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the struggle for Life and the struggle for Love, so its leafle 

 is a dual leaflet, that of Enterprise and Commerce. 



This takes .us along the road of evolution to the toll-gate 

 of its final epoch, the Epoch of Charity, which is also the last 

 epoch of evolution, for it is to be ruled and marked by the 

 united control of all the attributes of God's Trinity, and the 

 whole power of the Almighty is to handle the mighty sledge- 

 hammer that is to drive the wedge of wisdom into the dull 

 brain of mankind, so it is the triple leaflet of Honour, Justice 

 and Mercy. 



Forgive my triviality, dear reader, but all work and no play 

 is bad for the best of us. I cannot write the above sentence 

 without recalling to my mind an after-dinner reminiscence 

 of my youth. We were sitting round the table sipping wine 

 when my father remarked apropos of what, I quite forget 

 " It takes a sledge-hammer to drive a joke into a Scotchman's 

 head/' to prove the truth of which remark the Scotch lawyer 

 who had provoked it, replied, " I dinna see how that could 

 do it." I am afraid, like the Scotch lawyer, I must plead 

 guilty, for when I look around me and view on all sides as 

 this war goes on, how slow is advancement and how little is 

 the grain of the seed of wisdom as it, at present, is vainly 

 trying to take root and cause a slight germination of the soul 

 of wisdom in the hard, stony, barren soil of the senseless brain 

 of mankind, and then turn to my Table III. of God's Trinity 

 and read therein that the next three days of Evolution are 

 to be- 

 First The Age of Peace and the end of wars, on the 



Fifteenth Day. 

 Second The Age of Use and Comfort on the Sixteenth 



Day. 

 Third The end of Crime on the Seventeenth Day. 



Were the sledge-hammer that is to drive the wedges of wisdom 

 necessary to produce these three results in the hands of any 

 other workman than God Almighty; with the Scotch lawyer 

 I should exclaim, "I dinna see how it is to be done." 



Yet, so great is my confidence in my Creator, and the 

 mighty sledge-hammer of Fate, that I am confident, since I 

 became possessed of these Tables of Trinity and have traced 

 out the marvellous exactness with which they coincide with the 



