NiCr ese ge denne rae is ENB TONEY Coe aoF Ah ag hen sed sey Se et SANE $ rats : RAO) 240 SJ C7 13 “tye % eK ha Siote Us THE MOSAIC LAW IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN SCIENCE ' (tal 4 - ‘ ty r A ie re i iD , yi [ ~ Pas aa te a VOD MOSAIC LAW IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN SCIENCE BY THOMAS H.’NELSON, EVANGELIST FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN BIBLE ScHOOL, AND EDITOR OF “Tue Ram’s Horn,” AutHor or “Tue GosrpeL oF CAUSE AND Errecr,” “Tar Doom or MopERN CiviLizaTION,”’ ‘‘Mop- ERNISM THE MARK OF THE Bsrast,” Ertc., Ere. THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY BOOK AND BIBLE PUBLISHERS WINSTON BUILDING PHILADELPHIA Copyright, 1926, by THomas H. NELSON Matt. 5:17, 18 “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil, For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” —Jesus. (5) PREFACE NO scientist for a hundred years has been more viciously attacked than Moses, the Israelitish law-giver. And though dead for nearly four thousand years, no other scientist has ever more fully vanquished his foes and advanced and exalted his position. After years of investigation and the testing of his writings by sound, modern science, the author of this book is convinced not only that Moses was a true scientist, according to the modern acceptance of this term, but a scientist of the most comprehensive order. In fact, Moses today leads all our greatest schools and the whole world, in all that pertains to the vital sciences, while the works of other great men of antiquity have almost completely fallen into oblivion. The proof of these statements is con- densed in the following volume. This book is the result of thirty years of original research on scientific lines for con- firmation or refutation of the truth and authority of scriptural inspiration. We find the unity between the Bible and true, (7) 8 PREFACE modern science to be complete. These facts are condensed and stated in an interesting and clear manner in language suited to all. The author has lectured on these subjects at many colleges, conventions and general gather- ings all over this country and Canada; and has been urged to give these startling facts in book form to the world. In the hope that the faith of many may be strengthened by knowing these scientific proofs of the inspiration of scripture, this book is prayerfully presented to the public. THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS CHAPTER I Moses as the greatest of all Modern Scientists. Why wash inrunning water? The reason for the law of purification. What cold does and does not do for us. The Mosaic bill of fare is now modern. Sanitation as taught by Moses. Sabbath laws scientific. This was all pre- scientific science. The cause of sexual disease and its preventive. Mixed seeds and breeds of animals, Sabbattic years on a scientific basis.. CHAPTER II Sanitation and_ sanctification harmonious. Clean and unclean animals. Why are the pig and some other animals condemned? Car- nivorous birds and animals. The changed bill of fare. Why was it changed? Modern science justifies it. Is there a ‘firmament’? Geology now justifies the Mosaic account of creation. Earlier misunderstandings explained. Was there light before the sun appeared? ‘The sun created on the first day, appearing only on the fourth. The six days of creation proved by modern geology..... ge WERE AES GRD IRA BAR gt a2 ag A CHAPTER III What constitutes sin, and why it is forbidden. Why badness kills. Negative emotions ruin health. Soul chemistry explained. The trial for jealousy. Cleansing the leper a true case of psychoanalysis. Incense asascience. Leper cleansing a symbolic science. God alone knew (9) PAGE 13 387 10 CONTENTS these scientific facts in Moses’ day. Psychologi- cal chemistry, as seen in the Mosaic law and con- firmed by modern science.............eeeeeeeee CHAPTER IV God is a scientist. The mite and the Almighty. Why the forbidden fruit? Disease as blood poison. The responsibility of the will. Psycho- analysis again. No drug can keep badness in health. Were disease germs in the original list of creation? Moses leads the world in practical DEVEDOOEY eas Sk euweee seule he calc e enn CHAPTER V Idealists needed today. What was the curse of Reuben, and why? Sawing wood in a soprano tone. What is heroism? How mind controls matter. What is beauty, and why should we prize it? The value of virtue. Vice and virtue in- stantaneous in the will. The ideal standard of right. A moral sense within that corresponds to the natural order without. The fruit declares and classifies the tree. Poem. The true food of the soul in exalted and ideal purpose. Whence God derives his real authority, in the justice of His decisions and actions ............cc0ceeceus CHAPTER VI A man is what he eats. What is life? Can life be found apart from organized matter? The body reveals the character of the soul. Time reveals God. Virtue will be vindicated. Guilt is the father of ghosts. Was the ark a dynamo? Life as immaterialistic. Are life and law one?.. CHAPTER VII The brain does not store up knowledge as a squirrel does nuts. The soul alone knows. The brain changes, but personal identity never. How we shape our future destiny. The moral character of the choice contains the nature of PAGE 71 80 99 CONTENTS physical results. Life and death are found in soul attitudes. What chemistry reveals. Why negative passions curse man. What unicellular organisms prove. Virtue’s influence............ CHAPTER VIII The brain and nervous system. Disease as faulty vibration. Moral harmony. Making it hot for others. Retribution. How the counte- nance reveals the conscience. Faces don’t lie. Our loves shape our lives. Appreciation in- herits all things. The majesterial will is respon- sible. We see ourselves in all nature. Man is what he thinks. The scene reveals the seer. We make our own heaven or hell, in heart and home, and then get what we have made. Self-registra- PAIL AD any a ru aide ina + Kin honk ee eee kk ae tke CHAPTER IX The Mosaic law still authoritative. Symbols ex- plained. Sacrifices and altars educational. The broken law. The cleansing laver. Shew bread. The lamp. Numerals. The golden altar. Brazen altar. The holy place. The ark of the covenant. Priests’ robes. Our scapegoat. Cleansing of the leper. The two birds......... CHAPTER X Moses ascribes all glory to God. The non-con- formist. Popularity a seal of death even today. The stoned prophets as the world’s hope. Martyrdom glorious. No resurrection for dead churches. It takes death to popularize the true reformer. Orthodox heretics. Ashes of the martyrs the seed of the church. Suffering sanctifies. A new universal exodus is coming. Moses and Joseph as types of Christ. The Adamic fall in every man’s experience. A field of moral conflict necessary. A morally responsi- ble being. Fatalism opposed. The Mosaic law should be taught in all our schools and its under- lying-scientific character explained ............. 11 PAGE 112 123 140 i Tw yar ms . a ee A: i nem, na Re Ue © ; ; ta Pts A a AEE NS UR OMS ED iD its A Ga ia MOE iA ALAC eat ne Caaecsy 2 cs. | ME NMA EL no NUNN: Nhs SOROS ¥. CHAPTER I AFTER submitting the Mosaic law to the most rigid tests of modern scientific standards, the writer is convinced that Moses himself is a true modern—a radical scientist of the most ad- vanced school. He is even seen to be leading most of our present-day scientists in the popular and important studies of bacteriology, psychol- ogy, physiology, hygiene, botanic chemistry, practical eugenics, sanitary science, quarantine principles, zodlogy, geology, astronomy, etc. Though some say he never wrote the law and all admit that he has been dead almost four thousand years, yet he is the most vital authority today in our largest and most influential schools of scientific thought. He is also a standard authority on many elements of civil govern- ment, economics, social welfare, etc., as the following pages will show. What is left unchanged of the original instruc- tion in mechanics of Archimedes? What is ex- tant of the philosophy of the great Socrates, Plato or Aristotle? Who now follows the exact therapeutical advice of Hippocrates? The (13) 14 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER greatest men of antiquity, generally, are but names of uncertain value, compared with this modern and transcendent scientist, law-giver and emancipator. The whole wide world, and especially its most intelligent and advanced sec- tions, are following, unchanged, his four- thousand-year-old commands, and are thereby receiving the manifold blessings of health and prosperous advancement. This paramount chief of the world’s great men, though belittled by atheists, has not only a past greatness like his competitors; but even now he is greater than in the days of his flesh; and today he leads a mightier host of modern Gentile thinkers than his original multitude of Hebrew slaves. Not only was he the real founder and father of his own nation, as one of the greatest of antiquity, but his system of laws and sciences has been made the very foundation and chief bulwark of the most advanced of mod- ern nations. There is no portion of the commandments of God in general, or of the Mosaic code in particu- lar, that is not based on a scientific understand- ing of fundamental law, and what was intrinsically best for the nation, and for the health and happiness of man in general, body and soul, here and hereafter. Though primarily OF THE MOSAIC LAW 15 given by Moses to the Hebrews, these regula- tions have a universal and lasting application; because their underlying, natural and essential conditions, in justice and the nature of things, exist universally. Since there is a basic and un- changing reason for all that God says and does, what he says to one, he says to all; and what he once says, he always says. Though symbolizing, or made typical of, moral experience and need, as all physical ex- periences are, yet the Mosaic command was based on just, moral, economic, hygienic, psychological and physiological law, and har- monized with the underlying cosmical nature of things and the constitutional needs of man. The most modern research proves that not one command of the original law can be rejected without the offender’s suffering physical loss. Spiritually speaking only, is it true, that ‘‘ Christ is the end of the law for righteousness”; and, “we are not under the law, but under grace.” Look at some of the reasons why the com- mandments of the law were given. ‘The law commanded that every Hebrew must wash his hands in running water, after handling diseased or dead people, or old, polluted things. Why wash at all, and why in running water particu- larly? Now, after the lapse of four thousand 16 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER years, science has discovered that much disease is contagious and infectious and is propagated by infinitesimal bacteria, or animalcule, millions of which may attach themselves to the hands and bodies of those coming in contact with them. These disease bacilli live in etheral media, and are hatched out and multiplied by the bodily heat of the one receiving them; and diseases, both contagious and infectious, are thus spread. To wash in a bow! of water is, after the first dip, to wash in a polluted fluid full of deadly germs, leaving many of them on the hands and body when the bath is finished. But when the washing is done “in running water,’ they are constantly being carried away, so that when the bath is finished, the hands or body are free from the disease bacteria. This commandment suggests the wisdom of throwing away the rubber stop to the wash bowl, and washing in clear, running water, rather than in contaminated water. See in this the infinite wisdom of the law. Now, since none of the scientist of pre-Mosaic days taught this truth and many of our modern scientists have scarcely seen this point yet; Moses was either inspired of God in this particular, or he was for some other reason, nearly four thousand OF THE MOSAIC LAW 17 years ahead of his day in _ bacteriological science. If a Hebrew sat on a seat or saddle, or lay ona bed where a leper or a man with an issue or running sore sat, or lay, he was pronounced un- clean, and required to wash his body and change and wash his clothes and go into isolation “outside the camp,’ from one to seven days. The seat, saddle or bed thus contaminated must also be cleansed by water or by fire, and then thoroughly aired. Why so? Because it was a sanitary disinfection and quarantine measure of the highest type. In that hot country, contagious and infectious diseases were more apt to spread than in the colder northern and western countries, and this intelligent pre- ventive gave the believing and obedient Jews, in spite cf their ignorance, the benefit of God’s infinite knowledge and understanding. Thus, believing obedience was self-rewarded and unbelieving disobedience was self-punished by the very acts of the actors. The light, gauzy clothing of that warm country admitted the body of the uncontaminated person into im- mediate contact with the diseased serum, and then the bacteria began to feed upon the victim’s body, and hatch out new batches by the very heat of the body; and thus the contagion spread. 2 18 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER This was all made impossible where the Mosaic law on purification was properly honored, and God is shown to be guarding the health and happiness of his people by giving this law. Here is an important suggestion on sanitary inspection for our larger city boards of health. They are often greatly exercised over the spread of infectious diseases, while apparently over- looking their prolific breeding places, in fearfully crowded tenements, inadequate ventilation, filthy quarters, bedding, garments, etc. These boards largely abolish external unsanitary conditions in the warm seasons, but seem to depend on the rigorous winter seasons to defend us from the infiuence of the pestilential conditions existing within these congested abodes. Winter, however, is more apt to intensify the congestion and restrict ventilation, thus aug- menting the disorder. It will take more than antitoxins, vaccinations and curative medicines to guard against a general infection while such foul breeding places for disease bacteria are allowed to exist. God’s great cleansing agencies of water, air and even fire, should be enforced on such ignorance, even for the preservation of its immediate victims. Organized society has a right to defend itself, preventively, against these destructive and pernicious encroachments. OF THE MOSAIC LAW 19 The law forbade the eating of anything strangled, torn, dying of itself, etc.; and those who kept the law were automatically blessed with health and happiness, while those who broke it were cursed with loss of civic and religious rights, disease and death. Why? Because Moses knew that diseased, dead, or putrid blood was poisonous; that a strangled, or unbled creature’s flesh was thus full of pollution, disease and death, because the blood could not drain off, and thus putrefaction would instantly set in, with co-extensive ptomaines. This includes a chicken whose neck has been wrung instead of being cut so as to properly bleed the victim; also, all creatures that are killed with a hammer instead of being bled, as are most of our beef cattle in this country. The law demanded that a keen knife be used to bleed them, thus enabling the heart to pump all the blood from the veins and leave the flesh free from all deleterious matter, which can never be done if the action of the heart is stopped by first striking down the animal. Has this law become obsolete? Never, as Jesus said, ‘Till heaven and earth pass away.” Moses was radically scientific, even from a modern per- spective. These facts constitute the reason why 20 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER “kosher beef”’ is nearly always more free from disease than public-market meat. For the same reason, the creature offered in sacrifice must be young, free from disease and blemish; and this law being still operative among the Jews assures the purity of ‘‘kosher meat.’’ Think of this in contrast with the old, worn-out, diseased milch-cows which help to fill our stock yards. For these purely physiological and hygienic reasons the ordinary Jew was forbidden to kill any animal devoted to sacrifice. It must be brought to the door of the tabernacle and in- spected for disease by the priests, all of whom were, practically, veterinarians. Then, after inspection, these priests must themselves kill the animal in the scientific manner prescribed by the law. For this same reason, that of our physical welfare only, God wisely and kindly forbade the eating of blood in any and all forms. As an article of diet there are few more dangerous substances known than putrid blood. Itisa venomous poison, and even the most thorough cooking does not entirely destroy the direful results. A man is what he eats. The dare- devil acts of some butchers in drinking warm blood are based on the densest ignorance, and yield their fearful fruits later in an imbruted OF THE MOSAIC LAW 21 soul and a diseased brain and body. Both Moses and modern science declare “the life is in the blood.” If any offensive thing was left by a man ina field, the Mosaic law demanded that the dirt be thrown over it with a paddle or stick. This is another sanitary and hygienic regulation; and as late as the Spanish-American War, it took the lives of many of our American soldiers, in the southern camps to teach us anew the need of this sanitary regulation. In some heathen countries where this sanitary law is disregarded, the air becomes so poisoned with infectious bacteria that the poor natives die off at times with plague and pestilence, like flies in a winter frost. Has this law become ob- solete? The ignorant believer in mere “cere- monialism’’ answers, yes. But Moses, Christ, and modern science declare, ‘Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, tall all be fulfilled.” The Mosaic requirement that the leper be pronounced “unclean” and be rigidly kept “without the camp,” and that all who touched him should be considered unclean, until thoroughly disinfected, was the original of a standard quarantine measure that exists until this day in every intelligent nation. 22 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER All of our best hygienic discoveries prove the unwholesomeness semi-indigestibility, and dis- ease-producing tendencies of all animal oil and fat as an article of diet; thus revealing the reason of God’s prohibition of its use and his command that all the fat be burned up in the sacrifices, and his command to use olive oil and other vegetable oils instead. The pre-Mosaic law which he defended demanded six days of work and a rest every seventh day; and modern science has discov- ered that the human system is arranged and life is built upon the basis of a seventh-day change. At both the lowest ebb in disease and the highest flow in health, science discov- ers nature running to a standstill every seven days, resting and then starting anew. Ask your physician why there is a change in his patient’s condition every seven days. His an- swer that a new batch of bacteria is theu hatched is only half the truth. This “rest” and the tide of action and reaction are neces- sary for life and health to be at their best. What is true of man is also true of all domestic animal life. How did Moses know of these modern scientific facts unless inspired? Man in general has a pre-natal existence of 40x7 days. That constitutional number pre- OF THE MOSAIC LAW 23 arranges the human system for multiples of seven days in breaking up fevers, etc. All birds and fowls also, seem to be built on this seven day principle. The domestic hen hatches in 3x7 days. The duck hatches in 4x7 days. The turkey hatches in 5x7 days. The goose hatches in 6x7 days. Small birds hatch in 2x7 days. Even insects hatch in 7 days or in 34% days, etc. Whole volumes could be written on the wonderful numerical system of the Bible and its symbolic significance. Number 1 symbolizes unity or the deity. Number 38 represents the trinity. Number 4 represents humanity or earthly, visible things. Numbers 5 and 10 are the base of all great numbers up to “ten thousand times ten thousand.”” Number 5 represents the five senses and its double, number 10, includes the soul senses also. The Jewish Rabbins said it was composed of 4 and 1, as an outstretched opened hand with erect thumb; the thumb representing God and the extended fingers representing humanity pros- trate before him. Six was the imperfect num- ber. Seven is the perfect number in Scripture. It is composed of 4 and 3 or the human and divine 24 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER numbers combined and represents a divine humanity. It is the Messianic number as Jesus was both divine and human. Number 12 is the fruit bearing number and is composed of 4 the human number, multiplied by 3 the divine number. As all perfect things are repre- sented by seven, so all fruitful things are repre- sented by twelve; as the twelve months of the year, the twelve patriarchs, apostles, baskets of loaves and fishes, ete. Forty is the dispensational number and 120, as three times 40, or three dispensations, repre- sent the covenant age. Noah was one hundred and twenty years building the ark that repre- sented the ark of the covenant, as the Noachan flood represents the coming tribulation. Moses was one hundred and twenty years old repre- senting the three dispensations of the Patri- archs, Prophets, and Apostles, at the close of which “the prophet like unto Moses,” will lead a universal “exodus” out of this Egyptian world. Modern chemistry discovered the fact that every element has its particular combining proportion and it will combine in no other proportions, but those and their exact multiples; as hydrogen 1 and oxygen 16, which means that 2 lbs. of hydrogen and 16 lbs. of oxygen will OF THE MOSAIC LAW 25 make 18 lbs. of water, and the gases will not combine as water in any other proportion. Pure air is one-fifth oxygen and four-fifths nitrogen. The rocks are about one-half oxygen. This law holds good in all nature and the very construc- tion of the rocks and the balancing of the clouds in the air and all vegetable and animal life de- pend upon its accuracy. Inspiration well asks, ‘Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand ... and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a bal- ance?”’ Intelligence says, God. For instance, The tone of middle C on the piano is made by a string that vibrates 264 times a second, and every string, or reed, that vibrates 264 times a second makes the tone of middle C. This number is divisible by 11—264=24 x11. The octave above middle C is made by a string that vibrates twice as fast as middle C, that is 528 times. This number is also divisible by 11 —528=48x11. The octave below middle C is made by half as many vibrations; that is 132 =12x11. Each string on the piano vibrates in multiples of 11, whether white or black keys, and the spaces between also. For example, middle C = 264, D=297; the difference between them is 38, which is three times 11. The space 26 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER is not always 33, however, sometimes it is 22, and sometimes it is 44, but always a multiple Oh as Our ears are so peculiarly constructed that the vibrations which are musical are pleasing and harmonious, and others the reverse, and this wonderful adaption shows an intelligence and benevolence that no blind chance could possibly have arranged. “‘He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?” ‘“‘He that formed the eye, shall he not see?” Modern science declares that all light is vibrations. Inspiration says, “‘The morning stars sang together.’”’ Moses doubtless did not know that all light was music and music was light, but the God who inspired him did. The infidels of France, after the revolution, changed the sabbath from the seventh to the tenth day; but their mules and horses could not stand this unnatural arrangement and became diseased, and died so rapidly that scientists ap- pointed by the government to investigate the cause found that a return to the seventh-day principle was necessary to long life, as it placed the activities of the animals in harmony with the external and internal laws of nature in general and their own natures in particular. Thus, as one has said, the asses taught the OF THE MOSAIC LAW 27 atheists a lesson in practical theology. Science at least declares that Moses was a modern in scientific knowledge. Russia, today, is in a fair way to learn similar lessons. We might add here, that the command to keep the sabbath is no more authoritative than the other accompanying command, “Six days shalt thou labor.’’ The poorest physical condi- tions are generally developed by an idle life. Health and true happiness are almost impossible in idleness. The action and reaction of work and rest produce health and happiness, and superabundance of leisure generates a flabby, diseased state. Surely, the Creator’s justifica- tion for making toil a necessity is found in part, in the fact that idleness breeds idiocy and work makes for wisdom. The bad are never very busy, and the busy are never very bad. As Jesus said, “‘ Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” He meant by this statement that the necessary principles of the law were deeply laid in the nature and constitu- tion of heaven and earth, and in the souls and bodies of men; and that these moral, psycho- logical, physiological, hygienic, social and eco- nomic requirements were in harmony with moral 28 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER and physical nature and our universal cosmol- ogy. The physical law thus honored by Jesus, the divine philosopher, is the very law that is light- ly cast aside by careless, ignorant people, among both Christians and Jews as ‘‘ceremonialism.” But while the ignorant boast that the law was merely “ceremonial” and is now obsolete and invalid is on their lips, the effects and conse- quences of its rejection are often manifest in their physical lives, as a plague, a consump- tion, and a curse. Those who cast away the word of God will see it transformed into a hissing, stinging ser- pent, like Moses’ staff which it represents, from whose face he may well flee. Well did Jesus say, “ Think not that Iam come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”” There is a scientific and symbolic law, but there never was such a thing in the Bible as a mere ceremonial law. All the nameless and shameless sexual dis- eases that curse ignorance and vice by sending the actors and their offspring prematurely to the grave, spring primarily from the ignoring OF THE MOSAIC LAW 29 of the Mosaic law’s prohibitive commandment against the use of the powers of females at certain times, when the law declared them to be “unclean.” Herein is the origin of syphilitic and similar contagion. There is nothing more poisonous than putrid blood, and through the porous mucous mem- brane this venom is absorbed into the vitals of the system and disease produced as a varied contagion, to spread and curse ignorance and vice with premature contamination, decay, and death. A little thoughtfulness reveals the Mosaic re- quirement, of a continuation of the previously existent practice of circumcision itself, to be a similarly scientific, healthful, intelligent and sanitary precaution, against the incubation of venereal bacilli and the contracting and spread- ing of disease. This incubation of original dis- ease germs becomes almost a physical impossi- bility in males, after circumcision. Of course, this does not safeguard against disease when in contact with an organ already diseased. God declares that he ‘‘visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that break his com- mandments; and shows mercy unto thousands of them that love him.” Herein is a very re- 30 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER markable statement, for modern scientific blood tests reveal that the taints of syphilitic bacteria and kindred contamination in the blood always reach to the “third generation”? and never in virulent form beyond the “‘fourth.’”’ Was this originally scientific statement of Moses a mere fortuitous guess, or was he inspired of God? An Austrian professor by the name of Gregor Mendel, in recent years proved to the satisfac- tion of all true scientists that a true bio-genetic law exists in nature, which prevents any and all creatures from passing on to their offspring any faculty or instinct that they did not themselves receive in fertilization. Further experiments with Mendel’s law on rabbits, guinea pigs, pigeons, chickens, etc., of different varieties, colors and characteristics, reveal the fact that cross-breeds, semi-hybrids, ete., correct their parental mixing, to one hundred per cent of pure breed, of each parent, in three to four genera- tions. This last fact places a modern scientific verification on Moses’ statement as to pure, as well as diseased blood; and reveals it in animals as well as in man. Mendel’s law also verifies Moses’ statement that all creatures reproduce only, ‘‘after their kind,” and not otherwise, as organic, evolutionists declare. Science has but recently discovered these astounding facts. ae a ee a ee a ee OF THE MOSAIC LAW 31 If Moses was not divinely inspired, how did he manage to “scoop” modern science in these several particulars by nearly four thousand years? Men spend the whole period of their lives to- day to become proficient in but one branch of science. We herein prove Moses to have been an advanced specialist in all the essential sciences from geology up to astronomy, includ- ing the vital sciences. As this is a feat beyond mere human possibility, his inspiration is proved thereby and the divine authority of his writings is thus further established. Science evidently knew nothing of many of these facts till very recently. The above radical regulations on preventive sexual hygiene, sound as if they were written in the present decade, by an advanced authority on practical eugenics. God made the keeping of this physiological necessity doubly safe by appealing to the relig- ious instinct of his people for its enforcement, because at that time it was too early in the his- tory of the intellectural development of the race to show the scientific, bacteriological necessity thereof. The Mosaic prohibition of nearly four thous- and years ago, against mixed seeds in field or vineyard is an active modern principle of good 32 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER agriculture and horticulture. This command safeguards the crops from hurtful crossing and accidental misegenation, that tends to ruinous degeneracy. It looks as if the whole science of pollen activity or essential fertilization in seed life lay open before Moses, as before our modern savants. A similar Mosaic command safeguarded the various breeds and species of cattle and fowl against similar deterioration. ‘‘Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind.” All the best breeds of cattle, horses, sheep, chickens, etc., are built up to their best, modern, prize- winning status on this principle of forced dis- association from all other kinds. If this princi- ple of perfect isolation in breeding is not thoroughly safeguarded, the result is degener- acy and defeat. Ask the standard-bred cattle raiser, or prize-chicken fancier, about this fact. The prohibition against using an ox with a horse or ass, had a modern humanitatian basis and considered the uncongeniality of these ani- mals for association with each other. Their diverse step, rate of speed, objects of fear, degree of sensitiveness, etc., entirely unfitted them for working companions, and till this day the ex- perimental intelligence of man has largely ac- quiesced in this command, and we exempt these OF THE MOSAIC LAW 33 domestic animals from the cruelty of this forced companionship. The legal prohibition against the sexes’ inter- change of clothes is a vital question to this day, and good will it be for the health and morals of the race in our midst, if the precepts and practice of our fathers are upheld in general, and the question is finally settled in harmony with God’s command by Moses in Deut. 22:5. Only as a necessary working expediency should we depart from this rule. The general tendency toward departure from the Word of God herein, and to dress women in men’s clothes has a co- extensive tendency to break down the divine protection of maidenly modesty and endanger the virtues, morals, health and happiness of all participants therein. The additional prohibition against the use of garments of mixed wool and linen is doubtless more than a mere religious rite, or type of separation between the moral truth, taught by - garments received from animal sacrifice and the natural ones that represent the educational fruit of the earth. This is really the distinction between the sacrifices of Abel and Cain. The one was a practical confession of sin and the need of a vicarious sacrifice; the other was a mere evolutionary offering of the self-developed 3 34 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER fruit of the earth. It was ancient ‘ Modern- ism.” An old-timer fuller, in his experience with the shrinking of woolen goods and the almost co- equal expansion of linen goods, instantly saw the reason for the Mosaic command. The law therein protected the ignorant weaver from do- ing that ‘mingling’ which would be ruinous to his hopes and destroy the market value of his product. God, as a father, thus revealed his interest in the most minute plans and actions of his people. And, remember, that all this was away back nearly four thousand years ago, before personal experience had taught any people the reason of these things, which the law thus controlled and safeguarded. The Mosaic command for the seventh, or sabbatic, year of rest, not only for the people but for the whole land of Israel, is another scientific arrangement that modern investiga- tion has scarcely overtaken, as was also the land sabbath of each fiftieth year, as the “Year of Jubilee.”’ In certain sections of the world’s modern agri- cultural belts, human effort is cursed by certain fruit and vegetable insect pests that some years destroy hundreds of millions of dollars worth of crops. Many of these destructive insects, as _—_ —— a OF THE MOSAIC LAW 35 the locusts, the chinchbug, the cotton weevil, etc., live in warm countries, protected from kill- ing frosts, and are as largely dependent for ex- istence on the particular annual crops in which they multiply, as are the people that plant those crops. Nothing will kill these noxious pests like an utter absence of that particular crop from all the land for a year. This leaves the insect plague no hatching or feeding fields for their myriads of young, and consequent ex- termination follows. Though the rotation of crops can do much toward such extermination, yet it cannot kill off all the swarms, since all farmers do not rotate together and leave the land entirely free from hatching and feeding places for a year. Enough of these prolific breeders are able to travel from one untilled locality to another, where that desired crop is planted, to live over and thus populate the entire region with clouds of pests for the next harvest. The years of sabbatic and jubilee rest, for the entire land, fully met this need and ex- tinguished whole clouds of this baneful bacteria, fungi and insect plagues. It would be well for our Federal agricultural department to experi- ment with this ignored command of the old Jew- ish law-giver, who seems to speak in the very 36 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER wisdom and authority of God himself. This point alone is a sufficient justification for the Mosaic command, but there are many others of almost equal value, among which are the year of land-rest and recuperation, thus giving moral and mental education to the people and the double restoration to strength and vital fertility through non-use for a year. Yet this was all made to illustrate and enforce religious training and educational expansion in morals that it would be well for us to emulate. —— «at! s ee ee CHAPTER II WHAT we call sanitation, God, in a sense, calls physical sanctification; and what we call right living, he calls righteous living. What we see to be desirable, or good, he calls virtuous. Only those things whose physical effects or ultimate outworking were baneful, were for- bidden by him as morally bad. All moral authority rests just here, in that the thing con- demned as immoral will eventually produce baneful physical results. To those who would enjoy his greatest mercies of health and happiness God in the Law prohibited the eating of swine’s flesh, and licenses as eatable the bodies of only such animals as ‘‘divided the hoof and chewed the cud.” Why was this distinction made? It has a reason in the deep-seated nature of things; but it is primarily a physiological and a hygienic, rather than a moral, question. The animal that chewed the cud and divided the hoof, such as the ox, sheep, goat, deer, buffalo, etc., because of the saculated condition of the alimentary canal and the secondary cud (37) 38 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER receptacle, have practically three stomachs, as refining agencies and cleansing laboratories, for the purifying of their food; thus weeding out from their systems most of the poisonous and deleterious matter. It thus takes their clean, vegetable food over twenty-four hours to be turned into flesh, which flesh even the pre- Mosaic law said was “clean.” This was not mere “ceremonial” cleansing, but it was hy- gienically and physiologically clean and whole- some. The dietary habits of all such vegetarian animals were also clean in comparison with that of the omnivorous swine. On examining the swine’s anatomy, we find that, as a supple- ment to his bad appetite he has but one poorly- constructed stomach arrangement and very limited excretory organs generally. Conse- quently, in about three hours after he has eaten his polluted swill, putrid carrion, or other offensive matter, man may eat the same at second-hand off the ribs of the pig. This flesh the law condemns as unclean; not merely ceremonially unclean, but hygienically and physiologically as well. In the nature of things, it is gross, diseased, and deadly; manu- factured out of the basest and most diseased and polluted material and in the crudest and OF THE MOSAIC LAW 39 speediest way. The diet of the pig is so deadly that it generally kills the animal itself in about eight or ten years. This is possibly caused, in part at least, by the powerful disinfectant and germicidal element that nature kindly thrusts into the system of all carnivorous and some omnivorous creatures. The swine is a scaven- ger, the turkey buzzard of the animal kingdom, the hyena or jackal of civilization; and, not- withstanding the preaching of some to the con- trary, God has never cleansed or sanctified or transformed him. He is still a hog. Those who kept this divine and pre-Mosaic law were to be blessed with health and happiness, and those who broke it were to be cursed with disease and death; but the bliss or blight is automatic and imparted, in measure, as men act. The flesh of the swine is, by many authorities on the subject, said to be the prime cause of much of our American ill-health; causing blood dis- eases, weakness of the stomach and liver troubles; also consumption, cancer, tumors, eczema, etc. These deadly diseases are scarcely known among the non-pork-eating Jews and Orientals generally. There is said to be no word for cancer in the original Hebrew language, nor is the word in the New Testament, because God’s eastern 40 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER people were not swine-eaters. Our cold western winters largely form our defence against blood poison and death from our base bill of fare. If you examine carefully you will find a small abrasion just behind the front foot of the pig. Rub it off clean and press the leg just above the abrasion and you may squeeze a _ teaspoonful of dirty matter from it. This is an outlet toa sewer-pipe that may be traced all through the animal’s body. It helps to drain off the teeming filth with which the system is filled. If this ex- ternal opening becomes clogged, the animal will run about and grunt and rub his leg on anything handy, and manifest great pain. He seems al- most to know that he will soon sicken of so- called ‘“‘cholera’”’ and blood-poison and die of his own internal filth, unless he keeps this sewer open. On a close analysis of this filthy, scrofulous serum, or the “culture” of its bacilli under varied conditions, it is seen to contain the ele- ments of many dangerous diseases; yet how toothsome is pickled pigs’ feet to ignorance, un- belief, and disobedience. It is this internal and intrinsic vileness that causes a large percentage of our hogs to be filled with trichina and results in such havoc to human health. We might be excused from diverting our OF THE MOSAIC LAW 41 attention from the scientific side of this dis- cussion long enough to insert a few remarks on this heaven-forbidden American delicacy. This creature that has been condemned both logically and theologically, takes precedence with ignor- ance over all the creatures of creation as an arti- cle of diet. He, of all creatures, is literally devoured. His body is eaten, his head turned into head cheese, and even his ears and tail inserted. His blood is turned into blood pud- ding; his stomach is transformed into tripe; his feet are pickled; his intestines are used for sausage covers, his heart, liver, and kidneys are cooked; and his very bristles are sought for wax ends, etc. There is not even his “grunt” left unused, for the transgressors against God and nature’s laws take up this undesirable remnant, and often “grunt’’ with disease and ““squeal’’ in pain caused by their folly. Surely aman is what he eats. Is the law against this dirty, deadly diet obsolete? Ask the dyspeptic, the cancerous victim, or the consumptive. As articles of diet, Moses condemns by name and description all purely carnivorous birds and animals, and modern science discovers a poison- ous substance in their flesh—a secondary result of flesh-eating. His description is practically the distinction between the turkey and the 42 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER turkey buzzard. To see that diet has much to do with disposition as well as disease, one has but to compare the vegetarian animals, such as the ox, sheep, deer, goat, buffalo, horse, etc., with the flesh-eating lion, tiger, lynx, jaguar, cat, etc. Itis hard to educate out what is fed into a creature. Hygienic science today in every land acknowledges a basic soundness in these Mosiac and pre-Mosaic prohibitions. The fowls and fishes sanctioned by the Mosaic bill of fare are designated on this same principle of eternal fitness in the nature of things. The creatures rejected are insectivorous or carnivor- ous, or have a dearth of digestive and assimila- tive purity, and those that are accepted have a distinctive gizzard and scale-arrangement that constitutes a peculiar grinding, refining and cleansing laboratory, which, with their purer dietary, largely assure physiological exemption from disease in their flesh. This is especially true of the pheasant family, including the chicken and turkey. ‘Their dirty diet would make their bodies deadly were it not for the peculiar gizzard-arrangement. The scale-less fishes and all shell fish, including the oyster, clam, lobster, etc., modern science dis- covers to be but lumps of vitalized and disease- producing filth, because of inadequate excretion. OF THE MOSAIC LAW 43 So vile are these creatures, that even the densest ignorance can be induced to use them only in our coldest seasons. If they were to be used in warm countries, like Palestine, or in warm seasons here, they would prove as ruinous to health as Moses declared they would be. On the bodies of shell fish, and protected by thelr shells, disease bacteria’ of various kinds often find prolific breeding places. Like excessive pork-eaters, the users of shell-fish delicacy owe much to the cold seasons for the preservation of their lives. The lives also of all flesh-eating animals are not only made thereby vicious and pugnacious, but are also shortened. in comparison to the lives of vegetarian animals. Modern science has forced the world to respect and accept the Mosaic bill of fare as hygienic. God knew the deadly tendency of the flesh diet generally, espe- cially in warm countries, and thus guarded His people against its secondary influence. In the two enunciations of the Adamic bill of fare, attributed to the Almighty, by Moses, in Genesis the first and third chapters, there is a comprehensive and scientific hygiene which proves that Moses was inspired, or otherwise an expert in modern “hygiology” four thousand years ago. 44 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER In the first instance, Moses says Adam was told by the Lord that the human dietary was to be from the “herbs and trees in which were fruit seeding seed in themselves,” while to all the birds and animals he gave ‘‘the green herb for meat.” This was before Adam disobeyed and fell, when he was given a dietary suitable to the unlimited longevity that was presumably to be his. After he had fallen, he was permissively cursed with lingering miseries, which would make his slowly approaching death an educa- tional mercy. He was told that he would “eat of the herb of the field.”” He had lowered him- self to the level of the mere animals and hence was permitted to eat of their food. Notice that, according to Moses, God did not command Adam to eat of the herb of the field, but just simply called attention to the fact that he would do so, in his ignorance, which was a fruit of his fallen state. Ere we look at the nature of this distinction, we desire to ask, who can say that the new and gross dietary was to have no part in the miseries, ignorance, and death that was to follow? Why was this dinctinction made? It involves the difference between all fruits, nuts, and cereals on the one hand, and mere vegetables on the OF THE MOSAIC LAW 45 other. This is God’s distinction. Now, some may not recognize the clear outline that exists between the cereals and the mere vegetables. All cereals, fruits, and nuts, as a resultant off- spring from the original vegetable body, have a double remove from the filth and poison that is known to be in the fertility of the chemical drift, and often also in the irrigating water; while the mere vegetable has no such oppor- tunity of chemically purifying itself. In the case of vegetables, called here “the green herb of the field,” as cabbage, turnips, beets, carrots, lettuce, spinach, etc., the whole body is eaten. Not so with the fruits, nuts and cereals, for here the chemistry of life, in a sort of second growth out from the original body (which is itself discarded as not edible), pro- duces the pure nutritious fruit. The varied, mystic and vital forces latent in the seed, select from the crude and unrefined chemic substances the elements to compose the particular body of the tree, bush, vine, cornstalk, straw, etc. Then, partially from the refined substance of their own bodies, through the medium of this vital, self-acting, complex machine, they are enabled to much more perfectly purify and re- fine the chemic elements which enter into their fruits and grains, as the seed and source of future 46 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER life. Chemical analysis proves this, and while granting common identity between the sub- stances of the tree and its fruits; between the stalk and the bean, yet it discovers much greater purity, refinement and condensed nutrition in the latter than in the former. In fact herein is found the natural reason for many of the mere vegetables, such as beets, turnips, parsnips, etc., requiring two years in which to produce seed. The first season is spent in refining and storing pulp, and in constructing the more crude, physi- cal machine of the stalk or body, from which and through which to produce in the next season, the more delicate, nutritious and condensed life kernels. Mere animals may browse the berry bushes and branches of the fruit trees, but not so with man. Animals may eat the straw of the oats, barley, wheat, corn, beans, peas, etc., but man may not. Mere animals were divinely intended to eat the coarse, pulpy body of the green herb, while man was largely to have a purer, a more nutritious, intensive and healthful diet. Now, to show the particular value of this dis- tinction, the true botanist, the chemist, and the hygienist, all declare that there is generally an average of between five and twenty-five per cent of nutrition in mere vegetables, and between six- OF THE MOSAIC LAW 47 ty and ninety per cent of nutrition in the cereals and nuts. The fruits are generally acknow- ledged as nutritious, germicidal appetizers, palatable laxatives, and system cleansers in general. To more perfectly prove this point, we have but to remember that when we want to either fatten or strengthen an animal, we give it grains, while mere vegetation in the best sense supplies neither. A horse, a cow, sheep, or even a chicken, deprived of grain, shows poor results. Thus, also many a man, woman and child is undernourished, if not half-starved, on a purely vegetable diet. A return to the diet of cereals, nuts, and fruits would produce to humanity the best results in health, intelligence, and longevity. This bill of fare, which is now being recognized and advocated by all advanced hygienists, and but lately inaugurated in the best of our sani- tariums, was clearly set forth by the old Jewish law-giver four thousand years ago, as God’s dis- tinction given nearly two thousand years before that. If Moses was not inspired of God, we ask how did he come to be four millenniums ahead of the scientists of his day, in giving this scientific distinction in his modern bill of fare? Wearetold that the Bible term, “firmament,” is an ancient blunder. But look closer at this 48 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER word “firmament.” Apologists suggest that Moses simply made a mistake, speaking after the manner of men; but did he? Dr. Kinns, in his great book, Moses and Geology, declares that the original term, ‘‘rakiya’’ means that which is spread out, or overspreads; an ‘‘ex- panse,’”’ rather than a solid sphere. Now, read the word ‘‘expanse”’ where “firmament” occurs, and not only is there no contradiction as to the facts of astronomy, but perfect harmony. Moses actually anticipated modern science. And this is one of the ‘mistakes of Moses,” so-called. Another “error’’ was that of the revolution of the heavenly bodies around the earth. After Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo taught the true law of the solar system, men raised an outcry against the Bible. And yet it is now found to be in perfect accord with the discoveries of mod- ern science, that the earth is not flat, but a sphere, and that it moves with perfect uniform- ity on its axis. Doctor Arthur T. Pierson well says, “When the modern science of geology began to unwrap the earth’s coverings and reveal the records of the rocks, timid faith grew pale and trembled for the Word of God. A vast age was revealed for our globe, and what must we do with the ‘mis- takes of Moses’? How came these fossils or OF THE MOSAIC LAW 49 organic remains in the rocks—and in such quantities that coral reefs represent countless millions of zodphytes, and mountain masses are composed of shells not larger than a grain of sand? The Tuscan hills are built of chambered shells so small that one ounce of stone contains over ten thousand, and the dust that falls from the chalk at the blackboard under the micro- scope proves to be fossils. What enormous periods were required for living creatures to build such masses as these.” Some have attempted to account for the de- posit of these fossils by the convulsions attend- ing the Deluge; others have suggested that God built the world out of fossils, in which life had never dwelt; so that the rocks, after all, really lie to us. Others have been ready to thunder anathemas against science, because they could not reconcile it with Scripture; after the fasnion of the Brahmin, who, when the micro- scope showed him the folly of his pagan notions and practices, rid himself of his doubts by dash- ing the microscope into fragments. Surely, the Bible cannot need such methods of defense. If truth be divided against itself, how, then shall his kingdom stand? The correspondence between the Mosaic ac- count of creation and the most advanced dis- 4 50 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER coveries of science now proves that only He who built the world built the Book. Note a few instances. Geology now teaches a watery waste at first, whose dense vapors shut out light. Moses affirms that, at first, the earth was a formless void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Geology makes life to precede clear light, and the life develops beneath the deep. Moses pre- sents the creative spirit as ‘‘brooding over that great deep,’”’ before God said “Let light be.”’ Geology makes the atmosphere to form an “expanse” or so-called firmament, by lifting watery vapors into dense clouds and so separat- ing the foundations of waters above from those below. Moses affirms the same. Geology tells us that continents next lifted themselves from beneath the great deep, and bore vegetation. Moses, also, declared that the dry land appeared, and brought forth grass, herb and the tree, exactly correspondent to the three orders of primeval vegetation. Modern geology then asserts that the heavens became cleared of clouds, and that the sun and moon and stars appeared. Moses does not say, as only ignorance asserts, that God created all these heavenly bodies on the fourth creative OF THE MOSAIC LAW 51 day, but that they then began to serve or to divide day from night, in visible appearance, and to become signs for seasons, days and years. Moses says that “In the beginning God created the heavens (first) and the earth (last).”’ Geology then shows us sea monsters, reptiles, and winged creatures. Moses, likewise, reveals the waters bringing forth moving and creeping creatures and fowl flying in the “expanse.” Geology next unfolds, the races of quadruped mammals, and so Moses makes cattle and beast of the earth to follow, in the same order. And on the sixth day of creation, geology brings man on the scene last of all; and so does Moses. And no self-confessed descendant of mere animals ever found any new species, since man appeared. In this, atheists agree that Moses was right. The latest geology makes the first light not purely solar, but chemical, or ‘‘cosmical.”’ Moses makes light to precede, not the creation of the sun, but the first clear appearance of the sun, by the space of three creative days. The sun itself was created with the astronomi- cal heavens, first. Look at the order of animal creation. Geology and comparative anatomy combine to teach that the order of creation was 52 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER from lower to higher. Fish, proportion of brain tospinal cord,2to1. Reptiles,2144tol. Birds, 3tol. Mammals,4tol. Man, 33tol. Now this is exactly the order of Moses. Who told Moses what modern comparative anatomy has recently discovered in the branches of ichthyol- ogy and ornithology, that fish and reptile come below birds and mammals? And these are some more of the “mistakes of Moses.”’ Here isa record of creation, produced twenty to thirty centuries before science un- veiled these modern facts; and yet there is not one blunder or error scientifically revealed and the coincidences and correspondences are so many and so marked, that a modern scientist has confessed that if one should sketch briefly the celestial mechanism of LaPlace, the Cosmos of Humboldt and the latest system of geology, no simpler and sublimer words could be found than those of Moses. Again, geology shows us that the vast plants of the great coal age are such as never grew in clear sunlight, but in long-continued shade; they are such as must have fed upon an at- mosphere full of vapor, and their wood is not hardened, as it would have been under sunshine. Who taught Moses to put the growth of that earliest vegetation in the damp, shady period OF THE MOSAIC LAW 53 preceding the first clear appearance of the sun in the sky, on the fourth creative day? And thus, ‘The very stones are made to cry out,” in confirmation of God’s word! Modern astronomy proves that other worlds were formed before our solar system, and Moses was therefore right in placing the creation of the heavens including the sun, first, and the earth last. We should notice here that the Hebrew word asah should not have been translated “‘made,” but “appointed.” Moses here says of the fourth day of creation, not that at that time God made the sun and the moon, but that at that time he ‘‘appointed”’ them “for signs and for seasons.’”’ They were made in the distant ‘‘beginning,’”’ when ‘God created the heavens and the earth,’’ but ob- scured and shaded from vision by the water-belt or aqueous condition of the atmosphere above referred to; but at this period regular seasons began. “Geology teaches six periods of creation, ex- tending through long ages. Only to superficial thought does Moses appear to teach six days of twenty-four hours each. But on examining closely, we find the Hebrew word, Yom, means a period of time, and is often used of indefinite periods or seasons. The first chapter of Genesis, 54 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER sceptics triumphantly say, makes the creative periods to be measured by twenty-four hours; and yet, in Gen. 2:4 it is used of the whole time occupied in creation. In Psalms 95:8, the words “‘in the day of temptation,”’ means forty years. We use the English word with the same loose- ness of application. A “polar day” means six months; “The day of grace,’”’ means the entire period of probation. Origen and Augustine long ago suggested that “day”’ might mean an indefinite period, and maintained that the Hebrew word was indefinite and when the Bible declares that “One day is with the Lord as a thousand years,’ it gives a clew and a key to its own interpretation. Again, you will notice that of these creative “days’’ Moses said, ‘‘and the evening and the morning were the first day.” If the solar day is meant, why begin with the evening? The solar day obviously begins with the sunrise. To account for this curious feature in the Mosaic record by the fact that the Jews reckoned their day from sunset to sunset, is to reason in a circle, for it was from this first chapter of Genesis that such an unnatural mode of reckoning proceeded. Now, when we turn to geology and find that each creative period began in an evening and developed into a morning (light developing out OF THE MOSAIC LAW 55 of darkness and order out of confusion) we see why Moses was guided to make each day to begin with the evening. Mr. Tullidge well says, that ‘‘with the ad- vance of discovery, the opposition supposed to exist between Revelation and Geology has dis- appeared; and of the eighty theories which the French Institute in 1806 counted as hostile to the Bible, not one now stands.” I must here refer to another pre-scientific statement of great importance made by Moses. This statement is found in Genesis 1:24, especially, but repeated about eight or ten times in this one chapter. Perhaps this repeti- tion is purely for stress and prominence, as God knew how in these last days this fact would need to be emphasized, especially in opposition to a false science. ‘‘And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.” Here is an originally-stated scientific fact of biology, that all the research of earth cannot shake and the atheistic materialism of the age cannot con- found. This law of true reproduction has been attacked by atheists and agnostics in all ages, yet the result but glorifies the fact as here 56 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER stated by Moses. No ingenuity of man has been able to make plants, fishes, birds, or animals ever reproduce but exactly “after their kind.”’ No rocks of earth ever revealed a single fossil that belied this law of life, by showing a transitional specimen. Nature’s im- mutability in reproduction stands there as un- shaken as Gibraltar. This unchanging stability in the reproduction of all life, only ‘after its kind,” has been perfectly established and ac- knowledged only in our day, by such great scientists as Gregor Mendel, William Bateson, Dr. Virchow, Prof. Winchell and others. But it was clearly stated by Moses over four thousand years before modern science found it out. Yes, Moses said this four thousand years nearer the so-called ‘‘cave dwellers,’ ‘prehistoric man,”’ etc., when men were supposed to be just emerg- ing from the brute state. Was he inspired of God, or how did he come to know this pre- scientific fact, of universal acceptance today? This biogenetic fact of exact reproduction, only “after its kind,” is the real death-knell of organic evolution, as the method of life’s origin and development. Moses was surely right in saying, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,’”’ and, that man was the last of God’s OF THE MOSAIC LAW 57 creation. Modern science is forced to acknowl- edge that this is the correct order—the astro- nomical heavens, including the sun, first, and the earth last. It also acknowledges that no new forms of life have appeared on this earth since man’s arrival here. It has cost modern science years of research to arrive at this safe conclusion. Surely “the word of the Lord abideth forever.” Moses also declares that man had a moral nature and an intelligent and definite language when he first appeared, and not the meaning- less and noisy chatter of brute ignorance, and the ape-man cry of mere pain or pleasure. He says further that the original or primitive man gave names to all creatures, that modern science acknowledges contained a zodlogical meaning or constitutional recognition of their distinctive and particular characters. There is not a scientist in the world who can do it today without references to textbooks. And, remem- ber these professors have gone to school all their lives, and Adam never went to school a day. | But that feat was performed before man fell, when he had the unhindered, intuitional wisdom of God. It will not help these atheists to deny that Adam thus named these creatures, and 58 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER attribute that feat to Moses himself; for that would raise only a larger problem. How could Moses do this without inspiration, as no science of his day had been developed on that line? It took the science of our day to reveal these facts. CHAPTER III NORMAL and virtuous moods and passions are affirmative, constructive, and life-impart- ine—refreshing the animal spirits, causing natural molecular motion and true rhythmic vibration and nerve action, thus purifying the blood and building up healthy tissue. On the contrary, we see all this reversed by abnormal, vicious, negative, and forbidden passions; thus a person’s stomach becomes upset after a fit of anger, fear, jealousy, revenge, etc. This forms a scientific reason and justification for God’s forbidding, in both Testaments, the ex- ercise of those negative and destructive affec- tions. As God says, “ Wrath killeth the foolish man and envy slayeth the silly one.” We see the infant die of spasms in it mother’s arms, after the latter has given up to some of these strong, negative emotions. We examine carefully and discover that the infant nursed enough poison in lacteal form from its mother’s breast to cause its death. Though psycholo- gically originated, this deadly ptomaine was (59) 60 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER formed through the spirit action, by the nega- tive and forbidden emotions of the mother. We see a man fall dead or become temporari- ly insane with brain-storm, after a great fright, loss, fit of jealousy, anger, etc. Upon investi- gation, we discover that the nervous system was upset; the symphonous, vital vibration of health was deranged, and his heart could not throw off the atoms of ptomaine or alkaloid poison he was generating in his negative spiritual state, fast enough to save him from psychic congestion, or death from blood poison- ing. Consequently his brain reeled or his heart failed to beat. Inspiration said nearly four thousand years ago, as Just quoted, “Wrath killeth the foolish man and envy slayeth the silly one.” Science is just now in the gray dawn of in- vestigation of this vital connecting link between moral philosophy and psychological physiology. The chemistry of psychology, and the super- conscious and sub-conscious realms of the soul, are largely new fields in our therapeutical in- vestigations. Yet Moses, four thousand years ago, seemed to fully understand their existence and the existence and function of the solar plexus, or involuntary, subliminal brain with its intuitive selections and almost instinctive OF THE MOSAIC LAW 61 conclusions and their automatic or electro- magnetic influence on life, through the volun- tary and involuntary nerve system. He understood the psychological cause and character of the abnormal and poisonous secre- tions that are created by and thrown out of the negative spirit life, into the circulatory system, and stored up like an adder’s poison in every secretory gland of the body. He knew the unnatural fermentation that these atoms of alkaloid poison caused in the blood, brain and nervous system, like leaven in meal, or the electro-magnetic agency that kills embryonic birds in the egg, or curds milk in a summer thunder storm. Asa therapeutist and bacteri- ologist of great insight, Moses seemed to under- stand methods of both augmentation and relief from these toxinated conditions. In the fifth chapter of Numbers, there is recorded a unique trial of jealousy and lewdness, which shows that Moses had a thorough knowledge of the chemical changes that are made in the nervous system, the blood and the secretions of the body by the abnormal and destructive psychological states. He knew that when this abnormal condition is coupled with certain artificially produced pathological con- ditions a very deadly toxin is generated in the 62 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER system that rots the very bowels and the flesh, and soon paralyzes the heart action. When the consciousness of innocence is felt and normal, moral, mental and nervous con- ditions of vital vibration are retained, this ptomaine poison is not generated in the system, and the artificially changed physical condition caused by drinking a certain “bitter water,” such as hyssop extract, etc., would fail to pro- duce the fatal combination and the “bitter water’’ would be safe to drink. The system in its normal state largely refuses to retain hyssop tea; thus it makes a good purgative. (David uses this knowledge, as an illustration, in his prayer for the bitterness of repentance— “‘ Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean.’’) But the abnormal, negative state of conscious guilt produces a condition where the system retains it, and, in conjunction with the alkaloid poison already generated in the system, a deadly venom is produced and fatal results follow. When the consciously guilty person drank this ‘bitter water,” in the avowed presence of God and under oath of innocence, the abnormal psychological agitation in the voluntary and involuntary brain-system, caused by the in- tensified consciousness of guilt and fear (two OF THE MOSAIC LAW 63 powerful, negative states of mind), in conjunc- tion with the unnatural physical condition, produced this virus in great quantities, and also created an abnormal, rhythmic, electro-mag- netic action in the heart and nervous system. This double abnormality was so unnatural and severe that the most terrible blood-poison, nervous collapse and eventual death were caused by the combined shock. Jesus refers to this very truth of the Mosaic law, and declares deliverance to be a part of the phenomena that follows a true faith, or heart confidence in His Messiahship. ‘These signs shall follow them that believe. If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them,” etc. Like Moses, he knew the power of mind over matter, through the subtle activities of the super-conscious soul, influenced by His Spirit. This, in part, is the scientific basis of faith for real divine healing. Moses’ directions for the cleansing of lepers, etc. (Lev. 14), is not only an interesting symbol of gospel cleansing, but it is a clear promise of something like modern divine healing, psychic suggestion, mind cure, soul science, faith heal- ing, electro-magnetic changes, etc. It is closely allied to cures produced by psycho- analysis, which many of our most prominent 64 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER scientists believe to be a great possibility. It is a suggestive hint at a new psychopathy that seems to be struggling for recognition today, as a real “soul science” or appreciation and control of essential life vibration. This faith, or heart confidence, restores the true, soul attitude and health currents, and the normal nerve and brain functioning that makes disease almost an impossibility. Sin is declared by both scripture and science to be co-extensive death: thus we see why God, as a father, pro- hibits it. Surely in these particulars, Moses is a modern, a real transcendentalist. Now, since not a particle of this advanced psychology was ever taught by any people in Moses’ day, and even in our own day, we are in but the dawn of investigation of these sub- jects, Moses is again seen to be either in- spired of God or else he is four thousand years ahead of the science of his day. Instead of a useless waste of money and effort on mere ceremonialism as many assert, the aromatic anointings and the fragrant incense burned at religious festivals in the temple offerings formed a pre-scientific fumigation of the fetid atmosphere. It also served as an effective disinfectant for the hordes of ignorant nomadic worshippers who assembled at Ee ee OF THE MOSAIC LAW 65 Jerusalem, etc. The fragrant “anointing oil’ and the odorous smoke from the burning of those pungent, aromatic plants and spicy, sweet- scented gums, formed the most perfect atmos- pheric germicidal agency and safeguard against infectious diseases. It also served as an in- structive symbol of true worship, prayer and divine and brotherly love, and of religious dis- positions and affections in general. Because of this scientific arrangement of the Mosaic law, the massive worshipping crowds that thronged the Hebrew temple, were spared the infectious plagues that often slew thousands in their spread from Mecca and the so-called holy shrines of the heathen, where God’s law was un- known or ignored. Where did Moses learn of these potential bacteriological infections, and their prevention by disinfectant fumigation, four thousand years ahead of the learning of his day, if inspiration is impossible?’ Why do our modern scientists only after years of research, use practically the same principles of fumigation for disinfecting purposes? We answer, that all sound science springs from God’s suggestive spirit-whispers, to reflective, listening genius. All sound science, therefore, leads back to Him as its true source, and glorifies His Word as the law of life, 5 66 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER given by inspiration long before modern re- search was born. Every usage or command in the Mosaic law is thus laid deep in the cosmic nature of things, and in harmony with man’s constitutional need and nature’s law. This law was divinely given for our physical, mental, social, moral and economic benefit; not merely to please God. Its provisions, therefore, are binding on all people today who would enjoy the mercies of peace, health and happiness that the law promises to obedience. And, as Jesus said, in the nature of things, ‘Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle can in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” This is the very heart of the gospel revealed in the law. In all true religion, the spirit im- parts a new heredity—divine life impulse, which predisposes and empowers the soul to assume these states, or altruistic dispositions, or graces, with all their constructive and attrac- tive possibilities. The assumption of these normal attitudes and emotions, harmonize the soul and body, both with each other and with nature and nature’s God. They invigorate the subconscious and superconscious soul, unify the divided mental states, rejuvenate the weak- ened and vibrant nerve system, and vitalize the OF THE MOSAIC LAW 67 body, by restoring nature’s true equipoise, and cause the blood to circulate fresh and health- fully in the upbuilding of the best brain and body tissue. Whatever agency, either vicious or virtuous, that influences our affections or our mentations, correspondingly influence our lives. Surely “as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.’”’ And again, ‘keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.’ This fact of science justifies Moses in his several com- mandments to love God with all our hearts and to meditate constantly upon his law. Men live as they love. Our loves shape our lives. The influence of such thought and love is the most potent agency in developing a virtuous and God-like character on the part of the actor. This same principle of psychological chem- istry is referred to by Moses in the fifth chapter of Leviticus. There is also a distinction made here that is both illuminating and important. The statement is made that if one touch an un- clean person, or thing or vile carcass, even though he be ignorant of that fact he is never- theless defiled, and needs the cleansing pre- scribed by the law. His ignorance is no safe- guard against the consequences of a violation of bacteriological law, as the germs of the 68 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER threatened distemper are already planted on his body by his own action, and nothing but the scientific and sanitary cleansing prescribed by the law can remove them and avert the threatened malady. If he fails to do this, the very acquisition of the distemper would be the proof, as well as the punishment, of the sin. Contrasted with this essential and unchang- ing material truth, Moses brings to light in the next statement the variable fact that if a person mistakenly, yet honestly, swears to that which is not true, it is not sin to him till he is made aware of that fact. Then, if he would continue to receive immunity from baneful physical re-. sults, he must meet the requirements of the law for that particular sin. The intelligent basis for this requirement is to be found in the chemical changes which modern science has proved to be produced in the secretions by the altered spiritual and psychological states. While this mistaken witness was in all good faith swearing to what he believed to be the fact, his conscience was clear; his mind was free from worry and his subconscious soul kept its proper equipoise and normal activity; hence no abnormal or baneful results followed. All this became instantly changed the moment his mistake was revealed and as Moses OF THE MOSAIC LAW 69 said, he became “guilty and unclean.” As in the case of the unchaste woman above referred to, the consciousness of guilt produced the changed psychological state and threw the whole soul, brain and nervous system into an abnormal functioning, measured in its intensity by the degree of conscious wrong. The animate secretions would then become correspondingly poisoned at the very fountain of being. The involuntary magnetic life-action of the sub- conscious soul, brain and nerve system would then be strained and erratic, all vital vibration would become abnormal, and the ultimate rhythm of health would be fundamentally un- balanced and chaotic. These fearful consequences would all be abolished, however, by the consciousness of ex- emption from guilt on the part of all who obeyed the divine or Mosaic injunction of con- fession, restitution, sacrifice, etc. This is moral science, modern psychiatry (or soul- science) at the very vanguard of modern thought; yet Moses, nearly four thousand years ago, chronicled these facts in the rough. Was that fortuitous guessing, or was he in- spired of God? Please consider that these most recently dis- covered scientific facts, even now far in advance 70 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER of the general life of the most civilized and progressing nations of our day, were given almost four thousand years ago; or, four thousand years nearer the so-called ‘‘monkey state,” or of the much heralded ‘‘cave man” condition than we are now. If inspiration is declared impossible, this is a telling blow against evolutionary Darwinism and the materialistic atheism of the so-called “Moderns.” The very idealization of such exalted standards and the enunciation of such pre-scientific facts of life and law and complex human activity, would be almost miraculous even for our day, much less of four thousand years before the birth of modern science. Surely the word ‘‘God”’ is equivalent to per- fect science, and he who knows and does His perfect will perfectly, thereby supplements his own ignorance by absolute intelligence. God, only, is the measure of the universe; and man, made in His likeness, an elemental and poten- tial divinity-man, at his best, is the measure and revelation of God. CHAPTER IV GOD alone understands all natural and moral laws and their actions and effects, and to live in harmony with him and his book is our only hope. Consequently, true human prog- ress is always but co-extensive with our divine development and harmonization with the original divine cause, or nature of things. As God says, “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”’ Intelligence eman- cipates. Error is co-extensive slavery. Much of the credit that is given to drug medication, both curative and preventive, really belong to the keeping of the above sanitary and scientific preventive laws of life. As one has well said, “The proper study of mankind is man.” God, however, is the author and embodiment of true, ideal manhood. Therefore man’s soul and its divine originator and their mutual relations are worthy subjects of study. Since each thing is joined in varied ways to every other thing, all to each and each to all and all to all the ages, no one thing can be fully known, till all things in their relation (71) 72 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER to each other are fully known. This is true from soil to soul, from mud to morals, and from dust to deity. Meditating on the life of a chigger that dug into his flesh, the author wrote the following ode that embodies this fact: ODE TO A CHIGGER OR, THE MITE AND THE ALMIGHTY Thou tiniest insect, come to me From out of the aeons that used to be, Whose life is a load of malignity, Declare to me all thy history— That was, that is, and is to be; And in that narrative I shall see In cosmical relativity, The World’s complete biography, The hist’ry of time and eternity, And the nature of God and humanity. And again, when a dish of fruits was pre- sented, he wrote the following on “The Unity of All Things.” Back of this fruit was the flower, And back of the flower the tree; And back of the tree was a seed in the soil, To help bring these mercies to me. And back of the soil was the season, The rain and the sun on the sod; And back of all this was the life of all life— The love, power and wisdom of God. These fruits are the mercies of God. OF THE MOSAIC LAW 73 All things to humanity are ultimately know- able, and all things are eventually do-able by this developing divinity—this deity going to school. Ignorance and folly alone would limit either God or self. Humanity, at least potentially, is the son of God, his love-life, given through Christ by the imparted Holy Spirit, makes a new trinity in unity, the “immanuelism,”’ which being interpreted (into actual experience) means “‘God with us.” We might even go a little further back into the old lawgiver’s pre-scientific record and find the original threat of divine punishment for sin based on this very fundamental psychology, or the involuntary action of the subconscious and superconscious soul. In reference to the ‘‘for- bidden fruit,’’ as the prohibited evil was called, God declared, ‘‘In the day thou eatest thereof, dying thou shalt die.”” Thereby implying that disobedience to the divine command would not only be a violation of nature’s essential law, but would create a sense of conscious guilt; and that the active results of such a combina- tion would produce this abnormal and diseased state, resulting eventually in death. Call this phenomenon the result of immediate demon possession, or an abnormal, psychologi- cal state, or a nervous disorder, blood-poison or 74 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER all combined or what you will: the result remains the same. The spiritual change which follows the prohibited choice and action is ac- companied by a keen sense of conscious guilt; and a disturbance is thereby automatically set up in the involuntary emotions and the sub- conscious soul, which instantly spreads through- out the whole nervous system. All molecular motion and the atomic vibra- tion becomes perniciously affected thereby. The vital nutrition and essential secretions in their formation becomes poisoned in conse- quence of this abnormal condition. Corpus- cular activity in the creation of new tissue is vitiated, and the life current carries the im- pregnation of disease and death throughout the whole system. This disordered state has a tendency to become chronic, to settle in some weak organ and assume the character of some particular disease. All disease is largely blood-poison incipiently, and here in men’s soul attitudes, habits and appetites, causing an abnormal electro- magnetic rhythm, we may look for the origin of the ultimate disease germs—the true counter- acting or curative bacilli. Consequently, the best antitoxin, serum, and vaccine lymph should be sought in the laboratory of virtue OF THE MOSAIC LAW 75 and in moral, mental, and material rectitude. Prevention is better than cure. This is the mind’s control over matter. The majesterial will is seen to prearrange the ultimate result and the responsible soul in its voluntary attitude toward equity and virtue, makes or mars the body itself. Surely, virtue and vice are instantaneous in the will. The will discovers the way. The purpose begets the power. ‘“‘ Whosoever will, may!’ No man is worse than he wills to be and no one ever will be better than his or her determinations. Here, in the majesterial will, is the seat of the soul’s responsibility. In the twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteron- omy, Moses declared that all stages of mad- ness, delusional insanity, periodic brain-storm and general paranoia would be accompaniments of the psychic congestion and nervous strain that would follow the conscious breach of God’s law. This phenomena, closely resembling demoniacy, would be the fruits, the proof and the punishment of the transgression. Psycho- analysis today, as one of our most late-born sciences, discovers that this dementia, is in many cases caused by disappointment, a sense of guilt, self-reproach, fear, worry and the con- sciousness, real or imaginary, of divine disap- 76 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER probation; and it has generally a close relation to the disappointment or abuse of the affectional life and the sex-faculty. When the intelligent psychiatrist can suc- cessfully analyze a case and extort a confes- sion of the repressed emotions or secluded desires, fears, etc., the derangement generally disappears and the patient recovers. The hope- less element in the disease, generally, is the fact that the patient himself is ignorant of the cause. The nature of his malady prevents him from seeing a connection between his past combined psychic congestion and abnormal mental strain on the one hand, and his present diseased condition on the other. Nevertheless, the sense of relief that follows confession and the accompanying unconsciousness of guilt, fear or disappointment which the very weak- ened state of mind brought in, shows confes- sion to be the true restorative. Moses also plainly intimated that the original cause of sin, disease, and death was the perversion of the affectional life and of the sex faculty. The curse of Cain was prenatal. All this deliverance was provided for on a higher plane by the Mosaic demand for a virtuous life and for confession and sacrificial cleansing as a restorative, where wrong had OF THE MOSAIC LAW 77 been done. Moses was evidently a_ basic psycho-analyst of both a curative and pre- ventive character. God has well said, ‘‘He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but he that confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall have mercy.” Theology and pathology are supplementary and complementary to each other. Where they are separated, the theolo- gian becomes a gainless lover of God and the pathologist becomes a godless lover of gain. Sin, then, or conscious guilt, is always co- existent and co-extensive abnormality, dis- ease and death; and the greater the sin, the more intensified is the result. God’s reason for prohibiting sin is always justified in the destruc- tive, physical character which it bears. It has no natural place in the human life; but, like sand in the eyes, poison in the stomach or thorns in the flesh, it is always an abnormal irritant, or malignant element, a virus and a curse. ‘Dying thou shalt die.” A little sin is surely a little disease, and a little disease is a little death, and the more sin, the more disease and death, till prolonged “dying thou shalt die.” Popular pathology is prone to act on the belief that all existing bacterial diseases are but the harvest of previously existent disease; and that. 78 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER the disease bacilli are the cause, rather than the result, of the particuiar malady. As far as we know, this does not seem true, but we have no sure ground for asserting that we have entirely encompassed the subject. This fact, if un- altered, of course would not only make new bacterial diseases an impossibility, but it would force us to the conclusion that all forms of present disease-bacteria had always existed and, either as infections or contagions, had perpetu- ated themselves. It would further force the conclusion that not even the most abnormal living, the filthiest quarters, or the most deleterious food or drink, or all combined, would produce any new bacter- ial disease, if the life was but kept free from contact with previously existent infections and contagions. All that this unnatural living could possibly do would be to create a predis- position towards the particular disease. This is asking a great credulity of the public, and it seems to place a real tariff on sanitary science and hygiene, and all but place a premium on careless living. How then was the first case of bacterial disease acquired? Surely abnormal bacteria were not in the original list of creation. Homeopathy in general, and many adherents of other medical schools in particular, have OF THE MOSAIC LAW. 79 leaned to the belief that immorality and psychic abnormality have become fundamental ele- ments in the production of new diseases. Newstrains and varieties of disease often appear, and differentiated bacteria are found as their ac- companiment. The general teaching of Moses as herein set forth supports the moral theory of the ortgin of disease; and they allow the partic- ular disease bacteria to appear as a result, as well as a cause, of the particular malady. And in both these positions Moses is abreast of the best scientific thought of our day. There is, however, a great variety of opinion among scientists on some of these points, and among some schools a very unsettled and chang- ing opinion. CHAPTER V AGAIN, as a mental philosopher or practical psychologist, Moses was a modern idealist. Read his exhortation to Joshua and the people, in Deut. 31:6, 7. He knew that success was a soul-quality and consequently exhorted to ideal attitudes and unlimited undertakings. The world and the church both need men of personal initiative, self-reliance, lofty ideals, altruistic purposes, and faith in God. The age is dying for want of men with backbone, pur- pose, and determination. The real food of the soul is idealism and exalted determination. The soul is expanded only in an altruistic display of the heroic and the exalted, unselfish choice and effort. The Christian life is a clarion call to sacrifice and cross-bearing for vicarious and unselfish ends. The real soul starves and shrinks in all selfish living, and even in the commonplace good things of earth it finds no food or development. The Christian virtues are more than mere natural goodness. They are nature’s best, set on fire by the super- natural love-life of God, through the spirit. (80) OF THE MOSAIC LAW. 81 Give us men thus divinely unctionized, with hearts of flame and tongues of fire, with noble resolves, unselfish and worthy ideals and glorious devotion to their brothers’ welfare, and they will set the church and the world on fire. Such men will stamp truth, in some form suitable to their own characters, indelibly on the age. They will be epoch makers, leaders of the people, soprano singers; and, “whoso- ever will may come” into their holy and in- fluential company. Here is the rub, however, we must will. Men should learn the lesson of vicariousness and independence; to saw wood in soprano; to run a plough in the leading tone. There are too many selfish folks willing to stop at inferior positions; and, so to speak, take a minor part, sing alto, bass, etc.—anything but bear the un- selfish responsibility of leading the band. Most men have no real altruistic purpose and ambition and no keen sense of personal respon- sibility and duty, and no will to succeed in worthy undertakings for the good of others. The curse of Reuben is the malediction of many, “Unstable as water, thou shalt not ex- cel.”” Water when poured into a bottle takes the shape of the bottle; when poured into a jug or pitcher, it takes the shape of the recep- 6 82 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER tacle which contains it. When poured on the ground or floor, it flattens out in a helpless dependence upon the accidental walls or solid objects around it. Thus it is shaped by its surrounding circumstances, moulded by its en- vironment—without independence, stability or fixedness. Many people are thus ‘“‘unstable as water,’’ wavering and void of purpose, convic- tion or responsibility. These inferiors who are influenced by the dealings or decisions of other people, or by their circumstances, have little or no conviction or personal determination, and such people ‘‘never excel.” The purposeless soul is a powerless soul, but the man of purpose is a man of power. Both the church and the world want leaders who need not to look for jobs, but who can make them, men who will establish precedents rather than merely follow them. Both need men and women who aspire to excellence, and who will not be satisfied with cheap results or low attain- ments. These will prepare themselves for prominent possibilities; they will fit themselves to lead the procession. These affirmative souls do everything ‘‘in an affirmative mood,” even to the operating of a factory or mine. They hoe potatoes or plow corn in soprano; they keep OF THE MOSAIC LAW 83 books, build a house, mend socks, or raise babies in the leading tone. We want more soprano or tenor singers of a major strain in every realm of life. Too many are willing to stop at an almost abject place and play second fiddle. They hide in the crowd and dodge the responsibility of making things go. All ages call for believing, affirmative minds—constructive souls, who would run a bank or a railroad in a leading tone; dauntless, heroic men and women; wisely ambitious, re- sourceful and determined; who will take respon- sibility and scorn to fail; who aim high and thrust the whole force of their lives into the attainment of their worthy goals. There is no limit placed on human attain- ment, except the weakness of our own sub- jective purposes; for great characters are always themselves the fruit of heroic purposes. Only to the base is anything base. The masterpieces, the models in music, sculpture, painting, oratory, sacrifice, delight us, because we feel they are genuine, ideal ex- pressions of the true souls of their exalted originators, and they consequently find a re- sponse in our souls. They feed and please us, they soothe, heal and refresh our animal spirits, and restore the 84 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER true rhythm of health in our vital centers, by harmonizing us with heaven and putting us in tune with the Author of life and its laws. They are decisive; the element of command is in them. They speak in a commanding tone as authoritative examples, and we acquiesce and yield assent. The muddles equally displease and vex us, because we see them to be clumsy and invera- cious. We consider them as proofs of low ideals, heartlessness, mendacity and almost unforgivable ignorance. The heroic element of virtue and lofty purpose is lacking. We see through the repulsive representations, the undeveloped conditions or counterfeit pre- tensions of the souls of the actors, and we loathe the false emotion as revealed in the faulty expression. Beauty, whether of face, form or scenery, gives us the same pleasure as the masterpieces of art and science. We feel it is an expression of the true, right, or just elements in the character of its possessor and originator. We are charmed, captivated, yet pleased in our captivity. The same emotions are produced by real heroism, gallantry, magnanimity, generosity and, in a limited sense, by every pronounced Christian disposition. We feel we have seen a OF THE MOSAIC LAW. 85 soul; we have met the Master; we have found the model; we have stepped behind the cur- tain; we have tasted the powers of the world tocome. We have discovered a limited realiza- tion of our own best ideals, hope has revived and been strengthened, and heaven has been made more of a reality. This altruistic attitude is the true atmosphere of great souls. We feel here that an expression of what we should be, in our own true lives, is before us. This emotion is life, ideal and genuine, and God comes and vivifies us through the prospect it inspires. Limitedly, we see the saviors, and are satisfied and urged on to new personal attainments. This is the orthodox element in our recogni- tion of the genuine generally, and the inspiring cause of the world’s tendency toward hero wor- ship. We admire, we almost adore, before we are aware of it, and we commend almost in spite of ourselves. This divine capacity for grandeur, and our natural appreciation of the heroic and the sacrificial is easily perverted into an idolatrous hero-worship, which is both fool- ish and dangerous. Though few obey the commandment fully, yet the Mosaic religion was, and the Christian religion 7s, a clarion call to all men to come to 86 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER this exalted standard and through faith actual- ize the ideal in their daily lives—by soul-asser- tion shake off the mediocre and the inferior and rise to real excellence. All else is ignoble and unworthy of the gospel that we profess. No animal can live and accomplish its real life purpose except in the truest exercise of the nature of the aboriginal from whence it sprang. No plant can thrive and reach its best possibili- ties unless it follows the highest example of its vegetable parent; and, by the same law, no soul can meet its truest ends except it heroically emulate the Divine Original from whom it sprang, and in whose image and likeness it was elementally and potentially made. There are at least two divisions of mental philosophy or soul science which, though over- lapping and blending together, are yet quite distinct; namely, the merely mental and the purely moral realms. Man is a compound of dust and deity; of soil and soul; of mud and morality. The animal and the spiritual are so divinely blended into one rational being that each is supplementary and complementary to the other; to truly know one, we must become acquainted with the other. The muscular man is controlled by the mind, but the mind is controlled or should be con- OF THE MOSAIC LAW 87 trolled by moral considerations. Nothing that the mere animal man can do is necessarily virtuous, as true heroism or morality must lie entirely within the spiritual realm of exalted and noble purpose. The ethical sphere of morally responsible rationality is the home of the ideal standard— the exalted aim of the conceptionally worthy emotion, desire and purpose in all things. In this realm of fine arts, morality resides, and often presides as well; and the soul ascribes every beatitude and grace to the thing that should be; the unlimited and heroic standard; the consummate emotion; the absolute con- ception and the model form. In this throne room of aesthetics, the ancient Greeks sensibly deified Beauty in creation. They recognized the fact that every exalted sentiment, every excellence in emotion, every ideal conception and noble thought, beget their own appropriate and beautiful manifestation or expression in some act, work or model; and that the expression always will be characteristic of and co-extensive with the impression made upon the soul. Just herein the Beautiful is apprehended as the useful also. Nature works through Beauty out towards the virtuous, perfect and absolute 88 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER expression; and all things are keenly observed to grow beautiful in measure as they approach God, and to grow repugnant in measure as they depart from him. The altruistic principle of true heroism is always moral and virtuous; and real morality is the very fountain from whence flows the stream of virtue. Though every gracious dis- position is a virtue, yet we use the word virtue in a general and comprehensive sense, to in- clude all excellencies and nobilities of character. A truly and broadly virtuous character, then, must be pure, strong, simple, quiet, hope- ful, resolute, free, fearless, independent, altruis- tic, frank, generous, sympathetic and sacrificial. In fact, it must include, in general, the great mass of the individual virtues. No mere time- server, policy worker or artful dodger, can be truly virtuous, or Christian, in character. No double-minded compromiser can possess real virtue. No servile slave to the will of another, be he employer, creditor, persecutor or an overbear- ing officer of the law, a church or a political party, etc., can ever possess while in such bond- age true virtue of character. No devotee of foolish fashion who sacrifices modesty, comfort, health and even decency to a perverted popular OF THE MOSAIC LAW 89 Opinion, can at the same time possess a truly independent and virtuous character. The valiant, free and independent vigor of manly character is necessarily lacking in those trimming and time-serving slaves. These are “unstable as water and will never excel.”