in the prosecution of his filibustering designs. He has followed me fully, says Moses. Then he adds: "Him will I bring into the land and his seed shall possess it." The true interpretation of this latter expression of Moses is this: By virtue of practical demonstrations of his spirit upon the inhabitants of the land, Caleb will overrun the country and subjugate the Canaanites-arson, rapine, and indiscriminate slaughter, will subdue the Canaanites and force them to surrender their country; and the kin of Caleb shall, in like manner, maintain the possession of it.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

EX-PARTE TESTIMONY -THE SPIRIT OF GOD IMPELLED THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL TO ACTION-KORAH WAS THE ORACLE OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD TO MOSES - THE PEOPLE WERE NONRESISTANTS THE PEOPLE MOVE FOR A REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT-MOSES FALLS ON HIS FACE.

"And they (Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and On,) rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: and they gathered themselves together against Moses, and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye yourselves above the congregation of the Lord? And when Moses heard it he fell upon his face." [Num. XVI: 1-4.

SECTION 1. The exact time when, and the particular place where, the above narrated event transpired are not definitely given in the record, but those who have written on the subject pretty generally agree in saying that it occurred at, or near, Kadesh-Barnea, during the second year after Moses and the Israelites came out of Egypt, and not long after Moses announced to the people that they should wander in the wilderness during the life-time of that generation, and, probably, their statements as to time and place are correct.

SEC. 2. In order to weigh truly the testimony presented, and to correctly understand the history of the transaction which is to be the subjects in this and succeeding Chapters, the reader must constantly bear in mind the fact that what is recorded in the chapter from which the extract above is taken, is ex-parte; that it is claimed that it was written by one of the parties to the contest; that it is the successful party's version of the transaction; and, that the writer was

the individual who was principal in the transaction, and that he alone was responsible for whatever was done to destroy the party defeated. Consequently, in the nature of the case, that view of the matter was given in the record which was the most favoring to the writer that could have been given of it. Then, likewise, bear in mind this universally known fact, that all narrations relating the history of transactions where there was a sanguinary strife for power, written in any manner, and at any time, from the earliest written records of man down to our own times, no writer of his own biography, who was of the successful party, has borne further testimony against himself, or given a more unfavorable report of the part which he performed, than was extorted from him by his notoriety, or the notoriousness of his deeds.

SEC. 3. Then, again, there is no such thing existing, nor was there ever, in our world, as an impartial history, written by one who was the aggressor on the rights and prerogatives of others, or engaged in deadly conflict to withhold from others that which he knew that Justice awarded to those who were his antagonists in the strife; and what is more, there never will be an impartial history written by any one who is, or may be, successful in oppressing his fellow-men. But, the past history of man will yet be truthfully writtenit will be re-written by the spirit of Truth-the spirit of the times, the nature of man, and the old lying histories of the past, will be the basis to the new and truthful history of mankind.

SEC. 4. In the new history of man many that now “sleep in the dust of the earth”—that now are well-nigh buried in oblivion of the dust of time, and in their day were, popularly regarded as being haters of God and enemies to mankind; and later, the popular religious world, and oppressive civil rulers, have cast contumely upon their names and records, will come forth from the shades of the past and shine on the pages of the new history the brightest luminaries in the galaxy of those human minds which have

adorned our earth and ennobled man. By the same record, it will be shown that many of those who have received popular eclat, both in the civil and the religious world of mankind, have merited that which they will receive, namely: "shame and everlasting contempt;" among which number will be found Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Caleb, and the Levite tribe. And to leave unnamed all others of like ilk, of later date, who were, and are, perverters of the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, and corrupters of Christianity, and who will awaken to shame and everlasting contempt, Paul, the revered of the popular religionists of our day, will stand conspicuously forth; and the name of Constantine, the first national ruler who, in the name of christianity, unsheathed the sword, and with it drenched the earth with human gore in the propagation of its counterfeit, will stand forth on the same page with that of Paul.

SEC. 5. In the somewhat distant future, each of the above-mentioned persons, and party, and all who have acted from the same principle, and who were governed by the same motives that they were, will be contemned, and the deeds of their lives will be execrated by all good men and women, and that, too, so long as their deeds, or their names, shall be remembered. Unless the principles which these men entertained are contemned by the good and true, and the spirit of the age shall condemn their conduct in life, the world of mankind will never be harmonized; and unless it shall be harmonized by man, then there never will be a millenial age; otherwise, there never will be a harmonial period on our earth.

But I will drop this partial digression and return to the direct subject matter to be considered in this Chapter.

SEC. 6. The extract at the head of this Chapter gives a partial and one-sided account of the most memorable attempt to regain the possession of God-given rights, and prerogatives, that was made by the people of Israel while they were under the rule of Moses. The event there narrated by Moses was propelled by the spirit of God in the

hearts of the people, which is evident from Moses' own statement-this will be made apparent in the following analysis of the record quoted. It was an attempt of the people, made through their leaders, to recover their natural freedom and attain to the enjoyment of those God-given rights and privileges out of which they had been defrauded by Moses, through his political knavery and religious jugglery-by artifices which were on a scale that was beyond the capacities of the masses to detect, while they were being performed by him.

SEC. 7. For more than three thousand years past the above version, one-sided as it is, has been, in the religious world, accepted as a truthful narrative of the event, and the truth concerning Moses' dealings with Korah and his associates. The religious world, as I said, have accepted Moses' story as truth, and believed him to have been free from all guile in the affair, also that Korah and his associates were presumptiously wicked, and, in the spirit of wickedness, rebelled against God by violating his law, profaning his institutions, and warring with his special agents, for all of which God killed them by violent means. Now, this is all untrue. Korah neither manifested the spirit of wickedness nor profaned a single institution of God, nor did he violate any law of God, either in purpose or in deed, even admitting the written declarations of Moses as evidence in the case; nor did he make war on any who were living in obedience to the dictation of the Spirit of the universal Father; neither did the Father of all spirit-life bring him to his death by violent means. Neither did the associates of Korah violate any law of God, or God-principle, in any thing which they purposed, said, or did, in the premises, allowing the written asseverations of Moses as testimony on the subject; nor were they destroyed by fire from heaven, but by the fire of hell which burned in the bosoms of Moses and his conclave, and in the bosoms of "the elders," and the Levites, and which stimulated them to that bloody massacre of the two hundred and fifty men who were