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including three bad planets. Mercury will soon enter the 5th, and her horoscope becomes stronger until about fifty years of age, then it weakens down somewhat. One husband was imprisoned for life, another suicided, and another proved to be a married man.

She was a bright, interesting, jolly woman, and very kind hearted. Back of it all you could detect a vein of sadness.

No. 20 is the horoscope of a man over forty years of age who was separated from his first wife and married to a girl under twenty. You will notice Uranus between the 12th and 1st Signs. Uranus frequently indicates separation. Mercury coming into the 1st Sign indicates a young person connected with love affairs. The Moon is leaving his 1st Sign, the most common time for Cancer persons to marry. Transits

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running strong on the 5th and 11th favor marriage with a young person. When the Moon passes through his 3rd Sign he dies in a steamboat disaster.

Chart No. 21 gives you a marriage by elopement; the young lady' parents are wealthy and she elopes with a poor man; this brings a storm in the sign of her father and mother where her planets run very strong; later on Mars and Saturn in the Transits pass off and she becomes reconciled to her parents. The marriage seems to have been happy otherwise. Mars in her money sign draws trouble over money.

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CHAPTER X.

Money and Heaven.

It has been decided that money and heaven come under the 2nd Sign and that is why they are coupled here. Under money we strike the hard-headed business man; business, not sentiment, is the ruling impulse in his life. When he marries, he does so from an economic standpoint. He sees an opportunity to get something for nothing, and it would not be good business to let such an opportunity pass. He usually, however, marries one of the sentimental type. Opposites attract; for the sake of the rising generation this wise provision is made. A person who has reached one extreme must marry a person approaching the other extreme, or otherwise entail havoc upon the children. Fate concerns herself much more about the effect on the next generation, than the happiness of the individuals mated. They never understand each other; he does not understand her sensitive sentimental nature, and she does not understand his hard-headed practical nature, and each blames the other for the qualities with which nature has endowed them. He may try to assume a degree of sentimentalism, but it does not fit and she accuses him of assuming, which seems to her to be a greater grievance than the former, and so it goes. Commonly a man or woman with a strong money sign has planets in the 1st or 11th or both. We are speaking of those who are in a manner devoid of sentiment.

We get our idea of heaven or future reward, as it has been called, being placed under the 2nd Sign from the account of the creation as given in Genesis Ch. 1: 6, 7, 8. All the other Signs corres

pond with the account given and there is no reason why this should not. Our views are also corroborated by many other passages in Scripture. In Matt. 6:1921 the following appears. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal, for where your treasure is there will your heart be also."

The passage in Matt. 19:16, which speaks of its being easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, has provoked a great deal of discussion. The needles eye referred to may be a pass by that name or it may not; whether or not, the inference is that we cannot have our reward in this world and in the next as well. All the teachings of the Bible corroborate this view. The rich man spoken of in this case was told to sell all that he had and to give it to the poor, and he would have treasures laid up in heaven; but he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions. We are told that if we give any thing up for the sake of Christ we will receive an hundred fold in the life to come.

Christ tells his disciples to take no thought for what they should eat or wear, but to seek first the Kingdom of God, and all these things would be added unto them -such things as were necessary; he does not promise them wealth.

In Matt. 25:31-46 we find what is called a description of the last judgment, where we are told how our surplus money should be used. "I was hungered and ye gave me meat, I was thirsty and ye gave me drink, I was a stranger and ye took me in, naked and ye clothed me. I was sick and ye visited me, I was in

prison and ye came unto me. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my bretheren ye have done it unto me."

"To those on the left he shall say, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to And these shall go away into everlasting pun

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ishment."

These are the words of Christ. No man or woman would ever write such words. Men and women would · prefer a free and easy world where they could do anything they liked without fear of punishment; but God is handling the universe and he knows what is required. He sees the end from the beginning. This old world would get into an awful muddle if any of us were running it.

The only way any man can become rich, or remain rich even on inherited wealth, is by closing his eyes and his ears to the appeals for help made to him on every side. He cannot ride on one of the streets of our great cities, or climb the mountain side of a quiet summer resort, or pick up a newspaper without meeting a silent appeal for help. If he is a Christian the verse just quoted should come to him. "Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me." Just what amount of money a Christian might properly be allowed to horde up for his own pleasure and to provide against future possibilities would be a difficult matter to decide. Fortunately that is not a poor man's trouble. A man however who passes the million mark should feel the weight of it upon his conscience, particularily if it has been gained as much wealth has been by grinding the poor, and turning a deaf ear to calls for help. These must constantly meet every person who travels through the world, at home or abroad. We recollect at one time meeting a man who received notice that he was com

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