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CONTENTS of th* GOLDEN AGE

LABOR AND ECONOMICS

The Struggle for Equity—138 Dependable Economics TM

The ABC of Equity___138 Gons, Shoe* and Mon*

Kiger Got One* Twelfth —134 ardu —-

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

Esperanto______.„.. —.----■— . — -

A Root Of Rii-tfrrneea ----_

Aphroditeen Love__________ -

Beal Character of St, Nichola* . ... ■ —— — ia?

Joy Department —------------ - - - — - - .-tar

Winter Daya (poem)_________■■■ — - — ---- _______ _

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

They Must—If...................—.

Scraping the World’s Veneer..................—

A Great Victory .......—------— _ .. —____

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY Prices Paid to Farmer*........... .... _________,

Origin of Land Titles..,—-------- —_______

A Strange Summer__,__—..... —____...141

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Eternal Youth—A la Science......

HOME AND HEALTH

The Staff of Life..................142 A Dangerous Practice

More About Internal Hatha 143 Health Articles a Blessing 1+3

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

■Hereafter*1_____________—144

Arresting Earth’s Motion—145 An Unrepentant Prophet....140 The Impending Cataclysm.. 147 Coiue, O More—A Hope-—140 A Bellicose Bishop——101

My Dream of the Golden Age

Esrtli Made Glorious ..

No Neelies^ Sorrow

The Golden Aze (poem).

Studies In °The Harp of God”....

1 Thank Thee. Lon! < poem) 139

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Esperanto

OBSERVING in the Watch Tower the mention of the recent publication by the I.B.S.A. of the "Millions” book in Esperanto, I thought' that some facts regarding the international language Esperanto might be of fresh interest to many.

The fourteenth annual world-congress of Esperanto has just taken place (August 8-16) at Helsingfors, Finland. Delegates from the nations of the, world, representing all the important languages of the world, met in this ancient capital of the far north of Europe. No doubt the “Millions” book there reached many who, owing to the language barrier, never before had seen any publication of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society in a language which they understood.

Esperanto well deserves a place among those remarkable inventions which distinguished the last hundred years from all preceding centuries. Many have been the attempts to create an artificial language; but owing to wrong principles and defects in practice, not a single one became a living language. The task had generally been condemned as impossible even by savants, when lol in June, 1887, in the obscurity of a Polish city, Esperanto, the first international language destined to become a living language, w*as born.

This language was a gift to the world from the Jewish race. A doctor of medicine, but limiting himself to practice as an oculist, humble-minded and self-repressing, but a linguistic genius, an idealist and a humanitarian, a man of unsparing industry who desired to labor among the poor, and who would accept no gifts •ven from those better off who would have gladly bestowed them—such was Dr. Ludwig Lazarre Zamenhof, originator of Esperanto. A language developed out of the great languages of Europe by the choice of the most International words, sixteen rules providing the simplest possible grammar, no exceptions, phonetic spelling, uniform accent, sonorous

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with the strong distinctness of consonants and the music of plenty of vowels—such is Esperanto, the international language.

The important quality of Esperanto is its simplicity as compared with the great complexity of national languages. Three months’ practice for half an hour a day enables one to read, write and speak Esperanto; while three years would be required to accomplish the same with a national language. Indeed, the average English-speaking person can learn French only by residence in France, just as the average French person can learn English only by residence in a country where English is spoken. It is the same with other national languages. They also all bristle with irregularities and exceptions to rules; and the idioms which must be learned . individually appear in almost every sentence.

Esperanto can be learned at home. It is free from these difficulties of irregularities and idioms. The reasonableness of all its parts makes a welcome appeal to the logical mind.

The purpose of Esperanto is to be the second or help language among the nations. It is not a rival to the national languages, but a friend which can help to protect them. Nations love their native languages and might well keep them. Each national language has its own individual beauties which make a charm best understood and relished by those born to it.

The role of Esperanto as the second language of all nations is illustrated thus: An English-speaking person will possess English and Esperanto, a Frenchman will have French and Esperanto, a Spaniard will have Spanish and Esperanto, and similarly with people speaking other languages; they will each have their own language and Esperanto. In speaking or corresponding with people of their own tongue they will use their own native language; in speaking or corresponding with people of other tongues they will use Esperanto.

Thus the language barrier becomes broken down. The national languages' with their beautiful features and home associations remain unchanged; the national rivalries which would prevent the adoption of any national language as the international language, are not aroused. The world has in Esperanto a language in which to publish books and magazines for international circulation, a language for congresses and conventions, a language in which also to hear speeches and transact business without interpreters. Travelers no longer are mutes in all but one or two countries, and channels of international communication by letter or radiophone have become navigable canals instead of almost impenetrable as streams through a tropical woodland.

“ Esperanto has its numerous magazines, some international, others mostly national It has a literature of hundreds of books, mostly translations of favorite works out of many languages. Dr. Zamenhofs translations of the Psalms and the Pentateuch are especially valuable Esperanto works, as Dr. Zamenhof had a masterly knowledge of Hebrew. The New Testament is also in Esperanto, translated directly from the Greek by a committee of Esperantists.

The greatest strength of the Esperanto movement is in Europe where, owing to the multiplicity of languages spoken, the need for an auxiliary language is the most pressing. Esperanto is being taught in hundreds of schools in the important countries of Europe. In the smaller countries it has also a place. It is taught in schools of Switzerland and Holland, and in thirty high schools in Bulgaria. In 123 schools in Germany and twenty-seven schools in England it is an obligatory study.

The League of Nations has decided to investigate the matter of a recommendation that all lands encourage the introduction of Esperanto into the schools. The use of Esperanto in connection with Trade Fairs is also now well ’ established in Europe. Among fairs lately held or shortly to be held and using the language may be mentioned the Prague Fair in September, 1921, the Lyons Fair in the following month, those at Barcelona and Leipzig in March, 1922, and the great Fair at Prague, in September, 1922. Esperanto is used for the correspondence between committees. The Reichsberg (Czechoslovakia) Fair has installed an official Esperanto bureau.

The Department of Education of Jugoslavia has ordered all schools to buy a copy of Dr. Maruzzi’s Esperanto grammar and to call the pupils’ attention thereto.

The League of Commerce of Brazil last February approved a resolution strongly recommending the teaching of Esperanto in business -schools. The Committee in charge of the Tenth Anniversary of Brazilian Independence has decided to use Esperanto in its prospectus and publicity work.

The Japanese Esperantists held their eighth anniversary at Tokio in October, 1921. The Japanese Esperanto Institute now has over 900 members.

In France, Russia and Italy the Esperanto movement is longest established and exceptionally strong. In the United States, Canada, Argentine and Chile, and also in the Far East, in Australia, New Zealand and China there are societies and schools where it is taught.

The International Federation of Art, Literature and Science at. its first congress, April 17-20, at Brussels, unanimously resolved that all its members learn and use Esperanto.

The International Conference on the teaching pf Esperanto in schools held at Geneva, Switzerland, in April, at which educators from twenty-eight countries, including official representatives of sixteen governments were present, issued a declaration which recommended that “children should be taught Esperanto as the first language after the mother tongue, in the elementary school.”

Esperanto has been a great comfort to the blind, and has made possible a wider circulation and greater number of Braille publications.

It is estimated that there are today in the world as many Esperantists as there are people who speak Danish. To learn Danish would put one in communication with the people of one nation. To know Esperanto puts one in communication with people of every nation.

The principal obstacle to the progress of Esperanto is the fact that it demands a certain mental effort to acquire it. Even savants find an excuse rather than make that effort. But as Esperanto becomes more adopted in the lines of practical service, the acquisition of it will become regarded as a necessity for a good common education.

Many see in Esperanto one of the instruments which Divine Providence is providing for the world’s needs in the Golden Age.

The Struggle For Equity

By John G. Zook (President Pennsylvania State Editorial Association)

I FIND so many excellent, worth-while articles in the Golden Age that I enclose my renewal for the third year in spite of the fact that trade publications, reform journals, and exchanges of dailies and weeklies nearly swamp this country editor.

I am enclosing an article on Equity by W. E. Brokaw published in the Equitist and also as a tract with a limited circulation. It seems to me this plan fits in with the teachings of the Golden Age; and if you find it suitable, I would be pleased to see you publish it. [The article, "The A B C of Equity,” follows.—Ed.]

Since I have read the Equitist and the Golden Age, now two years, I have had many things come to me that indicate an impending change. Prof. John F. Brown, University of Indiana, issued a book, “A New Theory of Value,” in which he pointed to the tendency toward equality of compensation and advocated almost the identical plan of Mr. Brokaw in the Equitist, although he was not so clear in his logic and there was a debate in the Equitist for a time before he was convinced.

Then came Wm. H. Harvey’s "Common Sense,” and his method of spreading the light, so that the publication is now in its third million. Hon. John 0. Yeiser, Omaha, a Nebraska legislator, has a book, “Debts of Today and Hell to Pay,” which tells much and shows that the nation should put all idle men to work at $5.00 per day, paid in legal tender money, issued to pay them until the nation would be so prosperous that private employers would have to offer more, when they would gradually leave government employ and the issue of currency would cease. In other words it would provide ample money to do our business and automatically expand and contract as required. Bankers and leading men of Omaha and elsewhere endorsed and paid for a Congressional edition to supply every national legislator a copy.

Other significant books are "The Crime of 20,” by Geo. W. Armstrong, of Texas; Senator Ladd’s Honest Money Bill and his address before the monetary conference of December 15; "Rural Credits System,” by Herbert Myrick, Phelps Publishing Co., Springfield, Mass.; etc.

I attended the monetary conference at Washington and was the lone country editor there.

If a series of articles on Equity were desirable, Barrister Howard S. Ross, K. C., international lecturer, is one of the best qualified to supply them.

The A B <

'A Glimpse at Real Money—A Mere Mechanism More Units of

YOU say that it is results you want. Well, let us see what results consist of. There are just two classes of things in this world: Those which exist through the exertion of persons and those which exist regardless of persons. The latter we call “natural resources,” and you will admit they are, normally, the gift of nature to all of us, that is, belonging to no one.

Now, “results” are combinations of the other two: Human work and natural resources. The work is stored in their resources. But that does not alter the fact that resources belong to no one. No one creates them. No one contributes anything but the work, the human exertion. That is all that you, or any one, or any number of persons, can give to or do for anyone else.

It follows as night follows the day, that the reason any of us ever exchange is because we

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want to get more of the natural resources with less work. But you will hardly claim that you want to get more work from others for less of your own work—will you!

So, if you can get more from nature in one way than your neighbor, and he or she can get more from nature in another way with equal effort, by exchanging equitably—hour for hour of time worked—both of you can get more from nature than either can by not exchanging.

That is the essence of equitable exchange.

But if you exchange on the basis of quantity or quality—or any other than time worked—• one or both of you will be charging for the natural resources in which your labor is stored.

For instance: If a man works half his time on each of two locations growing corn, producing 50 bushels on one and 100 on the other, and sells both in the result-unit market, he gets the same for his work on each and, in addition, gets as much more for the extra yield of nature un the latter location.

And that is the basis of ground rent!

But if he sells on the work-unit basis, he gets the same for his work, and nothing for nature’s extra yield. But that yield goes to consumers as the free gift of nature, which it really is. In other words, each one pays for the work of production in the price of the product but nothing for the natural resources in which the work is stored. •

But, in the other case, on the result-unit basis each one pays—gives work—not only for the work but also for the natural resources in which that work is stored.

If we would adopt a work-unit money; that is, require that every dollar issued be issued solely for an hour’s adult human work and promise that it will be accepted in return for an hour’s adult human work, no one could receive money for anything but human work and no one would have to pay any money for anything but human work. This would stop all tribute now going to people who own for their incomes. It would put an end to millionaire ownership and to pauperism.—W. E. Brokaw, in The Equitist. ,

Miner Got One-Twelfth By P. o. Mace

REFERRING to the item in Volume III, No. 76, entitled “Seventy-Two Dollars per Day per Miner,” I happen to be a miner in the Central field, the field in which Franklin County, Illinois, is located, and know that the portion of the $72 which the miner received for his day’s work was $5.80. Figure it yourself; the miner get eighty cents per ton. This leaves a nice little margin of $66.20 on the miner’s day’s work to be divided up among those between the miner and the consumer who handle the coal.

Dependable Economics By Ulysses P. Baker

AMONG the many valuable articles which I have seen in your magazine, I have not yet seen any which touches the root of the economic illness. I have seen many which touch on Socialism (which is of no moment), but none which explains how the teachings of the Bible would be applied or could be applied to human life from any economic source. I especially call your attention to the article on page 649 by W. G. Daniels and to the third from the last paragraph on page 650.

It is self-evident that the most reliable teacher for the human race is the Creator, Jehovah God, first through the prophets and second through our Lord and Master, His Son. And yet, having examined all the teachings of the Bible on economics, either directly or indirectly, I am unable to find any reference to Socialism as it can be understood as an economic factor.

The Bible does teach an economic principle which must be put into operation under the incoming kingdom of God, and there is no intimation of common ownership of the tools of industry. The jubilee system given to Israel provided for the return of the land to its rightful owner at the end of every fiftieth year, thus foreshadowing how the people of earth will come into possession of the soil during the Golden Age. If you want the economic teachings of the Bible try the following:

“And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession and ye shall return every man unto his family.”—Leviticus 25: 10.

“The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.”— Leviticus 25:23.

“Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.”—Ecclesiastes 5: 9.

“The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”—Psalm 24:1.

I was going to say Jehovah never promised to give any tools to mankind, but I remembered Isaiah 41:15, margin, which evidently promises us The Golden Age, the "Millions” book, the book on “Talking with the Dead,” and the Seventh Volume of “Studies in the Scriptures.”

Guns, Shoes, and Monarchs By s. T. 0.

Mb. Editob: There has been more or less discussion in your excellent journal in regard to economic conditions in general— living wage, standard of living, production and distribution, standards of value, labor units, etc., all of such papers being exceedingly interesting, but in the last analysis quite profitless.

God’s system and the devil’s system each have their respective standards of existence and all things that pertain thereto; and unless we are told which system is referred to, all such discussions and theories are fruitless of results.

It is conceivable that one can earn a nice living wage making guns and battleships and other implements of war, all of which has been recently demonstrated. It is also conceivable that production and distribution of the necessities of life can be greatly improved, and that thereby we could get food to contending armies at the front more cheaply and expeditiously than now.

Mr. Branch brought up an interesting point in regard to labor being the true standard of value, and said something about a pair of shoes; that the labor value or labor units required in the production of same, whether made in Australia or some other part of the world, would at all times and in whatever place be the same.

But what kind of shoes f and for whom! An. other pair of up-to-date footwear for my lady of fashion, who already has several dozen pairs more than she will ever wear out; or a pair of sensible, comfortable shoes for the servants of-our Lord and Master f

If the twelve apostles were on earth today and needed a suit of clothes apiece, the units of energy, or labor units, employed in the producing of the same would be no more valuable, according to Mr. Branch, than the same labor or energy used in making twelve natty, stylish, gold-braided uniforms for those chief assistantmurderers to one William the Second, heretofore known as commanding generals.

And if Jesus, the Peacemaker, were on earth in the flesh today and in need of a pair of serviceable boots, the labor units required in making same, according to this theory, would be no more valuable than the same amount of labor consumed in fashioning a nifty pair of military boots for that dethroned swashbuckler, William the War-lord. ’

As before stated, in my opinion, all economic x discussions are futile, unless we know whether the thing produced and the wage therefor are to go to sustain the kingdom of God, or are for the service of Satan’s empire.

“His servants are ye to whom ye render service.” j

A Root of Bitterness By Leonard Tucker

LEST any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.”

—Hebrews 12:15.

Boots of bitterness will spring up sometimes, but we are not to let them trouble us. Perhaps the matter is no fault of ours. The bitterness comes from something some one else has done. There seems to be real cause for bitter feeling. The offense seems great and unpardonable. The root of bitterness has sprung from the deeds of another—possibly a wife or some dear friend. It is all their fault.

But if you nourish this root of bitterness it will grow and expand until many be defiled thereby. Do not let any root of bitterness springing up trouble you. Whenever a root of bitterness springs up, it must find soil in which to be nourished and to grow. When you find a root of bitterness has sprung up in your heart,

refuse it nourishment. In time the soil of bitterness will be destroyed. Render good for evil and the spirit of love abides. Render evil for evil and you become an evil doer as guilty as your foe.

My boys made a dam in the creek, and the neighbor’s boys adjoining also made a dam. The neighbor boys came and destroyed my boys’ dam. A root of bitterness sprang up in my boys’ minds, and they allowed it to grow and bear fruit: they went over and destroyed the neighbor boys’ dam. By this act my boys became as guilty as the neighbor boys; and both sides being guilty of the same offense, the spirit of hatred prevailed until at length the root of bitterness died out. But it left its mark. “Lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.” IM

Aphroditean Love By H. E. Coffey

AMONG the ancient Greek deities of Olympus, Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, assumed a prominent place. In historic times this goddess absorbed the place of the Roman Venus, of whom she was the counterpart. She came to be considered as the personification of the amorous instinct; hence my reason for coining the term Aphroditean love. This brand of love made its debut in Eden; it will make its exit in the Golden Age.

Adam, the first man, felt within himself an intense longing for something — he knew not what Eve, the first woman, satisfied this desire. He came to love her better than life and Holy Writ testifies that he refused to live without her and sinned willfully the sin of death. (Genesis 3:6; 1 Timothy 2:14) With this occurrence chivalry, sacrificial love for womanhood, may be said to have had its beginning. Adam’s posterity has gradually degenerated through the passing ages, but love for the weaker sex still subsists in man.

That which man values highly he idealizes and often worships. Thus the early Greeks worshiped their goddess Aphrodite — goddess of fruitfulness, goddess of marital love. This deity was passed on to them from other Oriental races. Legends represent her as the goddess of birth, marriage, and family life, the inspirer of passion among both men and women. Early artists represented her as sometimes clothed, but more often as naked, rising from the sea, or after the bath. Later artists painted her as a beautiful woman, graceful and charming, with languishing eyes and laughing mouth.

But man’s amorous instinct has not been confined to the worship nor to the painting of a single goddess, Julius Caesar loved and almost worshiped Egypt’s historic beauty, Cleopatra. Mark Antony was also enamored by the seductive charms of the “Serpent of the Nile,” and she shipwrecked his fortunes. Other men, small and great, have fallen into worshipful adoration of beautiful women — Napoleon, Henry VU1, David, etc.

The Papal system compels the celibacy of the clergy, but to fill up the aching void long ago instituted the worship of the Virgin Mary. Tn mediaeval times her statue was erected, and conscientious Christians were done to death by the cutting knives of its loving embrace. Clerics as a class seem more often to fall victims to love's elusions. Only recently the pastor in a well-known Texas town came to admire another man’s wife more than his own, and the whole affair became so shameful that he was compelled to leave the town. This is only one case out of many that might be cited.

Sane thinkers wonder and ponder concerning amorous insanity. It is the one instinct which oftenest stifles or puts to riot the nobler ambitions of youth and substitutes for them the burdens of a coming generation. But ’tis oftenest happier thus than otherwise. In "life’s green spring” the “calf love” of youth begins. The individual for a time becomes partially demented, and his mind is closed to reason. The object of his pursuit is idealized until his heart is continually in the highlands a-chasing the dear, until captured.

“Love is blind,” say some; and so it is with Aphroditean love. To the male the charms of even the mediocre-featured female become peculiarly enticing and appealing. Once enmeshed in Cupid’s tangled web, it becomes difficult for the victim to extricate himself. These phrases occur and reoccur in his mind: “I cannot, no, I will not, live without you.” Deeply and more deeply they become engraved there, until pleadingly he inquires: “Will you be mine!"

Older individuals, and sometimes youthful ones, have become case-hardened to the follies of such love and have said in their hearts: “There is no love.” Such ones are on the road to reason, and need only to have their mental acumen properly focused in order to realize that there is a love beyond the full grasp of the finite human mind.

Adam laboring in the sweat of his brow doubtless came to realize the folly of the Aphroditean love to which he had so early succumbed. All down through the ages human experience has taught the follies of such love. St. John realized it when he admonished: “Children, keep yourselves from idols.”

God introduced into the world real love when He gave on its behalf His only begotten Son. Adam will come to realize the meaning of this love, God’s love on his behalf, when he has presented to him the opportunity to regain all that his folly forfeited. Love and admiration for his “better half” was right and proper; but Aphroditean love—worshipful love that would urge violation of the just and loving laws of his Creator—was not proper. David’s love for the Hittite’s wife, which prompted him to place Uriah in the forefront of battle that he might be slain and that the king might have his wife was not proper. Aphroditean love, which we see manifested about us today, is not proper.

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The eyes of the present generation are soon to be opened to the impropriety of it all and to the propriety of God’s love—to its height, depth, length and breadth. Thus when every individual becomes a perfect creature, he will realize the truthfulness of the phrase “love divine, all love excelling.”

All sincere Christians realize the truthfulness of this statement even now. I would urge all such that they allow not Aphroditean love to enter into their hearts; that they allow not anything to take the place of God’s superior love. [Cats may be urged not to run after mice; but will they heedf—Ed.]

In the Golden Age now at hand every individual who will bend himself into harmony with God’s righteous laws will become more attractive and beautiful than the statue of Aphrodite. Then it is that admiration for this statue will be torn from the hearts of alL Worshipful ad* miration for other individuals will cease. Each person will be complete in himself. Masculinity and femininity will exist combined as a unit in each person, instead of in the present unsatisfactory divided state.

The Real Character of St. Nicholas By Mrs. 1.3. Marshall

fpHE article about Santa Claus by Gerald -*• Barry in No. 73 of The Golden Age contains the query as to whether we should tell children the plain facts about Santa Claus. I say: Yes; and then tell them the story, which I will relate briefly as best I can.

St. Nicholas was born on December 6th in the year 300 A. D., and when grown became a monk in a monastery in a little village. His parents were very rich. They both died; and St. Nicholas, being their only child, inherited all their weal th, which was mostly in gold. There lived in the village a poor man with his daughter. One night St Nicholas went to this man’s hut like a thief, but not to steal. He filled the poor man’s boots with gold and went out. The next morning when the man got up and was about to put his boots on, he was surprised to find them full of gold. That is where the idea of a Santa Claus came from, and the practice of children hanging up their stockings at Christmas time. St. Nicholas was a helper of the poor; he did not care for others to know what he had given; he did not leave a card with his gift; for it was a gift from the heart. How noble is the motive of such giving!

Joy Department

T WISH to thank you for the pleasure and the benefits, and the inspiration I receive from your magazine. Each issue seems to be better than the one preceding. May The Golden Age live throughout the Golden Age.

—J. Best Fostee, Ark.

I CONSIDER The Golden Age the most valuable paper published today and hope to be your constant subscriber. This is the age for the truth, and you should feel blessed that you are the agency used for its propagation.

Len H. Clark, La.

Prices Paid to Farmers By w. c. Miller

T) UNNING a small farm we have a few apple trees. Having this season a surplus of the early variety, on June 25th we made a consignment of ten barrels, containing eleven pecks each to a firm of commission merchants in Louisville, Kentucky.

Shipment sold for..........................$27.50

Expense for barrels

Expense for freight

Expense for draying

Expense for commission

Deducting all expense we received for our crop $14.00

They Must — If

THE hi-jack press is frantic. The Kansas City Journal-Post says: “The people must have coal. They must have transportation.” But suppose they could not get either. Suppose all the roads and mines were shut down. Men cannot be forced to do this work any more than farmers could be drafted to raise wheat to feed the city folks.

And there is a present appearance, with prophetic warning, that they all are going to stop, if not right now, then a little later. The great' time of trouble foretold is upon the world; and the present unsatisfactory order of society will end in a crash unless radical reforms are granted, which are not even remotely suggested by the press, the clergy or the statesmen.

Referring to this very time the Prophet says that the fires shall be of such a nature that there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. But “they shall be burnt with hunger.” “A fire is kindled in mine anger, . . . and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains [nations].” “Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth; and mischief shall fall upon thee; and thou shalt not be able to put it off; and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.” “The night cometh when no man can work.”

Mene, Mene, Tekel

THE coal and rail strikes seem to take their course. Court injunctions, rail-board decisions, and presidential pleas with military display, like treaties among nations, do not right wrongs nor quell indignation. They now talk about putting “teeth” into their laws to handle strikers. Force may be arranged for and resorted to in order to throttle the unions and uphold the hand of capital. But force will fail.

The time is at hand for the establishment of the Golden-Age order of things; and well would it be if those in positions of wealth, influence and authority would read and heed the handwriting on the wall: mene, mene, tekel, vpharsin—“Thou art weighed in the balances [of justice, wisdom, love and power] and art found wanting.”

“Be wise now, therefore, 0 ye kings; be instructed, ye judges of the earth.” Do not set yourselves against the Lord. Do not imagine vain schemes. You cannot break the bands of

By L. D. Barnes truth nor burst the cords of righteousness which are binding you. “Serve the Lord with fear. . . . Kiss the Son [embrace truth fully, grant reforms] lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way [are overthrown] when his wrath is kindled but a little.”

Large incomes should be abolished; large holdings of land should be released to the homeless; war should be abolished, and ample pensions granted to the aged, the poor and homeless should be assisted to more comfortable conditions, which would do much to allay > strikes and to ease off generally toward Mil- , lennial attainments.

The hand of Jehovah is heavy upon the nations. He musters the hosts of battle, and soon will rise and "do his work, his strange work,” as when he fought in the valley of Gib-eon. “Now, therefore, be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.”

All Will Lose

IN THIS great battle, both sides expect to win. But the victory of either side will be only temporary. Both will lose finally. The Bible predicts that terrible anarchy will result: . “A time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation.” The great trouble of the French Revolution and the anarchy which overthrew the Jewish nation, A. D., 70, are Scriptural illustrations of the impending wrath that is to overthrow Christendom. The Bible counsels meekness on the part of all who would be under God’s wings of protecting care.

While our sympathies are with labor, we see that no element will be able to establish righteousness. The reformers on both sides ne*-<l reforming. Approved character is the only thing that will stand the test; and this is scarce. Selfishness dominates both worker and employer.

True, the worker should have more of the fruits of his toil, since he is expected to do all the work, do all the fighting, and pay all the bills. The worker is usually a homeless crea- -ture, and his grievances are many. While the statesmen and the financial princes—called kings and judges of the earth—roll in wealth and have more than heart could wish or reason ' ask, the worker sees his children arise, with little education,' to follow on in his steps to

t premature old age and poverty. This rankles in his mind and embitters him; for his so-called superiors live in costly dwellings and old age brings no terrors to them. Such conditions are not satisfactory to any one and soon must pass.

The Governmental arrangements—financial, social, religious, and political—are termed Satan’s empire, and must give place to the Millennial arrangements under the Christ. During that reign class distinctions will cease. Nothing but the best will be offered to any, and the highest possible attainment will be open to all alike. “Seek righteousness, seek meekness, all ye meek of the earth: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.”

Reform or Perish

IN THAT dark hour of the world’s unparalleled trouble no man will be able to stand on his own merits. Self-righteousness will drown the multitudes in darkest despair. Sunday school and military records will avail nothing. Bank accounts will be useless when commerce ceases and there is nothing to buy. The “Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.... or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalemf I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”

Scraping the World’s Veneer By Leia Fisher-Woodward

THIS “present evil world,” or order of things on the earth, commenced after the “world that was” perished in the flood. And like a big, black oyster its many centuries of age have encrusted it in many layers.

For several years there has been a general scraping taking place—a scraping that one cannot hear; for the instrument is bo tn noiseless and unseen. Yet its effects are visible, not so much to the eye as to the mind. For more than forty years, men have wondered as they saw the veneer being removed; and they became amazed when the harder they tried to stop the process, the larger became the pile of sawdust and ashes.

In this extremely utilitarian age, there is little memory or regard for yesterday; little respect for its grey hairs and unsightly wrinkles ; little heed to its voice. Everything is concentrated on today. Its thousand voices—each with a thousand tongues—cry: "Give us success. We cannot'fait” But despite all the might of concentration centuries old, there is little success along the right path.

Strive as Civilization with her hundreds of years of experience may, she cannot stop the scraping process; she feels utterly unable to cope with it. The veneer is cracking; the closets are being opened by unseen hands; the skeletons not only are seen but are coming forth. Soon they will speak. There is no veneer so hard as that concocted by Sin.

It is only a divine hand, only a fire from heaven, that can melt it. And the melting pot is here—has been here ever since the World War started. Truly “the refiner of. silver and the purifier of gold” is doing a mighty work, is kindling a great fire—the “fire of God’s jealousy”—that will melt all the superficial, remove the veneer, and leave only the real. The reputation of yesterday becomes the ashes of today. As proof thereof, where is the Kaiser 1 Where is Germanyl Where is Nicholas, the Czar! Where is Russia f

The answer from actual observation and the history of the past few years is that nations are in the melting pot, almost if not quite melted in order that they may be as putty in the hands of an invisible power. Their real character, disrobed of reputation, is revealed in its nakedness.

And the great conflagration, predicted by Lloyd George and ex-president Wilson started with the World War in 1914. But these men then asserted that “the world is on fire”; and recently Hon. Lloyd George has supplemented his declaration with the statement that “the world is a seething volcano.” This mountain is now in process of eruption.

Yes; the fire is burning fiercely and is being fanned by unseen winds. Sin is burning its own self out, and over its ashes will arise its avenger—Right.

In a short while, all the veneer will be scraped off the world. A man, purified by the fires of the "time of trouble” (burning now), will be

“more precious than the gold of Ophir,” and t will stand forth in his true character. There will be a divine hand ready to help him up the "highway of holiness,” built upon the ruins of Sin’s effete civilization; and he can soon grow into the king and perfect man that father Adam was in the beginning. He will then be too precious to be purchased by gold.

Cannot such a precious knowledge and glorious prospect so inspire man that he can bravely, by faith in his Creator’s power, lift up his head, turn his eyes away from the shadows of today and look forward to the joys of tomorrow—a tomorrow without veneer, and built upon justice and righteousness—earth’s Golden Age!

Origin of Land Titles By Oliver Longley

REFERRING to the article,“Farmers’Skirts Not Clear,” in Golden Age Number 76, we know that the farmers are of the same fallen nature as the remainder of mankind. The real farmers are mostly renters, however, and those who own or partly own are but little better off; for they are not now able to pay wages. A snake with its fangs removed is harmless.

The common farmer and the wage worker are finding out that their interests are mutual. Big business and big politicians are trying to keep them at enmity, but they are organizing Farmer Labor Unions.

The official report on incomes for 1919 says that 5.3 percent of the people had nearly $20,-000,000,000 clear income; and of course they hid all they could from tax, so that the published figures do not disclose the whole of their incomes. This was more than the total value of all crops for that year, and nearly three times the value of all crops for 1921. It is said that five percent of the people have eighty-five percent of the wealth, and that about eighty percent of the people are farmers and wage workers.

I am not speaking of big landlords when I speak of farmers. The land monopoly is one of the greatest. God made enough land to sustain His creatures, from which only they may live. . “Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.”—Ecclesiastes 5:9.

Not many people know how our present land titles originated. At the time America was discovered, the feudal system prevailed in Europe. Each of the kings over there—English, French, Spanish and Portuguese — claimed the new world and gave his favorites charters, feuds. The rest of the colony were serfs, not allowed to own land, although promised it

After a long time a feudal lord, Sir Thomas Dale, allowed each man or family three acres, and one month in which to work it. He must support himself on the three acres and work the other eleven months for Mr. Dale. This established an aristocracy. Some of the big estates of today can be traced back to these feudal claims.

True, some big millionaires were poor boys, but they never got their millions by their own labor. Andrew Carnegie said that when a millionaire died his wealth ought to go back to the people; for there is where it came from. There was never a man who became a millionaire or obtained above a few score thousands without obtaining it from the efforts of others.

Now, the sources of all wealth—the land, the means of production, transportation and distribution—are controlled by the few; but when judgment is laid to the line and righteousness to the'plummet (Isaiah 28:17) everything that is built on a fraudulent foundation must fall.

The dictionary and the encyclopedia agree that our land titles are traceable back through Deed, Charter, Feud and Fraud to Devil. It is a mistaken idea that our.present land titles, deeds, feoffs, came from the ancient word fief, which then applied to cattle or to what we term personal property, and never w’as applied to land. But our fee-simples, feoffs, 'come from feud, as can yet be seen in England, from which country we derived our customs. Instead of feud, loan lord and vassals, we now have deed, landlord and slave. The modern renter is the modern slave. We rejoice, however, that the new age will reverse these conditions.

We are readers of The Golden Age and only wish that it could come oftener and that there was more of it. We wish also that everybody could read it.

A Strange Summer By N. e. Nelson

I BEAD with interest the article by J. A.

Bohnet on “Too Much Rain” and it struck me as interesting to note how closely the season of “Too Much Bain” was followed by a season of “No Bain at All,” making in all a very peculiar summer and fall. During the fall, when it would ordinarily have begun to be cool, Cleveland had its hottest September day for many years, while Pittsburgh had a September day with the temperature 93 degrees Fahrenheit Yellowstone Park was frostbitten on the same day.

Early in October the Pittsburgh papers were remarking upon the drought, then approximately a month old, and wondering when it would cease. In Oklahoma farmers are buying water for cattle, and are not allowing automo-bilists to get water supplies. Near Pittsburgh the Youghiogheny Biver, usually a navigable stream, is so low that in places one can walk across, through water only a few inches deep. Farmers in the district southeast of Pittsburgh are hauling water from Pittsburgh, having had no rain for seven weeks.

Is nature out of joint f Or shall we assume that the elements are at the mercy of a higher power and that the right to manage those elements in such a way as to accomplish divine purposes is being exercised f We know that in the Scriptures Satan, whose reign is officially closed (since the fall of 1914), has been designated “prince of the power of the air.” Is The Christ, the new Power of the Air, actively taking in hand the atmospheric conditions, with a view to the still further undoing of Satan’s empire! I wonder.

Eternal Youth—A La Science By Joseph Greig

THE following is another move toward attaining everlasting life, a la Science. Heretofore surgeons have applied human, monkey and other animal glands with much newspaper mention. Now the horse-power serum is coming into vogue. The clipping reads:

“London—Horse-power serum has replaced monkey glands as a restorer of youth, leading men of the scientific world believe today.

"Discovery of the latest invigorator, which is said to prolong human life beyond 150 years, was made by Dr. Henri Spahlinger, Swiss scientist.

“It requires from one to four years to produce the pep prolonger, and seven horses are needed for the manufacture of one complete treatment.

“A business associate of Dr. Spahlingers, a man of years, writes this testimonial of the longevity lotion to The Daily Express-.

“ ‘The injections made me feel strong as a lion. They gave me an abundance of stimulation and a marvelous fund of energy. I have never felt the slightest reaction from the treatment.’ ”

In this desperation to graft in longevity, the scientific world is resorting to all manner of experiment, insofar as to meddle with the generative functions in an effort to prolong the ancestral lines. How futile to try to bring a clean thing out of an unclean race without the divine remedy of a new start from the fresh fountain of eternal youth—the Christ—whose ministrations are soon to be officially announced at Jerusalem by the earthly representatives of the Messianic empire I The long wait for this great inaugural will only enhance the benefits which will accrue from the wisdom that cometh from above. At the very best, these wonder-workings of scientific cunning will only perpetuate life for a brief span, whereas the Master Physician will touch the vitals of all human trouble—the Adamic, sentence, death. He alone holds the power to bring about an untold prosperity.

Radium continues to attract attention as a curative agent. Besides showing practical value in resuscitating the most delicate, it now appears that by this agent the human embryo can be dissolved at will in favor of any mother liable to die from birth-throes. It is hard to forecast how this may affect race suicide. Indeed, other forces are at work toward the cessation of conception powers and the increase of sterility. Perhaps it is just as well that this is so; for the Bible is sponsor for the thought that in the coming crisis between capital and labor a large portion of mankind must perish and that the infant mortality will be terrible to contemplate. Everything points to a quick finish for the reign of evil.

Meanwhile, let us be chary of the sophistries of science, falsely so-called; for many are the stumbling stones yet in the way of Jehovah’s

< ? chariot. For since thought is the most wonderful power in the earth today, this citadel must first be swayed to righteousness ere Diabolus will cease to work his will. Better far to instil Biblical sense, balancing the mental faculties, and making them strong unto complete transformation. “The words which I speak, they are spirit, and they are life.”

And so we conclude that now we are in' the transition time when “millions now living will never die,” if they heed the Scriptural injunc

tions to meekness and teachableness. It is stil ’ - 3 pertinent to health, that we line up with tht - L,'-living Word of God, as the most salutary agent V" • extant. Ah, its promises will yet be for the / healing of the nations, and all insanity will , - n give place to the joys of a sound mind and of ' a sane religion. Is it not high time that we *' * junked Satanism and laid hold on eternal life! • „ For it is written: “They have rejected the word ' of the Lord and what wisdom is in them!”— i ' j

Jeremiah 8:9. ■ '-L Y

. The Staff of Life

I HAVE read with interest the articles on health from Mrs. Holmes, Mrs. Gershong, and others, and now the wonderful cures from milk diet by J. Frappy.

It is with pleasure we see that some are finding cures apart from the sanitarium and the specialists knife.

In my own experience, I was raised from a protracted spell of fever with only a cup of hot milk once in four hours, and some simple homeopathic remedies, and afterward, as Mr. Frappy suggests, at the proper point, a return to good, plain food, the plainer the better. As Mrs. Holmes and Mrs. Gershong emphasize, the food should be of the whole grain, such as God prepared, and not man. As St. Paul impresses the thought, we can have little confidence in the flesh (in man’s wisdom).

Therefore we may with reason taboo the roller mill products, and all other preparations from which the system-cleansing and tissuebuilding properties have been eliminated. “Bread is the staff of life”; but we do not read that “starch” is the staff of life. And yet, that is what much of our beautiful product it.

It has been sometimes said, that the porters of the Near East are the strongest people in the world, able to carry weights of hundreds of pounds, supported by straps which are bound about the head; and that. their only food is whole-grained bread, with an occasional cucumber.

By Mrs. T. C. Alford

We know, too, that the strong beasts of burden, the horse and the ox, are nourished by only the vegetable products of the earth, grain and grass; and that it is said that a horse fed on shelled corn, without the added roughage of the cob and the husks, or of grass or hay, will soon die. .

This reminds us, too, of the old story of the young slave who ate the whole-grained corncake in his mother’s cabin, and reached manhood’s estate a young giant, equal to any physical test, while the cherished child of the mistress, reared with a sugar-plum in his mouth, faded away and died, a victim of tuberculosis.

As to good meat from healthful animals, eaten with whole-grain bread and bitter herbs, as per the Jews under the Lord’s supervision, it would, doubtless, be a wholesome and strengthening food. But we also call to mind that the Lord forbade the eating of the fat.

We also remember that Daniel refused meats from the king’s table, preferring the pulse ( of beans, lentils, etc.); and that when the time of testing came, his countenance was fairer and fatter than that of those who had partaken of wine and rich viands from the king’s board.

But we rejoice to know that we are at the threshold of a glorious era, when not again will the poor, deluded world have to pay the “toll in human life and efficiency, for its ignorance and indifference”; for all will know, from the least to the greatest.

WINTER DAYS By

Winter days are here once more, Winter winds begin to roar;

Trees stand desolate and bare, Frost and snow are in the air.

Charter Horace lleiert

Winter days are here to drive

Folks to home and bees to hive;

Hearts grow warm around the blaze Of the hearth in winter days.

More About Internal Baths. By Russell M. Irwin

IN A recent issue of the Golden Age some writer was recommending internal baths as a kind of cure-all. In Texas thirty years ago, I lived in a city where many were so addicted to the "internal bath” habit that its use all the time became necessary.

A Doctor Hall, at that time, advertised the internal bath; and on account of the temporary relief afforded many took up the treatment, much to their sorrow. The internal bath may be all right in some conditions, but it becomes injurious when used regularly—just like any other artificial means. As many of the I.B.S.A. readily take up almost any so-called cure, I am writing this hoping to be of service to them. ,

I think it would be advisable for The Golden Age to be very careful about publishing, such articles from anyone. You can find .some honest people very sincere in advocating remedies, cures, etc., and their principles are diametrically opposed. Would advise all to be very careful not to go wild in respect to any theory of curing now. The time for the curse to stop has not yet arrived; and many find themselves in a worse fix than they were before using "treatments” that are supposed to benefit

A Dangerous Practice By A. L. Potter

MANY children lose their lives each year from tetanus, or lock jaw, caused by stepping on the points of nails thoughtlessly left protruding from boards which are thrown down and left where barefoot children or children with worn, thin shoe soles can step on them.

It takes only a few minutes to remove the nails from the boards.

BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORBY.

Health Articles A Blessing By Mrs. J. c. Lewis

I WISH to express my appreciation of your paper. I feel as though I could not do without it I am in a very much out-of-the-way place and have just about quit reading daily papers as one never knows how much in them is truth and how much is untruth; and it is such a relief to read without suspicion articles which are evidently wholly sincere.

The health articles are a great blessing, especially to those who suffer sickness because they cannot pay doctor bills. I sincerely hope that you will continue to print such articles. They are a blessing.- -I have had to doctor myself and my children. We are ten miles from a doctor, and it takes all we can earn for food; so everything in the health line is read and appreciated.

Oh, what a wonderful time it will be when there will be no need of doctors; when Christ will heal the sick and raise the dead and the lame man shall leap as an hart I Oh, how we long for God's kingdom to come and for His will to be done on earth I

A Great Victory

WHAT a victory for liberty was won by big business in the recent decision of their holiest of holies in the finding that the childlabor law was unconstitutional! Now the in-^ nocents have the glorious privilege of leaving the terrors of a five- or six-hour school day and working long hours, where their surplus sun-» shine can be liquidated profitably. But these victorious gentlemen are the golf specialists who have the whole landscape posted with "no

By An Enthusiast

trespass” signs. Try to get to the river bank cr other inviting spots near the city and see the flaming swords waving this-a-way and. that-a-way at the entrances. And then, too, the working people are supposed to get enough exercise making bricks, and they are expected to be too tired to want to walk through green pastures or beside the still waters without a pedigreed Airedale or something. Are you noticing that the "liquidating of labor” goes majestically on!

Hereafter” By H. F. Shuttleworth (England)'

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HOW different from all other books is the Word of God! With what beautiful and yet profound language it clothes its hidden truths! One instance of this is found in John 1:51. The words uttered by Him who spake as never man spake—grand in their symbology, yet still more grand and deep in their significance—reveal in a moment a picture of a condition which will obtain for a thousand years.

“Hereafter,” He says, as though His' mind traversed the vista of an age which must intervene, yet all the while His thoughts were concentrated on this land wherein He stood, which to His enlightened mind- would yet become the perfection of beauty and the joy of the whole earth. No thought is here given of a future state of heavenly bliss, or of any ethereal existence on some other planet or sphere, but the word denotes a future state right here —after. “Hereafter, ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”

What a glorious picture is here presented of the new spiritual organization which will soon control earth’s affairs! "Ye shall see heaven open.” What a wealth of meaning in these words! How long indeed the heavens have been dosed, how long they have failed to let down those refreshing showers of truth! But our Lord here is taking His stand at the beginning of the new age, when the present heavens or spiritual ruling powers will have passed forever away; and the new heavens Anil be in control of earth’s affairs. Long have men looked, and looked in vain, for some satisfying portion, some message, some hope of a future life here on earth; but the heavens have beer, to them as brass. “Ye shall see heaven open': the words are nearing fulfillment. Thank God', the time is near when the mountains shall drop sweet wine, when God shall pour out His spirit upon all flesh. The heavens will open out in all their splendor, revealing to men the things of which they have not yet seen, heard, or even 'dreamed, but which God has in reservation for all those that love Him.

“And the angels [messengers] of God, ascending and descending upon the Son of man.” Here is shown the earthly phase of the kingdom of God's dear Son. The earthly representatives <—Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and all the holy prophets, the faithful cloud of witnesses, who will then be “princes” or messengers “in all the earth,” just and perfect before God—will enjoy that sweet communion with Him of which their faithfulness has proved them worthy. They will keep open the channel of communication between God and men, approaching Him On behalf of mankind and in their best interests, through the great Mediator between God and men, the “Son of man,” ascending and descending in the spirit of prayer. Then will be fulfilled the latter portion of Joel 2: 28, “And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.” Instructions will be given to the ancient worthies from the Christ Mediator respecting the operation of the righteous laws of that kingdom; “for out of Zion [the heavenly phase] shall go forth the law, and the word of Lord from Jerusalem [the earthly phase].”

Jacob in his ladder dream’ saw a picture of this new heavens and new earth.“And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, . . . and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it” (Genesis 28:12) It is about four thousand years since this vision of the descending kingdom was seen by Jacob. How it should fill us with holy joy, then, that we are privileged to be living so near to its fulfillment, and to know that millions of people now living will be blessed under the righteous administration of the laws of that kingdom pictured here so long ago; and that we are living at a time about which all the holy prophets, including Jacob, wrote, and to which they looked forward. As we meditate on the glorious provision for the blessing of mankind in the near future, which God has made through Christ the Mediator and the ancient worthies’ ministrations, let us set up an altar (as did Jacob) in our hearts; to the glory of God.

It will be during the age just at hand that the clouds that have obscured the love of God for man will be forever rolled away. “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.”

Arresting Earth’s Motion By wniiam Ohlsson

REFERRING to Mr. 0. L. Rosenkrans, Jr.’s article about “Features of the Impending Trouble,” in The Golden Age, Number 70, page 536: Imagination is a good thing to have; but like everything else it should be bridled and made'to stay within the bounds of established facts, consistent with sound logic and reason.

In his article, page 536, second column, paragraph one, Mr. Rosenkrans suggested that "perhaps electric volts of stupendous power from outer space may swerve our planet from its orbit, halt its rotation, and shake it until the heavens seem to tremble and the stars to fall.”

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