Helen Keller, the well-known deaf and blind girl, thinks that President Wilson will not be able to accomplish the reforms for which he is working, for the reason that the “interests” will turn aside too many of his supporters.
Photo by Paul Thompson Louis Barthou, France's new prime minister, succeeding Briand. Barthou has served as minister of justice, and also as minister of public works.
The king and queen of Spain. The king very narrowly escaped assassination on April 13. This is the third time he has come near losing his life in this way.
This year Germany celebrates the centenary of her liberation from the yoke of Napoleon. It is believed that the wave of patriotism that will attend the festivities of the celebration will be made use of by the government to induce the Reichstag to pass extraordinary military credits. Germany, together with all the other nations of Europe, is groaning now under the unbearable military burdens. But an unseen power seems to be driving them to assume still greater and more oppressive taxation in order that the war-god may be appeased. In these times of such great military stress and struggle, the words of the prophet of Patmos need often to be reviewed. They read: “And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river, the river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings that come from the sunrising. And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as it were frogs: for they are spirits of demons, working signs; which go forth unto the kings of the whole world, to gather them together unto the war of the great day of God, the Almighty. . . . And they gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew Ar-Magedon [margin].” Rev. 16:12-16. An unseen power, according to this text, drives the nations to world-wide war in the last days. That is literally what is being done right now. Can we not see a thing that is so manifest and clear?
Spiritistic Manifestations
ONE of our correspondents of Chetopa, Kansas, Mr. Clinton MacMickle, writes us that there is a phase of Spiritualism that he has never seen in print, which made its appearance in Iowa in the early 50's. The medium claimed that the spirits could give correct answers to any questions propounded. Our informant’s father, who is said to be a logical reasoner, inquired into the why and wherefore of things. He counted the grains of corn in his hand, and at the request of the medium the spirit gave correctly as many raps as there were grains, yet no one but his father knew the number. He then added more without counting, and the spirit hesitated to answer. The medium urged an answer, and it rapped a number, but was far wrong. His father therefore concluded that the spirit could answer correctly the thing that was known by any one present, altho the spirit proved itself a liar by professing to do something which it did not. However, spirits do sometimes give correct answers to things unknown to any one present. Our correspondent thinks that they must have obtained this information by contact with some one not present.
We would say that this mind-reading idea of Spiritualism is not new. It has been mentioned a good many times.
