Show these changing times i by marie M ogden NOTE last week we made reference to ancient writings v aich are prophetic reminders of f future ture events or an anal analysis asis 0 of the braes arnes in which they were written aritte h wo we have many of such type to offer as a result of the years of study and research since our own inspired writings began in looking for material for these weekly talks we came upon many interesting references in relation to the future written during the past century some of which have been published during our early attempt to offer information of this type but much of which may now be given we find that a great majority y of people like to read prophecy even though they may say we do not believe it or who question that events can be and are foretold through inspired writings or the vision granted those who are chosen to serve as so called prophets or seers we recall once offering an interesting prophecy by an exiled german in june 1885 which now gives proof of the things written this man was exiled because those who were unwilling to believe his statements wished to be rid of him just as so many people we could name today who have criticised criticized us for our written or spoken word and who would rid theme selves of us because we speak truth which of offends t or is misunderstood for the sake of those who do believe and who ask for it here and elsewhere we shall continue to offer many bits of truth or philosophy or general information which has bearing on the times in which we live we will not repeat the message referred to but offer one of similar nature recorded by a physician jos buchanan in the year 1897 in regard to the growing unemployment situation at that time and the cause of it the message follows this is but a war of classes the most terrible that can be imagined the wealth that has been accumulated and by its accumulation has filled the land with suffering and poverty and the grinding action of corporations and other combinations that disturb the whole course of industry throwing millions out of employment must most rouse a feeling of vengeance in the minds of victims if they can discover who are their oppressors the truth must in time dawn on the human conscience that no man has a right to monopolize anything and no man has the right to hoard up millions for riotous luxury and domineering power while his fel are suffering that no man has a right to ignore the divine right of brotherhood therefore jesus was right when he said the rich man would not enter heaven since the rich man is a criminal under divine law if he be allows suffering to go unrelieved and so long as he enforces a social system of struggling com petion fortified by monopoly that compels suffering while the peoples lands the peoples roads and the peoples money are monopolized his palaces and his lordly banquets in sight of human suffering despair and suicide will rise in testimony against him and a social order will be established that tha t will forbid the uprising and perpetuation petua tion of avaricious millionaires to corrupt society and teach a perpetual lesson of swinish selfishness se if ish ness while also corrupting the government into despotism that should stand for freedom and universal prosperity it is only a repetition af history the same drama of wealth corruption and ruin shown in rome and egypt the slavery of the masses predicting the destruction of the avaricious classes as it did in greece and as it did in south carolina but besotted wealth heeds no warning the white man is more rebellious and revengeful than the black slave our good periods end with the century the clouds gather in 1902 and the thunder rolls in 1909 to introduce the storm the national demoralization has already gone so far that the philanthropist anthro will not be listened to and crime must go on to its punishment ish ment we have seen the above prophecy fulfilled and we shall see other things come to pass which will destroy the wickedness and sin in the world today as outlined thru many forms and by many who are privileged to relay it in that age and generation our gifted authors and poets musicians and artists are all producing and ere abing as a result of thoughts which flow through their minds and take form according to their chosen fields of expression why not then believe that certain others are given the gift of vision or that of seeing and hearing with the inner eye and ear in order that they in turn may serve humanity in other ways we offer next a few excerpts from one of H G wells creations entitled THE RESEARCH magnificent one of the characters is searching for nobility not in the terms we think of nobility as lived by princes or kings but in order to get some thing out of life beyond and an above dabove that which the ordinary mortal experiences in his quest for a living and because that is what we must all be seeking in the new age we select a paragraph or two which indicates the trend of thought in the authors mind as he wrote what is the quality of the common man the ideal of the universal democrats democrat A creature of a few fundamental impulses who begins in blind imitation of the life about him lusts and takes a wife hungers and tills a field or toils in some way to make a living he fears and so he does not wander he is jealous and stays by his wife and his job is fiercely and yet often stupidly and injuriously defensive of his children and his possessions and so on until he wearies of the struggle and dies beyond that he does not go he never comprehends himself collectively at all his passion for security his gregarious self defensiveness makes him accum alcum emulate unto himself until he congests in cities that have no sense of citizenship and states that have no structure the clumsy incon si stent lying and chatter of his newspapers his hoar dings and music halls give him the measure of his congested intelligence the tricks and slow blundering dis honesties hon esties of officials and corigie cori giess s and parliament are his statecraft and his wisdom 1 I say here now to you that this life is not good enough forme I 1 know that there is a better life than this muddle about me a better life possible now this better life is what I 1 mean when I 1 talk of aristocracy this idea of breaking away from the common life to something better is the consuming idea in my mind constantly st struggling glit rig out of the life of the farm and the shop the inn and the markets market the street and the crowd is something that is not of the common life its way of thinking is science its way of dreaming is art its will is the purpose of mankind it is not the common thing but also it is not the un natural thing for it is as natural to be an explorer as to be a potato grower it is rarer but it is as natural imagination Imag inavon pride exalted desire are just as much man as hunger and thirst andsen and sexual curiosity and the panic dread of unknown things we will continue from this interesting te book next week note in keeping with the unusual happenings which are as signs of the times 11 we quote from an eastern paper that which is indicative of the destruction and changes being wrought by nature salt spray driven 45 miles inland by the september 21 hurricane caused heavy damage to white pine ground juniper red cedar and hemlock trees in eastern connecticut the salt concentration on the foliage caused ysis or a drying out of the cells and the spray had the same effect on the trees as dumping an ice cream freezer on a lawn would have on the grass white pine was the most sensitive tree and many of them were so thoroughly defoliated they looked fire killed |