These were Cattarangus friends. They had a daughter, Bernice, who showed symptoms of TB. This took them to various places to if possible escape this white mans plague. She was a rare maiden, lovely charecter. At this time had reached 21. Living among deserts and gazing at mountains for 5 years. It was astonishing to me how greatly her mind had developed, and her nobility had kept pace with years. While there in the home so close to huge rocks and 10 miles to the city. I was impressed that she was nearing Heaven. But the dr said he had never had a patient that had made such improvements as she of late.

So we were all decieved. Not long after my return she joined the celestials.

While there Joseph and Corydon took me to see the Roosevelt Dam.

It was a ride of 50 miles over rugged mountains and the last few along the edge of the river.

Over these 50 miles all the tools and material for the huge structure was trucked with horses.

Majestic sight, giant columns, yawning caverns and crags and peaks. Tell might well shout, Ye crags and peaks, I'm with you.

When noon overtook us, we camped by the roadside and with zest partook of what loving hands had stored in the basket.

For several miles we skirted the sparkling waters, as they flowed along. One would not think that a few miles away these waters had been imprisoned and only allowed to escape as man willed and now they were on their way to make fertile thousands upon thousands of acres of worthless lands which were now making rich Arizona.

At last the massive walls of Roosevelt towered before us, like some fortress.

When one thinks of the pressure of imprisoned waters, nothing short of massiveness would ever controll and imprison.

That dam from wall to wall is about 1000 feet, 600 and over in front of the rivers. The track or road from bank to bank is broad enough for 3 or 4 cars abreast. This dam pens in two streams or rivers. Salt is one the other I do not recall. The waters are driven back for 30 miles and before you is a lake in appearance.

Great gates controll the discharge of the waters, so that no rush or flood can sweep down, devastating and destroying.

Where cactus and desert shubbery and birds, toads and a few coyotes and wolves found a miserable existance. Now are orange groves, lemons, grapefruit, immense vineyards, walnuts, dates, finest in the worls, cotton choisest in markeys, alfalfa, cantalope by the thousands of car loads first to reach the eastern markets, Turkeys, ducks, geese and pigs.

Nor must it be overlooked, Los Angeles. Now over one million brings its water supply over 200 miles over mountains and thro mountains.

These desert lands lift their hands to the mountains whence cometh their help.

Cut off the water supply from Southern California one week and the population would parrish before it could find transportation out of the country.

We remain over night at a little settlement on the west side of the bridge.

Next day we drove six miles up stream to see a cliff dwelling.

To me it was a rare treat. While I had read about cliff dwellers, I never expected to see those strange places.

In one corner was a fireplace against the rock. The smoke must have curled around and made its escape. Eyes must have suffered. Maybe they were use to it. There were no utencils of any kind. Doubters they had long since disappeared, for now there is a stringent law against any defacing or removing anything.

The room or two as it would seem stretched for 40 or 50 feet. These rooms did not penetrate into the rocks many feet.

Down from the cliff was a steep descent of 150 feet to a dry watercourse that lived while snow was melting or rain falling. It was all of a mile down to the river from whence they must have carried their water for household purposes. Thither too they must have gone to catch their fish.

A long distance they must have gone to garden it.

Why people were obliged to seek such abodes is hard to tell. Safety has always been assigned as the reason to escape their enemies.

In this case their enemies could easily have destroted all their fields and staved them.

This dwelling is only a pigmy compared with great dwellings found in other places.

The solution of all the problems has not yet been found.

The curoius history remains in secret.

Satisfied we took the back track, and at eventide we arrived at the Setter home close by huge rocks.

My two weeks were a rich treat. Soon Bernice found her home among the mountains of God and now Joseph has joined her, where they go no more out forever.

To sin is to injure, 1st the person himself, 2nd the injured, 3rd the State, 4th God.

The sinner in the end is the greatest sufferer. He is pulling down his own house. Great is the fall there of, a house in ruins is a pitiful sight.

It mars the face of the Earth. It is like a pock mark on the face. A city in ruins is a most terrible sight. All the glory that once was has vanished.

All the genius, all the skill, inventive power, music, art, science all are in worse ruin than the tumbled down walls, dilapidated houses and horrid skeletons, shocking the spectator.

A man in ruins spectale for men, angels and God.

Think what it means! Honor gone, conscience blasted, devils of lust, hate, jealousy, greed, false ambition, hypocrisy, have preyed upon the soul, leaving only blackness ruins.

Think you Egypt will ever again flame with genuis and prosperity?

Tho a man may live in a mansion his soul may be in ruins.

Many a man to protect himself,

Said a man to me, you would be surprised to know how many families living in the fine houses on Euclid Ave have moved out and gone into Obscruity,

Too fast, too extravagant, habits of passion, dishonesty, wrought the downfall.

little did he think he would be driven from his own lovely home by the crimes of his gifted wife, and with a lovely daughter, he took refuge in Florida.

Even if he may be so fortunate as to escape the eye of man, in ruins he must appear before the bar of God.

He needs no pronounced sentence. He slinks away to his own dark place.

It will be seen in all this, God does not cause or will his bankruptcy of character. He has wrought his own ruin. Hell is mans own creation.

When an architect erects some great structure he provides the sure foundation. Builds safe, secure walls on those with a roof that will not crush the firm walls.

The Architect is not responsible for the disaster. The owner works his own ruins

God does not give 10

Doubtless man might have discovered these truths, after endless experiments, but to prevent ages of disasters. He made known these constitutional laws.

God wills not death, but life. Death pains God. No man joys in the ruin of his son. Much less can God find pleasure in the overthrow of man.

Pain is Gods warning that something is wrong. Tooth ache notifies one that something has gone wrong with that tooth.

It may not be too late to save it. So all pain is admonitory, telling some law of the body has been broken. Of't repeated one may wake up too late and death may result.

God does not send Rheumatism, fevers, diptheria, scarlet fever, They are revelations of our ignorance or disclosures of our breaking matures law.

More times death is the consequence of our own law breaking. I do not say that God does not himself intervine, but I think it is rare. God carries on his great plans in Heaven and Earth, and he may need someone to do special work in the other world and so call someone befitted for that work.

Let us now take another step. A crime or misdeed strikes others than oneself. Then comes in what is called government. How to deal with such

As yet not many come from prisons, better morally regenerated. More are worse and resort to old habits of vice and crime. In them is seated a hole of society and government and they live by preying on Humanity, not praying for mankind.

Take the father who is dealing with his son who has committed some misdemeanor. Why does he punish? Sometimes he's mad and beats and pounds only to find the boy worse, maybe outwardly deceiving, sly, cunning. The parent has driven the boy away, lost him, and the son may be on his way to dishonor.

What should be the object of the pains inflicted? To let him see he had wronged others, and to try and hold before him a noble ideal of life.

The child must be made to face that the parent is dealing with love and wisdom. A child will not resent and resist severe discipline when he is made to know that it all means he's good, and no anger or hate are inflicting pain and rigid discipline. In fact children are often

The truth is there don't seem to be enough love in this world to go around.

The father engrossed with worldly affairs thinks he's done greatly to provide a home and clothing, food and schooling for his children. He hasn't realized that he has robbed his household of that which is infinitely of more worth than all the things he has provided.

Many a time a father has been roused by the news his boy is in jail. There because he has been robbed, and so turns thief, and is reaping the consequence.

Inflicting pain for the fun of it is devilish.

Behind all pain must be the motive, love and the revelation of a higher life.

Why do we imprison men? Part of transgression is against others, and the state.

State or society must protect itself. One cannot for an instant think the murderer, the assasin, the robber, ruiner of homes may go their way leaving it for chance to lead them into a better life. Hence, society, the state must protect itself.

That means prison

It must be admitted as yet we do not know how to deal with prisoners.

But an omnipotence omnisient devil is inconceivable. There can't be two omnipotent everywhere present beings.

That's one of the blunders made by Catholics and some Protestants. The one think Mary is omnipresent, and the others think the devil turns up at every corner. Mary has shoved Jesus into the discard, and many good people think the devil is the cause of all the troubles that afflict humanity.

Even Paul was sure the devil was his great hindrance, when to my mind it was his imagination.

That there are devils, one needs but look abroad, and he can but wish there were none.

If a man dies a devil, he can wake up in another world, still devil.

How long he will thus remain I have considered elsewhere.

There is no reason to suppose that wicked spirits do not in some manner, by some methods, seek to pervert us mortals

Thieves, prostitutes, criminals in some way float together. Good people naturally find each other.

The bar room does not seek the prayer room.

Very much of what we ascribe to devils, is due to our own nature. The animal within us finds temptation for our lusts, our passion, our appetites. It's easy to shove it all over onto the evil one.

Man learned in the Garden to shove his woes onto other shoulders.

A trick that has never forsaken him.

It's only an apology and like the boomerang comes with terrific force on our own patio.

How then do you account for the temptation in the wilderness?

Jesus had been 40 days in considering his mission. For the 1st time he faced his own greatness.

How shall I use my vast powers? If someone should give me a million dollars, I would face some terrible problems. Johnny Steele had a million dollars thrust upon him. He turned into a fool. He bo't out coaches, then gave them away. He burnt money, he squandered left and right to his

He could not rise superior to the gross nature he had always lived.

Jesus, after 40 days hungered. What more natural than to say, I have all power, make these stones bread.

Had he done as he would have sanctioned all power, to satisfy our wants. He has no right to make bread when every man has to earn his own living.

Had he broken the law, he never had known how to sympathize with the man out of a job, the man with a large family, the starving man.

Man must make his own way by the sweat of his brow, so must be.

Then we find in on Gods house. Cast thyself down for God has promised to care for you. Because I am a child of God and in his care. I have no right to think he will release me from labor.

He never has promised to cook for us, farm for us, do our business, clothes, house, and let us play lazy. He don't make favorites of his children. They are under the law of labor.

Then Ambition world crowned, world conqueror, palace owning, Empire builder, Army Captain, Nations homaging him.

Jesus saw all the Glory. He said I will own the world. I'll have no cringing vassals. I'll gather no warring troops. I'll impose no burdensome taxes. I'll have no slums, no Palaces to despise poverty. My subjects shall be men, not slaves.

The world shall serve me because it loves me.

How is he going to master the world? By love. It's a long, long way oft a dispairing way, a crucifixion way, but it wins...

The nations that love him now rule the world. They own the wealth of the world.

Even while those nations war, and are greedy, and swayed by false ambitions, yet is it true as the above sentence states it.

This accounts then for that wonderful picture of the Temptations of Jesus.

Johns discription of Appollyon, Satan chained for a thousand years is purelt fanciful or imaginative.

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