The Nevada County picayune., 1922-03-30

I hardly know how the greet you. All I can say is Brothers and Sisters.
 First of all l want your prayers. We are in hte most trying time of this worlds history, ill the time spoken of by the prophets when men's hearts should fail them in the fear of thiSe things that are coming on the earth. and l am sure that we, here ill Amer ica- but partially sense these facts in fact, I am sure that we are but partial ly conscious of the conditions in our own country.
 The message that l am burdened with this afternoon is not new to you. am coming with the message that there is no other name given under Heaven among men whereby we must be saved. either now or hereafter
 I presume all of you know who Roger BabSon is-perhaps the greatest statistican of all times Perhaps most of you, if not all of you. have at var ious times quoted his great statement that what was needed in the world was not more laws but more religion
 am wondering if you are conscious of what Roger Babson has really ac- complished along this line. I presume most of you have seen his charts. 1 can. only having one color of chalk, not reproduce it, but I think I can give you something of the message that is carried 10 the world in these charts.
 First you will find on the chart horizontal line, tending slightly up ward. First of all, I want you to re- member that Roger Babson is man who deals in history, cold facts and figures. and this line, as he draws it across his chart, is meant to represent the wealth of this country. It rises as we develop our resources, and the country becomes more wealthy. This refers to the funda mental wealth of the country, not to the fluctuations, not to the intlations and defiations, good times and hard times, as we call them
 Thyn you find on this chart some thing Ike this. (Indicating). You will find several such lines as that in the period of fifty years that he covers with his chart As these lnies rise above this base line it is meant to rep resent good times, periods of infla tion and prosperity, when the appar- ent wealth of the country is even greater than the real wealth of the country.
 Then these lines start down and they go into period of defiation, hard times when the apparent wealth of the country is a great deal less than the real wealth of the country. Then we turn and go back up. But there is in each one of these charts that l want to call your attention to. You will find these charts are not all bilt NOtOl-t du ioitNu to ''t "iii'N chalk You will find one white line in | each one of these, (indicating) run ming down through the center of these periods. wish I had the power to bring to you men what that white line means. We are told in the Scriptures of the Children of Israel forgetting God, wandering away from the God of their fathers, and of what happened to them in these periods of forgetfulness | that they were carried away into cap tivity and that it was only when they | returned to the God of their fathers, with sincere repentance and heart searching, that prosperity and deliver | ance came back to them as nation.
 These white lines in this great chart | of Roger Babson's will represent the change of heart of the nation. and | when we enter into a period of pros perity and as we become more and | more prosperous we become more and more forgetful of God until we reach a period where, as a nation, we have