On the world of Swift and in the vast majority of civilized worlds in space, the community or government furnishes a salaried physician within reasonable reach of every home.  The doctors of Swift are not expected to work night and day.  They have shifts to divide the toil equally.

In architecture this distant planet excels us by far.  I improved the opportunity and went to witness a magnificent temple of worship which has been in process of erection for over two hundred years.  Any conceit that I previously had on account of the large structures of my own world quickly vanished at the sight of this imposing edifice.  During my visit the winged workers were laboring on the upper stories and I watched them with great wonderment as they descended from the clouds to carry materials to the higher stories.  Can you imagine the picture of workmen flying in all directions with tools, each one busily employed?  It is promised that the present generation of employees will live to see the completion of this notable structure.

This vast building is the national religious center of the Swiftites.  Each government has such a central station, and from it all temples of worship are controlled.  Here the church and the state are yet married, and the state maintains its religious departments with careful scrutiny.  The chief ambition of each government has always been to outshine the others in the glory and magnificence of its central temple which, of course, is fire proof and almost time proof.

One may wonder as he gazes upon this extensive structure why there are seventy thousand sleeping rooms and dining halls built after such extensive plans as to entertain, at one time, twenty-five thousand guests.  All this is to accommodate the vast throngs that take their sacred pilgrimage once in a year under an arrangement by which one tenth of the able-bodied go each thirty-nine days, which corresponds to our month.

The most notable feature of this central temple is the main service room, built at fabulous cost and capable of accommodating one hundred thousand pilgrims at one time.  The most costly sections of this one room are guarded night and day by armed government soldiers.

The religion of these Swiftites is of a very pure kind.  The ministers of this national church are fully equipped before entering upon their office.  The training schools for ministers attracted my closest attention.  Fortunately, these people have no language complications as we have, so that a prospective minister can spend some of his time studying the Book of God’s Revelation instead of spending a great portion of his training period in learning the languages in which the book had once been written.

A minister’s training consists as much in voice culture and the many branches of elocution as it does in acquiring a correct knowledge of God.  But in illustrative teaching Swift leads us by far.  I was profitably entertained in the main temple as I listened to one of the famous orators discoursing to an audience of eighty thousand.  Not only did his canary-like voice penetrate to all parts of the large room, but his objective illustrations clinched the truth remarkably well.