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56 THE CHRISTIAN HELPER. November, 1900. to secure 1,000 new subscribers by the middle of January. This offer however, does not apply to persons who have been receiving the paper from the beginning, but have not paid for it. From and after No.

6 the Helper will be published twice a month without additional charge. The time was when a monthly publication answered the demands of readers; but that time has passed, and so we have concluded to issue a semi-monthly till such time as we can increase it to a weekly. Persons remitting one dollar or less for subscription to the Helper, can send postage stamps and save cost of money order. We make this announcement for the benefit of all who have subscribed, or who may wish to subscribe, and who cannot get others to send with them. We do not know that we shall be able to secure any embellishments for the December number of the HELPER, or even a good Christmas story.

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The Scientific American is without doubt the best secular paper, for all classes of readers, published in the United States, and so far as we know, in the world. The farmer, the mechanic, the artisan, the business, or the professional man, all find in it something to instruct, to edify and to encourage them in their several callings. Only the depraved and base have no use for it, and even they, if they would, might find material to help to lift them out of their degradation. We advise all classes to take and read the Scientific American. See clubbing terms above.

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION, Moses and the Prophets. By M. B. INGLE. The Beginning of Nations; the Lost Atlantis, The study of origins is a fascinating one to the student of history and the key to it all is found in the book which many historians reject.

We propose to take all that comes in our way, be it legend, myth, or fable, and separate the pearls from the rubbish and string them upon the "plum line" that Jehovah has furnished. For we are fully persuaded that the scriptural accounts are true, and that if the world is ever set right in all things, the Book of books is the means by which it is to be accomplished. All that we ask is a careful investigation of the goods shown, and we will guarantee satisfaction or lay in a new line. We are groping in darkness when we search out the distant past, but we believe that the searchlight of Moses and the prophets, and Jesus and the apostles will throw a double ray upon it and that we will see the more clearly as we the more carefully look. In-brief the following are the traditions of the ancients concerning the origin of humanity: The Chaldeans claimed that theirs was one of the most ancient of nations and that their kings were ten in number before the flood, the last one being 011e Xisuthros, in whose time was the deluge.

Xisuthros was warned by Saturn in a dream, and by his command built a ship in which Xisuthros with his wife, children and friends embarked. After a time, when the waters began to abate, he. tries, as Noah, by means of birds sent out and on the third occasion return no more. So he left the ship and was soon after translated to the sky from whence he addresses his friends, telling them that they were in Armenia, and that they should proceed at once to Babylon and there found a kingdom. The Assyrians claimed there were ten heroes or mighty kings before the foundation of Nineveh.

The Iranians as told by Zarathusthra, claimed there were ten heroes at the first, the last of whom was Gavomaretan, whom they called the typical man. The traditions of the Brahmins assert that there are nine Brahmadikas, who with Brahma make the ten Pitris or fathers. The Chinese, too claim to be the elders of all peoples, and that their first dynasty was of the gods, and count ten emperors, the last of whom is Hoang-ti, at which time the human sovereignty began on earth. The Germans claimed that Odin, their founder, had ten ancestors; the Arabs tell uS that Ad--the ancient people- ten kings, and among the Egyptians, the papyrus of Turin records ten kings who governed men at the beginning of things. Nor do we find records of the flood wanting.

Among various a mes-Promethens, Atlas, Thuth, Luth, Xuthus, Inachus, Osiris, -and by a careful.