact that many speakers from
all parts of the world will be present, and each
nationality shall have the privilege of listening
to speakers of its own tongue. Every reader of
THEGOLDEN
AGEis especially invited to attend.
The main meeting h'all f z r the conventioners
will be the Coliseum, which has a seating capacity of 14,000. Connected with the Coliseum, and
all under roof, are seven other halls, which will
accommodate meetings for the various languages. All these buildings are located at the
Ohio State Exposition Grounds, which are practically in the center of the city of Columbus.
The grounds are private, with a grove, lakes,
beautiful place for resting; and there those who
attend can be entirely isolated from the public.
I n addition to this is Memorial Hall, with a
capacity of 4,000, ~vhichwill be in use each evening for a public meeting and which may be used
in the daytim; if required for other meetings.
I t is the intention to have a large, well-advertised public meeting on Sunday, July 27, in the
Stadium of the Ohio State University, the seating capacity of which is 72,000.
Columbus, Ohio, is locatecl in the center of a
very populous district, including bxichigan, Wis-

Maryland, Pennsylvania, 'New Pork and Ontario. It has the best interurbm railway system
of any city in the country, and is easy of access.
The highways leading into it are of the very
best, and great numbers of friends will be expected to come by automobile.
Within five blocks of the meeting place there
are rooming accommodations for 60,000 people.
There are thirty large hotels and a large number of dormitories. We suggest that all who
can arrange for a little vacation from the daily
routine of life will find this a most helpful and
satisfar.tory way to find recreation, and to engage in a mental, spiritual and social treat.

Reduced Railroad Rates

LL the railroads in the United States and
Canada have granted a special rate for this
convention of one and one-half fare for the
round trip, tickets to be obtained upon the identification certificate plan. These certificates will
be furnished by the Convention Committee.
Address: R. A. Johnson, Secretary, 52% North
Front Street, Columbus, Ohio.
One identification certificate will do for an
entire family. Where one person traveIs alone
one certificate is required. I t is better to o d e r
more blank certificates than actually are needed ; for a t the last moment somebody else may
wish one.
The date of the convention is July 20 to 27
inclusive. Beginning July 15th and until the

'

22:d for the going trip.-tkkets will be on sale

a t all railway stations. KO tickets can be obtained for the going trip, on the certificate plan,
after July 22nd. When purchasing your ticket,
present your identification certificate to the
ticket agent and ask for a return ticket. To
protect oneself in case of a lost ticket, it will be
advantageous a t the time of purchasing ticket
to ~nakea memorandum of the time bought,
amount paid, and the number on the ticket. The
tickets should read from starting point to Coluntbus, Ohio, and return.
The highways in Ohio and adjoining places
are in fine condition, and many will be expected
to come in their automobiles. There is a covered building near the Coliseum that will accommo:!nte five hundred machines. Other garage
and jjarking spaces will be availabIe in the city
a t reasonable rates,

expected that this latter rate will be one dollar

a day. I t is the purpose now to have a cafeteria
on the grounds seming meals a t noon and evening at very reasonable rates. A person therefore may figure on an expense of not to exceed
two dollars a day for a room and meals. If it i s
possible to make the rate less it will be done.
Those attending the convention will have ac'cess to the Ohio State F a i r Grounds. The
grounds c.ontain many shade trees, plenty of
pure water, comfort stations, emergency hospital, children's playgrounds, barber shop, dairy
buildings wh.ic$ supply fresh milk and icecream, all of which will be for the exclusive use
of those attending the convention during the
dates of the convention. Some one wiU be put
in charge of the children, and thus an opportunity will be afforded for their mothers t o
attend the meetings when desired.
The Coliseum, where the meetings in English
will be held, has a capacity of 14,000 seats. A@
loud-spe&er will be h s t d e d so that
every person in the auditorium can hear with
perfect ease without extra e ~ o r being
t
put forth
by the

~ccommodatibruand Reservations
C U I A U M B U Sh a thirty hotels with a rate of'
which are
per day and up, all
within fifteen minutea street-car ride of the
Colisc~um. Adjoining the p o n d s where the
conve~~tion
is to be held are private rooms which
F o r the Sunday meeting a n electric londacro-date
10,000 or more, all of which
are within wmg
distance of the colisenmspeaker will be installed in the Stadium so
The ratee for these rooms will be fifty-ts,
that every person in the Stadium (which has ri
seventy-five cents, and one dollar for each per- capacity of 72,000) am hear. Judge Rutherford,
to accommodations; and also a President of the International Bible Students
son,
r a t e \\ill be made for room and breakfast. It is Sssociation, will be m e speaker at-the Stadium.
$lao0

Stagnant Government By L. D. Barnes

said that everything improves but govIwithTe ISnillcreasing
~ ~ ~ ~The
e n tgreat
.
discoveries of fifty years,
light on the Bible, show that
progress and improvement is the divine program. The failure of present governments to
keep pace in the administration of human rights
and proper privileges shows that these institutions are not progressive, not _the "last word"
by any means. The constant progress referred
to, in contrast to the stale and stagnant, milkand-wated systems, shows that the divine mind
is not directing these, but has left them mainly
to take their own course, interfering only in the
execution of retributive justice, where iniquity
comes to the full, and where human activity

might e~croachsomewhat upon the divine plan,

Yet the wisdom that has revealed to mankind the arts and sciences, the printing press,
the typewriter, the sewing-machine, the railway
and marine engines, the auto and the airplane,
the telephone and ,the radio, and thousands of
labor-saving devices, such as electric, steam,
gas, compressed air and others, will yet establish that form of government which will apply
those blessings for the good of all and for the
aggrandizement of none !
"Judgment also will I lay to the line, and.
righteousness to the plummet." "And they shall
say, This land that was desolate is become like
the garden of Eden."-Isa 28 :17 ;Eze,k. 36 :35.

Type and Typography By c. J. Fekel

bears about the same relatioil to
PRINTING
writing as a shout does to a whisper. What
would the world have been without these two
methods of expression! We can hardly imagine
the situation. It certainly would have hindered
progress in civilization. There could now be no
typewriters, typesetting machines, printing industry, stationery stores, or post mffices. We
would have neither folders, catalogues, time
tables, menus, posters, handbills, advertising
signs, letters, stationery, books, magazines, or
newspapers. The world would be submerged in
illiteracy. Writing and printing are almost the
only mediums by which we retain valuable and
trustworthy records. Without these two means,
about all of the knowledge we would possess
would be either tradition or rumor and hearsay.
Of what value is tradition? The various heathen reliyions trace their origin to legends delivered from one generation to another. But to
be merely tradition, whether believed by one or
a hundred persons, does not prove the truthfulness of any proposition. Long before Colnmbns
was born it was generally believed that the earth
is flat. And credulity was no doubt stimulated
by tradition. But added to the fact that such
information is likely to be untrue at the start,
is the strong probability that it will become distorted and colored before reaching the one considering it.
For instance: How many of us could repeat
in every detail a simple story that we heard a
year or two ago? Very few, I am sure. Certainly further evidence to demonstrate the uncertainty of tradition is not necessary.
Of course, the mere fact that a thing is printed does not prove its truthfulness. I t s intrinsic
value must be examined; it must be reasoned
upon, and compared with other reliable facts
before its tl-nth can be established. But it has
this advantage, that whereas tradition i s often
held but by a few, that which is printed is generally accessible to all, and therefore subject to
the most widespread criticism.
The great God of the universe, who declares
the end from the beginning, foreknew of this
condition, 'and so caused the message of holy
men of oldto be retained by writing in a permanent and reliable form. Thus Moses wrote all
the words of the Lord. (Exodus 24: 4) But lest
any one should think that he wrote them with a
hammer and chisel on a block of stone, we note

that it is recorded: "And the Lord said unto

Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and
rehearse it in the ears of Joshua" (Exodus
17 :14) Joshua also recorded Israel's covenant
with their God (Joshua 24 : 26) ; and Samuel
told the manner of the kingdom in a book.1Samuel 10 :25.

First Results of Printing

RINTING has been called "the mother of
p
progress." I t unquestionably contributed
greatly to the Reformation movement. It is
doubtful whether the Reformation could have
been carried on without printing. From the time
of its invention printing has been used to circulate the Word of God. It was as though Jehovah
had placed His finger on an electric ewitch and
said: "Let there be light," and light flooded the
earth. It came, not as a brilliant flare, such as
would be caused by a skyrocket bursting over
your head, or by a flash of lightning suddenly
illuminating all of the landscape, but rather like
the removal of thick, impenetrable clouds, thereby revealing a brillia.n,tly illuminated, starlit
sky. It did not daze those that beheld it, but
rather gave them beams of hope and rays of
life and joy.
We might compare it to the successor of the
old village pump, which is almost altogether out
of date now. But possibly in some backward
community you may see one standing, kept as a
relic for its former service. The well was usually
deep, therefore the pump was reliable; and here
would gather the little neighborhood to get their
daily supply of water. Back and forth .the
bucket brigade would go. But suppose, if your
imagination will stretch that far, that a change
came over this community; and that from the
sink in each kitchen of every home, there should
spring forth an artesian well. You would not
even need a receptacle with which to drink. By
lowering your lips you could partake of the
refresbing overflow. Water T Streams of it ! As
clear as crystal! Coming forth endlessly! I t was
just as the prophet Malachi foretold: 'Trove
me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if
I will not open you the windows of heaven, and
pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be
room enough to receive' it.'-Malachi
3 :10.
So, after the Bible was printed, each family
could study their Bible a t home. No longer was

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i t necessary to travel long distances to peruse

the Sacred Book, chained to a pulpit; for it
could be read under one's own lampshade. The
two witnesses which had prophesied under sackcloth came to life. (Revelation 11: 11) The
power of the great Antichrist was broken, foreshaclo\\ing that sooner or later ignorance and
superstition would be crushed to earth. Just as
in the days of Jesus, the people which sat in
darkness saw great light (Xatthew 4: 16), so
now too, priesthood, creeds and religious ceremonies would be exposed by "that which is
writ ten."
-

as to make him the inventor of the harp and

the organ. (Genesis 4: 21) I t may be that the
formerly perfect human voice was losing its
charm, and therefore the substitution of a mechanical instrument suggested itself.
- The art of printing and writing is closely
associated with the development of paper or
other ~vritingmaterial. I n Egypt the papyrus
plant was converted into papyrus n-riting material. I n China a kind of silk 11-asnsecl. In Babylon inscriptions mere stamped into soft clay
tablets, and these mere baked. As a result, in
the ruins of Babylon, nearly every kiln-burnt
brick has its inscriptions. These tablets are of
The Origin of Printing
various shapes-oblongs, cones, and cylinders.
FR0A.I our schoolbookswe learned that print- They vary from one inch to a foot or nlore in
ing was invented by Johann Gutenberg, of length.
There are vast Libraries containing legal,
Germany, in the year 1440. More correctly
speaking, the invention of printing from mova- mathematical and geographical treatises, hisble type took place at that time. Printing means torical and m~thological documents, poetical
to make copies by impression. Typography compositions, a d works on astronomy, astrolmeans to. take impressions from ink-covered
and religion- One may find lists of stones,
type. m e n e v e r we leave our h g e r impression birds and beasts, a s well as petitions and royal
on any article, we print,. though we may be ~roclamationsI n a few words, it is a vast amount of useless
entirely ignorant of the a r t of typography. The
earliest date of printing in this sense is not reading matter compared to the clear, brief record of the children of Israel found in the Bible,
known.
Writing preceded printing; and this was car- Chd's w o r d of Truth.
Shortly thereafter parchment, made of sheep
Tied
in Egypt, Babylon, and China From
the Bible we learn that over 2,400 years elapsed skin polished with pumice stone, was used, a s
from Adam's creation to Moses. As Adam lived well as the skins of other animals. A fine grade
930 years, there remain about 1,500 years be- of parchment made from the skins of calves is
tween them. This period was spanned by five called vellum. It is upon parchment that the
intermediaries, and to Moses was given the first oldest manuscripts of the Bible are written.
divine commission to write.
As the art of writing is not mentioned pre- The Origin
Tllpogmphg
viously, it must have been either gradually deFIERCE controversy has raged over who
v~lopedor revealed by Jehovah to His servant
first gave the world a knowledge of typogMoses. From an early date some of the patri- raphy. This honor is claimed by Italy, Holland,
archs erected stones to commemorate certain and Germany; but the weight of the evidence
occasions. What would be more natural than is is favor of Johann Gutenberg, a printer of
for men so to inscribe their monuments that Mainz. H e was born about 1397, and is known
they would bring to mind the event or deed that to have been a t work before 1439 in Strassburg,
they commemorated? But it is foolish for men endeavoring to perfect his art. Like that of
to suppose that similarly man evolved the mar- most inventors, his path was strewn with diffivel of speech, and brought the incoherent cries culties. From Strassburg he went to Nainz,
of joy and pain, as expressed by the lower ani- where his name appears in a record of legal
mds, m d a r such control as to make them the contract dated 1448. I n 1450 he entered a partservants of thought.
nership with a wealthy money lender by the
The Bib\e tells us that there were but seven name of Johann Fust, or Faust, who furnished
generations from the perfect man Adam to the means needed to set up a printing press.
Jubal, whose musical talent was so developed In 1455 Fust brought a law suit against Guten-

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GOLDEN AGE

berg to recover the money he had advanced.

The verdict was in Fust's favor, a n d the printing press passed out of Gutenberg's hands.
Although sixty years of age Gutenberg did
not despair. He determined to found another
office. He had some of his printing material,
with which he could again make his movable
type; and the town clerk provided him with
money. He continued his work for some years;
., but in 1462 all printing i n Maim was interrupted by the saclcing of the town during a
quarrel of the archbishops. Such events were
not unusual a t that time, nor should we be surprised at them today.
I t happened in this way: The archbishopric
of blainz was claimed by Adolph 11, Count of
Kassau, who was supported by Pope Pins 11.
In 14G2 he attacked and captured the town because it took sides with Diether, then archbishop
and elector of the plack. Many citizens were
murdered, and the town was sacked. All of its
industry was destroyed (thereby the workmen
of the printing offices were compelled to flee to
other places, carrying their a r t with them. F o r
three years after the capture of Mainz, nothing
of value was printed there. Gntenberg died
about February, 1468.
Two friends of Gutenberg, who probably knew
of his invention, erected tablets to his memory.
One of these was erected in the church at Mainz
shortly after his death, and the other in the year
1508 in a law school in that city. The inscriptions speak of him as the inventor of printing.
The Dutch claim that a Koster, Laurens Janszoon, who lived between 1420 and 1440, was the
inventor of type. This claim is referred to as
the Koster Legend. It did not become public
until 1588, or a century and a half afterxutenberg began his work. Like all legends, it claims
to come from a trustmrorthy source. According
to this account, Koster walked into the woods
in 1440, and in t h e bark of a beech tree cut
letters, which he printed on paper for the
amusement of some children. Later he printed
whole sheets from pictures, later still, from
leaden lebters, and then from tin type.
I n 1441*ne of Roster's workmen is supposed
to have stolen his type and fled to Mainz, where
lle opened a workshop, and published two works
from Koster's type in the year 1442. Until 1499
no one seemed to doubt that movable type were
first used in Strassl~urgby Johann Gutenberg,

who afterward went to Mainz, as t l n Cologne

Chronicle, published in 1499, declared. The most
severe assault on the claims of Kostcr was by
a Dutcl~man,Dr. Van der Linde. I n a series of
articles called the "Koster Legend" he accused
as being false the documents that were intended
to prove that his countryman was the inventor
of typography. So incensed became some of the
Dutch that Dr. Van der Linde deemed it advis- .
able to leave his native land. Today the Koster
theory has been abandoned everywhere except
in Holland.
Emly Specimens of Printing
HE earliest specimen of printing from type
existing today is the famous Letter-of Indulgence of Pope Nicholas V to such persons
as should contribute money to help the King of
Cyprus against the Turks. A copy of this Indulgence is now preserved in the Meeman-Westreenen Museum a t the Hague. It bears the
earliest authentic date of a document printed
from type--November 15,1454- I t declares that
a plenary indulgence of three years is granted
by Pope -Nicholas V on the twelfth of April,
1451, to all persons who from May 1, 1455,
should contribute money to aid the King of
Cyprus, then threatened by the Turks. (Pope
Nicholas proclaimed a Jubilee in 1450; and
while it was in progress at Rome, a plague
broke out. (Will there be a final and more e f f w
tive plague at the coming Jubilee in 19251)
The Turks took Constantinople during his reign,
and his effort to unite Christendom against the
Moslems was of no avail.
Other early v.-orlts are Gutenberg's Bibles.
On these his fame as a great printer rests.
There are two editions of the Holy Bible in
Latin. They are referred to as the Bihle of fortytwo and thirty-six lines respectively. These
figures refer te the number of lines to the page,
in a column. The forty-two line is supposed to
be the earlier. It was discovered in 1760, in the
library of Cardinal Mazarin a t Paris, and is
therefore called the Mazarin Bible, or Gntenberg's first Bible. The Earl of Ashburnham'a
copy of the Mazarin Bible on vellum warn sold
in 1897 for about $20,000. I t was probably ~ o t
begun before 1450, and was finished in 1455.
The Paris copy contains'the rubricator's inscription, which shows that the work was completed before August 15,1456.

IEN AGE
The thirty-six-line Bible is called the Pfister's
or Bamberg Bible, because the type used in it
was once owned by Xlbrecht Pfister of Bamberg. A copy of this Bible was discovered in
1728 in the library of a monastery near Maim.
A note found in the manuscript catalogue of the
library states that the Bible was given to the
monastery by Johann Gutenberg and his associates. The date 1461 is written on a copy of
the last leaf of this book. These $wo editions of
the Bible, like all of Gutenberg's works, are
without the name and place of the printer, due
probably to his fear of lawsuits, which had already caused him great expense.
Other works ascribed to Gutenberg are the
Calendar of 1457, the Catholicon of 1460, and a
Letter of Indulgence of 1461. Indulgences are
not popular in the United States today because
intelligent people will not believe that God has
reposed the sole and complete power of designating puliishment and forgiveness of sins, in
the hands of priests. The favor of God cannot
be purchased with money. ' The Bible tells us
that if we confess our sins to God in the name
of Jesus Christ, then He is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and that the blood of Jesus
Christ will cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
-1 John 1:9; 2: 1,2.
Our Lord taught us to pray, saying, ''And
forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors!'
(Matthew 6: 12) There is abundant further
evidence on this point. (Ephesians 4: 32;
Colossians 2 :13; Matthew 18 :35 ; Acts 13:38)
There is no need for a priest or father on earth
to forgive us our sins, when me have a Father
and ever faithful High Priest in heaven. The
confessional still prospers, but thank God the
day is near when the knowledge of God will
cover the earth as the waters cover the deep.
l%e h g r a of Printing '
IT 1 ~ " s a i dthat William the Conqueror could
not write his name; and that therefore he had
'William" engraved on a bit of wood, and a p
proved documents by pressing his stamp first
on an ink qad and then on his paper. But when
once prinbng on paper in a commercial way
started, it @egressed rapidly. The art carried
on a t Maim soon spread to other cities and
countries, as travelers were constantly passing
through this town to the Netherlands, France,
Italy, and Switzerland. Just as bg: divine pro-

vidence, the persecution of the early Christians

in P a l e s ~ ~ lscattered
~e
them over Europe and
disseminated their doctrine, so the quarrel of
the archbishops in 1462 dispersed the printers.
Presses were soon set up in other cities; by
the end of the a t e e n t h century more than one
hundred and fifty towns were practising the art.
Three printers from Germany established a
press in Paris in 1470, and in 1477 England
took up the art. In France, Germany, and Italy
typography was practised most extensively, and
here the greatest improvements were made.
Before the year 1500, over two hundred printers
practised the art in Venice, and it is to Italy
that we are indebted for the Italic and the
Roman type. The latter is the most extensively
used today.
b o n g the printers of Venice was Aldus Manutius, who began his work in 1494. He was
a man of great learning and industry, and exercised extreme care in his work. His press became celebrated for its Qreek and Latin classics. He introduced the Italic type and probably
devised the present system of punctuation; for
before his time but few marks mere used, and
their use was not well regulated. This knowledge should lead us to understand that the
translators of the so-called "Authorized Version" were not infallible in the punctuation of
their translation of the Holy Scriptures. As a
matter of fact the work on this version was not
begun until between 1604 and 1607, or over a
hundred years after the origin of punctuation.
The translators were unfortunate enough to
misplace a comma in Luke 23: 43, and thereby
changed a simple; reasonable text of Scripture
into a puzzle that for a long time no one could
solve. Properly punctuated the passage reads,
"And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee
today, Thou shalt be with me in paradise." I n
due time the thief will be with Jesus in the kingdom, which we see now in process of establishment in the earth.
Contrast, for a moment, printing as it was
after its invention with what it is today. With
painstaking care the printer would set up every
letter of his type, place it in a form, and by a
slow and laborious method repeatedly ink his
type and take impressions on his sheets. The
wealthy looked a t the new art as an inartistia
trade, and so compelled the printer to copy the
characters of contemporary manuscripts in

CjOWEN AGE

orcler to sell his work. Today typesetting machilies rapidly assemble the letters, and many
speedy presses turn out a printed sheet every
second. I n addition me have typewriters. There
are over 500,000 Corona typewriters in use,
beside greater numbers of Remington, Underwood, Oliver, Royal, and machines of other
manufacture.
Within the last forty years the printing industry in America has jumped from practically
nowhere to the rank of sixth in size among o m
industries. Toward the close of the last century,
there were but four newspapers in India, all
printed in the English language; whereas today there are two hundred thirty-two printed
in the native tongue of Hindustani, besides
others in English and the various vernaculars.

fore the eyes of all men in books, and let tbis

vaccine seep into their natures, then we have
saved manlcind."
But anyone who looks inside of our big metropolitan dailies knows how impossible such a .
task really is. These papers are of the sensational type. They devote a large percentage of
their space to playing up what is abnormal and
unusual in daily city and country life. They
deal with the famous and the infamous, with
that which is deserving of pnblic admiration or
public scorn. The average reader briefly reviews the fires, collisions, murders, suicides, and
other similar abnormalties, hoping to derive a
thrill from the recital d some gruesome incident, but finds that it always leaves a feeling of
disappointment. Practically all modern newepapers and magazines could be very well dispensed with. They have deteriorated from nem7s
organs to propaganda mediums.
But the strangest thing of all is that people
will actually pay to have their minds swayed,
prejudiced and blinded by this means. I am
glad that THE GOLDEX
AGEis not of this character. Nearly everybody knows that it is next to
impossible for the average editor to tell the
truth, to publish the facts in every case, or t o
express his own convictions. Yet yon will find
a newspaper in every nook and cranny of the
civilized earth.
Take a stroll on a lonely lane, or a crossconntly hike through the woods, and see if yon
can gkt very far without a piece of newspapr
catching your eye. This organ of worldly wisdom appealing to the simple reminds one by
contrast. with true wisdom's call: '90th not
wisdom cryt and understanding put forth he?
voice? She standeth in the top of high places,
by the way in the places of the paths. She erieth
at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in a t the doors. Unto yon, 0 men, I call; and
8: 1-4.
my voice is to the sons of man.-Prov.
What do we h d in our daily sheetst Some
papers dare to assume the motto, "All the news
that's fit to print." Others, "The truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth.", But one is
more inclined to believe the saying,

PampAleis, &zgwMne8,Nempapera, me.

ITH 'the invention of the printing press,
the tract and pamphlet came into existence. With the possibility indefinitely multiplying copies, it became h e as never before
that "the pen is mightier than the sword." In
1915 Great Britain made one of its ablest men,
Lord Northcliffe, a Minister of State, with the
assigned duty of Minister of Propaganda So
Lord Northciffe began scattering pamphlets
over the nations of earth. Further propaganda
through newspapers and books was carried on
by all of the nations in the great World War.
I n the early days, when Rome was still in
power, heralds were sent forth who read to the
people what the government wished them to believe. After the invention of printing, Venice
endeavored to tell the people certain facts ;and
so a sheet was published called the "Oazetta,"
out of whieh has grown the modem magazine.
In writing for a magazine one may take ample
time to express his real belief rather than merely a b s i n g thought, as in a newspaper. A
magazine should be worth keeping, a newspaper
only worth reading.
While the "Qazetta" flourished in Italy, the
"News Letter" was being printed in Germany,
France, aria England. This developed into the
daily newspxper. Napoleon 111 said that he received all his knowledge from the two sources:
"Here's to the news that lies in daily sheets,
His mother, who taught him to read; and his
That lies, and liw, and lie&"
newspaper, which supplied the rest. Some one
How newspapers grope for the sensationJ,the
has said: "If we can get truth and cleanness of
soul, ideals t&atare hunest and worth while, be- scandalous, the' malicious, the filth of families

of

and sagety! How they laud the spectacular, the

daring plots and intrigues of men! How faithfully they promote foolishness and evil surmisings! Through the funny sheet they inculcate the spirit of laughter at another's misfortune, and the practice of daily deception. Where
is the community that is elevated by their influence? \&%at beneficial reform have they instituted? There is none. "For a dog to bite a man
is nothing, but for a man to bite a dog is news.
I t is new, it is startling." So says Alr. Brisbane,
of the New York Arncrican.
From start to finish, the metropolit_anpapers
of today are sensual, devilish. One is almost
prone to ask, "Have the honest, the noble, the
pure, the good, the just, the virtuous, the lovers
of truth, the merciful, and the holy perished
from the earth?" They have, as far as the newspaper is concerned. I t is just a s prophecy foretold. "This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall come. For men shall be
lovers of their own selves; covetous, boasters,
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, . . truce breakers, false
accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those
that are good, traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;
having a form of godliness, but denying the
power thereof: from such turn away."'-2 Timothv 3 :1-5: Romans 1:21-32.
But, thank God, the end is near! Very soon
the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies,
and the waters shall overilow the hiding places.
(Isaiah 28: 17; 11:9) Then it will be true that
this evil influence heretofore exerted will compare to drops of water dancing on top of a redhot stove. The activity of these drops is great
for a short time, but all their liveliness and
sputtering finally end in evaporation.
Occasionally singular things are said in type.
'A ~ h h i q eeditor, on returning a contribution,
enclosed a rejection slip that read as follows:
'We have read your manuscript with infinite
'delight. Never before have'we reveled in such
a masterpiece. If we printed it, the authorities
would take$ for a model, and henceforth would
never permit anything-inferior to it. As it
would be impossible to find its equal within ten
thousand years, we are compelled, though shaken
with sorrow, to return your divine nlanuscript ;
and for so doing we beg ten thousand pardons."

The Individuality o f Type

HAT inanimate thing fulfils the following
description? "Each object has a face,
shodder, body and feet. Some have beards, and
under certain conditions a widow is produced.
In addition some may get off their feet, even
though none are addicted to the liquor habit.
They may a t this time be locked up i n a fort),.
As in every family. there is an occasional black
sheep, so here too, once in a while, one needs
bringing up. Sometimes they are engaged in a
chase, and if well dressed will remain quite composed. They exist in families, always leave an
impression, and eventually reach a box called
Hell." Of course there is no fire in it. I t would
be easy enough. to name the animate b e h g that
fulfils this description, but the more d S c u l t
inanimate thing is type. This shows that there
is something human about type; for the above
terms are just a few of everyday occurrence in
the printing office.
While type has been used for an evil purpose,
it has also done untold good. What Robert H.
Davis said of the printing press is even more
true of type:

"Ising the songs of the world, the oratories of histoq,

the symphonies of all time. I am the voice of today,
the herald of tomorrow. I weave into the warp of the
past the woof of the future. I tell the stories of peace
and war alike. I make the human heart beat with
passion and tenderness. I stir the pulse of nations and
make them do braver deeds, and soldiers die. I inspire
the midnight toiler, weary at his loom, to lift hia h,ead
again and gaze with fearlessness into the vast beyond,
seeking the consolation of a hope eternal. When 1
speak, a million people listen to my voice. The Saxon,
the Latin; the Celt, the Hun, the Slav, the Hindu, all
comprehend me. I1crythe joys and sorrows of every hour.
I fill the dullard's mind with thoughts uplifting. I an1
Light, Knowledge, Powcr. I epitomize the conquests of
mind over matter. I am the recorder of all things that
mankind has achieved. Bly offspring comes to you in
the candle's glow, amid the dim lamps of poverty, the
splendor of riches; at sunrise, at high noon, and in the
waning evening. I am the laughter and the tearj of the
world, and I shall never die until all things return to
the immutable dust."

But what is it that makes a piece of printed

matter appeal to a person, while another will
be given but passing attention? It is not always
the curiosity or the question aroused, nor the
fact that the subject matter is the hobby of the
one concerned. I t may be the quality of the

the ink will adhere only to the design, This inked

plate will either print directly on the paper, a8
in Lithography, or first transfer the design to
a rubber blanket and from this to the paper, as
in the Offset Process. Experiments have been
made along other lines of printing, such as by
Photography,etc.,with some commercial results.
These varied methods have had a mamelons
effect on human history. By scattering knowledge printing causes people to think. Barbarian
tribes became civilized under its influence, and
narrow, winding paths through dense' forests
gave way to paved highways. I t broke the barriers of isolation and distance. I t raised the
standard of living. Practically all inventions
date after the birth of printing.
Th6 prophecy of Daniel declares :cadanyshill
m n to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." (Daniel 12 :4) Printing stinmulated
manufacturing, buying and selling. At first it
was considered a luxury, just as electric lights,
gas stoves, rocking chairs, washing machines,
and automobiles were considered. Today it ia
a present need. It has the power of making
people realize vividly the comforts we enjoy
from the h m r i e s of today. Whenever the cravings of natural men so appealed to cannot be .
satisfied, discontent and dissatisfaction are sure
Metliods of Rintinn
0 FAR, printing from an elevated surface to follow. It is thus preparing for the Great Day.
The effect of printing is well illustrated by
(letterpress printing) alone has been considered. But there are two other principal the following chart :
Rate of
.ways: First, from a n indented surface; and
mo
1923 Insecond, from a plane surface. I n the first method
38,558,371 107,438,615 3
from an indented surface, called copperplate Population (U. s.)
printing, the whole surface is first inked. The -VaIueof Manufacturing 35 billion
62 billion 18
flat surface is then cleaned, leaving ink only in No. of Grocery Stores
74,000
335,212
41h
the incision or trenches cut by the engraver, so No. of rjmg Stores
17,000
50,715
8
that when dampened paper is laid over the plate
and pressure is applied, the paper sinks into
While from 1870 to 1923 i h e population of
the incision, and takes up the ink, making im- the United States increased almost threefold,
pressions in lines on the paper. This method is the people's wants and needs as expressed in
also &Ued the Intaglio, or Gravure, etc., and is manufactured articles increased over eighteen
the exact reverse of the letterpress or half-tone times.
process.
What a blessing printing will be in the age
The other method i s the Flanographic, or plane to come! It will breathe holy thoughts, convey
surface. Bere the design is in the same planc sweet messages, and keep on record permanent
as the surrounding surface (neither above nor friendships. As long as reliable records will be
below, as in the previous methods). By chemical treasured, it will hold its own, always attesting
treatment, the design is made to attract ink God's wisdom, justice, love, and power. It will
while the surrounding surface repels it. In this please the eye with scenes horn lands afar off,
case when the ink roller passes over the plate, and ill the mind with wisdom from above.
work and the workmanship. h America, where
there is so much competitive printing, this
matter should not be overlooked. The paper
on which the message is printed should create
respect for the message. I t has been wisely
said that printed matter for public distribution
should not be smaller than 10 point. To violate
this rule, makes it more difficult to read; and
some people will be prevented from reading it
altogether.
But i t is not enough that printing be legible.
There is an elusive thing d e d grace, which
comes from using well that apparel of words
called type. As a person's demeanor may leave
the opposite impression from his words, so also
with that which is printed. Either it may snggest dignity, character, strength, and delicacy,
or it may show weakness or lack of personality.
The printed salesman may be well dressed and
courteous, or slovenly attired and inconsiderate.
There are many families of type, each having
its peculiar characteristics. Many readers
would be able to recognize Script, Old English,
Gothic, Roman, or Italic, Type is also classified
as condensed, extra condensed, expanded, bold,
bold condensed, bold Italic, etc.

Digest of. World News

(Broadcnst from WATCHTOWER WBBR on a wave length of 273 meters, by the Editor)

THE

United States Treasury Department

h a arrived a t a new successful method of
guaging the prosperity of the country. By
means of the war tax on theater receipts it
knows how much is spent annually for amusemerits. This discloses that the average family
had its greatest degree of prosperity in 1920.
Thus far, 1924 comes next, and then in order
1921, 1923, 1922, 1919 and 1918. The theatrical
expenditure in 1918 was $38,000,000 per month;
while in 1920 it was $72,000,000 per month,
nearly double. The expenditure in 1924 is at
only a slightly less rate than i n 1920.
The National Industrial Conference Board of
New York city has been making a study of the
cost of clothing, and has discovered that i h i l e
in other lines the cost of living has remained
stationary or has decreased within the past two
years, yet the cost of clothing to the ultimate
consumer has increased more than fourteen percent during that time. It seems hard for many
persons to unlearn the lessons in profiteering
taught them during the war.
As a consequence of conducting his business
on the basis of the Golden Rule, Arthur Nash,
President of the Nash Clothing Company of
Cincinnati, reports that he is about to make
$1,000,000 in a new issue of capital stock which
will virtually be forced upon him. He wishes to
know how he can utilize these million dollars so
as to give the greatest benefit to mankind. Our
advice is to erect a broadcasting station at Cincinnati, and to broadcast the truth on all subjects, making sure that it is the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the tmth. [He has since
given this stock to his employks.]

Hard Times at the Door

uN"

4 MPLOYMENT throughout the country

is becoming more pronounced and widespread. . Many industries are laying off their
men, the demand for coal is slumping, shipments of freight are falling off, clerk hire is
being dispensed with, traveling men are grumbling, restaurants and hotels are feeling the
crimp that 'is fast getting into business.
Thousands of farms are lying idle, and the
farmers with their som and daugliten who
recently invaded the ranks of city labor only
mgment the Likelihood of deeper distress

amongst the unemployed. Many places are

showing less activity in the construction of new
residences, and city property i s lagging. There
is a slight increase in dealing in farm lands in
a few communities. But, withal, it seems that
we are on the verge of a let-up in business
which spells hard times.
Printing conditions in New York city have
gotten so bad from the publishers' point of view
that during the past eighteen months nine magazines have moved to other points. "Collier's,"
with a weekly circulation of 1,250,000 copies,
was.the latest to move. "Hearst's," "Harper's,"
"McCall's," and others have moved away. I t is
thought that the NacFadden publications,
twelve magazines with a combined circulation
in excess of four millions monthly, may be the
next to seek the way of least resistance. Everything, practically, in New York is operated on
the "closed shop" plan, with wages high. Most
of the printing concerns which move away resume publication on the "open shop" plan.

New Era in Indushy

E Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shopa
INtheT Hlamb
and the lion seem a t present to

be lying down together, and for once the lamb

is not inside the lion. The so-called GIenwood
Plan of railroad shop cooperation was designed
by the president of the International Association of Machinists, and is now in force throughout the shops of the Baltimore and Ohio system
with the result that 3,500 more shopmen are a t
work on the B. B 0. than during previous years.
a recent convention of the shopmen mention was,made of 4,000 items of improvement in
working, safety, and sanitary conditions around
shops, yards and roundhouses. The statement
is made that things which it used to take months
or years to accomplish are now accomplished
almost instantaneously; such a s improvements
in the heating, lighting and ventilation of shops,
the drainage of engine pits, the repair of shop
flooring, etc. The President of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad is reported as being as enthusiastic about the plan as are the shopmen
themselves.
Mr. Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce,
believes that the nation is moving toward some
sort of industrial democracy. H e said:

66s

* GOWEN
"I believe we are in the presence of a new era in the
organization of industry and commerce in which, if
properly directed, lie forces pregnant with infinite possibilities of moral progress. I believe that we are, almost
unnoticed, in the midst of a great revolution or-perhaps a better word-a transformation in the whole
super-organization of our economic life. We are paseing
from a period of extmmely individualietic action into a
period of associational activities."

Our thonght is that we are passing through

the birthpangs not only of a new industrial
arrangement, but also of a new lbancial, social,
religious and political one. The old system is
passing away in its entirety, and it is dying
hard. The new era into which the world will
soon find itself is the Golden Age of prophecy.
This momentous change not only is taking-place
in America, but is world-wide. It is for all to
take hope, to be encouraged, to trust in the
Lord, and to await the full inauguration of the
new day ;'for surely it is dawning.
The enormous rents in. Washington, D. C.,
and some other cities, are-said to be caused by
real estate owners mortgaging their properties
in excess of the sale prices. In Washington
thirty-two of the larger apartment houses are
mortgaged nine million dollars more than the
amount paid for them. Mortgage investment
companies are doing a thriving business. It
often occurs that these money sharks are
sharper than the bankers; for some banks have
been stnng try being overloaded with these inflated mortgages.

Murders, North and h t h

statistics have been published
INSURANCE
showing that in the years 1922-1923 there

AGE

Treaaon in b Angela
HE city of Los Angeles is stirred because a

T teacher, Professor Willis T. Nc.wton, in-

structor in history and economics at one of the

high schools, made the statement in an address
before the teachers that '%e cannot get rid of
war unless we teach peace." In the eyes of some
100-percent-profiteer Americans, this was a terrible thing for a teacher to say; and Professor
Newton should be hanged immediately, while
the subject is being discussed over his remains.
One of the physicians of the city, defending
Professor Newton, sent a letter to the Los
Angeles Record in which he said:
"The objed of teaching is to provoke thonght in the
pupil. It has been the devotion of a benighted d m
during the dark ages to prevent thought. Bruno md
Qelileo thought, and were sternly forbidden. Copernicaa
thought The school trnetees of that day forbade thinking. His books and bones were burned. Socrates and
Seneca thought. Suicide was suggested, and forced
upon them by 001ltemporury oiW&."

Other Academic &ne

S IS well known, the southeastern part of
Pennsylvania has a population of German
descent, two-thirds of whom speak a language
commonly called 'Tennsylvania Dutch," a mixture of German and English. The territory in
which this language is spoken is an unbroken
area of 195,000 square miles. A dictionary of
the dialect comprising 16,380 words has just

been compiled.
The boys of the country have lost a good
friend. Samuel C. Dyke, the first Amerioait
manufaatnrer of boys' marbles, is dead. One
thing that interests us is as to why every boy
begins to play marbles in the spring ae soon
as the frost is out of the ground; but the girls
never play marbles, although they do play jacks.
Perhaps they do not like to get down into the
mud; or perhaps they cannot shoot straight!

were twenty-nine times as m q n ~chances - of

being murdered in Memphis as in Rochester;
thirteen times as mapy chances of being mnrdered in Nashville as in Reading; and eight
times ai many chances of being murdered in
New Orleans as in Milwaukee. The most dangerous cities in the United States from the Propre.mive ( I ) &mw
standpoint of murder were, in the order named: T H E United States Chamber of Commerce
Memphis, SJashville, New Orleans, Louisville,
has been holding its annual convention in
St. Louis, qincinnati, Washington, D. C., Los Cleveland. As might be expected from those
Angeles, Chicago, and Pittsburgh; while the who covet all the revenues of the country, it is
safest cities in the United States, in the reverse opposed to lower freight rates, is opposed to
order, were : Rochester, Reading, Milwaukee, . making income tax returns public, is opposed to
Hartford, Boston, Spokane, Providence, Buf- the soldiers' bonus, is opposed to governmental
falo, New York, Seattle, and Minneapolis. - aid in the marketing of agricultural producb,

'

is opposed to limiting the Supreme Court in its

encroachments upon the powers of the people,
is opposed to government regulation of business, is opposed to the government's going into
any kind of business, is opposed to interfering
with the packers, is opposed to oil investigations; and- it warns against the activities of
radicals, that is, of people who think. The
United States Chamber of Commezce i s a great
institution, but it is covered with moss a foot
thick. I t needs to punch itself and to awake to
a realization that we are not living i n the year
1492.
Senator Henrik Shipstead of ~ i n n e s o t qreferring to the Federal Reserve Banks' discounting of $5,000,000 of E u r o p e a ~paper, declared
that the man who is responsible for this new
adventure into Europe is the same man, P a d
M. Warburg, who is responsible for the Federal
Reserve system. Senator Shipstead is reported
as saying!

"With the international bankers in complete control

of the money and credit of the cyuntry, they can do to
the people precisely what the bankers of Germany did
to the people there. It is said that the reason for this
new policy is the desire to stimulate exports b c e d by
American credit. We have had experience8 along thew
lines, but we seem to have forgotten the terrible price we
paid for financing European purchases in America We
had a perfectly jolly time doing i t during the war. We
e\tended credit to Europe, and Europe bought goods of
all kinds in our markets and paid any price we asked.
11-e did a tremendous business on our own money and
credit. The American bankers are gambling with trust
funds belonging to other people. They did it before, and
lost; and the American people are POW paying the price.
The first result of this new scheme w i l l be artificial
stimulation of exports and business. It may start an
artificial business boom that will carry us until after
election. It is also evident that it is going to be used
aa a club to force the acceptance by Europe of the Dawea
Plan, and to compel the American producer to carry
more sf the European debt than he is already caqing.
We have 'already sent too much credit to Europe. The
continued squandering of bank credits as is now prop d by the Federal Reserve Board controlled by the
international banking group, will inevitably pauperize
the people of this nation just as the bankers have done
in Germany 8nd other countries where credit and money
have been mepipulated in the interest of the few a t the
expense of the many."

Within the past two years, despite the existence of the Federal Reserve colossus that is
supposed to prevent such things, there have

been over six hundred bank failures in Molltang

North and South Dakota, and Minnesota. Banks
ar,e failing now a t the rate of nine each week.
Some time ago, because of bank failures, many
depositors were withdrawing their money from
the banks, and buying postal savings and government bonds.
A sample of a good job of self-whitewashing
done by one of our modern financiers is seen in
the recent contribution of the Dohenys of $600,000 toward the building of a "church!'
This
sum is probably considered enough for one
family to buy absolution from all past sins and
to get a certificate of indulgences for all time
to come.

The Profits of Patriotism

Committee which is investigating
THEtheHouse
Shipping Board is finding another easy
way by which fortunes are made. The Shipping
Board, it seems, necessarily has large sums of
money in its possession for carrying on its
work. These sums run into millions of dollars.
They are placed on deposit with certain banks,
where in some instances it requires four or five
men to see to their proper investment. The
government receives no interest on these huge
sums, but meantime is itself a borrower, paying
about five percent for the use of money. The
bank makes about twelve percent on the moxiey
which it gets from the government for nothing.
It has been observed that the banks which are
chiefly favored by this nice little arrangement,
by which they make seventeen percent a t the
expense of the American people, generally have
on their board of directors people who contributed heavily to the 1920 Republican campaign
fund.
Teapot Dome Oil Magnate Sinclair is reported as having tried to borrow $27,000,000
from the Shipping Board in 1920, for the purpose of carrying on oil developments in Mexico.
The Board rejected the proposition; and Mr.
Fall,our late Secretary of the Interior, canceled
a contract which the Interior Department had
with the Shipping Board, causing a loss to the
Merchant Marine of $6,000,000 annually. As a
result the Shipping Board was compelled to
buy oil in the open market.
These transactions at the time received but
very slight notice in the big dailies. The present
diqiosures tell of an arrangement between Fall

GOLDEN AGE

and Sinclair which was to extend over a period

of five years and in which Sinclair was to get
the needed $27,000,000 anyhow, keep the profits,
build up a big business; and if any complications arose with Mexico, the United States was
to fight the battle. I t was proposed to return
the principal in instalments-maybe.

Marshall on the War Path

3RbIER Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, in a r e m t speech a t Chicago, said
ironically: "The model citizen today is the man
who can successfully evade the laws!' We have
not his entire speech before us; but he was
talking of the troubles and distress in America,
which included the scandals in official circles,
the corrupt politics, and preachers' dabbling in
politics.
According to this popular view, which Mr.
Marshall properly scored with his sarcasm, the
model man is the rich man who can buy immunity in the courts, bribe his way through, keep
his skirts clean, steal railroads, oil and coal
reserves, monopolize the m e d i m of exchange,
raise and lower prices at will, rob the people
through profiteering and taxation, and otherwise hold the masses in subjection to a system
of bewhiskered, strutting hypocrisy.
send your
Mr. Marshall further said: TOU
fools to Washington, and keep the wisemen at
home to whitewash the fences." We suppose
Mr. Marshall covertly meant to say that the
legislators are sent to Washington to do the
dirty work, and that the real rulers, the financiers, whitewash their acts, so that not one of
them is punished.

tion forms. It is estimated that 3,0335,283veterans will be paid by the insurance policy method;
while 389,583 will be paid in cash of $50 o r less.
One of the nice jobs which confront the clerks
is that among the 6,893,000 names which must
be checked, there are 50,000 persons named
Smith; and they must decide which of these are
entitled to insurance or cash and for how much.

Machinewcivilization HE Federal prisons are being Bled to more

than capacity. New laws are making this
possible. In 1013, a law m h g it a felony to
steal from an interstate shipment gave the Federal courts many cases; in 1914, the Harrison
Anti-Drug Act took another large field of crime
into the E'ederal courts; in 1919, the Dyer Act
(governing the interstate transportation of stolen automobiles) was adopted, widening still
further the mouth of the criminal river that
empties into Federal prisons. So great hss become the business on this river that biUs are
now pending in Congress for the appointment
of additional Federal judges in various districts
of the country.
The fact that it is dangerous to go to war is
emphasized by statistics furnished by the
"American Legion Weekly." It points out that
125,000 war veterans have died since July 30,
1919. It is estimated that 26,000 will die during
1924, or at the rate of sevenb'-two a day. Poison
gas and exposure are not good for anyone.
If the governments of this world are part
and parcel of Christ's Idngdom, then the United
States government will come in for an unusual
lot of praise, having just completed a bomb
which weighs 4,300 pounds. I t will carry 2,003
Bonus Bill Aftermath
pounds of TNT, and is thirteen and one-half
FTER the passage of the Bonus Bill, stocks feet long over-all. A s an instrument for Chris.
feu a few points because many person, had iianizing the world, this is about twice as big a
been deceived into thinking that this Bonus Bill success as anything heretofore manufactured.
would be injurious to the interests of big business. However, the stock market has since recu- A@dhml it^^ '
perated. boreover, in view of the fact that big:
HE Millenninm is gradually coming to the
farm. It is estimated that at present about
business will have the custody of these bonus
funds (and that most of the soldiers will never two million farm properties manufacture their
get anythQg unless they die or commit suicide o m ~lectriclights and power; while about
because of inability to gain employment!) it is 165,000 farmers purehas? power from electric
evident that.the financiers have nothinq to fear. power companies whose wires pafis their doors.
Carrying out of tho Bonus Law h a s remlted Taken all tog~ther,this is about one-sixth of all
in a call fof3,fjOc) nrw clorlrq ~t Wnshinqtnn nnd the farrn~rsin t h ronntry;
~
rind w h i l ~\wTecould
the pripting of 30,000 applirsfion nnd instmc- wish that it wss six times a s great, still we arc.

4.

New York has become so infested with rats

that it is not safe for mothers to leave their
California has lost a t least $3,000,000 and babies long enougli to go to the street. Within
78,000 head of cattle since the outbreak of the the past few days three children of the ages of
foot-and-mouth disease there a few weeks ago. two to three months have been bitten in their
h idea of the swiftness and thoroughness with cribs by rats that have found their way upstairs.
~vhich the foot-and-mouth disease is being
Philadelphia has found a use for its City
fought in California may be gathered from the Hall Tower. Five hundred feet above the street
fact that the disease was first discovered in the statue of William Penn now blinks an
Contra Costa County, California, on March 10, orange-colored eye a t the motorists far below.
and before night of March 11 all of the 719 Who would have supposed that after this lapse
cattle running a t large in the county were of time William Penn would now be a tra0ic cop
rounded up, slaughtered and buried six feet in the city of brotherly love?
deep underground, with a large quantity of lime
During the latter half of May forest fires
t h r o m on top of them.
were raging in the extreme Northwest. Along
the Great Northern railway from Fortine, MonScience and Invention
tanq to Spokane, Washington, more than fifty
- T H E transmission of photographs or pichres such fires were reported One area of over
of rtny sortby wire
has now become a d-10?000acres had burned. At another point the
fUe was raging with a five-mile front. At Sand
ity. The New York papers on May 20
Point and Maples the fires were apparently anpiotnres, all of which were very good.
actual experiment shows that a period of only contmllable? being driven by high winds.
A wide use is being made of the radio in the
thirty-&ree minutes was
between the
click of the camera in Cleveland and the ttumhg teaching of the deaf. Boys and girls who had
of the p i c k in never before heard the human voice are now
out of a completed
New Pork. The (#:tdsending of a e p i w e s receiving lessons from their teachere through
by wire required four and one-half minutes. the use of head phones*
The basis for the trammission of the pictore8
SYudenf8
is the fact that by means of the photo-electria Idtcrti- fh
HE good work of the Bible Students in concell every variation of a beam of light can be
transIated into a variation of electric current
tinuing to preach Yhe gospel of pew''
' which can again be translated into a variation (Ephesians 6: 15) when it was all a man's life
of light. A small spot of light is passed through was worth to do so, is gradually being taken up
a lens and directed upon the photograph to be by other religious bodies. For example, the
transmitted. The photographic fiis on a cyl- New Hampshire ConBregational Conference on
inder; as the cylinder revolves, the point of the closing day of its 123rd session passed resolight passes through it and falls upon a potas- lutions withdrawing all support from any future
sium pencil. The fluctuations of current in the war in which the United States might engage.
pencil are then imposed- on the cnrrent which The resolution denounces war as "the most
flows through the telephone wires. The photo- colossal and ruinous collective sin on earth."
graphs to be transmitted are traced in lines
The Board of Bishops of the Methodist Epis~ n e - s ~ t y - f i f of
t h an inch apart, that distance copal Church, chiefest of all the shouters for
having.been found to be the best for newspaper war in the crazy days of the reign of the one
PWses-who "kept us out of war," have issued an address in which they have termed war a "monS b d r g and Divers Itstrosity of the Pagan past" and "a law of the
SUSqENSION bridge with a span of 2,000 jungle."
Can we really hope that these bishops have
feet is being built across the Hudson at
Peekskill, %ew York, only forty miles up the learned all this in seven years? It seems too
river from New York city. Temporary foot- much for them to have absorbed in that time.
bridges have already been eonstmcted, 180 feet We fear that if another war start& it will be
found that they have really not karned this
above the water a t low tide,
thankfd for the progress made, and hope to see

it greatly increased soon.

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lesson a t all; indeed, it seems that after fourteen days of discussion of the above recommendations the general conference a t Springfield,,
Mass., was not able on May 19 to decide wholly
in favor of these expressions of protest against
war.
The Catholic Church also, which has had a
hand in every war that has been fought in the
last thousand years, has had a meeting at Washington in which its representatives have adopted
resolutions urging the necessity of work for
world peace. Of course they do not mean this.
If they were really for peace, the world would,
have had no wars for the past ten centuries.

Not Imitating the Bible Students

T. MARK'S Episcopal Church in New York

continues to attract large crowds. This

seems strange; for the principal attraction usually consists merely in bare-footed girls dancing
Pagan dances. Every Sunday the most holy
Reverend Doctor who acts as pastor of the
church gets up some new 'dance. A part of a
recent service was an exhortation by the rector
to the holy visions from the Hako, Indian,
demonology.
Evidently he must put on a pretty good show-;
for i t generally brings about a column article
in Monday's New York Times. This priest of
the Most High Episcopal Church says, evidently
spealring for himself and his brother preachers :
"After all, there are very few of us [preachers]
who realize just what is meant by the word
Pagan." Probably the dominie is right.

Ahka

T
2'7,000

HROUGHOUT the vast area of Alaska it

is estimated that a t present there are only
natives. These live in villages ranging
in size from thirty persons to about four hundred. I n these villages the United States governmeht. maintains eighty-three schools, the
school teachers in most instances being not only
teachers, but physicians, nurses, postmasters,
business managers, and local government representatives.
I

-.

Canada (Fram Our Correspondent)

HE transportation companies are still bringing Britishers by the thousands to Canada
find work!'
Your correspondent had the
pleasure of a chat with one of these chaps.

Coming out of meeting on Sunday evening Isst,

I was introduced to a Roman Catholic .rho that
evening had heard the "truth" for the first time.
This man had only recently arrived from
England, having been advised verbally by
agents in England, and assured by advertisements in English papers, and by streamers
strung along the streets, that in Canada there
is plenty of work to be had. He was told: "Oh,
yes! There are some unemployed, but they are
those who wonJt work." On the strength of
these promises he came to Canada, and up to
the time of writing he is still out of work His
case is tlpical of thousands.
And yet, from the Imperialists' point of view,
i t is a pretty good scheme to have plenty of men
on the market. Not with reference to the economic phase of the question-the wages are, of
course, affected-but with another war in sight,
what is better than to have plenty of malcontents?
-A veteran of the Great W a r was discussing
his troubles recently and relating his experiences; how he had been mistreated since
coming home; yes, and before going overseas.
b o n g other things, he told your correspondent
that just previous to embarking for England he
was approached in the line-up in Toronto with
reference to Church parade for the following
day. He was asked by the officer in charge:
'What church do you attend?" The soldier replied: "I am an atheist." "Oh," the officer
assured him, 'we have a place for you." On
Sunday morning the soldier was called out of
the ranks, sent to the oEcer, and given seven
days in the "clink." Needless to say, he became
a "Christian" and thereafter attended church
regularly.
We asked him: "After such experiences in
the army, and after all you have suffered, what
would be your attitude should another war
break out t" "Well," he replied without hesitation, "I'd do the same as I did before. I have
nothing to lose but my Life, and I might as well
die suddenly as die by degrees."
So there you have it. Given thousands of
men in that state of mind, the world leaders
would have no di5culty in finding fodder for
their next war.
We were told recently by a man who was
house-hunting that, going up to one house, he
was advised that he would .find the Lrndlord

* GOWEN

upstairs. He mounted the steps and found a

middle-aged man who, he said, appeared to be
half starved. He inquired: "Are you the landlordt" "Xo," said the resident of the house, '?
wish I mere. I'm only a tenant here. I'm hungry.
I haven't had anything to eat for days. I have
three children here ; and my wife is in bed, sick.
Can yon do anything to assist us?" he asked
the house-hunter.
This story may seem far-fetched; but it is
an actual occurrence and, me believe, only one
of many that are not generally known. Oh, yes,
we have "charitable" institutions; but "charity,"
like "Christianity," is a very much misunderstood term.
A case in point was related in a local paper
recently. A man selling goods from door to
door to make snfficient to keep him out of the
workhouse, was told by a good church woman
that he was a nuisance. She warned him to
keep away, or she would have him arrested. Further, she informed him that he had no right to
be selling goods in that manner. There were
merchants, reputable men, who attended to her
wants. "But," she vouchgafed, "if it's a case of
charity, then you should make your wants
known to the proper authorities so that they
might be attended to in a business-like way."
There's the rub: ''In a business-lie way."
"Charity" and "Christianity" indeed! Have
your wants attended to in a business-like way,
feed your hungry children and your sick wife,
and clothe them, in a business-like way. Then
come to church on Sunday; and we'll save your
soul in a business-like way. Oh, for a world
with true charity, with true Christianity; where
every man is brother, and every woman sister,
and where, indeed, an onlooker might truthfully
say, as they said in the early days: "How they
love one another!"
The Catholic Church in Quebec has had a tiff
with t$e Catholic Government of that Province.
The Premier got sore, and would not attend the
blessing of the Church bells. Of course, it will
be patched up, and the bells will be blessed
in due time.
Some months ago the Premier had a tiff with
the Cardiqal. J u s t previous to the provincial
election the Premier had an editor arrested;
and, as there was no law on the statute under
which the editor could be jailed, the Premier
had a law made to order. The Cardinal stated

AGE

in his paper that he did not like this sort of

thing. Perhaps he saw a vision of impending
events. I n any case, the Premier warned him
to keep quiet, or he would not get any more
government support. The gift of $15,000,000
referred to in a previous report was subsequent
to this warning of the Premier; so we assume
that the Cardinal took the Prernieis advice and
kept quiet.
In any case, events are quiet a t present.
Whether or not the calm presages an immediate
storm is uncertain. Many serious things are
pending. To mention only three : Church Union
is still before Parliament; the Home Bank case
is how in the hands of the lawyers; and the
Ontario government oficials connected with the
bond deals are under arrest, awaiting their
trials. These will be subjects for future letters.
For the present, the Labrador Current, one
of the most important of ocean streams because
it has put Labrador and Newfoundland into the
refrigerator class, has disappeared. The past
winter in the vicinity of Labrador has been the
mildest known, and the temperature of the sea
off the coast of Newfoundland is seven degrees
higher than normaI.

Cttba
has the disgrace of public lottery every
CWtenAdays,
in each of which about 3,000,000

thirty-cent tickets are sold. I t is bad enough for the Cuban Government to run a lottery, but
it does not even run the lottery honestly; for
instead of being sold directly to the people a t
the base price of twenty-three cents which the
Government receives for them, the tickets are
put intp the hands of the people through favored speculators who buy for twenty-three
cents and sell for thirty cents. Thus even little
Cuba has its select bunch of grafters who, in
case of a war between Cuba and another conntry, would be most certain to proclaim themselves as the most genuine of all real 100-percent-profit patriots in the country.

South America
HE Lamport and Holt liner Vauban, traveling in South American waters, reports having seen above the horizon a glowing red sphere
as big as the full moon. This blazing ball passed
almost directly over the liner many miles in the
air, but close enough that it could be heard

GOLDEN AG&
. sizzling. I t was in sight nearly three minutes,
and in that period the sea-in a radius of several
hundred miles was as bright as in broad daylight. Passengers were awakened from their
sleep by the unnatural light, and came out on
deck much frightened.
Alarmed by Brazil's program for a navy,
which includes amongst other things a 35,000ton battleship, Argentina nervously and foolishly dispatched a delegation of army and navy
officers to Europe to get full information about
how to get ready for war. They will probably
find what they are looking for.
Despatches from Buenos Aires show that
lilussolini is unpopular in South America. It
seems that the present Italian government sent
to South h e r i c a a cruiser housing a complete
exposition of Italian goods; but a t every port
at which the vessel has touched in South h e r ica-Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo, and
Buenos Aires-the overbearing actions of the
officers and crew toward visitors resulted in
squabbles and, in some places, fights. Evidently
the plan of introducing Fascism into all Roman
Catholic countries with a view to seizing the
control of the earth is not working out well in
some of the enlightened countries to the south
of us.

France
R. GRINDELL
MATTHEWS,
inventor of the new
ray with which he expects ultimately to be
able to destroy an aeroplane at any distance

overhead, or to interfere greatly with the operation of a battleship as f a r a s eight miles away,
has received an offer from the great Rhone
engineering works a t Lyons, France, which will
enable him to complete his invention at the
French works. He has found that his invention
works on a small scale at a distance of sixtyfour feet.
A woman of Los Angeles who lived for five
years in the Ruhr under the administration of
the French, has written of her observations and
experiences to a California paper as follows:
"On the pains, in the streets, in front of the banks
the people are relieved unceremoniously of big sums of
money; he 3ho resists goes to jail. In order to camouflage this pillage, the victims are given a worthless
receipt, as did that thug who made his victim give him
a statement that he had 6oId him his gold watch for a
nickel. He who mentions theft, robbery or pillage is

~evereiydealt with, under the pretex-t that these acts

are simply 'confiscations,' which run into the thoussnda
of billions. Everything is stolen that is not nailed fast.
The occupation officers are seizing whole house furnishings, for militafy men who are sending the valuable
pieces-and rugs to France, although they are the property of the German rich. We are absolutely powerless,
and victims of F m c h wantonness and force. There is
no law whatever in the occupied territory. He who has
to face a court is convicted a iriori. The trials are farces
designed to make the grossest injustice appear as law'."

HAT seems to us like a reasonable explanation of the Aurora Borealis (Northern

~ i g h t s )comes from Berlin. The despatch accredits a professor of the Leyden, HoUand,
'University with having determined the probability that the earth is surrounded a t a height
of approximately forty miles with a shell of tiny
frozen particles of solid nitrogen. Professor
Vegard, the discoverer, has obtained 'the same
effects a s the Aurora Borealis by bombarding
frozen nitrogen with electric rays, and has bee11
unable in any other way to procure the peculiar
green color found in the Northern Lights and
nowhere else in nature.
Germany has had another cabinet crisis, the
general effect of which is the turning of the
government into the hands of those who, until
recently a t least, were more in sympathy with
monarchist ideas and programs than with the
republic. All despatches indicate a strong revival of monarchist influences. This monarchist
influence is spreading from the South (Catholic)
to the North (Protestant).
Radio hats are selling in Germany for $1.75
apiece., Forty thousand orders for these hats
were received the first week. \Vhoever wears
one of these hats can receive concerts and all
the news of the day constantly.
America has in the past imported many pests
from Europe, and Europe is now being overrun
with the American potato bug. The German
Government has 'prohibited the importation of
all food upon which the potato bug feeds, and is
urging the people everywhere to be on the lookout and to report its first appearance.
A German inventor has discovered a gas,
colorless, tasteless and odorless, which so weakens the lung tissues that after having breathed
it an aviator is unable to ascend above six thousand feet. I t is expected to use this g x in war

time q a i n s t the airplanes of the enemy so a s the law provides for secret voting, yet in thousands of polling places, the booths were wide
Swiss statisticians have pointed out the fact open and Fascisti gunmen were in them to see
that in ahe year 1922, the Germans brought out that dl the voters voted the black-shirt ticket.
more new books than Great Britain, France, and In a Naples polling place, a man who dared to
the United States put together, the production protest against the i r r e d a r i t i e s had his head
of books in Gemany being more than f o p times crushed ; and in Molinella a Socialist who disthat of the united States; nearly four times obeyed the ~ ~ ~ m that
a n he
d must not vote the
that of France; and more than three times that Socialist ticket was killed on the streets as he
left the polling place. In Milan, which went
of Great Britain.
The former &om Prince of Germmy is tak- heavily Socialistic, as soon a s the result was
ing a college course in agriculture in a G e m a n known the Fascisti wrecked nearly all the oppouniversity, with a view to increasing his income sition newspaper offices and more than fifty coa s a farmer. It mould have been a good thing operative storesThe first Fascist Parliament opened on May
for Germany and for the world if all the princes
had been turned into farmers a hundred years 24. Mussolini and all the ministers of his govago.
ernment had their clothes trimmed with gold
braid and their cocked hats with ostrich feathItalg
ers. Mussolini ordered everybody, including
TALY is taking forward steps in the direc- the Socialists, to appear in full evening dress,
tion of a search for power, or a ,cjubsf--hte although the session opened in the morning.
for power. Close attention is being paid to the Several of the Socialists codd not Come because
development of water poder. In the north, the
didn't have
evening
The ldng
snow-clad aps
fnrnish a p e r p e M stream, and the queen of Italy drove to the Parliament
while the Ape-es,
s t r e e g from north to in coaches covered with gilt paint. Drivers of
innnmerable sites for water- the coaches were dressed to snit. The coaches
power dnring were preceded and followed by men with shinpower projects that will
the winter months. Italy now has nearly a h a - ing breastplates and plumed helmets, wearing
dred great rqServoirsbeantif*
e o n s ~ c t e d , black-topped boots and white breeches. The
and so situated with respect to one another that throne was under a canopy of red velvet, decoi t is possible to link them into one great hydro- rated with the royal arms in gold. One of the
electric system. Besides the development of the depuiies who obeyed MnssOlini's command came
water-power system, Italy has arranged with -h faevening dress, and wore yellow shoes.
the Sinclair Oil interests to undertake a systeAfter the performance Mussolini and his
friends sang the Fascist war song. Mussolini
matic search for oil,
A
has just been rdeased from a confine- took occasion to
that the whole world was
ment of fifty-four years in m Italian prison. watching the experiment of a Fascist ParliaHis confinement was for a murder of which he ment. Within a week there W a s a free-for-all
was entirely innocent; but the murder was corn- fight in Parliament, in which about 100 Fascisti
mitted by a bosom friend, who had a wife and and Socialists were engaged in blacking each
five children. The married man was accused of other's eyes and otherwise carrying out the
the mupler; and in order to leave him free to watched Program.
care for his family, his unmarried friend assumed the responsibility for it and has spent
at
Vatican
this long period behind prison bars. This is a
T IS not possible to see an opening of the
remarkable exhibition of brotherly love. In
Italian Parliament every day, but many
many respects, Life in prison is worse than the same thrills can be obtained by going to see
death itselt
the Pope. For instance, those who get tickets
The Socialists claim that in the elections in of admittance must wear full evening dress, the
Italy there were hundreds of cases of frauds, same as MnssoIini required of the deputies.
terrorisrns, beatings, and even kiIlir~gsby the Then they must pass the Swiss guards, who are Fascisti at the polls. They claim that although heavily dolled up in gold braid, and who aIso 1

to incapacitate his aviators.

,
t

Iiave cocked hats, similar to those worn by Mussolini and his friends.
The Papal majordomo, who is a sort of head
dancing-master, dresses in a purple silk robe;
the ushers are gaily fitted out in plush; while
the gendarmes wear on their heads bearskin
busbees. They also wear jaclrboots and white
buckskin breeches. The footmdn are clad in red
plush and wear silk stockings. 'Whoopee! Italy
must be the grand place to live !
I t is said that in order to house the great
multitude of visitors who are expected in Rome
during the Holy Year of 1925, the Vatican will
rent a big lunatic asylum near St. Peter's. This
seems to us peculiarly appropriate.
During this holy year, the Pope will break
down the Jubilee-door of St. Peter's, through
which one of the triple-crowned monarchs passes
once i n fifty years. In this job he will use a
golden hammer and a golden trowel. Neither
one of them will cost him anything; for collections to pay for the haminer and trowel are
already being taken all over the world, and by
the time the Pope gets ready to use them, he
could buy a whole freight-car full of golden
hammers and golden trowels, if he were foolish
enough to do so.

Africa
HE quite extraordinary discovery has been
made that from the bottom of wells 200 to
300 feet deep sunk in the Sahara Desert, live
crabs, fish and shell-fish have been taken repeatedly. Moreover, wherever shafts are sunk
to about that depth, water is discovered in which
there is an abundance of animal life. This has
led to the opinion that a vast underground sea
lies beneath the Sahara Desert.
The Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa
has declared against prohibition. I t has even
declared, against local option. Moreover, it
holds that wine is a gift of God; and a t least
one of the delegates a t the convention which
adopted this resolution, expressed the opinion
that the prohibition movement is a heresy.
Probably there are a good many people in the
United States who feel the same way.

are appreciating their privileges of helping to

establish the Jewish people in their own land.
Felix 11. Warburg has just given $100,000 for a
department of Jewish history and religion i n
the Hebrew university located on Mount Scopus,
near Jerusalem.
But a t the head of all the Jewish benefactors
of Zionism must be placed Nathan Straus. Mr.
Straus has just returned from Palestine, having
spent his seventy-sixth birthday in Jerusalem.
He has just made liberal provision for supplying meals free to 1,700 persons in Jerusalem,
daily, on the basis of an agreement that they
are to discontinue begging altogether.
During the past winter season ten thousand
tourists, 7,500 of whom came from the United
States, visited Palestine and Egypt. The roads
throughout Palestine are now in excellent
condition for motoring. The hotels are overcrowded, and additional hotel accommodations
are needed.
wage of spinners in India is
TBEaboutaverage
ten cents per week, while weavers
receive as high as ten dollars per week. Railroad
employ& are paid a t the rate of ten dollars to
twenty dollars per-month. The wages of postal
employ& are about the same as those of railroad workers.
In the industrial centers ok India, ninety percent of the mothers give their- little children
opium every day to keep them quiet and asleep
while the parents are away a t work. Thua in
babyhood these poor children have fastened
upon them the habit which usually saps the life
of adults within ten years.
Mahatma Gandhi, the popular leader of the
anti-British movement in India, has as his objectives: First, the abolishing of strong drink
and opium, now virtually forced upon the people
of India by the British Government; second,
the revival of the industries which have been
killed by the advent of machine-made goods;
and third, the breaking down of the caste system. Speaking of the caste system (3andhi says:
"Home rule ia impossible as long as these pariahe
exist in India India is really guilty. England

com-

mitted nothing blacker than our crime."

Palestine
There are places in India where believers in
LL travelers who return from Jerusalem ex-

A pres,

enthusiasm over the work which is the transmigration of souls maintain hospifda

being done there. h e r i c a n Jews of wealth for the care of ailing animals. In these hos-

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pitals, even ants are fed with flour and sugar.

Pi@ons are fed twice a day; and a number of
cots are maintained which are infested with
vermin. At regalar intervals pariahs are hired
to lie on these cots so that the vermin may have
food. Those who regard this as a low form of
civilization should not say too much about it,
while they reflect that milbons of people in the
Western world profess to believe the unreasonable and unscriptural doctrine of purgatory,
and the even more unreasonable and equally
unscriptural doctrine of eternal torture.

incomprehensible to Europeans and Americans.

The French aviator, Captain D'Oisy, who
nndertook the flight from Paris to Japan, and
who made a remarkably successful trip as far
as Hongkong, met ~ 4 t hgrief on his final jump
of some six hundred miles from Hongkong to
Shanghai. At the latter place, after a splendid
flight of nine hours and twenty minutes, he had
the misfortune to land in a ditch, completely
wrecking his plane ; but himself and his mechanician escaped unharmed. They were compelled
to abandon the last leg of the flight; namely,
the 500 miles from Shanghai to Nagasaki. The
China
aviator felt so badly about the matter that he
HE State of Kwangsi, China, is in a bad Wept in public, the local French officials i n
way on account of the depredations of ban- Shanghai sharing in his tearsdits. These bandits are reported to have killed
two missionaries, and to have seized as prison- Japan
ers two other missionaries who went to the
ORTUNE farors the brave. The .American
relief of their comrades with a motor boat
fliers who started out from San Diego in
filled with supplies.
April to fly around the world, a month later
Dr. Sun yat-Sen, the father of the Chinese had succeeded in overcoming all obstacles and
Republic and its first president, has passed had reached the northernmost islands of Japan.
of the planes crashed
away after a storm-tossed career of thirty years While in Alaska
in public life. Dr. Sun w a first a mission stn- against a mountain peak in a fog, but the fliers
dent, then a medical doctor, then a politician escaped ~ n h m e d -In their ~ W Pt+cross the
engaged in the organization of secret societies Pacific, the fleet of airplanes had one hop of
for the overthrow of the Chinese monarchy, and 860 miles. I t is expected that the fliers will
then an exile in London. There a t one time he proceed to Europe via India, thus having on
; and the one trip an experience with the intense cold
was ljdnapped by the Chinese
an unsuccessful attempt was made to smuggle of the arctic and the heat of the tropicsThe American round-the-world fliers, when
him out of England and back to China, where
he could be legally murdered. However, when they arrived i n Japan, demonstrated that flight
he did go back to China, he went as its president, by aeroplane around the world is a feasibility;
subsequently r e s i b i n g the office in favor of for all of the remaining portion of their trip
Yuan Shih-Kai. What effect his death will have back to the United States has already been
upon the poorly functioning separate govern- covered in the air by other fliers. The American
ment in the south of China, of which he was the fliers, however, if they succeed in finishing their
journey, will return to America from Europe
head, cannot now be foreseen
The Chinese Government has published a via Iceland, Greenland and Labrador instead of
statement that the preserved eggs which appear by the other routes across the Atlantic used bp
as a delicacy npon Chinese tables, instead of aviators in the several previous crossings of
having an anticlniw of anywhere from fifty to that great body of water. The aviators are said
a thousand years as popularly supposed, are to be in perfect health. A t this writing they
seldom more than thirty days old. The egg are in China.
acquires its peculiar flavor by being packed for
Japan, having discovered oil in northern
that length of time in a mixture of bicarbonate Saghalien Island, which belongs to Russia but
of soda, ashes, salt, and slaked lime. Chinese is under Japanese control, has now decided to
must be credited with ingenuity in thus causing convert her larger warships into oil burners. It
fresh eggs to taste in thirty days as though they is evident from this that Japan means that the
had lain for ages; but why anybody should Russian Government will never be given conwish to take advantage of the invention seems trol of Northern Saghalien.

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The Earth To Be Made Glorious

the highest spirit nature, as a reward for His
proven loyalty to God, and in order not to
prevent these rights from going to the world
a t large. He had forfeited nothing. These hnman rights are still His; and since He has no
personal use for them, they are to be bestowed
upon those for whom Christ died.
~ d has
d a plan; and that plan inclndes the
reign of Christ over the earth for one thousand
years as sole Monarch, a s the only Law-giver,
the only Teacher, the only Physician, the only
Ruler. Associated with Him w i l l be the glorified Chucch in the spiritual realm, and the holy
prophets of the pre-Christ days will be in the
visible or earthly realm. Satan and every evil
influence will be restrained during'those thousand years, in order that-manshall not be harassed or embarrassed from any outside force
while having the privilege of regaining what
was lost in Adam-mental, moral, and physical
at-one-ment with God.

earth is declared to be God's footstool;

THE
and the Bible says that God will make the
place of His feet glorious. (Isaiah 60: 13) A

footstool seems to signify a place of rest. For

ages God had been creating, forming and bringing to perfection His universe. H e had gotten
a s f a r as the earth, bringing it through six
epochs of development, and had crowned it with
man made in His mental and moral image. He
had prepared a beautiful, life-giving garden for
man's sustenance and happiness; and after creating Adam and Eve He rested from further
creative work.
Had man remained in harmony with the law
of his nature (for God's law of perfection was
written in man's physical organism) he would
have continued to live on into the illimitable
ages of eternity. But disobedience marred it
all; the threatened death sentence was inflicted;
man begah to die; and in the dying state he
brought forth his children below the plane of
perfection. Therefore, alsb, his children must
.die-the sin of the father Being visited upon
the children.-Romans 5 :12. '
But God had purposed to have this earth a
place. The garden of Eden, prepared
for the infant race, was a sample of what the
earth was to be. Thorns, thistles and briars,
and destroying and disease-carrying insects
were to be man's friends while he is a convict
laborer. Winning his bread by sweat of face
would give him something to do to keep'him
measurably out of mischief.
Knowing mas's inability, and letting man take
a course which should teach him to know his
own inability, God in mercy and longsuffering
has sent help. Man cannot redeem his brother,
nor give to God a ransom for him; so God sent
forth His Son, the Logos, known to man as
Jesus, to redeem and to restore humanity to
that perfection which was in Adam before sin
came into the world. Jesus Himself declared that
H e came to seek and to save that which was
lost. Human perfection, life rights, an Edenic
home, and world.dominion had been lost.
Jesus, bb keeping the divine law inviolate,
demonstratlkd that He had a right to perpetmte
forever His human life, which included the earth
to live upon. He surrendered these in a sacrificial death in the interest of Adam and his
W d r e n , and was raised in His resurrection to

Man Restored to Primal Perfection

conception of the perfect man and

0URwoman
is very meager, and f d s f a r short
of the reality. Mother Eve was not painted nor
"dolled up" ;father Adam was not groomed. The
beauty of women and the handsomeness of men,
even in the best specimens of our race today,
are often marred with coarse texture of skin,
with an ill-shaped chin or nose or ear, or with
wrinkles or warts or moles or care-worn expressions. Even i n otherwise beautiful children is
often found the thin, weak and badly formed
upper lip or the large, protruding voluptuous
lips and. rows of uneven teeth. Bdt the greatest
weaknesses are perhaps intangible; for they
belong to mental imperfection. Some may excel
along a particular line. They may shine in
music, or in mathematics, or in spelling, o r in
writing, or in athletics; but they are deficient
in almost all other lines. Not a person exists
but that is mentally and morally and physically
unbalanced to some extent.
The glorious equipoise and excellence of mind
-and heart, the beauty of form, the grace of
carriage, of the first pair are not discerned,
I t is only theoretically conceived in the mind
of'the truly professional phrenologist and those
who understand the characteristics of Jesus
Christ, the Man of Galilee.

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The restoration of humanity to the original

Godlikeness of Adam and Eve is the glorious
portion of our race after Christ shall have taken
to Himself His great power and shall have
begun His reign for the blessing of all earth's
poor, groaning creation. This is in harmony
with the covenant God made with the patriarch
bra ham when He said: "In thee and in thy
seed &all all f a r d i e s of the earth be blessed."
Pastor Russell in his book, "The Divine Plan
of the Ages," A t t e n in 1886, said:
<'Closeyour eyes for a moment to the scenes of
and woe, degradation and sorrow that yet prevail on
account of sin, and picture before your mentd vision
the glory of the perfect earth. Not a stain of sin mars
the harmony and peace of a perfect society; not a bitter
thought, not an unkind look or word; love, welling up
from every heart, meeta a kindred response in eve^
other heart, and bm~volencemarks eVeV act- There
sickness shall be no more; not an ache nor a pain, nor
any evidence of decay-not even the fear of such things.
Think of
the picturn
and
beauty of human form and feature that you have ever
seen, and know that perfect humanity will be of still
surpassing loveliness. ~h~ inward pbb and mental
m d Inoral pededion will stamp and glorify every r*
k t countensnce. Such will earth's socieQ be; and
weeping bereaved ones will have their tears all wiped
away, when thus they realize the resurrection work
complete."

''

Dispensational Change Now Due

HIS statement is in harmony with God's
Word. After saying that the Lord is our
Judge and Law-giver and IEing, and that He
will save us, Isaiah, the Prophet of the Lord,
says (33: 24): "The inhabitant shall not say,
I am sick; the people that dwell therein [in
the earth] shall be forgiven their iniquity."
This text links together, a s we should expect,
the curing of all the diseases of humanity with
the time when they s h d be forgiven for their
misd&e&,. The Prophet, in the chapter following, tells that the race is to be humbled by a
period of world-wide bloodshed, to make them
ready for the blessings God has in store for
them. The Lord will bring destruction to the
armies of sthe nations. Tllis means that the
governme& of earth shall he swallowed up by
the Lord's kingdom, which \\rill take possession
and bring in world-wide peace and good-will to
The land becoming burning pitch and
mau.
b r h s t Jne means that the destruction of the old

BBOOKL~N. N. Y.

order of things will be complete. This old order

will not be patched up and restored; for it is'
to lie waste from generation to generation, and
the smoke (which symbolizes the memory of the
destruction) shall go up forever, that is, it shsll
never be forgotten.
Isaiah 35 is the great &Iessianicchapter. The
strengthening the weak hands and confirming
the feeble knees mean that the people will take
comfort in the message and rest in hope. The
"Gentile times9'-that period in which the nations of earth have dominated in the affairs of
men, claiming that they. were ruling a s God's
representatives, from 606 B. C. to 1914 8. D.
-having now become a thing of the past in
God's plan, the Lord in His overruling providence is permitting the kingdoms of this world
to be dashed to pieces in order that a rule of
righteousness may be set up. We are, therefore,
i, the days of ~~c~
vengeance; for H~ has a
controversy with the rulers of earth. ~h~ statement that the Lord comes with vengeance is
followed with the assuring words, "He will come
and save you" So 5esus said that the great
tribulation would be stopped short of the destruction of the race, saying, 'Zxcept those days
[the period of tribulation] should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved." (Matthew 24:
22) The precedingverse shows that thispresent
distress upon the nations is the last that will
ever be.
Then will come the opening of the blind eyes,
the unstopping of the deaf ears, the curing of
cripples, the singing of those who were dumb;
and in the desert and waste places streams shall
break out and copious rains shall eventually
make the whole earth to bud and blossom and
yield her increase. Man will then cooperate
with God for the blessing of all; profiteering
and gouging and eheating shall disappear from
off the earth forever. God will furnish the land
and water and climate conditions; and man will
be given the opportunity to exercise his mind
and body in digging artesian wells, in constructing dams and waterways for irrigation; and
cultivation will be done in the future by the
farmer sitting beside a push-button or a control
lever. In fact, a similar cultivator is already in
existence that, in a field where there are no
stumps or other objects to avoid, will make its
furrows deep and even, back and forth, day and ;
night, unguided and unwatched. Apparently the :

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only thing necessary is to keep i t supplied with God, that hath dealt wondrously with you:
*
my people shall never be ashamed-"
gasoline.
Getting Back to Wholesome Nature
ARMING and stock-raising, before long,
shall become so desirable and inviting that
there will be a rapid and wholesome exodns
from the crowded, stuffy, rmdeiirable cities to
the plains and hills, which are to become Eden'like for beauty and health. When the chinch
bugs and mosquitoes are dead ;when the weeds
and thorns and thistles are obliterated; when
there will be no more stock-market manipulation ;when every one may and will have-his own
home, his own automobile and truck, his own
labor-saving machinery, his own radio; and
*en the earth-will yield naturally and bountifully her fruits without frosts o r destructive
windstorms to blight them, what then will hold
the people back from enjoying rural life!
Ignorance, superstition, and selfishness have
dominated the race. We have been influenced
by the foolish notions of others; we have been
hoodooed by the "god of this world," Satan.
We have dressed and undressed according to
Paris. We have been slaves to false appetites
and billboard advertising. We have paid toll to
the trusts by the score, and otherwise been
robbed and beaten and maltreated. What 6
relief it will be to find out what ails us! What
surcease from toil and worry will be the heritage of those who seek the country life and get
back to nature !
That there is to be a restoration and blessing
for the peoples of earth the prophet Joel (2: 2126) says: 'Tear not, 0 land; be glad and rejoice : for the Lord will do great things. Be no
afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures
of the wilderness do spring,for the tree beareth
her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their
strength, Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and
rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given
you the former rain moderately, and he w i l l
cause to come down for you the rain, the former
rain, and the latter rain in the first month. And
the floors &all be full of wheat, and the fats
shall overflqw with wine and oil. And I will
restore to you the years that the locust hath
4 aten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and
the palmerworm, my great army which I sent
among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be
satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your

Morning of Joy at Hand

HE Bible is not only a book' which records
the doings of the servants of the Lord, but
m<ch more. It is a book of prophecy. Prophecy
is history recorded in advance. So we must not
think these things have already had fnlfilment;
for God sometimes speaks of things that are not
a s though they were. Paradise is to be restored
and made world-wide; for the prophet Isaiah
(51.:3) says : 'Tor the Lord shall comfort Zion
[antitypical Zion is the Church of Jesns Christ,
which has been gathered out of the entire
world]: He will comfort all her waste places,
and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and
her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and
gladness shall be found therein [on the earth], '
hnksgiving, and the voice of melody."
The Prophet (Isaiah 35 :10) again declares :
"The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and
come to Zion Ithe wbrld dull come into harnony with the glsrified Church of Jesus Christ,
and come] with songs and everlasting joy upon
their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladn-8,
and sorro* and sighing shall flee away." !L'hie
agrees perfectly with Revelation 21:4, =hi&
says : "God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any
more pain-: for the former
are passed
away."
The mistake we have been making was in'
thinking that this scripture would become trae
when we,got into heaven But the context shows
that it will take place upon this earth at the
establishment of Christ's kingdom, when the
New Jerusalem, which symbolizes a righteous
government, shall have taken possession of
earth and its affairs; for it is the new order,
the new heavens and the new earth, that is to
bring the blessings, and in that new arrangement God will dwell with the children of men.
Perhaps the prayer of the future will be something like this :"Btessed be thou, Lord God of
Israel our father, for ever and ever. Thine, 0
Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the
glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all
that is in the heaven and in the earth i s thine;
thine is the kingdom, 0 Lord, and thon art
exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor
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GOWEN AGE

come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and

in thine hand is power and might; and in thine
hand it is to make great, and to give strength
unto all. NOW therefore, our God, we thank
Chronthee, and praise thy glorious name!'-1
.icles 29 :10-13.
Man's labor in sweat of face was to obtain
while he was being turned into the groundwhile he was dying; but in the resurrection and
recovery of the race the necessity of laborious
toil is to be eliminated The wonderful laborsaving devices and conveniences, the general
education, the means of locomotion and communication, are but the advance steppings of Jehovah God, heralding forth the fact that the time
of blessings is a t the very door. The psalmist
David said: "Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning." (Psalm 30 :5)
The night has been the six thousand years of
sin, sickness, sorrow and death; the morning
of joy coines in the seventh millennium; and
Bible chronology shows us ,that we are passing
over the threshold into the kingdom for which
the Christian has so long prayed.

Surely, when the Lord's will is perfectly done

on the earth, there will be no cause for death;
for "the wages of si.n is death." So death,
Adamic death, is to be destroyed; and in its
destruction will come the opportunity for every
person to return to that perfection of mind and
heart and physical form with which God endowed Adam and Eve in the beginning. I n a t
a wonderful thing it will be to see the earth in
Edenic beauty, mankind in pradisaic loveliness,
and every heart lifted to God Almighty voicing
His praise in sweetest melody! I n the past it
has been impossible to do the things we wanted
to do; but in Christ's kingdom the ability wiU
be given to each to do His will perfectly, and
the commandments of the Lord will be found to
be true and righteous altogether. Jesus said
(John 8 :51) : "Verily, verily, I say unto you,
If a man keep my saying, he shall never see
death." To show that the blessing is to be an
earthly one for the people a t large the Lord
says through the Psalmist (37: 29) : "The righteous shall inherit the l a d , and dwell therein
for ever."

Heard in the, Office-NO. 13

RE young men in the office had been quieter

of late, and this was particularly true of
Mr. Tyler. One night he and Mr. Palmer were
a t their work a bit late. Mr. Tyler had finished
and was preparing to depart, but seemed to be
in no hurry to do so; it appeared as though he
had something on his mind. Presently he said:
"Palmer, have you nearly finished?"
"I can leave off a t any time," Mr. Palmer
answered cheerfully; ''but why do You ask?"
"I would like to have a little chat with you, if
I may; for I have several questions to ask."
With this Mr. Palmer hurriedly put away his
things .sd closed his desk. 'What is it, old
chap?" he inquired. ''You look very serious."
'Well, it is like this: I have bee; reading
the books you gave to me; and in thinking over
these and tpe talks we have had together, I feel
somehow that I am not so good a s I ought to
be. Life see?ns to be empty; there is no purpose
in it. I want to make i t better; and I think
you can help me."
Y am very glad to hear you say-this, Tyler.
I have thought all along that you were capable

BY C. E.

GU~W

(London)

of something better, and that you were not get-

ting the best out of life!'

''Yes, I have felt that, too; but I don't know
just how to begin. I am not good enough to go
to God, and I want to make myself more presentable. You see, I have been brought up to
sneer a t religion. MY father is an a ~ e i s t ;and
I have always looked upon religion as a weak
sort of thing or something by which people are
kept in bondage. One writer calls it 'the paralyzed band of the dead past upon the living
present! But my view on this is changing. I
can now see that there is a religious life we all
ought to live, and that what has been wrong is
not the fact of religion, but its form.
"Do you know that for some time now I have
been trying to live a better life? But I do not
seem to male much progress. I have heard yon
speak of consecration, but I am not quite sure
what it means. God is perfect, we are imperfect, and I know that I am not good enough to
be acceptable to God."
"You rightly say that God is perfect and that ,
we are imperfect. When do you expect to be in -I

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accept my provision in the Son as a covering

cspect by your own effort to reach perfection?" for sin and will give themselves to do my wi.'
"That is the difficulty I have," replied Tyler; 'MY son, give me thine heart.'
"This is where faith comes in 'and is neces"and I feel that I shall never reach the mark
sary, if in this age we would please God. We
of perfection."
"The position of acceptance is not so di.0icult may agonize and cry, may punish and mortify
of attainment as you imagine, if the way is only ourselves without stint, a s some of the heathen
kr.o\\n; and that is God's way. The great Cre- do! yet we cannot commend ourselves to God.
ator knows quite well that we cannot reach per- Fmth must be more than a mental assent to a
fection of ourselves. His Word saps: 'All have truth; it must be a moving power in the heart.
sinned and come short of the glory of God'; Faith must lead to consecration"
none can reach His standard. DO YOU know
' m a t do you mean by consecration?" broke
that our onn righteousness is but as filthy rags in Tyler.
in His sight? Salvation is not by works, lest
ti^^ is the givingof oneself withanyone should boast. I t is by faith. The Scrip- out rese,ation to do the ~ 1 of1another.M
ture says: 'Blessed is the man whose sins are
"That is a hard thing; that is reducing one
forgiven, and whose iniquities are covered!
to slavery.U
"Everything connected with God's dealings is
'Tes, it is a hard thing; and we shodd ll.
reasonal>le, but there are some things in which
hesitate
if it meant giving ourselves to a tyrant,
faith js al3solntely necessary. The apostle P a d
for
our
lives
would then be a misery. But when
says: '3Vithout faith it is impossible to pleasewe
recognize
thetogracious
character of the One
God: for he that cometh to God must believe who invites ns
this, when
of Hu
that he is and that he is a rewarder of them pomr,
n
e
i
t
.
~
d
o
m
weha
lore,
that diligently seek him.' This is not contrary
very
best
f
o
r
those
and
that
He
wishes
only
the
to reason ; for, as you have before acknowledged,
it is reasonable to believe in the existence of who give themselves to Him, and that all His
God; and since He is good, it is reasonable to powers are pledged to bring us to the desired
believe that He will reward those who diligently end, who would not gladly place himself and
seek Him. If God had decreed that none could his future in God's hands?
have His favor except one who is absolutely
"ASfor Slavery,
are
and not the
perfect, then He would have made it impossible least he who imagines himself to be freefor any man to come to Him; for the experience m e slaves to sin h d Satan. Where is the man
a slave to selfishness? How man9
of all proves that no matter how hard ve try who is
s
to those of the Scripwe cannot reach the mark of perfection. It is must say in ~ o r d similar
here that God has been gracious, in that when ture: '
I
cannot do the things I would; and the
there was none to save, by His own arm He things 1.would not do, those I do'? m m a n s
7: 191 Then, on the other hand, think of the
brought salvation.
G
M turn~ from
~ the thought of a sacrifice position of the one who has given himself enfor sin; but actually it is the only hope of accep- tirely to the Lord. H e desires righteousness*
serve God and serve his fellows?
tance. None but the perfect can be accepted a t He
and
he
is
in
the best position to do this.
God's throne. \Ve are imperfect; therefore WEat
'%ondage,
You say? yes; but it is the greatwe need is a covering. The blood of bulls and
libertyTo
know God is to love Him. To
est
goats cannot take away sin; but when H e who
is sinless dies for the sinner, when the Blameless love Him is to want to serve Him. And to serve
stands for the blemished, and life is given for Him we must be devoted to His will.
"The faithful follower of Jesus is not left t i
life, justice'can acknowledge the one in the place
of the othen Jesus the Son of God has died, the . himself to struggle on to glory; for God grants
J u s t for the unjust; and what God says is this :' His holy spirit, so that the heart is continually
'
I
am aware that no man can by his own achieve- refreshed and the will is strengthened. Above
ment attain perfection, but I am willing to re- all we can always remember that He who is for
ceive all who come unto me through Jesus. I n us is more than all that can be agajnst us, eo
other words, all those who, exercising faith, that final victory is assured.
g condition fit to be accepted of God? Do you

"Superior" Persons Getting f ee*>n

T H A T meek and lowly follower of-the lowly every one for %is gain from his q u a r t e r Nazarene, Dean Inge of St. Paul's Cathedrab London, is reported in the Buffalo Eve.ning
News as much disturbed because Labor has
come into control of the British government,
with a consequent possibility of affecting unfavorably a number of "superior persons," to use
the Dean's own words.
The
speaking Of the rise
power of
such persons as
with
possible damage
such persons as chief
priests, political rulers, etc., says:
"It is not a question of punishment, but of the right
of the gardener to weed his garden. If, as I believe,
these persons are actually contagious, it is justifiable
t o kill the infected like mad dogs, unless we prefer the
more expensive and less safe way of imprisonment".

Before we turn anybody loose a t the business

of killing human beings because they are like
dogs we bug& solemnly to consider who are the
is the gardener. As usual we go
dogs and
to the Bible, and there Ge find it all set forth
nicely. The dogs are the D. D's. Nothing could
be plainer. We quote :
"His watchmen are blind; they are all ignothey cannot bark;
rant, they are all D- D-'s,
sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea,
they are greedy dogs which can never have
enough, and they are shepherds that cannot
understand; they ail look to their own way,

Mark Twain's Vision [of 191nr1

CAN see a million years ahead, and this rule

will never change in so many as half a dozen
instances. The loud little handful, as usual, will
shout for the war. The pulpit will, warily and
cautiously-object-at first; the great, big, dull
bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and
try to m&e out why there shouM be a war, and
will sap, earnestly and indignantly: 'Tt is unjust
and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for
it." Then the handful will shout louder.
A few fair men on the other side d l argue
and reawn against the war with 'peech and
pen, and stfirst will have a hearing and be applauded. But it will not last long. Those others
will outshout them, and presently the anti-war
audiences will thin out and lose popularity.
Before b n g you will see this curious thing:

Isaiah 56:10,11.
However, these dogs seem not to have ~e
best reputation, in the Scriptures. "Beware of
dogs," says the apostle (Phappians 3: 2) ; and
when it comes to their chances of getthg within
the pearly gates we read further that "without
are dogs."-Revelation 22 :15.
And then again how can we be snre that these
persons are superior7 They say that they are,
i. e,. they say it of themselves; but are they?
But a little while ago Mr. Fall, as Secretary of
the Interior, would have said that he *S a
superior person; Mr. Daugherty, Attorney Qeneral, might have said so, if he had the nerve;
Mr. Denby, Secretary of the Navy, might have
said so, and Mr. Coolidge as Vice President
might have saiJ so before the Teapot Dome
came bursting into print. But now, behold, the
smell of oil is on their garments! ~ I Ucommon
S ~
-people hold their noses in the presence of the
superior?
And now about the gardener of Dean Inge's
parable. There the carpenters and others have
the best of it. Mary supposed that Jesus, the
ex-carpenter, was the gardener, when she hailed
him first on the resurrection morning. Perhaps
the modern carpenters will be more qnick to
greet earth's new Icing than the superior persons, the D. D's. Who knowst

The speakers stoned from the platform, ar?d

free speech strangled by hordes of furious men
who in their secret hearts are stiU a t one with
those stoned s p e a k e r e a s earlier-but yho do
not dare to say so. And now the whole nation,
pulpit and all, will take up the war cry, and
shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man
who ventures to open his mouth; and ~ r e s e a t l ~
such mouths will cease to openNext the statesmen will invent cheap lies, ,
putting the blame upon the nation that is attac,ed; and every man will be glad of those
conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently
study them, and refuse to examine any mfUtations of them. ~ ~
thus ,he jwill by and by
convince himself that the war is just, and wilt
thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after
this process of grotesque self-deception.

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Wtth i m e Number 60 we began nnnlag Judge Rntherford'r new book.

"The S n r p of Godw. with acmmpanyllg questions, taking the place of both
Advanced an4 Jnvenilc Ebb Wulh# Which have been hitherto pub1irh.d

a121ndue time Saul of Tarsus, who afterward the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds,
was named St. Paul, was illuminated and under- as of many; but a s of one, And to thy seed,
stood. And then he wrote: 'Who now rejoice which is Christ." (Galatians 3: 16) Addressing
in my sufferings for you, and Ill1 up that which himself to the Church, the Christians, the folis behind of the atlictions of Christ in my flesh lowers of Jesus, the Apostle further said: 'Tor
for his body's sake, which is the church; where- ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ
of I am made a minister, according to the dis- Jesns. F o r as many of you a s have been bapAnd
pensation of God which is given to me for you, tized into Christ, have put on Christ.
to fulfil .the word of God; even the 'mystery if ye be-Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed,
which hath been hid from ages and from genera- and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians
tions, but now is made manifest to his saints : 3 :26,27,29) This is the seed, then, through
to whom God would make known what is the whom the blessings will come to &.the families
riches of the glory of this mystery among the of the earth. Church means a gathered out
'Gentiles; which [mystery] is Christ in yon, class; and so the Gospel age, tliat is to say, the
the hope of glory." (Colossians 1:2427) The period fram Jesns' first coming until His second
Apostle here emphasizes the fact that this mys- coming, is employed by Jehovah for the selec-'
tery of God is now made known only to the tion of the Church, the seed of Abraham,
saints. Saints means purified ones, which puri- through which blessings will come to all the
fication comes through receiving the merit of remainder of mankind in God's due time.
Christ's sacrifice.
'"This same class is called the elect of God,
"'The word Christ signifies anointed. Anaint- according to His foreknowledge.-1 Peter 1:2.
ing means designation to official position in
God's arrangement. The Christ is the instmQ-ONS
ON
HARP
GOp
ment or channel for the Messing of mankind.
St. Paul
about themyaw
Of God? n31a.
The Christ is composed of Jesus, the great and
(Revela- What is the meaning of the word "sainb"? 7[ 312.
mighty Head, snd 144,000
What does the word "ChrisY' signify? 313.
tion 7 :4) Christ Jesus is the Head and the matis
m&g
of uBPOinting"
313.
Church His body. We ofttimes hear the expres- mo
the Chrdtst?111313.
sion, A body of men with a general a t their head. who is
~
~
~who the
d body?
?
7 313.*
Of the Christ the Apostle says: "And he [Christ Give scrip-1
prmf of who mnstitutes the Head
Jesus] is before all things,and by him all things
the body of Christ. 1 113.
consist. And he is the head of the body, the How does St. Paul use the human body to illustrate the
body of C w ? 7 314.
church :who is the beginning, the firstborn from
the dead; that in all things he might have the What is maant by the seed of Abraham? Give Scrip
proof- 1 315.
preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in
What
is
the meaning of the term "church"? 7[ 315.
him
all fulnessdwell;--col. 1:17-19.
"'The apostle Paul uses a human body to ' Whd. is meant by the "elect of God"? 1316.
illustrate the Christ, the great mystery-class;
who have-watched, and waiten long,
the head representing Jesus, and the other
And trod the narrow way
members of the body those who are of His
With blistered feet and weary limb,
Church. "For as the body is one, and hath
Yet putting all your trust in Him,
many members, and all the members of that
Now see the s i p s of day.
one body, bding many, are one body: so also is
Christ. . . .Wow ye are the body of Christ, and
"Arouse, ye little band, arouse!
members in particular."'-1 Cor. 12 :12,27.
Come with your lamps atrirn.
"'"The Christ is also designated in the ScripBehold the Bridegroom at the gate;
tures a s the seed of Abraham accordirig to the
The Lord Himself doth thee a&
promise. "Now to Abraham and h i s seed were
Arise and enter in"

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Panama Canal
Russia, Palestine
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aovernmenfal Items
PolILicnl Notes, Canutln
Colombia, Argentina. Great Bl i t l l i l l
France and the Germnn Children
Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Anstr1.1
Roumania, Albania
Abyssinia, India
Philippines, China, Japil[l.
Dutch New Guinea
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(6 T IS said that more than $1,750,000,000

every year from the people of
am

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declares District Attorney

Banton, of New York. This huge sum is divided
as
:$150,000,000 are lost through
$600,000,000 are lost through
lIlercial
fraudulent claims against insurance companies;
and $100,000,000 through worthless securities.
most
this money is
in cireulation, the greater part is diverted from legitimate channels of industry, and is, therefore,
injurious to the people in general.
The population of the United States on Jannary lst, 1924, is reported as being 112,826,000.
This is a gain of 1,943,000 in one yeax, and a
gain of over 7,000,000 since 1920. The net increase of the population of the United States is
greater now than a t any time in the history of
the country.
while big business has fought high wages for
the workers and addocated the open shop to disand
rnpt and dissolve nnion
otherwise manipulated industry in an effort to
make labor eat out of its hand, a news item of
interest says that a change of sentiment is gradd l coming
~
over big business, that big bus'XI-8
has seen great light. It now recO@izes
that high wages increase efficiencyand produs
tion. One statement says :
"Intelligent and skillful labor, equipped with the
best machinery, can give lower production costs at high
wages than in&cient labor at :he wages prevailing in
Aaia. Wages rise in all countnes as the labor become8
more skillful and productive, just as prices of all goods

temd to be adjusted to economic values."

This statement is credited to a monthly business review made by the National City Bank of
New York. Whether it represents a true change
of heart of big business or whether it is mere
political propaganda to be made use of during
the coming campaign, is not for us to 'determine
at this time.
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rnntinue to be made to stop the
EFFORTS
smuggling of liquor into this country from

Canada. A convention(an agreement lMs hportant than a treaty) has been signed bp rep
resentatives of the two governments which prevides not only for the suppression
of the smuggling operations, but also for the prosecution ofi
persons who violate the narcotic laws of either
country.
The Supreme Court has handed down a decision which gives tenants certain rights over
landlords. Tenants have often been ousted to.
pave the way for the landlord to demand higher
rentals or to get more desirable tenants. It was
supposed that the landlord had a right to dispossess any of his renters a t any time by merelg; saying that he wanted the apartment for bia
own use. The court has decided that if any one
is ousted the landlord must pay the cost of moving and also the differential in a higher rent cost
for the first thirty days.
m i l e the B~~~~L~~ was passe. by congres
over the presidenfs veto there are agenciesat
work to cause it to be inoperative. ~h~ first effortin the courts to invalidate the law was begun
recently in the Supreme Court of the District o&
Columbia, when Benjamin Catchings, a lawyer
of !New York filed a suit to prevent the expenditure of the money needed to pay the bonus.
Mr. Catchings' contention is that the law is unso we may expect a long legal
fight before it is finally disposed of. There is
also an Ex-service Men's Anti-Bonua League
that, agits name implies, is against the payment
of the bonus. It is argued that the Adjusted
Coihpensation a c t is in fact a mere bonus o r
gift; and not a provision for the payment of any
'debt or compensation owing in money bp the
United States; and because of this it is assumed
that the law should be declared unconstitntionaL

Pditicd Nofee
S WAS expecte'd, President Coolidge was
nominated for the presidency of the United
States on the Republican ticket. Oen. Charles
8.Dawes of Illinois, author; of the Dawes Reparation Plan, was chosen for his running mate.
The old tactics of stampeding a convention
,wereindulged in when ex-GovernorLowden was
chosen for second place on the ticket. But Mr.
Lowden refused the nomination. He had dedared repeatedly that he would not accept the
somination for the vice-presidency. The Republican politicians were bent on drafting him
and forcing the nomination npon him; but he
remained firm to his pre-convention declaration.
The Cleveland Press, after watching the mamemerings of the bigRepublican convention, sig.niIimtly asks: 'Will 1924 see the last of the
conventional conventions of the political parties?" This is not because it sees the fnlfilment
of prophecy, but because the tactics and demon&rations pulled off for "favorites" are decidedly omt of date; for they fool nobody and are
- meaningless to thinking people. The Press cond m d e a by saying, "The ahow is growing stale.
So@iething new is needed to fooi the multitude."
The Republicans failed on four planes, accurding to W.J.Bryan. These four planes are
as follows :The Religious plane; the Intellectual
plane ; the Financial plane; the Reform plane.
h a i d e s this terrible failure, according to Mr.
Bryan, they fell down on making a platform;
for it is not concrete and specific but deals with
generalities and dodges the acute problems.

Agngnculturcrl
Notes
r r n r r ~W. M.WRPHY,head of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau, in a talk a t a luncheon of the
Mmic Industries Convention at the Waldorfb t o r i a , New Pork city, made the statement that
the fanners of the United States have been
waging a great contest for equality under the
protective system of the Government for nearly,four months; and he admitted that when Cong r w adjourned the farmers had lost the fight.
He said ;

lative acts which are against the farming interests, and named some of them, as follows: The
eight-hour-day law; the Adamson law; the
transportation act; the tarriff law, the Federal
Reseme act; and h@stated that theee, topthe
with the LaborBoard and the Coal Board, are
all interferences on the part of the Government
that have riveted chains npon agricultural
h e r i c a . No doubt the sentiment of;the farmer
will be reflected in the November election.
The farmeis plight is shown in a recent mrvey, which extends over a period of five years,
and takes in the price trend of ten crops and
five classes of livestock and livestock prodnots.
I t shows that the cost of what the farmer h a
had to buy has increased one hundred pe*
what he has to sell has increased but tbirty-one
percent; and the purchasing value of the doll&
a s compared with 1914 is only seventy-&nepercent.
The greateat cloudburst in the m e m o s of the
inhabitants visited Johnson City, Tenessee,
last Saturday, in which seventeen persons are
known to be dead and many others are missing.
The cloudburst came at the close of & h e a q
downpour, swelling the streams into raging toerents. The Southern railway was washed out in
places, and many concrete bridges were washed
from their foundations.
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Alaska
HE earth's crust in the volcanic region a t the
base of the Alaskan peninsula is undergoing
marked changes. The mysterious island d
Bogolov, which opce disappeared and which reappeared in 1906 about the time of 'the San
Francisco earthquake, gives evidence of receding again. It is also noted that the Valley 03
Ten Thousand Smokes is cooling off rapidly,
Streams which recently flowed from the region
filled with steaming hot water are now icy cold.
'Agrove of willow trees thick as a man's wrist,
suitable for use as fnel, has just beendiscovered
in Alaska in, latitude 67" 45' and at an altitude
of 2,200 feet. This discovery confirms the rumor
that Alaska is warming up.

"The outlook of agriculture is as dismal ae it has ever

been in my lifetime, notwithstanding what those outside Canada
tbe industry say about it. The people back in'the rural
ERCHANTS of British
W c i a are tl little bit inclined to be r e s e n t f u l 4 t e
tioned the Canadian
getha an undesirable and undefensible situation to
tawa to put into effect the
have under the flag of our common conntry."

Mr. Murphy called attention to some legis- qapanese immigrants as a r

Chinese immigrants. Canada has a form of their land. Naturally the Colombian peopleare
"Gentlemen's Agreement" with Japan similar to not very enthusiastic about the American offer.
that hitherto in effect between the United States
Argentina and Other Southern Countrieu
,and Japan.$
UENOS A I ~ is
S to have a White Way patMexico
terned after the famous New Pork section
HAT may prove to be a valuable discovery of Broadway which goes by that w e . The difthrowing much light upon the early his- ference is that in Buenos &ires the White Wax
tory of humankind in America, has come to will be a new street consisting of ten-story conlight near Mexico City. A Mongolian library has crete buildings with stores on the ground floor
. been uncovered, which has lain for centuries be- and offices and apartments above. This new
neath a thick layer of volcanic ashes. About White Way, which is to cost $50,000,000 for the
200 of the signs and figures have been identified. first section, is already under constmetion.
Despatches indicate a growing desire on the
These discoveries prove anew that the earliest
settlers of the Western world were Mongolians. part of the unfortunates of Europe t o find a
home in Central or South America. The GerPanama
mans are being invited into Quatemala. The
A F T E R ten gears' operation the Panama Russian refugees who, until recently have been
Canal is a t last carrying more traffic than overcrowding Greece, are being invited into
the Suez Canal. The traffic has gradually in- h W . m ~ .It seems to us that these migrations
creased from 4,000,000 tons in 1915 to 25,000, of Europe into South America are a most ex000 tons in 1923, the latter figure being about cellent thing. They can hardly fail to have the
ten percent more than the traffi~through the
of lifting the standards of education, enSuez Canal for the same period. The canal has lightenment, religious liberty and progrws .
led to a great increase in business between the along all desirable lines.
ports of the eastern part of the United States
and all the ports bordering upon the shores of Great Britain
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the Pacific ocean. Students of the traJiic which
AMES BROWN,
working miner, whose regular
passes through the canal say that the temporary
home is a tiny miner's cottage in Ayrshire,
stimulation of F a r Eastern trade caused by the having been appointed by the British Govern'Japanese earthquake is no longer in evidence.
ment as Lord High Commissioner of thi! G e n e d
- Assembly of the Church of Scotland, entered
Colombia
Holyrood Palace on May 19 a t Edinburgh, there
T PRESENT the Republic of Colombia de- to reside for ten days as the personal represenpends for its transportation upon the Mag- tative of the King. Reports are that he and his
'dalena River, but in the dry season mails to and wife were faultlessly dressed, and conducted
from the capital are delayed for weeks and themselves in a manner that would have done
freight is delayed for months. The Republic is credit to people who had spent their entire lives
now seeking the construction of standard gauge a t court. Does not this show how hollow are the
rail lines from the capital to the Atlantic coast. claims of royalty7 Mr. Brown and his wife were
a n American syndicate has proposed to build met a t the door of the palace by members of the
such a line if the Colombian Government wiU British nobility and were subsequently presentturn over to them an issue of government bonds ed with the keys of Edinburgh by the LordSrdat a discount of twelve and one-half percent, vost of the city. While in Edinburgh, Mn
plus two percent cqrnmission, pius hundreds of Brown was given a royal salute of twenty-onesquare miles of agricultural, petroleum, coal guns.
Despatches from London indicate the e x p w
and ore lands. I n other words, the American financiers are willing to build the road if the Col- tation of the British postmaster general that
ombian people will virtually give their country during favorabie atmospheric conditions, paraway into the hands of strangers, and relinquish ticularly during the winter months, two-wax
all hope that themselves and their children prof- telephone conversations between Britain and
it by the treasures which nature has placed in America may soon be gossible. Mean-

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Siignor &farconihas succfeded in sending wircbess messages from Britain to Australia by the
use of his new electric beam, a device which been furnishing musio
enables him to throw the current of wireless dance halls. If this e
,waves in any desired direction instead of dispersing them in every direction widely, as ia
explanation offere
done bg the radio-casting methods.
cians were jealous,
&in
,
can bands were ge
T H E New Pork T i m s contains an interesting' and that they h
story of a tribe of savages numbering about business. The or
4,000 discovered in the interior of Spain. These sequently withdrawn as a res
people, recently visited by Ring Alfonso, have by a committee
no roads, no schools, no religion, and no clothes if the bands we
worthy of the name. They live i n dugouts, in leave Paris, as none of the French m
which the only furniture consists of the hol- know how to play any of the atrocious
lowed trunks of trees. All of these people go tions played
barefooted the year round, and never wash nor
eomb their hair; nor do the men shave. They for the repai
have only the most primitive ideas of cooking; palace at Versailles. This se
and bread is &own.
The women have no for an American to spend a
needles. They ate small and repugnant in ap- Mr. Rockefeller may do as he likes.
p r a n c e , but very athletic. ,
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France
tionists. At one of the experimental statiom,i
ARSEILLES reports the receipt of forty ten tons of dynamite were exploded near a oztga
head of camels from Africa, which will be containing dogs and guinea pigs to se,e aha*
slaughtered and sold a s butcher's meat.
effect the explosion would have upon them. ApIt really looks as if Germany on the one side, parently it had none; an
and all the Allied countries on the other, would were figuring on putting t
come to a settlement of their differences on the some of the animals wodd mtually

basis of the Dawes Plan. afforts have been

made to defeat the new liberal government of
France, before it was really started, by financiers in France who sold French francs outside
of France below the market, thus creating distrust in the government before it could function
at all.
The president of France occupies a different
position from that of the president of the
United States. After he is elected to office, he
is supposed t o keep entirely out of politics ; and
it. seems to us that this method has decided
advantages. However, the late president of
France, M. Millerand, violated the French custom in the last election by taking a stand in
behalf of M. Poincargs policies as Premier. M.
Poimar6 having been defeated, the united Socialists, 128 strong, demanded that Millerand
himself should resign, and eventually brought
about his downfall.
Under the law by which it qxpels undesirables,

when the protests of some of the an

tionists caused the Government to inte
prevent the further exhibition df the saen
nonsense which the experim&ters had jo

France and the German ChiIdmn

ple, whereupon remittan

all parts of the country
I n numerous instances
from wounded French
people ought to be made wide
ought forever to hold back the
from taking part in another wa
gation of France.

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* SOLDEN

On the other side of tlieqnestion, one is filled

with deepest disgust a t learning that when a
traioload of German children was retmning
from Denmark, 'where they had been royally
entertained for three months without expense,
as soon a s they got inside the German border
they were told by German junkers and
e m ~ l o ~ +h.&sat they ought not to wear in their
hats the Danish colors, which had been pinned
there as an 0rmInent by their Danish friends. 0 8
course all the people of Germany cannot be
blamed that a few narrow-minded pinheads still
exhibit the same disposition that led to the
slaughter of millions during the World War.
Poland
R E L A T I O N S between Poland and Russia are
strained. The Russians have accused the
Poks of not living np to the treaty @armteeing religions freedom to Russian minorities Living in Poland. The Poles have replied that .the
shoe is on the other foot; but Russia lnsists
that frill religious liberty is granted to all.
The situation as i t exists in Poland itself was
2nd by eminent F r e n c h e n
=Pressed on
as follows: A wave of terror is passing over
Poland; the press is throttled; yomg people's
clubs are dissolved; labor unions are depnved
of their halls; apd there are three thousand
p o l i t i d prisoners in the prisons. These prisoners are maltreated by the jailers-insulted,
beaten, nearly starved and confined in ice-Cold
cells without soap, linen, readingmatter,visitora
or sanitation, and in the midst of vermin indescribable. Within two months, hundreds of
prisoners in Poland have declared hunger
strikes in order to rid themselves of vermin,
and to obtain changes of linen, baths, snitable
food, decent care when sick, exercise, and the
fight $0 have visitors, pencils and paper, aa
well as the privilege of reading.

AGE

Amtria
R.SEIPEI;, the Austrian Ch
believed to have done more
one man toward preserving Central
from chaos, has been shot by an assas
is r e ~ o , ~ i ~ g .Dr. Seipel was trained
Roman Catholic priesthood, but has now
engaged in political life for many years. He is
admitted to have accomplished great res
the rehabilitation of Austria, and the
upon him is deplored everywhere.
1, vienna
on J~~~
were gi,n
what
confimationj,;

5th, 400,000 members of the Vienna

Democratic Party marched through the
in the most perfect order. m e object
demonstration was to
foreipers how

Roumania
OGROMS againstthe Jews are takrng

P throughout

Roumania Synagogues
demolished, merchants are att&ed and bea
stores are set afire, and
who organize
seE-defense are arre$ted
martid. I t is regarded a
a t the time when these pogroms were a t
height,
when the Government
little or nothing to prev
merit arsenal was blown

Jews

Czecho-Slovakia
latter part of the month of Jdy there
I&stNwillTHE
be held in the city of Prague the world's
international conference on scientific man-

Alunia

agement. The subjects discussed will include

personnel, industrial relations, budget control,
production, sales, mining, transportation, city,
state and federal government. The Repnblio ob slavia. A civil war is
Csecho-Slovakia is one of the most progressive country, the insurgen
countries of the world.

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dso

cratic. Albania is considered one of the danger

spots of the world. It has a commanding position upon the Adriatic Sea; a position naturally
coveted by the three nations thM surround i t
-Itdy, Greece, and Jugoslavia.
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RrUMia
R U S S I A is reported as resngaging in the
egg business. Before the war, it exported
sixty-four percent of the eggs disposed of by
a p o r t . It ia planning to export 400 carloads
this year, with yearly increases of 200 carloads

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church by he Soviet Government in its campaign for the relief of famine sufferera When
he went to prison, he was hailed as a martyr.
A short term in prison evideihly gave him a
change of mind. He wrote a letter to th8 8mht
Government, stating that he was sorry he hind
antagonized them. They granted him his 33s
elty; ~d now he has gone over with all of bi.
fouomng to the new Russian c b c h , which ib
in full harmony a$ more or less. h t l ~
netted with the Soviet Government.

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Palestine
In sr recent speech in Moscow, M. Zinovieff, . H E oil industry and the silk industry iue
making considerable headway in Palestine.
d ~ m a n
of the executive committee of the
'fhird International, made the statement in the Several petroleum wells are yielding consider!
"
matter of Russia's trade investment that the able oil. Coal fields have also been discow&
state and cokiperative organizations control only although as yet no ma1 has been mined '&k~
thirty-six percent. He further stated that Rus- cities of Jaffa and Tdvania are now m b
.$
cis has d e r consideration nearly 1,000 proj- t i c light and Power generat& by the watem 4- -.
ects which are to be exploited by foreign firms. the J ~ r d a n -Mosquitos have practically diarp.
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and dr-e
0s
Fifty-Eve concessions, inclnding six and one- peared, owing to the
their a p P e a m W j
half million acres of forest, have already been Swamps. Theaters have
,;'S
-tea t, Bossian, German, ~
~Noregian,
t
~ and
h are well patronized. Musio is flonridhjg.
Medicine, law and philosophy are being taught
gnd British companies. The Soviet a&orities
cdaim that there are now 3,200 savings banks in the nniversity. The tourist business is g ~ o & - -2
I t is estimated that in the Dead Sea them ia:
in Bnssia, and that the agricdtural production
. .q
in solution worth $40,000,000,000 at
3
has been restored to seventpfive percent of the
present prices. It is believed that a way will be . 2.
prewar average.
this
cd4.
representatives of the Soviet G
~ found
~ to extract
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~ rich~ deposit.
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snd of the British Government cpntinue treasu=s, Palestine hasi limestone, iron ore as.&
w r diaqssions; but in the demand that the phalk?phospha% a generous supply of bean-., <;
to its ~ ~ i t itiful
~ hpink marble, and a mountain of rock sdt 1 +fi:
%viet Government shodd
containing
ninety-nine percent pure salt
owners the private British property which was
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in Palestine is constantly-h- . 5
k Z e d by the Soviet Government atthe begin: ning of the revolution, both corntries seem to ~ro'aving-There is now a regular night service, 2
have struck a snag. Bu of the largest indns- by rail between Cairo and Jerusalem, the t&
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constitute the backbone of the Soviet GovernHE Prince Regent of 'Bbyssinia is in Paris,'
ment.
studying the ways of Western civilization.'
A British engineer a t one of the Russian E e was an interested spectator of airplane feats,
"copper mines has been sentenced to death by and wilI probably buy a fleet of airplanes for thd
the Soviet for giving information to the s u p protection of his country. It is possible that he
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posedly rightful owners of the property, resid- may come to America, where three of his sons. -!G
ing in England.
are being educated a$ Muskingum College, M k - -2
I t does not take some ecclesiastics long to see Concord, Ohio.
.- on which side their bread is buttered. A year
ago the papers were filled with stories 6f the India
H E party that started out early in th
martyrdom of the patriarch Tikhon, who went
in the attempt to scale Mt. Everes
to prison because he objected to the seizure of
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t than on previous occasions. It has sev-

ral times had men in Camp No.4, which is 23,-

feet above sea level; but there are still 6,000

to climb before the summit is reached. The
bing is extremely difficult; and the weather
terly cold. To reach Camp No. 4 seems to be
u t the limit of human endurance. On one ocm i o n four men remained in the camp overevery appearance the climbing of Mount
rest will never be accomplished. Sometime
out June 1, the two brave athletic men, Malry and Irvine, who had been selected for th9
final attempt to reach the summit, were killed
after baving reached what is most certainly believed ta be the highest elevation ever attained
in mountain climbing. -Mr. Mallory, in 1922,
reached the height of 26,800 feet, the highest
elevation ever obtained with oxygen; and only
435 feet less than the oxygen record.
The round-th+world fliers are now in India;
before we know it, a t the present rate of
ress, they will be in eastern Europe.
Id only about two acres in extent, situated some fifty miles from Colombo,
s been discovered the largest find of sapphires
er made in Ceylon. The sapphires are yellow,
gold, purple, and blue in Color, and range in s h e
from twenty to seven hundred karate.

Philippine IsZanda
BITING in the New Pork Times of his
experiences as a teacher in the Philippine Islands, Robert J. MacLaughlin seems to
think that the Philippines are not yet a parar he says that on one occasion
ed twenty miles to a railroad station,
soft mud which was almost two feet
ed in Luzon, when every cubic inch
e Pasig River showed millions of
cholera; and has passed through a
epidemic in which the deaths in his
town were as-high as twenty a day
dren alone. To these interesting
ion, he adds the following :
teachers sent out to the islands in
t s of Columbus; and I was appointed

out meeting

a single Government official, although

m i c e on mefit had been introduced into the

was told that the Philippines were healthy, and that

e x d e n t board with native families could be seam&

"I lived in a native bungalow thatched with nip!
leavea, and made partly of bamboo. Theze were millioar
of ants, and the w a s and ceiling were f a i ~ l crawling
j
with small lizards. After en illnea my companion
turned to Manila; and I was taken down with b,
breaking fever, living for days with nothing to eat
to drink but the syrup from canned peacheaJ'

China
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MERICAN round-the-world fie1.s are rn*
ing good progress, having finished t3miF ,
fight down the Chinese coast, being now about;
to enter India Up to the time they arrived*
Hong Kong they are reported a s havingghse
only two-days of excellent flying weather since
they left America.

Japan
S INDICATING the deep-seated resentment
of the Japanese people against the ex&
sion act, an unknown Japanese warrior wmmita;
ted suicide in front of the ruins of the-&*
Embassy in Tokio. This hss had the effect 06
greatly inflaming the Japanese displeasure, !Pk
suicide left two letters: One addressed to th%i;
b e r i a people, urging them to
tlw~,
Exclusion Act; and the other addressed to W
Japanese people, urging them to arise d
avenge the deed. As many as fifty to WVthousand persons daily pass the grave of the am: ,
known warrior. Among those who s a t wreaths
to his grave was Viscount Kato, the gewj ,
Premier.
The center of the American colony in J a m
is the Imperial Hotel in Tokio where, e v e 3
Saturday evening, it is the custom of the Ameri-' ,
cans to gather f o r a dance. A week ago thid
dance was broken up by the Japanese, w b
invaded the dance floor, armed with swoand who in the most vulgar and insulting Emguage demanded the deportation of all Americans, the boycott of all h e r i c a n goods, and
the abrogation of all Japanese-American treat-- .
ies. The police of Tokio did not interfere.
tion picture houses showing American moving pictures have been temporarily closed in Japan.#
Two days after the breaking up of the bsll ,
in the Imperia1
a Japanese visited
the American
at
stated his intention to kill the American Con
unless the latter would agree to intercede
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the Embassy and the Consulate, and also about
the Imperial Hotel, in the effort to prevent
further outbreaks.
What may constitute the entering wedge that
will lead the United States into war with Japan,
is the claim upon the United States Government
q d e by Japan immediately after the Exclusion
kct, that thereby the United States Government
has violated the treaty of 1911, which gives "liberty of entry, travel and residence" to both
peoples.' Secretary Hughes denies that the
treaty of 1911 in any way limits the United
Mates from dealing with the immigration question as it sees fit. Every war must have a pretext, and it seems quite possible that Japan is
seeking a pretext.

Practically all of the electrical equipment fot,

this work is being bought from the Unite$-:.
States. Japan is now buying American el&&;
cal equipment at the rate of $10,000,000 a y q The hydro-electric power systems of Japan are:.
being developed rapidly, as is natural, dne to-5
the fact that there is no cod on the island. /zl
I t is reported that practically all the Japtw:
nese Christian leaders are demanding the sever-'
ance of their churcfi relations with the pare&<'
bodies in the United States. However, while t
h
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is put forward in the news despatches as some.
thing of recent occurrence, yet the Japanese.>
have never taken kindly to the idea of splittinggr
Christ's church up into the "57 varieties," common in the United States.

Hawaii

Japanese Politics '

APA!N has been engaged in an exciting pol i t i d c b p a i g n , as a result of which the
"ins" will be ousted from power, and the "outs"
will be put into power. While the election was
I in progress, street fights were common; and
, in one city the "ins" having learned that in a
certain building the "outsJ' were having an
1 important meeting of election workers, called
out the fire company, who deluged the building
! mith water, only "discovering" after everybody
; was soaked, that there had been no fire. All
f Ws reads like something that might have hapI pened in America instead of Japan.
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The leader' of the new government, Viscount
,
Kato, is perhaps the most hostile to the United
' States of any of the great statesmen of Japan.
It is he who drew up the notorious twenty-one
demands on China in 1915; and it is likely
that his advent to power may result in war
between Japan and the United States.
I n Japan there has been until now some sort
of restricted ballot; but the Japanese are
now demanding immediah and nniversal snffrage for the men. They might as well grant
it to the women, too; for it may be set down
as certain that the women will be only a year
o r two behind in making the same demand.
The new cabinet is believed to be the strongest
Japan has had in years; for it represents a
coalition of three parties. '
At the present time Japan is engaged in electrifying the 6,000 miles of atate-owned railways.

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great Kilauea Volcano, frequently re :
ferred to as thk world's safest volcano, is no*
about to become violently active. 'Earthquakeg;
explosions, and landslides in the vicinity are .
frequent; and roars like dashing waves arise:
from the pit. The steam which rises is blue in color, showing the presence of gas; cracks, in
the floor of the pit are widening; and sections which until very recently have been consider&:,
safe for visitors t o stand upon, have caved in and been swallowed up in the foaming lava.
Two visitors narrowly escaped death when the ,;
section on which they had been standing cavedin
only a few seconds after they had left it.
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discussion by the peoples of Holland' :

PUBLIC
and Gemany has killed the plan whiahhad2

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been almost accepted by the Dutch Government

for the establishment of a German dukedom in
GUinea. A group
mo~r~is
Dutch
has proposed to the Dutch Government to take:
Over a large district with a native p0pnlatiCHl $
of 200,000.
laws governing the ciistrict werek+
to be set aside. New laws were to be made bythe operating company, and the district was to
be left in sole charge of the company for
seventy-five years. The Dutch Government waa*:
reported as friendly to this idea; but neither
the Dutch nor the German people would have.
it; and it haa been abandoned.
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Personal Responsibility as to Taxes

Of course, it would never 'do for these eompanies to feel the weight of the increased expenses; so the bill is passed on to the shipper.
The farmer has virtually voted high transportation charges upon himself.
It is not more credit that the farmer needs.
I t would have been a blessing if he never couId
have borrowed a dollar. He would then, a t
least, have been his own %ossY'with no one to
say to him, "Sign this," or, "Vote thus and so."
If1 the farmer would get his business on a cash
basis as quickly as possible, and keep it there,
instituting a "pay as you goJJsystem to goveqn
all his affairs, both public and private, we sincerely believe that he would soon force all other
businesses into their proper sphere and thus
accomplish much towards establishing the just
balance so necessary t o the satisfactory adjustment of this world's affairs.

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EBCELANCE the inspector has a business

"of the public. So rather than to offend these

gatriotic ( 5 ) road workers and their friends,
' -&e zbilllis allowed. Thus an extra burden ofi
.:- 'Aditional and unnecessary taxes is laid upon
- .
."&e tax-payer.
& -.:Here we have a clear illustration of how in6 8 8 i d n a l righteousness might lessen the cost of.
'vernment. Let those who are clamoring for
ax reduction take notice. Tax reduction, like
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'We love your children better than you do,"

s a slogan used by some childless promoters
a.rural high school proposition in one comas absolutely false. I n the old
management of teachers who
igid examinations in the common
in school government, and who
work for somewhere near the inns were getting, we had better
have now, undcr the superof our high-priced, high-school graduate
ts; and we turned out stronger students.
rly -every little hamelet now has its $60,
$225,000 school buildings; and the money
schools have brought into the towns, tother money the farmer has put
has combined to make the innts more prosperous than they have ever
efore. [Naturally,they are strong for propresent order of things.
,

e thinking person, it is no mystery why

rates are so high. The raiIroad comave their proportion of these high taxes
pay ; and, i n addition, they have thousands

Drastic Remedy Suggested

farmers should take advantage of
M ANY
the bankruptcy law, and start life afresh.

There is absolutely no use in their floundering

about in the quicksands of debt when exmy.
struggle puts them in deeper.
Then, instead of sending their children to high
school to be polished and entertained, let them
put them, as well as themselves and their wives;
to work, thus giving them a practical education'
and a taste of the joy of useful accomplishment.
The higher education is aluxury, not a necessity.
Young people everywhere should be encouraged to obtain knowledge; but all institutions
of higher learning should be self-supporting.
For their own good, able-bodied children who
have finished the grades should not continue
to be objects of charity.
Children must be taught early to feel some
responsibility for their own maintenance, if we
are to reduce the present output of egotists and
youthful criminals. Work under proper conditions and for reasonable hours will not injure
any normal child. I n times past, we have overdone child labor; but now, in many sections of
the country, we are going to the other extreme
of no work a t all, much to the moral detriment
of the on-coming generation. After these bankrupt families, by their united efforts, have attained comfortable, not luxurious homes, let
them do the honest thing, and lay aside, fun&
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- was lacking in the amount due them.

We are well aware that we are advocating a

stern remedy. But we believe that the farmer's
case is serious; that his troubles have their
source in the usury (interest) system, which was
forbidden by Jehovah in the early days of the
Jewish nation, and which later became established in this world's affairs; and that the
sooner he realizes his condition, quits taking
the nostrums and optimistic soothing syrups

administered to him from the newspapers, the -?

pulpit, the platform, and the entertabmat -:
halls, and faces the situation squarely, the better.3
for himself and all conceplied.
Cooperations and federation* are only at- 3
tempts to shirk individual responsibility. God $:
has spoken the doom of such in Isaiah 8: 9,10. 3
The lesson may be bitter; but it is needed to
teach men to use their God-given powew to
think, not suffering themselves to be driven
hither and thither like ships without rudders@

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Little Common Sense in Radio Buying By Frederic T i m m e m n

RE prospective purchaser of a radio receiving set today has small chance of making
an intelligent selection, for the reason that he
is confined almost exclusively to advertisements
or "inspired" reading notices for his information. Occasionally he can listen in on a neighbor's set to help make a choice; but even then
he is liable to make a mistake, as so many conditions affect the operation of a receiver. The
only real test, obviously, is direct comparison;
i. e., with the various receivers attached to the
same aerial and ground and using the same
tubes, batteries and headsets. By changing
from one instrument to another periodically
during an evening one could notice the difference in quality, volume and range as well as
selectivity. Of course, this is impractical usually; so one is confined to buying on faith, and
unfortunately often is disappointed. The reason is not hard to find. The persistent and
almost exclusive but unwarranted use of superlatives to describe radio products, and nonchalant announcemepts of transcontinental and
transoceanic reception lead the uninitiated to
expect more from a moderate-priced receiver
in the home than is possible today in the wellequipped laboratory.
From time to time accounts are read of extraordinary performance, and one is led to infer
that it is commonplace. Adding to this the tendency of the average owner of a radio receiver
to exaggerate and herald to his neighbors a
record performance as an everyday occurrence,
it ia easy to see why buyers are frequently disappointed when they have bought a really good
product worth all they pay for it.
The virtues of receiving apparatus most

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ity, clarity and volume; and each and every -?
instrument from $10 to $500 claims exactly the 2
same results. No other term but ccmaximnm"
will do; maximum range, maximum volume, 4
maximum selectivity; etc. Obviously this can-- 3
not be true. Whom are we to believe? The j
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answer usually is the "Big Name"; but unforz
tunately the buyer frequently goes wrong in *i
this. Sometimes <'BigAdvertising" creates "Big -$
Name" ;and as usual the consumer pays t3.m bilL

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H E R E is an unbiased statement of what ma?
be expected of a good radio broadcast re- 4!
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SENSITIVITY
(range) : Consistent reception, 9
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the ability to duplicate a t will on any n o M - ? %
night in winter is limited to approxim9tely
1,000 miles, assuming a 500-watt transmitting .
station. When conditions are unfavorable, this
distance i s greatly lessened; while m d e r extra- '
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mon to reach out 2,500 miles.
Semcmrr~~n:
The limiting factor is a i m p l i c i t a
of control. A highly sensitive receiver with not
too highly complicated control can select stations within a range of three miles.
VOLUMEAND CLARITY: For really great vd- .;"
nme without distortion we are still looking, .4
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Volume too great for headsets up to 500 miles ::'
is common.
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most important points of any radio receiver- 3
stability. One sbould, after properly Wing i n#!:
a station, be able to enjoy it indefinitely withoat hJ

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er adjustment. But this is rather uncom- motor cars maximum speed means a highpowered racer, while maximum comfort 'and
ck" circuits-make one do the work of tyo, pleasure require the moderate-powered P a d i &
etc., which really means something for nothing. car. Yon cannot get both in one type of *hi&;
These generally carry names made up of sylla- neither can you get the maximum of all, the .
bles from names of some of the "world beaters" good points of a radio receiver in a single tppe
designed to push sales. Most of these circuits of instrument. By the same token do not congive wonderful results when they function prop- demn your set when atmospheric conditions rrte
unfavorabIe, any more than you would condemn
erly, which is seldom.
Use the same reason in buying and operating your motor when the elements force yon to l e p
a radio receiver as you would a motor car. I n the car in the garage.

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Civilization in South Carolina in 1924

(From the Greenville N e w 8 of Aprll 30, 19%)

ECAlJSE they took exception to his views

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that the common conception of hell a s a
place ot; torture'is in error, A. L. Paschall, who

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lectured a t the Casino theater in Greenville Sundsy afternoon in the interest of the movement
that teaches that "millions now living will never
die," was overtaken by a mob of about twenty
men soon after he departed from Easley last
Saturday afternoon and beaten, he declared yesterday. Mr. Paschall is a native of North Carolina, but is more recently from California. .
Mr. Paschall, who has been making Greenville his headquarters for some time, mentioned
the Easley incident in a report on his Sunday
lecture and work made to the Greenville News.
Some people in Easley, Mr. Paschall said,
wanted a lecture there; so it was arranged for
the local theater for Sunday forenoon. The
ministers of the various denominations of the
community petitioned the theater owner not to
permit use of his property for the lecture, he
said, and the posters which had advertised it
were torn down and the lecture plans abandoned. Mr. PaschaU said that he had distributed Bible literature in the town.

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As he was leaving Easley, Mr. Patichall d,

he was overtaken by about twenty rnen.mil
beaten; and the men aho' threataed to barn
the Bible literature which he had in his autumobile.
"Some of the mob," said the worker, "s@med
to have become enraged over some statements
in a booklet which I was distributing. This boo&
let is entitled What the Bible Says About Ed$'
in which i t is stated that hell (sheol, h d e $ , - h t
is, the grave) is a place of darkness (Job 10: 213,
-not a place of torture but of si1ence.-Psak
115 : 17.
"They seem to want to believe," the colporteur
said, "what many preachers have scared rnsrry
people into insanity with-that most people go
to an eternal existence of torture when they a,
thus denying the resurrection of the dead and
the Lord that bought us."'-2 Peter 2: 1.
Mr. Paschall said that he had made no teport
of the matter to officers of the law and intended
to make none, inasmuch as he did not care b
see the men involved punished and inasmuch &a
he hoped that most if not all of tbem regrettd
the step they had taken.

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E. L. Barbonr, a man representing himself as

a minister of the gospel, was in town the first of
the week distributing a book entitled "Millions
Now Living Will Never Die." Barbour's teach!rigs are said by other ministers to be of very
auestionable character; and after he had made
.omplete canvass of the town he was invited by
1be police to discontinue work in Seneca and

leave town. Adding their weight to the wanb

ing given by city officials, the Seneca Eu Elm
Klan also notified Barbour to leave town. A ,'
Klan official says that this is one warning th* .
do not deny giving, and if the "p'preache? lud
not complied with the request to leave tom,
more direct and effective means would have
been employed.

Facts and Figures on Medical Ignorance BY Isaac L. Peebles, M.D.

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E HAVE the following classes of ther- ing and destroying normal cells. Dr. Broad3
apies: (1) Allotherapy; (2) biochemico- hurst, a professor in biology in the Teachers
therapy; (3) botaniotherapy; (4) chiropracto- College, Columbia University, Mew Pork, de- :;
therapy; (5) dietotherapy; (6) electrotherapy; cfared: 'We are still very far from an adequate
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homeotherapy; (10) hydrotherapy; (11) limo- "How We Resist Diseases," page 19, for 1923. _
therapy; (12) massagetherapy ; (13) organoAll will admit that nothing will excel or even , -3
therapy; (14) opsonotherapy ; (15) osteother- equal normal cells i and therefore, what a tre4;
apy; (16) pistiotherapy; (17) psychotherapy; mendous risk to impose upon them drugs, vat.<
(18) radiotherapy;. (19) theotherapy; (20) cines or serums to better what is already normal
thermotherapy; (21) viaviotherapy. All these and perfect! Cells are hot alike in size, power
therapies have cured patients or they never to receive, to resist, endure, or to do; and thered
would have existed.
fore what some may be equal to, others may '~$4
I have cured patients allopathically, biochem- ' not be equal to the same. This is why drugs,
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ically, chiropractically, dietotherapically, home- vaccines, serums, etc., disease people and kill
opathically, hydropathically, hotherapically, them. This is why people die so immediately .- osteopathically, pisteotherapically, psychother- with croup, diphtheria, heart failure, pneumoapically and theotherapically, even when our nia, iduenza, paralysis, etc., when drugs, vae2
health board crowd failed to cure. Therefore 1 cines, serums, etc., are administered. The first
am opposed to one school of healers being em- time 1 witnessed the administration of a serum
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$.powered by ollr government to boss a d rule for croup, it killed the child in about fifteen
out all other schools of healers, as the allopathic minutes after given. The child was not suffoschool of which the Board of Health now con- cating from the false membrane forming, nei2
sistg is being allowed to do; for all other ther did it die from suffocation.
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aver, I am most heartily opposed to the allo- serum, diphtheria and other serums aFe given.
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and people of our government, for the reason Reserve University, of Cleveland, Ohio, de- -$
that each school is too ignorant a t its best. clared in their book, "Principles of ImmunolTherefore, since the allopathic school is now ogy," pages 282, 283, that a serum that may
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already empowered unduly, andalso is seeking immunize a dog will not succeed in human
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absolute control of every one and everything, beings; and, too, declared that it has been estiI shall clearly show that its ignorance is too mated that only six to ten percent of d r e a t e d ' 3
great to be allowed even what it has already persons bitten by rabid animals, die. I n Europe
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Mured of power and control.
seven of 169 bitten by rabid animals were
The cells of the human body are now sup- treated with the serum, and three died; and of
posed to be the basis, or units, of its life; and 162 untreated, not one died. I n Baltimore, Md.,
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hence any upsetment of their naturaI workings eight persons were treated; and the three that
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causes an irregularity in their normal life that were not bitten through their clothes died, while
may end in a permanent disease, or diseases, or the five bitten through their clothes did not die.
death, or both. The full chemical structure and
Despite the boast of stamping out yellow
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and also their true differentiation and individ- as to its cause is simply its transmission by the
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known; even that mysterious something that yellow fever patient before it can give yellow , .-.
makes it possible to see what is within the range fever to a person. Hence the medical world is
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of vision through the best microscopes. No one still ignorant as to how the first patient must get
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mience displayed in isolating yellow fever patients and the killing of mosquitos. There was
no foroeddiseasing and murdering of the people
to stop yellow fever.
In vaccination for smallpox, Jenner, the accredited beginner of vaccination, vaccinated his
months with hogpox in
0son a t
November, 1m9, and declared it to be a preventative of smallpox. Afterwards he declared that
the virns of grease, a disease of the heels of
horses, whether taken directly from the heels of
. horses or from a cow infected with the same
disease, would protect the rest of our lives.
Hencehe was believed, and his vaccination continned rmtil 1898, when spontaneous cowpox
virus was used. Now both spontaneous cowpox
virus and smallpox virus are used; and besides
we now have as m n y as fourteen vaccines.
Where vaccination has been made compulsory
the death rate from smallpox has gone from
1Q114and 18 percent to 65 and 85 percent.
~h~ most rig;idly vaccinated countries withoat regard to sanitation, have the most smallpox; but those countries that have given proper
atteation b sanitation and less attention to vaccination have had fewer deaths from smallpox.
. Hence Dr. C.K. Millard, health officer of Leicester, England, could wisely declare that smallpox
. lessened or declined in proportion to the neglect
of vaccination, and in proportion to proper attention given to isolation and sanitation. (See Journal of American Med. Assn., Sept., 1923,
page 1125.) I n his book, "The Vaccination
Question," page 150, he admits comparative
"immunity'' to smallpox of nnvaccinated infants.
On page 105 of his book on "Dmg Action,"
Dr. Sallmann, in the University of Cleveland,
Ohio, declares that Ehrlich's Side Chain Theory
had not been proven to be true. He also said
that vacciges or toxins might destroy cells. Dr.
Millard, a vaccinationist, in his book, "The Vaccinaxon Question," page 52, published in 1914,
said of Japan: 'Tn spite of vaccination, revacci~ationand extraordinary vaccination, in
spite of this great vaccination, 80,000 took
smaIlpox and 23,000 died from 1896 to 1910."
U t e r vaccination and revaccination in the Philippines from 1898 to 1919, smallpox seized 107,981, and 59,741 died just in 1918 and 1919.
*The Hygeia," a health journal of the American Medical Association, in its November, 1923,

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issue, declared of Japan, a well vhchated.and revaccinated country : "There have been epidemics since vaccination began." But it failed
to publish that from 1889 to 1908 Japan hajd
28,280 deaths, and from 1917 to 1920 it .bad
3,397 deaths, despite its rigid vaccination
even its sanitation. If rigid isolation and sanitation had been practised, and vaccination lat
alone, it could have said what Meridian, Mis9,
has been able to say for seventeen -or more
Years, that since it has stopped compulsory vaccination and given attention to sanitation, $
has not had a smallpox epidemic during $hat
time; and also 2 s Leicester, England, with, its
250,000 people, without compnlsorjr vaccination
than t k i r t ~years, having given attention to
Last November in Gloucester, England, wis
in fifteen miles of where ;Tenner was barn,
reared, and began his vaccination curse, officers
were elected who did not believe in cornpalmvaccination nor in vaccination. .
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Let the diseasing, murderous practice end hrever, and especially compulsory vaccination.
Of antitoxin, Dr. Karnsner and Dr. Ecker id
their book, "Principles of ~ u n o l o g y , "page
42, declare: "The exact nature of antitoxin is
unknown"; and Dr. Leathers, in a letter to ma
on September 28, 1923, said: "It is well t o
emphasize that ten percent of the children who
take three required inoculations, a t least one
week apart, of toxin-antitoxin, are not immunized. Antitoxin once was declared to immme,
but now it is declared that it is effective only
after diphtheria develops."
The best institutional doctors make more than
seventy-two percent of errors in diagnosis of,
diseases, and in general practice more than
seventy-seven percent. (See Journal of the
American Medical Association, October 8,1921,
page 1209.)
Doctors do not know the origin of eight different skin diseases, much less the character of
smallpoy, vaccines, scarlet fever, cancer, etc.
Therefore can one not see how Unwise it is to
put our children, ourselves and all others i
the hands of boards of health to carry out
ignorant experiments with diseases and d
vaccines on us, with state authority? Sur
shall not be so lacking in wisdom. Sur
shall stop such casualty and injustice 1

The Purpose of the Animal Creation

BY L. C. ~ a r r o t t

0 DOUBT all people of questioning minds, Plant Life aa a Purifying Agency

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on the third "day," or epoch (over 14,000 -2
years from the start; for apparently each "day" - 3
was 7,000 years in length), a crust had fame3 4
and solid land began to take &ape apart from ".'9:
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the waters on the surface of the earth;
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gradually, as soon as conditions became fam4
able for their growth and development, certain =; of the lowest forms of plant life began to
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appear, such as were suited to the prevailing @
atmospherio conditions. Gradually, as conditions became more favorable, other forms of
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because not adapted to the changed conditions,
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while other and more varied forms appeared, a s . , .
conditions became more favorable for each kind.
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At that time i t is evident that no breathing
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only in combination with other earthy elements.
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absorb oxygen, along with other elements, from
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of the plant the oxygen is freed from the other
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leaves. I t is also known that all forms of plant
life
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have reached years of

maturity, have often wondered what useful purpose has been served by ~ n c han infinite variety
of living creatures as we see on the earth. I n
the case of many of these it is hard to see what
benefit they xave been to the earth or to man.
Reasoning from the Scriptural statement that
t h e earth was not created in vain, but formed to
be inhabited (Isaiah 45:18) and intended to
remain forever (Psa. 104: 5; Eccl. l:4), and that
man was created to have dominion over it and
everything upon it, and was given the command
to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth
(Gen. 1:26-28), we get the thought that man is
designed to be its permanent inhabitant. Other
living creatures have served a temporary purpose, to fill in a gap, as it were, until the time
when the earth as a whole will be in a suitable
condition to be a permanent home for man.

Evil Beaats to Become Extinct

E UNDERSTAND also that
these vafious living creatures have each had a
part in helping to bring the earth into a suitable
wndition to be man's everlasting home; and
when they have served their purpose they will
pass away except such of them as shall be found
not to interfere with man but to minister to his
n w and pleasure. As a proof of the laat statewords of the almighty
_merit note the
in E ~ 34 ~25, that
E H~
~ "will
~ cause the evil
beasts to cease out of the land; and they [men]
shall dweU safely in the wilderness, and sleep
in the woods."
In order to get a full grasp of the situation
it seems necessav to carry our minds back to
the dzoic age, to the tirne (approximately
48,000 years ago) when the first work began
with this earth to prepare it as a habitation for
man. Without going into all the evidence we
will meiely say here that we think it a reasonable presumption that the earth was at that time
in a partly molten and partly gaseous condition.
at that time all the various metals-gold, silver,
copper, iron, etc.-were in a gaseous condition,
along with all the elements that now compose
our oceans, seas and lakes, in dense masses of
cloudy vapor, surrounding the central molten
nucleus, and possibly extending out from the
center as far as the moon is now.

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Animal Life Serves Its Purpose

HIS process, then, of absorbing the excessive carbon from the atmosphere and freeing sutlicient oxygen to support even the lowest
forms of animal life, must have required a long
time. Vegetation must have been very rank
when all the great coal and oil deposits were
laid. So we read that it was not until the fifth
"day" (over 28,000 years from the start) that
there began to appear some of the lowest forma
of animal.life.

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Gradually, as climatic and atmospheric can'ditions became more favorable, other and more
varied forms of life came on the scene, while
earlier forms passed away, each suited to certain conditions, and gradually passing away
as those conditions changed, giving place to
o t h ~ r more
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suited to the newer conditions. It
is even conceivable that some of these may have
been so constituted as to be able to adapt themes more or less to the changing conditions ;
that such changing conditions of food, clie, etc-9might require slight changes in strutUrn, thus giving a seeming corroboration to the
theory of evolution.

Man Brought on the Scene

OWEVER, it is quite evident that all climatic changes were not gradual by any
means. Some of these changes were very sudden
and radical. But gradual or sudden, the process
went on, until a t last a t the end of the sixth
"day" (approximately 42,000 years from the
start) condit:ons became sufficiently favorable
(although still 7,000 years from the permanent
perfect condition to be reached finally) that man
brought on the scene, as the crowning feature of the earthly creation, and was made king
of earth, as described in Psalm 8: 4-8.
Thus all the varied forms of plant and anima1 Life, from the lowest to the highest, have
each had a part in the process of preparing the
earth to be man's permanent habitation. Even
the lowly earth-worm and the ant, as well as
other creatures that burrow in the earth, have
each assisted in bringing up portions of earth

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from beneath and depositing them on the surface; thus eventually, through many thousands
of years, bringing about a loamy, friable condition of the surface soil, making it more favorable for cultivation and the growing of- crops
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and fighting the thorns and thistles of the still
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imperfect earth, is helping to bring it to the promised Edenic condition. By building great irrigation and great drainage works, by harnessing rivers for the generation of power, and in
various other ways he is assisting in bringing
about the desired result.
Thus, in about 1,000 years hence, and 49,000
years from the time work started, the earth by
all these means will have been brought to its
settled permanent condition, and will be perfectly adapted to be man's everlasting home.
Thus we see that each age or epoch works out
the sovereign will of the great Creator. Each
creative "day" serves its purpose towards the
final grandeur and beauty which God has designed. Changed &matie conditions will undoubtedly come within the next thousand years,
taking away all the ice from the polar regions,
and causing even those barren lands to spring
forth with verdure. Unquestionably, many of the
animals familiar to us now shall become extinct,
while those which are to be man's companions
and for his pleasure will be conserved and thus
multiply and become plentiful.

Chimney Swallows By

VER the city of Natohez, Miss., architecturally fully fifty years behind the times,
&-on any fair evening of early October one can
witness thousands of chimney swallows flying
ts and fro from one hundred to five hundred
feet above the buildings, circling seemingly
hither and thither aimlessly in the twilight, and
as they go.
about an hour's flight they gradually
themselves in the vicinity of the Edueation Institute, estimatively 30,000 of them,
until the air ia darkened by their numbers.

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For an hour the writer has stood and watched

the wonderful maneuvering of these birds, anticipating that some of them will surely bump
into others in their swift flight. But although
the sky was black with swallows, in not a single
instance was one seen to touch another.
Findly the maneuvering resolves itself into
a vast milling of the entire flock around and
about one of the big chimneys of the Inatitnta;
and as the milling continues a solid stream ofi
birds is seen entering the chimney until practically the entire flocli has, disappeared within

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the big flue. Presumably the first ones to enter
go t o the bottom, where they cling to the inner
walls and build themselves upward to the top,
literally lining the flue with a living lining. 'Phe
last several dozen apparently could not secure
a footing; for they continued milling about the

chimney top until daxkness obscnred the sight :,:

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Evidently no standing room was left.
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Hundreds of pedestrians stop on the streets $::
to watch the imposing sight and to taIk about
it. One old lady remarked; "Oh, jnst look at
the sparrows!"
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(Corztrz%uted)

HEN I was a little girl I once read a story

about a saloon-keeper's wife whose busband bought her a beautiful fur coat. The lady
was so pleased with it that she dreamed about
it. She dreamed that some one held up the
coat before her admiring eyes; and then, as she
looked, the garment was slowly turned around
m t i l she could see the inside. The lining was
made u p of the gaunt, hungry faces of the wives
and children of the drmkards whose money had
paid for the coat.
There are linings and linings. Everybody
and everything has a lining of some sort. The
Bible speaks of people's linings as "the inner
man'' or "the heart.'' A society's lining is the
spirit of the organization. A company operating commercially calls its lining "policies" ;and
frequently it has two such, an outer one more
o r less for the public eye, and an inner one,
known only to those who put it there.
StriBingly tme, as nsnal, are the words of the
Bible: "Man looketh upon the outward a m a r ance." Only a few have acqnired the understanding heart that looks below the surface and
sees the lining. As a result there is much in- justice in the world. Praise is often given when
censure would be more in order, and vice versa.
As to the inner man: I knew a little girl now
grown to womanhood. She has always dressed so
simply as to cause comment. She cannot skate;
she cannot dance nor play tennis nor golf. To
use the language of those who see only the outside, "She cannot do anything."
When she was a child she loyally helped a
peevish, complaining mother to bring up the
younger members of the family; and now she
spends her all taking care of her aging parents.
'No; she C ~ M Odo
~ anything, except reverse the
rule to which we are accustomed and to put
that which is unlovely on the outside and the
b e d i f u l on the inside, whence in time it must
shine out, as indeed it is already doing.

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Excessive daintiness or expense in dress,

much handiwork, ondurable or unnecessaq :d
accessories, overfurnished homes, overloaded :$
tables-what sort of linings do these indicate .?
for their possessors! Stop, look, Listen; and d
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yon will find that in every case the l i n i i is
the same: Selfishness and thievery, consciotsi <
or unconscious.
Indulgence in extravagant o r useless.~>ractke~f
or things is jnst so much harm done to the corn- "
munity as a whole. If in a family one m e m w
is lazy and shirks his tasks, dl the others m a t 't;
work harder to make u p for the one's de%
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No doubt the delinquent one has time t(
grow plump and beautiful; no doubt he ha? ;;
time to be leisurely and good-natured. No doubt '
too, and what is the greatest injustice, he
be praised for his beauty, his immscula& ,.
grooming, his up-to-dateness; while the one&
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whose labor made it possible will be depr-t&
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because they are haggard and overworked and -:
not SO good to look upon. Even under present ;
imperfect conditions all could be m o d e r a w , $
beautiful and comfortable if dl did their share. -2
I know a man, a big, wide man, whose grand- :
father and father were in the liquor businesg. :
Feeding upon the blood of others, they were -.-.
rich; and the big, wide man received a liberal ::
education, wore fine clothes, go
ted himself upon his capacious
an expensive car, and srniles
upon everybody. Oh, he is a
refined, so educated, 80 Pro
dressed, SO distinmk, so excl
but bring themselves to recognize the
D o we admire vermin or W other P
because it is f a t and shiny?
The Psalmist says:
when thon doest well to thy
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I am only a woman, and not supposed to be
alas I can be classed only under the next heading, able to understand politics; just like a man I
which ia
know who says that his business is so complicated that only he can run it. I have watched him
and his business carefull?, and have concluded
Companies Operating Commerciall~ that he is right. He has en@ged in so many
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fie wicked and sinful things, of
and sor- dishonest transactions, and told SO many lies,
the e*
that make for
didness, the commercialization of our highest that everything requires his personal attention
-. .ideals stands first. Love, honesty, and fidelity in order to keep Up the artificial conditions he
5 - are discouraged and oppressed in this world of ha9 created; and the effort has made him tired
before his timeselfishness. How welcome to every honest heart and
There are pther businesses more legitimate
be that kingdom which d l soon reverse
and less flamboyantly and outrageously comthe old order!
Today the churches are empty, and news- mercial; selling soap, for instance, through the
use their use of a lot of "soft soap" showing how beautidiscour- ful you will become if you use so-and-so's soap.
. Their going to church shows no good re- Does the manufacturer earnestly desire to see
, their balloting accomplishes nothing. YOU beautiful? Oh, no1 he wants the profit he
gh a certain succe~sionof gets from selling soap.
"Honesty is the best policy," say some busiwe want the expected effect to folquit. The general belief is that ness men. They are honest, not for the love of
teachings of Christ nor the ideals honesty, but because they believe that people
ets are possible of fulfilment. Con- will buy from a person whom they trust. After
is "each man for himself"; and all, when honesty is a policy instead of a prinrld reels ciple, it merely veils the lining, which is a selfish
love of money, the root of all evil.
not the
Many regard the success of the united charity
elfish "drives7' as a proof that the world is getting
at is a t fault better. A business man explained his liking for
. The spirit them thus: " I t is a lot easier to be solicited to
ers are give once a year, to write out one check and be
uence, and done with it, than it is to be bothered one hundred times a year. I t doesn't cost SQ much,
rches, and either."
tory gaze
Similar to this is the spiiit that often nnderlies the much-vaunted welfare work among employ&~.The inter-organization clubs that no"The cost per week of maintaining this church is $Last Sunday's collections were
+ body wants to join, the picnics and dances attended by the workers only for fear of offending
the employer-why does the latter like them?
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It makes good subject matter for an occasional
The Bible says: 'TCnter into his gates with write-up in the paper; it is good advertising to
thanksgiving,
into his courts with praise." have his company's athletic teams frequently
mentioned as competing with others. And the
corporation is patted on the back for its noSEEMS to me that this is the laboratory bility, and gains customers on the strength of it.
s,
My experience with so-called welfare work
e, and social work among the workers has led me
rld to the conclusion that-it is often little short of
ather a tyrannous, unwarranted intrusion upon t h
efactors? spare-time hours of the employe for the cornpany's financial benefit.

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It is my earnest hope (and I believe the Scriptures back it up) that some day soon the inside
of the cup will be as clean as the outside. When
"the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies
and the waters shall overflow the hiding place";
when our "turning of things upside down shall
be tsteemed as the potteis clay"; when God
"brings to light the hidden things of darkness"
(the linings) and shows us how ugly they are,
then, thank Cod! we shall value things for their
goodness rather than for their show.

Until then I believe it is safe to say that in - t i

many cases that which seems great and prosperous and good is parasitically drawing its life :
from a dishonest source. From the girl whose -*$
beauty and surface aitractiveness are possibie- $:
because of neglected duties a t home, to the king upon his throne and the prelate in his office, the ;2
words spoken by Paul the Apostle
t&
apply: "Now ye rich, now ye are great; ye have'
reigned as kings without us." (1 Co
4 :8) Yea, and without God.

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Why the Farmer Does Not Come Back By a Farmel's

HE trnth is that the farmer is taxed and
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"interested" to death. I use this term
advisedly; for surely the existing conditions
mean the end of prosperous agricultural business for very many farmers.
From time immemorial, the farmer's work
has occupied so mnch of his time that little was
left for the study of any subject not directly
concerned with his particular occnpation.
Generally, he considered the political and
aivic machinery as beyond his powers of comprehension, and did not worry his head mnch
over them. He usually embraced the political
and religious faiths of his father, although, ifi
particularly hard times prevailed through one
administration, he might be caught voting for
khe other side at the next election.
Any farmer who did have a studious turn '
soon found his fences down and the cows helping themselves to his corn. The result was that
he depended upon his banker, his lawyer, or his
preacher -for advice on subjects not directly
concerned with agriculture.
All went fairly well, however, until the World
War brought a little wave of prosperity to these
sons of the soil. Soon a luxurious crop of farm
advisers sprang into existence. The farmer was
advised, educated, and entertained to the limit;
and the end is not yet. Even his old standbys
proved false and joined with the others in urging upon him moves which, it seems very likely,
will prove to be his ultimate undoing.
"Bnild modern homes,' buy tractors, trucks,
cars, and other conveniences, build big barns
and sheds, and go into business right, even if

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yon have to go into debt to do so. We never '4

made money until we got into debt. With bettez :y
nfarming and a larger acreage the debt will bei
inconsequential," said these s e l f - ~ ~ p p o i a t'id
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To the joy of the lumber and cement mmpanies, the automobile, tractor, and other mck. -!
chinery companies, the furniture and m n s i d ,instrument companies, and so on down the kin+
the advice was taken. A boom in farm lands
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precipitated ; and many. farms were pnrahatsed 4
a t exorbitant prices, often with but little csatr
paid down.
Prosperity seemed to be smiling on eve- :side; but the final resulta were not so satisfa+
tory. With over-production,and consequent~lo~
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prices, compared with expenses, the inter& -.
money comes in slowly, indeed.
To make matters worse, when the furore for
non-taxable securities came, the farmer was -.,
persuaded, coaxed, and even driven to vote his
community into huge bonded indebtedness, both
for roads and for schools.
I n a vasti section of the country paved ro$&
are absolutely unnecessary. A few days of cow
scientions labor yearly would keep each mile i n ,
good passable condition for very nearly, if not,';
altogether, as many days as paved roads can ?.,
boast.
But the bad examples set at Washington in'
recent years have had their effect even upoh ;
the "honest" farmer; and our roadwork is often -5
done with a view to getting another job soon, OH 'the same tract, in order to coax out an man$shekels as possible from the township and -no.-.
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A Lost Paradise By Ned Stewart

M ILTON'S

'Tara'iiise Lost" has been called

"the epic of mankind." Webster defines the
word epic as follows :"Narrative poetry treating
a theme of d o n in heroic style." We would
naturally expect, therefore, "Paradise Lost" to
be a wonderful exposition of paradise, pointing
to the true hero, Christ, who is ultimately to
restore paradise to the world.
But in reiding "Paradise Lost," we find some
queer things. Satan, the adversary of God and
man, is the hero! His strong characteristics
stand preGminent over all the other characters.
Evidently, as a character study, "Paradise Lost"
is a miserable failure. We are not here attempting to criticize i t as a literary work of a r t ; for
its literary supremacy i s unquestioned. Howdver, we purpose to take up the facts of the case,
believing that fact is far more important than
fiction or "literary value". If we find that the
poem is a t variance with the facts of the case,
then it is time to change our minds regarding
*the epic of mankind".
But where shall we go for the facts regarding
the beginning of our race'? There are various
idbas and theories too numerous to mention.
Heathen religions present the most welrd and
unreasonable views imaginable. Nor can Greek
or Roman mythology offer any better solution
of the mystery.
Turning to history, what do we find? The
history of the oldest Gentile nations can be
traced back clearly and distinctly less than three
thousand years. Farther than that, all is dark,
uncertain, mythical, fabulous, and untrustworthy tradition. Professar Fisher, of Yale
University, said :

Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian inscriptions are in extinct languages, and in'charaoters
generally well authenticated to the first Olympiad, 776 B.C. and the establishment of the Consulate, 510 B.C., previous to which they are
mainly traditional or legendary,
It is evident, therefore, that many so-called
"kistories" of the remote past so abound with
vagaries and mythical traditions a s to make
them valueless, and wholly mworthy of consideration, so far as the facts of the beginnihg
of mankind are concerned. Thus history is unable to furnish the information we desire.
Evohtion Theory Untenable
OME claim that man, animals, and even the
earth itself, developed gradually, by procesa
of evolution. We do not here purpose to go into
detail regarding the evolution theory. But bear
in mind that the evolution theory, a t its best,
is still a theory. We are not attempting to ex'amine theories, but facts. The "missing Bnk,"
so necessary for the support of the evolution
theory, has never been found; nor are scientists
any nearer finding it today than when the theory
was first formulated. History does not record
asingle instance of monkeys changing into men,
although the latter have been known to make
monkeys of themselves at various times.
We will have more to say of the evolution
theory later. In the meantime, we d l show the
true source of information on this most interesting question-the beginning of man.
We believe that the Bible is the great Creator's revelation to mankind of His plan. I n it
is contained the story of man's creation and fall.
I t contains the answer to the all-important
questions, "Why do people die?" and m y are
there so much sickness, sorrow, pain, and
trouble upon the earth?"
Clinton, in his work on Grecian Chronology,
says :

<'An exact method of establishing dates was slowly

reached. The invention of eras was indispensable to this
eind. The earliest delbite time for the dating of events
waa established in Babylon-the era of Nabonassar, 747
B. C: The Greeks (from about 300 B. C.) dated events
from the first recorded victory at the Olympic games,
776 B. C. The Romans, though not for some centuries
"The history contained in the Hebrew Scripturee preafter the founding of Borne, dated from that event, or sents s remarkable and pleasing contrast to the early
' 763 B. C."
accounta of the Greeks. In the l a t h , we trsoe with &ifa few obscure facts preserved to us by the poets,
We learn from the "American Cyclopaedia" ficulty
who transmitted, with all the embellishments of poetry
that histories of ancient nations, except that of and fable, what they had received from oral kaditioa
the Hebrews, go ,back into mythical periods of In the nnnals of the Hebrew nation, we hsvs authonsands or millions of years; and that even thentic narratives, written under the guidanq of iw
after the records begin to assume an historical epimtion. What they have delivered to us comes, as
aspect, the discrepancies are very great. The cordingly, under a double sanction. They were aided bx
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divine inspiration in recording facts upon which as mere

human witnesses, thew evidence would be valid."

me ~ i bis,l therefore,
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the only book in the
world which fmnishes a viewof human history
as a whole. It carries us from the lost paradise
of Genesis to the restored paradise of Revelation. The Bible, alone, is the chart of all history.
Without it, as has been truly said, history would
h 'like rivers flowing from unknown sources to
unknown seas".
Tufing to the Bible, we find in the first
three chapters the story of the creation of the
earth and the vegetation upon it, of the creation
of the animals, birds, fish and, finally, of man.
Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden, a
perfect home, with perfect food and surroundings. He was given dominion over the beasts of
the field, the fowl of the air, and the fish of the
sea. He was given a helpmate, who was called
Eve. There was but one restriction placed upon
them. They were forbidden to eat the fruit of
one tree, not because there was anything wrong
with the fruit, butmerely as a test of obedience ;
for God has the right te demand obedience of
all His creatures. But having had no experience,
they fell under the temptation, and were driven
out of the garden- Before we proceed, however,
We Dmst consider a few points that are not entirely clear to some.
ChronoZogy Aids in Understanding Bible
M A N Y do not accept theBible a c c o t because
it states that the creative worg lasted only
seven days. Scientists claim that the formation
of the strata of the rocks and other parts of the
earth consumed a period of thousands of years.
The word " d a y is not limited in its meaning
to a twenty-four-hour day; we speak of Chaucefs day, ShakespeareYs day, Milton's day,
Washington's day, etc. I n the Bible, we read of
"the day of temptation in the wilderness"-forty
years (Hebrews 3: 8,9), and of the "day of
judgment"-one thousand years. Thus a, "day"
may be a fixed period of time of any length. Although we do not have a direct statement as to
the length of these "creative days," we are safe
irr assuming that they were uniform periods;
that is, each one was of the same length as any
other pf the creative days.
The "seventh day" began witth the expulsion
of F n from paradise, and is to end when paradise is fully restored to the world. The Bible
chronology shows this to be a period of seven

thousand years. Over six thousand years U$

this day are gone, with the final thousand in the
future, in which will take place the work of rp'
storing paradise. Even today we see evidenced"
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of the beginning of this work.
Chronology thus helps us in establishing thk
length of these days. Seven days of seven thousand years each make a period of forty-nine
thousand years, the "creative week." Only six
days, however, elapse from the time the s t a h
ment is made that "the earth was without fol7m;
and void," to the time when paradise was lo*
or a period of forty-two thousand years.
The fact that the sun, moon, arid stars were:
not visible until the fourth day was p r o b a w
due to the fact that the earth, in its fornation,:
had "rings" around it, much the same as Ls*;
has today, obscuring the views of d , h e a v e ~ l y ,
bodies from the earth. I t does not mean that;
they were not created, but that they were 'not
yet visible to the earjh. This fact that the wn,
was not visible mtil the fonrth "day" should be
proof enough to anyone that the "daysJ' were notc
twenty-four-hon~.periods of time.
so,after all, the Bible is in full harmony
science on the subject. The preparation of
earth for man's habitation has actually taJgen:
thousands of years, and
goes on.
Many believe that man was made merely to*
go to heaven, and that the earth will be bmed,
UP. Such is not the Biblical testimony, howl
ever; for we read, "The earth abideth forever.*'
(Emlesiastes 1 : 4 ) God formed the earth to
inhabited, and not in vain. (Isaiah 45: 18) If
the earth was formed to be inhabited, it must be&
man that is to inhabit it. "The heaven, even the
heavens, are the Lord's : but the earth hath ha
given to the children of men."-Psalm
115: 16. :
When the Bible speaks of "the end of the '
world," it means plainly the end of the order of :.
things now-existing or the end of the present
unrighteous systems. Thus a new "world" began.
in France a t the end of the French Revolntiob
This is the correct thought with reference to 2
the "worlds" of the Bible.
I t is well to bear in mind that the earth was
made for man, and that man was made fsr the earth. Sin, sorrow, sickness,' pain, and deathare all unnatural; remove the unnatural, &
earthly life will be perfectly happy. That these :
unnatural things are to be removed e v e n t u d ~.
is shown very clearly in Revelation 21: 3,k

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WLDEN AGE

Great Deception of Immortality

T H E N we say that paradise was lost,it does
not mean that heaven was lost' The word
aparadise"

RIeans a garden, Or state

ha~~
ness, and has no specific reference to heaven
whatever. The Garden of Eden was on earth.
When. paradise is restored, the whole earth, instead of one Little spot, will be a beautiful garden. (Isaiah 51:3 ; Ezekiel 36 :35) Only Christians have a heavenly hope; and they will share
' with Christ in blessing the world during the
judgment day.-Revelation 20 : 6.
goodF with
,
was created
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full access to the trees of life, thus si,snifying
9that if he had never sinned, he would have been
living today; nor would any of his children have
died
or had trouble of any kind. This -is man's
i'
natural state-a
state of which we know noth!
:.
ing by experience. The only other perfect man
j - , , that ever existed on earth was Jesus, who died
for Adam to redeem him,and his race.
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But, as we have said, Adam's continued exis. . tence was dependent upon his obedience. He
6.
was explicitly told: "Of every tree of the garden
thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil,.thou shalt not eat
of it : for in the day that thou eatest thereof,
i .
dying
thou shalt die."-Genesis 2 :1 6 1 7 margin.
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The language here used does not imply that
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man had an immortal soul, or that he would
suffer eternally after death. The only place
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where there is a hint of continued existence reP
gardless of physical death is found in Satan's
li-the
first lie ever told-recorded in Genesis
.
3:4, where we read:. "And the serpent said
unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die." Compare John 8 :44.
This directly contradicted God's word. Whom
was Mother Eve to believe? She had no ex@+. perience, and so was deceived by the tempter.
@ Adam, however, was not deceived, but sinned
sully.-1 Timothy 2: 14.
B
Following Eve's example, thousands of wellmeaning people have been deceived into thinking that, after all, man does not redly die when
physical death ensues, but that his soul lives on
: ~omewhere,eternally. There being no r e d extinction of being, God in order to punish sin.ners, had to create a place of suffering and tor-Dent called "hell." There are various ideas and
regarding hell, a prominent one being
' aeories
portrayed vividly in Milton's "Paradise Lost".

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Here the devil torments, whiIe plotting a battle

for the recovery of heaven.
The creeds present to us a hell fined Gith
Millions of sinners, suffering horrible agony. .
lIn
- heaven there are a few saints playing upon
their golden harps, and
from whom an blessings
flow!" while they are
looking down intohell,
the plight of
.
their brothers and sisters,
today can
No person
of such a God or of such a.plan. This doctrine
of eternal torment has caused more infidelity
than any other doctrine. Even heathen religions
h'ave a better outlook for thhe future than this 1

Come, Let Us Reason Together

PERSON of authority has said that Mi!ton's "Paradise Lost" has led more people
into a belief in a hell of torment than the Bible
itself. Then where does the blame for the ilk&delity and confusion of today rest? What a
narrow theology prevailed in Milton's day, t1:at
led to the writing of such Qod-dishonorillg
ideas! The less said about it, the better.
The reason that the, poem deceives anyone
is that Milton apparently gets his ideas from the
~ i b l ~~t
~ . in this
,jay,
it is tirne t-or
us to prove our beliefs and, above
thklgs,
to use reason. This is in
with the
Bible teaching, "Come, let us reason together,
saith the Lord." (Isaiah 1 :18) 'Trove all things ;
hold fast that which is good."-1 The&aloniaild

5 : 21.
First of all: I s it reasonable that God'wohld
create man immortal, death-proof, permit him
to fall into sin, and then torment him forewr,
knowing in advance that man would sin 7 What
could be the purpose of such torment t Conld '
it accomplish any good? Would it result to the
glory of Godl A man or a child would not even
torture his horse, his dog, or his cat. It seeras
strange that men with reasoning facultiesshould ever reach the conclusion that the allwise Creator would eternally torment any of His .
creatures.
In the second place : Are the doctrines of the
immortality of the soul and eternal torment
Scriptural? We answer: Nothing unreasonable
is Scriptural.
Was Adam created mortal or immortal? 'Before we can answer this question, we must know
what is-meant by "mortal" and"knortal" The '
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CjOLDEN AGE.
foEowing definitions are tagen from good an- reward promised to faithful Christians. It
nowhere hinted in the Bible that human be
thority :
are immortaL
"Inanortadthe state or cadition in which death ie
Smpossible-a death-proof condition.
"Mdtal-a state or condition in which death ia posrible; a condition of liability to death, but not n w - the ground, and
life ;an
hasbeen : breath
-Iy
a dying condition unlesea death
incurred."
Genesis 2 :7.

Now if we say that man was created immortal,

or with an immortal soul, we are immediately in
&cdties.
For instance: Ifow was he threatened with death, and afterwards sentenced
thereto, and how could he die, if he were deathproof7 And why did God, in punishing him,
drive him out of the garden of Eden, away from
the life-sustaining grove or trees of life, lest he,
by eating, would live forevert-Genesis 3 :22,

23.

The body was created, then qnim

tee a living, m
tu,-,
say:

soul. Therefore we

an has a soul," but

Adam, He was
''The soul
th

Therefore if these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered, we must conclude that Adam
was createiT mortal. I n fact, he was plainly told
that his everlasting life was conditioml upon
his obedience.
Some, however, have the idea that the word
"mortal" signifies dying; in other words, that
anyfhing "mortal" must die sometime. If this
definition be true, we are again in difliculties.
This should be proo
How could God sentence man to death after his able mind that death, n
disobedience if he were already a dying crea- wages of sin.
ture and never had been otherwise? And if
Adam was created dying, how could God declare Hell Shorn of its Horns
that his death came by his sin?

Adam Created Mortal Being

ONFUSION is unavoidable unless the proper

definition of the word "mortal" is clearly
r.ecognized-i. e., able to die, but not necessarily
dying, unless a death sentence has been incurred.
It is evident, then, that Adam was created
mortal, yet he could have continued obedient and
lived forever in perfect happhess. Even the
angels are mortal; for do we not read that Satan
is to be desfroyed?(Hebrews 2 :14) How can.
anything be destroyed that is indestructible?
Evil angels will eventually be destroyed; but
the angels which remain loyal to God will live
forever in their heavenly home, and still be
mortal. "God only [originally] hath immortality."-1 Timothy 6 :16.
Christ received immortality a s Eia reward in
His resurrection, and this condition is also the

word hades. The

times translated "grave" and ''pit".

simply maant "to

hence the -mnceale
The word '%ell' was, therefore, properly
synonymously with the words "grave" and '
as signifying the
These words, sheol and hades, mean the grave
-the condition of death, or oblivion.
instead of a place

GOLDEN AGE
heard, it is described in the context as a place
of "silence" (Psalm 115 :17) ; instead of representing in any sense pain, suffering, or remorse,
the context describes it as the place of forgctfnlness. (Psalm 88 :11, 12) "There is no work,
nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the
grave [sheol], whither thou goest."-Ecclesiastes 9 :5,lO.
The Bible hell, then, is the grave, where the
world quietly sleeps until the resurrection blessings come. (John 5 :28 ; Acts 24: 15) What a
w e r e n t picture from that presented in "Paradise Lost" I
If there is, indeed, 'ho work, nor device, nor
knowledge, nor wisdom in sheol" (hades), then
it is a very deluding picture which we have in
Book Two of "Paradise Lost." Here Satan and
all his fallen,angels are pictured in "Hades,"
hatching devices galore I Some advise another
battle for the recovery of heaven; others advise
stealth. Finally a plan of Satan's is brought
forward, suggesting that they regain their lost
possessions by first^ deceiving man, "soon to be
areated."
&tan Not in Hell
VIDENTLY there is something wrong. Why
does Milton make the mistake of thinking
that, when Satan and his angels fell, they were
cast into .hddesl He probably did not understand the correct meaning of the word. Since
it means the condition of oblivion or death, the
opposite of life, we know at once that, when
Satan and his angels fell, they were not cast
ilato hades; for Satan has been anywhere except
in a condition of oblivion during tho past six
thousand years.
Theologians of M31tonys day misunderstood
the meaning of the following scripture, found
in 2 Peter 2 :4: "God spared not the angels that
sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered
hem into chains 01darkness, to be reserved
to judgment."
The word here translated '%cl17' is not sheol
o r hades, but another word entirely foreign in
meaning. It is tnrtaroo. This is the only
text where this word occurs in the Bible. I t
means a condition of restraint, and carries with
it the thought of falling from the favor of God.
The thought in this text is that Satan and his
angels fell from the favor of God, and were
placed in comparative bondage, "chains of darkness," o r bondage of wickedness; that is, their

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activities were confined exclusively to this earth.

And so we find it: Satan, instead of being off
somewhere "stoking fbes," is right here among
us, deceiving the unwary into believing his lie
to mother Eve, and into believing such doctrines
as eternal torment.
Milton presents also a queer account of Satan's entrance into Eden to tempt Eve. .Why
the "guardian angel" permitted him to go ahead
after stopping him cannot be explained.
Turning to the Scriptural testimony on the
subject, we find that Satan, before his fall, was
a wonderful, beautiful being, called Lucifer.
"Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God;
every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the
onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald,
and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship
of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared
in thee in the day that thon wast created. Than
art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I
have set thee so; thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in
the midst of the stones of fire. Thou \vast perfect
in thy ways from the day that thon wast created,
till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude
of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of
thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore, I will cast thee a s profane out of the
mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, 0
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones
of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of
thy beauty."-Ezekiel
28 : 13-17.
These verses show that Lucifer himself was
the guardian angel of Adam and Eve and was,
indeed, a good and beautiful heavenly creature.
IIe was "in Eden," "the anointed cherub that
covercth," perfect in his ways until iniquity
was found in him. Isaiah 14: 12-14 shows that
i t was pride and ambition which led to his downfall. He betrayed the trust which was given
him. His fall, therefore, came after the creatiqn
of man, instead of before, as presented by Milton. Thcre was no "battle"; God simply pronounced the sentence, and Satan's activities
were confined to this earth. We will s~ later
why he was permitted to tempt mankind.

Symbols Have Symbolic Interpretations "

UCH confusion has resulted from a literal
interpretation of the symbols of Revelation and of some of Jesus7parables. The Bibla

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GOLDEN AGE

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uses "fire and brimstone" as.a symbol for complete destruction. We burn things to destroy
them. We would not think of burning anything
alive. The Scriptures explain themselves on this
into the
point: "And death and hell were
lake of fire. This is the second death." (Revelation 20 :14) This symbolical "fire" must be nnderstood ie the study of Jesus' parable also;
for if we are to apply the language of the Parable of the sheep and.the goats literally, we must
be consistent and say that it applies to literal
sheep and literal goats-a position which no
one wodd accept. If "sheep" and "goats" are
symbols referring to certain classes of people,
then the "fire" is a symbol of complete destruction. The principle of colzsistemy is a safe One
to follow in the study of the Bible.
The Orientals speak in symbols much more
than we do. The Bible is a book of symbols.
Often more truth can be embraced in a Simple
a ~ e g than
o ~ in volumes of technical, theological works.
Some insist that the story of the creation o?
the earth and man, as recorded in G.enesis, S!
an allegory. There might be grounds for t h
belief, if it were not for the fact that in the New
Testament, Jesus' genealogy is traced back directly to Adam (Lnke 3: 23-38); and real,
human beings do not spring from allegories1
St. Paul says plainly: 'merefore, as by
maa [Adam], sin entered into the world, ~ ~
death by sin ; and so death passed upon
men,
for that all have sinned." (Romans 5 :12) "For
sa in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all
be made alive."-1 Corinthians 15:22.
This shows that death and all its accompanying ills, sorrows, pains, and tears have
about because of Adam's sin, and that their
removal is entirely dependent upon the work
of Christ. This is directly antagonistic to the
evolution theory, which claims that by his own
efforts man is getting better all the time. BY
thus ignoring the necessity of Christ's work,
the advocates of this theory "deny the Lord
that bought them." (2 Peter 2 : 1) If we accept
the Bible as God's Word, we must accept the
Scriptural testimony, believing that God knows
more about His creation than we do.
Furthermore, the Bible shows that in the fuh r e there is to be a restitution of dl things
which were origina>llylost. (Acts 3:19-23) Now,
if man were originally a monkey, a restoration

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to the former state would be anything but desirable.

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Object o f Jesus' Coming '

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THE
thought is that Jesus came to
earth to redeem Adam and his race (Luks .$
19 :10 ; 1 Timothy 2 :5,6), and to give all
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opportunity for life, liberty, and the pursuit of -happiness. A clear understanding of man's beginning is, therefore, important, in order to i
understand what is to be restored. Perfect
health, freedom from sin will be
happ
lot in the future,
( . ~ ~ dwork
p ~ is done.
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bmachinery,
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thin
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the
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last fifty years, is evidence that the curse which 2
was placed upon
race
sooh be removed: 2
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"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." ;
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-Genesis 3: 19.
Not only the living, bat all who have died win 3
come back to these blessings. "There shall be a
resurrection of the dead, both of the just an& .-'
unjust." (Acts 24: 15) Thus, all that die or
suffer because of Adm's sin will have an oppor- :
trinity for me, Then will. be fulfilled the prayer .;
~of t h i Christian, "Thy kingdom come; thy will ,'
be done in earth, as it is in heaven."
Inrestored paradise "God shall wipeaway all "1
tears from their eyes; and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither
shall there be any more pain: for the former
nthings
d
are passed away."-Revelation
21: 4.
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In conclusion, we will say that we &e not,
trying to impugn ~ i l tmotives
~ ~ 'in~fiuscriti- .
,i,ing "paradise - ~ ~as~wet have
p ~ done, possibly he did not intend his words t o be taken '
seriously, but was merely creating a <%liter-,
work of art!'
Nevertheless the fact remains ,
that the poem has been taken seriously by some :
who are not so familiar with the Bible as they ;
ought to be. B~ cIaiming to get hia idern ant
of the Bible, Milton has led many people astray on the points we have enumerated, especidl@"
confirming their belief in the b l a s p h ~ m odo*
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trine of eternal torment. From this standpoint,
the poem has done far more harm than good.
i
m e n Milton comes back in the resurrection,
when ,(the
shall be filled with the knowl- 2
edge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters 1,
cover the sea'' (Habakkuk 2: 14), then -will he
know that the great Creator of the universe is
indeed. a God of wisdom, justice, power, and Kg.' 5.
love.
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t loss therefrom, and the enemy

iefly by women. The
a r have congregated
with but few exceptions. The farm-

bank's are forcing the business men to be profiteers, and the rank and file of the commonr
people a r e the victims. All this has no tendehcx
to sweeten the disposition of the people. Socialism, Communism, anti other forms of radicalism
are ever on the increase. The tide of discontent
I
rises higher and higher.
The press was recently filled with statement's
concerning the Dawes Plan of reconstruction
The banks have adopted the gold mark at a fixed
price. It is purely fictitious. It is purely a fiab
money. There is nothing back of it. The gold
mark is bound to fail, and the Dawes Plan will
be a complete failure.
These conditions a r e of course alarming t o
the financiers and to the statesmen. These ara
rushing into the arms of the ecclesiastics, particularly into the Papal church, hoping there to
find some means of appeasing the wrath that is
falling upon them, or to find same shelter from
the impending storm. Their hearts a r e failing
them for fear, because of what they see coming.
There is but one class in ail Germany that is
content. This class is composed of the fern
people who hqve turned their hearts fully to the
Lord, and a r e patiently waiting for the establishment of His kingdom of righteousness.

ir. The wages paid

te to provide the neceslife. Food and clothing
Germany was the
in which to reside.
it is the most expensive. The goods pro- Practically All Classes in Despair
HAT is said of Germany particularly apa r e inferior, the prices are higher, and
plies to Romania, Hungary, Czecho-Sloerchants and tradesmen are indulging in
eering. The reason is obvious when the valiia, Anstria, and other countries of Southeastern and Southern Europe.
acts are known. ,
Italy is ruled by a fanatic who plays one d a ~
into the hands of the Papacy and against that
system the next. Jfussolini and his followers
have no real cenfidence in o r love for the Papacy. H e is mad for power and glory, and throws
and who is compelled to borrow money to some sop to the ecclesiastics for a sinister pnron his business, is required by the bank pose. Some day this radical element will turn
ly, or forty-eight and rend the ecclesiastics.
Spain i: undoubtedly the most flagrantly;
ey borrowed; and
business is poor and he is forced to over- mickcd government on earth. She is ruled by a
his account a t the bank, t.he rate of in- dictator who is supported by a police force ofl
criminals who arc without conscience o r sense of
justice. If a citizen i s suspected of a crime, he
is arrested; and if he fails to confess all the
wicked practices of the ancient inquisition are
resorted to by these criminal officials to obtain
the desired information, which is more often

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for more war. In recent weeks amEnglish in- ventor brought forth what is designated"tha
death ray", a terrible instrument of destruatiolt. --2
which promises to destroy a city like London or :$
Paris in one night, kiUing every person in i t
He employed an airplane to fly between Londoa and Paris, negotiating with the two governments as to who should have control of this ia- _
vention. Even America made a bid for it; b t "'4
the British Empire, by spending millions, s* 3
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cured it. Fear was the moving cause.
During the World War some t h i o a were k e e l
secret which are now coming to light. F o r in- .%
stance, during the war, the clergy of the various .n.
churches, acting as recruiting 0fficers;turning
their church buildings into recruiting stations,
induced the young men to go to war. F o r this
vice these c l e r w e n received from the government a f=ed money consideration, which was
paid to them through the war office.
3
The men who yielded to the harangues of
the clergy and joined the axmy and marched to
the front, leaving their families and loved ones ,.
behind, Who carried their guns and knapsacks, 3
slept in the muddy trenches, and endured all the *eq
hardships of war, were the ones who received a -2
daily allowance approximating twenty-one :$
cents, while those clergymen who had recruited
these men and who joined the army-as chaplains
received about $9.00 per day, their chief dutg: :8
being to dispense cigarettes to the. men and oc- $j
casionally go through a formalism called a relig- 7.$
ious ceremony. These truths coming to light
are not pleasing t o those who have borne the
burdens of the aftermath of war.
The discontent of the people is rapidly growing. The unemployed are numbered by the mil. =:4
lions, The great army of idle men receive a
weekly allowance from the government, which
is called a dole; and a lyill has re-tly
been p
through to increase the the dole and extend
to boys of fourteen year- of age out of empl
ment. But this dole does not satisfy the peo
They say: 'We do not want to be the objects of -.,
charity. We want work and a chance to earn an ,.
honest living."
Impressed with the grave situation Britain's ,
greatest statesman has said: "Civilization i5
No ConfidenceBetween Nations
doomed unless something is done." The powers ;
ONFIDENCE between the nations of Eu- that be are unable to offer any adequate solution
rope no more exists. The nations, though of the difficulties. Statesmen are in perplexity,
practically bankrupt, are faverishly preparing and distress because of what they see coming.

misinformation wrung from the victims to save

their lives. Heavy guns are dropped upon their
toes; theia finger nails and toe nails are pulled
out with pincers; their flesh pinched with pincers; they are hung up by the neck until almost
'dead; they are let down only to be hung up again
and tortured until a confession is wrung from
them. Because of fear of losing their power and
control over the nation the profiteers, and the
politicians, and the clergy have joined hands
together t o keep' this wicked practice in vogue.
Freedom of spech is unknown in this land of
darkness, and he who dares raise his voice in
protest is quicldy disposed of. Recently one of
Spain's greatest educators and a professor of
her University, moved with righteous indignation because of the wicked practices of the
present ruling powers, called attention to this
in a public address. The result was that he was
arrested and taken away, and is supposed to be
languishing in prison ;but many believe that his
body is mouldering in the dust.
. The people are chafing under this great oppression, and are biding the time when a bold
leader will strike for their liberty.
: - France won the war; but she is threatened
with a greater danger. Her experiences in, the
Ruhr have proven unprofitable. Her staternen
and rulers, who guided the ship of state during
the war, have been ordered to stand aside, and
the radical element is now in charge. The finan' cier6 are fearful, and the value of her currency
oontinues to fall.
, The British Empire, without doubt the greatest world power under the sun, is putting on a
bold front while shaking in her boots. Her
politicians and financiers have builded a great
exposition a t Wernbley, a suburb of London. I t
is the most impsing thing of its kind yet built.
'&1 of her Colonies are, represented there, magnifying her wealth, her politicaland ecclesiastical organizations. It is truly a desperate attempt
t o impress the people with fie greatness of the
Power and prestige of the Empire- Fear and
~ e r ~ l e fhave
i t ~ driven the rulers to take this
step. The cqsual observer might say: Surely an
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Ten years after the beginning of the World
War Europe is in a worse condition than prior this time, said: "This is the day of God's vengeance." And then to the people the prophet
to the war.
says: "Come near, ye nations, to hear; and
hearken, ye people; let the earth hear, and all
Reason for Menacing Situation
aaequate that is therein; the world, and all things that
be some good
come forth of it. For the indignation of the
reason why E~~~~~
is in such distress
is upon all n a t i o n s . " - ~ ~34:
~ ~1, 2.
perplexity, and lvhy this condition increases
rather than decreases. The people are enjoying
e w e r light on inventions and methods of pro- Will Reeult In More Trouble
T IS apparent to all thoughtful men that the
Q gress than ever before; yet they are unable to
present conditions of the world point to a
solve the perplexing problems. There is a
reason for this condition, and there is but one great time of trouble not f a r distant. The
reason. That reason was mentioned by the Lord statesmen of the world recognize this and free.
ly say so.
in His Word.
For many centuries past the nations of the
Jehovah foreknew exactly what would trans. earth have knunder the domination of an in- pire at this time and, speaking through His
visible d i n g power, Satan, who has opposed prophet and referfig to this day, said: ' ' h d
stand UP, the great
God and opposed righteousness, and has re- at that time shall
sorted to oppressive methods in controlling the prince which Standeth for the children of fiY,
be a time of tmnbl'%
peoples and nations of earth. The world powers, people; and there
such
as
never
Was
Since
there
Was a nation even
m d e r the domination of this invisible mler, the
Scripture designates under the title of "wild to that same time; and a t that time thy people
the disposition shall be delivered, every one that shall be found
beast." The words well
written in the book."-Daniel 12 :1.
of the ruling factors.
Agdn-the Lord, through His prophet, said:
The men who have attempted to r d e the
'Therefore
wait Ye upon me,
the Lord,
earth have been overreached by the Adversary.
The financial element, the r e d strength of the until the day that I rise UP to the Prey; for my
nations, have been wickedly selfish. The poli- my determination is to gather the nations, that
ticians have done the bidding of the commercial I may assemble the kingdoms, to Pour UPQn
power. Ecclesiasticism for a time enjoyed the them mine indignation, even d l mY fierce anger;
high privilege of representing the Lord and de- for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire
daring His kingdom ; but these have yield4 to of mY jealousy-"-Zephaniah 3 : 8.
Referring to the same time Jesus said that
the baneful influence of the Wicked One, and
joined hands with the commercial and political the distress of nations and perpbxity would
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powers of the earth. Thus the three elements be followed by a time of trouble such as was not
"
form what the Scripture defines as "the beast." since the beginning of the world to this time,
The Lord dedared ;hat this order of things and that there should never be another.-Mat- should
end at some time certain; and the Scrip- thew 24: 21, 22.
tare shows that the beginning of that end would
Again, God's prophet, describing the selfishbe in the autumn season of 1914, and that it ness of men, gone to seed, says: "They go down
wonld be marked by a World War, followed by to the sea [to the restless, disordered condition
i
famine and pestilence. Jesus, then speaking of humanity] in ships [great corporate powers
specifically of conditions which wonld exist in and organizations] and do business in great
F
the earth following the World War, and which waters [indulge in great commercial transacwould be pmof eonolusive of the end of the tions amongst the people.] These see the works
old
world, said: "Upon the earth distress of of the Lord and his wonders in the deep."
z. nations
t
with perplexity: the sea and the waves (Psalm 107 :23, 24) Then the Lord describes
[restless people] roaring; men's hearts failing the great trouble that follows and the result in
f
them for fear, and for looking after those things these words: "They reel to and fro, and stagger
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which are coming on the earth."- Thus we see a like a drunken man, and are a t their wit$ end.
complete fdfilment of our Lord's word.
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the Lord, to serve him with one consent."Zephaniah 3 : 9.
When the peoples of earth turn their hearts
and minds to the Lord He will bring them out
Remedy for Earth's Turmoil
of their distressed condition and will establish
HERE is but one remsdy for this distressing amongst them a government of righteousness
condition of humanity, and that remedy is that shall fulfil the desire of every honest heart.
the kingdom of the Lord. God, through His proThe kingdom of heaven is a t hand. The evphet, said that he would shake all nations and idence of this fact is conclusive. Soon the earth
then the desire of all nations would come. shall have established in it a righteous govern'Again, through the prophet Zephaniah He said : ment.
and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He
maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves
thereof axe still. Then are they glad because
they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their
107 : 27-30.
'desired haven."-Psalm

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with issue Number 80 we began rnnnfng Judge rut her ford*^ new book,
T h e Harp of God". w l l l aemmpanyhg questions, taking the p l a n of botb
Advanced and Juvenilo Bible studled which have been hitherto pnbllshed

81rAgain th'e Apostle likens thc whole of the

-Christ to a living stone, saying, ' T e also, a s
living stones, are built up a spiritual house, an
holy priesthood, to offer up sacrifices acceptable
to God by Jesus Christ.
Behold, I lay in
s o h a chief corner stone, elect, precious : and
. he. that believeth on him shall not be confbnnded. Unto YOU therefore which believe he is
precious." (1Peter 2 :5-7) I n earthly buildings
b.
there is no chief cornerstone; but in this build?
ing
of God there is a chief c~rnerstone,which is
.
Christ Jesus. The topstone or C ~ e cornerstone
f
$;
of a pyramid i s itself a perfect p y r a ~ d -The
other members of the body, then, must be built
Up
into Christ to conform to that chief corner4
stone, which i s illustrated by the Great Pyramitl
P
id Egypt.-See Isaiah 19 :19.
"'Again this anointed class, Jesus the Head
and the Church His body, is spoken of as a
"royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar Peaple. This was foreshadowed by the nation of
"~sael,
particularly by the priesthood in conneetion with the house of Israel. The apostle Peter
speaking of this class says: 'Ye are a chosen
keneration, a royal priesthood, an holy nation,
a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the
praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: which in time
past were not a people, but are now the people
of God; which had not obtained mercy, but now
have obtained mercy."-1 Peter 2 : 9,lO.
"OThe members of the body of Christ, the
Church, are also designated as His footstep followers; and as such they are called to suffer
with Him that they might also reign with Him.
$,' o' r
even hereunto, Rere ye called: because
Christ also suffered for ns, leaving us an
example, that ye should follow his steps." (1
Peter. 2 :21) - There are also designated as
m,.istians. does not mean that because one
is a member of some earthly organization called
a church he is a Christian or a member of the
true church'- The true Church is the body of
Christ ; and any one to be of the true Church
must be a follower of Christ in the truest Sense
of the word. To this class are given the exceeding great and precious promises recorded in the
Bible, the promises of being associated with

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Christ Jesus in His kingdom (2 Peter 1:41

Not to the world, but to His followers Jesna
said: "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will
give thee a crown of life."'-Revelation 2: 10.
SZoNo one has been able to nnderstand these
things and appreciate them -except -those wha
have given their hearts t o the Lord. The aposUe
Paul says: "The natural man rec&veth not
things of the spirit of God :for they a r e foolish..
ness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.'> ( 1 Corinthians 2 : 14) Jehovah has so arranged that:
only those who have their minds i l l d n a t e d by,
the holy spirit, which follows their consecration, justification, and acceptance by the Lad,
can understand and appreciate the mystery og
God. These are the ones designated by th6
prophet Joel as the servants and handmaidella
of God; and in the Gospel age God pours oat
His spirit upon them, which mems to givethem
~i~ spirit ~~t in G ~ doe
# ~tirneH~ d u pooz
out
spirit upon all mankind, so that d l
~i~ wonderful plan.--Joel 2: 28,

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of the Ch . am called Yiving
317.
m'h0 is the chief cornerstone in the buildingof God?
7 317.
%%at great building on earth pictures this building d
Cod? 11317.
Who comet,ih~tethe royal priesthood? Give Scripproof. 7 318.
W'Y are the members of the Church called foofskg
of Jesus? y3l9.
What are these followers called upon to do? 1319.
Define the term "Christian." 1[ 319.
Is every chnrch member a Christian? and if not, why,
7319What promises are given to the Christian? Give Scrip
tural proof. 1/ 319.
What particular rcward is promised to the on& whd
faithful unto death? 1319.
what is essential in order to understand the mysteryof
GO^? fi 320.
Can everybody understand these great truths? and .i.d
not, why not? 1 3 2 0 .

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a vista very desirable.
Preferably a view that provides for the reader his place therein, a
glimpseof how desirable life on earth will shortly be, and to escape the
illusiveness of dreams should add just that assurance which would
be satisfying.
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Africa-Land

of Giants and Pygmies

AmICA is fie home of the tallest, strongest

men in the world, the Watnssi tribe, whose
height is six feet, and who often attain
to seven feet. It is believed by travelers that
these forest giants of the northeastern Congo
region can outrun and outjump the trained
athletes of any other people. Cnrioael~,they
live in proximitp to the shortest, weakest men in
the world, the Tambutti pygmies, made famom
by H. M. Stanley.
This close relationship of giants and pygmies
fairly well illustrates the relationship of bleclra
and whites to the problem of the development
of Africa. I t is essentially a black man's country,
essentially an indolent man's country, because
it contains such a store of easily obtainable
food, and because the bulk of the natives are
and will always be Africans.
The American Phelps-Stokes commission,
after s ten months' investigation, declares that.
Africa is a land flowing with milk and honey;
that not only does the continent even now produce over forty percent of t& world's gold
supply, but that it has the largest forests in
the world and the most enormous regions of undeveloped fertile soil. The same commission
reports that native Africans who have graduated from European universities are occupying
many of the most important positions in all
countries on the continent.

meal withok the trouble of l o o f i g @r one dsb

where. They have even been known to board a
moving train and enter a sleeping-car without
obtaining reservations in advance, and, moreover, to do the very impolite thing of j m p h g
out of a window with a passenger by the head.
Leopards, panthers, hyenas, and jackals are
found in most parts of Africa Of antelopea
there are Hty varieties. Giraffes are not found
elsewhere. The ostrich ia a native of the Dark
Continent; 80 d s o is the serpentkiller called
the eecretq bird, and the honey-guide, which
points out the nests of bees. The antr in some
districts are so savage that the only things safe
from destruction are such artidea as are
packed in metal boxes. A pair of ahoes left
exposed for one night is riddled by morning.
Even the floors of houses are eaten away.

Animal Lifc
S MIGHT be expected in a country which
has such a large area of rich soil, Africa has
an excess ok w i M animals. Formerly there were
many elephants, but their numbers have been
reduced on accong of slaughter to obtain ivory.
There are still plenty of lions, too many, inseed, in some districts, where they have become
man eaters. The lions soon learn that with a
few cuffs of their powerful paws they can b r e d
down the walls of a native hut, and get a good

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HERE is a great variety of climate. In the
desert regions of the north it is extremely
hot; but ip the central plateau, while it is hot in
the direot my8 of the san, yet at night it is so
cool that one must sleep under a blanltet. Even
in the Congo it seldom gets above 87' Fahrenheit. In South Africa the climate is ideal. There
are frosts in the winter season, but life out of
doors is possible and enjoyable the year around.
During the rainy season, everything in Africa
that is within the rain belt gets wet. There is
no keeping the rain out. No rainproof garments
work against the combination of heat and wet.
Mails are sometimes undecipherable, because
the mists penetrate the mailbags and reduce
everything to pulp. During the rainy season the congo river wries such vast quantities of soil that its color ir
a muddy brown. Before the water can be used
for washing purposes, it must be treated with
permanganate of potassium, which turns it
blood color.

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Capeto~aRedtg
RaVEL in Africa is now comparatively safe
and comfortable. The much talked of Capeto-Cairo route is a reality. The h t man to
make the complete trip was 'an undergraduate
of Cambridge University, Ewart Scott Grogan,
who left Cape Town in February, 1898, and arrived at Cairo in Anguat, 1899. NOWthe regulation time for the trip is fifty-three days. .
At present the route is made up of railway
trips aggregating 4,456 miles, steamer trips aggregsting 2,004 miles; and the remaining 368
miles are eovered by automobile or by caravan.
A writer in "!T!he Mentor" gives the interesting details of the trip as he made it. He demribea the farnoxu Victoria Falls of the Zambeai, two thowand miles by rail from Cape
Town, where a river over a mile wide plunges
three times the height of Niagarq with a roar
that can be heard nineteen miles. Next he tells
aa of the new and elegant city of Elizabethae,
another t h o d miles further north by rail,
in the Congo Free Statu, where thew are good
hotels, banks, stores, residences, and a generoua mpply of automobilea All this has come
about in ten years, because a tremendously rich
vein of copper lies on the surface of the gronnd.
The railroad &ends to the western shore of
Lake Tanganyika, broken in one place by a
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constitution who w i l l take reasonable care of hia

food habits, as all must do in. the tropics, can
make the trip without serious danger or even
inconvenience. By this route most of the trip is
on high gronnd, where there is little or no da&
ger to the white man from sleeping sicknesr o r
the tsetze fly.

w o n d e w EIOIcient Portern
HE caravans plying over the routes indieaC.
ed am under government mpervbion. Th.
porters on them routes received 8kQ cants 8
week only a few years ago, bat now thet
have gone up to two dollam. Their regaletion
load is s i x t y pounds. Groups of four necany their own baggage, one travel&#
and the traveler himsell, u n l e ~
he prefers to
walk. They make fourteen to ei@em miha rday.
Portem on the mail routes w W brame$ oiP
here and there, carry fifty pun& of & mu&
travel twenty-five milee per day, somdimm for
as much as twenty-four dayr in on, dimdam.
They are M, faithful that in a jourz!ey of 600
miles thety are seldom more than an hour be
hind schedule time,and generally 1- h a half
fhat. They make better time in the rainy muoq
when they can travel without the ~ ~ l l d r k w h i a h
are need& in hot weather. -

I n the Sahara

I'tbEddAfTh

HE-traveler crosses the lake by steamer to

the point on the northern shore where Stanley found Livingstone, then takes a short railway journey eastward through territorp which
until recently belonged to the Germans; then
he caravans north 200 miles to the southern
ehore of Victoria Nyanza He crosses the lake
on one of the three atearners now regularly plying itawatem, sees tbe birth of the Nile, where
it rushes out of Victoria Nyanza over the Ripon
Falls s full-grown river, takes a abort railroad
ride, another short steamer ride, and then goes
by auto obile to Albert Nyanza, where his ride
down th Nib begins. .
In th6 journey down the Nile there is one
plam of eightyqine miles where it is necessary
to caravan, but the remainder of the trip is mmfortably made up of steamer and railway joarneya ending at Cairo. There are good hotels all
the wal; and almost anybody with a fairly good

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railway development of Africa progresseg but not so rapidly aa is castomcup

in the Western World. In Algeri5 on the northem edge of the Sahara, there ant lines earryiw
sloeping-oars, as well as in South Africa It ir
anlicipated that the full journey from Cape
Tt,wn to Cairo wiU be possible by rail ere long.
I'he rainlessness of the Sahara ia due te thm
direction of the winds, which are deprived of
their moisture before reaching these Ianda But
them are in the Sahara elevated plateaux md
mountains with more or less permanent stream,
und habitable valleya in bebeen, and artmias
w e b have been tnrned to account in Blgerir
There is more vegetation in the Kalahari desert
of South Africa than in the Sahara
The Sahara, in one place in Agerh,
ont
hundred feet below sea level; but in the middle
of the desert, half way from the Atlantia to t h ~
Nile, are mountains which are covered nith
mow for three months in tbe par,

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T h Katahari
ITH more water South Africa would be an
T IS believed that Africa was first circum-

Tiu Cdd for tlk Temp&

W ideal country for cattle-raising, but the

I navigated by the PhCenicians about 700 years water
supply is a little too treacherona In the

before the beginning of the Christian era; and if

so, it was a remarkable piece of courage and
enterprise. There are reasons for believing that
the rich gold mines of South Africa were those
from which came the gold used in fhe constmction of Solomon's temple. The immense granite
ruins a t Zimbabwe, some five hundred miles
north of the mining district of Johannesburg,
are believed to be Phenician in origin. I n the
neighborhood hieroglyphics have been discovered which are not a t present decipherable.
Traces of an ancient road have also been discovered. In one place the mountains were terraced for seventy miles.

rainy season the veldt becomes covered with o

tall 'grass which, while it is green, bur^ the
mouths of the cattle; but after it is mature it i8
eaten by them greedily. It will keep its nourishing power for years, and is stored by the native8
against seasons of severe drought.
A feature of the South african desert that
makes it less dreadful than the Sahara is the
Tsama, o r wild watermelon, which d o r d . 8
good substitute for water, and ia widely d b
t a u t e d . As in the case of the Sahara, them is
plenty of water beneath the surface; md rhenwells are bored the life-giving undergroolrd
streams are always found.

Vegetation
T H E Belgian Congo is a t this time probabG
the least known portion of Africa It is in
the Congo that the jungle is thickest. In area
i t is equal to all Europe west of Russia; it is
the abode of about twelve million Africans and
six thousand whites. Since the war the natives
are complaining of the high cost of living, yet
a whole bunch of bananas costs but five cents.
Birds and beasts are everywhere.
Palms are to be found all over Africa The
date palm is the special characteristic of the
desert, to which it is specially adapted, and in
which i t forms the prinoipal means of subsistence. The Arabs, who make a living by carrying ivory and other treasures across the desert,
m y dates with them as their sole food, counting out just so many to be taken a t each meal,
and not varying the number. They know in advance, to a certainty, how many meals they have
provided for. As in Australia, the ferns grow
to the s h e of small trees, being often twelve to
fifteen feet in height. In the western part of
tropical Africa coffee plants thrive so laxnriously as to form thick woods.
South Africa is the natural home of fruits of
all sorts, Virtually every fruit used by man is
grown in this region; and as the fruits mature
at a time when the northern fruit season is
closed, there is ready market for these products,
although the spoliation is large on account of
having to cross the equator. South African
pears are in the markets of New York in May.

Egppt and Abyaainia

FRICA ia the continent without r country,
in the common1J -pted
wnr. of tL.
term. Liberia, Egypt and Abynainia am mpposed to be independent; but in actual practice
the United States controls Liberia, and Britain
controls Egypt and Abyssinia. Whenever a Eeropean country wants a piece of Africa, it 3180
helps itself, in the same way that any rethief takes anything. France, Britain, Belgium,
and Portugal virtually own all of the Dark Continent. Italy haa Tripoli, Eritrea and Somaliland Spain has part of Morocco. Germany did
have 1,000,000 square miles, but now does not
have a foot of colonies anywhere.
The native name of Egypt is the Black Country, which term is used to describe the color of
the soil brought down by the Nile. While
and Rome were both wrapped in bsFbariam,
Egypt was a country of elegant roads, immense
temples, palaces, and other grecrt structures of
which the re&
are .with ua to this day.
Earth's greatest building, the Great Pyramid,
is found there.
The upper part of the Nile Valley is expected
to bring forth mtellable riches, when once a
railroad makes ifs development profitable. It L
known in advance that there are rich ail wellr
and phosphate deposits, coal and mineral deposits, all awaiting the advent of capital and
modern methods of production.
Abyssinia is the Switzerland of Africa. It ia
a mountainous region, cat off from the sea bx

-.

British Solnaliland and the Italian provinces of Repairiaiion impractical

Eritrea and Somaliland Its inhabitants are
T IS but natural that Africans and others wha
whites; and in all the wars that have ravaged
know of the riches of Africa, and who realize
the world it remains independent and uncon- the adaptability of the black man to its clima@

quered. Its king, said to be a descendant of the

Queen of Sheba, calla himself the King of kings.
The Pope of Rome puts himself in the aame
class and uses the same title,

should think of the poasihility of repatriating

upon its shores the millions of blacks who are
now in America and the West Indies; but the
thing ia impractical. It could be done, but tho
suffering it would cause would be indand the cost incredible.
In 1877 there was such a movement A a t d
company was formed. Bn old boat was bought;
and thonsanda sold their belongings, with thexpectation of going on the initial trip. T b
boat waa legally permitted to carry 206; but
when eailing time came, them were a thoon board. Hundreda were sent ashore in rowboats. The food ran low, and so did the w*
supply. IPPenty-one were . b ~ e adt sea in ten
days. At length Africa was reached, but both
native6 and newcomers were disappointed, a d
many of the newcomers died. The boat got back
to h e r i c a and never made another trip

Kenue, Tanganyika, Mozambique

MMEDIATELY south of Abyssinia is the
British state of Kenya where, in the sffort
to persuade or to compel othera to do the work
which they should do for themselves, a number.
of great landholders have been recently ac' cused of practising slavery. We will have something f&er to say on this subject later in this
article.
South of Kenya is T a n ~ y hterritory,
which until recently was German East Africa
" South of Tanganyika, for a thousand miles
along the Indian Ocean, stretches the country
of Mozambique, or Portuguese East Africa The
latter country ia said to be one of the richest
and dlbdnu
countries, in agricultural possibilities a t least, Nuof all undeveloped countries of the world. The
HE natives of Africa are, generally ape&land lies high above sea level, has no deserts,
ing, the most peaceful, most tlPstfnl,and beat
no salt sinks, no large swamps, nu mountainous tempered people to be found = M e r e . Thin
wastes and no impenetrable jungles ;but it does would be apparent from the fact that there never
have millions of acres of the finest alluvial soil, has been an invasion of other lands by an u p
and without doubt will sometime support a vast rising of blacka ;nor has the black race!in h r population. At present it has about 3,008,000l.ics ever given any serions trouble. It baa had
inhabitants, of whom only one percent are trouble, plenty of it, bat the fault has g e n e d l 7
,
whites.
not been of its making.
Missions have not worked out for the AfriRhotfenb d Southwed Africa
can's betterment. Taught by the mission achoolr
XMEDIATELY west of Mozambique lies some of the elementa of the white man's tradeq
Southern Rhodesia, an area of 149,000 square the native breakz away from the school and obmiles, which Britain has just' decided to annex tains work in a railroad gang or in a minet, o d x
and furnish with a responsible government. Un- to learn in a short time all that i r worst in lifs
til now it.has been undei the administration of His habits become corrupted, his reliability and
trustfulness disappear, and it is literally true
the British South Africa Company.
West of Rhodesia lies what was once German that he becomes twofold more the child of geI
Southwest Mrica. The 8,000 Germans living henna than he waa in the b t place.
automatically made citizens of
there have
the South african Union, a t the aame time that N a i u d AbiliLy d t h e b k u
N SUBJECTS with which they are familisr,
.. they retain their German citizenship. Under the
it is @ n e r d y admitted that there am no
arrangement which has been made they enjoy
aU the rights and duties of otheo citizens of better reasonera than the black men. When foE
South Africa, but will not have to bear arms lowing the trail of game they read accurata
against Germany for thirty years. By that time, every bmak in the branches, every mark in t
b
earth,
evetwist
in
the
grass,
every,
however, there will be no more wars.

wn

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1

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~ v o IS.
a IOU

of the leaves. They eas even tell the kind of

prey they are tracking, its height, and sometimes its sex.
By means of relays of wooden gongs the
blacks in central Arica quickly send complicat
ed information hundreds of miles. How it is
done the white-man cannot wen nnderstand; yet
it is done. From time immemorial in certain
districts the natives have been accustomed to
working iron, making their own knives, bush
hooks, hoes, and tomahawks. Every new white
man is at once given a name which describes
him perfectly, accentaating his pecnliarities.
The white man's e e s are named appropriately, to describe the sounds they emit or the
work they do. The Africaa is nothing if nof
original.
CiannibarUIm and Demonology
S ; there are cannibals in Afrim, in some
p P i a C e k ~ n the
d worst of it is that some
of these cannibals are said to be fine fellows
to rfNet. They are wry plea-% but thsg are
fond of meat, and fresh meat is hard to get in
the tropics. Some of the tribes b~ prisonen
of war, holding them in reservq e
g and eat+
ing them as they
needed.
Othenthey
eat wish
onlT
their enemies; others eat
only because
to assimilate the strength and other jpod qnditier of those that have passed away. It is all
very hideous, almost as much so as the diaboli d doctrine of eternal torture believed by some
savage whites in America and elsewhere.
Like hirwhite
African native bas
often been deceived by
Some are deluded into supposing that they a m leopards,
dress themselves in leopard hides, and leap u p
on their innocent and unsuspecting victims, killing them and subsequently devouring their bodtes. This disease is called by scientists lyeanthropy,'and
been
for
As in
America, the black brother in ilfrica is easily
misgnided and
for the most part he
is an intelligent, Simple-hearted, inoffensive
k
man.
Vanity! Pcvu'ty!
IN Ameria (and in America it is not
limited to the blacks) the Africans are inordinately vain, so much so that the world's
recognized market for second-hand uniforms,
dress 'suits, etc., is in that region A pair of
trousers makes all the difference in the world

AS

GOWEN AGE

TI^

in the estimate a man holds of him8elfin Africa,

and in the estimate that others have of him. Pat
a pair of trousers on one who hai never before
worn them, and he at once becomes insufEerabl9
arrogant. A good many strut when they get into
h e clothes. What is the object of uniforms,
robes, gownq etc, anyway, unless it M to a&
tempt to convey to othera a sense of the weateis
superiority? I n 1920 the United States exported
to South Mrica 585,819 piof second-hand
clothing, in bales of Mty auib each, at an average value of about $4.50 per suit
There are tribes in Africa where the women
paint aa badly as they do in New York city. Thir
may seem incredible to one who has ridden in
a New York subway. It is probably not tmq
however, so far as lip-atids are concerned, The
African native woman haa not f a l l e ~that fsr;
But she does (in some places) paint herself rith
rd paint tmm top to
smg
tMh and
.

.=

The mmnativw, ,i.

pw
d
mu*
to their
4teeth,
o-.rd.
do
w
hm
tive8 stain thekStJles
teethwbloq *
,
pm
leaving a rbite
hem .nd
Olb.n
ae
their
twBth
in
patterpa
T6e
mle
of
or
ag
,to wh.t tdh
b.
Indora
someattrikB
h.ir pGM .n
d
.nd d.J *, to mrLB tb
stid out %e qm
a fmtfai
mg.
and bona inserted in the lip*
noses, ears and cheeks make a belle look M
badly as some New York women look when they
have put on overmuch paint; i e., when they
hve
painted not risely but too

m:mfik pornA&

IT WOULD

be good to say that there is no

slavery in Africa; for no man was ever yet
good enough to own another man. But the sad
tlpth ia that there is shverp in Mrica In Abp
anybody can see it. British rnrreshndenh
assert that it is also found inKenya,
Abyssinia on the south. The Manohester GuardMIZ summing up the Kenya situation in a few
words said:

#me
@em of forced labor intd~cedinto tb
colony becomes, h m e x unintentionally, daveq. ~ h s
precedent to the ina-tion
of this qnbm w
familiar onea; namely, a vigorma cam@gn directed t+
wards showing first, that the Africnn ir but 8 %sy n i p

gez' and m d l y , that tho land he occupies in vastly in edge of the Sahara, in 1921, and came down into
CIcera of his nqukmntr.n

There is slavery in Portuguese East Africa

and Portuguese Weat Africa, commonly called
MoWLrnbique and Angola. A law is in effect requiring each native to obtain a certificate showing that he has done three months' hard work
within tbe year. No one is obliged to hire him;
but if he cannot produce a gertificate, he is
mized and forced to labor several m o n k as a
prisoner. What are virtually similar arrangements have been uncovered at various @nes in
Florida, Georgia, Alabamg and Texas. It will
be noted that white men are the aggressors in
these instances.

the notoriously unhealthy coast region near the

month of the Congo, in the h o p that they laipkt
die. They expressed the wi& that they mi@
die on account of the ravages of the white mad8
liquor in their midst, and the spread of the
white man's disease, sometimes called the
Frenchman's disease, brought into their midat
by their conquerors. Their women have reinsed
to bear children, and the extinction of the triba
is slowly progressing.

R . w d dPaMotirm
London Datly Hevald, about t.bPo 7-

T"E

ago, reported the following e x t m inatanca of cruelty and unwiahrn on the psrt d
CraZeItg d mta siluana
the British in dealing w i t h a so-called r m t h
HITE men, too, are responsible for the uprising. It can be seen at once who were thr
lawa in South Africa where a native muat aggressors and who were the adereza in chi.
get a pass to live with his wife, another pass temble campaign:
to visit a family down the street, and another
to work for his pittance of perhaps two shil-- Vumbering shoat 1,500 in &, the Bad& lir* OE 8
lings a week These natives are
taxed, but reserve on the muthem border af S C R l t h d
the money is nmer used to benefit them. The T h e f a r e e x t m m e l y p o o r ~ m d l i r e ~ y o a ' ~ r d
schools are built for the whites only. Again, the goof8 mi&.' Their most important poawbianr arm tb.ir
.
fiockr a d the dogs which protect them irCnn jackah On
whites are the aggreswrs.
them d o p the Adminintrotor i m p o d tuer which fan
In 1920 one upright judge in British East surpassed in most caser the total incoma of the rbol.
'Bfrica astonished the white population when he family (a family possessing flm dogs, for insbce,
sentenced an army captain to three monthd im- be taxed EIO.) In desperation, the tribe rdarsd to
prisonment for flogging a dumb boy over the ib taxea Thereupon the South dfricaa Qmemmd
head, face, and body for an hour. Of course sent a force of 370 men with d e r y , d e $ t U 8~ d
there was a pwvocation. The boy, with little to h o bombing aeropheo, to pat dorn what it deuwibd
hi
occupy his mind, had chased a pig to death, and aa a 'rising.' The Bond& it L o&idly admiwas chasing another; but that was no excuse for less than 200 men capable of fighting; .nd tihem mra
the white man's putting hia mind on an 'even p o e t a d unong them about menty rib, 4kdd. It
is not surprising, thedon, that fm-nineof than ran
lower plane.
including their leader, Abrnham Norrir, who hd
In the subjugation of Somaliland, the British killed,
been mentioned in despatcher,for hia p t bravary rhm
government only three years ago resorted to fighting on the British aide in the World War. ! k e d
the bombing of native quarters from airplane8 women and childzen were killed, and about 700 tab
in order to acoompliah their ends. It does not primOver 13,000head of atock were dso captatad*
seem 4io as that it is any lea8 murder or any lesa
Subsequent despatches showed that one of the
thievery to subjugate a black man's land than
chi&
who was captured was sentenced to &.
it is a white maa's land; and both are alike
y
e
a
d
imprisonment for giving shelter to tho
execrable. In the end "order" was established
brave
British
warrior above named, and d#,
Oh yes L
for
carrying
arms.
It is things like thia th.t
"Oxder, the hush of bmoding h v e a
Peace in the dungeon vaults and graven."
,- have filled the natives with distra~tof the f a h
1
ness and honesty of their whits overlord& A+
cordingly, many of the yomg natives in C a p
"Blimiaga af CioUiratioA"
PATaETIC feature of recent migrations Town have taken to politics; and as they ue
ef nativea in Africa is that of a whole dowed to vote when they have incornea of $250
people that left their homes on the southern pat year, they. are m&hg their power felt,

to declare oar mind here, 'and fear imprisonment, tr-

WEtm Am Disinuted

'

portation, or hanging. We v d be atforded an o p

portanity for rep-tative
native* to wait upon tb.
Colonial Office before s decision k taken reg.rding tb

ago a missionary -e
from Kenya
to the colonial oficein h n d o n ,
that the withholding of the franchise fmm InCOan*.n
dians who
had settled there was in the interest
-of the native Africans. The Africans sent a
Does not a despatch of this nature jus& thecablegram to London reading as follows :
title we have given to this article? What will
T e have no faith in Dr. Arthm, and believs that he. happen to a minority of mwim and cruel whiter
nillharm our cause snd favor white eettlef~.Our h u b when a vaat majority of able Africans have dlea emanate from white settlers only. We are W d ucations e q d to their own1 ,

arging

OME time ago, a gentleman called upon me

at my office, introducing himself, as I
thought he said, as a coal porter.
He seemed much too clean to have anything
to do with coal except in a-small way, such aa
putting a little bit of coal on the domestic hearth
to keep the home fires burning.
I had no recollection of having seen him in
charge of a coaling gang on the wharf, nor had
I seen him asleep in the engineeis cabin during
bunkering operations.
Coal has a darkening tendency, whereas he.
was wondrous fair, with blue eyes.
At all events, he asked me for a few minutes
of'my time; and that being a commodity with
which I am unfortunately too well endowed, I
granted his request.
.
Had he mentioned money, my attitude would
have been different.
He seemed impressed with my concession. I
offered him the choice of fourteen empty chairs;
but he preferred to stand. His disinclination to
sit down gave me apprehension.
Raising a warning fmger, he placed an attach6
case on the table, and I thought I was going to
be involved in the purchase on easy terms- of
some valuable treatise. However, he only produced a ci cular which announced in bold type
that "&LIONS
NOW -a
WILL
NEVER ME."
I immediately ,*ought of the shares which
"'Rejoicing I Rejoicing I
,mekingdom who &all gain?
Of all the peoplea on the earth,

Whowithourgingddlreign?

I held in the Crematorium, and which. I b p d

wodd maintain me in ply old age.
.
He said that I might become one of the miC
lions, but I said that I would prefer otherwk,
aa it would mean that I would have to wait to ma
the h b a n Town Cound come to a d d a r
.
about some subject h the ordinsrg corn I
expect to pass away before such an event taka
place. The Cou~lcillorsare. the men he ahodd
interview, aa the ordinary threescore y e w and ten are of no use to them; and a longer leare
of life is what they require in order to mme
to a decision on anything.
My friend carried on a fervid discourse for
,
a considerable time, aa when I woke up an horn
later he seemed to be warming up to hh mbjaat.
He thanked me for my patient hearing; and I
'
expressed my gratitude to him for his very h ~ cid explanation of whatever it was all about.
Reviewing my position as a shareholder in
the Crematorium, there seems a possibility of
making a ioss if millions now living will never
die. On the other hand, I am doubtful if I shall
ever live to see a return on my Grosvenor Syndicate shares, although I have heard that aho
will be =floated ,next week and be moored in
Durban Bay. A man told me so.
I asked my friend to leave his card in
.
I wanted him at any time. On it he deecribed
himself as a 'ccolporteur."
I knew all along that he knew nothing abaat'
coal.
"All thorn who toiled and o&e,
Who emice loved for H ~ Iblest
J name,,
Who~edthemersare,boretbe~
Thcrs dyertima the King*''

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Letters from Foreign Correspondents

APm Cczrrcula
OW corroapondeht somatimes wonden as
t,,beta, t h people vin ever a w d e to a
to
acme of their p o ~ n responsibility.
d
whether the effort in telling the people the truth
about national conditions as nearly aa that truth
olrn be approximated is recampens4 for by
the desire aroused in the hearts of the people
for something better, sometimes appesrs doubtWe prida Omelves? aa a
On being
h a r p people; we can see just as far through a
brick wall as most; it is hard to dimdrvn ua
with any scheme designed to delude as to our
own hurt; and yet a casnal perusal of our daily
convinw us that we are the most eslsily
deluded of my. YOU typical Canadian ia a
person of mixed national characteristics: Scottish carefulness, English obstinacy, American
resourcefulness and push, and the shrewdness
of the Irishall combine to make him a hard man
to beat. Todap, much against
will be it
said, he ia being convinced that Canada is prosperoua ;and with tFinmphant floutish trade figares and bank clearings are publiebed to show
that she ia getting steadily more prosperous.
Iiet us try once more.
If Canada is prosperous, its manufacturers
are getting wealthy, without s doubt. The
Toronb Tekgram echoes its conternponvy
papers in the following :
C'F~ur
hundred snd Mty iirma withdraw from Cana-

from the Federal authorities, that about 8,000

mOr0 "Lmigrant~are getting ready to sail for
c"d4 as he mites, to swell the r d of
m e m ~ l o ~ enow
d within the Dominion*
the other hand; he s t a b , ' % o w & ad oar
best trained mechsnica are flocking over to the United
Stabs, where work k now plentiful, where opportunity

dian Manufacturers Bssociation during year. Thomar

Roden, 'roronto, addressed a gathering [of the C. M.A],

hic opening mmark being that it war a 'bagh yey',
and then went on to advise the assembled manufacturem
that 201 houses had failed, 107 had resigned, and 27

had pleaded financial embaxrassment aa their mason

for dropping out."

No comment is necessary.
If Canada is prosperous, its people are content td stay here to work and to enjoy their
prosperity. The newspaper comments on the
exodus of workers to the U. S. A, which wntinues unabated, would seem to indicate
that
'
they seriously doubt this prosperity.
London Advertiser says :
"Toronto mayq asks a l l cities to assist. Deplora
exodus of young Ctinadiana to United States!'

Mayor Hilts refers to recent announcements

from the varioua provincial governments and

i m greater and where wager am much highermy

HB refers also to the fset that the G

~
ment figures show an exodus of 16,000 to 18,000
month:
it

"-If this record be maintained throu&out the year,

mean a loan of 200,000 of ppulntion"

The Edmonton JountcJ r e p o d the same condition, end

on the local
!

ew

WM d
o d y p
d
iorth
council's vima that
W a s 8 ma*
for F
mentr to deal with, Eederd and R w h d .LI

"d d n t i o n

A London (Engfand) despatch to the #mr

journal states that Tom Richardson, a fomue
member of the British Home of Commons, who
has &n in Canah for three year%
a t t a d Canada'~-tion
policy:
"It is an act of cruelty," he sap, "to emoumga
people to seek work in Canrdq when t h m & of
unemployed .inthe cities, and ameY~Q-fivepercent of tha
immigmnta who went to work on the land, went down"

James Simpson, Secretary of the Federatioa

of Labor for Canada, as reported in the London
(Ont.) Free Press, stated that then, were h m
dreds of men waking the streets of the tie,
with no opportunity for employment, and that
this was one of the chief contributing factors to
the exodus of native Canadians from the conntry. It waa the speaker'e contention that merit
ployment conditions today were as bad ar they
had been a l l winter. Immigration had added to
the problem in a serious way by the introdaction
of mechanics who at the first opportunity leatheir farms and seek work in the citieu.
The banking situation still focusea the eye 08
the intelligent observer, as everything i n d i a
that, given a ghost of a chance, the failures of
the Banque Nationale and the Home Bank will
be whitewashed, and all investigation dropped.
The recent death of H. J. Daly, the President
of the Home Bank, may offer a convenient
scapegoat upon which the entire matter can be

7 4

loaded, and no. doubt an attempt will be made

to do this.
In the meantime, the public show an exasperding determination to get to the bottom of
things ;and there yet seems mom for hope that
for once a t least, monied bank-wreckers w i l l
share the Buffering8 of their poor vidrns.
From the Edmonton J o w n d :

a not
for ita purging of war,-but lo far the
visiile."
"Is there mom W n e s t ~in public life? Dd*
ud
a pop*
levibabout
nately*
e q c m m that have been madc The mod dmking
mFct of ths whole shdg
-b
II
dhb
ty
.t tb.
pnu, w.bi4
for tbs molt
.ccr~sers
and investigators rather than at the mm in high
places who assisted in the looting of the nstion a d
mthered
in bribea and thefts ahw*yJm
-

'qalf a million living on taxes of red of people;

We would expect little better from the subGratton O ' h a r y gives staggering National Debt fignres.
orned press that nlaimn to represent the voice of
"'It is a conservative estimate that samething like the people, and is merely the logoa of the exhalf a million people of this country are living on the
goiting big interest&
taxes of the reat of as,' declared Orattan O'Leary,
However if the Edmonton BuUctir, Q m r h &
Ottawa newmpaperman, before the Candim Credit
Men's Asnociation.
- ly looking for an answer, a postcud to thb
"The national debt of Canada is today $2,400,000,000. .magazine w i l l bring it a m p 1 e t e and mtbfyhg
I n other words, we have since the Armistie i n a e a d one.
the national debt more than we i n c r e d it during the - Political interferences of an
o k whole war. And this is not all. There are e n o r - ions character involving adverne critiaism d
railway aecuritiea which the Dominim of Canada h t ~
the presenf,provincial Gtovernmcmt on the put.
guaranteed, and which brinp; the gross public debt of
the Dominion to $3,219,000,000, according to state- of the Roman Cathoh Church hu brought
ment of the Royal Bank of Canada Adding th8 debt about a oonaiderable coolnees between Church
of our provinces and citiea, we h e the Jarminet total and State.
The Montreal Daily Star announcer "Breach
of $500 indebtedness for every man, woman, and child
in the Dominion."
.
between Chnrch and Government of Qwbea

We think that there may be a tendency to

confuse terms, in the minds of some. Please
note that the gross public debt is variously
stated in newspaper reports; for it is a term
loosely used to indicate either the gross national
debt (Federal or Dominion debts incarred
through the activities of the Ottawa government), or the gross public debt, which would
hc the above, plus debts incurred by other governing bodies within the Dominion, such as Pro-'
vincial, Municipal, and Civic governments.
The Edmonton S d y Bzilktin asks the
question in a special article, m a t ' s Wrong
with the World Theae Days?"
"And what is the remedy for all its ills? Everywhere
governmend am in difficulties; and dl over North
America we are discovering evidences of graft. What
does it mean?-a sort of Jesting Paganiam abroad.
"The world ia hard h govern just now. Unroll the
map of the warld, look where you will, and you Kill
we a country that ir politically u p d "

The article presents many qnestione to its

readers :
"Have we got what the Allies fought for? One docr
not like to say yet that the world w i l l not be the better

wider. LibeFals may appeal to b e

L'Action Catholiqre."
The offensive item apparently M an open letter written by Ferdinand Belanger, one of the
editorial staff of L'Actioa CafhoZiqw, in wXsh
he says that during the last provincid cnmpaign
Premier Tascherean had threatened Cardinal
Begin with open warfare if L'Aetior Ccrtholiqers
was not ordered to stop interfering with
politics.
The Roman Church tries to keep the ateel
claw well hidden by the velvet glove. But once
in a while it slips and scratches the wrong man;
and for a moment a glimpse can be caught of the
medieval spirit of Rome, and her unholy ambition to establish her ghostly headahip over
nations and to regain her temporal power.
In the ranks of the Protestant Church the
fight for legalized union goea merrily on
Ottawa is besieged by prelates and psrtbm
for or against the union of the Preebybrhm,
Methodist, and Congregationalist c
hThe spiritual angle of the controvemy, the
scrapping of creeds held and triaght tenacioly for many years, commands little attention,
but the property and financial rights came much

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GOLDEN AGE

bitternesr. What more could be expected of a

commercialiaed system but that its hardest fight
would be over the Golden CaU that it has
worshiped ao long1
The question of peace is much in the pablio
eye today.
Recently delegates from d'over the world
to C m d a to 8~
on P-.
Pr-ablg
peace k the desire of all nations, and so long as
soldiers and naval attachis et a1 are discussing
it, no one says a word. These delegates were
pacifists; so the Toronto City Cound almost
came to blowa deciding whether it would be
patriotio to let the word peace be spoken in the
sacred precincts of Toronto's fair city.
The TomntoDdy 8#wheadlines m interest
ins a m o a t of the mwbg
that war dtimately
held with "Preached Gospel of Peace While
Police Held in Reserve" 1 Yes; we in Canada
want to get rid of war, just as a drunken
wants to have bis whisky taken away f p m him.
And so the weary world wag^^ o n

Amerfctr and Jcrpan

ITJapanese
1s chimed
that in Califomi., in 1919, the
who were in that date produced
567,0ooo worth of foo*tnfls?, which woldd
not have been produced if they had not been
there. This shows that the Japanese issue is
not all one-sided. Just how effective the socalled "Qentlemen's Agreemenf'is in preventing
immigration from Japan may be judged from
the fact that three steamers during the month
of May made special trips from Japan to the
United States to bring in the great number of
brides selected by the ~ h o t o r n p hmethod by
the men already in America
The American ambaasador to Japan has resigned, and the Japaneae ambassador to the
United States haa also resigned, or will at least
return to Japan temporarily or permanently;
and while these resignations are explained away
as having no p u t i d = s i ~ c a n c eyet
, .at
tory shows that such resignations are common
between conntries that are on the brink of war.
The neivs af the retirement or recall of the
Japanese ambassador to the United States a p
pardin the?preas at the same time
the
announement that President Coolidge had
signed the immigration bill which includes the
Japanese exclasion clause.

Bmoarm, N. I
.

If the flight of the aviators around the

world does nothing else, it will probably convince the militarists of all nations of the poasibility that their own aviatom can viait other
nations in time of war, with generous quantities
of poison gas and those other adjuncts of o m
present civilization, while the people will be
taught to believe that all w m are of divine
arrangement and have divine 8mction- Eaoh
&%rent kind of gas will have its own flock of
dominies to bless it.
Along the lines of the proclamation of the
true gospel it is encouraging t e read that the
sale and distribution of the Bible is greatly on
the increase, the distribution in Japan alone
k t Yea having been 343,588;
c r e a e in distribution in C~~XI&
WW more tbn
a million copiea

Jam

T H E ~etherlandrhave a colonid empin of

50,000,000 people in the Dutch East Indie&

From generation to generation the Holhndbk

Government gets along peaceably with the nc
tives. Java increases in population and in ~ M H .
peritye
One never hears of rebeniom req-g
,
the punitive
so oommon in other ,
NOW
we hesr fiat ae
me fomding a great Jamem nniVersiw, ia
whi2h the natives mw bs edocatd lud fittad
when th ke
,
for the government of the
shall have come for Holland to place the mntrol
in their hands.
a

FOUR

out of the six Australian states sre

governed by the Labor
-IIt
elections
in
South
Australia
and
West
Australia
ha-g both resdted in Labor viotoriar Ta,

mania came under the control of the Labor

Party at the beginning of the ye=
l9
Between A P 6 ~and
aviators flew completely around A ~ t r . l i qm ~ t
of tha distance along the co-f trs*g
tdbgether 9,000 miles. While they were On the -8
an
their average speed was ninety
The fktl~traliangovenunent
conside~g
the
Use of airplanes in connection with a Seuch for
sites for LUeteorologid station% that is to my,
weather stations, around the borden of the
Antarctic continent.

Digest of World News

(Xadlo-cwt from WACHTOWEB WBBB on r wave leryth of 218

of water called Ba,f3in Bay to the north of

the Canadian mainIand has regular service to
and from Quebec; but unless any wonder at
this, we explain that the regular service is limited to one vessel each year, which leaves Qne
bec July 1. To the few human beings living on
the desolate ahores of B&
Bay it must be a
thrilling experience when the hall of the vessel
first comes into sight. However, life in the far
north ia not the same now as it was before the
invention of rsdio. The Arctic expedition of
Captain Machas been in quits frequent
touch with civilization throughout the year during wbich he has been in the far north.

Btaril

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trich feathers, and the wonderful white ivory; and it ia

all o m . We brought the bIack man the Bible, and
sterling religion-and the Almightp handn ua the reinr
of control and possemion of the lend.''

T IS interesting to know that the great body

R A Z Z is celebrating this year its &st centennial anniversary. I t was in 1824, one
hundred years ago, that Brazil proclaimed it8
independence of Portugal and organized as a
republic.
The governor of the ~ a n k - o fEngland and
other prominent capitalists have recently visited
Brazil, and have advised the Brazilian Government to dispose of the present federal railways
and steamship lines and to abandon the policy
of constmeting and operating railroads and to
postpone the development of government-owned
steel interesta. In other words, the people of
Brazil are invited to put all their sssets into
the hands of bankers who w i l l Bee to it that
thereafter the Brazilians have no claim to the
assets and no share of the profits.

metas. by the Editorr

Commen*
porkr says:

on this the Walton, N.

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Y.,Rb

#'The black & geta Ltht Bible md a sterling T&&xQ,'

but the white msn woLts off with tbe profita When th.
black man geta intdigencg will he think the e x h a p
fair md retain hirr love for the Bible? The attempt od
the
to act in a dual capsciQ, that of rarimg
tbe Lard and the commercial i n t e h a$ the ssmb tican haw but one outcome md tM ia b dircrsdit u+
terly the digion he prof(hmka.adC b r b
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ t t ( M r d i g i o n r ; m d h ~ p t a b t

~~

BahonraudRichudrtolruabarincrrmemwitbtb6kit
of pmfitr to be mpportem at tha church ia rr lordid u
thegoqpeidtbeLfiJldinaarfl.thttb.~m
M w . e t o g i v e s r , q w o r h g m m . Itiam8ppe8lb
cupidity and nothing more, md the hamst w i l l br 8
uvp of hypocriter"

How brief is hqmm glory! General Eimatr,

the last of the great national war leaders, has
- lost his position, having been swept from power
by a coalition of the Labor Party and the Nlr
tionalista. General Smuts bad much to do with
the d d f h g of the League of Nations mveant.

Cuba
N ACCOUNT of the fact that the past win0
ter has seen a
price for sugar, the
island of Cuba has had a period of great prob
good

perity with strikes of all sorb in .all parts of

the island to a degree never before experienced.
The streetcar lines have been tied up, and
trains
-- wrecked, and +ere has been some loss of .
ARtca
Me.
WHE Reverend Doctor Elmer H. Richards,
for thirty-five years a missionary in Africa,
Bn'tain
in an address at Binghamton, New Pork, said: -t
ERELY
as a matter of news, and not be"The white man took hu Bible and Jewu, Christ with
cause
we
approve its policies, we call athim and invaded Africa md now the promised lend is
Ths
Mohammedan
had
swept
the
continent
w
i
t
h
tention
to
the
program
of the C o m m d Phis.
fire snd sword, and got nothing but defeat and trouble of Great Britain. The Communist Party, which
for his pains. Other nations had tried to dice off the is antagonistic to the Labor Party, but which
delicious Afkic81) territory, but all to no ~ dIt .tooh is working to m e e&nt in m~mectionwith it,
. . . AO to the
af the black man, to gite h , a~ pn>which indudes the nationnlilJ1X
m
, j d a dm; md
land i8 tion of minea and nilraps
+thont pa*g axoum.
TheI white man ia the first to handle the b o n d thing to their present owners, control of indm
tries by the workers, cancellation of the nationd.
fieldsJ and they
are om. ~h~
man j, &
to h d l e the gold, and the ivory, and the valuable os- debt with compensation only to the amall d~t.
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WLDEN AGE

positors, state control of banks and of internal

prices, old age penaionr at sixty, and minimum
wage Iaws. W ia the immediate program, besides which there is proposed a state monoply
of the press, the nationalization of all tea indastries, and the general distribution of firearms
among all classes, except those who happen to
have a little property. To our way of thinking,
the program is incomplete. It should provide
for free admission to the insane asylum of all
persons holding such impossible views.
The British and French Premiers have joined
in a note to the Qe~msn~ o v e ~ e pmtestn k
ing against the repeajed open and secret activities of military associations throughout C)ermaLLY- They have told the German Gh,vernment
that these activities gravely complicate the sitnation when the prospeck of putting the Dawes
Plan into operation has aroused hope of a s e t
tlement of the problems g r o h g oat of the
World War.
The prohibition question is again advocated
in England. The Bishop of Oxford has peaented a bill providing that in certain districts a
comp&or~r vote be *en
everp three Yeon the liquor question. It is not believed that
the bill will be passed; but it is interesting to
h o w that it baa the S U P P ~of~tbim-two of
the British Bishops, who by reason of their o f f i
are members of the British Government
The quiet advance of luxuries to the tables of
all claa8es continue8 in England as elseahera
Ten yeago, g r a ~ f d t practicdl?
how
in
The prssent cansnm~'On
is estimated at
and
is on the increase. The best grapefruit cornea
from Florida; but the English markets are also
supplied from Texas, California, and South
'Africa
The Imperial Defense Committee of the British Empire has decided that the tunnel to France
must hot be built. To this we can only say:
,JVhat a pity that a tunnel which would mesa
so much in the way of convenience and benefit
to millions of people in the British Isles, and
on the Antbent, should be held up by militarists. Apguments against the tunnel were that
it might possibly be used to the disadvantage
of British navd forces. This seems ridiculous.
The grovth of cotton throughout the British
Empire is increasing rapidly. Many of these
cotton fiel& are in Africs, in East, West and

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n. t;

Central Africa I t is also raised in Q u e e b d ,

Australia, and in the West Indies.
The British air force now has nearing completion a biplane with a wing span of seventy
feet. The engine is a one thousand horse-power.
Their airplane, the largest ever built, has three
floors; the top floor for pilot and p s , second
floor for charts and officers, and the third floor
for bombs and other similar adjuncta of preaentday civilization.

'.

ImZmd

P ROFESSOB
Timoth A. Smiddy, pf C O ~ ,
has been appointed Minister PlempotentiJ

arY of the Irish Free State a t 7.Vmhingon This

is with the full consent and approval of tke Brib
ish Government. The British Government has
also expressed its willingness that the Irirrh Fnm
State should have its 0- a t e r in Frame;
but the French Government seema to few that
this might lead to complications, and is thfore holding off.
The north of Irelaad haa been visited by a
severe tornado. I t lasted only a few minutea,
but did considerable dnmnn#x

Spain

THE Spanih
in its

ooremment cont~ues st
agai114t ~l~M~~
There is nothing for which the S
m peoph
so aeolls
arr that
war with M~~
8hodd en& bat &e M~~~ contbw to
oft
Spaids advmw forces from their b-8 of sllp
Spaniard8 the
pliaq thw imposing
upon
cessity of surrendering and of retrenching for
ma fresh troop&
renewed

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v-

R ADICALS,

when placed in power, tlnd

themselves often confronted with conditions
which they cannot suddenly change. Such conditions confronted Herriot, France's new Prime
W s t e r , with respect to the oontbued Frond
military occupation of the Ruhr. A&t
hi8
wishes he felt obliged to contime the OCCUP&
tion; but in order to gain the consent of the
Chamber of Deputies he waa obliged to rely u p
on his political opponents.
Now that the radicals are in control, there is
serious discussion of the removal of the statuo
of Napoleon from the Place Vendome, 'J!hig

statue is made from cannon which Napoleon

captured Honest arid decent human beings are
wondering why they should allow to remain the
statue of such a heartless butcher. I t is a
strange mental perversion that throughout the
ages has glorXed the men who are chiefly res~ondblefor widows and oqham, d e s e , legless, sightless men, and millions of m m g
corpses. In our judgment the statue should
come down; and if it were not for the valuable
metal i t contains, it should be buried a mile deep
under ashes and tin cans.
The descendants of the Huguenots thronghout France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, and
the Rhine country are debrating the 300th anniversary of the founding of New York by their
anCe"n 'Iira 'Undred Years ago* This Year
seems to see the Protestants of the world stirred
remarkably; for it is said that this Huguenot
lcrvement is attracting great attention throughoui the countries involved.
A French inventor, Camille Dossard, has invented a heatless electrio light. In the presenw
of the Academy of Science he exhibited and
handled without injury a two thousand candlepower lamp, receiving neither shock nor bum.

sentence; and although they are all armed, pet

a number of them are still handcuffed.

m a r k
HE ~
h coiiperative
~
h Society by *hose
eficient work Denmark has become one of
the most prosperous and progressive amtrier
,f E
~ is now
~
, on ih
line of
s ~ p ibetween
r
the ~ h-t* and
expecting t b to redace fie avera%e traveling
he
beheen the two amtries by twenty-fo=
horn

No-

--

ORWAY is hoping for a large attendaneo

N
a t its annual-fair at Chrigtisniq whkb
takes placein September. The fair in a

smallthing as compsred nith the

me
ih eZ1terprimat Wdey,
rill no
attract many
of beriup.
cially those of Scandinavian origin
~ibalen

SWEDEN
also is to have a greatfdr, ' A m
410, a t Gothenburg, hoping no doubt that

many Bmericana who will vieit the WembIey

~ a i ;will also come to Gothenburg, and learn
JiLcroia
some of their excess wealth behind them. While
A T THE
of Chtit nem Belgrade, Jw- the fair is in progreai, citizens of the Unifd
slavia, workpen bailding a railroad are re- States and Canada who ware formerly Swedish
ported to have hscovered the petrified skeleton rnbject8 abe dowedto
Swedenwithout
of a man forty-five feet t d . The teeth, which p,apor~.
are entirely preserved, are eighteen inches long.
Without qnestion thk ia one-of the giants who swikc~lad
lived in the earth before the flood, children of
NAShmCH as the Bhine, the Rhone and the
the improper d o n between the fallen angels
Rivers all rise in the Alps, Switzerland
and the daughters of men, referred to in the hasPo
become_
the power-house of Weatern Europe.
sixth chapter of Genesis, in the epistle of St. But the Swiss
people instead of keeping them
Jude, and i n the epistles of St. Peter. Readers plants under their own control, have eanctioned
of THEGOLDENAGEwill remember the extended development under a control which is part Swim
description of such a giant discovered in Ari- part German, part French, and part Italian. ds a
zona, which appeared in oar isaas of November eonsequence, immense quantities of power am
21,1923.
being exported from Switzerland at rates much
k s s than those charged to the Swiss people
Lithuania
themselves: The natural result is the breaking
ELBT30NS between Lithuania and P o l a d down of Swiss industries. It has even been proare stxqined. The frontiers between the two posed to transfer Swiss industries into the borcountries have &en closed while Lithuania is der provinces of France and Germany, and
trying earnestly d find Mty convicts who have there to operate them on the low wage scale and
escaped from the Kovno prison. Several of a t low cost for raw materials with cheap power
these were Polish spies, who are under the death exported from Switzerland. In the f w of mach

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W E N AGE

cisti into a stnctly legal organization, to discipline them for any further outrages, rrnd to
govern the country hereafter through the party.
One of the cartoonists of the anti-Fascist news
paper has been seized three times in the last
year, and fed a pint of castor oil each time. If
Esthonia
Mussolini's promises are worth anything, no&
ITH remarkable enterprise the Depart- ing of this sort will occur in the future.
ment of Inland Waters of the Esthonian
Government has carefully measured the rivers Hungary
of that country with a view to determining their
FEW days ago despatches appeared in the
water-power resources. I t has been determined
papers stating that Hungarfs new loan
that the streams will produce. 80,000 horse-pow- had all been subscribed for in Europe. More
er. A plan of distribution over the whole com- recent papers stated that, as a last-minute favtry has been formulated; and as soon as the or, American bankers had been let in to take
necessary plants can be erected, it is expected one-fifth of the loan. I t now appear8 that they
that a great saving in fuel will take place.
have actuallv taken about one-half of it. The
way in which thia matter has been given pubAlbania
licity convinces us that this ia all propaganda,
HE Albanian Government has recently set and that it was the intention of the United
aside 3,000 acres for a college of agriculture States bankers from the very first to supply a
and mechanical arts. It is said that the soil of large portion of this loan. All thia will help tc
Albania is very rich, and that under proper make it easier to aell Hungarian paper in the
methods of cultivation the country would easily United 8tatea
maintain ten times its present population. Dnring the last three years some five hmdred &rb&
schools have been started in Albania A similar
HE detaila of the crime at Serajevo which
educational course has been successfulin Serbia
set the world on fire in the summer of 1914
have just come to light. Although the Austrian
Italy
authorities had filled the city with hmdreda of
T IS now established that the murder gang their detectives and police ofiials, yet them
which assassinated the Italian patriot, Mat- knew neither the language nor the identity of
teotti, made its headquarters at the Ministry of those whom they were expected to watch, and
the Interior, where the Director General of carelessl? passed as merchandise the bombs and
Police also made his office. De Bono, Dirbtor arms which figured in the attack oh the Amtrian
of Police, is the head of the national militia
Crown Prince. From the moment that the ArchThe opposition parties have withdrawn from duke Ferdinand entered Serajevo, he was a
the Italian Parliament, leaving Mussolini and doomed man, as no less than ten persons were
his friends in complete controL Massolini haa waiting for him in different parts of the city,
stated that, personally, he has no intention what- planning his murder.
ever of resigning or of disbanding the Fascist
militia Mussolini is having trouble in the con- Oil Magnata Indicted
troIling of his 600,000 black shirt warriors, many
CTIVITY still.continues in Washington even
of whom are mere youths who have never done
though Congress is not now in session. The
any r e d work, and who would not do it if it were committee investigating the naval oil lease scanoffered fa them.
dals has returned indictments against Mr. Fall,
At Carnegie Hall,New Pork city, on June
26,2,500 Italians demanded that the Italian am- former S e e r e m of the Interior, Mr. Sinclair
bqrssador to the* United States should be dis- of the Mammoth Oil Company, Mr. Doheny,
missed, characterizing hiussolini's government also an oil magnate, and his son. The first indictment charges the two Dohenys and Mr. Fall
as "government by murder and anarchy".
Mussolini has promised to transform the Fas- with a conspiracy to defraud the United States.

a proposed remedy, it will not be long before

some bright person will suggest moving the
frontiers and leaving the plants right where
they are, thas wiping Switzerland out of existence.

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(jOwEN AGE

The second indictment c h a r m Mr. Fall and

Mr. Sinelair with a like conspiracy. The third
indictment chargee the two Dohenys with paying a bribe of $100,000 to Mr. Fall. The fourth
indictment charges Mr. Fall with accepting the
alleged $100,000 bribe. It is alleged in the indictment that competitive bidding for a certain
lease ww ignored in order that it might be obtrrined by Mr. Doheny from Mr. Fall;that fdse
representations were made by Mr. Fall to other
bidders for the reserves, stating that he was not
contemplating leasing the reserves.
Other testimony in connection with the Department of Justice activities under Mr. Daugherty ah0ws that much C0rmption Was eating the
vitals of this most august department; that Mr.
Daugherty took charge of the department with
very modest resources, and refused to explain
to the committee in what manner his fortune
was increased so enormously. I t tells of subordinates promoted for infidelity to the public
service, and of other persons demoted for fidelity to their duty. There were honest and brave
officiala who spumed bribes, and cowageod~
stood against contamination.
Illegal tiansportations of moving-piche
films, and their exhibition, and illegal sales of
liquor enter into the report. There were plots
and connterplots; and decoys were set in motion for the purpose of defrauding the government and otherwise prostituting government
officials, Illegal, unauthorized and unconstitutional work was carried on by the great Burns
Detective Agency. There were the breaking of
locks, exploring of senators' offi~es,and otherwise making efforts to destroy records which
codd be used against the department in the
prosecution of crime. The detectives were emp l o ~ e dnot to
down the
but more
particularly to shield profiteers, bribe-takers
and favorites.

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im& reduction in expenditures, and for e&

ciency in carrying on the business of the government. To the already large cut in expenditures
he wants another cut of $83,ilOO,000 in order to
establish a surplus of $108,000,000at the end
of thu heal year instead of the estimated $25,000,000.
There
been
the e e b s t
wGch the foreign service of *e Unites Statea
h a ever e v r i e n c e d sixtypersons b v e been
dropped from Diplomatic and Cons*
-senices, and others were reduced in rank. There
was a re-classification and grading of a e orei3n Service
The
for the
of Natiom
are
bnay trying to be& dothe a
the people.a erpreBd
in th.
=tiod
election.A militarydew
il fiat tb
been
for -,
inte-b
tently the world ha.
hague
of ~~~i~~~
to
the
effo* for pew;
tbam*
,i
aeormtiian
urnfore,
made
completed by the entrp of tb United .State+
into the "peace organization," the world will 8%m e peace. me state-t
is de
that "morn
mdmore are the people of the cotllltrp lmlring
into the Leagne and its o r w t i o n , policiw
and a c c ~ p ~ e n;and
t s they have been doing
this
free from
and pre*
aronsed by the last presidenu
p~-m
ln setting forth other masonings favorable to the League of Nations the propaganthe matter b y . s a e g , m e s e mw
dists
pJnsion point inevitably to the Leame of N+
tions, or s o m e m g 80 like it as to qnslify for
its twin brother." ~h~ the dtimate nece&to)
of the Leagoe of Nations comtantly forced
upon our minds. They would have us think in
the teof a *logan for well-bown b-d
of flour : "Eventyally, why not now?"
The League of Nations was forced upon the
Acti~it&a'dWmAington
Democratic Convention by its advocates, and
m m r c COOLIDGE
took over the reins of govdisposed of in a planL declaring for the
ernment when the discipline and fidelity of
referendum;
and if the people of the United
many public officials were at a very low ebb, and
Own thinldng,
to do
he ma&g a effort at economy m d p ~ f i c a - States are dlowed
tion. The-President declared, at a recent bud- neither the Lelyle of Natiom nor
ever be c ! n d o d The ~ o l i t i b
get conference, *at he was for economy, and brother
after that he was for more economy. He hlSs are scheming, and if it is possible to override
demanded of the government heads that they the expressed wishes of the people they wiU do
make a vigorous fight all along the line for max- it, and resort to any carnoage to do it.

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time they were picked from fbe plants. It is

Rix Milib, founder of the Home

MRSof.TAnnie
ruth, Loa Angeles, was buried after
her followers had abandoned the hope of her reaurrection. She had told the faithful of her cult
that after three days she would rise from the
dead, and an uninterrupted vigil waa kept beaide her bier until the Department of Health
stepped in and demanded the interment. It
aeems that the health department officials sane
tioned the watchful waiting for a time. I n order
to juathe ladfs non-appearance in a resurrection it was stated that she had "simply found
the land to which went too interesting and beautiful to leave." Wbat a woeful lack of d e r standing of a simple Bible truth this d e s t s 1
The saintly who die are not resurrected until
after the second advent of the Lord Jesas; and
even then there will be no visible manifestations,
for the reason that the saintly will be raised to
the spiritual condition, where they will always
remain, invisible to the natural eye. Those who
will b t participate in a material or human
resurrection, and have life again in haman form
are the Old Testament worthies who died prior
to the resurrection of Jesus. The physical resurrection of the rest of ma,nkjndwill not take place
until these worthies are raised from the dead,
Mr. W. J. Bryan humorously explains evolntion by saying, "Idon't deny their facts; I ques
tion their conclusions. They say: 'A cow has
milk I say: 'Pea.' They say: 'A cocoanut has
milk.' I say: 'Yea.' They say: 'A'milkweed has
milt' I say: 'Yeay But when they tell me that
through evolution a cow is a descendant.of the
.
mjlkweed, I say: 'No I'
Rays of sun will preserve food. A solar vitalizing process for the preservation of food and
vitalization of seed has proven successful. The
process does away with cooking and the u s d
methodo. of preservation. The apparatus is a
box with wire trays to hold the food commodities, over the top of which reposes a sheet of
opaque glass with half-inch prima, used to deflect the sun's rays, and to concentrate the beams
which vitalize and preserve. The vegetables and
fruits am preserved by crystnlliling the sugar
contents, thereby making spodage and fermen-Yon impossiblL A jar of atrawberries and
qther fruitr d vegetnhlPn vita&& two
u e u sweet and natural as a t the

AGE

'

said that germs and parasites can live no longer

than twenty minutes in the vitalizing plant.
Walnut oil, olive oil, cocoanut oil, butter, lad,
and all other d a l and vegetable fats rrs
rendered immune from rancidity
this proa
ess. Milk is kept fresh much longer than by
pasteurizing, and ,eggs can be kept fresh for
at least one month.
The Pennsylvania Railrbad is now using a
towboat propelled by electricity. The pilot not
only directs the course of the vessel, but dso
controls the propelling machinery by a system
of levers at his side, mu& the same as a motorc
man controls an electrio car. The b o d ia o x d ~
twenty-four feet in length, and draws *ah.
feet of water.
The strike of 40,000 garment workem redW
in a victory for the strikers. The new contsrraf
calls for the closed shop,-an arbitration boud
to settle dispute4 the minimum wagea, and un=
employment insurance. Thia ia a case wbrm
even the masufacturers are said to bs pleaad
with the result It is thought to be the god of
all factions in "stabilizing of the industry and
uninterrupted production.''
Job hunten menace Los Angeles. That &tF;
for some time has been overran with thousands
of unemployed persona It seema that people.
are being lured to Los Angeles by false adtising setting forth a prosperity which doem not
exist there. Rents are high, and employment
cannot be had. Xany thousands are iinding thir
out to their sorrow.
.
Injunction works one way.. There was a seamen's strike. The ship owners said the seamen
were interfering with interstate commerce. !L'he
c o d a thereupon issued the injundiom that
were asked for. Later, the ship owners through
their conspiracy to compel able seamen to register under a "tab" system similrrr fa the Bartillon system of the police world, rendering tha
seamen virtually slaves, were interfering with
the interatate commerce. Alfred Street, natim
American and able seaman, has failed in two
attempt8 to get an injunction against the ship
ownerg and is now making an appeal to the
United States Supreme Court, which, no doubt,
will uphold the decision of the lower courts. One
of the planks in htr. LaFollette's alatform L the
abolition of the injunction law.

= GOLDEN
Milits, founder of the Home
M".TMruthe,Rix
Los hgelea, was buried after

of
her followers had abandoned the hope of her resurrection. She had told the faithful of her cult
that after three days she would rise from the
dead, and an uninterrnpted vigil was kept beside her bier until the Department of Health
~teppedin and demanded the interment. It
seem that the health department officials sane
tioned the watchful waiting for a time. In order
to juatify the ladfs non-appearance in a resurrection it was stated that she had "simply found
the land to which went too interesting and beautiful to leave." What a woeful lack of understanding of a simple Bible truth this d e s t s 1
The @tly who die are not resurrected until
after the second advent of the Lord Jesus; and
even then there will be no visible manifestations,
for the reason that the saintly will be raised to
the spiritual condition, where they will always
remain, invisible to the natural eye. Those who
will fist participate in a material or hmnan
resurrection, and have life again in human form
are the OM Testament worthies who died prior
to @e resurrection of Jesna The physical resurrection of the rest of mankind wiU not take place
until these worthies are raised from the dead.
Mr. W. J. Bryan hmnorollaIy explains evolution by saying, "Idon't deny their facts ;I question their condusions Tbey say: 'A cow haa
milk I say: Tes.' They say: 'A cocoanut has
milk' I say :'Yes.' They say :'A'miheed has
miltaI say: "Yes.' But when they ten me that
through evolution a cow is a descendant of the
milkweed, I say : 'No P "
Rays of sun will preserve food. A solar vitalizing process for the preservation of food and
vitalization of seed has proven wccessfd. The
process does away with cooking and the a s d
methods of presematioa The apparataa ia a
box with-wire trays to hold the food commoditi-, over the top of which reposes a sheet of
opaque glass with half-inch prisms, used to deflect the sun's rays, and to concentrate the bearns
which vital.@ and preserve. The vegetables and
fruits are reserved by c r y s t a b b g the sugar
contents, thereby tanldng milage and fennen.+ionimporraihle. .iAjar of strawberries a d
qther f r u i b and vegetnhlPe v i t a l i d twa
u e aa meet and natural as at the

'

AGE

time they were picked from fbe plants. It ir

said that germs and parasites can live no longer
than twenty minutes in the vitalizing plant.
Walnut oil, olive oil, cocoanut oil, butter, lard,
and all other animal and vegetable fats am
rendered immune from rancidity by this proa
ess. Milk is kept fresh much longer than by
pasteurizing, and , e g p can be kept fresh for
at least one month.
The Pennsylvania Railrbad is now using a
towboat propelled by electricitp. The pilot not
only directs the course of the vessel, but dao
controls the propelling machinery by a system
of levers at his side, much the same as a moto*
controls an electria car. The boat is o d x
twenty-four feet in leng&h,and dram tmh
feet of water.
The strike of 40,000 garment workem r e d W
in a victory for the strikers. The new contra&
calls for the closed ahop,_rm arbitration barvd
to settle disputes, the minimum wages, and
employment insurance. This is a w e where
even the masufacturers are said to b plea&
with the result. I t is thought to be the goal of
all factions in "stabilizing of the industry and
uninterrupted production''
Job hunters menace Lor Angelea That a i k
for some time has been overrun with thouaaudr
of unemployed persona It rseems that people.
are being lured to Los h g e l e s by false advertising setting forth a prosperity whi& doea not
exist there. Rents are high, and employment
cannot be had. Many thousands are &ding thb
out to their sorrow.
,
Injunction works one way._ There was a re*
men's strike. The ship owners said the seamen
were interfering with interstate commerce. The
courts thereupon issued the injnnctiona tbat
were asked for. Later, the ship owners through
their conspiracy to compel able seamen to mgister under a "tab" system simiIIlr to the Bertillon system of the police world, rendering the
seamen virtually slaves, were interfering with
the interstate commerce. Alfred Stmet, natim
h e r i c a n and able sehas failed in two
attempts to get an injunction against the ahip
ownerg and is now making an appeal to the
United States Supreme Court, which, no doubt,
will uphold the decision of the lower courts. One
of the planks in a.LaFollette's ~lafformh tho
abolition of the injunction law.

Advertising The King and His Kingdom

BY ~ i r ~r a r c t

T H E following is a three-week$ diary of a a kitchen, bedroom, eitting-room, wash-room

vacation epent in selling the publications of and padtry. On arriving my sensm were atthe International Bible Students Association, tuned to only one thing: I was where I want&
giving the experiences of four young ladies with to b w i t h the girls in the& colporteur headq u a r t e r ~and
; it mattered not where that was or
one "Henry," in 1923.
what
it
was.
With the coming of morning, howJuly 21. The day of all days 1 Our hopes have
matured for a three weeks' vacation, advertising ever, I was all curiosity, and with astonishment
the King and His kingdom. Edi-Mae and I are viewed the room in which we had slept. We mado
here in Keene. '\Ye arrived at elwen-thirty p. a, our beds, then sat upon them; for there was no
falling into the arms of Mary-Anne at the cross- room for mpedwus implements of rest engeuroads. Then came a grand rash for Honey-C on dering lazy contentment. hluggage reposed
nearby steps, a warm welcome, and (bless the in the straight-backed ehaira, agd the one roeker
hearts of these dear ones!) a boiling hot dinner was shunned with vigilance. The towel apon the
cupboard door-it posed aa mah-waa a selfish
awaited us.
thing,
so I thought, claiming moot of the apace.
We tried very hard to relate the day's experiIt
held
my intern interest. I d d n ' t quite a s
ences in one breath. This accomplished, Edisociate
it with the library table ( 8 tppeder
Mae proceeded with a graphic description of
stand)
and the piles of book in paatebard
procuring Henry in a weeYs time. ! h o mouths
boxes
(the
bookcase). In time, hovevex, my b
were wide opened. Of course, this only added
cination
changed
to honest respeat, and dean
fuel to the fire; and the moments were lived to
Miss
Towel
fitted
most beoo9pin%y into my
the full as we recounted seeming impossibilities
,
overcome, the final start, and the wonderful novel aurroundinga
Honey-C was busy cooking . b d &
Land
trip to the colporteur camp. We were so delighted with freedom from office cares and wor- knows, I don't, where the food cams from and
ries that every breeze upon the fields of clover, where the eggs were fried. A few yeam lrgo I
every call of the songsters in nests and tree would have searched for Aladdin8'slamp. Howtops, lowing of cattle and the creaking of carts ever, the goblins failed to appear after breakin fragrant hayfields cast around us its own fast, and the dishes were wdied in their familThe diahenmystical charm, holding us entranced. We were iru tab placed on the ma*
out where life was throbbing, on our way to tell they were such once-then held my undivided
the glad tidings that the boon of life, everlasting attention I w a oblivious to their charm while
eating, and why 8hoddn't I be1 Pewter spoons,
life, is to be man's blessed portion.
Could I describe my ecstasy to the girls that chsaed silver, crockery and ahha are all the
night? No 1 Just then I could only feel; words same when one is transplanted to the land of
would come later; but I 6 n d that they have not. his dreams ;and Edi-Mae and I aurely w e n
As I scrubbed the platters and miring bowls,
When one feels the most, he speaks the least.
mbstitnted
for plates and cups, I continued to
Would that we all felt morel However, I did
eatisfy
my
ever-inerewing
curiosity. I couldn't
attempt a description of one scene of solemn
explore
the
crowded
nooks
just then, but I waa .
beauty-the moonrise over Monadnock Moundetermined
to
discover
the
hidden
sonroe whence
tain and its subdued reflection upon the waters
flowed
the
peace
and
sanctity
of
that
little lowly
of Dublin Lake. The girls smiled Do I interpret the smiles to mean that thia beauty can be haven. God's spirit I knew rested there; for the
duplicated or perchance surpassed? I am con- two Chri~tisnsoldiem nobly reflected Hin likeness. Nevertheless there was another influence
tent to wait.
July 22. The day of much talk and little ac- abroad, and I must findit. Then, in s moment as
tion. Tokthe Christian who 'understands the I glanced apon the walls, the mystery was solvCreator's- beneficent character and marvelous ed. I saw there mottoes of comfort and admoniplan of salvation, each day is a Sabbath of de- tion, precious promises from M a Word apd
votion and rest h Him.
clusters of cards with loving messages cherished
I awoke with the warm sun streaming in a t for the givers' sake. The little red plaque with
the windows of the little room which served aa ,raised enamel letters, "He Knows, He Lov1r23

)EN AGE
He Cares," was r constant reminder to me of we had best be initiated. We were! When om
Henry appeared at the door, we greeted him
the Christian secret of a happy life.
Honey-C soon brought forth a bag of peaa to with the contents of that little room and told
&ell. Whenever in the fa*
I shall see peaa him to transport them faithfully. The room war
being stripped for the kettle, with joy shall I little ;but, oh my! what it contained t The more
remember that morning's conversation. She we moved out, the more there was to mow oat.
spoke of her twelve years of devoted serviaa in Honey-C enjoyed the proceedings so mu& that
the Master'n vineyard, and the few persona ahe she ordered the reat of ua out of the room. Maryhad encouraged to enter the door of aervice. Bnpe was dismissed on the ground that the
She spoke not of the sacrifices and denbut floors at our new domicile muat be washed; Ediof the privileges and superlative joys. When Mae must needs drive Henry; and I had beat
once I mentioned the sacriiicee, ahe replied in wash the windowa 1 demurred, being afraid that
simplicity that there were none. I glanced again an avalanche of books and boxes would lrorg our
over the crowded room
a novelty for three poor Honey-C, if left done. She didn't ssry that
weeks. Yea 1 But for twelve yearst We' were it wouldn't happen, but she ordered me out nev,going to pack for another headquarters the next erthe1esa I had never d e d windows befoq
day, and I looked forward to it. Would I look and scarceI7 eacaped alive ever to wash tbrm
forward to moving from one city to another, a&
from one state to another every five months or - The contents of the one room arrived ia dr
so? Her love for the Master and His cause en- Henry loada. Laughter and jest reigned impabled her to Elaanify sacrifice and pleasure aa fusion. It wsll a novel experience to Ed&&
the self-same thing. To great hearts enlarged by and me. It waa more than a 11oveIty. I took
loving labor, escri5oea are counted aa great keen delight in watching !he girb in tha mkbt
gains; and the faces of these two dear ones of confusion and chaoa, humming anatchea of
speak to me. Blessed be such!
hymns and so often speaking tender wordr of
In the afternoon the girls' landlady,nowmuch regard a d love, one to another. Sentimemtdity
interested in the truth, joined our circle of four; calla forth a love which respond8 when mand we had fulfilled within our midst the Lod'a roundinga and tzirmmtanc81 be attuned; but
rich promise of blessing where two or three are how I glory in a love wbich will spread ita ungathered together in His name. We studied the ael6sh warmth around a circle of dwt and aomseventh string npon the " E I q of God," OW fusion. Begone the twilight houra and song of
Lord's Return, considering the many evidences birds to open my heart to worda; welcome the
that Christ is present for the work of setting up din and dirt where a heart lies alwayrr approlchr
His kingdom.
able, dispensing its fragrance.
In the evening we motored over to see the new
How does the poor moon ever blink so sereneplace we were considering aa a future^ abode, ly as it beams down npon as and our room t+
chiefly because it was larger. We were very night !
much delighted when ushered into foar spacious
July 24. I doubt whether the moon did ahino
rooms. The rent was cheaper, and we immedi- for long; for I declare that the moment after I
ately engaged them, and decided to move the fell asleep I was awakened with a kiaq and tho
next dsy I A hsir-raiser for housewives! Night sun war streaming in. We hastily bade adieu to
overtook as in bed; a strenuous day lay ahead. the moving dump, and packed our Henry to the
July 23. Moving day 1 However, the Lord'a full. We wem off for our first day of the mod
work came first ;and while preparations were in wonderful work in which a being muld engags
process by Mary-Anne and Edi-Mae, Honey-C The ride was one never to be f o r g o b !Ph@
and I mowted our bicycles for a five-mild,trip scenery waa beautiful; but I was more inteat
into the country to deliver books. I did enjoy upon whom I ahodd meet at the journey'r end.
that ride! It ahrely was delightful, pushing . Never before had I done country territory, mu&
along the country roads in the early morning. as I longed to; and now that the time had corn,
On our return the remark was made h t no I was slightly perturbed. What poor, queer ere*
small part of the colporteur work is moving and tures we are anpway 1 Imagine my sstoniahed
that, aa we desired to be three-week colporteurs, wonder when.I placed a complete net. (eight

books) at my first home. Instead of fainting,

my first decision, I returned to the astonished
man two dollars and fifteen cents in change, in
place of the proper amount of fifteen cents. He
reminded me, however, that he had given me $3
instead of $5.
I made my .exit somehow, and walked for ten
minutes in a trance. I came to, only to realize
that my case was empty and that the auto with
more books would not be back for at least two
hours. What should I do? Of course I would
sell a set at the next house; but no books. My
enthusiasm was enkindled, and was not to be
extinguished by the mere lack of books.. I returned to my first house and asked for my books
back, if you please. I explained that I would
take orders with the set, returning it at night.
AA long as I am troubled with nightmares,
will the disagreeable color, awkward loeation,
and frightful atmosphere of that next house
continue to haunt me. To a passerby it might
appear as a quiet, cozy home. My experience
there made it' obnoxious to me. Had the lady of
the house persecuted me solely, I could have left
with less turmoil of heart; but the outrageous
slander and false accusations against Pastor
Russell brought flaming color to my cheeks. I
had no desire to retaliate, but the rank injustice
of her gross statements filled me with disgust.
Nevertheless, mingled with it was a degree of
pity for a warped and perverted mind. I recall
it has always been thua. Men great enough to
maintain the favor of God have been the objects
of slander from the vacillating masses drifting
with the current of public opinion. One Servant
was hailed as king, and five days later was cmcified. "The darkness hateth the light." I sold no
more complete sets that day, although placing
a few single books. We drove borne tired but
happy, expressing our joy in the encouraging
song, "One more day's work for Jesus."
Jdy 25. Cloudy and rainy, a wonderful day
to make order out of chaos. We started in bright
and early. Who could boast of a more cozy home
than ours when twilight came? We transformed
into a k&tchapone of the four rooms we now so
proudly - o d e d . The two-burner oil stove is
there, and a barrel for a sink. A pair of deft
hands had made a cupboard from a pasteboard
box, and it gives the room the dignified appearance of a kitchen. A sitting room was created next in like manner. I t boasts of a chair

and some springs, covered with draperies I di,

covered that it had no upholstery, by pouncing
my weary limbs upon it. Near to the box of
books, the same cherished bookcase, standa the
dining table made whole by means of glue and
two nails. I t trembles when the On6 kerosene
lamp our apartment bomb of ia placed upon it.
One more box was quickly made into a dresser
f o r a bedroom; the trunk in the other room
served as a dresser when covered with a towel
With two cots in each room the sleeping roonu
were then completed, with the eole exception of
a chair, when it was not needed elsewhere. Oh!
the wash room and supply book room, the beat
of all. The books were carefully covetred; for ns
live in great haste, and the w a r n are mcrg a
d
great when scrubbing is in prooera Then a rope
wss suspen$ed from wall to wall and our towelm
carelessly but nobbily hung thereupon. A haain
upon a barrel with a mirror in front makes a
most satisfactory w a s h - h L At our feet shedr
a foot-tub, and at our right a box of W e t 6
clea Who a d d slnk for more?
July 26. With the cares of thb life attended
to we were free to depart for our far territo,~,
where the on-coming kingdom of peace and h a p
piness was to be announced by willing lips and
joyful hearts. The morning waa glorioua Aa
we spun down one of the hills which tried to be
a mountain, a touring car awiftly glided by; and
Edi-Mae and I remgniied at the errme moment
a Boston face! What joy waa ours to see someone from home! We d e d and called, but to no
avail. Could I let that car go by? No! k i d
verily we bellowed as the csr drove into a awe.
We were left behind to fight back some tears and
a lonely feeling. The lonely feeling vanished,
however, as we became absorbed in heralding
the glad tidings of great joy yet to be for all
people.
One town having been finished, the good work
was oommenced in a neighboring viilage. Several books were placed. When dusk came on our
Henry was turned about for home and the hill
which we had left in the early morning with the
lonesome feeling. No time for heartaches then
Henry decided to stop on the steepest pitch. The
gasoline had run into the back of the tank! It
was late; y e were tired; the last filling atation
had been passed miles above. The only thing
to do was to bacit'up. A car passed by. "Masr*

'

chusetta P k smiling face glanced back at na

"In trouble?" Of course we were, but hated to
say so. The d
t wan reached after a thrilling climb of a mile and s half, Edi-Mae has a
baukache tonight.
July 27. Someone had a bright idea this morning. Why not camp out over night, and then we
would be on our territory bright and e d y in
the morning? We all fell for it. Mattresses were
rolled upi bed clothing and tent packed into the
carrier, and we were off. The day was a happy
one, cheeringweary hearts and administering
the Balm of Gilead, Edi-Maeand M a r y - A m m
left w to Wh Marlow, while they took the
country roads. They faithfully canvassed every
path which had the appearance of a road. When
the cow-path ended they left Henry and walked,
often to receive no response. But it is this faithfnlnesa under adversity which f o d character,
and they returned to as with radiant faces.
Then it was time to camp. We must locate
near the shelter of a house. The site chosen wcur
near a house, and also near a pig pen, wkdt was
discovered too late. The woman was very hospitable until Honey-C alighted from the car. Of
all the looks 1
"Didn't you canvass me yesterday?"
Then we all recalled Honey-C's strange experience of the day befoie, and decided that she
must be the woman. She looked like a spiritist.
It was growing late, and the tent must be
pitched. Mary-Anne and Edi-Mae had the honor, while Honey-C and I prepared the evening
meal. The girls applied themselves to the task
like men. It waa no easy matter, ae they had
never pitched a tent before ;and darlmess overtook them. Supper waa eaten hastily, and how
good it was1 With the last mouthful a threatening storm cloud burst. One wild scramble for
the tent; no flash light; giggling and squealing
were plentiful; bnb drowsiness soon came, as
the day had been a hard one. I rolled to the end
of the tent, and dropped into slumberland.
I was awakened by startled voices. One 1002
a t Edi-Maesomething had happened while I
slept. Why was it so light in the tent? I was
bewildered. .Iknew that I should be scared, and
it didn't take much effort to feign i t
'That's the matter, Edi-Mael" I gasped in a
stage whisper.
"The dash-light to the auto has been turned
on'! The tant w u pitched over the car. I felt

too near the car for comfort. The light in the

tent was explained.
'"Mary-Anne, where is shel"
"Parading around the tent."
Whew! I preferred the inside. After anxioua
waiting she returned. No evidence of a sod, and
who would stroll about at midnight in the pelting rain to turn on a dash-light anyway? It was
n~ysterioaato be sure, but what could we do1
Honey-C decided to sleep chicken faahion,with
one eye open ;M a r y - h e and Edi-Mae decided
to stay awake the rest-of the night; but I could
not resist deep and dreams.
A sprightly jump awakened me once again.
Mary-Anne's head was hanging out 0%the tent,
and Edi Mae waa bolt upright in bed. The dashlight waa on again! Edi-Mae whispered to ma
that it went on before their very eye4 and that
Mary-Brine had jumped to the tent door at that
very moment. There was no sign of a bein&
however, on our No Man's Land. It was not a
short circuit, aa the light had been turned. W8
all told each other not to be frightened!
July 28. The escapade ended by our giving
our kind benefactress the next morning a book
entitled, "Can the Living Talk with the DeadY
Having refused even a paper previously, she
accepted this.
It was still pouring. The mattresses could n ~ t
go into the carrier now. What a Henry can carry when pressed to the occasion is a revelation.
Three mattresses were strewed hospital fashion
on the back seat; and we were laid thereupon
with suitcases, boxes, bags and books hugged
close up to our chins for coverlets. It waa rr
meniorable ride home. Edi-Mae went to bed at
high noon. At seven o'clock we all piled on her
bed, and ate onion sandwiches. On the strength
of these Edi-Mae turned over and went to sleep.
July 29. We arose a t eleven-thirty, and ate a
royal breakfast. The girls then dressed our
Henry in his best bib and tacker, while Honey-C
and I studied for the afternoon'^ lesson.
The h o d s study was refreshing and helpful
as we considered the Laodicean servant's faithfulness to the Church in proclaiming the truth$
due to be understood. We realized at what great
cost to himself he continued his proclamation
of God's gracioua plan and character, fearleasly
denouncing the creeds of men as responsible for
the gross darknesa covering the earth. Our
bearta were rcrised in supreme thadftdney 9.

* GOLDEN
God for the ooursgeom, loving ministry of this
devoted follower of the cross of Christ, and for
bringing us oat of darkness into His marvelous
light.
July 30. Off for Marlow. A most delightful
day. The auto left us at a small village, and the
girls departed for the country roada. I waa
glad that I placed my set of eight before %4
journey commenced, although I am persuaded
that a ton weight could have been carried by me
unnoticed. I had placed my set of eight boob
with a true spirit-begotten Christian. I enjoyed
sweet fellowship with the elderly man for nearly
an hour. It was a joy to hear him say that he
believed God's kingdom was mming here to
earth. He quoted frequently from Revelation.
Rvelation and Tndah are his favorite books.
JJThat pleasure was mine to place within his
hands the complete comments on every verse in
Revelation and to tell him God's due time has
come for Revelation to be understood ! The dear
man fondled the books tenderly, and my heart
burned within me. Here was a saint in bondage.
May he have the courage to obey the Maateis
call, "Come out of her, my people." With tears
in his eyes he shook hands, exclaiming, "Oh that
our churches had those who would reveal God's
plan and character as you have this afternoon;
and that we might hear their voices in our
midst 1" Qod haa opened His people's lipa and
placed a new song there, even the loving kindness of our God; and this saint recognized the
song as that of Moses and the Lamb.
The girls also had a happy day. So far, we
have placed over one hundred books; and it rejoices our hearts to leave behind us a path,
blazed with the light of truth.
Mary-Anne and Edi-Maepicked thimble-berries by the way. The berries made a nice supper.
July 31, August 1, The good work' continues.
Had many interesting experiences. Honey-C
and I met with ministers. I was prepared to
meet mine by a woman living next door. She
told me q a t she had left the church two months
previously, aa she was receiving neither food
nor comfort; the .urgent cry was money; her
eyes were openeq. She was rather skeptical at
first; but as I showed her scriptures foretelling
thia very condition, she became greatly interested. I told her that she had done the very
thing most pleaaing to the Lord in withdrawing

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from Babylon when its true condition was re+

ognized. She bought the complete set. I passed
on to the "next door." The minister's wife dhmissed me abruptly. I approached her husband
at the barn door.
"Iwould not be interested in your mesaage,"
he said.
"It is the meof the .eking up of God%
kingdom here on earth, when Hia will shall be
done here as in heaven.".
"Iam not interested ;moreover, I am a clergyman."
"Indeed 1 Then what .I have will intereat you
greatly."
"No 1"
"Inever before knew that a clerggman would
not be interested. st least to investigate the 8 6
ject of God's kingdom"
'Well, you know it now, don't youp
Yes, I d e d the word8 of the Apode:
"There shall come in the last dam scoffe~s,
walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where
is the promise of his coming?for lrinae the fstbera fell asleep, all thin0 continue aa they were
from the beginning of the creatiop."-2 Peter
3: 3 , 4
afternoon brought as to 8 wealthy oolony of
summer people. We thought little codd be done
here, but were satiefied to give 8 witnesa To
our surprise several boob were placed. One
woman, through the efforts of a colored cook in
the neighborhood, had become greatly interested
and was glad to buy "The Harp of God.'' 'The
Harp of God" was also placed at a beautiful
mansion, although we were informed by the lady
that positions as servants wonld be more remunerative than canvassing for book& We recognized the cold fact to be true. p e woman of
wealth cannot now understand the motive which
prompts to the laying down of life and the forfeiting of ease for the joy of being harbingers
of earth's new day, the Golden Age,
August 2, Four mighty tired girla Thursday
morning. We did not start out until fonr p. m.
We planned to canvass a few houses en route
to Munsonville, and camp oat again. At the first
house canvassed Mary-Anne found a man who
had the six books and was greatly interested.
He bought T h e Finished Mystery" to complete
the set, "The Harp of God" and "The World's
Distres-Why? The Bemedy." He then invited
us to camp in his yard. We did no more can-

vassing. While t&egirlaerected the tent HoneyC and I explored the barnyard and a pen of
sheep. Then we had a delicious lunch, went to
bed and to sleep.
August 3. ' T i e on the lees" for breakfast,
followed by the morning's se'rvice. We then had
great sport in lowering the tent. l&y-&me waa
inside. Edi-Mae and I let the guy ropes go, andcalled to her, "Babylon is falling 1" Then as a
just retribution it rained ! Rained 1 Every time
we camp out it rains! As Honey-C had developed a sick headache, we turned our Henry
toward home. After an h o d s riding the slry
cleared. A house appeared; it must be canvassed. "The Harp of God" was placed with a
man who said he would have to forfeit s meal
if he bought it. I told him that it waa worth it;
and I was happy in leaving the book with bim.
Honey-C waa very sick;but.nevertheless as it
had cleared, she wished ua to branch off and
do a little canvassing. We appreciated the sacrijjce; for it enabled us to place a number o t
b o o k Then Mary-Anne pointed out a road over
which an auto could not possibly pass ;but EdiMae and she wnld walk i t a mile' and a half t
What an inspiring esample of faithfulness!
They knew that only one house lay at the end of
the road. After three h o w they returned, having p M "The Harp of God." It warr p ~
noon. A quick lunch was prepared on the running board, and the repast quickly disappeared,
ambrosia was never sweeter to the gods than
those blueberries and milk were to as.
The heat waxed more and mow intense. Wlen
we reached home, Honey-C went to bed; and the
rest of ns donned our bathing snit8 and went
out hunting for something in which to bathe.
$Wediscovered only a atagnant pool, and had to
return with dry feet., Next time we'll fmd our
body of water before we dress-or undresa-for
the occasion. We were going to get cool--and
clean-somehow; aid so we had a turn of hair
washing, rinsing one another's head under the
pump. I hope to live until morning.
Angush 4, Qff for the Green Mountain State.
Edi-Mae's brother has invited us to spend a
little time s t Landgrove, and we are very glad
for a three dayfirest and change. We continue
to proclaim in a very unique way the glad tidings in every town passed through. A large
pennant was stretched across our Henry-"Milliom Now Living Wi never D
ie!' At Rocking-

ham B large car hammed by as, calling-out,

"Quite right !" I t has already aroused people's
curiosity, so that w e have placed two or threa
books.
The trip was wonderful, over winding hill9
and through sloping valleys with the majestic,
ragged peaks'of the Green Mountains contin*
ally rising before ua. A perfeet day, d we
glided along with songs of praise snd h a p p ~
thoughts. It was a change to relax quietly, amscions of no immediate work befolli na We
dwelt upon what the earth will be when it ahdl
become as the Garden of Eden. What a &ee
to contemplate earth's coming glory out th0re
with the gloriona sunlight streaming scrwr tha
meadows, casting ever changing -lights
shadows upon the mass of green! And ma^
perfected is to enjoy this paradim humel
"ItiathbportionthataodhuelaefadtegiRC
the hnmsn race. Bnd what a glorious portioPl C&r
your eyea for a moment to the scam d mimy d m
degradation and m o w that yet prarrll oa acceaa& d
rin, and picture before your menu viribn tb.
a@'
the M e e t euth. Not a stain of ain
tb,
andpeaceofaperfecta0ci~;aatrbitdtr~aotan anldnd look or word; love welling up h
h e s r t , m e e t s ~ k i n d m d ~ i n ~ a t b 4 1 ~
and. benevoience marks e v t q act. !bm
rhdl
be no more; not an ache nor pain, nor auy eridaneb d
t
decay-not
even the fear of such things Think d rll
the pictures of comparative health and bernQ of h.ormp
form and feature that you have ewer BWI, d know
that perfect humsnity w i l l be of atill ~ m r p m
IorciG
nesr The inward purity and mental and d PQC
fection will stamp and glorify eveq radhutc a m a t a ~ a
Such w i l l earth's mieQ be; and weeping bsnrrsd o n a
will have their team all wiped away, when thor
realize the resnrrection work camplet&-Bet.
21: hn

Never had my eyes beheld such contin*

changing scenes of quiet and restful beau@; and
the sunshine of God's love streamed over it all.
Perhaps other eyes might see only earth clothed
in glorious m y ; but the litth compmp, dhtinguished by ib "Millions-Now-Living-Wih
Never-Die" pennant beheld, by faith, the h e
of the Eternal Artist and the love which prompt
ed this inspired expression of His creative porn
er for man's enjoyment: "Iwill make the p h
of my feet glorious," and "Thou openest thy
hand, and satishat the desire of every l i d g
thing." Our hearts responded with a merent
' h e n , and into the fading light of day b r o b
forththe hymn of prair%: . .

'When 31 thy mercim, 0 my Ood,

My rising mP1 surveys,
Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder, love and praise''
.

At six o'clock the beautiful valley of Landgrove appeared. What a p k e to visit 1 The tent
pitched, we were welcomed to a delicious *upper
of baked beans. h o u n d the table sat five bashful boys and a baby. Such happy, wholesome
faces as those youngsters had1 I fell in love
with aU six; so I am safe.
Quess what ! After supper one of the children
said that a dance was going on "Up the road"
in the Bchool house. 1 immediately visualized
scenes in books when country folk assemble. It
wouldn't be a husking bee, but surely jmt as
amusing. I grabbed Edi-Mae and -pulled her
down the road before she knew where she waa
going. Our laughter &ally attracted the others
at the house, and several followed. A shrieking
violin headed as in the right direction. We hnrried, every nerve tingling with excitement. A
country dance I We had no money with us ;hence
no admittance. But the bank was somehow
climbed, after much stumbling over logs and
underbrush. The rhythmic atamphg of feet
and clapping of hands spurred as o n One more
desperate lunge, and we were peering over the
sill into a small, dingy room where an old-fashioned square dance was in full swing. Oh, this
was better than my expectationst I squealed
with delight, disclosing my hiding place to the
enthralled spectators along the side line, keep
ing time with head, hands and feet.
Around and around swung the roomfull. &I
extra bang, an additional shout; partners separated ; the march - began. ?Hi All hbanda
around," and partner whirled back to partner l
I had thought such wholesome sport had long
eince died, and here before my eyes were the
dances of 1775. To be sure, the powdered wig,
the velvet breeches, and hoopskirts were missing; but what were these things in comparison
to the besmirched overalls, gorgeous shirts (ties
to match) and ginghams of many colors? No
director cduld stage this. I had laughed at *st,
but heedlessly. w e awkwardness and ungainliness were only in my mind's. eye. The modern
Ichabod had rhythm in his soul and unhesitatingly chose his blushing lass, s w i n a g her in
perfect unison to the neverchanging tune. H a p
px hearts! Lifewas sweet; love was y o q , and

of
who mnldn't dance! Mate met the shy
mate. Intervening years perhaps had buried
life's morning mmance. Did the little dance in
the school house on the hill awaken love's p&
tine glow? I guessed yea Warmth stole into my
heart I t waa late when we returned; but qound
the piano we gathered, singing grand old hymrrr
until midnight.
Augast 5, 6, 7. Three days of remeation,
swimming, walking, haying and riding, with intervals of eating most heartily enjoyed. The
boys were most interesting companions Masks
Five-years-old and Master S e v e n - y d took
me for a most interesting walk while they &attered incessantly. Born natumli~tr-they ar8,
and I returned much wiser in woodlaad lo=
We left the beautiful valley home rt' n&
Edi-Mae was silent for some time. When ch&
dren come into the heart, they come to rtry; d
partings hurt.
August 8. Awakened with a lrisa Thir is -k
of the outstanding features of my v a d h .
Then the morning service, came pa&d, a d
over the hills to Mansonvilla Mreshed by oar
.
trip, we looked forward to another days setMen's hearts failing them for fear; the abwb
of trouble looming darker and d d w r ; and rn .
were privileged to tell the people to lift up their
heads and rejoioe an deliverance b nigh, tb8t
God's kingdom is the demm of all nations, f3u
panacea for earth's present troubles
books were placed with interested people+W&
'others only bore with us. Shortly every word
will be recalled as oil upon troubled water& We
told all that when the dark night cornea upon
them to remember that the morning of pas
and happiness lies just beyond; that it is darkest just before the daydawn.
A clergyman's wife bought the "Harp of Godand told me that she had sought for truth alI
her life. An hour later, I passecl by her horn
and was called back. The woman had conaidered
the words spoken. She wished to hear morq
especially concerning the return of her boy from
the "land of the eneniy." W e eat by the eide d
the road, while Honey-C opened up some of the
treasures of God's Word.
4 f only it were true!''
We spoke of Jesus' work while here on earth;
the healing of the mck, the opening of the blind- .
ed eyes, and the resurrection of the dead. Hopa
dawned on a saddened face-8 preachei~
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"Jesns calla Lazama from neither heaven on the a d u l , 'majestic gran'denr of the "forests
nor a place of torment. 'Lazarus sleepeth.' 'Mar- primeval.'' From my heart's depths welled forth
vel not a t this: for the hour is coming in the waters of superlative joys and gratitude. The
which all that are in the graves shall hear his crowded rank of sin-cursed boys was just the
voice.' This clergyman's wife would have talked framework, Eternity's Building in process. The
until sunset; but we told her to read the last finished structure would majpify the Creator's
chapter in "The Harp of God" and passed on to wisdom. Quickly I traversed time into the blilcomfort other hearts that mourn, giving them lennial Day, and there saw the bop, now men
"bauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, with perfect minds, bodies and morals, praising
the garment of praise for the spirit ot he&God' for the permission of evil and for all thcy
ness."
had suffered under the Satanic reign. Praising
Edi-Mae has wonderful success in selling. She God for the permission of evil 1 Magniffing
has interesting experiences with children, who Jehovah's wisdom, justice, love and power!
plead with their parents to buy. One child !l'hank God, I could see, by faith, the
I" and the book work 1
gasped three times, "0MI recalled a previoua conversation, "If I knew
was hia
not
(tod'a plan of the ages, 1 a d d find no enjoythe King
'Aungnst9. 0- last day
bookment
in these beauties surrounding us hem .nd
.nd ~i~ldngdom. After selling our
and the
asked
he
take it ~ 0 d be
d embittered. 1 ~ 0 d never
d
bow my he0
before o r after meals--we climbed a mountain, O r heart to Jehovah."
The am waa sinking in the west,down, down
not Piagsh'a Mountain, however, although I
should have named it such; for surely it was beyond the farthest peak. The lights and d u d
Canaan's land we gazed upon from the s d t . ow8 vanished; the mountains loomed dark a d
So far as eye could reach lay the broad expanse formidable; gradnally darkness stole o n
of monntainous horizons ;hills rising upon hills, Earth's snd had set l Then aa silently and as
peaks above peaks, on and on until the blue haze noiselessly could I see rising before me the Suu
of the &atant Green Mountains merged into of Righteousness with healing. And this Sun
the blue depths of sky line. And did the citfs v o d d never sinlcC
din, noise and selfish rush lie beyond, jut beAugust 10, 1l. Days of reminiscences and
yond these hills of green, these pesks of bluet packing.
Were there urchins there who never saw the August 12. The parting! Perhaps you think,
summer's breeze upon a field of green ;who nev- little diary, I am going to write about this ;but
er stretched tired little limbs beneath a spread- I'm not; I can't. Not only were we leaving the
ing tree which gently rustled a glad song of life1 girls, but we were leaving the kingdom work to
,Were there? A solitary wind wafted on the an- return to secular duties.
ewer, Yes, IAo-ds
and tho-ands, t h ~ m a n d s I waved good-bye; Edi-Mae stepped on the
and thousands.
gas; we lurched forward. I knew that Edi-Mae
Below me the sunshine was playing hide-and- waa crying, but I dared not look Our H e n q had
seek in the watera blown about by the gleefd never seen a crying party before and drove madbreezeit.; the b r e e z ~iped on and encircled me in ly into a carve; no more glimpses of the girls.
their wistful play. Could I respond to their Our vacation was but a memory! Seeda of hope
facetions mood, cognizant of that endless rank had been sown. God will water and give the
of little deformed and stunted bodies and minds ; incmase.
that pitifd display of upturned fw,some
Edi-Mae soon smiled through her tesra, joyweary, some *om, some wistful-a few with the fully exclaiming, 'We've sold three hundred and
gleam of fiop-thousands
and th~usandsfBut twenty books; blessed privilege, three hundred
I did respond to the surrounding beauties a the and twenty books 1" Henry's spirit was revived
B u n streamed his warm and healing rays upon when smiles appeared; and he boisterously sang
me.
over every valley, hill and mountain, "Three
I greeted the mountain-born breezes with hnndred and twenty books ;three hundred and
tingling blood and glowing pulse m I gazed u p twenty booksl"

!t%e True Philosophy of the Failure of the Churches BY

T m great hbtoric 'movements that haw
Ia Ntrue
stirred men and nations it is diftkult to obtain
philosophy of the circumstances which
led up to and culminated in.mighty epochm a g eventa. Philosophy is the application of
pure thought to the explanation of thinga
To apply pure thought to the explanation of
these events is well-nigh impossible; for a personal bias in the mind of the recorder Snvariably colors the presentation, and thus a onesided view is obtained. For example, many
writera and thinkers have endeavored to expIain the circumstrrnces that gave rise to the
Puritan movement in ~nglan&which came t6
fruition &-the time of Oliver Cromwell.
Each record reveals the bias of the writer,
toward either the Royalist or the Bepublican
side, toward either the Established Church or
Nonconformity. Thus that pure, well-balanced,
unprejudiced thought which will neither d i e
tort nor uuppresa any fact eolmected with the
c i r m c e a b p e d a r l y la&g in
made records.
The application of pure thought to the explanation of things must eventually lead to the
Creator as the great Firat Cause. St. Paul in
his letter to the Corinthians p W y states that
the world by its philosophy did not learn to
know God, the Fountain and Source of all wisdom and knowledge; but he gdded that he had
a philosophy which was not recognized by the
leaders of thought in his day.-1 Cor. 1:21,
It was a divine philosophy, one which concemed or explained the hidden purpose or plan
of God. In other words, the application of pure
thought to every problem and every movement
amongst the people must lead back to the Creator of heaven and earth, "in whom we live
and move and have oar being."
The Bible is the revelation of the mind of God.
In it we h e God's tboughts mpecting p e n t
movements which have made history; therefore
its philosophy is pure. A notable example 'of
this is in the book of Bevelation. There we
find the divine philosophy regarding the a&
lute and utter failure of the church crystem8
of today.
Th.t they are a i h n r e there can be no q u w
tion; for no less an authority than the b c h bishop of York said a few months ago that the

GW. R. swain ( ~ ~ n l o q !

people were desiring a spiritual religion. Ta

these he said :
'The church ia not r r i h e m to the truth d its

w,

Goopel; but in ita divbbm, ita ddhean, its

i t i a a n o t u ? t a c l e , ~ d m a a t ~ , ~ ~ ~

Dr. Charles Bmwn, one of the prominent free-

church leaders stated that he thought "the Laudicean spirit loathed in the New Testament war
precisely the spirit approved in the churches to-

day-* cultivated, colorless kind of digion, in

mild doses, mixed judiciously: with a considerable amomt of worldlines&"

Oflbdbtba *
ad
THE vision of the Seven
mind in some &uCIlf picTheam
ahow from the divine v i v i n t fie
development of the c b r & whose doing, a
Pages of history. In thia -krbh
viaion ood
ex~l- the ~~~ of the damward .ad increwingly degrading dourm of the k u l l e d
church and its ultipate failure.
The opening of the
seal
with the
period of history from the time of the a ~ *
At the 0 ~ k t
John to the Year 3%
chnrch had the Pure dodines of the -,as its rule of faith and P ~ C &-re
. are gym
ldized by a white horse.
These doctrines, how-,
got into the mtrd
of a class spoken of aa the rider of the howho is represented a8 having a b o ~ a, symbol
of an instrument for the dissemination of error.
This class sought to
domination over their
fellow members in the church and evenhd&
in a few words the true
~btainedit.
o s o ~ hof~ c h ~ ~ - &
his to^ for more than 200
Years is disclosedThe first step toward the failure of the no=
church so apparent today was its
action in dividing it8 membership into two
class-; namely? cler!V and h t y . The former
Boon beC:m to lord it over God's heri-,
and fo
send forth teachings of its own, contrary to h
Pure t e e m of Jews and the aportles,
They sought the favor of the rich and
ential, and became allied to the ruling
in the domination of the people. They rem
warded for their mpport of the pegan
clam by being incorporated with it, aa a POma "skuen &ah''

IN

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= GOLDEN
fd charah-state system, under the Emperor
Constantine.
- The opening of the second seal- giveir God'r
explanation of the course of the church from 325
to 539. A red home is seen, also with a rider
who is described as a sWe-maker and in possession of a great sword. Here the same class is
ahown ss controlling,. not the pure teadings
of the Word, but sinEnl (red) teachings, error,
introduced by themselves.
The sword that they wielded was not the
sword of the spirit, the Word of God,'but its
counterfeit, the creedal sword. The creeds of
Christendom were formulated during this time
and, as is well known, were the cause of bitter
strife and controversy. Error is.the root-cause
of strife.
"All truth is calm,
Befuge and mck and tower;
The more of truth the more of calm;
Its calmnus k itr power.
cTrPlthia not atlife*
Nor ir to strife allied ;
It is the ermr that is bred.
Of a r m , by rage and p r i h
"Calmnesll is truth,
And tmth M tAmlee8 still.
Truth lifb its forehead to the etorm,
Like some eternal hill."

Charles Kingsley givea a graphic picture of

the church of this period in his book entitled
"Hypatia''. He shows the bitterness of the controversies between the varions factions of the
church and the efforts of each to secure the aid
of the civil power to support its ambitions.
History relates that the outcome of the strife
culminated in the ascendancy of the Papal s y s
tern. "Black 30r8e" of Lhzrhm
HE vision of the third seal reveals a black
horse and a rider holding a pair of balances
in his hand. The further downward course of
the d o m i h t ecclesiastical system is here portrayed from 539 to 1160.Not only were its teachabsolutely contrary to the
ings black, that
Scriptarea, but the people were spiritually
rtarved by the alergy, indicated by the rider of'

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the black horse weighing out food in very spar-

ing quantities. The Bible was not allowed to be

translated into the common tongue, and the
church service%were in Latin.
The-dark age of history with dl its ignorance,
cruelty and superstition, was the direct result
of the dark teaching of the exalted clergy clasa
The fourth seal discloses events, seen from
the divine viewpoint, happening in the so-called
Christian church from 1160 to Martin Lutheia
time-1517. The vision shows a pale or ghastly
horse, with a terrible rider doing a devilish
work Cruel persecutions, tortures and murders
were the result of this rideis power. His evil
purposes were carried out by the civil powen
(beasts of the earth), and his @ere
of opetions were mainly in Enrope (the fourth lpsrt
of the earth).
The outstanding teaching and practice of ths
church of this time was that all footstep followers of Jesus were to be exterminated. So horribly cruel were the tortures inflicted by the
clergy upon those who desired to serve Qod at+
cording to the teachings of Hia Word, and not
according to the teachin@ of the c+
that
the blackest reoord of man's inhumanity to ma6
h d a its expression during this period.
&J
late as the year 1799, when Napoleon's
soldiera broke open the d u n g e o ~of the hqdsition in Spain and beheld the awful human
wrecks caused by the fiendish cruelty of the
clergy, the officers were unable to restrain their
men from running amuck and k d h g every
priest they could find.
Thns the downward and inhreaaingly degrading course of the Church is explained from
the divine viewpoint, and is therefore the true
philosophy of its failure.
'SVhile the course of the P a p y ia outlined in
the foregoing, yet it ia shown that the Proteetsnt systems developed the same characteristics
aa the mother system in their laqt for worldly
power and honor. (Revelation 17:5) They, too,
.have sought by bitter perseaations to destroy
those who proclaimed the good new8 that "the
kingdom of heaven is at hand".
God, who is causing the light of truth to t i h e
so brightly today, is weighing these false systems in the balances of divine justice; and thex
are found wanting.

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Heard-inthe Office-NO.
WAS about a week after the discussion
ItionTlastagain.
recorded that Tyler opened conversaHis whole manner seemed changed,
and his face had a brighter look. Mr. Palmer
and he were again at the office late ; and as
soon as they were left in quiet, Mr. Tyler went
over to the other and, placing his hand on his
shoulder, said: "I have good news for you,
Palmer." Then in a tone of voice that betrayed
excitement and pleasure he continued: "Iwant
to tell you that I have taken my stand for truth
and righteousness, and have given myself to
God to do His will."
Mr. Palmer shook his friend d
y by the
hand; and tears of joy started to his eye8
he said : "Iam glad. I am thankfulthat at last
you have been enabled to take this step, and am
sure you will never regret it"
.
"I do not think I shall ever regret it," Tyler
replied. '?t ia good to know that the old life
is ended, the emptiness and uncertainty gone,
and in their place have come .peace and sat&
faction. I feel very happy, and everything
seems changed like sunshine after shadow.
There is much that I have to learn, but I mean
to study. And I expect there will be diflidtiea,
but I mean to overcome them if possible."
'Tea ;there will be dillidties. The great adversary, Satan, soon makes a mark of those who
stand for Christ. The Christian's way is not an
easy one. Our Master said: 'Strait is the gate,
and narrow the way, which leadeth unto life;
and few there be that find it'- You have found
the gate of faith and consecration and by God'.
grace have entered, so that your feet are now on
the way to life. But the path is narrow and
fraught with danger and difliculty. There is no
need for fear, however; for the great Jehovah
has promised that His p e e is d c i e n t and Hie
atren@h ia made perfect in weakness- If Ood
be for as, who is he that can be against US?
"Faith wiH be needed to lay hold upon this
grace, tb grasp the exceeding great and P m
cious promises of God's Word. Works must also
accompany faith. Works cannot commend us to
God ;salvation is by faith ;but faith having been
exercised,\it must be borne out by appropriate
works. Wq do not work toward0 life, but we
are expected to work from life.
"At times the aavermry will try to discourage
you by suggesting that i t is no use try*,
that

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you will never win through. Dismiss him with

a pebble from the brook of tFnth, B 'thus d t b
the ~ o r d ' jfor Clod having began a g m d work
in you wiU bring it to completion if wubut
remain faithful. At other times Satan will try
to swing yon like a penddmn to the opposite extreme and, pointing to things you have dong
will seek to stir up pride in yonr heart And
nothing is more obnoxious toQod than
pride. F o r what have we that wg have not received, o r done that was not made p o k b l e
the CreatoF's good gifts?
"Humility, confidence and love need to be
cultivated, 80 that having pure hearts and instructed minds we may be able to rtrnd in the
testing time.
uAlthongh the Ch-r
psth ir nat m
one by reason of the opposition of the dwrsary, the b p i r i t of the world, and tb
of the flesh, yet there ia a compensating jog rrnd
rest of heart in the c o d o u s n w of brsnmanr.
with God. To know that we are right, t h t tbc.-.
heavenly Fatheis smile of a p p d b rtpon 93.
is something which cannot - be demri1Ssd in
words, but must be experienced to be understood. To have a heart in tune with the d i d
is to have a soul Wed with sweetest d&*
"Once I thought the Cbhtian'e life mbrable,
but now I know that mine was miserable in corn
parison It nays somewhere in the Bible, h i t
not, 'Once I was blind, but now I am see'y
Tea;
said by the blind
to
Jesm gave
replied Palmer.
.
Ifedthat this my -rienq
and
I
8aid qlu. have awakened to a new
T~ this palmer
tqy,Ose who
fdy
to the ~~~d
t d t e d fd a h e s a to light, from the kindom of
to the k g d o m of G ~ dear~ son.
P if^,
~ libre
and happineas are their heritage in the present
-4 8 faim,
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few
to these dismsions overh& in
the o&e.
First of sL1, they help to demon8&te how
s o m d and reasonable is the basis for the ~ h r i ,
tian's faith. There ia no need for
to
fear that their faith rests in a false security on
the quicksands of error; bat they can have a, .
earance that it is firmly grounded an the bed.

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'Y"e hiding of this mystery was illustrated truthsof repentance, consecration, j n s ~ c a t i o n ; '
by Jehovah in the construction of the taber- spirit-begetting, and-sanctification. Let us non
nacle in the wilderness and its furnishings. The trace the steps of one in the world aa he comas
inside walls of the tabernacle were covered with -to Jehovah that he might become a mexnber of
pure gold. Inside the Holy were the golden the body of Christ.
candlestick, the table covered with gold for the
n6Because of the disobedience of father
showbread, and the golden altar; and in the Adam, all of his children are born imperfect;
Nost Holy was the ark of the covenant. The aIl,sinners. "There is none righteous, no, not
tabernacle inside, therefore, was beautiful; but one." (Romans 3: 10; 5: l2) All such are out
i t was hidden from the people on the outside of harmony with God. They have no right ts
because it was covered with three heavy layers life. It has pleased Jehovah, then, during the
of cloth and skins. The priest miniatered inside Gospel age to draw to Jesar, the gmat Bat
the tabernacle, and therefore was anseen by deerner and Deliverer, thorn w b h a v e & e d u h
the people. As God thus hid these things which to come into harmony with Him.. Th6 R o p h t
were typical of greater things, so he has hidden says: 'The reverence of the Lord is ths b a g b
the glories and beauties of spiritual things, seen ning of wisdom' (Psalm 111: 10) The
only by those who have come into relationship thing esaential for one beamisg r
with H i through Christ.
an honest desire to h o w tbe
"*The Gospel Age is the antitypical day of His will. A man with this honest d d m , the&
atonement. With the J e w there was one
realizes t W h e is a sinner a n 6 k a&&; a d
each year called the day of atonement. In that he has an honest desire to
to W Rb
day the priest alone was in the Holy and the learns that Jesus is his Redeemer, and he want,
Most Holy; and even so on the antitypical day to know more about Him and to do His
Ib '
of atonement, no one is in the Holy condition his mind he does not approve the wayu of that
except those who are in relationship with world, He begins to think about the Lord d
Christ, the great high priest. The Lord has wants to know more about Him. He be&
to
been pleased to permit these during the Gospel turn his face in the right direction. When b
Age' to have some understanding of His Word, ceases to approve the c o m e of the world, he b
therefore receiving the meet and refreshing repentant to that extent. Repentance means r
music from His harp; and the light haa grown change of mind respecting one's r e l a t i o e
in brilliancy and the music in harmony as the to evil.
nnclcrstanding has increased. To the world in
QUESLlONS ON 'THE HARP OF WIY'
general, Christians have been despised becam
not understood. The Lord was misunderstood. no,
the
u h t e d in tb
hp.
'2SSatanhas tried to counterfeit every part of
nihinga? fi 321.
Jehovali's plan ;so he organized a religious 87s- Codd the priest be seen by the people while
in the tabernacle? T[ 321.
tern in the earth which is iniquitous and is
known a s "the mystery of iniquity." (2 Thessa- What is the antitypical atonement day? fi 329.
~ i c inh the anti*?
n322lonians 2 :7 ;Rwelation 17:5) This mystery of What doe8
the
fallowera
of
J
d 9 ebtb
iniquity God will destroy in His great day of Why
world ? 1 322.
vengeance, which is now on; and then the m y b
will be the ultimate end of the mystery of iniq
tery of God will be more clearly revealed to What
nig, fi 323.
mn~~kind.It is revealed to individuals now u
it important to
one wes
a mcmba
they come into Christ. It i s important, theretb,
fi 323.
fore. for US to h o w how one becomes a member A, rnde-ding
of
m]rabv
*vOIVM
rm?y DL
of the Christ, the b e a t mystery of God.
Whom hu Jehovah drawn to J e w during the Qaqml
U4The mystery of God involves an under.ge? 1325.
standing and appreciation of the fundamental h t coxutitntm repentance? 132&

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Namk 1l)

A Digest of World News

Lieutenant Governor of New were prisoners, and had a desire to give them
York, declared recently a t a convention of. their liberty.
the
Credit Men's National Association
t American business men Tirc Labor Wodd
that seventy ~ r c e n of
are economic illiterates. "The trouble with
OU'VE heard of England's patriotia exhibition at WembIey planned to boom the
them," he said, "is that they do not study the
fundamental laws of economics." He said that British Empire and arouse British patriotism,''
"certain groups appear to think that legislative says an editorial. The loyalty of America to
bodies can overcome the fundamental lawe of her own Labor industries, and the big-heartedeconomics", but this he explained is an impos- ness and magnanimity of Americans in general,
* sibility. "Two-thirds of the laws on the state may be seen in another remark made by tha
and national statute books should be wiped out ; same editor. He sap: "The great Everett Cotfor no man can read the laws that are intro- ton Mills of Lawrence, Mass., ham c~
l&N
-'a
duced in the state and national legislative bod- demand for.mlored cotton goods'. And England
ies, even if he devoted twenty-four hours a day is shipping millions of yards of colored cotton
to it."
cloth to thi8 country. The stores discover that
A novel way of smuggling narcotics into this goods sell more qadily when 'Made in Engcountry was discovered lately when $2,000,000 land'." Also, " i England, if you buy go& not
worth of drugs were found hidden away in the 'British-made,' yon are looked upon with oonhandles of scrub-brushes that Were shipped in tempt. Here, if yon insist on buying goads not
crates from Germany, the ostensible destination American-made, you sre eonsidered faahionbeing Trinidad, West Indies. I n the handles of able."
The Ohio coal-mining districts tire in exthese brushes were found 500 pounds of opium,
800 ounces of cocaine, 1,600 ounces of morphine, tremely bad condition, for the reason that
freight rates are so high that it is impossible to
and over 2,000 ounces of other drugs.
A school for sub-normal girls near Loa An- ship the coal any distance, and this restrict8 the
geles, California, was recently burned to the output of the 440 mines to local consumption.
The lull in industry continuer Production
ground. I n this fire twenty-four girls, eight to
fourteen years of age, lost their lives. When wanes, and more people are oat of employment.
firemen got to the building they found the doors Iron and steel output show8 a marked decrease,
and windows locked and barred; and only by which indicates a slowing up of building conthe breaking through of the windows, were any tracts. Carload shipments of all classes of
of the girls saved. One of the inmates, fourteen freight, except grain and livestock, are lesa than
years of age, set the building on fire purposely a year ago. Wholesale trade generally has deto destroy it in order that the girls might be creased. The textile, metal, automobile, and
freed and permitted to have a good time such leather industries are slumping the worst. There as children &I other places were having. She is a less acreage af growing crops than forhad no intention o t injuring anyone; neither merly. Money rates, have declined materially to
did she think of any of the inmates being de- quicken the pulse of indusky, but the tendenq
etroyed. She probably thought that the girls is downward.

G RetailR L ~ N ,
EORGE

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I t h raid that Wdl Street ia reaching out to

control of the nation's bread supply
through the ownerahip of the retail baking bumness. And as a resnit, the retail bakers may be
'driven out of beeinese, according to reporta
which come from Louisville, Ky., where a convention of the Retail Bakers' Association haa
been held.
ass-

FFOBTS are being made to make the hfissE

issippi River a navigable stream for freight
t r d c to St. Paul. By putting many
s

along the banks of the upper Missisippj it is

thought that a depth of six feet at low water
stage may be maintained. Already $33,000,000
have been spent. By this method the engineers
who have worked on the project are hoping to
straitjacket the river and hold it within the
limited con8nea Henry Ford is bnilding a
$10,000,000 structure at the head of navigation,
which will be used as a great distributing plant
for the Northwest; and a considerable amount
of this bnsiaess will be d e d on by steamboats.
There is a disposition on the part of some railroads to electrify their systems. The C. M. &
St. P. has many miles of eletitrification over the
Roclry Mountains. The Neg Haven road haa
now abolished steam locomotives entirely from
their system between New York city and Hartford. The Pennsylvania line is planning to complete electrification from New York to Philadelphia, and then to extend the electric motive
power to Washington and to Pittsburgh. There
is a new type of high power e l d o lmmotives
that is giving entire satisfaction ; and when once
the electrification has been installed, the operation of the trains is done at much less cost.
June 23rd, Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan
flew in his twelve-cylinder Curtis8 plane from
New Y o ~ kcity to San Francisco between nuno,
leaving at 4 o'clock a m., and arriving at 9 :44
p. m., having made five stops en route. This
-TWI the Lieutenanfa third attempt, but the h t
saci%ssful one. The weather waa good, and his
machine worked perfectly. Aside from one short
spell of n i m the a e r had no e c u l t i e s to
encounter, Considerable of the distance was
covered in faster than two-miles-a-minute time.
A postal airplane service from New York
to the Pacific coast has been started. The 3,000
miles are covered in thirty-six hours (two days

and a night), with about fourteen stops, where

mail is delivered and taken o n The airplane
postage rate is about twelve times that of the
regular rate.

M Gorrcnunant R ~ b l e m r

THE

Federal Government believes in good

roads. In 1925 $75,000,000 will be expended
for the purpose of constructing, maintaining,
and putting in good condition the highways in
every state in the Union. A specifio sum har
been allotted to $a& state. It is also proposed
by the Government to keep a cloeer inqedion
of railroad locomotives in order to keep rail.road transportation up to a high h e l of el%
ciency. There has been a h i t y along thk
but it will be reniedied.
For the Gacal year ending June 30th the 'nr*
tion has decreased i b indebtedneaa a little orsr
a billion dollars. The national indebt-nor
is only $21,339,979,477. It i n predkted that theQovermnenfs income for the year will be
*
000,000 in excess of the real ~
t
r
surplus is pointed to as a great -ph
of tlw
Republican Party." We hope that thir infotion is not campaign propaganda !Rm a p p '
priations made by the last Congress were near
the $4,000,000,000 mark We would like to m~
an itemized statement ahowing where every cent
goes. A tax survey haa been made which shorn
that fifty-five billion dollan worth of propertq
in the United States is tax exempt, of which
thirty-four billions are in Federal, State, d
Local government securities. Thh fifty-five bit
lion dollars worth of property represents about
one-sixth of the total valuation.
The Government haa brought suit againat
fifty oil companies for monopoly in price controL Moet of the fifty companies are the Standard Oil Companies of the several stat-. The
Standard Oil trust is supposed to have been dinsolved in 1911.
The recent robbery of sixty bags of mail in
Chicago, which wm systematized and worked
out with such precision, has awakened the Federal Qovernment to the fact that the mail service haa its thieves. A thoroughgoing hoase
cleaning is now in order. But they should be
careful to get Lbe right men M g Qreenwald
is doing time in the Atlanta penitentiary, being
sent up for seven and one-half years for forging
and passing postal money orderr with which he

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had nothing to do. The b o p s money orders

kept showing up; and finally the right man was
captured, and confessed to the forgery of the
entire lot. Mr. Greenwald, who had been positively identified by the buncoed merchants, wilI
now get his release. The real forger is Richard
Barry, who not only has confessed but likewise
.baa been positively identified Mr. Greenwald
never testified in his own behalf; for, it is said,
the Canadian authorities were wanting hmf and
he preferred not to have his identity disclosed.

Anarclry in '*LittleRhodia"
N RHODEw,the smallest state in the
Union, has been staged the biggest riot that
hag ever w e n placein
bericanlegislative
body. The disturbance was caused by Senator
Sherman's calling the Senate to order for the
purpose, i t is thought, to pass the annual a p
priation bill and other important legislation and
then to adjourn the Senate. Under the rules,
Senator Sherman codd preside only in the abaence of the Lieutenant Governor; m d jnat as
the aesaion etarted, the Lieutenant Governor
entered the chamber. A point of order was
raised, but the reading clerk began to call the
roll. One senator pushed the reading clerk away
from his desk. The two men grappled, and in
a short while there was a general mix-up. There
were screams from women and cheers from parti-,
while word was being sent to Governor
Flynn that a riot was in progress. High Sheriff Andrews got into the fray. The Governor
himself entered, mounted the rostrum, and canti&
the audience against disorder. Specktom heckled SmretarY of state S ~ r a f l ae n d b
reading clerk. Police resemes from every part
of the de arrived at the State House. Additional d e p n ~
s k i f f s arrived and
the Senate
lobby. An attDmpt at d j o m e n t - w = fmtrated by the Republicans; and the Democratic
minorib engaged in a fibwter, determining to
sit tight until the next morning.
The Rhode Island Senate ship of state has
long been stranded upon the rocks of deadlock.
poison-gas bomb was exploded in the Senate
chamber, and a t least two senators had to take
to their be& Twenty-two Republican members
stayed away, and @e Democrats were hampered
by the absence of a quorum. Later, 6fteen Repubfiwere arrested by High Sheriff Aneews, when they refused to resume their seats

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at the request of the Lieutenant Governor. The

Republican State Central Committeeman mnounced that he had advised the BepnMican
clenators to leave the State to escape probable
violence. Charges and counter charm were
made against the various members; and it nar
reported that thngs and gunmen were circulat
ing among Senate spectators to the peril of the
Republicans and with the connivance of Democrats. The Lieutenant Governor declared from
the rostrum that High Sheriff Andrews -was
guilty of malfeasance in permitting the arrested
Republicans to leave his custody. Governor
F l ~ n a, Democrat, assailed High sheriff b- d m for disobeying the L i e u t m t h v e m ?
and fostering a spirit of lawlessness.
The gm bomb was ehed,
and
dscalred
to have been slrillfnll~
with krdd
to
bromide- High Sherid b d r e w s hi
locate the missing BenatOrq
and doc*
laobbed UP who certified that they were wt
to attend the S e w mssiO** If a
be xmde for the h n - 9
it
k ne
is
eSv
the official
a&iitiona
priations, which cannot be made ;for no bdXheM .
a quoAt lsst
be transacted
8ce0nnts,it was declared
aW' of the
membersto return to the
The

State

Cornmitt-

Pelkey, said :
~ ~ his i.n
r h011&+fight tgainrt mob mIe
and mob violena. We are not ping to give in until wm
are assured that the &publican Senators rill not ham
their liver e
n
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me a n a r e edsting in fie ~ h -d d ~
legislative body still persists. Tbe law-makers
from the ahode r s h d hlI,
the7 are in hiding in Rutland, ~
~
whence comes the word that they are prepared
to remain there nntil the present legishtnre
goes ,,d,jm- lst meyare twgpncautions to foil efforts to kidnap them m d
them back forcibly to Providence. Meantime
the snn still shines in Rho& Island, the rain
falls, the grass grows, the trains
move, and
the -en
contime to deliver the milk to the
babies. So why the faeat Why not glow in the
fact that at least one legislative mill h a ceased
to grind its Bilage I Twenty-one &publican wnators have signed a report to the public, gieing
their reasons for not convening with the legislative body, and making grave b r g e s against

fwtioes

the LieMenant Gmernor, who is the presiding

osmr of the Sensta They d m r p him with violating h o d every parliamentary procednre,
with asing osercim meaaures inimical even to
the interests of the heath of the senators in
order to domineer, intimidate and otherwise
bulldoze them into submission to hi8 wishes

N m YOWI
TBE Democratio convention at Madison
INSquare
Garden emotionalism, sentimental-

ism, a general lapse of rationalism, and a little

reaaon went to make up the amn total of the
stock in trade. Tbe newspapers colored the proceedings according to their party atfiliationa,
but were somewhat handicapped in their discoloring proclivities by reason of the radio.
Millions who listened to the proceedings via the
radio received their iirst mental glimpse of the
horseplay and the wirepulling of the politicians.
The convention differed materially from the
"hard-boiled,madeto-order routine of the C1eveland convention of Republicans. Life was injected into the convention by the Ku Klux Rlan
and Leagae of Nations issnea
The platform makes an effdrt to face t6e
troubles the United States is up against. It
reads well; and if it could be lived up to and
enforced without friction, no doubt it would
bring some relief. But we must remember that
btifore any good thing can become lawful it
needs must go through the red-tape labyrinths
of blow, amendments, and resolutions, aceompanied with explosions of oratory from party
machine-guns, each clique, clan, or division of
the c o ~ t r pulling
y
for its individual intereab,
with the people finally getting just what big
business deigns to allow them. We think well
of the plank which M b the League of Nations proposition to a referendum; for thia
means that the people will get tbe opportunity
to express .their choice. Thh plank was adopted
in the face of a great effort made by Newton T.
Baker to pledge the Democratio party for the
Lea%a8.
Mr. Baker appealed to sentimentalism, p l e d ing with tears himself, he brought tears to the
eyes of many. He said that Mr. Wilson, the
deceased ex-preside& waa speaking through
him; that he was Wilson's voice. This waa
clearly an effort made to hypnotize his audience;
h t when it came to voting, the delegates came

out of the trance and buried the League propol '

sition a thousand fathom deep-where it belonged. The Klan plank lost by the narrow margin of 4.35 votes, the credit being partly due to
the appeal of the Democratio war-horse, W. J.
Bryan. The radio announcer said that in the
beginning of his talk: Mr. Bryan received a lot
of booze. This s o ~ d e dextremely strange of
the -m with the grape-juice reputation; but
the announcer was spelling his boos with an "k
instead of a "2." This margin of 4.35 votea
leaves it possible for the Democratic party to
maintain its solidarity-at least for the present
The candidacy of Governor Smith brought
out the question as to whether a Catholia cur
be elected president of the United Stater, Moat
of the dailyaewspapera are decidedly proXa&
olic; the galleries at Madison &.uo Garden
wen pro-Catholic; md the announcers over the
radio made the effort to appear neutraL !l!h~
best possible way to !bd out whet& a Cathalb
can. be elected preident ia to try it ancst

THEheld

Farmer-Labor-Progressive Convention
in St. Pad aocu3eding in forming a
Third Party with Dun& MacDondd of Springfield, Ill., candidate for president and Wiiam
Brouck of Sedro Woolley, Waah.; for Vice Preb
fdent. I t was hoped that Senator LaF011ette
would be the standard-bearer of this party? but
Mr. LaFollette refused to permit his name to
be used in connection with it. It is not likely
that this party will cut much of a m a t h in this
preeent canipaign.
Now for something toothsome 1 I n one week
Hty-five thousand cases of strawberries were
shipped from Benton Harbor, Michigan, to Chicago, which ia said to be the largest shipment
on record from Benton Harbor.
The Lutheran Augnstana Synod has r e m o d
'%ellmfrom the Apostles' Creed and substituted
'?lades." Hell, say they, means a place of punishment; and "hades" means, according to their
findings, the realm of the dead. Hereafter thtq
w i l l have Christ "descending into hades" instead
of helL If %ell'' is the English translation of
'%ades," what difference does it make! We are
glad that the old idea associated with hell also'
is in disrepute with our Lutheran frienda
Richard 0. Marsh, the explorer, has returned
to the United States with three white India-

.= cjoLDEN

AGE

brought from the junglss of Darien. These white with only about seven percent of the popalatiO~I
h d i a n s have golden hair, hazel eyes, and white of the United States, has more than thirty pertender skin, and have heads measuring from cent of the amount of hydro-eIectria home-powfifteen to twenty percent l a r b r than the average er. In the United States there is a development
white man's and are well proportioned. These of ninety-five hydro-electric horse-power per
scientists who claim man sprang from monkey- thousand inhabitants ;while in Canada there is a
hood are rushing into print, denying the pos- hydro-electric development of 350 home-power
sibility of &ding any such specimens of hu- for each one thousand inhabitants.
manity. It wig be wonderful if they ~Uweedin
But this is not all. In Canada,this hydro-elecfooling the tape-line as they have the evolu- tric power belongs to the people and constitutes
tionist.
a wonderful asset; while in the United States of
The winter in Newfoundlaad was one of the c o m e all the hydro-electric power, like everymildest of which there is rinv r ~ o r d . Very thing else in the country, belongs to the great
little arctic field ice has drifted south this Year- corporations. These corporations in the recent
The International Ice Patrol at Halifax reports past have manifested extraordinary interest in
that the temperature of the sea covering 35,000 cooperating with the Secretary of the Interior
square miles at the Grand Banks of Newfound- and other officials at Washington in disposing
land was seven degrees warmer than normal of the assets of the American people. The effect
this spring. Similar conditions were found in of the Canadian policy is to enrich the common
other north Atlantic waters. Some *own
people ;the effect of the h e r i c a n policy is to
physical causes are raising the temperature of rob them.
vast areas of water in the north; and this no
doubt will have an appreciable influence upon Mk&o
the climatic condition of the northern hemiHE &tions between ~h~
and dritainare
sphere.
seriously strained, so much so in fact that
Many violent d o m a have visited different the M
~ G~~~~~~~
G
~
~ expelledthe ~~i~
parts of the United States within the last three ish
fr, ~
~
~ from ~~i~
b
-~
months. Hail storms, cloud bursts, excessive heat ~ i t p B~~
, COnditiona
amqbont the mmtvus
waves? and u n ~ u d high
y
Winds
have played qniet, and the futme s~
-onably
s e m
havoc with mowing crops, destroyed b n i l d i n ~ ,
8 msdt the MeAcan
ha. been reduced
washed away concrete bridges, interfered with by 35,000 men, leavinga total
tom of
transportation, killed many people, and de- 60,000
stroyed millions, of dollars worth of property.
The worst storms were in Tennessee, Minnesota, aaiti
South Dakota, and Ohio. At Lorain over sixty
BZT1: has made an endeavor 0 secure,
are dead, 7,000 are homeless, and property loss
through one of the bodies connected with
reaches $25,000,000. At Cleveland, Sandusky,
Port Clinton, Akron, Alliance, and Youngstown the LeWW of Natio-9 a protest against the
are many dead and much property loss. Six continued Presence of American mar he^ in
cottages were blown down at Cedar Point; some H a i t i The United States has several times anautomobiles with their occupants were swept nounced its intention of recalling these marines
into the lake. PittsburgK, Pa, and Buffalo, N. as soon 8s a dependable government is estab
Y., were in the path of the storm id its waning Lshed in Haiti
strength.
Colombia
Canada
GENTS of the Colomhian Government in
New York city are planning the organizaANADA is fortunately situated in having
great water-ppwer resources within a short tion of two airplanes routes between North and
distance of her most important industrial cen- South American. One of these routes will be
ters. She is also fortunate in having statesmen from New York via New Orleans and the westwho realize the values of these water-power re- ern shores of the Gulf of Mexico, through Mexsources to the people. As a consequence Canada, ico and Central America to the west coast ad

South 'America; while the other route will be

down the Atlantio Seaboard to Cubs and thence
around the eastern end of the Caribbean Sea,
up the Orinoco Biver and down the Amazon to
B d and the Parana to Argentina By this
route the larmst distance between islands is
only seventy-8ve miles. If this plan succeeds,
it
make a marked difference in the
mrvice between North and South America .
&rrril

D E S P A T C H E S tell of the b d g of Bibles

at O l i w Brazil. This is a narrow-mindd piece of business that cannot do the Bible
burners any good, but can only harm their cameIt is no mom intelligent and no mere effective
than the burning of Pastor Russell's "Studies
in the Scriptures," which has many times oc
curred in the United States at the command of
so-called Protestant Evangelists- The only effect was to make the common people study the
books. Probably the effect in Brazil will be to
get some people to study the Bible who otherwise would not have done so.

Chile

ruin opening
the new Beg
sion of Con(l~s8h a -orneed
h& intention of sending a message to the Chilean Congress requesting a separation of church and
state.

A~

routes cost $27, aad the trip requires twentyfour hours. Five aerial routes to various pointa
radiate from Paris,. six from Brussels, five from
Prague, five from Warsaw,
and four from Be-

lin.

GIWf Bn'tain
NGwD,
one of the most dying and femE
c i o ~Land-grabbing governmentwin tho
world, is experiencing asoftening of the heart

'

In the past she has been noted for piraky a d

robbery in hdPing hers& to g n a t
territory to which
had no right She aher conscience, presumably, with the though6
that it wan better for the people of difirent
colom and different l a n w s to
conhm
governed by the rnperior white En&&,
s p e ~ people.
g
~n harmony with a. p-.
promise
by Britain to Italy becam
latter joined the Entente, Enland. has ww rsl
linqnished her hold on J n b h d , It is *&&
that England upon
-on#
has &
the offer to restore (3ibralt.r to Spain, bo)tgrt
each of these offers was turned down by h
Madrid Government. I t is said that today Spria
bitterly regrets the rejection of these ofhrr.
The offer will probably not be repeated 10t
of mind, -&
as S P in
~ her ~ r e m frwe may not be able now to diacern the w i d o m
of England in turning back Jubala.nd to Italy.
Spain

Dictator of Spain, Generd Prima de

THERivera,
a man of seventy-two titles. When
~ the King
e ofisSpain
~
introduced
~ the~Dictator~to

London to the most important points in France, the King of Italy, Alfonso said to Ehmanael:
Sdtzerlan4 Belgnm, ~ ~ l~~~~k
l a ar-"Here is my Mussolini." It is even true. Riven
&thonia, btsia, ~~i~ H ~ is-a second edition of Mussolhi, but is said to
rmny,
gary, ~ ~ ~ ~
~ornnani.,
l ~ ~and i ~ a~ ,k ~
I., be. an inferior copy. Rivera has referred to Mns=
solini as a master of energy and patriotism, and
soon to be started that
addition, lines
include Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, states that when he parted with the Italian DiaItaly, Greece, Egypt, Xesopotamia, and h i a tator he not only shook hands with Mussolini,
line is drrady oprating from south- but gave him a heart-to-heart embrace. It ia to
Minor.
em France through Spain to Morocco and Al- laugh.
Among the educational institutions of Spain
gienr. Other b e a are projected to Portngal,
that
have been suppressed as unnecessary
Corsica, and Sardinia
De
Rivera,
the Spanish Dictator, are the b
It will be seen from this how -idhitely far
.head of the United States Emope is in the ed.Eduation C o d 8 i o & the Nmsed T d
matter of aerial traveL The air tickets from ing Schools, the School for Agriculhre, the
Inndon to Berlin cost $36, and the trip takes stitUte for Applied Mechania, the Department
eight hours; while the tickets by. rail and water of Geographic and Geological Topography, ~d

>EN AGE

. t -T a

nke he Soviet Government of Rnsaia Thua we

have the interesting spectacle of p w t i d j th.
whole world recognizing the Soviet Government,
except the United States Government, which
will have nothing to do with i t If it seems who
for Britain and France and Italy to make aomo
kind of trading arrangement with Russia, wo
are nnable to set why it would not be eq-,
wise for the United States to do the same.
I t is expected that between 4,000 and 5,000
nwuM
German children w i l l spend their summer in
W C E is trying to get under headway with France, this being a part of the plan of the worka new president. She now has a Protestant ing people in France to show their sympathy for
president; and the government ia in charge of the poor of Germany.
a radical Socialist by the name of Herriot, who
is now the Prime Minister. A new cabinet has GcrarcuV
been formed, whieh will endeavor to take the
WRITER in t3ie New Yo* 'dmmkma a
h
that the -Communistic vote ia Gemany,
iron teeth out of the laws and regulation8 put.
in motion by P o i n d . AE a good start Herriot w3hA was 589,000 in 1920,was 3,746,671 in th.
has opened the Ruhr t o seven thousand Germans last Reichstag election. This indicates the swift
The num
who were d e d by Poincar6. Efforts will be plunge of Germany into Coxurnmade to reduce the tension existing between ber of Communistic deputiea has increaeed from France and Germany, aiao to make a reduction three to sixty-two. This m i t e r ahown that tho
in the army and to bring about a general easing evident reason for this ia that the net income
up of the feverish conditions that are irritatkg of the average German is now calca3ated to be
the French republic. There will &.be an effort almost exactly one-half of what it waa befon
to bring about more friendly relatiom with Eng- the war; while his coat of living ia .Imort ex-'
land; for Herriot has had a personal interview actly twice aa high. In other words, the averaga
with MacDonald, the British Premier, for the German today can live only one-fourth UI well
purpose of having a better understanding of rrs he did before the war. If these figma ara
what must be done to pacify, if possible, the true, it would seem, in a world which bur been
whole of Europe. It is intimated that there will made safe for democracy, that it is airno&
be an evacuation of the Ruhr, but not until after enongh to drive any people into de~perateexfavorable action ia taken on the Dawes report. periments in government. The claim ia persirHowever, one cannot tell one day what will tently made that one of the fundamental prindples of Comrnnnism is the s e h of present
transpire the next.
by riot.
Edward Herriot has announaed that the gov-ts
Ewnch Embassy to the Vatican will be with- It is said that a revolt in Germany at the
drawn. It is certainly a remarkable tarn of af- present time is impossible. This statement ia
fairs that leaves Protestant Britain with an probably based upon a large membership in the
Embassy at the Vatican and the Catholic France "Republic Defence League," which is supposed
to balance the power of the Communists and to
without one.
A French newspaper correspondent, referring neutralize the spirit of rebellion that is smolderto the visit of the French Prime Minister to the ing beneath the surface.
Evidently the Dawes Plan for paciying tho
British Prime Minister and to the apparent sue
eess of thq visit, has made the statement that enemies of Germany is not altogether satisfac"0th Premiers are full of coddencle that-the tory to Germany; a prcuninent naval official hu
ditficulties with which they are faced can be made the statement that industrial Germany
solved. If ever there was a chance of bringing "cannot be horaewhipped into making the payback peace to Europe, it m a y well be thia chance, ments demanded by the Dawes report; not at
and perhaps it is the last."
least until the Versaines Treaty is thoroughly
The Freneh Government has decided to recog- observed and recognized eveqwhera"

the Industrial University for4pplied Art and

Crafts. Thousands of students have thus been
deprived of the opportunity of gaining an education, The Spanish Dictator seems to have
concluded that brains are a detriment to the
Spanish people. How much longer the Span*
people w i l l submit to being dominated by the
present combination of fqrce and hypocrisyl is
hard to foretell.

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The Situation in England By J a w s A i t k m (Lodon)

ODAY in Great Britain we' are witnessing
T
the greateat change in government that has
ever taken piam in the history of the country.

hia politics is his religion. But let it be clear

that however sincere and honest a man or a
party may be, they cannot adequately d e d with
A party which has never before been in office the human heart, which is, in the last analysis,
now forma the administration, and what haa oc- the real seat of the trouble. Divine intervention,
cnrred may properly be looked upon as a blood- and that only, can solve the world-problem of
less revolution. Many have said that the Labor today.
Part7 is not capabfe of governing the corntry;
The most momentons event in the world's his
bat in view of recent events this opinion Seem8 tory is the establishhg of
h g d O m among
to have been modifid, and the cry of ''Fair men. Yet today one general class is opposed to
taken its place- m e attihde of the this reign of equity. This class embraces all
Plsy"
older parties seems truly to be:
who love not the Golden Rule; but instead of
are in a
we
not been dle,,t loving others as themselves these are willing
With opr to see them crushed, oppressed, and denied the
pnt them %ht. ~h~ couwis in a
unemployment, house shortage, and trade depression we reasonable rewards and comforts of toil, in orbid fair to more serious trouble. Why not let the Labor der that they may divert themselves in luxury.
P e ,which h a for so long criticized M while in op When the Lord's kingdomi is mentioned, they
position, ,b
a term of government and realize mom smile and have fear for the mentality of the
fully the magnitnde of these problem 2"
.kingdom messenger. When a Labor AdminisStill others, of the older school, say: '?f the tration i s imminent they see red hga and Bdin their sleep " m e country [which
Socialist Party is allowed to control the affairs sheviks
of our nation, the country will go to the dogs." meam t h e ~ e l v e s lis going to the dogs [which
today tells verJ plain- means the 0 t h fellow-the outsider]." They
e6dence before
17 that in all countries of the world previons see their stock&share% and aiugOtteng a i ~
parties have failed to govern their respective en from them in taxation to Pay the price of a
fonght for them
c m t r i w -8sfallp;
i e., with a view to the war they fomented, which
War which
happiness of their subjects. Surely the only true and their
proof as to whether a gom-ent
sumsaful
the death thonsand8 of
young
or not must be f-d
in the homes of the people. men, and which left thousmore in a
If prosperity rules in a country, and if happi- tomb of starvation and misery. It ia thia dasa
ness, contentment, peace and love are the ruling which is opposed to the kingdom, and which
futon in the lives of the psople,then fie gar- realizes that if such a kingdom as the Bible foreernment securing this has been successful. Who tells were set up, then society would be leveled,
shall quarrel with as, then, when we say that and "they alone would eat who labor."
on the basb of the past 6,000 years of governT ~ didYBurns write: ''Man's inh-b
to
ment by men and parties of men, the Labor or
makes countless t h ~ m a n d s~
0 But~
Socialist Party, even if it had a working
the poet seems to have had a glimpse of somefail to thing better when he concluded: "This partial
jority in the H~~~ of Commons,
this view of hnmankind is sllldy not the last.
It
achieve the sumssindicated, We -te
weu bowing t. the L h r party k the only is not strange, then, under such conditions that
one w t l y aiming a t the betterment of the we have Slocialists in our midsf who M Y ,
grasp the fundamental principles of righteousmassea
In the Labor Party are men of outstanding ness, recognizing man's ~ ~ m m obrotherhood,
n
and ability, men who have not been et% 88 some of their writings so beantifully
afraid to stand for their convictions, and even show- With the light of the dawning new day
to suffer a p h n m e n t for faithfulness to their now shining, and the education and enlightenprinciples. -Many are rough diamonds ;some are ment it involves, comes a keen redbation t h s t
&reme in their vi,ews. The true Socialist, hor- thine am not as the). should b,that there is
ever, the genuine one, is striving after an ideal, something VerJ Wrong in a world where the
k sdf-sacrificiw, with honest desire to uplift uatural resources and wealth are more than safhis fellowmen and to make them happy. To him ficient for the well-being. and happiness' of aL

Lim

746

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"

WLDM AGE
On Tuesday, January 15tb, 1923, the King of
the greatest empire on earth delivered a speech
to his "Lords and Members of the House of
Commons." This speech was a forced one, dictated by the Prime Minister, the leader of a
defeated party, and delivered before what has
been called "the Mother of Parliaments." In the
House of Lords the scene was b f i a n t - s u r passed only by the coronation of a king or a
pope; princes, dukes and peera in their best
Sunday clothes, and their ladies lavishly dressed
and bedecked with jewels of rare value, were
assembled, together with a number of "the faithful Commons," Foreign Bmbassadors and Representatives. The King spoke for twenty minutes and touched on various problems. He cornmenced : "My Lords and Members of the 3 0 m e
of Commons: My relations with Foreign Powers continue to be friendly"; and a little later on
he says: "Yon will also be asked to assist in
providing work in the shipbuilding industry
7 3 5 7 the immediate construction of cruisers and
auxiliary craft in anticipation of the Naval Program." I t is significant that Mr. Jack Jonea, an
ardent admirer of the Upper Chamber, did not
add: "Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world
of sin." His Majesty concluded with the words,
"And I pray that the blessing of Almighty (30d
may rest upon your deliberations."
The different clauses of the speech are vague ;
and it certainly would avail nothing to criticize them here. But one thing we wouM impress; viz., that here the King of the Greatest
Empire on earth, sp_eaking before the "Mother
of Parliccmds," amidst the assembled Princes,
Dukes and Peers, and the lavish display of dress
and jeuqels, delivers a speech contai.ning 1,200
words, the longest on record, and yet a few dug;
Inter, with an amendment codaitzing only twty-three words the w h l e thing becomes little
more thqz a farce.
- In the House of Commons the position is such
that no party has the power or authority to
govern the country freely; and before long another general election will result.

Resent Gove)nment0r Aims Are Ided

I-IE amen-hent was moved by the Labor
Party, and with $he support of the Liberal
Part it brought about the downfall of the Conserv tive Government. Now that the Labor
Party is in power, it is claimed by its supporters

that "things will changeyy;and that eventually,

if it ia given the necessary time, it will so gov- ,
ern that the people will be happy. What is its
policy? In brief we would sum up the general policy of the Labor and Socialist Party to be
one that is directed against the present unevenly
balanced social and economic system; a p a l i q
which' aims at altering affairs so that every
man, woman and child may have equal privileges, and may enjoy those things which the
earth has to give in return for honest and reasonable toil. This program aims at a government "of the people, by the people, and for the
people" as a whole and not for the privileged
few. To do this, without LL doubt they must alter
the whole strnctnre of present-day civilization
until, as they my, all will be happy and contented and enjoy to the f i "the sweets of life." Mr.
Philip Snowden, now Labor Chancellor of the ,
Exchequer, picturing the end that the Sociaht
Party has in view, in his book, T h e Christ That
Is to Be," page 12 says:
"And when thin mcial ided shall be a n i v u d y m=
cepted.. I reemenfreed from arduouatoil by the
gifts of nature being freely shared. : I aee an i n b
trial order where every ximn for a fair day's work hna a
bo~mtifulharvest, and abundsnt leisure when his neces-.
sary toil in dona . . . I aes our modern town owept
away. . . I nee everywhere a change come over the
landscape ;every meadow m i l e s with plenty, every valley
blassoms as the meyevery hill is green with the glory
of Lebanon. I 'see a revived art and a revived literature ;
I see a people healthy, happy, cultured7contented, whose
health is life, full and free, whose way8.a.m raps of
pleasantness, whoee flowery paths are paths of pence."

..

Mr. Snowden is to be complimented on the

knowledge he hns of the kingdom of God, for
very Ian- the above picture is none els-the
guageis Scriptural. It bringa to lnind the word8
.
of the late Pastor Russell in STUDIES
IN THE
SCRIPTURES,Vo1. 1, page 191:
"Close your eyes for a moment to the scenes of miaery
and woe
. and picture before your mental vision the
glory of a perfect earth. Not a stain of 6ix1 . ... not 8
bitter thought
unkind look or word
love welling up from every beart meeting 8 kindred reapouse in
every other heart . . . "

..

.. .

...

The picture is the same;'bntthe fundamentrd

difference between these writers is this, that
whereas the Socialist says that his Utopia will
be brought about by education and governmental changes 'bniversally accepted," the Chistian
says : "Yes ; the people must be educated, but.

this education and these governmental changes which will have power and authority to carry
~ v11i be brought about, and can be brougbt about out its program, being able also to deal effe c t i w
only by the inauguration of Messiah's kingdom,

ly with the human heart and the wrong doer.'@

Money By A. H.Kent

THERE

has been no subject discussed in T m

Go~~err
AGE, possibly excepting hygiene,
that shows a greater diversity of opinion than
that of money, what it should be and how it
should function Some people believe the gold
standard best; some advocate bimetallism;
others a commodity dollar; still others a credit
checking system; then there are those who think
the Government's fiat or decree is all that is
necessary to secure paper currency.
,
Yrnnev is a term applied to any currency used
in buying or selling. Originally, gold and silver
became valued because of their fmeness opmetal
Being very pliable and fusing at a low heat they
could readily be hammered or molded into useful or ornamental articles ; and so they have always continued to be in demand. The love of
adornment has done much to keep the precious
metals at a high ratio as 'compared to other
products.
Free and unlimited coinage of gold keeps gold
specie,, bar metal, and dust a t par, while the
price of ornaments is determined by the wage of
the artificer and the profit of the jeweler. When
gold is said to be at par it is in comparison to
the securities by which it is purchased. The
government stamp on a gold coin guarantees to
its owner a legal amount of gold of a certain
fineness. Additionally, the stamp on a silver
dollar guarantees it to pass aa legal tender in
all amounts a t its legal ratio with gold; while
bar silver varies much. The stamp on gold does
not change it. It is still a product of value to
be exchanged for other values. The value of
gold is apid to be stable because it is used as a
standard by which to compare other values.
When in the markets the parity of gold and
othcr products varies, it is because of a change
in the necessity or desire of those trading.
Suppose biheat or any other one product would
have been -made the world's standard of value
and legal tender in payment of all bills, the effect would have been the same as with gold. Orle
person would have been short of wheat to meet

his expenses. The elevator would have had

wheat to loan on approved security a t the legal
-rate of increase; checks would have been given
on the elevator; the parity between wheat and
other products would have been guessed at o r
bargained; speculation and big profits would
have gone on merrily, collecting the wealth into
the hands of a few.
Or, instead of that, suppose the government
would have printed on cmrency paper, "This u
legal tender at face value in p a m n t o t aU
bills," and passed them out in payment of em
penses or otherwise without any gaarantee o r
provision for their redemption, only that ther
\vould be received in payment of taxea Is thsm
reason to believe that the parity with prodwt
of such currency could be sustainedt IVoatd it
command the confidence of people who in private transactions demand something of intrinsic
vdue or paper secured by a value of a d e h e d
amount and End? Should not a government
trade with its people on the
sound baaist
When yaa accept a 6st dollar you have no
assurance that it is worth anything in return,
except to pay debts ; for that is rrll the government guarantees. A gold certificate will not oniy
pay your debts but is the equivalent of 25.8
grains of standard gold for each dollar it r e p
resents, and at any time can be exchanged for
that amount. That is the stablizing influence of
the gold standard, and is good a s far as it goes.
A fiat dollar could be hoarded, loaned at interest, used in speculation, gambled with, and
devoted to all the devilment that could be expected of a good honest gold dollar, provided,
however, that you could find anyone who wanted
it. It would surely be a cheap way of paying
our debts. But why not also save the paper and
ink and have the government decree the debts
e d ? This, to the writeir understanding,
would amountto practically the same thing.
When gold bonds are used as a base for currency, and the government's ability to pay is
questioned, the currency depreciates to that

amount. The public are learning, and wisely so,

to keep their eye on the secmity and not on the
denomation of the paper. Our paper currency is
simply a demand note secured by a value of a
defined character. When the custom startedaf
issuing-such currency the way was opened to use
any stable value as its basis.

ardizing the price of labor and product womld

cat out the landlord system, also the &ling
profit system, and would release the energiea
of the people. If their wealth did for a time 'get
into the hands of outsiders the people would
be receiving the full product of their labor and
could soon buy it back in their own right
Institute mch a system; and we w i l l venture
Commodity DoUar Famrablg Seen
an opinion: There will be no rnorekara "in the
T
H
E commodity dollar is coming into favor, interest of democracy," for two reasom; firat,
and rightly so. Product is the basis of all when wealth and influences 6nd that they must
commercial exchange; and a currency represent- pay the price of their folly they will say T o " ;
ing it, and secured by it, would be an ideal me- second, democracy will then have became an scd i m of exchange. There is an enormous wealth complishid fact.
of snrplw produd that, if used as a base for
Gold is the recognized standard of value for
currency, would obviate the necessity of ism- international trade, and i t will not
wine to
ing bonds or any other form of interest-bearing discontinue its
until we b y e found 80Paper.
thing to 'take its place. or have establbhed haiWith standard prices based on labor cost ev- ness relatiom among nations on the principle
ery value in the nation could be used as a basis of an equal exchange of values. Any trade belfor paper cnrrency; but as long 88 gold used ance must be paid in something; if not in gold
as the world's standard for comparing other or other product, then w h t t
values it wodd be necessary to keep
a- "The loveof money is -t of d m ; j+
rency at par therewith. This can be done by US- there is no evil but has st timeI been caad
ing the average labor cost of gold p r o d d o n the loveof money. 1t eqdT
a
as a wage basis for all production.
generous use of money is a great blessing. N+
When all producb induding gold and silver* where in the Bible ia the proper m e of mone~,
is produced on the same labor cost basis and condemoed;
is far sl my howledge
priced at labor cost and relative value, the there is no hint that ib nee
e m be -m
soundness or stability of apaper currency based timed. ~~t that the e% hg
from
on one product wodd be the same as another. g,,
me of money
be corntea, no beWhether the government passed out a m e n c y liever in the Bible
deny.
or issued credit as a dheclJng account, or both,
The Bible condemns 118nryand incme
on receipt of producf would be of little conse- ea.se
be pmtised aithout wohg
quena ;in either case the product
from th.workbe the injustice- Bemove that
extending the base for
ings of trade, and
s e b t S . But if,
system of c-ncy
&
rency to other products besides gold axid silver cmed by the
of product a
it
the c o m t Were
~
put on a m h basis9 and
dowd
no don^
h o d & Increase could,
legal b a d reserves were released, and s ~ e o u k - oodd,
prac,imd
if
had no
tion was eliminated, it is probable that our preb money. We mention these things inproof of
ent volume of currency would be ample.
If Cte-T
and other oountries
that are shod our contention that it is not the kind of monex
of gold and silver on which to base their nu- that is mOng but the way we re*te
of proan& is in
renoy, would stabilize their other products on a m e inMtice in the
parity with gold and use them as a.basis for the price at which they are bartered, and snp
paper currency, it would release their gold and corrective measure that does notrecognize thir
sllver for international business. Rightly stsnd- fact will be of little avail.

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it choiar whereby the pa&'

Kneela betore hi. motkr'r drs?
In hls black tent dld the Tartar
Choose hi# wandering

"18

"He aloae, alum band b bounding

Human power and bmu8n km.

Loolrtng through a c h 0011l*8 muroundlal,
6lnoae it. good or iL1

C w the M y Well

From the Pathfin&*

T H E right una of the body h essential to the a t its best, when the body is erect, with the
best health. Tha varioun organa cannot fnnc- cheat held up. A person atanding straight haa
tion properly unleaa the body receives constant
caret and is carried in an upright position The
commandant of the Army War College a t Washington, D. C., issued the following instructions
to stndent officers: "Stand up, sit up, stand t d ,
sit tall, throw the chest out, make the waist flat,
stand and walk forward on the feet, and be
strong and healthy." They apply equally well
to any person who desires health and good a p
pearance.
When the head is held up, with the chin drawn
in, tbe blood is allowed to flow freely to the
brain; as a result the wits are most keen
Breathing is easier, and the blood circulation is

much better color than when the body is drooped

and the abdominal organa have a better chance
to work.
Both old and young ehodd practise drawing
up to their full height. Draw in the chin, pull
up the chest, draw in the waist, and feel the
weight chiefly on the front part of ths feed.
Feel tall and walk along as if you own the town
[not proudly] ; not as if you are ashamed of
yourself and everything. When sitting, keep the
same poaition as when standing. Bend the body
at the hips, not at the waist line. When in h?d
stretch out whether lying on the back, face o r
s i d d o not buckle in the middls

Woodrow Wilson, Deceased

E HAVE no particular desire to magnify his place as one of the three greatest Amerihn
either the virtues o r the failings of any immortals." How "all w i l l concede" to SOman, especially-when the man is dead; but the thing that is "out of the question for people to:
death of ex-President Wilson has led some our agree on" is surely reasoning on a p b that ia
contemwraries to such extremes of laudation
over hi& that we feel Lite offering a few calm
s~ge%tions Endeavon have been made
place
him on a par with Jesus Christ.
Not
have some
the
taken zeal, proposed to make him one with
Washington and Lincoln, but one of them went
SO far as to quote from Hebrews 11:38, the
puenthetical statement of St. Pad in hia reference to the ancient worthies of Old Testament
times, saying, "Of whom the world was not
worthy!' One preacher said that the ideals of
the former president were so lofty that they
could not be comprehended by the many, and the
reason given wrra "because of their dwelling in
lower altitudeam
The periodical which gives ns the material for
thia editorial, in its laudation of the dead man
seem as ambiguous in its praises aa Mr. Wison
was in many of his speeches and writin* Perhaps, afte* all, it is the viewpoint. The article
starts out by saying that it is "out of the qu*
tion for people to agree on the stature of a
great historic f i b like that of Woodrow Widron. Passionate admirers will magnify and bitter foes will minimize that stature," etc. And
then it adds: -"All will concede that he takes

beyond us.
wu grnS keuu
dutd
tin,,& w.l great,
ha ndf.. unb;
Wilson wan great, because ba headed the nation duringt b World War, and g m the
the id& of & w d
through internatiodunitp and unae,,*=

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We quote further, showing what o r q a u t h m

means by Mr. Wilson's unseffishnem:
Imm tb. pbinct
b.
UBry(Ln
wh muld not
W w tor#d ht, - B

b*,

out

wd

-t.r,

,,f

wu

of radical ,jiflemnm Wcr ,ingb t

d
m i n a as he called it; he wmted hh
he awhi.
c o m e CIWI~; and ha vu convinced th.t w e x p e
wrong who did not eee things or he did.
H e d6

t,-

...

noanced as 'mtemptible quitterr' and ' p ~ y - m i d d

men' the enatom and others, of both part@ who nrof Nati0= m w t
fd - ~ t the -8
When
thin
nation re&
to honor
hshadmodc
th.
wk b;
tht th. mLoq and n&
ay wrong."

I t would seem from the above that Mr.Wileon

was self-willed, so domineering and self-righteous that the opinion of others was not worth a

whip-stitch to him. The greatness of Abraham

Lincoln was in his condescension to othera, his

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respect for the opinions and advice of his associatcs ;and often he traveled many miles to consult others of recognized ability.
The greatness of these two men is further
shown by another sharp contrast: Lincoln was
reverential, he trusted God and worshiped the
Almighty, as is shown by his speeches and pro*
lamations ;while-Wilsonin his masterpiece, the
League of Nations covenant, leaves the 83mighty out of consideration, for the reason that
if any one was to get the glory for establishing
universal peace it was to come to him!
The Bible shows that there would be an attempt made a t this time to bring in world-wide
peace, without consulting the Blmightyas to the
ways and means.by which i b should be established. The Prophet says: "The kings of the
earth set themselves, and the rulers f i e oounsel
together, against the Lord, and against his
anointed."
How was this done 7 Evidently in the Leagne
* of Nations pact It was heralded as the "political expression of the kingdom of God on earth"
-without consulting God or Jesus Christ
Jesus spoke a parable of himself as a nobleman going into a far country, receiving a kingdom, and returning; and on his return the attitude of the self-willed, arrogant people is r e p
resented in their saying, 'We will not have this
man to reign over us." (Luke-19 :14) But it is
said of the rightful Ruler of earth : "Thou shalt
break them with a rod of iron; thou shdt dash
them in pieces like a potteis vesselw-Psalm
2 :2, 9.
The League of Xations was anticipated and
warned against in the following: "A.ssociate
yourselves, 0 ye people, and ye shall be broken
in pieces: and give ear, all ye of far [unrighteons] countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall
be broken in pieces; gird yonrselves, and ye
shall be broken in pieces. Take counsel together,
and i t sh@l come to nought; speak the word,
and it s h d not stand." But the Lord said to
His people, those of the holy-or righteous nation,-t& txk Christians :
ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall
say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear,
nor be afraid [of the things they are afraid of,
but] sanctify the Ls@ of hosts hirnsedf ; and let
him be yonr fear, and let him be yonr dread.
And he shall be [to you] for a sanctuary; bat
[to those who desire a confederaq or a league

"ay

He will be] for a stone of stumbling anil for r

rock of offense to both the houses of Israel."
(Isaiah 8 :9-14) The phrase, "to both the houses
of Israel," means to the nominal Israelites after
the flesh at the first advent of Christ, and the
nominal Israelites after the spirit (socalled
Christians) at the second advent
So infallible was Mr. Wilson that he took his
opponents to task, saying, 7 have seen fools
resist Providence befo're, and I have seen their
destruction, as 'will come upon these a g a b u t ter destruction and contemptn We will now
qnote the laudation following this statement
from the magazine whence our information
comes :
"No one d d veice each 8 malediction u tb.t o'nlerr
he felt that hewasan inspired.' '
4oftbeAlmighty-and that h what W h beliersd hhmdf ta
be."
The deposed Czar of Bussia had an "hd'
ear; the exiled Kaiser of Qarnrsny had an "in-

ner" ear; and here is evidence that the author

of the repudiated "forurteen points" had a k ur
"innei' ear. An "inneP .ear mean, tha the
source of the inspiration cotjoee not from the
God of heaven but from the "god of this world,"
whose cause he was serving in trying to reestablish the old order of things upon the rotten
foundation of a withering civilization.
A domineering, ovemdimg, self-rigatwuu,
self-wise spirit among the children of men does
not come .from the God of heaven. The days of
plenary inspiration departed with the death of
the writers of the New Testament, about nineteen hundred yeam ago.
Mr. Wilson sallied forth to make the world
safe for democracy. Democracy means government by the people, His idea of democracy k
alleged to have been: Organize the world into
league of nations; let me be its president; and
safety, sanity, and spiritual health shall be
yours. That this is apparently true we quote
again from those who sing his praises :
''He nwer for one moment belimed he waa wrongand in that he was the ideal zealot He really believed
that a majority of the American people were with him
on the league issue, as he soid; and even dter he had
appealed to the people and been r e w e d he iW to
accept the verdict."

But Mr. Wilson fooled the ~ e o p l ewith mch

expressions as :

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-WEN

"It doea not make m y dif!erurce what kind of minority governs you, if it u 8 minority; and the thing we
must do ia to see to it that YU minority anywhere mastera
the majority."

AGE

Bmoarm. R.Z

csse of failare in thk matter I a h d l go befo-.

'
the country dter my resignation is tendered, and rsk it
to say whether America ia to stand before the world ar.
a nation that violatea its contracts as a mere matter of
convenience, apon a basis of expediency.' "
t a ~ I. n

His fine epigrams lulled many thousands to

aleep. His "watchful waiting" policy led many
We should not personally fault Mr. W i h n ,
to believe he would do the watching. His 'h too severely; for his long, square, prominent
neutral in thought and act" meant for every- chin, and the boldness of his head in the region
body else to do nothing and be quiet, His "too of firmnesh conscientiousness, cautiousness, n p
proud to fight" was the opiate by which very probativeness, and self-esteem indicate that he
many had their senses completely dulled.
could be expected to conduct himself in the manThese paved the way for the war-lords to turn ner in which he did
Firmness and self-esteem are xymifeated in
loose their propaganda in the 1916 election to
put over the top a man who hypocritically per- all his acts; approbativeness would prompt him
mitted himself to be placarded upon the bill- to go before the people for their approval; caw
boards of the nation as the savior of the men, tion was emphasized in the "watchful waitinf
women and children of the country, because "he poficy; and conscientiouaney ovedwged wi.&
much learqing, part of which a t least w u bmlt:
kept us out of war."
For a t the same time that a committee of Upon a false premise, with large 8elf-e~and
Wall Street financiers were formulating plans, small veneration, would account for hb d m
preparing laws of espionage and secret policing thinking -If
to be ~ i g hand
t e v ~ r -~ w e b
, 2
of the country, devising means by which the war to be wrong.
Character analysea by noted psychcould be financed in harmony with their word
of honor, which had been given to France for give Mr. TVilson credit for the fouo*
v*i:
them to hold out a little longer end the United
vdrm
wilmn
not
hb feu,,, men
S t a t e s w o u l d e n t e r t h e w a r o n t h e s i d e o f t h e ~ ~ d ~ ~ ~ t ~ f ~ ~ ~ ,~
Allies; and all of this, it is nriderstood, was done milk of ,,h
k i n d n m . . ~b -b
to pub
with the knowledge and consent of Mr. Wi180n. things through in the way he hsr conrinad himaIf t b
"Peace on earth, good will to men" is not only ahould be put through is not auscephble to chutgr irom
a Christian ideal but a prophecy of a fact which influencer that originate without [outside of] hir owa
will obtain under the rulership of the Prince of mind.
In contact with P ~ O he
P ~giver h b d f t h
of listening with deference,
but in
it u
peace,jesns
christ. Mr. Wilson wes an idealist;
this was his ideal, but with mental reservations. an actifice which he pub
. . just he 0 8 hb.
and h k hat. . . . Selfishnew is another conapicuIf peace came, he should hare the glory; if the gloves
defaming ht.i
. He is mom ael&b tb.n
world were made safe for democracy, he sholdd .
Witw i, the aptheoak of rlb.hns beuw
have the praise; if a league of nations covenant
pub dssoM and det-dtioM
of
were made and universally adopted, God and
or
o-~*
Christ were to be left out of consideration; he
"Mr. Wibn hsr l i d too much aithia himau. ~e
himself should sit upon the pedestal of worship- does not submit himself to the comctive pof
association, . he believes that be comes out rbed by
ful adoration and be the prince.
How self-willed and cocksure was Mr. Wison following the bent of his own temperament. . . . If r
that he pthe vice-gerent of Jesus Christ, and big matter in hand, he ia concentrated upon it th.t
the avatar of ~~d Almighty, and that therefore he overbob the little matter. He has the keened m d truIrrelevance
cub him to pihe must have his way, we perceive from the fol- ed
When he in a t work on 8 thing that engages hia inked,
lowing culled from a reputable source:
he in like a hound on the scent Waste of time OE any
U h d i n g to a letter mittebb, Joseph P. Tumdty, kind of lost motion ir like^ poieon to him. . H e rronld
,
A

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his privsta -tary,

Woodmw W i h had determined to

resign f m the pmidency in 1914 unlesn congress would
repeal the Pancaorl tolla. Tumulty quoted the incident ar an example of the former president's courage. 'I
noald mt want to be president of a country that would
violate a eolemn treaty', President WiLroP told his seem

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never have listened to any tat& In every crism he

with @to
hity.
. Them were
backed his
thowan& of people who did not admire him [Colonel
Theodore Roomelt], and the Pmident [Wilma] w u
one of these. Whea the Colonel presented himeelf, tho
President put him and his poss~blevalue through

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coldly intellectual pnwxss of assessment; and his conclusions w m in accordance with his judgment of what
would beat promote the interests of the country in the
war."
'To every one within the household, including house
visitors, the President is kindness itself. Once the threshold ia crossed, one becomes the trusted friend. The conversation a t meals and during the little rest time that
follows is easy and delightful, and every one takes part
freely. There is not a trace of Presidential arrogance in
the President's manner. He and Mrs. Wilson live in an
atmosphere oi unaffected simplicity. When they were in
Paris they declined all invitations when possible.
.
While he was traveling through the West, and speaking
twlce a day with a headache racking him,
he was
never a minute late on the a-hole trip. He is a paragon
of order and punctuality.
In what he can do weU,
and Likes to do, vr. Wilson ia tirelese; but ia very indolent about what he k not proficient in. He is not a
fudge of m h
His near sight ia defective; but when
hc looks up and out, no man sees further or'more clearly.
He has perqmbve; he is always looking far ahead.
He cannot see the trees for the woods. The little things
by the way do not distract him; for they escape his
attention."

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Mr. Wilson's greatness lay in his ability to

pass over and not concern himself with the little
things of life! One of the authorities says that
Mr. Wilson loved mankind in the abstract; that
he did not love his fellow men, but that he concerned himself about humanity as a whole; that
the "predicaments, perplexities, and prostrations of the individual or groups of individuals
He says with his
make no appeal to him.
lips that he loves his fellow men, but there is no
accompanying emotional glow."
So Mr. Wilson could pot see a tree; but he
could see a grove. E e could not see a man: but
the world a t large he could see. How wonderful!
This reminds us of the greatness of Jesus of
Nazareth because it is so different. He said:
"Consider the lilies, how they g r o d ' ; "are not

...

The m e n n i a l Day By
0 glorious Gdden Age!
Due time of blessings manifold.
Great day of gladnese long foretold
- By prophet and by sage.
0 &bath day of rest,
When grinding and oppressive toil
. No more 4 ' s happiness s h d spoil ;
For nations shall be blessed 1

two sparrows sold for a farthing?" "the very

hairs of your head are all numbered."
Did Jesns not say to the impotent man a t the
pool of Bethesda: 'Wilt thou be made whole?"
Did He not say: Tie that is faithfd in that
which is least in faithful also in much"? Did He
not say: "Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God a s a little child, he shall not enter
therein" ?
Bnd did Jesns not speak in parables in order
that the individual, the few, might understand,
while the mass of mankind might go on in darkness? 'Wnto you it is given to knew the mysteries of the kingdom of God;but unto them that
are without, all these things are done in parables: that seeing they m y see and not perceive; and hearing they may hear and not nnderstand."
8
What is the earth from God's viewpoint? Is
God unable to see a planet, bat sble to see "is
lands of stars" or constellations? God puts an
the nations of the earth into a balance and
weighs them, and gives his judgment: they are
as nothing; they are counted to Him lens than
nothing, and vanity.
This earth is as a grain of sand, and God does
really take notice of it. He calls it His footstool,
and He says He will make the place of His feet
glorious. The gold is His ;the silver is His ;and
the cattle upon a thousand hills. He has seen
our wanderings and our weaknesses; and He '
has sent redemption.
Glorious things are on the ray,'bnt not
through the League of Nations, nor through
puny man. The kingdoms of this world have
become the kingdoms of God and of his Christ,
and Christ is King. When Woodrow Wilson
wakes up he will become a gentler, more tender,
better man, and he will be none too proud of the
record of 1917-1918.
A. G. Barnsay ( ~ c o t h d )

0 time of perfect pence

\%%en, war's Satanic horror post,
From sin's dread, galling yoke at last
Shall dl obtain release I

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0 pcusdise of earth l
on; mow thy portals open lie,
And millions enter& shall not die ;
For Christ has vanquhhd death.

Reports from Foreign Correspondents

' ~ m o aOATHOWQV~,
a Quebec newspaper
which o b v i o d y M distinctly partisan d o n g
religious lineq eomea oat with the following
interesting item :
" ' I , 'do
~
Dierr I'"l'ha Harp of God"].' Some b y

Mystere de Dieu Accompli" ("The Finirkrvl

Mystery"), concerning a "plague" :
"Revelation 16 :la : 'And the sixth poured out hh
vial upan the great river EuphraWCeaned to tbr
worshipensatthebastandhirimagatobei&ituting
a new and homble thiq, 8 people's church, in which
there ia no place for clergy, cdle&ioor, church d&u,
laverena for one day above another, or in fa& my d

ago we put our nrdnr bn g u d sgainst r dangerpropagau& propagan& which k not new e b s r k
tbacartomrcheriPhcdin~~~m
"It acmr thrt peridkdy m e men come from noThis wodd indeed be a ghastly thing for the
one knowa where, but evidmtly in obedience to a powerCatholic
Church, and the strange part is that,
ful and tenacious o g m L . t i o n , ofiring for sale or giving
away Bibles. Thin year the Bibles have changed into the people seem to like the t h o d t of release
volnma of wry r t t r w t h farm and appearance which from such thralldom!
have the name of % HPrp of God, p d conclnsive
We would further sag@ a careful m d i q
that millions now living will nsvv die,' 'World Dintawe,' of the press report of Premier Tashereau's atti
'Can tha Living Talk with the Dead?' e t a The titles tnde toward the Hierarchy and its s e l f ~ s o C ,
am a e e n p t h comment; the werb~,edited at k m m , ed power within the Provinas: W e quota fCdvinistic Boma, am but Protatant inteTpntrtia131 of
arcndbooh Thrtiatom~,tbedutyoftharewhoh.re the Border Cities' 9tu.r:
let t h e a n d v a ~be deceived into buyin# them, or to whom
W
' Befeniag to naant r t t d u made upon him gdiLc.
thghrvsbeengiten,ir~1ytrsced: I t L t o t k o w d~h L ' o d h cdhOl*6, h 0Ig.P ad tbr B*.y
them into t h o h
.C a W himuchy, Hon. L A '?admmm, R e m h &
flung down the gagsof M u u a a t t l n ~
' l i a o m e o n e . ; m ; l u l y c u n o t O o ~ u ~ l ~ m~uebec,
b~
o f t h e p h g a e a d w & r a o r t h r ~ r e w d d r e f u m banquet here laat night
Stating what were ths poIitial p r b d p h of tb.Lib
them or would fling them into tbe Alnwr <3erm, at
cholera or of the plsgas us 1- dangerous than earon e r a l p a r Q u l a i d d o a n b y i t a d d ~ L n i d t b r t ~
abletokillfaith, Forfrithirmachmompreei01~than oi them principle8 wan tbr abolitioq oftb, x m q l d y
health or lifa Do not expom youreelves to i t To th which certain group had tumgdd b themaelm thd
firewithbaatslilea'TlleRupdwandKithtb01) ~ ' k e p o f t b e k i m g d o m a f h c r m J ~ i n ~ p o r t
dOn~t.hat*hdth.dnd.opri~d
reaanbliag
- it."
'4cnlthiZillgtiIehsrbofll~~1~th.~tO
We desire to extend o m cordial thanks to L'- no. ~*,,
action Cathalip for its review of these books
The Ekhonton J o u m l ~ r t an8appad fop
and for'calhg them 80 prominently to the attention of the Roman Catholics of Quebea Thia 4 P n e d intercession by the local d t e a
we d
y sppreciae; for association "for material prosperiw; a h thr)
i s advertising
it reach- a class direct t,h& we desire to co"we may make the very best of our material pm'

in close contact with. What L'mthn Cathtiqua

does not get clear, however, is the truly distress
ing (to Rome) fact that Quebee is waking up
a t last is qneatio-g
and that the mpim
the ancient doand &eir reliability. A refusalto reoognhathe mrrnifestations of an
awakening inteagence
has ever characterized
the P s p a l - o b s c ~ dmind, however; so no doubt
Catholic Q u e b d &are the fate of Catholia
Gelmany the light of truth searches
the
dark places. The world is due for a spiritmd
awakening. T h d God, it has come !
We wodd ca& to the attention of L'udiofl
Cbtlloliqzce and all who think in the terms as
just expressed, the statement appearing in 'Ze
764

visionJ'. It closes its petition, "That we may bs

delivered from materialism and selfishness,
mtif We shall find His perfect will and ~I&o
every materid blessing an ~
~
~for e
n
t
advancemeht of His k i n g d o e Guess the
to that one: First pray for it, then finish
prayer by asking not to have it. W e do not ~ i s b
a m r imveerntt,
but
HimSdf might
almost
be
p
u
d
e
d
by
some
of
the
prayers whiob
are Pent to Him.
Mr. Fredriek Whelm of the League of Na,.
tiona Union in GrePt Bri+
Moo8,,
Jaw, Saskatchewan, recently. The Eve1ng
Times of that city reported mu& interest in h h
observations. One of the most impressive stat&
ments which he made was:

CjOWEN AGE
'The army of Poland, r young canntq not yet fin
years old, ia M
y larger thrn that of AnatrikHlmp r y before the w u . Ons hundred percent of the recent
loan made by France to Poland was for the purchaee of
arms and munitions. The battle line between Polapd
and Bussia, with its barbed wire and trenchea ia unbroken."

It almost 1001;s as though the news that the

war is over has not yet reached Poland; or perhaps Poland is too wise to beiieve it!
The Vanc~uverDaity Province, under the
heading, ''Signs of the Times," examines the
trend in the war-stricken countries to investigate the Christian religion as a means of relief
from the intolerable pressure of post-war problems. Canada, with her problems of. unemployment, a suicidal immigration policy, and evermounting debts, faces a hopeless future, false
opthllism to the contrary notwithstanding. The
Canadians also are turning their thoughts toward the vital message of the truth of Christianity as a relief from their problems, but are
showing a marked antipathy for the outworn
and baseless platitudes of denominationalism.
Possibly another reason why many Canadians
are tired of the denominational church and its
satlctimonious attitude toward the bitter problem of everyday living for the majority, is
found in news items like the following:
"Rev. Dr. C. W. Gordon, ?ialph Connor: of Winni-

"

peg, was paid a totd of $11,640.00 for his micea as

chaplain in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. D?
Gordon served for a little Over four yem. Part of thu
time he was engaged in delivering patriotic addresser
throughout Canada and the United States."

This information was fiven in the House of

Commons (Ottawa) in answer to a question by

Wm. DufE (Lib. L a e n b a g ) . $4,400.00 a year

from the Government, plus a ahurch stipend,
plus royalties from works of &tion (the product of his pen, as well as his pulpit), p h royalties from moving picture companies, plus income from dairy interests in Winnipeg, plus
income from other investments, plus the glory
accruing to a man occupying a bomb-proof job
in the fighting forces-and all one has to do is
coavince the other fellow that his country needs
his life for $1.10 per day S
Our lo& Church Union war wags along.
Union is to. all intents and purposes an aceom:
plished fact. But the opponents of Union still
hope for some miracle to happen if the matter
can be made a legal battle in the C o d , even t o
an appeal to the Privy Council of Great Britain.
So far, the only results seem to be an aroused
state of feeling on the part of &-oh
men and
apathy on the part of the general publia The
usual quantity of verbal garbage haa been
thrown around, enunciated, we mdst admit, in
fairly cultured tones, and clothed in well-turned
sentences. "An onion by any other name," to
misquote a popular bromide.
Incidentally, there have been some resonant
utterances recently at the Methodist Conf erenee,
decrying war and calling on all right-thinking
mode
- to outlaw war. These last futile struggles of 8 dying institution, torn by. internal
dissension, arouse in our hearts a feeling akin
to ~ity--~itythat the o p p o to~be ~t m e t o
the ideals of the Christian faith has come too
late. ~h~~ is now reserved onlya
db
solution of these last outposts of the old order,
that the new may come in.

Papering the Ground for Larger Crops

XPERI3fEXTATIOX has proved that paE
per laid on the ground through which pineapple, tobacco, tomato and strawberry plants
m a y grow, will increase the yield from twentyfive to one hundred and sixty-eight percent,
make the fruit larger and better flavored, and
eliminate the heavy cost of weeding. The
experiments havetbeen tried in Hawaii, California, and Florida.
The paper used in the pineapple fields of
Hawaii is three feet wide, one-thirty-second of

an inch in thickness, and laid in long strips

which extend across the field. It is of special
manufacture, made of asphalttreated felt,
something like roofing paper, white in color,
The paper holds the moistnre in the ground,
raises the temperature, protects the ground
from cracking from dryness, and from p a c l h g
under hard rains. Holes are made for the plants
to grow through; and the paper is kept from
blowing away by covering the edges with dirt.
The greatest increase of yield is with tomatoea

.
BY J. L. Bolling
.

Missionary Effort in .Mo~oantahsof Kentucky

T H E niter ia a Kentucky mountaineer by
birth, and h a spent the major portion of
his life right 5 the sticks." Occasionally, he
visits reIaiver and frienda there. On the oc-

in the whole Bible from cover to cover, as being

inspired, and unhesitatingly dErm their belief
in an intelligent Creator. & a d e l is regardd
with horror.
casion of my laat Vigit I noted increasing activOf course, everyone is a firm believer in eterc
ities amongst the secta to gain a foothold in nal torment. We may consider them largelp exthat section. Particularly is this true with cusable for entertaining this conviction, how.
reference to the Christian, Presbyterian, and ever. In fact, there are portions of the KenMethodist systems.
mountains where to 'preach agin h a u would
The h
t step toward enmeshing the unso- be to court a formidable opposition, and even
phisticated mountaineer is to send a represen- death. The people simply cling to the belief,
tative "in there," as the native would expre-ss regardless of logic or Scripture to the contrary;
it, and to hold aeveral religious services, usually and feeling m e of the existence of "that awful
on the I.B. S.A. plan of "Seats Free and No place of eternal torment," and that it ia tb6
Collection." This, of come, is merely a bait, bounden duty of all to *warn otherd' of whst
an allurement held out to assist in the grand they deem a sure destiny and reward of tim
g e n d scheme of entrapping the unwary, and wicked, they quib naturally regard any
in many respects, ignorant populace.
ing to the contrary with great alarm, and imThat the whole plan of evangelization is mediately denounce it and its apostle or expo.
baked up and fostered by big bnsiness there ia nent, aa one of the f a h teachem fore&
not the slightest doubt. That region i n being of in prophecy.
To them "the Goapein k divided into tmu dm,
developed very rapidly in thia "time of the end,"
or "day of hia preparation" for the Golden Age. ple parts; namely, 'Po right and go to h
e
a
m
The people there are getting their eyes open, refm to do thin and go to hell" And them
and are beginning to think in thb dawn of the is the end of it. Denounce or seek to d e &
new e m Consequently, it should not surprise ns thia axiom; and at once WM fat in in the fire.*
to tind Satan and his minions distnrbed over the The one doing so is an Wdel" of the d a r k d
influx of lmowledge in that part of his empire color. The writer has for the past ten yeam
or kingdom. Hence he has inspired some of his sought to enlighten the momtain people, a d
trusty serwrnts to go there and sow the seeds stamp into their minds a knowledge of the tnre
of error, superstition, and false doctrine.
plan of Qod for the salvation of manhind and
can, therefore, coddently say that nothing bot
Mountmineen bchrt "Trinitg" Theory
the pdwer of Christ's kingdom can take away t
h
vail
of
ignorance
of
the
true
God,
which
blind.
LREADY, the people are beginning to complain about the doctrines which are pro- the minds and beclouds the vision of an othermulgated. Especially do they detest the theory, wise 'plendid people.
That the
of Kenh*
an,
or rather teaching, of a trinity of Gods ;for be
i t said to the
and honor of these noble with demons there is
proof- The
in 'hocldng
r e c o e e people are firm
people that
doctrine, which we
in the ph had no plaes in *eir 'kisiona," "ghosts" and *warnings" or premoniSatanic,
conceptiom of the Creator. They do not now tions~d*arrmy
etc And incommon
believe it, and tenaciously oppose its propaga- of the world, they are convinced that these mmi'pirite of dead
tion in the sfhools. m eJ believe that God is the fe~tatiomare from the
all
;
.md
the
~
~
i
relatives,.
~
or
i
neighbors
~
~
H
e
~
n
and
ithere~one may
One npmm Lord
6nd
one
of
those
hated
"infidels"
who,,they my,
idea of a monstrosity of three Quds, all in one,
"tried*
to
disbelieva
But
they
are
few and far
is, to thexb, rapngnant to the last degree.
While it is tme that these movle voesess very between.
erroneons ideas in general on re'ligioas subject4
we thus see that they have gotten the highbrow. TlbSttufcmroJBigBurinc#
0.RETURN to big business: The missiontheologians beaten on this score, at least, The
citizens of that section are also opposed to the
a q e m r t ia financed by the big buahe88
teaching of evolution. They have a simple faith interests of Louisville and Cincinnati chi*.

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A D M 27. 1924

GOLDEN
.. AGE

They back the church of their choice, and so the

game goes OQ. But why are the big corporations
so deeply %et up" over the everlasting welfare
of these thirty-one mountain counties? AKl
there's the point! '%Big business desires a
feathered nest on Easy Street," as one writer
eye On the
recently remarked, and has an
rich natural resources of Eastern Kentucky.
The sending of preachers to convert '(the
heathen," as they call the mountaineers, is the
same old game or strategy upulled off" by this
giant octopus in China and elsewhere. It is 8
cmning carnodage ; and has in view not the
welfare of the mountain people, but 'their
enslavement and subjection. The educational
and religious features are merely parts of a
well-laid scheme to get possession of the vahable ore beds, coal mines, oil deposits, and
timber tracts of that rich, but hitherto neglected
and ignored region. Big business has been too
busy elsewhere to notice the value of this attractive territory; but, m0~i.ngon the aSSlImpti0n
that the earth belongs to it and not to the Lord,
i t now proceeds to gobble UP this portion dong
with the rest.
While it may be ~ g e d and
, tmthfully, that
educational institutions, built up and fostered
in the mountains by denominationalism, aided
by the commercial interests, have done and are
doing a vast amount of good, it still remains
true that this cleaning up and whitewashing of
certain comers of Satan's empire has for its
real purpose the strengthening and upbdding
of his dominion, now' tottering to its fall and
final ruin, in which all the false church s y s h m ,
political organizations, and big business institations will be dissolved and forever cease to be,
as foretold by the apostle Peter, and as decreed
by God Almighty.
Some, failing to understhd the plan of God,
are busy upholding the Babylonish systems in
the hope of securing finaacial reward, and will
suffer -a temble punishment from the Lord for
refusing to separate themselves from the anclean thing after hearing the Lord's command:
"Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of
her plagues. For her sins have reached unto

V e sometimes fed the thread of life is slender,

That soon with us the labor will be wrought;
Then p a our hearts to 0th- hearts more tender.
The time, the time is short.

heaven, and God hath remembered her iniqmties9'-Revelation 18:4.

Thrth & i n g a &spmibiZi@

ANY of the mountain folks have heard tho
truth from the lips of the writer and 0thers. Therefore they have a responsibility not
pre60nslyexisting;and, do&Jeas, failme to
cease supporting Babylon, failure to leave her,
will bring an awfd retribution, The Lord,
h g all-wise, is not mistaken in m n d m i q
Babylon; He tells p l d y that He knows her
works, and sees all her secret wi&ednesa,
Those who claim that Babylon is a righteous
institution, and who remain comated 6th her,
thereby
God a liar, or imply by their &ion+
either that they do not believe the Word of
have no faith in what He sap md
-t
for it, or that they are wiser than Jehov&,
Many are d h g this to their omhart, snd when
Great Babylon
they will fawith h e
While it is undoubtedly tme that there it
credulity and pron8nthat seem plansib10 -ng
people, it is e q d y true, and inclb#aMe, that
the average person born and reared in the hillr
of Kentucky possesses more knowledge and a
better general education thsn in acaredited to
them by outsiders. Credulity is everywhere, for
that matter. The moantain people of Kenpossess a rare thiFst for knowledge, reco@md
m d commented on by former president Wilson
and many others. They are curious and full of
interest. They "want to know, you know"; and
while this desire is pow being gratiiied, to a
certain extent, the -a1 work of enlightenment
awaits the ushering in of the kingdom of WDaniel 2 :44.
0
Then we may expect that these people in
common with aU others will joyfully avail themselves of the privileges and opporbdties then
afforded for all. The suggestion has been made
that the Kentucky mountains may produce another Lincoln. We hardly think so. h d oertain it is that another Lincoln would receive a
cold reception from the present ruling factors,
corporations and trusts whose enthronement
in power Lincoln foresaw and forewarned

6"rtre time is shoh Then be thy heart e brothdr ,

To every heart that nee& thy love in aught;
Soon thou mayest need the a p ~ of yotherr

The time, the time ia short."

Political Weather Clouds Forecast Kingdom

.(

-:, ..

~ l A.
y J. ~ ~ h l s \

THE

ominom sigm of the times portend that this fact and, in time, meekly bow before thir
xumkind
utterly a t sea; and reeling to mighty giant. Occasionally one dares to inq-:
and fro from one electi~nto another is a tacit -"Is this combination unimpeachable?" But for
admission on their part that their ideals are all such honest inquirers, the religio-political
impossible of aammplishment so far as man'# doctors are ready with their hypodermic solability is concerned, leaving bnt a somber aspect tion to ease and to quiet the patient quickly bea s to what the future may have in store for fore others should become affected
them. The people's plea for an administration
whose policies will make for untrainmeIed juscurd D M d Civilirdon ti- and e m * falls on ears that seem to be
N THE Augost, 1923, "C-nt
&to+
deeply interested in their welfare Until the e l e t
may be found an able treatim on "The D ~ moons W m dine of Modern Civilhtion," by W m Dpdley
tion S e w n is p U 5 d But
and m-ane, the gods of War, Gold
Plmder, Fodke, President of The Nationrrl C i d &take their heavy toll from the people with wm- ~m mom,, ~ w e in,w e he h, mg
p ~ m dinterest; and the erstwhile promises of andogies of ancient Roman ~ i - 0 ~
well meaning administrative officials are pleas- modern ciazation. The main pokb are ar
xlntly forgotten in deference to the well beaten follows : The 1oom-g of f d y tier and d-paths of privilege:
pline ;decline of religious faith ;drifting of pap
ulation to the cities ; religious and rrcial intol,
No Ewnan Panama
erame rrnd a decay of the publie spirit-dl eriS FOR the leaders themselves, there are a dences of a daJi.ne whose only ~ d y be,
a radial change of spirit h t a8
few sober-minded ones among them who th*%
permit no may delusions to w e l l their heads in- the iietails of how the m d y s h o d be appbd,
to thinking that
is well when it is not. Their the reader is left to guess. &. E'oub, l i b
better judgment tells them of a serious situa- many other% ha8 felt of society's feverish pd@8
tion among the p e d m w and disgrnnued and has announced that the Merit ia *b
masses, which is beyond their power to controI, its last, but holds out little hope of a ~
~
and f o r which they are unable to prescribe a tion under any ~ ~ n d i t i o n .Apologetic a d
panacea Such able writers of international explanatory eulogies of flowerg doquenae
fame as Nessm Brisbane, Wells, Simonds, and great length will not heal the people's Mevothers frankly give expressions to their fears antes at this l~elated om. If only they ~ d d
for the outcome of presentday toboggan ten- see in this onward march of nations the d*e
dencies in matters of politics and finances, un- hand "which shapes our en&, rough-hew t h a
less the turning point is soon reached and we as we will." The only adequate remedy is
are again on the mad to normalcy. This in spite on-~omingkingdom of %hteomnesm and P e e .
of the evohtion theory concoction which they which will soon bid the people to halt from t h e
have tendered as food for the mind, elevating r ~ ~ ~ d nand
e s alisten to God's still?s m d v o i But let no one construe the writings of TEB
to the soul, and 93 a hope for better conditions
by the Darwinian highwap-a highway, indeed, GOWER AGEas fomenting further strife a d
which leads in the wrong direction.
dissatisfaction. Surely it may be pardoned for
Politicians seem blindly contempCoons of constantly pr0cl-g
the King and His kingtheir s a d responsibilities, s a r n f d y resent- dom, as dl witness the precipitous state of
ful of any kindly counsel from the direction of affairs as they now exist- One need but to
appealing humanity, and c w u y apathetic to mind a few things which Xr.FoalKe omitted
toward the pressing issues of the day. They in his "Evidences of Civilizatio~l'sDecline" to
strat around with glowing and fatuous promises further inspire the cry, ''How long, 0 Lo*
and pretentions; but back of the scene is a merci- until thy reign begins to blessy The war~ i t finme
h
and ridden countries of Europe with their state of
1 ~ policy
s
Bent on
big business inte-ts.
These twain are one in famines, pestilences, and general devastation of
mind, body, and strength. Even a F-erland area following the wake of the big wsr; the
Labor a d i d a t e might become acquainted with slum sections of our own metropolitan eenten;

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768

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a GOLDEN AGE

759

the poverty-stricken mining camps; and the due, and inherit, but not a t the expense of his
overwokred, unrequited farming element in the fellowman. The Bible tells us that no ravenoua
beast shall go up the highway of holiness (Isaiah
various grain and vegetable raising sectionsall elicit more than a silent yearning for the new . 35 :9 ) , meaning that there will be no privileged
kingdom of righteousness and peace. No won- classes which would devour the interests of
der the masses in exasperation find it difficult to others, but that all will be free and equal in the
repress their petulant and almost fiery resent- 'pursuit of happiness and everlasting life. Then
ment as they vainly try to liberate themselves supreme joy will emanate from hearts that a r e
from intolerable conditions! Truly only the cal- filled with a consciousness of divine approbalous heart could rest in a spirit of somnolency tion and emanate from homes perfect in conditions. An ennobling interest in the welfare of
and wish the kingdom blessings stayed.
others will prevail. All this must result from the
beneficent reign of the King of glory, Would
Lord's Kingdom Will Sanctify
that the politicians might realhe the utter
HER EFORE ,let the earth awaken to the Futility of trying to bring society back to wornthe fact that the old world has ended, and out policies and traditions 1
that Chrisfs kingdom is now coming into porn-er,
TRE& L D E ~ A- readers who are ~~~&
preparing the hearts of the people, and the ed with such a grand conception of h new
literal earth itself, for the realization of the and better conditions set their h o w in order
"sweet bye and bye." Soon society will comport
nallt as
itself with the high standards of the principles so f a r as lies in their power. May
honestly
and
honorably
as
if
they
were
iww i n
of righteousness and equity, making no longer
the
new
age.
Let
them
live
and
practise
tiha
popular, cruel discriminations between the aristruth
and
righteousness
of
the
kingdom
now,
tocrat and the lowly, the dch and the poor,
the weak and the strong. Soon there will be a and not defer rectitude of conduct until some
refined universal desire to promote the welfare remote futurity. 'What doth the Lord thy Qod
of all, onconraging them to go on to full resti- require of thee, but to do justly, and to love
tution. Man will be blessed with a true sense of mercy, and to walk humbly with thy. WP
appreciation that the earth is his to'explore, sub- -Micah 6 :8.

tw

what Does It Mean ?

T WILL be called to mind that on December
Iexcept
17, 1919, all the planets of the solar system
the Earth were assembled in line with the
Sun. These seven planets, Mercury,Venns, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, stood on
that day in one straight line with the Sun,the
Earth being the only one of the group out of
line. This was so interesting and so unusual
that we took some pains to discover how long
it had been since the same position had elisted
before. If our cdculations are correct, it had
been 52,800,700,000,000 years since they had a
similar position.
Here is a large field for speculation. I would
not say, wikd speculation; for many facts are so
well know= to man that his reason or judgment
is pretty well b r q e d up. It is not wild speculation when sufficient facts are assembled to support a deduction

BY Prof. 8.A. Egis

I offer a few thoughts that suggest themselver

to me, which are very interesting, and which
may be considered by wiser heads, better posted
than myself.
When I remember that astronomers say that
none of these planeta except perhaps Mars is
inhabitable by such creatures aa man,and when
I associate this fact with another gathered from
the Bible, I am led to wonder what relations
exist between the Earth and her sister planeta,
and what in the distant future may be the outcome,of this relationship.
It ~ssnpreme folly to snppose that our Creator made all these great rolling spheres for no
purpose. It is equally foolish to suppose that
they were made merely to beautify the heaven8
for our enjoyment. It is likewise a foolish
thought that God made them to glorify or praise
Him; for no inanimate object, sphere, rock,

"

mountain, river qlr ocean can render praist.

NofhiM but intell&& beinga aa men or angels
can do thia
From the broadest ohemation and investigation it L ehown that none of these planeb is
habitable. But what may we expect in the dip
tant futuret
The question ariaeo, Why did the. Creator
paan by ao many immensely greater planets than
the Earth and start a kingdom of wonderfully
intelligent creatures on our small planet) J w
piter, the fifth planet from the Sun, is about
1,300 times an large aa the planet Earth. Others
are many times largpr than the Earth
From the Bible account of creation we see that
God wonderfully emphasized the importance of
the Earth and the creature man, to whom He
delegated the right to rule the Earth and have
dominion over it. In a straightf orwarc)manner
the statement ia made that the Sun waa made
to give light by day and the Moon by night
These two objects are all that He mentiom a t
creation. Man needs these for his comfort and
to help to carry on the work assigned him. The
other planets (30d omitted to name or to mention. When we take up tliat book, the Bible, and
see how wonderfully God has manifested His
interest in the Earth and in man, we are wonder-struck and appalled at man's importance in
the creative work In the Bible, the Earth is
called God's FootstooL
Then behold God's interest in man since he
went astray displayed by the death on the cross
of the Son of God for man's redemption f This
fact should astonish and hudi8te mry man;
for the first man, we are told, was created a little
lower than the an&
Here is my queq: I wonder whether the lip
ing up of these planets at this time has
mgnificance? There the stood at dress pslade, as
it were, while the Earth stood doof as looking
o n Here was the completion of a great qc1e of

more than Ety-two trillion years. Does tbir

mark a period in the Earth's history, or the hi,
tory of man in God's great plan1
The? are many things that point to our dafi
the moet important perid in man's history.
Look at what haa transpired during the last &r
years. The prophecies for the past 6,W yeam
are focused.upon thia partitime of trow
now covering the whole earth. When Jems stood on Mount Olive taking to
His disciples abont coming events and about the
time when His kingdom would be eatahtiahd,
He seems to have lifted His fidger and p&Gd
to this time. The events of thia time verify Blir
prophetic statements about war, famine, pea&
lence, etc., which shall preoede ths e d d i h m &
of Hia kingdom,
There are no less than eighty-eightprophutk
statements gathered from the Bible thst goiPJI
with index finger to them timer, Beaid* th+
Bible, by varioua Sgprea anti
points to 1914 as the beginning of truulds
ing back to our former suggestion and upam
lation, we ask again: Did the pcroali.r a r r v
ments of these seven have any d~~
specting man ? Seven is caned the perfect number. Were these seven planets witnesser to
great events on our planet t How about the
planets of the solar system ultimately becoming,
in some way, connected by wireless telegraphy,
or some other wonderful invention of clommd
cation, when they become inhabitable and thu8
form s grerrt family-of worlds in unison and
harmony? There are known to axiat at bad
three hnndred and seventy-five million arm,
with perhaps as many planets a r o d esch ar
are surronnding our luminary.
Is it w a s o n a b l e to suppose our Creator
will,in the myriad ages to come, bring all them
into direct relation and communication We
can only wonder, and say that it is not at all @
probable.
-

Radio-Active Water

TBE

following is a new method of applying

the health-giving qualities of the radium
pd:
After expoaing the pa&to the light, fill a glsst
jar with drinking water, fasten the pad around

the jar of water, and in a few minutes the mker

is ready for drinking. This makea the beat
spring tonia to be had. It will also.break up
very stubborn colds, according 'to one of our
readera

Earth's New Rulers

A G O T N M E h ' T of the people, that exer- is a cry of discontent. The people are groaning
cises its powers and functions unsellishly and travailing in pain, hoping for something
in behalf of the general welfare of all the people, better, and not knowing to whom to look There
l
bas long been the desire of man. Every form of uever was such an opportunity aa now to d
government has been tried ; and none has been attention of the people to a new order of thinga

found satisfactory.
Well-nighs fourth of the twentieth 'century
has passed. I t has been marked by the greatest
material improvement ever known to man. Great
advancement in science, invention, and general
information has been made ;but doubtless there
has never been a time when the people were so
discontented with their rulers and with their
governments as now.
The Britiah Empire is doubtless the most
powerful nation on earth. A few rule the masses,
who are seething with discontent; and the o p
pressed are crying for relief. Germanfa rulers
are entirely unsatisfactory,-and constant turmoil
exists. Mussolini, who c.tqne so rapidly to the
front in Italy, and who attracted the attention
of the world, is quite nmatisfsctory, and is
threatened with downfall. France has pushed
aside some of her brightest minds, and advanced
the more radical element into power. Spain is
ruled by a dictator, cruel and relentless, who in
looking well to the selfish interest of the few.
This may be said of many other nations and
rulers. The people are anxious for relief.
A National convention of a great political party assembled in Cleveland, Ohio, and nominated a candidate for the presidency. of the
United States. Not even all the delegates of that
convention were satisfied with the nomination.
There was even such a dissatisfaction that on
the Fourth of July a new political party assembled and nominated a candidate to oppose
the Republican choice. The hosts of another
great political party assembled in New York
city and nominated a candidate for the presidency of the United States. These political party
leaders go before the people, and try to induce
them to believe that they can bring about a
better condition of government. Whatever the
result a t the November election, it will not be
satisfactory to the people. Discontent will continue to increase ; and the ruler, whoever is seleded, will please only a small proportion of
the populace of the United States.
In every country known under the sun there

that will bring blessings to them. The men who

are missing this opportunity are the theolo@d
professors and the clergymen, who stand befom .
the people as sponsors for righteoaenes, d
truth. These, however, are repudiating the inspiration of the Scriptures, and have entirely
lost sight of God's plan to establish a kingdom
of righteousness and peace.

I n f c ~ e adt&i
~bC.
N W
HE purpose of the International Bibb 8tp
dentsisnottogetcon-bdtotumtL
minds of the people to the Bible, *ah not on&
holds the remedy to the ilk of natiormr of esrtb,
but points clearly to the my, M, thut aTl
may understand how these jlla will be orsrwrar
Why do not the people, without regard to cnsrd
or denomination, turn their mind8 to a ardrrl
and honest consideration of the Holy S c r i m
which are given to man for his indrrdon in
righteousness and to point him to the way that
will bring the deaire of every honeat heart?
Snrely when the great desire of mrrnlriad now b
for a government that will look d to theii interest% 8
them freedom of
lib*
to do what
right, full and wmplete apportunit7 to plvsn8 C O w 8 e of hspp*
d to
reap the blessings of eternal life, eww ho-t
Wrson
want to aid them to
opt just
to Come.
how these blessings are
One of the most prominent themes of the Bible
is that of the kingdom of God. Jehovah, through
His prophet Daniel, referring to the diatreahg
condition which we now see upon the earth and
to tbe perplexity amongst the people and their
dissatisfaction with their rulers, said: "And in
the days of these kings shall the (30d of heaven
set up a kingdom which nhall never be d a
stroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to
other people, but it ahall break in pieces and
consume all these kingdoma, and i t ~ b dst.nd
l
forever."-Daniel 2 :44.
It is manifest from this language that Jehwah purposes to establish a kingdom; that He w i l l
not-call upon selfish men to tell Him how to

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run it, but will establish it in His own way and

see that the powers thereof are exercised for the
genera1 weifare, pcsas, and happiness of all
mankind.
About 4,000 Years ago J
~ nmdeoa Prom~
oath, in
ise to Abraham, and bound it with
which He said: '?n thy seed s h d l d the nations
of earth be blessed." Abraham understood that
his seed would constitute the king, or d e r of the
earth, wodd establish a r i g h h m government;
and that through it the blessings wodd flow out
to the people* h d did not tell Abraham when
this promise would be fdfU.lsd. A b r h died,
not having received the promise. Then the promise was renewed to his son Iswho pleased
Jehovah; and later it was again renewed to the
grandson of Abraham, Jacob Jacob died; and
God Selected from his
tribes
and organized these into a nation, to which lu*
tion God renewed again the promise. To them
He said: qf ye
my voiae indeed,and
keep my covenant, then ye shall be a p-diar
tretbsure unto me above
people ; for all the
earth is mine :and ye shall be unto me a Lingd o of~ priest* and an
1!3:5,6. .

AGE

Rt

-r8.

Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there s M be' no end."-Isaiah
9: 6,7.
"He s h d have dominion also from sea to sea"
His kingdom shall bring peace to the peopla
"He shall judge the poor of the people, he sbdl
save the children of the needy, and && break
in pieces the oppressor."'--psalm 72 :8, 4.
these promha
of w s I prophalping
ets, pet not mderstanding them, the nation of
Israelexpected that there wodd come from
amongst them one who would be the r&r of
the whole earth, and who wodd mt up .a
earthly h g d o m , t h g h w h a the blemings
w o be ~given.
When Jesrvl of Nazareth cme to
a few believe, ~i~ to
sent from m;
the nation rejected Him. Thow who did -p(
=im,
H~ taoght to pray for
of th.
kingdom which aai had
The ah*L
portion of
teaching to His follorem
cerningthat kingnome
Jesru nm amdea,
from the dead ;and thereafter Ifb-PIBI
nm
htrocted of the Lord, llnderatood
mrpose% and
the b i n g d o m They hlyht
the people according to Jesud words, that in a
time future the promised kingdom wodd be enIsrael Typical of Coming King&m
tablished and the blessings that Jehovah had
S A U L was the first king of this typical nation - promised would come to all the aatioionr
of Jehovah's, ana he proved unsatisfactory
to the people.'Later the son of Jesse, David, Wc h m h ~~t ~g, vbion the K i n a
to be king and anointed to that office.
~ o d ' spromise to establish in the interest of T H E Church War established by
mankind a kingdom that should bless all the
term church means a called-ont class of peopeoples, w~ narrowed down to David's h o w . ple, separate from the world This body of
thing- Within a short
The people of Israel thought that David wodd t i m s taught the
becolue a universal ruler. Hi8 life war stormy, time, however, the true light began to m w dimand the promised bleseings did not come to the mer amongst those w b were leaders in the
people. His son Solomon succeeded him, whose Church, and they misconceived and mist.-ht
reign was marked by wealth, wisdom, peace and the Purposes of the Lord- Then for m a V tenprosperity. Solomon's reign, however, did not turies good honest Christians hught t b t th@
kingdom of God is a heavenly kingdom only,
bring a fulfilment of the promise.
All the holy prophets of God taught concern- and that all who will ever have any b l e ~ i ~
ing the comingkingdom of the Lord, which He whatever must die and go to heaven.
Now in modern times a new school of theologwodd establish for the blessing of mankind.
They uttqed many wise sayings, which they ical professors and teachem have taken over dl
did not understand, but which were spoken pro- ecclesiastical affairs; and they refer to the early
phetically Foncerning that kingdom. Some of teachings of the prophets, the Lord and the
these sayings concerning the ruler are as fol- apostles as "primitive religion". They disregard
the Scriptures as God's inspired Word; they
lows :
"The government shall'be upon his shoulder: deny that much of the Bible is the Word of God.
and his xlame shall be caUed IVonderfd,
the Consequently there is a f&e.in
the land for

them,

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the imderstanding of what the Bible really finances of t'he world and the bnsiness of the
world, will nwer be the rulers in this ea.rth. God
mew.
would not ri,sk such s
a men with such an inh
portant position.
Ttoa PAofthe Kingdom
HE apostle Peter, under inspiration, des Rightcour IweTa
scribed the conditions that we now see pre- God P r o ~ e the
ET as now examine the Scriptures and Wd
vailing in the world, and called attention to the
how God purposes to place in the earth
hea~ensbeing on h,ihe elements melting with
fervent heat Then he said: "Bevertheless we, righteous rulers. Remember the apostle Paul,
according to his promise, look for new heavens like the other apostles, wrote under inspiration
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteons- of the holy spirit. In the Ilth chapter af Hebrews the Apostle enumerates a list of men covness."-2 Peter 3 :13.
I t is manifest from this, and other corrobora- ering a period from Abel down to John the
tive texts, that there are two phases of God's Baptist.
"City" is used in the Scriptures aa a symbl
kingdom: The heavens represent the invisible
phase, while the earth represents the visible of government. Discussing the conrse of them
phase. All Christians understand and believe men the Apostle say8 in that chapter that they
that Jesus Christ is a spirit; that He is not looked for r city (goveriunent) 9PhiCh will ham
visible to man, and will not be; and that the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
faithful, overcoming Christians, who participate Then he adds :"These all died in faith, not barwith Him in the first resurrection and reign with ing received the promises, bat having seen them
.,Him in glory, shall d s o be i n ~ s i b l eto man ;that afar off, and were persuaded of them,and amno man will ever behold a divine spirit being braced them, and c o n f d that they were
strangera and p i l e M the earth.
But
and live, becauee that is Qod's rule.
The Scriptures abundantly teach that there now they desire a better country Cgovemment],
will be a viaible phase of God's kingdom. God that ia, an heavenly: wherefore God is not formed the earth @ be inhabited; He made it ashamed to be called their God :for he hath pm(Hebrewa
not in vain. He promised that the earth shall pared for them a city [g~vemment].~
1
1
:
13,
l6)*After
naming
such
as
Abel,
Noah,
abide forever, and that it shall be a habitation
Isaac,
Jacob,
Joseph,
M
o
s
e
~
and
,
othAbraham,
for msn. Since H e so abundantly promises a
ers,
the
Apostle
oontinues:
"And
what
I
righteous government we may be sure He has
more
say?
for
the
time
would
fail
me
to
t
e
l
l
of
an arrangement by which earth's rulers shall be
righteons men, men who will look well to the Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of
general welfare and interest of the people ;'and Jephthae, of David aleo, and Samuel, dnd of
this is what constitutes the new earth; meaning the prophets: who through faith subdued kinsthereby that seciety will be organized upon a doma, wrought righteousness, obtained promb
righteous basis, in which selfishness will not be ises, stopped the months of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the mord,
permitted to manifest itself.
Who then in all the earth could 5ll the require- out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiments to rule in righteousness? There is not a ant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the
man living on the earth-today, in any nation, aliens. Women received their dead raised to
whom all the people would be willing to risk aa life again: and others were tortured, not accept
their gove&or and ruler. The Lord is eqaal to ting deliverance;that they might obtain a better
the occasion, however, and will provide ralers. resurrection: and others had trial of cruel mockDoubtless many of you have heard that the ing~and seonrgings, yea, moreover, of bonds
Jews shall a+
rule the earth. This has been and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were
much misunderstood. Not every man that is a sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the
descendant of Abraham is a Jew, by any means. sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and
Be it known once fop aU that those profiteering, goatskins; being destitute, aftlicted, tonnented;
conscienceless, seMsh men who call themselves (of whom the world was not worthy:) they wanJews, and who control the greater portion of the dered in deserts, and in moan'tains, and in dens

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AGE

and caves of the earth."-Hebrews

11:32-38.
these men the apostle Pad said :"And these all,_
Why should men undergo such great hardship, having obtained a good report through faith,,
persecution, and faithfully endure it unto death? received not the promise; God having provided
The answer is, They had faith in Gad's promise; some better thing for 11s [the church], that they ,
they fully trusted Him that in His du? time He without us should not ba made perfect."-H+
wvuld establish a kingdom of righteousness ;and brews 11:39,40.
be ~ e s u r m t e d I t is-clear from these Scriptures# that these
they believed that they
from the dead and have some part in this new faithful men of old, who were tried and apgovernment; for, says the Apostle, they thm proved, who were true and faithful to God and ,
endured that "they might obtain a better re-- '
to righteousness, are to have a resurrection betrection."
ter than the people generally; that they are to
The Scriptures abound with proof that when be seen amongst men on earth; and that the peothe heavenly phase of the kingdom is established ple shall come from the m t a d the west and
and in full operation, the resurrection of the from dl quarters of the earth and sit down with
dead shall begin; and that these faithful men them. m a t , then, shall be their positionf
of old, who died, shall be the first that shall be
resurrected on earth.
Rightem8 R&n' Pari#on w R W h
I
U a I N G the whole period of Isrsel'a
" N o Man Bath A m &
to Heaven"
these faithful men were cdied the -f
M
A
N
Y Christians have believed and taught. in Israel; m d from then till now
bm
that these faithful men, from A h 1 to John spoken of them a s the fathen in Ism* lathe Baptist, all died and went heaven; but that deed t h e were.
~
From the w@& of
cannot possibly be true. Long after all of them j u t mentione& they withonf the C
aosli&-had died; and even after the beheading of John not be made perfect* ~t is manife- th.t,
the Baptist, Jesus of Nazareth, who spoke with the invisible part of ~ h r b kindom,
~ s
hv..
absolute authority, said: "NOman hath ascended 17 phase, is
them fsithfd
d
up to heaven, but $hethat came down from hearbe ~ ~ r f e o tJVe
d hq-, a
t
h
m
,
enm--John 3 :13.
statement of the Prophet aa to what shall be
After that, the apostle Peter, under ins~ira- their position. He says: ' b t e a d of thy fathers
*
tion, speaking specifically of David, who had shall be thy children, whom tho* [the Christ]
long been dead at that time a d who is men- -yest m a h princes in
the
tioned in the Scriptures as one of the approved 6 :
16.
of God, said: "For David is not ascended into
A prince is a der. These
when
the heavens."'-Acts 2 :34.
from the dead perfect in body, perfect in the
no
interaab
John the Baptist was one of the last of these seme of
of
prophets;
JesUS Said: "among them sene, and being the direct repnSentatiof
that are born of women there hath not risen a the Lord,
constitllte the rden of the
greater than John the Baptist; notwithstanding, The word Ct,,hildren9? meam oEspring,
or olw . .
he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is who get their
from a cornon
eat
greater than he [John] ."-Matthew 11:11.
will grant life to them under the t e r m of the
!
I t is manifest from this statement that nei- new covenant, and then they wilindeed
l
be the
ther John the Baptist, nor David, nor any other children of the Christ They will reaive their
jI
of the men who died before our Lord's death instraction from the Lord, and wil
carry
l
it
will be in the invisible kingdom.
in the earth. The new heavens will be the new
Again, concerning these faithful men enumer- spiriM dng powers, Christ
HL bride,
the
Jesu said :
the
invisible, &=ting the %tiair. of
come from the east and west, and shall sit down
rith Abbnham, and I-,
and ~
~ in the
~ earth;
~
whereas
b
, the new earth d
l be a new order
kingdom of heam&" (Matthew 8 :111 I t is gnit. of s b e t y , mana@d and directed by these f&hcerhin that these d l not sit down in the in- f d men of old, resurrected as perfect human bevisible part, but will sit down on earth.
ings. Upon these the people can rely and trust
Referring again to Hebrews 11, concerning absolutely to Look well to their interests.

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CjOWEN AGE

When the people have absolute confidence in

the honesty, integrity and the pover for good of
their rulers, then they will settle down and be
quiet and pursue a course that will lead to happiness. The affairs of earth will become stable,
2nd gradually selfishness will fade away.
it at this time the people of earth are
greatly agitated as to how they can prevent war,
how they may establish a World Court that

would hear the differences-betweenmen d s e t

tle them aright; but they have no coni5deme in
the schemes offered.
But there shall be a new World Court which
shall be established by divine appointment It
will judge in righteousness, and decide eqdtably
all questions and controversies that are brought
before it. For this we have often prayed: "Thy
kingdom come, thy will be done on earth."

Am I My Brother's Keeper?
HE
T
Cain in
race, has

questionI my brother's keeper?''

the early history of the human
never been settled satisfactorily in
the minds of the majority. It seems all right in
theory, but not in practice. So it ia still the rule
to care for Number One first. The god of this
world (Satan) would have us ignore all responsibilities toward oar fellow citizens. This disposition seems to have carried some still further
and to have caused them to resent any xna.nifestation of interest in their behalf by friends
or neighbors, making it very hard for those having the spirit of brotherly love and neighborly
interest
Inssmu& as we naturally desire to be entirely
independent of tha remainder of the human
family, the spirit or disposition "to get and to
hold" for the future for ourselves and dependents, makes it so much the harder for our
brother to keep himself, to say notliing of being
his brotheis keeper.
The argument of the Socialists for the betterm e ~ of
t Society seems logical and sound. AIthough they must wait m t i l the Golden Age ia
more thoroughly established before they see
this rule of brotherly love in operation, where
the comforts and necessities of life shall be
more evenly distributed, yet it will come on a
larger and grander s d e than their fondest expectatioa God's plan as typified by the dividing
of the land by tribes when the Israelites entered
Canaan, and by the further division by the tribes
into families, and God's system of Jubilees to
restore to w e original owner any lost estate,
,aresuf6cient to suggest what wiJl happen early
in the Gtoldea Age.
he disposition of Cain to shirk and deny
any responsibility toward our brother has prospered and $own until human life is almost outby

B y C ~ WW.
. Apgar

side oi our consideratiom. F o r this reason

poison is easily pby those who wollld
suicide or murder; revolvers may be had by anyone to rob or to murder. The bootlegger and the. .
dope peddlers ply their trade among the anfortunates, knowing of coarse that thep are hastening the demise of their v i c t b , snd M) o n And
why T Just because they can nudm an e a q living;
and then, of course, they crre not their brathe&
keepers. They will not assume any mapmsibility for the damage of poison, guns, and d o p ~
There is a reason f o r this. Did not the preacher and priest ignore the w a r n of our young
men so aa to preach milliom of them into a premature death in the trenches? Must we not put
them into the same list witMboss who are not
their brother's keeper t W e wonder whether
-they reaiize that it was the spirit of %tan that
Cain manifested when he uttered them wolrda
We wonder whether they can see any resemblance between their own warbling8 (especially
since 1917) and Cain's excuses. If God should
ask those preachers and priests: Where are the
six million brothers who failed to return from
the battle front t we wonder whether they wodd
say :"Am I my brotheis k e e p e r r
Young Mr. Rockefeller gave the following reply to those that inquired about the welfare of
his employ6s in his mines and melting-works in
the West (where his profits were immense):
that he would not be responsible for the welfare
of employ8s. Thia reply ia just a sample of all
of capitalism. The politicians likewis,eefail in
their responsibilities,

T.
and He

Christian (one h&ng

spirit of tb.
Master) is exhorted to followlia H
is step.;
laid down Uis life for His brethrea

SOLDEN AGE

Wereby know we love, because he [Jesaal laid gen. The air is now over seventy percent nitrodown hia life for M;and we ought to lay down gen; so over two-thirds of the air we breathe ie
our livea for the brethren But whoso hath the inhaled and expelled from our lungs without any
world's gooda, and beholdeth his brother in need, benefit. Not only that, but it is harmful; for our
and shutteth, up bis compassion from him, how vitality is less by reason of less oxygen. Wheo
doth the love of (30d abide in him?" (1J o b 3 : the people learn this simple tmth, we shall have
16,17. IL V.) The principle of gaining life was more flowers. Oh, hasten the day, the Golden
laid down by our Lord-"He that findeth his life Age when this earth will become rr paradise
shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my and mankind will have the 'bore abundant Me" !
sake, shall find it." (Matthew 10: 39) cVhosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it ;and God'a Way8 A r e Equd
whosoever ahall lose his life s h d l preserve it.' IF MEN
desire to, shirk their responsibili(LuLe l7 :33) Expressed inOur Own words these
ties toward ot h e n or to repel those who a n
mnvey a thought like this: ''The pleased to render service, read the foUokng:
best way to gain life is to help others to live."
''Then shall the E n g say unto them on his
kill our
The spirit of Gain would have
right
hand, Come,.ye blersed of my Father, inenemies for fesr that they may Idll ns through
jealousy. Thaa during the World War nearly herit the kingdom prepared for You from the
one-halt of the world tried to kill oj+t,h~.
other foundation of the world. For I mas a n hnngred,
half. About twelve millions died in this way, and Ye gave me meat :I was thira ty and ye gave
releasing such an amount of nitrogen gas from me drink: I was a stranger, and Ye took me in:
" their decaping bodies that we had of necessity 'Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye
to breathe harder if we would get our needed visited me: I wan in prison, and Ye cam anto
righteow answer hi- mysupply of oxygen. This made possible the eaaier me- Then shall
conveying of disease germs and resulted in - n,i!
Lord, when saw we thee an hmgred, md
twenty million deaths by the ccflmm Pestilences fed t h ~ ort thirsty, and gave thee drink W h e n
o r na- ,
have always followed wars, the out-working of saw we thee a stranger, and took thee
~)o,-y~
law of retribution, which is sum and in- ked, and clothed theel Or when saw we thee
vincible, ~h~ war also upset o m emnomi0 sick, O r h prison, and came unto thee? And the
arrangement to such an extent that nine times King shall amwer and say unto them, Verily 1
say unto YOU, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto
were claimed by f-e.
?_
the war
we not see that when one sends others forth to one of the least of these my brethren, Ye have
destroy he kills himself ? Any exercise of hate done it unto me"Then shall he say also unto them on the left
or extreme passion toward our fellows breeds
hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into* everdisease in ourselves.
When anyone is truly exercised by love, he l a t i n g fire, prepared for !he devil and his anwill desire to make the world a safe place for gels: For I Was an hungred, and Ye gave me no
the other fellow to live in, and the other fellow meat: I was thirsty, and Ye gave me no drink:
will reciprocate. Then we shall have more plow- I was a stranger, and Ye took me not in : naked,
shares and fewer swords. Not only is this true and Ye clothed me not :si&, and in
of all classes o r nations tward one another, but Ye visited me not- Then shall they also answer
it is true of families. The same principle also him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an h u g r e d ,
applies to animals which, originally tame, have or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, o r in
received from us our beastly spirit, and have prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then he
become dangerous companions for u a Many of dud answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you,
us have no time for flowers, but God says that Inasmuch aa ye did it not to one of the least of
the whole earth shall blossom as the rose.
these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go
mowers give to the air a prope_r balance, and away into everlasting punishment :but the right25: 34-46.
thus increase our h%alth and vigor. Flowera eous into life eternal."-Matthew
Now answer our question: "Am I my brother'a
take up the carbon dioxide and throw off oxygen.
We want the oxygen, but have no need of nitro- keeper?"

SrUDIES

IN THE 'WARP O F GOD"

rOnIIlnl Judm Rutberfo~s new booR,

H& of God-. wl* .-m-m
a-on.
a.DUO of 0th
A d n n a d .nd Juvanllm tiibt. BtPOLI whkb ham 'm Utherta pobllh.d.
With

lmm Nombm 8

r e bag8n

J 2 G J e s said:
~s
'970 man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw h i d
(John 6 :44) The man now is drawn to Jesus
by what he learns of Jesus, what Jesus has
done for him, and by his on-11 desire to follow a
different conrse. When one ceases to approve
the worldly conrse and begins to seek after the
Lord, he is in that condition mentioned by the
Apostle as seeking God, "if haply they might
feel after him, and find him." (Acts 17: 27)
When he is drawn to Jesns, seeking God, then
he is converted. He is now in the condition
spoken of by the Apostle when he said : "Repent
ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins
lnzry be blotted out." (Acts 3: 19) Repentance
means a change of mind respecting one's relatioilsliip to evil; and conversion means a change
" of one's course. But neither repentance nor conversion, nor both together, brings the individual
into relationship with God. Being drawn to
Jesus, he must esercise faith. Faith means first
to understand and believe that God exists; that
He is the great rewarder of them that diligently
seek Him ;that the Bible is.His Word of truth ;
that Jesus is His beloved Son and our Redeemer ; and then to rely confidently upon these
things and prove this reliance by his action.
-liebrews 11:1,6.
"'He now needs information to increase his
faith, and the Prophet has written : "The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise ,the
simple." (Psalm 19 :7) To such now as are
feeling after God, through Cllrist Jesus this
message comes: "Come unto me, all ye that
labor and are heavy laden, and I will @ve yon
rest." (Matthew 11 :28) H e a laden
~
means to
be weary of the sinful course of the world and
to have a desire to be relie~edof this burden.
Such a one says : 'Iam tired of the wrongful
course. I want to follow the right conrse, to
know God, and to do His \\-ill.'
a2s?*'owbeing draxn to Jesus, he learns
through the Word that he must do something.
To him Jesus says : "I am the way, the truth,
and the life: no man cometh unto the Fatber,
but by me." (John'l4: 6) w h a t can one who is
now repentant and changillg his course, but
still a sinner, do to come into harmony with

God? He is informed that it will cost him much.

So Jesus says to him: 'Sit down and count the
cost' (Luke 14: 28) He learns that it will cost
him all he has, namely, the surrender of himself
to the Lord. The next step for one, then, to
become a Christian is to make a consecration;
that is to say, to commit himself to the Lord
and His arrangements. Bnd this he may do by
saying in substance: 'Blessed Lord, I commit -myself to ~thyarrangements; here I am. Do
unto me according to thy holy will. I desim
to do thy will.'
-Neither the Lord J e m nor the heavenly
Father coerces any one, but we must come to
the Lord voluntariiy, seeking His aid. This is
clearly indicated as necessary to become the
fdlov-er of Jesus by the words the Master used:
'If you will be my disciple, you must deny y m self, then take up your cross, and f o h w ma'
(Matthew 16:24) Self-denid means an agrcs.
ment .to abandon one's selfish course and to '
agree to do the will of the Lord. It means a f'ull
and complete surrender of oneself to the Lord.
And this is consecration, the setting aside oi
oneself to do the Lord's will.
QUESTIONS ON 7 H E HARP OF GOIF
is One
to Jews? 11 326\Then may it be said of one that he is converted? 3%6.
D c h e the ditlerence bebeen repentance and con*
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conreaion bring one into *tiship
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m a t is nMs(Irf to increase faith? 7 327.
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ant1 nho are weary? 1327.
n l a t is meant bjr being weary and heavp laden? 11387.
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prwf. 7 328.
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lS it pmprr to rnmpel mnsemtion to the h r d ? 3)9.
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in referen= to bmming Hia wlower? 1329.
Define the term Uaelf-deniJn. 7329.

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Czecho-Slovakia
HE =inister
of ~~~~i~~ Affairs of CzechoSlovakia, Dr. Edward Benes, is accredited
with much of the growing iniluence of CzechoSlovakia a t this time. He is an ex-college professor and a Socialist; and spends a considerable portion of his time traveling from country
to country, studying conditions or forming acqnaintances among the crop of new statesmen
that have sprung up in Europe.
Reports indicate that Czecho-Slovakia is having political trouble as a result of the activities
of three Catholic churches now contending for
supremacy within that territory; namely, the
Roman Catholic, the Greek Catholic, and the
new national Czecho-Slovak Catholic Church
We do not suppose that our advice is wanted,
but nevertheless we would say that the best thing
these priests could do would be to get out of
politics as quickly as possible--and to stay out.

a~~var~l
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of children born with a full set of whiskers

strikes us W U little to0 much for this world.

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TtIE
Soviet Government, not bekg abie to
come to an agreement with the British Oovernment as to when and how they shall ratrender to the British owners the fadoria a d
mines which they have seized, is now cleaning
out a great assortment of secret corridor8 rmder the Kremlin. In excavating thew d r ~ o m passages,
d
they are hoping to h d the
library of Ivan the Terrible and a wt h o d
of gold, silver, and preG0m ston- SUP@
to
exist somemTherein the Kremlin HillThe population of Moscow ia now given ss
one and one-half million; a growth of a half
million since the World War. Almost the entire
popdation of IUoscow is engaged in some wayl
in administering the affairs of the Soviet h v ernment.
At Leningrad, five out of seventeen judges
convicted of corruption have been executed.
An important step forward is announced from
Moscow in the determination to change from
the alphabet now in use in Russia to the Latin
alphabet. I t is qnite likely that this change will
ultimately go into effect throughout the whole
of Russia, as it did only about thirty years ago
in Roumania

HE outlook for Hungary is said to be good.

The expenses of the government have been
reduced; the heroes of Hungary's numerous
wars have been given an honorable pat on the
shoulder with a sword instead of anything more
substantial; the revenue is double what it was
expected to be ; and a s a consequence Hungary
has been able to borrow from Europe aU the
noney needed for reconstruction purposes.
Albania
c N ~
WAR, whioh began last June
Latvia
in Albania, is virtually ended in the over'EEIfS as ] Northern Europe has every- throw of the government by the rebels. The
thng that n o l m d ~
wants. among other rebel movement seeb
the relief of the man
curiosities a t this time, it has at Riga a boy four people and +h.e p-shment
of
Odm
years old who has 8 mustache and beard- w e enough, the new A e r of abania is a H m r d
have heard of beardM ladies ;we even heard h -; and in
a government he
one instance of a bearded lady that was the turned abania from a monardy into a rePnbfather of another side-show freak; but this idea lic. Thus one after mother Emopean kingsgo

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into the a& can,never to emerge. Although we

hear little of Albania, yet that country is actually twice the dm of the State of Massachusetts.
It ir claimed that the modern Albanians are
descendants of the ancient Roman gladiators.
Many of the learned profession of Italy are said
to be of Albanian birth. Albania has its own
, separate language and literature.

I N ORDER to

peace in the Balkans,

the Government of Bulgaria has been offered
any port on the a g e a n Sea which it may select.
But thiq offer, made by the Government of
Greece, which now controls all the ports accessible to Bulgaria, has been conditioned upon
the Bulgarian GovernnenVs recognition - of
Greek sovereignty in the port in question. This
the B u w a n Government has refused to con.. cede.
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U jnst been brought to light that the

ITmnatciaus
of Rome went on a strike in the

year 311 B. C. It seeems that they were a c m -

tomed to having once a year what might be

described at the State drunk; but in the year
in question the State first failed to provide the
liquid fie, and the musicians retired to a distance. At length a snfficient quantity of wine
was sent to them to get them all as drunk aa
a candidate to a political convention; and in
that way the authorities ended the strike.
The Italian naval and airplane forces are
being rapidly increased. It is claimed that
the end of July Italy will have 5,000 airplanes
of all sorts.
One of the severe critics of the present Government of Italy was Qiacomo Matteotti, a multi-millionaire Socialist. On Tuesday, June 10,
while w-g
in the neighborhood of his home,
he was seized by five men, thrown into a closed
motor car, driven thirty miles out of Rome, and
atabbed to death. The finger of suspicion of being implic@d in the murder pointed so directly
to a membr o i Mnssolini's cabinet (who is in
touch with the Sinclair Oil interests and who
has become aaddenly rich) that the entire cab
in& placed their resignations in Mussolini's
hands. It ir claimed that Matteotti was murdered u he wan about to deliver a speech attacking the Fascisti for their relations with the

Sinc.,,r Oil interests. The editor of the Cotriers

Italiatto, the most important Fascisti paper in
Rome, was connected with the murder by having
hired the motor car into which Matteotti waa
thrown, and then having published two different
stories of his connection with the incident. Bfuasolini himself is believed to be entirely innocent
of this murder. Several of the Fascisti leadem
have fled or have undertaken to flee from Italy.
A week after the killing of Jlatteotti, the city of
Rome was placed under martial law, 5,000 Fa*
cisti militiamen fully armed being stationed in
the city. Members of the Italian Socialist Party
in Paris profess to believe that Xussolini war
the real instigator of the Matteotti murder, and
that he will do nothing toward pnnishing tho
actaal murderera
It is believed that the five kidnappers haw
been found. One was captured a t sea in a motor
boat, just as he was about to enter F r e d
waters; and as he was arrested he is said te
have made the remark, "It is all up with me.*
b o t h e r waa a ~ e s t e dnear the summit af tbm
Alps a s he was about to enter Switzerland. Ha
started to climb out of a window of a hotel
where he was dining, but changed his mind
when he suddenly felt the muzzle of a musket
pushed against hia stomach. Three others w e n
arrested aa they were about to sail from Brindisi to Albania under false passports. It is said
that when buried in the Campo Verano Cemetery in Rome, the body of Matteotti bore nina
teen bullet holes and five knife staba, and was
covered with bruises. Matteotti is said to h a m
put up such a gallant fight against hia captom
as virtually to compel them to kill him or to
acknowledge defeat at his hands.

Th8 Vatican

HE Lord Jesus said of himself that He war

meek and lowly of heart. The Pope is proud
and lofty. Current press despatches just a t
hand give an illustration: The Prince of Abyssinia, who is visiting the King of Italy, dare
not go directly from the residence of the Kbg
of Italy to the Vatican. He must take the royal
automobile from the royal residence to a hotel,
and then climb oat of the royal automobile and
get into a Papal car bearing the Papal colon
and go to the Papal residence, where he will
then be permitted to call on the Papal ~otentato.

About the same time that the newspapers

were publishing the arrangements under which
the Pope would condescend to speak to a Prince
of Abyssinia who was being entertained by the
King of Italy, there also appeared in the papers
a bull announcing that the next year is to witness a pilgrimage of two million holy men who
have been admonished by the Pope to come to
Rome in a spirit of mortification. We cannot
help but think how apt it is that this command
of the Pope is called a '%ull".
The New York Z'imes tells us that a t the first
Papal Jubilee it required two men standing at
the altar of St. Paul night and day with rakes
in their hands, to rake in the pemniam infidam.
Probably the present Pope also hopes to rake
in more peculciam i n H t a m during the Holy
Year just opened.
I t is reported that the Vatican is making arrangements with the Marconi Company to connect the Vatican by a vast scheme of radio installation with the entire Catholic world.

these heathen priests walk across these hot

stones in their bare feet without injury and
without even showing any sign of being burned,
yet every other person who has tried it has been
terribly burned. The true explanation of this
phenomenon ia that the demons whose servants
these heathen priests are have powers unknowm
to human beings by which they are able to perform feats otherwise unexplainable.

THE

British Government is installing a powerful bkoadcasting and receiving station on

the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. The Palestine Foundation Fund has also installed a broadcasting station All of the radio progmma a m
given in Hebrew, which has now become the
everyday language of Palestine.
The territory east of Palestine called Transjordania, which hss been nominally an independent kingdom for the past few years, is now becoming again a province of Palestine proper,
the British Government having re-assumed conGreea
trol of the territory and having abolished the
WRITER in the New York Times estimates various ministers who composed the. Transiorthat there are now in Greece at least 100,- dsnian Government.
000 persons who have lived for longer or shorter
periods in the United States, and that there is Almenio
IIO village in Greece too
to have several A N ARMENIAN writ& for a pnblioatio11 of
families who receive letters regularly from their
the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, deAmerican relatives.
clares that the people of h e n i a , Persia, and
Turkey have more money per capita thsn in
India
European countries; that ninety-five percent of
TATISTICS of Indian mines show that there 'their houses, farms, and lands are all paid for;
are 522 colliery companies, some of them with and that they have plenty of money besides. This
annual dividends as high as 165 percent. The they put into earthenware jars and bury in celfigures show that in these mines there are 7,602
children under twelve years of age, 78,806 wo- lars of their houses, or else put it into gold
men, and about one-sixth as many men, The fa- pieces which their wives and daughters wear in
tal-accident rate in India in 1921 was fourteen strings around their necks. H e suggests that for every million tons raised as against five for there is a great field for h e r i c a n bankers in
these ceantries. This seems reasonable to as. ,
every million tons raised in England.
I n the effort to explain how the heathen
priests of b d i a are able to walk on red-hot Liberia
Q E R W explorer has been accused of
stones in their bare feet without being burned,
steaLing one of the gods of Liberia It
The ~cienti& American calls attention to the
fact that the priestsalways use for this eshibi- seems that the natives have a sacred grove withtion basalt, a volcanic rock which is such a poor in which was a sacred stone engraved with the
cocductor of heat that it is possible to have the figure of a sacred alligator without a taiL Berock red-hot on one end and comparatively cool fore this shrine certain of the West african
dn the other. However, they admit that while tribes have worshiped for centuries. It seems

that the chief of the t n i that owned the tailless

alligator allowed the German explorer to take
a picture of it upon the payment of $5, but the
explorer, Mr. Schomborg, took not only a picture, but the god itself and sneaked out of the
country with it in his vaIise. This was an unkind way to treat a god. The H,unburg District
Court is now trying to decide who owns the god.
Several important railway lines are in process
of construction in Africa, all the way from Algeria in the north and west to Rhodesia in the
south, where a number of railways are completely changing the map of the country.

China
HE American Government has done a fie
thing for China in the act of Congress approved May 21, 1924, cancelling the indemnity
which China was obligated to pay the United
States on account of the Boxer outrages. China
will w e this money for educational purposes, as
it did a aimilar fund released by the United
States Government in 1908.
Uncle Sam is forever digging down into his
pocket to help some other country; but with the
solitary esception of England, not one of them
ever pays the least attention when he wants even
a smile in return, to say nothing of paying back
the money loaned.
During the World War Uncle Sam loaned
$5,000,000 to help put the Chinese Eastern Railway in good condition. The control of the p r o p
ery is now in the joint hands of China and Rnssia; and when Uncle Sam wanted to b o w how about his $5,000,000, the Chinese minister a t
Washington virtually told him to go and jump
off the dock
The southern part of China is kept in disorder
by American firearms made by all the principal
mannfaetnrers and smuggled into the country
in boxes and barrels which are falsely labeled.
During the year 1923 nearly 2,000 guns were
seized on the Hongkong wharf, eleven of them
being machine gans. There were also about 150,000 rounds bf ammunition seized. I t wodd seem
as though the United States Government, which
haa refused to d b w the shipment of arms to
Mexican rebels and Cuban rebels, should as effectually stop the shipment of arms to Chinese
rebels and bandits.
Brrnditry is spreading rapidly over China.

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Missionaries and others are being captured and

held for ransom. The Chinese army itself h
made up largely of ex-bandits. Large numbera
of the bandits are operating in soldiers' uniforms, and nearly all of them are amed with
the regulation army rifles.
A bad piece of business occurred a t Canton
on June 19. Some person, whose identity is unknown, threw a bomb into the dining room of
the Victoria Hotel, in which a number of Europeans were having their evening meal. The bomb
exploded, lrilling five persons and more or less
seriously injuring forty-eight more.
An interesting item chosen from a snof
gas and electric companies shows that among
millions of customers, the Chinese pay their b i b
the most promptly. The same s u w ahowa that
the poor pay their bills much more promptly
than the rich.
Child labor is on the increase in China Msnl,
children of eight or nine years of age, and ram+
~ d e seven,
r
are employed.
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Japan

E. WOODS,
who resigned aa ambassador
Cnus
to Japan, arrived home. Mr. TVoods explains

the Japanese frme of mind by saying that

Japan does not want t o force immigrants upon
the United States if we do not wish to ~ i v a
them; that they wodd be willing to agree to
almost any form of restrictive treaty; but that
the Japanese national pride is cut to the bone
by the exclusion provision in the immigration
bill; and that while there is deep feeling again&
America among all classes of Japanese, yet Mr.
Woods declares that he knows of no action that
was not in keeping with the dignity of the people
of a great nation. He says that the present feeling will not die out, and that the thing for our
Government to do is to modify the law to mwt
the sentiment of the Japanese.
An incident which may possibly affect the
Japanese-American situation unfavorably ha8
occurred in a suburb of Los Angeles. A Japanese merchant named Kiwamoto, who had lived
in Los Angeles for twenty-three years, was summoned to the door of his home, and told
a
group of whites to get out right now or be put
out. Prior to this a placard had been tacked on
his front steps reading, "Shall it be America o r
Japant" We think that there is no question but

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that Mr. Kawamoto and his family would be

quite safe anywhere in the heathen regions of
darkest Africa. We are not s q e what is the
explanation of this fact. California has plenty
of clergymen, while the interior regions of heathen Africa have very few.
The despatches show &hat besides ordering
Kawamoto to move away, the crowd of whites
mobbed him and his wife and a third Japanese
by the name of Ynaito. It is said that there were
ten women and six men in the white mob. Meantime, the Japanese people are sending reassuring messages to the people of America telling
them not to worry, for Americans in Japan
are safe and well protected. And we remember
that Japan is generally conceded to be a heathen
country.
The Mexican Government is also bahing Japanese, and this is being met with a protest from
Japan. I t is possible that there is an understanding between the United States and the Mexican
Government in connection with not permitting
Japanese immigration.

New Zealand

things of life tend to fall more and more %to tEe

hands of a few.

A mtralia
& J S T R A L I A is reported as being very enthusiastic about the possibilities of a new form
of lumber, the invention of a Yankee. Near New
Orleans there is a plant which turns into lumber
the trash of sugar-cane after the sugar has been
extracted. It seems that the new material can
be used for contruction without danger of warping within a few hours from the time when, as
sugar-cane, it was first fed into the crushers. It
is one-fourth the weight of pine; has the insulation value of cork; is a sound deadener ; can be
used for interior or exterior work ;can be paint;
ed or stained, carries plaster or stucco; bnrns
slowly; and is not relished by the anb. All of
these advantages make the new lumber extremely valuable for building purposes, especially in
a country like Australia, which has plenty of
hardwood, but no soft wood. The new l d r
can be made with either a hard or a smooth muface, as desired.
Philippine Idandr

NEW
is So f a r fdvanced toward State
N OCTOBER, 1923, an epidemic of the mu&Socialism that it is difficult for an h e r i - I dreaded cattle disease, anthrax, broke out in
can to understand some of the items in the New the philippine ~ ~ l ~t
~ fist
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2kaland Papers which are published there as

matters of common knowledge. The Purpose of
the I?resellt Parliamentary
is require all lands which are sold hereafter to be
sold only to the State, which is obligated t o take
the land a t a fair valuation plus improvements.
The ultimate aim is the collective ownership of
the land by the people with a tenure of land that
will rest entirely on occupancy and use. The effeet of this legislation, if adopted and put into
practice, will be to change the present arrangemerit by which one-tenth of the occupied lands
in New Zealand is held by sixty-two landlords,
and eighty-seven percent of the occupied lands
by one-fourth of the hdowners- I n every land
one can see the same thing going on. The people
are trying desperately to find some substitute
for the capitalist system, under which the good
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spread so rapidly that the locahuthorities could

not handle it; and the troops were Called in to
help. Forty officers and a thousand enlisted men
were
in the battle, which lasted anti1
January 31, when the last trace of the disease
had been blotted out. hi^ victorywas gained
by the strictest enforcement of qnarantine regnlations. The native Filipino troops
service in this work. In one instance,
a soldier found several cattle grazing together,
contrary to instructions. The next morning he
mystified the several owners of these cattle by
promptly identifying eahone in their several
possessions as having been in the field the n i ~ t
before. Subsequently he explained to his officers
that he had accomplished this apparently diflicult feat by cutting a switch from the tail of
each beast the night before.

A Nation's Strength

Not gold, but only men. can make

A people grent and strongMen who for truth and honor's sake
Stond fast and sufKer long.

B v Ralph Waldo E w a o n
Brnve men who work while other8 sleep,
Who dare while others flyThey build a nation's pillars deep
bnd lift them to the shy.

Everlasting Life on Earth By Xewton T.Hartshorn,

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by 8.q-

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Fxmxxnr, the discoverer of elecB tricity, stated

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rapid pmgress of trae science d o n a my &metimes regretting that I was born so won. It ia impossible
to imagine the heightr to which mar be carried, in a
thousand years, the power of man over matter.
"Agriculture may rfiminiah its labor, and double its
produce.
"All diseasea may, by nure means, be prevented and
cured, not szuptiorg that of old age, and our lives lengthened, at pleasum, even beyand the antediluvian standard.
"Oh, that-moral science were in fair way to improve
ment, that men wodd cease to be wolves to one another,
and that human beings would at length
- learn what they
now improperly call humanity l"

(Deceased)

Aoa No. 50)

That the earth is now nearing completion, ana

that a physical condition nearer perfect is about
to produce a human physical conqition nearer
perfect and in the end absolutely perfect. Perfect-normal-human
life, perfect mental f a d ties, moral perceptions and judgment are due to
follow. Real civilization an&a righteous government will then prevail, through the administration of divine power, when physical and moral
perfection mill go hand in hand.
This presentation is confined mainly to a
consideration of man's physical life as distinguished from his mental and moral being,

Christian Church a New Creation

The foregoing statement of Franlrlin waa a
rophetie inspiration based on statements in the
HE theory that man was crested to be 8 .
spiritual being is not supported by any B i b
gible and his knowledge of physical phenomena;
and we are now near the time of the fulfilment l i d statement.
The Christian church is an order created enof his forecast.

tirely independent of the human race, though

Sgnopnir of Oatstanding h t a
selected from it; hence its nama 'Cnew crestion?.
The special doctrines of the Christian chorcb,
HE following is a presentation of some of the
outstanding facts that prove that present as presented by Jesus, its founder, have no a p
human life ia grossly unnatural-abnormal life, pGcdon to the human race a8 such, but od?
due to the unfinished state of the planet on which to a specid few who m e called out to form 8
we live and to other d e v i t h g idnences
new administrative order, a new creation, e n h
'dent to the creative process now going on:
ly distinct from the hnman creation. Strangely
the rationale of the Christian
That mads physical powers, mental faculties,
moral perceptions and judgment are cj ther dar- has been entirely misunderstood bp most people,
mant, relatively dead, or so warped by his phyA critical examination of Biblical statemept
~ i c aimperfection
l
that he is incapable of sound shows that the human race was created to rereasoning and sucessf ul government ;
main a human race to all eternity, instead of, sr
That man has formulated the false theory that most people believe, eventually to become spirit
a selfish scramble for personal comfort, by which beings.
the weaker is crowded to the wall by the stronger, is true civilization; and that the government NOEterml Lifk Without Obedience
which man has based on this false theory, now
HILE it is true that the Bible teaches that
threatens to collapse under the weight of its demankind cannot have normal life or confects, &a the complicated problems of increasing timed life without recognizing and obe,,ing
popolation multi~l%and o o m ~ l e t e l ~
yet bat ver J few are accept.
Christ's
the whole system, falsely called cidization, un- ed
real memben of His administrative bod,,
'der an evil spiritual administration;
the Christian church. They only, with a relrrThat this, in the creative process, is merely tively few other hbeings, will become Ipirthe workiig of divine economy, which utilizes it beings; all others will remain human, with
all things in attaining its end, perfection; and
a
that when the end of one stage of the process fleshly bodies as we now see them.
There is no ~ ~ r d e r n n a t i oofn such because
comes, an advanced stage in the process takes
they
would not respond to the invitation to beits place: m d that we are now at the end of
come members of the Christian church. The):
one stage and the beginning of a new one ;

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SOLDEN AGE

only miss an inconceivably high honor and Life

on the divine plane; the same in a limited aense
as if the President of the United States should
offer a citizen a position in his cabinet and the
citizen declined. He would not lose his rights
as a private citizen, though he $odd lose the
high honor of being a cabinet officer. He would
be obliged to obey the laws enforced by the chief
executive and the officialsof the administration,
but no more. If, however, he accepted the position of cabinet officer and on account of disloyalty to the President was forced to resign, he
\\-ould be disgraced; and if disloyal to the United States he might be imprisoned or even executed.
That is the position in which there have been
billions of nominal church members who did w
cept the offer of a position in the cabinet of
Jesns Christ, the kingdom of heaven, but proved
disloyal. No Biblical statement indicates that
they will be eternally tormented, but they are
liable to become extinct in death if their offense
was wilfully criminal.
The reason why the rationale of the Christian
church has come to be misunderstood is that
nearly all have erroneously concluded that its
special doctrines were binding npon all,whereas
they were mandatory only npon those who answered the call, accepting the offer of a position
in the administrative body of Jesns Christ. Billions answered the call. They wanted the high
honor ; but very few, however, have fulfilled
the-conditions. "Every tree that bringeth not
forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the
fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know
them. Kot every one that saith unto me, Lord!
Lord! shall enter into the kingdom of heaven;
but he that doeth the will of my Father."-Matthew 7: 19-21.
Only those who are faithful to Christ's teaching, even until and unto death, can have this
high honor. The invariable conditions are that
they must suffer, as He snffered, contempt,
scorn, hatred, ostracisnl, persecution and death
-if need be, even a violent death--even burning
a t the stake or c h c i h i o n , as He snffered on account of His loyalty to Christian Truth. Jesns
said these were the? invariable conditions; a;nd
all down the gospel age these have been the invariable experience~of true Christians became
they were loyaL

nr

Most of the members of the great, popular,

fashionable Christian churches have answered
the call, but would not pay the prid, wodd not
fulfil the conditions. They have been disloyal
nominal Christians, "tares" dominating thera
Christian church systems; and the loyal Chrh
tians were obliged, to flee out of them, and wen
persecuted and tortured for doing so. The pro=
cess still continues.
These so-called Christian church systemr
either joined with, became a part of, nnchriatian governments, or indirectly backing up and
supporting them, have endorsed and helped to
support the lust for empire and wars of them
unchristian governments, killing millions of peaple, thns grossly disobeying the teachingn of
Christ.
These great so-called Christian church sy,
terns could have entirdy prevented these warn,
had they been ready to s d e r unto death rather
than violate Christian principle and engage in
war. But in most cases they have even bsaa
prominent, through their dergy, in making tho
wars popular and in urging the people to wu,
A final analysis of Biblical statement and 8
study of the signs of the time9, aa forecast
by Jesns, ahow that the new creation, the truo
Christian church, is now about complete and
that the time has come for the new administration of Jesns Christ to take office. !I%e kingdom of heaven is being instituted, and the preparatory work of cleaning away the old evil
administration of human affairs, including n o m
inal Christian organizations, "cast into the fire,"
is now going on.
The prevailing idea is that the kingdom of
heaven is a far-off, mysterious something that
has nothing to do with the practical human
affairs; whereas it is clearly shown, when we
critically analyze Biblical statement, that it haa
all to do with practical human affairs: that its
first work is to restore and help the human race
back to that perfection lost by Adam :that mankind are to have eternal life right here on earth
as indicated in o u r Lord's prayer: "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it irr
in heaven."
Let us now proceed to examine what God'r
will is on earth regarding the human race and
the physical conditions on which it depends for

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its life, as indicated by the laws that govern the law. In fact, it seems to be a law of all creation
physical world.

so far, whether physical or spiritual, animate

or inanhate.
Man Living in Abnonnd C o n d i t i o ~
The ice-caps in the polar regions not only
vegetable and
determine
the conditions of
~y shdent of the rocks, strata, and fossils
bows
that it hm been for long anirml life there, but are literal refrigeraton
the
ages, and continues to be, in the process of crea- of the whole earth, keeping life upon it in a
tion; that it is not qnite complete, though near- semi-dormant, refrigerated condition in which
ing completion, being now nearly at the end of there has been no substant* progress since the
the ice age and at the beginning of the final delnge which resulted in the glacial age,
&age of completion. Under the incomplete con- ing the slight improvement, relatively speaking#
&tions that have prevailed,normal life has been by the decrease of the ice area in the arctic re~ 1 ~ impossible. This mnst be self-evident to & who &-, as the ice has ~ 1 0 subsided.
The
cause
of
this
recurring
action and restudy and reason npon the matter; for to attain
to perfeot vegetable and animal, including hn- action is clearly understood by those collative
man, physical life, perfect physical colditions students who study the deductions of specialists
in astronomy, geology and biology.
must prevail.
Astro~omersagree that the other plsneb in
Have we any standard by which to compare?
If not, how can we arrive a t a reliable con- our solar system, taken in connection with what
cluvion as to what a perfect earth is? Who has geologists find in the earth, illustrate in their
various stages of completion the law by whieh
ever seen a perfect earthy
Geologists know that there was a time when a l l planets are formed. So we do ham a s m p h
neither vegetable nor animal life was possible by which to make comparisons, and we
upon the earth, and it is possible to trace the the variou's stages and conditions that thia earth
earth's development up to the time when it was has passed through and the ~ a of
w its retropossible for vegetable and animal life to exist gression, the condition when life became posaiupon the earth, also its development by stages ble, and its general histor7 down to the time
up to its present condition. And by physical when human historic record began to give us the
law, which governs all material Life and matter, details and when a portion of the earth wtm
we can determine the find stage of its corn- perfect.
Excepting the record of the planets we see
pletion, the approximate time when it will be
complete, and the effect of that completion on and the record in earth strata and fossils, the
vegetable and animal life, including human life, Bible is the earliest record we have; and while
For instance, me know that in tile arctic re- some scholars, including most modern theologions where there is a vast area cover4 nrith gif~ns,do not accept it as authority in ~ h S ' s i d
ice all the year around, there was once tropical science, Kant, the greatest authority of modem
vegetation npon which animals fed that were scholars in philosoph~a d physical science, and
larger than any now living, and that there are Virchow, the father of modern pathology, and
coals e m s in the polar regions that ages ago many other first-rank scholars in physical scicould have been laid down only from great ence do accept its authority as final, of C O l U s 0
forests of vegetation This proves that in the rejecting the
Every planet in its molten stage throws off
process of earth's creation, there has been a
period when part of i t has been as perfect as it gaseous vapors of various weight and density.
all will be when completed.
Held off by the great heat of the core these gain,
This proves also that the plan or process of by friction with its envelop, a revolution of
planetary creation involves long periods of their own. The lightest gas, hydrogen, rises highseeming reaction or retrogression, followed in est or farthest from the main body, nitrogen
turn by long periods again of still further ad- and oxygen next; and so on. As the planet cools,
vancement nearer perfection. This seems to be its- rings fall gradually to it, the oxygen and
the law of planetary creation-now advancing, hydrogen last. Some special features may be
now retreating and then advancing again ; and peculiar to each planet, but this feature must
all life upon the earth has followed this creative prevail in all that belongs to the planetary h a

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SOWETl AGE

Semi- Galreous State of Saturn

TfiE planet a t f i s t may be but a body of gas
gradually obeying the law of cohesion and
friction, gradually solidifying to a liquid molten
mass through long periods of time.
Saturn, for instance, is only one-eighth the
n - e i ~ h tper volume of the earth, and must be
~enii-gaseous. I t s ring, or combination of rings,
is slinped like a wheel about the planet, 172,600
miles in diameter, extending 48,065 miles on each
sitlc of it, which is the hub around which the ring
revolres; and this ring just outside the planet
is 2.600 miles thick The ring or wheel always

revolves in the same plane as does the planet,

and always faces the sun. When seen edgewise
i t looks like A, and when seen partly sidewise
like B. Hencc d l planets, while in their ring
stage, are in thick darkness at their equator,
the darkness covering a belt 2,000 miles wide,
Inore or less, according to the size of the planet.
God, speaking to J o b (38: 4, 9), accurately describes it: "Where was thou when I laid the
foundations of the earth? . when I made the
cloud the garment thereof and thick darkness
a swaddling band for it?"
That was thousands of years before any telemopes were made, or any human being could
know by obwrvation that planets have rings.
As neither vegetable nor animal life could
exist in a wide area of constant, thick darkness,
there could be no life OR a belt 2,000 miles wide
on a planet the size of Saturn, while in its ring
stage. But outside of that belt of thick darkness,
after the planet had cooled, normal sunlight and
vital physical conditions would be perfect, until
the ring began to collapse, and for thonsands of
years gradually spread out toward the poles.
Before t4e ring spread entirely to the poles,
there must have prevailed in the north a physical condition perfect beyond anything man has
since known. W e h o w this to be so; for vegetation grew with astonishing vigor. Mammoths
larger than elephants a r e found in the arctio
ice with semi-tropical plants undigested in their
. stomachs.

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The physical conditions in the f a r north mast

have been ideal before the ring of vapor spread
out over it and shut out the su119ight. For hundreds of years it must have been the only spot
on earth which had the clear light of the sun
every day in the year and its vitalizing, oxygenizing rays for development of perfect physical Life and the perfect fruits and vegetables to
sustain that life.
The human race has never since h o w n any
condition approaching that ideal, which is accurately described in Genesis 2 :8,9 : " h d the
LORDGODplanted a garden eastward in Eden;
and there he put the man whom he had formed ;
and out of the ground made the LOBD
God to
grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and
good for food; the tree of life also in the midst
of the garden, and the tree of hou-ledge of good
and evil."
Never any thing like this since! Burbank,
however, is beginning t o produce marvela, but
not u p to that quality.
Even under the devitalizing condition that
prevails, various herbs, vegetables and fraib
have their peculiar distinctive effect upon those
who partake of them. The thirty-second solution of the decoction of a certain herb will throw
a person into spasms, and the thirty-second solution of the decoction of another herb will re
cover that person from the spasm.
U'e will later further explain why the physi- .
cal condition on the earth changed, so that never
since could such perfection prevail; but we will
later clearly demonstrate that we are again
nearing physical conditions when that perfection
will prevail, not temporarily as then but permanently, in the near future when the Northern
Hemisphere will be completed.

Adam W QDriven
~
h m Eden
D A N disobeyed; and God drove him out of
the garden lest he eat of the tree of life and
live forever (in disobedience). Neither eternal
life nor eternal torment for man i s shown here.
e
away from
I t was real kindness to d r i ~ Adam
that etwnal life-giving food. Though the penalty for disobedience was death, God had a moat
amazing plan for restitution of Adam and his
posterity to life, through the crucifixion of His
only begotten, beloved Son Jesus, a ransom of
all mankind from the grave-an object lesson

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to all eternity to all creation of the sublime love Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to
of the Father and the Son for the human race, thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field: in
a love higher than any created being could con- the swerrt of thy face shalt thou eat bread."
That has been the e-qerience of the humah race
ceive.
God's love and mercy had a double feature. in general, ever since; in fact, sometimes even
He clearly designed to people the planets with worsehappy, independent, free moral agents, and not
automatic machines ; and Adam and his poster- Ihrth Itself Nof Cursed
ity were put through a creative process, an ex0 NOT misconstrue the statement that the
perience, that ~vouldmake them not only lovingground was cursed4sfavored-for Adam
1y loyal but h t e K g e n t b obedient, yet free moral and Eve's sake. The earth w s created
~
especially
agents. " h d the LOBDGOD said, Behold, the for the human race, and the whole of its creative
man is become as one of m, to know good and process was arranged to suit their creative procevil: and now, lest he put forth his hand,
ess, their instruction, testing, training and discitakc also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for- plining to be free moral agents, every mall a
ever: therefore the LORDGODsent him forth miniature king (in the earth) patterned after
from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from the
Ruler of the universe.
whence he was taken."
"The heaven, even the heavens, are the LOBD'S
:
This Edenic physical paradise - a perfect but the earth hath he given to the children of
physical condition where for hundreds of years men/-Psalm 115 : 16.
in the constant life-giving sunlight eternal lifeThe Lord tim$ the
of Adam rhea
giving fruit8 had Come to perfect maturitythe reactionary pllysical changes on the incomsoon was overspread by the thick d o ~ of
d va- pleted planet
d e v i t h e h@ causing hi.
Par from the ring of mixed
and OxY- death, eventually. I n that sense, for his sake
gen shutting out the s m , and eventually the the ground was cursed, anfavorable.
garden w a wholly obliterated by vast d e ~ o s i b This
specially Ordend in
of snow that settled into glacial ice. Conditions Adam,s
a part of the great creative
On the
now gradaaUy became
plan relatively just now beginning to be put
The ring in settling
and
out into operation, of which the creation of the
had
thinner. The sun and
planets for the special abode of the new, unique
be dimly seen through the veil
Over the species man
is a
feature ;and
regi0n% and the climatic conditions man's fall, its came and its remedy, demonstrate
toward the eq~'~0'
more
for thg infinite foresigilt ill every millute &tail of
vegetable and animal life than the regions in the the divine mind in prepring an eRective object
where
the year the
lesson for the instruction in loyal love and obethe sun and the thick
in a twi- dience, of human beiligs yet to be created on the
light condition, and vegetable and animal life b a o n s of planets. We may be sure that by wirebegan to lose their perfection.
less they will converse from planet to planet,
The accompanying illustration shorn the rehearse the wondrous story.
earth before the ring had spread entirely over
The timing of Adam's creation just when the
it. The conditions into which spreading of the ring of vapor to the far north
Adam and Eve were now over the garden of Eden fulfilled the LORD'S
driven had never been pro- mandate driving Adam out of the garden, forcductive, but entirely dark ing him on account of the darkness to migrate
and barren for long ages. toward the equator, where it was sufficiently
Now, however, by the light light, but relatively barren and unproductive of
like that in a dense forest or normal life-supporting food.
on a cloudy day, vegetation began to appear;
A surprise is in store for mankind-the bebat men were obliged to work diligently to get ginning of the restoration of Edenic conditions
a living. This is accurately shown in Genesis and the resurrection of Adam and all of his race.
3: 17-19:"Cursed is the ground for thy sake..
Burbank's discoveries nre only a slight hint of

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what is coming in life-giving fruits and vegetables. This we w i l l demonstrate conclusively further on.
The light ehining through the cloud-ring had
permitted a growth similar to that in a dense
forest, where some light penetrates, but not
enough to permit fruits and vegetables to mature. Hence we see by the foregoing narrative
in Genesis that Adam and Eve were obliged to
scratch very hard for a living-uite
a humiliating change for them. They were not in a dense
forest, but on semi-barren land. This fully accords with the known physical facts.

Results of the Gncrt Deluge

ATIhTGfrom the time when the ring spread
and settled over all the earth, the first stage

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in the reactionary period lasted 1,656 years;

during this stage the vital conditions were such
that man lived nearly 1,000 years notwithstanding the poor food and lack of clear, vitalizing
sunlight. The second stage of the entire readiona r y period of 6,000 years began with the complete collapse to the earth of the ring in a cloudburst of snow. This, south of the 42nd parallel
in the Northern Hemisphere, and north of 42nd
parallel in the Southern Hemisphere, melted by
the heat of the sun as it fell, or soon after it fell,
causing the deluge and the glacial ice-caps in
the polar regions. The ice-caps, though ever
since slowly subsiding, covered a t first approximately 11,000,000 square miles of the earth's
land surface, but now subsided to approximately
7,000,000 square miles, all but about 700,000 of
which are on the antarctic continent.
The area of ice in the arctic regions is diminishing rapidly; and when it is all gone the Northern Hemisphere will be completed. Then, for the
first time in 6,000 years, reaction will cease, and
advance will again begin, a gradual but permanent return to the physical conditions in the
garden of Eden all over the earth instead of in
one spot.
The second and final stage of the 4,344 years
of the 6,000 year period of reaction was accompanied with f a r greater destruction than the
first stage, notwithstanding that the fall of the
ring had permitted the clear light of the sun to
vitalize all life on'the whole earth more than
ever before, except on a narrow belt in the north.
The vast ice-fields immediately placed e v e q

thing on earth in cold storage. All of New England and to the north pole and most of Europe
to the north pole were covered with ice hundreds
of feet thick All vegetable and animal life near
the ice was devitalized almost to the point of
extinction, retaining only a bare gxistena,
practically s hibernating state of all vegetable
and animal Me, stupdied and benumbed by a
condition grossly abnormal on the planet. Normal life has been impossible; and what we have
known as life has been but a faint conception,
a nightmare, in comparison with normal life.
On the North American continent, the belt of
greatest vitality was in Guatamala, 1,500 milea
south of this ; but the changes were ao 6udden
and extreme that everything was stunted. When
the north wind blew from the vast expanee of b e
in the no=th, everything was chilled t h r o u a if
not frosted, as far south as Central hmha;
and when the south wind blew from the equator,
relatively near, everything wilted with heat.
The changes must have been so sudden and
extreme that only the strongest could e
n*
This accounts for the cave dwellers in Enrope.
Caves were the ideal residences then; for in
them the extremes of sudden change were dfied. Somewhat similar meteorological conditions still prevail, but we have become inured to
them, and they grow less extreme as the area of
ice diminishes.
Nine-tenths of the area of the ice in the arctia
region has subsided; and when nine-tenths of the
ice in the refrigerator is gone, the remainder goes quickly. I t is not normal for ice to form or
to remain on the planet, except on the loftieat
mountains. This is demonstrated by the fact
that it is steadily subsiding as normal conditions slowly assert themselves.
There is scarcely any human record of the
period just subsequent to maximum glaciation
--only a brief reference in the Bible, and a few
rude sketches in the caves.
Except near the equator human beings were
so benumbed that all they could think of, or do,
was to get barely food enough to keep life within them. They degenerated like the wild a n h a h
Vegetables and fruits of the temperate zohe
must have become nearly extinct. The caves indicate the desperate stx~lgglefor a bare &
tence. There the ddbris of animals, bones and
rubbish of fossils collected in successive lay-

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Without being cleared out. Evidently a t that time

mankind lived in part on the frozen carcasses of
the animals that were ejected from the terminal
moraines of the glaciers.
Deoitalizlng Agenctcs at Work

XDER the extremely devitalizing change

brought about by the Deluge and its sequence, the glacial age, in the close of which we
are now living, human Life was shortened from
nearly one thousand years to sixty or seventy at
the most. But in addition to the vast devitalizing ice-fields, another devitalizing agent began
to operate just after the Deluge, and in the regions free from ice brought upon mankind all
kinds of germ diseases, which did not prevail in
the nntedilu~anage. Colds, catarrh, tuberdofevers, diphtheria, m d p o q Caner a d
scores of other g e m diseases appeared attackin6 man and the vegetables and fruits upon
which he subsisted.
811these diseases are the agents of death, fermentation and putrefaction that have possibly
k e n spread from decaying vegetable and anima1 matter, and have fouled the atmosphere
with a new devitalizing agent since the Deluge
-nitrogen gas.
The unburied bodies of trillions of land fowl,
animals and men that perished at that time, I
think, without a doubt filled the atmosphere with
a greater proportion of this gas, a new element
originating from decaying animal matter since
the earth became filled with animals and men
This gas apparently first bethat have
m n a~cumulateto any
degree just
after the Deluge. Its enormous increase in volUUIe ever since, through the
of dead
mals and men, has loaded the atmosphere witha non-lifesupporting if not a positively diseasecarrying medium, the result of a vicious round
of birth and death, ever spreading death to foodbearing vegetation for man and animals and to
animals .and men, reducing by nearly eighttenths the relative volume of oxygen, the agent
in the air which, breathed into the lungs, purifies
the blood. This superabundance of nitrogen thus
power of men Md
to throw
duces
off disease.'
of conm e t h e r this gas is the direct
veyance of disease germs is not f d l y determined. Some kinds of bacteria thrive in nitroI;ZU ~ D S ,m d other kinds thrive in oxygen gas.

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We might infer from this that as oxygen purifies

the blood, bacteria in oxygen destroy bacteria in
nitrogen. I consulted the Dean of the Harvard
Medical School on this subject, who said that it
waa not yet determined whether nitrogen gas
is the medium 08 the conveyance of disease
germs.
Even when animal matter is buried in the
ground, however deep, most of it turns to nitrogen gas and escapes through the earth into the
atmosphere. Hence this new cumulative element,
since death of animals and men began, has con^
to be the great factor of death; and its removd
is a vital necessity to the preservation of life.
Influenza Trcrveb in the Atmosphere

HE recent iduenza pw
all over the world
T
,st
have h d a
that was conveyed in
the atmosphere ;and it is logical to conclude that

it
the resdt of the great number of an-b
and men left dead and unburied during the war.
I n old, thickly
wuntriw most of the
physic.4 lifagiving elementin the
4
constant cropping,hndram fmm it
Cornless
of
bird*

,d

ar

stated, bve

from earth's products and have died, decayed

md m o s ~ yevaporated into
gas. a vmt
volume of wfich has aoonmnlatedin
atmolphere .a the ages b v 6 passed. It i. the
essence, the ertrsrt, of the oitrl mbsance or
qdity of animal matter extracted from the
emth lllld stored in the air. ds before
we
how
that the* vital elementshave in
places been drained so
from the mil
that it
not pmdncs food
worn out and
for man or beast. Hence another factor tends
to shorten hrunpn lif-hing
nutriment
in food
If this process of birth and growth and death
and decay-the constant extracting of the vital
element from the earth, and through vegetable
and fruit food production the transferring of it
to insects, birds, animals, and mankind, and a t
their death the transferring of it to the a t m o s
phere in the shape of nitromn g a - o n t i n ~ a
it would be only a question of time, with increase
of population, until all life-giving quality for
food for birds, animals, and men would be extracted from the earth, and man would become
extinct through lack of nourishing, life-giving

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food and because of a n w e r decreasing percentage of oxygen taken into his lungs, to purify his
blood. Any one must see that this would be inevitable; for the' factors of extinction would
work from both the air and the soil.
We are now at a culminating point similar to
the Deluge. Under the confusion caused by the
World War and the breakup of orderly economic conditions, the lack of industrial occupation
and remuneration for the masses, great social
and political excitement will for some time still
further increase the death rate, a vicious -round
of birth, death and decay.
The time has come when some fundamental
change and remedy is imperative, if the human
race is to survive. I will later show the remedy.

Other Enemies o f Humanity

TILL another factor of demoralization, distress and death, the most perplexing and aggravating of all, has for 6,000 years contributed
to make man's life a living death-Satan and his
angels.
We are all more or less familiar with their
history; but because they cannot be seen with
the physical eye most people donbt their existence. But judged by the devilish things some
people do, i t is self-evident that an unseen influence is putting them up to do things that an
average horse, dog, o r pig, or even a monkey,
would be ashamed t o do. Instead of evoluting
they have devoluted.
Evil spirits work by constant suggestion on
the human mind, and a c o n h t dropping of
water will wear away even a stone.
Jesus said that Satan was the prince (ruler)
of this world, this a p t h i s social, political,
economic and religious world
The thought no doubt enters your mind, "If
all this is true why did God create man before
the earth was completed and oblige him to undergo such terrible hardships and live an unnatural, abnormal life, tempted and fooled by a n
unseen devil? Surely that does not look U e wisdom, love, justice o r mercy."
I f yon nnklerstood God's plan you would see
the marvellous wisdom and love of all this, and
its justice and mercy also.
The Divine Mind knows perfectly the law of
cause and effect; for H e created all things to
operate by that law. He saw the whole process

from beginning to end before E e created the

world. T n o w n unto God are all his works, from
the beginning of the world." (Acts 15: 18) A.a
before stated, and it is well worth repeating,
God wanted free moral agents, beings, angels
and men, that would not be mere automatia
machines, but beings that would of their own
volition do the right thing. Only training and
experience would create such characters. Evidently there was no precedent that could be used
as an object lesson.
God foresaw that Lucifer-"Morning Star"the great e g e l who had been pnt in charge
over man, would become ambitious, conceited,
and would plan to have rr kinp(Iom all his own,
making Adam and Eve and their desoendanta
his servants. They had no experience. Lucifer,
now named Satan, was more s-abtle and powerful than they; moreover, he n-as invisible to
them, and could, and can still, cbntrol men unless they are on the watch and resist him. But
a s most people do not believe that them is as7
such being they cannot be on the watch for Em,
and so are easily misled.

Adam Made Acquainted with Eia Lou

OD, knowing what Satan and Adam and Eve
would do, created Adam axid Eve in that
relatively short period of time, between the

stages of the earth's development when the conditions on a small part of it were normalcomplete--perfect; otherwise Ada111 couTd not
have known what he lost by disobedience; hu
experience would not have been perfect. Aa
soon a s Adam disobeyed, the Creator drove him
out of the completed spot, where the fruit of
the orchards whs perfect, and would sustain life
a s long as he ate of it ; and the next stage in the
creation of the earth followed, with its devitalizing reaction, which carried out the sentence of
death on Adam and Eye and their posterity.
But God's plan then was, and is now, to restore Adam and all of his posterity t o life,
giving them their first chance, after having had
experience and a fair trial under perfect conditions with no invisible devil to tempt them. Then
if they disobey, having had experience and an
object lesson, they will be annihilated in the s e a
ond death. The proof of this is given later.
Jesus said that the hour is coming when all
that are in the graves shall come forth. (John
5 :28) The atmosphere is filled with nitrogen,

WWEN AGE
from which the'ir bodies can be instantly created; for this gas is the essence of animd matter.
Here on this planet, we may assume, is the
first peopling of a pIanet, and all of this story
of man's fall and recovery. The dreadful consequences of disobedience will be an object lesson to all eternity, a lesson so vivid and impressive to the people hereafter. to be created, and to
angels also, that no more will there be disobedience.
Furthermore, the amazing love shown by the
Father and the Son in all this transaction will
prevent any desire to disobey or any ambition
to rule except by divine direction. We do not
know, but reason wsuld conclude that no other
planet will be peopled until the object lesson is
fully completed.

M a n Now in Gtacial Age

HE planet Mars is in its glacial age, as its
*

T polar ice-caps are plainly visible; and we

may assume that it will be the next planet to be

people, when its.ice-caps are all melted. m e r e
is scarcely any question but that, when it is peopled, conversation between Mars and this earth
will, by wireless, readily take place.
We may assume that every solar system has,
or will have, as many planets as our solar system; and as three billion sans have been counted,
there will be twenty or more billion planets to be
peopled.
Is there any doubt whatever that, under the
terrible physical conditions which have prevailed and in which man as well as all animal
.and vegetable life has existed in a benumbed
state-barely clinging to life for a few pearsthis life is grossly abnormal, a mere fraction of
what it will be in length, vigor and perfection,
when all these devitalizing conditions have
passed away and for the first time the entire
earth will be complete and perfect1
During this long period of 6,000 years the
creative process on earth has rendered conditions terrible by comparison and literally almost
beyond man's strength to endure. This surely
was bad enough; but Satan has made it still
more OF a hell, a living death, to the mass of
people.
As we look back, the picture is very dark, and
bids fair to be darker still; and if we did not
know that just ahead of us the dark night of sin,
sorrow, death and destruction is to give place to

the glorious light of a new day, we miglit well

tremble with fear.
No doubt the next few years, the climax of
anarchy, the disintegrating of the present social,
political, economic, and religious world we have
known, will be the greatest time of trouble ever
known. Jesus, forecasting it, said (Matthew 24:
22) :'Zxcept those days should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved"

Cfvilkation in Thms of Rebirth

N A letter to me from the editor of the

Iarticle,
ary Digest, which I have quoted in another
but which is so pertinent that it will bear

Liter-

repeating in this connection, he said: "Civilization is in the awful throes of a rebirth, and
this stupendous upheaval will in all probability
change your life and the life of every living man
and woman about you"
As before stated, Jesus (referring to the preaent time) said that Satan was the prince (the
mler) of this world. He said (John 12: 31) :
"Now is the judgment of tbis world: now shall
the prince [Satan] of thia world be cast out'';
and the present condition of wars, contention,
destruction, crime and misery is the climax of
the trouble engendered in casting him out.
Satan's rule a t best has been devilish. Who
has been satisfied with it? Possibly a few of the
favored ones. Who wants to perpetuate that
rule7 No doubt in the next few years the disturbance and confusion incident to the work of
casting him out will be awfully distressing. But
cheer up ! I t is always darkest just before day.
What is the process of casting him out? He
is like his dupes--give him plenty of rope and
he will hang himself. He has made an awful
mess of things, and all that is needed is to turn
on the light and let men see the mess. Jesus explained the process (Matthew 12 :26) :"If Satan
cast oat Satan, he is divided against himself;
how then shall his kingdom stand?"
The destructive quality of hate, the logical sequence of seltishness, the predominating feature
of Satan's character, as shown by his ambition
to have a kingdom all his own, separate from
God's kingdom, has hypnotized all his dupes.
This selfish desire, this lust for world empire,
culminated in the World War.
The Kaiser and the English imperialists
fought for world dominion and dragged all the
xorld into the fight. All the nations had their

own little seifish plans. Satan's kingdom is tearing itself down. Cohesion is gone, incipient anarchy prevails. .
A great light, as a t the first advent of our
Lord, is shining in the darkness. Like lightning
it is flashing; and still more like the early light
of a new day it steadily dawns. Only a few, however recognize its source. This light is showing
up Satan's lies, his character, and the character
of his dupes. They are spiritually Mind; they
cannot see this light. "And the light shineth in
darkness; and tbe darkness comprehended it
not."-John 1:5.
Satan and his dupes do not realize that this
light is showing them up in their true colors.
"And then shall that Wicked [one] be revealed
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of
his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness
Thessalonians 2 :8.
of his coming."-2

Nitrogen Ccu crr FertUter

UT what about the vast deposit of nitrogen
gas in the atmosphere, that threatem to
annihilate the human race, after having survived all these cataclysms? The great light now
Ncro Liaht Flooding h r k Race8
shining in men's mind aleo is equal to this new
Divine economy ia always equal to the
menace.
EN have not realized the astounding import
of the light which during the past forty-five necessity; and this menace, thia devitnliring
years has shone into the minds of men like Bus- agent, nitrogen in the air, is the richert fertilsell, Edison, Marconi and thousands of others in izer known and is being transformed from s
religious truth, electrical science, physical sci- menace intcr the greatest temporal blessing, reence, sociology, economics, chemistry, world pol- invigorating, vitalizing and restoring man to
the perfect physical condition that existed in the
itics, etc.
Satan and his dupes have been taken by sur- garden of Eden-a completed planet, the first
prise. Satan has chuckled, saying to himself, "I one, as far aa we know, to be finished and peocan use these miracles to strengthen my king- pled in all the universe; in reality the real bedom." The selfish profitew chuckles :"Ican make ginning of creation now.
This is no dream of fancy-no figure of speech.
millions, aye billions, out of these miracles." But
the light has kept on shining, flooding all the It is a literal, self-evident fact, an axhazing redity. Through the extraction of this nitrogen
dark places in men's minds.
Gradually the fog of ignorance and supersti- - from the atmosphere and its distribution in the
tion is lifting. Men have been inspired to read, soil, every acre of land, even the sandy desert of
study and think for themselves as never before. Sahara, irrigated, can be made to blossom as the
Men cannot so readily be held in slavery. The rose literally, producing fruits and food more
vitalizing and life-sustaining for vegetation and
benumbing effect of the ice age is yielding-the
physical and the spiritual go hand in hand.
for man than was ever dreamed of even by BurSanitary conditions are improving, medical bank, the wizard in agriculture, as Edison is the
and s u r g i d skill also. Satan is gradually corn- wizard in electrical science.
ing to the conclusion that something unusual is
Ediaon says that we are only on the threshold
threatening his kingdom-he has been taken by of the development of electrical science. This
surprise. Thief-like, the light has come into his new light that is coming into men's minds is sure
house, his kingdom. He hates the light; he is to destroy completely all selfish monopolies; inthe great imperialist; he wants his dupes, except cluding that of verbal communication. The Unia few whom he hastmade his oabinet officials, to ted States Government is already preparing a
be kept in ignorance, especially the massesplan for wireless communication on the postal
his slaves. But the Light k e e p on flooding the system plan, that will for a few cents be accesdark places.
sible to all.

Satan tries to control all of the newspapers

and fill them with lies; but the people see the
trick, start new papers and write new books.
He comers the print paper, and ao the light
goes on, and the fight also. He might as well
try to keep back the ocean tide with a broom.
Imperial Satan, the imp, riding on the backs
of the people and for 6,000 years, vamflre-like,
sucking the life of mankind; the ring about the
earth, that devitalized mankind for 1,656 years
and finally drowned all but Noah and his family;
the ice-caps, which nearly finished man again,
putting him into cold storage-all are either
gone or at the point of going.

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786

GOLDEN AGE

This new light that is shining into men's

minds has shorn them, and ia continuing to
show them, new laws that govern matter, so that
new inventions a m multiplying that rival the
greatest miracles ever performed. Nothing
seems impossible any longer. One of the latest
inventions reported is the helicopter, an airplane that rises or descends vertically, can
mount to a great height in a few seconds, is not
affected by wind or weather, and is capable of
standing still in the air.
For instance, as reported, it will be possible
a t Boston to go above the friction of the envelop
of the earth as it rolls around a t the rate of 1,000
miles an h o remain
~
stationary and in h e l v e
horns come down in ching take SQPPer, and,
after a good night's sleep above the clouh, take
breakfast the next morning in Boston rn
seems impossible, d t h b long-distance travel
mith v e q little expenditure of motive power;
but stranger things are being done- Railmds,
trolleys, and autos will be old junk. Also the evil
system, "Satan's kingdom," misnamed "Chris
tendom," Christian Civilization'' (so-called) will
be "old junk.''
Radiwr

a8 Lifc RW~TUCI

HROUGH this same great light comes another discovery of fabulous qualities of energy.
Badium has been found.
Those who have experimented with it claim
that it prolongs the life of the fruit-fly, which is
very brief, to 700 times it normal length. If it
has the same effect on manhd,even mder preaent conditions, it would prolong the lives of some
persons 49,000 years and some even70,000 Ye-To return ta the consideration of nitrogen
gas, its pressure in the atmosphere is plua 11%
pounds to the -qnare inch, its volume has increased to 7.9 percent of the atmosphere and to
77 percent of its weight; it is incapable of sap
porting life, hence it is dead air in the lungs,
Over every acre of the earth's aurface there
are 33,860 gross tons of this gas. It is only
slightly soluble in water; hence heavy rains do
not dear it from the atmosphere.
As befote shted, from a devitalizing element
in the air *t threatens the destruction of the
human race, nitrogen is being transformed into
the most invigorating, life-sustaining element
through stimulation of vegetable growth, that
man has ever found, restoring him to the phya-

-=s

ical perfection that was available in the &en

of Eden through the medium of perfect frnitr
and gains, matured, of eternal Life-giving q d ity. How wonderful is divine economy! One hnndred thousand tons of this nitrogen is available
for every acre of land; and it being the very
essence, the extract of animal matter, the
billions of human beings that have died codd
be created out of if besides the soil being reinvigorated for their support.

fife

Creatioe ~ r o c e d e sUnfdd Sloculp

RETOFORE, the expense of extracting
nitrogen from the air for commercial fertilizer has been prohibitive. But a new intion has overcome the difficulty, and s plant in
ae-y
is sncc?esBfdyoperati%
a toof 8,000men. A plant is now operating in Swe.
den, and the United States Governinen* bai&
ing one costing
It is not reasonable to espect thrrt e t e d Wsgi-g f*t
=turn md etemd-m
p h w
conditions ariu
immediately.
follow
lawe
In creative perfection we see that divine eeoe
omy admits no mushroom growth. A l l Irding
quality is of slow development. The century
plant blooms only once in a long period of tin#
Slowly, slowly, the creative processes unfold.
As the earth and all creation respond to the
divine will and the divine purpose, we enter
the new epoch in the divine plan with slow and
steady motion, responding to the new order.
m e n restitution to Edenic conditions cormmences, or we might say that when e m ba
, comes one great Edenic paradise, aa wan fmt
contemplated, human life, we must condude, lriU
be prolonged through the natural agenciea before mentioned. This is self-evident.
It requires s thousand years for the mi&@
Sequoia tree to mature, and we may be sure that
the tree of life (the perfect work of the Christ)
that bears eternal life-giving fruit will require
that length of time to mature and bear f d t .
(Possibly by the end of the Millennium a food
will have been discovered which will perfectly
meet the needs of the human body, and so, with
God's blessing, sustain Life forever.)
FVhile the Northern Hemisphere of the earth
is nearing the completion that is to follow the
entire disappearance of the ice from the arctie
regions, six or more million square miles of ice

H"

* GOLDEN

h m X B U 10. 1824

atill remain on the antarctic continent. W e

its effect will be negligible in the Northern Hemisphere on account of its being isolated by such
a wLie expanse of water and the warm temperatnre of the equatorial waters, yet it must have
some effect on vital conditions here;
The extremely low temperature there is moderating, but we may expect *at the ice may still
persist for perhaps a thoussnd years more.
Human life lasted in the antediluvian age for
nearly 1,000 years ; and in the compIetion of
earth to the Edenic conditions first contemplated
we can readily see that as we gradtially near
perfection of physical conditions, all other conditions of life will correspond and, as Benjamin
Franklin predicted, man's life will extend a
thousand years.
Eternal-Life Proupecto for Milliona Now
NDER the conditions of lifein the past, the

,
I

and the incorrig$ble did not live out

half of their allotted time. This law of cahse and
effect will of course 'continue to operate, if no
other law cuts off their life.
But there is to be no more cloud-ring or deluge
or ice. Steady advance toward perfection is now
the order.
The vicious and the incorrigible will die out
quickly. Jesus said of the time now nearly due
that there would be no more marriages, no more
bearing of children. He said that people would
be as the angels in that respect, but He did not
say that men and women would be spirit beings
like the angels.--Matthew 22 :30.
It is a logical conclusion that after 1,000 years
have expired, under perfect normal physical
conditions, the vicious, the wicked and the incorrigible will all then be extinct and out of the
way. The righteous will then live forever. Men

Golden Rod
Mldsnmmer music ln the gramThe cricket and the grasshopper:
White dnisies and red clover puss.;
The caterpillar trails her fur
Mter %
' he U g u i d butterfly ;
But-green and spring-Uke is the u c
Where autumn's earliest lamps I qg-The taperr
the gold--rod.
.

This flower ia fuller of the sun

Than any our pale North cnn show;

It l ~ n sthe hen* of August woo.
-And scatters wide the warmth and g l a

AGE

and women, and all ~hysicalconditions, will be

perfect-nod
A m r d i n g to the remrd we have of the length
of h m a n life before the Deluge, even under the
imperfect physical conditions, where the sunlight did not have its full invigorating effect,
men lived almost 1,000 years. But now under
the more perfect physical conditions which will
ensue after the ice is all gone from the arctie
regio-d
we m y reasonably expectit within
fifty years if not before ; after the volume of nitrogen in the air be diminished, giving a greater
percentage of oxygen in the lungs to purify the
blood, and the nitrogen restored to the soil to
stimulate its virgin quality of animal life-giving
food, great increme of m e d i d knowledge and
skill, the application of radium and other lifeprolonging agencies, mnnkind with ,increasing
purity of thought, word and action will liv?forever-the normal life of marl. SOwe
never
d y Say that maions now li-g
"And I saw a new heaven '[a new refigiom
condition] and a new earth [a new social, ~olitical and economic condition] ;for the first heaven
and the first earth had passed away."
"Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
and he will dwell with them; and they shall be
his people, and God himself shall be with them,
and be their God. And God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes and THERE SHALL BE NO
MORE DEATH,
.for the former things are passed
away.. .
things new." "ut the
hold, I make
fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable,
and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolators, and d liars, shall have their
part in the lake of fire and brimstone which is
the second death [extinction] ."-Revelation 21:
1,3-5,s.

..

BU

LUCU

utoom
Xindlsd at summer's mid-noon b I m ,
Where gentians of September blwm
Along October's leaf-strewn ways.
And thmuqh November's paths of glwm.

h w e it. myriad gilmmerfm plnmee

L i b a great army's stir and wave,

Beenuno I t . gold in billows blooms,
The poor man's barren walk8 to lave,
Becanse it8 run-shaped b l m m s &ow
How wub receive the Ught of God,
And unto earth glve beck that glowI thank Hlm for the golden-rod

A Cure for Rapacity By E. L. Robi~tson

because his father had done so before him ; or why tIri
occupier of a particular field, or of a jewel, when lying
on his death bed and no longer able to maizltain
the intricate arteries of commerce and trans- -eion, should be entitled to te!l the rest of the world which
portation, and compare them with those of past of them shouId enjoy it after him."-Blackstone.

we look' out.on the world of today,

WHEY
and see the complicated machinery of governments, the vast manufacturing enterprises,
L

history, we are impressed with man's increase

of knowledge, 1vith:his broadened intelligence
and expanded mental capacity.
But have his wisdom and sense of brotherly
love kept pace with his growJh in other directions? Is his exploitation of his fellows any less t
Selfishness so permeates our civilization that
minds educated ~ d eitrhave Little conception of
the righteous principles that underlie the approaching kipgdom of Christ on earth. Witness
the travesty of fairness, in manner of compensation for eefices; We requite with the greatest
material benefits those highly endowed with intellect and equipped with mental acumen, while
an inaigniflcant dole is meted out to those less
favored, although a better standard of living is
necessary for their development.
In spite of our boasted civilization, the intellectually strong exploit the weak as forcibly b
did the cave man who could wield the heaviest
club. They retard the advancement of the great
majority, and establish a low average of efficiency.
A.n equalization of compensation would greatly increase efficiency, and multiply production
to the mutual benefit of all. [ I ??-Ed]
I t devolves upon all who look forward to everlasting life, to make it their principal business
to attain for themselves and theL colleagues in
We, the very highest and best development, that
each may become a fitinstrument in the uaster's
service, in the great on-coming restoration work.
The most serious feature of man's blindness
to economic justice is his negligence in a l l o h g
a few to appropriate vast tracts of the earth
and its reS0WCeS (their joint inheritsoce), a d
in thoughtlessly granting them paper titles
thereto, to the exclusion of aU others. h d
therein lies the root of our economic undoing;
for this permits them to exact tribute in the
form of profit and rent.
'There is no foundation in nature or in natural law,
why a set of wordsapon parchments convey the dominion of l m d ; why the son should have the right to exclude
h i fellow creaturer from detennjnate spot of pound
788

Mads greatest folly has been that he has

allowed these beneficiaries of his to entangle
him in world-wide wars, i n which a t their dims
tion he slaughtered others m t i l the fields ran
red with the blood of his fellows. Then victor
and vanquished were yoked to a monstrous burden of debt, with incessant levies of interest that
ever increase the magnitude of the nngodlx
gains of these home-made maatera.
It would be well to include all parchment
titles and certificates of indebtednese with tho
"profit Jonah," when putting into execution
Mr. A. H.Kent's proposal, to cast these into tb
tempestuous sea to quiet ita restless k n t a n t .
Thus mould the world be delivered from thom
treacherous leeches, born of Satan's dominion,
and in so far would be prepared for the reig8
of Christ.
Caat in the parchment title,
Goal of the profiteer,

, To soothe the sea of trouble

And calm the sailors? fear!

Let debt's enslaving fetters

Be loosed, and set men free,
Lest creditors and debtom
Both perish in the sea!
Remove the selfish blindness
That friend from friend oft parta ;
Bring forth more love and kindnear.
h d heal the broken hearta l

the
of acnmrdated
is
celled, and the resources of nature are retrieved
from private monopoly, then men will be free
to apply their labor to production, and fl
bring forth ample supplies for the m e of ham , ~ ~ ~ .
These rnpplieS ~u be a &able foundation for
a flexible errrrency.
Exchanges
be made on a bi8 of eqairr
lents,
in terms of
time erpenditnre of hman life in
the artidea
exchanged.
The building of the new empire I& not be a
repair job. There will be no patchwork of reforms of the present social order. First w i l l
come a complete overturning: '? will overtarn,

overturn, overturn it: and it shall be no more."

-Ezekiel 21 :27.
Then upon the eternal base of righteous principles will be erected an enduring social, econo:
mic, and financial structure. The social order
will be founded upon the mandate, c'lVhatsoever
ye would that men should do unto you, do ye
even so to them." The economic corner-stone
will be, "From each according to his ability, to
each according to his needs."
The fundamental principle of exchange will
be, The best service of one is equal to the best
of any other one. Then men will engage in the

field of their best aptitude, and contribute the

greatest benefits to human life, which is the
ultimate goal of all human effort.
[Our own belief is that to reduce all wages to
a dead level, and to put an end to private p o s
session of property, would bring utter demoralization of industry. Mr. Robinson means well;
but there is so much selfishness in fallen man
that, guaranteed an equal wage for minimum
service, then minimum service is all that will be
rendered by most recipiepts, and responsibilities
of every sort will be evaded. We reiterate, There
is but one remedy--Christ% kingdom.-Ed]

The Publishing of F a d
XY ONE who is able to discern how unsatisA
factory our present condition is and who
is longing for the time when the promised kingdom will restrain injustice, must realize that
while "man's inhumanity t o man makes q m t l e s s
thousands mourn," nevertheless much of the
in justice is due to a wrong condition of the head
and not altogether from a desire purposely to
cheat and defraud. This condition of mind has
been developed through centuries of humanity's
study of their own standards. Man has always
desired to think that he is right; so in order to
attain this end he has contributed willingly to
the support of great church systems whose clergy have sought to establish every error by some
statement from the Word of God.
The artide by Baroness Heyking, entitled "A
Plea for Tolerance," is very interesting. One
cannot help but notice the kindly manner in
which she presents her argument ;and the sentiment throughout is beautiful In it is the fragrance of a Christian character; and the writing
betrays the fact that she has been with Christ
and learned of Him.
h evert he less, in our opinion the course which
TEE GOLDEN
AGEmust take a t this time is one
in which it cannot do otherwise than to stir up
animosity in the minds of some people. The
statement of 'a fact to one man will start him
thinking ;andwhile he may regret the condition,
nevertheless, because of his mental makeup he
considers all things in connection with it and
strives to discover some means whereby the condition can be remedied peaceably and satisfac-

BY CZurence 8.cok

torily to all concerned. On the other hand the

statement of the same fact to one not endowed
with the ability to reason logically will stir up
f eellngs of anger and resentment.
Who is to be b b e d for the different effecta
the same facts produce in two minds thus differently constituted t Shall we reason that .the
one
stated the fact is responsible for ib
effect? If we know that the statement of a truth
about some certain condition will be the means
of awakening in the mind of some individual
feelings. of malice, which will be restrained only
as long as there is a penalty in connection with
the injury such a one might desire to inflict, then
of course it would seem to be the part of wisdom
not to mention what love would demand, not to
give that one the information.
In the statement of general facts, however, a
different condition obtains. We look about us
and on every hand there are flagrant violations
of justice. So common have these become that
it is not surprising at times to find professing
Christians following their own ideas of what is
just and right and even in the Church of God
violently abusing the rights and privjleges of
fellow Christians. In such cases where the o p
pressed do not clearly discern their just rights,
shall we refrain from calling their attention to
these because some of the oppressed might resent the wrong?
Even Moses, who was very meek, resented on
the spur of the moment the injustice inflicted
upon a fellow Hebrew, even murdering the one
who did the wrong. We cannot sanction anyone

who takes the Iaw into his own hands. Perhaps

Moses might have remained in Egypt, instead
of spending the forty years in Midian had he
not been so ntsh. God overruled his act and
caused it to be one of the means of p r e p r i n g
him for his future work. I t is the sense of justice manifested by Afoses that we can all admire,
though we must admit also that the taskmaster
had been reared to believe that he had certain
rights which were entitled to eonsideration, even
though they may have been only fanciful ones.
The law of God and laws formulated by man
both agree that an accomplice to a crime is as
@ty as the one who actually commits the deed.
Reason liliewise tells us that he who witnesses
a wrong a d does not protest, is consenting to
it. So Saul consented to the stoning of Stephen,
while himself casting no stone. Through the
Psalmist God tells ua that the great nominal
church systems have seen a thief, viz., Higher
Criticism, and have consented with him as he
has endeavored to take away the faith of God's
people in His Word. (Psalm 50 :18) Why does
God thus number them with the thief t Because
they utter no warning against him.
While we regret that the statement of the injustice some have suffered will cause those of a
combative nature to desire to take things into
their own hands, nevertheless, the truth must be
told; f o r we are now i n the Laodicean period of

the church and the name 'ZaodiceaJ' means

"justice to the people ."('The Finished Mystery,'
page 58) Not only should justice be done to the
poor clergy-ridden people, but justice should be
meted out along all lines, as it is written :"Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet! and the hail [hard, compact truths] shall smTeepaway the refuge of lies,
and the waters [pure truth, somewhat softer
than the hail variety, nevertheless just -as powerful and effective] shall overflow [as the flood
in Soah's day destroyed that e ~ i world]
l
the
hiding @am" Again we read : "With righteoaaness shall He judge the poor [oppressed], and
reprove with equity [equality, justice] for the
meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth
with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath
of his lips [worcls, truth] shall he slay the wicked" (causing them to cease to be, aa wi&ed be+
ings, because they mill learn righteousness then,
as shown in Isaiah 26 :9).-Isaiah 28 :17;11:4.
Let us not worry, then, if through the statement of trnthfd facts some temporary evil i8
permitted of God, knowing that it is d working
to His glory and eventually will result in great
blessing to all. For our comfort we have His
assurance that the wrath of man that will not
work to the ends aforementioned He will restrain; and we know that He is able.-Psalm
76 : 10.

Conscripting Childhood From Cleveland (0.) P n r r , June 3. 1924

CLEVELAND

was stirred by its latest military pageant. But not in quite the way that
military pageants are designed to stir communities.
The military displiy, you may recall, was
staged ih a pouring rain, with 4,500 child conscripts from the Cleveland high schools. The
boys shivered in their wet clothes, and marched,
while armp officers in raincoats reviewed them.
All of this has stirred the city to questioning the wisdom of conscripting high school boys
in times of peace..
Two years of military training are COYPUL
SORY for boys in Cleveland high schools, not
by any provision in the laws or constitutions of

state or country, but by order of a school board,

issued in the fever of war excitement.
A whole category of soft jobs was created br
the installation of milita~ytraining i n the
schools, so it will not be easy to change things
now. The job-holders will fight to the last ditch
against discontinuing this conscription of Cleveland childhood.
But some thousands of Cleveland mothers and
fathers, whose boys have gone through what
young boys should not be forced to endure, are
going to see what can be done about it. It ought
to be an interesting fight. Just another plrose
of the old struggle against the tow-lords, ow
episode of which was foug$t out in France a d
F h n d e r ~a few years back

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God's Glory in the Heavens By E. L.Dockey

HO can go out on a bright moonless night,
W
look into the heavens above, and see above
him even with the
eye, the immensity of
naked

creation, its beauty, its order, its harmony, and

its grand proportions, and say that there is no
God who made it? Who can look a t the great
variety of stars, in size, in color, and in distances
apart, and still doubt that there is a Creator of
great power and wisdom who made them all?
;Who can doubt that one greatly superior to himself in all the powers of mind and body created
all things. If one can do so, he has so far lost
or ignored the facnlty of reason as to be properly considered what the Bible calls him-a fool
(one who ignores or lacks reason) : "The fool
hath said in his heart, There is no God."
-Psalm 14: 1,
The Psalmist and the Wiae Man say that the
fear (reverence, respect)
of the Lord is the beginning of both true knowledge and wisdom.
(Psalm 111 :10; Proverbs 1:7) He who a p
predates in a measure something of &e infinite
wisdom and power of God as displayed in the
heavens on a dear, cold night should be in such
of mind as to be teach.able, and in
aa
h d t y to receive farther knowledge and wisdom concerning the great Creator as recorded
in His Word.
However, not all who take a look a t the sky
can see beauty or wisdom. As s boy on a farm,
I was afraid to look at the beautiful pints of
light on fig11 or to try to count any number of
the stars. This sad state of mind wns due to
some very wrong ideas I had in regard to the
character of God. He had been represented to
me as an dl-seeing monster ready to punish His
creatures for the slightest reason, and even to
torment some to all eternity.
To me the stats were the many, many eyes of
God looking down npon us as sinners ;and I wrrs
afraid to look for any length of time into the
very eyes of a God who seemed so terrible in
character. I was afraid to try to count the stars;
for I had heard a story of a beautiful little girl
who one night tried to count them, and who
died before she got them all counted. My boyish
conclusion was that God killed her for trying to
do such a disrCspeetful act toward Him: hence I
seldom looked-at the stars for fear that I might
lrtart to colznt them and speedily be killed in the
act Above all things? did not want to die then
and appear in the presence of God; for I had

not then learned that "God is love," and thaf

"God is light, and inhim is no darkness at all"
-1 John4:16;1:5.
While much can be learned concerning God's
creation and His character by observing the
heavens with the naked eye (and much was thua
learned by the prophets and common people of
old), how much more can we now b w , by
means of instruments and book4 in regard to
the size and greatness of this globe npon which
we live and move and have our being; of the
Sun that gives us light and heat and life day by
day; of the other worlds, or planeta, that also
move around the Sun in their yearly courses;
and above all, of the immensity and nature of
the stars or suns that have their courses far; far beyond those of our Sun and ib W
p of p h =
ets circling around it!

sUabm

fihtive
ska

HE planets
in the order
T
their distance from the Sun are Mercury,
Venus, Ea*,
Mars, the
(or liW
Our

planets), Jupiter, S a h m Uranus, and Napt~ae.

Please t~ to r d a picture of the s o h
in Your
geography, with the Sun in the
center and these planets going around it in
Paths,
orbibpred
with the
planets 81% dmost
nothing in size. Let me draw a p i c k e before
Y0m mind that mill help YOU understand something of fie comparative sizes and distances ob
these heavenly hdies*
Imagine yourself standing in the middle of a
beantiful, level valley hundreds o? miles long
between two mountains two and half miles apart.
I was born and reared in a valley of about this
width; hence I have no trouble in drawing a
pictare of this size before my mind.
Now place in the middlaof this valley a glib
tering globe or ball about two feet high to represent the size of the Sun, which in reality is
866,000 miles in diameter and 1,300,000 times the
size of the Earth. At a distance of 84 feet t b the
north, place a bright shot or bullet of the size
of a raspberry seed to represent the planet
Mercury, which is 3,000 miles in diameter. At
156 feet to the west of the globe, place a bright
bullet of the size of a pea to represent Venus,
which ia 7,600 miles in diameter. A t 210 feet
oouth of the globe, place a bullet a little larger

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than a pea to represent the Earth, almost 8,000

miles in diameter. At an inch from thGs last
b d e t place a tiny bright shot to represent the
moon. At 330 feet east of the large globe place
a bright bullet of the size of a mall pea to represent Xars, 4,200 miles in diameter ; and at a
fraction of an inch from it place two grains of
white shining sand to represent his moons,
which are from six to seven miles in diameter.
Then at a distance of 465 feet from the large
central globe, draw an inner circle a l l around
it, and a t 645 feet draw an outer circle. Kow
this belt, 180 feet in width, represents the space
in which the 800 or more little planets, d e d
planetoids, l5 to 300
in diameter? have
their orbits, or paths Therefore take 800 bright
' grains of md?
and
them
over this belt o r circulsr strip of land.
At the distance of 972 feet to the northeast
of the central globe, place a bright ball of the
size of an orange to represent giant Jupiter,
87,000 miles in diameter, and having eight huge
moons circling about it. For these, place eight
bright grains of sand around about it within a
few inches.
A t 2,421 feet, or over one-third of a mile to
the northwest of
globe, put a glass
of
the size of a lemon for wonderful Saturn, 71,000
miles in diameter, and having three bright thin
flat rings? 11,500, 17,500 and 1~9Wmile= in
width, respectively, but only 100 miles in thckness. Let these be represented by three very
thin flat discs of tin, each less than half an inch
in width; a& place these around the
reprb
senting Saturn ;and outside of these rings, place
ten small grains of silver sand within a few
inches from them to represent the ten moons of
Saturn.
Then at 4,101 feet or three-fourths of a mile,
~onthwestof the central orb, place a bright ball
of the size of a plum to represent Uranus, 31,700
miles in diameter and 1,800,000,000 miles from'
tile Sun; and near the little ball place four
grains of sand for his four moons.
Next at a distance of a mile and a quarter
from the central orb, lace a ball of the size of a
somewhat.large plum for Neptune, 34,500 miles
in diameter and 2,800,000,000 miles from the
em. Then-put a bright grain near it to reprerrent its single moon.
Now take a handful of finely powdered lime,
and very thinly scatter this dust over the ent i ~ aarea of land two and one-half miles in di-

ameter, and let some of the particles fa11 flvr

or ten miles beyond toward the ends of the
valley. Let these represent the thousands 08
comets and the billions of meteors, or shooting
stars, that also are traveling around the Sun in
orbits. Yon will now have a fair idea of the
comparative sizes and distances of the Sun and.
his family of eight large children, his hnndreds
of smaller ones, and his billions of little impirh
t r a m p a l l circling around him centnry affer
century.

Spy-GI-

Ohmation &rn

amN(3 put all the

H
the solar system in their rpspeetiVephq
imagine yourself climbing a tall m. neu tb.
bo-foot globe representing
9to get abetter view of this picture and therefore
the immensitp of the
by the
and his famil
ver7 ba of
bright bnllets and b.tb
placed
within
this
valley,
two and one-haU m i k
Ade,
be seen ksith
the ndrrd qe; .ad a
good strong spy-glass is necemary to see t
h
nearer
and
the
larger
ones.
The
width
of
thi.
valley represents a
of 2B04004000
milesin
directions from the Sm; for t h .
the distance of the orbit of the planet Neptune,
the
farthest
of n*ed
the planets, which is e n t i r e l ~
invidble
to orrr
811d
be m ,odx
by means of the most powerful telescopes
Not being able fully to mm~rehendmch kmenSe distances, let US Come more Closely to the
Sun to consider its size. It is 1,3009000 timw
larger than the Earth and weighs 300,000 time8
as n~uch-A train at thirty miles an horn could
go around the Earth in one month, but threa
to
hundred and forty Years mould be
travel around the circumference, or the outsid%
of the Sun- And in traveling a t this rate to NePtune it would require 10,320 Years
indeed we Can say with the Revelator: '
'
and marvelous are thy works, 0 Lord Clod, the
& g h t ~ ; righteons and true are thy way4
thou King of the ages."'-Bvelation 15: 3,R-vOur Sun is only om of the s0-cded fied
stars, of which there are over 375,000,000, mcording to the latest estimates by the most cam
f d astronomers and photographers of the heavens. Some of these are comparatively near to
us and to the Sun, but most of them are i*
mensely far away. The nearest star that @

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GOLDEN AGE

known is Alpha C e n t a d . However, it is much'

farther away than the planet Neptune, which
we placed at one and one-quarter miles in o u r
.
picture of the valley.
Alpha Centauri is so far away that it requires
light, traveling at the rate of 186,000 miles a
second, four and one-third years to reach us
from its distance of twenty-five trillion miles;
and we would have to place a ball a t a distance
of 10,250 miles out towards one end of this long
valley, or almost half way around the Earth, to
represent its distance.
All the others are farther away. For instance,
Sirius, the Dog Star, that large bright white
star in the southern heavens in the early evening in the winter and spring, is twice as far
away. Betelgeuse in Orion, to the right of Sirins, is seven times as f a r away. The North Pole
star is ten times as far, and requires forty-seven
years for its light to reach us.
There are stars so far away that Light from
them requires 200,000 years to reach us, according to Prof. Mi&elson of the Lick Observatory,
California, in an article in the Sunday New
York American in 1921. Such distances are dmost entirely beyond the scope of our emall
feeble minds.

that our Sun and its entire family around it are

moving through space in the direction of the
northern group of stars called Hercules, at the
rate of eight miles per second. Betelgense haa
a rate of seventeen miles a second toward the
Sun; and Spica has a rate of ten miles away
from the Sun, eta,
Of the "Great Dipper," fme of the stars mom
in one general direction and two in the o p p o d ~
direction. On account of these differences of
motion this gronp looks quite different from
what it looked 40,000 years ago, or from what it
w i l l look 40,000 years hen&; yet not so much 80
as not to be recognizable, so great being the dirc
tances of these stars from the Earth.
Scientists at H a r v a d have recently memured
the speed 04 the fastest star ]mown, BZ C@&,
and found it to move a t the te# of
2,500,000 miles an hour, o r 700 milerr a &
This is a faint star of the tenth magnitnde, 9
visible to the naked eye. It aim is -7
distant from us; for its light that is naw d ing us left it 3,80 yago, or 1
my- b
fore the birth of
Such fl&
mensities, make the earth appear l e s ~
.a
ant-hill and the inhabitant8
lem
ants in comparison.

Measuring the Stan

Special Idemat in P I C i d k Group

IBLE Students are specially interested in
the gronp of stars d e d the Pleiades, or
"Seven Stars." This group is mentioned three
times in the Bible-twice in J o b (9: 9; 38: 31),
which is probably the oldest book in the Bible,
and once in Amos (5:8) ;and each time in eonnection with the gronp Orion, the most brilliant
gronp of stars overhead in the southern heavena
in the winter and early spring: In ancient timer
the Pleiades seem to have had the most attention
for various reasons. One of these was its beginning to rise in the early evening in the fall
of the year, whence most ancient nations re&oned their civil year; that is, from fall to fall,
This is the only kind of year that the Jewa had'
until they left Egypt, when God gave them the
sacred year also, beginning in the spring and
ending in the spring.
Then again, the position of the Pleiades at
the time of the completion of the Great Pyramid
of Egypt, "God's Stone Witness," is a v e q
prominent feature of that building in the midst
of the land of Egypt. F o r these apd for other

Y MEANS of a new instrument called the

interferometer, it is now possible to measure the diameters of the stars, eomething that
cqdd not be done by astronomers a few years
ago. In 1921 Prof. Michelson measured Betelgeuse by means of it, and found the.diameter
to be 260,000,000 miles, or 300 times the diameter of our Sun, which is therefore but a dwarf
compared to the giant Betelgeuse. This huge
sun is 180 light-years from us, or over three
times as far away aa the ru'orth Pole star. I t ia
interesting to Bible Students to note that the
first attempts at measuring the size of these distant suns were made in 1875, or just Mty years
ago; but full success was not attained until a
very few years ago.
These a n y , or stars, have been called "fixed
stars", becadse until about 75 or 100 years ago
they were believed to be stationary; for astronomers up to that t i q e bad no instruments to detect any motion among them. But now it is well
known that all of them are in motion and moving in all possible directions. It is now known
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reasons Bible Students have good cause to believe that in the region of the Pleiadea is located the throne of Jehovah God, the spiritual
center of the universe; whence go forth the
"sweet influences" of the Almighty to the Earth
and to all other parts of the starry universe.
I t was once supposed by a few astronomers
that the star Alcyone of the Pleiades was the
physical and gravitational center of the universe, but a fuller knowledge of the proper motion of the stars has disproved this theory, attractive as it ww. If somewhere in the space
among the Pleiades is the throne of God, whose
very foundation is justice, then this group is
worthy of our most reverent study.
The following are the main physical facts, so
far as now known : (1)There are now only s k
bright stars in this group, though in ancient
times there were seven easily visible to the
naked eye, and they constituted then the most
glorious of all the constellations, according to
the ancient writers. (2) Of these Mcyone is the
brightest and largest, sending forth sixty times
more light than Sirius, which in turn gives out
more than forty times as much light as the Sun
-so huge is Alcyone. (3) All these six stars are
four light-years apart from one another, or almost as far as the nearest star is to us. Think
of it for a moment ! And Alcyone is 300 lightyears from us! (4) Photography reveals that
this group consists of at least 3,000 Stars (Some
say 7,000 stars), which present a strange and
beautiful aspect, being wrapped in a veil of
nebulous matter, which takes the form of loopa
and s p i r * , joining star to star.(5) All the stars
of this group are white in color, like Sirius.
They have the same generd motion, traveling
away from us a t the rate of thirteen miles a
second, which accounts for their loss in brilliancy within the last 4,000 years of historic times.

.knowledge
In view of
this marvelous present-day
of the heavens above, we can indeed
all

voice the sentiment of Job (9: 9, lo), who said:

"God . . which maketh Arctnms, Orion, and
Pleiades, and the chambers of the south; which
doeth great thingspast w
i
n
g out, and wonder8
without ~tumber."And in answer to the question
put to him by Jehovah God, "Canst thou bind
the sweet, infiuewes of Pleiades, or loose the
bands of Orionl" (Job 38: 31) we can only humbly say that we wcllnrot do such mighty things
any more than Job of old could. But we rejoice
t h t we know our God, who has full control of
the mighty forces in the universe, so that He
can 'hang the earth upon nothing' (Job 26: 7),
and d d e and direct it and d the other planets
and stars dl around it; and we adole and p d
His great and holy and m i g h e name, and look
forward with m~,&joy to the incoming kingdom when the knowledge of the g b r y of the
~ o r shall
d
cover the earth aa the waters CO*?
the great deep, when all from the least nnb th.
know Him and something of HiS
greatest
mighty works in the heavens.

ctTheheavens declare the glory of God;

And the firmanent showeth hia handiwork

Day unto day uttereth speech,

And night unto night showeth knowledge(mere
is no speech nor lmguage,
Their voice icl not heard.
Their line is gone out thmugh dl the earth,
And their words to the end of the world.

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a tabemC1e for the sun;

hntb
mioh is a
oout of
*,
hd Ejoieeth a itrong
a
is going for* is from the end of the heaven,
b d his circuit unto the ends of it;
And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof."
-Psalm 19 :14.

Winds and Storms Make Character

was found on the wall of the
THEofficefollowing
of the manager of a business enter-

prise :
"The trees out of which ships' masts are made
are those that grow on the exposed coasts where
from infancy they are forced to fight against the
hurricanes that sweep down and threaten to destroy all before them.
"The trees that grow in the sheltered valleys
may be straight-fibered, but they are weak and

soft. They will do for pulp but not for maats

and spars.
"Usually the most worth-while people are
those who have been forced to fight their m y
forward in the world, people who have kept
their faces, not their backs, toward the wind.
"No great good is accomplished without sacrifice. I t is opposition which strengthens oar fibers, unites us in purpose, and makes worth^ the

The Law of Retribution

WE become familiar with the laws of the
ASUniverse,
we become acquainted with the

Power behind them. The Bible is an expression

of the will of the Creator, and its study develops
consciousness of His laws controlling human behavior-laws of retribution, and of the creation
of the earth.
Moreover, there is given, hidden away in its
pages, hints which, when followed to a definite
conclusion, lead the sincere and studious, inquirer to treasures of wisdom and hawledge.
The law of Iife and death, the science that has
bafned the \vise for centuries, is contained in
the Bible. Jesus was the first one to expound
clearly the law of life and death. his fact
proves that, without divine aid, in that God
sent His only begotten Son into the world, man
.A-oddnever have known the way to life.
Every evil act and word, thought and tendency, must at some time and in some way react
unfavorably against the intelligent creature re* sponsible for the infraction of the divine law.
This retribution may come during the Iife of
the individual; it may be handed down to his
posterity; it may find expiakion in the resume
tion, when #e man or the woman long silent in
oblivion is brought to conscious existence again
by the power of the Creator. The sin may
spread to others, and whole bodies of people
may become violators.
Each class of infractions has corresponding
reactions, the outworking of which constitutes
the method by which the Creator executes the
penalty. Thus it is evident that there exists a
basic law of moral and mental reactions, which
take place in the heart and organism, in the governmental and social arrangements of man, as
well as in all the phases of human endeavor.
This is the Law of Retribution.
As we grasp this situation, it paves the way
for a clear understanding of the many Scriptaral statements which are expressed relative to
God's judgments, wrath, indignation. The
troublous and distressing conditions which
sweep orer nations and bury them in oblivion
are better npderstood, as are d s o the rise and
fall of empires, the most gigantic and deceptive
of which is found to be in the rise and fall of
Satan's empire.
However, since the governing factors and r e
lated effecta of a world-wide domain, covering
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BY 2.W.Reinter

6,000 years of time, must of necessity be ver):

intricate, we shall content ourselves with illtrations and lessons which are more simple in
their details, and use them to reflect upon the
different phases and situations which have d a
veloped and culminated in this era of the rule 0%
evd, the sovereign day of the Serpent.
This subject is clearly divided into two parts;
the one dealing with the individual and thine
affecting him, and the other dealing with nation8
and the things affecting them. As to the m
tional part the following may be of interest:
finbhed for ~
w and
&
~
HE Sodomites had become lawless, and sab
picions of everyone. They had established
violence aa their method of rectifying such sarc
picions as they might have. They would accept
no arguments contrary to their own established
methods of conduct and habits of thhkhg.
God sent two angels to destroy the cities and
to deliver Lot. The p o p h threatened the lii.
of the strangera bearuse mepicioas that time
intended to spy upon-them. Because Lot so-t
to protect the strangers the townspeople en- .
deavored to do him violence. Lot's own SOM-inlaw were so impregnated with Sodom's spirit
that they mocked the idea that Sodom would bo
destroyed. Lot had faith in GFod, obeyed the
warning of the Lord's messengers, and fled from
the city, narrowly escaping the destruction
which came upon the city and its inhabitants.
In searching for the reasons why the Sodomdestroyed, we can see that they perishi t e were
~
ed because thiey had developed such wicked
habits, were so filled with such a proud, arrogant seEsh spirit, that they were blinded to dl
sane reasoning and foreboding signs of impending dangers. Instead of being in condition to be
warned by the-angels of the Lord, they opposed
the messengers, and thus blocked, themselves
from receiving the warning and the deliveranm
which Lot and his daughters experienced.
The outworking of the law of retribution in
this instance can be traced from the develop
ment of the spirit of Satan (which is a blinding
and deceiving spirit) to the final point where no
warning or appeal would h d acceptance. Thur
they were in a helpless state, made so by their .
own wilful course; and the result was their
destruction

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Take the Jewish nation as another example.
The promise had been given them that if they
obeyed the Lord He wodd bless them and they
would become great in the earth, and would be
a blessing to mankind; but that if they would
not obey, they wodd experience "punishment
for all their sina and transgressions." They
were given the Law, by which their national
affairs could be regulated so that all could live
i n peace and happiness, and equity would reign
among them. Had they been obedient to the
w m m a n h of the Lord, and attentive to their
instructors, the prophets, and submissive to the
Lord's leading, they would have become great.

mat Bl-otherlu h u e would Do

Jews observed the divine law it
HADwouldthehave
been possible f o i each family to

live in harmony with all other families in the

nation. There would have been no scheming to
get the advantage of each other, but each would
have been helpful to the other; and by the mutual harmony existing, it would have been poesible to develop a civilization permeated with a
spirit oil brotherly love.
The sure result of such a condition would have
been to make all rich. God's provision in the
Jubilee arrangement would have taken care of
the proper scattering of the wealth, the whole
nation would have been a people blessed with an
abundance of everything and with all living in
peace and happiness. The surrounding nations,
seeing the wonderful benefits derived, the wonderful intelligence and great wealth of the
nation, and discovering that the basis of all this
happy condition was founded npon the striat
observance of the laws which Jehovah had given
them, would have been prone to copy such a
spirit and such a code of Iaws, because of the
benefits which they could see were being realized
by such a course.
Thnspadnally from nation to nation the o b
servance 06 the divine commands and the fame
of the Jews wodd have crept; and the whole
world would have been benefited. Life wodd
have been lengthened, there would have been
Little sickhess, and practically no blood shed by
wars. But this did not happen. Selfishness in the
heart, the desire tp amass wealth being stronger
than the desire to obey the Law, caused first a
few and then more and more of the Jews to
break the Jubilee arrangement.

This started something else: n o s e injured

by the refusal of others to comply with the reatitution arrangements allowed resentment ta
develop in their hearts against transgress~rs
of the Law. They too, because of these circumstances, b e c u e violators of other parts of the
Law. Greed and hatred caused them to take
by violence what they could not secure by the
constituted law. This often resulted in stealing
and in murder.
Then scheming, hateful and selfish a t t i t u b
developed; and gradually the whole nation became saturated with a disobedient and selfish
spirit. Not experiencing the benefits which the
Law offered, they began to losefaith in the Law
and in its author, Jehovah. They considered the
spirit of the surrounding nations more in line
with their own, and their religious ideaq forny
and custom more appropriate and beneficial for
the promotion of their selfish en&. The r d
was that they fell into idolatrous forma of worship. The Law g r a d d y became a dead letter
and the spirit of it was totally lost.

Jem Punished for Didedience

.
UT Jehovah brought trouble and distress
npon the Jews repeatedly. Measures of re- .
form were instituted and carried out from time
to time. Prophets were sent them, bat their
warnings had only temporary effect. The underlying spirit of the masses remained
Under David and Solomon, God-fearing me&
the nation was raised to a position when, it
could have been a real blessing to other nations.
But jealousy, hatred, and strife broke up the
possibilities. Weakened by internal diaorderr
and incurring the ill will of the s m a d b g
peoples, they became a subjugated nation.
T h e n Jesus came, this spirit of widedness,
deceit, blindness, hatred, and strife had reached
a point where the people were anable to appreciate righteousness. They had established s
righteousness of their own, which consisted
of much formalism and outward piety. But there
was a total absence of any real understanding
of the laws governing right and wrong, the pursuit of which alone could have brought life,
liberty and happinesa.
Therefore, having no foundation for their actions, the Jews were subject to the passions of
any spirit which might arise in their midst. It
was possible for a few religious leaders, under

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GOLDEN AGE

797

~ n e hcircnmstanaes, to raise false rumors and lives and

produce fictitious amsations which sent Jesm

Christ to the cross. .The man who had a foundation in law, ,who held in His h-da the secret of
their blessing, whose
and teaching, if followed, would have
them rich, both in
material things and in spirit, they wwified.
The nation of Israel was destroyed ; the
ple were scattered to the four winds of the earth.
The result of disobedience to God's law brought
abmt the destmction of their polity and the
and its spirit Thus can be traced
loss of fie
in the history of the Je-h
people the outworking of the Laur of Retribution The reaction of
and
the viol&on of divine law, and of
mascience, worked to the dissolution of the
nation, the destmction of millions of people, and
the loss of national wealth.
The history of civ&ation has a connterpart
t o all this operation of invisible laws, and can
be easily traced through the many developments
which took place among the Jewish people.

EumP'%

Pro*

'me

b o n g an association of the Lord's people it

- is but a flurry of arguments; but with an as-

to Pay her debb m not On*

of
d s ~ i s e dTurk9 ;while her P r ,
illiterate peasants and artisans are rioting for bread. She
discovered the 'new world', planted her colonies upon it,
.nd held the title to more than one-half of i t f r o m
Washington and Oregon t o Florida, in the United
States, to Mexico, Central America, and nearly dl of
South America. Yet piece by piece she lost it all except s few islands, md theae will probably be lost within
r few days.
' T h a t was Spain's crime? Rer crime was practicall~
the same ~rathat of every nation that has fallen-the
n m e that is briefly charged by inspiration against
: 'Pride? fullneas
bread and aimndantx of i*
n-neither
did she *ren@hen the hand of the Poor
md n d ~ . ' ('lie'
16 :49
Spab'8 p r o s ~ r i td*
~
'dopd prldl$
flatitub God,
tion of increased responsibility as a steward. Pride begat
arrogance, injustice, misrule snd tyranny, and led to
the despoiling of all who came under her power, for
the accumulation of riches in the hands of her favored
ones at home. This led her foreign subjects to hate her
and to rebel against her unjust rapacity, by which their
g d

The associations and o r g d a t i O m of people

that are visited by periodical cleansing crises
of WiTit,
and deed, grow Strong and
vigomuh bemuse so sensitive are they to the
d e w i n g i*enes
of the
of (fad
debris of wickedness can never get a start in
their midst Thus?with them this Lsa of Retions,
defined in the Law. of htribntio%
works out for their best interests and welfare,
as it
for all people* But the g ' d e r
a m o u t of Wrong &sting, the more mvem t h O

S ' i n Reaped Her Crop

ANOTHER noteworthy illustration is that of
Spain, the seat of the Inquisition, stronghold of the Roman Catholic Church.
I qwte
the 'watch Tower",
15,
1898:
"One 8 V- -*t
the nati0n.a with mo* Pmans than
she
is the pauper nation af

h.tf

mbatanos were drained. Her pride md hex

avarice @ a ther wealth and the blood of her young men
in seeking to perpetuate the ~ P P ~ ~ O D which
O
the
of her victims
by
mcked
Lfter war
haS lost
lfter rictim,
well
her accnmulated wealth, until today without national
puraL,or natiod medit, he reh
nothing bnt her
natiod
pride, which -ot
die baoa
it .ninelement of the .pirit ,,I
nil -m

ciation of wicked nations it is destructive peatilence of raging human passions, b d n g out

i,
remlntion. and
mmt
its oolvse before &e eonatmCtive hew
agents are able to act with the fullest freedom.
The Law of Betribation is a hw of
what haa been eown. After the acts, deeds,
habits, and thoughts have slowly destroyed the
correct principles of right and wrong, md abiBsed the judgment of the evildoer* they
come unmnscions
of the -ting
proceand are self-made victims of systemrrtie deeep
tionWhen such a Process has
its mul'f% or
completed its cycle, the ill effects destroy social, politicd, financial, and religious arrangements. The accumulated corruption and wickedness once destroyed, a new arrangement
springs up after the destruction of the old.
Thus, when the crisis of the Law of R e t r i h tion has been reached, the honest-hearted can
be! enthused, can rejoice and shout for joy ;for
it is the herald of a new, cleansed order, and
in the nor-presentcase it is the hngdom of the
Lord JMns C h i s t Lift
your sad heads; for
upon this generation will burst forth the great
h e d n g crisis of hmanity, which will bring in
its wake life, liberty and happiness, the day
when "mmilna now f i n g will never die." Praise
ye the Lord 1

The weakening and dissolving of the nations

of earth are the sequences to plunging the world
into the war and not taking heed to the "sure
word of prophecy." F o r nearly forty years
God's messengers were warning the people of
the coming time of trouble which would culminate in 1914, and which would proceed until it had
spent its force. But the leaders of the people
scoffed. They still scoff, as though the war,
pestilence, famine, and profiteering were not
enough. The seed has been sown; the crop must
come. The Lord is permitting civilization to .destroy itself; for He has no further use for the
present order, which is under the domination of
Satan and those who knowingly or unknowingly
are in league with him.
What does the present crisis mean? It means
that the Lord's kingdom is a t the door, that
Christ takes to Himself Efis power and begins
His thousand-year reign for the raising of the
dead and the blessing of the people. After the
new age has fully dawned it will not be necessary

then- for the people to die. Jesus as the GreatPhysician and Prince of Peace will cure all di,
eases, restore harmony and sobriety, and
to s d e r i n g humanity the privileges of life,
liberty and happiness, something which the el&
dren of Adam have never had. It means tbat
those who pass fully into the next dispensatiw
without seeing death need never die.
[Therace today is not a living one, but a dying
one. Though a person is born with a measure of
life, he begins and continues to die until death
ends all. But under the righteous reign of Christ
conditions shall be reversed, and in t
b restomtion the people will be living and not dying.
Jesus said: 'Whosoever liveth and believeth in
me shall never die." (John 11:262
-a
ly means a living and believing wnditiom oa
earth; for those in heaven do not die; and th '
time for such blessings is after the law of re*-; bution has laid waste the em*
of Satan rrd
everything that is evil.-Ed]

Catholic Influence in Germany

(From the N e u e ZdWhsr Zcitung, Swlkerlaad, December 27,102l)

against Protestant indifference,

ARRAYED
schism, and resulting lack of influence, there

now stands in Germany a Catholia Church of

greatest activity, conscious of power, its propaganda unhindered by the democratio coalition
policy of the Centmm.
The Bishop a t Rottenburg decreed that a
bride and a groom of differing religious faith
must take solemn verbal and written oath to
have their children baptized, educated, and
brought up in the Catholic faith, even if death
remove the Catholic parent; to instill respect
for Catholicism, and not to hinder in the discharge of religious duties. This in spite of an
esisting law by the Reichstag, declaring such
agreements not valid.
Another sign of the times is an appeal by
Catholic clergy of Westphalia to rescind the
provision stipulating that the civil marriage
t
the church ceremony.
ceremony p ~ u s precede
Characteristic along scientific l i n a is the request to organize so-called Catholic philosophy
professorships i h t h e universities. Many professors are impartial enough to do justice to
C'atliolicism in their lectures, and young schol-

ars of Catholic tendencies are free to choose fhe

professorship with which they wish to a a t s
But evidently the Catholio Church desires f d
control of the situation, thua destraying in&
pendence and freedom of scientific learning.
The diocese and archbishopric of Meissen in
Saxony, which ceased to exist when, during the
Reformation, the Bishop and the entire diocese
became Protestant, was recently r a t a b l i s h e d
by order of the Pope. Involving only a few
thousand Catholics, the move is regarded ar
merely an artificial creation to provoke Proteatantism.
Furthermore, the Holy See is secretly neg+
tiating a concordat with Germany, which the
Frmkfurter Zeitung reports involveti religious
control of the schools and financial payments b~
the State to the Church. Such concordats generally meant relinquishing State power to the
Church, and have no good reputation among
Germans. But today political and economical
acuities holding the undivided attention of
the German public offers Catholicism a golden
opportunity, which she is, as usual, skilfull~
gppropriating.

STUDIES IN THE WARk O F GOD9 ('""EEiFEoo"~-)

With m e Number 60 we began running Judge Ruthcrford's new book,

Harp ot w. wit. a c m m p n ~ i n gquemtiow taking tbe place of
Advanced and Juvenllc blnh Stndla rhlch have beeu hltherto p u b l W

'30Those who are selected to be members of

the body of Christ, which selection is done during the Gospel age, must be justified in order
that they might be accepted. They are justified
only for the purpose of being accepted as a part
of the sacrifice of the Lord. On the typical day
of ato~iementwhen the high priest of Israel
slew the animals, the Lord's goat pictured this
c1ws n-ho come to the Lord in consecration.
That goat must be perfect, without any blemish;
thns foreshadowing how that all who are presented unto the Lord to be accepted as a part
of the sacrifice of Jesus, and hence to become
nicrnbers of His body, must be perfect; and
since nlan is imperfect himself, somethirig must
be done for him in order to make him stand
before the Lord Jehovah as perfect. He must be
justified. Justification means to be made right
with God. This must all be done in t h e acceptable time of the Lord. (Isaiah 49: 8; 61 :2) Any
one coming to the Lord Jesus with an honest
desire to be presented to the Father in the
acceptable year or time may be assured that he
will not be cast out; for Jesus said: "Him
that cometh to me I will in no R-ise cast out."
(Jolm 6 :37) He would not decline to present
any genuine consecration hefore the heavenly
Father. .Of course this consecration must be
made before the person can be presented.
'"Jehovah God is the great, wise Judge of the
universe; and He sits to dettmnine whether or
not one thns presented i s right. "It is God that
justi fieth."-Romans
8 :33.
S3'The steps essential now to justification, as
shown by the Scriptures, briefly stated, are
these: (1) Faith in God and His promises,
which is exercised and proven by making a snrrender of ourselves to the Lord; (2) receiving
the merit of Christ, and His presentation to
the Father; and (3) the determination by Jehovah God that tlie one thus presented is right.
The following scriptures sl~o\rthese points in
the order named: By faith are we justified
(Romans 5: 1); by the blood of Jesus are we
justified (Roman? 5: 9 ) ; "It is God that ju/stifieth." (Romans 5: 33) Christ Jesus is the great
High Priest. When we make a consecration of

ourselves, then He presents us to the Father.

(John 6: 37) But in order to make us accep
table or presentable to the Father, the merit of
Jesus' sacrifice must be imputed to us. m
en
He ascended on high, He deposited with Jehovah the ransom price, the merit of His sacrifice,
a s we have seen, pictured by the blood. The
second step, then, is taken when Jesus impute8
to the one thus coming to the Lord the merit of
His sacrifice, which makes him presentable to
the Father, Jehovah. Then Jehovah, upon the
merit, determines, a s the great Judge, that the
one thns presented is right, is j d e d , and ir
acceptable a s a part of the sacrifice of H .
beloved Son. Thus Jehovah h a been receiving
sacrifices throughout the Gospel age; but that
acceptable year or time d l soon pass, as indeed it is now passing.-Hebrews 3: 13.

QUESTIONS ON T H E HARP OF GOIT

Why is any one just&d during the Gospel age? 830.
In connection with the tabernacle, when the high priat
slew the Lord's goat, what did that picture? 1330.
The fact that the goat must be without blemish f e
shadowed what? a 330.
What ia the meaning of the term "juutiflcation"? 330.
When mu& justification for the purpose of s a c r i h
take place? Give Scriptural proof. 1 330.
What ossura~lcehas one that his conse.cration will k
accepted? 1830.
Must the consecration be made before or after the cansecrator ia presented totJehovah7 7 330.
Who is the great Judge of the universe? and who j e fies? Give Scriptural proof. 7 331.
Give the steps essential to jnstificntion. 7332.
Quote the Scriptures proving the ~ t e p sleading to j d fication-the first, second, and third steps, in th.
order named. 1332.
"Dear Lord, my heart shall no more doubt
That thou dost compass me about
With sympathy divina
The love for me once crucified
Is not the love to leave my side,
But waiteth ever to din'de
Each d e s t care 3f mink"

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A Digest of World News

(Radio-cast from WATCETOWER WBBR on a wave length of 273 meten. by the Editor.]

Making allowance for the fact thU the'dollbr

of
1912 shrank about forty-two percent in vdue
HE returns of the Bureau of Internal Revduring
the suceeding ten years, it transpires
enue shows that last pear there were sktythat
whereas,
if all the property in the country
seven individuals who reported that their net inhad
been
equally
divided in 1912, each person
comes were $1,000,000 or more per year. How$1,950 of wealth; while if
would
have
received
eTer, this does not at all fairly represent the
all
the
wealth
of
the
country
had been divided in
number of men \\-hose incomes are over $1,000,1922,
each
person
would
have
received $257 less.
000 per year; for it is well lmown that most rich
In
short,
the
actual
wealth
of
the nation due t o
men in the country have been investing their
of
the
World
W
a
r
was $10,00O,(XMI,the
wastage
wealth in tax-euemp t securities.
000
less
in
1922
than
it
was
ten
years
It does not appear that the Franklin National
- previous. ,
Bank of Philadelphia can be righteously accused
of overpaying its employ6s. The fact has just Women Workers
been brought to Light that after S t e e n years,
F THE 572 occupations listed in the United
one of its employ6s, a man with a wife and six
States Census there are o d y thirty-five in
children, had worked his way up to a salary of which no women are employed. There are over
$135 a month, or about what a good mechanic a million women farm-workers; over a million
now gets for two weeks' work. The man's wife women servants; over six hundred thousand
worked in a mill. The wages of the people who teachers; and over 560,000 stenographers and
do the hard work seem to be rising constantly, typists. In one factory in Indiana is a woman
while the wages of those employed a t oflice who has been making gingham aprons in the
work rise slowly, if at all.
same factory for more than forty years. In
1920 there were little less than 2,000,000 women
Millions Wasted Foolishly
who were working for wages, and a t the same
0.SAY nothing of the fires which destroyed time were U n g their place as wives and mothmuch valuable p r o , the July Fourth ers, because their husbands could not earn
celebration of this year cost 200 y o ~ g s t e r s enough money to mainta'in their homes.
the sight of either one eye or both eyes. We do
not see that there is anything gained by this an- Educational I t e m
nual carnival of foolishness, and it seems to us
ITH a great deal of satisfaction we record
that such restrictions should be put upon the
the fact that the wages of teachers in 1922
sale of fireworks and explosives as would make
a
little more than four times as much as
were
it impossible for these accidents to happen to
they were in 1890. Even now the average wages
the little folks.
Forty-five million pounds of po~vderwere de- are but $1,166 per year, and this is certainly
stroyed by fire recently at the Old Hickory none too much. California has the largest cost
P o ~ d e plant
r
near Nashville, Tenn. It belong- per capita for schools, $25.30 per child per year;
ed to the Government, and it's estimated cost and her wealth is also the highest, $4,007 per
was over $22,000,000. It was manufactured capita, fifty percent higher than the average
during the war at a cost of fifty cents a pound for the United States. Statistics show that a
child with a high school education has a two-toThe present.market price is one cent a pound.

Big and Little Incomes

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one better chance of sncGess in life than has a

child with a lesser education.
Records which have been kept of 20,000 cases
,
of school children, classified as b a c h ~ a r d mentally deficient, or stupid, show that after these
children had been fitted with glasses to correct
defective vision, seventy to eighty percent of
them took their places without dSculty in
classes with the normal average child,
Good and Bad Convicts
T IS reported that at the Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania a message was received over radio by the convicts that a rubber
ball would be tossed over the wall containing
narcotics. A visitor to the prison had been asked to do some repairing on a receiving set, and
being acquainted with the telegraphic code read
- the message and reported the matter to the officials, whose vigilance was rewarded by seeing
the ball tossed over the vall during the day.
A n immediate ban was issued on all receiving
sets in possession of the prisoners.
The Governor of Maine has sentenced a
Scotch collie to prison for life at the State Prison at !Chomaston. The reason why the Governor did this was not that he had anything
against the dog, but that he believed it would
be good f o r the inmates of the prison. It has
turned out to be so. The dog has been a prisoner but a short time and it is reported that he
has already become acquainted mith every man
in the institution.

Other Social Burdens

0 KEEP the women beautiful requires 1,675
kinds of powder, 1,396 kinds of perfume, 752
toilet waters, 600 beauty creams, 100 special
skin foods, 400 hair preparations, 453 kinds of
soap, 251 breeds of lipstick, 110 epelash outfits,
and yet people wonder at the rapidly growing
increase of insanity
Nine years after his death it was discovered
that a anppoaedly wealthy and successful lam-yer at Port Chester, S e w York, who left property worth nearly $300,000, had stolen all of
that and $500,000 more from vomen who had
trusted him to handle their financial affairs for
them. It frequently happens that the very
worst criminals are those who are supposed to
be counselors or administrators of the law.
Some idea of the burdens which bear d o n

upon public men may be gained from the f&t

that after the death of their son, President and
Xrs. Coolidge received more than ten thousand
telegrams of condolence; and these were followed by an immense number of letters and re+
olntions. It is the policy of the President to
answer each of these letters and telegrams personally, necessitating the services of thirty-five .
o r forty employis f0r.a period of several weeks.
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chance for Vookn Men
of the counters of the cas- IXVESTIGATION
tom tailors in seve'ral cities of the United
States rarely discloses any American-made
goods. Tailors claim that in the American
mills there is not a d c i e n t quantity of virgin
wool used to make first-class cloth. Without
doubt they are right. During the war, the manufacturers of Bmerican woolen goods were .conspicuous as profit*.
It would seem as thou&
there should be a good opening in America for
some honest men in the woolen business.

Air Mail and Rnmce

N SPITE of a hurricane in Western Nebasks
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which compelIed.one of the air men to make
a forced landing, the air maiL service between .
New York and San Francisco continues its
,
regular performance every day, and even the
mail which was blown to the ground arrived in
Xew York ready for delivery only two hours
late. Uore than a million miles have already
been flown by mail planes without a fatality.
The air mail service is not su.&iently patronized to make it a financial success; yet in '
point of time it averages forty hours better than
the fastest trains, and has never failed to save
less than thirty hours on any trip.
I t is estimated that by use of the air mail serrice, there is an annual saving of $800,000 in interest charges on transactions between the New.
York Federal Reserve Bank and eleven other
Federal Reserve Banks o r branches.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has
lowered its rediscount rate to 3 percent. This is
said to be the lowest not on& in its history, but
of the world. I t is the result of large importations of gold to this country and of the slackening of business. It also means that credits are
easy in the Cnited States, and that money is
seeking i n ~ e s m n t . Institutions which have
surplus money mast make it work. If there is

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lower.
A despatch from Atlantic City shows that
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a result of the throng of ~ s i t o r sreceived at
that resort over the Fourth of July.

Automobile Items
EW PORK is in the midst of a tasicab war
in which the rates have fallen first from
forty to thirty cents a mile, and then from thirty
k twenty cents. At the new cheap rates all the
tasicabs are doing a rushing business; but it is
not believed that this can last. There are said
. to be about 35,000 persons directly enwged in
the tasicab busisess in New York. It is claimed
that the actual cost of operating a cab is tffelve
and three-fourths cents per mile, which f i v e
includes the portion of the time when the cab is
idle. It is calculated that unless the taxicabs are
busy eighty percent of the time, they will not be
able to get on at the low rate.
One hundred eighty-eight persons mere killed by automobiles in the state of New York dming Jnly, fiftyeight of these being in New York
city.
LOSb g e l e s has 425,572 automobiles. I t haS
forty badly crowded street intersections, three
, of which have a daily movement of over 85,000
ears each.
Btagistrate George Simpson of the New-York
Tr&c Court broke all records by trying 240
automobile cases in one hoar. Those who b o w
something about it say that the experienced
automobilist always pleads guilty when arrested, knoming that if he fights the case it would
Likely go harder with him in the end.
At a point in New Jersey much visited by
automobilists, a beautiful rippling stream
comes down over the rocks looking as pure as
any water could be. I t was not until seventy
persons had contracted typhoid fever by drinking from these waters that an investigation was
made, which showed that part of the stream
originated from a cemetery, and that the germs
from the bodies of those who had died from
typhoid were causing the death of the living. In
a much more subtle way, those who died in the
dark ages and earlier are stunting and poisoning the minds of people today by bequests of impossible creeds of ideas which they hare made
to our generation.

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Important U.S Ports

ASED upon the tonnage the following are
the most important ports in the United
States : New Yo&, 28,000,000tons per year ;h s
b g e l e q 12,000,000; Baltimore, New Orleans
and Philadelphia, 8,000,000; San Francisco, 6,000,000; Boston 4,000,000; BnfEalo and Port
Airthur, 3,000,000; Galveston, Norfolk, Seattle,
Portland Ore., each 2,000,000; New-port News,
Cleveland, Fall River, Tacoma, Mobile, Baton
Rouge, Toledo and Perth Amboy, each 1,000,000
tons.

Railroad l o f i t s
HE farmers in their desperation to get relief from their financial hardships petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for
lower freight rates on agricultural products;
and, as might be expected, the petition was de;lied. The Commission had guessed at the valuation of railroad property, putting it a t $20,000,000,000; and as the railroad-figures did not
show a profit of five and three-fourths percent,
as guaranteed by the C&s-Esch
bill, the cat
in freight rates could not be made.
Mr. Thomas Gibson; a recognized authority in
fincmce, has published 8
which does not
lgree with the Commission's findings. He
shows that many ra&oads
pay from seve,
percent to twenty-seven percent dividends on
common stocks, which in most
are
'%wateredm. I t is pointed out that on the day:
when the Commission handed down its decision,
which was the day that Gibson's book
reachmg the investigating public, the railroads of the
United States could have been purchased on the
New York Exchange for $14,000,000,000, or
$6,000,000,000 less'than the Commission's "tentative valuation".
Ur. Gibson further shows that the railroads
conceal their earnings by increasing the expenditures for maintenance. If the expenditures in 1924 had been the same as in 1923, the
profits of the railroads wodd have greatly exceeded the five and three-fourths percent; but
as the gross income had fallen off some $80,000,000, so the maintenance cost had declined some
$30,000,000. It is apparent from Xr. Gibson's
fi,aures that the profits of the roads were approximately $10,000,000 greater during the first
four months of 19% than in 1923.
Since the Government guarantees the rail..

roads fire and tl11.e~-fourthspercent on property value, the *'property value" has increased
enormously ; and hundreds of millions have
been added during the past year. Also, if one
road pays well, so that surplus earnings will be
turned back to the Government, it will be consolidated with a road that loses, so that the
losing road will absorb the profits of the winning road instead of permitting Uncle Sam to
have any of the money. .
Financial writers find out that during the s k
months just ended, more money v a s paid out in
dividends by industrial an1 railroad companies
than in any other half-year in America's histo. These facts should be given due weight
when considering the following:

frc\idit c . I ~ n r ~ 11igIic:r
c ~ ~ , ecIucntio11a1costs, aud
illore expensive life and fire insurance.
The following is a statement of the relative
costs of certain railroad items before and since
the World War made ns "safe for democracp":

Cost of Equipment, etc. Before the War After the War

Frei'ght cars
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$ 800
. 8 l,m
Refrigerator cars
1,200
,. _ . _
2,700. . .
Passenger coaches
8,000
::=I i . .
20,500
Engines
24,000
54,000
Annual payroll (millions) 1,739
3,698
During the year 1922, 44.4 percent of the &hod revenue was spent for labor,, 10 percent for fuel, 19.9
percent for materials and wpplim, 6.6 percent for
leases, loem, damages and miscellaneow itenw, 5.4 percent for trues, 11.9 percent for inkred and bed
charges, and 1.9 percent for dividends and improvements.
Some Interesfing RaiZroad Facia
During the last five years there have been 5,684 milts
URISG the first ten months of 1923 the of unprofitable railway tsack abandowd Ever since
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton railroad, owned the war the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louia railway, 234
ecl by Henry Ford, made a loss of $168,000. We miles long, has had an annual o p t i n g deficit of $606,do not know the reason for this. The last pre- 000.. It is now in a state of complete coUapae.

vious datum we had regarded this road was that

31r. Ford desired to obtain permission from the
Government to reduce the rates, as he considered that he was making too much money. We
merely present what are said to be the facts,
without at this time attempting to offer any explanation. If any of our readers can give a
reason for this changed situation, we v o d d
be glad to have it. We believe that the diverting of the passenger and freight traffic from
the railroads to the highways is the correct explanation.
F o r the three years 1920-1922 inclusive, the
average dividend on railroad stock in the
United States was considerably less than one
and one-half percent. In 1908 the stock of the
Chicago, Jlilm-aukee and St. Paul was $199.62
per share. I t is quoted in recent stock qnotations a t $16.50 per share. On this railroad there
has not been a dividend in five years.
The bonded indebtedness of the railroads of
the couritry is $11,420,000,000. These bonds are
largely held by the great insurance companies
and the trustees of educational and philanthropic institutions, so that to a large extent the
owners of the bonds axe the people who have
taken out life insurance or who arem sending
their children to college. Thus every million of
automobiles put into use by the American
peopl. works toward higher passenger and

At this writing the railroad outlook does not

seem rosy.

Political Plofformsand Hopes

HE Republican platform moat enthusiastically declares that the League of Xations
is all mong, but that the Republican party purposes in the future, as in the past, to do all possible to coaperate with it and to join its world

court,

The Democratic platform, with equal-enthusiasm, declares that the League of Nations is all
right, but that nobody can be sure that it is right
until it is submitted to the people on a referendum vote; and that meanwhile, in the future as
in the past, the Democratic party purposes to do
all possible to coijperate with it and to join its
world court.
The only thing sure about the matter, in the
minds of these politicians, is that the h e r i c a n
people as a whole \t-ant nothing to do with the
League; but this they both carefully refrain
from emphasizing.
The candidacy of Robert 31. L a Follette for
President has been endorsed by the Socialists.
The thing which caused the Socialists to endorse
Mr. La Follette's candidacy was his statement
that the supreme issue is whether the wealth of
the nation shall re'main in the hands of a privileged few. The o6cial name of Senator La Fol-

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- lette's new party is The Conference for Pro- every twelve workers in the United States oupport one government employ&
gressive Political Action.
Under the new immigration law, the number
If Kr. La Follette shodd succeed in beating
the Republican and Democratic parties, i t of Germans that can be admitted into the conn'1- wodd be good news to hosts of true Americans try next year is 51,227; residents of Great
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who are disgusted with both of the old parties. Britain 34,000; Irish Free State 28,557. O d x
n o s e who nominated Senator La Follette con- 3,845 may come from Italy.
tend that they represented at least 5,000,000
voters. They insist that he will carry all of the Athletic Notes
Northwestern states; while Senator La Follette
INNEAPOLIS has a policeman Ijp the
himself is reported as believing that he will be
name of John Ward who has been on the
the country's next President.
staff thirty-five years, and.is now seventy years
of age. He was told that he must retire on a U.S. Moat Lawless Country
Bty-dollar per month pension, but refused to
T THE installation of Judge William 'Men quit. He took a new civil sercrice examination
in the Court of General Sessions of New and passed one hundred percent, including tlie
York City, Judge Alfred J. Talley made tm ad- physical test. He was leader in a field of .
dress in which he stated to Judge Allen that the twenty-five applicants, all younger than himself.
United States milst plead guilty to the indictOut of tmenty-seven events in ,the Olympia
ment of being the most lawless country on earth. games held at Paris in July, the American
representatives obtained f i s t place in bvelve
In Judge Talley's address he said:
"Mod of the desperate criminah are mere bops. You events, and the representatives of Finland obwill be heartbroken at the discovery that the vast major- taked first place in ten events ; Great Britain
ity
of defendants am under nineteen or twenty y-"
obtained honors in three events; and Australia
On the night of July 29, in the rum war which and Italy one each. The running high jnmp
is being constantly waged between the United was won by EL S. Osborne of the United States.
States Government and the fleet of liquor-laden The jump was 6 feet 6 inches In one of the
vessels lying off the Jersey coast, three mm events, R Le Gendre of the United States made
boats were captured as they were bringing their a world's record of 25 feet 6 inches on a rnnning
cargoes into New York. All three of the vessels broad jump. In the pole vault, L. Barnes of '
the United States scaled 12 feet 11% inches.
were heavily loaded with whisky.
At the summer school of statesmen at Wi4
liamstown, Mass., Dr. Tyler Dennett of Wash- Ag*JhrdItema
ington, D. C., who is studying President Roose- I N THE latter part of July CIe6rgia peachvelYs private correspondence, announced that
growers are estimated to have thrown away
d-g
the Russian-Japanese war President four million bushels of peaches for which they:
Roosevelt had a secret agreement that Japan could not obtain more than eight cents a basket
would keep out of the Philipphes and that the or forty cents a crate, hardly enough to pay for
United States would not interfere with their the crates and baskets. At the same identical
having their own way in Korea. At the same time peaches were selling at 650 a basket at
time, President Roosevelt warned France and &ranton, Pa, and could not be obtained for
Germany that they must not go into war on the less.
side of Russia, for if they did, he wo'dd put
The world's wheat crop for this year is only
the United States into war on the side of Japan. about eighty-seven percent of what i t was last
year. This is giving American and Canadian
Sundry Political Items
farmers better prices for their products at a
HE president of the American Bar Associa- time when a Little encouragement of the farmtion in an address before that body stated ing industry is greatly needed.
that in the Federal Government aIone there are
A new factor has become apparent in the cotmore than 750,000 employ8s; and that there are ton business. Less cotton is actually being used
more than 3,400,000 people employed by nation- than before. Bags that used to be made of cota4 state and municipal governments, so that ton are now made of jute. Cotton towels in
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poblia places have bein replaced by paper
towels. Thousands of table cloths have been
succeeded by marble slabs. Xost important of
all is the fact that it is claimed that the weight
of clothing worn by the modern woman is only
about thirty-five percent of what it used to be.
Sleeves and skirts are short, and many of them
are made of s i k The petticoat, once an important part of women's clothing, has almost ccased to exist.
In the cotton fields of Texas cotton picking
continues throughout September, October, and
November, in temperatures ranging from 99' to
20 above zero. Cotton picking is hard on the
hands of inexperienced pickers. In some of the
Texas fields, babies three years old have been
found working. In one field a six-year-old girl
was found who had begun field work at the age
of four, and by working h e l v e hours a day
managed to pick eighty pounds a day. The
wages given the pickers average 2c per pound.

Science and ~nvention

Y MELYS of moving pictnre apparatus,
40,000 pictures have been taken of atoms
in collision with other atoms. A professor of

Chicago University, when showing some of these

photographs in a lecture, made the astounding
statement that the nuclei of these atoms are only
one ten-thousandth the diameter of the atoms
themselves; and that if these nuclei could be separated from their electrons and packed tightly
together, the weight of one cubic inch of such
material would be one hundred million tons, or
enough to construct 2,000 of the largest battleships afloat.
Fifty feet below the surface of the ocean at
Atlantic City one Thursday afternoon, a diver
with a microphone placed in the helmet of his
diving apparatus, connected with one of the
radiocasting stations at Philadelphia, described
the appearance of two wrecks which lay near
him; and his description went out all over the
eastern part of the United States. He explained
that in the bright snnlight at a distance of fifty
feet below the surface, e~erythinglooks green.
Hebrew scholars have just called attention to
the fact that the word radio is not a new word.
It appears in the Talmud; and the rabbis hare
associated it with the flash of lightning that
bunled up the sacrifices offered on Mount Carme1 when Elijah called down fire from hearen.

It is believed that a new era is dawning in the

study and practice of music through a device by
means of n-hich any sound can now be photographed and a permanent record made of the
sound waves produced. This invention is byProfessor Seashore, of the State University
of Iowa, and is being used in the Universitp;.
of Iowa in the study of music.

Science and Health

HE Johns Hopkins Hospital has discovered
a new and successful method for treating
persons whose bodies have been covered with
burns. Heretofore, if one-third of a person's
body was burned the case was considered hopeless. Now the burned person is put into a tub
of water, and kept there .for six days, day and
night, and meantime is compelled to drink large
qnantities of rater. The water in the tub is
changed frequently. This method has proven
remarkably successful ; and persons whose
bodies were nearIy covered with burns have regained their health by this method.
Scientists in New York who examined the
white Indian children brought from Panama
acknowledge that -these Gldren are re&y
white, but claim that their condition is due to a
tropical disease called leucodermia, which is
quite prevalent in the West Indieq but ordinarily manifests itself only in white patches on the
skin. TVhile the discoverer of these Indians was
in Panama, he saw and photographed.abont 400
of all'ages.
I t is a favorable sign. for the health of the
American peqple that their annual per capita
consumption of citrus fruits is over 30 pounds
per year; 21.9 of this is in oranges, 6.1 in grapefruit, and 3.7 pounds in lemons.

&clesiastical Bone-Rattling8
S D E W R the other day, a Baptist minister
made the statement that the church is an ash
heap and a junk pile; that five percent of the
church members do not exist; ten percent can
not be found; twenty-five percent do not go to
church; fifty percent never contribute a cent
torrard Christian ~ o r k ;seventy-five percent
never go to a n-eek-day service; ninety percent
do not have family altars in their homes; and
ninev-five percent never attempt to win a new
recruit for the church.
An Atlanta pastor has criticized President

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The Canadian Minister of ~mmigrationis at
Coolidge became in his radio address to the
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t o reverence nat*re, second to teverence law,

third to reTerence God. me snggest as an alibi
t.for President Coolidge that in mentioning God
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last
he meant it as a climax; but in any event,
.
in
mentioning
God at all he mas f a r ahead of the
2,writers of the covenant of the League of
Nations, who ilid not give Him any place whatwer. Yet strange to say, there were ministers
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further immigration at this time.

Mirieo 7
HE already strained relations &tween Jdexico and Britain have been augmented by
the robbery and murder of Mrs. Rosalie Evans,
the American wife of a British citizen. ~ r s .'
W ~ grp.%.dth~t
Q
stme CQYWLU.. ia"the ~ l i t i c a l
y~oceedingto her estate dong a expression of God's Icingdom on earth".
road where numerous robberies have occarred.
Reverend Dr. George Elliot, editor of the s h e had with her a t the time a large s m of
dfelhodist Reviezir, New Pork city, in an address
for meeting the weeglp pay-ro]l on her
at Bridgeport, Conn., asked the preachers of the estate.
city on Xonday, J d y 7, who had mused the war
The bandits who robbed and killed her have
and then answered the question by saying, ' w e been i d e n a e d ; confessions hEL;ve been obtained;
all did, all Christians who did not CTOut their and within a week after the
~ v a sc o m m .
Christianity, all narrow nationalists, all mili- ted the trial was in progress. We am nothing
tarists." He added : '?t is cheaper to buy peace i,this for the British Government or the
than mafie mar. If we v e n t four billions cr year ican Government to get excited abo&
H d y
for humanity instead of for war, no nation a i e e k passes in the United States
one
would dare to fight us."
o r more pay-roll robberies. They are frequent .
Dr- wirt, a Presbfierian pastor of Los in New York city, where'the banks and erpresr
Angeles, recently returned from Europe, be- companies now use armored cars exclusively in
lieves thaf Europe is turning toward another transporting fnnds:
world war which \\-ill destroy civilization. He
Since the
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safefor democracy:
quotes a prominent an citizen as saying robberies are so frequent in the United States
that the despairing peoples of Europe are that it is impossible to take a through train of
everywhere beyil.qing to look upon another war importance an~vhere,
having to
the .
as the only me.*11s of rectifying intolerable con- gauntlet of from two to six hard-visaged, h d ditions; and Dr. Wirt himself made the pungent voiced, heavily-built and heavily--ed
men.
statemenf that the late war settled nothing, but ~ h world
,
is in a bad way in more
than
rather nnsettled everybody and everything.
Xesico.

Canada
HE highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies, JIount Robson, 13,068 feet high, has just
been ac+d by a party which contained two women, both of whom succeeded in making the
summit. In one place the party had to cliub up
100 feet of ice cliff by hand-holes cut into the ice.
One of the railroads of Canada recently advertised in Toronto for 500 men at 2 j c per
hour, r i t h a deduction for board of $5.50 per
week. In ansrrer to the advertisenlent 1,500
men presented themselves, and in their eagerness for n-ork became so demonstrative that it
was necessary to call out the police. With
prices of dl commodities at their present level,
it is practically impossible for a man to maintain a home on any such earnings.

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Honduras
ONDURBS seems to be in a state of chronio

revolt now-a-days. The troubles that we=

fixed up in Jfay by the treaty of peace signed on
the United States cruiser "Xilw8nkee" have
broken out afresh. T h Minister of Mar, who is
a Liberal, has decamped from the capital, taking with him many of the troops and all the
arms and ammunition he could seize. War has
broken out afresh; two Americans are reported
slain; and the hmerican marines are again &
tempting to restore order.

BrmMz
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Bolivia
LITTLE while ago a volcano was generally considered one of the most useless things
in the world, but new uses for them a r e being
continually discovered. Volcanic dust in the air
tempers the climate and promotes rainfall. Volcanic ash promotes vegetation. Volcanicr sulphur has produced thousands of tons of this
commodity; and now the tapping of vo~canic
flanks so that the steam from the volcano can
be used for the generation of electricity f o r
light, heat, and Power PurPoseS is q ~ t cornon*
e
The latest mountain which it is p ~ o s e to
d
use in this way is Mount Tatio, on the boundary
between Bolivia and Chile. It is stated that the
and hem
lThe
forests
be- steam from Mount Tatio is so pure that i t doas
fore the onslaughts of the m d t i h d e needing not have to be first
as is n e c e s w ,
warmth and shelter] ; Sharon is like a wilder- where mlcanic
is
in 1 t d y and taliness [The fields a r e stripped of their crops] ; .fornia. Engineers have fignredthat the power
and Bashan and C a m e l shake off their fruits obtainable anmdyfrom Mount Tatio would
[The orchards are robbed by those whose neces- require half a million tons of coal in an ordini+;@
U - s h o w no law] ."-Isaiah
33 :8,9.
ary steam plant.
surgerlt forces, federal airplanes dropped papers with a notice of their intention to bomb
the city. As a result 250,000 people fled into the
wilderness, and the rebel forces left the city
in order to prevent the threat from being carried oat. This is an advanced picture of what
.will happen when h a g e d d o n is world-wide.
The Prophet states the matter thus : ['He hath
broken the covenant [Treaties are not worth the
paper they are written on}, he hath despised the
cities [rendered d a b i t a b l e by foes without
and within], he regardeth no man [Every man's
hand is against his neighbor]. The earth
mourneth and languisheth : Lebanon is ashamed

The Tumbleweed BY J. A. Bohnet

EVERY

farmer from Dakota to Texas knows

the tumbleweed, and knows it to his sorrow.
It is the curse of agriculture throughout the
western plains, and causes as much trouble as
any other weed.
The tumbleweed is known as the Russian
thistle. It grows spherical in shape, about two
feet in diameter usually.
It has numerous stems thickly covered with
short thorns; and it starts growing when summer is well advanced. I t s density makes it a
pest. Its color is bluish green.
Late in the fall the tumbleweed dies, and is
broken off close to the ground. Then it is sent
scurrying, across the level stretches by the high
winds, bouncing along in leaps sometimes as
high as the telegraph lines, on which it oftentimes lodges, and is blown along on the wire
till halted by the pole. Often the teiegraph pole
is a grizzly sight by reason of the multitudinous
tynble\reeds clinging to it.
As this meed hits the gromd in its bouncing,
it shells out its seed for the .pext year's croppage.
The fences very often are so weighted with the
needs that they give wag:under the strain. On

a windy day the tumbleweeds resemble a flock'

of sheep scudding across the prairie wastes,
seemingly racing with each other and vying
as to which can bounce the higire:;\ Gullies are
quickly Wed with the tumbliils weeds. One
day the tumbleweeds go rushing along in one
direction; and the next day the same weeds
may be seen hurrying back towards where they
came from, driven at the impulse of the winds.
As one undertakes to capture the tumbleweed in its fight, it seems possessed of life in
its seemingly persistent efforts to keep just
out of arm's reach. I t goes a s though it hadbeen sent for. I t is as elusive as a butterfly o r
as a straw hat on a windy afternoon.
The Russian thistle is not the real tumbleweed, which is thornless and less offensive;
bat it makes an excellent substitute. The real
tumbleweed behaves better, and grows more
generally on waste places and along the wayside and not so much among the farmers' croprows. I t is partial to railroad trackage, as is
likewise the Russian thistle. I n the U e n n i u m
we may expect b o q gradually to disappear, as
will other noxious growths.

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The Prayer of a Consecrated Heart By Frederick J. Falkiner, (Ireland )

And grant tlmt I may unto Thee

Be found acceptable in Him.
Oh, let Thy work rejoice my heart,
And give me grace from day to day
Faithfully to perform my part,
Throughout this long and narrow say I
Thy workmanship in me complete,
That thus I may be soon prepared
For glory; when I then shall meet
The Christ of God, whose death I sharcd.
The glories of my futnre state,
Rewaled within T h y Sacred Word,
Will truly more than compensate
For all my sufferings, gracious Lord.
Help Thou Thy child to tread Thy ways;
Lord, glorify Thyself in me;
Accept my worship and my praise:
Oh, hear me, aa I pmy to Thee!

My gracious Father and my God,

I praise and magnify Thy name,

As m the ray my Savior trcd

I *a-,
dwoid of wealth or fame.
I know that I haye but to plead,
Amording to Thy sacred will,
In Jems' name, for all I need;

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And Thou Thy promise wilt fidfX

Gmnt that Thy lore may fin my heart,
That thus I m a y be more like Thee,
My loving Father, Thou m-ho art
Custodran of my destiny.
Oh, keep me ever at Thy side,
- -4nd sanctify me through Thy Word;
Remit my sine through Him who died,
My living Head, my heat-enlylord!
Oh, keep me ever clean and free
From a l l impurity and sin,

The Columbus Convention of the I. B. S. A.

convention of Bible Students
THEheldgreatest
during the
is past. It began Sunages

day morning, July 20th,192-L I t closed Sunday

night, one veek later, with thousands of conseeratecl followers of Jesus standing, waving their
handkerchiefs while they sang together, "God
be with you till n-e meet agnin." That convention was a blessed season never to be forgotten.
In all there were probably 20,000 who attended
the conrention during the week In this wicked
world, filled with sorrow, perplexity and distress, think of 15,000 or more gathered together
in one body, all of one mind, the heart of each
one devoted to the Lord, with no murmurings,
no complaining, no faultfinding, no controuerties, no strife, and with their countenances
beaming with the spirit of the Master.
Some were f m m far-away Aastralia; some
from Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, and from Great Britain; and many came
from ~anacla, and every state in h e r i c - .
They journeyed by steamship, by railvay, by
electric cars ; ~ o u s a n d scame by antomobiles;
and some even ~rJl;ed many long weary miles.
Friends provided for these latter to return
home by convenient converance. They came
for no idle purpose, but to receive a blessing
and to be a blessing.
Great n ~ n b e r sof cilildren came with their
parents. Blessed are the children. Thrice
blessed are those whose parents are devoted to

the Lord. And blessed is the privilege to teach

these young minds concerning the Lord and His
kingdom, and to lead them in the right way. In
the near future these shall shine forth, reflecting
the glory of the Lorain the earth. Ample provision mas made to care for these little ones during the meetings, and at the proper time the
parents brought them into the great assembly
and publicly consecrated them to the Lord. Let
the parents look well to the interest of their
children now. This old world and its desires
are rapidly passing from the earth, bat the
kingdom of Christ and its blessings will abide
forever. Teach and lead your children now in
the right may, and the rich emoluments of the
kingdom of rigliteousness may be their portion
to all eternity.
The convention opened with an address of
welcome from the Mayor of C o l m b , who
spoke words of good cheer to the Bible Sbdents; and this kind spirit was manifested by
the people of ~ ~ l m b and
a s vicinity to those
a-ho attended the convention. Discourses were
given in the English lan-gmge erery day in the
main auditorium, according to program, while
at the same time meetings .ryere being addressed
by competent brethren in Arabic, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian,
Polish, Russian, Scandinavian and Ukrainian.
With the aid of an electric -voice amplifier
erected on the platform, and one also below the

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platform, every word of the speakers could be

heard by the vast audience. Those who testified
at the testimony meetings formed a line, and at
the proper time stepped before the amplifier beIow the main platform and gave their testimonies, all of which could be heard by all Pmsent. This added greatly to the blessings enjoyed.
It would have been impossible for such an
msembly to carry on Bible study intelligently
without the aid of these great mventions.
Each evening a public meeting v a s addressed
by one on the speakers in Memorial Hall, seating 3,000. The hall was packed out on each ocpublic
casion. ~t the noon how each day
meeting was addressed by some competent
speaker at the Keith Theatre for the benefit of
the business men.
The Avery-Loeb Company,Station TV P A L,
placed their radio station at the disposal of the
convention; and each evening a splendid program was rendered, to the edification of thousands ot people in Ohio and adjoining states.
Hundreds of the conventioners were camped a t
Indianola Park, where receiving sets were installed and the radio programs enjoyed.
The public press mrried good rep0rtS each
the
did the
could. The Ohio State Jouma~had promised
to handle all subscriptions sent in, expecting
of course only a few thousand; but when the
subscription list for the convention edition
reached 20,000 the management announced that
it was utterly p o s s i b l e for them to take care
of any more.
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HURSDAY mas service day. Discourses on

T the preceding day emphasizing the privi-

lege enjoyed by the Christian to meet the requirements laid down by the Lord, to proclaim
the message of His kingdom. Those present
-caught the spirit and inspiration, and appreciated the privilege they would have of giring a
personal mit.ness to the people, of Columbus and
vicinity. The result was that 5,051 engaged in
the field service work. Automobiles to the number of 333 carried those who visited the country
towns. X'o meetings were held during the day
until 7 o'clock in the evening.
It is easy to see how this was the happiest
part of the convention; for it served as an op-

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portunity for each one individually to preach:

the gospel to some hungry soul and to comfort some sorrowul heart. The vicinity within
a radius of sixty miles of Columbus was canvassed by this little army.
The report of books placed in the hands of the
people as a result of service day totaled 29,367 volumes. It would be impossible to preach
so many sermons to so many people in any other
way. We may easily multiply this number of
books by five, which would amount to more than
100,000 d i ~ c o ~ - ~ eAs
s . the average embers
of a family are five, it would not be out of the
Way to say that this little service day resulted
in preaching to practically 500,000 people*

Re ffectiom
E GIVE here a few interesting items concerning the convention :
Italian Bible Students visited Marble Cliff,an
Italim section, and placed 251volumes ih the
Italianshands
A lady remarked:
Bible Students look . so happy* Yoxu religion mast be w~nderfalColumbus ought to appreciate you."
One lady who was canvassed said that she
was disgosted Kith the preacheD of the nom
churches;
fomd one preacher intoxicated, that
and that had
an
disdosad
a still inhis
A yo,8
man who delivered refreshments to
reported tht a preacher hul
the
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him
th. Bible Stoden*l. This
these
yoMg man replied to the preacher
words: "I smoke cigarettes, and have never
been ashamed to smoke in front of you. But
when I go to the Fair Grounds I throw my .
cigarette away; for I am ashamed to be the only;
one smoking in that large gathering."
A man living near the Fair Grounds had taken
in eight Bible Students. His neighbor had
taken four. At the instance of a clergyman the
latter turned the four out in the streets. The
gentleman who had eight provided extra beds,
and took them in. In that little home he fed
an average of 105 Bible Students per day. On
the Monday following he sent his automobile
truck to help dear the Fair Grounds, and could
not do enough to show his appreciation of the
Bible Students.
The Postmaster d Columtjus stated to a GOLDEX AGErepresentative that the Bible Students

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looked after their people better than any other

wnvention that had ever attended CoIumbus.
Fmm tha post office at the Fair Grounds had
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--&en sold 18,000 wrappers besides 186,000 wrappers sold and mailed from the main post office;
and when some had not attached sutlicient postage others who heard of it came to the post
office and supplied the money to pay the post. age. Every paper went out dn time. The Postmaster said: "And we hope that YOU will hold
your next convention in Columbus."
The business men of Columbns were highly
pleased with their contact with the Bible Stndents; and many of them in their advertisements spoke kindly concerning them. On Jdonday following the close of the convention the
following appeared in the Ohio State Jounrrrl,
published at Columbus :
'%l, the Rnssellites have come and gone,
and this and the Biw Sunday revival are the
two biggest 'jolts on religion' that Columbas
ever had, and this is the may I compare the two :
*%illypreached hell fire, damination, torture
and brimstone, after making his enterprise safe
from any chance of financial failure by raising
money in advance and, after raising huge sums
of money from all classes, rich and poor, left
our city in a hancial panic, the merchant's
trade being ruined during his stay and for some
time afterwards. On the other hand, the R w
sellites preached a more wholesome religion and
scattered money all over our city in homes
where a little money is a 'new stakeJ as many
people are out of work and needed the cash.
Furthernlore, erery R ~ s s e a t ehad the very
sweetest manner toward every one.
'*ussellites?
*in'
You'U find us at
home. JIany would say Billy left a bad taste.
The Russellites nlere much better."
The writer just quoted speaks of the Bible
Students as RusseUites. Of course he means no
Ssnspect. We merely correct him by sayipg
that we are Christians, followers of Jesus Chrlst
and followers of no man;and that we recognize
Charles T. Russell as the servant of the Lord,
and our brother in Christ.

Music Notable Feature

Oh'E of the happiest features of the wovention was the music. Friends from different
parts of the country brought their instmments,

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and 'mder the supervision of B. K Rice of

Chicago, and E. G. IValters of Tamaqua, Pa,
an orchestra of sixty pieces was organled,
which played for all meetings. Tbis instnrmental music, added to the thousands of voices
harmonionsly united in praise, was inspiing
ancl edifying to all that were present.

Immemion HE immeRion
service
mas held at the swimming pool of the Indianols Park, where 485
persons were immersed. Bn enterprising moving-pictnre concern made pictures of this immersion service, which they have exhibited
throughout the country, calling attention to the
great number of Christians observing the baptism of om Lord.

J'ubLic Meeting
held in the
meeting for the
Ohio State University Stadium. Considering fie population of columks, which is less
than 300,000, and the extremely w a m day, the .
attendance of this meeting was unusual for its
size. The gentleman having charge of the
gate receipts at all functions at the Stadium
estimated the crowd at 35,000.
gy aeuse of a m e s w ~ l ~ ~ t ramplii ~
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fie, ewrJ
in the vaststadium codd hear
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distinetlp the words of Judge Ruthedord's address. ~h~ discourse was recaivedwith sp~eIIdid attention;andwmeit is a
expoaitionof the fallacies of aristendom, it was received with enthusiasm and applaase by a
On the uonday fouoWin8 the
eat
Ohio State Journul carried the lecture in full.
Judge Rutherford, President of the SOCIETY,
deliveied the kepnote
fouoving
an indictment was read which waa unanimously
appmved by the *sing vote of this mighty
throng of Christians.
indic.hent is a for.
ma1 statement of offenses presented and charg4 against a certain class of persons he
indictment herein is laid &idy against the
,-Ierg)-, showing that they hme fallen before
the temptations of Satan, proved unfaithful
to the Lord and to the responsibility resting
upon them; and that this is the chief cause of
the worldJs present deplorable state. We give
the substance of Judge Rutherford's address.
The formal indictment follows:

Civilization Doomed

B;y J . F. R~c.bl~erford
Reamri for Wcr:d Crisiie-Blessing of the People to FoUow

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civilization is the very antithesis of

barbarism. I t can be builded only upon
truth, jytice and righteousness, with love as
the movlng cause. I t stands for education, culture, refinement, and truth. Present civilization
is veneered, underneath which exists barbarism
in its most malignant form.
Commerce and politics have both played
their part in present civilization. Greed for
gain and power has turned legitimate commerce into wicked profiteering. The comrnercia1 giants traffic in human blood as they do
in the inanimate products of the earth.
Ambition for power and influence has caused
politicians to juggle with the rights of the people, to prove unfaithful to their constituency,
and to use public office for private gain.
The desire for bodily ease and comfort; the
'desire to be approved by men rather than to
have the approval of God; ambition for the
establishment of the Lord's kingdom on earth
before due time, and contrary to His way,
has caused the clergy to fall to the seductive infiuence of Satan, to become disloyal to God and
to the Lord Jesus Christ, and to form a part of
present unrighteous civilization.
Had the clergy been faithful to their trust
in representing the Lord, the world today would
not be facing the greatest crisis of all time.
The sayings of some of the greatest thinkers
of the world are here given in proof of the near
wllapsi of civilization :
'3efore the war people often supposed that
ours was a Christian culture. The war has
revealed us to ourselves.
Civilization is
Pagan."-Dr. Bernard I. Bell.
"The future is very dark. We have reached
the twilight of civilization."--Dr. E.L. Brailsford.
"No man unless he is 'drunkwith optimism
can deny that the world is very sick, and it may
be a sickness unto death"-Sir Philip Gibbs.
"The United States is preparing for war
that would tax us to the utmost in man-power
resources."43ecretary of War Weeks.
T o a responded to Europe's need in 1917.
The work is only half done; and if not completed, civilization is doomed within this generation to a catastrophe such as the world has

never known." "Force is the only thing that

rules in the world Unless you stamp out that
conviction civilization is doomed upon this
earth."-Lloyd George.

TIie Reason
HESE great men of the world see the storm
of fire and blood irresistibly sweeping on to
the destruction of human institutions ; but they
assign no cause, and are at a loss for an adequate remedy. Hence their perplexity and distress. Jehovah, knowing the end from.the beginning,foresaw and through His prophets foretold this dreadful day thus: "Come near, ye
nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people.
For the indignation of the Lord is upon all
nations.. .. For it is the day of the Lord's
vengeance."-Isaiah 34 :1, 2, 8.
Those composing the nations within the
meaning of the Scriptures are financiers, politicians, and clergy, because combined they
rule the people. They are the chief ones of
the world, of which world Satan is the god, or
invisible ruler.
In what manner kave the clergy of the
churches become a part of the world1 The
answer is that they have fallen to the temptation of Satan, and have willingly joined with
profiteers and politicians to rule the people contrary to the plain teachings of the Word of God,
whom they claim to represent. The indignation
of the Lord is not against the common people,
but against those in authority who have claimed
to represent Him but who have been unfaithful to Him. After the expression of His indignation the Lord, through His kingdom of
righteousness, will bless with liberty, life and
happiness all the people who hear and obey.
In the Catholic and the Protestant churches
there are millions of honest people who desire
to know and to do God's will; but they are
blinded to the truth by reason of the unrighteous course of the clergy. The Lord will open
the minds of these honest souls by drastic
measures against the false prophets and their

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allies.
These words are spoken not in vindictiveness but in love in order that the people might
.know the truth. I have no personal animositg:

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against the clergy. 31y hope is that this

may serve b enable some of them to awaken to
the importance of the hour and to aid the people and themselves by preaching the truth of
God's Word.
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Temptation
O W have the clergy been overreached by

H satanrtestc oalld has

the devil to
cb
to be His repreaentativea in order to pmve their loyalty or dispoints
loyalty to Him. There are three
upon which such are tempted; namely, the desire of the flesh,the desire of the eyes, and the
pride of life.

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the vorld and blessing the people aud making

them beautiful. The only condition which Satan
added was that Jesus should worship him. Thia
was contrary to God's will ; and to this temptation Jesus replied : "Get thee hence, Satan; for
it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy
God and him only thalt thou serve." (3) The
temptation was presented to Jesm' pride in
tbis, that Satan pointed out that Jesus XlllSt do
something spectacular in order to convince the
people that He was sent from heaven ; that therefore He Should go- up on the top of the
and j n off;
~ that Jehovah odd Preprove that He
Sene Him, and that this
was superior to all other men and the people
would flock to Him. To this temptation Jesus
answered: "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy
God."
These tests show that no one can be pleasing
the
Father, and have
final a P
prou4
that One is a b s o l u t d ~loyal to
God- To be loyal means to do that which the ,
divine law requires*

Adam
and
the parents
race,
when
in Eden were
in harmonythe
with God,
therefore His representatives. God commanded them to refrain
from eating certain fruit
lest they die. To induce disloyalty to God Satan
presented the temptation to h e from the three
standpoints, to wit: (1) To her fle& by indating her to believe that the food would be
good for her body; (2) that the fruit was
beantiful and she should possess it and eat it; EccCc%i~fia
ESUS CHRXSTorganized His church in purity,
and (3) that it would make her as wise as God.
providing it with eiders, designating them
She yielded to all these temptations, and became disloyal to God. Adam then voluntarily a s shepherds of the flock. These were cornmanded to feed the flock of God, not to lord it
joined her in the transgression.
over them, and faithfully to represent the Lord
Tamptation of Jeua
and keep themselves separate from the world.
asus, the sonof sod, was JehovahJs special After the death of the apostles the elders in the
representative on earth. Satan h e w that church began to yield to Satan's temptatiom*
h due time Jesus was to be the king of the They organired C O U ~ S ,spnods, pnsbyteries,
earth. Hoping to induce Jesns to be disloyal et",
their Om members to the high
to His Father and thereby cause B s destmc- ofices of popes, cardinals, bishops, doctors of
tion, Satan presented the temptation to Jesus divinity, pastors, reverends, etc., a d thus
similar to that which had tamed Eve and f 0 R I l d ecclesia~ticism, themselves being the
Adam to fall. (1) The temptation was pre- ecclesiastics, otherwise called the clergy. They
sented to the body of Jesns, in this, that he laid themselves ~Pen-tothe three great temptaw
suggested that Jesus use His power selfishly tions and Satan p r o m p t l ~presented them:
(1) To the flesh or body: These clergymen
to create from the stones bread that He might
eat when He
hungry. This was contrary saw that it was to their bodily advantage to use
to God's r i l l ; and Jesus replied: "It is written, their powers selfishly to feed themselves. This
Xan shall not lire by bread alone, but by erery tlley (lid, ~leglectingto feed the flock of God,
word that proceedeth out of the month of God," just as the prophet had foretold. (Ezekiel 34: 8)
thus proving that loyalty to God is essential to They made themselves important in the church,
life. ( 2 ) The temptation was presented to the xithheld the truth from the people, and thus
eyes of Jesus, in this, that Satan showed Jesns created a famine for the hearing of the Word
the possibility of establishing His kingdom be- of God.-Amos 8 :11.
fore God's time by immediately taking over all
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siastics, otherwise termed clergymen, desiring

to possess the seductive things of this evil world
and to be admired of men rather than to be
approved of God, yielded to the lust of the eyes,
clothed themselves in scarlet and long flowing
robes, decked themselves with jewels, and have
arrogantly assumed a form of godliness while
denying the power thereof.
(3) The pride of life: The clergy, as the
Lord's representatives, were commanded by
- Him to keep themselves separate from politics
and other worldly entanglements, to teach the
people concerning God's kingdom, and to await
that kingdom which would relieve the people
of their afaictions and sufferings and establish
righteousness on earth. Satan appealed to the
pride of the clergy, induced them to believe
that they could establish a kingdom on earth
which they would call God's kingdom and which
would rule the people. Yielding to his temptation, the clergy sought and brought into the
church the big commercial giants, the great
politicians and other men of worldly influence,
and made them the principal of their flock.
These were already under the control of Satan.
The clergy had become the allies of these worldlings, and claimed that this combination of
rulers is a rule by divine right.
Jesus refused to worship the devil in condderation of establishing His kingdom on earth
before due time. Anxious to run ahead of the
. Lord, and thus appear great, the clergy yielded
to the devil's condition, and have worshiped
him by conforming themselves to his order. To
this end they have sanctified w a r and hailed it
as a holy thing, have turned their church edifices
d for
into recruiting stations, have r e c ~ t e men
the armies, and have preached them into the
trenches. The clergy boast of having the rich
and the mighty and the strong of this world in
their churches; and, as Jesus foretold, they
boast: 'We are rich and have need of nothing,'
when in truth and in fact, they are wretched,
ru~dmiserable, poor, blind and naked. (Revelation 3: 17) S o one can gainsay the fact that
the clergy have by joining hands with profiteers,
politiciaiis and other worldlings, attempted to
make the people believe that their gorernment
is God's kingdom on earth, thereby directly
proving their disIoydtp to the Lord Jesus
Christ.

F a k Docirines
BE ecclesiastics, to wit: popes, cardinals,
bishops, reverends, doctors of divinity, theological professors, claim the exclusive right and
authority to interpret the Scriptnres and to tell
the people what they should believe. They deny the right of any one to preach the gospel unless ordained by them. They have set aside
the pure doctrines of the Word of God and
have substituted their own doctrines. F o r many
centuries they kept the people in ignorance of
the contents of the Bible by discouraging them
from studying it; and now in this day of
greater advancement they destroy faith in the
Bible by flippantly denying that it is the Word
of God. They have proven disloyal to God bx
yielding to the temptations above mentioned,
and have repudiated the Lord's Word by teaching contrary thereto. 'In proof of this the following is cited :
The Bible teaches that man was created perfect'and, because of sin, was sentenced to death,
thereby losing perfection of organism and the
right to life.
Ecclesiastics teach that man is a creature of
evolution; that he ne<er fell, and never lost the
right to life by reason of sin.
The Bible plainly states that man is mortal;
that because of Adam's sin, all are born sinners
and subject to death.
Ecclesiastics teach that a l l men have immortal
souls, which cannot die, which doctrine is s u p
ported only by Satan's great lie.-Genesis 3: 16; John 8: 44.
The Bible plainly teaches that the wages of
sin is death; and that death, destruction, is the
punishment of the wilfully wicked.
Ecclesiastics teach that there is no real death,
that the punishment of the selfish and wicked
is conscious torment, eternal in duration, and
that to escape such terrible punishment the people must join their church denominations.
The Scriptures plainly teach that there is one
God; and that Jesus Christ, His only begotten
Son, is the Redeemer of mankind.
Ecclesiastics teach the unscrip tural, God-dishonoring doctrine of the trinity.
The inspired lTrord of God declares that
Jesus Christ is the Ransomer of all; and that
d l members of the hunlan race, in due time,
shall have an opportunity to k~ionrabout the
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Ecclesiastics by teaching evolution, human
immortality, eternal torment and the trinity,
deny the ransom by implication; and now the
chiefest among them deny that there is any
purchasing value in Jesus' sacrace thereby directly denping the only Lord God and the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ, by which mankind is
redeemed.
The Scriptures teach that Christ Jesus is
z n g , and the only One who has the right and
authority to rule the earth in God's due time.
Ecclesiastics teach the divine right of earthly
kings to d e , and they have joined hands h t h
big business and politicians to enforce this rule
of the peoples of earth.
Jesus constituted His apostles as the fomdation of His kingdom, a d the Scriptures teach
that the apostles have no successors.
Ecclesiastics have fraudulently claimed to be
the successors of the apostles, and thereby have
arrogated to themselves great authority and
have attempted to deceive, and have deceived,
the people.
The Bible emphasizes the second coming of
Christ and His kingdom of righteousness as the
hope of mankind, and admonishes all the followers of the Lord to faithfully proclaim this
message of His coming E n d o r n , and to d v o cate and follow peace with all men.
,The ecclesiastics scoff at the proof of Christ's
second presence; and they have sanctified war
and wrest the Scriptures to justify their conelusions- They have repeatedly had theirPortraits made and efibited with great warriors
of the world- They have k n e d their chwch
edifices into recruiting stations. They have received and accepted a t h y lucre in consideration
of rendering service for recruiting yomg men
for the war. And now when the evidence is plain
and conclusive that the old world has ended, that
the Lord for the second time is present and that
the kingdom of heaven is at hand, the ecclesiastics ignore the proof, and scorn,ridicule and persecute those who dare tell the truth to the people. Instead of bidding welcome to the ICng of
glory, and telling the people of Xis kingdom
and the blessings it will bring, they opelily unite
with the devil in his schemes to control the peoples of the earth in a compact designated the
League of Sations, and piously and fraudulently
declare it to be "the political expression of
God's kingdom on earth".

Thus they have sent forth to the peapie a

very river of deathdealing doctrines, and now
shall drink themselves the nauseating potion;
for they deserve it at the hand of the Lord.
Jesus declared &elf
to be the true vine,
and that His followers are the branches and are
therefore a part of that vine. God foreknew .
how the apostate ecclesiastics would fall before
the temptation of Satan, and of this He testified
aforetime through His holy prophet Jeremiah,
as follows:
~~t I had
thee a noble vine,
whdy:
8 right seed; how then a r t thou turned into
the degenerate plant of a stmnge vine =to
me? For though thou wash thee with nitre, and
take thee rnnch soap, yet thine i n i q i t y is
marked before me, saith the ~~~d ~ ) ~ H~~
d ,
canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not
gone after Baalim [satan] ? See thy way in ~e
know that what thou hast done; thou art
a s ~ f dromedary
t
traversing her ways ;a f f i ~
ass,. used to the wilderneas, t6.t snuffeth
the wind a t her pleasure; in her occasion who .
h
,
her away?
they that seek her a
not w e a v themselves; in her month they
.
find her. withhold txy footfrom hing-hod,
and thy thmat from thirst; but thou
There is no hope :no ;for 1 have loved ~(nngcn,
2: 21-25.
and after them will I go."-Jeremiah
~h~ ecclesiastics, having fallen before the
temptation of Satan, having proved their disloyalty to ~ ~ ha-g
d , joined hands a i t h the
advocates and makers of war, and by force and
coercion controlled the people, and acknowE
edging that they have preached the
men
into the trenches,
tdethe responsibility
which the ~~~d has laid upon them when H~
ssys of them, through His prophet: 'qn thx
sbrts is found the blood of the soulsof fie poor
innocents/- jeremiah 2 :34.

End of the lPorld

T THE fall of Zedekiah, king of Israel, in
the year 006 B. C., Sntnn became the god
of the entire e l 4 world. Good men have fought
against Satan's influence in order that better
conditions might obtain. The Lord has not
restrained the devil, but has permitted him to
ply liis nicked temptations throughout the Gentile period. Go$ pointed out that the Gentile
times 11-ould end, and that the world or old .

ortIer of evil things would rewh iki legal elid that their fathers, o r pastors, had abandoned
v20 years later, to wit, 1914; that at the end of them as the Lord's sheep; and they were, as
the world Ckrist, whose right it is to reign, the Prophet puts it, "like sheep without a s h e p
would begin to exercise His power to the set- herd." Instead of shielding and protecting and
ting up of His kingdom for the blessing of man- helping these humble followers of Jesae, the
k i d , which kingdom He had instructed His clergy joined hands with conscienceless POIdisciples and 'all His f allovers, including the iticians and wicked profiteers in arresting, imclergy, to pray for and to preach to the people. prisoning, persecuting, and in killing some of
His disciples, anxious to know what would be these faithful Christians.
proof that the world had come to an end, propouncled this question : 'Master, tell us, how may
we know of thy presence and of the end of the
world?' (Matthew 24: 3) Jesus announced that a
world war, f w n e s , pestilences, and revolutions
in various parts of the earth would mark the
beginning of the sorrow upon the nations, proving that the time of the end of the world had
been reached.
Exactly on time this came in 1914. 'All
Christians who were diligently watching the
development of the Lord's plan, c o d see in
1914 that the World War and other events kcident thereto marked the end ; and many of
t'hese preached this truth to the people. The
clergy, who claimed to be the representatives
of the Lord, should have known these truths as
set forth in the Scriptures, and should have
boldly preached them to the people, advising
them of the Lord's presence and of His kingdom, and that all Christians should keep out
of war. On the contrary the dergy of every
nation of Christendom used their church b d d ings as recruiting stations, urged Christians
to be patriotic to the aorfd powers (the devil's
empire) and go to war, preached and urged the
young men to enlist for the war, and received
money from the govel-nments for thus doing.
They openly preached that the e v i l world is
God's kingdom.
When in 1915 the political and financial
powers of the world brought forth the League
of Sations compact, which utterly ignores God
ancl the Lord Jesus, the clergy united in a proelamation declaring the League of Sations to
be the political e x p ~ s s i o nof God's kingdom
on earth. Thus further they proted their
disloyalty to God and to His kingdom, and their
loyalty to the devil's empire. T h e n the World
War came on, there nere some humble Christians who were conscientiously oppoeed to mar,
and who humbly tried to teach the people the
truth. They were poor and fatherless in this,

The Lord, speaking to them through His

prophe$ says: "Horn long will ye [dergychief ones in "Christendom"] judge unjustly;
and accept the persons of the wicked t Defend
the poor and fatherless: do justice t o the
aficted and needy. Deliver the poor and
needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked."
(Psalm 82 :1-4) The clergy failed, and refused
to hear this admonition of the Lord, but go hand
in hand with profiteers and politidans in their
f raudulent attempts to control the people d e r
various pacts, leagues and other forms of government. And now condenring them God's prophet says : "They know not, neither d
l they
nnderstand : they walk on in darkness: all the
foundations of the earth are out of coarse."Psalm 82 :5.
The evidence from 1914 to 1918, so conclnsively establishing the end of the world and the time
of the Lord's kingdom, ought t o have convinced
the clergy. If they had been faithful to the
Lord and had taught the people the troth then
they would have saved the people from the i
m
pending collapse of Christendom, which is just
at hand. Concerning this the Prophet makes it
clear that the clergy are they who are chiefly
responsible before God for the great trouble
just ahead.-Jeremiah 18: 8 , 9 ; 23 :21,32.
The Lord has declared His indignation and
vengeance against these false shepherds who
claim to teach His flock, and against the principal ones of the flock with them, to wit: the
profiteers and the politicians who are allied with
the preachers, and who assume a form of religion for the furtherance of their selfish ends.
Concerning them the Lord says through His
prophet: "Thus saith the Lord God unto the
shepherds that do feed themselves!. . . Behold,
I am against the shepherds." "Howl, ye shepherds, and c r y ; and wallow pourselves in the
ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of
your slaughter a d of your dispersions are accomplished [full] ; and ye shall fall like a pleas-

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ant vessel. And the shepherds shall have no earth to be man's redeemer. (Matth'ew 20: 28;
way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to John 10: 10) Christ Jesus died upon the cross
escape."#-Ezekiel 34 :2,lO; Jeremiah 25 :34,35. for the entire human race. (1Timothy 2:3-6;
Hebrews 2: 9) All mankind must have the
ColZapae of Civilization
benefit of the ransom sacrifice in God's due time.
Jehovah said: "In thy seed shall all the naHE Lord forelmew that the clergy would
prove their unfaithfulness to Him and to tions of the earth be blessed." (Genesis 22: 18);
His kingdom; that they would not heed the evi- This seed of promise is the Christ: Jesus Christ,
dence that He would bring forth to prove the the Head, and His faithful followers, the bodyl
end of the world; that they would totally re- members. (Galatians 3 :16,27,29) From the
pudiate Him in 1918 and the years immedi- ascension of Christ into heaven until His second
ately following. He then stated that after the coming and the setting up of His kingdom God
war, the famines,the pestilences, the revolutions, has been selecting Christ's body members from
etc., there should follow distress of nations, amongst men. These are called the true
with perplexity, that all the nations would Church. These are they who are faithful and
prepare for further trouble, and then He adds : loyal to the Lord God and to Jesus Christ.
"For then shall be great tribulation, such as These likewise are subjected to temptation ;and
was not since the beginning of the world to only the overcomers, who are faithful uuto
this time, no, nor ever shall be." (Xatthew death, are granted joint-heirship with Christ
24 :21) This and the prophecy of Daniel [Dan- Jesus in His kingdom. (Revelation 2 :25, 26 ;
iel 12 :11 definitely identify the collapse of 3: 21) The Apostle plainly states that the
civilization with the full establishment of hfes- second coming of Christ and the setting up of
siah's kingdom for the purpose of blessing all His kingdom is for the purpose of restoring
the families of the earth.
to mankind all that was lost.-Acts 3: 19-21.
This final trouble upon the world is the exThe evidence is now conclusive that we have
pression of God's vengeance against Satan and come to the end of the old world and to the bethose who organize and maintain systems under ginning of Messiah's kingdom; hence the time
his direction and influence.
for the world's blessings is about due. The milLions of people now on earth will be first tried,
and then the dead w i l l be resurrected snd have
HROUGH His prophet Jehovah admonishes an opportunity for life. (2 Timothy 4:l)
the people to seek meekness and righteous- Those who refuse to obey the Lord will be deness and turn to the Lord and thereby be fa- stroyed forever. (Acts 3: 19-23; Psalm 145:
vored in the time of this great trouble. (Zeph- 20) 811 the wicked that turn to righteousness
aniah 2 :2,3 ; Psalm 41 :1,2) Let the people shall live and not die. (Ezekiel 18:27,28) Then
avoid controversy, strife and trouble, and now will come to pass the sayings of Jesus: "If a
wait upon the Lord. Christ is present; and man keep my saying he shall never see death";
following the trouble He wiU begin to exercise 'Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall
the blessings of His kingdom in behalf of man- never die." (John 8:51 ; 11:26) Becanse we
kind. This will mean the restoration to man have come to that time in the development of
of all that he has lost. What then has man lost t the divine plan, it can now be confidently stated
God created thb earth for man's habitation, that millions living on earth will never die.
hfan-made schemes must now a l l f a i l The
and the earth will abide forever. (Isaiah 4-S:12,
18; Ecclesiastes 1:4) He created perfect the plan of God w i l l be fulfilled as foretold. It is
first man, who violated God's lam and n-as sen- now appropriate for Christians to "say among
tenced to death. Thereafter Adam's children the nations that the Lord reigneth: the world
were born, all of whom were born in sin and also shall be established that it shall not be
shapen in iniquity because of the father's sin. moved: he shall judge the people righteously.*
(Psalm 51 :5 ; Romans 5 :12) Jehovah promised (Psalm 96: 10) The Lord will establish a new
to redeem man from death and to restore the civilization that m i l l be lasting. The obedient
obedient ones to life and happiness. (Hosea 13: ones of the people will abide forever in p e w ,
14) He sent His beloved Son Jesus into the life, liberty, and happiness.

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Indictment
The Seed of the Serpent
rersus
The Seed of Promise
the International Bible Students, in convention assembled, declare our unqualified alleWWeE,giance
to Christ, who is now present and setting up His kingdom, and to that kingdom.
believe that every consecrated child of God is an ambassador for Christ and is duty-

bound to givesa faithful and true witness on behalf of His kingdom. As ambassadors for
Christ, and without assuming any self-righteousness, we believe and hold that God has commissioned us to cgproclaimthe day of vengeance of oar God and to comfort all that mourn."-Isaiah 61 :2.
We believe and hold that it is God's due time for His displeasure to be expressed against
wicked systems that have blinded the people to the truth and thereby deprived them of peace
and hope; land to the end that the people might know the truth and receive some comfort and
hope for future blessings we present this indictment, based upon the Word of God, and point
to the divine plas as the remedy for man's complete relief.
We present and charge that Satan formed a conspiracy for the purpose of keeping the people in ignorance of God's provision for blessing them nith life, liberty and happiness; and that
others, to wit, unfaithul preachers, conscienceless profiteers, and unscrupulous politicians, have
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entered into said conspiracy, either willingly o r unwillingly.
That unfaithful preachers have formed themselves into ecclesiastical systems, consisting of
councils, synods, presbyteries, associations, etc., and have designated themselves therein as
popes, cardinals, bishops, doctors of divinity, pas to^, shepherds, reverends, e k , - and elected
themselves to such offices, which aggregation i s here^ designated as "the clergf'; that these .
have .FFillingly made commercial giants and professional politicians t&e principal of their flocks. .
We present and charge that the clergy have yielded to the temptations presented to them
by Satan and, contrary to God's Word, have joined in said conspiracy, and in furtherasla themof have committed the overt acts as follows, to wit :
(1) That they have used their spiritual powers, enjoyed by reason of their position, to gratify their own selfish desires by feeding and exalting themselves, and failing and' refusing to
feed or teach the people God's Word of truth;
(2) That loving the glory of this world, and desiring to shine before men and have the a p
p r o d of men [Luke 4 :8 ; James 4 :4; 1 John 2 :151, they have clothed themselves in gaudy
apparel, decked tlieslselves with jewels, and have assumed a form of godliness while denying
God's Word and the porn-er thereof;
(3) That they have failed and refused to preach to the people the message of 3Iessio;h's k g dom and to point them to the evidences relating to his second coming; and being unwilling to await
the Lord's due time to set up His kingdom and being ambitious to appear wise and great, they
have, together with their co-conspirators, claimed the ability to set up God's kingdom on earth
without God, and have endorsed the League of Xations and declared it to be "the political
expression of God's kingdom on earth", thereby breaking their allegiance to the Lord Jesus
Christ and declaring their allegianm? to the devil, the god of evll; and to this end they have
advocated and sanctified %ar, turned their church edifices into recruiting stations, acted as
recruiting officers for pay, and preached men into the trenches, there to suffer and die; and
when the Lord presented to them the clear and indisputable proof that the old world has ended
and that His kingdom is at hand, they haye scoffed at and rejected the testimony,-persecuted,
arrested and caused the imprisonment of witnesses for the Lord.
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Doctrines
E FURTHER present and charge that the clergy as a class hare constituted themselves the
fountain of doctrines which, in the furtherance of said conspiracy, they have sent forth to
the people, claiming such doctrines to be the teachings of God's Word, well bowing the same to
be untrue, in this, to wit:

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(1)That they falsely claim to be the divinely appohted successors to the inspired apostles oC
Jesus Christ; whereas the Scriptures clearly show that there are no successors to the apostles;
(2) That they claim the sole right to interpret the Scriptures, and that therefore they alone
know what the people should believe; and by this means they have kept the people in ignorance
of the Bible; and now in this time of increased knowledge and much reading, when the people
might read and understand, these self-constituted "successors to the apostles" discourage the
people from reading the Bible and Bible literature, deny the inspiration of the Scriptures,
teach evolution, and by these means turn the minds of the people away from God and His Word;
(3) That they have taught and teach the divine right of kings to rnle the peoples, claiming '
such rule to be the kingdom of God on earth; they hold that they and the principal of their
flocks are commissioned of God to direct the policy and course of the nations, and that if the people do not submissively concur in such policies then the people are unpatriotic or disloyal ;
(4) That they are the authors of the unreasonable and fahe doctrine of the trinity, by which
they claim and teach that Jehovah, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are three persons in one, which .
fallacy they admit cannot be understood nor explained; that this false doctrine has blinded
the people to the true meaning of the great ransom sacfice of Jesus Christ, through which
men can be saved;
(5) That they teach and have taught the false doctrine of human immortality; that is to
say, that all men are created immortal souls, which cannot die; which doctrine they well
know to be false, for it is based exclusively npon the statement of Satan, which statement Jesus
declares to be a great Lie (John 8 :44) ;
(6) That they preach and teach the doctrine of eternal torment; that is to say, that the penalty for sin is conscious~tormentin hell, eternal in duration; whereas they know that the Bible .
teaches that the wages of sin is death ; that hell is the state of death or the tomb ;that the dead
are unconscious until the resurrection, and that the ransom sacrifice is provided that all in due
time may have an opportunity to believe and obey the Lord and liv'e, while the wilfully wicked .
are to be punished with an everlasting destruction;
(7) That they deny the right of the Lord to establish His kingdom on earth, well knowing
that Jesus taught that He would come again a t the end of the world, and that the fact of that
time would be made known by the natrons of Christendom engaging in a world war, quickly
followed by famine, pestilence, revolutions, the return of God's favor to the Jews, distress and
perplesity of the nations; and that during such time the God of heaven would set up His kingdom, which wiU stand forever (Daniel ?:%) ; that ignoring and' refusing to consider these
plain truths and evidences, they have willingly gone on in darkness, together with their allies,
profiteers and politicians, in an attempt to set up a world power for the purpose of ruling and
keeping the people in subjection, all of which is contrary to the Word of God and against His
dignity and good name.
The doctrines taught by the clergy and thcir c o m e of action herein stated are admitted;
and npon the undisputed facts and upon the law of God's Word they stand confessedly guiltp:
before God and in the eyes of the world upon every chsrge in this indictment.
Upon the authority of the prophecy of God's Word now being fulfilled, we declare that this
is the day of God's wrath upon Christendom; and that He stands in the midst of the mighty
and conlrolling factors of the world, to wit, the clergy and the principal of their flocks, to judge and
to express His righteous indignation against them and their unrighteous systems and doctrines.
We further declare that the only hope for the peace and happiness of the peoples of earth
is Nessiah's kingdom, for vhich Jesus taught His folloners to pray.
Therefore we call upon the peoples and nations of the earth to witness that the statements
here made are true; and in order that the people might, in this time of perplexity and distress,
have hope and comfort, we urge upon them prayerful and went study of the Bible, that they:
might learn therefrom that God through Christ and His kingdom has a complete and adequate
plan for the blessing of mankind upon earth with peace and probperity, liberty, happiness and
eternal life, and that His kingdom is at hand.

Sugar and the Shylocks

"The deal was closed, the banker making 82,500,006
commission, he and other money lenders the interest;
in which were given many items respecting the. and the two men who ran the deal made more than 100
great sugar squeeze of 1921, by which, in the million dollare. That ir the way the people paid at that
time as high as 30 cents a pound for sugar. You are
fruit-canning season, the Ameriwn people were now
paying 8 cents a pound, about 2 ants above what
robbed of a b i i o n dollars.
its price otherwise would be. Each cent per pound addThe price of sngar went up from six cents to ed represents millions of dollars to the Sugar TI&."

GOLDEX
ACE So. 38 we had an article enINtit14
"A Tale of a Billion Dollar Sweetness,"

as much as thirty cents per pound. The papers

were full of stories of whole t m s unable to

get any sugar at all, and.great threats of what
wodd be done when the miscreants back of the
steal should be discovered. The statistics revealed the fact that there was plenty of sngar in
the corntry. Everybody agreed that something
mnst be done this time to make snre that no such
dastsrdly outrage shodd ever occur again.
The Government was as active and excited as
a fly in a bottle, and as efficient and effective. I t
threatened to dose up the sugar exchange. I t
sent one or two men to prison for some little
jobs of a carload or so. It was going to do great
things when it found out mhat to do. But it
never found out; and the billion dollar sugar
steal passed into history, like all the million and
one steals for which we are as patriotically and
entlusiastically thankful as conditions permit.
h d now comes a little book, "Pad's School
of Statesmanship," written by TV. H. Harvey in
far-off Xonte Ne, Arkansas, and tells mhat it
was that really happened a t the time of the sugar steal; and now we know vhy nothing mas
ever done about it. We quote from the interesting little book :
"At a time when i t waa made and ?Id to consnmm,
at 8 profit, for 5 and 6 cent. a P U ~two
, men went to
a bpnker in S e w York city and said to him, T e are
gaing to buy sugar: we have, of our o m , monep and
securities
on which ae can raise more money, one million
-.d o h With this we d begin buping &ar, placing
i t in warehouses and talohg warehouse certificates to
show WB hate it* We want to know of You if we can
borrow of you on the= warehouse certificate% m p ~
from
we buy'
re have paid
on these certificates, 90 percent of their face value. A3
w continue to bur, thu cornering h e cupply of agar,
6 U g U will advance in price, r e will control the price,
and p u s security wiU be giltcdged, ample.'
c6mplid, lOu
a
.nd if
I
$athese certificates for rou, getting you the
-7,
you not only can d o r d to pay good ink& but
dditionally pay me 10 percent on the 25 million or more
yeu will. need.

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Everybody is interested in these facts. They

may not know that they are interested. They
may be solid bone from the5eck up; but they
are actually parties in interest, whether they
know it or not, and are paying and will pay tribute indefinitely to these well-dressed, gentlemanly robbers every time they sit down to a.
meal.
The only way that they d l get out of paying
the tribute will be when the bankers have h a l l y
obtained such fall control of the whole earth and
its bounties that only those may eat who have
a warehouse certificate, properly endorsed at
the bank; and when the common people have no
way left by which they can get such certificates.
We wondered how a simple recital of these facts would impress +n intelligent, reasoning
man, a doctor; and so rre told him just what we
have recited here, and aslied him what he
thought should be done. His answer was startling. He would have the three merl strung up
immediately,'at the nearest lamppost But that
can not be done. The law: must take its course ;
and the history of law enforcement in this country shows that great gentleness of treatment
may be expected by men clever enough to get
away with a billion dollars Seperd POUPS of
men have done i t ; and they are a l l a t large and
Likely to Emain so. Coal! Munitions! Airplanes ! Federal Reserve ! Sugar
! Oil ! Sheets 1
~ornels!
b d now our readers niaywish to bow
how
near are the happy days when the great bankd will really om or
ers
it &; and the little book tells us that, too. I t establishes f ram
the United States Census of 1919 that the true
value of all taxable property in the United
States is $150,000,000,000, and provides a table
showing that the long-time interest-bearing
debts now outstanding
not
less than
$110,m,000,000, and are probably $11$,m,000,000.
It must be admitted that for the bankers, in

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GOLDEN AGE

the little time they have been at it, to obtain 75% money from these financiers, and gave them the
to 80% of all the property in the United States, privilege of lending out money a t interest to
indicates that there is something rotten in Den- others. The impending ruin of our civilization
mark When they get to the point where they dates from that act.
So sure is Mr. W.H. Harvey, the author of
deliberately hold up a great national political
convention for two,weeks in order to force a the little book, that this civilization is sure to be
man of their choice upon each of the two great destroyed, every vestage of it be wiped out, that
parties, it comes pretty near showing that they he is building at his own expense a t Monte Ne a
' h o w who has the power in this c o b t r y and pyramid or obelisk in which the reasons for this
that-they purpose to make full use of it, even in destruction will be recorded. He is in hope that
thousands of years hence, when the race has
the open. Death and ruin await aU opposers.
But if the bankers are doing nicely in their again slowly emerged from b'arbarism, his recenterprises in the United States, they are doing ords of present-day inventions and of our
much better abroad. The little book gives for present so-called civilization may be helpful hathe principal foreign countries the same data as preventing another destruction such as the one .
for the United States, and establishes that the that now impends.
total interest-bearing debt of Britain, France,
Ofcourse Mr. Harvey has a plan for avoiding
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and Italy is about $540,000,000,000, the catastrophe. We can hardly undertake to
while their total taxable wealth is $287,000,000,- cover it in this article. He is in hope that the
000. In other words, the peoples of those four bankers, now that they, as well as all other men,
countries a r i in helpless and hopeless slavery, are threatened with extinction by modern
and have pledged all that they own to the bank- methods of warfare, may be willing to give up
ers and almost as much again.
their business and retire on $50,000 each, which
Now the question arises, 'Cupon what meat he contends, rightly enough, is sutficient for any30th this our Caesar feed that he is grown so body. one can but admire his simple-hearted
great?" How, when, and why do the bankers goodness.
get all this power? b d the Little book tells
Mr. Harvey establishes to his own satisfacabout this, too. I t all comes back to the question tion that if the people can be freed from selfof interest, legal according to human laws, il- ishness, vanity and prejudice, and will forego
legal according to the Bible. Events now are the practice of usury, it is quite possible to creplainly demonstrating that a civilization that is ate a government built on a new, sensible Bank
based on any foundation other than the Bible is of the Co-on
Good, where there will be no
bound to ruin itself.
taxes, no assessors,-no tax collectors, no bonds
In the sixteenth century, 'loaning money for interest and no debts, and yet with many more public irnwas prohibited. The churches condemned it. Christian provements than now.
that Mr. Harvey and other good men long
burid was denied money-lenders. It was the pre~ailing
opinion in England that the loaning of money for in- for, and much, oh very much, more will come
t e f e ~ t ,or usurp, as it wss then called, was unjust gain, with the Lord's kingdom now being ushered in.
forbidden by divine law. It W ~ Sdecreed that the ef- Mr. H-ep
need not be ashamed of his ideas
fects of d money-lenders should be forfeited the King. and ideals. Such men will be greatly =ed ere
It
made an indictable long for the blessing of others. Of that we feel
They were
offense, and Edward 111made it a capital crime. You ssole. ~~~~i~~ we
to pray: ~h~ bring
w i l l find all this in English history."
dom come !
But the money-hoarders, the potential banliThe question may be asked, If our civilization
ers of that day, hid all the gold and silver they is now on the brink of ruin, as the best thinkers
could lay hands on. Business came to a stand- generally agree is the case, and if i t has come
still. The Government became hard pressed for to this through neglect of the teachings of the
money, and at length was forced to change its Bible on n-ar and usury and other elemental subo jects, why is it that the clergy have been silent
laws and bow to the little group of men ~ h in
1694 organized tk'e Bank of England, a private- on these things, but have devoted their time to
ly owned concern. At that time the British impressing upon the people lessons on the trim
Government borrowed 1,200,000 pounds of gold ity, hell fire, patriotism, and the divine right of

kings and clergy, none of vhich subjects is even

remotely hinted at in the Bible?
The anmver is that these men who have snpposedly been teaching the Bible have not been
teaching the Bible at all, but have been putting
out as Bible doctrine ideas which they received
from other men, and which have come down
from the dark ages. 31ost of the clergy do not
believe the Bible at all. Xone of them under-

stand it, and some of them do not even have a

Bible in the house.
One clergyman was found at Columbus, Ohio,
in July, 1924, who has been in the ministry for
seventeen years and who admitted that he did
not own a Bible and did not have one in the
house. His only qualification for the ministry
was the gift of gab. A sounding brass and a
tinkling cymbal !

The One Rule-The Golden Rule

HAT the world needs is a coijperative inW
terest in mankind. Men have striven to
accomplish seEsh ends, and have not sought the
common good. Herein is found the festering
sore that has polluted the body politic. '%OW
has the problem of evil tried men's souls !" said
Burroughs, the American naturalist. A workable basis of cooperation among the nations of
earth may be found in the Galden Rule. Jesus
'of Nazareth said : 'Whatsoever ye would that
men should do to yoxi, do ye even so to them:
for this is the lam and the prophets"
The application of the Golden Rule as a practical guide is not an experiment; it Fas not
preached by a fanatic. Today the Man of Nazareth stands mhere He stood 2,000 years agfar in advance of the aorld. He still remains
the ideal toward which the spirit of man strives.
The life of the. llaster alone mill show men
anew that no philosophy, no science, no creed,
has offered the world anything which mill replace the teachings of that life.
The Golden Rule is not a mere altruistic formula of abstract ethics, not a mere religious
ideal. It enters into every phase of human activity and endeavor. I t is a formulation of the
law of Life itself. It is the rule of fair plar, the
basis of democratic life, and the very symbol of
equality. \?That is more, it is the common denominator of all religions, the one practical
ideal on which all are agreed, whatever their
creedal differences.
The practical application of the Golden Rule
has already come to be recognized and appreciated by various prominent business concerns
in some of the larger cities of the country. A
few years ago a western business publication
sternly advised hig business and the laboring

(Co.ntl.ibuted)

classes to read the Se-n o n on the Mount, and

go back to work.
The more the Golden Rule is tried out and
proven, it does not matter what test we applyin commerce, society, education, politi~so r international relations-the more wdl it come into
general use as the best practical guide for material success, a priori :
'Zife, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,"
the moral ingredients and elemental interests of
our very Constitution!
Did not our late President, Mr. Harding, himself, speak for the agpinrtions of the nation,
when he told the War Veterans in his speech
at G n v e r :
"I should like more of fraternity among ounelvea in
the United States; I should like mom of fmternie
among the nations of the world. If we could bring tb
Golden Rule into every phaae of American life, we wodd
be the happiest people in the world. There would be
'no injustice to complain of; but human be+
would
live among their felIows as they would like to be lived
with. That would bring a state of blessedness to mankind.''

If these nations calling themselves Christian

were living the great principle which we call the
Golden Rule, what a different world this would
be! h d if it is feasible for a municipality to
celebrate a Golden Rule Day, why not for a
nation to do the same as a formulation of its
"law of life"!
7;hnt humanity needs is not the selfish domination of any class or classes, but the actual
domination in social, business and political life
of the spirit and principles of the Sermon on
the >fount, the Golden Rule, and the study of
the Word of God to find out what is the only
procedure, the only process, by which the ability,
to comply with the Golden Rule may be vouchsafed.

Reports h m Foreign Correspondents

From Switzerland
W E ARE astonished to hear of hot weather

heard full of horror for the incoming winter.Zephaniah 1:17.

The friends are full of zeal, and in groapa
they go out on Sunday with the booklets; and
witnessing for the kingdom at the same time,
they are very successful.

in America; for here we have had continaously rainy weather till today, August 5, and,
decidedly low temperature, too. I t snowed in
the mountains, of course; and the crops are
miserably going to ruin. There are heavy fogs
crawling low; and for hours every day it rains From Canada
in streams. The best weather we had between
0 MORE striking statements have apJuly 8 and 22; and even then rain storms ocpeared in the Canadian press than the recurred daily in the valleys. Since J ~ 15
Y it cent utterances of the Rev. Father & D. .
has rained every day, and often like the flood- Hheaume, incumbent of St. Edmarda (R. C.)
Last week a storm raced from Geneva to the Chnrch, Winnipeg. The statements of this
lake of Constance in three hours' time, causing priest, in assuming the pastorate, as reported
damages never before experienced. From Uz- by the Winnipeg Evening T d m e , have never
will to St. Gallen all trees are ruined by hail. been surpassed by any of the arrogant and illNearly all are bare-limbed, the leaves having conceived vaporings of any pope:
cTbe
of the pried is
Finf ths
been chopped from the branches. Hundreds of
fruit trees were blown over U-e flower pots, and poacl to ofler the sacnhw of tb
thu
as many lost their tops or some branches. I n
upon th.dbr for 98cdCh,,
bring God
St. Galen and vicinity thousands of window
.Then, =cording to the Rev. Father, the secpanes were broken, and all crops ruined. Firemen in the city stood in the water 9 to their ond power is "the power to forgive sins":
Christ hw
we h.se
sinned; snd Fu .
waists, because the mass of hail had stopped up
the sewerage. b d %
he'n the s m mmeS Out, it lore fa fden toned Rim to &&1Lh a b i
is sure that soon another storm will develop. ,
ha l e n nun mig6t Pppmeh *& grc8.tat to
At Dornbirn, in Voralberg, the lightning receive forgiveness for their sins. Chri&s mission WJM to
struck five times in one day. People were so destroy sin, and so this power hss been handed down to
scared and so full of fear that with covered eyes the apostles and their successors, the priests. As the
priest site in his tribunal and pronounces the words of
and stopped-up ears they hid themselves.
The Vienna Express, that arrives a t Buchs Jsolution9 those will be remitted aa M Y
and
Christ said the
sick of the *Y:
toward noon, was stopped by the brakes several t n r l ~as
and sin no mom.' The
times in succession in the tunnel; and no one 'Son, be of goodofcheer;
the go in peace
is to expound
of
could detect or discover by whom or for what Jenrn
Emh tlma he lsandr tht puIpit
reason. As it happened always to this selfthe doetrins and tsewthe Catha,,
same train and at the same
in the tnnnel, Church,
accept it
the criterion truth, b m
the thing became somemhat uncanny. They
know it to the word of G ~ W
changed engines, and the crew and locomotive
and engineen; It is obvious that if we accept as a fact the
engineer were marded by
of the priest 9 0 bring God down upon
but the train stopped at the same place neverthe
altar
for sacrifice", we shall not quibble over
theless. The riddle still akaits solution.
the trifling matter of his personal infallibility,
In Russia a new great YBange~noY'Cfa- the erpoMder of the C6criterion>7 of t m a
mine] threatens several governments because
But tlie Rev. Father is not yet satisfied with
of the lasting drought, and in Germany lockouts threaten in a general way because money his delineation of the power of the priest and
is so high and very little of it at that. F o r in- the abasement of God. Read this careftlily:
stance, great shoe factories have not funds
.qpn mul
priest
ch.recbr
enough to pay off ~ ~ P ~ O Sbut
P ~ on
, p a y - d a ~ be, sculptured by the chisel of the Holy Ghost, which
hand their men slioes instead; and those men go makes him
pmperty
the ~
1 Eucharist
4
forout into the country to exchange bhe shoes for ever. His hands are anointed to touch Jme. None
food of any kind. From all- sides roices are of the mystical adnders of the saints are to be com-

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'W overgrown boy with big muscles who wander#

pared to his: The7 attract JESUSfrom the tabernacle,
the priest (attracts Him) from Heaven! The priest over into the next block to show off his muscular prwwem,
bi& Him go to the garreta of dying sinners, and He is looking for trouble, and taking the right method of
"It is just as dangerous for nations
obeys1 Mary drew the Eternal Word down from Gnding it."
Heaven once, while the priest draws Him daily. She to play with powerful navies as it is for individual men
bore Him in hez arms until He grew beyond that; but to play with loaded pistols."
with the priests His sacred infancy is prolonged
Britain makes an imposing display of her
throughout their lives. To Jesus,the priest is as Nary
and Joseph'and the apostles and evangelists, and if His ,fleet a t Spithead, and Canada sends her repredear sacrament require it, the company of tha martyrs; sentatives to sit in parleys in Great Britain with
w h a t to the people, he is Jesus himself !"
'the intention of binding the bonds of Empire
Could any statement be more utterly and devastatingly blasphemous?
Taking the Reverend Father's fbst hypothesis
that the sacrament of the mass (the body and
blood of Jesus) brings God down upon the altar,
thus postulating that Jesus is God, then his
last statement is "the priest is God Rimself" !!
The Protestant churches of various denominations still mntinue to add to their stock of resolutions against war.
"The glorification of war must end," says
the Manitobia Methodist Conference, and goes
on to show t#at no longer can the so-called
Christian churches go to the Bible for justification for war. Sunday school teachers and all
workers who have to do with children are called upon to ldse no opportunity to denounce war
and the war spirit. One newspaper pertinently
remarks :
'?t is a qu&r civilization that worries about the Want

closer. Canada perhaps cannot lift the club

but she enthusiastically helps to wave it.
General Sir R. Baden Powell, of Boer War
fame and more generally known as founder and
head of the Boy Scout movement, deplores the
spirit of militarism. As reported by the Vancouver Daily Province, he says :
'The problem which skms to stare him in the face
was whether Christianity and religion were going to continue to exist. 'Inquiries have resulted in the conclusion being reached that eighty percent of our men are
not ~ l i g i o u sand the remainder do not carry oat the
Christianity which they poses. The Great War wm
a disgrace to all of us.' "

The Toronto Telegram adds its plaint to the

general chorus of hatred of w e :
<Thatof the future, the new decade b u t to begin?
Our sun at least ia s t i l l in the heave- of strength. There
is no watchman in the tower to guide om hcarb and
to quiet our fesrs. The morning of great e m p b bas

mortality rate and keeps on inventing new ways to

butcher the kids when they grow up."

come, and also the night. The ancient challenge echm

through the world tw ia -the days of Babylon, Vatcbmn,
what of the night 7'"

Spirit of Militarism Growing

EAHTHILE the Dearborn Independent
tells us that in Europe the question is not,
'Will there be ano'ther wart" but ''When and
where will the next war start ?" The Vancouver
Sim, heading an editorial ''Playing with D p a mite," suggests that the mid-Pacific maneuvres
of the American fleet are bound to bring the
New World one step nearer war:

Reviewing all such expressions and accepting

them as being sincere truths as to the desirability of peace, one can only say: 'Wait, for the
answer by the watchman is now being given;
and if it has not yet permeated all parts of the
earth it will do so, in God's due time."
I t is a glorious answer, well worth waiting
for and suffering for. "It satisfies each longing,
as nothing else can do."

"The tumult and the shouting dies,

The captains and the kings depart;

Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lmt we forget, lest we forget I"

"For heathen heart that puts its trust

In reeking tube and iron shard,
All valiant dust that buiIds on dust,
And guarding calls not Thee to guard;
For frantic boast and foolish word,
,2217 mercy on Thy people, Lord I"

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n:cn~kr of the Brit
E Parlian~ent,
in an endeavor to put a stop
RSCST

L&er No. 1
"The following are the tme facta relating fa the erecution of No.. , Pte. 'A,' B Company> 1st Berhhire
Regt. :,'
On Or
"Ive were in
trenches at
about Se~tembez22,
each
inhis Om
.n enmy
in
trcnch9
- men. 1 waa standing in the road at the t h e . When the
shell burst, Pte. 'A' jumped out of his dug-out and I
about 3:30 p.m.
promptly jumped in. This oc-d
9 t 5.30 the Company feu in on the road, when Pte. 'A'
~ p o hh
d-&
b Sergewt-llajor %, r h o wked
him Ahy he ran from the trenches, (AJs t a t 4 that he
ass Lriightly wounded, whereas he ras not.
ha was c o u r t - m a * i ~ ~on September
this
29, and execnted on September 30, 1914. Only his
Coy. SSagt-Yajor was called to give evi#ence. I was the
only man that saw what happened, and yet I was never
called.

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~ , t b ,yo. 3
<q
a Transport Driver of the 10th DUTham~ i ~ h t
Infantry, 43rd Brigade, 14th Division. In the e*
part of 1916 x e were on the k r a s front W e
battalion nas in the line the Brigade transport camp
was a t a village called Warlus. On the evening of May
20, 1916, vie were informed that rh-e-elVB wodd be at 9
a
and as nre to pMde in iull ned
ammuaitioe
thns o,eloeL nd
morning we were marched to the outskirt8 of the village,
where ae found the rest of the Brigade tnnsportr. At
3
a.m.
Ellled to
and to our surprim
a p ~ 3 0 n e with
r
wu marched darn in frat
uh
Then came the
rith
papra inhir h.nd
'Then the prisoneie cap vsa
off*
he WU
tdd to take One pace fornard, which he did- Then tb
paw*
m e to the
AaPeM- mrn-ced
to
eff& that P*te
' Y i of the 7th K-R-R, 4lst Brigsde,
14th Division, was found missing fmm hir bafwion the
night they went into the line. He was arrested md
c h " ~ e d with
The man plead that he
wm tried
drunk that night and mked his way.
MU*
found m t y and sentenced to deaths
the sentam being confifmed by Sir Douglas Haig.
man
then
to
Pam back W i n s
d at
which he did aithout quiver--& bmver
moment wasn't to be found in France- H e
to the piece where he
be shot- we
1
were then
about hv
and the
Trans
PO* officer threatened us that anp man who turned
around wodd be put an a Crime. So we stood in silence
for what wemed hour% Jthough only minutes. m hen
the shots rang out and one of the Yorkshirea fainted,
the strain
that ,Fat. Still we
in silence until
We heard mother shot, which I afterwards ascertained
a-as the doctor'^ shot to make sure he was dead.
'This the whole thing as i t happened- Hoping this
cause. I am ready to m b s t a ~ t i a b I
have written here."

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to the murder of boys for supposed corardice,

has published a nnmber of letters received by
-him from his feuow soldiers in the world lvar.
Mr. Thurtle states that there were 264 such
esecntions in the British army dnring the var.
We publish the letters without comment:

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'%ow for his death. To get the firing party, as we were

gokg into tfie line that night, they called for helve men
to csw tools. Now the men who carried tools a t
that time had the first chance of nsing them, so yon see
there were plenty of volunteers, but once on parade they
qujcIily realized that their job was to shoot poor 'A.'
on h b being brought out he broke w a y frorn the
sergeant of the gunrrl, and the firingparty fired at him
on the Tun, wonnhg
him in the &oulder- They
brought him back on a stretcher, and the sergeant of
was orde& by the Proro&-Xarshal to h i g h
the
him off as he lay wounded.
"These are the true facts, and yon are at libertp to use
mp nanle and number and letter any time you think fit."

e,&ipm;nt,

rThe

Bw

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Letter So. 2
"This is the case of Pte. 'By'of niy Iate pIatoon, So.
5, tS company, 11th Jiiddleseu Re$., 36th Brigade,
12th Div. He WM a boy of 18y2,and he was .hot at
(lair-n a t Sa~llyLa Bourse on .iprli 26, 1916. He ve.;u
known to the whole Company as a bundle of nenps. He
ran av-ar from the trench hnom Vigo Street, at Yermelles, after lt had been bombarded for six days and
nifits, and we had suffered hear? mmaltleg. This lad
jolned the army in August, 1914, at the ~e of 17."
Note.-Here is little more than 8 bald statement of
facts, but these facts are dcquent. Enlistment at 17,

Letter S o . 4
"On February 9. 1916, nilen T was a sergeant in the
1st Battn., %st, Yorfi Regt., 18th Brigade, 6th Di1-isian, I sas ordered to b k e over the p a r d of Laace-Carp r a l 'x,' of the sync regiment, nho a s to be
for
dtsedion, having been absent for benty-three day,
until spprehendecl by the police. H e as not to be ahat
until two days after thie. On the evening of the 10th I
handed him over to the new guard md proceded with
my platoon to the hmches. Next day I was o r d b
ta p ~ c kthe two wont c h c t e in
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part of the esccr~tion party. 'S' was a clean, smart,

brave soldier, respected by all his comrades.
"The two m 1 selected for the firing party went
mth the adjutant. When they came back, tough charactera though they were supposed to be, they were sick,
they #creamed in their sleep, they vomited immediately
d t e r eating. All they could say was: 'The sight was
horrible, made more so by the fact that we had shot one
of om own men'
"Lance-Corporal 'X' had been very lucky gambling
with his comrades and had won a fair amount of money
while the battlion was back at rest. This had been his
d o H a l l , as he had gone on a d W i n g bout only a few
hundred yard3 away from his battalion."

Extract from a letter from an ex-private of the 1st

Battn., E d Kent Regt., who gives full details :"I think it was hard lines that I should hare had to
make one of his firing party, as he was e chum of mine.
.We were told that the only humane thing that we
conla do wm to shoot straight. The two men were led
out blindfolded, tied to posts driven into the ground,

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and when we received our orders by sign from our oacer,

so that the condemnect men should not hear us getting
he, like me,
ready. Our oficer felt it very much,
h e w the fellow 'E' years before. 'G' I never kaek, bat
his case was every bit as sad, as he was only a boy."
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Extracts from a Ietter of an ex-sergeant of the 13G

Eddlese Be&, who was in charge of the M g party in
this case, and who gives f u l l detain:". .. It was a terrible scene, being that I knew him
made it worse for me. The ten men were selected from.
a few details left out of the line. They were nervoua
wrecks themselves, and two of them had not the nerve
to fire. Of course, they were tried, but they were found
to be medically unfit-their nerves had gone.
I have
always had it on my mind. I think these terrible things
should be abolished, and so would everyone else who had
witnessed a 'Shooting at Dawn' d*.
E
x
l
c
a
s
e my
In
for me to nitc. but fdi it
duty to help to get these executions abolished.
''7. S.-The last words the lad osid were: ' %t d
my mother say?"

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The Gray Wolves aqd the Golden Eggs (A Modern Fable) BY 2.sap
THERE was a certain tribe of .savages called too weak to defend &em; and that therefore

the tribe of wisdom, because they escelled

all other tribes in riches and possessions. This
tribe had a goose which laid golden eggs, upon
the proceeds of which they Lived in luxury f a r
above that of ,any other tribe. Such was the
wisdom of this tribe that they entrusted the
golden eggs to certain of their most daliant
warriors, saying, "These shall safeguard our
most valuable possession." And i t was so. But
the custody of the golden eggs was changed
from time to time, lest continual possession
might breed a sense of proprietorship, and the
custodians be led to say: "Lo, these eggs have
been in our possession so long that we have
achieved 'nine points of the law.' 0 ye wise
ones, get ye another goose !"
Now it happened that a certain pack of gray
'molves lired in the Ficinity, whose predatory
habits caused them from time to time to assault
the custoltiirns of the golden eggs and relieve
them of their responsibility. In every instance
the tribe arose in wrath, haled the inadequate
-defenders before the tribal tribunal, and hired
for many golden eggs certain [earned and adroit
men to prove by legal process that the golden
eggs were missing because the custodians were

the'weak ones should be incarcerated. And iS

was so. And the tribe said : "Yea and h e n ;
it is better that these should expiate rather than
the gray wolves, seeing that we some time may
have the opportunity to achieve gray wolfship"
But some were not satisfied with this procedure.
Now it came to pass in the latter days that
an ancient of the tribe arose and addressed
them thus : "Hearken unto me, brethren. (Many.
years have I lived amongst you. Many cnstodians of the golden eggs have I seen appointed,
and many times have they been overcome by the
wiles and superior strength of the gray wolves.
Go to, now; we have lacked wisdom who are
accounted the wisest, because our hearts were
not right, because we envied the gray wolves
and hoped for an opportunity to become even
as they. Seeing that few can become gray
rolres, the great majority must remain of the
tribe. If ye listen to my counsel we will follow
the gray wolves to their lair, and destroy it and
them." And it was so. Therefore thereafter
lired the tribe with its golden eggs unmolested
and its honor untarnished.
Explanation : k t Teapot Dome equal a golden egg. You can work out the remainder.

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Wonderfully Made By C. E. Guicer

AN is fearfully axfd wonderfully made ; and

nothing is more wonderful than consciousness, the mystic something by which we know
that we continue one and the same being. We
go to bed a t night, and lapse into unconsciousness. We awaken in the morning to take up the
threads of life where we left them the night before, md v e have need of none to tell us who
arbdwhat we are.
We know that we are the same being, but why
me cannot ten. Years may pass, and we may
i h a n ~ e . We may grow to maturity, and pass
from Ignorance and weakness to knowledge and
strength. We may change so much outwardly
and inwartily that old friends knoy us not. Our
life may be different, our thoughts may be different, and yet we know ourselves, and know
that q-e are the same. Who can anxlyze the mysterious complexity of the human mind and tell
us what this inner consciousness is!

A Marvetous Thing
EXORY is another marvelous thing. I t s
importance as a power of the mind may be
appreciated when we think that, without it, every moment we live would be like the beginning
of a new life; for we =odd be unable to recall
and benefit by the past- EveMhing would he
forgotten as soon as experienced.
e i t h o u t memory there could be no develop
ment of character, no building up of knowledge
and wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to see an
analogy beheen the present and the past, and
to use rightly the knowledge that memory has
stored up for us:
It is by melllory and consciousness that accomltibility is made possible. We could not feel
responsible for things of which we had lost all
knowledge, and would deem it a gross injustice
if we were pwushed for the misuse of them. We
hold ourselves responsible for the deeds committed by us because we know that we are the
sanie being, and because we remember them. No
one would think of charging us with the actions
of earliest infancy, nor do we feel that nTeshould
be; for 1%-ehaye no innate knowledge of them.

The Secrecy o f the Heart

is so constituted that it is in~possible
for others to see into his mind and heart,
end we are glad that this is so. JVe prize most

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highly this secrecy which -A-'e possess, and $to

which the prying eyes of the curious cannot look
Others may judge of our thoughts by our words
and actions, but they cannot read the thoughts
themselves. The inner sanctuary is known only
to ourselves; and others are not permitted, cannot in fact, lift the veil and look within. But we
may tell them what is there.
The adversary and his minions of darkness
may project thought into the mind, and may &
able to judge what are our thoughts and desires;
but only God can read the heart. The Scriptarea.
say: "All things are naked and opened unto the
eyes of him with-whom we have to do." (Hebrews 4: 13) "For thou [Jehovah] only knowest
the hearts of the children of men."-2
Chronicles 6 :30.
There is one striking instance of God's knowt
edge of the human heart, demonstrating at the
same time the inability of others to read it correctly.
- Job was a very wealthy man, &d had rest and
contentment in a happy home life. One dsg the
sons of God [the angels) presented themselves ' .
before the Lord, and Satan also came with them.
"And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like .
him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one
that feareth God, and eschemeth evil? Then Sac
tan answered, . .D&h Job fearGod for nought?
Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, '
and his substance is increased in the land. but
put forth thy hand now and touch all that he
hath, and he will-curse thee to thy face."
Then God gave Satan permission to destroy
all that J o b possessed. Immediately the adversary caused enemies to come and take away
Job's oxen, his asses and his camels ;a fire came
to destroy his sheep; and a whirlwind to blow
clown the house in which his sons and daughters
were feasting, killing them all.
Yews of these catastrophies was brought to
Job by different messengers, so rapidly that as
soon as one finished speaking another com.
lnellced his message. W l a t a succession of calamities ! Enough to break the heart of any man.
And yet Job was able to say: "The Lord gave,
and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the
name of the Lord." God had judged
- - the heart
of Job aright, but Satan had been mistaken.
The adversary asked for further power
, Cod granted him
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leave to attack Job's body but not to take his

life. Job was smitten from head to foot with
painful boils, so that life became a misery. His
wife urged him to curse God and die. But Job
remained m o v e d ; for he said: 'What! Shall
we receive good at the hand-of God, and shall
we not receive evilt" And the record adds : "In
all this did not Job sin with his lips."-Job
2:
6-10.
God could read the heart; He could look right
down to the bottom of human thought and action
and see the motives prompting. Satan, unable
to do this and being evil himself, imputed evil
to the other. He who had deflected from God
and who knew no will but his own, but who
worked only for selfish ends, could not conceive
that a man, however righteous he might be,
would serve God in sincerity and truth.
It is evident that God knows as through and
through; that there is nothing hid from His
searching gaze. We like to think that our hearts
are secret to ourselves; yet it is a blessing that
there is One who can read them-God.
Iour hearts are pure, we need have no fear.
So often we are misunderstood by others. At
times we cannot make even our friends understand; but there is One who always understands. God never errs; and we can go to Him
at all times with the assurance that He knows
and is able to temper every wind that blows.
The question has been asked: Since God
knows us thoroughly, what need is there far us
to go to Him in prayer? He knows what we

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need better than we do ourselves; no amount of

praying can make any matter clearer to Him,
There are some things which we cannot confide even to our nearest friends, not because we
are ashamed of them, but because they affect
us so deeply. The heart needs sympathy; it
needs somone to whom it can tell its joys, its
sorrows, its hopes, and its fears. And when we
think of it, the very fact that &d b o w s all
about us makes it possible for us to tell Him all
about ourselves.

Arre Hearts
INCE God can read our hearts and h o w s
with unerring certainty the motives that
lead us to act, it is necessary, if we would have
His favor, to keep our hearts pure. It is the
pure in heart that shall see God. Only honorable motives must operate within us ;and'in our
self-scrutiny the question should always be,
Why do I act thus? Is it my purpose to serve
self or to serve God?
'Seep thy heart with all diligence; for out of
it are the issues of life," says the inspired Word.
(Proverbs 4: 23) This is true; for our ultimate
destiny is determined-by the desires which we
cherish in the present. God has arranged to satisfy the desires of all those who love righteousness and hate iniquity; and of His rich provision for them the Apostle says : "Eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into
the heart of man, [to conceive] the things which
God hath prepared for them that love him"

The Hour Has[Copird

Struck By Charles 31.
from Labor]

Weaver

If I all languages c d d speak

And send my voice the world around,
I fain would tell earth'# poor and meek
About the priceless boon I've foundBeholding God's all-potent hand
Delidring by its mighty power
The sore-oppressed in every land
In this, the world's distressful hour.

"The hour hsa struck; the die is cast;

And from Jehovah's awful throne
Swift retribution comes at last
To make His power and justice known;
And when His wrath is fully spent
And thrones have crumbled into dust,
Vain man will then, at last, relent
For having served his grovelling lust."

I'd haste away with speed of thought.

And shout m y message far and near
Wherever human hands have mought
And say to them; "Dismiss your fear.
God keeps His throne; and by His gace
Your galling chains shall broken be,
And tears no more shall bathe your face
Becruse of want and poverty.

Ah, yes l I'd gladden every heart

And fill with peace each troubled breast.
The fullest joy I would impart
To all who sigh for needed rest,
By telling them, "The night ia past
Bnd soon w i l l d a m the promised day:
That Right h& won her crown at k t ,
The Kingdom comes for which w d pray?

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= T h e one that is justified before Jehovah is

then cbunted right or justified that he might be
,a part of the great sacrifice of God's beloved
Son Jesus, to the end that he might be a part
* of the mystery class and ultimately reign with
.' Christ. The next thing indicated by the Scriptures is the begetting of such a one as a new
creature. Begetting means the beginning. The
-- begetting of the new creature, then, means the
beginning of a newness of life. When justified
by Jehovah, there results to him the right to
live as a human being on earth, and this is what
11e immediately sacrifices. At the same time
Jehovah begets him to a hope of life upon the
high or hea~enlyplane; for he is called to
a "high calling," a "heavenly calling." (Philippians 3: 14; Hebrews 3: 1 ) This begetting is
in the nature of a contract or an agreement.
Covenant is also a word used for contract. I n
,order to make a contract there must be two or
more parties, and there must be a consideration
passing from one to the other. Where there are
.P mutual promises, made on both sides, this is
suflicient consideration. We will name the one
whom we have been discussing as coming to
justification Honest Heart.
"'Honest Heart presents himself to the Lord
Jesus the High Priest, fully surrendering himself and agreeing to do the will of God. There
is the promise on his part, then, and he is one
party to the contract through his Advocate, the
Lord Jesus. And when Christ Jesus the High
Priest presents him to the Father, Jehovah, the
Lord Jehovah in substance says to Honest
Heart: 'In consideration of the fact that you
have tunled away from the wrongful course,
and have come to Jesus, and have made a full
sarreilder of yourself in consecration, thereby
exercising faith in His blood shed For you and
your faith in my plan; and in consideration of
the further fact that m y beloved Son has imputed to you His merit to make yon acceptable
before me, I accept 1-ou and determine that you
are right, or justified; and accepting you as a
part of His sacrifice, I give to you my escecding
great and precious promises that by these you
might become partaker of the. divine nature.'

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The Harp of God". with accompanyln# quesUon8, taking the placr of botb

= T h i s is in harmony with St. James' s t a b

ment: "Of his own will begat he us with the
word of truth, that me should be a kind of fir*
fruits of his creatures!'
(James 1:18) The
Psalmist shows that this begetting is in the
nature of a contract when he says: "Gather my
saints together unto me; those who have made
a covenant [contract] with me by sacrifice."
(Psalm 50: 5) Honest Heart now being begotten has the promise of Life upon the highest
plane, the divine natnre. He is begotten
to a new hope of life. See 1 Peter 1:3-5.
The inheritance to which Honest Heart is now
begotten is an incorruptible inheritance, which
is the divine nature. This means that if he is
faithful unto death, faithful to his part of the
contract, he is certain to be born upon the diviiie plane, for the reason that Jehovah is always faithful to His part of the contract; and.
so Jesus says : "Be thou faithful unto death,
and I will give thee a crown of life."-Rev.
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QUESTIONS ON T H E HARP O F GOD"
For what parpose does God justify any one during the
Goape1 age? fi 333.
What is meant by begetting one as a new creature?
What r e d t s to the man who is justified by Jehorah?
What does suck a one s d c e ? 1333.
To what does Jehovah beget this sacrificer? 7 333.
How many parties must there be to a contract? and
what is the consideration for begetting one as a new
creature in Christ? 333.
State the term of the arrangement between Honest
Heart, the one who presents himself to the Lord, and
Jehovah, who justifies and begets him. 334
In t h a arrangement, hat office does the Lord Jesus
perform ? 11 334. '
What is meant by the ~ o r d''adv~cate'~?7 33L
Give Scriptural proof that the begetting is in the
nature of a contract, both from the Old and the
New Testamcnt. fi 333.
To what IS Honest Hcart, or any sacrificer like him,
hegotten ? V 335.
Quote the Scripture with reference b the nature to
which he is begotten. 7 333.
Should the one thus begotten continue faithful unto
death, what is his certain reward? Give Scripturd
proof. 1
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HE London Dnily Herald reports Mr. E. D.
Morel, member of Parliament, as saying,
"Frantic preparations for war are being made
all over thecontinent. There is going on now a
more extensive output of war material than at
any time since the 'peace'. The powerful industrial and professional interests of France are
turning Europe into a vast arsenal." Mr. Iforel
stated that the chief centers of production are
in Czeclio-Slovakia and Austria, where during
the past two years n-hole trainloads of mnr supplies have been marlufactured for Jugoslavia,
Ronmania, Poland, and other neighbors of Germany and of tlie Balkan States. Mr. Morel
pointed out that these war munitions have been
paid for by money loaned to France.
' The number of ~lmericantourists visiting
Europe this year is put at 300,000. Not ollly
is this a record toll of tourists, but their average
expenditures are put at $1,000 each, ~vhichis
'double what it used to he. The resuIt of this
greatly incrcrtsed expenditure of American
money in Europe has Iiad the eflect of rnnterially hclping thc European exchange situation.

Great Britain
4 TER almost interminable discussions nus'.:
:s$ and Britain have finally comc to an
of much the same lcind that a family
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done in a British treaty. The reason for his - ';
is that there is no head to the Russian Govern---.
ment, and the treaty was made not in the name -t
of any Russian individual, but in the name 08 -.q
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It is
not expected that the king of England will signthe treaty, there having been some intimations Ti
that the Soviet officials were un-g
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About a year ago, Philip Snowden, the pre- 3
sent Cliancellor of the Exchequer of the British .
Govelment, moved in the House of Commons . .
a resolution in favor o f . Socialism. But the
newspapers report that on May 21, 1924, at a
reception a t Buclcingham palace, Mrs. Philip. .
Snowdcn appeared in a gown of soft, jsde-green' ,crepe rolnain with the draperies held at the
wvaist with a jeweled belt. Besides this, a train' , :;
of silver lam6 shot with jade fell from her f;.
right shoulder and mas held at the left side 08 L'
her waist. IIoreover, she had a white ostrich ,
f cn tller fan, onlaments, and pearls. Evidently;
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4 British Government is in a. dilemma over
tlic question of the boundary betmeen Glster :
nlld the Irish Free State: The treaty betmeen . j
Britain and the Free State calls for the establislinlent of this boundary; but the British " 1
Government is unable to persuade Ulster and ;:'.
does not dare attempt to coerce her; and yet,. -::
if something is not done, the ~vlioletreaty be- i
tween Britain and the Free State becomes 1ml1
and void.
The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Thomas, and tho .I
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President Cosgrar*, of tllc Irish Fl-ec Statc.

They arranged with 31r. Cosgrave to make the
rsettlcmsut of the bounclaq- cluestion the first
busin- to be taken up by Parliament n-hen it
p u m e s its sittings September 30, a month
-earlier than was desired or espected before
$heir visit to Dublin. A bill to settle the bounF r y question has already been introduced in
the House of Commons; but clebate upon it is
postponed until the end of September, i n hope
thstmeantime the Ulster Government will nominate a member of the boundary c o k s s i o n .

m a ' s Trade With Greenland

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the dangers of automobiling a t dimcult crossings consists of metal plates across the roadway which, as soon as they a r e struck by an
automobile, instantly flash lights or danger
signals in front of the car itself, and also i n
front of any car that may be approaching
the crossing from a transverse direction.
Paris claims to have the worst case of automobile insanity of any city in the world. A q
one of the crossings ill tile city t]lc n m b e r of
vcbclcs passilig average 26,000 per hour for
four hours. If anything could bc better calcnlatcd to kill clddl-cn and to tear to pieces the
nerves of adults tlian these rushing, squawking, vile-smelling appendrages of modern civilization, i t is something quite outside the bounds
of our imagination.

cally d l in the hands of one American cornpany, which obtains each year from the mines
at Ivigtut about $230,000 worth of an ore, cryolite, useful in the manufacture of alnminm, soda
;and glass. The total population of Greenland Germany's TroublesomeMonarchis&
is only 15,000, of whom only 300 are whites.
ERMANY is lining up into monarchist ana
anti-monarchist cxganizations, all more or
&kwruZot Prior To 1474
less military in their ai~angements,the monS o p w s L m ~ x a, Copenhagen scientist, archists vowing the destmction of tile npobReports
iliscoverg of documents issued in lit and the anti-monarcllisb promising to de1474 b~ the Gnl3 of P o ~ l g d ,conferring a fend the republic with their lives. In some
$cero~altY Upon Joa Tiis Carte Real, for his places the monarchists have demanded the
servioes in location the coasts of \That is now lowering of the republican bg, and the antkorLabtactor. He states that there is in existence ities have feared to refnse.
.n a u p~u b ~ s h e din 1534 =hich designates
The New York Times paports that the conrtg
Labrador as Joao Vaz Land. Leif Ericson is
Germany and B a v a ~ a
veeryantair to$sol said to bave discovered Labrador in the n-ard repnblicans, but very lenient and b d l y
year
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toward monarchists. The monarchists, who
have
time and again tried to overthrow the reFrance.
public, are given slight sentences which they
.FBvCH people are getting
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are not obliged to same, while republicans are
-krking
h0na.V- The French Academy has been given as much as fifteen-year sentences; and
on this since 18789 and has now fished in one lamentable instance a
offendthe m a n m c r i ~ tfor the first part,
er on a ateen-year sentence was even denied
fains the letters A to H. No wonder it is hard tile services of e u
to save his one
bto'
1earn:French !
'good ear.
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.It-isan interesting fact that unlike women in
it is oontempt of eoart in Ger.o.a'r P m p i v e countries, French "-Omen
do many for panJ-hody to
attention to wllat
:nothave the vote, and do not hare any interest eveTbodg
is Mjust and unfair. T~~
'inpolitical RWtters- premier IIerriot says that theori that
L-are alnaya cou* of justiea
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B ~ c h
eolightelled
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Often they are the last rejirotection to mdependence. He believes that
of tyrants.
'rench women mill eventually take an interest
government, but that i t
come p a d u While Germany is having inbrio; tronbles
padies of hnce
fear the n-ith the monarchists, she is being helped by
a
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of the Catholic Church if women are her former enemies. The new liberal Minister
of Frsncc has granted a general ;unnestx to
bven the suffrage.

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Cennan prisoners and has thrown open the
Rulir to 210,000 Germans who had been expelled under the Poincar6 r6gime. On a motion
made by a Belgian and seconded by a Frenchman, Germany was unanimously admitted to
the International Chamber of Commerce on
June 28.
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Signs o f Returning Sanlty
T IS n<th a great deal of satisfaction that
that durevery normal human being
ing the past year the same people who in 1917,
and 1918 were doing everytl~inghumanly possiLie t.0 st-e
the ramen and children of Germany, have been doing eveq-tlfing possible to
counteract the effect of what was done during
those days of insanity.
Indeed, one could almost wish that some or"
tllese good men and \\-omen had had a little of
that goodness about them in 1917-1918, so that
runny children could have been spared the ravages of tuberculosis and rickets, now so cornnlon throughout Germany. I n time of mar it
is fashionable to be absolutely heartless; but
after i t is all over, all the really decent people
feel differently, and regret that they mere so
easily led into savagery and cruelty.
One man, John Borton, after describing tile
emaciated shoulders and legs, and tlle dark rings
under the eyes, and then the gratitude bestowetl upon lzilnself a s one of the relief worlcers
engaged in the feeding of these children who
were so ulinecessarily starved, said:

"After seeing such true appreciation, I should certainly lean to be big-hearted, too; for these people
never seem to tire of tl~nnklngiu for the littlc we havo
done. PerIiaps our thcorics are wrong; but I, for one,
am
tinlcs more coIlvinced than ever before that
9;:3,000,000 invested in feeding German children are
\v\.ortll ten tilncs more as security than supcrdread-

naughts costing $40,000,000."

Tile Lord said: "If thine enemy hunger, feed

llirn." B~~ tire sons of t ~ l edevil say:
llullger, stnrve him";
tile
of
it 1s that in time of war mally professed
of ~ ~ ared allvays
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foulld
out tile
devil's fornluls on tile devil's side of the fence.
TIle flowrr of Gcrmnn>-'silldustrial force is
]caving the country. llllrilrg t l ~ cp:~st
]I.),416 sought their homcs i l l o l l ~ c rl a ~ l t l q ,n c n l l y
ninety percent of t l ~ c~ i ~ ~ i l i bcollil~ig
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to tllr:
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United States. Tlie remainder went to B=&

and Argentina, about 10,000 to each country.+
The Kaiser has been caught in one fib. Yayd:
be he has told more than one
h . lifetime,,
but this one he has been caught in. h his:
memoirs he has apologized for the pcrfeotly:
proper telegram nhich he sent ta Paul Tihuger4
a t the time the Jameson raid mas s n p p r e m w
indicating that i t was thrust upon him by his;
foreign ofice. But diaries of. notables wh6i
present and b o w the facts have now
that the Kaiser was actnaLb
pldg3
mar
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Britain
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matter, and that the telegram
sent at thed
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n his horrified ministers merely I
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my Britain
have PrOd
tested because the Kaiser believed in lotti?
the Dutch in South Africa run their own cornl
try in their own nTayremains unexplained.
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of her military situation a t the hands of the3
Allies, with the understanding that it be COG
pleted by September 30. Germany clairmjj
tliat what vere supposed to be military organi-;14
zations were merely gymnastic societies. IF4
that be true, there would seem to be no nee*, '
for either arms o r secrecy.
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In an official statement the ~ e & ~oGern&i
ment says: "The German people repulse the:
idea of war; and among all political elements
reigns the unanimous conviction- that secret;
armaments should be rejected as impossible,:
oscless3nd
~h~
that,
Germany has not built a single cannon since,
the war, and has less munitions than the treaty '
allows. It invites the Allied i ~ ~ e s t i g a t i o nand
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hopes and e - ~ e c t sthat h a m e of i t Gemany
~villfind admttance into the League of Nations.
Sidney Fay, Professor of European History
at Snit11 Colle,~e,in
address before the In-.
stitute of Politics a t 7Villiamstomn, Nass., de-;
dared that the belief that Germany plotted the ;
JVo'ld lvar is a myth; that Austria went further in her onslaugllts on Serbia than Germany,
had espected; tliat Germany r a s unable to in~ ~ U C I I Cllustrin
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a ~ l dcqllall)' llnidllc to convince
the po\vers that she was sincerely trying to do
so; that Cussin ~u~icspectcdly
ordered general
mol~~lizntion;
and that Russia twice refused to
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so meant war with Gcrmzny.

has been eaten u p by the army of

do not include the
with which the Germans are
@ d h i z i n g every opening that may lead to the
g of-an honest dollar i s indicated in des-

that the Krnpp Worlts are now manuj.factnring !artificial teeth of enmeled steel.
p s e d$spatches state that already there arc
.eightadentistsworkillg in the department.
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LT;.attempts t o overthrow the Russian Government come to the same encl. The RoyU s t s planned to seize Russia on July 8 of
Ws year. The Soviet found out about these
Hans, and had their own workers take part in
snd .men act as leaders of the movement, with
&e'eonsequence that a t tha proper time the entire movement was squelched and 300 oP the
iiagleaders were seized and executed.
g1t is ckjmed that the Russian army still nomlers over a million and a half, and that within
jthe next three months she will have a n aerial
dteet of 10,000 airplanes completed and ready
. service. But i n spite of these facts tlie
Government set aside July 27 to An4 a s a time of world-wide protest against
Apparently the Soviet Government is
ptermined to have peace if they have to fight

bit.

e r n e greatest oil field in the world, the one at

Bskn, Russia, thee and onehalf days distant

#&m Mdscow,.on the edge of the Caspian Sea,
$?-entirely under Soviet control. I t is now
to prewar production. Russia exp&d $5,000,000 worth of oil in 1923, and exp t s to nearly o r quite double this during thc-

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::11c1 i r l orw o f t l l c ~~ ~ r i n v i p nIi ~ n t l ~ i lresorts
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more that1 half of the ]louses have been de-

stroyecl. The slow movement is supposed to be

due to a shift in t.he level of a vast underground
sea.
Business conditions in Russia continue to
improve slowly. Ap-icult~u-e is up to ninety
percent of prewar record; \vages axe sixtyfive to seventy percent of .prewar record; the
ruble has been stabilized, with the foreign trade
balance in Russia's favor. Industry as a n-hole
is even yet only forty-five percent of prewar
record.
The principal cathedral in Russia, St. Ismde,
at Leningrad, requiring forty years to build,
and costing over $11,000,000, is to be turned
into a museum. Since the separation of church
and state, and especially since the discovery of
the cotton saints, collections have been so poor
that the cler,gy who once had tlie responsibility
of calng for the stuffed saints can no longer
make a living.
Trvo can play a t the game of making claims
for damages. The so-called civilized governments have many and just claims against the
so-called uncivilized g o v e m e n t of Russia, and
have been seeking in vain for some way to collect these claims or regain possession of seized
properties. Now, the Russians are compiling
claims against Britain, France, United States,
Japan, and other countries f o r damages clone to
Russian property in the many and various attempts made between 1918 and 1921 to prevent
the Russians from being misgoverned according
to their oivn peculiar ideas.
Tho New York Times reports that the Russian
Government is planning to put a radio receiving
set into every home in Russis and to radiocast
news of the day, speeches, music and other entertainments to tho peoplc. It seems to us that
this is an excellerit d u m t i o n d program.
Russia has done much for common people, but
i t still has t b standing disgrace of a state lottery similar to that which was maintained iu
the State of Louiaiaaa a generation ago.

Finland
ISLLYD has a farmer as premier, hnd the
new premier is going about his business i n
a sensible manner. All land must be used by the
entire b1oc.ka-eh a 6 been so owner, or hc must. sell it to the go~erilment. In

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this way all the large estates are being broken Bulgaria .
T NOW transpires that
up and divided among the men 1~110actually do
the farming. Ur. ICallio, the premier, states
king of Bulgaria a t
his hopes and plans in a single sentence mhich War, is a devotee of
is remarkable for the ~ ~ i s d ocrowded
m
into so
few words. He says : "If we can so. adjust our
agriculture as to have each farmen the owner K a i s e r and the Russian Czar, ind .was vex$
of his own land, ancl then have coijperative en- probably true of most of the rulers responsibler,
terprises to enable the farmer to realize on his for the World War. The Scriptures - declarer
work to the fullest extent, me shall have no fear that the World W a r was caused bp:demo1v4
f o r the future of Finland." TJ%nt is good for and we now see horn this was bronght..abont;:@
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against Nussolini in the streets, k inhid
the erolvds shouted: pawn ~ t ~hl u s ~ ~ l
F,, so,e reason the police did not bterfere4
I t is not h o u m ~vhetherthe police wem
instructions from uussolini to remainbactivez
or whether they thelnselves
in sympathX:
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L A V has just passed the Turkish ~ard'a'3
ment forbidding polygamy. This is in ling;
with
Turkey's rapid progress i n the right di::
Hungary
rection
on many other subjects. As a maitera
A breffery in Rungary a snaliecrawlecl
fact
there
few P
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~comt@2 -! Ethrougll tile bungllolc of a beer l;eg. TIlell
now,
economic
conditions
having
made
poly-,;;
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impractical.
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in its struggle to escape being dro~tned,disI n the hope of preventing the E O ~ S & & ~ r&4
cllarpd its
into tile beer. mllen tile
l;eg I,-as tapped, tile first t , \ - ~men who were curring wars between the two countries, G&ce.<:;
served from the keg dropped dead in a felv and Tnrlcey are eschanging IIliIlionS of citiZens,i
seconds. Then the keg ~ v a sopened, nncl tile involving one of the greatest panoramas of h71-3
body of tilc snaIie \\.as foul,d. >lnny of tile man suffering ever witnessed on eprth. Greece,;;:
dr3. agents in tllis country arc apparently o,l already overcrowded, is receiving again to her;
Tvith tile brelvcry p c o p ~ e ;ancl \vc OWI shores descendants of those who went into -ii
good
tal;e the lil,erty of suggcstil,g tllis scllcnle to -Asiawith Alesnnder the Great. Greece is send-;:
them a s a plan to nlake tllc country really 1101lc in^ back 350,000 Turks who, until now, have?:
easy Iflatter to niade their homes in Greece; and she is also dr3-. 1t sllould be
]lave llullg com~elledto return to T u r l c e ~tens of thomands 2
obtain tile snakes. l l o s t people ~v\-ho
around bre~l-crieslong enough l l ~ v esee11 plellty of Arlllenians who have sought refuge.. .*thin$
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gary by the international banlcers follows l f i i c a
nearly tlie lines ol the loau which 113s done sucll
N TIIE United Statcs a fclv ycars ago, and
great t h h g s Sor ~ l u s t r i n . I n nccopting thcsc
possibly even yet, any one advocating Coml o u ~ ~lllcsc
s,
govcr~~nicllis
ilxr(:c to nlritlo siricl- l ~ l u ~ ~ i swas
l l i ill CI;~lgcrof being dcported to:;:
ly by tlie rules laid down by t l ~ c1):111I~ers
tllronfiil lt~lssiao r sent to prison. Accordingly, it is -:;;
their mouthpicccs; namely, tlic Council of lllc sorne~\.hntamusing to read i n the New Pork'?!
League of Nntio~is.
Times that in an offieid-report just sent to
USTRLtl has done the \vise thing in electrifying her railroads despite the initial Cost.
The nation's coal bill shows a tremendous saving, and the saving is permanent- The Cornmissioner General of Austria points out that
only a few of the Vienna banlis mere involved
in the speculations of last winter, and that those
not i n ~ o l v e dare in good condition. He states
also that as a result of a stabIe currency the
standards of l i ~ n gand of wages have greatly
improved.

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The treasure found in the tonll, of King Tut-

in South\vest Africa there is a district where A4nl;h-Ame~i

is estimated to be between $15,000,Communism has been tried among the natives, 000 and $40,000,000 actual value, while a s hismd that the plain is woricing satisfactorily.
torical matter it is priceless. The discovery
$,The Times *ht
have gone farther anrl of the tomb has effected the fashions of clothes,
~ l a i n e dthat the practice of Comrnunis'm is jewels, and furniture throughout Christendom.
old as the history of mankind, and is the
bethod uniformly adopted by primitive pea- Palestine
les in all ages to prevent the non-use or tile
AXUEL UNTERXIITR,
one of the foremost Iawsnse of land except for the common good, to
yers of America, on cr return from Palestine
wevent the accumulation of wealth in the hands reports that on an average 1,000 nelv homes
If the few, and to prevent the starvation of
arc .being erected annually in tlie Holy Land,
mybody. ,
~liostof them of concrete, of the two-family
5 An earthquake Ens just split one of the rivers
&,British East Ar'rica into three parts. This style. These buildings are of the most modern
design, and are being constructed in suburbs
kcurrence suggests to the mind one of the planned after the best European and American
nethods that may be used in causing streams models.
o break forth in the deserts, as the Scriptures
Palestine h s one entirely new city, the
oretell will be the case during the age now openstrictly
Jewish city of Tel-Aviv, built Since 1909,
ng. If, a s is clahed, the wllole Sahara
in
which
there are now 1,500 buildings, water
esert rests upon an immense lake of fresh
rater, it is not outside the realm of possibilities supply, electric lights, sewers, and .everything
m t earthquakes, volcanoes, and boiling springs else up to date, even including a municipal debt
contracted through brokers in New Tork.
lay throw these waters to the surface.
Direct steamship service bekeen Odessa and
.The Prophet says : "In the wilderness shall
Palestine,
which mas broken off by tlie World
rlrters break out, cmd streams in the desert.
War,
has
been
resumed; and on the first boat to
;pd the parched ground:shall become a pool,
make
the
trip
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Jewish emigrants left Soviet
nd-the thirsty land springs of water!'
In
Russia
for
Palestine.
Zionism is in disfavor
nother place the same Prophet also says: 'I:
with
the
Soviet
Qoverlunent.
The expulsion of '
dl open rivers in high places, and fountains
Ziollists
from
Russia
to
Palestine
is a direct ful1-the midst of the valleys: I will make the
filment
of
the
prophecy
of
Jeremiah
16: 14-16,
ilderness a pool of water, and the dry land
which
please
see.
Late
reports
from
Poland
prings of water!'-Isaiah
35 :6,7 ; 41 :18.
show 3,622 Zionists from that country alone
How the piague of sleeping sicliness, which
cone period cost the lives of 100,000 natives planning, to make their home in Palestine as
soon as permission can be obtained. h n o n g the
L .the province of Uganda, was finally brought
Zionists
planning to return to Palestine are sevban end was interestingly explained by one
eral
thousand
These Jews are nominE-the physicians in attendance a t the conven- ally Christians,Maranos.
having
been
compelled to accept
OIL at Toronto held for the advnncement of
Christianity in the days of the Inquisition; but
uence. -.A careful study of the disease shonred they are still Jews a t heart, and have expressed
lat it was restricted to the islands of Lake
ictoria and the territory lying within a few their desire to join their Jenish brethren in the
iIes of the shore of the lake. Subsequently it Holy Land. P
as-proved,that the disease occurred only ill
re.territory inhabited by the tsetse fly. \T7hen India
IGCRES have just been publisl~edthat in
Le populatioh was moved back a few miles from
the flu epidemic of 1918 not less than 12,le shore of the lake, the disease died out.
000,000
people died in India alone. There are
,The district af Ben Gardane in the Sahara
places
in
India u-here in some entire districts
pert, which fifteen years ago was merely a
pEng place for caravans, is now (thanks to there are as many as 578 persons to the square
ket drilling -oPrtrtcsian wells) the centre of an mile, an area of a little less than one acre per person.
Sue-tractsupporting 20,000 pcoplc.

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passed a trhde-mark
. The riot in Dell$ India, which caused the by
the legations ; but
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are sacred to the Hindus, but not to the $10hammeclans, m11o intended them for s5erifice.
The death of the American Vice Consul in
Persia
was because he took a photograph of a
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well.
Some of the superstitions preva.*-lent in the Testern World are no less unreasongable.
The mountain climbers who have been engaged recently in the effort to scale bIount
Everest, report having found some signs of Life
at even the highest points which they reached.
Some forms of plant life mere observed at 18,000 feet above sea level, while spiders were
found a t 22!000 feet. The highest residences
of human beings are at 12,000 feet. In the state
of Colorado there is a number of good-sized
t o m s and the large city of Leadville at high
elevations.
Leadrille is 10,900 feet above sea
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level.
Interested by the repeated efforts of the
British to climl) JIount Everest a d by the near
snccess which has several times greeted their
efforts, a picked corps of Swiss Alpine climbers
is now planning to attack Nount Everest next
spring. Instead of carrflng a heavy oxygen
apparatus they purpose to carry small vials
of oxygen for use mhcnerer a climber is overcome from vant of air.
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China
HINA'S affairs are always in a muddle these
days. Tlic bandits seem to be having things
much their o m way. The protests of foreign
governments get more and more emphatic. The
cabinr 1ms resigned. China needs sorely just
such 3 yovernment as the Lord lias promised
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to give. ' How glad the Chinese, and everybody
else, mill be when the Lord brings order out of
-- . present chaos !
China has the humiliation of having to
present all,her legislation to foreign legations
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The female students of ths'ch;lese:?ati"?
University have started a woman's moveihed:
in' China demanding the destructiol~.~;of'L&t$ i
ancient Chinese conception that woman rik52
fer;or to man, the estoppage of po1ygamy;audEl
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of the purchase 'and s d e of women, and oethe?
anti-women ChineSe judicial spstem,;:-'eqad.
rights with rnen in civil law,. the rightita:.ent;:
gage in politics without poiice interfere&?$
equal pap for equal work, popular female eduy
cation, and an open door to all trades andprofessions, along with protection of matenlie.-. ;;;:

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M O N E Y seems to have the principal asy &
Japan in these days, as it has elsiwherer;
At the - elections recently .concluded in that
country it is estimated that something over
$20,000,000 mere spent by the contending parties; and in Tokio one of these men espended
$150,000 and 11-on the place for which his principal opponent expended $100,000. In one case a
candidate for ofice had only $10,000 to spend,
and receired only 90 votes, while his success.-.
ful rival received 3,000 votes.
The Japanese legislatnre has hired- fifk
strong men to act as sergeants a t arms in an
effort to preserve order in the Diet and to prevent r~flinilsfrom brcalcing up its sessions.'
At a recent session there were fist fights and
deluges of members by water thrown from the
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1)alconies.
Not to be outdone by the Christian count&;.
of Europe, the Japanese-Government is now
having built in Italy several planes entirely of
metal, 1vliich will enable them to fly from Japaa':
to the Pllilippines and back, and while they ar6
on the way to drop a ton of poison gas orsome'
other product of modern civilization upon their
American friends.

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"Along the river's summer walk

The withered tufts of asters nod;
.And trembles on its arid st:dk
The hoar plume of tlic golden-rod.

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El2 question, W l a t constitutcs n good radio

set could be answvcred in mnl~yurays;
also almost evcryoile would answer ditTercntly.
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.to explain that the set he has at home "%eats
them aU".
Before describing the construction of a Radio
Receimr, let us look at some of the causes of
loss of energy, and see if there is not a may to
remedy this matter;' for with a good antenna,
good ground, one vacuum tube a s n detector
and a properly designed circuit, this alone
should bring in almost all the stations one woulcL
expect to hear comfortably. The reason why
the average set does not bring in the station
we desire is not because tlie energy is not there
to be picked up, but because the circuit and
the instruments of the average Radio Set are
of such high resistance that the feeble currents
cannot fight their way through or are grounded
by a poor variable condenser.

BY ROY Cooke

vnrllisll o r sllellnc with which the wire is coated,

and sornctillles tile insulatiou of the wire itself.
A perfect coil would be wound on air and
insulated with air. Such a coil, of course, is
not possible to make; but we can make one
pretty close to it. We regret to say that such
coils are not to be bought on the market, but
must be made at home. They are easily made
by simply passing the wire in and out between
brass pegs set into a board.
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The coils should be 3% inches in diameter.,
Since me want a very low resistance cod, the
wire used is number fourteen, double cotton
covered. By all means avoid fancy wires, such
as stranded or Litz wire; and when soldering
use nothing but rosin. Also, as f a r as possible,
avoid putting tape on the coils. T r y to cover
the wave length mnge with a single coil. Where
this is not possible, cut in a separate loading
coil, not too close to the main coils. Now we
have a really good low resistance coil.

Making the Condenser Important

Simple W a y Roves the Best
ET us learn the lesson, and learn ~t well,
4 next question is a matter of a good'
that a high resistance circuit is the cause
condenser. This is as essential as a good
of the loss of two of the most important factors coil; for it is absolutely useless to take pains
in Radio; (1) the set not tuning sharply, and to construct a good oil and use a poor con(2) the absorption of feeble currents that denser. This fact cannot be over-emphasized.
could otherwise be tuned in to clear audibility. There is a great deal of &Terence between a
Now, then, is there no may to overcome this fairly good condenser and a correctly designed
common enemy? There surely is ;but' strange to low resistance condenser. The best type is
say, from the layman radio-man to the large that known as the grounded rotor variable conmanu5acturers, they all seem to take the longest denser, whicll has metal ends. The names of
way home. They invent fancy circuits that three of tlie best are: Allen D. Cardwell Conmakc your. head swim to look at. They discuss denser, General Radio Condenser, and the
at long lengths, radio frequency amplification. General Instrument Condenser. The number
They use more tubes to make the set look bet- of really good condensers is small indeed. In
ter. But every tube and transformer is bouncl mounting the condenser, always connect i t so
to have its nerve-racking inherent noises; and that the wire to the grid leak and grid condenser
when speech or music is heard, i t is alnlost un- conles from the stationary plates, and the vire '
recognizable due to high amplification. The to the filament comes from the rotary plates.
I t is then possible to tune in signals without.
more simple wvay often proves to be the best.
Imagine that we could follow the current in- trouble from '%and capacity", one of t l ~ emost
duced into our aritenna by a distant radio sts- esaspertting things in Radio. The proper cation, all the way through the set and to thc pacity for the condenser to be used in the cirground. The very first thing tliat could be see11 cuit descril~edherein is .0005, which is a 23is the resistance of the fine jyire lvith n.l1ich the plate variable condenser with vernier.
The next piece of apparatus esseptial of good
- coils m the average set are wound. But it does
not stop here. More important is what the wire is quality is the detector tube socket. I t should,
wound on, and the resistance of the things tliat if possible, be inadc of porcelain; the next best
are n e s the coils; still more important is the is hard rubber or moulded bakelite. The two
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be used in our
they handle onry audio frequencies.
After all our beautiful arrangement and to tune
painstdcing effort, let us not spoil the mholc
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Run the leads in the air if possible; bee
coils away from thc condenser; nud lrt i~o!k;!:i
touch the coils. except where they arc tied to
the s~llallwooden strips by I\-asecl cord.
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large. If copper sl~icldil~g
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kept at least ~IJ-O inches f roin all coils and apparatus.

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secondary circuit. Somewllere bctmeen
$5 incll is ahout right. T o couple it closely mill
increase signal streagth, but the sharpness of
tuning will be lost. All coils are mound with
numl~erfourteen double cotton-corered wire.
Circuit Must Be Carefully Made
The first section of the seco~ldnryshould be
(TEE a11nost two years of espelimcnting I;c>r)t at least six illcbcs from tlic second section.
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with new circuits, n-c I ~ n v cactually proven a i1;1 it is n good idca to plnce the variable con:
that the old cloublc circuit cinployir~g,711 Apcro- dtwser l~etwecn these two coils. These ooila
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inductance, and the number of turns determiiics
the wave length of the rccciver.
Tlie model was especially designed to receive
Station WBBR, and to have the peal; of effi-

in order to get tlie set to oscillate on high waves,

or wliile the loatling coil is being used. The
best method of determining whether or not
your set mill oscillate over the complete band
of mave lengths, is to moisten the tip of the
ciency occur at its Rave length, or 273 meters. finger and keep tapping lightly the part of .the
:- Rithout the loading coil, the set \rill tune from variable condenser which is connected to the
200 to 375 meters; and with the loading coil, grid lealr. A ~ ~ e aclick
l i is alwvays heard; but
- will tune from 350 to 530 meters, tllus afford- if the set is oscillating properly, a very proing ease of tuning over the entire band of nounced cliclr will be beard in the head telebroadcast wave lengths.
phones. If this oscillation click is not hear%-

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The tickler is a 39-turn honeycomb coil. Tlx

,. small wire in this illstarice is permissible because it is carrying audio frequency. The
Iocation of $lie tickler is at the lower end of the
second sectipn of the secondary or farthest end
away from 'the grid lead. This seems to be
a better location, a s it builds up the signals in
a greater degree than if it were placed at the
upper end of the secondary, as the conveutial
..:.. .method is. It was necessary to employ crf-cme.!;. ly, close congling of this tickler to the secondary
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coils: I t is very easy to makc the mistake of
winding one coil in one direction and the other .
coil in the other. If this is done, the set will '.';
not work. Blalte it a point to get the honey- .I
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comb coil t l ~ a tyou expect to use a s tlie tickler :;
coil, determine the direction in \vhich the coil is
round, and mind the other coils in the same *;:
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.direction. I x t h i s r a y it is not possil~leto make and for

the mistake and have the usual worries of mon- NFD, and two to
.dering zchy it does not work.
by-pass condenser is
capacity of .002 MFD. . Loading Coil and S?zort-circz~iting
A
S STATED before, allen designing &is set The Amplifier
me were more interested in having its greatHE above precautions
set just as well as
est efficiency occur around 273 meters. Thus,
in order to raise the wave length to stations To amplify signals of minute strength isqlnite?
that use higher mave lengths tliali the set would difficult; .but if good trmsformers ares:laited?
go, it was necessary to insert in the secondary axid carefully wired, also if a "c'~Batteryris;~
. circuit, as indicated in the Schematic Diagram, used, it is quite possible to amplify these iignak:.
a loading coil. We concluded that a fifty-turn (if' they are not too weak) to lill a roornk,very:!
honeycomb coil would suffice. If greater effi- comfortably.
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A complete Schematic D i a g r m win bekfo&z
hmd to replace this honeycomb coil. In mount- herewith.
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S w i n g up the matter, the fouowingshO&'
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a satisfactory s,,itcbg system to cnt this 1. X e ~ vstations goo have never heard-&:
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Greater
selectivity
than
the
average
it is a bad policr to short circuit it by a switch
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fastened td thepanel, because this &ithe grid Set3.
of
regenerati0n
so that
lead side and also the high voltage end of the
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be
worked
up
to
the
point where
coil. So the best may a t present is to cut a
tlley
are
almost
a
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loud
a
s
local
stations'.
niece of fle-&ble mire about three in&es
long, silder a cLip to one end of this wire and
It does not seem real that just by overcornthe other to the honeycomb coil; then when ing the resistance of an ordinary circuit
short waves are desired, simply short circuit such results can be obtained; but you, as well
the loading coil.
as crewone who listcns, will be astonished that a siinple set will do such work. A similar set
~ s s e m b i i nfhe
~ Set
was made up for amateur ~rorlc;and several
I T the coils in the center of the panel, amateurs in Europe were heard vh2e the set
and a t least 2 inches anray from the panel. operated in New ITorlr. It mas also compared
(Do not shicltl the panel.) Construct thrce 1~1111n large set of many tubes; and the signals
hardwood picccs I/) by y2,place the lo~vcrones n-ere brouglit in almost zi well, but not quite so
2 incl~esapnrt, and the other a t the top of coils. loudly, on account of great amplification of the '
Tie the coils in plncc wit11 ~vascdstring. It large set.
\vould be still 1)etter if these pieces r e r e first
There is nothing hard about b d d i n g such
boiled in parafill oil. The two lower pieces will a set. Rcmcmber to stay a s close to tire sug-.
afford the hinging of the ticltlcr coil, so that gestions herein given as possible. Also m e a
coupled to the sccondary it can 11e variable. long antenna.
Run the flexible leads from this coil to the
I n a later issue, an article describing thrcon-- '
plate and to tl:e Detector jack. Also make the struction of a three-stage resistance coupleda
grid lead ak s l ~ o r tas possil>le. Gse only the amplifier will appear. The combination of the
very best Mica condenser, the capacity .00025 above and this amplifier should make the idcd
and 7 to 9 mcgohms grid leak for UV199 tubes radio set for both distance and pure reception.

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In G. 11. So. 127, page 650, "Tnlrnniat' sl~oulcl power plant on tlle Auja,,a smill river t h a t a m '
read "Tel-Aviv. Also the electric currcrit for into tlle d:lediterranea~iSea near Tel-Aviv. !l%h
this city is not gcncrated hy tlrc Jordnil but by a ncw city is groving rapidly.
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and then clics out, do not too hastily blamo
youscU because
cannot solder lilcc
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bcing spent so lavishly n-itlr no certain Lnowlcdgc of n just return.

l<cndcrs of T l l ~GOLDEX ACE are familiar
~ 5 t hthe antitypical giants. All perhaps, have
had personal
mith them; md it may
interest some to h o w that the Federal Trade
Commission dcclarcs that seven of these giants
hare merged into an eighth, The Radio Corporation of America, and have "combined, conspired and created a monoply." The seven cited .
arc : The General Electric Company; America..
Telephone and 'J"legrapll Company; nTestem
Electric Company, Inc.; TiTestinghouse Electric
and ~~anufacturillgCompmp; The hternational Radio Telegraph Company; United ~ * f ,
Company; and the lfieless Specialty Apparatus Company.
Perhaps the pader d l better
the situation by reading the following extract
from the Federal Trade Commission's report:

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. may be a kind of phthisic trouble;
--forbig business controls the air. Just compose
yourself, and remember that when the set does
work 'it- vindicates some "cr~dulous" Person3
,who still believe in miracles.
Pad,pleading his
case before Agrippa,
almost persuaded A G ~ P Pto~ be a C'hristianFestas thought Paul mad- As f a r as both theso
Mere concerned with this Radio experience of
Pad's it was merely hearsay l i t h them; they
had-only Paul's word for it. From then until
the present time others have said in substance:
"We have only someone else's word for it that
P a d said he heard this voice; therefore, it is
hemsay upon
So if Festusv
who was
there On the groon4 doubted
we believe ?"
But during this time there vere others who
believed w i t i a whole heart. They Tvere called
"PARAGRAPE T B I R ~ , : By reason of the facts
sometimes fools. F o r believing such and acts of the respondents set forth in the preceding
umadness" they suffered every conceivable lrind paragraphs numbered 8 to 29 inclusive, the respondents.
of p-shment,
from rotting in filthy prisons have combined and conspired for the purpose aud with
to adorning a cross. Today they stand vindicat- the effect of restraining c~mpetition and creating a
monoply in the manufacture, purchas and sale, in ined? even in the eyes of
lvhorefuse to terstate conlmerce, of tlre b d i o devices and apparatus,
believe in miracles. Endio has vindicated them.
electrical de,.ices and apparatus, and ia d+
the "invention" of this wonderful appliance is ,,,tic
~rans-oc,anic ~
~ c odm m ~i a t i ~o n and
another proof of the infallibility of God's Word. broadcasting by the f o l l o ~ means:
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Like all t h i n g , however, that conle from the
<<(i)Acquiring collectively, directly, and indi~ctlp,
presence of the Lord, Satan grasps it with a paknts and patent rights covering all devices and apdesperate hand, muclx as a d r o l ~ i n gman paatus known to and used in any and alI branches of
grasping for a straw. No doubt those lvh0 read the practice of the art of Radio, and combining and
here have oftenti~nesheard someone make a pooling, by assignment and licensing, rights thereunder
remark similar to the following: "The only to manufacture and use and/or sell such devices and
thing we have that is free is the air ; and if there apparatus, competing and non-competing, and allotwere any method f o r big business to control t h g certain of such rights excl~sivelyto certain respondthat, i t would not be free." That time has ents;
means of radio, to a large evtellt
"(2) Crauting to the Radio Corporation of America
arrived- :,
the esclusive right to sell such devices and apparatus
they conthl it a t the present time.
I t seems that one of the prime inovers id manufactured uuder said pateuts and patent rights and
restricting purchases by the Radio Corporation of
g a n g such control is the b l e r i c a n Telephone nnlericn
and
wful in the
of
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It is 'lairned
Radio to certain respondents and apportioning such
this giant has long been buyiilg and obtaining purcl,ascs among them;
rights of vanious patents that lie might secure
Xeliricting the conlpetition of certah rec.pon.L(3)
It .is e?cn dents
entire
of the radio
in thc respective fields of manufacture and comsaid that so much of the funds of this glnnt merce of otllcr respndents;
o r g h a t i o n has been spent for patelits und i11
l L ( 4 ) Attcn~ptingto restrict and restricting the uso
securing patent rights that the stockl~olders of Radio communication and/or broadcasting of article
have flooded headquarters with complnilits, and manufactured and sold under said patents and patent
adring information in regard to their llloncy riglits;
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"(5) Acquiring the equipenlent llcretofore existing

in this count$ coscntial for trans-oceanic Radio communication and perpetuating the monoply thereof by
refusing to mpplp to otl~ersappnratus and devices nccess a y for the equipment a d operation of such service;
" ( 6 ) Entering into e~c1usivecontracts and preferential agreements for the handling of trim$-oceanic
Radio trafilc, and the transmission of Radio mes-s
in this muntT, thereby
othem from the
necessary fmilities for the transmission of Eadio traffic;
'<(7) .'Agreeing nnd contracting among themselves
&to
mijpcrate in the development of new inventions relating to Radio and to exchange patents covering the red t s of the research and experiment of their employb
in the art of Radio, incIuding patents on inventions and
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devices vhich they may obtain in the future, seeking
thereby t o perpetuate their control and monoply of
the various m+s of Radio communication and bmadcasting beyond the time covered by existing patents
owned by them or .under which they are licensed."

' R ~ sreport m s signed by the Federal Trade

Commission with only one member disscnting-

Commissioner Ver
that the only' op
Commissioner v
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lette, that stern champion of the people's~rightkAnd now that i t appe&s that Van;.qeet: h
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tnlien his stand on the side of bigcbn'&e&,$K
s ~ e r n sas if the Senator saw a good may.ahead?:
I t is stated on very good authorib::~.that:
Senator TITatson of Indiana was ingtrument'ai::
in securing the appointment of Van:Fleet by:;
President Harding; and it is no - secret!:th+,
JPntson is a bitter foe of the Federd,.Tradi'
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TIle very fact, however, that Satan &-m&l:
ing .sucll a mighty effort to block widespread:
nse of this wonderful means of conimunication,
is proof of his present precarious predicament;:
and further, that i t is to be. one of the chief..
instruments of the Lord in carrying a bleaihg'.
to the people.
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HROUGH the medium of THE GOLDENAGE, a t a sacrifice of time and money (my s t e n o g d 2
may we express a word relative to "Diearm- pher bills a r e heavy), bring forth fruit for good .
ing tlie Public", that is, the individual?
nntl f o r God.
A few ycars ago, I had never hcard nor secn
Now while me class jacli and bowie knives;
anything upon the subject, save wlvllat I had writ- stilettos, Inlucks and poison as clcadly weapons
ten; and I must say tliat I have written ~ u t ae and'instruments, yet there is the revolver, the
bit on the subject, to which the files of many ugliest and the worst With this we will deal
newspapers, periodicals, and magazines will more particularly.
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testify.
Tlie law is inconsistent nnd weak in that it'
I make this personal refcrcncc to show\., nllo\vs the mnnufacture, sale m d existence ob
though advocating questions about n-hich the things which i t does not allow t o be carried o r
public had thought or lieenrd little, that to keep used. I t is like the mother who gives the child*
sowing the seed will raise a sentiment and will n tin horn, 'mci then punishes the ahild for
produce good. Some of my manusci-ipts liave blowing thc horn.
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,- been rejected on the grou~ldstlmt they \\-ere new
I t is presumed that the purpose of the courts
questions, o r mild and visionary, ~ v i t hno hope ancl the lam is to punisli and prevent crime,
of inntcrialization.
promote respect for tlielaw and obedience there-,
That Ixdy of lawyers in San Francisco the to. This being true, why do the law and courts
other day m-~ntdown ofi record stating that the ]lot remove from weak and frail hnmanity the"
existence of deadly weapons did contribute to i1nplemcnts and agencies that produce crimp?
crime, and he manufacture and sale of sucll
It can be clearly demonatntcd that to be
sliould be prol~ibitrclby lam. W c c s p c d to hear nrlricci docs not protwt the home, the shop or
almost d l organizations nsscniblcd in conven- i h individual
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on the highway. Robbers o r cntion and all ctlucationd forces spaltiny out c b t n ics seclting life o r money a r e armed, nsaall~
pretty soon on this question. So we cxpcct to sl,~lleclin the use of weapons, fearless, care not.
see all these qucstions we have been advocttling? f o r their own Lires nor the lives of their v i e w i

GOLDEN AGE
'A murc1c.r means more than that some family
get the drop on them, so that it is only once in
a p e a t while that tlie victim succceds in de- 11ns bcen nlnctc minus one or the popnlation re- ,
feating them.
duced; that ofttimes orphans and widows, .
In the homo one llas little chance wit11 a \vide- broken hearts are on both sides ; that of necess- '
w a k e burglar ~ ~ llist search-light,
h
11-hile the ity there must be a funeral, that ell~ensive
:' victim is half-asleep or escited. For the home, courts must be set in action.
After all the evil and crime coming from the.
':. burglar alarms could be so arranged that one
--.could touch them off wit11 one's feet at the foot manufacture, sale and existence of deadly neap- . .
-'of the bed or.by hands on the headboard or un- ons of t h e u ~ l l a ~ \ f type,
ul
it is safe to say that
der cover.
not over a thousand people are highly profit-+
The presence of clencily n-eapons, especially in6 by the manufacture of them. Retail merrevolvem, will &?use one to agitate nlltl court chants make small profits, and ~ o u l dsell sonier;
Uculties, whereas if unarlllcd olle I\-ould court tlliilg else were the weapons taken away. We
pence. F i r e n m s arc dangerous; and one who ]lave found that the wcapons are useless and
is physicdly ,,~lfit for figlltillg or a co\rard 1~11 dangerous, and invite crime; that they servo. A
no purpose save, it may be said, for officers of
create death and destruction if armed.
mena drunk, insane, Illad or infuriated the la\\-. I n England officers do nbt carry weapperson takes a gun, so~nebody11-21 go down, OnSTherefore 11-11y should the public suffer so?
whether it is the intended v i c t h or not. Tllere
is a chance and hope for escape with the use of 1s it for the bellefit and profit of weapon manualI weapons, save tlie revolver; but \\-l~enthat facturers?
A11 tllc reform and educational forces, such
is brandished, somebody is going down. The tendency t o possess deadly ~ve'aponsis a bequest as movies, platform speakers, preachers ancl
of barbarism, a t the behest of manunon. There publications, should go to work to build up a
sentiment aud throw on the light. Congress
is big money in making tkenl.
There is no question, alld the Sail Francisco ~110uldempower the President, and he should
Bar association borF testimony to it, that the issue a proclamation calling on the citizens t o
existence of \\-ecrponi, particularly revolvers, coiue in and lay down their arms at cost, anr
' bean
a close relatioil to crime; tllst ninety per- dlould enforce the search and seizure act. This .
amount of precious metal s h o ~ l dbe turned
cent of certain crimes have a pistol associated
over to sewing machine and watch factories.
with them.
If all the valuable and precious metal tied up
. The existence of destructive iniplements, and
particularly the pistol, invites and encourages in these things, all the accidents, suicides, murarinle,. accidents, and suicides. Being a qmck ders, l l a n w ' s ropes, courts set in action as
:md easy means of death, re~olversespecially a result of crime produced by the existence of
, ido~s
wcourage suicide. Alany a suicide \\-auld never \L.e"I)O"S, inmates of prisons, o ~ h n s w
have tried any other means. The easy access and fullera1 processions were arrayed before
to weapons, no questions asked, invites many us in one great panoramic vision, me would
stand ainazed, and wonder n7hy it all was.
recruits to robbers.
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ValueIess Road Bonds By V.A. Baltns

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.iU'm n g you belo~v a notice that was
published in the Times Picny~i~zeof this
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city on June 3, 1924, page 18. It appears that

the parish of $t. Mary issued bonds on what is
lrhown a s the ~ o a dand Sub-Drainage District
',!Number One. Tlie land is taxed to a certain
amount to pay the bonds, and to pay- encl! year
. the interest. I t appears that after these bonds
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r e r e issued, and the work was done, the cost. .,

of the road n ~ i ddrainage was largely in excess of the v d u e of the land. The result mas that the unfortuna te farmers 11-erc! unable to
pay their taxes. The land \\-as said, no bidders presenting themselves; and in'consequence
the land was sold to the State of Louisiana
for tllc u~~paicl
taxes. Tlle p a r i d now has good

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subdrainage and roads; but the unfortunate

persons who invested in these bonds that gave
the parish luihoient money to make the roads are
simply bo]&ng paper i;noen now as bonds
\vbich are perfectly vorthless. The bmks as
a general rule laud these kinds of bonds UP to
the higllest,
I presme, to
"le
poor sucker; and after the bank m d e s a good
big profit on i t they do not worry whether the
unfortunates get back their money or not.
Saint Nary Parish, Louisiana
Sub-Drainage District Number One
of Avoca Drainage District
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A majority of
am adjudicated to the S t a h of
of 19227 and tile h e s have not b m paid *,$for 1922 or 1923. As the year of redmpti06~tin&:
the byes
1922
on.op .boat-Jrm.
P1:
1924, it is imperatire that
b n w d e ' u e -5
certed
arrd the -ediate
dapaait of pear
spencer
~~~~k and company,
25 ~~~~d S-;
New Pork city, under the Bondholder$ .Pntectiw
Agreement, da&d May 1, 1924, is requested., . ~ o p i &
of the Protectire Agreement may be obtained from....the'
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5 Percent Bonds, Dated August 15, 1911, and August 18, 1914.

Default having been made in the payment of the

interest due on the above bonds on Angust 15, 1923,
and February 15, 1924, and in the payment of principal due February 13, 1924, the undersigned, represeutiug'a a m b e r of the holders of the bonds, have

Dated June 3, 1924

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Committee :
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John R. Longmire,,
25 Broad Street
James H. Kepper
Xew Tork
James T. Woodward,
Chairman

Pittsburgh Fighting Vaccination '

ESIDEXTS of Pennsylvania will be interR
ested
know that the Pittsburgh Health
Club has begun a fight against compulsory vacto

cination, wllich it expects to talte to the State

Legislature at Harrisburg. Any Pennsylvanians
who desire to participate in this movement are
requested by the Eealth Club to write the 01lon-ing letter to Mr. A4ncIrewG. Smith, Attorney,
Top Floor, Berger Building, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
sign their full names and addresses and gire
their telephone number :

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I, the undersigned, am opposed to Cornpub

sory Vaccig14fbn,
and I autholiae the p~rinting
of my name on a petition to the Legislature of
the State of Pennsylvania requesting legislation \~*hichwill exempt from vaccination any in&viclual ~j-hodeclares conscientions objection to
the practice, or in connection with any other
cllanges in the present ~ W governing
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OR several w-iel;s during this sununcr, tllc rcsidcnts of the Cit.y of Pittsburgh who m g be emDirector of the Department of IIealt11, Dr. plogcd in thc City.
C: J. Tau, waged an intensive camp^^ of (cTHEREFORE, RESOLVED by people in mass
..vaccination in the city of Pittsbur~h. During meeting asscmblcd:
,$his
indiscriminate v a ~ c l n a t i ~Wna s
"(1) That the Department of Public Health of
rcar&ed on at public clinics, and by means of the City of Pittsburgh bc urged to announce esempof doctors, nurses, and hedth officials tion from raccination in favor of persons who con'going from house to house.
scient.iously object, and that the exemption be rqpected
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of this campaimm
and recognize by tile Board of Education and by all
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employers, particularly the large corporations and demay be seen from a statement issued by Dr. partment
:.Yarnin the public press on August'S, to the
That the I~gislatureat the coming sessio~l
.effect that '" sumey of biO1Ogcd
'\'holesale g "(2)
invohd
remove all conlpulmry claurcs
\-accinadmg Grms in Pittsburgh
that since tion laws,
h t the opinion and pledges of mthm 97G7000
vaccine points didates of the Legislature upon this question be sought
had been sold in the city aid its environments. i,advance;
The city had vaccinated 201,113 persons since
~h~~ the present
administration, partime
the first of the year." In another statement made lnly the Department of Public Health, be nrged to rein: the press of Tuesday, J d y 29, it was es- move, prevent and abate t.he unclean and unsanitary
timated that 568,000 persons had been vaccin- places in tho City of Pittsburgh. In calling atteution
to theunsanitary epidemic breeding places, the Pittsated in the Pittsburgh district.
with this situation eistin6., a nMlber of lncn burgh prcss has perfolnled a valuable public $emice;
"(4) That the expenditure of public funds for free
and women of tlis city who objected to vatvaccination clinics, whether compulsory or r o l u n m ,
ciImtion
a mass meeting in
the c,paign; and on J* 27, this mass appears to be an unnlawful appropriation of public funds
and contrary to et.at.utc, which provides only for free
meeting was held at t k xixon Theatre, with ,.atcation
such
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to pa,, for
kn attendance of about 2400.
the same';
1.' The meeting was addressed by several sped:inrliscriminab vaccination of rll
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ers, including Andrew G- Smith? Attorney and pcT~0nswho present themselves, in blind dimgud of
Cl~airman;hlr. .Harry BonneU, scientist and their physical condition or ph~sicalhistory, is in rip
naturalist, of Washington, D. C. ; and Miss Lora lation of approred surgical practice and common sense,
C. W. Little, of Chicago.
aud is a serious menace to public health. Every con. The sense of this meeting was' indicated in sideration of humanity demands that this malpractice
ihe passage of a resolution presented by Prof. be discontinued at once;
Ezra T. Artman, of the Pittsburgh Higl~ "(6) That the piacing of smallpox signs by the Health
Schools. The resolution mas as follows, and Department, on homes and places of business as a
was published in the Pittsburgh press on July penalty for'non-vaccination, is a practice without justification. It is the sense of this meeting that such signs
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'atatisti~~,'have
proven that smallpox is not preventecl
by n e e i n a m ; that the tnle pmrentiue of smallpox
other m a s plagues are sanitation, kolation and
h w e n i c living;
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l)irecior of ,he
'cityof P i t U y g h by virtllc of an obsolete Act of 9s' d l y , has commanded all persons of all ages to be
.vaccinated .undh penalty of a fine and of having tllcir
;nridence or place of business quarantined; and is, at
:theprecent time, officially vaccinating many tho~tsand
ipumnr daily without regard to the condition of lienlth
'or history of patient in each particular case; the order
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should be posted only on places of conbct and should

on vaccinatecl plucs as
be
. " ( 7 ) That in absencc of m y a h n i t i r e inetroctionr
from the Pittubur,oh Deportment of Health relating to
hygienic living or sanitation for presen-ation of pneral
1icaith and prevention of epidemics, the Pittsburgh
Health Club is r e q u ~ t n lto supply p r i n M m a t k for
this purpose;
"(8) That a comnlittee conlposed of the present
ofiicers of the Pittsburgh Health Club, ancl ,?~ch other
prrsons as may be designated by the chairman of
this meeting, be appointed to make effective these resoli~tionsand rpport progress from time to time to the
Secretary a l the Pittsburgh Health Club;
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#<(9) That these resolutions be printed and copies

thereof mailed to persons requestmg same and to all
City and County osclals, and to the heads of department shres and large corporations."

this, On the 29th Jd??

Vans
issued a reply to the anti-vaccmatlo~~~ts,
resorting to generalities and making no defense
worthy of a scientific man in respect to the
task which he had assumed of vaccinating
the entire popdation of the city. In.this statement, he indicated his intention to continue the
camp*,
expressing the hope that ninetp-five
percent of the city's popdation would be vatb a t e d by autumn.
During the period of these activities, the
Health Director had followed the plan of quarantining the homes of those who objected to
vaccination, even though there was no contact
with the disease. I t is interesting to note that
in the press of August 8, the Director amonnced
+'.st this practice would be abandoned, and his
officials proceeded to remove the signs from the
houses upon which they bad been placed.
Again, on A n w t 13,the orders of the Health
Director were further modified by a statement
in the public press to the effect that the reqnirements in respect to school schildren would be
;and that for the coming term in school,
children would not be required to shorn a certificate of vaccination made since the first or
this year, a s it had been stated would be required before admission to school.
The anti-vaccinationists held another meeting

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read by the Secretary of the Pittsburgh Health
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Club, Mr. John F. Flood, of cases which had
been investigated in which illness and death
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followed vaccination, and to which s d e r e r s and
relatives ascribed subsequent effects to cornpdsorp
inoculation againstdpos.
this meehg,
tentative plans were laid for
the fight againstcompulsory
vaccination to the State Legislatnre at its n e d session
i, order to obtain
act.on
as wodd either
remove the compulsbry feature entirely from
the statute o r cause the insertion of a conscience
clause whereby conscientious objectors might be
panted exemption from the viciom r e q e e rnents of the ~~t as it now stan&.
by the pittsbargh
effortis being
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l ttohobtain the co~peration of all
w,,ons and organizations
within fie state of
Pennsylvania for the purpose of extending this
fight against vaccination into
parts of the
state.
A ridiculous feature of the campaign of vaocination in the City of Pittsburgh is apparent
in view of the fact that less than one hmdred
cases of smallpox appeared since the first of
the year in a population of about 600,000. It
seems very evident that the fear of an epidemio
with such a situation prevailing would be entirely mcnlled for, and the attihde of the
Health Department wodd r e q d e some bther
explanation than could possibly be drawn from
the facts in the case.
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young children in Prague died recently of sleepy-sickness, exactly ten days

after being vaccinated against smallpox.
The'tragedy was considered in the light of a
- coincidence until the publication of a report by
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-Professor Lucksch, who examined the bodies at
the University Pathological Institute.
Prof. $ncksch found that injection of the
same vac@ne lymph led to the death of young
'Toon time's shades shall flee array;
Groaning sdering, sighing,
Ne'er shall mar the perfect day,
mere shall be no dyiug.

rabbits on the tenth day. Continuing his research further he discovered the same changes
in the body-cells of animals after vaccination
as after injection of the v i m of sleepy-sickness.
The work is not yet completed, and Prof.
Lucksch's communication is provisional only,
but he does not hesitate to suggest the possibility of vaccination in the hnman subject giving
rise to encephalitis.
' T i e shall issue f rom the throne
Like a crystal river,
Death's dark bondage shall be done,
Life shall %ow forever,"

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:FOR&
generation past it has been the custom
of wealthy crooks i n 'CVa.U Street, when they
wished to stop some other wealtlly crook from
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something that ~vonldhinder their own
schemes, to employ private detectives to spy
upon the other f ellaw, invade his ho~lleaid llis
'ofhe,break open his desl<,and steal his papers.
Then, if they were so fortnnate a s to "get something on him" they would hold it as a club over
him, to make him do a s they wished. If he be-

the task before Attorney-General Stone in cleaning up the Department) :

"I was one of thc first men ever in it. I nas an
agent of thc tlrjlartnlent for a few months n good many

not to send him to prison so much a s i t mas to

keep him docile.
During the great epoch of "making the world
safe for democracy" this industry seems to have
been transferred to the United States government and located in the Department of Justice,
the a d v a t a g e being that thenceforth the people
would pay all the bills, while the .ivork could be
done more thoroughly, an? the results mould
be the same. This seems to, be about the drift
of the data that have come to light regarding the
-Department's Bureau of Investigation.
The Eveni~gStar! of Washington, D. C. gives
the following as the testimony of Bfr. John W.
II. Crim, United States Assist,vlt AttorneyGeneral, as given before the Brookhsrt Committee, the senatorial committee engaged in
looznginto this matter: He says of the Bureau
(and this gives us an idea of the magnitude of

The Ame1ica.n Civil Liberties Union, from -.

which the foregoing data were obtained, also
gives us tlle following paragraph:

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years ago. 1 hare ,u?cn i t grow and devclop. I think

it is desirable to do away n-it.h nine-te~ltlsof it."
"JIany of the nlen in the bureau come from the corner
&ug store, absolutely inespcrienced for in\-estigation
1s-ork. They \rere appointed because some Congressman or district political leader rrantecl to r e r M them
for services in campaigns. Their emplojment is a men:came disobedient, he n-as turned over to the ace to the government. They get into the department,-:
federal authorities and sent to prison; but the form alliances, and t.he result is a den of iniquity. The
real object in "getting something on W \\-as results of the bureau hare not justified its existence."

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for 1913-1 323 and estinlatcd eq>endituresfor 192+
1925, taken from the Estimates of Appropriations and
the Reports of the Attomey-Geueral, ns followe:

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458,698
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HE Rev. Dr. Pierce sags President CoolT

idge believes that hemen is the abode of
vital and vigorous huxnan beings, of young peo-

ple as well a s old.

"Does the President also believe i n a heaven

in which there is progress, change, a chance to

get d e a d and do new thi~lgs
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stagnation, through billions and billions of
years, wit4 no chance to get ahead in heaven,
would be tiresome, no matter how great the
bliss."-~r&ur Erisbane.
How will common simple people enjoy life
in heaven, such as shoe cobblers, street clcnners,
wash women, scrub womcn, and men tlifit I I ~ V C
. have done the dirty work to kccp the ones Iiigher
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2,342,750
1,892,016
2,166,997 .
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up clean and comfortable, to procluce flle fuel

and bread and materiels for their fine eomfortable houses to live in, and the great edifices
in the institutions of learning, worked in sneatshops to produce fine clothes to make them
appear refined and imposing and respectable
for heaven-and who of course will scramble
for the h e s t places and best adrantages there?
If everybody that belongs to a church and believes in going to heaven goes there, we may
be sure that i t is the s u e enrironment, the
same routine of passing the time there as it is
don-n here. Conan Doyle claims thi't the solclier
boys are doirrg military duty there, end of
course tlie I<aiser espects to be tliere some day,
mid tlicn we guess the show will commence.

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The interest on necessary loans, which could

Yet me cannot do without it, and 7%-ouldnot be negotiated through the government, would .'
ifwe could. I t has caused mars without number, support the government, instead of taxes. hp;.
with their attendant miseries and death. I t values, either in property o r in cash, should be:
,brought Bolshevism to Russia, an effort of the recognized by the government and purchased bpl
workers to rule ; and in Italy we havc the Fas- an issue of low interest-bearing bonds.
cisti, who would stabilize by continuing the old
The capitalist could live from off his income
methods. E v e r y h e r e there is condeinnation of while i t lasted, but could not reinvest it; and
a n effort to change, due to the fear that we the capitalist, without confiscation, would soon
might get something worse. Everyone hopes- disappear.
that in some way luck mill come to him, and
Every man without an occupation should be
that he will get money, and be able to live on under suspicion and observation. There should
Easy Street.
be no idlers nor loafers. All labor should be
The man who would gamble puts his money paid for in proportion to its value to the cominto stocks. Another, b h o has a little in the munity. To be an idler should be a disgrace.
bank, hopes to buy a two-flat or three-flat house,
We are coming to a pass where a change is
ancl have a less prosperous tenant help to sup- inevitable; and unless better reasoning is used
port him. There are many theories for improve- than has been in the past, me may find ourselves
ment, all of which are blocked by the many con- in a like case ivith Germany. We, lilie her, are
flicting interests and by the fear of the un- an industrial nation, dependent upon the marknown and untried. This fear will prevent any kets of the world, though in a lesser degree.
concerted effort a t improvement, until mar or
The Jewish lam forbade the charging of
a financial catastroplie brings universal ruin. interest to a brother, and the early Christians
Xoney as a medium of exchange me must thought the l o n ~ i n gof money beneath them,
have; and the gorernment issues or coins it. but they gave freely.
Yet the government does not own it. T h e n a
There are great changes in d.ur day! Laborgovernment needs money to conduct a war, i t saving machinery, which is becoming a factor
borro~rson its bond, which is practically a mort- to force a change, is being daily and hourly
gage on tlie property of its citizens; and both perfected and improved. The automatio mathe interest and principal are paicl by taxes chine 117ill produce from 200 to 2,000 times n s
levied on the people. If it became necessary, much a s hand labor. A simple and cheap little
the government could absorb nil the money in attachment, which is soon to be placed upon the-taxes, most of \viiicli could be wasted in warfare, marlie t, will convert any old-fashioned macliine
tool into an automatic machine.
as a great part of the taxes now are.
Ordinary laborers in many parts of the connCapital, like labor, has an individual ownertry
command higher wages than skilled factory
ship. The government may draft tlie labor, a s
it did in tlie JVorld TJTar,and pay what wages il: worlccrs, store people, and clerical help. Farm
will. But it cannot touch capital; for that mould labor does not last the year round; and when
be robbery. The government must beg for the farmer cannot get help, he is forced to use
a tractor or other machinery. This further lesmoncj.' and offer an inducement to get it.
sens the chances of the lahorer in the country. banker
to
tlie
bootlegger,
Everyone, from the
IIost of tlie high wages in the cities are paid
is afraid of paternalism in government; and,
for
building construction and slilled labor.
like naughty chilclren, they believe that they
Rentals
and living are high, and it mould take
shoul~lLe permitted to exercise tlieir individual
but
little
to bring many people to a state of
liberty, refusing thc guidance of rcason. Sliould
dcspcra
tion.
the govcrn~nc~it
issue, control, and ow11 the
moncy of tho nation, rnaliing it n pnnisli:~bl~: S11a11we rcnd tlic writing upon tlic wall, and
offense to lcncl moncy at i11tctrc5t.it wonlcl lx mnl;c n cllnngc ?
K c will not I
taliing a step in the rig111 tlircction.

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wage bas.; of a nation is the gold value prices has the same effect. Protectire tariflr,
of the wage ppai to those who labor in pro- :ubsidies, price guarantees, and discriminatire
.duction.. If a-nation were self-supporting and freight rates are all class legislation. Their
'exchanged no product with other ~iations,there purpose is to protect certain classes; and they,
&odd- be no difference whether its wage basis do, but a t the expense of a,ll others interested.
~ r o v i C h 5 A forty percent tariff on imported woolcn
9~ One, five, or ten d ~ l l a r Per
s
&owever, it was always the m e .
goods enables our makers to increase the price
*,; The cost of a product is determined by the of their product to that extent; and, if they do,
,wage its producers receive. One-dollar Rage that enables the importer to a d v a c e his bF o d d buy the same amount of ~ro(lnctproduced ports to the same figure, or just enough to pay .
'at a ~ne-dollarWage, a s ten would buy of the the tariff. The importer n a y also be a jobber in
same product produced a t a ten-dollar wage.
the home products. I n that case Ile or the bmi:. The trouble starts where products producecl ness association to which he belongs names a
at the different wage levels compete in the same selling price for both products. That eliminates
-ket
A nation v i t h a onedollar wagc basis all competition.
'hsell to a third country a t 400 percent profit
Because of the tariff, the consumer may o r
a t the same price that a nation with a five-do]- may not pay extra the m o u n t of tho f o r b perlar wage basis could sell at cost- It should be cent. If he does, he is paying i t on b t h the
.evident t o all that this disparity in Wages can home products and on the imports. If he does
more than by not, it is because he would have been held up for
not be corrected by tariffs
war machines.
the same prices, tariff o r none. T i t h xholeJudging by the price of the mark the gold salers competitioli means to compete for the
value of the wage in Germany must be very highest prices.
much less than that of the United States. After
The purpose of a 33 percent tariff on importpaying high tariffs, Germany can oompete in ed wool is to raise the initial price of the
our markets and flood them with goods a t a home-gro\m product to that extent. Whether it
profit to herself.
does or not, the home manufacturer of woolen
The tariffs paid, however, do not come from goods will be forced to pay that amount above
Germany, but are paid by her customers here, the world's market for his raw material, @in!:
and are ultimately paid by the consumer. Even the foreign manufacturer that ad-rantage in tile
if Germany is forced to pay higher prices for home markets and in the markets of the worlrl.
her imported foods and ram material, she is The consumer of woolen products (the same old
buying them in t l ~ markets
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of the world. What goat) must pay the advance in higher prices for
we sell her is sold in competition with coolie the products of the home supply a s reU a s of
and other cheap labor. The result is that Gcr- the imports.
many, with her indemnities, subsidies to big
The effect of higher prices is to lessen conr
debt, debased sumption and imports. F o r this reason it is
business, interest on l i ~ enormous
cnrrency, lack of raw material, and other doubtful if thc revenue from tariffs mill be
handicaps;' is busy. She ~vorksand eats while greatly increased. Diminishing the output also
the United States v i t h her vast resources and diminishes the labor requirement, and this fur- large bank reserves is comparatively idle.
ther reduces consumption. I n order to reap the
2 .It is evident that botl1 Ellgland and Germany same profit, the home manufacturer must either
with their low wage levels have always enjoyed speed UP or fedwe the price of his labor.
Whether the producer gets any advance in
much advantqge in the world's marlrets. But
to:reduce our wage level to that of Europe prices past the speculator is a question; but if
would multiply the burdon on our debtor elass he gets the full benefit intended, it is plain that
by two or three, and increase the buying power the public, would save about one-half their inof the wealth of our creditor class to the same creased li\;ing expense by paying that benefit
_extent, provided, however, that something in direct tax rnstcad of tariff protection. Tile
:worse did not happen first. Changing wage added cost to the public in higher living eskleveLs causes rank injustice, and changing other pcnse is from two to five times the amount of
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revenue the Government receives from tariffs.

We reason thus: I f we import one-half of a
product used, and the price is raised on all, then
the increased cost is twice the tariff receipts.
If me import one-fourth, it is four times the receipts. The manufacturer profits by a tariff
on finished product, because it liills foteign conlpetition below a certain level; and he loses by a
tariff on raw material. The laborer and consume r lose by both. The protection given to industry by tariffs is limited to those that o m its
capital.
If is difficult to trace all the effects and counter effects of tariffs on trade. The main theory
is that they so protect an industry that in time
i t d l expand to the needs of the nation and give
increased labor to its people. I n effect they enable the foreign manufactnrer to transplant to
our soil his factory, cheap labor, and machinery,
and to collect a royalty of $1.67 per hundred
pounds for all sugar used, from the baby's
sweet stick to fhe old gentleman's coated pill.
T e also furnish his iqported laborers with
beautiful ( 9) building sites and spacious garden
plots along the railroads' right of way, toqether
t i t h an abunclance of such building materlal as
car doors, goods boxes, tin cans, and Ford
engine lids. This is all free; and when conlplete, the increased railroad rnluntion is properly covered by the 6 percent profit ,warantee.
Ho-wever, I\-e cannot protect our forei,gn cousins from lal~ororgLulizersby constitutional law,
but w e can 1)y Danglierty injunction. We can
protect almost anything that way. I n 1918 society 11-as protected from the writer's effort to
sell a Protestant religious work on the Bible,
~vllilehe v a s protected from society by the iron
bars of the county jail. And the principle is not
so cliffercnt from protecting the people fro111
buying their Living supplies in tlie clieop marBets of the ~vorlcl.
Whatever protective tariffs may do for our
dependent industries, it is evident that they
further augnlent tlie trouble caused by the varying wagc levels of the differcrlt nations. If tllc
world is to co~ltinueto 2iare open ~narlicts,t l ~ c n
it becomes*tllc duty o f each nation to protcct
its subjects,by establishing n just systenl of cuchanging products.
The esporter that sells goods produced on tlic
low-wage basis of Europe, and the iniportcr
that sells the same goods on tlie higll-wage levcl

of the United States, can very satisac&%

arrange between themselves to look ,after,the:
large profits. But on the other hand, products;~
exported that are prodnced on the high-wage3
level of the United States are subject-to the-:
custon~aryprofit on both sides, and are contin;
ually in conlpetition v i t h the lowest prices the,
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This necessitates a very low price for raw
material, and explains why our producers of?
initial product a r e forced to work so cheaply4
There seems to be only one way to correct thisa
evil, and that is to standardize both labor a n d ,
product and then to exchange products according to their labor contents and relative value, as:
near a day's production for a day's production
as their relative value n6.U permit.
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A day's production is worth the same, whether,
produced a t a one-dollar or a five-dollar wage, 1
and can be repriced to any vage level Fpithout
changing its relative value to labor; so the nations conld use the labor time requirement o f '
product as a basis for eschange. Then each'nation could price its imports on its own labor cost
basis, the same as if it produced them. This
would give an even exchange of product, no
matter at v h a t n-age level it v a s produced.
If each nation had the same wage in gold,and if all product was priced in gold a t its labor
cost and relative value, its escliange would be *'
equitable. If the world ~rouldadopt that system*.
of pricing, gold could be earned with the same,
labor the ~vorldover, and wherever it spent
mould buy the same product value. But until
the \vorld does this, the above method of charig- '
ing goods from one price level to another could.
be used without injustice to any.
I t has been the duty of our Congress to see
tliat tlie people were getting an even exchange.
of protluct with foreign countries; but they have
been so busy protecting our industrialists in ;
their effort to get control of our vast resources :
of mineral, oils, forests, and lands, in order that
these should not be left ~ t the
h Government t o 3
11cmismanaged and grafted by scoundrels who f
in the future might Ior that purpose buy tlieir
~ v a yinto Congress, tliat I allow they forget it.
Surcly there is a just and equitable way for people to tracle together; otliermise the Lord
would never have created a helpmate for'Adam. ,;
Esperience has taught that leaving the.price.oS-r,
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.dictated by every Tom, Dicli, and JTarry thnt

runs a business,-from a pcaxiut stand to a steel
;trust, is not that may.
. Why not establish production cost? Use the
a v e r a g e . production cost of gold as a wage basis
:.for the different grades of labor, ~vllichshould
,:be graded according to skill, danger, exposure,
-!eta., then from that basis finwe tlie production
cost of raw wool and other things. Add the
-cost-of manufacturing the different grades of
.wool into its different products. Then for transportation cost, add a percent sufficient to cover
t h e standard wages of the men that prodnce the
:raw material, build the equipment, and operate
-.thetransport systems. Then add a percent for
distribution sdicient to cover the standard
wages of those thus engaged. In this way establish the Iabor requirement of each product or
service. Then nse this as a base for product
prices. Industry built up in this way would
need no protection, save from protectionists.
If the people neglect to dictate and to institnte just laws and regulations, who can they expect will do it for them? Big busb~ess? Even
suppose all v a p v a r d Ilearts would a t once
turn to that of love for their fellow man; suppose the rich who own the earth with the things
thereon, including certain rights to the trimmings such a s Britain's rights to the sea and air,
and Papacy's rights to the keys of heaven,modd
awake to a benevolent puq)ose and place their
.wealth at the disposal of the people. Would our
trouble be endedf Xo! Our questions of production, exchange, distribution, transportation,
'housing, equal hours of labor, eqnal division of
the fruits of labor and of the natural products,
$are still to be ans-ii-ered in order that their benevolence might result in equal blessings for aIl.
Really we have never accomplislied much
toward finding means for equal distribution of
the blessings of life. Possibly we have becn too
busy trying to learn how to lie, steal, and murder our fellow man without brcalung the civil
laws and the commandments of Cod. Such mo.tives prcsa- a vast amount of legal maze with

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no leas n qunntity of ccclcsinstirnl n~isconception

nrlcl lllisilltcrpretntioti. all wliicll lends to Jtcr
greatly tlie tlieory ~ i t l l o u tin tlie least changing the fact. Ent it has kept us busy, and
served as a smoke-screen to hide from the
bright minds of earth the plain, simple truth of
tliiilgs rcally worth while.
With the ~w-orld'sesperiencc of six thousand
Scars in self-gorerment, supplemented with tlre
Bible, which emanated from tlie Divine Mind
and is a complete treatise on individual and so- cia1 law and condllct and, in part, has been in the
world's possession for more tllan three tllousand
years, arc our present systeins the best that we can dot What c,m we expect mill be the
judgment of Christ as R e proceeds to establish
IIis kingdom in order that God's will may be
done on earth as it is in hearen? Will He decide in favor of a social ordcr that g i ~ e mans
sions, diamonds, stoclis, and boi~dsto a few
or, npon a system that \\ill g i ~ eus all day by
day our daily bread vitliout our pawning for
life our o m energies and tltose of our pos.terity to the second and third generation?
That tariffs protect labor or wages is a claim
yet to be proven. They simply boost the selling price of imported product, or those in competition, to the amount of tlic tariff above what
they otherwise would be, and leave industry to
hire the cheapest available labor. One possible
exception to this is where the industry is organized on a cooperative or profit-sharing p l a n
But the best cooperative plan is to divide the
profits in with tile wages to start with, by establishing the wages and then fixing the price of
product.to cover these wages, aad no more. In
l get its full
that way every hour of labor d
wage, and idleness w i l l get zero. This is a
profit-sharing plan that embraces every enterprise of collective interest in the nation and
every individaal that contributes l ~ labor
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to its :
well-bcing. It eliminates profit. I t clears the
way for the exclusion of its sister evil, usury,
and malcos machinery our slave and not our
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competitor.

"FTet not thyself, 0 troubled soul,

Because some men of ,guile succeed;
Nor envy those who gain control
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Xor in His righteous service tire;
He will not f a i l to keep His word,
IIe shall give thee thy heart's desirc:
Comnit thy ways unto Bis will
And He 6 h d all thy dreams fulfil.''

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scientists claim that an electrical ring

S??bout
to hreali upon the Earth. I f this
should occur, v o ~ d dnot a wonderful transformation take place? Doubtless the effect of electrical energy x-ould be to purify the soil, destroy
the insects, pests, parasites, and microbes that
prep upon all plant life. m a t marvelous benefits would accrue to the vegetable and animal
kingdoms ! The assumption that an electrical
#kg exists, that it is closing in upon the Earth
~ r e ~ a r a t o to
r yits final contact, is borne out by
a tlleor~.of Cosmogon~
expressed i n the
Valian or Canopy Theory of Creation.
According to this theory, numerous rings of
water were a t various periods precipitated upon
the Earth, the last one to fall having caused the
Koachic deluge. As a proof of the plausibility
of this theory is presented the fact that the
planet Saturn is surrounded by rings which
h v e not fallen ; the planet Jupiter, and its encircling hits are also used to illustrate the devclopruent of the Earth.
Tlle Palian Theory adheres very c l o s e l ~to
the story of creation as recorded in the b ~ o l of
t
Genesis. Seemingly, a reasonable deduction
lrrmd be
since the develO~mentof
E a r t h l ~ a sproceeded during the past ages in
a gradual and progressive 1,-ay, and since the
previous descent of aqueous rings has fitted the
Earth more and more for human hahitation,
\\-oulci not the remaining ring, electrical in nature, tend toward perfection of life, environment, and d\relling-place?
Surely the Present wonderful discoveries
al0llg electrical lines, and tile various mcchan'ical appliances conducive to the conlfort and
convenience of tlic living ?enel-ation, arc snggestire of a future reve11n.n in strange and
startling potentialities.
?. It would not be surprising if in the very near
'future a method of extracting electricity from
the aia>yrould be discovered, whereby rnnnltind
R o d d enabled to procure from nnturc's great
power house dynamic energy sufficient for his
daily needs.

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Imagine oneself speeding along i h " , ~ ~ : a a t i E ' ~ ~

mobile or an aeroplane equipped Rithr&e&$
ism capable of generating electrical e n e r e f r o &
tlie circumambient air! Suppose that all:the,
machinery and vehicles now being operated'%$
gasoline, steam, and oil, were replaced by thoshj
of an auto-eiectrical nature! Would not the,&!
ger of accidents, and the inefficient operating.ofi
machinery, be reduced to a minimum? .. ..., .-.:-:$
Inasmudl as the human organism mj.ght,'l)e$
come so energized by the influence of gentle .eIeq;
trical currents, combined with a food ,sup$?
produced from a cleansed and invigorated said:
from which all pests, parasites, and germ+:ofn
fermentation had been electrocuted, there is &q
a possibility that the consequent increase of the
circulation and t l ~ epurification of the bloods
might be a mamelons impetus toward the'req-;
torntion to humanity of mental and physic4,
ability, and therefore to longevity.
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influences
climatic conditions on
Under
the Earth ~vouldundergo a radical change, becoming more temperate a 'the poles. Then th*
ice fields of the
melt,.m&
large areas of lad mould be dessed;
n7]lich c o d d become
and pmdnctim

In the
Age,
lvhen
I'ind has awakened from the nightmare of sin's.
dark night, when the "desire of all nation$' s h a '
have come, and when tlie Lord shall have estrrblished his never-ending kingdom of p e w ,
may rest assurcd that then all the wealth oflove divine will be poured out upon the heads of
tile llvi]ling and obedient human sons, the r-'
somcd of the Lord; that all the bounties of naJ
ture will he theirs to enjoy for countless agesi
Earth llath he @ven to the children of
len." "God so loved the world that he gave hij.
only begotten Son." "Sl~allhe not with him also..
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give us
things?f'
Ifurrelous indeed, will the kingdom be f o g
which Christians have so long waited an<.
prayed.
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"Cod is the filial j u d p of men,

And IIe slid1 bring tho truth to light;
C o thou thy ~ v n yin patience, then, ,
And still be true t o what is right:
The Lord shall yet thy worth proclaim
rind put thy enemies to shame."
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"~r:t not, 0 tired and troubled wul,

Nar envy men of craft and g ~ i l c ;
I'iold thou thine anger in control,
They flo~lrishbut a littlc while;
Yea, t l l o ~s l~~ n l tImk f o r Illem in vainIl'lic righteous only sliall remain.
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(Xadiwast from WATCHTOWER T13BR on a ware

COUBT is a tribunal establislled for the adA

ministration of justice, and composed of
judges and counsel. A World Court would be a
tribunal, composed of judges and counsel, the
jurisdiction of which would extend to all the
questions of controversy
nations of earth.
between-the nations would be submitted to that
Court, and its decisions would be final.
During the past few years there has been
much agitation for a TVorId Court. The desire
for such a tribunal is right and proper- The
method of organization and operation proposed
is wrong, and would never Prove satisfactoW.
Men are imperfect. Judges arc made of imperfect men. h man is no more honorable and
reliable the day after he is elected 3s .z jucl~e
of a court than he was the day before. Besides,
all men .are influenced by circmlstances;
judges are no exception, and seldom mete out
true justice and righteougncss to the parties involved. Concerning this we have much evidence
the United
relating to the highest court
States. Opinions of this high Court are oftell
l%nder@clby a divided court. The
are
replete ~vit'lldecisions rendered in conflict with
each other and in conflict wit11 themselves.
Even this high court is often charged with pnrtiality, and that its decisions are marked with
injustices. Predatory interests often influence
i t against the weak or the poor. Such is to be espected because the men composing the judges
and counsel are selfish and imperfect, and oftell
unable to withstand improper influences.

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the people in general. A World Court, such a

has been proposed, ~vouldnot tend to eatablis
peace, happiness and contentment amongst th
people.
80 long men are imperfect there of neces
sity would be questions of controversy arisin
beheen them,
cluestions ought td be de
cided by some unbiased and unselfish court tha
would render decisions strictly in accordanc
with right, if such be possible.
T
a t e r many centuries of effort man llns bee]
unable to establislr a tribunal that settles con
traversal questions satisfactorily to aU 0
necessity the efforts of men, who are imperfect
must fail; and long experience should demon
strate clearly to tho people that they shoulc
calmly and soberly look to some otller s o w
for a proper adjustment of their difficulties.

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GAIN the people are reminded that the onb
of the perplexing problem is tc
turn to the L ~ ~ , -l,.lIo
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ly. Tllrougll flis lJTord ascertill His plan, snJ
an-ait its operatiol,- The ~ i b sers
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only solution for the perplexingpmb
men. In due time ~h~
lenls of natiolls
Court ,rillbe established, the judges and
counsel of whiCll mill perfom ~ e i dr d a
and their decisions will be len.
dered according to justice and equity. Surely,
then,
honest
sllould with eagerness desire to huow how tlus condition is to be
brought about.
Controversies Arise Because of Imperfection
Again I remind my hearers that the nation
World Court mould be fraught with even of Israel was a typical nation. Its form of
greater dangers. I t s justices and counsel govern~uentwas a theocracy. Its administrswould hail from different nations, spe&ng as tion urns intended to foreshadow the
they would, different languages, representing goverment of the Messiah that is now bein
a people whose interests often conflict comml:r- put in operation. One of the arms of the
cidly, politically and religiously, and each judge goveqin~entof Israel, organized under the d i i
from each separate country \vould be in some section of the Lord, was its courts. As a l a v e r
measure influenced by the interests of liis own Aloscs Ilad no peer, because in the formation,.,
people. hvcn the doctrine of patriotism, often promulention and administration of tlie law he
misapplie'S, ~vouldbe used as a pretest for ren- was guldcd by Jehovah. Among the judges of,
dering a decision in favor of one country ancl Israel \\-ere Eli, Smucl, Barali,,Gideon, Jephdc
against another, whether i t mas just or not. thah and Samson. There were others, of course?'
And a11 the justices being imperfect and self- These judges esercised jurisdiction over clifish, their decision would not be satisfactory to fcrent parts of the country; and sometimes'
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were not only judicial magistrates, 1~110saw to
it that the law was properly enforced, but they
$ere also the defenders a ~ i ddeliverers of the
oppressed. The ofice was not hereditarfl but
tlii judges mere selected by Jehovah. Nor dicl
justices seek to overawe the people and
irighten them by wearing long flowing robes or
fillsacks on their beads. Seither did they
M w l nor wag their head, and appear wise
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wvitli olle voice say that much a b o u t t k e i r ' ~ ~
judges a ) Then Salnuel soid to them: ,"The ;
Lord is n-itness against you,. that ye ha*?
not founcl ought in ray hand. And they.%!::
slvcred, He is witness."-1 Samuel 12 :3-5. .:f?.:-i
It is a sad yet true fact that today the peopk:
11aw lose confidence in their judges; and i$.:
would be impossible to select a TITorld Conrt-;
t11at could rileet the occasion and bring the de-':'
sire of the people. The mere fact, however, t h ~ t . ; ,
the people desire such a court and that such a-...:
desire is a rigllteous one, 11-ould warrant-:.us..
in looking into God's plan to see if He made pro-.
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especially prominent- in the. T170rd of God, The World Court Shall Come .
PAUL, enumerating some of the able&.
+hose goocl deeds are marked, is Samuel. His
men of the time, zvho served God and re;
-mother consecrated him to God before his birth.
.This is a good precedent for expectant mothers ceived His approval because of their faithful;to follow. This act of consecrating tlie child ness, mentioned Samuel, Bwak, Jephthah, Gidm an incentive to the mother to looIr well to eon, Samson and David. In my last lecture here
:the education and guida~iceof the youtll. Sam- proof nras submitted showirig that these men,
,uel's mother did that. TI'hen lie mas only twelve together with others who received a l i e a p
;.pa'isof age, he mas committed to t l ~ ecustody proval from tile Lord, will soon be resurrect:.,and instruction of Eli and ministeyed in the ed zvith perfect bodies and serve in the capacity %
-temple. He became juclge of Israel, and thcre- of the visil>le representatives of Christ's king..
;after went about Iiis circuit holding court, dc- (lo111on earth. I n fact, these will form the vie:.
Idding cases in the interest of right and jnsticc, il~lcpart of tlie kingdom of God, for which .
;'&destablishing colltentmcnt amongst the peo- Uliristians have been praying for 1,900 years. .:L..
jple: His faren~elladdress \!-as marked by its
I now assert, basing my conclusion upon the
,shplicity, frmlrness, smeetness, and liones ty. Scriptures, tliat from anongst these perfect
H e had dealt justly ancl righteously mitli t l ~ c mcn will be selected those who will compose the
'people, and they bore him witness to the trutli nlclul)ers of T l ~ cWorld Court. Concerning this
ijhereof.
the proplict Isaiah says: "I will restore thy
$:.:utter long and faithful service in his high judgcs a s ' a t the first, and thy counselors as at
:judicial oficc Samuel stood bel'orc tlie people illc beginning; afterwards thou shalt be called,
Lgd said: "Beholcl, here I am; witness ngni~ist T ~ I city
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of rigliteousness, the faithful city.': !
mebefore the Lord, 311~1hefore l ~ i salloi~itvtl: (Isnitdl 1:26) Dr. Strong, a recognized.,
ox have I taken? or ~vliose ass llave I II(11)rcwv scliolar, translates the word " c i w
: en? or;fivliom have I delraudotl? IL-liomhave ilk this test from tlle I-Iebre\v word 11-llicli means
kbppressedl or of \vhosc Ilnntl Iiavr! I rcceivctl "courtl. City is used as a symbol of an%--bribe to blind mine eyes tliercwvitll 7" (IIo\v or:;nnizcd body created ancl organized for-the
j@my justices of the high courts of earth coriltl purpose of serving the people; and here is t h e [anke
a similar address l~oncstlybefore thci r positive statement that these judges, when. re:
!pmstitnency4 )
storc?tl, sliall he called the "conrt of righteonsF h e l mid30 Israel tlint if tliey llnd ilny sucll IICSF, tlic faithful court." That mill be aconrt
b 6 e to lay agniilst liim hc woultl makc i r i n.11ic.11tlic pcople c m have confidence, and will
bemuse the judges of that
-tion.
"Alid tl~cysaid, Thou hnst not dc- I ~ n v cco~~iidclicc,
/ b @ c d us, nor oppl*r~ssod
us, 11citI1crllnst tlion coi~rtwill bc guicicd by tllc invisible power of . .
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ought of any man's hnntl." (T'i'11cr.c is thc Iij11gt10111,the Clirist, in'liarmony with the
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Tlie kingclom of tllc Lortl, as 11a.s herctoforr cision slior~ltlco~it~.ol
becii pointed out, is ol' two phascs. tlle i~~visil)lctlcli~rl[lie decision.
and the visillc. The i~~visiblc
is (.:lllc~l(hc ' ' l l ~ \ ~ 11 ..ill ]lot $0 ill
J\'orlJ Cullrt ullder t
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heavens", and the visible, is called the ''new reign of the great ,?Iessiah. Concernillg that
earth, wherein dlvelleth righteousness."
The tile Propllet sa>-s: " h d he [the Christ] &&
authority residing in the invisible Ruler, the judge among the nations, and shau rebuke many
Christ, the term 'qcinf is properly applied to people; and they shall beat their swords into .
' the Christ. The visible pliase of this liingdom, as
plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: .
was shown in my previous lecture,
be rep- nation shall not lift LIP sword against nation, .
resented by the faitliful lnen of Israel who are neither shall they leanl mar ally more!'-Isnidl
called princes or rulers in all the enrtl~. Now 2:4.
referring to this new order of tliings, tile proph1711isis tile ollly n;zy that lasting peace d
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et of God says:
be established in the eartll. Tlie sooner the
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reign ill riglltcousncss, 11eol?les
nations of the earth wake up to the
old order is doomed, 311d h t
and princes shall rille in judGllent." (Isaiah fact
s bring
32:l) The word "judamentn here means a Christ's Icingdom of r i g h t e 0 ~ S n e ~1vi.iil
: judicial determination; that is to say, render their desire, the better for them.
4 judgment according to trnth, rigliteousness, and The people will recognize the justice and
equity. If a litigant appears in that court with equity of the decisions of tlie Lord's T o d d
unclean hands he will be required to clean up Court. The rank and file of the people n a n t to
before he shall asl; for redress, bccause the do rig114 if they have an opportunity; md when
Prophet, speaking of tlie ailministration of that the greedy lland of tlie Oppressor is stayed, they
court, says: "Judgment also will I lay to the !rill do right. Concerning the judgment of that
line, and righteousness to the plunlmet ; and the tribunal the Scriptures say that "the judgments
hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies." of the Lord are true and rigliteous altogether.''
(Isaiah 28 :17) I n other words, the judicial cle- (Psalm 19 :9) "Therefore the ungodly shall not
cision of that court will be a s straight as a line, stand in the jud,gment."
(Psalm 1:5) The
and a s right ss a. .plummet, fro111 \\.hi& there Lord will see to it that the rights and liberties
of tlie people are safeguarded, because it is writis no deviation.
ten: "And he shall juclge the rrorld in rigliteousness, he shall minister judgment to the peoPeople to Rejoice in the Decisions
again
I TO this court of justice alld rjghteousness ple ill ullrigllteousness-" (Psalm 9: 8)
the people bring tlleir questions, con- he says: ''The meek [that is to say, the teachlie teach his way!'
(Psalm 25 :9) .
fident that they will receive just. and rigllte01.l~ able]
treatment. I\,',, bloated corporation
influ- That the decisions of this divine World Court
or doainate tll3t tribUllal. N~ SelfiSll will please those \vI.iro love righteousness the
profiteer ,yill esercise ally mldue influence. Sriptures prove : "Judgment eliall return unto
be glad ; ri&llteouslless:
all the upright in lleart shall
Tile people wlfl hear the decisiolls
because it is written : '.TVhen thy judgments
it!y-Psalm
94:15.
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Radio Will Carry World Court Decisions &I.
.will lea~m.rigl~teoust~ess."-Isaiah26 :9.
IIE
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inDoes any sane person suppose for a moment
ventions of this time, anlongst these the .
that if a World Court, sncli as suggested by the
radio. K i t h these inventions, these faithfulBolr Peace Plan or.aliy other sucli proposition, meti,'as princes in the earth, ruling under tlle
were in forte, any goveriline~itof earth would direction of tlie g e n t Xessiah will direct the
stand by i t ~ d e c i s i o n su~iclertile present order people ; then "out of Zion [the invisible part of
if it served tile selfish interest of tllcir govern- tile government] shall go forth tlie law,' and tlie .
\~.ordof the Lord from Jesusalem [the earthlyi .
k ~ factors
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to repudiate tlie snnle?
A recent manil'estation of t l ~ i skind was llacl pliase of t l ~ eg o ~ e r n r n e n t ] . ~Oraers
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will be is- .
with reference to the League of Nations; and suet], and n ;judicial determination will he '
while ki that coiilpact it was agrecd tlilrt its de- announced fro111 .'The IYorld Court, and the :

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to put the United States into. the World Coirrt;
These pastors of denominations claim to rep@i
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sent tlie Lord. They should know thatthe p d j
ent institutions are presided over by,the De*
kind, caused His prophet to write : " m e world The Apostle says so in 2 Corinthians 4.: 3, &->:If;
also shall be established that it shall not be .r\-ould have been f a r more in keeping .with,tl&
moved: be shall judge the people righteously. -11igl: oflice that they claim to fill for those.15@+
Let tile heavens rejoice, and let tlie earth bc 000 pastors in the United States to engage: h;
glad:. . before the Lord; for he cometh, for he one week's drive to tell the people taboat.';%he?
-comet11 to judge the earth." ' T i t h righteous- Iungdom of Xessiah, and the real World-Cod::
ness shall he jnclge the world, and tlie people which shall determine the people's troub1ea:se-l
cording to equity justice aid righteonsness,'aad:
with equity."-Psalm
96 :lo-11 ; 95 :9.
The people now are in sorrow 2nd distress which mill bring the desire of all honest heartd.:
and perplexity. But let them take heart. Again 7Wly do they not do it7 I call upon the clergy.
I urge upon the people to acquaint themselves of Greater New Tork now to devote some of'
x i t h the teachings of the Bible. Know that the their time t o this; and since the public press
kingdom of hearen is at hand; that Satan's em- is controlled by interests that do not want to .
pire i~passing away; that soon the new heavens pnblish things concerning Messiah's kingdom, . ,
shall be hi coniplete control, and the new earth, I do not expect it to publish this message; but
the new organized goverument, shall be in surely every Christian sliould want to pass i t .
operation here.
on by ~c-ol-dof mouth, kccause herein lies the
This new government, including The World hope of the peoples of earth.
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Court, will bring blessings to man f a r beyorit1
I n my nest lecture here it will be my privilege
his expectations o r fanciful dreams of the past.
and pleasure to point out from the Scriptnres .
. I n Xoveniber last the pnblic press an~~ounced110~7, under this righteous government, th.e
that 150,000 pastors of churches in the United blessi~lgs of life, liberty and 11ap.phess will
States, and their congregations, were engagecl come to the people and horn man mill be restored.

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10. Jehovrh God, and Christ Jesus, Elis Son,
2. The diviue right of the clergy to adminis- arc one nnd the same person.
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t e r baptism.
11. The Iloly Spirit is a person.
3. Baptism is necessary to escape eternd
12. One
one, plus one, equd8
one .
torrncnt.
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JVhen
Jesus
hung
on
the
cross
and
said:
4. God creates, and continues to crcate, hillions of beings in I3is own lilcencss 1v11o will "My God, my God, why hast thous forsaken
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spend the countless ages of etexmity in the me!" ILe as merely tallcing to Emself.
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Jesus
Tv.r.as
raised
in
'the
flesh.
strang.ling f m e s of burnins sulphur, pleading
15. IIe bears, and \vill forever bear,' Eh'. ...in vain fw even one drop of water to relieve
sc:1rs.
their agonies.
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16. Re alone of all mankind -ivill have tq go .'r.2.
5. God saves some infants, bnt not others.
6. The only vay by mhich any infant or scarred and marred throughout eternity.
17. Christ m.11 come again in thc flesh.
p o r n person, ran be saved is by baptism into
1.8. The day of jud-went is a day of honor.
some one of @e hundreds of sects into which
'z-vliLthe
church no&nal is divided.
19.
Tllc Iitcral earth is to be burned dp with .
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litrrnl iirc.
.c,:; .,
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.8. Jesus Cllrjst ncvcr clicti, could not die.
9.All lluman beings who arc saved become
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alg(!ls.
9. S o ranson: 11-a~crcr pxid, or e r c r nil1 bc
21. Pnrarlisc is hcnvcn.
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'drip he died, and went to heaven.
23. Christ did not become an angel, but \\-as
raised from the dead as a man three days later
than the thief, who was raised as an angel.
24. Christ did not ascend to heaven until
forty-three days after the thief had made his
calling and election sure and had gone to his
reward.
25. All the ancient worthies went to heaven
when they died, including David. .
26. Present kingdoms are parts of Christ's
kingdom.
27. The devil has been away off somewhere
in an unlocated hell, instead of exercising dominion over the kingdoms of this earth.
28. The Antichrist is to be a literal man.
29. Sectarianism is a good thing, and will
be perpetuated forever.
30. One can be born of the spirit while he is
still in the flesh.
31. A resurrection from the dead is irnpossible ;for none are dead.
32. A resurrection, in the case of saints,
means the taking back of the poor bodies lvhicli
they had, i n place of tlie perfectly good ones
they secured when they died.
33. Sanctification means sinlessness, not
self-sacrificing devotion to the will of God.
34. The espression '%ride .of Christ" means
nothing, because everybody \\-Lo is saved mill be
the bride of Christ.
33. The espression - "high calling" means
nothing, because everybody who is saved will
be saved to the high calling.
36. The expression "prize of the high c d ilig'' means nothing.
37. Tbe time of tlle end mill never come in
your day, in my day, or in anybody clse's day.
38. Present running to and fro n~eansnothing.
$9. Therc rever nil1 be any e l i d 01 the
"Tirnos
of tly Gentiles."
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be any s ~ e c i a l
0E
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41. Thcre will be no "restitution of all
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T l ~ cJul~ilccarrangements signify notll-

43. The phrase "abomination of desolatio~~"

si,gnifies nothing.
44. There never was, and never mill be, a
great falling away.
45. Tliere never was, and never d
l be, a
great mother apostate church, and she never
had, and never will have, any daughters.
46. The espressioli "royal priesthood" means'
nothing, because everrbody who is saved will
be of the royal priesthood.
47. There can never be a second death, nor-:+-even a first one.
48. A human soul, once born, lives on forever.
49. Israel's tabernacle in the wilderness
signifies nothing.
50. There is no n-itness to the Lord iu the
land of Egypt.
51. The 3Iemorial Supper can be properly
observed a t any time.
52. Tlie Christian Sabbath is not a rest of
faith, but merely a formal observance of one
day in seven.
53. The literal heavens will be literally rolled
together as a literal scroll.
54. Men mill pray for literal mountains to
fall on them.
55. Bible clironolop is a subject ~ h i c l noi
body understands or ever nil1 understand and
\v\.llichis siven for no conceivable purpose.
56. Belief in a flaming hell is necessary to
salvation.
57. God is to be feared and dreaded, and it is
impossible to laom Him and to love Him.
TVe ol~tained these fifty-seven varietieq
of misinforn~ationfrom the clergy. Tlicy gave
us all that they had, and this was all that they
,
gave us. TTTe paid them n-ell for this instruction, e\Try item of which is untrue. They did _,
not teach us tlle truth on any subject. They,
did not have it to teach.

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is one thing we can say for them,
nlld tllnt is that they have resisted most strenuously all attenlDts to teach them or to teach
nnyl)ocly else anything except the fifty-seven
varic.ticts of falsehood just listed, whicllis their
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T h e Harp of God': aftti nccompanying question.% mking the plan of both
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hFather,
Jehovah,
justified, accepted nnpbegotr.
en, is designated in the Scriptures a s a new
reature. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new
reature: old things are passed away; behold,
11 things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5 :l7)
%ere is now a newness of life, n-hich does not
esult from being trmsferred to another clioate, but from being given a new dominating
actor i n our lives, namely, the mill of Gocl.
lonest Heart, o r whoever takes this step, now
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,as new hopes, new aims, new ambitions, new
aspirations, and new ideas. He is not looking
: for earthly honor acl glory; but he is looking
f o r ~ a r dto the time when he might be forever
with the ljord in His Icingdom and be a part of
the seed of ,4braham according to the promise,
t h r o ~ ~ gwhich
h
man's blessidgs vill come.
'37Tllis one is now dead from the standpoint
puts it:
of a hornan lxinh
"Te are dead, a i d your life is hid with Christ
in God." (Colossians 3 : 3) The new creature
noiv nnlst be renewed, refresliecl and jnvigornt.
ed alltl strcllL$Sthcnccl by knowlcclge; not by ordinary kllo\vleclgc, but by ail ncrluaintnllcc wit11
God's will and a deep ap~~reciation
of ifis plan.
(Colossians 1:9) T l ~ e~vorldc a ~ l ~ i o1;now
t
anytliieg al)out tliis; o~iiytl~ose~vvl~oarc in tllc
rclatio~~sllip
\\.it11 the Lord. Tllc wliole world
lies i n the ~rickcclone. (1John 5 : 13) Bnt now
' the new creature in Christ is admonished to hc
not conformcclto tllis ,vorld, lint to bc tmllsrorrned by tlic renewing of 11.i~rniilrl, that IIC
iniglit prore what is tile good and acccptnble
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OIX thus Lcgotten is how ddexipated in the S c r i p t u y ?
Ci\'' Script"ra1 l'roof.
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\\'hat is Illc cat hope now of the n e r creature &'I

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Tltis anointing is received by rctlson of coming
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K h o t docs it nlcan to he: baptized into Christ? Give
body. To be hoptizccl means to be immersed.
Srriptarnl prwf. 33s.
.To lu? lrrptiqcd illlo Clirist's il(!ntli me:lils to i ~ c \i.hnt is tile m,,aninB of
,,aptism
imm,,,sia)
'. immcrseJ i n t o tltc (led11 of Cltrist. Anti so tllc
:13s.
lllnt so Inally T, tllcrc
hpostlc puts i t : ' ' l < I l o ~ye
\.irtrLcill x r n ~ p rbaptism?, 7 33.5.
of us as wcrc llaptizrd into Jesus C'11lmistwere \yllo arc {llc
i n Christ? 7339.
:. bnptizcd into his (lcntll? T11crcfol.c~1~ arc! hnr- \\.IIOT~I
(lit1 Aaron illc Iiigll priest typify? 1339.
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glory of the Father, even so me also shotdd'.:::
wall<in ne~vnessof life." (Romans 6: 3,4) h p :-,'
tisnl in water is merely a symbol of the red;':
baptism. It would do no one any good to be: I.
baptized in water unless he had first undergone :
the real baptism by being immersed into Chrbti
"%U of those who are thus inducted into the :
body of Christ receive the anointing through . :
the Head of the body, Christ Jesus the beloved' ..:.
One. This is illustrated or pictured by Gad's.
dealings with Israel. In the type Aaron the
high priest vias anointed. "He [3ioses] poured.
of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and
anointed him, to sanctify him." (Leviticus 8
This anointing oil was poured upon Aaron's
head and ran d o n upon his garment. (.Psalm
133: 2) Aaron the high priest n*as a type of
the entire Christ, Head aiid body. As the oil
poured npon his bead and ran dorm to the
skirt of his garments, so in antitype, Jesm a+
Head, at the time of His
in the Jord.a,
received tile ;moinfing of the holy spirit
mrasurc. (Matt. 3 :16; John 3 :34) At Pentecost
lIis disciples receivcd the anointirig of the holy
spirit. And thereafter during the Gospel age
y,llo come into Christ
t)lis
tl~ro!~gllChrist Jcsnx the IIcad hy virtue of
,,ci,lg inc,lletcd irlto
body of Clrrist.

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n g ~ o y to
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ted,
.\'Yboy who will persolinlIy earn $l?j in
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Negroes
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Lz'bcria
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from his parents, may borrow a third $123 from
HE Universal Negro Improvement As8oci.a-;".
George E. Buchanan of Lletroit, "lick, and be
tiikcn next July by Mr. Buchannn through the
tion had been inrited by the Liberian gor- -?'
(.'anr\rlian Rockies to Alaska and points on the ernment to establish a Negro colony made up of ,
Caiiadian Yukon and return. Subsequently the h e r i c a n Seqoes. A group of engineen with
.l)ny returns the $125 to Mr. Rucl~a~ian,
so that ~naterinlsand $30,000 was dispatched to I j i r i a
lip can help some other boy to take the same within thirty days. Upon their arrival the Liberian government had developed opposition to +
trip.
the movement. President Gamey of the BasocisRailroad up Mozrnt Amrat
tion blames a small group of politicha in
N ATTEJSPT is being made by Armenians Liberia, \rho were infhenced by the tinamid
interests of E n d a n d and France, and a mbhrb
to p r m u e funds f,or the buildirlg of
cornpan?
Of the United States?
s~ in the
swniu railway to tlic summit of Jlount Brarat
coionizntion
some
enlightenment
going
into .
li',OM feat, \$-ith the intc!lt of n l ~ k i n gi t 3 resort
tourists,
to
,t pikess l>enl;. 1f Liberia rvitll the possibility of independence of
this plan is carried out, it is not a t all impos- tl~ought and government.
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5ible that the renlains oE thc ,Irk, said to hare
tlrhtlrhite
Slaves in a Negro City
;wen seen in recent years near tile summit, m a j
T 3TAIiES interesting reading to learn that
1)c definitely located.
officials of the South African Government's
Russian Business FoZIolcs the Treaty
Locust l?spe<lition have found at Molopolole,
ill the district presided over by Sebele, about
4 treaty betrccn xnylaIld;lnd Russia llnJ
sooner l~ccn eonsunruiat~d belore the fifty 1v11ite men and ~\.ornen, descendents of
;:reat union of nllssinnc o d ~ m t i r cplaced
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\\-\-it]l nutell pioneen, who are slaves to the blach,
]*:ndis]manufncturL>rsa n rdvr f o r ngricllltoral ]laving no privileges of any kind. MiUions of
lllacliincry amounting to tcus of tl~onsaaclsof blacks linve thus served whites, and some do yetpounds sterling. I t is the suoccssful dipIo~nncyof
13ri taints Labor Govcrnrncn t that has nude tllis
Militarism Loaing Out in Sweden
additionill business for Britain possible.
N is stirred from end to end by an
Tllc R U S S ~Coven~nient
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is i l l h o ~ eto p~zt
a radio receiving sct into crcry home, and wit11
which has militarism as its great
that end in view has bcgun tllc m;lnnfacture of issue. IIjalmar Branting, a one-time premier
radio sets tn be sold to tlio pcoplc f u r ten dol- of Sweden, in seeking support for his policies
1:lrs each. I t isalso f\~rnisiiitt,n
t l ~ cpcopla i ~ i t ill l~- as a~cpinsttllc policies of the nlilitnry party now
t'or~nation as to how to ~ . l i n k r tl~cir
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own sr~t..;. i l l po\vcr in Sweden, said: "Iiitllerto tlie form- .
The C;ovcrnment has bcgutl the ratliocnstin: rot' 11lrr inrokcd. 'If you wish peace, prepare for
conc~rts. '
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peace, prepare for peace.' A11 the workinen in each \\-a:-) ~vithoutstepping foot on Polish soil.
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all the countries of the world have nour entered
'.upon this path, and Sweden must enter upon it Germmy
.Fr also."
S THE effort to balance the budget, Germany
s has within the last few montlis discharged
?ll St. Pefefa Dome in Danger of Failing?
400,000 State eruploy6s, o r about one-fourth of
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DESPATCH from Rome to the Chiago tile total nunher. *4t first this had a d e p ~ c s s h g
Daity News reports that a n American
architect has declared that the dome of St. effect, a s many of tliose discharged were not
to filld rk
P e t e i s Cathedral is in danger of falling. I t
Conntleas millions of caterpillars a r e destroy- 4
would be a strange incident if such an evellt
take place a t the forthcoming Papal ing thousands of acres of forests on the borderjabila. The papers of Rome denounce this re- land betveen Germany and Poland. The corns
in eating
port as a scheme to cut off the city's expected b i n d noise of the c a t e r ~ i l l e r en-d
revenue from the great numbers of
in- the leaves is SO n e a t that i t sonncls like the roar
vited.
of a conflagration. All lznown methods of atop1
ping the pests have failed; and consideration is 1
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beinfi given to the use of the deacllp poison gas
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BASILQ. @OVIICEILE, of Hnmpstead, Eng- which, until now, has been intended for use
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.,,:. child are examined in the Anglican Church, a t
the time of a child's so-called baptism, they are Podugal
asked: "Do yon believe in the resurrection of
STY years ago, when P o r t u g d was on .
the flesh?'' they anm- : "All this I steaclfastly
verge of bzdi,,t,
on aemant of the
,believe," when a s a matter of fact they believe corruption of both of the old parties, King Cart
Senlior
nothing of the End. &v. Basil says that, like los appointed as dictator an h o n e ~man,
the nation's cradles, the seats and the pews Joao Franco. Franco cnt from the payroll t ~ r o
grow emptier every year; and that the attempt ladies of high rank, each receiving $!$000 rr Fear
to express truth toclay in the formulas of yes- f o r jobs in which they nerer did a t a p of work.
terday ia "just as sensible as sending n t\ventieth l-Ie stopped the salary of a man who mas concentury dhbutante to Court nearing her grand- tinuing to draw his f a t h e i s salary for fifteen
years after his father's death. He cut from the
mother's crinoline." Good f o r Rev. Basil !
payroll a Portn?leee minister to China who had
never set foot in that c o u n t v and, in short
France
ESPATCHES from F~~~~~
show that the effected economies in eighteen months amount~~~d
budget this year will
a deficit ing to $13,U00,000. A s n reward f o r this Lonof between one bilfion alld bobillion francs. ~ ' J ~ Y the
P
crooked politicians of Portu.~;11
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about
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the death of King Carlos and 1iis
~h~ military policg of F~~~~~
was a minous one.
is
be- son, and tile esplllsian of F'mncn from the msn- ,
lieved in Paris that the ~~~~~h Governlncllt mill try. Ju" prior to tile tinle when both the Illoneyer be able to pay anytl,ing on the debt o f . arc11 and liis dictator llacl planned to restorc a ,
15,194,000,000 francs which she owes the Cni tell consti t"tiO1ial
States, and will probably be able to pay nothing
SOciaibm
on the debC of equal amount owed to Great
Britain.
1114 Sew Tnrk T i ~ n c sreferling to Rrmlsay
J[acl)onald's bool~on Hocinlism, quotes him
The futility of t h ring
~ of iron which Francc
lias put around Germany by the fhut~citiqnlltl as ~ a 1 - k :
a d n g of Poland, Czecllo-SlovnLin, Xurnnl~in.
f;arl;,l,;flioc,r
not rrfin , j i r lift r: kciefl.
10 try
. and Jugoslavia may be sccn i n the 1';1(.1 that ,,,,,, ,;,,.,. ,,,,,,:,.b ~ . ~ ~ ~ l - , : F\.Gt(.,ll
,.~,illto
e
the Soviet diplomatic courier, Iiraht i 11, 11::~: c.o~n- t r [ ~ c 8 1 3 t . o.i.l .. j t C , ~ ~ IEP~ ~: ~y rfr- c 1 1 1 y h n > ~ z ptllat
~l
~:,lblio
pleted
his
more
than
30th
roul~cl
trip
I)y
airtioicu,
I'oplar~,-n~,
6!11hc$
tor
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\rages,
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and
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m aY
- 1924

~~~'GOLDEN
AGE

itation of output not ouly are not aociillism. but may

mislead the spirit and policy of the Socialist r~oveCdlI8 men to give llnstinted senice in
- l3!llt Sodfor 8 -1s
i n s u d in terms of life;
' d no one should k mom impatient than the Socialist
the fallacy thnt a man ca~lnotbe expected to give
- mth
&before he geb .smrord."

4
Row a Censorship *rates
.. TIIERE is civil war in Erazl. and, a s a consequence, newspaper despatches telling of
#. h p p e n i n g there are not permitted to be sent
:-to tbe outside world until the Government gets
ready. A few days ago the residents of Buenos
sres
md in their nowspsfers articles of cornmendation of the Arg(~titi11eaml)rtssador to
Brazil. Sonle days later tlley lcarlled that some
mbel spmpatllizer 1m.d exp10~Icda bomb in front
.
aeArgentine elnLtlssli in Ria ,Taneiro. TIle
explosion of the bomb was t l ~ eoccasion for tllc
mnls of praise

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the lower end 01 the spout more than about

feet out of the \-rater ; but in tlie few minutes dm-5
ing \,v]lich the partially complete
operation, it rnrsshed
the gream
of a deelc road of lumber and hrreh from tha
only craft which happened to be in its way. . .'
Because of continued low money rates .th*
large S e w Tork city banks continue eager. to
loan money; and when the kingdom of Belgium
sought to borrow $30,000,000 one dry, the.
total subscriptions exceeded $200,000,000.
The
*mst
C i t ~rep0rts a saving of t h ~ u s a n d s
do^
in interest by transmitting its New York checks
daily, by a i r mail. From $500,000 to $!&500,000
are transmitted daily in this way; and the ship
are
safer than
sent by
train. This is another evidence that we are b
period.
a great
Spain.

Pmtesiant Churchen of Canada United

OLLOWISG the system, which has redly
worked out well in dmerica, of having dl
FTER twenty five years of effort to arrive a t
a basis OP agreement, the Presbyterian, the telephones under one management, tfis Iring
lletl~odist,and Congregationalist C'l~urchesot' of Spain has now approved the plan f o r turning
Canada l l a ~ eagreed to reorganize a s the Unitcci over all Spanish telepl~onelines, whethei state
Church of Canacla. The basis of union is a docu- o r private, to the International Telephone and
mnt of 12,000 words, and may be described a s Teleg.ra~hCorporation of x e w York, which will

grand straddle. F o r example, concernixlg undertake t o give Spain a first-class up-to-date

are under way in
candidates for the nlinistry the doculnent savs : system. Similar newtiations
France and Italy.
one

These canclidates shall be esaminetl upon the stnten oft doctrine of tlie United C h ~ ~ r calld
h shnll, be-

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Interesting Labor Items

fore ordination, sntisfy tile examining btlg that they

95 tllnn five years ago the Iabot unions
are in essential agreement thzl-ewith, at111tllnt as rnlrrorganized their first bank. This bank meet,&m of the Cl~urchthey accept thc st~tr.nlcntn3 111
&t.nec agreeable to the teochiug of the lf oly Pcrip- irig 11vit1~marked success, others followed, until

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bares"

now there a r e thirty-five, with combined assets

. In other words, this lets the aspiring preach- of $123,000,000. The Locomotive Engineers i n -. e n all in
they believe anytllit~go r not, Cleveland have the largest bank; the Central
md leaves the ministry just where it is now, in Federation of Labor in Xew Tork has the need - .
:.the hands of a certain nuluber of people, most largest; the Garment Workers Union in X e ~ v. ..
'blwhom.do not believe the 13ible a t all. The York the third largest; and so on, with many
cnion ahicl~the Scriptures teach is n unity of more to follow. Labor banks not only en.
spirit, a unity of devotiotl to the Lord, and 110t courage thrift among the workers but assist
corporate union.
laljor I)!: loaning and investing
- their money
,
\\-licre it does labor thc most good.
Waferspout in New York Harbor
'L'lrc T:nited Stntcs Enreau of Labor point3
o u t that tl~ereare in America boot and sllne
N
E
T I'ORlC iiarl~orhas 1wcn visited by
waterspout, e&in~ated ailout 100 feet ill fuctoricbs wliel-e the output per \~orIierfor each
The trwnendous 11p-cnrrolt t.r.0111 (Illy is turo pairs of slloes; and tllerr? arc cjtlicr
'k t t t r .
fbe overhanging clouds was 1101 suI!icic.~lt to 1 i ~ ' t I':ic toric's ~~llcbrc
t l ~ co:ltput per worlicr lor c a d
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it twelve p a h of shoes. I n the lumber busthe differences are still greater ;some saw.
'milk turn out 1%b o ~ d
feet per man a day,
;.while others tuln out more than twenty-one
&times a s much.
@-The National hdustrial Conference Board
r;pports its findings in a recent survey of labor
rconditions in twenty-three industries employing
700,000 workers. Since 1914, wages have been
?advanced 127.3 percent;. the cost of living has
&advancedabout 100 percent ;the laborer i s thus
;:benefited about 27 percent. This result i s ac': credited to the lower cost of living since 1917,
the price of commodities declining a little in
advance of the lower wage scales.
The
Labor claims
, that the National Cool Association Las started
a propaganda to reduce niners* wages in certain localities. The slowing u p of industries
w i n g of coal hove been bad for the
and
miners. TJrages in the anti-union fields are
to
1917
rind in some
range
from $2 to $3 a day. Even in some union fields
the miner
only $ 1 * 2 b ton for &6Sing the
coal, while the retail price ranges from $750
to $14.50 a ton.
It is estimated that the fmIIlers of 2hrleAca
have gained $200,000,000 by the increased
prices paid for the large wheat crop; but on
the other hand, it is also estimated that during
August the wages
months of Jme, July
of factory worken ~ l r ~ u h o uthe
t countv
dropped to the extent of $600,000,000.v o r h n ,
therefore, have just this much less to spend.

Bloastrn, N.I.

AGE

election. A new law has been pasad. It is

entitled : "An Act to autllorize the Secretary of
the Interior to i s ~ u ecertificates of citizenship
to Indians." This country is the home of the
Indians; it always has been; and now after
robbing him of liis home, killing him off. and
driving him within the confines of reservations,
we do the magnanimous thing of granting him
franchise ! We have about 150,000 Indians, and
11-e hope that from now on they \rill be able to
see the bright side of life.

St. LOU^ churches

SZvent

SURVEY of the churches of St. Louis,Xo.,

A macle
by an experienced worker i n these
lines, Reverend H. Pad Douglu, c c n d u h .
nith the fouorbing pnmppl:

"St. Louis churciies as a body are keeping jn& t

little ahead of the forces of dissolution ond flilrutfuture is f m n u ~that of handThe question of
together or hanging separately. It is eutirelf possible.
tht the whole mlo.a.1 fabric
the
.
may bs
les rhPn
mg
only b a sUCCesrionof lipmu ltrpr is hen othat the aerond d i o n
st h h
w i l l be better sened than the first million, or that
the chr~rchand c ~ t yof tomorrow rill be more worth,
than those of today."

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B
a

sap* fifom f ha
~ e a l h
slrAxrER
of the
church
NebrarliB told more than he Ralircd in
sermoll in OmdIa,
when he said:

"The churches of the rrorld are tottering to their

fall in the sense of sclf-su5clenc~,denominational disChippewa Indiana o f Minnesota Robbed
OUSSEL for the ~ ~ i~ ~ ~of
~ 1lin~d sension,
~ i , or ~in
, an~attempt
~
to~ build up a pclitica1 ecdeslastical norld-wide temporal power-are

all alike in

since the treaty between the United States Govst

of tile s!ma6(oy
in
,,,,(I 4
erlllnent and the C!llippewas was signed, not a
the possibilities and possessions of a clty which am
single provGion of tllc trcaty has h e n properly in heaven and has hccu cast d o n to hell. so will mme
carried out; that the Indians 11a~ebeen literally .future prophet stand upon the ruins of ollr .civilization
robbed of tllousancls of dollars by improper and churches, and proclaim our doom. unless n-e know
clnssification of swb-amp lands and,timber lnncls ; and obey the One who standeth among us whom we
nnql that in s o p c instances \vllole rows or" town- know not.''
sliips oE the best Innds in the rescrvxtioil have
been stolen outrigl~tTrom the Indians.
Our Wonderful Incentive Age

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Red Americans

~ e'vote
t

IIE United States Patent Office has issued

T
s t z t c n ~ c ~ i t connc~ctionwith annonncing
tllc one and onr-1mll ~llillinntl~
p t e n t . The inn

in

OR the first time in ilre history oC 1111. Ullited

.:
sbt,cs b e hel.i,,,l rncli,ll, ,v]~,) is of ; ~ g c r ~ l i t i r cp ~ r i o i lis ~livitl~d
illto t l l r ~
stagcs:
~
(1)
md othenviss quditied, may vote in tllc fall fro111 I S 3 to 1S99; (2) 1593 to 1011; (3) 1 9 1

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OCTOBZlI

C2. 1334

n.

GOLDEN

to 1924. I n tile first a r e the steam engine,

elect~.iculgcrieration of power, intlustrial cllcmistry, self-hinder, e t r I n the seeoild are the
alltomobile, aeroplane, w ireless cornniunieatio~l,
and the improveniel~tof ~vrrytllillg of the first
period. I n tl:r tllinl nrr the griirrol and intrlls i r e pursuit of iirlprorr~ller:t i l l labor-saying
cievices, reslllti~~:: i11 t lie production4 of many
types of automatic macltincs.

AGE

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aelvm. A judge's decision of the intehtt a&

tlon of the Constitution or a statute is r gor

--&

decree of a public law. Can

gin
ntltllOor of that
not be abject
crlt ~cls~n
to the extent that his pronouncement is stupi4-?
harmful. or subversive of fundamental rights, the same]
as
critieim tile a3ntr of othu cprrtmenCs oil
pi,cnl,nellf and in the snme
uu
to tb.,.

other..

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Reduction in World's Bread S u p p l ~
Radio a Wonderful Help to .Yarigators
L A T E figures of the alleat harvests in ten:
SC!I,l< S,-l3f has lil'ty-four radio stations
Enropean countries show them as about:
A

on tlre ca;~l,c>artlI)? n1e:irls of wllich sllipa sisteel~percent belo\\- last Tear. I n Germany-.
fit twl v-itll ratlio apl~ttl.iltltscan (letermine their ant1 I'1.ancc the yields a r e good; but the acream.
csact p s i t i r , ~ill~ ally Iiirltl oC weatllcr. Jlorc- is I ~ s sthan last pear, so that there is no gain
ovcr, tho radio t!ias I!l.ll)s tllc nnvnl vessels in tile n~nountproduced. There is the same ;
not oltl!. to nlttkc ~IOI-t
urlder ally conditions. proportionnte reduction in rye as in wheat.
cr~nblingtllclll
I)nt also to a\-uiel ~olliqiolls
New Idea in Bttilding
to 11,catrot11c.r \-ttssc*lsiicc.ul.ntt.ly.
Y HE ISC insulated 114th a mixture of
American Scheme to Prerenl War
wall-plaster, buildings become imper- "
1 It*: l3ri t is11nrltl k'r~bi~t-11
prcllli~*rs
and notablc vious to cold in winter and to heat ia snmmer. .
s t u t r s ~ t l r !fro111
~
ot1ic.r c*o\l~~t
riias are just now llousc~stllus treated have double maIls, ~ T S;,giving il:nt*11 nttt.11lion to 3 1 1 -4u:erican plan ceilil~gsand roof. A bye-inch layer of the mixfor outlr\villg war. \\ I~irhclrlirle~: an aggressor ture u ~ l d e r3 roof proved a saving of aisty-nine
as t11v ])arty to n cli*!):~tc*\i 110 rcaf uses to submit p e r c ~ ~of
i t the lient lost through the ordinary
to t l ~ cc*onlpc*to~ic.c
01' arl~itrationor i~itcrnationul ceiling. Last winter a n insulated house eon-, .
low.
suinccl only three tons of coal, while a similar
liouse
\titiout insulation used seven. Bn exWeather Conditions Not Yet Perfect
ccllcnt ventilation system i s necessary for such
F R O 1 1 all parts "1' tilt? \\:t)~+l,iC O I I ~ Crepeated a buildins, llowever.
storic~s of U I I ! I S L I ~ ~ I
I
conditions.
IVintls 1)low from ulrc.s~)i~c.tc.tl
quarters. Ocenn mancid
system
N , &~ ~ ~ h i ~ n
currerlts are cllnl~qillg. In 3 day or two the
REI7TETV of the world's financial sitnatcmpc!mt~~res
~'(bgislcr(-liu~~gt*s
ot' sixty o r inorc
tion has heen made by the JIidland Bank
degrees. One of
1r1tt.st s~~lt'~.l.c~rs
from csof
Lontlon.
The statement reads:
treli~e\\.rntllcr conclitiorls is 111;~Virgin Islal~ds
"Sot
until
the
budgets are bala~lccdand currenci~
ill the! \\'cut Indies, 1\11tarr!~ I I I I I ~ ~ I - of
~ ~ C~ ~OS~ I Y C ~ S
staLilim1
at
sorlle
figure. whether or not a t the prewere dcstroyc(1 allti ;\I 1e:tst ciglll!- persons were war gold pant!., shall
ire know rvhotller the gold standliillpd ia a cyclone.
or11can bc resorted on any ge~leralwale."
Tlicrc seems to 1)e a financial regeneration in
Judges Not Alwayo Perfect
set-era1 European countries wliich have b e m n
Jvui;t: k ' 1 t . 4 ~ 1I)O\TCI:
~
o f Topelcn, Kansas, in a t tile l,e.nninC n u t i t is feared that the
tl4?l'cntlillg tllf: 1'i~hL01' t h e C U l i l l l l O I l pC0plC to lllorelrlent ,vill be too
to chec];
inflation
criticize tlie courts says:
~vllicilloolns for .the Gliitetl States, which case,
"\Ve y c r i l ~to jutlgl!s Ills ,,l,l-ti,llc .,lpcar2;titinn tllat it is prccticted, \\ill "hasten the progress tow&
~:hcI ; i l , i call do no u ro~~g'.\\ III:L!,,. rrt i-;L O L I UC
~
t IILL 111 til~l:itc cnd of a \\.orlei-wide manctrrv,
the c . o t ~ ~ . C ? r , l~c.forcw11ic:lr we Sirll tloivr~ :111tl tll~:~..ic
orir- slu~ltl:~~.cl."

t l ~ t b

" T ~ L O tllc?
I I ~C ~~ III S Cof c \ iI j,r+per,
Yet 'tir t1~111i
alone is \tr.ong.''

"Stnndcth Got1 within tlie shadow,

Keeping watch above His onn."

you build your honse of--erer?.thing is controlled by big busiliers; and \\.lieu yon go to
- church, the preacher tells you what big business
tells him to say. I f he does not, out he goes.
When yon read the newspapers, you reacl \\.hat
big business permits you to read. Labor v a s organized to free itself from the sliacklt% of big
business. Big business \\.as orgc?nizccl to ell. slave labor aiirl. figuratively speaking, to make
, labor eat out of its hand. H a r e you never heal-ti
the saying, " E t e n l d vigilance is tlie price of
liberty'.,l
But individuals responsible for the orgnnizntions of labor and of big business orerlooke~
the possibility of themselves becoming slares to
' the systerli of their oxul tlesip~ilig-just like
a cocaine fiend. Any organizatioli is for a
specific purpose, ancl has a staiiclnrcl of ethics.
Magazines of a vocational character are very
much giren to flo\i-ev editorials alid articles
referring in a refined n-ay to the erolutiori of
business. The big lnen x h o are a t the head of
big business a r e becoming aware of the standard vhich llas slo~vlybut surely been forced
upon tIie world. And let it be Imo\\-xl that tlie
standarrl of tlie \i-orld is the standard of the
biggest me11 in the ~voritl. The poor of this
world do not .cet the 15-orld's standard. I t is
the nol)lcs. the 1.ic.11. the n~i,ghtyof the aorlcl
who set its L.tandards ; and the hangers-on
ape the ~vell-to-do.

the Innsses is still controlled by the'-dames.Let not the reader fool himself into the b e s d '
that he is free yet.
. ..
Just take a summary of education: Reading.
and writing, espression atlcl interchange of
itleas; matliematics, calculation; science, con~'i-uctive and natural; studies in nature and
the la\vs of nature, their operation and effects;
r ivies, theory of p v e r ~ i n i c n twith sellidmess
c.lirninated, on inlpossibility in these days; art,
tlie espression of oneself in painting; music,
poetry, sculpture, etc.; literature, the examination of the style, composition, plot and.
counterplot ; history (man, his story), the
theories and idens of men of the remote past,
t ogetlier with the Iany a g e spoken remotely.
z211 these a r e in the so-called Brain Age, and a .
person is supposed to be educated; that is, he
has been taught to think; that is again, he --.
tl~inlishe has been taught to think. There are
lllnrly people in the world today who thinlc that
tlicy are thinkers; but just the same, the world
is rustling on to anarchy..
After o. person has litid a fern years of this .
sort of training, he is turned loose to fight the
1)nttle of life, ancl earn a living-at what? If - ,
he goes into preaching, he permits himself to be
n tool of big business. If he is a machinist, he
co~istrncts~iiacliinerywhich is to be controlled .
by big business, for industrial supremacy, if you
please. If he goes into the professions of ;
teaching or mcclicine, he teaches the youth of .
How Standards Are Set
ttic land to fight the battle of life, big business
HE follo~i-ingis an outline of about tlie \ray rcfcreeing. I11 mctlicine, he doctors the victims
the s t a l i d i t ~ tof the \I-orld is set: It will o f the system, and thus makes his living, i r r e
be rl?uic.lllbcrctl that public schools are not s p c c t i ~ cof how nlucll or liow little good he aca rcry old i~istitution. Eefore the institntion of co~t~pliehes.
public scllools. \\-lie11 the arrrngc nliln ~ v a s
neither a reacler nor a writer, the illnys of tllc i'he Money-Mad World
S;Z,\IISE trades and occupations and propeople took their k~ioli-ledge fro111 the better
fessions, and see ho\i. hlanj- of them are 17ot
informed, the so-called educatc~l(.!:ls~es.
i l l tlic swiln, and money is the standaid.
"Cctl l ) l ~ . cthe -c!uire 3 r d all hic relation<.
Read the advertisellle~ltsancl see how back-to'

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re-t o i

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~ o l ~ t en~l trl it our tation$."

the-hncl movements are all interlined with getI n tl~oscday.: tlic I~oilest pr~i~(.lic!r
11n(lrlni tc t.ic-l~-cluicl;s c l ~ c ~ ~ca
~ ttlc
c s , growing illto money,
a follon-in%. 1'i~or:lc1il;ccl to 1istc.11t o 11i111, a11tl (potntocs 24c n busllcl).
thc gv~~cr,?l.
II!:!~?; 1vc1.1. c . o r ~ t c . ~ t~ot tnlic~ 1~11:lt
Thc ~vol-l(l11ns goue ~noncymad. Just a fern
was given to tl:c.hq. t11a111<t'ul
for s111:111
111(arcies. ?cars ago f ~ l l tnike(1
i~
big vhcn they tallictl in
",
i;u~::~tic~:c:f :I:- ~ i l a s s ( ~eueli
s , as it ~vxs.Tvns ~liillions. Eless your i l ~ n r t s , that's orlly a
-mmLisci bp ;I,+ clacces. S o w that pllldic flnsll in tlie pa11r~o\i-. Billions is the word today.
:;;;&mls have become t h e rule, the ~rl!!cation of ,3. f c ~ v\.cars uiorc of illis, a1id the word mill
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1~.

Emorr.tr. S.T.

.be trillions, and tLe strects will Le pared \\-itk A 4Ioneule.w World
gold-rperhaps !

business has so abused its o\\-~istnlidaml

B Iti-~llone?--that
part of the Socialist plat-

. .?)%it
6.

is true of America in true a l a of cwrp

other country chiming civilization. As it i* with
..individd, ao it is with natious. Competition Le'tween indiridarlr bred jenlouip, mmptition Let\rwa
nations rlro bred jdourr.v. a l ~ d jcolousy bred war.
It d to be a saying. "Competition is tho life of
trade"; add another word-perhaps.
The true vnl IIC
of money hr recently k n demonstrated iu R ~ p p i i ;l
and r concern in C'hicyo hs h?en offering iiity
thousand R w i a n roubles as a premium OH ons= c i c ~ l lor's worth of yeas to la^. If this sort of thing kep.;
up a few years more, we might even .see Kemul Pu-l1;1
or Trotsky offering fifty thousand America11 clollarn
for one Russian rouble. If Robinson Crusoe I m ~ illnd
a million dollars on his little island in the Pacific, 11e
might have been a millinnaire. Rohinnon leanletl
the value of money-and of friendship."
t

Weatern Cwilkation a Failure

E HEAR niuch al~out"the aristocracy

form is the al>olishmel~tof nioney. It may 11e

I I ~ @ \ \ -to
S Inally people that nrnliey is going to 1~
nLolislied: 1)at tlie Socialists are not goin:
t o tun1 the trick, nor are tlie I. IT. Ilv.'s.
T ~ O S\v110
C arc ,goi~lgto nl>ollsl~m o n e ~a r e the
very ot~eswho ~ileclcit their sta~rtlarcl:i. e. big
I ~ i ~ s i i i e ~Listen
s.
to tllc worcl~of the prophecy
of lsuin11, referring to tllc iliw,lirl~~neut
of u~onc;
a s tlle ~vorlcl'~
atolitlard. nut1 thc? lllallllcr of its nccc)ull)lisl~ii~cl~t.
"In that clay a 111an sllall
vast his idols of silrer. nllcl 11i.u iclols of gold, .
\\-llicl~they made eacli one fnr tinrseli to worship. to t l ~ enio1e.o. nriri to the bats: to go btr,
the clefts of the rocks. ant1 into tllc tops of the
r a n p t l rocks. for f w r o f tlre Lol~i.clad for tlre
gIo1y of his nmjcsty, 1vl1c.n he arkscth
terribly the earth."-Isaiah
9 : 20,21.

An U n h o l ~Alliance

W
brains"; h t , in tlie l a r l y s g e of tlie ear- THE close observer and stuilent of Iu~tar).
\\ill no doubt be al,le to see tile relatioirsl~ip~
toonist, it doesn't nieatl anything. J u s t take n

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or

look into the recorda, alld it ,,-ill k foundtllnt

brdns has llad nlo,.e to do
this aristocrmy
blo0dslled thall llaS ally
mr
other cause.
Referrillg to nlolleY a s tile stalldart1 of
11-odd, it i s not ilews to nlauy that a goodly 11~111her of kindly disposed people have spcilt their
t h e collecting of this \vorlcl's stiindard to send
missionaries to -uric% Illdia, Cllilla, J a ~ a l l ,
Turkey, and otllcr placed, in order to teaell
those people to cultivate 7Vesteni Christiall ( 1 )
is. tllP ~ i \ ~ i l i ~ a t itll&lt
o n is 110lV
civilizntioll;
going to pieces. As Jcsus said of the scribes
and Pharisees, they cour1)ars sea 311d land to
mdie ollc proacl>-te, allti \\.!lo1 he is lllaclc, ]kt!
is twofold more tlie cl~ildof llcll tlilu~tllemselves.-31atthew 22 : 1;.

anclit is these peoples and llatiolls tl1at

Cllristelldom has beell tryiIlg tl, collvcrt to ller
lvays tlizt arc I I ~ Warrayed agai~isther. Just a s
the Great Teucllcr si~iclof .Jc~-u~ulcui:
"If tho11
lindst lano\tn, eve11 thou, at least in ~ i l i sthy day,
tile tllillgs \v\-hicll'belollg ullto thy peace ! I,ut
no\\. tlrey are llid fro111 tlriile eycs." (1,111i~
19:
2 ) The tllil~gsconling upon the earth arc lrid
from the clergfs eye*.

Iwt~t-ecrnwar and relipiatl and his I)nri~~ees

in
this Brain Age. Kot ollly llns big Lnsinew
gmtlna11y gotten c o ~ ~ t r oofl tllr newrrities ol
l i l'e, \\-l~icllit liolds up for the p:irpo+e of pmfitccring a t tlie espcilse of the ~)cv,ple,thereby gnuiLlii~jiin lluninri li Tc, but it llas also gotten
colltrol of tile persons of tile people tilenlsctlres;
alld 1 ) ~ its errand boys, press, pulpiteerJ,
prcacllers, alld politicialls, has fltrtller pttell
co~itrolof the conscience of the people. Those
\\-lrr>]lare \)eel1 frerluenters OE t11c illories h a r e
see11 tile f i l p n.llicll
ho\\- tile nen-,zppers
g,, to l\-ork to fix up tile elope P]leet" for tile
purl,o+e of luoulclingpul>lic ol,illion, sol) stuff,
1111111;11~ilitcrest stories, are all a n appeal to tlle
~ ~ ~ l l t i l , l i . and
l l t ~ elllotiolls, but llel-er to the rea-

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the c r i ~ i sof a disease of the li~li~iall

lmcly,
t11e is~lorantrloctor is a d a ~ ~ g ~ r onian,
n s no
~iiatter11b\v ~vellhe means or IIO\\-good he lilar
I)c otllc.r\vise. I11 the crisis of n tiatiolial and
\\.oia11Lairair, tlie igl~orantmall is the dat~gvrous
~ I I L I I I . ,111d ill t l ~ ecrisis of the ntiarcl~ytvlrich
the ~vorl(l low faccas, clue to the 1)1~11clisl1r1rents
of l ~ i gI)usi~lc.,cs,I)ig cl~urcll, and l ~ i g~)olitics,
thcrc arc i ~ ~ i l l i oT
o ~ ignorant
~s
men and wonten.
They have 1)eeli trained to make molrey, to
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talk moneF, to t11iltI; riic;:iey; and the\- see their

money going to t h e bow-\\:on.s.
Why ,?foney i8 B e c o m i n ~LTseless
AGES, of course, are fisecl and controlled
by big business. The living wage, as it is
called, is fkecl by big business just the same as
the farmer fises the amount of feed his horse
requires plus stable room: that is the horse's
living n-age. The differeric~,if any, betx-een
the farmer nnd his horse and big Business ancl
tlie toiler is that the horse 118s the better of
it. The fanner is careful to keep his horse
c l become a
from getting sick, as it ~ ~ o n l the11
bill of expense. But if the toiler gets sick,
that's a horse of anotller color. Says big
business : "Am I my brother's keeper?"
In the computation of 11-a,nes, money-golgt
and silver, has been the medlum of exchange.
That part of the r o r l d called Cllristenclom has
becorile n d a r e to money. 111 the hnsiness of
clearing land, if the land-olnler paid his help
in land instencl of in gold and eilrer, he would
soon hare no lalid, which is the source of n-ectlth.
Ent hy p a g n g in coin, even supposing he pays
per acre more tliau the. original cost of the
lallcl, he retaiils tlic source of wealth. If the
builtling malinger or 0s-ner paid the contractor,
and the col~traetorin turn paid his men, in
bricks and mortar as they %rerelaid, etc., etc.,
the same thing n-onld happen. The stanclard
of money. as it is toclap, has served its purpose;
its nsefnlaees lias mil out; and tllc nboli~lllllellt
of money, a s the %\*orItl'sstaritlarci, can be looked
for in tlie near future, just the same as the
abolishment of many other thin<p. Then any
persol1 who has speiit his lifetiinc In the pnrsuit of riches or in preserving inlicrita'nces has
spent it in rain. Then the col-pnration president can shake hands wit11 the garbage man:
and if the garbage man has had dreams of
ararice, his air castles \%-111come tumbling
about his ears. Hence the significance of Jesus'
words: "Lay not up for yoursel~estreasures
apori earth. where 1110th and rust cloth cormpt,
and n-liere thieves break through and ctca1."Jrntthcm 6 : 19.

Acconipli shnie11t-71-112 t 3 rnan does.;

I<nowledge-IYhat a niali. knows ;
Pel-aonality-What a mau is.
3 e here state a proposition: What a man.
is, is the factor which determines how he.applies what he knows to the accomplishment of
what he does.
If al: inen were paid according t o what they
are, I fear that there r o d d be a n epidemic of
-starvation. J u s t think that over once. This
includes big men, little men, medium-sized men.
Lct it be supposed that labor has received s
wage according to its value a s a producer.
Skilled labor receives more than unskilled; i t
is n o r t h more. As a producer, s u e d labor
displays thoughtfulness, steadiness, and application to certain lines in order t o acquire proficiency. Unskilled labor displays a lack of
these things.
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But right here enters another factor--opportunity ; and this is a very large factor. Every-.
body is familiar with the expression, "Opportunity makes the thief." The individual with
large opportunities has a n advantage if he post.
sesses the qualities of forcefulness, determination, and ambition, and has the rndiments of
an education. He can become n power, f o r
good or for evil. It is not altogether wise f o r
the poor to condemn the rich, nor f o r the ric11to despise the poor. Tlie difference between the
rich and the poor is largely opportunity, with
natnral advantages, heredity, and a disregard
of the rights of others. Reverse the conditions,
of rich ancl poor, ancl the result would be just
the same. Thus is seen the truth of the proposition, "TTlat a man is, is the factor which
cleterniincs Bo\v he applies what he knows to
the accomplishinent of what he does."

Bash o f Class Stnrggi.

HIS article would hardly be complete without ;L fern remarks on personality and
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principle. The people in the world today a r e . ...
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\%-hatthey are because of the system or regime . .
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which lias made them what they are, big, little., -.'.
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and medium-sized. The people in the world to- :-*
day arc tlic protlnct of sisty centuries of socalled civilizatio~l.
Differencebetrreen Skilled and Unskilled Labor
The people in the I\-orld today arc facing
coxs(:IOusrJT perhaps, the wages of annrcliy. Tl'lryP A t tlic close of the Amcritllc t o i l ~ r santi tho rcwartls of the nlastcrs can Civil \Var people thought that slavery mas
at a11 clici. One ltir~dof slaverv was cndei but
have b ( ~ r 1f;ovt:r~~cd
l ~ yt l ~ r e ctliit~gs:

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another kind took its place. Ifone!: h a s b ~ c l l

the standard, as we4 as the basis of tlie living
wage. l'he basis of existence is three meals ta
day and a place in which to sleep. Three
me& a day (food stuffs), beds, beclding, and all
building material are cot~trollcdby 1)ig 1)usiness.
Prices of all. these things arc fised by big business. The lixring wage is both clesigned and
ordered by big business, to keep tlie toilers
struggling to keep the ~ o l ffroin tile door.
Whichever way the toiler turns lle is a slave
to the system, and cannot help himself. Big

I)usilless has aIso 11c.come a siare to the system , ,

of its own dcsigiiiig, and cannot help itself
either, and it lias dragged the big preachers
arid the big politicialis into tile same nlees,
Capital a ~ i d labor are a t hand-grips IIO\V.
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IVllicli \\-ill win ill tlie struggle? AU tl~ese
questions and issues are discussed in Pastor
Russell's "STCDIES
IS THE SCRIPT~'RES".
Y;1o
,
through, go through tlie gates; prepare ye tllc
way of the people ; cast up, cast n p the higllx-a?;
gather out tlie stones; lift up a standard Zur ,
the people."-Isaiah
62 :10.

Rip Van Winkle Awakening

(Iteprintrd froin 7'110 Clbrirtiatb C s n t u r ~ )

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HEX the church blesses war it thereby bless and glorify its own bonk-raptcp. In tit*.
violates its own cssei~tiaicllaractcr. F a r very act of blessing n-ar it ctutomrrticaily clilcqhell the
registers the faillire of religiorr.
itself of its character as the organiurtiop arnP
clrllrcJ~is asked to bless rcnr, it is asked to bless instrunlelit of tl~oscideals of brotherly 1 6 4
its owfi failure. There has never beell a war in fello\vsirip and Iiwnili@ and self-sacritice,
the history of Christeiidom wl~iclidid not regiu- negatiou war carries to an apotheorirr. I
t e r the failure of tlie Cliristia~icl~urchto func- notliing to sap that in certain wars theNis r
tion i n the social order ill accordal~cewith its right side and a ~ v r o n gside. The CWktiarr.
essential genius. We, frotn our advanced and cliurcl~is responsible for the n-rang sic& as
enlightened point of vantage, may look back
mid condone the church's failure oil account of
this o r on crccom:t of that. We n ~ a ysay that the
cllurch was too weak; o r i t was too young, o r it
n-as not aware of its respolisilility, o r it had
not yet discovered tlie liiiiicl of its Fomider a s
we thb& me have discovered it. But tlie fact
remains that a war in C'liriste~ldonlnieaits and
c ~ mmean nothing less tl~ailtlic inadcquacr of
tile Christian churcl~to nlcet w11nt we now see
are its essential obligatiotls. \\-axtoday menus
that the church is spiritually insolvent, hankrupt. It may carry on its institutional life; it
may exhibit many virtues of pcrsotial piety and
organized charity; but war lnealls that the world
church is unequal to its 11-orld I-esponsibility,
that its vital power is less tlinn tlic vital power
of evil, that the gates of lie11 do indeed prevail
against it.
To ask the cliurch to bless war is to ask it to
f'Thcn I lookcd into the f ~ ~ t u r e

For as thr Iiumun ryt. cot~ltisee,

Saw t h e ~ 1 o 1 .of
y the worltl
111 tile \vorrders yet to l)c;
S a w tllc licavens filled 16 I! tl C V I I I I I I ~ce,
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A ~ ~ S I u-~tll
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well as for tlie right side. SucIi respo~isibilit~ .

is not tllrust upon her; it is a respondbilitp
that she assmiles, claims and glories in. Tin!
clinrch is on both sides of all Christendonis
n*ars, not by cl~oiceI ~ u bp
t her gel~in&1t.k the
iiaturc of Clirietia~~ity
to accept responsibility
not o ~ i l yfor the good but for tlre evil course of
a people 11-hicll calls itself Christian. I n our
American civil war, ill tlie \i-orlci war, in el-cry
war, the cllurch was on both sides. I n blessing
the n-ar slic blessed the disruption of the INloved conin~unityslid tore her God asunder into
tiationalistic or tril~aldeities. Christianity t h ~
rnade itself a pagan cult. It is tlie paramonlit
duty of the Christian church to recover licr
character as Cliristia~iby definitely and sol-,
ernnly proclaiinilig that lier agencies, her p r o p ,crties, her ~niuistry,her altars and the rsanctiott
of licr ideals may not again be conntcd up011 a s ,
llntionaf resources in event of war.
Pilots of the purple t w i l ~ g h t
Dropping dots-n t b i r co-tly J N ~ I P ~ ~ ;
Fro111the skis an a\vful tumult
.\nd there r:r~nccl i~ gaztly r ( b . w ;
1;ronl tllc nations' ~i I? ]In\ ic( ~ r ~ ~ l l r l i 111
l l gtlie c.elitr:ll I)luc."

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Antiques and their Supposed Value By H.J. Grover

AST people have a peculiar affection for
M
things old. Tliiiigo, we said, not persons.
Ti-ith some it almost' amouiits to reverence.
It gives a desire to be in possession of things
that a r e old, odd, quaint, anti unnsual. The
more general this becomes, tlie more enhanced
i n ralue are things antique. So tile?-e are many
who deal only in anticlue goods, and possibly
some *th felv scrlzples, I V ~ Odo a little nlidng.;
and many people a r e deceived.
TTly do people manifest a preference for an
old piece of n-alnut furniture (tlie present craze
is f o r waklut) that has lain in a dusty attic
o r milden-ed cellar for many years, is dented
and scratched, obsolete of design, and perfcct as
a dust collector in its frets and carvings! Perhaps they k~iomthat hen such things n-ere
m c l e there was no scarcity of good lumber,
and economy was not so necessary as n o 7 and
reneers were not used so much. Moreover
there was leas machinery than now, and furniture n-as made by hand and built to last,
and maybe not on a piecen-ori: basis, either.
So the old buffet o r table is bought for a
song, and sent to the cabiiletmaker
specialk e s on just that kind of work. Tliere a r e quite
a fen. sucli in every large city. You \rill find
them i n some little backyard worksliop. They
re~uodclant1 repair, cleail off old vaniishes or
paint that mag be hiding the natural beauty of
tile wood, snioothing the surface all afresh unti1 it looks as if it \%-erenewly constructetl. Then
it is taken to the expert finisller; ant1 when it
leaves his hantls it is hardly rccognizahlc. Indeed, some people have failctl to i d e ~ ~ t i ftheir
p
o\\n .goods, so great n-as the improvement. X
peculiarity al~oytold \\-oocls is tliat they take
on n rich niello\\- color \vliicll is esceecfinglg
hard to match try as one may, ~ r i t hstains of
any Id11c.l. in the new I\-oocl.
OlcT, substantial furniture seems to give an
atmospliere of conifort to a home. ~\ritlln rer;tfnl inipr~ssiou. Tlle~i.too, if one buys a taldc,
say, \sit11 t11t: top \vilrp~(lor split because of
siirinka$c i n scnsoning wit11 ngc. orlc kr~o\vs
that nlle~ii t is straightenccl up once more ;111tl
joiried togctl~cr,it ~villnot warp or ~ h r i ~ iagain
l;
ant1 call Ilc rcli&cl upon for n liletimc.
Unlcss one is \veil acclunintetl with ~ v o o d ~
it ,
is possi))lc to I)$! clr:r*civcvl by iiilit;~tions, doctored up \ \ - i t l ~ stains. f?~~ttcrnlit,
for instance,

(CnnnsEtr)

is often nsed with walnut, also cherry; &d'

expert often finds it cliffcult to detect the.
ference. Butternut is softer than walnut,
a polish does not endure so well
~ s a l ~ l ubut
t , the grain is much the same.
Evevbody hm lleard of the 'old
improve in tone hecause of age
trenlely d r y ant1 rminons \\-oods. Fabdons ..::
prices a r e sometimes paid for antique goods. '-;
where people can get so' .
One often
111uch money to waste on luxuries o r fads. Some
specialize on coins, others, on Books, furniture,
old ilriplcrnents of war, textiles, o r earthenware,
pottery and china
I t is interesting to note the conditions that
01,taiaed just before Israel's downfall, which
seerla to parallel presentday conditions. There
was a wcalt1.i of mnterinl things, but poverty
of things tliat count as riches with the Great
IIaster of the universe.
Read Ezekiel 2'7th chapter regarding the
business done in fine textiles and fabrics, rare
jewels, valuable metttls and beautifd. woods,
delicious spices a d ~ e r f n m e s ,foods and f m ties, clothing and cbnve~ances* They even had ,,
to have cedar chests--hTerse 24.
Does tile present-da~craze for l a m r i e s snggest another imnlinent crash! Why should it?
The secret is that nreworship the creature more
than the creator, so great is tlie degeneration.
I n the acquiring of each Iuxury and means of
earthly comfort no thought is given to the creator of tliese tliin.p, thoughtIess concerning the
interests of the one \\.lio labors wit11 liis skilful
hantls for a mere pittance, with little hope of
ever possessing snch things as he himself con- '
structs. Even Christia.iis a r e a p t to overlook
the fact that in this nTnythey may be unjust.
Sometimes an antique article is thought of
as so~netliingold-fashioned, out of use entirely .
ancl behillcl tllc times. The good old Book is .
sometimes bought in this .way. THE GOLD=
,ice recently told of a copy of tlie Mnzarin Bible
soltl in 1897 for about $20,000.. Every owner c
of n RiLle lins rcally the s,mle value a s t h a t '
~ I I ~ C ~ for
\ ~ Si t C
contai~ts
Y;
the s,mc words mhich
acttbtl upon. will j+c cverlosting lifc, mhich
is priceless.
In that Boolc Cod says that hc maclc nn ancient clcc!ln~*ation. It is that Ire crcntecl the- . ,
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ljy man. (Isaiah 42 : 12,lS) Also He acbnon- conipnrr~l\\-it11it. It call l ~ uea+ily iclel~tilicrlby
ishes us to "remember the former things of old: the ancient description of it by Isaiah (9: 1:)
f o r I arzl God,. and there is none like me. De- ~vllenhe said that "the ancient and honorable, .
claring the end from tiie beginning, and from 11e is the liead; and tlie propl~ctthat teacheth
aucient times the things not yet done." David lies, he is the tail." I n 1922, it is planned to
quoted a prorerb of the ancients. ( 1 Sainuel 24 : have an anticlue celebration in antique apparel
13) If it was ancient then, it is surely a valua- and ceremony, in a n enclenror to keep this
ble antique now.
stupendous and alicient fraud in esistence.
Not everything old or antique is ~ a l u a b l c Supposed relics of sairits were part of this
o r to be reveyd. JIany people reverence old and similar systems. 111 fact ererp kind of
custcms o r religions systems o r persons filling coiltrirarice has been tried. so that the people's 1
offices long established. The office of British' power and pelf miglit be gatliered and retainel. -:
Poet Laureate was recc~itlyabolished. PossiOur Master left His follon-ero no relics, bnt
bly the people liad lost reverence for that office, gave them instructions to clo soiiletlling in mealor is it that they a r e losing reverence for earthly ory of Hh. I n this they are reminded of ~~\-hnt
Iiinm, as such, \\-horn tlie p e t extolled.
IIe did f o r them, n-Mch is a ,quarantee of greater.
Tliere is a n antique religious systenl that is t11in~qthat lie n-ill do in the future. n-hien He
nnn-orthy of reverence because it is a sham. I t !\-ill make all things new and the former (evil
is losing prestige fast because the genuine tlrings) sllall not be rernemlwred o r come into
thing (the truth) is coming to light and being niinds, n-itli clcsire for them.

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Rust and Its Obliteration

rust in its usual sense applies to
THEthe word
reddish coating found in iron o r steel
Tlze

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after i t Iias been exposed to moist air.

word is also applicable tb the coatings produced
on any of the various other metals by corrosion. Tlie rusting of iron is sometimes thought
of as oxidizntion. lIo\vever, the chemical
cliange means more than this; for iron rust coilsists essentially of ferric hydroxide, Fe(OH),,
and as a rule coutains some 'oside. Carbon tlioxide a s well as oxygen is necessary f o r its forma tion.
Tlic farnler and the botanist are eve11 niore
familiar ~l-itllanotl~crtype of rust-parasitic
fungi ~vhichcause rust-like spots of discolorntion on tlie plants 011 \viiich tliey live. This
form of rust docs a n *imme~lseamount of damage to t h e cereal crops of tlie world. Tlie life
liistory of the spores which cause its spreati
is interesting. \\'hczlt rust, for esaniple, livcs
only one season oil \\heat, a i d rliust then find
a harberiy bush upon \\.hie11 to pass the nest
stage of its life c ~ c ~ L \ .
Scientists us yell as practical I'arnlers 11ni.e
as yet received 110 reward for tlirir efforts
rtobvard ridding plantdom of this s a proplly t ic
pcst. Spraying the host with Eungicitlcs IF:
no effect, since the spores live within the pleru~

H.E. Cagey

and many times are located I\-ithin the embq-.n

of the seed. Early-sown a11cl early-maturing
varieties of cereals a r e less liable to IH! affected
by rust. Too much moisture or too ~ n u c hnitrogen increases tlie liability of planti to a n utta4i by rust.
Rust also fornls someti~ucs on salted or
su~okedmeat, giri~igit a bad flavor. This fc)nn
of rust is thought to be due to o xuicroiirpllisra
or to osidntion.
But it is to the rusting of iron ant1 steel that
I \\.ish to give special attentioil in tliis article.
~ ~ c c o r dtoi nthe
~ famous engineer, CharIes Paqe
Perrin. tl~erellas been a production of 1,7131.U0,000 tons of iron and steel during tiie post
thirty-four years. I-Ee estimates the loss 1 ) ~
corrosion during this tiiiie to be TlS.000.000
tons, or a n arerage of 21,OUO.OOO tons per year.
The British engineer, S i r R o l ~ c r tMnclliehl, esfimiltes this allnuill corrosire loss a t 700,000,000
pounds sterling.

Invention o f Rustless Steel

?; ORDER to lessen this huge yearly loss,
rustless steel has been i~l\*cnted. This form
of steel I ~ u sh e n produccd and sold in both
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GOLl3.W AGE

.chrozniPm alloy must be used. As this aDoy is

:very expcnsi~eit has never been ?oosible to
.me this form of steel in tz colll~ncrcialn-ay.
'Stainless steel" sells for from fifty to seventy. h e cents per pound. \\-herens common steel
sells for from one and one-half to three cents
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per pound.
- Recently Dr. Beram D. Saldatwalla, a Persian by birth, though now an American and a
noted metallurgist, has come forn-ard with an
entirely nenr process for producing rustless
steel, and one which no longer makes the cost of
production prohibitive. He has filed his pain twenty-sir countries. I n short, instead
.tents
.of using the e ~ ~ e n s i rferro-chromium
e
alloy
above mentioned, Dr. Saklntwnlia nses silicon
as a reducing agent. By this means he is able
to fuse chromium directly into the steel without the use of the expensive alloy.
The correct n'une for this new product is
vanadium steel. Tests corering periocls of several years sl~omthat this new steel is nbsolntely
rustless and non-corrosive and that it is of
greater tensile strength ancl tl~zctilitythan ordinary carbon stgel. Dr. SaHnt\\-alla's discovery pro~llisesto revolutionize the iron and steel
industry of today el-en more than tlie Bessemer
process did n-bich n-as put into operation more
than sixty-nine years ago.
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Rzwtless Steel Not a New Thing

3 OL'R moclern age of advancement, when
Iino~ledgecontinues to increase \~-ithsuch
lightning-like e~viftness,many discoveries which
were known to the ancients hare to 1)e re-discox-ere& I n India there stands alllong other
notable ruins and 11-ondcrful l~uildingsthe iron
pillar of Deihi. For centuries (no one as yet
knows for Ilow long) this pilli~r11osstood, defyinq the elemel~ts.I t is l;no\ni as the rnstlcss iron
pillar of Deihi. How these ancients proclucccl
rustless irou llas until recently bafled all scientiets. and one can but wonder if Dr. Snklat~vnlla
has not re-tliucovere(1the process used centuries
bacli in tlkc continent of his nativity.

"The c0n.s are 1011-ing along t h e lane;

T h e :hccp f o rile fold have conic ;
~ \ I I I the
~

uiothcr looks f r o m t h e cottage door

IIOIS the n i z h t conic8sover t h c moor,

To
And rnlls the tli~lrlrcnhome.

For cr long time we I ~ a r ebeeu using the priwtical proverb: "It is better to wear out than to
rust out." The foregoing is only added proof - .
that when Benjamin Fraliklin and others are
atvakened from their long period of rest in'the
tomb they mill find that lt is necessary neither
to mear out nor to rust oat. The new age is
dawning when we may expect the awakening
.of earth's inhabitants gradually and orderly.
During the ages of the past man hss h d no
alternative. He must die. If he did not wedr '.
himself out in nseful toil, then he would surely
\I-ither and his bocly decay from sheer lack of
use. I t is the same way with machinery. Iron
and steel products which are not worn out by
use will snrely rust away even with more or
less careful attention.
Now we stand upon the threshold of a new
era. hnouncement is made thst a chesp and
practical process for producing rnstle58 steel
has been discovered. The metallurgist explains
the process in terms v e can grasp, and no one
questions the discovery. Ollly a short W e ,
and his discovery d
lbe used in a commercial
way. Some time is required, however, for new
steel plants to be erected in place of the o m
now in use and for the people to see the usefulness of the discovery. Soon idso we may
expect a discovery which mill forever rid the
plant lcingdom of its deadly foe--rustCareful students of the Bible have alreadp
found that God's Word reveals a plan whereby
.inan will need neither to mear out nor to rust
out. The announcement of this discovery has
been nlhcle. The message of t l ~ eincoming ncw
day, "?llillions So\v Living TTTill Xever Die,"
has been published to the peoples of the earth.
S o one who has k e n s careful student of the
Bible shoulci question this discovery. I t can be,
and has hcen, cxplaiued in terms we can- all
grasp; and it is shown to be in full harmony
.
witli the Word of God and Ilis plan revealed
therein.
llasten, yes hasten, Jlillennial day
JVhcn we shall neitlier \\.car nor rust away.
,

'"lbir feet are bare in thc tlusty meti,

'I h c ~ cheeks
r
a r e talvay w d red;
'I'l~c!. Ilitve \vntleci the rhnllon-!! I)c.low the mill;
T11c.v h i ~ v r~ n t h r l - r twild
l
r o > c up the hill,
.I cro\vn lor c~1c.htangled li~nd."

I I I (Sew Z~olrr,id)
The RIoa of New ZeaIand n!,R I - . I ~ / PTT'llil~.

I \\TAS
cspeei;llly p l ~ n x ~ d rveek
n l ~ d 426. Inst pangr:iph ill serulld column, you
to read yonr rplrnditl nrticdt? on Au~tr;lliit.
a ~ ~ i n ~ aofl s Xew Zealand:.
uy,

lo scc

lliis

sl~cnl<ingof

the

I t was like a refresl~i~rgdriuk to a tl~irsty 'Tllcre vas the iuoa (a.sort of foxdog, now ex.
soul: for we reat1 so littinct)." Yes, tho nloa
tle about thc lands of the
is extinct, but it ans
Southern Seas. It n-as
as much a kind of fox111ostamusing d u r i n g
dog, as a n el@hant is a
tlie n-ar period to hear
Lind of banana. I 1 1 a ~ e
scocral A m e r i c a n s
no desire to be funny,
spcak of Xew Zealand a s
S i r ; but the moa \\-as cr
bcing contained in o r be:
bircl, a huge, tall, powc:ri t l g 3 part of Australia,
f 11 1 b i r d, practically
and n-c
were so for\\-i ~lglrss,but f o r all tile
tunate as to call a t your
\vo~*lcIlike an ostri$.
port of Nen-port Y
A e\\-s,
It \\-as neariy.ninc Itwt
Virginia, on our way to
tall, \\.it11 mighty legs,
. the scene of hostilities,
capable of great pou-tDr
\\-{!re not a little astonancl speed. I am selirlished to find such a lack
- ing you a sketch o l the
of kno\vledge on t h e
esti~ict I\' e w Zedatxi
i
g a r t of the people there.
moa, 11 o t because ~ ( J U
We mere always led to
11cccl airy further en- .
.
bclieve t h a t . the knowllightening, but k u c m
'
we lare = r e d *built
edge tlie average Amcricrrn possessed of . t h e
up" specimens in anr world \\-as rather esten' museum.. JIy object in
,
sive; but I can assure
directing your atte~~tiot~
y o 11 that some \I-ould?
to your error is not
h:irdly credit tlie fact
to a i r my kno\\-leclpr! ;
that S e w Zealand was
rr:tI~er a111 I indined to
many hunclrcd m i 1 e s
n-rite in order t h t your
across the n-ater from
spleiiilid journal shoultl
Australia.. It is, then,
not be held u p to ritliculo by outsiders a110
doubly plensing to me to
see you publish some\voulcl, I feel sure, be
plrnsecl to gloat o r e r the
thing about our Islands
tllat is both enlightening
xllistake. I feel Y U ~ C ,
yon will see eye to eye
and appropriate.
\\-it11 me iu :his matter,
And now, kindly per.\uyho\\-, the mistake is
mit me to draw your atnot a serious one; ant1
tcwtion to an error you
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after all said and tlotte,
h v e made. '
LI your writings on S e w Zealand, on page 'even though it \\-ere, we are none of us infallible.

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Out in the Fields with dod

"Tlrc little cures that fretted m e
I lost tlle111 yc.atrrtl:~y.
Anion:: [lie tirtr(s ul~ovc!tlle sea,
. \ l ~ ~ o t l rg l ~ ewinds tllut p l i ~ y ,
Amoil= t i l e lc~\vitr::of l l ~ eIlc*rds.
Tlir rustling of tlle tree*.
An~nligtllr s ~ n g i u gof the birtla,
T11e hr~nin~ilr::o( tlte be-.

"Tile fotviial~fru1.s 111 ~ 1 1 : t1uiy11t

t
lruyyen
1 c:t-it them ull stvuy
AIIIIIIIL!
tlie c l o v c r - s c . c * ~ ~grass.
l~l
. \ I I ~ o :t II1 1~, ne\\--fiIlofvn 11;ty.
AIIIIIII:rlic 1111sIiitig
(I( tlie w r n .
\VIIIAIX*dr~t!rsy lxtp[~imII#III
IVllrre i l l tI~ou:li~s # l i t . ; I ~ I I I EIMNI are 1~1rr10 1 1 1 i i ~1111- t i t - l t l ~ \villi t;anl..'

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Defense Day Enthusiasm c!, J. A. ~ o ~ v t e t

S IUBT-RX,

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X. Y. a city of 26,142 i~illabi- llil~itiul~y.The!- \\-:.ant the emblems of

m-:,:?
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tants, there was lieralded in the newspapers and happiness.

;.??a
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a niouster 6arade of some 10,000 people in line,. Tile cavalcade continued to tramp along tho -3
-.
made up of the usual troop of soldiery, legion- thronged thoroughfare. Xot another handclap - - ,.
aries, boy scouts,. crafts, and other delega- was there until a bunch of little girls in white . ''
tions. The procession was headed by the cus- s h o ~ r e Jup. Then came another loud and pro.
tomary police staff, and brass bands,\\-ere in- longed ~nanifestationof sublime approval.
terspersed with fife and drum corps.
Tlie sweet little girls, indicative of quiet
Tliere mas no manifest exuberance over the Jiome life, moved the multitude to expressions
affair as i t marched along >fain street. The of deep appreciation, which all the bristling
ol~lookerswere as mum a s oysters I\-iiile the guns and lllilitary displays failed to do. And
long line mardled on amid the blare of no-tune- this was Defense Day!
playing musical instruments. Soldiers in arms
Was the parade intended to arouse the spirit
filecl past. Scouts in dress parade tramped of patriotism in the breast of everyone? Was
along in silence. Legion boys stepped proudly it intended to awaken tlie populace to further
to the distant drum taps. The fair ladies moved expenditures of money f o r the country's prcb
by quietly, each carrying a flag.
tection? K a s it designed to help the manuS o t a hand clapped on tlie densely packed facturers of arms and ammunitioni
side lines, until after a lapse -of time the city
V h a t was it f o r t
lilnil carriers liore in siyllt. Such applause!
T'ery evidently it did not move the peopIe in
People a r e more interested i n getting tlieir these directions. But it did show \\*hat the people
mail than in ~ v a r f a r eslio~\-iugs.
tliiiik of their little ones and of the men that
The people are tired of war and battle ex- bring them letters.
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What is Socialism? BY C. J . v.,J L

HE Etlglisli Innguagc is so conlplex, and "tlivinc right" propaganda, wllicli has been
many of its u-orcls ctlpilble of so \vide a pumped into the public ever since there was a

varietr of nieanings, that rucli tr term a s "S;j.ocidism" lnny by popular nse a q i ~ i r ae n~caningdiametric.ally opposed to the tllongllt it was originally intended to conrey. F o r instance, to the
popular mind, ~ ~ l i i cis
l i the press-fecl mirid, tlie
word "Socialis~n"is ~ynonylnous\\.it11 antlrchy,
- Imlshe\-ism, nil~ilisnl,colluiiunism, and mob violeace.
On the contrary, Soc.ialjsn~is opposed to all
bloodshed and Force, and niny be briefly summed
up as tlic Lhctrine oC Uillancccl Society.
.@The ideal of every true Socit~list is n people
- with but .a single class: no marl better than his
neighbor, but all on an equal footing-tliat
of
,
cheerful and unanimous coliperation for the
colnmon good.
.
The m o u n t of $1-orltllyp w c r o r ~vcaltll~vhich
anyone posBesses cloes not alter tlie fact that lie
o r she is afi orclimry llulilarl bcilia. like us all.
Tllc worshipful r d ? r s end ecclesiastics of nncierit and morlrt-11tiriles I~aveI)oca l~cltlin thchir
l t c p s i I I t - I I I II
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pulllie to ptunp it into. Should the people ever

11cconie brontl-minded e ~ ~ o u g to
l i observe that
the Pharisees of the "uppah clawsses" are
merely nien and women, after all, the jobs -of
these ~vortliics\\.onld he placed in a precarious
positior~. Tltcrcfore the press has k e n ctircf ullj. iillst~xctedby the establishers and ninintaiilers of class clistinction, to throw a s bacl rr
liglit a s possible upmi all activities of pullicspirited cltizens 1~1iich\vouId show up oily senic
tors and priestly C ~ O O I ~in
S their true light.
Consequently all riots and revolutions, from
wilaterer cause. whether they take place in the
testile mills of Sew England or among the
natives of nncivilized Sene,punbia, ere solemnly
ascriberl I>p our "unbiased" newspapers to IH
tile rnncllinntior~sof "Rctls", i. e., Socialists. By
this nletIio(l, the press, primarily intelidcd to
I~roacIt*ritllc nii~idsof tlre people and to liccp
t llcrn irlfol.nicvl upon the topics of the day, hns
I I I - P I ~ s l ~ i ~ n ~ c ~ I (mislctacliilg
~ssly
the public, and
I~c.ll~i~lr:
i l l ii grch:lt nie:lsure to clelav .tliat which

.vaa\d be 10 their onen advantage, coulci they

bat realize the.fact.
I [owever, the Socialistic iclea, altoge tlier a
very good one, and as nearly perfect a form of
adjustment as the mind of imperfect man can
conceive, is inadequate and impractical when
compared with the marvelous Plan \vhich our
heavenly Father has formed and laid out with
such care for the welfare of His children.
IVe may declare mar;form leagues for peace ;
elect presidents, congressmen, and senators;

orc!uin clerz-, al~d.mur(lerone ax1oti:t.r in the

name of 1)emocrac.y. But the sublime Plan

mores on towards completion, majestically, unswervingly; and all man-made attempts at readjnatineut are and nil1 be utterly impotent.
The plan of Socialism, however, is northy of
justification and of considerate attention by the.
readers of THE GOLDEXAGE,as it slightly foresliado\~sthe satisfactory arrangements which
will be in effect when Slessiah's kingdom is established in the earth.

An Attempt to Destroy the Grocers

?-l
person
T who lives in a large city and is
*A
willing use his
can see that a plan is
ux~derway to take over all the best grocery
to

eyes

sites in the conntry, n<th a view to ,netting all

the grocery business into the hands of big business. The threat made a f e n years ago that
big business would make the common people eat
out of its hand seems to be about fullitled, o r
ready to be. uoreover, it looks as if we sllould
have to eat what they have in their hands,
whether it is fresh o r whether it is stale, ancl
whether we m e the. price o r not. And in the
meantime we are killing off tlie independent
grocer who has heretofore been our friend, and
who has given us w11nt x-e wanted. whether we
could afford it or not. The story is told in the
fouo+ng
from the Washington, D. C.
National Tribune :
"Chaining" the Newspapers

IT PROBABLY

has occurred to otllers that tile pmdlelim beMeen fie c h i n of p e q stores and the recent consolidation of grcat newspapers by big business is
extremely alike. Complaints of housc\rivrs agin5t the
chain of groceries is that they can find thcre only certam staple articles Which are bought in great qusntlties
and distributed to the chain of stores. Kh11e the
chain of groceries has been fntal to the small, mdependent ,grocers ~t has been equally fatal to the quality
of goods furpished. Apparently the chuu grocencs are
selling ;seconds." The old lndcpendent corner grocery
wcrs run by a man ~ l l o
was proud of h ~ stantllng
s
and
reputat~on in the cmlmunity. He st~oivctlludgment,
rliscnm~natron,and taste in the selcct~onof the goods
that he offered to the buyer. He matlc t h ~ ssiiperionty
the great object of h ~ lde.
s
Such a nlnn rouid radily
gain a pos~tionin h ~ trade
s
that noultl b r ~ hn ~~r nthe
best customers and,incr~asehls wealth. SOISthc house-

wircs complain that vegetables recm to k md rate,

staples "seconds" in qnalitp.
Take for eample, coffea. Tha -at
d th.
chain stores bur in shipload lots, braan,
md rmd
it
to their
Ihn. omti0m PI
coffee stale ahen it is recehed in th. neat pcLtfa
in Which it ofiemt for uk Errr?.
.
lol,
bow, that no
lhould b. dond
t. dy,
t,yen the bro,ming and the grinctins
ia
On the b r e & d tabie. coge
deliC1fe ,+
i b amma is qu,cuy
lost after gzinding, so th.t it
impasible to make cup of good coffeefrom it.
The houe~vdecan get at the chain ston in her
neighborhood only coffee which has been browned ani '
often ground aome kme before, even months: and it b
not ''Anbr's sober
which 41 P - U ~ ha* ,
m~'c-a
denre. y e t under the iron
of the mW merit, this is
she
@
Her O ~ hY o p
is some independent p e r who, if be docs not brown, ,
at least g l n b his coffee k f o m her eyes, and thereby
she has coRee that is reasonably delicate and frtgronL *
It is the same way with butter, spices, cake, a s , mcrt
and many other penahable staples. They are bought
by the management in ,great quantities and dbtriinted '
to the chain stores. BY the tlnle they reach theso
groceries all their delicacy has d i ~ a p p a d ;
they are all that the purchaser can find there.
The chain of newspaper3 which is put into operatian
by big business is aimliarly unpleasing to the republic. There is no independence, no originalie, no .t
more mrprise in them than there IS hope of heing SUP :A
prired by the coffee drlnlier that lhe will get pn old-- .
tlme cup of coffee from a second-class tierry. Their '
etlihnals are written by xrlbbling hac1;s r h o r r i b
thlngs that big business deares to hate I\-ritten. Thtre ir . .
absence of the wit ant1 new angles taken by F U C ~writen
as were Ctrcelcy, Eenry Rajmiond. -Samuel Boaiea, .'
Henry Tatter~on,and othem of the giant journalijtr who
arp now tlcotl.
Saturglly the e d ~ t o r ~ da11
s breathe the same atma, :,

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m?

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GOLDEN AGE

11321

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d -

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pli~rc. Tllep are mitten on the ssllle le~cl.the? are de- Cig I):lsine~su.ilI tend to reduce all t h glor? of formct
signed to ahaw the public miud a a h ~ gbusiness ~ ~ o u l djournslia~n to flat mediocrity, a condition similar t o
have them shape it, and there is no one to soy to then1 .that of the wilted vegetables and renovated buttcz
ny. Editorially and in the local and news f ~ a t u r c s nliicll one finds in the chain stores.
Are we to have "seconds" in journalism ru in thn
these neu-%papersare insipid a* the coffee drinker finti3
the cup of coffee brewed from tile chain store berry. chaiii grweries?

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By Dr. JIafthins,Sicoll,,Jr. Conrmissiolze~X. Y. Stnte Health Nezus Service Rndio Health Hint No. 100.

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"Tlle number of hohrs of sleep necessary ma? v q

I-TE State Department of IIealtll :aye a radio
with
the individunl; but in this age of hustle and bustalk on Sleep fro111 Station, JYGY, at Scl~etle,
of
strci~uouswork and strenuous play, it is safe
nectady. It was e~ilpliaaizeflthat eight h o u r s of
to
5ny
t
l u t not less thnn eight hours are needed iu
slecp is necessary in ort1t.r to rebuild the body
which
to
make up the losses accumulated during an
cr-113 which a r e consta~ltly1)eing worn out duraverage day. Are o u giving p u r M y time enoagh
ing ordinary activity. 111 adclition, some vnlu- a t night to do this .cork of repair and mumtmdk?
aldt! 11ixitswere g i v e n to tliose ~ 1 1 0suffer fro111 If not. you are overdrawing your account in the Bank
ale~plessness:
of Health; md disaster is sure to fohw. The danger
"If you are sul~jectto hcntlaclics. intligcstion, f r q ~ ~ r l l taignolr map be henilache, indigestion, constipatbaa, or

coltls or that 'al~vaystired' fcrling. tlicrc is a very sii~~plt?t hilt 'alway tired' feeling.
';If yon are sleeping enough, you will rake up refruhed
question which you might nsk: 'Do I give myaclf eight
houw of sleep each night?' Unimportant as this ques- and vigorous If, holr-ever, p u feel tired and -1
tion may seem, the answer ofteu provides the clue to on ntvakcning your sleep hm not l e u aufftcient. Make
it up a t once. Go to bed wvcrul hours earlier; and
tlie heillth difficulties in question.
sleep,
if possible, until you n-akc up satisfied and re"To sleep enough is in~portalithccanse this is our
f
r
c
~
l
1
~ 1If. the Lody hns hnd time to do its work, p a
\Ye
s1t.c.p
that
we
may
rest;
and
it
period of growth.
i i c l u r i ~ ~~gl e e pthat tlic tiisucs are rcljiiilt and regtored will know it. You will not want to sleep longer.
after the wcnr ant1 tear of the day.
"One of the p n t c s t nida to proper sleep is a well" l i e Imtly is mndc rip of cell3, collections of nlticll \-cntllnted mom. See thnt you ha\.e plenty of light
make up its tissues and organs. 'Shew cells and tissues warm I d covering, and open your windows,wide. Thia
are constaiitl~ wcnring out; nnd ns tltep are brohli nill insure a meals of escape for the poisons which the
clown and de3tro~ed.they are thro\vii into the circuh- I)od!- is throwing offt, and at tlie snnie time nil1 pennit.
tion to I* gotten rid of by tlie ..kin. lungs aud orgalis t!ie e ~ ~ t r a u cofe fresh air with its supply of 0q-m for
of eliniination. El-ey thought uud every moveilient tlic I)lood.
:~dd..i to the wear and trnr. T l ~ e hartler the work,
"\Vhcn. for some nnknown reawn, sleep docs not
e r cells con~cn n t ~ ~ m l lI)ut
~vlietller it be I~rainor muscle, the f ~ ~ t these
y hns to b courted, a warm bath
are broken do\\-n and the nlore rapidl!. the blood becomes Ibcfore rrtiring or n brisk ~ d l out
i of doom \rill oftloadetl with poi~oiloua protluct.;. If we are to go 011
I!-ork ivondcrs. I t is somctinies beneficial, too, to take a
living. tlicae degeueratzd ccllo nlust cithcr be repairetl
or bc replaced by new ones. Some of this repair lvorl; liglit lunch before rrtiring, as an empty stomach ia
is done by the food that we eat and the air that \re 3 f reqncllt cause of sleeplessness. IYhen food is eaten
breathe an$ in a large mensure it is during sleep that a t this time, however, it sllould b simple and diginost of the work of recoustruction ,ws 011. It i.4 thcn il~le. ;\ glass of ~ v a mmilk, a cup of cocoa or chamthat tlir strength and energy sprut Clurilig the day arc late with otie or two crackers, is ample.
ri-storctl.
"Tl~oseulro fear ~rakefulncssshould avoid the things
"So. !nu we, there is a jirvat ilva1 to I)c accom~)li~l~c(l
\\-hi(:ll nrc contlucticc to it. h ~ csciting
i
no\-cl or play,
z1ct.p:. ant1 it is o111y[air to give tllc I)otly rutcxccs:ive sii~okingor cofrcv drinking or n Iicclvp n i d
/. drtri~~;;
fiGictit t1111ein which to 1111 it. 11 el~oughtime is not just I~cforeretiring, nill n f t ~ np r c r ~ n tslrrmber.
giver^. the proccssns of rc,-t~)mtionnrlcl rc~constructiou
"Jlake up Four nli~idto IJC fair to yourself in the
\rill not bc con~!)lettb~Futiglic ivill rcsul.t, with denlattcr
of sljcp. Givc your boily a clloltce to h l p
crea.;ed rfficicncy and loncred rwista~me; and it is well
itsc~lf.
'l'lic
ir\rard will I J ~ ! yours in lwtter hcdth, &
k11oir.n t11at when re~istnnccis lor, dist1a.j~is most likely
crc.:1.+cd
rvsi>t;l~lce
and grcztcr cfficiency."
to ott;lcli US.

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Pining for Real Manhood

J . B. D O ~ Y

FonlyOBh
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more than seven years me have heard the SO lift up the staiidard of right doing tliat the
cries of intense suffering and clistrcss, not xilasses ~niphtsee it clearly, tllen God \\-ould exwar-torn Europe, but in nearly ererp ercire IIis power to avert the dc~tmction. The
other part of the world. 111 our own lalid not I'ropllct closcs his presentation 11y saying that .
only has that suffering increased, but crime of G o d "fom~tl~lorle,"eo then He let tlie results of
every conceivable form has been on the increase tlieir own unrigl~tcou~nesscome upon their
also; and our newspapers with bold headlines lieads. This aanle old Prophet tIie11 declares the
~ p use a daily dish of the improper doings of judgments that shoulcl rieit Samaria, Liesea,
men and women, and even of boys and girls.
Egypt, Babylon and all other nations that have
Even optimists and evolutionists, who h a ~ e forgotten or forsake11 God.
long consoled themselves with the progress that
mru~has made since he was a monkey ( !) a r e Judgments E ~ i d e n t lComing
~
beginning to look a s distressecl as clid the IllonUT how does this point out a reluedy for
key i n the show when he picked up a nempaper
our trouble!" you inquire. Is it not true
-which some one had thrust.bto his cage- As he that everv iliclictment made against t h w e nagszed at the styles of dress and sal\' the ac- tions of the past call be applied t o us as a nacounts of the doings of men and monlen, a look tion, together u-itb sonie extra ones invented
of disgust passed over his features; and he since these disappeared?
the pawr piece b? piwe
of the cage?
Haw 11-e not gathered unto oancl\-es WGh
indicating that he h d monkey instinct enough our Ijttbrature
our social -toms
the bore
to feel insulted a t the low standards of some of
that fwcinates the loner
but .
those who claim to be his relatives.
leaves the mind and heart not only undeveloped
Yany of our magazines now colltain articles but polluted? \yith the instruetiotl *en by the .
that declare: '?Ye a r e on the brink of a precipice, Great
llarc 1,-e not incorporated into
and no one seems to ~0~~ how to avert a catas- our religious thought a t d practice tQse things
trophe!" Or they cry .out in ~ ~ e ~ t a t that
i o n that stupefy nncl be1i1111.11)until n-e have a b u t
would have been hooted ~ O \ M when we chmlged as nluch conception of ~d
His ananparties two years ago.
ments a s a drunken man lias of the law of gravAll the doctors of philosophy-political,
so- ity? and do we not stagger in about. the same
eial, religious, industrial and financial-hiire
n-ay?
tried their h n d a t s u ~ g e s t i nhow
~ to right
One of our poets, more than forty years ago,
&in@;
and, stran@ enough; things do not must hare seen the fanline coming upon the
right! Tht \vise men are bewildered, and are lalltl; for he \,-rote:
anxiously asking, "How shall we get back to normal conditions so that we may have some hope "God, give us men! Times like these demand
Stout heart, t n ~ efaith, clear head ancl ready hand;
of enjoying life again?"
Men nhom the spoils of office cannot b u ~ ,
I admit that I have nothing new to offer; hut
U,n
the
of
idll;
in a long-forgotten Book there was a reiiledy
blen who hare honor, men who nil1 not lie,
offered to a stubborn and stiff-necked people
lien who porsccs o p i n i o ~ ~and
s a will;.
who were on the verge of a collapse. An old
31en who can stand hefore a d e m o p e e
Prophet ivas instructed to tell the rulers and
Aiid damn his treacherous flattery without sinkicg;
Tall men. ~uncrowned,who live aimve the fog .
people of the country that there was only one
Tu pubkc duty and in private thinliin,n:
may of escape from the doom hanging over them.
For 11-hilctile niasecs with their t11iln:b-\VO~
creeZr,
after enmerating their vices, follies, crimes
l'i~"i'
large
prolessions
and
their
little
deeds,
and sinsagainst God, their fello\\vmcll, and themJlingle in sclfi~hstrife,. 10, Free(lon1 Tq-eeps,
selves,the ,faithful messenger declared tllat God
Nonor lies bleeding, and waiting J u t i c e sleeps."
l o o ~ i t l afor a man to stand in tile ,,.ideninS
breach of tliat hed2e ~vhic!li (Ezckiel 22: 00) had
tllat same ol<l BOO];, I rpad
a nation or
been established for the protection of ma~lkind. city that ~ v a s\\-itl~inforty dnys ol' tlleir doom
He told thum that if one was found who could rrhcn a rclnctant and bcclraggied Prophet came
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illto their millst and p~~oc~l~tiirictl
t11:lt in fort?
days Sinereh sliould be destroyed. Icing and
cou~icillor-put on ~ a c l i ~ l ~not
t h . silk and satin
and gold; and they, with all tlie people, sat on
s tlieir heads while
asli-heaps and poured a s l ~ e on
tlley prayed for deliverai~cefrom destruct ion.
Tl'e are told that bccause the Xilievites dicl
tlte best they conld in clea~tingup, ~ o \ritlllield
d
tltc judgments tliat lltltl beel: prepared for tllelii.
S o w if tlie prayers of a heathen people were
11rlord by a just God, sul.cly the prayers of a
nation that calls itself "C'l~ri~tiun"
sllould be as
cfit~ctual-prorided tlitlt t11t.y are as sincere in
tlieir plans ancl purpoyes.

nrlio does not PI-actise his profession, there will

be tlie greatest renovation that this old world
has ever seen. God does not desire to put us
through tlie school of suffering, if we can learn
in some other way; and since IIe has provided
the Great Teacher to lead us into the paths of
righteousness, I i e mill be glad to turn aside tlie.
an-ful doom tovard wliich we are hastening.
W l a t a fertilizer there should be in those ashheaps to lielp renew the soil n~liichhas been dcpleted by the long years of waste and wanto11)
ness ! IIolv cluickly the 11-orld \I-ould change, and
*what liope arid joy would come to the a a ~ i o u s
souls in this western re.public, wliich was founcled by the overflows of Europe three centuries
Repentance Proposed for Deliveranct:
ago because of the same rotten couditions that
i i E S suppose all of us ill this land, from evivtecl in the governments there! JZen and I\-*
inoney-kilrg to tranlp, go out togetllcr some lnen 11-110 believed in decency, in devotion to
nlorlling and strip ourselves of all our follies, things that a r e clean and just, braved the wilvices and eril IlalJts, al~tlsit on the ns11-heap derness in order that they i i ~ g h have
t
a piact
niu(Le after \vc have I)iirl~ctltliese things, and \vliere they could live a s becomes i~itelligent,rea"
t l i ~ r ecry ur:to Je1io.c-ah i l l true repentance, and soni~ig,a11d peace-loving men and women.
ask for delircrnnce from tlie oniinoiis and closeAnd now the same witllering. destructive conal~proacliingatornl that awaits us, \\-hat ~ v o ~ d dtagion is here; and n-e &re asking for delirerbe the result t If we would then seek rigl~teous- once from everywhere, escept from Him who
ness and u:eck~iess wliat sltould we expect of a has all power, \~isdom,justice, love, and trntl~.
loring God ~viioeewrath is eritlently kilidled
After God had sifted the best blood out of
against wrong-doers !
Europe, Be let loose some of t l ~ epenalties of
Suppose \ye try \\.lint Sineve11 tried with suc- dissipation and infamous living; and plague and
cess; ai:cl as \re cry to God for men. let us repeat disaster carried away millions of people, cr~icl .
these lines, ~ v r i t t c by
~ l Dr. J. (;. I-iolland. a f t e r Europe was purged of some of her gross sins.
we hare sat there long enongll to see ourselves
Shall it be ottr Inncl, o r little Switzerland, or
as God sees us. then let us get up like men. Let what o r who that sliall he used as a n ark of
us brusli tlie dust ancl aslies fro111 our bodies. refuge in the f i e v storm of terror that now
Let us put on the garb of tleccncy, of limilility tlireatctls a frenzied worltl? I t depends upon i ~ n - .
a;td of rig1:t C O I ~ ~ U CThen
~.
let us go forth, de- luecliate action. It' we repent, cast off OUT fol. terlilined to Gild one inan \vllo will become a part lies, vices and crimes, and nsl; Cod to help 11s
of the great "llcclge" tliat Iias heen tramplecl restore lvllat we 1:avc talicn from others-down. If nTeare earnest and llonest, we need not
"Oli! oil! rliust we clo all that, after w*e h a w
. go far to find 11im.
worked so liard to accunlulitte our great for111 that smile old Book I reacl that one of tlioec tunes and resources of pomcr! Must we cotlie
.
?old propllets said: "Rid me, alill deliver me from tiow11to the level oC toiliug for ourselves! Surclr
: the hand of strange c1iilclre11,a-hosemouth spenlc- tliat is an a\\-ful tliilig; we cannot."
Sever milid about what we cannot do; for
.- etll vanity, altd tlieir right hand is tlie right
. hand of falsel~oocl: tlrat our sons may l ~ eas there are certain tllillgs that we MUST do--now
plants .gown up i l l their youtli; that our tlnllg11- I'roru cl~oic.c.or Inter 0 1 1 I'rom force-when \iPc
ters may-be as corrier stolies, poli>i~cciafter the arc co~ul~c~llccl
to I;ilo\r that Cod cannot bc I)ril)cfl
silrlilitudc of a pn1acc."-P>allii 141: 11, 12.
or dece~vcd,ilncl that 110 has plnns and purposcbn
.
When about 'bne hunclred ~ n i l l ~ o nofs 11s gct that take in all of Ilis c~llildrca.
Tl'llo will built1 his incilrel-utor first. invilc liia
right out i n clend earnest, 311d each lleffx to ricl
this land of olic (hilns~l!') il~\;~~c.cl.c,
t~ypoc-rit- r~c~iyl~l)c)rs
to wit~lcss tile conflt~rration,td!ing
icill, dibrrhi t Tul ci tizc-rr \ v l ~ uI)I'OI C-3c.s d~~ltf~i~.!-,
I~iit tllc*rn \vlmt it is all aboid, illspiring otllcrs to

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i<GEfriei~tishipis a rare fto9:::ar on our sin-cursed. of tlle "friend of tlie Bridcgl-oom" cnclcd. Tbi~.<
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earth and rheu it i3 f ~ u : \ dr!ld proved. it shwid renil is applied to Jolln tile Baptist in h h
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work 8s tile forernnlter of Jcsna,
tte.is of Gatl. True frient1.-;lip r i ~ t i ~ l crist
(.~
in a h:,~lrt
(&iite oftell the 15-ord friend was used 'as an
\~-c-ilcreselfishnce~mig11.i: for tile ~ltollie~~t
. ~ e l f - i n t ~ ~orrl;tlary
.~~t
stilutatio~..;e. g., "Friend, how camest
i.: crossed, the false niitl fic!;lv friicndihip begins to
tllou ill lliilier, llot l ~ a r i n ga wedding garment!"
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loosely, ofttili~esmerely i~~.+tcwl
of tlie ~vortl. Tlle c*ilnracteristics of a friend are several
n~quai~ltance.,4 frirntl in t l ! ~true sense of the OIICof' tlte most distinctive is that of unselfishI
\!-ord is niuch lliore t11a11tltat. -4 li!ll~11 ( i e e l ~ ~ .r
The E'riend of friends made this stat*
- ~.(.li~tiollsIlip
is implitad. F~-ic~tltlsl~il)
ltas hce11 1nc11t: "Greater love Iiatll no mat1 than this,
c!efilled as *.a ticep, qnict slid e~rtluringaffectioii that a lllall lay down his life for his friends."
fomlded upon niutt~rrlrespect a1111estecin". It I
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Cnsel fisllness means thoughtis a l ~ ~ - amntnnl,
~-s
and is riot sllak~li11y tron1)lc. ful11c3sof nnotlier's iliterests before one's onm.
1,y ahasernetlt, by esaltntioll. or be ally cflnl~ge \\'err the \vhoIe world possessed of this spirit,
r. t' cotlditioris affecting tllose ?)oun(I together by tliere 11-oulcihe no room f o r wars, strikes, pro&
its ties.
tecrs. quarre1s;or the like. The dirine promise
TIle uses of the \.:oy(l fric.ntl jll ti~llcs,none is that i!i duc time this \rill 1~ a fact, when all
sollle- 1111111:111 :)t~illgs11-ill be friends of 011e another.
I,\- are \\.ell jllnstratc.tl ill 1 1 ~ l \\'rit.
~ti!nes tlie word siy~ificu"frlrorite". F o r esLolfaZt~of a Friend
a~:lple, in ellumcrnti~~gthe nlenlbers of Sol~ I I I ~ I Icnhinct,
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the historinti sa:-s (1 Kings 4:
FRIESD is loyal. ;"There is rr friend that
5 ) . ",ind Zal)nd tlie sol1 of Sat11a11\\'as p r i l ~ e i p ~ l
~ t i t l i e t lcloser
~
than a bmtller.'' ((Proverbs
oflicer, and tlie king's friel~tl." -4l)ralltilii was 1s:24) He sticks close not only ill prosperity,
cnllecl tile friend of God; i. e.. he occ.rlpiecl n )lut ill adversity. Tile spirit of tllc \rorld is
special, tenclcr, close rclario~~sliip
to tile -\I- olle of furSetfullless. Suppose a person meets
migllty, not elljoyed by an]- other llu~nanbeing \\-it11 rlisnstcr or sollle otllcr misfortune. His
a t that time.
50-ctillcci friencls ore \sVont to leave him. Let
I n the S e w Testament n-e note the use of the soale otle a~tddelllybecon~erich. IIe also beexpression, "the frierirl of the l)ridegroo~il." T l ~ u cotlies intpregnated with the same ,spirit of
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old Jewish custom 1vit21 respect to xilnrriuge \\.as lorgctfulricss, and scarcely speaks to those with
quite different from ours. Tllillgs morctl ~uucil \vi~ou~
lie once associrrtecl as friends. Loyalty
more slo\\-ly tliun today. Fro111t l ~ etiii~c~vhcnrr never for>dies nor deserts. I t remaills tllrough
yonn? conple were ellgiigcd until the (lay of the thic1; nllrl tl~ill,3 1 1 ~ 1never dies until its possessor ularriage, they n c w r saw encl~ otllcr. T l ~ i s clocbs. TI!.?cluot:ltiot~ niadc al~oveimpiies that
.
period of ti~llc\\.as usually n year. (1'rol)nbly even Irrntl~crsmay desert one another; and ae
it would 1)e better if this satllc c~tstomol~tainctl 111u.t a(l1nit that tlie rclatio~l of brother to
~ r a'close
r
one. But the spirit of true
totlay. I t might kccp tlie clirorcc courts from I ~ ~ . o t i is
o
i t i I
a 1 . )
Llurilig tllat tiincs i'ricncl~llipis never broken.
) all conlrnoliicntioll and nicsungr-enrryil~xwere -1 fripll{] \vill c o w r tl;e s e a t l ~ s s e sof his
tdieil enre of 1))- n 1lPr5orl ctlllcd "tile friell(1 of fl-ielltl. '-\Yllo l~iciesa fault will gain affectlie bricle:roor~i".
On tlle (la>-of the ~ i l a r r i : ~ tioll
~ ~ , [ fricncisllip] ;
to report, repels y o u
the 1,ridegrooni and his ''fl*ie~i(l"T \ . ~ I I ~to the fl<ellds. (Prov. 17: 9, pentoH)Tllis (lees not
llonie of thc I~ritle'sfntllcr. ~\.itcr.c!the I~ride\\.as I I I ( * : L I ~ tllnt olle 111ust1 , ~I)lind to
faltlty and
in rcntlinc~sq o11t1 l~t>:~vily
~t~i1vt.lnivaitirlg 1ir.r n.c.olalc.s3c$o f ]]is f ' r i ~ l l t ~Irat
s ; 1*atllert]lclt tvllile
I)t1[0ved. The11 tllc tL'i\Illll~ll:ti~ ~ r l ) ~ t . ~I)(lgilll,
sioll
laloivsa l l tlIc tinlc that tllcay
tllere, vet
and cilcletl dt t!lc honie \\i~ivlr t
1
Irlnl.s s - i f I l tilprll allc[ scch(is to l;ePp "tlren
liad providccl. l'liive t;lc I I ~ * ~ v ! . vcil n.;l.s ( ( i s . , v r l l
1roj\~lnll~llS,-,l'rOW h~
cnrtlctl hy the brirlc nrlrl Lcr ! ~ l : - l ) l ~ ! i ( l$ [ ) c ~ ! < c * t o I , ~ . ~ , I I ~ . Z ~ I S ~1,y
- , ( tllc r~'portillgof i'aults! ahQ!
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f d t s and. advertising them iiisteacl of coveririg ligl~tsto do so, but bbcause it is necessary and .
&em, u a frielld will do. Tliousa~~cls
have go11c 1)cmusc of ~iaturallove for his cliilil. The love
down to the grave with heavy hearts, alitl I'aitiily that I~iiidsfrielids together is of a higher degree
ties have been broken asunder, d l for tlie lack than fanlily love. Tlie rebuke that colnes from s
of even a littie of the spirit of true fricnclbliip. friclitl is ncrcr uttered or1 t11c spur O< tlie
DO you have frielids? They have faults, do I~loiilentor witliout thought. I t comes o~ilyafter
they not? TVe all do. Do not advertise theni. serious deliberation, anti as the only alternatire.
Cover them; and the world \.\.ill be better off for The rebulcer is thus pained niore than the reyour being here. Little Willie is coiisidese~l proved. The rel~ukcsare the ki~itlthat p:e- '
the biggest pest in the iieighborl~ootl,but his sci-ve, and not destro~. They halt tlie erring
mother thinks that he is the dearest little thiiig one, if lie call be llaltecl, arid brillg liim to Ilia C
that ever Lived. y
She is his frieilcl. seiiscs. These rebulies may not altvays be a p 2Someone has wisely said : "A friend is one who preciated; but if tlie heart is riglit, they will
h1on.s all about you, yet loves you just the 1)e sooner or later. Children quite often imagilie the "uselessness" axlcl "needlessness" of the same."
Friends are lovers of one another. ''A n ~ther's
o
scoldillgs ; but when tliep become
friend loveth at all tinies alicl [is] a brother grown-ups, tlie story is different. To this all
born for adversity." (Proverbs 1'7:17) This \\.ill agree.
statement is very similar to the one drerrciy
touched upon. The spirit of love is the spirit C o ~ ~ ~of
d the
e l Soul is Precious
of sacrifice and devotion, and will forget its
I'RIEXD is a counselor. "Ointment and
onn interests that the weifare of its Ioved ones
perfume rejoice the heart: so the su-eetneaa
might be enlianced.
of a man's friend by the counsel of the sod" . ,
(Proverbs 27 : 9, m~.&in)Searly everyone likes
Make-BeIime Frien&hip a Camouflage
to give advice (and sorrietin~cswllen they do not HE love of a friend is from a pure heart. know how), but few desire to take it. When
.
A revised versioa of Proverbs 22 :1 says : a person is sick, tliere are usually about fifty
"He that loveth ~ 4 t ha pure heart, and hat11 renledies prescribed by the visitors, each of
grace upon his lips, shall have the king for his which i s "a sure cure". The coui~selthat counts
friend." Purity of heart has to do with purity is the "counsel of tlie soul"; in otlrer
his adof motive. Make-believe friendship is often fro111 t11e Ileal-t. A friend ~~-itlillolds
used for political purposes, to get a few more vice until the time \,-hen it is needed, and then
votes, to gain greater prestige in society, or to offers it "without riloney and without price".
incur favor with sonie cligxiitarg-"getting on Tllc effect of the "counsel of the soul" upon the
the right side of a fellow," it is called. Such ~iceclyis the same as that of oil and perfume
friendship is merely a veneer. I t is short-lived, upon tlie Orientals \vho are all arrayed in beautllld en& i11 disappoiiltrnent and so~llctiillesin tiful garmeiits for celebration.
disaster. The smeared-on friericlsliip of ~lbscr- "As iron slinipens iron, so a mall does tlie
)
lorn with his father's subjects workecl lvcll for face of a friend." (Proverbs 2'7 : 17,F e ~ l t o n The
a time as a camouflage,-but its true fowldatioli world has 1)eeli bowed in sorro~vfor the past
was finally discovered. The foulidation of true six tliousat~d>-unra,a i d only iiow are tlie c l o d s
;:
friendship is not a desire to use i t for gain. of tllis great gloo~nbeginning to 11e scattered.
I t s foundation is love ancl estce:n. I'urity of Tlie "Frieiid of sinners", iiow exalted in glory
heart is back of the I~onclsbetween r e d Friends. xvitli an poxver in heaven and cartli, is the one
If your friend is a real frieilcl to you, 11e will esercising tlie power to clispol the darbiess.
it' you arc L?. f1.ieiic1 to a~rotlier,you will be rr
reprove andirchuke yo11 \\-lict~necessnr!-. "Eetof poople have loved
tcr ope" replwo f tlrrrli liic.i(lclt love. '1'111. r[*~)roocoll~fortcr. Tl~ousaii~ls
olirs
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shot
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do\vii in illortal comof a friend p r c s c y s ; but all enci~~!;~
Idsses
bat,
or
~vllo
Iiavc:
been
viclilils
oE disasters, or
betray." (Proverbs 27 : G , I~'crrtorr) 'I'li~~sc
rcJlnl~yof ''
~vlio
pcri~aps
llnvc
cliccl
of
clisense.
bukes come ollly ~vhcn1icc;css;try. Sotlle ])PI)tlicln
\yere
11ot
('liristit~l~s.
\T?icre
did
.Iley got :
ph tdie delight in rcpro\~iiiga~itlsc~ol~lilig.Tlre
The
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left
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question an,--c.sc(l.
TIICYneed comfort. Tlie
soul-sayers ( ?) o i cur day preacIie~1the boys
into the trenches mlcl offered them heaven as n
revard. Little do the^ h o n - that God's \lTord
does not agree with them.
The trnth of tlie n-hole matter is that those
who (lied in "no ~nan'sland" are ill tlie,tomb,
awaiting resurrection. The time is not far distant vhen they \\.ill come fort11 and be restored
to tlieir lored once. Hu~l~rnl
beings c!o. not \\-atit
go to hearen. The!- n-ould rather stay right
. re 011 earth. "Tlie t1eril.e of nll nntioils shall
conie." 7lliat a Llcssilig it would he if people
cnly h e r this! They \\-ill ere long. Let us
get better acclnaintecl with this comfortillq
inessage, and Be comforters, frieiids to the clistressed ancl \veal?..
9 friend is a confirIant. "And the Lord spake
nnto l\Ioses fncc to face, as a maxi spealieth unto
his friend." (Esoclus 33 : 11) ,I coiifid~zntis one
u coiificle; he kno\vs lion* to keep
in whom ~ o call
a secret. The ~vhoIeworld is upsiiie do\\-n!
Tlrcre are tllillps Ixpt secret that should be
made k~io\rri; ariti there are private matters that
h a r e been pul~lishedahroad. A wise person is he
who kilo\\-s ]lo\\- annrl when to k e q his mouth
sliut, ancl Iio\v and when to speak forth. Much
distress and tronl~lelime been causecl by tliiiigs
trallspiriiig thnt shoultl not, ancl by coniiclelices
being broken. If yonr friend has had sonic clifficulties and if he seeks comfort, counsel, and
confidence in you, do not betray hinl by talldng
too much. Be a real friend. P u t tlie things
into the closet of your heart, and (lo not allow
the thief callecl "scancial" to stenl tliclil out.
When R fric-i~rl5pc-nks "face to face" v-itli you,
he speaks intiinntely; he tells ~vliatis in his
heart, and honors yon by reposinq that much
of trust in you. Be a frienrl to hiiii.

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to Iose.
But not so in this case. Rivalry and jealousy
are not companions of friendship. The record
is that Jor~athan'sso111 was knit to the s o d of
David ; their affections were internrovea Narrow minils are likely to snppose that the cmshing dorm of others is esselitial to their 07.\n
honor and exaltation. Kot so! Jonathan was
not thus small-minded, but noble-hearted ;cmd it
is for this reason that his character has bccrl
I>eIovedby all who have known of it from thnt
time uiitil now.
There is a reason for everything. It has
been \\.ell said : "There must have h e n a reason
for this love between these two noble sonls.
lire are to lore and esteem whatever things are
just, true, pure, n ~ b I eand honorable. Thh injuliction implies that the reverse af these woulcl
by improper. True, there is n difference bet~\-eenloving principles of rigliteousnesa and
goodness, and loving' individuals ; but what wa
\visli to notice is that the love for inclividnnls
should be based upon their possession of noble
and love-worthy characters. Seither of these
nleii could have loved the other had h'e been
l~ad,ignol)le; f o r only the menn can love the
mean, alicl only the perverse can l o w the perrerse." That which attracted these men to
each othcr n-as their nol~ility, their courage,
their honesty, their faithfullless to the king and
the natiou ailit, abore all, their tnist in G d and
reliance upon Him. The same principle is true
in all uriselfisli lore; there must be sometl~ing
mutually attractire to dm\\. and to hold the interest a11d love of each to the other.
"Selfish love may indeed admire that which is brilliant, that uhirh iu good. that which is noble, tllai
~ s i ~ i cisi ~grnerolrs; but uot bring qually noble an0
grnerom, it will be sure a t some time to be ;rssanltd
with the temptiltion to dnndon. the friendship 'when

#he Friendship o f David and Jonathan

A S a-depree of frienrl~liipas just dcscribecl it believes it cuulti better sene its own interestu."
esis t l)et\vc~el~
fnll1.111iu111anh t i n ~ 1s I t can,
but it is \-cry rare. I t niwt staiicl the fire of God's Intiruetion to Isrttel

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3fIlictioli. 11istoley 113s relatcxl 111nny il~sta~iccs
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uT true frith~rtlsliip. We read in
of rcal f~-ietl~lslii~)s
l)r.t~\-ee~l
~ r r - aIt~ C I Iill a l r ~ i e ~ ~ t spirit
times, I ~ u .there
t
i s iio~lcrc latc.(l grc.ntcbr tllun I l c n t c r o ~ t u ~15:
~ ~7-11:
y
"1C tlirl-c 1)c among you
r
of oile of thy hretllrcn witl~in
bt\vceir 1)avicI niitl ,Jorintliall. ( 'o~lsiclc.~.ir~!:
thc! a ~ o o nl:l11
circmnstnnces fro61 tlle > t n ~ ~ ( l p ool'
i r ~iii1l)c.rl'cc.t
t
oi' t lly x:ttrs i I I thy lit~iil\\'I1 iclt Jellovall thy God
man, donntlian Iln~lc1i-c.ryrearor1 to trcuat I)it~-i(l ,:ivc~ tlr tllr!c>, t11uu sltal t not linrden tl!irle lienrt.
~ \ thy poor brother: but
:as a rival ant1 oppoirc.lit. T~suullyu ~ ~ ( l~cirl i ~ i l a r110r~ l r n t l ~ i r ~I Ie ~ I Ifrom
conditions, envy, jealousy, arltl enu~ityn-oulcl tliou shalt ope11 thi~lehaid wide unto him, lrnd .'

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surrl? lend him snfiicient for his.need in that

~b-hichhe wanteth. Bctvare that there be not
s thought in thy wicked heart saying, The
selrcnth year, the year of release, is at hand;
a i d thine eye be evil against thy poor brotlier,
and thou givest liini nought; and he cry uritc,
the Lord against thee, mid it be a sin unto thct*.
Tlion shalt surely give Iiini, and tliiiie heart shall
not I)e grieved lvlien tliou givcst unto lii~il:be. cause that for tliij thing the Lord thy God
sliall bless tilee in all tliy u70rks, and in all tllnt
thou puttest tliine harid unto.. Thou slinlt
opcii thine hand \vide unto tliy brother, to thy
poor, and to thy needy, in tlie land."
I l l a t the world needs most of all today is
tlte spirit of unselfisl~ties?;,of sympatli y, and of
1,rotlierly kindness, tlie spirit of trnc Cliristianio-. This is tlie i;r)irit of sacrifice, alltl n
si~crificeis not sucli uiiless i t costs somethiiig.

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X.Y.
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Soiile writer Iias suggvstecl: "The glory of

life is to love, riot to be loved; to give, not to be
given to ;to serve, riot to be serrecl.
The selfcel~tered cannot keep friends even when he
rilnkes tliem."
-4liotller 113sremal.krd: '.Bellold, .rvl~atgross
erl.ors ou(l p s t l . r l l l p n!,s\irJities nlany do corn1:lit for \\-ant o[ f rielid to tell him of em."
"Tile candle sl~iiles not only on him who
ligllts it, but
,,.ithi. rpnell
its
..True critiuirlll does llot consist, as M,
critics heem to thitik, ill depreciation but in a p
l~recintioli. Jlore lives are spoi1et.l by undue
hardness tllarl by ulidue gei~tle~iess."

...

"One there i.4 ahocr a11 ot21ers

IVrll tler;c?r\-c%~ I I I *ilanlu of friend;
Love ln.yont1 r broth~r'r.
C'o~rly,free, and l i ~ ~ o110
a s end."

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What it Costs to be a Cardinal

t.D. Barues

RECESTLT,

Tlicre seems to be consitlernl~lefoolishness

at a consistory, two new- CardinaIs \\-ere created, sars a I~entl-line. attd un~~eceaanry
outlay in lwillg "r.lernteP b ,j ,
Tliese reports are often decorated wit11 thelike- Le n C:artlilial. S o riligs llor tips tior red hats are .iless of a bald-lieaded fat man, a i d the papers nlcntiotied in tlie aplwintnlent of the Tn-elre _
pass i t on as thongii hoilietliing of great iliollleiit ~\postlcs,or in tlie sending later of tlie severrty.
sick a i d lt, clo g o d had occurred in the aii~~alv
of man. The Pope Trut-, t l l t y n.c!re to I~r!nltl~t*
.
as
tl~ey
went.
But
their
l
~
e s t o t ~ n ~ ewere
n t s to
creates the Cardinals, aud the Cardinals in turn
I)e spiritual gifts. llisteud of "$:W3 month 1create the Popc.
sidtls
p~S~lui?iitPs"
(tllll~l~~ltillg
to
XlUXlp
tinlea
Brisl>nne's rare
This reminds us of one of
' 1 ~p dr 0 ~ i t l e
alld culious
allinlal-fowl discoveries, a species that r l l i i i ) . ICY were i l t ~ l r ~ ~ 10
only one of \y]lic~lseeuis to esisi and \v]lie]l l~eitlier gold lior s i l \ - ~ rnur serii,t. ~ l l donly
seems to fertilize its oivn egg- alld to pl-odllce one coat \\-as allo\ved. IIOW mnditions did ~
the spirit of allti-Chri~te n t e d !
its alp k i n d The eggs are llatchd, and tile ~ l l l l l l g\~llC'iI
,-oung are
pIuvillg collulusivt>ly,
to )lr. Big salaries.
nlo~tll,l ) i ~S ~ I O G .~ I LC0 d
brisbaae, tile evollltioll tlreory in the transitioll declares tlt;\t ire \)-ill puliislr t k t hoht OE the liiyh ol' fowl to qut~druped.ntld vice versa.
ones. n i ~ t l"l)rin?: iiito conte~upta11 tlie I~onureliplwd from tile cillcin-able ot tls! earth.*'-Tsnia11 23 :9.
T . , ~stt,aelled
,
eJ(hfli~became poor that lve might l l ~ the..
e
nati ~ , ~ son,e
~ i I.enrs
, . ago
~ ~
and seems to llace
riclics of lil'c. not that \vr 111igllthave a .good''
been prcservecl for tliis writing:
salary and \\-car a red liat aiicl il collar Lilttoned
"Costs $16.000 To EL Cardirml.
on 1)1Jiintl. l'l~ecardinal 1)usiness is te piece of'
, 1 Roll~e ('or.
S e w Tork Sun1
Pooli>l~llc~ss,
a grctat i~~lposition
011 poor llunlan"The ele\:?tio~ito thc Cartlinalate cost= in hats, r i ~ ~ g ;it\-. It is n n old 11uull)ugthat ulust pass away
and tips, r c i l ~ l a t ~ by
t l a fixed tariff. no IPS; thiin $ l b \\-lien all t1iii1gs are niadt? rieit-, under the new
000. \vllich their ~ h u c . u c t ! s u.11al1.~arc oidigcd to I)orrow
1 ) e t . t ortlcr
~~
o i thing= f o r tvliiclr we groan.
a ~ r dpny h;:c!; iu ~ I I . . ~ ~ ~ : I I I ~out
~ I I of
~ s their ~ a 1 a l . iof~ ~
1
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I
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t o e t i o w . With
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pcrq,,..s
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VL Cod, d l C O U &.;( ri,,su~i,~
reyefille5 i i ltlcs ace L)ioo..au
or
terl'c~it.s\villbeju~~ked..\llk~il,h~ppyda~l
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( R a d l m - t fi-om

WBBR on a a a v e length of 273 meters, by Judge 3. F. RutherfordY

AS'S greatest study is himself. Jfoclernists teirus that rntui is a creature of evolution. The theory of evolution is mlreasoiiable
mid t ~ i t h o n tsubstantial proof. On the whole,
the history of humanity sholvs that man has
made some advancement mentally; butplorally
and physically there has been no substantial
advancement. I t mould seem strange that all
the advancement o r cle~eIopmentwas before
man began to rnalte history, and none since.
&rol~tionists claim that man evolved from the
lower order of animal; that ages ago man's
ancestors were nio~lkeq-s. But the connecting
link betn-een the monkey and the man has never
h e n found. It never d l be found because it
never existed. Evolution i s based upon the
opinions of men. Jlan's opinion h o n t anything
i s mireliable m~leasthat opiliio~iis supported
by knonm truths about which there can be no
doubt.
Erolution is the denial of God, the all-wise
Creator, and an absolute denial of His TT70rd,
the Biljle. In my previous Iectures liere I have
snbn~ittedthe proof establisliing beyond doubt
that the Bihle is Gocl's nTord of Truth. When
the theories of lrlell contradict the K o r d of God,
then we may be nhrolutely sure that S U C ~theories are wrong and not worthy of serious consideration.

or even Shakespeare. 3Iany of these modem.

vise men, an-110 call themselves Modernists and
claim to be prenchers and teachers of the Bible,
are the Bible's worst enemies. Like\Kise clergymen of almost all deliominations have long
taught a theory which, if true, shows that God is
a fiend and not rr God of love. They teach erroneously that God created man knmortal,
knew that he vould sin, and in advance provided that man slionld Be eternally tormented
in a lake of fire and brimstone, which they call
hell. JIen who possess some reason and sense
of jnstice have concluded that if the Bible supports such fiendish doctrines then they cared to
know nothing about Jehovah o r about His
Word. F o r this reason there has been a great
lack of knowledge concerning God and the Bible,
The only purpose of these lectures is to induce
the people to study the Bible and to learn the
true plan of God f o r the ultimate blessing of
mankind.

.How Man Was Created

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RhTSG man's origin the Bible says:

"God created man in his own image," and
"likeness". (Genesis 1 :27,s :1)
man nu
created
Ire have tlvo lines of . ce*:
proof: (1) TIle BiYe
that all of
creation is perfect (Deuteronomy 32: 4) ; and
(2) man was created in the image and likenem.
Evolution Product o f R i d e
of Cod, who has always been perfect. The four
LF-PRIDE led men to the theory of evolu- fundaineiital divirie attributes are justice, wit+.
SCtion. I t \[-as froni a n ainbitious dwire on dom, love, and power; and tlie first man, rho':
man's part to exhihit his o w l n-isciom that this was created i?l the likeness of the Lord, was - .
tl-cory Ilas bcc:~i t:~upl~t. Tllc ~~t1voc.utc.sof giver1 tllc*scottrilutcs, tllerefore was i n the Eke,; evolutiol~call t l~rmselves sovntlts, o r ~ n c nof ]less of tiocl. Image nlealis resemblance; like-:
great learning alld wisdoxu. The Zible says ness nleans resemblance o r similitude. The=::- ..
of' alid concerning such mcn that t h i r v-isdom fore tile man --as a visible image of the dall*ae:. :
i s f00li~~ll'le~S
in the sight of C;ocl. (1 CoriIltll- creator. We knolv that man did not resemb14 ~ i 1:20)
s
The Scril>torea ful.tlieniiore say ~~d in llis
henuse
the organismof maq'
that tlie reverence of the Lord is the beginning is flesh, and that of Jehovah is spirit. (1Cor-'. :3
of ivisdom, and to such as reverel~ccIfini will inthisns I 8 :45; H e b n ns 1:3) Xade in God'$dd3s
H e sl~o\\-His plull. (Peulni 2.; : 14) Tlie tcnclier
of evolution cannot rcverenci? .J(-hnval~,
1)ccause lilienes~,tl~erefore,must mean t h i t man was3 <$
hc cleiiics both Jcliovi~fliuld lIis I\'ol.(l. There- give11 a perfect 11nwnn organism, and that his-' .:-.?
leaembled those o f ~ e l ~ o r ~ h
fore it is
csp(bctcrl tllilt lie Jvoulcl u l l ~ p r s t n I l d~ l l ~ l l t "p~~l()R'ln('nts
(iocl;
flcltce
the
perfcct
ninn possessed an q t t n l
or appreciate C;od's arr;lngcnler~t.
:
J[o<icrll lllc.Il I,;fiv hnvcb I l l o l ~ i ~c t l l l n i r l q tllan b;llit~~ceof wistlorn, jnstice, love nnd power.
14:vcn the inipcrfclct luan of today passhat1 n1c.n oC olcl ; 1)ut ['or ~)ro~'untt(L
n~stlor~
tltorc
l
!
is none livir~; that ~ r l u i t l s l l o ~ c s ,Solon~on, t11c.s~ntlrilutcs i r l SOHIC dcgec.
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31an was nlacle the ruler of the enrtl~,n111i or1 cal.tll. v n s cuactly like :Idam Lel'ore ,idam .
give?^ poll-er aiid autl~ol-ity to protlucc Iiis si~~liecl.(;~,(i's la^\. required of ...cla~i~
the forspeclcs and to fill the eartli \\-it11 a race of pea- feiture of n pthri'ect 11uuinll life. .The lot-in:ple. God espressed to man Ilis rill c o ~ ~ c e r n i l ~I;i~~dlle-s
g
ot' Got1 provided tllst the niall .Jt:su$
Ili111. which evpressecl will cotistituted tlie Inn- ~!ii:l~t 11nre tlle l)ririlrge of giving His Iiu~nan
of Cod coucerliing nlan. Tliis In\\- prohibi t t d life as a ra1150111, or ~orrcsp0113ingprice: and
man from doing certain specified things. T l ~ e if so, thus Ada111 mid his offspring \i-oul11 I&
penalty of death was fisecl f o r its violatio~i. recleeme~l,l~ecauseJesus xi-illingly sulmitti.d to
Had the man been obedient to t l ~ elaw, death God's will and laid do~\-llIIis life that nian
ilevcr would liave resulted. G oci 1;1ie1\- tliat might lire. (Jolln 10 : 10 ; 3Intthe\~-30: 25) Cod
nlau would take one course or the other. There- raised I-Iinl out of death, not ss a nian but a s a
fore He made His pla11 in the alternative; that divine creature, and esslted Hinl to a posilior
i s to say, if man did not sin, then he \\-o~llil above all others, and committecl to Him the@- L
till the earth with a perfect, happy race 11-hicli po\\.rr to restore nial~kinil. (Philippians 2 :.j\\-onid be a glory to Jeliovali. I f lie did sill, 11; 3latt21eu- 225: 18) Tllus the I=\- of God c.m
lie lllust suffer tlie consequences. I n clue time l)e satiafici1I)r suljstitutirrg the perfect humru~itp .
after full experience Cad, through I-lis loving- of Jesus for the perfect humanity of Aclrun.
kh~clneas,arranged to recleeni nian fro111clratl~. Siuce .4(1ai11 \\.as t l ~ efather oT all mankind,
to dclircr 11in1, alid to give him a full alld fair tl~erel'orct llc clt.atll o f .Jesus pru\*ides a r n ~ ~ s o u
opportunity to obey l ~ i sCreator and live.
price for all ~uallkilid.-Eomorrs 5 :1%
Man Restored to E m a n Perfection

F 51219 is to he restored, then to \\-\-hatwiIl 'i;:

Rest oraiion Clearly Fore fold

R o l l the tilile Jesns arose froui t l ~ clad
e
incl

be restored? To be restored means to he.

asermied into heaven until His k i ~ l g d n nis
brought back to tlie co~idition originally en- fully set up, t l ~ eScriptures slio~\-that t11rouq11
joyed. If tlle JIocier~listsare right, and lilnll was Clirist Jestls C ; O ~ is selecting a ~ l ddeveloping
a monkcy, then restoratio~i\vould nieail that I-Iis cl~nrcli. Tllc seco~ldcoiuil~gof C'krist is
all in due time mvou1d become moltkeys. On tlie for tile purpose, first, of ~.eceiviligulllo Ifimsc?lf
contrary, if man \\.as-niacle perfect, lost tliat 11;s clinrcll; and seconil, to restore ~nankindto
perfection by sin, and the Bible proves tliat lie wliat was lost. (John 14: 1-4) Coiiccrxling the
is to be restored, then man will be restored to r c s t o r a t i o ~St.
~ I'eter says:
liu~uanperfection. The latter .is the trutl~.
"Tinies ot' rcl'rcsllil~g a l ~ d lcollie froill tlie
l , 1112 shill1 s & ~ dJesus
Tlie perfect Xclanl never hegat a d~ilcl. The presellce oC tile L ~ ~ r ca11d
first child begotten bp Sclnm \!-as after 11e \\-as Christ, \vllicl~I~cCurewas prenchecl uiito you:
ulldcr tlie seutence of death and unclcrgoing \\-lio~ilt11e Iierrvc~rs~ilustreceive until the times
the pni~isilme~it. At that tirue lie \\-as iln- of restitution of a11 tl~iligs, ~vllich God ]lath
l ~ r f e c t therefore
;
lie coultl not produce a per- spoke11 11y t l ~ cii~oiitliof all his 11oly prol)lrt?ts
fect ofl'spring. Naturally t l ~ ccliildreli of S d a m since the \\-orit1 Lt.ga11. F o r Jloses tl.ul? said
woulii 1)e born imperfect; and since no imperfect u i ~ t otile fntliers, .A prophet shall tlie Lorcl your
creature cull possess the right to lire everlasting- God raise up unto you of your l~retlrren,like
1y. it follo\vs that all thus horn were bol-n sin- m ~ t onie; l~inisllall ye I l ~ a rin all tl~iliqb.\vI~at11c.1-s
alld subject to death. That is ~ s a c l l y%-hat socrcr 11e sl~allsay unto you. -\nd it ~11311corn&
tiie ~c:riiituresteach, as we scad: 1 1 1 o I lI a
to ~ ) n s s ,tllat cvctry soul. 1\.11ivli \\-ill not hear
sllup;.i~in i~lic~uity,
aiid in s i l l difl 11iy 111otller that proplrc?t, sl~all1w cli.stroycd frolri alllung
coliccive me." (Psallu 51 : 3 ) "\Yl~crc!l'oro, as the peop1tr."---lets 2 : 19-2::.
by one alali sill elltel-ecl illto the I\-orl~l,and
liercil: is t l ~ ep~.e)oSt1i:tt the Lord Ilas tlie
deatli by sih; and so deatli passer1 upo11all niell, power t o ~.cbstorc,a11d \\-ill restor~t.t l ~ eoljeflient
for that all have sil~ned."-Iiollin~ls .'j : 12.
I-,~ICSol' 111:111l;i11(1. Rut this r{!storatiun ~villnot
Enllsom iiicans~.alic s t ~ c c~) r i . r s p n ~ ~ ~p~.ic:c?.
l i l ~ ~ I to I I
! I
I
it I I . liestoro~ a1111 g r ~ l l i ( ? dto all
It 1ilc.nns a prier! pro(1uvecl utld pai(I I)\*(-I.,
t lint t i o n will I)I. o I I ' ~ , I *t ~o . Iall
esnct::: nlet*ts that \\-liiul~tl111 I : I ~ I . ~ . I ~ I I C~O:I I.-~ . I\vl~o
~ a(-c(*1)t
l ) ~ ~ o t - i . ~:111il
i o ~ I~* sI * I I I ~ I * ~~ I I ( * I I I r i g i
! Tile illall CIirist ,Jc-.i~l>,
\\-lie~i sc.1rt.s i l l 1'uil ol)c.tlic.~~t.c?
~llrrcto. I t tllt~r.t.l'ore
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f o l l o ~ sthat tIlere must ~c a trial or jutlpiient

of nlaiilri~idiililiiecliately prececlilig the restoratiox1 blessings. Hence St. Paul \\.rote: "And
tlie times of this ignorance Gocl vinked a t ; but
no\\. commandeth all nien everyvhere to repent;
because he ]lath appointed a day, in the which
he will judge the n7orld in rigtiteousl?ess, by
.that man r h o m he hath ordaineci; whereof he
Ilatll giren assurance unto all men, in that he
ha th raised hull from the dead."-Acts
17 :30,31.
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.Resurrection Power Vested in Jesus
LIE day here means a period of time, which
other scriptures sliom is the thousand-year
reign of Christ, during which time all men shall
hare all opportunity.
If all nlen are to he tried and judged, then,
it is reasonable to conclude that those living on
earth a t the time m-lien Christ begins tlie judgnleiit ~vouldhe tried first. This is 11-l~atSt.
Paul declared is God's purpose 1~1ienhe said
tlltlt tbrougli Christ Jesus He shall judge the
lii-i~rgand the neat2 at His appearing axid IIis
kingdom. (3 Tinlothy 4: 1) Since tlie apostle
Peter plailily says tlint tliose \\rllo refnfie to
ol~tiysllnll be c1eetro~-edand slid1 hare no more
opportunity, and that tliose wlio do oiwy \\-ill be
s all will
fully restorecl alitl lire, it f o l l o ~ ~that
liove a trial ill tlie oscler nnnied. Jesus then
:nit1 : ",4ll tlint are ill tllc graves shall Iiear liis
[Jesus'] voice, aiid sllull come fortl~." (John 5 :
23-20) I n corrol)oration of this St. Paul cleclsrcs
that there sliall be a resurrection of tlie deacl,
of I~otlithe juzt and tlic u n j u s t . ~ A c t s24: 13.
The Scriptures sho\\~ that Cod, speaking
tlisongli eacli an(1 every one of the propliets,
foretold tile restoration of man. Of these
PI-opliets tliere \\'ere t\\-enty-four, as follo\vs :
I*:l!och. Jacob. Slosc*~.Snri~ucl.Jol,, Davitl. Sol0111011, Isaiah, Jcl.cmiali, Ezcliiel, Daniel, IIosea,
Joc.1, Xmos.Ob~~Iiali,
Joanli, l\licaii.Saliuin, I Iaba1:iiuk. %6phnnir;l1. Maqgai. Zecliariah, Jlalnchi,
aii(1 Jollli tlic Baptist. This great array of
t~vcnty-fourvitliessea, s p e a k i ~ ~untlcr
g
inspiration
fro111
Jeiiovnli,
ougl~t
to
1)e sullic*ient to es-,
tt~l~lisll
ill tlie i~iitld01' any reasoiint)le I~ersoii
tllc! q~lestionat icsuc. All of tlic~ni'orc~ioldthe
rcstorntioii oC 111u11. It woultl l ~ ca liincli wiser
~ l i i i lsaner course lor people to taitc tlic testimoliv of tl~esct\vclity-Sour i~lspisc~tl
nitlicl>srsof
(3otl tlinl~to talcc the testililoiiy ol' ix lot ol' thco. logical 1)rol'csbol.s wlio are crillccl snvarits, alld

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whose ucirance theories are based neither u p q

rcnsoti
ilor upon the Bible.
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Time here will not admit of quoting the testimoiiy of all these; but I call attention to some
and will be glad to furnish the others to asyone upon application. A prophecy in J o b describes the miserable condition that mankind
is now in. I t shows a race of people oppressed'
and chastened and suffering; and then the
Prophet saps, describillg the great Recleemer
a$ one aniong a thousand who is with man to
sliow hirn the ways of rigliteonsness: "Then
he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliwr him
from going down ta, the pit [the tomb, the
grme]." Then the Prophet recorcls the response of man, n-ho comes to a knowIedge of
this fact: "I have found a ransom [a recleemer] .", IVhat then shall be the effeet upon
the inan n.110 obeys the Redeemer? The Prophet alis\rcrs: "His ffesh shall be fresher than a
cliiltl's: he shalI return to the d a y s of his
youth: he shall pray unto God, and he will be.
favora1)le unto him." ( J Q 33:
~ 24-26) When
a n~mi'sflesh becames fresher than a chilci'~,
and lie returns to the days of his youth, then he
\rill be a happy creature.
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FIE prophet Isaiah, speaking of !he comingd
of the Lord and His blessings, sap to the
poor groaning creation: "Be strong, fear not;
l)eholcl, your God will come.. .and save yon.
Then the eyes of the blind s21dl be opened, and .

the cars of the deaf shall be unstopped: then

sliall the lame man leap a s a n hart, and the
ton<gue of the durn11 sing.:."-Isaiah 35: 4-6.
Another of Cod's prophets spoke thus: "For '
I will rcstorc health unto thee, and I mil1 heal
thee of tliy ~vounds.(Jeremiah 30: 17) Again:
"I will cure them, arid will reveal unto them the .
abundance ol' peace and thth." (Jeremiah 33:
6) A11cl then the people shall not say: "I am
sick ; the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their ixliqnity." (Isaiah 33: 24)" Again
the Propllct says: "But they shall sit c v riial~under his vine and under his fig t r ~ e and
;
norlo shall make tl~elnafraid : for l l ~ c~ n o ~ i tfif
h
ttlc T,ortl o l liosts hat11 spoke^^ it. For nll penpls
\rill walk cvcry OIIC i l l tho nanlo of his G o 4
nn(l \\-c will \valk i n the name of the Lord orrr
(;otl f o r evcr ant1 ever.'? (AIicah.4: $5) !lky ";
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The proli~isesof God are sure. Having said
Then the people 7vi.U exclaim: "Bless the Lord,
0 my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who it, Iie will bring it to pass. I n Ilis onon due.
i'orgiveth all thine iniquities; who hedeth all time He will restore man, and will nlako his
tlly d i s e m s ; who retleemeth thy life from de- home a veritable paradise.
str~lction;who crowlleth thee with loviligkindWhen msn is restored to human perfection,
ness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy tl~enagain lie \\-ill be in the likeness of God. Ire
mouth with good things ; so that thy youth is will be absolutely just n-it11 liis fellows. The
renewed like the eagle's !" (Psalm 103 :2-5) In lir~owledgetliat he llas he \\ill apply according
harmony with this Jesus says : "Verily, verily, to the divine rule, and therefore \\-be
illwise.
I say unto you, If. a nlan keep my saying, he The power tliat he \\ill possess will enable him to
shall never see death." (John 5: 51) "And who- forever resist cril aud to do that n-llich is good.(
soever liveth and believet11 in me sl- .' nwcr
die. Believest thou this l" (Jolln 11: 4") A~:iiti TIic motive for his cvery act \\-ill I>c unsclfirhhe says: "And God sliall wipe ou-a\- all tears ncss; thcrcfore, he will have love in pcrfcction
from their eyes; alld tlrere shall be 110 more The man thus restored \\ill possess u-isdon~,
death, neither sorrow, nor crying, ~icitllcrshall justice, lore and pon-er equally balanced, and
there be any more pain: for the fonncr t h i ~ ~ g swill again he in thc image and likcncss of
Jchovuli God.
arc passed away."'-Revelation 21 :4.

Concerning Apostolic Succession r ; CAas.

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Hcrry f i s t
which follou~sconcernhig apostolic sucTHAT
cession is take11 from a pamphlet called
"Churchman's Paruplllet of Information about
tlic Protestailt Episcopal Cliurch in the Diocese
of Southwesterxi T'irginia" :
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1 :\\11at is'che Protestant Episcopal Church?

Alisrvrr: It is a true branch of the alicici~t Holy

Qtttstim

i'otl~olicand Apostolic Church, cstdlishrd by Jcs~csalrd

Uis Disciples. (Cotkolic nicans Universal.)

Live Thou

Thy Life

\\'hen and how did it c o w to Am&?

A ~ i s s e r : As a duughtrr of the Chunh of Eylank,
in the e~tablisllrncntof the Jamcstown colonj, in 1607.
Qricstion 2 :

Question S: \Tho eshblihhed the Church of England?

dlt.srrer: I'raditiotr says St. Paul. A'o OM Lnorr.

Its bishops attended tlie Cnrmncils in the fourth centuv
at;\rlcs. ( 3 l 4 . 4 . D . ) \ ~ ~ 1 1 r n ~ ~ u g 1 . ~ t i n e l a n d e d i n .5
A. D., he found thc Church e3tahliahed.

L'y I i o t r y d ~tclictill (Sotctkb d frica)

Idice thou thy life, nor count the timc ill spcnt.
'!'liough men nivy doubt the puis~-anceof thy deed.
H o p be thino anchor; work in s\\-cct content;
If faith wax fccble, love shall intercede.
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Live thou thy lifc, and let tilinc whole aim prove
1,oy:ll to 'I'EUTH,whntc'cr ma7 bc thy fate;
B11d for tliy ~ ~ l c r d o nseek
, thy b r o t h d s lore
By dccds that saints alone can enrulatc!

Live thou thy life, nor count tho timc ill-.cpcnt.

Tho' men map scorn and stab a t tllre with sncers.
Co~lr* alone can win thee victor's plume;
EIold fim the helm as on thy ,vessel steers.

Lirc thou thy life, e'en tho' thou must mip

Hopcs srcet and pure ar pcarls beyond all price;
The fire of sorro~vwill thy soul refine,
And chrismill oil ia won by sacrifice!

Live thou tliy life. The ro!*al souls ~vliofot~gllt

2:attleq as grim as thine still watch o'cr m a n ;
?crch;m& inspire thee with the noble thought,
Kinged earthward from tlie ahitc cmpyrcan!

L i ~ etho11 thy life. I n paticnce hold thy .song.

Till thc dcep gloom is pierced by early rlav-c-h

Pcrchancc t l ~ cdear Cod may not try t h r ~Iring.
And tlio~t~ I l i ~scc?
l t thp raw 1 1 1 1 of
~ ~ thr morn.

Live tho11 thy lifc.. \rbatc?vrr sl~allh c t i c l ~ ;

-4ntl lei 1h.v Ilrc.;~dhc o'cr tllc walcrs I)ornc;
Knr 1a11rrI~
s ~ k :lor
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ro.w i n illy 11ri1lfb.
l h c ~~oblt,..tc*rnn.~in ~ r ~ nc\.cr
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With Lssue Number 80 we began runnlng Judge Hutherford's new boot

The Harp u l Gal.'. w i t h nmtnpanyln~quearious. tnWng the p l a a o l bath
Advanad and Juvenllc btole Studlea whlch hare been hltherto publlrhbb

3mThosewho are thus anointed have the spirit

of the Lord, ancl by virtue of His spirit are able
to understand the mystery of Goci and tg appreciate the fact that they have the promise of
being joint-heirs with Christ Jesus in His kingdom. To be anointed nieans to be assigned to a
place i n the body of. Christ. "The spirit itself
beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the
cliilclren of God: and if children, then heirs:
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if
so be thrtt v e suffer n i t h him, that n-e may be
also glorified together."-Ronlans
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SAmx!IFICATION

"lThese new creatures in Christ, otherwise

zalled members of His bodr, must now be translorliled and made into the image and likeness
3f their Head. (Romans 9: 29) Tlley must be
3anctified. Sanctification nlealis to be set apart
for the use of Jcliovnh. I t 111~aiis
the process of
making us meet to be partakers of the inherihnce of tlie saints in lidit. (Colo~sinnsI : 12)
I t is the process of perfecting the saints. (Ephesians 4: 12) This process begins when Jehovah
.accepts our consecration ancl Begets us; ancl
must continue uritil birth npon the spirit plane.
s41Sanctification, then, is to he ninde lioly, in
the lilreness of om Lord. Concerning rue11 Jesus
aaid : "StlnCtify tllem throogll thy truth :
word is truth." (Jolm 17 : 17) The Cliristinri
now must feed npon or sturly the 11-ord of God,
learn its priiicipl~s,learn of .Jcliovah's cliarncter ant1 t11;lt o C 1 1 1 ~1,nrtl J t ~ s ~ l :sI.I I ( ~strive tn
~01if0I'mhis OW11 l i fc tllcrclto. 1[P llO\\. l l i l ~set
before liiln ~ I I C110pc of hcirlg 111:ttIp like tlic
I,ord is glory: i111c1 "urer:; 111:111 Ll~iItI I i l t J l illis
Jiope i l l 11im purifietli llin~sclf,el-ell as he is
$urc." (1 ,101111 :;: 2) This prncciss of sniictificntion is dolie 1,y tlic T,or<l tllrongIl Ilis \l-ort].
"Both 11c 11-110 snllctifics a ~ ~tltow
t l ~ v \ . l ~ oIlc
n l is
sanctifying linvc? all one Fatllcr, an11 for this
reason he is not asliarr~ctlto spcnli ol' tl1c.m ns
brethren." (Iiel)re\\-s 2 :11, T T i e y ~ ~ ~ o)~ t IIere
ik
.we see that tltc sanctifier is t11r T,orrl Jesus
Christ, nnC tliorc wl1o111Ilo is sn~lctil'yinp arc
tlic mcml~crso f If{- 11,o(ly;n11(1all 01' I llc~schave
one Fatlier, Ji~l~ovnli
(;0<1; tl~c~~.c~l'orc
all :Ire OE
otl.
t.hc ono body, ~On~litIIti
r l j i t llc! lllys t cry ol'
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343A11this v o r k of sanctification is done' in

\\-hat we designate the school of Christ; and it
i s only those who are in this school by being in
Christ Jesus that can he sanctified and ultimately be a part of that glorious mystical body,
the heavenly kingdom d a s s that will constitute
the great prophet, priest, and king.
a44Thismystery hid from ages and generations and made known only to the saints is,
says the apostle Paul, the Christ; and the
Christ in you is the hope of glory. Those who
are in Christ and who have the spirit of Christ
in them have the glorious hope o f being born on
the divine plane. as members of the body of
Christ. These a r e called to the obtaining of the
glory of onr Lord Jesus Christ; and to them
ore given all the exceeding great and precious
promises contained in the lvord of God
Prophet speaking of them and t o them said:
"The nations shall see thy righteousness, and
all the kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called
by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord
shall name. Thou shalt also he a crown of glory
ill the hand
the Lord, and a royal diadem in
tlie hand of thy God." (Isaioh 62: 2,3) These
promise: 661klcn Christ,
om
].ife, shall
tllen sllall
also a p p a
\i,ith hiln in g,ory;- (~olossiann8: 4) b d "thm
tire ridlteolls
forth as the sun in
liingrlom
tlleir Father;--Jlatthen
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G i * , Scrilrtllnlproof of ho\rr on[! n,Hy know thnt he
~l:lq Ilppn I,p,nottrn ~ n r lanointe+ of the, ~
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IYlliit is tllc i ~ ~ ~ i loi
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]Tom is one sonctificfl? Civc Scripti~raiproof. 7 3 e .
IVllut inflltcncc hnh thc hope of glory upon one's sancti- --.'

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fic"tioll? naZ11x0is the Father of both the Head and the bod, of &a -..Christ ? 11 342.
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In what school does this sanctification take place? 11343. 2
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Labor and Economb
HE gradual process of the elimination of
\lrENTY~FlTF3healthy children have beer
employ& by reaching the "age limit" is atadopted by Mr. and Mrs. B E B& of
tracting attention. Thirty years ago nothing Edgewood (a suburb of Pittsburgh), aceording
was thought of the age if the work c'ould be to the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. A 0va
done. But with the corning denland for speed colamn cat of the group i~ shown, presentbg r

in industrial and business activities, the young

and vigorous were sought. The age limit soon
became "too old at 60"; later "too old at 50"; in
a few instances it is now "too old at 40." And
where the children can do the work, those of
IS are being replaced by those of 14 and 15.
The "efficiency experts" of our day are making
our institutions a sausage mill for grinding the
T Mand
~ nerves of h m a n i t ~ looking
,
only a t
the profits of the present with no consideration
of the future. Humanity is burning out.
The United States makes a bad showing in the
number of men killed in mines. The situation
is such that in a bituminous mine employing
476 men, where the average daily output of the
men is ten tons each, one man is sure to be
h-illed every nine months. I n recent years defective electrical apparatus has caused the loss
of !Nllives in American mines.
For the first eleven months of 1922 the net
profits of the Reliance Manufacturing Co. were
only $600 less than $1,000,000. . In seventeen
prisons this company gets factories, power, heat
and light, and pays h e cents apiece for making
shirts for workingmen. No wonder their profits
are large, and their competitors have a hard
time !
Walter P. Redden, research agent for the
Port of New xork Authority, is responsible for
the etatement that out of each dollar that a
New Tork faniily spends for fruit or vegetables
it now costs forty-elat cents to handle, transport, and distribute it after it has reached Sew

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picture of health, happiness and contentment.

Mr. and Mrs. Beals are of the type whi& mdm
good fathers and mothers. Mr. Beah h a niE
road engineer; so most of the care falls to Mrs.
Beals and a maid. Seventeen attend rchool;
none is over sixteen years of age.
Scientists have dismvered that fie m m t
talking of a mother to her baby an e x d
ingly important factor in the development of
the a d , me a d sees, but does not mderstand; and in time learns to read speech from
the lips and to speak as well.
France is reported as having a standing army
of 700,000 men. Uncle Sam's armed soldiem
are much fewer, but Uncle Sam does have a
standing army of 700,000 school teachers--God
bless them, one and all! These teachers, instead of being trained to shoot their fellow men,
are teaching the young idea how to shoot. Three
cheers for Uncle Sam's army of kachera 1
Acting upon the assumption that there in a
natural law which automatically fits some f o r
the highest and best-paid work and others f o r
the hardest and least remunerative employment,
some h e r i c a n educators, forgetting the histories of Lincoln, Garfield and Edison, are now
deliberately proposing to separate the school
children into PouPs, some of which would have
held before them during
days only the
prospect of a subsequent life. of r o ~ h ,
and a - ~ a i dlaborOut in California Captain Edgar Thompson
says: "Beneath the radiance of our flag them
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master of helL* On the same day, in New York,
the Editor of the Graphic wrote: "Many wellmeaning f o b like to uae the word 'pacifist' as
an ugly name. See him without prejudice; and
you will find that he is merely one who has
driven the fire-eating, world-smashing devil out
of his s o d ahead of the rest of us. We shall
all get there in due time." The report of Captain Thompon's address says that he faced "his
audience with burning eyes". What is wrong,
Captain? Stick out your tongue, and let us
feel your pulse, and take your temperabra

is claimed by these bankers. They assert that

it was a business arrangement, and that the
presence of the varioua premiers was necessary
mly to give it their sanction." This ought to
make it clear who is running the world.

ITH five motor bus companies contending

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for franchises in New York, it is evident
that the street-car is doomed. Motor buses can

take people on at the sidewalks, can go around

obstacles, can operate on a new route at a momenta notice, can turn out through fire, cur
maintain an express semi- with& interfe~
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a d PPnancial Iknm
ing in any way with the regular trafEo; and if
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the Steel they break down they do not prevent other M
T m t has k e n such that if a customer, of the line imm op,tin8 ILd
eay in Illinois, purchased from one of the t m t ' s
The officials of the American City (30pZanb located in his own community be was
ment
League, in an answer to advertisements d
compelled to pay the same price as would be
charged for the goods in Pittsburgh, and in the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Comparg prb
addition was compelled to pay the freight from ing higher car-fares, present evidence fmm
CiQ,
Pittsburgh. ~hiapractice has b d t op Pit& Dnluth, 01burgh at the expense of all other steel-produa White Plains, Albany, Jersey City and Philrr
ing centers, and has added millione of dollars delphia, ahowing that increased farea in
~h~ ped- cities decreased the net income of the ope^,
to
chBPged
the
era1 Trade Commi&on h~ ordered the practim cOm~aniea In pMade1pfi d u ~ n gthe
after the carfare was increased from 5 centa
discontinued.
The seventeen concerns which manufactore to 7 cents there were 75,000,000 less passengers
mill work in St. Louis have formed a bureau
On its recent 1,300 mile cruise over the Awhich preparea official lists of the material
needed for every important job in the city. tic Ocean the Navy% giant dirigible, SheThis takes away from the contractors all o p doah, consumed 9,500 pounds of gasoline, d
portunity to exercise skill in figuring closely released 4,000 pounds of water ballast; yet it
came back to the hangar a t Lakehurst heavier
on the material
rq*r4
and 8PISurestheir
ing more material than they need, whether they than when it went away. This was due to an
u s converts %he engine efiam'
m e it or whether they do nof The Govern- a ~ ~ r a t which
in hm,being pompd
into
water,
this
merit is pro-g
to mde*&e the dissolution
into
the
ballast
tanks.
of this trust.
The National Negro Business League is urging the founding of Negro banks, and the de- U.SI Mail Service
LARhlED by repeated robberies of mail
positing in such institutions of the $100,000,000
now in the banks of the whites and the $20,000trains, especially the one near Chicago in
000 which is hidden at home. With these fun& June when the thieves led by a prominent ofavailable for the use of their own race the ficial of the mail service, named Takey, obtained
progresq of American Negroes would be mu& $2,000,000, the Government has now ordered
more rapid, and the whole country thereby bene- 3,000 armored cars of such a design that it is
believed future hold-ups will be impossible. The
fited.
R R Batson, a financial writer in the New clerks inside the cars will be able to light up the
~YorkWorM, speaking of certain prominent neighborhood brilliantly and to shoot effectively
;Wall Street bankers, says: "Much of the credit at a distance and at short range. I t ib expected
l be provided with gam
for mmrhg an acceptance for the Dawes Plan also that the clerks d

FOR

.,

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masks, inasmuch as gas bombs were used in Ins p c t o r Takefs raid.
?'lie postal service of the United States as
a vhole is a marvel of faithfulness. In the last
thirty months, fifty-five men have lost their
l i ~ e sin their efforts to live up to the high
traditions of the Port Office department The
two longest routes, located respectively in Minnesota and Sew Mexico, are each 143 miles in
length.
On one of these routes in Oregon the carrier
is compelled to travel down the beach a t low
tide. If, for some reason, the incoming tide
-catclleshim before completing his trip, he must
either abandon his team and the mails and
climb the rocks or be dashed in pieces against
them.
TII-oof the most dangerous routes are to islands in Lake Erie and Lake Michigan, which
can be reached in the winter only with greatest
difficulty. At certain seasons a trip to thene
islands must be made partly on the ice and
partly across open water, which all wands very
well until you hare tried it once. One of the
carriers reports that on one of these mutee it
has sometimes taken him eight h o r n to traverse
a distance of four miles which at other times is
mnde on the ice in twenty minutes.
I n one instance in Lake Uichigan a carrier
with his team and equipment was blown out
to sea on a cake of ice barely large enough to
hold him. He was rescued by the United States
life-saving guard, which towed hi8 cake of ice
to shore, where the mail was delivered as though
nothing unusual had happened.

U p and Doccna of Gooernment

T WILL be a surprise to many to learn that so

many as 12,000 prosecutions have been made

for violations of the Pure Food and Drag Act.
Tile list.of adulterated foode contains practically everything used for that purpose, and is
a sickening commentary on the low state of our
civilization. One 11-ould think that regard for
his own k a l t h and the health of his family
would preqent anybody from adulterating food.
Admiral W. $. Rodgers, speaking at the
- American Institub of Politics, WiUiamstown,
Mass., declared that when the population of the
Tjnited States reaches 200,000,000 he expects
that as a matter of course this country will go
to war to keep its place in the world. I t is
'

plain that the Admiral has no w e Tor the Bible,

and does not believe a t all that the time w i l l
ever come when the nations shall learn war a~
more. Thank God, he is wrong!
By the consent of Major General M. M. Patride, head of the army air service, Father John
J. Sullivan, of St. Angastine's Church, Boston,
has been given the use of a government airplane for a flight from New York to San Francisco. Similar favors in the nse of the dty'r
automob'iles are estended to the same class by
some of the offiuala of a certain city we could
name. It is mrprising what generosity some
politicians can show in lowing and giving awrx
public property.
RarwldAfkdh#
VER a territory which a few generations
ago was an ideal hunting ground for the
Indians, who were then the only settlers of
southern Michigan and northern Ohio, the Sioux
and Chippewa tribes of Michigan went ear17
in September over the trail that their forefathers used for centurie~. They went in
modem motor cars over concrete o r asphalt
highwan through busy &ties, pmt i m m m
workshop, across great railway linen, and
through orabards and fields of a kind their
fathers never knew. From some points of view
this trip was a funeral procession of incalculable pathos, and yet the changes of the laat
century had to be.
Education and publicity have contributed
materially in bringing about better living conditions in New York, with the result that during
the past twenty-two years the tuberculosis death
rate has fallen from 280 to 99 per hundred
thousand of the population. It pays to point
out things that are not right. It helps to right
them, to make the world better.
Near the GOLD- AGE05ce in Brooklyn a German band was surrounded by a crowd of children sucking lemons, with the rather surprising
result that the band was forced to stop playing.
The leader complained to the police that the
sight of lemons at the mouths of the children
puckered the mouths of his musicians so that
they could not play their instruments. H e
wanted to know what could be done about it.
The advice received was that there was nothing
to prevent the band from going somewhere elm.
Mr. M. E. T h r f i l l , of Coluinbw, Ohio, of-

fcrs three farms of forty to one hundred and the gorernment officials count on the Church M in
fifty acres each, free of use to any farmer who asset of war. The nap of Jesus is the way of peaa,
will pay the taxes, keep the fence8 and buildings and for that vay the Church af the f u b will rtrnd
in repair, and maintain the fertility of the soil. [ ~ Y ~ I "
I n addition, he must pay the fire insurance on
Britain
the buildings. These farme are within twelve -Great
CCORDISG to the Bankers Trust Coxm
miles of the city of Columbus, in the best part of
pany, Europe is all ready for the next war.
one of the most fertile states in the Union.
The countries which have from 15,000 to 40,000
men ar,der arms, ranging in order from the
Religiow Ztemr
HE daughter of Rev. Colin O'Farren, pas- .mallcst to the greatest armies are Lithuania,
tor of the First Baptist Church of Butte, Norway, Esthonia, Latvia, Bulgaria, Austria,
Montana, came home saying that her teacher Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Hungary and Porhad taught her that she was descended fro= tugal. The countries having from 86,000 to 163,a monkey. Rightly enough, 3ir. O'Farrell was 000 in the order named are: Belgium, Turkey,
indignant, and on a succeeding Sunday had hia Germany, Greece, Rumania, Jugoalaviq C
Slovakia,
Great
Britain,
and
Hoiland.
daughter ait in the pulpit chair, holding in her
The greatest armies of Enrope are in the rehand a stick to which a monkey was tied, while
maining
countries: Russia with 1,000,000;
he urged the people to retarn to belief in the
and
France
three-fourths of a million; SwiCreator. With so- heat Mr. O'Farrell sugland
half
a
million;
and Italy, Poland and Spdu
gested that if evolution be true, then man must
each
a
quarter
o
E
a
million. Probably tho Gawhave descended from the ass rather than the
man
army
could
be
made a million strow t
q
monkey, which was merely another way of sayshort
notice.
ing that in his judgment( and in ours) none are
Premier MacDonald has summoned a speoirl
auch complete asses as the evolutionists.
They insist that everybody take their pre- meeting of the Committee on Imperial Defemm
posterous ideas for granted, even though they to reconsider the question of building a tamnd
know that evolution has not been proven and to France, recently abandoned. All f o m r
never can be. Their methods are not to prove, Premiers will attend the meeting. The t u n d
but to sneer at those who disbelieve them. I n will cost about $130,000,000.
due time the Lord w i l l turn all this supposed
One of the players in the International Polo
knowledge backward and illustrate that its wise Games was Major F. B. Hurndall, of the Britmen are indeed foolish, as the Prophet declares. ish Army, who was supposedly drowned October
-Isaiah 44 :2 5.
10,1918. The ship upon which he was crossing
Dr. W. Gray Jones, Nethadid minister oB the Irish Channel mas torpedoed. A half hour
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, in a recent sermon olcl war later his body was discovered floating upon ths
said :
surface of the water, with several other sup
posed
corpses. He was carried to Dublin, where
"During the war I told of ol3cid German muriages,
m d waxed indignant md furiopsly outraged. I told af a surgeon pronounced him dead. But a nume
Belgian boys with their h.n& serered from their anm in the Dublin hospital, noticing some wannth
by the brutal Germrn mid*.
I told of inhuman about his heart, rubbed him with' alcohol for
.ctionr d.submuine commanders, who wantonly killed three hours, with the result that a t the end ob
non-combatants The only thing that mwd me from that time he opened his eyes.
being a c o 1 liu
~ w u thst I belied it. Re!cent
evidenee by Lloyd George and BePr Admiral Sima Britirir Reltgiour No f a
rhowe that most of these things were untrue.
HE cables contain an article of several hun"Xow, sin& the war is r contlict of i d e a and news,
dred words from England to the effect that
rad lying is-- intrinsic, inreparable weapon of w a r
the
new
bishop of Birmingham, Canon Barn@
fare, if I told thosq things rgsin I would h a w they
believes
in evolution and denies absolutely the
w m untrue and I w a d be a liu. I have become conriaasd that the way of war and the way of J e w a m truthfulness of the book of Genesis. Aa a
.ygord the one to the 0th. T h d o m the Cblvch ter of' course, when he. denies the fall of
.Id ru ham nothing in oollrma~ Neru again ers he denier the need of 8 redeemer. But whx

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take the trouble and expense to cable snch news
myhen procticdy aU the clergy similarly repudiate the Word of God, of which they are paid
to be the sworn defendants?
T l ~ eHoly Trinity Church, Goodramsgate,
York. England, has in front of it t x o noticeboards, on each of which appears the following
doggerel :
''If aught thou hast to gire or lend,
This ancient parish church befriend ;
If poor but pet in spirit willing,
Out with thy purse and give a chilling;
But if its depths should be profound,

their own land and care for their own peopla

The discovery -of White Indiana in Panama
has led some scientists to suggest that perhaps
the natural color of man is swarthy, and that all
the white people of the earth are white beosmo
they are suffering from some mild, hereditary
disease. This identical thought appeared in the
writings of Pastor C. T. Russell in 1902. Pastor Russell was just about twenty yeare ahead
of his time.
Et.avrccandGd~

SIXCE the war there has been a tremendous

Bethink thee well and give a pound.

immigration of Africans into France,a v e q
Ask not for any record given,
natural result of the using of so many mldiem
But look for thy receipt in heaven."
from Africa and Madagascar. Hitherto, the
To the foregoing we subjoin a text which we French Government has taken the most friendly

hope the Rector nil1 use the first time it is

brought to his attention, i.e., "If I were hungry
I would not tell thee: for the world is mine and
the fulness thereof."*-Psalm 50 : 12.

CRISG the strike of telegraph operators emD

ployed on news service in Canada, the papers througliout the country received their news
by radio. Persons who owned radio sets got the

ncws through the air several hours before the

printcd records of the same was available.
What reforms will be possible when then? is a
radio station in every home and when absolutely tmthful news alone is permitted to be radiocast !

According to a story we get from Mexko,

Our Lady of Gaudaloupe is reappearing after
an absence of 400 years. The last time she appeared, she is supposed to have miracdouuly
painted her image on an Indian blanket. This
blanket has for generations been an object of
reverence in one of the Mexican cathedrals, but
of late the paint has been peeling off badly.
Our Lady probably knows this, and is getting
back on the job with some of the modem coametics which are warranted neither to peel nor
to crack off.
For many years the San Blas Indians, whom
home is on the eoast of the Caribbean Sea,
have not permitted a white man to enter th&
country; but because the whites know how t o
care for the sick, a group of San Blas girls
are taking a complete coarse in nursing in a
Panama hospital, so that they can return to

view of this immigration ; but the newcomers

work for such low wages and d long hoand under snch impossible housing and stmiconditions that the French labor t feeling tho
pinch, and is complaining to the Gtovemment
that it can not compete. This places the Glovtfp
ment in a quandary; f o r if immigration is mstricted, it will make the recruiting of blaGk
troops in the future much more Mcult that it
has been in the past.
Between Lyons, France, and Lauaanne, S w i b
erland, a distance of about 100 miles, there is
an aerial bus service. The aeroplane@make
stops here and there to pick up passenger&
Quite likely this is the next thing ahead in
transportation. There will be stations where
aerial passengers can send up rockets in the
path of a flier to indicate that they wish to get
aboard.
In the effort to balance the budget, Germany
has within the last few months discharged 400,000 State employh. Just at present thia ir
having a depressing effect, as many of those
discharged have not been able to h d work elsewhere.
Beports have it that 1,000,000 Germaim am
unemployed, half of whom are receiving 8 dole
from the Government. Reports from Britain
&ow that over ten peroent of British workera
are unemployed, while the coat of living is
seventy-two percent higher th.n it was at the
outbreak of the World War.
Since 1876, Germany has had mversl Counts
by the name of Von Schact It seem that the
Von Sohaclrs were wealthy, and had r valuable

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BmoILJ., 1U

r o I I d o n of piotarer They offered to present dissatisfied with their rule to flee into the mounthem pictnrer to the Kaiser if, as a reward, the tains.
Despatches in the New Pork Time8 state that
title of Count would be given to two members
of the Ton Scback family. Be a comequence, since the days of the Czar eighteen successive
the Kaiser got the pictures; and the common governments have borne rule over the Ukraine,
people of the world got two more grand and as Southwestern Russia is now called. The
glorious counts to whom they may look up, or Jews are the principal sufferers. Moat of the
upon whom they may look down, as they prefer. business of Russia has been at all times in the
The king business in in bad shape. Despite hands of the Jews; and with the advent of the
this, however, the kings who have lost their jobs Soviet into business, millions of Jews are with'do not take kindly to the idea of engaging in Bon- out the meam of livelihood. In the slaughters
est productive work If they cannot get a job in in the Ukraine, a t lead 70,000 Jews lost their
the regular king business, they like to get as lives.
near to it m they can. Accordingly, we read
that George of Saxony, the ex-Crown Px~ince Italy and Spoin
of the defnnd or "'as-it-were" kingdom oLSaxN THE ruins of a convent near Naples, Prol
ony, hur taken a job as priest in the Roman
f e m r Mario di Martino-Fnsoa has found
Catholic Church
150 unknown original manp8cripts of the Rol
Following the example of Protestant man historian, Livy. The professor h a re
chumhe$ of America which, while maintaining tired into the country, where he is busy traw
their separate identity, have united for political lating works which will no doubt throw imp*
l Chnrchea tant light upon the history of the Roman Empurposes in the Federal C o ~ c i of
of Christ in America, the Protestant churches pin?.
of Qerrnany have perfected a similar federal
An American banker who had soma reamn
organization
for wanting to stand in with the Papmy hsr
made the Pope a present of a chair of solid
Czecho-Slovakia-Rumaniu-Rwia
silver werth $60,000. This reminds us of the
VER since the new country of Czecho-$10- Christian religion, because it is so different.
vakia decided to have its own new church, The Son of God, when here upon earth, said:
them haa been a great falling off in the com- "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air
municants of the two churches which have have nests, but the Son of mmi-hath not where
hitherto been dominant in that area. From to lay his head." If somebody had offered
1911 to 1921 the Roman Catholics in Czech- Christ 8 $60,000silver chair, we are sure that He
Slovakia deoreased 1,290,915, and the Greek would have followed His own advice to the rich
man, "Go and sell d that thou h t and give
\
Catholics 60,097.
The Bratiano Brothers, who are said to wn- to the poor." We have no objection whatever
trol the oil industry of Rumania and also to to the Pope's following Christ's eurmpie.
Since 1912, Spain has nominally held control
control the Rnmsnian government, are suppoaed
to be bebind the new law of Rumania which of a strip along the northern coast of Morocco,
gives ten years for the Standard Oil and the 200 miles long and 60 miles wide. Never having
Royal Dptch to sell sixty percent of their hold- gotten any further along the path of tiiqgs to Rumanian citizens; i. e., presumably to tion than the attempt to rule by brute force,
the Bratiano Brothers. Probably this hold-np Spain has totally failed, with an army of 150,w i l l be satisfactory to the Rumanian people, if 000 men, to hold her own against the 50,000
Moors ehe has been constantly fighting in thio
it works.
Finantiefa in Paris, who once owned the im- arm Nine hundred German mercenaries have
mensely rich oil fields of Baku, did not succeed been killed in the Spanish ranks, thirty of them
in their recent eftort to overturn the Soviet for r e f u d to obey their Spanish officers. The
system which now *prevails through what war S p a n i d are sick unto death of their war
once the territory of the Repuhlio of Georgia in Morocco; but f i e the hunter who grabbed
The Soviet Government put down the rebellion the bear by the tail, they dare not let go lor
quiddf and srroily, and ampelled thr group8 of fear of greater troablea to follow immediately.

'

The MOOMare i-ting

&at the Spanish
A gentleman just returned from Chi- m
leave their wuntry, bag and baggage. They ports that in certain sections of the best part at
Beem now in a fair way to have their wishes that great country the graves appeared to oa
realized. Meantime, unemployment in Spain mpy fully fifty percent of the best agridtard
is growing at an appalling rate, the militarists land. Every day adds proof of the f a d that
having shown their utter incapacity to govern cremation is the only- proper method of dib
posing of the dead.
the country.
The Roman city of Leptis Magn& which has
I t is estimated that 10,000,000people in Chinrr
been buried in the sand of Tripoli for 1500 face famine as a result of the recent flo~dr
years, is now being slowly brought to fight by there. There have also been serious floods in
Italian excavators. This city once had a p o p - the nkarby island of Formosa
lation of about 300,000 inhabitants. Very probbasinesa it
~h~ Jspanese oa&
ably it contains manuscripts which, when d i s to deal +th the japanese
gods have appealed
covered, will be of value to Bible students, his- g them to do M n n e ~tog prevent &e Jtorianq and others- The bddings are fomd ese women from bobbing their hair, but to no
practically intact.
purpose; for the bobbing s t i l l goer cheerfolly on.
The a t t a d which led to the death of ~ a j & sydney, ~;lab* bru rnral f i o d
Imbrie, acting American Consul at the Persian ~ r i t i ~immigranb
h
mt as pet M e t e d ,
capital, was directly due to the act of a Moham- h n t l y they E ~ Mover
inp
medan priest who made the false accusation vaded the p r , n c i ~
hote& -ding
food
against Major Imbrie that "be had put poison ammodations and ordering it to
to
into the well", a sacred well where the priest the goveTnmenk
rnmB-,
ministering. So *was the
away. T h e local government made a v t 0a
Imbrie that he
money for food, and the federal G)ove-ent
ad
wounda. Perhapa even these would not have ~~~~h
set aside
for wo*
zuc
caused his death had not the mob broken into tionalroads.
the hospital and renewed the attack.
The New Zealrind Worker publisher a list od
The British Government has under mnstmc- tnenty-eight derggmen,
haop,
ad
dac
tion an airship which is to have an cubic capo- cons who are stock holders in
Baalr of N~~
ity of 5,000,000 feet, and will have a carrying Zealan& and then is mun enollgh to mglat
capacity of 200 passengers. with this
which will be capable of making eighty miles that these dominies &odd take sl their Bibla
s:8,"He th.1
an horn, the Government expects
the lesson for the week Proimxwmeth his
journey from Britain to India in four days. The by W W and m j m t
airdome at Cardington, near Bedford, w i l l be stance, he shall gather it for him that will
located on a plot of level ground 1,000 acres in pity the poor"; and another one from Nehemiah
5: 10, "I pray yon, let as leave off this m."
extent.

w m

The Test of Man

man for 8 $5 bill,he's a fraud of the first water, even

HE place to take the true measure of a

T
is not the forum or the field, not the market
place or the amen corner, but at his own fireside.

There he lays aside hismask; and youmay judge

whether h'e's imp or angel, king or cur, hero or
. humbug. l care not what the world says of him,
whether it cron;a\s him with bays or pelts him
. with bad eggs; I 'care never a copper what hie
reputation or religion may be; if his babes
dread his homecoming and his better half awallows her heart every time she has to ask him

though he praye night and morn till hnJs

in the face and howls hallelujah till he ahakea
the eternal hills. But if his dddren raah to ths
front gate to greet him and love's own mabine
illumines the face of his wife when abe h e m
his footfall, you may take it for granted that
he'e tme'gold ;for his home's a heaven. bnd the
humbug never gets ihat near the great white
throne of God.
From the Kabkgraa

The Progress of Co-operation

IrSERICLYS are not interested in cooperA
ation; but they ought to be,and the time will
come when they will be. "Every man for .him-

self and the devil take the hindmost," may sound

like a good philosophy to the selfish and the
strong; but it is not even for the selfish and the
strong. There is a better way for men to get
things worth having and worth keeping. That
way is the M-American, but nevertheless very
desirable, way of coijperation.
In America individual profit-seeking hacr been
carried to such lengths that a Congressional
investigation discloses that for each $1paid to
the producer of food it is necessary to pay out
$2 to other persona before the consumer can
have his needs supplied.
In the Scriptures man is advised: "Go to the
ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be
wise." (Proverbs 6: 6) If we consider the ways
a0 the ant s a e n t l y , we are amazed not only
at her industry but a t her spirit of cooperation,
The ants am all working industriously, not for
themselves individually, but for the common
good; and in working for the common good they
each have protection and comforts which no one
of them could gain by working selfishly.
A thing that has hindered coijperation in the
United States is the vicious attitude of the
press, which is maintained largely for the purpose of effectively discouraging the people from
doing anything for their own welfare. The more
things people do collectively, the less chances
there are for the grafters, who already own
nearly the whole country, to get what is left.

perous citizens it was that got the $154, to do

the same thing over again to every farmer every
year, and to take another slice just as big,
or twice as big, out of the consumers, is nothing
but wildest anarchy.
We may be all wrong, but we cannot help feeling that the principle of coi5perat;-on is right;
for it eliminates waste and does for the many
what some of them, at least, could not do for
themselves individually if working alone. One
bee would have quite a task fising up a hive for
himself; and it odd not be a very satisfactory
hive a-hen finished. It is the same with man
Coaperation has usually failed in the United
States, even when it has been well started, because the h e r i c a n people do not haw the moperative spirit. They do not like to save
money, and they do not like to see others save
money. They like to be known a s goad sports,
good spenders. This may be good Americanism, but it is not good sense.
At the other extreme are some true h e n cans u-ho are so convinced that the fate of civilization, like the fate of the ant-hill d of the
beehive, hangs upon cooperation that they ds.
dare that chaos is just ahead d e s a better cornsels prevail; and they are for making coiiperation compzdsory. This does not seem to as to
be practical, either. m e bosses of coiSperative
societies in which the people were compelled to
be members would be bosses indeed. They
.
would probably be graftem of the worst sort.
A significant item respecting American cooperation movements is that on a t least two occasions, and probably many others, the employ6s of such movements have had to go on
strike in order to obtain adequate wages and
fair treahent. On one O C C ~ S ~there
O ~
war
strike of stenographers in the offices of the national headquarters of the American Federation
of Labor at Tvashington, D-C., So we are informed. This shows how elrsy i t is to be inconist tent, and b r i n e out in strong relief a reason
why coijperation is So successftd in Europe and
SO unsuccessfal here*

Reul N d for Ceopcration

F ~ ~ inE North
R Dakota received $1.4
his reward for ploughing, planting,
apnrying and digging a carload of potatoes and
*tation. The railcarrying them to the
roads got $180.60. The other parties, the h e r the farmer
icanbushess men that
to get his jnst dues for his labor, got $154.00.
They do not believe in coaperation- It is mAmerican. It is Socialistic, so the newspapers
say; and if the newspapers are to be believed,
Co-operutim Wheat Marketing
Socialism ie next door to Red Anarchy.
PURRED on by necessity, the farmers of the
I n fact, there e newspapers that would not
hesitate to say tha for the farmer to try to take
I'nited Statea have been virtually forced
away the chance of the Board of Trade or the into doing something for themselves in the marProduce Exchange, or whatever crowd of pros- keting of their wheat crop, with the resalt that

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74

What is claimed to be the largest sin& milk

whererer there are ooiiperatme elevators estrrblished it has been demonstrated that the grow- business in the world is the Frang.iin Coiiperaers are eaved three cents to five cents a bushel tive Creamery of Minneapolis, Mifin.- which was
on their grain. In the aggregate this is a great foonded aa a result of a Iockout of the driven
of those who had been theretofore monopolb
Bum.
There are now several cooperative wheat mar- ing the milk trade in that city.
The drivers went a r o d to their old castmaketing societies :The Nebraska Farmers' Union,
the h'orthwest TOheat Growers, Incorporated, ers, picked up what trade' they could, and Mand the Equity CGperative Exchange. The lat- ed in business. This was in 1919. NOWthey
ter society started in 1912, at St. Paul, Min- are doing a business of many milfione of dollam
nesota, with a handful of members and a paid- per year, and are branching oat into hwxeam
up capital of $14,600. Now it bas 25,000 mem- manufacture and the restamant field.
bers and a paid-up capital of $2,000,000.
On one occasion, when the autuinn season
I t is estimated that in eight of the wheat came around and the prioe was due to go up o m
states the cooperative wheat selling associations cent per quart, and the lktdilb Cre811ea-y had
nonThandle one-eighth of the wheat crop. The already announced the increase, the old
'farmers in these associations were virtually panies tried to get their buck back by r;b
compelled to go into them because of the shark nouncing that' they would not make *e cnrtom
practices upon them of the "business men", the ary increase. Thereupon the Frsnlrtin with=
gentlemen who previous1y purchased their wheat drew the increase and another one oent bed"in the regular way". Tlie wheat selling organi- and in four days the war nse over, and the peazations are run on a democratic basis of one ple were all getting their mi?k at -tihe old p m
vote for each member, regardless of the worth of eleven cents.
of the stock he holds.
The Franklin Creamery ha^ its awn theatre,
where plays a= given f o r the b e & of cmplo+o
Co-operatbe Milk SeUing
and stockholders; its own cafeteria, when
F THERE is one thing which it seems should se~enty-fivecan get their meals at one the;
lend itself to cooperation easier than another, and its lockers and shcmer baths for its drkm
it is the milk business. The supply of milk is and other male employ&. It dso maintaint a
constant, and the demand is conatant. The milk school for coiiperative execotives
There are several other co6peratiw ~ Q I E
is produced every day and used every day, in
every street, and by every person on the street. eries in the country. There ia one in Cleveland
h d yet, in New Pork city, where there which does a $500,000 business per year. Them
would seem to be ideal conditions for putting is a large one in Vermont. There are several
sonie kind of common sense cooperative plan in Nebraska. The latter are e d h a t e d to prointo operation, the consumers have been facing duce a net gain to the fanners of two cents to
a steadily rising price of milk, almost none of f a r cents per pound of butter-fat.
which has gone to the producers, but practically
all of which has gone to the grafters in between. Cwptmztb Aarit M Q T M ~ U
Just now the Dairymen's League of that city
F MILK would seem to be specially easy of
is conductirig a fight to try to get six cents a
handling cooperatively, frcait would seem to
quart for' the producers who, until recently, be the opposite. The crop ripens all at once,
never receircd moro than 4.4 cents per quart, and must be cared for withoot delay. The great
even when milk formerly retailed at six cents problem of refrigeration comes up, and the
retailing regularly a t sixteen cents. The equally great problem of wise distribution and
Dairymen'siLeague sells for its members m adequate reception.
cording to the butter-fat in the milk, and pays
And yet California has made a world-*
the producers at t4e end of the month, ddncting name for itself by its anmess in the d p e r a t i ~ b
a percentage to pky the costs. Since these marketing of frnit, the sales by this methodi forfarmers are paid according to the quality of Califarnisdone, having z~mormtedin 1919 30
their milk, they make every effort to keep the $225,000,000. In 1923, the d e r were still lug
millr at the highest grade.
er, in the neighborhood of $350,000-000.

The ~o-caUed"California Plan" aims to control seventy-five percent of the crop. The members agree to w k e t all their fruit throngh the
anaociation for a period of five years. An initial payment is made when the crop is delivered.
Other payments are made aa the sales proceed. At the end of the s e a o n there is a final
eettlcment. All producers are paid alike for
the same grades.
There are limits to what can be done. The
California cooperatives tried to carry the priceiMng a little too f a r in the raisin and prune
market. They had no diflicalty in firring the
prices; for California has a monoply on raisins
and prunes. But they were surprised to find
that the people of the country turned away, and
Other
Or rent without.
Thenmust
are
two aides to coiiperation.
The customer
be considered, too.
The system of coiipentive marketing developed in California haa spread to such an extent
that 1,!2tX),000 farmers altogether are n o r handling their cmpa by this method, with a v0l-s
of business estimated a t somewhat in excess of
this
$ l ~ for
, the
~ entire
, comtrg.
~
has been done in about four years.
Many of the ceperative organizations have
to make god
The
culture has made a survey of 243 of the failures,
and found that 200 of them did not have
cient business to make them going concerns;
148 were badly managed; 73 did not have
enough a p i t d ; 35 over-extended credit to con~umers.
The subject of coQperative -keting
is now
being taught in eight a h t e unirersities and
eleven agricultural colleges in a very complete
m n n e r , including acoaoting, parchasing and
credit. Thew are Mty-nine other colleges and
universities that v e a considerable amount of
attention to the subject in their regular courses
in fami management.

several hundred young men were attending, wm

managed in such a grossly ine5cient way, and
so evidently had no motive except that of profit,
that 200 of the young men went on a strike.
Now these young men, constituting the CoSperative Educational Institute of Brooklyn,
New York, choose their o m teachers, decide on
their curricdum, determine their tuition fee,
elect their own admin;~@ators,manage their
own busineee aiuu-, ;ud c ~ o o s etheir own holi- '
days. The attendance -a now 400.

C 0 -- 0 m d h bwfe~t.k8#; d H o m a

A BUILDING
am? but aAssociation
no&
ing in the \\-or16
coiiperative is
plan
7~3au

purchasing home% Where these associations

have been efficiently w a g e d they have turned
out to be excellent channels of saving, turning
into permanent investment large snmr t U
rodd h.m hscn wutd
in mnh
New York oi* now - b
eoii~d
apartment houses. The owners of the a-nta
not
a m obliged to live in them m e y
them to others. They can not
them.-@
to
the board of directors of the home and at the
price paid for them, I n one of these sparbent
houses there is a cooperative kitchen in which
the cooking is done for all teqants. By means
of dumb waiters the food leaves the apartment
raw, and comes back cooked at the proper U e .
This is said to work oat satisfactorily.
In hIil\adee, ~ ~ 7 i s ~ o nUnder
s i ~ ,the f i b
of a colluuission appointed by the mayor, there
is a S U C C ~ S ~00perative
S ~ ~
housing pbn Somewhat similar to the above, except that the homes
a" private honles- There are like a r m n g b
ments at Endicott, Ken York, and elsenhero.

C & O P * ~ ~ *fidkae
~
T IS evident that in the cooperative purchase
of fuel only the first steps have been taken
anywhere, as it is manifestly the wise thing and
Cbopcratiw Pureham dEduccrtie18
the economical thing to supply all the heat, light
money
by
and electricity for a t o m from a siDgle c e n t d
M E R K C ~mSe as loath to
cGp6ration in buying as they are to save it 1~ located plant*
A few steps have been taken, however, toward
in selling.. But they are slowly making progress
in some lines of 4nying, generally being driven reducing the fuel costs, which have become a
great burden since the gigantic anthracite steals
to it by necessity.
. w e n pulled off during the war. We publish&
Greater New York has three cooperative dcational institutions. At least one of these came in these columns notice of Governor Bpsn's
into exitsterm because the private school which , etate-owned coal p r d s in Nebrask*, which are

estimated to save the Nebraskaw about $4 par

ton.
There have been some sporadic efforts made
a t wiiperative coal purchasing elsewhere, always, however, becaw the people were really
pressed into it. One of these coiiperative coal
yards is a t Staunton, Illinois, where the employers of some miners attempted once too often to
profiteer in selling coal to their own men.
Another illustration is at Lehighton, Pennsylvania, where some workers, mostly railroad
men, had a fairly successfnl cooperative store.
They hit upon the coal idea, but could not at first
fmd any way to ge4 the waL At length they
rented a siding, built some bins of concrete in
their spare time, and finally arranged with an
independent coal operator to sell them cod,
with the result that they are saving about $4
per ton in their purchases.

C o - o ~ * t Jl%rchm
e
of Credit

0-OPERATIVEpurchase of credit is &e

C
nay we designate the workerd banks, which
are operated as banks for the common people,
and not intended or operated as adjuncts of big
business. There are now twenty-three of these
banks in various parts of America, only a pitifd
few as compared with the hundreds that are t o
be found in various European countries; but it
is a start.
These banks are a real foundation upon which
the workers may build their own homes, their
ow11factories, and their own educations. They
are not run for profit, but for the good they can
do to their own depositors and cnst(7mew. The
issues of stock are limited, the dividends on the
stocks are kept low, and the surplus profits all
go to the depositurs.
Tlie first oo5perative bank in the United
States was that of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, at Cleveland, Ohio, November
1,1920. Seemingly this bank has either changed
its original plan, or else it did not plsn a s we
had hoped ;for we observe that one of the directors of the Brotherhood Bank has been made a
director of.the Empire Trust Company of New
Pork, and it is axpounced that the Brotherhood
has acquired a large interest in the Trnst Com\
pany*
A man who %as being swallowed by a shark
might say that he had a great interest in the
d a r k ; but it would not change the fact that a

ahark is a shark, and ~ a n l dnot- postpone the

obsequies. This is not to say that the Empire
Trust Company is a ahark, but it is one of the
greak Gnancid powers of the metropolie, .and its
eympathies are that way.
M ~ r r r C o o ~ - i n g
'BE farmers are doing well with their &perative insurance companies. There are said
to be over 2,000 such companies in existence,
providing all claases of protection at the a d d
cost
A case in point is the Farmers' Coijperative
F i r e Insurance Company of Woodridge, New
York. This concern has about $6,000,000 in
force, and yet manages to do its bushes8 at a
premium rate of $4.4!5 per $l,,000, sr rgsinrt
double that amount charged by other compania
Terre Haute has a aoijperatin
Staunton, Illinois, has a coiiperative motionpicture house. The town -M a atri*
community. All the men in town belong to thu
miners' union; and six night6 a week the dam
shows the best pictures in it8 hall, witb the result that the other. theatre8 in town have had to
cIose up and move on

m.

IS to Great Britain that the whole world

IfieldTmust
look as the aamssful pioneer in the
of cooperation. In the little city of Rochdale, EngIand, in 1844, the M d a l e Society of
Equitable Pioneers founded what is now the
Rochdale Society, whlch supplies virtrtally all
the necessaries of life to 4,500,000 families.
The credit for this great idea is due to Chatlea
Howsrth and the twenty-eight h e 1 weavers
whose first investment was in a barrel of o a t
meaL The Rochdale Society now hsa its own
factories, and even its own steamship line. It
conducts almost every sort of enterprim. The
competition which the aochdsle Society
been able to give other concerns has prevented
the profiteering in Britain which is snch a feature of .Amr?ricanlife.
T h i s d p e r a t i v e movement has grown in Britain not because it-- favored o r pampered by
the government, the press, the banks, or the
pulpit. Every one of these worked against it;
p;nd with rare exceptions none of t h a did a
thing to help. Yet in gplt. of dl d S d k -the

r".

WWEN AGE

Rochd:rle Society has doubled in the last twenty

years, and now has a third of the British homes
as members.
The men that are actually managing the Rochdale Society work for small wage& One of them
k i n g reminded of that fact, and being offered
much larger remuneration, had the courage and
the character to reply nobly: "My fellow coijperatom pay me sdXcient to satiafy my needs. I
am happy serving the people. I should not be
happy serving you a t the expense of the people."
We wish every American busiuess man mas like
this young man.
I t can not be said that the Rochdale Society
was absolutely the first coiiperative institution,
even in the British Isles. As early as 1830
there were in Scotland not less than 170 shops
organized on what was then &own as the Owen
plan, but within the next four years most of
these ceased to exist.
The Rochdale plan succeeds and grows, and
accomplishes what is desired. Its first cooperative bank was founded in 1872. Now it is a
gignntio institution with over 1,500 branches
throughout the United Kingdom, and an annual
business in excess of $'2,418,000,000. Its motto
is "Service instead of Profit".
The Belfast (Ireland) Cooperative Society
began the handling of milk ten years ago. In
the early part of this year the milk busiqess of
the society reached a total of 20,000 gallons per
week, and arrangements were made to increase
the outlet to 50,000 gallons ~ e e k l y .

In Scandina~ia
0-OPERATION has made a new country
C
out of Denmark. A generation ago it
common to see Dslllish women working in the
was

fields; today it is a rare sight. Cooperation is

is what induced the change. One-half of all the
Danish homes are in direct touch with the coiiperative movemeni
The way it works out in agriculture is that
Danish farmers can buy concentrated dairy
feeds in thp United States, transport them to
l undersell American butterDenmark, ~ c then
makers right on their own soil. Moreover, they
can and do unZlersel1 the great American
packers in the London market.
Cooperation in Denmark operates the lnundries and the bakeries, tlluv removing two of the
greatest burdens from the home. The houses

and their groonds are becoming more beautiful.

31usic, art, and education are all improving.
Class and social distinctions are paasing away.
The people of Denmark were agitating for
cooperation for thirty years before it was W y
obtained. What held them back? Why, the foes
of every step of human progress, of course 1
Yon horn who they are. Everybody knowa who
they are. The four P s in one pod: Profiteers,
Politicians, Press, and Preachers.
Cooperation has given Denmark regular supplies and stable prices. It has made the people
happy by ridding them of the "snobocracy". It
ha8 raised the per capita wealth from that of
27th place to second place. It has elected a
farmer parliament, and it has a coiiperatipremier.
We use the term "cooperative" because ao
mauy Sinericans have been poisoned by the
press that we hardly dare say "Socialistid'.
Nomap reports a steady espanaion of cooperative banking and coiiperative storea Sweden reports that of her six million inhabitants
one-sixth are definitely committed to co6pemtive methods. The three coantries, Denmark,
Norway and Sweden, have a joint committee
that buys the tea, coffee and other articles for
the cooperators of the three nations.
Finland differs from the three countries just
named in that the cooperative movement there
(which is only twenty years old) was started
not as a result of pressure from beneath, but aa
an act of public benefit from above, by those who
were in charge of the conntrfs affairs and who
desired its velfare.

I n Watern h r o p .

is growing steadily in
C0-OPERATION
Tlrestern Enrope. We give a few scattered

items which have come to our attention.

Amsterdam, Holland, in spite of the almost
prohibitive cost of building materials (brought
from other countries) has aince the war built on
the cooperative plan a village of one thousand
houses, attractively laid out, each in its own
little garden. Both the city and the state advanced the funds necessary to help the coiiperntives in this enterprise.
The tiny but densely populated country of
Belgium is a great hive of industry. The workers planned a cooperative vacation resort and
parchased one of the grand old castles, situated

in a beautiful park in the hilly regioa This

has been transformed into an ideal summer
home where hundreds of workers can be entertained at the same time at a minimum of expense. Who am say that it ie not better every
way f o r this castle to be a source of joy and
of health to hnndreds of workers than to be
merely the occasional home of an imaginary
nobility t
Ii France, cooperative societies are accomplishing considerable, especially eince the war,
and are receiving some friendly aid from the
state. Even in Spain there is something being
accomplished, although the nnmber of coijperators is comparatively small. Next to Denmark,
Switzerland is the most thoroughly organized
along coijperative lines of any country in the
world.
Until the Fascisti anarchists seized the Italian government, the coiiperators in Italy were

making wonderEd progress. They owned f a ~ ~ 8 ,

ships and factories, and had constructed and
were operating one railroad. They were building a great amal to come& Milan with the
River Po; they had reclaimed ltvge tracts of
waste lands, had built and were operating irrigation systems, and had founded several thousand workers' b a n .In Milan they had built and
were operating a model workinpan's hotel,
The Milanese cooperatm wnld even buy their
dinners, all ready to serve, delivered to th&
own doors by the coiiperative delivery wagoa
But with the adtmnt of the black shirt marchiste much of this p r o m s hrrs been block&
and in some instances fhe fruit of thirty yeof effort has been destroyed. Scores of obiiperative stores have been burned ;land, machinery,
horses and oxen have been aeized; all in thr
name of-what ?

St. Hickson Failed To h e

N TEE
Am, No. 124, your article
Igreat
on "Modern Medicine Men" was read with
interest, especially the one regarding the
U O L D ~

"Shrine of St. Hickson".

The writer of this letter, who has been c r i p
led a good many years with spinal trouble, attended one of St. Hickson's healing services
several years ago in Hartford, Conn. St. Hickson received a big ovation from the clergy, and
his wondrous work was broadcast throughout
the country. The writer, having received no
helr, or benefit from other sources, expected to
sesgreat works done by this ~ickro; not for
his benefit only but also for other poor cripples
and @cted persons.
The 'church in which the healings took place
was crowded with the sickly and maimed, young
tuld old, with all kinds of complaints. The
writer wgs banded s card to be filled oat, stating trouble, how long a c t e d , etc; and was
then seated a t the extreme end of the church,
where there were a few empty seats left.
At ten o'clock a m. the healing service began,
and until one o'clock a eteady stream of ' a c t -

&o.

JZ.Daay

ed humanity knelt at the dtar, while St. Hi&son laid his hands npon them and blessed them.
~zvingthe three hours9 eroim tbe o d y e o ~ d
to be heard in the church was an organ playing,
a low, solemn sound.
& an atmosphere
one ,odd e q w t great works to be done.
At me ,eloek the renice va.
rith
more people waiting to be blessed, the writer
St- Hickson requested the r e d 6
ones to kneel in the aisle, while he ~ a s a e d
t h r o w and laid his hmds on thirheads.
was done, and he touched each one with a "God
bless you". And thus ended-the service.
If any healing or mirage was done that d v ,
it was not visible or made known. The writer
saw the blind, deaf, lame, etc, leave as they
entered, with their &ctione still with them.
As to the writer, h e is still crippled and waiting
for that day to
when Christ will reign,
when all those who are a'iflicted will find relief;
for there will be no more pain, sickness, disease,
or death and God hhnseIf will wipe may rll
team from off all faces.

The Land of Floweis and Springs

the land of flowers might as well
FLORIDS
have h e n d e d the land of springs, or the

"At its best-no, evem a t its averlyb-the Florida climate ia a thing so wonderful that you sometimes scuceland of waters; for it is as much one as the Ip believe at the end of a naonth that you have really
other. Other states may boast of their m o m had thirtp such golden dayr Lying bekeen two suns-,
am it does, the p e n i x ~ u his always famed
t a b , but not Florida. But no other state can warmed
by salt air. Florida weather at ita best, in thoae incredtruthfully hast of more water.
ible spring daj-s of warm, fresh sea vrh&, almost ecF l o r i d is a giant thnmb thrust down into complishes the jmpossible. It is both tonic and sooththe gulf of Jfexico, which it separates from the ing; it at once invigoratas and cslms yon. Tha calmAtlantic Ocean. It has 1,145 miles of coast tine. nesa is accentuated by the inevitable sense of remotenem
Xowhere Inore than 300 feet above the sen, its which tbe orang- and roses give you 88 you nld
scenery, while leantiful, is of necessity that of your letters from home of frosta and blizzards in tlu
Xorth. The South, one must repat in closing, is a .
lake and river and seashore and forests.
Florida is unique in the nunkber and size of miracle, a pretty fairy tale w-hich no one, if he can be
its springs. A navigable stream bursts forth carried aboard the &lorid. train on a litter, cm afford
to miss. \\-hat charm can there k in snom urd the
from the earth at Silver Spring. Another Are
crackli~igon the hearth, when donn yonder the maon
equally great spring emerges in the ocean a is flooding the orange blcmaom with light, showing goldmile east of St. Augustine. These spri~igsare en fruit and white b l o ~ ~ m sand
, the mocking-bird3
doubtless outlets of some of the rivers which tricked into belief that it is day, are singing t h m q h
here and there lose themselves in Kentack?, the gorgeous southern night ?*

J[issonri, and elsewhem.

Florida has countless lakes, countless islands,
and several large rivers, the largest of which,
tlie St. Jolm's, is navigable for a distance of
230 miles. The St. John's is a mile wide 150
miles from its mouth, and is six o r seven miles
wide near its month. Tbe Kissimmee, Suwanee
and Apalacliicola rivers are also navigable, two
of them for a distance of ninety miles each.
Lake O k h o b e e in the south, t~enty-fi- fe+t
above sea level, covers 1,200 square nkiles
has served as a great reservoir to keep the Everglades filled
water. It is 'Ow king
otl~erwise,and the Everglades are Lillg drained.
Tlrey cover 3,600 square miles, much of wl~icll
ia recoverable for a -~ c d t a r a purposes.
l
The
Everglades throughout are d o t t d with dry hummocks, some of which cover over s square mile.
Iiey \\'est, ahieh always was an island until
the courage and the genius of man connected it
with the mainland by the Florida East Coast
Jtailwav! has one of the finest island harbors in
the world; The railroad to Key iFrest is amarvel
of engineering, running 107 miles along coral
reelr all the ray from ~ l ~nuinland
~ i dto K~~
~
West-a railroad at sea.

Coming dona out of the skies, we hap say

that the r~ornlalmean temperature for January
ranges froni 60" to TO0, and that in June, July
and August it is hot. If you don't believe it, try
it. Three great railway systems, the south en^,
the Seaboard, and the Atlantic Coast Lines,
bring Florida within one night's ride from Sew
York, Chicago and St. Louis, 1,000 miles distant,
nnd are making it an extremely popnlar resort
state. M~~ than a
people
Florirla
,,ear. Sonle of these visitors
frola
nlld
charmed by its
laden, urone-saturated
to
is
tile )lealth-giT+ngqdties
of a deliglltfU1 odor of

A CIimP#
T IS sometimes said of Florida that it waa
the first state to be discovered and the last to
be developed. Ponce de Leon, the Spanish esplorer, fint landed near St. Augtlstine, March
2'7,1312, and thereafter spent some years seeking among the now famous springs of the state,
and far over its borders, the fountain of eternal
youth.
The Spaninrds did little or nothing toward
settling
tlie country. I n 1763 it was ceded to
"lorido'r SIor A ttractlon- Climate
()BODY woulqdse believe the tGnp that Great Britain, and twenty Years later .Fail returned to the Spanish. In 1819 it n*aS sold to
~ l ~people'
~ ithemselves
d ~ have to say
their &mate; but one may quote from others, the United States for @,000,WO; and the r e d
settlement of the country as undertaken.
md this is wbat Collier's W'eekly says:

. .''

IC-

Tile whites began their usual iLlvasio11 of the

territory of the red msn, pushing him farther
and farther back into the swamps and the less
desirable country, taking the best of his land
and killing off his game. This was the cause of
all the Indian wars and of the greatest of d
Indian wars, that of the Seminolea.
The Seminoles were brare, and they were honest. Their chief OsGola was summoned to a
conference. When he came, he conducted himself -4th ffie air of the ruler of the corntry,
which by right he was. General l17iley Thomp
sop tried to break his spirit by having him put
in irons for a day. The mistake cost Thompson his life.
Osceola promised all that was required. On
the date when he was to turn over the Indian
stock to the whites, scalpil~gparties descended
upon the white settlements, burned their cabins,
niurclered the inhabitants and drove their cattle
into the swamps. Osceola scalped Thompson
with his o m hands.
After seven years of courageous defence of
his country Osceola finally approached the commander of the United States troops under a
flag of truce, to e~ldeavorto arrange terms of
peace. He was accompanied by a retinue of
sel-era1chiefs and seventy of his best warriors.
Kith unspeakable treachery the entire company
was seized and imprisoned in Fort Moultrie,
\\liere Osceola finally died of fever.
The United States governme~lt never did
fully conquer the Seminoles. The bulk of the
tril~ewas seized and moved to the li~disoTerritor?- (now Olrlahoma), R-here a remnant of
C) -.C,,r J r still have their own government and manage their own tribal affairs. The unconquered
remainder, iiow dwindled to S8,still live in the
Ererglades. They are partly civilized and entirely inoffensive, but avoid the whites on the
ground tlqt "white man no good, lie too much".
lV*itli the draining of the Everglades, their last
chance to escape white domination passes.
Conquering the Everglades is a slo\r job.
The Tamialai trail, which is intended to connect
Tampa and &iami, was abandoned during the
war, on account of shortage of labor; but work
on it is to be reneu*M. A party of ten ears actually made the trip over the entire route early
this year. Seven of the cars managed to get
through in ten days' time; two were lost in the

swamps, and one gave-up the -fight and. went

back to Fort Myers.
1

What Floridar Produar

E R E are still plenty of deer, wild t u r k e p
and green turtles in Florida; and there used
to be plenty of alligators, but they are now rare.
Several of the brilliant birds have been greatly
reduced in numbers by hunters employed by
wholesale milliners.
The richness of the soil, the warmth of the
climate, and the large rainfall make Florida
an ideal place for vegetation of almost any kind.
!J!wenty years ago it was claimed t h t Floiidrr was the only place in Bmerha where a mah
could buy a piece of land, and mim e n o e
cmps on it within two years to pry ths coot of
the land.
There are 250 different-.varieties of crop.
nuts, etc., brought into northern markets frem
Florida. The two leading crape ud oranges
and pineapples. Florida oranger are funotrs
for juiciness and a delightful tang not noable in other varieties.
Not only does Florida produce all kind8 of
early foods for northern markets, but it sbo
produces large quantities of utaples srach aa
angarcane, cotton, rice, sweet potatoes, Irieh potatoes, peanuts, casava, melons, lemons, lime4
grapefruit, guava, plums, olives, f i p , and comanuts. It has a greater variety of trees than any
other state in the Union. Of trees pecdiar to
Florida itself, in the United States, are the wild
oranges, cocoanut, Indian almond, mahogany,
satinwood and manchineeL
The largest sponge market in the world is
at Tarpon Springs, Florida, twenty-eight miles
north of Tampa Like other Florida industries
it has been developed by those who have come
in from outside. The sponge fishing is in the
hands of Greeks, of whom there are about 1,500
in the industry. They carry on the work scientifically, using the latest modern appliances. The
best sponges are harvested 120 to 140 feet below the surface of the water, and grow as fast aa
they can be cut.
Florida has no metah, but atands h t in ths mining of phosphate rook for fertibers.
phosphate deposits skirt the Gulf all the way
from Tallahassee to Tampa T m p brs 8p
proximately 200 cigar factorier, emploeg

SODEN AGE
about 10,000 workmen in the inmufacture of
dear Havana cigars.

A Stat. with a G m t Futurr

F=ORIDA all

has a great future befon it. This

fact is coming to be recognized. More than
onefourth of
the building done in the United
States during the years 1920-1921is said to haw
been done in that state.
Florida has no possible sources of cheap power ;.yet the people of Jacksonville buy their current at a price lower than any other ciw in the
United States, d e s s it is Seattle. The reason
for this in that the city o m the power p h t ,
~ ~ u ~ a h o p l d
The flsking mdustry of Florida is large, there
being about 200 vessel8 engaged in the trade
off Pensamla. A considerable quantity of
homer, males, and cattle are r a i d for export

to Cuba The present pbpulstion is an even

million, of whom bo-fifths are adored. The
state maintains a double eystem of d o o h , om
for white children and another for colored.
Miami has done much for Florida, but it hsrr
done more for itself. Following the example
of some western atates it engaged upon an advertieing campaign, setting forth in northern
cities the advantages of a winterr homm wher,
the water never gets colder than 72' and when
the snn is alwaya warm.
In ten years Miami has multiplied its population four times, and its permanent residents
now number 50,000. Thing the months from
November to May every room that will house a boarder is fflled. The aity ia built on a h e - ,
stone rock, and many of the homes are built of
the ma;terial beneath. A million dollar bod*
vard connects Miami with Miami Beach, 3.5
miles distant.

Eastern Texas as Viewed by a Northener

E HAD supposed before coming to Texau
W
that
would
rattlesnakes, plains,
prairies, and possibly alligators. But we find
we

see

that the plains are 500 miles farther west; rattlewakee are very scarce; and the landscape
generally looks like the hills and vales of Ohio.
The roads in Smith and Van Zandt counties are
mostly improved, and remarkably well taken
cam of.
Cotton is grown, and hauled to town, where
it is ginned and bailed for shipment. I t was interesting to ns to see how the seeds are separated from the cotton. The raw cotton is sucked
up from the farmer's wagon outside, by means
of a twelve-inch galvhked iron pipe. It next
pasthrough the gin, which is a machine
equipped with a number of circle saws about
twelve-inches in diameter, revolving rapidly on
the same shaft. These protrude through narrow slots, pulling the cotton away from the
seeda. ' h e separated cotton is then carried on
r ccmveyer to a pram, where it is baled.
Ocossionally'\;we see a sorghum cane mill.
This is a very primitive, backuoods affair. A
d e w a b a m d in a circle, pulling a Iong
pda which *tea
iron rollers. The cane ia

BY M. M. PannGnter

fed into these rollers, and the juice #

out into a vat. Nearby is a long oven, made of
bricks and stones, on the top of which there b
a large pan about six inches deep, and four feet
wide by six feet long. The juice is here boiled
down to syrup. Immenae quantities of cane
stalks are thrown away after the juice ir
squeezed out. I t would seem as though thi,
might be good material for making paper.
The towns look much like the ones we used to
see in the moving picture& The restmanta
are called d Q s , the men wear broad-rimmed
ha@ and the streeta are very wide Large
gronpe d men are often seen standing around
the stores and garages, and they look very intently at travelers passing through. Most of
these people seem filled with the epirit of help
fulness, however; and when our car is broken
do&, nearly all pasman-by stop and ask if t h q
can be of assistance.
Some of the things we never aaw before am
water drained from the roof for dgpurposes ;Negro preachera intemsted in I. B. S. A
l i t e r a m white wmen dipping s n d ; and a
Baptist znkbter butchering hog&

Reports From Foreign Correspondents

h m CQIUlQlQ
R. E. FAIEB-, writing in the "Christian
M
Guardian", is somewhat fearless in his arraignment of the modem pulpiteer, so much so
6.

that we cannot but fear for him inasmuch as,

b o x i n g what short shrift is meted out to all
n-ho are not pleasing to the "machine" which
gorerns us through politics, church and state,
his utterances must be most distinctly displeasing to large numbers of those who read the columns of -his vehicle.
'3Tiihout doubt," he saps, "our modern world needs
the prophetic voice and message. It is surfeited with
the cloying sweetmeat8 of sentimental preachments
designed to engage the sensibilities. That is the due
penal9 of religion made easy and palatable."

Jir. Fairburn proceeds to detail the crying

evils of our day, all of which he states should
b vigorouely attacked from the pulpit, but deplores the fact that the modern ministers are
unable to lead in the work :
"Xot the eloquent departmental secretary, not the
crowd-attracting evangelist, nor the expert organizer
of drives, nor the pleasing singer; only the prophet !"
"Seedless to say," he goea on, "The religious world
does not welcome mch a voice, if there be found a rmn
of insight and courage to arise in the name of the
Lord. o h , for half an-hour of Isaiah !"

justify the Government Tmmigration p o w

proudly shoning that the tide of emigration
from Canada southward was slowing up and
that many Canadians were returning. Tbo
illail and Empire, Toronto, ceases its p r o p
ganda, however, with the statement that the
exodus still continues aa heavy aa ever.
The Vancouver Daily Prooiwe tries also to
peer through the propaganda smoke to see what
immigration from Continental Europe and the
British Idea will really mean to the oountrp. It
comments on the prosperity before the war,
with an aggressive immigration policy in force
and thousands of people flocking in and then
says :
' V e do not seem to have decided upon d k h W
the came and which fhe deck or whether the hm~
concomitant. \Ye had free homesteodr fm fhm

railroad work to help them get on thir fceh We

have plenty of land available, but it ia not izlbq
railroad work has dwindled to a minimam Thb k
ing the case, it ia not at all c d & tbt wo OW ~ b r t
we want to do with the newcomers. We cannat
them to create the tide of p m q x d y which d
l@UW~
them on to a competence. That ia too much Lib loob.
ing to a nation to raise iteelf by ita b o o b k p Tb
machinery ia all ready, but the engine won't rbzt
Priming at some eort is necemay."

The Moose Jaw Time8 puts the matter q&

\Ye sympathize a i t h Yr. Fairbarn's cry as cleady:
we do with his expressions against war, corn$182,000,000 in nun power to tb
" C d a
~nentedon in a previous article. He seems to United States during 1923. 183,000 men went over
that
be one of the few voices crying in the wilder- during the year, md Immi@op ffiialr
ness; and we can sympathize with any who, each immigr~ntis worth $1,000 t h e m e - Accordswing clear-eyed the stark horror of modem ingly fie 182,000 rho went
the bo*
=&th.t
conditions, yet milla hopelessly around in the a 1- of $182~000.000. It ia
narrow a g e of t d t i o n and "orthodorf',
eveq
Mnp
and
in
dconsumer of $100 hrorth of products d
e tb
knowing naught of the freedom beyond the bars. fective
Let us hope that his eyes map soon be opeped year."
Thus we must add to oar $182,000,000 the imto the "new and living way" from his troubles.
Ontario faced a plebiscite on the liquor ques- mense sum of $127,400,000 loss to general b ~ &
tion in October. Your correspondent prophe- ness, mRking a t o t d of $309,400,000 loss to
sied some time ago that the prohibition law Canada. It goes on:
would be amended in some form before Christhveanmnt -& th.t
,A tsv rd
mas. If our present Provincial Government has the tide ,f emigdion to
united stata
its wayy Quebec is due for a considerable drop ,d
of thir ru d d the rt.wer
in reveilue from Ontario's "wets" before long. by
Department of -tion
tb.f dm
"Keep p n r booze money at home," is the popuL [ B ~ .na v e q at 2,000 people pa a
April
Irr sentiment ;,and "Patronize home bootleg- b d r e h dto c-h fmm the south. B U ~
gers" is another expression of it.
the United States f%urashow? They h w e d tht d m ~
Recently our papers have endeavored to ing May about 13,500 people went from Canada to tb.
a

- -*

GOLDEN AGE

~lir

HeraM some figures which are considered teliable by the Bond Dealers Association of Canada.
This pertinent commentary on the Government bluff should make us think. Prosperity
''Dominion Debt, 1923, $ 2 , 5 1 2 , 1 2 6 , 5 5 9
Provincial Debts, 1923 4 614,411,816
is not just around the corner. I n fact, a pair
Municipal Debta, 1923, 4 l , O 5 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0
of high power binoculars will fail to discern it
anywhere on the horizon.
Total DeMs, 1923, -S238,538,436
The Toronto Star cames as a newa item the
statement of Canon F. (3. Scott, Bishop of
Divide this amongst eight millions of a popnQuebec, and noted war time padre, a t a recent lation, which incidentally steadily grows less,
meeting of the Anglican Social Service Council : and you have the average per capita debt, for
'We mud admit," a t a h that Canon, "that Canad8 every man, woman, and child, Indian papoose
btally
b todry being carried on one big blus?. We cannot and Eskimo, of $530. HOWnearly does t
build a country on false hopea We must get to rock with our other statementst
bottom It L no uae ssying we should bring Brifiaharr
Mr. G. (3. Coote, Alberta member of par&
dherefogoanthefumr Tbqnan'tdoit-"
ment in the Dominion House, gave his viewe
b reported by
"rhey'are doing it in my province," inter- to the Toronto Finamid Post. i
rupted a member from Alberta Later, Canon the Moose Jaw Times, he states that full7 onethird of the farmers of Western Canndrr am
Scott added :
9 you realize that thin country is bankrupt? If bankrupt :
'The reasan why them have not bean more cuar ad
thia country was asked to produce gold for money in
cimdatiun it could not do it We are very heady bankruptcy among& farmers M not due to tbs fact th.t
taxed. Eveq man, woman and child in Canada down thisunfortnnategtateofafLairsdoernotexi&buttbd
to the last Indian papooss ia paying $6.50 r pear for then ia nat the m&inery for d h c h h g it."
the National Railway. We must go slow."

Yes, Canon; we must go slower than that

even. In reply to your interrupter regarding
the condition of Alberta, let us quote from a
report recently received from one of our
western representatives, one whom we have
every coniidence in as a rehble observer:
'We have been for the past two weeks in a very pour
district (in Alberta). With no o p a year after year
the people are leaving by the hundreds. mere in not
ten percent of the farms where we have been for the
past two weeks that are inhabited. Those that are
staying are next to destitute. The C. P. R. ia giving
them free tramportation to any place they choose to
go. I never could have believed there waa such poverty
in the Weat had I not mn it for nrpnelf. We have
driven fm twenty-five miles at a stretch on a road with
houses on both sides and not one inhabitant. It will
mean very hard timed for the winter with a great many.
This condition &north and weat of hem also.'

Alberta ,is no doubt excellent territory for

British refugees !
There may st& be doubt in the hearts of some
as to the reliability of figures quoted in these
columns concerning Canada's indebtedness.
Briefly let us quote from the Calgary DazCy

A special despatch to the Times-Herd New*

papers from Shaanavon, Saskatchewan, cancerning a trip through Southern Alberta by a
local barrister, adds this testimony:
c f c o n d i t i o_in
~ Southern Alberta am l'eprbd u b t
ing most pitiable, ficlda being abeolutely withopt sign
of vegetation for scores of miles. A p d n of caravana was eeen at difkrent points, farmen pulling out
to eeek new homes in Northern Alberta or in the United
States. Others were moving but had no p d h h r dee
tination."

The Veteran, o5cial organ of one of the k g est organizations of Great War V e t e m in
Canada publishes the answer of Sir Arthur
Currie, principal of McGiU University, and late
Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces in
France, to the question of the American Legioa
What did the world gain by the Great Warl"
"By the World War we gained a truer qqmchtim
and a better realization of war's nnepeahable waste, ita

dmadfd hardships, its m e 1 daughter, and ib rf*

math ot lonelineso, s o m and broken hearts. W e Lmnr
t h t aa 8 meana of solving the world'r problemna d
removing international M war is 8 d e l d 4
a lit"

' L

a @WEN AGE
Sir Arthur ahodd be in a good position to
exercise hindsight in this matter. If only our
statesmen, po1itick.q ministers, et al, could
have exercised foresight as well! Slowly but
surely the vindication of the conscientious objector comes trickling from the lips of the
world's inteUectua3s; but how much will be repembered of these utterances when the next
call to useiess sacrXce sounds from the strongholds of Mammon and Mars?
The Montreal Witness sums up the last
decade with a comment on the war and its after

effects in language which might xell be remembered in the next one :

"Four yerrs of daughter, duxing which the mid'@
great powera gave their whole reeerve of w d t h , d
howledge and energy to doing rs much destruction
rs they could: rir yeua of rgony and economic w d a
which have coet the ricton far more than it would have
coat to forget and forgive evsrgthing."

What will the next few yearn b m g forthmore war, or peace?

Read the HABPOF GOD,and get a clear answer.

How Prohibition Came On the Statute Books

HE: following is a sample of some of the

things that happen to pious advocates of
'. prohibition who a t the same time take a contrary course. Let each one judge whether the
folloning proves that Prohibition was put on
the Statute books as a scheme of the Lord or a
scheme of the devil. The folloning was taken
from the public press :
Dry Law Adwwtss S t a d Jail T e r n on Booze Charge.
Fonner Member of B w e of De!sgrrtes B e
gins Serving Skty-Day Sentence d
Bowliwg Green for Violating
the Prohibition Latcs
(Reprinted from an Exchange)
BORLISG GREEN, VA., Sept. 13. C. B. Conway
of Moss Neck, former member of the house of delegates
of the Virginia General Bseembly from Caroline county,
has darted a eixty days mtence in the county jail here
for violating the prohibition laws. Conwap waa orreeted
on May 1, after a fifty-gallon still had been found in
operation in the kitchen of his home, together with r
quantity of corn liquor and mash. He was not at home
at the time but murendered to Caroline county authorities hter and, after indictment by the grand jury on
two counts, be pled guilty before Judge R. H. L Chicheder snd waa Gsed $100 and sentenced to sixty days in
jail. He Gur r e l d under 11,000 bond for appearance
October 13 to begin hh jail term, bat decided to begin
erving hie time this week.

RY ~ v d ~p ~ t l i c r f ~ r d

An innovation waa introdwad by tin bnmI

of the Independent ticket when thq 8aked for d
obtained r fifty-ant admimiom f
a to hsu sCP.t4t
Wheeler'r qmch The hall, mting %,OQII pamom, ru
filled before he began to ape&.
The Tressurg hecrd. Senrtor Wh&la .Psrb$ %nbodied the economic idea that govammmt
for the pmtedion of propertj' and he added tbrt Qia
mattera of taxation, public expendim BnraA. law
enforcement, foreign, oil rad rd.kd qwatbq
Mellon'~ quiet voice ia pretty d j mprema in tha
present Administration."
An eumple of "Mr. Mellon's tendernew baud property," Senator Wheeler r e n t on, hrd been exhiiited in
laxity. The Senatortor
#id :
"Re ie in charge of the Prohibition Enforcement Ik
partment of this Government. He r a a in the whiskey
busines~~
forty yema, and wur 8 part owner of man?
thousands of barrels of ahiekey when tht Eighfanth
Amendment went into effect According b Qmemor
Pinchot of Pennsylvania, he waa still interested in tb
proceeds of this whiskey when it w a sold.
"hfany of our wealthy people, I M y believe, do not
h o w that the Constitution wm intended to pmtect
human rights as well as property righta"
Senator Wheeler d d d that big financehad been Mr.
Melion's religion and ' T a l l Street his mother thud."

&.

Supported D ry Legirlation
RICHbIOND, VA, Sept 13.-Legislative journals
of the house of delegates of the Virginia General AsamTwo Thoworfd Pay Fifty Cents Apiece to Hear Whwbr bly for the tenna during which C. B. Conwry are 8
member &ow b t the Cuoline county delegate nu an
B a p Yellon or Bootbgger
udent supporter of prohibition legidation.
(RepYinted from New York American)
PITTSBDBGH, P\a,Sept. 16.-Secretary Mellon'r
Pamu1a Grip InvoicGs Bibb, Liqw+, Songa
conduct of the T m d y Deputment and his influence
(Reprinted from Fort Worth Stor-Telegmm)
with the Republican Administration were rseriled by
SHREbTPORT, Aug. 26.-In the midst of the SunSenator Wheeler, of l i o n h a , Independent V i c e - M dry m i c e of the Farmenilla Baptist Church Sundry,
dentid candidate, in his address hen to-night.

Sheriff Murphy seized the parson's handbag, opcaed

rherifl Pat Murphy of Union Puish entered the front
loor and advanced to the pulpit and arrested Rev. it and took therefmm one Bible, two hymn boob .nl
two ~ U Z I I Vof
~ Bcorn w ~ h i d ~ y .
WDrnnu,=~~-

above that of the beast is demonstrated Irg lm,

such as acts of mercy and tolerance. When the
griefs, s d e r i n g s and disappointments uf liie
become a fading memory and death lays hold
upon the little throbbing heart, the onlp cone+
lation to be had is the thought of any deed8 of
kindness that he may have scattered as he p
d
along the way.
Looking down the dim visb of nineteen matnries we find the record of a man who freely
sacrificed His whole life, snd a l l that life embraced, in loving service to the downtrodden,
the outcast of earth. Not a single transgresdoP
could be laid at Hia door, nor was guile found in
His mouth; His life established the i d e d that
draws like a magnet, and His death bm&t
the hope of immortality. Yet in that dsrL hour
of diasolntion amidst the fading tmnea of eaztb
we find among His last utterances the ago&
ing cry, 'Wy God I Uy God ! why hast thou forsaken me 1''
What then must be the last hour for the heedless, the ungodly who live their lire8 for self
done ?
But did Jesus die in vain? Surely His sacrifice is to some now, and later will be to all,
availsble for salvation. Thank God for the sb
snrance of His Word that Jesus' murrection
Skmt o f w e Unknown
is a guarantee of coming times of restitution
HE secret of Lifs is not revealed by any of and the restoration of all that was lost when
the processes known to man; and the only Adam plunged onr race into sin and death!
evidence we have that lmrn has any pre-eminence And still, for Christ's kingdom we humbly wait.

"M
This

AN that is born of a woman is of few

days, and full of trouble". (Job 14: 1)
melancholy truth finds an echo in every
hamnn heart; for divested of all the sophistry
concerning it, huqan life is the most pathetia
tragedy the universe has ever conceived.
Man boasts himself the proud possessor of
a sod. But taking history at its face value
man ia seen to be the most brutal being in the
whole scale of animal creation, literally sprinkling the earth with pale sleepers, victims of the
relentless god of war, while millions have
perished in excruciating torture, even in the
a8me of religion.
M.n prides himself on him ability to reason
by llse of the snbatmm knom as brain. But
he forgeb that tlrs dog by use of the same sub
stance csn unerringly eaent and follow the trail
of an animal that has paased along five h o r n
before, and that a t last the worms get both.
Since time began, man has set himself the
eerious task of solving the great riddle of life.
But all his efforts have t u n e d to ashes in his
hands; for neither the result of scienWio research nor the discoveries of philosophy reveal
anything concerning it, while the little mound
of earth that marks the end of the journey
mocks his p ~ triumphs.
y

Exploration of North Pole Region

been thought
we
nearing
ITtheHAS
end,of the glacial period, and that the cliof the entire earth was to become more
that

were

mate

m o d e r a t e t h e north warming, the south cooling. W e believe,t.his yet; hut Captain Donald
B. McMillan, who has returned from a fifteen
months' exploration of the Arctic region,brings
rame new ideaa relative to this.
Yr. ZldoMillan's observations, reaching over

a period of sixteen years, incline him toward

the belief that we are entering another gfacid
period; f o r the ice cap8 and glaciers of the far
north are increasing in thiokneeu and are moving southward.
Other discoveries made by Mr. McMinan corroborate the Bible record that there wsre no
cold, barren, .and uninhabitable are= upon the
earth prior to -tho Roa4hiPn 'Ffood. Enormoum

n. GOLDEN

AGE

Physical changes are questionably still wcoal deposits, twenty-five feet thick, a few hundred miles from the h'orth Pole, and eight ing on in the earth ;and as the frigid zones thaw
hundred miles beyond the reach of any trans- out, on the surface by the warm waters of the
portation facilities (except sleds), were found. . Japan and Mexican Gulf streams, and beneath
As a result of this, the explorer claims that by the internal fires which are believed to exist,
that region once had a very M e r e n t climate we may expect the earth to buckle and twht
from what it now has, and he thinks that the and heave ,and sigh in these convulsions of IW
polar asis of the earth has materially changed. tnre until all the ice is disgorged and the earth
He found clam shells on the tops of hills, 1200 settles into the peaceful equilibrium of a perfeet above the sea level, proving that the hills fect poise.
Neither has the earth changed materially the
were once under the water. And now, thew
are positive signs of the subsidence of great axis of its polarity. The North Star and other
nd areas; for "the entire coast is sinking", he stars are in motion, and no doubt change their
relative position, not only to our earth but to
.jays.
Our opinion, however, is that we are not in our entire solar system. But the motion of all
rr new glacial period, but gradually getting out our planets with their polar inclination8 ( ~ t k
of .the first and only one that shall ever be. the possible exception of Uranw) in&e US ta
Prior to the Flood the earth was a sort of hot- the view that our present axial relation to tb.
house, canopied with vapors of water through sun is as it always has been.
w-hie11 the sun's heat was equably distributed.
God has manifested too great an i n t a d ia
y the human family by sending His Son Jeadr b
These vapors gradually condensed and W
gravitated upon the earth, causing the great to the world to redeem and, presently, in the
Deluge, the centrifugal force of the earth's Messianic kingdom, to restore the race to tb+
rotary motion compelling the precipitation at pristine perfection of Adam and Eve in a worM
the poles. The earth, now having the sun shin- beautified earth-wide like Eden, to permit a
ing directly upon it, warmed up at the equator, comet to shatter it, or another glacial period to
and cooled rapidly a t the poles. The ice in the freeze it up, or the sun to cool snthcien* b6
polar regions was not formed during centuries, devitaliae it. We should not be afraid-eithe?
but during a few days.
for our aildren or for our childrenyrchildrek
'

Religious Persecution in Russia

M R.

WILBUBK. THOMAS,who was head of the

Qnaker Relief Commission to Russia, says
that the only religious persecution there has
be11 in Russia is that the Government officials
have gone around and gathered up the sacred
bones of John the Baptist and St. James; and
that when they had finished the job they had
enough bones to make 200 men. This has hurt
the regplar religious trade seriously; for the
common people had been previously taught that
the bones were genuine.
But Mr. Thomas insists that while religions
fraud has been made more difficult, yet there
are llially \religious sects in Russia ;and that he
"The earthbrighten with glldney
With the rising of the day.
And envy, h.h and bitternam
With th.night shJl pur mar.

aeked representatives of several of them whet&

er they had been interfered with in any way by
the Soviet and they stated that they had not.
Moreover, Mr. Thorn- stated that this w u
their answer without an exception.
On the other hand Mr. John Spargo, famow
Socialist, states that today in Soviet Rnsda r
child m a y not attend the Soviet schools if ha
attends church or Sunday school, and that children are expelled from the State schools i t they
do not admit that they are atheists. The revolution in Russia is the French Revolution right
over again in all its phasea.
"A better day ir dawning!
The day long h a fontold,
When the Golden Rule of the lhtu
Supplant. the rule of Wd."

A Preacher Pro&itutes Eia Profession

RUPX
COSXCJB
ia
to be the name of
Eeirha+rof'me
e m
supposed

a-

'%par
e

Omdm said that Mom tb. war b. nr r

t i d .nd p e ; thd ha W U rtill 8

Ebl",ymy
2.

lot," "The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail" 'The

-7
Sky Pilot in No Man's Land," etc.
aaid tha speaker, 'ehould be cnbamient C urxying an
A sky pilot M o m who is mpposed to know
high holy
no
b.
the way of salvation; but in i n t y he is a pious COot vmnd imp-/
He paolull, n,
hypocrite posing in the livery of sanctimony,
disguising himself as a Christian. A sky pilot
is of the tribe Magi ; and obsessed with pride
and vainglory he sallies forth to w i n the
plaudits of the World, the mesh, and the D m
and is rmsatia6ed in his insatiable greed until
these plaudits are received. He caws nothing
f o r the Lord Jesus, for the Word of Truth, nor
for the spirit of the truth, What do the lowlinew the goodness, the gentleness, of the Man of
Qalilee mean to him 1 35s cloak of religion
rterves only to fool the people.
In Winnipeg, Canada, there i. a preachem
bg the name of Reverend C. W. w o n . He
is the pastor of St. Stephen's c%nrch (Presbyterian). His annual salary from thia congre@ion is $l.OO-one dollar. Yes, a dollar a
year; but read on.

mud
oon-ed
aboat
,,
th,fit it t
ofight

not

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go help

a,

l
,

t6roagh.v'43ap19,1917.
(q [ R . & ~b
~h
~e
I th,wcabbwhdl1
of
mnd
for rights- and thin a=, .nd dill
prepared to dean "A chaplain thrt doesn't make
hia mm better fighting men im't on hia job.. It ia
wonderful to see haw the men h d y up when W
mabe
in with them."-Numabar 14,1917.

..

b# Rh Apft
T a preacher may pmtitute hid p d i ( l t

sion ia entirely possible. I t win be

qmte L & ~g :a:u h d Jew said
havingpat his hand to the plo~gb,
&
N,
looging kck, fit for t .
In
contart
ra
a
hardships that would attend one d t o u d e r h k
to be Hia follower.' Everp o w born that tb,
Chapkin in C a d Ann#
life of Jeaua from the time of E h coaOME extracts from the Manitoba Free Pre88
man of M)~ h r m yon& ~e
r u 8 t n o r s e n e ru for a part d hia W u and sq-nted laith grid'.
tb.( tb.
record.
way of life was difEcnlt: 'Sit down first and
(Date of issue appended at end of paragraph.) count the cost.' Jesns was humble, meek, kind,
"mile they were in Winnipeg the speaker [Dr. a r c '. and sympathetic. "If any man have not the
don] felt certain that to many of tham bop (30d had spirit of Christ, he is none of his." His
seemed but a name, but now they regarded Him ar a ment plainly was: 'If any man makes up hi8
'Om mind to be a foIlawm of mine, makes the s t a ;
grest a d
pcreon, 8 V
-7,'
h* said
and*
'is 8 WY
religiorv
then turm back, he ia not fi to be rewarded
army.' "Tgnnary 4, 1917.
with heapenly glory.'
"Taking for his [Dr. Gordon's] tart Luke 9,: 62, T h b
But Dr. Gordon applied it to Presbyterians,
teaching ia applicable to Canada and its duty today.. ..
a
thing
of
glq;
but
Methodists
and Catholics in Canada taking up
wu fmm a
ma, nu
N at hand war i. .n ugb thing, tbs m m m o n p b deadly f
i to
~O* the~P m s b~J t e m
d
an phq dirt & death.. .~ h .
Methodists and Catholics in Germany. HI
of w u today is tearing through p~ersantfial& of l i . says: 'The metaphor is that before Canada
bringing fuia upon the h e m md fxuits of humur there is but one simply single du*.. . to plow
l i v a and wrecking homes of many living thiqp; and this tearing, terrible furrow of war stmight
fie teaching of the metaphor
that befont
through to the end,. that end with d resterP ~ Jduty,
far m V ma%
there but one B ~ ~ &&
e w e we say is nothing less thus the kingdom
woman and,child in Canada that duty in ta plow thh
tearing, tehble furrow of war strrigltt thmugh to th.
W a s there ever ranker blasphemy uttered-end. ...They are convinced we are right in our aim at
the first; they are cyvinced we are &dl right in p u m - that the hateful murderons war, which he himfw the same end; and thzt end with 9 merena we sell admits "is an W ~ YtEng, the C O ~ ~ O
of which are pain, dirt and death," is man'r
mthing 1- th.n thr
Q O ~ "--J-'
agency for ushering in the k g d o m of God on
orrf 14 lBl7.
n
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a GOLDEN AGE
earth! It ia only partially paralleled by the
blasphemy of the preachera who proclaim that
the League of Nations ia "the political expression of the kingdom of God on earth."
Dr. Gordon probably got the idea that his
army 'is a deeply religious army" because the
boys gave his oratory respectful hearing. Yes;
he has oratory. No matter what else he lacks,
he probably has oratory to burn. A preacher
must have oratory, and an author has the gift of
~peech. Ralph Connor and Rev. C. W. Gordon
are one and the same. We now know that he has
courage and honesty l We can tell by the fruits.
Before the war he was an anti-conscriptionist.
He changed his mind about that when the Canadian Government began to conscript its soldiers. Before the war he wae a paeifiat. But
now he is one in name only. "Everything/ Bays
he, "should be subservient to carrying on of
war"-that the way to peace leads through the
blood red paths of war, that ''things high, holy,
and sacred even, should be considered of second
importance."

WorrCr'u Stauurcrrd o f Mentality

UST how great this man is may never be
known, but we will help somewhat. I t is
proverbially known that preachers' sons are
bad ones, so young Gordon got a good atart in
life by being the son of his father, the Rev.
Gordon, being born 64 years ago. He went to
pnblic schools in Glengarry; Harrington High
School, St. Mary's, Ontario; Toronto University; Knox College, receiving there the degree
of D. D. ;a t Qneen'e University, Engaton, L L.
D. ; and at Glasgow, D. D.
Dr. Gordon had pat his hand to the plow as an
anti-conscriptionist,. and turned back to join
bands with the devil in the fiercest war ever
known. His war pronpotions are as follows:
Made chaplain 79th Cameron Highlanders, went
with C. E. F. as chaplain of the 43rd Batt. ;Cameron Highlanders as captain; May 1915 made
senior chaplain of Canadian forces, rank major ;
proceeded to France 1916 as senior chaplain of
9th Brigade, B. E. F. (Canadian). .He was attached to 'the British Mission to the United
States and- Canada 1917-1918.
Before the war, Dr. Gordon had also put his
hand to the plow ah a pacifist ;but from this war
record he demonstrates the fact that he ia a
pacifist in camouflage, hence turned back again.

With the letters he might place before and after

his name, we h o w positively that he ie milt f o r
the kingdom of God-unless he becomes aonverted.
A m r d i n g to the world's standard R e v e r e d
C. W. Gordon, D. D. LLD., alias aalph Connor, would measure n p pretty well with KUUI~:
of its preachers and 'warriors. He is some
mixer. He is of the world, and the world love&
its own. "The friendshipof the world is enmity
with God. Whosoever therefore will be a friend
of the world ia the enemy of Qd."-Jamea 4 :4,
The grandstand applause i~ seen in the following, taken from the Cnnulirn Honrs Jourd
of June 1924:
"Theparwrnducri'bed~~ddmnith,whoru~
ing rich on for* pound# 8 ywr', d
l hudly k mribd
by numy modern c l e q p e n , but men today t k m isrtlesstase~Ofreligionwhorsr3yiroaniderrbly lesr thrn thia unount Indad, it ia pnhblj
the d e s t d w y in the world. Thir protor ia t
b
Rev. Dr. C. W. Qordon, better known as 'Ralph C o d , .

theantharofT2u8kyPiWmdotherfuMornmrlr.
Hetthe~uf~Pre&yteriancburch.tW~
peg, but flnb KI much of hi, time taken up w i t h ou+aide a-&pnenb that an amodata clagJman haa hem
appointed to carry on while he ir away from ham,
Thb amciate getr the lim'r rbue of the dq,t
b
norelist being content with the modest etipend d a dollar a year for hia renicea to the church."

A reader of 3!mn
writes :

QOLDIUT

A a in Whpeg

'The high d u i e a paid to Dr. Gordon and hi8 aaaoph

rut have pretty welI 'broken' the church up; for
according to one of the local papers, they had to d
l
the chnmh-how, an ee-e~~t
kept for the parpow
of instructing 'whosoever will' in the arts of basketball,
boxing, billiards, etc, the performance8 and playing being plain3y Tieible to t h w .who passed by. The indebtcdncy of the chnrch WM $80,000. The building.
bronght $45,000."
ate

ma W

h of Publicity
ERHAPS Dr. Qordon, alias Connor, wod&

P be glad to tell the world that his s a l a q

from the St. Stephen's church is only one dollar per annum. It represents a great sacrifice
for the Master-uupposedly so 1 We must remember that Dr. Gordon, aZias Connor, receiver
royalties from the sale of his many fiction books,
This'is as it should be, but we are unable to
figure out how a preacher can write narneroru
boob on fidion.

But another item concerning where Dr. Go+

don, alias Connor, got his money is not SO
liberally blown to the winds: It reveals the
secret why he turned conscriptionist, and remains a pacifist in camouflage. It follows :
Canadian Preas Despatch, to the Manitoba
Free Press, Winnipeg, May 23,1924. "Ottawa,
May =-Rev.
C. W. Gordon (Ralph Connor)
of Winnipeg, was paid $14,678 for his services
as captain and chaplain in the Canadian Exd t i o n a r y Forces. The amount paid to his
dependent was $2,962 during this period, making a total payment of $17,640. Dr. Gordon
ael-ved for four years, three months, and twentyeight days. A part of the time he was engaged
in delivering addresses a t patriotic meetings
throughout Canada and the United States. The
information in regard to his services was given
in the House of Commons in answer to a
question by William DUB (Liberal, Lunenburg)

."

A M d k m 'Akrancihr tltr Coppersmith ''

HE most despicable, devilish, and heathen-

ish part that Dr. Gordon, alias Connor, had

to play in the World W a r is yet to follow. For
receiving such a handsome reward from the
Government for preaching young men into the
war, making of his church a recruiting station,
and sanctifying war by telling the soldiers that
they would go to heaven if they died on the
battlefield, he surely thought that he had to
earn his money. Diabolically and with fiendish
enthusiasm he went before the Canadian Oove m e n t , and persuaded it to cause the arrest
aad imprisonment of Bible Students if they
had anything in their possession bearing the
TOWEBBIBLE& Turn
imprint of the WATCH.
S o m , even tho*
it might be nothing more
deupetrate than a Bible o r a hymn book.
& samples of how his wishes were carried
out, on November 8, 1918, at Iroquois Falla,
htaria,' k R. Woad, Peter Wood, Thomas
Phillips, Mrs. A. E. Holland, Mm. Wood,Mra.

McCurdy, and Mrs. Acheson were fined $100

each for holding a prayer-meeting. The Biblea
seized at this meeting, together with the Bible
study textbooks, were all burned in the furnace
by order of the trial judge, J. K. Ebbitt, a
member of the Church of England. At Victoria, British Columbia, & Sutherland war
jailed three months for having a Bible study
textbook in his possession
These outrages became epidemic througho~t
Canada and quickly spread to the United States,
resulting in one of the greatest waves of bigotry, intolerance, beatings, finea and imprisonments, tarrings and featherings ever known in
history.
After his conversion, St. P a d was an hambb
Christian and would harm no one. He had
Christ's spirit. Bs a Christian he had hh o p
ponents. He was beaten, imprisoned and 0thwise ill treated because of his faith, He speab
of one, thus: "Alexander the coppersmith did
me much evil: the Lord reward him according
to his works: of whom be thou ware also; f o r
he hath withstood our words." (2 Timothy 4: 15)
When people learn what true Christianity L
they will beware of all such men.
The firebrands of hate and persecution thah
swept the Xorth American continent during
1918 can properly be laid at the doors of the
apostate clergy; and these, waiting tor the
chance to pounce upon the defenseless BiMs
Students, seized their opportunity when thia
one man Gordon, alias Connor, opened the way.
This was made possible from the fact that the
British Government (Church of England) had
honeycombed both Canada and the United
States with a gigantic police force known as the
Council of Defense.
While /Bible Students are perfectly w i l l i q
that "the Lord reward him according to bb
works", yet it would seem certain that some
visible retributive punishments should be meted
out; and this m y be manifested by a general
disregard for the clergy aa a clasa
uEanre Zomdd your tJmma.ad .
I
- tluq
00 tbo badla and raalr of 11ma?
And thlnk p that bullding &all endun
Whlehrb.lutb.n~Md~atkpbnt

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Paradise on Earth
(Radiocast from WATCHTOTER IYBBH on a ware length of 273 nieters, by J. F. Ra:!~.ri.::d..J

s JIY last lecture here, I submitted the Scrip1

tmal proof that God created man perfect;
':at in His due time God w i l l restore the obedient

'

ones of mankind to that original perfedion. It

therefore becomes of vital interest to h o w
m-here the home of the perfect man will be. It
is nlanifest that in order to be in harmony with
his perfect organism, a perfect man would need
a perfect home, that which ia pleaaing to the eye
and a joy to the sod.
I t is true that the Scriptures show that a few
of the human race, because of faithfulness dnring the Gospel Age, will be changed at the fv8t
resurrection from human to spirit beings. The
Scriptures definitely show that these will be a
very small number. I t seems strange, then, that
intelligent men, who claim to be teachers of the
Bible, have so long held before the people the
thought that the only hope of salvation is to go
to heaven; and that all those who do not find
eternal life in heaven must be eternally tormented in some place beneath the earth. These have
pnssed by entirely the great array of scriptures
ihat show that the habitation of mankind in
general vill be on the earth. Bearing upon this
point it is of very great importance to know
wliat kind of home Adam, the perfect man created by God, had and possessed. It would be
reasonable to expect that the Creator would
provide that perfect man a home in harmony
with his perfection. The Scriptures leave no
doubt as to this, but clearly state:
" h d the Lord God planted a garden eastvard in Eden; and there ha put the man whom
he had formed. And out of the ground made
the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant
to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life
also in the midst of the mrden, and the tree of
knowledge of good and evil. And a river went
out of Eden to water the garden; and from
thence it was parted, and became into four
heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is
it which compasseth the whole land of Ravilah,
where there ia gold; and the gold of that land
is good :there ia bdellium and the onyx stone.
And the nof the second river in w o n ;
the .same is it that oompasaeth the whole land
of ~ t h i o ~ And
i a ~ 'the name of the third river ia
Hiddekel :that is ibwhich goeth toward the east
of Assyria. And the fourth river is Enphrater.

And the Lord God took the man, and put l

h
into the garden of Eden, to dress it, and to keep
it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thon may&
freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, thon shalt not eat of it: for in the
day that thon eatest thereof thou ebalt d x
diiam--Genesis 2: 817.

Mc0luong of N a m e Signiffeant
VEaP name Jehovah giver to a piace hu
a deep si&canca
The word "Eden"
means 8 garden, pleasant, deliah, a placse of
pleasare and delight. Eden, in fa,&, waa t&
fiaished part of the earth
the only hi&d
part. m e n God pronounced the aprw
He said to him
the &&
of the earth:
tfie ground for thf
sale.'' This word here rendered -a
means nfi&ed,
&dleft & reat of the m
*ed
80 that
w o a have amploymeat,
and thie
been a great
to
since~~d had fi&d~clen,
dearthat ~d~ wm mrfay
h wb~ood
the d e c r a i o n of b
WOr&
& t&
,,tion of sod is
M,
word
declares ~
I 32:4) we )
a ~
of the most beaatifd .pot on
eye in
times
yet -4
and br
&at ~d~~was even more beaatifd t h fiato
meword " ~ d ~ g a pcuh;
and the
word used by our Lord when He tmid to the
thief, 'man shalt be in
means ~ d the gardm of the Lordo The
b v e bw
told us, therefore, that Eden or Paradise ia in
heaven; yet they have not had any Scripto base
hir~llsion*
a.p,

k
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ofmen

HERE then wzu the original garden o*

Eden? A careful examination of t
h
Scriptures leaves little doubt m to it8 location.
are defmite
Eden wuin
The
the vicinity of the head of the River E a ~ h t & 1 .
The River Euphrates flows from the mountainous district of Armenia into the Persian Gulf,
and is made up of four trihtsriiea It riser in
the vivinity of Mt. Ararat, which mountain was
on the erstern border of Eden, aa the Scripturea
n

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clearly indicate. There is nothing to warrant

the conclusion that Eden wae in a plain; but the
proof is overwhelming that it was in the valley,
surrounded by high mountains, and that it was
accessible only from the east. (Gene& 3: 24)
Take a map, atid look a t the vicinity of the
Persian Gulf, in the present land of Armenia,
in the mountainone section, and you have a p
proximately the location of the @en of Eden,
the cradle of the human race.
When God began the execution of His judgment against Adam and Eve, He drove them
oab of Eden, so k t they could not have access
to the tree of life; and He set cherubim and a
dllming sword turning in every direction to keep
them away from E d e 1 ~ 4 e n e s i s3: 24.
Beyond all question of donbt Eden, the garden of the Lord, waa on earth. Therefore the
queation ia settled byond a donbt that if Paradim ia restored it will be on earth. Eden was
made for man, a* man was placed therein.
Edem wan Paradise. Man is of the earth,
earthy. This is definitely stated in the Scrip
tares (1Corinthians 15:47) Man is not spirit ;
therefore he could not inhabit a spiritual realm.
When the few of the hmnan race who are to be
changed to spirit nature are changed from humrtn to spirit beinjp, then they w
ill be in the
spirit realm. The Lord plainly says in His
Word, through the prophet Isaiah: "I have
made the earth, and created man npon it. I,
even my hands, have stretched out the heavens,
and all their host have I commanded. ...God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath
established it, he created it not in vain, he formed
it to be inhabited."-Isaiah 45 :12,18.
The earth was never cursed. I t did not sin ;
therefore there was no occasion to curse it.
The earth waa left anflnished outside of Eden,
Eden alone being a sample of what God would
make the whole earth when it is brought up to
the staiidard which i t shall be. I t has been a
blessed thing for imperfect man, however, to
have something to do and to put forth an effort
to beautify the earth. This he has done, to his
pleasure And profit.
Ratomtion of tlatQd&e
World-wid0
\
T IS here interesting now to notice scriptures
which prove that God purposes to make the
earth beautiful beyond the description of haman
words, a Paradise for perfect man. His pro-

AGE
phet wrote: "The earth is the Lord's, and the
fdnesa thereof." (Psalm 24 :1) Then what God
intend8 to do for man concerlling the earth is
indicated by the same prophet, who wrote:
'What man is he that feareth the Lord? him
shall he teach i s the way that he shall choose.
His s o d shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall
inherit the earth." (Psalm 25 :12, 13) That the
earth is intended only for those who are obedient to God and that those who are evil doem
shall be cut off, is definitely shown by the scrip
tures which read: "For evil doers shall be cut
off: but those that wait npon the Lord, they
shall inherit the earthn; "But the meek shall
inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves
in the abundance of peace"; 'Tor such as be
blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and the7
that be cursed of him shall be cat off." (Psalm
37: 9,11,22) Then the Prophet shows that
those who try to do right during the time of
stress, such as the world is now paasing through,
will have special favorq when he says :"BZetped
is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will
deliver him in the time of trouble. The Lord
will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he
shall be blessed upon the earth; and thon wiIt
not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.''Psalm 41:l,2.
Heretofore I have pointed out from the Scrip
toms how that faithful men of Israel who proved
loyal to the Lord mould be the rulers on the
earth; as we read: "Instead of thy fathers shall
be thy children, whom thon mayest make princea
in all the earth." (Psalm 45:16) As the
hnman race begins to be restored, before the
millions of dead return to the earth, it mill Im
necessary for some space to be cultivated on
earth, to be made productive; and God has
promised that it shall be thus: "Then shall the
eartb yield her increase ;and God, even our own
God, shall bless us."-Psalm 65: 6.

Toil te Vanish with Restomtion

ANKND has always been required to toil
with thorns and thistles, and to overcome
many difliculties in order to produce his food.
But it will not be thus when restoration is well
under way; for, says the Prophet: "The wilderness, and the solitary placea,.shaU be glad for
them; and the desert shall rejoice, and bloasom
as the rose. I t shall blossom abundantly, and
rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of

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hurt nor destroy in dl my holy kingdom: f ~ r

the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the
Lord, as the waters cover the sea.'' (Isaiah 11:
9) Looking to that happy time the same Prophet writes: "The whole earth is at rest, and is
quiet: they break forth into singing." ( h i a h
14: 7) This-same Prophet refen to the earth

Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency

of Carmel and Sharon; they shall see the glory
of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.
Then shall the h e man leap as an hart, and
the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the
desert. And the parched ground shall become
a pool, and the thirsty Iand wrings of water:
in the habitations of dragons, where each lay,
shall be grass, with reeda and rushes."-Isaiah
35 :l,2,6,7.
"For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth
with peace: the mountains and the hills shall
break forth before you into einging, and all the
trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead
of the thorn ahall come up the fiF tree, and instead of the brier ahall come up the myrtle tree:
and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an
everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."Isaiah 55 :12,13.
One who has visited the Imperial Valley of
Southern California can have some wrall conception of what the fnl.filment of these scrip
tnres means. Less than a quarter of a century
ago the Imperial Valley was a desert waste.
Kot even a coyote could cross its parched sands
and live. There was no living creature in it,
aside from horned toads. The Colorado river
was turned out of its course and irrigation ditches sent the waters through the Valley; and
.today the valley is doubtless the most prodnctive part of the earth's surface, yielding its
increase more wonderfully than any other land.

rs God's footstool, saying, 'Thua ssith the Lord,

Man and Hia Rome Made Beautiful

God's own due time He will make it not only
ISpossible
but certain that the vast desert

The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my

footstooln-Isaiah 66 :L
Then through Hir name prophet God says,
concerning the earth: 'The glory of Lebanon
ahall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine trse,
and the box together, to beautify the place of
my =chary; and I will make the p h of my
feet giorions." (Isaiah 60 :13) Thh d o h
place ahall be man's habitation. It &dlbe bir
inheritance, which Gtod haa provided for
and which H e w i l l grant thorn who are tedmbte
an$ obedient It wmt J e w who d d : " B 1 d
are the meek: for they shall inherit the dm
The major portion of the &'I mrt.erskfoday Lies a deeert waste, untilled. J
q
q m k b g through His prophet aa to tho redwation during the reign of Christ, ssyr: Th
saith the Lord God, In the day that I ahall have
cleansed yon from all your iniquities, I will Ju,
muse you to dwell in the cities, and the -tea
shall be builded. Bnd the desolate land shall
be tilled, whereaa it lay desolate in the sight of
all that passed by. And they shall say, This
land-that was desolate is become like the garden
of Eden; and the waste, and dewlate, and ruined cities, are become fenced, and are inhabitdm
-Ezekiel 36 :33-35.
J e w s said to the dying thief: T o d a y I 'say
to thee, Thou shalt be with me in paradise."
Jesus ia the great invisible King, and will rule
the earth through His faithful representatives,
the faithful worthies of old. Seeing now that
the earth is to be made an Edenio Paradise,
and thatlhe dead will be remmcted and given
a trial for life aad the obedient ones restored, that man is to have a perfect government and
dwell in peace and happiness, now we can a p
preciate the pords of- Jesus when He said to
the thief: "Thou shalt be with me in psradisa-

wastes of Africa and other parts of the earth

shall blossom M the rose, and shall yield an
abnildanee for the benefit of man. Aa the earth
continues to increase in beauty, and as the people are restored to health and happiness, they
mill bless the name of the Lord, ae the prophet
eays : "And blessed be his glorious name
for ever: and let the whole earth be 611ed with
his glory." (Psalm 72 :19) The people will increase in knowledge concerning the Lord, and
His glory kill shine out in all the earth ; because
man being restored, and his home being made EdcnMcryBePreurocd
beautiful, shall he\ a reflection of the geodness I T MAY not be ont of place to ask: What beof God, and peace and joy shall reign.
came of the garden of Eden? Scriptural
The Prophet thus puts it: "They shall not proof ir that it was surrounded by very high

mountains, that it was accessible only from the

east, that it is and was in the vicinity of Mount
Ararat, and that Mount &arat was the site
upon which Noah's ark landed, and which ha^
since been hidden under perpetual snow. It
does not seem reasonable that the Lord would
have-destroyed Eden; but it seems more reasonable that the Lord would have preserved it so
that in His due time He will exhibit it to man.
Through His prophet Job God said: "Hast
thou entered into the treasures of the sbowl"
(Job 38: 22) Doubtless Eden is one of the
treasures of the snow preserved by the Lord in
perpetual snow and ice. The inspired writer of
the Scriptures declares that with the second
presence of the Lord He will bring to Light the
hidden things of darkness. (1Corinthians 4: 5)
The Lord Jesus himself said: "For nothing is
secret that shall not be made manifest ;neither
anything hid that shall not be known."-Lnh
8 :17.
I .the light of these scriptures it is reasonable for as to conclude that when Gtod has
stored man and brought the earth to an Edenic
paradise, and all wickedness is eliminated, and
everything in the earth is in harmony with God,
then He will unseal the secret treasures of the

Ci-tion

By D m W h n F d m

(Beprint from The

Stained with the blood of their brothem,

The races of men vaunt their pride;

Skull on a totem pole, d p at a belt,
b s d a c u m on the men who died I

Lust, and the call of, revenge,

Loot, and the honor of might;
And over all a pestilence,
A lingering death, a blight
Stontmen who fuhioned with water-drop
A h~plmerto maim and kill;
Savage hordea who swung far south
To conquer a Bornan hill.
Power, and the love of self,
Strengt+ and the urge to destroy;
And running through the veina of men
Tha raim of gutted Troy.
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snow and exhibit to restored man hb or@

id
perfect home. Amongst those restored, who
s h a behold the glories and beautiea thereof, will be Adam. And the whole earth then
will be likened to the garden of E d e n Eden
shall be the joy of man, and all the people in
the earth d
lbe joyfal and happy. Then mankind will appreciate the love of God, and will
sing the praises of Jehovah and H
is beloved
Son, Christ Jesus. This song of praise, wafted
on the breezes, will be caught up by the angels,
and the other heavenly creatures, until every
creature in heaven and in earth' and even the
very eliments of the earth shall be singing the ,
Hallelujah chorns to the glory of God. Them
wiU be fully realized the goodness of Ood, a d
the creatures shall be saying, "Great and mu^
velloos are thy works, Lord God Almighty;
just and true are thy waya, thou K;nP of Mintam
A restored race, a restored home, with peacs
and joy and endless happinesr filling e q
heart; with their loved ones with them; with ne
fear of ever being separated again; with everything in the earth being to the Lod'a glow,
earth then will indeed be a paradise, a fit p h
for perfect man to dwell in compl-ta harmony
with God.

Telsurupher)

Knights in umor who rode away,

Smug in their coat of mail;
Black-bearded men with Holy Cma,
Seeking r madmu~'e (3rd.
Spoils, in the name of religion,
Thieves, with the h e r of God;
Spreading the plague to foluldr
Infesting an slim Bod 1

Empires wielded by doddering men

And woman-to make them smile;
An infant giaufa maniac dream
Left mtting an E h ' e isle.

Genius-the weaknesr of flab,

Pomp--uncontrolled desire,
Making the world a hut of straw
To burn on a d-I
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Bed with the blood of r million mulq

The races of men yet kill ;
Skull on a totan pole, d p at a belt,
And Christ hung high on a hill!.

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STUDIES IN THE "HARP OF GOD" ( - h ~ ~ - )

Wlth lrsr Wuba 00 wo Olpn r~nningJudm Rahrfowr m book

1D.Bup a# wn,
N. .ea,-w
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Adand J..Ip1J. BIbL lltodlr whl& h r r b a n hltbatD P0bll.w

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"'The apostle Paul declares that he wss made

' T h e facts show that nineteen hundred y m
a minister, eccomling to the gift of God, that he ago, J e m went away on a long journey, even

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into heaven itaelf; that when He went away He

should preach to the nations the unt3e-e
riches of Christ, "and to make all see what im promised Eio dieciplee that He would return
the fellowship of the mystery, which from the and that, when returning, those who loved H h
beginning of the world hath been hid in God, appearing would receive many precious giib.
who created all things by Jesus Christ: to the If the facts show that this precious Friend hm
intent that now unto, the principalities and returned and we begin to see that all the fond
powers in heavenly places might be [made] hopes of Christians are about to be r e a b d
known by the church the manifold wisdom of and that even the world is soon to be blesoad,
God, according to the eternal purpose which what unspeakable joy this brings ! Tho10 who
he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Ephe- have watched and waited for His coming nesu
siam 3: 7-11) Thus we see that this great my& sarily break forth in singing the praises of tk
te1-y is the Christ, and that for six thousand Lord. In this chapter we hope to prove the fa&
years Jehovah has been preparing for, develop- of the Lord's return, how He returns, when d
ing and completing this great mystery; and for what purpose, and that He barr
caq)r
that when completed, He will use the Christ aa
His prophet, priest, and king to minister unto
QuEsrrONS ON "I?lE HARP OF GO*
.
the people, to rule over the people, and to bless
Give one of the reasons why St. Paul ru 1ID.b &PIP.
the people, according to His promise.
irGr. Qnate his worda. 8 345.
? C h e Apostle dedares that the whole creation is groaning and travailing in pain, waiting T h e m ~ ~ i e ~ b y r M ~ t i t l r ? o
what w i l l be the oiEce of tho mystery dy tb,
for the manifestation of this great mystery.
Chiat, in tha future? 7346.
(Romans 8: 19-22) The people do not know for
How
will God uae thia mystery closr for th, beudt d
what they are waiting. But when the great
the people in the future? 8 S46.
mystery is complete and Messiah's kingdom set
What dect in produced upon ane by the reat
up, then God will bring His long-promised bless- a very dear friend long rbscnt?1347.
ings to mankind, and ultimately His will shall
Define the term "fricnd". 11 348.
be done upon earth aa it is done in heaven.
Who is mankind'r dearest friend, md w h ~ ?7 3 4 .
U'Suppoee yonr dearest friend and benefacHow long eina Jems journeyed to r iu emantry?
tor is away on a long journey and you expect and what did he my about returning? 349.
him to return, because when he went away he
facta show that this dear friend hu returd
promised to come again ; suppose that since that forIfthethebleasing
of mankind, w h i t effect should this haw
time you have been looking, hoping and praying upon those who have Been expecting hir return? 1 849.
for his return, and that you were informed that
Vould his return constitute one of tbe ttringr upon
he had arrived. Such news would fill yonr very the harp of God ? I[ 349.
soul with joy and you could not keep from
singing. ,
-A friend is one who loves yon all the time ;
one who even without yonr knowing it makes a
In Memoriam
great aacri6ce in order that yon might be the
"One more fond look on those beloved featrecipient of some real good. The greatest friend
And then the elow, a d journey r;u, kgak
that yon hake had, or any one else has had, is
We thought of dl the journeys he had trtan,
the Lord Jesus; for He left all of His riches
And now bad come the last, the final -1
and glory, became,a man, and laid down His
Thescttingmmhdleft rmyad glory;
life in ignominious 'death in order that all men
The evening star was eetting overhead,
might have one fair and full opportunity for
An in the silent tomb we laid him
the blessings of life everlasting.--John 15:13.
And left him thm, oar o r n belored d d m
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Items Relative to I'op~~li~tion
Tlie Bobbed H a i r Craze
Girl Contestnnts in Arl~letics
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Sabor and Economics

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of unemploJment,
A
til, Bussen SoSe Foundation reports \vllat
ever?.bodv lino,Ts to be the truth; namely,that

a reorganization more recently of the Xissouri,

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Kansas 6s Texas system. An i n q o i r ~developed
that tlie lawyers esncted f o r their services $500
per
day lx-llen they Worked a full day, or $65
, taking one )-ear
\\yith snotlier, from ten to
bvelve percent of tile ,vor~cersof tile Gnited per hour when they worked by the hour. C0mof T,.orli durillg sollle part of pared ~vitlltlie wages which common people restates
are
the year. Tile Foull&tion hopes f or sonle ceive, these charges are, of course, exorbitant*
?ublic employment agency in America similar
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tliose \~liiclihave been for nlany rears i: Social It*...
HE fiftieth annual convention of h e r i c a n
esistence in Gemnlany, where \vorkingmen ma,
register and may confidently look for employbankers expresses itself as staggered at the
ment without the necessitf of paying out fees annual cost of crime in the United States,
to en~ploynentsharks. On October 1there were amounting to $3,500;.000,000. V e have a sug300,000 men ancl women out of emploj-ment in gestion as to horn thef'ean reduce this: Let
h'ew Tork city.
them not undertalco hereafter to crowd the
Arthur Brisbane saps that ten tllousand years United States Government into mars i n France,
froin now, tliose then living can learn all they Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, or elsewhere.
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will ever \\is11 to lino\~about our civilization in
Let tllem cease to finarice sugar steds, and
the storp of Sndreas Friedrinsl;, sisty-eight every other I;ind of steal. &st of all, let them ..
years old, \v\.ho llnd h e n a hard and llonest discontinue their attempts to crowd the United ,
aorlcer for sixty years, and who lcilled himsell States Government into the JVorld Court or inbecause he n7as worn out, could find no employ- to the L e a v e of Nations, the object of ~ - E c hon
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ment,and 1 ~ 3 destitute.
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their part, is the cancellation of the debt of $12,- . ..
31rs. X a r p Iiolcdo, 727 Prospect Place, 000,000,000 o\-ied to the American people by . ,!;;.'
Brooklyn, conlpclled to go out to work and un- Europe, so that the $3,000,000,000 loaned by ,;-:::-,
able to endure the thought of her two-year-olcl these same bankers to European nations, and :-.,.
cllild remaining all day in a day nursery, filially now practically a worthless investment, may be ' ..:$:.:
'decided, after crying about the matter several brougllt up to par.
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Somerset,. Vermont, t o m s h i p is fading away. :- ;:,;. .. .-.
pvvould be Id nd to the child and wlio ~vouldgive It ditl boast of twenty-seven citizens of all
her the advantnges of a good edu'cation. Our ages in the census of 1920. It then.had ten '::;!-:1:,:.
ti;.
advice n.oulil liave been for her to keep tlle child. voters; now it has ,but two. The Secretary of
I n the schoul of adversity, under tile sunsliine State of Vermont has been appealed to f o r a --::$-;,
of a mothcr's love, a cl~ildwollld lrarn more decision as to what is best to be done under the -'!;+..
valuable 1cs;jons than can ever Lc gained from circumstances. The rural districts of Vermont' i-.+j-;i.
books.
have largely been taken over by wealthy New.
Tllc Interstate Commerce Commission is con- Yorkers who live there only tn.0 months a year.
'ducting an investigation to find out whv, a ICW TIcnce the population of tho state remains sta;.
years ago, it cost only 32c per tllousancl dollnrs tionary or declines.
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"from one coast to the other report tltemselres

- as greatly inpressed with the immensity of loneIp, isolated territory beneath. The population
is p r a d c d l y all strung along the railroads.
%way from the railroads there are hardly any
aigns of life.
- The Jewish Year Book shows that in Kern
York city alone there are now more than 1,500,000 Jews. Chicago and Philadelphia each have
over 200,000 Hebrews ; 11-hile Clereland, Boston,
St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Sell-ark and
Detroit each have 50,000 or more. The Jews
' a r e to be found in large numbers
business is good, and they are not to
' where business is bad.
Business men are complaining that the wars
in China, Honduras, Brazil, Ecuador, and
Chile are hurting business, and for that reason
they are in favor of peace. This discovery of
business men that war is a curse and a nuwance
' and ought to be abolished, is a valuable one.
It is almost as valuable in its way as the discovery
the preachers, five Years after the mar
was over, that Tar is un-christian and should
not be encouraged.

Ranaporfation Items

T IS generally supposed that Lieutenant

Ithe-world
Smith, commander of the American 'round
light, is a man of iron nerve, unmoved
in the face of the greatest dangers; hut he met
his Waterloo at San Diego. E i s mother rushed
up to him and was kissing him all over his face.
This would have been all right if the old man
had kept out of i t ; but his dad reached for him,
and planted a smack on his ear, the only place
he could reach. This was too much for Smith,
and he broke down and cried.
I t seems incredible that the Ford Company
should have manufactured and distributed over
10,000,000 machines, and should be able to Put
forward~trnthfnllythe C h h that it constitutes
the greatest trans~ortationsystem in the world;
i. e., greater than either the Pennsyhnnia or the
New Pork Central railroad systems. I n 1924
j there were, regislered In iunerica 15,552,077
automobiles or one for every seven persons
in the cou~lt$~.
Deaths aused by automuLiles hare now
reached the astounding number, in t l l p United
States, of 1400 per nionth. The speeds of vebides in the streets continue to increase.

Searly every rillnge and city has signs: "Speed

limit 15 miles an hour." But apparently no automobile drirer pays the least attention to :
them: for speeds of 25 to 30 miles a n hour in r
troll-ded city streets are matters of erery-day occurrence. 17,000 persons hurled into death
every year is certainly an intolerable situation. 'j
At present most jurors drive automobiles, and it is hard to secure indictments and still harder to secure convictions.
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Sundry American Items

HE "Phj-sical Culture -,.gazineM has

col-

lected the opinion of screral authorities all of

whom agree that the bobbed hair craze is sure
to lead to baldness, sooner or later. Tlie reason ' .
for this is that human hair is like a tube sealed '
at the free end.
the ]lair is cut, the oils
which are the Life of the hair become dissipated. The reason why men grow bald 80
quicMy is that they have their hair cut so fiequentlp and, in addition, wear tightly fitting
hats, which cut off the circulation of the scalp.
The r e s o n n-hy n-omen, hitherto, hare had such
beautiful hair is that they have not cut i t ; and
the twisting and folding of the hair has helped
to retain the natural oil. Xanp women hare
turned against the fashion of bobbing the hair,
and are letting their hair grow again.
The Boston University Athletic Committee
has decided that all girl contestants for athletio
honors in that institution must stop smoking,
must sleep eight hours each night, and must
obtain a t least seren hours outdoor .exercise,
weekly. Jloreorer, hereafter they are to be allowed but once s day, in the morning only, just
one cup of tea or coffee, which some refer to
a s poison.
Mount Shasta, the pride of California, which
can be seen on the northbound trip by rail from
4 a. m. to 4 p. m. en route from Sacrament
to Portland, has had a cave-in, the walls of Nn
Creek Canyon having collapsed for a distance ofi
eight
Talk about "stepping on it"! I n the great
storm which ravaged southern Wisconsin, the
tornado removed tlie roof from Frank Hedler's
barn, lifted an 1500 pound bull out of the barn,
carried it over two fields, and buried it bead
first, deep enough so that only the hindquarters
and tile tall were visible.

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ympfoms o f Vorld Sickness

cOUDERT,
international lawyer,
rDERICI;
&returnedfrom Eul.ope, states that the
Balkans are seethingwith discontent, that no one
seems
and that Ilungary is liliely to
haTe n-ar with Rumania. He thinks that Gerfirst t1j.o reparation paymany e l l nla!;e
ments on the Danres Plan to get theBritish out
ofCologneandtheFrenchoutoftheterritory
they are lloldng; and tllat then payments will
stop, and the real troubles will begin.
A m i t e r in the Sew Tork Times analyzes the
military conditions throughout the world and
arrives a t tlie logical result that butside of
Japan there is not, escept in Europe, an army
capal~leof aggression. He points ont that the
peace-time strength of the Allies in Europe toclap is tn-enty-five percent larger than were tlie
armies of Gerinanp, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria,
and Turker in 1914. Today, the Allies have 2,000,000 soldiprs under arms, against 200,000 solcliers of the Central Pon-ers, 3 superiority of
ten to one. We quote a. pungent paragraph
froin his articles :
"The c n u of this d o l e question of land disaxmaA

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ment is thus to be found in Europe. It is from Europe

that the rest of the world has derived a t once its munitions and its mind for war. Disarm Europe, and yon
relieve the tcnsion along the frontiers of India, you
deprive the tuchuns of China of tlieir imported y n s
and amrnunit~on,and you arrest the training of colored
troops in Africa Europe is the headquarters of Tar,
and without Europe war ~ i t h i nour time must be merely
a local disorder."

Japan's successful insistence a t the L e n p e

of Sations arbitration conference tllat tllc exclnsion by one coulltry of immigrants from
another must be considered outside of the field
of arbitration, has led the French newspapers
to predict an early outbreak of war betnlecn
k n e r i c a and Japan.
Japan has been suffering from a rapidlysprcatlipg plague of meningitis, taking the form
of sleeping sickness. Nost of those affected are
over sixty years of age, with deaths in about
half the mscs. At one time the deaths reached
nearly a thousand a day.

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I n the city of Lille, France, a stage was ~ 9 . z

driven into the ground a s to cut an electria -.'
power cable suppl>eng four big factories.
tied
the stake, and sudde*y
became the busiest elephant in Fr&Lnce. He '
l"Ushed madly about, t u g g n g frantically a t his
chain- I n a ferv minutes 'JPcame the stalie, a@
became

F~~rfactories~ere~utontofcommissi~n

the loss of the electric current which had passed

through the nervous system of the elephant.
The elephant did not seem to be any the worse
after taking the electric cure in this dramatio
fashion. In the same city, on the previous day
a mouse had caused a short circuit in the central electric generative plant, causing a $23,000
fire, and throning half the city into darkness.
Kit11 ten passengers aboard and with their
baggage as well a s 116th mails for London, . a
French airplane has made the trip from Paris
to London, 245 miles, in one hour and fortyseven minutes. I t is hard for an American to
realize that the capitals of these two great
countries are so close together.
The largest restaurant in the world is at
Lyons Corners, London. It has f o m floors &
basement, seats 4,000 gnests a t one time, and
feeds a n average of 12,500 peoplea day.
Luzerne, Switzerland, is a mooden bridge
600 feet long, built in the year 1333, *his
bridge is still in rise. I n the middle of the
bridge is a tower, n7%ch was used as a prison
for 360 years.
I n Bern, Switzerland, the s i d e m a b are all
under a v e r , nlaldng one line of arches. Afarkets and display cases are on the outside of
the

Southern and Eastern Europe

NICE, the pigcons are fed re,da.rly'
I N e J f c I a y a t 9 o'clocl; and a t 2. Near the

place vhere they are fed is a campanile in which

the hours of the day have been struck for five
centuries. Immediately when the clock strikes
the hours of 9 and 2, the pigeons come by the
thousands to tlie place where they are fed; but
!
tliep pay no attention to tllc clocli as it strikes
Northern qtd Western Europe
tlie otllcr hours of the day.
EYGLAXD has endured the throes of n general
Realizing that his hold on Italy ig slipping
election, the Tories having most nn~visely, because lie cannot control the Fascisti organizawe think, made Alr. 3iacDonnld's position as tion of which he is the head, Premier Mussoliclj
premier untenable.
is now seeking to retain his grip, upon the pa*

r<-.:s.ple:by
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erecting in Rome the tallest and 1argc.t
&:skyscraper
in the world. The huildinq is rlc.-*
::-;%ignecl to have a height of 1100 feet, divitletl
y: into 86 floors. I t is planned as a c i ~ center,
c
and besides 4500 rooms will house a huge
.&?theatre, a gymnasium, and 100 large lialls. This
E:~building, if constructed, will be 305 feet higher
.::.:
the Woolworth building, and 100 feet high,. . than
::
er
than
the Eiffel tower.
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':.-5 - Dr. Havichich, Uinister of Jugoslavia, now in
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New Yorlc, repcrts that his country is recover.?'. i n g splendidly from the devastation caused by
<;;.thew a r ; that the railroads are being changed
2. from narrow gauge to standard gauge. Jugo' -davia produces a cement which so dries over,. .
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night that roads made of it can be used the next
day.

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n.110hns I)P~?II for several ?-ears in the Caucasus,
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states tliat siilce the inauguration of Soviet rule
in the Caucasus, tens of thousands hare been
,.:
dcportcd to S~heria,all the churches have h e n
t r o n s f o r m ~ dinto clubs and dance halls, all opposit.ion newspapers and magazines hare been
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snppressecl, taxes have been increased enormously; ancl that when the recent rerolntion .. i
broke out, fil'ty-four men n-110 had been held in
prison as liostages for months were esecnted.
A great TI-intletorni 011 September 23 SIX-ept ,
tlie ~vntersof tho Cnlf of Finlancl over the city
of Leilingrail. \vnsliing away tlie wooden blocks
with which the central part of Leningrad is
pavecl. The storin did millions of dollars damage, and cost the lil-es of ten persons.
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has called us to be really like Jesus,
IFI lGOD
e ~villd m w us into a life of crucifision and

humility and put upon us such demands of obedience that n-e dl not be able to follow other
people o r to measure ourse1t.e~by other friends ;
ancl to many of us H e v i l l seem t o p e r n i t
otlier cod people to do: things 1r.1Jr.h H e will
not permit us to do.
Other friends who seem very reli$ous and
useful may push tl~emselvea,pull \\Ires, antl
worlc scbenles to carry out their plans; but we
can not. If we attempt it, 1r.e shall meet with
such failure and rebuke from the Lord a s to
make us sorely penitent.
Others may boast of themselves, of their
work, of their addresses or their writings; but
the holy spirit will not permit us to do any such
thing. If TI-ebegin it, we shall be led into some
deep mortification that will r n d e us despise
ourselves and all our good works.
Others may be allowed to succeed in maldng
money, or may have a legacq- left to them, but
i t is likely God mill keep us poor; for H e wishes
US to have sometliing f a r better than gold, viz.,
a helpless dependence on Him, that Me may
have the privilege of supplying our needs day
by day out of an unseen treasury.
The Lorcl may let others be IionorrtI a n d 1)e
put forward, and keep us hidtlcn in ohsvurity,
because I l c wishes to producc more elloice, fragrant fruit f o r His coming glory.

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H e may let others he great, but keep us small.

ITc Inn?- let others clo a 11-ori; for Ililn and get
the crcclit for it, but I-Ie \\-ill make us w-ork and
toil 011 11-itllont1;nowing how nmnch we a r e doing.
Then. to ma1;e our work still more precious,
l l e niay let otliers get the credit f o r the v o r k
~vhicliwe hare clone, and tllus make our reward
tell tiines greater in the day of reckoning.
The holy spirit will put a strict \\-atch over
us with a jealous love and \rill rebuke us f o r
little \~-ortlsantl feelings, o r for n-nsting our
time, \\-llcn our friends nerer seem distressed
over sucll thi~lgs. So make up your mind that
Got1 is nn infinite Sorereign, and has a right to
do as B e plenscs n i t h I-Iis own. H e map not
~ s p l a i l.to
l us a tllousand things which puzzle
our mincls ill l l i s dealings with n s ; but if we
absolutely sell ourselves to be His love slaves,
I-le will \\-rap us in a jealous lore, and bestow
upon us inany 1)lessings \~-hichcome only to
those ~7l1oare i n tlie inner circle.
Settle it tlle11 forerer that we a r e to deal di- '
rectly wit11 God; arid that H e is to have the priv- ilegc of tlj.i~lg our tongues, of chaining o u r
hal~ds,of closing our eyes.
S o w \\-11enyou are so possessed with the livi n q God that in your secret heart you a r e
plonscd and delighted over tliis pecuhar, personal, priratc, jealous guarcliansliip'and mannyclncnt of the holy spirit over Four life, yon
will hare found the vestibule of heaven.

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Important Radio tonference at Washington

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( R e p o r t e d b y onr Special Correspondent)

third Radio Conference nTas held a t
THETYasllington
during tlie week of October

from a million dollars a year to a million doE

lars a day. I t is estimated that over 200,000
6th. The conference Ivas called by Nr.Hoover, men are now employed in the industry, and the
Secretary of tlie Department of Commerce. To radio audience probably exceeds tmenty, milthis conference he inrited the government radio lions of people.
We m a y n-ell be proud of this wonderful deinspectors in each district in the United States
and all 011-ners of radio stations in the United velopment, but in our self-congratulation let
States.
us not forget that tlie value of this great system
Tlie conference opened on Monday evening does not lie primarily in its extent or even in
at the Assembly Hdl, Department of Interior, its efficiency. I t s vorth depends on the use that
is made of it. I t is not the ability to transattended by about 500.
The principal address I\-as delirered by 31r. mit but the character of n h a t is transmitted
that really counts. Our telepllone and telegraph ,
Hoorer. IIr. Hoorer's address f ~ l l o herein
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systems are valuable only insofar a s the messages sent from them contribute to the business
Secretary Hoover's Address
and social intercourse of our people. F o r the
time in human
we have available
T IS a pleasure to me to open the Tliird Annual
US
the
ability
to
communiate
hdtmeoml~
Radio Conference at this Depanment and to
n-elcome
to its sessions. yourn-illin,rrlless with millions of our fellow men, to furnish ento leaTe your usual business and give your tertaillment, instruction, widening vision of
time and attention to this conference bears
problems and national events. An
n-itllas both to the importance of radio in the OLligatiOnrrests Upon US to see that it is defives of our people and to ,-our desire to per- voted to real serrice and to develop the material
that is transmitted into that which is really
form a public serrice.
n-orth
nrlde. F o r it is only by this that the
Radio has passed from the field of an advenmission
of this latest blessing of science to hnture to that of a public utility. Xor among tlie
manity
may
be rightfully fulfilled.
utilities is there one whose acticities may yet
conferences
Past three Sears haw
come more closely to the life of each and every
1)een
called
in
tile
belief
that
it mas b? Your coone of our citizr.lis, nor r1.11icli holds out greater
0I)er"tion
that
tile
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n tof the h w codd
possibilities o [ i'L:ture inflncnce, nor
is of
h
it to be the duty of
more potelltitll public concern. ~t must now 11"t be met 1 ~ 1 ~ cdeclares
be considered as a great agency of public ser- the Secretary of Conlrnerce to "foster and provice, and it is fro,* tllat rieIl-point that I hope mote the commerce of the United States".
the difficult problcms corning l~cforethis conE v o n d this, certain minimnm regulatory
powers rest in the Department. I have been
ference \\-ill lje discussed and solved.
At the first radio conference I hazarded some con-~inccdtllat dcrelopment c o d d be accomorganized coij~erationof the
modest anticipations as to its development and ~ l i s l l e don]?
industry
itself;
and
tlie industry is unique in
use. Some tllought tllem risionnry; yet \Ire
of conduct .
p:ssed every point of tlrese m~ticipationswitllin that unless it has stringent
die of its
eighteen montlls. Ire llare, in fact, establislled to wllich all elements 'adhere it
confusionan entirely nerv cont?lunicntion system, natioi~al
A t each succeeding conference we have had
in scop'P.
In the whole history of scientific discovery more difficultproblems to solve, and those which
there has never becn a translation into popular 11-e present toclay are of a complexity greater
use so rapit1 ns in radio tclepliony. So late tlian ever before. I11 a. large sense the purpose -1
as the year 1)i~SoreI h c b c ~ ~ i ~Sc.crclt:~l.y
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of C o ~ n - oC this conference is to enable the listeners, the -.
mcrce tiler were no l~ronclcasti~l:.stations. At broatlcasters, the mnnnfacturcrs, and the mathe end of onr pmrs ,731) are in opc~rnt~on,
mnk- rine and other serviccs to a T e e among theming radio av:iilnbIe to every home i n the country. selves as to thc manner in which ra&o*activitier
The sales of radio apparatus have increased are to be conducted.

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Like the two previous occasions, this may be

d e d a n experiment in industrial self-gorernment. Radio activities, so long a s they remain
witbin the legislative restriction which holds
for the government the fundamental control of
the ether, are largely free. The industry's
future conduct with a single view to public interest, a voluntary imposition of its own rules
and a high sense of semice would go f a r to
make further new legislatiye or administratire
The hvo past conI internention unnecessary.
ferences have been succ~ssfulin these purposes.
With only slight modifications made necessary
I by changing conditions, the Department has
l been able to follow their recommendations in
the performance of its duties. The industry
has supported and conformed to these recommendations cheerfully and uncomplainingly,
although a t some self-sacrifice. I congratulate
you on this spirit, and know that yon wiIl enter
npon yoursnew deliberations in the same attitude.

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Broadcasting Programs
R E N broadcasting first started, the phonograph was a sufficient attraction to thc

radio telephone listeners,n.ho were swayed chiefly by curiosity and marvel a t the new discovery.
Public interest has long since passed this stage.
. The radio telephone mould now die in tmentyfour hours if i t mere limited to transmission of
phonograph records. We have made great improvements in material transmitted. Original
music, speeches, instruction, religion, political
eshortation-all travel regularly by radio today. Program directing has become one of tlie
skilled professions. I have indeed a great feeling for the troubles of the director in his efforts
to find talent and to give to his audience the
best that lies a t his command. He has done extraordinarily well.
But'we require a still further advance in the
character of material beyond the capacity of
local station directors if the a r t is to emerge
entirely from the curio and entertainment stage
to that of fundamental serrice.
~ x ~ e r i m k n t abroadcasting
l
upon a national
scale during the past year has now brought us
to the stage I!-here we know i t can be donc.
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assured interest, and therefore the induslry,
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or to adequately fulfill tlie broadcasting mission.

So f a r as the a r t has developed, I think ve
all agree that for accuracy and regularity of
reception n-e can depend only npon the local
broadcasting stations. Ny proposition is that
the local stations must be able to deliver every
important national event r i t h reguIarity. The
local station must be able to bring to its listeners the greatest music and entertainment of
the nation, but f a r beyond tlus i t must be able
to deliver important pronouncements of publia
men. it must bring instantly to our people a
hundred and one nlattcrs of national interest.
To this it must add its matters of local interest.
This can be accomplished only by regularly
organized interconnection on a national basis
with nationally organized and directed programs f o r some part of the day in supplement
to more local materiaL
It may be stated ~ i t hassurance that the
greatest advance in radio since our last conference is the complete demonstration of the
feasibility of interconnection. We o r e a debt
of gratitude to those,mho have blazed the way.
The pioneers have been the h e r i c a n Telephone & Telegraph company in wire interconneotion, and the JVestinghoase Electric 8; JZannfactnring Company in radio interconnection
through the use of short wave lengths. Their
esberiments have involved technical skill of thehiihest character which could be found o r contributed by few other organizations in the
o r d Tlieir espenditures, running into the
hundreds of tliousands of dollars, have -been
made without direct consequential return. It
has been possible to broadcast many national
events qrer three-quarters of the United States
duiing the past pear, and the whole country
has been covered twice. The service deserres
the appreciation of the public; for it has demonstrated this great thing to be practicable.
It is our duty to consider the possibilities and
potentialities of interconnection as a regular
daily routine ofLthe nation. Enless it be systematically. organized we cannot expect its con-.
t inuation. I realize that this matter, except insof a r as it map hc, fostered and encouraged, does
not lie in the Government. 'It would be unfortunate indecd i f such an important- function
a s the distribution of information ~ h o u l dever
fall into the hands of the Government. I t mould
be still more unfortunate if its control should

come under the arbitrary power of any person

or group of persons. I t is inconceivable that
such a situation could be allowed to exist. But
I am not no\v dealing mith monoply. Nor is
this a question where any one lays claim to a
monopoly. Interconnection is going on to local
extent and over the nvires of the telggraph
companies, the telephone companies, and by
radio itself. I r e have promises of super radio
and we have pronlises of interconnection of
ired -sireless. If there are several methods,
means that x-e might have several alternative
programs ah\-ays available. But whatever the
method of interconnection may be, we are lacking in a definite organization of a national systern of programs and a basis of support.
I believe that the quicl;est way to ];ill broadcasting mould be to use it for direct advertising. The reader of the newspaper has an option
whether he, -rill read an ad o r not; but if a
speech by the President i s to be used as the
meat in a sandwich of two patent medicine advertisements, there will be no radio left. To
what extent it may be employed for what we
now call indirect advertising I do not knonr,
and only experience nith the reactions of tile
listeners can tell. I do not believe there is any
practical method of payment from the receivers.
I 1%-ishto suggest for consideration the possibility of mntunl organization bv broadcasters
of a service for tliemselves similar to that mhich
the newspapers hare for their use in the press
associations, ~v11idlmould furnish programs of
national events and arrange for their transmission and distribution on some sort of financial hasis just as the press associntions
gather and distribute news among their members.
I t rnap be that we can not find n solution at
this moment, bnt I beliere that one resr-rlt of this
tlfereoce shonlcl be not only the consideration
,his 4&stion but the estoblisiln~entof 3 continuing committee for its further consideration.
There are otl~ermattcls to I\-llich I hope the
conference will g i r e its attention.

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The Problemof Wave Lengths

O N E of tile most. importallt subjects for yoor
consideration is tile proricIinq of operating
channels for hrnadcnsting ytnLions. Of tllc
prescnt 9.70 stations. 57 arc Cl;~ss13, operating
on from 500 to 1,OUO watts and having n wide

range, and 387 are Class 'A, many using small

power and covering small areas. There are
still 86 Class C stations, most of which have
low power, all on a mave length of 360 meters.
Our chief trouble is with tlie Class B situation. "
They are all assigned within the band of 288
to 545 meters, within which there are, under the
present system of allocation and excluding the
Class C bond, only 44 available channels, and
only 33 that seem desirable a t present. To
assign these among the 57 stations necessarily
means duplication, although it was the theorp:
of tlie last conference that individual mave
lengths could be assigned to each. A t present, .
23 stations either have esclnsive wave lengths
o r are sharing with stations so distant that
both may operate simultaneously, while the remaining 34 are compelled t o divide time. The
peatest congestion is. in.the large cities, New
York and Chicago particularly. A recent snrvey made By the Supervisors of the various
districts shows that 21 new Class B stations
are now under construction and that 25 others
are contemplated, so that the question of alloeation is one of increasing difficdty. It was the
reconimendation of the last conference,.and has
been the practice of t l ~ Department,
e
to separate
stations in the same zone by a t least 50 kilocycles, in adjoining zones by a t least 20 kilocycles, and in separate zones by a t least 10 kilocycles. In the light of scientific and technical
development in both transmitting appsratas .
and receiving sets, it may be that a different
plan of zoning o r of station separation may now
hc used, thus creating additional wave lengths
for assignment. It has been suggested also
that tllc band now rcscrved for Class B might
be sornc~vhatbroadened. Bemovals of Class C
stations from the Class-B band would likewise
give some relief, depending on what proportion
of the present Class C stations qualify for Class
B licenses. I am not advising any particular
method of solution, but recommend the entire
Subject to Your careful ~ o ~ ~ s i d e r a t i o n 1

Power o f Broadcasting Stations

i40THERquestion of importance is the Iimit
of POJ'-er to be used in broadcastin Jdost
stations are non- operating On 500 watts.
C13"
h li~~litntion
of 1000 w a t t s is i~uposed in the
lic*c~llsc. I unclerstand that there are several
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which contemplate 'the use of power up to 5000 apparent. Department stores and similar mer-t
j watts, and I a m aware of the suggestions of cantile concerns add 39 to this number, and:
those who would go beyond even this. There pnblishers 41, nlaliing a grand total of 2763
is opposition to the plan. I t s advocates tell known stations, of n-l~ich44 a r e Class B, nhich!
u s of the great advantages in the may of louder ~ 1 a ybe said to have a direct interest in the
signals and more distant transmission, while
opponents complain of interference and drownfng out of other stations. The latter f e a r is particularly acute when the powerful station is
located in a congested receiving center. From
the viewpoint of .nation-wide broadcasting, the
question becomes a s to whether we should aim
' t o cover a large territory through n single
' powerful station, o r through a number of interconnected smaller ones. W e must not stifle
progress in any direction. 'SVe must not do
anything that will interfere mith the programs
of local stations on which many of our people
'depend, nor with the wide selective range which
they now have. It may be that both purposes
may be accomplished without loss to either. I
recommend the subject, for your most careful
consideration, and hope that you may be able
to reach a satisfactory conclusion.

publicity legitimately resnlting from their onn!

broadcasting. On the other aide we lime 85;
edncationil institutions, 33 churches, 12 city and
state agencies, 12 clubs, of ~vliicfi7 a r e Class By
(4 scl~ools,2 state or city agencies, and 1church),,
a11 of ~\-liiclimay be said to operate from more
altruistic inotires.

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3 v h o a r e engaged in the use of radio

THO
for
S "marine services between ship and shore,.
and ship and ship, feel that the present band
devoted to tlieir use is too ~~nrro\t-.l y e must
iiot forget that \\-hat is a convenience o r a pleasure f o r us is 3 necessity for them, and that
life map depend on tlie eficieucy of their communication senice. There is undoubtedly congestion along oqr coasts particularly in the'
vicinity of such harbors a s S e w Tork, Boston,
and sin Francisco. There a r e t11-o ftmdamentd
General Tendencies in Development
troubles in the situation, and they are interdeHERE seems at present some tendency pendent: First, the character of the apparatus
toward a decrease in the total number of used; and second, the fact that most s l i p s operbroadcasting statib'ns. September 1,1923, there ate only on two ware lengths, GOO &d-706 ;
mere 563 licensed stations. On the same date meters. Practically all marine radio equip
this year, the number lias fallen to 533, a loss of ment is of the sparl; type. Tliere can be no1
30. This decrease, ho~vever,bas occurred en- econonlicnl use of \\-aye lengths until this con-,
tirely among the smaller stations in Classes %, d ~ t i o nis remedied.
and C. The more important stations, those of
The London Co~lrentionof 1912 contemplated,
Class B, have substantially increased, the num- hat ship con~municationwould be conducted on /
ber then having been 44 as against 56 a t present, 300 OF 600 meters, a n alternative of 1,500 meters.
with Q6 others either under construction o r being allo\\-ed under certain conditions. Homproposed. As to m~hetherthis shows a perma- ever advisable i t may then have been to h a v e ,
nent trend toward a n abandon~nentof the smaller all ships on two wave lengths, i t is certainly,
stations, with a corresponding actditional re- not practicable now. 'TVe h a r e here an example,
liance upon the larger ones even though more and it is not the only one, of the folly of puttinn
'distaii%, i t is too early to determine.
a straiglit-jacket on such a rapidly growing a&
It i s of soule interest to classify and study
The situation among ships today is much the
the ownership of the stations, to ltno~vthe prob- same as esisted in broadcasting at the time of i
able motives that impel their owners to espen~l the last cont'erence, when all stations were trythe large sums of money which arc neccssnl? ing to operate on 3G0 o r 400 meters. The outf o r their,construction and operation, and for st2ndin.q acliic\-cment of that conference mas
which there is usually no direct return. So far the atloption of the idea of giving to each station I
as is known to the Department, of tlie present so far a s possible an indiridual wave length. If
stations, 196, or over one-third, a r e on-necl and our ships had n class of equipment mbich would
operated by msnufncturers of o r dealers in allow it, I am not at all sure that n similar plan
radio apparatus, whose interest is of course could not bc worked out for them mith separate

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ware lenglis assigned to separate groups or
classes of ressels. I fully realize that this can not
be done a t on&. I k1101~7the financial and other
difficulties that stand in the way of better apparatus. I believe, nevertheless, that sollie way
should be found to encourage improvement and
likewise to _make the better eqnipment freely
and reasonably arailable. Ueanmhile, some
consideration shoulcl be giren to a method of
temporary relief. Tlie question is one of relation. Tliere are not enough cllannels to provide
&that both the marine interests and the broad-casters n ~ a ylegitimately desire. It is a matter
of accomniodation between tlicm, giving to each
a s much a s possible with due regard to the
other. Possibly additional ware lengths above
600 meters may be assigned for marine use. I
coln~~lend
the subject to your carefnl attention.

Oufsicle Sources o f Interference

T H-IF-E not attemnted to list all the subiects

-1that may come beiore you, but have merefy referred to a few which seem most troublesome
from the ahlinistrative side. One matter that
must be dealt with sometime. but over which
there is no nlealls of control ht present, is the
interference fro111 non-raclio sources. l y e listeners have all experiencecl frequently ancl to our
great disgust the squeals and roars which we
are tolcl come from electrical devices of various
sorts in wllich there is no purpose to cause
audible disturbance. The Department has received a r a s t nunlber of compIaints based upon
trespassing noises of this character. I t is hard
to trace them to their source, and diflicult to
deal ~vitllt1lc.m ~vhcnfound. Some branell of
our radio industry certainly slioulcl investigate
and study them. I.Inrmonics, too, are troublesome.
I t is nseless to assign a station to definite wave
length if its signals go ont not only on that one
F 011 three o r four others. Our amateurs, v h o
ake up 4y f a r tlie largest elenlrnt in the radio
family outside of the Iisteners as a whoIe, are
particular sufferers, since tlie llarmonics from
many stations have an especial tendency to invade the amateur hand. ,lccurnte and sharp
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transmission must be insisted upon.

situation, are ready to give yon the benefit of

their information and advice.
Tlie Bureau of Standards has prepared a
report on many of the technical phases which
will come before yon, and its personnel a i d
facilities are a t your disposal. The Interdepnrtinent Rnclio Committee l ~ i sclone prepmatory \J70rli; and its members will, I am sure,
be glad to coiiperate \ ~ t you
h in the consideration of all matters which have a governmental
bearing. The Raclio Supervisors from all disstricts of the country are in attendance, with first-lianll infolnmtion a s to conilitions, and
their I;no1vleclge, based on actual esperience in
the field. I n short, the Department of Commerce is at your command. I Believe that yonr
membersliip inclucles every angle of radio interest. I look fonvard to yonr conclusions a s
a great step in the development and progress
of the industry.

Expert Engineers Present

DDI3CSSES were ,made:b? e q e * engineers

A in radio construction, dealing with the technical part of radio. Some strongly advocated

the granting by the government of the privilege

to build and operate super-power stations. Jlr.
Saronoff, General Manager of the Radio Corporation of America, announced that his company was ready to construct within a short
distance of the city of New Pork a fifty kilowatt station.
One can approsimate v h a t that size station
would mean when we call to mind that no
broadcast in.^ station in the United States now
is permitted to use more than one 1;ilomatt
power, ancl that the major portion of the broadcasting stations in the Cnited States are operating on 500 watts, o r one-half kilowatt.
Several attending this conference strong17
adrocatecl increasing power in order that programs couId be broadcast throughout the
United States, and could be heard easily in
Europe.
Xn~onqthose present was Judge Rutherford,
p r ~ s ~ c l c of
t ~ tthe International Bible Students
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. addressed the conference
. Co-operation o f the Deparimen t
'\\7cstlncstl:~y,making the following specific reIlli: officials nC the Euresu of Snvigntion, co~nrncnc1:~lion.;:
~ v l ~ i 113s
c l ~ dirrct charge of ncln~i~t~strntive (1) That stations be licensed and use higher
features anrl full familiarity with tlie entire power;

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peace and prosperity. JIen and women of this

type are such a s constitute the stay and bnlwak:
of the nation.
I t should be remembered that the men who.
laid the foundation of this nation were moved todo so in order that here the people ]night be instructed concerning their God and the Lord
Jesus Christ without let o r hindrance. With
these noble sentinlents planted in the hearts
of the people, the nation has prospered more
Judge Rutherford's Address
AD10 broadcasting has quickly become a the
thanearth.
any other nation that has ever been on
$9..
wide means of entertainment and amuseAny
nation
or
people
that
forgets
God
and,
men' 1' a n be made a f a r greater medium
the Savior of man \ \ . i ~
disilltepte.
education.
Without
doubt
the
radio
was
foretold in the
. m i l e it is true that amusement and enterby
the
holy
prophets
of
Jehovah lo*
tainment a r e important, yet proper instruction
centuries
ago
;
and
it
has
come
to
light exactly
imof the people a r e more
and
portant. Entertainment and alnu~elllent fur- "t the Proper time f o r the benefit of mankind
Surely the nation that God has farored above
n i s ~temporary
a
diversion. ~h~ uplift and
izingof the people are of far more importance. "11 other nations sliould honor Him in some
J~~~
mbsic
furnish entertaiment
way with tlie use of this modern and wonderamusement. Instruotion,in tlie Bible and great ful
collmunicatiOn
He has so
truths npbuilds and stabilizes the people, and generously prorided
mankindT e l l has the Secretary of Commerce said:
brings to them a satisfying blessing.
obligation rests upon US to see that radio is
Europeis in a bad way. aIost of ller dificul- "=h
ties may be laid to selfishness. There a r e dmeloped to real service, and to develop the
threatening conditions in b e r i c a . One of the material that is transmitted into that which is
best means, I belieqe, f o r preventing America really worth while."
Nothing could be said to be more v o r t h while
from follolring a siinilar course to that n.hich
h a s brought Europe to her present deplorable than the Proper instruction and education of
state is proper instruction and education.
the people along lines that would stabilize .
Let the mind of man meditate upon high and them, make of them better citizens, a n d create
noble things, and he ceases to be a dangerous happier homes.
animal
It is eminently proper that the people should Responsibility of Safeguarding Public W e l f i ~ 8
be instructed concerning the development of
I I I L E the Government has obligations to
provide for the entertainment and amusescience and invention, the building of highways
and homes, the improvcnlent of the lalld and ment of tlie people who desire such by the use
the beautifying of the landscape, hygiene and of radio, it has an equal, if not 5 greater obligahealth, as
as p h ~ ~ i m
and
1 mental culture. tion to prox-idc f o r the instruction of that growIt is of equal, if not greater importance, that ing class of people who ~t-ish to know abo
!&
the pe6ple should learn more about tlle Creator weightier matters.
who provided all these blessings for man. Let
But let us not wholly commercialize this
man be instructed that a l l the blessings he en- great means of communicstion. Such practice
joys proceed fro111 a kind and loving Cod, and will ~\lol.liinjury to tlle pioneers a s well a s to
such Imoyledge will produce in him a kind and the public. Eather let us bear in mind that
thankful h$art. This condition of thankfulness radio has now become a public utility, and in its
a n d g m t i t i ~ d eleads to unseIlishness, u-hlch is developlnent and espallsion let us lieep prominently before us the general interest and nela proper definition of love.
Unselfish men look to the gc~ieralwclfarc fare of tllc people. Radio invades the sacred
of the pcople; and the increase of unscllishncss precincts of the home. I-Ie who uses this great
W o n g the people brings to them contenhent, public utility a s a means of communiccltion hirs
'(2) That the time for broadcasting be SO
Evided and regulated by the Government that
% i may
t
not be monopolized by any single interest ;
: (3) That programs be so designated by public
advertisement that the people may know what
t o expect from each station a t stated times.
,We give Judge Rutherford's address in full:

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the responsibility of safeguarding the best interests and welfare of the home. If some want
j a x music, let tliem h a r e it. But others who
want classical and sacred music and instruction
on the higher things should be given full opportunity to receive it.
Our A4ssociationoperates a radio broadcasting station on Staten Idand, S e w Y o r t City,
designated a s TJ7 B B R. From reports received,
by us during the past six months, with positiveness I can state that there are great numbers
of people n-110 desire to listen to programs of
-__-the kind that r e have been trying to give.
Our PrOPamS consist of kctures On the
divine plan of the ages, instructing our hearers
concerning the creation, fall and redemption of
man, and tile ultimate blessiiig of the human
family on earth with health, strength, peace,
life, liberty, and happiness. Also lectures are
gireir 011 the development of science and invention, healtll and hy@ene, pllysiwl and mental
improvement of men and qomen, together mith
appropriate lessons for children. These lectures a r e interspersed with high-class sacred
and Clas~iCalIIIus~c, both instmmeiltal and P O cal, with current world news of first importance.
Ours is not a sectarian organization. I t
stands free from all denominations and creeds.
11-e seek no memhcrship. JITe solicit neither
money nor men; and therefore we feel that
we can properly claim tliat unselfisllness
do Witllout
prolllpts US ill this work, which
any desire for or hope of a lnoney mnuneration. Tve neitller ask nor receive contributions.
Tlle espelisc of operating is horne by men and
~ 1 1 ]lave
0
some money and ~ h desire
o
to spend it in the interest of humanity.

Higher Power Suggested

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\OADCASTISG our programs from our

I?;DEzcpt station and from others that are now
in conrse of construction, we mould like to use
more power tlian is now permitted under esisting governnlcntal regulations, in order that the
programs n ~ i q l be
~ t Iienrd over a n.iclcr area of
the United Rtatcs and Canada and even across
the sea, wit& the hope that tllcse programs
might bring some comfort and conscllation to
the sorrowing ones of blcetling Europe.
We tlierefore tllinli i t propcr. ant1 rcspect'fully recommend, that the Cover~imentgrant
the use of greater power f o r broadcasting by

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increasing the power limitation of Class B.

stations to a t least two kilomatts, o r even more,
for use a t stated times and under certain conditions.
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Allocation of Time

YON the theory that radio broadcasting

is a public utility, the Government now
exercises control of the ether. It therefore devolves upon the ~
~in justly exereis~
ing its powers, to so regolate the use of fie
etller that the interests of
concerned mill be
safeguarded, and to the end that no one shall
have or maintain a monopoly of time or any
len8h.
~h~ present practice of panting to broadcasting station ule
and m t e d conwhich it ia
trol of the wave length
licensed to operate is om of the
to
the development and evpansion
of the radio art.
Such a practice seems neither fair nor just. It
results at least in a partialmonopoly.
~t is
hardly reasonable to ask the publie to listen
to one station all day: ~h~ hterests of the
listeners should be considered.
I therefore suggest that, where there are two
stations mifin
fie same district
the same
length, they could welldivide the time.
Even four stations operating on fie same wave
in tile same district c o d d divide the
tirne properly. The hours heweca. 7 and
pm. being the best for radio bmadcssting, 2 '
each of four stations operating on the same
length could be given, say, bohours on
each of tllree and sometimes four evenings
a
sucll practice n,ould enable the people to
have a greater variety of programs and thus
prove more satisfactory to both broadcaster and .
listener.
F o r example, suppose there a r e two stations
in one district operating on the same mare .
length. They should be requested to meet and properly divide the time. If either one fails
o r rci'uses thus to do, the Radio Supervisor ..
slioultl bc clothed with authority to make a
proper division of the time. It it manifestly 2~
unfair to the public, a s well as to broadcasters, - .
to grant a l~censeto one station and permit that
s t n t ~ o nto havc tlle unlimited privilege of controlling the entire twentp-four hours of each
and every day.
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gram of the kind mentioned above could well

be confined to two hours an evening and three
to four evenings per week.
it is true that ccrtain bodies of mcn llarc
blazed the way in bringing radio to its present
state of eficiency. I n this tliey linve been
greatly honored; and for such they should receive appropriate consideration in tlie use of
the ether. It should be their privilege to broadcast for hire if they desire, and they might
properly-be given a qider allotment of time for
that purpose than are others.
This suggested method of time allocation
under Goverlimcntal regulation \voulJ scrvc for
general purposes. Special arrangements n-ould
necessarily be required to cover the occasional
broadcasting of events of national importance
through interconnected stations.
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Classification of Programs
F m T H E R suggest that when a n application f o r license is made, the applicant be required to state in his application the kind or
nature of P r o g r m he desires to broadcast; and
that when the license is issued, the kind or nature or program shall be limited at least to what
the application calls for; that then due public
notice or advertisement be given of the kind or
such station.
nature of the program
being done, the public 11111 know 1x7hd to es~ e c from
t
certain
r e ~ l a r l and
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not be required to spend a large portion of
evening tuning in and tuning out stations, trying to find something desirable.,

ample provision for the people to hear concern- .

ing His plan for the blessing of all the families
of earth.
In riel\- of the fact that radio has come to us
clearly in fulfillllent of clirine prophecy, as I
believe, i t is of real interest to nie to note that
oue of the pioneer colllpnnies of America rrlrich '
has done much in furthering radio broadcasting has for its Pice-President and General Nanager a natural descendant of Abraham, the
patriarch of Ismel, JI-l-homGod prolnised to use,
in IIis due time, to bless all the families ofi
cnrt11. I ~ c n t u r cthe prrtliction tllnt .\braiinm
will yet starrd in Jerusalem, tile capital of tlie
Holy~Lancl,and by the use of radio speak n i t h
authority and be heard by all the peoples ofearth.

Radio is God-Given
HIS was the only address to tile Conference
that called attention to the fact that the
radio has come in fulfilment of prophecy; that
due honor should be given to the Lord because
H, is tile great Giver, and tllat llence tile proSraIlls should embrace more about Jehovah,
the Lord Jesus, alld
l;ingdom.
~
~ is, as \$-e beliere,
~
one ~of the
best met]lods of spreading the message of the
truth concerning 31cssia11?s kingdom, because
i t enables Inany to hear tile message dlo
Ir.OU]d
not attend a pulllic meeting. Doubtless the
~~~d llns brollSllt this to light just at a tirne
to suit His purposes.
JVlien Judge Ruthelford concluded his speech
Conclusion
by calling attention to the fact that Abraham
N CONCLUSION I summarize the follo~ving ~\-ouldyet'stund in Jerusalem and speak with
recommendations :
authority to the people and be lieard all over
(1) That the Government license stations tlie earth, this was received with hearty apsuch a s above described to use higher power, plause from the delegates.
All Christians are interested in radio now,
within reasonable limitations ;
because
it is a metliod of telling the peoples of
(2) That.. the time for broadcasting be so
'divided and regulated by the Goverment that earth how the blessings are coming to them
it may not be monopolized by any single in- through God's arrangement.
terest;
Mr.
appointed tliree general commit(3) That qrograms be so designated by tees to consider matters of importance and republic advertiselllent that the people may know port to his Department; after which, under the
what to expect h o r n each station at stated times. law, he will render his decision as to what shall
Jehovah has llonored Xrnericn by permitting be done \vitli ~.efercnceto increase of power,
her to take the lend in the developmelit of radio. t l ~ elicensing of stations, and the character of
Let ~e nation now honor Jel~ovakby rual;ing t l ~ eprogrnus.

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Home-made Rainbows
I I H A T E yon a little fairy in your home 7'' is
a yell known and catchy question used
by a manufacturer of soap to encourage cleanliness and profit. A fairy is supposed to be
good, and to shower blessings around to make
foUis happy. Soap and water, especially when
applied to the hands and faces of IittJe children,
tend toxvard happiness-at least to llother, wllo
does not particularly relish the transfer of jam,
fruit juices, chewing ,mu n ~ i dcantlp from sticliy
hancls to fresldy laundered table-cloths alld
center-pieces.
I f the soap fairy is a good friend to have
around to keep things clean in the home, why
not find a "rainbov;' f o r keeping us in a "cheerful frame of nlind"? Have you a little rainbow
kl your home?
The first rainbow appeared after Noah had
Ieft the Ark. and during his offering of thanks
to God f o r the transfer from the Old TVorld into
tlie Sew. This beautiful rainbow was God's
pledge that the earth would never again be overflowed with water, and mas formed by the Lord
through the operation of natural laws. The
sun v a s its father, and the cloucl was its mother.
Tile pnre, white ray of sunlight shining through
the bank of mist, which acted as a prism, v a s
b r o k u ~up into the rarious coiors now visible
in our ruinbows. Light coritains all colors.
Dnl.krless has no liglit and, therefore, has no
colors.
God is personified by one of Ilis great attlibutcs, LOVE. "God is Lore," say the Scriptures. This promise of Jehovah to Soall, evidenced by the rainbox\*, guarantees that man1;incl will be spared to sce tlie glories of Ilis
sweet, purc, noble, and ~vonderfnlc11nl.actcrtlie real rainl)om. IV11en \\-ill all see? 11 good
question; but we arc 11o~vta~lsious to glinipsc
in tIie liolrre the little rainl)o\\- vitliout ~vliicli
the bequtics of the world ra~rtbowcan not be
appreciated.
Light betlutifully symbolizes love; nrater pictures truth. Tlie sun's rays penetrntinq niist
create, or form, the vnr~colorcd rainho\vviolet, indiqo, blue, green, yello~s.,orange and
red. Corl'sllove, shining throurrii the ~uilltl~vhich
h a s collected n "cloud-btlnlc" of trntli, is 1)rolien
up into the ~ n r i o u sq u a l i t ~ ~ofs l o w ; T~z., pence,
joy, hope, patience, faith, long-suffering, selfcontrol, bcl~evolence, etc. As the literal bow
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adorns earth's sky and horizon, so our mental

bow beautifies the dome of the consecrated
home, and excites wonder and admiration a s
its glow and cheer a r e observed and felt,by all
who a r e privileged to enter such a home.
Where true love dwells, there a r e peace and
joy and the other graces, so beautifd, so satisfying to the heart which has realized by a c t d
experience the darlrness which oppresses to despair the soul unacquainted with divine tenderness and mercy. Guard well that priceless light
of the mind, and the truth contained therein,
and your bow will always be bright and shining!
Lose them, by whatever means; and men and
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place to have the motto, "God
THEBlesssafest
Our 130me," is not on the wall, but

i n the mind. 'Husband,' St. Pad admonishes,

'cherish your wife as your own flesh.' (Ephesians 5 :23,29) Do you hate yourself? Vife,'
the same great Apoirle instructs, 'love pour
l~usband.' Christ cherishes His Church ; and
the Church Ioves her Husband and honors Him.
You, ~vhoeveryon are, wherever you dwell,
mliatever your color or race, be true to your
marital von7s. Let no thief in any guise take aF a y that sweet fellowship and confidence which
rightfuIIy belongs to your mate, and to none
other. To transfer pour affections and the intimacy of mind from husband o r wife to another
means notlling less than mental adultery. The
Scriptures indicate that one who persists in
doill< fllis I\-ilCully sliall be sn~tllo~vcd
up of the
scconrl dcnth. Therefore one who is inveigled
into suc11 an cntariglcn~entby tile adversary's
\v\-orl;i~~g
tlirough the lonrer propensities of the'
mind, and does not s\\iftly rectit'y this mistake,
is in grave danger. Jldce a vow unto the Lordin respect to this and Iceep it-which is perfectly and de~nandablypossible. A clarion note
of warning has sounded from heaven: "Keep
back thy servant also from pres~unptuoussins;
let tlicm not have dominion over me: then shall I be upriglit, and I shall bc innocmt from the
great t rnnsgression."-Psdm
19 :13.
Tllcrc is ~ioll~inji
to replace this some rain-.
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The devil's bow consists of the various shades

of darkness: Hate, jealousy, strife, passion,
carsings, bitter words, creepy suspicion, etc.
i , How nlmy husbands help wash dishes, make
beds, sweep floors and dust the furniture ? How
many nives study food charts to supply proper
nourishment for hubby and the ldildies, darn
socks and stoclrings, sew on buttons n-here they
a r e needed, and keep a tidy house? How many
;husbands and wives, luss each other wllen the
husband goes to work in the morning, and re' turns in the evening? How many fatliers con'I duct family prayers, and preside in true dignity
a t the breakfast table to dispense iiatural food
land to encourage the partaking 'of spiritual
I nourishment? Horn nlaily parents are chaste
I' in word and conduct in the Presellce of their
cliildrell and Before eacli other, taking to heart
the face value of the ~vords:Z e t no corrupt
proceed
of )*Our moutY'qEphesians '4 :29.
I t is the little things which count and go to
make up a happy home, or the reverse. How
n x n y fathers and mothers look forward into
, tlis future and see in vision their sons and
dcughters grown up and in favor with Clirist
i n the Golden Age, and seek nom to prepare
t11~111for that great kingdom, training them up
in the nap in which they should go so that they
nil1 not be food for the jaws of eternal deatli?
Dc~ponsibilityin t l i s r e s ~ e c can
t not be shirked ;
and it may be that failure to instruct and
(col)trol your children ~villdecrease your orvn
chances for life, and certainly dim your pros( p e ~ t for
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a hole in it ; so nagging, day in and day out, fl .'::

wear a hole in someone's patience.
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Husband, conduct 1-ourseIf so nobly and so '.-:
Christlike that your nife r i l l not feel it her duty ":
to usurp some, or all, of Tour authority in the
home and endearor to rule according to the ;
dictates of her conscience, hov-ever perverted
that consciellce mag be. wife,
a queen in the
home, a dispenser of cheer and good d,
a
zuonmwly Christian.
True, some days mmt be dark and dreary,
but the rainbow shines brightest nit& a dar+
bac1;ground. Passion and irreverence should
liave no place in tlle Godlike home. They can
not. hare amssion, and the llome remain a
blessing.
Trutli retained in the mind makes it transparent to tile light of God's love. Error, ,vllether of doctrine or of conduct, to the extent that
it is encouraged, malces the
impe~ous,
or opaque, to trutll; alld the light of love
not have freedom of action.
~1~~=colors of the rainbo,t,n can not
assemble in fomatjon.
"cleanse thou me
from secret faults: is an appropriate daily
prayer n-llich sllould ascend from every heart
desiring this halo of blessing in the home as a
up,,mrse~,
of perfect and s,,,eet
in the
hereafter.

WLL SHE EVER ~

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Liberal Soul Grows Fat With Goodncss

IE' IKCLINED to

be stingy wit11 tile wheres i t h a l to buy, you should be unselfisli enough

t
tvo1.1; of the flesh with the keen
to mt ' o ~ this
linife of true nobility. Be generous (not estravagnnt) with money, and to a fault.
Do not nag! rZ conte~ltiouswoman [or man]
i 3 like a c o ~ t i n u adropping
l
in a veIy rainy day,
6aj.s the vise man. (Pro\-crbs 27 : 15) The con\year
stant dropp;bg of vatcr upon a stolle

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The Other Animals

I T H E R T O we hare cliscussed boys and e r w y manifestation of ,grief, refusing t o Iet any
H
girls a n d grown-up h ~ u n a n sin THE GOLDES come near. One Airedale came back seven hun'AGE,
but have not paid much attention to tlie dred miles to the master who had sold llim.
other animals. SOKis their t u r n ; and first on
the list is the animal that by common consent
is the most lorable of tlie brute creation, the
_ dog, rind next to man tlie most inteuigent.
TJ%o has not heard stories of the usefulness,
the love and faitlifulncss of dogs? The Scotch
collie brings the sheep to the shearer one a t
a time, a s fast and no faster than needed. The
Ken-foundland allo\~-sno harm to come t o - t h e
child under his care. The St. Bernard brings
in the t r a ~ e l e r out of the storm, when his
strength is spent and his sense of location is
lost. Injured dogs have been Inown to seek
d r u g stores for assistance. Dogs hare been
hiown to suicide froni sorronT.
The German police-dog accepts his food from
but one person, and is deaf to flatteries. The
bloodhound has a I~enevolentdisposition, but
it is useless to try to e x a p e from him when he
has once talien up the trail. Walling for many
miles in a stream of n-ater is the only possible
may of escape; and even then tlie dog is likely
to recover the tmil, by coursing up and donn
the banks of tlie stream.
TIle master of a llulldog heard him whining
pitifully under the table. Looling beneath lle
found a child trying to cut the d o g s ears v i t h
n pair of shears. He attempted to punish the
child ; but the dog made such unmis ta1;able
signs of his purpose to attack him unless he
desisted that he was compelled to let tile diild
remain unpunished.
A lady foolislily confided to I ~ e mill.-man
r
that
she had sold some property and had a large sun1
of cash in the llouse, until the bank should open
the nest day. Tliinliing to rob her he proposed
to loan her his own dog f o r ller protection, saying to her that ~v.vlthhim in the house she could
rest in q f e t y . I n the morning he n-as found
h a l f - a p through a window, with his jugular
vein severed. IIis on7n dog llad kil!cd him
rather than prove false to his trust.
Kear Cin,cilinnti an Airedale saved the life of
rr chum, a large setter, by snatclilng him off tlie
railway trazli just as a train ivas Lcaring do\\.n
upon him. I n upper Xcw York a dog pickcd
up the body of a chum, liillcd by an automobile,
licked her face, and n-hined orer her body vith

The E , v t i a n hieroglyphics show that dogs

were companions of men thousands of years
ago, even as they a r e today. Herodotus tells
that when the family dog died the men of the
household shaved their heads in token of their
grief. Mummies of Egyptian dogs a r e to be
found fn the British Museum. A dog named
Rex is a re,dar fireman in the Newark, N.J,
fire department, has answered 2,000 cab in his
seven years of service, a n d has rescued many
from being burned to death. A female dog bas
been known to adopt five motherless kittens.
I n the early days of the World War, says the
Xem Pork Times,"dogs saved the French army
when there mere so few men that the regnlar
number of a n outpost mas two men and a dog.
The dogs not only marned of an approach, but
r e r e able to indicate whether the attacking
party 11-as large o r smalL There mere three
kinds of dog soldiers: The liaison dogs, those
of highest intelligence: used f o r carrying messages; the chines de snnte, that took care of the
wounded; and the police-dogs, trained to track
escaping prisoners. One dog carried messages
hventJ'-seven times across NO Uan's Land under
lleary barrage, and the menty-eighth time the
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F DOGS have been faithful to men, some
men have been not less faithful to their dogn
A boy's love f o r his dog caused a New P o r k
police justice to permit the dog to be enrolled
in the usual may, "just like any other boy," in
the institution to vhich the boy mas committed.
The boy mas a n orphan, and declared that the '
dog was tlle only pal he ever had. A homeless
man in Xem Torl; v a s offered a home if he
~vouldgive up his dog, but declared his pre- '
ference for prison first. His faithfulness to the
dog resulted in a good home for both of them. ,
But men, and women too, have been guilty of - .
much unliind treatment of d o g . I n P a r i s a .
year or so ago the society women tool: to dying
tllcir (logs to matc.11 tllcir go~vns, and wcro
stopped from it only wlicn tlie French S o c i c t ~
for I'rcvcntion of Cruelty of Amimals interfcred. TJ%en the orme was at its height some

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women had five dogs, a!l d y t ~ lclifTcrrnt color>.

Whipping a dog is bad enough ;cursing him is
worse, beonuse a d o e s nervous system is
I specially sensitive t o harsh sounds; bnt train/ ing the dog f o r stage Life is worst of all. I n
teaching the dog to turn back hanclsprings he
is jerked over backwards t h e and time again.
often with a blow under the jaw nit11 a piece of
wood o r the butt-end of a whip, until tlie poor
creature finally learns that if he turns of his
own accord he will escape the blo~v.
Nost of a dog's instructions sliould be positive. Brutality is apt to spoil liiin. Reproofs
can be administered in such a way as to accoinplish their purpose and a t tlie same time increase the d o g s usefulness and affection. I t
h
that
should be remembered in dealing ~ i t dogs
, many of them do not know more than do sonle
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pople. blost dogs are afraid of cologne.
Automobile thieves in and aromld Sew Pork
'do a considerable business i n Iiidnaping valuable
dogs and gelling them a t distant points. I t is
said that this is accomplished by the use of
decoys in the robber cars. Such dogs serve the
same purpose a s the preachers did in the last
war; they help bring in recruits, so to speak.
Argentina has dangerous packs of nlld dogs
roaming through sectiops of the country. They
have been known to attack men, and they think
nothing of cleaning up poultry yards and sheep
herds. London has a trade in dead dogs
amounting to ten tons a week. The bodies are
boiled down, and mixed with other food to malie
dog biscuits.
New York has an anipnl cemetery, within
which are mausoleums f o r dogs and other pets,
where fashionable women weep and "pray" orer
p v e s of their pets 'and bedeck them with espensive bouquets. Some of tlie mausoleums in
this cemetery cost as muell a s $10,000. It is
located in TVestcliester County, in the heart of
the Illilli~pairebelt. Adjacent to i t is a surgical
and dcntal'hospital, where all manner of operations a r e performed, not only upon dogs but
upon cats, monkeys, and other animals.

Our Old Fri&nd Tabby

KST to 'the clog, and some would :ire it

first place as :ill ai~sili;lr\-to tile i ~ o l ~

lil'c,
~c
is thc common house c:~t, in111ili::rly I ~ I I I J I V as
~
Tab1)y. This pct nanlc conlc!s l'l.o~!l
strcbr't
Atab, in the city of Bagdad, 3 strttt liotecl for
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AGE

~ r ssiIk lnanufactures. stridtly spealiing, a

tabby cat is one n-hose body is of liglit color,
with darlier stripes, bars- o r spots, and therefore having n more or less silken appearance.
Tlie cat lias a remarkable body, unusually
litlie, po~vcrful,and full of endurance. A cat
lias beell 1;1101v11 to juiilp vertically 150 feet and
s u r n r e the ~liocli. As a mother, the cat is exceedingly affectionate. I t mould be Bard to
find ail>-body t h a t does not appreciate kittens.
Even tlie digiiiied, stern bnsiness manager, and
a bacllclor a t that, loves l i i t t e ~ :nncl
~ \rill stop
nnp time t o f o ~ ~ donr.
le
The IVily that a, kitten
will rnb about one's feet and leap into one's ''Ylap is irr*eaistil~le.
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,A gentleman was alone in his home, seated
in an upper roo111 \I-orldng. Unmista1;aMe
,
cries of cIistl.ess isauccl fro111 below. Going
,
do1vil to inrcstigate, lle found that tlie iceman
had opelied a side door and was looking into the
icebox, to see if tlie eupp1;r- needed replenishing.
The cat linew that her mistress as out. She
did not like the 100lis of things. and sent out a
distress call. This story is even true.
Tlle cat seems to have been designed to pre- .
vent rats and mice from overrunning the world.
I t thus renders p e a t aid to agrict~lture. In
cities the cats sonletimes get to be too much of
a good thing; and in Kern York during the
I
summer months, the Society for the P r e ~ e n t i o n
of Cruelty to Snimals exterminates from 2,000
I
to 5.000 per day.
The cnt's f u r is deroid of oil, and this makes
it naturally free from disagreeable odors. I t s
tongue is provided with rough tooth-like
projectio~is that slant bnchvards, giving it a
roug11 surface and making it a good instrument
for cleaning operations. The hair of d o g and
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the f u r of cats are supposed to be one fruitful
method of disseminatinq children's cliseases.
The animal that is well-kept mingles with the
one that lives in squalid surroundings, m d
brings the cliseases of tlie poor to the homes of
the rich. Evidelitly what is needed i s to do
away ~ ~ i t all
l i squalor, all poverty. Christ's
liingtlom mill do just that.
"Cat meat" is s n item which appears remlnrIy oa the expense aeeoont of almost every
I , U F I I I ~ + . liousc. The cat must eat. The bill
(JI' tllc S c u ~To1.1; Cotton Eschange f o r food for
,
(*fitsf o r . i i i ~1a5t li:cal year \ V ~ F$.j1.73. Tlie
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for n.lich they seem to have a certain fondness.

I t is impossible to lose a cat. One can be
put into'a bag and carried hundreds or even
thousands of miles, but its homing instinct will
enable i t to return to its owner. Cats become
attached to localities, and grieve over the dmerican family's habit of pulling up $takes and
moving elsewhere e r e v so often. Sometimes
they refuse to leare the old home for clays.
h nevspaper despatch saps: "IIuntington;
JV. T'a. 'Go out and get eoine cat tails,' a
teacher a t Ensign scliool instructed studelits in
a botany c l a ~ s . A l4year-old lad, \\-hose liamc
is n-itlilteld, turned np yesterday ~vitlitlie bloody
tails of seren liouse cats. 'I cllopped them off
with a hatcliet,' he remarked with some pride.
The teacher f ninted."

mules take their place. 3Iules are trim, easy.

gaited, efficient, ready for work, and step off
before a plow under conditions of heat that
rna,gnificent but sweating farm-horse can n
endure. When i t comes to roughing it, as 1
necessary in oil drilling and mining
tary operations, the mule is indispe
Many mules spend their entire lives
ground, in the mines.
A horse has certain inalienable rights, o
of 11-liich is to swish his tail i n fly time.
clrirer in Kew Pork mas arrested f o r
ing n horse. He explained to the court that he
y-as peaceably smoking s cigar, when the horse
s~vislledhis tail and hoclced the cigar out of
But the Magistrate aaid to him:
l ~ mouth.
s
"It is perfectly legitimate f o r a horse to swish
liis tail about. That is v h a t a horse's tail is for.
The FamiZg Eorse
If your cigar was in the way, that is your fault. ,
STIL tlie days of Henry Ford tliere was Ten dollars." Paris consumes large quantities
such an animal as the fanlily horse. Bnt this of horseflesh f o r food.
animal has outlived his n s e f ~ ~ l n e sand
s ; thougli
he can still be found aro'und the stoiiy farms of Othernomestic Animals
tlie East, lie has almost ceased to exist in some
T;R other d o d e s t i ~animals, a t a e , -e,
.
sections of the West. Pet, strange to sap, the
sheep, goats, are frankly raised f o r food
West vould never haye been clevelo~edbut for
f o r their products of
or mool, althoagh
t h e horse. Thus do we reward our benefactors. some cllildren md;e temporary pets of lambs
I n Bible times the horse was used almost o r goats. The ox mas the animal upon which .
exclusively as ct war-horse, other animals being civilization was chiefly built up. In Palestine, '
used in the fields. I t is for this reason that the and indeed in nearly every ngricdtural country,
description in J o b 33: 19-25 has sudi a n7arlilce the o s has done most of the work of plowing,
tliresl~ing,hauling, etc-; and the cows have fur- .<
tone :
"Hast thou given the horse strength? linst nishcd the family with milk, butter, d~eese,etc. '
thou clotlled llis nccl; uith tliunder? Canst thou Tlle ancient mctliod of yoking oxen was dumsy,
malie him afraid as n grasshopper? tlie glory inefficient, and cruel.
of his nostrils is terl-il~le. Ile paweth in the ralThe S e w
Zoo has placed a cow on exley, and rejoicetli in 1 ~ strength:
s
he goeth on hibitibn among the strange animds gathered
to meet the n~.l!ied men. He 1110clieth a t fear, from all parts of the earth. The reason for doand is not affrighted; neither turneth he back ing tllis is tllat there are tens of thowands of
from the S T T - O ~ ~ .The qniver rottlrtll against cllildren in x e ~ vYorI; who have never seen a
him, the glittering spear and tlie sl~ield. He cow, and their only opportunity to see one is
s\\*aIlayeth the ground with fierceness and rnqc; when they go f o r an outing to B r o m Park.
neither believeth lie that it is the sound of a
some of the N~~ york , .E~~~~once in a
t r w p e t . He sflit11among the trumpets, 15%]la: papers that get part of their joy out of life i l l
and he smclleth the battle afar off, the tliunder trying to
the BiMe loolc r<dicdous serve of the c a ~ t n i n sand
,
the shouting."
o~ilyto make exhibitions of themselves to Bible .
rl horse is fond of his master, quick to do his Students. A favorite theme has been the nnibidding, Tasilp guided, quiet, fzithful, tern- corn. Foolish descriptions of the unicorn, takcn
perate, longsuffcring, but is scnsitivc to atmos- from Pliny, are quoted. The nltempt is made
plieric clianges and is not f o r tliat reason suited to graft these descriptions on to Bible statrto hot climates.
ments, and then to show that there is not and
There arc fern horses in tlic South. Tllcrc never has been such an animal.

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of
is:. "is glory is 'lie
J
of his
.L bulloak, and his horns are like the horns of a
:;.unibrn." The reem, mistranslated unicorn, is
I
positivelyidentified
the Palestinian
aurochs, o r d d ox-black, powerful, hairless.
~h~ herican
buifalo,
threatened
ht far
many once
years
.protected~ byt
iwo.

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mas any such animal as the elephants k n o r that it is time to stop a o r k and eat.
It makes no dlfEerence if they have a log nithin a fmction of an inch of the platform; the boss drops hir

Plinfs anicorn is quite true. But the Bible

oaicorndid not have merely one horn. 1 t had

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anchor chain and g ~ t sout of the way: and the pushers

step to one ride, letting the log cnrh doan
Then, without the least eqrerrioo of inteRrf they
for the stall.',

.hn elepllant n-eighs about ten thonsand

pounds. His instinct tells him whether o r not
ahbridge
is safe,
and
no coaung
11-111
intlnce
him to
cross
a neak nor
one threatening
until i t has

law, is now becoming more plentiful ; aiicl the been strcngtlirncd. Haring the ability to sprawl
her& in canada have so iucreased that in tile emjllr, extencling his legs conlfortably fonrard
m m l e r of 1923 word n-as sent out to kill off and bac1n1-ard, an elephant nil1 ascend and de- .

about 2,000 so that they n-ould not use up too scend mounltains inaccessible to tlie horse. The
mncjl good pasturage. J J $ ~ the
~
;lnlerican elephant is a strong s-rimmcr, able to regulate
~ ~ - his
i depth
x ~by ~
inhaling o r expelling air through
plains were one
grazing
F. cody %ued over four thousand buffaloes in his trllllli, and enjoying water sports exceed. one season. H e won the name Buffalo Eill by ingly.
Elephants caress each other with their trunks.
contracting ~ t the
h Kansas Pacific Railray
i n gdirectly in
The baby elephant in ~ ~ ~ I i l sits
Company to supply its laborere r i t h meat.
front of tlie motlrer, who fondles i t most affectionately with her 'trunli. The mother gires
me Domestic EIephant
birth to but one a t a time, and not oftener than.
NE could hardly refer to the elephant a s a once in s i s years.
pet, although the New Pork IYorld does
An elephant is provided with *en@-four
tell of a father who presented a bride n i t h a enormous teeth, only eight of which, hon-erer,
baby elephant five years old, n~eighinghalf a four in each jar,are in action a t one time. Tlie
ton. The father stated that this gift was mnch other two sets of eight each are reserve teeth,
better than diamonds, and that the elepl~ant conling into use as tlie others are Torn out.
would not eat much more than a horse. The The elephant's food consists of grasses and rice,
center of the menagerie elephant trade is Ham- 11-hich i t p ~ d l swith its trunli and cleans from
burg, where good specimens a r e worth $1,500 dirt by flogging the roots against its front legs.
to $3,000 apiece.
Scientists hare discovered tliat eiephants may
I n India and Burma elepi~antsare much used suffer -\\-it11toothadle. They found an old fossil
in the lumber business, where they handle logs mastodon that liacl suffered so mnch that his
and pile lumber with the greatest precision. A face was deformed. His tootliache estended
writer in "Asia" describes interestingly how over a surface of t11-o square feet. Only one
elephants do their work in the san.mills, rolling molar grew on his light jaw, and had to do the
tbe logs into position:
work of ~II-o. The mastodon has p a e ~ e dout of
"??uah:ng,+mith their hcads, they rnn the logs up esistence. Probably the last were killed in the (CI
t ~ inclined
o
skids to the platform. Trro elephants (lo Flood.

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the pushing, aad a third elrpllant acts as boss. The

boss need not be especially intelligent; he is simply dlonlie~o,Squirrels, Seals
taught that the logs must go up the skids in a certain
OST<ETS, squirrels, aiid seals are more o r
say, and that bhe trro pushers must be 1;cjlt cvell. I n his
1cf;s used as pets. Uost of tlle monkeys
tnrnk he c a r r i q 3 few links of anchor cllain. nhicli he
trained
by organ-grinders come from the Baruses as a n-hip. If one elrphant fall5 behind. tirc Loss
him n rap
the
ihr
on 11ary ('anst. nrar Gibmltnr. Tiley are'reaclily
the platform, die pllsllers t u r n alld Iliad ~~~k for tflllfht to clinll) a I'Ol)C, dance, doff $ cap, collect
anather. Tile boSi clephnllt is qllitc uu,lllpri~-,cedby pennies. Ctc. TII(.!- a r e restless and mischierous.
h rcccnt king of Greece died from the bite of
his authority, and thc otlierj show no r c s e ; ~ t n ~ c nwhen
t
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T h e ' h e r i c a n m o n k e ~ s ,unlike those of the

old m o ~ l d , have grasping tails. I n crossing
streams a troop of monkeys g r a s p each other by
the tail, f o n n a pendulum, a n d in a jiffy cons t m e t a living bridge o r e r ~ l ~ cthe
l lbabies and
mothers t r a r e l easily to the other side. The
same system is used by them i n obtaining f r u i t
othernise out of reach.
h article in a n exchange gives the following
item regarding tlie uses and customs of monlteps
in the U d a y Archipelago :
Y n the islands of the Eastern or, as it is commonly
called, the Ualay Archipelago, the monkeys ~rlllch
abound in those parts are trained to be useful and to
assist in picking cocoanuts off the trees. The monkeys
can climb higher than any man can go, and thus fruit
that would otherwise be inaccessible is gathered. A
leading London dally newspaper, in connection with
this fact, imparts tile inforn~ationthat, on a certain
cocoanut ,plantation in Sumatra where the monkeys
form an exceedingly valuable addition to the norking
stab. the7 absolutely refuse towork overtime. PunctualIy at 4 o'clock every afternoon they come scuttling do~rn
fribm the t w s , and no threats or e~ltreat~es
can induce
t h m to pick one single nut more until the next day."

The o r m n a ~gray
a nice pet,
a n d soon becomes quite friendly. A gentleman
mas accustomed to feed a squirrel a t Inrgc in
his r a r d
putting nuts into
coat pocketT h e squirrel learned to climb illto the poclcet
a n d conrentedly munch nuts,meantime permitting itself to be fondled. On one occasion tlie
gentleman forgot to put nuts into his pocket.
T h e squirrel climbed in, the same as usual. Tlle
gentleman tried petting it, but got a e a r a g e bite
through the finger. The ecluirrel e ~ i d e n t l y

AGE

After New York's Motor Maniacs

I X A.'despernte effort to remedy S e w Torlc's
nlotor rellicle traffic congestion, tlie streets
a n d avenues in the lolrer p a r t of the city Lave
bccn made one-way strcets. Ecsides this salutnry arrangement 3lotor Maniac blani;s a r e
provided iqtelligent motorists, upon n-llicll they
m a y conveniently report to tlic Police Dcpnrtment a n y of the following violntioris:
."Parking within fiftccn fect of a fire hp'drant"; "Parliing in front of a tenenlent Iiousc";
"Impeding thc operation of fire apparatus by

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thought that h e n-as being intentionally 'b-':
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ceived.
S4i"els a r e t r u e to their mates until a I,-.
and leads the
in the
l-riOus
home
astray.
.
squirrel
hide a f e w nuts f o r a r a i n y dsp
Squirrels multiply almost too rapidly if azt..
c,,eclicd, end frequently strip trees
thdr
fruit. They a r e especially fond of apples, pears, '
apricots, and plums.
7ve select the folloming seal s t o r y f r o m
Dumb Animals" :
"A sea captain not long ago captured a young seal,
hoping to tame and rear it on board his ship. a
placed it in a sack to secure it. But wide as the 0was, cmd swiftly as the ship sped on, the mother wu as swift, and followed in search of her young. Whan .
it was first caught the mother howled piteously, anb'
the baby barked back its grief. But the man was relast
less, and coolly watched the agonized mother follow htm
till the ship reached the wharf at Santa Barbara I E ~ H
he thought that his prize was safe, for snrelj no d
would venture there; and the ship mas docked. Sudden-. i
1y the mother gave a ary close to the ship; the little ona,
as if obeying instmcti&is, struggled, still in the MI&,
to the edge of the deck and rolled itaelf overboard. Thr
mother \Gas seen to seize the sack, rip it open with h
lhnip t& .nd joyfullr
her bdY. S b h& -.
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after it for eighty miles;p
6cSeds mim north to rookeries or b d g g.aO1lh
rile male seals go fist, house-hunting. After t h q harr -.
located good homes, near plentiful food mpp1, m-_
gers swim back to -on
the cow seala. Considering
the intricacies and farsightedness of what we call nature':
-and especially of the nstonishing thing in lower ad- mals that r e call instinct-it is bewildering how any 7 ,
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parking o r ]jarring free passage on crowded 1 .

thoronghfares"; "Zigzagging i n and out of line :
of traffic"; "Opernting automobile while intoxi- . '
cntcd"; "No head nor tail lights"; "Defective
Bmkes"; "Operating while under the influence..
of drugs"; "Operating mitliout driver's license"; , ,
"Speeding"; "Turning corner without signalI
ing" ; "Spcecting on wet pavement"; "Speeding
p a s t school o r danger zonesJ'; -'Tassing stationary s t r e e t - c a y ; "Front seat spooning';
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sacred history, we learn that one Axan whom
OR all these virtues and more, these early
they called Christns was charged with heresy
Christians r e r e accused of being rmpatrioand Put to death under Tiberius Casar, Over tic, selfishly unsociable, and real linters of manp e t e e n hundred Years Wo. *so,
immedi- kind. A s they x-ould not attend the fairs, shows
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re--fouomers, known as the
and other nmusel~~ents
recognizc~lby the ortho--re accused in fie manner and suffered mar- doxies of the times, their enemies found r a y s
.tj-rdom f o r the bIaster's cause.
and means to make shonvs out of some of them.
jc- Without question, at that time the Roman So numbers n-ere fed to lions and other s w a g e
peoples had risen to a high state of culture and beasts; vhile the clotlies of many Inore were
civilization; and wonderful as it may seem, these saturated ~ i t hoils and set on fire, in this way
crimes were aU committed accortlin~to lam by furnishing light along \~-ithtlle sllo~\-sf o r the
the consent of the rulers and to the satisfaction nigllt rerrlries. The parks, grat~utoualyset aof the masses of those peoples.
part by Kero, the tyrant, were i n this ray lit
2 - Seemingly this should be, f o r the saIx of con- up f o r such occasions.
gistency if nothing more, a r e v impressive lesSotnithstnnding all these persecutions and
son as to how modern civilizations should treat other hindering causes thrown in their war,
their o m heretics, lest they should make the these consecrated people pressed steadily on,
same old mistalies by treading upon angels un- with faith u n d a ~ ~ n t e dbeliering
,
that they had
awares.
tlie light that ~ ~ o u l eventually
cl
go around the
Historians of recent times are under tile iu- I\-orld. As time p a s ~ e don, a hundred years o r
pression that the v o r i d could scarcely have got- more, some of the more E;enerous and noble
ten along without the Rolnan empire.
She governors bemn to recomize the fact tha
served as a comecting linlc between ancient and these heretics were really good citizens; that
modern progress. Uuch of our o n n ci~+Iization they aln-nys obeyecl the laws and paid due rehas
been drawn from those peoples a s they had spcct to the rulers when doing so did not conflict
Itoo sererely n i t h their teachings of righteousborrowed from Greece before.
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ness.
Wise
men
have
long
si&e
agreed
that
i
t
was
,
Up to this time, these devout worshipers had
one among the specid provi,jences
of ~~d t h t
Christ should come on earth in the palmy days been made up nearly a l t o ~ t h e from
r
the hurnof that mighty empire. F~~n7ithout many of bler wdl;s of life, many of then1 haoing actually
the conditions Rome had malle, the early Chris- been sl;rves. But now men of Some ~ e a l t hand
t-s,
o r heretics
they
called, mould have worldly iXlflUence Saw fit to join their numbers,
been handicapped much more tllan they were c " r r f i n ~With them, we a r e told, a p a r t of their
pagan religious ideas, as well as Grecian philoin carrying on their great work.
.
The so-called heretics manifested great ear- sophies.
church "y
d e ~ e e bes
nestness, a s well a s pleasure, in their endeavors
to carry the message of tIle cross to the nyorld, came imbued
a measure of worldly spirit.
it ~ a i n e dnumbers now much more
a t tlle same time obeying the commands and Ho~\~ever,
walliing in the footsteps of the humble Nazarene. rapidly, and by the beginning of the fourth century, some of the nobles, a s well as high officials,
It a ~ ~ e a r s a l Jvere
at
teachers; rind
helping to sKeU its numbers, Constantine
wherever persecutiol~sdrove them, they taught being one of
Under that emperor, the
righteousness both by precept and by example, church practically captured the ~or-d.
arid condemned unrighteousness in high as well
In the second letter to tile TllessalonianS,
low
These peculiar people
second chapter, the apostle Paul prophetically
take no p a r t
carnal ~Varfare,r e f n ~ i n gto ;,,f,~rllledthat bocly of worshipers what n-ould
fight when drafted into such serrice, even when Ilnppen in after tillles. The Apostle recognized
#theI-Iuns and barbarians pressed upon the bor- that inicluitp was creeping into the cburdi in
ders. Neithcrmould they participate in tlle great lus own clay, and made linown further what
social functions and frivolities of rhe times.
11-ould take place in the centuries to follow:
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A falling aTay or apostasy m-ould take place;

a "man of sinJ' would rise, claim to usurp
the pla'ce of God and do many wicked things,
when the powers that hindered should be taken
out of the may. This hindering cause mas the
combined civil, financial and ecclesiastical power
of the Roman Empire, now beingjapidly overcome.

tures into the nen- languages that were taking:i/ ,

the place of the old, also to formulate creeds-;,
and to teach doctrines f a r in advance of the
Papacy, or mother Rome.
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I n passing, we sliould remember that thtse
great men mere scorned for heresy at the time. t .Strange but true, n:anlind have always stoned I '
llie prophets, hnprisoned and put to death their
best men, while other generations just as con- i
stantly have risen up long afterwards to build
monuments to their honor. Consistency, thou
a r t a jell-el! But when will the world recognize
the fact?

Jfeon'ties Ruled and Force Was Enthroned

n:I.u,Ry ~l-enton f o r quite a time betyeen
tics nolv korldly c-urcll and tfle old order
of things, each striving to enforce its claims of
orthodoxy on the world. llajorities have al.
t4
n a y s had the power to enforce such claims, romhi~inL7the Same a d in R i o a l ~
while those in minority have been branded as
EW cllurches now rapidly sprang up and
either heretics or bacli numbers. Tniile this
grew in strength, and out of that refonnsc
strife was going on between the great powers, tion came what is h o r n as the Protestant .
persecutions mere not so severe for a time; that churclics of our o m day. Active rivalry com- '
is, conscielitious ~vorsliipersthat mere already menced beween Protestantism and CathoEcism. I
desertink tlie apostatised church mere over- The mother church, Iiaving much the advantage
looked and liad to some eqtent a breathing spell. for quite a wliile, still carried on high-handed- %
However, as the fallen church, o r mother Rome, ly her persecutions in many p a d s of the wodd
overcame all opposition it set about to perse- u t i l compar;rtivel$ .recent times. Something
cute those \vho were dropping from its numbers, over a handred years ago Napoleon either con.
for conscience' sake, in a thousand times more sciously or unconsciouslp put the Papacy out
cruel manner than the early Christians had been of business; that is, in a temporal or politid
persecuted.
\ray.
So crimo was adcled to crime; and as ignosince the ~~f~~~t.~~ has been
on, ,
rance and superstition all!-ays f o l l o ~ ~ ~ wicked
s ~ ~ c l l there has heen more toleration
to-a
rule, the world was slon-ly but surely being independent or conscientious
~h~~ , plunged into what is kno\~nas the darlc ages. llave heen qlolpen\\ith a little help". ~ , , d ,~
I n tlie meantime, tlie languages in vhich tlie ~ l ; s ~ o vhas been repeatkg itself similarly to
Scriptures had hecn written were fast becoming that of tile constalltine periodobsolete. Consequently, the Bible was practically 01)scnred from the masses of the people for Should Get Back to Bible
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long ages, being llidderi away, as it were, in
t would surelp be unwise to indorse.'
these dead lang~aqes. Popedom, that man of
the
creeds
o r to accept ~vitl~ont
thorough
sin, now liatl full STJ-ay. By tlie courts of inquisition
I:lany otller inventions of cruelty, investigation the doctri~iesof our own heretics. ' . *i
rniUiQns
tortured and put to death. ~h~ It stands to reason that it is even more unwise
isms or necessarily all of the doc- .
tllnt a midnight gloom oversprenrl to accept
result
the reliSions ,,f tile civilized l,-ol.ld. H
~ trines~that came
~ out of~tlie clark
~ ages. ~To idol- ~ . .
ize
any
creed
is-generally
conceded
to have
a t the darl;est Ilour,
men beqn to ll.a:re
aban- ' up and boltlly renouncc many sins of tile mothcr blinding tendency. As Bibles are now
church ar@, l,y carclul rescarcjl o f tile ~ p l . : p - dfil1ce, lvlly not bathe in the crystalfine streams
at
tures, to reclaim a part of the virtues prnctiycd of doctri~lesfound in the New Tes-ent,
by the or&innl churcll, pcrlinps only a part, the same time seeking aid from whatever sourco
as more could scarcely lje espcctccl, coming frorn n-e may, in all our mctlley of religions,-and bear$4
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that thralldom of night, as they did.
ing in mind, a s we proceed, that the RefonnaThese illustrions men, 31nrtin Luther nnd tion is not necessarily complete, perhaps scarce
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all of the Scriptures. I n this connection, read
again the twelfth chapter of the book of Daniel.
The Prophet observes that in the time of tlie
end many shall run to and fro and horn-ledge
shall be increased. In any direction w e may
:turn this is marvelously being fulfilled right be;fore our eyes; that is, in all temporal things.
1 The inspired m i t e r no doubt had reference
more especially to a better uilderstaniling of
; prophetic scriptures;'that is, Bible knowledge,
! or knowledge worth while. This Prophet, as
1 well as the others, informs us t6at lie himself
' did not understand all that he TTas putting on
: record. Surely inspiration would not haye im:pressed the Prophet to I\-rite anything that
. should never be of any benefit to the world. So
, the unavoidable conclusion is that Scriptnral
a research will go majestically onward, whether
we are in the march o r merely sit and nurse our
' idols. All,who delight in Scriptural study for
noble purposes mill, no doubt, be permitted to
pick up now and then a brighter pebble than before, as they pass hither and thither on the shores
of tlie fathomless, measureless ocean of clivine

Image o f World Dominion DemoLishrA

T THE same t h e Daniel haa a mew X a

A stone hewn

from the mountainside, not

made by halids; that is, it bad no connection
with the image. Tlie Prophet beheld this stone
as it rolled down the centuries, e a r n i n g along
a light, faint perhaps at times, until at last it
destroys tlle image by crashing upon its feet.
Thus, as tlle Prophet explains, all the gorernments of the lvorld, both mocler11 and ancient,
or the selfish principles on \~-hiclither are based
are to be destroyed forever, making ready no
doubt for that oft repeated prayer to be answered: "Tliy liingcloni come. Thy ndl be done in
earth as in ilea\-en."
This sacred old prayer has sometimes, in the
darkest liours, assumed tlie form of a plaintive
wail, such as: '0 God! hide me until Thy
wrath be past.' Daniel saw, or seemed to see,
that time conie and a glorious kingdom set up.
He s a r , or seemed to see, the effulgent light of
a noonday sun shine forth in all its splendor,
and righteousness spread over the norld as the
n-aters corer tlle sea, This dream or vision is
ell explained; and besides its o n lesson, it
tmtll.
is a great aid to the understanding of many
I n viev of all these facts, it is surely well in other prophecies. I t is also largely fulfilled and
the bounds of reason, as well as logic, to expect, confirmed by impartial listor>-. So Bible scholor a t least not be surprised to fid, that much a r s differ but little in their commentaries till
we have been taught to believe is made up they come to the ten kingcloms a:mbolized by
of errors that h a ~ ecome out of the clark ages. the toes of the image. Here there i s quite a
The appalling thonght of a perpetnal torment, difference of opinion still. In the serenteenth
when the Scriptures are more fully recognized chapter of Rerelation a picture is d r a m illuso r understood, is doomed to fall by the wayside trati~:gmore fully the last scenes of earth's
as an error of this kind. Surely this alone n-ill drama, or the present e ~ i n-orlci.
l
This Pision
be not only a brighter pebble, but! a real gem to is also full? interpreted by the Rerelatois
. the hearts of thousands of mothers who have guardian angel and, if 11-ell understood, is no
had their boys ruthlessly torn from their af- doubt a key to many of the splbols of this wonfections and sacrificed in cruel wars.
derful bool;. ,As yet, it seems, a considerable
, Uuitiplied thousands of noble young men portion of this prophecy is nnfulfilled. So there
have had their lives snuffed out in a twinkling, are vast diffcreliccs of opinion liere.
withoutany real hopes of a better \~.orlcl. Those
Tlie sacred writers Iiove continually r ~ p e a t e d
boys, each of whom ~ r a ssomebody's lored one, tlie fact that the Scriptures are n part of the
hare been consigned to tlie arch el1t.niy.s prison, lnystery !]rat llelol~gsto Godlinr.ss. so that i t
h a v i n ~perliaps little or no I;~io\i-lctlpeof the talies consecration and ~visdolll~ouglitfrom on
consoling scriptures pointing to the restitution high to unloclc its treasures. T\?lile the hman
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of all things, as spoken by tllc moutl~of all the fanlily has ever heen prone to ~vanderfrom the
prophets siwe the worlcl bcgnn. One bcautlful paths of rcctitntlr (illdeed many are disposed
scripture along this line is fount1 in the ~ccond to nii11g1c worldly aml~itions ant! pleasures
chapter of Danicl, where the P~.oplletmnkcs nlonsr wit11 their religious clevotions) to all who
use of the golden headed image. cncli rlietal s ~ m - are inclinc>tl to close their eres to the simple
bolizing a great world power down to the end. rules of rigl~teousness,one mystery is that the

Scriptures now become a t least a part of a

strong delusion and lead to further blindness
rather than to Light. Rence the foolish that walk
in wisdom's map u-ill still confound the worldly
wise. The result of this partial or total blindness is that people of all ages have been a t a loss
to understand the signs of the times around
them, or to compreliend the present truth, that
is, truths applicable to tlieir 01\71 day, or to even
recognize n h a t mile post they were passing along the stream of time.
I K h e n Christ mas on earth, His most studious
and devout followers could not, wit11 the help
of the great Teacher, fully understand the harmonious fulfilling of the scriptures applicable
;'...--to
that period, until it had all passed into history; while the business world of that time went
on almost unconscious of the meaning of the
mighty events that were transpiring in their
midst. The time and manner in which Christ
is to come the second time is likely to he still
less nnderbtood. Prayerful and careful Christhe meaning of
tians will not fully co~~lpreliend
tlieir surroundings; while the great throbbing,
pulsating bnsiness world will go on at the same
momentous speed in its reckless greed for gain,
. 'Rith but little tliought o r recognition that the
rapid rate in ~vllicllhistory is being made by
the r o r l d is in fulfilment of prophecy.
'Ire "Fallen Woman'' and Her "Daughters"

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Revelator, i n Revelation 17, sepms to

s~veepdown from an early period wit11 history in advance, s~mbolizingseven ~~-orIct
powers by seven mountains. At the point in time
where this panorama was most impressive to
the Prophet, five of thsse kingdoms had passed
away; one, apparently only a sul)stitute, was
in power; vhile the last, really tlie eig-lltll but
of the seven, had not yet stepped upon the
stage of action. I11 this connection, the ReveIator ale0 had a view of tlie last scenes to l)e staged
by moifcrn ecclesinsticism. Thcse, symbolized by a fallen woman and her daughters, talren together, he desigates as Babylon the Great.
. This m n ~ be
t a tahlcau scene of mother Rome
having refgrln~rlto meet the demnlids of the
advancinq ~ o r l d ,going along n sliort time in
pence nit11 ier daugliters, or the other great
worldly churclics.
This arrangement is made possible bp a league
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formative period. Each church w i l l still maintain its o m special doctrines, but they m+ll work
together only to a common end. Babylon is
presented in this picture, arrayed in gaudy attirement, securely seated on her scarlet-colored
beast, or last world power. This power is made
complete by a league of nations that is alsowell under way. The ten kingdoms, symbolized
by the toes of Daniel's image, that were to remain separate, appear to unite. This is only
apparent, however; for each country -dlhave
its own form of government. They a r e to work
together along with Babylon to meet certain
emergencies. This work in common mill no doubt
be to subdue or hold in subjection the much
dreaded Bolshevik hydra that is just now cansing strong men's hearts to fail them in its threatening attitude to change or to destroy all forms
of governments and ~ 0 r l d l yreligions, a t the
s a l e time. So when church and state are well
lined up, intolerance will naturalIp be more and
more severe.
A11 d o ~ ~
through
n
the annals of historp can
surely be traced a peculiar people, as individuals
and comparatively small groups of worshipers
under various names, that have lived by faith,
hoped and prayed for tlie fulness of the Gentiles
to be come in and for a righteous rule to take the
place of the present evil world. These peoples
have never sought for worldly offices and honors
or the emoluments accruing from dl such, preferring rather to earn bread by the sweat of their
face. Such persons can not, and will not, fd1
in with the league idea. So they are qnite likely
to he put to a severe test again. People of this
type will be misunderstood, as they always have
been, and classed as allies along with societies
having destructive tendencies, n-hen redly they
are, as ever, tlie vanguard of all religions, with
purposes only to dissenlinate light and point out
dangers to a misguided \vorld.
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ing of the new nature mill need, perhaps as . yf
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never before. to have on the whole armor, so
as to make tllcir cnllinq n ~ ~election
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sure, and
to be baptized wit11 the one essential baptism,
immersion into the will of Gotl, to ennhle tltrm
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to go not only ~villingly, but checrflllly \\-it11
Christ to death-that too, as heretics, if need b ~ . - 2
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surely have not failed to recognize that a host teach thnt all but a handful of God's creatures
of prophetic scriptures point out in no uncertain nill be packed away and tortured forever, ,
terms a perilous time that can not be f a r in the though the Scriptures bear out the sad thought '
distance. If anything i s to be learned from that there mill be no place found f o r many.
these scriptures in the Light of recent history, These incorrigible ones, it is hoped, =ill be comas well as of current events, the world is now paratively few of earth's millions. They v d l
in or near the penumbra, o r tlie shadow, n i t h pass to tlie second death or back into oblivion,
v i t h no promise or hope of a further resnrrecthe darker shade of the eclipse to followv.
Satan through the instrumentalities of men tion.
The central thought in these scriptur'es ia
is to leave nothing unturned to perpetuate his
of selfish r d e . A time of trouble that the 11-orldly cliurclies, a mixture of the good
world
is brought to view, that will cause all other and bad, or 11-heat and tares, x i t h tlie p o l r - e w
troubles, severe though many have already been, that-be, pernlitted of God, hnvin,q outlircd their---;
~ ~ Sno\\?
S , be destroyed in the Gento pale into insignificance ill comparison. Be- I I S C ~ U ~ will
sides, lying wonders and everything calculated tile or great world harvest, now under ray.
to deceive will be brought to bear; false miraGod lias nerer been frustrated in the least,.
cles wrought, even to the bringing down of fire but has usecl all these institutions, both in a
fro111 heaven in the sight of men to deceive the positive a s well as in a negatire sense, to carry
very elect, if it were possible.
out IIis will, using directly thc good, and has
Much of this w o n d e r - ~ v o r h gthat has assumed overruled and mill overrule, all eril for good.
the form of godliness, but that denies the Tlie will-power of men has largelp been left unpower thereof, is likely much farther along in t r a m e l e d , and a majority of the rulers h a r e
fulfilment than we are avtare, being propagated alwal-s cliosen to rule in a selfish n-a?-. The
and carried f o m a r d by modern splrltism and masses ha\-e usually been held in cbains b~ obeykindred cults of divination. The one consoling ing Satailic influences, thereby enslaving them~
promise is that these crucial times mill not 1 s t selves. The rulers of all times, nit11 a f e noble
One
esceptions,
have
stood
for
and
bccn
the
cause
of
long; else there n-odd be no flesh saved.
hour, which necessarily symbolizes a short time, the terrible wars and tortures that hare left
is mentioned more than once in the eighteenth such a fearful blot on the pages of history.
chapter of Revelation, 11-here these troublesome
times are fully described in metaphor o r sqm- God's way rill Prove the Best
l o l i c d language.
\\-liy God has permitted so much suffering for so long, is still best k n o ~ n unto
i
HimBabylon, being already condemned, nil1 now
topple down, though she ~vill.consoleherself to self, though it is u n r e ~ o n a L l eto doubt that
the last that she sits a queen and. is no widow when tlie full light is turned on and n-e can
a n d shall see no sorrow. She feels that she is know a s we are kno\ni, all intelligences will
securely married to the world, with the military come to know without a lingering doubt that the
forces to do her bidding. God's people at the very best means possible \!-ill have been used
time a r e called out; many a r e likely to be forced for tlie obtaining of sucli glorious ends.
out, in a WV. This destruction of Babylon
I n order to reach perfection, all peoples must
and the powers-that-be, o r the false p r ~ n c ~ p l e sfirst understalld evil as \\-ell as good m d , for
on \&@h they are based, is not to take place in a the proper use of free moral agency, must l e a n f t ~
momenf;but will smoulder away in the seething the exceeding sinfulness of sin. and a t the sameflames or upheaval of the times uritil finally all time get all tlie experiences necessary to fit and ,
is destroyecl, burned up, nit11 nothing left but qualif!; tlirm to receive, in tlie right spirit, the
blessirics long since pronlised to dl nations to
the smoke, or evidence of such destruction.
be
manifested in due time.
This wih go on record and remain forever.
Tlie Scriptures bear out tlie thought that last,
hiankind, 8r all' that survive the storm, are to
be more or less surprised, some expressing won- but not least, intelligences of heaven, a s well as
der, others rcgrrt, that such great institutions earth, must fully realize that God has all power;
shoultl come to nnu,rrlit so soon. S o rcnsona1)le that IIis .justice is never more to be questioned;
collclusion can be drawn thnt these scriptures that at tlie s a u e t h e 1Ie is an embodiment of

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Eie is ~vitliall His attributes one rounded-out,
perfect Jehwali.
n?ien all evil is put down, Christ is to turn
the reins of governlnent back to the Fatherwho \\-ill be all and in all forever. When the
work is finally complete, all tears and cares nil1
be brnsliecl aside; sickness, sorrow anti death
mi11 be no more. A t this jnncturc, words fail
to espress, or the most acute imagination t o
conceive, the joys that v i l l be \\-hen faith passes

into sight and hope into fruition. The repeated

Alleluias o i the saints \\-illnow be i n order, lending a sweet cadence to the celestial choir which
will now pour forth its anthems without a d i e '
cordant note throughout the ceaseless ages' of
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That Ministerial "Call". ay D. H. Copetand.
" 'Troas, Asia Minor,
TEXTIJIES a s we read the clnily press we
Hay 15th, A. D. 61.
have wondered a t the nuniber of ministers
of the denominational churches who received " 'To thc Right Reverend Bishop John Boanerges, D. D.,
'"calls", presun~ablyfrom tlie Lord, to ]lev fields
Epl~esus,Asia Xinor.
of enclearqr. Casual encluiry has failed to bring "'Right Reverend Sir and Dear Brother:
to light ally cases where a ''call" was answered
iI)oubtless you mill.recall the invitation y o n & e n d d
in the afirmatire which led to a new pnsture to me to come over to Uacedonia and help t h e people
of that 2cction. Tliere is a number of things I would
n-here the fee ancl the feed were not good-for
the pastor. n'e ]lave always beliered that a t like to lcarn before givling $19 decision, and 1 odd
a time \vhen the conlnlonest phrase on the Lips apprwiate your dropping me a line a t Troas.
" 'Fir.st of all, I would like to know if Xacedonia is r
of churchnien seeldnp cancliclates for mission
worlc is ':The hamest is great, and the laborers IIcme JIission charge, or a self-supporting parish. Thir
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important, as I hare been told that once a man begins
a r e few," therefore the e n d e a ~ o of
r all 1%-110
real- is
in a Ilon,e llinion
it is
impanbl* . ; .
ly l i a ~ ~set
e themselves apart to God's service to he trul,qfrrrredto the Eastern District. 1l Macedoni. . :
,should be to find the plncc where the greatest enlbraces n,ore than one
piace, I
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neecl is, and there Iabor.
tell yon that I cannot think of accepting the cslL
&lparently, l~o\\~ever,other ~ ~ I l s i C l e r a t i ~ X lc1~ 'There is mother important item that
overlooked ,:'
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enter into the matter of a ~ ~ e p t a n core rejection i n your brief and somewhat sudden invitation. No
of a "call" to serve; and the illmuinating article mcnlion \\.as made of the salary I sllould receive. mhile
in the Lutl~eralrCItttrcI~Nercrld (3finneapolis) it is true that I am not preacl~ingfor money, them pro - *
of recellt date n+ich is appended, is deserving certain t l i i n p that need to be' taken into account I . .i
have been through a long and expensive training; in ..:1
of n-ider publication. IIere it is:
fact, I niay say with pardonable pride that I.am n Sm- .,.;:.;.
hcdrin mall-the only one in the ministry today.
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Letter from tire Apostle Pard (?)
" "l'le day is past when you map expect a man to n
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hithel-to altogether un!ao\vn letter of the Apostle Paul
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The d f o r ~ c i ~ .isf hv c v glad to
publish a translotion of the same. The translator is unknown, but he hns rcntlcred i t into esceetlinfly modern
will
'English. Cqntiithtcs for nlinistcrial appoint~ne~its
:.doubtlm nclcomc this publication, as i t
be of
matcrinl mid TO them in formulating replies to a l l 8 received from the ProrinciaI Elders' Coufr!rer~ce, if they
can rest upon this apostolic example. The translation
out of the original Greek hercmith f o l l o ~ swithout further conlment :

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ag d
tion in the Asiatic field, and to take a drop and 1:.-.,,.j:
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my
*l<intUyg ~ the
t Jfacedonian brethren together, and
a.llnt
can do in the way of s~lpporf.. you.ham
tojll mc noLllillC:bc!.ond the implication that the plam --...t.;;'
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and I am told that 1 mdc
very fnvorablu iInprcssion on the
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' " K e have nm the tvhole gamut of religious, socia&

been-heard to aay that if I kept on, in a few years I
and educational topics.
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p a y have anything 'in the gift of the Church.
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T
o
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recommendations
write
to
the
Riglit
Iteverend
"
'\Ye
l
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a
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beaten
e
our
way
through
history,
from
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Bishop Simon Peter, S. T. D., D. D., LL. D. I r i l l Adam to Roosevelt, and our meandering hare taken us
'my thst I am a first-class mirer and never disturb the from the tent-cities of the Amurru to the Hall of &peace of the chnrch by preaching against the prevalent rors in Versailles.
aha of the world.
"?re have led our audiences from the pit of had^
" . ' ~ o u s l y yours,
to the zenith of the third heat-en, and xve have covered :
" 'PAUL
T= APOSTLE'
" pretty well everything that lies in betreen.
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"'Our homiletic efforts rere those of the intellglobe-trotter.
Grabbing Part of ';Christianity" Endorsed
" ?Vas our method successful?
T WOULD seem that Paul has been conmiend" 'It vas not !
ed too highly as a self-sacrificing man \rho
" 'Did Ive change our method?
labored not for filthy lucre but for God's glory
" ?Ire did not 1
'purely, if the manuscript is to be accepted as
?' !'e
somehow had acquired the notion that in om-.
authentic. At least, this is the first and possi- choice of sermon topics and in our method of sermon-'
bly the only authority that has ever been pro- izing n e were far ahead of those c;zsocl;ed h o m U
'dnced to bolster up the present system of iuolley that adorned tlle pulpits of the land when Jefferson
and position grabbing as part of the reward of Davis and hl)raham Lincoln tested their mettle. Then
,service in the Lord's liarvest field ; and Ire feel our audiences dxindled r e ascribed the fact to wery
,that all ministers should be notified of its ex- cause under the sun escept the topics nud contents of
our sermons. \Ye tried to hold our people together bf
istence.
occasional get-together meetings, hy banqueb, by rallies,
by pageants, by talented choirs, by soloists of national
Other Puzzling Matters
repute, by the use of the cinematograph and the ra,dioHERE is another matter in connection with phone. The sight of those Long r o w of vacant pews,
this "call"that puzzles us, and apparently it every Sunday anew, began to d c c t our nerres, and at
has finally puzzled a good many of the "called" times made us desperate ; and r e ransaclied our libraries
ones. We again desire to quote the' Lutl~eralz and studies for sermon topics that were more unnsual,
more sensational, more outlandish and freakish than
Church Herald of the same issue :
those of the past, and we added new features to our
. ' "That claims to be 'a strictly interdenominational church services. But nerer did vie stop to consider ths
monthly,' published by a religious press bureau of wisdom or correctness of our method aa such ; ahether
America, is sent free of charge to 50,000 clergjmen in or not that method, in itself, was intrinsically right'
the United States. A current issue has a very intercstc
"This upto-date, modern preaching has proven to
fng editorial which k a confession and an advice under be a miserable fa~lure,and the only remedy is to go
the heading: Back to the Gospell we helieve that our back to the Gospel. Let those a110 hare remained faithpastors in the Lutheran Church have, with very few ex- ful take narning and continue to 'preach the T o r d in
'ceptions if any, preached the Gospel; but lest some season and out of season'. We quote:
should consider it necessary to make a change and be
" 'Fellow ministers, all of us-let's get out of the rut I
tempted to become more up-to-date, this confession of
"'For the sake of Christ, for the sake of the Church,
those who have tried sometlring else might serve as a for the sake of home and country, for the sake of ourysuzing :
selves-let's get out of it 1
" V e q i n i s t e r s have been preaching on a large variety " 'The world's supreme hour has struck! The de-)
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of subjects these late years.
has launched the most vicious attack against the Church'
'' q r e have talked about divorce, prohibition, lam en- of Jesus Christ since Pentecost; the p e a t mmasses of *
forcement, social reform, ethical culture, industrial church gcople are either faint from lack of nourishment
equity, a living rage, social disease, ste~vardship,human or subject to spiritual neuritis, superinduced by the
brotherhood,imothers, the golden rule, bad hab~ts,peni- thousaud and cjne quasi-evangelists and religious quacks
tentiaries, civic advancement, the American Lcqion, gal? that go trottlng about the land; and our camp is literalj
star mothers, secretinn, the city beautiful, will poncr, ly honeycombed with spies and recruiting agents of thr
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mind training, the beauty of the mystical, Anlericanism, enemy.
" 'Fellow ministcrs-the Battle of the Uarne l
the disarmvnent conference, Tar, peace, love, loxdty,
" 'Are r e ready 1
patriotism, faith, kindness, realism, idealism, Xictzsche,
"'h'o military commander of sane mind WUt q to
'Emerum, Washington, Jefferson, and Christ

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the primate rnammalia, thence throngh ttpper of

low intelligence as illustrated by the Seauder-,
thal man to the glorious being that a t present.
is so busy malring an exhibition of himself on: j i
the crust of this terrestrial ball \\-e call the E a r t l ~ I
'C'pton Sinclair, in his "The Profits of Religion", refers to this idea a s '%ootstrap theolo-,
gy" and names it correctly. Sinclair i s unkind,
or so the clerics would say, in his picture of
modern religion as an institution which encour- '
ages people to believe that by dragging upward ,
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on their bootstraps they can ultimately fly a- *
round like birds; in other words, that man is
nlttster of his own destiny, and his progress, being ever upward, leads inevitably to spiritual .
perfection.
V e TI-ould suggest to the thoroughly egotistical and blinded bigots who thus believe, that , {
they carefully 'scan the record of human progress f o r the past ten years; and having noted
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the increase in crime, drug habits, murder, theft,
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robbery with violence, debaucliery, immoralitp,
divorce, salacious plays and books, disregard
of authority, hatred of. restraint, increase in
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lam'malcing and lam breaking, graft, corruption, .
economic slavery of the masses nith all its '
Superficial Thinkers Up Against It
kindred ailments, disgust a t religion a s at presHE GOLDEX
AGE lfagazine soine months ago ent organized, wholesale desertion of the church, :
called attention to the prevalence of this failure of missionary efforts a t home and a- ':
type of preaching in a series of articles entitled, broad, and gradual but sure breakdo\n of civil"Go to Church, Thou Fool," which aroused a ization generally, that they figure out carefully " '
storm of criticism amongst the ranks of the how long it -rill be before this condition of bliss
ecclesiastics. Ypt t l ~ eanswer mas self-evident. is reaclicd.
Perllaps tlie fiky tlioussncl recipients of tlle
They had it all planned to bring the Ifillen- :
"strictly interdenominational monthly" mill in- nium at one fell swoop through the Interchurch -! ,
stantly change their methods as a result of his 7-orld Norenlent, but succeedecl only in regia- $
admonition. But we doubt it, and for a good tering a colossal failure a t the cost of millions , 8
reason. I t is hard for inen who have no training of money, talcen a s usual from those least able ,,
except a s superficial thinlcers a t local problems, to snpply it.
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a s the list intlic:~tcs,to give a message vitalized
To a grcat estent the trouble has been that "
by a d,eep 1;noivledge of Christ arid of Christian tlie church interpreted the needs of the people
experietwe, wllicll only comes from appreciation as rlilietp percent pllyrcicnl and ten percent .;. ;:
of the need of Christ's atonement mid of sn- spiritual. The people, being unintelligent, need- .':-i . $
prenie faith in the goodness of God and His ed only to be anlused a ~ l dinterested to give al- %q, .,,#
sul)lil~~e
wisdn111. Tlic collrge \~.liicllcontributecl leglance to the church! Conseqnently pulpit - :;
to their edycntion subtracted from their faith sul)jcc.tc must be in accord with this low scale. G;. in esact rntlo.
of i~ltplligence;and too late, the realization has
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dawne(1 on the church t!lat her rnethml.has fail;
"E~.oluting"in Wrong Direction
ed. T11c peoplc 11or-e patronizctl the rc~pnlnr
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DAM and tlie Fall have been supplanted by rnudcv~llcthcatcrs ant1 movies for their amuse- .'{ 4
the evolutiorl ol' man from archaic slime, mcnt, and the cllurch has been left practieall~!
., g
from protoplasm, through successive stages to alone.
meet the enemfs cannon fire, shrapnel, and poison gases
with sticks of n-ood. toy pistols, or tin cans.
" '90mimater of the Gospel ought to be so foolish as
to believe that he can do his part in the coming fray
with weapons less keen, less strong, less effective, than
the unadulterated JYord of the living God !
" 'Tllis is no time for peddling moonbeams!
"'This is no time for quiet strolls in the aose-scented
gardens of the mystical !
"This is no time for theorizing, moralizing, temporf a n g and eulogizing !
" 'This is the time for the straight Gospel to be preached, and that only!
" 'We are wondering what the effect ~ o u l d
be if from
the fifty thousand pulpits whom occupants this maga-'
zinc rrachcs the pure Gospel were preached, simultaneously. The very thought is over\vhelming. We actually
believe that the effect of such preaching could not be
estimated for its very magnitude. I t would mean the
largest, most thorough-going, most in7,igorating and energizing religious revival tlie world had ever witnessed;
f t u-odd T a n spiritual energy, social happiness, and
national blessings of every sort; i t ~ o u l dmean the devil
driven to desperation, his deqonic cohorts fleeing in
dimlay, and the angels singing their Gloria in Excelsis
r i t h r passion never witnessed by God or man since the
night of the Kativity.' "

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Suggestions for ChurcEiunitl/'s Recovery
TIIE:cliurcli Pas a little more realizing to do
.'" yet; then we call 1001; for improvement:
(I) She must realize tliat a "call" from God
does not come through coilferences or boards
.. or synods, but tliat it colucs from God, and is
the earnest desire of a ii~au'sheart to scrve and
( 2 ) S!le might strip herself of
glorify Him.
her self-invested bombast and authority as the
representative of Christ on earth, and discover
that her real mission is to preach Christ arailable for all in due time.
( 3 ) She might get
down to a littic real Eiblc study;and find out
what the Book really teaches. I t will be a
wrench to part wit11 the old doemas and creeds,
we know; but operations are always painful,
though they often result in good to the patient.
(4) She could \\-ell can-e away ninety percent
of her financial burden, her mortgages, funds,
salaries, commissions, etc., and give the Gospel
freely as 'she received it. (5) TTe eugsest a
course, not necessarily a college course, just a
home study course, in true humility on the part
of her mini!ters, and an earnest appreciation
of their o m need of salvation. (6) A second
. course, in tolerance this time, vhich should come
natural to any really humble person. (7) Her
ministers, instead of preaching so much with
the month, night preach a lot more by example.
F o r instance, they could get jobs and n-ork for
a living, as a n encouragement to the laboring
classes to thrift ancl application, and incidentally being thus self-snpporting they could relieve parishioners of the salary and uplieep
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burden. This should do much to reestablish a

point of contact between the church and the
people; and it should enable a preacher to be
honest in tlie pulpit and tell the truth without
fear of losing liis "li14ng".
These suggestions might do as a start; for to
follow the111 ~ ~ o u lmean
d
the purging of the
church of all its reactionaries and open the way
to true religion in the church. I t also would
clispose of the "call'' proposition for dl time;
for, with the prestige, position, and money part
eliminated, tlie sheer love of service would be
the prinle motive, ant1 ~vitlievcry member of the
cosgregntion consecratecl to service, the laborers \\*oulcl be many, and all needs ~ o u l dbe a d e
quately supplied. TVe cornniend these suggestions to the consideration of the 50,000 ministers
that the "interdenominational magazine" reaches as being in harmony with the thoughts t h e r e
in espressed.
As an afterthouglit, n-e might remark that
they %ill not do it, in accordance with the prophet
Isaiah's testimony, as recorded in Isaiah 56: 10,
11. ( L e e s e ~ ) But it,is not necessary for them
to bother; for Jehovah is efficient, and does not
1iave.representatives too long that are a detriment to His plans and purposes. H e disposes
of them, and replaces them nith a new order
of things that will deal righteously and generously with the people. ( 2 Peter 3 : 13) In tlus
new hearens (spiritual r~zlingpo~rers),and n e v
earth (hunian society) there will be equity ancl
justice for all; ancl n-e get a good deal of satisfaction out of kiio~vingthat it is even at the door.

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IVetlnesday, So\'enlber 11 (Continued)
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9: 10 P.M.-I. B. S. A. C!lnml Siugers.
S : 10
I 4 ' r l T\~arosclik.
0 :-05
Ililtk .;1 Ikdie, soprano.
5: 45
Oriental J[usic.
0: 30
Bible I.ecture, "A Desirable Gorernmcnt," Thurstla.r, Soc-ember 20
-Mr. Arthur C;uus.
9: 10 P. h1.-I. li. S. A. Quintette--3Iessers. Cnrl Park,
0 : 5 5 ' :> lfiltin I<. Entlic..
Geol.=e T~mroncl~k,
F. Wood, Roy Hortman,
10: 10
- I. E. S. .I.Clloral Siuzers.
anti JI. Carnleut.
Uonday. November 17
0 : 20
Instruint'ntnl Solos.
8: 01, P. M.-I. I?. S.A. Strir~zQuartette.
9:SO
I ~ ~ t e r ~ ~ n t l Stundny
~ , n : ~ l Scliool Lesson for Xor.
8: 10
Violin Dr1ets-3l~~es1~~.
('nrl Park, Ceorze
23 by R. .\I. \'a11 Slpma.
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Twnruscl~k.nn11 ChesLrr 1I:lughn.
0 :50
I~~qrrrlrni~r~t:~l
1)urts.
10 : 03
I. B. S. A. Quintette.
8: -00
I p i a n I.i!bl* Lecture-C. D e Cccce
6:4.5
Vloll~iDuct.
SaLurll:~y,Sff\-r11111er
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I.+{. S.A. SLriu: Quartette.
S : 1)0 1'. .\I.-Vi~~lin Ducts-llessrs.
Carl Park. George
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,Wednc.silny, Noveml~cr13
8:00 P.Id.--0ric11taI JIusic-Touflc
Jroubnid, Llicono 8 : 10
YIIC:LIS t - l ~ ~ c t i < ~ ~ ~ s .
S : 90
nilble Questions and b n s r r e r s 4 u d g e RutherIinraho~~ni,
a11d 1~:lixnbcttlh \ v n ~ L
8: 15
Tenor Solo-lq'rl-tl T~~-:-:lrosc~I~h-.
fortl.
8: 20
\Vorld h e w s Dizest, by the Editor or COLDEX
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Vw:nl Scltu'tions.
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STUDIES IN THE "HARP OF GOD" (mEBUSTH',"o'o"KRLYS)

Kith lssue Sumber 80 me began running Judge Rutherford's new book,
"The Harp of Gvrl.. a l t h aemrnpnnylng questions. taking the place of b o l l
Adrnnced and Jurenilc hlole Studlea whlch h h n r been hltherto pabllshed

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aSOForcenturies Jews liave been hoping, look- of n~nnl;irtd;that H e ascended on h i ~ hand pre- ,
ing, aud praying f o r the coining ot' a lfessiah. sented the value of His human sacrifice i n beF o r nineteen liuncired r e a r s Cliristialls have half of man, and that a t some h n e all men
been hoping, ~vatclling,and praying,,and mait- lllust have an opportunity to receive the behefit
ing for the coming of Christ Jesus the Lord. of llis great sacrifice. (1Timothy 2: 5 , 6 ) If
Messiah and Christ mean the same. The term manliinci in general is to be benefited by the
means The Anointed One. The whole world of Lorcl's sacrifice after coming to a knowledge of
mankind, groping in darlcness, laden with griev- that fi~ct,then i t follows that there must be
ous burdens, has been groaning and still groans some relationship established betx-een the
,
- in pain, waiting for some relief, bnt not knowing worlcl of manlrind and the Lord Jesns in order
ho\\- it nil1 come. (Romans S : 19,22) The world thqt the world might be brought to a knowledge
in fact is waiting for the Jfessiah, the Christ, of the arrangement of Jehovah and brought
and His kingdom of rigllteousness. When the back into harmony v i t h God. If, a s the Scripworld comes to a knowledge of the fact that the tures declare, God formed the earth f o r man's
Lord, the great Deliverer and Benefactor of habitation, that He made it not i n vain, and that
man, has returned, every honest son1 will be the earth abideth forever; and if, according to
filled with joy and every grateful heart will the promise to Abraham, through the seed, the
respond in songs of gladness.
Christ, a blessing shall come to all mankind, it
'"To the Christian the Qord's return is one of follo~vsthat the Lord must establish an order
the most monclcrfully precious strings upon the of tllings in the earth that man might enjoy the
harp of Gocl. I t yields music of unsurpassed things which God intended for him to have, and
s\veetness. Blessed a r e the eyes of those who that the Christ must be present to establish
see and the ears of those who hear and learn such a righteous order on earth.
that the Lord has come and is now present.
="The suffering and groaning of tlie mlioIe
creation dally increases, ancl this condition is
(1UESiIClNS
ON "THE HARP OF GOD"
. .putting the people
attitude
mind to For lvllat halv the Jelvs been long hoping and praying? $1.'
take heed to the eridence of the meaning of
ssn.
,
these present events. The time has come f o r all F~~,vhat hWe chriStians been lookinn and aaiting during . :
to awaken nncl diligently inquire concerning the
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.the past nindwll cenhlries?
390.
presence of the King of kings.
For what is the world of mankind q o a n i n g a n d wait.,
="The reasons why we shoultl expect the
ing? fl 350.
Lord's seconcl coming are nn111e1-nu:.. I I L I ~ unless IJThnt effect m i l l be protluced upon mankind when they
n-e call these to mind, even tllougl1 we once
lrnrll 'that their benefactor is present to b e h w b l e w :: :
Anew them, we overlooIc their importance. If
i115.s upon them? ll 350.
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of the Lord to Christians a preciow i
we haye never ~tnomllthem, then an examina- IS f l returning
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is scltisfping to the I
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~ upon~ the harp
~ of God?
~ and if~ so, why?. 11 351.
tion of these
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soul.. R~~~~~should alIvaps be cnlployed in tile What conditions in the earth are preparing the peaplr :
for a knov-ledge of our Lord's return? fl 362.
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Are
the
renoons
for
our
Lord's
return
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n
or
many?
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ant1 should they be kept in mind? 1[ 353.
accord. "Come now, aiid let us reason together, In tile ndmneemea: of the divine
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,,:,,,,, tilc $cripturcs harmonizing? do353.
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of the divi~lcplan cnlnrgcs, we car1 scc n r r n ~ o n lyh;,t I , c l , , , + s
col,clrls,vcly
proven by the scriptu+ -.itL4. .
ancl n scrifiture for cvcry s t ~ pnrlcl e v c y develtilL,, f a r csamjned? 35.1.
opment in ?he divine arrangement.
IYIIV is it nece~saryfor relationship to be established
354
7.he scriptures thus l'nr esnmined provcs
Ilrt~rccnthe \vorItl ant1 t.hr T;ord J ~ s u s ?11 3:4.
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conclusively tlint J ~ S L ICl~rist
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di(3rl and rose T'Jint reason tlo we sce for the Lord's mtal~lishingin
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Interesting Bits of News

[Radlouat frdm WATCBTOWEIt WBBR on a wave length of 2iS metem, by the Edltorl

cost is distributed as follows: Architect ma

real estate fee& 6.4 percent; financing, 6.7 perCent; contractor, 12-6 permnt; land, 19 percent;
labor, 26 Percent; b d b g material, 29-3Parcent.

States Double Their Debfr

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,t~ get outa. t~ stay out. From
1915 to 1922. the net debt for the states of the
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United ~ t a t G smore than doubled, and is now

close to $1,000,000,000; while the per capita net
debt advanced from $4.31 in 1913 to $8.12 in Fatal Accidbnir in #a Eighlwyr Increaaa
HE Department of Comxherce has finished s
1922.
study of fatal accidents on the publie high150-Year-OMGrape- Vine Bears 600 B u n c h ways, and reports a total for the year 1923 of
GRAPE-VISE in Hampton Court, Eng- 22,621 killed. It estimates that eighty-thm
land, planted in the reign of George 11, percent of these highway fatalities, or 18,788,
produced 600 bunches of magnificent hot-house involve automobiles. This is at the rate of over
grapes this season, some of the bunches weigh- fifty deaths a day, and means that every year,
ing more than two pounds apiece. Constant in every unit of 5,000 people, one person is killed
pruning of the vine is necessary in order to pre- by automobiles sometime during the year.
vent it from exhausting itself.

HoraoChtnutr with a Sting in lRem

MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., lad had a new

Zionism to Hace a Steamship Line

A
kind of experience with horscohestnnta.
He climbed a tree for some. Electrical con-

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Zionists have purchased the Liner, President Arthur, and in March will begin a
regular steamer service between New Pork and
Palestine. At that time the President Arthur
expects to sail from this port with over 600
prominent Jews. It is expected that other v e r
sels will be addcd to the fleet.

Longest Bridge Span Just Connected

HE highway bridge across the Hudson River
at Peekskill is not fylly completed, and will
not be, open for tmaffio until next summer; bat
the span, 1623 feet in Iength, has been connetted. The bridge is 2,350 feet long, and is
155 feet above the river at its center. It carries
two roadways, and a sidmalk at each side.

How the Gost of Rouse Construction b Dividcd

FTER a study covering the entire country,

A
the Department of Commerce announces
that in the construction of a borne the average

struction was in progress in the neighborhood.

B~ some accident the tree
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charged while the lad was in its branches; and
he fomd himself fastened to a b b ,
to
move. However, when the current was shut off
he was able to climb down unharmed,

Tiic Ttco Wont E n e m h of &autifitl Teeth

HE trio
enemies of teetll are wzte

T bread, which denies the teeth the minerals

they need, and the nice, soft, creamy dentifrice%
~ h i c hmake an ideal vehicle for carrying Wms,
giving them a soil in which they can multiply
between the teeth. If you want to preserve
your teeth indefinitely, brush them daily with
baking soda, 15c ~ o r t hof which will do YOU
more good than all the dentifrices you can b ~ x
in a lifetime.

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n. GOWEN AGE
Mirage DM Not Da dr P r o m i d
?3 OCTOBEB 5, Cape May had a beautiful
mirage, in which conditions were so perfect
that with the aid of a giass directed toward the
heave- people could be seen walking on the
atreeta of Rehoboth, Delaware, twenty milea
away, and vessels and tugs could be seen which
had passed out of sight on the aeas. Navigators
predicted a great a t o m to follow; but the storm
did not come, the succeeding week being a period
of ideally perfect weather.

tempt to climb JIount Everest in the spring o#

1926.
German Bon&

Co wifh a Ruah
?J THE international loan made to GCtrmany
the United States was dotted $110,0,000.
1100 banks and bond dealers began the sale a t
10 o'clock on the morning of October 14. The
books remained open only fifteen minutes, bat in
that time the loan was over-subsaribed i
h
times. It is taken for granted among huxiem
that this loan assures the succesa of the Dawea
P l a n It is expected that a loan to F ~ QarB
Nao York to &king in Sixty Hourr
ENERAL William Mitchell, with the U. S. large or larger than the one to Germany will
Air Service, in an address before military be floated in the American market a t once.
men in Milwaukee stated that the di5culties of
sustained dight are being rapidly mastered. thdiuhd-NDER this heading, most Ameriauu would
Much to the surprise of some of his hearers, he
also stated that conditions in the arctiu mgiom
erpect us to diecuss the phenomenal a&in the National Leagw, the
are extremely favorable for flying, and that the a r k paid to o~~
flight from New York to Peking via the North Ameriam League, or some other ramcbtigi4
Pole b only a matter of 6,300 milea He thinbr ball playem. Bat no, we are qeaking o# tb,
that in a short time such a flight ma1 be poa- league^ of Nationa For inrtonoq Mr. !l!hmq
head of the League of Nationa labor abbr,n
uble, taking only rdxty horva
mives a salary of $25,000 a par, free of home
tax; and besides thirr he d v e a grerrt tra*
NGLAND hru, not been able to recover the+ allowances. Thia is more money thaP ia reposition in world trade which she held prior ceived by the French Prime Minister.
to the war. Much of what she lost seems to have
fallen permanently to the United S t a b - At Agruon V d n a l R r d n f n g
ITHthe full consent and approval of the lathe outbreak of the. World War, h e r i c a ' s
b r unions eonneoted with the bnikbg
share of the world's trade waa one-tenth; now
it is one-sirth and growing. When the world trades, all the apprentices in those trades in N m
in
trade of the United States during the past ten York city are now receivingtrade instra~tiom
years ia compared with what it waa during the the publiu schoola, under the &redion of the
previous ten years, it is found to. be over four Board of Education. The labor unioxu are wm
-times as much.
famishing funds to help carry on the instmution.
Boys who attend regularly two eveninp ass8b.
Snowfall M
i Euemd lhpedmr,
week have one year cat from their apprktiea-'
EI[E story of Mr. N. E. Odell, who reached a ship term; and boys who do not attend regularly
height of 26,000 feet on Mount Everest last mast now face their employera onae in two
~pring,and who was the last to see Mr. Mallory weeks to explain why they are not a t t e a .
sr~dJar. Irvine alive, shows that these two men The improvement in their work is noticeable
when lant seen were within 800 feet of the sum- from the time the boys begin attendan- a t the
mit, but mere fmo hours and fifty minutes b& trade schoola.
hind their schedule. It is supposed that they
\vent onward to t4e summit and may actually Home Lili, in a bladn, Apartment
have reached it; but t5at on the way back they
T THE convention of the Playgrounii azii
Recreation Association recently held a t
were overtaken by nightfall and perished in
the cold ,The British will make another a& Xtlantic City, one of the speakers bemoaned the

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'disappearance of the good old family kitchen,

saying that in those happy times "mother was
not too busy to occasionally make candy or p o p
corn, and father and mother were not above
playing games which the children could enjoy.
~ o r n ~ d aa large
~ s percentage of our children
live in a place which has not m u d space between its four walls. They come in a t evening
time. Mother kills a wupie of cans, and they
have dinner. A door is opened, and a bed drops
down. Father and mother go out for recreation,
and the children hunt theirs."

until it shall take in both Cuurr& and the United

States.

America'r New Zeppelin a Gmat Scrccc#

HE new zeppelin which (3ennany built for the
United States Government made the 5,066
miles from Friedrichshafen to Lakehunt, New
Jersey, in 81 hours and 17 minutes. During the
journey the ship encountered two atorms, which
it negotiated with complete success. The designer of this zeppelin states that he could easily
design a ship five or six times the size of the
Z R 3 , capable of carrying perhaps 500 persons
at a time, and able to cross the ocean in threa
days. One of the United Statea naval officewho made the trip from Germany states that
at all times the vessel rode so anoothlp that
there was nothing to indicate to tho- aboard
that they were moving. Everything about the
car, when it arrived, was luxuriouq neat and
orderly. There is considerable discussion in
the papers of the possibility of seppelin routes
between New York and London, New York and
Los Angelea, and Lo8 h g e l e s and H o n o l d ~

Old- Zlme Dredge P-s

Aw a ~
XE old-time dredge, which slowly and laboriously deepened the shallow places in New
York harbor, is no more. It has been replacedby a
remarkably powerful and efficient suction pump,
which removes the contents of a sand-bar in
much the same way that a girl with a straw in
her mouth removes the contents of a glass of
soda water. The suction device is so rapid
and successful in its work that the dredges have
to proceed three times a day to the dumping Pord'r Muacts Shoal6 Off'cr IVitMMwn
.rounds, thirty miles out at sea. The quantity
TrER three years and three m o n t h ago
of material being thus carried out from New
Henry Ford offered to take over the GovYork harbor is so great that the dumping ernment's water-power project a t Mnacle Shoab
grounds are required to be changed frequently. with the avowed intention of manufacturing
fertilizers out of the nitrogen in the atmoaSuicide Among Child Immigmnta in Canadcr phere at a fraction of what the farmers are now
paying for this necessity of life. At the time
4 Vancouver Trades Council is stirred by
he
made the proposition, the Government held,'
the discovery that during the past year bve
the Muscle Shoals plant in light esteem; but
child immigrants to Canada have committed immediately after receipt of Mr. Ford's letter,
suicide because they found the conditions of life the politicians hailed the plant as one of the
too hard to be borne. Canada is not the only countrp's greatest assets and began to quarrel
. place where those in the prime of life are cruel over it. b a consequence, Mr. Ford, after havto those whose powera are not fully developed ing waited over three pears for an answer to his
or those whose powers have be,to fail. It letter, has withdrawn his offer, and the Governwas brH two days ago that we heard a contrac- ment is where it was in the first place. I t has
tor cursing the day laborer. When he had dis- at Muscle Shoals the best water power project
charged a poor man and it had been explained possible in America, one which oodd be ma&
to him in a kind may that the worlcman was 75 immensely valuable to the people. Now we &dl ,
l be
years of age, and that he ought not expect too have to wait to see whether anything d
much, he tqrned again to the man and cursing him done with it, or whether it will become one of ;
yet once again said : 'I
did not know you were 75 those items of public interest which are never :
years of age. Pbu ought to be dead" Let us finally solved but remain from generation to
have hope. The Bible shows that some time generation, as one wit has expressed the matter,
Christianity, real, true Christianity, will spread "a thing of duty and a jaw forever.''

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Publia Employment Office.- Such offices are
maintained at Phoenix,Fort Smith, E ot Springs,
Little Rock, Texarkang Fresno, Long Beach,
Lou A.n@es, Oakland, Samamento, San Diego,
Sen J?ranoisco, San Joee, Stockton, Denvk,
Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, Norwieh,
Waterbury, Washington, Atlanta, Pocatello,Twin Falls, Aurora, Bloorningtan, Chicago,
Cicero, Danville, Decatur, East St. Louis, Joliet,
Peoria, Quinoy, Rockf'ord, Rock Island, Springfield (Ill.),. Anderson, East Chicago, Fort
Wayne, Kokomo, Lafayette, T e r n Haate,
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Vdtham, WesMeld, Worcester, Battle Creek,
Bay City, Detroit, Flint,Grand Rapids, H o e
ton, Jackson, KaIamazoo, Lansing, Marquette,
hcuskegon, Saginaq Tramnre City, Duluth,

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Great Falls, Kalispell, Lewistown, Livingstan;
hFissonla, Columbus (Neb.), Lincoln, Omaha,
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Cleveland, Columbus (O.), Dayton, Dover, Hamilton, Middletown, Toledo, Van Wert, Wruren,
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port, Providence, Huron, Mitchell, Sioux Fallr,
K n o d e , Dallas, Dennison, Denton, FL Worth,
Galveston, Houston, Richmond (Va),Belb@=
ham, Ellensburgh, Everett, Seattle, Spokane,TI.
coma, Yakima, Charleston (W. Va),Euntizqp
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Pile Up Great Stacks of Gold

BY B. H O T ~ L W B~ o l g r 0 0 ~
(Dedicated to tho Projifesr)

What is mcaaa? The d d m m wilI claim

It is the piling up of dl the gdd yon can;
Let great p o a s t d o ~be your conetant aim,
E'en though canpelled to rob ~ o a 2bmther nun.
Get gold l Pile up the coin in shining stackr l
Grab ewq dollar that your hmda can seiae,
E'en though you have to break some human brcb
And many plodding toilen atarvr and freeze.
Let not ths children in the grinding mills,
With 1- blanched and arinlrled from their task.
Nor women's hearb, that crushing labor ch*
Deter ?oar pmpoea Get gold is 6d.I I ask.

And while pu'm piling, mar 8 pim mien,

Attend the church aad sing I) d mng,
In order that your villainies you may screen,
h d make folka thcinlt in heaven p n belong.

*ris true par years are short upon this earth;

Tima will Boon his writ unfold ;
And
Old yet can accord to p a but little worth
Unlaa
pile great gtacks of duning gold.

His bud will not adorn the Hdl of Fame,

Nor will thkr pillar much attention hold;
The onl~fleeting notice it can claim:
Wha decpeth here piled up great stack14of gold.
And now at laat whem are thorn million8 won?
Perhaps his daaghter married r foreign lord.
The lord, mayhap, quick through hir rnilliona mm;
h d t h u tho d a d nun mped hir rich r e d

Pih up the gold, and on a &b pillor write:

"Hem lirs a man who p a t mcceaa achie~ed;
He robbed his neighbors, filched the widon's mite,
And at hie death left not one m d bereaved.
"A chance for gain this sordid man ne'er missed;
He w u in life what people call a Profiteer,
And so, lest no one know he ever did esist,
This granite pillar hrrth beta ereded hem."

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Pile up the gold P Seek millions ta poseess,

Though meantima rags and hunger you behold
Xf you would reach the summit of mccesr
I say ta~,you,Pile up jpe& rtocltr of gold.
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Political and Industrial Unrest-A Suggested Cure

By Hou!ard S. Ross, of the Montreal Bar

OST students of economics feel that the

M
pressing need is'an economic plan under
may
(by applying our energy to
which
we

all

the natural resources under conditions of equal

freedom and opportunity) e a d y get food, clothing and shelter, and material wants generally,
so that we may have ample leisure to develop
our intellectual and spiritual powers.
We have conquered production, and must now
master the problem of the equitable distribution
of nature's bounty. Horn disappointing that
the wonderful llventions and discoveries of science have not given us an age of plenty for all!
Eon- tragic that many inventions and discovwies are too often used for other purposes than
the building up of a worthy civilization! .We
have the opportunity of abolishing overwork,
overcrowding, and tinderfeeding. But we mast
see that we cannot save what we call wealth and
at the same time live upon it.
Savings at interest is wealth to the individual
owner, but a lien upon industry generally.
How pitiful that u n e m p l o ~ e n tcomes when
there is a superabundance of goods ! When the
world is "wealthy", the people starve. But this
is ullavoidable in f a x of the profit obsession,
and our unfortunate condition will continue
while we work under a system which causes
each of us to do what we can to make commodities we deal in scarce so they will be expensive
to others. We wish the ultimate consumer to
get them; but if it is too easy, that is bad for
business. And the greater the people's need the
more (as a rule) they pay. That is the crnel law
of supply and demand which presupposes a victor and a vanquished in most transactions.
I t is not at the point of production that our
troubles arise, but a t the point of exchange;
hence the importance of more and intensive, disinterested study of the money question so that
it may be made clear that while money gives the
power to'bny goods it also has the power of preventing others from buying them even though
the warehouses and elevators of the world are
glutted. Surely we shall not consider this maladjustment, as on a par with catastrophe, famine, and pe@ilence, and deepair of finding a better way of 'life in which we will work to live
rather than live to work.
O m enlightened self-interest should, and will,
urge ua to adopt a plan under which none will

be at a disadvantap, becam until then them

will be wasteful conflict between nations,
groups, and individuals. A small plrrt of this
waste, avoidable under a sane economic mtem,
would make us all comfortable and show how
true a prophet was Benjamin Franklin when ha
said that if everyone would do his sham of useful work, a few honrs each day, our c o d k t
would cease and we would not qaafiel over m
w.
terial possessions, which would be as plentifd
as water, that priceless gift of Nature.

E ARE beginning to see that the ander1ying cause of war is the same ar that of
unemployment and poverty. While we &odd
do all we can to give immediate relief in praming cases calling for our syrnpath~.adhelp, ws
should distinguish more clearly bed
solutions and mere palliatives. Thh i.
much of a busy, fearful people who mart parforce do the immediate tasks sad rpePrd long
honrs each day working to make up the
The Leagoe of Nations, the World Court,
world-wide labor organizations, snd tha nunl
splendid and helpful religious and moral moob
menta will be inadequate if we fail to h d r
method of accurately measuring our mrvicea;
and also if we fail to find a better incentive than
the cruel profit incentive, while at the same tino
planning for a world both generona and wealthy.
How many, in addition to Davies the Welsh
nature poet, are asking, plaintively and poignantly :
m t is thia life if, full of cam,
We have no time to atand and &are;
. No time to .stand beneath the bough
And dare M long aa sheep and cows;
No time to turn at Beauty's glmce,
And watch her feet, how t h q can dance.
A poor life this if, full of cua,
Wehrt.notimetostrndand~"

It is not my thought that anyone should sacrifice for others, be p d e d down (materially o r
spiritually), but rather that all should be lifted
up. Think what the removal of fear wodd
mean to all of us. Physicians tell us a great
part of our diseases is the result of fear; and
it-the fear of destitution-no doubt is the.
source of most of the constant c o a c t between

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)EN AGE

indtviduals, greaps, and nations. TVith the sng- sons. The latter we call "natnral resources,
p s t d remedy we would live a lees hectia life normally the giit of nature to all of us--not to
any one or any few of na.
ind have mom Ieh~refor meditation.
"Results" are combinations of the two, human
In such sacid order as most persons long for,
work
and natural resources. The work is stored
art and s u i ~ c would
e
not so frequently be prosin
the
resources; but that does not alter the fact
titated to commerce and war; and, freed from
that
resonrces
belong to no one. h'o one creates
the struggle (exoept a few hours each day) for
them
or
contributes
anything but the work-the
material needa, we humans would rise to the
human esertion. That is all anyone can give
heights of which we are clearly capable.
Gradually we are coming to have more har- to or do for any one else.
mony of aim, but we cannot as yet say the m% Weexchange, only because we wish to get the
for our identi* of conclusion. We are apt to benefit of the division of labor-because we wish
spend too much time in elaborating the obvious to get more of the natural resources with less
faults ef our present mtom-or lack o i system work. Who would claim that he wishes to get
more work from others for less of their workr
--and too little h e en oonstmctive plans.
If you can get in one way more from natrua
Probably we have dwelt over long in the! phil'o o r wisdom stage!, and so the world ia than can your neighbor, and he in another way
can get mow from nature tbut poo with e q d .
o m that wo ahodd now advance to the s&
ence otage-of how to do it. The virtue otap effort, then, by exchanging (and this is e rodma+
--doing it-how f
u off it is ! While working tary choice under the Eqdht P h ) e q d d f '
for and hoping for the better day8 we can be -hour for hour of time worked-you both gat.
aa those "who, rowfng hard agaiaot the stream, more from nature than either ~ I O
by not ex- .
see distant gate8 of Eden gles~a*'
changing. That is the easenae of eqmbbh
What 6 t h in the way1
change of our s e r v i m o r work, a d all eoaab
miatr agree that the whole objed of trade iupa
@uitbt Pkrn R.clomnrcndd
business is to exchange aerPiceh
N I N C R W I N Q number of penom believe But if we exchange on the basis of quantity,
that oar present inequitable medium of 9s- or quality, or any other than time wo*ed, one
ill charge for the natural resource8
change is the key to our dillkultiea; and there or both w
is steadily s growing interest in the United in which their labor ia stored.
States and Canada in what is called the Equitist
For inatance :If a man works haU of his timb
Plan, the baais of which are cooperation and indi-. on each of two locutionq growing corn, prodvidualism. Experieaae Laa surely tanght %that ing s t y bushels on one and one hundred on tB. --:.
less, rather than more, government is desirable; other, and sells both in the resplt-unit market, '
and that we should depend less on acts of legis- he gets_the same for his work on eacb; and, in
- latures, which are for the most pait substi@tes addition, he gets as mu& mom for the extra. .
for work and too often weefully uuscientifia . yield of nature oh the latter locatioa And
It does seem clear that n e should encourage this is the basis of Ground Rent, the great privindividual initiative and preserve private pro- ilege which always takes u p the slack.
But if one sells on the work-unit bssia, he
perty, the latter td be wed upon acts of production, accurately maamred, rather than upon gets the same for his work, and nothing for
acts of kgidaturw. And in order to be effec- nature's extra yield, which goes to mnsnmem
tive, the plan should make it not only possible as the free gift it really is, from nature. So
bat easy and natural for groups, individuals, each one p a p for the work of production-in
-,
and nations to cooperate and to attain that price- the price of the product-but nothing for the
less state;-self-governsaent. [We have one natural resonrces in which the work is stored.
thadaand years to wait for this.-Ed.]
We are But under the result-unit basis, each one p a p
-gives work- not only for the work, but also
fond of sajing, "It is results we wish."
Let us see what results consist of. There are for the natural resources in which the work t
I
two clesses of things: There are those which stored.
exist &tough the exertion of persons, and those 'When we adopt a work-nnit money (that ia,
which ex&t regardless of the exertion of per- agree that every dollar issued be issued solely

for an honr's adult human x-ork), and promise

that it vill be accepted in return for an hour's
adult human work, no one could receive money
for anything bat human work, and no one would
have to pay money for anything but human
work.
I t being easy for all, and as easy for one a s
for another, to get the material things we naturally crave for, our strife, incident to our struggle to get special privileges so that we may
exact tribute, would cease. Fortunately we do
not fight about the things easily attainable.
And if such a plan is sound, when may we ex-

pect its adoption? When people geuerally have

acquired suflicient kno~ledge. Much preliminary work must be done--the educational TI-ork
Human association (in such a chaotie condition
as a t present) cannot be soon put on an eqnitable foundation. Misconceptions must first be
crowded out by knowledge of nature's laws.
Correct thinking must precede correct action.
[Pl'ote: The Lord's kingdom is absolutelq- essential first, to break the money p o r e i and
bring those in control to their knees. We a r e
able to see the possibilities, hovever, and the
better day is not far off.-Ed.]

"Very Near The Terrestrial Paradise"

HE name California comes from an old
T
word is used
Spanish romance, where
to refer to mythical island "on the right hand
tile

1 2 5 O in the shade; but witbin an houi o r ro one

may, for a few cent4 ride to tlie s e t o t
Mount Lowe, where it ia alwaya caoL Lor
h g e l e s , and even Ssn Diego, are ao00mM favorably aa summer resorts a s well as winter
resorts, on account of the timoanding anowclad mountains.
Certain types of diseases are conspicioua in
California by their absence; namely, typhoid,
malaria, fevem of aU eorts, and rmnmer dio- .
eases of children.
The simmers of California are no dry thd
.
for six months after May 1there ia practically
no rain. During the winter the snows fall in the monntains 30 to 50 feet deep; and as they
thaw out in the summer, they keep the valleys.
below supplied with perpetual s t r e a m for irrigation purposes. The Sierra Nevada momtain range, which ahuts off California fmm .
Nevada, is the largest and moat interesting
chain of mountains in the United States. At
the snow line this chain of mountains is thi*
miles wide, and almost a hundred a t the base.
There are abont 1,500 gladal lakes in the state.
From the highest peak, Mount Whitney, 14,522 feet (the highest mountain in the. United
States), one looks down into Death Valley, 200
feet below aea level. In the Sierra Nevadar
there are 172 mountains over 8,000 feet in
height; and in the same territory is the highest
waterfall in the world, the Pioneer, 3,270 feet. .

of the Indies, very near the Terrestrial Parsdise." Plenty of California people, and plenty
of other people who have visited the state,
think this reference to California as being very
near to Paradise is not a t all a bad idea.
California is a curious land. It has the tallest
trees and the shortest grass, the highest waterfalls and the widest valleys, the coldest summers and the hottest winters, the highest mountains and the deepest depressions, the richest
soil and the most barren deserts. There the
railroads turn around in spirals to come down
the mountains; and in one place, within a tunnel, there is a railroad bridge over a c h a m of
unknown depth.
The -upper thre+fourths of the state has a
much heavier rainfall than the lower portion,
and hence has larger streams and greater forests. San Francisco Bay, next to Sydney, is
reckoned the world's beat harbor. It has a shore
line of 300 miles, and receives the drainage of
the vast interior valleys of Sacramento and San
Joaquin, which virtually comprise the upper
three-four2ths of the state. Its Golden Gate into the Pacific is only a mile wide.
I n nearly all parts of California the nights
are so cool as to necessitate the use of blankets.
I n San Frascisco in midsummer it will be
noticeably cqld in the shade while it is very
.
warm in the sun. In San Jose in the fall one Califomia'r Wild EWory
may shiver under a half dozen blankets, alI T R since the United States seized Calithough the thermometer is not down to freezing.
fornia from Mexico almost without resistance,
in 1845, the state has had aa exating
In Los Angeles, in midsummer, it may get to

other varieties of oranges in the state before

that time.
California is d s o the banner state for walfforts were made to suppress the news, bat nuts, almonds, and garden vegetables. Solid
it spread like d a r e , and the East went mad. transcontinental trainloads of cantelonpea, letWithin a year 42,000 persona had made their tuce and other garden track in season, are as
way across the vast plains, and the rush con- common as the great shipments of orangea,
tinned for years. Communication with the East pears, lemons, pmnes, and raisins c o n t i n d ~
was maintained by the Pony Express. On one made to Eastern marketa.
occasion the Pony Express covered the' 1,950
The largest big treea reach over 323 feet in
miles from the Ussouri River to San Fran- height and are up to 38 feet in diameter, with
cisco in 7 days and 17 hours. The riders pressed an age of 5,000 yearn. The state is 6fth in area
forward in relays day and night at top speed. of forests, but second in stand of lumber, b e e
The postage on the letters was $5 per hali exceeded only by Oregon Many of the rtreets
ounce.
of the southern part of the state are lined with
Following the gold excitement came the silver palma, pepper trees from Peru, and eucalyptus
'discoveries in Nevada, with an era of stock from Australia
gambling the like of which was never know beCalifornia is a Iarge producer of gold, aihet,
fore nor since. In 1867 the Union Pacifia was borax, soda, petroleum, salt, sncl' asphaltam.
completed, and San Francisco was brought with- It exceeda every other state in the awmga
in four days of New York. I n 1874, with less money deposited in savingrr banks per depositor.
than 200,000 population, San Francisco bad one It leads the Union in enrollment of college stuhundred millionaires.
dents, 1out of every 419 of the population be1.n1886the Santa FB line wsrr completed into ing in college. sari l?rancisco ia t.ka h d i n g
southern California; and a boom of a different whaling port of the world.
sort o m n e d , which is still on. Without any
California has
a
of p1c8ndq
dy dig at thia part of the world, we think W e such clear air that it haa become the accepted
may safely class this boom as one in real estate.
for the m&,g of moving pi~h~
As California has thus been filled np, the California pictures have a sharpness of outline
natives and other living creatures have died 08. not obtainable elsewher'e. A sad featare of the
There are still 15,377 Indians in the state; and business is that the thousands of g i r b who beif the natives of any country have ever been come movie-stmck, and land in Los Angdes
worse treated than thew poor creature# who without money and without friends, fhd it ahave been despoiled of their lands, we wonder cult to obtain employment.
where they are.
The banner days of the state am January to
The elks, which used to roam the hills by March, inclusive, when the oranges are! r i p
thousands, are no morb. The bears once com- and the trees are in bloom for the next a d mon are exceedingly scarce- There are few ing crop. Then there is plenty of rain, and
antelope; and few beavera where once there - southern California is as near a paradise on
were many. Deer are still reasonably frequent. earth as one could hope to find. I t loolm dnst
Sea lions are still nmnerons along the coast. bedraggled in the autumn; but one can hardly
The California candor is the largeat bird liv- expect to have his best clothes on all the time1
ing in Xorth knerica.
Californians who live there dl the-time are so
jealous about their state that we expect nothing
TIC.pro duet^ of Californiu
from them in repayment of this friendly b u t ,
ANYTHING that w i l l grow anywhere will nothing but their customary savage reward to
glow in California I t is the leading fruit all persons outside their boundaries who have
rtate in t&e Union, producing t - f i f t h s of the the hardihood even to mention their wonderful
world's oranges. Practically the entire orange state. And yet we call the attention of all our
output of the stdte is traceable to two seedless readers to the fact that we have not said one
orange trees from Brazil, sent by the govern- word about fleas--a subject they never like h
ment to Riverside in 1873, although there were have mentionedl

I t started with the 'aswvery of gold

, b.Jhistory.
J. W. M w h d , of New Jersey, while enin digging a mill race for a Swiss settler.

rd

To Attain and Maintain a World Peace

By Theodore Cocheu ( F r i t t e n in illarch, 1924)

T PRESELT the world is like a sick man, travagantly expensive to the people and cormand the cause of its sickness m u ~ be
t deter- spondingly profitable to themselves. So they

A
mined before a proper remedy can be applied.

cannot escape responsibility for the present

Tye are Ering in a preEminently commercial chaotic condition of the financial world, calminage, just recovering from the shock of the great- sting in the great fiasco of the Qerman mark
cst n-ar of hjstoq and groping in darkness, gee];- issued in amounts running into billions a d tril-

ing some plan of readjustment, confronted on lions nncol'l~tableby any hmnan behg and ancrr-ry sick ~ n din every country by financial redeemable by any human agency.
I t is said4hat money is the life-blood of comdisturbance, until it seems certain that the first
and greatest problem before us is that of Es- merce. Now human blood must be pure and
function regularly, or the whole system becomes
change.
How can obligations be exchanged for com- out of adjustment. So with the commerciaI
pellsation? How can the debts of nations to body: If its money be unsound, the entire syaeach other be liquidated? And how can ex- tem is pralyaed or worse.. Therefore in corn- .
changes between hdividuals be adjusted to the mercial affairs the p a r s m o ~ tneed k unimpeachable. money.
satisfaction of all parties?
,9s the first step toward that world peace for
which every right-minded person prays, these TIie PZigfC.o f ( ; c n n ~ p
questions mnst be correctly answered; and unISTEN to the babble of the h e i e x m or
til they are correctly answered no real peace
near financiers in the affairs of Oe-.
can be attained, however many prizes may be Having made Germany ridicnlons in the eyes
offered or what number of leagaesl may be sug- of the world, these financiers or near h u e n
gested.
propose that a gold mark be issued, apparently
To secure a real and lasting peace, we mnst forgetting the bales of marka already ismed,
begin by committing to memory the following whose only value is in the promise to pay writwords :
ten on them. Will the promise to pay written
Whatsoever ye would that men ahodd do on the face of a gold mark be any more sacred
to yon, do ye even so to them."
or binding than that on the ~k now in met
Any successful plan must have this sentiment Certainly not: and this is evidenced by the f a d
for its foundation; for without such a founda- that outside parties are called in to underwrits
tion failure is inevitable.
the gold mark, and incidently to be well puia
Jnst here it may be proper to say that no for such underwriting from taxes levied on the
criticism is intended nor fault found with our helpless people.
banks or the banking system, if they are conPoor Germany! A nation of scholars, scienfined strictly to the banking business ; but with tists, skilled mechanics, and busy worhnen, a
respect to their issue of our money or acting nation having within itself all the elements of
as fiscal agents representing this government prosperity and happiness, yet it has been and
in any manner, that is an evil which must be is still being made the victim of ridiculous folly,
~peedilyended. The banking business is as a laughing stock to the whole world, were it not
legitimate and necessary as that of building, for the terrible tragedy of it all. Yet the men
carpent*, mmason work, tailoring, or any other who have fooled and misled the people in the
branch of industry; but the banks should have past continue to push themselves to the front,
ho more connection 16th the government than with nothing to justify their leadership but their
has any other trade or calling.
incomparable gall or the simplicity of their v i e
tims.
If this bunch of confidence men codd be
The all-ipportant question of exchange of
values has for 'ages been left entirely in the relegated to the rear, it would mean a long stride
hands of s?o-called financiers. In Iaw-making toward a sound and lasting world peace.
bodies, finance committees are always made up
Today American money is the soundest and
of bankers, and all financial laws are formulated most stable in the world, because it is the ohliby them, and their plans invariably prove ex- gation of this government. Yet see what these I as

* WLDEN
' bnmcial qua& would do to it. A presumably
;wise profemor of one of our leading colleges
ropowa ta atathe heric& dollar. How?
'!'wenQ-three
i
g m h of gold being considered
'the bsuis of the dollar, he wodd have the government issue frequent bulletins giving the market price of gold, and a n n o w that twentytwo grains would constitute a dollar if gold inareased in price to that extent, o i twenty-four
grains if such a decrease in price took place.
That is substantially his plan to stabilize our
good dollar l Under that plan the dollar would
chase the changes in gold up and down. I t is
as though a surgeon, about to perform a serioua
operation requiring a base of great stability,
should select a light canoe anchored in a choppy
sea for such base. But everything goei+if you
own snfficient titles. So this eminent professor
waa quoted and copied by the publio presr

ImpodbiZitg of Cdd paltmenk

RnlE on this phaae of the mbject, let as
refer to the recent foolish sayings of an
eminent foreign stateaman. There will be found
in the 'Ziterary Digest" of February 9,1924, an
article entitled, 'When War Debts are not War
Deb*" a speech delivered to the Belgian Senate by ita Vice-President, Henri La Fontain,
who among other things mid:
"The lossea of Europe c a d by the late war
were 1,063,000,000,000 gold franm The United
Staterr aham of this debt ir 440,000,000,000 gold
francs."
If we put these gold francs into gold dollars,
they will equal 213 billion dollara. Now the
~ited
stat& b a y OfEm reports tell UE that
the total commercial gold of the whole world
ia less than ten billion d o h ; but assaming
that it ia ten billion, which could all be mobilized
to pay these debts, and divide the whole pro
rata, each real gold dollar wodd have to pay
twenty-one dollam of the debt. Scientific bankem h b e 68id that one gold dollar is good for
a credit of five gold dollark But 1 wonder if
they would accept one gold dollar in payment
of a debt of twenty-one gold dollars? Yet this
k the way that bance is talked to the people.
Let usrefer to one more of the people's bump
tioar, bossea, a man who poses as a financier,
a former president of one of our largest banks,
r maa whose alleged financial articles have ocaapied many columnr of rpaoe in the newspllr

AGE

em, until the present oil sandal in Waahgton

rather crowded him oat of the Limelight, and
who to resurrect himself instinctively dsscended
tb his normal condition of a common gomip.
It wodd be well if that man in his next newspaper story were to relate the circumstances
which made him president of that bank, why
he was employed less 'than hvo years, and why
he was retired. If the whole story were told,
undoubtedly the 'Teapot Dome" wodd not seem
so much of a muchness, after all. The mouthings of such men tend only to keep the world
in a state of tnnnoil and tumult.

Manipulation by Bankem
HE whole subject of f i n a m bar been so mib
represented to the people that they are confused by the apparent immensity of it, and consequently balk at its simplest problemr Surely
there is no great mystery in having a bsriL aa
count upon which one may draw ch&
ad
transfer to the butcher, the baker, and the caadlestick maker, the variom amounta due to
them. Yet h t is fundamentally the whob
money question in a nutshell.
Checlts are the medium through which niaetpnine percent of all commerce is trsnaact& To
understand a simple 6nancid queution, ao must
first divest our minds of the what wa might call
superstition and fairy tdea which ha- becorns
rooted thers, the r e d t of generations d f w
teadhga by conscienceless Shyloch.
I t has already been mid that h e r i a 8 money
is the beat in the world, be<muse e v e q note is
the obligation of a government which ha^ n e m
failed to pay its obligations when due. Ib pmsent circulating notes are l e a than one percent
of its total wealth; but the professional hcier has mused the people to question even thia
eucellent money by having a Iaw p w e d whi&
binds the government to isme k t ita almost
ideal note to the banks without intereat, aed
the &b
then pass on such note to the people
who may be able to make a good note, give collateral, and pay six percent intereat.
Even the government itself cannot ase its
own money without f h t giving to the bank its
four percent or four aad a half percent intereatbearing bonds1 Often even then the bonds a m
subject to a discount, while the stocks of New
York city b a t h are at an average premium of
at least h o hundred percent,

na SjOWEN AGE
It should be remembered that the law makes be issued by the government direct to its credit]lese same banks the financial agents of the gov- tors without any interest charge, instead of beernment; and it is hard to believe that any sane ing given to the banks and then bought back
nlan would employ an agent whose assets were before going to the creditors. This little change
f a r less than the employeis, but whose manage- in procedure would have saved the taxparers
nlent mould give his own financial paper a mar- about half a billion dollars.
ket value one hundred times greater than that
of the employer.

H d of Wall Street

Covcnunent Pqa Uly'urt Intereat

A practical example of sound money, it

ASmay
be said that daring the war of the

LREADY the government has thas purchased, Rebellion there was a gold market established
A
more than five billions of its o m non-inter- in Wall Street, by which the relative value of
est-bearing money, paying therefor not less than greenbacks and gold was advertised daily.
two hundred million dollars in interest per an- Greatly to.the injurg of the United States, the

nnml I n face of such unnecessary losses, the greenbacks sank as low as forty cents to the
same law in Section 16 says: "The Federal Be- dollar; and for what reason?
serve Board shall have power to issue Federal
Secretary Chase &at issued a .government
Reserve notes a t its discretion." That is a c t b note which stated on its faoe: mllbie note ia rewhat has been done with the German mark ; but deemable for all public and private debts." But
our bankers, being a little wiser than the Ger- their issue brought the whole Wall Skeet fntmans, have not yet killed the goose which so
liberally is laying the golden eggs.
Section 14 of the same law says :'Every Federa1 Reserve Brrnk shall havp power to exchange
Federal Reserve Notes for gold, gold coin, or
gold certificates." Under that Iaw the bank
began systematically to appropriate gold certificates corning in for depoait, replacing them
with Federal Reserve Notes; and in less than
thirty months, between April, 1917, and August,
1919, the gold certiiicates thus appropriated
were presented a t the Treasury for redemption
to the amount of nearly two billion dollars.
Thus threequarters of the gold belonging to the
government was transferred to the ownership
of the bank, and no human being knows how
much since that time.
The Treasnrefe report
it appear
though this gold is still in the Treasnry, but a
note ~ a y sthat it is held for note redemption.
This arm mentioned to the head of a department
in a large book store, h d he replied: "What
does it b a t t e r whether the gold is owned by the
banks or by the government?" If that man
owned a thousand dollars in gold, and a hold-up
man shonld blackjack him and take his gold,
would it make any difference to him who owned
itt
But we must pass on and h d what we believe
to be the only proper foundation for money,
and then propose an issue practically identical
~ 5 t hthat now in circulation; except, that it

ternity to Washington, with the inquiry, "How

will you obtain gold for foreign pnrposes? You
must make your notes receivable for all d e b

except payment of duties, and collect duties in

pld"
Then the so-called greenbacks .were ismed,
with the fatal worda: "Except in payment of
duties." And being interchangeable with gold
they eank, 8s before stated, to f o m cents, it
e
g two and a half dona;la of such cp~mcp
to make one dollar of gold. The few remaining original notes without the word "Ejtwpt"
always stayed at par with gold even d d g the
wildest w b l i n g in that metal, though those
notes had behind them ~ e c a r i t ponly identical
with that of the g r e e n b d .
The few evils already mentioned have probably foeused our minds on the real center of
now PI*
astarban- and m t ; and We
what d l remove the mume of
wed to
trouble and b h g P w e to this disturbed u-orld*

and ~ ~ n * mom^
n t Needed
OCIETY requires first of aU a sound and
convenient money for the p r o p e ~exchange.
of service and the products of service. But
what constitutes a sound and convenient money? Checks have all the elements of money
save one. Though they may paas through the
hands of several neighbors and be endorsed by
them before reaching the bank, they have a
iimited circulation; and because of the limited

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aircuhtioa they w i l l not pass amen&as money

&odd do. TVe must therefom h d some &annel with an unquestioned store of ssseta and
an integrity never violated or questioned as a
medium of intercourse.
The United States ha8 more aaseta or la.rger
credit basis than all the Xockefellers, Morgans,
and the combined banks of this country. I t haa
more gold, more real estate, mom buildings,
more vessels, beaides the nnlimited power of
taxing the whole people. Tberefore its checka
or circulating notes are the very best that can
be devised or imagined, and the only ones which
&odd be used .by thia people ;and these notea
&odd be put into circulation only in payment
for service received'by the government and in
the exact amount of the seroice received.
That the people have confidence in the note8
of thir government has been demonstrated
through a period of mom than aixQ y e w during which time they ham steadily deposited
'gold with the government, p x p t i n g in exchange paper certificates to a value of two and
one-half billion dollam, weighing more thsn
four thousand tom; and in all those yeam not
8 single dollar haa been lost by anyone through
mch exchanges, while meantime hunof
banks have gone into bankruptcy.
Then let us see what L the real baais of sound
money, and how may money and p o d s be equitably exchanged. All human values are the product of haman effort, represented in every variety of hmnan activity. When effort is used in
the interest of another, it becomes semice, and
creates an obligation for a refivn of a like
amount of service to the party who has rendered
it. A written or printed promise to pay a certain
m m to bearer on demand means that the write r has received that amount of servid and will
return it M q x d e d . The material upon which
the prombe is written does not in any way
d e c t the obligation. I t is a mere matter of
convenience. Therefore, paper being the most
convenient material for such purpose, it i s generally used; and the paper ir sound if the maker
'b
sdicient assets to back up his promise to
pap and 4aa honesty to redeem his obligation.
We a r e - I d fairly familiar with the present
W i n g and checking system. For instance,
when we give hZf. Jones our check for ten doh
Irus, it is sn acknowledgment that Jones had
rendend. uarvice to that amount, and it u an

order to the bank to redeem our obligation to

Jones by delivering to him that amount of c d
it to be taken from our accoant, When Jones
has given the bank evidence of credit to him
butcher and has received its ullvalue in meat,
Jones has been fully paid for his 6erPice; and
our obligation to him is canceled,

Hand of Rnanciem Shown

word money mema worth.o r valae, and
man haa devised a system of measurer by

TH"

which the amount hnd,value of everything exchanged by him may be determined exactly, and
each of these measures haa a legal unit to begin
counfing at. Some American measurea am a8
f olloms :
Long mcrnvq with tho yard u itr unit
Weight meuure, with the p a d .r ita d
t
,
Timsmcrmrqwiththehouruftrrmit
Vdue memum, with the dollar u itr onit-

None of these established measurea or thst

units may be departed from o r changed it .g
way without committing a crime b'abject to paa
a l e except only in the caw of the last mdmarh
important of all-the dollar.
On April 2,1792, the Congresa of the Uded
States decreed that the term dollar should expreaa the American unit of value, but frrilad to
provide a penalty for its violation; and by n
son of such failure, that law seems to be mar,
honored in its breach than in its obsenmm.
Not so, however, with the other meagoret &yone violating by increase or decrease their proscribed and established units irJ snbject to quid
and serious punishment. In the case of the doL
lar unit, professional financiers have succeeded
in making it "elastic"; and it is in the power
of the Federal Reserve Bank managers to b
crease or decrease our circulating money at
their discretion. (See Section 16, Federal Re
serve Law.) So both idation and deflation
bring revenue to the banks with corresponding
loss to all others, with a constant incentive to
the financier to keep his scheme going.
Suppose that the leading dry goods dealers
were authorized by law to make the standard
yard "elastic". They could then use an India
rubber tape and make the yard longer when
purchasing and shorter when selling, thm akinning the people both ways. This is precis*
an the bankers do now.

During many years we have maintained that

"once a dollar, always a dollar." But of course
that was only the opinion of dreamers. But
now comes one of the most learned and consemative bodies in the world, the German Court,
which rules that "a mark is a mark, no matter
what exchange may be." Under that mling, the
only logicaI thing to do with their uncountable
trillions of marks now in circulation is to repudiate them, as it is impossible to redeem them.
The creation of these marks by the financiers
was an evidence of either their stupidity or dishonesty-possibIy both. Will the schemes of
such people ever bring peace to the world?

The Rcmedy for Financial ZZb

HE writer% plan to "Attain and Maintain
a World Peace," is as follows:
Let Congress be directed to pass a law substantially reading :
"All sections and parts of sections of the Fede r d Reserve Banking and Currency Law passed
by the House December 22,1913, and by the
Senate December 23,1913, relatin- t o or authorizing the issue, receipt, or paying out or exchange of circulating notes by the Federal Reserve Banks, also their authority to act as fiscal
agents or in any other business capacity for
the United States, are hereby repealed.
"All sections and parts of sections of an Act
to provide a national currency, passed February 25, 1863,relating to the issne, receipt, or
paying out o r in exchange of circulating notes,
be and are hereby repealed.
"The United States shall issue its own notes
for service received, payable on demand, in the
m o u n t of four billion dollars; and all Federal

Reserve Bank noted, Federal Bank notes, Kational Banknotes, gfeenbacks, and other United
States notes now existing, be retired as the new
service notes are issned,
"Be it enacted that the four billion doll- of
service notes provided f o r in the preceding seetions shall be issned only to persons giving service or the product of service, and in exact
amount of the service or product of service received therefor by the United States.
"Said service notes shall be legal tender for
all debts, public and private.
"Any person who by any method whatsoever
shall cause the value of these notel to be hcreased or decreased from that stated on their
face shall be subject to a h e of five thounand
dollars, or one year in priaon, or both upon COEviction."
The notes just described would average about
forty dollars per capita of the population.
They would always r e p m a a t an eurd amount
of service, a n d have as collateral 8ecurie tho
whole resources of the United States with its
onlimited power of taxation. Them is not 8
civilized nation in the whole world that aodd
not issne perfectly sound notes at forty dallur
per cspita of its population; and in such c a m
circulating money might be made international,
and a universal world money would surely draw
nations and individuals closer together than
even a universal language, for they would than
be held in bonds of interest as well as onvatience, and in such bonds the whole world codd
sing these words from an old Russian hymn:
"Now will Thy people with thankful devotion
Praise Him who -red them from peril and d;
Shouting in chorus from ocean to ocean,
Peace to the natiom and praise to ths Lord."

Reports fiom Foreign Correspondents

FROM lNDiA

?
0

THE

.,

'monsoon, which nsually sets in on the

,st
w t in tae ewly p a d of J,,
somewhat delayed this pear ;bat when it started,
rains accompanied by strong winds began to
pour in brrents and continued for days together. Consequent1y water in all the rivers
of the west coast, and those of South India which
have their sourcks in the Western Ghats, m e
to heights never known to have risen, and overflowed the banks and spread in all directions,

submerging a very large part of South India,

Malabar, Sonth Canar% and the s h t e s of
Travancore, Cochin, and Yysore. There w e n
strong currents which carried off everything
their
r
f
~
~
dWay* A large ~ ~ b ofe lires
are said to be lo&; m t e figoms are not
available nowA few
im~ortmtbridges and a mr):
large number of cdverta and bumla in the dzferent railway lines and trnnk roads in South
India were destroyed. Hence all kinds d

t r d c waa suspended for days, cutting off South

India from the outside world for two weeks.
Owing to the breakdown of telegraph wires, no
telegraph messages oodd be sent or received
from station to station for aeveral days. We
could not get out mails for nearly two weeks.
Now mails are being carried by men who cross
the rivers in boa& and so we get the msila
though after mnch delay.
Not only haa there been extensive damage
to property, but also considerable loss of life.
'A wide area has been devastated. Appalling
cbnditiona are prevailing in South India, especially the west coast Tbe destruction committed by the flood extends over a wide area and
affects thousands of people. The people of the
mbmerged districts had to flee for their lives
' to higher levels, leaving their things behind.
Thousands of refugees, especially the poor
classes, had to be fed by public charity. The
Government and other public bodies took active
steps ,to concert relief measures by starting a
relief fund But such relief can be only temporary. It would take many years and millions
of dollars to effect a complete restoration to
normal conditions, humanly speaking.
Those who have visited the flood-affected
areas for investigating the real conditions report the number of henses destroyed to be very
large. The Malabar collectois report of fifty
thousand houses as destroyed by the flood in
Malabar district alone, is declared to be too consemative an estimate, according to the Madras
Y. M. C. A. secretary, who personally inspected
the devastated areas of Malabar. Thousandti
are rendered homeless.
Vaat areas of rice fields are buried under sand
and silt. I n some places courses of rivers have
changed. Large stores of rice paddy .and other
food grains were under water for several
daya, and have decayed and thus have been
rendered useless. The seed grains for the next
cowing nre wet. So seed grains have to be
obtained from outside.
As a result of the flood, prices of all articles
of food pave risen considerably. Famine conditions are prevailing throughout. Thousands
are actddly starving. The distress in affected
areas has been. acute, and those that have been
left destitute are undergoing untold misery.
Rice, the chief article of food, is sold a t an
abnormal price of 2% measures per rnpee-an

indication of the degree of piIistresa in theae parts. The price of rice is steadily going up
Rice ia getting scarce. In the absence of rioe,
and on account of the high prices, people in
some parts subsist on the flour manufactured
out of the palmyra tree.
In a few places the hungry mob began to b
violent, and attempted to attack and loot the
rich ;and sullicient police force had to be called in to put down the rebellion. There ia mnch
discontent among the people, as the Government
is not taking active steps to stop profiteering.
In the wake of these disasters come those
diseases which complete the picture of the miaery. Starvation and exposure to wet, and the
eating of unwholesome food, c a w the ontbrealr
of cholera and other epidemics In several o t
the flood-affected areas such epidemia are p m
vailing. There is considerable inuream i9 tho .
number of deaths.
W
e the southern districts are d e r i n g
from excessive rain and flood, in many other
districts people are saflering from want of rrrin,
The political situation in India ia very acute.
The people of India are losing their co-co
in the British d
e
. The relations between the
people of India and the English. are verg
much drained. A high court decision in England by a British judge against a prominent
Indian, a member of the Vicerofs Council, for
criticizing the action of a British governor of a
province in India for his rule of terror and the
methods approved by him for recruiting by
threats and intimidation during the war, is an
additional cause for aggravating the bitter feelings of the people of India against the E n g W
Another -hiih court decision by a British
jndg~ein Bombay against an Indian editor of a
popular Indian paper for commenting on the
biased attitude of British judges against .
Indiana in cases that come before them for decision, has also embittered the Indians very .
mnch. The English are cot liked by the Indiana.
They generally treat the Indians rrs their slaves,
while they are acquiring their wealth in ][adit+
Distrust and disaffection are growing. Secret
anarchistic societies are said to be eristing in
different parts of India Were'it not for the
presence of cr saintly lender, Xahatma Qandhi,
India would have revolted in a body. His
methods rue pescef nl and non-violent. Revolution in India will be only a bloodlesq one, ar

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the masses are being educated to follow peacef ul methods of non-coiiperation. Thus conditions in India are not desirable. India badly
needs the desirable government of the Messiah.
These things 'indicate that the kingdom is imminent. Let as pray for that kingdom. Let
us not be discouraged, but go forward with unabating zeal, proclaiming the kingdom message
n-hich comforts the broken-hearted.

FROM CANADA
BLYADA has produced a good wheat crop in
~ p i t eof the adverse conditions met with
.
n many places. There have been much hail,
some frost, and a good deal of drouth, to such an
estent in fact that many farmers have been
forced to quit and abandon their farms. However, a wheat crop between txo and three hundred million bushels, at the prevailing prices,
which range between one and a half and two
dollars per bushel, the highest since the war,
will do much to speed up the sales of automobiles, radio sets, and the products of the mail
order house, even if it does little to reduce taxation or pay off mortgages. As to whether it
will slow up the emigration figures remains to
be seen. I t has not done so yet; neither ha8
it to any extent stimulated general business,
though there are a few seasonal signs of advance in some businesses.
The Moose Jaw Times gives some space to
a consideration of the national immigration
policy. In the broadness of its review it wipes
out any argument of party propaganda; f o r
its indictment is against all governments since
Confederation. Its figures are interesting.

.C

gcCanadimshave been elously troubled of late, years

by the continuing exodue from this countq to the
United Statea. I t ia eetimated that from Confederation until 1920, no lese than 1,650,000 Can4iu.n-born
citizenr emigrated pcrmanentlp to that country. A
statement was issued in the United States by the National Bapau of Economic Reaearch which ia not wumring. Omitting from their calculations the move
menta in both directions of American cititcm, but including both Canadian and immigrants from overseas
(through Canada), they announced that the net loss
of populatioa to Canada by southward hm&gation from
1920 to 1923,bad been 366,611.
'%any wiU'no doubt heartily agree with J. S. Woods
worth, bf. P. (Labor), when he stated to the International Conference of Social Service IYorliers that since
Confederation we have spent $30,000,000 in securing

immigrants and have little or nothing to lhor for

it"

The Times goes on to deprecate a further indulgenceas is now projected-in the policy of
spendink Canadian money in Europe to interest
emigrants, only to have them leave after a abort
sojourn in Canada for the wider field of opportunity to the south.
Mr. Q. Q. Coate, one of the Alberta repretatives in the Dominion Legislature, ha8 a few
words to say about Canada's debt burden. As
reported in the Moose Jaw Times, whose editorials on wch mattere are always worthy of
consideration at least, he says:
"The ontatanding problem of the fumen in Weatern
Canada ia the enormous debt burden
hPte to curyo
Bs far as Weatern Canada im coneuned, we ma only
guess at the number of farmen who h.rr bscolw bankrupt, or who ue remaining on the
maef~
through the lenienq of their c d i b r r , bat I thkk it
is quite safe to say that propably more than one-third d
the fannen ue retaining their property under

conditiolm."

a discussion of some propored rean*

AFTER
dies, especially amendments to the Bank- -

rnptcy Act to permit of farmers securing a disi

charge after going through the
court-a
thing virtually impossible under the
present act--and also the restriction of the legal
rate of interest payabls by the farmer, Mr.
Coate says:
"If such a remedy is not provided r Iarger number
of farmem are going to be driven off their fumr md
will emigrate to the United St.-.
Under p r a ~ t
conditions everything these farmem produce over kro

..

coat of living in being taken to pay lawyed fecq

sheriffs' fees, court charges, and excessive interest r&a.
If the number of bankruptcia reported in not lugar,
'it ir not due to the fact thot this unfortumb amditim
does wt exist, but that them im not th m m h h q for
d
s
ic
w
l it."

...

The British Columbia Federatwnbt dewtea

part of a column to the presentation of the faeta
concerning a "Red" riot a t the unveiling recanw
of a cenotaph in honor of the fallen soldiers,
Some widows of soldiers whose bodies lie "in
Flanders Field" were a t the unveiling with baaners upon which appeared the following:
"Ye hpcrites, am them pmr prmb,
To murder men and give God t h b ?
Desist for shame; proceed no further,
God won't accept your t h h for mar&P

S o t particularly intnterestillg seacliug for the

functionaries and church dignitaries putting
their sanctmoniow Messing on the stone memorial. Then anotIier widow appeared with
Ralph Chaplin's poem similarly displayed:
"Xourn not the dead that in the cool earth lis
Dust unto dud,
The calm, meet earth that mothers all who die,
Aa all men mast;
But rather mourn the apathetic thmng,
The cowed, the meek,
Who eea the world's grat ahgaish and its wrong,
Bnd dare not speak lJB
This so aroused the math of a cultured mem-

"has lost its glowing charm of chivalry, and it

has become an endless war of industrial masses
and chemical devil's worl?'; while John Maynard Keyes, English economist and author of
"Ekonomic Consequences of the Peacey', says:
Y don't know."
It takes our Canadian little guns, canons, eta,
to loudly prate oppoaite views after the "big
gum'' get t h r o e

"The Yaritime Baptist Conrention brought in a resolution recently against war aa 'anti-Christian and futile'.
On motion of Col. Dr. J. H. Macdonald and Capt.
White the objectionable p
h waa deleted. O m
man rho had been decorated far umapicwm brawny
ber of the L 0.D. E. that the police were sum- meQ a threat pnrioar to th4 m#ting tht b would
moned to disperse the war widows. .-This was resign fmm the minietry d e a r the p h runmnomd,*
done, that diguity a d humbug might not suffer. mya the Halifax Morn* C h i c k

It seema that the miniatry is atill tho~ d e the

r thumb of the military urn of %tad8
empire, and jnst aa ready to ko*
and fnm
on them as ever.
The Montreal DaiZy Stor in an editorial
"The Church and PeaceJgaayr :
7 1 t h preparednew lrrar will not oaua Om y d b
leopards will still gambol in ax&&,
and th.mrr i
o a r l l h i c l d d l k ~ ~ ~ t b b b o d d
harmonize C h r M d Q par by y e u with tha trmaht battlea. Aa a matter of fact 8 nation hu nothing bo
If war widows are not competent to evaluate a
cenotaph erected to their own men, who are the
right and proper judges of them pablio monuments!
The 'Western Home Monthly has something
to say about the Modernist trend in theologg.
I t says:
'The net impremion OM griar hwn numy libed
rermoariath8titirtb.hmctiandthemiattrJto
doubts of mcaeding crop8 of college pduaba, to harc
moniZB Chidimity with whatever happena to be the
current mode in politico, economicq science ar philoe
ophy. Them ir a type of Modernid who upen& M, much
time adjusting his religion that he haa no energy left
to apply it."

dowithpeaceuntil~hrecdytOforclg0~~
tsgawhichrhehar~to~mdt0Min~bd
which is not hers by right"-whetbar && be H a d
dil, or the Philippine Ialmdr, or Wmn& aar th.N d
of Ireland, or what not.
When nations see and act on that prinaipls

Very true; and after he has adjusted it, he Utopia has wme and the Golden Age ia fullz
'discovers that the pattern is all changed again established.
and that a further adjustment is necessary.
WEat Guin ir War?

HE paltry and maudlin opinions of the

world's great thinkers and newspaper
editor8 are being splendidly revealed in the canvass thatwss recently made of the world's prominent men concerning what the world gained
by the war. One editor suggests :

Once in a While We Are Fooled

OT so lvnp ago we pbli&ed some items

from a hancial, journal indicating that
Henry Ford's railroad is not doing well. We now
learn that this was propaganda, pat out for the
purpose of hiding the truth. The Pathfider,
of Washington, in its issue of October 4th 1924
"bmong the hopeful s i p is the larger inhest taken gives the facts in the csse, ar follows:

by the U n i t 4 States in internatid drirn"

That surely was worth wrecking the world

for, and spilling the blood of tmenty-five million men.
Sir Arthur M e ' s answer has already been
quoted in these columns, but some others are illuminating: Marimilian Harden says that war

Ford'a I h i I d a Monsy-Maker
In the first six months of 1924 the %it, Toledo
and Ironton railrood, ovned by H e q Ford,. cleaed
$1,000,000 mom than in the lume period oi the pm~ i o u spear. Its total income WSE over $6:000,000. Thr
auto manufacturer bought it for $6,000,000;

Odds and Ends about Odd Animals

THE

smah boy who occasionally takes bites

out of proportion to the size of his mouth
is a model of propriety when compared with
certain snakes which are M, constmcted, and
which have appetites of such a nature, that they
swallow food ten times the size of their heads.
The lower jaw is in two parts, divided at the
chin; and the throat stretches around the food.
Digestion sometimes requires weeks.
The snakes that have Chinese eyes are the
'dangerous ones; i. e., if the snake's eye has a
circular pupil it is non-poisonous ; but if the
pupil of the eye is elliptical, look out for it.
Its bite is dangerous.
There are turtles in the Galapagos Islands,
off the coast of Ecuador, that weigh as much as
400 lbs., and that live for hundreds of years.
One of these left in the Tonga Islands by Cap
tain Cook, the English mariner, in 1773, was
found there in 1923. Captain Pollock, of the
U. S. Navy Department, who found the turtle,
stated that it is blind and that when it walks
creaks like an ox-cart. Milford, N. J., has a
turtle which once a year visits a certain tomato
patch, where he enjoys an annual feast.
The lion, so-called king of beasta, is admitted by hunters to be one of the greatest of
cowards, seldom attacking unless pressed by
hunger or inflamed by injury. Of the tmo the
lioness is the braver. She will come to the aseistance of her mate when he is attacked; but
when the lioness is attacked, the lion lets her
fight her own battles.
Like dogs lions feat perfumes. A whiff of
attar of roses Rill tame the disposition of the
wildest. Thecles was saved in the Roman
arena when some ladies sprinkled him with
aromatic oils as the lions were loosed npon him.
The animals cringed about him, and allowed him
to walk away unhurt.
The Belgian government bas in its possession
a dwarf elephant eighty years old, which is
only thirty inches high.
The World War presented the remarkable
phenomenon in Africa of thonsanda of wild
beasts crashing through the underbrush in the
effort to get as far away as possible from the
savage WQ-legged animals that were shooting
at one another. It was a great procession, lions,
leopards, buffalo, antelope, giraffe% rhinoceri
and elephants, all \harrying to get away. Four
years later they came smashil~gthrough the

underbrush again, back to their usual haunt&

People with hearts are concerned over the
fact that six million t r a p are sold annually in
Bmerica, which means that, if they oat& one
animal apiece, there are nix million oasw of
prolonged agony. Often the poor oreaturea
are eaten alive by other beasts. hmetimea
they gnaw their own legs off. Animala have
been trapped at laat by the one remaining leg,
after having previously gnawed off their three
other legs. Most of this trapping ia done in
Canada, but mu& wan and ntill is done in the
United States. The worid b rapidly being
swept clear of its fur-bearinganimnlrSolomon b y s : "A righteous m a . oonsidereth
the life of his beaat." The Scriptures require
him to do so. He must let the beast of burden
rest one day in m e n He may not xislle the
ox when thresing. He may not wen rob tho
birds of their nests. H e mast be humane.
Whaling in still an important indrutrp. Thare said to be a thouaand men locrted on South
Georgia Island, near the South Pole, engaged in
the production of 240,000 bureb of whale o i l
annually. Most of thir oil L d for lubrhting machinery.
There are no ocemm and no deptha that do
not produce their own living c r e a m me
Marquis de Folin tells of deepsea creatures
brought to the surface, which glowed ao brightly
their
that while at their best one aould read
light the h e s t newapaper print at a d i m
of six feet. The pervading color was greenfading minute by minute as the nnimnl died.
The city of San Antonio rnaintaina a free
Bat Roost npon which is a sign erected by tho
clty. ?Bats are man's best friend because they
eat mosquitoes; and mosquitoe~cause chills,
fever and other diseasea All persona are
warned not to disturb tbia roost o r the bata
under penalty of the law." Not so long ago
men waged war against birds because they
destroyed fruit; then they discovered that the
caterpillars ate the frnit becaaw tbey were m
birda to sst the caterpillars. Nature haa her
own wap.

Evolationistn engaged in studying apea in

Bronx Park taught an ape how to wash its
hands, and were just beginning to a t t e r themselves on tbe close connection which existed bek e e n themselves and the ape family when the
ape in question wound up the performance bx

147

T".

WLDEN AGE

'binking the

suda. E ~ e nan eco1utionist would

know better than that,
Tbe phpiail drength of a healthy ape is
,
three times that of a human being, and the
mental strength three times that of an evolutionist. The last item is an estimate made from
dais at hand, in this office.
. Wolves .re multiplying in Europe, and have
even been seen in the streets of Rome. The
laid to the world War. Those
increw
hitherto engaged in hunting wild animals were
hanting eaah other. It is doubted whether
wolves ever attack hnmans in any live stock
country.

In tbe forests of Csnsda, when timber wolves

mste, the female hunts a cavern with a roof
that doper downward to meet the floorin a Vshape. She pushes her yoang far back into the
V. This keep the malo woif from eating hia
family. The mother wolf, having a smaller
body, is able to reach her young ones easily. ~ rH. o d , writes in the New Yo*
that there is no d a n e r of a crime nave among
. a n i d in their native state, for they have ab
solutelJ no criminal instinct, and aqit o e
in a p t i v i e and after asmhtion ~ t -h;
for their
in their a d state
tht
daily food only, but never murder for revenge.
, He added: "Many a king aits upon his throne
and is worshiped by hia people, compared t o
whom the grizzly bear is a model citizen."
We ham heard of one na-ty
bear, howmer.
He lives in Yellowstone Park, and in some way
b found out that if he sits on hi8 h a d e s in
a narrow place in the road and refuaes to leave
the autoista who want to paas him,
until fed
he crrn get along in life very well. In one season
this bear has been known to hold up 100 autois&. The Pmk @des have warned anhist8
what to expect, and they go prepared to divide up,
The race is on between the automobile and the
deer; or perhaps we should say the fight ia o n
In Mongolia, on the desert sands, an automobile going 60 miles an hour was not able to
eat& an antelope. But in Massachusetts a deer
squared the\account by bucking an automobile
off the road.. The giant buck (head of a herd
of eight deer) attacked the automobile, smashed
both headlights and got a bad bump himsdt,
- but after a jiffy jumped up and led the herd
back into the woods.
B.indeerl imported by the Ghited state8

Government in Alaska are said to be multiplying at a tremendous rate. The food there is
just to their liking. They have been known to
seriously interfere with the progress of river
steamers, so macy of them crossing the stream
at once as to hold up navigation. W i d deer
oan be domesticated, but are extremely shy bx
nature*
The eyes of the giraffe are protrusive, so that
it can see in every direction without turning its
head- 9 giraffe fourteen feet high is reported
as still growing at the rate of a foot a year. The
nmdern method of keeping giraffes and other
wild animals from diseases in menageries is to
treat their bodies with poison gam from time to
time, only the head e a i n i n g outside.
The deetruction of furbeaiing animrlr haa
progressed to su& y: ostcct &at it is profit
able now to raise for their fur foxea and other
animals which otherwise have no d u e . A f o g
however, may be worth as much as $2,000 for
hi8 fur alone. The United Stater Depmhmt
of & r i c d k e ~ ~ 1 one
0 ~
specialist
s
his time to the
of fat-gives
animals and their development. Several idapd.
dong the Alaskan coast are ROW devoted to the
raising of blue and silver foxes for their pelts.
$3,300,000 worth of
pelts were fi~Bedout
of h k a in 1922.
It ia believed that in South b e r i a , possibly
in the Amazon basin, bat more likely in the wild
lake region of PatWJoni% there -7 still
gome specimens of the P l ~ i o s a fossils
n~
of
which have been found in various p r t s of tlu
world- For fife
Yeam there have been p e r i d
reports of such a oreake, a marine -ptil%
feeding on shellfish, and coming ashore only,
by p a n g itself along by its f l i p ~ e m The
Plesiosaurus may be described as a gigantie
~r~codile
with a man's neck.
South America has another strange animal,
the armadillo. This animrrl, when attach!&
rolls itself into a ball; and as its skeleton is on
the outside, instead of the inside of its body,
it present6 an armor plate shell which is almost
inpenetrable.
North America has a strange a n i d in the
prairie dog, which apparently doea not need to
drink any water to sustain Me. It is supposed
that all the water needed to sustain its syb
terns is derived from the seeds upon which it
mainly subsists. Prairie dogs dispose of tb.old

members of their colonies by Uriving them into

burrows with blind ends, and sealing the exits.
Australia has the prize curiosity in the kangaroo. I t is said that & baby kangaroo is only
one and one-sixteenth of an inch in length and
weighs but nine grains. It is perfectly formed
at birth except the bind legs, which it develops
later. The mother kangaroo has a pouch in
which she carries her babies abont with her until
they are fully matured.
One of the most useful of animals is the much
'despised toad, which specializes on caterpillars. One toad under observation was seen to
eat twenty-four gypsy-moth caterpillars in one
morning, another ate thirty celery caterpillars
in three hours, another ate eighty-six houseflies in ten minutes, and a fourth ate ninety rosebugs at one meal. A toad in a garden is estimated to be worth $19.44 to the owner during
the season. English gardeners buy toads by

Where Are We Going?

THE

great question in the minds of the people

since 1914 seems to be: "Where are we g e
ing, and how soon shall we get there?" Many
and varied have been the answers. Time passes
at a dizzy pace, and Society is a very sick man.
His bootstraps are about worn out, while every
day that passes sees him deeper in the mire of
his own traditions and vain speculations.
Thb question was
recorded
three thousand years ago: "Why do the heathen
rage, and the people imagine a vain thingl"
(Psalm 2: 1) To our understanding a "heathen"
is one who is a stranger to God or out of harmony with Him, regardless of whether that one
claims New Pork or Borneo as his birthplace.
To rage is to admit impotence, violently or
mpprem,edly in the presence of difficulty; and
the *'vain thing" which the people imagine is
that by their various schemes, such as Unions,
Combinations, Trusts, Socialism, Nihilism, Anarchism, etc., the old system can be bolstered
up or a ndw one erected outside of the provisions of thedivine plan, long since decided upon
by the Creator. ,
- Thie is a great Astake.
Anyone who has taken the time to investigate the matter knows that
the bursting of the holocaust in 1914 occurred on
tichedde time; and that despite the vocifera-

the hundred A toad well cared for has bees

known to return to its owner a distance of ten
miles, in one hour, and without any ill effects
A few years ago Manitoba had a lizard
plague. I n the Pelican Lake district the lizards
were everywhere. At the Ninette Sanatorium
hvo thousand were shoveled out of one banement window-shaft. For a time it was di&dt
to walk about. Automobilists pasaing through
the district were obliged to uae skid chains while
the pest was at its height. The h r d s are aaid
to have been four to eighteen inches in length.
The chameleon is an extraordinary creature,
having the singular power of changing from one
color to another at will. Its eyes are also peculiar in that they move independently and are
so set aa to have the appearance of popping out
of its head. Most singular, too, i4 its towhich can be extended from its mouth to 8
length equal to the full length of its body.

BP E. N. T Y S (HOWZA)
~
tions of a divinely unauthorized clergy h,
that the war would result in a "great spiiitnd ,
uplift" ( T), the Bible prophecies to the contrary
have gone into effect.
Who is there but rejoices at the thought that
sin and death are soon to be abolished, and tbeir
author, Satan, restrained at the time the hmnan
race is being restored to perfection, during the
thousand years of Christ's reign? (The individual answer to this question w i l l demonstrate to
the reader which side his sympathies are on,
God's or Satan's.) The destiny of those who
successfully pass the test at the end of the Millennium is eternity, in a perfect, world-wide
Paradise restored. mat k the consnmmation
of the divine plan relative to man.
Chronology showed that in 1914 Satan's
lease of power over the nations had expired
Thia lease covered a period of 2520 years or
eeven symbolic "times" of 360 yema each. The
ejectment proceedings immediately began, and
will continue until the complete fall of mystia
Babylon.
In a time prophecy a fdfllment or antitype
mnst be reached a t the end of the prophetic
period. The thirty-five-hnndred-yearperiod of
jubilee cycles, which began in 1575 B. C. and
ends in 1925, marks the end of the type of the

'Jewish juhilee system which foreshadows the and written in anguish and blood, "Gone, But
Urestitution of all things". Therefore where the
type ends, the thing forahadowed begins. The
Fifth Universal Empire. of Earth will be ushered in with power and great glory. He "whose
right it id' will speak peace to the peoples, and
then they shall not learn war any more.
The abortive efforta of the Inter-Church
World Movement; the Paris, Washington, Geneva, Hague, and other conferences to create a
counterfeit of Christ's kingdom, have all failed,'
and were but the dying gasps of a Satanic order
upon whom tomb is being indelibly engraved

Xot Forgotten."
Hail the gIad day when Christ's kingdom has
actually come; for it mill be the "desire of all
nations."-Jhggai
2 :7.
We are coming to the "new earthn, to the new
order of things, to Paradise, which means "Garden of God". It w i l l take a thousand years to
restore all the race to Paradisaio conditions
after the kingdom is established, h d this is
the only panacea for the ills of humankind. Its
arrival is inevitable, its benefits are world-wide,
its results eternal.

Angels and Women

E PRESENT some letten regarding this

book (a review of whieh recently appeared
in our columns) which we feel sure will be of
interest to many of our readers :
To 'I'm a O ~ s wAm:

- .

the people .boot matters concerning

thm fa ra
mnch ignorance, and dinct them to the d Bl'bl. Kqm,
the WATCH
To- pnblicatiom?
Should we send such ordera to Tgl GOLDQ Am?
If not, w i l l you kindly give ar the complete rdrlrrrr
o f t l t e k B . A b a u C o m ~ ?Theiaurmugrbs
would l i b to get a little mom infomatian regdin#
them itemr
An Appmciatho Rvrk

Pardan m i for taking thin mnch of yorv time an

what m y ba 10 aimplea mtk; bllt Iwaa app*
&OUt g
0
e fnb 8 dub b @ a
bCQk cslled,
"Angela d Women". I made wms inqairies, and y
told thrt it rsr a book that a fallen urge1 dictated to
8 w o w ahowing a d e s k to comb back into harInon~*
with God; and that Pastor B d approved af the

aepb
0 BOTH above lettern we reply ar follorr:

boot I hd never heard of the book Mm; and u

we us to ohun anything rldn to spiritism I &odd
book dealing with oonditiona that obtained prior,
like to know padtively whetha the book has yam ap- to the Flood. He requested some other bmthrem
proval before buying one; ao it it is not asldng too much to read it. I t was so much in harmony with
would lilts r reply.
the Bible account of the fallen angels that he
(h)
W.9. Dada, La Angsh, CaL
regarded the book as remarkable. Under his
supervision it was revised, and later published
To THBGOLD= ban :
With much pleasure and profit h~ the book, ' ' h g e l r by one who was formerly his c o d d e n t i d ab.
and Women'' been read by many Truth friehdr It ~ociate. The new book is published under the
contains ro much to encourage one to loyalty and f a title " h g e l s and Women". Scriptad citations
in God.
are given. An appendix is added. Pastor IZam
Do you think that it would be a real m i c a ta pur- sell remarked that a t some opportune time the
cham thew bodrs in quantities of ten or mom copier book, revised, should be pubhshed.
at a time ro as to get the epecial $1 per copy rate,
As to its being a violation of the Vow to read
which you have w kindly rccrved for ns, and thar to
this
book, such idea is not worthy ~considerahave them on hand ru Christ;msr and birthday presmta
tion.
It would be no more wrong to read it
or far o t h a gift occarions to give ta our relativca and
friends, whom we hay have been unable to othenriw than to read "What Say the &riptares about
Spiritism" or "Talking with the Dead"; f o r
intemt in P & h t Truth or only rlightly m 3
Would not rom. ba d i s p d to read a farcinating both these books quote much a s to what the evil
a d of thin land, who might not be able to get firat spirits do. Many have derived much benefit
from reading "Angels and Women" because it
interested in "The Harp" or STUD=?
Would thir not be considered om way af instructing aids in getting a clearer vision of how Satsl

overreached the angels and overreached the humnn race, and caused all the havoc amongst men
and the angels. It helps one to a better understanding of the devil's organization.
The book is published by the A. B. Abac Corn-

pany, Madison Square, P. 0. Box 101, W a Yo*

City, N. T.
THEGOLDEX
AGBdoes not handle the publiation; but all who desire it should write direct&
to the publisher at the above address.

A Remarkable Fulfilment of Prophecy

"And it s3ull be, that u:hoso will not come u p of dl the families o f the carth unto 'Jemalem ta
worship the King, #lie Lord of hosts, even upon them shdl be no rak"-ZcchwkA 14:17.
N MAT 6th the Spanish Government refused ment's action in refusing permission to have
permission to Judge Ruthcrford to speak in the trnth regarding the Lord'a kingdom p m
Uadrid in support of lus belief, and oar belief, sented to the Spanish people, and in a report
that we have come to the time of the establish- to us dated August 23rd says:
'we herewith beg to enclam 8 copy bf t
h~ u r i c ~ m
ment of the Lord's kingdom in the earth-an
Zaikng
of
Aagnrt
21
in
which
you
r
i
l
l
5
d 8 report,
event described in the Revelation of St. John
as "the new Jerusalem, coming down from God marked in blue pencil. that while the whole of Cemtrrl .
Eump ia complaining about 8 miserable nunmu, no
out of heaven".
rain has fallen in Madrid, th. capital of Spain, dno
Now whether o r not others can see in it what Nay 6. As thir wm the date upon which Judge Ruthwe see in it, nevertheless a moqt unusual item erford was refused permimion to lectnr, in that city,
of information comes to us in a report from we feel that the matter will be of interest to you. May
our correspondent in Switzerland. The gentle- we amme that there ir wnnedion Meen tb two
man in question knew of the Spanish Govern- thing8 ?"

Blessing Automobiles
superstition of Greater Papacy
THEnowlatest
is the blessing of automobiles, said to

have begun at Pittsburgh. Labels are placed on

the machine head, 2nd holy water applied with a
pronouncement of Latin to the God of Rome.
This insures from accident and the jam of Protestant aggression.
We remember in 1799 how the Pope himself
blessed Kapoleon. But at that time the Most
High saw fit to visit judgment on the system,
which had reached a crisis in its abominations.
Instead, therefore, of the Pope's receiving aorship, Napoleon exacteda lump sum from the
' T i c a r ~ fChrist" and he too went along as prisoner of France. Indeed, "his highness" died
in solitude after this blessing. Likewise, we
remember, how a later pontiff blessed the
Spanish qmy at the instant when the United
States entered into war with Spain. Evidently
a t that t z e the infallibility invoked failed of
operation on acconnt of certain other forces
blocking the spiritual headship.
Soon, thanli God! a further blessing is to be

BY Joseph Greig
enjoyed when this symbolical "bea~t"pas8ea
away Kith its earthly pomp and mouthinem.
Then the peoples will taste of the liberty with
which Christ makes free. History tells of the
long train of Jesuit priestcraft in the way of
life, liberty, and happiness, not the least of
which can be read off during the war on slavery
while Lincoln was in office. Conspiracy among
Lincoln's Catholic generals more than onthreatened the dismption of the Lincolnian
forces. Therefore, this boastful tyrant must go
down in ignominy and chaos, as the prophet of
the Lord of hosts has foretold. Trne religion
will then spring from the efforts of the New
Zionism, now bestirring itself t o w a d the pmmised land of Abraham.
All hail such a prospect and token from the
t m e Lord of lords and Decider of sovereignty
rights, in behalf of a restored race, from the
deceptions of Satan, forced on mankind in the
name oL trnthl The bandages mmt all be tom
loose ere &is sunlight reaches the eye4 of human understanding.

The Holy Father and Politics

NDER the above heading The Catholic Hcr-

ald, of London, discussing the Pope's politi:

cal aermonlr of September 21st, and admitting
that in England at present the Catholics do not
know whether to stick to the Tories or to throw
in their lot with the Laborites, has the following interesting paragraphs. These paragraphs
make the "principles" of the Papacy entirely
clear :
"There is no infallible authority to tell us
what mill be the certain result to the Catholic
Church in future years of any particular action
taken here and now.
"The history of the Popes during the long
centuries in which they were temporal rulers
shows that in dealing with these affaira-that
is to say, with political affair-they sometimes
took one course and sometimes another, and
that their actions were sometimes advantageous to and sometimes very injnrions to the temp o d inter=& of the Holy See and even to ita
moral interests aa well They took part in poIiticu sometime8 from very human motives.
"When the Catholic & m a n Emperor Charles
V. sacked Rome and took prisoner Pope Clement VII, he as least alleged that he was acting
in the interests of reform of the Church and of
Catholicity in general.
"The Pope, dragged in different directions by
hia h o p s and his fears, had actually treaties,
offensive and defensive at one and the same
time; with the Emperor and with Francis I of
France, who were engaging in deadly struggle l
"The Pope did not know which side to take
for the best; so he took both, a piece of statecraft which does not stand alone, but which haa
been severely commented upon.
"If Catholics had only to decide in their political action on rigid linea of scientific exactitude
they wonld indeed have an easy task.
q n t what is presented to them is mostly a
ohoice of evils ; and while they must not, of
uourse, choose anything that is distinptlp evil
or immorql in itself, they are forced, whether
they like it or not, to make some choice while
idly recognizing that whatever they may do
there will be dangers ahead.
" 'Let justice be. done thodgh the heaveshould fall,' is a principle more easy of utterance than of observance.

%en God informeii Moses that He was guing to-strike the name of His chosen people out
of the book of life, Xoses asked if that were to be
done that his name also should be struck out!
An example, me are told, to be admired, but not
imitated
"It is much easier to admire the clarity and
sublimity of a statement of altruistic principles
than it is to acquiesce in them and carry them
out."

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The Lantern BY Don Marqztis

Copyriglit, 1921, Sew Tork Herald Tribune Inc., Courtesy Xem Tork Herald Tribune.
HE spread of the Christian religion resulted
T
in the subversion of the calm tolerance of
ancient civilization. Under the Romans the va-

'

for they considered themselves intellectually

superior to it; but the thing they could not tolerate was the flaming doctrine aimed directly a t
all f o m s of injnetice, oppression and slayer9
on earth and at all systems which permit them.
The rulers pretended to be shocked at what they
considered the atheism of the new sect, which
denied the old gods ;and the mperstitious pop*
lace, believing all sorts of calumnies against
the Christians, really were shocked; but what
impelled the rulers to persecution was not really
their horror of atheism so much as their dread
of anarchy.

rious pagan systems got aloiig very well with

one another; the priests of Rome did not use
their political influence to persecute the devotees of Isis, nor was there any serious attempt
in any province of the Roman dominions to destrop an old faith or impose a new one. This
tolerance was very largely due, no doubt, to
the fact that many of the leading men of Rome,
lessoned by the Greek philosophers, had no very
warm attachment for any of the pagan faiths,
considering them good enough for common peoJesus would undoubtedly be considered an
ple and slaves but as superstitions unworthy the
the credence of enlightened minds. As a mat- anarchist today if He were alive; and any perter of policy, however, they publicly acquiesced, son who attempts to apply His prinaiph in a
and even participated, in various formal re- thoroughgoing, uncompromising manner to a
ligious rites to which they were secretly indif- political situation in any modem state is s u p
ferent.
pressed There M still p r e c h l y the same do&
The amazingly rapid spread of Christianity and fear of the practical application of t
h
-rapid because it was of a character which a p teachings of Jesus that there was 1900yearn ag6
pealed to the slaves, the oppressed, the outcast, The fact that the Christian religion became, um .
all those without any worldly hopes or pros- der Constantine, the official religion of the empects-forced
the governors of the Roman pire means nothing in this relation; for this
world to abandon their attitude of easy tolera- was not a triumph for the doctrines of Jesw,
tion, based on indifference and contempt.
but a comproniise on the part of His followers,
So far a s the supernatural aspects of Chris- which resulted in centering the essential atrugtialiity were concerned, there is no evidence that gle within the churches themselves.
the Romans were particularly impressed. h- There never haa been, on any large, extended
tiqnity waa used to reports of signs and won- ecale, a real test of the political opinions of
ders, miracles and marvels, claims of super- Jesus; they have never been applied; current
natural origin and supernatural power; that governments are still of the opinion of the .aneort of thing was precisely what the philosophio cient Romans ; the mystical and supernatnral
Greeks and Romans had turned away from, in symbolism of Christianity is firmly established
their skepticism and rationalism, the thing in the world, but the application of its spiritual
content to the general affairs of men has never
which they tolerated and despised.
I t was the practical aspects of Christianity been tried.
which led to the -erious conflicts between its
The fears of the modern world are as well
followers and the Roman state. For, in spite of justilled, no doubt, as the fears of the ancient
the frequently quoted "Render unto Casar that world; the uncompromising practice of the d m
which i$ Caesar's," eta, the general drift of trines of Jesue would undoubtedly blow all the
the teachings of Jesus is necessarily subversive established systems to h d e r a But people who
of an imperial state. The'governors of the Bo- call themselves Christians will be able to preman Empire found themselves confronted by a vent this catastrophe for a good many years, we
republic existing within the empire and opposed dare say.
m
to the very,foundations npon which the empire
rested. F o r what they mnsidered the religious - Real Christianity is necessarily intolerant o t
superstition of the' Christians they had very lit- fraud, injustice and oppression; and while ita
tle real care; that they could have tolerated, ultimate aim is peace, it is obvious that them

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CjOWEN AGE

'

can be no peam where it exbts until it has

achieved its ultimate triumph. The moment it
abateq by one whisper, itu intolerant idealism,
it ceases to exist; it becomes something else; it
ia absolute, or it iu nothing; it cannot make
terms, or it defeats itself; it .can pardon all
sinners, but never any sin ; its most mild-seeming precepts are really explosive parodoxes; it
is nothing to be trifled with; eventually the hnman race, as it finds itself on this planet, must
either extirpate it completely or practise it sincerely if it wants any rest; it is impossible to
Live near it without taldng some attitude toward
it. Most of the troubles of the world, since it
appeared, have been stirred up in one way or
another by the action of this idealism on the human epirit ;people who are touched with it may
and do compromiee, but the thing itself does
not compromise.
We wonder what we would have done if we
had been a Roman emperor, 1700 years ago, and
reports had been brought to us of the spread of
the new swt. We would probably have said

to ourself: "Shall me order another persecution? Or will it do any goodl It is a pity that
the calm temper of the philosophers can not
gradually'spread over all the Roman world, fostering toleration and gradually banishing all
these superstitions, unchallenged by any new
sect of fanatics and absolutists who insist on a
superhuman conduct. If I were to tolerate
them, still their doctrines will not tolerate m e so horn can I afford to tolerate them? No; there
can be no peace until they are wiped out.''
So, conceivably, we might order the peraecution to begin. Perhaps you wouldn't. Y& say
yon wouldn't. But let's see what you do the
next time one of the genuine onea-who are the
same now as they were then-takes a stand subversive of the social order from which you da
rive your wealth, your comfort, your importance,
or your safety. For the real thing doean't
change; it is still in the world, strnggling, a+
tive, practical, uncompromising, oppressed, dangerous, spirituaL

Who Pays the Debt?

THERE
TE

is a question raised over a statement

in
GOLDENAm, No. 110, page 145. The
utatement is: "When Adam died there was
a debt ;Jesus died to provide an asset t b t balanced the account." The questioner a s h : What
is thia debt; who owes it; how and when did
the one or ones who owe it get in debt ;to whom
is it owed; and how does Jesus' death cancel
this debt, or balance the accountP
God created Adam a free moral agent; but
'Adam's existence was conditional, as the re:
quirementa mere just and loving and for the
creature's own everlasting good. Adam was
indebted to God for his life, his home, and all
that he had. Through disobedience he lost the
life wbi& Qod had prkpared for him. Adam
got into debt when he transgressed the divine
law; he owed Divine Justice. When Adam died,
his debt was canceled as f a r aa he himself was
concernedi The debt was an eternal death.
But God had planned to rescue Adam (and
the race tlidrt had lost life in him) by having
8ome o m d e e m him. In due time, Jesus came
as a man and laid down in sacrificial death the
perfection of His human organism as a correaponding price, a ransom, for the perfect

human organism of the man Adam. When

Jesus was raised from the dead, He waa
raised a divine being; and as His life
was not a forfeited life, He had the value o t
His perfect human organism as an asset (John
6: 31) to present to Divine Justice on behall
of Adam and his posterity. To make the tramaction efficacious Jesus will never live again ar
a mu*; else the purchaae price will have been
taken back. But Jesus has no personal use now
for His human organism; hcnce He has not been
injured; but having been given a divine body
He is greatly blessed and benefited.
Jesua ascended to heaven and laid down, o r
deposited, His ransom sacrifice in the hands of
Justice (Hebrews 9: 24-26), which has been the
basis for God's dealings with the Church of the
Gospel Age. When the Church is glorified with
divine bodies (2 Peter 1:4), the ransom asset
will be fully released or paid over; and as a
result the world of mankind w i l l come into porsession of perfect human bodies, just the thing
the ransom sacrifice calls for; and the earth
shall be brought to paradisaic conditions acl a
suitable dwelling place for humanity in perc
fection.

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"But gou are a chosen Race, a Royal Priestlwod, a holy Nation, a People for a purpose, that you
may declare tkc perfections of Him who called You from da.rk91.e~~
into Bis Wonderfd
Light."- 1 Peter 2: 9.
ANY have laid claim to the title of "God's
M
chosen people", basing their claim upon
this text. They can not all right, because they
be

differ and are opposed to each other. How

may we know who are the chosen people of God?
The answer is, God has provided two primary
ways by which He instructs those who wish to
be instructed: firet, through His Word; 6nd secc
ond, by His manner of dealing with each.
For a time the Jews were God's chosen people. But the words here wdtten by St. Peter
could not apply to the Jews, because prior thereto the Jews had been cast off by the specific
words of our Lord.
The Catholic, being the oldest church organization on earth, has claimed that that o r g a d
tion is the one here meant. But this could not
be true, for the reason that the Apostle states
that the one mentioned is a holy nation Holy
means pure and blameless, and not even the
Catholics themselves will claim that their organization is pure and blameless; and we all
know that that organization is largely concerned
with the politics of this world.
The various Protestant denominations claim
to be the "chosen people of God.'' But their
claim is unfounded, for the recison that all theee
organizations join hands with the political and
financial powers of this world, and are f a r from
holy.
St. Peter, writing under inspiration of the
holy spirit, in the context gives ns the key by
which we can conclusively determine who are
the "chosen ones of God". He says :'Wherefore
also it is contained in the scripture, Behold,
I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, pred o u s ;and he that believeth on him shall not be
confounded. Ye also, as living stones, are built
up a epirityual borne, to be an holy priesthood,
to offer up sacdfices, acceptable to God by Jeans
Christ."- 1Peter 2 :6,5. R. V.
By this we see that Christ Jesus is the Head
of this body of chosen people of Jehovah; and
that those who are really His, constituting the

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members of His body, are the others. Concerning this St. Pad said: "He [Jesus] is the head
of the body, the church, who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead; that in all things
he might have the preZminence." ( C o l o s a i a ~
1:18) I t follows, then, that there mnat be
others associated with Rim. In order to understand this wonderful class chosen by the Lord,
it is necessary to have some Scriptural reason
why the Lord Jehovah should choose themThe perfect man Adam and Eve hh rife,
being sentenced to death and expelled fwm
Eden, while undergoing the process of the death
judgment brought forth their children. All of
these Wen born in un and h ~ e in
Even 80 has it been with dl of the h w
Ood promired to redeem msn from death a d
restore him. He promised to select a mrWn
clam that He would use as Hia imbmmenb irr.
the performance of this work. To A b m h n He
said: "Tn thy seed shall all the i d e s of tka
earth be blessed.."
The apostle Paul definitely
locates this seed when he says in Galatians 3:
16,29,27,that Christ J e m i a the Head of t
h
~e,eed,and that as many as have been bsinto Christ have put on Christ and that thorn
who are Chrisfs aonstitute the seed of pramim.
The term "seed of promise" is another name for
the chosen people of Clod.

fe

~~ of Acceptan-

with
E IT noted that there is no earthly body or
organization with a membership roU with
ihed rules and regulations that constitat& the
chosen people of the Lord. God himself select8
them. He has laid down the rules. It is an individual matter with each one conforming to
these rules as to whether or not he will be approved of Jehovah. The Lord Jesus, His beloved Son, first waa required to meet these d e k
We shall briefly note the steps that H e took.
Our Lord's life was transferred from the
spirit to the human plane. He was made fie&
and dwelt amongrit m e n He grew to msnhood*~

estate. He was required to be thirty years of .Anself to the Lord, which means a change of
age before He was q&ed,
under the Law, to course of action and is therefore properly called
be a priest. At that time He was perfect in conversion. Consecration meanr a full and

every respect aa a mnn- As a perfect man,

keeping God's Law, He had a right to life on
: the e a r t h It 'RM the Law of God that man
abould be redeemed and that this redemption
shodd come through the voluntary sacrifice of
another perfect man. Jesus was the only perfact
ever on earth s b m Adam. As a pe*
e x e e s i n g His ~ ~ l f i s h He codd
fed
have enjoyed the bleasinga of this earth and
have been the most honored
that lived on
ear& as indeed He was the v e a t e s t But He
said: 'q m e . .not to do mine o m fi,but
the fl of
[my Father] that sent me.*
(John 6 :38) This ~~ the first rule- and He
complied with every part of it.
Jeaus consecrated himself wholly fn do God's
will. Three and one-half yeara thereafter He
was crucified upon the crosa This was for the
purpose of providing the great ransom aacrifice, that the peop:e might have life through the
merit of His sacri5ce. This Jesus plainly stated.
Our Lord war raised from the dead and ascended into henven a divine being. There He
presented to Jehovah the value of His hmnan
eacrifice, which is the exact off-set, corresponding to the perfect human life which Adam forfeited by reason of his disobedience. The S c r i p
tures &ow that this sacrifice waa at that t-,
and aince hoe Seen, used for the purpose of furnishing a bash for justscation of those who
come to the Lord in
appoint4 m y ; and
that later it will be used as a basis for bringing
the entire human race into harmony with Jeho-

we
1-

E. The Apostle shame that'each one who becomes

complete submission of oneself unto God, agrecring to do the will of God and not be governed
by the will of man. The few during the past
1900 years who have taken this step, a d who
have received the imputation of the merit of
Christ Jesus, have been justified by Jehovah.
Jwtifieation mems to
right
&d The three necessary s t e p to justi$ation
are : (1) Faith on
pa*; (2) t
bimpaeon
of Christs meat; and (3) the judicial determination by Jehovah that we are justified, or
light e t h Him God ha. juStsed
for 0p q o s s only, and that is that a e y might be.
come the trae footstep followen of J w d
participate in His sacfice. The sacrifice consists d willingly giving up the p r o w rrd
hope of ourselves being restored to eternal life
on the earth. When thus justified, one ia begotten by Jehovah to the new or divine nabre.
This is the beginning of a new creature. Such
an one now is holy, not within himrelt, but
through the merit of Christ Jesua Hir hops
and prospects now are that he may see the Lord
and be forever with Him in heaven, parthipating in the first resurrection
~

ANY have asked themselves: "How may I

Doubt mmea into
Ths Lord h.s dren
md bT
which we can measure ourselves and deteamhe,
and each one must determine for himself. God
never clothed any man, whether he be preacher
or otherwise, with authority to my to another
are going to heaven." The Mipenon:
v i d d -7 know whether or not lk is a new
c r e a m in Christ ; and then he
determine
whether or not he himpelf is living up to his
agreement to do God's will.
The apostle Paul, speaking to sach, says:
"The spirit itself beareth witness with our
apirit, that we are the children of God: and if
children, then heirs ; heirs of God, and joint
heirs with Christ ; if so be that we suffer with
him, that we may be also glorified together.ma red Christianl

r member of this chosen class, the holy nation

of Jehovah, must follow in the footsteps of Jel sm. He plainly &as states in these words :"For
even hereunto were ye called; because Christ
also snfptced for as, leaving us an example, that
ye should follow his steps."1Peter 2: 21.
1 The steps that any man mast take in order
lo become a true Christian are to believe that
he was b o d a sinner and needs a Savior; that
Jesus Christ* the Savior of men; and-that the
only way to life is to accept Him as such. This
is properly called <eepentance, which meam a
changa of mind. His next step is to consecrate Romans 8; 16,17.
'

m CjOWEN AGE

'

n i e n-ord "spirit" here means the invisible

power and influence of Jehovah operating upon the mind of the C b h t i a q t e s t i f ~ h !to him
and ~ r o V h 3to him xhether Or not he b e l o n ~
to the ~ o r dJehovah has provided two ?arate and distinct lines of testimony to estabhsh
this fact: First, the plain statement of His
Word; and second, His manner of dealing with
tlre Christian. We first consider some of the
scriptures. I n 1 Corinthians 2 :14 we are advised that the natural man cannot understand
the deep things of God's Word, but that the new
creature in Christ can understand them.
T h e fact that a man is a graduate of a t h o logical seminary, learned in the Greek and the
Hebrew, and in all the wisdom of the Emtiam,
would in no wise mean that he is a Chrietian;
nor would it mean that he could understand the
Bible. The deep things of God's Word are
spiritually discerned Now if one is able to understand these deep truths, that is one of the
first testimonies that he is begotten as a new
creature in Christ.
One of these great trnths is the mystery of
God which the apostle Pad tells ns (Colossians
hid from all m a h d of
1 :26,271 has
the world and is revealed only to those who are
in Christ. This mystery the Cbrist, the new
creation, which is made up of Jesus the Head
and His body members, and which is another
name for "Ood's chosen people". One who mderstands and appreciates t
h fact is anxious
to adhere to the d e s of the Lord and to keep
away from contamination of the things of this
world.
Those who are true Christians are indeed a
secret association amongst themselves, who can
tell all their secrets publicly, from the hoaae
tops, and the natural man of the world cannot
understand anything about them. The reason
for this h that such truths are 8piritualIy discerned. This is the reason why so few people
on earth really appreciate God's wonderful plan
and His love manifested toward man.
Again the\ Apostle says : 'Thowing, brethren
beloved, your election of God. F o r our gospel
came not unto you in word only, but &o in
power, and in the holy spirit, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were
among you for your sake." (1Thessalonians 1:

4,5) The gospel of truth makes a man a power

for good in the hands of the Lord.
says the Apostle : lveh o w fiat
&e pamed from death unto life, became we

love the brethr+a" (1J o h 3 :14) Lore for the

devotion to the
bethren means as
,me of the brethren, a-oas
to do
to
them along
in the narrow w,
Again says the Apostle, every Christian is
fearful of nothing, because love casts out fear.
(1John 4: 17,181 Thia means that he is not
fearful of losing his reputation amongst men.
He does not fear to tell the truthin the love of the
b
h t h . He is hdifimnt to the approd
approd
of
a r w t i o p l . H* is not
s e w g the p b d i b of
bat a8
aPProvd
of ~ f ~ d .

b& JFOB

;-a-

A people, anotherof w'.dew

ot

rith Hi.
tht
they areHis: We knw that Jesl~qt h H d
of this royal line, was not popular with m ~ in~
mBr

th, worldo

mereligionista

~i~

The p m I snd -b
&d
to be the representatives of GO& and

~y

and boldlp jnined fothe p&

ti& of the world that a e , m ddid not,fithfdy
~
~ mey
hbw ~ ~~~d~
~
Jeans.
bey
~ h ~ &
f
-w
lies
They ac&
Him of almost every crime b o r n to the dendm. Yet He was holy and M e s a , and eaout &. r n conspired
~
t~ kill Him. They
called Him the chief of devils. Jesua eaid to
His followers, who are members of the new ere+
tion: "If the world hate you, ye know that it
hated me before it hated yon. If ye were of the
world, the vorld would love his own; but became ye are not of the world, but I have chosen
yon out of the world, therefore the world hateth
you. Bemember the word that I said unto 70% The mrvant is not greater tban his hd If
they have persecuted me, they will also perue
cute Yon; if they have kept
saying, they
k q Yours also."-John
15: 18-20.
It would be well for everyone who dsimr to
be a Christian, whether he be clergyman o r
layman, to ask bhself : Do I come within this
definition &en by the Lord? A true C k i a t h a

. is not popular with the world, b e c a m his in- Tlie Pur-

oft& Chnming

teresta are not worldly. The vorld does not THE A

~ sPemg
~
~ of~tbias
it did not ~ d e r s t a n d
I U N & W S ~ ~ Ihim,
I ~ wen
.rye are a peoplefor a pnmsa~~ at
J e m s The world metb. organized condi- p q o s e then baa ~~d in doosingthb dust
tion of s d e V of which Satan
the god, Or Th,
is, That they may mnstihte the
Imisible d e r .
of mligionisb who seed of promise arongh whom blessing
willingly join hands with profiteer9 and politi- flow out to all the faea
of the earth.
aians to control the affair8 of this evil world the apostle ape* ,,f them ar a mydpriest
not k y daim to the title, ''God's Chosen hood The word " m y d m
meam reigning.
P e ~ p l a * b y individd who is
devoted cTriestha& means body that ministersnnto
to the Lord, and who i. faithfdy 8e-g
the others, that teaches and helps others This
he
having tbs witnee' of the 'pirit
then that this people, thus chosen, when
is the Lord's. m a y l claim
~
to the titla,
one of g l o d e 4
corntitUte a =igning, kingly
"Qod's Chosen People."
that will at the same time minister anto the peoThe Lord J e q the ~ e r ofh tbia chosen
ple. F o r this reason the Cbrist i. s p o k a of
was always loyal to the Father- L o ~ a l Qmeans as Prophet, Priest, and King. Prophet, to teacit
to do what the divine law req&e& He W a s al- the people; Priest, to minister unto aem;&g,
wags faithfd to His Father. Faithfh-a
to rule over them and bless thera This is the
mems fidelity in representing Jehovah and His pfvposc of choosing the people of God. T h w
cause. Each member of this chosen class of duties, however, shall k perlomed for the
Jehovah must likewise be loyal and faithfd. benefit of
while &a m y d family is hri,
To these, St. Paul say8 that the reasonable ser- ible to inan.
vice of the Christian ia to devote his all to the
cause of God in Christ Jesus. Then he adds: f i d h l ~ (work
"Be not conformed to this world: but
ye
y.T
incourse of twg,
md
transformed b the renewing of y o n &d, that
earth, is
mything that this
ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, should do? The Apostle answen in thin text,
and perfect, will of God.'' (Romans 12:2)
Those who are members of this class do not that they might show forth the praises of Him
earthly who hath called them out of darkness into His
need to have their names written on
books. No one has authority to put any mamelons light- I t is a part of the duty of mfh
J'esnq
name on an earthly church book Christialls as Christians, true followers of the ~ o r d
are they who ham their names written in to show forth the praises of Jehovah and the
heaven. The Lord alone keeps the membership praises of the Lord Jesus, by being true and
roll, and He does not commit thia to man o r to faithful witnesses concerning God, that He is
organizations.
Jehovah; concerning Jesus, that He is the ReThe faithfulness of this class mnst be con- deemer and Delirerer of mankind; and that His
tinous even unto the end. To the faithful alone kingdom is the channel of blessings for the huis the promise of the reward of joint-heirship
race.
with Christ Jesus in His kingdom. To them
For this reason
trw
one of
Jesus said: '?Be thou faithfd unto death, and
I will give thee a crown of Life" (Revelation 2: the "chosen people of God", with malice toward
fi I none and with love toward dl must take a atand
10); again-! < s c ~ , , him that
6
t
h
me
in
my
throne,
even
as I firmly ou the side of the Lord a d consistently
-t
to
overcame, and am set down e t h my Father in ref= to participate in any of the unrighteous
his throne." (Revelation 3: 21) Bnd again, He things of this world. He must content himself
oaid that they y h o shall share the victov and with loohig forward to that time when by the
glory of the Lord are the called, the chosen and grace of God, clothed with power and authority
the faithfd. (Revelation 17: 14) These are from the Lord, he may participate in the reforpromised that they slid participate with the mation of the human family by uplifting and
Lord in His resurrection and reign with Him.blessing mankind according to the will of Jehoh r t l a t i o n 20 :6.
vah.

sTUDI~SIN THE "HARE' O F GOD" (qLF%E'iYU"M

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'T3ut the student is not left to theory or

conjecture. The Scriptural evidence is given in
such abundance that all doubt is forever removed. God's prophet long ago foretold the
coning of a Mighty One and said that thia
Mighty One should have a go~ernmentof righteousness; that "his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace; of the
increase of his government and peace there
ehall be no end." (Isdah 9 :6,7) An "everlasting
Father" presumes that there shall be some offspring who will have everlasting life. Bence
this promiee indicated that a government would
be established wherein man I\-onld be granted
the privilege of life everlasting.
"'As me have heretofore observed, Jehovah
made a covenant with the nation of Israel, to
the exclusion of all other nations. He gave
them a law to shield them from the influence8
and machinations of the adversary and to lead
them to Christ, their great Messiah. The Jews
as a nation did not keep thia law, because they
were imperfect; but some of their rulers were
especially wicked. The time came when Ood
said concerning Zedekiah, the last king of
Israel: "And thou, profane wicked prince of
Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity a h d
l a v e an end, thus aaith the Lord God: Remove
the diadem, and take off the crown; this shall
not be the same: exalt him that is low, and
abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: and it shall be no more, until
he come whose right it is; and I miU give it
him."-Ezekiel
21 :2527.
"'It follows that at some future time there
would come a mighty onb who would establish
n kingdom of righteousness, having full authority aria .eght thus to do.
-At the overthrow of Zedekiah God permitted the Gentiles to establish a universal dominion in the earth. The Lord through the prophet
Daniel picwed the development of four world
empires orihingdoms, which would exist for a
certain period of time, and which would continue until He should come whose right it is;
and then He, the Righteous One, should take
posseseion of earth's affairs and mle. It is to

be expected, of course, that the unrighteous

governments would hold on to their power in
earth as long as possible, and that they would
atill be thns doisg st the coming of the great
King, and that He would oust these earthly
kingdoms of unrighteousness and establish 8
righteous government. Thus says the Lord
through the prophet Daniel: "In the days of
these kings shall the God of heaven set up 8
kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and
the kingdom shall not be left to other people,
but it shall break in pieces and consume all
these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.*
(Daniel 2: 44) It follows, then,that thb rig&
eons King must be present before He breuk~to
pieces and consumes the other kingdomu. The
Scriptures speak of the righteoulr kindom u
the kingdom of Leaven, beam it is in a~c~d,
with the heaveqly Fathe98 will and d e d
the invisible power of the great Maaish_

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to WPport ther

Q-ONS

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365.

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ai g h t y one?355.

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thd.P

foum,

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tLlm

355.

tb.dg

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=,

y
aa expect man to xedva
the promised per-*?
1355What
must be indulged concerning tb.
coming of the Lord from the utteranm of Jehovah
to King ZedetLiah through the p p h e t Rnh'd when
God overtnrned the government of had? 1 356.
n t i.,,t
apetea th.t tb. mming
One would do in the earth? 1 367.
Whm
w u overthrom, what did t
h Gentilea
M

Through the Prophet Daniel, what world mpires did

the Lord
foretell? and how 1% ~~d tbiel
last? Give S c r i m @ 1358.
Vould we expect the righteous King to be present rrha
this brcahing to pieces of the old kingdom o o c ~ t
1368.

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Contents of the Golden Age

SOCU LVD ~ E C A T I O N U
~ . ~ m , T a m o v n ~ ~ z P L a . ~ f i
Remarkable Tale of \Tomanly Heroism
Snlcides in Beriin
Horrible Conditions tn Hindu Prisons
S O X ~ E I.Dorso
X ~ IX P~'PCEL~

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Brxa;?rct-ColnmccTrus

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A Dendly Gas Causes Insanity

Group Life I n s ~ ~ i ~ nonc eRailmcls
Great Increase of Chain Storea

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P o m c ~ ' D o l r r s r r cAND F ~ s n o x

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E n r o m n Countries Beginning to Pay
Rnmsay JIacDonnld Defeated by Forgev
304
French Government Recogiizes Russia
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Zionism's Report on Pnlwtine Jfanclnte
160
Slr Herbert Samuel's Eeport on Pale-t~ne
168
GE;YEJUL
h - n m OX WAU ( T r i ~ n s l n t a lTn~niZI. Y. Skints-Zcitr#~g) lrZ3
REPOETSmar Fomcrm C O I U ~ E Y W ~ D E ~ ~ ~ R I ~ I I ~ I I ~ 1G1
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Here and There Over the Planet

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[Radlocast, with other items, from TTntchtomer T B E R on a ware length of 2i3 meters, by the Editor]

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Pork Newspaper Takes a Chance

orer the side of a cliff, killing the man.
wife
and his niece, injured, lay in the bottom of
HE llrm regarding income t a x returns pro- the canyon
tliree days, awaiting discovery.
vides that the lists of tcrpapers sllo\r-ing tile &'earing tliefor
death
of the child, the woman de-:'
- m o u n t s paid by each a r e to be available f o r
liberately cut her arms a n d ' h a s t with g h 1
publie inspection, but that the data must not I*
to pmvide blood to -.
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tile

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published
penalty
)1,000 fine or "npriaonment for one year. The S e w I'orli rcporters went and "inspected" the lists; ancl
forthwith their papers printed the names and
tases of all the largest taxpayers in S e w Pork
and, additionally, all the best kuo~vncharacters
in the city who L d any income taxes a t all. The
effect of this law is the same as that of pntting
a piece of first-class pie in front of a small bop
and telling him not to touch it.

the e-,lild alive during the cold

Tb
recover, but &e heroine is qoeted to

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A Deadly Gas Cauires Insanity

T?u'THE effort to compound a k n o c k l m motor
oil a t a refinery n e n r ~ e York
n
city', a c o d
nation of ethyllated gasoline caused the death
of five men, made s e v e r d m o r e violen* insane,
and subjected nearly all of the forty-five men
enlployed in the department to such disturbance
of
their mental faculties that it mill probablv
Reataumnta Gone to the Dcos
11e months before they will be of ad? hnefit t6
4. New Pork rcstnnrnrlt the other aftertllenlrelves or their fdes.
xonecon htbe
noon
ONr the New York Gritpiric reports Ilaving Strongly moved
ae fate of these pioneera
in
found five pups in the arms of tllcir mistresses, a ne,v
dmpmus field.
munching- delicacies such as sollie llnrd n-olekinr
"
people never get n cliancc to eat. Olle'of these croup
~i~ I~~~~~~~ on R
~
~
pulps mas hairless, his 1)otlp coverer1 with red
splotches, his eyes pirlk an61 siei;Iy. S c ~ e r a of
l T l 1 7 E S T Y - S E P T X American railway lines
the diners lost their appetites and ~vtlll:cd out,
Ilnvc nclopted tlie group system of insurance
leaving their meals untoncl~ed.
of tlicir cniployds. There is a great variation in
the forms of policies and the alnounts for which
the cmplov6s are insured, but altogether some
Rcbbi Katz Stirs Thincrs
Un
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~ 0 , ~ 0 0 ~ r r ~ d rare
l i c rbenefited,
s
and employers reABBI IGTZllns stirrcil tlli11.p nlr, by ~ a l - i n g
ceirc
benefits
in
tlie
wag
of
greater
stabilization .
that bchind every man in prison there is a
*oman
for wlrose comfort o r sntisi'action tlie of their forces.
man comhitted crime. This seems to malre the Huolson Vehicle Tunnel Nears Completion
mliole proposition very simple. All \re need to
- 'do is to lock u p all t l ~ e~vor~ien,and \ye should T I I E vehicle tunnel under the Hudson upon '
which 2,000 men have been busily engaged,
- l i ~ happy
e
ever after.
1
some of tllcm since March, 1922, is nearing comRemarkable..Tale of Womanly Heroism
pletion. Tlle north tunncl has been cat through,
remarkable story comes from California sixty fcet below the snrface of the river, and the
. T T a n automo,ilc nreicl(1nt i n r o l r i n q n inan, soutli t~lnnclwill be cut throngh some time in ,
kis nife, and his niece. 'I'lie antonlobile ~ v c n t December. It will talic a year o r more to get

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*the tunnels ready for public use. Jleantime, gospel of Christ, seem not to have m y legitithe Chief Engineer, Clifton hi. Hollantl, ndniit- mate reason f o r existii~g.

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tcdly one of the greatest tunnel engineers that

ever lived, passed away before his great work European Countries Beginning to Pay
- was

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completed.

Tlir War and the Coat of Living

F YOU lived in Canada before the n-ar, and
if yom salary mas then $100 per month, it
would need to be $143 now to enable you to buy
the same things as~preVionsly;if in tlie United
States it mas $100, it would r.ow liare to be $155 :
if in England it mas 2100 erery s i r months, it
wodd now have to be f liO ; if in France it was
100 francs per meek, it \vould now have to be
366 francs; in Belgiom 493 francs; if in Italy
100 lire, it \I-odd llow have to be 512 lire.
it

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the esample of Great Britain,

FOLLOTVISG
tlie countries of Finland, Hungary, and
Lithuania hare made arrangements to pay the
interest and principal of the loans made to those
countries by the Uiiitecl States during the war.
Additionally, Russia has paid $3,000,000 in int ere st. The total runount thus far received frop*
debtor comi tries is $S30,000,000.

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Ramsag JfacDonald Defeated bg Forgem

GROPEa politics are even more crooked' ,
than American politics. The enemies of .
Stewart Pnrnell did not
to d,
stroy the Irish cause by publishing a supposed
letter from him apparently condoning mruder,
aliicl~was s u ~ s q u e n t l yproven to IM a forgery.
Blr. JfacDondd has been played a similar trick,
the British Foreign Office having pubKahed s
supposed appeal from the Russian, Zinovieir, '
ish omvCommunist
and nav. attempts to compt the B r s
letter is nndollbtedlT
a forge;y; but it nccamplished the mrk ip.
tendccl of defeating the Labor Party and putting
tile Tories baclc into

Greai Increase of Chain Stores

'ORXZ
in ''lo
grocery stores; now it has 5,000. In 1910
these chain stores sold ten percent of the groceries in New York city ;now they sell sixty percent.
Taking the
as a rrh01e7
it is calcdated
that twenty percent of all groceries are now sold
through chain stores, with chain drug stores
doing about the same proportion of business in
drags. At least onehalf of d l the notions now
p old in the country are sold in chain stores like
the lVoolworth, Gresge, Penny, Kress, and French Government Recognizes Russia
Rinney stores. In 1923 the Atlantic and PaciGo
SPITE the fact that the French people in
Tea Company sold groceries to the amonnt of
bygone ycnrs loaned to the Rnssiau Oov$302,888,000;and tlie SVoolr~orthstores sold noernment and Russian industries the vast sum
tions to the amount of $193,447,000.
of about 6.000.000.000 francs. the French Government 1135 p a n t e d full and'complete recogniClzurch Taboos Prayer Meeting
ESPATCHES from lvorcester, lass., state tion O F Soviet Rnssia. It is not like17 that the
returns On
that at dle autumnal meeting of tile v o r - French pcoplc nlili ever receive
their
Russiall
investments,
ceater Central Association of Congregational
Churches it ms the consensus of opinion of the French OfficersWretchedly Paid
clelegatea, that prayer meetings are a tliing of
the past, but that dancing is right and proper. T H E depreciation of the franc has made t h m
fina~icinlconclition of French army officers
T h y not make it unanimous by removiiig tlie
almost
intolerable. The present pay of Uarpews and erecting a siql that religion is a tliing
shals
goch,
Jof'fre, and Petain is $2,000 per
of the past.a;nd that the outfit has been t u n e d
yenr.
The
gencrrrls
receive $1,200 per year; the
into a dance hall? The steeples coulcl be used
captains
receive
about
$600;and the lieutenants
a\o
3
for thirst piirlors; tlle choir loEt 71-oulcl m 1$400
per
year.
good place for the ~ r c h e s t r athe
; preacher could
retain his title, m d still occnpy the pulpit, but Crows Cause the Deaih of an Eaqle
his work would bc that of a dance Ln1.1;er. Fine
R O B U L Y oi\.ing to some act of piracy
scheme! W l ~ ynot give it a trial? I t suggests
against one of their n d e r a flock of crows
a possible use f o r the so-called church builclings
in
France,
cstimatcd a t about 3,000, took up the
which, since they clropped the preaching of the
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pursuit of an eagle which measured more t11a.n

eight feet across its wings. The cron-s literally
forced the sai.render of the eagle. They chased
it into a French chateau, where the beepers
Idled it; whereupon the crows clisbandcd. This
illustrates well h o ~ vthe common people, each
with little strength ancl influence, can by banding together orerconle foes of great power. All
that is needed is the Lord to show them what
to do and how to do it! and the reforms for
which the hearts of men Fearn will come forthnith.

in the vicinity at nig1itfaD. Now: there is a modern automobile road to the door, and the crowds
who want to stay over night have gotten to'be too much of a good thing. As a consequenw
the monastery is being turned into a hotel; d
regular prices will be charged hereafter to those
who wish to stay under its hospitable roof.

Agitation in Vienna
I" NNA is agitated by a speech of Chancellor Seipel, n-ho mas formerly a priest, to
the effect that the time has come for enforcing
the law that all parents must send their children
S p a r ~ o wFlies 128 JIiZes an Hour
to the church's schools. At present in Austria
S ECROPE great interest is maintained in many parents maintain their right to have their
the fliglit of birds. Recently, a Belgian took a children educated in schools of their own sel*
sparrow from tlie eaves of his house, put a tag tion.
on it and shipped it 146 miIes away. From
y
the time the bird was released until it was back Mussolini Grunts Conceaaioru to m
in its nest was one hour and eight minutes. It
USSOLLTI'S cabinet has decided that th..
took four pigeons, \vhich were loosed at tile
salaries of Catholic bishops in Italy are to
same time, about fire minutes to decide what be doubled, while the income of parish priests b
they n-ould do; but the sparrow lit out straight also to be increased; and that hereafter theafor home without a second's hesitation.
logical staden ts mill not Ije called upon for milie
tary service nntil they have hished theis
Germany Seems Short on Courtesy
studies, a t the age of twenty-ffi
HE German Gorernme~~t
macle for the United
States Gorcrnment tile Zeppeiin ZR-3. I t , Horrible Condition in Hindu Risans
obtained permission from tlie French GovernDESPATCH to a London paper narrates
ment to fly across France from end to end, and
that in one meek recently in the Nabha J21il,
did so. On the same d q - that the ZR-3 crossed two persons died from snake bites, while a third
France, a French balloonist engazed in an inter- was bitten; and that a t the time of sending the
national balloon race \\-as forced to land in Ger- despatch his condition mas precarious. The remany. Tlie pilot 11-as cleprired of his liberty port states that there are so many snakes in the .
for two days, and at tlie end of that time his prison that most of the prisoners pass their
balloon n-as confiscated. Occurrences of tliis nights 11-ithout sleep. Ualarirr is raging in the
nature give Gernln~iya bad name.
same prison.

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Terrible Epidemic o f Suicides in Berlin

Five Thowand Slain by a nick
S ALL our readers know, China is engaged
O W hard are tile conditions of life in Berin civil var. On an occasion, recently,
lin at this time may I)e gatllered from the
fact thattl~rougllouttile :-ear 1924 thus far, an 5,000 Chinese troops were destroyed by a trick.
average of one hundred Berliners hare commit- They were persuaded to go out on the parade
ted suicide every montli. Iforeover, the birth grounds ;and while they were there the grounds
\\?ereblown up by their enemy, having been prerate Ijas declined scre~lty-ninepercent.
1
viously mined with that end in view.
The Hotel St. Bernard
generations the St. Ecrnnrcl Ilonastcry, Doctor Sun Yat Sen Wanta a Free fight
located in o~lcof' tlle difficult Alpi~lepasses,
R. Sun Yat Sen wants the other nations ad
~Ileworld to let China alone while she has
has clieerfullg estc~lclc(lfood and lodging, free
a
free-for-all
fight to a .finish. H e argues thrrt
oi' charge, to every pcrsou who liappcncd to be

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the United States of America, n~hiclifought and

won the war for independvncc and relief from
the old order of things, ought to be the last
caantry to interfere with the Chinese, who are
trying to do the same tliing. Among other
things, Di. Sun P a t Sen espressed his opinion
that the governments in Europe and America,
.not Being satisfied vith the results of the last
'.worldwar, are really desirous of having another. T h may be true.

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eve11 draczcd fro31 1 1 ~bed

r a child n-ho wao
sufierilig froin sluailpos. lIo\.c- events of this
Icind make one say from the heart, 'Thy Stingdom come," and make us long for the better day
to be inaugurated by earth's new King!

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Zionism's Report on Palestine blandate

organization made its first report

THEto Zionist
the League of Sations on October 23.

I t disclosestl~atthe Je~vishpopnIation of Palestine is now over 100,000, of 11-liicli number 38.000 linve entered the country since the war.
Within that t h e the land holdings of J e m in
Palestine hare increased from 100,000 acres to
1ST,500 acres. nncl the Jews of other countries
have inrested $27,000,000 in Palestine.

China Gets Bibles by the Billion

ITHLU t l ~ epast pear about 7,000,000 Bibles mere distributed in China, out of a
total output of about 835 millions distributed by
the British Foreign Bible Society. During that
time there mere no Bibles sent into R~zssia,the
Soviet Gorernment having forbidden the sen& Sir Herbert Samuel's Report on Pakatine
ing of Biblesinto that country.
?\' Sir IIerbert Samuel's report on Palestine
rendered to the League of Nations he made
Another Act of Cruelfy by the Turks
the statement that of the 40,000 Jews.TFko had
HE arrangement made by the Allies for r e entered Palestine mithin the last five years
mooing the Turks from Greece and the 8,000 had settled in the agricnltnral colonies,
Greeks from Turkey will probably haye good n-liile the remaining 32,000 are working in facresults some time, but a t present it is norking tories in the ton-ns. The figures shonr that nearlp
great hardships. On October 19. the Turks sucl- 3,600,000 trees and 1,000,000 vines have been
denlp began to arrest and imprison all Greeks planted in the Holy Land during the time of the
in Constantinople; ancl so thorouglily ancl so administration of Sir Herbert Samuel as Britmercilessly did they do their r o r i i that they ish High Commissioner.

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General Percin On War

(Translated from Ulr Sew Sork Staatr-Zcitung)

Katurel" (Satural Order), a mceliIZJly'Z'ordre

magazine published in Paris, General

Percin writes as follows:

"I was reared a s an ardent militarist, I mould
not say a nationalist, and entered tlie army in
1866. I was twice moundecl in the war of 1870,
and duririg the next forty years hated the
German and prepared with enthusiasm a war
of rcvcnge. Now, at the age of 77 years, I have
become an unconditional pacifist (promoter of
peace), a zea\ous internatio~lalist,and a strong
supporter of a German-French agreement.
"The war of 1914-1915has shown mc ~vlintan
erroneous belief it is to considcr war an incvitable evil and to look at it as the only metl~od

for settling international strife. I now see that

wars do not pay any more ; they do not secure
even peace, but breed nothing but immorality
and open tlie doors to political reaction. Victory is no longer the reward of bravery o r of
enthusiasm for a just cause, but only the partial
result of snperiority in technical resources, and
for the other part, the result of coercive conditions, so that tlic gnilty countq Iias just as much
prospect f?r victory a s the innocent one. War
is not only a destructive, barbaric and inhuman
mcthocl of settling international disputes, but
also n very foolish \<apand manner, which m a t
be replaced by n r ~ n l l ysensibIe and efficient
mcthocl."

ERRATUN
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In GOLDEX
AGESo. 134, col. 2. the word " n ~ ~ n ~ ~ i ~ should
~ n t e d "hiive bee11 "nssimilatedn.

Reports from Foreign Correspondents

FROM CANADA

is collected, if it is not paid a t the termination

jail term. No precedent can be found
in British jurisprudence f o r the imposing of
such a large fine ;but if i t is carried out, it will
form a splendid though stern one in the case of
other rich malefactors.
A significant feature of the activity of the
Roman Catholic Church, especially in Western
Canada., is the apparently new order of the
"Sisters of Service", as announced through the
columns of the Roman Catholic Register recently. Briefly, .as f a r as we can gather, this
order is composed of nuns who go out as school
t enchers, nearing no insignia nor the distinctive
garb of an order, but drawing salaries.from
the public funds of Jlanitoba whilst tied by
solemn oaths to do first of all the bidding of the
Roman hierarchy. They are commanded to
"protect and strengthen the faith in the outlying
districts, particularly where there a r e no resident priests; and to counteract by their presence and their work in the school and honie the
influence of aggressive and unscrnptdons p r o s
elytizers."
I t might be well to watch carefally this new
secret order, working under the protection of
the Xanitoba school laws to furtlier the work of
the Roman Church. The welfare of Canada
comes always secondary to the good Catholics,
71-110 must of necessity put first the welfare of
the 'T-Ioly ChUrW.
The Vancouver Stin gives some interesting
figures concerning the mental status of the race,
particularly the Canadian section of it. Seemingly, according to certain mental tests which
have beell applied to representative citizens, the
general mentality is much below what it s h o d
be, and the following suggesting is made:

BE O n t e o plebiscite on the retention of the of their

Ontario *emperance Act, or its discard in

favor of a form of go~ernment-controlledsale
of Liquor, has come and gone with the result
that prohibition, such as it is, remains on the
statute books. The vote was a decided, disappointment to many; and a co~lsicIerablequestion
remains in the minds of some a s to the legitimacy of the long lists of names \\-l~ichappeared
on the voters lists a t tlie last minute. I t is
&ought that many of there n-onld be disallowed
under complete investigation; but the majority
in favor of the retention of the act is sufficiently
large t o answer any agitation for a review of
the ballots, as none coulcl confidently e-qect that
such deletions as might be made could materially affect the issne. The interesting feature of the rote was that tlie cities and large
to1i-11~almost ~ i t h o u tesception voted "wet",
vhilst the rum1 districts ~ o t e d"dry". This
also c a u e s some hard feelings between the
farmer and the city man ~ v h oprates about
"rural rulership" and the "clespotism of the
farm rote". I t is espected that Premier E'ergueon \rill do ererythiug possil)le to comply \\-it11
the people's mandate, and more strictly enforce
the act now on the statute books.
Tlie I-Iome Caiili trial has a t last yielded some
sul~strrlitinl returns, wit11 the leading officials
founcl guilty and three-year sentences hanging
orer their heads. Canaclinn justice is tdcing its
rerctlge against several violators of the law
~iiiriligthe present scssio~ls. Tlie recent liangi l ~ gat 3To1itrcal of four men implicated in a
l ~ a n krol~twry,in wliich a bank employe mas
killed, nlily seme to keep ail-ay other foreign
crooks \vho look upon tlie b d i a~s legitimate
prey.
Tlie Iron. 'Pctcr Smith, foniicr treasurer of
bf the l'rovince oE Ontario, ~i-110 was found
guilty ~f c~oo!~I:(~
dealilig in Gor-ernmcnt Eoncl
issues. llt~sj ~ z (1ra1i-n
t
a tliree-year sentence, and
with his copartner LEnlllius Jamis, head of one
of the olclc~tant1 most rcspectccl bond l~ouses
in Toronta, ~vllo drew a six nlontlls' sentence,
also must q3y h fine of $GOU,000 nl~ich,if collected,,~vill be .sometl~ingin the nature of restitution of tlie loot.' Tlic sentence also c d l s for
tho retention in jail of Loth mcri until this fine

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"It is no more rcnsonable to expect the world's business to prosper with im earthfd of human scrubs, thna
for the cattle business to prosper with bovine scrubs,
'Improve the strain' is the first law of the cattle industry, the plvlt industry) and the human industry,
alikc.. .. It is ping to take twenty generations of applied eugc~licsto stcm the rapid reproduction of inferiors and incrc~setile reproduction of superior st&"

1C

Then, when a few superior specimens are

available, they will 'Je drafted as cannon fodder
in anotl~erwar, if the mar makers have their

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QOWEN AGE
may; and the race vill bc asked to reproduce
itself from the lcmbs, leftovers, mdmed, and
k - diseased.
..F- . The mental test should start and finisll \\-itll
&- our so-called patriots and imitation stateanrn
5i
sweu UP and 'loat
lm??erinl
.:5?-;

ha

Broonrr, X. Xi

up 111 his ciinlr. Then the 1:~oler hzd passed, he fl11ng

llack his head arcl. clttlnr on rile edge of hi. urt, ~ ~ T U S S
hls legs 5traight beidre hun rithout flexing the Encca.
liept
a E ~ ~ \ - ~ ~ ~a
One
mail Lestde hlm tried to quiet by placing his k d on
"At the cooa~usionof his

Dr. price

grin m e

their 'patuses
to doc'ments
dexrlption of the lieding force. Eridentll; u i d he,
and the some limd of spiritual force flared through the bod?.
whkh commit (hlada to
other propositions involving possible force of cl1~dR, had
of it as a pricuy feeling.
often
arms.
- feel its presence at once.' said he, 'n-lien I take hold

Demonism in Bealina
- rllission
L TO has recently received a visit from
the notorious Dr. Price Healing Xission.
The Daily Star reports the scenes graphically.
Kothing aclclitional is needed to establish tlie
fact of spiritism, demon possession, than tlie
evidence of an eye witness. We quote :

;=

they

TORo"

A parairtic limb is cold. Then the,

*pir~tualPOI\-erflov.-s in it at once becomes rm. I
11il-e knoGn a n-it1;ered limb in rhich the shin hod been
c l i n ~ i n gto become immedintell plump Kith dcah'. *
[Modern ~piritistdemonstration of "edoplamic phenomena" mar n-ell espIain this.]
of a sufferer.

A perusal of the boob, "Can the Living Talk

with tlie Dead ?" m i l l thorongl~lyelucidate theseeming miracles, and present
much additional
evidence.

'The s t a p of Jlasaev Hall lgst evening again nitn d p o i p a n t and pathetic xenes of faith healing.
01-er a score of romen together e t h one man were Pastor Sees the Handwriting
swept from their feet by the inrush of some force

z
:
A

TTERESTISG item comes from thet

apparently psychic.
coast, as headlined by the ~innipeg'
"There aere no means of estimating whether there r;-ee Press :
were or were not cures. It nas 'obvious, ho\rever, that
the evangelist's ferveut challenge to disease to depart
"Because of his comiction that there is no Scriptural
nttsed severe nemous nh-o$ks and sharp physical re- bnsis for the formation of modem religious denomiua-actions. The Qemors m d hitchings, the al- tions, Rev. W. Arnold Bennett today resigned his pas-'
no st epileptic moms and groans of those sub- toratc of the Tllird Baptist church here, and summarilr
jected to the process of healing, their livid or n-aslike Ieft the denominaticn.
f catureo, their facial contort ions, were painf ullp ant1
"After quoting man? paslages of Scripture in m p
phyaicdly real. Zmh patient seemingly recei~edwhat. port of llis po.sitlont Rer. Jfr. Bennett said: Therea sur,..eon would call a trauma. a wounding or rending fore in making application of all the foregoing Scrip
of physical or mental tissue. he; rrm rr a w s t i o r l tural rerelations. ~ o h pastor,
r
as an ord;rinul minister
of the abnormal as much as the supernatural. Had the ol the Eaptist (?enomination, finds himae!? in an nuIame thrown away their crutches and walked, had ths scriptilral position and party to an unholy alliance,
blind opened thcir eyes and claimed vision, the e ~ c n i n g (lispleasing to God. It. is an alliance of aa ncclein
- ~vouldhave been as joyful as a resurrection. With its
nature; for it harbors under its broad name of 'Baptist'
results in tearful balance it seems as morbid as a the most dangerous spcciea of upto-date skepticism,
morpe.
commonly known aj moclerni,m.'
"After his platform clinic the evangelist descended to
"Furthermorc, Dr. Bennett charged that churches,
the maig floor of the hail, and anointed and laid hands on
are
gorerned by 'shameful intriptea of denominat.ionrl,
the auffekrs in the opera chairs. Again there lvos an immachinery
and church politics', and that bossism is in
mediate and obvious physical seinire. Their heads fell
charge of modern religious institutions.
with a jerk against the back of thcir chairs. Fcntrlrcs be"ltcr. Jk.Eennctt c m e to Portland two ?rears ago
c:lme crisped, fists clencliecl. and muscles crampcd. For
from
1-ancouver, T;. C., where for f ~ u years
r
his cutd
~
w
They
tlio most p q t t k y closed their eycs tightly.
their breath in bharp gasps. 'l'heir lips quivered as spoken sennons attracted \ride attention. H e has been
i t in prayer Their ~vholcbring seemed to be drawn a me~nberof the Baptist ministry for ten j-ears."
inward in some intcnse affirmatiou of faith.
There are a p p r e n t l p still some honest shep"One blind man prrssed both hands tightly over his
herds 11-110 recognize the ecclesiastical "machine
eyes and seemed violently agitated Ip somc s11prrhuman
t
Ixfore the
effort of will. Residr! him -at a man who uas :2id to politics", and \vho c1t.si1.c. tn g ~ free
bc pard)-tic. \\'ken the hcalec touchcd him, hc crumpletl great cl.ae11 co~lle.;.
t.'

Ca.11ada are owned by the banks and the mortgage comGovernment Immigration a Joke
panles. The writer personally believes this to be ri VCV
EOWA R. BARRITII,
formerly Secretary of the conservative estimate. On most of these farms the iorUnited Farm nTomen of Alberta, is respon- mer owner is now tr tenant. Every cent he can scrap
sible for t h e foIlon-ing. S o wonder the farmer together goes to pay interest, and in spite of his. best

quits :

"A skilled fanner \vlio'is a1.o a shre~vdbusiness man

set oat ~ r i t l l t h eaitl of his banlier to asccrtail what his
profit3 were. \Vheat hnd !-ielded -13 busllcls to the acre,
oats ;5, barley 53. Hc liar1 user1 a tractor, a i d emplo~eclno help eycept the Iery mininium a t harvest.
Ilk quarter section adjoined the to\l,n site, which reduced the handling charges to the lcaat possible. After
~tiakillgsuch deiIu~.tioi~s
as $40 per lilolltli for his own
labor, current interest on his inve<tment, depreciation,
etc., he found he n-as $250 out of pocket. Did he put
in a big crop in the spring of 1924? Bless you, no,
indeed ! He got an agency for Ford cars, and a fellow
with no land of his own is famling that quarter section.
"It took t r o bushels of wheat to buy in the spring of
1924 n-hat one I~u..hel I~ouglitin 1913. And no ona
claimed in 1913 that farniers ~vercin any danger of
degenerating through prsnperity. Cattle are actudlg
Lelom the 1913 figuiu..
"-1 speaker in the ITouse of Commons stated thi3
year that tlie mortgage iintlcbtedness of :Ilberta i3 estimated a t $1r)O.r)00.000. I n the Houze of Commons it
a s rtsted t h a t ; c - ~ c . I I ~perccrlt
Jof tllc farnis in \\-?-tern

efforts interest is being compounded. IV'lx~tis to be

the outcome ? I reply i n the Innpage of Jlr. Taft when
confronted with a similar problem : 'God knows.'
"A letter from a provincial member the other day
stated tliat fifty percent of the farmers in his home
diztrict, which commonly is considered an average one,
11-illhave to go out this fall and get work in order to
keep the wolf from the door. h k s as if prosperity
nere further from the corner than the bleased optimktr,
nould have us believe. Under such cirmmhncee any
Government Immi,mtion P o l i q seems a diabolicd
joke."

Es-President Taft's ansver is l i t a d p ap- plicable. God does kzlom, and -He knows the
anslr-er to all the rest of the world's problems as
~I-ell. I n due time, after the h m a t of trouble,
tlieworld will reap its blessings. The mselstrorn
of disaster is wrecking the various barques of
state and dragging them. d o n . Civilization is
doomed; but the kingdom of heaven, of rightcousness and peace, is a t the door.

Tale of a Focl
('?ran-late4

in~ttr the S a w

upon a time they r e n t ont to war v i t h

O S ~ ~ g n n: 1 1sd with many rifles, as tlie eustom was. ,A fool stood there and asked ~ v h a t
kincl of business that was. Tlicy said: "Tliose
go to n-ar." The fool said: "TJlint do they do
in \\-or!" Thcay ~aicl:"Tlicy bun1 villages and
conquer cities and spoil wine and grain and Iiill

Sork r . ratr-Zritung)

one another." The fool said: ' m ~ a tis that

for !" They said : "So as to make peace." Then
spoke tlie fool: "It would be better if they would
nia1;c pcacc before, so that such damage would
be avoicled. If it went my way, I mould make
peace before the dnmnge was done and not
nftci~rards. Therefore 1 am miser than yon.
lords.)'

Something Doing in Purcell

ing one bank robber. Tlie latter rascal put on .the
priest's
white shirt, put liis collar on bncl,?rd, climbed
I.;cc1p
Into
the
pr~cst's black vcst. and then declared h W .
\\it11 tllc news ut' tllc J a y ill 11isp a r t s writes us
f.lthcr
of
t h house. Jlcmtime, the priest poundcd onb
2s i-"llo\l-s:
*
tllc
door
and
ofTcrer1 $100 of money, that had pmhabl~,
"l'liis is to-tet you know how ~ r carc grtting along
Ixcn
carnccl
by
some p a r servant girl, if they mdd
in tlicse part?. [l'iic nunzgpr of onr inctitution in thls
thc
next morning they let bim O U ~8 0
So
lct
liim
out.
city got full OE tlic s p ~ r ~ tovcrturn~d
s,
his car, and was
pnt into 5311on the r11al.g~
ol sprctling ar~tltlrr~nl~cnnccs. paid his f nc, left town, and hns not been heard td ic,
~ I I C S C parts slnce."
Tlierc \vcl.c about a d u ~ c ~pr.iw111-1,s
n
111 tlic j ; ~ ~ i~lcludl,
. . . -

of our ~ u b c c r i t e r sin Pul*ccll. Okl:~homn,

0SE
tliinkin;. that we 11-ouldlil.;~to
in toucll

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What Kind of Receiving Set Shall I Buy?

ag X.8.figer

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L~CE
the advent of radio broadcasting, the .great amount of electrical energy must be colradio public hare become interested in the lected by the antenna before rectification can
.many types of radio receiving sets 011 tlie mar- take place and enough energy passed on to the
- ket; and often they are heard to sap: '?l%ich phones for reception. Some cq-stal sets hare
.- is the best receiving set to buy?" This question been linon-n to "pick up" broadcasting stations
'can not be answered directly, because there are more than 500 i~iilesdistant. Thnt, howerer,
.too many factors involved. It might just as mas freak reception o r mas accoiuplished under
: well be asked: '?That kind of automobile shall ideal conditions. The probable consistent and
. I buyi" or 'Whicll is the best piano!"
The Mnd ~Iependable range is about t-xent?-five miles.
to buy depends primarily upon the results esCrystal sets, therefore, have a Ion- first cost,
pected and upon the financial capabilities of the are inexpensive to operate, and produce espurchaser.
cellent quality in reception; but their great disIt
is the purpose of this article to ,it-e n gen- adrantage is in tlieir short range zncl in the
*
eral classification of tile ~ a r i o u stypes of sets clifiiculty of holding a sensitive spot on the deon the marlict today and to summarize briefly tector. Because of these disadmntages, the
the advantages, disadvantages, and probabilities large majority of sets in use today colllprise one
' or illore of the renlaining four t:-pes.
of each.
In spite
of
tlieir
disadvaiita~cs,
c
r
p
t
a
l
s
nre
again
in-'
The various lznds' obtainable today can Be
.
crensiug
in
popularity,
largely
becanse
of
the
ckssSed into five general types ; (1) crystal,
(2) regenerative, (3) reflex, (4) neutrod3-ne and increase in tho number of super-pon-er broad(3) super-heterodynes. There are many mod- casting statioils and because of their particular
ifications of each of these general tj-pes, some ad\-antngcs in certain circuits; for instance, the
sets combining the qualities of tn-o or more. refles, typc 3.
In all the remnining types of receiring sets,
In general these five t ~ ~ will
e s include all revacuum
tubes are used in one r a p o r other,
ceiv~ngsets on the market worthy of consideraeither
for
clctcction or for amplification. The
'
tion.
type
of receiter consists of n tuning
simplest
The crystal set is the simplest and cheapest
a.
vacuum
tulle detector, and tn-o batteries,
unit,
receiver that can be obtained. I t consists of
one
for
the
low
~ o l t a g efil~.mcntcircuit and tilo
nothing more than a tuning coil and a crystal
o
t
l
~
e
r
for
the
Iiig11
~ o l t n g eplnte circuit. The
. detector in connection with an antenna and
soiile means 11-herebqr the
set
must
also
contain
headphones. This mas the first type used by
l~nttery
potential
can
be
adjnsted and controlled.
conullercial companies for many years, and is
This
t!l)e
lias
aerernl
modifications
depending
used yet by some. These sets are d e d crystal
upon
tlie
kind
of
circnit
uscd.
I
t
is
sometimes
- sets because the kind ancl quality of crystal
used is all important in this type. It is tlie Iinown as the single circ~tit,txo circuit, three
a
crystal which produces the rectification or cle- circuit, or a s thc Arnlstrong regeneratire cirtection of the electrical oscillations, and which cuit. It is @\-en tlic latter name bemuse Major
rnalces it possible to hear tlie radio waves. Of Amstrong is gcnernliy giren tlie credit of haythe various kinds of crystals that can be uscd ing becn the in\-elitor of the regenerative prinfor this purpose, such ns.carborundu, moIyb- ciple used in this t~-pcof circuit.
denite, mhganese dioxide, and galena (iron
A regenerative receiver is one in n.hich a part
pyrites>, galena is more widely used than cmy of the output energy is fed back into tile input
t
of the others.
circuit to reinrorce the incoming oscillations
-r 4
KO batteries are necessaly with most types and thus to' illcrcase the volume of receired
of circuits n&ng%rystals; hence these sets are signal. Tho vacuum tube itself, \\-\-henused a s
tq
inexpensive ti3 operate. The quality of recep- a straight detector, is far more sensitive than a
tion '~vhenused on radiophones is the best, in crystal detector. Vllen the principle of feedfact better than many rcceiring sets using back or regeneration is used with it, it-becomes ,
,
vacuum tube detectors. But tliep suffer the nianv timr$ n ~ o l rcnsitive
.~~
and the amount of
J
great disadvanL~gcof short range, bccausc a increas~bi 11 : i t ( z1!#:1s: l - v ~ ~ is
, c truly
t i ~ \I-onder-

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ful. The.an1plification possible is tremendous. an inverse order from that of radio frequenq
-At first thought this n-ould seem like getting amplification. That is, consider a set having
sot!letIling for nothing; but no, the increase in four tubes, one, two, three, and four the deenergy comes from the local batteries. The tector. Radio frequency amplification is acmcuurn tube merely acts as a trigger to control complished by passing through the tubes i n the .
the large resemoir of electrical eaergy con- order, one, two, three, and detector. The outtained in the local batteries.
put of the detector is then passed through the
Because of its sensiti~eness,this type of re-, same set of tubes in an inverse order; three,
&
ccirer has the a d ~ a n t a g eof reaching out to *o? and one. Thus reception is awom~fislled
placing the phones in the output of the first
great distances. I t s disadvantages are in its
t
@ greater first cost, greater operating expense tube. Tile advantage of tllis a r r a n ~ n is
for tnbe and battery replacements, and in that that all the tubes are rorked at a more nnifolm
tile quality of reception is not equal to that of average intensity, which simply means less dign crystal. The latter disadvantage has been tortion or better quality.
By using tubes in a double capacity, such as
somewhat overcome in one form of the next,
is done in the reflex sets, it is possible to obtain
tkt: reflex type of receiver.
e l ~eqnivalent results from three
I n reflex receivers, detection can be accom- a ~ ~ r o s i m a tthe
pliphed either bp a vacuum tube or by a crystal. as is ordinarily accomplished by the me of five,
11-hen a crystal is used, the quality of recep"Neutrodyne" is a trade name applied to the
tioii inherent in a simple crystal set is main- fonrth type of receiving set. The fundamental
tailled at the same time that great sensitiveness principle upon mhich this type of set operates .
is obtained by the use of racutun tubes as am- \\-as discovered by Prof,Hazeltine. Neatrodyne
itself simply means "neutralized local oscillaplifiers.
Reflex receirers get their name from the fact tions". This is a type of receiving set that uses
that the tnbe o r tnbes nsed in them are made to several stages of radio frequency ampHcation
do double duty; that is, they first amplify the ahead of tlie detector, and then one o r more
feeble high frequency currents from tlie an- stages of audio frequency amplification after
teann, detect tlicm, and tlien the output of tlie the detector. Ordinarily such receiving sets
detector is fed back tilrougli the preceding tubes 1%-ouldnot operate properly because of the tennliich are used the second t h e to amplify the clency of such n set to oscillate and thua introlow frequency audio currents. Tlie use of duce all sorts of local noises. I n the neutrovacuum tubes thns to amplify both the high dyne, certain electrical constants which prodnco
radio frequencies and tlie low audio frequencies tlic oscillations a r e carefully bdanced out or
results in great economy in tlie nuluber of tubes neutralized by the use of small variable connecessary to secure a certain amonnt of volume, densers between the radio frequency tnbes. The
:
also in the amount of battery energy necessary quality of the reception is of the best. At the
-.
t o secure that volume. A refles receiver using same time the selectivity, sensitivity, and vololily one tube lias been !;no\\-n to produce sig- nme of reception are all that might be expected
-.5
nalv of loud speaker intensity from clistant from an ideal set. Its main disadvantage is - - ..-::
tations. Tlle~rmain disaclranttlge is in the the first cost and operating expense. It is
..
.-critical djustlnent of tlie circuitJs electrical probably the best medium-priced receiver on
constants necessary for satisfactory reception. the market today.
2.
Tlie last, the super-heterodyne, is the Rolls
They are prone to n-liistle and to produce various noises which arc not i11Iicrcnt in other Roycc of raciio reception. It undoubtedly isthe.
-.$
types. For that reason it is not uclvisable for liigl~esttype of rcceiain? set that has been de- - --nmateurs to 'try to build tl~eirown reflex sets. vcloped to the present t~me. All that might I>o
.-., .When propeily acljustcd, a factory-made refles cspcctcd in distance, sensitivity, selectivity, and
set mill give excellent results.
voltune arc fonnd in this type of instrument.
.I
, .
,
Tliere are sereral modifict1tions of reflex re- Siiper-l~cteroclynesare made to nsc s i ~ eight,
ceivers, one of n-hich is lino\vn as the Grimes ten, or even twelve tubes. The expense for u p - ;.<*-*
:&-Inverse D~ipl#.s,o r s ~ n ~ p al ys tlic Grimes c ~ r - 1;ccp is tlicrefore more than for most other
cuit. I n it relluion is made to take place in types. Its great sensitiveness isduc to thefpet - - 1.
.&

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GOLDEN AGE

~h.

that radio frequency amplification is accomplished by changing the incoming radio frei
- quency oscillations to another and different frequency, such that the type of amplifying transformers used can be operated a t their highest
:point of efficiency.
=
How thia is accomplished is an interesting
- scientific principle. Consider txo tnning forks
?.: having slightly different 'rates of vibration. If
both f o r b are made to vibrate simultaneouslp,'
there mill be emitted three notes; one from fork
- . '& another from fork B, and the third a combination of A and B, n-Kc11 has a frequency equal
to the difference b e b e e n A and B. By changing the vibrating rate of either A or B, t h ~ s
third note can be made to have any frecjuency
'desired.
That is the super-heterodpe principle. I n a
radio receiving set, the same result is nccomplished electrically by having a source of local
.%

oscillations maJe to combine properly with the

incoming oscillations. The combination of the
two frequcilcies produced a third frequency,
\~-l-hicIl
is then passed through several tubes and
amplified. In a super-heterodpe that is properly assembled and adjusted, tlie quality of
reception is of the best.
Such are tlie types of receiving sets dereloped
to the present time. K h a t the future rill bring
forth awaits to be seen. Surely all radio apparatus of the future \\-ill be f a r more efficient
than tllc bcst in use now. 7\?1cn \sc realize tliat
the Scriptures clearly indicate that it is the
Lord 11-110is opening up the flood-gates of howledge and inrention, ailcl that these modern randers are not tlie result of man's superior ability,
tlicn it can rcasonal~lpbe expected that the fature will n-itncss mnnr more n-onderful i n ~ *
tions to bless manlcind.

A Good Receiving Antenna

BY X O COOE
~
A h ? articles have appeared in ~ a r i o n s radio frequencp, n-hich is accum~datedon onr
books aud magazilles on the construction antenna, reall? is. But if we stop and think,
reception; but x l ~ e nthe me perceive that if this raclio frequency will
of' ;m antenna for r a d i ~
average zuan comes to putting up his o\m an- t r x e l fromoa relllote broadcasting station and .
tenna he, a s a rule, forgets all that he has read incluce a current in our antenna, it mill d s o hop
o r should have read on the subject, and forth- off our ante~ulato another object which may be
mith climbs to the roof in a hurry, tidies one close to our \\-ire, mld pass into tlle ground; for
general survey of the situation and decides on these freq~zencicsseek the easiest path to the
the easiest way to get it dohe quickly. I-Ie ground.
TI\-o things can be learned from the above:
then rushes do\m stairs and 11001i~up l ~ i sset;
and in his enthusiasm he feels satisfied until (I) That all surrounding objects are absorpsome few weeks have passed; and then he be- tires oP energy to our antenna system, theregins to vonder why his radio set does not work fore sliould be kept as f a r an-ap as possible;
better than it does. The oft-repeated old adaze (2) t11at c? gooc1 clirect ground is essential. So
is still true, here as elsewilere, that a chain is then, the ideal allteilna should be hzmg from hi-o
no stronger than its weakest link. 9 radio re- slq- hooks, in a clear space, and a wire dropped
directly down to the radio set. Of course this
ceivingsgt is no better tllan its antenna.
is
not always possibIe, but w-e do not have to
We use the word antenna instead of the make
our antenna system so poorly as some
commonly used word aerial because, as a rulc, make tlsirs.
the word antenna applies to both thc lcad-in
We do not i~ceclto put tlie insulators two
\sire and tile cross section or liorizontal ~vire; inches a~vayfrolo an iron pipe or a brick wall,
for both o.,these should be made \veil. Tllere but for a very small price we can buy better
is a right may to construct an antenna, as es- insulators tllnn 3 cleat insulator. '.17e do not
perience has demonstrated, and it will repay hare to run our lead-in \\ire orell the e d g of
the constructor for his care and trouble to iu- a tin roof or clou-n the side of a brick building
~ t a Uit properly.
\\-it11 tllc wire (cvcn iP it is rubber covered),'
Few of us appreciate what this tlii~izcalled t011ckiii~bthe brick.

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One wire of the above dimensions is snficient,
to this
ST one I ; ~ ~ ~tllat
, ~ -copper
~
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met;l to corrode. This corrosion and the ac- one only increases atmospheric distwbances
does not illcrease the siSqlalstren@ll a t
clunulotion of dust and soot
an antenna lj-\-irc?
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are a clirect resistallce pt,tll to tlleSe

fiecluencies Tvhich \,-e are tryiI1;. to
to our
rccciring sets.
It lias long been k n o ~ mthat t1les.e radio frec~ueilciestravel or exist on tile surface of tile
\\.ire. S o then it is easily seen that if this coating of corrosion is a collcluctor and ~ e at high
is a condnctor
resistance, alld the copper
and n lorn resistance, there a r e t v o paths
formed f b r our radio frequency to travel over;
and a s this has a tendency to trarei on the surface it nill t a l ~ ethe high resistance path; and
therefore n e shall get a snaller proportion of
current than if o u r ~ r i r ewere clecan and new.
Some people are inclined not to believe this
fact; but nevertheless it is quite easy to avoid
this corrosion, and in so doing to prove its
worth. Use only solid copper-enameled mire.
Size number 12 is preferable, and size 14 is next
best. h y smaller wire will raise the resistance
of the antenna very much. Solid wire is recomnlcnded because the little groores formed
by the stranded wire make all ideal bed for the
accumulation of dirt and soot. Therefore by
the use of solid wire this is avoided. TlThen
enameled \\-ire is used, we find that our antenna
is a s good a t the end of a year as lien it was
Srst put up.
The length for the antenna wire. to be nsed
wit11 the present-day receivilig sets should be
sonle\vllat longer that that uscd with the olrl
type single circuit sets. A good length is one
hundred and fifty feet, with from thirty to forty
feet of lencl-in wire. Especially in the country
snl~urhnnlocnlities is this rlcsiral~le. It ma1;es
.very litllc tlilrcrcncc ul1ic11way the wire rum,
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Some seem more interested in making the antenna high than they d~ in reducing the losse$.
The antenna should be thirty to fifty feet off
from
grolmd. mien it is increased ve*
height, not much if anything
llllxh above
is gained. It is better to have an antenna fifty
feet high without anything under it, than it i j
to have it ten o r fifteen feet above the roof of
ten-stOrybnilding*
It is very
to keep the ends
the
antenna
the suPPorts- The best
to do this is to f a t e n a rope to the poles o r
and
it Oat
five Or
feet and
place it i n a good Pyrax glass insulator. Then
the solid copper enameled wire from
that. Have the same length of rope and the
fame arm@ment at the other

Lea*-in
F THE mire is located on a roof,-and the d m

Iso runs
over the roof;liave the rope long enough
that the lead-in wire w
ill drop directly from
the horizontal wire to the Tvindolv where i t
lhnters the home. Remember to keep it rrs far
away from the building as possible. Always
operate the set near the window nvfiere the leadin \\ rrc enters the house.
Tlie ground wire should be rather large and
rul~l~cr-covered.I t is best lluve this wire as
short ns ])osa~ble. A cold-water pipe is ided
f c r a ground; it is Iiard to malccr one better.
The paint from the pipe should be scraped off,
and a ground clamp sliould be nsed with the
ground wire fastened to it. The next best
gronnds ore named in order: Gas pipe, steam
pipc, pump in a well o r a cistern. The poorest,
of all is a pipe or a rod drit-cn into the ,"pound.

What henvenly host Is t h i s

IVirh son=. so full of bliss?
1 multitude iron] realms a b o ~ e
6 ~ 1 t.strains
h
s o full of Ilcnveuly lore:
:Good ticlings of ;rent joy !"

"For mnn mas lost, undone:

Iu pity came Cod's Son !"
So sittt; tho trriiliunt. shinlng host
U'itli praise to Il11n n-110loved us mostThe t1dlnb.s of s e n t joy.

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"f:lory to God on high !

For ~ l t h o k g hm:ln m u s t die,
'There's pmcc on eurtti, g ~ ~ ordi l l to all
Earth's rnyri:~tlIiosts, t x ~ t l tgrent nud s ~ u n l l ;
U l c t t i d i q r of great joy !

ransom hnth lh?en fonnrl

Far them in clettth-throes boand:
Tl~c!Lntnb oP God will now redecm
Bran from his lost state's low esteem,So sang the angel throng.

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c y J . Bogn,+d

0 TEE average person the mention of 1101- The people l u r e received this custom from pre-

land brings to mind pictures of windmills vious gencmtions, and do not seem to question
and dykes; of people in quaint costuuucs- rood- the propriety of such a situation. To them i t
en shoes, wide pants, white turbans, 71-ide col- seems aln-ays to have been so, and nill al.rra3.s
lars, e t a ; and of herds of black and ~ v l ~ i t econtinue to be the custom.
striped cattle- The tourist passing througll
F o r the encouragement of those r h o lore
:Holland notes the large tulip fields, visits the i-i~hteousness,tlie Lord has foretold through
great dairies and other points of interest, smiles H& prophets tl1ht soell conditions
not preat the dog-drawn ~ l r t s ,perhaps buys sonle rail c l u r i ~ ~the
g rigl~teousreign of ?rfcssiah. Isaflowers from a prettily dressed maid, and ,foes iall ((33 :21,22)
: "They shall build houses,
on his map with generally pleasant inlpresslons and inhabit them ; and they slid p l m t vineof his visit to the land of the sleeping Dutchman. j-ards, and eat tile f rrct of them. They shall
But there is a sterner side to the picture, not not build, aiid another inhabit; they shall not
so apparent to the casual observer. I t is tlie plant, and anotllcr eat: for a s the clays of a tree
severe struggle f o r existence on the part of the a r e tlie days of my people, and mine elect shall
majority of the people. As in otker European long enjoy the n-ork of their hands." Another
countries, two or three percent of the people prophet declares: "They shall sit e r e r p man
own most of the property, and those 11-110 do under his vine and under his fig tree; and none
the work must pay royalty of some kind f o r the shall make tllem afraid: f o r the month of the
privilege of earning a living.
Lord of hosts liath spoken it." (Xicah 4:4)
s Ciblc ~1101~s
that under Jlessioil's kingFarming and dairying are tile principal indos- T l ~ n the
tries. The land is owned by a n liereclitary aris- dom, near a t hand, there will be no more gtceclp
tocracy, and those who till the soil a r e obliged to landlords o r oppressors liring from the toil of
pay a large rental for tlie use of the land. About others.
forty dollars a n acre is the usual price per year.
I n tlie year 1900 my father died, and six years
The farmer in ttirn takes it out of his hired help, later my mother died. L \\-as then tvelre years
and imposes hard conditions on tliose n-orking of age ; and being left alone in the v o r l d I n-as
f o r him, The wages f o r farm laborers are very plnccd n-ith a f a m c r to earn m p lil-ing. I had
small, a n d the laborers nlust work long llours. to gct up a t four o'clock in tlie qorning, slip
Tliere a r e large amounts of food to sell, but into mp \\-ootlcn elioes, and go out to nlilk tlia
often those who do the work can not take e i l o u ~ h cows. After that I was kept busy nt otlier ~ o r k
t o satisfy their own l i u ~ g e r .
until late a t night. The food also n o s rery
F o r e dollars nould go a long way tolrards poor, and I rarely hod enough to satisfy m y
buying a n acre of lalld in b e r i m n farming l~onger. There were pictures of fruit and of f a t
districts, and would provide rental for from five bulls and coil-s, etc., hanging on the n-all~,but
to twenty years on most f a r m land. J u s t 1101~ seldom nn~tliil~;.of that kind on the table, at
the original owners cmle into possession of the least not when I lvas around.
land and what right their descendants have to
collect large revenues from those who do the HOW
the Dutch Erorsfiip
work is not quite clear; presumably i t is 3 n d l t
HE ~
~ people
t a r~e Tery
l
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and
similar to,that of tbe divine ( 7 ) right of kings
nearly e ~ e r y o i ~belongs
e
to a church of
t o rule.
seine 1;ind. ~1person not belonging to some reAbout fourteen to sisteen hours is the usual ligious body is looked clown upon, and collsidered
worlc day f o r the farmer and his help. Tile undesirable in the conununity. Tlie usual Sunwomen and ithe young clddren also do heavy day senicos a r e from nine o'clock in tlie mornwork, and f o r Io'ng hours. Land i s seldom o r ing until eleven-thirty, and then again i n the
never sold i s Holland. Those who have idler- afternoon, from two-thirty until five.
itcd i t keep possession of it, and Pass it on to
The Catliolics go tlie Protestants one better
their children. Tlie tenants stay in one place for attendance a t religious service; for in addifrom one generation to another; the son in- tion to tlic morning and altcnioon sciTices they
heriting from tho fatlier bhe right to leasc. attcnd Jfass at livc o'clock in thc morning.

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GOLDEN AGE

The collection is taken in the middle of the

morning senice. The church ofiiicials do not
Pass a plate around, but haye a yebet baa on
the end of a fishing pole, with which they are
able to reach the remotest corners; and they
Cmtle around not OllCe but three tiinq in succession- The c o n ~ e g a t i o nalso Pay a certain sun1
for the seats.
There is no heat in the churches during the
vinter; and the men sit nith their overcoats on,
and their hands in their poclcets. The woman
bring njth tliem a foot warlller or t to of", aS
it is called; i t is a little wooden box containing
a stone pot with lighter1 charcoal in it. If they
do not bring one, they can get one from the
janitor, which of course must be paid for.
Then the preacher entertains them with
stories of hearen-what a lorely place it is, and
I l o ~ t- h y may enjoy tkemselres watching poor
sinners squirming in the
of fire" klon-.
The lack of heat in the churches makes a sermon
on hell-fire seem not undesirable occasionally;
for i t is at least talliing about something mrm.
Sometimes in some districts one sees the
preachers still wearing the dress of mediaeval
times : l;nickerbockers, buckle shoes, long-tiled
coat and shovel hat; and one feels that notvithstanding their serious faces they ~ ~ o u lbe
c l more
appropriate in a comic opera.
1 was given three cents each Snnday to put
illto the collection bag (one for each time
around) ; but I often bought candy v i t h them,
ant1 put in flat stones instead.
After a year of service with tlle first farmer
I was placed with another; and here I had to
get np at three-thirty, instead, of a t four o'clock
a s at tho other place. This man said tliat lie
\\-its going to trcnt memrll. B e nsecl to give me
t11-o big black cigars on Sunday morning and ten
cents a ~veel;. But the food ~ ~ ~ a s ' w o than
r s e in
the f o ~ , place.
r
I t n-as here I learned to eat ram eggs, to which
I llclpcd mrself at the cl~irkcnhouse, when the
farmer 11-cs not tlicrs. I also nscd to steal tlie
bread inteyclcd for tlie do;. It a n s linrd on
thc dog, ButJ x i s hungry, and the erol~itionists
Say tllat ~ c l ~ - p l C ~ c L ' ~is
n t ithe
~ n first ILlw of:
na turc.
I n South :ifi-ica the Dntcll arc considered tlic
most cfficicnt s1nvcdrirt.r~ of any nationality.
This is duc no doubt to their l~omctraining and
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national c;laract~:>tics fitting them for sat& vocations.

I n the c h o r d they 11;
.lass for young b o p '
0, Tuesday night to instyL;t fiem in &e creed .
and the c a t e ~ x s m . 1 attended there; and one
evening when I h a d asked aquestion on theBible, '
tlie greaclier treated me very roughly and told ,
me that I mas not wanted there. After that,
I quit going to church on Sundays, and played .
billiards instead. I mas soon listed in the corn- i
try as being "no good".
1s it any
that m d e r such -ta&
I llad no faith in religions d t i t u t i o m and ,
believed nothing at
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Inmost fnmifies the Bible is rpad dter
meal, although little o r nothing of it is under- {
stood. The people cm scarcay m
r th.
simplest question on Bible doctrine. How m d
better it noold be if they w o d d a-ly thdr
llearts and minds to learn the h e m&g
&
God's w o r d and be ready to obep it in deedmd
in s p i ~ t l
The Lord through
*mphet fi&h(29:
11-14) says: "The vision of all is become unto
yon as the words of a book that is sealed, which
men deliver 'nnto one fiat is learned, saping,
Read this, I pray thee: and he s a i ~I, m o t ;
for it is sealed: and &e book is delivered unto
one that is not learned, saping, &ad this, I ,
pray thee: And he saith, I am not learned. '
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this :
people draw near nnto me with their mouth,
and with their lips do honor me, but have nnlo'ed their heart f a r fromme, a n d t h e i r f e
towards me is taught by the Precept of men:
Tllerefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marv e l o u s ~ o r k ~ O n g t h i s ~ e oeVt?nama~eio
~le,
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o u s ~ o r k a n d a w o n d e r : f o r ~ e w i s d o m . otheir
f
men shall perish, and the mdershnding '
of their prudent men shall be hid."
Then the Prophet speaks of a better time
(verse 18): "In that day siiall the deaf hear
the words of the book, and the cpes of the blind'
sl~nllsee out of obscurity, and out of d a r l i i e ~ s . ~
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Tllia
be .the
of JInsiah,s reign,
tile i;non.ledge of tile ~~~d
be world-wllen false, deceptiuc joctrines sllnll
no
lollRcr
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pcnnittcd.
Continuing
in
the
19th.
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vcrsc the Prophct says : "The meek also shall in- .
crcase thcir joy in the Lord, and the poor among C:
men s h l l rejoice in the Holy One of IaroeL9' -,
I n thc Beformation times many of tbe peoplr .;! 5

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formers. The Prince of Orange, the ruler of the

country, accepted tlie Calvinistic doctrines. The
Synod of Dort (1613) or,pnized the Low-Dutch
Reformed Church as the national Protestnilt
church. This lasted until the revolution of
1793;and then in the revision of the Constitution in 1848 complete religious liberty ailcl
equality of all persons and congregations n-erc
guaranteed.
Most of the worsliip at the present time is
mere formdisnl, tlie people accepting \vi t ! ~ o tu
investigation doctrines and practices liunticd
'clown from former generations. Ho~vercr,tlicre
are evidences that some of the people of I-Iollancl
are beginning to a\\-al;e to the iiilportance of tlie
events of the present time and to seek f o r more
knowledge from the Word of God.

ness across the shoulders, by means of which

they pull tlieir boat along the canal. The custom of fitting the harness to the head is not now
so much in vogue.
Here as in otlier European countcies many
of the Iroinen clo hard n-orl; in the Calcls. X
story is told of Holland: A
, farmer was banling
in his hay and had llis wife hitched up to the
cart; and lie himself and his clog were on top
riding. He said to his wife: "If you get tired
let mc kno~v,niid I \\-ill tliro~vtlic clog (In\\-11.''
This may be sliglitly exaggerated. lion-ever; but
there is "more truth than poet@' in it.
One of the high-lights in tlie history of Holland is its struggle for independence against
Catholic Spain, which lasted for eighty Team
and came to an end in lW, when the Setherlnncls obtained all that they contended forBifs of Interesting Histoly
complete religious and political freedom, and
the
right to trade in foreign countries.
LARGE part of the surface of Eollancl is
The southern provinces, comprising wlnt is
below sea level, the water being kept bacl:
by dylies and by pumping,stations ~ ~ h i dc ihs p o ~ e now known as Belgium, were more sabmissiro
of the surplus 1-ainfall. I n e n one Foes to tlie to thcir Catliolic masters and hare remained.
seashore, it is necessary to go uphill for t~\-o C'atllolic to tlie present time. In the se~enteenth
or three miles. It is for this reason that the ccn tury Holland w-as the leading commercial
country is called The-Setherlands, or Lou-lands, nation of tlie n-orld, and the chief maritime
which is the original name of the countv. I t power. I t ~ v a sInter eclipsed by England after
came to be d e d Holland after the cliief pro- three hard-fought mars.
vince, in which the capital city is located. Tlie
Tlie Spanisli sougllt to regain control of the
mindmills, with the pictures of which ererroile country in 1G39, anci sent a fleet of serent?--seren
is f d a r and n-hich add so much to tlie pictur- ressels nnclcr ,ichiral Oquenclo. These were
esqueness of the landscape, i r e being replacccl met by tlie Dutcli with a much smaller force
by modern pumping stations which do the vork ~znder,idiniral JIarten Tromp, and seventy o t
the Spanish vessels were destroyed. The remore efficiently.
sercn escaped in a fog. This broke the
maining
Holland is noted for its system of n-atcr\v\.nys
and canals. No other country in the I\-orld lias sea po\ver a Spain, and there began the decline
aeveloped inland navigation to the est ent that of the most cruel and doluiaeering power that
it has been done here. The canals are used for ever esistecl.
lye have taken a brief glance at the good and
transporting all kinds of freight. Jlucli of tlie
the
bad of IIolland. Let us ask tlie quesfreight that is hauled on truclcs or freight cars
tion,
I s it a part of Clirist's Iiingdomt The
in other countries is carried here by the canal
ecclesiastics
of tlie 11-orld ~ o u l danswer: T e s .
boats.
Its
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proicss
Christianity, and most of the
Oftentimes the canals are liighcr tlian the
people
are
nle~iibers
of some denomination.
land surfade, the n-atcr being kcpt bock by tlie
Thercforc
it
is
a
Cliristinn
nation-a part of
Uykes. Sorrteti~ilestlie dylies prevent tlic water
Christendom,
Clirist's
1iingd0iL"
trom being seen ; and vesscls sailin? along tlic
But is it really so? Tlic Scriptures state that
canal appear 2s tliough they were sa~lingabout
\\-Iten C'lirist reiq~~s"tlicy
shall not hurt nor dethe country on dry land.
Many of the l~oatsarc pulled by pcrsons n-nlk- stl-oy in a11 illy 11olyniouiitrtiil [kitlgdom]" (IS+
l 3) ;and also t l ~ a tlicre
t
sliall be an "ahurnfng on the balk. TIP farmer loacls I i i s procluce i i ~ l 11:
jnto a hoal, and pulls it to niar1;et alo~lgtlic clalcc oE pcncc so lung as the moon endurcth."
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(Psalm 72: 7) Tlie Lord taught IIis disciplcs onc of the kingdoms of tllis I\-orld of v E c h some
to pray, "Thy kingdom come. Thy mill be done are better ancl some arc worse. But they arc all
in earth ah in heaven." Xo intelligent person dominated by Satan and his spirit of selliolincss,
I\-ould claim that God's n-ill is done in Holland, and must pass an-ay and make room f o r the real
o r any other country, a s it i s done in heaven.
Iiingdom of Christ, which will be in real it^ *'tho
Holland, like all the other nations, is mercly desire of all nations."-Haggai
2: 7.

Abeokuta, of South Africa EY ~ k l t t d cBrozorr

(nnderstone) is one of the most
ABEOFXTA
ancient cities of the Egba Tribe in Sigcrin.

people. Thus tlie native n d c r is paid to kcep

quiet, while the clergy unite with the governV'est Africa. I t s people and its custolus ci\Il nient in running the country.
be traced to the renlotwt timcs. I t is SO called
l~ecausethe ca1.1~zettlers, 1v11owere clriven tllcrc The Religious Life o f the Pmpb
by tribal \I-ariare, lived in caves axicl under grcat
.I1E people of Abeolatrr are rather an orderstones.
loving and peaceful people. They love reEven to this c l q - some of tile people are to ligioii ; in other words, they indulge i n muclr
be found liring under tlic stones in some of the superstition. T l ~ ebasis of thcir religion is the
cares. Arouncl these cnvcs the town is built. doctrines of demons, lianded d o n to them by
with n populiltion of about 2Ti3,500 people of their ancestors, ~ v h oi n time past indulged in
'different tribes of one descent, chief of \~-l~iclikuniau sacritices and divinations.
are the Egba, the Oyo, OIW, Ijibu, and other
One of these is called the "Oro" game. X
tribcs. These people became separated chiefly certain nut called "koiiar" is split, and cast t o
by intertribal warfare in tlie past. Tlie rernac- forctell events, prosperity, seasons, and all 0thular is the To~ubcltongue; the English-spea!;- er attaiments, especially when the nation is
in: ore nl)out SOO. Half of this number embrace going to n-nr. When this practice is being pertlie more intelligent of tlic country, including tile formed, no onc of the female sex must be presso-called clergy.
cnt ; and should a female child or infant by
The country is governed 1 ) native
~
acln~inis- accident see tlie "Oro" play, the punishlncnt
tration, supel-vised by n resident, represelitillg according to native law is death.
tlie Eritisk Government, 11-110 takes care of tlic
The anccstrai belief of the people canses them
financial and juclicial end of the atllninistration, to worship their dead relatives. To these they
in order to protect the rights of thc several in- attribntc a11 tlieir prosperity, attainments and
corporated Crit ish trailing filnls tl1r01i,rr11011t succcss in life. Their dcnd chieftains a r c mToruBa Iand. But the d a k e (Icing) Aclemolu sponaihlc, tllcy think, for all thcir noble accolllI1 and his council for tlie Egba kingdom protect plisliments, for victory in mar, etc.
the rights and customs of tile natives.
The Toruga believe implicitly in the immorTlie Icing receircs 3 fat g m n t from the British tality of the soul, that the souls ol' their dead oncv
Gorernment yearly from the Egba t reasury, a r e more alive than evcr. Tliey also believe in
vhicli is controlled 1)p the Colonial Government. reincarnation ; that is to say, their dead relaBesides.t)iis tlie ;Ual;e (ICing) receives a stipen- tives come back in the flesh, in answer to their
diary from his people, according to native cus- prayers and sacrifices o f f e d to them. Thcy
tom. Rents for lands, etc., conle u~iilcrliis juris- are born again in tile person of a babe, and
'diction, according to native rule. A130 the grow up to manhood's ancl womanhood's e s t a t e
wealtii of Itis prcdcccssor and all of his wires Tlicrcforc mall i s living this lifc over and ovcr
again, by tIic merits of human sacrifices and tlic
a r e liis l i c r e ~tia r y rights.
lust
of poIygamist progcni tors.
Thus the -Uakc of ,ll)eol;utn is a niirl!tv
This clcplll of superstition is intensified by
prince, supportctl hY tlic sworcl o l the RritiPll
Corcrnment, 1~11ieliill tul-11 :cis lllc mo~ioply the intl*otluction of wild is called "Cliristian
of the entire country to traJc and csploit t l ~ c 12cligio11i II ~ll'rica"; i n other words, the Church

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blisslonary Society, the greillcst cu~luercinl niicl lintire produce, so it rras in time past the
and trading assouation in Africa, as far bock rorld's greatest market for X e p slarcs. n T e
rejoice that those days are gone forever.
as the eighteenth century.
The teaching of the church is based implicitly
The truth concerning Christ's Engdom of ,
df
on the immortalitp of the human soul,
that rigliteousness, equity, happiness and peace is
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now being brought to the people, through the
;- "eternal torment" is tile portion of the nont
Christian dead, a t the hands of fire-proof de- channel of present truth: The '\Tat& Tower
1
mons in '%ell". Thus is intensified the natives' Bible S; Tract Society, making glad tho hearts
i
. superstitous belief.
of many to know that Jehovah lies so great and
j,
Taking advantage ~f tlie creciulity of the na- n-onderful a provision for the children of men,
tives, d kinds of class pence, taxes and dues are especially those whom r e term heathen, who {
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imposed upon the people. Should these dues nerer heard of tlie only name under hemen not be paid up to the church periodically, so wlicreby we nlust be saved.
that one is financially in balance nlth tlie
1
TIle
people liere finre reeeiwd tho
ehnrcll at the tililc of his dcntli, his corpse will trutll gl;ldls ljundreds of tllcln have bought .
not be brougllt into the churcli, n-hich the pco- ,
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IsTIIE sCIZmES,
T~
Op
I
pie believe is the gatell-ay to hearen.
GOD,and other literature in order to learn momi
The only way Illat one a n come through the of the good ne\rs of the message of the hgdom
door of tliat cl~urch, is that relatives must s a t a d s emissaries, the
c,as, are dwrj
his back dues- Then the parson m<" ately endearoring to n-ithllold the truth fpay
j
come a d repeat Satan's monumental lie over people, and to stay ale fomard m ( ~ of
~ h
i
the corpse, committing the soul to heaven ; for rep resentatires of the Icing of Glow. But t h q
j
up to that h e , they So)., it is hovering around. hare failed, and are falling back in dreadfd WnThe devil said: "Te shall not surely die." Jesus fusion, battling among themshes on meh qncc
I
- said: "He [Satan] is a liar from
beginning, tions as clergy and laity, polypmy; etc. n u s i
and dl other liars are his children.--John 8 :44. tile prophet ~ d declared
d
: "meLono
i
have them in derision. Then shall h e speak to
1
Hypocritical Answer o f the Clergy
them in his mrath, and trouble than ia his sore
i
HUlEFlIL indeed it is to see some of these displeasure."-Psalm 2: 4,s.
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d e n , when they are confronted with
I
the truth, and are d a r g e d nith using the Bible =it to Abeokutaand Qadan
as a means to defraud, by teaching false doc- B E F O R E learing Xigeria we resolved to Tisit
trines to the heathen. They ansn-er :"Ve do not
Abeokuta and Ibodan, b o of the oldest
in xigcria, f o r ~ - f i T e and one h u n h d
believe in hell-fire and brimstone any more ; we
do not believe in the Trinity. But \re can not ,,,d
nllles from L
~ re
~ -red~ at
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i
teach the people these things; f o r they are - Akbeoliuta September 15th a t noon, and %-ere
i p o r a n t , and they r i l l ~ ~ e c o mdesperate,
e
and gladly received by many who rend the mesaI
overthrow the church. Thus we shall be forced of tile truth in
and in tile nerspapers,
i
to get o~rselvesa job, and then Jve shall be in Tiley rejoiced to lln-e the pleasure of hearing
f
I
danger from the masses."
tlie truth ellpounded in Abeokuta. Immediately
i
But *$bout doubt the day is not f a r distant tlley began to buy the truth literatare.
i
f
vhen this3reat tide of ignorance and superstiday I ,,,as introduced to tllo
The
tion, =used by relidous errors,
(King) by one of the most
turn in tnry of the
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Africa by the liglit oE prcscnt truth, now due; influentid native traders in tile city, J.
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and i t s i l l tell n tale to Christendom and its
Tile alnl;e,s secretar3. introdud
mo
II
clergy wliieli \Tilt nerer be forgotten in tho an- to
i
Yajesty, stating also my *ission
my
nals of human history.
desire of IIis 3liijcsty to have the court hall for
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tlie purposc. of giving a series of Bible lectures
Negro SlavoCenter-The Center of Commerce free to the
W E SPEXT some time in Lagos, the capitol The Iiing ~villinglyconsented that I should
of Nigeria, and tlie grentcst trading cen- 1,;tvc the court for such time as desired free of
.I:
-. ter in West 9frica. As it is today in convllcrce charge. Ue also regretted that s d c i e n t notice

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nas not given to him. that he could have an

- audience with tlie speaker.
7Te lost no t-he, as our intentions mere to visit
Illadan before returning to Lagos that meck
end. The secretary of the dlake introduced us
to the Government printers, from whom we got
twenty-five posters printed a t once and posted
for three lectures at the.Ake Hall. Subjgcts as
follows : "Where are the dead?", "Can the Living
t d k mlth tlie dead?" and "Epochs and dispenati ions marked in the derelopment of the divine
$plan".

Lecture on ##ThereAre the Dead"

evening the meeting opened
0XwithTednesclay
about sisty in the hail, after ~vhich

about twenty came in. I was introduced by the

Government printer; for the principal of the
grammar school. 1~110was called upoil to do this,
had declined. But the said principal 11~rnsrery
glacl to seize the opportunity at the close of the
lectures to express tlie appreciation of himself,
and that of all the people, for the benefits they
had receired tIlrougli the lectures, and therefore
called upon the house for a rote of tlianks to tlie
Internntional Bible Students Association for
tlie liylit and truth diicli hare been sown in
their illidst; adclisg that "ahoulcl this ligl~tand
truth be fol1011-ed, ~ U r i c a\rill in due time have
,something better to introduce to European

missionaries than they have respecting Christianity". This relatcs, of course, to the errors
of the missionaries; for ours is the true Bible
C'ltristianity.
After responding to the introduction of welcome, I opened with an apology for my inability
to speak to the people in the rerllacular of this
nation, and expressed the hope that those that
were versed in English might be able to bear
witness of the truth which they shodd hehr and
prove and then to transmit it to others in the
vernacular of the nation. I then presented the
clirine plan.
As tlie meeting closed the audience gave great
cheer by clapping of hands. The minilrters
(preachers), as they heard the truth expounded,
looked at each other, as much as to say, We are
cliscovered. A few questions mere asked. Many
bought the books qnd boolilets on the snbjeots.
As they r e n t from the hall they talked to each
other, safing that the truth of the Scriptures
was never told to them before. This news was
l~roadcastover the town, and the next evening
t!lc hall mas packed. The principal of the gram
mar school, \rho had beenlpresent the evening
before, came with a11 the teachers and pupils
of the school, marching in double column, with
Bibles in their hands. TVe rejoiced in the privilege OF telling them the good news of the
coming Iiingdom, praying the Lord's blessing
upon the message.

On the Outcome of the EIecfion

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ROOSETELT
TFIEODORE
La

oi~cesaid of Mr.
Follette (probably tlie truest patriot
alllong the cancliclntes, mid certainly tlic most
lied about during tlle rcccnt cnll~pni,nn):
"Th~nnks to the :t~ovcmcntTo; gcnuir,cly dcmocmtic
-o:.crnmcot ~vilichScuotor La Yol1ct:c lccl to ovcr~vhclmrictorp 41 IViiconsia, that State lias became literally
"'
a Inl~oraturyfor v-c-i:e cxpcrinlental legislation, aimiug
to sccurc the social and political bettcrnleut of the pcople as a whole.''

gu5

Mr. La Fqlettc r a s defeated by thc newspapers. Of the

succ~ssfulcandidates, "The &-1
litratof' says :
<

''Cooli~l~e:?Ye jil:tii.\- ti:c grcntrr and r r a t r r acc u m u l a t i o ~of

i ~ c.npital !~cc.;~ii-c
??.s! ) c > l i ~ ~ rtIlilt
t
tilcrclrnrn
flows tlie support of all s ~ i c w e ,art, 1~'aruillgaud th;2

charities ~rliicliminister to the humanities of life, an

carrying tlieir benciicent cffects to tlie pcoplc as a whoia'
"But in his Labor Day speech he said:
" '11-c Ilave outlnwcd all artificial privilege.
America I
recognizes no aristocracy save those who work? Tho
Prreirlcnt must linre been tliinking of Sovict Russia;
for in this couutry only bcfore election do the American
Federation of Labor Aristocrats take precedence o\vr
capitalists ~vilolirc on dividends.
"Danes was the head of the Minute Men d.the Con~titution,an organization 40,000 strong, with American
Lcgion men predominating, whose metliod of enforcing
ordcr is somcmhat like that of the Klun. E-qlnining
his organization, Gen. D a ~ r e ssaid: 'About a year ago
railroad strikers through acts o l sabotage Illad dc;hny.cl
transportutio~~
f;lc.ililicu f l ~ r o u g la~ large section 01 tho
coutltl.y lor nlOllt~13. Tlic citizctis [of Ikrrison, . 4 ~.
kansasJ slood it lor so long. TIicn thcy ran 300 -s

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a GOLDEN AGE
out of t o m and hanged one to n telegrnpll pole. Justice reprelleusible, it ia what al\r.ap happens 11-11enrhe
law is not enforced.'
"Oen. Dnwes did not sugrgcst eclorcing the law against
the mob, nor-baking conditious bearable for the strikers.

His speeches indicate that hc is inorc opposed to organized labor than to thc Ku I<lus Kim. Sornlan Thomas,
candidate for Governor ot' S e r To&, places partlal
blame for the death of seven men in a recent fight a t
Herrin on Gen. Dares, hecause of his condonation of
Klansmen's attempt to. enforce order by violence.
'When a Congressional conlmittee n-as investigating
war e.~-tra~-\.n~rmcc.
Dan-es exclaimed: 'Hell an' Jfaria.
we were fighting Germans over there, and I would have
paid the price of horses for sheep.'
"That General Dams a a s accustomed to fleece the
aheep is evident from the article in the "Nem Republid':
" 'On October 1, 1912, the Central Trust Con~panyof
Illinois, of rrhich General Darres n u president, made

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a trniporary 3:id high17 irrcgnlar Inan to JTilliam Lorinlvr, tlie onc-time U. S. Senator of unsavory reputation.
This loan of $1:2.50.000 1ra.c made for the purpose of
p c ~ ~ n ~ ~ tLorimer
ting
to exhibit i t to the state bank eraruiner as Leiug the property of tlie La Salle Street
Trust and Eavinga Bank. then in process of formation.
'I'he hank csnmilicr n z s dccci~cd,tho charter issued,
and the money returned to the Da:s-es bad-. Presently
the nen- Lorimer organizatioll r e n t to smash, and thousands of innocent stockholders suffcred heal7 loss..
The loan had 1)een made by (;en. Dancs and his brother,
the cashier, solclr on their o m responsibility. After
a ten-ycar battle in the courts it has heen decided that(
the D3n.c~bank is lcgn!ly liable to the L0riv-t stockholders in the sum of more than $130,000.' "

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'It is admitted that the fate of civilization.

rests upon tlie success of the Dawes plan for
financing Europe.

The Truth About the League of Nations

(Translated from the Paris

Gidi, September 10, 1934)

League of Xations is presided over by Satan

hinzself. Satan for this bad work took the form
out a little tract, the reading of rllich made the of President Wilson, o r perhaps of Xr. Leon
This tract, filled Bourgeois, unless he be incarnated in the person
. sliivers run clo1.c-11my back.
n-it11citations from tlie Old ancl Xew Testaments, of JLr. Jlotta, former president of the Swiss
is entitled %
'A
' ge
D'Qr"; and in its subhead has Confederation, who directs the discnssions of
these dreadful words, "The impending crisis tlie assembly with a patience and a simplicity
of the ~ o r l d . " The author is an h e r i c a i ~ , really devilish, and \I-110 is certainly clovenJudge Rutherforcl, who wants tlie death of the footed.
League of Xations.
We understand now n-hy Jlr. Ramsap XacTliere is nothing strange in this, ancl Judge Donald, who like Judge Rutlierford is perRutlierford shares on this point the opinion of meated with tlie real Biblical and proplietic
niany Americaiis. But tliat ~vhicllis new are ~ p i r i t ,ccascs not in liis discourse to defy tho
tlie reasons he gives for this arersion. If yon tleril and to throw (morally) an inkwell into
tllink that the United States hare tlisnl-011-ecltlie llis face, 3s tlie deceased Luther did. We mldern-orl; of Presiclent n7ilson because they mistruu t stand also n-hy the Premier of the Labor Party
Europe and do not want to inter~-.cl~c
in our turns his back on tile League of Sntions, of
affairs, I \~oulilratlier tell you at orice that 2-GU \vliich formerly he ~ , ? san apostle, and dram
are not on the right track. Juclge Ruth- near to th2 .Americans n-hose eFes are open.
#
erforS'explains that you nlus t oppose tlie League
Judge Rutlierford cites, in addition to prophof Xations because it is a production of tlie ecics from Isaidi, Ezeldel, and h o s , from
devil himself. Listen ratlier lvliat that Judgc Mr. YacDonald: "There is neither bcttersays, wlio is the latest prophet in Israel:
ment nor peace i n Europe. Tlie governments
"They h&e rejected the teachings of Jesus ancl the
spostles conqrniug the second coming of tlic Lord and are powerless. This year 1924 is r o r s e than
?he establishment of God's kingdom on earth. . . .They 1914." Again he quotes the prophet David
have founded a Lca,hue of Sations under tlie direction Lloycl George: "A new chapter opens in the
of tile prince of darkness; b u t Jehovah dcclcres that history of Europe, with a climax bf horror such
their p h n s will come to naught."
as mnnliind has n e w r y t nitnessecl!'
.
All tllc p r ~ p l i ~ c i lie
~ " said, \\-ill be accomThat is clear, and it is good to know tliat tlie
door of the Hotel Pictoria, where
ATtheTHE
League of Xations is held, someone gare

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D r C r m n IT.

~h

GOLDEN AGE

plished. Tkis is r l i p U. Brinnd, I.ooelieur, valise Judge Rutherford's Look, the "IInrp of Benes, N,esen,Brantfi~gnndotherdelegates,in- God", vllich explains in its 352 pages the real --steadof wasting their precions time in Swvitzer- way to establish pence, and wvhicli costs only:4
land, ought to take the train, cai-ing in their francs (in Swiss money).

"Restitutios Times" By Robert B.

Beard (Englan J )

*Vhkh God hafh spoken t y flrs nlouth of all iris 1~019prophets sincs tlra world legan."-Acts
1 Tlle times of rertltutlon
Hg proplrets were foretold ;
From Euocll to the E:~ptist.
Those holy men of oltl.
Tile heavens Iinve wt:rined Mllu.
Our Lord nrld Jlastrr dear:
B u t now EIIJ r e i p corl~n~f~ncin:,
Our glorious 1ii11g is here.

7 Isalnh showed the desert

\Tould blossom as tlre !we:
Tlie mn-sorned Irolrti3 returning;
No Uon to oppose;
Jehovah's mlghty w l m e s
I n Egypt's center stnndg
Corroborates t h e Scriptures.
lteveals God.8 wondroua yi;m%

2 FIrst Enoch. saintly prophet.

Spnke of the Lord's return,

S h'ext. Jeremiah prophdcd

. That a t the Lord'a return
Tl~eknowledge of J e h o n l r
Unnkind would qulckly I m n b
T l ~ ework of loring parentr
IVould then rewarded k, .
Loved on- m t o r e d from Denth'r cold grlS
The rutble!!m enem7.

Terr tl~ouanndmints attending,

Inlquity to b u m
Then Jacob, a i d nnd hoary,
Of Slrilolr's coming told,
To nield the scepter nnd to bring
Hls people t o I l i s fold.

3 EzcMel saw t h e Sdomltn

lteturnlng from t h e .-re:
Tllat h e nt~osinned must sade?,
S o lastlng I l k \\-ould have;
T l ~ n stony
t
hearts a o u l d LH replaced
Cy tendemerrs and 10%
And showem of blessing then clcacnd
On a11 men from a h v c

3 X e s t nrows, mt Lnw,nir~r:
On Slnul's slope lie stood.
T11e Jubilee nrmngernents
IJor mm's eternnl good
Ele there pmcl3imed to I s l ~ c l .
Throng11 I r r ~ e lto t l ~ eworld.
Tllosc Sabbath yeam n-ere typical
Of freedotu's flag unfurled.

3: 19-22.

Of 1;in:lf
power ~ p k SnmneL
e
I i i ~ r gSol11 was type of Ilisi
IT110 would the notions sntisCy;
Tlrry'd hail IIhn as their Ki~ry!
Jol, told of restorttion,
The old rnncle young agnin;
Ancl tlien he .ww In rlslou
T h e Iocomotlve-pluiu.

10 T l ~ e nDaniel (hiyber critics' butt)

I.'orem\v 3Ieuiul1's reign :
IIis kingdom ne'er sllould be clertmyed,
S o Gentile rule n-n.
A time of trouble fi~st.Ire snw;
Men runnln: to :IIIII fro:
1 1 1 c n a ~of
e k~io\vlcvlyewldely spread:
The truly wise \vould lino\r.

Then Dnoid. Cod's belo\-4;

Ire p r o p l ~ r ~ of
i ~ lp~?~ice.
Tile morning bright s ~ joyous
~ d
\\'l~rn niglrt oC t e * would
~ ~
cease;
T l ~ enatior~scnllnrd and l111111hlr
\Volrl~llww 1wfi)rc t lie I.orcl.
IYl~ilenature in 11rr lluppiest mood
\\'ou:d shout in full accord.

11 ITosen s l i o ~ ~ ~destruction
cd
of d e t t h b y lio\\-er divine:
. T l ~ ebow nnd sword IN broken up,
Tlre heavens send corn and w l m
Jac.1 foretold the splrit p o n d
0 1 1 young and old to cl~vell;
Tllr flg and vine should yield thdr streogtb,
Dellv ' n n c e c o u e aa \veil.

-$ Icing Solomon's

ru!c did typify

J I ~ s I 3 1 r ' sglorious rclgn :

I l i s temple all mn:ni:iccnt-

Tliat ~vondrous,k u u t r o u s frlneI'rcligunvl that g r m t LILN~tllre.

The L'liurch of Chrlst complete.
I ~ t c ~ n ~ino tllc
l
I1c3vclls
\Vkul.c worsl~ipers w ~ l lnleeL

12 Xest Amos (Iirrflrnnn propllet).

Of David's mcetln?: plnce
I l e saw the m s t m t l o n ,
IIopa of tlre chosen mce.
DId O h d l n h nothlug sny
Of m t i t u t l o n grand?
Yvx: 'Sltvlors [.Twus nnd Rls brlde]
\vould'ou n 1 0 u ~ tXIOU Y ~ A *

.hmou~r,f.Y.

GOLDEN AGE
19 Now Jonah saw God's m e w
On Nbeveh's antitype :
The Chrurh-Trust pond no shelter i s
\\'hen HLI great plnnv a r e ripe.
Then Ulcllh tdld how r u m woultl cease,
Each mnn his house would otm,
All f e a r be gone: for Jesus' power
Would then b e fully shorn.

16 Through Zechariah m-e can m d :

Cod's kingdom from abow
n'ill be rr glorious, endless r e l a
Of nnlversal lore.
Tile rising Son of l?f:hteounaess.
(:ood JloI:?chl foretold,
n'ould pence and plenty hrirrg to men

In Chat blest Age of Gold.

14 A railway trnin presented v n s

To h'ahum's m o d e r i n g sightA chariot speeding swift by day,
A flaming torch a t night.
HabuL-kuk tfl& told how the enrth
11-ould full of knon-ledge be,
The h o w l e d g e of Jehorah's wars,
br waters dll the sea

17 Anil Instly .Tan the Baptist

f His follorers standlog iq-).
"Brllold! behold the Lamb of God,
Behold Him!" was his cry.
Tllc?. Lamb of God, that Spotless One
\ r h o tnkes our sins an-:~y:
Those sins will all be blotted out
In His Jlfilennlai Dny.

W Xoon Zephaniah prophesied

Of unity of thought,
When men rro~illld-11 upon the Lord

18 0 glorioru R e ~ t i t u t l o a !
0 blessed time of pence.
T h e n Jesus relgns In lore. when atrifm
And w n n forever m s e :
V'l~t-o erery soul shall be dcstmrcd

And sene EIim a s they ought.

The holy prophet FIn=il
Told of the -great dmlre
Of nations. Jeaua'. glorious reign,
Of which they'd never tire.

Who v i l l t h a t prophet a p u m
T h e n sin and death shall i
h awry
To nevennoro return l

Immunity of Rich Law Breakers

IX ""{tV YORR a

stoclr broker was sent to

hdling the people; and rrhile he
supposed to be behind the bars, mas seen
in restaurants, having a good time. Do not get
excited about this matter; however. I t has Iiappened before, in fact from time immemorial.
Rich sen are seldom punishecl for their crimes.
They are able to pay the penalty ~vitli310SEY.
Poor people go to jail on any pretest, some innocent.
History reveals the fact that in the past rid1
men got into trouble, as a rule, only when they
came in conflict n t t h other rich and influential
men who were more pon-ert'ul. Corruption is
the rule, not the esception, under "the prince
of this world". Rich men steal, lie, graft, and
commit almost any crime on the calendar, and
escape puhishent.
If the history of corruption in public and
private life could be written it n-ould fill a rnst
library. Ancient Greece was full of it. Corrnption flou~~ished
in tlie halcyon days of old
IGng Tutanldiamen. I t ffourishccl during tlie
time of the Czsars. $t flourished down to Snpoleon. And, like the poor, it is still wit11 us, and
will remain with us until the liingdorn of Cocl
is fully establisl~cd011 tlic earth.
'Asone writer LQs well said: "TIII-oug.11the
j a i l for

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BIJ J. L. BoZ2i)t.g.
story of the Eolnan Empire and the Roman Repul~licand thronghout the Jliddle Ages, down
to the clironicles of e ~ e r monardiy
y
whose name
esists today, yon can trace the old and familiar
situation: The ricli man escaping punishment."
Democratic ideas and ideals have striren to
nl)olieh this condition in our day. "One law
for rich and poor alike," is the slogan of modern democracy.
But does tlie slogan nork? I s it practicable
nlider present conditions 1 Xo ; e-sperience attests to the contrary. The glamor of riellea
~villorerride all Ia\l-s designed against the rich;
and few are the lawyers, judges ancl jailers who
are immune to its influence. Truly, "the l o ~ e
of money is a root of all evil"!
It is hardly supposable that this condition
n-illbe righted tlzrougli the power of man-made
la~vs. Witness the Teapot Dome mess. Are
any criminals in jail as a result of these inrestigations ? Yet the offenses committed by public
sen-ants are flagrant enough to merit imprisonmcnt, if we ere to jndge by tlie press reports.
If a poor man steals a loaf of bread, uses a cancelled postage stamp, or becomes guilty of any
nuiilber of lesser crimes, into jail he goes.
I\-care not justifying any crime, but are protesting against t l ~ rsyctcm of punishment rhich,

-v-hile affecting to mete out justice to each and

all alike, is really a most one-sided affair, and
is a system of injustice.
But the promises of the Bible inspire us ~vitli
hope that the time is near wllen Cocl's kingdoll1
shall be established in the earth, when all injnstice shall be abolished, and the rich shall be
punislied along ~vitllall other eril cloers. Games

3 : 15) "BellolJ. a king slian reign in righb

eousness, nlld princes sliall rule i n judgment,''
32: 1)
is the pro~uiseoE:C;odWsllTord. (IS&
I \ l e n that time comes, the proud uVillno longer
Le called 'llapp)." and the wicked profiteer will
no longer flourish "as tz green bay tree", but
"justice hall be the girdle of his [Christ'r]
loins"; a ~ l dIIe shall rule in equity.

Preachers of The Word

BY H.L.~enc!.-en.
(Corr rtesy of the Baltittaol-c Evexitzg S w t )
to dissuade lliln from his evil ways, but to get
I
isen'cordia s.r(pel-errtltatilr judicio; 11-liich is revenge up011 him !
to sap, JIercy is ~ u p e r i o rto justice. Tlie
IT
saying is credited by the leanlet1 to Pope InnoS I say, such episodes a r e not rare. I could
cent 111, one of the truly great occupants of
fill columns with them. T l ~ esacred office,
P e t e i s chair-in fact, a rerit:ll~le Harding or
even Coolidge nlllcng popes. He said it in the of late, becomes indistinguishable from that of
first d a p of the tllirteenth c e n t u r ~ . Since then the policeman and hv.The Beatitudes
there llare 11een p e a t inlprovemcn ts in Christian a r e repealed, and rebnacted with jokers. Divine
doctrine. I n Cllicago, the other (lily. a Catholic wvorsllip becomes a sort of pursuit of d h h 8 ,
parish priest ,use in his pulpit, bn~i-ledfor the I\-it11 rope and tar-pot. It is the prime dotp of
blood of tlle Juclcun youtlis? Leopolcl and Loeb, the clerk in holy orders ng$ to combat sin, but
and tlclivered a dreadIul clenullciation of Judge to clinse, nab and butcher the concrete sinner.
The congregation in n-Ech the True Faith runs
Carerlp for sparing t l ~ c i rnecks.
This Latin brother ~ v a ssin:ular, consiclering highest is that one in n.hich there i s the steadic a t and most rancons demand f o r blood.
his rite, but in 1rl<.nty of c o ~ u p n n consideril!g
~,
Four or fire years ago, when tlie ICu KIus
nlercly liis sncrcd olfice. On tile same day a
multitutle of I'rotcstallt clerg-yacn in Cliicago IClan fii-st got on its legs, I made certain inquirreliered thelusclres of relitiil~entsto the snnle ies into its origin and nature, and came to the
general eirect. Joclgin? by the Ilrcss despatclies, conclusion that it u*as no more than the Antiindeed, the ~ h o l scrnce
c
of Cod in tolrn on that Saloon League in rr fresh bib and tucker, rmd
rlr~yconsistctl of Lar11aric ?.ells for tlle Lord tllat, in consequence, its ]lead men mere mainly
Iiigli Esec~ltiollcr. S o otllcr sul~jectec.c~listo Baptist allcl SLetl~odist c l e r g p e n . That coltllnrc been rnentiolled in the cllurclles. One and cluuion, printed in this place, caused protests,
,all, the anointed of God served Him by lienting and one anlial~leBaptist clergynan had at me
up the ft~itllfulto liatred and revenge. and by to the extent of two columns. But who denies
reviling a juclge I\-110 Ilad been guilty 01mercy. the fact today? Surely no one of any intelliOne and all, t11(by rcrc:tnlcd f u r tile lives oC tlvo gence. The l a a n , studied a t lenitl~,turns out
to be csactly wliat the Anti-Saloon League is:
ellow cre-turcs.
A device for organizing the.llatred of evangeli-'
)f Alas, n o t a rare speetncle, in this great moral
cal Cllristians. The Anti-Saloon League i s deage! A dcp o r t11-o earlier--or 11-2s it later?a gang of clerics from ;lnnapolis. sccompaniccl voted to pnrsning tliose they hate on ethical
by pious laymen. a p ~ e a r e dbefore the IIon. grounds, and the IClm to pursuing those they
Edward 11. Farriah, parole cornmi~sioucr,and hate for I-easons of dt.~ma. Neitlier has a n y
protested bitterly agctinst tlle parole of 3 ninn other purpose.
Eotll are run Lp Rnptist and Afetllodist clerlying in Anridpolis jail. Tllcir argument, as
reported in the Sultpaper, secms t o have been , w e n , some retired from the sacerdotal onice
very simple. This gentlclnan, it appcnretl, had but all full of cvallgclical zeal and a11 e s t n o r deliberately violntcd tllc Imv. l;,'r!jo, it was the dinarilp savage and Lloodthirsty. One hears
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manas that this man be deported, that one tarred

and feathered, and the other one ;jailed. The
Methodists, a year o r so ace, r e r e actually
advocating mnrder. East, \\'est, Sortli ancl
South, the malevolent cnrl~ivalgoes on. Erery-.
where the faithful are nrged to animosity, bmtality, revenge. E v e r y h e r e neighbor is aroused
against neighbor, and e ~ e r y$gn of Christian
charity i s denounced a s criminal. , b ~ dcrerywhere this devil's brew is stirred ~ g o r o u s l yby
men sworn to preach the gospel of Christ.

mercy. Let philosophers dispute its premises

if they mill, but let no fool sneer a t its magnificent conc1u.sions. As a boclp of scientific fact
it may be tlubions. but it remains t-lie most beantiful poetry that man has yet produced on this
carth.

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ing for the consolation of that poetry. He

is tired of the cannibalistic coml~atthat life is;
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Ile longs for peace, conlfort, cot~soIrrfion.
I11
~ o c sto cllurcll. L
C CI
~ -11!-11111s a r e sung, a11t1 '
VIEW of such phenomena, it surely be- tliere arises in tlie pulpit n gentleman told off
comes ridiculous to ask, as certain C'1iristians to preach. This gcntlc~uan,it cl15cklp appears,
of an older scliool (10, wliat is tlie matter n-ith is not currentIr ruercllanting pcace. Tlie Beatithe churches. l h a t 11-onld be tllc matter wit11 tudes are not his test. Iie turns to the Old Testhe theaters if they took off all their plti:-s a1111 tament. There lie finds a test. to his taste. h t l , '
put on funerals and surgical operations? 1 - h a t leaping from it a s froin a springboard, he gires
vould be the matter ~ ~ i the
t l i bootleggers if they oTer an Ilour to damning his fellow men. He
swindled their clients \\-it11 ginger-pop and coca- \\-ants them to be sent to jail, to be deported, to
cola7 What ails tlie clidrches is that large be hanged. Ire demmcls tliat the business b e d i i
numbers of them h a r e abandoned Christianit~, pntcliecl forthwith. E e denounces meroy as a
locl;, stock and barrel. What ails then1 is tlia t wenkness and forgireness as base.
some of them, and by no means the least in
Our Christian friend, n i t h a. re11 of despair,
wealth and influence, are now among tlie bittc-r- rushes from the basilica and seeks another.
est a n d most diligent enemies of Chiistianity Tlicre he hears the pastor call upon the agents
ever heard of in thiq ,RepubIic.
of Prohibition to slioot bootleggers. Re seeks
Personally, I have little neecl for tlie basiccon- a tlircl. Tlie pastor denounces a s harlots girls
solations of the Christian faith. I am not nn- 11-110 kiss their beaus, and clcmands that they
turally religious, and seltloin seek peace beyond be talien by the Police and cast into jail. Ile
the realm of demonstrable facts. Es-en my r i r - seeks a fourth. The pastor praises a Federal
tues, such a s they are, are not properly descrih- judge for refusing a jury trial to a rictirn of
able as Christian. If I let an enemy go, it is tlie Snti-Saloon League. H e turns to a fifth,
bemuse I clisdnin him, not because I pity him. The rev. rector calls upon Gocl to singe and
If I do not steal, i t i s not because 1: fear hell palsy the pope. A sixth. The shepherd urges
but bccause I a m too vain. But I am not blind, lGs shecp to watch their neighbors, and report
nevertheless, to the comfort that Christianity eTery suspicious whiff. A seventh. The Eolgives to other men. It is, for them, an escape sheviki are on tlie grill. An eighth. Demands
from realities too harsh to be borne. I t is a that more prisoners be Hanged. A ninth.
way of life that oflers thcm sanctuary from the
But by this time another atheist is on his ray
pains of .everyday liring, and g i n s ~tlicmrest to tlie public librnsy, a t eighteen knots a n hour,
when they are weary and- licnvy-laden. 1CIisn to read Darwin, ).Iuslcy, Spencer ancl Sietzscke
they a r e errant, it offers them mercy. T h e n
or maybe Tolstoi. Tlie C'liristiane are bcthey faint, it speaks to thcm of love.
ing driven out oE tlie cliurclies ; their places arc
True or hot, this faith is beautiful. More, it bcing filled by hunters and trappers, i. e., by,*,,is nseful-sore useful, perhaps, than any im- brutes. A few old-fasl~ionedpastors surrire,
aginable truth. It: et'Fect i s to slow down and but tliry dilninish. As they pass, their flocks
ameliorate the struggle for existence. I t urges will ]la\-e to rceort once more to catacombs.
men to forget tliemscl\-es now and then, and to Tlicrc will bc, e~cntunlly.a Twenlieth Amendthink of others. I t succors the wcal; ant1 pro- r n c ~ ~ t I. t \\-ill proscril~etlic Bcatitndce, a s the
tects the fricndlcss. I t preaches chari tp, pity, Eighteenth alrcatly proscribes tllc Eucharist.

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What Is Wrong with the Church?

( E y C'ltarles F j - e d ~ r i cSlt cltlo~r,D. D.,i?t t h e Baptist "JT'atclirna~aE ~ a m k e J ' )

ETmqhasten to
that ~ r i t ltlie
l real chnrch,
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tlie diurch that J w n s Christ found,,
the
church that llad its birth at Pelitecost, there is
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nothing wrong. I t is in connection 11-ith the

earthly, militant church t l ~ o the
t wrong is found.
It is evident that the cliurch is r p t making
the impress upon the world that ought to Ilr?
made by a n institution that came into being by
the spirit of God l~iinself,an organization that
Itas for its r e r y life, source, and poll-er, the
spirit of Gocl.
If \re a r e possessed of honesty and courage
--two r e r y esse~itinl qualities-11-e shall be
ready to face the trutli as to the standing of the
cl~urchin these days. X i t h rare esceptions
tlie church of today is making no real progress
in o t e r c o m i ~ ~the
g ~vorIcl. I t is maliing progress
in the mnttcr of ecclesiastical organization.
TIlcre has lierer been so much, nor so complete
organization a s there is now. Tlie churdl i s
making progress in the way of ecclesiastical
literature; f o r tlie book concerns a r e pouring
out theological ~rorks,almost by the carload.
But in the rital matter in n7iiich the chnrcli's
power should be most manifest, the church is
ell-nigh impotent. I t is not overcoming the
~vorld. I t is not stopping the flow of the miglltp
rivers of sin, rice, sensuality, ancl cornlption
that ererp day a r e deepening and widening their
channels in our life.
TIie tmgic trutli remains that the church is
~;nt doing that .r\-hicIi its Lord meant i t to do.
It is doing things, Inany things; but it is not
c!oing the one essential thing that the Lord comn~n~itlcd
it to do. The ~viiole perspective is
wrong; its ideals are wrong; its plans are
wrong; its nletliods are wrong. I t is like the
cliurcIi of Laotlicen, saying, "I am rich, and inc~.caseclwit11 goods, anci linve need of nothing."
. l i d the church ~~~~~s not tliat it is in reality
"~vretched,'and miserable, and poor, and blind,
and naked..)' Let us csamine some~vhatthe bill
of particulars. J u s t where i s the church wrong 1
The cl~urch3s a ~vliolehas ceased to believe
tllc Word of Gud. Tllcrc is a vast amount of
baptized infidelitr. Eoth tlie laity and the pnlpit Ilarc a forpt of' belief that Ilns notliinn.
inside
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it. The cllurcil rcacls its creed>, its artlcles of
belief and faith, a i d then strnig1it11-ay tllroa-s
o ~ l a11
t that docs not suit its taste. Tlie rhurcli
no longer b ~ 1 1 c . that
v ~ ~ t l ~ cEiLlc is tllc divi~ic.ly

i~lspirrclK o r d of God. The church is fond of

saying, '?t contains the T o r d of God," hut denies in its ererl-day utterances and in its life
tlie inspiration of the Bible. It is entirely p o s
sihle in these days for one to pick out tl~atwhich
suits, and reject the remainder, and yet hold
meml~ership in the church. Thousands of
church meinbers no longer hold the Bible to be
the 1-evelation of God to them.
Tlie church, on the whole, does not understand
the nature and constitution of this unique body
callecl the church. It is looked upon by many ?
as a sort of social organization t i n g d somewhat
with religious fervor, but very largely social in
its aims, its plans, and its program. The 1
church, as a whole, does not at dl understand i
the program of Jesus Christ in the world. The
truth that the'church is a body of people
out of the world, and saved from sin in order
to be a witness f o r Christ, is not comprehended
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by the majority of church members.
The church, on the whole, no bnger bdhms '
in the supernatnml. ;It has very
die
carded the belief in miracles. It has laughd ,
out of court the idea of a hell-a plam of pnnishment f o r the rejecters of Christ. [Tlrie
prenclier himself does not understand the Bible
teaching on the question of '%ell".-EcL]
The
cllurch, on the whole, has forsaken the great
carclinal doctrines that the fathers believed.
The church, generally speaking, is failing to
carry out the purpose f o r which it came into
beinq. It has imbibed the notion that the whole
earthly situation is to be straiglltened out as
tlie result of its efforts and activities. The truth
is that the cllurcll lias just one thing to do; v k ,
to bear witness to Christ during this present
age,
Jlnny of the methods employed by the church
are vrong. They are unu-ise and unscriptural, '
and they make for failu~e. The church is turning anyayfrom divinely given power, a d undertaking to substitute human agencies for the .
power of God.
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The clmrch has lost the true conception gf '1
conrersion, and has let down the b m ;rs to the '2
test for menhership in the church, s o that nl- most nnl; one u.1~0is Iinlf-way decent con come
ill.
S\'c:l~.lyevery form of amusement is pern~itto(lno\\. in many churches, and most church Ff
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lother planet, he mould have a hard time to pick
-- out those who were the professed people of God,
and those who were not.
The church is suffering from spiritual anenlia.
The rich, red blood of an abounding faith in God
:- and in His Word no longer courses througli her
veins. There is the appearance of life, of
health; there is much of activity, of rushing to
and fro, of doing many things ;but it is just the
.-'hectic flush on the cheek of the sick one, alid is
a token of approaching dissolution,
The pulpit is a r i t d part of the wrongness.
. The tragedy of the present-clay pulpit is, that in
the multitude of cases the true prophet has
. been supplanted by the false prophet. The true
. prophet speaks t r u t t in the norue of the Lord,
and the f d s c propliet speaks lies in tlie name of
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Lord; and tllousands of those who listen do
not know the difference. This is the clisnster
and the tragedy of the church today. The false
prophet is in the pulpit; and the people are
given stones for bread, serpents for fish, scorpions for eggs; and they are trying to lire on
these things.
In many pulpits the fundamental t n ~ t l j sof
the Bible arc bein;. denied. Tlie inspiration of
the Bible, tlie deity of Jtssus Christ, the otonenlent b:r blood, the resurrection of Christ, the
punishment of the wicked, tlie coming of Cllrist
again-every grcnt truth is denied, and olten
riclided by these false prophets who liare
found tlieir way illto Cliristian pulpits. Jfanp
of tllesc emissaries of Satan say the most beau- tiful things about Jesus Ckrist, but they are
the "eneiies of tlic cross". Tlie theological
schools also are fall of unbelief; and the young
men are trained in tliein along tlieso lines, and
sent out to teadi falsehood instcad of truth.
The moclern pulpit lias lost in large measure
the note of autl~olitythat belongs in the message of 'fllc preacher. The popular, nlodcrn
pulpit message has no utterance in it tliat will
cause the sinner ally ulleasincss as to liis sins;
for sin has Been aimost, if not oltogetl~er,cliininuted f r o d the, tl~cologyof tlie present-day
preacher. The f d s c prophet talks glibly of
SII-ectnessand lig!itl of tlie beautiful human life
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?For lo! tlie tliij-; are hastening on,

By prophct I~arilsforctoltl,
I\-Iicn with t1:c crer circling !'car;
Coluc., rouucl the age of gold;

of Jesus, of the ir~flo?nceof His spirit on the life

of the world; but lie utters no word as to the
cross and the avful transaction that heId in
it the redemption of the lost world. The false
prophet tells tlie people t o be good, to copy the
esample of Jesus, to go out into service and
help to save society. He tells the people that
they do not haye to beliere all the Bible; that
they can pursue a selectire plan, and reject the
portion tliat does not suit them, just as they
select tlie good part of an apple and throw the
bad away. IIc tells tliem-these n n s a ~ e dmen
and women wlio sit before him-tliat
the old
idea of Christ dying as a vicarious sacrifice has
been long ago Iauglied out of the minds of s&olarly people. IIe tell3 them that there is no hell
sare n man's OIL-11thoughts. He tells them that
all men me children of God, that God is the
universal Fatlier of all, and a l l that re need is
to become conscious of our sonship and then
n-e shall be goocl. ..
I n answer to these charges of the wrongaess
in the church and in the pulpit the false prophet
says : "All people r h o make these charges are
poor, blinded pessimists, people \die have no
rision and l~coplen-ho munot see the n-omlerful
ongoing of tile cl~urcli."
To the nion ~vilorcaIly hclieres the Bible to
be the inspirecl 7l'ord of God, it i s a profound
mystery ho\r those 1~110claim to be students of
l ~ o to be taught of theholy
tlie T\'ord, o n c l ~ ~claim
spirit, can fail to note the fast-gathering oloncls
of apostacy; 1io11- tliep can fail to see that tlie
g~.c:~t11lars of Cl~ristciidomis drifting into inficlc~lityancl, iu solve illstonces, into atheism itself.
TVhcn truth is unpopular it is the lot of
truth's advocate to etaild ahnbst alone, and so
in t l i ~ s edays tllcy who are true prophets are
loolicd upon as crn~llisand fanatics. They are
religiously, ccclesiant icallv ostracized. The rrriter of the article is keenly aware that by many
lie vill be 100iiecl upon as a narrom creature
witllout visjo~i;I ~ u all
t \\-I10 keep company with
truth need yot be trouhled about what the crowd
nlnp tlli~llior say. The time of the unveiling
will come, and then the true and tlie false will
str~nclclearly outlined against the lills of God

When pcacc r1:all over all the cartlIts ancient sl)lcndors fling,
A ~ l t ltlic wl~olt:world scud lock the song
. IVGi no\r tile nngels si~ig."

Why IE
the ~71ristianUnpopular with the World
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O E D E R t o arrive a t a just conclusion upon

Il a Nrthismith
question of " m l p is a Christian Unpoputhe nTorld", i t i s essential that the
terms "Christian" and " ~ o r l d "be first defined.
As generally nnderstood amongst p e n , a
Christian is any person who i s not a heathen,
a J e v o r a 3fohammedan. Such definition comes
f a r short of the truth.
A true Christian i s a new creature in Christ.
1 One becomes a Christian or a new creature in
Christ in the following manner :
H e must believe that he mas born a sinner
bp reason of ti,jm2s disobeciience to ~ o d ' slam;
that Jesus Christ died upon the-cross to provide
a ransom or purchase price for mankind; and
that there is no other name giten amongst men
\yl~erebyman mag be saved from eternal death
ntl be granted life everlastin%. Believing this,
!:e must then make consecration of himself to
the Lord, ~ l i i c l means
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a full surrender of himself, agreeing to do God's holy d I .
The Scriptnrcs show tllat then God justifies
t lie man, and begets him by His nil1 and word
of truth a s n new creature in Christ.-J'unes 1 :
lS ; 1 Peter 1 :1-3.
Begetting means beginning. Now the man
is 3 new creature o r a Christian. From that
time fornard, his hopes and prospects are
bea~enly, proriding that he is faithful unto
death.
ds a new creature, what must the Christian
no\!* do 9 To this St. Peter allsmers: "For even
hereunto n-ere ye called: because Christ also
sufferedforns,leavingusanesample,tllatye
should follow his steps."-1 Peter 2 : 21.
I n order then to understancl the course of a
Cltristian me nlust undcl.stnnd n.llnt Jesus
Christ did ; f o r IIe s n s the Arst Cliristinn, and
is the beginning nncl head of the nelv creation
'of God.
Christ means anointed. Jesus r n s the first
one anointed by J e h o r d l ; and all His foIlowers
receivethisanoi~~tin,rrn-llcnbegottcnof
tlleholy
spirit. Hence J e w s , being the tirst anointed
one, is propdrlp qalled the tirst Christian.
The babe Jesus was begotten by the ponver oE
'Jehovah in the nom; of l l i s motllcr, 3lnry. IIc
was therefore born mitllont sin, mas holy, harmless and pnre. XTe grew lop as n perfect boy;
and vhcn He reached the age of thirty pears
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a perfect man, exactly corresponding to the per!
fect man Adam m-hen he was in Eclen.
a s a perfect man J e s u wan entitled to
the
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blessings rrhich the earth might g i n W e find
I3im coming to Jehovah,. presenting Himself
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and saying, 'Zo, I come.. .to do thy a,
0 my
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God : Pea, t l ~ ylam is 1vithin my heart."-Psalm
1
40:7,s.
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The mill of God is expressed in His Word.
The law of God is His ~ v i l l . It mas the mill of
God that this perfect m m , His beloved Son,
must suffer and die i n order to take the place
of the man Addam, who had violated His la? and
tllereby provide the great ransom sacFifice, or
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redemptive price f o r mankind, and become a
empathetic high 'priest in behalf of the humtan
fmib- This is God's Way of providing life for
manAftenvards, when Jesus spoke under inspitotion of the holy spirit, H e said that H e came not
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to be ministered unto, btlt;b minister Ullt0 0therS9
to
His life a rtmsom f o r ~~d
H e m e to be a g m t sacrifice i n order to redeem mankind. To this end Re must do the
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Father's will. This had been foreshadowed
through the words of the prophets and by G-od's
the
Israel.
At the time of the consecration of J e w at
the Jordan IIe mas begotten to the divine ntt
tme.
course that Ile p ~ u e themafter
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f o r period of three and one-half years was to .
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teach the people plainly concerning God's great
~lanofredem~tionandtheirdeliverancewoagh I
the kingdom of God.
Altllough the greatest man that ever lived on
1 :
tllc earth, the niscst, the purest and the best,
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d l l r i n ~ all tllose three and one-llalf Years,
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Jesus Christ ilxurred the enmity of the world,
1vns 1vicl;edly persecuted even unto the most
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O K let us understand the meaning of tlie
term "\vorld". It is not a synonymous
\~\-ordfor "earth". Tlle "rnrld" me'ms the organization of mmliind into Porms o r systems of
government. The invisible ruler of these org:lnised powers o r governments, designated as
tt~c
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the apostle Pad and the Lord Jesus.-2 Corin- of trnth. TIie n-orldlp men, under the influence
of the devil, persecuted, ill-treated and killed the
thians 4 :3,4 ;John 14 :30.
Invisible to man Satan has exercised a vicked prophets. A long list of these and their d e r and baneful inffuence over mankind. H e has ings is g i ~ e nby tlie apostle Paul in the Uth
opposed all righteousness. H e has deceived the chapter of Hebre~rs.
people and led them into pntlis of nnrightcousnesa; and because of erercisiilg this 11-rongful Warfare Continues Unabated
spirit over mankind he is designated as the god,
E S ~ SCHRIST, the great prince and Redeeluer vs from tlie tirne of his ,,ifill kTom
o r invisible nder, of the world. Being unrigliteous he is opposed.to everything righteousby the devil to be tke sonof ~d Satan
Adam and E r e , lvllell in Eden, were in perf'''
conspired
IIerod and otfren to haw the
harmony With God* Lucifer, their overlord7 aui- babe Jesus liillccl. JJllen Jesus made a consebitiom to have a kngdom of his own in 'pposi- cration, tile deril set about a t once to
Him
tion to Jehovah, deceived mother Eve mid to ,iolate ~
~la!,. dand ~to cause asdemused her to sin; and her husband joined her struction~
tllis lie failed.
in the transgression.
Thereafter Satan caused men of the rrorld to
F r o m that time fonrarci Lucifer was d e s k - sli,nder jesus
and to accuse Him of almofi
nated by Jehovali by four titles, namely : Draglcno\\-ll to
crimiud -lenhr,
0% m h i h means devourer; Devil IVhich
tllotl~zllHe \!*as pore, ]lalmlesl, and ~ t b o l sin
~t
slanderer; Serpent, ~vliiclimeans deceirer; nlld
~l~~
and Pharisees
the priatS
Satan, which means opposer.
\dl0 claimed to represent God and r h o st&
and Eve rolll before tlie people a s leaders in relig5orur thought,
men
Eden, H e plainly
there
be persecuted Jesus. These $re the st&
of the
enmity between Satan and
(leelarein tjIesa rnrdS:
seed7 and the devil. TIle Scriptures
seed of righteoosness. H e said: "I \rill put enape are of
father tile devil, and
lasts
mity between tllee and tile li.oman, and betlreen of
father ye \\-ill do. He \,-as a murderer
thy seed axid her seed; it shall bruise thy liead, from the beginning;
=bode not in the tmt~,,
and thou shalt bruise his heel."-Genesis
3: fi. because tllere is no trutll in
b
The
Eve "-as liere used as a svllbol.spea];eth a lie he ppeabetll of llis on=: f o r he is
The seed of the woman is the "seed of promise", a liar and tile fatller of it."- John 8:a
which God later promised Abraham sllould
~ l ~ seed
i of
~ the d e d cansed the ccome.
fision of our Lord.
The apostle Paul, in Galatians 3: 16, 27-29,
Jesus, just before His death, said to His dir'defines this "seed of promise" a s the Clirist. ciples, I\-110 were Cliristians: "If the ~ r o r l dhate
Here, then, is a plain declaration that tkerc yolit ye linow tllrtt it liated me before it hater1
mould Be enmity between the "seed of promise", you. IE ye \\-ere of tlle rorld, the n-orld noui3
the Christ o r Christians, and tlie seed of the love his 01v11: b ~ l tbecause ye a r e not of the
Serpent, the Devil; namely, the Devil and his world, but I liavc cllosell you out of the world,
organization.
therefore tlie ~vorldliatetll Ton Bemember the
I t is now plain to be seen that the line of battle word tliat I said unto you, Tlle sert-ant is not
is clearly prawn. W e have some striking es- greater than his lord. If they h a r e persecuted
m p l e s in the Scriptures, a few of wl~icliI name : me, they will also persecute you; if they hare
Abel was a good 111;1n, desiring to obey Cod. kept niy saying, they will kecp yours also."Cain, submitting 1ii1n~clEto the devil, became Jolin 1j:18-21.
a seed of tllq devil. Cain murdered Abcl.
It is quite plain then tliat the Christian's
S o a h m a s h gobd man, striving to a c n e God. courl;e is exactly opposite to that of the world;
IIe and liis f2iuily were bitterly opposed by all for Satan o r ~ t l i ~ ~the
c s courr;c for tlie ~vorlcl,
others on earth, tllc ~cpresentntiresof tllc clovil. am1 I:c 1s O ~ I ~ ) O : , I ' ( to
~ tlle i'l~ristiana11d seeks
ol' t l ~ cC'tlristin~~.
])avid rcprewu tccl tlic Lord. SLLIII:111d11;s tile t l t . > t l.uct~o~l
follo!verd reprcvclitecl the devil. Saul pcrseT l ~ c~vorldis iuovetl b - sclliell~iessin all that
cutctl Davicl.
it doc.. Cll~rlst i nns must be niovccl 1,y unselfish-.*,.,
T l ~ projlllcts
c
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that lore is the principal tllin,rr.~iththe Chris- is illlpossible for a man of the vorld, then, to
mldcrstand how any other man will devote his
tian ; a n 4 love meaiis unseliisi~ness.
A man map claim to be a Christian; but if life, his time, his strength, and his money nnhe prenches o r pretends to preach tlie TJ70rd of selfishly in behalf of his fellow creature, and do
God tlint he might be popular vitli man, or that this 11y proclaiming God's Word of Truth: The:
he might gain ~venlthof this world, he can not n-orlcl scoffs a t him, and says that he is a fool.
be p l c a s i n ~to the Lord and therefor: could not
The apostle Paul T a s in this class. It is re.
be a Christian.
called that he T a s a great l a y x r , a t one time
Thc devil, tlie god of this x.orld, incnlcatea a member of the Supreme Court of Israel, a man
into the minds of mankind selfishness, hatred, of profound learning; pet when he saw the priv.
ancl ill will that leads to \I-ar; and then his seed ilege of folloving Christ, he joyf*
embraced
(that is to say, his representatives on earth) it- He \yas callecl a fool by those who knew
proclaim T a r as a 1101:- thing, sanctify war, and llim while he was on the khch. He mas perseincluce the people to enter Jvzr and kill one an- cuted by them. The men who did &e persecub
other.
ing were the clergy of that time. St.Pad safi
A Cl~ristiancan not engage in war and at the collcerning the Christians:
are fooh f o r
sanie time remain s Christian; f o r the Lord Chrisfs sake.'9-l
Corinthians 4:10.
commands: "Thou shalt not kill." If he wilfnlly
for
~h~ christians are &dps
people,
Tiolates God's law, then lie ceases to be a Chris- a
H~loves them particalarlywm
tian. If he obeys God's lam and refuses to take
are faithful to ~ i ~h~
~ devil
. hater them
his fellow creature's life, tlien he is accused by hecause they are faithfd to the ~
~ md ~
d
the n-orld a s being tt slaclier, a conarcl, a traitor, d e ~implanb
agenda
l
in the minda of hb
and is often ill-treated. persecuted, imprison~d the disposition to hate and persecntathe
o r is killed. J e s ~ said
s that it ~vouldbe exactly SO. tians. ~h~ christiaQ, k n o w this, docs not
I t requires, lion-ercr, a braver mail to face bitterly resent persecution, b-me
he knows
nll the opposition of tlie 11-orlcl and cnllnly ancl that many do it blindly and ignomntlp,
10~ing!p proclaim the IIleSSaSe of the Prince of
~h~ devil has deceived many people by rnakPeace tlian it does to shoulcler n g l n nlid to ing tilem believe tjlat there are
,,f Chris
tramp 111th tlie multitucles to the command of tialls on earth. ~h~ ~~~d J~~~~
said that them
an oflicer.
11-ould only be 144,000 Christians who mould be
Tlic Cliristian apparently, in the eyes of man, faithful ancl be in heaven. TJTe can understand
r a l k s alone. IIc is cicspised ant1 rcjectecl of t]len n-11~Jesus said: ''Fear not, little dock; f o r
men, eren as was J e s u ~ . Cut IIC is not alone. i t is your Father's good pleasure to give you
,Jesus said: "r,o. 1 an1 ~vitIryou 11I\vn~,erctl un- tllc l;ilIgllom.''-Luke
12: 32.
to tile cncl"; n11c1crcn so IIc i.s.
TIicre arc many of the n-orld r h o persecute
T l ~ eCliristian must \i-agc n ivarfarc, not II-ith C'llri..tians because tllpy are Christians, This'
mortal 1\-capo11s; but his m a p o n s of ~ r a r f f l r c (;ocl ]latcs. Those n-ho wilfnlly and deliberately:
must be the message of trutli. The apostle Paul persecute Christians because they a r e such, God
plainly says: "Tllr weapons or our v-xrf'arc are jvill jllcIge.
pdlnot cnrnal, hot mighty tllroa:lt Go(l LO
TllCre a r e many good people in the
who:
irlg dolvn of strongltolds" of error.
Itare revercnce f o r C;od and wish to do right, ;
It i s ptterly impossi1)le for s mall to be popu- and I V ~ Oa r e good a n d kind to Christians
l a r with the political nncl financial elcnle~itsof cause they are Cliristians; and to these theLord
the worlcl ancl a t tlic snlile time be a Christian, specifically promises a great blessing.
f o r the reason that (;ocl's TTor(1 m y : .'.l<no\v
Tllc reason why God will thus reward thow:
not thqt the f rictidsliip of tllc \\-ol.l(lis enmity w]lo (leal 1vitll CIlristians is that he says: "In- ;
witll GO^) l\"ilosocver tl1erefol.c will be n t'ricncl nsmucll as ye ]lare done i t unto one of the least'of the \~olbcl,is tlie enemy of Ci0d."-Jailics 4 : 4. of tllcse my brethren, pc have done unto me." :
A great tlcal o t tlie trouble amongst man1;ind 'If yc~upersecute one of my little onea, I comt
is due to niisundcrstanding. Tlic non-Cilristinn i t as a persecution to me. If you are good to one
e.':
can not understand n Christian. Those wllu of m y little ones, I count i t as gooclness unto m
-Scc
Acts
9:
4,;;
Uatthen
25:
4
0
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arc not Ckristians are moved by selfislliiess. It
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Goodness a d ri8~teouahessshould always be

followed. Such is always the better and safer
course to pursue and should be when this is
prompted by love for our fellow man.
It is a saying amongst men that '%onesty is
the best policy". But I say that l ~ reh o is lionest for policy's sake is not honest at all. True
honesty flows from a heart that desires to do
good; and one l i a ~ n gthis desire is easily led
l receive the
to the Lord and i n due time d
Lord's blessing.
m y Persecution Is Permitted

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HY wodd God permit His belored Son to

be persecuted? m e apostle Paul answers :
"Though he were a Son, yet learned he obeclience by the things which he suffered; and being

made perfect, he became the author of eternal

salvation unto all them that obey him."--Hebrews 3 :8,9.
The suffering and persecntion of the Lord
'Jesus enabled Him under the most adverse circumstances to prore His loyalty and devotion to
LTehovah. The scripture reads: "He humbled
himself, and became obedient unto death, ..
wherefore God also hath highly exalted him,
and given him a name above eTery name : that
[in due time] a t the name of Jesus every knee
should bow,. and every tongue.should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God."
-Philippians 2 :S-11.
God purposes to take out from amongst men
and to develop as follo~versof Christ, a few I\-110
\!-ill likewise learn obedience by the things which
tbey themselves suffcr.
By a long course of training in s d e r i n g and
persecution unsigl:teously at the hands of others, yet patiently bearing this, waiting upon
'Jehovah, the Clil-istian.learns to be obedient
and loyaI to God and to I-Iis cause of righteousness. He looks forward to the happy and
blessed time when 11e al~allbe l~onoredof the
Lord; and for this reason the Lord encourages

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"Deeni not that tlle? are b l e ~ talone.

Whose days a pe:tcefl~l tenor k r e l ~ ;
The anointed $on of God makes known
A blessln: for the c x c ~chat weep.

T h e llgllt of smiles sh:~llfill n g l n

The lids tfi:~co v t ~ ~ l o \WLIIL
s* 1~;trs;
And weurp Iloui-s o l toil and pnln

E o r e r w e r s are o i happier y e a m

him by causing it to be m i t t e n in His Word

these and siruilar promises:
"If ye be reproached for the name of Christ,
happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God
resteth upon you: on their [the n-orld's] part
he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified."-1 Peter 4: 14.
"For unto you it is giren in tire behalf
Christ, not only to beliere on him, but also to
suffer for his sake."-Philippians 1:29.
And another precious proniise giren to the
Christian is: "Be thou faithful unto death, and
I w i l l give tlico a cibon-nof life."-Rcc. 2: 10.
Thus it is seen that tlie u~ipopalarityof tlie
Christian is due to the persecution inducecl by
the devil himself; and the Christian, knowing
tliis, patiently waits upon the Lord.
With the Lord's Icingdola fully established
and Satan rcstraincd, then Christ J e s w and
I-Iisfaithful Christians shall be used of the Lord
t o teach all tlie peoples of earth God's wonderful and gracious nlnn of salrotion and to lead
them i n 6 paths df righteousness,,to uplift and
comfort them. and to cause them to feed aDon
tlie precious things of God's Kord.
While this is bein: done, the Lord rill he
restoring the earth and making it a fit habitntion for man. A11 the people \\ill Icam riqliteousness and truth. T l e n ~icliednesshas been
eliminated, then tlie earth rill be filled nith a
happy, glorious and perfect race of people, all
singing the praises of Jehovah.
Then the Christian m l l rejoice eaceeZn~1;r
bemuse he n-as permitted to sufier for righteousness' sake and llad tile pririlege of being
used by Jehovall to strengthen and bless his
fellow man.
The re\\-arcl of n Christian f a r outveigl~sa11
the sufiering. Tlie glory that coiiles to the
Cliristizii in the encl is llardly n-orthy of comparison with tlie sufferings.
On this point the Bible says: "For our light
aaction, \vliich is but for a moment, r~or1;etli
for u s a f a r more esccedi~~q
and eternal weight
of glory<- 2 Corinthians 4 :17.

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depart.
'rli011;11 life its c.omllloti ;.~ftsdeny:
n l o ~ q l lwit11 n s i n k i n ~ ,fuinriri: hrnrt,
H e someti~llesalmost 1ou;s to die ;
"Lrt not the Cl~risllan'strust

"For Cod l ~ n smarked cnrh .=nrro\rln; day,

. \ I I ~ ~~ur~tlrr~rc.~l
every ~ ~ ~ . r Ie:lr;
c.t
Alrd blirclt~ltlgr* yct sliall p:~y
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Harp ot 006. witti amrnpanying q u e t i o a ~taking t h place o t
Adrand a d JovcniIc Iiiolm Studfw which have been hltherto pnbllhrd
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"OThe term kingdom is used in a twofold liingdom, and to return. And he called his ten
sense: (1) Referring to the king or ruler, the servants, and delivered them ten pomds, and dominating or controlling factor; a n d (2) to said unto them, Occupy till I come.
And it
the dominion and subjects of that Iungdom. came to pass, that when he mas returned, havAlmost all the parables of Jesus were concern- ing received the kingdom, then he commancled.
ing the kingdom of God, or kingdom of heaven. these servants to be called unto. him, to whom
) So great is that kingdom in importance in the he had given the money." (Luke 19 :12-18) 8:
L o r a s arrangement that Jesns taught His dis- similar picture and Iesaon is taught by the Parciples to pray: "Thy.kingdom come; thy d able of the Talents* (Xatthem 23: 14) As furbe done on earth as it is in heaven." (Xatthew ther evidence of His return, ~ e &said: ' W e n '
6: 10) From that time until now Christians the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all
have been praying this prayer ancl hoping for the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon
its fulfilment. The foregoing scriptures clefi- the throne of his glory; and before him shall
nitely establish the fact that such a kingdom of be gathered all nations."-Natthem
25: 3%32
righteousness is to be put into operation. 71%
'-A short time before His c r u a o n Jers.
then, \>dlbe the king of that p e a t and glorious v a s teaching His disciples. They undeFstaob,
Mngdoml The Scriptures ansnPer.Jesus Christ though imperfectly, that He vas to be takt!a
the Son of God.-Luke 22 :30: Colossians 1 :13 ; from tllem. His disciples ware troubled tbis
2 Peter 1:11; Jlatfl~em25 :15.
information. Then Jesus, speaking p W f to^
"OWlen Jesus stood before Pilate accused of them, said: T e t not yc&
heart
trnB1ad.E
sedition because IIe taught concerning His pe believe in God, believe also in me. Iu m ~ r
kingdom corning, Pilate asked Him: "Art thou Father's house are many mansions: if it w e n
the Icing of the Jewst" And Jesus ansn-ered: not so, I mould have toIcI yon. I go to prepare
"3Ip kingclom is not of this world." (John 18 : a place for yon, And if I go and prepare a
33,36) By thc word world here is meant a place for yon, I will come again and receive ?ya
social and political order. The Scriptures show unto myself; that mhere I am,there ye map be
that from the time of Zeclekinh's overthrow also." (Jolln 14: 1-3) This is indisputable proof
until He whose right it is scts np His kingdom, of His second coming.
the Gentiles arc in power; and that these Iie in
the wicked one, Satan, n*l:o is the g o d or invisQUESTIONS ON 'THE HARP OF GOD' .
ible ruler of this wo1.1d. (2 Corintllians 4: 3,4)
Jesus speaks of 11i1nns t l ~ cp r i l l ~ cof I his 1~0ritl. I,, ,,lmt t,yolold srl,sc is the term kingdom!^ d?
(Jolln I!?: 31) S;1tan7s rule 11ns 11cc1i unright1 339.
eous, wicked, and clcvilisl~;and when I-Ie comes Khnt difl Jcsns t ~ a c hthe disciples indicating the irp.
whose right it is, l l c will estabIisl1 a rigl~teous portnnce of the Lortl's conling kingdom? f 359.
kingdom in the place or stead of the nnrigliteous Si~icctlus conling King must hare t kingdom, do the'
Scripturps indicate nlio is to be the K h g of thb new
)orderof Satan. By tllcsc words, then, addressed
order? Quote Scriptural prodf. fl 350.
to Pilatc we would nndersta~l(ltlie JZaster to
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before
of
what
cri
m
e
mean that IIis kingrlom from that time is hturc,
-Re
accuscd? f 360.
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yet definitely sl~owingthat in the future time
JT11nt is nlcant by the term "vorld" & used in this on8 :*
H e I\-onld hare a kingdom.
other scriptures? f 360.
.s41~esod
gaye to Bis clisciples R parable dcsig- mmt
bcTn
of &tm,s mle'thm,,gh b(l ;.
nntcd the-Paral,lc of the Pounds. in n-liicll He
;eprsmtntircs?
300.
pictured Hin~srhlfas a certai11 nolAemm goins ~ ~ the( pnrablc
1
of t h ~pounds ta~ghtbp our Lorti lo
into a far C O I I ~ I ~to~ Yrewi~-ea kinzrlom nnd to
llis tlj..c.lplru intlieatc llis return? 361.
TC~UI'II
; and Ilc F ~ I O ~ Vtllnt
S
this n o l ~ l c m n ~~ lO P S r l , . l t dill .Jrrr\s sily to IIis disciplc~just before H&
F C ~ U I ' I I . "1Ie sai{l t l i c r ~ f o r 21
~ , certfi~lI I o I ) I c ~ ~ I ; ~ I ~ ~.rucifixio~~
allout IIis second coming? Quote IEa .
words. fl 362.
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(mpdnhd by mmt from GOLD=

the discovew of dectricity, stated: 'The rapid p r o w of true

den- occnsiom my som&mes regretting that I
ara born eo soon. It is imposJible to imagine the
heights to which may be carried, in a thousand yearq
the povar of man over matter.
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prod'=*
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cured, not e r u p t i n g thut of old q s , and our livea
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and that human beinga would at length learh what
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h m No. 1-b

ing 08divim economy, w&ch atdim dl thingo in .t

taining its end, perfection; and that when the end of
one stage of the proceacl cornea, an adnnced rtagr, in
tha process takes its place; and that as are <ow at tha
d of one stage and thc beginning of r new me;
That the earth ia nor nearing completion, and tbrt
'8 phyaical condition nearer perfect u about to prodna
6 human phyaid condition nearer perfect and in thr
end absolutely perfect Perfect-nod-human
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perfect mental faculties, moral perceptioru and judgment am due to follow. Bea civilization and r right
.eous gorernment w i l l then prevail, through the administration of divine poner, when physical and m o d parfectioa w i l l go hand in h a d .
Thia presentation ia, confined d
j to a am$*
tion of man'r physical Life as distiqubhd from hu
mental and moral beins?.

The faking statement of Franklin m a a prophetio

m i r a t i o n bud on statemenh in the Bible and hi. ~ h & t i t ~C

n ~ U T C IN~ i m C I . o t i ~ n
howledge of physical phenomena; and
am now
THE
th.t
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to h ~ i f i k u l
t h e t i m b ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ t o f h t f o ~being u not mpported by any BibLicJ &akuent
The Christian Church ir an order amtad entirely
Synopsis o f Ou&tanding Faeta
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independent of the hrace, bough aecbdz*
HE following u r preaenhtion d sbme of ths it; hen4bew e,,
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LLfe @Y
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l due to the =- prraeM by Jam* its fadq
bn no appliC
Mrtate of the planet on which r e Live nnd to
the
human
race
aa
such,
but
oPlJ
to
a
w
i
d
fan
who
to the -tiVe
other deritPlizing
M called out to form r new d m b h t r r t i v e order,
proc$ss now going on :
mw
f
d
t
i
c
q
md
new cmktion, entirely distinct from the hemation.
Th.(-,a
phy8id
m p t i o n r .nd judgment ue i t h e r dormant, rclati~d, S7enough, the rationale of the Chrirtirn Church
entirely m ~ ~ d e r s by
t ~ d Pcofi.
dead, or so warped by hir physical imperfection that ha
A critical d a t i o n of Biblical a-mt
ahom
is incapable oi sound reasoning and ruccea&l government 3
th.t the human race was created to remain r hnmul
.
Th.t'qbanhaa formulated the falm the or^. that a race to a l l eternity, instead of, aa most peopla balievc,
relfish axamble for personal comfort, by which the eventually to become spirit beinga
weaker t crowded to the w d l by the stronger, is true
civilization; and that the government which man has No E t m d Life Without Obedience
b d on *is fdm theory now threatens to collapse
it is true that the Bible teaches that
under the w:ight of it. defect^, u the complicated p m b
BILE
mankind cannot hare n o d life or continued
lems of i n d k i n g population multiply, md completelj life rrithout
.
o b e .
aomto de-Y
the whole rlstam, fdsdy called
man& ;let but very few am iciqkd rr red-manbur d
under an evil spiritual admin-tion
;
H h administrative bodl; the Christirn C h d They
Thnt thia,in the creativm process, t merely the work- only, with a relatively f o r oth,er hnmrn
will

w,

lea

become spirit beings; all othen will remain human, with

derhly bodiea u we now see them.
.- Thexe L no condemnation of such becausa they wodd
not zmppa to the invitation to b e m m membem of
ChrirLI.n C h d They only miaa m inconceivably high honor md life on tha dfrlna plane; the eame
in a limited ranre u ff the President of the United
0tate.a ahodd dffA aitipen a padtion in hh cabinet and
the citizen dadhed. He would not lose hi. rights as a
private aitizan, though he would lose the high honor
of being r crrbfnet ofiticcr. He would be obliged to obey
the laws d o r e d by tKe chief executive and the o W s
of the administration, but no more. If, however, he
rcaepted the position at cabinet oficer and on account
of dialoydtJ to the President ass forced ta resign, he
wodd be disgraced; m d if disloyal to the United States
he might be irnprieoned or even executed.
That ia the positicm in which there have been billions
of n o m i d church members who did accept the offer
of s p i t i o n in the cabinet of Jesus Christ, the Idngdom of heaven, but pro~eddisloyal. No Biblical stat*
ment indides that they w i l l be e t e m d y tormented,
d in death 'if their
but they aie liable bo become
offense w m wilfully criminal.
The r m n whp the ration& of the Christian Church
ha come to be m i m d c h d is that nearly all have
erroneoudy concluded that it3 special doctrines sere
binding upon dl, whereas they were r n u l d a b r ~d y
upon those who ansvemi the c d , accepting the offer
of a position in the administrative body of Jesus C h W
Billions m e r e d the call. They wanted the high
honor; but very fen, however, have fultllled the wnditions. "Every tree that bringeth not forth good fmit
is hewn doan, and casf into tha fire. Wherefore by
their fruits ye ohall h o w them. Not warp one that
& anto me, Lordl Lordl ahall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the w i l l of my Father."
-Matthew 7 :19-21.
Only those who are faithful to Christ's teaching, even
until and unto death, can have thin high honor. The
invariable conditions are that they must d e r , aa He
d e r a d , contempt, scorn, hatred, ostrsciw, persecution
and death-if need be, even a violent death-even buming at the stake, or crucifixion, as He d e r e d on account
af HL loyalty to Christian Truth. Jema said these
were thd'int~arkbhconditions; and all down the Gospel
Age these have been the inranable experience of true
Chri&ians because they were loyal.
Most of the members of the great, popular h5h'Ionable Christian chumhe have answered the call, but
would not phy the price, rould not fulfil the condtiom.
They hare been disloyal nominal Chrlstrans, "tared'
dominating these Christian church systems; and the
loyal Christians were obliged to flee out of them, and
m pervcnted and tortured for doing no. The pr+
lcess still continues.
Them 4 e d Chrirtian church qotemr either

joined with, became a part of, nnchristitn governments

or, indirectly backing up and supporting them, h v s endorsed and helped to mpport the lust for empim md
w u a at the^ unchristian govammenb, killing millirm.
of people, ti& groeoly disobeying tbs b c h b p d

These g d f a o - d e d Christian church q s k d~ d

h e n t i d y prevented these wanj, had thq been ready
to gaffer unto death rather than violate Christian prin-ciple and enin war. But in mod c a m they ham
even been prominent, through their clergy, in d d n #
the ware popular and in urging the people to w a ~ .
A 6dal analysis of Biblical statement and a stag d
the signs of the times? ss forecaat by Jewq &ow th.t
the new creation, the true Chrintian Church, ia now
about complete and that the time haa come for the new
administration of J e m Christ to take offica Thej
dom of heaven is being instituted, md tha -p
work of cleaning away the old evil arlminirrb.tiar gb
human a h , including nominal C h r h t h oqpnhtions, "coet into the kr*
is now going on.
The prevailing idea is that tha kingdom of haven
is a fer+ff, mpterioue something that haa nothing b do
with the practical human daira Wbarera it is cleuly
shown,-when we critically a d y m Biblial datexn&,
that it hna crtl to do wtth practid h u m d d ~th.t
;
itu first work is to restore and hedp tha human m a
beck to that pe.rfedion lost by A b ; that mrnkind
are to haw e t . 4 We right hers on earth as indiabd
in oar Lord'r prayer: 'Thy kingdam coma Thy wiU
be dons on &h as it is in ~ V B Z L ' '
Let ua now proceed ta examine what WII d
l fa
on earth ngatding the human race md the phyxicui
conditionr on w h i l it depends for ib life, u indicated
by the lam that govern the physical -Ad.

Man Living in Abnormal Condifioru . -.

NY dudent of the mclw, e t a , and foails of tha
earth knows that it b ban for long ageq and

continues to be, in the process of crestim; that it is

not quite complete, thongh nearing oompletian, baing
now nearly at the end of the ice age a d at the bagin- .
ning of the h a l stage of completion. Under tho incomplete conditions that have prevailed, normal life
has been imposible. This must be self-evident to dl
who study and reason upon the matter; for to attain
to perfect vegetable and sp
m
i 4 including human,
physical life, perfect physical conditions must prevail
Have we any standard by which to cornpate? H
not, how can we arrive at a reliable amdudon aa to
what a perfect earth ia? Who has ever mn perfect
earth l
Geologists h o w that there wru s time "hen ndtber
vegetable nor animal We w u posaible upon the e&h,
and that the earth's dmlopment can be tracad up to
thr tima r h m it KU pomible for vegetable and mlmil

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life to exist u p the globe, ato its development by

do accept its authorfQ u

rteger up to ita present condition. And by physical

law, which g o v m a l l material Life and matter, we
csn determine the h d stclge of its completion, the approximate time when it will be complete, and the effect
of that completion on vegetable and animal life, including humanlife For instance, we know that in the arctic regions, where
fhen ia a vaat area covered with ics all the year around,
there wat once tropical vegetation npon which animals
fed that were larger than any now living, and that
tliem ars coal seama in the polar regions that agea ago
could have been laid down only from great forests of
vegetation. Thin proves that in the procaas of earth's
creation, there has been a period when part of it hsr
been M perfect as it all will be nhen completed
This proves also that the plan or process of planetary
-tion
involvw long periods of seeming reaction or
retrogression, followed in turn by long periods again
af s t i l l further advancement nearer perfedion. Thir
ceema to be the law of planetary creation-now advancing, now retreating and then advancing again; and aU
life upon the earth has followed this creative l a x In
fact, it seems to be a law of dl creation w far, whether
phykical or spiritnal, animate or inanimate.
The ice-caps in the polar regiona not only determine
the conditions of a l l vegetable and a n i d life them,
but am liter$. refrigerators of the whole earth, keeping
life npon i t b a eemi-dormant, refrigerated condition
in which them has been no substantial progress since
the deluge which resulted in the glacial age, acepting the alight improvement, relatively speakmg, by the
d the ice area in the arctic regions, ae the
ice haa alowly subsided.
The cause of this recnuring action and reaction ia
clearly understood by those colhtive students who study
the deductionn of specialists in astronomy, geology and
biology.
Astronomers agree that the other plapeta in oar wlar
qstem, taken in connection with what geologists find
in the earth, illustrate in their various stagee of completion the law by which dl planets are formed. So
we do hare a sample by which to make comparisons, and
we h o w the varioua stages and conditions that this
earth hu passed through and the cause of its retrogression, the condition when life became possible, and its
general history down to the time when human hlstoric
rccord be-,
to give us the details and when a portion
of the earth was perfect
Ercepthg the record of the planets we sea and the
record in quth strnta and fo,;.ils, the Bible is the
euliest record a-e Iiave; and alule some scholars, including most modern theologians, do not accept it tu
authority in physical science Kant, the greatest authority of modern wholan in phlloeophy and physical
science, and Virchow, tlie father of modern pathology,
and m y other f i r s t - r d s c h o h in p h y s ~ dscience

known interpolations.

dnJ of

coo^

rejecting thr

Every planet in its molten stage throm,off gasvapors of various weight and density. H d d dl? bythe great heat of the core theea gain, by friction Kith
ita envelop, a revolution of their own. The Iightcrt
gaq hydrogen, rises highest or fdhest'from the main
body; nitrogen and oxygem next; snd so o n br tfm
planet cools, its rings fall gradually to it, the owgen
and hydrogen last, Some specid featurea m a y be peculjar to each planet, but this f e a h must p & d in
dl that belongs to the plane*
clasa

Semi-Gaseous State of Saturn

T H E p&t at iirst may be but a body of y gradually obeying the law of cohesion snd friction,
gradually solidifping to a liquid molten, masr through
long periods of time.
Saturn, for M a n e , is only one-eighth the weight
per volume of the earth,and must be semi-pmus. Ita
ring, or combination of rings, ia shaped Mq a wheal
about the planet, 172,600 miles in diameter, extending
48.065 miles on each ride of it, which b the hub around
which the ring revolves; and t h h ring just outside thr
p h e t ia 2,000 milea thick. The ring or wheel drap

molvea in the same plane ss +ea the planet, md dways face3 the sun. When seen edgewise it lo& like A,
and when seen p d y sidewise like a Henca all planeta,
while in their ring stage, are in thick dadmess at thex
equator, the darkness corering a belt 2,000 mila wide,
more or lesa, according to the size of the plnnet. Ood,
rpeaking to Job (38: 4,9), accurately describe it:
'Them wast thou when I laid tb foundations of tho
earth?. when I made the cloud the garment thereof
and thick darhess a swaddlinz b a d for it?"
!&at was thousanda of jth;s before m y tel-pea
were made, or any human being could knoa by obaerration that planeta hare rings.
A. neither vegetable nor animal life could exist in a
wide area of constant, thick darkness, there could k
no life on a belt 2,000 miles wide on a planet the s i z e of
Saturn, while in its ring stage. But out;i(le of that
belt of thick darkness, after the planet 11adcooled, normal suulight nnd vital physical conditions would b
perfect, until the ring began to collapse. r11d for thoullands of pears + d u a l l y spread out toward the pole.
Before the ring spread eniircl? to the poles, tlicm
must have pre\.ailed in the north r physical - & t i n

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perfect beyond rnpthtng man has since known. We machines; and Adam and his posterity were put through
h o w thh to be m;for vegetation grew with astonishing a creative proemy an qerience, that would make than
larger than elephants are found not only Iovingly log$ but intelligently obedient, Jtt
-yigor.
m the h a iea w i t h d - t r o p i c a l p h t a undigested in free moral a g e n k "And the ~ B GOD
D Mid,
the man is become M one of us, to know good and dl:
their rbmrchr
Thm p h y a conditions in the far north mud ha70 ahd now, lest he put forth hia hand, m d take rlro d
bdan ideal before fhe ring of vapof spread oat over it the tree of life, and eat, and live for eyE: theref- thr
and Ant out the manlight For hppdreda of years it Loxu GOD sent him forth from the garden of Edezq
muat have bcen the only spot on earth which had the to till the ground from whence he was take!nn
'
deau light of the nur every .&y in the par and its
!l%a Edenic physical p a d b e - a perf& phritdbing, oqgenidng rays for the development of per- condition where for hundreds of yeam in the conatant
fect physical life and the perfect fruit0 and vegetables liie-giving d g h t eternal life-giving f n i t a had comb
to nrstain that life.
to perfect maturity-soon w m overspread by the thick
d
The human race has necer since known any condition cloud d vapor from the ring of mixed hyapproaching that ideal which is sccurately dwcribed in oxygen rhutting out the sun, and eventually the gardan .
C k n h 2: 8,9 : i a b d the Lorn GOD planted a garden was wholly obliterated by vast deposits of mow thsf
eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he settled into glacial ica Conditions on the earth now
had formed ;and out of the 'ground made the LORD(30s gradually became reversed. The ring in settling down
to grow every traa that is pleasant to the aight, nnd and spreading out had b w m e thinnei. Both sun and
good for food; the 6 of life dso in the midat of the moon could be dimly seen through the v d of m p o ~
aver the equatorial regions, cmd the dimstic conditio~ld
.garden, and the tree of bowledge crf good and evil.*'>
Never any thing I i h this aincel Burbank, hokerer, h a r d the equator became mom favorable-for vegetable
ia beginning to produce mw&, but not np to tliat and animal life than the regiona in the north, where
for half the ye- the indirect r a p of the sun and-tho
qdtl.
Even under the devi6
canditicm that prevds, thick cloud d t e d in a t d i g h t condition, and rsgb -.
ruim herbs, ragetablea d fruita have their peculiar table and animal life began to low their perfection.
didindiva eflect upon those who partake of t h e m The
The accompanying illust~tionshow8 the earth bp
e - i w c o q d solution of the decoctim of certain herb fore the ring had s p d entirely over it. The conditione,
into which Adam and Eva were
d
l throw a pereon into spasma, and the thirty-aecond
now drimn had never been.p
rolution d the decoction of another herb d
l recaoer
that person from the spasm.
ductive, bat entirely dark d
barren for long agea Now, her*
Wa will later h r t h e r explain why the physical cwdfever, by the light Iike that in s
tion on the earth changed, so that never since d d
denas forest or an o cloudy day,
mch perfection prevail ;but we will later clear1y demonvegetation began to appear; but
&rate that we are again nearing physical conditions
men w u e obliged to work diliwhen that perfection will pnvail, not temporady m
gently to get ;living. Thia is
then but permanently, in the near future when tho
accurately s h o w in knesia 3: 11-19. " C u d b the
Northern Hemisphere will be completed.
ground for thy sake. Thorns and thistles shall it bring
forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the Wd:
Adam Waa Drioen from Eden
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat b d y 7 That hsr
DAN disobeyed; and God drove him out of the gar- been the experience of the human race in geaerrl, mr'
den lest he eat pf the tree of life and live forever eince; in fact, sometimes even worse.
(in disobedience\.
Seither eternal life nor eternal tor~..
ment for man is a h o ~ nhere. It was real kindness to
drive Adam away from that eternal lifegiving food Earth Itaelf Not Cursed
0 NOT misconstrue' the stateximnt that the
Though the penalty for disobedience \vas death, God had
ground was curseddisiavored-for
Adam and
r most anlazuy plan for restitution of Adam and his
posterity to life, through the crucifixion of His only be- Eve's sake. The earth was created espcially for the
gotten, belovd Son Jesus, a ransom of all mankind human race, and the whole of its creative procea waa
from the pav'+an object leswn to all eternity to all arranged to suit their creative process, their inshctim,
sod
mation of the sublime love of the Father and the %on testing, training m d disciplining to ba 3 ~ m
for the human race, a love higher than any created agents, every man a miniature king (in the ear&)
patterned after the great Ruler of the nnireraa
king could mnceira
God'a love m d m e r q had r double feature. He
"The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord'r: but
dearly designed to people the planets with happy, in- the earth hath he given to the children d men."-Paah
dependent, fr- moral qab, m d Ilot automatia 116 : 16.
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reactionary physical changes on the incompleted plane. quare miles, all but about 700,000 at which u a am th.
would devitalize him, causing his death, ermtually. antarctic continent.
The area of ice in the uctic region^ ir d
i
Inthrt~forhir&thegroundwascnraed,waa
rapidly; and w h m it h all gom the Northan H
&
. nude unfavorabla
t tirrU
. Thir pro-urnngement, p i a l l y ordered in Adam's phere will be completed. Than, for tho h
cam, nu a p u t of the pat creative plan relatively 6,000 yearq reaction will cease, and sdvuroa w i l l sgrin
just now beginning to be put into operalion, of which begin, a gradual but permanent ntarn to the p h f l d
the creation of the planet. for the o p e d abode of conditions in the @en of Eden dl ma the earth inthe new, unique npeci-~lan-u
a contributing ateadof honerpot.
of thr
Ths second and t l d stage of the 4 , k
feature; m d man'r fill, itr cam and its remedy demonatrat. the indnite foreeight in every minute detail of 6,000 year period of reaction WM aammpanied with fat
the divine mind in preparing an dective object l m n greater destruction than the &st stage, notwithstanding
for ths inetruction, in IoyalQ and obedience, of ha- the f a d that the fall of the ring had permittad
the clear light of the am to riW all life on tb
man beings yet to be created on the billions of plan&
We may be sure that by wirelesa they will converse from whole earth more than ever bebore, w p t on r namm
belt in the north.
p h e t to planet, rehearse the wondroua atory.
The vast iafieldr immediately placed w q thiug
The timing of Adam'r creation just when the rpreadAll of New EngImd and to
ing of the ring of vapor to the far north over the p on earth in cold doden of Eden fulfilled the hm'a mandate driving Adam the north pole and moet of E m p to the north polo
out of the garden, folwd him on account of the dark- were covered with ice hundreda at feet thick. All vegeness to migrate toward the equator, when i t wan euf- table and animal life near the ice wea devitalized dm&
Gciently light, but relatively barren and unproductive to the point of extinction, retaining only r h ari,
team, practically a hibernating etato of all vegetable and
of normal Life-supporting food.
animal 13%stupified and benumbed by r p d y .bA surprise is in store for mankind-the begiuning normal condition on the planet. N o d life has been '
of the reetoration of Edenic conditionr and the ream
impossible; arid what we have b o r n u life haa been
rection of Adam and ail of his ram Burbadfa d b but r faint conception, a nightmare, in comparison with
.- coveriea are only a dight hint of what u coming in
norma lits
life-giving fruits and vegetableu. Thia ws will demonOn the North American catinat, the belt of great&
strate conclusively further o n
vitalie wm in Quatamah, 1.500 miles m t h of &&an;
Tkc light shining through the cloud-ring had per- but tha changer were w sadden and ertrtma that
. .mitted a growth similar to that in r dense foreat, where thing war ahmted. When the north wind blew tram' .
mme light penetrates, but not enough to permit fruita the vast erpanss of ice in the north, eoesything nu
and vegetables to mature. Hence we m by the forechilled through, if not trosted, u far m t h u Central .
- ing narrative in Genesis that A h and Eve wem America; and when the' m t h wind blew fmm th
obliged ta scratch very hard for a bring--quit. a hu- equator, relatively near, everything wilted with heat
miliating change for them. T h q were not in a dense
The change^ mud haqe been wr mdden and extrems
forest, but on semi-bmn h d . This fully accordr with that only the strong& 'could e n d m Tht acmmta
the kn0w11 physical factr
for the cave dwellern in Eumpa Caves m the ideal
residences thsn; for in them tha &
' remu
at mdden
Results o f the Great Deluge
chrnga wen modified. Somewhat rimilv meteordogiATING from the time when the ring qread and cal conditions s t i l l prevail, but we have become inand to nettled over all the earth, the first stage in the them, and they gma leas extreme as the area of ice
diminishem.
reactiperiod lasted 1,656 years; during this
Nine-btha of the ares of the ice in the arctic region
the vitpl conditions were such that man Lived nearij
1,000 yeah notwithstanding the poor food and lack oi hare rubeided; and when ninetentha of the ice in the
clear, vitalizing sunlight. The second sti@ of the en- refrigerator hare gone, the remainder g m quickl~. It ir
tin reactionary period of 6.000 yeam began with the not normal for ice to form or to remain on the planet,
demonstrated
complete collapse to the earth of the ring in a cloud- except on the loftiest m o u n t a h Tbir i
burst of mow. This, south of the 42nd parallel in the by the fact that it is steadily subsiding as normal condiNorthern Hehisphere, and north of the 42nd parallel in tioru slowly kssert themselver
the Southern Hemisphere, melted by the heat of the mu
Them ir ecarcely my human record of ths period j u d
as it fell. or soon after it fell, crrusing the deluge and mblequmt to maximum glaciation-mlj a brief r c f e
the glacial icccapr in the polar ngionr The ice-caps, a c e in the Bible, and a few rude sketchu in the cavea.
though ever since.slowly subsiding, covered at first a g
Except near the qnator
being0 were u, b
prozimhly 11,000,000 nquve milea of the earth's land nnmbed-that all they could think of, or do, wpo to get
p

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was not yet determined whether nitragen g8a in tlik

medium of the conveyance of disease genni
Even when animal matter h burisd fn the glvu.nd,
however deep, most of it trims to nitrogen p and eacapes through the earth into the r t m q h
this new cumulative element, dn#r darrth aQ
and men began, has come to be the great factor d
death; and its removal is a vital @n
to the p m
eervation of lifa ,

food enoagh to keep life aithin t h e n Thq dt

parated like tho wiId animals. Vegetables and fmib
.-- . of the temperate zone m w t have become nearly d i n &
The carts indicate the d q t e struggle for 'a .bare
&&ace.
Thue thr d6bria d animals, bones and rabbi& of f&
coUec'ted fn m d v e layera aithout b e
- ing d d out. Evidmffy at that t i e mankind lived
in part on .the h z e n canasses of the animals thrt
were ejcdad from the terminal moraines of the glaciers.
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Iduenza Traveb in the Atmosphem

HE reeent influenza plague all over tbs world
XDEB the extremely de\italizirig change brought
must have had a cause that waa canrayed in the
about by the Delub and its sequence, the atmosphere ;and it is logical to conclude that it m the
glacial age, in the clw of which we are now living, resnlt of the gat number of animals and man left

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human life r o s s h o ~ u from

l
nearly m e thousand
pars to less than one handred years. But in addition
to the vast dni+&ing ice-fields, another dcvit-g
agent begrn to operate j u t after the Deluge, and in the
.regions f n s from ica brought upon mankind all ldnde
of germ diseases, which did not p r w d in the antediluvian age Cold4 catarrh, tubercdasis, fevers, diphtheria, +pox,
cancer and scores of other germ diseacles appeared* attacking man and the vegetables and
fruits upon which he subsisted;
All thtse diare the agenC of death, fermentstion and putrefaction that have poseibly b e m epred
from deca-g
vegetable and animal motter, and haw
f d e d the atmwphere with a new dmitalizing wt
rince the Deluge-pitragen gar
The ll~lb&ed bodies of trillions of lsnd fowl, animals
md m a that perisbed a t thst time, I think, without a
doubt filled h atmosphere with a greafer p m p r t i o a d
thia ga5 a new element originating from decaying anid matter since the earth became filled with anirnala
and men that have expired. This gao apparently first
began to accumulate to any injurious degree just after
. the Deluge. Its caormous increase in volume ever sine,
through the decay of dead animals and men, has loaded
the air with r n o n - u p , if not a positivaly disease-carrying medium, the result of a vicians mand
of birth and death, ever spreading death to food-bearing ~egetationfor man and animals and to animals and
men, reducing by nearly eight-tenths the relative rolume
of q m , the agent in the sir whch, breathed into
- the Imp, p u r i h the blood. This superabundance
of nitrogen thus reduces the porer of men and animals
to throw off disease.
Whether this gas is the direct medium of conveyance
of disease germs is not fully determmcd. Scme kinds
of bacteria ihrivs in nitrogen gar, and other kinds
thrive in oq-gen gas. We might infer from thin that
u oxygen purdes the blood, bacteria in o q p d a t ~ o y
in nitrogen. I consulted the Dean of the Harr u d Y e d i d School on this mbjed, who s a ~ dthrt it

dead and unburied during th4 war.

In old, thickly settled countries most of the
lifegiving element in the mil h y by cmdmt mp
ping, been drawn from it
C m t l e m trilliom of ineeds, birds, animals m d murkind, as before stated, have matured from d ' a producta and have died, decayed and m a d 3 mpdd
into nitrogen gas, a vast vdume of which hrs MXUUIPlatcd in the atmosphere as the ages have prsrad. It
is the
essence, the ertsact, of the vital s u b s h or
quality of rnimal mptter ertnrded from'the cutb
and stored in the air. As before
we & larm
that theae x+tal elemata have in aome p h been
drained-socompletely from the sail that it in v ~ l n
out
and will not produrn food for man or beast. ECM~
another factor tends to aharten human l i f w
h g nutriment in food products.
If this process of birth and growth and dedh md
decay-the constant extracting of tha vital element froarr
the earth, and through vegetable and fruit and food production the -faring
of it to
bkh,
and mankind, and at their death the -wing
of it itto
the atmosphere in the ehape of nitrogen p-umtinued,
it would be only a question of time, with incmise a3
population, untrl all life-giving qudity for food for
b~rda,animals, and men would be extraded from the .
earth, and man-would become extinct through Iack UZ
nourishing, life-giving food and because of an a m &creasing percentage of oxygen taken into his lnngs, to
purify hia blood. Any one must see that this would
be inev~table;for the factors of extinction would work
from both the air and the soil.
We are now at a culminating point similar to the
Deluge. Vnder the confusion cawed by the Vorld '
IVar and the breakup of orderly economic conditions,
the lack of industrial occupation and remuneration for
the masses, great social and political exatement will
for some time atill further increase the death rate, a
vlcioas round of birth, death and decay. .
The time has come when some fundamental change
and remedy is imperabe, if ,the human race is to
survive I d l a t a show the remedy.

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lfi living death--Satan and hia angda
h-;
Wa Pra all moR or less fda aith
but because they cannot be seen vith the phyaical eye_
ew b t jrrded by the
hp f l e
things SOB F P ' ~ do? it ia
th.t
unseen iduence k putting them up to do things
that .an average horse, dog; or pig, or even s monkey,
of

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molum
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devoluted.
Evil ep+ts work by constant suggestion on the hunun mind, a d a constant dropping of water will weaz
away even a stone.
Jesus said that Satan was the prince (ruler) of this
world, thi8 wthir pofitieJ,
snd
- ligioous world.
The thought no doubt enters your mind, '?I all
thia is true why did God create msn before the earth
was c o m p w d
oblige
to andergo such ter-i
ble hardships and live an unnatural, a b n o r d life,
tempted and fded
an
deri17 S d ~ thst
doea not look Iike wisdom, love, justice or mercy."
If you understood hd'a plan you wodd see the mard o w w i d a n and love of ail this, d its justice md
merc~!The Divine Mind know8 perfedly the law of came
and deck; for He created dl thing6 ta operate by
that Ibr. He IUW the whole p-ss
from beginning
to end befom He created the worid. "Known anto +d
are
fmm the mg
of fie
(A& 11: 18)
before h t e d , m d it w d worth
rfpdiq,
God warded frea m o d agents, beings, angels
and men, that a o d d not be mere automatic machines,
but beings that would of their o m volition do the right
thing. Only training and experience wouId create
a ~ c hchsraeteR Evidently there was no p d e n t that
could be used as an object Iesson.
Gadforesaw that Lucifer-Torning Std-thegreat
angel who had been pat. in charge over man, would
become ambitious, conceited, and wodd plan to hare
kingdom a]. his o m , making Adam and Eve and their
descendwta his servants. They had no experience.
Lucifer, itow named Satan, was more subtle and powerf d than t h v ; moreover, he nras invisible to them, and
and can std,
men unless they
on the
and resist him. But as most people do not beon
lieve that +ere is any such being they cannot
the watch for him, and so am m l I y nusled.

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Adam muld
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have lmokn what he' lost.
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aa A h disobeyed, the Chator h e him out of

the completed apt, where the fruit of the
pedect,IrndlrouldsustainMaaaIong8shirted%;
and the mxt stage m the d u n of the earth f o n d
_ith ihr dniwg
~ c -edh Ont the 8CP8CP
tmet
dm* an A h a& Evemd && pomQ.
But God's plan then was, and is noa,to restore Adsm
and all of his posterie to We, giving
tht-ir fitst
fair trid
hce,
afterh a h g had e.q&aca
md
under perfect conditions with no invbible d d to
tempt them. Then if they disobey, having h.d exba rnnihillred
and an.objectlCSSOn,theJ
in the second death. The proof of ~ L ghat hk.
Jesna srid thst the hour is OOming wh
J1
an in the
h
f
(Job. (: g)
atrnosphae m 6Ued with nitrogen, from which tbdr
e+bodies can be m ~ J for this
,f animal
Hen an this
m may as-$
k tha fint
this 8to? of #,fd peopw ot a planet, .nd all
ad rea,m
The
;
comenew
of
dience will be an object l e s ~ l nto a l l ,
8 1larso~l
so 66d ad imp-,a
to
peopb hmerfta to
created, md to
&,that 130 -d

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HE pIanet hCars is in ita ghud sgq u ib p o h
i-capa a n plaid, nbble; and re may aaaum*
that it 'will be the next planet to be peopled, when ita
icecaps are all melted. There is - 4 7
m y question
but that, when it is peopled, conversation bekeen Mars
and this earth d,
by wide=, mrendily take p h
We may assume that every solar system has, or Kill
have, as many planets as our solar system; and .s
three baion 8have been counted, them wiU k

twenty or more billion planeta to be peopled.

15 there any doubt whatever that, under the terrible
physical condition8 which have prevailed and in which
nian as V ~ as
U all animal and vegetable life haa existed
in
a
benumbed
d a b b a r e l y clinging to life for a few
1
years--this life 1s grossly abnormal, a mere W o n
Adam Made Acquainted with His Loss
of what ~t will be in length. vigor and perfection, when
OD, howmg what Satan and Adam and Ere all thew devltalrzmg conditions have paased aw.7 a d
would do, created Adam and Eve ~n that rela- for the fint time the entire earth will be complete rrrd
tiody short pcriod of time, between the stages of the perfect?

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Daring this 10% period of 6,000 p a n the creative

prooesrr on earth has rendered conditions terrible by
compPriwn and literally
beyond man's strength
to endure. This surely waa bad enough; but Satan
hu made it still more of a hell, r Living death, to the
Mar of people.
AJ w look back, ths picture L varg dkk, and bida
fiir to be darker still; and if we did not h o w @at just
h a d of rur the dark night of sin, sorrow, death and
destructian is to give plats to the^ glorious light of the
nsa day, we might mll tremble with fear.
No doubt the next few jeara, the climax of anarchy,
the disintegrating of the present social, political, econw
mic, and religious world we have known, will be the
p a t e & time of trouble ever seen. Jesas, forecasting it, said (Matthm 24: 22) : "Except thwe dapa
h u l d be shortened, there should no flesh be saved."

fight 811 the nationa had their own little s e l a p h s .

Satan's kingdom is tearing itself down. Cohsrion ia
gone, incipient anarchy prevaik
A great ligh& aa a t the 6rst advent of our Lord, fa
ehining in the darkness. Like lightning it t %ashi%;
and still mom like tko early light of r new day it
steadily d a m Only a few, however, mxgdm ita
source. Thin light ia showing up S a h ' r lia, his
character, and the character of hia dupea T h g m
spiritually blind; t h q cannot eea this light "Bpd the
light h e t h in. darkness; md the darknerr campre
hended it noLn-John 1:1.
Satah and his dupes do not realize that thia light
is show-ing them up in their h e c o l a . "And that
shall that Wicked [one] be yealed whom the Lord '
shall conrmme with the spirit d his mouth, and shdl
destiny with the brightness 02 his mminp."-a Thersaioniann 2:a

CioUIzption in Thras of Rebirth

N A letter to me from the editor of the Litemy New Light Flooding Dark Places
Digest, which I have quoted in another article, but
A have not realized the kstounding import of
rluch is no pertinent that it w i l l bear repeating in this
E z e fight which during the past forty-five yervr

connection, he a i d : "Civilization is in the awful throes

of a rebirth; and this stupendous upheaval will in a l l
probab$ity change your life and, the life of every living
man and woman about you."
dr before dated, Jclras .(referring to the present
time) mid that Satan a s s the prince '(the ruler) of
thin world. He said (John 12:31) : "Now is ths
judgment of this worid: now shall the prince [Satan]
of thh world ba cast out?; and the present condition
of wara, contention, destruction, crime and misery in
the dimax of the trouble engendered. in casting him
out.
Satan'a rub at best has been deriliah. m o h a
been ~irtisfiedwith it? Possibly a few of the favored
onWho wanta to perpetuate that rule? No doubt
in the next few years the distnrbancs and confusion incident to the war$ of casting him out w i l l be awfully
distressing. But cheer up l It ia always h k e s t jut
befom day.
.
What in the pracesa of casting Satan out? He is lilre
his dupea-give him plenq of rope and he rill hang
himself. He has made an awful mesa of things, and
d that u needed ir to turn on the light and let men
& t h e t m p . Jesus erplained the p r o w (Matthew
12: 26) : Yf Satan cast out Satan, he ia dinded
against himself; how .hen shall his kingdom stand 7n
The destructive quality of hate, the logical sequence
of selfishness, the predominating feature of Sotan'a
character, as qhown by hia ambition to have a kingdom
all his own, se2arate from God's kingdom, has hypnotized dl Satan'b d u p Thi?r selbh desire, this lust for
world empire, culminated in the World War.
Tha Kaiser and the English imptrialids fought for
d d dominion and drag-4 all the world into the

has shone into the minds of men like Russell, Ediaon,

Marconi and thousands of o t h m in religiow truth,
electrid science, physical scienca, sociology, economin,
ch-,
world politics, e t a
Satan and his dupes'have been taken by surprise.
Satan has chuckled, saying to himaelf, Y cm me
these miracles to drengthen my kingdom." The aaMA
profiteer chuckles: Y can make millions, aye billion+ .
out of these miracleam But the light has kept on shin- ing, flooding dl the dark p h in menpam i n k
Gradually the fog of ignorance and mperstitim ir
lifting. Men have been inspired to read, study and
think for themselves aa never befom. M a cannot a,
readily be held in slaveq. The benumbing dect of the
ice age ir yielding-the physical and the spiritual go
hand in hand.
Sanitary conditions are improving, m e d i d and
surgical drill also. Satan is gradually coming to the
conclusion that something unusual ia k t e n i n g hia
kingdom-he baa been taken by wrpriaa Thief-like,
the light haa come into his h o w his kingdom. He
hater the light; ha is the great imperialist; he wants
his dupes, except a few whom ha haa made hir cabinet
o5cid8, to be kept in ignorance, especially the mssses-hk d a v u Bat the light k e q s on floodmg the dark
placer
Satan trim to control all the newspapers and fill
them Kith lies; but the people sea the trick, start new
papers and arite new books. He cornen the print
paper. u ~ so
d the Light goes on, m d the fight also. He
might ~s well try to keep b&
the ocean tide with a
broom.
Imperial Satan, the imp, riding on the b& of the
people and for 6,000
vompirr-like, sucking tha

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the ring about the earth, that devitafor

1,666 para and m y drowned all
ljacd
bat Nosh, and his fsmily; the ice-caps which nearly
dman again, putting him into cold s t m a g b
a ua either gone or a t the point of going.

things are being dona. Boilroads, trolleys, m d autor

milI be old junk. Mso the evil rystcm, " S a b ' b kingdam," misnamed "Chriateadom," "Christirm Civilitsr
tionn ( 4 e d ) Kill be "old junk".
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Rudium as Life Re8eroer

Miragen Gas aa Fertilizer

By the

what about the vast d e p d t d dhogen g a ~

fomd
atmospherej that threatens to a n n h i h t e d i m
who have q d M
fie human race, after having survived all thesa cat.r
it ~ 1 0 the~ life
9 of the t r n i t f l ~ ,which in verg brirf,
clpm 7 The p t light now shining in men's minds
ib
l=,@.
If it
ia qua1 to this new menace. Divine economy is always to 700
effect on -4
even under present oondiit
qd to the necessity; and this menace, this d&tal&
of -0
persons e,000
ing agent, nitrogen in the air, is the richest fertilizer would p m l o q
known and is being transformed from a menace into and some *en 70,000 yretarn to
conaidmtion of nie:
the greatest temporal blessing, reinvigorating, vitalizing '
in
the
ahosphen
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to
and resoring man to the perfect physical condition
its
incred
to 7.9 ~e-t
of
that existed in the garden of Eden-a coxnpIeted planet, qpercent
of
its
it
the
atmqh
and
to
the first one, ea far as we kmw, to be hished and peothe real beginning incspable of sapporting life, hence it is dead air In
pled in a the universe; in
the lmga Over every acm of the earthfa marface them
of creation now.
a*
mskmaaf
gM. It i.8 d 7 wtl~
I
t
This is no dream of fancy-no figun of speech.
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reality. soluble i . water; hence heavy rains d@ not deu it
literalJ &-&dent
fact: an
fzOm
the
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m
o
q
h
a
Tbrbngh the u t r a d i o n of thia nitrogm from ths atmasd.w o r e r&ted, fmm M W g &t
m tlrs
phere and its distribution in the soil, every
of
the
af
rrt,
land, eren the sandy desert of Sahars, irrigated, can @ that
bemade to b~~
so the rose literally, yducing fruits fikOgm ia being hnaformed inb th.
H e - d i n g dement through sthulation ai
and food mom v i W g and life-eudmnhg for vegev
e
g
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a h P*
that
has e m f-4 redoring
tation uni far msn than ras m a dreamed d even
.
him to the pb@d perfection that vrr ain
by B
t b rizlnd in m m , ~ d - i.
tha garden at Eden through the medium of perfect
wizard in electrical science.
Edison says that we are only cm ths thzesbold of fmta
graiq mam4eternal lit*@*
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H m wad&
is divine eoonayl h e h m
the devdop-t
of el&&
m-eneCC
This n m Wt i*
tb0-d
05 this nitrogen ir a d b l e for
that ia a-g
inb maJs minda is
to dcornacre of laad; and it behg
veV m e ,
pletdy all eelfish monopolies, including that of verbal eVeT
~ ~ i C I L t ia
o Lunited statm oovernment
is al- extra& of animal matter, the
billionr of human
ready preparing a plan for wireless communication on beings that have died cadd be created out of it, beuida
,wg ninvlgo&d
for their ~PP"'
the poatal system plan, that d l for a few cenb be the
accksible to all.
.
This new Light that is shining into men's minda Creative Froeesaet Unfold Slowly
ERETOFORE, the expense of extracting n i b
has shown them, and is continuing to show them, new
gen from the air for commercial fertiliza hac
laws that govern matter, eo that new inventions are
multiply@g t h t rival the greatest miracles ever per- been prohibitive. But a new invention haa overcome
formed. 'Nothing seems impossible any longer. One of the difficdtp, and a plant in German7 L.m w y
the l a t a t inventions reported is the helicopter, IUI air- operating with a force of 8,000 men. A plant is now
['lane that rises or descends vertically, can mount to operating in Sweden, and the United States Governa ,pat height in a few seconds, is not affected by wind meut is building one costing millions.
It is not reasonable to expect that eternal life-giving
or xesther, and is capable of standing still in the air.
fruit
will mature and eternal-life phpsical conditions
For instance, as reported, i t w i l l be possible at Boston
to go above'the friction of the envelop of the earth w d l preyail immediately. AU things follow n a t W law.
In creative perfection we. aee t.hat divine economy ;.
as i t rolls around a t the rate of 1,000 miles an hour,
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remain s t a t i o n a ~and in twelve hours come down -in adrmts no mushroom growth. All lasting quality ir
China, take supper and, after a good night's sleep above of dow development. Tbe century plant blooms only
the clouds, t a k e breakfast the next morning in Boston once in a long period of timd SlowIy, dowly, h
?'hi.: .-ems impossible, all this long-&tance travel with creative processes unfold.
very little espenditum of motive power; but &anger
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X THIl month d h o or three witneaes shall birthplace of the erpccted Meaaial~ It b n m h m

e m q w& ba dliahed,'' wrote the apostle P a d that the Prophet merely msde publia mention of th.
to tae Connthm C h d - 2 Corinthhn 13:L rpot which had been d a t e d centuries before hir W,

Many at present ars disposed to reject the Bible,

c h h h g that there an no evidences that it is of divine

origin. They have convinced t h d v e a m d mme 0ththat it h merely a collection d old fablea and traditianq

compiId in the early darn of intelligemce; and that

t h e d o n S t h~ nothing to attract or intaest the meJ1d advanced kisdom at onr day.
Rceent ~vcheologicrl &coveria have thrown much
light upon heretofore obacnra pasaages and stimulated
reneaed study in the historical partiom of the Bibla
Modern scientific inventians and mechanical devices a n
demonstrating the truth of the viaiona of the prophets
af old. The automobiles and steam trains are easily
recognized aa the "chariota [which] shall rage in the
streets,. ahall justIe one against another in th6 broad
ways,...abll seem like torchea,...ahall run Eke the
lightnings,. in the day of his preparation," which the
prophet Nahum (2 :3,4) saw 'in inon.
The p h 9 d facts of the radio deponskatioxu are
aa miracles before oar epes. Tf man can so utilize the
powers of nature that he can hear the heart-beat of another4,ZOO miles away, should it seem an i n d i l e
thing that God, who ordered all them Iowa of nature,
could hear the prayers of H
is children, even though
prenenfed in the secret of the closet? (Matthew 6: 6)
The big tiah caught off the east coaat of Florida in 1917,
With a -b
weighing 1,500 pounds, another
weighing 400 pounds, and about 500 pounds of coral
in itr stomach, proves that the iqerience recorded of
Jonah is not impossible.-Matthew 12 :40.
It w i l l be interesting newa to many to learn that the
Bi'blq with which we are familiar, is in realiQ the
&?amd Iritnesa that gives ample evidence of being inspired by divine wiadom. Jehovah is now bringing to
light the &st witnesa to His divine forehowledge and
Hia interest in the & a h of men. When Moees led the
children of Israel from E,gypt, he was but pantominiing
one of the features of a plan which God had decided u p
en, the +cgtiona
of which had been drawn, sealed
and fled away more than five hundred years previons
Moses himsell declared that he but represented a greata one to follow him.-Deuteronomy 18 : 15.
AIl the prophets of the BibIe declared that they were
delivering mesaages sent by Jehovah, whom they represented; and that their descriptions of the Golden Age
to come were by divine authorie. So unreasc~~able
and
impossible did some of their prophecies appear at the
time that e m Cod's chosen people often doubted and
criticized. and sometimes lulled their prophets.-Hs
brews 11:36-39.
Apparent1y indgnificant detail3 were sometimes mentioned, u when Micah (5: 2 ) named Bethlehem u the

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was recorded'in 'gible Number O d ' , the -0 h # a n
for the scientist.
PPhen St. P a d wrote: "Death reigned from A h
to Moses," the latter data d e r d to thoQ-0
of salvation offered to the Jem a t Mt. Sinai,-by rbich
they might lmva drrcrlasting life if
eaald
have kept God's law. (Luke 10: 28) St. Pad
that no imperfect Jew was able to keep thrt 1.w; .nd
that if he or any one else, Jem or Gentile, were to OW
dvation, it must come some other way. (ROIMXU8: 3)
All thin has been found written in the q e d a t i o n a of
the Scientific Bibla Even the dnts when Mmw ru to
lead the Jews from Egypt wad indicated o v a f a r hdred years before Afoeu was born. Many p m t
events in history were predicted, men down to the World
War of 1914. The year 1925 is alao a e p e d b d dab.
S t Peter war afiested and imprisoned for pruching
J e w and HimHimcrucXed.
In his defence he &d to the '
Ssnhedrin: "There is none other nsms under hcrm
given among men, whereby we mnst be a
d.'' (A&
4: 12) Jehovah had spoken forth the edict, d had it
an record over 2,000 yeur before St. P e w s day.
Both the Bible for tha people and the Bible for tb.
dentist mention that God hoe- two offers of a h t i o n : .
One limited to Christ and "holy brethren, p&&m oi
tJm heavenly calling," such am might ehooaa to follow . .
E m by the way of ignominy and the crom to b ~ 4
glory, honor and immortditr-the divine natrus; th.
other offer to be extended later to 'cwhommr d
l
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'of
dl the famiLies of earth, to an earthly Pvldiq perfection of human nature, and e y e r l d q life
euth.
'ff3lessed are the meek; for t h q shall inherit the d n
Tha failure to distinguish between these trro offma
is one of the chief cansea of confusion in the m i n l of
many students of the Bible. Both Bibles &ow eleufT
that the e d and distress in the world are nut of Qod,
bat were permitted for a time that man might demonstrate hia inability to save himaelf or hie neighbor.
mhile waiting for mm to learn his lessons, God hrr barn
quietly carrying on a work of His own.
The written Bible is in language common to man,
and in its present book form is so compact that one can
carry it in his hand. The Scientific Bible is over thirteen
acres in size, a ~ has
d been estimated to weigh over 6,000,000 tona It is in the language of the scientist,
mthout a hieroglyph or the scratch of a pen. In addition
to outlining the m e divine plan for the salvation of
man that the Written Bible does, i t has mines of scientific knowledge, the treasures of which seem to k inhaustible. Scientists are eagerly assaying some at th.
ore already taken o u t
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Any person of ordinary abiliv can write a record of
put tlenta, if he baa correct data from which to cornpib it. That is history. But to write that aune scm t w r d thouand years in advance in quite anather
thing. Thrt b prophecy. This God ha^^ done in both
Hh B f b h Many of the prophecies have now became
hhbry. Many historians hove not bear believm in the
Bible; roms have never heard of it; yet their histories
M witnewa to the truth of i
b predictiom The acumcy with which prophesied m a t s ahead7 due haw
bean falillled ia good evidence that all the m e d
w will bs u accurately ful.6Ued when dua
The physical fact that these prophecies hare been m
accurately W e d demonstrates dearly that Jehovah
cuqing out Hin p h deibitely decided upon ages

ago, He has not interfered with any one's freedom of

will, though He has often restmined the freedom of
rdion of some. Hia schedule is on time and has not
been interfered with.
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The Wstten Bible

".
HAT avidences .re them that the Bible h of
divine origin? Let us nota a few. It is a
compilation from thirty or more miters during a period
of approximately 1,700 y-from
hfoea to John
the Berelator. These writers were from various wdka
of life; a m e n , physiciane, herdsmen, lawyers,
m i priests, princeq c d o r a , and evm kin@
Pervading all their writings ia one principal t h i
No book has exerted such an uplifting influence upon
individuals or nationa It appeals to the henrt and mind
of man, and preaenta to him a Cod of love, juatice, Kib
dom and power, who w i l l punish iniquity and reward
righteolLQle%a
No book has been so roved by its friends or so hated by
ita e n e m i ~ ~At
~ . times the Blble has been outlawed ;and
any one found in possession of one, or even a part of one,
has been sent to prison or to the stake. Shortly after
the death of the apostlea a great persecution amse
rgainrt Christians and the Bibla Whole natious went
under a dense cloud of prejudice and cruelb, and dropped
into ignorance and superstition from which they
haw not yet fully recovered. Some of the persecutors
acted like demons. That period wsa well named tho
Udark ages".
The ~ i i t t e nBible docs not pretend to be a treatise
upon the sciences. It is a sta&ent of God's plan, of
Hia law; it is a treatise upon righteouaneaa and m o d s ,
and on appeal to the better nature of moa It recorda
God'r dealinq with the children of Israel, eth whom
He had made a covenant, and of whom He made many
types It recards their failures without coloring, and
f &out excrtsea shows up many individuals in the& true
light.
Pioturea of future kingdoms and men wers t!~rown
upon the prophetic screen. Babylon, Medo-Persia,
Oreerr, and Rome were shown as four p a t world pow-

n+ to be followed by the kingdom d God. To ~ e b u chadnezzar thene mighQ kagdoum appeared aa a great
I
man, wonderful to behold, m d the Gfth kingdom M a
calamity which hocked hia big man all to p
k To
Daniel the same four powera appeared u four ridom
1
beastd, devouring each other in d o n , m d the kingdom of Qod u a great deli-.
Hietory rhwr that
Daniel had the proper rim. The foar kin*
are .
pad, and the fifth t now coming upan the 8ceuaj
Daniel, Chapterm 2' 7, 8.
Not only were nations pictured, but individda were
often silhouetted m distinctly that
are quickly recognized by the student of history. Alexander the Great
Is easily identified in Daniel 8: 21'22, and 11:3,4.
Even the division of hk empire into ita four
is
delineated.
After the division of the ~recian~em~ire,
prophecy
speaks of Egypt ae the c%ng of the muth'', m d of
Bome or some of it6 parts as "king of the north". Dmid 11: 11-19 outlinea incidents which occur& during
the time of Mark Antony and Queen CTeoptn A&
t u a Caesar ia pictured in verae 20 M Ua raiser of tueb';
and Luke (2: 1) thus describe9 him. Veme 21 tells
that Tiberius Czsar, "a rile person ahall
ob& the
kingdom by ftatteriea*' Verse 25 outlineti the recoad
KPT between Bome and Egypt, a t the time of Aurelian
and Queen Zenobia.
Daniel 11:29 to 45 reim to Napoleon arid hh career.
Verse 29 resds: "At the timr appointed ha [Napdean,
of F m t x M part of the kingdom of the north] shall
return, and come toward the south [ E m ] : but it
&all not be aa the former [ w b under Muk Antony],
nor as the latter [under Aurelian]. For the Ihipa of
Chittim [England] ahall coma sgsinrt &I; therefom
he ahall be grievd"
Admiral Nelson defeated the h d aquadrm in
Aboukir Bay, August, 1798,
the timc appointedn;
and thia defeat so grimed Napoleon that he shortly
afternard returned to France, 9s foretold. No historian
h a better delineated Napoleon than did Daniel in varser
56-45. How could Daniel have foreknown all them
particulars, 2,300 yeam before Napoleon was born, unless inspired by divine wisdom? In fhe Bible the exact
dates of the birth and death of Jerm~were foretold, as
wsci also the great war in 1914.
The Written Bible givea the clearest, tersest description of the creation of the earth yet a r i t t e ~ Professor
J. D. Dana, a writer of much prestige on geology and
natural history, says of the Mosaic account of creation:
"The first thought that striker the scientific reader
ia the evidence of divinitp, not merely in the h t verve
of the record and its successive hts, but in the wholo
order of creation. There is so much that the most
recent findings of sciena have for the l b t time explaBd, that the idea of mm = its author becomes utterly incompreheasibla By proving the record true' scienca
proves it divine; for who could have correctly narrated

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&e secrets of eternitg but God h i d ? " "The grand lost"; and every prophet of God has rpoken of the "timed
old Book of Ood still stands; and this old earth, the of restitution", the giving back of that which was
more its leaves are turned and pondered, the more will possewed, lost, and later found by the Son of Man. Thir
kingdom of Gad ir the principal theme oi both B i b k
it euatain and illustrate the sacred Word."
It in not at a l l unrelrsonable to expect that the original
m a n e p t s of both Old and New Testaments w i l l ba TIce ScientiAc Bible
discuvered, sooner or later, hidden away by Jehovah
HE Scianti%oBible might with propri+ be d e d
until the proper time. Some have criticized the Bible
Biile Number One, dna it i. the older by aweral
-because, M they say, if it came from Jehovah it ahodd hundred yeam It in the Great Pyramid of Gizth, in
contain treatises on all the sciences as well as on theoI- Egypt. It speaks by its geographical location, its siza
agy. Why not make the same criticism againat an^ and shape, its inkier passages, their planes oi incline
versatile ariter who does not ten, all he knows in one and their lengthq ita chambers and their &w, locatim
book ?
and relationship to each other; the @C trimmings
The physical facta of the universe and the multitu- in,the King's Chamber, and the limeatma
dinous and intricate Yaws of nature" prove that their of -the Queen's Chamber, the pecnliu atranas to
Creator and Controller is far superior to any being that and inlaid stones in varioua places, MI located u to inman can imagine. This little planet t k t we live on in a dicate events and dates. Ho book-binder ever did s
wonderland all by itself, and a testimony of the wisdom neater piece of work. All expert fa-tan
test*
and care of i t ,Creator and of His care for His creatures that the Great F'yramid ia a masterpiem of wmkm8nWere it not for 'man's inhumanity to man" and the ship, and that it could not be duplicated -7,
with d
curse of sin it could easily be transformed intd a Pars- our mylern science and mechanical @pmc11tr.
dise, with'as perfed happiness ss there ia in heaven.
It is customary for authors to data their pnblicat501~
God haa provided everything necessary to g r a w every
The Great Pyramid is no crception. We h d the dote
proper senss oi both body'anb'mind.
of Ucopyright", if you pleaao, gim t i c a : Once in the
The gianb air, water, electricity, and others yet to language of the ashhomer; the other by the builder,
be trained,atand waiting f4 do q J sbidding a t a mo- in the building W ,m d referring to the ashuamar.
menfa notiae. These servants can do more, better and Although conatmcted by man, 5 t it dl b o toodent that
.greaterwork than human aervanta They are ready to no man could have bean ita uchitact; for no nun could
do the most menial service ;they asah oar clothea, weep a t that rt have known what is thmin rrim&
o u r ~ ~ cook
h o oar
~ meals, light and heat our homes, by divine inspiration. We hen3witb
KRXW d the
uuy m over the highways w i t h almost the apeeft oi evidences and a& every honest *dent ta tat them
the d o d u flight, carry our messages to the uttermost c a d d y , simply upon the facts submitted, md eth
parts of the earth m the Kings of the morning, deliver any additional data he may seam.
the s
d of anr lecturer or the music of the bed opera
the
in o& own horn-& aa perfectly as though r e sat
me GrCOf P y r m s of Gkeh
dame hall with the singers, erea though they are actu*
thousands of miles away.
HE Great Pyramid of Gizeh in located upon a rocky
plateau on the west side of the river Nile+ about
All that these servants need is a master. Man has the
ability to be their muter. He was created to be a kiug, ten milea from Cairo, Egypf and about one hundred
not a dare; and a full retinue of most faithful w a n t s ' and ten miles from the sea The ancient hiat~rians,
ham been provided. God created man and gave him Herodotua and Strabo, described it ,as covered w i t h
the earth for his dominion Man is just waking up to polished marble and glistening in t& sunlight like a
this f a c t He h dill rubbing hia blinking eyes, as if mountain of glass. Tradition had it m e d with untold
arousing from a Rip Van Winkle sleep of several thou- wealth, hidden away by ancient kin@. A trifle to the
sand g k It is hard for him to comprehend what he east of the center, and about seventy feet up from tlla
actually sees going on all around him. God's Word is base on the north side, there was a secret entranca Tlls
stones had been M, closely fitted by the builders that
the key to the mystery.
nothing could be noticed from the outside. The ancients
Both Bibles kach emphatic&p that man w~
of
perfect and in the favor of God; that shortly d+er his placed the Great P ~ e a td the head of their
creation hA fell from that favor, and entered the way the Seren Wonders of the IJ'orld.
In ~ t aprimitive quiet and besutgc it remained for
to sin, whick leads to death. Bath Btbles tench that man
has been unable to save himself; and physical facts prove over 2,900 yearn, as
that thh fs trua Man needs assistance. Both Bibles as nseless. About 820 A. D.
teach thst mch assistance has been provided ; aud that Caliph, determined to
"whosoever will" may recover all that was lost, a wiser tressures He ~ecnreda
and better man, with a fuller appreciation of his Creator. ising to divide with them tha wealth t h q W d hd,
The Son of Uan "came to acek aod save that which was He was not able to locate the secret door, so ha forced

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an entrance by tearing a Luge ugly hole in its beautiful
surface, a s near as he could estimate the location of the
door. Through solid masomy of massive stones, secura
1y cemented together, he quarried hh way tediousij
.bout 100 feet, and reached one of the inner passages.
Egerly him men sought the buried treswra
It war a treasurshouse indeed, but its mines contained none of the gold or gems he was 100for.
Neither Al Marnoun nor his workmen had any use for
mch M they found. They were like the ignorant eol-'
diar who was rsnsacking the p a l m of a defeated king.
a"ha king In his precipitate 'Bight had dropped his bag
containing the royal j e d of great value. The soldier
found it and picked it up. He opened the bag and salv
tho p n c i o u stonea He wondered what a king would
want with such worthless pebbles. He threw them away
and, rhowing his empQ bag to a comrade, said: "See
what a h e dinner-bag I have found" Not only was
A3 U o u n disappointed, but to appeaw the disappointm a t and
of his workmen$ had to hide a qusntity af gold therein and kt them find it.
Later the beautiful casing-stones were remo~edand
used b b d d moaquer and cities, until nearly all o f
them were stripped from their long resting-plnce and
taken to adorn palaces and 'public buildings- Like
ghouh robbing the wounded, the vandals continued thair
-tion,
until today the Pyramid stands ea a mighty
mbkled and prematurely old, yet in its atrength
defying enemies and the elements, still guarding the
treasnres tntruebd to its care until'they shall
.delrvered aa directed.
1 Like a royal messenger with strid orden to deliver
his message only to cerhin ones and at a specged time,
m this m-ger
from Jehovah had orden ta deliver
his treasares to the 'hobles of the mind", scientists, at
a speci5ed time aa a witness to them. That time is here,
and this messenger is delivering these hidden keasures
before their astonished gaze. Like the inventions of
this "age of miracles", the supply appears ineshaustible. We now d e at the suggestion reported to have
been made by the Superintendent of the Patent Offim
at Washington in 1844, that Congress might as well
close the Patent Office, for all that could be inveuted
had been patented. Uany in the past have been inclined
to smile at the folly of any one who would build such
mig11t;P structure aa the Pyramid when it could be
put to no use.
Not until the nineteenth century, however, did it gradually dawn upon some scholars that the Great I'yramid might contain some scientific features. I n 1799
some FrencH savants who accompnnied Nnpoleon on his
Egyptian expedition, made a few sun-eys and examinations They dug into some of the pdes of dbbria at the
base, fonned by the chips when the casing-stones wem
torn from their cemented positions and did or tumbled
down from above, and by sand blown in from the desert.
They found what they termed "encnstrements" nt two

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of the comers, large square stones sunk into the solid

rock bed on which the Pyramid wan built. In.1837
Colonel Howard V p epent several month ~amioing
the Great Pyramid psrticulariy and employed W
O
hundred workmen to assist him to dig through the ms9
of dhbris, in some places lifty feet deep, with the d m h I
to locate if possible the original brw, lines. Beaidao
reaching the foundation, he was fortunate in locating
three of the original casing-stones still in p O r i t i 0 ~
Though varying in thicknese t* were each four feet,
eleven inches high, and had the same outer face bevel.
One of the tbrea is estimated to weigh nineteen bw.
These. casing-stones were joined together 8o closely that
it was di5cult to determine the point of joining. ' X b
~ e n ist only about one-Gftieth of an inch thick, yet
hdds the stones together so tightly that it is d i t E d t
to pry them apart. Considering the large mufaces thua
evenly faced, the workmen muat have been e s p @
superior to any of today.
These casing-stones gare Colonel Vysa the d w to
the original exterior dimensions and to the incline of thc
ddea He also found the two ccwrner-stoned' mentioned
by the French savants. He believed that they wen,
d into the rock foundation to indicate p.articda
points for measurements. This was v a e d by
h v e r k k i o u fie-dram lines wem nlso found
upon them, which were later found to refer to other8
Kithip the stmcture. NO such ucorner-st~nes" am
found in any of the other pyramidd. Theae uaocket
stoned' are evidently referred to in Job 38 :4-7:' T h e m '
upon are the sockets [margin] thereof made to.sink?
or who laid the cornerstone thereof?

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Great firamid Receives Much Attention

OLOLVEL W S E published three large volumes

C
Thae

entitled "Operations at thq Pyramids d Ghh".

rorks aroused deep inte*
and others began to
investigate. In 1859 John Taylor published a work,
"The G p t PyTamid; why waa it built? and who built
it?'' He was the first to suggest that pwibly the
Pynumd was of divine origin. Before his death he interested Professor C. Piazzi Smyth, a t that time Royal
Astronomer for Scotland.
In 1864-1865 Professor Smyth spent several months
at the Pyramids. He made extensive measurements and
astmnomical cnlculations; these he published in three
mlumes entitled "Life and Work at the Great Pyranlid". He also published "Our Inheritance in the Great
Pyramid". Later he made other visits to secure additional measurements and to verify some previous ones,
and in a few paint3 he re~isedhis astronomical calcuktiom slightly.
Tillivn Petrie. father of Professor ~lGdersPetria,
Grst suggested tliat the 'Ctopstone", itself a emall
pyramid, to the form and anglea of which the whole
structure conformed, might in some lcnss qmbolim

ir9

Christ. I n Job 38: 4 7 is mentioned the "cornerston&';

and Christ said (Matthew 21: 42) to the Pharisees:
*"Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which
the buildem rejected, the same is become the head of
the comer?" evidently referring to Psalm 118: 28 and
Isaiah 28:18. It ia easy to sea how this would ba
particulruly true of the topstone of the Pyramid. It
would not fit any place during the process of building;
but when the apex was reached, no other stone would
flt.

About 1881 Professor Flinders Petrie, who had made

pemnal visits to the pyramids and & w i v e measurements of their upper portions, mote his memorable
work, "!I'he Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh." He Tas
also enthusiastic in describing the wonderful workmanahIp of construction, cloenesa of joints, accuracy of
angles, and cactnCs of detail evidenced throughout the
entire structum
The above books are now rare, but are to be fwnd
in some libraries
In 1891 Mr. C. T. Russell publiahed his work, 'Thy
Kingdom- Come." Having read Professor Smyth's
work, ccOurInheritance in the Great Pyramid,"he ww
60 impressed with it that he devoted one entire chapter
to the theological teachin5 of the Great Ppmid. A
friend hearing of his intention requested the privilege
of submitting the manuscript for the chapter on the
Great Pyramid% Professor Smyth for criticism. In
mhming the manuscript Professor Smyth wrote, expreseing much interest. We quota part of his lettar:
"As I pmgressed through the pges, the powera, the
rpehlties and tlworiginalities of the Author came out
m@cently;
and there were not a fen ptxq,oea I
should have been glad to take a copy of for quotation,
with name, in the next possible &tion of my own
Pyramid book.. .I merely remark here that he is both
good and new in much that he says on the chronology
of various parts of the Pyramid, especially the First
Ascending Passage and its granite plug; on the Grand
Gallery, as illustrating the Lord's life ; on the parallelisms between the Ging's Chamberand its granite against
the Tabernacle and its gold; and ,generally on the muh a t i o n or close agreements between Scripture and
the Great %amidJ'
The volume, "Thy Kingdom Come," awakened the
interest of John EdM. A,, B. Sc., M. B., C. At.,
and of his brother Morton Edgar, of Glasgoq Scotland.
They determined to test the theory personally. Providing thernsqes with the best s c i e n t ~ cinstruments obtainable, long steel tapelines scientifically tested, and the
latest cam&aa for taking flash-light pictures, they
visited the Pyramids in 1909, spending several months
then. They checked the records given by Colonel Vyse
and Professors Smyth and Petrie. In addition they
had the lower passam- carefully cleared, at considerable
personal exper&, &d took many luellsurements of all

the passages, chambers, angles and cornera, nometha

going over the g m d three timer, to check @le
er- .
rora 'I'hey took flash-light pictam of dl psrte of th4
interior, and many photographs of the erterior and
mundings
i
- A later visit was mn& by Mr. Morton Edgar in t
k
yenr 1912, to esamine certain featurea mom M f . 1
They published "Pyramid Passaged' in two YO^-:;
the first containing numerous photographq drs-:
and diagrams, and showing the s y m b o h af th. Great P p m i d ; the second dealing mom padicukly
with the chronological features. The third tdnow on the press, takes up the scienti6c featurea mom
particularly. These are the most lucid and
hatises yet published on the Great P m d . It ia
by the c o ~ ofy Mr. Norton Edgar that we ur:
privileged to present the drawings herewith.

Date of mramid'a Erection

~ T m
E a the first to suggest thal: p*
sibly the builder had hidden in the geographical
location of the gramid and the peculiar incline of ths
interior passages the secret of the date of its erection.
His firJt calculation was 2170 B. C., but later it vu;
revised, and has been definitely pmven to be 2140 B. C.
The date 2140 B. C. was 4,OM pars agq o n e 33%
yeam after the flood, 18 years before Noah died, 170.
yeem befom his sari Shem died, and 20 yema before,
Abraham waa born By some Shem h considerad the
M e l W e k of sdem, later Jem-sdem, who met and
- blessed Abrpham ao he was r e k n b g from the slaughter
of the kings who had formed tho firat League of Hatima
and captured Lot and his family, as recorded in G c n d
14. It has also been suggested tht Shem was the
builder of the Great Pyramid, and the suggestion is not without some foundation.
At 33% years after the flood the boundaries of the
inhabited portion of the earth could not have atended
far beyond Mesopotamia on the east, the & o m of the
Caspian, Black, and Mediterranean seas on the north,
and lower
m the south. Meane of travel were
Limited, and people were not crowding each other. H m
much was then ]sown of the size, shape and the land
formation of the earth, and its geological divisions?
IFhat ans known of the distance of the eun from the
earth, or the precession of the equinoxes, or the polar
and equatorial diameters of the earth? Let us keep
these questions in mind as we read about the Great.
Penamid.
First ne w i l l notice the location selected on which
to bulld t h "Bible in StoneJJ,M Dr. S& named it.
See accompan-.in,- dramng bn page 210. In 1368 Ur. Henry Atltchell, Chief Hydrographer of ,
the Cnited States Coast Suryey, was sent to report tho
progress of the Suez Canal. While in that riciniq ha
made a survey of the coast of E,qt, and was ctruck
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with the circular form of the c o i t h e at the ddta of

the Nih He made careful d a t i o n and found
M rlmost
q-t,
the sides being formed by
fhe hills which border the lowlands and meet near
Cairo. By clcalculation he found the apex of the
&a
to be at the site of fhe Great Pyramid, about
ten miIea mnth west of Cairo. This gignutic structure
rtood u p the edge of a rocky cliff, or plateau, and
odooked the entire Loser Egypt He was so im-

wed;

dram through the Great Pyramid would cmqo mots

land surface than any other line; where- ita 8nti@
would touch very little land, except on the wedem partion of Alaska He therefore claimed that ita l o ~ r t i a
was by far the most suitable for the zero of longihclq
as it would better suit all nations. He- further statad
that rr lafitrdinal line at the same point wodd
.
more land d a c e than at any other known paint. HW
did Shem know of such an impertant location?

kt he remarked: 'That monument stands in

;more important

physical situation than any other

building erected by man." I t might well be said to be
in the center and a t the same time at the border of
Egypt. Twhty-five hundred years ago the prophet
Isaiah wrote3 "In that day shall there be an altar in
the midst of the land of E,gypt, and a pillar at the bordm thereof to Jehovah. And it shall be for a sign and
for r witness unto Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt."

-Isaiah
Prof-

19 :19.

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observed that a longitudinal lina

Squaring the Circle

NE of
f i s t scientific features discovered in
0
the Great Pyramid was that
height &to
the length of
sides the base line a
to
the

itl
at
1is 3.14159;
or, ibted otherwise, twice the height considered M 8
d i a e t e r of ;a circle is to the entire base line M the dimeter of r circle ia to its circumference. Th- tha problem of squaring the circle had been actudly worked O U ~
md recorded 4,000 rean q. ,
About the beginning of the s w t h c
e
n
m Budolph
Von Ceulen discovered the ntio d the diameter oi 8
tao

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circle to it. circnmferenm to be 1to 3.14159. So great

did he consider hia dimvery that he had it recorded on
hh tombstone in S t P M s Church9 at Leyden. But
he war a little over 3,800 years behind tima
For a long time mathematicha had tried to b d
lome standard of meamma which could be adopted by
J1 natianr- Believing i t should in some way be connected with the earth, they m y took the distance of
the earth's quadrant, ffom pole to quator, and divided
it by 10,000,000. The r d t , 39.37 inchea, ase suggested
aa the basis for a national cubit Thh wan adopted by
the French in 1799, and hater by other nation6 including the United States. This ia known re the Metria

-ured
i
n cubits, equal the number of day8 in fyears, including the a t r a day for the leap-yw.

Mstancs from Earth to Sun

STEONOMEBS hare eatimrted 6 e distance of thm

earth from the sap at betwen 91,000,000 and 93,000,000 milea Pennit us here to quob from w
d
Passaged', Val. 1, pagf9 22 :

'William Petrie, father of Professor

Pdrb,
re%*
on the fact [the E'yramid'r method of indicsting the exact len,@h of the aolar year]
connected it
with John Taylois dixovery that the vertical height
of the Great Pyramid is the length of the radius of a
System,1'near measure.
After critical and exhaustive calculationr, based upon circle the circumference of which equals the total
comparison of many measurements and cross-measure- measnmnent of the square baoa He c a m to the eonmenta, Profes~orSmyth discovend that the Great P p - clnsion that aa the topetuneof the Pyramid, d,thh
mid had a Btandard of both linear and cubic measures point of ricw, eymbothe nun, it. vertical height .
pcnliar to itself. The linear standard he found to be b u l d indiate in some r a y the mean dietana of tho
a cubit of torenty-five inches, which he called the Pyta- mi from the esrth.
mid cubit Other divisions or lengths he named sim"The problem was to find the scsla This he aacerilarly, aa the m i d inch, the Pyramid mile, e t c Tlm tained to be 10 to the 9th power, M p d d y &own
Pynmid inch is onethousandth part longer than the by the Great Pyramid itself; for if a meanurement ba
standard British inch; in other worda, 1,000 British made from one of the corner &eta to ths central mrinches make 999 Pyramid inches. Applying this stand- tical axis of thin structure, and for every 10 linear feet
u d he was amazed at the mine of information it opened. horizontally inwards, 9 linear unib k measured nrtiThe polar diameter of the earth had been found to call7 upwards, when the total horizontal aad rertiesl.
be 7,899.3 British milcq or 500,500,500 British inches. meaauremcnfa are completed, the original apex of the
Without entering into the detsib here, it may be said Great Pyramid w i l l be reached to within 2 in&-, m
that the G r ~ a tPyrsmid givea the polar axis of the cording to precise messnraa That 4 the horirontal
earth 600.000,000 P p d d i n c h d o s t e
d length
~
from one of the corner socketa to the center beaa
equaling the 500,500,500 British inchea Dividing thu the m e proportion to the verticd height of the Pymby 2, to get the polar radius, we have 250,000,000 Pyra- mid u 10 doer to 9. (6456.63 ia to 6813.01 u 10 u to
mid bchea, aa the basis Dividing thir by 10,000,000 9.) Tha d e having been found, it it a 6impls calwe have 25 Pyramid inches, or a Pyramid cubit. Thin culation to 6nd how many miles us represented in th.
b a better ctandard than the' one based upon the quad- nrtial height of the Pyrsmid.
rant The Pyramid cubit @urea largely in the mathe
"Converting the 5813.01 Pyramid inchea to British
matical and astronomical featurea of the Great Pyramid. inchea by dividing &ese Pyramid inchea by .999, md
multiplying thia by 10 to the 9th power [i
a. 1,000,Number of Daus in Sohr Pear
000.000], and b i n g the result into British milea, he
HE exact length of the solar year is 365 days, 5 brought out the quantity of 91,837,578 of t h o a miles,
hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds; etated deci- or as near the maan distance of the mn from the earth
mally, 365.242 days Three h u n d y l and sixty-6ve day3 ur modern astmnomem can detemine."
ars usually counted as a year, but this runs the time
The ~ p m ed t i a recorded in other alculatiom
ahead, by nearly a quarter of a day each year; and in
order t& bold it in place an extra day is added every
fourth year, called a leap-year. But this in turn is a TIcc Precessional Cycle
bit too much, aa it is not quite a quarter'of a day over
NOKERS recognize three main motions of
each year. To hold it back, only such century yeam
the earth, two very rapid and one verJ alow. The
as are divisible by 400 are counted ns leap-years. Many
is its rotation on its own axis every 24 h;
the
recall that the year 1900 was not a leap-year. It second, its revolution around the sun wery JUT; m d
was divisiblqby 4 but not by 400.
third, r slow turning of its axis (and t h d o m of tha
The length of each side of the Great Pyramid at the entire earth), m that it does not d w a p p i n t to the
base line is 761 feet, 8 inches, or 9,140 Rntish inches. present pie star,called Polaria (ait does very nearly
Reduced to Pyramid inches (Deduct one inch for each now) but deuuibes a complets but d circle among
3,000) it is 9,131. Divide this by 25 to reduce to Pyra- the atnrs in the northern hepvem in tho ~ 1 of ~
A
mid cubits, and the d t is 363.24. The four sides, Little over 25,000 yearn l'his peculiar, don and ro&

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Ning modon of the earth cam the equinoxes to occur
about 60 secanda earlier each year, and the stars to rise
.nd oet 60 eemndr later year by year. This motion ir
caused by the gravitational in3uencer of sun and moon
upon the earth, and iS due to the earth's not being a
perf& qhere, u it k well known that it is flattened a t
the pol- d bulges out in the equatorial regions.
Jehovah -&ed Job: "Canst thou bring forth Mazm o t h [marginal reading-the twelve signs] in.hi
aso on ? " J o b 38 :32.
Thismotion of the e a r t h h known ar the Precemional
Cycla The length of the c w t has been ascertained
to be 25,694 y e x a Professor Smyth found this also

recorded in tho Great Pprarmd. The lengths of tho

two di.gada of the base at the l e d of the d a c e
of the platform on which the casing-stones reat, when
reckoned in Pyrarmd inches, at the rate of an inch a
year, e q e exactly 25,694. The same number k again
recorded ftuther up, in sereral ways.

TIrcology of the Great Pgramid

AY we cordially invite the attention of the

Fundqentalists and the Modernists, who are
disagreeing over the interpretation and the inspiration
of the Bible, & some of the remarkable features of the
Great Pyramid and its teachine on theological lines?
It yill also prove interesting to the akeptic, who doubts
tb overruling of earth's &aim by a personal God. It
greatly mcothe humble Christian, who haa

h o ~ n x iN
,.

been Klllldng by faith and praying for mom light upm

his pathway. It may also hearten some, w b are about
to give up in despair, to know that He who comrmndtd
the tempednoua Kinds and waves of Galilee to "la
still"-and
the forces of nature trembled at that comnand-will soclll w i t h qua1 authoritg say to the hruricane of h o r n s now sweeping over the earth, 'Team!
Be still I" Then tempestuous passions will stand awed,
trembling at thnt command, and w i l l obey.-Psdm
46 :10.
In order that a l l may h o w that the d d p W d
atherein given am not guesseq pamit u8
to make one more quotation fmm 'TPyramid Paam@:

"The measurements which appear in the chart of th

Great PykniCam derived mainly from the rslasbh
works of Professo~C. Piazri Srnyth aqd Flindem Petria
- W e and Worka at the Gnst Pyramid,' and "llm
-ids
and Temples of (3izeh.' When w conrridez
the diicdties which mekurers have to contend w i t h in
the v e r ~ lconfiaed, dark, alippery, and now somewhat
dilapidated pasasgeaays of the Ppramid, we can readily
recognize that though these worken may conduct^ their
measure-operations with errery care, their conclusioo~
would necessarily M e r to some extent.. We find
when we compare the lists of these two eminent acieatists that thcre fa but little'difference between their
measures tot most of the upper parts of the P p m d ' r
interior system ;and the results of o m own mersaring.
operations, also, d o d j ogres with their figures. We

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confident, therefore, that &e measures used.. are as

near thc both aa can be hoped for. They harmonize all
the teaching of the Pyramid, and are corroborated over
and over again by the numerous time-features, which are
based upon Bible chronolog~. They revenl a wonderful
design throughout the exterior and interior proportiom
of this truly mardona building. The m a m m m e n h
are all in British inches"
All oar measuring ' +
ts are scaled' accordin&
to the British standard; but these d e easily reduced t o
Pyramid inches by calcukting 999 Pyramid inches for
each 1,000 British inches. Otherwise stated, drop one
Britiah inch for each 1,000; and we have the number
of Pyramid inches.
Be?. J w p h Seiss, D. D., in his work entitled "A Miracle in Stone," haa much to a y of the Scriptural eym-

life, high in the favor of God, ha almost i m m w f

lost that favor b j his transgression. '5
the m t d
thy face shalt thou eot bread, till thou reunto tha
ground" is here epmbolized by the narrow, m p d a
psssagewa7 leading back to tha ground Man's fdl ir
here plainly shown.
At about the pdint where this Ihscending Passage
enters the rock foundation, the ground, begins the Fint
ascending Passage, which lesds from the W d h g
Pasaagi and is directly over it, a t the wno degrse d
incline upward that the other is downward. Thir r p bolizes an apparent opportunity to leave the dormwud
path to death and take a tnrn upward toward life and
favor with God. We recall,that God saleded the children of Israel from among all other natione, d madr
them an offer of life, if they would keep His law, u

bolism of the Great Pyramid In the publication, gThy

Kingdom Come," Mr. Bus-dl devotes caneiderable apace
to showing the wonderful harmony between the Bible
and the Great Pyramid theologicailj and chronologically. We herewith give a general outline disgram of
the Great Pyramid, also an enlarged outline of the interior passages, together with some of the measure
menb given by the three critical scientists already mentioned.
In symbolism the interior pasages of the Pp-am.id
represent the experiences and opportunities of m i sinca
the time of Adam. A glance at the diagram & o m
that the only entrance is array up the north side,
about seventy feet from the bass The entrance pa+
age is about forty-two inches wide and fortyeight
iucher high, and leads immediately southward and
downward at the steep incline of 26@ 18' 10". It is
.both diliicult and dangerous to dtscend this narrow p w
mgewafl Such has hem the experience of man ever
rince he vns expelled from Eden. Endowed n-ith perfect,

giren to them when they w e a covenant with Him at

ACt S S L The agreement was that if they codd keep
that law they should have everlasting lifa (Llzka 10:
28) Just a few feet up, the psnrags M complttdy
blocked b r graqite bouiden, fitted and atdged into i t so
tightly that they have never been moved. Them
blocks are known as the "granite pluf.
In the Tabernacle of the Wildemem and the Temple
a t Jerusalem, gold represented things divjne. In the
Great P ~ a m i dgranite is used to represent thinga dioine. I t a a s impossible for imperfect Jews to keep ti:e
divine law; therefore the opportunity for salvation by
way of the law n-as of no avail. The covenant "wss
we& through the flesh" (Romans 8 : 3) ; man could not
live u p te its requirements., l'his is symbolized by the
blocking of tha First Ascending Passage bj the "-it.
plug". This passagewar and the plug are so louted
that they indicate the exact, year when Moses led the
children of Israel from Egypt, and organized them inte
a nation, separatc from other notions, aa we shall see*.

Downward Trend o f Manktnd

HE Jews
T
s:
Down,

were obliged to continue on ths downward road w i t h the nrt of mankind. (Bomann
20)
down, down, for 228 feet, l
a the
narrow cramped paaageway, bored through solid rock,
ha&t'aa W.I m w , of the same size, quared at the
floor, sides and roof. At that point is a small o
m
to the right known as the "well", lading a little to tha

more inches in height. Here the Brench Bsroluth k

symbolized, and dated as 1789 & D.
From thb "mxaa" the passage d d a a h t four
feet mom and opens into what is sometimtr d e d "The
Bottomless Pit". Thib in the largest chambar camacted
with tho Pyrsmid. It ia appmrimstely twenty-amen
feet north and south, fortp-six feet east and weat, md
from one to menteen feet from ceiling to floor, it the
bottom may be calle&a floor; for it k v e q rough and m
even, and s n g O d chaoa. Toward the nst it ir within a foot of the cefling; and near the eastern dde im r
deep shaft, depth &own.
It was nearly filled with
dkbria. The Edgar brothers had it cleared to a depth of
forty feet but found nothing, and did not feel repaid for
the heavy expense incurred. T6e name "BottomIetm
Pit" seems very appropriate. This is so located that
its north edge indicates the year 1914, the year when
the world tumbled into tho pit in which it hu been
floundering ever since.
aU the brings from thia long p a s a g h q at orar
280 feet, all the excavatiom fmm the "rec6as" and the
Pit, must have been taken oat through the smsU Da
mading Passage leading to the v
p
e
r surface. Ons cam

rest, thence almost at right rnglcs upward for about

a00 feet, connecting at the upper &d with and near the
juncture of the three upper pssssgewaya Thia opening
is mry irregular, and at times almoet vertical, and al-

most impossible of ascent without assistance. An

originally left by the builders, this was the only means of
access to the upper portion of the Pyramid. H
ere at
lass is symbolized an opportunity to escape from the
road leading to death. Thus is the offer of salvation
only thmugh Christ pictured.
Tha Descending Passage continues, below the well,

rtill in a straQht line for nearly thirty feet more, to a

sharp turn to a horizontal direction. This indicates
some change in worldly affairs. This turn ia so located
that it iudicates the great Reformation of Luther's tune,
of which it gives the date. The Horizontal Passage
axtends twenty feet and opens mto a small "recess"
cut orr the west side, about sir feet square m d fiity or

easily imagine the slow, laborious work necessarJ. in

such narrow quarters. Only one man eould work at a
time while driUing through the rock, and he must needa
have been an expert to keep such straight linen Dmbb
less all this subterranean excavation ?as completed before the superstructure was begun. The large Pit ir
ahout 100 feet below the surface of the rock on which thrr
P j ~ a m i dstands.
Let us imqine ourselves in the Pyramid ss originally
left by the builders We are on the road that leads to
death and cannot retreat; for the crowd behind is pushi n z us on. 'Te reach the lower openiug of the "nrd"
and step side. We accept the proffered aid from above,
lay 'hold of it 'Cby faith", and- are assisted t~ climb u p
ward. Resching the upper end we emerge suddenly
from the west into the largest paseageway in the P p mid. known as the Grand Gallev. The Grond Gallleads southward and upward to seemingly unknown
hcighk; another passageway leads horizontally muth

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further; for a large granite block L krmedirbl) ia

front of him. The only way he can go furthm ia to
stoop again, aa low aa before, under the granib bf&
This signifies the entering fully into the rvrieb of
Christ: "Thosoever doth not bear hia croa~~,and c o m ~
after me, cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14: 87) br
he stoops to lift his cross, aad atepa under the @
k
block, he immediately steps upon a @tC
&or. (SW
page 216.) He then has a divine standing u d a@
covering. ''If any man be in Chrbt ha k a new ozslture.," a fact which is eymbolized here. Thir dn*
chamber is mmetimea termed a n c h o o b whsrs th.
Christian must prepare for his future reign with Christ.
(Revelation 3: 21) In thin school he Stap d
a th.
remainder of hie earthly qwrienca
O m mom low stoop,
the death oi
human n~ture,as "flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of heaven" ; and he enters the King's Chamber.
This beautiful chamber appropriately represents ths
throne room, the divine natye, immorblity. LCmhby are given unto us exceeding p a t and preci01u
promises; that by [meana of] thew ye might be partakers of the divine naturan (2 Peter 1 :4) It is
the grandest chambet in the P p m i d ; and ia a p
2 :24.
proximately seventeen feet north and south, thiq-four
Christ '%rought life and immortality C light". (2 feet e& and west, and nineteen feet high. The floor,
Timothy 1: 10) He opened up a way for aome to reach walls and ceiling are ail of polished granik Leading
the plane of immortal life, in heaven, and for others to from the north and muth walls are two mall & reach the plane of everlasting life, as human being, on channels, extending upward and outward to the outer
earth. The Grand Gallery rymbolizes the path of the avfaca They rupply an abundance of c o d treah air.
Christian to immortality, heavenly glov and honor, to The= signify a place of residence, a dvelling p h e ,
which the path is narrow, steep, slippery and hard to a beautiful symbol of the place which Chri8t went to
travel, though high in joy and hope (Colossians 1:5 ) prepare for His Church, as He pmmiaed: Y g to pra
Strange to say, the length of the Grand Gallery indi- pare a place for you," and 'To him that ovacometh
cates the time between the first and second advents of will I grant to sit with me in my thra116~ (John 14:
the Lord.
.
1-3; h e l a t i o n 3: 21) Thus in symbol do@ the Great
The drawing representing the King's Chamber will Pyramid erpress the words of the a p d e P a d : ''The
assist to a clearer understanding. At the upper end tho prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jcsw"inclined floor ends abruptly at a "step" three feet high, Philippians 3 :14.
tri a horizontal floor. This extends five feet to the
Returning to the lower end of the Grand Gallery, we
south wail of the Grand Gallery. Here again i~ shown enter the Horizontal Passage, leadinq wuth, d i d j
the date of 1914 A. D. and, in addition, that of 1925, under the floor of the Grand Gallery, but on a 1 4
a p)ominent data in the Bible
plaue. This paasage ia forty-two i n c h wide and fortyeight inches high, and appears to be a continuation d
The.King9aand Queen's ~?iarnbela
the Fimt Ascending Passage, except that the Grrad
RObf the south, upper end of the Grand Gallery Gallery has been, so to speak, thrown in between, u
a small passageway forty-two inches wide and it were a parenthetical work, as though God had through
forty-four inches high leads through the wall to a small thc Law offered the Jews an opportuniv which they
chamber, known as the Antechnmber, which is a little could not fulbl, in the meantime carrying on another
wider than, the passageway. 1 t . k about ten feet long, work. Later, when the Jews come up through tha
twelve iind-one-half feet high, and div~ded into two "well", God rill again take up His work with them, and
h
with all the remainder of mankind
apartments. A person must stoop low to enter thi~'t h r o ~ ~ g them
A
,
&
,
the
apostle
Paul states in words what is symbolchamber. But as goon as he enters he has a covering
of granite; for the ceiling is of granlte, syrnboluing ized here: "I would not, brethren, that ye ~houldbe
that aa soon a8 one entera the service of God he has a ignorant of this mystery,. ..that blindnese in part ia
divine covering. But seemingly he can pramd no happened to h a 4 until the fulnesr [the full n m

directly under the Grand Gallery; and at our left is

the upper end of the Firat Ascending Passage, blocked
at ita lower and by the granite plug. All thee meet at
'#the wellD*.
Looking c a d d y , we .we that the Grand Gallery extends up, up, up, o v a 160 feet, at the same deep incline u the Pint Ascending Passage. !t'he floor between two low stone benches or
extending the
entire length of the Grand Gallery b forty-two inche.
wide, bat at the top of the *'ramp$' it ia seven feet wide;
yet the aide walls narrow by seven oerlappings, until
at the ceiling, twenty-eight feet up, it is again but
forty-two inches wide. At the south end the Gallery
ends abruptly, though not perpendicularly. I t haa seven
'overlappings of three inches each, so that the ceiling t
twenty-ane inches shorter than the floor. Seven in the
Bible is a number which aignzes perfection or completeness; and it is the same in the Great Pyramid.
We turn to look at the mouth of "the *ell", and find
that it somewhat resembles an explosion, h though
came power had f o r d it open. That reminds us of what
St. Peter said on the day of Pentecost : c ~ o God
m hath
raised up,' having loosed the paina of death ; because it
wns not possible that he shoyd ba holden of ity'-A&

~~

bcr d e d to the heavenly calling] of the Gentiles be

come i n And so
Israel shall be saved [from their
blindnm] : as it is written, There shall come out of

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fmm Jacob: for this is my corenant unto them, when

11 :25-27;
-.' I ahall take away their sins."-Romans

'

Sion
--,4 --

.=

_-

the Delivem, and a h d turn away ungdinesa

Hebmm8:lO.
- Fer tha 6Rt six-sevenths of its length, or about 108
.-. feet, this horizontal p a s e a p a y continues at fortyeight inches high. The last seventh, eighteen feet, b
its floor t w r n t p m e inchea loqer; and the passageway is
; mach casier to walk
in from there to the Queen's
Chamber, This is a peculiar seren-sided mom, seventeen

11

KI

tion above the level of%e outer entrance door of th.

Great Pyramid, and at the same level of the point om
the floor on the First Ascending Passage which desigc'
nctes the birth of Jesw, who was born inta the world m,
a perfect human being. Note also the Bilile ctmneo-'
tion between the firat tchaptera of Genesis .nd tb
last three of Revelation, especially Oencsu 3 md Bera
lation 21.
Adam last human pekection, hnmsn natnra md life,
and an earthly dominion. H e rest nothing h e a d y .
Therefore nothing of a heavenly condjtion, life or daminion could be restored to him.
The passageway to the Queen's Chamber, d i v i d a

VERTICAL SECTION (100m~c~ s r O) f

Ncs
SOUTH END O F GRAND GALLERY

AND

feet north and south, eighteen feet east and west, p r pendicular north and south a d s up about fifteen feet,
and a ,@led ceiling reaching a peak at about b e n t 7
feet. It also has air channels. s,-rilbolizing a place o j
habitation. It is lined m t h limestone, marble. which
beautifully s~n~bolizes
perfect human nature. "Blessed
are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth."
St. Peter in his p e a t sermon on the day of Pentecast,
declaring the,purpose of God, s a d : "\\horn the heaven
must receil-e until the times of restitution of all things,
which a d hath ~pokcnb the mouth of all his holy
prophets [including the Great Prramidl since the rorld
bcgan." (Acts 3: 2 1 ) I t is 1ntcre5tlng to note that
the B o w of the Queen's Chamber is but a slight eleva-

CHAMBER:

ALSO or ANTE-CnAMBLR,
CROSSED L/MfS /NO/CA T I GRANITE.

into sevenths, is the Pyramid's way of indicating man'^

eqerience during his "week of sinM-six &isof labor,
the seventh of recuperation, as given in the law d
Uoses. The days of the Jews were of twenty-four h o w
each. The days of the human family aa s whole are of
1,000 yeam each. Six days, 6,000 yean, of ain md
death; the se~enthday, 1,000 years for the recovery
of man from death and imperfection, is the teaching
of both the Bible and the Great Pyramid. Both teach
that there was a time when sin was unknown; both
teach that there.wil1 come again a time when sin d
l
be nnknoan, except as a horrible nightmare of the pact.
Both teach that though man's experience with ah md
death hu been terrible, it will be overruled for hL

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GOLDEN AGE

future gwd; and that all who wiU may re*

to God's
fsror, w k r and better for the e r p h c a The two
a n in such complete harmony that no re-able
mind
cm h b t but that the Lfind which dictated the me de- &pxd tbe 0 t h The two are ona

Ropltetic Chronology of the Grccrt -mid

N A letter to Professor Smyth, Mr. Robert Menzies,

of &solation of t h . had do not a~mfhroaiud t h the

There nera J d s h aptires
"ceptivitp of fhe J&.
in Babylon from Sl7 ,B.C. to aa ZDte as 454 B. C. at
. least, over 150 y-

Bibk Chrondogy
IRST year of Cynu, end of the 70 ytara

.....

Damlation af tha Lpnd

636 B. C.the young Scotsman d ~ first
o suggested the relig.loru Beginning of 70 ye- Desolation af Laud 608 R 0.
or M&c
fedurea of the great Pyrarmd, said:
(This was the 19th year of tha reign af
Nebuchadnezzar.--Jer.
:12,13.)
'Tmn the north beginning of the Grand Gall-,
in Zdekiah
began to reign 11 yeara previous, ar 617 B. C.
upward progression, begin the years of our Savior's Lifq
( 2 Chronicler 36: ll)
a t the rate of an inch a year. Three and thirty inchJehoiakim
llyurepmviouqm 628 B.C.
yesn, therefore, bring us right over against the mouth
42
Clironich
36
:
5)
$ the 'wellJ."
Josiah
31 yean previous, or 669 B. C.
The snggestion implied that if the north wall of the
(2 Chronicla 34:1)
Grand Gallcry represented the hirth of Christ, and the Amon
.
t yesm previous, or 661 B. C.
mouth of the Uwell" His death, then all distances north
(2 Chronicles 33: 21)
'of a perpendicular of the north wall should indicste Mmacaeh
65yearapkvioaq or 716 B.C.
B. C. antea, and a l l distances south of that line-k D.' (2 Chroniclm 33 :1)
P
datea It was s challenge, and Professor Smyth (1Hezekiah
29 7peviaus, or 746 B. c.
mined to feat i t It was a crncial test, but none other
( 2 Chronicles 29: 1 ) a
would satisfy hie scientific mipd.
dhab
16
p m ,
re1 R C.
In order that the correspondency betweep the Bible
(2 Chronicles 28: 1 )
dates and the Pyramid meammuenti may b6
at Jotham
'16yeam praiouu, or 777 R C.
glance, we give a brief outline of the Bible chrondogy,
(2 Chronicles 27: 1)
ritb citations for veritication The Bible contrinr s Uzziah
, 62 yeus pnriaas, or 829 B. C.
.
d e d m r d from Adam to "theI b t year of CTroq
( 2 Chronicle8 26: t )
king of Peraia'' after that, the events crumot be wn- dmaaat!
29yeusprevi0un,or 858B.a .
neded chronologically from the Biblical record. The
( 2 C h r o n i ~ L25
~ :19
.- : ,
year of-Cyrurr" war 536 B. C., according to rn J d
.
4Oyeaniprerioaqor 898 &.C. : .
liable se&
history. This one date is diable h both
(2 c b c m i c h %:I)
recorda, and therefore forma s direct connection. Tha Athaliah
6 yeam previow, or 904 B. C.
fact that the Bible record was kept so complete until
( 2 Chronicles 22: 12)
it connects with reliable Becular history given evidena Ahndnh
, 1 p T pmriouq or 906 B. C.
of Providential overmling.
( 2 Chroniclea 22: 2)
8 yearn pruvio1w7 o r 913 B.C.
Starting, therefore, with "the h t year of Cpraa" an Jehoram .
( 2 Chroniclea 21 :20)
536 B. C., we follow the Eible record back to Adsm.
25 years previous, or 938 B. C. In 2 Chronicles 36: 20-22 we read: "Bnd them that Jehoshapht .
( 2 Chroniclea 20 :31)
had e~gpedfrom the sword carried he [NebuchadnezU yeam prev'iou6, or 919 B. C.
ear] away to Babylon, where they m e aervanta to him h a
( 2 Chroniclea 16 :13)
and his jans, until the reign of' the kingdom of Persiq
3 yean pkiouq or 982 B. C. to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, Abijah
( 2 Chronicles 13 :2)
until tha l a d had enjoyed her sabbaths: for os b n g
Behoboam .
. 17 yeanprevioua,or 999 B.C.
M she I* desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil three sun8
( 3 Chronicles 12:13)
a d tsn [70] years Now in the &-at yznr of Cprar
40 years previous, or 1039 B. C.
king of Persia, that ths word of Jehwnh spoken by the Solomon .
(2 Chraniclm 9 :30)
mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Jehovah
40 years previous, or 1019 B..C.
stirred up the spirlt of Cyrus king of Persia, that be David .
(1 Chronicler 29: 2 1 )
made a protlamation throughout all hls kmgdom, and
. .
40 years previous, or 1119 B. C.
put it Jsa C ar~ting,mying.. . ." Then follows the S a d .
( A d s 13 :21)
decree giving a l l the Jeas permission to return ta Jemsdem. The land had had its seventy years of desolation, Period of Judges began 450 years previous, or 1569 B C.
and the time had arrived for Jehovah to send them back
(Acts 13 : 20)
as He had promised (Jeremiah 25: 11,12), "when Conquest of land -,eb
6 years preriow, or 1576 B. C.
nevene yura are accomplisheb" These ceventy yeam
(This last period is found by comparing

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the year 2140 B. C. u the data of erection of the Pyra26, 26 ; 32 :8; J o a h u 14: 6-?,lo.)
mid. The Py-ramid iW corroborater that dab. Natr
Joshua crossed the Jordan in the same year
the accompanying drawing.
ha began conquering the land
1675 B. C.
Considering the vertical Iine of the north w d of the
\ (Thin was the year when the Jewr entered
Grand Gdery M representing tly denth of Christ in
Canaan and began to count for their ju33.25 A D., wa meamma back, down the Fint deeending
' bile- E v q iiftieth year was to be r juPassage, to the point where ih floor would intuwat
bike.-Lsr. 25 :1-30.)
The Jem left Egypt 40 Jean previoua, or 1615 B. C.
(Deuteronomy 8 :2. This data ia puticul u l y noticed in the Great Pyramid)
hd'8 covenant with Abrnham 430 yean prah (Exodus 12:4 0 4 ; Gal. 3 :17) 2046 B. C.
(Abraham w u 75 yearn old when he entered Canaan, and this covenant waa made
with him the lwune year. (Gen. 12: 4 7 ;
Actu 7 :4) Date of Abraham's birth 75
- years previoua, or 2120 B. C.-20
yeam
after the Great +amid waa built.)
the floor of the Descending Passage. The distance im'
Abraham entered Canaan the year when hir
1,545 British inches, or 1,543.50 Pyramid inchea. From
father died at Haran, or
. 2046 B. C. this deduct the 32.25 aa A D. yearm, md aa ham
The flood waa 427 yeam previous to the
1,51135 an B. C. yeam. The point of intemction of
death af Teqh, Abraham'r father, as per
the two floors represente 1511.25 B. C. Messnring up
record in Gene& 11:10-32, or
2472 B. 0. the Descending Passage we note two 6neIy dram lines, I
From the ftood back to creation gf Adam
one on each of the side walls, exactly opposite each other,
srm 1,656 rurs, or
4 2 8 B. C. and a t right aaglea with the floor. Thia distance k
(Qenesir 6: 1-29; 7: 6; 8: 13)
628.75 British inches, or 628.26 P p m i d inchar AddFrom the creation of Adam 4128 B. C. to the fbd ing the 1,51125 and the 628.26, wu have 2,139.60 Pytryear of Gym 636 8. C. inclusive ir 3,592 yeara. Other- ,mid inch- M the diatanca from the point marking the
wise Rated, the 6rst year of C y n W
~M 3592 anno mu&
birth of Jnmr to the= two lines. Stated in yeam it
3592 plas 536 B. C. plns 1 9 U A. D. equd 6,052. It
the middle of 2140 B. C. It b inbeding to notd
Adam had behaved himself becomingly, he would d
l that at midnight of the autumnal equinox of the year
be alive, a M e and hearty young rum of 6,052 yean, 2140 B. C. these two linta were pointing d i d 7 towith prorpectr of agea to come, perfed in every wry, wuda the Pleiaden, considered by aome to be the center
apparentIy no older than thirb years of aga
of the universe and the throne of God, while at the
Our accepted Gregorian calendar is admitD?dly in same t h e the Dragon Star, symbol of Sa-,
would be
error by fifteen months. Jesua a_as born about October looking directly down the Descending Pasrgr Thua
lst, B. C, 2, or one and onequarter yeam prior to our in two ways did the builder dehitely girr thr dab d
calendar date. Januaq, 1925. rhould be the fourth the erection of the Pyramid
month of 1926, to be technically correct. Bll the
ancients began the year in the f d , and tbe J m still Tlb Jew8.&# Egypt in 1615 B. C
celebrate their New Year about October lat
HE First Ascending Paasage relatea dm& exUr. Menziea waa nearly correct in estimating that
ciusively to the Jews, and God's d d i n g s Kith
the mouth of the L'aeU'* indicated the death of fesua them u a nation, not aa individuals W e m q therefore
More particularly, i t represented the m n e c t i o n of
call i t the "Jewish Age", or period of tha Law CovenanL
Jesus Though both the death and the resurrection of The Grand Gallery deals almost exclusively with tha
Jesus occur& in the same year, we find that the Great
Both
Pyramid uses sometimes the "well'* m d mmetimea the Church, and may well be d e d the "Gorpel A#.
of
theae
ages
have d e h i t e beginninp and endings.
north nail to indicate the year 35 A. D. Ar Christ
.The "granite p l u g at the lower end of the "Jtariah
died in the spring of the year, the actual time is 321,
Age"
denotes the impossibility of the Jew to keep the
A. A yeam. The addition of fifteen months makea
h a ,but ia of such a length aa to indicata, fn connection
Jesus 33% year$ of age at the tima of Hia death.
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with t& Paaaageway, tha exact number of para that
Q d d u l t with that nation, under th. Law. Pyramid Built in 2140 B. C
The accompanTing drawing d
l wist to nuk. it
8 BEFORE stated, it hrd been cutronomically
calculated that the Pyramid's location together plain. T l e distance from the north wall of the Grmd
with the incline of the Descending Passage, indidltes Gallery to the I o w a end of the granite plug u 1,470.76

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British inches. The plug is I78 inches in length. If

we consider the plng a9 though it were a draw in a teIe
mop, and pulled out full length, I. that it. upper end
ware where the lower end now is, the total length fa
1,648.75 British inchen, or 1,647.26 *amid
inches.
Deduct from thu the 32.25 A. D.; and we have 16lS
8. C. T h i ~ddte ~~rresponds
exactly' with the Bible

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statements a9 shorn in the foregoing Bible Chronology.

This was the year when Moses led the children of Israel
from E m and organized them into a nation. At
hfount Sinai God made a covenant with them "by the
hand of M o d . (Leviticus 26; 45,46) God also said
to them through M o m : "Thou art m holy people nnto
Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah h a choeen thes to be
s pecalilv people nnta himeelf, ahom dl the nations
that are upon the earttL7*-Deuteronomy 14:2.
The Jewish nation was cast ot? ftom God's favor
just before the crociiirion of Christ in the epring of
A. A 33. (Matthew 23 :38,39) Having lost God'r
favor, that nation soon went to pieces Sap Ensebmd
uEcdcsiastid History-":

T
t may be proper to mention alaa what things accaned that showed the benigniQ of that all-graciou
Providence that had deferred their destruction for forty
yenra site their crimes against Christ."
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Says Cornil's '%istory of the People of Israel":

"On the 15th of Nisan, ir., of April, in the year 73
. A. D., the &-st day of the Easter festival, the eamc daj

on which, according to tradition, the Qod of Israel had

led Hia people out of Egyptian bondage into M o m ,
the last bulwark of Israel's liberty had fallen, and Israel
was d-,ered
into bondage."
Uany details of Jewish history are connected with
the First Ascending Passage, but we have not space here
to take them up.
nTehave noticed that the point of intersection of the
tno floors iddicates the pear 1511.25 B. C. Let us now
measure noukb, down the Descending Passage from that
point. At 3,037.50 inches we reach a "turn in the road",
which indicates some great change in the affairs of mankind At that point the psseage takes a sharp turn to
a level plane. The floor of this TIorizontal Passege
does not come out to meet the inclined floor exactly, aa
the latter is cut 2.75 inches belm the plane of the hori-

zontal. The point of intersection nodd, therefow be

up 2.75 inch- from the lowed end of the paurgs I)4
dncting 2.75 fnchea, to the point of i n M a n ,
-have (3,037.50 lean 2.75) 3,034.75 Britirh i n c h , Or
3,031.75 P d d inches. a,oal.ra 71- I,arl$8
an B. C. leave 1,520.10 aa k D. It L fntamdbg b .
recall that it waa in May, 1821 A. D., re& 1620 p h ,
that Martin Luther appeared before the Diet at Wormq
and that during the wneyeutheofficinlbullwuirarcd,
declaring Luther an outlaw, from which natlted th.
split of Christendom into h o camps, the Catholic md
the Protestant. Here, one handred feet below the rariPer

of the foundation rock, hidden for OTW 3,600 ~ s u q

written in a d d done, was information which foretold
the p a t &ism which would come to Cbhtmdom,
the very year that it should start, How did Shem h o w
what would occur in 1821 A. D-?
The past fLfty yeam often n f d to aa 'a
n W
of miracles". Within that time more mlightenment
has come to the nationn along all rcientific linss, more
mechanical improvements h m been brought forth thrP
in all the previous hltory of inan pat together. Nsrcz
before have there been mch gonad schooling privileges
for the common man, to the end that k able to m e
-and enjoy the comforts and arcp the luxuries of life
more than ever befo0n, 'almost all of which ha- coma
w i t h i n the Iast Hty years. Why is this?
Mother has been called upon to attend to a nick friend;
and only Little Johnnie and May, ten and eight ra
.
mpecti~ely,can be left to attand to the home while Mother is away. Plused to be put upon their hanor, they
work zeslonalJ; but it ia not long until the home d y
nhowed the lack of a motheir hand. How they did w i d
Mother would hurry and oome homel One day, while
they were at school, she returned, and noon straightend up the home to i b old-time cheerfuLneaa m d tidinThen ahe stepped into a neighbois .how for a few
momenta Meantime the children came from ech001,
not knowing that Mother had come Johnnie o&
the door, gave one look of glad eurpriae, and ahoutad:
"5lotheis got homel" H o w did he h o w ? He a e i b
eaw her nor heard her. One look at that kitchen w u
enough evidence. Mother's atouch" was everpahem
about. Although she had come "like a thief", ~ p ceived, the evidences of her presence were plentiful.

Christ Returned in 1874 A. D.

HE Scri~turesindicata that Chriat m a to return

in 1874, "as a thief." Since that time the world

has been going on in many respects an before; yet r r
markable changea have come about. Organizationr at
men hare been bringing in better labor and hedth aonditions, increased educational facilities, mechrnid inventions by the thousandr, better larq a t c ' Ysnldnd
has been too busy adjusting, itself to the ever-increasing changes to aearch into the causes d
these great changes. Christ's disciples rsked Hk:

straight line, where would they meet? The h d i n g

%t
ahall be the sign of thy presence [kted 'coming' h Conamon Venion--see mar@ rend- Psassgc would be 391.25 inchea longer. This added to in the Rsrised Version, Matthew 24: 31 ?" He told the 3,037.50 already noticed muld give a total of 3,428,- them: World warm, pestilena, famines, earthquakes, 75 British inchea, or 3,425.25 Pyramid inches.
.nd perplexie of nations, and. g e n e 4 fear' ducting the 1511.25 an B. C. we have 1914, the yesr
mang the people ss to what w u coming u'pon the world the world plnn,d into the World War, well apbolized
The peat governments of the world, the Big Man of by the %ttomIess pit?'. Sea diagrams, P w 212-214
This nrtical line very properly represents the year --,
D d e l 2 :14,45, would be going all to piecea ; and it
mdd
like a 'day of destruction'.-Idah
13: 413. 1914. Now if we measure from the north wan of th
,
Pit, back along the roof (for that ia smoother than tho
} Notice the same propheq in the Great P ~ a m i d even
flmr and apparently war,intended for measurement) d
to tha data (See diagram, ppge 212.)
, From the upper 'point of intersection of the extreme the mall Horizontal Passaget to the north wall of th8
end of the Descending Passage is 3,037.50 incha. The little recess ue find the distance to be 125 plus Pyramid floordistance along the Horizontal Passage to the Pit is inches. 1914 less 125 leave 1789, the year the French
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850.75 inchea, total 3,388.25 British inches, or 3,384.75

pyramid inches. This,1- the 1511.25 as B. C. date.
leaves 1,973.50, or the middle of 1874 9. D. How
much easier to walk in r large place like the Pit, as cornpazed with the previoua narrow passageway l This was
just about &e time of ths beginning of the "age of
nrL.Jeap which haa brought such great changes in the
&airs of the whole world. Let any one fifty years of
aga compare the conditions of childhood days with the
the present. In other words, all,these great changes are
eridencea of the Lord's "touch" upon world &airs, the
b w e r to the question, What d be the n i p of thy
p-ce?
This is specinlly pictured by the -1ycut side walls and ceiling of the '%ottomIeas pif'.
Tho Pit npreenta a great change in the d d s s
& a h in several w a Whatever
~
one may be inclined
to think of the Gmt Pyramid's testimony, he must
admit tha phpical facta of the pad &Q yeara
In thia connection the following news item, under
date of October 17,19!24, will be to the point:
: "If scientists keep juggling volta, amperes, o h and
watts around much longer no one will have any work
to do except push an electric buttan or two. No longer
ia it n e c e s q to p i e the tired business man with the
high tension beard. Zipp+';POO of 'em a m i n u b
and the electrical razor shoots a wriggling blade over
your fa- faster than Eoudini can get out of a straightjacket, and equally aa mysterious ;and one's bristles, s i b
banu or what not, disappear. This is only one of the
thousands of electrid exhibits now on at the Grand
Central Falace commemorating the forty-fifth anniverry of
A. Edison's inrention of the incadcent lamp."
I
:

1914 and 1789 Foretold

HE e&teme south end of the Grand Gallery and

the no* wall of the "bottomlsa pit" evidently

ugnify some b e a t events. If a vertical line were dropped
from the south end of the Grand Gallery the lower
cnd would just touch the extreme end of the floor of
ths 4 horizontal passage as it entcrs the Pit.
Suppose this vertical line were extended down, and
dm that tha Descendq Pusage had continued in r

Revdution, symbolized by the

sor that this is merely accidental?

started.

Cm

NO

'Let w now return to the upper portion of the 1-oc

miq. We &ow a drawing ot the Grand f*
and the
"otep" at the upper end. gee bwinga, pages 216,220.
We atart at the vertical line of the north end of the
G M ~ Gallery;for the Gospel Age did n d begin until
the death and resurrection of our Lord, jnst at Penta
cod, 32.25 A. D. The length of the Grand W r y to
the vertical line of the muth wall, right through th
'step'' is 1.883.25 British, or 1,881.25 Pyramid in&=
Thia plus the 32.25 gives ua 1913.50, or middle of 1914
& D. me remember that it was in Buyst, 1914, that
the World War broke out. This h the top of the vertical line dropped to the floor entrance into the Pit
below. The abrupt ending of the Grand Gallery in&
cates some sudden change in the experiences of -tha
Church, as well as of the world. Let the interested
compare this with Revelation 3 :14-18.

Last Jewish Jubilee Due in 1925 A.D.

0 CATCH the Bible significanca attached to the

year 1925 A. D., we need for a moment to consider the evidence given in the Law to the Jewa regarding the Year of Jubilea I n the 25th chapten of Leviticus will be found the Taw in full, which the Jews were
to obaene cnrdullp. These !awr were aU types of bettcr
t h i n g to come. (1 Corinthiahs 10: 11) The atitype.
therefore, would be on a much larger wale than aar tho
type. and sl~ould begin as soon as the t . p c e w d
Briefly stated, tke law wm: AS soon as the Jews entered
the land of C a n a n they were to bcgin to count; and

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seventh year aas to be a rest year, but mery

,
~ e t year
h was to be a Jubilee y e a During the Jubi- lea car every Jewish alms was to be set free, and every
*.of
land returned to the original owner, or heir
Every 5fQ-&st year the whoIe nation W M
b start out free and equal, a ty-pe ot ths ?teatitation
of all thinge", mentioned by St. Peter.--&
3: 21.
The reasan why the Jews were sent tts-Babylon and
rLPleir land made h l a t e 'for 70 years m a '%xanse it
did not rest h your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon iV'
(Leviticus 26 :35) ; in other words, because they did

Fonowing that, we ahanld expect that the year 1926

would be, chronologicalXy, the beginning of the anti*
the beginning of the great Jubiles for dl tho nor14
during which every 8011 of Adam, who will, may become
a free man, and return to hia fathei~eatate, to the inheritance of the earth, and to pariection of mind and
body. Instead of being a period of one year the mtftype w i l l be a @od of 1,000 years, during which GhrM .
the Lord shall be King over ail the earth, (Zeehsri.h '
14: 9) If this is indicated in the Pyramid, we ahodd
erped to find it in co~~~lection
with Hia remrection,

not properly observe the law in regard to the Jubilee. ascenmon and return to establish His kingdom; It
God had outlined a definite number of he types urtil would dso be after His special work with the Church,
the antishould come, and that number rru seventy. typified by the sudden closing of the Grand Gallery at
(2 Chronicles 36.21, Jeremiah 25: 11, 12; 29: 10; the south end.
The north end of the Grand Galley representu the
Daniel 9 :2) Each Jubilee rpcle was 6fty Tears. Secenty tinies fifty equals 3;300; 3,500 years from the time death of Christ and the end of the Law Covenant. (Cothe Jeas entered Canaan would reach to the anbtype. lossians 2.14,15). This occurred in the year 32.25
The children ok Israel crossed the Jordan in the rpring A. D. The "well" represents the resurrection of Cbrist
of 15:s B. C.,?and wen to begin to count from that which occurred three days after His crucifixion, airo in
date. Subtracting 1,575 years from 3,500 would Ienre the year 32.25 A. D. The k t i t u t i o n blessings am
closely mnrected with the r e s u ~ l ~ c t i oof
n Christ; and
1,925 for A. D. The year 1923, therefore, would hnva
therefore the date 32.26 A. D., an indicated by the locv
.been the fiftieth or Jubilee year of the screntieth cycle, tion of t
h "well", h a logical point for a time mcamm
and the last t p i c d year.
ment.

4 - ' AIl m e ~ v e m e n t aof th; pusages are dong the center of the door unlem otherwise stated. The "well"
. ,en& at the inner edge of the Bbne bench or "ramp"
m d is therefore 21 inched from the center of the Orspc!
Gallery fioor. Tho month of the "well" L rough and
aneven and wms 26 i n b wide, lo the center of the
opening would be the logical paint at which to b-,Rin
a mensuremezit. This center ia 39.75 inches up from the
Wtid line of the north w d t An the full length of
the G m d Gall- floor to the h p is 1,815.25 inches
4
this m d d leave 1,775.50 to be counted. We therefom
begin with the center of thp ''wellW opening as 32.25
: A. D. TOthis we add the 21 inch- to the center of the
' P.oor; thm the 1,775.60 up t
o the "step" or riser at the
upper end of the inclined floor ;then add 36 inched, the
;
- distance up the "atep"; then horizontally along the top
of the "stepy' to the point under the lower end of the
muth wall, 61 inches. We thus have a total of (32.25
plus 21 plns 1,775.50 plru 36 pIus 61) 1925.15 British
lnchcs or 1923.76 Pyramid inches, indicating the mid'
_ dle of 1924.
I?the J e w had remained in Palestine from the giving
of their kw until now endeavoringto keep theirkwsfaithm y , the 7ear 1925 (beginning with the fall of 1924)
would have been their Isst typical Jubilee. There would
have been considerable commbtion M they rearranged
their uocial and businem &airs to comply n t h the
Lorr of liberfy Pad the return to parental ettatea
If the members of the Lord'r Church are the antitypial Israelites, it would seem loqcal to expect th&
this name year, 1925, would bring some stimng experiences to it, as no doubt the Lord would be taking
a h a d in their &aini This we believe is under way
at the prolent timr To those who have given the sub-

ject critical study them f~ good midmcs that JUI*

August 1924 was a marked date for the C h e a d 4
that it them entered upon a yaar of critical exparieuca '.#
Of thk, p d l y mom anon
Thar we am that the Grand Gallery reachea u brr
&e -d
tha
~ o l o g i ~ ,
1925, beginning with the f d of 19%; and thrt thir
t p p i c $ : l v merge into the G m d World Jubileq- .
beginning m the fall of 1926. We beliem that t
hL o 4 w i l l in wme way mark the year 1925 u clearly M He
marked the year 1914. Jurrt how, we may not be csrt.in,
but it KiLl not be long until h i e q aill m a b ib r w d .
Let any candid mind examine the physical factr aa to
the condition of the '3brch" today, taken u a whole;
Catholic and Protedint. Does it not a p p u r to have
"&ruck on the ro&" and to be quivering like a broken
r e d before she sinks? Bevelation 18:21-23is inter&ing reading in this connection. The Bible and the Great
Pyramid run parallel throughout
To show the minuteness of detail we mention one '
apparently insignificant incident: The prophet M i d
( 6 :2) mentioned Bethlehem as the b i r t h p h of the
Messiah ; and this propheq waa called to the attention
of Herod when he asked where Christ s h d d be born.
(Matthew 2 :4-6) The Great Pprarmd had Loag Won
designated the exact spot, even befoe them wsa a hamlet b u l b them We epitomize: Start at the exact latftudinal m d l'ongitudind location of the Grat Pymmid. :
Consider the htithdinal Line aa the haan, and drsa a .
diagonal to the northeast, a t the same degree sa the incline of the interior passageq v k , 26O 18' 10". Thir , diagonal w i l l rpn.directly through tha ti,- of Be&
hem. Sea diagram. Internalatgive the .
distance; i . a , 2 3 3 m i h
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wid

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Radio Fulfilment of Prophecy '

A

BOPHECIES dating to the end of the gospel digpensation, and the uhering in of the restitution
timea, are n o r h a h g fuliYmcnt. The increased travel
and general difhsion of knowledge are indications of
the sppmaching Xenaiania reign; the labor-saving device~and conveniencm that are now flooding the earth
are the, feregleruns af the quitable distribution of dl
p d things for the common goad of dL
God made it necesEaq fer man to get his bread in
meat o f b face while ha is a dying creature An the
"times of mtitution" are to reatore man to perfection
scd te briag tho dead forth from the p v e with the
same object ia view, and as theso times are near, the
coavenienccr, arm for the pnrpose of taking away the
necesity fet'laberious eforts in human existence, and
L. make Lii."peasurable olld worth while.
)
As the invention of the incandescent lamp a? q i t /)olia of hcnased light in the mind, so the radio is
mpbolio of spiritual blIt is doubtless referred

to in Job 38:34,35; Isaiah 60:8; Luke 13:3. At

least one radio ststion is wholly dedicated to the u p
lift of humanity an& teaching the people the plan and
purposa'of God ;and that station u WATCHTOWEB
WBBR, operated by the International Bible Studentr
Association on 6 wave length of 273 meters. Their
weekly programn are as follows:

Sunday from 9 :10 to 10: 30 P. lL Bible Lecture and

music
Monday, from 8: 00 to 9: 00 P. M., World News Digest and music.
Wednesday from 8 :00 to 9 :00 P. U., Niscellmeoua
lectures and music.
Thursday, from 9 : 10 to 10 :30 P.X.,Sunday School
Lessow and music
S&urday, 8: 00 to 9: 00 P. M., Bible Questionr and
b u m cad music.

(Eastern Strndard Tima)

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"*That the Lord is to have a kingdom of

c-&e the power of the *spirit,
that they
'might thereafter be witnesses for Him. "And righteousness, that Jesus Christ is to be the
when he had spoken thes'e ?$in@, while they great King of that kingdom, and that He is
beheld, 'he was taken up; and a cloud received coming a second tinie for the purpose of thua
h2fr.t out of their sight. And while they looked reigning, is so abundantly established by the
stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, Scriptures that all possible doubt is removed.
t w men stoodby &em jn white apparel; which- An impoftant question, therefore, for, n&to
. - dealsz said, Ye men d f h ~ a l i l e ewhy
,
stand ye termme is how He c a w .
3a7JTemust stake np our minds i t onc=that
gazldg up inb heaven? This same Jesos, which
is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come the Bible testimony concerning the manner of
&-like manner as ye have seen him go into o m Lord's coming-is to be taken as con@usive.* '
.bemen." (Acts 11.9-11)-Without a doubt these
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-men,who here, stood.by the disciples in white
ON 7 T - K d - 0 2GOD. .:apparel were angels or messengers sent of the
.Lord thus te.witpes t o them, which angeis,
I f & i s c i P 1 e s ~ Jascended
'a
rdbnbtless materialized in human form for that
v%rypurpose and afterward d e m a t e m i@d Give d% Scriptkal account 'of whir$.
at
disappeared, $,This @dihnal t d b n o n y was
time af 5
w e m i ~ n . 3fS4@yen, however, that the faith
tbe disciples n o
.aught be complete that the L o i d Mil come
again,
Bpeak to the'
'"This f a d was so de&itely established in Wm the di..iplm
the minds of the apostles that they often spate
_-g
of the
and m a t e of the second coming of the Lord. In
theb
fact, it ia b e great event to which-they a*
mt did
other true f o u ~ w e r sof the Master have
end of hie earthly career-con
fmyard. ( 1 Corinthians 1:7; 15 : 23 ; 1Thessaof the ~ a r d ?13~
lonians 2 :19 ; 2 Thessalonians 2 :8; Janies 5 :7, What. s p e c ~ dpromise is
8 ; 2 Peter 1:16 ;Acts 3 : 19-21 ; Philipplans 3 : those who love Christ's appearing? 7 364.
20) Of His coming again and the blessings His What u the book of Revelat~on?R 365.
presence will bring to thosewat love Him fm- What is stated m the latter part d that book concerning t h e h r d ' s r e t u m ? 1 3 6 5 .
ther test&ony m s given by the apostle Pad
when he rnote'to ~ h ~ t '
h7am
~ :now ready Can there be any doubt about the Lord's second cornmg? and li not, why not? 8 366.
and the time
departure is m a t , then, a one of the importmt quatlons t o
foirpht a good
have
ddermlned concerning our Lord's eornlng? 11 361.
" .bed my
I
the
Fmm .hat sho,lld
erpect to getthe evidence
E h thew 1s l a d np for me s cro- of right,mg
the mnoner of the Lord's rrtum) 361.
eonsness, which the Lord, the righteous jndge,
shall give me at that day: and not to me only,
"Father, ,mce for grace outpouring,
but unto all them also that love his appearing."
SIBOW me ever grentkr thlnga :
-2 Timothy 4: 6-3.
Raise me higher. a w a r d soari*
'"The book of Rerelation in our'Bible is the Xountinp as on eagle's wings.'g

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