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possible for man to be conscious. The man may be conscious that he has full filled the revealed conditions upon which God has promiseda to pardon sinner; and thus he reasons to the conclusion that he Is pardoned, because he believes God. Abraham believed God, and 1t was counted unto him for righteousness, and God surely knows how to count. And so, all those who thus accept Gods promise are blessed with faithful Abraham, l. e., they are blessed in the same way, and upon the same conditions.
 Another philosophical term which is sadly abused Is the word elements" The clements of a compound substance are the things which are necessary to make up that substance. Without chemical combination of oxygen with hydrogen, water can never exist. Oxygen and hydrogen. then, are the elements of water. The water may, and almost al- ways does, contain other substances, as iron, sulphur, lime, salt; but none of these substances are elements of the water be- cause they are not necessary to its exis- tence They are incidents" or 'acci- dents," not clements of the water.
 It is clear, then, that there is, and can be, no such thing as an unnecessary ele-
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of anything which does no; occur or ex- ist, within his own person. I am con- scious that I see an object which is ex- ternal to myself. The thing that I am conscious of, is not the object, nor the reality of it's existence, but my own per ception of the object In other words, I am conscious of a certain impression made upon my mind A similar impress sion may be, and often Is, made by imaginary objects; and in these circum- stances consciousness is just as clear and just as active as If the object were real. The reality or unreality of the ob- ject, then, has no necessary bearing upon the matter.
 Now, this is no mere metaphysical ab straction. It has a practical and highly important bearing upon matters spiritual. For instances An excellent brother who was tinctured with some rather vague, but very persistent notions as to the Higher Life, was in serious conversa- ton with a dear friend of his. That friend was pastor of one of the most promi- nent and important churches in the south. He was man who was accus- toned to think for himself: but there was not the slightest tinge of rational ism in his theology. At the same time he was remarkably clear of superstition. and had a healthy hatred of cant, and
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A MESSAGE TO MARS-By H. S. w., M. D.

we live on was a ball of liquid fire, If it existed at all.
 If Mars is inhabited, the Martians are we. This being the case they must be beings of almost divine intelligence.
 That they have been trying to signal us, our greatest men of science firmly believe
 We are now living in the age of electricity, which is still in it's infancy We have harnessed 1t and made 1t sup ply us with power, light and heat, still we do not as yet know what it is we have harnessed. It is supposed to be d fluid. but our chemists have not as yet analized 1t. If 1t is an element we can not isolate 1t. Should we ever signal Mars or Mars signal us, electricity must be the agent used.
 Several years ago the telegraphic tn- struments all over the world behaved in a very eccentric manner.
 Ntkola Tesla, the worlds greatest electrician, says: T firmly believe that this phenomena was the result of at tempts of the Martians to signal us. As they are probably more advanced and skilled than we, on account of be- ing so many millions of years older. have no doubt that their first readable message to the earth will be, we have been trying to ring you up for the last 10000 years.'"
 The development of wireless tele- graphy and the invention of Tesla of sending electrical power to great distance, taken together, may be the means of successfully sending a mes sage to Mars
 The largest amount of electrical en- ergy is generated at the falls of Mag ara. Nearly all of the electrical de- vices in use at the falls are the inven- tions of Tesla. This electrical wizard is a poet, therefore a dreamer, but no one can deny the fact that he is also practical. He has now conceived a de- vice that will harness all of the power that now goes to waste over the ledge of the great falls of Niagara river. con- verting 1t into stupendeous waves of electricity, that in combination withea mammoth wireless apparatus, will Be capable of hurling into space electrical sh ocks that would be felt on the planets on the confines of our solar
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ment. If water could exist without oxy- gen, then oxygen would not be an element of water. It follows with rigorous logic that the common phrase "essential ele- ments'' is wrong and misleading, to say nothing of tautology. "oily butter" wet water" explosive gun powder" bad sin" arc all just as nearly correct as Is the phrase essential clements
 Abstract Is another word that is sadly abused. We hear much of the abstract principles of right and wrong" Whole volumes have been written on the ques- ton, "Is slavery in the abstract right?' Now, there are no abstract principles of right and wrong; and slavery in the ab- stract never did and never can exist. Right and wrong are always personal. Whatever is outside of all personal rela- tions can have no quality of right or of wrong. Hence the absurdity of those loose writers who hold that there is no personal devil; and that the devil is only a name for "the spirit of evil in the ab- straot' No abstract spirit of evil can exist; for the very existence of moral evil necessarily involves personality. Neither moral evil nor moral good can exist apart from personality. Nothing that cannot be done, thought or felt by a
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Mary college, and there they were class mates of John J. Crittenden, afterwards in Tylers cabinet, William s. Archer, Linn Banks, William Crump and John s. May. Tyler graduated in 1907, at the age of 1T.
 pyler was born a Jeffersonian, lived q Jeffersonian and died Jeffersonian, and no disciple of that, the greatest of our political philosophers, ever clung more tenaoiously or adhered more pertina- ciously to the preachments of the great est exempler of civil liberty the Anglo Saxon race has produced, than John Ty- Ter Speaking of Jefferson, Ben Till man will tell you that he is a follnwer of that greatest of political teachers; so will William Jennings Bryan; and yet both these "Jeffersonians" never tire of eulogy of the principles" of Abraham Lincoln, who out-hamiltoned Hamilton in his veneration for, and practice of, the teachings of the father of the Federal party. Lincoln was a great man, @ ve<y great man, the foremost civic leader Of a mighty epoch; but 1t makes me sick to hear an alleged democrat canonize Lin- coin as a saint in the democratic calen- dar The one and only thing In common between Lincoln and Jefferson was a hostility to African slavery. In that. however, they differed from the New England school in this Both were for emancipation for the white man only; neither, comparatively speaking, cared a rap for the negro Lincoln actually hated Jackson, while he idolzed Clay. He was for the bank. for the protective tariff, for the distribution of the proceeds of the sale of public lands. for internal inn provements and everything else anti Jackson. He opposed the annexation of Texas, and made a Copperhead speech against the Mexican war. Lincoln pat tern for democrat! The devil you say! But these times there are democrats and democrats; that accounts for 1t.
 When he got out of college, young Tyler entered the office of the great Edmund Randolph, the first attorney-gencral of the United States, under whose tuition he studied for the bar At the age of twenty-one the young lawyer was chosen to the Virginia house of delegates. The federalist party was dead in that 1t was helpless for defense and impotent for or fense. It died of the alien and sedition laws that were successfully annulled by Kentucky in 179S, and had the tariff of abominations been as odious as the allen and sedition laws South Carolina would have met with. little difficulty in success fully nullfying that infamous revenue measure for robbery only The Madison school to which Tyler belonged upheld the resolutions of '9S on the ground that the question involved was a vital princi- pie, whereas they opposed the idea of Calhoun because tariff is only matter of passing polioy
 Tyler was in the legislature five terms, and in those days the principle of in structing senators in Congress was a living question. Tyler afterward prac- ticed what he preached Benjamin Wat kins Leigh drew the resolutions instruct
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life of the Jewish people all over the world. With the rehabilitation of the land of Israel the position of the wander ing race must undergo radical change
 The Jew will now find a permanent home from whence none has right to dis lodge him; where the term ''alien" shall not be thrust upon him; where he shall not be made scapegoat in every political or economic irritation, and where his racial and religious distinction shall not become intolerance upon the way of his advancement. In plain language 1t means that on mingling with the world the Jew shall no longer be looked upon as an in- ferior and degraded being, and shall no longer be a byword to all those who sur round him. On receiving an appointment of some sort, on entering a college, or be- ing assigned a professorship, or assuming a post of responsibility in any land, and in any of the branches of human activity, the Jew shall no longer be forced to hide away his origin and kindred race, as at present we find it in nine cases out of 10. A Dr. Zamenhof fhe EsperantisD shall no longer figure in the public press as merely Russian physician" John de Bloch (the true author of the Hague peace conference), shall no longer be hid den away under the stiff shoulders of NlCnOIdS II, 1udA 4Noiuau oA"ii iics only be known as a French litterateur, but they shall also be proclaimed openly before the world as Jewish geniuses, Jewish patriots, as well as human bene- factors in whom rests a truly Jewish soul filled with compassion and love for all that lives and moves on earth. So an An tolxolslky. a Rubinstein Heine. Dis- raeli, will no longer have cause to deny their faith, or belle their ancestry. Such a man as Professor Vamberi shall have no occasion to say that he did not know where his home was or his people or coun- try. Only lately happened to read in a newspaper an account of the life of Ca- ruso, wherein 1t was stated that the fam
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O'Connell died the repeal movement died with him; when Emmett was executed the revolutionary movement was killed also, but I want to have matters so arranged that if I were to die tomorrow there would be others to take my place and continue the work which we have be- gun" Ind he did so arrange matters and did form a political party. inde- pendent of both English political parties, the liberals and conservatives, and that party has remained intact and independent to this day The plan of campaign laid down by Parnell has been faithfully and successfully followed by that party and his Is still the guiding and animating spirit in all its councils and actions
 The land for the peopte meant the abo- lition of landlordsm Landlordism in Ire land. was absentee landlordism, a system that drained the nation of it's life blood. Crops and fiocks and herds were raised annually, sent to the English markets to be sold and the money received went out of the country to pay the absentee land- lord. Thus produce and money were both lost to the country and nothing but hunger and poverty remained to the peo- pe Pointing his finger toward the
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CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION IN IRELAND-By F l Monks

In the distance the mountains swell up like vast undulations clothed in purple heather the whole scene shimmering in the golden sunlight of July evening. The mail train rushes on past quaint llt- tie villages, past the ruins of old castles, over and along sparkling streams, past farm houses where the sleek and sleepy cows are lazily and refeetivey chewing the cudi past the green pasture dotted with snowwhite, feecy sheep; past the paddock where the young colts gallop away with head and tail high in air, past the golf links of some local club and past the busy market town where booths and shows line the streets. This is the Ireland of 1909, as viewed from the win dow of a mail train rushing to the capital with the American mails and largs number of American tourists, who can scarcely find words to express their de- light and joy at seeing such beautiful scenery, such a picture of peace and hap piness among a people of whosn they have been accustomed to hear only sad stories. This is the new Ireland, born full of hope and ambition and promise.
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and will thus surely avert much of the evil arising from the petty prejudices amidst the various nationalities and diversified creeds in Palestine. The American government, directly or in directly, will put halt to every man ner of encroachment by the powers upon this coveted land. As the Ameri- can government was first to move its fleet from Chinese waters during the Boxer" affair, and has in many oth- CT ways proven itself the peace-maker and benefactor of nations, so this gov ernment will doubtless make the first initiative step toward removing the constantly agitatlng political machina- tions In the Holy Land, which are all ways mixed with religious animosity.
 The United States government could do no better act in this direction than that of selecting a Jew for the post of am- bassador to new Turkey. An American and Jew is very apt combination that will prove acceptable to Turkey and will be most likely to bring about satisfactory results as also to instill confidence in the minds of the Turkish government and people. Oscar Straus is certainly man of worth and value, and well qualified for the office, as he had already filled a similar office on previous occasions; yet there can be no denying of the fact that President Taft selected him also on the ground that he was a JewI as this posi- tion was previously rendered to Judge Sulzberger of Philadelphia, and, If l am not mistaken, also to MT. Guggenheim Of New York By all means a Jew was ap- parently necessary to go to Turkey. 1t Is well understood that in any dilemma and all the complicated questions in this di- rection it Is best that there be repre- sentative of government who Is known to be fair and impartial in his political ten dency as well as independent in his TO- ligous views.
 The Turkish government by itself Is now about to embark in the difficult task of solving the question of the nattona1ities iD N,,rlre,r A rnachal eession ia now heinz
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TENTH PRESIDENT-By Savoyard

same source. The ssMissouri Compromise" was a supine surrender of the South that was buncoed with the shadow and robbed of the substance. Here Is how Tyler saw 1t: The prohibition of slavery by Congress in any territory or new states will eventually abolish it in all the states where 1t exists. The line Of S6:30 does not say "thus far shalt thou go. and no further" but is mark of the doon. of slavery on this continent, plain ly proclaiming that 1t should not exist anywhere else
 Tyler abandoned Congress in 1921 be- cause of i'll health, and went into retire ment As soon as he became stronger he was elected governor of Virginia, kn office held by his father before him. He was governor in 1927. when he was elect ed to the Senate, beating the great John Randolph of Roanoke though the place came to him unsousht and he would gladly have seen Randolph elected but that was impossible.
 The new senator opposed both Adams and Clay. and was not very enthusias- tic Jackson man. He fought the tariff of abominations," but was even more in tensely hostile to the force bfll. Tyler never had any use for vanBuren, Of whom Henry A. wise, the able. brilliant, eloquent, triumphant defender and sup
 
 Buren had won the favor of the hero, just as the jackal wins the good will of the lion. He was called the nnistletoe politician, nourished by the sap of the hickory tree" And right here, lest for get, am frank to say that my estimate of John Tyler came from that book that ought to be in every American library. Seven Decades of the Unon," by Henry A. Wise.
 1oo6 rYvxJar He supported JaclSson's veto of the bank charter, but assailed the administration for what he regarded as the illegal and arbitrary removal of the deposits. That was @ matter exclusively under the con- trol of Congress, according to Tyler's idea of the constitution. He voted for the censure. that the old bully. Benton, subsequently, caused to be expunged
 Old Hickory never forgave Tyler. as he had not forgiven him for his speech on the Florida military campaign.
 Benton determined to rid the Senate of three of its members-John TyAr. Hugh Lawson White and Benjamin Watkins Leigh. Tyler was chosen president pro tempore of the Senate, having earned the position by the purity of his character. the dignity of his conduct and the strength of his understanding. By this time the Virginia legislature was strong ly pro-Jackson, and 1t instructed It's sen ators to vote for the expunging resolu- ton of Benton and Tyler resigned. Leigh refused to resign or obey the in- struction, and his speech on the question of expunging perhaps was never sur passed for lofty and aggressive eloquence in that body Clause 3, section 5, article 1 of the constitution requires each house of Congress ito keep" journal That
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IN THE TURKISH REVOLUTIONARY Rabbi Julius T. Loeb

lifting of new Turkey, and in guarding the interests and integrity of the land. In return they demand, what was already partially granted, the full rights of cit- izenship under the new Turkish com monwealth. Also the grant of a certain amount of home rule, whenever that might be possible without injury to the safety and stability of the land. Cable dispatches now bring the information that the red passes" which lay as a stumb- ling block fin the way of Jewish imn1i- grafton, are already abolished
 These passes were formerly handed to foreign Jews on their entering the Pales- tinian shores, as a reminder that their stay in Turkish territory could only last tor three months, and no longer (Amer- ican and British immigrants were the only exception). Now the gates of the Holy Land are wide open before the Jew ish immigrants from every land and cline.
 special cable dispatch to the Jewish Morning Journal recently says that tho Turkish government has now issued or ders to all of its officials at the Pales- tinan seaports that instead of the cus- tomary "red passes" now out of exis- tence, they are to offer naturalization papers to all of the Jewish immigrants who are desirous to settle In the land
 Actions thus seem to speak louder than the words of those who did everything possible to confuse the situation to throw dust in the eyes of the world; to be- smirch the Jewish character, and bring into disfavor the conduct of the Young Turk leaders who are known to be so closely connected with their Jewish col- leagues.
 At last the new Turkish government has spoken in unmistakable terms, and that by removing the difficulties from the path of Jewish immigration. and by offering the Jews the full rights of citizenship. immediately upon their arrival.
 The time Is near at hand when the Jew will play high role in the political and in- dustrial life of the Turkish empire.
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masses of it's inh abitants to labor and peaceful action.
 The newest phase in the development of Turkey is the introduction of American industry into the Palestinian sh ores Oscar Straus, the new ambas- sador to Turkey, on leaving the United States recently carried with hiIa spe- cial instructions from President Taft to negotiate with the Turkish govern ment concerning plans of investing American capital in the various enter prises now being undertaken through out the Ottoman empire. The Turkish government has already manifested its desire to grant all possible concessions to the Americans. This circumstance is viewed by many as a good omen, as a sign of progress and peaceful endeavor in the Holy Land. The Jews more than all else wifi hail with delight the advent of American activity and en- terprise in Zion-land. The Jews, like the Mohommedans, will rather trust to the American square deal than to any thing else. European capitalists all ways have strtven to secure their con- sessions in Turkey with tho interven- tion of their respective governments, and by all coersive and forceful means; but the United States seeks to trade with Turkey in a perfectly friendly, legal and business-lilke manner. The United States means business, and nothing but business; whereas others are so conspicuous for their motives of aggression. The Holy Land, wherein the interests of all civilized mankind are centered, and at this particular period when 1t Is to undergo its pro- cess of development and regeneration, it Is essential that American methods mi ho pa rrtad into the border thereof. The United States as a world power that Is respected by all, and known for it's just dealing to- ward all, must necessarily produce wholesome influence over the newly formed commonwealth of the Orient
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"HE planet Mars, the God of war, as
 he swings around the sun, is some-
 J times comparatively near us and again far away.
 When he is nearest us, he is only about forty millions of miles distant, very close indeed, when we take into consideration the immensty of space, but when he Is on the other side of the sun he is sixty two millions of miles away from us.
 The many things that our astronomers know about Mars lead them to think that the planet is inhabited.
 Mars has an atmosphere, but 1t is so extremely rarified that an earth being could not breathe it. The density of the planet is somewhat less than that of our earth and its surface gravitation is only about one-third as powerful. The boy who can jump three feet high on the earth, could jump nine feet high on Mars He is about twice the size of our moon, his diameter being four thousand two hundred and thirty miles.
 Earthly sweethearts would be delighted could they live on Mars, for his two moons give perpetual moonlight and IL never rains, for Mars has no clouds. Stiil this planet has plenty of water, as the pOIcS OI HdTS Cdil pC PidiHiy oSci si'hSeeA- powerful telescopes. The most potent ar gument in support of the theory that Mars is inhabited Is the symmetrical lines that criss-cross the planet, believ- ed by our astronomers to be canals.
 These immense ditches are supposed to form a gigantic irrigation system, bring ing water from the poles and distribut- ing 1t all over the arid surface of the planet. These canals are absolutely straight, and some of them are over two thousand miles in length.
 The two things nature most abhors is a vacuum and geometry.
 Everything in nature Is symmetrical and beautiful so taking this into consid- eration we must suppose that this mann moth piece of engineering on Mars Is the work of beings that are intellectual giants as compared to us. That the Mar tians are such beings it is easy to be- lieve, for Mars Is so much older than the earth, that it had cooled and solidi- fled sufficiently to support life twenty four million years ago-when the globe