playwrights exalted the moves of sovereigns and people. The intellectual horizon was emblazoned with song and music, calculated to stir the flames of mutuality and brotherhood. Religionists saw John's Revelations coming to a close and rejoiced in the day of emancipation and peace. Tho but little was obtained from all the noise and the conclaves held at the time, it at least changed the trend of thot and directed it into channels of revival.

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries experienced an improvement in this direction and much has been accomplished that paved the way for greater steps yet to be taken.

Even a Napoleon favored and longed for a state that would bring about the Federation of the States of Europe, the realization of which he thot to hasten by setting out to conquer, or impose, peace, tho not wanted.

The latter part of the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth century was well on the process of paving the way to universal peace, giving rise to Peace Congresses and Peace Leagues, whose object was to work up programs conducive toward a disposal of all differences, national and international. Councils of arbitration have been the result, and many serious questions have been brot successfully to an issue. But there have been problems that the world has thot of but little and to bring them to the notice of all con

cerned it seems as if all the world had to be first crushed by the avalanche of destruction ere it could be aroused from the lethargic sleep of indifference. Sad as it all may seem, and as it really is, nevertheless, it has to be put on the account of the inevitable in the hope that all the world may grow the better for it.

True, we are not oversanguine as to the situation of the world. The way has been a rather long and winding one, that leads to the finale. We are aware of the fact that there is still some more trouble brewing, and that with all the good intentions on the part of the one or the other there are self-interests marring our progress, and we may again, if not quite frequently, be called upon to sacrifice certain accumulations before we shall feel that our work is reaching completion. May it be as it is so long as we do not grow weary of whatever task there may be before us, we shall continue to enter upon the issues with a fully aroused spirit, for a play to be a success must be sure of live actors.

Tribal differences have to be blended into a standard that shall give assurance of safety and with it make peace.

(To be Continued)

When man learns to govern himself we shall all enjoy self-government.

A REMINDER

This should be the age of inquiry into the cause of all the trouble in the world today. So in conjunction with our Study of Man, our attention must be directed to diet. Once we consider life scientifically, we shall see how much depends on what we eat, and even a new axiom will come to us—as a man eats so he is.

In all the scientific research of the Aryan race we have failed to connect diet with the development of the race. It is perfectly plain in the vegetable and animal kingdoms, that the soil and food play a paramount part in the calling out of the species. There we do somewhat know and keep nature's laws. We know absolutely, we cannot apply the same method of treatment to wheat and rice, nor to the pig and the horse. Still, when we reach the more evolved being-man-we lose our reason. The day is fast approaching when we shall return to first principles and realize that a body which is built of food foreign to its needs will breed disintegrating substances or living parasites within the body, destructive to the inner as well as the outer man.

Nature, or God, just as we choose to call the Maker of the laws of the universe, did not intend man to feed upon flesh cells, but upon the products of the vegetable kingdom. There is no way to overcome a fundamental

law but to obey it, and learn thru this obedience the path leading to a perfect understanding of life here and now.

Just so long as we break these laws, just so long will a diseased appetite crave that which was not designed for the food of man. Those of us who like to go to the Bible for our guide will find the law laid down in the very first chapter of Genesis-over the animal kingdom man was to have dominion and in the vegetable kingdom he was to find his meat, or food. Simple and beautiful are the arrangements of nature to call out blessings for mankind. In the vegetable kingdom we can find all the substances and materials required to develop and insure comfort to the body. It becomes so plain and so clear after this veil of ignorance is lifted that we are amazed that every thinking mortal cannot see it and would not shrink in horror from not only the thot of taking the life of a helpless creature but from transferring that dead creature, in whom the seeds of death are created, into our body. We must understand the principle underlying the forming, sustaining as well as evolving of the races, culminating in the white man. When we begin to comprehend the very simplicity of it all, the law will fill us with joy and we shall see the endlessness of man's possibilities, and that everything about us is a link in the great chain.

Many people have taken up a vegetarian diet and failed utterly to benefit themselves because they do not go deeply enuf in the subject to live scientifically. If you desire to build for your use a house with your own thot and hands, there must be more knowledge than the bringing together of bricks, mortar, lumber, and like materials. There must be knowledge of how to combine them, and many other things to evolve a house that will be useful to live in, and also beautiful.

No matter how far we have wandered from the Father's house, may we realize that He is always ready to welcome the prodigal son. He has implanted His Voice within to guide us when we arise and become determined to keep His laws, returning to first principlesin this case to learn how to nourish the body -which is our earthly house.

Wise and reasonable was the father who said in tones of admonition to his brother who was expressing great indignation over the disobedience of the children of this generation, "When we learn to govern ourselves we will have obedience from our children."

We can see in the world today the failure of governments to fulfill their trust toward the people, and the great universal law is, that which fails to accomplish its mission must go down that in its place may arise the new.