Golden Age, December 20, 1922
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Dec. 20, 1922, Vol. IV, No. 88
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CONTENTS of the GOLDEN AGE
LABOR AND ECONOMICS
■ Why Men Strike ............... *________________ ...
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
Confident the Kingdom is Nigh
Growing Old o carefully ........................... .
A Warning to Girls
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
How to l-'ut Out the Fire
The Solution ...... —.....
Brief Screed on Sociology ................. ....173
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
About i Jc< i rods ..... ,...... „.........177
The X’:.i I hiTheory
All Lh'<rrii;iL King
Huw iS the Earth to be Subdued?
HOME AND HEALTH
Dictury Regimen ................1 SO .\eiliritis I •jet ........ ,...1X1
Oboity ....... .....ISO iT.ddhigs, etc. ..
In Mise of lilieumaUstn ISO Tubori ulosis Diet ...
In i.iwr Disorders ........... 1 So Salads, C1r. ........................1X2
Con^limuhm ....... ..fstr Siiggoumi i.i Sufferers ....1X2
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TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
To an Intimate Friend ... .-.............. ....
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Mimricw in Nineteen-Twenty-Two
Rulei>—-Fast. Present and
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Experiences of a t'alliojic 184
Christian Science Morality 185
Versing Tiro Masters
.Sanctified Hash• Factories 187
Where Are the Clergy? 188 New Application of an
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The Way to Life .
Studies in the 'Harp of
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T«Iuh IV
Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1922
Number 85
Miracles in Nineteen-Twenty*Two
THE Benedictine Convent of Perpetual Adoration, Clyde, Mo., publishes among other booklets one which it entitles “Wonders of the Miraculous Crucifix of Limpias,” narrating that a wooden image of Christ, which is fastened to a crucifix in a Roman Catholic church in Limpias, Spain,
*. . . seems to assume life, and many spectators behold His sufferings, agony, and death, just as these mysteries of the passion took place on Calvary. Now- He moves those grief-filled eyes; now He turns the thorn-crowned head in various directions; now He opens and closes those parched and burning lips. The expression on His divine countenance changes in a manner that' moves one to tears, turning from the ordinary color to purple, then to ashy-gray and the pallor of death. Cold perspiration covers the body. Bright red blood oozes from the wounds, especially from beneath the cruel crown of thorns, and trickles down upon His face, shoulders and breast. The parted lips show the mouth filled with foam and blood, and at times a fresh stream gushes forth from the sacred wound of His side.
“The peculiar feature of the phenomenon is that some of those present behold the prodigy with the most dear distinctness, while their neighbors perceive not the slightest change in the Holy Christ.”
According to the booklet the Rev. Gaspar de Cebrones, guardian of the Capuchins of Coruna, Spain, writes that
proaehed the Image and laid his hand on its breast. To * his great surprise, he noticed that the palm was moistened, covered as it were with sweat, from immediate
“. . . one of the ’Capuchin Fathers, Father Jalon, ap-contact with the image.”
The booklet declares that on Wednesday, June 25, 1919, while four thousand pilgrims were visitingthe church
“. . . hundreds of electric lights flooded the place with their splendor. No sooner had the Mass begun when, to - the utter amazement of the people, the prodigy was repeated. The multitude observed that the image not only moved the eyes and the lips, but that a spark of life flashed over the mysterious face, and that bloody tweat dripped from the afflicted countenance."
It quotes from El Debate, of Madrid, an experience of Marquis de Ugena in which the Marquis narrates that when his wife and children entered the church the children told their mother that they saw the Lord smile, but she herself saw nothing. ’
“Soon after it seemed to her that the image moved its head. She looked attentively at the crucifix, fearing, however, it might be a delusion. Taking for granted ' that it was an effect of her imagination, she asked the children what they were seeing. Both directed their gaze upon our divine Savior, and replied at the same time: 'He is moving His head from one side to the other.’ ” .
The booklet proceeds with an account of the ’ experiences of an English layman who writes that, while at mass
“I see that a kind of cloud rises, spreads and coven the feet, then the body, the arms and later all the cross of the Christ of the Agony, and only the divine face remains with its powers, most tranquil and most beautiful ; and at the same time all is illumined with golden light, most intense. After some moments, I do not know how many, this cloud disappears or, rather, passes which I see clearly and perceptibly as one sees a cloud passing over the sun.”
It quotes from the Dit,rio de Navarra, July 29, 1919, the experiences of a medical student, Heriberto de la Villa:
“Scarcely had I stepped into the church, and looked t at the Christ, when I saw that He moved His mouth, as though He were speaking just naturally. I looked more carefully, and saw that He turned His eyes in different directions. Thereupon I placed myself on the right side of the church, beside the sacristy. I gazed again at the Holy Christ, and saw that He looked toward the side opposite me, then threw at me a terrible. piercing glance! I trembled and could not help but cast down my eyes. When my excitement had subsided, I looked at Him again, and saw that He looked in a direction to His right, at the same time bowing and turning His head in such a manner that I could perceive the back of His crown. Again He bowed His head, then resumed the ordinary position of the image. Once more He fixed on me a glance similar to the one before^
which made such an impression on me that I was forced to leave the church. All this happened in about four minutes.
“My emotion was so great that I could not return to . the church until five o’clock; and looking at the Holy Christ, I saw His face and breast gradually assuming a very dark blue color. His eyes moved now to the right, now to the left, now upward, now downward. His lips were a little parted, as though He had difficulty in breathing. This lasted about fifteen to twenty minutes. I noticed at the same time that when He looked toward the left,, His gaze rested for a time as though on a fixed point, and that when He looked down, His eyes gradually lowered and finally closed entirely. At the same time He closed His mouth, while an expression of pain and resignation lay on His countenance, which touched me exceedingly. I saw also that over the left eyebrow a wound was forming, from which blood pressed through the eyebrow, and fell on the eyelid. Thereupon I saw another drop of blood fall from the crown and roll down the face. I could easily distinguish this, because the blood was a light red, and contrasted distinctly against the dark blue color of the face. After that I saw blood fall copiously from the crown upon the shoulders, but without touching the face. The lips parted farther than before, and a white mass like foam issued therefrom.
“At this instant a Dominican ascended the pulpit.. The Holy Christ gazed at him steadily for five or six minutes, then closed His eyes and mouth, and remained thus all during the sermon. When the Father concluded with these or similar words, ‘And now, 0 Holy Christ of the Agony, give us Thy blessing,’ Christ opened His eyes, smiled, and bowed His head as though He were blessing us. At the same moment someone, asked me whether I dare swear to what I had seen. Immediately I wanted to say yes, for I was still beholding the miracle, but I refrained from it and deliberated whether it were prudent or not. Then I saw that the Holy Christ, who, as if wishing to prove to me what I had seen, again opened His mouth, and blood and foam poured forth copiously between the parted lips. At the same time His chin grew deathly pale, after which, like one dying, He directed His eyes upward with His last strength, so that only the whites were visible.”
The booklet quotes from Dr. Ant. Gutierrez de Cossio in The Adalid Serafico of Seville the following report of his experience when, in company with another physician, he visited the church with a view to finding some scientific . explanation of the alleged miracles. He says:
“I observe the change in His countenance in a clear, distinct and unmistakable manner. The Holy Christ passes over to the real agony, with all the characteristic signs of the dying countenance. His nose becomes peaked; His lips, drawn more tightly, grow more bluish and farther apart. The cheeks appear more emaciated, and the cheek-bones darker, and more protruded.”
The booklet quotes a writer in the London Universe, giving a leaf from the experiences of" Dr. Don Luis Nieto, a surgeon of Valladolid. We will ask the reader to take special note of J this experience of Dr. Nieto, as it affords a due to‘the true explanation of these prodigies, and we will have occasion to refer to it at the con-elusion of the article. The item follows: . ,
“Dr. Nieto had a dream in which the image of the ‘ Christ of the Agony appeared to him. Moved by this apparition, he made a pilgrimage to Limpias to com- ; pare the vision he had seen with the figure there, With which he was unacquainted. What was his astonish- ' ment to find that the eyes moved with the same sweet expression, directing towards him a piercing, penetrai-ing glance as in his dream. The impression caused him \ to lose consciousness for several minutes. He stated that ; he was perfectly familiar with all the details of the " church, of which lie had never read even a description.”
The booklet takes various items from the Seinana CatoUca, one of which relates to a child <
who declares that the figure on the cross said, in ,
Latin the words, “Farce, Domine', parce populo ■ -Tuo,” which-the child did not understand, but which, translated, means, “Spare, 0 Lord, spare Thy people.” Another relates to the experiences of Reverend P. Martinez, pastor of Baneza Leon, who narrates as follows: '
“Shortly after Holy Mass, as I was about to begin ■'/ my homeward journey, I noticed that the Eyes of the image were animated with life, that they turned now to the right, now to the left, now heavenward. Then ~ the Holy Christ fixed His gaze directly in front, and after that, let His glance sweep around in a semi-circle. '
“I arose—hitherto I had knelt—changed my position, , and asked others whether they saw anything. They.; answered, ‘No.’ I looked again and once more beheld' . the eyes of the image moving like those of a living , person. I still mistrusted the apparition, and a second/ time asked the bystanders whether they saw anything. Again they replied in the negative. I took other measures of precaution—I borrowed three different kinds of field-glasses. Each of these I used several times, but always beheld the same wonderful phenomena.
“Being thus assured, I observed that our Lord’s gaze turned in every direction, a longer time to the left and heavenward. They were sad glances like those of a per- ■ son who tries in every possible manner to assuagetha grief that oppresses him. . . . - /■ t :
“Our Lord raised His eyes pleadingly toward heaven. ... They were so filled with tears that it was difficult: for J Him to see—a circumstance which I observed twice. Only one look of comfort, or rather of alleviation, did I detect on His countenance. ... ' ,
“Finally, after all this, I saw our Savior move ffi^ lips, open His mouth twice for a deep breath as if to"v
side to side. At sight of this, my heart beat so violently that I could, scarcely breathe. I was extremely nervous and for a long time dazed.”
Readers of The Golden Age who have read in our columns about Russia’s cotton saints, and who know of the thousands of other hoaxes that have been perpetrated by a. money-loving clergy, may smile at the foregoing as. another of the infinite .number of frauds which the Papacy has foisted upon its subjects. Perhaps they are right, but we incline to the thought that there is another and better explanation. That explanation is Demonism.
The demons work upon the mind; this accounts for the fact that some of the people see the image move and other do hot. In the case of Dr. Nieto it is plain that the demons had first made an indelible impression upon his mind while he was asleep; and later, when he saw the image, they had only to repeat and deepen the impression already made.
Spirit mediums in India cause their audiences to see a tree grow right before them, and a boy to climb the tree and disappear into thin air. The sight is apparently real to the Jjuman eye, but the camera at a distance of fifty or a hundred feet discloses nothing except the smiling Hindu with his credulous flock standing about him in a gaping circle.
Before the image began to move and talk, the church at Limpias was so poor and so poorly attended that its pastor was on the point of ; closing it. Now it is crowded to the utmost, and the revenues are tremendous.
obtain relief, and then again make the movement as if _^_He would say: 'Now I can do no more!’ Thereupon
1 His countenance grew ghastly pale and sank in. I do not know what it was, but something flowed from His mouth on both sides to the chin. After that He drew two long, heavy breaths, like one dying, directed His eyes heavenward and died.”
>5 [But (Romans 6:9) “knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath'no more dominion over him,” we wonder . how the Reverend Martinez ’■econciles his vision with his Bible.—Ed.]
The Right Reverend D. Pedro Segura, coadjutor bishop of Valladolid, Spam, says:
• “I saw quite distinctly how our Savior opened His « lips and closed them again. He opened them quickly, but closed them slowly. Our Lord did the same in the afternoon, when I alone observed the phenomenon for about ten minutes. I continued to look attentively, and saw the mouth close slowly, until the lips came together so that the dark space between the partially opened lips disappeared entirely. Neither the rays of the electric lights which illumined the body from both sides, nor those from the six candles which shone upward from "• the altar, could reach there. I admit, however-, that this movement made no impression on me. I did not
i believe in what I saw.
“Again I looked at the Holy Christ. I distinctly saw Him move His head from one side to the other. This - was done gradually, as though it were fastened behind. ' Great fear and intense pain were depicted upon His ' countenance, as is the case with a person who is dying . and breathing his last. Even this phenomenon made no special impression on me. At Holy Communion, I once ' more looked at the Christ, and commended my diocese to Him. This time I observed His eyes moving from
Why Men Strike, and the Final Remedy By w. d. Archer
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DO YOU ask why men bind themselves into organizations and sometimes go on strike, enduring suffering and hardships themselves and causing the public great inconvenience! Well, we shall tell you the real secret in the matter.
Back in the dawn of creation a man and a woman stepped fresh from the hands of their Creator. They were perfect in form and feature and lovely beyond degree. They were placed in a beautiful garden, where the hands ---of a wise Creator had graciously provided everything for their comfort and well-being. They were given power to produce a perfect race of people, and. the divine injunction was to “multiply and fill the earth.’’ The only restriction placed upon this happy couple was that of perfect obedience. This they failed to render, and as a consequence were driven from their Eden home out into a cruel world to battle against its poisonous elements and to eat bread by sweat of face until they returned to dust.
Had Adam and Eve remained obedient to their Creator, as their family increased they would have extended the borders of the garden until it embraced the whole earth; and such things as sin, sorrow, sickness and death would be unknown to the human family. And today, instead of a world filled with selfishness, strife and revolution, we would be enjoying a world
wide paradise, filled with happy men and women. '
Who is responsible for this unhappy state of affairs? Satan, the god of this evil order of things. Before his expulsion from the courts of heaven he was a beautiful angelic being. The Bible declares that it was his pride and ambition that caused his downfall. He conceived the idea of a world empire for hiniself by corrupt. ing the human race at its very fountain head. This he succeeded in doing, thereby enacting the greatest tragedy of all time.
Ever since that fateful day it has been the desire of man to live from off the labor of the other fellow and, if possible, to hold his brother in a state of bondage, for long centuries it was lawful for one man to ’ own another; and, strange to say, the source whence that right came was never questioned.
Finally there came upon the stage of human action an humble Carpenter who taught a gospel of love and simplicity destined to shake society to its foundations. Whether this Man was a member of a labor organization or not, the records do not state; but we do know that he was a friend of labor. He gathered about ■ him a handful of ignorant, unlearned men and so taught them as to stamp lasting impressions upon their minds. His promulgation of the Golden Rule started a chain of thoughts percolating through the minds of men; and soon the humble bond-slave began to ask this question: “Why should another man own me?”
The history of the fight for freedom and liberty is a long one, filled with oppression, crime, • and bloodshed. When the American government was established with its wonderful document guaranteeing freedom of thought, speech, and religion, our shores became the Mecca for the down-trodden and oppressed of every land. America was hailed as the land of promise by millions of noble sons who found refuge on broad acres upon its hospitable shores. But as it was in the days of the prophet Job, when the lovers of truth'and righteousness came to present themselves before God, Satan came also.
No sooner had the yoke of British tyranny been thrown off and the guns ceased firing around Yorktown, than there began the development of that spirit of selfishment among the American people that has so prominently marked the English-speaking people for centuries. As a result, we find ourselves today in the
grip of a monster whose greed knows no bounds, y and whose interest is served by the very devilf^ hiniself. „
There is mapy a stain upon, the^pggps+jg^ . y America’s industrial history that wilt ever «®e-main a disgrace to a nation calling itself civil,-?: f ized. ; ; '
It is injustice and oppression, and the knowledge that they are not getting a square deal, that causes men to bind themselves into unions and exert their economic power in order to force ■ big business to pay a living wage or put into operation working conditions that are bearable.. >
What is the final remedy for strikes? you ask. . And what is the meaning of the trouble and distress upon the nations of earth today? The v7 humble Carpenter who made such an impression upon the minds of His followers also taught ' them to pray: “Our Father which art in ■ heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is done in heaven.” All down through the age there have been some honest hearts who have continued to ■ pray this prayer, and who have looked for the < time when this kingdom would be established. ’
The Bible shows this humble Carpenter to be -the Son of God—the Ransom-price for Adam, who had been justly sentenced to death for his '• disobedience back in the Garden of Eden. This Carpenter gave His life a ransom for all. The Bible shows that forty years before the estahp ' lishment of His glorious kingdom, Jesus would > be present in the earth, yet unobserved by all A but a special class—“a little flock.” y
Jesus said that His kingdom would be set up C during a time of great trouble and distress upon \ the nations; that men’s hearts would fail them' ". for fear, and for looking after the things which are coming upon the earth. He said that the -1 nations would be angry and engaged in ths -bloodiest war of all history; that this war would ’ be followed by famine, pestilences, and great social upheavals which would culminate in anarchy of the most violent form; and that unless those days were shortened the human race wotdd '* destroy itself from the face of the earth. ' r *
The Bible declares that after all the selfish > schemes of man have been given a thorough test, his pride broken and his heart humbled in the great time of trouble, he will be ready for God’s message and the application of His reMH edy—“that ye love one another?’ ~~
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The experience mankind has had with sin ^agduring the past six thousand years has been a lesson they will never forget. Never again will f. they heed the chastisement that shortly is to be , visited upon the nations, wild in anarchy.
The Bible shows that the kingdom to be es-_ tablished on1 the ruins of these earthly govern-R ments, is a kingdom of joy, peace and righteousness. It will be a kingdom in which the earnest-hearted, toiling masses of men will prosper and not the profiteers. It will be a kingdom in which no giant trust or corporation will exist for the purpose of oppressing the people. Satan, the chief oppressor, with all his ' wicked influence, is to be restrained for a period of one thousand years; and during that time all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
The Prophet declares that in that day the people shall enjoy the works of their own hands. ’ - They shall not labor in vain nor bring forth for v” trouble. And as a reward to those who have ’ faith in this glorious kingdom, in which Edenic conditions are to be restored, and sin in all its degrading influence forever blotted out, the writer of Revelation (chapter 21:3-5) lifts the curtain and in these beautiful words .gives us a vision of the glorious conditions that will prevail upon the earth: “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and there shall be no more death; neither sorrow,. nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." This will include strikes, lockouts, etc.
The only remedy for strikes and for the present unhappy condition of society is the establishment of this long-promised kingdom in which men will practise the Golden Rule, instead of the Rule of Gold. So let all who have 1 faith in the divine promises rejoice in the fact that just beyond the dark clouds of trouble lies the Golden Age—God’s kingdom.
Confident the Kingdom is Nigh By William E. Smith
IDO NOT claim to be a Bible Student after the manner of the I. B. S. A., but I do appreciate the pungent truths that you give to the world. Long may your-magazine live, proclaiming the truth concerning the various phases of our civilization, which is founded not on the truth, but on the fear of the sword! 1
At that time I knew nothing of the teachings of the Bible Students or of the works of the late Pastor Russell but I told people, when the .first crash of the World War was heard in 1914, that this civilization had reached its height and that from then on there would be trouble until the Son of God should be revealed.
I could never understand the doctrine of the destruction of the earth, as I saw that this earth the footstool of God, and that Jerusalem is the City of the great King. But somehow 1 saw ^.purged earth, the curse removed, restoration and blessing,, the patrimony of the Savior, the kingdom of God. “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.”—Rev. 21: 4.
Before I knew about the slogan “Millions now living will never die,” so certain was I of the incoming kingdom that I had prayed that if it were God's will, I might live until my eyes should behold our Lord coming in His kingdom. I felt an answer to that prayer in my soul; and now my vision extends beyond the present order of things, and over into the Golden Age. As I look over into that age, with my spiritual vision cleared of the errors of past doctrines, and with a clearer comprehension of the redemption through faith in the atoning blood, I feel a quickening impulse of the power, granted to those millions now living that will1 never die. Hallelujah!
“Though round about Him clouds and darkness Obscure the beams of dawning day, Above the clouds, upon the mountains, The watchers see the morning ray."
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Growing Old Gracefully By Benjamin H. Boyd
THE thought of growing old is to many an unpleasant one. They love to think of youth, with its overflowing, bounding energy, its vivacity, it's rosy outlook on life, its freedom from care and worry, and its ability’ to throw off what cares it has. Still others think that grow' ing old is a matter of fact, and treat it as one of • the inevitables. They think that it is useless to worry about what cannot be helped, and so feel that they should enjoy life while they may—“It ' will be time enough to think of bld age when it ' conies.” A smaller class think of old age as a time of accumulated wisdom, when, after a life well spent, one can step aside to let others enter the world's busy activities, and yet be interested in all that is going on, though not a participator, being sought after more as a sage for advice and wisdom. Such was the reason why old men composed the senate of ancient Rome— that the city might be guided by their wisdom and experience, and kept from hasty blunders.
Would that the modern world recognized and respected the experience and wisdom of the aged, instead of entrusting the guidance of the nation to those whose experience is small or at least not yet ripened into wisdom. Youth and middle age are too impulsive and too full of folly to be entrusted with the w’elfare of any nation.
In spite of the disrespect characteristic of modern times, it is yet true that the silvered head is a citadel of majesty. The Israelites of old were commanded to “rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man.” “Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the laud which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” When the wisdom of the Creator is pictured in Daniel’s prophecy, He is called the Ancient of Days, and is pictured with white hair. Jesus, also, in the New Testament is pictured in glory with white hair, to represent the wisdom of accumulated experience.
In old age itself there is nothing to be desired. All the powers of mind and body are failing, and helplessness closes in upon the individual as does darkness after the set of sun. So if one has not built up a treasure of wisdom and of relationship to his Creator (for the reverence of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom), old age is extremely undesirable. Old friends are gone; the new generation is out of sympathy; and one feels out of place, like the last rose of
summer and the last leaf on the tree. If, however, one has built up treasures of wisdom anA'" g knowledge, then the wise seek such out forin- ' struction; and God’s companionship ;makes»the failing of one’s abilities but the-gradual and \ ; peaceful yielding of life itself to Him for a long \ rest, till He shall call us forth again from the * tomb in greater strength and majesty. So the closing advice of a wise man gained from expe- ■ rience is (Ecclesiastes 12): . '
“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not. nor the -years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no ; pleasure in them.” Those who have lived in companionship with their Creator invariably wish they had started to know Him earlier in ' life. The years before that time seem but lost years. Wise are they who start to know God in their youth, while vigor and strength enable ( them to build up treasures which old age cannot Y fade, and before the evil days of physical de- • cline and infirmity have overtaken them. '
“While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or ? the stars be not darkened”—before physical and -mental vision fail, wrhile yet the eyes ami ears : can drink in the Creator’s messages in nature, and observe their grandeur and hence have rich, Y deep communion for many years. To those who ' know' their Creator, the earth is full of wonders.
and beauty. As David said: “O Lord, how naan- ' if old are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made > them all; the earth is full of thy riches.” “Or the clouds return after the rain.” Old age can- „■ not, as youth does, renew its vigor after a siege of sickness or trouble; its buoyancy has gone.
“In the day when the keepers of the house tremble.” These keepers are the arms, the house being the body. All have noticed the trembling hands and arms of the aged. “And the strong men bow themselves.” The strong men are the lower limbs, and this refers to the -bent knees and tottering steps of old age. “And the grinders cease because they are few.” The . few remaining teeth cease to grind the food properly. “And those that look [the mental '■ faculties] out of the windows [the eyes] be. darkened. ’ ’ All know the bright eye and quick : mind of youth, and also the dim eye and fading memory and slow thought‘of old age.: The sun . of life is setting, and the darkness of evening settles over the faculties. “And the doors [the; ... ears] shall be shut [become deaf] in the streets 8 ' . '
[In the communications of life, in story and after-dinner speech and hearty jest, the deaf -< ear has no enjoyment; the door is shut], when f,i the .sound of the grinding is low [when dinners L and bancfuets are no longer enjoyed because the
' teeth are few and the digestion is poor. Old age
. without the fellowship of the Creator is lonely],
' And he shall rise,up at the voice of the bird [be
. a light sleeper, not able to find the sweet, deep
sleep of youth]. All the daughters of music shall , be brought low., [ the harmony of the parts of
l the body fails, and discords of disease or weak-
■ ’ ness break in upon the system].” The failing
- powers cease to catch the strains of earthly en-
- chantments. The members of the body do not
. work together harmoniously as in youth; but if
he have the ear of faith he catches strains of music, heaven’s melodies, sweeter than Solomon in all his glory ever knew. In perfect life the ■ human body is like a grand symphony, all its . parts working in beautiful grace and harmony]. k -‘Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high [old age dare not trust itself much above terra firma, for the fear of a bad fall], and ’ -■ fears shall be in the way [fears of stumbling, of getting cold, of being run over, take away . the confidence in their bodily powers], and the . almond tree shall flourish. [The translation by Isaac Leeser renders this passage—4 the almond ' tree,will refuse its blossom.’ In early times the
almond tree was a sign of spring, and of re-‘ newal of life and vigor and. warmth, it being one of the earliest to blossom. So here is represented that old age has no hope of refreshment and renewed vigor, the body will not replace its decay, and hence hope and brightness fade.]
“The grasshopper shall fie a burden [literally ' •—shall drag itself along—illustrating the labor,
burden, and sorrow of extreme old age]. And ■ desire shall fail [cease to have so much interest ' and pleasure in earthly vanities, or beauties of nature; all earthly desires fail]. Because man . goeth to his long home [long, but not eternal home in the grave, to remain there till the resurrection]. And the mourners go about the streets [a reference to the funeral procession and the mourning of his friends].” In Solo-man’s time the resurrection was far away, and f for the world generally the grave has been a ’ home or dwelling place for centuries. In ehap-
• ter 11:8: “If a man live many years and re-rv 'joice in them all, yet let him remember the days
* of darkness; for they shall be many.”
“Or ever the silver cord [of life] be loosed [we lose our hold on life]; or the golden bowl be broken [the body which contains the precious life blood be broken down in decay]; or the ‘ pitcher [the lungs which draw in life from the fountain, the surrounding atmosphere] be, bro- ’ $
ken at the fountain [cease to draw breath] ; or ■
the wheel [the circulatory system of the blood, which is like a wheel in that the blood is contiri-ually circulating, but at death, stops] broken at , ' the cistern [the heart]. '
“Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was [when the body can no longer perform its office, the dust, or elements of which it is made, returns to the earth as it was—mere inanimate dust]: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. [The spirit or breath of life returns to the atmosphere, whence God first took it and caused it to enter into Adam’s nostrils. It returns to God in that it is no longer under human control. After the body is cold, none ‘ save God can restore the breath].” . '
The being has then died; but in the memory, of God remains the full record, and injhe resurrection morning He will reawaken the soul : from its sleep of death (Daniel 12: 2), and with a suitable body give it life and consciousness once more. So the Wise Man sums up the les- . _ son:
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole mat- -ter: Fear God and keep his commandments;
for this is the whole duty of man.” God simply requires obedience to His lawT in all its applications. This law, as the Master stated, is to love God with all one’s heart [the affections’must center on God. He is to be chief in all that we , do or say or think, so that if every other loved one or thing must go we would not lose our faith and trust in Him]; and with all one’s mind [keep the thoughts and intents acceptable to Himi; and with all one’s strength [the bodily powers should be used in harmony with His will] ; and with all one’s soul [all our being, all that is within us should praise and glorify Him]. -And we are to do all this not from a sense of duty, nor because we must, but because we love to please Him, realizing that His command- ' ments are reasonable, just, sensible, and not irksome. And the second part of the commandment is to love our fellow man as we do ourselves; be just as anxious for his welfare and happiness as we are for our own, and to realize that our full happiness and its security depend
on making our fellows happy also. This will be the rule when God’s kingdom is on earth. Is it any wonder that Paradise will then be restored!
“For God will bring every work into judgment, whether it be good or whether it be evil.” The great judgment day is the thousand-year reign of Christ, when all things shall be made
A Warning to Girls By a. l. Potter
GIRLS should always refuse to accept offers many girls who accept these invitations repent of automobile rides from men whom they of it with a lifetime of remorse.
do not know or of whose character they are'not sure. These men are usually very agreeable in manner and seem harmless, but often are absolutely corrupt and without conscience; and
open and manifest, and mankind will awaken ■ from death possessing the result jn character^ which each has made in the present life. .
"With the ancient is wisdom, and inleugfh, of days is'understanding. With him ii wisdom , , and strength, he hath counsel and understand- . ing.”—Job 12:12,13. '
Parents should also see that their daughters do not allow themselves to be placed in danger in this way and also in danger from being out late at night.
How to Put Out the Fire By John I)u/wson ’ 5"
A MAKER of epigrams once said: “Man is a creature of circumstance and environment.”^ And it is these circumstances and environments which influence the individual’s outlook on life generally. This'is true, not only of the present generation, but of all generations. Time was when the so-called under-dog accepted his condition as the natural course of human events.
It is only within the last one hundred years or so that the human race as a whole has been doing its own thinking. For thousands of years the race has had its thinking done by professional thinkers, and has been guided and governed by their deductions; and these professional thinkers have invariably named the price of their services, and their price generally was ’the servitude of those for whom they did the thinking.
“Every man has his price” is the expression of those who have been disillusioned and embittered oy the intensity of the struggle for existence, the basis of which is three meals a day and a place to sleep—and “keeping the wolf from the door” has become a proverb.
It will be observed that during this last period of one hundred years while the race has been doing its own thinking, no really new ideas or theories have been brought out. By ideas and theories I do not refer to the great increase of knowledge along mechanical and inventive lines,
but rather in the relations of men to each, other, to their origin and destiny, and to. their Creator. -Ci Every idea or theory presented during the last . ■■■'.< one hundred years is something old as the hills, but camouflaged to make it appear new. ? .
Take the modern theory of evolution as an -- • '■ instance; that is the old Grecian theory or spec-' ulation respecting the constitution of matter ‘ and the origin of things in general, taught by" Empedocles and Democritus. The increase of knowledge, together with the sum of all the ; learning and experience of all the past genera- ■ tions, is supposed to lend a little color to the’ ' modern evolutionist idea of the “brain age.” " - 3*
It will be further noticed that during this 10^-'' -, year period under consideration, in spite of the . great increase of knowledge, the human race • < has been getting more and more restless and -discontented. As the knowledge increases, so - — does the discontent; one keeps pace with the -other. .
The old ideas and theories are now for the., first time being really tested out. Was the di- '■■■» vine right of kings a real, or a fancied righj^ If the divine right of kings is right, &:republwM . is all wrong; and vice versa. The deductions of . the afore-mentioned professional thinkers "are going to pieces, “The history of the world is 1 an account of the growth among mankind of the. • - jV consciousness of freedom for the race.” . ,
For ages kings were the law and they had ‘.^^
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their day. Side by side with them were limited monarchies, and they had their day. Then came
[ "the idea of government of, for, and by the peo-|? pie; and representative government is breaking ‘. d&tM‘'‘THe Madrid Ms‘had the wool pulled over ? if$‘!JdyeS fco^tiauch that every new scheme is : • looked upon as just another method of shearing " ■ the sheep.,
i' One result of all this is the setting up of'a false standard, and every person not in sympa-;• thy with this false standard is branded as a Bolshevist. Hence the radical and the agitator have, a large following. The Socialist is a prod’’ uct of this false standard. I do not mean that the standard of the Socialist is a vicious one, ■ ■ but that Socialism is merely a symptom of a j diseased condition of society. If equality and J cooperation were established facts, Socialism would automatically disappear, in the same way ■- thM when the cause of a disease of the human body is removed, the symptoms disappear.
“Train up a child in the way he should go, " and when he is old he will not depart from it,” ' and “the love of money is the root of all evil”— k besides being Bible, these are good common ■ sense maxims. Even so, one trouble in the .. world today is the lack of common sense, and _ the commercializing -of the faculties, the emotions, and the abilities of the individual.
~ A way out of all these distressing conditions, - together with an amicable adjustment of affairs 1 generally, has been sought of all the prominent men who have acquired some distinction in the . world of affairs that is now going to pieces.
It is just like a man in the water, out of his depth, trying to take lessons in swimming from a man who is drowning. What kind of advice can a multi-millionaire offer for the adjustment of conditions and circumstances, after he has spent his life taking advantage of those conditions and circumstances to feather his own nest ?
Another illustration of this is to ask the man . who set the straw-pile afire how to put the fire out. People somehow have it in their heads that the man who has been astute enough to acquire a monoply of the wealth of the world is the man to lead the world back -to “normalcy.” Yes—by the nose.
Years ago people fought singly until some’ body said: ‘ * Unity is strength. ’ ’ So they joined hands. The idea of the strength of unity is also being tested out. We had a world-wide illustra-< tion of that idea for four awful, solid years— the triple alliance and the triple entente; and in the light of things as they stand today, not as they stood on November 11, 1918, but as they stand today, who won the war ? Is unity strength? The weakness of Germany was its strength. This is true of all the nation^ eo. gaged in that war. h ■Vv‘?
From one extreme go to the other. Consider a baby. What is a baby’s strength? Its helplessness, its weakness, is its strength. Everybody is its friend.
The same thing applies today to the railroaders and the miners. The railroad corporations and the coal operators—their strength is their weakness. When the coal is all gone, and snow flies, and the railroads are not turning a wheel, who is the sufferer?. The public. And who is , the public? The coal operators, the miners, the railroad corporations, the railway men, and a goodly portion of the other people.
Unity is strength. Years ago a certain man, becoming embittered over the death of his wife, printed a motto, which he hung over the mantel in his library—“All things come by chance.” Twenty years later, after he had had time to think it over, he added the one word, “Per- ' haps.” Unity is strength—perhaps.
The triple alliance and the triple entente turned out to be a snare. The coal operators’ combine, ’the miners’ union, the railroad corporations, the shopmen, and the Big Four are turning out to be another snare. It’s all right to be wise after the event. Any simpleton can lock the stable door when the horse is gone. Yes, but these things were all foretold in the Bible.
In Zechariah 8:10, speaking of the return of the Jews to Palestine in great numbers, the prophet said: “For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither peace to him that went out or came in, because of the affliction; for I set all men every one against his neighbor.” If all these things that are happening in the world today were foretold in the Bible, why did not the ministers explain them? ’ ,
Here was the ministers’ opportunity. There have been two courses open to them: (1) To take sides in the controversy; (2) To stand aloof, and expound the Word of God, show the world the trouble coming, and point to the kingdom of God beyond.
The records show that the ministers, the clergy, instead of expounding the.Word of God, have largely turned infidel and evolutionist; they took sides in the large, international controversy, triple alliance versus triple entente, and are now taking sides in the internal controversy. Some are for labor, some are for capital; but how many are for the Bible, the Word of God?
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And the world knows it, and the clergy know that the world knows it, and the world knows that the clergy know that the world knows it. Do not take the writer’s word for it. Lookjip the church notices and reports of sermons in the newspapers for the last ten or twenty years, and see how the clergy have turned infidel.
Mr. Roger Babson, publicist and statistician for the B. B.’g, big business, went on record by saying that if the Christian church (that is, the big church, with the clergy at the head of it) could not save the world, the world was done for. The Christian church referred to (the big church—Catholic and Protestant) is in the same boat with the B. B.’s; it has taken advantage of prevailing conditions and circumstances to feather its own nest.
I do not \vant to be understood as inferring that the clergy have made fortunes at their business of preaching; for some of the clergy are as poor as church mice. But, as a class, they have stood in with big business. While the big bees were feathering their nest, the clergy kowtowed. Big church would have a slim living without the Busy Bees. Big politics could hardly'get along without the Busy Bees and the Busy Cees. And the Busy Bees would have a fat chance without the Big Pees and the Busy Cees. Who set the house afire? Who qan put the fire out?
If people really knew what to do and how to do it, it would not take a great while to get out of the mess, out of the slough of despond. But the people do not know.' As the Bible says —the “people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”—Hosea 4:6.
The Solution .
THEBE is just one way out of the mess, and only one.
“And the parson made it his text that week, and he said likewise,
A lie which is part a truth is ever the blackest of lies;
A lie which is all a lie may be met with and fought outright,
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight." -
The fact of the matter is: For thousands of 1 years' the world has been fed upon lies and misunderstandings; and these .lies and misunderT ' standings have been so skilfully presented and“ mixed with a little truth, that the whole world Z has been deceived. Almost every home in Chris- -tendom has had on its bookshelves or on its parlor table a mine, a, treasure of truth, the , • • depth of which has never been plumbed by man.
I refer to:
“The Bible—the oldest book in existence; it has out- .
lived the storms of thirty centuries. Men have endeav- <
ored by every means possible to banish it from the'fr "0 of the earth: they have hidden it, burned it, made it a L crime punishable with death to have it in possession, - -and the most bitter and relentless persecutions have been ,; : ■ waged against those who had faith in it; but still the „ book lives. Today, while many of its foes slumber in ‘4 death, and hundreds of volumes written to discredit it and to overthrow its influence, are long since forgotten, -y the Bible has found its way into every nation and language of earth, over two hundred different translations • of it having been made. The fact that this book has survived so many centuries, notwithstanding such unparalleled efforts to banish and destroy it, is at least ' strong circumstantial evidence that the great Being , whom it claims as its Author has also been its Preserver.” - ,
In the Bible will be found the great laws of the universe, besides the origin and the destiny. ‘ ; i of man; in fact, almost any sensible question a / -man might ask is answered in its pages. Every ' * condition of man is depicted in it—the fool, the < wise man, the rich, the poor, the high and the < low, young and old, small and great, sick and ,, well—any condition is shown in its pages. &
There is the letter and the spirit of law. This is manifest in the laws of the land. The observ- , < ance or violation of law by the individual ia . intelligent rather than mechanical, whether the law is universal or national. The law is laid down in the Bible, and all the precepts found . in its pages will be found to harmonize with ' the law. Nothing is out of harmony. f
That is why all the most sensible statutes ever framed by man are in agreement with Biblical interpretation, and the only way out of the
present distressful condition is to discard the
old nonsense and superstition which have been ’ fed to the world by the thinkers (?) at a price, r4? and get down to an orderly study of the Bible,
First find the letter of the law, then the spirit
of it, then see how the precepts harmonize with God’s universal law, and to the best of one’s
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' these few suggestions I close. Put away the ; fanciful ideas and speculations, and learn the ■ ii’h great truths hidden away in God’s Book of Life and Truth. The clergy, who helped set the world * afire, have denounced in no unmeasured terms . Pastor Russell’s volumes of “Scriptures Studies,” frequently advertised in this magazine. This, in the writer’s opinion, is a pretty good recommendation for these veritable Bible keys.
A time is near at hand when the cloud of superstition and confusion will be lifted from mankind, and the sunlight of God’s truth will instil into the hearts of all people the love of Jehovah. “For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.”—Zephaniah 3: 9.
A Brief Screed on Sociology
THE first social unit was the family, whose male head was supreme authority in deciding ■ ■ all common interests. For mutual protection and benefit families combined to form tribes, i whose chiefs assumed titles to all lands and prerogatives; and tribal members had to’pay trib-' ute to them for the use of the land and natural ; . , resources and to pledge their lives to their service in battle in case war was declared.
’ ' In event a neighboring tribe was invaded and
conquered, its lands and natural trade resources . were divided among favorite and influential lead-■ ers who maintained their assumed prerogatives by means of deceptive lying propaganda. Spe-’ . cious arguments and data are employed to con
vince the masses that these prerogatives are ■ ’ employed for the public good, although they are
" employed solely to oppress the public and rob it of its natural rights.
God is supreme arbiter of the destinies of ft men and nations. His order and arrangement r are manifest in the laws of-Nature. Her laws ; are immutable, and her verdicts are not subject ft' to review. When man recognizes and honors
' . her laws there will be no friction nor conflict,
and nations will be self-perpetuating. Refusal - to recognize and honor those laws has destroyed : all nations of the past and has wrecked so-called
modern civilization. Her storehouse is abundantly equipped, to supply the present and future . materia} needs of all her numerous progeny.
- .v • ; Nature’s resources are used for the benefit
of her progeny and as constantly returned to her storehouse to repeat their useful functions. Atoms of matter never lose their identity nor change in function. All atoms of nutrition and fertility are being constantly returned to repeat their useful functions; hence Nature"’s supply is never diminished. If these atoms were de
By H. E. Branch .
stroyed or materially diminished the earth would become barren, and vegetable and animal life cease to exist. With carbon from the sun, nitrogen from the air, and iron from disintegrating rocks, the supply is constantly augmenting.
The entire world-population could be placed in Brazil and its density of population would be more than twenty percent less than that of Belgium at the present time. In round numbers the world-population is 1,600,000,000. Brazil has an area of 3,218,000 square miles. Belgium has a population of 6,815,054, an area of 11,400 square miles, and a population of 597.8 on each square mile. With natural law recognized and honored, over-population is impossible, and famine anywhere is due solely to an exercise of man’s vicious propensities in violating natural laws.
Land and natural resources are the common heritage of all mankind. Man has no natural right or title to land and natural resources not essential to his material well-being. A monoply of unneeded natural resources is a violation of natural law, a vicious crime against social order, and the prolific progenitor of crimes and famine.
The English Duke of Devonshire is reported as owning (!) 186,000 acres, 290 square miles of land, a territory large enough to.sustain 173,130 of Belgium’s population. Add to.This,millions of great thefts all over the world; and we can realize the cause of social unrest and why gaunt famine stalks the earth, surrounded by a superabundance of natural resources. Nature’s children have been robbed of their birthrights.
■ If ninety-five percent of the world’s population is silly enough to permit the other five percent to confiscate land and natural resources to
( 4 which all are equally entitled—-surrender tame; ' ly just and natural rights—it is the author of ” its own poverty, misery and degradation. Man ■ has no moral or just title to property that does ; not bear the impress of his industry or labor, > >. or that of others from whom, he received it as
f ' an equivalent in exchange. Possession and use ■ t for needed service constitute the only just and valid title to land and undeveloped natural re-;■ sources.
. “The law of demand and supply” as comr monly used is veriest tommyrot. Demand and
supply are natural functions and never vary in service unless obstructed by man. Nature creates demand and her supply is inexhaustible.
* . Nature makes me hungry and creates a demand
for food. Nature is the prolific mother of all ' . demands, great and small.
We have an urging, crying demand for good ”■ roads. That demand has been vocal and increasing in intensity for many years. We have the labor, machinery, tools, raw material in superabundance, all begging for useful employment for the common weal. Why do we not employ « our resources and labor for our common benefit? < Because the representatives of big business have hired us to catch driftwood on shares, and pay us with a very small part of our own products.
When land and natural resources are restored to the unrestricted service of humanity as designed by Nature, normalcy and stability will ’ be established, militarism will disappear, and peace and plenty will reign supreme. When all healthy men and women have to give an equivalent in social or industrial energy for the prop? erty they enjoy, society will always have a surplus, and famines will be unknown.
Commercial values are benefits and satisfaction derived from the use of product^
Dr. Irving Fisher, Social Economist of Yale, .counselor of Congress and the Administration, r has written a book of about 400 pages, “ Stabilization of the Dollar,” on a standard for com-mereiaL values, without telling us what commer-' cial value is or defining the character and com. position of a standard so that one would know one if one met it in the road.
. In The Golden Age of April 14, 1920, I discussed the Immutable Law of Standards, their character and composition, and how correctly . to determine the standard for any class of units.
A standard is the sum total of all units of a
given kind or class. Eternity, Gravity, Altitude, and Space include all units of time, weight, height, and capacity. The commercial’standard v embraces all units or factors of human industry S or enterprise. Gold is only one unit or product’ of human energy or industry; while the Stand
ard of Commercial Values must include all
units or products of human energy, just a^ the
Standard of Gravity must include and define all
units or products of weight.
With a defined unit or product of any kind for comparison we can determine the exact value . '' A of any other unit of the same kind. With an ounce product or unit of steam energy for comparison, we can exactly define all grades and . degrees of steam products or units.
Dynamos and engines are of many grades or < capacities, and different grades are defined by their results or products without consideration of time in operation. A two-horse engine will last as long in operation perhaps as a hundredhorse engine, but their results will widely differ. Men are human dynamos or engines of many and widely varying capacities, and the only way to judge correctly their limitations is by things done. “Hours labor” defines nothing—arrant nonsense.
When we recognize and employ Nature’s standard of values and issue currency based on units of labor energies in different denominations we shall have scientific, stable, automatic, self-adjusting currency subject to neither inflation por deflation. Then we shall quit catching driftwood on shares.
Democracy is a term employed merely to tickle the public fancy without any intention of applying its meaning to social affairs. Some seventy-five years ago Thos. H. Benton said: “The individual citizen and taxpayer has about as much to say in naming candidates and framing statutes for his own government as the subject of a monarchy has to say in designating the ; sex of the child that shall be born to rule over . him.” ..
Alb governments have been despotisms 4oper-ated through fictitious titles; to.land.and natural: resources. Two percent or less of world-population thus control mines, mills, factories, power sites, forests, oil fields, quarries, transportation, fisheries, etc., and thus dictate to the ninetyeight percent the terms on which they can employ natural resources. -
The self-imposed plutocrats of big businesi
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example of Weylerism in Western Missouri in 1863 under Gen. Ewing’s Order No. 11.‘ J
The public refused to rise to the bait, and something had to be done to inflame public sentiment. The Maine was sunk; and by emphatic _ implication we iterated and kept reiterating the
public benefactors and men of truth, virtue, and charge that Spain had sunk the Mdiite tod wil- -' honor earnestly striving for the public good, fully, to her own detriment, murdered our dear
who have confiscated natural resources and f ' robbed the children of men of their just and ’ lawful heritage through these sources of life, dictate court decisions’, name cabinet members, goWffi'y^ih.fdtial nominations, and supply edi-tofs wiffi* lying propaganda that toot them as
The energies of these gentry are devoted to guarding looted spoils; and they regard democ-, racy, humanity, the other ninety-eight percent, ft , as necessary tools of trade—nothing more; and the sooner the dear public realizes that simple fact the better. -
The Constitutional Convention of 1787, com’ . posed of aristocrats and slave-holders, was held ' behind locked doors; and sovereign (!) citizens were not permitted to know what their servants (?) did. The Constitution made democ-’ racy utterly impossible. John Randolph said that it would lead to monarchy or a tyrannical
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. . aristocracy; Thomas Jefferson said that it would lead to despotism exercised by the judic-: iary.
’ Five members of the Supreme Court, no bet-J 'ter.by nature than section-hands or ditch-dig
gers, can nullify the demands of 40,000,000 men ■ ' an women as expressed by Congress. Yet a prostitute press tells us the people are supreme when supreme power is assumed and exercised by the judiciary. We are told that these, our < servants, are clothed in hoifor and virtue and must not be criticized. The Lovejoys, who were . mobbed because they denounced Judge Taney’s ; Dred Scott decision as “a league with death ’ and a covenant with hell!” told the truth.
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