Golden Age, December 31, 1924
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A Bikes tub ths Scientist (Illustrated) .. . . The Great Pyramid of Gizeh ........
Squaring the Circle, and Measure Standard . . Number of Days In the Solar Year .. . . . Distance from Earth to Sun . *.......
The Pracessioual Cycle......... .
Theology of the Great Pyramid......
Downward Trend of Mankind.......
King’s and Queen’s Chambers.......
, Prophetic Chronology of the Great Pyramid . .
Pyramid Built In a40 B.C. . . .'......
The Jews Left Egypt in 1015 B.C. .....
Christ Returned in 1874 A. D........
1914 A^ D. and 17S9 A. D. Foretold .....
Last Jewish Jubilee Due In 1925 A. D. . • • . Radio Puutuont or Pbqfhxct.....- • .
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’ Christian Church a New Creation No Eternal Life without Obedience ‘ . . ...
Man Living in Abnormal Conditions ■ •
\ Semi-Gaseous State of Saturn * • • • • • • ' Adam Was Driven from Eden......
Earth Itself Not Cursed ........ ts of the Great Deluge ......
g Agencies at Word......
• Influenza Travels tn the Atmosphere . . . . Other Enemies of Humanity ....... Mars Now in Glacial Age .......
Civilization In Throes of Rebirth.....
New Light Flooding Dark Places . . . i . Creative Processes Unfold Slowly.....
Eternal-Life Prospects for Millions Now . . .
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Everlasting Life on. the Earth By Newton T. Hartshorn
„ (Bepdnted by Beqaert from Gounr lea Na. 130X ‘ ’
Benjamin Franklin,’ the discoverer of eleo tricity, 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 may be carried, in a thousand yean, ‘ 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 Eves lengthened, at pleasure, even beyond the antediluvian standard.
“Oh, that moral science weip 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 t” ’
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, .
Synopsis 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 either dormant, relatively dead, or so warped by his physical imperfection that he is incapable of sound reasoning and successful 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 baaed 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 cornea, 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;
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That the earth is now nearing completion, and that Ka physical condition nearer perfect is about to produce a human physical condition nearer perfect and in the end absolutely perfect. Perfect—normil—human life, perfect mental faculties, moral perceptions and judgment are due to follow. Heal civilization and a right. eoua government will then prevail, through the tration of divine power, when physical and moral perfection will go band 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
THE theory that man was created to be a spiritual ■ being is not supported by any Biblical statement.
The Christian Church is an order created entirely ? independent of the human race, Ihough aelected^^pm it; hence its name “new creation”. v
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, a , new 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, as 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 at 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 respcpid to the invitation to become members of : the Christian Church. They only min an inconceiv
ably 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 tile 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 Christi 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 ths 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 Christis 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 th&invariable conditions; and all down the Gospel Age these have been the invariable experience 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 phy 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 Hee out of them, and were persecuted and tortured for doing so. The proa cess 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 en- > dorsed and helped to support the lust for empire and wars of these unchristian governments, killing millions of people, this grossly disobeying the teachings ci -Christ <* .
These gr&tiso-called Christian church systems could ; have entirely prevented these wara^ had they been ready • to suffer unto death rather than violate Christian prm* * ciple and engage in war. But in most cases they have ” even been prominent, through their clergy, in ™ airing the wars popular and in urging the people to war. j
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 organize-tions, “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 ail 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 kingdom 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 Living in Abnormal Condition* . '
ANY 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 begin-, ning 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? 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 that the earth’s development can be traced up to the time when it was possible for vegetable and animal
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Life to exist upon the globe, 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 dll 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 alight 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 ita 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 epxth 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 tha 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 me in 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 times.
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
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 west 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.
Aa 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 outride 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 cccditivn 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 must hare been ideal before the ring of Tapor spread out over it and shut out the sunlight. For hundreds of years it must have been the only spot on earth which had the clear light of the sun every day in the year and its vitalizing, oxygenizing rays for the 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 3: 8, 9: ‘/And the Lobo 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 eighty end 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 I 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 permanently, in the near future when the Northern Hemisphere will be completed.
Adam Was Driven from Eden
ADAM disobeyed; and God drove him out of the gar. den lest he eat pf 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 bad a most amazing plan for restitution of Adam and his posterity to life, through the crucifixion of His only begotten, belov^l 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 doubts feature. He clearly designed to people the planets with happy, independant, free moral agents, and not automatic machines; and Adam and bls posterity were put through a creative process, an experience, 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 for ever: 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 deposits of snow that settled into glacial ica. Conditions on the earth now gradually became reversed. The ring in settling down, and spreading out had become thinner Both 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 favorablefor 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- pro* ductive, 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 showp in Genesis 3:17-19. "Cursed is the ground for thy sake. Thorns 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 mem*—Psalm 115:16.
The Lord timed the creation of Adam when the1 reactionary physical changes on the incompleted planer, would devitalize him, causing his death, eventually. In that sense, for his sake the ground was cursed, was made unfavorable. .
. This pro-arrangement, specially ordered in Adam's ease, 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 the infinite foresight in every minute detail of the divine mind in preparing an effective object lesson for the instruction, in loyalty 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 Loan's mandate driving Adam out of the garden, forced 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 facta.
Remits of the Great Deluge
ATINQ 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 yeats 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 the 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 an on the antarctic continent. •
The area of ice in the arctic regions is diminishing rapidly; and when it is all gons ths 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 ov^r the earth instead of in one spot. ,
The second and final stage of the 4,344 yean of ths 6,000 year period of reaction was accompanied with far greater destruction than the first stage, notwithstanding the fact that the fall of ths 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 bars sxu-tence, practically a hibernating state of all vegetable and animal life, stupified and benumbed by a grossly abnormal condition 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 waa in Guatemala, 1,500 miles south of Boston; 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 ths 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 ‘
Nine-tenths of the area of the ice in the arctic region have subsided; and when nine-tenths of the ice in the refrigerator have 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
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* barely food enough to keep life within them. They degenerated like the wild animals. Vegetables and fruits’ of the temperate zone 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 layers 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 of 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 less than one hundred years. 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, attariring 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 proportioirOf 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 air with a non-life-supporting, if not a positively disease-carrying medium, the result of a vicious round of birth and death, ever spreading death to food-bearing vegetation for man and animals and to animals and men, reducing by nearly eight-tenths the relative volume of oxygen, the agent in the air which, breathed into the lung?, 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 gdrms is not fully determined. Seme kinds of bacteria -thrive in nitrogen gag, 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 gaa is the medium of the conveyance of disease germa.
Even when animal matter is buried in the ground, however deep, most of it turns to nitrogen gaa 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 -
HE recent influenza plague all over the world must have had a cause that was conveyed in the atmosphere; and it is logical to conclude that it wu 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, animals 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. Ik 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 and food production the transferring of it to insects, birds, animal^ 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 aggravating
of aH» 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 ia putting them up to do things that an average horse, dog,- or pig, or even a monkey, would be ashamed to do. Instead of evolnting 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 re-- ligious 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? Surely that does not look like wisdom, love, justice or mercy."
U you understood God's plan you would see the marvelous 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. <fKnown unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world." (Acta 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 a kingdom all his own, making Adam and Eve and their descendants his servants. They had no experience. Lucifer, how 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 tjiere 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 rela
tively 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 A> soon aa Adam disobeyed, the Creator drove him out of the completed spot, where the fruit of .the orchards was perfect, and would sustain Hfe 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 Hfe, 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 ia coming when all that are in the graves shall come forth. (John 5:28) The atmosphere n 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, * lesson so vivid and impressive to .the people hereafter to be created, and to angels also, that no mom 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 otljer planet will be peopled until the object lesson ia fully completed.
Mars Now in Glacial Aye
HE 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 peopled, 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?
Daring 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 the 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 seen. 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 ine 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."
As before stated, Jesus , (referring to the present time) said that Satan was the prince (the ruler) of this world. He said (John 12:31): “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince [Satan] of this world be cast out"; and the present condition <rf wars, contention, destruction, crime and misery is the climax of the trouble engendered in casting him out.
Satan's rule at best has been devilish. Who has been satisfied with it? Possibly a few of the favored ones. Who wants to perpetuate that rule? No doubt in the next few years the disturbance and confusion incident to the wori^ of casting him out will be awfully distressing. But cheer up! It is always darkest just before day.
What is the process of casting Satan out ? He is like his dupes—give him plenty of rope and he will bang himself. He has made an awful mess of things, and all that is needed is to turn on the light and let men see the’mess. Jesus explained the process (Matthew 12:26): “If Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how ;hen shall his kingdom stand?"
The destructive quality of hate, the logical sequence of selfishness, the predominating feature of Satan's character, as $howu by his ambition to have a kingdom all his own, separate from God's kingdom, has hypnotized all Satan's dupes. This selfish desire, this lust for world empire, culminated in the World War.
The Kaiser and the English imperialists fought for world dominion and dragged all the world into the fight. All the nations had their own little selfish plans. Satan's kingdom is tearing itself down. Cohesion is gone, incipient anarchy prevails.
A great light, as at the first advent of our Lord, is shining in the darknesa Like lightning it if flashing* and still more like the early light of a new day it steadily dawns. Only a few, however, recognize its source. This light is showing up Satan's lies, his character, and the character of his dupes. They are spiritually blind; they cannot see this light. "And the light shineth in- darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."—John 1:5.
Satan and his dupes do not realize that this light is showing them up in their true colors. “And then shall that Wicked [one] be revealed whom the Lord “ shall consume with the spirit erf his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming."—2 Thes-saloniana 2:8.
New Light Flooding Dark Places
MEN have not realized the astounding import of the light which during the past forty-five years has shone into the minds of meh like Russell, Edison, Marconi and thousands of others in religious truth, electrical science, physical science, sociology, economics, chemistry, world politics, eta.
Satan and his dupes have been taken by surprise. Satan has chuckled, saying to himself, “I can use these miracles to strengthen my kingdom." The selfish profiteer chuckles: “I can make millions, aye billions, out of these miracles." But the light has kept on. shin- ' ing, flooding all the dark places in men's minds.
Gradually the fog of ignorance and superstition is lifting. Men have been inspired to read, study and think for themselves as never before. Men cannot so readily be held in slavery. The benumbing effect of the ice age is yielding—the physical and the spiritual go hand in band. '
Sanitary conditions are improving, medical and surgical skill also. Satan is gradually coming to the conclusion that something unusual is threatening his kingdom—he has been taken by surprise. Thief-like, the Light has come into his house, his kingdom. He hates the light; he is the great imperialist; he wants his dupes, except a few whom he has made his cabinet officials, to be kept in ignorance, especially the masses— his slaves. But the light keeps on flooding the dark places.
Satan tries to control all the newspapers and fill them with lies; but the people see the trick, start new papers and write new books. He corners the print paper, and so the light goes on, and the fight also. He might as well try to keep back the ocean tide with a broom. -
Imperial Satan, the imp, riding on the backs of the people and for 6,000 years, vampire-like, sucking the
life of mankind; the ring about the earth, that devitalized mankind fbr 1,656 years and finally drowned all but Noah and his family; the ice-cape which nearly finished man again^ putting him into cold storage-all are either gone or at the point of going.
Nitrogen Gas as Fertilizer
BUT what about the vast deposit of nitrogen gas in the atmosphere^ that threatens to annihilate the human race, after having survived all these catv dysms? The great light now shining in men’s minds also is equal to this new menace. Divine economy is always equal to the necessity; and this menace, this devitalizing agent, nitrogen in the air, is the richest fertilizer known and is being transformed from a menace into the greatest temporal blessing, reinvigorating, vitalizing and restoring man to the perfect physical condition that existed in the garden of Eden—a completed planet, the first one, as far as we know, to be finished and peopled in all the universe; in reality the real beginning of creation now. -
This ia no dream of fancy—no figure of speech. It is a literal, self-evident factj an amazing reality. Through the extraction of this nitrogen from the atmosphere and its distribution in Hie soil, every acre of land, even the sandy desert of Sahara, irrigated, can be.made to blossom aa the rose literally, producing fruits and food morq vitalizing and life-sustaining for vegetation and far man than was ever dreamed of even by Burbank, the wizard in agriculture, as Edison is the wizard in electrical science.
Edison says that we are only an the threshold of the development of electrical science. This new light that is coming into men's minds is sure to destroy completely all selfish monopolies, including that of verbal communication. The United States Government is already preparing a plan for wireless rommunirAtinn on the postal system plan, that will for a few cents be accessible to alL
This new light that is shining into men’s mi-nHa has shown them, and is continuing to show them, new laws that govern matter, so that new inventions are multiplying that rival the greatest miracles ever performed. Nothing seems impossible any longer. One of the latest inventions reported is the helicopter, an airplane that rises or descends vertically, can mount to a great height in a few seconds, is not affected by wind or weather, *and is capable of standing still in the air.
For instance, as reported, it will be possible at Boston to go above’’’the friction of the envelop of the earth as it rolls around at the rate of 1,000 miles an hour, remain stationary and in twelve hours come down in China, take supper and, after a good night’s sleep above the clouds, take breakfast the next morning in Boston. This seems impossible, all this long-distance travel with very little expenditure of motive power; but stranger things axe being done. Railroads, trolleys, and autos will be old junk. Also the evil system, "Satan's kingdom,” misnamed "Christendom/* "Christian Civiliiar tion" (so-called) will be "old junk*\
Radium a» Life Preserver
THROUGH this same great light cornea another discovery of fabulous qualities of energy. Rv * dium has been found.
Those who have experimented with radium claim that it prolongs the life of the fruit-fly, which is very brief, to 700 times its normal length. If it has the same effect on mankind, even under present condition^ it would prolong the lives of some persons 43,000 years and some even 70,000 years,
* To return to the consideration of nitrogen gas: Its pressure in the atmosphere is plus 11% pounds to the square inch, its volume has increased to 7.9 percent of the atmosphere and to 77 percent of its weight; it is incapable of supporting life, hence it is dead air in the lungs. Over every acre of the earth’s surface there are 33,830 gross tons of this gas. It is only slightly soluble in water; hence heavy rains do not dear it from the atmosphere.
As before stated, from a devitalizing element in the air that threatens the destruction of the human race, nitrogen is being transformed into the most invigorating, life-sustaining element through stimulation of vegetable growth, that man has ever found, restoring him to the physical perfection that was available in the garden erf Eden through the medium of perfect fruits and grains, matured, of eternal life-giving quality. How wonderful is divine economy I One hundred thousand tons of this nitrogen is available for every acre of land; and it being the very essence, the extract of animal matter, the fifty billions of human beings that have died could be created out of it, besides the soil being reinvigorated for their support.
Creative Processes Unfold Slowly . -
ERETOFORE, the expense of extracting nitro gen from the air for commercial fertilizer has been prohibitive. But a new invention has overcome the difficulty, and a plant in Germany is- successfully operating with a force of 8,000 men. A plant is now operating in Sweden, and the United States Government is building one costing millions.
It is not reasonable to expect that eternal life-giving fruit will mature and eternal-life physical conditions will prevail immediately. All things follow natural law.
In creative perfection we see that divine economy admits no mushroom growth. All lasting quality is of slow development. The century plant blooms only once in a long period of time! Slowly, slowly, the creative processes unfold.
Aa the earth and all creation respond to the divine
will sad the divine purpose, we enter the new epoch in the divine plan with slow and steady motion, responding to the new order.
' When restitution to Edema conditions commences, or we might say that when earth becomes one great Edenic paradise, aa was first contemplated, human life we must conclude, will be prolonged through the natural agencies before mentioned. This is self-evident.
It requires a thousand years for the mighty Sequoia tree to mature, and we may be sure that the tree of life (the perfect work of the' Christ) that bears eternal life-giving fruit will require that length of time to mature and bear fruit (Possibly by the end of the Millennium a food will have been discovered which will perfectly meet the needs of the human body, and so, with God’s blessing, sustain life forever.
While the Northern Hemisphere of the earth is nearing the completion that is to follow the entire disappearance of the ice from the arctic regions, six or more million square miles of ice still remain on the antarctic continent. While its effect will be negligible in the Northern Hemisphere on account of its being isolated by such a wide expanse of water and the warm temperature of the equatorial waters,*yet it must have some effect on vital conditions here.
The extremely low temperature there is moderating, but we may expect that the ice may still persist for perhaps a thousand years more in the Southern Hemisphere.
Human life lasted in the antediluvian age for nearly 1,000 years; and in the completion of earth to Edenic conditions first contemplated we can readily see that aa we gradually near perfection of physical conditions, all other conditions of life will correspond and, as Benjamin Franklin predicted, man’s life will extend a thousand years.
Eternal-Life Prospects for Millions Now
UNDER the conditions of life in the past, the vicious and the incorrigible did not live out half of their allotted time. This law of cause and effect will of course continue to operate, if no other law cuts off their life.
But there is to be no more cloud-ring or deluge or ice. Steady advance toward perfection is now the order.
The vicious and the incorrigible will die out quickly.
Jesus said of the time now nearly due that there would be no more marriages, no more bearing of children. He said that people would be as the angels in that respect, but He did not say that men and women would be spirit beings like the angels.—Matthew 22: 3<V
It is a logical conclusion that after 1,000 years have expired, under perfect normal physical conditions, the vicious, the wicked and the incorrigible will all be extinct and out of the way. The righteous will then live forever. Men and women, and all physical condition^ will be perfect—normal
According to the record we have of the length of human life before the Deluge, even under the imperfect . physical conditions, where the sunlight did not have its full invigorating effect, men lived almost 1,000 years. But now under the more perfect physical conditions which will ensue after the ice is all gone from the arctic region—and we may reasonably expect it within fifty years if not before; after the volume of nitrogen in the air be diminished, giving a greater percentage of oxygen in the lungs to purify the blood, and the nitro-. gen restored to the soil to stimulate its virgin quality of animal life-giving food, great increase of medical knowledge and skill, the application of radium and other life-prolonging agencies, mankind with increasing purity of thought, word and action will live forever— the normal life of man. So we may logically say that millions now living will never die.
"And I saw a new heaven [a new religious condition] and a new earth [a new social, political and eo '• onomio condition]: for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.”
"Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be theix God. And God shall wipe away all tears from theix eyes; and there shall be ho more death, ... for the former things are passed away...
"Behold, I make all things new.” "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death [extinction].”—Revelation 21:1,3-5,8.
“Oh, scenes surpassing fable, and yet true!
Scenes of accomplished bliss, which who can see, Though out In distant prospect, and not feel His soul’Refreshed with foretaste of the Joy? Riven of gladness water all the Earth, And clothe all climes with beauty. The reproach Of barrenness Is past. The fruitful field Laughs with abundance; and the land, once lean, • Or fertile only in Its own disgrace, Exalts to see Its thistly curse repealed.
“All creatures worship man, and an mankind One Lord. one Father. Error has no place: That creeping pestilence Is driven away;
The breath of heaven has chased it. In man's heart No passion touches a discordant string;
But aU is harmony and love. Disease
Is not; the pure and uncontaminate blood Holds its due course, nor feqrs the frost of age. One song employs all nations; and all cry: 'Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain for us.**
A Bible for the Scientist By w. E. Van Amburgb.
[Bariied, and reprinted frea
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S THU mouth of two or three witnesses shall I every. word be established," wrote the apostle Paul to the Corinthian Church.—2 Corinthians 13: L /’ Many at present are disposed to reject the Bible, eUrming- that there are no evidences that it is of divine origin. They have convinced themselves and some others that it is merely a collection of old fables and traditions, compiled in the early dawn of intelligence; and that therefore it has nothing to attract or interest the so-called advanced wisdom of our day.
Recent archeological discoveries have thrown much light upon heretofore obscure passages and stimulated renewed study in the historical portions of the Bible. Modern scientific inventions and mechanical devices are demonstrating th^ truth of the visions of the prophets of old. The automobiles and steam trains are easily recognized as the “chariots [which] shall rage in the streets,... shall justle one against another in the broad ways,... shall seem like torches,... shall run like the lightnings,.. . in the day of his preparation,” which the prophet Nahum (2:3,4) saw in vision.
The physical facts of the radio demonstrations are as miracles before our eyes. If man can so utilize the powers of nature that he can hear the heart-beat of another-1,200 miles away, should it seem an incredible thing that God, who ordered all these laws of nature, could, hear the prayers of His children, even though presented in the secret of the closet? (Matthew 6: 6) The big fish caught off the east coast of Florida in 1917, with a blackfish weighing 1,500 pounds, another fish weighing 400 pounds, and about 500 pounds of coral in its stomach, proves that the experience recorded of Jonah is not impossible.—Matthew 12:40. .
It will be interesting news to many to learn that the Bible, with which we are familiar, is in reality the second witness that gives ample evidence of being inspired by divine wisdom. Jehovah is now bringing to light the first witness to Ilia divine foreknowledge and His interest in the affairs of men. When Moses led the children of Israel from Egypt, he was but pantomiming one of the features of a plan which God had decided upon, the specifications of which had been drawn, sealed and filed away more than five hundred years previous. Moses himself declared that he but represented a greater one to follow him.—Deuteronomy 13:15.
All the prophets of the Bible declared that they were delivering messages sent by Jehovah, whom they represented; and that their descriptions of the Golden Age to come were by divine authority. So unreasonable and impossible did some of their prophecies appear at the time that evgn God's chosen people often doubted and criticized, and sometimes killed their prophets.—Hebrews 11: 36-39.
Apparently insignificant details were sometimes mentioned, as when Micah (5:2) named Bethlehem as the birthplace of the expected Messiah. It is now known that the Prophet merely mad* public mention of thn spot which had been selected centuries before Ma day, before there was even a hamlet on the spot, and which was recorded in <rBfbla Number One”, the one written for the scientist.
When St Paul wrote: “Death reigned from Adam to Moses,” the latter date referred to the opportunity of salvation offered to the Jews at Mt Sinai,-by which they might have secured everlasting life if they could have kept God's law. (Luke 10:28) St Paul admits that no imperfect Jew was able to keep that law; and that if he or any one else, Jew or Gentile, were to obtain salvation, it must come some other way. (Romana 8:3) All this has been found written in the specifications of the Scientific Bible. Even the date when Moms was to lead the Jews from Egypt was indicated over four hundred years before Moses was born. Many prominent events in history were predicted, even down to the World War of 1914. The year 1925 is also a specified date.
St Peter was arrested and imprisoned for preaching Jesus and Himcrucified. In his defence he said to the Sanhedrin: “There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acta 4:12) Jehovah had spoken forth the edict, and had it on record over 2,000 years before St Peter's day.
Both the Bible for the people and the Bible for the scientist mention that God has two offers of salvation: One limited to Christ and “holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,” such as might choose to follow Him by the way of ignominy and the crocs to heavenly glory, honor and immortality—the divine nature; the other offer to be extended later to "whosoever will” of all the families of earth, to an earthly Paradise, perfection of human nature, and everlasting life on earth. "Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth.”
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