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We have told you how wealth comes and we will now tell you how heaven comes; you cannot all have money in abundance, but you can all have heaven. Some men say, "I wish I could believe in heaven, but I can't." Don't let the devil fool you out of heaven by making you believe there isn't any such place. Remember that is where you are going to get your reward for the $10.00 you gave a man when he was in need. This man became your enemy, returned evil for good and you never got any reward in this world for your kind act, but God entered it in his account book and will reward you for it; he tells us to lay up our treasure in heaven. God's revelation tells us of heaven; man's innate conscience tells him of heaven; nearly all tribes, no matter how barbarous, believe in a future life, and future reward or punishment; our own reason also tells us that there must be a place where the wrongs of life are righted.

There will be some great surprises in heaven; there will be men there who never saw the inside of a church. That poor fellow over in "Sing Sing" who forgot his own wretchedness in ministering to the suffering ones around him will be there. True, the judge found him guilty, but the judge did not inquire into his motives, or the causes leading up to the crime, or even his past life. He inquired where he was born, how old he was, and where he had spent the past years of his life, and a few superficial questions such as could have no possible bearing upon the degree of his guilt or innocence. If the poor fellow was honest enough to plead guilty he got his sentence according to the law. God does not judge in that way, "God looks upon the heart." He says, you stole that money and it was wrong, but you spent your life helping others and saved nothing for yourself, and when you were in want you took a little from some one who would

not miss it, and never gave his money to help another man. You are forgiven for the wrong you have done; you have a large bank account in heaven, and your present difficulty only cuts you down a few dollars. God is your best friend; he understands you from the beginning to the end; with him the hairs of your head are all numbered. “Sing Sing" is as near to God and as near to heaven as any other place on the earth. Whatever your position in life, don't let any one fool you into thinking there is no heaven, or embitter you against God.

If God committed any crime against you it was in creating you a free agent with the power to choose right and wrong; when you choose the wrong don't blame God. If you wish to go to heaven study the passage we have quoted from the fifth chapter of Galatians. If you belong to the former class you could not enjoy heaven; if you belong to the latter and keep on good terms with God heaven is yours.

CHAPTER XI.
Traveling.

Here we have the greatest pleasure giver, the greatest money waster, the greatest time spender on the earth. It is also attended with great danger. Some one will say, "Can't you figure out the times when it will be least dangerous and travel at those times?" Yes, we can where the person is merely going on a pleasure trip, but so often we travel because we have a particular reason for traveling at that time; it may be illness or death among our friends, some business to which we must attend, or some person we wish to accompany. Often you cannot choose your own time for traveling; when you can you should by all means choose the best time. There is one thing certain, it would not be well for a person to choose an occupation connected with traveling unless his horoscope was good at that point. We cannot but recall the fate of the captain and crew of the steamer Rosencrans. It was wrecked three times, and the third time the captain and crew were lost. Neptune has been in conjunction with Uranus for several years. Mars comes in once in ten months, or more, and this is the time when trouble may be expected, special trouble we mean. The first 3 months of 1913 are said to have been more disastrous to shipping than any period within fifty years. It is eighty years since the same planetary conditions prevailed, and strict regulations should be made with regard to adequate provisions for life saving. The captain and crew should have good horoscopes for the water; that is one place where astrology might be of great value. A captain with good traveling indications will draw passengers and crew having the same, and one with danger in his horoscope draws passengers who belong to that class.

Chart No. 32 and No. 33 we present in connection with traveling. This is a famous writer who perished with about 1500 others in the wreck of the steamer Titanic. In chart No. 33 the Moon appears in his 4th Sign, Sign, with all the bad planets, Uranus, Saturn and Mars. The 4th Sign stands for the home, or the place where you make your abode. His evil planets being in the 4th, he met a tragic death in a cabin of the ill-fated steamer; had these planets appeared in the 3rd he would probably have been on the water. We are reminded of the fact that he

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once imprisoned for three months in connection with something which appeared in his paper; evil influences in the 4th lead to imprisonment in many cases. It does not require any flight of the imagination to see a connection between being imprisoned in a cell, and coming to a tragic end in the cabin of a sinking steamer. It is said that he wrote the description of a wreck, taking place in the same vicinity many years before; we have failed to secure the date. To those who understand the working of astrology such a coincidence does not appear at all strange. He would be liable to some presentiment

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