everything to make it and keep it the foremost Industrial and Commercial Nation of the world." Charles M. Schwab says that America has everything necessary to keep it in front of the whole world, and that it was endowed by God with it; and that is exactly what Moses prophesied for the house of Joseph. Gentlemen, I rest my case there. If you know of any better authority on prophecy than the Bible or any better authority than Charles M. Schwab on prosperity or on the material possessions of America, just trot them out.

Abraham Lincoln at twenty-six years of age sensed God's goodness to His servant Israel in America. "He was firm in the belief that God was at the helm, and that man was but the humble though co-operating agent through whom the Almighty was working out the destiny of mankind."'*

In a speech before the Young Mens' Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, at about that age, he said: "We find ourselves in the peaceful possession of [1] the fairest portion of the earth, [2] as regards fertility of soil, [3] extent of territory, and [4] salubrity of climate. . . . We .... find ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings. We toiled not in the acquirement or the establishment of them.

*Abraham Lincoln Man of God, by John Wesley Hill,

"As Lincoln journeyed from Illinois across the country," Mr. Hill writes, "he declared all along the route that he was going forth in the name of the Living God of Israel.'

Well, reader, the point here is that if Lincoln knew that he was going forth "in the name of the Living God of Israel" and he could recognize the source of America's blessings, there is no reason why you need be ashamed to see it and to acknowledge it.

America has in full measure the very things promised to Ephraim and Manasseh,brothers in 1713 B.C. as they are to-day,-Brother John and Brother Jonathan.

It is noted that the sphere sketch does not show any oil in Abyssinia, formerly called Ethiopia in Bible times. I had a commander of the Royal Navy at my home recently and was telling him how it was Britain's and America's job to settle the waste places of the earth and they would receive payment therefore by gettting the wealth of the everlasting hills and of the deep below the earth.

He was a Scot, a canny Scot, a man of few words. I had been telling him that Abyssinia would be against us in the great battle of Armageddon, though I had noticed in September, 1919, I think it was, that the British had given the Mad

*Abraham Lincoln Man of God, by John Wesley Hill,

Mullah a bad licking with aeroplane and machine guns.

"Man," says he, "we have been policing it and pouring in millions of money there year after year and I often wondered why we did it, as the bally place was no use to us.

Well, sir, as a result of the last licking we gave the Mad Mullah, we have found more oil in Abyssinia than there is in all Persia. So, again Mother Britain is repaid for policing and maintaining order, law and justice in these waste places of the earth that were to be your inheritance as well as hers.

"Ask of me, and I shall give thee [Israel] the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." (Ps. 2: 8.)

Both Britain and America have made good the prophet's words and promises. Strange, but this new find is just where Britain will need it for going into the Suez Canal from the South, also the American Navy and Merchant Marine, which by that time will perhaps all be equipped with oilburning apparatus.

I notice in this morning's paper, December 28, 1920, that your Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Josephus Daniels, has a belief that your government should prohibit the use of all fuel oil save for ships, and he proposes a brand new policy for the United States.

"I am in favor of the nationalization of coal, oil and water-power wealth of the nation. The statesmanship of our day should redeem the folly of earlier days," he says, "when these prime necessities were left unregulated to our lasting injury." What a pity our politicians, as well as yours, chuck out stuff like this when leaving office instead of bringing it about while they are in office! It would have been a feather in Mr. Daniel's cap if, when war was declared, he had taken the Standard Oil and the other oil refiners by the scruff of the neck and the seat of their pants and said, "Now, you chaps must work for Uncle Sam for a dollar ten per day, just like our fighting men at the Front. We will take your output at cost plus 10 per cent." "America then would have saved enough to help pay her share of the war, instead of bulging out the already overfilled pockets of the oil magnates. President Harding has served notice that conscription will be for all in America's next big war, plants as well as men and he does well.

I had not noticed that Secretary Daniels was particularly keen along these lines during his turn at the wheel, but then I was very busy at the Front and may have overlooked some things. I don't suppose it would be any use for an ordinary dock-wholloper like myself to tender an old sea-dog, like Mr. Daniels, any advice on fuel for ships. But I would like to say to the Secretary,