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CONTENTS of the GOLDEN AGE
LABOR AND ECONOMICS
Labor hti<1 Capital Should Work The Doctors...... ..
Tmsrttttr ..........................,...........131 Labor-CapiUl Peart...........
Professional Men..............................131 Actual Conditions In Connecticut
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
For the Toiling Masses....................136 World Better—Inhabitants
Not Perfect—But!,.................... 136 Horae
Mythomania ......... 141 Captain Hartshorn's Long Lire 14J
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
The Money Tower............................133 A Dying WorW......
Airplane Service................................141 Cnnt'latioii of Railway and Telegraph
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
A Vision of the New Era................131 Dangernus ami Silly America
The Judases..................... 133 The Cye’e of Self-Interest
The Strongest Objectors....................133 The Peyers That Be............
Nearing the Kingdom........................13ft Ireland, the Nrgrti, and the
Soldiers Provided For........................136 Golden Age.........................
Hecs the Flood Coming....................143 Britain and the Negro..................N..,L51
The Constitution and the Bayonet.... 14ft
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
The Clieml'ts’ Golden Age................................„..................,..................
HOME AND HEALTH
Chiropractic and Chiropractors
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
Brazil .................................. ........................153
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Interested In the Wrong Thing*........134 the Earthly, We Shall Bear th*
Tlx» Bible Temrhing.............. 135 Image of the Heavenly’’
Bible .stiMfnits OmveDfion at "We Shall be like ifim for ffe Shall
Washington ................................137 see Blm as He bM........
Advanced Bible Studies....................I5li "He Ye Transformed".......................151
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Volant III Brooklyn. N. T., Wednesday, December 7, 1921 Number 58
A Vision of the New Era
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‘ TS IT time to talk peace or to outline some plan ■t by which the world may reach a lasting, satisfactory and just solution of the greatest problem that ever confronted the human race! The Archbishop of York in his speech to the Peers said that once the war was over British labor would not tolerate the scientific management imported from America and elsewhere. They regard it, he said, as a dehumanizing and Prussianizing of industry, and they will resist it determinedly; and James Henry, in a lengthy speech in London, reminded his hearers of the problem of providing for the 11,000,000 men and women engaged exclusively in war services when peace was declared, and wound up by saying that labor and capital would have to come together, but gave no hint or suggestion how they might come together and deal honestly and justly with each.
LABOR AND CAPITAL
Labor can’t do much without capital, and capital can do far less without labor; and between laborers who think they are not getting their just share of this capital and those who think they would have greater prosperity and peace without any, the world is up against the greatest problem the human race ever had to solve. Dr. Snedden at a teachers’ banquet said that we are being moved forward by a combination of events with which we had little to do, and that the question is: Are we going to be organized for it! We have done nothing thus far, but ahead of us lies dangerous ground, and we ought to prepare for these great problems that will pour out of the conflict I believe there is only one solution to the above problem, and that is the nationalization of industries, operated by the people and for the people, Government con-
By Robert Laivson
trol of all the money wealth and product, and the issuing of an untransferable scrip based on labor that will put everyone within reach of all the nation produces or trades in. Well, what would you do with the men who have created fortunes through thrift, ambition or otherwise! Guarantee them the best the nation can produce according to their accumulation. That ought to be better than their fortunes.
Let the Government take over all property and natural resources at, say, the assessed value and allow, say, two percent to the individual owners. Now, we will say that every man and woman owed their services to the Government between the ages of 20 and 50 and that in return the Government gave them $1,200 worth of purchasing power (call it what you like). I would call it hours and minutes instead of dollars and cents. And what about the man with a small fortune—that the two percent did not bring his income up to the $1,200! He would be responsible to the Government for such time as would bring his income up that amount. Of course there would be nothing to prohibit him from rendering his service all the time he wished.
PROFESSIONAL MEN
Well, what about our professional men, who might not have much money but who have spent a lot in getting their education and training! The Government would set a valuation according to their profession, and they would get their two percent on the amount allowed them. All would draw the same pay. Some would say $1,200 is not enough to keep a family on. But the women would draw this salary as well as the men, and the Government would allow each child so much until it became of age. That surely ought to be just. See how our greatest empire builders have had.to carry the greatest burdens.
I might just say here that this wage may be too high or too low, but it really doesn’t matter, for this scrip won’t buy anything but what the nation is producing or trading in.
There is only one question that need concern the Government or the people, and that is: Can we produce enough! And I am sure that it can be answered with a great big “yes”.
What about the farmer or the individual producer! There is no reason why he could not go on the same as ever. There is a set wage and a set price on products; and if the individual can’t manage his affairs to make as much at the same price as the Government can do it collectively, he will work and let someone else manage, and this will gradually get every man in the right place. The price of everything would be based on the labor required to produce it, delivered at the nearest shipping or distributing point. There is no need to add anything for interest or investment. The Government owns
it all, and they pay the interest. The resources that everything conies front that makes a happy and contented people never cost man anything; and the Government is only paying interest on the values that have been put on nature, to do justice to people who have a lifetime of energy aqd ambition tied up in the old system. One generation will gradually do away with that interest; and as most of the wealthy are pretty well up in years,and at death all unused wealth would revert to the Government, they could not transmit any power or money to their descendants, as the rich do under the present system. They seldom produce anything themselves, and therefore are a burden on the back of those who do produce.
Well, you say, this would reduce our market. So it would, and that is just what we want. When we get the people supplied with everything they want, our warehouses and elevators all full, we will shorten the hours of labor, or turn to work and build good roads, or harness our streams. I believe there is enough power going to waste to pull all the trains through the timbered portions of the country, and we would probably save enough in ten years on account of fire to pay for the work. Now, under this new system we don’t need money to do these things. All we need is plenty of good food, clothing and proper shelter, and a share of the abundance of the other good things we are producing.
BUSINESS MEN
How about the business man! The Government would take over all goods, and there would likely be one store of each line of goods at convenient distances; and they would draw from the general warehouse at each distributing point, from which all large orders and heavy articles would be delivered direct to the customer, the stores being used more for samples of the goods. There ought to be a saving here of one-half in clerks and delivery, and a big saving to the customer; for when he goes in he sees what they have and he knows he can’t get better anywhere else and he takes it. No shelf-worn goods and clerks trying to sell you something you don’t want for the sake of holding their jobs and telling you a whole lot of white lies to try to make you believe that they have the cheapest and best in the market. A nice system, isn’t it! And they expect a person to be good. '
The blacksmith may go on as he is doing and charge according to his labor, plus the Government price of material, which he would also do, if he was working for the Government. The same with carpenters, bricklayers, stonemasons, and all tradesmen; but there is no doubt that they would prefer to be Government employes, as the Government would have a labor bureau in each district which would govern and look after labor. No such thing as having to be out of a job. No need of policemen to look after vagrants and hoboes.
THE DOCTORS
Now, take the doctors under the present system. If they are not good, conscientious men, see the chance they have, and the temptation in it, for them to keep a man on his back as long as they can, if he is worth it See what Dr. Lyle Telford says. He said that while doctors were sometimes blamed when they were innocent, it was a fact that there was no “moral strainer” for them to pass through to enter the profession. The incentive of money should be withdrawn. He thought that while there was no profession so capable of elevating a man, neither was there any that offered such scope for degradation in the pursuit of monetary gain. If our doctors were given so many of a population to look after, and a prize of honor given them for who could show the least loss of time by sickness in his district, how long would it be
until you would see a wonderful improvement in the human race! And it would certainly go a long way in helping us along to'the time when * there would be no more sighing, no more crying and no more dying.—^Revelation 21:4.
What has our education done in the past! > Has it not been a fact that the more education a man gets the stronger his ambition is to live off someone else! And this, with the power of t money, has made a lot of misery in the world. But education under a proper system would be one of the grandest things. All would get an equal and practical education; and those who * showed talents along certain lines would finish their course at the expense of the Government, and then they would have no right to expect । any more for their time than any other labor. So, you see, in one generation we would be all on one footing.
1 THE MONEY POWER
What have our banks done towards feeding, clothing, sheltering the people! They have cre-• ated nothing tangible, and yet show bigger , profits than most other businesses. Bartering and trading for interest from the sweat of men’s i brows—that is all money is under this system.
There js only one source through which wealth ' can come, and that is through labor out of the natural resources. This being so, how is it we ’ find the accumulations of labor in the hands of corporations that never created anything tangible, and that through the money system have put a fence around everything that nature has ( provided, and have left labor at the mercy of the monied interests of the world!
Now, do not think that there is science enough in the world to make laws that will guarantee • peace under such conditions. No; and the world is trying by brute force to maintain the condi-i tions that this money system has brought into 1 the world. Who would believe that such a system could be built up by the will and approval ( of our Creator! The Bible gives the only rea-( sonable explanation of how and by what power this evil system has flourished. It says it is the R prince of this world. (John 12:31) He has put darkness for light and light for darkness. (Isaiah ■ 5:20) Darkness covers the earth and gross
. darkness the people. (Isaiah 60:2) Yes, and after 4,000 years of man’s career the world was , in such darkness that it crucified the Prince of Peace.—Acts 3:15.
THE JUDASES
No doubt Jesus chose twelve of the best men He could find in His day as His disciples; and money had gained enough power in the world at that time to cause one of His followers to betray his master for thirty pieces, and led up to the putting to death of the greatest benefactor of the human race that ever lived. We are told that the common people heard Him gladly. (Mark 12:37) It was the priests and the political power of His day that were accountable for His death, but the political powers would not have done it had it not been for the scribes and Pharisees. Pilate took water and washed his hands, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just man”. But has it not been the same all through the ages! Stephen was stoned to death because he was the leader of a community movement built on justice and equality. Don’t we find the same spirit in the world today in both our religious and political powers! Why! Because of the blinding effect of the power of money, which permits people to live off the energies of someone else and causes them to break one of the first commandments that God gave man: “In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread till thou return to the ground”.— Genesis 3:19.
How is it that the world has always held in high esteem those who have made the best job of breaking this commandment! It is just as the Bible says—because we are under the power of the prince of darkness (Satan) whose desire is to exalt himself above others, even above the stars of God. “I will be like the Most High.” (Isaiah 14:13,14) Who is so blind that cannot see this spirit in the world today! Is it not this spirit that has drenched the world in blood and threatens the world with starvation, and all because of the power of money! If it were not for the power of money through the profit system Satan would never have been able to deceive the human race as he has done. Have our religious creeds warned the people against this greatest of all evils (the profit system)! No! Money is held more sacred than men’s lives.
THE STRONGEST OBJECTORS
Who are going to be the strongest opposers of this system that I am trying to outline! The religious and political powers. Why! Because they are of this world (age) which is under the . power of the prince of darkness; and to do away
' with the profit system would rob them of their power and go a long way towards binding Satan. How much easier it would be to keep the commandments if we had an exchange based on labor performed and non-transferable payment. There would be little or no temptation to kill, and wan would be impossible. There would be no {temptation to steal, practically no temptation to bear false witness, no white slavery, no graft, no poverty.
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” How many gods are money and the profit system accountable for in this age! And a multitude of other evils that arise from the old system would soon be abolished. Take the world liquor traffic. If there were no profit you would not find men making and handling stuff that would injure their fellowmen.
Laws would be reduced to ‘a minimum, as practically all laws, on account of individual ownership, deal with buying, selling, leasing, mortgaging, deeding, transferring, taxing, use and misuse of land, mines and water. The amount of wasted energy with the expense of enforcing them would relieve seventy-five percent of those thus employed to help production.
Would it not be worth a lot to the world to be relieved of seventy-five percent of the worry and strife caused by property law? Now, when you take a case to court you take an oath to toll the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. But your own lawyer will try to keep you from telling the truth if it doesn’t suit, and the opposition will try to get you to lie if the truth doesn't suit; and the more expert they are at this the more honor they get. There would be no such work as this if it were not for this evil system.
LABOR-CAPITAL PEACE
See the expense and energy lost in keeping up both labor and capitalistic organizations which could all go to help production. Look at the time and money spent in fire and life insurance, which is all unnecessary under a proper system, as everyone would be insured by the Government and would need no policy, as the Government would make good all accidental loss, such as disasters. The Government would send a part of its industrial army there to restore the loss. We would not need to go begging all over for them. [This plan does not work well in Russia, because the home-loving industrial army does not like to be shifted around.—Ed.] Competitive advertising would not be necessary, and who can estimate the labor and expense that would be saved in this item! I am sure there is not one-quarter of the papers taken up in newFs; and if it was not for war, murder and stealing there would not be half of that. All this help then we would have in the way of production. And we would need no customs officers; for the Government would be the only foreign purchaser, and the individual exchange would not buy foreign goods. The Government has all the money. Well, you say, there would be a temptation to misuse it. No; because it would not buy anything within the nation. Here is another great army to help production. And then we have the army and navy, which in time of peace would easily give us much more producing power.
Under this new system there would always be peace; for there would be nothing to go to war for. No other nation would want to invade our country. What would they want to do that for if we were living up to our income and not forcing our surplus on foreign markets?
Well, with all this extra production, what would we do with it all? As soon as we had an abundance of everything we would start in to beautify our country and to shorten the hours of labor. Do our politicians not see that every dollar’s worth of product shipped to a foreign market is that much of the energy and sweat taken from her people’s brows? Why not organize under a system along these lines and enjoy the results of our own labor, instead of shipping it abroad?
INTERESTED TN THE WRONG THINGS
How is it that the more interest you find people taking in churchianity the more opposed they are to any system of equality? Is not this the very opposite to . Christ’s teachings ? And yet they pray; “Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven”. Do many of our preachers believe in this kingdom they are praying for, and that it is going to be set up on earth? If they do, would not this system I outline be more in harmony with Christ’s wishes? I am sure it would, but I venture to say that nine out of every ten preachers or priests will condemn the idea. On the other hand, would our present system please Christ? I say no! Does it please Satan? Then it is the result of
his influence upon the human race, but I don’t believe he can be very well pleased with the job i he has made of it.
Christ also told us to pray: 'Deliver us from evil and lead os not into temptation'. You would : think that anyone who was anxious to see this
kingdom set up on earth would be anxious to have those evils and temptations removed. Now, the power of money and the unlimited profit 4 system is the worst evil the human race has to contend with. It is the root of all evils and our religious organizations have not one word to say । against it Why! Because it would not suit our financial interests.
( NEARING THE KINGDOM
Can we help in the setting up of this kingdom on earth and support present worldly interests! Judge for yourselves. There is no doubt but z that we are drawing very near to the setting up of this kingdom wherein dwelleth righteousness. : (2 Peter 3:13) When “they shall beat their
< swords into plowshares” and 'every man sit under his own fig tree and eat the fruit thereof 1 (Micah 4:3,4), “then shall the righteous shine
f forth”. (Matthew 13:43) “There shall be no
more sighing, crying or dying.” (Revelation 21:
1 4) This cannot apply to the spiritual kingdom;
for nobody believes that there is any sighing, ’ crying or dying there. A host of other scriptures point to glorious conditions right on this earth.
■ Bellamy saw the Millennium, and you ought . to read his book, “Looking Backward,” and see ( what a system of equality and harmony he saw
. in operation. He asks: “What is liberty! How ( can men be free who must ask the right to labor, and to live from their fellowmen and seek their 1 bread from the hand of others!” He also saw . that as soon as this inhuman social order which < ( formed a wall between God and man was broken
i down the light flooded the earth like a sunburst.
• I am sure it would be a more reasonable way of reforming the world to better social condi-। tions than trying to persuade men to be good and take their medicine. For the benefit of un* believers I will try to show how much of the
. Millennium Bob Ingersoll saw:
"I see a world without a slave. Man at last is free.
, Nature’s forces have by science been enslaved, lightning and heat, frost and flame, and all the wondrous powers ’ J of earth and air will be the tireless toilers for the human i race.”
LIBERTY RESTRAINED NOW
How many people are there today who dare not express their views for fear of losing their jobs! Are they not in a sense slaves! Who are benefiting from nature’s forces and the wonderful inventions of today! Soulless corporations managed by hired men who have to show certain dividends to the stockholders or lose their jobs. Has the utilizing of these forces and laborsaving devices bettered the workingman’s condition! No, he gets more pay, but has to pay more.
Prof. Herzog says that 4,000,000 people with the machinery of today employed at useful social labor would be able to supply a population of 20,000,000 people with all the necessaries and small luxuries of life by working one and a half hours a day. If they worked eight hours it would take 883,000 to do the same. I think, to start with, eight hours' work, eight hours' play and eight hours' sleep would bring a great deal more peace, health and-happiness.
Ingersoll goes on:
“I see a world at peace adorned with every form of art; with musical voices thrilled; where lipa are filled with love and truth; a world in which the gibbet’s shadow does not fall, no exile sighs or dreamer mourns ; where work and worth go hand in hand, and the poor girl in trying to earn her bread is not driven to the desperate choice of crime or death, or suicide or shame.”
Do you think the majority of the people who have been praying, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth,” see in their hearts these glorious prospects for the world of mankind 1 Would not these conditions be more in harmony with Christ's will than those we see in the world today! And yet the ecclesiastical system branded this man an outcast.
Ingersoll also said:
"I see a world without disease of flesh or brain, shapely and fair, the married harmony of form and function, and as I look life broadens and deepens, love canopies the whole earth, and over all in the great dome shines the eternal star of human hope.”
THE BIBLE TEACHING
Do you know that the Bible teaches these very ideas! It says a person will be considered as a child at one hundred years old, and if he is still a sinner at one hundred years he will be accursed. (Isaiah 65:20) “Everyone shall die for his own iniquity.” (Jeremiah 31:30) I am sure that everyone knows that we can’t avoid death by living saintly lives in this age, and the star that Robert Ingersoll saw was Christ, who
provided the ransom-price for the unjust as well as the just (Acts 24:15), and the unjust will arise in the second resurrection. “Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming when all that are in their graves shall hear his voice.” (John 5: 28) Now, according to the theories of men, the dead are in heaven, hell or purgatory. Which is right, man or the Bible! How did Ingersoll get a glimpse of this heaven we were to pray for! He did not believe the Bible. He thought that these learned men were teaching the Bible, and the teaching was too unreasonable for him to accept; so Ire discarded both. It was because he had enough love for the best interests of his fellow men that he was permitted to see over into the next age, a new heaven and a new earth. If the world had listened to such men as Abraham Lincoln, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Paine, and others the world would not be suffering what it is today at the hands of ecclesiastics, politicians and Big Business.
SOLDIERS PROVIDED FOR
Now, one of the main objects in writing this was to show how we could provide for our returned soldiers. I think I have shown how we could recompense the wealthy in a just way by guaranteeing them the best the nation can produce according to their accumulations. Wouldn’t it be just as easy to do the same with the soldiers, according to the services performed and their condition of health! I am sure they are many more times deserving of it than the rich. I am sure they would be proud of their country and feel in a measure paid for their sacrifice.
We have still another force in the world to consider, which is taxing the brains of all the heads of our governments to keep pace with— the Socialists, labor unions and industrial workers; and if something along the lines I have mentioned will not bring capital and labor together peaceably, what will! It will surely furnish some food for thought, and thought combined with reason will solve the problem, and this is something every leader of those organizations should try to impress on their members. Every move towards violence and strife will only injure their cause. Our ambitions will most likely be obtained in the natural way. The way things are working now necessarily will play a big part, guided by the Unseen Hand. The unfathomable wisdom of our Creator has put a little rgan into the heads of human beings that when the possibility of hunger makes itself a little more realized the world will begin to think and see what an enormous waste and hindrance to production this awful system is, and that any violence will only make things worse and not bring the desired end one day sooner.
- Christ gained the greatest victory that ever was attained through suffering the worst kind of persecutions, and He is at the helm and will still the storm and land this old leaky ship safe on the shores of Paradise.
For the Toiling Masses By c. G. Ferguson
MZitsn or BticKumr, masons. mastww. and tile-scttcm union, no. u. fa.
IT HAS been my privilege during the past to come into close contact with some of the leaders of the toiling masses who have built the imposing material structures of civilization; and I must say that generally speaking that leadership has been able, wise, and with a view to uplift.
If the leaders as well as the rank and file of the great army of Labor, organized and unorganized, could only be reached and instructed by such magazines as The Golden Age, we would no doubt see the present evil systems and organizations gradually give way to something better than the rule of gold that now prevails.
Not Perfect—But By Elston Luttrell
I WISH to congratulate you (and your readers) on the.article headed “Everlasting Life on Earth” by N. T. Hartshorn, as presented in Golden Age Number 50, August 17th. While the article may not be entirely exempt from occasion for criticism, yet on the whole I consider it a marvel. It will surely bring much cheer and comfort to the poor world.. It will cause many to think along avenues of thought therein opened up.
Judge Rutherford's defense of Zionism in Number 51 is surely a masterpiece in its field.
Bible Students Convention By John F. Stephenson
PASSES IMPORTANT RESOLUTION AS MEMORIAL TO INTERNATIONAL ARMS CONGRESS PUBLIC ADDRESSED BY PRESIDENT OF ASSOCIATION
' [Special to The Golden Age]
WASHINGTON, D. Nov. 27.—The Inter-_ national Bible Students Association is in
i convention at Washington at this time. Previous to Sunday morning the time has been occupied in devotional services, personal testi* monies, and discourses by various able speakers.
Sunday morning the convention in official session formally passed a resolution memorializ-’ ing the International Arms Congress now assembled at Washington, which is pertinent to the all-absorbing question before the people of , the earth at this time. Dr. R. A. Gamble, of
Virginia, presided at the convention; and Mr. F. H. Harrison, of New York City, acted as Secretary. The President of the I. B. S. A. was ’ also present. The resolution was offered by Mr.
C. H. Anderson of Baltimore, and seconded by Mr. Stephen Kendall of Washington. Other ' prominent delegates at the convention made speeches favoring the resolution; and upon a vote being put it was unanimously passed. The 4 resolution follows:
, RESOLUTION
The International Bible Students Association, in con; vention assembled at Washington, D. C., begs leave most respectfully to memorialize the International Arms Con-■ gress now assembled at Washington, D. C., as follows-.
As Christians earnestly striving to follow the teachings of Christ Jesus our Lord and His apostles, we hold:
' ’ That war is a relic of barbarism, destructive of good morals and a reproach to Christian peoples;
That the principles taught by the Lord Jesus Christ । . preclude consecrated Christians from engaging in war,
bloodshed or violence in any form;
That no nation can be said to be truly Christian which fails to adhere to those principles taught by the Lord » and His apostles; '
That the ruling or governing factors of the nations commonly palled “Christendom” are now and for some time have been, to wit, Financial Princes, otherwise ' termed Controllers of Commerce, Statesmen or Polit-* ical Leaders, who formulate the laws, and Clergymen and other Ecclesiastical Teachers, the last named, both , Catholic and Protestant, having contrary to the Word of God, joined hands with the two first-mentioned factors (which three component parta here mentioned we for convenience and identification designate “The Ruling
• Powers”);
That the delegates and representatives of The Ruling
Powers now assembled in international conference at Washington for the purpose of the limitation of armaments, and insofar as possible for the establishment of conditions of peace and prosperity among the people, have before them a laudable objective.
But we may be pardoned for humbly suggesting that the end desired cannot be attained by a partial or even complete disarmament of the nations. Reformation of men or nations will not result from the destruction of arms, but genuine reformation of men will lead automatically to the complete destruction of all instruments of war and all forms of violence. While war is terrible beyond description of human phrase, yet it is not the worst thing to be feared.
Bolshevism, as a great menacing monster, is knocking at the door of every nation, and the destruction of all law and order is threatened. To prevent such terrible disaster and to save the people from indescribable suffering is the tremendous problem, which, we submit, requires more than human wisdom. We therefore suggest that the heeding of Divine wisdom and the adoption of the Divine remedy as prescribed by God's holy Word is vitally essential at this time.
The kingdom of Christ, the Messiah, for which He taught His disciples to pray, is at hand. This is evidenced by the World War, famine, pestilence, social upheaval, distress of nations with perplexity, etc., all of which constitute the fulfillment of prophecies made by Jesus himself as relating to the present time. Within a short time His kingdom will be fully and completely established and the old order of tilings completely gone. To that kingdom all earthly powers must be subject either willingly or unwillingly. The trouble upon the nations beginning in 1914 is but the expression of God's vengeance against all unrighteous systems in the earth.
The holy prophets of Jehovah indicate how that the kingdom of Christ, the Messiah, may be established without great suffering to humanity, provided that the Divine way be adopted. You will pardon us, therefore, for calling your attention to those Divine prophecies long ago recorded, which in substance indicate what the proper course is, to wit:
(1) Let the Financial Princes, the Controllers of Commerce, cease profiteering, cease exploiting and deceiving the people by systematic propaganda, and be content with a reasonable income sufficient to insure their own maintenance and support; let them use their power for the general welfare of the people to the end that the idle may be employed, the hungry fed, and each man be afforded an opportunity to provide for himself and loved ones the things decent and honest in the sight of God and man.
(2) Let the Statesmen or Politicians cease to act as instruments of selfish powers and selfish interests and henc^frwfh honestly and impartially represent and safeguard the interests and general welfare of all the people.
(3) Let the Clergymen and other Religious Teachers, who cImbi to be ministers of God’s Word and therefore the nsWes among the people, divorce themselves completely from commercial and political affiliations, return to their first love, recognize God's Word as truth, honestly and faithfully teach the people the principles taught by Jesus and the Apostles, and thereby prepare the people to receive the kingdom of Christ, the Messiah, who alone can and will establish peace on earth and good will toward men.
Let the Ruling Factors by example as well as by word thus lead, the people in the right way and prove that they are the real friends of the people; and let all the people heed the words of God, refrain from violence of every kind or form, seek meekness and righteousness, and the occasion for armament and war will cease. These things done, the kingdom of Christ, the Messiah, will be established on earth without suffering.
We shall be pardoned for saying that the prophecies clearly indicate that if the divinely prescribed remedy be ignored, this being the day of God’s vengeance, as declared by His prophets of old, His wrath will be visited upon every government and system of Christendom; and both Jesus and the prophets declare that such shall be "a time of trouble such as the world has never known", at which time shall “Michael [the Messiah] stand up, the great prince that standeth for the children of thy people”. This standing up of Michael will effect the deliverance of mankind from all forms of oppression and will mark the beginning of righteousness on earth. The result will be God’s will done on earth as it is done in heaven, for which Jesus taught Christians to pray.
Great responsibility rests upon the Ruling Factors of the nations of earth now in the hour of dire distress and perplexity; and we shall be pardoned for requesting such to give earnest consideration to the Word of God, having in mind that “blessed is that nation whose God is Jehovah”.
Resolved, that a copy of this memorial be delivered to the Honorable Charles Evans Hughes, Chairman of the International Arms Congress now in session at Washington, D. C.; that copies be furnished to each delegate or representative of the nations attending said conference; that a copy be delivered to the President of the United States, and copies to the members of Congress and to the publie press.
Upon motion duly put the above resolution was unanimously adopted by the convention this £7th day of November, 19£1.
[Signed]
Da. R. A. Gamblx Chairman of Convention
Frank H. ELabbison Secretary of Convention J. F. Rutherford President, I. B. 8. A.
At 3 o’clock in the afternoon the President of the Association, Judge Rutherford, addressed a public assembly at the National Theatre in his now world-famous lecture, “Millions Now Living Will Never Die". Eveiywhere Judge Rutherford speaks upon this subject the houses are filled to overflowing, and Washington was no exception to the rule. Intense interest was manifested by the audience in the points made. We give some of the salient points of the lecture.
“For many centuries devout Jews and both Catholic and Protestant Christians have looked for the establishment of a Messianic kingdom, under whose reign blessings would be given to all the peoples of earth obedient to the laws of that kingdom. While the Jews have not accepted Jesus as the Messiah, they have based their hopes upon the combined statements of the holy prophets of old. All have expected these blessings to come at the end of the world. By the end of the world is meant the end of the social and political order of things. According to Bible chronology the gentile times were due to officially-end in 1914, marking the end of the order of things that had existed since the days of the deluge.
“In response to a question as to what would be marked evidences of the end of the world, Jesus answered that the world would be involved in a war, nation against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, to be followed by famine, pestilence and social upheavals in various parts of the earth; and that these things would mark the beginning of the disintegration of the old order. Exactly on time the World War began in 1914, and the other things have followed. ■
“All the prophecies as well as the testimony of Jesus and the apostles point to the fact that with the coming of the new order under the Messiah life everlasting will be offered to all of the obedient ones of the human race. The basis for this is the great ransom sacrifice. God created the first man perfect, who sinned and was sentenced to death, and by reason thereof, through the law of inheritance, all the human race have been born sinners. Jehovah promised to redeem the race from death. He sent His beloved Son Jesus to accomplish this very purpose, who T>y the grace of God tasted death for every man’. Jesus stated that at His return He would extend the blessings to the people, gathering all nations before Him. Since the time of His ascension on high until the setting up of His kingdom has been known as the gospel era during which time the Lord has been selecting the church, namely, the members of the body of Christ, true Christians. This finished, the time of reconstruction and restoration of the human race must follow. During that time all the obedient ones shall be restored to life.
“Both Catholics and Protestant believe and teach that ‘Christ comes the second time to judge the living and the dead*; and all such Christians have prayed for
.. the coming of Hie kingdom. It follows, then, that at Wia coming the living must be first given an opportunity for life, after which those in their grates will be awak->* ened and given an opportunity for life. Having come, then, to the end of the world and the time for the setting up of Messiah's kingdom, it can be confidently announced s that millions now living will never die. For the reasons here stated this good news is now being spread throughout the earth and is making glad many millions of people;
' “It is claimed that the United States is a Christian nation. God’s favor has been specially upon the peoples of this nation, which favor carries with it added respon-, sibility. Every Christian believes the words of Jesus which He taught His disciples to pray: ‘Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth,’ to mean that they should pray for and expect the coming of God’s king-1 dom on earth. When Jesus stood before Pilate He said:
“My kingdom is not of this world*—meaning that His kingdom would not be of the unrighteous order then < existing but would be future.
“Both Jesus and His apostles taught that Satan is the god or ruler of this world or order of things, dominating the minds of those who exercise controlling authority. For this reason true reformers of governments have never been able to make marked and lasting na: tional progress. Selfishness has always been to the fore;
and brotherly love exhibited in a very limited way, and ' often as a cloak or camouflage behind which has oper-, ated the superior mind of Satan.
“To deceive the people Satan has put forward various { farms of government in the earth. These forms of government Jehovah has symbolized by the word ‘beast’. i The first government thus designated was the universal empire under Nebuchadnezzar. The last indicated by . the Scriptures is the League or Association of Nations, which is an attempt by Satan to keep the people under 1 his rule by uniting the various governments. Being deceived by sinister and unseen influences, the Federal ! Council of Churches issued a statement containing these । words relative to the League of Nations: ‘Such a league is not merely a peace expedient. It is rather a political expression of the kingdom of God on earth.’ Seemingly they have overlooked the fact that God’s prophets twen-। ty-five hundred years ago foretold a Satanic effort to organize a league of nations, foretold its short duration and complete collapse.
‘.‘Now with expectancy the minds of the peoples are ' turned toward Washington, many believing that the * Disarmament Congress will prevent war and establish on earth peace and good will toward men through the , instrumentality of men. The master mind back of the whole arrangement again is Satan. He knows that i shortly the Messianic kingdom will be established, during which time the nations will ‘bgat their swords into ’ plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks, and will cease to war with each other’. He hopes by a counterfeit arrangement to draw the minds of the people away from the Lord’s kingdom now being established.
“A complete disarmament of all nations would be a splendid thing, but that alone would not bring lasting peace and happiness amongst the people. There must first be a reformation of men by faith in and obedience to the principles taught by Jesus. True reformation will automatically lead to a complete disarmament and the end of all wars and similar troubles.
“In centuries past the king was absolute monarch or ruler of the people. Now there are three eletneinte of society which go to make up the governing factor or ruling power, to wit: Financial Princes, the controllers of commerce; Statesmen or Political Leaders, who formulate the laws; and the Clergy and Ecclesiastical teachers, who, contrary to the Word of God, have departed from the high commission granted to the followers of Jesus and have united forces with financiers and politicians. Because of the course of the ecclesiastics, this alliance is an unholy one. God’s wrath is upon it. This is the day of God’s vengeance upon the nations of earth, and has particularly found expression in the world troubles since 1914. '
“The kingdom of heaven, for which Jesus taught His disciples to pray, is at the door. The King of glory is here. Shortly all the nations must become subject to Messiah’s righteous reign, either willingly or unwillingly. The present ruling factors of the old order occupy a place of tremendous responsibility, because these could do much to avert the terrible trouble that is now threatening all civilization. The worldly wise see this. The public press freely gives expression to the opinion that ‘if the disarmament conference fails to establish a permanent peace, the whole world will shortly be plunged into chaos*. The conference is certain to fail unless the divine remedy is heeded and adopted.
“The time has come for God through Christ to establish His kingdom in the earth, and Iwfore it shall vanish the power and rule of Satan. Let the peoples take notice, and let the ruling factors take notice, that God’s prophet centuries ago, having in mind the very time in which we are now living, pointed out that society’s great menace would originate in the north country, i. e., Russia. This prophecy has been fulfilled; and Bolshevism, having its birth in Russia, is moving Westward like a great monster, threatening all the nations of the earth. God’s prophet, having-a vision of this, wrote: ‘Thus saith the I.ord. Behold, a people cometh from the north country [north of Palestine, from which this prophet spoke], and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. They shall lay hold on bow and spear: they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea.’ (Jeremiah 6: 23, 23) The destruction of law and order is threatened, and this is plainly seen by many; but Satan is deceiving the minds of many into ignoring the divine arrangement and substituting an imperfect and inadequate arrangement. God’s prophet
then clearly indicates that the kingdom of Messiah may be established without great suffering: ‘If that nation against whom I have pronounced,turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them’. WW.th*", could be done to avert the terrible disaster and suffering untold? The Lord through His holy prophets then indicates what may be done, which ire epitomize as follows:
“Let the Financial Princes, the controllers of commerce, cease exploiting and deceiving the people by systematic propaganda, be content with a reasonable income sufficient to insure their own maintenance and support; let them heed the cries of the people for relief, and let them use their powers honestly for the general welfare of the people to the end that the idle may be employed, the hungry fed, and each man be afforded an opportunity to provide for himself and loved ones the things decent and honest in the sight of God and men.
“Let the Statesmen or Politicians cease to act as instruments of selfish powers and selfish interests, and honestly and impartially represent and safeguard the general welfare of the people.
“Let the Clergymen and other religious teachers who claim to be ministers of God’s Word, and therefore nobles amongst the people, divorce themselves completely from commercial and political affiliations, return to their first love, recognize God’s Word as truth, and honestly and faithfully teach the people the principles taught by Jesus and the apostles, point out to them the fact that the King of glory and His kingdom is at hand, prepare the people to receive the Messiah, and show to the people by their acts as well as their words that they have confidence in God and in Christ Jesus and the words which He taught; and let them tell the truth that the Lord alone will establish peace on earth and good will toward men.
“The ruling factors must take the lead, because the responsibility is upon them. Let them prove that they are really the friends of the people and not their exploiters. Then let them and all the people heed the words of God to put aside selfishness, refrain from war, revolution and violence of every kind or form, seek meekness and seek righteousness. These things done, the trouble and threatened disaster will be averted, and the kingdom of Christ the Messiah will be established without suffering, and lasting peace and happiness will come to mankind.
“But will the ruling factors heed the words of the Lord Jehovah? It is hardly to be expected that they wilt Failing to heed, the Lord’s Word indicates there shall follow shortly ‘a time of trouble upon Christendom such aa never was since there was a nation', and which trouble shall be the final climax of troubles in the earth and will mark the birth of the new era. At this time shall 'Michael [the Messiah] stand up, that great prince that standeth for the people*. Then will the people be delivered ; and every one who renders himself in obedience to the righteous rule of the Messiah will be gradually brought up to a state of perfect health, soundness of body and mind and live forever. Then will be fulfilled . the words of Jesus Himself: ‘Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death’. ‘Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.’ His kingdom will mark the new heavens, and * His establishment of the righteous order on earth will mark the new earth or order of society. And this new order of things will result in what was stated by the Revelator, namely, that ‘God will wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death'.
“Seeing, then, that the kingdom of heaven is at hand, evidenced by the war, famine, pestilence, revolutions and threatened anarchy, and knowing that this kingdom will shortly be established either with or without a great time of trouble, and knowing if the worst must follow that it will be the last trouble on earth, those who have faith and confidence in the Lord and His Word can now truly say that millions of people living on earth at this time will be granted an opportunity for life everlasting, and., seizing this opportunity will live forever and never die.
, At the convention reports were made concerning the spreading of the message in foreign countries, which indicate how greatly the people are being moved with joy at the prospect of Messiah's kingdom being at hand. Among the reports was one from Austria to the effect that thousands in Vienna are hearing with gladness the message of the Messianic kingdom. Austria has long been known as the very center of Papacy, and so strong was that system that others were not permitted to preach the gospel. From the report made at this convention it was quite clear that conditions are rapidly changing. Similar encouraging reports were given as coming from the countries of Poland, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Holland, Great Britain, Canada, Korea, and other parts of the world. The convention concluded on Sunday night with an address by Prof. Hildebrandt of Annapolis.
THE AGE OF GOLD
O glorious will of God. unfold The splendor of Thy way;
And all shall love as they behold.
And loving shall obey; ,
Consumed each meaner care and claim
In the new passion's holy flame.
Oh, speed the hours when o’er the world The vision's fire shall run;
Night from his ancient throne is hurled, \
Uprisen is Christ the Sun;
Through human wills by Thee controlled. Spreads o’er the earth the Age of Gold.
. —G. DorlMtoe,
BREVITIES
Airplane Service
THE airplane service between London and
Paris has been so improved that fifty cars are now in regular use; the fare has been reduced to $10; mail and express are carried in such quantities as to exceed in value all other merchandise transported between the two cities, and accidents have been practically eliminated. America is slow.
Chiropractic and Chiropractors
In previous issues of The Golden Age we have published much pro and con on chiropractic and chiropractors. It is not the policy of this magazine to write on these subjects editorially and henceforth we will avoid them. The Golden Age is not in the medical profession and has no medical experts on its staff, and our purpose is not to discuss matters we know little about.
The Chemists* Golden Age
THE New York World reports the speakers of the American Chemical Society as predicting that in due time, as a result of chemical research, the Desert of Sahara, with its 6,000,000 square kilometres of waste, sun-baked area, will furnish solar energy equivalent in a year to 6,000,000,000 tons of coal; the tide along every coast will put their heavy shoulders to the turning of motors; catalytic action will speed up every industrial process; as the earth turns night and day it will tug at the belts of power-producing machines; rain will fall from the clouds as the farmers need it; atomic energy will be unleashed to do the bidding of mere man, but carefully, lest one atom set off another and the whole earth disappear in a flash and a puff of smoke like a horn of powder under flint and steel.
Little man, a new Aladdin, will rub his magic chemical lamp; and the powers of earth, sea and air will appear to take orders, somewhat reluctant at first, perhaps, but more and more submissive with every year. In those days there will be no work done by hand, and no man will work more than a fraction of a day. Increased knowledge of food vitamines and medical and surgical science will banish ill-health forever; telescopes will bring the rest of the sun's constellation next door, and wireless will solve the problem of communication. With power as cheap as air, men may travel where they like, . study what they please.
Then, if ever, the human race will learn something about music, poetry, and the possibilities of architecture. When life is one long vacation, men will have time to catch up with the avocations they neglect for business in these busier times. Of course it hasn’t happened yet, but it may happen. Perhaps it has been a mistake to imagine the golden age in the past.
Mythomania By Claude Mitchum
THE most misunderstood form of lying is that known as “mythomania”. In it the person who tells the falsehood does so without purpose, and sometimes with injury to himself. This practice develops from the fable-making of childhood, and unless corrected early will work great harm in one’s life.
There have been cases of mythomania in adults that baffled the best of detectives. The victim of this habit has told things about himself and others that might be highly incriminating, and when questioned has made use of his quick presence of mind to strengthen the circumstantial evidence against himself. This mental disease often works harm upon others who are as innocent as the mythomaniac himself, though he is as prone to tell flattering lies of himself. There are more cases of mythomania among men, and especially among the returned soldiers, than among women and children.
A Dying World By w. d. Lamb
John Buckley, in the August number of Thu Golden Age says:
“Every one admits that the world is very sick. No one has a cure but that of more business. Nd one has told us yet why the world is sick.”
Now, Mr. Editor, Mr. Buckley means well, but he is absolutely mistaken. True, the world is sick, and will become a series of extinct civilizations unless the more thoughtful people do more straight thinking and less random talking and guessing.
Back in 1880, a man called Henry George, the greatest philosopher of all the ages, greater than Secrates, Plato or Aristotle, gave us a book, “Progress and Poverty, or Increase of Want with the Increase of Wealth, and the Remedy”. That book proves how nations sicken and die. It also points out the elixir of life for nations. The disease is Injustice in Taxation, and the remedy is Justice in Taxation.
Those who have brains to think need not think long after this tip before they see why nations are sick; and the worst is yet to come. It is all down in the book. Henry George answered every objection, and he did it in such a way that all the Philadelphia lawyers in America could not gainsay the argument. Those seeking for the causes of our serious condition will find it right there and nowhere else.
World Better—Inhabitants Worse
HE world is growing better — the physical world. Preparations are under way for the irrigation of the great Sahara desert, now comprising f»ur million square miles of territory, one-thirteenth of the land area of the globe. A small portion of this great tract, already under cultivation, is proving to be one of the garden spots of the world.
The world is growing worse—the social world. Criminal indictments against more than 100,000 persons now are awaiting trial in the Federal courts. T^ie courts are jammed, and the calendars are filled for months ahead in almost every district in the United States.
The world is growing worse — the financial world. The New York Times, discussing the European financial situation, says: “There is but one sequel to the story—the elimination of moneys as the medium of exchange and the return, for a time at least, to primitive barter wherein no coin of the realm changes hands and one merely gives his own surplus of goods for the surplus of his neighbor”. When that idea takes root everywhere it will be a fine thing for those who have large stocks of goods on hand at'the time it goes into effect, and bad for all others, including the holders of stocks, bonds, and paper money.
The world is growing worse — the military world. Chicago has produced a chemist, Dr.
A. Frank-Philipson, alleged to have originated “liquid death", a poison so powerful that three drops touching any portion of the body will kill, and when sprayed from an airplane will destroy every living thing beneath. Uncle Sam is reported to have two thousand tons of it ready and waiting to make Christians out of the Japanese.
The world is growing worse — the mental world. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, says that the intellectuality of the human race is deteriorating at an alarming rate; that at the present rate of decline in the birth rate not a child will be found in France, England, or Germany a century hence; and that insanity, imbecility, and epilepsy are so on the increase that at the present rate of increase in three centuries all mankind will be imbeciles, lunatics, idiots, and epileptics. This is the fruitage of the brain age.
The world is growing worse — the industrial world. The United States is wallowing in a mire of taxation that is engulfing the country, the per capita federal taxation being today $1.05 more per capita than the per capita circulation of money in the country. In other words, all the money in use in the country, and $100,000,000 more, is needed to pay the Washington bills. This has helped to ruin business in America; and concerning the situation in England Sir Philip Gibbs says that there is no prospect whatever of trade recovery, but every prospect of increased distress.
Captain Hartshorn*s Long Life
ewton T. Hartshorn, one of the regular contributors to The Golden Age, is now over eighty years of age, and ill with cancer of the stomach at a hospital in Massachusetts. His article “Everlasting Life on Earth” is in some respects the masterpiece of his life. It appeared in Number 50, and has been widely commented upon and appreciated.
Captain Hartshorn, like all elderly people, finds enjoyment in recalling the events of long ago, events now so long in the past that it seems as if no living man could have witnessed them. From one of his letters to a newspaper published in his boyhood home in New Hampshire, The Milford Cabinet, we quote extracts which we think some of our readers will enjoy. It is not often they come in contact with men who knew the great men of America, when the total population of the country was less than onefourth of what it is now. Portions of his letter follow:
“President Frank Pierce I knew aha He was from Hillsborough. My mother’s father, Fisher Gay, was quite prominent there, and Pierce used tp visit at my grandfather Gay’s house.
“When the Civil War seemed all ready to burst forth I was at Bradford and I started toward Amherst, stopping over night at my uncle’s, Newton Gay (at Hillsborough)', for whom I was named. In the morning while we were at breakfast the paper came; and 'my unde, glancing at it, jumped up and excitedly said: 'They have fired on Fort Sumter!’ Beading on down, 'Raising a regiment at Concord,’ he shouted: *1 hope everyone that goes down to fight the south will be killed P
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