The Harrison times., 1917-03-24

Latins, the Slays and the Mongolians.
After the year 1925 | see a change
in religious sentiment. The second
torch OF the cOurtesan has brought
about the fall of the church. The ethi-
cal idea has almost vanished. Human
ity is without moral feeling.
But then a great reformer arises.
He will clear the world of the relics
OF monotheism and lay the corner
stone OF the temples OF pantheism.
God, soul, spirit and immortality will
be molten in new furnace. and see
the peaceful beginning OF an ethical era.
The man determined to this mission
is a Mongolian Slav. He is already
walking the earth-a man OF active
affairs. He himself does not now re-
alize the mission assigned to him by
superior powers.
And behold, the flame of the third
lolSHi Nuiou nap diicduy Dc6uu W uc-
stroy our family relations, our stand.
ards of art and morals. The relation
between woman and man is accepted
as a prosaic partnership Of the sexes
Art has become realistic degeneracy
Political and religious disturbances
have shaken the spiritual foundations
of all nations.
"Only small spots here and there
have remained untouched by those
three destructive flames. The anti.
national wars in Europe, the class war
of America and the race wars in Asia
have strangled progress for half cen.
tury. By then, in the middle of this
century, | see a heroine of literature
and art rising from the ranks Of the
I.atins and Persians, the world of the
tedious stuff of the obvious.
1T is the light of symbolism that
shall outshine the light of the torch
of commercialism. In place of poly
gamy and monogamy of today there
will come a poetogamy-relations of
the sexes based fundamentally on the
poetic conceptions of life.
"And | see the nations growing larg-
er and realizing that the alluring wo-
man of their destiny is after all moth
ing but an illusion. There will be a
time when the world will have no use
for armies, hypocritical religions and
degenerate art. Life is evolution, and
evolution is development from the
simple to the more complicated forms
of the mind and body.
81 see the passing show Of the world
drama nj its present FORM how it
fades like the glow of evening upon
the mountains. One motion of the
hand of commercialism and a new
history begins"
The late author-reformer finished,
opened his eyes and looked at me
slightly confused.
Had l gone to sleep?' he asked
me. 81 beg your pardon"
When | read the vision-talk to him
he listened gravely and nodded, say
ing that it was correct. Upon my re-
quest he signed the document and
handed it to me with a blessing. l
left him the same day, and immedi-
ately upon my arrival informed the
czar of my readiness to see him.
was received at the court in an
informal way and led into the czar's
private study. handed him the pa
per- He opened it nervously and read
with pronounced agitation.
well it's very interesting" he said.
81 will make a copy for myself and
forward the other copies, with trans
lations, to the kaiser of Germany and
through him to the king of England.
The original shall be kept In my pri-
vate archives. shall ask the kaiser
and the king not to make any COM
ments on the matter, as | do not like
to figure as an intermediary between
them and the old man, whose sedi-
tious writings | do not like generally"
1t is because have heard that one
Of the royal principles is going to in
clude the secret message in his pri
vate memoirs that take this oppor-
tunity Of publishing the whole nth
about it, and how received the unu-
sual document.
The czar has told me repeatedly
that the kaiser of Germany thinks it
is one of the most impressive literary
prophecies Of this age.
The Senate is now busy discussing
a measure which will shut off debate