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"Armageddon in the Hebrew means the
Mount of Destruction" So Pastor Russell.
But the best authorities to which I have
access assure me that this particular
"hapax legomenon, or phrase occurring
only once in the Scriptures, may mean
one OF several things, neither of which
is Mount of Destruction" 1.-The reading
as we'll as the meaning and even the con-
text are alike uncertain says DR. Hast
ingss Dictionary of the Bible. The old
est explanation was that of Hippolytus,
who said that it meant the smooth-trod-
den place" Others have found a reference
TO Megiddo, and a battle of kings there
described in the Book OF Judges. On the
other hand Megiddo was plain, not a
mountain. Others suggest reference to
a battle between Nero and the Parth-
fans, and Ewald discovers the numerical
value of Armageddon and that of the
Hebrew word for 1.-The great Rome" to
be the same, viz, 304. On the whole
one concurs in the critics suggestion that
the clue must be sought in Hebrew apoca-
lyptic literature.
But all this is too difficult for Pastor
Russell's purpose. II is so much easier
to say 1T means in Hebrew the MOUNT
of Destruction" and let it go at that.
The only trouble is that it is neither
scholarly nor candid. but just blatant.
2. The pastor proceeds: Three unclean
spirits will proceed from the mouth of the
Beast, the Dragon. and the False Prophet
and will assemble the kings and their
armies on one side for the great Arma-
geddon battle. In this symbolical Ian
guage doctrines are represented as
frogs. Frog characteristics are POM
pousness. imitation OF dignity. and croak-
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o that a sense OF humor had been be-
slowed on all who handle the things of
the SOUL To think of a gray-bearded,
egotistlcal gentleman helping the Jew to
the exegesis of a frog Et III Brute. II
was not enough that the spirits were
"unclean they must also be pompous
and inflated and croaking-w why? Because
the pastor is going to need such frogs In
his aquarium presently. "rhe symbol
signifies, he ponderously observes, that
these three systems chow like Tom Law
sonD will send forth similar teachings .
So then Beast False Prophet and
Dragon are Systems" sending out teach
ings'' which are "unelean spirits" Such
systems deserve a capital s.
Now note. "They will look wise
What | want to know is whether any OF
the readers of these lines ever saw a
frog look wise. This is sheer nature
these beings are unable TO see much
difference between themselves" This Is
nearer to fact. Who ever could distin-
guish frog from frog? But the next line
spoils all: "They will pirate on Apostolic
Authority, the Divine prerogatives
of the clergy and the civil power.
They will eroak respecting the results OF
personal and press liberties" etc. Now,
therefore the unclean spirits like frogs
will pirate and croak, and Pastor Russell
knows precisely what they will say. Rud-
yard <ipling Is not in It. He could trans
late the language of the beasts and birds
of India Pastor Russell has heard frogs
discourse on Apostolic Authority.
He also knows who the kings are
whom the frogs get together at Megiddo.
They are politicians. merchants. million
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aires and bishops. all the eminent gentle
men OF this day and time. He says that
these gentlemen will be stirred to frenzy
by the eroaking of the frogs about the
liberty of the press. This is really I'M
canny.
g. But hitherto we have been dealing in
rudimentary things. 1t is time we identi-
fed the big fellows. SO the pastor pro-
ceeds, much like Artemus Ward in his
wax-work show. "rhe Dragon of Reve-
lation represents the Civil power the
leopard represents Papacy; False Prophet
is another name for the Image of tho
Beast of Revelation xiii, II. 15-Federated
Professionalism @ Good people are being
led into the Armageddon battle without
realizing that they are to fight against
God i"
And so the secret Is out. Pastor Rus
sell knows These weird creatures are
labeled by him He knows that the Beast
here is a leopard and being spotted stands
for the Roman Catholic church. There
is no opportunity for dispute or doubt,
John on Patmos wrote the story of the
goth century and included the leopard be-
cause it is so strklngly suggestive of
Pope Plus the Tenth or Leo the Thir-
teenthl Anyone who has visited those
saints would recognize the likeness at a
glancel
Equally vivid is the portraiture of the
False Prophet as equal to 1.-The Beast of
Revelation xiii. "A. IS" The pastor puts
a familiar tab or label on that Beast.
He Is evidently an old antagonist. And
he-who taught men to worship the
Beasts Federated Professionalism, Sic
transit gloria mundi. or, az the dear
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THE TURKISH EMPIRE-By w. D. Caddell

derstand to mean 391 years. Now IL we
add the S91 years to the date 1850 we have
1871 years. This would give the Turks %
more years to finish their work of desc
lation, then pass down and out as ma
ton. In the meantime Great Britain will
gain control of Palestine, as she did of
Egypt, then the Zionist movement, which
has taken on new life on account of the
reverses of the Turks. will become an
accomplished fact as with the fall OF
Turkey the road to Jerusalem will be
open to the Jews, the tribes of Judah
and Benjamin, and they will go back and
become a nation again on the land that
was decided to Abraham ages ago.
Isiah says, co.,: 1.-THE ships of Tarshish
Great Britan) first to bring thy sons
from far their silver and their gold with
them" England will take the lead in
reinstating the Jews in Palestine. And
why? Because in all her dealings with
Turkey, while acting upon her own initi-
alive and moving upon lines of her own
volition, and for her own interest, as her
statesmen see it, yet in all her dealings
with the Turks. every move she has
made has been in accord with all that
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discord and divorce are often caused
by lack of business sense in family
affairs.
Know where the money goes.
Clark Jones, middle aged farmer OF
Georgia, owner of considerable property,
man OF high standing in his neighbor-
hood. asked a jury to send him to the
insane hospital.
lie told an astounding story;
"All my life I have tried 10 walk in
the footsteps of my Savior. ] have
worked hard and tried TO do my duty
But now impulses foreign to my real and
better nature have come over me to dc
things that are not right.
Il have even bought poison and a pis-
tol and rope TO kill myself
AT the critical moment my right mind
has returned. | have never harmed a
creature. / hope 70 get to heaven. but
want TO go clean. / fear the struggle be-
tween my dual natures Will not always
end In victory for the better. That is why
| ask to be sent TO the asylum"
Poor Jones,
He talked so sanely and sensbly the
jury hesitated, but. on the advice of the
physicians. committed him.
His confession is like a window through
which one may look into the soul arena
where the good and the bad angels of his
life have fought for supremacy
Fancy his feelings,
| He realized that not only was his owf
| life unsafe from that other self, but tn,
I life of his dear ones.
| His house was divided against itself.
! Car you think of a greater tragedy,
The foes that confront a man from with
out--why, brave man can face them anc
| fight them TO the death. But the foe.
| within
Moreover there is lesson In the sou
| struggle of Clark Jones:
! How many men and women may BIZ
undergoing such a struggle or may have
Cucct mbed?
/ How many may there be in prison to
day because CT the unequal battle In theil
inner selves between DR.. Jelyll and Mr.
Hyde?
| am not condoning crime.
| 1t IL not necessary TO shield the malev
client or the willfully depraved crimina
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until their times were fulfilled. See Luxe
ELIZA
Jerusalem has been trodden under foot
of the Gentiles since A. d. 10, first by the
Romans 6s1 years. then by the Saracens
600 years. then by the Turks GIL years
last July, in all 1912 years. In chapter
9-14 to 10 of Revelation we find history
of the origin, conquests and rule of the
Turks over the nations they subdued.
and in chapter 1912 the decline and fall
of these fierce Monaghan marauders in
words few but radiant with the spirit IF
prophecy.
The language used in this book is both
lgurative and symbolical, and we have
often heard 1t spoken of as sealed hook
but we regard it as the best revelation
made by God to man. The four angels
that were bound in the great river Eu-
pirates symbolized the four Turkish Sui
tanies that were living on both banks of
the Euphrates river at the close OF the
18th century. We learn from history
written by men, that it was ON the 18th
day of July, 1901, that Gilman, the first
Sultan of the Turks. having united these
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TT is after supper.
Little Walter and his baby sister.
L Muriel are playing on the floor You
are trying to read the evening news
paper. They, carried away in the joy
of their play, forget all else. They are
unusually boisterous.
Mother asks them to be quiet.
They can't be quiet.
That is, not for long. In few min
utes the childish laughter and screams
of delight fill the house. The noise gets
on your nerves. You voice your crouch.
Nevertheless-let them be-
BY and by they win be sleepy and will
be sent to bed. Anyway
Those precious kids of yours are in the
full enjoyment of that which in its full
est measure will never come to them
agair-perfect freedom from all care and
responsibility.
By and by Walter will be big bog,
and before you know it a man5s laboss
and struggles and temptations and sac
rifices will be demanded Of him Let
him enjoy to the full his heritage u
childhood. Give hig1 his chance. You
had yours. and the memory Of 1t IS the
sweetest thing of your life.
And Muriel9
Sooner than you and mother dream OF
It her dresses will be heightened. Soon
the lessons of school life-and the les
sons of iifes school-must worry the girl.
And
Some day-sad day for you and mother
-vcu must hold a cheerful face and give
your little girl away to some other MANI
What viii that future holI for her.
Win she be a happy wife or no? New
tasks and worries. SORROWS and bere1Ye-
ments maybe, will come.
You shrink from the contemplation.
Let them be.
Life is thickly strewn win thorns az
a we'll as roses-you know full we'll And
no telling where the footsteps of youi
babies some day may lead.
Let them play.
Later on the noises of JOYFUL play viii
have ceased and the silences will come
the silences Of suffering. Of hardship
Of disappointment, OF bereavement.
They a'e happy now.
Let them be!
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to suggest the possibility that some of
tenders may have been overcome by de-
generate influences foreign to their better
selves.
And you and /?
Have we not within US. TO some extent,
the possibility of such a moral defeat?
A New York man on the evening be-
fore he was to be married broke his
engagement with the bride because she
refused to promise to obey him.
Fortunate she,
The word "obey" still remains in come
of the marriage rituals, although it sig
nines little. the promise being under
stood to be given in Pickwickian sense.
Certainly there are not many intelii-
gent women who will give such a prom
Use without mental reservation.
1t has been suggested that the serv-
ice be amended TO read love. cherish and
help" which would be much better. No
bride would object to such a pledge.
And the husband
Should he desire 10 make a slave Ct
his wife or nonenity?
Is man superior 10 woman
Fifty or a hundred years ago IL might
have been so commended. Woman today
is considered the equal of man. If 80,
should the wife be expected to look Up
to the husband as lord and master and
the husband look down upon his wife MS
his inferior dependent?
Woman is not inferior.
As a matter of fact many a woman
is better manager than her husband
And he should be glad to avail himself
of her superior ability in the manage
ment of their affairs
Does he want to be tyrant?
Does the husband want to humilate his
wife BY posing as her superior or, what
Is more to the point. does he wish to
make hypocrite Of her? Certain 1t Is
that, while she may. under stress. pay
outward tribute to his asserted MASTER
ship or soothe his vanity by asking mis-
permission to do or not TO do, she will
do as she pleases.
when woman will she will, you may
depend ont. And when she won't she
won't. and there's an end ont
Really this New York man was born
too late in the worlds history
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cocieus arrangement an outcroppins OF
the sagacity and commonsense of the
diligent John Jacob. But 1t struck me
as a terrible evidence of the malignity
of this disease we call workitis from
which the greatest and the least of us
suffer. Astor Is not normal, else he
would have yaohted out beyond the
Goddess of Liberty and attempted to
paint the sea red If he had been alto
gether normal he would have set apart
this twenty-first birthday as good
time to color his Waldorf-Astoria, from
roof garden to cellar. bright crimson
It was a melancholy announcement. 4
thought. of this chance wasted for loos-
ening up a Ditto gear that day up to
some really high speed of fun. Because
whether he goes at high or low gear, we
know that h year so at high gear;
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

You with your commonplace task OF
she with her leisure?
You answer, Of course, there is such a
thing as a happy medium between ex-
IRENE wealth and poverty. And so there
is. And you. probably, are neither power
ty stricken nor rich
Can you not subtract from the sting OF
your discontent-which, after all, is but
occasionally this glimpse into the life
of one extreme?
Sarah Bernhard. the changeless, tire
less eternal child" will make another
tour Of the country!
And she past 81!
Bernhardt was born in 1915 and was al
ready distinguished during our civil war.
Her son, Maurice, now grandfather,
was born in 1865. Half decade ago Bern
hardt was great grandmother.
Nevertheless
They say her marvellous golden voice
is strong as ever. and her tremendous
energy knows no abatement.
A recent writer says that in her seagirt
home in France she appears to be a
bright. active, beaming laughing woman
OF 80 with the grace and health OF a
colt
No grandmotherly raiment for her.
When Bernhard goes hunting she
wears short flannel skirts and jaunty
jacket. She runs wild with n troop of
dogs at her heels, a gun over her shout
der She whistles and sings and dances
in sheer high spirit and is the youngest
of the crowd.
Iiel endurance Is marvellous.
Last year she travelled 5000 miles in
this country. played 2s5 dates and received
1902. 900.
Ii was almost worth the price as an OBJ
ject lesson in courage, energy and con
centration. Bernhardu herself is greater
thar any drama she plays.
| How does she do Il?
No mere man may know how she has
mastered the details Of the toilet and
bodily hygiene, 50 Well known To French
WORTH. BY which she retains her youth
fu, appearance.
! However,
4 II easily may be AID that first OF all Is
this womsn's dominant will power
She Is a living example OF The power oil
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waged by the Balkan states against
Turkey.
In the adjustment of that contention
the Jews constitute an important factor
which the nations of Europe. it seems.
have entirely overlooked. Now let us
trace the subsistence of the symboical
river. or in other words. the history OF
these Mongols and the gradual dismem-
berment of their empire.
In 1921 Greece was wrested from Tur-
key and was made Independent In 1891
France took control of Algiers the an
cient Numidia and afterwards Tunis, the
home of Hannibal. Then came the Cri-
mean war, fought on the part of Great
Britain for the sole purpose OF prolong-
ing the existence of Turkey as buffer
against the advances of Russia. The
diplomatic differences between these two
nations have existed for many years,
and like those of Rome and Carthage
will be settled by the wager of battle.
Then in 1875, after the battle of Tel ell
Kiber, England took control of Egypt.
Then came the war of 1873 between Rus
STA and Turkey; and again Great Brit
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mented confidence. stiffened reliance and
toughened the fiber of character by ef-
fort.
Instruction of this character was given
in the famous pioneer school OF Moses
Waddell at Wilmington, S. c., where were
trained for the stern life of graphing
with grim. original condition, such men as
George McDuffie. James L. Pettigru and
Augustus B. Longstreet and many others
whose fame, and no less. whose example
remain as a perennial inspiration to as
piring youth, for after all every man who
is made is self made. Be ones advan-
tages never so much or so meager. self
ana self worth are at last the deter
minative factor.
Girt with equipments like these borne
from the Waddell school, young Collier
reached Alabama Just as it was emerging
into statehood His first residence was
at Huntsville, where as youthful plead
err he opened his little office, but soon re-
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Certainly my Bible says nothing about
$500 years-or was 1t $40 years? Such
statements are vain and. once for all,
they are the fruit of ignorance. posing as
] learning. Sensible and scholarly men
know that the whole proceeding Is tliS-
credited and fun of danger because UNI
intelligent. | had a friend who could
measure the time till the discovery of the
lost ten tribes in London by counting the
inches on the great Pyramid. DR.. Cum
ming used to foretell catastrophe on the
basis of these prophecies, and had TO
postpone the fulfllment twice because his
scheme did not make good. | think in
1868. So Mother Shipton is said to have
foretold that "the world to an end shall
come in eighteen hundred and eighty
one"
Pastor Russell is of the same order
His intelligence ranks with the Mother
Shiptons, the Shakers, the Cummings and
their tribe For he and they start with
the utterly indefensble theory that the
Book of Revelation contains the history
of the twentieth Gentry written before
hand. So he actually imputes to John on
Patmos skill TO foretell all about the
dynamite plots ana MIR. Roosevelt, and he
thinks John wrote about the Church OF
England as a "two-horned beast" one
horn Catholic and one Protestant. and the
return OF wealthy Jews TO Palestine he Is
sure is In preparation for strange doings
in "The Mountain of Destruction" which
is the plain of Megiddo.
In all seriousness and soberness, I de-
sire to lodge an earnest protest against
the religious claptrap here faithfully por-
ira we'd. II is the antfthpzis nj relfofon
for his irreverent iap-doodle.
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get away--or we think we can't. which
is about the same thing The passion
for outdoors Is SO rarely found that
our leading citizens (Which is to say all
those who are seriously engaged in
getting on in the world either view
an open air preacher as a dream chap
or else as an irresponsible devil who
can't be seriously taken. This of course
cannot allude to your m s t u S e T u ]
Citizen understand. We have no quarrel
in this matter with your real pillar of
society (the chap who actually creates
wealth-the day laborer) for the actual
business of early rising and of racing to
catch cars (street cars1. and in many
cases of tramping long distances to
shop, involve so much free play of
muscle and brain that we cannot in
clude him with the little men of the
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was written by John in regard 10 the
decay dismemberment and fall of the
Turkish empire. Moreover. since the
days of Peter the Great Russia has been
seeking an outlet into the Mediterranean
sea. and thence into the Atlantic ocean
with farseeng anticipation of the future
England has opposed her all along these
many years. checked her in every move
she has made, and, as is we'll known to
the observant reader, fought the Crimean
war for the sode purpose of prolonging
the existence of Turkey as a muleT-
against the advances of Russia. Turkey
in Europe is now lost to the Turks. and
Turkey in Asia will be the bone Of con-
tention between these two land grabbing
nations. There will he a division and
each will want the lions share, and SO
after the jews are reinstated and iirifrla-
established in their own land this con-
tention will come up for readiustment
and final settlement and it will he the
cause of the second great conflict for the
mastery of the world In the meantime
the Hague tribunal. now a hgurehcad.
will become disused flag station, as one
event impinges upon another, along the
great highway of time.
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BAMA-H W. COLLIER-By B. F. Riley D. D.

most by a unanimous vote of the people,
to the office of governor.
This was in 1919, Judge Samuel #.
Rice. one of the brightest and ablest of
Alabamians, appeared against him. and
the final vote stood 1880 for Collier and
1854 for Rice, with few scattering votes.
Al the close OF his first term for gov
ernor three competitors appeared in the
field for the same distinction-B. G..
Shields, Nathaniel Terry and William L.
Yancey. and of total popular vote of
q, 679, Governor Collier was Endorsed by
81, 40 of these.
Nor was this due to an active canvass
on the part of Governor Collier. While
he was by no means Indifferent to his
retention of the gubernatorial chair.
he preferred to base his claim on genuine
merit illustrated in official function,
rather than elamor for recognition before
the assembled multitude. He had scrup-
uouslv sought to make his work worthy
as a judge and as a governor. and was
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Collier in his stead till the legislature
should meet and elect his successor. Or
the converting of the general assembly,
Judge Collier was met by a contestant
for the honor in the person of Hon. A.
Crenshaw OF Butler, but the election re-
suited in favor of Judge Collier, who re-
ceived more than twice the number of
votes given his opponent.
For u years he continued to dispense
justice In that high tribunal, and the val
ne of the service rendered the state by
him is attested by the luminous and vol
luminous decisions which run through 81
volumes of the Alabama reports, per-
petual monument of valuable labor.
BY this time no man SO completely filled
the eyes of the people of the state as
Judge Horny Watkins Collier His high
sense of justice. his impartial incision,
and bis solid and unvarying ealmness made
him without self effort TO attain it tht
dominant public figure in Alabama. Prac.
tically without effort. he was chosen, all