The first American flag called the "Grand Union", hoisted by Washington over his camp.

(The colors being red, white and blue).

"On July 4th, 1776, The Declaration of Independence followed but this Grand Union flag still continued to be used as the National flag by the 13 States and it was not until about a year later, June 14th, 1777, that a new national flag was fully developed.*

The United States have been so busy establishing the immense continent the Almighty selected for them that your outside possessions are not yet very extensive. "I will preserve thee [Israel]”—what for? "To establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages." You are Manasseh-Israel, and your job is to carry out this commission, helping to establish these places. It is quite as much your job as it is John Bull's. Some day you will have to give an account of what you did with "the talents" committed to your care. "Twill be of little use to plead: our politicians did it. Who elected them? Who is responsible for them? America's

*History of the Union Jack by Barlow Cumberland.

business men, individually; and the nation, nationally. America will have to buck the line instead of crawling under the barn when asked to take a few shares of Israel's burden in desolate places like Armenia. America's commission was not to live to itself alone. Read Matthew 25 and note verses 31 and 32 particularly:

"When the Son of man shall come in his glory Before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats."

America's national stand during the next fifteen years will be decisive in more ways than one. It's up to you, gentlemen! You have had the wealth of the mine, the forest, the sea and the fertile earth all at your command and you will have to give an account of your stewardship; because God has given you His plan to work to, which covers all the details you would require during your lifetime, even if you lived to be a hundred, and shows how you were to invest and how you were to spend the talents-golden ones— He put in your way.

The "kingdom" spoken of in verse 34 will be right here on earth. In that day how many of your citizens and ours will wish they had spent their time, their energies and their magnificient organizing ability, as did that prince in America's

section of Israel, Herbert Hoover, clothing the naked and feeding the poor?-while your and our profiteers were profiting on the most urgent needs of humanity (and this includes Labor Unions' wage profiteers) during the war. Hoover and the type he represents were all giving their time for world service, which is our job, because Israel was to break and has broken the back of every menace to liberty that has threatened the world for hundreds of years and Hoover and others in more humble positions will get the rewards for such princely service "to the least of these."

Say, reader, if you want to get in on a good thing, in on the ground floor of a good thing, a better one than any stockbroker you know can put you next to, just read the Bible through; and every time you see Israel mentioned in its dispatches, just say, "That's we-uns" or "us-all" and just note the job or work given to Israel, both the Manasseh (U.S.A.) and Ephraim (English) sections, and particularly note what is due for the next fifteen years to Britain and to America, as you are going to be in it up to the neck.

Harvey O. Higgins asks in in March McClures "Is there something wrong with the American Mind?" There most certainly is, Harvey! but your dissecting knife did not remove it. The Soul of America knows more than the reasoning mind of America can either see