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Volume XII.
THE APRIL FOOL ISSUE.
Since this is to be an April
, Fool issue, I hardly know where"
to begin with my chin-music.
There is danger that I will make
it either too wise or too foolish,
and you know just a little too
much of either would plu spile
it.
It ain't as easy to get up all
this wise foolishness and solemn
fun as you might think it is.
Just try it for about twelve
years and you'll see.
Every month for the past
twelve years and more I've had
to stand on my head and kick
holes in the air to amuse frfty
thousand readers. It looks like
I would have been bald-headed
by this time, but I ain't. The
same auburn locks that decorat
ed my dome of thought twelve
years ago are there yet. Which
shows that hair and brains can
sometimes 1 live .together in
pea,ce:
The Fool-Killer is a good deal
different from other papers.
Anybody that reads it one time
will agree to that. And mere dif
ference in style isn't the only
difference, either. For instance,
other papers have at least two
or three men (and sometimes a
- dozen) that they can depend on
for the mental juice to fill their
pages.. But in this-here editori
al joint there is nobody but old
Pearson to keep the hopper full.
If my personal supply of fool
gab runs out the mill has to
stop. Well, it has been running
for more than twelve years, and
it ain't stopped yet. There is
not, never has been, and proba
bly never will be any other man
who .can just exactly fill the bill
for Fool-Killer stuff. Several
have tried it and failed. Two
or three have even started "Fool
Killers" of their own and tried
to steal my thunder and" my
fame, but they couldn't tote it
even after they got it in- the
sack.
And I reckon that's why it
happens that old Pearson is
still the only and original "Fool
Killer Man," with a perfectly
clear right and title to the name
and all the glory .that goes with
it.
Furthermore, I have learned
a few things during these twelve
years. It has not all been fun
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Boomer, North Carolina, April, 1922.
and foolishness by any means.
There has been a lot of serious
thinking mixed along with it. I
consider that miy mind has been
broadened and. my little bit of
education rounded out m a way
that it never would have been
except for this experience.
The Fool-Killer led me first
into Socialism, . where I stopped
for. awhile; and then it led me
beyond Socialism into the great
er field of Bible Truth which
has been gradually opening up
for all who are willing to see.
In other words, when I started
The Fool-Killer I was a blind
man trying to lead the blind.
But in a very short while I got
my political eye open and dis
covered Socialism. That was all
I could see with just one eye,
and it looked to me like the only
thing that the world needed.
But two or three years later I
got my religious eye open and
discovered something still more
wonderful. I still agree with
my Socialist friends that the
world is in the middle of a bad
fix and must have help or per
ish ; but I now see that Socialism
alone and unaided' cannot save
the world. There is help com
ing from another source which
the Socialists are not yet aware
of. These are times of pro
phetic fulfillment. God is work
ing out His Divine Plan, and
there is no guess-work about
it.
And now, honey, if The Fool
Killer has helped you as much
as it "has helped me, I know you
don't be'QTudsre the fewJittle
dimes you have spent to pay for
it.
Now I must trot along.
Be good.
I sometimes sit down to my
desk on Sunday and spend a
large part of the day writing
copy for this paper. And some
of the goody-goods come around
and tell me I ought not to work
on Sunday. Weil, why not?
Other preachers write and de
liver their sermons on Sunday,
and I'm just as good a preach
er as any of them. So why can't
I write MY sermons on Sunday,
I'd like to know?
Genoa nuther "conference"
was just now getting tuned up ?
TIME AND ETERNITY.
I have just been reading an
article by a man who talks about
'the end of -time" and says we
are now "right" on the edge of
eternity."
People who make such states
ments as that do not stop to
consider how it sounds.
The "edge of eternity."
Where would that be?
It would certainly be right at
one end or the other of eternity.
It would be just before eternity
begun or just after it ended.
But reason and common sense
ought to teach us that eternity
never had a beginning and will
never have an end. Therefore
it never did have and never can
have an "edge".
You can mentally locate your
self at any point in eternity,
and you are no nearer to the
"end" or "edge" of it than you
would be at any other point.
Some people seem to have a
fool notion that there are TWO
eternities an eternity of the
past and an eternity of the
future, and they, think our little
slice of TIME has just been
splicecl in between these two
eterni ;ies and does not belong
to either of them.
That's all nonsense.
There is but ONE eternity,
and it reaches all the way, wim
out any break in it. The thing
that we call time is not some
thing separate and apart from
eternity, but it is just the little
section of eternity that we hap
pen to be occupying. If we had
been placed a million years
earlier that section would have
been "time" to us, and the sec
tion we now occupy would have
been the eternity of the future.
So you see it is ALL time and
ALL eternity. There is no
difference, except - in a relative
sense.
Suppose you take an ordinory
day and pick out a certain -hour
in it. Would you claim that
the hour was not a part of the
day? For instance, from nine
o'clock to ten o'clock this morn
ing is an hour, but isn't it a
part of the day as well ? Certain
ly it is.
And yet there would be just
as much sense in cutting out
that hour and saying it was not
a part of the day as there is
Number 1.
in cutting out what we cal time
and saying it is not a part of
eternity.
Now listen:
If part of eternity is made
out of time, don't you suppose
it all is?
Certainly.
I am; tiying to show you that
time bears the same relation to
eternity that the hour bears
to the day.
The day is made out of hours,
and any hour in the day is atr
hour just the same. In. like?
manner, eternity is made out cf
infinitely multiplied sections of
time strung out end to end.
Time is the only thing eternity
could be made out of, and so if
time were to stop, eternity would
have to stop too.
Next time you hear anybody
talking about the "end of time'
you might call their attention
to this.
"THERE'S A REASON."
You may think I am trying
to be silly and light-minded, just
because I manage to sift in a
little fun and nonsense.
But you are barking up the
wrong tree again.
This is a very serious paper,
and it is trying to go to the
very bottom of all the deep pro
blems that now vex humanity.
But in order to keep the folks
cheered up and in a fit humor
to receive the Truth, I some
times indulge in a little harm
less fun.
I get letters nearly every day
saying that my dope reaches
and convinces people who would
not receive the truth from any
other source.
Well, I am glad of that. And
it proves that I am hot wasting'
my energy. Even if I did no
thing more than to make people
laugh I would consider that I
had -been of some service. But'
I want to do more than that.
I want to have some partin
opening the blind eyes of the
people and teaching them the
great truths about the change
of dispensations arid the New
World that we are now entering.
It is all so plain to me that I
don't understand why anybody
can fail to see it.