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I Contents of the Golden Age
Labor and Economics
The World Kaleidoscope
Pitiful Condition of Passaic Textile Workers
Tuggers in the Somerset Coal Fields
Child Slaves in Shanghai
Social and Educational
Did Not Want His Name Known
Charitable Institutions Are Profitable
An Honor to American Nobility
Mii.es Darden vs. Og os? Bashan
Radio Pboghaus .......
Finance—Commerce—Transportation
Will a Deflation of Labor Be Attempted? ......... 39
Bottom out of Florida Boom
Chattel Mortgages in Rockford . .
Britain’s Impossible Financial Load .........'. . 42
Big European Steel Trust
Political—Domestic and Foreign
Texas Maintains Freedom of Citizens .....
Liberty Dead at Concord . .
Causes of Crime ...
I-Iohenzollern Estates Not Confiscated
Clerical Government Emis in Lithuania
The Two Wildcats Unleashed
Home and Health
Warnings of a Dermatologist ....... . .
Asphyxiated Man Restored to Life ..............
An Interesting Vaccination Story . .
Travel and Miscellany
Cub American National Parks ........
Religion and Philosophy
Christ in the Book of Genesis . .
Bible Questions and Answers
’World Religions and Their Origin ........• ... 57
Studies in “The Harp of God”..............
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Golden Age
Volume VIII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, October 20, 1926 Number 185
Our American National Parks
ists say that in a day in the Great Smokies they find a greater variety of trees than are native to all of Europe.
On the summits of the Great Smokies there are frosts every night in the year, and yet spring begins in March and the fluwers last far into December. The Great Smoky Mountains are in the first half-dozen of the most remarkable natural scenes in the country. There are 125 peaks in the area, several of which are over 6,000 feet in height.
Another national park will probably be erected in an isolated part of Eastern Tennessee, where lies the largest remaining virgin hardwood forest in the United States. It is a bit' of absolute wilderness, and the effort will be made to keep it so.
Still another national recreation ground in the East will likely be located at Isle Royale, in the heart of Lake Superior. The government has already acquired 9,121 acres there with that in view. Isle Royale is the only known place where chlorastrolites (green stones) are found. In the entire island, which covers 132,000 acres, evidence of prehistoric mining has been uncovered in three places. The island offers rare opportunities for research and study.
Sully’s Hill—Wind Cave— Hot Springs
rpiIE Sully’s Hill, North Dakota, National Park occupies one and one-eighth square miles and is an important wild game preserve. A similar wild animal and bird reservation of great extent will be established in the bottom lands of the Mississippi river, between Minnesota and Wisconsin. It is the natural channel of migration of water fowl to and from the northern feeding grounds. The Sully’s Hi Park was established in 1904.
The Wind Cave, South Dakota, National Park, occupies seventeen square miles and contains miles of galleries and chambers peas
THE World War and the development of the automobile have been the means of attracting the attention of Americans to the scenic treasures of their own country. Fox' five years Europe was closed to visitors; and it is only recently that it has seemed to millions of Americans as little less than a madhouse in which the inmates are recovering from a protracted frenzy.
Anyway, America now has nineteen national parks, with a total area of 11,372 square miles; and more parks are in the making. The annual cost to the nation is but a trifle. Revenues derived from the operation of the parks amount to nearly a third of their operating cost of $1,402,000. About 1,500,000 persons visit these parks annually.
The only one of the national parks east of the Mississippi river (outside of a little one in New York harbor) is the Lafayette, established in 1919. It consists of a group of granite mountains on Mount Desert Isle, Maine, the island upon which is located the famous watering place, Bar Harbor. The park contains only eight square miles.
Yorktown-—Great Smoky—Isle Royale
THE people of the eastern part of the United States, realizing that there are great scenic attractions in the East as well as in the West, are now pressing for the purchase and establishment of several more parks in the East. One of these may perhaps be the battlefield of Yorktown, Virginia, the scene of the surrender of Cornwallis. The area is approximately 1,100 acres.
The principal national park in the East it is expected will be in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. Geologists claim that these are the oldest mountains on earth, the breeding ground of all the hardwood forests of the world. Botan
culiar formation. It was established in 1903.
The Hot Springs, Arkansas, National Park occupies one and one-quarter square miles, in which are to be found forty-six hot springs possessing curative properties. These hot springs, the most noted in the United States, issue from volcanic rock at the base of a mountain. Hot .Springs was established in 1832. The government now maintains there a national hospital for soldiers and sailors, and provision is made for the public to bathe without charge. The city has a permanent population of 10,000 and entertains more than 100,000 visitors a year. The waters contain calcium, magnesium, carbonates, lithium, bromides and iodides, and are too warm to be quaffed readily. They must be sipped, like hot coffee.
Like the Jamestown Exposition at Norfolk, the authorities at Hot Springs once offended the reporters of the associated American press, and they did the same thing in the one place as in the other—they ignored the town for twenty-five years and nearly ruined it. But its natural advantages have brought it forward, in spite of the handicap it thus received.
Platt—Rocky Mountain—Mesa Verde
LATT, Oklahoma, National Park contains one and one-fourth square miles in which are many sulphur and other springs of medicinal value. It was established in 1904, and has over 100,000 visitors a year.
Bock Mountain National Park, in Colorado, contains 397% square miles of snowy ranges and peaks 11,000 to 14,255 feet in altitude in the heart of the Rockies. This is a most astonishing aggregation of lofty peaks of solid granite and of beautiful valleys, the whole perched on top of the Continental Divide. This park has the largest visiting list of any of the national parks, running to over 200,000 per year.
Mesa Verde, Colorado, National Park, in the southwestern part of the state, contains seventyseven square miles, and has within its confines the most notable and best preserved prehistoric cliff dwellings in the world. It was established in 1906.
The Yellowstone National Park •
YELLOWSTONE National Park, in the northwestern corner of Wyoming, but extending into Idaho and Montana, contains 5,575 square miles, within which are more and greater geysers than in all the rest of the world together. Although the park season lasts only three months of the year, and the district is far remote from the chief centers of population, yet in point of visitors it stands second on the list and is rightly considered one of the chiefest show places of the world. It was established in 1872.
The Yellow’stone Park is surrounded on all sides with snow-clad ranges and peaks, rising 10,000 to 12,000 feet in height, whilesthe general elevation of the plateau which comprises the park is about 7,800. In this plateau are three separate basins of geysers in the valley of what is known as the Firehole river.
The larger geysers have individual names. The Giant and the Giantess have immense craters; the Bee Hive and the Castle are so called on account of the shape of their cones; the Sawmill and the Lion reproduce faithfully, in their sounds, the sawmill in action and the lion roaring; Old Faithful spouts steam and water at regular intervals of sixty-four minutes, and has never been known to vary; Hell’s Half Acre is a crater of hissing steam; the Devil’s Paint Pot is a mud volcano which constantly changes its colors.
The Yellowstone Park contains the only truly wild buffalo herd to be found in the United States. It has the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone river, ten miles long, with walls in places 1,400 feet high, and a falls 310 feet high. In the southwest corner is the Bechler river, a surpassingly wild and beautiful region of one cascade after another. The park also contains numerous lakes, the Yellowstone, the Shoshones, and others; and several high mountain peaks. Some of these regions are so impassable that they have never been visited by more than a hundred white men, although all will be made available to the public in the near future.
Efforts have been made to seize part of the Bechler river region for irrigation purposes. There are always powerful financial interests anxious to seize anything that belongs to the people and to use it for private gain.
The management of the national parks has granted monopolies to a transportation company which holds the visitors to a fixed schedule of five minutes here or twenty minutes there.
The drivers of the cars are hoys who know nothing about the scenery, care less, and answer no questions. Private cars must pay a toll of $7.50 for going through the Yellowstone. It is alleged that poor visitors are discriminated against by the management.
Glacier—Zion—Grand Canyon
GLACIER National Park, Montana, has an area of 1,534 square miles and, like Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone, stands astride the Continental Divide. In a district a little larger than the state of Rhode Island are sixty glaciers, ranging in size from a few acres to several square miles.
There are 250 glacier-fed lakes; scores of cascades and waterfalls; numerous precipices overlooking yawning chasms thousands of feet deep; sedimentary rocks, twisted, jumbled and gorgeously colored; and, withal, a fine automobile road through this last home of that vanishing and greatly abused race, the Blackfeet Indians.
In the Glacier National Park are still some of the Rocky Mountain sheep and the Rocky Mountain goat. Here, too, are elk, deer, black and grizzly bears, and mountain lions. The new roads follow the old game trails, amid scenes of such primeval beauty as would make almost anyone gasp.
Zion National Park, in southwestern Utah, contains 120 square miles. Its attraction is Zion Canyon, with walls ranging from 800 to 2,000 feet. This park was established in 1919. From Zion National Park it is only a relatively short drive by automobile to:
Grand Canyon National Park, in northern Arizona, earth’s largest and noblest example of erosion. This canyon, one mile in vertical depth and thirteen miles from rim to rim, is gorgeously carved and colored, constituting it one of the natural wonders of the world. The park contains 958 square miles, and was established in 1919. More than 100,000 visitors come to see the Grand Canyon annually. The Kaibab Suspension Bridge, by means of which the trails on the sides of the canyon are connected near the water level, was built with the greatest difficulty. The cables were carried down by a corps of hardy mountain rangers, the only form of locomotion that could be used.
Rainier—Crater Lake—Lassen
jV/TOUNT Rainier National Park, in the state IXL of Washington, contains 324 square miles and embraces one of the most interesting singlepeak mountain systems in the world. Mount Rainier has twenty-eight glaciers, from 50 to 500 feet thick, and embracing in all some 48 square miles of glacier surface. Every year this area has more than 100,000 visitors. The park was established in 1899.
Crater Lake National Park, in the state of Oregon, occupies 249 square miles. Crater Lake itself is said to be the deepest and bluest accessible lake in the world. With sides 1,000 feet high it occupies the hole left after a large volcano had slipped back into the earth’s interior through its own rim. The park was established in 1902.
Lassen Volcano Park, California, embraces 124 square miles and contains within its limits the only active volcano in the United States proper. In the park area there are also hot springs and mud geysers. The park was established in 1916.
Yosemite—Sequoia—General Grant
HRHE far-famed Yosemite National Park, California, occupies 1,125 square miles, and contains what is considered to be one of the most remarkable gorges in the world. At the head of the gorge, which is seven miles long and enclosed within granite walls 3,000 to 5,000 feet high, the Merced river plunges over two precipices, which are 600 and 400 feet high respectively. The Bridal Veil malms a leap of 630 feet and tumbles over 300 feet of additional cascade, while the Virgin’s Tears fall 1,000 feet.
The name Yosemite (pronounced yo-sem' -ity) is an Indian name for the huge grizzly bears that are even yet found in the Yosemite region. The valley itself was discovered by white men in 1851, when they followed a band of troublesome Indians into it. The park Avas established in 1890, and next to the Rocky Mountain National Park of Colorado and the Yellowstone it has the largest number of visitors of any of the national parks. Private cars pay a toll of $5 for the use of the Yosemite roads.
The Sequoia National Park, California, area 252 square miles, contains more than a million Big Trees, 12,000 of which are over ten feet in diameter. Some are more than thirty feet in diameter and are about 6000 years old—the largest and oldest living things on earth. The park was established in 1890; and at the same time there was also established the General Grant National Park, California, four square miles area, created to preserve the General Grant Tree, thirty-five feet in diameter.
Hawaii—Mount McKinley—Bedloe
HE Hawaii National Park is in three sections, aggregating 187 square miles. Two of these are located on Hawaii and the third on Maui. Mauna Loa is the largest living volcano in the world; while Kilauea, with its lake of fire, has been active for a century and draws visitors from all over the world. The park was established in 1916.
Ilawaiians expect to see an addition made to the national park area, which will embrace the Waimea Canyon, ten miles long and three thousand feet deep with side canyons, making in all about twenty-five square miles. The walls are colored with deep reds and browns, eroded after the manner of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Mount McKinley National Park, in Alaska, covers 2,645 square miles and is scenically the world’s loftiest mountain, since it rises more than 20,000 feet above sea level and 17,000 feet above the surrounding valleys. The park was established in 1917; but the trail into it is so difficult that only thirty-four visitors entered it with saddle and pack ojitfits in one year. It •will be a long time before this park will be generally accessible.
Bedloe Park, the tiny island in NewT York harbor whereon stands the Statue of Liberty, is a newly established national park, the smallest of them all.
Central and Bronx Parks
E CANNOT attempt any extended notice of the many beautiful and wonderful state and civic parks which are the pride of their respective localities. A thousand localities might very properly claim space in any such notice. But we will mention one or two.
For instance, there is Central Park, in the heart of New York City. The site was purchased in 1856, at which time it was a swampy, rocky district of pigsties and shanties. To make it beautiful required the expenditure of about $40,000,000. But the money was well spent; for 30,000,000 visit the park annually, and. today it is one of the beauty spots in New York City.
The park has 840 acres and eighty gardeners. The soil is poor, necessitating many tree plantings annually. There are so many visitors that they are a strain upon the park’s hospitality. The workers employed are not sufficient to keep the park reasonably free from papers, food, banana skins, orange peelings and bottles. In hottest weather the poor are permitted to sleep in the parks, and properly so. At such times an extra force of police is employed to protect the sleepers.
In order to save the park from ruin, it has been necessary to plant in certain places hedges of buckthorn, white fhorn and other varieties of thorn, including the long-spiked, aurelia. Only by these means can certain typos of people be prevented from taking short cuts and thus mutilating the grass-covered areas. •
Bronx Park, New York City, where the zoological specimens are kept, has a very fine zoo where the children of the great metropolis can see sheep and coves and oxen, besides many other creatures which were not so familiar to their ancestors. The annual visiting list of this park is 2,500,000. '
Sometimes the parkway authorities get after despoilers of the scenery along lines of justice calculated to make the offenders think. One of the park police compelled a motorist to walk back four miles and pick up the candy wrappers which he had been throwing out of his machine as he sped along. Next time he will probably put them into his pocket.
The proposition is often made to remove the prisons and asylums from Ward’s, Welfare and Randall’s Islands, in the East River alongside New York City, and turn these over to the people for park purposes. The suggestion is a good one.
A Few State Park Items
rpi-IE Long Island State Park Commission is planning to secure the tip of Long Island, Montauk Point, for park purposes. The island ends in a sharp, stony bluff, topped with a lighthouse, banded dark and white, which can be seen from the New England steamers as they enter and leave Long Island Sound. The bluffs on the south shore of Montauk Point are one of the most picturesque bits of scenery on the North Atlantic Coast.
Midway to Montauk Point, or hardly that, the same commission has secured for park purposes the George C. Taylor estate. Mr. Taylor was an interesting character in his day. He wanted a herd of elk on his estate, and actually had them. Even today a hundred deer are browsing safely on the lands which he purchased and set aside for their use.
The Indiana State Park Commission will convert into a state park the Indiana sand dunes, a narrow strip of land only an hour’s ride out of Chicago. The sands of the duneland are not like ocean sands but are more like fine flour, so fine that they creak when walked upon.
It is said that in the duneland the “dead” dunes (i. e., the ones not constantly shifting with the winds) present a remarkable combination of plants, trees and flowers from widely separated latitudes, making it one of the world’s most interesting botanical centers.
The World Kaleidoscope
[Radiocast from Watchtower WBBR on a wave
length of 426.4 meters by the Editor.]
Pitiful Condition of Passaic Textile Workers
AN EXAMINATION of 400 of the striking textile workers of Passaic shows that, owing to the wretched wages, tuberculosis is hvelve times higher than for 16,000 policy holders examined by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; six times greater than among 50,000 garment workers; five times the rate for printers and three times the rate among furriers.
The Aluminum Company of America
THE President and the Secretary of the
Treasury have often expressed the idea that large aggregations of capital are desirable. They seem to have had their wishes w’ell realized in the case of the Aluminum Company of America, of vdiich Mr. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, is the guiding spirit and the patron saint. It is claimed that the total investment in this company was less than $3,000,000, but that its assets and cash dividend together amount to more than $136,000,000. '
Will a Deflation of Labor Be Attempted?
ACCORDING to Commerce and Finance a prominent group of Wall Street men have agreed that the next step that must be taken is to deflate labor. That able paper then suggests what we believe to be the fact, that the deflating of labor would actually Idll the goose that lays the golden egg. Put the common people on starvation wages and the present tremendous American prosperity would pass in a night. To spend money people must have it to spend. Profits can be made when the people are spending freely; but when they have no margin, prosperity is done.
Texas Maintains Freedom of Citizens
A LITTLE while ago it looked as if parents everywhere would be compelled to submit to having the nonsensical doctrine of evolution hammered into their children through the textbooks used in the schools. Stoutly maintaining that those who believe in God still have some rights in this world, the lawmakers of Texas have excluded from the state textbooks theories which have as their objective the destruction of faith in their Creator.
Liberty Dead at Concord
TN THE minds of many people historic Concord, Mass., stands for what America stands for, including .liberty and freedom of speech. Supposing such to be the case the Young People’s Peace Conference assembled there, but were forthwith turned out of one church; and when another opened its doors they were warned by the Concord Legion to desist. After a week of intermittent stoning and fusillades with rotten eggs the peace delegates gave up their attempt to enjoy their liberties and left town.
Bottom Out of Florida Boom
rp HE bottom seems to be pretty well out of the
Florida boom, as everybody expected it would be by this time. The effort to turn an entire state, and a large state at that, into suburban lots was bound to hit a snag some time. The really valuable pieces of real estate in Florida are as valuable as ever, but the artificial boom is over. Many hanks have gone down in the crash.
Bid Not Want His Name Known
THE true hero is always more anxious to do his deed of heroism than to get his name into the papers. New Rochelle, New York, or its vicinity, has such a hero in the person of an aviator w’ho saved two from drowning and when asked his name replied, “Forget it/’ and flew off unidentified. Flying a hydroplane he saw the two men struggling in the water, and dropped down just in time to keep them from going under. -
Charitable Institutes are Profitable
TN ADVERTISING for subscriptions for a $3,000,000 loan for the extension of Roman Catholic hospitals, asylums, schools and institutional homes in Germany, the advertisers point out that while these institutions are not run for profit, they nevertheless do produce a profit, derived principally from payments received from Insurance Societies operated by the German government. Investments of this nature are not subject to any charges under the Dawes plan.
Chattel Mortgages in Rockford
WE HAVE before us a list of the chattel mortgages issued in Rockford, Illinois, for the week ending March 25th last. One hundred and four persons gave such mortgages: eighty-two of them were for automobiles, nineteen for furniture, three for business equipment. We have also the list in the same city for the week ending April first. In that week there were ninety-eight mortgages. Seventy-one of them were for automobiles, twenty-five for furniture, two for business equipment. These figures give some idea of the widespread purchase of goods on the installment plan, and of how large a Vlace automobiles play in such purchases.
Increased State and Municipal Expenditures ' THE federal government has reduced its expenditures by about $1,000,000,000 'a year compared to what it was in 1921, but the expenditures of states and municipalities in the United States have so greatly increased that the total expenditures of all three were greater in 1925 than they were four years earlier. Ambitious and far-reaching road building and education programs are the principal items in the increased expenditures.
Lewistown’s Honor Board
T EWISTOWN, MONTANA, has a so-called Honor Board, of which forty leading business houses of the city are members. The most trifling debt owed to any of these concerns results in a veiled threat from the Honor Board that immediate payment must he made or every one of the forty concerns will withhold credit,, In effect the Honor Board maintains an effective blackist which in other lines is illegal. Chambers of Commerce elsewhere perform like services for their members.
The Glorification of Murderers
A MURDERER with a high school training was put to death in Georgia. At his funeral, which was held in Quincy, Illinois, it is said that no church in the city was large enough to hold the crowds which attended. Accordingly the services were held in a park. The casket was smothered with flowers, etc., etc., ad nauseam. What is at the bottom of this glorification of murderers? The answer is, The glorification of militarism and the neglect of the Bible.
Causes of Crime
<£TpASCISM” is a word derived from
J- “fasces”, the symbol of ancient Roman authority. The “fasces” were a bundle of rods, symbolical of beating, bound up along with an executioner’s axe. Curiously enough, just at this time, when the whole world is interested in Fascism, and wondering whereto this peculiar form of anarchy will lead, the United States government bears this very symbol of Fascism on its dimes of the date of 1924. One wonders if this design is by the same artist that decorated one issue of $1 bills so freely with crucifixes and other insignia of Roman Catholicism.
More Efficient Handling of Mails
THE handling of the United States mail, once the pride of the world, is getting back to its old high standard of efficiency. In some lines there is improvement, particularly in the handling of mails from incoming European steamers. The mails from these steamers, picked up at Quarantine, are often delivered in Cleveland or Boston before the passengers are ashore.
Uncle Sam Getting Ready for Trouble
THAT Uncle Sam is taking no chances if something should start somewhere affecting his interests seems borne out by the provision made for new airplanes and dirigibles. The bill which has been approved calls for the construction of 1947 planes of all types, 1,000 of which are to be available at all times for service with the Navy. The bill authorizes the construction of two gigantic dirigibles for naval service, each three times the size of the Shenandoah.
How to Be Sure of Death
IT IS claimed that a sure method of determining if death of a human being has actually occurred is to pass a strand of blue thread through a fold in the skin. If left for 30 minutes and if life is extinct the thread Will turn yellow, due to the fact that at death the blood, previously alkaline, turns acid.
Warnings of a Dermatologist
Dr. Charles Pabst, dermatologist of the Greenpoint Hospital of Brooklyn, is reported to have said:
Ten million American flappers are doomed to a haggard and anemic middle life by the craze for boyish forms. They are making sure of vinegar-visaged old age. The craze for flat forms is ruining the race. Young girls are swallowing poisonous drugs to prevent putting on flesh which nature intends they should wear.
Inexpensive and Practical Beautifiers
EXPERTS in beauty culture claim that some of the very fruits and vegetables which help, through good digestion, to make healthier skins, are also efficacious when applied externally. This is claimed for the juices of the tomato and the strawberry; and in the case of the tomato the canned juice may be used, if canned in glass. It is also claimed that, after cleansing the face, a cut cucumber rubbed on it is beneficial as an astringent and bleach.
New Usages of Ultra Violet Rays rpiIE New York Times lists some of the many -*- interesting uses to which ultra violet rays may now be put besides the production of many wonderful effects on the theatrical stage. A new use is the immediate detection of cotton threads in supposedly all wool cloth, detection of counterfeit money or other documents, the deciphering of palimpsest or twice-written manuscripts and, most important of all, the production of vitamines in foods and the healing of diseases.
Asphyxiated Man Restored to Life
A PASADENA man, Ross Prettyman, turned on a gas heater and forgot to light it.
The result was that he was found dead on the floor of his bathroom. Police and firemen were summoned. They pumped twelve tanks of oxygen into him. Not a sign of a heart beat was observed for five hours; but after eight hours of steady work the man revived, and has recovered completely. Hairy stories that he went to heaven or hell meantime are now in order.
An Interesting Vaccination Story
THE first number of a Chicago magazine tells the following story:
The Dallas, Texas, Chamber of Commerce engaged a special train for a trip to Mexico. At the Mexican border they were told that they would all have to be vaccinated if they went on into Mexico. They refused vaccination, cancelled their special train at great financial loss, and the Mexicans lost a lot of money the Dallas folks were ready to spend with them, while the members of the Chamber of Commerce lost their vacation trip. About that time, the American Medical Association, which is supposed to believe implicitly in vaccination, or the inoculation of pus from a diseased calf into the clean blood of human beings, was holding its annual convention in the city of Dallas, Texas. It was announced that a series of excursions to various places in Mexico had been arranged for the members of the American Medical Association without the necessity of their being vaccinated.
All we can say is that the new magazine has some nerve; for it takes a lot of nerve to tell such an interesting and presumably truthful story on such a touchy subject as vaccination.
Britain’s Impossible Financial Load
BEAT Britain’s interest on war debts and expenditure on armaments is 65% of the total national expenditure, and ten times the -amount spent on the entire education system. The pre-war debt of Britain was only twice the amount of the present interest payment.
Dr. Prince Makes a Hit at Belgrade
DR. John D. Prince, one time professor of Slavonic languages at Columbia University but now United States minister to Yugoslavia, made a hit with the king when presented at court. The king congratulated him, saying that this was the first case in which any diplomat from a foreign -country had conversed in pure Serbian. This seems to us a good custom. Diplomats should be required to speak the language of the country to which they are accredited.
Fighting the Reformation Over
THE Reformation is being fought over again in Britain, and the Protestants are losing. There is a growing body of Anglo-Catholics in the Episcopal church who insist that the presence of our Lord in the Holy Sacrament is the presence of our Lord Himself. Some of the bishops have common sense enough to franldy refer to this under the terms “magic” and “fetish”. Certainly anybody ought to be able to see that when our Lord said, “Take, eat; this is my body,” He could not have meant His literal body, which was as yet unbroken in their midst.
Tuggers in the Somerset Fields
IN THE Somerset (England) coal fields the seams are too thin to admit of the use of ponies; and it is said that no less than 1,500 boys and young men are employed as tuggers. On all fours, with ropes around their waists and chains between their legs, they pull the coal through the workings. Doctors in the district have commented on the fact that these boys have many septic sores, due to the ropes rubbing off the skin. It is against the law in Britain to work a pony if it has bleeding sores and abraded skin; and agitation is now being made to lift the boys up to the pony level. The boys get ninepence an hour, eighteen cents.
Germany’s Low Rates for Air Travel
ERMANY has the most highly developed system of air travel, fifty planes a day departing from and arriving at her serdromes. The fares for flights in German planes are the same as for first class railway travel, being materially lower than in any other country.
The High Standards of Trajan
TT WAS said in Trajan’s time (100 A. D.) as his highest praise, that every man might think what he pleased, speak what he thought, and that the only persons who were hanged were the spies and informers, who used in former reigns to make it their trade to discover crimes.
Big European Steel Trust
BY methods with which Americans are so familiar, Europe is now to have its counterpart of the Steel Trust on this side of the water. Railmakers of Britain, France, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany have agreed on a standard price for their product, about $30 per ton, and will divide the business on a pro rata basis.
Swedes Must Learn to Swim
WITH a view of cutting down the number of deaths by drowning in Sweden, which amount to about 340 annually, the Swedish government is planning to make swimming compulsory. Teachers in the schools must be swimmers. Boys must be swimmers in order to pass their examinations. Government officials must be swimmers. All participants in athletic contests must be swimmers.
The Chevalier de la Barre
TWO hundred years ago the Chevalier de la Barre, a youth of a noble French family, was burned at the stake for refusing to kneel when a religious procession came along. Ashamed of the crime, decent men erected a statue in memory of the noble young man. This statue was recently thrown from its pedestal, showing that the spirit of two hundred years ago still survives and that if possible burning at the stake for daring to think and act independently on religious matters would still be the order of the day.^
Driving Airplanes through Cloudbursts
ALTHOUGH! fifty lines of airplanes now radiate from Berlin to all parts of Europe, yet in three months operation of these routes not a plane has failed to make its scheduled flight, and not an accident of any kind has occurred. In some instances the planes have made their way through severe storms, mid in one instance the plane landed during a cloudburst.
Hohenzollern Estates Not Confiscated
GERMAN voters to the number of 15,889,000
cast their votes for confiscation of the IIo-henzollern estates, and 542,000 voted against confiscation. But, as the total vote should have been 20,000,000 in order to be effective, the net result is that the estates will not be confiscated. The ex-Kaiser, however, thinking over the figures, has agreed to settle for seventeen percent of his original demand.
Little Snow at the Poles '
THE Department of Agriculture, after calling attention to the fact that the moon does not cause either wet or dry weather, and proving it by the very reasonable observation that if the signs were trustworthy the same kind of weather would exist around the entire earth on any given date, winds up by noting that according to the signs the poles should both be very wet, yet the polar regions are characterized by so little snow or rain that they rank among the arid regions of the world.
An Honor to American Nobility
AN HONOR to American nobility is plain
Jeremiah Smith, of Boston, reorganizer of Hungary’s finances. In two years he has placed Hungary’s finances on such stable basis that the Hungarian government can now handle the problems without his aid. Presented with $100,000 as payment for his two years of work, Smith refused to take a cent, either for his work or for his living expenses, declaring that the affection of the Hungarian people was all he craved. Good for Jeremiah! He is an honor to the true royalty of the world. Incidentally, he refused, of course, to accept any of the decorations or other titles which the Hungarian people would have liked to lavish upon him. The Hungarian parliament has officially hailed Smith as the savior of their country.
Coal in the Philippines
npHE Philippines are so far away that not much news from them creeps into the Western world. Some who have been there did not return with rosy reports. Recent reports, however, show that the Philippines, besides their treasures of hemp, sugar, cocoa, mahogany, gums, spices, rubber and dyewoods, contain more than 68,000,000 tons of good coal, some of which is a good quality of anthracite.
Every Day in Every Way Coue
TAk. Emil Coue, inventor of the phrase “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better”, died last July at the age of 69. Now every day, in every way, he is getting deader and deader.
Wolves a Menace in Russia
HpHE Nev/ York Times reports that wolves have become such a menace in Russia that the Soviet government is making systematic efforts to reduce their numbers. During the last winter they killed a considerable number of human beings and about 1,000,000 cattle. Their attacks upon dogs have been the means of spreading rabies throughout all Russia’s greatest cities.
Clerical Government Ends in Lithuania
IN LITHUANIA tyranny is for the present overthrown. The Clerical government has been ejected from power, the prisons have been opened, and the illegal opening of private mail, which is always a feature of Clerical government, has been discontinued. The combined Clerical parties have only thirty deputies in Congress as against thirty-eight Socialists.
Greece’s Government by Dictator
UNDER a dictator people have to do as one man decides. Strikers in Greece were deported to an island in the JEgean sea. until they agreed to return to work and stop all forms of agitation. Political opponents arc treated in the same way. Probably people who suffer injustices are still allowed to think as they please; but in the good old days of the Dark Ages, towards which civilization in Europe is so swiftly rushing, they could not do even that. The Inquisition stood in the way, with torture as the alternative for daring.to use their brains. But many people of today would be exempt froia torture on any such grounds.
An Odd Kind of Missionary
NEWS dispatches from Tokio report that an . American, medical missionary in Korea, having caught a Korean boy stealing apples on the grounds of the mission, seized the lad and branded him on the forehead with nitrate of silver, marking him with the Korean word for thief. This is a nice kind of business for a missionary to be in.
Mirage of Icebergs in Red Sea
THE New York Times contains account of a mirage of icebergs seen recently in the Red Sea at a time when the temperature was over 100. Not only did the lookout report ice on the port bow when there was no ice within 8,000 miles, but the captain of the vessel reported seeing a number of small bergs drift into view followed by a large one which was so clear that he could see blue and green veins in the ice. All the passengers on the ship saw the mirage, the report states.
More Italian Liberties Go
THE cords continue to tighten about the Italian people. Mussolini has added one hour to the working day, has prohibited the building of all private homes of the good sort for one year, has prohibited the opening of new cafes for an indefinite period, has forbidden the publication of any newspaper with more than six pages, and has issued orders for the mixing of locally produced alchohol with all gasoline used for motor cars.
The Two Wildcats Unleashed
THE Medical World in a recent issue says in part:
The great war is found to have unleashed two tigers. One is quiet for the present, though it has clawed and roared somewhat effectively. The other is now roaring vehemently, and its voice is an omen of evil. These tigers are Turkey and Italy. The “Caesar complex” that obsesses the erstwhile decrepit Italy will bring about its downfall like that of the Imperial German government. The statements emanating from authority in Italy show the future trend of events in. that country. There is no use to hide the truth. The world must be prepared to defend itself and its newly established principles against aggression by the two wildcats.
Find a Red Diamond
SOUTH Africa reports the discovery of a fed diamond, a most unusual stone. The stone, which is of six-carat size, is estimated worth about $4,000. Very few red diamonds have ever been found. This was discovered at the mines at Kimberley.
The Way They do Things in Mecca
TN Mecca, in the kingdom of the Hejaz, any one who fails to observe the public prayer on Friday is put into prison. Any one found drinking wine is confined in jail from one to several months. Any one who manufactures wine, sells it, or allows it to be drunk on his premises is imprisoned for six months to two years, and has his store and all its contents confiscated.
Asia Using More Sugar
SUGAR growers, who have been losing money for some time, are taking comfort in the fact that the consumption of sugar in Asia is steadily increasing, due to the rising living standards. Asia raised and used 3,700,000 tons of sugar in 1913, and 5,700,000 last year. Now she is beginning to import small quantities from Cuba.
Chinese Avoid Western Christianity
Bishop H. A. Boaz, southern missionary to China and Korea, says that Christianity, as practised by western nations in their intercourse with the Orient, does not strike the Chinese as being worthy of adoption, but rather as something to be shunned. He reports a growing antagonism to missionary work in China.
Child Slaves in Shanghai
TN THE 274 mills of all sorts in Shanghai and vicinity there are 22,440 Chinese children under twelve years of age employed. Very many of these children are not over six. They work twelve hours a day, with average earnings of ten cents for the twelve hours. But they are paid no money. The contractor gets that and miserably houses and feeds them, so- that his profit per child amounts to about $1 per month. Efforts will be made to prohibit the employment of children under ten years of age and to give each child twenty-four hours of continuous rest every fourteen days.
Miles Darden vs. Og of Bashan
A SUBSCRIBER calls attention to our statement that Miles Darden, seven and one-half feet high, weighing 1,000 lbs., "was without doubt the largest man that ever lived” and wants to know what we are going to do with Og of Bashan, of whose bedstead it says, “Nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it.”-—Deuteronomy 3:11.
We do not know much about Mr. Og, even if we do know the length of his bedstead. He may have been tall enough to fit the bed and he may not. Maybe Mr. Og slept in one end of the bed and his friends in the other, or he may have slept in it crosswise. We have to dodge to keep from getting hit.
It does not seem just fair to compare a man with a bedstead. We are invited to compare the height and weight of Mr. Darden with the length and breadth of Mr. Og’s bedstead, but we did not say anything about bedsteads. If we wanted to get up an argument on this we would insist on knowing the size of the slats in both bedsteads. Mr. Darden weighed 1,000 lbs., and the slats under his bed must have been some slats.
Not only do we not know how tall Mr. Og was, but we do not even know how tall Mr. Darden would have been if he had been rolled out. It does not seem exactly fair to say that a clothes pole is more of a giant than a barrel, simply because it is longer. In all conscience, the barrel is entitled to some notice because of its generous capacity sidewise.
Those Wicked Lilies
By Peter Bunn {Glasgow)
HOW can any imagine that they will secure the “prize of the high calling” who walk through life blind to all the beauty of nature? Did not our Lord say, “Consider the lilies, how they grow”?
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PLEASE open your Bible at the first chapter of Genesis. Christ is mentioned in the twenty-sixth verse. Let us read it:
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
When Jehovah speaks of Himself alone He uses the pronoun "me". Thus, in the first one of the ten commandments He says, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20: 3) But when Jehovah includes another person He uses the term "us". The expression “Let us make man” includes another person. That other person is Christ, because “without Him [Christ] was not anything made that was made.”—John 1:3.
Jehovah furnished the plans and specifications for making the first man. Jesus said, “The very hairs of your head are all numbered.” (Matthew 10: 30) Who that sees a beautiful human creature, man or woman, can doubt that
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the Creator had a design for the perfect man, which involved the proper placing of every hair ! The Lord Jesus made Adam according to Jehovah’s plans.
There was a time Avhen Jehovah was alone. There came a time when He created the One designated in the Scriptures as “the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God”. (Revelation 3:14) After the creation of the Son all further creative works were carried on by the Word, or Logos, as Jesus was then called. (John 1:1) But Jehovah furnished the plans, the ideas.
The fact that Jesus was the actual creative agent does not mean that He took God’s place. Hence St. Paul says: “To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.”—1 Corinthians 8: 6.
The first three verses of the Gospel according to St. John, already referred to, tell of the relation which the Son bore to the Father in the work of creation. A literal and accurate translation of the passage reads: '
“In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with the God, and the Logos was a god. The same was in the beginning with the God. All things were made by him; and without him was not one thing made that was made.” Verse ten of the same chapter tells us that “the world was made by him”.
There is a somewhat similar passage in the first chapter of the epistle to the Colossians, verses fifteen and sixteen, where St. Paul says of Christ that He “is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things were created by him, and for him.”
This greatness of the Son does not detract from the greatness of the Father. The Son had a beginning, but the Father had no beginning/ “From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.” (Psalm 90:2) None need fear that the Father has given His proper position in the universe to another. He tells us to the contrary, “I am Jehovah: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another.”—Isaiah 42: 8.
It may be new to some that our Lord Jesus was the only creature personally brought into existence by the Father, yet St. John calls Him “the only begotten of the Father” (John 1:14), and also says that “God sent his only begotten into the world”. (1 John 4:9) Jehovah Himself declared of Jesus, “I will make him, my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.”— Psalm 89:27.
It is difficult for some to understand that Jesus had an existence before He became a man. But Jesus said, “I know whence I came”; “I am from above”; “I proceeded forth and came from God”; and “Before Abraham was I am.” (John 8:14, 23,42, 58) We remember also that He prayed, “Father, glorify thou me with . . . the glory which I had with thee before the world was” (John 17: 5), and that He asked the question, “What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?”—John 6: 62.
The First and the Second Adam ■
THE first man’s name was Adam. He is mentioned as such twenty-one times in the Old Testament and nine times in the New. Heathen philosophers, after six thousand years of falling away from the divine likeness, and failing to recognize in themselves the godlike qualities of the perfect man, have libeled the monkeys by claiming them as their ancestors. Do not take these men too seriously, no matter how many D’s they have after their names. Without the Bible as a compass the wisest man is but a fool.
Adam was perfect. St. Paul compares this first man with the Lord Jesus Christ, the new head of the human family, as He will be at His second advent. He says, “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.”—1 Corinthians 15:45,47.
Now turn to the second chapter of Genesis. Look sharply at the twenty-first verse. It reads, “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord had taken from man, made he a woman.” Here is a second picture of Christ.
As Adam was caused to fall into deep sleep, his side was opened and his bride was thus formed, so Christ was caused to pass into the deep sleep of death and forth from His riven side comes His bride, the true church, the one who is to share with Him His glorious home and dominion, and the one who, as His companion, shall have the privilege of bestowing life upon countless others in the times of regeneration just at hand.
The Lord promised to the twelve apostles that “in the regeneration when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of Iris glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” (Matthew 19:28) In the regeneration all of the church will have important work to perform. By the church we mean those of every nation and denomination, or of no denomination, who are so grateful for what Christ did for them on Calvary that they have covenanted to live for Him who died for them; and they do live for Him.
Many of the early church were Jews, but in later times most of them have been Gentiles. Hence St. James tells “how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name”. (Acts 15:14) He explains that God’s object in doing this is “that the residue of men might seek after the Lord”. (Acts
15:17) In other words, as soon as the bride of Christ is completed the regeneration of the world will be in order.
Even those Jews who did not accept Christ at the first advent, and who have since rejected Him, will yet have an opportunity. to do so: and that opportunity will come at the hands of the bride of Christ. The apostle gives an account of the matter in Romans 11: 25, 26, 30, 31.
“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles <be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. For* as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy, they also may obtain mercy.”
The Seed of the Woman
HRIST is referred to in the third chapter of Genesis. Verse 15, which is addressed to
Satan, the serpent, the deceiver, says, “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.” The seed of the woman that is to bruise the head of Satan is Christ; not Jesus alone, but the church with Him. Hence says the apostle, “The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.”—Romans 16: 20.
The bruising of Satan’s head will mean his destruction. Therefore the apostle also says of Christ Jesus: “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that hath the power of death, that is, the devil.”—Hebrews 2:14.
What hell would be like without the Devil to manage it is an item for the thoughtful. However, the Bible nowhere hints that Satan has ever been in hell. On the contrary, he is called “the prince of the power of the air” and his headquarters have been and still are in earth’s atmosphere. It is here, and not in some remote hell, that “your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour”. (1 Peter 5: 8) Thank God that Satan’s head is soon to be bruised, and that his powers to deceive men shall be brought wholly to an end.
The Lamb Slain
HITE probably there is another reference to Christ in Genesis 3:21, where vre read that “unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them”. The providing of this covering implied a death. Christ Jesus was the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, and quite probably the death of the animal that provided the robes for Adam and Eve represented the death of the Lamb of God who died for you and for me and for all mankind.
Thus in the first three chapters of Genesis we see Christ alluded to four times: Once in the word “us” (Genesis 1:26), “Let us make man in our image”; once as represented by the first man Adam when his bride was taken from his side; once as the seed which is to crush the head of the serpent ; and once as the lamb slain to provide coverings for the fallen pair in the garden of Eden.
Then in the fourth chapter of Genesis we note the story of Cain and Abel. In the New Testament we have the statement that “by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous”. (Hebrews 11:4) We also observe St. John’s remarks respecting “Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And ■wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.”—1 John 3:12.
Thus in the first three chapters of Genesis rve note that Cain’s offering to the Lord was of the fruits of the earth, virile Abel’s offering was of a lamb from his flock. No doubt the brothers had bestowed an approximately equal amount of care on these offerings, but Abel’s offering was “by faith”, that is to say, he had first sought the mind of the Lord as to -what would be acceptable.
Now we can see the reason why Abel’s offering was more appropriate. It was because that lamb from his flock typified the necessity of the death of a Redeemer as a sacrifice for sin. Cain’s effort to justify himself by the offering of things not approved by Goel for that purpose represents the futility of attempting to approach God in any other than His appointed way, namely, through belief in and heart reliance upon Jesus as “the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world”.
.But Abel himself represented Christ Jesus also. Was not Jesus slain by His own brethren? And these brethren who slew Him, were they not religious? Very much so. They even included the high priest of the time in which he lived, and many of the under priests. And why was He slain? Was there any evil in Him? None at all. He was slain by the religionists of His time for the very same reason that Cain slew his brother.
“And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.” (1 John 3:12) The priests’ works were evil in the sense that they had overlooked the weightier matters of the law, such as love and mercy, while these were the very things which Christ came to proclaim and whiich He exemplified in His many acts of raising the dead, healing the sick, cleansing the lepers and casting out the demons.
Thus Abel stands for or represents the true Son of God while Cain represents the professed one, ready on slight pretext to go to war with his brother and to kill him in the name of religion, if it seems expedient for him to do so. During the World War there were millions of Cains and extremely few Abels. It takes far more real courage to be killed for principle than it does to turn murderer and kill somebody for fear he will kill or persecute you.
Christ Pictured by the Ark
0 ONE who believes that the Bible is the Word of God or who believes that Jesus is the Son of God can doubt the story of Noah and the flood, told in the sixth, seventh and eighth chapters of Genesis. Jesus referred to this in detail in Matthew 24:37-39, saying, “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming [Greek presence] of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away: so shall also the coming [Greek, presence] of the Son of man be.”
If there never was any Noah, nor any flood, nor any ark that rode upon its waters, then Jesus was mistaken, St. Paul was mistaken, St. Peter was mistaken, St. Matthew was mistaken, Moses was mistaken, Isaiah was mistaken and Ezekiel was mistaken; for they all mention it. How comes it that Jesus, St. Paul, St. Peter, St. Matthew, Moses, Isaiah and Ezekiel are on one side of this question and so many modern preachers on the other?
Accepting the Bible statement as correct, and believing as we do that the Babylonian and other accounts are merely plagiarized from the true Bible story, we see in the ark another picture of Christ. The ark was the sole means by which the people were carried over from the “world that was” to the “world that now is”, and thus it represented Christ Jesus and the means which He is taking to establish the new order of things in the earth.
As evidence that this is the correct view we note St. Peter’s reference to “the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water”, and his supplementary statement that “the like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us”.—1 Peter 3: 20, 21.
The thought seems to be that as Noah and his family were saved by being in the ark, so the Lord’s people are saved by being in Christ. Be it noted that elsewhere in the Scriptures it is declared that true Christians are such because they are “baptized into Christ”, that is, they are immersed or buried into His will. Thus it is plain that the ark is intended to represent Christ.
Isaac a Type of Christ
TN THE New Testament we are plainly informed that Isaac was a type of the Christ company, of which Jesus is the Head. The apostle says, “We brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.” (Galatians 4:28) Let us examine this picture a moment.
In the type Abraham represented the heavenly Father. As Abraham was made heir of the whole world, so “the earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof”. As Abraham in the type sacrificed his only son, so in the antitype the heavenly Father offered up His only begotten Son, Christ Jesus our Lord, to pay the wages (death) for Adam’s disobedience, so that He might be just and yet find a w*ay to give Adam another opportunity for life.
As Abraham sought a bride for Isaac from among his own kindred, so the bride of Christ is selected from those who have His spirit, those
who. like Him, are devoted to the doing of God’s will. .
As Abraham sent his servant Eliezer on the cpiest for one who would be suitable to be a bride for Isaac, so God sent the holy spirit forth into the earth to find the peculiar people, zealous of good works, who alone would be fit companions to all eternity for the Son of His bosom. .
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