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Show Some Very Timely Editorial Thought! ittimn,lllli,llj.j.i. j.j.j.j.j...L.t.j.j.j-1-t-i.j.j-j-j.j..l..l.. -! mmnii 71 Let Us Advance In Real Knowledge MEN SHOULD GIVE HEED TO THE TRUTH We wish all men would look away from their money-making money-making and give thought and heed to the sbrn truth we are trying to put over in this editorial. The development of the soul is the great mission in life. Money is .lot a necessary support fo rthe soul. The great physical and material disaster dis-aster which is upon mankind today is simply a reflex of the moral andspiritual disaster that was upon the people before the physical and material disaster came upon them. It is all the result of humanity failing to live the moral and spiritual laws. There cannot be successful contradiction. If man is a son of God, as he is, he should show it in his daily acts, by his deeds should he testify of it. His deeds should be his creed. Being fathered by divine power he should manifest some divinity himself. Hej should radiate light in dark places. He should show compassion and kindliness. kind-liness. He should help the poor and the sick1 and make love and charity his service and mission to manjdnd. Not alone through mind and spirit should he show his .connection with divinity, but also in his body, "The body is everyman's Bible. It gives him the keys of earth and of Heaven, to unlock the treasures of this world and of all the worlds to come. It is his own especial Word of God wherein he may read the Will of his Creator, and the history of the Universe. To learn the true interpretation interpre-tation of this Divine Message is the vital 'business of his existence in this life. For, only as he is able to understand aright his own body, will he understand the Universe of i which it is the miniature." .... I . Try and Get Right Vision of Events WHY NOT READ SIGNS OF THE TIMES? Jesus said to His disciples, Luke 12:56, "Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth ; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?" Which means that with all their learning men are unable to rightly interpret the signs of the times. It is lamentable to read and hear how veryxfar men are away from the right interpretation of events. They have paid little attention to the prophets and have developed little or no vision with which to behold the magnitude with which destiny is sweeping the world of man, literally driving humanity to the program which the Creator has long since prepared for His world. A HUMBLE, SINCERE TRIBUTE One of the best tributes we ever received comes from two humble soldiers who saw Saipan and are somewhere in the Pacific (not relatives). They read our grandson's paper. One says he wants to subscribe. The other says: "If the people of Salt Lake City live by the ideas set forth in that paper then I want to make that city my permanent home." Thanks. If more people could be induced to look up from their materialism, which can never save, and dwell more on the spiritual ideas we try to set forth it would be much better for them. They will see it in time. We could set forth many tributes which come from local people and from folks all across the country, from California to New York, many of which are too good for publication. What hypocrites our congressmen are when they say that we must hold inviolate the Freedom, of the press and of the ballot, while they deny the service men the right to read what they please, and haif deny them the right to vote. "There are two things I have always said I would do, and I mean to carry them out, living or dying. ONE IS TO VOTE FOR WHO MI PLEASE, AND THE OTHER IS TO WORSHIP GOD AS I PLEASE!" John Taylor, j (Continued nr nsxrp frr All Citizens' Duty In Civil Life THE SUPREME GOVERNMENT COMMAND TO MEN The one supreme and never-ending command of the government to its' citizens should be, "BE HONEST." And that is exactly what one of the greatest of Americans, Thomas Jefferson, said: "The whole of government consists con-sists in being honest." That is the whole law and the full testimony to Americans in civil life. The government started out to be honest; its first people were honest and that is why they built so good a government. Up" to the time of the ' nation's' Golden Age, the 'age of Emerson, there was practical honesty everywhere. Men sought the moral, the spiritual and the intellectual life as they have not done since then. All was fairly well until the ideals began to fall from their high level and take root in money-making and the millionaire became the great and exemplary man, when great wealth became the god. Then there came upon the nation a deluge of the conditions which are responsible for that which is upon the world today. There are those who are crying aloud to go back to the America that was. They are talking out of time. The clock has never yet run backward back-ward and never will. By our national and individual sin we have trampled our opportunity and stand to lose much of our heritage. Destiny is passing judgment upon us and we must pay to the uttermost farthing. No Need to Guess. Here Is the Answer WHEN WILL THE WAR END? Some one in Chicago has been doing some experimenting with dates and figures in relation to the present war and who thereby came to the conclusion that the war would end at 2 :00 a. m. on the 7th day of September this year. This interesting collection of figures follows : Churchill Hitler Roosevelt II Duce Stalin Tojo Year born 1874 1889 1882 1883 1879 1884 Acre . 70 55 62 61 65 60 Took Office - 1940 1933 1933 1922 1924 1941 Years in Office 4 11 11 22 20 3 3888 3888 3888 3888 3888 3888 End of War One Half of 38881944. One half of 1944 972 9th month, 7th day, 2nd hour. First letter in each name CHRIST Christ Supreme Ruler. Scientists Out to Find the Big Ship IS NOAH'S ARK FOUND? STUDY THIS Supplementing the article we published recently . we offer the following from Pathfinder Magazine which received a copy of our paper. Noah's Ark is more than just a boat in the Bible, it's a very real thing, declare two Florida professors who are going to the Near East to stake a claim to it when the war ends. A J. Smith and G. F. Fletchall, Intercession City, pro-nose pro-nose an expedition by plane and helicopter to the top of 16,-750-foot Mt. Ararat (ntaives call it Kui-i-nuh, or Noah's Mountain) , where they believe the ark is imbedded and preserved pre-served by ice. "Science has scoffed," said the professors, "at the idea of there ever having been a universal catastrophe such as a flood The whole world is full of unbelief. "If the fact of the Deluge can be successfully verified bv the actual discovery of the Ark, it will be one more blow to the contemptuous mockings of a frowning, unbelieving world and a spiritually paralyzed, apostasized church." Scholars also are quoted. A certain Archdeacon Nouri is Quoted as having seen the Ark at the foot of a glacier. Nicolaus of Damascus, a secular writer, told of a mountain then called Baris where "one carried in an ark came ashore nfter the flood." A scientist or two admit that the Ark, covered with bitumen and left at such a height as that of Ararat would be practically indestructible. Smith and Fletchall support their proposal with evidence" evi-dence" provided by Russian flyers stationed near Baku in World War I and related by one of them, Roskovitsky, now US citizen, as published in this paper some time ago. It gives a synopsis of our article. MEN, KNOW YE THE TRUTH! How long will man continue to use and live by the law of supply and demand, which is merely a sharp and cunning way of taking advantage of a neighbor's need. "How long will struggling humanity cling to the illusions and drug their senses with baseless dreams which never can be realized under the prevailing system? The day of man's ignorant and selfish experiments are about ended, and God's day is about to begin." What a day it will be when the latent powers and longings of the masses are released from the breaking burdens that weigh so heavily upon them today. That day of release is coming. If not then all the labors and dreams of prophets and poets and artists and saints will have been in vain. If Bishop Peck is right in his statement of last week, that in the "CELESTIAL GLORY THERE IS PERFECT EQUALITY", and he certainly is right; and "IF WE HAVE NOT PRACTICED EQUALITY HERE WE ARE NOT PREPARED PRE-PARED TO LTVE IT ELSEWHERE," and that includes celestial celes-tial glory, then where will the sleek, well-fed, rich and pretentious pre-tentious go? Will they have a little heaven all of their own from which the humble poor are forever barred? They will never, even by a miracle, be able to bring themselves down to the level of the poor, and surely the humble and poor can never reach the high position that these select few believe they occupy. Don't laugh at me. I'm real serious and WANT TO KNOW. Benjamin Franklin once said, "You don't own anything, if you owned it you could take it with you." Only the knowledge and the experience we get here we shall be able to take with us; that is ours. We look upon life as our own, but we did not come into being for ourselves. We must no longer look upon ourselves as the center of a little world of our own. We must raise against personal likes and dislikes, personal prejudices and antagonisms. Our love must become a habit, not a fluctuating emotion. It must flow out to all men, to all living and growing things, equally. Nature gives us this lesson the tree shades even the one who prepares to fell it, the sun shines on the saint and the sinning, the rain falls on the plowed field and the neglected one. The great warrior Napoleon, dying, said: "A hundred years fromj now people will have forgotten me and all my victories, but they will still be telling the story of a little baby born in a manger." We have been reading some about the richest man the world. He is one of the native rulers in India. His income from diamond mines and other resources amounts to $25,-000,000 $25,-000,000 to $50,000,000 a year. He has stored away $250,-000,000 $250,-000,000 in gold bars and coins. He has diamonds, rubies, i emeralds, amounting to two billion dollars. Yet all around him people literally starve to death by millions and the great masses never get sufficient food from the cradle to the grave. Such a system we are against with our whole soul. ' It is for this man's kind that most wars are fought, that the millions toil and slave. It is for them that the poor are robbed and kept poor. It is because of them that the world lieth in sin. It is because of them that there is so little true I brotherhood among men. Why will not people believe their i own God wherein He says: "It is not right that one man should possess that which is above another." How strange it is that so little is done voluntarily and without the profit motive to redeem the earth souls who ' are stranded in economic "prisons," imprisoned in poverty, ignorance, misery and sin, from which so many cannot extricate extri-cate themselves any more than "spirits in prison" can. There should be just as much joy and satisfaction in lifting souls out of deplorable conditions here on earth. They are as worthy here as they are beyond the veil. The shameful con- ditions under which so many struggle do all but stihe and crush their spirits and leave them much less likely to be saved hereafter. The world's economic prison houses are full of men, women and children who cannot redeem themselves. What an uplifting work it would be to give them a helping hand and lift them out; give them means to start rehabilitation, rehabilita-tion, and help make life for them what it should be. Nothing . develops the soul like helping other souls. It is sad to see how money corrupts the hearts of men and how it has driven spirituality to a new low in the world. To think that the best instincts of man neighborliness, sympathy, sym-pathy, kindness, charity, mercy and helpfulness can only be used for cash money on the line. It is said that it is doubtful doubt-ful if all the master pieces of the world's art, literature, music and science ever brought as much money to the great souls of the world as has often been "made" by a single company watering its stock. |