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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-05-16
ZION CITY
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ZION CITY
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the extension Of the Kingdom of God. Com
petition is from Hell and brings with it all
the evils that follow, such as lying, cheat
ing, backbiting, stealing, sel6shness, covet
BUSINESS, deception, etc, and cannot find
place in Zion City.
| Politically, Zion City must be a unit with
no personal interest above the best interest
of the whole people, with mo purpose but
to establish the Kingdom of God; not OPP
posing one evil, but opposing every earl that
nay exist in every branch of our govern
nent or among the people.
EdmcationoAy, Zion City must have the
best facilities possible to teach how to pray
hat the citizens may know what God wants
and expects first, last, and all the time. To
earn to kmozV God and to discern His aViN
and to kmozV hozo to pray puts the believer
in position to get everything that God
has for him.
The opportunity for the people of God to
come together and complete the building
of Zion City is here mo7U, today. What
are you going to do about it Is God call
ing you to have a part in this great work
for humanity, both of the present time and
for unborn generations? If He is not, you
should mourn and seek His face in sackcloth
nd ashes to know zVhy you should not be
flowed this bri5Hlege. If He is calling you,
an you afford to wait one moment? Why
esist Gods Spirit and delay blessings both
yourself and to mmltitmdes? Your time
I'd opportunities are passing s7VfHy. You
ammot act tomorrow and accomplish as
much for God and for humanity as you can
~ acting mo7V. God has His purpose and
will work it out,no doubt; but can we afford
to hinder and miss the opportunity that will
lot only affect our lives and the lives of
others now, but throughout eternity
| I Zion Institutions and Industries repre-
ent the investments of Zion people, andare
| being operated to employ Zion people and
extend the Kingdom of God. They are an
ESSENTIAL and important part of this work.
Where are your Investments? Are they
being loaned through some Bank or through
some Stock investment to persons to operate
saloon or brewery or theater or some
other agency of Satan? Put them where
you can feel that they are being used for
God
Zion City is now am established fact.
This is known throughout the world Zion
City stands for high ideals in every depart
ment of life: the Home, the State, the Ma
ton.
Zion Estate is being held to be sold to
Zion people only. Every Zion man and wo-
man should think into this deeply and an
alyze it and see what it means to him or to
her. Don't pass it along to some one else
What is your responsibility? What an OPP
portunity for every one to hold piece of
this land for God and for humanity
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-05-16
Who Builds Zion City, and Why?
By Deacon Theodore Forby Gener al Associate Editor


pleasures of sin for a season. Gods bless
Iings they received and they wanted them
to continue upon them as individuals and
las a Nation; but they were unwilling to
sacrifice, it may be, some of their own ease
by following in the line of Gods plan to
obtain these blessings hence they miserab-
tly persisted before the promised possession
was reached, and their bones, b1eached
white along the pathway of their wander
ings, proclaimed to future generations their
folly and infdelity, and history to this day
echoes the warning to all men to beware
hof ido1atry, selfshness, and murmuring land
not to hinder Zion, for faithful Israel was
then Gods Zion.
Will that condition and story be true of
any who are nonina1ly of Zion today? Re
member the victory at Jericho and the
shameful defeat at Al, and ask yourself the
question ever and anon, Why? Why? Me-
thinks from not great distance will be
heard the clanking answer of golden wedges,
and the tapping of Baby1onish garments,
hushing the feeble voice that laments the
power of selhshness and of covetousness,
ooh, Al, Alp
While Zion and Zion City are founded on
faith, more than 'professed' faith is need
full to maintain them and make them &C
complish their full mission.
Houses and lands-Zion City-a place
to dwell, cost octive faith, and, in this in
stance, "active faith" takes form in money
and in other property used and consecrated
to God. This is true, also in extending
the work of preaching the gospel by the
Elders, Evangelists, Teachers, and by
Leaves of Healing and other Zion Litera
ture. Money is required energy, thought;
spirit, crystallized into substance.
Dare any person profess to love God and
Zion and withhold his property money,
farms, stocks-from being used directly in
promoting lions interests?
This is the reconstruction period = the
times of the restoration of all things"
the dutiful man or woman will turn all his
or her force and substance to work on
lions walls. Every-we mean eUery-re-
source should be held in readiness subject to
lions needs and to the call of lions leader,
under God.
This is reasonable; this is right for no
Zion person can be married to the world
and remain in the world, Gods command
being: "Come out from among them and be
ye separate We are the temple of the Liv-
ing God. What agreement hath the temple
of God with idols? What concord hath
Christ with Belial?''
! "Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God hath shined."
Who dares to hinder Gods work by with
holding farm, cattle, mony, stocks? Who
dares, in the face of AIS penalties and
plaques, to covet the golden wedge and the
Baby1onish garment? Who dares to pre-
sumo to say, "That farm, that business, that
property, is mine alone when the ends of
all humanity's needs rest upon Zion, and the
demand for united effot urgently calls upon
all to build lions walls as place of ref
uge for Gods people?
Zion City must be cleansed and redeemed
fully from the vile hand of her enemies
She is Gods city for the sake of righteous
xo.. Co. A. La.,1s of IT., 1o1,x
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-05-16

keep the city, the Waterman wa1keth but in
vain. ''-Ps. 1911.
People Of the so-called churches and
people Of the world may speak adversely Of
he Zion Movement, and of Zion City, as
much as they please, but their protests will
amount to no more than the vapor Of smoke
Gods work will stand His order of things
must and will obtain the gates of hell can
not pervail against His Kingdom and Zion,
the Zion with Headquarters at Zion City,
Lake County, Illinois,-is the Vine of Gods
planting, the commencement of the Nation
which, some day, shall inculcate into the
hearts and minds of all people the>ideas Of
divinely ordained government and author
ity, and shall rule the world under the i'm
mediate reign Of Jesus the Christ.
The foregoing declaration is not mere
dictum; it is the clear summation of Bible
teaching concerning the order of things
which must obtain and prevail in the earth
in the times of the restoration of all things !;
and Zion, as people or nation, is the ex-
preston Of Gods plan for the present Age
the development of His idea of people
who will have God as their Ruler and Guide
in every activity.
Humanity positively cannot have any
true and abiding happiness and prosperity
apart from God. Mans wisdom and devices
fail in every direction. True society and
real prosperity have for their foundation
the Law of God. Only the divine abides.
1t must be remembered that Zion City
came into being to fulfil divine plan and
in furtherance of divine purpose-to be
a place of refuge exclusively for Gods chill
dren, and not, as other cities, place where
anybody can settle at will and do as he
pleases. No; never!
Zion City was founded with divine
standard for divine purpose: for home,
for an object lesson to all the world.
That the Devil has sought to destroy
Zion City by corrupting her purity has not
and cannot change the plan. Did not the
Devil try to dethrone God and usurp His
power in heaven? and was not he and his
0orrupting influence purged from t h e
sacred precincts?
Did not the devil pollute the stream Of hu-
man life in Adam? and has it not been
Gods plan down the ages to redeem man
kind and all the earth, from the curse? No
less so of Zion City. The plan stands
good. The life-stream still flows. The
Spirit still quickens. Gods will shall yet
be done in earth as it is in heaven.
"Let them all be COMPOUNDED and turned
back that hate Zion."
Just as truly as the pilgrims of Israel
from Egypt toward Canaan persisted in
the wilderness for murmuring, for dis
obedience, for selfshness, for covetousness,
and for indifference-oh, the awful curse
of Indifference Just as surely will every
man or woman perish physically and
spiritually, with all he or she possesses, who
puts single hindrance in the way of lions
progress as a Nation, or who pollutes Zion
City with the virus of worldliness.
Israels enemies were not all Egyptians
some of them we're Israelites- physically
members of the emancipated family-but
their hearts were not in harmony altogether
with Gods plan; they longed for the leeks
In e of f0S %1oo
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-05-16
Zion CITY

shall appear in His glory.-Psalm 1O2:16
will take you one of city, and two of
family, and | will bring you to Zion.-
Jeremiah 3:14.
Zion!- the Zion of God - the Zion of
prophecy the Zion of the latter days!-
the beginning of 'the times of the Restora-
ton of all Things P-has been born and
God is calling upon all of His people to
come Out of Babylon and to come into Zion
Many in different parts of the world have
heard Gods cali, and have taken their stand
under lions banner.
The building of ZION CITY-the only
city of its kind in the worlds part of
Gods plan and purpose in these the last
days of the Gospel Age and the beginning
of the Millennium.
At the close of the old Year, 1899, and
the dawning of the New Year, 1900, the
Rev. John Alexander Dowie, founder, I'm
der God, of Zion and Of Zion City, made
an announcement in Central Zion Taber-
nacle, Chicago, that filled the spirits of Zion
people everywhere with joy unspeakable,
and with expectations that knew no bounds,
and that startled the world causing thou
sands of newspapers to devote great deal
of space to the giant undertaking: the build
ing of a city which was to be free from all
the vices that cursed the cities of the world.
The history of Zion City from the pur-
chase of the site and especially from the
opening of its gates in July, 1901, to the
beginning of the testing period, is indeed
remarkable history.
Adversely came,-God permitted it.
The people were tested the true were
separated from the false
And on March l, 1911, another announce
ment was made which gladdened the hearts
of all true Zion people throughout the world.
The announcement was to the effect that
we, as the General Overseer, had purchased
from the United States District Court all
of the assets of the entire Zion Estate.
Well may. we, as people, exclaim: "The
Lord hath done great things for us, where
of we are gladp
He has given us back Shiloh Tabernacle,
the most interesting place of worship in
the world.
He has given us back the Zion City Cen
eral Stores, now known as Zion Stores,-
the largest store in Lake County.
He has given us back Zion Home, the
largest Divine Healing Home in the world.
He has given us back the Administrator
Building,-the Headquarters of the Chris
tian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion
throughout the world.
He has placed the entire Zion Estate with
in our hands; and there it will remain,to be
developed, and to be made the purest, clean
est, the best spot on the earth, place of
habitation for Gods children from the
north east, west and south,-if we, as
people, submit ourselves wholly to God, and
place our lives, Our money, our houses, Our
farms, Our all upon His altar for the estab-
lishment of His Kingdom.
This is my call to one and all in the name
of the Lord.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-30
White \ FLYER IS
FASTEST Train
spesdiest iohg m Distance Train n
the WoaridaLlIs Great North.
ern III Train.

st. Paul. July e-The world,s-fast-
est long dtStanee train-the White
Flyer trans.c0nttlieental mail train Of
the Great, N0ethGgFsns railway--has. es-
tta0lished q record that is phenome-
nal In the annAlsS fstle United States.
postal service. III has made eighty,
nine con1ecutivaar4ps on time be-
uweens4 Isl. Paul Ind sSeattl !.
This new mark III the carrying Of
Uncle Sans mail was made from
April st17 to Jaly l5 and the record II,
all the more remarkable In view OF
the fact THAI during those eighty
nine days thu White Flyer had to
make up total Of seventeen hours
and fifty.five. min1t&s lost time, wait
ing for the ChicaEosconnection which
delivers mail To- if 1t st. Paul. One
one occasion; foIaexSmple, the White
Flyer left st. Paul Two hours and SO
minutes late. Even that handi-
cap did not mar Ats ,s;clean-score rec:
ord. for the mall xlas delivered In
cattle on the dol.
Postal authorities in Washington,
mail clerks and goxerhment mail de-,
partment sl perintendtnn hts an aesare
the record ssof this tain Is unprece-
dleented ~ The history of the postal
Cut an Entire Day.
The greatest single accomplishment
Of the Great Northsrn's White Flyer
perhaps was the shortening Of the
time of mail delivery a whole abusi.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-30

was seriously hurt III this accident.
The WAits R1ySrs now 10 madeSup of
steel cars axciusively. l
Il. a. .ssGfaber. Vice president IN
charge Of operation and w. s. Bask-
|erville. IN charge OF mail traffic Tor
|the Great Northern railway, both,
Ernodestly dodge the compliments the
Igovernment's postal Officials "
,Washington have paid the White
.iFlyer's latest record-broaking achieve
mcnt. The secret os this notable
railway achievement, they NY, ''lies
IN the fact that Ja1nesj ]. Hill. master
railway builder, last spring ccsnpletedl
the work Of reconstruction on his
billiard table roadhed 10 the Pact
AZ coast, laying heavy rails and elm,
inatinE scores Of un~e-d@laying
curves"
INN Nt hNNt N.Y. AFDMa FtI - AtN h2 IA <sA- EMH
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-30

lof each day there ~ only ono VI ths
White Flyer fast mail trains on the
road. Mondays train striving 81 Se.
attic thirty minutes before The dc.
Iparturo OF Wednesdays train from
~. Paul. The scheduled time Tor tho
White Flyer from Stt, Paul "a Ssattle
40 forty-seven hours and thirty min.
utes, OF an average of about forty
niles an hour. This Is the fastest
long distance railroad operating IL
the world notwithstanding that the
Great Northern railroads right 81
way extends over the two greatest
mountain ranges Of the continent
the Rockies and the Cascades.
Spectacular Attraction.
The fast mail train has become .
spectacular attraction to tourists III
the West. IL Is not an uncommon
sight to see tourists on the mountain
peaks In Glacier National Park, fol.
lowing, through field glasses, the
White Flyer threading ita way over
the continental Divide.
The White Flyer III ten hours ana,
minutes faster than any other
train that runs from ST. Paul NJ
Seattle. Ss..
The schedules OF the mail trains
making the transc0ntinental link
with the White Flyer are III follows
From New York to Chicago, 96S5
miles, twenty-three hours and from
Chicago TO 81. Paul, 40 miles, nine
hours and twenty minutes.
The White Flyer was put into ser.
Vice Sept. 28. 1913, and has never.
been off the track but once and that
was due to the breaking In two OF d
foreign cal" In the train. No one.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-30

/. .mGe is tue captain Of the
our tennis stars ~ the British Isles
tho arrived, to play in the Davis Cup
,atches. Parker is thirty-three years
ID. The other three who make up the
English team are a. n. Lowe. twenty.
light years: I. II. Mavrogordato. thirty
ears. and A. Il. +. kingscote. twenty.
I've years. Thls,h Parke's third visit
: America !. . member Of A ,ntern.-
hnal challenge team.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-30

Tor was more than middle aged ana
considerably more thar ~, aud dear.
ilt @ ~ major loved INN he Also
loved his jok0.
Asne senator turned wlth,a pleased
expression on his benign counte.
nonnce and said. s'MAj0r; aid yoa see
inst pretty SRI smile * mse!! !. ,s
"Oh, that's nothing replied His
friend. The first time /. saw YOU
laughed out lold!"-Harper's Maya
zine. KIT sFSs Il M
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-30

IaN3E8& E.HZaM AS4F8MErAEE
waiting for the Bugle.
We wait for the ibugle; the night
dews are cold,
The limbs OF the soldiers feel jaded!
and old,
The field Of our .bivouac is windy
and bare,
There Is lead in our joints. there 10
frost in our hair;
The future ID yelled and Its fortunes
unknown.
AS We lie with hrulshed breath till the
bugle Is blown.
At the sound Of that bugle each COM
trade shall spring
Like an arrow released from the
strain Of the string:
The courage the impulse Of youth
shall come back
To Danish the. chill Of the drear
.iYouac,
And sorrows and losses and cares
fade away
When that life5giving signal pro
claims the new day Id. 81
Though the bivouac Of age may put
Ice in our veins. IL
And no fiber Of steel in III sinews
remains,
Though the comrades Of ysstefday's
march are not here.
And the sunlight seems pale and
the branches are sere, sS s
Though the sound Of our cheering
I Az 49, R-ZLsF ~
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-30

Had 10 8miIs. NIB "
The senator and the major were
walking up the avenue. The sena-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-07-17
Profit-Making Stock.

best results are to be obtained. The
weakling, no matter how good it may
be In some other respect, should never
have a place in the breeding pen.
In selecting a male to head the
flock, the first consideration should be
vigor He should be courageous, al
ways willing to fight for and defend
his mates, active and hustling, and
should have a strong crow. The hen
should be active and busy, early off
the roost in the morning, late in going
in at night, always on the move hunt
ing for food.
The farmer wants a fowl that Is
active enough to forage for good
part Of its living. A large part of the
profit which comes from farm poultry
Is made out Of the waste products
which the fowls find for themselves.
Fowls are naturally cleaners and
scavengers, and while some may OBJ
ject to this latter term it Is fact that
in many places they are kept to
utilize waste products. On the farm
under the best management this would
consist of grass, grain wasted in har-
vesting and insect life Of different
kinds found in the field.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-07-17

able the skins from such crosses will
be in this country.
In connection with the two expert
ments mentioned, about 100 head Of
ewes are kept. A roomy and conve-
niently arranged barn for housing
sheep and goats has just been COM
pleted and will render it possible to
test methods of winter feeding of hot
house" lambs and breeding ewes. Dur
ing summer months the sheep are car
with view to determining the best
plans Of planting and grazing forage
crops in eastern states.
For the past few years there has
been great interest in the mich goat,
which has often been hailed as the
poor mans COW. Today, however,
goats in this country which are good
mixers sell for as much as the aver
age dairy COW. On the continent of
Europe, particularly Switzerland,
breeds Of goats which are heavy milk
ers have been developed, but on &C
count of the prevalence of animal d.
seases in continental Europe their i'm
portation is prohibited. In order to de-
termine the value Of the mich goat
blood in crossing on our native stock,
a flock Of common does was obtained,
and these were bred to Saanen and
Toggenburg bucks. Milk records were
kept of the native does, and such rec
ords will be kept Of the half-bred does,
in order to obtain comparison.
A herd of hogs is maintained for
the purpose of studying breeding and
feeding problems. A modern, sanitary
house has been built, and equipped
for conducting this work. There are
also number of small portable houses
with sufficient space for sow and lit
ter or two or three mature pigs.
At the farm house there is also a
laboratory for the study of breeding
questions. There are usually about
1000 guinea pigs on hand, represent
ing 80 families. The effects of in
breeding are being studied as the re-
suits from such Investigations with
guinea pigs throw light upon princi-
pies that operate in larger animals.
Results that suggest the existence
of laws of inheritance in these small
animals can be tested out on larger
animals. By using guinea pigs a great
saving in time is effected. 1t is posi-
BILE to secure three generations in
year, thus showing the effects of any
special method of breeding in a frac-
ton Of the time needed with sheep or
cattle and at much smaller expense.
The poultry on the farm is located
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-07-17
MAKING FIGHT ON THE LICE
Nothing More Satisfactory Has Been
Found Than Spray of Kerosene
and CarboIic Acid.

During the days when the fowls are
under shelter more than is usual, care
must be taken to prevent lice from
populating the place. You know from
experience what few Gays can do to-
ward establishing a very lively COM
munity of these pests. The chickens
will not sleep we'll, and they cannot
lay when they are tortured with these
pests any more than human beings
can do their most efficient work when
they worry.
You have right to doubt the verac-
ity Of the poultryman who tells you
that his chickens do not have lice, for
wherever you find a chicken, there will
you find its hand-maiden, the mite
Careful attention and repeated spray.
ing are the price we pay for clean
poultry houses and healthy, clean
chickens.
Nothing more satisfactory than the
old spray solution so often recommend
ed, of kerosene and carbolic acid, has
been found to meet the needs of the
average farmer, and you have no doubt
found that If one dose is not efiica-
cious, the second followed in several
days will put an end to the scourge
for while.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-07-17
[R1(D[llBX
GOOD STOCK IS NECESSARY
Good, Strong, Vigorous Fowls Are Es
sentlaI for Success In Poultry
Male Should Be Hustler.

In order to get the best results IL
poultry raising, or in fact, in any line
OF live stock work, it is necessary tc
have good stock to work with. Thii
is as true Of farm poultry kept fol
the production of eggs and meat az
Of the fancierS fowls raised largely
for exhibition purposes. The only diff
ference is that the fowls are measured
by a different standard. No matter
what the stock Is kept for, it should
be the best obtainable for the use to
which it is to be put.
What we keep poultry for, what
condition we have to keep the flock
under, or our personal likes and dis
likes, make some difference in the
variety we select, but there are some
points which should be kept in mind
no matter what variety is selected or
what use is made of them. No mat
ter what special branch Of poultry
keeping is engaged in, it Is necessary
to have strong, vigorous fowls if the