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1919 Golden Age
1919 Golden Age
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LABOR AND ECONObIICS 4 i
. Dyauniting the Eurh Into Pamibe .......... 11 Turning Florida Swamps Into F-..
Haubg
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with T m c t
. SCIENCE AND INVENTION I
Th Fntnre of Wireless ........................ 17 The Mmdactrue of Lighfdng ,..,..,. la
Comets-The Trunps of the H u v e ~ . . ......... 17 Wood More Durable Than hum .,..,.., 18
HOUSEWIFERY AND HYGIENE
N-ous m d Stupid Cbildrar. ..................
Teeth Emaction the Cure for D h n . .
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........ 19 Washing Made E a v
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and Peatilaice'............
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SALUTATORY
ISDOM of the right order 'is essential to the Nor is this magazine p u b l i s w for pecuriiary profit ,
W rdfare and happiness of mankind. During or gain to anyonr All the money realized from its
'the few years recently p a t the world, through fiery publication above the operating expenses will be used
=periences, has acquimd a vast amount of h o w l - for the further dibemination of such knowledge
, edge; bet to properly rppb that knowledge is now amongst the people as will be beneficial to them. It is
the important question. There is a perfect standard backed by some of the best and ablest men in the
' of rppliatim and when that standard is h o w n and world and shall be maintained as an educational me-
followed the result is d to k satisfying. It is dium for the purpose of teaching the tnae relationship
the privilege and duty of c-rery one who can do so between science, agriculture labor &id p u n rcli@on
' to render aid to his fel- Its publication is for the
low m the wise applica- benefit of the people,
tion of acquired know- T H E GOLDEN ACE advising than of per:2
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ledge and'to aid him to and pointing t h a n b a
Ikholdl Timesa gateway open d n k ,
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i n c r c ~knowledge
~ And P u c e is poised on outspread win-; better and nobler l i f e
wisdom. Such aid, to d rtmd. tiptoe while .he sin-:
~ n joy Its purpose is to ex-
Good-bye old -1
accocnplish a good re- Good-by. old t u n 1 - plain in the light of
sult, should be rendered or angels . n i t to b u thim pt. Divine wisdom the tms
On. moaning Misery and Hate.. meaning of the great
unselfishly. "The wise
Looe hold. the key
man will hear and in- Of tbinm to be: phenormna of the prcs-
crease in learning." And Hope hoi& out a fair rhitr page, ent day and to prwe to
And bids yon write, thinking minds by ex-;-
This magazine enters With dkep delight
tbt field, &erefore, with Th. glory of THE GOLDEN A G E dence incontmvertib:e
r mission which is pecu- 11 a N- 11 and convincing that
' liuuldturiqut I t b 11 time of a greater ties+
IH) rivals because it h a ing of mankind is now at
no compctitorr. Every one joining in a similar &ort hand. Like a voice in the wilderness of confusion, its
to do-good will be welcomed by ru. mission is to announce the incoming of the Golden Age.
r Its policy is and shall be not to array the rich T h e n are more sad hearts in the world today than
against the poor, nor the poor against the rich, the at m y time of its history. A devastating war has
classes against the masses, nor the masses against the a c t e d the nations until t h y a n tom and bleeding
classes bat it will seek to do good unto dl mankind to death. A c c a m p y i n g the war came the gmat
It is not published in tbe interest of any religious pestilential influenza, claiming double the number of
d e n d o n , nor is it the advocate of any political victims that fell. as a result of the war. I n the past
party o r organization. It k no rwpectv of persons few years, millions have gone down into death and
becaw of racq color or condition of SUvitudc other millions bemoan the loss of their loved ones.
4 TIu G a Z b Age for O& I, r9rg
Everpdxrc the cud of Uvinglmormb, higher d the very time of tfn -tat increue of knowledge
high- rtld ranAitionr of real want m d farnine stare And w b ? Then k a reason, and that reason we
m a q people in tbe face In pnctiully dl the mder must ucubin m d govern ourselves accordingly.
of the world t&
kborch are m strike or t h r d d q TI& L a wide dhcrsity of knowledge, which. if
to strike .ad thereby stop the wheels of cormnercc p@y applied, wodd r&ult_in great and beneficial
There is a pznad unrest everphcra wisdom to the peopk What, then, ir the d mean- -
The hanciau are no less in p c r p l ~ .They have ing of the p-t 'conditions, and is thm a ~ p - e
yielded d t tn the demands of labor, only to r&edy that will bring order out of choor rtld atab-
he convinced in their OWTI minds that further yielding fish a luting peace, prosperity md happinus to the
d mean disaster; and the tension h beaxing people? TEE Goron AGS enters the field for the
roch thrt the industries of the land arc threatening vay purpose of uuwaing thest qu- md d-
to elore down, alI of which d d bring greater dis- dently expects to answer them bo the rrtisfactioa of
trerr both to producer Ihd msuma. The Chicago all thinking minds
H d and Examiner in its financial columns recently Tar GOLDENAGEWin carry into the homes of the
88id i people the desired meurqe which wilI tend to restore
C&UICIL to the disturb&
- md -fort to the
I f , dechre the corporation heads and their backers, walk-
aob in the Crane and H k e s t t r works are r e h a d for saddened heark We & not expect to accomplish
more serious and exbensire industrid interruptions; if the this by human wisdom. because that hu been tried
budding workers prove to take tJu5r responsibility rr lightly
u thar fellows in the C n n e and Harvester rhw: and hiled and such wjsdom is foolishnesr in the sight
- - if tbe
rtmt m i l m y 43qlOyee~are uncompromiringly insistent upon of Jehovah. But we will point the people to the clear ,
uvarv-seven per cent increase in the ~ g v9e. a rhm. sy
anployerr and thdr finanaal backem. let it come to an utrane
and-indisputable evidence in the light of present-day
Fiiancid men do not mince words. They state point* - the d h k d y acpreued
events, disclosing v - ranedy for
tbq rrin bock anployera to the limit; .rill &t &cry i& ,
the representatives of a p i t d ded- d not avoid the t a t ; law-abiding, God-faring persons io aid in passing this
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let the thing be settled now and definitely; they arc rrrg
musage of comfort on to those who desire to be
bo meet and combat it to r h a l condtuioa u the u s e r t i a n
comforted
The nations a n in distress politically, k c i a l l y n e troublesome tima upon the earth have awak-
and socially. Daily problems are arising, the solving ened the people to a realization that they hava
of which seenu beyond the power of human ingenuity. neglected Bible study and have not provided thar
children with sufficient taching conccming the grrat
, Seeing all t h e e things coming to pars before our v q
truths in the Bible. Our Religious Department will
eyes, who a n lightly pass over the words of the Great
carry in a c h issue a carefully arranged Bible study
Master foretelling these times when there would be
in such simple form that it can be readily anderstwd
"upon earth distnss of nations, with perplexity, the
by any one. This will enable the people to ramin
sea and the wava roaring, men's hearts failing them
at home and quietly study their Bibles and increase
for far and for looking to the things coming u p m knowledge and in Divine wisdom. Every parent
the earth I" o w u it u a duty tn his child to see that the child is
These distressing times have come at the very provided with proper Biblid instruction THE
climax of the development of inventive genius-at GOLDEN AGE 'd supply this long-felt want.
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LABOR and ECONOMICS -
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over the o m e n h i p and dtimate control of the rail- funds, there be political f i dsong ~ differat
ma&- The plans for a partnership of a p i t d a d the sections for such new lines, and new "pork bills" that
--mt do not work- They out of would put the notorious river and hubor appropria-
The mitoad brotherhoods have learned that in an tionr f u in the ,hadc
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ultimate test of strength they have the power to en-
their demands upon both
writ. Compulsory arbitration is out of the question.
the Prophet ~~h~ in hk vi-
a d k v e 2:34 foresla the d r e a d l ~& & locomotiva
ning ,like the ligtning,,, "with flaming torch- in he
Tbe nilroad anployes constitute a large part of the day of his prepaxation," he little imagined that thue
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atireuship of the country, and they will be interested wonderful "cfiariots" were destined to become the
as dtizars, will they not, in seeing that the railroads property, not of kings, nor of the rich, but of the
are w t l y mlnnged? And how about the public? common people, like himself.
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lYU%POWXR OF THE PRESS blaelrs and whites u a result of the reign of t m r .
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T be tm, that if' wie During the war a large influx of negraer into
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no crimes, scandals, riots, accidents, etc., t h m Chicap
would h wyless n e w s p p u t , but 2
if
O v e ~ ~ ~the ~ ~neZm
d e section
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MAKIlVC THE WORKER ' A PARTNER turer as the customer. TIis opinions exercise a con-
siderable influence in labor ranks and his vote counts
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D ISCUSSION proceeds widely u to the best
way to meet the increasingly insistent de-
mand of the worker that.he be permitted to have a
for just 3s much a the president of his company.
The suspicion in'which he holds his employer mayv
voice in. the management of the business. All em- be and probably is many times deeper than that of
\ ployers now know that they mast d a l with their any customer and may affect the efficiency of his
employes by collective bargaining and it would work and his whole attitude toward the business.
- seem the part of wisdom 'for thetn to 'spend some ' This suspicion must be cleared away not by a mere
time now i n considering how they can make the best statement of intent but by interestihg and truthful
solution of the new situation which is bound to arise statements regarding the necessities of the'company;
when the employee demands a voice in the manage- its policies and what it hopes to do. I t would seem,
ment. therefore, that the marketing eqd of a business is the
. It' is a curiotls thing that while the avkrage -man end best fitted with this new problem which is here
' will admit that he knows nothing about most sub- and here to stay. The best thing to do withr a press-
jects he has never studied, such as music, geology, ing problem is to solve it and not try to dodge it or
botany, astronomy, etc., he is fully convinced of his postpone it, especially if it is 3 problem that wiil not
ability t o govern or help to govern business or polit- be dodged or postponed.
{&a1 institutions of any kind without ever having "A wise man wiil hear, and will increase learning;
studied the subject or without having ever had the and a man of ~rmdcrstandingshall attain unto wise
least experience. This makes the coming business counsels." (Proverbs 15 ) . This is as good advice
parther a liability for a time until he has learned to the managers of labor to-day as it was thousands
something of his new duties, but not as much of a of years ago, when it was written.
liability, perhaps, as some people would like to
think. HOW LONG WILL T H E OIL LAST! .
It not infrequently happens that a night watch- HE production pf petroleum 'in the United
man or railroad conductor or other unskilled or
am&-skilled worker is thoroughly saccer~fulin con-
T States hai averaged about 950,000 barrels per
day for the past year and a half, with a consump
trolling the politics of s ward, the operations of a tion ronlewhat in excess of production. From Jan-
lodge or the conduct of a labor organization. They uary, 1918, to January, 1919, the stock on hand de-
control such affairs because they know men and how creased from 150,000,000 barrels to 128,000,000 bar-
to deal with them. While, therefore. a great many rels, but had risen to 132,165,OW barrels by'the end
mistakes will be made in the transfer of a certain of May, 1919. . '
amount of power to the workers in an industrial or- When the Standard Oil Company begins to seil
ganization, nevertheless it is highly probable that oil stock in the open market it is a pretty good sign
the manufacturei will discover qualities of leader- that those on the inside see the beginning of the end
ship where he has not been accustomed to look for and are trying to place their money where it will
them, and where they will be of value in the bud- be safer.
ness. There a n seven1 distinct oil fields in the United
When a suspicion orists between a manufacturer States: the upper ruches of the Ohio River, North-
and customer, as a result of a supposed injustice or western Ohio, Southeastern Illinois, Northeastern
grievance, the man who is calltd upon to settle that Oklahoma, North Texas, Northwestern Louisiana,
grievance and remove the injustice is a man who Southeastern Texas, Southern Glifornia and Wyo-
has made a study of human nature, m d at the same ming. Some of these fields are now 85% exhausted.
time is capable of seeing both s i d a of a problem. The average investor in oil stocks, especially in
Such men are to be found in the marketing end of new companies, never seema to know that most wells
a- business, either in the sales o r advertising deput- decline in production very rapidly, which makes
rnents. necessary constant drilling to maintain production.
The laborer is j u t or necessary to the manufac- The average decline of flowing wells in some fields
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,approximate 15% a month. Pools in Oklaho- TEE PEOSPEIATE MWES OF FLORIDA
iiwhich three yeare ago provided 500,000 bars& per LORIDA produces about 52 per c e n t of the en-
::day now produce only 30,000 bards and ocr
: one property where at that time thirteen wells were '
F tire varld'r supply of phosphate and about 82
per cent. of the supply of the United States. These
producing 13,000 barrela of oil per day o m hun- phosphate beds, underlying almost the entire state,
dred wells arc now producing only one tenth as are one of the great reasons for the productivity of
much. Florida soil T h e greatest and richest beds of phor-
: T h e Bureau of Mines of the Federal Government phate are in the vicinity of Tampa, which has the
Tgtated recently. in effect, that the country is now
-facing a serious shortage of petroleum. While this
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distinction of being the largest shipper of phosphate
rock in the world.
country has produced 579% of'the world's supply of T h e phosphorous employed in the manuf?cturr of .
petroleum it has done so by a depletion of the M- matches and for medicinal purposes is obtained from
tiond resenre supply. phosphate rock by mixing it with coke and sand
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. Oil wells, like mining properties, are obviously and heating it in an electric furnace. It is marketed
%elf-liquidating. Every barrel of oil or pound of in the form of sticks, which are d e by conducting
metal removed correspondingly reduces the amount the phosphorus from the melting pot through a pipe
recoverable and consequently reduces the value of surrounded by cold water. T h e phosphorus solidi-
the property. Hence, the absolute necessity of oil fies in the pipe and can be removed u a continuous
producers being continually on the lookout for new rod. The phosphorus sticks are packed in jars cov-
:sources of supply to serve as a production supply ered with water, to avoid spontaneotls combustion.
,against their declining wells. Acid phosphate, for years one o i our most popular
Few, if any, producing companies ever show on soft drinks, could nbt be manufactured o r sold at
their balance sheets any reserve for oil depletion. the soda counter, if it were not for the output of the
It frequently happens that a new company will be- Florida mines. Owing to its remarkable influence
gin to pay dividends prematurely, with the result on the growth o f bone in young animals, it has been
that it soon requires more capital with which to used in the treatment of bone affections. It is also
continue operations. I t is generally unwise to most effective in pulmonary troubles and skin dis-
purchase stock in companies which pay immediate eases and as a nerve t o n i c
dividends. It bas been well known for many years that a
All of the oil companies--the most prosperous as trace of phosphorus in the manufacture of bronze
well as the most wheezy-would be glad if they adds greatly to the tenacity of the metal and to its
could find some way of maintaining a permanent value I t is an essential of calcium phosphide used
supply of oil, such as was miraculously provided for. for distress signals a t sea and was widely employed
during the Great War in the manufacture of smoke
the widow by the old Hebrew prophkt Elisha. The
story is brief and very interesting: screens for hiding vessels from submarina.
Phosphate mines, strictly speaking, are not miner
a t all, but merely open pits. T h e deposits are of all
T o w there cried a ccrtain wornan of the wives of th wcs
of the prophets nnto E!isha, saying, Thy servant my husband sizes and shapes, hard-rock, soft-rock and pebbles,
is &ad; and thou knowest that thy servant did f a r tbe Lord: and frequently occur in pockets of limestone, from
and the creditor is come to take unto him my PAW sons to be which they are scooped with the naked hand. The
bondmen And Elibha said unto her, WXat s h l l I do for thee? work is all done by negro labor, principally with
tdl me: what hast thou it1 the house? And sbe ui4 Thim pick and shovel, but sometimes by dredges or other
handmaid h t h not anphing in the house, save a pot of oil.
hydraulic apparatus After mining it requires to be
Tho he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of dl thy
neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. And w k n washed,' dried, pulverized and sacked.
tbx an come in thou halt shut the door upon thee and upan T h e human family needs these phosphate deposits
thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and them a t the present time for food and medicinal purposes,
rlrrlt set aside that which is fulL So she went from him, and and it strikes us that a fatherly Being who had the
shut the door upon her and upon her sans, who brought the
foresight and beneficace to lay up stores of food
rarck to her; and she poured out And it came to pey when
' the wuek were full, that she said unto her sob Bring me yet and medicine for an uncruted race is a. God the
a vessel: a d he said unto her, There is not a v u v l more human family can trust, and a God they will love
And tbt oil stayed. Then she came and told the man d God: when they know him. "And God saw everything
and he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou that he had made, and behold it was very godg'-
and day children of the rest."--2 Kinqr 4:l-7. Genesis 1:31.
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AMERICAN EXPORTS AND INFLATION money wiU buy. So vast is the seeming inflation of
N the end Europe must pay for our goods in their business that busineu men everpwhere are enlarg-
I own goods or in gold. Meantime we can and
should lend them all of our savings that we can
ing their businesses, like the man m the parable
whose found "broaght forth plentifu1Iy: md he
Spare, but if we go further and inflate our credit thought w i t h himself, saying, What shall f do, be-
position in order to lend them more we cannot fail cause I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
to cause a further rise in the cost of living. The And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my
proposition to accept European notes, backed by barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow
European mortgages, in payment 'for American all my fruits, and my goods. And I will say to my
goods, is all right, but not if those notes arc to be soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many
used as a basis for the further inflation of our cur- years."-Luke 12:18#1
m c y . The temporary and illusory gain that would
follow such an inflation would be more than offset . DAYS ?OR
by the unrest of labor and a11 the other evils which HE only man in the world with a full bank
accompany inflation.. T
account is the American, and he will have
It was in August, 1915, that the quantity of money plenty of foreign friends as long as he has money to
in the United States began its rapid increase. One lend
month later prices began to shoot upward, keeping Representatives of many foreign governments
almost exact pace with the quantity of money. In and municipalities have been rushing to America
, February, 1916, money suddenly stopped increasing, to secare g r a t loam here Some of the amoum
and two or three months later prices stopped like- are :
wise. The money in circulation in the United States The S n i u Republic, $30.000.000
rose from three and one-third billions in 1913 to fjve Denmu4 15,000,000
m d a half billions in 1918, corresponding to the rise Cxccho-Shma& 25,000,000
in prices. BelOiarq 50,WObo
h a b , 75m,oao
The money in circulation in 'the world outside of Fid, Several minillio~r
Russia increased during the war from fifteen bil- Poland, Several millions
lions to forty-five billions and the bank deposits in Argentiq SNc* milliom
fifteen principal countries from &venty-seven bif- B d Smd millions
lions to wventy-five billions. Prices have trebled ' -, A large loan
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Fmacq An important bond iuuc
also.
The main cause for the present extension In bank In addition, the most powerful financial syndicate
credit is the Liberty Loan. Subsuibers for the ever formed in this country, if not in the world, will
loans have not paid their bonds in full. These bonds undertake to loan from one to fiJe billion dollars in
are unrivalled security for borrowings and will con- credits to thousands of foreign buyers with which in
tinue to be so until the Government which issues turn to p u h e American foodstuffs, raw materials
them redeems them. Until they are paid there is and other supplies.
little chance that prices will fall materially from As much of these vast sums 411 never leave the
their present high level Prices in Europe since the country but be expended here for American prod-
war began have riseh more than they have in the ucts, a great circulation of money will result and a
United States, and for the same reason-too much large volume of 6usiness will be done By American
money. In Russia the Bolsheviki have issued eighty concerns, linked up with the int&national financiers.
billion dollars of paper money, or more than all the There will be plenty of work until these amounts
rcst of the world put together. are spent, and at good waga,.for American labor
The poor world is sutrering from rornething that will not permit its net return for a day's work to
only a few individuals urperienc+-too much money. decrease, whatever figures the cost of living may
They are finding out that money "maketh not rlch," rucb.
without corresponding i n c r u s t in the things that The time is coming, of course, when Europe will
have placed d l the orders needed to reestablish her year. Taking all kinds of foodstuffs into considen-
rh.ttrrtd industries, and also be able to ship goods tion the United States is now exporting four times
into the American market; and then a reaction may as much 3s before the war. The money value is six
be urpectod in Ameriu, with the usual phenomena, times as great. I t is now estimated at $3,000,000,w
of l e u work, Iowa wages and falling prices. But per year dhilt then it was $!kN,000,000per year. "
for 8 time thir country u safe k o m the difficultiu Many 8 man ir deceived .by such figures into
incident to business depression. thinking that it represents the incruring wealth of
The time ia coming, however, when a perplexing the country, whereas it represents the opposite.
situation muat be met; for borrowings have the un- Every ton of raw material taken out of the land im-
fortunate faculty of the limitation imposed by the poverishes the r e d w d t h by that much. It seems,
ability of the borrower paying interest. But it looks all right to the thoughtless, but it is like what the
;r Gough America was safe for another year of Bible speaks of when it says, "There is 8 way that
good timer seemeth good to a man, but the end thereof is de-
struction." A country which enlarges its exports
MSTORA TION OF OUR MERCHANT MARING by sending away its actual wealth would come to
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WING to the unprecedented prosperity of the
fanners, the demand for automobiles is now
a great fleet of merchant ships under the American estimated a t 60 per cent. ahead of the supply; and
flag. The Shipping Board has announced the open- orders, both by dealers and the consuming public,
ing of 62 regular cargo liner services, twenty-five are being booked for months ahead. The growth in
ot which start from New York. They cover South popularity of the motor car is shown by the regis-
America, Africa, the Pacific, Italy, France, the tration figures for the year of 5,500,000, over a mil-
North Sea states and England. Besides this it has lion cars better than the best previous figures. In
been announced that over $200,000,000 worth of California there is one automobile in use for every
merchant ships have been ordered, which indicates seven adults in the state.
that the magnificent ship-building facilities put up No family purchases an automobile without the
during the war for military needs will not be al- families next door desiring also to fulfil the ancient
lowed to go to ruin. Bible prophecy to the effect that "many shall run to
The plan of sale announced for Government ships and fro" (Daniei 12 :4). In order to fulfil this divine
b very generous. I t allows the purchaser to charter prediction, men that are wholly unable to afford it
for three years, paying from his profits. At the end mortgage their houses m d . sell* everything they
of the three years he has the option of buying the have, as though an automobile w e n a "pearl of great
ships outright a t $110 a ton or returning them to price." All over the country the American people
the Board. are beating their chicken houses into garages.
I t is not clear just how the American buyers of
American ships expect t o make money out of the TANK CARS FOR TRANSPORTATION
purchases, because it i s quite well known that
American-operated ships are the most expensive to
nm in the world; and often fail in competition on
MORE than 100 commoditiu are now trans-
ported in tank cars. Kerosene, gasoline, sul-
phuric, muritic, nitric and picric acib, ammonia,
equal t v m s with the shipping of other nations. alcohol, benzol, ether, cod-tar, chlorine for bleach-
ing, tannic acid for tanning, turpentine and rosin
IMbiENSE EXPORTS OF AMERICAN FOODSTURF for paints, vegetable oils for soaps and butterine,
I N 1918 the quantity of fresh beef exported waa linseed oil for paint makers, soya bean oil, castor
540,000,000 pounds, or 86 times as much u in b u n oil, peanut oil, cocoanut oil, olive oil, corn oil,
1914. T h e quantity of bacon exported was 1,000,- whale and fish oils, fats and oil from the meat
000,000 pounds, o r five times the amount exported packers, asphalt for roofing and roads, caustic soda
in 1913 The amount of condensed milk was 553,- for soap, silicate of rod? and potash b r soaps and
000,000 pounds o r 26 times aa much u in 1913. Of fertilize- m o k r w , glucose, vinegar, pickles,
this amount 25,000,000 pounds went to India or four sldmrnrdmiIkandwintarcaUrhippdintankarr
times as much as was shipped to India the previous of tm+ =PW*
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TO &ASTEN TadF COBIZVG OF DEMOCRACY being experimented with. Certainly no one could
HE NATIONAL SOCIAL UNIT ORGANI- have any better purpose than the backers of the
- T ZATION is the name of a corporation whox social unit system, but they are dealing with a situ-
inceptidn w a i recently approved by Supreme Court ation too complicated for them to save i t The
Justice Lydon of New York. The charter Bur- world will be saved far democracy, but it will be'
post is to "hasten the coming of a democracy, both gcn- through the agency' of the coming kingdom of Mes-
, siah.
aiPi mb efficient, by building upon a basis of popula-
tion units an organization through which the people
an get a clear idea of their common needs, and can 19REEDOiU EXISTS WBE- WEAK A R E FREE
utilize the technical knowledge of skilled groups in
formulating and carrying out programs to meet
these needs."
T HE d e w of dvilIzatioa of a community nuy
be measured by the liberty accorded to the
weaker membera of the community. Where the de-
A similar social unit system in Cindnnati is re- fenceless are defended and the individually weak
ported to 3ave successfully developed a quite gen- are backed up by the power of all, liberty exists in
uine democracy in small groups of the population, tangible form.
who by the unfavorable conditions of tenement city Those classes which a n without 8 mice and with-
life had been unable to "find themselves" eociologi- out a vote are most likely to be imposed upon by
cally. The groups by a direct process of practical the strong and unscrupulous. One such class con-
- education in the social and economic needs of the sists of those who under the law are classified as
people cultivated in a mixed population a spirit of infants and minors. I t is a promising sign when
independence quite comparable to that which has the rights of such classes are defended as in a recent
been the pride of American tradition. Incidentally instance in an Eastern city.
the social unit incurred the cordial opposition of A boy is not supposed to exercise any particular
the local politicians who found their grip increas- IegaI rights, but when a property owner in Dobbs
ingly impaired as the knowledge of their former Ferry, N. Y., chased nine-yearsld Roland White so
subjects grew. that the boy fell down and hurt himself, because the
Knowledge ia power. It is independence I t is lad was scooting past the house on a pushmobile, it
the foundation of true democracy, which in essence waa apparent that in Dobbs Ferry at l u s t a boy
is the actual direction of the people's affairs by the has some rigtits. C
people themselves. The man had asked the children why they could
The time for genera! enlightenment on dl topics not scoot on the other side of the street; his wife
is not merely coming-it is here. The chains of was nemous and the noise annoyed her. One of the
ignorance and superstition are about to be forever neighbors was not surprised that the boy might have
broken. The common people are about to enter into suffered from the kind of pain that gains plaintiffs
a greater and greater freedom which will soon- substantial amounts from damage suits, for she said
and to the people, unexpectedly-blossom out into that when the man was chasing the boy he had such
that which Paul promised, when he foresaw the a temble look on his face that it frightened even
better age just now ahead, and said: "The creation her; but the magistrate merely imposed a sentence
[dl created beings] itself dso shall be delivered and then mercifully suspended i t He made it plain
from the bondage of cormptim [the chrixu of ig- that the majesty of the law protected even boys on
norance, superstition, direuc and ultimately death] scooters, becruse "there is no law that prevents boys
into the glorious l i b e q of the [perfect earthly] from scooting or roller-skating on the side-walks,"
children of God." and that "a man must remember that he was a boy
The coming of that which has not yet c o m e once himself."
genuine democracy-is just around the future's If judges and big people generally remembered.
comer. I t draws very near. All humanity will that they like to have liberty themselves, and would
soon go forth to meet i t but k will not come allow others the rune liberties they insist on, and
through any of the well-meant plam vtrich are now if they would protect and help and be a big brother
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to t h o lenr
~ able to look out for t h e r n d v u , civil- T h t the Jews would have a v a y hYd timc for
ization would take a step upward and there would many' centuries was not unknown to the Jewish
be real liberty for grown-ups as well as for children. prophets. And even thew pogroms were foretold;
In the Golden Age, which is fast approaching, the for the Prophet Jeremiah says: "I will send for
rights of every person will be safeguarded, even many hunters, and they shall hunt them' from every
those of little boys and girls. "I will make a man mountain [kingdom], and from every hill [lesser
more precious than fine gold; even a man than the nation], and out of the hola (protected placer) of
golden wedge of Ophir" (Isaiah 13:12). The people the rocks [strongholdr of society) ." (Jeremiah 16 :16.)
u e promised a better time than they have ever even Thu dreadful hunting of the Jews, however, is pre-
dreamed bf, as evidenced by these words :"Eye hath lude to the re!gathering of as many of them as desire.
not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into back to their home country. The Messianic kingdom
the heart of man, the things which God hath pre- will come after enough of the Jews yt reestablished,
pared for them that love him" (1 Corinthidns 2 :9) ; and through them will flow the grateot b&t to all
and Liberty for the weakest, even the boys and the the people of the whole world
girls, will characterize the greatness and majesty
of the coming better order of things. DO HORE BALMNS MEAN MORE TROUBLE P
JEWISH PERSECUTION I N POLAND T HE break-up of the Austrian empire fur created
four new Balkan -staty Hungary, Jugo-Shvia,
NDER the charge that all Jews are Bolsheviki CtecbnSlovakia and Poland, besides old Austria
U the ruling party in Poland is engaged in a
rhuneless persecution of Jews, with a view to mak-
The civilization d the world broke down be-
cause the Great Powers played the Balkan states
ing their political hold on the country stronger. against each other for their own purposes. T h e
Ugly illustrated posters, depicting the Jew or a ser- Russian Empire md the p h of Germany for a
pent or vampire, appear in the newspapers and are Mittel-Europa collided. Now the whole of Central
doing everything possible to fan the fanaticism of Europe has been Balkanized From the Baltic to
the ignorant masses into a brutal massacre. the Aegean the whole territory is now filled with
The Jews are blamed for the high cost of living, small, ambitious, ind&tely bounded stater. Will
despite the fact that this phenomenon is world wide they keep the peace? Will their larger and more
and has been caused by the fiscal policies of the ambitious neighbors help them to keep the peace,
warring countries, or will they, in pursuance of their own ambitious
As high as eighty Jews have been killed in a single designs, contrive to keep these small states quarrtl-
pogrom in Poland, and they are of frequent occur- ing among themselves in the hope of themselves
rence; sometimes whole streets of Jewish homes are profiting by the melee? 3
burned down, accompanied by brutalities in which Europe must get to work. Will she get to work
the Roman Catholic Polish Christians seem to equal better with a large number of petty states or a
the Turks in their attacks against the Armenians. small number of large states? Are customs bar-
Some of the factories in Poland belong to Jews, riers a help to commerce or a hindrance? If there
but in them no Jewish operatives can be employed, . are many boundaries to cross will trade be facili-
despite the fact that one-third of the populace are tated or hindered? If Europe docs not get to work
Jews. Polish workmen will not work with Jews boundaries or m boundaria, what will happen?
and they can only work in small home industries of Practically all the people of Europe, a t l u s t an
their own. Theycan not enter the civil service. overwhelming majority, profess obedience to the
The Poles, politically and culturally a backward commands of Jesus Christ, but evidently they have
people, have won the power to make their land a two things more to learn. One of them is suggested
hell for its three million Jews by no merit of their by Paul, that "if any would not work, neither should
own, but simply by the victory of the Germans over he eat" (2 Thessalonians 3 :10) ;for unless Europe
thc Russian and of the Allies over the G e m s . gets to work she will not have enough to cat except
The P o l e understand well what their r6le in by borrowing money from the United Statea and
Europe is. Their r6le is to keep a strong conscript paying for food with the eume money. The other
u m y on the Vistula, while the French keep watch thing that these ~hri'stiansrequire ir to realize that
on the Rhinc. They know very well if they fill this there is no permanent relationship possible among
die, they may treat Jews, Germans and other minor- them accept that based upon thia ancient principle:
ities Y they plcasc. "Tbou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
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WHAT ROTATION OF CROPS ACCOMPWSEES ly fulfil his promise, "Behold, I make all things new"
T HAD probably been discovered elsewhere by other (Revelation 21 5). The earth ia being made new
I fannen that corn always does well when it fd-
lows a crop of clover, but it was discovered anew
before oar very eyes and the land is yielding it?
increase.
in 8 d o n of Nofib Carolina by a young farmer DYNAMITING TEE EARTH INTO A PARADISE
who purchased m abandoned farm and who nbticed
HE-USEOF ELECEUCXTY m d dynamite in
that his first crop of corn did best in a part of the
fidd that had grown up to wild clover. The next
T the Great War has developed methods for deal-
ing with &, stumps m d water coursu which will
spring he seeded all his wheat in clover and has
alter the face of the earth. In digging ditches the holes
bear doing it ever since. His farm is now one of
are drilled two feet apart and two feet drip, the num-
the show-places of the state. Other farmerr in the
naghborhood have followed his example and fmm ber of rows depending upon the width.desired for the
bed of the s t r u m As soon abou't 10 holes arc drilled
8 poor farming country have built up the best Corn-
and loaded they are exploded by electricity. The
Belt in that prrt of the South
blast lifts the soil 200 feet in the air and scatters it
Many years ago a great potato-producing indus- out over the adjoining land for a 'distance of 150
try developed in Aroostook County, Maine. The feet, leaving a clean ditch. If a deeper bed is desired
potatoes were grown in rotation with oats and the first bed of the stream can be blasted out by an-
clover; two years of potatoes, one of aats and one other layer of holes, or a third.
of clover, with as heavy an application of fertiluer One of the principal uses of dynamite in clearing
as the potatoes would pay for. Wonderful results up large areas is that of blasting out stumps. Three
were obtained by this rotation and enrichment of holes are drilled on opposite sides of the stump, all
the soil, and now ft has been discovered that this slanting in toward the center, and reaching down to
u m e rotation, with equally good results, can be the subsoil beneath the stump. Crow-bars are gen-
oMained in any potato-growing country. I
erally used for making the holes, but portable elec-
In the so-called Black Belt of Alabama and Mu- tric and compressed air drills are also used.
sissippi many lands had been cropped to cotton Another great use of dynamite is in clearing land
without change or rest for a hundred years. The of boulders. This is done by t h e e methods, d-
yield of cotton had fallen so low as to make the land capping, which consists in removing the d p a m i t e
practically worthless until somebody dixovercd that from the shell and packing it in a compact conical
it was naturally adapted to alfalfa. Now it is pro- heap on the boulder, and then covering it with sev-
ducing great crops of alfalf& three or four tons t o eral inches of thick heavy mud; blochholkg, which
the acre, and after a few years produces corn rival- consists of drilling a hole into the boulder and chug-
ling the yield in the Corn-Belt states. ing it with a small amount of dynamite ;and mahe
Twenty yean ago the sand-hill country of North holing, which consists in rolling the boulder oat of
Carolina was regarded as worthless. Fifty cents an its bed by placing a hole under it similar to one of
acre was a good average for the land. The roil is the holes used to remove a stump. If a sufficient
little but sand for 20 feet or more down. A hotel- charge of dynamite is used the boulder will be
keeper undertook to raise vegetables for his t a b l t broken into fragments. Boulders should always be
H e found that cowpeas and fertilizer worked a revo- snakeholed before attempts at madupping or block-
lution in the soil. After turning under a few crops haling are made. The mud used for mudcapping
of pea vines he was able to produce 60 to 70 bushels must be free from stones. If stoner are present in
of corn per acre. The system spread gradually until the mud they will be thrown like bullets. Block-
now the sand-hill re&on is one of the most prosper- holing requires mom labor but is the simplest
ous in the state. Now land is selling at $200 to $250 method for breaking very hard boulders, and the
per acre and the yield of cotton runs to a bale or only method for breaking boulders over 3 feet i n
more per acre. diameter. I t requires much less dynamite than either
By these and similar methods the Lord m i sure snakeholing or mudcapping. ,
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Who should have supposed when the Prophet TURN~NCFLORIDA'S SWAMPS INTO FARMS
said, "The desert shall rejoice a i d blossom u the
rose" (Isaiah 35 :I), that one of the instruments the
Lord will use for accomplishing the fulfilment of
L AKE OKECHOBEE, the second larzest -lake
wholly within the United States, lies in the center
of the everglades of Florida, with its surface thirty
that prop&ecy is a'force (dynamite) which has been feet above the sea. The discovery of this fact made
largely used by n+n for the slaughter of men? possible a vast reclamation work now under way,
CONSERVATION OF SOIL FERTILITY by which a very large part of what was once s u p
THE FUTURE OF WIRELESS the machine was pointed toward the great wireless
station a$ Clifden, Ireland, the machine continually
- T HE FUTURE OF WIRELESS lies in part in its
use in the direction of aviation, for it is obvious
that there is no other way -in which aviators can be ap-
recorded the fact. When the machihe veered to the
right or left the signals immediately ceased record-
: pri~&of their own whereabouts in fog or darkness. ing on the receiving apparatus. This was so simpk
that the pilot did not need to understand the signals
With this id= in view a new transmitter has been d t
" vised which will project into the air beams of wire- being sent out. As long as he could hear the signals
less somewhat like the searchlight but without the in his telephone head-gear he knew he was heading
light, capable of expanding or contracting in area directly toward the wireless station' where he sub-
covered. Through the aid of these beams it is hoped sequently landed. The Clifden station is in con-
that some day the flying aeronaut in time of fog stant communication with the wireless station at
can be guided'from one part of the country to an- Glace Bay, Canada, so that Captain Alcock was able
other. to hear the station throughout his voyage and keep
Arrangements are now in effect by which naviga- his machine pointed toward it, thus overcoming the
tors at the Brooklyn Navy Yard are enabled to give effect of the side drift caused by the winds.
bearings to ships lost in the fog off the Atlantic As the aviator, apparently lost in a trackless sea
Coast. The vessels wire when they want assistance of fog, may know whither he is bound, so the child
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and then, with the aid of several stations; the office of God, in a world that is filled with darkness and
fixes the ships' locations and they can proceed with- confusion, may know that he is guided by $he eye
out waiting for clear weather. of him that never sleeps. "I will guide thee with
It does not appear that it will ever be any too mine eye."-~s&ns 32 :8.
safe to fly rapidly or fly at all in a fog. In Canada
an aviator went head on into a barn in a fog killing COMETS-THE TRAMPS OF THE HEAVEN3
him instantly and completely wrecking his machine.
How many have been killed by running b t o trees
and other obstructions in fogs will probably never be
C OMETS, along with shooting s t v r and meteon,
are the tramps of the heavens. Thy are supposed
to consist of geses which escaped b c i i swept up by the
it safer.
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known. But the wireless will at least help to make planets and moons of the solar system st the time
the system was formed by the repaxation of these
There are wireless instruments' now available planets 'from the sun. Their orb& arc very kregular
which provide for taking bearings under any weath- and are inclined at a11 angles to each other, whereas
er conditions. When signals are heard strongest the orbits of all the planets lie very nearly in the same
in the operator's head telephone a movable pointer plane. The planets revolve from west to esr~taround
indicates the direction of the incoming signal. The the sun, while comets not infrequently back around
geographical direction is then secured by a glance the sun in the opposite direction, from east bo west
at the compass. Therefore, if signals can' be heard The orbits of the planets are almost perfect circles,
: from two wireless stations offering a wide angle the while the orbits of the comets are ellipses.
aircraft operator has merely to make a simple trian- All the comets which visit our sun are aupposed to
gulation to get his exact bearings. The densest fog belong to our solar system, although th; visits of some
is no obstacle to the receipt of these signals. of them about the sun are separated by hundreds of
In the course of normal development it is to be thousands of years. Donati's comet hor 8 known
expected that v k y soon wireless telephone convcr- orbit of more than two thousand yean, and ita aphelion
sation will be held between aircraft and ships at sea. (point in its orbit farthest away from the sun) is five
- I t then becomes a simple matter for the aviator lost times more distant than the orbit of the planet N e p
in the fog to gef his exact position almost instantly tune. Halley's comet has an orbit of seventy-fivp
by this method. years, and Encke's comet of three and a third years.
I t is said that in Captain Alcock's remarkable Stars shine undimmed in lustre even thmagh the
flight across the Atlantic direction-finding coils were heads of comets. The earth has oa a number of occa-
built into the wings of his machine, so that when sions passed directly through the t?it of -yitb=
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OPt experiencing the least visible effects. If it should menace to balloonists and aviators, and on this account
eaconnter a comet head-on it is, doubtful if it would they were made the subject of special study.
experience anything more s d o u s than a shower of Thunderclcmds are columns of heated air which
meteors. have r i K n from the earth's surface, due to the heating
A great many comets have been swuved from their effects of the sun, and have carried moisture up with
original orbits by coming in dose proximity to the thun. This moisture d o u not condenoe in the form
larger planets. About forty have been thus captured of drops until it comes in contact with dust particla
by Jupiter, Saturn, U n n u s and Neptune, although or electricany charged partides which act as centers
Jupiter possesses the lion's ohue. They have been of condensation. The water condenses much n w e
a p t u r e d in the sense that their aphelia are now in quickly about partida charged with negative el=-
the vicinity of these planets, and this fact has suggested tricity than with particles charged with positive elec-
the thought that each of the comets has its aphelia tricity. The negatively charged drops being smaller
=ear some planet, the farthest aphelia being about and lighter are amed to the top of the cloud, very
p k n d s that are so remote from our sun that they can often forming a heavy negative charge, while the
not be seen by the most powerful telescope. heavier positively charged drops fall to the bottom
The most interesting feature of a comet is its tail, of the doud, forming 2 s t m g positive ch-. The
which develops and increases in brilliancy as the comet effect of wind on raindrop, is to break them up and
approaches the sun. The tail is always turned away change thun from positively charged d r o p to nega-
from the sun, so that while the comet rushes around tively charged droplets. Thus every thundercloud
the sun the tail gradually changes place from being is seen'to be really a huge electrical generator. The
behind the comet to being in front of it. Hydrogen earth itself is a great storage battery of negative elec:
tails are long and straight, hydrocarbon tails are long tricity, estimated at 600,000,000volts;
and curved Tails of iron or other metailic vapors When a charge of electricity in a cloud gets s&-
are short and bushy. At times the same comet will ciently great the lightning flash takes place This
have two or 'more tails of different types. Comets may take place from the top to the base of a cloud,
a n continually disintegrating. Sometimes they come or between the base of the doud and the earth, or
too close to the sun at their perihelion passage and between one cloud and another, sometimes w e r dis-
become split into two or more comets, 'each with its tances of twenty miles.
own tail. Sometimes the tails become tvisted or A flash of lighning always produces a powerful
brushed aside as if they had encountered some un- inductive effect, which may cause flashes to occur in
l m w n force. Sometimes they disintegrate entirely rzpid succession. I t frequently happens that a nega-
into periodic swarms of meteors. I t is supposed that tively charged doud approaches the earth, and in do-
- the great star shower in 1833 was caused by the pas- ing so .the inductive effect changes its charge to posi-
sage of the earth through the nuclius of what had tive, and a thunderstorm follows.
once been a great comet One of the most beautiful of the Psalms of David
Comets travel at a leisurely speed through the frigid is David's description of a thunderstorm. H e says
A t e r regions of the solar system. This speed is poetically, describing both the thunder and the light-
gradually accelerated as the comet draws nearer and n:ng, "The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of
nearer the sun, until it has acquired, near the time of fi re.'-Psalm 20 : 7.
its perihelion passage, a velocity that occasionally ex-
ceeds two hundred and fifty miles a second. WOOD MORE DURABLE THAN IRON
I n one respect comets bear a close resemblance to
GREENHEART TREES growso in dense jungles of
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the "wandering s t a n to whom is reserved the black- South America and require great labor and ex-
ness of darkness forever," of Jude 13, in that both pense to cut and ship. They are heavy that they will
amount to as nearly nothing as anything possibly sink instantly alone and when placed in the water
L..'_.?,-.. - ~villoutlast iron or steel. For this reason, and be-
cause they are impervious to the attacks of insects,
THE MANUFACTURE OF LlCHTNZNC they are used for the sills of drydocks and canal
locks. This wood has been known to stand under
T HUNDERCLOUD is the most stupendous and
know.
powerful generator of electricity of which we
A single lightning flash may carry twenty thou-
water for over a hundred years and remain in per-
fectly sound condition. T h e wood used in the gates
sand a m p e m at a pressure of millions of volts. During of the Canada Dock, built in 185% was so perfectly
the wu lightning and thunder-storms proved a serious preserved that it was used again in 1894.
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HOUSEWIFERYand HYGIENE
NERVOUS AND STUPID CHILDREN ity to digest his food. Malnourished children should
0 ACHIEVE MARKED SUCCESS, a man especially be guarded against getting too t i r d
T n e e . bniru plus physical endurance. and every
ambitious father w a s his boys to have that surplus of
Childten require about a pint and a half of milk
per day apiece in order to keep in the best condition;
physical vitality which spells courage, initiative and if they dislike it as a beverage it may be disguised ib
persistence. No amount of mere intellectual keeness or the fonn of cocoa, milk soup, custard or cream sauce
a ~ f infornution
d a n make up for the b s s of vitality for vegetables. Well-cooked cereals, especially oat-
which enables men and women to enjoy the struggle meat, should form one of the mainstays of the break-
of life and get on well with other people. f a s t Green vegetables contain substances which
- I t is the delicate, finely attuned instrument which is stimulate growth and are helpful to the intestines
most easily thrown off the key, and it is the sensitive, because of their bulk.
high-strung child whose nerves are most easily injured The question of sleep is especially important for
by overstnia, Such chil&en should be checked malnourished or nvvous children. Amcrican chil-
rather than spurred, and their eager desire to please dren, as a rule, get too little sleep. They should re-
.should not be urploited to tickle the vanity or unbi- tire early, and take a noon nap, preferably before lunch.
tion of parents and teachers. Many a nervous break- A nervous, sleepless child can often be put to sleep
down at thirty or forty is due to overstimulation and by having him spend a quarter of an hour in a bath
overactivity when the child should have been laying of ninety degrees. When a nervous child fiu into a
up a store of energy and forming habits of physical temper or tantrum, scolding and punishment will
and e m o t i d thrift. usually only increase the nervous tension. A warm
I t is of great importance that a child should have bath and a quiet rest time in bed are more likely to
the normal weight for his age and height. If a child meet his needs.
is seriously underweight this is an indication that Practically a11 the children found suffering from
something is wrong. It means that he is using up malnutrition were found to be accust6med to having
his energy more rapidly than he should, and that some either tea o r coffee at breakfast.
&y he wu have to pay for i t In the matter of food and all other matters of the
Stupid children require attention for a different rea- physical and mental health of children, no better
wn. It has been estimated that from 3,000,O to philosophy has ever been devised than that which puts
5,000,000 American school children have adenoids, the responsibility upon the parepts. "Train up a
diseased tonsils and other glandular defects, which are child in the way that he should go,&d when he is old
making them appear stupid and are causing them to be he will not depart from it"-Proverbs 11: 11.
backward in school. The child troubled with adenoids
breathes through his mouth, and a lax lower jaw and TEETH EXTRACTION A CURE FOR DISEASE
vacant, sleepy eyes give an unmistakable expression R COTTON, of the New Jersey Hospital, at
of stupidity and dullness. The transformation in such
children when the adenoids, by a slight operation, are
D Trenton, discovered that many of the patients
suffering from mental disease had also serious chronic
removed, is often very rapid. The child with ade- infections of the t m t h , tonsils and stomach, and that
noids is stupid and sleepy, because he is not getting by removing the infected teeth he was able to restore
enough oxygen, and his blood is consequently laden many patients who, with fonner methods of treat-
with impurities and the cells of his brain are not ment, became chronic patients .and remained in the
properly nourished. hospital until the time of their death. As a result of
I t is also estimated that one-fifth of all the school the extraction of infected teeth Dr. Cotton was able
children in the country, o r 5,000,000, are malnour- to increase the proportion of discharges to admissians
ished. Undernourishment is the soil of diminished from 43% to 87y0;in other words to double the num-
rcsiatance upon which J1 sorts of physical and mental ber of patients who left the hospital.
disuses grow. Malnourished children, having !ittle The X - n y photographs of teeth show that m v l y
rcseme energy, fatigue easily. A healthy child re- people have infected teeth who have no knowledge of
cuperates quiddy. Overfatigue lessear a child's abil- i t The failure of the dentist to recognize the arirt-
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lnce of root infection and the practise of in 'ing between 5.30 and 7.00 ~'dock, while her husband
pivots, gold crowns and bridge work without first cared for the children.
taking radiographs to bc sure &at there are no in- The method of washing by an electric washer is
fected roots has caused more rheumatism, pernicious very simple. The tub of the machine is filled &tb
anemia, heart disease, Bright's disease and mental dis- lukewarm water into which a solution of one-half
eases than we can measure. Bacteria a t the roots of cup of soda crystals and oaohalf jar of soap jelly,
infected teeth must have an outlet, especially if the made from any kind of soap, is placed. The motor
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tooth has been crowned and all means of drainage is started and when it gets humming the clutch is
from the upper part of the tooth is thereby cut off. thrown in and the solution churned for two minutes
Then the bacteria filter through the bone in which the until sudsy; then the machine is stopped and the '
teeth are embedded, migrate to other organs and set clothes put in. The machine is then nm 15 minuta
up secondary foci of infection. The only known pre- for ordinary washes or longer for clothes badly '
ventlon of the effects of this infection is to have all soiled The clothes are rinsed in the machine in d d -
teeth removed in which the nerves have been de- ing water, d l of one kind bang rinsed together. In
strayed, an well as the tedh known to be infected. rinsing, the machine ia run another five minuta and
No one should attempt to preserve teeth by having the clothes are then wrung out into cold Muing water
the nerves killed Such teeth should be extracted. ready to be hung out to dry. The cost of the electric
These deathdealing germs, hidden away out of sight washer is $100 for the preferred designs.
about the roots of the teeth, suggest those secret faylts Probably no part of the Bible has thus far had t
which undermine and destroy character. "Cleanse more significant fulfilment than the statement, "In
thou me from secret faults."-Psalm 19: 12. the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread tin thotl
return unto the ground ; for oat of it Iv?rt thou taken:
WASHING MADE EASY for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou ictura'
T HERE is no dodging the family wash. It has to (Genesis 3 :19.) The fact that we see in every direc-
be done. It is done. The weekly expense for an tion the elimination of the arduous work of mankind
average family in moderate circumstances is calculated is in itself a happy augury of the coming approech
at $3.00. Of this amount $2.00 goes to the laundress, of Messiah's kingdom, the dawn of the Golden A g e
10c. for her carfare, 3%. for her lunch, 25c. for soaps
and powders used, and 30c. for electricity consumed. " FAMINE AND PESTILENCEn
The electric washer has made a great change in ARNINGS are issued by the medical pmfes-
many households. One woman reports that it takes W sion to get ready for a recurrence of I d u -
her one and one-half hours to do the week's wash, enza. The history of epidemics shows a m r r e n c e in
fifteen minutu to get the water ready and put the the succeeding year, and the black pllgir-as "In-
machine away, and one and onequartet hours to do fluenzap'-is expected to stalk through the land again
the a c t . washing. Her machine runs with a quarter this fall. Public Health Departments ort in receipt
horse-pow- motor, consuming about 15c. worth of of many anxious letters of inquiry, and in answer the
current per month, and the soap and washing powder warning is going out to prepare for what b coming.
run the total monthly bill up to 40c. - She calculates The good advice is given to build up strength to
that in three and one-third years she has paid for her meet a possible Influenza attack. As a preventive,
machine, paid the interest on the investment at 6910, exercise and good food are recommended
and cleared over $50.00 in cash, besides not being Health Departments express themselves that the
bothered by having a laundress around expected epidemic will be less serious than that of
Another woman reporb that it costs her one and 1918, because many of the population are immune
one-half cents an hour to run the machine, another through having had the disease once. 1
that previous to the purchase of a machine she em- Brotherly love among men would banish influenza.
ployed a k u n d r u s for two days each week and now It would see that all had the vitality builders of good
that she does her own wash in three hours per week food, good air, plenty of light and outdoor exercise.
with no help whatever. Another, with family of Lack of love among men is destined, in the near
eight reports that four hours a week suffices for the future, to bring the further fulfillment of the word
wash, and another that in 142 wuhes she used 200 of Jehovah : "in divers places pestilences" (Luke,
cakes of soap with the electric washer. Another, a . 21 :11) ; "before him [preceding his Kingdom pres-
mother with a l u g e family of small children, reported ence] went the pestilence' (Habakkuk,3 :5) ; '1have
thpt rbc did the family washing cvay Monday morn- w t among you the pertilenct"-hms, 4 :la
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8119, 20.) In ocher phnse, the Lord's prophet here But, it will be insisted, the above Scriptures have
says that all the testimony offered ;ith reference to reference to the body being dead and unconscious, -
communication with the d u d , if not in harmoay with but the soul continues to live. As above quoted,
and supported by the Word of Cbd is conclusively Sir Conan Doyle says: "The results of psychic re-
' provqd untny. God is His own interpreter and He acarch, the deductions which we may draw and the
' will explain His Word to those who seek to under- lusons we may learn teach us of the continued ljfe
. .r. e d , i t Bible is the Word of Truth, "For of the soul."' W e quote from Bishop Fallows as
prophccy came not in old time by the will of man; follows: "In recent yearn great stridu have been
, - but hdy men of God spoke as they were moved by made in the explanatiort of psychic phenomena and
th; Holy Spirit." (2 Peter 1 :21.) I t was Jesus in the years to come the science of communication
Christ who said, "Thy word is truth." (John-$7:17.) with the dead wilt be made a part of the curriculum
:'#Ah Scripture divinely inspired is indeed profitable of great educational institutions. I have called the
for teaching, for instroction, for correction,. for that new sci,ence Immortalism because it depends for its
discipline which is in righteousness, so that the nnn existence, & the immortalby of tk soul, in which
of-God may be complete, thoroughly fitted for every we all believe, and the pra4matilon of identity be-
good work." (2 Timothy 3:16, 17, Diagiott.) Then yond the grave."
by the testimony of the Bible let us examine' these
'questions and settle than accordingly. . From the two eminent witness- above quoted, it
is seen that the theory of Gmmunication with the
I t must 'be conceded in the outset that if t h ~dead dead rests strictly upon the old doctrine of inherent
can communicate with the living then the dead are immortality of the soul. Is the immortality of the
t conscioas after death and know 'everything that is soul supported by the Bible? Our answer is, there
- trmspiring'. The first important question, then, to is just one Scripture in the Bible that supports it
d d e e n e by the Scriptures i* and that Scripture Jesus declares is a lie and the
first lie ever told, and Satan told it. It is found in
Genesis 3 :5. The occasion was S a h n using the ser-
W e quote some pertinent Scriptures bearing di- pent as a medium through which to speak to Mother
reftly on the point: "In death there is no remem- Eve and thereby deceive her with reference to eating
brance of thee; in the grave who shall give thee of the forbidden fruit. The woman mid, "We may
t h b ?" (Psalm 6:s). "Wilt thou show wonders to not eat of the fruit in the midst of the garden of
-'the dead? Shall the d u d arise and praise thee? Eden, for God hath said, Ye ahall not eat of it,
Shall thy loving kindness be dcclartd in the grave? neithe; shall ye touch it, lest fe die." And to this
orethy faithfulness in destruction?" (Psalm 88 :lo, Satan replied, "Ye shall not surely die; for God doth
1-1). . "Thou turnest man to destruction" (Psalm know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes
90:3). "The dead praise not the Lord, neither aoy shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing
that go down into silence."-Psalm 115:17. good and evil." This statement of Satan, "Ye shall
The Scripturu clearly show that one who dies net surely die," has been the foundation of every
stops breathing, does not think, has no feeling; false doctrine from then until now and it is the one
therefore v u l d not be conscious. "His breath goah to which Jesus referted when speaking of Satan as
' f m h , he nturneth to his earth; in that very day his the father of lies. I
'thoughts paisb'*-Psalm 146:4. Subsequent to the violatidn of God's law, Adam
"For the living know that they shall die, but the and his wife Eve were sentenced to d a t h and driven
dead know not ulything."-Eccluiastu 9 :5. from Eden m d in due coune of time they died.
. !'Whatever thy hand hdeth to do, do it with thy Was it merely the body o r the aoul that died? ' Let
mi@, far there is no work, nor device, nor knowl- us first determine what'is the soul. Man is a mu1 ;
td&, nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest. he does not possess a soul. Every living creature
-E€cluiastu 9 :lo. is a soul. W e say a man has f cow; he possesses a
"Neveriiieless, man b;ing in honor abideth not; cow. But we would not say t man b a cow. "And
he is like the b w t s that perish."-Psalm 49 :12 the Lord Cod formed man out of the dust of the
JCsus declared that a11 the dead are in their graves earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
and asleep--unconscious, knowing nothing (John livea, and man btcomr o Jiving soul."-Genesis 2%
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Clearly, then, we see t!mt Jehovah fcrmed from tlie Man is a human being; he is not a spirit being. "A
elements of the earth the body of man and theq spirit [being] math not flesh and bones" (Luke
breathed into his nostrils ihe breath which living 24:39). T h e Apostle in his argument in 1' Corin-
creatures breathe. This breath animated the body, thians 15 plainly shours that human or natural be-
started the circuktion. and the result was a moving, ings have human or natural bodies; that Adam was
sentient being, whic!l God designated a soul. God a human a?d not a spiritual being; that none aFe
in ,His Word applied the term living soul t:, the given spiritual bodies except the faithful followers
lower order of animals long before the creation of of Christ Jesus and they receive such only at the
man. (See Genesis 1:a, 30, marginal reading.) H e
.!so used the word soul as applicable to beasts, say-
resurrection.
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18:4). If the soul were immortal, it w o d d not be sentence was in process of execution covering a
subject t o death; not even God would be able to period of 930 y e a n ; t b t the perfect man begot no
destroy i t Jesus plainly said that Je!~ovsh has the children, but only the imperf;ct man under the sex-
power to destray the soul.--Matthew I0 :=. tence, of death exercised his t o w e r of transmit:. .,-
Who then is immortal? The cri?:urcs answer, life. - I t reasonably follows, then, that the imptrt'f -
"The blessed ahd only p t e n t a t e . the king of kings man c o d d not bcget t pe;fect child. Hence God :
and lord of lords, who only hath immortality" (1 prophet wrote, "Behold, I was shzpen in iniqu:::,
Timothy 6:15, 16). Immortality means that which and in sin did my mother conceive me" (Psa'--
is not subject to death and is offered as a great prize 51 : 5 ) . Again, "Wherefore, as by one man (Adam:
to the faithful follower of Jesus unto death. "Who sin entered the world and death by sin, so dca:?
will render to every man according to his deeds: to passed upon all men for that all have sinned" ( R o -
them who by patient ccntinuance in well doing seek mans 5 :12). Human experience corroborates t A e
for glory, honor and immortality, eternal life."-Ro- teaching of the Bible, as it is well known by all care-
mans 2 6,7. ful observtrs that the human race is degenerating
This prize of immortality is offered to none except and has been for centuries; and no evolutionist has
the Christian, who having made a consecration to do ever yet been able to prove any progress of the
God's will, continues faithfully unto death. T o such lower brder of animals to a higher order, nor has
Jesus said, "Be thou faithful unto death and I will any connecting link been found between animals
give thee a crown of life" (Revelation 2 :lo). Again and men:
the s;ripturw say, "This mortal must put on irn- The testimony of the eminent witnesses above
mortality" (1 Corinthians 1533). And here the mentioned in substance denier the ransom sauifice
words are addressed only to the faithful unto death. and one of them in particular expressly denies it.
T h e Bible plainly teaches that "man is of the earth, 1irhile the death of, Christ is admitted, the value of
earthy"; he is not spiritual (1 Corinthians 15:45-47). His death is positively denied.
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dl except the elect, and if it were posrible he w d d order and t&e t- for the beginning ~f the new,
deceive the v e q elect , which will 'bring kr the Golden Age, Jcnu said, "But '
. Above we quoted the scriptare th.t there ia no u the dap of Noah wae, ro rhll .Ira the coming
other name givea under heaven whereby we must of the Son of man be" (Matthew 24S7). It d be
be saved except the name of Christ Jesus. Tbe teb remembered, refming to the Scriptural account of
timony of the eminent witness Sir Gmaa Doyle k to Noah's day, that the demo= then had overreached
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the effect that too much stress is laid on the d a t h . and debauched practically all of the human rrce and
: , of Christ Jesus, He is a very prominent man and the people were indiffemnt to the prtachings of
he otrd the other professors named have a wide in- Noah and they were going abottt pursuing that
flucnce over the people and the public press is open which would gratify t h d r desirer. They had dis-
> - to these influential men now to influence the people; regarded God and Hia Word .ad we see d y the
'4.: and thua Stan is blinding these great men and is same thing now prevailing; and it is bdrig brought
blinding those who yield to them, including a large about chiefly through the ministration of the demons
number of clergymen, just as the Apostle said it who did i t in Noah's day. W e warn the people,
would be (2 Corinthians 4:3,4). If the people can therefore', to be not deceived bf the testimony of
be thoroughly convinced that their dead friends ue wise men, but to turn their attention to 8 careful
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alive and not d u d , then they will believe that man and faithful study of the Bible, whkh'onlj contains
did not fall; that there was no necessiq for a re- the pure doctrine with reference to G d B sprmiabn
deaner; that Jcsp Christ did not die to save them; for the salvation and blessing of mrmkInd.
that there is no resurrection of the dead; and t h w The above Scriptural proof adduced, therefore,
Satan and the demons would succeed in destroying conclusively shows that the dead are dead m d are
the faith of the people in God's great plan of re- not c o n h s ; that the living cannot c q m u n i c a t e
demption. I t is easy, thercfote, to be seen that one with the d u d ; and the testimony of thc eminent
. of the greatest menaces to the human race today, wise men is fall7 and c o n d a s i v d j explained by the
the strongest delusion, and that which threatens to Suipturrs, which show that in the time in which
destroy the very foundation of faith in God's Word we are now living the demons would exercise
and plan, is the deception held before the people greater power, deceiving the rhinb of man*, induc-
that the living can communicate with the dud. ing them to believe that their dead friends are dive
From the Scriptures above cited (2 Peter 2 :4; a d by thus pretending fraudulmtly to bring them
Jude 6) we have seen that these demons were to be a measure of comfort are in fact deceiving them and
restrained in darkness until the judgment day. The driving them from God's great uronp
;fear inference to be drawn from this is that when for their o m tion on.
the judgment day is reached they would be able The result of this delusion will be in 8 short time stii
exercise greater power than ever before because greater confusion, in fulfillment of 'lTesw8P ~ o P ~ ~ C Y *
they would be in a m-urn at l a s t relwed from "For then shall be great tribulation, such u was
their rrstnint. 0 t h Scriptur-
~ clearly a d conclu- not since the beginning of the world to this time;
sively prove that we are in the time of the judgment no, nor ever shdl be."-Matthew 2421.
upon the nations and upon Christendom, and that This time of great stress, however, will be fol-
this is also the time of the judgment of the evil lowed by the reign of Christ, introducing the Golden
. . spirits, the demons. This explains why the great Age, during which all blindness of mind and con-
.. war which has just ended was used as a means of fusion will be removed and during which time the
inducing more people to turn to spiritism. The knowledge of the Lord shall fill the whole earth as
great war was foretold by the Lord Jesus as the the waters fill the deep, and every one will be
time when "nation shall rise against nation and brought to a knowledge of the Truth and in that
kingdom against kingdom," and that this would be time a11 the d u d shall be awakened out of death and
one of the evidences of the end of the old o r d n of being brought to an accurate knowledge of the
- things just preceding the inauguration of the new Truth (1 Timothy 2 :3-6),will l a m that Jesus a r i s t
order, which is the Golden Age. The Great Master gave His life a ransom for all and that in due time
sytcd that a further evidence of that time would be the testimony will be given to alI, and a l l wiH under-
that this war would be followed by general social stand. And those who do understand m d obey the
disturbance, revolutions and like trouble throughout Lord will be blessed by being lifted up to perfection
the earth; and we now see that in progress. As an of body and mind and united with their frienda to
additional evidence that we are at the end of the old enjoy everlastingly peace, prosperity and happiness.
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ZIONISM
Its Origin Its Import
What It Will AccomjJish
A soria of artichr bn thk great wsfion wUi
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a g w r in earl, hsws of this Magasha. Subscrlbr
row and get tbo benufit -of tho rrrtirr da. I
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in# through a spasm of protest. Hmac, riots and extram-
cvidmc+r indicate that the Golden Age is at hand. gance and immodesty and jazz music m d rhimmie d.ncu are
E v a y sane person who belicvcm in the existence of a seething wash of u n r u t
J e h d aa the all-wise Creator must know that all the I s humanity going on the rocks? It wcmr tu-be-h
e v a b which are transpiring in the world arc occurring margin of s a f e at timu appears to k cut down to 8 reek-
I i a t y fine Iiic Tbe ship is passing through rey
in h u m m y with his foreknowledge. The Bible re steering closer than caution warrants to the m f r . h d md-
cords, "Known unto God are all his ways from the contenta in the fo'd~leare trying to unsteady the h a d of th.
beginning (Acts 15:18). Jehovah. then, must have pilot."
foreknown the conditions prevailing in the world, in:
cludjng dl the strikes, labor troubles, revolutions, e t c Of course the writer of the above does not uie "fiten
W e have but to refer to the Sciiptures to know that in a literal sense, but uses it symbolidly to represent
he foreknew such. His prophet was directed to record the destructive elements of society, one warring against
these words: "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall the other; and this fire that is destroying the present
u m men; and all the proud, yea, and all that unrighteous order has come because individual and
do wickedly, shall be stubble ;and the day that cometh national selfishness has gone to seed, and the time of
sh;rU burn than up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall God's judgment is upon a11 such and the fire of his
lave &em neither root nor branch" (hlalachi 4 : I ) . jealousy is burning away all the dross, preparatory for
. Fire ir used in the Scriptures as a symbol of destruc- a better order. we foretold this long ago, saying,
tion b d fitly.represents the destruction of the old and "Thereforr wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the
unrighteous order to make preparation for the new in- day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is
coming better order of things. to gather the nations, that I may assemble the king-
The public press fully recognizes the disintegration doms, to pour upon than mine indignation, even all my
of the present order; that the fire is burning away the .fierce anger; for a11 the earth shall be devou.4 with
d d rtructnre, but the reason for it Ms seemingly been the f in of my jealousy" (Zepbniah 3:8). In har-
entirely overlooked. The Los Angeles Tiincs recently mony with the foreknowledge of Jehovah thus re-
mid: - corded. the secular press of the world is recording the
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happening of the events. While passing through this
Wne-bdf of the world is ablaze, the other half smoldering. fiery time it is not enjoyable to any one. but the one
The hrlf capable of saving t l ~ eproperty already on fire is just who really appreciates what it means and what shall
nar --pied checking the spread of the conflagration follow after will take courage and rejoice. It really
to ih own home baildings. A w e qui )rut spirit is at
domirud incentive to most human actlon. means the passing away of a system of selfishness and
prrwt
"For h m m i t y is only just emerging, somewhat fearfully,
unrighteousness to be followed by a time of blessing.
somewhat r e d t l ~ s f y ,from the shadow of a great crime. The The Lord's prophet, after using the above language
dawn of puce b obscured in the cloud-rack that follows the applicable to the present time of burning, then says,
. wake of the nrr a m p e s t "For then [after this fiery time of distress and trouble
, . T o r the time being the tendency of social forcea is toward
discord and disintegration. -4lrnost every newspaper dispatch,
ends] will I turn to the people a pure message [a mes-
- foreign and domutic, affords evidence of this dangerous sage that they can all understand and appreciate], that
trend England, France, - Grmany Redivivus, the three they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve
balance-wheels of Europe, are running out of true. him with one consent." There is real comfort in the
"Our people at home are fretting under new laws and new thought that all of these troubles will but prepare the
obliptioam; restless and irritated, they are turning away from world to realize the blessings that God has in store for
the wisdom of the ages. These psychological causes are mani-
them. A11 these experiences are part of the Divine
fest in violent disturbances. The whole world is mutinous.
' I n such sporadic outbreaks u the IVincipeg revolt. the nlethod of instructing ~nallkindthat the only feasible
Chicago riots, the promiscuous bomb-throwing at leading way of correcting the difficulties existing i s by and
The Gotden Age fm O
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through the agency of Messiah's kingdom, the inaugn- t h w arc better t h tfiv are a& 'Artide F er the tn18
ntion of the Golden Age. Before these blessings long of s a n m i f Or the status of the hionme in
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relatiori t o the League covenant This ir not relfishner or la;
hoped for md promis& begin, the prurnt imp--
suluity, but the same m e n d procar which unw r cindet.
fect and unrighteous systems must end. in a man's eye to e n p s r man of his attention thrn doa
Part of the people for centuries have been in a n a- ,, dismmd i, ta, neighborhood of Jd*."
alted position, while the greater number of than have
been far below them. T h i d t e d ones, then, would The Landon.Doi?y H m f d records conditions of un-
be repraented by the hills or high places, while the rest a w n g ia France in the following m p h :
d c g r would picture thwe of the lower walla of liic .
h d looking tr ~ ub tt r s ~ dtime of the dm k .the 9.0. d* A& F W ~ a
prophet of the Lard says, ' Z v q valley [low place, ~ ~ ~ g:ty2stf
, " t ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ d ~
kJW people] shall be and every and plot to min dctodau Leon k d e in t h Action
hill [high people] shall be made low ; and the m k e d ~ r o y o ~rw r , hc m o t Ms d t s .nd
~ h.- In
[unrighteouu, profiteers, etc] shall be made straight point of f a c ~the mo-t
and the rough places [the c o m a difficult to under- makes It F ~ W * the
k not o d d at 9. But t
sign*-% for it a m-
MeOu manifestadon of the de+o discontent m o u e the whole
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smintr throughout a large part of Central and Eastern
Eure= ...The devil is let l o w in the world and the
only iu fdt, ,
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; h a r t s of men are full of w4ty." We quote : ClpitJistr have becomecanvinctd that the man tbey
yield to the denun& of the labor and radical elcmmts,
" O h a of hta tha at&a ritb rhkb dm d still the more will be demanded of than, .and here is r
cchar =em less like the crimes of individual men than ra growing antagonism betweenthe tvo danents. T+eo '
dace &an which has ~ i r c upan
d h u d t y . The coarse is o &rat to withdraw cnpitd from public .nd private
.fthirdf.euc~evenkmrppedot& Itbegan,aofuu
thL generatian is cnnccmn4 in Anneni* where the Turb t n t m p r h , which, of mume, would depress kuiaar
h i ha Chrirtirnr without provoking the ~ocJkdOrb- d finmcial interests to the detriment of all. With
tian natioaa to anything more tho mild pretests. I t s p r d both capital and labor idle. the two dements would dh-
to the Bahaa, r h v e the second B a l k ru was preceded integrate or melt. With a constant wasfare between
and ueompaaied by the most appalling w n c r u . The the two the result would be the same.
&&Irep- upon them massacres, in which no ooe'r h?n&
were dcm, war r sensation early ia 1914
Recently a bill w u introduced in Congress that is
. With the outbruk of the war between S v r k md Amatria kno\vn u tbc Plumb plan for thg control and ape&
tk d i r w bkred up with renewed for)., and when the tittle of the railroads. Its chief provisions are t h w : -
. Nbecame a put one the g m n s narc urried into Fnacc 1. Purchase by the Govennnmt of aH the nilmad
.Id Belgium on the one side and into Russia on the other. s t u n s on valuatiom determined finally by the courts:
The Cvmrns md R u s r h s committed rtrodtia upon each
orhu in the cast, and in Poland both sidu persecuted the
2. Operation by a directorate of fifteen, five to be
Jerr. chosen by the President to represent the public, five to
"The B o l h d s t revelation introduced a new element of be elected by the operating officials and five by the
baed-vy and desire for revenge on the one hand, fear on classified employers.
the other. The number of killings by the Bolshevilci h u 3. Equal division of sarptus, after paying tixed
kea uaggenkd. but though it is claimed Lmim h a not
ldllcd wantonly, it k admitted he mared no Yfe that stood in charges and operating corts between the public and the
the way of him swccar On the outskirts of the revolutioa employee¶.
wavered a barbvic fringe, the offspring of poverty and og- 4. Automatic reduction of rates whtn the a~
pression, who killed like b e u u and were in turn killed, eves ployes' share of the surplus is more than five per cent.
by the rcvolutionirts. of the gross operating revenue.
TINenemies of the revolution m e from bte f h t u
bbdthirse u the m at of the terrorists. In Finland, Man- 5. Regional operation of the lines as a unified syr-
mrheia m i nponed to have hlled about nine thousand. tun. .r
Kokhsk k known to hold 'down his 'liberated' districts with 6. Buildin~of extmsions at expense of the corn-
a bloody hand and bas executed hundreds, ;nJuding seven1 munities benefited, in proportion to ;he benefit.
members of the Constituent AsxmMy who took refugc with 7. Payment for the roads made through Gonrn-
him from the Bolsheviki; the Japanese hold large pa* of
Siberia under r reiga of terror, m d Petlwa'r forcer are ment bonds bearing four per cent. interest.
charged with the almost incredible crime of killing a in- It is claimed there are six million members of labor
' d p t i n g - t h e killing of 84,000 Jews in the Ukraine. o r ~ n i z a t i o n sadvocating this bill. T h e New Yark
"Spoataneoua as well u organized cruelty has been n m - World commenting upon the bill says : "The diff e m c e
pant everywhere The f a c e s of order and of disorder are between the Wall Street looting system and the
almost equally savage. What is going on. seems to be a gen-
eral breakdown of civiiired restraints throughout a large part Brotherhood looting system is that VJall Street pro-
of central and eastern Europc It ir just such a brmkduwn. vides the oiiginal investment for its operations, while
appuently, u preceded tlie destruction of the old Roman the Brotherhoods insist that the United S t a t u must
avJLrtioa fifteen hundred years ago. The dcril u let loose furnish the money."
in &world, the h a r t s of men are full of cruelty. Soch a A labor paper, speaking for the labor element on the
.dc@s~eration a n &a# great mu- of men d o r a toward
same subject, says: "The American labor unions and
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beart just a s it cm individuals. Conceivably the whole
-world m a y be attacked by i t Neither westcra E u r o a nor the national farmers are ~ ogoing t to permit the rdrrrn
-Amcriu u crfc We do &t know what tunputr may-sweep of the railrcads to private hands. The robbery of the
over u r people by the a1lcge-d owners of the railmadi ha been
no antidote ucept cliU'b to a few stand- stopped, and the bandits are not going to be restored
ards which have proven g o d W e u n not tell what of oar
institution# will survive. or if any wiU survive mjm&red. to their plunder by any means. Let every one take
but we m bt r u n b a t the morc-tolulnt we =,& lllQt notice. The unions are out for national ownership of
kindly, the more willing to stu* tbc other man's point of both the railroads and the coal mines. C ~ g r e uwill
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Iiad out that any attempt to return the roads will pre- ?)rt condition rteordcd by the public press as lbove
cipitate a great conffict .which will k won by the quoted is not one that has come sudrtmly upon the
unions." . world but has crept in gradually as a thief in the night.
Another paper, the mouthpiece of another branch of It is impossible to read this record of present-day
the ndical element, says: "Nothing less thsn the events without having in mind the prophetic words
foundations of private ownership of every public in- recorded nineteen centuries a p by the inspired apostle
d u s t y are menaced by the Plumb plan bill now i;l the and prophet of the Lord :vho said: "Bgt the dzy af
li+s against the old system of railroad control, which the Lord will come as a thief in the night ; in the which
h u run its course and amply proved its inefficiencyand the heavens shall pass anray with a great noise, anqth;'
worthlessness." Continuing, this writer points out that elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth a!so
"the working class" has in its favor "tht menacing un- and the works that are therein shall be burned up. . . .
rtu due to the sooting cost of living, the ability of the Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the &r
workers to counterbalance capitalist control of Con- of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dis-
p e s s by the general strike if aggression should force solved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat." '
the use of this weapon, and the p!ain fact that the .--2 Peter 3:10-12.
numb plan is the ocly workable way out of the mil- I t should be remcmbcred that St. Peter was
road irnpassi, sometlling which no anount of slander prophet a9 well as an apostle ;that he; as other prophets,
regarding it can disprove." \ was a mouthpiece of C o d , ~ ocxpound ~ r ' ~ iuttennce
re
Another great daily, spaking for the financial side concerning things that would come to pass. As were
of the question and which shows how the two elements other of ~ ~prophets, d ' he ~was moved to write of
are incrudng in fervent heat One toward the other, thin@ which, not being due in his time or day and
says : ~.
therefore not appteciated then, are now due to be fd-
- po-t
'Financial men do not mince kords; they state pointedly filled and can be appreciated by those who obsenpethe
they will back employe:^ to the limiv win permit every irn- events transpiring in tile !ight of the testimony
industry in Chicago and in the Middle West territory reorded in ~~l~ \vrit.
@ k strike-itricken rather tl~an hbnlit to m unreuonabk
or unjust coadition,. ~f it come + drastic issue Throughout tile Scriptures"earth"w11en used sym-
k t v e t n emplopr and Crnployee, well and goad; they, the bolically, represents societ)., or the prevailing social Or-
representatives of capital declare, will not evade the contest; der. "Heavens" used in the s)plbolicaI sense m-.u
Ict the thing be settled no\*! and definitely; they are ready to powers of spiritual control or ecclesiastica~elements
matt and combat it to r final conclu~ion,is the .asertion.'
prevailing at a stated time. "Fire" used in a figurative
There is an ecclcsiasticrl element which is described sense, as in the Scriptures quoted a b a ~ erepresents , or
in the Scriptures by the symbolic te? "heavens," and piCtura destruction. \vith prpphetjc \vision, this
it is v;ell 'mown to all that this element is melting and .
looking to the end of the d6e, the time thrau@
disintegrating. The Rev.. Dr. Gmham is reported re- which the is now refers to the pc.d
ccntly to have said : "the day of the Lord" and states that it will come upon
"LVorld-rocking social uphcavalr, thrutcniw to dtstro). 111 the world "as a thief ia the night," that is to say, un-
religion, uc due to come in the n u t few y w s . Ameria, in ot,servcd except by those who are md dw
the muntime, is in peril of bCcomina drunk with a sense of
iu p o w r of h j n p destroyed, *erefore, have other in^ the hea"&'ls (meaing the present pawn
.,
nrtionr in tk p u t "
The R ~ D~~ .. R. Stnttoir
of spiritual control) shall pass away with a great, his*
h'ew York City is ing, troublesome noise. And so we see the pnscnt
reported by the ?;ew York -4mnicce as saying: ecclesiastical elements mixing up with the worldly ele-
. .
rnents and disregarding the teachings of Jesus and the
'We stc church& inviting opera 'rtarr' to r i a at theis
, -. scrvictr m d securing 'movie artists' in the f r u t i c efiort to apstles and melting away or disintcgating. continu-
- - attra~tthe crowd, and very recently we had the annocncc- kg, the apostle says: ".kid the eltmmts [clarly
mmt in our Papers of one Putor wf.10 introduced the jazz meaning the rich and poor dencna, the Rnancial a d
b a d into kir services. labor elements, the radical and conservative elements,
"I believe, my frio;&, that h e new church methods are
- 8 shameless surrender to the worst tendencies of the timu. etc.1 shall melt pith feflent heat;" that is to say, they
"And the next stage--1v11at shall it be? hiore pronounced will become so hot one toward another that the result
\-aude:.ille features? Tight-rope walking across the heads ,,,ill be a uithdnwal of capital and a supension of
of the congregation from the gallery to the choir loft? Con-
reemred flcg d;ncinp a d t$e4reljbims hanet; h!weell he labor through strikes, ausing the elements to melt or
preacher's 'stunts'? Arr we to hrve this?" , disintegntt
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It would be distressing inclccd if the present order agencies would iristitute the "new orth," otl~envise
should pass into a chaotic condition, and .there would described ;is the Lord's Kingdom, !vhich would fully
be no basis for our Iiopc of 3 better condition to come. establish and b r i ~ gin the Golden .4ge: In that age
1I3nt the Lord, througl~ his prophetic \\'itness, the righteousness will prevail and blessing will bz adnjin-
Bible, records a sure basis for our hope of 3 better con- istered unto all the people wllo yield thcmselvcs in
, ditiorl to follow immediately after the pracnt disturbed obedience to the righteoug government.
conditions. St. Peter further says: "h'evertheless we, St. Paul referred to the suffering of humanity, the
according to his promise, I d for new heavens and a distress anlongst the people. and the comirlg blessinp
new earth, viherein dwelleth righteousness" (2 Peter when he said, "The whole crcation glaaneth uib
3:13). Those here referred t o as "\t.e" of nmssity tnvnileth in p i n togctlicr until now. waiting for the
must be the class to wlrich St. Peter himself bdongcd; manifestation of the sons of Cod" (Romans 8:19, 2).
and since he was a fully consecrated Christian, fdlow- The word travail hcre nscd has application to the spas-
ing in the footsteps of his Blaster, Christ J c s u , he must modic pains of a woman in child birth and pictures tlre
have meant a11 \\rho come into this covenant relation- incoming of the new order. Truly the tiurnan race
ship with Gocl through Jesus Christ and who strive t o evcryvhere is groaning and travailing now in a condi-
be obedient to the Lord's arrangement, who have full tion of pain. It is longing for deliverance and a better
faith and contidencc in the pron~isesof Cod and who time, but knows not how it is corning. The apostle
look for, as well as hope and p n y for, the coming of says men are waiting for "the manifestation of the
hfessiah's kingdcm-that ctass'a~hohave lurned to sin- sons of God;" that is to say, for the kingdom of JIes-
cerely pray as Jesus taught thctn to pray: "Thy king- siah, the inauguration of the Golden Age. All this un-
dom come; thy mill be done on earth as it is done in rest and confusion, therefore, is but a sign, cvidrnce
Eeven." Looking for tllese things, they confidently or proof, to the thoug11tful and reverent person that
expect them, and they base thdr expectancy or hope we are approaching the day of general blessings.
upon the sure Word of prophecy. An unanswerable argument proving that this is
The Apostle Paul tells us that the god of the present God!s due time for the introduction of the new order
world is Satan (2 Corinthians 4:4), who rules in the of things is that lie is lifting the vsil of ignorance and
hearts of the children of disobedience, and that he has gradually letting in the light of intelligence and inven- .
blinded the minds of the people to God's real purposes. tion upon mankind, exactly as his prophets foretold.
The old order of things is the outgrowth of the best (See Daniel 12:1, 4.) Grmt enlightenment has conu
efforts of selfish man; and it is clearly denlonstratd gndually to the pcople. Had hnowlcdge conle sooner
that where selfishness prevails and the order of society the trouble would lnve come sooner; and though so-
is directed by selfish agents the best results cannot be cicty might hare reorganized itself after the storm, it
attained for the people in general. . T h e "promise" would not have b c n "a new earth [social arrange-
mentioned by the Apostle in the above quotation evi- ment],'whercin dwelleth righteo&ness," but a new
dently means the great promise which God made to earth or arrangement in which sin and vice would have
Abral-, assuring hinl that "in thy seed shsll all the abounded much more than before.
families of the earth be blessed." St. Paul clearly de- It is the privilege and duty of the Christian at this
fines what is meant by this seed. saying. "Now to important hour in the world's history to aid and com-
Abraham and his seed were the promises m d c H e fort his fellow nten. The Christian cannot c n p g e in ,
saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, A'nd the strife that breeds more 'discontent. Rather
to thy seed, which is Christ" (Galatians 3 :16). The should he strive to point the world to the sure Word
term Christ means Bfessiah. For centuries the Jewish of prophecy now in course of fulfilment and t o the
- pcaple have been looking for the hfcssiah. The sure 'promises that a better d&y is coming. TIrc
- Apostle then describes who shall constitute this bla- poor worid groans. not only under its rcal. but also
,f sih--the Christ, the seed of aQbraham--saying, "-4s under its fancied ills, and erpecklly under tlle dis-
many of you as have been baptized into Cllrist have content, selfishnus, pride and an~bitionwhich fret
put on Christ. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye and worry .nice because they cannot fully satisfy
Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." themselves o r be satisfied. T h e Christian can see
This class, then, relying upon the Scriptural assur- both sides of the question, and it is his privilege
ances, have confidently lookcd for the time coming and duty t o counsel those willing to hear to be con-
when Messiah would constitute the new, invisible rul- tent, avoid strife and patiently wait until Cod's due
ing power-the "new Ireavens;" and by the cstablish-
meat of his rule in tlie earth througll his perfect hwnan promised to matikind. . -..-
tirnc and way for bringing in the blessipp so long
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THE CRALLGNGE TO STEEL venient mclrnent are quietly dropped from the pay roll.
about "rebuilding," they will be permitted to play but were cursed and cursed only by the work they did. :
an insignificant part in that work, for their very con- The Lord used the war as the deciding fsctor for
tact with present evil methods disquaSies tllern from bringing the liquor tratfic to an end. We do not
coustructing the pure cdi6ce for restored humanity. bdieve that it is the will of the Lord that the Ameri-
Their stewarbhip has aboct come to its end, and into can people should ever have in their midst again a
,th& place will step men whose unswerving loyalty to means whmby some u n rob 0th- of ma& and
' :God has qualified them to can-y out the divine pur- health and bring mistry to their wives .and child-
-poses for the restoration of a distract4 and crushed by pandering to their diseased appetites. Nor do we
world. believe that the Amtrican Government would ever -
Concerning the sequence of coming events the Bib- wish again t o license it.
l i d prediction is, first, concerning this worn-out "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.. (Prav.
mrM: " T h y shall take away his dcminioo, to con- 20:l) Before the prohibition era statistics showed
sun?e and destroy it unto the end." Of the "rebuikl- that 72 per cent. of all c r i m i d s were made so by
ing" the Great Book says. "And tile hngdom a l d strong drink.
PROKEUON JVR TEE POOR than haw the voten all worked up over him. So war
N the physiolagkl effects of alcohol the school
0 books leave but one ylrwer, for mentally,
m o d y and p h y a i d y the total abstainer always hzr
prohibition went through, with little thought about
it by the common people a something for peace times
also, in the most &cult form to change back agab-
th beat of every war of alcohnl. Froxu a criminj an a ~ ~ ~ ~ d tom the
c n federal
t cdtutioa
viewpoint the desirability of sobering the southern The popular mind not h r v b g ps~nttdto the puca
negro speaks volumes for national prohibition. From proposition it h at work to get bock wh-.
an economic point of view effrcimcy men are quite it started from. AlJ kin& of orgumartr are k b g
unanimous in preferring the nondrinker. The voice suggested to the people why the prohibition which h, -. -
of science concurs that the drug alcohol should be ought not to be. There ia dissatisfdon, a d t h c ~
placed with other habit-forming drugs beyond the am not lacking powerful h a n d int- to @
pJc money to s a that antiIpmhibition thoughtr get into
Thoughtful men, however, felt that there might the disturbed minds of the people
arise from prohibition consequences easily as serious Thought. of discontent tnvel in d&; ad,not,
as'the continued use of the drug. The prohibition because the people c u e so much for b e u , but be-
leaders are well meaning persons, but largely men and cause they have a grievlnce o v u a sumptuary k w ,
namcn of the zealot type, rather narrow-minded, un- they conjure up the whole family of grievances, red
acquainted with the broader aspects of public or and imaginary. ,
private administration, and particularly inept in the First is the personal-rights gricvulce. The mpn
f o ~ s e e i n gand weighing of psychological results which who wants to get tipsy likes to assert his personal
to the sophisticated politician are his hourly st& in right to abuse his health, his mind, his job, his repu-
h d e . The prohibition "fans" either did not under- tation and his wife and family, and is able to build up
stand the psychology of a prohibition forced upon an a plausible argument Ciovering a n extensive field of
unwilling population, or they regarded it a negligible personal rights versus civil righta
factor. A curious phenomenon of the w;ar-p~ohibitionsihr-
Some would-be managers of other people conceive ation is that the saloons remain open. In this is an
of the handling of human beings as like the moving astute psychology. Users of liquor find that taking
of insensate raw materials-just get them in a legal away drink signifies taking away a method of life.
steam shovel and put them somewhere, and there they The bar across which the soft drink now finds its way
stay put. But people have minds, while things have was once a center of good-natured discussion. NOW
not; and if they are to be made to go, they have to go every bar.is a protracted indignation meeting.
first with their minds, and afterwards they zmh their Prohibition appeds to a large number as a wrong,
bodies go. There is no permanence in an arrangement b e u w many consider that it waa inflicted on them
where bodies are put somewhere first without minds "dishonesdy," slipped o v a when ir.was unsafe for
being put there also. Physical force fails; it puts one to assert a right, because some one else could
bodies without putting minds. Unless extreme co- vociferate that said amxtbns might be inimitable to
ercion makes the minds think it is wiser to go along the war.
with the bodies, the minds sooner or later try to put The news is out through waiters, servants and mer-
bodies badc; and then not merely is the trouble for chants that the wealthy have stocked their cellars with
nothing, but perhaps brute force stupidly outrages drinkables a d -that there h no pmhibition for the
mind by putting the bodies back again. man who had a few hundreds or thousands of dollars
It is claimed that the putting of drink away from to invest in liquid refr-enb. Mart drinkers are
the people was accomplished without first converting poor,, and they object that what puts them under the
. the minds of the people. If the man$ had been ac- prohibition h and others not under it is the &s-
- corded the chance to vote, it is not quite certain that tinction between poverty and wealth. This the brew-
. .-
A
- ' prohibitia would have come. Pressure was brought ery inter- find no difficulty in magnifying into a
- 6 bear upon a few-the 1egkMo1.l. Legislators arc &tiond scandal.
pecukrly susceptible to the methods of the zealot Cultivated discontent 4 now a speciaty of the
reformer; thdr political stability depends on the liquor interests and may be expected to come to the
voters' *te of mind; and if a moral-reform zealot surface through devious channel. The unclosed sa-
happenod along in war time, when no one dared to loon h c o m u the entw of strike propaganda. Thc
k suspected of hindering the G r a t Crusade. the saloon-keeper h a paatmaster fa politics, and he who
hgklator wuat docilely along with the dormer nthr
13re Go& Age for October 15, xgrg U
. rents of discontent. Struggles over wages may be
i
want any drug stimulation, alcoholic or othenvise. namely, materially, abnormal, ordinary and substan- .
tial.
.) SIDE ISSUES OF PROB7BITION If many states follow.New York State, another by-
HERE is ,no reform without unexpected minor product of prohibition may be laws impinging some-
T results. One of the outcrops of prohibition is what on personal liberty. Home brewed root beer
the effect on the vineyard industry. California is hard . with "any trace of alcohol" may incur liability to a
hit. Investors have $200,000,000 in the grape-growing fine of $100, $500 or $1,000 and imprisonment for
industry and some 50,000 men, women and children six months. The ailing person who needs wine "for
. work in the vineyards and allied interests. The 40,-his stom3ch's sake" is under the same liability, ex-
000 ton 1920 crop worth $12,000,0 is at stake ; it is cept when protected by a physicianrs prescription. The
too much to be eaten. and is a loss, it is feared. if not farmer's cider is a menace to his pocketbook and l i b
crushed and converted into wine. erty, unless made unfit to drink or de-alcoholired The
At great cost of time, labor and money 110,000 man who never would "snitch" at school will have t o
acres of practically useless land, some of it almost a find new principles of honor, for he can be com-
desert, has been transformed into vineyards by some pelled to tell where he got his liquor or be jailed in
i 8,000 grape growers. One of the tragedies of pro- contempt of court. The great question of thc old
hibition is that hundreds of families, aggregating per- English common law will probably come again to the
haps 40,000 persons, may lose their all should these front on account of armies of professional and ama-
wine-grape vineyards lapse back to sagebrush or des- teur spies bent on tracing down the scent of aicohd
ert land. and incidentally turning up anything else. That old
- Another by-product of prohibition is the mental ex- question was "whose home is safe !"
f ercise it is giving jurists and lexicographers in trying
to find a definition for "intoxicating." The new con- TENS OF MlLLIONS FOR COLLEGES
HE cause of "higher" education receives a d i c
stitutional amendment forbids "intoxicating" bever-
ages, and it is necessary now to know what this means. T tinct advancement in the twenty million dollam
There is a grave difference among men and women recently given to Yde University. This sum will be
of high purpose on this point. The brightest minds expended for a memorial building and for fellow-
of the country have applied themselves to supply the ships, professorships, scholarships and prizes.
d&tion. 1t is said that the Honorable ~ l i h uRoot Another institution of higher education in
48 Ihc Golderr Age f& Octck 15,rgrg
the nation for a ten million dollar increase in its en- the P d c Cout states, which are the m u a of the
dowment fund. Before the drive was a day old four ambitious, idle and restless, and which show a per-
million dollars were subscribed by a donor who had centage of 0.2695 per cent. The northern central
already given seven million dollars to the institute group, devoted largely to fanning, has 0.2202 per cent.
Whoever it is that has put up this eleven million dol- insane. The western mountain group ir stid to have
lars he is a fairy godfather, for no one knows what the most representatively American populatian, witb
his name is. quite a low proportion of foreign born, and they rYllr
The high cost of living has inndcd college precincts low in insanity, with 0.1506 per cent. The m l o d
,
and among the low-paid workers of the nation are col- people are not-so subject to insanity as the white no,
lege professors, and particularly the instructors who as the southern group of states comes lowest with but
do most of the direct teaching. 0.14595 per cent insane. Religion may have a bear-
The same high cost has struck a hard blow to the ing, for the groups having a predominant Roman
college man. The tuition fee at New England's grut- Catholic population are high in insanity, and the
est technical institution has been raidd from $250 to Pacific Coast group with a considerable population
$300. While this is a large sum to a poor young man, devoted to theosophy and other forms of spiritism
it does not represent nearly an of the cost of the edu- shows a strain of insanity, while the south, the
cation of the students. ' The actual expense to the in- stronghold of Protestantism, is fowut in propor-
sitution of one of its courses in technology approaches tion of the insane. ,Romanism and spiritism play
$800 o r $900. When the student has paid his $300, he upon the emotions, cultivate superstition and de-
is the beneficiary of charity to the extent of $500 or mand the absolute surrender of the will to the reli-
$6Nl more. The average college student rather pfides gion, without fortifying the mind with knowledge
himself on his independence; yet he is as much an and building up a strong charactv based upon rea-
object of charity as the inmate of an almshouse. son and faith combined.
The cost of supplying education in the colleges has In the last score of years it h a been found easy to
gone up with the general cost of living, and every get rid of relatives by medic@ affidavits as to their
educational institution which has not received a liberal sanity, and it is considered that t h e n is a consider-
increase in interest-bearing donations is "hard up." able number of persons incarcerated in insane institu-
tions who are as sane as anyone outside. A periodic
EVERYBODY INSANE1 investigation of the inmates of all such institutions is
T HAT everyone else has a screw loose except our- ' mommendcd in ordtr to stop this abuse and give lib-
selves is a truism. George Bernard Shaw says erty to thousands wrongfully shut up in these "gilded.
that "the longer I live, the more I amainclined to the hells," and that in such instances the parties to this
belief that this earth is used by orhcr planets ru a worse-than-murder crime should& liable to urandary
lunatic asylum." A "scientist" has calculated the punishment
nurnber'of years until, at the present rate of increase, ' A further large propodon of inmata of these in-
the entire population will be "off enough under stitutions are the victims of spiritism--persons that
alienist standards to be fit for the asylum. have dabbled with demons until "obsessed" and
Some figures are available for estimating this, if finally periodically "possessed" by them. I t was to
American standards are representative of world con- thir class that Jesus brought relief in the many in-
ditions. I n the fourteen yean from 1890 to 1904 the stances where he "cast out devils" or, a s described
percentage of the United States population in i n w e in Biblical language, "He went about doing good
institutions rose froin 0.17 per cent to 0.183 per cent and healing all that were oppressed [through spirit-
The populace then had not begun to go to movies and ism] of the devil." (Acts 10:38.) These unfortu-
: were not living at the present dizzy rate, but in the nate insane need not keepers and straightjackets,
,,
. six years from 1904 to 1910 the rate rose to 0.2042 but the power of One stronger than man to break
- per cent. and in the seven years to 1917 to 0.2276 per the hold acquired by devils through the surrender
cent. Statistics are not available for the war year of of the will in superstition and spiritism. Such a
1918 and the high-cost-living year of 1919, but insti- power is about to be manifested and under t h e ,
tutions for the insane must be increasing their borders. healing influences of the Golden Age "the whole
The relation between industrialism and insanity ap- creation. which groaneth and travaileth in pain to-
pears by grouping the states which are largely indus- gether until now. shall be delivered from the bond-
trial, in which group the percentage of insane is age of corruption (physical, religious, moral and
02715 per cent. The group next worse off is mental degeneration) into the glorious l i b e m
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PARCEL POST AND THE EXPORT TRADE We sometimes wonder how Daniel and his three
.
- ARCEL post is the quickest and most cco;?omical fellow-Presidents managed to control the 1M pro-
P method of transporting light weight merchan-
dise between the nations of Korth, Centnl and South
vinces of the then known world, tvhcn there wal
neither telegraph, telephone, railway. steamship, n u t p
America At present there are four different limits mobile nor bicycle. The courier seemed to be' the
of weight, depending on the country of destination, iastest thing known in those days. \Vhat would Daniel
11,20 and 22 lbs: to mcst countries. Cuba is the ex- have thought of a courier service which could handle
ception with a limit of 4 Ibs. 6 0s. Shippers must 300 11-lb. packages from Chicago to the interior of
learn the limit of weight of the country tb which they Bolivia and think nothing of it 1
make shipment so as to avoid uruiecessary division of
goods. SClENTIFIC DESTRUCTION OF RAILROADS
I t surprising how goods can be divided into great UCH complete destruction of railroad property
'
numbers of packages and yet arrive safely at destina-
tion when sent by parcel post. A Chicago mail order
S was never before known as was visited upon the
railroads of Western. Belgium and Northeastern
.
house sent 300 11-Ib. packages to a small to\vn in the Francc during-the Great War. During the American
eastern part of Bolivia, thousands of miles over water Civil \Var the bridgks were burned and the tracks tom
routes and mountain trails, and the goods arrived in up. The rails were hated in the middle and then
perfect condition, not a n item missing or damaged. wrapped around tree trunks. defying all efforts to dis-
Ordinarily the &stoms duty is collected according lodge them, or a great pile of tics and other cdmbust-
to the weight and valuation shown on the tag attached ibles wcre set afire and the rails for a distance were
t o the parcel, but consular invoices are necessary to piled criss-cross on the top of the pile and allowed to
certain countries when the value of the shipment is all melt together in the center. But these achicvc-
above a certain amount. rnents of the American War pale beside what the Ger-
The English arrangement with reference to parcel mans did in France du+ng their retreat.
post is to charge one rate of postage for packages less A V-shaped device drawn. by a locomotive first
than 3 Ibs. in weight, another for packages from 3 to ripped the rails from the ties; the joints were torpe-
7 Ibs. in weight, another for packages over 7 lbr. The doed ; embankments were blown away, clear down
heavier the package, the less the rate o f postage. This to the. nattfral soil; cuts wererblown in from the
is an incentive to buyers to increase the size of their sides; tunnels were blown up ~ i t such h lavishness
parcels and orders. as to pulverize the soil clear t o the surface above
There are some barriers to the full use of the parcel the arch; culverts, abutments, piers, and the earth-
post that should be removed. The limit of weight to works leading t o them were blown t o atoms;
each country should be the same, 22 lbs. It should bridges, telegraph lines, signals, stations, awitch-
be allo\\-able in all countries, as is the case in some, to towers, cranes, nothing was spared. At bridge sites
pack all kinds of mailable articles in the one package, mines were plantcd with delayed action fuses calcu-
instead of requiring articles of different customs clas- lated to explode a dozen days later, after temporary
sifications to be packed and shipped separately. Ar- bridges had been put in position, and secondary
rsngemcnts should be perfected for sending parcels mines were also placed calculated t o explode
C. 0.D. Customs should be levied in all countries months later, after the permanent bridges had-been
on the net weight, so as not to encourage the shipment put in place.
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of parcels insafficiently wrapped. As they face the ruins of their once beautiful land
- In countries where duty is collected on the gross we can imagine that the French people may well feel
weight of packages the exporter is at a loss to know like Jeremiah of old when he said, "Thou h u t heard,
what to do. His customer demands that the goods 0 my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
shall be so packed as to reach him safely, but wishes Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole
to pay duty on the least amount possible. This often land is spoiled." (Jer. 4:19, 20) W e are glad for
results in a dissatisfied customer and a skeptical ex- the French people, and for the world, that the era in
porter. which such destruction is possible, u near a erd
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T B TWC~TXBLE
~ OIL S ~ ~ ~ ~ A T I O N ANOTHER BURDEN FOR TEE TROLLEYS
HE VEGETABLE OILS have become an impor- HE country's street railways have'been having
T tant itan in the food supply of mankind. They
come into direct cnmpetition with butter, lard and lard
T a hard time, and the automobile has added t o
their burden. If those who have automobiles-and
substitutes. T h e vegetable oils are substitutes for their friends-prefer them to trolley cars, o r if small
cotton seed oil and that'in its turn is a substitute shippers prefer trucks for cost and convenience, t o
for lard. LYd and other animal tats come into com- interurban express, it will seem that the trolley men
petition with butter in the manufacture of butter should find ways and means of improving their ser-
substitutes. Thus the supply of vegetable oils has vice t o meet modern competition. T h e trolley men
have long had their own way in utter disregarb of
a direct effect upon the market price of 211 the edible
fats. the common people, and the man on the street can- -
Prominent among the vegetable oils is that of the not be blamed if he feels a little secret ~ t i l f o c t i o n
soy-bean. which comes mainly from hfanchuria. at seeing rural transportation shaping up a little
T h e port of Daircn alone, during the calendar yeor toward the coming ideal whcn the ptmple will wiscly
of 1918, shipped direct t o the United States more control a11 such service. I
than 128,000 tons of this oil. The customary milling I
ratio of soy-beans to beancake is 24 to 23, so that the ELECTRICITY IN TRAA'SPORTATIQN I
vegetable oil shipment from this one port t o the CCORDING t o C. Townley, the business e x p
United States in one year represents a crop of
3,072,000 tons of soy-beans.
A riencc of the electrical men has been the retard-
ing cause of the slower extension of electricity in
I
,
T h e great packers, who m a t e most of the butter practicd tnnsportation. They have not known
I
substitutes, are now developing a trade in tinned enough about either the science o r the art of rail- 1
milk with the Orient and with South America. They '
r ~ a d i n g . Their profissional pride, their belief in
will naturally wish to bring back the vegetable oils m d seal for the electrical profession, has led the
of these countries ap it means cheaper raw products electrical experts to ~ ~ e r e s t i m a ttheir
e claims of
for butterines and eventually lower prices for milk what they a u l d do, and underestimate the cost of
I through the fall in price of butter. doing it.
T h e soap and paint manufacturing concerns, and
the consuming public that is on the hunt for lower RUBBER Ir7IGmS
living costs, \%-illbe interested in the importation of
these vegetable oils. as ,~~r.ellan the packers, while
the d a b interests will wish to see their importation
I MPORTS of ~ ~rubber
d are
i larger
~ than ever be-
fore, the lorn in millions of poundds being in
1919, 3%; 1918, 389; 1917, 333; 1916, 267; and 1914,
stopped at once. 131. .The cost per pound dropped from 52 cents in
'
This illustrates the marked difference between the 1918 to 39 cents in 1919, owing slackening of war
commerce of to-day and commerce of Bible times. demmd.
I n those ancient days international trade consisted
almost entirely of highly valuable silks, spices, and AUTO MOB^ ITEM
metals, and necesasrily so because of the meager
$2,000,000 land purchase in Detroit, by t h e
means of transportation; but to-day the whcle world
is ransacked for the every-day food of mankind
A makws of the Dodge automobile, is an index of
- - in the automobile industry.
HIGHWA Y MOTOR TRANSPORT Automobile prices are following the general up-
ward trend of prices, with a dozen or so manufac-
R AILROAD managers complain that their buri-
ness is being cut into by truck transportation.
T h e new system serves the people satisfactorily and
turers announcing advances.
The "ship-by-truck" movement recently ran a
the business is yet in small enough units not t o caravan of eighteen trucks across country to dem-
dominate the communities it works for. Highway onstrate their value to hliddle West farmers.
transport between Chicago and Milwaukee has be-
come a n established fact by the United hlotor AERO rnSURANCE
Transport Lines which connect various warehouses ERO enthusiasts should have aeroplane insur-
and terminals in each city with those in the other.
Similar transport l i n e are in successful opention
.A ance. The Automobile Insurance C o r ~ p a n y
has decided to insure aircraft. "Uany shall fly t o
in the East, 2s between Yew York and Boston and fro." - .
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, p r r c on furiously as to whether the country should ficent autaaat. but the relationship of man to man
- be a republic or a monarchy. The decision wan will ultimately be that of a re& brotherhood, the
finrliy made. The new Finland will be governed full realization of that republiconism in which each
by 8 president elected for six years, on the first man u the kingly equal of all other men and each
o d o n by the existing one-chamber legislature, woman a beautiful queen in a world of equals.
which remains unchanged, but ever afterward by a The Anstrim soldivy dimly sense the future or-
special Elective Assembly of 300 members, chosen det and are reaching out for the of Meoskh'r
by the pcoplr No bill which the president vetoes
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AGRICULTURE and HUSBANDRY
T a 6 F A R .AND T a 6 MOTOR TRUCK fort and with speed. Good roads are spreading in
HE farmer is independent of the rest of the every directioz~and in some d o n s the horse has pnc-
T world, but the world is not independent of him.
He is nearest to the food supply and can furrl food for
tically disappeared
Many farmers now have passenger cur for pcnonzl,
himself and family with less difficulty than others. travel, tractors for farm work and motor tnrdro for
Supplies of clothing are at his hand dm; wool. hides, hauling produce to market. This is all moving in the
flax, conon, etc., requiring only his industry, and that right direction, in the line of better roads, and the
of his family. H e can make his own shelter, of logs bringing of the food producer nearer to the consumer,
if necessary. nearer to the man who supplies the farmer with the
- If transportation facilities are poor he can get along things he must have if he is to do the pat work of
with almost no assistance from the outside world. feeding and clothing the swarming millions who depend
There are men now living in certain districts of the upon his fields for a livelihood.
United States who can remember when the annual store The ebb tide of the sale of tractors b; farmers'is
bill of the family was less than two dollars. A little passed, and the trend toward a large volume of s d c l
d t and a little iron was all that was purchased, and has set in. The fann tractor b not yet been the p o p
the man and his family did the rest ular thing with the farmer who could not yet see the
But the farmer wants more than food, clothing and use of investing the price of several horses in a m o c h i ~
shelter, and his wife and family want more. They that in a recent degree of development racked itself to
want education; teachers, books, stationery and school pieces in a couple of y u n . Intelligent experience is
supplies. They want information; mail facilities, tcle- being built into the tractor now, and the implumat has
phones, telegraph, wirelus. They want music; pianos, be& developed more nearly to do its work.
organs, phonographs, records. They want amusement ; The Great War did much for the development of
games, toys, n~velties. They want furnishings; car- motor trucks. Hundreds of trucks, bearing the U.SA -
pets, furniture. draperies. They want conveniences; stamp on engines and radiator$ went through heavy
kitchen utensils, tinware, crockery. They want sani- shell fire that shot tops and bodies away, the trucks
tation; plumbing, heating, ventilation. They want art; continuing to run, and hauling loads over open fields
pictures, wall paper, statues. They want hardware; and tom, muddy roads near the front ,
locks, hinges, cutlery. The farmer wants all these and The capacity of any truck can be ?creased by the use
more H e wants implementi of all kinds to help him of a trailer. It is better to get a small truck and buy
in his work; reapers, threshers, mowers, plows, cultiva- a trailer later if you must. There is danger of loading
tors, seeders, tools of all kinds. H e wants hamess, motor trucks too heavily. Sometimu the platform
fertilizers, seed His wants are legion. scales that will be used to weigh the load were kistded
It k these and a thousand other natural and proper before the day of motor trucks, and have insu9icicnt
wants of the farmer that have made the complex thing capacity to weigh very large trucks heavily loaded.
we call civilization, with all its factories, warehouses, Some states demand exceptionally kge fees for
stores, banks and trade and transportation facilities. heavy trucks, because of the damage they do the roads;
W e all live on the things produced on the farm. only $50 is charged for a five-ton truck, but anything
It follows then that transportation to and from the heavier calls for a license fee of $250 to $500.
farm is the thing we all need, and need badly. And For a ton truck the cost will average 10c per mile.
i. this thing is here at last. The ox team was a step, the If the truck repIaces horses the principal saving will
,.
-& dirt road was a step, the canal was a step, the farm be in feed, harness, shoeing and veterinary service, less
- wagon was a step, the railroad was a step and a great care, less space, saving of driver's time, wider radius
one, but the automobile was the thing that brought r e cf marketing, l u s shrinkage in hauling livc stock,
sults. Since the advent of the automobile there has better market condition of perishable products, livery
been more agitation for good roads, and with better charges and safety without hitching. Doubledecked
results. thin in all the years that preceded its advent. motor-truck bodies are desirable where two or more
Everybody wants good roads now because everybody classes of products arc handled, such as livc @try
has YI automobile and wants to go everywhere in com- and eggs.
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G ~ d ' r Word u full of promises rrrpoctinO the Wh.t a lesson the Lord taught in Hir atery about.
glorious epoch, the Golden Age, when "the earth shall the seed that "As soon as it was sprung up, it with-
be full of the knowledge of the Lord" (1%. 119;H a b a ered away, because it lacked moisture" (Luke 8 :6).
2:14); when "every man shall sit under his vine and How like the human heart is to soil, as the Lord
under h u fig tree; and none shall make them afraid" compared it, and how needful for it, under presknt
( M i d 4:4) ;when "they shall not build and mother conditions, to be continually plowed and harrowed
inhabit," but when home ownership shall be general to keep it Irom becoming hard and selfish md
(1s. 65: 21-23). Thus a time is anticipared when unsuited to the character growths the Lord desires.
I every man in the summu season will be interested in
the production of the things that come to hb own TB& S N A U AN t X W ? 7 3 L C O ~?%!i"oR . '
tabfc. And this is the natural inclination of healthy,
n o d m e n This docs not mean, however, that there
will not dways be great fields for the production of
0
NE of the gratest friends of the fanner is the'
toad, which makes a living on the insects which
are, injurious to crops. l-he t d s worot
the world's staple cmps. The farmer will long con-the h e , for this reawn the snake is a poor d-
tinue to k a great factor in feeding the world, and the
ditioIl to the live se Beoidm killiq toads
motor truck will enable hi the =dems young birds, which
m to deliver that food whm fiveon ,-ni
and where it will be most needed. and destroys eggs not only of the 4 birds but of
ham Y weU There seam to be an instinctive dislike
TB& VALUE OF ThE M U Z H to h a on the part of the human f d y , which lea&
HIRTY y a r s ?go it was solemnly and oflidJly the average person to kill them On bight Thip a~ersion
Th
never
declared that the Great P h h m ~ would
t a ~e a to
of any value agriNtturaUy except a sparse
~ be pmper enough.
The story is an d d one, and a sad one, of how Satan
grazing country, but the mdch system of dry farming in deceiving Mother Eve acted through a wrpent which
has made it one vast wheat fief4 furnishing food for he had obses~edfor the purpose, a d how, of --
milliotu of people. this use of the serpent against one treated in God's
SoiI that docs not have a mulch will 4 whm it likeness, the serpent was "Cursed above all uttle, and
b
gets dry, and these cracks me the liner on lbove e v w beast of the field."--6ene~i~3 :14.
, form. A bulch on the surface will prevent clod for-
mation, and the labor of d - b e d preparaticm FI-ECTRICALLY REVIVED P U N T S
HE EFFECT of electrical currents upon pknt life
plowing is less. Land that his a good surface mulch
before it is plowed is mellow and loose, and it is easy
to prepare the field in ideal shape to receive the seed.
T has been long known and is gradually being util-
ized more and marc A Connebicut.florist now utilizes
To see how capillary attraction works in pumping it forreviving almost lifeless plants which have been
water out of the soil, take a cube of sugar and dip a shipped to him from long dist&~ces2nd arrive in an
comer of it in your coffee and see how quickly the almost d u d condition Two or more cells are con-
liquid climbs up. I t is being moved by u p i U ~ r y nected up with fine copper wire, the positive pole
t i w Put some loose sugar on top and you will see being connected to a nail placed in the soil of the
that the liquid does not climb through it so npidly, flower pot, while the negative pole is secured deli-
The reason ir that the graim are so far apart &at capil- cately around an u p p u branch. I n a week or two
lariv has been destroyed. This is the philosophy of the plant is fully revived and growing in a flourish-
the mulch In soil which has been thoroughly mulched ing fashion. I n some sections market gardeners
the evaporation of the much-needed soil moisture is have been caught stealing electricity from power
cheeked. wirer o r third rails which pass their premises.
: 4
When one considers the great amount of moirturc How little we know about the invisible forces
, : necessary to mature a crop properly, it is easy to under- which God has made f ~ the r controlling of his uni-
stand the great need for conserving the supply. It verse. Here is an unsrm fn>rce which has on almost
taka more than 500 lbs of water to make every pound miraculous power ovtr life And what is life? I t
of dry matter found in the oats plant, and it takes about also h an unseen force, and, in the words of one of
400 lbs. with wheat. Corn will do with a little less. the greatest of earth's philosophers. "life is incom-
Unless great attention is given to storing the rainfall in prehensible." The Prophet Ezekiel says of dead na-
the soil, and putting the land in condition k that it is tions and dead human beings, "I will put rhy spirit
not lost by capillary attraction, there is apt to be a defi- [breath] within you, and ye shall live."-Ezekiei
ciency at just the time it is most needed. 37 6
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within the areas covered. For this purpose the aviator DISTRIBUTION dF INSANG
flies at an elevation of from 6,000 t o 10,000 feet. HE distribution of the insane is interesting.
,
IVonderful as arc these things that men a n do, and
are now prepared to do on a vaster scale than ever be-
T Of course, the location of the sanest of the coun-
t y must be the capital city, but the District of Colum-
fore, in viewing the landscape o'er with a view to its bia leads in the number of in=% with a pucrntw
better administration, how much more wonderful u our of 0.8406 per cent., over twice that of the next
God, of whom it is written. "The eyes of the Lord are petitor, which is Roman Catholic h f u r ~ d r u ~ ~with
tts
i in every place, beholding the evil and the good" ( Prov. 0.3761 per cent. The Federal Hospital for the insane
1 15:3), and "Neither is there any crcatuw that is not is at Washington, but no such excuse can be o f i d
lMnifest in his sight: but all things are naked and for hiassechuscns. What foreign birth and rctiqion
opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to m y have t o do with this may appear fmm the fact *'
do 1"-Hebrews 4 :13. that the percentage of insane in Wyoming is 0.1207 per
cent. Massachusetts has between three and four
O m PLANETS AND THE FZXED STARS times the best of \Iryoming both in insane and i n f o p
T H E only planets which can be seen from the earth eign bom.
are those that belong to our own sun. Vcnus is
a near neighbor. At times it comes within 26.KO.000 NEW SOURCE OF PO EZR
Wes of US, t ~ h i l eNeptune is 100 times as far away. EADERS in the electrical industry se; possibility
Venus and Jupiter shine with a brilliancy surpassing L of the discovery and development of other
thht of the brightest fixed stars, but rtnlike the fixed and better sources ~ f ' ~ o w than e r any yet known.
stars they have no light or heat of their own but bor- Jn discussing the slow dcvelopmcnt of water powers,
row itall from the sun. hfr. L: C. Reynolds of Geneva. N. Y.. says that
enu us
shines with a clear ~parklingwhite because it "Contrary to 'the general belief the depletion of the
has a cloudy atmosphert. Jupiter glows with a yel- world's coal supply t o date is but a small nick out
lowish fingc, because it is in agaseous condition Mars of the immense dcpcsits still untouched. Long be-
glows with a deep red tinge, due to his snow-covered fore such deposits are exhausted power from some ,
surface, while Saturn is a dull l a d color. Mercury is undeveloped source, possibly dire? from the sun,
so r i a r the horizon, i. e.. so near the sun, that he can will be available." Evidently there will be plenty
be seen only in spring or fall, and then only at twilight. of power even for a world population ten times that
Neptune is so far away that il cannot be seen with the of to-day.
naked eye.
Because they are so close to us, the planets appear ULTRA-PIOLET FOR COiYSVXP~mES
t o wander through the sky from day to day. The N inventor in Germany h y ~devised an electric
nearer the planet is to the u r t h the greater the rate A treatment for consumptives in a r m m where
at which it appears to move through the sky. Once the patient can walk around. Quartz electric bulbs
%urn is located it is easier to keep track of him than arc suspended from the cciring and the walls are
other planets, as it taker him 30 years to make his trip covered with a material which reflects the healing
arollild the sun. ultra-violet rays in which the patient is completely
L
, The *ed stars are all suns. emitting light and heat bathed.
of their own. The nearest one of these is 10,000 t i m u
u far distant as Neptune, o r 26,000,000,000 miles POWDERED COAL
away. There are very few railrvay trains that can N England progress is being rnade in the com-
make 712 miles in 24 hours, and keep it up, but a train I plete combustion of coal, by pulverizing it so
thzt could do thzt could make the journey in ad even that it can be blo+n into the furnace. T h e advan-
: . 100,000,000 years, provided the fuel lasted, and nothing tages are higher temperature, smokeless combus-
, *.
- ! wore out, and the train crew and passengers did not.# tion and no loss of heat units via the ash pile.
-. ' tired in the meantime.
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"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fin- CREAP WIRELESS PHONES COMING
, gm, the moon, and the stars, which thou hast or- OVERNhlENT red-tape permitting, the Mar-
; dained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him! and
i
9 the son of man, that thou visitest him [plannest for his
G coni wireless experts expect in a very few
years, at most, t o see wireless telephone systems
1 recovery of perfect human life and eanhly dominion in making longdistance conversation' possible to any
part of the world at nominal car+
; The Golden Age] !"-Psa. 8 :4, 5.
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HOUSEWIFERY and HYGIENE
UNDERNOLIRISEMENT INVITES PESTILENCE ing is as dangerous zs underfeeding; those wllo are '
overfed become fat and lazy. and the liver aid kidneys
GOOD food is a builder of strength and a prevcn-
t i . Rut some light is thrown oil the likeli-
hood of tlie comnion pcople k i n g able to obtain nlore
become overwvrked and break down.
certain foods are almost specifics for certain symp-
,- .nourishing food this year than in 1915, by some infor- toms of disease. 111diabetes, the principal symptom is
mation frcm the New York Departn~ent of Health. sugar in the urine. and benefit is obtained at once by
The high cost of 1ivi;rg h a s a bearing on the "flu'' excluding from the diet articles which contain ;m ex-
pestilence, by diminishing vital powers as follows: cess of sugar and starch. Therc can be no grcat arnour~t
Sickness has been irrcreascd by the cos: of food ; fam- of sugar excreted through the kidneys if there is none
ilies which never appealed for charity are now doing entering the blood.
so ; upomen are being driven illto industry ; cllildren Because it is.an ideal heat former, the fat stored
under sixteen are giving up education to cnter fac- naturally in the body in time of hwlth becomes the
tories as unskilled labor; meat, cgb, sugar and milk first base of supply in case of sickness, and that is the
a n no longer seen on many tables; t l ~ cbirth rate is rcason \rvllypeople get thin when they get skk. Foods
decreasing; infant mortality is increasing; malnutri- which have no value in keeping up the heat supply of
tion is prevalent amo:lg 'adults as well as chiltlren; in the body have no value in sickness, and for that reason
1318 21 per cent. were upder~wurished,against 33 meat broths, tea, alcohol, delicacies, cakes, ices and
per cent. now; Xew York has already had 100 more confections are useless or worse than u ~ l e s sas a diet
infant dcriths than by this time last year; out of over in time of sickness. Milk, which is a ~~ecessityin child-
2,OCO famiiics investigated 51 per cent. had annual hood, and a \vholeso~efood for zdults, is a necessity
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earnings of less than $90, and 25 per cent. less than
$1.203; 21 per cent. earned undcr $600; cheap coffees
in illness.
The Prophet Job's description of a sick man is brief
and'teas are'replacing milk; 18 per cent. are in debt and to the point. Iie says : ''He is chastened also with
to food dealers and landlords; 37 per, cent have no pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with
m a t ; 54 per cent. are using much le-s than formerly ; strnng pain: so that his soul abhorreth bread. and his
33 per cent. use no eggs; 30 per cent. no butter and soul dainty meat. His flesh is consumed away, that it
10 per cent. no sugar. In most of these families the cannot be secn ;2nd his bones that &re not seen stick
economic balance, which used to be precariously main- out. Yea, his soul draweth neat unto the grave, and
tained, may be overthrown by the slightest change in his life to the destroyers. If there be a messenger with
living cor~ditions. Wage losses c a u x illness, which him-[if the i\lessengcr of the Covenant, the Lord at his
in turn decreases income, and tl~ingsgrow more second advent, who has come t o establish his king-
hopeless. dom or1 cartl~],an interpreter. one among it thou-
I f ' some of tile people get the "flcl," they spread sand, to show mall his [the hfessenger's] upright-
infection, and all m y contract it. The disease finds ness: then hc is gracio;s unto him. and saith, De-
a fertile soil in the undernourished bodies of the poor. liver him from going do\va to the pit: I have found
It is too much to espect that a11 will yet make the a ransom. His flesh shall be frcshcr than a child's:
healtli of each the concern of all, but the sickness of he shall return to the days of his youth" (Job 33:lP
one is of vital importance to many, for death steals 25). When the incoming Golden Age is fully estab-
. . indiscrimil~ately into the windows of all, rich and
. E. lished, "The inhabitant shall not spy I am sick"
, f '
: p b r , when malnutrition in a tenement affords a nest (Isa. 33-24). Death came originally because the
- for tile black plague. first pair were c ~ c l u d e dfrom the trees of life tn
Eden. Their food since then has been imperfect;
FOOD A N D HEALTH in the new age perfection of diet is reassured, in the
PROPERLY nutritious diet produces a natural Lord's due time and way. Meantime Ict us eat as '
A i m ~ u n i t yto disease, especially to those disuses
propagated by germs. A properly nourished body is
wisely as we can. I
USEFUL RECIPES
much more resirtaut to the attacks of diseasebearing
gcrnls than an improperly nourished body. Overfccd- T IIE following recipcs will be of interest to '
every housewife; , , . r ... -.
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Cottage Cheese
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saftens when heated.. Bake in t rhodtrtte wen, bast-
1 gallon skimmed milk, 1 cup buttermilk or thick. ing - occ~sionalIywith a \vcll-flavored fat.
rour rniIk. junket tablet dissol;.cd in 2 t a b ~ t s ~ o o n f d ; IIashcd Brov!n Potatoes With Cottage Cheese
rater. Stir thoroaghly together. il'arm to 75 degrees
by placing the pail in a vessel of \\.arm water. Set Chop coid boiled potatoes fine and season them wen
aside over nighlt. In tlit morning, without heating, pour with salt, pepper and onion juice. Turn upon a hot
the curd, without breaking it, upon a piece of heavy frying pan ligl~tlygreased wit11 drippings, and cbok
muslin. Drain until dry. Season with t r e m and salt. the potatoes slowly without stirring till they are
b r o ~ n e dnext the pan. Meanwhile soften a gentrom
Cottage Checse Scuce quantity of cottage checse with cream or milk till it .
Dissolve to ;M level teaspoon of soda in a little will spread easily. Mix with it any desired seasoning,
milk or hot water to each cup of cottage cheese to such as chopped parsely or pimrnto~,r little leftover
neutralize the acid flwor. Use the soda carefully, as ham or bacon, chili sauce o r picalitli. and spread it
too much is as bad as too little. For a thin saucc use over the potatoes. Let the mixtue stand long enough
1 cup milk, 3: tablespoonful butter, tablespwnful to warm and soften the cheese; then fold over the
flour, % teaspoonful salt, dash pepper, % cup cheese. potatoes like an onielet, turn it upon a hot platter, and
For thicker sauces add more B ~ u r up , to 2 tablespoon- serve at once. Many persons enjoy the slight acid
fuls for the thickest sauce. Cook the milk, butter, f a t o r of the cheese with this dish. If desired, how-
flour, salt and pepper thoroughly and cool it sligl~tly ever, the acid of the cheese may bc neutralized by
before adding to the cheese. Stir the sauce gradually adding )itcaspoon c r more of soda for a c h cup of
into the cheese till well blended, then reheat carrlully. cheese.
After adding the cheese avoid boiling the sauce, for it Cottage Cheese Pudding
toughens the cheese. Use the sauce for creaming 2 slices stale bread, 2 eggs, 35 teaspaon salt, 1 cup
potatoes, eggs, toa;t, and leftover vegetables. milk, 1 cup cottage cheese. :/r teaspoon soda, cup
Scrambled Eggs With Cottage Cheese sugar, % cup seeded raisins, teaspoon allspice, 5
For each egg use tea~poonrait, plenty of pepper, teaspoon mace, teaspoon clwea Cut the bread into
1 heaping tablespoonful of cheese, the acid of which cubes and place in a buttered baking dish. B u t the
has been neutralized by soda as above, and fat to yolks and whites of the eggs separately, Blend with
grease the pan. Stir the checse d:rcctly into the bezten yolks the milk, salt aed sugar, and cheese, to which
egg and scranmble. the soda has been added. Add the spice and chopped
Cottage Cl~ciseCu:I::s ''
raisins and lastly fold in the stiffiy beaten whites.
1 cup cottage cheese, 1 cup dry trcsg crumbs, 2 Pour this m i a r e ovtr the cubes of bread and bake
tablcspooiis dripping. !icup coarsely chopped pea- like a custard in a moderate o v e . If desirect, iht
wlrite of I cgg may be beaten separately, scveetenccl
nut meats, % teaspoo:~ powdered sage, J,i t-taspmn
with 1 tablespoon of sug~r,and spread over the top
thyme, 1 tablespoon nxlk, 1 teaspoon szlt, jS tea-
of :he pudding just befort removing it from the men.
spoon Fcpptr, :4 tcxpcon scda, 1 to 2 ta~lespoons
, finely chopped onion. Cook the onion in the drippings Cottage Checse Pic
until tender but not brown. . Dissolve the scda in the 1 cup cottagc cliecse, 34 cup stlgar, :/J cup milk intc,
milk and work in the checse. Mix all o h e r dry in- which oile tablespoon cornstarch h;s been bm00dlly
gredients thoroughly with the bread crunibs. Blend stirred, 2 beaten cgg yclks, 1 table:poon melted fat,
peanut butter and onion dith the cheese alid ,mix t h t !.i t e n s p n vanilla. Mix- the i:lgredients in the order
bread crumbs with t h m . Fornl into fiat cakes. dust given. Eake the pi: m one crust. Caol it slightly and
with b r a d crumbs, or corn meal, and fry a ddkate cover with ~ncringutmade by adding 2 tablcspoans
broun in a little fat in a hot frying pa:i. sugar and 5 teaspoon ianclla to the whites of 2 eggs
Cottage Cheese Loaf With Bean, and brown in a slow o\en.
:
- i 1 cup cottage cheesc, 54 teaspoon soda to ncutralitr
r
Cottage Cheese Cake
--add, 2 cup3 cooked and mashed beans or peas. 1 cup 1 cup cottage cheebe, 33 cup sugar, cup milk, 2
boded ricc (dry), 1 cup dry bread crumbs, 2 table- eggs, 2 tablespoons cornstarch, 1 tablespeon melted
spoons chopped onion, 2 tablespoons drippings, fat, salt, !iteaspoon lemon ju~cc. Mix the ingredi-
chopped celery or celery salt. Mix bean$, cheese, b m d ents in the order given. hIace or natn~egmay be used
crumbs t n d seasoning together \vcll and form into a for flavoring. Eake 25 minutes in a moderate o\en
roll. The roll should be mised \cry stiff, as the c!lcae cntil brown This makes r very firm custard.
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cutty, and from this rim many of the finest views of may not assume that even the Jews themselves are,
its temples, buttes, canyons and mountains are to since the days of Christ, especially the recipient of
be obtained. God's blessing, and yet it has been marvelously true of
T h e Prophet speaks of a time when "there shall them as was prophesied: "Thou shalt lend unto many
be a very great valley: and half of the mountain nations, 'and thou shalt not borrow."-Dcu 28:12.
shall remove toward the north, and half of it to-
, ward the south" (Zechariah 14:4). This great val- PRISON FARH NU 2
lq,flewhere designated in the Scriptures u the
Valley of Blessings, is God's kingdom, the Golden
1 HE four officm in charge of ~ r i s o n ' F a r mNo. 2
in France, where American soldiers were M-
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Age. Beautiful and wonderful as is the Grand prisoned who had been guilty of being absent without
Canyon, it is a s nothing compared to the glories leave, have established a reputation for cruelty that
God will reveal to an eager world with the inau- will linger long. These men were found guilty of
guration of the promised kingdom of life, peace, and kicking, striking and slapping prisoners, using abusive
iivine blessing. language to prisoners,' making provoking s p e c h u
ANDREW CARNEGIE-MONEY MAKER against enlisted men under their charge, fraudulently
NDREW CARNEGIE, just deceased at the age converting money and private propetty of prisoners
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of 84 bean business in Pittsburgh as Ibobbin under their charge, threatening prisoners, taking the
boy at $120 a week. This was at the age of 12. At 13 private property of prisoners and failing to return the
he was running the stcam en,nine of a small factory. same, ordering the burning of private property of pris-
At 14 he was a tclkgraph boy at $3 per week. At oners, gross neglect in furnishing food to prisoners,
15 he was an operator and shortly afterward en- being drunk and disorderly in uniform, and perjury. 3
tered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- It was brought out that prisoners were rolled in the
pany, rising rapidly to an important position. H e mud for smiling, were knocked down for looking
saved his money and trebled it by wise investments.. around, were knocked down and had their teeth
At an early age he started the Keystone Bridge knocked out for refusing to surrender their money
Company for the manufacture of iron bridges, real- belts, ate dirty potato peelings and evm ate from the
izing that these would soon take the place of the su-ill-barrel in order to get enough to keep alive, were
wooden ones then generally in use. This was suc- punched in the face for being slightly out of line, were
cessful from the start and led to the erection of rail knocked down and beaten upon the slightest pravocr-
mills, the purchase of vast tracts of ore in the shores tion, while one man for crying out against thue out-
of the Great Lakes, and the purchase of a fleet of rages had his throat cut.
steamers t o bring the ore t o the dock of his own Four men were beaten with blackjacks until blood
railwaffrom Lake Erie t o Pittsburgh. was streaming from their faces, and when one of them
H e retired from business with the purchase of became weak and lagged .behind he was hit from the
his holdings b y the United States Steel Corporation back and kicked into line. The prisonen were drilled
, a t a price which staggered the world. I t was in front of the muzzles of machine guns, and while
claimed at the time that the price which he asked these things were going on they w e n cut off from the
for his properties was four times their value, but outside world and not allowed to communicate with
that Morgan paid it rather than have Carnegie dis- home, friends or their superior officers. Mtn were
rupt the railroad business by building a new double forced to sleep on cobblestones, and one man was put
track line from Pittsburgh to New York as he had down a twenty-fivefoot hole thirteen days on one can
threatened t o do. of corned beef and a box of hard tack. On the four- ~- -2
During his lifetime Carnegie gave away $300,- tcenth day he died.
- iNO,000, of which sum $70,000,000 went to the found- Qur Lord said of John the Baptist that among all
'-*;ing of free libraries and the balance t o the great the prophets there had not arisen a greater than he.
Karnegie Foundation a t Pittsburgh, Washington This great mouthpiece of the Lord when approached
and New York, devoted t o education, peace, the re- by soldiers with the demand that he tell them what
warding of heroes, etc. His fortune at the time of their proper duties were said to them, "Do violence
his death was still huge. to no man." (Luke 3 :14) Surely, if these officers
Andrew Carnegie was not a Jew, and we may not who had their helpless fellow-soldiers under their care
assume that he was blessed in basket and in store had heard and heeded these words they could never
for that reason (Deuteronomy 28:5). Indeed, we have visited upon them such terrible cruelties.
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uensis" originate from some one elsc-fram some
spirit, accordii to Paul a' seducing s p W (1 T i - with hesitation and sometimes with rdudancc of drc
othy 4:1), in plain words, a demon, a devil, one of the cumstances closest to w." How taafull How re-
faIlen angels confined since the Flood to the atmos- fined, for a thug to cut one's throat, to & it with
phere of the earth-2 Peter 2 :4, Jude 6. gold-plated razor l
This author reczives his messages, not direct, but According to the spiritist, one need not rely p e
through a female spirit medium. It will be recalled titularly on Jesus Christ or on God No more pray-
how often good women have been utilized by evil ing to "Our Father," for are not evil spirits ever ready
spirits in thii way-Ann Lee of spiritualist Shakerism, to come to one's succor? As "Henry Talbot" puts it,
Mrs. Eddy of Christian Science, MR. White of Ad- "We can always reach you, if you need and are willing
ventism and innumerable common mediums, not to for- to listen. Some of us [devils] can penetrate your
get Mother Eve whose following the suggestions of problems more easily than can others; but there is
the devil Biblically brought disaster to her children. always some one here [in devildom] to help you in
It may not disturb some "Christians," but if they your troubles.'?
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Thac are accommodating evil spirits, for they are ative force, and mine the secondary." A rpiritirt
. prepared to pitch in and help. "whether or not you knows for sum thh is so, for has not "Henry" told
ask for counsel, or are aw&e of it after it has been him, ' W e are the prismatic colors of his glory," and
given." And how holy these devils arc l for "we can- "each prismatic color g i v u back the rays of light with
not perceive evil, and arc corucious d y of 'blanks its special refraction." And when the spiritist geta
, when it is prucat." And so ready with "helpful'l the proper slant, he "falls" for all sorts of aesthetic
wisdom like "the serpent" in Eden assistkg Mother gush such a s "Beauty is infinite, o r it wotrld not be
Eve "to make one wise"; as "Henry" says, "We see beauty; beauty can never be exhausted," which 1s
so clearly the road of safety and wisdom, i n yhich no all right, because "these are among our t e a c h 5
evil cm be met'with." This is bait to get a suggcst- [the devil's, "Henry's"] favorite thoughts." .
ible person t o surrender the citadel. of his will, and When Jesus was alive, the "spirits" trembled at his
unrcsistingly heed suggestions of the demons : "Culti- rebuke; they dreaded him: bat now, according to
vation of the spiritual ear [the faculty of receiving "Henry," they and Jesur arc on excellent terms : "We
audible demonic suggestions] is of utmost importance, [devils] who arc speaking to you now arc trying to
for through this organ [the 'inner' a r ] you can ap- express in modem terms and to meet in modern con-
prehend the words of life." Rather. the words of ditions the same fundamental truths Jesus taught."
death1 St. Paul says, "The works of the flesh are However, they shy at the doctrine of Christianity:
manifest, witchcraft, strife, murders and such like; "We generally avoid direct reference to Christian
of which I have also told you that they which do such teachings and influence." But they cannot escape bc
things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God." lief in the truths of the Bible, for they belong to the
God Biblically declares uncompromising hostility to .class mentioned by the martyr James, "The devils be-
demons; but to catch the unwary, untutored, honest lieve and tremble" (Jamis 2 29). It is at the doc-
and simple, how close, forsooth. do these spiritual trines of Christ the Judge that they tremble: nothing
outlaws represent themselves to be to the great Judge : is more natural than that they should "avoid direct
"Your interest in us must never be allowed to stand reference to Christian teachings."
between you and your consciousness of God. We an Evidently the same sinister influences which recently "i
expressions of him ( !) but do not forget that it is he made the peacemaker anathema, now purpose to lead
who speaks t h u g h us ( !!) and that we [de'rilsj are men to an opposite extreme and to substitute the .
the reflection of his glory." (!!!) But faithful St. il;.nis fcturrz of "mundaim." o r "world-ism" for na-
Paul warns: "I would not that ye should have fellow- tionalism. Does not "Henry" make this plain in pm-
ship with devils; ye cannot drink [participate in] the dently guarded words? "The purposc of nationality
cup [of doctrines, teachings and fcI!owship in the life] is the same as that of individuals. h e r e is funda-
of the Lord, and the cup [of doctrinis, teachings and mcntalfy no more reason for w!%rs betwten nations
fellowship] of devils."-l Corinthians 10:ZO-21. than for combats between men of o m gift and men of
"Surrender the will," is the plea of demonism; be- another. It is as.lcdicrous an exhibition of coordinate
;ome limp, pliable, putty-like in the hands of devils; egotism for race to fight xace as for all musicians to
this is their victory, for the battle is won or lost in &e join in a war zgainst all painters." Fortunately,
mind. So "Henry" wants to mtice you to give in to "Henry" is in the spirit world and cannot be landed
him: "I like to help in everything I can. Ask and I in jail for talking like this. .
will tell you all I can. You use your mind too actively The lure of demonism, alias spiritism, is one of the
in your effort to hear, and I cannot overcome your strongest and subtlest enticements to take Christians
thoughts [the impassable barier of the will] at times. away from Christ. Spiritism is a reality. The phen*
Relax, and lay your head on my shouIder. Give me mma a m actualiti~,and the source i i evil beyond de-
_ your hands, and I will lead you on." Of course. scription. It is folly to deny the reility of the proven
: "Henry" will lead you on; but who wants to bc led occurrences of spiritism when their actuality is attested
f
- -' on by a devil ? by scientists under rigid tests. The evil is a real one.
Mr. Demon, alias "Henry" claims intimacy with the It is here in p w i n g power, and the safe plan is to
Deity, who on Biblical authority expencd him from follow the tested Biblical recipe, "Resist t f ~ edevil, and
heaven ages ago. Through "Henry's" cooperation a he will fl ce from thec" (James 4 :7) A good course
spiritist becomes qualified t o say, "I mxpress the is to determine to resist everything that savors of the
Father, who expresses himself in me. Things get occult as being of evil. In the twentieth century this
their d u e , not because they are mine alone, bat bt- may seem old-fa,hioned, but it pays to be old-fash-
UUK they are both mine and his. His is the first c r t ioned in matters where caution u the way of safety.
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TW% mSSZAH- WaO IS as? in which t o make an effort. Zedekiah was over-
thrown in 606 B. C. The 2,520 yearb of the Gentile
F OR twenty-five hundred years or more Free-
masons have waited f o r the returning of one
Hiram Abiff, the great Master Mason. They claim
period ended in the iutamn of 1914.
The,~jssion of the Messiah is t o fulfil God's
he died a violent death because of his loyalty to the promise to bless all the nations of earth-to give t o ' . -
divine secre:s typified id Solomon's temple; that he
all the opportunity of life. H e said, "I am come
must reappear in order that that great antitypical
temple may be completed and its grand service be that they [the people] might have life and have fi'
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more abundantly." H e will establish on earth the
will of God for which he taught his followers to
The Mohammedans, are also expecting a great
messenger, a prophet, through whom they and d l pray. "And the government shall be upon his
people will be blessed. For many centuries they shoulder; and his name rhall be called Wonderful.
Counscller, T h e mighty God, the Everlasting.
have waited his coming. They believe his kingdom
Father [lifegiver], The Prince of Peace. Of the in-
is near at hand.
crczst of his government and peace there shall be
For thirty-five hundred years or morc Jews have no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his
waited for the coming of the great prophet \vho was kingdom. t o order it and t o establish it with judg-
typified by n10ses a:>d whom Moses foretold, and ment and with justice from henceforth even for
who was also foreshadowed by Kings David and ever."-Isaiah 9 :6, 7.
Solotnon and by the glorious priest, Melchizedek.
All peoples, nations, lrindreds and tongues desire
They expect him t o establish his kingdom and re-
life and happiness. "There .is none- other name
store Israel in Palestine, and with this hope thou-
under heaven given among men, whereby we must
sands of Jews are now hurrying to Palestine, believ-
be saved" (Act9 4:12). The Messiah will save the
ing the time of llessiah's appearance is at hand.
people from their sins and give them the blessings
Christians of every shade who are conversant of life, but this must be immediately preceded by a
,~' with the Bible look for thp coming of the Messiah,
great time of trouble, such as the world is now
and they believe that His a p p a r i n g is near at hand. experiencing. "I will shake all nations, and the
I n fa&, "the whole creation groaneth and tra- desire of all nations shall come" (Haggai 2:7).
vaileth in pain," waiting for they know not what, Freemason, hfohamrnedan, Jew, o r Christian, all
but desiring some relief that will bring to them must look t o the Messiah as the only hope for the
peace and happiness and life. blessings of ma:~kind. Under his bheficent reign .
W h o is this great and mighty one expected? The the influence will be uplifting. a ~ the d result \%-ill ,
Scriptures answer he is the great' hlessiah, the be glorious and God's will shall be done on earth
Kiug of Glory, the one who will bring the desire of a s completeiy a s it is done in heaven. "All the
all nations. More than four thousand years ago wicked will God destroy" (Psalm 143:20). "He
Jehovah promised Abraham, saying. "In thy seed must reign till he hath put all enemies under his
, shall all the nations of the earth be blessed" (Gene- feet. T h e last enemy that sl~allbe destroyed is
sis 22:lB). And thus he assured all that his prom- death" (I Corinthians 15:25. 26). ".4nd there shall
ise would be fulfilled. T h e same inspired witnzss be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, nei-
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plainly states that this long promised one, the ther shall there be any more pain: for the former
"seed," is the Christ. T h e word Christ translated things are passed away. And he that sat upon the
from the Greek has the same meaning as the He- throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And
brew word hlessiah, both terms meaning the he said unto me, Write, for these words are true
. "anointed one," the one given'authority to rule. and faithful" (Revelation 21:4, 5). H e will make .
. i Jehovah organized Israel into a sample nation. or
' the earth a fit habitation for man. All the desert .
- ' government. H e gave t o them a code of perfect and waste places shall become habitable (Isaiah
laws. H e dealt with them for upwards of eighteen 35). "~2ndthe desolate land shall be tilled, where-
hundred years, and used that nation to make pic- as it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
tures or types of the coming Rlessiah, through And they shall say, This land that was desolate is
whom he would bring blessings to all mankind. become like the garden of Eden."-Ezek. 36:34, 35.
Thereafter Jehovah permitted the Gentiles to at- The reign of the hlessiah is the Golden Age, for
tempt t o establish an ideal government in the which all peoples have longed, hoped, prayed and
earth, and granted to them a period of 2,520 years waited. Behold, it is at the door1
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mtE itself as to thc best u x to make of these broken lend to
riee-sair.s. They can be made into rice-flokes It " if eat-
h e ' o f the body politic, &? it is true of
lmk and t a s k lilic corn flakes, or t,hep can be puffed and k d y of Christ. thnt 'we are members one of another". ,
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made into pnKed rice even thoagh the g a i n s arc broken. ( E ~ h .4:25) =ore and more we me led to we that .
~i~ flour can used as a SubsfitUte for the command to "Love one another; not ns Cain, who
wheat flour in ba!i:,r.g but at the of whq of that wicked one, and slew his brother" (I John
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12c per lh.. or $24.00 per bbl. could not be considered a 3:11,12) i d not only good from ethical
verp goo11 investment. bnt it is actually good state-manship, and a statesman-
I n America scarcelp six pounds of rice per capita ir ship that be more and more a8 we pro-
conmmcd in n year ; whereas thc per capita consumption farther and into the *ge-
in f o r c i p couctries is as follows; in Japan each
man,, roman and child cons&nes 141 pounds of rice a OCEAN GUNTS
year; in C::ico 123 pounds; in Rl~esia11 pounds ; in T I S PROPOSED to build two 1,000-foot steamehipr
Englnnd 27 pomds; in France 31 pounds; in l t d y 101
pounds, and in Gcrrnanp 9.7 pounds.
1 to run betreen this c o u n t y and European ports.
Thourand-foot ships are big ones, but they do not
It is a favorable sign when n e see men considering represent the progess of which humanity might be
what to do with s ~ c happarently small items of human thought capable. h'o one knows a h a t was the size of
. i:
-. food as broken ricc! r a i n s . Anybody can W a s t e : it other contemplated boah, but Noah's ark some 4,399
requires no brains to do that. But to make the w i s e d years q o , made a good start with a length of 450 feet,
' $
; - md best use of the fraplcnts of human time, effort, a b r e d t h of :3 feet and a height of 45 feet. The
food, etc.. so tllat the largest and beat results can be comforts of the ark r e r e negligible a n d . would not
obtained for humnnity, this rcquircs thought. 'Tc hare have eatistied the modem tourist trade, but they sated
- an illustration of thc Divine view of the ~ a l u ofe human for the load of animals and people that took the trip
food in the command of our Lord, after he had mirac- from "the world that was" to "this present evil world':
ulously fed 5,000 people u i t h five loaves and two little The ark, too, ras scientifically designed, for ita dimeri-
fishes, to gather up the broken fra,gnents of loares and sions are seid by a marile erpert to be those suited for
U e s so that nothing be l o a t . J o h n 6:12. miuimuin carrJing capscib.
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TWO MZLLION NEW GARDENERS The theory is a good one and has the support of able
IIAPPY, enthusiastic, succersf ul and healthy army men. We wish it well and interpret it aa one of the
A of two million gardcnna. haa been added to the
nature-lover8 of our oountrv; 400,000 in the dates
hrbingers the Ixttrr en.
GAdlgLINC FOR A SICK MAN'S BLANKETS
from Maine to Marpland; 250,000 in the states from
HRISTEXDOU is sick; every financier knows it;
Yirghia to Mississippi ;600,000 in the states from Ohio
to North Dakots and 500,000 in tho 'states from Ken-
C yet the financial news from Wall Street rhowr no
indications of a let-up in the gambling spirit. When
tuckv to New Bfcsico. That was the enrollment in the
the master mind3 of the county are grappling with
United S t n h School Garden Army for 1919. I t u.t9
the railroad problem i t d a a not rrad well that the
dl an outgrodh of the Great War, but it was a grand
storks of equipment companies have advanced and :Are
dep in the right direction. I t ia bringing foranrd a
cnjoging p.md earnings, with the prospect of an in-
new generation that will apprcciatc and lore Mother
crease in domestic business when the railroads are
Earth and the fresh air anii the p h i s , as the past rdurncd to pri~atcopcration." It lmks too much as
generation h u not done. And it will be n healthier
though somc people were too sure of thcir prcsent
generation, and a far happirr one.
and future profits.
It has good backing too. It has come to star, for it
With thc comrnon people of the country gre3tly
has been made a part of the required school rork in
agitated over thc price of shoes it does not rcatl WC!~
many of the curricula arid the garden army director
that "Khilc hide acd lcnther markets reflcdd agitation
haa bccomc a part of the official family of tllc State
nqainst high prices, thc stock moved f o m r d in the
Dcpartmcnt of Education in some states, and will
belief that even qt decrcn*ed price levels the company
probably be madc M, in 311 states. The rork is darting
will continue to make I a r pmfits."
~ It looks too much
right. The motto hns been, "A garden for every child-
as thoufill there is somebody that h a had more to do
every child in n gardcn". and courss in gardening have
with cries of lcathrr shortage and demands for higher
been started in the normal schools, so that the children
p r i m than is right.
may hare the right k i ~ dof teachers. I n Ohio the
With the p a t msss of people in New Tork that
legislature ~t avidc $1,.500 in prizes to be awarded to and
has had to @re up the use of meat, butter,
the coung gardeners, nnd they never appmpioted $1,500
milk, it does not read well that "The local tRction
to a more worthy purpose. I n Xcw Hampshire 7 per
cent of the entire population of the state is enrolled in
'liares displqcd a more buoyant tone on reports -.
that fare increases \~ouldbe allowed" nnd "Buying of
.the Garden Army.
this issue %as prcdiktcd on the belid that higher f a m
This movement is an importat part of the work of
will be granted to the traction companici." It looks
the Goldcn Age. Our original inheritance in the gardcn
too much as though some people were interested in
of Eden is to bc restored, and it rill be redored in
seeing higher fares whose intcrest is not entirely un-
part by the effort5 of men to subdue the carth, as wns
selfish.
contemplated in Cod's original purpose. (Gen. 1:25)
Gambling is always interesting. There raas the time,
The ultimate effect will be that "thc desolate land
you remember, when clex-en of the apostles cast lots to
e h d be tilled n-hcreaa it lay desolate in the sight of
see ~ h i c hof the two men they had picked out for the
dl that pasaeil by. And they shall sar, This land that
twclfth apostle should be accepted of the Lord as such.
waa desolate is become like t h c garden of Eden."
(Acts 1:15-26) But this ans bcfore thc Holy Spirit
-Ezekiel 3G:35.
had mme at Pentecost Afterward, long afterward,
they all learned that the Lord liad chosen the Apostle
THE SOCIAL UNIT PLAN Paul to that high honor, and to him wan panted
IFTEEN THOCSAXD people, in a section of "Visions and rerelations of the Lord" (2 Cor. 12:14)
F Cincinnati, have proved that by working together which he was privileged to communicate to the eleven
they can virtually remore porerty, crime and disease \rho had been with the Lord from the first.--Gd. 1:11-
from thcir midst. Thpp have done it n o r for three 24; 2:l-31.
pears. Xeighborhood administrations are formed which
makc it their business to see to it that every person in BETTER TIMES COMING
a , particular block is adequately provided with work, ETTER TIUES are coming. I t can be stated con-
food, medical attention and rccrcation. The theory is B fidently and scripturally that present conditionr of
that when every block in every city is thus looked aftcr, world-wide unrest are but precursors or forerunne'n of
r a n t crime m d pestilence will bc things of the pad. the Golden Age
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MANUFACTURING and MINING
MOTOR TRUCKS FOR OIL TRADE the loads consiat of long partr, suck m standard lengths
T HAS BEEN demonstrated that a 1 1-2 ton truck of piping and derrick material. These overhang st the
I w.ill replace not less than t a o %horse-drawn wagons, renr of the tntck, m d owing to the extremely pom roads
and a large truck will displace from sir to nine horses which must be traversed in the mountains, the overhung
and two or three horse-dranu wagons and effect a load sways violently and sets up severe rocking strains
considerable saving in labor. -4 2 1-2 ton truck is in thc body as well ns in all parts of the rear of the
u r d l y operated by one man, n-hile a larger truck truck. TIm ayerage body rill not stand up under these
usually has a helper. con&tions.
. Within a radius of less than ten miles teams are The work of oil drilling requircs the moving about
., usurlly most economical to operate, if kept bus? all of much heavy equipmelit, which haa been done here*
the.. time, but it is easier to obtain help to operate fore rlorlp and clumsily by three or four teams of
trucks than it is to &ire teams. The truck has the horses. The roads in oil regions generally beggar de-
d v e t a g e of being ahle to perfonn the work more scription. Not infrequently the best oil deposits are in
utisfactorily in the heat of summer and m the intense locations which are almost inaccessible. Jobs that
q l d of the winter wason. formerly required half a day are now done by rcobr
For long hauls and full loads the motor truck has trucks in an hour. Drilling rigs, boilers, pumps, lumbbr
tbe advantage of the horse in economy ond in every are moved by t r u c h quickly m d with ease, that can be
other way, prticulwly because of its greater speed. hnndled by horses only slowly and with dBculty.
A.truck can handle goods within a radius of 60 miles
\'&en a new field is ope~edup the lume d&ulty
more economicslly than they can be shipped by rail.
is alrayr encountered in getting machinery and supplies
Tbis ie because the goods do not hare to be prepared
of all kinds from the mare& railroad to the point
w t r 4 u y for Bhipment and becaw of the fewer
- .- W i n g s that are required. When goods are loaded on where the equipment is to be used. If there are any
roads in the section at the s t u t they soon becdme KI
motor t r u c h they are delivered direct to the destination.
cut up with the heavy tra5c and so slippery and greasy
Where a milage of 60 or 65 miles per day is covered
aa ta be almost impassable. Under conditions such
the, mast economical sLe of truclc is s 2 1-2 ton truck,
theee, tractore of the uterpillar type haul l d through
where& in larger centera, where the mileage is 35 to 40
miles per day a 3 1-2 ton truck L the most economical.
to destination which can hasdly be moved by any other
. Another advanbge of the motor buck is that i t
means. Horses can not he worked when the mud geta m
cuts down the number of hours a man has t o work deep as their gamble joints, and this not i&equently
becruse it ehortens the time necessary to mnke delireria happens in the oil fields.
It is ,very seldom that an old employe who has driven In Detrsit recently, .in a test, a truck in whieh tho
a team for a number of yeare and in broken in on a power is applied to every wheel ascended the Court
motor truck wishes to g o back to the old style of vehicle. House stairs, step by step, with 22 men aboard. This
B e f i s the truck an interesting study and takes more truck will nin in mnd so deep that the axle housings
inkrest in it and better care of it than he would the drag, and will go do- and out of cellars and through
horses. I t has proved in most in-dances that the old sand, almost anywhere.
time horse-driver. who is brolren in and carefully in- Creeping tractors, patterned after the '4anksJ' used
structed, makes a much better motor truck driver than in the Great \fir, are desigded as power auxilliariea
a professional Biauffeur. to do what trucks were not designed for. These tractors
It is not uncommon now to see trucks carrying from will h a d loads over roads where a motor truck would
4,000 to 5,000 pounds making their way over the desert not be able to turn a uheel. They ore used to pull motor
regions in the far west, rrherc roa& are entirely absent, tn~clrsowr the worst of roads, and for moving boilers,
fot c l i c e s of fifty to sisty miles. drilling r i g and casing to new locations; for building
Special t r u c h are now made for the oil i n d m . and maintaining roads; for puliing'trees and dumps
%e requirements encountered by trucks in the and oil casings.
fields of West Virginia and western Pennsylvanis have For certain kinds of work where it k desired to
proven the necessity of these special designs. Yoat of discharge the load on either aide of a vehicle, paiity
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dump bodies are provided which require no power the past, except that at dividend time thep have a
to operate. These discharge the load add retwn to an chance at greater profib than heretofore. There ia no
upright position by gravity.. afkrwarda l&;ng auto- doubt, too, that they face the possibility of losing dl
matically. The hopper is V-ehaped, with perfrrtly they put into the venture. Business success generally
straight side, which allows the material to mmpletelJ follows a long period of reif-restraint on the p u t of
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clear the body when it aeaumes the dump position. somebody, and elf-rentrnint ir a character builder. "He
Constructors, ship builderr, quarries, steel and iron that ruleth his own spirit [is better1 than he that tdceth
manufacturers-nll of thoae industries rending out the a city." (Proverbs 1 6 : 3 9 ) There are mme who will not
~ o s gigantic
t loads and requiring the moat exacting wish these workerr well in their new venture, but we
schedules of time on their production-are coming are not of that class. \Ye hope that they will d e . a
more and more to use motor trucke. Tank cars are great succeu of their double role uf employer and em-
specially designed for the transfer of liquid loada and ployee and receive an adequate return for the invert-
are now 'to be seen everywhere. Tank cars are built ments in money, ekill and self-restraint that thaf put
, with compartments, connected w-ith cross pipes in into the business.
the rear which allow any one of the compartments,
or all of them if de$ired to be opened into the main THE MAUFACTURE OF STEEL
pipe leading to the pump or fauceta for filling cans 0 EXTRACT the metal from an? ore the ore is
at the rear. Notor driven pumps empty or fill these
tanks in ten minutes time.
T melted by intense h a t and by adding to it b e ,
which unites with the impurities of the o n to form r
The operation of several hundred motor truck vehicles liquid slag which floatr upon the molten metal. The
o\-er a period of one year shows the folloa-ing percentages metal is then drawn off from the bottom of the furnace,
of cost: after rhich it nee& to be refined. Coke is used to
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provide the fuel for melting the ore and in order ti,
Rcpln 17.04 provide sufiicient air for the combustion enormous
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the air is first heated to over 1,000 degree. 'Wee
stoves of which there are three or four to each furnace, -
~he'"swiftbenste"(EIeb. kirktzrolh, ewaying furnaces) are large cylinders filled with a checker work of fire
of I-. 66:20 refer speciddly to locomotives, but as brick.
automobiles are also. after a fashion, swaying fnrrurae, Pig iron always contains impurities, among which are
theg are pmhbly included in the expression I n a sulphur and phosphoro~u,and both of these are objec-
little while the Prophet Isaiah will be back here on the tionable and need to be reduced by burning away.
c v t h and we will ask him, or you can, whether auto- Sulphur in too great quantities cause8 skel when heated
mobiles and motor trnelis are included in that expression to bend or breolr. Phosphorous in too great quantitien
or not. causes oteel when cold to be brittle. Fof the burning out
of these impuritica oil hna the advantage of providing
WORKERS BUY A STEEL PLANT a heat which can be easily regulated.
LL RHO wish well to their fellom:men Kill u-ish If Tubalain, "an instructor of ever?; artificer in
A well to the Actna Iron and Steel Company, a cor-
poration made up of former workers of the great steel
brass and iron" (Qenesie 4 : 2 1 ) , were to visit n modern
blaat-furnace plant he would snrelp be astonished at the
plant at gar^, Indiana. These men. have purchased the gigantic ecale on which we do things nowadays, even
old -4etna gmcotton plant, near Gary, at a cost of though the principles are the same aa he taught fire
$400,000. To succeed thep nill need to hare among their
' thousand pears ago, but all theee improvementr are nec-
numbers sliilled salesmen and office workers a s %ell as essarr to the manufactlire of the machinery and tools
- octunl steel makers. They nil1 need to hare an executive that m i l l be needed to do the drudgery of the world in
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head nnd to obey him. They ill nced to be reasocable the Golden Age on whose threshold we stand.
%,, - ' in their rage demands, and all to vork together for the
good of the busincee. T!iey will need to study economy SECC'RITY OF POSITION
in erery way, and rill probably nced the serrices of 4BOR feels that a lorg period of sen-ice for a concern
some good financier. L
should give as much security of position as that
If t h q make a succees of their venture, their erper- u n i ~ e m l l yaccorded to la-err, physicians. bankers and
hnces w i l l not differ greatly from their experiencer in others who have grovn dd in the nervice of their clienfs.
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more. convenient cunency do not readily turn back to and possibly the Government may have a hand in it. . .
metal currency for daily use. The ~overnmentdid w many thinga for us during the
The chance ia remote of a reduction in gold by i b war that we get to thinking about ita powers of orgm-
f i w to other countriix. The situatidh is teverSed that ization and imagine thin& it might 5nd ri way to do
uned to prmail M regarb payment of gold to Europe, to help us with our pa-wlved proble~m.
for interest, ocean freight, tourists, laborers' home remit- One of the principal items in the marlietirig of food
tames, and trade balances. To a masweable e.xtent the is its transportstion. The Government sells the
United States has become a creditor nation, which turns portation, bcticall? all of it; perhaps it could be per-
the gold stream toward o w shores. Europe needs rnater- suetled to buy and sell the food itself, or certain kinds
ial for reconstruction and will pay America for it with of it. Wouldn't it be a great idea in this country, M it
gold. Europe's exports to America are h r smaller thau is in Europe, to place your order with the postman for
before, which creates a trade balnnce favorable to this butter, eggs, breed, potatoes. etc., and have it come
wuntry, with the amount of the balance payable in direct by the next parcel post? Seem w y ; doesn't it?
gold here. We shut our ere^ and imagine a time when the people .
U the banks could reduce the enormous volume of of a great district, ncting through the government or
loans to bnsineae men, there rrould be less credit-dollars some great cooperative association, will organize regular
in circulation, and a contraction of the sums available motor-truck services radiating from industrial centers
for business purposes a-auld ensue, and with less money for fifty or a hundred miles and thus effectively bring
going to the people to pap for goods with, prices and the food from the farm to the individual consumer. It
wages will fall. But there is little prospect of a change; would eccm that it would not take a great deal more
the new Liberty Bonds are remarkably good security for time to learn to grade, classify and price all kinds of
bank loons, and there can' he no diminishing in their farm produce than it cloes to figwe, parcel post rates,
volume until they are redeemed. Paper money may and tbe same kind of people that were glad a littIe while
not be expected to decreass in volume for the Federal ago to buy the Govern~cnfssurplus bacon would prob-
Reserve notes and tank notes show an increasing tend- ably Icarn -ily to appreciate the privilege of buying its .
ency toward espa~ision. fresh vegetables. The details of the job would be a t d
That there is no prospect of s decrease in the cur- for a Solon, but it seems worth a trial. A n-are house
rency, but rather an increase. is evident. To get people would be a neces~ity, but it is nothing new for. the
that have money to refrain from spending practically Government to have warehouses. It had many ware
all they get is to expect a change in human nature. houses during the war.
There is goilig to 1w plenty of money in circulation, This pressing problem we may be sure is one to which
plenty to pap.for things with. and on this basis prices -"
the IPrd w i l l give attention when he begins the work
should continue high, if u3dwI they do not rise, after of straightening out the earth'a tangled affairs. ' "The
the palliatircs applied hare run thcir course of pnrtinl earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof" (1 Cor.10:
uld temporary eEcienc~. 26) and we may be sure he d l see to it that adequate
arrangements are made for distributing its bowtier
FROM FARM TO HOME among his countless happy subjects who wiU find here
HERE ARE too man! middlemen betweeu the farm their heart's desire. "The desire of all nations shall .
' T and the home, and the great problem of the day in
how to get rid of tlicm or at least some of t h e n An
come."-Hwi 2 :?.
investigation showed that there were eight to ten mid- A TRUE STANDARD OF VALL?E
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- dlemen between the Sen- Tork farmer and the ultimate
consumer in the city. -411 of these middlemen ha\-e G OLD IS T H E world's prgent standard of value,
because it M about the only thing of value in time
demanded profits, no matter what happened to the of war that can be exchanged for necessities by the
farmer, so that it has not infreqnentiy happened that nations at war. K ~ t hthe passing away of wars, a better
the farmer, rather than receive for hls fruit less than the and truer standard of value e m s W b l e .
freight charges, has allowed i t to rot upon the ground. The real basis of ralue is that which supports human
And it does not seem right for the farmer to receive but life, not that which cm be ued to destroy it. What ir
six to ten cents per quart for his milk while the can- needed in the way of money in r certi6cat.e which k
rumer ten miles away paye from sistcen to k e n 9 cents. good an-where in the world for the rrmc w e g a b
We h d ourselves wondering whether i t may not be quantity of flour, butter, beefs bacon, kmr,mg.rs cloth-
porslble thai the motor truck will solve thb problem, ing and fuel. Ia the combined iuteU@wx of the world
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The member8 during the war were able to get lower I n ,America the common people have awdlowed, bait,
prices than others, even on articles for which the govern- llook and sinker, the dcluqion fostered and foisted upon
ment set the price, because the annual dividend amount- them by the banking interests, that it takes gpecial
ed to a reduction in priw. Governme~ltrestrictions finaiicial training acquired only at the lower end of
hampered the full success of the cooperative system, by Kew Tork City, to rake money. The British coopem-
making it ditIicult to obtain the necessary supplies for tive societies are securing the money to invest in their
manufacturing purposes, and for distribution through great estensions by issues of what they call "develop
the cooperative stores. The work was impaired by the ment bonds," in denominations of $100, $250, $500,
fact that thoueonds of the membef~ were called into $2,500, and $5,000, 11p to a total of $12,500,000 for the
the army. Membership in the cooperative societies hclp- first idane. The societies agree that t h e e bonds shall
ed the soldiers because the societies made up to the bear 4 1-5 per cent interest payable s e m i - p u d y and
soldiers the difEerencc between their reedar wages and be redeemable at par after ten years; and judging by the
their pap while in the army, several million dollars being past fidelity of the societies in keeping their promises
disbursed in this way. they vill meet this obligation the &me as though they
The cooperative 'societies, while o e e r e d by common were "repllnz' financiers.
workmen, are a living demobtration of the fact that Another dension of membership and busin- is in
the common people require no tutors, but are competent process. The cooperative societies run their own banks,
to manage their own affairs. The great system begun but up to thia time have not been able to persuade the
decades ago in the decision of a few A-orkersin a humble great British trades unions to place their banking busi-
cottage to join together in making purchases and has ness with them. Arrangements to this effect have been
been prudent and eflicient. The same wise management concluded, and in order to Anit together more closely the
which raised the united cooperative societies to the posi- interests of the British trades unions and the British
tion of the largest trade unit in Great Britaiu is now cooperative societies, a great 'plan of agricultural and
reaching out for extecsions aud improvements in many i~dustrialde~elopmentwill ahortly be. announced for
directions. the benefit of both parties.
One of the developments is the purchase of large coal I n the Cnited Statesplans for cooperation in mnq-
properties in Torkshire whereby manF of the cooperators facturing and distribution of goods have never been the,.
can add coal to the list of articles on which they are great succese they are in Great Britain. The British
able to save. This is in addition t o p coal mine omed pecple, it i s said, are more thrifty and more honest in
by the society in the neighborhood of Ken-castle. their dealings than the Bmericans, and both these qud-
Large sums have been expended for farm3 and fac- ities are required in a high degree to insure eucwss in
tories. The society paid during the war $573,480 to cooperation. l'ossibly under the Lash of the high cost of
estend its factories. I t paid $3,049,650 for new fadories Living the American common people may become more
and workhops. I n farms and other lands it invested thrifty, and no doubt enough thoroughly reliable people
$3,334,960. The grand total of investment for land and might easily be found in p r a c t i d y every community to
factories, in war time, rrhen progresa should be slow, make a sue- of American cooperative societies com-
was nearly $7,000,000. The amazing area of farms held parable to what ie seen across the eep
by the cooperative societies is some 33,000 acres, in Lan- The itlea of the Golden Age is a perfect cooperation
cestershire, Cheshire, Yorhhire and Cambridgeshire. among all mankind. It rillbe not merely a cooperation .
for business purposes as now, but a drawing together in
If the enterprise wcre in America, one uould never
a unity exprejmt by Paul, "That ye should speak the
hear the end of it, but who outside of Britain's tight
wme things, aud be perfectly joined together in the
little isles haf heard much of the prodigious enterprise
same mind and in the name judgment" (1 Corinthian8
of this combination of the common people! At the
1: l o ) I t vill be the materialization of the brotherhood
present time they are looArg forward to the addition
of mau and the fatherhood of God.
of the following tu their already great list of businesses :
flour mills, tanneries, jam factories, boot and shoe fac-
toriu, corn mius, U y farms, and other m e l e s s odds MORE OIL THAN PIPES
de n b under the classification of " s i d a r enterprises." IIE OUTPUT rate of a bottle depends not on the
Three weaving mills with a total of 1,900 looms are the
property of the sxieties, and not satidied, they are
T size of the bottle, but on the size of the neck. In the
oil industry the neck OF the bottle is tbe capacity of.
h u t to extend their tertlle interests, and build a large the pipe lines. The r e t d trade is capable of absorbing
anill for the spinning of yarn more oil, but it cannot be piped from the r&
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v IENRA ran once the great e n t e r of ~0,000,000 get nny dnmned thing r e want!' Sow he is said to be
people. Its population of 2,000.000 was not too nlarnled at the discovery that some of the r e t u d
great to be supported b~ such a hintcrknd. but the erec- soldicrs come 11ndc from abroad sadly brutalized by their
tion of the new state of Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary and e q e r i e n m
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C W N G POULTRY finished molting or are well into the molt. The hens
UILINQ serves two purposes: Fir&, i t insurea which molt k t , provided they are otherwise desirable,
C by the better-pro- arc thc b e ~ tones to save for breeders. A hen which has
that the feed will be cons~~med
ducing hma, thereby incrensing the profit. Second, i t not molted a t t h b time is characterized by soiled and
makes it possible to save those best suited for breeders, worn or 11rokcn plumage, which is especially evident
both on account of their better production and on ac- in thc tail plumage, while those molted or molting 'show
count of their superior strength-and vitelity, qualities clean, fresh plumqe or growing feathers. Culling the
essential to layers to stand up under the eevere strain carly molkrs just pa soon as they begin to molt ia one
of heavy laying. Weeding out the poor hens gives those of thc easiest w-ays to weed out poor layers.
left more room and a better chance. I n those breeds having yellow l q s , the color fades
Culling should be continuous throughout the year, of out slowly as the laying season advances. The rapidity
any hen which is sick, rhich is emaciatd, or which and degree to which the yellow color is lost depends to a
ahows evidences of nonproduction, weakness, or poor conaidera1,le ertent upon the heaviness of laying. The
ritality.. yellow color goes out from the scales on the front of the
The whole flock should also he given a careful and shnnks first and finally from the s d e s on the rear. Hens '
sg&matic culling at some one time with the object of on grws range do not lose the shank color as quickly or
dividing them into two lots, one the better producers con~pletelyas t.hose in bare yards. Some soils also tend to
and the other the poorer producers. From the better bleach tile color of the legs. Hens showing strong or
producers i t is also desirable to pick out as many of the mediiun yellow shank color are almost certainly poor
best as will be needed for breeders. Bond or otherwise layers, but cccasio:?ally poor layers may show pale or
mark these hens so that eggs from them only will be white shanks. I n breeds such as the Rhode Island Red
. s a ~ dfor hatching. Narlcet those selected as-the poor a-here thc shnlllrs may show horn color as well as yellow,
producers. Save for laying and breeding those selected the horn must not be confused with the yellow. The
as the better producers. rear and sides of the shank show little of thia horn color.
Hens which show indications of laytng in Augnst\or -4 sick hen or one in poor condition may also show pale
September are those which on the aveFqe ha1.c been sl:ulh.
the better produccrs for the year. The better producers I n breecls having yellow beaks, the same principle?
during the first laying year are those which will be tile applies as in the case of the yellow shaxib. However?
better producers in subsequent years. Hens showing the color is lost from the beak more quickly than from
indications of having been good producers throughout the shanks mid is also regained more quickly. The lower
the year should be retaiced for the nest year regardless beak blcaches faster than the upper, but may be used
of their age, but relatively few hens a-ill prove to be where the upper is obscured by horn or black.
profitable producers beyond their second la)& year if I n yello~v-skinnedbreeds the yellow color of the skin
of the heavier breeds. immediately about the vent is quickly lost with layiug,
SicLness and lack of vigor are indicated by listlesrness, and is quickly regained after laying ceases. White or
inactivity, tendency to stay on or under the roost during pink vent color gcnerdly indicates that the hen is laying.
the day, poor appetite, dull eye, dark or bluish color of while a yellow vent means that the bird is not laying.
comb, long toe nails, scaky or crow hcad, and the The ~ e n oft a hcn laying heavily is large, expanded, or
tendency to go to roost cerly in thc el-cnir.,o and to be moistt while that of a heu not laying is comparatively
one of the to lcuve the roost ,ill the morning. small. hard: puckered, acd dry.
Molt is one of the most ~nluableand easily applied \\hen a hen is laling or about to lay, her comb is
tests of proctuction. Hens craw laying completely or large, rmy:, full of blood, and bright red in color. T h e n
almost complt.tely during the molt. The better producers not laying, the comb is small and shrunken, pale or dull
lay lute in the fall, and therefore molt late. Late molt- in color, comparrtivdy hard, and covered with whitish
ers also molt rapidly as a rule, while early molters molt scales. A dark or bluish color indicates sicknesa The
slowly. Therefore, oare the hens rhich have not molted changes in the ~ a t t l e sand ear lobes are similar to those
by August or.are only just beginning to molt late in of the comb, hut not so marked.
September or in October, and discud those which h i v e As a hen stap6 hying there is a tendency for her to
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take -onfat. This is noticeable in examining the pelvic molt in September or October; with large. moist ventsi;
boncs, the two bones which can be felt as points on w ~ t hlarge. bright-red combs ; thin, pliable pelvic bones
either side of the vent. When the h m is laying, these \rcU spreatl apart, witle spread between pelvic bone9 .nd
bones are comparativelr flexible. f hen she is not laying. rear end of keel, and large, soft, pliable abdomen. I n
they feel thicker and less flexible, due to the fat ahich breeds with yellow skins and shanks, the hens naved
has accumulated there. The spread or distance apart should aLw shor pale or white shanks, and pale or white
of these pelvic boncs is also ci raluable indication of beaks and vents.
whether or not the hen is laying. When laying they are The culling of live-stock which is constantly going on
wider apart than when not laying. The spread can be upon erery well-mannged farm is something akin to
roughly measured for practical purposes by determining what is going on in the present operatiom of divine
how many fingers can be laid between the bones. If providence r i t h respect to our race. The gospel a-re
the spread measures two fingers or less, the probabilities sent forth to the Gentiles "to take out of them a people
, are that the hen is not laying while if the spread ia for his name". (Acts 15:11) Those gathered by the
greater, she is probably laying. In measuring this spread gospel call are depicted as of ever7 sort, and after the
the'size of the hens of different breeds, with the cor- full number to twit the divine purpose have been gather-
responding natural di5erence in Q e spread, must be ed into the gospel net a certain kind of separation ir
kept in mind cnrried on. "The kingdom of heaven t like unto a net,
A hen laying well is s good eater. Her intedines are, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
therefore, fuller and more distended, and, require more which, when it is full, they drew to shore and gathered
room than when she is not laying and not eating so the good into vessels." (Matt. 13:47, 48) There ha
much. When laying, the ovary and oviduct are of greater nothing in thin to intimate that those unsuitable a t the
size and require more room. To provide this e&a room, first sorting may not grow up and at a later time be nuit-
the distance from the rear end of'the k&l to the pelric able for mother purpose. The object of gathering out the
bones increases, with a consequent i n e r e in size of the "people for his name" k declared to be the blessing of
abdomen. A spread of three or more finer8 in the all the residue of mankind-Acta 15 :11.
smaller ,breeds, such as the Leghorn, and four or
more fingers in the larger breeds, such as the Plymouth PUUPOSES OF PRUNZNC I
Rock, indicates that the hen is in a laying condition. A
spread of less than three fingers in the smaller breeds
and less than four fingers in the larger breeds indicates
that she is not in a laying condition.
u NDER NATURAL conditions planta grow thickly;
one crowds upon the other, m d in that way all
superfluous individusls as well as branches are crowded
out. Under artificial conditions plants u e p l d at
When the hen is laying, the greater size of the abdo- distances which prevent' thia natural pruning. The
men, together with the lessening tendency to m u l a t e incream3 amount of Yood a t a h b l e to plants under srti-
fat at this point, results in a d t , flexible abdomen, ficid conditions frequently excites growth, m that the
suggesting, when handled, the texture of a pPrtlr milk- distance between the difierent whorls of branches, which
ed-out udder of a cow. When laying has ceased, the naturally develop from nenr the end of the growth of
abdomen grows smaller, or contracts, and it feels, when each season, becomes great, giving t h e plant m open
handled, harder and less flenble. fonn nnd the appearance of having been built by etoriea
In culling the flock remember that i t is d e r to de- By a judicious uae of the pruning knife the gardener
pend upon the igrecment of a combination of eeveral shortens the annual p o d , thus reducing the distance
characteristics rather than to select by any one alone. between the branches formed in successive yeaxa, with
With this in mind cull these hens: sick, weak. lacking the result that the tree has a more compact and eym-
vigor, inactive, poor eaters, molted or started to molt, metrical form.
- r i t h small, puckered, hard, dry vents ;with wall, shriv- Ertreme examples of the n m a i v of heading-back ate
+ rz eled, hard, dull-colored combs; with thick or coarse, almost invariably met with in the case of poplars grown
stitr pelrlc bones, pelric bones close together, small for decorati~epurposes. Among orchard trees now pre-
sprrad between pelric bones and rear end of keel, and sents greater nooessity for annual treatment in t h i s way
full, had, d abdomen. In breeds Kith pellow skin than do the perch and the Keiffer pear, although n a l y
and ehanks, the discarded hen should also shor yellow all of the fruit and ornamental t r e a while young require
or medium yellow shanks and yellow beaka and vents. nre in thir putirmkr.
Save they hem: heslthy, atrmg, rigorou~mkt, and Another -n why pruning M necessy w i t h .pknts
d v e ; p o d erten; not molting or just begmnbg to pun under vtiiicid conditions k that rome of our mat
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desirable ornnmentd treea and rhrulm have UI unfortun- Pruning is of prime importance also in controlling
ate ~ t u habit
d of growth which resulta in a method of the &ion of some of our most dreaded plant diseases.
branching which makea trees unable to withstand high The study of pear-blight, for instance, has r h o u ~that
YLhh or mma. It ia the gardener's buriness, therehre, this d i d ir very gana9lly communicated from plant
to guard against such branching and to so direct the to plant by insects, through the pollen, as they pass from
growth of the tree as to force it to distribute its branches b h m to bloeeom, or, later in the season, from shoot
in such a manner r9 aill best prevent it from being to shoot. It is also beliered that the disease cm be car-
broken during high winds or heavy etormn. A notable ried by the wind and that infection can take place while
example of this undesirable system of branching is had the vegetative processes are active and the tissue at the
in the silver maple. This tree almost invariably branches ends of the branches can easily be entered by the germs
u, aa to throw two strong shoots from the point bf of the die@.
branching, each of which grows at about the same rate, The nay in which pruning ir of service in controlling
with a very narrow angle between them; tho reeult is, pear-blight is as follows: It is the natural tendency of
that as the branches increase in siw, the union between the pear and the apple while young to form fruiting
them not being perfect. severe pressure placed upon one spurs upon the body and larger branches of the tree.
of them has a tendency to split them apart. Everyone These fruiting spurs produce blossoms from year to
who hns oboend the silver maple has frequently w n gear, which are in turn at^ liable to be visited by been or
large trees badly broken or split after severe wind other insects carrying the destructive spores of the pear-
storms. If thc tree trainer had given carcful attention blight iu are the blossom a t the extremitia of the
to the arrangement of the branches during the early branches. It is evident, therefore, that a blossom situ-
life of such t m s , these undesirable results. which are so ated upon the body or larger branches of a tree becoming
fatal to succcesful park adornment, might have been infected by this disease would communicate it diredly
avoided. Pnining, then, is necessary in order that the to the frnmework of the tree, with the result that the tree
habits of a tree wluch ere naturally bad may be cor- n-oulcl bc fatally injured; but if these fruiting spurs are
rected. all eliminated from the body and larger main branches
With fruit trees pruning ir important becauee it cnn of the tree by careful pruning the possibility of infection
be used for the purpose of checking the growth as aell na in this way ia overcome. The available meanr of gaining
for the purpose of thinning the fruit. I t is an old and entrance to the tree by this parasite is confined to the
well established maxim among fruit goa-crs that what- smaller branchen, nhich, if affected, can be cut away
ever tends to check growth increases the fruitfuIness of without sr\-erely injuring or disfiguring the tree. This
the plant. Pruning can be used to accomplish this result. is, in brief, the method of successfully controlling the
Contradictory ns it map at first thought appear, prun- pear-blight. I t is purely h mechanical operation, but one
ing L frequently resorted to to accelernte or augment which requires a rigid esecntion of the principle of re-
growth in plants. f cdi growing nursery stock is fre- moving all fruiting spurs from the body and main
quently severely cut back during the resting period in framework branches of the tree as aell as cutting out
order that all the strength of the root may be forced into all infested shoot in other parts of the trw
the formation of 3 single upright stalk which aill make I n the caw of the dreaded plum and peach rot the
the plant a ~alablenurwry tree. Severe pruning is dso ravages of the disease can be staped to r limited extent
resorted to with older plants for the p u r p k of rejuv- by thc removal of branches which interfere and would
enating them. Old apple trees and old shade trees are bring the fruit upon adjacent branches in contact, for
frequently so treated, in order to induce them to throw it is well known that this disease is readily cornrnuni-
out strong new shoots. cnted from fruit to fruit if they come in contact. I t is
- With such plants as the yach. which bears its fruit the rim of succrs~fulgrowers of peaches and plums to
' p, have the f r u i t EO distributed upon the branches that
upon the growth of thc pre\ ious !Far, pruuing is of great
., importoncc, as thc growth can reduce the crop in pro- they shdl not come in contact even when fully developed.
I t is the aim of the peach grower to hare the fruits at
portion to the capacity of the tree. Successful fruit
growers thoroughly understand the importance of gaug- least 6 inches apart, uhile it is the object of the plum
ing the quantity of fruit allowed to borne by a tree grower to have them 2 1-2 to 4 inches apart.
to the capacity of the tree, the ability of the tree in this The gardener, therefore, has M r a m for pruning
rerpect being memured by thr rate of growth, the vari- trees the removal of dead, dying or broken branches,
ety, urd the soil and climatic conditions to which lt is the rcmoval of branches in order to prevent the breaking
mbjected. or disfiguring of the tree in later y e a q the removal of
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branches and fruit spurs for protection against infec- it doe8 not pap to carry them longer. The ideal deer u
tious diseases, and the retluction of the annunl growth rectang~larand even from front to rear.
in order to reduce the clSopin proportion to the cnpacity Too much gun gives meat a watery finish, and it
of the tree. eclls at a discount. Too much grcen silage produces the
The Creator never intended that even in a perfect earth same effect. Corn makes a fine white fat. The color of
the trees a d &rube would not necd h u m care. "The the best meat i~ bright red. Cottonseed meal f i m up
Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of the flesh and adds to the quality. Steers eighteen montha
Eden to drees it and to keep it" (Gen. 2:15), and the old are not sufficiently matured for prime cuts and car-
more he knows about how to dress and keep the earth's casses past three yenrs are too coarse in meat and uneven
surface, and the better use he makes of his knowledge, in finish and qunlity. The bones of the older animals
the more wonderful will be the results obtained. I n are flinty, and layers of lean meat are stringy and tough,
wveral placea in the Scriptures the heavenly Father and the fat is yellow.
himself is likened to a vine dresser, notably in John The raising of lire-stock is one of the oldest i t p a -
l5:l-8, shouing that the pruning of vines and plants is tions of man, and if you don't believe they h e w aome-
necessary to their well-being, and especially to their thing about it in olden times read Genesis 30 :31-43m d
f ruit-bearing. see how Jacob, after having his wages changed ten timed
by his avaricious father-in-law, finally managed to get
BWINC AND FATTENING BEEF the better of him by using his knowledge of how m d
when to make use of pre-natal influences upon the un-
TEEBS are ready to sell when they get so fat that
S the back apparently sinks a little, and an indent-
born cattle.
ation appears deep enough to hold a cup of water so SKY COLORS
that it r i l l not run down the sides. An animal ready
for the block has two bacb, one which grows on the . T 0 T H E FARMER the colors of the sky foretell for
him the weather conditions on which his work may
deer, and the other put on by the feeder through the depend. He cnnnot rely on the Weather Bureau for the
use of plenty of the right kind of feed. conditions for his particular farm, and naturally learns
The first lap in profitable buying is to buy the right enough to forecast accurately hie own wcather.
kind of a steer. Cattle which are merely hide and bones Sky colors have been from of old an index of the
w hard to judke. Feeders should avernge 900 to 1,000 metrorological. Shakespeare given us the commody
pounds, of good quality and in good flesh. A f m poor accepted index of foul weather:
h r s in k load will bring doan the price of the whole
A red mom thnt ev-rr yet betokened
load. Anew cattle get into very h e condition, make Wreck to the .seamen, tempest to the fkld,
good gains and are economical feeders. Sorrow to the shepllerk woe unto the birrle.
Desirable feedera are built like a block set on four Ousts arid foul fla!i.s to herdsmen and to h e r b
pins, as low-hung rs possible, should be straight dong On the other hnnd red in the evening indicates the
the back, wide back, thick loin, and deep, well-arched opposite of the morning red.
ribs; should carry out well behind, have wide ehesta and If the e~eningEL-y, uot far up, but nenr the weatern
round shoulders fitting snugly t4 the body, with a short horizon is yellow, greenish, or some other short aave-
thick neck, wide, ahort head, quiet eyes and lips not length color, the cl~ancesfor good wcather are excellent,
too thick. for these colors indicate less condensation and a drier
Cattle which are cunied daily and fed on shelled corn, air than does the evening red.
oats, oilmeal, and timothy and clover in limited quan- But an evening 'sky, devoid of these colors, and over-
tities, with a little fodder now and then, will average to cast with n uniform gray indicates an air ~aturatedwith
gain three pounds a day. The shelled corn is gradually moisture and ready to drop d o ~ rain n or snow.
increased until each head is getting a half bushel per day Shdespeare from 11is depth of resource gives this
and the oilmeal until they are getting 3 lbs. per day. index of a clcar 2ay :
The deem like to be curried and currying them makes The weary run hnth mzde a golden sef
them friendly and in good condition to take on fat. A n d by the b r l ~ l r ttrack of hls fiery car
The currying a h makes the cattle more attractive to t l ~ c Gives token of a yooctly clay tomorrow.
buyer. In the spring the corn geta dry and needs to be We would like to fay that our Lord referred to weather
ground. signs in the familiar passsage Uatthew 18:3, but thew
S t e m a n be fattened by the above procese in four words u e missing from the oldest Greelr MSS. and an
months time and obould be dispoeed of at that time, as evidently no part of the Divine reoord.
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OUR DYE INDUSTRY IN DANGER a renlJy efective clefense." Not merely ia the dye in-
1' W A S HECOGXIXED during the war that the dustry a t stalie, but the entire fabric of chemistry and
1 success of the American dyc icdustry delwnded on allied sciences. The ~clutionproposrd to protect the
the continuance of thc v:ar and that peace rvould see intererts cf American chemical industry and science iP
conditions resumed that had made the industry neglig- a syatetn of licensing the importation of dyes and other
ible. Peace is at hand, and ways and mcam are now chemicda on such a basis that if a substance is being
being suggzsted for saving the millions invested in the produced by American concerns it s h d not k imported
D~lsiness. at all by foreign makers until the American plants are
Owing to the Germnn propaganda Americans had sn!%cier.t!y r;ell established to meet competition on
bcen led to believe that good dyes could not be mode eqnnl tcrma.
outride of Ciermacy and that dyes mzde elsewhere would Ae long as nations makc war on one another it is
alivays be more cxpensivc. t l ~ a nthe Germnn m d c pro- al~colutelyr.ecco:ary to practice self-preserration, even
d:lct. This was attributed to the pcticnt research of t h ~ u g hprtiuc.tion casts m4y run higher. I n due time
German chemists, tile frec use of their serviczs made in this cocdition will be changed, for it ir promised thot
all German induntrics, the alleged thoroughness of Gcr- Jehovah in the Golden Agc will "scatter the people that
man scientific education aud alrat might not gen~rally delight in war."-Psalms 68 3 0 .
be known: that German chemists acre so plentiful that
good men co:lld be hired for thirty dollars upward a DIRIGIBLES a d PHOTOGRAPHY
L'SEFLX b-product of the Great War is aerial
montl~.
Cntil the European u-ar broke out in 1913 there mas A
photoggphy, which givea promise of being widely
practically no dye industry in the United States. The used heredter in the laying out of railroads, highways,
/c&etelopment of the industry had been opposed by im- irrigation canals, dams, timber reservations, sites
,-. .--1mensa textile interests o3 t!le plea cf the necescitp of and boundaries. A good vehicle for the aerial photo-.
keeping ccit.! (!o\\n. n-l~ichthe neccsmry protectire tariff grapher is thc dirigible.
would have raised dnring the deveiopnlent period af the A dirigible can be stopped in midair, and raised or
busines. Out of thc 900 different colors on the market loncred to any altitude desired; i t can be moored to r
American dye plants prodilced nine n:~d was supplving tree and ran get along without shelter. During the war
about tm pzr cent of the market requirements. German i t was nct uncommon for dirigibles to be moored in the
roncemo supplied 90 yr cent of the dyes used and pro- open for mocths without damage. There ip no vibntion,
duced an infinit? variety of beet one plart a!one listhg hencr long csposum can be made by the
over 11.000 calors. and thus the best results obtnined. There i s plenty of
The anr placed American mnnufa~turee~ totaling some room t s uork and to develop negatires, there is no occas-
t h r x billioil dollars, i n a predicament. Uost cclors ion for haste, and there is no nervous strain upon the
\rcri! siinr,ly ul~obtoir.al;le. acd c r m the g,~vcr~xr,ent photogapher while he is aloft. Thc first cost is about
found itwlf em1)nrrassc~iIto ficd dyes to print it; ekmps fP5.000 acd the opcrnting cost about $1,200 per month.
and cnr:.enc!.. Dye ~vorksprodccc and use chemicals of IIelium can con- be obtained in qaantities for lifting
vdue in the manufacture o i explosives, and the L-nited purposcs. and L. safe, where hgdrcgen is always trencher-.
States f0ur.d it~elf deyrivecl of a sl~pplyof snbctances OUP. I ~ n d i n gis simple; on calm daya a ten-acre arm
. essential to the prosecution of Kar. Thc government \rill answer the purpose.
* immrdiately e~couragcdthe building up of an Americzn I n pliots,"raphic mapping an area of approximately
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dye inr',u?try rttitaklc fcr Loth pence and war pnrposcq t-ro cguare miles is photographed a t each e x p o m e
and hnndreds of mil!iors of dollars were inrested 10.000 fwt above ground; at loner height the area of
therein. courrp is l w .
Prac.ticdly the entire Amcrican dre bnsinrss is in "Surcly the m a t h of man shall praice" the Creator.
dznger of destruction s t the hands of a German competi- (Pra. 76:lO) Out of the Great War hare come and are
tion which Congressman Lon,qorth describes as a "con;- coming many inventions and discoveries that u e fraught
petition of an admrearp so powerful, KI fierce and ao with blessings to monldnd. Who would have expected
desperate thot no practicable ratee of duQ would offer w a r to bring r new method of mapping the d l
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HYGIhWB VERSUS CORDIAWTY lorfie and ale]-t force of medical spiee. But we spare you
T WAS a bit of hygienic wisdom that Hedth OtYimr The presence of g e m is undeniable, but the principal
1
Gaub of Montrlnir, Kew Jemr. utkred when his
bulletin kid, "Don't shake every paw that is extended to
error in the foregoing assumption is that liability to
dincasc comes chicfly from the fact that the germs are
.
yau." Certain diwa~cscrc communicntccl by contact. upon the body, \VcU nuthenticated medicnl opinion
During an epidcmie of grip a bncinc~sconcern irnprovd statcs that mrry p r s o n is literally mvcred wi& germs
, the xickncw record by haring the door knobs continually and t11nt evcry mouth and nosc is n resemoir of all kicds
wiped with an antiseptic solution. Lcss cases cccurred of t h e e louer forms of life. The hygienic thing is to
. af& the precaution than bcfore. build np .the prm-resisting p w c r s of the people so that
I n the literal as wcll as thc figuratirc sense no one the bodily powers orercome the efforts of the germs to
kncms whose hands arc clcan. h-ot all persons are as find brccr!icg graiinds in wcd;cned tisbues. Persans of
carcful ahout prsonsl clconliness as they mig!~t be. good vitality can shnlrc hands and still be safe, if they
Same uec something - hsincs the hygienic
-- hniidkcrchicf arc rcnjocable follo~rersof the advice posted conspicu-
for cleaning their noms. -4 small pcrcc~trycharc ;!;in 'oualy in a lorgc hospifal ;
d k a s e s or mres with which their kncds come in contact. "IF TOG WANT TO LITE WASH YOCR EANDI."
A €till less number harc tubcrculoais or other infcctious Onc of Chc rcsolts that r i l l bc the crowning achieve-
discs., and can communiczte thc dccclly g~ms~ i a mcnt of thc healing arts n-ill be the eradication of.
the hand. A ,very fcv arc carriers 'of typhoid or of dcarlly gcrms from the earth, as has been done in same
wsual diwase gcrmc. Promiscuous llandshakicg makes localities where a successful fight has been uaged against
onc liable to ratch some of these gem. ycllolv fcrcr. Aa the Golden A p progresses this will
' Officer Gaub's advice has somr mund mcdical opinion undoulitedlg be doce, and simultancbucly vitality will
back of it: "Tbc clctn haad habit is a p o d one, and be built up to perfection. Then "the inhabitant shall
t h d d he arlop+d, for it means much i n promoting uot sap, I am sick" (Isaiah 33:24), but every one that
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community hralth, due to the fact that the human hand followa the bencbce~tjpidance of the c o m i ~ gage Kill
has been shorn to be the mcdiurn through which many gmlually find that '%is flesh shall be fresher than a
d i m havo bcen pprcad. IInnds!lnking is almost uni- child's; he shall return to the days of his youth."
verad. and ~ h i l eit stands for friendliness and wciabil- --Job 33 :25.
it?, it he; it3 dmgers. 3lcdical men are d-a, that tho
infection of influenza is often conveyed in this way." NEC'ROTICS IN TIBfE OF WAR
'l1oesil~lp other c t ~ ~ t a m
might
s bc put under ban. S o HE WAR did something for neurotics; it helped
womm should k i ~ sanotller on meeting or parting. S o
one ought to cat from a spoon or fork, and ~ r t a i n l ynot
T to discover thcm and thus made it possible to do
romcthing for thcm. A sufferer from neurosis does not
with such indecorum as from a h i f c , that another li~lowwhat ails him, nor d&s his physician, but the
person has u d , udc3s the cating tool has n ccrtificatc of
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malady is very real and its cure easy. The dymptom
sterility. Dctectircs, mnintained a t public expense, is a more or lees imaginary illness, generally diagnosed
should w e that no unmarried persons, or children espec- as gastrctintestiud trouble, which totally unfita thc
iallr, kiss one another. street railray and railroad-car sufferer for service in the battle-line, and results in his
seats ~houldhnre remorablc and systcruatically sterilized being taken ti the hospital. Over 11,000 cases came ta
., covers. Handshaking should be m d c "enfe for humnn- light in the army, and it is estimated by the physicians
ity" by laws rcqiiiring ally person before grarping an- xho camc in touch with thew cases that probably 10 per
- other's hand to see that thc hand is properly and suitably cent of all thc cascs in hospitals of all kinds arc cases of
inclosed in a germ proof ,nlore, or 13 tbc cam of the neuroeis which havc not been identified as such. The old
very paor, a mitten or stocking or a piece of cloth or cure for neurosis in time of war vaa flogging or im-
paper. Provision should be made for all personp appear- prisonment; such a cure is really the torture of the sick.
ing in public to be hygienically clad in &tiseptic gauze What the neurotic needs is light emploj-ment in the open
or'in medicated cotton. In due time the public would air, or in any position in which the strain upon the
become educated up to the correct standard of hrficne, nerves is alight. The neurotic can work, and accomplish
egpeciallj if offenders were ferreted out by a d c i e n t l y goad rcsultq but not if eggd on by fear or m y other
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motive calculated to impair his weaken4 nenous system. brat the misturc thoroughly :add the aeli-beaten ahitca
"Kemcs" are a reality not recognized by thode n-ho do of the g g r ; bakc in shallow tins; cowr with frosting
not have them. The Scriptures indicate that along to- made as follows:
ward the last of his carer, when ow Lord r a s wakened
O T C A ~Fr9sting
C for L!rr!lrr ~ o t . cCake
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by the hcding of others, d l at the cspcnse of his ON-r.
Yifdity (Greek,.dunanis-Mark 5 :30), hia nervous sys- Grated rind of orange; teaspcon lcnon juice; table- .
tem was badlp shattered. The oweating of drops of blood epoon orange juice; egg go&; confectioner's sugar;
in the garden of Getheemaue indicutcs this. mix d l ingredients but thc sugar; nuow the mi\ture to
~tandan hour; strain; acltl confectioser's sugu until .
MOUNTAIN RESORT IN THE CITY frosting t thick enough to be spread on the cake.
k
Olker Spices for Butter Honcy Cake
THIS SEEMS hardly possible, in view of thc fact
t h t most of the p e a t cities of the world are built
at tide water, but such progrew aas made during the
Instead of the cinnamon, this mixture of spices may
be usctl: 4 tempoon girger; ? teaspoons cinnamon;
Great Wur in the constrliction and managcmcnt of mam- teaspnon ground rardnmon secd; teaspoon cloves;
moth gaa bags that i t is now seriously pioposcd that tra<poon nu?n!eg; + teaspoon whit2 pepper; choppd
airshipa be used as hogpitnls for the cure of paticnt3 citron or nuts map a l ~ ob~ addcd.
suffering with t ~ k r c u l o ~ i s . Honey Ribbon Caka
There are not many of earth's millions that can afford 4 cup hutter; 2 cups s u ~ a r ;4 eggs; CUP milk;
to go to thc mountains when ataicted with early pulmo- 34 cups flour ; 5 , ten3pons baking pok-der ; lf te6
nary tuberculosir, but it dccs not require a 6rmt stretch q m n s ground cardamon seed: 1 3 teaspooru ginger;
of the imagillation to forcsee a time whcn every city 4 teaspoon cir.nmon ; 4 ten~poon cloves; 1-3 cup
might be able to give all the benefit of a trip to the raisins s d e d and cut in pieces ;1-3 ccp flgs finely chop-
nountains b even the poorest inhabitants. I t would bc p ~ ;d t a l l ~ ~ p a ohoney
n ;rub butter and sugar together;
but a trifiing expense to give the a c t e d a few days or add yolks of cggs; sift together flour nnd baking powder;
weeks Life in the higher and drier atmospheres a nilc or add them to the mirture, nltcrating them with the
less above etery city, b sending them up for a stay in milk; add whites of the eggs well baten; bake two-
captil-e airships fitted up for t l ~ cpurposc. thirds of ihc mixture in two layer-cake pans ; to the re-
4 HONEY AS A FOOD
meind~radd spices. fruit and honey and bake in lay&-'-
cake p a ; put laycrs together with crystallized honey -
B EFORE the use of cane sugar, honey uas anc of the
principal sweetening materials. As e fmd it is a q m p
of four parts sugar to one part rater, with practicallv
between.
Honey Cookies
- 2-3 cup honep; 2-3 cup sugar; 2 1-3 cups flour;
no nitropnous substrrcces. The action of thc bee's di- 1-"tezcpoon s o h ; 1 1-2 teaspoon cinnamon; teaspoon
gesti+c juices make honey a predigested s q a r mare
cloves; teaspoon alispice; 2 ounces finely chopped can-
wholesome than cane sugar, valuable to delav o~coming
fatigue during great crel-tion. Hozcr is ~light!y lasativc
dirct orange peel; + pound walnut meats fbely chap-
pzd : rift togtter flour, spices, and soda; add other in-
and has certain ather rery slight ph-aiological rffccts. grrdicn!.: Aneacl thcroughly; roll out thin; cut ~ i t h
A number of good recipes may be made up uitt !;ccey, l~isc-~~itcutter; thcse cockies are vcry hard.
as follows :
Bran Drown Bread -- Dakrd Honey Custcrd
Cup ~ b i t eor wholc wheat flour; teaspoon soda: f 5 qgs; ? cup hone?; 4 ccps scalded milk; f t?a-
teaspoou salt; cup bran ; f cup honer cup sour milk; rpeon rordcrcd cinnamon; 4 teaspoon salt; beat egp
# cup raisins floured; sift together the flour, ~ o d sacd cnough to unite yollis and r h i t c ~ ,but rot enough to
4 ~ a l t add
; other ingreclicnts; steam 3 hc-~rscr bakc 40 make thcm foamy ; add cther ingredients ; bake in cups
12.
- minutcs in slow oven. cr large pan in a moderate own; the beking dishes
--
c 3
Rufter n o n y Cckc
shouid then 5- set in 15-ater.
1 4 cups honep; f cup butter; S egg yolks; 3 cups Soft Iioney Cake
flour; 3 tcaspoons pound cincunon; j teaspoon r d t ; f cup huttcr ; cup honer; egg; f cup sour milk;
14 teaspoons soda; 2 tablespoons plain or orange-flour teaspcon soda ; 4 teaspoou cinnamon ; 3 teaspoon gin-
water; whitu 3 eggs; rcb together honey and butter; ger ; 4 cups flour ; rub buttor and honer together; add
add unbeaten yolks; beat thoroughly; add flour riftad cgg well beaten ;drl sour milk ;add flour with so& and
lritb Einnunon and d t ;add sod.d h l v e d in the mter ; rpim; bake in h U o w p.
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TRAVEL and MISCELLANY
C
MAKING TEE DESERT SAFE highly educated people in the world, printing and selling
H E AMERICAN DESERT is triangdar in form, more books in p r o ~ r ~ i oton the POpdation thrn
T with itr w e edge the Sierra Ncmdn and C ~ c a d e other mrult~'. Many S*
mor~ntains.its mathern edge the Mexican border to a lanflagc~flllmtl~. There
a half-do- or more
85,000 Icelanders in the
p i n t ahout one-third the a e y through Texas. an& its home c0untF' and half that many in wknipcl5 Van-
third edge from c&ew Crrgon to w-cetcrll Texas by a couver, Scattlc and other points in the Xorthwest. Icc-
line n ~ n n i n gthrough Salt La2;r City and Senta Fe. This land is about the size of Kenhtcb. It hss equal suffrage
countrp contains many prosperous cities. ayicultaml and no jails or courts. The last crime on the island nas
districts and minc~,but the localities that have l~-at2r eommittcd more than thirty ?caw q o . I n the matter of
m~pplieaare widely a~pnratedand travel bct~t-ecnthem civil deportrn~ntno land in the world is as nearly ideal
by automobile is 11nsafc n-ithoct a knomlcdgc of ahcre a"ce!n~d-
water can be arcllrcd. Automcbilcs that us2 no rratcr The Iceland pan? in the mcans o f travel, and there
are aantrd on the Dcscrt. is prao:icallv no other way of transporting people or
The ,~orcrnmcntt c s rec?ctJy appropriated ten thons- fha:l back. F@r that reason the i s l a d
and dollars for sp;ir.liling these desert rrgions with is p~eticdlj- and a~propriakl? called "The land of
+nhoards directing thirsty travelIcrs to water. About bridle paths."
a thou5ax:d !o:r~:sllips h n ~ ealreacl? hecn corcred hv these mar not w p p s e . prhapa, that it vim of literdl
s i p s and it is estimated that for $100,00i3 more tile "on- tbst the Lord spoke vhcn he said, "Hast thou
a-hcle trrritory can h coi-cred and sl:ch things as ,lealh entered into the treasure9 of the mow"? (Job 38322)
by thirst %rillbe almost irnpossibie. It is a ~ ~ ~ r p rto i s c It ma? be that this m p r e m t s truths mming in crystal-
. m n y to learn that the famous D c o a lralley of CJif- lized form. Water s?mbolims truth, and s n o d a k e s are
ornia contain9 numerous large ~.?ringg,some of which merel.7' ~ s t a l l i z e drain drops. Homrer. it may also
&&drd exmllent sn.imnling to the pa* that be t-rue that Iceland and other f2r northern m t r i e s
that district u-ith the s i p s abore mentioned. contain great ' t r ~ a s w c sof mineral wealth or possibly
The Prophet mys, "Go through, go through the gates ; even of 0f86'icnltllrd -filth ahen their -v&~P, m e d
prepare ye the way of the people: cast up, c a d up the 115th dacicrs at the time of the flood, gradually become
highmy; gather ont the etonc~;lift up a standard for "Ore and to man. ,
the people." H e also $8~3,."Prepare pe the way of B R I T m ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
the T ~ r c l make
; straight in the r!~=erta highiny for our JPxE,1920, a sk
God". (lzaiah 62 :I0; 40:s) There is an intererticg
analogy het~reenthe signboards in the American Desert, John L. Cope,
1 SGuth pule be
plar e*dition to the
under the lcaderohip of
accompanied the Shackleton e-Tdi-
pointing the thirst? trarrlers to springs of water, a n d ' as surgeon and geolo@st. The object of the evdi-
the "standard for the people," lifted up bv the people u.ill be to the position snd dnt of
of C M "in the ?esertn of human sin a ~ l dfo!l>-. Human- m i n c r a l o ~ c a land other of valne, to
i+ r i l l find i t ~ a f e travelling
r w'!~cnthe way of truth is not, the didribution and miSration of ahales and gen-
pointzd out. erally to estpnd the know-ledge of Antarctica The ex-
pcdition a-ill take along a fairly pon-erful ereless sct to
ICELAXD keep in touch with civilization during ita long stay. I t
CET,AST), like ell other countrics. ha^. ~ufferedgeatly expects to use an airplane in accomplishing the h a 1
I from increasd cost of livirp as a r e d t of the G r x t stages of the trip.
11-ar, hut she has proftcd too. Thc cost of living is more "There is nothing covered that ahall not be revealed"
t\an double what it was four ?cars aCo but the a a r has (JIatthew 10 :2G) The Antarctic continent is now about
taught the pmple lion. to gpt a1m:lt three times as mxch to bc ~ubjectrdto the clo.se?lt scrutiny as to the treasures
for their rcol as fcrnrrlv, for now they have ships it contains for the needy world. Kithout doubt the '
plying in re,plar coxrimcrce bct~vcen Revkjavik and coming erpedition d l lay bare many of its riches,
Ncw Tork. providing s further step in the prrparation of humanity
The people of Iceland, hken as a whole, are the most for enjoyment of the bleesings of the Golden Aga
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SEEING DE ;TROYED FRANCE AIRPLANES AR5 LIKE BOATS
F THE million tourists r h o pbln to visit " ~ i n e d
O F r a n c e " next XaSon, U l l y t h o u ~ l l d rare'desti~ul
d i ~ a p p i n h e n t . A few, perhaps, picture the whole
A
N AIRI'r,ASE is an air h driving through &
t,
air the am as a rubmarine drives through the
-
water. Anything that would retard the speed of l sub-
of France ss a barren ~~~ ; others set only Northern marine in its element, the water, wodd retrrd the rpsqd
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France &US aflastatc(l m d T t to wander for reeks of un airplane in its clement, the air. I n the design of r
u n i M scenes of desolation. boat, every effort ia made to make it glide rrrily md
lxe b t h is that not over ten Per cent of France was naturally through tthe water ;nnglea, projedionq every-
.occupied by the Tcutonq and that of this area not over thing that
a tenth, or one per cent of the whole of the ~ u n t Wya s The moat cconomic~design of an a i r p l m h a ig am
subject to thf! iron h d . As Francc has an area of oom!! that prmit the tucking axay ib stream-lhes
207,129 scluare miles, the de\-atated pa* amounts to of everything exept rings, rudders and propellm, and
; about ?v000 quare miles, strung out along the line of
the time will come yhen the landing wheels of airplanes
the fiont from St\-itzcrland to the X-orth Spa. will be tucked up into the hull during flight, u r g d
Of arts overrun by thc Germans the battlefield of the on the ring tucks up its legs. I n an airplane t r a ~ d h g
Marne is already as well cultivated ns it \!-as brforc the 90 ,aes per hour if one the hand above the wind-
war.; other parts show little trace of war. I t is only in rhield, the =-,=tion is the ur dipping it into &
"Xo 31anJsLand" and adjacent thereto that the farms water from a motor-boat.
and villages are very seriously damaged or destroyed. F~~~ the modern air-tunnel how the of
The villages were originally built of stone. tile and the correct proprtion of airpl.nes. In these m e l a a-
cement, and d be r~bniltthe Eame way. for that is t h e p i m e n b are made rniniahre ahid a-
- age-long ha!~itof the French citizen. But the thrifty dlg existing or COMeivrble kind of
Frenchman will consider well ahich ail1 be worth most watching the bebvior of the in
to him-a restored Propert? or one makillbr a good look- the carrents of the tunncl, and cataloging them, ths
ing ruin for tourists to gaze at, and thus a location for have been discovend which todafs
a thrifty little bit of trade with the Amcricans. machincs stable and airworthy in bad flying weather-
The real damage to France consists of ruined textile ~ ~ ~mankind ~ l lthe ~=iencs of nrvi-
d ~is mdering .
mills, electric plants, machinery factori6, sugar refin- p t i o n of the air; he uw&keth upan
eries, machine &tops.,mines and steel works, whose value ,,.ings of the (pfialma 1~ :3) i, pumitting aor'
totals close to a billion dollars, but whose ruins are race to tate the joys of soiling about in the blue a p l n m
aaj-thing but spectacular. of heaven. It ia said that some kcome rro e n ~ o n r e dof
Tourists that want to see real devastation should the air by the fir& flight t m thcp us ncrrr
have traveled over the wake of some of the armies of c o n h t themsel,.es in other -pationr, though wm&
ancient times when there was nothing but heaps of stone never k indued to go daft a -nd tirnc
for jackals to h o d o\.er and every trace of llfe wtu
obliterated. THE GREATEST STUDY OF B f A m U . .
UNIVERSAL MILZTAR Y TRAINING ERTAINLY no one can oreredimate the value of
c 1
%
people in militarism. They to see the splendid speci- limitcd arc oiir p a e r s of obsewation, 80 inaccurate 0rir
mells of ph!.sical manhood which thc army brings ahjlity to make ~lcductions,t t n t we art really c o h e d
together, they enjoy the uniforms, the marching, the to the information, given us in God'd Word. Aside
military bearing of the officers, the music, the glbhing from what the Bible tells us of man's nature and being
weapons, the visible evidences of strength and force. But there are two main thoughb abroad in Christendom.
there are other things tbt b y e to be taken into con- TVe are sure our readers ail1 be greatly interested in the
&aeration, md some of these u e being considered now. discmion of this subject ahich be* on the next prga
I
RELIGION and PHILOSOPHY
ligAT IS MAN? But if the rererend gentlemen of Denver ari! not
(s =,, t h t mfnd,vl ainterested in looking to the Bible to tind out man'r
01 ~ , m ~ - p , o ~.g:d.
origin, some of the rest of us are. But let ua first glance
RTHODOXP would have us beliere that man is briefly at what legitimate science a us about -,
0 not man at all, but is some kind of a dual being; his
ostensibly human. ostensibly made fit for the earth and
aaul and spirit.
-
sience intorms us that the h- bodp mmposed
its conditions and socieQ but really r sort of ethereal ,.,ten chemical elements. These elementaare not
mnfined b Ln in a nlp- Fdiar b man: for they me loud
be sighing and moaning for the time of his in other realms
&nSive1y
posed ~~t what science tell ua
V e well.
~ S n ~ ~ ane emn is lost about the souJ-that suppsedly elusive geniu pining
a t d e n t ; manifestlv there is no more restraint upon to escap from its body of clay? science kmws nothhg
that part of the mystic subjective self, which is mppowd of mch a being; the most and painstaking dis-
h h? waiting for the Of Dots this &ion of the human -tomy has revded no trace of
@it armor 1% to some !nore blissful sphere?wdting it. On the other hand the testimony of =ienceis all
for the fed of the spirit body to j o b it? Is it laid aside to the e ~ f f thatt consciousness ineepsr,,bb CQ1lOeded
in some celestial service station where "pasta" are kept with organism. ~f a shock, or the ,f hdises
and whole bodies reassembled after death? Or does the the nen.ous mnsciousnesa not on^
new untrammeled arm faithfully dog the steps of its
ershhilc neighboring body ?
,,, but it has ceawd with euch benumbing*
Science tells us that made superior power of ~ n -
-
But, the orthodox tell u, by scatter* the ing + due to his soperior brain. Lower re-
d& man's body is born d k r mannu of mmewbt, .nd it may stated = h e that
ordinsrg generation in animals, God in some unsearch- power to -on is in propofion to the sk finenw
able and inexpIicab1e way implants a q i r i t and associates of the brain h c t u r e . M ~ even in~ h*~ power ~ ~
d with that body at the time of birth Orthodoq to th feel varies ditfmnt stsgeir of his individ-
. ?
;"dl= to distingulh very surely between the spirit dedprnCnt. amt -n ~ t . ~
. .nd the soul; but they ar6 very sure that both are im- than wme of the lower and M~ p'RP
mortal-that 'God himself either does not or cannot to he into a e n i l i ~it -uentl,
terminate the exiRtenca which he started. In later years ,
,
the majoritg. of drthodox bodies have come ta look with low stqe. and
that his ,f rewning lapse back a vq
his organim is deworsting.
mnch more than tolerance upcrn the would be scientiiic ~ , dthe me only epirit science horn about
UIeoxy called evolution. Practically all of the schools of is the spirit or of life. And this life ,i
mence in Europe, which at fist espoused the doctrine depndent upon nourishment, ewn fie in-
of evolution, have long since abandoned it aa being diTidnd cell. ~f nourishment to s tiny cell is cut
founded on insnfficient evidence. But it seems to have t h t ell die, though the life of the organism as
g ~ t t e nwell in6Sined into the @?stems of ecclesiasticism. a whole map persist. On the other hand, after the death
That i t is a real and prcscnt factor in religious circles of the mrdinate &ivitia of the body, life-sins
is plain from a recent item in a Denver newspaper, part for days in individual ce& of the body.
of which we quote : Science lolows nothing of a future date. The few
T h e minlecm of Dearer having rretntlr been thrown wientlets a-ho have dabbled hl Spiritism and who profess
- caocernlng the doctrine of erolntinn, arc now to take a long searches in that field, may be truly scientific along
lnto mlld trcmon orer the reearream of the mntrorenf to belime in a future date on the grounb of their n-
' f' look lnto the past in the h o p of determlnlng where man
13 came from nod ahen ~h~ pmcrnm a m m i t t * ,,i other lmes, but their conclusions in the realm of d t -
- tht Den\-er 3Iinisterl8l Alliancw In.mind by President A.H. ism are born more of desire than of science. The word
C. Y o m , h m scheduled an illwtratd Ilrctare for the meet- wiena comes from boa.~~~~h~~~ by
ing 3fondag on the tople, How Old is Man? It Is cspected
that the tradltloncll Blble ehmnolop). of G a r will bc glvm aenfists, or by other4 are not science, however inter&
n m w h a t serious crimp when the pmposltloa of antl- ing
' aqrurlm - thq- may be. The very most that real aciena can
cavemen par- over the -n and their Perm.1 .bout sp&itiw is that spirits am evidently beings, of
hleory b reeltcd. by the dbtingulshcd Iectartr from
Boulder." an inridble n a b And thia accords perfectly with
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what the Bible has to say on the subjcd, namcly, that elusive "spirit" hovered over or near him. No: man
there are spirit beings of high intelligence, who never stood upright as God's highest linndi\~-orkon earth, ss
were huunan beings, but who, through their disobedience, Jehovah's representative, cnpahle of responding to all the '
are estranged from God and from all holy beings. p'rompt,ings of his Maker. The Scriptures leave w
'
But --hat does the Bible say, then, about the nature of douht whatcver as to man's original perfection. "Bis
man? Its answer not only w een with the best that [God's] work is perfect" (Deutcronomy 32 :4) ; '*God
'
science has to offer, but it goes much further in that it hath made man upright" (Ecclesia&s 7 :29) ;and "God
tells the ori,& and present of man, also his future. saw everything that he had made, and. behold, it was
The words immediately folloaing our text give some very good". (Genesis 1:31) If with Jehovah's perfect
raluable suggestions upon the point of our inquiry. taste and with his perfect ability to have improved upon
"Thou madest him a little lower than the angels," his o m handiwork he still pronounced man "very g d ' ,
estdoli~hesman's relationship to the superior orders of he must have been a glorioua creature indeed. But
creation: angels, seraphim, cherubim, archangels, and though he was a periect being, yct he w a a~ dependent
quite possibly others which inhabit the celestial sphere. creature and God had made every provision for his
Whatever man is, then, he is not an angel, not as high well-being and happiness. H e had provided for his EUS-
in plane of existence as an angel-is not, in fact. a spirit tenance the fruit of certain trees of thc garden, saying,
being a t all, he is "of the earth earthy."-1 Cor. 1; :47. "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely cat:
"And h a d crowned him with glorp and honor." The but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou
referezce here is evidently to the glorp of being endowed ghalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou e a h t
vith the character image of Jehovah (Genesis 1 :26,27), thereof thou shalt surely diey'.-Geneais 2:16,17.
and with the honor of being made lord over all of God's But the sad story is that Adam did diabey and t h w
other creation of earth. Not only was he qt~alificdby brought upon himself death, m d a t the same time
his very superiority of nature to be earth's king, but brousht upon all his posterity imperfection, sorrow, siek-
God definitely "set him over the w o r h of his [Gcd'sl ness, suflcring and death. (Romans 5:12,18,19) There
hands" (Hebrews 2 :7) and "put all things under his has been no perfect human being on earth since Adam's
fectJ'.-Psalm 8 :6. disobedience, our Lord Jesus alone excepted. We dl sin-
hlnn . according to these Scriptures, is an exquisite ned in that one transgeasion and "are come short of the
animal, o r i ~ a l l y ' c r o w n e dwith the glory of character glory of God". Now our glory, like our howledga, .ia
perfection, and' with the honor 6f earthly dominion. fragmentary (1 Corinthians 1 3 :9) but while our original - .
But does not the Bible mention the soul and the spirit? endowment of perfect wisdom, p e r f a t justice, perfect
Quite so; but they in no wise disturb the simple yet love and perfect power is now disarranged and distorted,
glorious picture of man. The eoul is a conscious being, such disarrangement does not affect our nature.
the individuality, the ego; the spirit i~ simply the ani- Adam surely und&,hod what death meant; he could
mating principle, the spark of life. No personality what- hardly bave realized what it would mean in suffering
ever attaches to the spirit. Let us examine the account and distress, for he had never obsen-ed, much less ex-
of man's creation more minutely. We read: "And the perienced, dcath. But he had a perfect mind and h e w
Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and full well that death meant the taking away of those life
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life [Hebrea, the rights and prinleges which he had received not as a
breath of lives, i. e. that breath common to all life] ; and debt, hut as a boon from his Maker, but even if he had
[M a consequence of this action1 man became a living hat1 the slightest uncertainty on this point Jehovah made
soul"'-a pulsating, sentient being.-Genesis 2 :i .. i t plain hen his disobedient son was being driven from
Could anything be simpler? This brief statement Eden? his lovely home: '.In the sweat of thy face shalt
of twenty-seven words tells the ahole story of man's thou eat bread until thou return to the ground ; for out
creation. God formed a hody of earth; he animated that of it vast thou takelr. for dust thou art and 11nto dust
body, and conscious esistence began. But while man is shalt thou return".-Genesis 3 :10.
sublimely and n-onderf~dlymade (Psalm 133 :i-I). in Sclne would her? be ixlined to quote the words of the
that his organism is intricately fashioned nr.d the poct: "'Dust thou art, to dust retameth' was not spolien
actions and reactiolls of his elahoraie nen-ons s ~ e t e : n of t!lc sov.1". Iiut which is worthy of greater crcdcncc,
dcfy accurate calculation, still, there is no m!.stery re- I ~ ~ g f ~ l l or
o uJeho\-ah?
- There is no eRcrt in this text
garding his nature, if the Bible account be folloxcd EIe to distizl-nirh between the cessation of artirities in thc
is a human being, an earthly being, made fit for and ap body autl the cercat~onof conrciousr.e~a. Llscwhcre we
prop?iate to the earth and its arrangements. KO un- are told concerning man: "His breath gcrth forth, he
cmny "soul" crouchcd in him as in a prison cell; no returlleth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts
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perish". (Psalm 146 :4) Furthermore it is the same of life but God. The most skilled physician m o t
#'thou' which would be rcspd~siblefor the transgcsion "Back to itc mansion call the fleeting breath". And M
which was to come uncler the scntcncc of death, in case v;c read just as our ow five senses tell us: "The11 ikall
of disobedience. God deds with the rcspocsible part of the d u d return to the earth rs i t ass [the scve~tccn
m individual: W a n lsolnth on the outward appearnrce elements shall disintegrate] ; and the spirit [enern c;r
but God looket!~on the heart". (1 Samuel 16 :7) Jehovah p w c r of life] shall return to God who p v e it1'.-
certainly knew that Adam's body was not p i n g to walk . Ecclesiutcs le:?.
uound and 40 something without the direction of the A little illustration might h d p to retain the points in
mind. The r a m i c g diR not read: 'In the day that thy mind. llere is s candle; it l a . neither light nor heat.
body eateth thereof thy body ahdl surely die'; but it did e\:' light it with fire and both light and hect are given
read: "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt off. It h3s power, capacity for performance. Its iittle
surely die". Both the warning and the rntcnce rerc Came can he used to light other candles, or it could be
manifestly to the indiridual, the conscious, sentient, the umd to start a very de&wtira conflagration The wax
responsible being as a whole.-Eccleaisstes 3 :20. is gratlually burned up; the flame flickers and dies. Its
'The dust of the ground" is, of couree, merely another poweven to start other flamea, or even to work injuxy, is
way of saying "the'elementa of the earth". Before his gone; it gives forth neither light or heat. So Kith tho
tpnsgression Adam had a perfect mind, a perfect body, creation of man. There was h t the inert and hmsible
'perfect environment, perfect life, a perfect dominion. body of Arlam. The brain and nervous sgstem were there,
H e had all thesc things to keep and to enjoy forever. but incapable of perception or reasoning. Then it in
Death is not a normal thing on earth, any more thaa lighted fmm the torch in God's own hand, and both light
it is eo in heaven. But when Adam sinned he lost at and uprmth, both brilliancy of human wit and warmth
once his krfect dominion and his perfect surroundings. of love are radiated. Thousmds may feel the influence
HM mind and body, through dearth of proper nourish- of that pctsonalitg; had i t not been for sin and the
ment, began to lose their respective sharpness and vigor; aiming scntencc of death that warmth and light could
and the bright flame of life, which had ban started by radiate for dl eternity; but M f s d s now strnd a few
Jehovah's own land, began first to dim, then to flicker, years d i c e to consume thc organism and the individual
m d W y died out altogether. AU his powen returned cemes ta M t e , -sea to radiate any mom thoughts or
t h h i n e r t unconscious state in which they were prior to gin? out tendcr ympthies. The soul is .dead. The
2"'
b hh being ener,gized with life from a divine fouctain. spark cf lifc is under God's control to be given back a t
And what becomes of the soul at death? It simply the re~urr+ion (which is to be brought about by divine
ceases to edst; i t goes just where the b e goes ahen pawer u a d t of Christ's redemptive m i 6 c e ) and
the candle in muffed out; it goes just where the figures the body simply decomposu into its =vend elunents.
go when they are rubbed off the ~~~~~~~d. You may But dou not the apostle aap something about being
retain a memory of them; the results of the figuring 'deliyered from thir body of flesh'? And does he not
ma-jke lasting eTen after the figures themselves a& gone. also mention about om-'outward mas perishing, but
Even so, some bfluential souls, "departing, leave behind our inward msn being renewed dry by day'? Yes, but
them footpricts on the sands of time". And do not the the ape-de aas a member af the new creation; and that
Scriptures speak of a resurrection and does not that is another stoq. Uuch of the confusion on the subject
imply that something is dive somewhere? Certainly the of man's nature has cnme from applying Scriptures to
Scriptures spcak of a resurrection ; but why a resur- man which u e intended to apply only to the church of
redion if the individual is already dire wmeu.herz? tho Gospel age, which in admittedly in a transitory
Evidently there is some b d of a record kept of each state. To umder6tand the Bible at all, it is essential
indiedual child of Adan, that his bdividurlity Ixay br that r e "rightly diede the word of truth".
reproduced in God's due time, that he may be rccre3t.d Ifen originally created perfcct, became a sinner, for-
with the same identity, and givcn a body, for thcre csu fcited his life and brought sickness w d death upon all
be no conscious existence ~ i t h o u tan organism. 1311t a of his offspring. J e - . s prorided redemption for man-
record of a s o d or being is a vastly differect thizg from kind through his death and resurrection. "By the grace
having that soul or being alive soine~here. of God he tasted death for erery man," and this fact
Where 2oes the epkit or animating principle go at mu& be. "testified to a l l in due time". (Hebrews 2 :9-1;
death? It simply returns to it3 Giver. Cp ?-I tl:, point 1 Timothy 2:3-6) In Gods "due time" the blessing of
of death the possessor of life can retain his life and being restored to human M e d i a n Kill be offered to all
pus it on to others by process of procreation, bu; as aocn mankind. The Bible designates mch ss "the time of
ae death has ensued no one has control of that m-e restoration" or rr-constxuction mod-the Goldan
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T h Gob Age for ~ov&
after the strike order waa i m e d the
12, 1919
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Some Bible students have thought that the text,'"then
hV-ent took a hand and Secretary Wilson of the shall not be a coal to aum at, nor a fire to sit before if'
'Department of Labor, summoned the operators and (Isaiah 47:14) teaches that the great time of trouble
tepreeentati~esof the miners to meet him in Washington. spoken of by our Lord, aa the "grat tribulation, such
The p a t e s t determination to make no concemiona wad re w u not since the beginning of the world" would be
manifested on both sidea. ushered in by a great coal strike.
Edimatea u to the n& of miners that would be Examining the pr~sageciQd we do not #e it that
rffeded by the .strike ranged dl the way from 225,000 to my. The prophet seema to be describing the f i e referrad
800,000 men,. the assumption in latter caee m m t l y to by President Wilean when he said "the world i b on -
judging that a strike in the Central District would hevit- fire", m d conveys the thought that the bre in question is
ably be carried into other Districts It ia not thought not literal fire, 'hot a coal to a a n n at'', not that kind of
th.t the Anthracite District will be affected, aa supple- a Are, but a symbolic4 fire, "the fire of God's jealousg."
mental agreements have been made carrying current (Zephaniah 3:8) How carelea we were not to notice
rgreementa over to April lst., 1920. that the literal "earth abideth forever."-EcclrsiastPs 1:4.
The miners dated they believe that all of their demanda
can be readily granted without any incrersa in the price FOREIGN COAL SITUATION
of coaL On the other hand Senator Frelinghuysen hss
dated that the demands, if granted, will cost consumers
over a billion d o h s per year. In any event there ia said
T HE BITUMINOUS d cituadon in this country
a n n o t be fully understood without a consideration
of the eitution abroad. There little or no coal in
to be less than a month's coal on hand and a Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, ItaIj,~Switzerland
protracted strike at this time would cause a complete and the Balhna. Bitherto t h m conntriea Nve been
8 t o p p ~ eof all traffic and industry. The stack of supplied by England, Germany and Belgium. Large
held by the railroads a t this time is verJ limited. SO quantities hare req- by Fraag Spain and
great is the importsnce of the bituminous coal output Austria, which consume more than they cm produce.
the industries of the country that the mount produced Due to labor troubles, Britain's annual production has
hre doubled within the past ten years. ehrunk from 287,412,000 tons to 214,000,000. This
There are doubtless great profits in the coal businesa means that instead of having 75,000,000 tons to export
at this time and presumably the miners know this and she can erport only 15,000,000 tons. The whole of
wish to enjoy a share of them. They claim that they Europe is erpecting thst the United Staten will make up
u e not Bolshevists but are seeking to effect some kind thia deficiency of 60,000,000 tons and a further shortage
of arrangement by which they can be guaranteed perms- of 21,000,000 tons due to smaller out'puts of Belgium
nent employment as long aa they are able to work and and G e k y . It would require %0,800 men digging
thereafter a reasonable living for themselves and those coal at top speed for a year to produce the shortage of
dependent upon them. These are not unreasonable aims. coal that will be experiend in Europe this year and
The miners are probably ,?pathetic with' the stsel this coal can come from the United States only. To
~trikersand trying to help them to w i n carry thin coal would require 1,620,000 care of 50 tam
' The operators are said to be considering the umal each. Pvis is destitute of d re we write.
plan of having the public pay for the strike, and pay a Many factars complicate the situation. The ship
good round interest on it, if the strike is mocessful. owners of Norway, Sweden, Denma& Holland in-
They think that if less coal is produced it will be bid for stead of carrying cod to Nomy, Sweden, Denmark and
at prices which rill cover all posible differences in cost ~ ~ l l have ~ ~ d , to have their &ps csq
of production. If the ,.trike is protracted, pneumonia to south beria or other places from which return
and influenza are likely to follow the scarcity in fuel p
, and greaterprofib could be o,,toined. They have
m d distress snd hunger affect all clasaea
preferred that the leas profitable budnew ahodd be
Under the Lever A d a war measure to prohibit inter- -ed in uncleSam',, nea mCTchant while
ference with production and dstribution of d in war they re,p the of the more des*le corm and
time, were =joined from striking ulder d&inatiom, Shipments from E n g b d hove betn im-
penalty for c o n s ~ i r s c ~Howam,
. the *e w u inangu- peded, ves&y sometimes at anchor three to four
rated on November lst, the miners mode leaderless by before they can get a ~h~ prk obbine. for
the injunction which pardized m y p s i b l e direction of the -1 rang- from $30 and $32 p a ton at Baltic @
the coal workers. toWpertoninItaly.
Ihe Golden Age for Nwmber I 2, 1919 I01
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LABOR CONFERENCE FAXLURE BY ~ m H 1 1 . m Collective bargaining is the rock on which the recent
HE U S E of Labor Unionism in E n g h d and the Industrial Conference in Wsahington split and went to
T United Stated d a b from' 1830. I n the United pie- This Conference, and the reduction of prima of '
S t a h Charles A. Dana, Wendell Phillip, Wm. Lloyd food and other n d t i e s were depended upon ta avert
Garriaon, Bobert Owen and Albert Brigbane were aome the threatened coal strike and railroad strike ~ n ifd the
of- its advocates. Horace Oreeley opened the New Fork passlge of rd of Con- now pending, cm not stop
T d w n to ita diacuesion. them, the serious reaulta to follow any one can oee.
The rapid development of machinery in frat obliter- Capital and Labar stand now mnch in the relative
ating the line betwen skihed and unskilled Wea and position that the Central P o r n and the Alliea did in
8 large ahan of the funds of the uniom are devoted to J d y 1 9 1 4 Each a b e d to dominate the other d d con-
the organizing of the lower f o m of unskilled labor M sequently the World-Autocracy against theoretic Dem-
in the ase of the unskilled laborers of the S M Truut ocracy. All f a r a a i n g men concluded that in a fight to
recently. To defeat the aima of the u n i m the Steel the finish between them the result would be about what
k t has admitted ita skilled operativeo to a smnU share it has been; practically half of the world was destroyed
in ib earnings and a few docks have, been allotted to and now, in 1919, Capital and Labor stand facing each
them and a pension eystem introduced. other in the same way and far-seeing men conclude that
Cooperative industria in come af the in&yidd ne- if the thnatened k h t ta a finish talces place the remain-
amities and in food distribution is a feature of English ing hslf of the world d be destroyed.
trade unionism m d the capital invested in them approx- A gigantic blow by Labor is threatened; the Illinois
irhates $100,000,000. Federation of Ubor hes voted for one big Union of all
There is a decidedly political aspect to Trade-Union- workern in Canada and the United States, and orgmlzed
h, although in America that feature has been d i e labor plans to join forom with the farmers.
.etrous to ite promoters, M capital and employers here Capital sap if the %ht must come it might as well
retab corps of skilled politicians that on able to outwit come now, and labor says the same, Is there not a better
any that the labor unions can employ, besides the vast way? Vice-President Marshall points it out in the fol-
mum of money that the former have always at their lowing, according to the Boston American:
~lllmuld "Just fm long M capital and labor stand and glare nt encll
In England howe=, elm prejn& is 80 &ong that other, w e may ererlastlng turmoll nnd n nation-n ide
tho& who d e r from the rigid caste and low wages
T h e Congrecll of the United States 18 a klnd of doctor
the bvia of the franchk
the prope*
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easier welded token= into 8 Imheahe force, dthoagh tbt tRats rrymptoms md doesn't trmt diseclse.
nrrmWW mom ' % Ieglslatin mmedy that 1 know.oi can be fooacl to
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than here; the Lrbar prodarc peace and quietude and gbod order-unless the
which wa8 organized in 1906 deb more thsn 50 msauhetarers see somrthlng more in business than dl,{-
members af Parliament out of 670. den& m d look upon the employe8 M brothen in the
me p d i c a l of the union the Repnbll" and not an eags In the machlne or a8 numbers on
in the Com0n8 the LUbor f
az:nlesa the 1nbortn.g m m have some higher i n e n t i n
m, With the aid of
pendedt lobar members, by Ma,
fadions inde ta do thelr work than the men wage trhich comes from the
toold the doing of i t ; if they put in thelr t h e finding how little they
brl.nca of power and some times ahape leghtiap. can do nnd haw mnch more they a n ,
* for the dolns of It,
me goalof meUnionism to bring -der ib It-. "It la hopeless from their standpoint.
b no part of government to boost one man nnd ta
burner prsdidy the workerq ht its battle line
boot another.
in the united states is OW collective b a r g h b g ; the 1s hopel- the mad wpaasiom of men are to hammer
m g n i x d right to adjust and other conditiOm of a t legY1atlve hall8 for their llnd and just settlemenrs.
labor in all industries, w n g h an agent of the anion, A government of d i s m t i o n a i c a
not in the h a of that particular employer rith whom T h e only government In businen6 ltie that can hope to
the b@ is made. In England the main point w e d Uve la a government of 10- and m m m l o n -
for now, &dea the raising of .nd & h o r n g "What the economic Ilia of America n e d a I. not a law-
6f horn, is the nationalizing of the coal In ~ ~ ~ ~
mbapU.l ~
of npVIo.m ~ ~
America, in North Dakota, an organization of the work- It hd war wtrlotism~
m, including the farme* hen ~ P the M state goV-- ' m e r e n e m will ba perfect jrrstla in the world until
ment, and this movement s p r d g to other s t a h m y the llon and the lamb lie down together. and not. as they
next pear be formidable. Q now, wltb t b lamb b i & o t the Uoa.
Ihc Gulden Age for Nawnber
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r02 12, 19x9
"3- n.r need 1h l y of dtttcnr rho am content tb dogged by the kinp of today. The State C o w k b u I q
de 8 d y ' s WO* for 8 W S v;r h o Wllag to p8f 8 of P a u q h n i . furnishes one instram of this kind of
@@s mge f o ~8 4 4 ' s work: who bellem mom In tho mrk A oorpad of the Unittd States f o m in Sibcria
enar.modth..i.tb.luprlsbL
ahatberorHbrt.a,buslnmradralthh.nh.dno
wad remltly beaten ~ ~ C o s w c kof8 the avist troclps of
ga& opportuaiQ fbr tba dnpl of tB Lord to a t e their Busub-abettrd, if not aided, by the Japme*. Con-
DMC~ & mn Id& that of dboo Ben Adhem as t h y ham riderable hubbub has been rained, and properly, over t1.d
fert n w . &air. It M an oukrge. But mounted C o s ~ k of s
trumpet call of condena 1s not only tn UI# meek Westarn Pmnqlvmia, togeder with '*thugu, gmgdeq,
a d lar)l, h t to ths high and mighty. rod wbtn dlrtde& m d dstectiva," hrre bmtally beaten up and diqutsccl
td w y a am meam~mbtlforgotten In the I m of =mi-
t.r ear CbrMtrn aMtrf.u them 1. my bop l t .n. p u - peaceable group of stoel &&err with$ the Iad f e n
don, prmonlt prtfement and personal s u m om ail k reeks. The public pnss ia rlmost silent on the subject,
pat la the kckgmund sad the capitalist and the laborer except to say that it wrs 5 ' 1- ta " p m n t n p a z
mast mdlm that the ccmsnrncr 1s r1.w entitled to admisloa sible disorder17 manifestations. No officid has any
lnto tbe broth-. rod basinos muat be prlmarlly for authority to command anyone to act con- to law.
tbe le..a( pnmMhg 8 rontefated and happy m l e .
Yblrl&ndr and wages muat ba memadam. Tbla la r Furthermore, from the standpoint of his tor^, violent
problem for rlntlon by mca who k h m e la the fatbcrheod treatment of defenseless mlluM in both foolish and
af God and the brothrhoad of man. futile. It dirplaya M jpeat an ignorana .of the real
*It a l l r on wry man of everJ creed to mlve It: not for value of thinga M the poor old king r h o thought he
one pcrson: not for one dm: but la the lntersts of the ms mutcr of the ser Instead of demonstrating hi3
whole pcoptc. power, it demonstrated his weahmess, for that which he
"It Is net to k I ~ i ~ p cthat
d ?roan ngnin the Yrurene shalr chose to lobk upon as an adront wrs merely the out-
walk tbrnn(rb deld and fnctnr?. through pnlece 80d bovel, working of certain reany powerful and natural i d u -
lemvln~&bind Him everywhere t k onIy solotioa for e m r ~
mt prnblem, the buiing Indueno of Hlr golden rulc enccs which the king ronld have done well to &vestigate
Y am In favor of n n j sllcrlati~qmemnum for the Unre m d ~mderstand.
t b t ronld adjust t h m tronhltc~,but I ham no canddence We suspect that fear plays a large part in these aber-
In tbc proposed eettlemmt of thea dimcultin This onem rationd of j~istice. The merits of the stal workern'
na n t r mhtloq rnd I only say it In the h o p that men of
strike hare absolutely nothing to do with the mattcr.
e?ery crscd may ml?= how intik ban bnn o m theology.
t b m we hme imagined that m cnuld go to church aa The Constnbilla~are afraid something might hoppen
Sawlay and lore Cbd whom we hrrr not skn. rithout the to sM rioting m d they might get h*. The higher
rat of thc week lerlng out fellom-men whom we knee wen." officials are afraid they might lose some of their prestige
with the great and influential, unless t 4 y make a show
FZOGCWC THE SEI of force. And so it goes d along thz line.
GES AGO, when tbe king buslnesr was more flour- -- Those who hare talien upon then!mlveu the renpons-
A iahiq than at present, one Pmian monarch IO f u ihility of public office in theee days have no easy t d ;
fargot himself as t4 hare the sca flogged when i t a r - that must be remembered: B u t they often do the verp
Imked the sacial amenities of hia realm rcd showed more thing which makes their position most dScult. For
dderenca to the moon than it did to the king's .wishes. men to parade around or assemble in meetings could do
The tide rose and wet the ropd feet. The royal mew no harm. On the contrary it r o d d give outlet to their
roce futer than the tide, and the poor tea WM punished restiveness; and after a few hours tho men would g . ~
u conuquence. Who was there that dared to question home tifed md peaceful. This plan was followed in Xea
the d h k of the Iring's commands :who dared even think Tork severd years ago rhen I. W. Ws.' paraded on Fifth
tM his conduct rrs pnenle, childish, infintile? No Avenna Thq were not interfend with, and not the
doubt there was much dutiful &ort at looking approval. slightest trouble resulted. Before the parade fhe police
For W M not the kmg the king? Rss he not the vested commissioner WM besitged with dernmda from white-
i n M of the w a n e ; rm he not the- established f a d enthasirstr and p r o f e s s i d patrioteen to inter-
h k i k t i m s af tbe land? Bcridcr, them rruy hare been fere with the prooecdings. The comrnisaioner's course
mme Bolaberik am scrpent or I. W. W. eel hidden in of declining to interfere with the tide proved to be tbe
thee audreioua m e a ; md would not tlut possibility wise one; for in a few hours the tide receded of itself,
justify, -yw, render glorious m d patriotic r h r t othcrrim l u ~ i n gno jetsam of broken heads or bloody uniform.
might look like futility and f o o h e m ~ ? Row happy the time rhen neither animals nor men
The mrId has not changed much s i n e then. The "shall hurt or destrof and rhen "none &dl make
restless, turbulent mresss of h d i y are rN1 being them afraid".-Isaiah 11:9 ;11 :2.
r 02 Ihr @kkn Age for bhmber 12, 19x9
"Just new w need a bo@ of dtlrW who am content to flogged 6; the ldnp of today. The State C d b u G r r J
a d y ' s work for a W s -: r b o m ntlllng to pf a of Pamqhmtk furPiehes one instance of thin kind nf
QS'8 warn f w 8 64's m t k : W& b l h ram h th@ w o t t A corporal of the United Strtea form in Sibcrir
um-.6maUlmL.tlrkrpllad
wsd recaatly beaten by ~C& 0.2 the czarist troops of
~~natber#Mbclpa.FnslPaurdrdthh.rehrda
epportw11Q nDr t h An@ of Ua b r d to rrlm tLcL Bu-betted, if not aided, by the Japanee. Can-
nuues down M& that of AboU Ben Adhem as ther riderable hubbub hm ken r a i d , and pmparly, owe tlrd
nm. Ibrir. It ma an oatrage. But mounted Cossacks of
'The trumpet calI of c o d e n c s is not only ta the mnlt Western Pmqlvrmia, together with "thugs, gmgskfi:;,
a d m,)at to the h i m and mighty. and w k a dlddenh m d detectiver," h n e bmtrlly beaten np and disprrse[l
td wags am mmsurab?y f a ~ ~ p t t cin n tbe love of aerrlcs p d l e gwnps of eke1 H e r r Kitbih the last fen
i.rearCbrtrt).n~pgpfv,ii~j.~ho~sat.U.~..c
don, m o l l preferment and peraonal s u c c s l ohmst all k weelrs. The public pms is almost silent on the subject,
pnt In the kcl;iround and the cnpitallst and tbe laborer exapt to ray that it ru, Unecesmf' ta "pment" pow
must nallu that the consumer 18 81230 entitled to admtsloo iiible disorderly &ifeatrtions. No o6cia3 has any
tnto tbe brotherhood, and baslncss mast be prlmsrlly for authoriq to command anyone to act to law.
tlre iarr of pmmotbg a contchtcd and happy people.
UDfrl&adr and r a g e s 6 U S t b B f i d ~ W . mb b 8
Furthermore, from the stsadpoint of history, violent
m i e m for soluttaa wa ah6 blim In the fatherhood treatment of defenseless mrsses h both foolish and
a t Ced and the brotherhood af mas. futile. It display8 .a great an ignormtce of the real
"It crllr on every man of ere- creed to WIW It: not for value of things aa the poor old king who thought he
one person; not for o w d w ; but In the interests of the w u master of the u s Instead of demonstrating hi3
*le pea@+ power, it demonstrated his wealmess, for that which he
"It is net to be Iltvped thnt soon mgln the Xmurene shalf chose to l&k upon IM an a e o n t WM m e w the out-
wmlk thmugh field and factory, through pnlacc lrrd horel.
working of certain reall? powerful and natural i d u -
h m v l n ~behind Him tnr>'lrbere the m ? y mtotioa for every
m t prnblem. the h a l i n g Iodumce of H b golden tulc e n a s which the king would have done well to investigate
" Iam In itlror of any rllcviatia# nrcrsom for tbe time and ~ m d e r h d .
that ronld adju* theae troohlca. but I have no canadenre Ve suspect that fear plars a large part in these aber-
in th@ proposed settlement of theae dintculticlr Thls offem rationd ot justice. The merits of the ntet workers'
no new solution, and I only say It In the hope that men of strike have abwlutelg nothing to do with the mattcr.
m r j ersrd may mlYm how futile h been o m tbwlogy,
r k n at bmr Imagined that as muld fo to church aa The Constnbulaq are afraid mmething might happen
Lloday and laic God whom we haw not seen. ~ I t h o u tthe to start rioting and the? might get h$. The higher
re#~tof the m!ek larln# our fellonmen whom we Iia-e mn." officido are afraid they might lose some of their prestige
with the great .ad inflientid, unIess t 4 y make r show
pu)GGLNC THE SEA of force.. And ra it goea a l l along thz line.
GES AGO, when the king b u s i n e ~was more flour- Those who hare taken upon therhselva the respons-
A than at present, one Persian rnonuch rn far
furgot hi&& aa to hare the ses flogged when it a r -
ihility of public o& in these days have no easy task ;
that must be remembered: But they often do the verp
1eoi;ed the aecial arnenitia of his realm md showed more thing which d i e s their position mast difficult. For
deference to the moan than it dfd td the king'g's,rishes. men to parade uomd or assemble in meetings could do
The tide rase and vet the royal feet. The r o p l anger no harm. On the contrary it would give outlet to their
rose trstn than the tide, and the poor eea a m punish4 restiveness; and after a few hours the men would g7
u r conatqumoc. Who w s l thve that dared to question home tired and peaceful. This plan raa fallowed in Sea
the ehies if the Iring's cammaads :who dared even think Tork several gars ago when I. W. W.'s p a d t d on Fifth
that hiir,vmadn~tras puerile, childish, infantile? NO Avenna They wen not interfered with, and not the
doubt there van much dutiful &ort at Imking approvd. alighted trouble resulted. Before the parade €he police
For vm not thc hng the king? Ras he not the vested commissioner was besieged with demur& from white-
inttreata of the country; was he not the established faced enthasiasta and professional patrioteers to inttr-
M t u t i a o r of tbe land ? B c d a , them M J hare been fere with tbc proceedings. The commissioner's course
same B0hBerik4.acasermnt or I. W. W. d hidden in of declining t6 i n k r f m with the tide proved to be tbe-
W a a audacious m e s ; m d would not tb.t pomibility wise om; for in a few h o r n the .tide receded af itaclf,
jurtif~,yes, xender glorious and patriotic whrt o h e m i s laying no jetsam of breken heads or bloody uniformn.
might look like futility and fwbhnese? How bappy the time when neither animals nor men
The m r l d hm not changed much sine then. The "shall hart or destroy" and when '%one &all ma*
restleas, turbulent mreses of humanity u e s t i l l being them afraid".-Isaiah 11:D ;11 :2.
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ceptiblc of change into,nor can they be produced from, The reward for "mitching" (taftling to a guard) or
other fnmilies or kinds. Though each of these m a y "stool-pigconing" (helping to lay a trap for a fellow-
attain to the perfection of its own fixed nature, the prisoner) is to get cut with a safety razor bIade from
Creator's desi,~ as to nature having been attained the opening of the ear to the comer of the mouth. Such
further change in this respect is impossible. a man is marked for life, and there are many mch in
It is claimed that the orighal plants and animals, prison. 13etrega.l of a fellow-prisoner ' h t h no forgive-
from w5ich present fixed varieties came, became extinct n&.
before the creation of man. Skeletons and fossils of In a s e m aII men, since the fill of our first parents in
animals and plants which do not now exist, found deep the Garden of Eden, are convicts, outcasts, waiting br
below the e&s surface, favor this theory. This view the time when the curse shall be no more. T h d God
neither ignores nor rejeds the Bible teaching that man that time is coming. Then there will be no prisons, nor
was a direct and perfect creation, made in the menw need for any. "God himself will be with them [with
and moral image of hia Maker. The account in thc men here upon earth, in the new order of things], and
Scriptures is esplicit : bq their God. And there shall be no mom curse. There
",Qnd God said, Let us make man in our image, after shall be no night there."-Revelation 21 :3 ;22 :3, 5.
o m likeness: and let them have dominion over the fbh
of the em,and over the fowl of the air, and over the HOW AUTOMOBiZES TAKE Ta6 PEOPLE OFF
' cattle, and over a l l the earth, and over every creeping
thing that &eepeth upon the earth. So God created
mnn in his own image, in the image of God created he
B ENEFITS of $7,500 were paid afterJa salesman
had stopped at a garage to h f l a k one of the
tires of hia crrr. He evidently got too much pressure;
him ;male and female created he them."-Crc:~. I :?C, 2:.
the rim blew off the wheel, struck him in the head and
trsctnred hia skull. The heim of a New Jersey A r k
BROTHERL Y LOVE IN PRISOLV recei~ed$4,500 because he tried to help his wife drive ;
THE REAL NATUPcE of men ahincs out n-hen they
are in prison. .W are on a common level; the d e u
are sewre and life is hard, but it is surprising under
the car went o v a an erdbanlnnent into a lake, and three
wen droned. A Deputy SherifZ of Atlanta left an
insurance estate of .$2,625 when the front wheel col-
the.% unfavoraLle cocditions to see how much of brother- lapsed and the car turned turtle. The survivors of a
ly interest is manifested toward those who are most 63-year old lumber broker of received $7,500
~kfotturmte. There is no place where a sick man, a after he had been 6ut driving with hin wife; while
blind man or a cripplc is treated more considerately by crossing a narrow bridge over a deep ravine, the machine
his fellows than in prison, and this speaks well for swerved, broke the rail and dropped to the bottom of
human kind. One of the first h v e r i e a a prisoner the gorge. 5
makes is that tho majoriq of the men in prison are like Another amonat of $7,500 w e n t . t ~the wife of a man
the majoritp ollt of it, and that there is no great difIer-
driving home; at a strwt crowing he noticed hie
ence. Bad men are just naughty boys who got caught; daughter on one side and started to cross over at a speed
but it sometimes happens that men are imprisoned who
of only fifteen miles, to give her a ride home, but failed
are not bad at dl.
to notice that the car was headed for a water trough in
The governor of Ncw Tork State has just released a
the middle of the road: he tried to steer away but the
prisoner, a former lahyer, who blinded himself in an
right side of his car struck the water-tank and the force
attempt to commit suicide. 'Xhile he %.as in prison his
of the blow threw his head forward against the steering
attendants and fellow-prisoners taught him the touch
wheel and fractured hie skull, In New York a tire and
qStem of typewriting, and he now goee forth in -the
rim burst from an automobile and pieas of the rim
brave hoge of picking up again the threada of life which
seriously injured taro men about the head and neck and
he once b p e d to snap completely asunder.
crashed through a drug store window nuu the soda
m e there is generally goodhartedness among
fountain causing eeveral women to faint.
prisoners they also have a very definite code oi honor.
The reward for trespassing upon the rights ?f another Accidents are so common nowadays that it is ditEicult
prisoner is qually a .sudden black eye from an onlooking to imagine conditions goon to prevail in the Golden Age
inmate and a-brief period of unconsciousness on a stone when all accidents will be f o r e . and preventad; for
floor. The one who bestows the reward, howeyer, gets it is dirinely predicted that "they shall not hurt [my-
ten or etteen days in the dungeon or '%bull pen", and has one] nor destroy [cause death] in & my [God's] holy
m equal period added to the time which he must sene. mountain [kingdom] ."- IEW 11 :9.
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BOILER WATER TREA TMENT question of nater treatment is one in which the cmplop-
F YOU COVER a steam pipe with asbestos, magnesia, ment of chemicnl and engineering knowledge is bcth
I or other heat-insulating material, you keep the heat absolutely necessary and highly profitable, and it vou?.
in the steam ; if gdu l:nr or coat a hller tube with scale be far aiser to omit d l forms of nater treatme~t.(in-
o r other heat-insulating material, you keep the heat out volving the use of chcmicnls) rather than to uuciertake
of the boiler aater, and send it to the stack. By lagging such aithout knoning accuratel~thccomposition of the
your pipes you save fuel easily. By lining your tubes water and of the material uscd to soften it. It is most
with s d e you waste it continuously and needlessly. important to remcrnber that the quality of the nater,
All natural waters contain more or less of this hest: even hhen secured from the same aource, varies widely
insulating material. partly as suspended matter sraci: from tin~cto time. .A condition of excessive concen-
as clay, fine sand, i::soluble forms of iron, aluminum, tration of nater after a protracted drought map be
ctc. which generally may be removed by filteration, and changed within an hour to a corresponding excessive
partly aa dissolved matter, such as compoundv of cd- dilution by a summer stom. The result would be to
citun. magnesium, sodium, potssium, and other mineral decrease enormously the perccntsge of dissolved matter
dtk. and to i n c r ~ w probably
, to a much greater degree, the
I n the &sc of a l~oilertube covered with a dense amount of suspcsnded matter.
scale the only way to maintain a constant flow of heat As a consequence, a prescribed treatment of the water
from the furnace to the boiler water in to increase the based on its analysis at any particular time might not
"heat pressure," so to speak; that is, to burn more fucl. lead to satisfactory results if applied at another time.
With a drposit of 1-9 inch of scale, 16 ccllts of every .As an instance of the serious dangzr of an unintel-
dollnr paid for coal is lost. The low is euily preve~tcd ligent "dosing" of boiler waters may be cited the results
and the trilv.mtages of soft water abundantly justify of a long series of investigationr which have, apparently,
all erpcnditure necessarp to secure it. shonm that carbonate of soda in solution produces brit-
Facts mlIectcd by the Government show thnt a tlenes in boiler steel. Cnrhnatc of soda (soda ash) is
cruclble steel company, by substitut~ngsoft for hard used in most water-treating processes and its unintd-
water, effcckd a saving of $22,000 per annum in ita c a d ligent use may r e d y lead to a very.. dangerous con-
biU. Another steel company reported a saving of $30,000 dition in a boiler.
from the softening of its boiler water. A marble Boiler compounds afford a mry e s f u l means of boder-
company reported a saving of 21 per cent of its fuel by water treatment in plants whose size or value of output
softening its boiler water. Othcr companies reported would not justify the use-of a more expensive method
profits resulting direcffy from the substitution of soft This would be true of a large percentage of the plants --
for hard aater varying from 32 per cent to 7 1 per cent. of the country.
The Chicago and Rorthmestern 'Railroad Company, I n spite of 3 great variety of trade names a very Iarge
comparing its operating expenses in 1902-1903, before percentage of nll boiler compounds consist most largely
and after softexiing its nater supply, reported a saving of carbonate of soda, to nhich caustic soda is sometimes
of $75,000 per annum. At present prices of coal this added, and occnsiondy phosphate of soda. Starchy
eaving would be twice that amount. It is estimated materials, and those contabing tannin are frequent
that thc'beirse of hard water in the locomotive boilers of ingredients. Thc supposed effect of these last two
the c ~ u n t r y involves the annual c&munption of materials is to coat the particles of precipitated incrust-
15,000,000 tons of cod more than would be needed were ing material and prevent its cohesion into compact scale.
soft water exclusively used. The chief disadvantage, assuming that they are used
The methqds expploged in softening water are divided intelligently, is the necessity of frequently blowing down
into two cl&ses; those in which the d e - f o r m i n g the boiler to prevent the accumulation of "sludga' and
property is r h o v e d before the water enters the boiler, of alkaline (mdium) salts in the. water, both of which
and those in nhich the softening is effwted thin the c w foaming.
~ Furthermore, this blowing down must
boiler itself by means of boiler cornpounda be supplemented by washing out, and occasionally clos-
I t can not be too strongly emphasized that this ing down the boiler to complete the removal of the
sludge and of the boiler compound i W . Judge and of the boiler compound itself.
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b e v c r competent superviaion of boiler-water treat- lime is used in the tank, the soda compound being
ment is available within the plint organhtian, it in secured from the zeolite. The filter ir placed between
preferable to soften the water before it enters the boiler, the tank and the zeolite softener to avoid any aludge
and this xrnr3t be done when the pensent* of scale- coating the permutit particla and m im-p8ir itr
forming ingdienta is high. dciency.
The removal of de-forming components from water No proceea of water ooftening ir n t i s f a c t o ~Pnlerr
by chemical means, whether before or after entering the the amount of mpended matter ir reduced to a min-
boiler, is accomplished by converting the calcium and imum. I n the cane of very finely divided matter this
msgneainm compounds into practically insoluble forms, m a y be done by adding d e d --Om; for
canning them to separate from the water and allowing example-but t h e should be uaed with extreme caution
the material to be removed by blowing down, filtering or and always under expert direction. Ordiunrily, though,
m&timu by settling. auch suepended matter ir removed by of which
There are in m e n t use in power plants practically the sand iilter with a down flow of the water b the mod
only one lime-eoda procese, of which there are two eatisfactory type. They ue not e+ve either in
varieties difieriq chiefly in the temperature of the original or maintenance &.
water when treated. The treatment coneista of adding The parpose d the xwthodp dercrikd above ir to
to the "raw-" water softening agent0 in carefully con- prevent the formation of ocale. Thars i a mother cleu
trolled amount, according to the composition of the of water-trerting material naed -1 to m o v e &.
water, mixing these thoroughly with the water, and Graphite and kerosene are most often used for these
e t i n , ~ snf6cient time to elapse for the +paration purposes. Their action aems entirely mechanical.
of the "eladge'' before the water ia fed to the boiler. In Opinioa as to the desirability of their use vary from
the case of the '%ot-continuous" prooese thia s e p d o n enthusiastic commendation to rbaolute condemnation,
is efEected more rapidly, though it admits of less s o
tw though their uiie seems generally approved by practical
cdpwi* than in the case of the "coldcontinnod'. men. Neither ahould be used, however, in boilers in
Another advantage of the hot procesa ia that it q e l a which there is already a heavy deposit of d e , or the
the air horn the water and so reducea the corrosion loosening of this and its accumulation in the bottom of
The zeolite process is entirely unlike the prmmes the boiler is apt to lead to blistering and bagged boiler
described above and, unlike them, g v e s a water of zero metal. Both graphite and keroeene &odd be used v e q
hardness. The softening agent is an d c i a l material cautioudy. Keroeene, if used in excerrive qwtitg, i,
composed largely of sodium compounds, which are ex- apt to distil over and attack gaskets
changed for the d e forming material of the water; The healing of bitter vatera by phg nomething
that is, the water diasolvea sodium compounds from the into them to remove their injuriobs dect happened at
softener and replaces it by the calcium and magnejium least thrice in Bible timea One instance of thb we
which hod caused the hardness of the water. The hard have vhen the lsarlites in the d d e r n w "codd not
water simply flows over the permutit packed in a drink of the waters of Mnrah because they were bitter"
cylinder or is forced up through it and flows from it and Moses "cried unto the Lord; and the Lurd showF6
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with all scale-forming material removed. After a time him a tree, which when he hsd cast into the waters, the
the softener must be regenerated by allowing a oolution waters were made meek" (Exodus 15:23, 25) Another
d salt to Bow over it, restoring its original mrnposition instance is where Elisha healed the waters of Jericho
and activity. by casting salt into the spring (3 Kings 3:19:22) and
The construction and operation of this eoftening a third instance is where he healed the p o d pottage.-
equipment is ertremely simple. On the other hand, in 2 King8 4 : 3 w
the -%of water of a high degree of temporary or The tree csst into the waters of Marah reprea&s tha
csrb0na.b hardnees there is a eompondmgly large croaa of Christ,able now to make dl oru bitter erper-
amount of oodium ealta introduced into the water w
iencea meet, and able in the dawning age to give the
+t -f M liable to occur (m is liable to occur
whensofterling water of a similar composition by meanr poor world a new hope of life. The d t catrt into the
of boil? dbrnpbunds). In such cases the folloKing spring represents the Lord's true people during t3b
modSed foihr of zeolite proms L used: gospel age. "Ye an the salt of the earth." (Matt. 5 :13)
I n this an intermittent or continuoue tank equipment, The Lord will use them to heal rt thek aourcc the water8
M described already under the limesoda process, ia of truth made brackish with creedd error, during the
<x)nnected through a filter to a zeolite softener. Only Dark Age%
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SUCCESSFUL WELFiUU WORK for ita memberr, appears in the growth of th, Aaocir-
EW CORPORATIONS a n be woeed of d o h tion from SO in 1306, 1,131 in 1910, 5,263 in 1915, to
F kind t b g e from a purely kindly pupom, but m y 6,823 in 1919.
go to great length in doing good to their employu Tho tcluationd faturea u e interesting. A full?
it p y r . Welfare work L pmfibble baausc it equipped laboratory for educational purposrr ii Mio-
gain# aome good-wdl from employer, &acts and holb k i n d where practice rad expuimcnL in techid
the bettor claw of workers, &or& mule traking for subjecb w dlorded. Thue ia a Technical whool, r
the ntr oz amblbou, and mrkos a fractional in- Commercial rchoal and m b u n t i n g school. T k ed-
in &iency. ucational work fram Octobu to April ia tecbnid
So whur one of the large conoernr of the metropob, coutm iP carried on by lectwo, platform cxpcriments,
the New York Edison Company, doer velfare work on laboratory erperiments, ond cLsr work. The Gve tech-
quite a large d e , it must not be mpeded of millpn- n i d courece covv such principlu of tlcctriciq a a
mid rnotivas, nor of much elae than adding to or conoen- worker should how, md the principb of direct md
ing the return on the investmen+ alternating current. and the oarresponding Qple of
Ths work is carried on through the k i a t i o n of nuchinee. The knowledge imparted ia designed to fit
Employeq now jn its fifteenth year. The social activ- the workers for their work, and the commerd awrw
ities e n t e r &out the Club H o w , which is liberally comprsc elementary branches, telephony, atenograph?,
p a t r o n i d for social affairs, smokers, library, entertain- health factors, and such specidized &to .r appear in
men% lectures and departmental gatherings. Tvo cowssf for infomation clerks, junior elu4 oface bays
annual events gladden the bearb of the workers-the and junior iarpecbra. The w g 02 promotion in tb.
winter amateur theatrical enterbinmeat, followed by r Cornpanj s accounting roomr is mule &in by corueor
bdi, and the summer Association outing. The Cot~pany in bookkeeping, principles of u ~ ~ ~ tmid namounting
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h.9 many lady employes; and ladies' nights, appropri- problem A summer scllool in conducted for the judor
ate?~enough, are not infrequent. inspectors and w n t a of the light* inspection and
&Coat of the male workers for any electrical operating s p e d e r n e bureau&
concern get plenty of exercise in their work, but thc boys It m y r q r k ~ o n r cto how prrcticrl ie the
and younger men h d vent for their extra steam in instruction worked up in this corporation fchool system.
athleticbindoor games and bowling in winter and out- None of the old-fashioned, stilt& pedagogical bookr for
door gmee and sports for the warm season. The smaller the modernly e d u d ywng 'nun who in to bun
boyr are organized as Boy Scouts, and have the ue of a practical English!, f i t he dudiu wwld benefit my-
m e r camp on Long Island Sound and a fall and one: chooaiq a theme, developing m original thought,
Kiater shack with kitchen, open fireplace and the other framing in address, tbe pwta of .EL address, h e t y ,
thine d m to the boy heart, in the great Interstate Park dirisioxu of oratory, effective speaking .ad application8
betveen Kew York and New Jeraey. of bnsinma English. In uiother cvptle designed to
The Association furniehm vuione h d n of d c e , develop g e n d eSciency the worku studies about
and h.s several cluaes of membership, octire membera rppeuance, manners, courtesy, right thid&g urd
who m y vok and hold office, honorary faturea, includ- rpecidized knowledge M an- frctorr, tedd of eE-
i q employee working on m hourly h h , who may shve cisnq, the purpose of educstion and citizenship. In on-
in the'bnefits of the sick fund The insurmae featun othet wurst for developing generd bwinuam eiacjency
provideo &50 without medical ernmination, which m y the subjects are: vhrt ir psychology? what ir eonriour-
with examination be i n c r e d to $1,000 on whale life, nesa, attention urd inkrest, inatinct, hbit sad thc
20-papent, endowment or other p h w . The beneficiary ~~
nervorrr qrtcm, e m t i o n and p e p t i o n ,
of a dee@ rqember receives $100 additional from the memory, rueon, the rill, priaeipla of appeal and
Company. 2 i c g benefits covering up to 26 weeke am mponee in businem, 8nd pl~cbologof American S-
obtainable by the weekly payment of two nnte for esch cienq? With a ~~ of r d practical idar in hia
$1.44 a week payable in ase of a k b e u . That the mind, what wonder thrt m E d h n worker should a u t e
vuiour features are attractire, or elet that the Company matidly dcrclop in edscienq I
hu carried on an active propgsnd. or used canpubion Jn ordm tkut injured emplop mry o a d ~no pcun-
1" 108 Ihc Golden Age for Novembrr 12,1919
iarp l~ they are paid full wages d.wing disability and blazed a dishonorable way for bankrupt electric r d -
ue given the necessary medical attendance. I t k sur- cays, with it8 showing of scorea of mileP of track aban-
prising h t only 8 per cent of the widen& are purely doned to weeds and washouts, and New York f- a
electrid, the other c a w being falls 14 per a n t , like fate. From the gfmt Interborough Rapid Transit
struck by ~naterial30 per cent, material in eye 12 per of New York City down to the small* and shortest
wt, buine 6 per cent, cuts 8 per cent, sprains G per cent, lines the Mocedonian cry goes forth.
tools 7 per cent, infected wounds 4 per cent, handlug Trolley lines which were subjected to the promotion
ashes 3 per cent, and machinery and frost bite 1 per methoda of two or three d e d a w o are reaping t h e
cent each. Only 20 per cent are out over a week. Med- harvest that comes from bad sowing. Private enterprise
ical cabinets and pulmotors are conveniently gtationed built the roads, in return for bond issues of two or three
to render prompt service in sudden emergencia. timea the value of the materids and labor in the mn-
PermaGnw in emplopment ie rewarded by a service struction, and sweetened the bonda with huge issues of
annuity for employes over 50, who have served continu- common stock. Both bonds aad stock8 were painted up
o d p for 25 years; it consists of not over 60 per cent of for a "kiUing" and were rapidly psased into the hanrb
the annual wage3 eaiied, at the rate of 2 per cent far of "innocent" investors eeeking something for nothing.
each year of service up to 30 years. To encourage thrift and who by paying erorbitrnt prices rcquind the hind .
in a prnctical way there is a saving and loan association, of vested (interest that demanda interest and dividends
conducted at the Company's expense and afording a on the Liquid element of the hancing. The payment of
safe investment at G per cent, with satisfactory arrange- these periodic sums "&inned2' the roade and kept them
ments for loans, mortgages and withdrawal of funds. from being a d q u t e l y kept up out of what was left
~ r r a n ~ s k e n tofs all kinds are beneficial ta both of income. Finally the war hished the ruin.
employer and employe, if adminhtered in the right Thirty years ago the only way to interest the men
spirit, and especially if the employer deals with the that h e w how to build the roads was to let them get a
employe on a just and liberal basis as to wagea and big promoteis profit. Without this incentive the electric
promotion. The suspicion is always liable to arise among railways never would have been built. The state could
employes of a concern doing ertensive welfare work, not build them and the common people had not the
that-the welfare is in lieu of an adequate wage, and may vent&me spirit to combine their little savings into
operate to qumch aspirations for higher pay. It is the great mms required for big enterpriaea. . The
interesting to note tlut the junior engineers, chemists methoda n&y were those af a period of rather
and other technical men of Mew York City have recently naky promotiou, and it M fair to judge the performance
organized a trades union in order, by collective bargain- of the pnat by the conservative standard8 of the present.
ing, ta obtain a satisfactory income. The people needed the roads, .nd need them now, and
Welfare work arises primarily from the kind instinda the bnainPanlilre tbing is to keep the rods going for the
of human employers, and secondarily on a more extensive public bene6t Under no c i r c d ~ ought e ~ the false
scale from the fact that it pays. The motive is a d - Lead af Bfasxhu8etta to be followed, for no prejudice
seeking oae. That it has not yet touched the mainspring and no precedent ahould be allowed to stand in the way
of love is plain because the executives' attitude is ane of of the continudion of this valuable public aenrke.
condescension and patronage rather than the broad It is sclqowledged that the credit of the companies has
brotherly love that will characterize the Golden Age and been destroyed and that fund8 cannot be raised for
will ultimately knit executives and employes of an in- exknsione, and improvemezttr Investors
dustry into one big family. fear to buy bonds and notes of comp8niea whcee profits
are eaten up by high operating cds, whoee rr~enueafor
B A ~ I X P T TROLLEY unws relief are blocked by public b e commissions, and
T 0 ONE FAMILIAR with the methods by which whoae very future ie i m e by m unprecedented
American electric railways were finan& it in world crisis. No practical arrangement is known for the
nothing surprising to see the executive heads of some state to m m e e the operotion of the transportation line&
thirty rot& in wlemn conclave and unlll;moua in the The Gring of the price of taansportation hPr been taken
conviction tqst "something must be donc" out of the handa of the exemtivee and been divided +
Without some new scheme for working the long- between aste and municipal authorities into an inex-
sdering public for more money the managers express tricable eonhzsion. Some executiva want only state
the fear that the electrlc railway systemo of New York commissions and others want both atate and municipal.
State at least cannot long survive. Massdusetta h u T h e r e i e r d m i l v ~ o v u t h e f i n n n c u l ,
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!.. operating, regulntion and public ownership p h ad- figurea of production of pig iron are published promptly
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vanced to bring relief. in the Iron Age every month. The volume of unfilled
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machinery for conducting an electric railway aa the is publded at the cloae of every month. So many
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the k c i a l leg of the stool t crocked through and is not posaihle to gather and total the unfilled orders
p giving way. If thc executives cannot solve the problem for iron.
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.2' it m y be necessary to look to the state for the permanent A large production of iron and ateel indicates prQ-
r: financing of this public neceeaity. perity, present and for a month or m to come. The w e
.' It in suggested +st ntule the state has broad shoulders thiig is indicated if the steel mills are operating at a
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:7 . it inay not be able to bear all the proposed burdens that high percentage of capacity, up to 95 per cent, which is
:- r variee of businesa failures would impose upon it. as well as a steel mill can do, ancfrepreents full working
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The situation is indeed so perplexing that it is beyond capacity. Good business for a couple of months ahead
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permanent repair by human means; it in part of the
unavoidable breakdown of the present order of things.
iP ihdicated if the unfilled steel orders are large. The
most far-reaching index ie the price of pig iron, on
Fortunately it will be succeeded quickly by a new account of the number of months ahead at which the
8 - urangement that will not merely fix up present failures
but under the auspices of the Golden Age will so1ve.d
iron ordered will be delivered, made into steel, and put
into use in general businem
problms perfectly and never come to an end. Changea in these fienrea indicate corre~ponding
changes in prosperity. A change ~ h i c is t ~noted as a
IROH INDEX OF PROSPERITY ' ' s t a m signal is a m d d a drop in vie of pig ircu- when
the price has been high. It is invariably fclllued by r
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T H E BASIS of all business is iron and steel.
There is almost nothing made, built, or worked, in
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which these metals arc not employed Buildings require
serious slump in business about three or four months
afterward. Business men begin to reef their sails, curtall
3 iron rails, rods and pipes and steel beams; machinery is ertensions'and collect on doubtful credits, when they
- ,. made largely of iron and steel, and agriculture, mining eee such a drop in the price of pig iron.
and lumbering are carried on by their aid. Aa these and According to the published figures, the percentages of
. . other branches of business become more active they operation of the steel mi& hare been, 50 per cent Map,
utilize more iron and ~teeL 60 per cent June, 15 per cent July, 80 per cent August,
.' The volume of production of iron and 'steel is an 80 per cent September, and 60 per cent in October owing
indication of the total prosperity of all lines of busineta. to the steel strike. The unfilled orders decreased steadllp
A comparison of the figures of production at diffe.rent from D-ecember to May st the r a h of 640,000 tons a
, . times shows the changes in general praeperity. month, since when they have increased about 600,000
-. The orders for iron and ateel show prospective pros- tons r month up to the beginning of the stel strike.
perity, or depression, because what is ordered now will Other figures showing the conditions and prospects of
determine the industry of coming months when that general business ail1 be published in TEE GOLDENQUB
iron and steel is being produced, delivered and'utilized. from time to time as they become available, for it is a
Under normal conditione still another indication of good thing for readers to have first hand information
, coming prosperity is the price of iron or steel The price along these lines.
is baeed on the demand, and when the demand increases In general, the countr~is at present in a very prosper-
the price goes up. A high price indicatesa heavy demand ous condition, the immediate future bespeaking months
and a M v y rolume of orders. S i n e it takes,in the iron of prosperity, though clouded by the uncertainties of
business, two or three month to deliver on orders, the popular unrest.
price ia an index of conditions two or three months With information and statistics for entire industries
ahead, for it ahow? the volume of businese that will exist and nations available, the average business man, barring
then, when the metal is being delivered and put into use. unforseeable turns, is in a better position to know the
Some ok thC figures 8s to the prodaction of these future than even the king m d emperors of old. The
metals areleadily available and can be used aa prosperity standard method of forecssting the future wae, "Let now
indices, and some are not. Prices are alwaps public the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosti-
prope*. 13re figures of volume of production of steel cators, staud upp7(Isaiah 4f :13), and "Then came in the
and iron are assembled and published, rather late, by magiciacs, the &?rologers, the Chaldeans, and the sooth-
the &American Iran and Steel Institute. Qaite eract sojers"; but the success of such methods wae more liabIe
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, than not to be +s recorded, "but they did not make cent. htanufadurers rut still working on fall and
kc~owathe interpretation" (Daniel 4 3 ) The less occult winter orders ahereas they usually are busy on spring
help and the more knowledge of business data a business goo& at thin season.
man has the more likelv he ie to be successful. The unrest of labor diminishes production by strikes
or low efficiency. Many workers, &d to spending their '
NEW Y O N TRUCK LAVES large wagea freely, become restive on the lead restriction.
T HE SHIP-BY-TRCCK business has come to etay Tens of thousands are going to Europe.
unleea the railroadg returned to private control, Hundredu of thourn& practiced war thrift and ppn
should. d e v h competitive schemer to destroy the new want to spend their savings. The inhibitions of war are -
competition. There are now scorea of establinhed rou* past, and the orders for goods ere like the torrent from
for hauling freight,in every dvection out of New York. a flood b&. Whether or not this demand w i l l force
Wberever there are good roada there the trucka go. prim to the sky, m y thinga w i l l be absolakly unob-
The longest regular truck route is 906 mila round tainable at any price
trip to Buffalo by way of Albmy. There L a choice of p e scarcity suggests that the world hss not leached
five different tnicking concerns by which to ship. the peace and plenty promised for the Golden Age.
Pittsburgh via Philadelphia cokes next with 802 These good things are coming, for of them it ia written,
mila and 31 concerns. Others are: Boston via Prov- "The children of men shall put their trust undq the
idence, 486 miles, 19 concerns; Baston via Sprinfield, shadow of thy wings; they s i d be abundantly satisfied
468 miles, 14 lines; Scranton via Wilkesbarre, 314 miles, with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them
1line; Atlantic City, 290 miles, 3 lines; Hartford, 226 drink of the river of thy pleasures." (Psalms 36 3 - 8 )
miles, 3 lines; Allentown, Pa, 200 miles, 5 linee; And this will, in due tim--come to psss exactly
Cmdcn. a. J., 198 miles, 1line; Port Jefferson, N. Y., eo promised, because, "God loved the world"
128 miles, 1 line; Asbury Park, 120 d e s , 2 lines; West
Point, 120 miles, 2 lines. , DECIMAL PRICING WANTED
Other re,Rular lines run to Nt. Bisco, New Haven,
Camp Dix, Bridgeport, Albany, Rahway and Newark. 0' I E OF T H E labor-producing habits of business is
to sell things by 12's and 144's. The only good
Six linee' make n specialty of regular routea covering reason for continuing an obviously obsolete system ie
Greater F e w York, and 97 concerns will truck material because "It hath been el-er thua"
"anj-where". Tine lines vary in time from meekly to'two At the Nation4 Hardware Association convention
or three times a week, or daily; and a host of concerns recently the cry w'ent up for a modern method. The
will go "anytime." hardware men want a uniform method based on the
The cost of trucking freight ie usually less than by decimal system. One manufacturer p;ts up ca~ealabeled
rail; the goods are delivered at the door or at a conveni- ''doze&" and another next doorpacks hia with "gross"
ent terminal ~rax.ehouse; usually the goocis are delivered labels. Others catalogue and pack by the dozens and
in excell~ntcondition; and the time is often lesa than bill by the groes. The proposed improvement is being
by express. investigated, and if no good objections appear, will be
adopted, and we will be able to say good-bye to tlm old
GREA T SHORTAGE COMLNG
f amilinl.. nomenclature
I S DAYS of ci:ange it is hazardous to predict business
conditions half a verrr &cad. but business men are COMMISSIONS ON BONDS
concerned owr 3 condition expected to materialize next
spring. M ANY PERSONS owning government bonda and
desiring to add to their holdings or to sell do not
Orders are comhg, domestic and foreign, in unprece- know what ia s fair cornmjssion to pay on the t m s -
dented-*xvolume.There is unlimited spending ability. action. Amrding to the Government Bond ComrnWee
The difficnlty is the probable shortage of materials of the Investment Banked Association the following
with which u, fill the orders, and a s h o w of labor to are the proper aornmisaione : Up to and including, $100,
do the wort. 50 cenb ; $200, 60 cents ; $300, 50 o e h ; $600, 90
The required quontie of raw materials has not been cents; $600, $1.00; $700, $1.10; $800, $1.15; $900,
produced. 'Other shortgee will be: a billion yards short- $1.20; $1,000, $125. The basis for determining the
age in cottdh goods ; s i b and \roolens millions of y a r b market value for the transaction should be the current
short; leather scarce ; steel nnd iron below requirements ; quotation on the New Tork Exchiinge, or after the close
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and ao on. Textile mills are promising bupers 60 per of the Stock Exchange for the day, the closing price on
cent of their orders and trill soon reduce this to 25 per tht d8y.
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POLITICAL, DOMESTIC surd FOREIGN
ARMEN.. AND TEE TURKS and this has tended to keep them a subject people. At
t k t time there were 2,100,000 living within the borders
SURROUNDED on sides by Turks and governed
all
by them, the Armenians have been for centuries of what is now Armenia, and the rest were scatterdin
outlying provinces. The bulk of the 2,700,000 were on
in a mast difficult position. The Turks are not good
rulem, and the reason for it lies in their religion. I t i~ the Russian side of the border, for Armenia k in two
t h b question of religion that determines government. A parts, Russian Arm& and Turkish Armenia, lying
heathen nation, wit11 a heathen ruler, like Japan, shame- side by side, South and East of the BLock Sea.
lessly takes adrantage of surrounding peoplea and When the Russians began their campsign in the
nations without being in the least deterred by conscience. Caumns in the Fall of 1914 the Armeniuu helped
A truly Christian ruler has constantly in mind the them. Without their d d the s u a x h d d v r n c e inb
principles of Christianity, a h.-pocritical Christian ruler the territory now included in Turkish Armenia would
professes one thing and does another, and a hfussulman not have been possible. Their diflidtiea btgm whea
go- by the Koran. The Koran teaches intolerance the Russian m y of 800,000 men becune Bolsheviaed
toward Chrictians. Therefore the Armenians have had and melted away in the summer of 1917. Those w e n
a hard time under Turkish rule. dark days for the Armenians, who had no other course
As m n ' m the Turks entered the war all Armenian open to them but to hold the linea which the Russiarur
men able to bear arms were forced into the ormy where had abandoned, and nhich were now left in their handa.
they did the menial labor, trench-digging and all service With the advent of tho United States into the f orld
in which no arms were necesvg, the T u b being afraid War the Armenians received new hope. After being cut
to arm them. Shortly afterward, to a people thue s t r i p off from the outside world for fourteen months they
ped of their natural defenders, the announcement wan were rescued from their desperate plight by the p l u c b
made that all Armenians viould be deported to Mesopo- British army which cut its way through from the
tamia "for the duration of the nar, in order to safeguard Persinn gulf and has since, until recently, garrisoned
the empire." the county.
The deportati~nstarted on a set day. Turkish and drmenia hae enemies on dl sides, fpr the reason that
Kurdish soldiery started the Armenians on the way, on she has hlo~lemson all sides. These are now leagued
f a t . The order included every one, men, women, chil- togethir for her desbudion. Ber natural enemies,
dren, old and young, including cultured and refined besidea the 3,000,000 Turks that survived the War,are ,
teachers, students and graduates of American-founded the 3,000,000 Russian Moslems, called Tartars, who
missionary colleges. The men mere separated from the hare organized the-lvea into the republic of Azerbai-
women and children and marched ahead to "clear the jan with their capital at Baku in Eastern Caucasiq
ay." They mere then marched away to a secluded spot the 2,000,000 Bolshevist R u s s h s who have organked
and butchered. Xext the children were butchered before the aeorgfan republic in Western Caucasia, and the
the eyes of their mothers, and the women were divided 1,000,000 Kurds, practically nomade, who inhabit the
among the soldiery to be used as they saw fit. Out of ~ d mountain
d regions of Turkish Armenia. If Armenia
parties of 5,000 Armeninns it frequently happened that could hare kept from getting into trouble with the
only 100 survived the trip. h i v i n g in Mesopotamia, Tartars she would have had a chance.
without"<er, with very little clothing, and nith scanty The firat breach between the Armenians and their
food, most of the remainder perished, in dl estimated at Tdrtu neighbore to the Northeast came in the W c r
about 1,000,000 persons. About 4,000 mannged to reach part of July, 1919. At that time the Tartars murdered
the Mediterranean shore and sigilal to French ~arshipn. an Armenian o5cia.l. The Armenians made the W e .
The7 were t,akenliirst to Egypt and then, mrny of them, of sending troops to enforce a demand for the punish-
to America, aherc they are now living. ment of the guilty. The Tartsra attacked these troopa,
At the Atbreak of the war the total number of defeated them, and then, as Xoslems, began a systematic
...eninns in the world was estimated at 4,500,000. massacre of all Armeniam within reach, including their
They hare beer! badly scattered by the frequently recur- o m uaoffending subjects who had the misfortune to be
ring deportations and their accompanying massacres, nearest at hand.
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Then ia no love lost between the Turks and the feared that the sending of troops to Armenia would
T m u in ravaging the territory of Russian Armenia ahnost mi? embroil the United Stater in estensive
the Turh take three fourths of all Tartar crops ss well European quarrels which have centered about the Dar-
, b dl of the atmenian crops, but when the Turks gamed danellea for centuries.
power ncently over an Armenian community they show- The bitterneso which exists between the h&
ed enough interest in the Tartare becanse of their com- Christhns and the Turk* Moslems u a result of
mon lkbdexn faith to allow them to murder the Brmen- Turkish deportations and massacrm and Armeniaq
irPl two days before taking a hand in the same work activitie in behalf of the Buasiam and English is seen
th&vea. in bits of news which come from time to time. When
The British army of occupation was withdram from the Armenians retreated with the Bussioas from certain
Arm- in September. It w u but 42,000 men, but sectioll~of TurEah Armenia in the summer of 1917 they
with the help of the A r m e n i a ~was d c i e n t to main- destroyed all Tmlcish houses and expelled the Turke
tab order in the turbulent country inhabited by the over the frontier in a naked and hrlf-starved condition.
mixed Turk*, Armenian and &rdi& peopl~. The Pu'ow, ar fast as the Turks gain control over territoryry
reason it was withdrawn was because the brave British which hu, been occupied by Armenians, they 8m destroy-
hop that composed it had been away from home four ing every vestige of the Annenian popuhtion.
yeam and the labor elementa of England wanted their The encircling of Armenia now under way by the
return, urging that British taxpayers and B r a !Rub, Tartus and Kards, all under the direction of
midiem can not be espected to keep half the human race Enver Paaha, of German-Turkish alliance fame, hae for
in a r k ita objed the complete obliteration of the Armenians
S b h a b appeared in the p- &at the -= the from the face of the earth. That the Armenian republic
British army moved Northward from the Persian gulf cam hold out until Christmas 8eem quite improbable.
VY not to protect hmenia, or punish Turkey, ar fast as the hvks gain ground in the*
hold the Bolaheviki in check, but to get posaession of rutvement they carry out their d p b s of -ere,
the immense riches of the Caspian oil fields about Baka the Y q girls being wried off to the harems.
The aithdrawal apparently proves that if the British When t b q recently captured NMchman, with an
did have this in view it is not now a part of their plan, d t e d slaughter of 6,000 to 12,000 perm=, h e r -
or that they feel that the same results can be obtained icana crossing into Persia report having seen the river
m m e a d y in another nay. Thae is no indication that at which they croseed full of headless, mutilated, bodies.
Great Britain expects to withdraw her troops from It is generally believed that the only argument to
Egypt, however. which the ?hrkish enemiea of Apenia w i l l listm k
The m a lwish, except on the part of the French, is force, and that as swn as it is dehitely known that
that America ahould accept a mandate to govern Turkey, the United States wiIl not eend troop, Armenia and
hcluding h e n i a and the other republics which have the Armenians must perinh from the earth, because
. uisen in what was once the Turkish ernpire, but there the man-power of the & m e n h a is now exhausted. -If
are diECp1tie.a. One of these ie h t Unifed St& Armenia is dadrqed eivilhtion will h d itaelf £acing
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M not at war with Turkey, and has not been, and w h q a combination of Turkish and Bolshevist forces in bgia
lately, in the pursuance of his duties, Admid Brisk1 Ildinor which d l have no opposition in their march
of & United States Mavy warned Turkey not to con- Westward to the Dardanelles.
h u e her maasacres of Armenians, Turkey appealed to Armenians sre p r o f e d C l h t h q and the Great
the Paris conference for protection agamst h m k a n War baa ahown that they have ae much and aa little
rggredop, and the French press took her part right to the name C h r i s t h u any of the other nations
At p k there is no lawful way by which the United that b e chimed that title But it seems hard to see a
S t r t a can send troop into Armenia without a declar- great and edightened people, who have been of great
dion of wax againat Turkey. The 6rst thing such troop help to the Allies, and who have suffered so horribly
rill h.or fo do will be to engage in battle with the lhrhi during the WU, now left helplea to be dedroyed by
now enrelo#ing %hatunhappy country. The Pregident Moslem savage%
can nat oomtitutionally send these without the c a m t These are days when Natiom are divinely forgiven
of cmgnss, although h o p s were sent to Siberia and jast u, they have forgiven others, in accordance with
Northern h i s wlthout Congressional consent. If wnr W e words, <?f ye forgive nut men [even T u r b ]
is declared against h k e y it is not likely that enough their trespssses, neither wilt your Heavenly Father
soldiers =.be obtained acept by conscription. It is forgive yopr trerpasea"-Matthew 6:1&
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tips of the young flower buds and preventing them from did poorly, and it is declared by many farmers in the
opening. These bunches of fruit are of considerable , a-inter wheat helt that they d not attempt the s o d g
importance upon the stock rangee of the Southwest, of spring wheat again. The drouth this year in M o n b a
furnish& succulent and nutritious morsels which con- and Kestern Cnnsdn n-as very severe, practically ruining
tribute not a little to the sustaining capacity of the the wheat crop in those sections.
ranges in time of need. The word "corn" a used throughout the scripture^
I t is the Government investigator's belief that "Our refers to grain of dl kinds. Some tibnes it refers to
deserts are incapable of supporting crops of native wheat, a when our Lord used the rq-pression, "Except 8
par-much less of the spineless introduwd varieties." corn of wheat fall into the ground cmd die, it abideth
No doubt that is his honest opinion, and the r d t of alone; but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit."
careful study, but w-hen we read his opinion we think of (John 12 :24) The thought back of this is that if Jesus
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other Governmeut investigators in earlier days, who had not sacrificed his life he might have mnintaine3 it
, proved that it would never be possible for a steamer, forever, but in that event he would not hare been privi-
leged to bestow life upon the church nnd the world.
to cross the ocean because it could not carry coal enough
to make the voyage, and the others who proved that
nothing could ever be raised on arid lands nhich are now TO BUY LAND OR TO SELL
T CCRRENT p r i m for farm products the valuation
yielding wonderful harvests of wheat and other crops.
TVe'weve the study which is now being mnde of cacti
A of $300 and upward per acre for land which would
have seemed so out of all reason a few pars ago is only
will be of vrrp great advantage to mnnbid in the near
n h t should now be expected. The sale of rn- io
futme. Our own conviction is thnt the climatic eon- besed upon its s u p p o d d u e , upon what it is worth to
ditions are so changing that in due time the Anmican its possessor, vhzt profit can be made out of it, snd even
desert will disappear entirely, and that in the meantime at $300 per acre a profit can be made at present out of
the desert $eas kill yield much food that d l be needed a well-managed farm.
and apprec3ted by man and beast, and this food, we But the current prices of farm products are besed
apprehend, will come in large part from the cil-ilized upn the apeumption that Europe can be supplied with
cactus. "The desert shall rejoice and bloesom as the credit to buy our goods. As soon as she can no longer
rose."-Isaiah 35 :L b q at present prices the prices must fall, and when they
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do fall the price of $300 will be too high. The man who grain. \There stinking smut and loose smut are present,
has money to invest in n farm at the present time should seed wheat should be treated with formalin.
e.rpect to see his land depreciate in value to a point Broadctvting is a very ineffective way of sowing. More
where it will return only the profit that it returned uniform stands are secured with lets e d , and winter
bdore the aar. Unless he can pry cash for the farm he resistance is greater, where drills are used for seeding.
had better not buy it. But if he crrn pay cash he can In well-prepared soil it makes little difference what kind
hnrdly put his money into any form of property more of a drill is used. It ia seldom good practice to plant
likely to give lasting satisfaction. It is a kind of at a greater clcpth than three inches; a half inch less
property that is very tangible in these intangible times. i better. On the Great Plains, from three to fa? p'ecks
A man who has a large farm, larger than he can per acre is the usual rate of seeding, but in dl other
work to the best advantage, would do well to divide his parta of the Winter-Wheat Belt ah pecks k the usual
holdings at the present time, especially if he has on quantity s o n .
interest-bearing debt that con be cleared off. It ie not To avoid the Eessian fl; seeding should be dela~ed
going to be so =y to p3y the interest on a high-priced as long as possible. The first frost in the fall destroys
farm next year rrs it is this year, and lt d l be harder most of these in@&, and thus greatly reduces the
still the year following. Persons who sell fsrm property damage which they may inflict. If the 'right date for
now would do weII to sell for cash. Prices on some kinds planting be selected, neither early enough to be attacked
of farm produds have already be-, to fall. by the fly nor yet BO late M to cause danger of wmter-
In Abrahmi's time the land w a s free to the urn. Idling, fbur-fifths of the injury to winter wheat may
Although -4braham lived just an hundred geara in be a~oided,Risks of late seeding may be greatly lessened
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Palast~ne(Genesis 12 :4 ;23 :8) yet he never owned any by providing-&firm, we&drained seed bed, finely worked
of the land (Acts 7:5), despite the fact that he main- on top, in which there is plenty of moisture and available
taincd a p e a t household of 318 servants (Genesis 14:14) plant fd.
and was accounted a ''migl$' prince'' among the people- Ordinary stsble rnsllure supplies the elements needed
(Genesis 23 :6) IVhen the time came for him b burp to keep wheat land in good producing condition, except
Sarah he had no place to put her, and the .de of a burial that it is in phoephorus. On the f-8 this
plot was particularly conditioned on the fact that he was is W
, added in the &ble a #e m n - is made, 50
"a stranger and eojournei' among the Cnnasnltcs, the pounds of rock phosphate to one ton of manure. This
real omers.-Genesis 23 :1-20. system of reinforcing manure with phosphorus is
practiced extensicely throughout the Middle West and
TO INCREASE WHEAT TTELD South. One pound of phosphate dullted in the stable af
HE ~ I S T ~ too E o f ~ nmade by farmers in ewh horse or cow per day ~ccomplishesthe desired
T the VinBr-Wheat B d t of thinlimg that there will
always be enough moisture for the greatest growth, with
result.
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M AXITOBA, Alberta and Saskatchewan have a l u a y ~ w e ate a lot of peanub from the deb, a lot salted,
been considered beyond the fruit zone on account a lot in the form of peanut butter, and a lot in the fonn
of t h severe ePinters freezing and bursting the trees. of p n u t oil, which-came to ua dhguised as butter,
During the past ten years the Canadian Forestry Com- salad oil, e t c
mission has been gr~pplingwith this problem and at Uncle Sam haa just acknowledged oP16dd.l~ that we
their Agricultural College at Indian Head, a suburb of do love the peanut. He hne had his dietary experts on
Winnipeg, they now have a bearing orchard of plam trees the job arrd they have mrssured him that .the peanut is a
and appie treea thst is a great success. The trees in this perfect substitute for meat. And meat hu been or ia
orchard are sheltered from the prevailing winter winds sauce. It ought not to be 8carte, but it has been made
by a screen of closely-set 6r trees. so, &d that makes it so even if it isn't m. Meat ought
A very dserent way of producing a v&e@ of fruits not to be mode earrce by piling it up in a warehaus
where there was none was brought to light in the work until it spoils and has to be sold for fertilizer. But m y -
of 8 horticulturist at Findlay, Ohio, recently. He had way the peanut is valuable for food and Uncle Sam haa
upon hie farm an apple tree that was decayed in several now set apart $12,000 "for collecting and distributing
placee, had several dead limbs, and his frienda said it by telegraph, mail and otherwhe,.information on the
woyld never field again. He scraped the tree, removed supply, demand, commerci& movement, disposition,
dl the dead matter, filled the holea with cement, and the quality and market prices of $eanuta'* We hope that
tree revived. Then he began to experiment with it. this does not mean that the same thing that happened
Now he has &ted upon the original tree thuty-two to the meat will happen to the peanut. We would Like
vuietiea of apples and six varieties of pears Pad obtaine to eat our bushel next yeor instead of having i t locked
fnrit of vuionr kinds from the tree from early summer up in a warehouse until the Senate ratifies, without
until late in the Fall. The tree ie more than seventy-five resemations, the League of Nations trertp, or solome other
y w s old, and is part held together with chains. far-off time.
An unique incident of our Lord's mimstry was the \Ye wonder if those were peanut8 that Jamb referred
pronouncement of B e curse upon the barren fig tree, to in Genesis 43 :11 when he said to his eleven sono
% e t ' ~ r o h i t grow on thee heweforward until the age. "Take of the best fruits in the land in your veseele, and
: :19) carry down the man [the ruler of Egypt, Joseph] 8
And presently the bg tree withered may." ( ~ a t t 21
That fig tree represented the Jewish nation. Our Lord preclent, r little balm, and a little honey, spices, and
r e f e d to the m e tree again, "Now learn a parable myrrh, nuts, and almonds." [Just after r e had w r i t .
of the fig t e e : When hie branch t yet tender. and that we looked the matter up 'hd found that it was
putteth forththves, ye know that summer b nigh: so doubtlese pistachio nuts that Jacob a t t h e kind used
likewise jk when ye see all these things, knoa that it is in Raroring ice cream]. The "garden of nutd'of Can-
near, even at the doors." (Matthew 24 :31,32) Thus ticles 6:11 includes nuts of all kinds. The reference,
the I a r d tello us that when we begin to aee Zionism in spiritually, is to the heart-gardens of the Foolish Vvgin
the earth, the Jews beginning to return to Palestine, class that does not yield as quickly as a gardea of spicea
m d large number8 planning to follow them, u is now its treasures to the heart-Qardener, the Lord.
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ical heresy under the sun. The fact is, Haeckel's phil-
osophy is no system at all, but a conglomeration of
different system, a metaphysical potpourri, r thing of
w N A TINY S u o n 'CFoW" does thirty miles or
e fiity miles i n a gallon of gwoline
~ ~ o t o r q cdl m
the proud owner never lets hie friendr forget it. What
ahreds and patches." will the ubiquitous Ford owner not u y rhcn he gets
Another critic of Haeckel, Professor 0. D.Chwolson, the new gasdine m o b invented in Klnnu CiQ? - -
of the Imperial University at Petrograd, says, "The I t ia called the Van Dyke motor and drimr 40 be
result of our investigation k t e r r i b l m n e might say it built on quite new principles It gives promise of un-
_ makes one's hair stand on end! Ercehing, absolutely heardaf mileage records per galloa h o n g other
eueything Haeckel saps in connection r i t h questions claim made for this remarkabIe invention are that it
of physical research is false, is based on misconceptions incre3.w~the pwer ten per cent h u g h a-ent af
w b e m s an h o s t incredible ignorance of the most heat ordinarily radiated ;it operatea on 8 fuel srving of
fundamental qyestions. Equipped with such utter ignor- s u t y per cent compared with standard m; it will
mce, however, he considers it possible to declare the makc an n n u s d y e5cient drplme motor; .it will
foundation of modern physical science, the kinetic theory make possible the manufacture of a car eelling for $250.
of substance, as untenable. IIaecAd's '\Torld Riddles' The ancient prophet, DaPi4 would p e r b p ~not be
are typical M tnese writings whose authors ignore and unduly surprised to come back and rss the common
despise the-elfth commandment: Thou shalt never people skimming over the ground in "ahuioto" costing
write about anything thou doest not understand." four for a thouand dollars, for it waa he who uttered
When "scientiscls" fall out. and tear oze another to the prophecy to the effect that "many shall run to and
pieces, the common people ha\-e the chance to ascertain fro7' (Daniel l2:4), and it is poeeible that 8 100-mile-
juat how Little even the "great" ones know. an-hour racing machine might not give ooocenr to the
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Hebrew age of Babylon. At any rate,man? are running with the Professor to the heigbt of 50,000 milea. It ir by
to and fro, and if that ia the fulfilment of the prophet'o meam of a new invention, of course. which perhaps har
I * prediction, the other part goes with it h t thir is the never been tried hefore and nobody holvs for sure
"tlme of the end," in plain worb, the end of t h ~ sorder whether it will work, but divides the baloon into two
of things. to be shortly followed by the long promised compartments, the upper containing hydrogen g u , md
I , . Golden Age. the lower ordinary frenh air. And the Proftnror hu
just returned from Brazil and "perfected" r nignalling
TRANSA TLANTIC TELEPHONY apparatus for the experiments. The announcement ir
BAT THE r-tion idea of u k i n g evidently o6ci.l for it is made by Leo Stevens, bdoo%
T of
across the m a n by wireleu may be at hand appcm
from the statement that the h e r d Electric Company
instructor at Fort Omdr
It the old to the public -'ti-
is coneidering plans for d o h it. A wealthy New Yorker but t h e ~have to be t@ = Even to
has a partner in Paris and wiehing to obviate the delay Ma" ie thing dreeeed ocwioluLl~. The
of the eIedric c&le, is having pl- & a m up for d i n g e p i c of Jerusalem had it right when he n o t e , "The
him up l ~ h emy other department of the business with thing that llath been im that which k;and that
this difference that fhe call go by -el- and the which is do= th.t which be done; t h a a y -
response d l be from Paris. thing.. whereof ,it m y be said, See, this in new? it hath
- The consulting engineer of the "0.E." in c h a r p of been already of old timc, which was before pr." (Eccles
this' hind of work, h a perfected the duplex 'wireless imh% Z9-l0) We how many timeP the.ncie*
telephone and says that the trans-Atlantic wstm con- tried si@ to t
'
E VERY once in a while some "scientist" gets public.
ity by resurrecting the ancient scienti6c possibility
of communicating aith the planet ?dam
r certain number of days or hours distant. The fish was
able ta connect mentally the hook and bait with a s i p d
a few inches above. That fishes love one anotl.er just
This is alwayn interesting and enough of the c o d o n as higher animals do haa been proved, aa well .s that
people will a t least wan the newspaper paragraph to add they give expression to their emotions. Indeed, if one
c that much "fame" to a man of science. The assumption knm-s fish, he can, according to Dr. Ward, watch them
is that the planet Mars is peopled with intelligert beinge, and tell what they are thinking about, what they intend '
who have a similar feverish liking for "some new thing," to do, and the state of their feelings.
that they u e trying to communicate with the planet Xore people h o w horees than h o w fish, and that
Earth; and that there ue ''ucientiots" on Mara equally horeee have emotions and love their friends and hate
deeirotle,with the earth ackntists of securing "fame". their tormentors there is no question. No one of humane
But w h o h & whether the 3fartiaas (?) map be quite instincts can have much to do with a good home without
good people and might not w e to communicate with gaining an affection far the animal, which is often
m dkreputable a planet aa Earth? reciprocated to n marked degree. That horses even weep
Another scientist @en hie bow, .e he repcata the L vouched ior by a prominent veterinarjan who states
Grst act of the feOniliOf play, "Yarn and the Martiurs." that they have well developed tear glands, and that "in
It k Profesqr David Todd and he proposes to utilize a dumb brute's existence, especially an old and m o u a
the biggest haloon ever made and go up to the highest horse, there might be times of great fatigue, when hij
height erer gone to by humann. The gss bag will have a physical condition could produce such a reaction, which
apacit). of 140,009 cubic feet, and if expected t a ascend u something like hysteria"
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HOUSEWIFERY and HYGIENE
SAFETY ZONES FOR BABIES of ssfety mner to make the mtea for the city as a whole
ABIES who expect to sp&d their first year of life compare very favorably with other cities where the
,
B in a citp should take care to choose a "safety zone."
, According to a report on Infant Mortality in Saghaw,
Childrede Bureau has mado a similar study. T '
Infant mortality rate for Saginaw is only 84.6, notab17
Micfi, given out recently by the Children's Bureau of less than that of the registration a r m Thirty-nine per
the U. S. Department of Labor, it is more than 6 timca cent of the births occurred in fmiliea where the fatheir
as dangerous for a baby to be born in one section of the earnings were over $850 a year, a proportion exceeded
town aa in another. The investigations of'the Bureau only by that of Brockton, Masa Less than an eighth of
have shown that the essentials of a safety zone for babies the Shginaw mothen were pmfully employed, during
are that a majority of the fathers in it must earn a the year prior to the baby's birth or during any part of
'liring wage. the mothers must not be employed during the babfa first yenr. In the m a z l u f m cities of
the year before or the pear following the baby's birth, BrocMon and Xew Bedford, Mass, omfifth and two-
the mothers must receive proper chre when their babia fifths of the mothers, respectively, had worked in order
are botn, both fathers and mothera must be able to read to supplement the family income. Only 8 few of the
and write, aqd the babies m u d be properly h o u d Saginaw mothers, even when employed, worked away
In Pa,@aw there were several wards where poor from home, SO that a majority of the bubies had the ad-
drainage, unsanitary disposition of garbage and refuse, vantage of bread feeding and mothering. The attend-
ouMoor torlets, shallow well drinking waters and dwell- ance of s physician a t confinement in Saghaw was the
ings which lacked sewer connection rendered the section rule to which there were few exceptions. Very few of the
unsafe for babies. I n the ward in Saginaw where the mothers were cut off from useful inform8tion rega.rdin,n
least farorable conditions prevailed, one baby out of the care of their babies though their inability to read.
every 6 died before it was a year old, as compared with Only C per cent of the Saginaw mothen were illiterate,
one out of every 34 in the best residential wards. I n ap comparcd Kith 13 per cent in Broctton, ?da33.,
the ward hariog the highest infant mortality, a majority 16 per cent in Johnstom, Pa., and 17 per cent in
of the fathers had very small wages. Of the 2 1 babies Manche~trr,S. H.
who died in this word, 18 hnd fathers earning less thcn But, although Saginaw is a c o m p a r ~ t i d ysafe place
. $S50 a year. The infant mortality rate was only about for babies, all babies do not have an equal dunce C lire.
half as great for t h o ~ ebabies whose fathers earned If eve* babr is to be given a c h a e , the report points
between $850 and $1020 a year aa it was for the city as out, every f d y must be enabled to maintain n fair
o whole, and only about one-fourth as p e n t for those standard of living and every erpectant mother must be
whose fathers earned $1250 or more, while Babies who in a position to secure proper care and advice. I n this
. wen unfortunate enough to choose fathers earning less r a y every. p a t of the city cap be made a safety wne
than $430 died at a rate over twice as great aa that for for babies.
the vrhole city. I n the Golden Age human life will be considered
It is only when the father's earni~gewere small that precious everywhere, more highly esteemed than "the
the Saginan mothers went out to amk. The infant golden wedge of Ophir." (Isaiah 13:12) It will be
mortdiq. rate for the babies of v o r h mothcrs was esteemed for w b t it is-the wonderful, inscrutable
133.7 as &mpared with 55.3 for those wliose mothera gift of God, and while we have reuon to believe that
were not ginfuIly employed. A low income also mcans thc number of new babia, will gradually decrease rs men
that the mother na a , d e does not receive proper care cnd women kcome more and more u d i p h lJ interested
before the baby is born. I n Saginaw the deaths of tns- in tke welfare of the whole race, yet we may be w e
thirh of t l v b@ies were due primarily to prenatal that when the babiee arrive they will be made welcome
causes. "Pnqatal Care" says the report, "is especially and cared for in such a way, if possible, as to v a n t e e
needed for the inexperienced young mother and in fnm- not orililp their ph~sicalbut their mental and moral well-
dies in which the father's earning ore low,judging from being in every sense!. There is nomething mong with
the high mortality among Grst-born babies y l d in the people who do cot have a warm spot in their hearts for
lower earnings groups.'' the little folks that bring so much of sunshine with them
There rere, however, in Sagiuam, a s d c i e n t number inta the world,
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If the army of tourists could b q i r their march at Kherever he travels the famed two blader of grass grow
once it would be a godsend to Europc, for it is estimated where but one had grown. He builb fadoriea, mates
that the d i o n trarelers will spncl iour LiUion dollars t o n s and cities, make8 whole states and nation8 prospr-
abroad. The direct effect of this flood of money rilI be our. He originates new wants and eA-pmdnthe horizon
to put billions into circulation and rtimulate Europe's of human interests. He eleyeten the standards of livbg
domedic trrde and manufactures. It will Lc the equiy- and upp plies the neceseities, comforts and luxuries for
dent of .n American loka of that amourt, with the the better life, Whemer he goea he b l e u a the iahabi-
tdvrnhge to Europe of not having to be paid back and tants of ciQ, town and countq. He t the king of
a r q i n g w intereat char- It will give Europe a vast travelers, because he ia the greatest servant of the p p b .
mm with which to repay thin country for manufactured
d raw materials which the poverty dricken nations RBWARDmV mz c-ms
uc unable to pay for now with either gold oi goods It HE SUM O F $3,000,000 h u been aet uide bj the
rin go in the shape of h d s baaed on foreign exchange,
m d by rsising the demand for foreign exchange, will
T British Government for special rcwrtdr for the
xmmmding office of the Great War. Of thb amount
increme the value of the pound, franc and mark, m d Fi$d-Xarohal lIaig and Admiral h t t y rra each to get
stimulate the parchaw of A m e r i w goods abroad, a $500,000 and Viecout French .ndAdmirrl h l l i ~ a
t d e now I.ngukhhg from the 10- met in changing each get $250,000. The Ameriean castom ia to reward
foreign monetary units into d o l k a In r n s g ways the ib military chiefs with one or more monsber purdes md
promised exodus will be a benefit to both t h Old World pluibly a little better title and pay, a d thrt ia dl.
m d the .New; its failure would be a calamity. The English example is hardly W t e d to chiU the
There ia mme danger, hbarever, of the tourist tide ardor of military men in Ore& Britain. Rathu re may
not turnkg Eruopeaard, if the spread of the rerolation- mappow they w i l I welarme any f d m opportanitier to
uy movement is not checked, far wealthy tourists would m e their country in r militxuy way, m d this dots not
feel anything but at home in a ommunist country. make them p c a m h or peurt 10- Nevertheless,
But taurista are not laoking for any v i a l danger in "Bleeeed are the peacemakers; for t h y chaIl be called
tbat direction, though i t mny become more eeriour the children of Wn-Matthew 5 :9.
The relation$hip established by a rast international
trade maka the whole aorld dependent on every part, GROWTH OF TEE U. 5: FLgGT
and e v q part on the whole. So unnoticed a movement T TLIE TIME the United Htatecr %et made its
u the tourid$ visits to Europe are nemssary to the
\relfm of thousands. I t ia true that throughout the
A grand tour uf the world in 1908 its total t0nnag.g
was 206,627 ;today it is more than five timea as large.
entire world 'We a n all membera one of another" Then there were 800 officers and 13,508 m m ; now t h e e
(Ephesians 4:23), for the economic body, even aa the are 4,000 offiers and 66,000 m(n. Then the largest
true church, Christ's body, is "not onc member but ship had four twelve-inch guns ana d d shoot 10,000
many, and whether one member euEer, all the members yards. NOWthe largest ship carrier tadm fourteen-
suffer with it, and the eye camat eay unto the hand, I inch guns and can hit the target at 20,000 yards. Then
have no need of thee, nor again the hand to the feet, I coal was the fuel; now oil. -
have no need of you ; there should be no division in the mlen the time comes that thep ' h t their s ~ o i d s
C
body, but the members shonld have the same care one far into plo~sharesand their pears into pruning hooks"
u?oth~."-1 C o r i n t l r i ~12 :14-16. (Issiah 2:4), what a lot of pruning hooks they rill be
able to get out of one of t h c s armored ships, carrflng
THE CREATEST TRAI?ELER twelve fourteen-inch rifles.
WORLD &AS ENDED-YOU MAY NEVER DIE I n the examination of this mbject we mast apply the
prophetic evidences in the place where they belong. The
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F OR MANY CENTCRIES sickness, sarrow, suffering
and death have aflicted the human race. But there
haa ban just enough joy mixed with the sorrows of life
Scripturn admonish ns: "Study to show thyself appzav-
ed unto God, a work ma^ that needeth not ta be ashamed,
'to m a t e a ion,+ desire for life everlnsting. And if rightly dividing the word of truth."(2 Timothy 2:15)
that life ererlasting could be accompanied by perfection The Scripturea that applied at one atage of the world's
I the happiness of man would be complete. Recogniziog history may haole no application now, and vice versa
Jehorah as the great First Cause, whose attributes are Sucb was recognized by the New Testament e t e m , and
wisdom, justice, love and power, and who is the Creator particularl~by the Lord Jesus himself.
. o t m m , it m m s entirely mwnable that having permit For nearly nineteen centuries students of divine proph-
ted man to so long desire the blessings of life everlasting, ecy have e~pectrdand looked for the world to end,
his wisdom and lme would lead 'him to make provision becruse Jesus taught it would end. Many Christian men,
for the gratification of that desire. Reason or theorizing however, failing to rccagnb the distinction between the
-done could not lead us to a satisfactory concIusion, nor spibollc and litrral p h r m of the Bible, have been can-
hrs man tan left to rely merely upon these. Jehovah fused concerning the end of the world. For instance,
baa graciously provided a record. u-r~ttenby holy men of fhe great. John CaI\in taught that upon the happening
old and bp his inspired witnesses. wliich record disclosea of that event Jails, reappenring near the earth, would
that God hos a grcat plan which he has caused to develop cause fire to be emitted from the clouds, eetting the
in an orderly and majedic maniier. I n this record, the earth a S m e and totally destroying i t and everything on
Bible, we find the testimonr concerning man's origin, his it. Being a clergyman of greaknnorn, it waa supposed
course, the reason for his sickne:~, sorrow, suffering m d that he b a - d his conclusions upon a propr interpreta-
death, and a-hat the future holds for him. tion cf the Bible, and great numbers believed his teach-
The Bible ha3 ne\-er been wholly and completelp under- ing; and for thia r e w n , with f e u and trepidation,
stood, bilt according fa the standard stated therein the meny have looked forrard to the ending of the world.
light has r;hone brighter and brighter as the centuries Rcaeon rould lead us ta the conclusion that Jehovah
hare progressed, and the promise u made that far gr?nkr mould not cwate a aondcrful earth like this, permit man
light would be ~ h e dupon its pages in thc close of the agc. t o bring it to 3 high at& of cultivati%n in many placm.
m e n the Propilet Dailiel recorded a brief history of the and then completely destroy it. *Such is wholly out of
world long before these cvenb transpired. Jehovah told harmony with hio character. Likemet mch is ahoIly out
him to close up the prophecy and seal the words, so that of harmony with the plain fuching of his Word, whtch
t h q could not bc understood, until the time of the end. pays : "The earth abideth forever." (Ecdeaiastes 1:4)
The inference mud he I-eachcdthat uhen that "time of "For thus mith the Lard that created the heavensjCod
the end" occurs the Itlblc would IJC better understood. himself that fanned the urth and made it; he hath
If in this hour of great distrcss Epon humankind r e established it, he created it not in vain, he farmed i t ta
' can bnd a consoling rneesagr that nil1 bind up the broken be i n h a b ~ k l . " ( isarah 45 :la) When the Bible speaks of
heart$d and comfort t h o ~ ethat mourn. then with glad- the rcorld ending it does not mean the literal earth, but
ness aoze;hould embrace this message a d be eager to it d m refer to an epmh or dispensation of time during
transmit it to other*, that thqv too might rejoice. This which a certain arfangement of things or sactl order
article is written for the purpose of proving that the crisb. In proof of this the Script- disclaae that there
time is here to understand the Bible; that s e are in "the was a "world" which existed from the time of Eden
time of the end"; that the old order is perishing from until the 'great deluge: "Whereby the world that tkpn
the earth ;f i a t the new is coming i n ; that restitution was. being overflowed witb water, perished." (2 Peter
bleseings wiH koan be offered ta the world and then men 3 :6) At the end of the flood a new "world" began, and
who obey the righteous laws of Jehovah adI never die. the promise is made by the same Scriptural writer that
In this article m d a subsequent one, we hope to make it shdl end. The period of that world L from the flood
this proof m clear and convincing that all who hare until the coming of Messinha kingdom, and his kingdom
faith in the B i b l ~can see the reason for the sorrows now rould mark the beginning of another new world or new
on earth and the blessings that shall follow. order of things.
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-'? There are several distinct pcriads of time mentioned production, the conditions accompanying the w u made
in the Scriptures ahic!~have their culmination practi- it necessary to establish in ncarly every country r Food
cany a t the same time. Among these are 311e timcs of Idrninirtrator. That the pcoplcs have been in a con&- '
the Gentiles" and "tlie cnd of t)lc world." 'Rse Scrip- tion of famine for the post three yearn no one would
tures disclose that the Gentile Times span a period of. otkmpt to gain.ca?-. From Amenia comes the cry t o d a ~
2520 yare. They had their beginning with the aver- of threat5nd .+n-ation; r similar cry from' Russia;
throw of Zedekiah, the last king of Isrcl. in the autumn from Germanp'; from Austria; from the Balkans; in
of 607 B. C. at the time Nebuchadnctur of Babylon fact; from ncarlg all parts of thc c h h . Mr. Frank A
established the first universal empire in the carth. This VanderJip, far same time President of the Nationd Bity
period of 2520 Fears, then, necesarily cnded In the Rank of New York, recently, through the A&iatedb
autumn season of 1914 A. D. Referring to this period of l'resP,dcclared :
time the great Nastcr, through the Rmelator. ? a d : "Thc "1 doubt ~f Amcrlcn comprehenrb the extent of the
nations were angry, and thy wrath is come." (&yrlr,tion p ~ m l s w uof Ewoprnn intlustry. Of coum, we erpcct idle
11:is) ~ h prophecS-
b fldfilled on tlnlc. n c y tI~rc~i=I~out t l i ~~ l e v n ~ t cdl~trfcts,
d but there I s partial
I~llc!;es?;throughout the whole Indrrstrtal a m of Europe, in
submit testimon? Jesus s~ml'ctll. 1 i ~ ~ t ~nsm 1 as in klligpwnt m n n t r f a In England m m
Eveqone who helie~esthat he i~ the Son of C;od and a nn regular -w irolD %
that he spoke with authority must beliesc, in the light of c;o\crument +t nnemplament, m d the number is
the events that are dad)- transpiring, that the old uorld -erpectal to amw ns the Bntlsh ormy is further demobllfiod.
has ended. .Jesus had been teaching his disciples that the Be'ginm w'.m m l v i O 8 nnemploment The
Covernmeut of Hoilnnd Is givlng sobsidlzed food to meet
and that he "lne again
his kingdom should supplant the old. unnghtmus ortlcr.
Five days before his crucifix-~onhie dirciples opproaclled
c~n~litiolls
of uncmploycd. GreRt iadustr,es
1" C z e c h w S l o ~ ~ kthe
,,,
of nncmploy-mcot. Itdx Is dealing
Poland
.n m y
proatat*.
~ a limits of dlmtgnnlation hare been
h h as he a t on the Mount of Olives and propounded renditxL In Huiunnin the farmers a n without l l n stock
this question: 'Tell us, \nhen mu this happen? jyhat onti tlierc is not e n w h Of sced to plant the field%"
will be the sign [proof] ;our arrival. a3d of the It i8 to be cf@e$ that thb condition of food & o w e
of the world ?" n ill grow worse. ,
It waa not God's purpoEe that the disciples ~bouldat Follo~ving upon the heels of the 7mr m d the food
that time clearly uder&ud the answer that :he l\laster bhortage came the greatest pestilence that has d i c t e d
gave. His answer was couched in such prophetic phrases manhad. In four years the war victims mmbered
that it could be understood clenrly by no studcllt of thc approsiruately 9,000,000. I n less than one year the
Bible until the events transpired. His ansr;er. in thc victims of the dread influem exceeded 12,000,000.
- light of present events, however, ia now manifest. He Scientists warn against a r e c u r e n q of the peetilence
showed that the end of the world would be makcd with bccaue the lack of food, causeg lack of nourishment
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Into alnv.
Men -2- tb'bhhght yd men O(
out falre prlde In PIA- MU blood. Clear the ,
The civic slander and t h t spitc: La. a cloud'. J: %
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t
o
Ring in the lore of truth and rf:hf PrOm tb- day
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Co, the d o~ t ' r d ot to conprim-
Xuag In the common lore of load
Clear tho- war!
o u t old n b p a of foul diseuc. Sdmy a b n z a I rrow 0 conw*
? i R t q out the nurow lust of mid. Into cIu.
Nng out the thouumd w a n of old. Wlth that r l ~ h Ihr
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? l l l o p i n t h . t h o a u n d ~ O f ~ i;itTr -iiG-.t the aoor;
*ith the ghnt rrong shall hll
$3ng tn the r d i m t m m and im t m d small.
The larger h e a r t the ktndllcr hand ;
Rlw out the darknca of the l a d , n
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GOLDEN AGE CALENDAR
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~ l i h o~oot.ti-uhtgovernment o r w r a h i p
h'or. 2; : Flrat day of Jewish month Klrler ; Nu--& (Sa~nd
H a w a t rntlval). Japan ; 1019. Hundred8 42 l r m y ollkem
nhot in Pettogrnd: P a d v c r s k l lava for England on
Poltsh .dun : Qrdlnal Gibbons a p p r o r a ZLoPlp ; U-
road men awarded wage I n c r ~ e .
Nor. 24 :Bepudiatlon by. Frederick Connty. W h d ; 1918,
K d s u wflhclm at Ammapen. Holland.
Nor.%: 1918, Agreement reached between German S o l d l H rod
Workmen's Cowdl and the Gunuo ~ruanr.o+
November 26,1919, VOLI. Na6
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eyer, was rot so.simple a matter because it was wually getting less and othen more. Cndesited consequenced
thc rcs~dtof a fight with the employer. The employer might be cited from such inequalitieunrest, dis-
could d v n ~ skecp ahead in the mcc, for he could raise content, vindictireness, revolution,aaarchy.
prices again 3rd it wodd be some tirne before the worker The big profiteer does not be- sole responsibifity
would rcalize that the employer's price-increase meant for the prevailing distress. Everyone does who helped
just that much real wage dccrcase. '%oost" prices or wages. The retailer did not neglect h h
One par* as making more than the other party. part in raising the cost of living. I n the aunshhy trade
It was alrars the business man ah0 did the price raising. d a y of 1915-1916 =me retailen were slow to sense the
He \\-as making invisible clifferertial between the extra changing situation. Honest fog* they could not
pay guc'.,ned to the xrorker and the additional price !ie charge a multiple profit on goods they had bought low.
forthwith charged labor a ~ ~d h i c hordifiacly naa snb- But the little p m f i k n persuaded thern to "play the
staztidly largrr than the a-age increase it aas supposed game," and get their share of the golden stream while
to bdance. it lasted. A grocery trade journal ;an full-pago ad-
Labor not understanding, and in the home circle tisements that raising p r i m ass the dyle and no grocer
Gnding the mathematics of prices arid wages traasmuted should fail to raise his; "evergbody ras doing it," and
into emot:ons end fcelings de~clopedby prirations of "they could get the money." I t as a kind of golden
loved ones Ends it impossible to maintain the calm. &I?- age, which forced thousands of Fords and hundreds of
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. possessed demeanor of pure mathematics. Re &.t cricj ''si~es" and "eights" upon a willing r e t d trade.
/' out. Some day he may act. Cor.an Doyle, the ,mat But now dealers looking for s too-& living hare to
English v-r~ter,says that unless eff?cti\-e steps are talian be reasonable. It hre seemed M though a jail 8enter.m
promptly to check rking food cost there m i l l b: T a r e rras the o n l ~thing to keep some dealers r i t h i n b o u n h
violence in Great Britain. I n Flore~ce, Italy, the For the public weal, the little profiteers have to adopt
workers ransacked tlie stores of the profiteera and aftc r the new fair-price fashion.
declaring a striLe secured a reduction in pricee ot fXb Profiteers are nothing new. Thep hod them in d a y
to sevectp-five per cent b c e hao doubled the number of old, when the prophet Ezekiel said, "Thou hast taken
of selling booths from wluch low price food is dLhiibcted n s u y and increase, and thou hast greedily pined of
and has established cheap restawanb to serve mala rt thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten mc,
dxed prices. aaith the Lord God1'--el 22 :13.
Low food costs are imperatively needed; but if f d
priccs are forced down, who will pay the farmer enough DEC-G PACgLNG
for him to make a living and enable him to keep on
raking farm products for the lest of the people to eat?
Truly in emry diredion there ue intricate m d per-
T" -ON-ANDERSON bill recently befom
Congresa for the decentralization of the packing
basin- h to oorrect the wratc in haaling animalr
plexing questions which mast be d v e d ta keep the from points all over the country to Chicago or Kansas
people from greater discontent, and pet the rolution of City, and then shipping directly back the hished pro-
.thew problerns appears to require a more than human duct. It hcpes to eliminate a long string of conmidon
wisdom, and a Solomon has not yet appeared to show merchant and middlemen. It proposes to licewe a11
the way- B u G t h e Golden Age draa-s on apace, m d packen and provides a lipt of punishable offensea for
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m n the long looked for Messiah shall arise and bring unfair, unjustly diseriminatory or deceptive practicer
order out of the world's confusion and chaos. ''Thy in cornmerat
kingdom come- The b13 propose8 to license any number of standard-
i d planb erected municipalities or m b d i v b i o ~of
TEE LITTLE PROFITEER states, or by their accredited representatives. It proposes
!KLIAh' haa to lire, and when rising prices are that records and accounts shall be submitted ta the
A fashionable, the price autocrat has to make his p r d t
represent as good a living as before. To a dealer wages
Secretary of Agriculture and that the remicea of the
plant shall be available to all customers on the h i s of
or sa1ar.r are spclled "profit," and his wage may be fair and reasonable returns and without unjust dis-
Large or EKMII or even miuus-he must make money crimination. It contemplates the rerpicea of special cars
whm the making is good. If prim double, the dealer, and the whtanae of the Gowmment in mattem of
to hare the srme wage, ehoald obtain I a e profit. This inupdim, otandardizatian, plans m d adcice, bat not
is d y fair. Any worker's income ohodd v a q with h d a l&stma.
priccs, sa thut there be none d tbe ineqnib lonu It t the hope of the frnmers of the bill to change tbr
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parking buaineu h m a centralized busineaa into ona For m e macon th.t d m not appear on the nui.q
in which the local centrs of production will be the local the Sariptuma intimate t htjust before the dam of tho
centre of disM'bation. However, if it in profitable to Golden Age them w i l l be a puiad during wh-kh rwL
decentralize the packing busineaa, one can not but will not be obtainable on any c o n d i k Posribly thk
wondcr why the great padem have not found this out fi be caused by a temporary b d d o r n of credit.
long ago. But perhaps they have had too many other The pasage d: 'Tor M o m thea daya there ru
things oc L n d to give this phazc? of the b u s i n e ~ no hire for man, nor m y hire for beast; neither w u
rdequate attention. It in freely claimed that the big there any peace to him that went out or came in h u m
packers have been busier in mrnering all sulrstitutcs for of the .tIiiction: for I set all men every one against hir
meat than in providing meat itself for the people a t -
neighbor".-Zechariah 8: 10.
legitimately low p i c i I t certainly looks & though
sorccthhg is wrong when 700,000 lbs. of beef. lamb and PRINCIPLES OF SUCCGSS
pork are kcpt in storage 80 long that they hare to be >TORHER in aa). omupation might profit by
iold for fertilizer at lJ,c per pound. A t h e adiiee giren to army o t % m by Y a j o r C k n d
McGlachlin :
POOD AND CLOTmrG You must have courage, self-reliance and good judg-
ment.
A CCORDING to the Natiol~alIndustrial Conference
Board in its recrnt research there is a race between
food aud clothing, as to which r i l l increasc the most in
Cournge is a very camman natural gift, but it ma?
aleo be developed by practice in dangerous games and
occupntioiis
prim S e l f - ~ r l ~ a nisr rusunllc a result of training a d person-
Betwren July, 1914. and July. 1319. iood increased in al effort, to be attained by actually performing tasks.
price 30%. but was distanced 10% br clothing, which Good judgment cornea from the atudy of your td;
increased 100%. Other i n m a w were. shelter 289, before you do it and from d e c t i o n upon the resultr
itd, heat and light 57% and sundriea 63%. The obtained and mistakes that may have been made.
average ndvanm in the cost of living m e 73%. I n your l ~ f efrom day to day, you ehould o h m ? the
t principles of simpliciQ, directnew, thomughnesa and
The figures coniputed by the Board are claimed to be
those of the arerage family expense or budget, and promptness.
probohl~.represent the facb, unless there was an effort Thc shp!er your thoughts and reasoning, the mom
clear will be pour declion. The simpler your language,
to make thc figures as 4 ss possible in order to have the more easily you mil be understoad.
them show that a a , p i n c r e ~ e daa much as the co& Direct statements will d t in c l r r i t ~of under-
of living. Tlrero is an old sav to the effect that "Figures standing by your ~ u b r d m ~ kand a by your supnars,
do not lie, hut linrs do figure." There is no intention to and arc equally appreciated by both.
d k r d i t the figures arrived at, but M o r e accepti~y Thorough treatment of subjecta thnt you are r e q u u d
them as finsl, it might be well for "the man on the to handle will result in their effective &position.-
etreet" to b o w something about the personnel cf the Y o r m u s t train yourself to regard these subjeets not
Board. their connection? and the motives by which they merely from your o m standpoint but from that of your
might be influenced. superiors and that of pour subordinates, keeping in tiew
Accordiug to the Board the prrcentagcs of a man'e always the interests of thc government which you serve.
famil!. e?;pcli.;r are c1ictril)ntcd as follo~vr: Food 43.lk, Do not sac.rifice thoroughnees to simplicity. Brcviip
rhrlter 17.; 5,'clothing 13.2%. f ael, heat and light is a virtue, but thoroughness is the more important
principlc. .
6.6% ant1 surdrics 20.4%, total 1 0 0 9 .
I3e pronpt. I t i c icdi=pcnsible. Procrastination is the
root of ali el-il. Those who put things od do not do
DEMAND FOR LABOR &em. Those who do not do them are n o t useful.
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or 93.n% "P* that promising young men and rromcn dlsaFFred and never rearere&
arc not trkmg up teaching as la the pas:. Tho situation Fords ~ t h numks out llar,l
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h least serious where sderies have b x n lncreasfd mod.
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trace, ns it wm pracEcally imPbssi51e for
The d e t f l o ~ m m tof tho mind a d char* of the to prove that tho car cvcr did belong to the American
poung is ~ o b t be co~npuedwith the -g of ~ ~ d iFO- t ~h~ i great~ ~U O ~ of ~ Q
windows, if the criterion i!~the wags in- af the g, F, t b ,~m&- -5 m,hmem,
aml;err. E ~ t h e rthe teaching profernion is amaidered of tl&orm f4 FmOB before the -, .nd when off& for
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no p r r t i d a r importance, or there is a sr8hmtic e k e ,& -a q~cklyremeas
to diacred:t the public whooh by impairing their dfi- m, psople who hrc p&- b h.~agrcrt
ci-. for the eighth comrmndment 7 ! b u rhlt not SI &&'
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Tht red trouble m y bs that the hdim 8 (adm ~0:15), to podti- h t fi
negligible factor Lwcnus~they do not auitrol r o w a d appbrn only to *tealing from inaiyid& principle
are not proper!^ ~ni&Led. Perhaps if the 630,000 Bmu- it just =ong to #teal from on -ation af pmple
ican teachers were welded into 6 bad- ~ O they
w d ham a labor ba&ng which would
B from , ,
i n d i n d d , pt thfre
P * m to hg!y reqxctable people, whose co-cea
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an, lar when
school boards that pars ap their petitions for r d e f from it ,c, t o aealmg aith m-fim, ,m a
1Of ~0rkcn The Scriptures &Ow fiat in Golb
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pinding ~ o T F I 'SO ~ ~~
. ~ s more k p 0 ~ tGov-ert
than those that control the future of the people the *-efts en3 defalcatiom mast be ma&e good for
trach?:s do thro-agh the cducatign of the yonag. 'Ihey the fia 2 0 5 , &ditioI1d; .nd mhm fm
& o d d be g f ~ e nsalary ircr-es at ~ m m m t omp Two=, as might be Kith 8
r i t h the higher cost of lirkg. cannot be made good "unto him a m vham he ha%
Sicholus Vclhiiro:ic, the morn? and mental lca&~!of trespassed", it is requircd thzt #'the trespass be recorn-
Serbia. axording to the Eduational Brcinr, asserts pcnsed m t o the Lurd." ( X d r s 5 :6-8) There is hopa
that "If ~ h c r eis nn!thhprr to be learned from the war, here for som3 P ho 57 stock cunipulations have robbed
it is 1r~.btle~s this: The education of youth in all t h e wrpor~tiorucf mXons. E pcrsodly required to d - e
conn?rics of the world must become m international up dl t h e &2dc3tions thq r o d l a be reEnced to
af!'3ir of tLe re^ h t ir.portance." virtnal davery for mpriads of years, bct no doubt the
Seglcci of tb teachkg profesCan b e s m no p r o d - "recompense ur.b the Lord" w i l l take €one form of
ing future for this country, for the man and woman of contrition not exp:csxd so mzch in d o b s sad C W ~ J
t-tp pars henee be l&y what the *her of rs in true repcntancc md retormatIca of h e a t
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COLLEGE GRADUATE 0'NIO.Y (1 Peter 5: 10) whose *'tender mercies u e over all bir
1ILRE IS' an imprzsaion that the technical profes- works". ((Psalm 145: 9) Men who so f v forgot their
T siona are very well paid Young men by thoussnds
arc fitting th~mselvesto become mechanical, electrical,
original inlieritmce of godlikeness as to torture a help-
leas woman in the night time, have fallen far. m e Lord
and cil-il engineers. says to mme such, "Thou thoughtest that I was alto-
But thcre are so many young technical graduates that gether such an one as t h ~ r (Psalm
' 50: 21) and the
they cannot obtain adequate . pay. and hence they create intimation ia that they thought mong.
a lcind of educated proletariat. I n S e w York they have FOR mz POOR
been so underpaid by profiteering emploren that they
have or~anizcdo trades union and are d i n g salary
increases of 8600 a year.
N O W THAT COLLEGES are raising millions, next
in order should be donation8 of large amounts to
help the children of the poor who are not able to invest
This affects 3.160, including junior endneera, en@-
neering ami&nts, chemists, architects and inspector8 a thousand dollars a year for education. TwenQ million
in engineering work. The presezt college systeni tends dollars given to Yale represents about $5.000 per stu-
b u d ovcr-supply of educated Ir-orhrs and a &g dent. To P ~ ~ Or? a~~ ~~ r r~c i Y
a b l ~ the eduatiOn
of the poor children would be .n enterprise like a
competition among them.
realized how poorlp p-R the technical national drive for Liberty Bonds. There are, consem-
If
professions arc., especially at the outset, far 1-s would atively 'Mine9 perhaps ten the
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go to college but ~ o u l denter the more remuneratife POQr in this to each One of
with an endowment that would provide an income of
and useful trades.
The ralue of colIep education is greatly orcresti- $200 a pear would require the raising of the enormo7Yr
mated. %ow that the rorkcrs are well paid, there is not of'f@ b*on
:hc rearon thnt formerly esisted for spending four pears If it is a financial impossibility to provide a $200-a-
ancl 8eveml tilouen:ld dollars for something that no rear eduatiOn for the Youag people, it is probabl? a
longer guarantees a good income \,-ith relief from hard good that a few thousand Tale students are goin,"
a-ork. to hare that much added to the liberal amounts already
I n breaking r i t h all college traditions and lining up provided for their education.
with the norliing people the roung technical graduates "Highei' education is regarded s good enough thing
of xer York haye learned that not exclusi\,enpd, but for tens of of young men to in it
cooperation wins succes-.. hundreds of dollars n Tear a piece, but i t is seriouslp
The advice of old the is etiu to the lacking in one element, for after it has done all it can !t
a&: but the college lran is learning from znother of usually leaves its beneficiaries in the position of those the
the insects of ancient Palestiie which had n deserred Bible speaks of as "ever learning, and never able to cone
reputation for getting whatever it went after: 'The to the knowledge of the truth".-2 Timothy 3: 7 .
locus^ h a ~ eno king, yet they go forth a l l of them by ORGANIS
ban&."'-Proverbs 30 :Y i . YEAR AGO Boston nevspaper men arerapn3-$21
TOO LITTLE BAIL
A
a week. They organized a union, intvPiesed the
Qpogrephers, pressmen and photstngravers as to ghat
0 CCASIOFSLCY we hear it said that the bail they were getting, presented demandd of $38 mi-urn
required for certain violators is too large; there for reporters and 845 for disk men, aad got it. Tkc
have been instances in which bail was 2enied altogether. newspaper omers did not \ i m t to reco~mizethe union,
But it is seldom one hears of a case where the bail might but they did when they thought of the cmbarrassnents
be considered too small. It seems to us, however, thar, of missing several editiom. T!ierc \vas no mention of the
51,000 bail is too small a requirement for any one of the brain vorkers' victory in any &:ton newspapers.
three men in h'orthern Sew Tork who climbed icto the The man who organized the Boston editors and rc-
room of Xrs. Le Felche in the abaerce of lier husband, porters in opening address alluded to them as brain-
pulled her from bed, stripped her in the presence of her less braina-orkcrs. He seemed to think that, as tlle
eleven year old son and sir Fear old daughter, m d Scriptures espmss the matter, '?he laborer is ~ o r t tofj
poured hot tar and feathers over her naked body. his hire? and he could see no rcamn why the men who
Tho Jews were forl)idden to torture any living thing. do the rough work around ncrspaper offices shotdd
Torture is ~vhollpforeign to the character of him of -ire trice the pay for their work u do tho% who
vliom it is mitten that he is "the God of grad' achady sapply the material for tho %ding public,
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S-PT BEARIAVCSAND OILS Seatsfoat oil is obtninetl by boiling out t!ic fret of
~laughteredanimals, and if properly prepared from fresh
R f- OLL R BEARINGS will bear the heariest loads,
ball bearings rank next and babbit metal ir next.
If the bearings are loose, thick lubricants like graphite
material contains less than 55 of l p of fatty acid. but
:he commercial oil sometimes contains as high 30%.
and g r e a r a:e best, especially where there is flying dirt. Seatsfoot oil containing over 4% of fatty acid should
Such lubricants form ridges around the shaft at the not he used aa a lubricant.
ends of the journal and close the openin3 to the Tallow oil should hare a sweet clean odor when used
entrance .of sand or d i r t as a lubricant and sho111d be free from suspenaed matter.
The best oils for high speed shaft3 with light pressure I n the Scriptures the Body of Christ is compared to
ox the bearings are a misture of 20% spcnn oil (ob- the human bodp. and in this figure the joints me portic-
tained from the blubber and head of the sperm whale), ularly referred to. Tliesc joints, in a way, compare to
307~olive oil (of which the better grades are dark and the bearings in a piece of machinery. Unlegp thep are
poorer , d e s light in color) and 50% light mineral oil. well oiled there is trouble. And again, if they are well
For low speed hai its with light pressure on the bear- oiled with t11e spirit of loving emice of other members
i i g s the best lubricant is 50% olive oil and 50% light (4 the Body, "The whole M y fitly joined together and
m i n e d oil. c ~ m p 3 d c dby that which every joint supplieth. according
For high speed shafts w i f i heavy pressure on the to the effectual working in k e measure of every part,
bearings the best lubricant id 35% lard oil (the liquid d e t h increasz of the body unto the edifjing of itself
obtained from crystallized lnrd by straining under pres- in love."-Ephesians 4 :16.
NR), 25% sperm oil and 40% henw lcinerd oil.
TEXTILES RUN FyLC
For low speed shafts with heavy pressure on karings
the bed lubricant is 60% colza oil ( a pale yellow oil
obtained from rape seed) 25% lard oil and 25% M o w
T
BE PROSPEnITY of the textile industry is shown
by the percentage of the total number of spindles
that ye busy. At present the industry ia running as
oil (obtained from solid tallow by pressure).
nenr full capacity as possible, for an account of repairs
For moderately high speed shafts with very heavy
and other n&sq idleness it is never feasible for 100
pressure on the bearing the best lubricant ie 35% sperm
cent of the spindles to be in operation.
oil, 20% colza oil, 26% lard oil, 16% tdw oil d
The following pematagea of apindlea active a t
6% fine plumbago.
different d&a clearly indicate the rise of the textile
. For low speed shafts with very heavy pressme an the mills from the depression of hat winter. The figurer are
bearings the best lubricant is graphite-grease which for the woolen mills, which sre fairly representative af
consists of 26% 'cow, 3070 p a h palm 33% mined oil the whole industry: --
.and 12% fine graphite. F'rescnt time, 92%, August 91%, July 91%; June
The resistance of various oils to k i n g squeezed out of
8596, May 63%, April 71%, March 6876, February
bearings at 65 degrees temperature Fahrenheit is rs 59%, January 63%, December (1918) 849, November
follow8: 8896, October 91%, September'92s.
Sperm oil -
Liglit minernl 011
Cotton-d oil -
1 0
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1.9
2,176,953 -
The total number of epindles in the woolen milla in
and in the worsted mills, 2,307,178, grand
Olive oil "0 total, 4,451,131. Some branches of the business are
I.urd 011 -.-
,I 0 running 9 5 5 of full capacity, and others are running
R n l e on..-. ".3
Seatstoot oil "..I
double shift, the latter circumstances being the cnrrse of
Tallorv oiL ".S the high prices for some goods produced on overtime
Henvs miaernl 0 1 1 . 4 0 Pay rat=
Castor O I L-..... 3ZO If Solomon, the miter of Proverbs, aere here bdap
bt 220 deg- Fahrenheit dl oila are about equally he might not advise to "Oo to the ant, thou sluggard;
fluid. consider her rays, and be wise" (Proverbs 6:6), but
Castor oil is ohtniied from castor beans b~ pressing, "Go to the mill norker," for t h g e hrs d d o m been r
darning and filtering and is nearly c o l o r h time when the mills aere busier than now.
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is taken into the confidc;ncz of the management, acd if these hare at once found profitable e m p l o v t . One
an idea canrot be ascd with nrac~icclresults, the reasou.: thing that heo made thia pos.d.de is ffie immigration .
ns they are s h o ~ mby t h e acd>jir si;*t ere fully ex- sLn?ntion There is no immigrant labor to be hod.
I p l ~ c dto b." & a rcsdt, t k h concern receirer Prior to thc w u r e were &iring a net immigration
I corr!izl coopezction from its emplo~es.
I n contxst to the Ecstman nt2tuilr. the following
from Europe of 800,000 pusom annnally. During the
!last five y c v s there has been no net immigration, the
about a F ~ C - i n t ~ n r l ewho n t at h2d appzrcntlp uumber goin: v t having jws about eqxalled the number
I favored a c g p s t i c n , t d e tbc stor)- of the complete coming ip,
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the League of Xatiox. There were d-ates from all established air hues marked by landing places frequcnt
p& of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Great enough for a machine to volplane to safety an.mh~rc.
Britain and Argentina, cablegrams from the Prime FXforts are being made to "practhlize" air travel.
Minister of Australia, the President of Peru and other An airplane of 19,000 pounds, to carry 3,000 pounds of
dignitaries whose habitat is far h m our shoreg mail, and equipped with three motors and mueless tele-
The subjecta discussed were such as to how to help phone, and manned by two pilots and a navigator, i j
Mr. TTilson solve the industriel problem, how to make being built to run between New Tork and Chicago in
Latin America better Lno~vnto the people of the UPited ~ewn hours--provided nothing hap-
States, how to protect L i b e e %I& holders against Giant gas-bag machines are planned in England to
securit.ies of questionable value, how to malie the U&d travel between h'ew Tork and London. They are to be
States better Anom in Mesico. and other subjects such luxurious afIairs, Kith s a l o o ~dining
~ ~ , room, and sleeping
as one rould espect t o engage the atkntion of statesmen cabins The equipment contemplates 3,500,000 cubic
but which rery properly engage the attention of those feet of gas, a cm$uo" capacity of wren$ tons, a n o n -
who have ao much t3 do nith molding public opinion and s b p ability of 6,000 miles and a speed of eighty miles
directing the success of public ventures as falls to the an hour, to cross the Atlantic in f&ty hours-alaays
encc-despised advertising man. prorided the ine\itable does not occur.
The advertising man of today is a &jeminatar of It was an approach to p r a c t i d t r ~ p o r t a t i o nwhen
information. He is expected to supply real news, and if a nine-j-ear-ld Texan Kith hia mother rode from
the concern with whirl1 he is coanected is not doing Houston to attend school at Kew l'ork. The t i p msr
work that is hportsrit eno11g11to merit publicity there safely made from D d s , ria -bkanias, I h k , Indian-
is no reason wh? it e1,ould expect the public to be inter- apolis, Daytan, Cleveland, Buffalo and Eicghamton
ested in what i t has to say. The advertiabg man is a The ri.h of the air h e were sliarply illujtrated by the
pusher for business, a pioneer, ao expert in-the art of killing in a fall of Xajor FrisYtll at Port Jervk. N. Y.
creating new wants or new w a s ti, snppip old ones. He had said the air '%umpf', aud it proved to be so.
E w v person who announces a policr is an advertiser, In the present state of air transit, men, U e richer,
8 publisher, a proclaimer of what he purposes to do. "make themselves ainga; they fiy brag as an eagle
When Satan said, "I w i l l e d t my throne abore the stars toward heaven" ( ~ r o v k b s23 : 5 ) , but men l a d the sure
af God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congrega- power which keep the w l e safe and sound
tion, in the sides of the north ;I will ascend above tha in hia wide $rmg W d o m of the sky.
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POLITICAL, DOMESTIC and FOREIGN
OUR BOYS AND THE FRENCH It vill be a great day for thc fathers and mother3
GREAT many A.mericau soldiers did not came nway and brothers and sisters and sacethearts of the b o p that
A from France with very good opinions of either the
country or the people. The? dc-terbcl its mud, which is
fell in France when '-all thnt are in their graves shall
h a r his voice and shall come forth" (John 6:28,29)
everywhere, its unpaved street, its lack of bathtubs, its and it will be a great (lay for the boys themwlrcs. \Ve
omnipresent manure piles, its sj-,stem of charging Amcr- believe that this a\\-akenicg of those no\%- asleep in
icans se~eraltimes as much for supplies as it did French- death is near at hand am1 that it a-ill not be so long
men for the same articles, ontl its women most of all. before some of those boys now buried in France will
The true .Snerican laves and ailmires true -romanhood come and look a t the very places where all that nes left
and finds little to admire in a community u,l~ere,accord- of their mortal remains was laid in the summer of 1913.
ing to a prominent D. D., a man can enter almost any In a future issue we hope to give the reasons for our
home and treat the woman of that home as his o m wife. belief that the resurrection nill begin within the next
And he stated that this k largely h e throughout decade.
France.
The French people did not jind all of our soldiers all SIZE OF PEACE ARdm
that they chould wish, either. They fomd them too
much addicted to bard liquor, and n i t infreqnently too
rnde in speech and a d . The effect of French liquors
I T IS GENERALLY believed that Senator Chamber-
lain effectually killed the so-called March bill, recently
presented for Mr. Baker, Secretary of War, and the
upon our soldiers mar be judged from the fact thnt at General S t d of the United States a m 7 . Senator
one t i e i3. the summer of 1918 there were 30,000 Chamkrlain denounced the bill not only because it
officersand men of the h e r i c a n troops absent without aimed at a vast military establishment, 509,000 men in
leare from their organizations. time of peace, but because the General S U wanM for
According to the mother of an American soldier now the purpose a lump sum to be erpended entirely at iti
buried in France, the French are reported to be greatly discretion, Congress merely serving in the capaci* of
shocked owr the American neglect of some cemeteries in milker of the public caw to provide the funds. Senator
which are buried the -4merican dead. Some of these Chamberlain said that the bill as proposed spelled
cemeteries, a pear a f t ~ they
r were drst used, were said "Xilitarism to a degree never surpaseed in the palmiet
to be fall of rows of closely packed white cmsea and days of the great general st& of the German m y . ' '
long trenches instead of, as n-ith the French, individual The General St& n-as what ruined Oermany. Tkere is
grmes, carefully cared for. I n Borne of the cemeteries no General Staff in the MTJ, probably the most &dent,
there was said to be no flag flying, no person on c a r d , best managed department of the Government. Perhaps
nothing to indicate that anybody had snp interest in the that is th* reason for its dciency.
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~eed-mvered grounds. In the French grounds the It map be true that there are good reasons wby the
officers and mcn are buried together; in the Bmericnn IJnited States peace m y should in a few years be fonr
grounds they are kept separate Dl& is the t h e n for times as great as it was in 1917, but it would seem ss
this ? though the wreckege in Europe- &odd be canhcing
Geoerd Persliing is of the opinion thnt the Americans that it is not a good thing to have millions of armed men
r h o fell in hsttle in France &odd be allowed to lie standing around riFith nothing to do. It stands ta reason
where the? arc now buried, but &is does not seem to that some of those men, those who have the most to @in
agree nith the general sentimen-t of those wllo have lo& br it. or who think they have the most to gain b~ it, will
their lored ores on ti:: field of battle. General Pershing u-;e what infuenc? they have to bring on war, in the hope
Was given a great ndcome on his arrival in h'ew York, of profiting thereby.
but his return did not arraken the enthusiasm expected. Tillat is the proper size of 8 standing army for the
and a few fie?-s leter tb.e propwition to award him a ITnited States in time of peace? Should i t be 500,000
golden sword n-os receircd so coldly in Congress thnt i t as propowd bp Mr. Baker, or 300,000 as propowd bp
was abandoned for t!e time. The American people are General AleSndrew, former C h i d of Staff of the Amer-
thinking a lot now about the bo? they have lost and ican Expeditionq Force, or 120,000 ae it a s in 19171
are not 80 much interested in the &em, ObviouaJ it all depends m what we want the army to
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do. T!lcre is no need in hiring for a particular job of ~imilartcrms in our OH= day. I n 011 probability the
work four tin1c.s na nlaily workera as are news.iarg for armies of the four Iilngs cornbin?d (lid uot esceed a
t h r t job. An(! thttn tllrre is to be cou.iidc.red also, that thousand men.
to get men for this particular job the wages m u ~ be t high
enough to attract them, or the- \ l have to be obtained OFFICERS AND MEV
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by conscription, md it doen not =rn r e u o ~ t l zfor the ECHET.IBY BAKEB of the War Department 1-
United S t a h to resort to conscription in time of peacf. S revol:ed the military order posted a t Camp Mac-
Various forms of peace conscription hare k n propoded. .41-thur, '\Vaco, Tesm, which, in effect, forbade the
There arc but two general reasons for an army in t h e nrtendance of an officer a t any wid &air at which an
of peac?. One is to properly p a r d our out!:.-ing posses- cdisted mnn was present and which made it obligatory
sion. against sutldon attack. and the other is to maintain upon the o&er either to leave or to force the enlisted
order ct home. \\;hat renon is t.hcre b believe that the man to leave. T I rerocation wad a good piece of
forces adequate for t!~is purpose in 191: \v\.~uld not again bushes& We do not want in thin country s' set of lazy
be adequate in time of peace ? Senator Swauson s y 3 prig3 that imagine they are some uncommon clsy, too
with .reference to large 1:lil itary expenditures, "A large good ta m o c i a h bitla thek fellom UPiformr do not
p u t of the immeasc sums now appropriated for m- makemen
m a t s could be utilized to secure bstter educational Benotor Chamberlain haa proested that the&must be
advantages, to construct good road.?, to build better a reformation of the court mu-tial system which w i l l
homes, lo aid religicua and charitable irratitutions, to nake it imposible, as waa recently the cpse in Texr.4, to
develop industries, and for the general advance of impose the death penalty for a minor offense and then
cornfofi and ci\.ilization." These arc the words a€ a carry it out within 48 hours, before the papers in the
statesman and this is a ststsrnanlikc utterance. wuld Rech Wa&h@n for review. He presented
I n time of peace the principal du* oi the United a bill authorizing omnegtg for all soldiers, sailors and
Staks army is to preserve order within the Cuikd States m i n e e mvicted by court mnrti.l
itself, and possibly with the idea that because of @war Eli- o f h m should not forget that the tlrst re-
conditiom there would be more disorder than d, quirement is that they be men, and no nun is r real
Secretary of Wnr Bdier has issued orders that hereafter m s a w b f s k s l m t a i r a d v ~ t a p a f ~ t h a t u e f o r
State oEcirrls can a l l M y upon oommnnding the time placed in his power. Of dl man on earth the
generala of military departments in their ~ i c i n i t yto milikry o & a z t the last man that can a b d to show
furnish such troops as niay be necessary for the protcc- that he d m not abide by the simple rules of plain
tioa of lives w.d p:.op:rtj, thus performing duties which justiea but must resort to artifice to bolster up his claim
formerly dcvo!ved large15 upon the S a t h r a l G w d of to authanty and to respect Who can imagine the noble
the Strte it&. Csntzldon CorneLi~the story of whose conmion to the
l?le armics of olden t h e a did not amount to much, at Christian faith ir m beautifully told in the tenth and
1-t riot to start wlth. The iirst account of a "kaitle'' eleventh chapters of the Ads of the Apostles failing to
recorded in the Scriptures is in the fourtee& chapter of treat the &en under him with utmost c o w - a n t 1
Genesis. TSere four kings carried am? a p t i v e a m - respect? The thought that a man must be priggisll, cruel
ham's ~ e p h e wLot, alter they k d ddefatc.4 the five and unfair to be made mitable &rial for an ofiicer
opposing b g s . I\-@are r a t to suppose ' b s the army could only a r k in the micd af 2x4 who loloas in his
which captured the Sodomites na a huge one, even heart that there ia no r d -=on n-hp anybody s1:ould
though the u m e s oi four kings we i n ~ o d u - d kl con- respect him at all.
nection with it. 'i'hk u-w not ti very lozg b e dtcr the
dood, and the a t k c ~wpulationwas nut ss yet large. A WAR BY-PRODUCT
The suggestion of certrlin higher critits & o ~ tvast
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armies, grest cities, etc., a t t l ~ i stime, u+out of kun?w)-
rith the f o c t s h t , the siiortu* af tuu
BE EFFECTS of a world war are nct wholly bad.
A by-product is that there are many less rorkcra in
the the United State3 than would have been the nomzl
#mod; aad oeoaud, tke ability of ;Lbr& vi& r i l S rucn, cse if there had been no European vcr. This n~akcj
b even make M attack and &concert and a d u s e the conditious in America fa~orable;rs respects employment,
u m y and deliver Lot and the Sorlomiter dl their but it no doubt necceaihtes that many Americans bust
g& 'Ihs f m s all a p u that tLe citw, the armies, work at harder manual kbor th.11 they have brvn
$he h g l y powers of that b y , wera v q meagu in aocustomed to, rs oar heavy work hw been Inrgely
aunpuhn with what we haie in mind ailen se rue performed heretofore by new hmipnh
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n'Il0 --IRE A--~-PRCHISTS? good corscionce, require cf o:hers that tLer keep the
'2'IBCHfSX, 3s u p h i l ~ ~ o p i i~ccor&r,o
~,, to the En- rules he is n:ppowd to cntarcc!?
A- cpclJpedia Erittaaia, is rhc oppacite of Socidisn.
The aim of the Sor.dirts i:- to crater :J power in the
And then comes up the qucrtion of blrhcrirm. 13
that Anarchism? The gemera1 idea in the public mind
Gorcr-ezt a d to n!die t.5e G ~ 3 St t n;?, as they call eeemr to be that it arnou1.1ts to the scme thing. and there
the prospecti~esclciaht arran,-ent, the controlling has been a last amount of licmture circulated to cn-
fador in nearly e r e q activity of hum= life. Anarchism c o w e thrt idea But we have an intareoting prod
U fist fiz State b e a d y hm too much *me?, and that the two are quite diiTer?nt, and that not in R w i a ,
thrt n e a r 1 all d:e troubl~sof maokhd originate from rhere tb mmch.bb u e r e e ~ g n i z d a&* *Pmatc
thst fact. Soc.inli;m Erliercg in ,-entrg!ization of power and distinct from the Bolshe~-iats(Scchlids). We had
more and more, iu behalf of the peaplc. -4carchism the illustration in this countrv, a t a lecture room of the
belieres in decentraliz~tionfor the same reclson. Rand School. =!me them rras a lecture on the mecaiug
w m c r g in the the0ric.s of =archim me of k o of t h e term "so~ict". The hour dc\-ot?d t~ the lecture on
distinct schools, the one believhg in tile gradual sprmd this topic hod passed; sl;d h e roor.1 uar occupied by a
of their doctrines agd the other believing that force h committee givuig urel'ill tttentiou to the homing
necessar;r. There is great antaganism be*een the two problem, r h e n i t KM burd open by a gang that threw
schocls of thought, but both admit that if &eir philor- them into the atreet, along a i t h their furniture, and
ophp shorJd prevail it would wipe out the weaker n;entd, made a complete wreck of the Mom. The men who
moral and physical ~pecimensof the race. is not a broke up this orderly mectiry of thinking men and
very clieerlul outlmk for an? of ua that me prirablp women were ux:ckiAq nere they not? If not, what
forced to admit, just to ourileltes, that we are not aa r e r e the).? At any rate they were not friendy to thr
strong either nmInUy, morally or p h p i d y , y we sol-iet (&ishe\-kt) id= and made tile attack for that
could r i s h ! reaswn.
We do not know to which of these s b L a of thought And hat about those riots in O d s ? There a mob
Alexander Besliman and Emma Q o l b belong. We of fire tilousand people partislly wrecked the c o ~ n t y
only h o w that these t r o are lergely in the pnbLic q e a t court h o w with bombs in order to ntaL their ven-
preeent as thep haye just been relawed from prison and geance on the n e p o whom they finally ~ c w d e d
PFO hewn as mrchiSt leadus. B g b L described lynching. All law snd order were thrown to the aindm,
correctlp as "a studious, earnest, middy read man of and the mayor who attempted ta stem the tide N
wry pleemnt, quiet mamer." He desimater himself as s t r u g up and barely e3cp.ped with hie life. Ia it not 8
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an idealist nhote viers ncd I2enl3 conflict rPith t h m of gmd time to do a litile knrt-searching on then
capital." \Then d i e d in court if he was an miuchist he qdons?
rc.fuscd to n=n-er, further than to my, "The hearing is On August 9th, Representative Blanton, Democnrt, of
*n inmaion of my anecienoe a d my thoughts, not aa Teue i n t r o d u d in Congress a joint resolution ''declu-
inquiry into my actions." ing that a state of anarchy e x h in United Stxh,
I n the Homestead steel strike t~enty-eightrears ago, authorizing the president to f r interdate
~ mails a&
when he was but a lad, Berg- B o t a d injared E C. tr&c from further udawful interference, and to a&
FricX, and fcr that crimc p e n t fourteen years in B Penn- quately protect citizens in thck prop* righta" Has
sylranir prison. H is sentence of h o pegn a t Atlanta llepresentatirc Elarton is apparently amusing OM or
l'e~tenri3r,., juct completed, ass for vioktion of the more departmcntg of the Goremment itself of not
fedition aci. ?lies Coldman aas arrested and seritenccd living up to t!ie rc!cs '\vhicll hare been prepand bf
3t f l : ~snnic f illle a1 Cerlmsn and has just been rclcascd Congesa to limit its poaers. His m i t i o n i n that tb
k o m tile Uirsouri Etatc P e n i t e u t i q at JcXcrson Citr. men who kEve violnkd these mlw nre anOTCbiCtL L
Eoth Mr. CErkman and U i s s W h a n bare issued that t r u e ?
statementi ol? couilitions in their p!m3 of confinrment At Portland, Oregon, on September 15th, Resident
that call far inre+tigation m d netion Officers a k o ITilson expressed conviction that unlesa the Ircrgue of
dischcy the state or federal rules in their rnlnqement Sation3 b e c o ~ e sa reality, now existing Oovemmentr
of prisons arc alxrchists themaelrcs, are they mt? The will be overthrown aud t l ~ e i rform changed. On the
meaning oi t h e word *'Am.rchf' is ''without mlc" and fame &y Senator O r e n u n of North Cuolinr in the
rules are eren more necessaT for the rulers than for the United Stotcs Senate ussd almost the rrms h g u q e ,
ruled. If a r d e r does not abide bbp the ru!a expressly ~ a g n g "Until
. t!:ia ia done there can be uo pew. but
p r e p n d to limit his ovn poacr, how cro he, rith r uurci:, rcro:oticn, s:m-ation and awc11y:rill ahlk up
AGRlCULTURE ZI)' ALASK.4
AGRICULTURE and HUSBANDRY
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Tile southeartem part of ,Usjlia is hcaviI:; embered
valuable results. whence the copper was ahipped. In Uer tima of per-
T h e idea has taken root in some astute minds that secution Christiane were forced to work in the copper
reamed ma7 hare commercial or money-making possi- mines of that locality.
bilities, m d with selfishness as a motive, something is
being done to mrrh-e them raluable to humanity. NITROGEN INDUSTRP
In Japrn the matter has been gom into for same time,
m d 600,000 Japanese n o r work in the seaweed indnstry,
turning the water grou-ths inta boots, picture frames,
A OEHYAX Government loan of 200,000,000 marks
was the basis for the great nitrogen works at Oppau,
near Lud~igshafen.The factory rJ1 have W a g e
muble &ring, electric switchboards and r subtitate capacity of 350,000 tons of ammonia fcrtilinr, d r
for cotton. Thc French seaneed beconics a stiffener for daily ~3p8cityof 2,800 tons, and will employ 8,000 to
matt- and a oizing for straw hots. In South 9,000 persons. The first building of the eeven to be built,
Awtralia it works up into ropes and cord for fishing is completely equipped a i t h machhry, end it magni-
neb. In Essex, England seaweed is used for fertilizer, tude may be sunaised from the fact tbrt it hne 3,500
end in other parta of EnkIDPd "'Iavei' is akn as a telephones and haa already cost $750,000.
regetoblc In Ireland "tope," eatem hot, becomea a
remedy for rheumatism nod throat troubles. I n America RECENT ClZELUICAL P U N T S
-weed is employed to regubte the bowels. Xow certain
nrietiea u e being trmsfonncd, with other materials,
into bricks for b u i l b g purposes.
T HE ACTIVITY of an industry may be indicated by
the number of patenb issued to inveptcm Patent9
in ehtmstg never were eo active before. , h a g mrsp
According to Profereor Charlea E. Bessey, of the recent patmts us: a proclos for reparating nitrogen
Univew of Nebraska, seaweeds are d n s d e d umrding from air, one for the recovery of iodine from redduer.
to color, d there are many nrietiea-1,000 blue- m d one for the formation of pmmoni. by meam of the
qrcan dimes, 10,000 green rerwecda, 1,600 brown m- electric uc A proaar L patented for the de&dJtic
me& 2,500 red seaweeds m d h u t 400 rboerortr. treatment of tinead mmp, one for r m af e k b i c
Parhpr it ru p e in reftmnoc to the hitherto ua- furxwx,d~ll~far~~dkLB*aPr
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firna howeTer, eFpecidy sine the sur@d oper- thowands of whom hotre died from h& of nourishment.
ationc mmt quito frcqucntly bz r e p t e d one or more It mpcrtcd that unless very 1WP qurntities of milk
timea in rfter yearn. are sent to Ital3; another you w i l l wo very fen brbiea
Even ago it known by some people that t h "live corntry.
ora of p c i t k s by babics is one of the chief cross of
dkmed md enlarged tanails and adenoid groehs, which BEST HIFALn7-GuARb
KISDS of gcrmicidcr am emplayed by people
d t from the suction.
Tonsils uc a nmssity to the Wr, especially ta A LL
who cm d o u for health vht gemrlesmess, but
norking c~h, they supply a fluid acrrdioa The accordhg tb the l'hiladelphia TuberculostS Committee
tonsib are an indicator of the condition of the body. the best One is S * ~of remom
thq we discrscd the b o d is out of dirt, but it took r "scicntise' t6 l&O c ~ l t mof ths
which nsultr most frequently either tiom over eating or e-*rmd contents of ~ n ~ ~ of e
wadadd hands, and
from not w i n g the right kind of foocls. TOOmncI: to ~ ~ ~ t h~t bvn farc thee w k r numbcr of @rmr
milk is not for it is too rich a food, unkathe rrmoved with ths dirt. &tWVGI', P y S the C C ~ -
child is older and gets pleoty of excrck. mittcc, n singla rplash in m p v water is not adequnte,
B~ remaving the the tonsil,, lIrd. unless but the hands must be d i l i m y and f 9 0 e n t l ~rcrub-
them is a tcnwners of the mi~sclesof the n& ladkg to b d , cff~tuallyenough visibly m o r e tho soiled
thooc p a t . This t~oublccan be c a w by a g a d u a b condition, in order to be d@ewrded
osteopath or chiropractar. infection. It is hcreic treatment to "wUh and be than'',
Diseased tonsils arc alone rutfrcient cane for adenoid but pcrlieps worth while, particularly if the old aa
, growths. Thrsc growths ere also caneed bp mothers not PCIC tNC that * net' ;t
suiticiently cleansing the b ~ b f snostrils, thus causing
8 gathering of matter aod an irritated condition. TBE DRUG F7CE --
. Catarrh, which results from an q ~ a v a t e dcold when CCORDISG t o tho X m Tork City H d t h Depa*
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tha system ia out of condition. is arothcr cauw- of mmt. obrrvationa made o* 2,776 drug usem,
rdcnoid growths. I n fad anything that irritates the indicrrte t h t in a b u t half the c a w acret -s of drug
tonsils acd those parts of the now, kuch as whaopiw lure thc can? of other persons part of the time, thw
cough. long b r d crving spells, ck., will cause adenoid i n c r e ~ i n gthe danger of sprp.d of the via. Besides the
gron-ths m d diwased tonsil. number rcgister~d-about 6,C)Oetbere arc about 90,000
Children r h o suffer wit11 catarrhal colds should be other addicts in the city. I t is tviclcnt that there u o
W g h t how to clrrn~cthe nasal psmgcs canrenicnt!~ rr.any recret channels thraugh which ma reaching
md cfEciently. and this is something m a y adults do not the victims. Int:re&ing f t ~ m are publidhcd concerning
know. The process is esrremely shplc. thc 'Jirt:;placc of drug w s registckd including the
Into a cilp of warm water. quite warm to the toucii Vnitcd Sratcs u-ith 2.621, and Italy second with nearly
but not hot, sprinkle enough mlt ta give it a m i l a d t ns many. Thc way in which the users bccrms involved
task. Thm using the hand rs a naptrclc snuff the in the mcshea of the drug habit was told b? r 1-
mlution thoroug3.r up Grrt one w t r i l and then the number. 1,222 f d thmugh evil sssocirtiom, 480 thrwh
0 t h until some of it m . s down the throat. Expd the illnrsr. lO8 to relieve pain, 72 h g h inw-4 :
mhts of the nose and repeat until fully clean&. alcoholic drink, 60 opium aneking, 1% fam* trouble,
Follow by @?ghg ths throat with the uma dutbn. 3 d m uld out, and 30 for the plersms af the
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MOLT BOA\= RECIPE9 Eonty P.u&'ing
KTIRGLY di.sregarding the r!i~':t mcdicina! value 3 cup honer; 6 oul?ccs bread crumbs; 4 cup milk;
E of honer, it is P rrho!~:a~::c, U Y C ~ I Lfo~d?ti:E
I worthy r i ~ ; ~of! half lemon: ? teaspoon ginger; 2 egg y 0 . b ;
of extended use. It is qrmb!r and intrcr!uc;e a p l ~ a s - 2 iaSlc7pwns butter: 2 egg whites; mix honey and
ing trarjety an? makrn thc dlct mox apptiring aa,! Lrcad crumbs; ndtl mill:, searoning, rolh of t a g ; beat
consequently more wholrwme. Tlie cheapest form in mixtilre thozoug!llp; add butter and d J h of egga well
whic5 to buy honey ia extract. in hsttles. Iloney makes beaten ; atenm a b u t % hours in pudding mold which i o
& large nuiber of good rccipcs, some of which arc as not =ore than threequarten full.
follows :
Ronw Brced
2 cups h m q ; 4 alps r$ flour; teaspoon soda : 4 tea- 1 quart cream; 6 b d b ~ g e m i f CUP d d a t c ? t
q o o m anheed; 2 tc8rpoonn ginger; 4 teaspoons pander- flarorcd h o n ~ ;chill honey b P * conbm~
ed cardsmom seed; 2 egg yolks; f c,,p brown ellgar; it in pan of ice water; whip creun; add it ta honer.
silt flow with spices aad soda; add otl\er ingcdic;l',i; miriug well; line a dish with 1 . d ~fingas; fill with
put dough in W o w buttered pana to m itich tlept!, h o a c ~and cmam; m e nrY cold-
m d bake in hot own.
Fruit d B o w J a g
Bo.nry Sponge Cape A good jell? may be mede from winter apples a d
? cup m F r ; f cup honer ; 4 eggs ; 1 car d t e d flour : hon~?,wing a mpfal of h o n to ~ crch cupful of apple
mix mgar md h o n ~ boil : until syrup + i s a thread j ~ , and , ~ prmng as in a r ~ - n t l p hmT
~ l l e n&OP.& from F p n ;beat !'oh of fe6"' until light ; e m b a& dth-other fruits mitabk jelly; the more
pdar qnlp over Y O of~ e g p ; beat mkture until cold; d&c&-ly flarored honey are b& for tbia purporr.
add %OW; at md fold beaten whites of eggs into d a l f a honcp g i h g arr errpecaly tar&
mixture; bake 40 or 50 minutes in pan lined with
buttered p a p , in slow oven. Honey Ft:&ye
c H o n q P m d Cake 3 cups sugar; 4 crlp tone!- : 3 c7.1p water; t eg;
1 cvp mew; 8 cup h o a q ; 1 cup burkr; 4 e g p ; whikr ; 1 teaspoon ~anlllaextract ; boil togetha ruw.
2 ~ p pastrp s flour; 3 teaspoon p ~ r d e r ctar .~ , bon" and water until syrup rpina a thread when drop
F C Z ~ ; 3 tcazpoon man; t t=poon nlaiil cr, ormge- ped frcm c spoon (ahout 250 degrees F.) ; pour q - u a
flower water; rub together but?er acd s::g:r; acLi over well-lcakn whiter of egp, beating o o n t i n w d v
h a q ; add of eggs wnJ h & n ; drJ~ h i b of s eggs, mixt'ue Pour Paw ;
k t c n to stiff froth; thcn pkin or ormge-i?owcr aate:; add flavoring after mk-ture har cooled a Bttle. Drop
add p d C a y flour sifM ~ t m&h and cardamom Jced ; in rnnll piems On buttCred Or parha Papcr.
beat misture 10 minuks; put dough into ram1 tin with may be omitted.
high sides; bolie in elox oren one hour. Raney Caramels
"
cup
s granukted sugar ;4 cop cream or milk ;) tu_n
Eoney Drop CaLcs
+
4 cup honq; 2 cap butter; 4 teaspoonc*amon ; hone?; h p butter; mix i n g r d h t s ; h a t .ad r
4 ~ r s p o o ndoves; 1 egg ; 14 to 2 cups f l o u ; 4 terspoon until mew ir dissolved; cook without rtirrhg until n
&#
, ; 2 tab!espoons ,rater; 1 cup *&kke, cut in mall firm ball be ronned from a.littlc of mi*= hpptd
beat hone, md butter until butter meIb Ivbde int3 cold water: beat niistura until it crptallizer; pan?
the m k h r e is wann 'add tho spices; when cold add part into buttere2 paus; cut into squaru; the additioll of
of ibn, egg well beaten, so& dis~~lvcd in water, and. pecnnnuts im?mrca these
rri6ir.s; add enough more fl01i.r to make a dough that will Hony Popcam E&
hdd &P b fnemfb on a L.lCcred tin ; xonc? be hnt,.d up,,t LbOt US &pa, h b r e a -
in a moderate oren. Lei: aithont beir.5 greatly chrngtd color or flavor :if
Honey Brar. CooEies it ia herted carefully moat of the water is erpahd; the
2 tablespoom butter; f cup honey; 2 egp ; f to 4 honey then b m e r hard on d i n g and caa be used for
+
t e r r s ~rod.; 4 cup flour ; 1 cup bran ; teupoon m k q popcorn U ; To mrts than, dip the popped
powdered artsed; rub together butter aud Donep; add corn into tke hot honey, rhape into bdb and cod. IIone?
eggs unbe&tcn;beat mixture thoroughly; rift tqether popcorn b d h absorb moirturo when atancling in the air.
IY , combine dl the ingre0imta; drop T h q mud t h d u r e ba eithrr kept very d d y covered
d a , misted;
from feupoon on buttered tin ;haka in moderate own. or nkGlted md dried b e being wed,
8
tbe whole r.ce cune under legal condemnation. and thus r h o pave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due
~ ~ d Gqd'sm arrangement
g we ran appreciate time." (1 Timothy Z : 8-6) This ramom prim for the
tbr words of the P m h i c t : "I3ehold, I was shapcn in p u r h of -kind from dmth tnr pmided marly
iniquity, and in uh did my mother eanaire mc"- 1.S00 years ago. But nten h e ~ econtinned to die for the
P& 61:5. r e r r n it was not Cd'a due timt to begin fa offer them
Thir judgment of deuth being justly inllicted by life. "Cod rt the first did visit the Cientilca to take out
J s b v a h for a riolvtion of hh l o w could never h laversed of them r people iorhiaarme....Andafter t h L I d l
by him, and unleas he made some yrovisiou for the relief return, and build yin the hbemach of David, which
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is fallen down; ancl I will build again the ruins thereof, centurv than ever before. and with it has cunle a greater
and I rvi!l set it up: thiit the rrsiclue of men might seek enli~l~t-l~nlcnt of proplc c.o:lcprnin~ the Erble. bwali:.e
aftcr thc I ~ r d and
, nll the nations upon whom my rime the tir?:c is due. -4ntl ow :L I : ~ - I ~ ~ S of \I:? Scriptun.s
k callcd, saith the Lorcl. who doeth all thrse things."- u1.e li~:ili:::: 0111 tliot thc Iliblc llicrills c.xac~lywhat it
Acts 1 5 : 14 - 17. ::;-.ril(.:y. t h s t .Ttbl:ovah pro\.ided tl~rouyhthe drat5
,Jchoyrh madc a l,ronli;?e to hithful -xbl.ahsm, sa,-ir;6, ;!r.cl rcill~rcciionoc .JCSIIS a purchn.;e prlcc for all men,
'Inthy m d elldl all the families of the i-arth bz "nd in c;oc!'s tine time a kno\vletlge of this fact m u d
blesjed.9 The of Abraham is the Christ, Jcalls be b r o ~ ~ g htot all, "kc'ai~sehe hati1 ~ p p o i n k da day in
the Head and the church hij bodv. ((jalatlafis 3 : 16, 2;. t l : ~~:l;ich he will judge tllc world in righteousness bp
29; Colcssians 1 : 18) From the time of the death and that man [('hrist J e s ~ ~whom s] he Ilath ordained; rhere-
rwmredion of Jesus until llir second coming is the tinlr! uf IIC 1 ~ t . h
g i ~ t n
a.;jul.ancca unto all men, in that he h ~ l h
which God visited the natiom of the earth alJ ! . a i d h i ~ l the d~ad."--Acts 1:: 31.
had the Gospel preac!lcd as r witness. according to \Vhrn are tlicsc prccious promises due to be fdiilled?
Jesus' prophetic steterncnt, in order that those ~ v l ~ olleferring to the article in our last issue concerning the
l~enrdand made a full consecration to do Jehot-ah's will end of the aorltl. 1i.c quotc again the I\-ords of t!!e
and rcnxin ohdiefit ucto their covenant might thus Vaster: ";\l?d the nations were angry, and thy wr.?th is
Ibe gntl~credout iron1 among nien. and with the great comc. and the time of the dead that the? shollltl be
K i l l s Christ Jesus, conetitute the promired seed of jndgecl, and that thou shouldest give reward cilto
Abraham, thro11gh which the blessings will comc to senants thc prophets, and to the saints, and to them.
innl?l;ind under Ucssiah'e reign. There will not be a grcnt !hat fcnr thy nrmc." (Revelation 11:16) C'lcarQ, the~i,
r~iimbcrof tllcsc. Jce11s hin~sclf is authority for sn:;ing inany of these g e n t truths are now due to be understood,
that i t \rill be just 3 litrle flock, a compurativcly small h a u s e the old order is passing avay and the nca order
number. (Luke l?:3?) Only tho* who, during the is mmirlg in. Jesus tniigl~t? and every one of his diacil11c.s
Gospel age and before the setting up of his kingdom. ~mphasized.his second coming and the establishment of
make a fcll consecratioll aud prove thercselvcs over- his kingdom. One of them, referring to that gIorio11a
comers have thc promiw of immortality. the promi* of time! wrote: "Times of refreshing shall come ftom the
joint heirship a i t h Christ Jest18 in Ilia kingdom.- face of the Lord [Jehovah], and he d send Jesm
Rerelation 2 :10 ; 3 :21. Christ, which before aas preached unto you, w h the
For -7 good, hon& men and Tomen hare heavens muat retain until the h~ of reditUti0n of
asked, mhat hope is there for me of getting Life ever- things, which God bath ~pokmby the m e of all his
lasting? The church spstems, through their creeds, holy propheb since the world began." ( A d 8: 19-21)
ha\*= answered this qcestion in this vise : Catholicism Therefore the time mnsi come when there shrill be offered
said : Only a v e q few die qnd go to hcaoen. The major- to d i n d the blessing= of being restored to the con-
ity of Catholics a t death must spend s long p r i o d in ditions that Adam enjoyed defore he s h e d ; m e l 7 ,
pnrgatorp, and there is a chance of these being after- perfection of bod? and of mind, and perfection of con-
wards transsferred from purgatory to heaven. and all the ditions ~ ~ r r o u n d i nhim, g insuring hi8 P m e a d * i
others mast ~ p e n dtheir eternie in fire a d brimstone. happiness.
being tarmentcd forevrr. The answer of the creeds of Are we near the fulfillment of that prophecy?
the various P r o t e s h t ~psternsis rean? worse. A m r d i a g 6ot.e a ,
& the answer of Jews -mncemhg the end of
to their theory no p u r g a t o r ~even is provided. There is the world: "For then shall there be great tribulation
no hope of life merlasting in happiness according to such as w u not since the beginning of the world to this
their thmrp =cept for those who become members of time. no, nor ever shall b e And except those days
the church and die and go to heaven. ,411 others must should be shorlned, there should be no flesh saved: but
spend ekrnitp being tormented by fireproof devils. Is for the elect's sake those d a p shall be shortened.*-
there any wonder that ru~lonable,sensiMe men have Matther 84: 21, 23.
rejeded the churches, rejected the Bible, and eren This sa-g of Jesus is subject to only one intcrpre-
turned against God? Forced to believe that thls ars the tation; namt-lr, that the old order sill comfletely p l s g
only p r o e i o n made, t h q hare disregarded all B i b l i d away by the great& t h of trouble the world h a erw
teaching. This has been a great mistake. k n o m ; that there w i l l never ba another mch t h e of
Entering the Twentieth C e n w great truths are trat~ble;that i t d l be m great that dl the humen nce
being unfolded to maukind. The propem in inrention, would per* from the earth unlesa the Lord would
~ i e n c eand education in p u r l i a more muked in thin cause it to be hartend, but for hb eLct'8 &, n d y ,
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t h w "horn hc bas M or t&m out of the world-tho fire of my jealous).. For then m i . 1 turn ta the people .
h r d Jcaru and thc true Chrirtiam-fcr the sake of a pure message, that they m dl call upon the n.ms of
6 thm drp w i l l be ~hortenedand will therefore the Lord, to serve him with one conwnt" (Zephaniah 3:
d t in nuny h~mrnbeings passing through this time 8,0) \?ly turn to the people c pure message after t h b
of trouble d t h o u t d~ing. should the Lord permit time of trouble is over unless God intends that the
m y ta m p e death in that time of trouble unles he pcopIe should profit by it?
azpected to & t h some good? Why say for the elect% m y children hart ka left fathmless in thh time
th.t ha b going to shorten the time, and thus M e of war Lnd r e ~ o l u t h ,d with comfort tht Lotd'a
-, from m e r e a be but one conclusion. prophet up: '?rum thy fatherless children, I
The el& d i t u t e the seed of Abraham according to preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me."-
the promise, throagh which blessing shall be ministered Jeremiah 49 :11.
to the remainder of nunkind- 'J%en=fore God would After tho* who pu6 through the time of trorrble ham
rpue aoma to pass through this time of trouble that the been ministered unto m d given the opportmitiea oi
elect might begin the reconstruction work of the hum= blessings by the Messiah, then those who have slept in
M y , M with those who remained on earth their graves in desth LhJl be awakened d given 8
A e b ?during to the gnst time of trouble that is knowledge of the truth That will be-tbdr#due time"
now acting msnkind, the prophet of the Lord wrote: to hear the message concerhg the rmram. Ward '
it ab.ll coma to pass that in all the land, saith the not at this, for the hour M coming in which .Il.in their
Lord, p.rb therein shall be cut off and die ;but the ga\.m shall hear his [Christ J d ] voice md come
third sh.U be left therein. And I w i l l bring the third forth; they that hare done good unto 8 remnv&on of
part h g h the fire [the fiery trouble]. and will refine life; and thep that have done evil [and dl ahp have gone
them rs dm is d e d , and will try them es gold t inta death have done evil] unto a mun&ion [restand-
triad: 6hal.l call on my name, and I wiU hear them: ing to life] by jadgmemts." (John 6: m,39, Revised
Id l my, It is my people: and they shall soy, The Lord Verdon) "There shall be mumxtion of the a d ,
ia my God." (%chiah 13: 8,9) Why bring 8 part both of the just .nd of the unjukm (Acb 24: 15)
d the people through the fiery trouble unless it is God'r "Christ is risen from the d a d m d become the &stfruita
pnrpme to give than a churee to accept ths blessings of them that dept. For ainm by man [ A h ] came
thatghaIIbemiaisteredthrongh~7Cleulytbbu d e d t a , m b y m a n [ C h r b t J c s u ] a m s d s o t h e ~ .
the pr~poa;for he q s theae will hear him and will xdi011 of the &ad. For aa dl in Adam die, mo dl
baome his people rad be obedient to him in Christ shall be d e dire But every man in hfr uwn
m, the prophet d the Lard, concerning 0rder." ( 1 Corinthian# 16: 20-23) The a@e then
those who lme in time, mid: &%lessed pKw.Reds show that the If- %Pst reign \mtd he
is &at the paar : the rill delivm bath put C!nemiea under hir f a The krt enemy that
him in time of trouble The Lord w i l l p m e m him and shall be destrayed ia death.*
keep him dive, and he sha.U be b I e 4 upon the earth It sin be during the reign of the glorioaa H u h
[not in heaven] :and thou wilt not deliver him unto the that the following test will be fully naliad: L?f a man
w i l l of his enegnies." (Psdm 4 1 :1,3) This is a wonder- keep my saying, he shall nsvar aa death.'' It annot be
ful hianti= for mm in this hour of p a t dinturbance said that man, in the true t?enae, livg until he hu the
and d i s h to be wnsidarte of the poor and afflicted, legal right to live, and the legalright ta live will come to
to ded rightmesly w i t h their neighbors, to live in peace him only when it is oflered M a graciom gift &.rough
and honor the Lord. Such are the ones that are promised Christ Jcsu~,as the Apostle stipulateb (Romans 6 :23 ;
deli~eranaein the time of trouble. Those who seek 5 : 18,lI)) Jesus declared: USnd rhosaver lireth and
meehers and righteousness and aroid turmoils are belie~cthin me @hallnever die." (John 11:26) This
spcciallp promiaed protection in the time of trouble. Scripture must have a fultillment, and the time for the
-Zephaniah 2 :2, 3. beginning of its fulfillment L the beginnbg of resti-
Referring again to the same p a t stress upon tile tution tinlcr, which commence with the r e i p of the
m r l d md what &all follow thereafter, the prophet of Uesiah. The old order dead and *g away,
Jeho~ah=id: Un'rit ye upon me, ~ i t the h Lard, n n t ~ l and new w ~ n in, g there are millions of p r ~ n on
a
the day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination this earth now who W through th.* fradb
is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the k i n g who, the h d ' a l'kh* d%rh.U rimer die.
doms, to pour up11 them mine indignation, even all my The prophet Job @v.m er r beautiful pieture d
&roe anger: for all the earth shall be devowd with the tbis ~ o n p m e n tfor tha restoration of mnnlrind Ha
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d&h a man who is a@ , and dck; cmd t h e ~is a rock quo?, the Lord visited him and ga+e him a
bmught to him a knowledge of the great ransom. He w-ondcrful mental viion of the blessings to corn*. St
believes and accepts the Lord's teaching and obeys the John saw tho incoming of the Golden Agc, and auhlimdj
righteous rule and is restored to his ~011th.ar.d his flesh dwribed it thus: *'And I e a r a new h a v e n [inrisible
becomes frerhcr than thnt of a child. Nark t?:is beauti- ruling power of the Christ1 and a new earth [ma
ful Scripture: "& kcepeth back his so111 from the pit, organized society on earth1 : for the fint heaven a ~ . dthe
m d his life from perishing by the sword. He [man] is first earth \rere pasxd away [the old ordcr of thin@
chpstcned Jso with pain upon his bed, and the multitude perished] : and there wan no more eea [no more radial,
of his bones with strong pain: sa that his life a1)horreth hnarchistic clcmcntl. And I John paw the holy city
bread and his soul dainty meat. His flesh is corsumed [ymbolic of Messiah's kingdom], the new Je~raiern,
away that it cannot be seen; and his b n e s that were coming down from C d out ot heaven, prcpred M a
not seen ttick out. Yes, his soul daweth near nnto the bride adorned for her liushand [thus describing thc
e v e , and his life to the destroyers If there b r righteons kingdom of the Lard, the Messiah t8l;ing
rnesxqer with him [one to deliver to him the m e s a 9 possession of the t h i n g of earth]. -4nd I heard a p t
of c d d i o n through the raneom sacrifice]. an interpret-? voice out of hearen saying, Behold the tabernacle
[one who interprets to him and explains the Scriptureel. [dwelling place] of Cod is with pan [on earth, not in
one among a thowand to show unto man his [the heavenl. md he will dwell with them. and they a l l k
T ~ r d ' s luprightnees: then he [the Lard] is gracious unto his people, and Cmd himself shall be with them, and bc
him [ma], and asith, Deliver him from going d o ~ mto their God. And Ciod a W wipe a r a p dl t e u s from their
the pit: I [sars the man1 have found a n n m m [a pur- eyes: and t h e n sl~allbe no more death, neither sorrow,
rhaser?. His flesh shsll become frcahcr than a ci~ild'a: nor crying. neither shall there be any man pain: for the
I;e shall return to the d3ys of his youth. Hc stall pray formcr things haye passed away. And 21e that sat upon
unto Cdd and he will be ffa~~orable unto him: he shrill the throw said, &hold, I d t d things new."-
see his face with joy: for he w i l l render unto man his Revelatmn 21: 1-5.
righte0uslless.''-Job 33 : 15-27, I n this glorious reign of Christ the great enemy, of
St. John, the follower of the Lord Jesus. was convicted
of the alleged crime of sedition and banished to the
Isle of Pntmos. W e he was there as a convict in
dcnth. wili be destroyed. m e n there is no more death t o
ravage hmRnkind the peoples of euth
in happiness, in pace forever.
live in *,
God hmrte* not: the cmtwia
Wait Thou On God All obrtsclcs from His wth
n zenrnus frlend of rntniom and men! f?la zrmelou. Plnn rorketh wide ud d w
Pour quesdonlng llnw rercal R%ik - slaw
.
. . -.richtccru wrath.
is. Ris
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A Sfnrrba'a raw lor the Master's m u m 131s :lo- pet rbnll rnrer ma earth
S o : needful for mu t o f e d
. - As the raters e'emprad tJm i+a:
Tour reme drrlnr- t h a t Heathmrlom a d s , Each roo1 sha!l learn of t h e Sarlour'l mrth
.%nd eaperly picncls for l1Zbt": And lbe blood of AtonclncDt tm
K h i l e C'hr~stian pra)cr and denials falls *God all1 to men !"-Clemt eeboc. that
To rescue t h e ~ rsoula from bllahL RL. "mt fm!W with rr tore
Too say T h e y crr on m i m ' b brink *'Shail bc tn 111:' when on z~&I'.
For burror r i t h i n par Wu; T h e " B r M ~ m "and '%ride'' a M .(rs&
Yet twenty-cine hundred hmtben sf& God ncrkw bv m r i n r o r work* 810- .
Into C h r t t l ~ nmrcs d bur." .4s rwrrth Hlr p;rrpwc hat
By idnita 1~1nds maken His
. L-wra.
Are r o ! ~mnre r i k ihan the ra'.tha, r h o gave
To jwstl** him cherlahed S9n? Or r h m e t h is a m unLsed.
Or h ~ t rh e Inrd of a conquered p r a 0 hrotbar mlnel no lnaser wim,
.Abnndmd Ria work undone! So? question God's Lor* a n 6 ml;ht:
both Gad deaenA on fmlllble ann a e si u ~ erti ot a joy d M n e
To tutbli..h .'The Only S ~ E Y : "
And if thcr fail can Him Lorc,mnd-mn
WE reulct! & e J u s o n right.
ihc bel:,it=;,= io errdlmr E r n e .
Uath I f r . i h * c!nimr a11 rllrer ral gold.
Otdaictd th:~: I;)? sr:\iltv +tore
)lust win a row1 in:. :he 115par fold
Lug Down Your R r r h
-. r i a .~
Or forcr ~ r ; n u r c ?
i t .~ T r y doro p e r railr. .re nntioru, ncar m d far.
Aath He. h-fnrc m-h-re r?d!n?? *,me* Teke p u r tall m i n r ?n r m m ' r trinntphnnt uu,
TEe h t 8 r m s anal r:lr:h -hn'l riec. 1,lnk town to tnr. r . \;rite in iron 1-n:rdr
Co~<fgnIlwlthe f I?* nf :I h l o n ~ . b ~ ~rare
~i~ht 'Ihe lon:.r:rl.nr3l ;;nd nfr.enlhnttl& landr.
Tu monr:a like >-nu and me:. p-ra rnild-ecr,I wrr.:lh : k n o n . l d ~ e .H:ht d l r t n a
Ten os. 0 Chr!nt. n h n r:~Eere! rxr5 la*=. $>:,:I re>: thc:r nlcu~rncrraby r r r r r line.
Rare hlliinnr nf ~rntnttzbtr l a r w glen joined 13 u n i t y *ball wonder long
nrecli-I i n si;.ltt nf thy b:wd ~ro!aed rrazr
y n-..-~~-
d -bed
-. ~
in hnnalcrs -re#?
Creed a n r n - r h c Y - : hut reawn crta-So!
That t a r e bod power to lrnd thelr h c r r U utmY,
And mndr I t v?rCud(~sand mh!lme to slay.
I l a . grmdiy n o w . t h ~wonders of our d(r7
And --n nnrl trnth am*: A-.- u~nkln: prrpemtinn for Chrlrt's r o r r l ray.
Tls ,jet can Id1 nf rhnt \\*onl. I anor. And with *at )nyonr holm our P D ~ L
'I will draw all mm unto Me!'
Tm r:n:rh the h.11 of ! ~ r o g x s ru i t rollr.
knnwinc ibaf all as .mt rampleh or
l a but t& dawniag ~bstprcrdr tb um.
J. a. nrut*.
3
there war
insmitable beacon:." trying to open a fruit jar for his wife, and broke hid
.-- Xarked appreciation of ihe bt30tifd is not 8 kdt v;rict. fitill z c t h c r \pas g h d i ~ gTI..& for a m a t pic,
given in peat measure to d,for lifc is tm hard, and when the 1:jcdle 01the g i n d ~ rflea 00 and fractured
the struggle for bread takes the energy, and leow little his knee u p
for rppmiatioa of the WO~&-6 of ocr kPutifU1 world. An accident ma? hagpen any\vllerc. pin prick r i ? h
But t5e time of the Golden Age is at h a d , r h m i t will tile re~d!,mtseptic pi;or,ing is c ~ m z o n . Others t:*dt
be given to all to open \: ic]c their e>%s u?d w the tender h ~ v eoften happcrcd we. tke falling of p!skr frcm th?
beauty and the gloriocs ~ m j u t fof cxcrtion. Xan nil1 -ling; :he dropping of an i c k ~ e l lor 8 of -rj
have the opportuuity to bccone f l ; k o f o do as the from the &:en:h s t o of
~ abuahg bafi tubs
~ ~ r o p hJob
r t a;lggests, "J)eck thyself n o r with mafeat? arc quite or&;:y ancidccta.
and ercellcnc~:and ari-a!- t i l ~ i d \r£ ith glor: GP(: bczutr." IU on0 i n ~ t a~ ma a lphg on a couch in 8 5
-Jab 10 : 10. hcmc ; the riamg rind blcr ti* curtein a s h s t the €23
A d u e to anr t:avclcr
S o per-w can claim to be h u e , or can g t
automcbile. 'I'iler trletl to place \\-kere k is immu;?c from c-rpomc to accidentdl
sen how close i k ~ ?CCL?;~! lei a trsir. 3 1 to then bcior: InjulT.
a
they got off the t:aik LC: th?? %:00d an the 0:hi.r t i ~ ( " i . 13 Xetr Tork an o:.c:l;cdd trr,ilcr hoke, fell
I t n-a3 practic~llyir,lpo=;b;: to estinlnte rile tinle, f o i il::~ passing auton~obilec:d oe-:c:t.]y b-ed =zd
i3 ncz?!y every icstacce t!le nain a o d d have struck &hocked fcur men.
ticni. Few if arp adult3 !lave anp conception of the ssme ~ r o r h c nwere stirring boilkg tnr on a paring
speed Kith whic!l a faat-o~pro~ching t r d n cnvers the job. -4.n ac;omohile with t r o occu?mts app:oach?d.
ground. A t m~le*an hocr it gc-s eighty-eight Ceet ;\ b~mb!c I.?? stung the driver. Th? n~tchinehit tila
a rccozd, and is upen a person on tile trork before ho ket:le oi tar, tippal it over, scattered tLe tar, and ba&y
csn get out of the m,t. burned tl:c a-orhen.
GOLDEN AGE CALENDAR
NOVEMBER 26 TO DE- 9
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the heroic d e d We ahrrll be @ty of the bssest periidy all three bodies. I
tbat ever blackened a people's fune. Nay, we shall etom The constituency of the House members is
up retribution for O ~ V aW d for our children. The arranged as to make m e that voter is
old world mast m d &ill come to M end NOeffort prsonal with his
it up much longer. If there be my who small factories there is one representative to
*ed to d m il let them beware it f d l upan
them and oversrholm them and their hoasebolh in ruin. every twenb-five or thirty employes;in large
qt the ablime dub oaf d,riaout thmght factories one t.0 every 2 0 or J M ~ P ~ O Y ~The
S . 3
wp, t,,t,dp
&.u hrs
bailding
ib j& mwlud
np fie ncr
hdolence
effort is made to keep the House from becoming
oversized and unwieldy, but the men have the . b
done 6hslI d e x want'' utmost freedom in choosing their representa-
tives, M otherwise the company has no way to
Anceriecur h b o r I&& learn the real opinions of its men. I
MEBICA has lagged behind some countria Grievances in the plant are mttled &st d
A in progressive labor legislation; yet
deal of constructive work has been done, and
et. great between the employe and the form-; or, that
failing, between the employe, the foreman and 17
3
plans are being tried out which give promise of the employe's representative in the House; or,
splendid results, if they can be put into general third, between the representative and the super- i,
operation We mention a few instances which intendent of the plant; or, fourth, in the House
have come to our notica and the Senate; or, fifth, by the president of
The Clark Equipment Company, Buchanan, the company. It is fomd advantageom to
Mi&., haa made of its grounds a high-class employ an executive whose business it is to see '
perk A m p l e t e greenhow qdpment, band that there ia no friction a t any point in this l 4
rnd band stand,basketball, football and baseball industrial machinery, which in actual test has ;j
tuuna and grounds, hospital for employes and been found to work splendidly.. if
families, cooperative store, and shop commit- Under this arrangement, the hours of l&r
tses of employes for keeping in touch with the have been reduced from fifty-three hours per ,j
plant management, are features which tend to week to forty-fonr hours per week, without
the promotion of tranquility of mind among the decrease in production, twelve hour shifts of
employes. The employes of the Clark Company certain employes have been eliminated, and *
are encouraged to become stockholders in the piece-work rates have been rectified where it :
company, and when they do so receive special was shorn that they were too high or too low
dividends upon their stock, in addition to the in competition with other workmen engaged in
regular dividends paid to other share-holders. similar operations. Standards of production, -"
The Clark company builds and sells homes to quality and cost, have been fixed for each i
its employes at cost of construction. department and wage dividends, on a fifty-
The Lpcoming Foundry and Machine Corn- fifty basis, have been paid to the men and thc
pan?, Willirunsport, Pa, also has various teams company for increases in production above tk
for athletic contests, an orchestra, a sick benefit standard production I n some cases these wag
association, a newspaper, life insurance for all dividends have run aa high as seventeen p
employes, badges for long and continuous ser- cent, paid every other week in cash.
and a plan of building and selling homes In same factories, production has been spe.
. to its mployea gimilnr to that used by the ed up by .n arrangement aadar which eigM
. *
ten m e working together in s unit compte in accomplished little in preventing the ambinea
of capital, which is combined now in as gre8t
production with other similar groups. This is
called the group~roduction~ysiem. Bonuses ~trengthas ever before in history. -
and prizes constitute special rewards for the Still other capitalists acknowledge that we do
workers in these groups. have large corporatiom, and declare frankly
Another method which has been tried satis- their belief that the countries where the develop
factorily is the setting aside of a definite per- ment of large corporations has gone furthest
centage of the net earnings of the company are those countries where the people enjoy the
to be divided among the employes in the form highest wages and the best conditions of life.
of wages. This resulted, in one case, in an They even go further and declare that, as a
increase of fZty per cent in wages to the men. rule, the smaller the business is, the more un-
satisfactory the wages and working conditions.
Fclm of Ccrpitdbb
BNP of the capitalists of the wuntrg seem Lcrbor~rnbta
M to have a well-defined fear that no matter
what concessions they make to labor, or what I T GOES without saying that labor has in its
camp many men who are very foolish; men
effort to ameliorate the workers' social and who think. riches can be distributed without
industrial relations, they will make not progress being produced, and who have the idea that
- toward solving the problem of labor's menscing aomebody has a greit, d&p, exhaustless tresg
attitude, and therefore they are talking about ury opt of which fabulous wages could be paid
plans for resorting to force. forever without anybody putting anything into
The Merchants' Association, New Pork, ad- the bag; but the average workingman is not a
vocates that employes of public utility com- natural born fool and can be depended upon m
panies a h d be enlisted like an army, so that the long run to act with reason and judgment
employes would contract to work for a certain One thing which has diatarbed eome capital-
. period, during which they wuld not legally quit ists is the situation in Australia. There labor
or be discharged except as provided for. This has had full control of the states and of the
looh like inviting a lion to q t a halter made commonwealth itself, and has the most elabor-
- of aotton twina ate and elastic system of boards and courts in
Frsak A Vanderlip, former president of one the world, objects of labor's own creation, but
of New York's greatest banks, is of the opinion with the continued growth of trade-unions in
that the nation can not permit the creation and the commonwealth, the number and serious-
growth of large labor combines which, if left ness of strikes continue. I t seems that the
unchecked, "would be in a position to threaten very class thnt placed the labor statutes on the
the foundations of Ameriam social and books ignore them and resort to strikes to gain
".
nomic life We have to "permit" many thine their ends. This is not fair to the pahlic, tm
General Miles,now eighty-- years of age, their employers or to themselves.
does not like the look of the way things are b o t h e r thing which ha3 distnrbed some
going. I n an address at S h a w m t Congrega- capitalists is the attitude of organized labor
tional Church, Boston, November eleventh, toward the proposed gift of Xr. lfelville Q.
after remarking that in China the laborers work Henry, of Tacoma. 'bir. Henry is a wealthy
seventeen hours for five cents worth of rice, man, but in his declining years and in feeble
and in Japan earn but fifteen cents a day, with health. He has a coal mine, estimated to be
eighteen cents a day in the factories of Tientain able to produce 1,000 tons cf coal daily for a
and twenty cents as a day's wage in Russia, he hundred years, and to be able to lay down c o d
declared that if the state does not take suitable in the to\nis from Seattle to l'ortlund a t four-
steps to curb labor agitators, he i~ in favor of fifths of the freight rate alone now paid on
resorting to mob violence. coal brought in there from I\->ulning. He offer-
Other capitalists, studying the question, and ed this mine, free of all cost, to the labor'unuons
noting that limitations have been put upon of the Northwest, estimating that it u-ould enso
combines of capital, propose the limitation of $bl,OOO,OOO to the laboring men of that country,
labor combines, but a thing which they fail to but complains that his offer was coldly received,
mention in this comection ir that the lawa except by one tinsmiths' union.
166 The Gotden Age for
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Mr. Henry said that in offering the mine he investigation committee, has just recommended . ..
had hoped to solve some of the problems of an eight-hour shift in the steel industry. !l!'&a
labor, because, to use his own words, "most was a step in the right direction. Tho t w e M
people cannot realize the silent tragedy of the hour shift is a barbarism that can no longer lm
toiler. He does not live, but barely exists in tolerated. Such hours break down the vitality
mod cases. There is a world full of wealth if of men and are extravagant even if paid for,
managed for all. I feel sure that now, more because the increased fatigue of the worker is
than ever before in these days of high aost of not compensated for by his increased earnings,
livihg, labor should own and control ita so- and cannot be. He is worn out before his time.
of supply of the most important necessities, So ditficdt and serious is the labor sitnation
even to owning its own dairy herds and fruit that the Pittsburgh Leader solemnly says, "The
ranches." These are noble sentiments. people of America must go down on their knees
and ask for divine aid. We must pray for those
The Arblie's Intereat who exercise authority that they may be .Rise
E ARE all interested in thie labor problem. and just. W o must pray that all of our citizens
W It is a aelf-evident fact that only a savage may be faithful to dnty and obedient to law."
flghb for his o m intemsts regardless of those I t is evident that the laboring people of the
about him, and there is an obligation owed alike world plan its control. In England, in the
by the employer and the employe, to conduct municipal elections, the labor aoaialiets gained -
their affairs so that the community as a whole control of thirty-nine out of forty-three districts
does not suffer. Senator Edge, of New Jersey, in London. All the industrial centers wera cap
made x wise observation when he said, "Labor tured by their candidates and they predict that
is not the employe of capital (only), but of the they will control the government of Englsnd
people a t large, of the whole United States, and in the g e n e d eleotions next year.
the people are the employer of capital also". At this time, it seems to us that tho& who
The membership of The American Federation have been stewards of earth's wealth and power
of Labor is now 4,000,000, but this is only about in the reoent past can do well to read with great
one-sirth of the laboring force of the United care the parable of the unjust steward who was <
States, so that the other five-sixths have to be about to lose his stewardship, and who was .
donsidered in these questions. We must not cammended by his master became he recogPited .
forget that every time a reduction in output is that that time had come, and did the wised
d e , some one's standard of living ia r e d u d ; thing he could do under the circnmstancea He
awl not infrequently this loss is passed on to yielded gracefully to the inevitable, and made
some clam that is not at all organized and is himself eolid with his former debtors by lighten-
unable to bear i t I t has been said, and we^ ing their burdens. See Luke 16:1-15.
*hint tmthf ally, that reckless indifference as to --
whether the ahop wheeb tarn or not k one of Bnpibyment of Soldterr
the great c a w of the High Cost of Living.
We are just getting to the point where the T HE hvernmer~thaa reported that of ths
4,000,000 men who were returned to civil
ethics of the labor question is coming to the life since the signing of the - armistiae about d
light. I t is a time for thought and effort to do eighty per cent mere taken back by their former
right, and not a time for passion. There mu employers and only about 25,000 had been an- .
a Cime when rebates were considered all right; able to s e e m employment of any kind up to the ,
now everybody knows that i t was a contempt- date of the report, in September. This is 8 very
ible piece of thievery. The public is waking up remarkable showing and indicates great pros-
to the principles of right. A proposition has perity in the country, with a desire to do the
just been made to create a permanent industrial right thing by the soldiers on the put of
b o d in Washington to regulate industry in employers. Occasionally there are disappoint
the manner in which the Interstate Cornmeroe ments. Not long ago five ex-soldiem robbed a .
Commission r e d a t e s traffic We think wen Chicago bank and explained EB their reawn t&t
of this wggestion. It is so good that it mems they had been unable to get work. Of the 25,009 -
late in arriving. jobless ex-mldiem 10,000 are mid to k t,
The Senate of the United States, through ib Greater New York. . !-.a
. sd
Ihe Golden Age far December 10, zgrg 167
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SOCIAL AN 0 EDUCATIONAL
I
THEaE wave of ha-
Iover8influenza,
a sort of moral
as a result of the war, sweeping
tho world1 Men have good reason to con-
clude that war breeds hate and more mar and
more hate, and earnestly study horn to inaugu-
rate eome form of control that will stop the-
periods of murder madness.
J u s t as the war m a breaking out, a great
world's peace congress mas assembled in Ger-
many; its deliberations were cut short the h t
day, and its membcrs fled A few weeks before
its sequence, hate, can not be put
the League of Nations, a ellurch n
system apparently, may t q it as it
ages and failed.
I*
human force, altboozh those who ha forrnod
there was heralded an over the world: "Peace tended judicial system are inadcqnate tqprotcct
and good will to men"-"no more war, cr new era fully thc property and lives of the law-abiding '
bas commenced". A new era had commenced, and the innocent. Predatory nations and gangs
sure enough! The world is a cage of hawks. plunder and murder n-orse than mas ever k n o n
How can the doves of peace mrvive in it unless in the dark ages. Robbers in the daytime, on
the hawks are chained? the atreeta of our populous cities, ply their
All must admit that lore. is the essential inhuman calling. 4
quality in peace, and that hate is a quality ,Men have theorized that the race dodd be
vhich invnriably causes rar-the destruction educated, trained and evolved to a high& plane,
of human liberty and order. The cultivation of pdparing it for the coming of Christ, ieady to
love, even for one's enemies, is the basis set up hh kingdom. But when could the(start be
principle of Christian philosophy. Even justice,
wisdom and power are deficient without it; in
fsct, love is the very essence of life, and Bate
the agent of decay and death. We seem to hare
=ached the climax of the principle (or lack of
A
made? Millions of priests and minist rs, also '
religious teachers, following generati n after
generation, and hundreds of theologi schools
nt work for nearly 2,000 years, and still fie Tars
and the selhhness, the murders and !robbery
principle) of rule by human force, which only and hate have grown worse and worde! The
provokes hate d e s s absolutely just and loving. theory that a clergy clase o r m y othet human
The machine gun, the ritle, the revolver, the class e m reform the world ia forever a d h a l -
bomb, the baronet and the boycott are not the ly exploded. Phenomenal, superhuman, divine
agenta of effective p e r d o n , but of irritation, power, and that alone, can start the new order.
hate and retaliation. The machinery of govern- The change must bo positive and r a d i d The
ment is obliged to be constantly angmented by prayer which our Lord tanght his disciples,
more force in opposition-more hate. The "May thy kingdom come, and thy will be done
working people are eolidly organized against on earth as it is done in heaven", indicates to a
the capitdists; and the employers and the certainty that the time will be when that change
capitalists are rolidly organizing against the will come. "Man's extremity is God's oppor-
working people-more force and more force, tunity". The problem has become so complex
but no l o ~ k that there is no hope that man can solve it. Yet
With man's nature unchanged, is there any unlem it is solved, soon the ram will perish in a
prospect that organized human government by debacle of murder and starvation.
the u8e of force can put down all resi~tanceand Tbere can be no question, h o ~ e v e rthat
, in due
insognrate perpetual peace, that insurrections time, when man is ready to admit t h 3 he has
and rars will case1 History forbids any failed, divine power w i l l take
a d d u d o n . The power of seldshness and dl human rule by form and all dis
168 Ihe Golden Age for December I 0, 1919
crimc. This will probably take the form of tho Only a little more than 4,000 years ago the
temporary pllysical paralysis of any one who polar ice caps on the plnnet aggregated appros-
atten~ptslo harm his neighbor in word or deed; imately 11,000,000 square miles, devitalizing
and no force \\-be illneeded o r permitted by human life almost to the point oE extinction.
either hnmzn governments or indiridunls. That Ice is a rery great devitalizing agent. The polar
tntould perfectly solve the problem The hawks ice caps now aggregate only about 2,000,000
would be clirrined, and the doves wo-dd survive. square miles. Kormal conditions arc asserting
~ 1 1gmdu&ly
~s the qndity of sc?lfi&nossand themselves; and the ice will, in the not distant
hate ~roulclbe eliminated from all except the future! be gone. Then the meteorolosial
incorrigible, thosc who would not or could not condltlons on the planet will become ~ c r f c c t *
refonn. Ycnt up liate and seliishness in their The clouds arc dark and threatening now dl
w e being the active agents of decay, they over tllc lsorld; hut the sun is shining behind
drop off in deatli. But those ivho desire them. "Scck rigl~tcouaness,seek nmkness: it
to refom], and those who 11ad a large rncasure may bc yc shall bc hid in the day of thc Lord's
of the q i r i t of lore and ol~dience,n-ould not a n ~ e r . " "Xy dcterminntion is to gather tllo
chafe under restraint; they \~-ouldsurvive and nat~one,that I ma^-assemble tlio 15ngdon1s to
prosprr. Grndl~allythe new order, tlic kingdoin pour npon theru mine inclignntion, even all niy
of hearcn, \-iould begin to be institntcd in 3 fierce anger; for all the earth [sclfish social
~latumlway. Tlic Scriptures show that this is order] shall be dcvourcd with the iirc of my
thc way in ~i11icllour Lord's prayer will be jcdousy [not literal fire]. For then [after this1
ans~t-crcdin duc time, and that then padually I \\*ill turn to the people n pure languagc [the
d l that 1:ave died will reiurn (recreated) from truth] that they may nll call npon the naine of
t l ~ egrare.-John S :25, 29. the Lord lo senlc liim vith one consent." (Zcpli- ,
~atllologiPt arc m,&ing astollishlg advnn- aniah 2 :3 ; 3 :8, 9) ",lnd God shdl wipe
ces ill &scoverirlg the causes of disease and tho d tcars from ll~eireyes and there shall be no
rncans of prolon,nirig 11man life. They claim more death, neitller sorrow nor c r ~ i n gneither
,
that it is not impossible to find some means of shdl there be more pain; for the former
prcrcnthg tlic cells tliet conlpose the human things ~ a ~ p emda y . Bellold I make all
b d y , fronl breaking down. O I ~ fllat C~ is things nc~."-Rc~elation 21 :4, 5.
diseovcred, thcy claim, the problenl of endesu
life is eolrcd. I t is well known that loving, College Boy Police
d i ~ ~ o s i t i o nconduce
s to 10% life;
diriric lorc k i n g so vastly inore vitalizing than
h ~ t ~lore, l i under the couditions provaili~~g in
A CCORDISG to SchooZ artd Societ?y, n-hen
the Boston police left their positions the
following inoitatioll by Professor E. H,Hall, of
kiilb.clom of heaven on earth N-e might the H a n a r d physics department, appeared in--
reasonably assunie ~ r o d dbe the means of pre- the Boston Herald :
. venting tllc ccUs from breaking down. "Come back from your vncations, roung mcn; there
Scientific attainmelit d o n g d lincs is mirac- is sport and di~ersionfor you right here in Boston!"
ulous tllcse days. .4stronomere, geologists, President A. Lawrence Loyell, of Haward,
electrical apcciolists and chemists note in their issued this bulletin:
he great &anges wnding in the physicd '?n accordance with its traditions of public service I
world, changes destined to increme the rniversity desires in 8 tinlc of crisis to help in m y
~ t a lerlcrgy which can be evol~edfrom niattcr "a9 it can to maintain order support the b w s
of tho Common\rcalth. I therefore u r p all studenta
Or it? md to certnin de'itnlizin~ do n, to prep;,c tllemsehn for wryin ur
agents that have for tl~ousandsof rears had im Gove,, of the Commooncdth cd them
adrerse infiuence on organic life on the planet. t, ,ndcrT
In fact the earth has never been completed, and ~~t~~ he
the human race has ever becn liring under ab- eestuaab +.. rolunkr for woa dl,tr a
normal canditions. Bat shortly nlanlrind will d d to report to superinkndmt picroe. T& tact
for the first tinie experience what living on a kould be empm that the% pn rcpha
oompleted earth under a perfect divine govcrn- -ply ar tit- of the Commonwdth in to .
nrent will be--"the desire of all nations". csll Z 1 0 m the Oavmor."
;i
13re Golden Age for December 10, 1919 169
&Win# and Pumping Oil but one hundred tsventy feet in the stun; time;
. BV n- P. we-r no longer the 694 foot hole but an average, in .
PETROLEUM from Sicily wa,a burned in Penmylva."a, of l w feet*
the temples of Jupiter before the beginning Here, for example, is a brief history of Brad-
of the Christian era, and petrolem from the ford Oil Company's No. 46. The first forty
Caspian Sea cleposits about Baku haa been the feet n-ere pat down 16 inches in diameter
source of the "holy fire" burned for cenhries through loose earth, mud and soft slate; and 3
in the temples of India The famous petrolem ~voodenbox or tube, called the "conductor box",
spring at Cuba, N. T., was mentioned by mis- wns inserted to the bottom, to keep back the
momnca nearly three hundred rears ago, and foreign matter from the hole. This first hole is
petroleum vas sold as medicine dourn to the called the spudding hole, because drilled by
time of the disco!-ery of the process of refining what is cdled the "spudding" process.
the crude oil so that illuminating oil could be -At tlic bottom of the spudding hole a hole 8)
, obtained from it. inches in diameter, called the "big" hole, was
The first efforts at obtaining petrolcum in sta~%cdand continued through dl the water-
the United Sta?es n-ere confind to collecting the ~roducinasoils and rocks to a depth of 350 feet.
oil from surface springs. Nine barrels. were Here the well was cased with iron pipe 69
t h s obtained in n\stern Pcnns5-lvnnia in the inches in diameter, set h d y on the bottom and
spring of 1858 and were sold promptly in New reaching clear to the wrf-•
York City for $278.19. m e first oil well was At the bottom of the big hole another hole
snnk at Titusdle, Pcnnsylranjn, by Col. E.H. G4 inches in dinrncter was started and sunk to
Drake, and at a depth of 69f feet he struck a the bottom of the oil-bearing strata. The oil
rein of oil wl~ichrose to within ten feet of the pand of this particular well w p '75 feet thick, of
top of the well. During the next four months a rich brown color, very soft and h e , and
the well procluced 2,000 barrels, which sold highly productive of oil and gas.
readily at $20 per barrel. The production of all The drilling of an oil well is a man's job; it
-wells in the country amonnted the next year to in no job for a mller of hair ribbons and per-
500,000 barrels; in ten years it had risen to fumery. The old-style method of drilling was
5,000,000 bnrrels; in 1880 i t was 26,000,000 by use of a steam engine; and thew are even
h r r e l s ; in 1900 it was 63,000,000 barrels; four yet largely used, though some prefer the gaa
years Inter, with the advent of the antomobile, engine because it stands the strain better. me
it was 120,000,000 barrels. Oil and gas were heavy tools are laboriously lifted to a generous
formed similarly to coal. Copious vegetation, height and then suddenly dropped back -the
replete with carbonic acid gas, ww laid down in hole. Between lifts the engine speed is greatly
deposit, cot-cred and eonhcd, and subjected to accelerated, became it has nothing to do. There-
decay, subsequently formed oil and its fumes- fore the engine room of n drilling rig is an
, notnral gas. Gas, however, is not the fumes of exciting p l w .
oil alone; for it is frequently found in regions Shooting the well is no ladies' job either.
indcpendent of oil. The old-time oil-well shooter travelled a t night
Xo longer in use is the fourcornered fully in a buggy, carrying with him enough nitro-
closed - in tower, but the great, convenient, glycerine to shoot his next well. If the horse.
~cvcnty-fourfeet standard rig; no longer the ran m a y or if he struck a rough spot in the
dinli~lutivc stem, bailer, jars and bits that, road, they filled in the spot the nest day and
conveniently bom~dtogether, constituted only a sent another man the nest night with another
fair burden for tho back of the husky tool load. W e n No, 46 was shot, they touched off
dresscr; but great massive tools that require to 100 quarts of nitro-glycerine in tho oil-bearing
b e handled by power cranes; no longer the strata at one time. Kobody bas ever been down
twcuty fcct of hole per shift of twelve hours,. a hole to see just what hap- under auch
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circumstances, but the effect seems to be to liad they for mortar." (Genesis 11:3) The
loosen up things somewhat and start the oil to first battle of himtory occurred amid the "slime-
- flowing, if there is any to flow. pits", the oil-bearing strata a t the head of the
After the well is hot", tubing two inches Dead Sea. "The vale of Biddim was full of
in diameter, properly equipped with "working slimepits; and tho ldnm of Sodom and ffomor-
burrel" and "standing valve" at the bottom, is rnh fled, and fell thero9'.-Genesb 14: 10.
. inserted to the bottom of the hole. How would Curiously enough, bricks cemented together
you go about it to put an iron pipe a third of with dried petroleum have been found in large
mile long do- much larger iron pipe? qnantities in Nineveh and Babylon, and the oil
\Vould 3-ou first screw the pipe together on the deposits in the valley of the Dead Sea are now
ground and fie* lift it up and drop i t into the being developed. I t was these oil-bearing and
holey If you tried that plan would you not be sulphur-impregnated shales that supplied the
o f d d it w.odd bend a little b f o r e you got it "brimstone and fire" which destropd Sodom
straight up in the air! and Gomorrah. (Genesis 19 :24) We are glad
Or wodd you just hold pipe down the to have the prophetic assmanee that those
with one hand and screw in the lengths one after 1)eople of Sodo% destroyed SO many Yeas ago,
mother with the other hand, gradually letting s h d ~ e "return
t to their former estate"
down the pipe until you struck bottom? ~ u t(Ezelriel 16: 55) on the borders of the inland
snpporre yon got tired and dropped a few sea where they once lived.
lengths or a quarter of a mile of pipe down the g ~ c b i l o ekrcc
r
well1 How would you get i t again? Well! You
can let the oil man worry about thaL He knows
how to do it, and without losing any of his
PC RSOSS o d g thomometers can look nt
the quicksilver in the bulb and mmfort
precioua oil, or even any of his precious gas. themselves that there, a t least, is something
But it is no job for one of the weak sisters. that is not lessening in value Thoae needing
thermometers shodd tnLe that qniwver
he bas the the is worth $1.2'7 a pound and going up, because
put. in his rod, equipped with another it i. mrm.
sort of valve, a d this, too, has to reach d~the adcksilver is one of s e-prec~ ioru
way from the top of the bottom of the well. In the United it is found at h'ew
Then he is ready to pmnp. This rod is called men, CaLfofia, md mmes haden,
tb surfsoe mdS Sp+ it from the 8dPhnr
. number of sucker rods can be operated from a i,oinnabu ore, by a enment of hot lir
sing1e Power cOnreniena~lomted so to bum the adphruand leavethe mercury,
referen- to the group. Com~mssed or qicmver, in fie rnetafiC me ten-
muoh Wed for P ~ P ' D and ~, some 8dv.o- daq Of q n i M v e r to d t e nith gold into an
t a p s over any other method. amalgam causes the chief use of the metal bcl
Tho average prim P-lvank fi the *f one in the th-ometer, The
wtrolenm $2+50; now it stands mercury is sproad over a copper plate, over
a t $4.25 per barrel, n-ith small probabity of a w h i the
~ gold ore is washed; the gold from
decline. The average production per well is its ~ p ~ i ~ in h contact
~ wi* the and
approrimately hdf a per d a A ~ is promptly malg-ted mith the qUicb:silver,
small operator twent). ~rodncingwells f ram which i t is s e p a r a M by heat. b o t h e r
a very comfortable income, while one with fifty familiaruse is as a medicine when hbm to
wellshas the for a f ~ r t n n e . A fino globular ponder -5th rose water, under
gueher a ore* but the name of blue mass. Among the chemical
P e u ~ i v a n i ahas probably had i b last great comp0-d~ is bichloride of mercary, made by
gasher. heating a mixture of mercuia dphata md
The first place where petroleum is mentioned common salt, which ia sometimes taken at^ 8
in the Bible ila in the account of the construction poison, and results in painful and lengthy 8u.f-
of the Tower of Babel. There the partially feting and in death.
evaporated fluid ia referred to as "slime". Quicksilver is also essential to the man&-
"And they had bricks for stone, and slime ture of high- mirron~
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PbreQn h W h n g e Thc pound is now orth only about 404; cents
BE unfavarable copdition of forrign ex- in gold. Foreign e ange is figured so that an
TcJWQ and its effect on foreign and domeg
tic. trade and op manufactures aud agriculture
e q d amount of old is represented in the
money of both cow 'es. Some bills of enchane
have been much in evidence in the newspapers ; are cabled across, d there is no interest to he
bat it might w well be so much Greek, for some taken into account but bids payable in thirty
aP the public who do not understand enaugh days, or other pe iod, take into account the
about foreign exchange to know what is wrong. interest payable f the tying up of the funds
Foreign exchange is the medium of exchange for that time. Othqr items carefully figured in
for business between, for esample, this country are insurance, frei- t, packing, c o d s s i o n and
and Englwd. I t is not the exchange of money, wear of the gold cog, as though it were shipped.
f o currency
~ or gold i8 employed ns little as If the pound is fluct;hating in value, it may go up
possible, but is such an exchange as takes place or down, daring h e period; and the broker
when one dcder pays another by check; no selling the eschange figures the risk in as part
money passes, but a transfer of credit is made of the cost of tbe emhnnge. Quite o high charge
on the m o u n t s of n single bank, if both dealers is made on time alls of exchange for remit-
use the same bank, or between two banks if tances to conntries where the local currency is
they employ different banks. Foreign eschange making wide and frequent fluctuations.
employs paper or drafts, something like checks, The value of the exchange of different coun-
called bills of exchange. tries i s published daily in financial pages of the
A transaction in foreign exchange requires nempapets, gnd change bankers are contin-
four parties; a merchant, Id,and a broker, B,
in thie oauntry and a merchant, BJd, and a The value of es
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p.2Lly kept advised f changes through the day.
for France and some
broker, BB, in England. Merchant M sells other countries as so many francs for
x ods to merchant BM. Instead of sending
e bill direat, merchant M sells it, with a draft
on BM, to broker B, who is buying such b i b
100 cents in gold ;If a country's currency is
inflated it wiU be qorth less cents to the franc,
lire or other unit, m d will require more units to
constantly. This gives merchant M the money equal 100 centa in pld.
and gives broker B a credit payable from b a t h e r factor prodaces flactuationa in ex-
E n g h d , whicb becomes part of his fund of change: &- when bought and sold by
like credits. Broker B does not collect direct the baakern becorhes in effect a commodity
from British merchant BM, but send the bill aod subject in p r i v to the law of supply and
with draft attached to British broker BB, who demand If, for axample, there are twice- as
presents the draft k~merchant B&'who pays much goodo shipped to France as are shipped
the bill to BB. This completes the transaction. from France, French merchants will owe pore
Like trsnsactions where merchant BM sells than they sre able to pay without the bankers'
goods to merchant M are executed in reverse nhipping gold. French merchants having bills
order. The grand totalsof transaction8 is larger to meet for goods received will compete for the
on one aide than on the other, and the differenae available erchanm, and w i l l bid the price of
i e periodically eettled by shipments of gold. A exchange up, so that they will offer more francs
person wishing to remit to England without for 100 cents in gold than the local value of the
having sold goods can purchase a bill of es- franc would warrmt. This amounta to paying
ohange out of the fund of credits of broker B more than the billed price for the goods, makes
and snail the bill of exchange direct to England, the goode cost more, reduces tho profits of the
where the receiver eollects the money from French merchant, and hinders him from order-
broker BB. ing goode from Werica, on which he may lose
Ordinarily a dollar ie worth 100 centa in gold, money. If there i s too great a "balnnoe of
and a British pound is worth 486f cents in gold trade" in favor of Itbin country, and the foreign
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merchants are unable to pay the balance with Tho problems of commerce and =change aro
bills based ou goods shipped by them, or with liable to become too p a t for even the experi-
gold, the trade between the two countries is enced minds that are working upon them. They.
reduced to the figure where the imports and are part of the conditions that were foretold Ipy
erporta and the corresponding hills of exchange Christ, when he said, "There ahall be upon the
balance each other. Each country has a certain earth distress of natiom with perplexiw,"
stock of gold, most of which is needed to (Luke 21 :25) and when the old Hebrew prophet
mstain the value of the local currency, and part said, "That they may do evil with both hands
only can be shipped to pay for bills of exchange. earnestly, the prince [profiteer] asketh and the
The government cannot afford to permit too judge [ruler] asketh a reward [graft or honor] ;
.much gold to be sent out of the country, or the and the great man uttereth his mischievous
currency would become disorganized and, the desire [for a share of the spoils] ;so they wrap
gold foundation being removed, m y drop to a i t up [arrange it]; the best of them is as a
very low figure or become subject to wild brier; the most upright is sharper than a thorn
0uctnations, especially if the government prints hedge ;the day of thy watchman and thy visits-
an excessire amount of paper currency not tion cometh ;now shall be their perp1enty."- -
based on gold, to take the place of the gold Micah 7: 3,4.
which bas h e n shipped away.
I n extreme instances when the scarcity of Pig Iron E d to Bug
exchange is excessive and cannot be overcome
with counter shipments of goods or gold, as a t
present between this country and Europe, the
w OULD-BEbuyers of iron are reported to
be finding it hard to g e t Several factors
look toward some rise in the price of pig iron,
discrepancy can be overcome by this country's such as the strikes affecting iron, steel, coal and
loaning Europe amounts enough to balance the coke, and the huge demands of business; and
unavoidable difference. Europe pays this corn- furnace men are unwilling to sell much iron at
try out of the money loaned, and securities, on present prices, when the possible artificial
account of v:llich it was proposed to loan credits scarcity may send the price u p and cause a
of from one to five billion dollars to Europe in relative loss on iron sold now. Buyers are eager
order to keep trade going there and here. enough to order the metal, but sellers prefer to
If the matter cannot be balanced up with wait The prosperity iii the pig iron business
goods, gold or loans, foreign trade has to fall is an index of prosperous conditions for some
in volume and become equal between the coun- months to come; especially i~this true when a
tries. I n this country this w-odd cause the de- rising tendency in prices show a n unsatisfied
cline of the great prosperity in manufacturing, demand, and more business going on than can
mining, agriculture and trade enjoyed since the be supplied with iron.
early summer of 1919. The consequences would
be too serious to be readily invited-such Aviation by Dirigible
economic, industrial and social effecta as flow
from factories wholly or partially shut down,
men out of work, and the increase of poverty,
D UEKNG the World War a German dirigible--
flew from Bulgaria practically the whole
length of a G i c a and return without mishap.
discontent, unrest and of revolutionary 8enti- Some of the Zeppelins were 800 feet long,
ment. The effect would be felt both sides of with speeds of 80 miles per hour, and carrying
the ocesn and would be serious. I t would not capacity for 500 passengers. I t is believed that
be properly remedied by turning over the in this type of machine lies the future of avia-
. management of affairs to men who did not tion as a field for legitimate transportation.
understand the intricacies of commerce. The dirigible can be built to fly around the .
If the balance can be restored between tho world without landing, can stop for repairs in
eoantries, the valnc of exchange will willrise to mid air, can descend slowly in rr fog, or Can
its n o d fieme. Rising excl~angestimulates rise above fogs or storms if desired. The air-
trade, because merchants deal under the o p plane does not have these advantages, and en- ,
posite risk of falling or fluctuating exchange, gineers are now s e r i o d y considering the estab- .
and have the some chance to make money that lishment of aviation lines in which dirigiblca
aL o
d dealer has in a rising mark& be umd exclusively. -a
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f POLITICAL- DOMESTICAND FORTICK]
.
~atfanaUm in Rwria Ntrari. Colony, of ~rrlifornia,fonndd by Aev.
m E L E S S dispatch from the Rnssim E. B. Payne, on the theory "One for all ancl -
A Republic claim that two &onsand indus-
trial establishments have been nationalized by
all for one." It had many advantages over
other colonies in that it picked out its members,
them, o r about eighty-two per cent of all the and did not accept all sorts. Idoreover, it had a
industries in the country. It is very difficult to Lodge form of government of very thoron~h
obtain from the d d y press any adequate idea control. I t s founder, giving the reasons for the
of what the Rmsian people are trqing to do; failure, in the Srrn Fraucisco Ezcmriner, said:
and perhaps the newspapers themselves do not "~ltruri.WM not a complete fdure; we demon-
know, and are contenting themselves with rais- b+rated tlmt M,good d l m d rincerity-which pre-
ing a general howl in lieu of giving out real vailed for r part of the time-mdc a happy community
information on the subject. It looks from the life, md on the other aide, that mpicion, m y and
above dispatch as though the aussians arc dfieh motive8 diaholix human M ~ Ra? d make life
t*?,- to ,Tork the of is not worth while. T r did not continue b tnut a d con-
~ ~ ~ ~ 1897 ~ the~ ~ l ~- . ~ fora i bider
~ one~ another ~ u wel did at
the r a p of the rest of world."
i kt~
, but fell
~ b.cL~into
this claim:
"The combinstione, h s t s and qndicates, of which What some people demonstrate by experience
& people at p ~ e n m
t m p b , dm0nstr.k the pncti- inductive b.sed upon
cmbilitr of our basic prhciples of association. We merely Imowledge hmn nature. One wanting
to pd this principle a little fnrther and have a lesson on the futility of hope from National-
jndwtrieSoperated in tbeinte& of d,by the nation- ism while selfisliness still controls the hearts of
the people organized-the organic unity of the whole men, can get his experience cheaply by boarding
pe0Pl~ for a week each a t three or four second-class
"The preaent industrial system proves itsell wrong by "boarding houses ".
the immenae m o w s it produces; it proves itself absurd About September first, General Maurice, the
by the immense W& of eucrgy and material which is e e a t London rnilitarg critic, said the New
admitted to be its concomitant. Abginst thia s y h we york rinzes:
nir OIU protest: for the abolition of the slavery it h u
ody hop I p. of o i- e-- by
-ght
dortr" mt*% we p l a e Ow best f o r e of -8 is thmugh a long, M pr- of &us-
tion. That process k at work, .nl will continue to work
While it has some favorable points, National- long we antinue rupph of food md
ism as a whole is quite impractical. Although muniti~nr horn the BolsheviLi and fprnirh their
Nationalism does not, like Cornmanism, directly o p p n a b w i t h both; but it w i l l not be npid d it
threaten the destruction of the family, its ten- will be costly." --
d o n e would
~ m l y be in that direction. b o n g Maybe we are not as wise as General Maurice.
its advocates are many broadminded, philan- Certainly, if what he seeks to overt- is what
thropic sods, some of whom have helped, with- has been tried several times withoat success in
*
O u t hope of personal advantage, to found colo- this comtry under the guise of XationaJigm, it
nies where the principles of Nntionalism were to is far more Likely to overturn itself t , to
be worked out as p ~ b f i cexamples. Some of be overturned by force. It takes some people a
these colonies have been utter failures, and even long time to learn that the one anre way to bring
the practically snccessfnl hare been forced to great success to a difficult cause is to persecute
ignore Nationalist principles in dealing with it. Pe-ptioo muses investigation, and hves-
the world outside their colonies ; and, as might tigation of a new thing is more likely to bring
be expected, they have all had considerable to light its good points than its defeck
internal friction, So deep-seated are the laws of wnstitntional
Severlrl colonies on this Nationalist plan have selfishness, and SO certain a m their operation
~tartedand failed in the United States. One of tlat, if dl the rich were dead today, and their
%e most noted failurea ie that known u the wed& distributed pro rats, thorn laws would
within 8 few yearr reproduce tbe very oondi- t apologized for thr autrtrge; and the
~ m n harr
tions of today. And any system of laws that the Japanese Oovernroent ia expeoted to do so, as
majority of men might enact, which wodd de- it is beiieved to have been the mare respansiMe.
prive men of the opportunities .for exercising The American troops in Siberia are understood
their a w i s i t i v e and selfish propensities, would to be under instructions to stay there but not
mp the life of progreas and rapidly turn civi- to fight
lization back toward improvidence, indolence Tbere ir m doabt that we are a t a place where
and barbarism. the polioy of oar Government must be definitely
The only hope for the world is in the kingdom b e d respecting European affairq and e s p i a l -
of om Lord Jesus Christ, the Millennia1 b g - ly the use of our soldiers in oomection with
dom. It is God's long promised remedy, delayed those affairs. h c r i c a n forces in the Adriatie,
until its due time, and now, thank God, it is acting under the general orders of the British
nigh, even at the door. Man's extremity will be Admiralty recently drove out of Tran, Dal-
M'B opportunity, at a juncture when human matia, Italian troops that had been landed
ingenuity and s W have exhausted themselves there in the attempt to seize the port without
in seeking relief without a ~ a i l "The. desire of the oonsent of the Paris conference. This
dl nations shall come." brought upon as the displeamre of many
ltalians who natnrally blame us for depriving
UncCe Sum's Boys A broad them of one of the things promised to them
in the secret treaty nnder which they entered
Tm E is an apparent differellee of opinion
between the Congress and the executive
department of the Government regpecting the
the war. They cannot understand why their
secret treaty should be set aside while the
p l w in which United States troops may be Japanese secret treaty respecting Shantung is
considered sacred
rrsed Congress alone has the power to declare Concerning the Government's recently an-
war; get the Secretary of War holds that the nounced purpose to send 7,200 men to France to
Resident alone can determine where United replace troops abont to return, and the further
States troops are to be used, and that no author-
ization for the use of Gnited Stater troops in
Siberia ass needed. If the President or the
announcement that Borne of these troops would
probably be used in Silesia (on the borderland
between Oennany and P o l a d ) in connection
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Secretary of War can legally place troops in with the voting abont to take place thare as to
Siberia they would seem to have equal rights in whether Silmia is to be inoluded in the new
Mexico, Canado, Japan, China, England, Poland, Senator Moses, of New Hampahim
France or elsewhere, actually producing a state uid:
of war to which Congressional sanction would "The mdem for our hoops to go to Silegis are simply
be a mere form. The Constitution evidently did curying out the general acheme adopted by the Pres-
not contemplate this, and Congressional leaders, ident at the Peace Canierence of making the United
led by Senator McConniclr of Illinois, are DOW Statea a party to aU the internal dispub of Enrep.
protesting against the further ass of United If the treaty chould be ratified in it. preaemt form, this
States tmps in Enrope or Siberia without would be an everyday aeumsio~."
instructions from Congress. The Versaill- We b o w that at heart our President does not
treaty with Oermany provided that Bmerican believe in the United States concerning ibelf
troops shall be maintained in Europe for with the Silesian coal miner or other strictly
fifteen years. The League of Nations, if adopt European affairs. We remember that ha was .
ed, would hare legnlized this. elected the last time because he kept w oat of
The pressure for return of American soldiers the war. He stated just prior to that reelection
from Siberia w t ~hastened by the flogging of that it is "the &ied and traditional policy of the
Benjamin Sperling, n Brooklyn soldior, by United States to stand aloof from the politioa
Cossack chiefs in Eastern Siberia who me of Empe", and gave expression to the fear
nominally responsible to Admiral Kolahak, the that the success of his political opponents would
ruler pro tern of Western Siberia, but who are mean "that we ahall be drawn in one farm or
aetaally mere instruments of Japan on her west another into the embroilmente of Europe.''
aud maroh into Siberia The Kdchak Qovern- 'SVo believe that it i a gwd governpenti4 polia
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for the United States ~ovemmentto avoid en- gain their former business. Fdl ':4
tangling itself in the border diaputes and other entail a long, bard fight.
local affairs of Enmpc and Earopean countriee. Tbe Belgian Government ia dew the right
We have a reason for this. It r e d : "Let thing by farmers whose lands wew within the
none of you suffer as a busybody in other men's fighting zone. These lands me k i n g leased to
. matters." (1Petcr 4:lli) I t ia quite as true in the (3overnment at fivo per cent of their p m - m r
national life M it ia in private life that most value, the Government guaranteeing to return
people have snWcient to occupy them in sttend- them to their owners in a few 5%8TS' time in -
4.
ing to their own business properly; and if they good condition as before the war.
give mfiicient attention to the business of othere Full recovery of the amtry is impeded by
* to be competent to meddle in their concerns the peanut politics of the clerical party, wbi&
they are surely neglecting to some extent their in the effort to retain its hold the majority
own affairs. One of the best ways to help along party of the Government, if^ w n g to discoar-
the Golden Age is to mind oar own business nge the use of the French langaage, by which
and enmurage others to do the same. the Belgian people.have hitherto kept in touch
with the progress of the wotld.
~ebim ~ e t # n #&n$m The value of Belgian prop* destro~ea
AS BELLfOTM was the fist ~ m t tor ~
during the war- is estimated at $7,000,000,000*
0, a b u t $1,000for every man, ~ ~ n i tand
in the W a r so it ia one of the first invaded in the wuntry. The
ul a d
debt is now one-
countries to show signs of recovery. While it is half that amount.m e r e is a plethora of paper
a great industrial c o m t ~yet , it is also one of money, prices are ~ k y - h i ~ h
tbe most alosely tilled countries in the world. ~ h ~ ~~ ~isg~soi - ~ being h only about
agrid*al interests did not suffer to any the combined sim of Kew Jersey and Delaware,
I appreciable extent d d g the war or since- The yet ib popnlation is eqaal to that of the whole
fanners received fabulous prices for their pro- of New England; and its fivers, aep
ducts, and still d v e them arc short, are so important that fifteen of them
I
The ad mines of BeWm were undamaged have been candbed. These canals are all in we.
bl the a d now said to be produchg The glory of Belgium is in its a g r i d b r e ,
e i g h e - f o ~Per cent of their Pm-war total, th, Belgian0 being universally considered the
~ e r m i bthe export to E ' r m of 300,000 model farmers, or, we should say, gardeners,
tans pst month and considerable (pantitien to of the world. xearly all the farm work in
Hollmd, Switzerland and Italy. Belgium is done with the spade, and the --hole
the war o n e - h a the blast f ~ r x m x s land i~ one vast garden. Every farm is fully
destroyed and haif the rtmainder were stocked, but the cattle are not turned out to
-4 so that a t present only one- fourth of graze. They are fed on green crops, arranged
ths f ~ that Were * ~ in to come forward in regular succession. Every
in ~operation
1914 ue in blast now. particle of liquid manure is collected in a tank
C1~twance~ th*fl~h the port of b m r ~ are sunk in the floor of the cattle shed. It is these
said to be about one-third what they were before l i q i d manures that have made Belgim the
the war, and thin presumably represents in a garden spot of the =orld. .
fair may the gC?m2rd condition of the country. Belgim s w m to be the one conntrp whi&,
The t r m p ~ r t a t i o ns i b t i o n is in pretty gbod hrrving at first accepted the Reformation doc-
( the G r m n a ~having r e b e d the mlling trines, waa driven by persecution back into the
stock which tbey carried away, together with Roman Catholio Church and has since remained
much other riln.87 equipment- Passenger there, ~ t apparently h no desire to again look
travel about the same now before the war. into "the perfect law of liberty". (James 1%)
Hmdreda of the great Belgian factories ate I n our opinion the grcnt war and the present
&idle,ill and a great many of the old employes struggle of the clerical party to maintain itself
of them factorim have been lured to France by in power will result soon in a real and great
the u e r wsges. Bepairs for the faotories. Reformation in Belgium. And we think, too,
difbdt to obtain, and in mnny cases their that this Reformation m i l l make itself fdt in
ham been ruined and are d e to re every part of the world.
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&ropecur Food Situation' - years, and not over nineteen years of age, arc
required to report for military training "not
F ROM the s w g of the armistice to the end
of June, 1919, Mr. Hoover, the world food
administrator; sent relief foods amounting to
more than three hours in each week" for fortp-'
one weeks in each year. In New Pork City the
$7i0,000,000 to twenty-one European countries. time spent in training is one and one half hburs
Without this food the people of Europe wodd per week, including the use of arms, disciplinary
literally have been starved. exercises, close order drill, skirmishing, signal-
Europe paid for the food, and paid high ling, teamwork, personal hygiene, sanitation,
prices for it. h e r i c a n bacon sold to the first aid, and military customs, Schoolboys are
Qermans a t as high as $1.60 per pound. At trained in the afternoons, and boy laborers
present the warehouses of norfhern Europe are after 5 p.m. Employers are required to see
packedwith food of all kinds, which is in danger that every boy they take into their business is
of spoiling &use there is no market for it. I t registered for training.
is not that the Europeans do not want the food, The movement toward universal military
but they have not the money to pay for it. Mr. training is a natural outcome of the World War,
Hoover estimates that to release this food to the and yet it was the universal military training
hungry nations that desire it would require a of Germany that plunged the world into the war.
credit of $4,000,000,000. But credits to a Europe The Prince of Peace will have a more effectual
that is virtually bankrupt and facing revolution, method of preserving peace than training every-
do not fdl the professional American financier body to fight. m e r e is always the fear that if
. with any special enthusiasm. yon train people to fight, they will sooner or
In August of this year, in the city of Chem- later fight whether it is necessary or not. "In
Ritg Germany, ninety citizens nnd soldiers were his day shall the righteous flourish; -and abun-
killed, and two hundred and fifty wounded, in dance of peace so long as the moon endureth."
food riots in which the famished rioters killed -Psalm 72 :7.
the horses of the soldiers and divided their flesh
ambng the people. Ten Million Under A m
HINA is said to be contemplating a system
&I unexpected reversal of the usual experience
occurred when the relief expedition tried to sell C of universal training which would give her
at all times ten million men under arms. W e
dour in the southern part of Russia They
found that local flour, scarce as it was, was would suppose that China wodd have learned
selling in the open market for about two-thirds something from the eqeriences of Europe ;but
that asked for the hnerican flour, and were perhaps it is a little too early for the Chinese
obliged 'to take it elsewhere to dispose of it. to see that their past course haa been the wise
one and that their proposed c o m e is most fool-
Urriwmal RPridng ish, dangerous to their o m peace and to that of
u hTVERSAL military training has been pro-
posed ns a convenient method of providing
a trained soldiery for the protection of the
the rest of the world. "Blessed are the peace-
makers" (Matthew 5: 9), and it should reqzre
a large amount of argument to persuade any
country in case of future wars. Plans for this sensible person that ten million armed men
vary from the Swiss plan of six months training constitute a peace-promotipg body.
spread out over a period of eight years, to the
so-called West Point plan of requiring one South Ahican Natiuea ,
AGRICULTURE AdD
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cross o r run near the swvamps. At the nominal not to name the fruit before it bcgins its exist-
value of $10 an acre the land is worth $750,000,- ence; bnt if it materializes, i t might be termed
000, but once made productive it ~ ~ o u l it d , is the "willow-peach." The time is coming when
estimated, advance ten times in value, to about millions of agricnltnrists will be trying e v e q
eight billion dollars. It has practically no conceivable experiment to improve farm and
popdation now, but when reclaimed could sup- orchard products; and then out of the myriadr
port 100 persons to the square mile, and would of idem, some are bound to be fruitful and came
furnish homes for 2,500,000. llie fldfilment of the ancient prediction that in
The interest manifested in the question is the Golden Age, "Then shall the earth yield her
from ita possible effect on the cost of food. increase. "-Psalm GI :6.
Once drained, the swamp land is rich and pro-
ductive of large, valuable crops. Wet lands in Blowing U p the Campa~na
the Miesiesippi valley, South Carolina, Florida,
Xew Jersey and other states, after reclanlation, F OR miles around the city of Rome, It&,
extends a barren expanse called the Cam-
are producing enormous crops. Every farmer pngna Romana. Lack of water and a stratum
lalows the worth of bottoms and meadow lands, of tufa, or porous volcanic soil, have kept the
n-hich are what the swaxnps become when the ground from prodneing anything but grass.
water is drained off. American methods of applJring dpnamite to
As the amouilt of land in the couiltry reclaim- increase the fertility of land are being em-
able through drainage is much greater than ployed. Out of the vast stores of explosives left
that through irrigation, and is richer and more over fro= the war, the Italian government is
accessible, the belief is prevalent tliat private using some to improve the Campagna. Explo-
enterprise, which hitherto has done most of the sives are placed about two feet below the sur-
reclamation, should be superseded by a great E R C ~and detonated, tearing up the soil and
national movement with provision by the gov- making i t cultivable. I t is figured that if the
ernment for making useful as much of the entire aTea were usable for farm purposes
eeventy million acres as is feasible. cnongh produce might be raised to feed Borne.
Some of earth's land is desert or barren Even if supplying of esplosi~esdid benefit
because it has too little water, and some because s business allich made cohsiderablo monep
it has too much. Either adding o r subtracting during the war, and which is alleged to be pre-
water may bring a condition like that spoken of pared to promote war as a business proposition,
by Isaiah, the prophet: "The desert shall re- the common people are glad to see that busineas
joice and blossom as the rose; i t shall blossom doing r o r k of a Golden Age variety.
abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and ~uig-
ing. "-Isaiah 35 :1, 2. Doubk kops of Berrita
A WJCow-Peach T HE YEAR 1919 produced double Grope of
berries in numerous localities in the United-
I T IS hard to predict what the Burbanks of States where the weather conditions were right,
the Golden Age mny produce in the n a y of and in the early part of November the second
plant development, but many wonderful things crop of raspberries was on sale in considerable
have been done, and esperirnents are going on quantities in the New Pork markets. This is
everywhere to obtain better food for the people. not such an uncommon thing as some of the
In Orefield, Pennsylvania, William Baer is newspapers seem to think;for when the weather
trying an interesting experiment. He has plant- permits.'it may happen any year. Those who
ed a tract with poulig peach trees and one raised the berries know that the bushes which
"lonely" willow tree. The hope is that the bore a second crop in 1919 will bear no berries
willow through its contact with the peach trees in 1920, the plants having already utilized
mill b ~ forthg n new variety of peach. The their 1920 vitality, so to apeak. Them L a
experiment ia designed to enable the pollen of species of strawberry, however, which prodoter
the pea& blossoms to lodge in the blossoms of cxop after crop throughout the serrson, and it t
the willow, with the possibility of the willow not anressonable to expeot that in the near
blossom becoming fertilized and an entirely fntum means will be found to develop the oama
new fruit produced. I t perhaps would be well characteristics in berries of other type&
m @hAge fa rx?c+dm10, rpzg - rip
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HOUSEWIFERYAND HYGIENE
*6& aonrc ~btocrd food, while twenty-flve per cent have defective
ideal home is neither a childless home eycs. In many instances the pnrents of these
T" nor one in which there are so many children children are doing emwthhg in their power to
that the father and the mother can not properly help thesc little ones get a proper st- while
care for them. We believe that in most h e r - in otllers the parents are wholly irresponsible
ican homes children are welcome to the extent nnd indifferent to the welfare of the little beings
that their fathers and mothers feel able to give that ON-ctheir existence to them.
them a fair start in the world. But with the The hunmi f d y is like an old apple tree
rising cost of living mnny are wondering nearly ready to die, that puts forth an enonnoua
whether they can properly maintain numerous quantity of blossoms but bears little f m k
additions to their families; aiid thc mothers, When tho tree was yomig and healthy the blos-
upon whom the burden chiefly falls, have recent- soms viere fewer, but there was more fruit in
ly been considering, in the International Con- proportion to the numher of blossoms. In the
ference of Wodeil Doctors, whether Congress early da$s of the human family there were fre-
&odd not be petitioned to mnke it legal to give
medical advice on the subject of birth control. quently a good m y years before any children
At present it is illegal to i n i p r t any infoma- appeared. I n the case of the ten p a t r h c h s
tion on this subject. from Adam to Noah the first son in the family
In France -the Government is coilsidering was born when the father had reached the
what proper measures can be tnlfen to increasr! average age of over 155 years, and Noah was
the b i i rate by increasing the number of 500 ycnrs old when his first ahild was born.
marriages. I t is observed that there are nanny -4cnesis 5 :1 32. -
more babies this Fear thnn last year, as is to be I T e arc familiar with tlie suppositions of the
expected; nnd it ie also obserrcd that the babics higher critics that these years before the flood
this year are remrl;able for tlleir size, weight verc not really years, but that they were merely
and general liealth. months of thirty days each that were d e d
In England it is noted that sincc tlie war the years. This is just like the higher critics. It
proportion of boy babies to girl babies is as would explain how h ' o d was actually only 500
1,052 to 1,000. This is a remnrliable increase, month old when we thought he wss 500 years
an a&jnstmeilt of nature diich has beell ob- old, so that his first son wns born when Noah
served in connection with other wars, a scelning wns a b u t forty-two. But it leaves us with thg _
attempt to replace a part nt least of the. hj-s interesting suggestion that his grestgrand-
destroyed. England also hopes to accelerate fntker Enwh was only sixty-five months old
the birth mte. ~r!~en \re thought he was sixty-five years old, so
I n Poland the baby question comes up in that Enocli's first son was born when Enoch
another fonn. I t is eetimatctl that in this part 11-a~less than five and one-half years old.
*f the world arc not less than a ulillion babics This nrrai~genentof the higher critics made
born shortly before o r during the war that l~nre it especially nice for Enoq Cainan and Mahd-
never had suficicnt food to develop either uleel, fatlicr, son and grandson. In this instance,
bentally or physically, aud as a consequence nccodiiig to the higher critics, there could have
.re dwarfed and liclpless. k e n but eleven years and three months differ-
A sad feature about the babies in even this ence htn-een Enos and his grandsoh and all -
bvored land is that one per cent of then1 an. three of the boys could grow up together. mt a
-ontally defective, one per cent have organic cute little higher critic Grandpi Enos must have
srt disease, five per cent hnre or h a ~ ehcd been at his twelve-year old birthday party, with
; w d o a i s , twenty pcr cent have adenoids, his cldcet son Cainan seated at his right hand,
eased tomils or other similar defect^ and having I)? that time attained to the r i p e old
Mme number are suffering from i n ~ ~ c i e naget of sir years md wven m ~ ~ ~ tud a s , hir
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grandson Mahalaled nt hie left, already attain- crenlcnt in that babies grow up and work, and
cirl to the age .of nine months mid rapidly p o ~ = the vork makes cvcrything worth more. If the
irlg up into young mnnhood. Sacriuncnto babics hove fifteen cents' wofi of
milk a J a y for three 111onths of wintert each
free Hi& to h b i e b:~by ~vouldrepresent a n iuuestmeat of rbopt
GROPE is an ilhstration of what s milk- $13 a year OF $30 for the two years. But 89 q ~ t
E l e a diet does to babies. I n I t d y alone ovcr ten per cent of the Sacramento babies will
tllonsands of little ones hare died from lack of get the free mi&, the amount per baby is only
milk. In Germany and Austria, it is said that $1.50 n year. Thk makes a &ry nice investment
children exhibit a growth retarded in develop- of the pcoplc's money; for if Sacramento red
ment by about the period of the cconon?ic block- estnte j>lmps $90 a year per baby, as it has m
ade and that many children are so pudcrnour- Xe%-York the last tit-enty years, the profits on
ished as to be immediate l-ictims of slight dis- the $1.50 invcstme?lt are some $78.50.
orders that would ordinarily malie no trouble. If the unearned i~lcrzil~ent real estate in-
S o t eveq- k~1crlcn;lcity is so provident OL' crease were only a quarter of the total increase,
its reMlurcea of child life m Sncrmi~ento,Cd- i t would be $20 a year, which u-ould give the still
ifornia The Conuuissioner . of Public IIeaI th, more modest proflt of $1850 per baby. Besides,
Dr. Q. C. Shmons, desenes especial honor lor the free n d k make more of tile babies grow
his care for the Sacrrrqento babics. He h3s up, which would be pure "relret", as the bwi-
made arrangements so that free milk winill bo l~essphrase goes. There are few better inveat-
distributed this ninter to families with c3ildreil ments then giving poar babiea free milli,though
nndcr two years of age. Commissioner Sim- why it should be only during the winter is not
mons says: "Si~icc nil& has gone up in price clear; for babies have to consume lacteal W s
mnny f d i e s are cutting don-n on their supply, during the rest of the yenr, and to give them
causing ohildren to be sick and undernourished ; milk all the time would cost o d y abaat W a
hence we have armriged to distribute milk free year when averagecl over all the babiea, and
of any charge." this would leave a good profit.
There i a no Ameriesn mmrnunity that would Better days are ~ c m i n gfor babies. It ia &
not have gone to the rescue long ago, if i t had the time when "there is a generation, whom
been horses or hogs that viero undernourished teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth w
or suffering from epidemic, for horses and liogs knives, to devour the poor from off the eaPtLi,
posseoa some value to business, and without and the needy from among men'? (Pmvarbs
'them p f f t o might be deareased. If hog8 were 30: 14) Some day, soon, the Galden Age will
of no vdue in business no one would turn a be here, and then it will be different; for of that
hand if all the hogs in the country had cholera time it is mitten, " W o is like unto the Lotd
What counts in theso days is how muoh money our God, who dwelleth gn high1 He raireth up
can be nude out of a thing. the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy
Babies are of value, however, for without out of the dunghill; that He may set himiii&
grown-up babies no money could be made at all princes, even \\it11 the priuces of Hia people."
in anything. Babies create the unenrned in- -Ps& 113; 5 - '7.
crement of land and buildings ; a t any rate this
increase io vdue of property is caused by in- The Osteopath
crease in population. The increase in New Pork HE Osteopath tells you that if the body b
State in babies and in assessed valuation of real T to function properly every part must be in
estate-which largely represents unearned in- normal relation with every other part, and thqt
crementshows that babies increase in econom- organisms contain witlin themselves the i.l)-
ic d u e from time to time. During the period hercnt power to cure discise. He has the id*
from 1881 to 1890 the average increase in real Ulat if there is anything serious the matter fit
estate value per baby was $1,101. The worth of you and if each one of the principal born :
a baby to business donbled in the period from your h d can ~ be used as a pudding-stiol t+b
1890 to 1917; for with ench a d d i t i o d baby real up tke rest of your anatomy and to get a c
estate d u e s jumped $2,151. warm current of blood flowing &mu& fr
The rewa why babies create unearned iu- M y , you wiIl get well; and you eww 1 2
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He ttllr you h w a sirth dorsal vertebra, There are 310 mechanical rnovementa b o r n
lmiw tarried b n t 4 iin true rclntionship to the to mechanics today; and all of these find *
verW,ne above d below it, will involve the representation in the haman body. Here are dl
vasomotor nerves to the stomar.h, impair the the bara, levers, joints, pullerg wedges, pumps.
seeretory power of the gastric glands, make pipes, spirals, eccenuwl. wheal8 and axles, ball-
digestion alow and incomplete, form gas in the and socket movements. beams, girders, trusses,
domach and cause pain and distress of mind, buffers, arches, c a k 1 , colunme, and supports
all of which can h relieved by one who knows known to science. T h osteopath belicres that
how to redet the slipped vertebral joint. if dl of these pmts are kept in good mechanical
He tells p a how a slip off a curb atone or any working order by the aid of a capable anatom-
other slight fall may cause a misplacement of i c d engineer, good health mill persist for a
the peldo boncs that will cause all the symptoms decode or two after thc body =odd ordinarily
of appendicitis; and he euggests to you that kave gone to the scfap heap.
More you let them cut you open you had better How wonderfully w-eare made ! The Psalmist,
fhdotlt whether or not it is necessary. Maybe using the human body a s a picture of the Body
the osteopath can you up is a few minutes of Christ, says, ''I w i l l praise thee; for I am
M thbt you won't need to be cut at all. fearfully and s-opderfully made : marvelous ore
He tells you how a fall mnp so aEfect the thy works; and that my soul finoweth right well.
#pine rn to cause cystitis, and when the spine is My substance mas not hid from thee, when I
corrwttd the bladder trouble disappears. He was made in secret, and curiously wrought in
tells gvrr how the neck vertebm, gctting out of the lowcst parta of the earth. Thine eyes did see
proper relation to one another, may cause dis- my substace, yet being imperfect; an4 in thy ,
tortion of the features and pains in the face and book dl my members were written, which in
jaw, stiff neck or headaches mbich only osteop- continuance were fashioned, when a s yet there
athy am relieve. was none of them. How precioua are thy
. In & well authenticated case in hand an thoughts unto me, 0 God."-Psalm 139: 14-17.
m t snEcrod severely from worm fits. In one
d these a worm eight inches long was taken New O i b to Eat
from his nose. I n the accompa~~ying convulsions
his ahest became deformed by the knees being
brought up SO forcibly against i t that one side
Imen.TtheLOOKS as though prohibition were turning
liquor men from parasites into buainesa
The saloon was a,wnster, but the new
waa depressed nearly half an inch. After thirty- brcmer and saloonkeeper may prore a dan-
llfre years, osteopathic treatments removed the gerous rim1 to men long established in bus-
curvature of the spine which had peraistcd all iness; for the wine nnd liquor men are showing
this time, lifted the depressed ribs and the themselves good losers, and are attacking the
appearance of the chest is now normd. problem of making a l i d n g and tnrning brains--
It ia well that we come to reverence our bodies into dollars, w i t h vigor and effect.
md thck Maker. What a wonderful lot of sol- I n California the grape gravers, who were
dism are those white corpnscles, roaming about cloeelp linked with the wine interests, wem
through the human system, attacking and des- greatly co~lcerncdover the destmction of the
troying invading germs and de~ouringparticles values in their properties. Now they are h d i n g
of dead foreign matter! Thcy form a dcfensirc 11swavs of utilizing the p a p and are turning
m y ; and whenever germ inraaions occur they \mates into useful products.
s" in great numbers, like trained soldiers, to
estrop the invading host. Often many of them
~iaccamhin the atmggle, and their dead bodies
The wine interests h w e put the chemist a t
work. Hitherto the only valuable pnrt of the
grape was the juice; but i t is announced that
go to form the pus or " m t t e r " so oftcn ob- the grape has been made to yield an edible oil
erved after injuries. They are 3n embodiment that is destined to r i d the olive, corn and
* he8ling power of nature; and recovery cotton-eeed oils as food for man.
xn infectiotls, diseases is due largely to their One fifth of the tonnage of grapes is pomace,
.the. The blood contains other germicides the pressed misture of sldw and seeds, and of
l mtireptia, and health returns wherever this tventp-five per cent is grape seed, or about
m in proper q d Q and quantity. 100 p o ~ d aof seeds per ton of grape& Thir ir
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now cmshed, grape oil estracted a t a cost of acceptable on topics under any of the ten
$1.20, and the rcsidue of the seeds is used for drpartmcnta. Boil everything clown and malce
f e d for animals. I t may not be long before tlii~lgsclear. Keep a copy, for what you aend
grape oil appears on the pacers' shclvcs, and %-ill not be rctnrnd, but considered a contribu-
a new food product given not merely to the tion to our work - .
American public, but to the people of the world
rhererer vineyards exist. Pot Rowt
The same chenlistry that gives the grape oil Take a piece of beef krom the round in a
looks forward to tho production of edible oils chuxk Sear this all over by pressing it down
from the seerls of tomatoes, pumpkins ancl other in a hot frying pan, Arst on one side and then
vcgcta1)lcs. Littlc by little tlic pressnre of neccs- on the o t h r . This makes a covering thnt keeps
sity is bringing Llcssings to the people, making in the juices. Then simmer it a long, long time
life plemanter, affording \-n~*iety,and niakiilg in a deep corered dish. When i t is half done
less intolerable the cost mid conditions of li~ing. put in salt and pepper, chopped onions and
A Vegetarian Samson plenty of finely minced vegetables, and keep on
TEEN Dean Ihffield Cutting of Seat- conkirtg till it is tcndcr and the juice is pretty
AT"" tle stands six feet,-ncigl~s185 pounds, and well absorbed. You can keep i t shut up in the
is n giant in strength, and lie lias nevcr cater? o\-en or let it cook slowly on the back of rmgc,
tneat. All day long he handles s i5-pomid drill but it must cook slowly nnd a long time. A four-
ut the shipyard without particular effort. pund piece a-ill easily make three meals. The
His strength docs not come fro111animnl food; n*mailling juice may Iw t l i i e n d A cup of-
for he bredfasts on a quart of cool water, toluntoes with vegetables may be added.
lnnches on three pcnnut sn~iclnicl~cs, two or
three bananas mid a pint of inilk, and dines Pot Roast
on beans without pork, mashed white or sweet Wipe one and one-half ponnds lean beef. Cut
potatoes and other regetables. \\;hen a chilcl lle in oiie ancl onc-hdf inch pieces and sear, nn-
saw a picture of a dog rctrieting a fowl, and covered, in oven at temperature of 450 degrees
lias nelTercared for meat since. for ten minutes. Add one onion sliced, eight
This boy's experience rcminds one of rr youth slices of carrot, two sprigs of parsley, It tea-
in an oriental court, who insisted on lwing fed xpons pdt, 4 teaspoon peppercorns, 2 cups
on "pulse" and water, meaning mlcooked grain cnnned tonutocs, 1cup peas. Corer ruld finish
of various ldnds, ancl as a result displayed the baking. Before serving, thicken with three
best physical and mclital developlncnt in the tc\l~lc~poons of butter to which have been added
court.-Daniel 1:8-16. thrcc trrbleapns of flour.
Clipping8 and Artick8 Hamburg Boast
F RIEKDS of THEGOLDEXAGE who mail us
clippings, wvill llclp the editors by obsening Sccnrc from Four butcher about twenty m t s
tllcse suggestions: Do not seiid whole news- worth of harnlburg steak, well p u n c l ; mix
papers or pages; cut the clipping out; if it tliorouglily \\it11 the nlcat one cup of bread
cqcupies more than a column, cut tllc papcr cn?ml)s,oile lnrgc or two wnr.11 onions, chopped
around so as to i~lcludethe parts in otlier fine. Scnsol~to taste w-it11 salt and pepper.
columns, without having parts on narrow I'loce in b . i ~ i gpall, put sek-crd small lurnps of
strips; if it is on more than one page, pnstc or butter on top allcl pour a cup of swect rnilk or
pin the colwnns together at the top of Glc water orer dl, to make gravy.
clipping; on blank spaces in t!ie licacling or
elsen-here, not d o \ n ~side of clippilrg, write
legibly name, totm, state and date of newspapcr Y t is the opinion of Four huml~lcscrvant that
o r magazine; do not roll clippings, but fold flat. there \rill be but very feru now living who \6V
Recipes suitable to the next approaching not die if the cookillg recipes given in t?
season, and practical hints on homc-keeping G ~ E AOE S arc ~~~~~~~~ed. Why not give recip
health and hygiene are suggested from women for healthful food dishesr
frienda From my reader brief articles cue U.S. D.,POLO 0'
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- forcstcl hare long since clisappcad, and thc 111-oitg nliles into the air. The dust from ihis
i people mffcr tiarril~lyin tlie winter for want of cspla~ionproduced the
the fuel which lics right at their hand.
sunset colors
of 1M3, which lasted for three or four years,
.All can see that i n s t d of being partakers of show-iiig that the volcanic dust remained ma-
e Lard's table the p r C!incm arc partakers pendcrl in the air for that length of time.
R'tbe table of dcvils" (1 Corinthians 10: 21) l)niit is carrid by tho rinds for great
b Apostle plainly shtos that all the n-orrl~ip distances. I t may be said that tbere is no square
kntly offered to idola weut to the hens miie of earth &at has not received duat from
infest the atmosphere of our earfh and rn every other q u u e mile.
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I f a man wero given the problem of how to voice of melody-" (Isaiah 51: 3) Yes, Sou*
create an earth and an atrcosphem which 11-ould rif rica \\-ill boom !
provide suitable water snpp!y for practically
the cntire ~arface,hc vould probably sct out to Roiui o f Epaom Sclls
invent an eia'wmte system or' some bind to do
the work. But the Creator, who did o better job
than any human couici have imagined, employed
Ias raw material for the manufactute of the
N ADDITIOX to thc best Iinown use of cpsom
as o fertilizer and
salts, and its en~ploy~ncnt
dm dust of the grouna ro .give the rain its stnrt sulphrrtes of sodium and potassium and in sizing
to.nater the ground, and used the sane dust to and dyeing cotton goods, a new use has been
paixit the beautiful tints that are the despair found in Tcsns.
of the artist. Tliere the trawler cnrr pass swiftly over a
To ;rccomplidi great things ma11 cmploj-s road of this unique road-building material. F o r
great agexicies; but "base things of tllc ~rorld," tcli llliles out ofRockport, some 170 miles soutlt-
we are told, "ai~d things'\rhich are dtlspieed, \vest of C;1l\-eston, the road is k i n g surfaced
hnth God chosen, to bring to notlliiig thins&that u i t11 a material ~vfilchnnrilyzcs twenty-five per
are."-1 Corinthians 1:3. cerit cpeom salts, a1:d \vllich is obwned from
flats \.rhcre tllc evaporation of the Gulf water
South Africa to Boom inprc,qq.llatcsthe soil with this sdt.
D URnTG the war among otller countries,
South Africa learned aomctlling a b u t
taking care of itself without outside help. Much
Iligh\vay engineers, it is declared, r i d the
iuistnre a good road-surfacing material; for
the salt absorbs enough moisture from the air
of the foodstuffs had previously been imported; to keep the roads damp, free from dust, and firm
but when war drafted the world's shipping, 011 the dryest days. It becomes slippery in wet
South Africa, rather than starre, learned to weather, but this is overcome by adding a small
produce its onn food. proportioli of shell and regulating the slope of
The people had imported even their brcahqost rhe surface of the road.
eggs from England, but now they r d s e plccty Ectter and bettor roads m i l l be the slogan as
of e g g and chickens for home consumption. the cirilization of the Golden Age rises higher,
Butter and cheese arc being produced; zxid thc but there is one road the like of which has not
traveler can drudi home-grown coffee, sxid eat been seen. Tlle orders 11511go forth to "make
South African vegetables. I t is diificult to get straight in the desert [of man's failures] rr
textile and machinery industries underway, but highway for our God." (Isaiah 40: 3) Not that
mills and factories are gradually rising. God will nse it for himsclf, but he will have it
The tourist today finds Johannesburg, not for men to use. As intimated, it will be a figura-
a village, but a city of tall buildings, street cars, tive, though wry real road: "The highway of
theaters, movies and hotels. The world demand thc! upright is to depart from evil.?'-Prov- -- -
for diamonds never was so great, and the Kim- erbs 16 : 17.
berly mines w e opersting full capacity. South
Africa is called a good country for white people, Bright Clothes for Men
with 2,000,000 whites, and some 3,000,000color- LL MUST have noticed the gradual advance
ed persons there. The land is developed in only
a few parts, and the hardships of frontier life
A of women into the' realm of men's attire,
and a growing use by men and boy6 of garments
are no worm there than elsewhere. suitable for the fair sex. It is only a few p a m
The real boom for South Africa will materid- since a colored hatband on a man's hat nu
iEe after the Golden Age ia baugurated; for unknown. Now a London tailor is trying to
Sooth Africa nil1 hare rith all other countries introduce d e s , pink breeches and brigbh
the good things that are coming. 11'11at is stockings among nlcn. I t is our belief thst tb
wiitten of "Zion", will d s o be true of the most gradual removal of d l differences of aex .i
distant countries :"Jehovah shall comfort Zion : under way, appropriate to the new conditb
he w i l l comfort dl her waste places ;and be will of the Golden Age when none will die and t
make her wilderness Ute Eden, and her desert repopulation of earth will no longer be nap
like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness s+ry. See Mark 12: 18-26 for a ohtame&
ahall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the ama conditions to exbt in the "neww.@
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. Cddcn Xge-Fmm a S o W a Viuurpdnt tears from their eyea; and there sh.n he 110
BY BHW* ~cnrrcl w. P. Pa& V. I. A-v more death, neither sorrow nor mybig; ncither
Qolden Age is that period in human shad there be any more Q&L" (Ieslsh %; Job
hiatory referred to by the Apostle in Acts 33 :25 ;Revclation 21: 4) Unr Lord tell8 a s that
3: 20, 21 he speaks of "the restitution of .during his thousand-vear relsll on earth, d ill
' . Il=ga, wllich God bath spoken by fie mouth their graves come forth :theY that have done
of & his holy prophets since the began9'. pod; to the nmrrection of life; a d WYthat
*nre,y it sill intereating to inquire what tho have done evil, to the resm-cction by judipnont
buman ram has lost and what will be restored (John 5: Z!l) This thousand-year reign of the
day for Uu mrld
- te it during the 1,000 years during which the Lord sill be the
see what a joytul it b: “bt
is to r e i on ~ the earth declared in heavens be glad, and let the ear* rejoice; let
Bevelation 5 :10 and 20 :6. We find in the first men say among the *tionq a j e h O r e~i 8 n e a n
.chapters of the Genesis aceom$ that man I;et the fields rejoice, and a t b t therein,
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made in the image and li!;eness of Gocl, . .., .because he mmeth to judge the earth."--
! mxived a paradise hone, everlasting life, 1 ~h~~~i~,~~ 16 r31,33.
happiness, and tlle doininion of the earth, pro- haR been oar snd plea8aroto
Hdhe to God's ; assist in showing the wonderful plan of om God
that the man raa pronounced by the towards the human race, to mnny soldiers on
'to be very good. 171e Bible us that Adan1 the Border and to gome of the womded at the
both
for and the hnmnn race, On Walter Reed Hospital, at the National Capital,
bboount of dxiobecbence. by means of the Photo-Drama of Creation. We
L It requires but a casual glance at Adam's f,d qnite a number interested at time.
b&tity-for we are d of the blood of Adam myt h i d tho interest will dm men
:(A& 17: 26)-to see what we have lost throngh -4th one leg or one bgin to ah in the
7 t h fall of father Adam. morning with two l e g md two arms; when the
f On -mt of the World mar, the United c4wvhecledchairmen" have no mom m e for
'stab8 providing for more than 280,000 that form of transportation! Won't there be
: m d * many having lost l e v , arms, sight o r times at Walter &ed and all the great hospitals
' : k u i n & , e t c The other nations have mmy mil- i, this country and thronghout the world7 Nor
,Ek,m who in the same condition as are some ndl &ese great blessings be to rnldiers, -
ad our ?ma= soldiers. but mill surely extend to all the hmnaa nrce,
, hgreat Creator declares that he w i l l re- both the dead and living.
&Om b the d h g and obedient all that they The headlines of the daily papem
hare lost, when his kingdom is established on overtaxed in recording only 8 few of those
the earth. We will not at this time refer to the u-onderfd things.
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- d d e n c e s that the Lord's fiingdom i3 Khen our Lord a t his first advent raised the
very near, jmt at the door. m e see from dead, healed tlie cripples, the blind, and the
lrrish 13: 8, 9 and otl~erScriptures, that deaf, Iris work waa onlp a type of the grand
re are millions now h m g who will never ~ m r khe will soon begin in the antitype. In the
dk, bllt f d into b e subjects of the m, Jesns mked the a c t e d whether they
, 'ingdom Take notice of a few of the joys that Glieved that he could heal them. Upon a reply
ill come to all of these. in the affirmati~e,the man was healed instantly.
".The eyes of the blind shall be opened, the I11 the great nntitype, faith in the Lord and hia
8 of the deaf shall be unstopped, the lame kingclom will be easy. Speaking of the timee in
P &all leap as an hart, and the tongue of the which we are living, the prophet tellrr au (Daniel
w ~brhallsing." "The flesh of a h old man shall 2 :44) : "And in the days of thew Lingr shall
I 3 that of a child ahd he shall return to the the Ood of heaven mt up a kingdom whioh.sbd
d his ~rmth.""God ahall wipe away all never be d e s b p % "
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Who WiU Show the Wq? the burden of saving the world. "It ie f o r m
T IS said that in some of the European lating," says Dr. John R Mott, intemtional
I nations the people are becoming depressed Iiend of the Ebnng,bieu's Christian Asquatio&
oiid diecouragd. During thc war tkcy wcrc "probably the greatest program undertaken by
stimulated by the supreme effort to nin the C'hristinns since the days of the Apostles. The
war; tlrm ~ u o y c dup by nopes engendered by i'roicutant charclics of America face the im-
promises of a peoples' peace; now disillusioxicd, nlcdiatc i~cccssityof intervention in the troubled
and heart-sick, they are W n g into npatby. industrial situation in the country."
I t had seemed as though t l ~ comllon
e 11mi was Thc clcrgy will make an intensive investi-
to be rewarded for liis sacrifice; as though, gation. Tllc reucarch platform includes :
autocracy bmi~lcd, democracy would be "-4 first-hand study of industrial disputes with r
blessed with prosperity and pace. But thc vier to rcndcring any possible rerrria fowarda just
lezaders have felt it uecessary to rivet chains ~cttlcmcnts;
"The study and cataloguing of fhe occasiann af the
upon all to constrain the restless; they see no of frce epeecl~,and ts furnish euppreswd
snppms:-s~im
way of deflating curreilcy and giving the people groups thc place and opportunity for free discusion of
relief from exorbitant living cost; and they cny cnd 1111 aff~irsshort of violence:
feel obliged to fetter Freedom, just alien the "To promote among employers the id- of recognizing
common people believed they would a t last be Ii~borin nmnagcment, looking dtimrtcly to their having
free. Industry seems s h u t to feel the chill l ~ m d a voice in ii~mcialcantrol:
of ~l'ncertainb. Finance calls for funds to re- 'To promote the ides o m o h a n p l o p of responsibil- .
habilitate the fallen structure of industry m d ity for production; and
trade. Governments cannot continue the prter- "To dudy cooperation movemmta, the problcmr of
nrrlism of war. All hands are weak \17isdom the immiggt, a d to prepare Literstun on minimum
fails. Leadership is dismayed. standards.oi ~ving,t b d labor and indnstq.
ilausiry, women in indurrLr, rgricdtnta hbc~,.migra- '
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Lord Curzan, spokesmh for the ~ r i t i s h tory workers, racial relatiom, and governmat mi- - - .
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Government mys : and relations."
%othing mmna to me more certain thnn that great The general committee, in charge of the - : '
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trouble and unforeseen developments lie before the world. world's hope, is composed of 150 prominent . . ,
I h b t whether re a r c d t of the war we have sncccedcti
in pacifying Europe. IYhether we have or not, it is clergymen and l a p e n from the various denom- . $ '
certain that for m e time we will be insccuze as to the inationel boards, and is aasured by government * -- .
stability of Asia Having cscapd the dangers of the officials, large employers and labor men that "a .
war, Asia may be confrolltrd with a peril even more united Protestant constituency would have tre-
serious through disorder and the brcal;up of Russia mcndoua influence. The time has come for the
and Turkey." church to take part, and the church's puticipa-
The words of other leaders go beyond per- tion d l be welcomed." ''It is high time," says . .
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plexity, and border on dismay. The aearcll Dr. Fisher, head of the industrial reTXions
continues for a Noses to lead tlie world out of department of the movement, "for a united -9
the quagmire. The clergy feel that the mission Protcstaritism to cease bcing content with ab-
is t l ~ ~ i r "The
s. new world conditions, brought stract statements of principles and to get down .-
about by the n-ar conditions of industrial life, to nctunl participation in the labor disputes 02
of international relations, and of cducotion," :he present."
declares Professor Shelby of Lane Tlieologicd Even militarism eccs the need of an orderly
Seminary, "all for increased leadership by the scttling of the world's new warfare. Colonel
cliurch and especially by the ministers. I t is the Cornegic says, for the Interchurch movement:
duty of the millisters to aSbUnlC rr greater "Sothing i- morc nrcessry than the spirit that comes
through t l r churches to illdustry for promoting bet&
lc~derehipin the world thnn t h ~ yhave ever rclntIOU Lct~'c'cncjn yloyeru and employes."
'wi'ore exercised" The clergy t h h k the world's Tl~cchurcli is thc chosol champion k destr
llope may be realized if ollly they may exercise autocracy Y I ~ nuke the world safe. Th8t.t
greater authority a i d power than they did c.11urches \rill do what little they can no r
through the dark ages. doubts. That they may accomplish their I
The Interchurch World Movement take8 up ioas purpose is quite another qneati
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need is v i t d The desired end is dear. The t h e his vine, and under his fig tree. '' (Micab 4: 4)
for action ia ahort. The means alone are in I t will be ideal-the Golden *when qwq
-ation. Who will be the true Momr to lead to man, woman and c u d will be happily placed in
tbe Pro~llised Landt The near future will decide. his own home amid a culture and s plenty mch
T b Word of ()od afi- that it will be as yet are &own. Look at the besptifd
w t m d his church that fi l e d h m i t y suburbs of o m cities, and thbk of nation
out of Egyptian bondage into the aolden Age. nation dwelliw in Such surroundinm from one
W i t k t a doubt it will be done through the end of the continent to the other and the whole
church of God. But among the claimants to be world over- '
the eWrch, it mnst be decided who is the church. Now the cry of everyone from prince
The divine decision will in due time be rnani- pauper ia for the blessings of peace. Fdse
fested in the -mplished fact that nome claim- prophets cry, ''Peace I pew !!"-bat there is no
ant will have done the task. peace. Nahmal war ceases; internecine war
It is a wonderful Golden Age into which the commences; and no human wisdom can see the
world is mn to emerge from dIVbese and end. But the end is promised; for in due time
disaster. It is the dream of ancient sages made the to the mmmotioq
nil. It is the reabed hope of the world. I t is peace. war ceases; war
64thedesire of all nations". (Haggai 2:7) For come the "grest dm" desired. The
th~ ~ isl a period
d in~ ~we are told militarists will no longer lead men into war, but
a t the world 'dshd obtain joy and glfiess, the Prince of Peace" will "guide our feet into
and he away.,,- the n a y of peace." (Luke 1:79) e4Nationshall
TIlillh 35:lO. not lift up sword again& nation, neither &dl
they learn war any more;" but the people
How wiU this wonder come to passt "shall beat their swords into plowshama, and
Fk.C the -on pple d l be gven their into ytba', (w 2: 4) a
It ia th8t a m' bled (lm* of &e & of paw -r
des~emtefrom POP'* md ' me' w h the he- ceme; for m m "1 e n d
conm1atiom of religion. But in the happy pem her lib. a rirsr,, (w 66: 12), .nd
Qolden Age of man there rill be plenty; for incnaw of hi. gvemt [wt+,
"the earth shdl yield her increase" (Psalm67 : hbdoml and then, be ID an4 t.
6, ; md, (t04 "I .riU the C O m order it, and to e d b b h it t& jod-t and
[grain], 4rill i n c r e w it, and lay no famine ~ t jnstia, b [in relatiom of
UPQn You; and I m d t i p b the froit of ''0 henppfodh even forePer," b d sets
h, m d the increase of the field." (Eeekiel36: his signahre he .alof
2% m) This tome b th. (3od-given di* of periorm 9LZ
emeries of a thousand Burbanks workinn for
love of the people.
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H e w k e Right IY I8
All w i l l rapidly come to have good homes and ZEDEKIAH, last king of Israel, wan a very
pleasant surroundings. Nowadays the worker wicked mler, and to him the Lord said:
M l d a a palace and a millionaire lives in it; he "And thou, profane, wicked prime of Israel,
builds an apartment, and has the privilege of whose day ia come, when iniquity shall have an
living in it as long as he pays another million- end, thus 4 t h the Lord God, Remove the din-
aire rent. Bnt then, "they [the workers] shall dem and take off the crown :this shall not be the
not build and another inhabit ; but they shall same :exalt him that is low, and abase him that
build houses and inhabit them; they shall enjoy is high. I will overturn, overturn, ~ r t a r n it:
the work of their hands." And every worker and it shall be no more, until he come whose
ran have his own Little orchard. The worker right it is; and I will give it to himw-Ezekiel
will not create an orchard or vineyard for the 2 1 : z - 9 7
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rich, and never taste the fruit; for "they shuU The one whom right it ia to mcceed to the
not plant, and another eat, but they shall plant throne as ruler and blesser of mankind in tho
vineprds, and eat the fruit of them" (Isaiah Lord J e w the Christ, the great Messiah.
5: 2l,22);and "they [the workers, for dl wiU Nearly nipeteen.centuries ago he to emtb
m be produeem] &all ait every nun under M a man and d i d rrpon the crow that he might
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provide the ransom or purchase price for the I t also seems to notice an apparent chilling
numan race by which mankind could bc legally of public intereat in "drives" to raise money
released from the condemnation of death. He for religion. Many people have agreed 6-1set
arose from the dead and ascended on high. aside specified sums from their incomes for the
Before going away be taught his disciples to next five years for one, two or three purposes;
pray to Jehovah, "Thy kingdom come, thy will and the church paper in question thinks that
be done on earth as it is done in heaven." (Uat- more money can be raised by getting new con-
thew 6: 10) He told his disciples that he ex- verts and getting the money out of them, than
pccted to return. (John 14: 1-5) They asked Ly trying to raise more funds from the olc1,ones.
him the specific question, "Tell us, when shall There is a suggestion, too, that the people
these things be? and what sllall be the sign who have been in the front line trenches on all
[proof] of thy eonling and of the elid of the these recent drives would welcome some evi-
world"? He answered that the time n-onld be dence that tlieir money is being wisely cxpend-
marked by great troulAe in the earth-a _great ed, and that the results coveted and promised
world war, in which "nation shall rise against ore attainable, if not in the immediate present
nation, and kingdom against kingdom". (Mat- then in the not far future.
thew 24: 7) That war bcgan in 1914 and is \Ye think theso observations by our contern-
on&& He further said that 'the war \vould be p r a r y are opportune. We are inclined to stress
followed by famine and pestilence. The famine this matter of professed ministers of religion
is now in the earth; and likewise v e have ex- attending to the business of religion. We real-
ericnced the pestilence, the great influenza 1::e, of coarse, that having little to do during the
k e said further that the mar, famine and pcsti-
lence ~ ~ o n be
l d followed by revolutions; and
11-cek,and little on Sundar, luirlisters are easily
intercstcd in any worldly subject in which some
. such have already occurred in some of the or all of the members of their congregations
uations, and all other nations are being threat- are interested; and this fact is no doubt r e
ened He further stated that upon earth there sponsible for many of their recent activities.
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would be "distress of nations with perplexity ; W e hope this idea of having ministers enconr-
men's hearts failing them for fear". (Luke 21: aged to preach the Gospel will not be lost sight
26) And this is fulfilled. "For then shall be of. Many of them have preached on every other
great tribulation, such sa was not since the subject, and to dwindling congregations, as the
beginning of the world to this time, no, nor statistics show; and if now, thia time-honored
ever Bhall ba"-Matthew 24 :21. custom of trying to run the world'^ affairs
should give way to a faithful preaching of the
A Ns~bI& In 8cRcCigion'' Word of God. and the means bv which men mav
PI1OMlNCNT church paper of one of the gain everlastkg life, we go on-record as proph-
A great religions denominations has made an
appeal that should strike a responsive chord in
esying a renewed interest in religion by some
who hnd formed the idea, justly or unjustly,
every human heart. I t proposes that for the that many ministers were in the preaching
immediate future the professed church of Christ business to preach what the people wanted and
eliould pay a little less attention to preaching not what thc Bible teaches.
about fighting, and raising money on first one We think our contemporary made a mental
religious "drive" and then another, and devote hitch in insinuating that the best way to raise
its energies to preaching the Gospel. more money is to get more converts. We know
I t calls attention to the fact that for cereral that some lmve formed the idea tllat the tm
pears past the people have heard a great deal ideal of religion is "To get more converts, to
about fighting, and it is not sure, now that the raise more money, to build more churches, to
soldiers have returned, that all of them ham get more conrcrts, to raise more money, to build
developed in Christlikeness as a result 04 their Inore churches", e t c ;bat we think cr better eon-,
activities and environment while abroad. Why ception of the matter wouid be obtained by
thia should be vhen the soldiers have been studying the Scriptnrea, especially the life of;
ministered to daily by the Knights of Columbus, Christ, and noting the absence from his preacb
the Y.M. C. A. p d other war o r g m h t i o n a is i11g of any desire either for nambera or c o b
wt arplrincd, . .. - lions or &arch baildbgp. He beemad to be f
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bed with the idea that the greatest object of 5clothing will be the best
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Clubtian should be to lead a Christlike life.
to tell of the coming kingdom of righteous-
the higher education.
the world affords, against the yellow badge of
anti-Semitia reproach. His dwellings d l be
nsss, peace and life eternal, that m i l l be the joy amid gardens, in place of Europe's owr-crowd-
and eatisfaction of every human heart. If the ed te2ementa and hovels.
ministry will trim to this, and away from fight- "The 3ews9', says the h n d o n ~ ~ e c t c z t o"are
r,
ing and drives for church money, they may yet to have Jernsalem at last; they are no longer to
save something out of the wreck that civilization he there on snfferance of the Modem. The
now faces. tables are to be turned; they are a t last able
to stalk proudly through its streets; i t is the
J i fir the Jacr Moslems and the Christians who are henceforth
0 THE Jew, after r e l e w from his seventy- to take the wall. The mailing PI- is deserted.
T , bondage to Babylon, the very thought
p
of the captivity hatefd and c v e m g
mas
one comes there nor. For the first time in
centuries the ape&de of the crouching Hebrew
mmected it was to eli-ted; the new lifting up his voice in lamentation8 a t the lost
J- w s c h p r e d e d Christ's b y to be glories of Iard has ~ h 0 U yC a i d . There is
one refined from all tram of tbe pagan. nothing to lament. The sun &he8 on Zion."
History repeats itself; and today in Palestine "Them is a time [the long, bsrd, so-called
the Jew plans for a Jewish polity, entirely "Christian" age] to b r e d down [Jernsalern],l
freed and cleansed from every suggestion of the and Q time [forever] to build.'' (Ecclesiastes
age-long captivity in Europe. I t is not surpris- 3: 3) This is the time now begun. Soon Jeru-
ing that the Zionistic Jews, or "Palestinians", salem is deatined to blossom out into a beauty,
agreed that as candidates for the o o n s t i h t honor v d grandeur greater than even the most
assembly the only eligibles should be Hebrew- mwh-m Zionist might expect; for it is "tho
Bpesging J k . No mixed dialect war,to have Holy One of Israel" who is f d G l h g his o m
an o5cial footing in reorganized Jewry. Not ~ r o ~ h e c i ebefore
q .deye? "He [the Holy One
men Yiddish, though the language of seyen of Israel] shall build my city C J e d e m l , and
millions, is to be permitted in official circles. he shall let go my [the Jemishl captives [cap
Thus the strange exile of a nation, for -8 tive for eighteen centuries in Europe] not for
maintaining its identity unaltered, begins to prim nor reward."-Isaiah 45: 13.
end. The break with Europe ie to be complete. And to what peak of hoqor are the Jews in
Anything the European oppressom h a w forced Palestine to be lifted T "Thus saith Jehovah, The
upon the Jews is to be discarded-the ignoble labor of Egypt [the whole civilized world] and
habib of mind, dress, occupation or speech are merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans
to go forever. [the pagan world], men of stature [of pmnli-
The Jew in Palestine is to be a farmer, an nence] shall oome over [to the Jews in Jeru-
occupation denied to him for oentnries. He will d e m l , and they shall fall domn unto thee [the
institute the most advanced system of educa- restored Jewish state], they shall make mppli-
tion, with the world's most famous educators, cation unto thee, saying, - Surely God is in
in contrast with the enforced R w s i m denial of thee."-Iaa.iah 45: 14.
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H O W LONG?
- Qd or all rlght! how 1-
sbm priestly robBern at Thlne nltar atmd
Luting In prayer t4 !lme, the bloody hand
h d hoghty brow of wrong?
GOLDEN AGE CALENDAR
D I I B L g B 10 TO ar
r
w , ~ s r a :~ u t h o r m o p a e t ~ , 1' t~a~~ ;1 . d -
h Bmuo mubar.
wd., ~ r n:o w r ~ . . t i o aor b p l e ~ y s. m 44 OK J-
montb SCidw; 1917. Caaadlu tenaedption law a-d
. M,Dee. 8: St. NIebolu V u , BuLuk, 0- Ib-
B&da ; Xatlonrl HoU(1.J. V.oamJu
hoasehold. The Government bought this meat that there is plenty of this kind of material on 'r-
at wholesale and sold i t a t the same prices, in the market and we can get along better without
some instances for 50 .per mnt less than the these things than with them.
current prices charged by dealers. Just recently we discovered that the Horse
There is one article that is short, however, and Aid Society has a aannection with a Brooklyn
that is salmon The salmon catch, all the way sausage factory?,possibly the same plant, o r one.
from W r i n g Sea to the mouth of the Columbia of the plants, i n which some 60,000 diseased
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zattlc were formerly tamed into sausage an- other food can take the place of milk for the
nually, nntil the proprietors of the works were human infant. Without its vitamins the growth
sent to the penitentiary. Now these diseased is stunted, as is now so unhappily the case with
cattle are diverted; we do not know just what the million or more of European babies that
do8.s become of them. have never tasted milk; and there is an effect
3 i the chemists wonld turn their attention to mpon the eye, cnllod dryeye, which shows t4e
the nceds of the human system they wonld do a hunger of the child's system for just what the
great service to humanity. As an indication of milk provides.
possibilities along this line we note the familiar Because it is pertinent to our subject, and
fact that the human body contains some sixteen
or seventeen elements; that the soil contains the
because i t is importarzt, we mention here that
where infants of under eighteen months cannot c
same elements; and that the grain which grows be nursed, the best available substitute for the.
on the soil contains the same elements. Yet mother's milk is to be had by letting good fteah
R-hen we make our grain into white flour we cow's milk stand until the richer portion hss dl .
take for human use the least nutritious portion risen to the top. To this top.milk add an e q d
of the grain, containing only a few of the volume of pure water, and to the mixture add
elements, and give to the cattle the outside of one ounce of sugar of milk to each quart of
the grain, the most nutritious and 'valuable mixture. After the child reaches eighteen
parts, and the only ones that contain the min- months this preparation may gradually give
erals needed by the system. way to ordinary cow's milk.
Dr. Wiiey, the food expert, recently toId the Distribution of
House Committee on Agriculture that it is due
to the use of white wheat bread that at the
-,tbreak of the war only shtyper e n t of our
IT Is eaW enough to criticize our ~ m w n t
methods of distribution, h t we ought to
men were found to be in proper mndition criticbe them and keep on criticizing them until
ior me human system is not we do something definite to improve a p l m
properly nourished by white bread. whereby i t costs from two to ten times as much
to deliver foodstuffs to the consumer ss it doer *
, Milk us tt Food to ~ r o d u c ethe food itself--a ~ l a nwhich has '
T .
HE chemists or somebody else have heen
working away a t the milk question, and
4 a v e discovered a method for condensing but-
incieased in "efficieneg" until now every
people in the country support a distributor, aa
against thirty-one people in 1870. Gambling in
termilk and reducing it to a semi-solid condition the stock markets has something to do with this
where i t gives promise of being of great utility inefficiency; and Congress ought to make it
in baking. I t is said that this solid milk can be illegal for these gamblers' quotations to paas
added to bread, producing a more healthful through the mails or over the wires. In one day -
>oaf, and one which takes a delicious brown at a there is more wheat sold in Chicago than comes
comparatively low baking temperature. This into Chicago in an entire year; and e v e q time
lower temperature allows the retention of a it is sold there is a tax,however slight, laid on
larger amount of moisiure.in the loaf. It looks everp table in the land.
a s though this discovery might be one of can-
siderable value.
Another item which enters into diatnbntion
costs and the welfare of the people is the stor-
L!
F o . some tirle a means has been used for age of food. I n August, a representative of
converting fr& milk into a dry pomder which Swift and Company informed a Congressional
, .] can k shipped aiywherc and eighty per -mnt investigation committee that the total mpply of
of the freight uved. This powder may be kept dressed mcats ready for the market on Jnw -
frrst'wse d c i e n t to last for only ten days. But .
'
forweeks, or even for montbg and with proper
/ precaution can be remade into fresh sweet milk if that was the tiatb on June first, and if.the
.. a t the end of that time. newspapers tell the truth,which is equally un-
\fi.lk is ideal as a food because it has all five' certain, then it was not true three months later; .'
ul the elements necessary to human life and for at that time, and with men, women apd
growth, 'fats, nitrogenous sn~stanees,sugar, children suffering for lack of food, it was estipb
minerals and vitamins or growth-factora. No ated that there was $Z!,ooO,OOO,OOO worth of food ' .
stored in h'ev Torl; City, not altogether in the getting into business, and restrict the meat sap-
lic~nsed\i-arehouses, but ~nuchof it in brewery ply of the nation by so manipulating the live-
lofts and other unlicensed places. stock priccs as to discourage the producers. A
At that time, when the Government began to favorite way to do this is to boost the market
get after the hoarders and profiteers in human until an immense quantity-of stock is ]mown to
necessities, millions of dollars worth of food- be on cars on the way to tlie yards, and then to
staffs were seized in a St. Louis warehouse on ~uddenlydrop the priceb so that on arrival at
the charge that they had been held over three destination the shipper receives far less than
months with the object of increasing the price, the stock quotations had led him to espect. The
ten million eggs were seized in Detroit, and financial power of these packers is so great that
there were like seizures in Buffalo and else- no competitor can hope to succeed if they use
where. At that time the charge was also made their power to break d o ~ mhis credit .
that warellousemen were storing food in one
city as long as the law permits, and then m'oving OrEdith in Food
it to anothercity and re-entering i t to storage
without keeping any record of the time when -
it was first stored.
T HE widespread use of the automobile has
so reduced the demand for horses, and the
growers find them so unprofitable, that the Gov-
Recanse of their power, the five great packers, ernment has sanctioned the sale of horse meat,
Snift, h o u r , Wilson, Morris and Cndahy, with a view to killing off the surplus supply.
upon whom the nation specially leaned in war It also hopes to add to the leather snpply bp
time to supply food to the army, are now the this means. All horse meat o r horse meat
special ol~jectsof su~picionin the matter-of products must be labelled as such.
profiteering. Tlle~efire packers own ninety per The New Pork State Department of Farms
cent of all the refrigerator cars in the country. and Markets has issued an appeal to the people
In 1916 they slaughtered eighe-*o per cent of of New Tork City to learn to eat rabbits, calling
dl the cattle, handled half the poultry, eggs and attention to the fact that a t prevailing meat
cheese, and are rapidly gaining control of all prices rabbits are cheap and wholesome food,
foods for man and beast. They are also making and are considered a great delicacy in many
large inroads into the marketing of building parts of Europe.
material and fuel commodities. The United States Depa~tmentof Agricnltnre
These five packers have gained control of 762 has been setting forth the virtues and advan-
other companies. They now manufacture o r deal tages of the goat. The goat will eat anything,
in 775 commodities and dominate the food sup stay anywhere and submit to any kind of treat-
ply of the world. The recent boost in shoe prioes ment. I n return it gives a rich, creamy milk that
is traceable to them in this may: Controlling the i~ especially good for babies and can be m a b -
hide supply they took excessive profits and up into seven- different k i d s of cheesa
passed the increase on to the manufacturer, Roasted kid is considered to be one of the most
who added something more for himself, and the delectable of meats.
wholesaler and retailer followed the uame In the foregoing, the Government has made
course. Those packers quickly dominate any efforis to assist thg common people in providing
field thev enter. In 1917 Armour first undertook a meat supply at prices within their means, and
tile F #:( a; in that same year he became in this has done a good work. I n times of high
the gr;~;ut,,~t rice merchant 'in the world, his prices for meats we might remember the can-
s d e s emornltlxg- to more than 16,000,000 ditions in the siege of Samaria when "an w ' 6
pounds. the wholesale price of head was sold,for fourscore pieces of silver".
rice increased eighty-five per cent. (3 Kings 6:25) and the terrible conditionswhich
The big packers control 'the stocbards to prevailed then and a t the time of the siege of
which the nation's meat supply is shipped, Jerusalem in A. D. 70, when women even ate
control the commission men who are the pro- I h ~ i or m children.
duccra' only representatives a t the yards, dis- I t is a comfort to know that these conditions
criminate against independent packers who of smrcitp are all temporary mid mill give m y
would use the yards, prevent new packers from to a better time when there will be plenty for dl.
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."Fear not, 0 land; be glad arid rejoice:.for the wonderful sermon on the Times of Restitntion
.Lord mill do great things. Be not afraid [of (Acts 3:19 - 21) as a resul t of whicli .thousands
food shortage], -ye beasts of the field: for the of Jews were converted to the Chrishan faith.
pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the
tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine' Mining Under the Ocwn
do yield their stren&--Joel 2 :21, 22.
Benefiting the Cripples
0 ATE O F the oil fields of the .PaciGc Coast,
lying within a few miles of Las Angeles,
extends out into the Pacific Ocean, and a con-
siderable number of oil wells +re located at
A BOUT 200,000 American soldiers received
such wounds during the World War that
they are more or less ,disabled and require spe-
some distance from the shore.
31England, the workings of the Cumberland
cial training to fit them for the future. Human ma1 field run two miles out under the sea The
nature is very forgetful of what i t owes to its ventilation of these mines is a nioe engineering
benefactors; and these soldiers, who might find problem, but is successfully accomplished.
many ready to help them today, would not h d At Workington, England,-in the year 1837,
as many two years from now. Fnrther, it can before the science of surveying was at3 highly
not be long, in the nstnre of things, before developed as at present, the sea burst through
they will be expected to compete with those who and the workers were drowned.
are unin jured, and when they do, it is necessary Many of the oldest mines of England, long
that they be specially fortified by training if ago worked out and abandoned, have filled with
they would hold their positions. - water in the lapse of time, and constitute an
ever present danger to the miners in adjacent
The Government is undertaking the training
of all disabled soldiers; and experience has mines, who may be drowned at any moment.
shown that there k hardly any trade or pro-
fession that they can not master under the per- A Coffee Shortage
sonal and kindly a r e of their teachers, provided THIS wouldlook nice for a headline, would it
they have the will to do so. Their compensation, , not, in a day when we are fed with news
when fitted for the new work, is usually superior regularly that first this item of food and then
to that before they entered the service. 'While that item is not to be had at the old price
learning they are given compensation of not because the supply is so limited?
lees than $75 per month if they live alone, and The facts are-that there probably never w a s
$30 for wife and $10 for each dependent child. a time in the world when there was as much
During the Golden Age there will be Borne coffee in sight as there is a t this moment About
very wonderful. healing8 of cripples. We rend, half of the coffee-users of the world have been-
"Then ahall the lame npm leap as an hart". without coffee for five years, and during that
(Isaiah 35 :6) We had some wonderful examples time the production has been the same as ever.
of God's power to heal daring our Lord's The green coffee beans keep indeMtely, m d
ministry, and also daring the dare of the get better as they grow older.
apostles. How thrilling mast have been tho Maybe somebody can tell us, atop this infor-
scene, shadowing forth the coming glory of the mation, why coffee that can be bought wholesale
3.'-~sianicage, now-dawning, when Peter lurid in Brazil for 124c should sell here at retail for
to #.he man lame from his mother's womb, 75%but it is hard for us to understand. It look8
"Silwr a~rlgold have I none; but such as I to us as though the system of distribution is
hare I give thee: In the name of J e w s ,Christ too well organized, so well organized that the
of Nazareth rise up and walk And he took Eni common people have not even a "look in" an-
by the right hand and lif'ted him up: anci im- less they can arrange for coiiperative hying.
mediately his feet and d e bones received Well ! Anyway! The Golden Age comes
drength. And he leaping up stood and walked, along, not all at once, but gradnallJ. Given tho ,
m d entered with them into the temple, walking necessities of life in abundance, and statesmen
and leaping, and praising God". (Acts 3 6 8 ) who have a real and abiding interest in peopte,
Immediately following this wondexfd exhibi- it wiU not be long before mc3l a condition ss
tion of God's power comes St. Peter's still more this w i l l be corrected. ..
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Zhe Nero MiIIiolu~~*tes and England the dresses are alleged to be
HE new millionaires, created by the blood- nearing the vanishing PO^& and if they pt '
T money of , ,,fit, hare dis&g&hed much worse in country than thep were at
themselves by a display of foolishness, anring some of the b a t b g resorts, we can adopt lthc
the year 1919, unexampled hitherto in the Japmese sQle of separating the men culd
history of the United States, or in any other women bathers by a line, and paying no further
corntry, far as me judge, w the i ~ pas- attention to such fittie items as dreas. At one
Bible aception of the Roman wire in the American resort over 500 girls were detained
period Ijnst before its f d . by the policv, and word sent to their mothers
aemat.erof pen on^ adornmeht, nothing to bring lheir daugliters sficicnt underclothing
has h e n too m e O* mltly to suit ae " that they w ~ BO J home in ~ c ~ ~ corYtbc ,
of tho newly rich. Dealers in gems h ~ found e clothing would be supplied by the c i l ~ .
it almost imposli~le to importsuficient qoanti- A t the most espensive restaurant in -h'ew
tics to keep their customem supplied, and the Tork, whcre bvo tablespoons of coffee cost
gems sold have k e n of the V e V highestqufity* dressed fifty cents, the most beautiful and elaborrrtel::
The dealers report that whereas they bave two of the age in lint vFaiting
msh seo60ns, E~~~~~ and chfis-, this ,-ear for an opportunity to obtain seds. T l ~ ehouses
it has been Christmas in every day of every in which some of these people live have cost
month. ~ fis ian ~ P*esltby itate of afldrs. fabulous sums. One is alleged to have cost
$5,0N,000. One man used 200 tons of coal to
During the the most erpen- heat Ids house during last year's coal fm~linc.
parts the comtq, -4 w o m a $ ~ for ~ opera , ~
rates rangilin~from $7 to 0 5 per day, were ~wlllg
E~~~~one is to criticize them million-
onnblc to care for their p e s t s , and resorted to air.es, but in some -es we Dar tile judgment
thc construction of automobile camps to'provide too -ire. We therefore mge slat
'lelter lorthose who could not be -mmO- readers do not tlrink too uncharitably of them.
dated with rooms indoors. Remember that they as well as tLe poor are in
At saratogb where a seat st ring come respects under the control of the present
side is L&80, the d e a ~ c dZidmidon is ,id qstm. Custom has k c d laws and bar-
$l-l0, panda n e r e ~ d e das never before, d a a e s around tlleir-heads and hcmts. F&,e
tho gate r w i ~ t sran&% from $6%m t o ~ncep(ionsof Christianity, endorsed by the
$lOOjOOO per the dnily bets at the track whole world, rich and poor, Tor an~turies,&kc
ruming as high * $2t000~m* In the gmt worn deeply the grooves of thonght and reason
~XT!d fie *-SC~R~€!~S and i, %.~&their minds travel to
cities, b 0 0 k I d C ~ rtoTl fro. They
placed other millions. feel that they must do as other mcn do; that
gambling at Sarabgs was not a m h e d is, they must use their time and talents to their
to horse-racing; bat at the &d table hundreds best ability and on "bnsiness pl.inciplest'.
.of thansands of dollars were repeatedly pivoted Doing this, the money rolls in on them, because
* : r h the tn~nof a card. A 8imila~mania is money and W e r p are creators of wed*
rep* from France, where fortunes are won Thus they no doubt reason that having the
f ~ lost
~ d hi a single P ~ WI t is mpposed that wealth it is their duty not to hoard it dl, but
part of this . h i i J h - s b g x~ervomtenmion in to spend Eomc of it. They perhaps question
America and in F'rance is due to the suppression whether it would be better to dispense it as
'of, the liqaor traffic a this a m t r y and t h e charity or to let it circalate through the avenue
cocaine M e in France. of trade, and w a p s for labor. Under present
The women of France and England are wrong conditions, therefore, it is extremely
'reported to have lost much of their womanly fortupate for the middle and poorest dasses
'modesty during the year, and perhaps the same that the wealthy are "foolishly' extraragant",
is true to Borne ertent in this country. In France rather thhn miserly, spending lavishly a portion
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of t l ~ eflood of wealth rolling into their coffers- thirteen were colored men with extensive crimi-
for diamonds, for instance, xliich require "dig- nal records. I n some cases the boys bave to
gill;.', polis1.Ling i n d mounting and thus givc bribe these men to obtain their quota of papcra.
employment to tliousands ~vhowould only add "KO wonder," says the Journal of Educatiott,
tn tJic 11u.slbcr out of work if th2 wealthy had 'lying, .cheating and gambling Qourish".
no foibles or ex-travagances, but hoarded ail
tlw mollc~~- the^ could get. Human Longevity
I11 m3king thesc suggestions for i3e measure
of consolation tl~cymay affol-d to the poorer 0 NLT a little while ago r e leerned from the
"experience tables" that the average of
clas~,c,c,1,-e would not be nnderstood as in any human life has gradually increased from 33
sense jastifying the selfish extravagance of the to 35 Years. How is it that it is now said to be
ricll, \\*hich is n-rong, and n-hich the Lord con- shortening? The answer is that it is shortening
demns as 11-rorig. (Jamcs 5: 5) Can we wonder for those who have reached 55 or more years of
that many .are envious, and some angry and age, while it is greatly lengthened for.=ny ~:h?
embittered, when they contrast t l ~ ewastefulness would have died in infancy but for the superior
of the newly rich r i t h their own familjs care infants now receive.
penury, or a t least enforced economy, While w e Between 1900 and 1910, in nine l h e r i c a n
wait c11tj.l the I d r d shall vu~dicatetheir cause, States, the average d e a rate~ for all persons
\;.c cannot wonder tbat soch matters arab-en in under 35 years of age decreased 15%. For
the 11crrrts of many of the common people feel- Persolls between 15 and 20 gears of a@ tfris
ings of e n y , Ilatred, malice and strife such a s decrease was as e c a t as 1976. Between 35 and
we see occaslonall~manifesting themselves in 45 years of age the declsease in the death rate
the currcilt news of the day. waS 7%. Bettreen-43 and 55 gears of age i t %-as
2%. But over 55 years of age the deatli ~ - a t c
Condiffomo f Newsboys ilwreased 9 5 . The causes assigned for this
A IC ISBESTIGATIOK of the industry o f
street nlarketing of newspapers in the
increase arc cl~icflydiseases of the heart, Md-
neys, circulatory s>-stem and npoplesy.
principal cities re\-ealcd interesting facts about These diseases of maluritr, or "degenerative
I
the newsboys. diseases", a s the ~115-sicianscaU them, 6110~~
I n Ciilchlnati, for esample, there arc 3,800 M-hatwe d l hiow to be a fact; nmely, that r e
1 ne~vehoys, or 1'7% of the boys of the city are living too fast. A French surgeon belieres
I ht\\-ecn ten and sixteen. The boys are not that he has discovered a method to prevent all
orphans; for 81.2% have loth parents living. these diseases of old age. It consists in grafting
They are not from very poor families; 90% the interstitial gland from a young aliimal to
of the poor families in which there are news- an old animal, causing the latter to l&c OIL
Imjs receive no cbarital~le assistance. . The youth and rigor. His first erperin~entswere
1 .Jews are 6 5 of Cincinnati's popdation, 'but uith 120 aninlals, in each case wit11 success.
furnish 2972 of the uevrsboys, shoning that the His next experiment w-as n-ith n man orer 80
trading instinct is a strong factor in turning yenrs of a@, upon .wliom he , d t e d a gland
boys to the occupation. A b u t 87% are native taken from a monkey. The result was that in a
bdrn. The native born are 90% in Seattle,.SO% short time the man was restored to the health,
in Baltimore and 707; in Boston. vigor and mental alertness of a man of 30 gears. '
The daily earnings o f . newsboys averagc The time is at thc door when fie life of
twenty cents in Cincinnati, twventy-two cents in humanity shall be returned to its youtli, but
Raltilnore and twenty-eight cents in Chicago. our understanding 'is that the restoration will '
31%England and MTalesthe earnings of- 45,000 be done by Christ; for tlie gift of God, e t c r ~ ~ a l
street traders are 123 cents a day. life, can come only through him. (Romans G: B )
3lany newsboys are in constant touch with Nevertheless, the French experiments are inter-
degrading or criminal surroundings. According esting. They are adding to our fand of human
to lfaurice B. Herter, Snperi~~tendent of thc Imo\rledge and at any rate enable us to see how
United Jewish Charities, vzllo made the Cincin- easy it,uill be for the Lord to perpetuate humall
nati investigation, tlie boys on two papers were life indehitely when, in due h c , his kingdom
dealing with twenty-three supply men, of whom ehall be established in the earth. -
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1 "He becomcth poor that dealeth with a R ~ B & , sabject to the same divine law as anyone else,
hand; but the hand of the diligent mah-eth rich". and that one of the requirements of even the
,-Proverbs 10:4. Mosaic 1av was the employer should so regofste
working conditions "that th?. manservant and
hxreaued Mficiency thy maidserrant may rest as well as thoa*.-
j N A manufacturing plant no factor is as Denteronom~5: 34..
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md 8tmL.-.- r2sl or lo.?%
-pan the working branch of manufacturing. chcmkd~ 8,034. or ?.6%
I ~ccordingto a large Philadelphia manufacturer 2810, or 7*0
2,174. or 6-65
'un investigation shows that the product per 1.72s.. or 4.45
Short-Line RaiZroading stock has been largely wiped oat; and there
EOBOE N. BRBSON had put SOIII~ $700,000 seems not the slightest chanoe of ever d e m ,
G of hi8 o m money into an *&mile railrod
running O U ~of Savannah,. (korgio. The line
dividends on the investment
Things look blue, if not bl& for the a d -
ran through farm and timber lands and touched land dnd it is typical of the little roads which
no other large city. He a s s &g the road. have signed the ahort-line contracts mverning
begin to show a fair retarn. . conditions of operntion.
It wras s tgpiad, lo& m d enterprise. MZ. lr.e m m W s railroad u p a n s i n reqnires
Brimon y e s president, general manager, m d substantial, enterprising b n h s a a e r 6
pretw mu& d the oEcer~. He a u l d pay Brinmn's He the &d of mm that
worken better wages than they had on throws railroads new Str@tobf36of country,
fslrm or in the timber. They gladly worked and O ~ n np s and develops them The railroad
bard for &, because he wm a pod bow. development of the land is in the hand. of the
8n emergency the ahop men would put on extra B ~ S Othe ~ esermtive
L heads of the hpndreds
Steam to get tbs rolling stock ready for -new- of A o r t - b e feedem for the big s ~ s t e m *
ed seniw, Others f l n 6 1 y worked the same HOWmuch does Mr. Brinson feel like building
a ~ y and
, regarded themselves much bettar off another ~ho*line like the others he has
than they had been b a t and succossfdy managed up to a paying
The was not yet seasoned, and be- position, before heasold them to others? What
is
fore putting good, substantial, new locomotives become of the necessary expansion of the
coontry's
on the line, Mr. Brinson bought five old "rattle- just ready for new mo develop the terAbv
10comoti?es, to talie the bmt of The is passing. Perhaps new d4 1
rough and to pieces. be opened np eEectively by truck lines. Perhaps
The linefor
enough hadthe traffic; of it borrowed
carsand Om, bUt the cheaper transportation
foMd inthe Ford
motor
than r i l o a dIntrentivc
s w i l l be
needed extra rolling stock from the big lines,
which were getting new business from the Mid-, id anstan t f worfig oh new better
land and glad to aemmodate a new "feeder". wold erien the will redize that
IIe behold, J1 things
air. Briuson has appeared and testified before Bre: beCbae aew',m-z C o h t h w 5: 17,
the Bonse Committee on Interstate Cornme&.
The road had been in operatioh d d y 1 feG 1 V'W WeighhrManrr --
fears before the h e r i a - G e m a n #.at. Now R. EDITOR: In your issue of October lst,
he cannot get a shopman to help oat by speed- M 19l9, page 6, second ool-,
b g np when a locomotive is oat of repair a d stakmeht which has been called in question,
you make a
is urgently needed to handle traflic. The big &, "Every year our railroads erty 650 tons
lines no longer loan him their cars. The bcal for every mrin, woman, .andchild in the land".
hbor r&ives the same wages as the Govern- 1 would like to a& whether ,this mm adsc
ment pays evewhere. He cannot mhke the print or a misstatement. I f that meam each
old dedc, to 'Indrlce t r a c to move over his man, qroman, and child, and there are five i x the ~
h e , evcn if he could get the cars to carrp it. average family, it would mean 8,!250 tone t@ be
The total investment in the road is a b u t loaded and unlokded for each f a y , a&d it
$1,200,000, including $360,000 of bonds. Mr. monld look as if Dad would h o td~hustle lively
Brinson says the bonds are k default as to in moving freight, id adition O hg a
interest payments ;but the bondholders, being living,-EL M., Los hgele8, Calif., Oo+25,1910.
1 d ~ o p l e ,have not foreclosed. He dates Just the kind of shot no might have apecwd .
that he cannot possibly. operate the road to from r eonntry where the climate is ro perfect
dear expenses, to stty nothing of paying interest that houses ere a noismes, do-g in a burden -
on the bonds. The value of hi $700,000 in the and the food question is a joke1 E. hT. ought to
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live up in the frozen North through one or two Canada's Finances ;:
of our January and February water-pipe festiv-
Tm
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new governing factors of Canada w i l l
ities, asld "left" our imitation marble 'dabs, bave large problems to handle. During the ;t
our limestone-laden flour, our "bony"-laden hard four years ending with 1918, ~ a n a d i a ninvestors 8.* .
coal, our Yoaded" fabrics; and then he would advanced seventy-one per cent of the total sum 3
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know why we have to have things up in this of $1,56l,Gl9,024 put into the war during that I
country in the winter time ~ J order
I to keep alive. period. In that time the national aebt was
Suppose now, E.M., that we were to get a multiplied by more than five, and the interest . "rI,
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box of oranges from the paradise where you on the debt by more than nine. Kithin that
live. I t comes right through 3,127 miles to New period, although the gold supply increased, the 1
Tork. To start with, let us suppose it weighed paper money in circulation increased so greatly
60 Bs. Statistically speaking, when that bos of that there arc now only forty-tmo cents in gold 1
ornrlges reaches our front steps it w i l l weizh back of every paper dollar, while in'1914 there 2
just 93.81 tons. You just send the box right were seventy-four cents back of each dollar.
along and see how bravely Dad runs out and The Qovernmenfs requirements'forthe year, .i
lugs that 93.81 tons up the steps, and watch the on account of demobilization and other extra-
smiles on the faces of the kiddies when he does ordinary expenses due to the war, are estimated 4
so. Railroad tonnage is figured in ton-miles. at $800,000,000, of which m o u n t only about 4
650 tons for each person means 650 tons carried $280,000,000 can be provided by the revenues of
one mile. But most of our things are carried the country. Somebody must."find" the balance. -
many miles, and this runs up the tonnage. A At the close of the fiscal year Cannda's debt .
ton of Scranton cod in Los Angeles would will be about $2,000,000,000, or $250 per capita.
weigh, thcoreticdlq-, over 3,000 tons. But, The pension burden in Canada will be verv & -
pshan-, what is the use of our sending coal to heavy. The 8,000,000 people of Canada nil1
Los AngeIcs? They would not know what it try to pay in pensions an amount equal to that
was \vhen they saw ft. paid by 50,000,000 people of the United States
to the Union Veterans of the Civil War.
Rice Imports No Solomon, or collection of Solomons, will
T H E shipment of American foods to ~ u r o ~handle
i the complicated questions that modern 42
has had an interesting effect upon the rice statesmen have to face without experiencing a Y
trade. I n 1917 the total rice movement from large part of the "distress of nations, with
China and Japan to the United States was perplexitg" which our Lord said would imrnedi-
33,456 tons; but in 1918 one American banking ately precede or accompany the time when they $4 "i
company alone, through one American port, 1 shall "see lwith the eyes of their understanding] 9
imported a quantity three times as great. the Son of man pming [into control of earth's
I n 1694 a vessel bound for Liverpool from affairs] in a clond [a time of trouble such as-
Madagasozr was blown so far out of her course never a s since there was a nation] with power
that she had to put in to Charleston, S. C., for [irresis t i b k ] and great glory" (ultimately).
repairs. Wt~ilethere the captain of the vessel Then the Lord adds: 'When ye see these things @j
gave a small package of rice to one Thomas
Sm.ith, to use as seed. It bad been supposed
come to pass, h o w ye that the kingdom of Cfod
is nigh at hand". (Luke 21: 2531) The new 4 , i
previondp that rice would qot grow in this Canadian legislators have a bard job ahead of 2.
them, and in the end they will be even more
country, but Sqith grew enough rice tbe first
year to almost feed the whole colony, and it has
been a ~ t a p l ecrop of the marsh lands of the
glad than others when the Lord lifts the burden
from their shoulders, and bears it away himself
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southern states ever since. No doubt the Lord by inaugurating the Golden Age for which we
knew how suitable is the Sonth for rice produc- have always longed. What a blessed condition J
tion; and it was his hand that guided the Mada- will then obtain everywhere! AU who wiU ac-
gascar vessel t o these far shores, and laid the cept the gracious arrangements of the incoming @
basis for a part of the great food supply that Messianic kingdom will thereby be enabled to
will be needed by the myriads of mankind that retarn to divine favor and life evirlasting in a )4
will the earth in the Golden Age world-wide Paradise restored. 9
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A Canadian Revolution
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they go farther and believe that the Liberals
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OBODY-need be alarmed when we state themselves are a s mtrustworthp as the Conser-
N that a revolution is in p r m s s in fie p e a t
country to the north of us. It is a peaceful revo-
vatives. They claim that the whole arrange-
ment by which the people have been governed
lution, but none the less real. The people seem by orders-incouncil, by which liberty of tbonght
bent on no longer entrusting their interests to has been terrorized through wholesale arresb,
either of the two old parties, but of having a ~eizureof publications, and breaking-up of --
housecleaning, from the ground up. The work meetings of law-abiding, God-fearing pepple,
of removing all the old political elements and through overworking the word "patriotism",
placing new parties and new men in charge of has been, to my the least, extra-legal.
the country's affairs is in full ming, and Now the Canadians seem to have reached the '
apparently nothing can stop it. - conclusion that, for them, terrorism shall cease
During the war the Canadians came to feel to terrorize. And who shall say that they, at
more and more a just sense of their country's least, have not s h o r n some real common sense,
importallce in the affairs of the world, and a t and some red patriotism? Does true patriotism
its conclusion demanded separate represents- mean that one may never dare to have a differ-
tioil of Canada at the peace conference and the ent opinion from that held by the person or
privilege of signing the treaty on their own persons who, for the moment, have the reins of
accoui~t. I n the treaty a s drawl there is no power? Or does it mean if one is really patriotic,
distinction between Canada and other powers that he must wave his arms and throw his hat
signatory to it. This determination of the in the air, and shout himself black in the face,
Canadians to have something to sa? about how e v e v time such person o r persons give expres-
they will be governed in the future is now sion to a new thought or to a wntradiction of
reflecting itself in the domestic politics of the an old one?
provinces and dominion. The new determination of the Canadian .
Throughout the war Canada was wverned people to be done with old party lines first came
by what the Canadians have d e d a Unionist to light in a by-election held in St.Catherines,
Government; that is, a coalition of the s o - d e d Ontario, in Febmnv, 1919. The District had
Conservative and Liberal parties, in which all always been a Conservative stronghold. There
differences Were meyged until the W a r should a new party, the Labor party, entered the field.
be Now the common people are raising It had been unknown hitherto, and a candidate
such a clamor to be heard on their OWII a c e o a t was Kith m c d t p . But 'it -e-erp
that the old line-up of the Conservatives and near * g fie election, and its mppor,ters
Liberals has been resumed, and for the delecta- claim that it did win fie election if the votes
tion of the public the Liberal leaders have been had been honestly counted. It W ( C ~a startling
telling the peaple what they think of their late indication of the temper of the pe-le, of their
bed-fellows- 1x1a statement printed in the determination to have a real democracy instead
public press they recently denounced the Qov- of an autocracy posing as a democracy.
ernment in these words : During the summer there was another ex-
charge thit the hBB to pression of the popular dissatisfaction with t h ~
represent the people m d has outlived its usefulness.
No body of men has the right to asurp power and old Canadian par tie^ in the troubles at Win-
continue to rule without submi* ih policg to the nipeg. There were many thine connected Kith
considerntion of the people. The b-ent h a failed the Winnipeg troubles that have never been
to take the people into its oonfidence in framing its cleared up, and it is not generally known on ' .
policy in the pat, rs also in formulating ib policy this side of the line, even to this da& that the
for the future" majority of the Winnipeg strike leaders were
The Canadian people as a whole seem to British-born, and of proven loyalty to Canada
believe pretty much all that the Liberals have and the Canadian people, right at the time when
had to say about their late bed-fellows, bat they were being widely accused as fomentom of
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, disturbances among foreigners. In the Fall the News, tho o3icid organ of the s t d e r s . When
Canadian people had theit long-desired oppor- he was arrested and taken to the penitentiafl
tunity to give an expression at the polls of near Winipeg, another gentleman, by the fiatns
just how they felt about how things have been of Woodsworth, was placed in charge of the
nranagcd by the old parties. same paper. The latter is an interesting
, In October came the eleotions for the legisla- character, idealist, for b e n t y years a
tare of Ontario, the most populous, most con- minister in the Methodist chutch, hrithor of ii
servative province in the Dominion. Besides patriotic book, entitled "Stfangera within on?
the new Labor party, the United Farmers of Gate-Conling Canadiwk,'' fouhder of the
Ontario, enother political party only two yews Winnipeg People's Forum, founder bf the
old,,entered the field. These farmers are. abso- Canadian Welfare League, and Director of th9
lntely against any return to the sale of Liquor, Bureau of Social Bemarch of Manitoba, S&S-
are opposed to intervention in Russian affairs, katchewan abd &be*
' At tbe end of a week
demand that Canhdian p o l i t i c k s keep out of he also was arrested oh the chatge of inciting
European affairs altogether, welcome settlers to hold an unlawful assembly. When the facts
from oppressed lands to come to the Dominion, were explained to tbe pebple of Brantford, they
have a plan of progressive legislation in View seemingly concluded that those responsible for
which they hope to make into laws, and are the arrests of h e n s and Woods*orth were
linked up with similar organizations of farmers entitled to a rebuke; and they W n i s t e r e d it.
in tbe provinces of New Brunswick, Manitoba, Since then the United F a r n e t s have W O ~
Baskatchewan and Alberta., who furnished them three out of five by-elections in New Bmnsffick,
with speakers in the campaign. Ontario and Saskatchewan, p o h t s twenty-five
The result was a campaign that is described hundred miles apart. h New Brunsxiek the
car: having taken on the ncrtnre of a religions United Farmers candidate was returned by ur
revival. The women voters leaned more and 3,000 majority over a returned boldiez'.- In
more to the .side of the two new democratic Ontario the Farmers' candidate had a mnjotity
parties. Prominent men who entered the con-. of nearly 2,000 and ih Saskatchewan of nearly
test on-the Government side swung to the side $000 votes. This sho~vsatl awakebed people.
of the people during the fight The outcome was The Farmers' platform hcfddes lowering of
a surprising rictory of these two brmd new tariffs on goods imported from other countries,
parties over the two old ones. The Consema- especially if imported from Great Britah:
tives, who had formerly held thescontrol by a reciprocity dith the United States; a tariff
I total of 80 out of 111 seats, were dethroned, commission; taxation of unimproved l a n d
i hlld the coalition of the Labor afid United vafues; &n income ta9 ranging fro* 2 o wti
! Farmer parties bas 56 seats, a msjorify of gne $2,000 to 50% on h w b e s of $lW,WO; d e r i t -
over jll the old party mttidates md ihdepend- Gee W; hkorne tsr on cotporlation profits:
ents put together. public ownetshi of public necessities :abolition
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The people of Ontario went to ~ n s i d e r a b r e of titles; abo tfdn of the C a d i a n senate;
trouble to lay emphasis upon their d i s a p p r o ~ d national prohibition; feferendnm and r e d ;
of the old parties.. A so-called labor-soldier and complete equelization bf the parliamentary
candidate was defeated a parently for no other .'stahis of women
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reason than that he was acked by the expiring We cfinhot bdt s~pkthized t h the people in
Conserrative guverilment. One man wire report- their aspirations for a Bore democratic govern-
ed as elected l~ierclybecause he had been attack- ment, and in these aspirations they kpproach
ed as a Bolsh~dk.Tlic mayor of Brantford waa more nearly to tbe standards set forth in the '
elected, mppnsedly, because he ignored the Scriptures. 'J?o the confusion of those who
demands of the Cangetoatives tbat he should imorantly claim that the Bible eanctions an
not let one of the western labor leaders, Mr. established empire rule over the people, instead
' v e n ~ speak
I , in the tie. of "a government bf the people by the people," -
The gentlemarl, W illia
m Ivens, abotxt whom be it noted that Israel had a republican fad
T the dispute in Brantford centered, is a Method- of government which continued for dyer fbnr
ist minister, hnd at the time of the troubles in hundred years. And it was changed for thet of
Winnipeg waa editor of the Western Labot ti kingdom at the request of "the Elders," with.,
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Out the Lordg approval, who said to Gamnel, Any man u7ho has the idea that it would ba
then acting a s a sort of informal president, better for the Government t o own and operate
"Hearken tlnto the voice of the people inall all the industries of the country would do me11
that they shdl.say unto thee, for .they have not to visit m y public building in any city of tho
rejected thee, but they hnre rejected me,'t)rat lrnited States and note the general shiftlessness
1 should not reign over them". The people feel of the ompants, the dih, disorder and indif-
their need of a wise and strong d e r and w i l l ference manifest on all aides, and then turn t o
findhim in the Lord, and in him alone, and that any equally large boilding in the hands of a
shortly. The nca parties in Canada may do private concenl and note the difference. The
romething to alleviate the condition of the general atmosphere of the one is dirt and lazi-
r people; but they can not do much. The con-
ditions the leaders of these parties must face
ness, and af the other cleanliness and indust-.
%'he acerage man looks npon a political job
.are very difficult. They mill find themselves as on easy one; and while he has the job he is
confronted with problems they have not fore- Liable to e-nd most of his energies in m g
peen, and trill be expected to produce changed to retain the job rather than in trging to render
conditions more quickly &an mill be possible. efficient service. But if he bar, a job with P
We hope for them that they will be wise, and private concern he knows that he must prodpce
lund, and just, and strong for the interests of definite results, and that if he does not do it
all the people. he may lose his job. He sees lother men about
who are doing their beat to help themselves up
Governmentat Linzi fatiom in the world; and his fear of what they may do
I T IS plain enough that if none of us ever did
anything, or produced anything, we would
all be naked, homeless and starved. Until we
to h i rind his family if he does not do the
work expected of l h leads him to put forth
more effort than he might otherwise do.
get to work and produce something there is aot So then there are some good things to be said
much to govern, unless it be to form a sort of about competition. But competition in many
mutual defense society to prevent the stronger lines is an nbosolute waste. Five telephone sys-
from killing and eating the weaker. 60 the tems o r tnfo street railways in the same com-
fundamental fact of government is work. '?f munity are a nuisance. TKO telegraph com-
any would not work, neitlier should he eat." panies render better service than one; but it is
(2 Thessalonians 3: 10) We mnst not get the n great waste to the community rn a whole to
idea that any kjnd of government man can lave to maintain two complete set8 of offices,
devise \.illmake it unnecessary for him to work poles, wires and equipment. Hel'e is a legiti-
And just now, when there is a shortage of mate field for Gorernmcntal activity-how to
almost everything that human beings need, due produce an absolutely reliable and efficient tele-
to the great waste of the war, the governments graph service, one equal to that provided _by
of the world are right in their conception that private owners, but at less expense to the public.
anything that will cause the people as a whole The public should pay less to the Qovernment
to produce more goods will be to the benefit f a such a service than to prirate owners be-
of the people ne a whole. cause a Government ownership of telephone
This brings ns to the question of how men can .poles and wires would enable athe telegraph
8 " b e induced ta produce more, M, that there will lines to be operated in conjunction with them a t
: ' be more to divide. The prevailing rule of reduced cost All the wires could be cnmed
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thought in the past has been that the only npon the one set of poles. Governmental tele-
thing that mill indace the avertye man to put graph service in European countries shows
forth his best efforts is a desire to own and to that this is a problem which, if placed in the
hold things. And it mnst be admitted that there right hands, can be handled efficiently by'the
- is a great deal of truth in this contention. A Government, and at reduoed costa to the public.
system which makes each 'man responsible for Besides, the Government has facilities, through
the care of his own wife and children will cause the Post Office, for the delivery of telegrams.
the average man to put forth more effort than Competition, if it can be honestly maintained,
where his work will be um'd for the benefit of d l d d resnlt in good 'eervice and low prices to
ihe wives and children of others. the consumer. But if dI fhe milk dealers, for
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example, gather together and agree on certain I n that case the Government he has benofitted
prices, competition ceases, and there is as true ought to aid him in securing emplopent.
a monoply as though one concern did all the What is needed is rr spring of human endearor
business. And there is the disadvantage that other than the law of selfishness, a new well of
one concern- conld 'do all the work, and do it water, a law of love, p motive that has the
more efficiently and more econo~uicallythan a interests of others more in view than one's onn
dozen, all traversing the same streets, nt the interests, which, however, should not be neglect-
same time, with the same product. Which is ed. The present governments of earth are f a r
hetter, to have a real monoply and not admit better than none at all; and we all do well to
that it is wch, or to admit that monoply is think about their activities in constrnctirc
inescapable in such a business, and-endewor fashion, considering what they can reasonably
to hold it in restraint by having the munici- do in the interests of the people a s a ~ h o l c
pality itself engage in the business as a compet- without a t the same time becoming intolerable
itor1 In numerous cities abroad this plan is nuisances by inefficiently and expensively doing
followed with good results. what private enterprise can do better, and by
Unrestrained competition is bad, too; for it attempting to gecide for us jnst bow we shall
leads to long hours, abominable shops and think on questions in which they are interested.
factories, adulteration of goods, false represen- The more the pGople expect the Government to
tations of merchandise, and the dishonest under- do for them, the higher 611 be the taxes which
selling of competitors with a view to ruining mnst be estracted from the people in one form
&em. We mnst have the aid of a Government, cr another. There is no escaping this.
national, state or municipal, to prevent the The thing that we all desire, whether we
stronger from killing the weaker by laws of h o r n it or not, is the establishment of Christ's
their own making. Fortunately, a t this stage kingdom. ''Thy kingdom come. Thy nill bc
of the game, the worker himself has something done in earth, as it is in heaven." (Matthew 6:
to say about i t ; and his protests against long 10) Earth's new King will know just what
hours, low wages and unsanitary working con- laws to put into effect, and just how to enforce
ditions all operate to the advantage of society them He alone has the power to give such a
as a whole. He would render a still further aid government a s mill insure neither sickness,
to h u m a n i t y if he vonld blazon upon the sorrow nor death to those who obey his jnst and
housetops every act of adulteration of goods or righteous d l.This is earth's hope, and its
misrepresentation of them that comes to his only hope. And, best of all, "The desire of all
knowledge, even if he lost his job by doing it. nations shall comeWi-Haggai 2: 7.
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The Great Agnostic's True Vision
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I see a world No prisoner monms;
Where thrones have crumbled A world on ahlch
And where Mugs are d w The gibbet's shadow does not fall;
The ~ t o c r n e yof idletaw A world where lnbor reaps f t r iull rewnrd;
Has gcrlshed h m the earth. \%re work and worth go hand In hand.
I EX a world without a rlrrm I see a world
Nan at rut Ia \\'Sth4at tbe beggnr's oulstret&ed palm,
&:,:T forces The mkr's heartless, rtonf rtur.
Hnve by &ma been enahveil; The plteour wall of wmc
1.lghhlng and llzhs . The lirld Ilm of ~IM,
Wtnl m d waoe. TM crud eyes of scorn
r N t and drme, I8eeanb
&ui 8ll tbe ollbtk powers Wltbout dLseaac of P u b or bra4
of eartb and alr Shnpell nnd far.
An? the t l r e 1 ~ tDUM
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For the hnmfu~ma% And.
AS I look
I .ec a world at p a q Life lengtbem,
d every fonn of art;
~ ( l o with JOY -4
with mud68 myrlad roiaer, thrllld; Iavc rrmpleS tbc arth.
While llpa nre rich . And wer all lo the p a t dome
with word. oi love' and tmth; sbmes tbe etemnl ehr
A world & which DO ~XUO dgbr. Of Jmman hOOI iroW Q. I ~ w U .
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ih perfect state of prwervation. An antelope its absorption, caused such rank growth to
was found thus recently with undigested'grus cease, Ou awount of the .absence of animal
in its stomach. And more recently still, during life at that time there was no way for natare to
the summer of 1919, specimens of fruits, such ;aaintain a balance of atmospheria conditions as
as orange& lemons, bananas, cocoanuts and now. This condition resulted in the deathof
many kinds af edible fruits now extinct, were the vast forests of that age. But being highly
found in a petrified state underneath an old impregnated with carbon these forests did not
avalanche at the base of White Mountain in decay; for under such conditions, without saf-
Pennsylvania, Also the petrified rerhains of Acient oxygen, decay was impoesihle,
frcrh&nrfl~nqd horned toads were in evidence With the dement upon the earth of this
is. ~ ; same3 locality. carboniferous canopy and its simnltoneoas con*
. what does this prove? sumption in the vast forests of earth, there
S h p l y that &ere was once an abundan& of were laid the foundations of the great ma1fields,
tropical fauna and flora in the present state of which still exist ;hem snbaeqnently by deluges
Pennsylvania Plien what 'magical wand hath and avalanches became submerged, teanlting
wtonght bo great a transformation from t r o p in their h i n g mined tram beneath the earth's
i d to low temperature conditions T The answer ~urfacetbday. At the "end of the age," the air
ie, The Flood of the Bible in Noah's day. being filtered of its mrplus amount of carbon-
Let as now follow "the waters above the dioxide and hharged, instead, with an increased
hr~lmment", and see them gradually collect, q o u n t of oxygen, the earth teemed with
under the iatluence of earth'e centrifugal force, mprinda of 'living creatures, fowls of the air,
about the pole^ wtil the great pull of gravity cattle, creeping thine,' eta
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At the psychological moment, man, the crown- is said to be nitrogen! With this great amount -
ing act of creation, steps forth from his plastic of nitrogen intruding itself in the air the
mold "a little lower than the angels", but the ori,@nnl elements of oxygen and carbon-dioside -
highest of earthly creations. God had prepared must of necessity be much diiuted. And this
j : him~ a place ; and Eden was his home. I n is now u~lderstaoda s having .hen the immediate
Illis home, as already stated, it was Adam's cause of the shortening of life after the Flood.
~~rivilege to remain forever, provided he should Xot only was the air thus diluted, but it
keep inviolate the laws of his Creator. His polluted-poisoned-by reason of such con-
descendants likewise would haye beer1 born vith tamination, beconling in a sense death-dealing.
the same privileges. +nd with the gradual in- Lest some may hold with the old text-books
crease of liis lnrgc family, now estimated a t on Chemistry that nitrogen is a conlponent part
twenty billions, he would gradually, as neces- of the air, it only becomes necessary here to
sity had demanded, have extended, by subduing call attention to the fact that this substance
111s earth, the limitations of the Garden of Eden undergoes no change whatever in the process
until it reached that condition of world-nidc of respiration Carcfdy-mndncted experiments
paradise.-Genesis 1:26-2s. shorn conclusively that in the process of animal
This plan of subduing the earth n~ouldhavc. respiration there is an appreciable decrease of
been much more easily rrccomplislletl t h all tlis oxyKen and a correspl~dingincrease of carbon-
one upon v h i d ~man has been engaged since dioside. But the amount of nitrogen in both
knowledge began to increase, because the pure (so-called) and impure air remains the
"tliorns and thistles" of the earth \:-ere little in same. Thus we see that nitrogen has bef?n an
e\-idoncc until after the Flood. Besides, Adam intrusion hl the air ;but before we have finished
i l l the l~cginningvirtually had control over the this discussion, we propose to show how even
vnrth, and it was only necessnl-?-at that time t o . this temporary interference will, S i c the per-
l,~-ingit into comj~lctesubjectioa. But Adam mission of evil, result finally in great benefit to
lost this near-perfection control, and with it, llumanity. In the first place it hastens the
his perfect mailhood. As a result both mail and "dying" penalty; and *is within itself nTasa
the earth began a gradual decline donm to the blessing to man during the supremacy of evil
t h e of the Flood. After this event rapid decay in the age just now passing away. - I n the
of man was manifest; and the eart:~swarmed nbsenee of qonrersion to Christianity and gen-
with the promised ,"thorns and thistles". uine refomlation of Life, long exposure to evil
It becomes necessary at this stage to consider influences renders any character more depraved.
again the relative component parts of the air, All have doubtless observed that little children
and its temperature, since these determine ordinarily are more nearly immune from com-
wholly the variety a IF1 profusion of life on mon vices than are adults. ---.
earth, and the, degree or their vitality. Besides this, it now appears, during these
The comparative absence of nitrogen in the days of "increase of knowledge" that the nitro-
atmosphere prior to the Flood was due to the gen, stored in the atmosphere, is yet to serve a
minimum amount of decay during that time. most important economic purpose in contribut-
But with the wholesale destmction of plant and ing to the restoration of the earth's fertility. -. ,
animal life at the time of the last deluge, and Of l a t e y e a r s the agricultural scientist has &; *
t:,;. :r,;. - -c,;t; 2ccey of same, the air became discovered means of extracting this element
~ a i ual i d PFith nitrogen-the result of this from the air and of causing it to-enter the soil
decay. This intrusion of nitrogen, a by-product, of earth, where i t becomes available plant food.
into the air had tile effect of upsetting its This is lrccomplished by growing certain plants
former balanced state of equilibrium. called legumes-peas, beans;the various kinds .
As proof of this statement note the beginning of clover, eta., which, by the process of osmosis,
of shortening of l~umanlife immediately follow- absorb nitrogen from the sir and deposit it
ing. And, of course, as death and decay in- tl~roughroot nodules into the soil,'-where it
creased by reason of the continued shortening becomes amalgamated by a kind of microbe
of life, the amount of nitrogen in the air also action with the soil, setting free certain im-
increased until at the present time seventy- portant elements which are at once taken up
=yen per cent of the volume of the atmosphere by plants, thus stbulating their growth.
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Kor is this all: It has been found that nitro- of proper selection, breeding and cultivation its
gen can be very profitably Used in thc mann- size is increased more than seventy times, not
i'acture of high explosives. This being true, the t o spcak of t h e g r e a t improvement in its
rakious governments ha\-, during the recent luscions~~ees.F r o m everywhere come easily
war, had recourse to this almost inexhaustable veriiied reports of the development of the pecan
snpply of material, constructing immense chem- from the originally wild seedlingwhich wqnired
ical plants for the purpose of extractiw out W a n e to forty years to begin bearing, to the
of theair this necessary element. But -4th the modern paper-shell of eight to ten times its
sie;ning of the armistice this output i s now origind s i x , and bearing profitably at .five to
being turiiled into an entirely different channel, eight years of age. These illustrations are
d that of manufacturing nitrogenons commercial tnkc-n fro111 the achievements of the present
fertilizers. This will greatly aid the earth in arernge crop productions, and do not consider
yielding her "increase", a s foretold, and wilI .the ~namelonsachievements of such men as
result in another blessing to man instend of an Bnrbanl; and other specialists.
injury. How literally true is thc statement that L Cs s t h a n twenty years ago the average
"God is able to make even the m a t h of man farmer was contenting himself with growing
to praise him"! but oile crop pcr year; and each snccessive crop
With the increase of the food products of the \\*as rgpitlly depleting his soil. Today he i s
earth as s direct result of rendering the soil gron-ir~g two or more crops per season-at least
more productive, m i l l come a corresponding one a lcpn~e--and at the same time is improv-
increase iu the qz~alityof such foods. This fact ing fr01i1 ycrtr to year the fertilitg of his soil.
has already been delnonstrated by carefully And this \vitliout using commercial fertilizers.
conductcd experiments. Two pigs from the enme )\?lo that believes in God shall doubt his
litter were each segregated and given =actly ~ ~ - o or
r d p o ~ i c r ?He has spoken and is able to
the same attention as to water. food and geiieral perform the same. He has said, "My Word shall
environment. I n fact, all collditior~swere exnct1)- !-lotreturn unto me void, but it shall accomplish
the same in every respect as to tlie miount of tlie thing wliereunto I have sent if'. H e declares
food, and each given the sanie lrind of food. that lie will make the place of his footstool-
The food in each case was corn in equal weight. the earth-glorious; that " J e h o ~ a hwho created
The only difference was th_e quality of the corn; the eartli formed it not in vain, but to be in-
one lot of xhi& was growl on soil producing .hnbited"-LLtl~at even the desert places shall
only fifteen bushels per acre, wide tlie other become like the ancient Garden of the Lord".
corn came from land producing sixty bushels Therc remains in this connection one other
per acre. The test extended over a period of !honglit to he considered. M7e have already
11inety days, simnltancouslp conductcd. The pig o b ~ e r r e dthe descent and precipitation from
fed on the better quality of corn gained more time to time of deluges of various substances
than tsvice as much increase miit as the upon the earth, and the effects of these d e l u i s
other pig which consumed thc Qspio ., mc nnniber of npon all life a t that time. According to scien-
ponnds of fqod containi~k the inferior quality tists of the present day? there is yet another
of corn. clcluge, consisting this time of .electricity, ap-
,d It =ems pertinent to note in this connection
that of all a v e ~ ~ nof
e s human activities, none are
proaching the earth. This aiUlin a few gears
will be precipitated npon the earth, and it is . -
making greater progress tl i n that of intensive clain~edwill rcsult in p e a t benefit to humanity,
farming. The goal of this particular line of Iwcausc its eontact m t h the earth Prill destroy
activities will have been consummated when the i~ljuriousmicrobes, germs and parasites. This
entire earth is fully "subd~~cd",and caused to \rill cause fermentation to cerrsc and thus pro-
become eneecdingly fruitful. I f any one doubts duce the effect of preserving for an 'indefinite
that these things will Le accomplished i t is but pcliod of time all perishable fruits and vege-
necessarp to remind such a n one that these tables. This will in a measure partially restore
t h i n e are already being accomplished today. nntedilorioll conditions, and will produce tbe.
Consider, for instance, the tonlato which only effect of greatly dlcvinting human sufferings.
rr few pears ago grcw in its mild etatc, and n w t Finally, as a concluding thought, it remains
the size of an ordinary marble; today, by means to be shown that the presaice of nitrogen in
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the air is for the purpose of consetving another times, thia bnttlo-rearrod earth, drenched
v e v important use. It is claimed in the Bible humau gore, will in tune become a veritable -,
that there will be a resurrection of both the Garden of Eden.
just and the unjust. The Savior himself said;
"Marvul not a t this; for all that nre in their
Paradise, lost through -4dam's transgression,
will, througll the merit of the Ransom, "to be
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graves shall come forth''. Now we take this to testified in due time", be restored. Burning and , *
mean jnst what it mys, that the dead shall re- frown deserts now defying the ingenliity of
turn to life. But how is this to be accornplishedl man, being subdued, will be transformed into
Do we expect a return of their decayed bodies drenndands r>f beauty snd glory. 'Supplanting
out of denth? the marshalling of the hosts of w-ar,with their
By no means. ?Ye nnderstand and hold -rith instruments of destruction and death, will be @
the Bible that their bodies have become n o n est the busy hum of productive machinery and the
by reason of their "return to the dust whence march of i n d u e t r y a p p l e g the cnmulated
they came". energy of inventive genius to the harbessing df .
But do we expect them to return as human all the hitherto lathnt forces of nature, and
beings? bending these into complete subjection and use
Yes. for the etrerlnsting blessing of the entire human
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With Be.& and bone and sinew a s of yore? race. Then the billions of dollars now being
Exactly so. applied to destructive purposes will be turned
Where will their bodies come from? into constructive channels. "Swords shall be 1
God in whose memory they are held nill h a t e n into plox-shares, and spears into pruning
provide for them necessary bodies jnst as he hooks? KO more uprising of "ation against
did that of the first man Adam. - nation9'--there m i be but one nation, a holy
Now we return to a consideration of nitrogen nation. Nor \till war be learned any more; for
ant1 its further use in the air. I t is claimed by Jehooah "rnzl<cth wars to cease from the river
chemists that a considerable portion of the to the ends of the earth". Then will be realized,
human body is nitrogen. Then in the resur- through .the everlasting ages of eteraity, the
rection of the twenty billions of the Adalnic true import of the message of the angels on
family now asleep in the tomb, much of this the hills of Judea as they sang the song ef
element being s t hand, long held in suspension 'Teace on earth, good will among men".
for this very purpose, will be cbnsumed in - Wit'f t h i s condition of perfection-of tho
providing, in the general resurrection, human mnterial earth d come logically the pei-fection
bodies for all now asleep in death, but who P man, mentally and morally, rzs well as phgs-
$hall "come forth" "in due time". And incident-
aUy, this process, and that above mentioned, of
f
I dly. A11 incentives to selfishness and greed
Oei~~g eliminated, by reason of earth's supel- -
enriching the soil, will have the effect of filtering abundance, the "re sidne of hnmsnitg shall
nitrogen from the air. This will restore its attain perfection in every respect. Then also -
former pristine purity as it was in the days "the kno\rledge of the Lord shnll cover 'the
before the Flood. Under such a condition of earth as deep as the ocean". Then shall his .
atmospheric purity, man, breathing the mdi- "glory be r e ~ e d e dn~idaU flesh shaU see it tb-
luted invigorating oxygen, would live approx- gether". Then shall hmlani&, no longer don-
imately a thousand years. In addition the fused, "know the tm#' and thereby become .
perfect fmits, resulting from increased fertility "free". With his reason thus restored the mind
of the earth lie above shown, will ~qaintainthe of man will again become superior to matter.
po~siEilitiesof ewrlasting life. And this is Since the earth was made for man, not man .
L exactly what the Bible teaches, and exactly f o r t h e earth, he mill h able to order the . .,
what humanity instinctively desires. eensons at will--even the "winds and the waves :, '
r 7Qith a return of the billions of humanity from will obey him".
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llniwrsd P m e be. a sign unto yon; Ye shall find thc babe
7 1 mn/t-Lut;r $ : I ) . wrapped i n swaddling flotll@% lYiu in
'.On earth peace, gwd ~ ~ toward
manger." (Lukc 2 :10-12) Awed by this \ision
C H R L S T x A s is w ~ r d c d man). people na and thrilled njth &ir c n p i r o ~ ~ n t ,the , .hep
the date of thc birth of the bdw Jesus in a herds in ,rondcr and stood speed-
Rt Rethlchen Or the dde lees before the fieayenly messenger. Then md-
is correct is of mall imprtancc, bnt the event dcpJy there nith nngela
was and is of greatest import3ncE. mnliitn;Io of t]lc lleavcnl?;host, angels bright and
Bethlehem is eituatcd on en clcvstion over- fair; and 3, of this event
looking a deep ravino, beyond which are fields of the age8 they joyfully sang together an
where shepherds graze their flocks. Beautifol allthem of praise to Jehovah, " G l o r ~to God in
for ~0cZItionis this historic spot, particdarly the highest, on earth pace, gbod
attractive to one of poetic mind and deep rever- toward lllen".
ential h e a r t , a n d doubly w since the P a t J ~ p cenbries
g and the bnrdens of earthly
events, recorclc'd in Holy xTrit, which therc c a r e s h a r e c ~ r e c e do r Gdden glorions
iranepired nearly nineteen centuries ago. From ~ s i o nfrom minds of most men who -
tfie snwouncling hills of 3uclm the shepherds themselves Christians; and today these wotd6
had broWllt their d e e p to the field opposite announcing universal peat%to thoso of worldly
Betlilehe~nand corralled them &ere for the Nind as but a hollow mockev. xeftr]y
night. I f t i l e the others slept, one or more of ,inet,,, cenhries have come and gone sins
the shepllcrds kept v i d over the flocb, ~ d t i n g .that heavenly messenger announced the birth
for the dam of day. The atmosphere of J n d m of Jesus and brought a message of good tidings;
is exceedingly rarided, and the stars shine forth and after these long years of laborions =sort
with nnnsual b c a n t ~and brilliancy, and on the part of men to establish ideal con-
the glorp of the night is enhanced. ditions, wit11 dismay they witness the whole
Without doubt these lowly herders of sheep -:~orldrocked from center to c i r c d e r e n c e nnd
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were men of @cat reverence for h d , men who all lrindreds and peoples engaged in the strife of
trusted in his promiaea made to their father tongues, tumult, distress and war. Now the
Abraham and hem? were expecting the earning great mass of so-called Christendom is trusting
of Messinh. b d for their faithfulriess J e h o r h ifi fie god of f o r e and violence rather than in
rewarded them with s woriderful vision. While ->c Gocl of peace and love. Millions of earth's
tlrese humble watchers were t w i n = into the -brrl)ltants, including those who pose as teachers
starlit heavens nnd mcditatinguponthemajesty and preachers of the Gospel, haye turned36
and expressed wisdom of Jchovah, thme ~ u d - infidelity, disregarding the Word of God, and
denly appeared unto them 8 star of remarkable advise, counsel and engage in. strife and
l ~ ~ i l l i n n c standing
y, over against'Bethlehern, violence. Alas! their faith in God and in bis
c . +.- :$e,,@led the city of David. Simnltari- precious promises is gone.
ro~~!;:hn migel of the Lord, the heaven1J mes- Eow different with those r h o truly love the
s e n p r , ap~cnredunto them, and the light of Lord arid who atudy to show themselves approv-
the dory of the Lord shone round about them. ed nn t o God ! Their diligent and prayerful
Then the shepherds were sore afraid. What search to h-iorn the meaning of these e+ents
man of .reverential mind would not Fave been past and present the Lord has been pleased to
nwe-struck at snch a marvelous mamfestationl reward with a clear vision; and now they aro
To calm their fears, the heavenly messenger privilcgad to mark the majestic onward tread
sweetly said to these humble men of the fields; of Jehovah in the unfolding of his marvelow
"Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings plan. And thus understanding, their h e a r b are ,
of great joy, which &dlbe to all pepple.' For tilled with joy; and the sweet message of that
unto yon is born this day in the city of David a ;'.svedy host resdunds through the corridor8
Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this d ~ dof the n g , cdlli~lgattention .to the momentoun
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events that are transpiring and the even n e a t e r man should die because of his disobedicncc to
ones iniinediately to follow. Not only do they the Ian-, Jehovah chose, a s a means of enforcing
rejoice in their o m hearts, bnt it is the privilege this jud,mcnt, to compel man to live o u t ~ i d cof
of such true foUoaers of the Master nit11 con- the perfect Edcn and to feed npon the poisfinonfi
fidexlce to say to the bewildered and frightened elements of the, earth until complete death
of nominal Christendom: "Behold, t h y God would ensue. Hence he drove 'the two out of
r~irncth". Eden and set a flaming sword at the garden's
And now we invite all sober-minded peoples entrance, lest Adam might return and partake
of corth-Christian and infidel. Jew and Gen- of the tree of life. F o r 930 years Adam battled
t jlc, bond nnd f ree-to come with us' xvhilc we with the elements of the earth, daily saccum@ing,
together briefly review this beautiful Christmas until a t the end of that time he was datld.
story, and ascertain its meaning and significance The s&et of all the snflering, sorrow, sickness
to the groaning people of all the nations of and death of humankind from then until now
earth. Its message of comfort is intended for lies hi what occurred in -Eden and followir~g.
all; for the angel of the Lord said: "Behold, I IVhile in Eden the perfect msn did not eremi*
bring you good tidings of great joy, which his power to beget children; and I~ellrcthe
fillall be to all people". The time is now due perfect pair never bronght forth childnm. It
for the world to bcgin to understand the real was only after undergoing the legal kntene of
meaning of what occurred on that memorable death, and after they had imbibed the poisonons
morning in Bethlel~em;and those who do under- elements of earth's vegetation, thnt this pair
stand and avail themselves of such knowledge cohabited arid children resulted. It is reason-
will h greatly blessed and comforted in heart, able, therefore, tb see tliat this condemnation
mind and body. fcll upon the offspring; and that the father,
11-11y should -the babe Jesns be born at all? now imperfect, d d not beget a perfect child ;
TI-hg nlnrk his birth nith such ceremony and h e ~ ~ cthe e offspring of Adam wonlrl'be an irn-
joyful expression by llle heavenly host t Ths p e r f e c t one. F o r t l G -reason the Psnlnlist
a n s w e r i s t h e olcl, old story, which grows \\-rote: "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity and
s~veeterthe ofteller told; and never so sweet as in sin did my mother mnceive.me". (Psalm51:.
no\v, because the time is here for its nppreci- 5) And for the same reason the inspired witness
ation by mb.. said, "As by one man sin entered into the world,
Four thousand years before the staging of and death by sin; so death passed [by inherit-
this drama in the hills of Judrea, Jchovah had nnce] upon all men, for that all have sinned".
created a perfect pair-Adam and Eve-and (Romans 5:12) T h e ultimate *result of tho
provided them with a perfect home 'in E d e n operation of the divine law of necessity W O R ~ ~
He had endow'ed them with power and authority h a v e m e a n t the complete extinction of the
to bring forth children, to fill the earth and to hu~naurace. T o d a ~ instead
, of men living 930
coxltrol i t and to make the entire earth a s a years, the nverage life is much less than one- -
garden, a glorious spot, a fit habitation for a tenth as long.
happy and perfect race of people. To this first God forelnew the course that man would
pair the L o r d granted the privilege of life take; and before the foundation of the world hc
everlasting in a state of human blessedness, 'outlined .a plan for human redemption -and
conditioned, however, upon a faithful obedience blessing. Xearly two thousand years after.the
to .&is law. The wife, deceived by Satan into hunlankind had wandered in the earth in sorrow
a violation of the divine law, in turn induced and distress, Jehovah spoke to his s e m t
her husband to take the step of disobedience Abraham, likewise an imperfect man, but one
wiifully rather than be separated from her. who exercised great faith in God, and to him
The result of this trans,gression was an infiiction made promise that through his seed all the
of the penalty of the law, whieh penalty is fanlilies, nations, liindreds and peoples of earth
described in the Genesis account (chapter 3) as should have rr blessing. (Genesis 12: 2, 3; 22:
n dying condition nntil death was fully accom- 18; Galatians 3: 16) Later, God organized the
plished, a return 'to the dust whence the Lord descendants of Abraham into a nation bnder
had taken the elements to make man. the name of Israel, arid with that nation rrnd
Having judicially determined that t&cperfect people made 4lam corenant and from time to
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time reiterated his prom'rae to bring a blessing pcrfcct human being-nothing more and t
this promised seed was an earthly seed. The ~ t o c kcould mect this requirement of the law and ..
promise at one time was conhod to the house redeem the human race k u 8 e all were in-
! of David; and when David ascended the throne perfect, having descended from Adam. And.
the Jews thought that the t h e had come for this thought is expressed by the Psalmist,who
' the blessing of mankind. Tllc prophets, how- sap, "None of them a n by any means redeem
eyer, foretold the coming of another and great- his brother nor give to God a-ransomfor him".
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er one; and at the time of Jesus' birth all (Psdm 49: 7) Any child begotten by n member
thonghtfd people of Israel were looking for 'of the Adamic stock =odd nece6sarily be im-
, the coming of the Messiah. God through bjs ~>crfect;hence cthe amount concerning the con-
prophet had foretold that Messiah would be ception of Mary and the birth of the babe Jesus.
boni ill Bctlilehem of Juha-Matthew 2:5,6. ghows that shc conceived by the power.of thc
Hcrc we e i n p h i z c one thing prominent in holy Spirit. (Matthew 1:l8-25) Therefore
the message bmugld by the angel; namely, the Jesus n-ps begotten not by muq M born of s
word all. I t will be marked in thc examinatiol~ woman, cmd when born he w-aa "holy, harmless,
of this a11d other Scriptures relating to- the undefiled and separate from sinners". (Hebrews
1 reden~ptionof man that God had promised to 7: 2G) J\?len he grew to manhood's estate he
bless all the families.of thc cnrth, and thnt at was thc csact counterpart of Adam prior to his
tbe birth of Jeans the angel announced that diaohedicnre. Not until we understand theso
I this is glad tidings which gllall be brought to all tltings can n-e understnnd why there n-as RO
i ' people. It i s not the thouqht of the Scriptures mudl joy in heaven aniong the angelic host at
- that we11n mrfisagc ~souldI>e brought to all at thc birth of Jesus. The heavenly beings had
thc same time; but ihat ill God's due t h e every heit observing for four tl~onsandyears tha
one of the human rare would hear this messagc dow;\snrcl course of mankind. They had see11
of glocl tidings and \\-odd each have the oppor- ihc preot degradation and sorrow that sin had
tunity of availing hirnsclf of the Ixnefit of it. inflicted npon thc hu~nanfamily, and now they
The race ~ v n sjustly condemned to death lx- pcrerivecl that Jehovah making prorieion
cause of disohdiencx to tbc la\\- of God; and for ihe rcdenvtion and Messing and uplifting
this jndgmcilt could not bc sct mi?c or rerersed of all mcn.
for the renson that God is unehangcable. His T h a t which man prizes aborc everything
1an.s arc ked. IIowevcr, sucli a jud,ment aonld else is lifc'; for wjthout life nothing else call bc
be satisfied by the dcmaitds of the law being enjoyed: Tlie ti-holc human race, being under
met. In due course of tinw God made promibe the condelnnalion of death, ultimately must die.
to tlre house of Israel, his ~pecidlycho~en Why, then, did Jellus come to earth! U'hy
pcoplc, that a provision f o r releasing manbind Itc born t He answers; "That the people might
from death and the effects of tltis j u d e ~ e n t Itave life ancl have it more abundantly". (John
would bc made. Y 'ticill ransom them from the 10: 10) He "was madc flesl~and h e l t anlong
power of ihc grave: I will redeem them from us? (John 1: 14) "Frasmuch as the'childrei~
.-'q death : 0 cleatli, I \\ill be thy plagues; 0 grate, are partakers of dceh ancl blood, he d s o limself
, I n-ill bc' Uly dcstrnction."-Hosea 13:14. like\\.i.w partook of the sane." (Hebrews 2: 14)
The word ransom means a price etactly "Ve sec Jesus, \\-llo \\.as made a little lou-er
... correspox~ding. A perfect man hacl violated t l ~ a nt1)c rrngcls [namel~,t, human being] for
Godk: Ian-, and dcnth resulted. Therefore. tlic thc suffering of death, crowned with glory and
only thing that could constitutc n ransom 'or Ilo~ror;that he by the of God should tast-e
eorrcspor~dingprice for mankind t\-onld be the dcatl~for every mrm." ( H e b m 2: 9) Jesus
life of another pcdcct man, exactly equivalent himself declnred the he laid down his life for
. to Adam while in Men. I n other words, t l ~ c the sheep. (John 10:11,15, 16) Here he uses
tedentption and deliverance of the human mcc the word sheei, to iilustratc. those who arc!
frocJeath, and its restoration to human per- milling and obedient to the will of God, that
fection and happiness, must entirely depend they shall mceivc the benefit of his sacrifice.
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5pon tile voluntary submiasion to death of zr And this opportunity must come to dl, as
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St P a d states: T o r this is good and accept- sacrifice and continue thus faithful nnto death.
zblc in the sight of God our Savior, m-110 will T h c ~ eare promised a part iq the first resnrrec-
have all men to tic saved and to conle unto the tion and an nssociation nith Christ Jesns as
Imo\.vlcdge of the truth. For there is one God, inembers of tlic royal Therefore we
and one mediator between God and men, the e m understand the words of the Master when
man Christ Jesus; who gore himself n rn1160~1lie aid that only a little flock (comparatively
for all, to be testified [ t o dl] in dnc t h e . " opedring) of maidiind n-odd hare this blessing.
(1 Timotiiy 2:s-6) Here again it is observed -Luke 12: 32.
that it is God's will that all nlen shall be saved The purposes of the Lord in this regard a r e
from the condemnatio:i of death and thercaftcr esccrtained from the nrords of the Apostle:
brought to a Imo~vledgeof God's provision for "God a t the f i s t did visit the Oentiles to take
them, which tnoxlcdge opens to them tke op- out of them a people for his name. And to
portunity of accepting Uie benefits of the ran- this agree the words of the prophets; as it i s
som ~acrifice. Hence, says the Apootlc. thesc: written, Aftcr this I will return, and I will
facts must be testified to all men in God's due build again the tolrcrnaclc of David, which is
t h c . As this testimony comes to nleil at fallen down; and I will build again the ruins
different times a11c1 they nnderstand it, they - tlicreof, and I m i l l set i t up; that the residue
rejoice in i t because to them it is good tidings, of men might seek after the Lord, and all the
good news of a better thing for them-an up- Gentiles, upon whom my name is called."
portunity f o r life. -Acts 15 :14-17.
Why, then, if Jesns died on the cross llearly Jesns taught IJs disciples, and through them
nineteen benturies ago, tihodd tllc humail race the chusch has been taught, that after be had
c:ontlnue to suffer? The Scriptural ansu-cr is ascended on higb he would return in course of
clear. TIE promist. to Abraham \-:as that in time and gather mlto himself the saints, and
his seed should tllc bleseing come to mcdcind; the11 \\-ould estal~lishhis kingdom for the pur-
and this seed must first be fully devcloped pose of blessing mankind. .All C % r i s h people
before tlic benefit of thc ransom sacrifice call have looked forward to the second coming of
be extended lo sll. I t is important, tllcrcfore, the Lord, a11dto the end of the wicked order of
to perceive what constitutes tllc seed and how things sad the estd~lishmentof a new and
it is developed. Tlle Scriptural proof i s that righteous order. This same thought was in the
this seed is the Christ, the Messiah, composed mind of the di~cipleswhen they approached
of Jesus, the Head, and the church, meaning Jesus just before his crucifkion and propound-
the called-out class n-hidl constitute the mcm- ed to him the direct question : "Tell as when
bcrs of the body of the N e s ~ i a hclass. ltence St. thcsc things shall be, and what shall be the
Paul argues: "As many of you a s h a ~ ebcen procf of thy coming and the end of the world ?"
baptized into Christ have put on Christ . .. And -blattl~ew 24: 3.
if ye be Christ's, tllci lare ye Abr&nm's seed, The Lord Jesus anfivered their question, and
and heirs according to the promise".-Galatians the answer is recorded in the twenty-fourth
3 :27, 29. chapter of Matthcw and the twenty-first chaptcr
-' I t bas pleased t'nc h e a ~ e n l yFather to devote of Lukc. He describes the great stress and
the period of time elapsing from the resurrec- trouble that is now upon the human race.
tion of Jesns until the setting up of his kingdom Among other things he said that there mould
to the work of selecting those who would be be a great world mar in which nation would rise
w . i n g followers of +e Master, and who wodd against nation, to be accompanied by famine,
prore their faithfulness and loyalty to him even pestilence and revolntions and a time of trouble
unto death, and to whom he would grant the such a s never was before; and dl mankind arc
privilege of joint-heirship with Christ'Jesns in witnessing the f n L f h e n t of this prophecy $t
his Iungdom. (Romans 8: 16, 17; 2 Timothy 2: t l i s very time. Again he said in answer to the
11,13) The selection of this class has been from m e question that there wonld be 'hpon the
among those who have ~oluntarilyconsecrated earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the
their lives to the Lord. Not every one who says, sea and the wares [restless h d t y ] roaring;
"Lord, Lord", % be
-iofll that class, but only men's hearts failing them for fear, and for look-
those who enter into a covenant with God by ing after thoec things ~ h i c hare corning on the
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earth: for the powers of heaven [ecclesiastical trary to happiness. The autumn season marks
qatems] shall be shaken". (Lnke 21 :25, 26) the dying and falling of the leaves, the trees
All the trouble that has fitted the natiom appear bare, and the wind moans and sighs
since the fall of 1914 has been clearly in fulw- through their branches. Then follows the long,
ment of the prophetic utterance of the Lord. dark, cold winter, picturing i n + ameasure the
To the Christian this means (and soon all the long night of saffering and death that has
world Kill learn to know that this is the mean- aficted the human race. In the spring -son
ing) that the kingdom of the Lord is a t hand, the warm, gentle rays of the sun, falling npon
that Christ is present, that he is tearing away the earth, cause the grass to spring forth, tho
the old order of things preparatory to establish- trees to bud and leaf, followed by the blossom8
ing a kingdom of rightkousness and peace which and the fruit, the singing of the birdn a ~ thed
hall constitute "the desire of d l nations". "I rejoicing of dl nature because of the reviving,
trill shake all nations, and the desire of all or coming again to life, of that which was dead' .
nations shall come".-Haggai 2 :7. Seemingly the Apostle had such a picture in his
The wars, famine, pestilence, rc~olutionsand mind when he said that times of refreshing
like disturbances that so much-distress hnman- would come a t the establishment of Messiah'r
kind d q not constitute any part of the &lad kingdom because i t would mean the restoration
tidings. No one rejoices in this suffering and of thnt which father Adam lost for himself and
trouble; but the Christian rejoices that these all of his offspring, namely, life and all the
tronbleso~lletimes are the proof foretold by the sweetness incident thereto. The perfed man
Lord that would precede the establishment of Jesus, having laid down his life and thereby
his kingdom of righteousness which would providing the purchase price for the human
bring blessings to all the groaning creation. race, now returns for the pnrpose of minister-
The message that has been preached to the ing to mankind by giving to him the very thing
people f o r long centuries, and is yet being that he has long desired.
preached by many, to the effect that i t is the Long ago the Apostle saw this and wrote:
Lord's purpose to save a few in heaven and to "He [God] hath appointed a day, in which he
consign all the residue of mankind to a con- will judge the world in righteousness by that man
dition of endless torture, contains no glad tid- [Christ Jesus] whom he hath ordained; where-
ings to any one of an honest heart. Surely it of he hath given assurance unto all men in
could be no real joy to any person to be con- that he hath raised him from the dead". (Acts
vinced that he would spend eternity in heavenly 17:31) The assurance here then is to every man
bliss while at the same time some one Far and that has lived on the earth that he must have
' d e a r t o him would be spending eternity in a fair and impartial trial in a time of righteo_ne
torture. Such a doctrine is not taught by the ness, which trial is for the purpose of giving
Word of God, but is the result of a distorted him an opportunity to render himself in obedi-
interpretation of the scriptures. ence to the lam of God and live. I t means th6t
The divine program, which has been develop millions who have gone inta death will retarn
ing progressively for many cef pries, has now again; for "there shall be a r e s u m t i o n of
z about renit:>,; :he point of time for the world the dead, both of the just and the unjusL'' (Acts
of man kin^ to, begin to understand and a p 24:15) Tbe great Master himself assures us
preciate some nf the lengths and breadths and that all in their graves shall hear his voice and
heights and 2=pths of tho love of God. His awaken to the resurrection by judgments, i. e.,
inspired witness m e : "Times of refreshing a time of trial and opportunity for.life and its
shall come from the presence of Jehovah; for. blessings.-John 5 :2629.
he 9Fill send Jews, who before was preached The work of reconstructing the human race
unto yon, whom the heavens must retain until will devolve npon the great Messiah, and that
the times of restitution of all things,which God great work will begin as soon as the present
h a t h spoken by t h e mouth of an hi8 holy trouble upon the earth has ended; for Jesus
prophets since the world began9'.-Ads 399-21. assures us that there never will be another time
T h e word refreshing here rmggesta the like it. (Mattbew (24: 21) Then, under his
thought of something that makes one happy righteous reign, every one will have a chance
after a long experience with that which is con- of hearing the sayings of Jesus and then w$
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app!y his' lrorde, 'Terily I say unto you, If way, and it sllall h called The n-ay of holiness:
a mzll lreep my sayiiig he shall never sce death." the u:lclea~i shall not pass over it; but i t dial1
That Scripture, like all other sayings of the h for those: the wcl?-faring men, thougll fools,
IJastcr, inust havc its time for fulfilllmnt; sllall not err thcreiil". This highway is the
and no one could keep his sayiugs until first !Scssi~h, \vho i s @;iten a s a mediator between
they heard tlle~n. T!lc iuillions ill death could God and npn, to ]cad man back to the state of
not hear until a\;.nlic:ied oat of death, and the perfection; and thc \I-ZIJ- to pass over it will
n~illionsnow on carth could not hear until God's bc by rcndcring tl~emselvesiu obedience to the
due time and mltjl they are told. Tllat due time la\\. of tlic Yessiah. It ~ h d lbe a holy, a
is about a t hand. rigliteous way. KO person shall be permitted
Will that be a time, then, .of rcjoicing and to progress ip \vickednesi, in profiteering, in
gladness? Thc Lord t!lroug11 the proplict gives oppression, in lcccping the people in ignorance
us n vision of that great time of blessing, sap- or filching their pockets under the pretense of
irlg. "The ~rjldcr~iess and the solitary plzcz! preaching tlle Gospcl or mythit else; but its
~ 5 n l lbe glad for theill and tlir desert slid1 objcct sllnll he Lhc cltnansing anw'glessiilg of the
rejoice, and blosso~nas the rose," thus pictnr- people, and it shall be so clear mld plain that
ing how the earth itsclf shall begill to yield thnt every ninn can understand it. "No lion shall be
~ ~ l l i cihs necessArp for the sustenance of there"; that is to say, no monstrous beast, such
mankind and pcrnlit him ,to enjoy thc fruits as czars, beastly governments, oppressing cor-
of his labors 11-it1:out the interrcntion and porations, or ecr.lesiastia1, political or financial
oppression of the profiteers. "It shall blossom sysleuis. "Sor any ravenous beast [government
nl)undantly, and rejoice even wit11 joy and GP opprcssii-e violence] shall go np thereon, it
singing: the glory of Lel~anonshall be given ~liallnot 1w found there; but the redeemed shall
111110it, the cscolle~~cy of Carmcl and Sl~aron, vall; tllerc." Thc earth and everthing in it sllall
the\- ellall see tlie ~ i o r yof the Lord, and thp Lw mudc co~iducireto the uplifting and blessing
excellency of our God." of mallkind.
Before the comili,rr of that glorious day, H a v i n g i n mindi then, that the Apostle
holvever, the prophet irlfers that the people nssul-cs us time and again that Jesus ransomed
would become very much discouraged and the entire human race, all of them, the prophet
without strength. EIe pictures thcm as tremb- conti~~ncs : "And the ransomed of the Lord shall
ling in their knees and hanging doun their return [meaning they shall return from the land
hands, and for their encouragenlent says: of thg enemy, from death and from their bond-
"Stre~igtl~en ye thc weak hands, and confirm age in blindn~ssand ignorance and supersti-
the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a tion], and come to Zion [the Messiah] m i t k
fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, songs nnd everlasting joy upon their heads:
your God u-ill con~cwith vengeance, eve11 God t11c.y sllall obtcin joy and gladness, and sorrow
with a recornpence; he will come and save you." and s i g l ~ i n gsI1nl1 flec away". (Isaiah 35)
St. Paul tells ns thnt the whole world aside lndeed then all shall lino\i- the truth ~f the
from Christians are blind, and blinded by thc message that the nngcl brought to the shepherds
ad~ersary. Many peopje are actually blind, as they w\.ntcllcd their flocks-good titihgs of
l\-hilc practically all are blind concerning a great joy unto all. ~4
vision of God's plnn. hlcssiah's kingdom will establish a .ulirersal
T h e p r o p h e t t h e n pictures the blessinp peace. As the propllet declares, rrllcn bis'bing-
during the reconstruction, saying, "l'lic~i tlic do111 is establislierl, then the nations come
Pyes of the blind slldl be opened, aiid thc ears and eny, "Let us go up to the mountaill [king
01 tho, deaf shall bc nnstopped. Then shall tllc ( I o ~ I ~of ] tllc Lord, and he ill teat h us of his
lame mall leap a s an hart, and the tongue of thc: lvays, and I\-c-~vill~ ~ in lliis kpaths. . .-. And
cluml~sing: for in the wilderness s1:all waters they :;111:11 tcat their m-ords intn ylowoharcs,
brcak out, and streams in t l ~ edcsert." _ and tl~cirspeais into pru~~hlghooks :nation shall
Then the prophet describes a way opened not lift up cr ~31'ordagainst naticn, neither shall.
for the human race to journey back to the they learn \!-at any more. But they s h d sit
perfection of life, of boay and mind, contin- ever?. Inan nilder I i s vine and nitder his fig tree;
uing : "And an Iii~hwayshall bc thcre, and a and none sltnll make them afra:S'.-Micah 4 :14.
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To assure sach a lasting blessing will require, AGE inaugurates a children's Bible ahdy de-
of course, nothing short of a perfect ruler. partment. There is no desire or purpose to
Then the earth w i l l have such, for "the govern- teach the doctrines of any sed or q t e m ; but
ment shall be upon his [Messiah's] shonlder; the sole purpose is to instruct t h cbiidren in
m d hie name shall be called Wonderful, Coan- the Bible. To do so we have arranged this study
seller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, in question and answer form,.propotanding the
[Life-giver], The Prince of Peace. Of the in- qnestions and briefly answering, citing the
crease of his government and peace there shall Scriptures where the proper Biblical answer
be no endM.-Isaiah 9: 6, 7. may be had. We snggest that the parents pro-
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To the Christian, therefore, who has a clear pound these questions to their children and aid
vision of the divine plan and who appreciates them to locate in the Bible the answer, thw
the time through whidi the world is now passing familiarizing the child (and incidentally the par- -
- ent) with the texts of the Bible and enabling
this should be the happiest Christmas he has
ever spent, beranse by the eye of faith he can them to get some insight into the gloriow
see the Sun of Righteousness rising with heal- character of Jehovah and the Lord J e w n
ing in its beam, driving back the great dark We suggest f i a t the ohild be given one
night of suffering, tumult and trouble, prepar- question each day and that in addition to the
atory to the bealing,'blessing and uplifting of answer here given, it be encouraged fa 'wk up
the human ram, back to the perfection of life, the' Scriptures cited and any other Scriptures
liberty and happiness. The incoming of this that, with the aid of the parent, it might &Id
glorious time means the beginning of the Golden bearing on the question. As this is a primary
Age-a time of rejoicing for all who love study, we therefore begin with the mbject
riglteonsness. THE BIBLE
1. What is meant by t 7 word
~ Bible?
Juvenile Bible StucEy Answer: A book that contains the Word of
M AN'S highest duty and privilege is to God as expressed to man, and has reference
glorify God One who loves and obeys tho to all the sixty-& books collectively, contained
p a t Creator Iovbs and obeys righteousness, in what is commonly accepted as the Holy
makes a better citiwn and a greater benefactor Scriptures.
to mankind. To love and obey Jehovah one 2. What i s the Bible?
must know him. How can we h o w him except Answer: It is an expression of God's m 71
through his Word, and how can we know and toward man and an outline of his plan concem-
understand his Word unless we are. taught7 ing the human race, given for man's instraction.
If it is proper and necessary to send oar chil- --John 17:17; 2 Corinthians 4 :2.
dren to th6 public schools that they there may 3. Are we invited to study the Bakl -
be taught concerning the a e W things of this Answer: Yes; Jehovah says to as: " E i e ,
life, with ~trongerreasoning is it proper and ' now, let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18);and -
necessary that they be taught concerning the "Study to show thyself approved unto &dY'.
things that have to do with their eternal welfare -2 Timothy 2 :15; J o h 5 :39; Deuteronomy
. and happinea 29 :29; Revelation 1:3; 1Peter 3: 15.
The Biblical education of children, b e believe, 1. Ghould we ezpect to udrskmd the deep
- has been sadly neglected. Every parent owes a things in the Bible ?
d u e to his own child and a corresponding duty Answer: If we study it mith a reverential
to every other child to whom he can render aid. and prayerful desire we may understand them.
h view of the time of great stress now upon T h e reverence of the Lord is the beginning of
the .human race, is it not high time that WB take wisdom." [Proverbs 1:7) The plan of God is a
some positbe' action toward the instruction of secret which he has promised to reveal to those
the children concerning the greatest thing about who reverentidly seek to understand it m e
. which they should know, the Word of Godt secret of the Lord is with them that fear him;
We believe that all parents, whether Chriirtim and he will show them his plan."-Psh 25:
or not, desire to aee their children grow up in. 14; 1Corinthians 2 :10.
righteousness and truth. Became of tbe long- 5. Can everybody understwid the Bible? -
felt need in behalf of the children, TEEQ o ~ ~ w rAnswer: They could, if everyone would corn-
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a ply with God's d e s . Certain portions of the Answer: First, he must have an honest desire
Bible are due to be understood a t ccrtain times; to understand it and a revcrence for Jehovah
but even when those times come, he will not a s the g r e a t eternal One, the Maker of all
pei-mit the wicked to nnderstand, bnt the wise things; he must hnve failh in God. "Without '
slid1 anderstand.-Daniel 12:10. f a i t h it is impossible to please him." (Hebrews
1;. Who can understand the Bible? 11:6) Second, he must have a sincere desire to
Answer: me 5ret thing essential is an honest know the trnth and tell the Lord he is willingao .
desire to understand it. (Lnke 8 :15) Then one (lo his will.-Proverbs 1 :7 ; John 14 :26 ; 1 Coi-'
must be wise after God's manner of wisdom inthinns 2 :12 ; Psalm 25 :14; Ilomai~s8 :14.
(Daniel 13:10; James 3: 17); and that kind of 11. Is it profifable to study thc Bible and if Q;
nisdom means that he recognizes Jehovah God so, in what u ~ a y t
as the-great First Cause, the Creator and the Answer: See 2 Timothy 3:1517; John 17:lT.' .
Giver of all good gifts. Then one must search 12. Does a knoroledge of tlte Bible enable o?Le
the Scriptures and study them.--John 5: 39; to do better9
Jeremiah 29 :13 ; Acts 17 :11; 1 Corinthians 2 :lo. Answer : See 2 Timothy 3:16.
7. Is the Bible intended to be understood; or 13. Is the Bible written entirely in plain tan-
is it a book sltrouded in mystery, only for one guage, or is some of it in sytnbolsl
clnss to understand? A ~ s w e:r Some of it is written in plain phrase,
Answer: It is a reasonable book; for God while many parts of it are written in symbolic
invites us to reason with him (Isaiah 1:18; language, some in parables and dark sayings.
Job 13 :3) ; and the Bible gives the reason for -Mark 4 :32; Y atthew 13 :35; Revelation 1:l-3.
God's dcaling with man and also the hope that 14. Why ulas not the Bible written irr ptakt
man has. (1Peter 3 :15) We should reason when 1ang:iage so evcrjbody could understand it, artd
we study the Scriptures or talk t o others abont tcitl~ozrtsymbols or darlt sayings?
them.-Acts 17 :2. Answer : God's purpose is to reveal on nnder-
8. If reasonable, then why cannot ever3body standing of his plan gradually. F o r instance,
undet-slnnd the Bible? he had the prophets write many thiiga a-hich
Answer: Because not every one is honest, they conld not understand. They merely served
and the dishonest uill not be able to understand as clerks or writers to make a record of things
it. (Luke 8: 15) Some do not desire to be right- they saw. (Daniel 12 :8) The prophecy of the
eons and good; hence they do not understand. Bible is history written before it happens.
(Matthew 5: 6) some may be honest and desire Jehovah foreknew everything,from the begin-.
to be righteous, but do not study. (2 Timothy 2: ning to the end (Acts 15: 18) ;and he caused it
15) Some are too wise in their own conceits to be written in such a way that it could not be
concerning earthly Kisdom and do not g i ~ Gode understood untiI the prophecp is h f i l l e d by
credit. for knowing and stating it in his Word. the events taking place. Then he expected the
(Matthew ll:25; 1 Corinthians 1:19) And people to understand it ' . .
some are too wicked-Daniel 12 :10. 15. Can you give an instance i n which'the
9. Do the great, the wise, the mighty and the Lord foretold something Zo happen that we now - .
noble and educated have any special advantage see?
in understanding the Bible, and is it necessary Answer:' Yes: He had Daniel record many 6
to have a finished college education in order to centuries ago that the time would come when
uttderstand it? there would be rapid traveling across the land
Ansmer: No; on the contrary, the vision and a great increase of knowledge in the world,
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Sentice for ~ u c t e r a track to the destination. It is an uemplilication
T TEE foundation of the swift, smooth of the Biblical maxim that "whosoever Kill be
A trmel of today is an intricate s y s t e ~of chiefest, shall be servant of all". (Ma& 10: 44)
coordinated service. Without the surrender of Presumably i t is true of the personnel of a
. .' the individual railroad worker's will td that of - ~ p t e mfrom , bankers down, if unfaithful, that
the system, travel wodd be both ditficnlt and they a r e liable to hear the other Biblical in-
dangerous, and civilization would sink toward junction, "Cast ye the unprofitable servant into
the level of the semi-barbarous. outer darkness: there shall be meping and
Every railroad man is inspired with the ideal gnashing of teeth".-Matthew 25 :30,
of a s nearly perfect se+ce as he can render.
Service by a worker-the public sccrrcely hears of, The Rig Bean
the car inspector, makes m e that no car leaves 0 ACCUSTOXED are we to the bean in a
li:e terminal in s condition that might cause an S .shell that it rather sarprises as ta see in a
accident. The engineman's service calls for nn- dieplap ujndow a bean two or three feet long.
intermptbd watchfulness and thoughtfulness This monster among beans is a butter bean
over every rod of track and at every signal, to originated in Japan.
make safe delivery of the cargo at every stop. One seed of the new bean my grow &to s
Safe and e5cient senice by the conductor plant 90 or 100 feet long bearing 100 beans,
takes a pereonal, ~incereinterest in the pss- each up to four to six feet long and weighing
sengers, watches conditions, observes the dis- ten, twcnty or thirty pounds, or more. I t woultl
patcher's orders, and sees to t$e safety and as t'&e a lnrge and hungry family to dispose of
\ f a r rrs possible the comfort of the hundreds one twenty-pound bean a t a meal or even in
temporarily in his care. Serrice by the shop- a d a ~ .Just horn mu& the big bean might help
mail takes care that the rolling stock is in us out tho cost-of-living problem may be figured
good condition as possible in the time allowed' out by G c oarions by estimating how manj-
'for the adjustment and repair of engines and miqht be raised in a city W - y a r d .
cars and is an importsnt contribution toward The Japanese bean first began to be used in
the efficient operation of the system. The rail- this country after the war got under way, and
road clerk's service contributes in some measure is now being widely used as a staple food I t
. tq the possibility of the managements having is said to be good eating when cut and fried
the records which make for the efficient opera- like egg plant, or boiled and eerved mi a
tion of the qstem. white sauce.
There is-no place where Iack of t h e q i r i t of If this is a specimen of how the field is to
service shows more than in the conduct of the "yield its increase" in the Golden Age, what
executives. Their spirit travels through the u-ondcrful things may be expected when the
'. prannnel, and manifests itseIf ih the acts of better order is fully under way l
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t ev: ;m~ployeof the road Ooverningihe entire
spski+r is the service rendered by the bankers D h m t A a p d Shkcg~
snd financiers who act as directors, appoint
executives, control policies and supply the funds T BE milk shortage in Switzerland is made
worse by the foot-and-month disease, which
required in a large way to purchase materials, is epidemic. On account of danger to the pegple,
equipment and labor for the best maintenance dances m d other Bssemblages of the people,
and operation of the system. including funerals, are greatly restricted in the
Modem travel is the resultant of the ecrvice ' attendance permitted. No milk is allowed to
of thousands working separately but all to a reach condensed-milk factories or milk-choco-
common end. In a snaxssfnl railroad it repre- late plants; and the. milk rations of children
aenta the best that can be done for the money ore reduced thirty per cent. Cattle markets are
to secare the safe and comfortnble delivery of closed, and farmers from infected districts are
passengers and freight over mile after mile of forbidden to enter the towam
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from 5Yench banks. Chnplaln IWrop m n k n n mport route t o I t f l l ~to see tile klag, t l ~ eporn and the
on Ule uliered l n ~ ~ e i r , u rand y yroCtcerrng of the Blctbndlat Collrge: l~knncel b m p a w ta u m m e the
I. U C A. i n Franeu nrnlrrhtc for -4rmenln. Bgrla and L t b o ~ o n : . kafrcr'n
palace damaged S 1 , ~ O U . W b~ theft m d vandullue
Deccmbcr Pt, Fridnv
Uil~ a f t e r ChrintJliar. Clrinn, Denmnrk. n n t r h W s t J a n u a m 2, FrMov
lndim Germany ScIller1:trrcl~ h'cw &:rlnnd. Krltrer- binlln Shi\.nrnU DM,. Indin: ArbW Day. drl;nna:
Imnd ;' Borlnr liar. ~ u f i t r n l i ~Ilnnz
; Knr~p. Jumniru. I"l1ri~irnt~oe h y In l?oman C!tholic m n t r l a : 1913.
1;hoderin: S t S t ~ p h c n 'Ua). ~ AWtrla. Uclrirjn:. Fin-
land Hunclrrr 1-lv. 1018. Po!w Jlcll-dirt klndl, Christian I'e3111e'~Party in G e m a n y pmt-tl ~ h l t
tyon;lsbr bir hid nail hopport to thr. clccision of tlls lc~irilntion .'o,,porlar liberty i n J U W O C ~ I ~rrhwls":
~
ersalllw Council : I'mritwrs uar nlrr~lnnw to Ukc Pre;jdelrt n~llxoa'n jnornep t h r o w h I t l l y I8 'like n
t h r i r enormorlr 1)roiita from C;*n~iur.?-to Switzcrlantl ; *iumllbal pron?mionv ; h m h r J0bn-n pmtmt~
German Sl>nrtacnn f o r m bcizc Ute Pruarian \Tar more rhnldilrp blood of b - 1 - brs
NiolrrW~. in ltusda.
December E, :.alur&y
Geeond Dnv a f t r r Chrbtmrs Western Aurtrrlin: J a n u a w S. 6afurday
1 0 1 s 1)sr11n \~oriirnen's wtl soldiers. couneu coal-em* . Cnrnival Day, E:mt: &n 6 1 u 0.7. h a m a r :
.,. "..
lor iurpor= 01 recullstruction ; Interr.ention In Hus-
r u LUIU nC.-.e in
-.tp...,r-t ..-n+o.rllL1
WII by tlir Allicr;
,,\.Hllrrinn nalrhnlki
~ i ~i ~: uondq
~ l:ra. ~ L , ~~~~. l~ d ~l]zranec , ktore
l e n t Carnival. Iloljrin, Honduras. Peru: 1917. Dnltcd
Si'tc~ .*\.era diplomatic relntlora with G a m y and
~ o n w r n i n =t m c r of pmce: A fnlnd of $1.000,000.0~
in declared to met the 1910 d&clcnw dlriuirscn Ambo*urdor Bernrtord: 1019. Promlncnt
t h e S2.2G-a-bushel GOT-cnt price of r h u t Uritnas petltlon r e l u s c of 1,500 eanuricntlous objec-
tom in Brltish prisons; Colombia asks ULLLttd S t r t ~
D c e m b r r t3. 6undau t o pny the SM.000.000 due her t h m u r h t h e 1.uncbing
Proclumtlon Day. - A of the Panama Republic ondrr t b e ~ R a o m a l te l m e :
December W . Yondau The antboritien and m immrnne c m r d gin Yrurldent
Bank Holidays, Costa n l a . (29.31) 1918. P m l - \r'llron a n e n t h u d a ~ t l cwelcome: b e -uners that
d e n t Wilma annonncen t h a t 'Yt Is the'hon~eicnceof the tmak of tbe Peace Conference im "to o w a d i e the
tbr! world r e now menu t o plmce upon the throns friendship of l h c warld," m d mot tn a u b l l v h t h e
whlch o t b n s tried to unuw'" U. S. S e n a t o n r m i v e hlaneco~-powu principle; he dlrc-
l i l i n d r ~ 01 ~ .tel-m*
AIJJ~XICIUI bore h - ~ u s s i a . -
v r o A ~ na ~z d u t krrplng pow u e n 4 l c t ; be ablu fir ~ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 , to
Earope: Rcqr Admiral Rodman ree~mmcncla t h e
~
d e t ~ c t i o nof tbe s u r m d e r e d Gennmn w a r &Ips
December SO, Tvwdoy
' 1 O l i . Coldest h'm Pork day In t h l r w - t b m ran. ir.ldch rervmmcndation the Gennnns follored La*) ;
Ullrtecn degrees b l o w s c m : 1918. d d t a ~ r e e m c n t T u r k win Lllllnp m e n h a s .
nledc between Unltrd Rtatra. Cmada. ond C h a t
Urltuln; l'raident Wilron dednrca t o 6.000 Britlah
rorknren "If Urc fnture had nothlng for nm but a - JOnuaTy 'Yndav
new uttcinpt l o keep the world a t the rlcbt pnlae by Janwnry 6, Uondfy
rr 1UIIni)c-e of 110wer. the Unlted S t q t a would t a k e no 1010. Special propat.nda .rent# a n ~1.d oa
i n l r r a : t i n i t k u s c #be wlll join no minbination
e T p o ~ \ . e r 1;. I s n o t x e o m b ~ n n t j n of
~ us oli". AmcIIC8.n Wnr s h i p t o combat nntl.llrltimb p m m m d a ;
~ ' o - n - . ~ J~e c ~ l n v ~ .hi*
~ ndherenCC t o Ute ..old systed M U D IJeKS ~ ~ fd e l w a f ~
a r e p r ~ ~ t full
q f ~ l l i : ~ n c emllcd
s the bnhnce of u e r : I mhould not
,' t e tellit*:: t l u trutl:. If 1 d d I kocl s l r a y s . ~ in Jac~aw6, T s ~ & v
a c r e c n i ~ u,iiUr
~ him I\Vllroul on 1111 Rmr- Chriatmnn DRY. llussia. (C-S) ; Eplphamy Dy. ta
no-m ' a t h d i c n u n t r i n ; 1919. u d UIIa!
onusn1pt;
Dmbcr :
-
~ z d ~ ~ r ' s 7 : * ~ y ~ - r : e * o r " " ~ ~ u ~ m L " ,C
L Wedncday
$ ~:
Ga~ g i v e P r e s i d e n t \ViI~on a tumultuoos grccumc.
Congwm appropriates t h e S100.000.000 "to rwIctru1
Europe"; Germany -nnnounccu llut I t b -rJ
S m Yrrr'a Err. Rwlttcrlnncl: Xlrmorial D ~ T POr- . for her t o ~ 9 n t e m c n e cncrpctlcrlly . (&mt tba
11icaI : Icrln- Horlm' 1:irthclav. B l l i ~ a r i n ( n e t ccle
b r a t n l this tiinc). 101T. G r n r n n r nnnorlnrcs n n r c
nUwIn3mbj,evlkl, by -ins diplofiatle mfliw
I'rmldeDt padercrrrki Or -Iaad Nabr
wtrtetccl rubmarind m r t a r e in rcrtoin xoncn: loin.
liolalle~ikireyolt crtah?bl#cs a . temporary Bolrherikl for A l l i d help o ~ a i ~ ~ t~~*~ ; I'iefJoml
r e p u b ~ i c in b ~ ~ e n i zc.crrnnny,
. n'or I- cart t ~ e Rccurlty LUIme a n u t d r e mt-ru a m -.
Uuitnl Slate$ /lu,lGU,OU0,000. Palca ngalnst BQiabevim ; !l'heodorc Baamelt a i r .