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Social and Educational

Love's Symphom

Tire Statement of Mr. Bibo, ........

The Story of “Uncle Tom's Cibin'’ ............ 140

What Will They Tiiimc?

Finan ce —Comvi ite—Than groin aj ion

Rockefeller’s Gift to League . . .

I’a^nger-Cari j mg An plane Routes

The Cost of Selling Goods ....

Thi. American Piorie Loin to bi Ropbui

Political—Domestic and I’cipiign

Changes in Light Years in Palfc'tine ........... 131

Judge Campbell Stands for America ........... 132

A Lev, Mohds Awi tWib ................ 137

Home and IIealhl

Fargo's Increased Health ....... ....... 133

Smokers of (igai ettes ................. 134

Cowffivror Vtilis ob White vnu Blov n Silvi ....... 138

Science and Invention

The Much Despised Skim Milk ............. 132

Haive^ier Company Announces Conoi>-Pi(ker ........ J32

Tie Automotive Harvester ............... 132

An Expert WTiittjjtj ........ . ...... 135

Teal el and Mn?li,ia\y

Oni, Thing obAnothjk, . ............... 1"1

An Illephimt Shows Good boime ............. 133

How the Equi*mt Plan Would Work ........... 135

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One Thing or Another

zt Contrast of 1910 and 1927

A STRIKING contrast of l'J10 and 1927 is affoided by the fact that the prespit premium for insurance on jewelry salesmen’s sample trunk's is thirteen and one-half times what it was before the world was made safe for hypocrisy.

Ecuador Follows Mexican Example

THE government of Ecuador, following the example of Mexico, has issued a decree forbidding the entry into that country of all foreign churchmen, irrespective of their religious faiths. The government has recently deported a number of foreign-born priests charged with conspiring against the government.

Flowers Made to Talk

IT SEEMS incredible that flowers can he made to talk, but at the recent electrical show in

New York the sounds which are produced in the plant as it grov s. and as it throws off waste matter, were developed and magnified millions upon millions of times until they roared like thunder.

Increased Attendance at Military Camos "DUSINESS men are taking more and more to ' the idea of military training. From 1921 to the present time the attendance at the summer military camps has increased until now it is four times what it was only six years ago. The attendance this year was 39,676.

Improvement in Sausage Industry

CHEMISTRY has improved the sausage industry by providing sausage casings of shiny, transparent, impalpable cellulose. This will make it unnecessary hereafter to import from China and elsewhere the intestines of hogs, never a desirable addition to the menu of human beings.

Steering the Women Right

TpOLLOAVING the example of the pope the

Seventh Day Adventists norv dictate women's dress. There must be no more bobbed hair, bright colors, rakish hats, earrings, variegated footwear, sleeveless dresses, ultra short skirts, vanity cases, miniature handbags, bright-colored handkerchiefs, dangling pieces of lace, etc. That is, maybe there won’t be.

Chctngcs in Eight Years in Palestine

RABBI a. H. Silver, of Cleveland, Ohio, has just returned after the second of two trips eight years apart to Palestine. Ue sajs: "The changes which I noted over eight years were amazing. From a small, backward Oriental province, Palestine has been transformed into a progressive country wherein modern standards \of life and thought are fast gaining ascendancy.

It is all a remarkable tribute to Jewish enterprise and enthusiasm. Jerusalem now has elec’ trie lights, running water, fine ^boulevards and many autos/’

End of Religious Show Business

THE religions show business as managed by , such figures as Billy Sunday and Aimee ’ Semple McPherson seems in a bad way. The " Federal Council of Churches of Christ in Ameri-' ca has declared against it, having discovered 1 that the membership won by high pressure 5 methods did not stick and having noticed also ■ that the collections were extremely large and ■ the glory went not to the preachers of the home • town but to those from afar. It rather looks as 1 if the tliree-ring-eircus type of evangelism has had its day. No one but the Devil will miss it. 131

The Much Despised Skim Milk

THE much despised skim-milk cheese is now -J- molded into lamp shades, paper cutters, combs, fountain pens, buttons and other objects. Great idea! All a family would need to do to insure against starvation would be to Jay in a large supply of collar buttons and combs. But they would need to have teeth like Towser in order to masticate their food.

Discoveries of Potash in Texas

IN 2IIDLAND County, Texas, drillers have found at about 2,000 feet below the surface vast deposits of potassium sulphate and polyhalite, which may result in making American farmers independent of the European producers of potash fertilizers. The same deposits were found three miles apart, indicating that the beds are of great size.

All Up with America Now

IT IS al? up with America now. After blessing

Cervera’s fleet which went to the bottom of the sea, and blessing the Old Glory and other plaims which went to the same place, the pope has now extended his blessing to the whole American nation. iVe Lave been afraid for a long time that he might do this, and now we know the jig is up. Nothing can save us.

IlcekefellePs Gift to League

yoHN 1). BocKErr.TAJ’.K, Jr., lias made the

League of Nations a gift of $2,000,000, to be med for constructing and endowing the League library. Before making the gift Mr. Rockefeller A said to have consulted the United States government, and to have received assurance that 1i.f action would meet with no objections on the part of the government.

II ho is Doss in .America? '

Floyd E. Thompson, a justice of the Illinois

Supreme Court, recently answered the question as to vlio is boss m America. Ue said: •'Those who would force tyranny upon us want to make us subjects of the Nation. We are not subjects. AVe are the sovereign rulers of the country. Because a measure is adopted and put on the statute books by those who misrepresent ns does not mean that we must obey,” The Judge seems to think that there are a few people in this country who do not know what a real American is, and that they ought to be duly informed.

Harvester Company Announces Cotton-Picker THE mere fact that the International Har--®- vester Company announces a cotton-picker for sale is evidence that the South is in for the greatest change in its history. While only a limited number of the pickers have been made, and they are still regarded as in a semi-experimental stage, they are still sufficiently advanced that their ultimate perfection and general use is assured. One of the machines, operated by two men, will do the work of twenty or mere*'' pickers.

The Automotive Harvester

THE motor-driven combined harvesting and -®~ threshing machine will now harvest and thresh an acre of grain for forty cents. It traverses the field at the rate of two to three miffis an hour, cutting a swath from eight to twenty feet wide. The use of these machines is d;«-placing the migratory labor wfliich in bygone years was a .marked feature of western fife. ■\Vitli their use two men can gather the siran from forty acres in one day. The cost of gathering has been cut from 30q to 15d per 1 mbel by this method. In Kansas a year ago were 8.000 of the combines in operation; Pis year there were 13,000.

Judge Campbell Stands for America

FEDERAL Judge Marcus B. Campbell of

Brooklyn thinkv it is about time for the people of this country to determine whether they live in America or elsewhere; and hence, recently, when prohibition agents brought into court two men charged vhh making hooch in their own homes and vhui Ie found out that t’e officers had invaded tl o Lornes without warra us, he gave orders that th( officers themselves should be arrested and pfficu d on trial charged with entering a priv.de home without a warrant. First thing you know somebodv will wake up in th *<e United States and find to their dismay that this is a land of the free, after all. We are not advocating the manufacture of illegal liquor, or any liquor; hut we do admire the stand of Judge Campbell. Gilt braid and brass buttons give no man the right to make laws. Let the police proceed with what they have to do, but let them do it in a legal manner or not at all. Otherwise, throw them out. Anarchy, disregard of law, is specially detestable in a police officer.

Fargo's Increased Health

TTttVE years ago Fargo, North Dakota, was •T selected as a city in which the Health Commissioner, the public schools, the Red Cross, the Tuberculosis Association, the physicians and the 'dentists should all work together to safeguard the health of the children. As a result Fargo is today in splendid condition. One interesting’ item in this connection is that the city now consumes ten times as much spinach as it did before the test began.

Passenger-Cerryinff Airp'aize Routes

HE passenger-carrymg airplane routes at present operating in the United States are: Dallas to Chicago, 995 miles; Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, 599 miles; Detroit to Cleveland, 155 miles; Los Angeles to Seattle, 1,073 miles; Pueblo to Cheyenne, 200 miles; Seattle to Victoria, 7S miles; San Franc Wo to Chicago, LS94 niiles; Chicago to New York, 718 miles; Louisville to Cleveland, 345 miles; New Orleans to Biloxi, 75 miles.

Why ars are Possible

i.oxzo B. Hoighion, American ambassador to Great Britain explains:

War Com not originate iioin time to time simply in a su'iden and unrontrollable inipul-e. bar is possible because the ma-ws are v filing to fight. But the^e conditions aic thernwhes an integral pait of tile problem. And that i‘--ue, is the outcome of a som of maneuvers bv v huh the masses concerned are hiougbt into pouf ions of oppo-ition. Obrioivdv, this maneaiering is not done bv flic iii.i'-es themselves. The mm< wring is done by little ground of men called government:-.

What Labor Warns ,

ENATOR Johnson of California quotes Samuel Gompers as having well said:

"What does Labor vant? It wants the earth and the fulness thereof. There is nothing too precious, there is nothing too beautiful, too lofty, too ennobling, unless it is within the scope and comprehension of Labor’s aspirations and wants. iWe want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less V vice; more constant work and less crime; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.”

Forty Years a Swindler

AN Iowa Baptist minister has just retired after forty years of service. In his speech after retirement he made the public statement that he did not believe that Moses received the ten commandments at the hand of God on Alt. Sinai. This man is a swindler. See for yourself Mark 9: 9,10. If the Son of God could endorse the laws put forth by Moses as having been given to him by Almighty God, v ho is this Baptist preacher that denies it?

An Elephant Shows Good Sense

IN Philadelphia an experiment was made in the Zoo, endeavoring to find how various animals react to various kinds of music. Classical music was found quieting and soothing. Violins uere quieting: saxophones and trumpets produced irritating effects. When jazz vas played in the vicinity of an elephant, she calmly dipped her trunk into a tank of water, and in disgust blew the water all over the players and put a slop to the irritating noise.

A Problem for Great Minds

FEW years ago hundreds of men wore engaged in the manufacture of five-gallon carboys. These men built homes, maintained families and were consumers of the country ‘s products. Now all the work that was done by all of these men put together is being done by one single machine. The problem for gnaj minds to solve is vhat becomes of the displaced num, and it is not such an insignificant problem as some have tried to make it appear. It is a ,eiil problem.

War Department Delivered the Pun

rpilE whole of America was sbriod v hen a J- little western girl wrote to the War Diyiiit-ment and asked for a baby brother, and it was sorry that the Department could not fill the order. But now the Department lias redeemed itself. A little boy saw the account of tin* little girl’s request. He thought maybe the gid asked for the wrong thing; so he asked for a dog instead. And the happy ending of the story is that in a few days, on orders from the Assistant Secretary of Wary a live Major in full uniform delivered the boy his pup, and claimed that it was one of the happiest moments of his life, ()£ course it was! That is the way to be happy.

Women in Hindu Mines

IN 1922 there were 78,806 worncm working in

Hindu mines, at wages of what amount, in American money, to 12^ per day of eight hours. The British government is demanding that these women he removed from the mines: and the mine owners are horrified, because, they say, it would increase the cost of mining.

The Cost of Selling Goods

THE I), n tmrnri Lhoi>o,niG has compiled from it* libtary data on the co>t* of selling goods in all the principal depaitmuit stoies doing a bus’iKSS of tj-’T.OOO or more per year. The figures show that counting salaries and wages, i-nt, a-b'erri-mm. tares, interest, supplies, traveling, communkations, repairs, insurance, bad drins. (Ic-preci-ition, professional services and urn lasrified item'-. the actual cost of selling goods is tventy-ulne peicent. In addition to tins the rtorelu eper, if he N to live, must add something foi himself and family in the way of profit. This explains vriiy there is such a differmwe between the v. holm ale and me retail prices. There i* no way of avoiding the difference, except to buy at viholes.?Io.

ZZoir the EtjjZt'.st Pion Would Work

HOW the Eoin: nt plan of finance ■would vork in i'eu of tlw present plan, vbieh i» putting all the weal ii of the country into tl e poek-c+s of the Morgen*. Kockc feller.-, du P< nt* and yiollons i* iidei.-'-tiiigiy set down in a ccuple of paragrapl’sin that journal, noni v Irch we quote:

“Say a young num coming of age desiics to go at once into bumiet- that requires some machinery awl Otho? equipment. Ue .trim- a hhi-tral Bank, and gri- a ri ak ho-’-k vrith a ciedit for his de posited note foi a definite peril.si of work. Ilf huy& the materials, he needs with cheeks E*ued against that deposit; and a* he fc<>lls hi* products th" riseriw lie gets thoiefor balance his He has med his own credit

v. iriiord paying iwor cst. As every one world be able to do that, there would he no one willing to pay am interest for the use of the ci edit of ant Ihor or others. No one uould prefer to pay for goods on installment prices rather than cash when they are able to issue their own cash; for their checks would bo as much cash as any money of today, since all cash consists of mere promises, real pay being nothing but human work.

Bishop Gore Executes the Apostles "BISHOP Gore of England has delivered him-■*-* self of the statement, “We are nourishing a vain hope if we suppose that the early chapters of Genesis or the stories about Daniel and Enoch are ever going to be accepted as history,”’ In view of the fact that Jesus Christ mentioned the Prophet Daniel by name as one v hose prophecy is specially noteworthy, and in view of the fact that the Apostle Paul mentioned Adam by name as the fir-t man and Eve as the first wo-*, man, and that Lr+h the apostles Paul and Jude mentioned Enorii with approval, it looks as if the Bishop had ;akni it inion himself to execute at least four of tin- apo--Ues. namely Matthew,. Peter, Paul and Jade and is sei iov.-ly considering the placing m BEhop Gore ahead of Jesus himself. Bishop Gou- is a plain out and out infidel, but unlike Inprsoll be earns his money by the betrayal of tb^ lie is hired to defend.

Smokers of Cigarettes

SMOKEDS or cigavdies spray the d< Iitate tissues of Lead, tin oat and lungs with i-ico~ tiim, ammonia, aerolien, furfurol, caihonmon-oxide, carbolic add, prussic arid and thiiteen other poisons. I’nimio acid is known as the deadliest of dings and is used in the manufacture of military puson gas. Furfurol is the poison in crude whiskey, said to be fifty times as poisonous as oidriaiy alcohol;it causes ataxia, tremors, tv itching, convulsions and pai alysis. Acrolien can«c~ blindness; it is u*ed in the man-ufactuie of muitaiy poison gas. (’aibcmmonox-ide damage* the iM cells of the Mood and causes smoker* to b“.- me 'rinded easily. One drou <?+' cigarette pomon .dll-d a spairow in. seventy seconds: bio (hop* Tiled a snake in thiity secorid*. (’igar^Pes merwork the liv°r, caring (iiahetew hemonhages. destruction of tissue and fatty d« gem rafh>n. me rmvcu.s stun -uffers, the mu*ele* b“o<-n e irmuulom, and tlw Lo-’rt is affected ir.o-t of all. Cigaret.es > ame my * and gill* to fie mmw-. w--i their pm (c of r« n entration, ben .w •aieb-s ano w” 'liable .m a moral m me. The u.-e of tobacco a the presence of infants cav*"* naue"a, vomitinr. ie-desmicss, listlessnes®, los- er appetite and sore eyes. Smoking by women causes the development of ' feminine mustaches, insomnia, rmrvousiiess, yellow complexions end sexual degeneration. The use of tobacco leads to a craving for other drugs and shortens and ruins life.

Five-Cent Fare Sufficient

FTEB a most exhaustive investigation, Samuel Untermeyer has submitted a financial plan which shows that, by recapturing the city-owned subways operated by the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Company and buying out the Interborough’s investment, New York’s subways can be operated permanently on a five-cent basis, whirfi is what the people want. In time they will show a profit.

Danville’s Cellulose Factory

ANVILLE. Illinois, has the first factory which will have cornstalks as its raw materials. The cornstalks will be made into pure cellulose, from which, in turn, are made rayon silk, photographic film, quick drying varnishes, paper, artificial leather and other products.

Almost Unbelievable Speed

TT IS claimed that when the telegraph receiv--®- ing operators in the new Hearst Publications Building in New” York City receive the word Flash, followed by a story, the plant is so organized that within one minute after the last word has come off the telegraph wire the presses are turning out the finished story. This is acknowledged to be the fastest newspaper production ever devised in any new spaper plant.

An Expert Whittier

OUT in the service work the other Sunday we ran across a remarkably interesting man, a retired contractor, who is now expert whittler to his royal majesty the American citizen and all others who apply. He guarantees to whittle anything anybody wants whittled, and in any shape wanted; and from the samples to be seen in his workroom it is evident that he can make good his offer.

’ For most of the work he uses hickory; but the smallest piece, a squirrel with its tail cunningly arched over its back, was carved out of a peach pit. For $2.50 he will make a pair of hickory shears, with both blades and the rivet all cut out of one piece. The shears are about nine inches long, and it takes a day to make them.

The largest piece is a chain eight feet long, containing sixty links, two drop balls, two fans and one hame strap hook, all cut out of one piece of hickory. For this he wants $50; and it is a safe bet that not another subscriber- of The Golden Age could duplicate it for twenty times that and then some. Please do not write us regarding this.

The workshop contains a variety of nippers, pliers,compasses, cant hooks,grabhooks,swivel hooks, fans, etc., all passing comprehension how anybody could ever cut them so skilfully out of one piece of wood. Just now the whittler is reading the Harp, the Deliverance and several of the booklets; and we hope he enjoys them and gets at least half the blessings out of them that such an honest and conscientious workman deserves.

When Will the Heathen Learn the Truth?

UESTION: Jf knowledge is necessary before one can he placed on trial for everlasting I’.fe rvheii will the heathen come to an understanding of the truth?

Answer: The heathen will come to a knowledge of the truth after they are awakened from the graves in the kingdom. By far the majority of humanity have gone down to the grave without coining to a knowledge of the truth. They ^can not learn of the truth while dead in the tomb; for in Ecclesiastes 9:5 we read: “The dead know not anything.” In Ecclesiastes 9:10 we read: “There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest.” While the dead are truly dead, Jesus premised a resurrection of flic dead; and He said that they would come forth from the grave. In Jolin 5: 28, 29 we read, “Marvel not at ibis: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice [the voice of the Son of man], and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of [Greek, Crisis'] trial or judgment.” All except those who have done good will be awakened for the purpose of placing them on trial by giving them a knowledge of the truth and testing them for a period of time; the faithful of these will be granted life everlasting upon this planet earth in the kingdom.

Love’s Symphony By Garland West

T OVE was journeying along the great Way of Life. She had not gone far till she came to what appeared to be a woman sitting in a disconsolate attitude upon the roadside. I say appeared to be, because so utterly crushed and inert did the figure seem that Love was obliged to look twice to make sure that it was a real, living, flesh and blood creature and not some natural object of the way. Then she whose mission. it was to assist the sorrowing and downfallen drew near, laid her’ hand upon the other, and said:

“Who art thou? And why dost thou sit here while the day is fair and many travel on toward the city of the Consummated Life T3

At the gentle touch and the 'kindly voice, the seemingly lifeless one stirred, raised her hand, and beheld the soul of Love beaming upon her. Tears filled her eyes and with faltering utterance she made leply:

“Alas! My name now is Despair. For me the journey is done; and I am doomed to perish here, desolate and rmcoHsolwh But who art thou? And vliy dost thou thus question me! A multitude, indeed. Lave passed this way: but not one hath yet addressed me save thyself. Even Hope and Faith went by and came not near me?

And Love made answer: “Uy sisters Faith and Hope might indeed have helped thee; but as they have failed, I also bear a charm, to the potency of v.hieh many can testify and which way also avail to alleviate ihy distress.”

Then said Despair: “You see those leaden shoes upon my feet, ku enemy hath placed them there while I slept. They verily drag me down to the earth, and my soul ckaveth even unto the dust.’’

Now of the mens each bore s mine; cut was stamped Adversity, and the other bore tlrn mark Disco uro gmieii t.

Then Love stooped down and kissed the troubled brow; and lo, the bcaw Biocs fleD off from, the weary feet of the unhappy one, the pall of gloom left her countenance, and sho "tood up eioc-t in 'Lor neve self.

"Thy name.’’ said Love, “is no longer Despair but Courage; and th<m shalt be a blessing and shalt prevail.’’

Then Love departed from Courage, leaving her to rejoice in renewed hope and in the wonderful transformation that had been wrought in her.

Now as Love went on, she passed scores of wayfarers and bestowed ever a smile and a word of cheer, After a while she overtook Failure; for he was a slow walker, and the wonder was that he had come thus far on his journey. Love knew him because his name was written on him, both before and behind. As she drew near him he leaned against a milestone and, bewailing his lot, declared that he could go no farther. But Love caught him by the hand and said, “Courage.” *-

He answered: “It is not for me. All the v, rrfd knows that I am Failure, and despises me. Even my friends and relatives have scorned and trampled me in tl e mire. What can I do?”

And Love said: “Henceforth thy name is Experience, and thou, must wear this token and shalt succeed.” So she gave him a token to wear above his heart and walked with him upon the road; and. he lifted up his voice and ble^cd her. and gave thanks to God.

Love also fell in with Lacking-in-Faith. This person suffered from sheer debility and moved forward in a feeble sort of way.

“Shall I assist you?” asked Love. And without waiting for a reply, she caught his arm and smiled, with such light of joy that he saw the sun shine and drew its golden fruitage into hi* heart; for Love breathed into his ear those divine promises which are bread and meat and springing waters to the thirsting soul. Lacking-iii-Faith. was changed, and knew not lumsclf for w^at he had been, but for one now renewed and in contact with the source of strength.

And on the 'Way cf Life Love met u;any sad ones who had suffered much because that for them the way bed been bard, bringing pain and more tears than so iks. Love met young men and maidens robbed of their beauty of form by, fell diseases, children of early pais deprived of paiental care by the hand cf death, old men for whom the journey would soon be as a talc that is told. Many others did Love meet, and those who listened to her voice were sustained and cheered.

Then from a mighty summit of the way Love looked down and back and far along the road and beheld the toiling, straining mass of humanity," organic, conscious, breathing things that sought to live and strove to win some modicum of what the world calls gain. And many a groan was heard. There were curses, too, and blows; and

then it was that Love’s tears rained upon the earth and her glorious head was bowed in grief.

Then Love turned her back upon the scene and looked into the valley from the mountainside. Here she saw the world as it will be -when the years of privation and -woe have died away. She beheld the emancipation of the 'whole earth. She heard the hallelujah chorus of all humanity. She saw the wondrous and mighty fruitage of experience. She heard no more the groans or the sound of blows. Instead thereof she heard the voice of thanksgiving. She saw the Land o£ Love freely and generously extended. She saw the banner of the King of Love floating over a world that basked in the joyousness of an effulgent peace.

Then Love was glad that she had been privileged to be of some practical service in the world. She was glad that her symphony had been Love.

A Few Woffds About War

rPHE Locomotive Engineers’ Journal contains A an illuminating article by Arthur Ponsonby, M. P., British Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the recent Labor government. 31 v. Ponsonby’s whole life has been spent in the field of diplomacy, and he knows whereof he sjv aks.

It seems that if Germany had not marched through Belgium, France would have done so. It wa» part of the French war plans. It also t-t <mis that the Kaiser never made the reference regarding Biitairis "contemptible little army5’. The phrase was invented by a British army officer. As a matter of fact, the Kaiser used to v arn his subjects against underestimating the sirength of the British army.

In Bedford Park, England, is a sun captured b\ the Bedford regiment at Gallipoli, where hundreds of thousands of British soldiers lost their lives. On one side of the cannon is a tablet recording the deed of bravery and on the other ?>d> is the name of the British firm “Armsti ong, Whitwcrrh & Co.” that made the cannon and sold it to the Turks.

The armament makers keep agents in every country. Whenever business falls off, they run scare ai tides in the papers so as to stimulate business. This is done for the same reason that certain medical hoards of health run scare articles now and then regarding smallpox epidemics,- etc. They wish a market for the surplus ■^vaccines and serums uhich otherwise they could - not market. The reason why the Chinese have been fighting among themselves now for several years is that the surplus stock of war material left from the World War was disposed of in China for that very purpose.

In the city of Sheffield, England, one great; armament factory is making twelve and fourteen inch shells for Japan and the United States. Mr. Ponsonby says significantly, “When the United States inspector comes around, the Japanese stuff is screened off; and when the Japanese inspector comes around, the United States shells are screened off.”

Mr. Ponsonby reiterates that half an hour after the next war is declared a rain of three hundred tons of bombs per day v ill fall on every large city in England, and that civilization as we have known it will pass away.

Knowles Stirs Things Up

T THE Wiiliamstovn Institute of Politics floiace G. Knov lo-s stirred things considerably when he said, as reported: “We have imposed our force upon v eak, helpless and defenceless countries and slaughtered thousands o£ their citizens. We have attacked them when they expected we would defend them. We have used the Monroe Doctrine to prevent sympathetic European nations gomg to their rescue when we abused them. Instead of sending thoip teachers, instriw-tors and helpers we have sent them concession hunters, conscienceless and usurious bankers, avaricious financiers, bribers, commercial tricksters, murderers, soldiers, degenerates and carriers of infectious diseases. Instead ofi our trying to elevate and make their people better and more patriotic, we have made crooks and traitors of many of them in order that our unscrupulous bankers and capitalists and Washington can control the government and affairs of their countries.” All we can say is that Mr. Knowles has remarkable courage.

Comparative Values of White Sugar and Brown Sugar (Contributed)

ORDINARILY brown sugar is regarded as an inferior product. Because white sugar is sweet and agreeable in taste it is supposed to possess equal food value to brown sugar. Many of The Golden Age readers are familiar with the reports by Alfred W. McCann on the deficiency of white sugar in food value in tests of actual use. All that Mr. McCann has shown and more is found in the following radio test.

That the reader may comprehend a radio test we will observe that all recognize their favorite radio station by a meter number, say 275, and a different station by a different meter number, say 41,6. The dial that measures and indicates on a dial these differences in stations merely determines the differences of vibratory resistance. As you turn the dial the radio energy “comes through’’ and is recorded on your ear as music or lecture^.

Instruments employing the identical principle are now in practical use recording the vibratory radio difference between substances, foods, and as veil the different organs of the body, their functions and conditions ol” vital energy and even disease vibrations. These differences can as easily be expressed in numbers on a radio dial as can the different radio stations on the air.

The writer spent a short time in such a thoroughly equipped radio laboratory, and was delighted to see how accurately and with comparative ease such radio analysis was accomplished from actual samples of brown sugar and white sugar.

The radio equipment used was both a receiving set and a broadcasting set, and the numbers measuring the units were the ordinary “resistance box” dials so well known in any measure of radio resistance.

First, the instrument was set to record ths numhcT indicating the radio resistance of any human rate. It may not be generally known that the art of -writing with a pencil on white paper records all the radio vibrations of al! kinds in one’s body. But this was unquestionably proven in this highly sensitive instrument and its receiving instrument, called the Streborcam, invented by a South Dakota scientist, Dr. McRoberts.

A bit of this handwriting placed in the broadcasting instrument called a Dynamizer, conveyed the radio vibrations of my body, and was measured in the resistance boxes containing the dials, the evidence that radio contact was “going through” being proven by the contact of the operator’s fingers on the simple bar of bakelite about four inches wide and about two feet in length.

There is no peradventure about this evidence of radio contact. There is no radio energy going through except it is actually in evidence. The person listening in on the radio has but one sense, hearing, to tell him that radio energy is going through; but the radio laboratory operator has two senses to tell him that radio energy is in evidence: He both feels the pull of the radio contact or positive energy, and sees that his finger tip firmly adheres to the bakelite surface. Nor is this evidence subject to inference, it is even more positive than the evidence on your radio that you have the station for which you are tuning in.

First the relative food value to myself of the samples of white sugar and brown sugar were tried and indicated with the following amazing results:

Food

Food

sub stance

White

Brown

substance

White Brew a

Carbon

Magnesia Potassium

1/10 of 1

lame

Silicon

1/100

Iodine

Sulphur

1/10 of 1

Iron

Sodium.

8i0

The instrument showed the normal function rate of kidneys 34. Use of white sugar would reduce to 20. Use of brown sugar maintained normal condition.

My actual weight is 157, normal weight 159. Use of white sugar over stimulating function of pancreas would raise my weight to 189 at loss to vitality of medulla, liver and pancreas.

Radio test of the body has recently discovered endocrine or vitalizing glands in parts of llie body that the anatomist never suspected uere endocrine glands. Few if any except radio laboratory diagnosticians have as yet discovered that the heart, the eye and the carotid glands are endocrine glands. Any radio laboratory will be interested in making this test.

Other organs of the body not suspected to operate as endocrine glands prove under the exactness of a sensitive instxmment to possess a hitherto unsuspected function. The reason why this was not discovered before is that the instruments like the radio instrument in process of

perfecting varied in their power to catch and record the finer radio vibrations.

The endocrine glands, when normal, are 62 in this test. The use of white sugar reduces this very important vitalizing function to only 12. The use of brown sugar maintains it in normal function at 64.

Observing the almost universal use of white sugar, can you possibly question that through COMMERCIALISM the out-going “god of this eWorld”, who is about to be forcibly dethroned, has had design in the general use of while sugar in the thousands of commercial products called “food”?

Will the incoming King of righteousness withhold the knowledge of matters of this nature? Doubtless our radio knowledge is yet in its earliest infancy; and complete and. greatly simplified methods will soon be employed. That the principles are now being employed plainly indicates the presence of the King and of the kingdom.

The American People Love to Be Robbed

THERE was a time when the American people loved to be humbugged, but they are a long way past that now. They have risen to greater heights. They love to be robbed. There is no other way of explaining their blind confidence in the newspapers that labor incessantly to convince them that they should own nothing but that Big Business should own everything.

Take the matter of electric light and power h'lls. The city of Toronto, Canada, pays annually light and power bills in the sum of $9,670,434. If chat same city were located on the lines of the Caio]ma Light and Power Company, that same service would cost the people of Toronto $38,681,736.

Toi onto brings its power ninety miles. Asheville's tremendous water power is right at the 'door. Toronto pays all that it costs; namely, 1.7 cents per kilowatt hour. Asheville pays from 6 to 8 cents, averaging about 6| cents. Duke’s tobacco money Las come back to the Carolinas as a cuise.

3Vho gets the difference? Bankers, financiers, statesmen, leading citizens, newspaper men, etc. Why do they get it? Because they want it, or think they do. Does it pay them to rob the public and then lie the public into thinking that it is all for the best, all for the good of the country? They think so. But in the end it will be found that they are mistaken. There is an end to every crooked road.

Does any one suppose that the Lord is going to allow’ a bunch of thieves to appropriate to themselves and to divide among themselves all the good things that He has designed for the blessing of His own earthly creatures; and that there will never be a day of settlement?

Even the old crooked dishonest motto that “Honesty is the best policy” would suggest a wiser course than Big Business is following in the United States at this time. But. like the Big Preachers, and like the Big Statesmen, it is quite impossible for Big Business to ever really learn any moral lesson. The only way with a blind and obstinate horse is to let it rim as fast as it likes till it breaks its oiui neck.

The Statement of Mr. BoHxe

Fr. \vk J. Bvrke. former Smiler of Weighls and Measures of the city of Brockton. Mass., was so close to the scene of the pajroll holdup foi Vvhiri’i Sazco and Vanzetti were slain that when tlin ear beating the murdc xers pt»s«ed him one of the wen called him a vile name and snapped a revolver at Ifm. Buiko obtained a clear ■xview of the tv o men in the murder car. He made an effort to trail the car. but his car would not start; made an effort to got the Brockton Police headquaiters, but the phone did not answer. He finally notnUd an editor of what he had seen. "When Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested he called at the Police Station, saw the prisoners and stated positively to the marshal that these uere not the men in the murder ear. Strangely enough, this important witness v,as ignored by the State of Massachusetts, when making up tliiui case against the two men. Ue testified al the triad in the interest of the two prisoners. He could not do otherwise and keep from being a TOuidmer. Mr. Burke is evidently an honest man, and still insists, after seven years, that Sacco and Vanzetti are not the men who were guilt}' of the murder in South Brahitece.

The Story of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin1’ By J. L. Bolling

FROM a recently published hook, “Trumpets of Jubilee,” and from other sources in the Library of Congress I gleaned the following information respecting the origin and effect of the story which caused the Civil 'War:

“The false impression of the condition of the Southern slave created by ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin’ encouraged Brown to believe that.,. the negroes would rise and massacre their masters; and he laid a plan to arouse them to take this step. . . . The negroes, however, did not join the con-spiiators, as had been expected.”

The same writer says further that, the hoot: was misleading but strongly-written story”, and was “one of the powerful agents in arousing against slavery the passions of the North. . . . It. was condemned in the South and by the conservative element of the North, yet a great many Noithern people professed to believe that the book gave a true picture of Southern life. . . . It is probable that this book did more than anything else to increase the feeling of the North against slavery.”

Let us remember that the world had not only entered the time of the end, and. had been in it for half a century, at the time the volume was given to the masses, hut we were also in. the midst of increasing spirit activity, as predicted by the apostle.—Eph. 6:10-13; 2 Thess. 2:9.

In harmony with this, the Fox sisters had startled New England by their “table rappings” in 1848; Horace Greeley gave ample space to their writings on spirit phenomena in his Tub-•line; and the Davenport brothers were astonishing the people with their strange exhibitions.

Thousands were falling a prey to these deceptions, and the word “medium” was rapidly becoming a household word. It was not surprising, therefore, that one of Mi s. Stowe’s temperament should come under the same evil influence; and this is exactly what happened, as is abun-danih proven by what follows.

Mrs. Stowe was the sister of Henry Ward Beeehei, the noted preacher. Among other things, she says of herself that “thought, intense, emotional thought” vas with her “a disease”; and that sho was “the slave and sport of morbid feeling and unreasonable prejudice”. She “felt and thought with such absorbing intensity that her mind rvas exhausted and she seemed sinking into a dcadness”. “About half of my time I am. scarcely alive.” she once declared.

Miss Beecher married Calvin Stowe, who “entertained phantoms, his visions, as he called them. . . . Since his earliest childhood they had appeared before him, emerging from the unlikely background of the homely puritan village of Natick, Mass., where he was born. It had been years before he had realized that they were not as tangible as the persons about him, and he saw them with pride and pleasure to the end of his life. Their talk, which was silent, shook him profoundly, as did the playing of their musical instruments, which he alwajs heard. They came into view through the walls or furniture, lovely landscapes often lay about them; they enacted little dramas over and over again, without variation, in a thrilling rhythm. Indians were among their number, who played viols and fiddles. . . . Most of these ghostly visitants had no counterparts in life; but occasionally men and women whom he detested would swim, before him in pleasant guises, while persons whom he loved would be terribly torn, blackened or shriveled by funnel shaped clouds. Once as a child he had awakened to discover in his bed. an ashy-blue skeleton, which seemed to him entirely palpable.”

These demon manifestations were remarkable in their abundance and persistence; but history affords not a few parallels of a somewhat similar character. They bring to memory at once the visions of Swedenborg, Dante, Loyola, and many others who wire worked upon, by the evil spirits and inspired to write voluminous records regarding their experiences. Through her husband, Mrs. Stowe undoubtedly was strongly influenced by these vicked spirits; and this was doubtless Satan's object in effecting their union in marriage.

The author of “Unde Tom's Cabin” received a thorough training from her husband in the art of coloring her narrative, ve are told, “writing in the midst of gingerbread and baked beans in the kitchen, and a baby at her feet”; for she was a writer of some note before she attempted this work.

We read that she was impulsive in her literary efforts, caring little for facts, and never taking time to even cursorily investigate her chosen subject. She was rash and bent upon making her point at all hazards, usually writing from the standpoint of a preconceived opinion. “Absence and wandering of mind” was “a physical

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infinnity”. Her memory was unreliable; and she often contradicted herself, but refused io correct the most glaring inconsistencies of statement.

Once she visited Dr, Hohnes with a manuscript, but frankly told him that she did not want his opinion, since her mind was already “made up”; but she thought that he might suggest improvements in the phraseology. “In many years of her life the author avoided, all reading upon or allusion to the subject of slavery,” believing that no one could understand it It was “a passing phantasmagoria”.

Once her husband and her brother assisted an escaping slave along the “underground railway”, and on another occasion she visited for a few hours a plantation in Kentucky. But, save for stories told her by colored women who often helped her with her work in the household, this was the extent of her contact with the institution. During the Birney riots in Cincinnati “she was concerned not with the issue of Slavery, but with that of free speech”.

In 1857 the Stowes moved to Brunswick, Me.; and shortly thereafter she was “stirred by letters from Mi*s. Edrvard Beecher, of Boston, urging her to "write something on the subject”. “She hogan without plan or premonition, breaking into ecstasies of ‘tears as she wrote.” Her hasty installments appeared in The National Era. She “judged the whole by a piece”, and the story v. as overcolored to the last degree. It was merely a sweeping indictment and a hysterical outcry against the institution.

The country was set on fire when the story Intel’ appeared in book form. It was a time when men gave loose rein to their emotions, thought intensely, find talked with a reckless abandon. Then came “'The Key”, another volume of hearsay, without documentary proofs. It unlocked nothing.

We know that the days of divine inspiration are over. They ended when John gave to the church a record of the wonderful visions on Patinos. But Satan has at intervals thrust upon the world during the centuries following works claiming divine origin. A good modern example is Mrs. Eddy's “Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures". Not one single book of the Bible was written by a woman.

As to the unseen origin of Mrs. Stowe’s book, believed by her and her friends to have been inspired, we will allow her to convict herself by her own confession: “The scene [a vision] presented itself to her mind while she was seated at the communion table in the little ehureh at Brunswick. She was perfectly overcome by it, and could scarcely restrain the convulsion of tears and sobbing which shook her frame.” She often used the third person in referring to herself.

After she had completed the book, she admitted her belief that it was the product of “‘an unknown power”, stating that this unseen force was “something uncontrollable”; that it continued to control her throughout her effort ami ultimately left her exhausted.

We quote again: “Mrs. Stowe felt here if :-o possessed that she became the conscious agent of a power other than her own. The story can less be said to have been composed by her than imposed upon her.” (Italics are ours.) “‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ is a work of religion; God wrote it,” she averred. But some of her contemporaries pronounced it the work of Satan ; and they were quite right.

Of course, God permitted the work to be written, and has or will overrule it for ultimate good, as a part of the general permission of evil; hut He was not the author of it, because He is “no+ the author of confusion, but- of peace”, and tempts no man to do evil.

The volume was issued at a time when conditions were ripe for its reception. It was the “psychological moment” for Satan to accomplish his long-cherished design to disrupt the Union, his ultimate purpose being to throttle liheifj in America and frustrate an important part of God’s plan.

Centuries before, anticipating the settlement of North America by a liberty-loving people, and the founding of a government favorable to enlightenment, Satan had sought to forestall it through the voyages of Columbus and the resulting effort to people it with Spaniards and other backward races under the influence of Home. This undertaking failed.

Grandly God’s plan went forward, and in due time the nucleus of a new nation appeared along the North Atlantic coast. Satan -was dismayed, and inspired a tyrannical ruler to cruelly oppress the colonies, in the hope that the torch of freedom, then burning so brightly, would be extinguished.

Again, failure attended his efforts; the colonies revolted, and he tried the harsher means of subjugation by war. But Jehovah raised up a Washington, through whose instrumentality He overruled the anger of men and devils for good, and “brought forth on this continent a nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”.

God's plan provided that America should he, in a peculiar sense, the workshop and experimental laLoiatory of the time of the end; and accordingly, tiom this central source lie has di.>-tribnted His chief blessings of the millennial daw n poi iod. 1 leuce, His favor has rested upon this c-nuw'iy I'com the first in a very special sense. Il has bf-ui. indeed, "the land shadowed with vines,'’ providential protection. This, therefoie, recounts for the repeated attempts of Satan to destroy its institutions.

Nothing daunted by bis defeat, Satan tried to mislead the framers of the Constitution by suggesting through his agents the formation of three republics, or one with three presidents; but wiser counsel prevailed, and he was disappointed. Filially, he achieved, a triumph when slavery was made constitutional; and from that time forward he lost no opportunity to stir up sectional hostility and create crises in Congress.

Satan's first chance came in 1820, when Missouri applied for admission into the Union. Previously, the states had been admitted “somewhat in pairs; first, one from the South, and then one from the North” in order to prevent trouble; but a dangerous crisis was precipitated when Satan endeavored to have two Southern states received in succession. Alabama had been admitted when Missouri knocked at the door with a constitution legalizing slavery. This angered the North, and war seemed imminent. It was only averted by the “Missouri Compromise” introduced by Henry Clay, and the final struggle was deferred for three decades. Again Satan was foiled. A Clay had been provided for the emergency. Thenceforward he became known as "the Great Pacificator”.

In 1832 a tariff bill inimical to Southern interests was passed, and South Carolina threatened secession. If Buchanan had been president, a “Southern Confederacy” would have resulted; hut the Lord had permitted Jackson to occupy the office at this juncture, and the influence of Calhoun and Hayne was offset by

Clay and Webster. The president made known his determination to use armed force to preserve the Union, and Clay secured the passage of a “Compromise Tariff”. South Carolina then repealed the “Nullification Ordinance’’. Satan was again defeated.

Encouraged by his near success, the Devil instituted a double program, that of slavery agitation through the Abolition societies, churches, clergy, newspapers, etc., and by harassing Congress with petitions and documents from all *■ quarters. Crisis after crisis resulted. Satan well knew that if Congress could be induced to abolish slavery, war would result. Therefore that body was flooded with abolition petitions.

In order to settle the matter, six resolutions affirming the constitutionality of slavery and “the inability of Congress to abolish” it, were passed in 1838. The Libeiatoi, published by Garrison, demanded “immediate emancipation"; and the Constitution was denounced as "an agreement with death and a covenant with hell”. Negro insurrections occurred, and many white people were murdered. Calhoun sought to stop the agitation in 1836 with “the Gag Law”, forbidding the reception of .petitions; but the measure was killed in the Senate.

Matters were further complicated by the annexation of Texas in 1836 and by the Mexican War in 1846. The sentiment agaiimt slavery was stronger than ever. More than two thousand newspapers carried information everywhere and the greatest word-battle in history was in progress

Crude, slow-moving trains crawled through the land, in fulfilment of prophecy. Stormy an I prolonged debates occupied both houses of Congress, and Clay and Webster pleaded for peace and harmony. The admission of California as a free state was hotly contested. With the pas -age of the "Omnibus Bill" the work of Clay and Webster was ended, and they died. Thore was, therefore, no Clay to introduce compiomues awl and no Webster to raise his voice amvimt secession when the Lour struck.

In J854 Congress parsed the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill”, which poriuittod these territories to ole-cide for themselves the question of “slavery or no slavery”. This transferred the struggle from Congress to the people, and civil strife at once resulted. The fighting lasted several years; but the anti-slavery faction finally won.

The Dred Scott decision widened the breach, and the two sections now glared at each other like tigers. The clouds of war were rapidly gathering; fitful lightning flashes and the roll of thunder gave warning of the great storm which was soon to break in all its terrible fury.

Providence permitted a split in the Democratic ranks, which insured the election of Lincoln, God's chosen instrument in saving- the Union. Secession resulted, and the war came.

*-After repeated failures, the Devil had finally accomplished his purpose through the agency of a well-meaning, but misguided woman.

After the publication of ’‘Uncle Tom's Cabin'’ w ar was inevitable. It soon came in a torrential downpour; and its author immediately became a world figure, for a time overshadowing that of Lincoln. She was received in Europe by crowned heads, and her foreign tour became a pageart. •She was idolized by the women of Europe, and presented with a monster petition of twenty-six folio volumes, urging abolition.

She meddled in everything, issued scores of pamphlets, entered into the -hick of the Kansas-Nebraska discussion, consulted mediums and freely dipped into spirit writings. She met Mrs.

Browning while in Europe, a "convinced spirit-nah st”; and we read that "these two sister souls were wafted together on a faint and lovely sea of emotion'’. They exchanged letters on the subject for many years.

In her correspondence with George Eliot she "poured out a flood of evidence’’, telling about "communications” which she had received from the spirit world. Once she was mistaken by her husband for a "phantom”. "She had in truth the look of a trance-walker. Her air of vague absorption had become an incorrigible habit.”

’When the Avar came, her friends told her that it was her war. "She had an augmented sense of divine appointment,” and "presently she decided that Lincoln was too slow". Accordingly, she "hastened to Washington to offer him advice"’.

Lincoln was sorely beset by many evangels; but he received her gravely, with the significant remark, "So you're the little woman who madc tbis great var.” Although very talkative and versatile, she left no record of the conversation which followed! Evidently, she was no match for the great Emancipator.

What Will They Think?

IT IS only ninety years since the pillory passed out of use in England. Pillories were commonly creeled in tlr> center of the town, usually near the village church. The offender had to stand with his bead and hands through Holes in the bar, all clamped at the ram*' Im el, an extremely painful posture. O'wasionally the ears were cur off by tho-'o gentle men from whom we received our parentage 11 d our idmis m justice and mercy.

"We are wore iwreiful: sometimes, it would Svein, almost too much so. Ar Jmh-t tlwie v.we M'Vhi murder* re. Three times they sr.cc^* Wd in breaking out <«£ prison. On each occasion <ne officer of th* law, either a warden or a mliec-was shot and killed: and on each occasion one murderer escaped and has not since been found. On a fourth, attempt one of the murderers vas himself slain. Now there are hut three of the murderers left awaiting execution.

Evidently in the above cas^c justice be® been too long delayed. And yet we cannot affoid the other extreme, either. Two white men met two colored men in a road in Mississippi. Strife follow* d. and one of the white men was killed. No inquiry was made as to iho cause of the s’rife. A mob of a thousand white men, women and children gathered and burned the two colored men at the stake. This happened in Jo1. 1927.

Vfihvn sanity comes, as it xxlll surely come with II e establishment of the Lord's kingdom, v.Lat " ill the people of that happy time think of the so-called civilization of our day and of dm wi-oiif past? What will they think of the Vw-rld War among the so-called Christian people of the world? They will ask, How is it possible that those poor unfortunates could look forward so hopefully to a future heli when thQy already had as bad a one as the Devil could possibly manufacture I

Development of the Kingdom

[BroarteaM from Station WBBR, New

MUCH misunderstanding among the people exists concerning the development of God’s kingdom which shall bless the nations of the earth. Such misunderstanding is due to the deceit practised upon them by Satan and his emissaries. **

There is but one church, and that is the body of Christ. Those who come into Christ by adoption will ultimately he of the great empire upon condition that they prove faithful to God unto the end. To such Jesus said: “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.’’ ‘And thou shalt sit with me on my throne.’ —Revelation 2:10; 3: 21.

In order to corrupt the ehurc-h Satan set about to turn the mind of Christians away from these and similar promises, and prepared various religious systems into which to draw the orderloving people who desire to serve God, and which systems call themselves by the name of Christ. It must he apparent to all thinking persons that the Lord would not have many organizations when there is but one Christ. It is well known that there are hundreds of denominational systems claiming to be Christian, the doctrines taught by each being in conflict and resulting' in confusion. It should be easily seen that God is not the author of such confusion, hut that these systems have been organized and used by the enemy for his purposes. The real purpose of a Christian on the earth is to be a witness to the name of God and Ills kingdom, and by being faithful in this respect to prepare himself for the kingdom. The leaders of denominational systems have an entirely different idea about the purpose of a Christis n.

These various denominations have deemed it their business and commission to convert the world, and therefore think it necessary to bring into their denominations the rich and the influential. They have opened the doors to such and have made them the principal ones of their flocks. They have organized the clergy, as distinguished from the laity; and these clergy meet in councils and synods, and control the system or denomination, and use it for political purposes. They make themselves a part of the world, and claim that their denominations constitute God’s kingdom on earth.

Speaking to such James says: “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friend-

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of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the -world, is the enemy of God.” (James 4:4) The word adulterer here used does not refer to a lack of chastity” between the sexes, but it means an illicit relationship between church and state. It means that these ecclesiastical systems have made friendship with the world and have entered into an alliance with the commercial and political powers of the world; and altogether they con-x stitute the visible part of Satan’s organization, which is designated in the Scriptures under the title and symbol of “beast”.

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