some have even refused to sit with us until we gave them the differences in time according to the Greenwich Observatory. This matter of time is aired in the New York World, December 13th, as follows: CORRECT TIME IS A FAKE BY THE GREENWICH MAN The man in the observatory in Greenwich was asked the time "Well," he replied, "It depends upon whether you want solar time, sidereal time, local time, standard time, apparent time, or mean time," and he looked Ike the draper who has several other desirable lines under the counter. He admitted that the Greenwich moon does not correspond exactly with the sun or the stars, the heavens or the earth, and that Greenwich time is a merely human compromise with the clock, the spangled heavens and the wabble of the earth's axis. awful confession from an eminent astronomer was rather startling. For, glancing around to make sure that no one was listening to the admission, he whispered: "There is no such thing as the right time we fake it." This THE UNSTABILITY OF THINGS MATERIAL esied in scripture. We are often asked if we do not think the end of the world is close at hand, judging from the "signs" proph Our answer is that the end of the world is a matter of individual consciousness. When we have uncovered all the so-called mysteries of the world, within and without, and found their true foundation, we will come to a place of understanding that in itself will be substance-our true world and the world that people in mortal consciousness count real will be but shadow to us- we will know the real. During the Millerite agitation about the end of the world, some sixty years ago, one of the sect excitedly asked Ralph Waldo Emerson if he knew that the world was about to come to an end. Mr. Emerson replied that he did not, but that it would make no difference to him as he could get along without it. 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