Those
were troublous days, days of unrest, of unhappiness, of disease, bondage to material beliefs, sin, and woe, days of inequalities, of social and economic instability, of dictatorship and inhumanity.
Sometimes
on a summer day, O when the air has been close and heavy, a sudden breeze springs up, freshening the air and bringing a sense of freedom and invigoration.
Oil
was put to many uses by the people of Biblical times: the rich used it as a perfume, the physicians as a medicant, and the priests in ceremonial rites, particularly the rite of consecration.
