THANKSGIVING
By Theofield G. Weis
S THANKSGIVING DAY just a holiday to us? Reach back into the yester-years, and what does Thanksgiving Day bring to mind? Reach back into the crowded avenues of recent months, and what is there about Thanksgiving that carries to our door a holiday atmosphere? It is possible that this Thursday may be just as any Thursday, just another cross mark on our social calendar. It is possible for us to overlook the struggles which it embodies and ennobles.
In the days when this country possessed endless areas of virgin forests, prairies, and foothills; when men with painted faces and the vicious creatures of the wanton wilds reigned by law unchecked and guarded their domain by the pride and dignity of might, Thanksgiving Day had its beginnings. Unheralded, unpublished, without a radio broadcast, without an enforced proclamation, it came to a comparatively small community of Pilgrims at Plymouth. It welled from the inner recesses of sincere hearts made glad and overflowing with graditude for protection from armed killers and for the rugged soil’s bounteous yield. There it began, there in the cradle days of America, there in the pioneer homes of the Pilgrims. They were men who fought an ocean to gain a shore for liberty, men of whom Emerson says, “ Great, grim, earnest men, I belong by natural affinity to other thoughts and schools than yours, but my affection hovers respectfully about your retiring footprints, your unpainted churches, strict platforms, and sad officers; the iron-gray deacon and the wearisome prayer rich with the diction of ages.” He gave thanks who was a pious Pilgrim.
Strange, that pioneers of this continent other than the Pilgrims who struggled for liberty, who wrested a domain from the trackless wilderness where they might worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, should be the first to deny liberty to any one who chose to differ in his convictions. While the Pilgrims never persecuted, the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony did. He had freedom who
FIRST THANKSGIVING
By Jean Crosse Hansen
Behind her lay the forest dark and still.
Steel-blue the ocean stretched along the sand.
But from her latticed window a faint ray
Of sunshine without warmth touched Anne's dark hair.
Her wheel stood still. Her psalm-book open near.
In that rough-timbered room before the fire
Anne sat, eyes closed, nor heard her husband's call.
“Anne! What means all this? A thrifty wife
Should not sit idle in the afternoon.
Have you no work to do?"
Anne softly said:
“ But may a wife not rest? David, I saw
The little church in England . . . Harvest Home . . .
Mercy and I went down the pathway hand in hand
Past our white cottage. Oh, it was
So dear, so sweet—the dream—that I forgot—”
“ Mercy is dead.
We laid her in that field where we sowed corn."
111 know, David. You said, ‘ The Lord gave, and He taketh away.'
I do not question Him, nor mourn my child. Truly
I rejoice that Mercy will not see another cruel winter
In this land I’ve hated so—”
“I will not listen, Anne,
To such heresy! You know the punishment? . . .
Then go outside where other women make
Glad preparations for our first Thanksgiving feast." . . .
“Yes, David, I will go."
was a Puritan in Massachusetts. But any one deliberating to be contrary had little freedom in the town, had few privileges as a worshiper. Gratitude was hedged. Religious liberty had a black sign on its major pillar. Tolerance was gowned and carried a warrant within its folds along Massachusetts Bay. But how different among the liberty-loving Pilgrims!
Unless Thanksgiving Day finds a spirit of thankfulness within our own hearts, it has little value. Unless we can continue to thank God for freedom, for the dignity of
representative government, and for the power of the separation of church and state, the founders of this country have struggled in vain. To Christian young men and women Thanksgiving Day should present a dual admonition, a dual challenge. First: It is easy for us to forget the material abundance and physical riches that have been showered upon us in the course of the year—routine essentials, we term them. For them, Thanksgiving reminds us to be thankful. Second: In the hour of success the real qualities of nobility are often crucified. Liberty dies when individuals become indifferent to their own responsibilities in the state and assume a responsibility for the consciences of their neighbors. Thanksgiving should remind us to be tolerant.
May thanksgiving and religious freedom go hand in hand. And may it never be said of us that we were thankful and intolerant, but that we were thankful and magnanimous.
Lessons of Trust
“In His sermon on the mount, Christ taught His disciples precious lessons in regard to the necessity of trusting in God. These lessons were designed to encourage the children of God through all ages. ... If God, the divine artist, gives to the simple flowers that perish in a day their delicate and varied colors, how much greater care will He have for those who are created in His own image?” —u Steps to Christ."
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By J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
•¥• The graduation program of the nineteenth session of the FBI National Police Academy, July 25, was also the twenty-fifth anniversary of J. Edgar Hoover's career in the Justice Department. Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, was the principal speaker. Graduate Robert A. Allen is here seen receiving a diploma from Mr. Hoover {right), who in the accompanying article emphasizes the need of eternal and intelligent vigilance as the price of liberty.
HE essential task of law enforcement is the preservation of American democracy. In this, I believe, the FBI reflects the tempo of the times. From 1924 until 1932 the FBI was preparing for the tasks which appeared inevitable. It was building an organization of young, alert, educated men of a type never before known in law enforcement. For the first time in history, here was a law-enforcement organization wherein every man was being schooled to problems which did not then exist, but problems which certainly would arise in the future, problems for which the FBI must be ready—that was our program of preparedness. Thus, when the challenge came with the rise of kidnaping, bank robbery, and the nation-wide operations of organized crime, the FBI was ready to act as soon as its forces were unleashed by Congressional enactments. Within a matter of months it transformed itself into a gang-smashing organization—athletic in body, as well as in mind and spirit, and scientifically developed for the job of facing the gangster on his own ground with his own weapons. The battle lines were drawn, and one by one the lords, the masters, and the
hangers-on of the underworld who had sneered at all law and order fell into disgrace and oblivion.
With the same type of assistance which America has given to the FBI in its assaults upon criminality, this Bureau will make espionage and sabotage equally as dangerous for those who seek to defile our land as kidnaping and bank robbery have been.
In its efforts to defeat these persons who seek to slow' up America, the FBI is giving attention to the task of surveying industrial plant protective facilities. Every assistance must be given to the industrial world in maintaining safety against those who would hinder or harm it. This blood stream of American defense must not be allowed to clot. For months, highly trained Special Agents have been conferring with industrial executives and carefully studying every protective measure within manufacturing establishments in order that vulnerable points may be fortified in the interest of our national security.
The trailing of the spy or the saboteur is a job for men of experience. This is not a task for the amateur sleuth, and certainly there is no place here for roving vigilantes, or groups organized by some promoter seeking personal gain or publicity. We cannot and should not debase ourselves to using the same methods to which our enemies stoop, but we must, through the orderly processes of our established democratic methods, seek them out and properly defend ourselves by bringing a halt to their operations. Above all, we must not lose our heads in a rising tide of hysteria. This job can best be done by entrusting the task to men who are trained for it. To this end, citizens, when cognizant of acts inimical to our national defense, should immediately communicate the facts in their possession to the nearest FBI Field Office.
The same subversive forces which attempted to wreck America twenty years
ago,—which burned our wheat fields, which blew up our factories, which killed our workmen, which incited strikes, fomented bombings, ruled mobs, and brought about gunplay and bloodshed,—still hate the Federal Bureau of Investigation with rankling venom. I am happy to say that this Bureau has never weakened before their unwarranted and false attacks in defending the principles of freedom, democracy, and liberty, in the American way.
United, we can shout the challenge that America is for Americans and those who want to be Americans; that the FBI will not permit the spy, the saboteur, and the international confidence men with their retinue of killers and murderers to slay and maim and run amuck through the highways, the byways, and the homes of our land.
But Americanism must be protected in the American way. We must not allow our patriotism to be commercialized. If we deprecate the activities of isms, then we must not lower ourselves by fighting these forces with their purgatives, their internment camps, or their firing squads. We will fight them in the good old-fashioned American way, fairly, squarely, and relentlessly.
Beyond this, we must plan for tomorrow. If our form of government is to survive, it will be upon the foundations of justice which support our democracy. If those foundations are to endure, the generations to come must be properly taught and trained in the great American institution— the home.
Today is the time for an intensification of the teachings of Americanism to the rising generations—tomorrow may be too late. We have neglected too long the thrilling lessons found in the histories of Washington, of Jefferson, and of Lincoln, while we have a disgustingly large number of propaganda-purveyors who would educate our youth along dictatorial or communistic lines. Too many of these are today in our schools and colleges, maintained by public funds, while they attempt to pervert the teachings of democracy.
There is no place in this country for anything but home-honoring Americans; there is no place in our schools for the advocates of destructive isms. Either this is to continue a Nation dedicated to the ideals of the America we love or it will sink into shapeless ruin. It is our sacred duty to defend our honored land against such a catastrophe. The place to start is in the home (Continued on page 11)
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PANORAMAS FROM PROPHETIC PEAKS
] OME two decades ago it was my privilege to reside in the beautiful city of Colorago Springs, Colorado, lying like a lovely gem at the foot of Pikes Peak. A party of some eighteen or twenty of us set out on foot at three o’clock one morning to scale the peak, the top of which is thirty miles from the city. Only a few of us reached the summit.
The sky cleared, and from our position, 14,207 feet above sea level, we looked around. On the one hand we gazed upon the jagged, snow-capped, billowing mountains of the great Rockies, on the other we saw the boundless, treeless prairies, stretching eastward and southeastward toward the states of Kansas and New Mexico. And nestling at our feet, a mile and one half down, lay the little city of Colorado Springs.
A few years afterward I made the trip to the top of Cheyenne Mountain. At the top, standing on the very edge of a preci-
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untraveled way of the future toward a certain destination.
These mountain peaks are the heights of Bible history and prophecy. God would have us scale them and look at the past, the present, and the future as He sees them alike outspread.
Come with me to three of these Bible mountains. Concerning Christ, we read in Matthew 24:3: “As He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world?”
We will mention two signs which Jesus gave. Said He, “ Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.” Luke
■¥“ Navy patrol bomber and “ pillbox ” of sandbags at an Alaskan air base. Storms without warning are a severe handicap to flying in the Alaskan region. Most folks can read the signs of stormy weather, but Mr. Lickey speaks of the momentous signs on the political horizon.
pice, holding to the guard rails, we took in the scene below us. The sun was sinking in the west. Night was falling. But in our hearts we knew there would be another day.
From still a third elevation I surveyed at a different time the city of Colorado Springs and its environs. Just so, God has mountain peaks from which we may view life—see its winding road from out the ages of the hoary past, see its problems of the present, and look with confidence down the
21: 26. As we look about us today, we see heart failure, both literal and figurative.
Before World War II began, Winston Churchill said, “We seem to be moving, drifting, steadily, against our will, against the will of every race, and every people, and every class, toward some hideous catastrophe. Everybody wishes to stop it, but they do not know how.”
Alfred Noyes wrote, “Practical men ... are looking into the future as into an immeasurable darkness.”
Another sign which Christ gave on that mountain was war—not just ordinary war. No! No! Said He, “Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: . . . the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” Jesus said in effect, “Do not pay any attention to ordinary war as a sign of My coming, but when you see world war, it will be a sign of My return.”
So from the Mount of Olives with Jesus, we see the two signs—fear and world conflict. He gave many others.
Come now with me to another mountain, and we shall see a strange, paradoxical sign. It is recorded in Isaiah 2: 2-6:
“And it shall come to pass in the last days that . . . many people shall go and say, Come ye, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, . . . and He shall judge among the nations, . . . and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” That is what the people were to say in the last days—the religious people.
From Jesus’ mountain we saw fear and international war. From Isaiah’s mountain we hear great international peace cries and see movements for peace. From the mountain of the Apostle Paul’s prophecy we hear, “When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, . . . and they shall not escape.” 1 Thessalonians 5: 3.
While this refers primarily to the destruction when Christ actually returns in the clouds of glory, it definitely shows that a great peace and safety cry will be on at that time, and we have had examples of it and of destruction following.
The first great Hague Peace Conference was held in 1899, 43 years ago. Within three months the Boer War was on, and in less than five years the Russo-Japanese conflict ensued.
The second Hague Conference convened June 15, 1907, and continued until October 18, with forty-four sovereign nations represented. The very next year came the revolution in Turkey and the next year the counter-revolution. In two years, Turkey and Italy were at war. Before they got through, the Balkan tinderbox was ignited in the first Balkan War of 1912. The next year it furiously exploded again in one of the most atrocious wars of history. That same year ambassadors and statesmen gathered to dedicate the Peace Palace at The Hague. The next year, 1914, the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were murdered in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and the fuse to World War I was lighted. While they
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jjjm HE millennium, a thousand years Kfig Ofi of peace and prosperity, has ever gripped the imagination of theo-logians. No other doctrine appears to promise more to the spiritually ambitious. A temporal reign of Christ, always a salient tenet in popular conceptions of a millennium, is a deception hoary with age. It was a prevailing doctrine among the Jews at the birth of Christ. More than any other factor it prepared the world for the rejection of the promised Saviour.
According to Bible prophecies, Jesus is about to return the second time, “to execute judgment upon all/7 Jude 15. Running counter to this solemn message of Bible truth now due the world is another message, unbiblical but popular, which is conspicuously silent about the coming executive judgment, but gives great prominence to a millennial age. With astonishing zeal and an ingenious employment of the Scriptures it is made to appear that the time is ripe for the “long-promised reign of Christ on the earthPoverty, sickness, and strife have filled the earth with woe. A temporal millennium is bright with promise. It is a spiritual Townsend plan which offers comfort and peace to the weary and downtrodden souls of men. The idea grips the imagination. It sells.
A misunderstanding of the doctrine of Messiah’s temporal reign led the Hebrew nation astray at the first advent of Christ. The temporal millennium was a blasted hope at the close of the first thousand years of the Christian era. It constituted a devastating counter message at the time of the Protestant Reformation. The history of the doctrine has been anything but reputable. This fact alone should challenge its status as a spiritual philosophy. But the Sword of the Spirit, the Bible, constitutes the most formidable opposition to the doctrine of a “millennial age.”
In investigating the validity of the popular conception of the millennium as a Bible doctrine, it may be something of a surprise to some earnest folks to learn that the term millennium does not occur in the Bible. The word is of purely theological coinage. It is made up of two Latin words, mille, a thousand, and annus, a year; literally, a thousand years. We have no objection to the term as such. In its association with the Bible it is largely based on Revelation 20: 1-5, where a period of a thousand years is spoken of, in which Satan is bound. The objection lies not in the employment of the term but in the application that is made by the doctrinarians who teach a millennium on the earth as a means of salvation for a distracted world.
In the first place it is the grossest error to look for salvation in an event apart from Christ. Salvation centers not in some future event but in a personality, Jesus Christ, and His blood, shed upon Calvary’s cross. “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” 1 John 5:11, 12. In support of this vital truth it will occur to the thoughtful reader that nowhere in the Gospels is
* Tanambogo Island, in the Solomon group, after American air forces dropped bombs upon Japanese gun emplacements and anti-aircraft batteries there. Gavutu Island, also taken over by the United States Marines, supported by forces of the Pacific fleet, lies just beyond Tanambogo Island, across the causeway (upper left). As the attack of American forces upon the Solomon Islands was no good omen for the Japanese, so also the millennial dawn will afford no hope to the wicked. But read what Mr. Thompson has to say on this subject.
ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE MILLENNIUM?
By Walter C. Thompson
the idea of a millennium set forth. Jesus, often warning of the judgment, is silent about a millennium.
Again Paul, an uncompromising exponent of sound doctrine, never speaks of a millennium. It is to speak of a coming judgment that he raises his earnest voice. Listen; Paul is before Felix: “And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled.” Not a millennium to palliate the sinner with a false hope, but a stern judgment. We submit that no sinner ever trembles while listening to the sophistries of a promised temporal millennium.
Let us summon one more New Testament witness. It is the warning voice of Peter. “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?” 1 Peter 4: 17, 18. Peter does not hold out to the sinner the prospect of a more favorable age, a super-gospel age, in which it will be made easier to get to heaven.
But the teacher of a millennial dawn,
failing with the Scriptures, resorts to reasons more difficult for the inexperienced to handle. With finest logic he appeals to the justice and love of God. He argues, “The gospel has been hid to all but a favored few. If God is no respecter of persons, all must have a chance to hear the gospel under the same favorable conditions. This demands a millennium.” We will let Paul answer this human reasoning. “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.” 2 Corinthians 4:3.
Has the millennium then—if we are pleased to use the term—no place in Bible doctrine? What does the revelator mean when he speaks of a thousand-year period in which Satan is bound? The answer is found in the language of the text, not in our devious philosophy or assumptions. An examination of Revelation 20: 1-6 brings out the following facts: Satan is to be bound for a thousand years in the “bottomless pit.” At the close of the period he is to be loosed for a little season. This “little season” is a period of executive judgment, not a millennium. (Verse 4.) During the one thousand years when Satan is bound the redeemed will live and reign with Christ a thousand years. Christ will not, during that time, reign on the earth.
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| ANY have erroneously supposed that the old covenant was the moral law, and that when the new covenant was ratified, the law was thereby annulled and set aside. But the old covenant was not the Ten Commandment law, but was, instead, an agreement made between God and the people regarding the keeping of the law. “If ye will obey, . . . then ye shall be Mine/’ was God’s part. “All that Jehovah hath spoken we will do, and be obedient,” was the people’s part. This was the covenant agreement. It was about the Ten Commandment law, but it was not the law itself. The law was only its subject, or foundation.
The old covenant was “faulty,” but the “law of Jehovah is perfect.” Psalm 19: 7, A. R. Y. The old covenant was poor, whereas, “the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.” Romans 7: 12, A. R. V. In the old covenant the promises were poor. But in the law of God the promises are all good. The old covenant was “old,” decayed, and “ready to vanish away.” Hebrews 8:13. Of the Ten Commandment law it is said, “All His precepts are sure. They are established for ever and ever; they are done in truth and uprightness.” Psalm 111: 7, 8, A. R. V. And again, “ It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.” Luke 16: 17, A. R. Y.
Therefore, let no one fall into the error of supposing that the ratification of a new covenant in any way affected the validity of the moral law, or at all lessened our obligation to keep it in every precept. Instead, it established the law forever and pointed the way to its complete fulfillment in every human heart. “Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid : nay, we establish the law.” Romans 3: 31, A. R. Y.
Better Promises.—The fault found with the old covenant was with its promises. Man’s side was weak in that he could not do what he had promised to do. He had not learned that “without Me ye can do nothing.”
A DIVINE CHARTER
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By William H. Branson
The strength of the new covenant as compared with the old is that it is “established upon better promises.” Hebrews 8: 6. And why are the promises of the new covenant better than those of the old? Just this, it is because Christ makes them all. God’s side of the agreement stands as before, “If ye will obey,” but man’s side is changed. Instead of boldly declaring, “I will do,” feeling his utter helplessness he turns to Jesus for help, and Jesus—the Man, our Elder Brother—says, “7 will do it for you.”
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put My laws into their mind, and on their heart also will I write them: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people: and they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins will I remember no more.” Hebrews 8: 10-12, A. R. Y. “Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus, make you perfect in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory for ever and ever.
* Opening prayer in an American legislative assembly, as illustrated in a wood cut of early days. When the country was young, even as now, the United States Constitution was a charter of liberty. Read Mr. Branson’s interesting discussion of another charter.
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Amen.” Hebrews 13:20, 21, A. R. Y. “That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.” Ephesians 3:17.
Thus the new covenant brings in Christ. It introduces into human flesh the power of divinity. It is “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” and it leads the weakest and most vacillating sinner to look up and exclaim, “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13.
Paul declares that the law “was weak through the flesh.” Romans 8: 3. That is, humanity was powerless to keep it. By it no flesh could be justified, for no flesh could perfectly obey it. The flesh had been weakened by sin; therefore men were confronted with the paradox of being required to do what they could not do. But God was not found wanting for a plan. “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:3, 4. In Weymouth’s translation this scripture is rendered thus: “For what was impossible to the Law—powerless as it was because it acted through frail humanity—God effected.” And how did God effect that which the law could not do? He sent His Son into the world in the flesh, and He lived in perfect obedience to the law, in the flesh. Then He offers to duplicate the miracle by sending Him again into our flesh where He again perfectly obeys this law in and through us. He offers to change the heart from stone to flesh and write His law upon it. “Being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables that are hearts of flesh. And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward : not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God.” 2 Corinthians 3:3-5, A. R. V.
Oh, glorious provision! We need not depend upon our own feeble efforts but upon His sufficiency. When, therefore, the new-covenant relationship is entered into, and Christ is received into the heart by faith, He writes upon the heart exactly the same law as was written upon the tables of stone. There is not a change of a jot or a tittle. (Luke 16: 17.) Every command reads just as it first came forth from the lips of Jehovah and was engraved by His finger upon the tables. The standard of God’s moral government never changes. He declares Himself to be the same yesterday, today, and forever, and His law to be eternal. The condition, therefore, of entrance into new-covenant relationship with Christ is a willingness to have His entire
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CHRIST IN
PROPHECY
+ Amid the stormy clamor of Christ1 s enemies, Pilate, the Roman Governor, condemned Jesus to the cross. A multitude of events in Christ's life and the exact manner of His death were foretold in Holy Scripture centuries before His birth, as Mr. Parmele shows in the accompanying article.
JOT only are there abundant prophecies relating to the first advent of Christ, but the predictions are so clear that any one familiar with the beliefs of Christendom can readily note their application.
After His resurrection, Jesus joined two of His apostles in their walk to Emmaus, and the record says that “beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.” Luke 24:27. And again to all of the apostles He said, “These are the words which I spake unto you, . . . that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me.” Verse 44. Peter preaching in the temple, said, “All the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.” Acts 3:24. Let us, then, study some of these predictions, “beginning at Moses.”
“Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up
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unto you of your brethren, like unto me.” Acts 3: 22. The martyr Stephen, in his speech before he was stoned, applied this prediction to Christ. (Acts 7: 37.) And Paul, in Rome, called the Jews to his lodging, and “ testified the kingdom of God, persuaded them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.” Acts 28: 23.
Since Paul’s presentation re-quired “from morning till evening,” it is evident that we can present but a very few of the many prophetic utterances, but will give only a sufficient number to cover His life’s history. Of the beginning of His early life, Isaiah 7: 14-16 says that He should be born of a virgin, and Micah 5:2 gives the place of His birth. The first two chapters of Matthew record the fulfillment of these prophecies. The fifty-third chapter of Isaiah is devoted entirely to an advance history of His life, His ignominious death, His final triumph, and His satisfaction at seeing the results of His sacrifice. It would seem that he must be willfully blind who could read this chapter without recognizing its counterpart in the life history of Christ.
The date of His baptism, the length of His ministry, and the time of His crucifixion are all told in Daniel 9:24-27: “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people. . . . Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks. . . . And after threescore and two weeks shall the Messiah be cut off. . . . And He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst
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of the week He shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.”
In the Douay (Catholic) translation of the Bible the word “Christ ” is used instead of Messiah, and instead of “cut off” the word “slain” is used. A footnote in this translation says: “Seventy weeks, viz., of years, (or seventy times seven, that is 490 years). . . . From the going forth of the word. . . . From which time, according to the best chronology, there were just 69 weeks of years, that is, 483 to the baptism of Christ, when He first began to preach and execute the office of Messias. ... In the half of the week, or, in the middle of the week, etc. Because Christ preached three years and a half: and then by His sacrifice upon the cross abolished all the sacrifices of the law.” That is the correct interpretation of this prophecy.
Jesus recognized that the ninth chapter of Daniel applied in His time, and could be understood; for in Matthew 24: 15 He quoted a part of it, and added: “Whoso readeth, let him understand.” He understood it, and so waited for His baptism until the termination of the 69 weeks (483 years). Then, when He began His ministry, He said, “The time is fulfilled.” Mark 1:15.
Upon one occasion He said to His brethren, “My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.” John 7:6. (See also verse 8.) There was no prophecy foretelling the events of their lives, but He had a definite schedule. Soon the people “sought to take Him: but no man laid hands on Him, because His hour was not yet come.” Verse 30; also 8:20. Twice they endeavored to kill Him, “but He passing through the midst of them went His way.” Luke 4: 30. (See also John 8: 59.) But “in the midst of the week,”—three and one-half years after His baptism,—He submitted to arrest and crucifixion, for He “knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world.” John 13: 1.
“All this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Matthew 26: 56. These prophets lived in different periods of the world's history. They wrote from widely separated localities, yet their writings all agree. Why should they be doubted? Why should anyone hesitate to accept, with all his heart, the One who came here and gave His life for our salvation? May our faith grow stronger, and our love more sincere, as we think of these things.
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■¥■ Soldiers studying a giant model of the malaria-carrying mosquito. Thousands of lives have been saved through destruction of these mosquitoes and similar pests.
A “Tough” War
hat President Roosevelt said in his radio speech in September about this conflict being “the toughest war of all time” has been emphasized and amplified by his subordinates. Donald C. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, followed a few days later with a statement before the American Legion Convention in Kansas City in which he said that a year hence Americans will be compelled to do without much that is now considered essential. As reported in the public press, Mr. Nelson said that by the middle of next year sixty per cent of our production will be for the war, that there will be no luxuries, gadgets, or comforts— “nothing at all, from mine or farm or factory, except that which we simply must have if we are to keep fighting.” He added that because our shelves were full, we have not felt the pinch of war, but that in another year “we will be down to bone and muscle, because we have to get down to bone and muscle in order to win.”
“We are going to have enough to eat throughout this war,” said Mr. Nelson, “and probably will not have to put any very drastic limitations on our range of choice in that regard. But in almost every other respect we are going to have to be ready to do without.”
Ambassador Joseph C. Grew spent ten years in Germany and ten years in Japan. Speaking at the War Council luncheon in Syracuse, New York, as reported by the New York Times (September 19), he said
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that America has tough enemies. “Nevertheless,” he added, “despite its strength, Japan’s new empire should certainly not be considered invulnerable. It has definite weaknesses which, if we take full advantage of them will lead ultimately to the collapse of her whole position.”
Yes, in this Thanksgiving time America has food. But it is not so in parts of Europe. The armies must be fed, however much the populace may lack. And winter—what must winter mean in Russia! In his radio address on May 10, Prime Minister Churchill remarked that Hitler made his first great blunder when he launched his unprovoked attack upon the Russian people, and his second when he forgot about the Russian winter. And then Mr. Churchill called attention to the fact that the German leader had admitted the probability of a second winter for the German army in Russia. The Prime Minister also remarked that while “no one can say with certainty how many millions of Germans have already perished in Russia and its snows, certainly more have perished than were killed in the whole four and a quarter years of the last war.” “That is probably an understatement,” he added.
The “World Almanac” gives the figures of the Germans killed in World War No. 1 as 1,773,700. But when we think of the Russian hosts also wiped out, and of the loss of life in other theaters of the war, we are reminded of the words of Isaiah 28: 19, “It shall be a vexation only to understand the report.” In such a time we must be very near the dawn of
the day when “the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, He shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that He may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, His strange act.” Verse 21. “The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a thistledown before the whirlwind.” Isaiah 17: 13,14.
In this our day, before our eyes, are being fulfilled the prophetic words of Jeremiah 25: 29: “I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.” “Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.” Verse 32.
The other verses of this prophecy indicate that in such a time as this God will intervene in the affairs of nations. The prophecy of Revelation 11: 18 declares: “The nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.”
In trumpet tones world-shaking events herald the imminent return of Jesus Christ in the clouds of glory, and when He appears the wicked shall be destroyed “with the brightness of His coming” (2 Thessalonians 2: 8), while the humble and faithful followers of the Saviour will look up and say, “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.” Isaiah 25: 9.
Unrest In India
> hand as K. Gandht, one of the most picturesque figures of India, had a birthday October 2. The veteran leader of the Indian National Congress party was seventy-three years old. Presumably he spent the day in the palace of the Aga Khan at Poona, where he was imprisoned last August, following his arrest by the British. The place where he was then confined would indicate that this idolized champion of independence for India and his right-hand man, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, are being given every consideration usually accorded princely rulers.
Meantime India seethes. The leaders of the Indian National Congress party have chosen to press their demands upon Britain for a free and untrammeled India at a time when the Japanese invader is threatening to overrun the country. But Prime Minister Churchill, in his speech to the House of Commons on September 10, said: “ The out-
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standing fact which has so far emerged from the violent action of the Congress party has been its nonrepresentative character and powerlessness to throw into confusion the normal peaceful life of India.”
With new Japanese troop concentrations near the Burma-India border, China became alarmed at the situation, and Lauch-lin Currie, President Roosevelt’s envoy to China, sent word to Washington that the Chungking government desired mediation in India by the President.
“The reasons,” says Time, “for Chinese anxiety and that of all United Nations, including Russia and the United States, are at least fivefold: (1) only through India can fighting China be supplied; (2) only from India can the United Nations launch a campaign to recover Burma; (3) control of India means control of shipping in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean; (4) India’s position enables United Nations’ air power to strike east or west; (5) Indian supply routes to Iran and Russia will be increasingly important if Russia’s southern armies are defeated.”—September 21, 19.12.
In its issue of September 14, Time mentioned “a growing rumble” which “could be heard through the artificial silence of strict censorship.” Herbert L. Matthews in a dispatch to the New York Times from New Delhi, India, quoted Sir Reginald Maxwell, Home Minister of the Viceroy’s Council, as describing “an orgy of destruction of communications and other government property, with whole districts isolated for days on end.” He reported of the United Provinces that “a very large part of the railway systems in this area were put out of action.” The Province of Bihar, the Home Minister said, being strategically situated would be a crucial point during the coming months, in the whole Indian problem. Edgar Snow, cabling from Bombay to the Saturday Evening Post, and A. T. Steele, reporting to the Chicago Daily News from New Delhi, mention a great “growth of anti-British feeling among the Indian people.”
What the outcome will be of the impasse between the British and the Indian National Congress party none can tell, but the very critical situation, with the fate of the three hundred fifty-two millions of India’s inhabitants hanging in the balance, to say nothing of the far-reaching results to the rest of the world, certainly points to the unmistakable fact that the world has come upon perilous times. While Britain and the world are involved in war, there are those who have a purpose of their own to serve.
Britain offered India a voice in the defense of the country, and later a place in the Commonwealth of Nations similar to that occupied by Canada and Australia. But the Indian National Congress party was determined that in the midst of war
immediate steps should be taken to frame a new constitution for India, and formulate a new nationalist government. This was deemed by Sir Stafford Cripps, representative of the British Government, to be utterly unsafe at a time when, as he said, the enemy is at the gate. He refused to commit the British Government to such a program.
“Of course,” he said, in a statement to the people of India broadcast April 11, “every individual and organization would have liked the Draft Declaration to express his or their point of view, but this if it had been done would inevitably have been rejected by others. . . . Some day, somehow, the great communities and parties in India will have to agree upon a method of framing their new Constitution. I regret profoundly for the sake of India for whom I have deep and admiring friendship that the opportunity now offered has not been accepted.”—“ International Conciliation,” June, 1942, pages 332, 333.
In a statement to the press, Sir Stafford Cripps said: “ India is threatened. All who love India as I love India and you love India must bring their energies, each in his own way, to her immediate help. . . . America is doing all she can, and now India must devote herself wholeheartedly, with special effort in every field of activity, in
defending her soil and protecting her women and children from those ghastly horrors that have befallen her Chinese friends and neighbors.”—11 International Conciliation,” June, 1942, page 331.
The situation in India reminds us of the words of an ancient Bible prophet, who, speaking of the times in earth’s history just before “the God of heaven” should “set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed,” said the nations would not be able to “cleave one to another.” Daniel 2: 43, 44.
We are also reminded of the words of Christ recorded in Luke 21: 25, 26 where, in describing the signs which would precede His second coming, He said there would be “upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, . . . men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.” But the Saviour did not leave the world hopeless. His mission was not to condemn the world, but that “whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Therefore, to His disciples He said: “ When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” Verse 28.
That promise comes ringing down the centuries, and should give cheer to every troubled heart.
¥ Drawing room in the palatial residence of the Aga Khan at Poona, one hundred twenty miles southeast of Bombay, India. It was in this palace-like building that Mohandas Gandhi and other Nationalist-All-1n-dia-Congress leaders were uimprisoned They were arrested in Bombay on Sunday, A ugust 9.
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OW to keep fit in a modern world has always been a problem. It would be far less a problem if we all lived more natural lives. The tendency of modern life is for people to crowd into towns and cities, where living is more or less artificial. By far the most of us spend our lives in offices, shops, warehouses, or factories. There, the ever increasing wear and tear of a closely confined life imposes such strain on all concerned that the brief week-end rest is scarcely long enough to bring about complete recovery of mental and spiritual poise.
If this is so in peacetime, it is much more so in wartime, which brings added strain of body and mind for everyone. Food must be strictly rationed. This involves extra vigilance and care on the part of both buyer and seller. The housewife, of course, must ultimately bear the brunt of the strain, as she is in charge of the family larder. She must carry most of her goods, instead of having them brought to the door. Often, long and anxious waiting in shops tries her patience and her strength, as well as consumes much of her precious time. She may even have to do part-time war work, which adds considerably to the pressure of her life.
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Besides this, in Great Britain there is the threat of air raids, endangering life and limb, and demanding strict black-out rules, which must be carefully observed on penalty of a heavy fine. Workers already doing a full-time job have to do “fire-watching’7 duties at night. Thus, when they most need sleep they have to keep awake at least some part of the night.
So for nearly all concerned, wartime means long hours, extra burdens, worries, and anxieties, which tend to wear down body and mind, and so reduce fitness.
Yet, apart from the extra trouble of a complicated food-rationing system, there are compensations. The net result is decidedly encouraging from a health point of view.
Before the war, there was much waste. Living was far from simple, and hence far from healthful. Sad to say, most people cannot be trusted to choose the simplest and most nourishing foods. Taste and desire very largely rule their lives. But with foodstuffs running short or disappearing altogether, the Government has had to step in and regulate the kind and the amount of food necessary to adequate individual sustenance.
So it comes about that we are all confined to limited amounts of simple, nourishing food. Brown bread has replaced white bread, which is all to the good. We rely less on meat and more on firsthand foods, which may be more healthful and more sustaining.
The consumption of such things as alcoholic drinks, tobacco, tea, and coffee, has been cut down, and may still further be reduced. Health wise, this is all to the good, since these at best are doubtful
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luxuries which do not make for fitness, but rather tend to reduce it.
So, in Britain, we are all on a diet, a diet that has been carefully planned by medical experts, and which enables each individual, according to age, constitution, and calling, to get the maximum amount of nourishment out of a minimum of food supplies.
We are all “under the doctor,” and that doctor is a kindly, well-informed, well-intentioned government, of which any nation might be justly proud. Under its firm but fatherly direction, we are learning to appreciate the simple life, and are feeling better for it.
Perhaps the most promising sign of the times is the back-to-the-land movement. It has taken another war to bring home to us the truth of the wise man’s words that “the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.”
The land, after all, is a nation’s chief and most permanent source of sustenance. Whether they realize it or no, those who till the soil are, to the very highest degree, and in more ways than one, doing “the king’s business.” There can be no more healthful, more uplifting, more useful life than that of the land-worker, and it is a step in the right direction that thousands of young men and young women are leaving the more or less artificial life in offices, shops, and factories, for the more natural calling of the land, where they are finding-renewed health and fresh vitality in the “simple sanities of the soil.”
Allotment holders are renewing their youth as they dig and plant and hoe to produce food for the family, the community, and hence for the nation. The revival of agriculture is one of the greatest of wartime blessings, which must never be allowed to flag, not even when the war is over. We ought to be less a nation of shopkeepers, and more a nation of peasant-proprietors. Perhaps we are even now heading toward that happy, healthy achievement.
The increase of employment all round has brought blessings to many who hitherto were without work. Some were unemployed through no fault of their own; others were unoccupied because they were not obliged to work. These, for the most part, have been drawn into the ranks of the nation’s army of workers. As a result, the strain on the unemployment insurance funds has been greatly relieved, and a substantial surplus for future emergencies is being built up; while the leisured classes are no longer frittering away their lives in a useless round of pleasure-seeking.
Of course, there is the danger of overstrain through long hours of arduous toil. The seven-day week has been introduced into factories doing war-work. It has been demonstrated over and over again that nothing is gained by continuous and unremitting labor. A fifty-five-hour week is the proved maximum, in which men and women can maintain health and efficiency.
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By H. F. De’Ath, Dl
It is not so much the number of hours people are willing to put in, as the amount and quality of work they are able to turn out in a given time. It should be remembered that most war-work is done at high speed, and requires close concentration. Hence the need of keeping the hours of labor within a wisely prescribed limit.
Moreover, much of the work is trying to the eyes, and demands continuous standing, which tires the feet and encourages the development of foot trouble. All this makes it imperative that the health of the workers
“Wken the Frost Is On the Punkin”
By James Whitcomb Riley
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the sho\ And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin’ turkey-And the clackin' of the guineys} and the cluckin' of the he\ And the rooster's hallylooyer as he tiptoes on the fence;
Of it's then's the times a feller is a-feelin' at his besty With the risin' sun to greet him from a night of peaceful re Ashe leaves the house, bareheaded, and goes out to feed the s When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shoe
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should be carefully safeguarded. Happily, much has been and is being done in this direction, by the erection of up-to-date buildings for offices and factories, where abundant light and good ventilation and pleasant surroundings obtain.
The problem of sufficient rest is made more acute for many, owing to disturbed nights caused through threatened or actual air raids. In certain areas, people have to make frequent and prolonged use of airraid shelters, where facilities for sleep are inadequate. The noise of anti-aircraft
gunfire is very deafening, too, so that nervous people suffer considerably. However strong and cool some may seem to be at such a time, an actual air raid is a terrifying experience; and those who are of a very nervous disposition should be dealt with sympathetically. None of us has been able to choose his ancestors. Hence any of us may come into the world with inherited tendencies to bad health of one sort or another. Early environment, too, may be responsible for a good deal of physical and nervous debility. Hence the fortunate
and strong should bear the infirmities of the unfortunate and weak, and see to it that the latter are shielded and soothed as much as is possible, as well as given opportunity to rest and relax after the raid is over. This is simple Christian teaching.
Those who are obliged to stay in their shelters for many hours during the night should use every effort to make them comfortable and attractive places of retreat and relaxation. This means so much to the fearful and nerve-strained. A bright, roomy, well-lighted shelter, where one can move about freely or recline in comfort, may do much to soothe nerves.
The matter of ventilation should be attended to, so that the air is kept constantly fresh. It is quite simple to fix a ventilation pipe in the roof of the ordinary shelter.
Nor need those who elect to stay in the house be at any great disadvantage in this respect, owing to the black-out arrangements. When lights are put out, part at least of the black-out should be easily removable, so that the sleeping quarters may be adequately ventilated.
Early to bed should be the rule, whenever and wherever possible. One distinct advantage of black-out rules has been that many more people now hasten to be home before dusk, stay there during the evening, and go to bed early. This has helped to bring about a wholesome revival of the old-fashioned family life, with its simple pleasures and its useful and profitable hobbies. So much can be done to provide necessary comforts for those on active service, and for those who have suffered injury or loss through enemy action.
The strain and worry of wartime could be very much reduced if people would think less, talk less, and read less about the war. An intelligent and sympathetic interest in the great struggle for freedom and justice there should be, of course, but there should also be times when the subject is taboo. Most service men are reticent about their war experiences, and naturally so. They are in the whole loathsome business, and when free, want to forget it.
During the last world war, as Mrs. Wood-row Wilson tells us in her “Memoirs/7 the subject of the war was never discussed at family mealtime at the White House. And when Mr. Lloyd George was at Chequers, resting over the week-end, and people came to discuss the latest war disaster, he would invite them to join him and his family in singing Welsh hymns. Then at a suitable time, he would remind them that it was bedtime, that he and they must have sleep, and usher them out without even mentioning the subject of the war.
It is not necessary or even desirable to listen to every news broadcast. Otherwise we tend to develop a mere morbid curiosity, which is decidedly unhealthy. International developments, of course, may be rapid, but they are seldom or never so rapid as to warrant anyone listening in to seven or more broadcasts in one day.
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Why breakfast on war news? It scarcely helps us, when our eyes are hardly open, to get a detailed account of all the dreadful things that have happened during the night. Nor does it encourage sleep to hear about all sorts of enemy atrocities just before we lie down at night. For nervous people and youngsters, it is positively harmful. To hear the news at one o’clock and at six should meet the needs of most people. Indeed, for the highly nervous, once a day is ample. Besides, most people take a morning newspaper. In that they find all the radio news items repeated.
In such times as these, when free from our daily toil, it is well to spend a portion of the time in thinking of things quite remote from the war effort. Only thus can we preserve that poise and equanimity that means so much to fitness of body, mind, and spirit. Amid the welter of war, with its garbled reports, and its ugly heritage of hate, timely and uplifting are the words of Holy Writ! “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things ”
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and the school—the time to start is now!
The strength of America lies in the character of our homes. It must proceed onward into the processes of public education, which must be vigilantly guarded by the American mother and father so that the wicked efforts of the propagandists do not creep into the immature mind of the child, where propaganda is most dangerously effective.
Eternal vigilance has been the price of liberty in the establishing of our homes and our Nation. This vigilance must be heightened to counteract the dangerous inroads made in the ranks of our youth by the forces of crime, corruption, and subversion. It is a problem that law-enforcement agencies of our country are incapable of solving, unless they are constantly supported by those responsible for the proper education and training of our young people. We must remember that self-government for a nation is totally dependent upon the extent of self-discipline attained by the individual.
Democracy in its highest form is moral intelligence and sound common sense translated into a way of life, as our Nation has come to live it. No dictator can live and thrive upon anything but ignorance of a type which has shut out everything but the totalitarian lessons which have made the immature mind a mere pawn in the hands of a cruel, self-appointed ruler. Therefore, the distinct responsibility of the democracy of tomorrow rests upon the father and the mother of today.
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WHICH IS THE LORD'S DAY?
N ONLY one place in the Sacred Scriptures is to be found the expression, “the Lord’s day,” and there it was written down by the beloved John. Banished by a cruel emperor to the lonely island of Patmos because of his faith in Christ, and his earnestness and diligence in fulfilling the commission of the Saviour to preach the gospel, he was not forgotten by his departed Lord. There, on that lonely island, Christ fulfilled to His faithful disciple the promise which He made when He commanded His followers to tell the glad tidings to every creature. “ Lo,” said Jesus, “I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” Though the beloved disciple was cut off from communion with earthly friends, and from those of like faith, he was not prevented from communion with his Lord. And so, when John received the revelation of Jesus Christ, he wrote in Revelation l: 10: “I was in the spirit on the Lord’s day.”
In these words the apostle gives no intimation as to which day of the week is the Lord’s day. However, in Matthew 12:8 we find Christ saying that “the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.” If He is Lord of the Sabbath, then the Sabbath must be the Lord’s day. And which day of the week is the Sabbath day? The question is answered in Exodus 20: 10: “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” The seventh day of the week is Saturday. Sunday, therefore, cannot be the Lord’s day, for Jesus says the Lord’s day is the Sabbath day, and the Scriptures tell us, as we have just read, that the Sabbath day is the seventh day of the week. Therefore, the Lord’s day is the seventh day, which is Saturday.
We learn from Exodus 20: 11 that the Lord, at the creation of the world, blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it, because in six days He “made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” That it was the Son of God who created the earth and who rested upon the first seventh day is made clear in Ephesians 3: 0, where we are told that God “created all things by Jesus Christ.” This statement is reaffirmed in Colossians l: 10 and Hebrews l: 2. “All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.” John 1: 3. So then, God “created all things by Jesus Christ.” The Son of God was the agent by whom all things were created, “whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers.” The Sabbath day of rest is therefore preeminently the Lord’s day.
In Genesis 2: 1-3 we read: “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all
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the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.”
There was a reason for the setting apart of the seventh day as the Sabbath of the Lord, and that reason was that in six days the Lord created the world, and rested on the seventh day. He gave the seventh day to the human race, to be observed as long as time shall last. At the time when the Lord made the Sabbath, there were but two human beings living upon the earth, namely, Adam and Eve, the father and mother of the human race. We are informed in this last text that God rested on the seventh day. Thus He set the example for man. We are told also that He blessed the seventh day, and further, that He sanctified it. That is, He set it apart. He made it a day different from the other days of the week, a holy day, a day for rest and worship.
In Mark 2:27 we read: “The Sabbath was made for man.” This must be true, for these are the words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And furthermore, the Sabbath was made at the beginning, and given to the parents of the human race, hence it was given for all mankind. We are not to suppose, therefore, that the Sabbath of the Lord, which we have learned is the Lord’s day, was given for the Jews alone, but rather, that it was given for every individual living upon the earth.
In Hebrews 13:8 we read concerning Jesus Christ that He is “the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.” It is not surprising, therefore, that He who made and blessed and sanctified the Sabbath for man in the beginning, wiien after 4000 years He was born a man, should continue the observance of the Sabbath. In Luke 4: 16 we read: “He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up: and, as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read.” It was the Lord’s custom, His habit, His regular practice, to attend the synagogue on the Sabbath day.
When men are questioned as to why they keep the first day of the week, they frequently make the statement that they do so in honor of the resurrection of Christ. But the disciples of Christ did not so. In the record of the crucifixion and resurrection, found in the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of Mark, we learn that the Saviour was crucified on the afternoon of
the sixth day of the week—that is, on Friday afternoon. And of the day upon which Christ was crucified, we read:
“Now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath.” Mark 15:42. “And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint Him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun.” Mark 16: 1, 2.
Here are mentioned three days: the preparation day, the Sabbath day, and the first day of the week. They follow in succession. . We are plainly told that the “ preparation ” day was “ the day before the Sabbath.” We are also told that “very early in the morning the first day of the week” “the Sabbath was past”; that the Sabbath was past when they came to the sepulcher “at the rising of the sun.” You will never arise early enough on Sunday morning to find the Sabbath there, for when the sun rises on the morning of the first day of the week, the Sabbath is past.
Similar testimony is borne in Luke 23: 54-56; 12: 1. The day of the crucifixion of the Saviour “was the preparation, and the Sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came with Him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulcher, and how His body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment. Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared.”
Did the disciples keep the first day of the week? Did they thus attempt to honor the resurrection of Christ? No, indeed. On the other hand, we read here that they “rested the Sabbath day, according to the commandment,” namely, the fourth commandment of the Decalogue: that they would not perform upon God’s holy seventh-day Sabbath even so sacred a duty as the embalming of their Lord’s body. But upon the first day of the wTeek, very early in the morning, they went to the sepulcher, taking with them the spices which they had prepared, intending on the first day of the wreek, that is, Sunday, to do the work of embalming which they had refrained from doing upon the seventh day, which was the Sabbath.
Did the apostles set the example of observing the first day of the week? John 20: 19 says they assembled in the upper room on the resurrection first day “for fear of the Jewrs.” The Scripture says further that the disciples did not then believe Christ was risen from the dead. We are told in Mark 16: 9, 12 that the risen Christ (Continued on page 15)
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* tor ine sutm/ane and tut moisture which have made possible their well-filled cribs of corn, men may well be thankf ul to a kind Providence. Mr Murdoch tells of “the bread which came down from heaven
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By William J. Murdoch
But our liquid refreshment will not be of the type sold from a soda fountain or over a bar, nor will it even be that which flows from a water tap. It will be what our inner being thirsts for and needs. “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.” 1 Corinthians 10: 4.
Fruits, too, may grow out of our reach as the forces of good and evil in the world press towards the final crisis, and yet, as with food and drink, those who believe will have plenty. Apples, grapes, oranges— these may be missing, but for the souls of the faithful there shall be no want. In fact,, it is promised that there shall be none, that those who believe shall not be denied.
“ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” Galatians 5: 22, 23.
If need be, we all can take a hitch in our belts and do without some of the mundane food which probably is in excess of a necessary diet, anyway. But for spiritual food,, we need never hunger. Our own cupboards may need replenishing from time to time, but God’s, never. His are eternally open to all who believe. And in the last analysis, the only true staff of life is found in God’s cupboards; “for the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”
N THESE days of food shortages, and rationing systems devised to prevent them, it is comforting and inspiring for the faithful to know that they never need fear a shortage of the most important food of all— spiritual sustenance.
In Luke 12: 29-31 we are enjoined not to worry or doubt.
“And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
Yes, there will ever be plenty for those who have the price in their hearts—the price of faith. Meager stocks at the corner grocery and barren counters at the market houses will have no terror for those who have accepted Christ.
“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth
them. Are ye not much better than they?” Matthew 6: 25, 26.
Wheat crops may be poor, but for those who partake of life’s finest and purest bread there will be no shortage.
“And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger: and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst.” John 6: 35. So though we may not have even the merest crust on our tables, yet in our spiritual cupboards there is an inexhaustible supply of the staff of life, for in John 6:51 we are assured that, “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
Nor shall we ever thirst, despite the warnings heard from all sides that water supplies must be conserved, for we have the written promise that our thirst. shall be slaked.
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me. and drink.” John 7: 37. “Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” John 4: 14.
Divine Charter
{Continued from page 6) law written in the heart and acted out in the daily life.
Th6 New Covenant Not New.—But this new covenant is not new in point of time. It is called new only because it was ratified by the blood of Christ when He died on Calvary, whereas the old covenant was ratified by the blood of an animal, at the time of making. It was ratified after the other one and therefore spoken of as new,, but in fact it is the older of the two.
The new covenant stretches both sides of the cross. It was first made to Adam and Eve when God promised that the “seed”^ of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head. This was the first promise of a deliverer and the First announcement of Christ coming in the flesh—the seed of the woman to restore the image of God in man.
This same covenant was renewed to-Abraham when Jehovah promised him,. “In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” Genesis 22: 18; 17:7. It was Abraham’s faith in this promise that caused God to pronounce him righteous. It was his trusting in Jesus, the coming {Continued on page 16)
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HDW COULD SHE GIVE THANKS?
By Martha E. Warner
ARY BENSON did not need to be told that a body should offer praise on Thanksgiving Day, for she was well aware of the fact; and in years past her heart had been filled to overflowing with thanks. But this year it was different; not because she had nothing to thank God for,—no, no not that!— but the thoughts of giving Uncle Sam Tom, her eldest, letting him go to face danger and death she knew not where,—how could she, how could she? Yet she knew she must; so a little prayer was wafted up to God that she might do it with a smile, though her heart was drenched with tears.
It was Tom’s letter which the postman had just left which was responsible for these depressing thoughts, even though it carried the news that Tom would be home with them for Thanksgiving. But—and here came the sad news—the company had been outfitted, and were expecting to be sent somewhere to open a new base. So this would be Tom’s last visit home.
This thought struck terror to Mary’s heart, and her eyes filled with tears; yet in all fairness, she knew the parting would be no harder for her than for the mothers of the other boys, so she dried her tears and resolved to do all she could to make the visit one long to be remembered.
Almost at once the house became a beehive of activities. On every side one would hear: “ We must do this for Tom.” “Don’t let me forget to tell Tom that.” “Tom is especially fond of this.” And so it went on—and on—and—on.
Some of the young people wanted to give Tom a surprise party, but Mary had discouraged that, because Tom had written— what had he written?
From her apron pocket she pulled out the letter and found the page where he had written, “Don’t make a fuss, or get up an elaborate dinner. And, Mums, don’t, please don’t, plan any party for me. I want to spend my last evening with just my own family around me. Of course you know that includes Sally Lou, although we have definitely decided to postpone our marriage until after the war.
“I know I can count on you, Mums, to see there are no tears. Remember I am not afraid to go; and if it be God’s will, I shall come back to the best mother in all the world. Sally Lou and I will plan to see the bunch for a few minutes, sometime during the day, but no party.” So that was that.
Almost before Mary knew it, Tom and Thanksgiving Day had arrived. How it rejoiced her heart to see her son, so tall, so straight, so manly! She was proud of him, and justly so. Proud also of slim
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Sally Lou, whom she already loved as a daughter, and who would, she was confident, make him the best of companions.
Mary found it hard to have Tom out of her sight for a moment, yet she knew she must share him with father; so she tried to be patient while they were going the rounds of the farm, with ten-year-old Ted at their heels. Someway, Mary felt that father’s good-bye to Tom would be said in the barn. Yes, she was sure of it, for Ted was coming to the house on a run.
“Mums,” he called, “dad wants to know if dinner isn’t ’most ready?”
Mary’s heart was bursting with pride as she looked at her family all gathered around the table, waiting for father to give thanks to God for those good things which He had so bountifully bestowed upon them.
After the dinner, which was one long to be remembered, each told what he was especially thankful for. Of course mother and dad were thankful for each other, and that the family had all been spared through another year. Granny was thankful that they all loved one another; and Sally Lou, that she had been permitted to share in this, Tom’s last visit with his family; while Ted was thankful that Tom had promised to send him stamps.
After the dishes were done, and they were all sitting around the fireplace later in the evening, Ted said, “Now, Granny, we are ready for your story.”
“Oh, no!” protested Grandmother. “Not tonight. We all want to visit with Tom.” But Tom said, “We want the story, Gram, same as in the years past, and it must be about yourself or Grandfather.”
For a minute, Grandmother sat thinking, then she began. “Just the other day, as I read the words, ‘Remember, your tongue is in a wet place and likely to slip,’ I thought back to the time when mine slipped, and I could do very little about it.
“Some years ago, the daughter of an old friend came to the city where we lived to find work, and wanted to make her home with me. I was a little dubious about taking her, for to my mind came old stories of how as a child she was light-fingered; but for the sake of my friend, who now was dead, I let the girl come, and as time went by I came to think a great deal of her. When we sold our place and came down here to be near Mary, of course she had to find another boarding place.
“It was a job to move, but eventually the task was completed and we were settled in our new home, with the exception of one thing, my butter knife. That I could not find, although I hunted high and low for it.
“Well, after Grandfather left me, I went back to the old town to visit with friends and neighbors; and there to my surprise I met this girl. She had married well, and
gave me a very cordial invitation to spend the afternoon and evening with her, which I accepted. I met her husband, a fine young man, and had a very enjoyable time until dinner-time. Then as I took my seat at the table I saw—my long-lost butter knife. I tell you it gave me a queer feeling, and all the old stories came back to me. But what could I do? I could not accuse her of stealing, after she had made my visit so pleasant. So I kept still, but all the time thinking,—light-fingered, butter knife.
“And I did more than think, for later I told several close friends about it, as well as my own family. I remember Mary said to me, ‘ Mother, couldn’t you be mistaken after all these years? ’
“‘Impossible!’ I told her. ‘I could tell that knife anywhere.’ So the story got around, and when I was asked if it were true I said, ‘ I am sorry to say it is.’
“Years passed. Then one day when I was in the attic looking over the contents of my old zinc trunk, I felt something hard underneath the lining of the hatbox, and upon investigating, I found the missing knife. I was chagrined, and grief stricken as I thought of that innocent girl, branded as a thief, and all because my tongue slipped. So kneeling there by the side of the old trunk, I confessed my sin to God, and pleaded for forgiveness. And then as far as possible, I let it be known that I, and not the girl, was the thief; for I had stolen her good name. I tell you, children, it pays to think twice before you speak.
‘ Remember, your tongue is in a wet place and likely to slip.’ ”
Tom said, “I needed that story, Gram, and I’ll not forget it.”
And father added, “We all needed it. I think it would be well if we memorized those words about the tongue, for living in these troublesome times we should be so careful of our words. We should not criticize our President or his helpers, lest we let a word slip that our enemies can use.” Mother said, “It is getting late, so let us rise and join hands while father asks God to bless and keep us when separated.” They did. Then father looked at the clock and said, “It is time to be starting, Tom, if we make that last train. I’ll go get the car.”
“What, right now? Tonight?” exclaimed the rest in chorus.
“Yes,” said Tom, “I got the word this morning, but did not want to spoil the day by telling you. I shall have to go now, but don’t, please don’t, any of you move. Just let me carry in my heart the picture of you all standing hand in hand around the fireplace.” Tom took a long, long look, then with a cheery good-bye, and, “Deo vo-lente, I’ll be seeing you again,” he was off.
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Which is the Lord’s Day?
(Continued from page 12)
“appeared first to Mary Magdalene,” and afterward, on that same resurrection first day, He appeared to two disciples as they walked from Jerusalem to Emmaus. He went with them, conversing as they went, and when they stopped at their lodging place for supper, “ He was known of them in breaking of bread.” Luke 24: 35. “Afterward He appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen Him after He was risen.” Mark 16:14.
It is difficult to conceive how the disciples could have been assembled in honor of Christ’s resurrection, when the Scripture says plainly that they did not believe He was risen from the dead. The fact of the matter is, as the Scripture states, that they were assembled in the upper room “for fear of the Jews.” And the circumstance that later on they were assembled again “after eight days” does not indicate that they were the second time assembled on Sunday, for after eight days cannot mean after seven days. “After eight days” could not be earlier than Monday. This cannot possibly be a record of a meeting on the following Sunday. The expression, “eight days” does not mean seven days, nor does the seventh day mean the first day. “After eight days” places this second meeting of the disciples with Jesus not earlier than the Monday which came after the following Sunday. Scripture makes it plain that neither Christ nor His disciples ever set the example of Sunday-keeping.
Christ is now in heaven. What day will He keep with His redeemed after His second coming? Will Christ and His saints honor the seventh day or the first day, the Sabbath or Sunday? Will Jesus keep one day and the saints another day? God says, “Behold, I make all things new.” Revelation 21:5. Does He intend to imply by that that He will change the Sabbath day? The answer is to be found in the book of Isaiah, where God says, “Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth,” and in the next chapter He declares: “ For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before Me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before Me, saith the Lord.” Isaiah 65: 17; 66: 22, 23.
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Christ will receive the worship of His people on the Sabbath. There will not be a Sabbath for the Jew and a Sunday for the Gentile. No, no. Upon God’s holy seventh-day Sabbath “all flesh” shall come to worship Him. In the new earth there will be “ one Lord, and His name one.” There will
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not be lords many and gods many, nor Sabbath days many and creeds many. Christ the Creator will with all His people celebrate the Sabbath together.
We have learned from Holy Scripture, therefore, that the Son of God rested upon, blessed, and sanctified the seventh day of the week in the garden of Eden, that He made it His holy Sabbath day, that the Lord gave it to Adam and Eve, the parents of the human race, that the Sabbath was made for man, that during His earthly life it was the Saviour’s custom to observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, that the followers of Christ observed “the Sabbath day according to the commandment,” and that in the new earth throughout the ages of eternity “all flesh” will assemble upon the holy, blessed Sabbath
day to worship God. The Lord, having set apart that particular day to meet with His people, will upon that day receive their adoration and worship. Among those who are saved in the new earth the Jews will not worship God on one day and the Gentiles on another. But all flesh will come up upon Jehovah’s holy rest day, the seventh day of each succeeding week, to worship the Lord.
The Sabbath is the golden clasp, binding Eden lost to Eden restored. The same original seventh-day Sabbath which was kept by the Lord and by Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, when they held sweet communion together, will be observed by the redeemed through the ceaseless ages of eternity. Jesus Christ is “the same yesterday, and today, and forever.”
The DOCTOR REPLIES to HEALTH QUERIES ...
Medical and hygienic information of value to the general reader is given here by Owen S. Parrett, M. D. Inquirers may address the doctor in care of this magazine.
Ice Cream
Is ice cream a wholesome article of dietf J. B.
Probably an excessive use of sugar is one of our greatest dietetic crimes. Rich mixtures of milk, cream, eggs, and sugar are especially harmful, whether eaten as custards, puddings, or ice cream. If however Karo or honey be used sparingly these same foods may be made fairly wholesome, as the natural sweets are handled by the body more readily and the end results are better.
Fruit Juices
Are fruit juices of equal value in sickness and in health? L. A.
All citrus fruits and juices as well as tomato, pineapple, and apple juice are excellent sources of vitamin C and alkaline salts. The yellow ones, namely, tomato and orange, have more vitamin A content. However in case of fevers, tomato and grapefruit juice will be found better than orange juice, which latter may sometimes be poorly tolerated if there is an acute gastro-enteritis, or upset bowels. Pineapple juice is a stronger food than the other juices because of a higher fruit-sugar content. A mixture of equal parts of pineapple juice and grapefruit juice is both palatable and well suited to nourish and agree well with most cases requiring liquid nourishment. In gastric or duodenal ulcers some grapefruit juice should be used along with milk to furnish vitamin C, which is essential to the healing of the ulcer.
Boils
What can be done to cure a tendency to frequent crops of boils? J. K.
Vaccines may be used to raise the blood immunity to the infection. Pills of calcium sulphide or of tin are often used, but the
best plan is to build up vital resistance by sun bathing, and cold showers followed by vigorous friction of the skin, using a rough, dry towel. The diet should be highly alkalizing including such foods as fruits and green and yellow vegetables. Meat and much sugar should be avoided and the elimination should be kept active by drinking plenty of water and using mechanical laxatives, if necessary.
Earwax
How can wax be safely removed from the ear? R. M.
The use of warm water from an irrigation can held less than two feet above the ear, using a small rubber tubing with a medicine dropper tip, is the best way to remove the wax. Direct the stream into the outer end of the ear canal with a slightly sweeping motion so as to loosen the wax, which will then be easily washed out. The chin may be hung over a sink or bowl.
Sore Tongue
I am troubled with a sore tongue that is quite red much of the time. Can you suggest the cause and treatment? F. L.
Such a condition may be due to a pellagroid condition caused from a diet which may be too low in minerals and vitamins especially nicotinic acid and vitamin B complex. The diet should include whole-grain cereals and, best of all, middlings with fifteen per cent of wheat germ added, plenty of green vegetables, some milk and eggs, and fresh and cooked fruits, together with a glass or more a day of tomato or citrus fruit juice. In addition to the above it is sometimes necessary to add extra vitamins such as B complex, brewers yeast tablets, liver extract, and nicotinamide tablets, of the latter about twenty milligrams daily.
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Prophetic Peaks
(Continued from page 4) were crying “ Peace and safety/’ sudden destruction came. Said Jeremiah, “They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.” Jeremiah 6: 14.
In 1929 fifty-eight nations signed the Kellogg Pact outlawing war. Great men said, “Today international war has been banished from civilization.” But it was not true. The voice of the mountain peaks of prophecy had said, “ International war shall follow an international peace movement, and these are signs of the imminent return of Christ.”
This is the hour when in a special way we should heed the call of the prophet, “Prepare to meet thy God.” Accept the Lord Jesus Christ, and be saved. Be willing and obedient that we may eat of the fruit of the heavenly land. “The sun is sinking; night is falling, but God’s day will dawn.”
Divine Charter
(Continued from page 13) Redeemer, for salvation and power to obey that enabled God to say of him, “Because that Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.” Genesis 26: 5.
The new-covenant provision was taught in every sacrificial service enjoined under the Aaronic priesthood. Those who accepted it by faith were saved under the terms of the new covenant.
No one was ever saved under the old covenant. It was not an instrument of salvation, but of total failure. Those who have been saved, on either side of the cross, have been saved by faith in Jesus Christ and by His power dwelling in the heart. “For by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works, that no man should glory. For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2: 8-10, A. R. Y.
Does there chance to be someone now reading this page, who, through repeated failure in his efforts to obey God’s commandments has become discouraged?
Ah, the difficulty was in your trying. You were working under the provisions of the old covenant. You were trying to “do” to live. Like Israel of old, the fault was with you. Will you not, then, recognizing your utter helplessness and lack of ability to please God, just try “Him”? Jesus is not a failure. For thirty-three years He demonstrated His ability to keep God’s law in sinful flesh, and He waits only for the loving invitation to come by the Holy Spirit into your flesh and repeat the demonstration. He can “make you perfect in every good work to do His will.” Hebrews 13:21. He “is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.” Ephesians 3:20. And He stands at the door and knocks. Will you let Him in? He will make music, sweetest music, in
your soul, where hitherto has been only discord and failure. Let Him in. Let Him in now. Let Him write His law there on the tables of your heart and restore His image in the soul. Then, instead of crying
It’s Not My Fault
I am a mother of the outgoing generation. I hear it said everywhere that the incompetency of young women of this day in household matters and homemaking is the responsibility of their mothers, who didn't teach them. They are good theatergoers and bridge players and maybe stenographers and saleswomen , but they can't bake a cake and they don't know what to do when baby gets the colic. Well, I tried to teach my girls, but do you think they liked it? They just wouldn't have any of it. And so today they have discouraged homes, one of them is divorced, and all of them would rather go to a dance than stay at home. I know other mothers in the same boat; in fact, I don't know any mothers who are not. If the younger generation didn't learn what they needed to, it's their fault.
It’s a great game, as ancient as Eve and as modern as a bureaucrat, what the man in the street calls “passing the buck” and the psychologist calls “rationalizing.” It’s never my fault; it’s always Jones. It isn’t my laziness; it’s the weather. It’s not my incompetence as a parent; it’s the child God gave me. And so in the end the fault is with God, not me. That’s what Adam said, that’s what Eve said; and all the venom of the accusation is concentrated in the poor snake, which has lost its power of speech, and only quits crawling on its belly when it wants to strike death.
In the first place, I am not convinced that the present generation of young women are so terribly incompetent in the home. I could wish more of them had all the virtues of their great-grandmothers who were equally adept with the baking-pan and the ax, and fewer of their vices like smoking a weed. But I find quite a few who can put up a very tasty meal even if their bread is homemade in the XL Bakery, and who faithfully record in a dainty little book all the epochal changes in the life of their future president of the U. S., aged five months three days. There’s a good deal more the matter with the young men who are their actual or prospective husbands. But that, in due degree, is my fault.
So the girls “wouldn’t have any of it”! That spells two things: lack of discipline, and inability to teach. America has tried to learn its democracy by starting at the back of the book. There are too many homes where the children run (and ruin) the government. And the disease has crept upward into the school and the shop. All
over failure, and falling again into the “slough of despond,” you will be constrained to exclaim with the Apostle Paul, “Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift.” 2 Corinthians 9: 15.
this talk and experiment of teaching democracy by having the little pets govern themselves is just so much mushy-brained misconception of government. Democratic government that is worth anything is self-government by adults and co-operation in government between them. A child cannot conduct a democracy, nor can a callow youth. The child and the youth are to be educated for democracy, but that education is to be directed toward the individual’s government of himself. You are not trained in self-government by being on a committee or in a school senate that makes rules for other people and a stab at enforcing them. You are trained in self-government as you learn to control your own appetites, passions, and ambitions. You are not trained for democracy by doing what you please; you are trained for democracy by being disciplined into doing what is right whether you like it or not.
The home is the first school of government, and it is not a democracy. The home that tries to be a democracy ends in being a mobocracy. True government in the home recognizes God as the supreme authority and parents as His vicegerents. The parents must control the child and progressively teach him to control himself according to the laws of God. That fits him, when he comes into maturity, to be, among other things, a worthy and constructive citizen of a democracy. Democracy is the flower of the plant of self-discipline; if the plant tries to be all flower from root to stem, it’s a ghastly failure.
But along with discipline, the parent must be apt to teach. The tasks of life need not be grinds. Every upstanding man and dependable woman has to learn to bear burdens, to perform unattractive duties; but when life is viewed from God’s standpoint it is all desirable and beautiful. It takes a Christian to perceive that—not a mere professor of religion, but a companion of Jesus. The law of service so fully exemplified in Jesus Christ is the law of joyous life. Competition, rivalry, strife for supremacy, which chank and clash in most of the world’s activities, are foreign to the Christian home and school and church and community. Parents and prospective parents have much to learn of life if they would make it beautiful in all its responsibilities and duties and skills. To the degree they thus learn, they succeed; in the degree they fail to learn, they complain. It’s up to you. It’s up to me.
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Days of the Week
1. Will you please tell me who is the author of the names of the days of the week? 2. According to Genesis 1 a day began at evening. When does the Sabbath begin? M. A.
1.	When men departed from the true God, in order to forget Him and His holy Sabbath, the seventh day of the week, which constantly brought to their minds His great creative act, they introduced names of the days of the week which commemorated their apostasy. Sunday was the name given to the first day of the week in honor of the sun. Monday obtained its name from the moon. Tuesday from the Norse god, Tyr, who was the god of martial honor. Wednesday was from the Norse god Woden, the mad or furious one. Thursday took its name from Thunres, the god of thunder; Friday from the goddess Frigga, answering to Venus; Saturday from the god Saturn.
2.	Leviticus 23:32 reads: “From even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.’ ’ Mark 1: 32 defines even. “At even, when the sun did set, they brought unto Him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.” Thus you will see that from sunset to sunset we are
enjoined to keep the Sabbath. This time is not dependent on any clock or mechanical timepiece, but upon the setting of the sun. The Sabbath, therefore, begins at sunset Friday and closes at sunset Saturday.
Everlasting Fire
Kindly explain Matthew 25: 41, 46* What is the everlasting punishment? L. U.
The verses cited in Matthew read: “Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. . . . And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” For a thorough understanding of this scripture it will be necessary for you to read carefully Christ’s statements. He did not say, “These [the wicked] shall go away into everlasting punishing” but “into everlasting punishment” What is the reward of disobedience? We read: “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” Ezekiel 18:4. Then the “punishment” to which Christ referred was everlasting death.
You will also observe that Christ used figurative language in these concluding verses of Matthew 25. Notice that the
Lord is represented in the character of a shepherd and His people as sheep, while the wicked are spoken of as goats. (Verses 32, 33.) Verse 34 tells you that the king shall say to those on His right hand, the sheep, “Come, ye blessed of My Father,” and they are represented as answering Him. Likewise verse 41 represents Him as speaking to the goats, while verse 44 gives the answer of the goats. Verse 45 gives Christ’s reply to the goats. From these experiences the conclusions of verse 46 are drawn.
Perhaps you are puzzled over the word “everlasting.” The word translated “everlasting” here is from the Greek aionios, literally, “age lasting.” Aionios is derived from the Greek word aion, meaning “age.” Bagster defines it, “A period of time of significant character; life; an era; an age; hence a state of things making an age or era; the present order of nature; the condition of man, the world; ho aion, illimitable duration, eternity.”
Aionios, therefore, he translates “indeterminate as to duration, eternal, everlasting.” When this word is applied to the punishing of the wicked by fire, some suppose that the punishing will last throughout all eternity, whereas our Lord was speaking of the punishment which resulted from the punishing, which was death. In speaking of the punishment of the wicked the Revised Version in 2 Thessalonians 1: 9 says: “Who shall suffer punishment, even eternal destruction.” The King James translation gives it, “Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction.” The result is everlasting, eternal, but it is destruction.
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On the Threshold of the Millenniom?
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And we note in particular, this thousand-year period cannot be separated from the resurrection. “But the rest of the dead [the wicked dead] lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power.” Verses 5 and 6. No millennium, in the popular idea, is found in these texts. Instead we find a judgment, a first resurrection, a second resurrection, and a second death.
The Apostle John is in perfect accord with Paul. “For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thessalonians 4: 16,17. At the coming of
Christ there will be a general resurrection of the just and holy. The righteous living at the time will be caught up with the resurrected ones, to meet the Lord in the air. When Jesus returns in fulfillment of His promises, He will come to this earth not to set up a kingdom, but to take the redeemed to the mansions in His Father’s house which He has gone to prepare. (John 14: 1-3.)
Are any astonished that such an elaborate doctrine as the millennial reign has no foundation in the Scriptures? Let the Scriptures answer again. “Because, even because they have seduced My people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar. . . . Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life [a miUennium].” Ezekiel 13:10, 22.
The doctrine of a millennial age before the coming of Christ in final judgment is a last-day deception. (See Revelation 6:
12-17.) Its purpose is to blind the eyes to the coming judgment. It is a great counter message of the last days. It contradicts the solemn threefold judgment message of Revelation 14: 6-12, addressed to a sinking world about to meet its God in the great day of final judgment.
How Could She Give Thanks?
(Continued from page 14)
“What did that ‘deo’ stuff mean, Mums?” Ted asked.
“It is the Latin for ‘God willing,’” answered mother, as she watched the car turn from the drive onto the highway.
With tears in her eyes, Mary Benson rejoiced that Tom had been sent off with a smile, and she was doubly glad to know that her son was enlisted in the service of the Lord as well as in the service of Uncle Sam. And she was also glad that although she had an ache in her heart, she had much—so much—to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day.
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1. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands recently paid a visit to President and Mrs. Franklin I). Roosevelt at the White House. Left to right: Mrs. Roosevelt. Queen Wilhelmina, and President Roosevelt. 2. Simon Lake, inventor of the submarine, shows a Senate Military Affairs Sub-Committee a model of his proposed cargo-carrying submarine. Shown, left to right, are: Mr. Lake (near side of model); Senator Fdwin (]. Johnson, of Colorado; William Bernard Ziff, West Coast publisher; and Senator Josh Lee, of Oklahoma, chairman of the committee. 3. Mrs. Ilenrv A. Wallace. wife of the Vice-President, is shown taking the traditional bottle of champagne from Captain' Sheridan Kennedy at the New York Navy Yrard
just before she sent the giant 45.000-ton battleship “Iowa” down the ways. The ‘'Iowa,'1 begun in 1940. was launched seven months ahead of schedule. 4. The Duke of (Gloucester, brother of the late Duke of Kent, is here seen riding camel hack while inspecting a camel corps during his visit to the Sudan. Aden, and Somaliland. Camel riding, incidentally, is no slight accomplishment. 5. Mrs. Oveta (Gulp Hohhv. leader of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, being photographed at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, by members of her corps. On this occasion the WAACS paraded for the benefit of their Commandant. Colonel Don C. Faith, and Mrs. Hobby.