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Health and Life for the People

Complete text of address by Judge Rutherford, broadcast simultaneously by a chain of 97 radio stations,

THE BIG HOOK-UP

THE LAST ICE AGE

COFFEE POISONING

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DO WE PEDDLE RELIGION?

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Labor and Economics Four-Hour Day for Women .

Social and Educational A Glance at the Big Hook-up.....    .

Successful Eebroadcast in British Columbia .

Drops of Ink ...................  814

Radio Service ..................... 831

Finance—Commence—Transportation

"Will Wall Street Swallow Europe?” ...........815

The Investors Union .....

The Power Trust in South America............815

Three Days Cut from Mail Time...........  .  816

Holland Tunnel Huge Success  .........818

The Queensboro Gas and Electric Company.........819               .

|                                 Political—Domestic and Foreign .

The Heartlessness of Governments ............814

Agriculture and Husbandry

Discouraged Market Gardeners.....  818

Development of a New Pea...............819

Science and Invention

Vegetable Wool in Britain...............816

More About the Last Ice Age..........  820

Home and Health

"Death by Misadventure” ...............814

Coffee Poisoning by Aluminum

Travel and Miscellany

Some Pacts About Scotland ............... 822

|                      Exiled 142 Years ........

Religion and Philosophy

Health and Life for the People

Stratford Minister Gets Eight Idea

Britain’s Stuffed Diplodocus .............. 825          '

Do We Peddle Eeligion? . . .'.............823

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Singing the Kingdom Song in Southwest Africa....... 828

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Volume X                       Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, September 18, 1929                      Number 261

Health, and Life for the People

[Judge Rutherford’s great address on August 25, 1929, over the watchtower network of ninety-seven associated radio stations. Judge Rutherford has three times had the opportunity of the greatest radio hook-up in history.—Editor.']

TRUE information concerning health and life is of paramount importance to the people. When mention is made of health we must take into consideration not merely the physical but also the mental and moral conditions of the people. An unhealthy mental state leads to immorality, lawlessness and death. A few days; ago the New York Journal editorially gave a brief sketch of a habitual criminal who has spent more than forty years in prison. Editorially it was there stated that the man was born a criminal and had followed crime all of his life, and then the questions are asked: Who is responsible ? How can the public be made safe from such monsters? Can such born criminals be reformed? The authoritative answers to these questions are found in the Bible, and during this speech I shall give those answers.

The facts reveal a very unhealthy condition in Europe, where I have recently spent some time. During the World War millions of men were permanently crippled in body and in mind. You do not see these cripples and insane on the streets of European cities. I made inquiry concerning their absence. I was informed that the physical and mental cripples are kept behind prison walls that the other people may not see them. Those unfortunates long for relief, praying that it may come to them in some way, but they have little or no knowledge of how relief may come. It is authoritatively stated that conditions of crime and mental and moral derelictions are even worse in America. Almost every person has some ailment. No one enjoys real health and life.

Expressing grave alarm concerning the unhappy and unrighteous conditions existing in America, the president of the United States has appointed a crime commission and authorized it to discover the cause and bring forth a remedy. In that movement the president is being heartily supported by the leading financiers of the nation. The clergy have come forward and proffered their assistance and pledged themselves and their churches to aid the other wings of the government in carrying out the president’s plan.

As the political leader of the nation, Mr. Hoover is to be highly commended for expressing his desire to bring about a better condition amongst the people. It is proper that the great commercial part of the nation should also use its power to aid the people. Men of good intention, however, often pursue an unwise course in an attempt to accomplish their good purposes. These two powerful factors of the nation have looked to the clergy for wholesome advice, but again the clergy have failed to give such advice. Instead, through their spokesman, from whom I quote, they say: “If now, Mr. President, you have any word or call or challenge, of guidance or warning, to say to us, be assured it will be received in a spirit of readiness to help and of eagerness to carry on a program which is essentially a phase of our immediate church duty.” Those words express a willingness to fall in with, and an eagerness to support and carry on, any worldly scheme that may be brought forth as a remedy for the unhappy existing conditions.

Let all be assured that I have no quarrel with the clergy, as men. If political leaders take an unwise course they receive severe criticism at the hands of the people. If the commercial powers of the land act unwisely they also are criticized. When those who hold themselves out as the spiritual advisers not only fail to give wholesome advice but stand in the way of the people’s knowing the truth, then why should not their course be carefully scrutinized by the rulers and by the people, and they also be criticized? I insist that the clergy have missed a great opportunity to tell the people the real cause of the breaking down of the world’s institutions, and of the unhealthy mental, moral and physical conditions, and what is the real remedy therefor. I wish merely to submit the proof; and if the proof sustains the conclusion stated, then both the rulers^- and the people should no longer regard the clergy as safe advisers concerning spiritual and moral matters.

Crime

It is authoritatively stated that the annual murder rate in America has increased 350 percent since 1900, and that other crimes have increased in like proportion. Mr. Hoover, in a public address, has said: “Life and property are relatively more unsafe in the United States than in any other civilized country in the world.” It may be of interest here to mention the fact that the United States is the only country in the world where the clergy have insisted on the enactment of a prohibition law, and succeeded in so doing, while the country was under the stress of war.

If the commission would discover the source of crime, why not examine the evidence as to the very fountainhead of crime? If the clergy would aid the president and his commission in ascertaining the truth concerning the cause of the abnormal conditions, why not advise them where the truth is to be found? The clergy pose as the representatives of God and of Christ Jesus. Then why not tell the rulers and the people what God and Christ have to say about these vital questions that involve the health and life of all the peoples of earth? If the clergy know and believe the Word of God they should tell the rulers and the people what it says. If they do not believe that the Bible is God’s Word, then they should plainly so state to the people and cease to hold themselves out as preachers and spiritual advisers. If it is important to obey the laws of the land, then with stronger reasoning it is important to obey God’s law, because every just law of the land is based upon God’s righteous law. A greater responsibility, therefore, rests upon those who claim to teach God’s law. If they are failing or refusing to teach God’s law upon these vital questions, then the people should be informed, in order that they may pursue the course that is for their best interests.

What, then, does God’s Word say as to murder and other crimes? Jesus answered, in John 8: 4.4, that Satan the Devil was a murderer from the beginning, the father of lies, and that he abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. It is further written in God’s Word that Satan caused men to violate God’s law and brought sickness, suffering and death upon the entire human family. It is therefore of vital importance to the people that they know what is the source of crime and wickedness, sickness and death, and what adequate remedy there is for the same.

Who is Satan, and whence did he come? God’s Word, in Isaiah 14:14 and in Ezekiel 28:14-18, answers that question, stating that originally his name was Lucifer; that God made Lucifer the overseer of man in Eden; that rebellion and disobedience on the part of Lucifer led to the sickness, suffering and death of man, and that the entire human race has suffered because thereof; that God changed the name of Lucifer and since then he is called Satan the Devil. All disobedience to law, as shown by the Bible, finds its source in Satan. In what I am here saying I am not putting my construction or interpretation upon the Bible; but I am stating the facts as they are set forth therein, which any one can read and understand. Concerning those facts therein stated Jesus declares, in John 17:17, that the Bible is the Truth. What the people, as

well as the rulers, need is the truth, and not mere theory or platitudes.

Why has there been such an increase of crime on earth during the past ten years? Why so many calamities, suicides and untimely deaths? Does the Bible give answer to these questions? It does; and the answer is found in Revelation 12:12, which reads: “Woe to the inhabiters of the earth ... 1 for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” Why has Satan now but a short time? The Scriptures answer that question. For centuries God has not interfered with Satan in his nefarious work of deceiving the people. God long ago made promise that the time would come when Satan's world would end, when his evil rule would be destroyed, and that then God would set up a righteous government through His beloved Son, which government will bring blessings to all the people of earth.

Asked when that time would arrive, Jesus answered, in Matthew 24:8-10, that the beginning of that time would be marked by a world war, in which nation would rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, followed quickly by famine and pestilence and then by distress of nations with perplexity. The conference of the statesmen at The Hague is proof of such perplexity. He also said that not only would the nations be angry at that time but it would be the beginning of God’s wrath upon Satan’s wicked rule. (Rev. 11:18) These prophetic utterances have been fulfilled before the eyes of all persons since 1914. Why have not the clergy called the attention of the rulers and the people to these truths ? They must answer before God. The rulers and the people must now seek information for themselves.

Continuing to explain the unhappy conditions on earth Jesus declared (Rev. 16:13-16) that following the world war Satan and his agencies would then hurriedly prepare for the great battle of Armageddon; and this is what is meant by Satan’s having only a short time. Satan’s real purpose is to destroy the human race, and the Scriptures show he is egotistical enough to think that he can defeat God in His purpose of blessing mankind. He now seeks to turn the attention of the people away from the Lord and His Word that they may not know of Jehovah’s remedy for their blessing. In doing this, as the Scriptures state, he is rushing the people and the nations into greater crime and is the real one responsible for the great increase of crime and the unhealthy moral and mental conditions of the peoples in the earth.

The Scriptures frequently refer to Satan’s concluding days as “the last days”. Concerning this time it is written, in 2 Timothy 3:1-5: “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highmind-ed, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”

This scripture describes exactly the condition that is so well known today, and shows wZ?,?/ there is now a great increase of crime. Let the people look well to this scripture and the facts, and they will be able to locate the class of men who in this day claim to represent God and yet, as this scripture says, Rave a form of godliness but deny the power of His Word.’ If the professed preachers of God’s Word could know the cause of the increased unrighteousness amongst men, and could know of a complete remedy therefor, and then fail to tell the rulers and the people the cause and the remedy, their course of action proves that they are unsafe and unwise counselors. They should tell the president and his commission plainly what God’s "Word says concerning the cause and remedy. Instead they close their mouths as to the Word of God and announce their purpose to follow in the way of some human scheme which is doomed to complete failure.

Deceive the Nations

God, through Christ, declares His purpose to destroy Satan and his wicked rule in the earth. _vRev. 17:14; 16:19) What is His purpose in destroying Satan’s rule? Jesus answered, in Revelation 20: 3, that the purpose is that Satan may deceive the nations no more during the reign of Christ.

Has Satan been deceiving the nations up to this time? Such are the plain words of the Bible, and such the facts corroborate. Men have organized themselves into nations and sought to establish good governments and to make and enforce wholesome laws. Satan, though invisible to man, has exercised his powerful influence over men, turned them’away from Jehovah God, and caused men and nations to walk in the rvay of unrighteousness. The plain statement of Jesus, as set forth in John 12: 31 and 14: 30, is that Satan is the invisible ruler of the nations of the world. Corroborating this it is further V'ritten, in 2 Corinthians 4:4: ‘The god of this world hath blinded the minds of men, lest the light of the glorious good news of Christ should shine unto them.’ By fraud and deception and the exercise of his wicked influence Satan has deceived the nations and blinded the people of the world to the truth. Have the clergy told the rulers and the people that Satan has exercised his unholy influence over the nations and deceived them and blinded them? If they have not so done, then they have failed in their duty.

Is Jehovah God, udth His beloved Son Christ, the ruler of this present evil world? Certainly not, because there is now no nation that is ruled by the law of God. Long ago God promised that in His due time He would establish His kingdom, with Christ as King; and referring to that, Jesus said: ‘My kingdom is not of this world . . . ; my kingdom is future.’ (John 18: 36) The first work of God’s King, Christ Jesus, is to destroy Satan’s rule and release the people therefrom, and that will be the very result of Armageddon.

It is written in God’s Word (Rom. 12:2) that those who love God should not conform themselves to this world. Contrary to that instruction, the clergy, claiming to be followers of Christ, do conform themselves to this world and go to the rulers and say: If you have any word of guidance, we are ready to fall in with that and follow.’ They therefore show their lack of faith in God and that they have failed to truly and faithfully represent God, and have not told the people or rulers the truth concerning His kingdom; and therefore the rulers and the people suffer for want of knowledge.

Lord’s Witnesses

Those who are the sincere followers in the footsteps of Jesus God commands to now be His witnesses in the earth. They are told to bear to the rulers and to the people the message of truth concerning the kingdom of God. Today a little army of humble Christians, in obedience to God’s commandments, are going from house to house to carry this message to the people. They are not engaged in a propaganda scheme. They do not ask you to become a member of anything or to join anything. They come to you as friends of the people solely for the purpose of bringing you God’s message of truth, that you may sit in your homes and learn what are the vital and important truths at this time. Judging from past experiences, not one clergyman in the United States today will support this little company of God’s witnesses. On the contrary, they have been going to the law enforcement officers and influencing them to invoke the blue laws of religious intolerance, long ago enacted and which no honest man today desires to see enforced. They attempt to have a false construction put upon these laws to prohibit faithful men and women from preaching the gospel and informing the people concerning the truth. Let the people judge as to who has influenced the clergymen to take this course in attempting to prevent them from having the truth. Jesus said to His true followers (John 15:18-20) that because ye are not of this world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you’. “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) Let the people judge as to whether the clergy today are a part of the world or are a part of God’s organization.

Because the United States has more money and more power than any other nation on earth, and because she has received greater enlightenment than any other nation on earth, she stands in a position of greater responsibility today than any other nation. Because the clergy of America have assumed to represent God, and have had the opportunity to receive the truth and to tell it to the rulers and to the people, they occupy a position of greater responsibility before God than any other class of men in the governments of this world. When the great time of trouble described as Armageddon, and which is just ahead, is on, America, because of her advantage and responsibility, will doubtless receive a greater degree of punishment at the hands of Jehovah than some other nations. Knowledge and responsibility go hand in hand.

The Remedy

I fully concur with the president and his committee that the mental, moral and physical condition of the people is grave. I am in full accord with the desire to ascertain the cause and to find an adequate remedy. I am unwilling, however, to accept the findings of the committee as to the cause or the remedy. Unlike the clergy, I am unwilling to follow the lead of the president or his committee, because the conclusions of both will be but the expression of human wisdom. The clergy have proven themselves unsafe advisers and physicians without value to the rulers or to the people. If the great Creator of heaven and earth discloses to man the cause of the deplorable conditions, and the real remedy, then all men should desire to know these truths. I therefore state the plain truth as set forth in the Word of God upon these vital questions, and call upon both rulers and the people to heed these truths because they come from Good’s Word; and I ask them to utterly ignore the clergy, who speak only the wisdom of this world, which is foolishness in the sight of God.—1 Cor. 1: 20.

First, what is the cause of the unhappy conditions? Repeating the question of the New York Journal, Why was the man born a criminal, and who is responsible? briefly, I answer: Because Satan caused the first man to fall into sin and crime; and because all men have inherited that condition of imperfection, sickness and death. In Psalm 51: 5 and in Romans 5 :12 it is written that all have inherited sin from Adam and therefore all have been born in sin and shapen in iniquity. The clergy have not told the rulers and the people that, because they do not believe God's Word. Since they do not believe the Bible, they should no longer mislead the people by claiming to represent God. Do the rulers and the people still think it advantageous to have such men as their spiritual advisers ?

No nation can by the enactment of laws or by the enforcement of laws eliminate mental and moral sickness, crime or death. The only remedy for the elimination of evil and the bringing of health and happiness and life to the people is God’s remedy. Long ago God made this promise, in Genesis 22:18: Tn thy seed all the peoples and nations shall be blessed.’ Then He defines in His Word (Gal. 3:16-19) that “the seed of promise is Christ”. More than 1800 years ago God sent Christ Jesus into the world and permitted Him to be crucified that by His death and resurrection He might pay for mankind the penalty of death which was caused by Satan’s wrong-doing. Jesus repeatedly stated when on earth that in due time God would set up His kingdom by and through which He will bring blessings to the people, and that such would follow at the end of Satan’s world. The end of the world, or of Satan’s rule, has. now been reached, and God has placed Christ upon His throne; and the next great act, as the Scriptures declare, is to destroy Satan’s power. Before this is done, however, God commands that a witness shall be given to the nations and rulers of the earth. (Matt. 24:14) Jesus declared that after this witness is finished there shall then be tribulation upon the nations such as the world has never known and that it will be the last. (Matt. 24:21,22) This will destroy Satan’s rule and power and clear the field for the complete establishment of righteousness among men. The administration of God’s government will bring mental, moral and physical health and life to all wdio obey. "When God’s Word so plainly sets forth the cause of sickness, crime and death, and the remedy therefor, why should any one look to imperfect men for advice?

Righteousness '

Ten years of strenuous effort to enforce prohibition not only has failed completely, but has been accompanied by great increase of crime. For more than 6,000 years honest men have put forth laborious efforts to stop the ravages of sickness and death. All of their efforts have failed. "Why longer stand idly by and listen to the abortive remedies of men? The president and his committee, aided and supported by all the money in the universe, can not bring forth or even suggest an adequate remedy for the ills of humankind. Nothing short of divine power can give the people health, mental and moral righteousness, and life, with accompanying blessings.

Now God has placed His King upon His throne. By the physical facts disclosed since the beginning of the World War God has made it clear to the seekers for truth that Satan’s rule in the earth must shortly end and that it will end in the greatest battle ever fought. His judgment upon the world has come. In the language of God’s prophet Habakkuk (2:20), ‘The Lord is in His holy temple; let all the peoples of earth be silent before Him’; that is to say, let all the people heed what God’s Word has to say to them and discard all the sophistries of men.

Concerning the reigning of Christ it is written: “Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.” (Isa. 32:1) And then says the Lord through His prophet (Isa. 26:9): “When thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.” Furthermore says the Lord (Jer. 31:33): “I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and them shall be my people.” If all the rulers today knew that such is God’s remedy, and would then follow God’s way, it would not be necessary to appoint crime commissions. The people Vvould be turning themselves to the Lord and ascertaining His instruction and preparing for the kingdom which is now at hand. If the clergy were faithfully performing their duty they would tell the rulers and the people these truths.

The people are sick and worn and weary. They are burdened with excessive taxation, with oppression and injustice, and are weighed down with disease and sorrow. They are sick in mind and sick in body, and this is true because Satan rules and has brought about this condition. The people should know the truth. With God’s righteous government in full force all men will be brought to a knowledge of the truth. Just now He is having merely a witness given, the purpose of which is to disclose to the rulers and peoples His purposes, and that those who desire at this time to seek righteousness and meekness may do so and thereby have His special favor.

Do the sick and afflicted desire health? To be sure; all desire health. Is there any man or body of men able to give them their desire? Certainly not! Under the righteous reign of Christ they will obtain the truth and health, as it is written in Jeremiah 33:6: “Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.” And further says the prophet of God (Isa. 33: 24) : “And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.” When the people have been restored to health and have healthy minds and know the truth they will dwell together without doing injury to one another. Unselfishness will control their action, and putting unselfishness into operation will be the complete fulfilment of all law, as it is written (Mic. 4:3,4): “And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.” Healthy minds and healthy bodies and righteous thoughts will eliminate crime and no one will have an occasion for fear.

Life

The things performed by Jesus when on the earth the Scriptures declare foreshadow similar things that He will do on a, greater scale during His righteous reign. lie opened the eyes of the blind and healed the sick amongst a lew people. During His reign He will do this for all who will heed His advice as the great Physician. Through His prophet God foretold the suffering of humankind, then the bringing of the knowledge of the truth to mankind and the revelation of His provisions for the healing of the people. In the prophecy recorded in Job 33: 23-26 it is written that the people shall learn that Jesus Christ is their Redeemer, the Messenger of God, and the great Physician of mankind. He will show them the right way; therefore says the prophet: “Then God is gracious unto him [man], and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom. His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s; he re-turneth to the days of his youth. He prayeth unto God, and he is favorable unto him, so that he seeth his face with joy: and he restoreth unto man his righteousness.”-Job 33: 23-26, R.V.

For centuries men have searched for the fountain of eternal youth that they might enjoy life and endless happiness. That great secret has ever been in the keeping of Jehovah God. But Satan has blinded most of the people from seeing that truth. God’s time has now come to reveal the truth to all men who seek it; and when Satan’s power is destroyed and his influence removed, then all the people shall learn the way to life. Death has been the result of sin. The death of the perfect man Jesus opened the way to salvation of men. In John 17:3 it is written: “This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” As stated in 1 Timothy 2:3-6, God first provides salvation and in His due time He brings all men to a knowledge of the truth. He therefore emphasizes the great importance of teaching the people the truth and declares His purpose of granting life everlasting to all those who heed His instruction and follow in the way of righteousness.

Today no people or nation offers real encouragement to the unfortunate criminal to reform and do right. When he is released from prison, if he attempts an honest vocation he is shunned and ill-treated and thereby provoked to further wrong-doing. Human remedies of reformation have all failed. God’s remedy is certain and complete. He not only will encourage, but will aid, help and bless every one who tries to do right. In proof thereof it is written in Ezekiel 18: 27, 28: “When the wicked man turn-eth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Because he con-sidereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.”                          .

The unfortunates learning that they have a true and lasting friend in the Lord, and learning the truth concerning His purposes, they will be encouraged to reformation and obedience. To those who take this course Jesus stated, in John 8:51: “If any man keep my saying, he shall never see death.” Even those who have died in crime shall be awakened out of death and given an opportunity, and to these Jesus says (John 11: 26): Tie that lives and believes in me shall never die.’

God’s government under Christ will cleanse the earth of all crime, disease and unrighteousness and death itself, as it is written in 1 Corinthians 15: 25, 26: “For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

God having made promise that He -would bless all the families of the earth, that promise He -will certainly keep; and that promised blessing is an opportunity for life everlasting on the earth. This will come through the reign of Christ, -which is now beginning. Concerning the blessings that w^Till result to the people therefrom, it is written (Rev. 21:4): “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”

It is with deep regret to be noted that the clergy desire man’s commendation rather than God’s approval and have been negligent of their great privileges and are unsafe advisers both to the rulers and to the people. God has made provision, however, that the people shall have an opportunity to hear the truth. He has committed this privilege to a little army of the followers of Christ who go from door to door to carry the message of truth to the people. These men and women are humble messengers of the Lord bearing testimony that Jehovah is the only true God and that His kingdom is at hand and that He will relieve the people of crime, sickness and death and bring them health and life. Amidst all the opposition to their efforts God furnishes to His anointed the needed protection, and to them He says (Isa. 51:16; 43:12): “I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth”; “therefore ye are my witnesses . . . that I am God.” Today and in the days to follow there will come to your doormen and women bringing to you the message of life, as set forth in the Word of God. These are not engaged in propaganda, but are bringing you the truth which you desire. They bring to you the message of comfort and consolation that comes through the knowledge of the Word of God. Rely not upon the advice or expressed wisdom of any man, but follow the teachings of the Word of God, and you shall receive the blessings of health and life, because God’s due time is at hand to bring these blessings to the people.

Stratford Minister Gets Right Idea

A STRATFORD (Ontario) minister has finally caught the right idea. Tired of the worldliness of the flock, and convinced that the mission of his church -was useless, he gave up the ministry and got himself an honest job in a factory where he can make his living like any regular man. Exemplary, indeed, that action. Probably others will follow before it is too late.

J~"udge Ruthereoed has thousands of letters from parties who have written him in appreciation of his great address of August 25, which appears in this issue. We have none of these letters before us, but we do have a bunch of letters and telegrams from his friends in various places, from which we present a summary herewith that we know will be of great interest to our readers. It shows, briefly, that the whole North American continent got the message. What a day in which to be living! What a message! What an opportunity to magnify God's name! What a privilege to cooperate !

Annapolis, Md., friends greatly enjoyed the program at their hall, in spite of the interference of the U. S. naval high-power radio station located there.

Assiniboia, Sask., reported that all was clear and distinct, with no interference except telegraph code and indistinct telephone conversation. There was no static, and each variation, in tone and breathing was heard in the lecture.

Arlington, Mass., listened in to WLEX and found the reception excellent from beginning to end.

Attleboro, Mass., said, “The big hook-up w^Tas just as nearly perfect as one could expect, so far as WLSI is concerned; no hitch anywhere, and flawless reception.” The lecture was “absolutely true and thrilling, compelling active cooperation in repeating it”.

Bangor, Me., got the complete program strong and clear, with no interruptions, but could hear faintly telegraph station working, though not loud enough to bother reception of program. [The telegraph is an important auxiliary of the coast-to-coast hook-up.—Editor.}

Bay City, Mich., reported volume and quality 0. K., with slight line noise during the program.

Beaumont, Tex., greatly appreciated the Lord’s message and the clearness with which it came.

Birmingham, Ala., reported that Judge Rutherford’s speech was “as music from the throne of Jehovah” and that altogether the program was “the best, clearest, and most satisfactory from a mechanical standpoint of any program that has come through on chain”. Another report from the same city said: “I listened to the program from radio in lobby of Hotel Bankhead, Birmingham, Alabama. I never heard a more perfect handling of a program. It w^Tas the clearest chain broadcast I ever listened to. Others made the same remark. I do not see how it could have been improved upon in any way whatsoever. It is truly the Lord’s business.” There were immediate phone calls for the books.

Buffalo, N. Y., reported program 0. K.

Burton, W. Va., reported that the program came in clear and distinct, and without a break or interruption.

Champaign, Ill., said that the lecture was great and the reception fine.

Chancellor, S. Dak., reported no interference. Everything came through that was sent out over the key station WBBR.

Charleston, W. Va., stated that every word could be heard, even by those who were hard of hearing.

Charlotte, N. C., (WBT) was off the air four minutes before the lecture and ten minutes after the lecture closed, on account of local equipment trouble, but otherwise everything was 0. K.

Chicago, Ill., said: “The entire program was beautiful, the music and songs very harmonious, and Judge Rutherford’s talk was quite strong; but it needs strong talk to get people out of the Santa Claus ideas and fairy tales by which the preachers have put the people to sleep.”

Perfect reception was reported over station AV CEL, twelve present at the place where the listening for defects occurred.

Chinchilla, Pa., said: “Judging from the comments received while distributing the circulars advertising the broadcast and also the comments received during the regular canvass, the Sunday morning programs are listened to by a multitude of people.”

Cleveland Heights, Ohio, reported the reception very fine and no interference; the speaker’s voice was very clear and distinct.

Columbus, Ohio, said: “This program, from beginning to end, came over the air in a very satisfactory manner; and so far as rendition is concerned, it was all that could be desired. The orchestra was splendid and the songs good. The lecture was perfectly clear and easy to follow, with no doubt about the meaning of the ■words. Was a little surprised that the lecture was as short as it wms.”

Corpus Christi, Tex., thought the lecture "wonderful and timely, showing the people of earth the way to health and life”.

Creek Locks, N. Y., said: “The reception was fine and clear; every word was distinct, with plenty of volume and no interference except a slight humming noise at times, but this did not affect the reception.”

Dalhart, Tex., reported that reception of music and lecture from KOA (Denver) came in fine, with no static.

Dallas, Tex., said that “Dallas Bible Students assembled this morning at the Jefferson Hotel to listen to Judge Rutherford’s broadcast, and wish to state that we have never heard anything to equal it. Every word of the lecture was plain and understood and enjoyed by all. The music was wonderful, and the program on the whole ■was perfect from every standpoint, without any interference whatsoever”.

Danville, Va., “heard every word distinctly.”

Davenport, Iowa, reported quality, volume, transmission and program 0. K.

Davis, S. Dak., said: “All reports that are coming by mail, and the telephone calls yesterday, report reception good and could not be better. All were encouraged by the lecture, and hope this may be made a regular Sunday morning feature from Brooklyn, but are willing to wait, if it is not His will, knowing that this is His work and that He will open the way.”

Dayton, Ohio, said: “Program came in fine; no interference; no interruption.” “The program through WSMK was a grand success.”

Denver, Colo., was so pleased with the way the address came in that they sent along twenty-one Scriptures for us to look up, which will tell all about it when we get time to look them up, if we ever do. Incidentally, they had the words “good” and “fine” and “wonderfully put” sprinkled in among the texts; also, they said it was an excellent program in its entirety and that it was the most wonderful witness ever given to humanity.

Detroit, Mich., reported ‘no interruptions, reception perfect, voice clear’.

Dubuque, Iowa, reported that every word came through WOC without any interruptions or delay, and incidentally added that WOC is the best station west of Chicago. _

Earl Grey, Sask., reported that the program up to the conclusion of the lecture came over clearly and distinctly, without interference.

Elmhurst, New York, found it an eloquent and illuminating appeal which strikes the keynote.

Evansville, Ind., reported that the program came in fine, with very little static.

Fairmont, W. Va., and Oakland, Md., reported jointly that the lecture was wonderful and that it came in clear as a bell at both places.

Flint, Mich., found “no delay, wonderful reception, clear and distinct, very little static”. “Thanks to .God and His dear Son; also to the brethren.”

Forest, La., had a little company of ten listening in at a colporteur camp. The message came in clear and plain over KWKH, Shreveport.

Ft. Wayne, Ind., reported watchtower program all 0. K.

Fresno, Calif., said that the people of the great San Joaquin valley were thankful for the marvelous program.

Halifax, N. S., reported that the first half came in good and the last half strong.

Hamilton, Ont., had excellent reception over CKOC; no interruptions; no interference; entire program heard very plainly.

Harrisburg, Pa., reported that program came through without any interruption and was as nearly perfect as could be expected. Judge Rutherford’s voice was clear, and the lecture itself was very clear and easily understood.

Hollyburn, B. C., “seemed to sense considerable fatigue in Judge Rutherford, but are confident the Lord will sustain him until the work given him to do is finished.” There were a few minutes of annoying interruptions.

Hollywood, Calif., said “momentary storm, hits and slight line hum throughout, but transmission, volume and quality 0. K.”

Hopkinsville, Ky., found not one bit of interruption ; every word clear, “just like a voice right out of heaven.”

Houston, Tex., said that the program was fine, the music was good, and that, of course, “the judge is always good.”

Indianapolis, Ind., wired that the Indianapolis folks greatly enjoyed the message of health and life for the people, that it was a great encouragement to the friends, and that all -were grateful for the privilege of placing the message of life in permanent form in the homes of the people.

Galveston, Tex., heard the lecture loud and clear from KPRC and rebroadcast it from KFLX. The lecture crea^d a profound impression in Galveston.

Glen Head, N. Y., reported that the speech came in very fine, distinct and clear.

Glen Rock, N. J., said, “Program was excellent and came over without interference.”

Glenwood Springs, Colo., got every word over KOA of Denver.

Gloucester, Mass., reported that “the station was powerful and the lecture came through fine; we could even hear him breathe; every word was quite plain”.

Grand Island, Nebr., found the reception excellent, and were grateful to those who made it possible.

Grand Rapids, Mich., reported that the reception through station WOOD was fine, that there was no interruption, and that the program was the best ever.

Jacksonville, Ill., thanked Jehovah for the truth and for the lecture, which came in fine.

Kalamazoo, Mich., said that the “wonderful message of truth came through perfect”.

Kansas City, Mo., said: “The Devil tried all along to interfere, but did not succeed until the close, during the announcement of local station.”

Lexington, Mass., reported “transmission perfect”.

Lincoln, Nebr., greatly enjoyed the talk. The program came in nice and clear.

Little Rock, Ark., reported transmission, volume and quality 0. K.

Logansport, Ind., wired that international broadcast came in clear and forceful over WO WO, Ft. Wayne, that lecture was a wonderful presentation of up-to-date truth and it must have done a rich public service.

London, Ont., stated that program started on schedule time and was carried through without interruptions; a wonderful witness; all that could be desired in quality and delivery. “You could even hear him breathe.”

Louisville, Ky., reported that the program came in very clearly, as clearly as any program ever heard, and that it was inspiring.

Mannington, W. Va., reported fine service over station WMMN, every word received loud and extremely clear and distinct; no interruptions.

Memphis, Tenn., reported that it was one of the best-balanced programs yet to come over the air; everything was clear as a bell; could even hear Judge Rutherford breathe, especially the long deep breath he took as though he were tired. Fifteen listened in one place. Sixteen copies of Life were sold to people calling in on the telephone at the end of the program.

Minneapolis, Minn., wrote to say that the program could not be improved upon in any sense of the word and that reception was perfect.

Monrovia, Calif., reported that the program came in wonderfully distinct and clear, and that it was a great joy to hear again the voice of Judge Rutherford exposing the shams of Satan’s organization and telling the people that Jehovah is their only hope.

New Orleans, La., reported that the entire program came through perfectly.

New York, N. Y., reported WMCA station quality and transmission O. K. and WOV “everything fine”.

Norfolk, Va., 'Came in clear and strong from Petersburg (Va.) station even while local station was on.’ Two messages to this effect.

Oakland, Calif., received the entire program without a. flaw, and considered it a wonderful lecture, a wonderful day, and a wonderful opportunity to proclaim the truth. “On the whole the best hook-up yet.”

Oklahoma City, Okla., said: “The broadcast' was a complete success as we heard it. It was clear and distinct, with no interruptions, and was wonderful indeed.”

Oldtown, Me., said succinctly, “Program came through splendidly.”

Omaha, Nebr., reported that the program in its entirety came in highly satisfactorily, with no interruptions whatever.

Paterson, N. J., reported “volume and quality very satisfactory”.

Petersburg, Va., said: “It was wonderful; sounded just like the judge was in the room; could hear him breathe; most magnificent message.”

Philadelphia, Pa., reported program 0. K.

Pittsburgh, Pa., reported that the program came through entirely clear, with no interruption or delay.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y., reported everything 0. K.

Portland, Oreg., reported officially that “the whole program was perfect”.

Prince Albert, Sask., heard every word of the message of life and health, and wanted more.

Providence, B. I., reported “all 0. K.”

Beading, Pa., reported program satisfactory with no interruption or trouble.

Richmond, Va., said: “watchtower program through WLBG, Petersburg, came in wonderfully. My sister also heard it perfectly in the West End, through WTAR, Norfolk. In canvassing immediately afterward found a number of people who had heard it perfectly through WLBG and WTAB and enjoyed it. Books were placed with most of those who heard.”

Roanoke, Va., reported, “Conditions perfect ; lecture grand; everything carried out satisfactorily.”

Rochester, N. Y., reported everything 0. K.

Rock Island, Ill., said: “The reception from Station KTNT, Muscatine, Iowa, was perfect throughout. The message gave hope and cheer to those who love truth and righteousness, but fear and torment to those of Satan’s organization.”

St. Joseph, Mo., reported quality, volume and transmission 0. K.

St. Paul, Minn., found no interference at all from any other source but heard every word of Judge Rutherford’s talk distinctly. “Jehovah has surely blessed this hook-up and the words that went out over the air. It gives us a greater determination than ever before to hasten to the people with the message.”

Salt Lake City, Utah, reported that the entire program came in in perfect shape, and that there was no miss or delay.

San Antonio, Tex., reported watchtower program 0. K.

San Francisco, Calif., stated: “The reception over KYA, San Francisco, was clear in every particular; no interruption anywhere. The lecture was a masterpiece—like the book Life, the best the judge has put out. It appeared at times as though the speaker was suffering somewhat from shortness of breath. Certainly his message was a strong denunciation of the clergy class.”

Saskatoon, Sask., said that “the program was very good; not one word was missed; also the quality was excellent”.

Schenectady, N. Y., heard every word clear as a bell.

Scranton, Pa., reported “reception perfect, no interference from any source; speaker clear and of good volume; orchestra well balanced; altogether very excellent program; talk most inspiring”.

Seattle, Wash., said: “The musical program and lecture came over perfectly and without a break all the way through. Judge Rutherford showed that he was a little tired; still he spoke with a strong voice. The deep breathing showed great effort to talk, but the voice was strong and clear.”

Shreveport, La., had a gathering of eighty listeners in one hall and fifty in another. KWKH came in perfect and KTSL rebroadcast the program, taking it off the air. “The reception of the program was absolutely perfect, with not a discordant sound nor a missing word.”

Sioux Falls, Iowa, reported volume, quality and program 0. K.

Spokane, Wash., said that the program came in fine and every word was heard distinctly.

St. Louis, Mo., reported volume, quality and transmission 0. K.                           •

Syracuse, N. Y., reported all 0. K.

Toledo, Ohio, found Judge Rutherford’s voice clear and distinct, and the address clear throughout, with no interruptions.

Walters, Okla., “had an audience of seventy listening to the judge’s lecture. The reception was fine.”

Washington, D. 0., reported “frequent breaks for four minutes before the lecture began. Otherwise program 0. K.”

Washington, N. C., obtained excellent service of the lecture through WPTF, 118 miles west.

Waterloo, Iowa, reported quality fair and volume 0. K.

Wheeling, W. Va., said that “the lecture came through fine, clear and without interruption. Reception was wonderful”.

Wichita, Kans., reported that the address came in very clear and plain, with no interference at any time.

Wichita Falls, Tex., said reception was perfect, no static, no interruptions, not a word missed and that they had had good reports of the lecture from points in southern Oklahoma.

Winnipeg, Man., mentioned a little hum and crackling lasting until about 10:25; otherwise the address was very clear.

Winona, Minn., received the lecture very plain over WOC, rejoiced in it and found it very encouraging.

Yorkton, Sask., said that the whole program came through with absolute clarity and consistent volume. Only one very slight flaw of about one second’s duration was observed at about the middle of the speech, but none of the speech was lost.

Youngstown, Ohio, stated that Station WKBN apologized for line-hum, but it did not interfere at all with reception, which was clear and distinct.

Successful liebroadcast in British Columbia

[Judge Rutherford has let us reproduce the following letter, because it shows the Lord's blessing upon efforts made in the far northwest to give as wide publicity as possible to his message of August 25.—Editor.]

Vancouver, B. C.

August 26,1929 Judge J. F. Rutherford 117 Adams Street

Brooklyn, N..Y.

Dear Judge Rutherford:

As W. Tinney, the local director in charge of radio at Vancouver, was ill, he asked me to report to you regarding the reception at Vancouver of your lecture over the international hook-up.

The program was picked up by CJOR at Vancouver from KJR at Seattle and rebroadcast.

I am pleased to report that the reception was all that could be desired, your voice being exceptionally clear. The volume was good, no distortion and no interference except for about one minute when a ship transmitter was sending a message in code.

The message itself was a great stimulus to the friends as they went out with the books later in the morning. Several people canvassed stated that they had heard the lecture and appreciated it very much.

May the Lord continue to richly bless you and guide you in the direction of the work of the anointed still on earth.

Yours by divine grace,

N. B. Maysmith.

Drops of Ink

Compelled to Join the Church

BALLSTON Spa boy who concealed an escaped jail prisoner has been ordered to join the Methodist church and attend it regularly for one year, or be sent to prison. Strange how the idea should have got around that these two institutions are so much alike. Just w^That we ourselves were thinking.

The Heartlessness of Governments

HOILE hcartlessness of governments was illus--“- traded recently by the attempted suicide of a boy of 19 years whose father was a Pole, and his mother a Hungarian, while he, himself, was born in Czechoslovakia. His father having died, the Hungarian government, the Polish government, and the Czechoslovakian government have taken turns in expelling him from one country to another and thrusting him into prison, all for no reason whatever.

30,000 Basements Unfit to Live In

T THE London County Council, recently, Dr. Barrie Lambert declared that there are 100,000 persons in London making their homes in 30,000 basements that are absolutely unfit for human habitation. Doctor Barrie seeks a law closing such parts of buildings as could be used only injuriously.

“Death by Misadventure”

TN BRITAIN, recently, there have been sev-J- era! deaths due to vaccination, followed by sleeping sickness. This is now known to be the direct result of the vaccine virus on the brain and nervous system, showing that many human beings can not stand the strain of the injection of poison into their systems. When a young woman, 31 years of age, recently died from this cause the coroner at Westminster set down the verdict as “Death by Misadventure”.

Vassalage to America

TWO of the most far-seeing statesmen of

Europe, Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany and former Premier Herriot of France, have expressed their fears that Europe is sinking into a condition of vassalage to America, and this seems to us to be the plain truth. Vassalage to America, within the meaning of this expression, is merely vassalage to the Wall Street Soviet.

Black Magic in Oklahoma

HHWENTY white witnesses testify that after J- persistent attempts for two days had failed to locate the body of a drowned colored man at Enid, Oklahoma, colored men appeared on the shore, tossed the negro’s hat on the water, and by what is called voodooism, or black magic, but what is really demonism, they ordered the body to rise and get its hat, and it immediately came to the surface.

“Will Wall Street Swallow Europe?'

the present glut of capital in America at length produces a surplus, we should do everything possible to attract it, together with American technical skill and experience, to the task of revitalizing and developing suppressed British industries. This is Britain’s shortest road to recovery, and all handicaps on the investment of American capital in our country, such as the disqualification of American shareholders from voting, should be removed.”

Shaw and Wells Resent Censor

TPHE British Broadcasting Corporation is being rebuked for its presumption. Two of England’s greatest men, H. G. Wells, the novelist, and George Bernard Shaw, the dramatist, have stated that they resent the censorship of their speeches and that they will not henceforth do any broadcasting in the British Isles. This should work out well for liberty lovers, as these men have great influence in England. This idea that a few men are all-wise as to what the rest of the people should be privileged to hear is a joke, and a bad one at that.

The Investors Union

"KJ OW we have the Investors Union, Inc. It will own investment trusts. The investment trusts will own holding companies. The holding companies will own public service corporations, and public service corporations will continue to make electricity at less than three-fourths of a cent a kilowatt an hour and sell it at around ten cents, and the cheerful public will pay profits to all these corporations and support newspapers that tell them that that is just right and that the people themselves should own nothing at all.

to extend to the Berlin police. Referring to the slaughters in that city in May an article in the Manchester Guardian says: “Thirty-one innocent victims have paid for the excesses of the Berlin police with their lives. Not one of the killed fell in open fight. At no time was there such a fight. The best proof of this is that not a single policeman was as much as injured in the so-called disorders and street fights. The police simply hunted down human beings.”

The Power Trust in South America

TO HE same power trust that has grasped the

United States so firmly by the throat is engaged in the same task in Cuba and South America. The present president of Cuba was a relatively poor man when he was in its employ; now he is rich. Meantime his administration has put through a law exempting the trust from past and future taxation. The average rate charged the people in Cuba is more than twice what it is in the United States, in which latter country it is more than three times what it is in Ontario, where the people own their own power.

Some American Scraps of Paper             <;

ONE treaty with the Cherokees promised them that west of a certain area of 7,000,000 acres, by them deeded to the United States, they were to have free and unmolested use of all the country as far west as the sovereignty of the United States and their rights of soil extend. In another treaty it was promised that trespassers on lands so allotted to the Indians would forfeit the protection of the United States and the Indians might punish them as they pleased. Neither one of these treaties has been honored by the United States.

Many Shortages of Water '       ' '

THE latter part of July found many countries, Britain, France, Cuba and parts of the United States short of water, as a result of the driest July ever known. Meteorologists are expecting several dry years to follow this one.

Sand-Storm in Canary Islands

MORE than a hundred miles from the coast of Africa, the Canary Islands have just been treated to a sand-storm. Mixed with the sand was a drenching rain, resulting in the general plastering of everything in the Canaries with a fine mud.

Quebec Not to Be Treeless

QUEBEC is determined not to be treeless and has issued a decree that for every tree cut to make paper pulp two new ones must be planted. We are not sure if this decree is a law of the land or of the International Paper Company; possibly the latter.

Objective of Farm Board

THE objective of the new farm board lav? is to aid the farmer in planting his crop, if he needs it, to aid him in disposing of it by creating a cooperative organization to take it over and sell it, to protect market prices from disastrous drops, and to protect the farmer from a surplus.

Four-Hour Day for Women

IN THE city of Bordeaux, France, by general consent, women employed in industry work only four hours a day, spending the balance of the day at their usual domestic tasks. It is found in practice that this works out well. The employers are said to be well pleased and the women delighted.

Three Days Cut from Mail Time

ON THE eastbound mail from New York to

Berlin three days were cut from the usual time by catapulting it from the steamer Bremen when it was off the port of Cherbourg, France. From the place -where the plane took off it made the journey to Berlin in only four hours.

The Babassu Oil Nut

SOUTH AMERICA is now interesting all the

Western -world in her oil nut, the babassu. The nut is the size of a lemon, having from four to seven kernels, and being covered with an unusually hard shell. A satisfactory machine for cracking this outer shell has now been invented.

Vegetable Wool in Britain

A VEGETABLE wool has been produced in

Britain which is said to be an excellent substitute for the genuine article. The source of the product is not announced, but it is said to be a vegetable waste and to have possibilities similar to those of rayon.

Cost of Dying in Vienna

TN THE socialist-ruled city of Vienna the average cost for all funerals is only $50, while some are held at a cost as low as $14. The greater part of the funerals of the city are conducted by the municipality’s own funeral establishment, and funerals are less costly than in any other large city in the world.

Soviet Old Age Pension System

HP HE Soviet government has enacted a pension law which enables men of sixty years to retire on half pay, wages to be paid until death. In the case of mining and other dangerous occupations the age of retirement is fifty. Unemployment -will be reduced by eliminating aged -workers.

New Home of League of Nations

League of Nations, and the League itself will give about four millions more. The new buildings will be plain and low, but very impressive in their grouping and arrangement. The Grand Palace will be 390 yards long. The buildings will be ready for occupancy in about five years. ance fund, through which they and their families receive medical attention when ill without any direct charge being made. If they were properly taught as to how to eat and live, this charge would not need to be over one percent, and might even be much less than that.

Score One for the Cigarette

THAT curse of civilization, the cigarette, may have one tally to its credit. It is responsible for the burning of all the ramshackle part of Turkey’s new capital. Though it rendered two thousand persons homeless and caused one death, the general results to the city will be good.

Fifteen Cigarette Murders

FIFTEEN little lives have been snuffed out by the murderous cigarette in a park in Gillingham, England. Some fool threw one of the half-burned things into a booth in which the children were enacting a pantomime for the amusement of their parents and friends, and they were enveloped in flames and their escape cut off.

California’s Cigarette Fools

ALIFORNIA has so many cigarette fools, i.e., so many people who burn thousands of acres of grain, and timber, including farm buildings, w’ith cigarettes throwm out of automobiles, that the farmers are growing desperate. They are now’ demanding that campers be kept out of the foothills, as so many damages are traceable to their carelessness.

The Fruit Fly in Florida

TN FLORIDA the fruit fly has closed ten banks J- and has spread over some 34 percent of the area of the state, the total loss thus far aggregating about $60,000,000. It is believed that now⁷ the pest is under control and that it will be wiped out. The government will recompense the growers for their losses caused by government supervision.

Golf Pajamas in Florida

URRAII for Sarasota, Florida! The mayor of the city and three doctors have been out on the golf links playing golf in their silk pajamas and declaring that they never before knew what it was to dress comfortably. Meantime there have been pajama parades in New York city, and the day of man’s liberty in dress draw’s on apace. In a few years now they will look like zebras or spotted deer, and be as cool and comfortable.

Vatican Not to Go Thirsty

ON A given day recently three thousand pilgrims to the Vatican each brought a bottle of choice wine as a gift. Another pilgrimage of five thousand had a full barrel along; and now the good news has spread and almost every pilgrimage is helping to get the Vatican wine cellars well filled, so that when the prelates want to tank up they will not have far to go.

Value of a Bishop’s Oath

rpHOUGH the bishops of the Church of England, each and all, have on oath agreed to abide by the law’s of Parliament, yet they are now deliberately breaking the law and breaking their oaths by using the 1928 prayer book which Parliament rejected. Of course the W’hole thing is a farce and a joke; but it seems like a real and solemn matter to many Britishers.

A Cold Fourth of July

ON THE Fourth of July, 1929, it w⁷as 60 degrees below zero. Pretty cold for “The

Fourth”, was it not ‘I Where was this? Oh, yes! It was down on the Antarctic continent, where Commander Byrd and his party are spending the summer in winter quarters, so that next winter, when it is summer, they can go on exploring the continent.              ■

Some Wonders of the Arctic

Mb. Stefansson, the Canadian explorer, has been entertaining the British by assuring them that on the northernmost island in the world there are 120 species of flowers, including primroses, daisies and bluebells, that the snow is not deep, that it is not as cold as in Montana, and that very few of the Esquimaux have ever seen a snow⁷ house.

New York Has a Heart After All

EW YORK is not so heartless as it seems on the surface. A young college man looking for work and unable to find it ran out of money and was without food for three days. Finally he fell starving in the street. The crowd that gathered around him, when they found the cause of his condition, raised a purse of $100, and a kind-hearted woman took him into her home with assurance that she w’ould give some attention to his future welfare.

Jews Dropping Away Rapidly

T THE Zionist conference in Switzerland one of the leaders cited statistics showing that the Jews as a people are rapidly disappearing from the world, owing to their amalgamation with Christians and unbelievers.

World Trade Grows Slowly

INCE 1913 the volume of the world’s trade has not increased more than ten percent, while the total shipping of the world has meantime increased thirty-three percent. There exists, therefore, a considerable surplus of navigable ships in the world, despite all those lost during 1914-1918.

England Rapidly Going Insane

IKE America, England is rapidly going insane. Statistics recently published by the

Mental Deficiency Committee show that there are 300,000 mentally defective persons in England and Wales, or one in every 140 of the population. This is almost twice as high as it was twenty years ago. One-third of these are between the ages of 7 and 16, showing that humanity can not stand the pace.

Simony in Church of England

IT WILL surprise many of our readers to know that simony has been and still is a common practice in the Church of England. Simony is the sale and purchase by clergymen and their friends of the right to load themselves upon a community and be supported by public taxes. Just at present there is a pretty row on between the high church and low church parties in England as to which side is doing the most along this line.

Nebraska Governor Shows Backbone

WHEN a North Platte (Nebraska) mob became insane and, because of the killing of a white policeman by a colored man, drove every law-abiding colored man, woman and child out of the city, the governor of the state came to their rescue and forced the lawbreakers to allow these useful citizens to return to their homes. The governor stated that cases were brought to his attention of mothers compelled to leave home in the night, on foot, dragging babies a month old along 'with them.

British Torpedo Follows Its Target

THE British have invented a new torpedo •*- which follows its target in the water, rendering escape next to impossible. It can be steered anywhere, and in fourteen trials scored a direct hit every time.

Holland Tunnel Huge Success

THE Holland Tunnel is such a huge success that New York and New Jersey will at once build another one to relieve it of part of its burden. The receipts from the tunnel are so large that they will pay for the construction of the new one without any outlay of other funds. More than a million vehicles a month are now using the tunnel.

Courageous St. Louis School Teacher

ST. LOUIS school teacher was bitten by a poisonous snake and sent to a hospital. At the hospital the authorities wanted to give her a serum treatment. She declined to have it and got well without it, explaining that if she took it her body would have to contend with two poisons instead of the original one. Looks to us as if she had both courage and common sense.

Ulloa’s New Book on Columbus

ms Ulloa’s new book on Columbus, based on original researches by himself, discloses that he first visited America as a sailor aboard a Danish vessel, and that this was years before his historic voyage of 1492; also that the papers of agreement drawn between Columbus and Isabella show that the sovereigns of Spain understood clearly that Columbus was not making the trip for the first time.                      ..

Discouraged Market Gardeners

OME idea of the fertility of the British Isles, and some idea of the depressed condition of trade there, may be gathered from the fact that this year cabbages are being burned or plowed in because it does not pay to send them to market, and there is an overplus of asparagus, peas, gooseberries and young onions, so that market gardeners find no way out. Some have suicided. The trouble seems to lie in the marketing end of the business. It is being noted in England that though wholesale wheat prices are down 40% yet there has been but a very slight reduction in the price of bread.

The Queensboro Gas and Electric Company By F. Stuart Barnes

FOR long a subscriber to your excellent magazine, I appreciate, among other good features, its stand for justice, justice for the people. Apropos, then, of your fearless denunciation of the big public utility steals, the following incident served to show me how moderate your words have been.

A young couple, with two children (and very little else), moved from Brooklyn to East Rockaway, Long island, mainly for the sake of one of the children, who was ailing (and has since died). They hoped that the fresh air from the sea, and the good open air on Long Island, ■would prove beneficial to the little one. A few days before moving, they wrote the local gas and light company (the Queensborough Gas and Electric Company), asking that the required meters be connected. Imagine the surprise and dismay of this young couple when they received a letter from this band of robbers demanding that $30 be deposited with them before the meters could be connected. After a delay of two days they managed to borrow the money from a friend. This meant no gas or light for Evo days. They were able later to repay the loan to their friend.

A few months after this, a family, related to the above, also moved to this locality. The same situation arose, and were it not for the assistance of their relatives, who already had had to put up $30 to show they were honest, this second family would have been in a difficulty.

Imagine! These people have had to deposit $60 with these crooks, just for the privilege of being robbed by them (at the rate of ten cents a kilowatt-hour) every day of the week for the supply of one of life’s necessities, and all because the poor Queensborough Gas and Electric Company can not trust these folks and their relatives to discharge their debts honorably.

Or is it (unkind thought!) that this company, with its monopoly on the supply of one of life’s needs, has found in this method a nice little scheme for increasing their capital resources to further their nefarious plans in obtaining a stranglehold on the supply of gas and electricity? I have at my disposal ample proof that current could be supplied at less than half what is charged, and then at a substantial profit.

One almost wonders just how long hence it will be before we buy the air we breathe, at so much a cubic foot! I only hope I am not living in the Queensborough Gas and Electric Company’s territory then.

However, I am glad to know that the new kingdom of Messiah, very soon to be established, will be one in which all are to have a chance, and ivhen the God-given blessings of the earth will no longer be controlled by these mighty bands of thieves.

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No doubt the thieves above named are doing all their stealing legally, which makes the whole situation ten times worse. In comparison, a highwayman is a man of courage and honor, since he does, supposedly, give his victim at least a chance. These fellows give him none at all.

We can previse this day of taxing the air wo breathe. First would be a series of “scientific” articles in the simian press, pointing out that the breathable air of the world is being rapidly exhausted. Then would come the announcement of the great discovery of a method of revivifying it. This would be the proper place for legislators to decide, at so much per, to give one of the great public utility companies the privilege of purifying the air over a certain district and making it legally breathable. The brethren in the ministry would then take up the refrain and descant upon how good their particular god has been to give them such great men. Then the doctors would set forth that without this new invention nobody could live. And the courts would decide that protection of property rights involved would make it necessary for each man to pay an atmospheric utility charge in proportion to the number of persons in his family. This would place the heaviest burdens upon the poor, which, of course, arguing from the instance above brought to our attention, would certainly bo good business.—Editor.

Development of a New Pea

GREENVILLE, Michigan, reports the development of a new pea, the vines of which grow six to twelve feet in length, with nitrogen-bearing nodules as large as ten-cent pieces knotting the roots. At maturity the vines rot off at the surface and are harvested with a hayrake, without cutting, while the roots with their load of valuable nodules remain in the soil.

Mere About the Last Ice Age By G. 8. Hynes

L AST night’s paper contained a news item concerning the finding of two human skulls (or parts of skulls) in a cave at Bishop Cap Peak, Neve Mexico, along with the claws and a vertebra of the extinct ground-sloth. The professor in charge of these relics estimates age of the skulls at 50,000 years (a very reasonable estimate from the geological standpoint). These are believed to be the most ancient human remains so far found, according to scientists, for the ground-sloth perished before the “last ice age”. The remains were located about 28 feet below the surface.

I merely mention this find for the purpose of introducing what follows. You realize, of course, as every other reasonable person, that the facts of geology will agree with the Biblical account, if the Bible is in truth the Word of God. We believe that it is.

As to the guesses of geologists relative to time, it is not necessary that any thinking person pay attention to this feature of their work. They differ too much among themselves for any credence to be placed therein.

Yow, first of all, let us look backward to the “last ice age”. The evidences of this great catastrophe cover the globe. In America we find that Long Island itself is the terminal moraine of a great ice river which once covered much of the New England states. All over this territory are evidences in the shape of huge, isolated, boulders scattered over the countryside by the melting of the ice sheet.

When the Pilgrim Fathers landed in New England they found the ground covered with rocks of varying sizes. In order to till the soil it was first necessary to remove these rocks, and since they came in handy for fences, the task was not so fruitless as at first appeared.

Since Agassiz brought forward the ice age theory, in 1840, indisputable evidences of its truth have been found everywhere, so that today we are positive of the fact that this old world is still emerging from 'he setback it received millenniums ago.

Authorities vary in their estimates as to when the last ice age occurred. Mills, in his “Romance of Geology”, makes a guess of one million.years. Parts of the old ice caps still remain in Greenland and over all the Antarctic continent.

But what caused the ice age? Professor Shaler, of Harvard, in his book’, “Nature and Man in America,” offers the two most generally favored hypotheses: (1) the elevation of mountain ranges coupled with changes in ocean currents and an increase in rainfall in regions affected; (2) that of Croll, which advocates as am explanation of glacial periods a great eccentricity of the earth’s orbit and a consequent change in the character of the seasons which occur when the orbit is thus eccentric. Both of these hypotheses fail to account for the facts which are now known concerning conditions just before the ice age. Let me quote from Mills, the “Romance of Geology”:

Apparently there was continuous land for thousands of miles north and south (of Nevada), and as various kinds of plants scattered over this area show like growths, and as they are without either growth rings or annual rings,, these fossils record that the earth in those times was without zones or seasons. . . . Since the days of Florissant (a fossil lake in Nevada buried beneath volcanic ashen showers just before the ice age) the climate has changed, and plants and animals have adjusted themselves to zones. The fossils show that there were luxuriant forests far north of the farthest present tree growth. Southern Europe was tropical and there were palms with appropriate animals and other life in northern Europe. . . . There were sequoia forests, during Florissant times over the greater part of the earth—in Canada and Alaska, Greenland and Spitzbcrgen. [And also the Antarctic continent.]

In view of the above facts cited by one of the keenest geological observers in this country, where can we find any basis for either of the two hypotheses advanced by Professor Shaler? Instead of changes of seasons due to eccentricity of the earth’s orbit, we find no seasonal changes at all, but instead a mild, salubrious climate general over all the surface of the planet, even to the poles, unvarying to any noticeable extent the year around. And would it not be more reasonable to believe that the ice age itself was the cause of mountain elevation, changing of ocean currents and increased rainfall than that all these variations in conditions could take place without known cause? Why put the cart before the horse? The Bible gives us the following picture of conditions on earth before the Deluge:

• 1. Climate warm and moderately dry, as evidenced by the fact that our first parents, though probably living on a well-wooded and well-

watered plateau, were perfectly comfortable the year around without clothing.

• 2. No rain; a mist condensed at night and watered the ground. There was not enough moisture at that time for garden crops. This is plainly stated. (Gen. 2: 5, 6) Irrigation would have been necessary in order to grow grains and vegetables. The Garden, in the east of Eden, was a well-watered spot.—Gen. 2:10.

• 3. No storms. Winds are due to different temperatures here and there near the surface of the earth. Such changes of temperature would produce wind and rain. There was no rain, as plainly stated in the record and also proven by the fact that no' rainbow was visible until after the Flood.

• 4. Conditions were extremely favorable for life, both human and animal, as is shown by the ages attained by the antediluvians.

The above facts fit in very well with Mills’ account of conditions in North America at the time Lake Florissant was overwhelmed by volcanic ashen deposits. I quote:

. Fossil reports show that the climate of the whole world grew cooler and dryer during the Miocene epoch.

These conditions ceased with the Flood. Thereafter conditions approximating the present prevailed over all the earth. Many people seem to think that the Flood was a result of abnormal rainfall. Such would have been impossible. In the first place we had, prior to the Deluge, atmospheric conditions which evidently precluded rainfall. Secondly, it has been the experience of man for at least 4,000 years that the sun does not lift sufficient water vapor to cause such a world-wide catastrophe as the Flood, and if it did would not all this water have drained the seas, the rivers and the lakes to such an extent that they could very easily have reabsorbed it as fast as it fell? There is no theory which fits the case in all its aspects except that advanced by Professor Vail years ago (and promptly rejected by the Aviso ones of this world), to wit, the fall of a watery canopy, designated in Scripture as “the great deep”. This canopy had spread out over the heavens-during the sixth day of Creation and had equalized the climate over all the earth. Man was created toAvards the close of this sixth day, or as the geologists would say, betAveen the last two ice ages. The geological evidences of this fact are indisputable. Hence we are forced to the conclusion, all the scientists to the contrary notwithstanding, that the Deluge was the last ice age. And since the Bible record, as well as legends of nearly all races, note the Flood as having taken place within the history of mankind, we are likeAvise forced to conclude that the last ice age is very recent. It could not have occurred more than some 4,400 years ago.

Now let us go to Professor Mills again to find some further facts which tend to substantiate the Bible story of the flood and Noah’s connection therewith:

The varied and extensive remains of fossil animals that flourished on this continent (North America) before the last ice age shows that there occurred an extensive extinction of animals Avhich probably was caused by the conditions of the glacial period. Among the species which perished were two large specimens of the cat family; four species of bears; t\vo species of the sea-cow; six species of horse; the existing South American tapir; wild dogs; a species of llama; a camel; two species of bison; three species of sheep; tAVO species of elephants and tAvo of mastodons; a large, sloth as large as a rhinoceros. The horses, camels and elephants which lived in North America before the Glacial Period were found afterwards only in the Old World.

Speaking of wild life which existed in America before the ice age, Mills says:

Many kinds of animals which we noAv have in America were in existence here at that time, and numerous other kinds Avhich we do not noAv possess. Giant beaA^rer fed on the bark of aspens and cotton-Avood. Horses, elephants and Avild cattle grazed; bears and lions prowled and groevled and roared. The American mastodon was abundant in the forested regions. The Siberian mammoth migrated by way of Alaska and was abundant all across the northern United States to the Atlantic coast. The Columbian elephant, which attained a height of 11 feet, and the huge Imperial elephant, more than 13 feet in height, roamed from the Pacific to the Mississippi. Tapirs were not uncommon in the forested regions as far north as Pennsylvania. Ground sloths migrated from South America and Avere very abundant in the forests east of the Mississippi. Birds were numerous, and hundreds of species then in existence arc Avith us today without noticeable change.

From the geological records it is evident that many species of animals were not preserved by Noah and his sons. And it is not presumptuous in us to assume, therefore, that God in His wisdom decreed their destruction for the benefit of the human race.

Among those destroyed were monstrous birds, the mammoth, the ground-sloth, the sabre-’toothed tiger, the cave-bear, and many other ferocious beasts. I think it is clear that some strange power is evident in the preservation of those animals which remain on earth. Were they more fit to survive than those that perished? It would hardly seem reasonable to believe so.

And why should the Old World be the seat of both human and animal life since the Deluge? Is it reasonable to suppose that conditions were so much more unfavorable for animal life after the catastrophe that it was impossible for the horse, the camel, the elephant and other animals to exist in North and South America and yet have found it easy to survive in the Old World? The ice cap in the Americas did not extend farther south than the Ohio River in the east. West of the Mississippi it touched comparatively little United States territory. Geologists are undecided as to the correct answer to these questions. But if is certain that parts of both North and South America were habitable, not only for animals, but for man himself immediately after the ice age.

If it be conceded that practically all the land surface of the globe was interconnected before the last ice age (and this is known to have been so), then the latest find of human remains in New Mexico offers no puzzle to the Bible student.

Satisfied as we are that “the Flood” and “the great ice age” are synonymous terms for the great catastrophe which overwhelmed the “world that then was”, and with positive proof that the ground-sloth and other extinct animals existed prior to the Flood, we merely marvel at the courage and energy of the few thousands of human beings who inhabited the world in those days.

Some Facts About Scotland By J. Nicholson, Colporteur

WITHIN 40 miles north and west of the city of Glasgow, and continuing northward to the Pentland Firth, a distance of over three hundred miles, lie the western highlands and islands of Scotland. This district is composed of wild mountainous country, broken up and penetrated by firths and lochs, similar to the fjords of Norway, and also a group of islands known as the Hebrides, which skirt the mainland like a huge breakwater.

The district is recognized as the most beautiful in the British Isles, and in fact many who have toured the whole world give it a place among earth’s leading beauty spots. To the casual tourist who may be fortunate enough to visit these parts, everything seems like a paradise; and indeed many are the songs of praise which have echoed amidst the lonely hills and valleys. Here there appears to be no struggle of the masses against the present selfish social order. Here, it appears, is ‘nothing to hurt or destroy’.

■What are the facts? Are things actually as they appear to be? The answering of these questions according to the facts as they exist reveals that conditions for the people here are certainly not what they appear to be; and not only so, but that conditions are even worse than that experienced by the industrial toilers in the great cities.

A few dukes and lords own practically all the land. Most of the population are employed by the dukes, or are dependent on them for their living. The employees of these landowners work and toil in most cases for twelve hours a day, and are well paid if they receive one pound sterling a week. Of course it is such an honor (?) to serve nobility that wages do not enter into the question at all! These honored employees dare not even hold a political opinion that conflicts with that of their master. If the duke is a Tory, then his servants must also be Tories. Thus they are forced to support the very system’ that is the cause of their oppression.

The population is very sparse, and thousands are leaving for the cities, Canada, America, Australia, etc., every month. Why do not the people stay and cultivate the land, one may ask? They are not allowed to do so. Why? Because the dukes who own the land use it for rearing deer, etc., so that when the shooting season comes along, the castle and grounds may be let to some American millionaire or Indian maharajah who is willing to pay thousands of pounds for a little “sport”. There is one part of Scotland where a foreign millionaire owns the land from North Sea to Atlantic Ocean, and the only Scots who live there are estate workers. Thus the people who by right inherit the land are pushed off, to make way for men who have nothing to do but shoot at tame animals!

These landowners discourage tourist traffic because it affects their own selfish interests. They forbid estate workers to house holidaymakers. They are responsible for keeping the roads in such a condition that motorists who have any respect for their cars will not motor through the western highlands. They refuse to allow bridges to be built over the narrow parts of the lochs, so that a motorist must pay twelve shillings to take his car 25 yards by ferry to the other side or else motor 60 miles round the loch. One duke who never works is paid twelve shillings for every motorist who wishes to cross his (?) loch.

These “noble” dukes are further responsible for the maintenance of a privately owned shipping company, which has the monoply for ail the western isles. This shipping company’s passenger fares are five times higher than the fares charged in any other part of the British Isles, and their passenger steamers would put a Clyde coal-boat to shame.

These facts prove beyond a doubt that this part of “bonnie Scotland” is in a condition of absolute slavery and that a few ultraselfish men who are honored and respected by the rest of the people of Great Britain are the cause of such a condition.

At a time not very long ago western Scotland had a thriving population who lived by tilling the soil. Official figures show that the population has been reduced one-sixth in less than a hundred years. It would be of interest at this point to tell how the present reign of tyranny began, and how the respected “nobility” came by the land.

According to history the forefathers of these “noble families” of Scotland landed in Britain with William the Conqueror. Their power was great and their wish was as law. Seeing the possibilities before them of owning the land and ruling as kings without hindrance, they determined to rid the land of its original inhabitants. To accomplish this end they resorted to some of the most devilish and fiendish methods that fallen man has ever been capable of. In most instances they approached the people and gave them notice to clear from the land within a specified time. The people were warned that if they failed to clear out within the time specified, they would be burned out of their homes. Many of the crofters took this as an idle threat and remained in their homes as usual; but the fateful day dawned and it was clearly seen that the threat was not an idle one. Men in the employ of the dukes approached the crofts with blazing torches in hand and proceeded to set fire to the houses. Soon everything was ablaze. Old men and sick women were trapped and burned to death, while thousands of others perished through cold and hunger. This awful procedure was carried on for years all over western Scotland until but few of the population remained.

Recently the writer of this article visited an island among the Hebrides. On this island is a church with accommodation for a thousand people. The land has a population of only twenty-two souls. The clergyman on the isle was asked the reason for the erecting of so large a building when there were only twenty-two persons who could attend church. His reply was to the effect that at one time the island contained nine hundred persons. The burning-out process took place and the result was only five families were left.

These are facts which never appear in the standard works of history, nor yet in the great newspapers, which are supposed to supply the people with the truth. We are glad that there exists such a paper as The Golden Age, which without the fear of men can give the people truth, unbiased.

Exiled 142 Years

NINE hundred Swedes whose forefathers were exiled to the southern part of Russia one hundred and forty-two years ago have now returned to the land of their fathers amidst great rejoicing not only on their own part but on the part of the Swedish people generally.

They had maintained their own language and lived apart from the Russian people during the entire time of their stay. The trains bearing these colonists back to their own land attracted much attention as they passed through Europe en route home.

Coffee Poisoning by Aluminum By Chas. T. Betts

COFFEE as a beverage was used for over a hundred years before the installation of aluminum coffee-pots and percolators in the American kitchens. This beverage became the leading one of America and was universally used, similarly to tea. Shortly after the introduction of the metal aluminum in the making of coffee, it was noted that a vast number of persons were affected with stomach distress, after the drinking of the beverage.

Coffee was commonly called a stimulant : it produced a rapid pulse and a certain disturbance of the gastric organs, often to such an extent that it was discontinued entirely in many thousands of homes. No one suspected that our beautiful shiny aluminum baskets in percolators and aluminum coffee-pots had anything to do with the cause of this condition.

It was naturally suspected, owing to the fact that stomach distress usually occurred after drinking coffee, that the coffee "was the offending agent which was producing the gastric disturbance or poisoning to the body. Various persons then became financially interested in the manufacture of substitutes made of grains or cereals.

During the recent twenty years, the manufacture and sale of the various substitutes for coffee has been so great that the coffee producers evidently became alarmed at the great loss in their business. In fact it was a matter of general interest why the American public was being poisoned by the drinking of coffee.

The National Coffee Roasters Association suspected that there might be some physiological action of the metal used in connection with the making of coffee. It seemed impossible that the prevalent poisoning could come from this new aluminum utensil, yet it was a possibility. They ordered a thorough examination made, to determine how to make a perfect cup of coffee, in other words, one that would not be poisonous.

A decision was reached to employ The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge, the highest scientific seat of learning in America, to make the examination and to determine the facts. The examination was conducted under the leadership of Prof. S. C. Prescott, the distinguished head of the Department of Biology and Public Health of this institution.

All types of cooking apparatus were used in the examination. A score of persons gave their opinions as to the taste, etc., of coffee made in various containers. Three years of time and $30,000 were used to complete the examination.

The results obtained, under the direction of Professor Prescott, were published in many of our leading newspapers, Sunday, January 20, 1929. The writer will quote the professor’s statements, given in the Chicago Herald Examiner .¹ ■

Aluminum coffee-pots are in general use, along with percolators containing the aluminum baskets, and can be found in almost every kitchen in America.

During the three years of experimenting, careful attention was directed not only to the coffee but also to the water, heat and all varieties of coffee-pots. And thus Professor Prescott is able to warn the public that metal coffee pots in such common use throughout the kitchens of the world can never produce a perfect cup of coffee.

The writer well remembers that before aluminum coffee-pots were generally used, only 10c and 12c coffees were mostly available, which included such favorite brands as “Lion” and “Arbuckles”. Today a vast number of very expensive brands are available, yet with all the care in the preparation of making coffee, we often have a serious physiological action from drinking the beverage, regardless of the brand used.

Much of the blame for a bad cup of coffee usually has been attributed to “poor coffee”. Cooks and housewives are constantly changing from one brand of coffee to another. But Professor Prescott has discovered that almost any grade of coffee-bean, if treated correctly, can be made into a “good” cup of coffee. . . . And this discovery undoubtedly will be hailed with, joy by thousands of such unfortunates—volunteers from the ranks of those who love coffee but who for long have believed themselves unable to indulge themselves because coffee has not agreed with their systems, proved in scientific tests sponsored bj^r Professor Prescott that fresh coffee, prepared properly, leaves no ill effects on such type of person, or, in fact, any type of individual.

Now what has the professor found to cause a condition, as mentioned above, that makes the coffee poisonous? No one can doubt that the most scientific tests were made by Professor

Prescott and his assistants, who, with great care, determined the facts pertaining to the making of coffee. Following are the statements showing the principal cause of why coffee has physiological effects, quoted from the article named above.

Professor Prescott suspects that after making coffee in a metal container, there is a certain corrosion remaining inside the pot which goes into the next brew, producing a form of “metal-coffee poisoning”. . . . For the ordinary coffee percolator Professor Prescott has nothing but scorn. The ordinary percolator, for one thing, is made of metal (aluminum), and for another, it is necessary that the water be boiled before it is conveyed upward to trickle down through the coffee. '

Aluminum possesses a property known as high activity. Volumes of electrons are produced under heat from this metal, which permeate food substances prepared in or with the metal. This gives what is known as a metallic taste. The professor noted this action and makes special reference to it. In describing it, ho states that the taste is metallic, bitter, disagreeable or puckery.

Chief faults of ordinary metal-brewed coffee are that there inevitably is a metallic taste, and the most delicate and valuable aromas and flavors are passed off as a result of the boiling. . . . Professor Prescott reveals further that coffee brewed in metal vessels was described by his “subjects” as tasting “metallic”, “bitter,” “disagreeable” or “puckery”. On the contrary, coffee brewed in glass utensils was declared to be rich and smooth and decidedly pleasant. . . . None of those who tasted and drank of the variously prepared cups of coffee knew what method of preparation had been used. They were requested to merely state their preference and give a reason not only for preferring one sample but for having distaste for another. ... In the experiments every known type of coffee-pot was used—enamel, aluminum, earthenware and glass—but the verdicts were all for the coffee brewed in glass, with earthenware running second. . . . Out of Professor Prescott’s long experiments two principal directions for the making of a “good cup of coffee” must, be drawn by the housewife. She first must use a non-metallic coffeepot, and then she must draw the flavor and aroma of the coffee out of the freshly ground bean by passing’ through water just under the boiling point.

It has recently been stated by manufacturers of aluminum kitchenware, and also by the American Medical Association, The Scientific American, and numerous lay publications, that there is no scientific evidence available to show that aluminum utensils are in any way the cause of the great prevalence of gastric disturbance among our people.                   ■

In answer to the above, the writer submits this article as proof that aluminum is not a fit utensil to use for cooking purposes, especially the brewing of coffee. When men in high scientific station, as Professor Prescott, make an examination of these utensils, covering a period of three years, and give the scientific data above quoted, it is high time that various publishers, writers upon health topics, medical journals, and the lay press give these truths to their constituents, instead of putting on a campaign to protect aluminum or to give it a clean bill of health.

Britain’s Stuffed Diplodocus

THE prehistoric Diplodocus was a mild-tem--⁶- pered pet eighty-four feet in length that made his living eating the tops off from trees. If one of them stepped on a person, he did not need the services of a doctor, nor a funeral director, nor even a grave-digger. The whole thing was finished at one time. ’

Beaders will be surprised to know that Britain now has a Diplodocus that is partly alive. It has some life from the neck down, but above that is stuffed solid with antiques. It can still talk, the same as a phonograph, but everything above the ears has become solid marble.

It will be observed that this name might be pronounced Dip-low’-dough-cuss; and it may be inferred that any cuss that dips real low for his dough is entitled to the proud honor of the family name. In this instance the full name and title is the Bight Reverend John Harold Greig, bishop of Guilford, D—D-cuss.

The bishop has just delivered himself of a sermon at Epsom Domis. It was preached at the Derby race course. It was about horses and about the Derby, and it was preached on Sunday and at the race course itself. There was an altar, and more clergy and a large choir, and a good audience of race track touts and rich people who have no honest means of livelihood.

The sermon came through all right. Many

of the race track bums were comforted to know that they w^Tere in the right line of work, and the rich and idle hangers-on felt that they had made a good investment in having the bishop duly stuffed with poppycock at Oxford so that he could be a Diplodocus.

Do We Peddle Religion?

rpO BEGIN with, the average church member today looks upon religion in general and Christianity in particular as a luxury and not as a necessity. It doesn’t take any particular amount of brains or any extraordinary display of salesmanship for the grocery clerk to sell a loaf of bread or a bag of salt. The customer is convinced of the need of those articles, and he therefore comes to the store and purchases without persuasion. It is a far more difficult task for the peddler of religion to induce that same average individual to become convinced that he needs what the church ought to supply, and that therefore he ought to support the church and sign on the dotted line of a pledgecard for a year’s subscription.

Due to this attitude on the part of ths laity to discount religion as a luxury and to overemphasize the material as opposed to the spiritual, those in authority who sit as members of chief councils, conferences, synods, boards, and presbyteries have seen fit to inaugurate a program of expansion for the church. We have therefore the Forward Movement, the Nation Wide Campaign, and similar plans appearing in every denomination. These movements were evolved in the brains of eminent laymen who have attained financial success in the business world and are invariably to be found at the heads of general committees, councils, official boards, synods, conferences, and other major church bodies. It was in the minds of these commercial magnates that the idea was conceived to carry the methods and modus operand! of big business into the church. Financially the idea may or may not be sound, but spiritually it leaves much to be desired.

Now the gentlemen of the clergy have always been the minions and at the mercy of these “big guns” at the head of things. It behooves them so to be, whether “major” or “minor” prophets, for thereon doth hang the bread-ticket. So that it was -without much opposition on the part of the bishops, presiding elders, moderators, or

By Bev. W. Mervin Elliot synod presidents that these plans carried and were put into effect. In consequence, organizations were effected, programs arranged, departments established, new offices created and appointments made to fill them.

By some curious quirk of circumstance or intentions, it was found advisable in creating this super-organization and in making the necessary appointments that they should not be made upon the basis of qualification or competency but that there should be introduced a system of political wire-pulling and intrigue. The man with the biggest pull got the softest job with the largest salary. Accordingly only those men were placed in appointment who had influence with those at the top and would naturally fit into the machine. This by way of building an efficient organization.

Now that the machine has been set up let us see how it functions. The man of big business at the head calls a meeting of the organization, and there he persuades the brethren at the heads of the various dioceses, classes, conferences, presbyteries, or synods that the real need of the church is not greater spirituality but more money. So the brethren of the cloth agree (they have to, for remember thereon doth hang the bread-ticket), and promise to go back home and pass the word along to the “minor” prophets. So every one declares that he has had a rousing spiritual time, and the meeting adjourns by singing “The Church’s One Foundation,” or “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow.” The real and actual “foundation” or “blessing” has of course sole and particular reference to the good old E Pluribus Unum.

Well, the “major” prophets go back home, and shortly the “minor” prophets are the happy recipients of a form letter from the executive secretary or treasurer stating that the spirituality of the church is at low ebb and Christianity will presently go to the bow-wows unless a barrier of good honest shekels can be thrown into the breach to stem the tide of immorality

and general cussedness which threatens to overwhelm the world.

And so the "minor” prophets get to work pronto, are metamorphosed for the time being into clerici publicanii, and begin to collect tithes of “mint, anise, and cumin” while the weightier matters of spiritual guidance are forgotten.

The methods of these reverend gentlemen to attain their ends are sometimes very ridiculous and range in scope from genteel beggary to high-handed pickpocketing and even to the milder forms of blackmail. “Anything to get the money” thus becomes their motto. It’s either get the money or get a new job with them. And needless to say most of them get the money.

Congregations thus quite naturally are led to pick as their spiritual leaders those of the clergy who are specialists in the art of “painless exextraction.” That is to say, the old-fashioned preacher who combined oratorical ability with pastoral oversight of his flock is quite passe. The modern church in its onward march to Zion no longer has use for his doctrinal treatises on hell, angels, salvation, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper. What is wanted today is the “go-getter” whose talk of efficiency, organization and business methods and finance scintillates with witticisms conceived to put everybody in good humor and loosen the purse strings at collection time. Anything in the nature of an old-fashioned heart appeal calculated to convict of sin and convert to righteousness is strictly taboo.

Church members want to be bamboozled, and the pulpiteer who concocts the best anesthetic and does the job in the most painless, businesslike manner is the fellow who gets the soft job with the salary running well into five figures. The organization sees to that.

Over-organization and commercialism are slowly but nevertheless surely strangling religion. But try to tell this to those in the “ring” at the head. They’ll probably tell you to “tell it to the marines.” Yet, who is it, I ask you, that gets the soft job with the fat pickings? Is it the young man who enters the pulpit with zeal and enthusiasm to save the souls of his fellows by preaching the unvarnished, converting gospel of Repentance unto Salvation through the blood of Christ? No, sir. Not by a jugful! It’s the fellow who falls in with the ruling gang and becomes a willing instrument in the hands of an unscrupulous set of money-jugglers and shekel-grabbers who wear their collars buttoned behind. He is labeled as a bright star in the ecclesiastical firmament, while the other is forced to become either a clerical rolling stone or is given a small parish where his old-fashioned religion and antiquated ideas won’t matter much.

To underpay the clergy, to “heckle” him for funds to “feed the kitty,” to threaten and browbeat him into becoming a partner in the colossal scheme of gathering dollars to satiate the bloody maw of this monstrous vampire of Commercialism during his useful years, and then when he is worn out and broken in spirit and health to make him dependent on the miserable pittance of his own sacrificed ideals and shattered convictions, is rather an elegant gesture worthy only of those who are at the head of the church and therefore in authority.

The result of this condition is a false standard which has a two-fold aspect. In the first place, the average church-member does not feel that he has need of what the church is offering to supply. The minister finds himself, therefore, much in the position of the blind man who comes to the back door peddling needles. The housewife buys the needles and pays twice the regular price, not because they are wmrth it nor yet because she particularly feels the need of them, but to help the poor fellow along.

And in the second place, the clergy are either such a parcel of dolts and dunderheads that they cannot perceive the state of affairs, or else they are wilful connivers in a scheme to palrn off on their congregations a commodity of no practical value, and of which they know their congregations feel not the slightest need. The majority of church members buy what the parsons are selling.

Peddling religion? Well, I guess! Just that and no more. What the clergy are really doing is selling the people a concentrated form of super-commercialism, with here and there a little religion smeared over the top. Just enough, so to speak, to camouflage the real sale.

I have found that most churches today would have little or no trouble in supporting themselves locally and in laying aside considerable sums for the promotion of missionary impulses. It’s the drain of big organization that causes the trouble. The support the leeches suck from the body of religion constitutes the big item. Offices furnished in elegance, high-salaried nabobs, unnecessary clerks and stenographers, printing, postage, traveling expenses, dinners, useless conventions and meetings which the "major” prophets attend and which are but gigantic jamborees where the clerics find nothing to do but court wealthy patrons, stomach trouble and gout.

Singing the Kingdom Song in Southwest Africa²

Windhoek, S. W. Africa, July 18, 1929 Dear Judge Rutherford:

When I was asked by our office a few weeks ago to tell you some of my experiences here in S. W. A. I was reluctant to do so, for more reasons than one; but my recent experiences have made me change my mind (a woman’s prerogative!) and I feel constrained to do so, for two reasons.

First, as a testimony to the eternal honor and glory of the name of Jehovah. Words and time entirely fail me to express my gratitude to the Lord for His manifold and unfailing goodness and His constant and peculiar care over His people.

After more than nine years of privileged service as a colporteur I have come to the conclusion that if this is not the Lord’s work and His truth, then He is doing no work in the earth today and there is no truth either. If any of the brethren have any doubts on this score let them join the “volunteer corps” of the Lord, and especially the colporteur section of the army, and very soon as a result of their personal experiences and ever-increasing evidences they’ll say, ‘It is the Lord’s work, and it is marvelous in our eyes.’ In proof of this, and only as one instance in similar daily experiences when one waits upon the Lord, I want to relate the following:

A few days ago I had to decide about giving the witness in a village 150 miles away from here. I had no one to consult but the Lord, and the decision had to be made when I was feeling very tired, so much so that I was obliged to rest the greater part of the previous week. Under these circumstances I had practically decided that I was justified in leaving it out. But the idea worried me and I had a suspicion that I was studying the flesh. (It meant being in a post motor bus from.9: 30 a.m. until 10: 30 p.m. at least. On paved roads, traveling by this means is trying after a couple of hours, and how much more so a whole day on the S.W.A. roads.)

Unconsciously almost, the cost of getting there, the fare alone being £4-10, was affecting my decision, as well as the fact of being hung up in a small village of about eighteen homes for more than a week on account of the infrequent postal service. However, after making it a matter of earnest prayer it became clear to me that I should go in spite of all the odds against my doing so, and leaving the arrangements and the responsibility to the Lord, this is how lie arranged it.

There were too many passengers for the bus; so three of us were taken in a six-cylinder Pontiac Sedan most comfortably upholstered and arrived at our destination at 6: 30 p.m., i.e., about four hours before schedule time. On the way I witnessed to my fellow passengers, a German lady taking The Harp, Deliverance and Creation in German, the man an Afrikaans Harp and a Deliverance,:, and the driver and his brother jointly ten books.

The driver also volunteered to wait for me until the following afternoon. At 5: 30 p.m. he was waiting to tie up my boxes, the place was canvassed, and 157 books were left behind as a permanent witness of the incoming kingdom. At 11:30 that night I hopped off again at a small siding, the terminus of a new railway line in construction to this village. Although the postman had forgotten to put off my cartons of books, I had samples in my attache case and canvassed this place too’ the following morning, selling 55 books.

The same afternoon I caught a goods train with a coach attached back here. Instead of being away for a week, I was back on the third day, having traveled 300 miles, canvassed approximately 32 people, and sold 212 books to the value of £17-10-6, leaving me a balance in my favor of at least £3. What is more, I was less tired than when. I started out.

Another instance: About a month ago, just before coming here to Windhoek, the capital of S.W.A., I was approached by the police for a license. Inwardly I was dead-scared, having visions of being hauled before court; but complete reliance and confidence in the Lord again carried the day. Outwardly I treated the matter with apparent contempt and indifference and, besides handing them a letter which I hold from the office authorizing me to sell their books, made no further explanation or any comments, but carried on as usual. (I have learned that while I mind the Lord’s business I can implicitly trust Him to mind mine.) The following day I met the head .of the police in the street and asked him please to return my letter, as I was leaving the next day. He promised to send it to my address, and also informed me that he had consulted the attorney-general here about my having a license but that he had had no reply yet.

On arriving here I at first thought of putting my case before the worthy gentleman myself, but on second thought decided to take no notice; if they want to know more about my doings they can make the first move and come to me. Instead, I took the bull by the horns and made the police station my first point of attack, starting with the major and ending up with the recruits. I had the most thrilling experience there that I’ve ever had in all my colporteuring experiences. The heads were most kind and helpful and gathered the men from far and near into one room. At times it almost seemed like violating Paul’s injunction that a woman should not speak publicly, but their eager faces showed that they were enjoying the kingdom message. I was delighted to tell it out, and the books were going out thick and fast, and so it was a mutually happy arrangement.

I may say that as a rule I’m rather cautious and feel my way as regards letting my prospective buyers know the attitude of the parsons toward the message, but on this occasion I slashed out right from the start with almost a unanimous chorus of assents and nodding approval all round me. By lunch time I had orders for 13 sets of 12 each, in all 221 books at the barracks alone. After lunch they sent a messenger with, brown paper to come and fetch the different parcels. A mutual friendly and helpful relationship was created between the police and myself, and I have heard no more about a license since.

In the afternoon I made about five more calls, bringing my total for the day up to 261 books, 16 complete sets and 30 booklets.

Secondly, would I put this on record that your own joy may be increased. I know the burden of the work must weigh very heavily on you at times, dear brother, and in addition to this you have to contend with false accusations and suspicions hurled at you from false brethren. When I think of this I wish with all my heart you could feel and know our appreciation of you for your fearless exposure of the Devil’s organization, and your untiring effort to encourage the Lord’s people to fulfil their vows, and our gratitude for the unequaled peace and joy we experience in response to your appeal. Not only have you opened new avenues of joy and happiness to the people of God, but many hearts and homes of order-loving people have been illuminated with renewed hopes in the happy anticipation and participation in the kingdom blessings soon to come. Even in this remote land where no witness has been given yet, except the posting of The. Peoples Friend to various addresses, I have been surprised to hear the many expressions of appreciation and the lighting up of faces when they hear of “Judge Rutherford’s books”. I find your lecture has been read by many and has undoubtedly prepared the ground for the almost abnormal sales I’ve had in some parts.

Practically the only dissenting parties I came across were a Dutch Reformed parson (and we know his reasons why!) and a Britisher whose dignity and patriotism wouldn’t allow him to read anything again that you may ever have to write, after calling London the seat of the beast!! At Tsumeb, for instance, a distance of about 1,800 miles from Capetown, I sold 46 books and booklets to two persons in one office as a direct result of one of them having read the booklet; and so I could quote ad infinitum.

The time will come, and is not far distant now, when, like our Lord and Master, you and the faithful remnant will see ‘of the travail of their soul and be satisfied’. In conclusion, and just to give you an idea of the vastness of this country and its sparsely populated areas, I would like to tell you that since the 14th of April I have traveled close on 3,000 miles, visited 16 towns and villages and stations, made approximately 1,440 calls, worked 51 days, and sold 4,216 books and booklets.

We love you as a zealous and faithful servant of the Lord and pray that the Lord will guide your mind and keep your heart with all diligence, so that you may continue to extol the name of Jehovah in the earth, and also to feed and encourage His people.

With warm love in the Lord,

Your colaborer in the Kingdom service, Lenie Theron.

Bible Question and Answer

UESTION: Is there anything in the Bible that would give us an idea of how we are to live on the earth after restoration? Is there prophecy regarding how we are to live: by our work which we are now doing, or not?

Answer: The full restoration of all the faithful and obedient of mankind will be accomplished by the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ and His glorified church. (Bev. 5:10; 20: 4, 6) “The first man Adam” (1 Cor. 15:45) was created in God’s image and likeness, and to that image and likeness all submissive and loyal subjects of Christ’s kingdom will be restored.

There will be no infants nor small children then, but all will have grown to full maturity as men and women, and the earth will be comfortably filled with perfect human beings. Christ Jesus personally stated that “the children of this world marry and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that [new] world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage”.—Luke 20: 34, 35.

Christ gave this information in answer to the question as to whose wife a woman would be who during this age or world had had seven husbands. Thus He shows that death ends the marriage contract, “so that [as the Apostle Paul adds] she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.”—Rom. 7:1-3.

Lienee present marriage relationships will duly cease, and eventually all restored men and women will live as brothers and sisters, because, as Jesus said, they are “the children of God, being the children of the resurrection”.— Luke 20:36.

The dead will be raised from the graves in gradual order, according as provision for their feeding, clothing, lodging, and employment can be made by those alive. And that the dead, at least infants and young children, will be restored to those who were their immediate family relatives in this age, Jeremiah’s prophecy strongly indicates; it states that the babes of Bethlehem who were slain by King Herod’s soldiers will be restored to their mothers, “to their own border.”—Jer. 31:15-17; Matt. 2: 16-18.

Thus there may be for a time something of the present intimate family life of parents and children as long as the raising of the dead continues and until the children are reared to years of personal accountability.

Mankind, restored to human perfection, will not lead lives of idleness. The perfect Adam was not idle, but God “put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it, and to keep it”. (Gen. 2:15) Mankind, though brought to perfection by Christ, their Mediator and King, will not be immortal.

Adam had to eat; even so perfected mankind will have to eat to live, that thus by eating the perfect fruit of their earthly paradise and by obedience to God they may have their youth renewed continually and enjoy everlasting life on earth.

But the present toilsome, slavish features of work will be lifted, because during Christ’s reign Satan the great slave-driver and oppressor will be bound; and when, at the end of his imprisonment, he is released and tries to undo Christ’s work, he will be put out of existence for ever.

The present way of living and working which Satan, through selfish commercialism and misrule, has foisted on the people will also be destroyed by Christ Jesus, the righteous Ruler. —Ps. 72. '

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Every reader of The Golden Age who has experienced the marvelous blessings the Lord is now showering upon His faithful witnesses in the earth will enjoy to the full this letter to Judge Rutherford, written somewhat against her will by a little woman who is actually taking the truth to earth’s remotest bounds.—Editor.