THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S WHAT OF THE NEXT? What the late war might have been in its final stages, had it gone on much longer, or what another war is likely to he, may be dimly guessed as the re sult of the revelations made at Wash ington of chemical discoveries in war time. It now transpires that some three thousand tons of the deadliest poison ever known were available for the American front on March 1. Profes sor Lewis, its inventor, claims that ten airplanes dropping this stuff over Ber lin would have utterly destroyed all life in every form. We have yet to learn whether or not this is a serious state ment of fact, or an exaggeration. The significant thing is that chemists have been looking to their science to create a new kind of warfare, in which fighting would be replaced by wholesale poison ing! The use of poison gas in the war was a devilish beginning of this new art: the development of it, is too ghastly to contemplate. The diplomats who are speaking of disarmament must take care not to leave the door open for the en try of worse things than guns or bay onets. The evil dream of the chemist can only be changed to good as the heart of the world is changed. And yet, thus far, in all the peace palavers, the heads of the great powers have never once recognized the need of God as governor in the affairs of man. CHURCHES NOT ALL WOMEN The Year Book of the churches for 1919, issued by the Federal Council of Churches, gives figures that go to show that men and women constitute the church in nearly even proportions. From the statistics gathered from the leading churches, there are found to be 19,990,204 women members as com pared with 15,653,958 men, or a little over fifty-six per cent, women. This proportion is found to prevail in nearly all the leading denominations.
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STORY OF A SEANCE Spiritualism suffered somewhat of a set-hack in Los Angeles recently when a photographer hired by an ordained Spiritualistic medium got sick of .his job, unexpectedly took a flashlight pic ture in the midst of a seance and fur nished full evidence to the newspapers. In a recent issue of The King’s Business we stated that there is a real and a fake spiritualism, and without doubt, thou sands of dollars are being drawn from unsuspecting students by fake mediums. C. M. Bovey, the photographer men tioned, admitted in a statement printed in the Los Angeles Examiner that he had been deceiving people, being paid by Mrs. Izora Ihrig, the medium, to take “spirit pictures” in the dark. The med ium claimed that she was assisted in her seances by Oliver Wendell Holmes and an Indian woman she called Daisy. Bovey had cleverly made a plate con taining the faces of Holmes, Mrs. Ihrig and the Indian woman. Other pictures, prearranged) were also produced. The camera was always snapped a few times in the dark to fool the pupils of Mrs. Ihrig. Various strange voices were being heard in the midst of a seance, and Bovey suspected that they were being produced by the medium herself by the use of trumpets, although she had de nied that she used trumpets. Accord ingly he resolved on his own hook to take a flashlight picture and find out. The picture which was exceedingly clear, was produced in the papers, showing the medium with a trumpet to her lips and with three other trumpets of various shapes on the floor at her feet within easy reach. The seance was abruptly ended by the photographer’s flash, Mrs. Ihrig was carried out in a faint and a dozen intellectual people of Pasadena demanded an explanation. The Bible wont he a dry hook to you if you know its Author.
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