votes are elected for three years.
This Moral Department is no mincing and begging institution. It has, at
its disposal, the entire military battery. No mayor holds a whip handle
over it. I must confess I was happy as I witnessed the blessed effect of
this Moral Department. All evil is not extirpated, neither is all
lawlessness overcome, but there is no brazen iniquity, no public
immorality and heartless brutality such as is seen on every hand in one
of our larger municipalities.
CHAPTER XII.
A World Enjoying Its Millennium.
What expansive views of creation were afforded me in my universal
journey! I saw all conceivable types of human life, many of which I
alone could never have conceived.
With a happy soul I alighted on another world in the solar system of
Dubhe where sin had been banished, and the believers, or children of
God, were passing through a period of time which we would call the
Millennium.
A wide contrast was now presented to my view. I had seen world after
world in the tribulation of sin. Now I had come to one under the sway of
righteousness, and I wish that I had power to describe what I saw and
experienced.
I suddenly thought of the Queen of Sheba, who, upon seeing the greatness
of Solomon's wisdom, exclaimed, "Behold, the half was not told me." I
had often imagined what the condition of our world would be when it
smiles under the light of the Millennium, but I minimized the glory that
is yet to come to us, judging by what I saw on this delightfully
charming planet. I have no assurance, however, that the coming
Millennium of our world will be altogether similar to the one I saw.
This glorious Millennium was ushered in about six hundred years ago, and
I readily learned the general particulars of its commencement. The world
had been very wicked prior to the dawn of this new age. The majority of
the people disregarded all spiritual truths, causing the darkness of sin
to hang like a heavy pall over the nations of this planet.
There were earnest devotees who lived in the light and love of God, and
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