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 ties of energy, perseverance and thrift). Don't ever forget this 

 truth, for the want of knowledge or the want of understanding 

 of this truth is the root of all our industrial disturbances and 

 strifes ; the corollary of it is that none have any right or title 

 to wealth except in proportion to their possession of energy, 

 perseverance and thrift, or any right to capital except in pro- 

 portion to their ability to use or invest it wisely. For the power 

 to use gives the right to hold, and the power to hold only lies in 

 the power to manage and control. I may here say that Exist- 

 ence, Material Creation and Wealth make life possible of being 

 maintained. The Trinity of Wealth, Life and Mind makes 

 Civilisation ; the Trinity of Charity, Civilisation and Love 

 makes up Religion ; the Trinity of Wealth, Civilisation and 

 Religion makes Commerce ; and lastly, perfectly honest Com- 

 merce, Perfect Human Wisdom and Perfect Charity will turn 

 this earth into Heaven. 



I am afraid these many side issues will make it hard for 

 the reader to follow the growth of the tree of trinity I was 

 endeavouring to describe to him. I have now illustrated what 

 the roots and leaves of this tree are ; the stem and trunk of this 

 tree are God's prerogative to rule Creation by the power of 

 fate, the mighty engine that draws the train of creation along 

 the lines of evolution, and the carriage of religion can be no 

 exception to any of the other carriages. All forms of religion 

 must conform their teachings to the advancements of science, 

 knowledge and man's power of understanding, or they will 

 run off the lines and be dashed to pieces ; so also will know- 

 ledge and science or any other carriage that will not keep on 

 the lines of evolution along the railroad of God's Trinity. 



It is not enough to go back to Christ; we must do more. 

 We must by the advance of Science keep Christ as our Guard 

 and Brakesman, and by his teaching put a brake on our vices 

 of Selfishness, Injustice and Human Folly. But we must also 

 engage the services of God the Holy Ghost as engine driver, 

 which we are to receive in the future as man evolves a soul 

 capable of differentiating between Wisdom and Folly. This 

 can only be done by Religion and Science joining hands and 

 by so doing helping each other to keep on the lines of evolution 

 by the aid of the mysteries of God's Trinities which will itill 

 further evolve and make plain to all mankind the wonders of 

 revelation, in a more understandable form than has been the case 



