surprise of political bosses.

Bigotry and hypocrisy, falsity and fanaticism will enter the home, school, ecclesia and the bench.

International negotiations will make room for problems and difficulties leading to new conflicts.

The Slavs will enter into controversies, calling out interceptions, interference and interventions, creating new complications. .

Italy will fare best, while France will be pacified but in part, the lion's share falling into the hands of a power heretofore least reckoned with. . .

A settlement reached will leave sufficient loopholes leading to misinterpretations of agreements.

With all the restorations there will be a latchstring long enuf to invite a pull at moments of convenience. . ..

Both the yellow evil and the black devil will make themselves felt at any time and at the least provocation. . . .

With it all, prosperity is assured to the civilized world in general, altho the wheels of progress will suffer delay.

The future will remove battles from earth's plains and transfer them to regions of the air. For this reason a new industry is rising into prominence, calling inventive genius to renewed activity. . .

With 1919 a new era begins and with it the

inauguration of themes and enactments the like of which the world never heretofore witnessed in equally as grotesque measures. The age of surprises begins and with it the means unto the end of the endeavors of human devices attempting to outwit Infinite Intelligence. .

Publish not all of the rounds of the ladder intervening between earth and heaven but retain enuf for the comfort of Saints on earth.

LOOKING FORWARD

We can be looking forward and should do so if we wish to be in harmony with time, on time, and all the time conscious of the fact that time and eternity are synonymous. In looking forward we are spurred to swifter gait in the pursuit of things adding to the spice of life. In looking forward we make use of lessons as well as observations gained in the past without losing ourselves looking backward. Looking backward is all very well, providing we do not brood over the things valueless to us and of no consequence to progress.

Whenever we fail it is not because we are doomed to failure but because of lack of application, lack of ability in looking forward. Perchance we are looking backward to days

gone by-good, indifferent and otherwise, mostly otherwise. For the good in things we need not be looking forward. The good abides with us and reflects upon us whichever way we turn our attention. In looking forward we realize more fully the many responsibilities awaiting our redemption and the great possibilities within reach.

Be looking forward and let the past take a back seat while we shall find ourselves in an atmosphere of joy and felicity, adding to the material that goes to building character. Looking forward gives the assurance of realization that discloses the storehouse of universal knowledge, and opens avenues of understanding until we find oursleves growing in wisdom, revealing earth and heaven. Looking forward gives stamina and foresight assuring success in all our undertakings-be they of a celestial or terrestrial, spiritual or corporeal nature.

In looking backward we are apt to quicken the dead bones of superstition and ignorance, inciting fear at the sight of specters of suggestion and witchcraft. Such phenomena only too often retard progress and prolong universal agony.

Remember the words of Apocalypse: "The old has passed away. I shall make all things new." Please place the emphasis on I. In looking forward, may it be I who does sowhile Father Time shall say: "Be it so!"

Mother's Voice

Written by Maria Rose Ruth Hilton

The message voiced thru the articles of this little department is to be clear, to the point, and yet most simple; thereby hoping to elucidate for woman the nature of certain perplexities and problems, paving the way to a new life one that will enable her to take advantage of the resources and possibilities that are hers and which, when properly directed, will place her in her true position.

The hope of the future lies in womanhood. That such hope may be realized to the greatest extent, woman must be ever on the alert and able to face existing conditions with a mental scope and power that will solve every enigma and open the way that will lead her out of the valley of humiliation, where for generations she has been enslaved.

Mother's Voice aims not only to remind woman of the boundless wealth of her own nature, but to open up a path that will lead her to her own. Woman holds the key to the Kingdom of Heaven, and she must acquire knowledge that will enable her to unlock the treasure-house, realizing that she herself is both the Riddle and the Sphinx.

Down thru the corridors of time may be heard the voice of an outraged God declar

ing, "It is finished!" Woman is the top-most rung in the ladder of evolution. Then let her rise and be free from all that is beneath her nature. Woman, declare yourself free, for "As thy words are, so shall it be established unto thee." Learn to breathe the breath of knowledge, intelligence and power. Thus you will be lifted up where the ambient air of a higher consciousness will give you a foretaste of the glorious life to be. Courage will come to you thru perseverance, vista upon vista will open up before your enraptured gaze, and then will be revealed to you the grander purposes of life.

Neglect your opportunity, and what shall the future bring but repetitions of the past? Seize the golden opportunity now before you and direct your own destiny. The path is open and as free as the air and sunshine. Harness within your being all unchained powers and forces, for when harnessed, there is no end to possibilities; direct them, control them and have the assurance of joys that will lead you to felicity.

WOMAN AND NATURE

It is said, "The last shall be first" and, as woman is the result of the last efforts of the Creative and Evolutionary Energy, it is but natural that she should at last be restored to her place and position originally assigned