The laboring classes have always been down-trodden and kept in subjection to the financial, ecclesiastical, and political princes.

It was in the year 1874, the date of our Lord's second presence, that the first labor organization was created in the world.

From that time forward there has been a marvelous increase of light and the inventions and discoveries have been too numerous for us to mention all of them here, but mention is made of some of those that have come to light since 1874, as further evidence of the Lord's presence since that date, as follows: Adding machines, aeroplanes, aluminum, antiseptic surgery, artificial dyes, automatic couplers, automobiles, barbed wire, bicycles, carborundum, cash registers, celluloid, correspondence schools, cream separators, Darkest Africa, disk ploughs, Divine Plan of the Ages, dynamite, electric railways, electric welding, escalators, fireless cookers, gas engines, harvesting machines, illuminating gas, induction motors, linotypes, match machines, monotypes, motion pictures, North Pole, Panama Canal, Pasteurization, railway signals, Roentgen rays, shoe sewing machines, smokeless powder, South Pole, submarines, radium, sky scrapers, subways, talking machines, telephones, typewriters, vacuum cleaners, and wireless telegraphy.
THE HARVEST [411]The Scriptures disclose a complete parallel concerning the Jewish and gospel ages.

The parallel exists with reference to time as well as events.

The Jewish age ended with a harvest, which harvest began with the ascension of our Lord in the year A.D.33.