Golden Age, January 25, 1928
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Labor and Economics
A Considerate Company........
The Poorest Class Not Overpaid ....
Associated Manufacturers and Child Labor
Social and Educational
Drops op Ink ......
Britain’s Prison Population Baseball Has its Uses . . .
The Criminal Type . . .
Conditions in Russian Prisons
Finance—Commerce—Transportation Radio Lighting of Airports...........
Airplane Landed by Parachute • ........
Political—Domestic and Foreign
Jury Fixing at Washington.........
War Warning by Lloyd George........
Disarmament and Hypocrisy.........
Science and Invention
Number of Broadcasting Stations.....
' Travel and Miscellany
Meats from the Arctic.........
The Wonders of Mammoth Cave ......
Lions Naturally Friendly to Man.....
Religion and Philosophy
Armageddon ........
Expectation of the Jews . . .
Christian Business Men in China The Drama of the Ages . . . What About the Heathen?—Part 1 Dr. Bevan and Dr. Barnes . . The Reward of Wickedness . . Bible Questions and Answers . Little Studies for Little People
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Armageddon.
[Broadcast from Station WBBR, New York, by Judge Rutherford.]
jN MANY places in the Scriptures is found p the expression: “The great and terrible day If the Lord.” In 2 Peter 3:10-12 it is stated that the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, Ind the earth shall be destroyed’. Many have erroneously thought that this means the literal globe on which the people live. Such is not true, however. In the same connection the Scriptures state that ‘then there shall be established a new ieaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness’. Heaven means the invisible part of
Organized world powers. Earth has reference to |he visible part of the organization on earth, fche literal earth will never be destroyed.
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I The great climax mentioned in the Scriptures |s also spoken of as, “The battle of the great day fcf God Almighty.” Jesus, referring to the same Kiing said that ‘it will be a time of trouble such Bis the world has never known, and there shall fcever be another.’ That time will mark the deliverance of the people from all oppression. Daniel 12:1 declares: “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which stand-leth for the children of thy people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: tad at that time thy people shall be delivered, jevery one that shall be found written in the hook.” 'Jehovah is God
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TjUT why should there come a great trouble on earth more terrible than man has ever be-
fore known ? Briefly call to mind what has transpired during the past six thousand years. Satan the enemy was created perfect, beautiful and glorious; and God highly honored him by clothpig him with power and authority, appointing ®hn as the overlord of man and making him a flight-bearer. He betrayed that trust and con-4’
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fidence, became guilty of treason, the most heinous of all crimes, and since then has been leading the way in all wickedness. During all the ages Satan has reproached God and mocked him, that he might turn the minds of men away from their only Benefactor and true Friend. (Proverbs 17:17) He introduced hypocrisy among the people that they might mock God. (Genesis 4:26, margin) Teaching the people to ignore and repudiate God, Satan caused them to build a tower of Babel and induced them to believe that they could save themselves. There God gave the people a lesson, and a very severe one; but they did not heed it.—Genesis 11:1-4.
Call to mind 'again that when God’s people were domiciled in Egypt Pharaoh, as the Devil’s representative, oppressed them; and when God sent Moses to tell Pharaoh of God’s command he defiantly said: “Who is the Lord God that I should obey” him ? Then God went down to them to make for Himself a name. (2 Samuel 7:23) To this end the Lord slew the Egyptians and miraculously delivered His own people, carrying them safely through the sea. “Nevertheless, he saved them for his name’s sake,... He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.”—Psalm 106: 8,9.
Call to mind further that when the Assyrian ruler, Sennacherib, reproached God, blasphemed His holy name, presumptuously assumed to be greater than Jehovah God and defied the Lord and His people, God sent His angel and slew the Assyrian army in one night.—2 Kings 19: 35-37.
But the nations of earth have failed to take heed to these things and to learn a lesson therefrom. Their religious teachers not only have failed to teach them the meaning of such lessons but have actually spurned the Bible. Arrogance, hauteur, contemptuousness, presumptuousness
and blasphemy against God have in this present day reached the superlative degree. Hypocrisy has matured and gone to seed. Of all the re
proaches that have been brought upon God’s holy name, of all the insolence and vainglory on the part of men and religious systems, of all the presumptuous sins committed against God by men or organizations, those in times past pale into insignificance when compared with those of
the present time.
Modern wickedness is made worse because
evil-doers perform their evil deeds in the name of the Lord. A great religious system, steeped in wickedness and crime, is headed by one man; and it is claimed for his office that he is the vice
gerent of Christ on earth and that he possesses power equal to that of Jehovah God. The clergy of this system fraudulently represent to the people that their loved ones who have died are now consciously suffering in purgatory because of the wrath of God, and these clergy claim to be able by their prayers and upon a sufficient consideration to relieve the suffering ones from purgatorial fires. Thus under false pretenses they receive money from the people and turn the minds of the people away from the true and loving, God. This system is spoken of in the Scriptures as “the great harlot”.
The offspring of this impure religious system, the daughter, likewise claims to represent God; yet she, too, defames His holy name by teaching that He is tormenting millions of unfortunate souls in a lake of eternal fire. The clergy of these religious systems hypocritically call themselves by the name of the Lord and pose before the people as God’s representatives, while at the same time they deny the Word of God and repudiate the blood of Jesus Christ given for man’s redemptive price. These religious systems have illicit relationship with the commercial and political powers of the world; and the Lord Himself denounces the one as the mother of harlots and the other as the daughter, both of equal unchastity and unrighteousness.
The shepherds and leaders, speaking for these hypocritical religious systems, presumptuously and insolently say: “I sit a queen, ... I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing.” (Revelation 18:7; 3:17) And now when the wicked world which has oppressed the people has come to an end, and when the nation of righteousness is born; when the Lord is pres-
ent and beginning His reign, for which 1 taught His disciples to pray and which pray these clergy have hypocritically repeated; ai when the evidence clearly proving these facts brought to their attention, these self-satisfi( ecclesiastics not only turn deaf ears thereto, b persecute the humble followers of Jesus wl dare call attention to the message of truth. I stead of heedig the words of the Lord and te ing the people that His kingdom is their hop these ecclesiastics blatantly, irreverently an presumptuously unite with the profiteers an professional politicians in setting up a League of Nations to keep the people under the contr of Satan the enemy, and then blasphemously di clare that such a League of Nations is “the pol tical expression of God’s kingdom on earth1 They have not only defamed the name of Go but have pushed the Lord aside and have » themselves up in His place, and claim that thei wisdom is superior to His and a safe and amp guide for the people to follow.
If it was necessary in times past for God t exhibit His power against the Devil’s organizi tion, in order to preserve His name in the mint of the people and to save them from going ini complete infidelity, the reason for so doing no has increased a thousandfold. Hence He sai * to these babbling, discourteous, swaggering e clesiastics and to the principal of their flock their allies: “Be still, and know that I am God The time has come for the arrogance of men b fore God to cease. “And the loftiness of ma shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of me shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall h exalted in that day.”—Isaiah 2:17.
God will now make for Himself a name in th earth that the people shall never forget. B warns the nations of earth, and particularly th clergy and the principal of their flock; but the refuse to heed the warning. “They know no neither will they understand: they walk on i darkness: all.the foundations of the earth ai ■■ out of course.”—Psalm 82:5.
Gathering for Battle
John, because of his faithfulness as a witnes of God, was banished to the Isle of Patmoi
There the- Lord rewarded him by giving him sions pertaining to His great plan. Amonga other things John had a vision of the great ad terrible day of God Almighty. He saw tu
throngs hurrying on for the great battle of that
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Iday, and he wrote: “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the 'dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and f out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they t are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which I go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the j whole world, to gather them to the battle of that f great day of God Almighty. . . . And he gath-I ered them together into a place called in the 1 Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”—Revelation 16: ‘ 13,14,16. iH
1 ‘'Dragon” here mentioned is one of the names I of the enemy, the Devil; and it particularly ap-' plies to him and his organization, visible and ■ invisible, when bent upon the destruction of the ? seed of promise, the true followers of Jesus j Christ. (Revelation 12:17) Satan’s organiza-1 tion, visible and invisible, is the real foe of the faithful, as it is written: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the ' darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”—Ephesians 6:12.
“Beast” in the above text is used symbolically. Wherever thus used in the Scriptures this symbol refers to Satan’s visible or earthly organization. Since the days of Nebuchadnezzar all world j powers have been under the dominion and con-£ trol of Satan the enemy. (2 Corinthians 4: 3, 4) ; These world powers have governed the people by military rule, and their rule has been beastly, : unrighteous and ungodly. The Devil has made it so. This symbolical beast, therefore, fitly describes the world powers under the dominion of the evil one.
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the world powers or “beast”, to wit, the commercial, political and ecclesiastical. Satan has always had the money powers as the great bul-1 wark of his organization; and he uses the reli-i gious element as a camouflage, to keep the peo-' pie in ignorance of his wicked course. When the
Lord designates anything under a symbol, that ■ designation, name or symbol implies much. The
Lord designates these world powers as “beasts”, j and such they are.
P “False prophet” means the high ecclesiastics, ( those who speak by pretended authority and in ; the name of the Lord. A true prophet is one who C Speaks by divine authority and in the name of f the Lord. Those who speak in the name of the Lord without authority, and who speak lies, an false prophets. “Then the Lord said unto me The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sen them not, neither have I commanded them neither spake unto them: they prophesy unt< you a false vision and divination, and a thins of nought, and the deceit of their heart.” (Jere miah 14:14) “How long shall this be in th< heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea they are prophets of the deceit of their owi heart; which think to cause my people to forge my name by their dreams, which they tell ever; man to his neighbour, as their fathers have for gotten my name for Baal.”—Jeremiah 23: 26, 27
When a religious system claims to represen the Lord but allies itself with the Devil’s organization, it is a hypocritical religious system am forms a part of the false prophet class. One o more such systems, allied with other parts p the Devil’s organization and prophesying false hoods, therefore constitute the false prophet o Revelation 16:13. The same false prophet clas: forms a part of the beast, because allied with tin world powers under the supervision of Satan the Devil. The term “false prophet”, therefore within the meaning of this text, may be proper!; defined as the religious systems of the nation: called Christian, which are allied with the com mercial and political powers in ruling the peo pie of the earth.
Spirits are invisible and intangible; hence tin “unclean spirits like frogs” symbolize messages declarations or proclamations, rather than tangi ble things. A frog is a kind of animal that has i big mouth, assumes much wisdom, looks wise bluffs a great deal, swells up and makes mud noise. It is noticed that the Revelator here sav three unclean spirits like frogs. This, therefore would signify a trio of declarations, principles rules or proclamations which are boastful, arro gant and claim much. These messages come on of the mouths of the dragon, the beast and tin false prophet. They assume to be messages o wisdom. They are boastful and are proclaime< with much braggadocio and great noise.'
The “Dragon” the Devil and his organization by its efforts to destroy the seed of promise boastfully says: ‘God is a liar and His Won unreliable. Ignore Him, and away with thosi who advocate His cause!’
The “beast”, the Devil’s organization visible made up of the commercial, political and eccle
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iBjastical factors, are saying, ‘The earth is for [man, and man for the earth. We have the only ‘established forms of government that are prop-। er, and we make the earth a fit place in which to [live. Who is Jehovah that we should heed Him? ■ (Our wealth and our power is our god.’
The “false prophet”, the religious prophet for I the Devil’s organization, with pious face and [flowing garments says: ‘We are ordained from Heaven to teach the people; we are the spiritual [guardians for the people; we preach that which lis orthodox; nothing else should be heard; we must unite the nations in one great compact and thereby establish the rule divine. This arrangement of ours is the political expression of God’s kingdom on earth!’
All of these declarations are false, hence unclean. It is Satan the enemy, and his organization that proclaim these false messages. Satan is responsible for them all. These false teachings are the real reasons why the nations of the •world are being gathered to the great battle of Armageddon. And why is this so ? The answer is that each one of these messages and their messengers defame God’s holy name, and their purpose is to turn the minds of the people away from God. They are driving the people and their rulers into infidelity. And now Jehovah, according to His Word, will make a demonstration of His power so clearly and unequivocally that the people may be convinced of their ungodly course and may understand that Jehovah is God. That is the reason why God brought the great flood, threw down the Tower of Babel, destroyed the army of Sennacherib the Assyrian king, and swallowed up the Egyptians; and it is also the reason why He is now going to bring another great trouble upon the world. The former calamities were but shadows of the one now impending. The gathering is to the great day of God Almighty. It is “the great and terrible day of the Lord” (Joel 2:31), when God will make for Himself a name. In this great and final conflict the peoples of every nation, kindred and tongue will learn that Jehovah is the all-powerful, allwise and just God.
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Battle Array
THERE are divers opinions among men as to the Devil’s organization. Many deny the existence of the Devil, hence deny that there is such a thing as the Devil’s organization. These are blinded by the enemy and know not the Word of God. Others claim to believe that there is a Devil; but they look upon him as an invisible imp who goes about to amuse himself with petty wickedness, and think that he can do nothing of any particular consequence to men and nations. Still others believe there is a Devil, but claim that he is now bound and think that he can do nothing more. These are likewise blinded by his influence. Others believe that there is a Devil, but consider his organization of such little moment that it will easily be turned over by all socialists, laborites or anarchists.
To have some conception of what the terrible and final trouble will be, what will constitute the battle of Armageddon, we must have some conception of the extent and power of Satan’s organization. Satan the enemy is in possession of practically all the material wealth of the earth, which he controls through the commercial wing of his organization. He controls and operates every world power or government on earth through the political wing of his organization. He manages and controls practically all the religious systems of the earth through the ecclesiastical wing of his organization.
All these elements that go to make up the visible part of Satan’s organization are being gathered together and assembled for the great battle of Armageddon. The formation of the army is in progress and is nearing completion. Looking at the armies of the nations, assembled preparatory for “the great day of God Almighty”, which are mobilizing as the Devil’s organization, we see in the forefront the so-called Christian nations, under the leadership of the clergy, the shepherds of the flocks, and supported by the principal of their flocks. They all call themselves by the name Christian; but, as the prophet truly says, each one eats his own bread and wears his own apparel (meaning that he follows his own doctrines and clothes himself with his own salvation garments). Truly this is the time referred to by the prophet when he said: “And in that day seven women [symbolic of all eccle-siasticism, the so-called Christian systems, always pictured by a woman] shall take hold of one man [the name of Christ Jesus], saying [hypocritically], We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.”—Isa. 4:1.
Like certain ostriches that hide their heads in
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file sand when pursued by a foe and make them-s lelves believe that they are safe, so these eccle-> fiastical leaders confess to themselves that they i are safe, that they need only to be called by the h
I name of Christ, while they continue to play with the Devil’s fire. They blind themselves to the
I real situation by putting sand into their own ' eyes as well as into the eyes of their fellow men. f One division of the enemy’s army, approximately three hundred ninety-five millions, call
I themselves Christian Catholics; and one hun? ’dred seventy millions call themselves Christian rProtestants. The principal ones of these flocks I are profiteers, financiers, rulers and politicians, ■ men of influence. In the assembly of the nations . for Armageddon these take their place to the I strains of martial music, with banners flying and I the clanging of accoutrements of war. . The • Scriptures indicate that the so-called Christian ? nations compose chiefly the army of the Devil; ■ but probably the heathen nations, with their own commercial, political and ecclesiastical elements, also play a part in the coming conflict. The prophet of the Lord declares that all nations shall be assembled against Jerusalem to battle.—Zechariah 14:2.
The total population of the nations of the [ earth is approximately 1,748,000,000. Almost all J ofjhese are on the enemy’s side; or, rather, are tinder the control of the enemy, even though many of them are there by reason of coercion ' or fear, or because they are blind. No wonder ’ the leading factors stand afar off and say: What iis like unto this great city (organization)!— Revelation 18:18.
' Jerusalem is a name applied to the people of I God who are consecrated to Him. A great num-I ber of these are held in bondage to the various \ eclesiastical systems or are otherwise blinded I by the enemy, and are fearful to take their stand i boldly on the side of the Lord. The name Zion i applies more particularly to that smaller num-f ber of the Jerusalem class who are not merely [ consecrated but who are fully devoted to the i Lord and His cause because of love for Him and f an appreciation of their privileges. These are ^'designated the overcoming class. Of the over-f coining class, who have the promise of being for-j ever with the Lord, there will be only one hun-
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waiting for the consumation of their hopes. Ofi these it is probable that there are no more than fifty thousand, maybe less, who are faithfully and joyfully bearing witness to God’s holy name. These are “the remnant” against which Satan the enemy makes war, and he attempts to destroy them because they keep the commandments of God and have the witness of Jesus Christ.—Revelation 12:17.
As the enemy and his hosts view the little company who are faithfully bearing witness to the name of God, and hear what these witnesses say, they laugh them to scorn. The clergy, the false prophets, make extravagant claims for their organizations and point the finger of dis-
gust toward those who now proclaim the name of God and His incoming kingdom. So small are the numbers who appear to be on the Lord’s side, and so extravagant are the claims made by
the false prophets of the enemy’s camp, that all except the very elect of God will be deceived to some extent. (Matthew 24:24) The false prophets will tell the people that the present institu
tions will stand eternally, and that they and their allies have been commissioned to establish
God’s kingdom on earth; and this they are now doing.
But the elect, “the remnant of her seed,” will not be at all deceived by the extravagant claims, the threats, persecutions, the brandishing of arms or any exhibition of Satan’s power. They will remember that Goliath, the representative of Satan the enemy, defied the army of the Lord and fell at the hands of the lad David, who was there a type of the Lord Jesus Christ.—1 Samuel 17:48,49.
This “little flock” will call to mind how the Assyrian king Sennacherib stood before the walls of Jerusalem, arrogantly claiming to be greater than Jehovah God, defying Jehovah and blaspheming His holy name, and how the angel of the Lord swept away his army in one night. —2 Kings 19:35.
This little company of faithful Christians will remember how Pharaoh, the visible representative of Satan the enemy, pursued the people of God with his army and would have crushed them, but that the Lord utterly destroyed Pharaoh and his army in the sea.—Exod. 14: 27-29.
This little company of faithful Christians will also call to mind how Jehoshaphat, a representative of the Lord, was beset by the armies of
Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, corresponding to the three elements composing Satan’s organization at the present time; and how the Lord put His hand over his o^n people and shielded them, while He drove the enemy’s army into destruction. .
Why did God cause these things to be recorded in His Word? The evident purpose was and is to show how He can make himself a name when He so desires, and to encourage and strengthen the faith of His people and cause them to trust Him implicitly in the time of great peril. To such He has said: “O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.”—Psalm 31:23.
On one side of the valley of decision, and in the valley, stands the tremendous army of Satan the enemy, defying God, uttering cries of derision, and threatening to feed the fowls of the air upon the flesh of those who have come out against them to declare the name of the Lord. On the other side of the valley, and high up the mountainside facing to the east, stands the little company of faithful servants of the Lord, small in number and weak in individual power; yet they never for one moment quail before the enemy. They are smiling; they are happy; yea, they are even joyful; and together they lift up their voices in song, saying: Jehovah is God; Christ 'Jesus is King; the kingdom of heaven is at hand; the day of deliverance has come! Jehovah God is saying to them: ‘Ye are my witnesses, . . . that I am God. I, even I am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.’—Isa. 43:12,11.
The Contrast
THE contrast between the numbers in the enemy’s visible army and the apparent numbers in the army of the Lord is so great that only a very few are able to see that the enemy’s organization will be destroyed. It seems quite apparent that for the special encouragement of the faithful Christians now on earth God long ago caused to be recorded the following picture relating to the present time.
Jehoshaphat was a faithful king of Israel and Jehoshaphat represented the Lord. Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir entered into a conspiracy against Jehoshaphat and the people of Jerusalem. They came up to assault Jerusalem. Jehoshaphat prayed to God. His prayer is a pathetic one, and fitly pictures the utter helplessness of men and the complete dependence of the Christian upon Jehovah. While Jehoshaphat prayed, the Lord sent him a message, to wit: “Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat; Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s. Tomorrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle; set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them; for the Lord will be with you. . . . And when’he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went'out before the army, and to say, Praise the Lord; for his mercy endureth for ever. And when they
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began to sing and to praise, the Lord set am-bushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, which were come against Judah; ‘and they were smitten.”—2 Chronicles 20:15-17, 21, 22.
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The Fight
THE history of sixty centuries is behind us. Upon every page of it appear the marks of Satan, the enemy. In all that time he has reproached God, defied Him and turned the people away from Him. God has permitted it that He may from time to time thereby teach the people a lesson. He has promised that the time will come when He will put an end to this fraudulent deception of the people, and that He will open the eyes of the people and deliver them.
The hour has arrived when God will send forth His beloved Son as Field Marshal, to lead the fight against the nations of earth composing the Devil’s organization. It is God’s fight; but He acts through His beloved Son, whom He has placed upon the throne and who is the priest of the Most High God. (Psalm 110:2,4) In this great conflict Jehovah is the right hand support of His beloved Son. He delights in Him because He is His faithful servant. (Isaiah 42:1) To Him He says: “Thou art fairer than the children of men; grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. Gird thy sword
upon thy thigh, 0 most Mighty, with thy glory
and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride pros
perously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.”—Psalm 45:2-4.
In times past the prophets of God were granted visions of the preparation for the great battle and the going into action. Habakkuk saw the Devil's organization assembled and, to the nations composihg that organization who practise the devil religion through worship of images, he says: “What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach 1 Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.”—Habakkuk
2:18,19.
Then the prophet calls the attention of the people to the purpose of the great war. He says: “But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.”—Hab. 2:20.
Jeremiah was given a vision of the day of God’s wrath, and he wrote: “But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, ; and the nations shall not be able to abide his ? indignation.” (Jeremiah 10:10) “Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The Lord shall roar from on ■ high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. !A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth: : for the Lord hath a controversy with the na! tions; he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the f Lord.”—Jeremiah 25: 30,31.
, Joel saw the army assembled in the valley of judgment, and he expressed this prophecy: “Put j ye in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe: come, : get you down; for the press is full, the fats over-i flow; for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, ?■
; multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day • of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The 1 sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the | stars shall withdraw their shining. The Lord 1 also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice | from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth
shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion.”—Joel 3:13-17.
Micah had a vision of the great and terrible dayr of God, and he prophesied for the benefit of the people now living on earth as follows: “The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Moras-thite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.”—Micah 1:1, 2.
The Prophet Isaiah had a vision of this day; and he speaks of the Lord Jesus, the active Agent of Jehovah, the Priest of the Most High, the Field Marshal, coming forth to make war .upon the Devil’s organization, and says: “Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat ?” And the reponse to the prophet is: “For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.”—Isaiah 63:1, 2, 4.
Suddenly there bursts forth a great flame of light and fire from the right hand of the little company who are singing praises to God. The trumpets are pealing out their terrible strains, the thunders are rolling, the mountains are quaking and trembling, and a voice is calling from the habitation of Zion. It is the God of heaven moving into battle. The great and terrible day of the Lord has come! So terrible was the vision and so great was the effect upon the ancient prophet, that he cried out: “0 Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.”—Habakkuk 3:2.
The mighty Warrior halts; and with feet planted upon the clouds of fire, “He stood and
measured the earth.”
He made a survey of the
army of the enemy, the nations of the earth assembled against God. The prophet then says: “I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.” (Habakkuk 3:6,7) Cushan means black face;
while Midian means brawling, contentious, strife-breeding, fighting ones. The latter term well describes the leaders in the ecclesiastical systems, the false prophets who have blasphemed God’s holy name and stirred up strife against God’s faithful witnesses and persecuted those who tell the truth. Now they tremble at the sight of the Lord and, as the Prophet Joel says, “all faces gather blackness.” The assembled nations see the approaching majesty and greatness of the Lord, and their faces turn black as they tremble for fear.
Then the mighty Leader of the army of the Lord unsheaths his sword and brings into action his ^instruments of destruction. “Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.” (Habakkuk 3:5) At the approach of these the shepherds and the principal of their flocks smite together their knees for fear; and, being unable to give battle against any other, in blind fear they turn to battle against each other.
On comes the conquering Hero, the Word of God, who for centuries has waited for this very blessed hour. (Hebrews 10:12,13) “His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; ... he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood.” (Revelation 19:12,13) But behold His apparel; it is glorious, even though covered with blood. He is treading out the winepress; He is crushing the wicked vine of the earth. At His approach the mountains tremble, and the great deep utters its terrible voice and lifts up its hands to the heaven. The sun and the moon stand still in their orbits, and all the stars of the high heaven are shouting VICTORY I With righteous indignation and anger the mighty Conqueror marches through the earth to thresh the nations that have defamed Jehovah’s holy name. He drives asunder the nations, and their kingdoms are scattered and their high places brought low.
Melchizedek was a type.
Leng ago Jehovah’s
The saints do not engage in the actual combat. This is the fight of God Almighty; and the fight is led by His beloved Son, the Priest of whom prophet recorded concerning this hour: “The Lord [Jehovah] at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the head over many countries.” (Psalm 110:5,6) He is also fighting for the salvation of the people, that they might be delivered from the oppressor; and He is fighting for the anointed of God, that they may be vindicated for their faithful witness to the name of Jehovah.
That wicked ruling system designated by the title “beast” and made up of profiteers, politicians and clergy, is taken. That wicked system of religion which has hypocritically paraded in the name of the Lord, and known as the “false prophet”, is also taken; and these are cast into the burning flames of everlasting destruction. (Revelation 19: 20) These wicked systems fall, never to rise again. Then the Lord seizes the enemy himself, the Dragon, that old Serpent, the Devil and Satan, and binds him and casts him into the bottomless pit that he may deceive the nations no more.—Revelation 20: 2, 3.
Thus is Satan’s empire swept from the earth to oblivion. The name of Jehovah God is vindicated. But all human words attempting to describe this great and terrible day of the Lord are beggarly. Let us read the words which God caused His holy prophet long ago to record, describing His majestic and victorious march against the stronghold of Satan and his organization :
“A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. 0 Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: 0 Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; he had horns comi ng out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power: Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations: and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
“I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was. thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation? Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of
the tribes, even thy word, Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, I and lifted up his hands on high. The sun and I moon stood still in their habitation: at the light * of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the | nations in anger.
‘Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed;
> thou woundedst the head out of the house of the !■
> wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages; they came | out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing | was as to devour the poor secretly. Thou didst A
i walk through the sea with thine horses, through
the heap of great waters. When I heard, my
belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice:
rottenness entered into my bones, and I tre:
bled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.”—Hab. 3:1-16.
In this great battle no Christian will strike a blow. The reason they do not is because Jehovah has said: “For the battle is not yours but j God’s.” To them the Lord said further: “And I J have put my words in thy mouth, and I have i covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I i '
■ may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations . of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.” (Isaiah 51:16) The hand of the Lord
is over His little ones; and they that trust Him . implicitly and will prove faithful to Him are free from harm and will continue to sing His i praises until the end.
' A description of this final battle is referred to again, in Revelation, as a war between the ■, beast and the Lamb, in which the Lamb, Christ i Jesus, is victorious, because He fights the battle i on the side of Jehovah. “These shall make war t - - TT1T
with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome • them: for He is Lord of lords, and King of ; kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.”—Revelation 17:14. ।.
Let no one deceive himself into thinking that i the battle of Armageddon is a mere fight be-I-.1
tween men, or that it is only a picture. The the battle of God Almighty, in which He will clear the earth of the wicked system that Satan has used to blind the people for all these centuries. Satan has already been ousted from heaven; he has been cast into the earth; and now he is making a desperate attempt to destroy those who witness for God, and to blind all others and turn them away from God. But with the end of Armageddon, when his systems have been cast into utter destruction and when he is in restraint, then will come to pass the fulfilment of the prophetic utterance long ago written concerning the Devil: “Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations !”—Isaiah 14:11,12.
Another illustration of Armageddon is given in the battle fought by Gideon against the great multitude of Midian. The Midianites were the enemies of God’s people. A great multitude of these were camped in a valley. Gideon, who is a type of Christ Jesus, was directed to put them to flight. What his followers did, well illustrates what the Christian’s part will be in the great and final conflict.
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When it came to the time of going into action Gideon had only three hundred men. These he divided into three companies, and put into each man’s hand a trumpet with an empty pitcher and a lamp within that pitcher. His orders were that these should be stationed in three different sides of the camp of the Midianites, and that they should watch Gideon; and that when Gideon should give the command each one must blow his trumpet, break the pitcher which he held in his hand, and hold high his light, and Shout: “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon.*
When this was done the Midianites in their fear fell upon each other and slew one another, and the army of the Midianites perished. (Judges 7:16-20) Even so the Scriptures teach that in these closing days of the age of wickedness and the time of the incoming of the Lord’s kingdom it is the duty and the privilege of those who are really consecrated to the Lord to lift high the light of truth and sing the praises of Jehovah
God, proclaiming the message that He is God
Scriptures make it clear that it is real. It is and that Jesus Christ is the King of kings.
Drops of Ink
Tornado Damage to Churches
CHURCH buildings in St. Louis were damaged to the extent of $900,000 in the tornado which recently swept through the heart of that city. The explanation of these losses to their flocks must provide interesting employment for the pastors of some of these congregations.
End of the Giant Firecracker
THE end of the giant firecracker, which has done such a vast amount of damage to boys, is foreseen in a decision in the Jersey courts that store-keepers who sell these are liable to the parents for the damages which they cause to their children. It is a sensible rule.
Meats from, the Arctic
SINCE the introduction of domesticated reindeer into Alaska in 1892, the herds have 'doubled every three years. It is estimated that the Arctic grasslands can support a hundred million reindeer and five hundred million muskox, with a total annual meat production of fifty-five billion pounds of meat.
Decreased Crime in New York
CRIME in New York and Brooklyn has decreased from thirty to sixty percent since the Baumes law went into effect making life imprisonment mandatory for fourth offenders. The law sometimes works hardships but its general effects seem to be for the good of the people as a whole.
Britain's Prison Population
OUT of every 100,000 members of the Salvation Army in Britain two are in prison; of the Congregationalists, 3; Baptists, 9; Methodists, 10; Presbyterians, 46; Jews, 116; Anglicans, 118; Roman Catholics, 247. This was the ratio in the year 1906, published by Hugh M. Stuttfield in his work on "Priestcraft”.
The Largest Chart
THE largest chart is in England. It contains 30,000 sections, and, of course, is a chart of the heavens. The chart weighs two tons and makes a pile thirty feet high. Only 6,000 stars are visible to the naked eye, but 15,000,000 are show n on the sheets of the chart which have thus far been prepared.
Radio Lighting of Airports
ONE of the latest adaptations of radio, or rather one of the latest discoveries in radio, is the knowledge that an airplane can be used to turn on the lights of the airport toward which it is headed. The sound of the motor may be so amplified and utilized as to throw on the necessary switches.
Unknown Soldier Business Overworked
fTVHE laying of tributes on the grave of they -k unknown soldier in Paris has been carried! to such lengths by persons who were bent on! thus securing free advertising that the French people are becoming weary of the whole thing.! And what honest person can blame them? The thing has been overdone. ;
Electric Welding of Water Mains
HERETOFORE when a water-main split, it was necessary to uncover the pipe, remove; and replace it. Now the pipe need not be removed. A force of electric welders tackles the! pipe from the inside; and if sufficiently large for! workmen to enter, even in cramped positions,] the welding can be done for one-tenth of the pre-! vious cost and in less time. i
The Evil That We Do Lives Afterwards ]
A CERTAIN wise man once said that the evil ■ that we do lives after us, but the good;
is 6ft interred with our bones. Henry Ford,] after printing columns and columns of slanders! about the Jews, finally repented, apologized and] is now lauding the Jews as an able, dependable people. Meantime he is trying to stop in Europe the republication of the untrue and unjust charges against them which he was responsible for having published on this side of the ocean,
Jury Fixing at Washington j
IN THE attempted jury-fixing at Washington we see once more exposed the seething mass of corruption which has its center in exactly the opposite place from where the common people generally suppose it to be. All honor to the brave men who are fearlessly trying to expos® this rascality. Is it not perfectly evident that men who will resort to jury-fixing will unhesitat-i ingly frame up innocent men and even conniv® at murder? The inference is plain. !
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Combination Sandwiches in Havana
HAVANA has the reputation of the best and cheapest combination sandwiches in the world. They are to be had in the grocery stores at 20d each, and, as they contain about everything good to eat about which human beings have any general knowledge, they are in great demand. Cuba, not Hawaii, ought properly to be called the Sandwich Island.
Airplane Landed by Parachute
A NAVAL officer, Harry Douchett, has in-vented a huge parachute, with a spread ol fifty feet, which brought safely to earth an air
plane, with its pilot and equipment, weighing altogether 1,800 lbs. The only damage sustained
was a broken landing-wheel and propeller blade. The engine was shut off when the plane was 2,500 feet in the air.
Eighteen the Spanking Limit
ARENTS who wish to spank their daughters must do it before these reach eighteen years of age. At least that seems to be the rule in Indiana, where a mother chastised in this manner a young lady who had reached the advanced age of nineteen. She had her mother arrested for assault and battery. The mother was fined $1 and costs and the judge reprimanded her.
Fewer Accidents in Steel Business
HERE is a gratifying reduction of accidents in the steel business, the rate of accidents
per million hours of exposure having fallen in twenty years from 69.2 to 29.9. In "a large group of plants the frequency has fallen to 6.8 in plants where fourteen years ago it was 60.3. This indicates that a real effort is being made to make the steel business safer.
A Considerate Company
HE Texas Corporation, with 1,000 employes, situated at Battery Place, New York City,
had in mind to move the offices about three miles up-town, but before deciding the matter took a vote of the employes, to see whether the change would be agreeable to them, and decided the matter only on their recommendation, a remarkable exhibition of consideration.
Baseball Has Its Uses
N ITEM in the London Daily Express reports that the American steamer Nile went
The Criminal Type
UPREME Court Justice Fawcett, of Brooklyn, has made a careful study of the physiognomy of criminals and is reported as having said, ‘If you see a man with a drooping left eyelid or with wide, staring eyes, beware of having your pocket picked.” The judge names eight characteristics of criminals, which, if correct, would argue that they are all mentally sick and not responsible for their acts.
Murderers Seldom Chronic Criminals
Warden Lawes, of Sing Sing, who is opposed to capital punishment, makes the point that murderers are seldom chronic criminjtls. Ninety percent of those committed for first-degree murder have no previous criminal record and there is not a single instance where a prisoner pardoned for first-degree murder has ever returned to Sing Sing prisqn because of a second homicide. His studies show that the typical murderer, first the Irish, then the Germans, then the Italians and now the Negroes, come from some race that is making for itself a place in a new environment.
For Those Who Are Fond of Hell
OR those who are fond of hell (and sad as it is to say it, there are some such, some who
ashore off Tunis; and the natives, instead of coming to the rescue, massed for an attack. As they drew near, the Nile's crew, not otherwise armed, peppered them with oranges and apples thrown with such deadly aim and with such force that they turned tail and clambered back on shore. The crew was afterwards taken off by an Australian boat which chanced to come along.
would rather have error than truth and will not investigate the subject) we recommend the case of William Vincent, of Brooklyn. Thirty-five years of age, with five small children, and another expected shortly, he spent fourteen days tramping the streets looking for work and in all that time had only one half-day's employment. Then in desperation he stole $1.42 in a vain effort to get food for his starving family. This item will bring joy to those who are fond of hell, but it will give only sorrow to those who love their fellow men.
Catholics in Ohio Penitentiary
THE large population of Catholics in the Ohio State penitentiary at Columbus has chipped in and paid for a magnificent shrine in honor of Saint Teresa. The shrine is twelve feet wide and five feet high. The statue of the saint is finished in gold decorations which are said to be very rich, but there were so many convicts to share in the expense that it did not make any very great burden on any one person.
Effect of the Baumes Law
IN TT-TE sixteen months that the Baumes law has been in effect forty-nine habitual criminals have entered Sing Sing prison to serve life terms. Apparently the only hope that any of these men will ever have a chance to regain their manhood and mingle again with their fellows lies in the establishment of the Lord’s kingdom. Now these men are mentally sick, but perhaps not more so than the Daugherty-Doheny-Fall-Sinclair crowd.
Fort Worth’s New Trading-Stamp Scheme
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FORT WORTH has a new trading-stamp scheme, entitling cash purchasers of cigars, tobacco and other merchandise to trading stamps which are redeemable at two percent of their face value. But these trading stamps are not redeemable by the persons to whom they are issued. They are redeemable only by the pastor of the congregation of the church or other organization named by the collector of the stamps. The thing will not work. It is contrary to human nature.
Conditions in Russian Prisons
AN INVESTIGATOR of Russian prisons says, “I found conditions good so far as human relations go, but very bad physically. The twelve prisons I visited were crowded and unsanitary. But the relations with the keepers were friendly: most wardens were former political prisoners themselves; there is usually work for all; "wages are paid; the food is fair, and cooperative stores sell extras; education and recreation are organized by the prisoners themselves; and, most amazing of all, every well-behaved prisoner gets two weeks’ vacation with pay, and peasants get two months to harvest their crops. Very few fail to come back.”
Human Brain Can Not Keep Pace
fPHE human brain is unable to keep the pace of modern civilization. On January 1, 1922, there were in state institutions for the feebleminded, and epileptics, a total of 39,596. Five years later, January 1, 1927, there were in the same institutions 52,043. The increases in the intervening years were progressive, showing a steady tendency toward the break-down of the human mind. ■■
Winter Sports All the Year
"V 7 IE NN A is converting a large disused rail-’ way station into a playground where winter sports can be enjoyed the year around. Artificial snow will be used, the invention of an Englishman. It will stand almost any temperature, and is said to possess all the qualities which are required of real snow in winter sport, except that it is not cold; and it can be washed and used again.
The Wonders of Mammoth Cave
TV/TAMMOTH Cave, Kentucky, is on five differ-ent levels and has passageways and chambers extending a total of 150 miles. Numerous other caves have been recently found in the same district, some of them of rare beauty and of great size. The walls of these caves are of limestone which has been left when the softer earth was washed away. All of these great caves have their underground streams, which at length find their way mostly into the Green River.
Lambasting the Scholars
THE Manchester Guardian thinks that scholarship which thinks only along national lines is poor scholarship. It says: “Nothing so terribly illustrated the failure of civilization in 1914 as the spectacle of scholars in both camps constraining truth for the purposes of national honor and glory.” How strange that “what passes for historical, economic and scientific truth within one great seat of learning should be ridiculed in another institution equally imposing, impartial and erudite, merely because the two universities happen to be situated in territories whose governments have taken to quarreling. Efforts to nationalize truth and to entail property in knowledge are fortunately doomed to failure.”
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'Associated Manufacturers and Child Labor
O THEIR lasting credit be it said that the National Association of Manufacturers has come out with a program demanding a medical examination of working children, a minimum sixth grade educational requirement, continuation schools, a 48-hour week and no work after 9 p. m. Only six states in the United States are now measuring up to this standard: New York, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Oregon.
Sick Cows in Rhode Island
REPORTER in the Providence Journal tells us that in Rhode Island when a cow gets so sick that its death is imminent, the custom in that commonwealth is to race with it to the slaughter-house to give the butcher a chance to cut its throat before it dies. Somehow news like this takes the edge off a person’s appetite for the cheapest meats. Wonder what the veter-inaries in other states know about the disposition made of very sick cows.
In the Methodist Church at Nampa
IN THE Methodist Church at Nampa, Idaho, McDonald Birch gave an evening entertainment on Magic which it was advertised, among other things, would include spirit slate-writings, table-floating, spirit manifestations and even ectoplasms. We did not see the show, but if it is what it seems to be it is the very same line of activities for which the Israelites were told that they might invade the land of Canaan and put its inhabitants to death. It seems to have been demonism pure and. simple.
War Warning by Lloyd George
IN A speech at Queen’s Hall, London, Lloyd
George, who understands the condition of Europe as well as any living man, recently said: “If you take the Allied countries in Europe today their armies, inclusive of reserves, number in the aggregate well over ten millions of men. They have weapons infinitely more formidable and destructive than those with which they were equipped in 1914. Another war is inevitable, a more terrible war than has ever been experienced in the history of this world (the fate of the world depends on that) unless you can induce the nations of the world to trust in law and justice, and not to force.”
Lions Naturally Friendly to Man
TV/Tr. Patterson, head of the National Cash
Register Company, is back from a trip to Africa where, on one occasion, he made a 200-foot film of twenty-five lions in their natural state, playing about him on all sides, some of them coming within twenty feet of him. These lions have a natural love for man and never turn against him until they find he is in a fallen- state and not to be trusted.
Studies in Human Hair
TUDIES in human hair have revealed that the natural hair of man is either straight or wavy. Among New Caledonians the infants are born with light-colored and straight or slightly waved hair; and it is not until the child is about six years of age that the hair turns dark and becomes kinky. This conclusion, that kinky hair is not normal, is said to be borne out by a study of the natives of the New Hebrides and the Negroes of the United States.
Nebraska's Desert Being Reclaimed
"^TEBRASKA’S desert is being reclaimed. In
’ the northwestern part of this great state, there are ten million acres of sandhills, until now valueless. Now ten thousand acres of this waste have been planted with pine trees, which, in some places, are thirty feet high and growing splendidly. Planting on a very large scale will now be undertaken at once, and the complete recovery of this vast area is confidently anticipated.
The Poorest Class Not Overpaid
TJROF. Irving Fisher, of Yale University, takes the wind out of the sails of those who have been boasting about huge American profits by saying: ‘•'The poorest class alone, comprising 76,000,000 people (65 percent of the total) receive about 38.6 per cent of the national income, or $34,740,000,000—less than $460 per person. With only an estimated $117 of income per family above the minimum of comforts and necessities during a year that is often called the most prosperous ever known, this majority of the American people cannot yet be said to be in danger of having any too much income. Those ‘ I
in the lower income groups must surely be hard put to it to make ends meet.”
Hurrah for Judge Simpson
WIDOW eighty years old was brought before Magistrate Simpson of New York City, charged with selling pretzels and candy on the street. The Judge smiled benignly at her, ’dismissed the case, took up a collection for her in the court-room, and after she left, and the matter got into the papers, one of his friends sent the poor old lady $100. Some Judge! May his shadow never grow less.
The Eyes of the Butterfly
XAMINATION of the eyes of the butterfly under powerful microscopes reveals the interesting fact that each eye has five thousand
different lenses, with ten nerves attached to each lens. Experiments show that the butterfly is partial to purple, that it can see ultra-violet rays, and that it can recognize its acquaintances in the butterfly world at three and one-half feet distance.-
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