Youth---W hither Away?
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the gnashing of teeth. ‘Then shall the
righteous shine forth as the sun in the
kingdom of their Father. He that hath
ears, let him hear.”
But this is only a partial answer to
their questions: There will be an end
to all this misery and sorrow, but when?
These few youth seek another occasion
to confer with the quiet, unassuming
Man. ‘This time, seated on the hilltop
overlooking a beautiful city, He paints
a word picture of the events to happen
just before the harvest time. Against a
background featuring the downfall of the
beautiful city before them, the waging
of terrible persecutions, the arising of
many creeds, each with its prophets,
the appearance of flaming signs in the
heavens and fearful happenings on earth,
he paints a world engrossed in the daily
pursuits of business and pleasure, in
rounds of banquets, nuptials, receptions.
He f{oretells a movement that would
proclaim throughout the world this
coming of the end of time, and then
closes his admonition thus:
Best ApvicE EVER GIVEN
“ ATCH therefore: for ye know
not on what day your Lord
cometh. But know this, that if the
master of the house had known in what
watch the thief was coming, he would
have watched, and would not have suf-
fered his house to be broken through.
Therefore be ye also ready; for in an
hour that ye think not the Son of man
cometh.
“Who then is the faithful and wise
servant, whom his lord hath set over his
household, to give them their food in
due season? Blessed is that servant,
whom his lord when he cometh shall
find so doing. Verily I say unto you,
that he will set him over all that he hath.
But if that evil servant shall say in his
heart, My lord tarrieth; and shall begin
to beat his fellow-servants, and shall
eat and drink with the drunken; the lord
of that servant shall come in a day when
he expecteth not, and in an hour when
he knoweth not, and shall cut him
asunder, and appoint his portion with
the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping
and the gnashing of teeth.”
A few days later this quiet, unassuming
Man sealed with His own blood on the
cross of Calvary the plan which He had
outlined to those youth there by the
lake and on the hills of Olivet.
Of course, this plan is old, having been
formed when sin first began its ravish-
ings, but it is logical and sure and final.
Let the youth whose hearts are filled
with a longing for a peace that this
world cannot give — and that it cannot
destroy — steal away to a quiet nook
with their Bibles. Let them spend
some prayerful hours there while the
Son of God tells the story of God’s great
plan for the earth; of its culmination
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in the present era; of the coming of the
Son of God, and the final and total
destruction of sin and its adherents —
never again to rise to spoil the peace and
order of God’s universe. He will answer
their questions. He will solve for them
the problems of Life’s Bridge of Sighs.
AGE MUST ANSWER
UT other questions will arise, ques-
tions which Age must face on the
witness stand: Why have you not told
us about God's plan? Why do not the
leaders of Christianity follow God's
plan and hasten its fulfillment?
It is said that Admiral Nelson, the
great British hero of Trafalgar, when
informed by his lieutenant that his
superior was signaling him to withdraw,
put his telescope to his blind eye and
calmly reported, ‘““I see no signals.”
God’s plan cuts across the path of man-
kind. Age would rather keep the
Bridge of Sighs in the background
than give up its own plans. It has put
the telescope to its eye of doubt, and
reports, “The Bible is largely a myth;
Christ was a mere man,’”’ and then sets
about to create a Christianity after its
own liking, a Christianity that denies
the power of Christ to finish the work
He began on the cross — the eradica-
tion of sin — in His way, a Christianity
that substitutes for the cleansing blood
of a guiltless Saviour the so-called moral
life with its hidden avenues of sin. Upon
test, such a Christianity reveals no
solution for life's problems. Is Youth
not justified in rejecting it?
Those of Youth who are pondering
the meaning of Life's Bridge of Sighs,
knowing well that it must be traversed
by all, need not cross it alone. The
Saviour will cross it with them. Human
sympathy may fail in the shadows of
sin and sorrow; human wisdom may
falter in the maze of life’s problems;
but the Saviour will go all the way across
the bridge, comforting, guiding, up-
holding. When He shall appear to
complete His plan, Life's Bridge of
Sighs shall be torn down, never to be
built again. “The bleak wind of March,
the dark arch, the black-flowing river”
will have no place in His soon-coming
kingdom of love.
Every Man His Own Doctor
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lubrication of the parts composing the
engine, otherwise the whole machine
will soon cease to function.
In co-operation with the human
mechanism, the appetite will warn us
when we do not receive a sufficiency of
energy and building foods, such as
starch, sugar, fats, and proteins, which
in many respects bear a comparison
to the gasoline in the auto tank. But the
appetite cannot be depended on to warn
us when we are getting insufficient
organic mineral and vitamines (constitut-
ing the “oil” for the human engine).
These essential constituents do not
bulk large enough to be noticed by the
appetite, therefore it behooves every
lover of health to see that his table is
well supplied with foods direct from the
hand of nature, including some kind of
raw food at least once a day, such as
lettuce, raw cabbage, carrot, sauer-
kraut; together with breads made from
wheat or corn ground whole.
The vegetable kingdom is the great
store of all nutrition, giving us the
greatest variety of products from which
to select the foods best suited to the
climate in which we live, to our environ-
ment, and to our individual needs.
These, with the addition of suitable
quantities of milk, supply every dietetic
need of the human machine.
Every person should study to be his
own dietitian, for he should know what
foods make for clean tissue and strong
vitality. The health and vitality of
the body are just as dependent on the
food eaten as are the strength and
durability of a mechanical machine
dependent on the materials used in its
construction.
The Coming of Christ
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covering cherub. These facts are evi-
dence that Lucifer’s companion in re-
sponsibility did not sin, but instead re-
mained loyal to God. We must see him,
as the loyal covering cherub, take up the
work of both, and alone, as the remaining
specially authorized representative of
God, proclaim and demonstrate at the
risk of his own person and life God's eter-
nal love and justice and defend the
throne and the law against the subtle, in-
considerate, hellish accusations of the
evil one.
Gop HIMSELF
HO could this one possibly be?
We can best reply by asking who
has taken up the work above described.
To this question there can be only one
answer. None less than the Son of God
himself has taken the responsibility,
which was also laid upon Him, to vindi-
cate the justice of God and the righteous-
ness of His law in the face of a deter-
mined and unscrupulous enemy, a rebel
and a traitor. His work identifies Him
with the unswerving, covering cherub
who dared take issue with His trusted,
but unfaithful, companion in the most
momentous question that had ever been,
or ever can be, raised.
The one was the Son of God, was God.
The other was but a creature. Of all
God’s creatures, he stood nearest the
throne of the Father, and in powers and
gifts, in beauty and glory, next to the
Son of God. Between the representations
of these two as related to the character
and claims of God, the heavenly angels
must choose. Had Lucifer in beauty and
majesty, in talents and persuasive
powers, not apparently approximated
those of God’s own Son, they would
have had little difficulty in deciding
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