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Denmark is the greatest bicycle riding country in the 
world. 
The colonies of Holland are sixty times as big as the 
mother country. 
Two royal chapels of the third dynasty, Egypt, believed 
to be the oldest stone buildings in the world, have been 
discovered near the pyramids of Sakkara, fifteen miles 
south of Cairo. 
One of the longest speeches on record is that in the 
United States Senate delivered by Senator La Follette in 
1909. He kept the floor for nineteen consecutive hours, 
including the whole of one night. We trust no M. L. C., in 
India will emulate his example. 
Airships have now penetrated the most remote parts 
of Africa. A new Handley-Page plane owned and operated 
by the Belgium Sta,,e-aided Aerial Transport Co., carries 
passengers and freight from the most remote tropical 
settlements in Central Africa to the railways. 
It is reported that by injecting dyes into silkworm 
cocoons, a French scientist has caused silkworms to spin 
colored threads. All shades, it is said, can thus be obtain- 
ed. and, moreover, the colours do not fade. �
It now 
remains to be seen whether this can be made commercially 
profitable. 
The 1924 Noble Prize for literature was awarded by the 
Swedish Academy to Wladislaw Remont, Polish author 
and poet of the later school. Rejmont won the prize with 
his book. "Polish Peasants," a work of four volumes which 
reviews Poland's history since the partition of the country 
in the eighteenth century. 
What is declared to be the largest and most powerful 
electric locomotive in the world is being built by Henry 
Ford for his railway. The engine, which will have 16 
motors of 250 horse povier each, will be capable of pulling 
a train of 150 loaded carriages. It will be 117 ft., long, 
15 ft., wide, and 10 ft., high, weighing 340 tons. 
One recent result of the elections in Norway is that 
prohibition will be reta'.ned. This result was due to the 
strength of the Agrarian peasant party which favours 
prohibition. The Conservatives, opposing it have the lar-
gest number of members in the Storthing, but far less than 
a majority. Though women vote in Norway, all the women 
candidates were defeated. Only twice have women been 
elected to the Storthing. 
The fanatical Wahabis who now control the Muslim 
holy city Mecca, have banished smoking from within the 
city limits. They first seized 100,000 nargili• s or Turkish 
pipes, and burned them in the bazaar of the city. The 
Wahabis regard smoking as as great a sin as the drinking 
of intoxicants. We hope that social Reformers in India 
will take notice of this action of the Wahabis and like them 
include agitation against smoking in their programme. 
Negotiations between the British and Allied Investment 
Co., and the Sugar Beet Committee of the National Farmer's 
Union in England for the establishment of a sugar beet 
factory in Essex, have reached the stage of a provisional agree-
ment. Under this agreement the Ccmpany proposes to 
build and equip a factory provided the Farmer's Union 
members in Essex undertake to grow a minimum of 4000 
acres of sugar beets. The estimated cost of the factory is 
over £ 250,000. 
What has been pronounced the heaviest and most 
powerful type of gun in the world has recently been built 
for the U. S. Army. It is capable of hurling an armour-
piercing projectile of 1560 lbs., 23 miles, and with the 
carriageweighs three hundred tons. It can be drawn along 
the railway lines and has an electric apparatus enabling it to 
be lowered for tunnels. It is the latest of post-war 
developments. It is also reported that the U. S. Army has 
a machine gun with a range of five miles. 
In addition to his personally conducted coal mines, rail-
road and manufacturing plants. Henry Ford has now started a 
steamship line of his own which will connect his business 
directly with foreign ports. The "Onondaga" was the first 
of the Ford-built fleet to clear port from Detroit, sailing 
recently for Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a cargo of 1500 
tons of "flivver" parts. We hope his business with India 
will grow sufficiently to put us on the line. Perhaps he will 
introduce "flivver" prices into sea travel. 
An example of the close watch that Signor Mussolini keeps 
over affairs in Italy is found in the case of a young woman 
from New Jersey U. S. A., who recently bought an article 
of jewelry in Italy and had it sent as a present to a friend. 
Later she found that the jeweller had substituted a very 
inferior article for the one she had purchased, and in hot 
indignation wrote a letter of protest to S. Mussolini. 
Within a few weeks she received a humble letter of apology 
from the shopkeeper and an assurance that he had rectified 
the matter. 
An increase of 148 percent in savings deposits in 12 years 
in the United States, has been renorted by the American 
Bankers Association. In this time the total has gone up 
from eight billion dollars, (about 2500 crores of rupees) to 
twenty one billion dollars (about 6300 crores of rupees). 
The number of depositots has increased from 12, 500, 000 to 
88,850,000. The average per capita savings rose from 
$89 to $186. As the largest part of this increase has come 
since the introduction of prohibition, and as this money is 
mostly the earnings of working people, it is not difficult to 
understand one reason why the common people will never 
allow prohibition to go. 
Topical Press 
American Air Mail Disaster 
As we begin to talk about the Air-Mail service to be established in 
1927 we are reminded by the above picture of the dangers connected with it. 
The photo is of the wreck of the air mail plane which started from Chicano 
for Omaha with the night mail, and crashed to the earth en route. The 
pilot jumped with his parachute but as it failed to open he was killed. It 
is reported that a new invention enables the pilot to transform his aeroplane 
itself into a large parachute when the engine fails. This if a fact will 
tend to eliminate such disasters. 
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No. 4 
Topics of the Day 
"The Republic of Riff" 
The interest of the Muslim world is shifting 
from Turkey,, we might almost say from the 
Hedjaz, to 'The Republic of Riff," the name 
which Abd-el-Karim has given to the new nation 
that he is establishing in the mountains of Morocco 
in North Africa. He has succeeded in a remark-
able way in arousing the hopes and co-operation 
of the Muslims in North Africa and in overcoming 
their local tribal jealousies, which have long been 
a source of weakness to them. As a result the 
Spaniards have been steadily driven towards the 
sea with terrible casualities, and it is doubtful 
if they will be able to hold even the coast. 
The Pan-Islamic movement is rapidly devel-
oping in this section and it has even been suggest-
ed that Abd-el-Karim should be made Khalifa. 
At any rate France and Italy are taking serious 
notice of developments and an important and 
dangerous situation may develop here that will 
shake the world. This is but one more straw 
which shows the way the winds are blowing in our 
poor world. 
Mining for a Huge Meteor 
In the Arizona desert there is a 
mountain with a "crater" which 
bears no resemblance to those of the 
ordinary volcano. Neither molten 
rock nor lava are found anywhere in 
the vicinity. To the contrary all 
evidences point to the fact that a 
tremendous meteor has fallen from 
the heavens and imbedded itself 
here. The mouth of the "crater" is 
more than a half-mile across. There 
are "meteor" fragments in abund. 
ante, and among other things plat-
inum has been found in them in 
paying quantities. This huge me-
teor seems to have come from a north-
erly direction and must be buried 
hundreds of feet below the surface. 
The Indians of this section have a 
legend that in the long ago one of 
the gods came from heaven to our 
world in a flaming chariot and 
buried himself in the earth at this 
spot, rocking the whole country-side 
with mighty convulsions. 
A Company with large capital 
has been fcrmed and is now busy 
sinking shafts in the locality. 
Their discoveries so far .all tend to indicate that 
they will soon reach the prize. If they do, one 
thing at least will be accomplished—the world's 
supply of platinum will be greatly increased, and 
who can tell what we will learn from the ex-
amination of this tremendous visitor from outside 
the borders of our own planet ? 
"Woodbine Willie" 
The Rev. N A. Studdert-Kennedy, a clergyman 
who went with the men into the trenches during 
the world-war, and was nicknamed by them 
"Woodbine Willie" has recently said some very 
drastic things about war. He declares that the 
world must either accept Jesus Christ and 
disarmament, or, denying Him, adopt wholeheart-
edly the barbaric doctrine of brute force, turning 
humanity into a pack of wolves, destroying and 
being destroyed. He says, "Either you must make 
justice aad reason the basis of your entire 
constitution all over the world, seeking the same 
justice for the colored man as for the white man, 
and appealing to reason, appealing to what is right, 
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or buckle on your sword, and relapsing to 
barbarism, use it as your fathers did without 
wavering. ' The most casual observer of the trend 
of events in the world to-day knows which method 
the world is adopting. There are troublous times 
ahead. 
Auto Accidents in U. S. A. 
With more than fifteen million motor cars 
in operation in America, it can be well understood 
that accidents are certain. But we were unprepared 
for the re rent statement that casualties from street 
and highway accidents in 1923 in U. S. A. were 
nearly 700,000, and that 22,600 of these were 
fatal. 85% of of these were due to motor vehicles. 
This is twice the total number of casualties that 
America suffered during the war. Mr. Hoover 
recently called a Traffic Conference to grapple with 
the situation. Los Angeles, that rapidly growing 
city of southern California, has recently passed the 
following rules: after July 22, 1925 no horse will 
be allowed in the business section of the city, 
several square miles in area; there are to be 
"traffic lanes" chalked off for pedestrians as well 
as for motors, with "walking" and "standing" 
signs painted on the sidewalks, and woe to the 
person who "stands" where he should "walk," or 
walks where he has no right. "Jay Walking', an 
Americanism for walking in the street outside 
lines marked off at street crossings, is expressly 
forbidien, and even those who cross at the permit-
ted p aces afoot, will be compelled to signal their 
intention with upraised arms, visible to passing 
motorists. Severe fines and imprisonment a sait 
the transgressor Can we imagine such reaula-
tions being enforced in one of our Indian cities? 
The Bible in India 
We are indebted to The Indian Social Reformer 
in its comments on the annual meeting of the 
Bombay Auxiliary of the British and Foreign 
Bible Society, for some very appreciative references 
to the Bible. It is q rite natu al that this 
magazine shou'd feel that "In one form or another 
Hinnu:sm is therefore h'und to be, or to inspire 
largely, the religion of all who make India their 
home, whether they acknowledge it or not." But 
the editor further remarks, "But no one who 
knows the facts will deny that mo-lern Hinduism 
has in essential respects been profoundly vivified 
by is contact with Christ's teaching. The impact 
of Christianity on Hindu thought is but faintly 
reflected in the Indian Christian community. Its 
largest manifestation is to be found in the unique 
way in whieh Hindu life and thought have been 
reacting to it. ' After commenting on the way. in 
which, to his mind, Hinduism helps to make 
Christianity intelligible, the comment concludes, 
India will always gratefully remember the service 
rendered by the Christian Missions in putting her 
in posession of the BIle to read in her own 
languages and to interpret in the light of her own 
great spiritual traditions and experiences. Sir 
Leslie Wilson in the course of his remarks at the 
annual meeting said that he had been interested to 
observe in this country that many writers and 
speakers model not only the form of their remarks 
but even the phrases which they use on the 
language of the Bible. But the Indian's familiarity 
with the Bible is not limited to forms and phrases. 
The book is being studied and searched for the 
spirit of Christ independently of the dogmas of 
the Churches. The Bible has undoubtedly given 
a great stimulus to religious thought in India, and 
the society which has made it its bu-iness to place 
it within easy reach of all, is rendering gi eat service 
to the world." 
Two More Stoned to Death in 
Afghanistan 
Some months ago a prominent Maulvi of the 
Ahmadiya sect was publicly stoned to death in 
Afghanistan after being duly trit d by a legal 
tribunal. The judgment pronounced .was a most 
interesting document. Among the reasons erum-
erated for the sentence was that the teachings of 
this Muslim sect denied the second advent of Jesus 
Christ and made His second csming impossible, or 
words to that eff, ct. The Maulvi was buried to the 
waist in the earth alive, at d then stoned to death. 
Th-re was a storm of protest outside Afgl-anistan, 
even reTonsible Muslim bodies in India joined in 
the protest and it was hoped that there would not 
be a recurrence. But this last month two other 
members of this so-called heretical sect were stoned 
to death in a similar manner. It is not clear 
whether this was done after legal trial as in the 
first case, or whether it was an : example: of 
mob yen 'eance. But it is reported tl at the 
police looked on without interfering. There are 
about thirteen more of this same sect in jail. It is 
suggested that the League of Nations should 
interfere and convey to His Majesty the Amir that 
the conscience of the world is shocked by such 
atrocities and ad'. ise against their recurrence. 
India's Crying Need 
Under the above heading some matter has 
come to us from the Jiv Daya Sabha, Ferozeprre, 
which car tains much food for thought. The ma n 
plea is to "bring about the emancipation of millions 
of unfortunate child-wives in India." It seems 
to us passing strange that orthodox Hindui-m 
should, in some matters, take a s tmewhat sim•lar 
stand concerning its wives and- daughters as it 
does towards "un'ouchables." In 1922 Mr. 
Sohanlal brought forward a Bill in the Legislative 
Assembly seeking to raise the age of co• sent (rem 
12 to 14 years, which was rejected by an over-
whelming majority. As the age of puberty does 
not in many cases come as early as 12 one 
would think that any country in the world that 
has any regard for the better half of the human 
race would readily consent to so reasonable a 
regulation. In the (rebate it was stated that in 
every generation India loses more than three 
millicn mothers due to early marriage. Dr. Gout's 
Bill which raised the 'age of consent' to sttang-
ers to 14, and to her own husband to 13 is reported 
as we go to press to have been voted down by the 
Council of State. Our informant referred to above 
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Topical Press 
Urgent Repairs for St. Pauls 
Christians in all parts of the world have been intensely interested 
in the efforts that are being made to scve the Dome of St. Paul's in 
London, A commission of architects and surveyors after three years 
discussion has issued its recommendations for securing the safety of the 
great Dome at a cost of £140,000. It is prop^sed to grout, and refil with 
cement under pressure into cavities and cracks in the rubble filling of 
the foundation. They say they are satisfied with the experimental 
work accomplished. One of the prominent engineers has however recently 
come out with the statement that this will be ineffective. His statement 
has been declared unauthoi ized by the authorities, and it is doubtful 
how it will be settled. The photo shows experts underneath the great 
cathedral filling with cement under pressure groutings made with diamond 
studded drills in the North East pier. 
holds that the Vedas and the rules of Vedic 
marriage are most unfair to the fair sex. There 
seems to be much force to this statement which 
we have not seen refuted. The appeal closes 
with a statement that until Indian legislators are 
prepared to give justice to their own wives and 
daughters it is doubtful if they would give justice 
to others. 
Opium Wins 
Those who love humanity and are engaged in 
the great war against those things which drag the 
race downward have heard with regret that the 
first battle against the deadly poppy and the vested 
interests interested in its exploitation, has been 
lost. The cry of the pitiful victims of this accursed 
drug scattered around the world was not heard by 
the Council of the League of Nations because of 
the cry of the trader who has a fat income through 
the exploitation of one of the vices of humanity. 
Russia and Persia were cited by the Lsague leaders 
as hindrances in the way of effective control of 
production of the poppy. But on Nov. 6 1924 
the Soviet Government issued a decree forbidding 
the unlimited distribution or sale of all intoxicants 
and narcotic drugs including opium. Persia is also 
rep-rted to have offered to completely suppress the 
cultivation of the porpv, providing the United 
States will loan her $ 1t4,000,000,000 to finance 
the change to the cultivation 
of silk, cotton and other such 
products. So the argument o f 
the "opium bloc" at Geneva seems 
untenable. The failure at Geneva is 
a sad comment on the present con-
dition of men's hearts. The net 
result of the action taken there 
seems to be the throwing of the 
opium business and its derivatives 
into the hands of a close monoply 
which will make millions out of it. 
The fact that •the Council of the 
League should think more of the 
few of their nationals who will roll 
up this wealth, than of the unhappy 
victims who will be ruined soul and 
body by this unholy drug, lowers the 
prestige of the League in the minds of 
all true Reformers. If the League 
of Nations cannot regulate the drt g 
evil or make recommendations to this 
end, it is futile to think it can stop 
anything else. 
Adventists and the End of 
the World 
Under the heading "Another 
Prophecy Goes West" The Times of 
India of February 28 publishes a 
telegram from America in which it is 
falsely stated that Adventists in dif• 
ferent parts of the United States 
are to-day hastily selling their earth-
ly goods in preparation for the end 
of the world which they predict will 
cone to-morrow." Now Seventh-day Adventists 
did no such thing, because they know that the end 
of the world will not come until all the predictions 
of the word of God are fulfilled. One of the most 
important of these is the prediction of our Lird 
Himself when he said "This gospel of the kingdom 
shall be preached in all the world for a witness to 
all nations, and then shall the end come." Matt. 
24: 14. Until this work, which it is true is now 
well under way, is completly accomplished our 
Lord will not return. Adventists also believe the 
words of Jesus when He said, "But of that day 
and hour knowe'h no man, no not the angels of 
heaven, but my Father only." Matt. 24: 35. In 
view of these plain statements of Jesus it is 
exident that nn person can know the date of the 
end of the world. In so far as o"r information 
goes the above prediction was made by a Mrs. 
Bowen of Los Angeles California who has no con-
nection whatever with the Seventh•day Adventist 
church. On the contrary mrch cf her time and 
effort has been made in open opposition to this 
church and its work. We are informed that she 
has a very small following and that the publicity 
given to her prediction is out of all proportion to 
its or her importance. It is unfortunate that the 
telegram should confuse her and her few deluded fol-
lowers with the Seventh-day Adventist church. We 
will discuss this question further in a future issue. 
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Storms—Earthquakes—Disasters, Why? 
By Reuben E. Hare 
T
0 US the earth on which we live is the 
most important thing in the universe. 
As we think of it in a form of cold figures, 
we are almost staggered at their immen-
sity. It measures 8000 miles across and more than 
24,000 miles in circumference. It has 52,000,000 
square miles of lands and 145,000,000 square miles 
of water in its surface, and it contains 260,000,000, 
000 cubic miles in solid contents. In case you 
want to know its weight in tons you must enumer-
ate these figures 6,069,000,000,000,000,000,000 
and then add to that 5,178,000,000,000,000 addi-
tional tons for the weight of the atmosphere. Frond 
our standpoint it is indeed great and yet, it is con-
tinually being shattered and torn with some 
cataclysmic disaster that blanches the faces of men 
as they read of it, and brings 
to the lips the hushed ques-
tion.—"WHY? what is t h e 
cause of it all?" 
Just think a moment, 
from the year 950 A. D. t o 
1909 A. D. history tells of 327 
storms that have taken a toll 
of over 613,978 human lives ; 
but note this fact,—all but 
twenty of them occurred after 
the year 1800 A. D. and every 
day that terrible list is being 
added to with an appalling 
intensity and violence. 
Just turn another page 
of history, and we learn that 
during the first 900 years of 
the Christian Era there were 
197 earthquakes recorded, an 
average of one in four years. 
The next 600 years 532 earth-
quakes, almost one per year. 
The next 300 years 804 earth-
quakes or nine per year ; the 
next fifty years 3040 o r 
sixty-four per year; and in 1914 
the number reached some 
30,000 that were noted i n 
that year by the seismograph 
instruments of the w orld. 
This means almost eighty-two 
per day. It is true, t h e 
majority of these were s o 
slight that they would have 
perhaps passed unnoticed in 
the mad hurry and bustle of 
every day life ; still over 100 
of them were worthy of note. 
Among the most note-
worthy of recent earthquakes, 
might be mentioned that of 
Lisbon when on November 
1st 1755 in the short space 
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of eight minutes, 98,000 lives were lost; Martinique 
in 1902 with its toll of 30,000 lives in three minutes; 
San Francisco in 1906 with over 1000 lives and 
damage to the city of more than Rs. 90,00,00,000; 
Messina in 1908 with a loss of 75,000 lives. So 
the story goes on. The recent Japanese disaster 
is sufficiently fresh in your memory for me to pats 
mention of it here. It is estimated that up to the 
beginning of the twentieth century more than 
13,000,000 lives had been lost in earthquakes; but 
notice,—the first ten years of this century took a 
toll of 136,000 lives, while the most recent disaster 
has eclipsed all previous records. 
Reader, what are you thinking of these facts ? 
Has science solved the problem and been able 
to tell us why these catastrophes �
should 
be increasing at such an 
alarming rate? 
Why is it that the human 
race seems unable to stand 
up to the strain of living 
nowa-days ? The world i s 
sick. Disease is on every 
hand, something new is being 
discovered every little while. 
Bubonic plague was first 
located in 253 A. D. ; small 
pox in 520 A. D. ; yellow 
fever in 1647 ; cholera in 
1817 ; pneumonic "flu" i n 
1918; and today venereal 
disease stalks rampant 
through the length a n d 
breadth of the land. 
When the "Black Death" 
visited England in 1349, in 
one year 25,000 people died. 
During the ravages of the 
"Great Plague" in 1664 the 
list mounted to 100,000 
deaths. But few of us recall 
that the 1918 epidemic of 
influenza killed 25,000,000 
persons, a monthly total of 
2,000,000 lives. 
The scientist in h i s 
laboratory, is fighting all he 
knows how in an endeavour 
to conquer these enemies of 
mankind. There are more 
than 2000 diseases to which 
the human family is subject. 
Our doctors use over 12,000 
prescriptions to combat them, 
and still, we are told, t h e 
average number of people i n 
hospital is 12,800,000. 
More than 40,000,000 of our 
fellowmen die every year. 
What of it ? Is there an an- 
swer to man's despairing cry,—"Why should 
these things be? " 
Yes ! reader, there is an answer; but you 
will not find it in any text book of science. You 
must go once more to that "Old-fashioned book" 
—the Bible, for an answer to the problem set be-
fore us. In Paul's letter to the Hebrews, he sum-
med up the situation in these words,— 
"Thou Lord, in the begining hast laid the foundation 
of the earth; and the heavens are the works of Thine hands: 
They shall perish; but Thou remainest; and they shall all 
wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt Thou fold 
them up, and they shall be changed.—Hebrews 1 : 10-12. 
The Prophet Joel speaks of the same condi-
tions in these words,— 
"The field is wasted, the land mourneth; f o r 
the corn is wasted the new wine is dried up, the oil 
languisheth. Be ye ashamed, 0 ye husbandmen ; Howl, 
0 ye vine dressers, for the wheat and for the barley ; 
because the harvest of the field is perished. The vine is 
dried up, and the fig tree languisheth ; the pomegranate tree 
the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of 
)he field, are withered."—Joel 1:10-12. 
Can you not see the direct application of the 
truth of these statements ? From the moment 
that God cursed the ground for man's sake, dis-
integration set in and it gains in intensity and 
rapidity each day. Paul tells us in his letter to 
the Romans that the "creation was made subject 
to frailty, not voluntarily." 
While science juggles with figures telling us 
how many million years this earth has to run, 
Almighty God through the prophet says,— 
"The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are 
laid desolate, the barns are broken down ; for the corn is 
withered. How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are 
perplexed, because they have no pasture ; yea the flocks of 
sheep are made desolate. Alas for the day ; for the day of 
the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty 
shall it come."—Joel 1: 17, 18, 15. 
Can you not see the tragic picture of famine, 
pestilence, drought, crops failing, just as we have 
it today—a sign that the Day of the Lord is 
at hand. 
In Isaiah chapter 24 and verses 19 and 20 
we read,— 
"The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean 
dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall 
reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a 
cottage ; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon 
it ; and it shall fall and not rise again . . . . The moon 
shall be confounded and the sun ashamed, when tha Lord of 
hosts shall reign in Mount Zion." 
David reasons thus,— 
"Thou hast made the earth to tremble Thou halt broken 
it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh."—Psalm 60: 2. 
Again the question comes in an agonized cry, 
"Why should these things be" ? 
Here is the answer, which we find in the 
second chapter of Micah, verse ten,— 
"Arise ye, and depart ; for this is not your rest ; be-
cause it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore 
destruction." 
And in Luke 21 : 25-27, the Master says,— 
"There shall be signs in the sun and in the moon, 
and in the stars, and upon the earth distress of nations, 
with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring ; Men's 
hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those 
things which are coming on the earth ; for the powers of 
heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son 
of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory." 
God does not want us to be content with this 
earth, sin-cursed and blighted; but asks us to look 
beyond to what he has prepared for them that love 
Him. And the crashing of the elements, the 
shakings and groanings of this old earth, are but 
the travail pains of a new birth, when, from an up-
heaval such as never was, there will emerge a 
world clothed in that perfection in which -it was 
before sin came in to mar the handiwork of God. 
Compare this picture with what has gone before,— 
"The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad ; 
and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. The 
eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf 
shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an 
hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing; for in the wilder-
ness shall waters break forth and streams in the desert 
. . and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." 
Isaiah 35. 
Thit is as God would have it. He takes no 
pleasure in the trouble and turmoil in the world ; 
but He knows that rest will be all the sweeter 
after the struggle to win through. He uses these 
calamities as reminders of the fact that this is 
"not your rest." In His house "are many man-
sions." He wants us to be there. 
Reader ! are you ready for that time ? Soon, 
so soon, will the climax of the drama cone, when, 
with a rending and a crashing of the elements, a 
mighty heaving and groaning of earth, the last act 
will be staged. Then the dawning of the morning 
will unveil to our expectant vision,—a world 
beautiful, that will last forever, for,—"There shall 
be no more curse : but the throne of God and of the 
Lamb shall be in it ; and His servants shall serve 
Him: and they shall see His face."—Revelation 
22: 3, 4. 
"A little while to watch amid the shadows, 
With eyes tear-dimmed that long for day, 
And then the dawning of the glad to-morrow, 
When tears are wiped away." 
Our Source of Courage 
•,1 will come again, and receive you unto myself." ,John 14:3 
D
URING the dark days of the struggle for 
Italian liberty, the people generally look-
ed upon Garibaldi as their invincible 
deliverer. Prisoners, hurried away to 
loathsome dungeons, would be cheered, as they 
passed along the streets, by friends whispering in 
their ears, "Courage, Garibaldi is coming!" Men 
would steal out at night and and chalk on the walls 
and pavements, ' Garibaldi is coming!" And 
when the news of his approach near to a city was 
announced, the people broke out into the rapturous 
shout, "Garibaldi is coming!" He came, and Italy 
broke her political and religious fetters, never to be 
enslaved again. A greater than Garibaldi is 
coming to God's people. The Desire of all nations 
is on the way. Jesus is coming, coming to reign; 
and His kingdom is joy, peace, blessing eternal. 
—H. 0. Mackey. 
Page Seven 
The Plan of Redemption 
By Mrs. E. G. White 
T
O MAN the first intimation of redemp-
tion was communicated in the sentence 
pronounced upon Satan in the garden. 
The Lord declared, " I will put enmity 
between thee and the woman, and between thy 
seed ant her seed ; it shall bruise thy head, and 
thou shalt bruise his heel." This sentence, pro-
nounced in the hearing of our first parents, was to 
them a promise. While it foretold war between 
man and Satan, it declared that the power of the 
great adversary would finally be broken. Adam 
and Eve stood as criminals before the righteous 
Judge, awaiting the sentence which transgression 
had incurred; but before they heard of the life of 
toil and sorrow which must be their portion, cr 
the decree that they must return to dust, they 
listened to words that could not fail to give them 
hope. Though they must suffer from the power 
of their mighty foe, they could look forward to final 
victory. 
Adam, in his innocence had enjoyed open com-
munion with hit Maker; but sin brought separa-
tion between God and man, and the atonement of 
Christ alone could span the abyss, and make possi-
ble the communication of blessing or salvation 
from heaven to earth. Man was still cut off from 
direct approach to his Creator, but God would com-
municate with him through Christ and angels. 
The Course of Sin 
Thus was revealed to Adam important events 
in the history of mankind, from the time when the 
divine sentence was pronoun ed in Eden, to the 
flood, and onward to the first advent of the Son of 
God. lie was shown that while the sacrifice of 
Christ would be of sufficient value to save the 
whole world, many would choose a life of sin 
rather than of repentance and o edience. Crime 
would increase through successive generations, and 
the curse of sin would rest more and more heavily 
upon the human race, upon the beasts, and upon 
the earth. The days of man would be shortened 
by his own course of sin; he would dete iorate in 
physical stature and endurance, and in moral and 
intellectual power until the world vcould be filled 
with misery of every type. Through the indul-
gence of appetite and passion, men would become 
incopab'e of app, eciating the great truths of the 
plan of redemption. Yet Christ, true to the pur-
pese for which He left heaven, could continue His 
interest in men, and still invite them to hide their 
weakness and dh ficiencies in Him. He would 
supply the needs of all who would come unto Him 
in faith. And there would ever be a few Rho 
would preserve the knowledge of Goi, and would 
remain unsullied by the prevailing iniquity. 
The Daily Sacrifice 
A star of hope illumined the dark and terrihle 
future, and relieved it of its utter desolation. The 
sacrificial offerings were ordained by God to be to 
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man a perpetual acknowledgment of his sin, and a 
confession of his faith in the promised Redeemer. 
They were intended to impress upon the fa len race 
the solemn truth that it was sin that caused death. 
To Adam, the offering of the first sac•ifice was a 
most painful ceremony. His hand must be raised 
to take life, which only God can give. It was the 
first time he had ever witnessed death, and he 
knew that had he been obedient to God, there 
would have been no death of man or beast. As 
he slew the innocent victim, he trembled at the 
thought that his sin must shed the blood of the 
spotless Lamb of God. This scene gave him a 
deeper and more vivid sense of the greatness of 
transgression which nothing but the death of God's 
dear Son could expiate. And he marveled at the 
infinite goodness that would give such a ransom to 
save the guilty. 
A Demonstration to the Universe 
But the p'an of redemption had a yet broader 
and deeper purpose than the salvation of man. It 
was not for this alone that Christ came to the 
earth ; it was not merely that the inhabitants of 
this little world might regard the law of God as it 
should be regarded ; but it was to vindicate the 
character of God before the universe. To this 
result of His great sacrifice—its influence upon 
intelligences of other worlds, as well as upon man 
—the Saviour looked forward when just before 
His ct uc,fixion He said ; " Now is the judgment of 
this world, now shall the prince of this world he 
cast qt. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, 
well draw all unto Me." The act of Christ in ds ing 
for the salvat'on of man would not only make 
heav,n accessible to men, but before all the uni-
verse it would justify God and His Son in their 
dealing with the rebellion of Satan. �
It would 
establish the perpetuity of the law of God, and 
wouP reveal the nature and results of sin. 
From the first the great controversy had been 
upon the law of God. Satan had sought to prove 
that God was unjust, that His law was faulty, and 
that the good of the universe required it to be 
changed. In attacking the law, he aimed to over-
throw the authority of its Author. In the con-
troversy it was to he shown whether the divine 
statutes were defective and subject to change or 
perfect and immutable. 
Christ Rescues the World from Satan's Rule 
When Satan was thrust out of heaven he 
determined to make the earth his kingdom. When 
he tempted and overcame Adam and Eve, he 
thought that he had gained possession of this werld ; 
"Because," said he, they have chosen me as their 
ruler." He claimed that it was impossible that 
forgiveness should be granted to the sinner, and 
therefore the fallen race was his rightful subjects, 
and the world was his. But God gave His own 
dear Son—One equal with (Continued on page 16) 
Illimitable Possibilities Through Faith 
One Reason for the Study of Prophecy 
H 
 
6 6 �
AVE faith in God." This simple ex- 
hortation, spoken by our Lord on an 
occasion when the disciples were 
amazed at some of His marvelous 
works, goes to the root of all the failures and in-
equalities of this life. Men have lost , ight of God. 
They are out of touch with Him. They know not 
how to reach out and find Him. That personal 
int macy with our Maker and Preserver that char-
acterized the great saints of old is, alas, too rare 
in these our days. Abraham was called "the 
friend cf God," and it is said of Enoch, "And 
Enoch walked tvith God, and was not for God 
took Him." Abraham stands nut from among his 
fellrw men as an ex'mplar of the power of simple, 
child-like faith, and Enoch was the first to have an 
intimate communion with Goi so strongly eats blish-
ed and so unimpeded that God did not permit 
the grave to claim him, but took him at once to 
the heaven with which his fellowship with God 
had brought him into full harmony. 
Another has said, " Faith is the spiritual 
hand that touches infinity." That is to say, he 
who has this sort of faith has established that 
contact with infinity that makes the possibilities 
of what may be accomplished through him, illimi-
table. This is why Jesus said if we could only 
have faith " as a grain of mustard seed " that 
nothing would be impossible to us. Faith is there-
fore an effective force whose full measure not only 
never has been taken, but never can be taken. 
And yet by itself, alone, faith is nothing. 
Mere belief in anything irrespective of what that 
thing may be, or mere mental assent to any 
doctrine, whether that doctrine be false or true, 
cannot unlock for us these boundless resources. 
That which the Bible calls faith is the response of 
man s whole nature to God and is effective because 
it lays hold on the Almighty. This access to God 
which brings all other blessings in its train, can 
come only through the knowledge of God that 
removes all our ignorant misconceptions of Him 
and that introduces us into that intimate fellow-
ship with Him that casts out all fear. And this 
can come only through the Word of God. "Faith 
comet h by hearing; and hearing by the word of God." 
" And the Won' was made fish and dwelt among us 
(and we beheld the glory as of the only be;otten of 
the Father) full of grace and truth." Rom. 10 : 17 ; 
John 1: 14. 
As our readers join us in this meditation on 
the illimitable possibilities wrapped up in the 
exercise of faith, we beliA,e that a sense of our 
great need will cause us to cry out with that other 
needy man of old, who said to the Lord, " Lord, I 
believe ; help Thou my unbelief." Mark 9 : 24. 
This month we interrupt our studies of the 
prophecies of the Bible in order to emphasize the 
paramount importance of this matter of faith. In 
this series of prophetic studies there is presented 
convincing Ishidence concerning the existence of 
God and concerning His Divine purpose fur our 
world. Some are not concerned with the voice of 
prophecy because they fail to realize its import-
ance in the establishment of living faith in the 
living God. But we appeal to the reader, 
whether a believer in the Bible or not, to carefully 
examine the evidences given. This evidence from 
prophecy will, we believe, demonstrate that there 
is a personal God who made the world, and who 
does not now hold Himself aloof from the world, 
but who is slowly but surely carrying am His Di-
vine purpose concerning it. 
Those who look carefully into these matters 
will learn two important truths. First, the con-
struction of the universe demonstrates that there 
is a great, suprems Inteliioence behind it all. The 
argument from design cannot be gain-said. In the 
se -ond place, they will be convinced that there is a 
far-seeing Divine purpose at the heart of things, 
and that all things are moving steadily towards 
the certain consummation. But this unified 
purpose underlying the changir g scenes of life can 
be seen and uuderstood only in the light of prophecy. 
Some make the mistake of trying to arrive at 
this conclusion by reason alone. Even in many of 
our daily experiences there often comes a time 
when reason comes to a standstill. It can go no 
further. This is not surprising f, r it is but the 
demonstration of our limitations., But where we 
cannot know through reason, we must trust. 
Utter scepticism is not only impractical, it is 
suicidal. We must trust, and, in fact, we do trust 
constantly, where reason cannot justify. 
The recognition of this principle is essential 
for the proper appreciation of prophecy. " For 
no prophecy ever came by the will of man ; 
but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy 
Spirit." 2 Peter 1: 21. A. B. V. The prophet, 
then, is the man divinely appointed to lift the 
apparently di-jointed facts of the passing days in 
the life of men or nations, into the light of the 
D.vine purpose, and thus demonstrate that that 
purpose is steadily moving towards the determined 
end. This desired and " happy " end will surely 
come in God's good time, and an intelligent under-
standing of what the prophet says will cause us to 
rely on' that desired end, and trust the supreme 
Intelligence back of it all, even though delays sicken 
• the heart., and, at times, the night seems so dark 
that we can scarcely discern the Divine purpose. 
Therefore this purpose of God in hist rry, 
when we read that history in the light of prophecy, 
admits us into the counsel of Almighty God, and 
BO adjusts our perspective that all anxious fear is 
banished. As we thus look back towards the dawn 
of history we learn that the purpose of the righteons 
God starts with one man, who (Continued on page 18) 
Page Nine 
Henry Ford's Rules of Health 
Interesting Sidelights on the Diet and Living Programme 
Followed by Ford, Edison, Burbank and Others 
By Daniel H. Kress, M. D. 
6 
 6H 
 ENRY FORD says people can live to be 
one hundred twenty-five, but must 
quit tea, coffee, tobacco, and liquor." 
Thus reads the headline of a special 
to the New York Times of August 12. Henry Ford, 
while enjoying a little leisure in company with Mr. 
Edison and Mr. Firestone at his Wayside Inn, is said 
to have made the statement that it is possible for 
man to live to the age of one hundred twenty-five 
if the working parts of the human automobile are 
kept free from carbon. By taking as good care of 
himself as he would of one of his automobile en-
gines, he said he might reach that age. 
Being asked, ' If the carbon is already there, 
bow are you going to get it out ? He replier, " By 
mastication." And continued : " You know that 
when you chew the food well, it satisfies you 
sooner, and you don't need so much. Get only 
good food. White rats lived three days longer at 
the hospital without food than the ones that were 
fad on white breads alone. We eat no white bread 
in my house." 
Coffee, tea, tobacco, and liquor find no place 
in Mr. Ford's prescription to prolong life. They 
will not be found, he predicts, on the table of the 
man of the future, and ' it is not so far in the 
future either," he said. 
Men may say what they will about Mr. Ford. 
One thing all must admit : he is a remarkable man 
and possessed of unusual ability. Possibly never 
before in the history of the world has there arisen 
a man out of obscurity to so high a position in the 
commercial and financial world, in so short a time. 
This is no mere happen-so or luck. Mr. Ford 
makes no false or wild moves. He has an active 
brain and is a clear thinker. Men who overeat 
and gulp down their food regardless of quantity or 
quality, do not posses the mental clearness to 
work out and mature plans to do big things as 
does Mr. Ford. 
Delicate Machinery Ruined 
The accumulation of carbon in the brain 
machinery keeps the delicate mechanism from 
functioning normally. Mr. Ford has given us the 
secret, not merely of longevity, but also of his 
successful career as a business man. He drinks 
neither tea nor coffee and refuses to eat denatured 
and devitalized foods. Whole-wheat bread he uses 
instead of the popular white bread. On their trips, 
we are told, ' they [Mr. Ford, Mr. Edison, and 
Mr. Firestone] carry with them some of their own 
food, including rye bread and Swedish crackers." 
There are wise men, men who do things. They 
remind us of that great statesman Daniel, the 
prime minister of the Medo-Persian Empire, 
Page Ten 
against whom the politicians of his day could bring 
but one charge, and that was concerning the law of 
his God. His work was done so accurately and 
so well that no fault could be found with him, al-
though he was ninety years of age. Early in his 
life he purposed not to eat the foods which were 
served at the king's table. " Let them give us 
pulse to eat, and water to drink," was his request. 
Daniel's greatness was no mere accident. 
When visiting President Coolidge at his old 
home in Plymouth, Vermont, Mr. Ford, Mr. Edison, 
and Mr. Firestone were conducted through the old 
cheese factory, which is said to be the only indus-
try in Plymouth. Mr. Firestone said to Edison : 
" Remember when you refused to drink milk ?” 
" Nothing of the kind," replied Mr. Edison. " I 
only scalded it. I always do near cities." This 
too, is a sensible precaution, for milk is a danger-
ous food if handled carelessly and not scalded. 
Edison's Habits of Life 
Little need be said about Mr. Edison's habits 
of life He attributes his long aad useful life to 
his simple mode of living and partially to heredity. 
He tells us that his great-grandfather was an 
admirer and a convert of the famous centenarian, 
Louis Carnaro. Through high living and low 
thinking, Carnaro had ruined his health and had 
become a physical wreck. His physicians gave 
him less than a year to , live. This news 
startled and sobered him. He began to inquire 
into the causes of his invalidism, and then 
determined to lead a better life. He started by 
correcting his physical habits, and became so 
abstemious in his eiiet that his friends predicted 
be would die of starvation ; but he did not die. He 
began to improve, and in one year's time claimed 
to have get rid of all his ills ; and ten years later, 
at the age of fifty, in a letter, to his physician, he 
said he fully expected to live another quarter of a 
century. Time more than fulfilled this, for he 
lived to the advanced age of more than one 
hundred years, enjoying life all the way. "I never 
kneW until I grew old that this world was so 
beautiful," he said and "I now take more enjoy-
ment in eating a piece of dry bread than formerly 
I did in eating the most exquisite dainties." 
Edison's great-grandfather was so influenced 
by the life of Camaro that he adopted that man's 
simple mode of life, and lived to the age of one 
hundred two. His son, the grandfather of Edison, 
was brought up in this same simple manner, and 
lived to the age of one hundred five. To him were 
born seven sons, of which Edison's father was 
one. They all lived past the fourscore, three of 
them nearing the century mark. Edison attributes 
his vigorous health and usefulness chiefly to the 
fact that his great-grandfather had the good sense 
to adopt the simple habits of Carnaro, which he 
himself in the main follows. 
Mr. John Burroughs, the great naturalist, 
who used to accompany Mr. Ford and Mr. Edison 
on their vacation trips, lived in the same simple 
manner. He was a remarkable man, and he, too, 
was in possession of all his faculties up to the 
time of his death at an advanced age. 
Luther Burabank's Health Programme 
Mr. Burbank, the plant wizard of the world 
who has accomplished more than any living man 
in the development of plant life, is also a man 
who is most temperate in his manner of living, 
and a fierce antagonist to the use of tobacco, tea, 
and coffee. Mr. Burbank is a marvel in his line 
as Edison and Ford are in theirs. He has in the 
past accompanied Mr. Ford and Mr. Elison on 
their vacation trips. Of Mr. Firestone's habits I 
know very little, but he is in good company. As 
we can usually tell what a man is by the company 
he keeps, we conclude that Mr. Firestone belongs 
in a class with Ford, Edison, Burroughs, and Bur-
bank and that he is a man who is temperate in 
his habits of life. 
Plain living and high thinking are usually 
associated. John Wesley, who was such a world 
power as an evangelist and preacher and reformer, 
said: "From ten to thirteen or fourteen I had little 
but bread to eat, and not a great plenty of that. 
I believe that this was so far from hurting me 
that it laid the foundation of lasting health. 
When I grew up, I chose to eat sparingly and to 
drink water." At the age of eighty-two, when 
most men are infirm and dependent, he wrote: 
"Today I entered my eighty-second year, and found 
myself just as strong to labour and as fit for exer-
cise of body and mind as I was forty years ago." 
And a year later, he said: "I am a wonder to my-
self. It is now twelve years since I have felt any 
sensation of weariness." The long and useful life 
of John Wesley was no mere accident. 
All May Live Longer 
While it is not possible for all living to reach 
the age of one hundred twenty-five or even one 
hundred years, should time continue, it is possible 
for all to live longer than they 
do, and accomplish more while 
they live, by adopting the 
simple habits of Mr. Ford, Mr. 
Edison, Mr. Burbank, and 
others whose names might be 
mentioned, men who today are 
accomplishing things out of 
the ordinary, in spite of the 
advanced years of some. 
There appeared .a report 
in the Washington Star of May 
16, last year, of a man by the 
name of ZOra, a Turk, who 
claimed to be one hundred forty 
seven years of age, and who 
was still able to carry two 
hundred pounds with ease. Be was said to 
be the picture of health, physical vigour, and 
mental alertness, and to have been married 
four times. All his wives were dead, and all but 
two of his children. His son, Osman, was ninety-
seven years of age. Zora's father died at the age 
of seventy-six, and his mother at the age of eighty-
three. He attributes his health, in part, to his 
work and simple living. "What I want is work." 
he declared. "Idleness will ruin my health." 
When asked if he intended to join the Turkish 
Nationalists, he replied: "I fought many times for 
my country, and now I wish to end my life in 
prayer for the prosperity of the empire." 
What are the habits of this young old man? 
Here they are as stated by him. "Hard work, 
sleep, cold baths at night, no tobacco, no alcohol, 
no coffee, no meat, no butter." He is said to 
have been fond of bread and cheese and especially 
of buttermilk and clabber. His diet was quite 
similar to that of the Bulgarians, who also live to 
advanced years. 
A friend of mine, who made a visit to the 
Philippine Islands, at the dole of a meeting he 
was conducting, was greeted by a woman ninety-
seven years of age. It was a rainy night, so he 
said to her : You show a good degree of courage 
to come out on such a night as this." While con-
versing with her, he was informed that the husband, 
who thought best not to venture out that night, 
had passed his one hundred thirty-sixth year of 
life. This was his third wife, whom he had mar-
ried at the age of one hundred twenty-one. Being 
anxious to meet the old man, my friend promised 
to call upon them at their home the next morning 
before departing on his journey. At seven o'clock, 
he made his visit. He knocked at the door, expect-
ing, of course, to be met by a shriveled-up old 
man leaning on a staff ; but instead, as the door 
opened, there stood before him erect, a man who 
appeared to be not more then sixty-five. The little 
Spanish church a short distance from his home 
confirmed his claim. Inquiry into his habits of 
life revealed the fact that he ( Continued on page 18) 
Page Eleven 
Europe, A Boiling Cauldron of 
Humain Passions 
By Alonzo L. Baker 
H
UMAN passion is Europe's danger and the world's 
danger to-day. Su.pic on, distrust, revenge, hatred 
—this fearsome brood is as numerous in Europe 
today as the proverbial hairs on the dog'S back. 
I never realised how intense and bitter a thing hatred 
could become until I saw it in all its diabolic terribleness 
as it exists between the French and the Germans in the 
Oscupied Zone. The temeerature of their passions is there 
so !lige th it it is like st ',riding directly before a m immoth 
furnace whose door is open and through which comes the 
scorching heat from molten metal. 
Fearful Hatred of the French 
In the Germ in ci5y of Bonn the French soldiers are all 
coloured troops from North Africa. Hundreds of them yes, 
thieusande, are everywhere in evidence with their bayonet-
ed rifles rea ly to jab any German who in their estimation 
needs it. They are all Mohammedans, with red caps and 
tat mo marks on their foreheads. And though the German 
hates tee French soldiers to the utm ist, yet he hates these 
ten times more. As they swagger up and down the narrow 
sidewalks, ()arising every one else to take to the gutter as 
they pass, one cau see the German reeidents of Bonn clench 
their fits, spit upon the grouted, and utter the most fear-
ful oa.hs against France because she has brought these 
Africans to toe Rhineland to be her catspaws. 
I was in Dusseldorf, one of the largest industrial cen-
tres.of the Ruhr. just a few days before Christmas. Going 
down one of the main streets in the shopping section of the 
city 1 saw a crowd of boys of some ten or twelve years of age 
crow hue about the doer of a toy shop, waiting for the pro-
prietor to open it. Most of them had one-hundred-milli-
arden-mark notes in their hands. We asked them what 
was the cause of all the excitement, and why they were so 
anxious to get into the toy shop. 
They painted eagerly to a box in the window contain-
ing several dozen toy swords, very inexpensive tin aft .irs. 
They exclaimed with considerable life, "We are going to 
buy all these swords !" 
"What are you going to do with them?" we inquired- 
"We are going to stab to death every French soldier in 
Dusseldorf 1" was their fierce reply ; and as they said it, 
the hair on their b ire and tousely heads fairly stood on end, 
and their eyes spat the fire of hatred. 
I was utterly amazed that boys of so tender an age, 
who in other laude are interested nly in games or skating, 
could register such fierce antagonism. 
But it is every where in young and old alike. Like the 
air they breathe it is ubiquitous. I asked an old womsn, 
a newspaper vendor, what the Germans were going to do 
esentuelly about the French occupation. Without having 
to think over it a mement she reolird: "There is only 
one thing to do, and that is to fight. Germany and 
France will fight again, and it will be a war to the death." 
In all the larger cities of the Ruhr, and in Dusseldorf 
and Essen p irticularly, are to be seen on every available 
sp ice French a-tempts atjustification of their action in occu-
pying the Ruhr. The French issue a daily newspaper in 
the German language, a propaganda sheet. In this paper. 
they carry in my pictures of purported German outrages to-
ward the French tro fps, etc. They constantly endeavour to 
she's,' that this section of Gi rmany will be Netter off under 
the French occupational rule than under the hand of the 
great German manufacturing lords. 
But the Germans won't buy this newspaper, never a 
copy, so the French paste them everywhere. All 
public buildings, railway stations, and billboards are plas-
tered with them. As soon as night falle, the Germans, 
paint buckets in hand, steal out and besmear every one of 
these newspapers possible. After they have effaced the 
French propaganda, they indulge in some of their own. In 
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great bold letters they daub on the fences and buildings, 
" Be true to your country l" " Don't believe the French ; 
they lie !" "Never give in to the despoilers of our land," 
etc. When morning comes and the French see what the 
Germans have done, they send their soldiers out with a 
different coloured paint, destroy the German's handiwork, 
and again paste up their newspapers. And so it goes, 
day in and day out, and night in and night out. When a 
German is caught with his paint bucket, he is hustled 
aim g to the gaol, and next day sentenced to a few years at 
hard labour. 
The French soldiers hate with a hate which is every 
bit as bitter and undying as that by which they are hated. 
When questioned, they answer one and all that the Ger-
mans must be fought again and absolutely crushed; 
if not, they will gradually recover and eventually sweep 
across the Rhine in another war, and France will go down 
under the heel of her ancient foe. 
You may as well talk of ail the dogs in the world sud-
denly becoming peaceful with all the cats in the world as to 
suppose that the Franco German situation is going to clear 
up within the lifetime of anyone now living, In fact, the 
traditional canine—feline ant iprthy is not so deep-stated as 
that which centres upon the Ruine. And so sore as the 
sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the present 
situation in the Ruhr is but the seed-bed of another war. 
Mr. Lloyd George in his recent, book, " Where Are We 
Going" lets his vivid imagination have full rein when he 
supposes that a man, a careful observer of European 
affairs, was wrecked on a desert isle the first week in August, 
1914, and had only very recently returned to Europe, having 
been totally ignorant of what had taken place in the interim. 
Russia gone to ruin, Germany in the dust, Eastern France 
still carrying the scars of battle. the Balkans rearranged, 
and mane other snch thieass, are astounding to the 
returned Rip Van Winkle. 
" But what would surprise him more than all these 
amazing and bewildering transformations would be the one 
thing in which there was no change. He would naturally 
expect that after such terrifying experiences, the world 
would have I arned its lesson, turned its hack finally on 
war its crimes, and its, follies, and set its face resolutely 
toward peace, It is the one thing he di covers has riot 
changed—the world has not learned one single syllable. 
Su-pieions amongst nations exist just as ever, only more in-
ten-r; hatreds between races and peoples, only fiercer ; com-
binations forming every where, for the next war; great armies 
drilling; conventions and compacts for joint action when 
the tocsin sounds : general staffs meeting to arrange whether 
they should ma•cli, where they should march, how they 
should march, and where they should strike ; little nations 
only j ist hatched, jest nut of the shell, staggering under the 
burd n of great a.m ',merits, and marching amt g towards 
unknown 13 ittlefi Ids ; new machinery of destrucian and 
slaughter being devised and manufactured with feverish 
anxiety ; every day science being brought under c ,ntribu-
tion to discover new methods to destroy human life —in 
fact, a deep laid and powerfully concerted plot against 
civilisation, openly organised in the light of the sun. Arid 
that after his exp Hence of four or five years ago I Man the 
builder, and man the breaker, working side by side in the 
samework shop, and epparentl, on the best of tei me with each 
other, playing their part in the eternal round of creation and 
dissolution, with characteristic hunlan em rgv. It is little 
wonder that God gave him up repeatedly in despair. He is 
unteachable.'' 
Searching for the Supreme Teacher 
As things in the world go from bad to worse, men will 
come to see that after all their cannot save them-
selves, that the mighty hand and (Continued on page 17) 
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God's Music Lesson 
• 
By GEORGE MATHESON, D. D. 
A Blind Clergyman 
71¶ERE are songs which can be learned only 
in the valley. No art can teach them; 
no master of music can convey them; no 
rules of voice can make them perfectly 
sung. Their music is in the heart. They are songs 
of memory, of personal experience. They bring out 
their burdens from the shadows of the past; they 
mount on the wings of yesterday. What race that 
never felt the pain of exile could sing that old Scot-
tish song," 0 Why Left I My Hams r' It could 
only come from memory of storm and stress, driving 
the wanderer across the sea. Saint John says that 
even in heaven there will be a song that can only be 
fully sungby the sons of earth—the strain of redemp- 
tion �
 Doubtless it is a song of triumph, —a 
hymn of victory to Christ who has made us free. 
But the sense of triumph must come from the 
memory of the chain. No angel, no archangel, can 
sing it so sweetly as my soul. To sing it as I sing 
it, they must pass through my exile,—and this they 
cannot do. None can learn it but the children of 
the Cross 
• And so, my soul, thou art receiving a music 
lesson frcm thy Father. Thou art being educated 
for the choir invisible. There are parts of the 
symphony that none can take but thee. There are 
chords that are too minor for the angels. There 
may be heights in the symphony which are beyond 
thy scale, heights which the angels alone can reach. 
But there are d'pths which belong to thee, and can 
only be reached by thee. ft he Father is train-
ing thee for the part the angels cannot sing, 
and the school is sorrow. I have heard men say 
that He sends thy sorrows to prove thee; nay, He 
sends thy sorrows to educate thee, to train thee for 
the choir invisible. In the night He is preparing 
thy song; in the valley He is tuning thy voice; in 
the clouds Be is deepening thy chords; in the. storm 
He is enriching thy pathos; in the rain He is sweeten-
ing thy melody; in the cold He is molding thy 
expression; in the, transition from hope to fear, He 
is perfecting thy lights and shades. Despise not the 
school of sorrow, 0 my soul; It will give thee a 
unique part in the universal song! 
Do not expect to have health for nothing. 
Nothing worth having can be oLtained without 
effort. 
The requirements for health are pure air, 
good food, suitable clothing, cleanliness, exercise 
and rest. 
Kala Azar, Its Cause And 
Treatment 
By A E. CLARK M. D. 
K
ALA AZAR is a disease caused by infection 
with the Leishman-Donovani parasite, 
and is characterized in typical cases by 
irregular fever, progressive loss of weight 
and strength, enlargement of the spleen, and by 
changes in the composition of the blood. 
Confusion with Malaria 
It is most commonly confused with malaria, 
and is often diagnosed as such. Toe two diseases 
resemble each other in some respects, at times quite 
closely; so that mistakes in diagnosis are not 
alwa)s easy to avoid. Both diseases are character-
ized usually by an enlargement of the spleen; both 
are diseases which show an anaemia of varying 
intensity, and both diseases may occur in the same 
patient. On the other hand, they are caused by 
entirely different parasites, and although we know 
the means of trausmis-ion of malaria to man we 
do not know how the parasite of kala Azar enters 
the human body. It has been claimed by some 
that the parasite gains entrance to the body by 
means of the bite of the bed-bug, but most authori-
ties now reject this as being unproved. At the 
present time if is believed that it enters the body 
by means of some blood-sucking insect, possibly a 
mosquito or sanCtly. 
Signs and Symptoms 
The most characteristic clinical sign of kala 
azar, and the one which the'patient first notices, 
is the enlargement of the spleen. This is a gradual 
enlargement, usually being felt at 'the end of the 
first month below the margin of the ribs; at the 
end of the third month midway between the margin 
of the ribs and the umbilicus, and at the sixth month 
it has reached the umbilicus. In severe cases it may 
enlarge more rapidly than this, and reach the um-
bilicus by the third month, although what has been 
given above describes the usual case. The spleen 
is not tender as a rule, but certain cases show some 
tenderness. The spleen may not enlaige in a 
downward direction, but backward, in which case 
it may not be felt by the patient, but examination 
by a physician will usually reveal it. 
Wmbined with the enlargement of the spleen 
is the loss of weight and strength which manifests 
itself to the patient very soon after the disease 
becomes established. It is also a progressive loss, 
and usually keeps pace with the progress of the 
disease. 
Page Thirteen 
Fever 
The fever of kala azar is not characteristic, 
in the sense that the fever of malaria or typhoid is 
characteristic. In some cases it may resemble the 
fever of malaria; in other cases it may be like that 
of typhoid, while in still others it will not resemble 
either of the fevers of these diseases. The only 
feature of the fever which can be said to be of value 
in the diagnosis of the disease is the tendency for 
it to show a double rise within twenty-four hours. 
If the temperature is taken every two hours, it will 
be observed that it rises twice within the twenty-
four hours, and this has been stated to be quite 
characteristic of kala azar. 
Changes in the Blood 
As for the changes in the composition of the 
blood, they are quite marked in typical cases. 
First, there is a reduction in the number of the 
white blood corpuscles or leucocytes. In the 
normal individual the number of white blood 
corpuscles is about 7, 500 in a certain measured 
quantity of blood, whereas in kala azar it becomes 
greatly reduced, in the average case of moderate 
intensity being about 4,000 or even less. Com-
bined with this reduction in the white blood 
corpuscles, there is an anaemia or reduction in the 
number of red blood corpuscles or in the coloring 
matter of the blood. This reduction in the number 
of the red blood corpuscles is not as marked as in 
malaria, but exceptions occur. In other words, 
the average patient with chronic malaria is rather 
more pale in colour than is the average patient with 
kala azar. 
Diagnosis 
The diagnosis of the disease is made upon the 
finding of the above chief symptoms, with a history 
of irregular fever, progressive loss of weight and 
strength, and with the peculiar blood changes 
previously mentioned, together with the examina-
tion of the blood by suitable methods, which 
generally reveals the parasite. A test of the blood 
serum is also made which seems to be of great 
value in diagnosis. This is known as the aldehyd 
test. In some patients the parasite cannot be 
found by the usual methods of blood examination, 
and in such cases a spleen puncture usually clears 
up the diagnosis. Spleen puncture is the most 
reliable means of diagnosis of kala azar, but owing 
to certain dangers connected with it, it is best left 
until the other methods fail to reveal the parasite. 
Treatment 
Once the diagnosis has been made, treatment 
must be begun. This consists in the injection into 
a vein, usually one of the veins at the bend of the 
elbow, of a solution of tartar emetic or some other 
preparation of antimony. The treatments will be 
given by a physician or by one specially trained in 
that line of work, and for this reason it is un-
necessary to mention details of treatment, dosage, 
etc., etc. 
If the cheaper preparations of antimony are 
used, a longer course of treatment is required than 
if the more expensive compounds are employed. 
For those who can afford to pay for the mora 
expensive preparations it is advised that treatment 
be taken with them. 
Complications 
Kala Azar patients, owing to the lowering of the 
body resistance resulting from the disease, are very 
liable to contract other diseases such as typhoid, 
dysentery, tuberculosis, and pneumonia. One of 
the common complications of kala'azarl is broncho-
pneumonia, which claims a large death rate. 
Other complications which arise are diarrhea or 
dysentery, camcrum oris, ( gangrene of the mouth ), 
and hemorrhages from the gums, nose, and other 
mucous membranes. 
Healthful Cookery 
CREAM TOMATO SOUP 
cups water 
3 cups tomato juice 
2 teaspoons sugar 
2 tablespoons butter 
3 tablespoons flour 
1 small bay leaf 
2 teaspoons salt 
2 slices onion 
1 cup hot cream 
Cook all the ingredients ex iept cream, flour 
and butter, for twenty minutes. Strain through a 
colander. Rub the flour and butter together and 
pour over them the hot liquid, stirring meanwhile. 
Boil for five minutes. Add the hot cream just be-
fore serving. 
SAVOURY MACARONI 
cups macaroni, cooked 
cup diced cucumber 
3 cups tomato juice 
1 tablespoon chopped onion 
1 bay leaf 
2 tablespoons butter 
I teaspoon salt 
teaspoon sugar 
Put the seasoning between two layers of the 
macaroni in a baking dish. Pour over this the 
tomato juice. Bake slowly one hour. 
ROASTED POTATOES 
Peel the desired number of potatoes and cook 
until tender. Place in an oiled baking dish. Put 
a small piece of butter on each potato and brown 
in a quick oven. 
FRUIT SALAD 
2 oranges diced 
2 plantains diced 
1 cup pineapple 
cup pecan nuts 
Serve with the following dressing:- 
2 eggs 
cup sugar 
cup orange juice 
cup lemon juice 
Add the fruit juices and sugar to the slightly 
beaten eggs. Cook, stirring constantly until thick-
ened. Cool and combine with the prepared fruit. 
TOMATO CATCHUP 
To two quarts of strained stewed tomato juice, 
add two tablespoons of sugar, four teaspoons of salt, 
and two large heads of celery. Boil until reduced 
one-half. �
M. P. M. 
Page Fourteen 
Rheumatism and Mineral Starvation 
By H. C. Menkel, M. D. 
T
HE MORE recently developed knowledge of 
nutrition has cleared some of the haze 
of uncertainty surrounding the underly-
ing cause of rheumatism and kindred 
disorders. 
Within the human organism two processes 
are taking place, constructive and destructive. 
"Man begins to die as soon as he is born." 
This refers to the process of tissue disintegration 
resulting from normal functional activities. The 
end result of this process is an acid ash, which 
tends to produce an acid degeneration of the living 
tissues. 
Acid means death to the cell organisms. The 
body tissues must function in an alkaline environ-
ment. Therefore the constructive process of 
nutrition works with alkaline materials and results 
in building up a strong alkaline reserve within 
the organic cell structures and the blood. 
Nature has provided well for her alkaline needs 
in the form of sixteen alkaline mineral salts to be 
found abundantly in the foodstuffs coming from 
the vegetable kingdom. These organic mineral 
salts as found in vegetables and fruits are in the 
form of coloids of gelatenous consistency and are 
therefore exactly suited to supply our alkaline 
requirements. 
In health the balance between acid and 
alkaline is readily maintained and all goes well; 
the individual feeling at ease, full of ambition and 
energy. 
If the alkalinity of the tissues is reduced ever 
so little by the absence from our diet of one or 
more of these sixteen alkaline mineral salts, the 
result is a condition called by medical men 
" acidosis " meaning a deficiency of alkaline reserve 
with varying symptoms differing according to 
which of these salts are missirfg. 
Professor McCollum of John Hopkin's Univer-
sity with his famous sixteen groups of rats and mice 
has been able to produce practically all the so-
called chronic diseases of man, in these rats, by 
with-holding from each separate group, in their 
diet, a different one of the sixteen alkaline salts 
which should be contained in a perfectly balanced 
dietary. 
These inorganic food salts like potassium, 
soda, lime magnesia, silica, phosphorus, chlorine, 
iron and sulphur become united in definite pro-
portion with organic matter to form the various 
cells of the living body. 
McCollum has shown that these small animals 
with which he is workir g do not thrive on the 
very foods on which we feed our children and on 
which we are daily dependent ourselves. These 
observations reveal that our resistance or suscepti- 
bility to ill health, such as come under the head of 
rheumatism, arthritis, neuritis and many other 
like conditions, is determined by the nutritional 
balance of our individual cells. Particularly is this 
balance influenced by the presence or absence of 
the full complement of the sixteen alkaline salts 
and the three classes of vitamines, all of which are 
prepared for our needs in the vegetable kingdom. 
We are finding that a considerable list of 
diseases with varying names according to the most 
prominent symptom, may all be classed under the 
head of " mineral starvation." The mineral reserve 
of the body has been depleted and as a result 
functional order has become impossible. 
The causes for this "demineralization" of the 
tissues are not difficult to find. The first cause is 
failure to provide freely of the alkaline supplying 
food factors as found in vegetables, fruits and' 
cereals. Much more of green vegetables and fresh 
ripe fruits should be used. The vegetables must 
be prepared so as not to throw away any water in 
which they have been cooked, and some fresh, raw 
green stuff as salad eaten daily. Cereals, as wheat 
and rice, should retain their mineral element which 
is lost by using white flour and polished rice. 
These are largely demineralized and therefore 
deficiency foods. 
Excess of bread stuffs favours acidity and 
should therefore be used sparingly by the rheumatic-
ally inclined. Meats are the chief acid producers 
and are "alkaline robbers" using up the es-
sential alkaline reserve in the body's effort to 
neutralize their dangerous acid products. Experi-
ence has taught the necessity of limiting flesh foods 
to rheumatic patients. We now understand why 
this is necessary. 
Constipation and absorption of acid intestinal 
content is a third factor in demineralization. This 
must be corrected. 
It will be evident from the above that in 
rheumatism the chief factors are failure to supply, 
and an excessive loss of, alkaline mineral salts. 
Therefore: 
Proscribe all foods which teed to produce acids. 
Increase alkaline containing foods. 
Prevent intestinal stasis. 
Drink freely of water to help eliminate exces-
sive wastes. 
In addition to the above dietary meaqures it is 
often necessary for a time to take a combination of 
inorganic mineral salts to help in conserving and 
building up the mineral reserve of the tissues. 
Mineral metabolism or mineral digestion, is 
largely under the control of a group of glandular 
structures located in different parts of the body. 
These include the parathyroids, the spleen, the 
thyroid and probably also the sex glands, as they 
have much to do with ger eral tone. The functional 
laggings of such glands is an additional cause of 
mineral starvation. Whenever these glands are 
working below par, the etlect is the same as an in-
sufficient supply of alkaline elements, for minerals 
Page Fifteen 
are then allowed to pass out of the system without 
being appropriated. Thus mineral or alkaline 
shortage is produced. 
Iu such cases it is necessary to use extracts of 
the involved glands in tablet form, made from 
animal glandular structures and taken daily for 
several months. Toe writer has seen very definite 
benefit derived therefrom. 
As these glandular mineral workers are 
wonderfully influenced by the ultra-violet rays of 
the sun it is a very helpful practice to expose the 
body as a whole or in parts to the direct sun rays; 
beginning with exposure of only a few minutes and 
gradually increasing the time. Persons with light 
skin should not expose the head or spine. 
Daily hot baths and hot fomentations to the 
painful parts are very effective home measures. 
Those who can afford to avail themselves of special 
treatment should have a course at one of the Sani-
tariums equipped for such work. Various forms of 
radiant energy and certain newly developed 
electrical currents are proving almost specifics. 
One benefitted patient recently remarked to the 
writer that she "felt ten thousanl times 
better." This may be a slight exaggeration but it 
illustrates what can now be done for the rheumatic 
or "acidosis" patient. 
Simla. 
Food and Trigonometry 
6 
 6 O
NCE my two girls presented themselves for admis- 
sion to Wellesley College. Toey thought they were 
prepared, but after interviewing the authorities 
they discovered that they were short on trigonometry. 
They had never stilt:tied it. It was but two weeks until exami-
nation time. So they got a book, and I hired a tutor from 
Clark Colleee. He was an expert, with red whiskers. I 
remember this tutor well, for he charged me sixty rupees 
per toot. Still, he was worth it. He crammed the poor 
things scientifically so full of tines and cosines, test ques-
tions and examination dodges, that they passed, albeit by 
the skin of their teeth. And baying passed, of course, they 
promptly threw their trigonometry into the scrap heap, 
where it belongs, and never looked at it again. 
" What an absurd, Dark Ages, mutton-beaded idea it 
was, and is, and ever shall be ! The funniest part of it all 
is the reasons solemnly given for it. 
"'It trains the mind,' meaning geometry and trigono-
metry. Perhaps. But wouldn't you imagine that college 
professors by this time might have discovered something 
that would train the mind and yet have some po.,sible 
relation to life? 
" There is just one real reason for requiring higher 
mathematics for entrance to college ; it is that they always 
have required it. It is m tin rained precisely for the reason 
men wear two buttons on their coat sleeve. They always 
have ! 
" I hereby propose to the high priests of collegedom 
substitute for higher mathematics, Greek and Latin. It is, 
and I speak of girls, that the youth should be instructed in 
food. 
"I would not allow any girl to enter my university, if I had 
one, until she could make hot biscuit, put up jam, and roast a 
NI-key. Further more, she should be brought to like to do this and 
not to turn her nose up at it. I should mark her 50 per cent for 
the intelligent preparation of a dinner, and the other 50 for her 
knowledge of art and literature. 
" Not that I do not believe in art and literature, also 
in civics and anc'ent history, but how are you going to 
consider these higher things when you have the stomach 
ache ? 
•' Likewise, I propose that our girls be taught the 
values of foodstuffs, how to keep their families from 
being starved or poisoned. 
"There's many a girl who can prove to you that the 
sphere of the hypothenuse of a right•angled triangle is equal 
to the sum of the squares, and t o forth and so forth ; also 
can say amo amas amat amamus amatis amant backward, 
and yet hasn't any notion of the kind of milk to feed baby, 
the kind of bread to make bone and muscle, and whose pie 
is as indestructible as an armoured cruiser. 
" To acquire a thorough knowledge cf foodstuffs and to 
become skillful in their preparation is not bad training for 
the mind, and is much surer than trigonometry to save 
our beloved ones from gastritis, ph maine poisoning, anemia, 
indigestion. bad temper, and mortal s n "—Dr. Frank 
Crane. Los Angeles Evening Express, October 31,1924. 
7'he Plan of Redemption 
(Concluded from page 8) 
Himself—to bear the penalty of transgression 
and thus He provided a way by which they might 
be restored to His favour, and bro fight back to 
their Eden home. Christ undertook to redeem 
man, and to rescue the world from the grasp of 
Satan. The great controversy begun in heaven 
was to be decided in the very world, on the 
very same &id, that Satan claimed as his. 
The Crowing Mystery of Divine Love 
It was the marvel of all the universe that 
Christ would humble Himself to save fallen men. 
That He who had passed from world to world, 
superintending all, by His providence supplying 
the needs of every order of being in His vast crea-
tion,—that He should consent to leave His glory 
and take upon Himself human nature, was a mystery 
which the sinless intelligences of other worlds de-
sired to understand. When Christ came to our world 
in the form of humanity all were intensely inter-
ested in following Him as He traversed, step by 
step, the blood-stained path from the manger to 
Calvary. Heaven marked the insult and mockery 
that He received, and knew that it was at Satan's 
instigation. They marked the work of counter-
agencies going forward ; Satan constantly pressing 
darkness, sorrow, avid suffering upon the race, and 
Christ counteracting it. They watched the battle 
between light and darkness, as it waxed stronger. 
And as Christ in His expi, ing agony upon the cross 
cried out, " It is finished!" a shout of triumph rang 
through every world, and through heaven itself. 
The great contest that had been so long in progress 
in this world was now decided, and Christ was 
conqueror. H's death had answered the question 
whether the Father and the Son had stacient 
love for man to exeiice self-denial and a 
F pint of 
sacrifice. Satan had revealed his true character 
as liar and murderer. �
It was seen that the very 
same spirit with which he had ruled the children 
of men who were under his power, he would 
have manifested if permitted to control t h e 
intelligences of heaven. With one v of ce t he 
loyal universe united in extolling the divine 
administration. 
Health, strength and longevity depend on 
immutable laws. There is no chatice ab,out them. 
Page Sixteen 
For The Children 
Just A Boy 
A Message for Fathers 
Being just a boy, he'll, do 
Much you will not want him to; 
He'll be careless of his ways, 
Have his disobedient days, 
Wilful wild, and headstrong, too, 
Just as, when a boy, were you; 
Things of value he'il destroy, 
But, reficct, he's just a buy. 
Just a boy who needs a friend, • 
Patient, kindly to the end— 
Needs a friend who will show 
Him the things he wants to know; 
Take him with you when you walk, 
Listen when he wants to talk, 
His companionship enjoy, 
Don't forget, he's just a boy. 
—Edgar A. Guest. 
A Queer Partnership 
O
NE snowy February afternoon, when the children 
were looking for eggs in the hay-loft, they came acres, s 
Hats? (the hen) and the cat cuddled up together in 
a nest under the eaves. As Betty expressed the univer-al 
hen-mother objections to local egg hunting, the children 
concluded that if she had any eggs they were probably 
spoiled, and that she might as well keep them. A week 
later the egg-hunters were made doubly jubilant by finding 
the nest oveifl swing with a mixture of baby cats and 
chickens. As the weather was still cold, it was decided to 
leave the chickens. where they were for the present. Now 
began the strange partnership. During the hen's daily 
forage for food. Jane, the cat, regularly took charge of home 
affairs, washing and cleaning up the chicks quite as 
industriously as she did her own babies. When it came 
Hefty's turn to keep house, she would set about trying to 
induce the kittens to share in the choice findings she 
scratched up out of the hay. Convinced that her duty in 
this line was done, she would next proceed to brood the 
shivering little cats, resolutely tucking back with her b'ak 
any sprawler that might venture forth from under her, 
determinedly trying to put thorn to sleep with the 
customary chicken lullabies. 
Of course the children helped the partnership out 
mateeially by bringing the family supplies of corn and milk. 
When the kittens were at last able to make open-eyed 
investigations. they seemed to regard the chicks es some 
kind of playthings, made for their (sly cial benefit, and 
treated them accordingly. This view of affairs was never 
crenprebeeded by the chicken, who habitnally jumped with 
an amszed squeak at every hitt from a kitten's paw. 
Sometimes this squeak was shrill with pain, but vengeance 
was Fwift, for the mother cat. if she happened to be near, 
wnu d instantly give the t ffender a smart box on the ear. 
The chicks in turn being some what mystified reen.rding 
cat nature greatly troubled the family peace by inquisitively 
pecking at the kittens eyes. 
As the family reached the mouse-eating stage, Jute 
impartially brought the chickens their share of mice, both 
living and dead, and never seemed to understand why her 
offerings were always refused with such consternation. 
When the warmer March days came, the motley 
family was carried down into the barn-vard, where H. tty 
took charge of their wanderings She soon became 
comple'ely oblivious to her own babies in her endeavours to 
keep up with the kittens, who were forever dashing cif in 
some unexoected direction or going astray up a tree, 
leaving their perplexed guardim peering up at them with 
one eye, and clucking beseechingly. The only time now 
when things were ideal was during the after-dinner nap. 
So matters went on until the kittens began going cut 
at nights. Then the partnership was dissolved. Still the 
family did not wholly drop its early habits. for all the 
summer the different memeers assembli d regularly for an 
afternoon nap under the gooseberry bosh; at d the chiles( n 
would often find them on rainy days snuggled up together 
in the barn. 
Although Hetty comforted herself with successive 
families of ordinary chickens, she could never refrain hem 
chasing after the cats when they shot by her ut expectedly. 
However she would immediately slink back to her 
squawking bror d, and wra.hfully set ahout setatehing the 
astonished family, right and left.—"Youth s Companion" 
A nimals with Pockets 
A little boy wit b his first I air of trousers is proud of 
his prckets. I wonder if you know that some outdoor 
creatures have pockets. 
The squirrels do not catty their nuts between their 
teeth. for they lave pockets in their cheeks. Did y ou ever 
see theni fill these pockets with nuts? They en ply them 
by pressing with their paws against the Cotton of them 
and then opening their mouths. 
The 1 angaroo has a pocket of fur, in which she carries-
what do you think?- her 1 aby ! For I aby kongste os 
canot leap as fast as their mother and need to be carded if 
they are to keep up. 
Another animal nether, the opossum, has a fur pocket 
big enough to hold several babies, which she tucks in when 
she goes travelling, �
—"Mayflower." 
Europe, a Boiling Cauldron of 
Human Passions 
(Concluded front rage 12) 
the strong arm of God must reach down and rescue a 
sinking world from its impending and imminent ruin. Men 
will see that sin only brings more sin, that sorrow only be-
gets sorrow, that man's rulersbip of the world is a failure 
without the direct intervention of God and His assump-
tion of the ruler: hip of thisworld. 
Th's idea is not the mere vapouring of some eccentric 
theologian. Only to-day I found these words in the 
December issue of the English Review 
Many in the world today are looking for manifesta-
tion of a supreme Teacher, who will enunciate yet again, 
with the authority of knowledge, the ancient truths of the 
fa'herhocd of God and the brctherhood of man. In every 
religion and in every race today this expectation is growing, 
and its s'gnificonce cannot be ignored." (Italics mine.) 
Alt, friends, there is the hope—the manifestation of 
the supreme Teacher, the Prince of peace—Christ, the Son 
of the living God. 
It is right and proper that the expectation of this 
wondrous event should be growing in every lace tocay. It is 
Biblical and prophetic. The truth cf the second coming of 
Christ has been cherished in 'he Church sir ce, Be ascend-
ed to he aye n a'ter His first advent. At that time He said, 
" If I go. I will come again." He is true and faithful to 
His word and His premise. He will come again, and He is 
coming it our day and generation. 
"I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations 
shall come," God says through the prophet Haggai. 
To-day the nations are being terribly shalt in and for 
this reason we snow that soon the De sire of all Nations will 
come. What is the Desire of all Nations? 11 at peace and 
amity and love and comradeship should supplant suspicion, 
distrust, revenge, and hatred. And it is the Man of Cal-
vary, and He alone who can change the heart of mankind 
so that it will pulsate with love and not with bate. He is 
the great lover, and He is the giver of love and the taker of 
bate. 
For His early advent we should fervently pray ; for 
only then will the boiling lava of lilt man passim le no 
more, and peace and love and brotherhood cover the earth 
as the waters cover the sea. 
Page Seventeen 
Notes 
THERE has been delay in the receipt of the illustrations 
for the articles of Mr. A. S. Maxwell of London on his recent 
trip to Egypt and Palestine. Word has now come that 
they are on the way. We hope to begin this interesting 
Series in our next issue. 
We call special attention to the article in this issue on 
Henry Ford's Rules of Health. The lessons drawn from 
the experiences of leading men who have accomplished 
much in the world is most valuable. Plain living, long 
life and high thinking are all closely associated. 
The publishers of this magazine are vegetarians by 
choice. We believe that everything is to be gained by the 
abandonment of a flesh diet. "Healthful Cookery" will 
from month to month furnish our readers with recipes 
which will be helpful for all those who wish to adopt 
such a dietary. 
Medical Missions in India 
Dr. Ernest F. Neve writes from Kashmir as follows: — 
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N February 1924 Colonel Megaw wrote an important 
article on 'India in a state of grave emergency' in 
which he drew attention to the enormous death 
rate in India from preventable diseases—about 5,900.000 
per annum, and the serious dimunition in efficiency of the 
individual worker from the same cause to between 20 and 
30 per cent. He pointed out the effect of this on economic 
conditions. Two months later an address by Colonel 
Christophers was published which dwelt very forcibly with 
the same theme. Not only do these appalling physical con-
ditions exist with their terrible toll of suffering, economic 
loss and death, but the whole matter is inextricably mixed 
up with ignorance, warped mental outlook and even religi-
ous prejudice, such as, for instance, the Hindu attitude 
towards small-pox. 
If, as we believe, good government should ultimately 
rest on the consent of the governed, how very important 
from a political standpoint is the good-will which has been 
and is being gained by the ministrations of medical relief 
and public health workers in India. In many districts, for 
one person who knows the chief administrator, the political 
agent or British resident, thousands and even tens of thous-
ands know the leading doctor, if he is active and in addition 
to a large central hospital also carries on district work. 
What splendid opportunities there are here, not only 
for medical and surgical aid, but also of dealing with root 
causes and of influencing the peoples and bearing witness 
to higher standards of life, healthier and more sanitary 
environment, a more enlightened mental outlook and higher 
moral and ethical ideals. 
It is very difficult to obtain information as to the 
percentage of the population of India for which Western 
medical aid or indeed any kind of skilled treatment is avail-
able. In the more important centres the Indian Medical 
Service has rendered splendid service on a large scale. The 
number of Indian private practitioners is steadily increas-
ing, hut these resort mostly to the larger towns. 
The work of medical missions in India has become 
increasingly important. Not only are there many large 
hopitals and extensive district work carried on in many 
parts of India, but most of these institutions are out with 
all their power to strike at the causes of disease and to do 
their utmost for the moral and ethical uplift of the masses. 
At the present time there are approximately 300 medi-
cal missionaries in India. Altogether there are more than 
200 mission hospitals in India, some of which are working 
on a very large scale and many of which are exceedingly 
well organised and equipped. 
India owes a debt to the United States of America for 
118 medical men and women, working in these institutions. 
The value of this work in these times of inter-racial 
strife can hardly be overestimated. It is a power making 
for frendship and eminently constructive. 
Probably there is no agency in India at the present 
time which is more beneficent in its action, and certainly 
none which does more to demonstrate the nobility of service 
and to make the ideNls of the Christian faith acceptable to 
the people." 
—Indian Medical Gazette. 
Illimitable Possibilities Through 
Faith 
(Concluded front page 9) 
is simple enough to fully trust Him, and expands 
and develops into a nation which God trusts, but 
which shamefully betrays that trust. But in spite 
of this the Divine purpose continues to expand until 
it embraces those trusting souls in every nation 
under heaven who rejoice in the blaze of light 
shining from the prophetic page. It thus develops 
that innumerable company, now gathering, " from 
every nation, kindred and tongue and people," which 
will eventually find its way to the city of God there 
to share its consummation. 
There is a veil that hides these forces which 
really rule our world and which are steadily shap-
ing all things towards this desired end. It is the 
purpose of this series on prophecy, which we pro-
pose to conduct throughout the year, to lift this 
veil and to enable the reader to see it all in the 
light of the Day of the Lord, in which all days end. 
We trust that this brief explanation of the purpose 
of our prophetic studies will increase the readers 
interest in them. " Have faith in God." " If ye 
have faith. . .nothing shall be impossible unto you." 
Henry Ford's Rules of Health 
(Concluded from page 21) 
had never used alcoholor tobacco, and that he had 
been all his life a vegetarian. This was no happen-so. 
Old Thomas Parr, who is buried in West-
minister Abbey, England, died at the age of one 
hundred forty-nine. When examined by the king's 
physician a short time before his death, he was 
said to have been in excellent health ; his arteries 
were still soft and elastic. The doctor who exam-
ined him said he saw no reason why he should 
not live another ten or twenty years. Unfortu-
nately he was taken to the king's court. One year 
of such living was sufficient to end his earthly 
career. All his life his habits were simple. He 
neither drank nor smoked, and he subsisted upon 
a fleshless diet practically altogether. The food on 
the royal table caused his death. 
Captain Diamond, of whom much was said a 
few years ago, at the age of one hundred two pur-
posed to walk from San Francisco to New York 
City. His relatives interfered with the project. 
A friend of mine who met him at the time felt 
certain that the captain would have accomplished 
the task. At the age of one hundred six he was 
examined by a well-known surgeon, also a friend of 
mine, who said that, judging from Captain Dia-
mond's arteries and general condition, he was 
good for another twenty years. He died, however, 
at the age of one hundred ten. He had been a 
strict vegetarian for over sixty-five years, and a 
total abstainer from alcohol and tobacco, tea and 
coffee. The one who keeps his blood the freest 
from all impurities and poisons, will, other things 
being equal, live the longest and most useful life. 
It pays to live abstemiously. 
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D. H. Kress, M.D. 10 
Europe a Boiling Cauldrom of 
Human Passions �
Alonzo L. Baker 12 
God's Music Lesson �George Mattheson,' D.D. 13 
Kala Azar, Its Cause and Treatment 
A. E. Clark, M.D. 13 
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This is the Battleship Monarch, the last 
British man o' war doomed to destruction 
under the Washington Treaty, which was 
recently towed from Plymouth Harbour out 
into the Channel and there sunk by the guns 
of the Atlantic fleet. Her passing was used 
for experimental tests by the Admiralty. 
The results are not known and will not be 
published. When the American government 
recently sunk one of-her great men o' war, 
scrapped in the same way under the Washing-
ton Treaty, the test was likewise secret, but 
it has leaked out that the resistance of the 
ship and its [armour to the gunfire was very 
satisfactory. It is a matter of great regret 
that the Washington Treaty is being circum-
vented in a number of ways, also that the 
lead that it gave to the world has not been 
followed by similar attempts towards disar-
mament of land forces. The nations are 
still heating their ploughshares into swords. 
Topical Photo 
To the right we have the remaining 
gap in the million ton wall thrown across the 
Nile in the Sudan. This marvelous piece of 
engineering will result in the reshaping of 
nature in this great country. This gap is to 
be completely closed by July next and then 
this mighty dam will block the ten thousand 
million gallon daily flow of the Blue Nile. 
The photo shows the last "big push" on the 
work in connection with this project. By the 
middle of the year water will be flowing 
through the canals to the thirsty desert areas 
of the Sudan which will as a result "blossom 
like the rose." 
Topicol PhOto 
Owing to the recent happenings in Egypt 
all eyes are turned towards that remnant of 
the most ancient Empire in the world. The 
photo shows the Egyptian Mounted Police 
which have such important work to do at the 
present crisis. The Egyptian Government 
have fully equipped the police of Cairo with 
steel hats and truncheons in their effort to 
maintain the security of law and order in 
the face of the mob spirit that would 
engulf that country in chaos. The rising 
tide of lawlessness in almost every land 
is full of menace for the future. Under what-
ever plea the advocates of anarchistic violence 
may put forth their efforts, the results will be 
disaster to individuals and nations if they are 
allowed to carry their plans to fruition, One 
great danger' to India to-day is that these 
forces, hiding behind the plea of patriotism. 
will bring chaos into our fair land. 
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