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Contents of the Golden Age

Labob and Economics Mines In India

A Cure io* Rapacity

Social and Edccational -Th* Publishing of Facts

Political—Domestic and Eobsion

A Digest of Would News.......

Czecho-Slovakln, Hungary, Russia, Albania Bulgaria, Italy, The Vatican......

Greece, Palestine, Armenia, Liberia . . . China, Japan......-......

Philippine Islands, Australia, New Zealand

Conscripting Childhood........

Catholic Influence in Germany . .

Science and Invention Everlasting Life on Earth

Man Living in Abnormal Conditions

Seml-Gnseous State of Saturn

Results of the Great Deluge

Devitalizing Agencies at Work

Mars Now in Glacial Age..... .

Nitrogen Gas as Fertilizer

Eternal-Life Prospects for Millions Now

Goo’s Glory in the Heavens

Relative Sizes of Solar System

Measuring the Stan

Tbavkl and Miscellant Golden Rod (Poem)............'

Winds and Stobiis Make Character

Religion and Philosophy Remarkable Feats of Heathen Priests

The Law of Retribution

Jews Punished for Disobedience

Spain Reaped her Crop

Studies nt “The Habf or God"................

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A Digest of World News

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Czechoslovakia

THE Minister of Foreign Affairs of CzechoSlovakia, Dr. Edward Benes, is accredited with much of the growing influence of Czechoslovakia at this time. He is an ex-college professor and a Socialist; and spends a considerable portion of his time traveling from country to country, studying conditions or forming acquaintances among the crop of new statesmen that have sprang up in Europe.

, Reports indicate that Czecho-Slovakia is having political trouble as a result of the activities of three Catholic churches now contending for supremacy within that territory; namely, the Roman Catholic, the Greek Catholic, and the new national Czecho-Slovak Catholic Church. We do not suppose that our advice is wanted, but nevertheless we would say that the best thing these priests could do would be to get out of politics as quickly as possible—and to stay out.

Hungary '

THE outlook for Hungary is said to be good.

The expenses of the government have been reduced; the heroes of Hungary's numerous wars have been given an honorable pat on the shoulder with a sword instead of anything more substantial; the revenue is double what it was expected to be; and as a consequence Hungary has been able to borrow from Europe all the money needed for reconstruction purposes.

Latvia

IT SEEMS as ii Northern Europe has everything that nobody else wants. Among other curiosities at this time, it has at Riga a boy four years old who has a mustache and beard. We have heard of bearded ladies; we even heard in one instance of a bearded lady that was the father of another side-show freak; but this idea ni of children born with a full set of whiskers strikes us at1 a little too much for this world.

Russia

THE Soviet Government, not being able to come to an agreement with the British Government as to when and how they shall surrender to the British owners the factories and mines which they have seized, is now cleaning out a great assortment of secret corridors under the Kremlin. In excavating these underground passages, they are hoping to find the library of Ivan the Terrible and a great hoard of gold, silver, and precious stones supposed to exist somewhere in the Kremlin HilL

The population of Moscow is now given as one and one-half million; a growth of a half million since the World War. Almost the entire population of Moscow is engaged in some way in administering the affairs of the Soviet Government. *

At Leningrad, five out of seventeen judges convicted of corruption have been executed.

An important step forward is announced from Moscow in the determination to change from the alphabet now in use in Russia to the Latin alphabet. It is quite likely that this change will ultimately go into effect throughout the whole of Russia, as it did only about thirty years ago in Roumania.

Albania

CIVIL WAR, which began last June in Albania, is virtually ended in the overthrow of the government by the rebels. The rebel movement seeks the relief of the common people and the punishment of criminals. Oddly enough, the new ruler of Albania is a Harvard man; and in capturing the government he has turned Albania from a monarchy into a republic. Thus one after another European kings* go

into the ash can, never to emerge. Although we hear little of Albania, yet that country is actually twice the size of the State of Massachusetts. It ia claimed that the modern Albanians are descendants of the ancient Boman gladiators. Many of the learned profession, of Italy are said to be of Albanian birth. Albania has its own x separate language and literature.

Bulgaria

IN- OBDEB to preserve peace in the Balkans, the Government of Bulgaria has been offered any port on the uEgean Sea which it may select. But this offer, made by the Government of Greece, which now controls all the ports accessible to Bulgaria, has been conditioned upon the Bulgarian. Government’s recognition' of Greek sovereignty in the port in question. This the Bulgarian Government has refused to concede.

Italg

IT HAS just been brought to light that the musicians of Borne went on a strike in the year 311 B. C. It seeems that they were accustomed to having once a year what might be described at the State drunk; but in the year in question the State first failed to provide the liquid fire, and the musicians retired to a distance. At length a sufficient quantity of wine was sent to them to get them all as drunk as a candidate to a political convention; and in that way the authorities ended the strike.

The Italian naval and airplane forces are being rapidly increased. It is claimed that by the end of July Italy will have 5,000 airplanes of all sorts.

One of the severe critics of the present Government of Italy was Giacomo Matteotti, a multi-millionaire Socialist. On Tuesday, June 10, while walking in the neighborhood of his home, he was seized by five men, thrown into a closed motor car, driven thirty miles out of Borne, and stabbed to death. The finger of suspicion of being implicated bi the murder pointed so directly to a member of Mussolini’s cabinet (who is in touch with the Sinclair Oil interests and who has become suddenly rich) that the entire cabinet placed their resignations in Mussolini’s hands. It is claimed that Matteotti was murdered as he was about to deliver a speech attacking the Fascist! for their relations with the

Sint.x..f Oil interests. The editor of the Carriere Italiano, the most important Fascist! paper to Borne, was connected with the murder by having hired the motor car into which Matteotti. was thrown, and then having published two different stories of his connection with the incident. Mussolini himself is believed to be entirely innocent of this murder. Several of the Fascist! leaders have fled or have undertaken to flee from Italy. A week after the killing of Matteotti, the city of Rome was placed under martial law, 5,000 Fascist! militiamen fully armed being stationed to the city. Members of the Italian Socialist Party in Paris profess to believe that Mussolini waa the real instigator of the Matteotti murder, and that he will do nothing toward punishing the actual murderers.

It is believed that the five kidnappers have been found. One was captured at sea to a motor boat, just as he was about to enter French waters; and as he was arrested he is said to have made the remark, “It is all up with ma.* Another was arrested near the summit of tha Alps as he was about to enter Switzerland. He started to climb out of a window of a hotel where he was dining, but changed his mind when he suddenly felt the muzzle of a musket pushed against his stomach. Three others wero arrested as they were about to sail from Brindisi to Albania under false passports. It is said that when buried in the Campo Verano Cemetery in Bome, the body of Matteotti bore nineteen bullet holes and five knife stabs, and was covered with bruises. Matteotti is said to have put up such a gallant fight against his capton as virtually to compel them to kill him or to acknowledge defeat at his hands.

The Vatican ~

THE Lord Jesus said of himself that He was meek and lowly of heart. The Pope is proud and lofty. Current press despatches just at hand give an illustration: The Prince of Abyssinia, who is visiting the King of Italy, dare not go directly from the residence of the King of Italy to the Vatican. He must take the royal automobile from the royal residence to a hotel, and then climb out of the royal automobile and. get into a Papal car bearing the Papal colon and go to the Papal residence, where he will then be permitted to call on the Papal potentate.

About the same time that the newspapers were publishing the arrangements under which the Pope would condescend to speak to a Prince of Abyssinia who was being entertained by the King of Italy, there also appeared in the papers a bull announcing that the next year is to witness a pilgrimage of two million holy men who have been admonished by the Pope to come to Rome in a spirit of mortification. We cannot help but think how apt it is that this command of the Pope is called a “bull”.

The New York Times tells us that at the first Papal Jubilee it required two men standing at the altar of St. Paul night and day with rakes in their hands, to rake in the pecuniam infinitam. Probably the present Pope also hopes to rake in more pecuniam infinitam during the Holy Year just opened.

It is reported that the Vatican is making ar, rangements with the Marconi Company to connect the Vatican by a vast scheme of radio installation with the entire Catholic world.

Greece

A WRITER in the New York Times estimates

■ that there are now in Greece at least 100,000 persons who have lived for longer or shorter periods in the United States, and that there is no village in Greece too small to have several families who receive letters regularly from their American relatives.

India.

TATISTICS of Indian mines show that there are 522 colliery companies, some of them with

annual dividends as high as 165 percent. The figures show that in these mines there are 7,602 children under twelve years of age, 78,806 women, and about one-sixth as many men. The fatal-accident rate in India in 1921 was fourteen for every million tons raised as against five for every million tons raised in England.

In the effort to explain how the heathen priests of India are able to walk on red-hot stones in their bare feet without being burned, The Scientific American calls attention to the fact that the priests, always use for this exhibition basalt, a volcanic rock which is such a poor conductor of heat that it is possible to have the rock red-hot on one end and comparatively cool *>n the other. However, they admit that while these heathen priests walk across these hot stones in their bare feet without injury and without even showing any sign of being burned, yet every other person who has tried it has been terribly burned. The true explanation of this phenomenon is that the demons whose servants these heathen priests are have powers unknown to human beings by which they are able to perform feats otherwise unexplainable.

Palestine

HHHE British Government is installing a powerful broadcasting and receiving station on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. The Palestine Foundation Fund has also installed a broadcasting station. All of the radio programs are given in Hebrew, which has now become the everyday language of Palestine.

The territory east of Palestine called Trans-jordania, which has been nominally an independent kingdom for Hie past few yean, is now becoming again a province of Palestine proper, the British Government having re-assumed control of the territory and having abolished the various ministers who composed the. Transjordanian Government.

Armenia

N ARMENIAN writing for a publication of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, declares that the people of Armenia, Persia, and Turkey have more money per capita than in European countries; that ninety-five percent of their houses, farms, and lands are all paid for; and that they have plenty of money besides. This they put into earthenware jars and bury in cellars of their houses, or else put it into gold pieces which their wives and daughters wear in strings around their necks. He suggests that -there is a great field for American bankers in these countries. This seems reasonable to us. i

Liberia

GERMAN explorer has been accused of stealing one of the gods of Liberia. It seems that the natives have a sacred grove within which was a sacred stone engraved with the figure of a sacred alligator without a tail Before this shrine certain of the West African tribes have worshiped for centuries. It seems

that the chief of the tribe that owned the tailless alligator allowed the German explorer to take a picture of it upon the payment of $5, but the explorer, Mr. Schomborg, took not only a pic* ture, but the god itself and sneaked out of the country with it in his valise. This was an unkind way to treat a god. The Hamburg District Court is now trying to decide who owns the god.

Several important railway lines are in process of construction in Africa, all the way from Algeria in the north and west to Rhodesia in the south, where a number of railways are completely changing the map of the country.

China

THE American Government has done a fine thing for China in the act of Congress approved May 21, 1924, cancelling the indemnity which China was obligated to pay the United . States on account of the Boxer outrages. China will use this money for educational purposes, as it did a similar fund released by the United States Government in 1908.

Uncle Sam is forever digging down into his pocket to help some other country; but with the solitary exception of England, not one of them ever pays the least attention when he wants even a smile in return, to say nothing of paying back the money loaned.

During the World War Uncle Sam loaned $5,000,000 to help put the Chinese Eastern Railway in good condition. The control of the prop-ery is now in the joint hands of China and Russia; and when Uncle Sam wanted to know how -about his $5,000,000, the Chinese minister at Washington virtually told him to go and jump off the dock.

The southern part of China is kept in disorder by American firearms made by all the principal manufacturers and smuggled into the country in boxes and barrels which are falsely labeled. During the year 1923 nearly 2,000 guns were seized on the Hongkong wharf, eleven of them being machine guns. There were also about 150,-000 rounds of ammunition seized. It would seem as though the United States Government, which has refused to allow the shipment of arms to Mexican rebels and Cuban rebels, should as effectually stop the shipment of arms to Chinese rebels and bandits.

Banditry is spreading rapidly over China.

Missionaries and others are being captured and held for ransom. The Chinese army itself ia made up largely of ex-bandits. Large numbers of the bandits are operating in soldiers* uniforms, and nearly all of them are armed with the regulation army rifles.

A bad piece of business occurred at Canton on June 19. Some person, whose identity is unknown, threw a bomb into the dining room of the Victoria Hotel, in which a number of Europeans were having their evening meal. The bomb exploded, killing five persons and more or less seriously injuring forty-eight more.

An interesting item chosen from a survey of gas and electric companies shows that among millions of customers, the Chinese pay their bill* the most promptly. The same survey shows that the poor pay their bills much more promptly than the rich.

Child labor is on the increase in China. Many children of eight or nine years of age, and MM under seven, are employed.

Japan

Cntus E. Woods, who resigned as ambassador to Japan, arrived home. Mr. Woods explains the Japanese frame of mind by saying that Japan does not want io force immigrants upon the United States if we do not wish to receive them; that they would be willing to agree to almost any form of restrictive treaty; but that the Japanese national pride is cut to the bone by the exclusion provision in the immigration bill; and that while there is deep feeling against America among all classes of Japanese, yet Mr. Woods declares that he knows of no action that was not in keeping with the dignity of the people of a great nation. He says that the present feeling will not die out, and that the thing for our Government to do is to modify the law to meet the sentiment of the Japanese.

An incident which may possibly affect the Japanese-American situation unfavorably haa occurred in a suburb of Los Angeles. A Japanese merchant named Kawamoto, who had lived in Los Angeles for twenty-three years, was summoned to the door of his home, and told by a group of whites to get out right now or be put out. Prior to this a placard had been tacked on his front steps reading, “Shall it be America or Japan F* We think that there is no question but

that Mr. Kawamoto and his family would be quite safe anywhere in the heathen regions of darkest Africa. We are not sure what is the explanation of this fact California has plenty of clergymen, while the interior regions of heathen Africa have very few.

The despatches show that besides ordering Kawamoto to move away, the crowd of whites mobbed him and his wife and a third Japanese by the name of Ynaito. It is said that there were ten women and six men in the white mob. Meantime, the Japanese people are sending reassuring messages to the people of America telling them not to worry, for Americans in Japan are safe and well protected. And we remember that Japan is generally conceded to be a heathen country.

The Mexican Government is also barring Japanese, and this is being met with a protest from Japan. It is possible that there is an understanding between the United States and the Mexican ’ Government in connection with not permitting Japanese immigration.

New Zealand

ew Zealand is so far advanced toward State Socialism that it is difficult for an Ameri

can to understand some of the items in the New Zealand papers which are published there as matters of common knowledge. The purpose of the present Parliamentary Labor Party is to require all lands which are sold hereafter to be sold only to the State, which is obligated to take the land at a fair valuation plus improvements. The ultimate aim is the collective ownership of the land by the people with a tenure of land that will rest entirely on occupancy and use. The effect of this legislation, if adopted and put into practice, will be to change the present arrangement by which one-tenth of the occupied lands in New Zealand is held by sixty-two landlords, and eighty-seven percent of the occupied lands by one-fourth of the landowners. In every land one can see the same thing going on. The people are trying desperately to find some substitute for the capitalist system, under which the good things of life tend to fall more and more i?ito the hands of a few.

Australia

AUSTRALIA is reported as being very enthusiastic about the possibilities of a new form of lumber, the invention of a Yankee. Near New Orleans there is a plant which turns into lumber the trash of sugar-cane after the sugar has been extracted. It seems that the new material can be used for contraction without danger of warping within a few hours from the time when, as sugar-cane, it was first fed into the crushers. It is one-fourth the weight of pine; has the insulation value of cork; is a sound deadener; can be used for interior or exterior work; can be paints ed or stained, carries plaster or stucco; burns slowly; and is not relished by the ants. All of these advantages make the new lumber extremely valuable for building purposes, especially in a country like Australia, which has plenty of hardwood, but no soft wood. The new lumber can be made with either a hard or a smooth surface, as desired.

Philippine Islands

IN OCTOBER, 1923, an epidemic of the much-dreaded cattle disease, anthrax, broke out in the Philippine Islands. At first the plague spread so rapidly that the locaTauthorities could not handle it; and the troops were called in to help. Forty officers and a thousand enlisted men were engaged in the battle, which lasted until January 31, when the last trace of the disease had been blotted out This victory was gained by the strictest enforcement of quarantine regulations. The native Filipino troops performed excellent service in this work. In one instance, a soldier found several cattle grazing together, contrary to instructions. The next morning he mystified the several owners of these cattle by promptly identifying each one in their several possessions as having been in the field the night before. Subsequently he explained to his officers that he had accomplished this apparently difficult feat by cutting a switch from the tail of each beast the night before.

A Nation’s Strength By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not gold, but only men. can make A people great and strong—

Men who for truth and honor's sake Stand fast and suffer long.

Brave men who work while others sleep, Who dare while others fly—

They build a nation’s pillars deep And lift them to the sky.

Everlasting Life on Earth By Newton T. Hartshorn, (Deceased) (R*t>rtnt*d by Baquat froa Gouo Aa» No. SO)

Benjamin- Franklin, the discoverer of electricity, stated:

“The rapid progress of true science occasions my sometimes regretting that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the heights to which mar be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter.

“Agriculture may diminish its labor, and double its produce.

“All diseases may, by sure means, be prevented and cured, not excepting that of old age, and our lives lengthened, at pleasure, even beyond the antediluvian standard.

“Oh, that moral science were in fair way to improvement, that men would cease to be wolves to one another, and that human beings would at length learn what they now improperly call humanity!”

The foregoing statement of Franklin was a prophetic inspiration based on statements in the Bible and his knowledge of physical phenomena; and we are now near the time of the fulfilment of his forecast ,

Sgnoptie of Outstanding Facts

THE following is a presentation of some of the outstanding facts that prove that present human life is grossly unnatural—abnormal life, due to the unfinished state of the planet on which we live and to other devitalizing influences incident to the creative process now going on:

That man's physical powers, mental faculties, moral perceptions and judgment are cither dormant, relatively dead, or so warped by his physical imperfection that he is incapable of sound reasoning and sucessful government;

That man has formulated the false theory that a selfish scramble for personal comfort, by which the weaker is crowded to the wall by the stronger, is true civilization; and that the government which man has based on this false theory, now threatens to collapse under the weight of its defects, as. the complicated problems of increasing population multiply, and completely to destroy the whole system, falsely called civilization, under an evil spiritual administration;

That this, in the creative process, is merely the working of divine economy, which utilizes all things in attaining its end, perfection; and that when the end. of one stage of the process comes, an advanced stage in the process takes its place: and that we are now at the end of one stage and the beginning of a new one;

That the earth is now nearing completion, and that a physical condition nearer perfect is about to produce a human physical condition nearer perfect and in the end absolutely perfect. Perfect—normal—human life, perfect mental faculties, moral perceptions and judgment are due to follow. Beal civilization and a righteous government will then prevail, through the administration of divine power, when physical and moral perfection will go hand in hand.

This presentation is confined mainly to- a consideration of man’s physical life as distinguished from his mental and moral being.

Christian Church a New Creation

^PHE theory that man was created to be a ' spiritual being is not supported by any Bib

lical statement

The Christian church is an order created entirely independent of the human race, though selected from it; hence its name “new creation”.

The special doctrines of the Christian church, as presented by Jesus, its founder, have no application to the human race as such, but only to a special few who are called out to form a new administrative order, anew creation, entirely distinct from the human creation. Strangely enough, the rationale of the Christian church has been entirely misunderstood by most people.

A critical examination of Biblical statement shows that the human race was created to remain a human race to all eternity, instead of, aa most people believe, eventually to become spirit beings.

No Eternal Life Without Obedience

WHILE it is true that the Bible teaches that mankind cannot have normal life or continued life without recognizing and obeying Christ’s commands, yet but very few are accepted as real members of His administrative body, the Christian church. They only, with a relatively few other human beings, will become spirit beings; all others will remain human, with fleshly bodies as we now see them. <

There is no condemnation of such because they would not respond to the invitation to become members of the Christian church. They

only miss an inconceivably high honor and life on the divine plane; the same in a limited sense as if the President of the United States should offer a citizen a position in his cabinet and the citizen declined. He would not lose his rights as a private citizen, though he would lose the high honor of being a cabinet officer. He would be obliged to obey the laws enforced by the chief executive and the officials of the administration, but no more. If, however, he accepted the position of cabinet officer and on account of disloyalty to the President was forced to resign, he would be disgraced; and if disloyal to the United States he might be imprisoned or even executed.

That is the position in which there have been billions of nominal church members who did accept the offer of a position in the cabinet of Jesus Christ, the kingdom of heaven, but proved disloyal. No Biblical statement indicates that , they will be eternally tormented, but they are liable to become extinct in death if their offense was wilfully criminal.

The reason why the rationale of the Christian church has come to be misunderstood is that nearly all have erroneously concluded that its special doctrines were binding upon all, whereas they were mandatory only upon those who answered the call, accepting the offer of a position in the administrative body of Jesus Christ. Billions answered the call. They wanted the high honor; but very few, however, have fulfilled the-conditions. “Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord! Lord! shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father.”—Matthew 7:19-21.

Only those who are faithful to Christ’s teaching, even, until and unto death, can have this high honor. The invariable conditions are that they must suffer, as He suffered, contempt, scorn, hatred, ostracism, persecution and death —if need be, even a violent death—even burning at the stake or crucifixion, as He suffered on account of His loyalty to Christian Truth. Jesus said these were the'invariable conditions; and all down the gospel age these have been, the invariable experiences of true Christians because they were loyaL

Most of the members of the great, popular, fashionable Christian churches have answered the call, but would not pay the price, would not fulfil the conditions. They have been disloyal nominal Christians, "tares” dominating these Christian church systems; and the loyal Christians were obliged to flee out of them, and were persecuted and tortured for doing so. The process still continues.

These so-called Christian church systems either joined with, became a part of, unchristian governments, or indirectly backing up and supporting them, have endorsed and helped to support the lust for empire and wars of theso unchristian governments, killing millions of people, thus grossly disobeying the teachings of Christ

These great so-called Christian church systems could have entirely prevented these wan, had they been ready to suffer unto death rather than violate Christian principle and engage in war. But in most cases they have even been prominent, through their clergy, in making ths wars popular and in urging the people to war.

A final analysis of Biblical statement and a study of the signs of the times, as forecast by Jesus, show that the new creation, the true Christian church, is now about complete and that the time has come for the new administration of Jesus Christ to take office. The kingdom of heaven is being instituted, and the preparatory work of cleaning away the old evil administration of human affairs, including nominal Christian organizations, "cast into the fire," is now going on.

The prevailing idea is that the kingdom of heaven is a far-off, mysterious something that has nothing to do with the practical human affairs; whereas it is clearly shown, when we critically analyze Biblical statement, that it has all to do with practical human affairs: that its first work is to restore and help the human race back to that perfection lost by Adam: that mankind are to have eternal life right here on earth as indicated in our Lord’s prayer: “Thy king-dom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

Let us now proceed to examine what God's will is on earth regarding the human race and the physical conditions on which it depends for its life, as indicated by the laws that govern the physical world. _

Man Llcing in Abnormal Conditions

NY student of the rocks, strata, and fossils of the earth knows that it has been for long ages, and continues to be, in the process of creation ; that it is not quite complete, though nearing completion, being now nearly at the end of the ice age and at the beginning of the final stage of completion. Under the incomplete conditions that have prevailed, normal life has been impossible. This must be self-evident to all who study and reason upon the matter; for to attain to perfect vegetable and animal, including human, physical life, perfect physical conditions must prevail.

Have we any standard by which to compare 1 If not, how can we arrive at a reliable conclusion as to what a perfect earth is! Who has ever seen a perfect earth!

Geologists know that there was a time when neither vegetable nor animal life was possible upon the earth, and it is possible to trace the earth's development up to the time when it was possible for vegetable and animal life to exist upon the earth, also its development by stages up to its present condition. And by physical law, which governs all material life and matter, we can determine the final stage of its completion, the approximate time when it will be complete, and the effect of that completion on vegetable and animal life, including human life.

For instance, we know that in the arctic regions where there is a vast area covered with ice all the year around, there was once tropical vegetation upon which animals fed that were larger than any now living, and that there are coal seams in the polar regions that ages ago could have been laid down only from great forests of vegetation. This proves that in the process of earth’s creation, there has been a period when part of it has been as perfect as it all will be when completed.

This proves also that the plan or process of planetary creation involves long periods of seeming reaction or retrogression, followed in turn by long periods again of still further advancement nearer perfection. This seems to be the law of planetary creation—now advancing, now retreating and then advancing again; and all life upon the earth has followed this creative law. In fact, it seems to be a law of all creation so far, whether physical or spiritual, animate or inanimate.

The ice-caps in the polar regions not only determine the conditions of all vegetable and animal life there, but are literal refrigerators of the whole earth, keeping life upon it in a semi-dormant, refrigerated condition in which there has been no substantial progress since the deluge which resulted in the glacial age, excepting the slight improvement, relatively speaking, by the decrease of the ice area in the arctic regions, as the ice has slowly subsided. *

The cause of this recurring action and reaction is clearly understood by those collative students who study the deductions of specialists in astronomy, geology and biology.

Astronomers agree that the other planets in our solar system, taken in connection with what geologists find in the earth, illustrate in their various stages of completion the law by which all planets are formed. So we do have a sample by which to make comparisons, and we know the various stages and conditions that this earth has passed through and the cause of its retrogression, the condition when life became possible, and its general history down to the time when human historic record began to give us the details and when a portion of the earth was perfect .

Excepting the record of the planets we see and the record in earth strata and fossils, the Bible is the earliest record we have; and while some scholars, including most modern theologians, do not accept it as authority in physical science, Kant, the greatest authority of modern scholars in philosophy and physical science, and Virchow, the father of modern pathology, and many other first-rank scholars in physical science do accept its authority as final, of course rejecting the known interpolations.

Every planet in its molten stage throws off gaseous vapors of various weight and density. Held off by the great heat of the core these gain, by friction with its envelop, a revolution of their own. The lightest gas, hydrogen, rises highest or farthest from the main body, nitrogen and oxygen next; and so on. As the planet cools, its* rings fall gradually to it, the oxygen and hydrogen last Some special features may be peculiar to each planet, but this feature must prevail in all that belongs to the planetary class.

Semi-Gaseous State of Saturn

THE planet at first may be but a body of gas gradually obeying the law of cohesion and friction, gradually solidifying to a liquid molten mass through long periods of time. '

Saturn, for instance, is only one-eighth the weight per volume of the earth, and must be semi-gaseous. Its ring, or combination of rings, is shaped like a wheel about the planet, 172,600 miles in diameter, extending 48,065 miles on each side of it, which is the hub around which the ring revolves; and this ring just outside the planet is 2.000 miles thick. The ring or wheel always

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revolves in the same plane as does the planet, and always faces the sun. When seen edgewise it looks like a, and when seen partly sidewise like b. Hence all planets, while in their ring stage, are in thick darkness at their equator, the darkness covering a belt 2,000 miles wide, more or less, according to the size of the planet. God, speaking to Job (38:4, 9), accurately describes it: "Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth! . . . when I made the cloud the garment thereof and thick darkness a swaddling band for it!"

That was thousands of years before any telescopes were made, or any human being could know by observation that planets have rings.

As neither vegetable nor animal life could exist in a wide area of constant, thick darkness, there could be no life on a belt 2,000 miles wide on a planet the size of Saturn, while in its ring stage. But outside of that belt of thick darkness, after the planet had cooled, normal sunlight and vital physical conditions would be perfect, until the ring began to collapse, and for thousands of years gradually spread out toward the poles.

Before the ring spread entirely to the poles, there must have prevailed in the north a physical condition perfect beyond anything man has since known. We know this to be so; for vegetation grew with astonishing vigor. Mammoths larger than elephants are found in the arctic ice with semi-tropical plants undigested in their stomachs.

The physical conditions in the far north most have been ideal before the ring of vapor spread out over it and shut out the sunfight. For hundreds of years it must have been the only spot on earth w'hich had the clear light of the sun every day in the year and its vitalizing, oxygenizing rays for development of perfect physical life and the perfect fruits and vegetables to sustain that life.

The human race has never since known any * condition approaching that ideal, which is accurately described in Genesis 2:8,9: "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed; and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil."

Never any thing like this since! Burbank, however, is beginning to produce marvels, but not up to that quality.

Even under the devitalizing condition that prevails, various herbs, vegetables and fruits have their peculiar distinctive effect upon those who partake of them. The thirty-second solution of the decoction of a certain herb will throw a person into spasms, and the thirty-second solution of the decoction of another herb will recover that person from the spasm.

We will later further explain why the physical condition on the earth changed, so that never since could such perfection prevail; but we will later clearly demonstrate that we are again nearing physical conditions when that perfection will prevail, not temporarily as then but permar nently, in the near future when the Northern Hemisphere will be completed.

Adam Was Driven from Eden

DAM disobeyed; and God drove him out of the garden lest he eat of the tree of life and live forever (in disobedience). Neither eternal life nor eternal torment for man is shown here. It was real kindness to drive Adam away from that eternal life-giving food. Though the penalty for disobedience was death, God had a most amazing plan for restitution of Adam and his posterity to life, through the crucifixion of His only begotten, beloved Son Jesus, a ransom of all mankind from the grave—an object lesson

to all eternity to all creation of the sublime love of the Father and the Son for the human race, a love higher than any created being could conceive. .

God’s love and mercy had a double feature. He clearly designed to people the planets with happy, independent, free moral agents, and not automatic machines; and Adam and his posterity were put through a creative process, an ex. perience, that would make them not only lovingly loyal but intelligently obedient, yet free moral agents. “And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever: therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken."

This Edenic physical paradise — a perfect physical condition where for hundreds of years . in the constant life-giving sunlight eternal life’ giving fruits had come to perfect maturity— soon was overspread by the thick cloud of vapor from the ring of mixed hydrogen and oxygen shutting out the sun, and eventually the garden was wholly obliterated by vast deposit; of snow that settled into glacial ice. Conditions on the earth now gradually became reversed. The ring in settling down and spreading out had become thinner. The sun and moon could be dimly seen through the veil of vapor over the equatorial regions, and the climatic conditions toward the equator became more favorable for vegetable and animal life than the regions in the north, where for half the year the indirect rays of the sun and the thick cloud resulted in a twilight condition, and vegetable and animal life began to lose their perfection.

The accompanying illustration shows the earth before the ring had spread entirely over it. The conditions into which Adam and Eve were now driven had never been productive, but entirely dark and barren for long ages. Now, however, by the light like that in a dense forest or on a cloudy day, vegetation began to appear; but men were obliged to work diligently to get a living. This is accurately shown in Genesis 3:17-19: "Cursed is the ground for thy sake....

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field: in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.” That has been the experience of the human race in general, ever since; in fact, sometimes even worse.

Earth Itself Not Cursed

0 NOT misconstrue the statement that the ground was cursed—disfavored—for Adam and Eve’s sake. The earth was created especially for the human race, and the whole of its creative process was arranged to suit their creative process, their instruction, testing, training and disciplining to be free moral agents, every man a miniature king (in the earth) patterned after the great Ruler of the universe.

"The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's : but the earth hath he given to the children of men.”—Psalm 115:16.

The Lord timed the creation of Adam when, the reactionary physical changes on the incompleted planet would devitalize him, causing his death, eventually. In that sense, for his sake the ground was cursed, unfavorable.

This pre-arrangement, specially ordered in Adam’s case, was a part of the great creative plan relatively just now beginning to be put into operation, of which the creation of the planets for the special abode of the new, unique species — man — is a contributing feature; and man’s fall, its cause and its remedy, demonstrate th$ infinite foresight in every minute detail of the divine mind in preparing an effective object lesson for the instruction in loyal love and obedience, of human beings yet to be created on the billions of planets. We may be sure that by wireless they will converse from planet to planet, rehearse the wondrous story.

The timing of Adam’s creation just when the spreading of the ring of vapor to the far north over the garden of Eden fulfilled the Lord's mandate driving Adam out of the garden, forcing him on account of the darkness to migrate toward the equator, where it was sufficiently light, but relatively barren and unproductive of normal life-supporting food.

A surprise is in store for mankind—the beginning of the restoration of Edenic conditions and the resurrection of Adam and all of his race. Burbank’s discoveries are only a slight hint of

•what is coming in life-giving fruits and vegetables. This we will demonstrate conclusively further on.

The light shining through the cloud-ring had permitted a growth similar to that in a dense forest, where some light penetrates, but not enough to permit fruits and vegetables to mature. Hence we see by the foregoing narrative in Genesis that Adam and Eve were obliged to scratch very hard for a living—quite a humiliating change for them. They were not in a dense forest, but on semi-barren land. This fully accords with the known physical facts.

Result* of the Great Deluge

ATING from the time when the ring spread and settled over all the earth, the first stage in the reactionary period lasted 1,656 years; during this stage the vital conditions were such that man lived nearly 1,000 years notwithstanding the poor food and lack of clear, vitalizing sunlight. The second stage of the entire reactionary period of 6,000 years began with the complete collapse to the earth of the ring in a cloudburst of snow. This, south of the 42nd parallel in the Northern Hemisphere, and north of 42nd parallel in the Southern Hemisphere, melted by the heat of the sun as it fell, or soon after it fell, causing the deluge and the glacial ice-caps in the polar regions. The ice-caps, though ever since slowly subsiding, covered at first approximately 11,000,000 square miles of the earth’s land surface, but now subsided to approximately 7,000,000 square miles, all but about 700,000 of which are on the antarctic continent.

The area of ice in the arctic regions is diminishing rapidly; and when it is all gone the Northern Hemisphere will be completed. Then, for the first time in 6,000 years, reaction will cease, and advance will again begin, a gradual but permanent return to the physical conditions in the garden of Eden all over the earth instead of in one spot.

The second and final stage of the 4,344 years of the 6,000 year period of reaction was accompanied with far greater destruction than the first stage, notwithstanding that the fall of the ring had permitted the clear light of the sun to vitalize all life on the whole earth more than ever before, except on a narrow belt in the north.

The vast ice-fields immediately placed every thing on earth in cold storage. All of New England and to the north pole and most of Europe to the north pole were covered with ice hundreds of feet thick. All vegetable and animal life near the ice was devitalized almost to the point of extinction, retaining only a bare existence, practically a hibernating state of all vegetable and animal life, stupified and benumbed by a condition grossly abnormal on the planet Normal life has been impossible; and what we have known as life has been but a faint conception, a nightmare, in comparison with normal life.

On the North American continent, the belt of greatest vitality was in Guatamala, 1,500 miles south of this; but the changes were so sudden and extreme that everything was stunted. When the north wind blew from the vast expanse of ice in the north, everything was chilled through, if not frosted, as far south as Central America; and when the south wind blew from the equator, relatively near, everything wilted with heat.

The changes must have been so sudden and extreme that only the strongest could endure. This accounts for the cave dwellers in Europe. Caves were the ideal residences then; for in them the extremes of sudden change were modified. Somewhat similar meteorological conditions still prevail, but we have become inured to them, and they grow less extreme as the' area of ice diTninishes-

Nine-tenths of the area of the ice in the arctic region has subsided; and when nine-tenths of the ice in the refrigerator is gone, the remainder goes quickly. It is not normal for ice to form or to remain on the planet, except on the loftiest mountains. This is demonstrated by the fact that it is steadily subsiding as normal conditions slowly assert themselves.

There is scarcely any human record of the period just subsequent to maximum glaciation —only a brief reference in the Bible, and a few rude sketches in the caves.

Except near the equator human beings were so benumbed that all they could think of, or do, was to get barely food enough to keep life within them. They degenerated like the wild animal Vegetables and fruits of the temperate zohe must have become nearly extinct. The caves indicate the desperate struggle for a bare existence. There the debris of animals, bones and rubbish of fossils collected in successive layen without being cleared out Evidently at that time mankind lived in part on the frozen carcasses of the animals that were ejected from the terminal moraines of the glaciers.

Devitalizing Agencies at Work

UNDER the extremely devitalizing change brought about by the Deluge and its sequence, the glacial age, in the close of which we are now living, human life was shortened from nearly one thousand years to sixty or seventy at the most. But in addition to the vast devitalizing ice-fields, another devitalizing agent began to operate just after the Deluge, and in the regions free from ice brought upon mankind all kinds of germ diseases, which did not prevail in the antediluvian age. Colds, catarrh, tuberculosis, fevers, diphtheria, smallpox, cancer and scores of other germ diseases appeared, attacking man and the vegetables and fruits upon which he subsisted.

All these diseases are the agents of death, fermentation and putrefaction that have possibly been spread from decaying vegetable and animal matter, and have fouled the atmosphere with a new devitalizing agent since the Deluge —nitrogen gas.

The unburied bodies of trillions of land fowl, animals and men that perished at that time, I think, without a doubt filled the atmosphere with a greater proportion of this gas, a new element originating from decaying animal matter since the earth became filled with animals and men that have expired. This gas apparently first began to accumulate to any injurious degree just after the Deluge. Its enormous increase in volume ever since, through the decay of dead animals and men, has loaded the atmosphere with~ a non-life-supporting, if not a positively diseasecarrying medium, the result of a vicious round of birth and death, ever spreading death to foodbearing vegetation for man and animals and to animals and men, reducing by nearly eighttenths the relative volume of oxygen, the agent in the air which, breathed into the lungs, purifies the blood. This superabundance of nitrogen thus reduces the, power of men and animals to throw off disease.

Whether this gas is the direct medium of conveyance of disease germs is not fully determined. Some kinds of bacteria thrive in nitrogen gas, and other kinds thrive in oxygen gas.

We might infer from this that as oxygen purifies the blood, bacteria in oxygen destroy bacteria in nitrogen. I consulted the Dean of the Harvard Medical School on this subject, who said that it was not yet determined whether nitrogen gas is the medium of the conveyance of disease germs.

Even when animal matter is buried in the ground, however deep, most of it turns to nitrogen gas and escapes through the earth into the atmosphere. Hence this new cumulative element, since death of animals and men began, has come to be the great factor of death; and its removal is a vital necessity to the preservation of life.

Influenza Travels in the Atmosphere mHE recent influenza plague all over the world -L must have had a cause that was conveyed in the atmosphere; and it is logical to conclude that it was the result of the great number of animals and men left dead and unburied during the war.

In old, thickly settled countries most of the physical, life-giving element in the soil has, by constant cropping, been drawn from it

Countless trillions of insects, birds, animal* and mankind, as before stated, have matured from earth's products and have died, decayed and mostly evaporated into nitrogen gas, a vast volume of which has accumulated in the atmosphere as the ages have* passed. It is the very essence, the extract, of the vital substance or quality of animal matter extracted from the earth and stored in the air. As before stated, we all know that these vital elements have in some places been drained so completely from the soil that it is worn out and will not produce food for man or beast Hence another factor tends to shorten human life—diminishing nutriment in food products.

If this process of birth and growth and death and decay—the constant extracting of the vital element from the earth, and through vegetable and fruit food production the transferring of it to insects, birds, animals, and mankind, and at their death the transferring of it to the atmosphere in the shape of nitrogen gas—continued, it would be only a question of time, with increase of population, until all life-giving quality for food for birds, animals, and men would be extracted from the earth, and man would become extinct through lack of nourishing, life-giving

food and because of an ever decreasing percentage of oxygen taken into his lungs, to purify his < blood. Any one must see that this would be inevitable; for the factors of extinction would work from both the air and the soil.

We are now at a culminating point similar to the Deluge. Under the confusion caused by the World War and the breakup of orderly economic conditions, the lack of industrial occupation and remuneration for the masses, great social and political excitement will for some time still further increase the death rate, a vicious round of birth, death and decay.

The time has come when some fundamental change and remedy is imperative, if the human race is to survive. I will later show the remedy.

Other Enemies of Humanity

TILL another factor of demoralization, distress and death, the most perplexing and ag

gravating of all, has for 6,000 years contributed to make man's life a living death—Satan and his angels.

We are all more or less familiar with their history; but because they cannot be seen with the physical eye most people doubt their existence. But judged by the devilish things some people do, it is self-evident that an unseen influence is putting them up to do things that an average horse, dog, or pig, or even a monkey, would be ashamed to do. Instead of evoluting they have devoluted.

Evil spirits work by constant suggestion on the human mind, and a constant dropping of water will wear away even a stone.

Jesus said that Satan was the prince (ruler) of this world, this age—this social, political, economic and religious world.

The thought no doubt enters your mind, "If all this is true why did God create man before the earth was completed and oblige him to undergo such terrible hardships and live an unnatural, abnormal life, tempted and fooled by an unseen devil 1 Surely that does not look like wisdom, love, justice or mercy.”

If you understood God’s plan you would see the marvellous wisdom and love of all this, and its justice and mercy also.

The Divine Mind knows perfectly the law of cause and effect; for He created all things to operate by that law. He saw the whole process from beginning to end before He created the world. “Known unto God are all his works, from the beginning of the world.” (Acts 15:18) As before stated, and it is well worth repeating, God wanted free moral agents, beings, angels and men, that would not be mere automatic machines, but beings that would of their own volition do the right thing. Only training and experience would create such characters. Evidently there was no precedent that could be used as an object lesson.

God foresaw that Lucifer—“Morning Star”— the great angel who had been put in charge over man, would become ambitious, conceited, , and would plan to have sc kingdom all his own, making Adam and Eve and their descendants his servants. They had no experience. Lucifer, now named Satan, was more subtle and powerful than they; moreover, he was invisible to them, and could, and can still, control men unless they are on the watch and resist him. But as most people do not believe that there is any such being they cannot be on the watch for him, and so are easily misled.

Adam Made Acquainted with His Loss

OD, knowing what Satan and Adam and Eve would do, created Adam and Eve in that relatively short period of time, between the stages of the earth’s development when the conditions on a small part of it were normal— complete—perfect; otherwise Adam could not have known what he lost by disobedience; his experience would not have been perfect As soon as Adam disobeyed, the Creator drove him out of the completed spot, where the fruit of the orchards was perfect, and would sustain life as long as he ate of it; and the next stage in the creation of the earth followed, with its devitalizing reaction, which carried out the sentence of death on Adam and Eve and their posterity.

But God’s plan then was, and is now, to restore Adam and all of his posterity to life, giving them their first chance, after having had experience and a fair trial under perfect conditions with no invisible devil to tempt them. Then if they disobey, having had experience and an object lesson, they will be annihilated in the second death. The proof of this is given later.

Jesus said that the hour is coming when all that are in the graves shall come forth. (John 5:28) The atmosphere is filled with nitrogen,

from which their bodies can be instantly created ; for this gas is the essence of animal matter.

Here on this planet, we may assume, is the first peopling of a planet, and all of this story of man’s fall and recovery. The dreadful consequences of disobedience will be an object lesson to all eternity, a lesson so vivid and impressive to the people hereafter, to be created, and to angels also, that no more will there be disobedience.

Furthermore, the amazing love shown by the Father and the Son in all this transaction will prevent any desire to disobey or any ambition to rule except by divine direction. We do not know, but reason would conclude that no other planet will be peopled until the object lesson is fully completed.

Man Now in Glacial Ago

THE planet Mars is in its glacial age, as its polar ice-caps are plainly visible; and we may assume that it will be the next planet to be people, when its ice-caps are all melted. There is scarcely any question but that, when it is peopled, conversation between Mars and this earth will, by wireless, readily take place.

We may assume that every solar system has, or will have, as many planets as our solar system ; and as three billion suns have been counted, there will be twenty or more billion planets to be peopled. '

Is there any doubt whatever that, under the terrible physical conditions which have prevailed and in which man as well as all animal and vegetable life has existed in a benumbed state—barely clinging to life for a few years— this life is grossly abnormal, a mere fraction of what it will be in length, vigor and perfection, when all these devitalizing conditions have passed away and for the first time the entire earth will be complete and perfect!

During this long period of 6,000 years the creative process on earth has rendered conditions terrible by comparison and literally almost beyond man’s strength to endure. This surely was bad enough; but Satan has made it still more of a hell, a living death, to the mass of people.

As we look back, the picture is very dark, and bids fair to be darker still; and if we did not know that just ahead of us the dark night of sin, sorrow, death and destruction is to give place to the glorious light of a new day, we might well tremble with fear.

No doubt the next few years, the climax of anarchy, the disintegrating of the present social, political, economic, and religious world we have known, will be the greatest time of trouble ever known. Jesus, forecasting it, said (Matthew 24: 22): “Except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved.”

Civilization in Throes of Rebirth

IN A letter to me from the editor of the Literary Digest, which I have quoted in another article, but which is so pertinent that it will bear repeating in this connection, he said: “Civilization is in the awful throes of a rebirth, and this stupendous upheaval will in all probability change your life and the life of every living man and woman about you.”

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