Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-06
AROUND THE CITY.

That millennium isn't coming. 1t is
already here.
To be officially exact. it has always
been around. only not in lump. Loose
bits of that thousand years OF the
kingdom of Christ on earth are scat
tered all over creation like the pieces
of a jigsaw puzzle that we haven't Mt
ted together-yet. But all OF US, not
allowing for exceptions. are working at
the big puzzle, off and on, fitting in a
block here or curlymacue there, but
not any of us making any extra head
way. because the design is SO intricate
and so big.
For one worker. there was man:
He was waiting for somebody at the
Union station when his interest was
caught by a woman who was knitting.
She wasn't young woman. SO it didn't
mean romance. 1t meant knitting.
Once the woman strolled over to the
waiting room, knitting every step oil
the way. Another time she got up to
help out a poor distracted young mother
of a teething baby-and you know what
teething means-but she kept right on
with her knitting.
Then after quite some time the man
went over to the woman with lifted hat
ana asked neF IL she Woulu iihS " nav
a lot of yarn he had at home? He had
bought it at a. dead letter sale and put
lit on a shelf in his closet because he
didn't knew what else to do with it
but IL she would like to use it up-he
had read a good bit about the things
women were knitting for the Army
The woman stopped long enough to
assure him that wool. either for Army
use or for socks. caps and little sweat
ers for poor children. would be a god
send-and she would send for it first
thing in the morning.
The man had fitted a tiny piece into
the jgsaw puzzle, only he didn't
know it.
We never do.
And, say, isn't it funny how coinci-
dences come along? Another woman at
the station having tabled the incident
down. started homeward stopping at
the Library on the way. Some reader
had left a pile of books on a desk and
the woman picked up the top one,
opened it haphazard and came across
two straight running-like this:
The destruction of the Mohammedan
and anti-Christian kingdoms. and the
restoration of she .;asG of AbrahS--;l to
the favor of God, are all that is neces-
sary to the Introduction of the millen-
MUM.
With Allenby in Jerusalem, the Turks
on the run and Zion on the eve of res
erection, it may ue that Campbelrs
millennium is due for immediate dawn
ing-you never can tell!
All we can be sure of is that the ma
terial for the markings of millennium
is already here-only lying around
loose. like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,
instead Of in a lump.
*
A woman and her obvious husband
nj Lfv,rr boiy
up street that, not knowing whether
to freeze or turn slushy. had compro-
missed by doing both.
The woman was a tired-to- death soul
with three worry lines between her
eyes, suit case and the family UNI
brella
The man was meaty-pork--and car
ried a double-deck chin. Also, he was
weighted down with a swagger stick
which he f1icked to accent able remarks
the shortcomings of the law.
III the people of this town had any
spunk they'd kick at an outrage like
this. There isn't even a plank to cross
on; and it's the same thing everywhere
you go; either they're tearing up streets
or tearing down houses, and the au-
thorities stand in with ii for the money
that comes their way. No more decent
regard for the public than if
And spinstery person who was tip
ping close enough to see worry lines
and hear oratory wondered why man
who demanded consideration from the
city fathers should possess SO little
himself as to let his wife lug the suit
case. And the umbrella. And the worry
lines.
Still, IL the wife could have had her
say in the matter, she would doubtless
have expressed contemptuous pity for
any poor single woman who lacked a
meaty husband with q selfish hump on
his soul and double-deck chin. You
know she would! You can't deny 1t!
Which -ahowD how impossible ii - 70