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WESTERN ITINERARY SERVICES FOR THE PUBLIC FOR THE INTERESTED Date. City. Time. Place Time Place. Friday, June 9, Cleveland, O. 2... 0 2. cece case ete e eee e tee pee e centr eeeetenee , B. of L. KE. Auditorium, St. Clair and Ont Saturday, “ 16, Indianapolis, Ind K. of P. Auditorium . K. of P. Auditorium. Sunday “11, St. Louis, Mo. ...... 2... The Odeon, Grand and Finney Aves........ 300 , The Oleon, Grand and Finney. Tuesday, "13, Kansas City, Mo. . Evanston Hal), 1013 Holmes St.............. 7.30 , Convention Hall, 13th and Central Sts. pm pm pom. pm Thursday, “ 15, Wichita, Kans. ........ ... . Crawford Theater, Topeka and William. ... 7.39 p.m, Crawford Theatre, Topeka and William, Friday, © 16, Pueblo, Colo. cc... ee eee ee ee eeee 3.00 p. Grand Opera House, 47 Main... ........+... 7.30 p m, Grand Opera House, 4th and Main Sts. Saturday, ‘‘ 17, Colorado Springs, Colo....... ... 2.30 p.m., Temple Theatel Nevada and Kiowa . ... 745 pom, Pemple Theatre, Nevada and Kiowa Sunday, 18, Denver, Colo. ...... cesses eee aee 10 00 a. m., Woodman Hall, 1715 Cal. St..........,.. . 3.00 p. m., Auditorium Theatre, Ith and Curtis Sts Wednesday, ‘“ 21, Salt Lake City, Utah ........... 10.30 a. m., Knights Columbus Hall, E. lst So St.... . 730 p. m., Salt Lake Theatre, State and Ist So. Sts. Friday, «93, Los Angeles, Cal. ...00 w leases 10.30 a. m., Elks’ Old Hall, 231 Spring St......... ... 730 p. m., Auditorium, 5th and Olive Sts. Saturday, «24, Santa Cruz, Cal. . «. Hackley Hall .... ccc cc eee ee cece eee ee oe BL 00 p. m., Casino Theatre. Sunday, “ 25, San Franciseo, Cal. Lyrie Hall, 513 Larkin St........ 0 -....... 800 p m, Dreamland Rink, Steimer St, Monday, ‘* 26, Oakland, Cal..... . .. First Baptist Church, Telegraph Ave...... . 7.30 p m., First Baptist Church, Telegraph Ave. Tuesday, “97, Sacramento, Cal ...........6.4.5 2.00 p. m., Redmen’s Hall, 10th St., between I and J.... 7,30 p, m., Clunie Theatre, K St., bet 8th and 9th. Thursday, ‘ 29, Portland, Ore..... 10.30 a m. and 2.30p.m., I. O. O. F. Hall, E. 6th and FE Alder.... 730 p.m, Armory, 10th, 11th, Couch and Davis. Saturday, July 1, Tacoma, Wash.. 10.00 a.m and 300p.m., Masonic Temple, 736 St. Helens Ave........ 750 p,m, Tacoma Theatre, 9th and C Sts. Sunday. “ 2, Seattle, Wash. ........ eee ee eee 10.00 a. m., Faurot’s Assembly Hall, East Pme. ....... $.00 p. m., Dreamland Pavilion, 7th Ave. and Union Tuesday, “ 4, Victoria, B.C. - cece eee eee eee 10.00 a.m., Broad St. Hall ....... ccc cee ce eee eee cee 800 p.m, A. O. U. W. Hall, Blanchard and Yates. Wednesday, ‘‘ 5, Wancouver, B. C. .........025-005 9.30a.m., I O. O F. Hall, Pender and Hamilton .. 730 p. m., Vancouver Horse Show Bldg. Friday, “ %, Calgary, Alta. 10 00 a. m. and 2.00p.m WSagle Hall, Ist St W..... 0... cc. eee . 860 p. m., Al Azhar Temple, 506 I7th Ave. West. Sunday, « 9, Winnipeg, Man. ....-......0...- 10.30 a. m., Odd Fellows’ Temple, Kennedy St 3.00 p. m., Walker Theatre. Tuesday, * 11, Duluth, Minn. ..............0.0. - 9.30 a.m., The Auditorium, 3d Ave. BE, and- Ist St... 7.80 p. m., The Auditorum, Sunday, «16, Toronto Ont. 1.1... .eaeee peoee 1000 a. m., Broadway Hall, 450 Spadina Ave........... 3.00 p. m., Massey Hall, Shuter and Victoria Sts r VoL. XXXIT BROOKLYN, N. Y., JUNE 1, 1911 No. 11 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER WISDOM FROM ABOVE THE NOBLEST SCIENCE We repeat that the wisdom from above is the noblest science and the best instruction. Well do the Scriptures say, ‘‘The entrance of thy truth giveth light.’’? Well did the Lord through the Prophet foretell of our day—The wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall not he manifest.—Isa. 29:14. The great Sir Isaac Newton, guided hy the promise of the Lord through the Prophet Daniel, deelared his belief in the possibility of rapid transit amongst men. Daniel the prophet declared, ‘‘Many shall run to and fro and kuowledge shall be increased.’’ The philosopher, guided by his faith in God’s Word, declared his belief that some day mankind would travel at the rate of fifty miles an hour. And yet the locomotive was centuries away, and the power of steam had not even Leen discovered. Nearly two centuries later, a worldly-wise man, scoffing at the Bible, scoffed also at the philosopher who would allow the Bible’s suggestions to influence his expectations of the future. The infidel savant, Voltaire, called the Christian Newton ‘‘a poor old dotard, misled by that old Book, the Bible.’’ We all know by this time which of these great men was the dotard! Scientists are still guessing and still repudiating the guesses of cach other. To such an extent is this true, that no scientific book written more than twenty-five years ago, except the Bible, is worth a penny. No college, no school, no professor, no man of learning, would recommend any scientific work of twenty-five years ago as being authoritative—scientific. But this failure of their brethren in the past in no way intimidates those who call themselves learned at the present time. They keep on looking wise and guessing just the same. They keep on laughing at the Bible and reviling it and speaking of its heing unscientific and do not see its beauty and the real fulfilling of its promises. They still have a fashion of breaking a chip off a rock, looking at it long and carefully and then deelaring, with an air of wisdom, the hundreds of thousands or millions of years since that stone was soft mud and sand or gravel. They keep a stiff upper lip, knowing that they are merely repeating the words and mannerisms of their predecessors and teachers. They know, also, that the more astounding their statements, the more wise the laity will think them to be and the more they will honor them. Any man who ean, by looking at a piece of stone, reckon up all the hundreds of thousands of years since its formation, must he a wise man indeed in the estimation of the street urchin, or the farmer and others, who, though more intelligent, have never done any thinking, but have merely swallowed the advice of others. SOME WHO DO A LITTLE THINKING This is the kind of trash that is dispensed in many of the school-hooks of our day. And when the students inquire, How, then, does it come that the Bible tells of only six thousand years of the history of man upon the earth? the professors merely sneer and smile at the simplicity of the question and say, You will know more ahout it before you graduate. You must study geology, biology, ete. There is, indeed, a small class of people who, without great pretension, do a little common-sense thinking and have intuition. Some of these, properly enough, take note of the faet that certain alluvial processes of our far West, when dug are soft and can be worked with a pick or a shovel, but in a very short time, when [4825] exposed to the air, become absolute stone. These same thinkers take note of the fact that humanity has learned in our day to combine various clays and gravels and to make therefrom conerete and cement stone work. These are asking with propriety, Why must we assume thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of years for the hardening of the stones and clays which constitute the surface of our earth, when man knows how to produce such hardness in a few hours? The eclebrated ‘‘Mark Twain’? had a good many grains of common gense in his make-up. Jt was part of his delight to poke fun at the pretensions of geologists respecting some of their theories. One of his amusing illustrations along this line discussed the Mississippi river and the changes known to have taken place in it within a few years. The supposition that similar changes had taken place every year for a thousand years would, he argued, imply that in that period the Mississippi river extended out and over the Gulf of Mexico several hundred miles. His irony was to the point. It is not scientifie nor wise to assume tliat the conditions of today or of this century or of many centuries have been true for thousands of years. Who does not know that for years the Missouri river has been so erratie in its course, so prone to eut new channels for itself, that farms in one State, by its changes of course, have }een foreed to be parts of another State. But geologists get so into the habit of guessing, and rely so much on the guesses of their predecessors, that they are slow to profit, slow to learn to base their calculations upon facts rather than fancies, ‘‘God is not in all their thoughts.’’? His Word is neglected; hence the proper foundation for reasoning and judgment along geological lines is lacking. THE GALLEY HILL MAN Some twenty-three years ago a human skeleton was found imbedded in elay sand eight feet below the gravel which, we are assured, appeared to be in its original state. The finder of this, of course, felt sure that he had found a treasure, and in order to be a treasure and valuable it must he classed very, very ancient. All theories and imaginations respecting a flood tide of the River Thames, or respecting a burial, must be discouraged. The find must be a valuable one for the sake of the finder. The next thing necessary to he found was a gray-haired professor who also should be made famous. Dr. Keith, conservator of the Royal College of Surgeons, was the man of the hour. He has hecome famous through the wisdom he has displayed and the information he has given to the world in respect to mankind. He declares that the skeleton found belongs to a man who lived one hundred and sixty-four thousand years hefore the time when the Bible says Adam, the first man, was made in the image of his Creator! We sit appalled at sueh wisdom. Jf we dared ask so great aman a small, trifling question, which, perhaps, any foolish person would know how to answer, our question would be, “How long, O sage, may we suppose the bones of an ancient Briton might have continued in good preservation had they not heen ruthlessly disturbed???) We might further ask whether or not a sandy loam might be eonsidered a favorable burying ground, so that corpses in gencral would not disintegrate and go to dust in a comparatively few years? Surely a miracle must be elaimed by Prof. Keith for the preservation of these bones, so as to give him an opportunity of enlightening the (159-164)