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POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
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BOMB AND HEALTH The Power of Diet over Disease —
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The Near East By jL. D. Bulman
RISE Near East complication presents fea-tores that are becoming of momentous import to the people of this country. There seems to be a disposition on the part of certain re-ligio-political organizations to make an effort to embroil the United States in the controversy even to the extent of having us offer armed resistance to Kemal Pasha.
Such a step should never be tolerated or encouraged for a single moment. We have but recently finished with the waging of one foreign war, a war in which we gave much and received nothing, neither in prestige nor territorial aggrandizement. Our people are staggering under a burden of taxation that will eventually fall on the backs of our grandchildren to finish paying, and to quote one of our Naval leaders, “We simply cannot stand another great world war,” and that is just what it will develop into if this country attempts to meddle into the affairs of the Near East.
If religious leaders who have been pushing their missionary work, the work of “the hated Christians/' among the followers of Islam — if these particular people want war, let them have it, but at the same time, let them bear the burden of it, and not attempt to hasp that burden upon the back of the general public that wants no part in such an affair.
As greatly as we may deplore the atrocities of the Turks that have been heaped on the Christians in the land of Islam; as much as we may sympathize with them; no man is justified in even suggesting that this country should attempt to Wage another foreign war. It is not a case of what we can do in the premises; it is simply something that cannot be done under any circumstances.
As there is a limit to individual human endurance, so ift there a limit to national endurance, and this nation has about reached this limit
Dr. James Cannon, junior Bishop of the
Methodist Church, in charge of affairs of that organization in the Near East, is reported to have cabled Secretary of State Hughes as follows : “Almighty God will hold our government responsible for its inaction,’’ and goes on to say that our Government should send a delegate to the peace conference whenever and wherever it takes place — “not as an official observer” to make our Government once more “the laughing-stock of the world,” but a “full-fledged plenipotentiary” with powers to say ' what America thinks.
Unspeakable Turk Causes Trouble
FURTHERMORE, according to Dr. Cannon, a mere participation in the conference to ■ be followed by a withdrawal will be of no avail Whatever control of the Dardanelles, whatever . protection of the minorities in Turkey is decided upon should have the forceful participation of the United States. !
“It ia no use for our government to play the ostrich,”
Dr. Cannon ia reported to have said. “It ia no uae for
the State Department to stick its head in the sands
of domestic politics, and say it has no interests in this
business. Millions of church people in the United
States for the past century worked to better the lot of
the people who live in Turkey, Armenians in particu-
1st. We have worked and toiled to this end, and now
on behalf of the churches of the United States, I want
to know if we intend to allow the Turks with impunity,
so far as we are concerned, to continue their massacrea Until all these Christians are wiped out.”
Dr. Cannon claims that he has American | evidence to support his belief that the Turks started the Smyrna fires to cover up their looting and massacres. ;
“And if the Turks are allowed to go into Constant!-nople and Thrace as conquerors,” he is reported to have said, “you would probably see a repetition of tha
Smyrna horrors on a large scale. Is the United States
going to help England prevent that?
“I know that what I advocate might mean var, bat If necessary it would be justifiable. And it would not be so much of a war. Australia has said that she can said as many soldiers to Anatolia as the Turks would. It ia not sensible nor reasonable to admit that five at six millions of Turks with perhaps one hundred thousand effectives can defy the whole world. If America would join with England in calling the bluff of the Turks and their friends, there would probably be no war."
Much more is reported to have been said by Dr. Cannon, but a sufficient amount has been quoted to prove our first contention.
The five or six millions of Turks to whom reference has been made would prove but a bagatelle in the game if they stood alone; but they do not stand alone in this fight. There is every indication as well as strong evidence to show that Russia would join hands with Turkey in case she is attacked by European and other forces, and Germany would, in all probability, follow Russia’s lead.
Uncle Sam Should Not Step In
ALREADY Russia is reported to be massing her forces along the borders of the Black Sea, fortifying every available position. For what purpose f That is the question that most naturally occurs to the thinking mind.
With Russia, Germany, and Turkey allied into one unifying force, which is not at all improbable, Dr. Cannon, as well as both England and the United States, would find that the situation would not be quite so much of a bluff as he apparently believes. '
England has not acted in such a manner as to inspire the confidence of either France or Italy, neither has she shown very much gratitude toward the United States for our participation in the late World War. When France was on her knees, and England was fighting with her back to the wall, our country went in and, by overcoming almost insurmountable obstacles, broke the morale of the Germans and saved the day for the Allies. Has England shown any signs of gratitude toward the United States for the tremendous sacrifices we made and are yet making!
Let England, France and Italy settle their own differences with the Turks or any other foreign nation with which they may become embroiled; let religio-political organizations, ofi whatever creed or calling they may elect to follow, espouse any cause they see fit; let the Near East, the Far East, or the Middle East go mad and tear each other’s throats in their frenzy, if they will. But the United States must not at all hazards allow itself to be drawn into another war.
Dr. Cannon is reported to be about to sail for America to lay his case before the State department He would do well not to advocate too strongly the embroiling of this country into a war with any other nation. The people are in no mood to stand any such an unheard-of proposition, and might be tempted to take it more seriously than even he thinks.
Those who most strongly advocate war are more often the least anxious to step in and do the actual fighting. That has been proven in several instances during the war just finished.
This is no time for frenzy and hysteria, but the conditions call for calm, deliberate thinking of the best balanced minds that the nation ean produce.
All of this but goes to prove that Senator Lodge builded better than eVen he possibly knew when he threw his powerful aid into the breach to prevent us from entering the League of Nations.
... A Modtrn
IN Bbuhum they are just now testing a railroad train which is constructed in such a manner that it ean continue the travel on rails in water. This amphibious train is intended for the Belgian^'Congo, so rich in rivers and sea. It consists of a locomotive that draws a number of freight-ear boats, each having a capacity of fifteen to thirty tons. The complete train ean move up to 300 tons freight. In the teat at Petit-Willebroeck the train was sliding
Amphibium
without any noise from the rails into the water on which it was swimming by means of screw propellers, and then it again ascended upon solid ground. The locomotive and each freightcar are supplied on both sides with swimming contrivances connected by girders. In the water the train is propelled by screw propellers, set in motion by the same motor that moves the wheels on land. What difference does it make if the earth’s surface is four-fifths water f
Impressions of Britain----In Ten Parts (Part IV)
A COMFORTABLE ride in the sleeper from Liverpool brings the American to London, and early in the morning he finds himself in a taxicab bowling along to his destination. What are the first impressions 1 They are most favorable. They could not be otherwise.
London is clean; it is beautiful; it is full of visions that delight the eye.
Is London large! Who can tell!
There are no sky-scrapers. The buildings are about five stories high. There are none of the mammoth twenty- to forty-story buildings that go to make up the great business canyons of New York and Chicago. London seems roomy, and the buildings all appear to be of graceful lines that harmonize well with those of the next-door neighbor. It looks as if the architects had vied with one another to see how well they could make the whole neighborhood look.
There is a quaintness of design quite pleasing and restful to the eye; and apparently no effort has been or will be made to see how imposing any one structure could be made to appear.
London and Other Cities
OW large is London, anyway! The answer shows that there are four Londons: The old City of London, which is only a mile square and has a very small population; the County of London, which has a population of 4,521,685; the metropolitan and city police district, which has 7,251,358 inhabitants; and the proposed Greater London, which designs to include within the Board of Health a total population now residing within contiguous metropolitan territory amounting to 9,201,484. Greater New York, as now constituted, had in 1920 a population of 5,620,048. If Westchester County, New York, and the six adjacent counties of New Jersey which are strictly metropolitan could be included, the population of New York would be 6,077,655.
As few Americans have any adequate idea of the number or the size of the large cities in Great Britain, and as many Britons know next to nothing about the great cities of the United States, we give herewith a table in which are shown the peculations of the forty-three largest cities in each country : -
Population of Cities Compared
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United States
London _______7,251,358
Glasgow ——1,010,850
Birmingham ____910,000
Liverpool _______781,948
Manchester______778,229
Leeds __________480,297
Sheffield _________479,474
Belfast __________386,947
Bristol __________380,000
Edinburgh ______333,833
Dublin _________304,802
Bradford _______294,501
Hull ___________284,357
Newcastle_______278,107
Nottingham _____270,000
Portsmouth _____245,827
Leicester________245,000
Stoke-on-Trent __234,534
Salford___226,225
Plymouth__213,759
Cardiff __________204,436
Bolton __________184,863
Dundee_________181,800
Swansea--170,000
Southampton ____165,000
Aberdeen _______163,891
Birkenhead _____152,345
Sunderland 149,9,13
Oldham ________147,483
Derby __________132,461
Middlesbrough___132,444
Blackburn ______131,246
Brighton _______131,237
Stockport _______130,868
Gateshead .__125,965
Norwich ________124,997
Southend-on-Sea 120,000
Coventry________119,023
Preston----------117,277
Huddersfield ____107,821
St Helens______105,000
Halifax ________104,000
Burnley ________102,391
New York ____5,620,048
Chicago ________2,701,705
Philadelphia ___1,823,779
Detroit __________993,678
Los Angeles ____876,560
Cleveland _______796,841
St Louis ______772,897
Boston _________748,000
Baltimore_______733,826
Pittsburgh ______588,343
Buffalo __________506,775
San Francisco ___506,676
Milwaukee ______457,147
Washington _____437,571
Newark _______414,524
Cincinnati ______401,247
New Orleans ___387,219
Minneapolis _____380,582
Kansas City_____824,410
Seattle __________315,312
Jersey City _____298,103
Rochester, N. Y. 295,750
Indianapolis ____314,194
Portland, Ore. __258,288
Denver _________256,491
Toledo _______243,164
Providence .....—237,595
Columbus, Ohio__237,031
Louisville_______234,891
St. Paul _______234,698
Oakland ________216,261
Akron__________208,435
Atlanta_________200,616
Omaha ________191,601
Worcester_______179,754
Birmingham 178^806
Syracuse ________171,717
Richmond ______171,667
New Haven____162,537
Memphis _______162,351
San Antonio____161,379
Dallas___________158,976
Dayton _________152,559
25 other American cities each over 100,000—3,014,949
TOTAL____27,728,953
TOTAL, all cities over 100,000—18,593,809
The American’s engagements are such that he has two days which he can spend in seeing London; and he manages within that time, in the company of a gentleman who seems packed full of information on all subjects, to see the following:
The King’s Establishment
Buckingham Palack is the London Home of the British sovereign, since Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837. The palace takes its name from the Duke of Buckingham, from whom it was purchased by the king in 1762. It takes a good-sized equipment to keep the king going. In his own private bookkeeping and correspondence department there are thirty-nine officials, including the usher of the sword, the surveyor of pictures, the master of music, the poet laureate, the gentleman of the cellars, and the clerk of the cellars.
To take proper care of his spiritual interests when he is in various parts of the realm there are fifty-four chaplains of all sorts, one of whom is an official organist and composer. To take care of his physical health, or to make sure that he is dead when he is dead, there are twenty-three physicians, including three oculists, one laryngologist, one dentist, one anaesthetist, and one coroner. To provide against his getting tangled up in the ceremonies there are forty-nine officials in the ceremonial department, including one examiner of plays, one bargemaster and one keeper of the swans. To look after bis stables (just recently changed into royal garage) there are thirty-one officials.
The king is the official head of England and the official Defender of the Faith of England, which is embraced in the thirty-nine articles of the Anglican Church. He is also the official head of Scotland and the official Defender of the Faith of Scotland, which is embraced in the Westminster Confession of the Presbyterian Church. Every time he goes to his Scottish castle at Balmoral, in the Scottish Highlands (and it is a favorite resort of royalty), he officially changes his faith at the Scottish border, going and coming.
The king cannot visit the old City of London (the ancient 3ity, one mile square, which lies within the great metropolis) because one of his forbears borrowed some money from that city many centuries ago and forgot to pay it; that is, he cannot visit the city, theoretically, until the Lord Mayor comes down and meets him at a certain street corner (a very ordinary street corner) and bestows upon him the freedom of the city. This the Lord Mayor does regularly as often as the king wishes to visit ancient London.
The queen requires considerable attention also. In her own special end of the concern there are five officials and sixteen ladies of rank, not counting the servants who actually do the work. The annual salary or allowance made for the support of the royal family is £613,000, or about $2,758,500.
St. James’ Palace is the official London residence of the Prince of Wales. There are six officials in his personal establishment. Royal levees are held here during the season, and representatives of foreign governments are still accredited to the Court of St. James. St. James’ Palace was built by Henry VII, over four hundred years ago.
Kensington Palace is the place where Queen Victoria was born. Relatives of the king are now quartered there. Kensington Palace, as well as Buckingham Palace, borders Hyde Park, upon the edge of which public orators hold forth every Sunday afternoon and every pleasant evening on any subject of human interest. Side by side were polite and refined advocates of Esperanto, an uncouth booster of the liquor traffic, a Salvation Army hell-fire artist, and speakers on behalf of the so-called Bible Witness, Wesleyan Mission, and a half dozen other beliefs.
Governmental Accessories
THE Houses of Parliament are superbly beautiful buildings, completed in 1850 at a cost of about £3,000,000. The tower of the House of Lords is 336 feet high and the Clock Tower of the House of Commons, which houses the “Big Ben” bell, 15$ tons in weight, is 320 feet high. These buildings are open to visitors on Saturdays only, and were merely viewed from the outside.
The British Premier’s official residence, 10 Downing Street, is a very ordinary-looking place. In fact, on the outside it has the appearance of a ramshackle, old tumbledown that should be pulled down. It is preserved because it is old; and one of the British Government’s
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games is to get the people to preserve everything old and to reverence it, in the hope that in this way no close scrutiny shall be made into the divine rights of kings, clergy, financiers, or others who have the people’s real interests under their feet.
The Tower of London makes the heart sick at the cruelties of man. Here, chiseled in the wall of the cell in the Bloody Tower, the 'American saw, "He that endureth to the end shall be saved, 1553,” and “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life, 1554”; and he thought of the victims of Bloody Mary, England’s Roman Catholic queen from 1553 to 1558. Here were the headsman’s block and axe, the rack wherewith to pull the living apart, the iron collar for slowly choking to death the victims of the queen’s wrath, the thumbscrews wherewith to crush the fingers one by one. Here was the site upon which Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, and Lady Jane Grey were executed; here were the crown jewels, the diadem of James H, and the armors of Charles L James II, and Henry VIII, the latter weighing eighty-one pounds.
The Horse Guards were the headquarters of the commander-in-chief from 1750 to 1904. The brilliantly dressed sentinels still sit on their horses in the archways in front of the horseguard parade grounds, where they or their predecessors have sat for 170 years. The changing of the guards at 11 a. m. and 4 p. m. is a picturesque ceremony. Across the street is the window through which Charles I stepped to the scaffold in 1648.
Here (in the neighborhood) is the hall in which the Scottish hero William Wallace was tried, and where it was hoped to try the demon-obsessed Kaiser Wilhelm II. Here is the Old Curiosity Shop, at No. 14 Portsmouth Street and still in use as it was in Dickens’ day. Here is Paternoster Row, the great street for Bibles and ecclesiastical literature. Here is the Drury Lane Theatre, which is patronized by the royalty because it is old, but which is really an old out-of-date auditorium. And here is the noble Thames, 210 miles long, navigable for small boats 160 miles from its mouth.
Scotland Yard is the world-famed center of British police activities; and although the head of the Yard did recently eat some poisoned candy that was sent to him through the mails, and although some one did come near stealing the queen’s famous Cullinan ‘diamond, which is stored at Scotland Yard as being the safest place in London, yet London is one of the most crime-free places on earth. It has less than two felonies per year per thousand of the population. What American town of a thousand population can boast of a better record than only two arrests per year!
Financial and Religious Legs
THE Bank of England, not open to sightseers, is dark and forbidding in appearance, and is apparently not such a place as anybody would wish to see even if he had the chance. It was founded in 1694; and although it has always been a joint-stock company it has always been closely connected with the government — the financial leg, so to speak. “The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street” takes its nickname from a woman whose brother was hanged for forgery in 1809. She became crazed with grief, and every day for long afterwards visited the bank to inquire for her missing brother. From these daily visits the nickname which had attached to her was transferred to the bank itself.
Westminster Abbey, near the House of Parliament, is another of the legs upon which the British Government stands—its superstitious leg, so to speak. This building was begun in 1050, five hundred years before the Reformation, and was completed in 1760. Here the sovereigns are crowned; and to be buried here is supposed to be the height of earthly glory. This superstition is carefully cultivated; and the place is jammed full of statues and tablets of those who have made a great name for themselves in the world, and who are adjudged to have been specially helpful in building the British Empire.
St. Paul’s Cathedral, completed in 1710, is a truly remarkable building, the masterpiece of Sir Christopher Wren, the great architect. The inner cupola is 218 feet above the floor, and the cross on the dome is 365 feet above the ground level On the plaza in front of the cathedral hundreds of pigeons come daily to be fed, and they have made the front of the cathedral a sorry-looking place.
St. Mary leBow Church is so-called because the original church was built upon arches or bows. Since the seventeenth century tradition has it that any one born within the sound of the bells of this church is a “Cockney,” fated to wrestle at a disadvantage in the proper placing of hie aspirants for the rest of his life. In other words, from hereabouts come the Englishmen who “drop their aitches.” This church was one of the buildings restored by Sir Christopher Wren after the great fire. On a building in the neighborhood is a sign, “The oldest building in Cheapside; it withstood the great fire in 1666.”
“The Monument” commemorates the great fire of London, which broke out on September 2, 1666. The fluted Doric column is 202 feet high, surmounted by representations of flames forty-two feet in height There is a fine view of London from the gallery at the top of the column. There are many other interesting monuments in London. The Cenotaph (literally “empty tomb”) is to the memory of all the boys ushered into death during the World War; it was unveiled in 1920, and its base is always fresh with wreaths from those that mourn. Such cenotaphs are now to be found all over the Isles. There is a monument to Edith Cavell, the nurse slain by order of the German militarists; and there is Cleopatra’s Needle, sixtyeight and one-half feet high, erected in 1878 on the Thames embankment. The surrounding stone-work bears scars from an air raid. In Parliament Square is a monument to Beaconsfield, the first and only Jewish Premier of Britain; and a statue of Abraham Lincoln faces Westminster Abbey.
London Bridge is now but a name. Until the year 1750 there was but one bridge across .the Thames; now there are nineteen. The most famous London bridge is not the old original London Bridge, but is the second, or Westminster Bridge, which was built in 1750. It leads from Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament on the north side of the river to St Thomas’ Hospital and other important buildings on the south side.
Tracesof the Boman occupation of London dating front the first century are still to be seen by the curious. The curious are like the poor — they are everywhere, and no more so Gian an American in London. There are portions of the Roman wall'of Londinium still in place in the yard of the General Post Office; also near the southeast corner of the White Tower of the Tower of London, and there are remain* of old Boman baths at 5 Strand Lane.
The British Museum
WE HAVE saved the best until the last; and one entire day is devoted to a trip through that greatest of all educational institutions, the British Museum. As we go thmngh the Museum we have in hand the best of all guides to its treasures, F. G. Janeway's “British Museum with Bible in Hand," from which copious notes and excerpts are taken for the following:
In the Third Boom (North Gallery) is * sculptured slab upon which appears the name and title of Amraphel, king of Shinar, mentioned in Genesis 14:1. Here are boundary stones of Berodach-baladan, mentioned in 2 Kings 20:12. These stones, many of them, bear curses against those who remove them, and are in line with the Mosaic law, “Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor’s landmark.” (Deuteronomy 27:17) There are scores of Babylonian bricks bearing the names of the Bible characters Shalmaneser, Sargon, Sennacherib^ Esar-haddon, and Nebuchadnezzar; and there are inscriptions, bearing the names of Cyrus* Darius, Xerxes, and Hystaspes. There are letters from the governors of Tyre and Aske-lon; there is a letter to the kings of Canaan; and there are several letters of Amraphel, king of Shinar. (Genesis 14:1) These letters positively disprove the claims of the Higher Critics, once made, that writing was not in general use in the days of Moses, and that therefore Moses never wrote the books attributed to hiuL
On the Northwest Landing there are sculptures brought from Carchemish, the ancient Hittite capital, putting to flight the Higher Critics who less than a century ago were proudly claiming that the record of 2 Kings 7s 6 could not possibly be correct because there were no such people as the Hittites.
In the Assyrian Transept are two humanheaded bulls, with wings of birds. Between the legs of these bulls are cuneiform inscriptions confirming the Bible account of 2 Kings 18: 14-16 of King Hezekiah's paying tribute to the king of Assyria. In this transept is a large sculptured slab representing the king Sargon, spoken of in Isaiah 20:1. The existence of this king was for so long doubted by the so-called Higher Critics. It now transpires that the “they” of 2 Kings 18:10 and “the king of Assyria” of 2 Bungs 18:11 refer to this Sargon, and not to Shalmanezer, previously mentioned in the account Sargon completed the work which Shalmanezer had begun. As usual, the Word of the Lord is found correct, and the suppositions of its critics are found to be without foundation.
Egyptian Bible Relict
IN THE Southern Egyptian gallery is a statue of Pharaoh Hophra, referred to in Jeremiah 44:30. Here is a statue of Hapi, the god of the Nile. The turning of the waters of the Nile into blood at the command of the Lord was a direct blow at the supposed claims of this god for worship.—Exodus 7:20, 2L
In the Egyptian Central Saloon is b huge head of Barneses U, weighing over seven tons. It is this Pharaoh of the Oppression, who reigned sixty-seven years, whose death is reported in Exodus 2:23. In the center of the saloon is a colossal beetle, symbol of the Egyptian god Khepera, and a proof that the Apostle told the truth in Bomans 1:22, 23 respecting the objects of human worship.
In the Second Egyptian Boom is a portrait of King Seti I, taken from his mummy, now at the Imperial Museum in Cairo. His features are such as to show that he was a noble-minded man. It is believed that it was his daughter who rescued Moses from the Nile. He was the father of Barneses II, the Pharaoh of the Oppression.
In the Third Egyptian Room is the mummy of a musician buried with his cymbals, just as the Scriptures record that the warriors of old were buried with their swords — “gone down to hell [the grave] with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads.” (Ezekiel 32:27) In the same room is a case in which at the feet of a mummy, a former king, are paintings of his enemies, those who were “put under his feet,” as Christ is eventually to “reign until he hath put all enemies under his feet.”—1 Corinthians 15: 25.
In the Fourth Egyptian Room are wall cases of mummified animals which the Egyptians worshipped. Gazing at these false gods, one can better understand the command against the making of “a graven image the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any beast that is on the earth,” etc. (Deuteronomy 4:15-20) In Exodus 5:6 the “officers” there mentioned are literally scribes; and in this room are samples of the very writing materials, pens, tablets, etc., which they used in making a record or “tale” of the nunu her of bricks made by the Israelituh slaves. In this room also are signet rings, one of which might possibly be the very one that Pharaoh took off and placed upon the hand of Joseph. 1—Genesis 41:41, 42.
In the Fifth Egyptian Boom are exhibited sandals, some of which are probably similar to those which Moses was commanded to put from off his feet (Exodus 3:5); and there are bricks nine inches wide by eighteen inches long, bearing the stamp of Barneses H, the Pharaoh of the Oppression, which were without doubt made by the Israelites in accordance with the account given in Exodus 5:5-12.
In the Sixth Egyptian Boom are hand mirrors such as were melted down to make the laver of brass which stood in the court of the tabernacle (Exodus 38:8); and there are samples of eye paint such as Jezebel used when Jehu came to see her,—2 Kings 9:30.
Relict of Idols Named in Bible
ON THE wall of the Nimrod Gallery is a sculpture of the god Dagon, the fish-headed deity of the Philistines. It was in the temple of Dagon at Ashdod that the Philistines placed the ark of the Lord when they had captured it, with the result that “when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold ; only the stump [fishy part — margin] of Dagon was left him.” (1 Samuel 5:4) It was the temple of Dagon at Gaza that Samson destroyed at the time of his death.—Judges 16: 21-30.
In the Assyrian Saloon is a banquet scene, showing the custom of the ancients of reclining while at their meals, as Jesus and John reclined during the last supper. (John 13:23) The head of the king of Elam is shown hanging from a tree, as Saul’s head was hung by the Philistines in the house of Dagon. (1 Chronicles 10:10) Theit is a large wall inscription of Sargon in which are mentioned both Judah and Hamath.—2 Kings 17:24.
In the Nimrod Gallery is a slab showing the Asherah, the sacred tree of the Assyrians, mentioned in 2 Kings 23:6, 7 and in many other places. Here is a sculpture of the goddess Ishtar, called in 1 Kings 11:33, "Ashto-' reth the goddess of the Zidonians.”
In the Nimrod Central Saloon are two very erect statues of the god Nebo, designated in the inscription as “the lofty intelligence and the lord of tablets,” and associated in the inscription with Bel, another Assyrian god. In view of these facts how startling and how expressive u the prophecy of Isaiah 46:1, “Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth.... They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.1* —Isaiah 46:1, 2.
Relict of Hebrew King»
IN THE Nimrod Central Saloon is the black obelisk of Shalmaneser H, upon which are mentioned both Jehu and Hazael, the important Biblical characters referred to in the prophecy of 1 Kings 19:15-18 and in many other places in Bible history. Jehu is named and illustrated as paying tribute. On another relic of Shalmaneser are mentioned the names of both Ahab, king of Israel, and Benhadad, king of Syria, whose covenant of 1 Kings 20: 34 is thus confirmed. When the latter relic was being excavated, Sir Henry Rawlinson read from the inscription that it had been set up beside another monument erected by Shalmaneser's father and predecessor, Ashur-nasir-paL The excavation proceeded; and the monument erected by Ashur-nasir-pal was discovered and is now in the British Museum, standing beside the one which located and identified it after the lapse of twenty-seven centuries.
In this saloon are many Assyrian monuments mentioning Tiglath-pileser, one of the oppressors of Israel and Judah. (2 Kings 15: 28, 29; 16:7-18) Here also are wall sculptures showing the armor and shields similar to those mentioned in 1 Samuel 17:41, and battering rams similar to those mentioned in Ezekiel 4: 2 and 21<22, 27.
In the First Room (North Gallery) there is the Moabite Stone, containing a record of wars waged by Mesha, king of Moab, who lived in the days of the Israelitish kings Omri, Ahab, and Ahaziah, and who is mentioned in 2 Kings 3:4 as paying tribute to Ahab; and the stone itself narrates how Moab was oppressed by Omri and by Ahab his son. There is here the original slab prepared by the order of King Hezekiah narrating how the water was brought into the pool of Siloam, as recorded in 2 Chronicles 32:30 and 2 Kings 20:20.
Sennacherib and Hezekiah
IN THE Assyrian Saloon is the celebrated bas-relief taken from one of the royal palaces in the vicinity of the city of Nineveh showing King Sennacherib seated on his throne with representatives of defeated people standing or kneeling. The inscription reads, “Sennacherib, king of hosts, king of Assyria, sat upon his throne of state, and the spoils of the city of Laehish passed before him." This successful siege of Lachish is mentioned in 2 Chronicles 32:9, and is implied in 2 Kings 18:14.
In the Fourth Room (North Gallery) is the Taylor Cylinder, whereon Sennacherib records his exploits against King Hezekiah, but modestly fails to make any mention of the great disaster which overtook his army of 185,000 men, slain in one night by the angel of the Lord. Like some other people he bragged only where he could brag. In this room are the well-known Babylonian tablets giving the Babylonian accounts of the Creation, the Tower of Babel, and the Flood. Without a doubt these accounts, which are mingled with legends of Pagan mythology, are plagiarisms, incorrect copies of the Biblical story.
In the Nineveh Gallery King Sennacherib (mentioned in 2 Kings 18:13) is shown supervising the erection of one of the Assyrian gods, a large bull The slab shows the inclined planes of earth, the ropes, pulleys, levers, rollers, and taskmasters whipping the slaves at the work. In one of the slabs Jewish features are plainly discernible, and the latter part of the word Jerusalem appears on one of the inscriptions.
In the Nimrod Gallery is a. sculpture of the god Nisroch, concerning whom we read: “And it came to pass as he [Sennacherib] was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia, and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.”—Isaiah 37:37, 38.
The prophecy of Nahum is declared to be a prophecy concerning Nineveh; and in Nahum 3:13, where it says, “The fire shall devour thy bars,” and Nahum 3:15, where it says, “There shall the fire devour thee,” the prediction seems to be made that Nineveh is to be destroyed by fire. And sure enough I Almost all the sculptured wall-slabs taken from the palaces of Sennacherib and the other Assyrian monarchs give evidence of having been fractured by fire and heat.
In the Third Room (North Gallery) there are barrel-shaped cylinders recording the building operations of King Nebuchadnezzar, mentioned in Daniel 4; 30; and there is a cylinder upon which King Cyrus records the conquest of Babylon “without battle and without fighting” in confirmation of the Biblical account of its fall on the night when Belshazzar held his feast.—Daniel 5.
Relict of the Time of Christ
IN THE Second Room (North Gallery) there are tear bottles from Hebron, such as are referred to in Psalm 56:8; and there are lamps such as Christ mentioned in the parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins.
In the Room of Greek and Roman Life there are samples of coins mentioned in the Bible, the shekel, half shekel, the stater (such as was found in the mouth of the fish—Matthew 17: 24-27), and the denarius or “penny,” mentioned in several places. There is here a scourge loaded with bronze beads such as was used by Pilate in scourging our Lord, and such as was five times used upon St. Paul. Under the Roman law no man could be given more than forty stripes, in which respect it was superior to the English law in effect at the accession of Victoria to the throne of England. At that time it was permissible to flog a British soldier with a thousand lashes, and many were actually flogged to death. When Victoria married, it was proposed to do something for the people; and so a law was passed forbidding a flogging of more than fifty lashes. Queen Victoria protested against signing this law, declaring that the only way the soldiers could be kept obedient was by flogging.
Here are samples of Greek armor, made of brass, andreminding os of the aptness of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in which the belly and thighs, representing the Grecian empire under Alexander, were made of brass. But there are no samples of Roman armor. It was made of iron and has long since rusted into oblivion, even as the iron legs of the image, the Roman Empire, will be completely obliterated when the kingdom of Christ shall have fully come.
In the Room of Gold Ornaments and Gems there are beautiful cameos and intaglios, portraits of all the Cesars mentioned in the Bible —Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, Titus, and Vespasian.
in the Roman Gallery we see an ancient bust of that Augustus Cesar in the reign of whom there went out a decree that all the world should be taxed (Luke 2:1); also a bust of that Tiberius Cassar,' in the fifteenth year of whose reign John the Baptist began his ministry. (Luke 3:1) It was Tiberius to whom the Pharisees referred when they laid the trap for Jesus, and coming to Him asked: “Is it lawful to give tribute to Csesar or notT” And it was the face of Tiberius which looked at the inquirers when He said to them: “Whose is this image and superscription f” and “Render unto Caesar the things that are Cesar’s.”
Here is the bust of that Claudius Caesar, in whose reign there came to pass the dearth predicted in Acts 11:28. This was the Caesar that commanded all Jews to depart from -Rome, among whom were Aquila and Priscilla. (Acts 18:2) Here is the bust of Nero Caesar, the brute to whom Paul appealed, as recorded in Acts 25:11. St. Paul mentions this appeal in 2 Timothy 4:16, 17.
Here, too, is the bust of that Vespasian Caesar whose overrunning of the Holy Land was prophesied by Moses in Deuteronomy 28:49 and by the Lord Jesus in Lnke 21:24; and near it is the bust of his son Titus, who completed the work begun by his father, resulting in the complete subjugation of Judea in A. D. 73.
Relics of Apostolic Times
IN THE Ephesus Room are some of the immense pillars, and the huge bases on which they stood, which went to make up the magnificent temple of Diana, the Ephesian, referred to in Acts 19:23-41. It was on the occasion of this riot that St. Paul nearly lost his life (1 Corinthians 15:32) in an effort to calm the demon-obsessed crowd which, for the time, were acting more like beasts than humans.
In the so-called Elgin Room are portions of the beautiful sculptures taken from the Parthenon, the Temple of Athene (or Minerva) at Athens. It was some of these very objects that St Paul beheld when he saw “the city wholly given to idolatry.” (Acts 17:16) It was some of these very things that caused him to proclaim the self-evident truth that God is not to be thought of in terms of anything “like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.”—Acts 17:29.
In the Room of Inscriptions there is a cast of a stone dug up by excavators on the Temple Area in Jerusalem and containing seven lines in Greek forbidding gentiles, on pain of death, to enter the Sanctuary. With, this in mind one can better appreciate the dangers to which St. Paul was subjected when falsely accused of having brought Trophimus within the temple area.—Acts 21:29.
In the Manuscript Boom there is the Codex Alexandrians, one of the three earliest and most important MSS. of the Holy Scriptures. There is also a copy of the Pentateuch (the Five Books of Moses), made in Syriac in A. D. 464; and there is Wycliffe’s Bible, the first English Version of the Holy Scriptures, bearing date of the 14th century A. D. There is also a document whereby King John gives England and Ireland to the Holy Roman Church in return for the protection of St Peter and his earthly partner, Pope Innocent HL t be continued]
Switzerland Getting Wise
SWITZERLAND is the neatest little republic in all Europe. The grandeur of the high mountains, the blue sky, and the placid landscape seems to have imbued the soul of that people with freedom, politically and economically.
On December third the Swiss voted upon the most "radical” law that the country of William Tell probably ever considered. “Radical,” you know, means “getting at the root of a thing”; and Switzerland is one of the first nations to realize that to do any real good, the root, origin, or cause of a thing, is the real, proper thing to "get at.” Switzerland proposes a levy on capital direct — not on income tax, mind you, under which system the capitalist can simply profiteer the more on the people and eventually make them pay his income tax, but directly on the wealth itself.
Rich Man’a Trouble's Are Sure
THE levy runs from eight to sixty percent of his principal, beginning with fortunes over 80,000 franks. Those under that figure are exempt.. Over here 80,000 franks, or the exempt property, would be about $5,000. Fortunes of $100,000 will be mulcted about fifteen percent. For every $6,000 over that figure the rate increases two percent until $336,000 is reached, when the rate of increase declines to one percent? It Hses again later, and when the fortune amcftmts to one and one-half million dolars the tax is forty-nine percent. Fortunes of $2,000,000 and over must surrender sixty percent.
This is somewhat of a compromise between
By E. Godlove Krone, D. C., N. D.
the American unbounded, unlimited greed law, which often means the survival of the most unscrupulous, and the Australian law, which limits its citizens to $500,000. Yet it is an important step. Humanity is slowly recognizing the fact that one of its greatest enemies is not the L W. W. and his ilk, but the never-quitting, never-satiated plutocrat that makes the L W. W. The kings, the dukes, the monarchs of finance, and the would-be such, in all countries and all climes, have always been the breeders of wars, the manufacturers of poverty, and of practically every misery on earth, either by their own oppressing, or by setting an example of never-satiated greed to others.
The iritra rich are not only themselves unhappy, but they have turned a fair world into a vale of tears. 12,144 suicides were officially reported last year. That figure is estimated as being about two-thirds of the total Very few of those suicides transpired in Switzerland or Australia.
One Man's Gain, Another's Lou
WHERE the power of selfishness reigns unchecked we find the greatest misery; for what is one man’s gain appears in this world to be the other man’s loss, and when a few plutocrats swell up, millions suffer the sting of want. The Swiss have the big idea. What the people of most countries need is to get together, make laws like the Swiss, and put a check on selfishness. We are glad to see the people in a few nations of the earth making a start to wake up.
Applications of the Golden Rule By c. P. Leonard
IN THE November 8th issue of The Golden Age there appeared an article entitled, “The Golden Role in the Cement and Marble Business”; andjn a previous issue an article on a system of forming the management of a railroad.
These articles both appealed to me as an effort on the part of liberty-loving people to help in making things better for their fellow men, to release from the bondage that hangs over us all regarding the disposition of this world’s goods and necessities. It is a subject that I have pondered ever since my boyhood days. I mean a system whereby the wealthproducers (laborers) would be enabled to get their rightful, proportionate share of that wealth, and under which the so-called capitalist would be shorn of liberty to grind down his fellow man and to grow bigger just because he is already big.
Mr. Drummond seems to say, in substance, that to form a corporate body of men under three headings, viz., money, brains, and brawn, each with a predetermined and fixed rating of capitalized value, would be a system whereby the capitalized interests would not have a chance to become so oppressive to the under classes; that on the whole the scheme would result in a more nearly equal distribution to the three classes, of the net proceeds of the commodity in which they are dealing.
This plan, it will be remembered, calls for a statement like this:
Money capital in plant equipment_______$1,256,000
Brains capital, in the form of ten executives, each receiving $5,700 per annum, which i* 5% on a capitalized value of $114,000 each, or for ten executives_______________________ 1,140,000
Brawn or Labor capital, one hundred in number, who are stated aa a das* not to be so capable and rated at an average of $1,500 per annum each, this being 5% interest on $30,000 capital per laborer; and for one hundred of the common, lea* capable class, it total*__________________._____________ 8,000,000
TOTAL____________________________$5,390,000
The net earriings of the concern are divided among the three respective classes of shareholders, pro rata, according to the number of shares each individual hold*.
If they declared a 5% dividend, Mr. Cap!-talist would get 5% on $1,250,000__________$82,500
The man of brains would get 5% on $114,000__5,70$
The man of brawn, the wealth-producer, who does the labor, who has the strong back, who is paying for a home against interest, to house a little brood whom he loves, gets his share of 5% on his $30,000_________________________ 1,500
Everything is supposed to run along lovely under this plan. It is supposed to be equal with all concerned, and no one should have any objections to speak of.
Capital income ijtfifl/MM
Brains income 5,700
Wealth producer -____ 1,500
Here it is; and I would ask Mr. Drummond, with all due respect to his efforts in this creditable direction, where does the equality come in on this plant These are his own figures arranged in his own way. He also adds that if by this scheme one could save something ahead he could become a capitalist, and put a little back into the business, in the capitalist class, on which he could draw his five percent. Well, we all know of course that the laborer will labor for evermore, trying to pay for that home. His future outlook toward laying a foundation of insuring himself against the rainy day is dim indeed. '
Money’* Present Advantage*
THE gentlemen of brains would likely be able to lay a part of his income into the class above him, and start on the merry road to capitalism, sucking up nourishment from the laboring class below him. On top of this, we see that the capitalist can place nearly all of his $62,500 dividend into the concern again, and draw dividends, and multiply, and draw and multiply till the cows come home.
I would ask: Is there anything in this plan that is different from the way things have been running for centuries and with the same evil effects and all the rest of the regime that is now old and soon doomed to goT Mr. WealthProducer, going up to big business, said: “You have slipped it over me long enough; and now I myself am going to take the management over, capital and all, and distribute the proceeds among those who produce it; and not a part of it will satisfy me, nothing but all of itj tor I produced all of it The Scripture says: 'As a man soweth so shall he reap.’ I have sown the seeds of industry for a long time; but you did the reaping, and gave me only the gleanings. Now, after this I will do the sowing and the reaping too; and if you want any wheat, just get in line and sow some and reap it yourself.”
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In European countries capitalism is becoming less and less of an object; for it is being taken away from its owners just as surely as time rolls around. Income taxes are fast absorbing a large slice of the proceeds from securities; every time a death occurs a large percent of the substance of a will is taken. Sales percents also go toward taking the joy out of the old game. In Russia they took it all in a night, and that was all there was to it The Scriptures told us that they would do this. The job is not yet finished; but, depend upon it, it will be, and right on time.
The reader may ask: *How about getting the necessary capital to start this business! It is needed or it would never start' That's just it, exactly. It is very probable in this old order that, with its present arrangements and its financial fabric woven the way it is, it would never start unless a fat $62,500 per annum was offered. Mr. Capitalist would exercise his right in law and hold his nice $1,250,000 of wealth, which the old order says belongs to him, to do with as he chooses.
I would also ask: Where did Mr. Capitalist obtain this large quantity of hard-earned value! He is no stronger in the back, nor has he greater brain ability than most wealth producers; and, of course, he could not earn it in a lifetime several times over, and keep a large family, and pay for a home, and start with nothing, and do it on $1,500 per year.
I think that we can all answer the question. He got it from the same wealth-producer class, the brawn class, who are not worth much in earning value according to the estimate of the present old order. He got it from the men who labored before him and gave it to him. The old order, laws, and arrangements, such as dividends on stqcks .and bonds and securities with private ownership, said that it was his. It is not true; but it was said just the same, and we have all believed it till now. The first point in law is the right of private ownership, not so much harm in itself, however, but all values are in jeopardy or are at stake to satisfy interest or usury. If you fail to pay interest on , your mortgage they take all the past payments as a penalty, and then take the property to make themselves safe.
Robberies Soon to Cease
THE Scriptures tell us that a man is worthy of his hire. That means only one thing, and there is no dodging the issue. If he is worthy of his remuneration, then he should be paid his remuneration, all of it to the uttermost farthing, so that there will be no farthings left for others to pick up. We cannot have the fruits of his labor and retain a part of the price also and get away with this thing much longer. Our Creator gave Mr. Capitalist several hundred years, nearly the whole range of history, to show what he would do in justice to his fellow men; and he fell short. So now in 1914 God declared against the system, and has sent His only begotten Son, to rule over things and to dean out the whole plant, root and branch, of the whole failure, after which He will start a dean sheet, in a new way, a fair and equal way, a way wherein it will be possible that "every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and none shall make him afraid,” nor sap the fruits of his labors.
Neither can we see where the fairness is in giving one man $5,700 and another $1,500. It very apparently belongs to the inequalities of the old order. It would seem that one man could hardly, in all fairness, be above or below another in any station of life in the new order; and we may be glad indeed to see the new order making preparation to come in, while the old is slipping away right before our eyes, almost without our being aware of it. This disintegration is plain to be seen now by looking back to 1914.
If one wishes to formulate an organization scheme to further equality in industry, and the effort would be great and noble, it will never be used for that purpose if it has for its foundations any part of the old Order. But if it fully conforms to the new order just now coming, it surely would be accepted and go ahead unlimitedly. It says: "Those things which can be shaken will be shaken”; and anything that is unequal, unbalanced, and unfair can surely be shaken. .
Maa, of course, is not formulating this new order; and the proper thing to do it to recognize its requirements and try to conform to them. Then there need be no worry about their acceptance or success, with that purpose in view. Christ alone ean clean out the old corrupt systems; and He will then start with His own, a different, a fair, and abundant system which, we are told, will be something new to us and greater than we thought.
I really believe that an industrial arrangement can be worked out along the lines that are set ahead of us and for us. I believe that there will be many of them and perhaps different each from the other. Of course, if they are started off now under this arrangement there would likely be opposition on every hand; but this opposition would grow weaker as the old order grew to a close. It would be like a struggle for a birth; but even at that, it could do great good in helping to enlighten the people to the faults of the present system, and thus be a helping hand in unloading this time-honored, oppressive system from the shoulders of the people, and throwing it aside as a thing that has served its purpose, and has shown maa that after all he cannot rule himself and be at peace.
[Mr. Leonard seems to think that it would be very nice if the general manager would unselfishly throw his whole energies into his work, and work for the same compensation as the ditch-digger. But the question is not so much, Would it be nice if he would do it, as it is, Would he do it? or would he go somewhere else, where he could obtain for his greater ability and greater energy a greater share of the prospective towards? And as for the ditch-digger, when he discovered that his reward would be the same if he dug a yard or a rod of ditch in a day, which would he bo likely to do? And suppose that the ditch-digger, falsely concluding that about all a genera) manager does is to walk around and look wise, should conclude that, since compensations were the same, he would rather be general manager so that he would not have to do anything at all, how would society persuade him that he had better confine his energies to the kind of work to which he is best adapted? We are publishing Mr. Leonard*! article not to find fault with it, nor because we endorse it, but because it contains some patent truths, at the same time it suggests anew to ns the conviction that the only relief for earth’s economic ills, as for all its other troubles, is in Christ’s kingdom.—Ed.j
"Under Vine and Fig Tree” By Dr. Rollin 'Jones
AS I was visiting one of my patients a few days ago her busband, a man of ninety-two years, asked me to go out into the yard with him in order to see his grapes and figs. The dear old gentleman has but a small patch of ground — the near end of a city lot; but what is demonstrated there is well worthy of note by those who have more ground to cultivate, and less years upon their heads. I think, however, that our old friend takes encouragement from what I told him about millions now living who by the close of 1925 will be found in the right heart attitude toward their Creator and Lord, and who will never die.
This man took pleasure in telling me of the different varieties of figs. He especially pointed out one of his *rBrunswicks,” which is two years and ten months old. This is a large brown variety of fig: This particular tree is ten feet high, and harbor ne 500 figs since it was set as a slip thirty-four months ago. Ninety of these figs adorn it at present I was given a sample of the Lemon fig, an early variety which has a delicious flavor; also the “Celestia” a small sugar fig.
There is a continuous crop of figs on each tree for ten months out of the year. The trees produce, or develop, one crop of figs the first year, two crops the second year, and three crops each year thereafter. I measured one little tree, and found that it was only five and one-half inches high. But it is developing four figs in the first year.
Next I was shown a grape vine (Rogers No. 15) of two years. This vine was used for an experiment. It was trimmed at the regular season, and developed a crop in July. It was then cut back again, and has put on a second crop, which promises during the holidays a -reward for the labor expended upon it.
There will be an abundance of fruit daring the Millennial age, which is just upon us.
Political Conditions in South Africa
IT MAY be of interest to you to get some information as to the situation in South [Africa. Here, insofar as vastly different conditions will permit, the situation corresponds to a wonderful extent with what you tell us about America, the land where Bible prophecies are to have their specific fulfilments in these last days, more than anywhere else.
In this country of about seven millions population, about one and one-half millions are Europeans. Of these again about one-half are Dutch-speaking, descendants of the earliest colonists of this subcontinent The remaining half are mainly British (English, Scotch, Irish, and Welsh) and therefore English-speaking. There are about forty-five thousand Jews in the country, and a scattering of other European nationalities.
Of the remaining five and one-half millions, which are either black or colored races, the vast majority, no doubt about four and one-half millions are natives of the Bantu stock— evidently the same stock originally as the Negroes. These Bantus are still clearly marked off into tribal divisions, e. g., the Zulus, the 'Ama Hosas, and the Basutos. Basutoland is not under the administration of the Union of South Africa, but under the British Imperial Government
Many of the natives laboring on the Rand— the Gold-Mining center — are recruited from Portuguese East Africa, northeast of the Union. From this you may gather that the vast majority of menial laborers in this country are blacks and colored men, though some of them also hold clerical positions in the Government service and in the service of private individuals where native interests are concerned. Numbers of them are teachers among their own people, the vast majority of whom are still barbarous—I mean the Bantu.
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