Similar to the manner of our world, each home is numbered in such a way that no two houses have the same designation.  By this arrangement the delivery of goods is facilitated.

Everything in this busy metropolis goes like clock work, and everybody knows the schedule, which is simple enough to be understood almost at a glance.

All the trade centers lie along the freight and passenger railroad.  This saves a tremendous amount of labor, for the goods are all transferred directly from the cars to the store-houses.

There is no Fire Department, for there is no need of one.  It appears that only a few worlds in the universe use inflammable materials for structural purposes, and we are one of them.

There is a Finance Department and a Law Department, although I cannot give space for their description.

The Sanitary and Police Departments are under systems absolutely different from any that are known in our world.  Their sanitary methods are no more effective than ours, perhaps less so.  But the Police Department is greatly superior.  This is largely due to the fact that this city has a department gloriously ahead of any city in which I have ever lived.  This department is called the Moral Department.  It is managed by twenty-one men and women, one-third of whom are selected annually from a list of nominees.

Each church, meeting certain requirements, is entitled to make one nomination.  The seven of these nominees receiving the largest number of 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.