"At the end of every seventh year thou shalt make a release and this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought to his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour or of his brother because it is called the Lord's Release."

This would seem a pretty fair authority to quote (providing we really believe our Bibles are the word of God) for the settlement of war debts due by France and other nations all over the world, which everyone knows can never be paid. We seem to have adopted it as far as ordinary debts are concerned, which are outlawed after seven years in Anglo-Saxondom.

The highest authority in Heaven and on earth laid down this law for us and for our guidance. I wonder if we will accept it and obtain the blessings pertaining thereto?

The reason why you are to do this releasing of debts is also specified in verse 4, marginal reading: "To the end that there shall be no poor among you," and also in verse 6: "For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee, and thou shall lend unto many nations, but thou shall not borrow, and thou shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee."

God gave America the natural wealth that Chas. M. Schwab says put her as the foremost commercial nation of the world and God also com

manded her to release her debtors every seventh

year.

Is America going to obtain her God-given wealth and then duck the obligations laid down for her guidance in our credit statues? Not on your life. Not when she knows it! America responds quicker when her statesmen point the way than any nation on earth. It's up to you statesmen!

Well, gentlemen, that's my story.

Thus endeth the first epistle of the Roadbuilder to his friends in the United States of America, to his friends in France, Britain and the Dominion of Israel beyond the seas, whom he met in those years of service at the Front.

Just note, that the two Frenchmen most responsible for winning the war, Clemenceau and Foch, whose autographed photographs look down at me as I write, both seem to be of Covenant stock from Brittany, where the early Britons settled and where the Normans (Benjamin tribe) invaded, A.D. 1000, and nearly all the French Navy are Britons. I wonder how many more? Israel was to be among all nations and, after. Armageddon, was to be drawn from the North, South, East and West to Jerusalem. I think all nations who have the Lion of Judah on their national coat of arms are portions of Israel.

If there are things herein that hurt, kindly bear in mind that they were written with the best intentions and with good will to stir people, parsons and professors to action and not to give pain. If some of these words seem to bite and sting, kindly look them over and see if it is not the facts that hurt, facts that are, but should not be, that give pain.

My most candid critic, my "better half," says I am too hard on the English and Scotch. Well, my mother came from Suffolk, England, of Norman or Benjamin (the light bearing) stockhence, perhaps, why I'm impelled to send this, my candle of light, and in a small way try to help light the high road for wandering feet. My father came from Glasgow; so, I have no natural prejudice against my own forebears from the Isles. Being an optimist and Scotch, I have hopes that I've not wasted my time and my winter holidays as well, for I have spent my spare hours and days for the past year writing, rewriting and rearranging this material by hand. If you haven't grasped and absorbed the fact that national Israel's history is foretold down through the ages in our Bible and that the Anglo-Saxon-Celts fill every particular prophecy, and that we are the Israel of the Bible, I sure have misspent my time.

I feel, however, like the optimist who fell off the fifty-fifth story of the Woolworth building in New York, as he was falling through the air he

shot past a friend who was standing at his open office window on the eleventh story and was heard to say, "Well, I'm alright so far!"

I would like to put this book into print used by the blind, and present every soldier of the late war who lost his sight fighting for God, for freedom, and for his country, with a copy of it, so that each blind soldier in America may know and understand the part he took with Israel as God's battle axe and as His weapons of war, to bring peace to this trouble-stricken world.

May I sign myself

October, 1921.

THE ROADBUILDER,

Toronto, Can.

All books referred to herein can be purchased:

In Great Britain: The Covenant People, 14 Fetter Lane, London E. C.-4.

In America: A. A. Beauchamp, Copley Square, Boston, Mass. In Canada: Albert Britnell, 815 George St., Toronto, and British Israel Society, Vancouver, B.C.

APPENDIX

WHAT OF JAPAN?

If Americans knew their future as laid down in the Bible they would fear Japan as little as they now do Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, because the Samurai and up, or the white Japanese, are apparently our own people of Joseph's seed who dwelt in Samaria, hence their name, Samurai.

These Samurai, like the New England stock in America, have always ruled and are as thrifty, high spirited and liberty-loving as are the Americans or the English. They possess all those sturdy characteristics that your Forefathers of Brith-ish stock possessed and I do not wonder that their blood boils when for years they have been referred to as a "yellow" race, by ProGermans and your trouble breeding yellow sheets, as well as this year by some people and newspapers who should know better. The Samurai are no more "yellow" than are the citizens of your Southern States, black, though the labor in the South is done by the colored sons of America, so also in Japan the labor is performed by the Malay peoples or Yellow Japanese, but that does not make the white folks of the Southern States black any more than it makes the white peoples of Japan yellow. If the Americans in the Southern States were referred to and talked about as black men by Europeans, they would then understand how these Japanese (who can trace their descent farther back than can one in a thousand of American or English-speaking peoples) feel when they are spoken of and about as an inferior and "yellow" race and as a "yellow peril."