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Founded to proclaim a Message of Peace and Happiness, Health and Purity, Life and Power. 1903. [Published Monthly]. ONE PENNY. Vol. 8. No. 8. [Entered at Stationers' HaU]. AUGUST, facts, as prove conclusively to me the reality of their post- Life after Death, mortem existence and the retention of their individual mentality. ^^ ^^i ^»i ^ox a loiin- time I have believed that the human soul The quest after truth which culminated in these survives the death of the for the evidence that body, occurrences was commenced on my part with an open, such a belief demands though watchful and critical, mind. I was fully aware for its justification, of the unreliability, the personating tendency, and the seemed, to my mind, the clairvoyant or mind-reading faculties of some of Al- to be existent. into astral or spiritual entities who seek to get com- t it did not hough munion with mortals through various media, and amount to absolute de- considered the consequently I carefully weighed and I felt monstration, yet I was phenomena which took place. Twenty years ago that the accumulated elected an Honorary Member of the Psychical Research testimony of those and Society and took part in its scientific experiments who have declared I had some con- investigations ; consequently, knowledge that they have had conditions. cerning psychical phenomena and test communica- personal But after calmly reviewing all the facts and giving ons from the dead consideration to every possibility of illusion, I find it constitu- so-called), conviction that I impossible to escape the unalterable when combined ted, have indeed talked face-to-face with a kindred soul who with the conclusions left the earth-plane a few years ago, and whose voice, which can be deduced from well attested psychic and almost logically manner, gestures, clear and lucid diction, and when the inner voice of phenomena, supported by phenomenal knowledge concerning spiritual truth, were, a rational basis for such a conviction. Intuition, when combined, altogether unmistakable. But there have been moments in the when I have past During several long interviews (one of which lasted been to after all, our common tempted question whether, for more than an hour, and took place in the presence of human not possibly be this friend hope concerning immortality may a reliable eye-witness) I presented to many and then I due to inherited and early education ; have been answered tendency searching questions. They could only have for definite the life yearned knowledge concerning in the manner in which he answered them, by one who the his and beyond grave. not only knew all about his earthly life, work, of mere has This state of mental uncertainty, belief, now, his ideals, but who also possessed his own distinctly for I have been of and his however, finally passed away; recently defined personality and manner speech, unique which enable me to law and permitted to pass through experiences comprehensive understanding of spiritual the from the oi truth. Yet I did not fail to speak standpoint personal experience concerning highest forms of esoteric this matter. receive an immediate and perfectly relevant, masterly and I have now I that when the of them. Hitherto believed, know, satisfactory response to every one physical body is laid aside, the soul retains its individuality Many of these responses revealed the most profound know- its consciousness. and and ledge concerning transcendental phenomena, spiritual with And I am convinced that I have been permitted to hold prolonged conversation illumination of a high degree. to hold with human souls who are now discarnate, and to receive from it has indeed been my privilege communion them such communications, such evidences of their personal one in the discarnate state, who, when on this earth, was identity, such utterances concerning mundane and spiritual verily one of God's prophets. have a time." "We were not given our livis just that we might amuse ourselves and good 86 ^ THE HERALD OF THE GOLDEN AGE. worker, and whose intimate friendship I was once The medium through whom he spoke (a woman religious him; she privileged to enjoy. aged 74) was altogether ignorant concerning about which we no knowledge of the subjects these possessed I am not constrained to make affirmations, conversed, or of my own identity. but with the merely to attract attention to my experiences, wish is to be She is a sincere religious soul whose chief be to some of hope that my testimony may possibly helpful God in that He desire for the accom- used by any way may our readers who may be harassed with doubts concerning is neither of His purposes. And she clairvoyant the plishment the reality of life beyond grave. nor does she the mentality that nor psychometric, possess The dark clouds of Materialism which hang like a pall the matters we would have enabled her to understand world in these Western over the religious and scientific discussed, or the phraseology that we used. the revelation of lands, can only be dispersed by spiritual as to be able to surrender her But she is so constituted facts. her consciousness so physical organism and completely, Each additional witness, therefore, concerning genuine with whilst in a state of trance, that she can be used great word can be trusted and whose psychic phenomena, whose as a medium for communication. some facility spiritual soundness of judgment is to any extent recognized by form was so and controlled by of Truth which Her bodily transfigured of his contemporaries, helps to let in the light of that the sense of her presence was obscuration that the spirit my friend, co'nstitutes the only remedy for the mental almost and that of him who used her physical lost, only is so prevalent. was manifest. I almost under an organism Consequently, I feel that am obligation at the time :— "I can control the body of He said to me to bear witness concerning the manifestations that have I own this medium with almost as much ease as could my been given to me. I was in the flesh." and when for many years, asked for spiritual light his Having, be as well as seen ; And his could felt I be enabled to others, presence knowledge, in order that might help his was unmistakable ; powerful personality to I not be handclasp by passing on to them what was given me, may counterfeit. beyond all silent concerning this matter. 1 do not, however, expect also to me another medium who the same He spoke through this brief narration to appeal to other minds with name or about him. And yet did not know my anything force as these occurrences appealed to me. his was as evidenced by voice, all the inci- his identity just clearly A full account of all that took place and of and references to his private diction, hand-clasp, manner, dental evidence that was furnished me would fill this affairs and ideals. I can state some of the chief Magazine ; consequently only %^^ t^^ (^K when F. W. H. facts. But just as my heart was gladdened with whom I held of the The identity of the other souls, Myers and Dr. Hodgson (the scientific inquisitors was also established very strong at last confessed that were repeated converse, by Psychical Research Society) they was confirmed and attested that the human soul evidence, and in every case convinced by ungainsayable evidence of I would rather trust than that almost I trust there be by him whose word survives physical death, so may possibly —not because of his integrity, that I also have seen and any living man I know only some who may be glad to learn his well- but on account of his wonderful spiritual insight, heard enough to convince me. his reliable the fact that I trained observant faculties, and judgment. And I feel that I must also record well known Two of these other Visitants were during received from all three of these Reformers, who were bore witness to the Truth and to the clearest and most their earth-lives ; they eminent for their loyalty Truth, One of them was a Reformer who the of the suffered for its sake. emphatic testimony concerning pre-existence and ecclesiastical tyranny of doctrine of Re-incarnation. withstood the false theology soul, and the truth of the so transformed Law obtains and that his day and generation, and, by doing, They assured me that this great ; The other was a heroic and understood the thought of Christendom. in the near future it will be recognized the consciousness and woman who manifested spiritual throughout the Western World. Sidney H. Beard. that is almost and the transcendent life, in a manner vision, j^*' *y* t^* and she was burned at the stake unparalleled in history, the fortunes MINISTERING SPIRITS. after winning immortal renown and changing and of her destiny country. whom we loved have departed with characters I wanted to and told me things that know, I believe They many Someformed, wills yielded, appetites conquered. that was calculated to help and encourage of us. loved said much they are greatly capable influencing They me certain valuable would have made also earth for us daily ; me in my life-work. They gave us dearly on ; prayed conditions for us. Now are in higher ; advice, which revealed intimate knowledge concerning any sacrifices they our at the in fuller, freer, completer life. personal ideals and also concerning doings my of the constraint of tender aflfection, the Order. Natural affinity spirit, Headquarters of child of God the necessity that must rest upon every And me their aid in the future, and urgent they promised remedial will surely lead them to endeavour, were used as for activity, assured me that I and co-workers being some of mind my at least, to impress our spirits by impact upon of the Divine Purpose. instruments for the accomplishment mind, to set free for us good influences by prayer. in such a their influence is My own mother came to me and spoke way That we are not actively conscious of also another are not for our benefit. as to establish on my part, and no proof that they working recognition Canon Wilberforce. the world as a lady who was known throughout prominent in the end.' "God is a sure paymaster. He always pays -* The Herald of the Golden Age. 87 few who were so with its truth The Secret of the Universe* fisher-folk, possessed that, like their Master they gladly endured all things rather than deny its omnipotence. lived for a long time under the Law of Gravitation At first, however, even they failed to comprehend the Men without it, aware of the evil understanding- though universality of the law that they gave their lives to manifest that^ disobedience to it entailed. In the same to the world ; but a revelation came to one of them that love we have been under the Law way living may not be limited in its action, but must be universal, or it of Love, it not, through knowing except is not Love at all. Then learned men realized the power of the suffering that resistance to it has this teaching as a religion, but seeing sin to be co-existent caused ourselves and others. and failing to see that sin comes from want of love, evolved And even as men who sin ignorantly from old Jewish rites the sacrificial idea of the atonement. natural laws their suffer- against impute Thus has the intellect always refused to recognise Love to the action of some ings capricious being, as the one great unifying power in the world, and after the so have we to God the imputed sufferings death of Jesus, error permeated his teaching more and more. that have arisen, from our disobedience And men to-day still misread the gospels, our churches still to this His law of Life. .-\nd this in of earth, supreme spite Christ if it not the world worship a dead ; were so, would fire and water and — "These air, reiterating again again, have been regenerated long ago. miseries are because have mind and 3'our doings, you thought ^-^ ^"^i -"^i and could have prevented them. Vou can prevent them in Too long the churches have been content to worship and the future." .^n dread to listen which awe-inspiring cry, to, mourn over a crucified Saviour. The one Saviour of the no one dares to listen to, against which ears are stopped by world is Love; Love who lives to-day, who stands knocking the wax of and the wax of criminal selfishness. superstition, outside the door of each man's heart, though man still refuses The reason why this Law has remained for so long un- to listen to his pleading voice. recognized, is because the wrong and evil consequent upon What are our holy days, feast days and lenten services, its violation have almost obscured its beneficent totally in vain while around us but a farce, while that voice pleads ; action. But this wrong and evil only make its reality more our sinful and suffering fellow-men groan under the burden : the confusion from disobedience to law apparent resulting imposed upon them by their fellows ? Our churches are in to the and of the being proportion supremacy universality like a woman who tends the memory of her dead child, while law that is violated. being all the time there are suffering little ones craving her love If Love is thus seen to be in man's and if supreme life, and care. behind all substance is a in itself" that the intellect "Thing Let men leave their rituals, creeds, and dogmas, and keep that cannot fathom, may we not postulate unknown power to love and the fast that God ordains ; do justice, mercy, to be Love ? Love, which we have seen the intellect is walk humbly with their God. Let them try to breathe warmth to and hence cannot " powerless comprehend, know ; yet 'Tis life of which and vitality into Love's freezing limbs. which is and all life to itself! moulding shaping our nerves are scant," and the only life is Love. ^"^i --^i '^i Those who throng our churches and chapels are those do If one watches the growth of love in man, especially who too often fail to obey Love's diviile decrees. They not it do not see when his individual love has come into contact with that of not know it, no, or they would do ; they with the great Universal Love, it seems certain that some outside Love's visage marred more than that of any other man, is that him into a woes that arise from its own lovelessness. influence at work on man, transforming the world's woes ; hear that new creature. And even as in wireless telegraphy, the Could they but for one moment see that form, receiver that receives the message establishes conclusively voice, surely they would surrender themselves wholly unto existence of from whence that ema- in that surrender would enter into what the the an agent message Love ; and they nated we not from when he becomes of means. ; may man, all-loving, joy Love he must let Love demonstrate the reality and existence of an Infinite Love ? But before man can know that joy no rival he will subdue all And it was because in his life Jesus so manifested that master him, for Love allows ; so reluctant to Love, that he gave to men a revelation of God unique in its things to himself. This is why men are yield beauty. It is because of this that men assigned to him the themselves to Him. that He insists his pre-eminence of being the one and only son of God. For It is diflicult to learn the lessons upon is to man for he we thus show unconsciously our recognition of love as the pupils learning. No harder task possible ; and learn it over supreme force in life. has to unlearn all he has ever learnt, again It was this message of love that the common people heard in a new and unknown tongue. Pain, suffering, patience, of those who would become gladly, for they are more elemental in their natures than the endurance are the inevitable lot the intellect is in school but if man would onwards the cultured classes (for, as before noticed, always novices that ; help he should at strife with love). These cultured classes felt this doctrine progress of his race, it is absolutely necessary of love to be a pernicious doctrine, and rested not until they graduate there. had brought about the death of him who so boldly and is sin never sins Love, without ; openly declared it to be the secret of all true religion. The man who against to Love he have to break Thus hate met Love and seemed to put him to death, only though in order to be true may is true to in this lived in the hearts of a certain man-made laws. But so long as he Love Love never dies ; and gospel on " One talent we all have—that of helping others. Don't let ycurs rust,' 88 The Herald of the Golden age. its highest, purest, noblest sense he is free from all law. So and develop as it could not otherwise do. For when a far, however, man has as yet failed to grasp what love man loves he enters into an entirely new environment. he it as a first finds it difficult to breathe in that rarefied means ; regards only means of enjoyment, where- At he as, it is as we have shown, a very via dolorosa. Instead of atmosphere, but gradually as he perseveres he finds it its means renunciation instead of it means more and more to his until possession, ; joy becoming necessary existence, suffering. But let him once acknowledge the supremacy of at last his former environment has become entirely dis- this law, let him yield himself to it consciously, whole- tasteful to him, and he w'ould not return to it if he could. heartedly, then, though the way be steep and the path be Old habits, old customs are discontinued, until to sin stony and full of thorns, it will bring him at last to a against Love becomes an utter impossibility. vision whose exceeding glory will transcend a thousand- The union of God and man is essential before a man fold the highest, deepest, purest joy that earthly love can can be born consciously into the Kingdom of God. And bestow. before a man can enter into this conscious union with God, because is a conscious he resist -the But man agent may he must become loving. Then consciously united to God, attractive power of all love, and especially of Infinite Love, he begins to know something of what the joy of love such resistance being apparent as sin. Yet his life will be means, and to reflect that joy in himself. And as death one lesson to teach him to that death he realizes that he has to fear for long object obey law, approaches, nothing ; perchance only placing him in some other school where this it is only the door through which he passes into a more law of his being will be even more imperatively felt than it real and vital union with that Supreme Love who is the was in this life such a transition the heaven of those ; being "One among Ten Thousand and the Altogether ^Lovely. who love and the hell of those who hate, until they, in their For death removes the glass in which we saw Love's face turn, become all-loving too. but darkly, and enables us at last to see Him face to -9i "9^ -9i face." " God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in aJ* t5^ *^^ God, and God in him." Thus perfect communion with God in love will make man like unto him. " And know hereby The Mystic Supper. the of truth that we spirit and the spirit of error ; for he loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love." Our en- Shroud it not deep in dark mysterious doctrine trance into all the privileges of sonship is dependent, then, Repeat it not with symbol form and rite, and else. upon love, upon nothing Rather regard it in its simple glory- all to We may give our goods feed the poor, yet without Suffused with Love's clear light. love it profiteth us nothing. It is only when we love with I give my Life — I give my blood and body— a love that suffereth long and is kind, that envieth not, In in and and loving work, thought deed, prayer ; vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave I give it freely, as I love our Father, itself seeketh not its own ; that endures, unseemly, bears, Whose voice I alwaj's hear. and hopes all things, that never fails : it is only then that we can enter into a realization of what the love of God I give it to my brothers and my sisters, To those who wish me well, who wish me ill means. ; I it for it is ^"^ ''ri '^i give gladly, my Being To do my Father's Will. Do we say such love is impossible between men ? Yet even this last century has witnessed the growth of a great To gentle John, to cunning, faithless Judas, universal pity stirring the hearts of men for their suffering I give my life and service, love and light, fellow creatures a that That thus the Father's Will ; pity must soon burst the bonds seeing accomplished, They, too, may serve aright. that bind it, when men will know it for what it is, a great universal love of the human race. To none is lacking of the gift I offer, time is now all creeds The come when and dogmas must All have received the all I had to give, pass away, for their work is ended. They are now a That all might know Being means only Giving " rather than a the all is As as God Live." hindrance help ; one religion we need long says the religion of love. The one lesson we have all to learn, is Expect no promise of a bright hereafter, to learn to love. Think not of recompense for what you do. of the us that A study gospels seems to show Jesus Only to all alike, in loving kinship, himself only realized towards the end of his teaching, that Give what 1 give to you. the whole of that teaching was summed up in that new Such is the record. Love and Life together commandment of love that he did so believe is ; proved by Make but one whole without each other none " ; ; his words— this shall all men know that are Bj- ye my Hide not the clear, full light of Christ's whole teach ng, disciples, by the love ye have one to another." And the "Only God's Will be done." disciple he loved best was the one who was penetrated most God's Will is Love—wide as the world we live in, deeply with the spirit of love, his epistles being one long Love is for the service God only meet ; exhortation to men to love. Feed with our lives each son of God, our brother. As return to we the teaching of Jesus and make his Wash each one's feet. law of Love our supreme law of life, man's life will change Sonia Cross. "Too much of sell, too little for others, describes the lives ol most of us." ^ The Herald of the Golden age. 89 Our with nature in her moods, and with the earth for their Empire* sustenance, loving and trustful of each other, united and invincible in silent faith ? England, fooled and blind, come look, if but a Where is the statesman who makes it the main item of his Oh moment, on yourself ! programme to produce such a population? Where the — Where the landlord? See, through your streets what should be living capitalist? — sap of your free blood—these brutish, squalid, joyless, Where, indeed in a country in which politics are but a drink-sodden in mills of where labour is a modified populations flowing ; and your and game party bluff', slavery, factories the weary faces, sad and monotonous lives, or and where land (for such purposes as indicated) is simply not miles of cottage tenements with weakly, red-eyed children,' to be had ? worn-out mothers. .And the answer comes : The conditions do not exist. See from your offices and shops at closing hours the The conditions (says the Doctor) of life and vitality are morbid stream—as from unhealthy glands within the body— gone—already the process of decay has set in, which only swift crowds issuing of anasmic youths and girls, pale, prema- a crisis can arrest. heart is within the turely sexual. The dying down, withering body ; With flabby minds and bodies (held together chiefly by and the veins are choked with yellow dirt. and manners .\nd this cries for their clothes) perky pick-me-up ; thing Empire! Edward Carpenter. See, on the land, where at least there should be courage and grit and sinew, A thin-legged, slouching, apathetic population, ignorant even of agriculture, and in the mines and coal-pits, instead The Higher Vision. limbs and ill-built bodies of lusty power, poor rickety ; And ask the how yourself searching question straight, 'The story of civilization bears eloquent testimony to the out of such roots shall a Nation grow. * truth of Solomon's words when he declared that And then look upward at the surface show and flaunt of "where there is no Vision, the people perish." The moral sustained ideals is society, virility only by spiritual essential for and and glory Those that are well-fed, and (out of the labour of the permanency enduring power in a civilization, nation, or people, as is oxygen necessary others) have plenty of chink in their pockets—the Club and for physical life. And in proportion as people turn from drawing-room life. to the lower in as turn from the higher ; proportion they look and see the feebleness and in- Look well, well, the fundamental ethical verities of justice, freedom and of it love embraced in the sincerity ; fraternity, or that all-comprehending The scores and scores of thousands of titled and moneyed commandments, Thou shalt love the Lord God (or the with all heart, soul and and persons—a vast and ever growing multitude —living the lives all-pervading Life) thy being, thy neighbour (the individual life that surrounds thee) as of idiots. Faiblesse oblige their motto : thyself; in proportion as they place the gratification of Of men scarce fit to be even good officers, much less animal appetites and desires and egoistic ambition above administrators of women to be good ; hardly worthy the demands of conscience and the obligations imposed by mothers : the law of solidarity—they lose in all those elements that to life and enable a A society wielding enormous wealth and privilege, skilled give power, persistency and virility to withstand the shocks that come from chiefly in the finesse of personal gain and advancement, and people successfully within and without. honeycombed by cynicism and unbelief : The Vision, the ideal, the whole-hearted yielding to the And for the rest, the hundreds and hundreds of thousands demands of the soul—the exaltation of Love—the in commercial dens and lofty swarming exchanges. for all passion for justice—the tender out-gushing sympathy The life of the successful business man, the — company less happily circumstanced ones the insistence upon the the self herein alone promoter, manufacturer, traveller, factor, dealer, specu- same freedom for others demanded for ; merchant the the the lies the of life and But treason to the Vision, lator, ; bank, counting house, big path glory. any the to substitute store, the director's office, the advertising agent, and the any turning aside from ideal, any attempt ambition, or lust of the appetites vendor of patent medicines. personal desires, egoistic civilization for the Vision that lights the soul and beacons Think of all these, and of the ideals beneath and behind along the highway of progress, leads to defeat and death. them—and ask again the question. the Vision and Let no one despair ! The battle between How, out of such stuff can a nation grow strong ? and the clod—between justice, liberty and fraternity, gold, dominion and ambition—has only just -^ -•> physical personal ^ and the contests have been won begun ; though opening by of the Vision are Where (and the question must be faced) ? the materialistic power, though the enemies and all that is needed Where, anywhere over the surface of England to-day, working in church, university press, is the moral that time and again has saved do the necessary conditions exist for the outcrop of a awakening nations. Let the old-time spirit of Israel's prophets appear decent population— if only a body of a few hundreds at again. a time? At no time in the history of civilization did each Where are the conditions for the growth of men individual possess so great an opportunity eff'ectively to — of and women healthy and well-formed limb, self-reliant, battle for God and triumphant humanity as to-day. enterprising, alert, skilled in the use of tools, able to cope B. O. Flower. much be •'Ifjyou have time, money, health and strength, of you will required," 9° - The Herald of the Golden age. -* The fallacious are to the effect that Editorial Notes* assumptions without painful experimentation, no growth of medical knowledge is that viust be possible ; someone vivisected, and that, therefore, of the Church of Rome the it is kinder to let the teaching concerning animals endure the rack ; that the The Rights of Animals, and its attitude concerning their results obtained by testing remedies upon animals are systematic torture for the benefit, or reliable as a guide to the effect of the said remedies upon benefit, of human human that immense increase of supposed beings, beings ; knowledge con- has now been officially explained cerning human disease has been gained by the vivisection of and a animals that the inflicted in definitely pronounced by ; suffering the laboratories of credited Christendom is but and that the infliction this fully representative. slight ; of pain " In the July issue of the Humane is in perfect harmony with our obligation to conduct our- Review, a lengthy article by Monsr. selves towards the lowest of God's creatures, in such a Canon Vaughan was published, manner as to please and gratify Him, who is good to of ^.^ and it has been reprinted in the Catholic Times all, and whose tender mercies are over all His works." on July 3rd, 1903, as an official pronouncement (Psalm cxlv, 9.) "the Church's attitude towards Vivisection." We Any person who has studied thi.s matter seriously and now, therefore, have a Manifesto of the ethics and without the prejudice which ex-parte statements are apt to which we are will realize policy of the Romish Church, concerning create, at once that these illusions are the result entitled to speak, without any risk of the shafts of adverse either of ignorance on the part of the Canon concerning criticism being warded off by the statement, "You must facts, or of mental inability to deduce logical conclusions not judge the Church by the opinion of one of its priests." from the vital phenomena which we see around us. This happened to me on one occasion at an Anti- * * * Vivisection when I drew attention to the and This Meeting pagan priestly defence of Vivisection is, prac- of Father A sincere lover inhuman teaching Rickaby. The Old tically, but the presentation in another form was one of the but whose too of animals, who speakers, Superstition, of the old dogma which has ever been the credulous to the of the Romish Church loyalty authority distinguishing mark of all materialistic priest- which he was a would not allow him to — (of member) hoods that deliverance from the penalty of human trans- in her doctrine, defended the recognize any shortcoming gression is to be obtained by the vicarious suffering of some on the of Papacy by repudiating any responsibility part innocent victim, rather than by the amended life of the ethical of her Professor of the Church for the teaching individual sinner. The author fails to apprehend that Moral Instruction at Stonyhurst College. obedience to Hygienic Law is the true remedy for, and best the manifesto of Monsr. But in this case we have disease and that it is preventive of, ; highly improbable that as a of "the Church's Vaughan reprinted pronouncement the Higher Powers would allow any method of escaping the in a which "the of attitude" journal is, avowedly, Organ consequences of our physical transgression to be discovered the Catholic and which bears its front Body," upon page, by means of the torture of animals—thus obviating the the arms and immediately above this avowal, Papal insignia. necessity of living in strict accordance with the Divine Will * * * and the physical laws of our being. ^ ib The first point in this Manifesto which strikes This Romish Manifesto be summed The Ethics an impartial investigator as being noteworthy, may up Moloch- the affirmation that it of Rome. is the statement that— by presents an ethical " Cardinal Xewman expresses the teaching of the Worship. creed which is distinctly lower and more ' Church as follows : We have no duties towards the brute Creation ; barbarous than that 'vhich justified the burning is between them and us. Of we are there no relation of justice course, of martyrs by the Romish The human victims is that Inquisition. bound not to treat them ill, for an ofience against holy cruelty of the 'Dark when Ecclesiasticism 'bossed' law which our Maker has written on our hearts, and it is displeasing to Ages,' at hand into our hands are were — not — Him. But they can claim nothing our ; they mankind, ostensibly though really burned for tise we them at our absolutely delivered. We may them, may destroy the good of their own souls and in order to promote their own pleasure, not our wanton pleasure, but still for our o-wn ends, for our salvation but ; these poor animal victims are openly and own benefit and satisfaction, provided that we can give a rational sacrificed in order that sinful account of what we do.'" avowedly man may find some way of escape from the consequences of his An attempt is then made to justify this illogical and incon- wrong-doing. It is Moloch-worship, pure and in an sistent mixture of paganism and Christian piety, which, alas, simple, up-to-date form. And the Church which openly defends such systematic reveals only too clearly the visual limitations of him who tormenting and of harmless souls, and which wrote it and of those who can accept such as inspired massacring denies them all rights—whether as sentient or as a series of artful, plausible, and sophistical beings teaching, by God's creatures—does but statements which are calculated so to confuse the real issue pronounce its own doom. For the who will be characterized in the minds of untrained thinkers, as to create the halluci- coming generations, by more enlightenment than this one, nation that the Romish Church is, notwithstanding her distinguishes present will most certainly repudiate ethical and advocacy of Vivisection, the only genuine exponent of religious teaching which is characterized materialistic beneficence and in this world. manifestly by blindness, compassion an and almost total eclipse of spiritual and intuitional ^ iit ^ perception. * ^ * The arguments which are advanced by the The Canon's Monsignor to produce this effect in the mind The Progress of the Cause of Food Refor- Arguments, of the average reader, and to advocate the The Food mation becomes more strongly evidenced every creatures with scientific torture of defenceless Reformation, week. The subject is being freely commented the hope of obtaining knowledge by such means, are, how- upon in the daily and weekly press, and a ever, when thoughtfully examined, found to be based upon large number of our journalists now have no hesitation in (i) a number of assumptions which are entirely false, and openly advocating the restricted use of, or total abstinence " " (2) the old Jesuitical maxim, The end justifies the means from butcher's meat. The constant stream of literature — moral or whether those means be right or wrong, immoral. which we are sending forth from our Headquarters steadily "It is your own opportunities for usefulness you wtU Iiave to account for, not those of other persons," The herald of the Golden Age. -* 91 grows in volume, and the demand is most encouraging. There are many other athletic witnesses to Cloud During the past month a large number of our Guide-Books A the truth of the evangel of Fruitarianism, and and Pamphlets have been sold at the Congress of the of I quote some of their performances lest any British Sanitary Institute, by our devoted comrade, Mr. W. Witnesses. should say that Olley is only a phenomenon A. Gill and his co-workers in Bradford. amongst the abstainers from flesh. The Hours Another encouraging fact is that the College of Precep- 24 Unpaced Record for Western Roads. By J. E. Newman (317I miles.) tors have this year chosen "Vegetarianism" as the subject The London to Brighton and Back Record. for the or in their Local Exam- Tricycle By James Essay literary composition Parsley (6 hours 18 mins.) inations. The Indian Path Records from i to 24 miles and t.ie Cycling * * * Championship of India for 1897, 189S and 1900. By H. E. Bryning. The Berlin to Vienna Record. By Arno Elsasser (Pedestrian) 372 miles. A noteworthy event in the Athletic World is The Dresden to Berlin Record (Pedestrian) 125 miles in 26 hours The World's the of nomination Mr. George Olley (the 58 mins. By Karl Mann. Cycling Vegetarian Cyclist) as England's representative (Although the non-vegetarian Champions of Germany and Austria in this the si xto arrive were all Champion- i" t'^e 100 Kilometres race at the forthcoming competed race, first vegetarians. J The 100 Yards Ladies' .-Xmateur Swimming Championship and International Meeting at Copen- jjjjp^ Championship Record. By Miss .M. A, Scott (aged 14 years). hagen. A great though fully merited tribute is The .'Vmateur Tennis Championship and the Amateur Racket thus paid to our Comrade and to our Cause, and I trust that Championship for 1903. By Eustace Miles, M.A. (For the fourth and fitth times he will be able to participate in this great race against the respectively.) The Long Distance World's Record for Ladies. By Miss Rosa picked representatives of Europe and America, and add the Symons (1,853 miles in iS days 23 hours, averaging nearly 98 miles per title of of the World to that which he over in all Champion already day ; hilly roads and weathers from London to North of holds as Amateur Champion of England. Scotland, thence to Cornwall, and back to London. The Bath to London and Back Record. Britton He has quickly recovered from his serious accident at the By J. (216 miles in 14 hours 34 mins.). Palace, to blood as a result of Crystal (thanks pure pure diet) The Leicester to London Walking Record. By G. H. Allen and within three weeks was able to ride miles 192 (un- (973 miles in 20 hours 22 mins.). In June, 1903, he also walked 455 paced) in twelve hours on the Southern Roads Association miles in 9 days. * * * Course—notwithstanding being obliged to dismount twelve A sample of a much improved Nut Mill has times owing to tyre troubles and mishaps. A New been sent me by the Pitman Health Food Nut Mill. Stores, Birmingham. It has a regulating appliance fitted at the side by means of which The athletic record which Mr. Olley has built nuts, cheese, or bread-crumbs, etc., can be finely ground A up is so remarkable as to constitute, in itself, if desired. It is strongly made and can be supplied either a in Phenomenal strong argument favour of the superiority with a round or square feeding shaft, and the price is 4s. 6d., Record. of bloodless diet. post free. He has won records for | mile, i mile, As a nut-mill is a necessity in the kitchen of every fruit- 10, 50, 100, and thence for ail distances up to 277 miles. He arian household, I mention this useful utensil so that those now holds all Amateur Motor-paced Records from i to 35 who do not know where to obtain one may now be enabled miles, and all tandem paced Records trom 101 to 277 miles. to do so. * And also the World's Amateur Path Records for 5, 6, 7, 8, * * 9, 10, II, 12, and 13 hours. The latest addition to the rapidly increasing Another The following are some of his great achievements : — number of Hospitals and Sanitoriums which The 100 Miles Open Race for Carwardine Gold Cup (value ;Ci5o) Fruitarian are conducted on Hygienic and Fruitarian and He met with a serious accident when tor this 1901 1902. ridinsj Hospital. lines is the Lady Margaret Hospital at event in but at the time was a mile ahead of his and 1903, opponent, Bromley, Kent. It has been founded for the had broken all Records up to the 35th mile when he fell over his of the value of fresh air and rival's machine which had fallen in his path. purpose demonstrating sunlight, The iz Hours Open Race for the Dibble Shield (£50) in 1901 — and pure and natural food as remedial agents when combined miles. with the sort and the 277 medical attention of right ; Committee The 6 Hours Open Race for the same in 1902— 151 miles 1705 yds. consider it a most important thing to teach people how to (These two races are the most important long distance events in the well and how to well. kiytgdom. Olley has tvon them twice in succession. A'o other rider has get keep ever -won both of them once. ) It is a one storied Bungalow situated on a hill, is lighted The I mile Amateur Path Unpaced Record, igoi. by electricity, and contains at present sixteen beds and four The I mile Amateur Unpaced Path Record, igoi. cots. Those who would like full particulars should write The I mile Amateur Championship of the Southern Counties to the Warden. Cycling- Union, 1899. * * * The London to Portsmouth and back Amateur Record unpaced, I narrations 141 miles over \ery hilly roads in 8 hrs. 31 mins. 48 sees. frequently receive most pitiful The 50 miles unpaced Southern Ro.ids Record, 2 hrs. 26 mins, A Plague of concerning the half-starved, homeless, and sees. 46 Cats. unwanted cats of the Metropolis from two The 12 Hours ditto {193 miles). ladies who are their lives to the The 100 miles unpaced Southern Roads Record for Licensed devoting work of these creatures and Amateurs (very hilly), 5 hrs. 44- mins. 7 sees. rescuing humanely destroying The 100 miles unpaced on London to Bath Road, 5 hrs. 30 mins. such as are diseased and injured, or too unattractive to find The Hours Record for Southern Roads 24 (323 miles). a new home. Miss Cording, of 31, Trinity-street, Islington The 24 Hours Record for Southern and Western Roads (325 miles). (a lad)' who is toiling most devotedly in this humane The 25 miles motor paced Amateur Record (Crystal Palace, 1903), much work with her 3$ mins. 59I sees., and also all records from ] to 2^ miles in this same undertaking, and doing unsavoury event. own hands, and at her own expense), tells me that she has These victories have been achieved by one who has been received about 1,300 grimalkins since last October, and that a total abstainer from flesh-food for many years. And yet the work is growing to such an extent that unless some of our there are still many persons who are so ignorant as to zoophilist friends come forward and aid them with funds believe that a man cannot do "hard work," or manifest they will be obliged to suspend their operations. As stamina and endurance without eating beef. they are voluntary workers and are exercising a humane "Opportunity is more to be appreciated than Wealth." 92 -* The Herald of the Golden age. influence in their district, this would be regrettable, and I The Home Secretary (Mr. Akers-Douglas) therefore invite such to write for full particulars or to Un- received on July i6th a deputation of influen- pay these ladies a visit. enlightened tial men, who protested against the increase * * * Officialdom, of Vivisection and asked him to do something I should also like to to the Executive of suggest to suppress the cruelty which is taking place. A Feline the National for the Protection of Cats, Society He refused in the most emphatic manner, declaring himself and of the that much Tax. R.S.P.C.A., cruelty in favour of the practice, and stated that he would not vote be a to might prevented by presenting petition for any legislation that was introduced for that purpose. the President of the Board of that the Agriculture requesting Such an attitude might have been expected from the man feline race should be taxed. This is the method of only really who recently gave Professor Schafer a license to drown a at the root of this for whilst cats are allowed to striking evil, number of dogs in order to investigate the phenomena of in will continue to swarm breed our cities ad-libitum, they death under such circumstances, and who has always mani- in the courts and to suffer starvation and mal- alleys, fested a tendency to resent any pertinent enquiries concerning and to the nocturnal slumbers of the treatment, destro}' the abuses which take place as a result of the indiscriminate with their doleful lamentations. A half-crown tax citizens issue of licenses to torture animals by the Home Office. would soon lessen their and ensure better treat- number, The Cause of Humaneness and the Progressive Movement ment for those who obtain responsible protectors. are hopelessly handicapped whilst men whose ethical and * * * spiritual perceptions are of the most elementary form, are An service to the Cause of in of almost Christian " important placed positions supreme power by The Humanity has been rendered by two noble- electors. And the obvious remedy for the chaotic condition Shambles minded women who are Members of our which now prevails in our national affairs, when viewed from of Science." Order. They came from Sweden to this the higher standpoint, lies in a united effort on the part of country in order to stud)- physiology, and progressive thinkers throughout the country, to sweep away thus to better qualify themselves for journalistic work in the old party distinctions, and to return to Parliament a large connection with the Anti-Vivisection Movement in their number of men who will place National Righteousness and own land. Their names are Miss Lizzy Lind Af Hageby, the physical, social, and spiritual welfare of the people before and Miss Leisa Schartau. every other consideration. Having attended a number of lectures in the physiological * * * of the of London, and having witnessed laboratory University A wrote to me the other as carried lady day suggesting a large amount of experimentation upon animals, A Practical that as a considerable period of time is likely out in the presence of students (therefore, presumably, under Suggestion. to elapse before a law prohibiting vivisection the least revolting conditions), they have come forward as wit- in this country can be placed upon our statutes, nesses concerning the atrocities which are taking place in this something might be done to hasten the suppression of this and hundreds of similar Hells in various parts of Christendom. infamous if a large number of persons whose hearts These ladies have now written a book entitled The system are aflame with indignation concerning this national crime, Shambles of Science, and I earnestly invite every Member of were to arrange to assemble in their thousands and to storm our Order and every reader of this journal to buy a copy and one of these physiological hells. lend it to every thoughtful and religious person whom they Whilst I am not prepared to advocate violence, I feel can induce to read it. convinced that some display of moral force outside the doors By circulating this book a great impetus will be given to of the Brown Institution, the Chelsea Tophet, or University the Anti-Vivisection Cause and the day will be hastened College Hospital, might produce a considerable effect upon when the damnable doings which are recorded in its pages the minds of the High Priests of this Inquisition, and also will be as to Law, and when those who regarded contrary the Authorities. be treated as upon Hospital are guilty of perpetrating the same will When they see that Anti-vivisectionists are in dead criminals or moral lunatics. It can be obtained from our earnest, and are prepared, if need be, to suffer in order to Book Department at Paignton at the price of is. net. bring about the suppression of animal torture, they will gain * * * a clearer apprehension of the moral power which is at the Some plain speaking has recently been given back of the Humanitarian Movement. Meat forth by Dr. Tilden on the subject of chronic 1 commend this suggestion to the consideration of the of our Poisoning. meat poisoning, and there are many various Societies whose legitimate function it would be to carnivorous friends who would do well to con- organise some such demonstration, and I also invite them to sider his words He states as follows : — prepare a plan of campaign for the next election, with a view It is a fact, but little known that those who suspend or stop the use to the minds of Members of Parliament in The influencing general, of meat have to go through a season of physical depression. and of about the defeat of the Home at the amount bringing Secretary severity of the depression and the time it lasts depend upon to three the in of chronic meat poisoning the patient has. It takes from one hustings particular. years for the physiological change to take place. * * * I have people coming to me constantly suffering from constitutional or a meat poisoning, and they expect to be cured in a day week. In making an allusion (in the June issue of never will cure them the life will restore all curable Drugs ; right A Slight this Journal) to a Meeting which took place at cases in from one to three development will not years. Physical Mistake. St. James's Hall at which a number of medical cure them unless the bad habit is stopped. It would be as reasonable ill effects of the men in favour of the of to say that phvsical development will antidote the spoke suppression is himself alcoholic habit as to say it will keep one well who poisoning vivisection, 1 referred to the gathering as being under the on meat I daily. auspices of the 'British Union.' whereas should have in disease. Exercise' will not bad habits from ending- ' prevent named the London Anti-Vivisection Society.' Several such The farmer has the healthiest life in the world because he has work were at the time, and amidst and exercise in the sunshine and open air, but he is noted for short Meetings taking place pressure the I I life. The reason given is that he is too much exposed to incle- of work this error occurred. gladly correct it, as have ment weather. This is false he kills himself in the room. I ; dining the highest admiration for the Leaders of the London Society, did a for fourteen years among farmers and I know- large practice and the energetic manner in which they are carrying on whereof I write die from If exercise would ; they gluttony. keep live for ever. their beneficent people alive in spite of everything farmers should propaganda. Get intp the habit of expecting great things; and -workjor^^them.'' -* The Herald of the golden age. -* 93 She values her ceremonies and outward bulwarks more in Diet and Vision. Purity Psychic than the gracious influence of the Eternal Spirit. In short, to a large extent, she is only the reflection of the world- have I wondered how Christian men and spirit. She is like the sky taking the earth's reflections of aloud for Divine and the Oftentimeswomen could cry inspiration colour rather than giving her Divine tone to the earth. visible manifestation of the Lord, and This appalling blindness to spiritual realities, this awful vision to be clear expect their spiritual deafness to the Voice that speaks out of the Silence, can their bodies with and far, after feeding never be removed till her hands are washed white from which 1 have the gross flesh-meats the blood-stains that she hath put there. seen their tables : how garnish they She must give up her love of flesh-meats, her cowardly could it for the Divine imagine possible attitude towards the oppressors of the animal kingdom, Love to realize itself in them when her callousness concerning the rites of the physiological they themselves were dull, if not dead, laboratories. to the heartless that cruelty every day She must teach the royal road of love even towards the in order to their witnessed, gratify lower races. She must learn that God will have mercy and tastes : how could for a moment not sacrifice that a is they ; gentle spirit more acceptable to Him dream that the Lord no to paid regard than feast-days, sacred hours, and mere rites or ceremonies. how men ate and drank so as long Yea, she must learn the secret doctrine of the universe, they prayed. the unity of all Being, the universal Oneness of life. between will \M K^'r-J^Btr This strange contradiction Unless she does, never the Divine V'ision be hers, ^'^^ Christians' and its nor hers the to hear the sublime iIAf wj^'^'II^Mr aspiration privilege messages from realization has been much forced the l\l ^tt"^'^! very Beyond. and I ask readers For these and are \ \ mi(f^SSmr upon my notice, my great glorious privileges the fruits of to seriously consider it. The Churches personal dedication to the highest ideals, and a genuine reared upon the foundation of Christ's effort to realize spirituality. teachings have apparently more energy Only by earnest endeavour to overcome carnal limitations than ever, which they expend in creating new organisations can she be brought into such intimate fellowship with Heaven to enlarge their borders and embrace the nations. Yet with as to learn the mind of the Master through direct com- all this and the increase of scholastic and munion and so His secret. with energy religious ; gain And, that talisman, knowledge, we find so little realization in the Church by open up the whole spiritual realm to the soul. its adherents of those great verities of which their faith ^^ ^^^ ''^i testifies and is the prophecy. It is now a well established scientific fact that human Most clearly and emphatically does the teaching of beings were never constructed to tear, masticate and digest to his more intimate that, with the Jesus disciples imply, flesh-foods, like the carnivorous animals. This much, com- exercise of the right kind of faith, we should become parative anatomy has taught us. We are, anatomically, of the media of Divine communication to the world that we ; the Frugivorous tribes. should see and hear as those who were attuned to heavenly It is equally true, though perhaps not so well known, conditions, ever the of the soul to see having open eye that the highest authorities in the scientific world inform us heaven's and the ear to hear messengers when they come, that flesh-meats are almost that invariablj' impure ; their the voices that to us from the speak Beyond. effects on the human are deleterious system ; and that the But the Christian Church such She repudiates things. sustenance which such foods are supposed to contain can has no faith in the of an actual communion with possibilty be got out of the vegetable kingdom in a much greater ministering spirits such as the first disciples enjoyed. .'\nd variety, in purer form, and without the harmful elements those who do believe such and seek to realize their things which are contained so largely in flesh-foods. blessed have too often to look for influence, fellowship Then, doctors have been face to face with an ever outside her ecclesiastical borders. ratio of disease and this increasing ; notwithstanding the advance made in matters of sanitation, and the sup- How is it that the psychic vision of the church is posed marked progress of Medical Science in combatting lost ? Why has she no more gifts of tongues, and prophecy, disease. And the result of it all is, that many of the most and esoteric interpretation ? Because a dark three-fold veil notable Physicians and Surgeons have made special investi- hangs across her Intuition, shutting out the vision of the gations, and discovered that the primary cause of a great Holy Place. deal of the disease is to be traced back to the carnivorous The veil of blood is still before her. Though she no habits of the people. longer offers animal sacrifices on her altars to God, she Then we have the further fact, attested by the most offers them to the mammon of taste and appetite. She eminent philosophers, statisticians and economists, that a lives in a realm of blood. She takes a most active part natural and pure diet of fruits, nuts, cereals and pulses, with in the slaughter of animals for food, and permits their a mixture of butter, cheese, and milk, builds up a stronger torture for scientific knowledge. She is the supposed physique, gives more power of endurance, is eminently of the the land is full of blood and more is of to the purifier land, yet ; healthy, unspeakable advantage brain- alas ! she approves of it. worker, and is more economical in every way. 'Faithfulness' is the standard by which everyone must be judged." 94 Tke Herald of the Golden age. ^ And as the coping-stone to all these we have the human- But though these dangers are real, they need not stand itarian in which scholars plea of all lands and religions join, in the way of a very true fellowship which we may have with the moral showing how nature of man is imbruted by the spirits of just men and women made perfect. The unnecessarily taking life and living upon the flesh of animals; spiritual world is open to the souls who seek and knock at and how man becomes nobler when he regards the races its portals. But it is for such souls to see that their seeking beneath him as related to him, as candidates for the like is of the highest order, so that the messages they receive may form of existence as he himself and is con- the enjoys ; when he be no mere astral-plane reflections or mirages to allure strained through fellow feeling to protect them from the unsuspecting, but such as have the approval of Heaven, ruthless of the cruelty physiological laboratory, the chase and and come as helps to human spirits struggling up to the the abattoir. light. There was a time when these gifts were used solely If, science has shown us the for the faithful then, physical advantage culture of earnest and men and women ; and of pure, natural diet for the body and mind; and social this is the use to which we would counsel all psychic souls to economics have demonstrated its value and their dynamic ; moral put gifts. has revealed philosophy the incompatibility of the culture of If all who truly believe in spiritual science and practice it true humane feeling with the unnecessary killing of animals would exalt and enlarge their faith by the purification and for food the voice ; surely of spiritual science and economics consecration of their bodies, so that henceforth they might and philosophy calls us to rid ourselves for ever of that become fit channels of Divine communication to the saints, traffic, and of those habits and customs which tend to what a power for righteousness might they not become ? animalise our body, draw the veil between us and heaven, What an increase of spiritual knowledge, fellowship, and and make us blind and deaf to the very highest vision and aspiration might they not bring down to the world? They message. The great mystics who so intimately communed would then come to be what the members of the Christian with the highest spirits have alwa3s been men and women Church ought to have been—circles of men and women who repudiated flesh foods and lived on the simplest fare, whose souls are open to the light of heaven, who give its not only curbing the appetites, but also refining the senses influxes freedom of access, because they have rent the veil of till these were sensitive to the influences of heaven, and could materialism which divides and cuts off God from the soul. become the venues of heavenly messages. J. Todd Ferrier. •5* *^ J^ ''^i -'^i ^^ And here I would remind all my fellow Christians who The Higher Astrology. are known as Spiritualists, that the purest and highest I do not doubt cannot be reached without the consecration of the heart, Nay, seer, thy mystic lore. Nor question that the tenor of life. mind, and body to pure feeling, pure thinking, and pure my Past, present and the future, is revealed living. If the Christian Church has long lost the psychic There in my horoscope. I do believe and come to its realization she holds it in gift, deny (though That yon dead moon compels the haughty sea her and that the failure of her members philosophy), through To ebb and flow, and that my natal star to understand the essentiality of simple, pure, natural diet Stands like a stern-browed sentinel in space in fit And events nor lets one order to the body to become the temple of the Eternal challenges ; grief, so we rest assured that the Or joy, or failure, or success, pass on Spirit ; may highest psychic gifts To mar or bless my earthly lot, until and the purest, truest psychic communications, can be ours It proves its Karmic right to come to me. only through prayer and fasting—through that prayer which All this I grant, but more than this I know ! is a continual after the Divine and that aspiration ; fasting Before the solar systems were conceived, which is a purification of all the senses, and the harmonising When nothing was but the unnamable. of them with the will of heaven. My spirit lived an atom of the Cause. countless in forms ''^i '-^ ''ri Through ages and many It has existed, ere it entered in And a further thought here lest I should be misunder- This human frame to serve its little day stood in much that is I know there are still implied. many Upon the earth. The deathless Me of me, Sauls who are too anxious to consult the witches of only The spark from out that all creative fire Endor too Macbeths anxious to hear of Is that eternal called ; many earthly gain part of source God, and far too and mediums And than the universe. he greatness ; far, many clairvoyantes mightier Why, Who knows, and never once who sell their heaven-born gifts for a mess of pottage, and knowing, forgets The pedigree divine of his own soul. as a result never attain to those altitudes where the heavenly Can conquer, shape and govern destiny message-bearers speak and the Divine Vision is seen. And use vast space as 'twere a board for chess are When spiritual gifts put to such uses they maj' be- With stars for can his pawns ; change horoscope come a source of and evil rather than avenues suit his will grave danger To ; turn failure to success, through which blessings may flow from the spiritual world. .•\.nd from pre-ordained sorrows harvest joy. There is no sun or The mere gift of divination without heavenly aspiration and puny planet, moon. Or zodiacal sign which can control communion lays a human soul open to all sorts of dubious The God in us. If we t/ujt to bear seek such as the Astrals bring influences ; and to only fellowship Upon events, we mould them to our wish : can and such as affects mundane give, knowledge only 'Tis when the infinite 'neath the finite gropes is to one's own and to risk the affairs, degrade spirit, That men are governed by their horoscopes. loss of the pearl of great price. Ella W. Wilcox. •'Personal attainment is needful if we would be Iielpful to others.'' ^ The herald of the golden age 95 takes moderate exercise, the kidneys are able to eliminate to Avoid Gout. How from ten to twelve grains of uric acid daily. A pound of meat contains about twentj' grains of uric acid. If ten is no disease about which there is a more probably grains more than the kidneys are able to dispose of are taken medical as to Thereuniversal agreement among- authorities, in the system one day, we have an accumulation of ten the than In fact, nearly every cause, gout. grains of this product. The same quantity taken the next woman, and child of in- man, any day increases the amount to twenty grains. Either ten or is with the telligence acquainted twenty grains can do very little injury, but if this is con- term "uric and knows that acid," tinued for one year, we have a deposit of at least five ounces, is due to the accumulation of gout in two years double this amount, in twent}' years it means uric acid in the body. an accumulation and deposit somewhere in the body of a Uric acid is a waste re- product, large quantity of uric acid. When this accumulation reaches from the down of sulting breaking a dangerous quantity. Nature gives warning, or holds out tissue the wear and tear of the by a danger signal, in the form of pain, calling upon the indi- when sufficient body. Normally, vidual to repent and reform his habits of living. This is exercise is the skin, taken, kidneys, often the last warning given to the one who has refused to to or and lungs are able eliminate, listen to the voice of conscience and reason. is throw off, all the waste that it is Gout is not a disease that comes on suddenly ; insufficient exercise is the ; but when the body brought about by long sowing for it, and represents the blood thus taken to keep circulating freely, carrying accumulated wastes of many years. or when foods are the wastes to the organs of elimination, Treatment. taken which contain great quantities of wastes in a soluble This large quantity of wastes which it took years to form, the blood becomes saturated with them, and deposits a store up, cannot be got rid of in a day or a week, or where the circulation is most which, are made sluggish, it time year. It required time to accumulate; will require as stated, is usually in the small joints farthest removed to eliminate it. Suppose the kidneys are able to eliminate from the great vital pump— the heart. These deposits ten grains daily in addition to their normal work; then by in the create irritation, and set up an inflammatory joints stopping the introduction of uric acid, using only pure foods condition, with excessive pain. accompanied which do not contain it, there will be carried out daily Causes. through the kidneys ten grains of this heap of refuse. Thus of uric The two principal causes of the accumulation the system will in time succeed in throwing out the whole in the small are acid in the system, and its deposits joints, of this foreign matter; but at best it will be a slow process. drinks this shovelful (i) the free use of foods or containing poison, It is like removing a pile of sand when only one acids or acids (2) the use of beverages containing inorganic can be taken at a time. brought about by fermentation, as spirits, (3) sedentary It is well for the gouty subject to bear this in mind, exercise. The disease is almost the removal of let him habits, or lack of wholly and not be content merely with pain ; bread confined to the wealthy—those who have fullness of be satisfied with nothing less than the removal of the disease and little physical exercise. products—the accumulated uric acid. Prevention. In addition to reforming the diet, and taking only pure which will Total abstinence from foods laden with uric acid, with food and drinks, treatments may be given improve the circulation of the and the of the skin and sufficient exercise each day to get up a good sweat, is a blood, activity When the is able to do it, sufficient exer- sure way of keeping this disease at bay. Who ever heard kidneys. patient be taken each to a sweat. of a hard-working man, who was moderate in the use of cise should day get up vigorous subsist D. H. Kress, M.D. simple foods, having gout? Labouring men who contains uric largely upon flesh food (which always acid) are able by vigorous outdoor exercise to eliminate a large THE HIGHER CHOICE. share of this excess of uric acid taken in the food, and thus the for time but the extra burden If desire to throw off the corruptible and to put on ward off the disease a long ; you our advice is that turn thoughts thrown upon the kidneys in its elimination, finally results incorruptible, you your from earth and and in disease or the complete wearing out of these organs, and aspirations away earthly things, the Strive to live a life in har- thus shortening life. centralize them upon Spirit. with the law of the interior world. When a gouty subject consults his physician, he is at once mony higher If do will soon arrive at a correct understand- advised to give up the use of flesh foods, alcohol, cofi'ee, you so, you and the all these of the love of God for His children, great tea, etc. Why ? —because it is recognised that of ing the when He either contain uric acid or interfere with the oxidation and sacrifice made by our Elder Brother, Christ, home and took Himself the sign of an elimination of uric acid by decreasing the alkalinity of the left his heavenly upon race. blood. Especially is this true of flesh. By the use of flesh unregeuerate Then will be able to realize the beauties of a life foods, uric acid is directly thrown into the system. The you at of holiness will be filled with sunshine and evil resulting from such a diet may not be experienced ; your days that love at the of peace will ever stand beside once, and for this reason it is difficult to convince men ; night angel The Esoteric. these foods are injurious. It is supposed that when one your pillow. "Many a man would be all right if he could lose his reputation.' -^ 96 -* The Herald of the Golden age. It willhs. in that day, when "They shall not In the of the Bible, very good Light hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters (From an Address delivered at Birmingham by Rev. M. E. Thorold, M.A., cover the sea" xi. ; when the Redeemer's Vicar of All Saints, Darlaston.) (Isaiah 9) kingdom is established in the Earth and His millennial reign begins. makes use of human agents to carry out His divine Until that evil will have to be reckoned with, and we see that all movements for day always Godpurposes plans ; but we need not be discouraged. Right is stronger than the uplifting of the human race, have, in their growth, will Good will evil ; God's followed the analogy of Nature, "first the blade, then the wrong. conquer strength bring His soldiers to victory. ear, after that the full corn in the ear." complete ^•s -^ -* Through the influence of evil we see the divine plan hindered here, crossed there, but still ceaselessly going for- One other point with regard to Bible teaching. I have ward, while the very things which have hindered and crossed said that sacrifice, like polygamy or slavery, seems most those divine plans are themselves overruled for good. It reasonably explained by accounting it a thing temporarily than an seems to me that here we have the only possible explanation permitted and overruled for good, rather ordinance of sacrifice, of the permission of slaver)', of the permission of the Creator. On any other supposition how can we " of pol3'gamy, all unquestionably allowed in bygone days. account for the repeated declaration, I will have Mercy, Who is there to-day who will stand up to defend slaverj- and not sacrifice"—or "This also shall please the Lord " on Bible grounds ? Who does not know that so far as better than a bullock that hath horns and hoofs (where — verse better than slavery is concerned even though chapter and might praise and thanksgiving are meant as sacrifice)? be quoted in its favour, either from Old Testament or New How marked is the additional reason for sparing Nineveh, the Bible is " iv. Testament—the Spirit of God and the spirit of that great city wherein is mjich cattle" (Jonah 11). ? the Bible has us that have ? indeed sacrifice is against it to-day For shown we Doth God care for oxen Yes ; of in the outgrown the condition mankind day when slavery plainly no ordinance of His. could be tolerated. It was to a scribe who had grasped the truth that to with find it still nations So polygamy ; you may among love God with heart and soul and strength and understand- low down in the scale of but the nations unselfish more knowledge, ing, and to love mankind with devotion, was the Bible have the state in who possess outgrown than all whole burnt off"crings and sacrifices, that our Lord it could be allowed. Sacrifice stands on the same which said, "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God" find it the South Sea Islanders, but footing ; you may among (Mark xii. 34). not here. "The times of man's ignorance God overlooked (R.V., men to the truth, here in all to Sixty years ago began grasp Acts xvii. 30), but now commandeth men everywhere our own that drink was harmful to the " be but also to act land, intoxicating repent —which means not only to sorry, — is individual and to the race a doctrine which now a force I find it laid down as a differently. Later necessary thing in the and life of the to be reckoned with practical political for the Christian Church that its members "abstain from nation—a doctrine which will eventually be completely blood." traffic overthrown in established, and the liquor consequence. "Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye And it seems to me that the Food Reform Cause to-day do, do all to the glory of God." If my brother can eat the the as the the cattle to the in this country is much in same position Temper- product of the slaughterhouse and ship, glory few is do so with the I ance Cause was sixty years ago. 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