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NOT HONEST TO GOD! 
TRADITION OR TRUTH? 
YOU CAN HAVE VICTORY 
OUR TIMES 
THE SONG OF THE HILLS 
By Jean P. Burnham 
SO soft are the hills in the rising sun, 
Blue shadows lift and the day has begun, 
So stirs my heart with a wondrous delight, 
For a new day after darkness of night. 
So still are those hills, yet loud is their voice, 
Singing in tones that ring and rejoice: 
"God is our Maker, all glory to Him, 
Through endless ages, whose light ne'er grows 
And now as I stand in the cooling breeze 
While sunbeams dance over mountains and trees, 
Up to the hills I can lift my glad eyes, 
Praising my Saviour, the Lord of the skies. 
How great is His art, how wise are His ways, 
Giving to all the rich joy of new days, 
The song of the hills can show us His love, 
dim." Pointing the way to our service above. 
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CONTENTS 
EDITORIAL 
Not Honest to God! �
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GENERAL ARTICLES 
God, the Divine "Mathematician" �. A. H. Cowley 7 
Salvation by Chemistry? 
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A. S. Maxwell 8 
Keynotes of the Christian Faith.-5 
"I'm Sorry" �
J A McMillan 10 
Can We Be Like Christ? 
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R. T. Bolton 12 
Will Rome Change?-6 
Man's Tradition or God's Truth? 
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Ernest Cox 14 
Do You Need a "Lift"? 
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Lois L. Lane 16 
Columba and His Faith . �Leslie G. Hardinge, M.A. 18 
Precious Promises.-2 
"I Will Pass Over You" �
E B Phillips, M.Th. 21 
You Can Have Victory �
 Mary J. Vine 22 
Has God a Special Message for Our Time? �
F. C. J. Pearse 25 
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Great Texts of the Bible �
 S. G. Hyde 27 
Your Bible Questions Answered �
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The Children's Pages �
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Mirror of Our Time �
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Song of the Hills �
 Jean P. Burnham 
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June Roses �
 Marjorie H. Cooper 13 
My Voice I Raise �
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This Month . 
IT is not often that a book on 
theology makes news headlines, but 
Honest to God by Dr. John Robinson, 
Bishop of Woolwich, has certainly 
caused a sensation. Its serious impli-
cations for the Christian faith are 
discussed in our editorial, "Not 
Honest to God!"—Page 4. 
At a time when much modern 
thought is seeking to banish God 
from His universe, science is pro-
ducing new evidences of the wisdom 
and power of the "Divine Mathema-
tician," as A. H. Cowley shows in 
his article in this issue.—Page 7. 
Not content with eliminating God 
from human thinking, some psycholo-
gists are suggesting that one day 
human behaviour may be completely 
controlled by chemical reaction! That 
salvation will never come by chemis-
try, however, A. S. Maxwell is very 
certain. See his article, "Salvation by 
Chemistry?"—Page 8. 
Continuing his series on "Keynotes 
of the Christian Faith," J. A. Mc-
Millan explains in his article, "I'm 
Sorry," the meaning of repentance, 
and shows how it opens the door of 
the heart to the transforming grace 
of God. Page 10. 
In the light of Rome's desire for 
more friendly relations with the 
Reformed churches, Ernest Cox ex-
amines another of its divisive teach-
ings in his article, "Man's Tradition 
or God's Truth?"—Page 14. 
This year is the sixteen-hundredth 
anniversary of Columba's arrival on 
the island of Iona for the evan-
gelization of the wild Picts of ancient 
Scotland. We are indebted to Leslie 
G. Hardinge, M.A., who has given 
much study to the history of Britain's 
earliest church, for two articles in 
this and the next issue on "Columba. 
and His Faith."—Page 18. 
By reason of these special articles 
on Columba, the series on "Heroes 
of the Reformation," by Charlotte 
Hastings, is held over until August. 
As God spoke through John the 
Baptist and other worthies of old to 
their generations, F. C. J. Pearse 
asks, "Has God a Special Message 
for Our Time?"—Page 2.5. 
The children have a special quiz 
this time to test their Bible know-
ledge.—Page 32-34. 
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EDITOR 
RAYMOND D. VINE 
C. M. HUBERT COWEN 
. . J. H. CRAVEN 
CURRENT EVENTS 
IN THE 
LIGHT OF 
THE BIBLE . . 
By 
The 
Editor 
NOT 
HONEST 
to God ! 
N
O religious book for a 
time has aroused so 
terest and controversy 
to God by Dr. John A. T. 
Bishop of Woolwich. Some 
corned it as "stimulating" and "eman-
cipating;" others have characterized it 
as "confusing" and "dangerous." Some 
have gone so far as to ask whether, in 
view of the things he has written, Dr. 
Robinson should continue as a bishop in 
the Church of England. 
Actually, he has not said anything 
really original. His book has caused a 
sensation because, as a bishop, he has 
popularized and set his episcopal seal 
on the revolutionary thinking of such 
very long 
much in-
as Honest 
Robinson, 
have wel- 
Dr. John Robinson, 
Bishop of Woolwich, 
whose book "Honest to 
God" has caused a 
theological �
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men as Paul Tillich, Rudolf Bultmann, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 
What are these radical views which the Bishop of Woolwich 
regards as signposts to be followed by modern man in his search 
for a faith adequate to our time? 
First, he says, we need fundamentally to revise our conception 
of God. Because of the discoveries of science about the universe, 
we can no longer think of God as a transcendent Being "up 
there" above the bright blue sky, nor can we even think of Him 
as "out there," or "beyond" the physical universe as we now know 
it. In fact, he contends, we cannot think of God as outside the 
universe at all, but rather as ultimate reality at the heart of all 
existence, or in Tillich's words, "the infinite and inexhaustible 
depth and ground of all being." 
This ultimate reality, Dr. Robinson believes, is, at its very 
deepest level "personal," and "personality" is indeed "of ultimate 
significance in the constitution of the universe," but beyond that 
he finds himself "prepared to be an agnostic with the agnostics, 
even an atheist with the atheists."—Page 127. 
All that he is sure about is that the most fundamental reality 
in the universe is Love. "God, the final truth and reality, . . . is 
Love."—Page 49. 
This leads the bishop to a new conception of 
Christ. As there is no Supreme Being "up there" 
or "out there" or "beyond," Christ could not have 
been the incarnation of such a Being. He was not 
God in human form. He was a man among men 
whose uniqueness lay in the fact that He was a 
r-ompletely transparent "window" through which 
the ultimate reality of Love shone through to the 
world. 
"Jesus is . . . the one in whom Love has completely 
taken over, the one who is utterly open to, and united 
with, the Ground of His being."—Page 76. 
He is "the disclosure of the final truth not merely 
about human nature . . . but about all nature and 
all reality."—Page 128. 
On the basis of this reinterpretation of God and 
Christ, sin is not estrangement from God "out 
there," but from the "depths" of our own being. 
Faith is, in Bonhoeffer's phrase, directed to "par-
ticipation in the Being of Jesus," through which 
we attain to "participation in the Being of God" 
(page 76) ; while the final goal of the new life in 
Christ is not a geographical "heaven" but "union-
in-love with the Ground of our being."—Page 80. 
From this radical reconstruction of man's relation 
to God through Christ, we are led on to an equally 
radical reinterpretation of worship and prayer, on 
the one hand, and morality and ethics on the other. 
Worship is not communion with our Creator, 
Sustainer, and Redeemer, but a means of making us 
"more sensitive to the depths" of our being (page 
87), and helping the ultimate reality of Love to 
"well up," as it were, in our lives ; while prayer 
is "openness to the Ground of our being."—Page 102. 
Morality likewise, is no longer obedience to a code 
of conduct received by revelation from the divine 
Lawgiver, but the unimpeded upworking of Love 
from the "depths." "Life in Christ Jesus in the new 
being, in the Spirit, means having no absolutes but 
His love, being totally uncommitted in every other 
respect, but totally committed in this."—Page 114. 
Now what shall we say of this "gospel according 
to Dr. Robinson" ? Would the apostle Paul have 
owned it as "the Gospel of God" and "the Gospel 
of our Lord Jesus Christ" ? We certainly do not 
believe that he would. On the contrary, we are sure 
he would have characterized it as "another gospel" 
which is not "honest to God," or to Christ, or to the 
Bible which the bishop is under oath to defend 
against "all erroneous and strange doctrine" contrary 
to it. 
It is not honest to God because while Dr. Robinson 
admits that there is ultimate reality, that ultimate 
reality is personal, and that ultimate reality is Love, 
he stops short of the obvious conclusion that ultimate 
reality is a Person. As Professor C. S. Lewis comments 
in the Church Times, "if ultimate reality is personal 
then God is personal," and if "God is personal" 
He surely must be "a Person." 
Again Dr. Robinson admits that ultimate reality 
is Love. But love is a person-to-person relationship 
and is inconceivable unless there is One who loves 
as well as one who is loved. "We love Him," the 
apostle John truly says, "because He first loved us." 
1 John 4:19. 
If Dr. Robinson differs from Sir Julian Huxley 
in insisting that ultimate reality is personal, he can-
not honestly deny that God is a Person who is 
From earliest times men have believed that all the 
worlds in space, and we ourselves, came into existence 
through the fiat of a personal Creator, outside of and 
"beyond" the physical universe. Now it is suggested 
by some modern thinkers that such an idea is no longer 
acceptable to man "come of age." 
The Roman villa at Lullingstone, Kent, has recently 
been given an "all-weather" cover so that the 
whole ruin can be readily viewed. 
Above.—The fine mosaic floor of the principal 
room. 
"beyond" the universe as well as the "depth and 
Ground of our being." 
Secondly, the Bishop of Woolwich is not honest 
to Christ. His description of Christ as a "window" 
through which the ultimate reality of Love is su-
premely revealed is very expressive, but Christ 
claimed not merely to reveal Love but to reveal 
God who is the Source of love. 
The bishop asserts that Christ never claimed to 
be more than man but He told the Jews that He 
was "before Abraham" (John 8:58) and in His 
last prayer He pleaded with His Father that He 
might be glorified with the glory that He had with 
Him "before the world was." John 17:5. 
The name by which Jesus was prophetically an-
nounced was "Emmanuel, . . . God with us" (Matt. 
1:23) and He Himself went so far as to assert, 
"I and My Father are one." John 10:30. 
The bishop's conception of Christ, therefore, 
like his conception of God, is not intellectually 
honest for, on the one hand, he claims that Jesus 
was the perfect "window" to ultimate reality and 
then on the other hand, he discards much of what 
shone through. 
Finally, Dr. Robinson is not honest to the men who 
wrote the Bible, whom he relegates from being 
"holy men of God . . . moved by the Holy Ghost" 
(2 Peter 1 :21) to no more than spiritual "teenagers." 
And in the same category, presumably, he would 
place all the great Christian thinkers of the last 
nearly two thousand years. Little wonder that 
another reader of his book has commented, "I am 
well content to be a child. I shall be in good com-
pany." 
The Rev. David L. Edwards, managing director 
of the house which published Dr. Robinson's book, 
defended him when preaching recently in West-
minster Abbey, on the grounds that he is a "mission-
ary" to the multitudes "out of touch" with the 
church, but one may seriously question whether 
the "gospel according to Dr. Robinson" will com-
mend Christianity to the masses more effectively 
than the Good News which the first apostles went 
forth to proclaim. 
For ourselves we, like them, prefer to take our 
standing orders from the Great Commission which 
Jesus gave just before His ascension, and seek to 
"make disciples of all nations" by making known 
to them "all things" which "He commanded," and 
leading them into what the apostle Paul called "the 
whole counsel of God." Matt. 28:19, 20; Acts 20:27. 
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THE 
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DIVINE 
"MA THEMA TICIAN" 
By 
A. H. Cowley 
The accuracy with 
to be made are so critical that a minor error could 
send a space ship off into the blackness of space 
(as has already happened) never to return, or land 
an astronaut hundreds of miles from his intended 
destination. No wonder that even the scientists keep 
their fingers crossed until each space capsule is 
safely brought down more or less at the estimated 
place of arrival. 
The technical skill involved in such exploits 
cannot be minimized, and the men and women 
behind the scenes operating computers and making 
calculations are indeed deserving of our admiration. 
They serve the cause of science with distinction, 
in spite of the occasional misfires and errors that 
get so much publicity. But the astonishing thing 
about these voyages into the threshhold of space 
is that they have not turned the thoughts of men to 
the One who not only controls, but created and 
ordered the countless satellites and suns, galaxies 
and galactic systems, which comprise the vast uni-
verse in which we find ourselves. If only respected 
as a Mathematician He surely makes all other math-
ematicians pale into insignificance. Earth's math-
ematicians, in actual fact, are only thinking their 
thoughts after Him who, without the aid of com-
puters and hosts of highly qualified scientists, has 
designed the weight, size, speed, and orbits of not 
one or two tiny spheres or capsules, but of countless 
(Continued on page 24.) 
The almost incredible complexity of the equipment 
needed by modern scientists to orbit one tiny artifical 
satellite should increase our reverence for the divine 
"Mathematician" who created and sustains the whole 
vast universe. 
R
ECENT exploits in 
space, notably those of 
the Russian astronauts, 
have made the man in the 
street, whether of a math-
ematical turn of mind or not, 
stand in awe of the "back-
room boys" who feed highly 
technical and abstruse data 
into electronic computers and 
receive back equally abstruse 
answers which enable radio 
technicians to send instruc-
tions with the speed of light 
to space vehicles in orbit 
around the world. 
which the calculations have 
F
AR more fascinating than the latest discoveries 
in outer space are the results of recent explor-
ations into the mysteries of the human brain. 
Scientists are now convinced that the brain "is the 
most highly organized apparatus in the universe . . . 
a fabulous machine that receives, digests, and gives 
meaning to all experience."—Life, March 8, 1963. 
After centuries of conjecture as to the source of 
human emotions and behaviour, and endless debate 
as to the supposed separate functions of "heart," 
"mind," and "soul," it is now admitted that "the 
human personality is an entity—an incredibly complex 
blending of many elements," all centred in the brain. 
Painstaking research has established the fact that 
this remarkable organ "consists essentially of 10,000 
million or so nerve cells or neurons, together with 
masses of supporting glia cells. Each neuron has 
a white, threadlike fibre extending from either end, 
and each such fibre connects with fibres from one 
or more other nerve cells, creating a communications 
network that reaches out finally to every part of the 
body. 
"Messages—'nerve impulses'—flash around this 
network, within the brain, from brain to body, 
from body to brain. Every living moment, even 
during sleep, nerve cells fire a barrage of millions 
of such impulses toward the brain, which would be 
addled by too much information if there were no 
system for filtering and condensing them. This is 
done partly in the nerve cells and partly at the 
synapses, the millions of junction points where the 
nerve fibres meet. Synapses not only block irrelevant 
messages, but shuttle others to the right route and 
add to them pertinent information coming in from 
other fibres."—Ibid. 
What keeps this amazing machine working? 
Electricity. 
"Asleep or awake, sane or insane, an adult-size 
brain operates on about twenty watts of electric 
energy. The source is the individual nerve cells, 
each of which is in effect a tiny dynamo." 
What feeds the infinitesimal dynamos? "A chem-
ical fuel of glucose and oxygen." From this "the 
cell generates within itself an electrical charge or 
'potential,' and when this charge builds to a certain 
level the cell discharges. Usually the greater the 
stimulus (danger, sex, hunger, etc.) the greater 
the rate of charge and discharge. The burst of elec-
trical energy from each discharge is the nerve 
impulse that speeds down the fibre, carrying a minute 
message. . . . If enough adjoining or related cells 
fire the result is a sensation, a pain, a thought, a 
feeling."—Ibid. 
Modernistic thinkers today are not content with banish-
ing God from His universe but are even suggesting that 
one day behaviour may be completely controlled by 
chemical reactions ! 
 
SALVATION 
BY 
CHEMISTRY ? 
 
by Arthur S. Maxwell 
 
Artificial control of behaviour 
Employing the most delicate instruments, scientists 
have subjected various portions of the brains of 
animals to electric current of varying voltages. As 
a result, cats and monkeys performed "like electrical 
toys." A normally peaceful cat "became a bundle of 
fury," but reverted to its peaceful ways when the 
current was turned off. A fight between two cats 
was started and stopped by the flick of a switch. 
With such evidence before them it is no wonder 
that more and more scientists are coming to believe 
that human behaviour may also be controlled by 
electricity. 
As an outgrowth of this research another intrigu-
ing possibility presents itself : If the brain is activated 
by electricity, and if the electricity arises from a 
chemical process, which in turn finds its source in 
the food or drug intake of the body, why not try 
to control human behaviour by chemistry? 
"The process is not only electrical," says Life, 
"it is electrochemical—and the chemical side of the 
matter is even more fundamental." 
Already many "chemical mind-changers" have 
been discovered and "the next few decades may 
well bring 'pharmaceuticals which change and main-
tain human personality at any desired level.' " 
Nature produces a number of these drugs, the 
most potent yet discovered being LSD 25, which 
is derived from ergot, a black fungus that grows 
on rye heads. So powerful is this "psycho-chemical" 
that one tiny, tasteless, odourless speck of it, weigh-
ing 1/200,000 of an ounce, causes fantastic mental 
aberrations, the most common being "a tremendous 
intensification of visual perception," everything 
becoming "clearer, brighter, sharper," and "endowed 
with dimensions and qualities never before realized." 
This drug is already being used in psychotherapy 
to facilitate bringing back old memories and enabl-
ing patients to relive them with all their original 
emotional content. 
Other drugs that effect the electrochemistry of the 
brain are now so numerous that they have been clas-
sified under various titles. Some are known as "disin-
hibitors," because they "weaken the controls that 
normally keep behaviour on a fairly even keel." 
Alcohol is in this category. Others are called "con-
fusants," because they "cause the victim to lose 
track of all relationships." Still others are "chron-
oleptogenics," because they distort the sense of time. 
Tranquillizers also do their work through the 
brain, as do certain common stimulants such as 
those in tea and coffee. Recently an anti-TB drug 
was found to be an anti-depressant of great potency, 
instantly banishing gloom. 
With such facts established it would seem but 
a step to the manipulation of human behaviour by 
pills containing "properly calculated blends" of 
various chemicals. 
With becoming modesty the author of the two 
Life articles referred to above admits that "science 
is still a long way from understanding those subtle 
and intervolved processes that enter into the very 
highest functions of thought and feeling—the things 
we call 'conscience,' wisdom,"spirituality,"integrity,' 
and, certainly not least, 'independence.' " At the 
same time, however, he declares his conviction that 
"in the not too far distant future the motivational 
and emotional conditions of normal daily life will 
probably be maintained in any desired state through 
the use of drugs." 
Salvation not chemical 
We doubt it, and for good reason. For one thing, 
the religious consequences of such a development 
would be catastrophic. All religion would become 
superfluous. What need would there be for preachers, 
prayer, or worship, if it were possible to change 
men's lives by chemicals? 
If drugs could be found to eliminate men's leanings 
toward lawlessness, including theft, adultery, and 
(Continued on page 30.) 
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KEYNOTES of the CHRISTIAN FAITH.-5 
J. A. McMILLAN explains the meaning of 
Repentance and shows how it opens the 
door to the transforming Grace of God. 
I
'M SORRY" are the two most difficult words 
to say in the English or any other language. 
It is hard for the human heart to acknowledge 
that it has been in the wrong. The spirit of self-
justification was born in Eden. As soon as Adam 
and Eve sinned, Adam justified himself by blaming 
Eve, and Eve put the blame for her sin on the 
serpent, indirectly blaming God for allowing her 
to be tempted. (Gen. 3:12, 13.) 
David revealed the working of the Spirit of God 
in his heart when he wrote: 
"For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry 
for my sin." Psa. 38:18. 
The first step toward God and reconciliation 
with Him is repentance. And repentance is just 
another word for being sorry for our sins. Paul 
speaks of this as "godly sorrow [which] worketh 
repentance to salvation not to be repented of." 
2 Cor. 7:10. 
On the climactic Day of Pentecost, when the apost-
les and disciples of Jesus, following a season of 
prayer, heart-searching, and communion with each 
other, were endowed with a marvellous outpouring 
of God's Spirit, the record tells us that "they were 
all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to talk 
in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." 
Acts 2:4, N.E.B. 
Such an experience, coming to men and women 
who possessed no learning or scholastic culture, 
naturally aroused considerable attention, and very 
soon a large crowd gathered around, in which there 
were "devout Jews drawn from every nation under 
heaven." Some fourteen nationalities are listed and 
their testimony was startling indeed. "We hear them 
telling in our own tongues the great things God 
has done." Acts 2:11, N.E.B. 
Peter began to proclaim how Jesus had been 
crucified and raised from the dead. He pointed to 
the prophecy of Joel to explain what they were 
witnessing, and he brought home to their startled 
consciences that it was God's Son whom they had 
rejected and killed just fifty days before. His mes-
sage was so forceful, his application of the Scrip-
tures so apt, his words so Spirit-filled, that "they 
were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the 
apostles, 'Friends, what are we to do ?"Repent,' 
said Peter, 'repent and be baptized, every one of you, 
in the name of Jesus the Messiah for the forgiveness 
of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy 
Spirit.' " Acts 2:37-39, N.E.B. 
Peter was here repeating the call made by Jesus 
Himself and also by our Lord's forerunner, John 
the Baptist. "John did baptize in the wilderness, 
and preach the baptism of repentance for the remis-
sion of sins." Jesus went on to stress that "the time 
is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: 
repent ye, and believe the Gospel." Matt. 3:15. 
He summed up the purpose of His mission thus : 
"I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to 
repentance." Mark 2:17. And when He sent for 
the apostles to proclaim His Gospel, it says of them 
that "they went out, and preached that men should 
repent." Mark 6:12. 
What is repentance ? 
What does it mean to repent? Is it enough to be 
sorry that we have done wrong? The word used 
in the New Testament, metanoeo means to "change 
one's mind." As used in the Scriptures it implies 
a change of attitude to God and His holy law, in-
volving sorrow for sin and desire to make amends. 
Superficial sorrow for sin, called "worldly sorrow," 
is generally sorrow for having been "found out." 
It may cause a sense of shame to develop but no 
fundamental change of attitude. "He will seek it 
yet again." 
"Godly sorrow" affects the heart and the mind. 
It is not of earthly origin, for the unregenerate heart 
of man cannot create true repentance. Repentance, 
while required by God as a prerequisite of salvation, 
is not of man, but is actually the gift of God. One 
of the blessings of the Gospel of Jesus is that He 
was "exalted . . . to be a Prince and a Saviour, 
for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of 
sins." Acts 5:31. 
We can no more truly repent of ourselves than 
we can forgive ourselves. But we may accept re-
pentance. We must be willing to be made willing. 
As we expose our hearts to the unfolding of the love 
of God, repentance springs forth, for it is "the good-
ness of God [that] leadeth thee to repentance." 
Rom. 2:4. When God, by His Spirit, arouses the 
conscience, and regenerates the heart, "then shall 
ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings 
that were not good, and shall loath yourselves in 
your own sight for your iniquities an for your 
abominations." Ezek. 36:31. 
A change of life 
But that is not all. A little boy who had attended 
Sabbath school for a short time, and had truly 
absorbed the meaning of the Gospel story, was asked 
to explain what he understood of repentance. "Being 
sorry enough to quit," he said. And that is just about 
the heart of the matter. 
Listen to the Baptist as he delivered his message to 
10 
the motley crowd who gathered to listen to him. 
"When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees 
coming for baptism he said to them: You viper's 
brood! Who warned you to escape from the coming 
retribution? Then prove your repentance by the 
fruit it bears.' " Matt. 3 :7, 8, N.E.B. As the margin 
of the Authorized Version translates it, John called 
for "fruits answerable to amendment of life" or 
"fruit worthy of repentance." R.V. 
Shameful feelings, good resolutions, tearful senti-
ments, are not enough. Only when men are "cut to 
the heart" can genuine repentance take place. "Re- 
pentance includes sorrow for sin, and a turning away 
from it. We shall not renounce sin unless we see 
its sinfulness; until we turn away from it in heart, 
there will be no real change in the life."—Steps to 
Christ, page 18. 
This change has been experienced 
in the lives of countless men and 
women throughout the ages. As they 
have caught a glimpse of the holiness 
of God, their reaction has been the 
same. Isaiah cried, "Woe is me! For 
I am undone; because I am a man 
of unclean lips." Daniel, the godly 
statesman of Babylon, confessed, 
"There remained no strength in me: 
for my comeliness was turned in me 
into corruption, and I retained no 
strength." John the beloved disciple, 
confronted by His resurrected Lord, 
said: "When I saw Him, I fell at 
His feet as dead." Isa. 6:5; Dan. 
10:8; Rev. 1:17. Each of these ex-
periences stresses the truth that "we 
are all as an unclean thing, and all 
our righteousnesses are as filthy rags." 
Isa. 64:6. 
If our righteousnesses are as filthy 
rags, what must our sins be in the 
sight of a holy God? Only an attitude 
of repentant contrition becomes the 
children of men. "The sacrifices of God are a broken 
spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, 0 God, Thou 
wilt not despise." Psa. 51:17. 
We live in an age when "fools make a mock 
at sin." Prov. 14:9. Immorality, greed, dishonesty, 
are flaunted before the world. Brutality is a common 
feature of much that passes for entertainment. The 
conscience is dwarfed and the moral sensibilities of 
men lie dormant. There is a crying need for a 
voice to go forth to the nations reminding men 
that God "commandeth all men everywhere to 
repent." Acts 17:30. 
Someone has pointed out that there are four 
ingredients making up true repentance. These are: 
1. Conviction of sin. Acts 16:30. 
2. Contrition for sin. Psa. 38:18. 
(Continued on page 28.) 
"I'M SORRY" 
T
HAT Christ is the pattern for every Christian 
to follow, that He is the ideal, the perfect 
example for every Christian, is universally 
accepted. But it is often said that none can reach the 
standard He has set and indeed that they are not 
expected to do so; hence the failure of Christianity 
to make the impact it should, and that it was divinely 
intended to make upon the world at large. 
That Christians should be a very close copy of 
Christ, the Pattern, is clearly expressed in certain 
texts in the Bible, for example, Romans 8:29: "For 
whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate 
to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He 
might be the firstborn among many brethren." Other 
texts confirm this unequivocal statement such as 
Ephesians 1:4, 5 and 2 Corinthians 3:18. 
Wesley asserted in his book on Christian Perfection 
that Christian perfection is "a perfection of love," 
and that Christians can be and should be perfect in 
their love for God. Faults, owing to human infirmity, 
there always will be, but their love for God can be 
perfect and complete so that all their actions are 
done in love, though at times, through human 
frailty, imperfectly expressed. Let us pursue this 
very important matter a little further. 
Christ having assumed human nature might be 
said to have followed a pattern in His witness on 
earth, inasmuch as He did not do His own will 
but the will of His Father. "My doctrine is not Mine, 
but His that sent Me." John 7:16. He further said: 
"I can of My own self do nothing.. . . I seek not 
My own will, but the will of the Father which hath 
sent Me." John 5 :30. Thus Christ's witness on earth 
was after the will, and therefore of the pattern of 
His Father, from whom He also received power 
to bear that witness faithfully. 
The perfection of Christ 
The Scripture says that "God was in Christ, recon-
ciling the world unto Himself" (2 Cor. 5:19), 
and in order to do this He took upon Himself human 
nature. He therefore had two natures, the divine 
and the human, but in assuming human nature His 
divinity was in no way diminished, and therefore 
sanctified or made holy His humanity; and because 
of this, though born of a woman, He was born 
sinless. But this dominance of His divine nature did 
not in any way make Him any the less a man. He 
was perfect God and perfect man. Therefore Christ 
could say speaking as a man: "I do the will of Him 
that sent Me" and of His own will He freely delight-
ed to do it, but He added, "Of My own self I can 
CAN WE LL' 
do nothing," that is, as a man He could do nothing 
except power were given Him from God. Thus the 
perfection of the divine character manifested itself 
through human faculties wholly devoted to serving 
God. 
Is it possible for twentieth-century Christians to 
be like Christ, their Master and Exemplar? A great 
cloud of witnesses have demonstrated that it is 
possible, and if it was possible in past ages, today 
we stand without an excuse! Let us see how it is 
possible, for both reason and revelation give an 
affirmative answer. 
Partakers of the divine nature 
The Bible uses several terms to describe a Chris-
tian: "Born again," "a new man," "a new creature," 
"the image of Him who has created him," "a par-
taker of the divine nature." From these terms it 
is evident that a radical change has taken place in 
the life of the Christian. Deep down in his nature a 
change has been made so that he is a "new creation." 
There is from the beginning something about him 
that is basically Christ-like. We have seen how Christ 
had two natures, the divine and the human. Now 
we see that the Christian also has two natures, a 
human nature and an imparted divine nature. As 
the divine nature of Christ took control of the 
human nature with which it was united, so the 
divine nature planted in man takes control of the 
human nature yielded to its sovereignty. It is none 
of the purpose of God that our human personality 
should be submerged because of this union of the 
human with the divine, but that part of the human 
personality which stands opposed to the development 
of the divine nature must be yielded up, and as 
this is done, the divine nature becomes dominant, 
the image of God reappears, and the Christ-like 
pattern is achieved. 
We recall that Christ said that He could do nothing 
without His Father. It is even so with the Christian, 
he can do nothing of himself, his human nature 
will give no place to the divine nature in him unless 
supernaturally aided, but thus aided, he can measure 
up to the divine pattern. 
Christian perfection 
From experience the apostle Paul realized this 
and declared, "I can do all things through Christ 
the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure 
of the stature of the fullness of Christ." Eph. 4:11-
13. 
Let us never forget that to profess before the 
world to be a Christian and yet fail to be Christ-
like is to do the Christian faith incalculable harm. 
What the world needs today are living Christ-like 
witnesses; then and then only will the world sit 
up and take notice, and, as of old, will say: "How 
these Christians love one another." 
Will you cease to say, I cannot be like Christ, 
but arise and in your God-given strength "put on 
Christ" your Saviour and Pattern, and prove to 
your own satisfaction, to your friends, and the world 
that you can do all things through Christ your 
Enabler ? 
Rodes 
We love our roses in June, 
In their scent take great delight, 
Flecked with the morning dewdrops—. 
A delicate charming sight ! 
Outshining earth's regal glory, 
A message from heaven they bear, 
"Our God is Love," they seem to say 
To everyone, everywhere. 
He's the "Lily of the Valley" 
Purest "Rose" in Sharon's vale 
The "Altogether Lovely One" 
Whose love cannot fade or fail. 
Marjorie H. Cooper. 
EIKE CHRIST 
by R. T. Bolton 
which strengtheneth me." Thus as Christ, the "Son 
of man" as He delighted to call Himself, yielded all 
His human faculties to be used to carry out His 
Father's will, so if we willingly yield up all our 
faculties to the will of God our Father, we shall 
be transformed into the image of Christ, and we 
shall fulfil the purpose of God for every Christian, 
"That we should be holy and without blame before 
Him in love." For this purpose God has given some 
"apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; 
and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting 
of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the 
edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come 
in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of 
On one occasion, in the Capernaum 
region, Jesus encountered some of the 
more learned Pharisees from Jerusalem. 
They were apparently determined to op-
pose Him, and sought to do it by confus-
ing the minds of His simple Galilean 
hearers. Against His saving words of 
truth they endeavoured to introduce the 
irrelevant and almost childish dictates 
of their own inherited traditions. 
"'Why," they asked Him, "do Thy disciples trans-
gress the tradition of the elders? For they wash not 
their hands when they eat bread?" Matt. 15:2. 
Jesus at once drew a sharp distinction between 
God's clear commands and their traditional, and 
often quibbling, customs. "Why do ye," He asked, 
"also transgression the commandment of God by 
your tradition?" 
Our Saviour then went on to show that the Phar-
isees were continually extolling deference to "the 
ERNEST COX explains why Protestants 
emphasize "the Bible only" as the ground 
of faith and why they reject the "traditions" 
of Rome. 
C
HRIST Himself frequently drew attention to 
the conflict which has long existed between 
the authority of God's inspired Word and 
the claims of human tradition. 
elders" far above a proper obedience to the revealed 
and written Word of God. "Thus," He reminded 
them, "have ye made the commandment of God 
of none effect by your tradition." Although they 
constantly made a great display of their ceremonial 
worship and their pretentious prayers, "in vain" 
were they worshipping God, because they insisted 
upon "teaching for doctrines the commandments 
of men." Matt. 15:6, 9. 
Probably there has never appeared a clearer defin-
ition of ecclesiastical, and particularly Romish, 
tradition than that. It is simply the teaching of 
doctrines as being binding upon men, which are, 
after all, only the precepts and opinions of often 
very fallible theologians. 
Jesus apparently had very little time for the hun-
dreds of positive and negative injunctions which 
14 
formed the bulk of the Jewish oral tradition of His 
day. Indeed, He continually and deliberately flouted 
any number of petty Sabbatical rules when He per-
formed works of mercy on the seventh day. These 
fatuous precepts, many of which were later collected 
into the Talmud, He frequently and sternly denoun-
ced, because He clearly saw that they were regarded 
and esteemed by many people even above a definite 
"Thus saith the Lord." Jesus also knew that these 
man-made religious laws were often used to over-
awe and confuse the humble peasantry, totally mis-
leading them concerning the kindly ways of God. 
No wonder that some of the Saviour's sternest 
denunciations were reserved for those who traf-
ficked in such flagrant misrepresentations of God's 
attitude to His children. "Woe unto you, scribes 
and Pharisees, hypocrites !" cried Jesus, "for ye 
The sternest denunciations of Christ were reserved 
for those who "added to" or detracted from the divine 
Word. 
compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and 
when he is made, ye make him twofold more the 
child of hell than yourselves." Matt. 23:15. Such 
was the Saviour's opinion of those who put the word 
of man in place of the Word of God ! 
A moment's consideration will be sufficient to 
show that there is a clear parallel between the 
Pharisees' traditions of our Saviour's time, and the 
papal traditions of today. Both systems of additional 
doctrine developed among a people professedly 
serving God and honouring His inspired Word. 
Both systems originated with well-meaning, but very 
fallible religious teachers. Both systems were based 
on the unsound conception that God's Word needs 
to be supplemented, or can conceivably be equalled 
by supplementary dogmas. 
Jesus, who was Himself the Word of God person- 
ified (John 1 :1), was justifiably jealous for the hon-
our and exclusive authority of the written Word. 
(John 17:17.) He knew that to add to that Word 
any other doctrine which purports to be essential 
to salvation, can only lead to error, confusion, 
and grievous loss. Indeed, He Himself declares 
through John, "I testify unto every man, . . . If 
any man shall add unto these things, God shall add 
unto him the plagues." Rev. 22:18. 
Thus it was because of their determined and 
unspiritual devotion to their own traditional teachings 
that the Pharisees incurred Christ's condemnation. 
"Blind guides," was how He who sees all, described 
them, "which strain at a gnat and swallow a 
camel. . . . Ye also outwardly appear righteous 
unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and 
iniquity." Matt. 23:24, 28. 
Rome places tradition above 
the Bible 
If Christ so censured the official religious teachers 
of His day who presume to set aside God's Word 
in order to promote man's tradition, what can be 
said concerning the papal position today? Can it 
really be true that Rome's attitude toward her own 
body of traditional teaching is analagous to the 
Pharisees' predilection for their own "elders' " 
dogmas? 
No less an authority than Dr. Wylie writes aptly 
in this connection: "We may state, that the traditions 
which the Church of Rome has thus placed on a 
level with the Bible are the supposed sayings of 
Christ and the apostles handed down by tradition. 
Of course, no proof exists that such things were ever 
spoken by those to whom they are imputed. They 
were never known or heard of till the monks of the 
Middle Ages gave them to the world. To apostolical 
is to be added ecclesiastical tradition, which consists 
of the decrees and constitutions of the Church. 
It is scarcely a true account of the matter to say 
that tradition holds an equal rank with the Bible; 
it is placed above it. While tradition is always em-
ployed to determine the sense of the Bible, the Bible 
is never permitted to give judgment on tradition. 
What, then, would the Church of Rome lose were 
the Bible to be set aside? Nothing, clearly. Accord-
ingly some of her doctors have held that the Scrip-
tures are now unnecessary, seeing the Church has 
determined all truth."—The Papacy, page 171, by 
J. A. Wylie, LL.D. (Italics supplied.) 
As this author shows, not only does Rome exalt 
her own traditions to equal, or even superior status 
to Holy Writ, but she has also weakened the inherent 
authority of Scripture to her own Communion by 
including in her editions of the Sacred Volume 
the uncanonical books of the Apocrypha. 
(Continued on page 29.) 
is 
DO YOU NEED A "LIFT"? 
by Lois L. Lone 
T
HERE is a spiritual law of gravity that acts 
on the hearts and minds of mankind, dragging 
them downward, earthward. It is known as 
"original sin," and can be resisted only by earnest 
and continual effort to "lift up" our eyes, our hands, 
our heads, our voices, our souls, and our prayers 
to God. 
"Lift up thine eyes round about, and see," wrote 
the prophet Isaiah. (Isa. 60:4.) What do we see 
when we look "round about?" There is still a great 
deal of beauty in nature, and many beautiful things 
that the skill of man has made; there is still a 
great deal of moral beauty, unselfish love that 
strives to serve and bless others without counting 
the cost; but exceeding and overshadowing all this 
we see the ugliness and darkness of sin "the cor-
ruption that is in the world through lust" (2 Peter 
1:4), resulting in misery, pain, and death. We 
cannot, and we must not, close our eyes to these 
sorrows, but, as followers of Jesus, who "went 
about doing good," we must give help and comfort 
to those in need, and point them to the Saviour 
who can, and will, provide for those that trust in 
Him, and give peace and joy and the beauty of 
holiness in the midst of "this present evil world." 
Lift up your eyes 
"Lift up your eyes on high" (Isa. 40:26), we 
are bidden, for we cannot be a blessing to those 
around us until we look up to the source of all 
blessings and receive a bountiful supply both for 
ourselves and others. When we lift up our eyes on 
high we see the glory and power of God, and by 
faith we also see Jesus, "standing on the right hand 
of God." While on earth Jesus was lifted up to 
suffer and die that all who believe in Him might 
have everlasting life, and now He is lifted up 
"higher than the heavens," and as our High Priest 
in the heavenly court, is making continual interces-
sion for all who come to God by Him. (Heb. 
7:25, 26.) If we look only around us, we could be 
overwhelmed with doubt and despair; so, for ou•r 
own sakes, and for our usefulness to others, we must 
lift up our eyes on high, in worship, in prayer, in 
faith that the wonderful promises of God may 
be fulfilled in us and through us to others. 
"Lift up the hands that hang down." Heb. 12:12. 
It is only when people are idle or sick or discouraged 
that their hands hang down. With our eyes lifted 
up, it will be easier for our heavy hands to follow 
and to reach out for the blessings that come down 
Jesus bade His disciples in all their service for Him 
to "look up" continually for heavenly guidance and 
power. 
from above. The prophet Jeremiah, in the midst of 
his lamentations, wrote, "Let us lift up our heart 
with our hands unto God in the heavens." Lam. 3:41. 
It may be easier to lift up our hands to heaven 
than to the duties on earth. How leaden the hands 
become when an unpleasant duty presents itself! 
It takes great effort to lift them up and set them to 
the task. When David wrote, "My hands also will 
I lift up unto Thy commandments," he added the 
uplifting power "Thy commandments, which I have 
loved." Psa. 119:48. It is only when we reach up 
to God and open our hearts to His love that our 
hands are made willing and strong and active in 
loving service to those around us. 
Lift up your voice 
"0 Zion, that bringest good tidings; . . . lift 
up thy voice with strength." Isa. 40:9. The most 
wonderful tidings of all is the good news of sal- 
vation from sin through the life and death and 
resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. These 
tidings must be carried to the ends of the earth, 
for "this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached 
in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and 
then shall the end come." Matt. 24:14. If all those 
who have already heard the good news would realize 
its vital nature and lift up their voices with strength 
to proclaim it far and wide, it would soon be heard 
by every soul on earth, and Christ would come to 
end the reign of sin and 
create a "new heavens and 
a new earth, wherein dwel-
leth righteousness." 2 Peter 
3:13. 
The �
Psalmist D avid 
often prayed, "Unto Thee, 
0 Lord, do I lift up my 
soul." In all the sorrows 
that afflicted him, David 
found he could lift them 
all up to God and find 
comfort and deliverance. 
"The sorrows of death 
compassed me," he cried, 
"and the pains of hell 
found me: I found trouble 
and sorrow. Then called 
I upon the name of the 
Lord; 0 Lord, I beseech 
Thee, deliver my soul." 
Then he declares, "Thou 
hast delivered my soul 
from death, mine eyes 
from tears, and my feet 
from falling." Psa. 116:3, 
4, 8. However severe the 
experiences that come to 
us, we can lift up our souls to God, and then be 
able to declare, with David: "He brought me up 
also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and 
set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 
And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even 
praise unto our God." Psa. 40:2, 3. 
Lift up God's standard 
"Lift up a standard for the people." Isa. 62:10, 
No-one can deny that the moral standard as given 
in the Word of God has been dragged in the dust, 
and a new code of morality is being advocated 
as more suited to our present enlightened and 
advanced generation. But does the practice of these 
new standards make for greater happiness, peace, 
and safety? The answer is found in every news-
paper and radio broadcast. So it behoves us who still 
believe that God knows best to lift up again the 
standard of His law, not only by word of mouth, 
but by being living examples of its principles. 
Finally, the most joyful lifting up of all: "Look 
up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption 
draweth nigh." Luke 21:28. The disciples had asked 
Jesus to tell them what should be the sign of His 
coming and of the end of the world. (Matt. 24:3.) 
In reply He gave them a glimpse of the future, 
and among all the signs mentioned, the most definite 
was that this Gospel must be preached in all the 
world before His coming. 
We who believe the Scrip-
tures, have every cause 
to lift up our heads and 
rejoice, for in spite of a 
sad lack of zeal to obey 
Christ's command to go 
into all the world with 
the news of salvation, 
many are going and the 
Gospel is being preached. 
With the modern means 
of swift communication 
this Christ-given mission 
could very soon be ac-
complished, and Christ 
would come in the clouds 
of heaven with power and 
great glory. 
In that great day those 
who are looking for His 
coming will be lifted up 
bodily, caught up with all 
the redeemed, to meet the 
Lord in the air. "And 
so shall we ever be with 
the Lord." 1 Thess. 4:16, 
17. 
!fiSt
THE FAITH AND WORKS OF 
BRITAIN'S EARLIEST CHURCH 
IMPORTANT ARTICLES ON 
THE FIRST OF TWO 
F
D URTEEN hundred years ago, in A.D. 563,* 
the Irishman Columba, with a dozen com-
panions, landed his currach on the tiny island 
of Iona, off the coast of Mull, and one of the greatest 
missionary enterprises in the history of the church 
began. From Iona the salutary principles of religion 
and education, the blessings of mercy and tolerance, 
the disciplines of justice and righteousness flowed 
gently into the turgid stream of Pictish and North-
umbrian life and the Celtic Christian Church came 
into existence. 
Appropriately, therefore, in June this year, the 
exploits of Columba in the cause of Christ will 
he celebrated in the rebuilt church on the famous 
island by the modern Iona community re-established 
there in recent years. 
Columba's historic evangelistic enterprise was 
not, however, by any means an isolated event. His 
example was followed by other Christian mission-
aries from Ireland. Far and wide these "pilgrims 
for God" ranged the islands of the western seas, 
lashed by storms. Their frail coracles bore them 
from Ireland, across to England, and from thence 
they journeyed into the Continent, ravaged by war. 
Gildas noted that for these Celtic evangelists "to 
cross the seas and travel over most large countries 
was not so much a weariness, as a delight." 1 Com-
menting upon the mission of Columba and its ac-
complishments, J. F. Kenney remarked : "From the 
COLUMBA 
AND HIS 
point of view of world history 
the most momentous achieve-
ment of the Irish people was the 
Christianizing of their Pictish 
and Anglo-Saxon neighbours." 2 
By the middle of the seventh 
century the Celtic Church had 
spread from the Thames to the 
Grampians, covered Ireland, and 
had founded outposts on the 
Continent and even on some of the western isles. 
European writers make passing reference to 
British Christians from the time of the Council of 
Arles (A.D. 314) to the Saxon invasion of England 
in the middle of the fifth century. Then for about 
a century and a half British Christians are lost to 
historical sight and apparently had no contact with 
their brethren in the Empire. But these Celtic 
Christians continued to observe customs and to 
•saprnua3 tpjg pue qpnoj If u!.Ittp slanallaq am4 
pr Jo aV•elpaq atp uaaq pug tpqm sRuNauai Nog 
The date is actually in doubt. it has been placed between 562 
and 565. 
by Leslie G. Hardinge, M.A. 
Left.—Columba 
looks 
across the sea to Scotland 
where he was to spend a 
lifetime in Christian mis-
sionary service. 
Above.—The �
rebuilt 
church of Columba on 
the isle of Iona. 
Opposite page.—The anc-
ient Celtic cross of Iona. 
In fact the Christians tenets and practices which 
Patrick the Briton took to Ireland at the opening 
of the fifth century represented the form of Chris-
tianity held by his father, who was a deacon, and his 
grandfather, who was a priest about A.D. 350. 
Differences between early British 
church and Borne 
It is significant that when contact was made with 
Celtic Christians by Augustine, who landed in Kent 
in A.D. 597, the representatives of Rome were amazed 
that there were so many fundamental differences 
between them. For when Augustine sought to extend 
"his pastoral care to the original inhabitants of 
Britain, and to the Scots of Ireland adjacent to this 
island of Britain . . . he learned that in their own 
country the life and customs of the Scots and of 
the Britons were unorthodox." 3 
Laurentius, the successor of Augustine, also found 
"that the Scots are no different to the Britons in their 
behaviour." 4 (The term Scot, in Bede's time, and 
for centuries later, indicated an inhabitant of Ire-
land.) The Vatican Librarian, Cardinal Baronius, 
who wrote a history of the church in the sixteenth 
century, recorded that Laurentius laboured "with 
might and main for the purpose of extricating the 
Britons and Scots from their schism, and reconciling 
them to the Catholic Church." Bede regretted 
that this effort at union had failed and that the 
separation continued into the eighth century. "Even 
in our own days," he lamented, "the Britons pay 
no respect to the faith and religion of 
the English, and have no more dealings 
with them than with the heathen." 6 
With the coming of Theodore of 
Tarsus as Archbishop of Canterbury in 
A.D. 668, however, Rome obtained its 
most successful champion, and the 
Romanizing of the Celtic Christians was 
eventually brought to a successful con-
clusion. Southern Ireland capitulated to 
Rome in A.D. 632-633, and northern 
Ireland in 697. r King Nectan banished 
the Columban brethren from Iona across 
the Grampians in 717, 8 and installed 
Roman monks. Cornwall was absorbed 
by the Roman party about 705, and Wales 
finally yielded about 777. 9 The Celtic 
Church, therefore, is that body of inde-
pendent Christians who witnessed to the 
truth of the Gospel in the British Isles 
from about A.D. 350 to about 775. 
Subsequently the records of the Celtic 
Christians were deliberately interpolated 
and altered by later monastic scribes 
in order to correct their supposed "er-
rors." An illuminating illustration of 
this is to be found in the introduction to Joceline's 
Life of Kentigern. This work was probably written at 
the time of the dedication of the cathedral in Glasgow 
in the twelth century in honour of Kentigern. The 
monk-hagiographer recorded that he had come across 
two old lives of Kentigern which were "swarming 
with errors," and that as he studied them he had read 
with horror that "so priceless a bishop's life . . . had 
been blotted by a relation perverted from the faith." 
After getting over his initial shock he confessed: 
"I determined to restore and put together material 
collected from both books ; and, after my measure 
and according to your command, to savour with 
Roman salt" what was "opposed to sound doctrine 
and to Catholic faith." 1° It is tragic that we do 
not now possess these original priceless lives of 
Kentigern! But it often happened that these Roman-
izing biographers overlooked items which were dif-
ferent from their views, and it is for these points 
that the student of the early Celtic Church must 
look when he is seeking to portray its doctrines and 
practices. 
What sort of person was the Celtic Christian? 
we may ask ourselves. What did he believe and prac-
tise, that distinguished him from the Roman Chris-
tians whom he encountered following the arrival 
of the Italian mission under Augustine? 
The Bible in the Celtic church 
One of the most impressive facts about the Celtic 
Christian was his veneration for the Holy Scriptures. 
19 
The Bible moulded his theology and guided his 
worship. It suggested rules of conduct and modified 
the ancient laws of Irish and Welsh pagans into 
Christian statutes. It lay at the foundation of the 
education of children and youth. It sparked the 
genius of poets and song-writers, and provided 
inspiration for the scribes of history and hagiography. 
Patrick's opinion of the Bible is found in his own 
Letter of remonstrance to Coroticus: "The words 
are not mine, but of God and the apostles and 
prophets, who have never lied, which I have set 
forth in Latin. He that believeth shall be saved, 
but he that believeth not shall be damned. God hath 
spoken." 11 In Patrick's Confession and Letter there 
are 304 citations from 46 books of the Bible.12 He 
was saturated with scriptural imagery, and, in fact, 
quoted from no other book. 
Bede underlined this respect with which Celtic 
Christians held the Bible. Speaking of the followers 
of Columba who visited Northumbria in the seventh 
century, the father of English history noted that 
they "diligently followed whatever pure and devout 
customs they had learned in the prophets, the gos-
pels and the writings of the apostles." Of their leader 
Aidan, he further reported: "His life is in marked 
contrast to the apathy of our own times, for all 
who accompanied him, whether monks or lay-folk, 
were required to meditate, that is, either to read the 
Scriptures or to learn the Psalms. This was their 
daily occupation wherever they went." 13 
The Welsh Celtic Christian leader, Samson (A.D. 
+ 565) who founded his settlement in Brittany 
at Dol, was also "very often immersed [sensatus) 
in searching and learning the Holy Scriptures." 14 
The version of the Bible which was used by the 
early Celtic Christians was pre-Jerome. In fact the 
Columba with his followers sail from Ireland to plant 
the Gospel among the wild Picts of Scotland. 
Martyrology of Oengus appears to indicate that the 
Vulgate did not reach Ireland until the end of the 
sixth century, brought thither by Finnian, who died 
in A.D. 570.15 The Scriptures were regarded as the 
inspired Word of God. The Old-Irish glossator 
remarked that "the authority of the Word of God . 
is greater than the word of men." 16 During the 
sixth and seventh centuries Ireland was the centre of 
biblical studies for Western Europe. Bede noted: 
"There were many English nobles and lesser 
folk in Ireland who had left their own land during 
the episcopates of Bishops Finan and Colman, either 
to pursue religious studies or to lead a life of stricter 
discipline. Before long, some of these devoted them-
selves to the monastic life, while others preferred 
to travel, studying under various teachers in turn. 
The Scots [or Irish) welcomed them all kindly, 
and, without asking for any payment, provided them 
with books and instructors." 17 
Faithful to all the fundamentals 
Wherever Patrick journeyed he was believed to 
have left a copy of "the books of the Law and the 
books of the Gospel" 18 in every Christian community 
he founded. 
It is not surprising, therefore, that Columba and 
his followers observed the Bible Sabbath, paid tithes 
and first-fruits, carried out baptism by immersion, 
and feet-washing, with communion of both kinds, 
believed in a careful regulation of diet, and held 
to the fundamental doctrines of the New Testament. 
Next time we will consider some of these. 
(To be continued.) 
Gildas in De Excidio, para. 67. (See J. A. Giles, trans., 
The Works of Gildas, page 62.) 
2 J. F. Kenney in The Sources for the Early History of 
Ireland, I, Ecclesiastical, page 225. 
• Bede in Ecclesiastical History, II, 4; hereinafter abbreviated 
to Bede, HE.. For a good edition see L. Sherley-Price, 
Bede, A History of the English Church and People. 
4 Bede, HE, II, 4. 
5 C. Baronius in Annales Ecclesia' stici, Tome VIII column 239. 
• Bede, HE, II, 20. 
• Bede, HE, V, 15. Adamnan was the apostle of unity, and 
succeeded in imposing Roman customs on a large part of 
northern Ireland. See H. O'Donovan in Annals of Ireland, 
Three Fragments, copied from ancient sources by Dubhaltach 
Mac Firbisigh at the year A.D. 704. 
W. Stokes, ed and trans, "The Annals of Tigernach," Revue 
Celtique, Vol. XVII (1896), pages 225.6. 
▪ A. W. Haddan and W. Stubbs, eds., Councils and Eccles-
iastical Documents Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, 
Vol. I, page 676. For a discussion of the whole question of 
the subjugation of the Celtic Church to Rome see F. E. Warren, 
Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church, pages 3-11, and 
W. S. Kerr, The Independence of the Celtic Church in Ireland, 
passim. 
18H. W. Maxwell in The Early Chronicles Relating to Scotland, 
pages 56-7; see also A. 0. Anderson in Early Sources of 
Scottish History, Vol. I, page lxxv. 
"Patrick in Letter to Coroticus, para 20. For Patrick's Confession 
and Letter see the translation by N. J. D. White. 
"N. J. D. White in "Libri Sancti Patricii, The Latin Writings 
of St. Patrick," Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 
Vol. XXV, Sec. C, No. 7, (L905) pages 300-316, 323-325. 
15 Bede. HE, III, 5. 
14 See T. Taylor, trans., The Life of St. Samson of Dol, paras. 
XIV, XXI. 
" W. Stokes-in Martyrology of Oengus. 
18W. Stokes & J. Strachan in Thesaurus Paleohibernicus, 
commenting of Psalm 15:1, Vol. I, pages 86, 256. It contains 
over 11,000 comments in Old-Irish on the Epistles of St. Paul, 
and is unaffected by the Roman party in Ireland. 
11 Bede, HE, III, 27. 
16W. Stokes in The Tripartite Life of Patrick, 11, page 300. 
PRECIOUS 
PROMISES: 
THE SECOND ARTICLE 
IN THE SERIES 
by E. B. PHILLIPS M.Th. 
I WILL 
PASS 
OVER 
YOU " 
T
HIS promise was given 
to Moses, the servant of 
the Lord, just before 
the last and most terrible of 
the ten plagues was inflicted 
on the Egyptians. It will be 
recalled that the children of Israel had been in 
bondage in the land of Egypt for many long years, 
and that now God had demanded of Pharaoh that 
they be freed. When the tyrant refused to let them 
go, dread catastrophes came upon the land, plagues 
which increased in severity until finally the death 
of all the firstborn, from that of the monarch to 
the child of the servant, was threatened. 
Many of the Egyptians by this time feared 
Jehovah and Moses His servant ; they had pleaded 
with their sovereign that he should relent and send 
the Israelites away. But the stubborn monarch refused 
to listen. Thereupon the bondmen were given careful 
instructions as to their part in the coming deliverance. 
They were instructed to take for each household an 
unblemished lamb, to keep it for fourteen days, and 
then to kill it in the evening. Its blood was to be 
taken and smeared on the two side posts and on 
the upper door-post of the houses ; its flesh was to 
be roasted and eaten with unleaven bread and bitter 
herbs. This had to be done in haste, in preparation 
for a hurried departure, for in that night God would 
pass through the land of Egypt and kill all the first-
born of man and beast. 
With this solemn announcement was a promise 
which gave hope to the people of the Lord : "And 
the blood shall be to you for a token upon 
the house where ye are: and when I see the 
blood, I will pass over you, and the plague 
shall not be upon you to destroy you, 
when I smite the land of Egypt." Exod. 
12:13. 
In the original, the word translated "pass over," 
is the Hebrew verb "pasach." According to the 
lexicon of Gesenius, it occurs in the proper name 
Thapascus, where the river Euphrates was crossed. 
It may also mean to pass by, as well as pass over, 
or even spare. It is found again in Isaiah 31:5: 
"As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend 
Jerusalem; defending also He will deliver it; and 
passing over He will deliver it." Doubtless there 
is a reference here to the original passover, and Isaiah 
had in mind to encourage his hearers by turning 
their minds back to the great deliverance their God 
had wrought so many centuries before. 
Our "Passover" 
So great was the importance of this first "passing 
over" that the Israelites were instructed to celebrate 
it every year, by eating unleavened bread for a whole 
week. The Hebrew word has come into familiar 
usage, for the Jews speak of Easter as Pasch, and 
the lamb slain and eaten at that time is known as 
the Paschal lamb. Our Saviour is also so described, 
for the lamb slain on that far-away occasion, fore-
shadowed the cross of Calvary and the divine Sacri-
fice, offered on behalf of sinful man. 
(Continued on page 29.) 
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IOU CAN 11A 
VICT 
I
T would be a poor life indeed without it, wouldn't 
it? An occasional thrill of accomplishment. 
Never to have the satisfaction of overcoming 
some obstacle. Never to feel the glow that comes 
from the consciousness of some worth-while job 
well done. Never to explore any new field of en-
deavour. How dull! How unbearably dull! 
For which reason I always feel that we housewives 
are tremendously fortunate. Given a home and a 
family, there is no limit to our scope, no channel 
but what can render substantial dividends. 
There is a home I know where every room is 
cosy with a thick expensive-looking rug. Mother 
made them—every one. 
I know another which is adorned with many a 
beautiful needle-painting. Without a doubt they 
took years to produce. Nevertheless, it was the busy 
lady of the house who embroidered them. 
One good lady of my acquaintance has turned 
a very wilderness of surrounding ground into a small 
world of beauty, a "garden of the Lord" if ever 
there was one, and she keeps it so, a delight to her 
whole neighbourhood. 
And another is a rare hand with a paint brush, 
another a marvellous cook. I could wish I were as 
clever as she. 
Nevertheless, I have my moments, even I. We 
must all do so. They are not denied to any of us. 
With any degree of intelligence at all, we can 
all enjoy the stimulation of attainment in some 
activity or other. 
To see a garment that I have made actually fit 
its wearer ! Norman Hartnell could scarcely have 
felt more exalted over his coronation triumph than 
I over my simple successes. For while to some it 
seems like child's play to cut out here and enlarge 
there, some of us, especially such as I, do it with con-
siderable trepidation. So much the greater therefore 
our pleasure when, incredibly, we succeed. Taking 
into account our poor ability, we feel we have scored 
a decided victory. 
But of course, as Betty MacDonald once entitled 
one of her books, Anybody can do Anything, provided 
they want to sufficiently and are willing to persevere 
long enough. 
If only we could realize that the same principle 
applies to the things of the spirit. 
So often mind and hand can be 
immensely capable, while in the 
things that reveal our essential 
selves we can fall horridly short. 
Unlike the apostle Paul. To the 
Philippians he wrote, "I can do 
all things through Christ which 
strengtheneth me," and he was 
not talking about manual facility 
or quickness of mind, things 
which are of such minor import-
ance by contrast. Without a 
doubt we wish wistfully some-
times that we could have a sim-
ilar experience. We are so cons-
cious most of the time of failure. 
Someone has written: 
"When you are forgotten, or 
neglected, or purposely set at 
naught, and you smile inwardly, 
glorying in the insult or over-
sight—THAT IS VICTORY. 
"When your good is evil 
spoken of, when your wishes 
are crossed, your tastes offended, 
your advice disregarded, your 
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by 
Mary 
I. 
Vine 
opinions ridiculed, and you take it all in patient, 
loving silence—THAT IS VICTORY. 
"When you are content with any food, any rai-
ment, any climate, any society, any solitude, any 
interruption—THAT IS VICTORY. 
"When you can bear with any discord, any an-
noyance, any irregularity, unpunctuality (of which 
you are not the cause)—THAT IS VICTORY. 
"When you can stand face to face with folly, 
extravagance, spiritual insensibility, contradiction 
of sinners, persecution, and endure it all as Jesus 
endured it—THAT IS VICTORY. 
"When you never care to refer to yourself in 
conversation nor to record your good works, nor 
to seek after commendation, when you can truly 
'love to be unknown'—THAT IS VICTORY." 
Woe is us! Face to face with a standard like that, 
we feel undone. Like David, we feel lost. "I cannot 
attain unto it," we cry. 
But oh, how comforting is the Word of the Lord. 
With Him all things are possible, even our spiritual 
success. 
This morning, for my own encouragement, I 
found a wonderful text in 2 Chronicles 16:9. I 
pass it on to you now for yours also. "For the eyes 
of the Lord," it says, "run to and fro throughout 
the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the 
behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him." 
eeStrongly to hold" 
Beautiful isn't it? But follow your reference to 
the margin where it tells us that the eyes of the 
Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth 
"strongly to hold with them" whose heart is perfect 
toward Him. 
Can't you picture it? I have seen it so often. A 
group of little tots demanding the chance to have 
a tug-of-war against their older brothers and sisters. 
"We can. We can," they cry. They are so sure of 
themselves in their untried little strength. But they 
haven't a chance. Their opponents are much too 
hefty, and not generous enough to go softly and 
make allowances. Miraculously, though, they sud-
denly begin to hold. They even begin to pull their 
enemy over. And then a laughing tangle of arms 
and legs, they have won a complete victory. 
"Daddy did it," they crow over their fallen 
adversaries, not at all abashed that, after all, it 
wasn't in their own strength they had gained the 
ascendancy. They identified themselves with him. 
After all, what are fathers for, if not to be your 
support and to give you a hand in an emergency? 
Likewise our heavenly Father. 
But only on the basis of such ungrudging ac-
ceptance as the little ones show to their earthly 
parents, is His sufficient power available to us in 
abundance. 
In many parts of the world at the moment there 
is in operation what is called "The Five-Day Plan 
to Stop Smoking," a combined effort on the part 
of a large group of Christian doctors and ministers 
to help those who are anxious and willing to over-
come the death-dealing tobacco habit. Already, 
hundreds of men and women have received the 
assistance that this Five-Day Plan involves, and, 
thanks be, with resultant victory. 
"Heads Up—We're Free of Tobacco," wrote 
one local editor who himself had participated in the 
experiment and came through on top. 
After having discovered that they are well able, 
it is the procedure in this Plan, to suggest that the 
entrants sign an undertaking of abstinence thereafter. 
"It is after much deliberation and thought," said 
one business-man, "that I have signed this pledge, 
the which I mean to keep," and he bore testimony 
to the great help that "these two fine Christian 
gentleman" (the minister and the doctor) had given 
him. Best of all though, was his concluding admis-
sion. He had not been a praying man, he said. He had 
not been a religious man. During this course, how-
ever, he had been advised, in time of need, to call 
on a Higher Power, and having felt the need to do 
so, he had done so, and he had never found that 
Higher Power to fdd. In the consciousness therefore 
that that overcoming power was there at his behest, 
he was giving this affirmation, in full confidence 
that that Higher Power would give him the ability 
to stand by it. 
And so may we all, whatever our spiritual handi-
cap. 
"Who is sufficient for these things?" cried the 
apostle Paul. Then later, "Our sufficiency is of God." 
May that be the experience of every one of us, 
Victory, full and complete, with Him. 
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God The Divine "Mathematician" 
(Continued from page 7.) 
millions, of such size and magnificence that words 
cannot be found to describe them adequately. 
This great Designer of the universe once asked 
a wealthy and powerful man of the ancient world, 
if he could "guide the mighty Arcturus with his 
sons." We rightly gaze with awe at a man-made 
satellite the size of a football and orbiting the earth 
and sending back signals at the scientist's will. 
But how much more ought we to stand and gaze 
with awe upon the precise movements of the "hosts 
of heaven" and humbly repeat the words of that 
man of the ancient world, Job, whose reply was, 
"Such things are too wonderful for me." 
Not one faileth 
Such is the unvarying accuracy of the movements 
of the heavenly bodies, that mariners' charts of the 
heavens can be worked out for years ahead; testify-
ing to the confidence that the astronomical math-
ematicians have in the calculations of the Almighty. 
True it is that "not one faileth." 
Any attempts to land a probe or a man on the 
moon will take for granted that the moon will be 
in a definite position at a particular point in time. 
Earth's mathematicians will be concerned only 
with the possibility of human errors of calculation 
and engineering failures. God, the divine Math-
ematician, can be trusted implicitly. He spoke and 
suns and moons and stars appeared, took up their 
appointed stations, orbiting in space as ordained, 
at speeds which, with clockwork precision (to 
use an inadequate human phrase) bring the heavenly 
bodies year after year into their appointed places in 
the heavens. 
Possibly the greatest human mathematician who 
ever lived, Sir Isaac Newton, the man who first 
explained in mathematical language, how bodies 
in space balance each other, was modest enough to 
admit, at the end of a distinguished life, that he 
felt like a small boy standing on the shore of a 
vast ocean of knowledge idly throwing in a few 
pebbles to agitate the surface. 
Scientists today who are so anxious to reach the 
moon and then go on to explore the universe, 
would do well to follow his example and spend 
time also in the study of God's plan for mankind. 
For Newton was not only a student of God's universe 
but a humble student also of His revealed Word, 
and not least, of the prophetic portions of the 
Scriptures which relate to God's eternal moral and 
spiritual purpose for man and his world. 
Today, as in Newton's day and before him, scien-
tists are still thinking God's thoughts after Him, 
whether they acknowledge it or not. The vast in-
crease in modern knowledge that was, in fact, fore-
told in God's Word, far from disproving, as 
some allege, the God of the Bible is actually 
telling us more about Him. In His wisdom He is 
graciously permitting men to learn a little more of 
the laws which govern the physical universe as 
one more means of revealing Himself to mankind 
and turning the thoughts of men in these closing 
days of time to Him. 
Newton's faith and hope 
As Newton believed, God, the Supreme Math-
ematician has not only appointed a time and place 
for every physical event, but has just as surely 
appointed a time to wind up earth's history, and 
bring mankind to judgment—that event will come 
to pass without deviating one second from His 
appointed time. 
May the Supreme Mathematician, Designer, and 
Creator of the universe who is also our heavenly 
Father, our Redeemer, and our Judge continue to 
speak through His servants, whatever their profes-
sion, so that men and women may avail themselves 
of the means of salvation while there is yet time, 
and so be assured of the glorious "afterward" He 
has promised to all who look for His appearing. 
trf Uoice 9 Raia 
By A. B. Cheesbrough 
Oh, blessed revelation, 
That Jesus cares for me; 
I sing with jubilation 
His power to set me free. 
Through Him my debt is pardoned, 
He's covered all my sin 
He's given me hopes of heaven 
Where I shall live with Him. 
For such a great salvation 
My thankful voice I raise 
And pledge Him my allegiance 
For all His love and grace. 
One day He'll come in glory 
His promise is so sure 
And we shall be for ever 
With Him, to dwell secure. 
24 
HAS GOD 
A SPECIAL 
MESSAGE FOR 
OUR TAME? 
By f. C. 1. Purse 
T
O one of His prophets God declared, "Surely 
the Lord God will do nothing, but He reveal-
eth His secret unto His servants the prophets." 
Amos 3:7. Here God promises that He will never 
permit any event of universal import to overtake 
this world without forewarning of the coming of 
that event, that man may be prepared for the hour 
when it overtakes the world. 
God fulfilled this promise in the days of Noah. 
Looking down upon the earth God declared of man 
that "every imagination of the thoughts of his heart, 
was only evil continually." Gen. 6:5. The world 
had reached a crisis hour and the divine judgment 
of God was inevitable. The world was to be destroyed 
by a Flood. So God chose and called Noah to be 
His messenger, giving him the special message 
for the world at that time. For one hundred and 
twenty years Noah proclaimed God's message for that 
hour. The majority scoffed. Some were almost per-
suaded, but all except Noah and his family failed 
to respond to the message. Consequently all were 
destroyed in the Flood that overtook the world—
destroyed because they rejected and failed to heed 
God's message for the hour. 
At other periods in the history of our world, 
God has similarly had a special message to meet 
man's need. And He has always had His messenger 
to deliver the message. Noah, Abraham, Moses, and 
the prophets, were all God's chosen messengers 
and the message they proclaimed to the world was 
not theirs but God's. 
Before Jesus appeared as the Messiah at His first 
advent, God called John the Baptist and gave him 
a special message to prepare the people for the coming 
of the Messiah. His message is recorded in Matthew 
3:1-3: "In those days came John the Baptist, preach-
ing in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, Repent 
ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this 
is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, 
saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths 
straight." 
Notice that John the Baptist was "he that was 
spoken of" or predicted "by the prophet Esaias." 
In other words the message and the messenger were 
foreordained and predicted by the prophet Isaiah 
(see Isaiah 40:1-3) centuries before John the Baptist 
was even born. And when John the Baptist came 
he preached the very message that was appointed 
for that hour. 
Today the world faces the crisis of the ages. As 
in the days of Noah the earth is "filled with viol-
ence" because it has again become "corrupt." And 
our Lord has declared such a condition to be a sure 
sign of the nearness of His coming. We read in 
Matthew 24:37-39: "But as the days of Noe were, 
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For 
as in the days that were before the Flood they were 
eating and drinking, marrying and giving in mar-
riage, until the day that Noe entered the ark, and 
knew not until the Flood came and took them all 
away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man 
be." 
Now God has promised that He "will do nothing, 
but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the 
prophets." And just as in the days of Noah, God 
had His message for that hour, so today we may ex-
pect that God has a special message for this supreme 
crisis hour to which the world has come. As John 
the Baptist's message to prepare the world for the 
first advent was predicted in prophecy, so the mes-
sage that God has appointed for this hour to prepare 
the world for the second advent is predicted in 
Bible prophecy. We find the prophecy in Revelation 
14:6-12. 
The three angels' messages 
This prophecy is often referred to as the "three 
angels' messages" and the message that these angels 
proclaim is the special message that God has ap-
pointed to be proclaimed in this last crisis hour 
of the world's history. This time element is shown 
by the fact that immediately after the angels have 
delivered their message John in vision sees "a white 
cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the 
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Son of man, having on His head a golden crown, 
and in His hand a sharp sickle." This therefore is 
God's special message in the closing hour of this 
world's history to prepare men and women for 
the second coming of Christ. 
If we were to see three angels flying in the sky 
above us and they were speaking, I am sure that we 
would all stop, look, and listen. What is more, I 
am sure that everyone would attach a great deal of 
importance to what the angels had to say. But as 
much as we might feel that the preaching of angels 
from the sky would prove the most effective way 
to make people stop, listen, and heed God's message, 
God has not chosen angels to convey His message 
to the world. In every age God has employed 
human beings to be His messengers and proclaim 
His truths to the world. The term "angel" signifies 
a messenger, and so these three angels are symbolic 
of ordinary human beings whom God would call 
and commission to proclaim to the world His three-
fold message for the last days. 
As we begin to make a closer study of the three 
messages it is of great importance that we note the 
divine description of the messages. They are part 
of the "everlasting Gospel" for the saving of souls 
in the last supreme crisis hour of the world's history. 
(Rev. 14:6.) 
We note too that the message is not to be preached 
merely in one corner of the world to a certain race 
of people. The divine command is that it be preached 
"to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and 
people, . . . with a loud voice." Verses 6, 7. It is 
an international message. It is for me and for you, it 
is for the whole world. 
God, the Creator 
The first angel's message is a call to "fear" or 
reverence God, "and give glory to Him . . . that 
made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the foun-
tains of waters"—it is a call to worship the Creator. 
It is a very timely message, for one of the distinguish-
ing marks of our day is man's desire to rule out 
God as Creator. This has come about as a result of 
the rise of the evolutionary theory about the middle 
of the nineteenth century. It has well been said that 
when Darwin came along, God was pushed "entirely 
out of the universe." The apostle Paul gives us a 
very apt assessment of all who would seek to rule 
out God as the Creator of the universe. He says, 
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became 
fools, . . . who changed the truth of God into a lie, 
and worshipped and served the creature more than 
the Creator." Rom. 1:20-25. 
This has been the devil's master stroke, for not 
only has it been a direct attack on the doctrine of 
creation, but it has also undermined many basic 
Christian truths. Many people are deceived into think-
ing that it does not matter what one believes. "Doc- 
trines don't really matter," they say. But this is the 
devil's deception, for one false doctrine can in 
the hands of Satan, be used as the thin end of the 
wedge leading man to the rejection of many other 
Christian truths. This is seen in the results of man's 
rejection of God as the Creator. If there is an in-
herent power or force within the universe causing a 
steady evolution upward, then the God of the Bible 
becomes wholly unnecessary. We can get along with-
out Him. If there is no personal God who has 
created us then we have no personal indebtedness 
or dependence upon Him. And if we have no 
personal accountability to God for the life that He 
has given us there is no place for a final day of 
judgment. We can begin to see how important is 
the admonition that the apostle Paul gave to Timothy, 
"Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; 
continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both 
save thyself, and them that hear thee." 1 Tim. 4:16. 
Doctrine does have a great deal to do with our 
salvation. 
What message then could be more timely for 
this age than the message of this first angel? When 
multitudes are bowing at the false shrines of evol-
ution and materialism, with no thought of their 
personal responsibility and accountability to a su-
preme Being, God makes His final appeal to man 
to "worship Him," who is the Creator. Are you, 
am I worshipping Him? The message of the first 
angel is a call to "worship Him"—to serve God 
acceptably with "reverence and godly fear." Heb. 
12:28. 
There is further an urgency in the call of the 
first angel for he declares that the "hour of His judg-
ment is come." Rev. 14:7. When Paul preached, 
he looked forward to the judgment. "He reasoned 
of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come." 
Acts 24:25. But the last message of God to the 
world declares that the hour of God's judgment 
is come. This is the truth for this hour. 
Twin aspects of apostasy 
The second part of this final message to the world, 
declares: "Babylon is fallen, . . . because she made 
all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her 
fornication." Rev. 14:8. This message is amplified 
in Revelation 18:2, 4 where we read His call to 
"come out" of Babylon, "that ye be not partakers 
of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." 
Just as God called Noah to proclaim to the world 
the need of entering the ark prior to the Flood, 
so in the last days God calls His people out of Baby-
lon. How important then that we should know what 
constitutes Babylon so that we may be assured that 
we are not in Babylon upon whom the "plagues" 
of "the wrath of God" (Rev. 15:1; 16:1) will be 
finally poured out. 
(Continued on page 30.) 
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II::: 
IC::: 
ID, 
AO' 
 
THIS 
MONTH: 
MATT. 11 28 
 
" Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, 
and I will give you rest." 
This gracious invitation was given by Jesus at the 
outset of His ministry. Ever since the dawn of 
human history, He had observed the ways of sinful 
man. He knew the burden that sin had laid upon 
men. Now, as Man Himself, and living with men, 
His loving heart cried out: 
"Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy 
laden." Matt. 11:28. 
Jesus was well able to issue such an invitation and 
give to the human heart that which it deeply craved. 
He had the sovereign right to do so. 
"All things are delivered unto Me of My Father." 
Matt. 11:27. 
"All power is given unto Me in heaven and in 
earth." Matt. 28:18. 
The message of our text implies recognition of 
certain fundamental aspects of the human situation. 
1. The effect of sin upon man's world and his 
personal life. 
"The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it 
cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." 
Isa. 57:20. 
2. Man's inability to change his situation. 
"The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in 
pain together until now." Rom. 8:22. 
3. The clamant need for relief, which only the 
miracle of divine power could provide. 
"Oh that I knew where I might find Him!" Job 
23:3. 
The Voice that says "Come," is the Voice of 
authority. And the message it brings lies at the 
very foundation of the Christian's faith. 
"This imperial message is given in infinite love 
and proclaimed with infinite power to the souls 
of men and women." 
No-one is excluded from this gracious invitation. For 
all are affected by the ills of a sinful world. Sorrow, 
weakness, pain, and fear pass none by. 
-Come . . . all ye that labour and are heavy 
Our Lord here recognized the active and passive 
sides of life. We "labour" in the office, the factory, 
the shop, the mine, on the farm, in hospital, in 
one's home, etc. The daily round and the constant 
grind produces a physical weariness. So often this 
weariness makes us "heavy laden," producing a 
mental anguish, a feeling of enslavement or im-
prisonment. Life becomes "hopeless." We try to live 
our lives regardless of Him, and we fail. Discourage. 
ment and despair take over. Hence the gracious call 
of a sympathizing Jesus. 
"Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy 
laden." 
"Cast thy burden on the Lord, and He shall 
sustain thee." Psa. 55:22. 
No matter how burdened one may be or how beset 
with mortal ills, in Christ and in the knowledge 
that He knows and understands and is well able to 
relieve us of our anxieties and cares, we are enabled 
to face up to our peculiar situation and enjoy rest 
of heart and mind. 
"My grace is sufficient for thee." 2 Cot. 12:9. 
Of course this wonderful offer of relief and rest is 
not offered unconditionally. On our part we must 
"Come to Him" in humble submission, seeking both 
to know and to do that which is pleasing to Him. 
"Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways and 
see, and ask for the old paths, where is the 
good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find 
rest for your souls." Jer. 6:16. 
NOTE.—"True rest is as unchanging as God Him-
self—like Him it rises above all earthly things: it is 
secret, abundant, without a regret or wish. It stills 
all passion, restrains the imagination, steadies the 
mind, controls all wavering: it endures alike in the 
time of tribulation and the time of wealth; in tempta-
tion and trial."--lean Nicolas Grou. 
The truth that we must learn is that apart from 
Jesus, there can be no peace, no rest. Having sweet 
communion with Him, our outward state will not 
overburden us. For true rest comes when we have 
fellowship with Him and He is abiding in our 
hearts. His rest, then, is an inward state with the 
"mind stayed upon Him." 
"They that are after the flesh do mind the things 
of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the 
things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is 
death; but to be spiritually minded 'is life and 
peace." Rom. 8:5, 6. 
NOTE.—Principal Tulloch in his Memoirs provides 
us with a personal testimony of his own endeavour 
to know of the rest which Christ offers us all: 
"I seek to make my work as thorough and as 
good as I can, leaving the rest to God. That is 
the only rest, if one could only attain to it; but 
with an excitable, sensitive nature like mine, so 
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alive to the outside world, and with such an exces-
sive craving for sympathy, it is very difficult to do 
this. If I could only learn quietness and patience, 
and not self-trust, which is simply self-delusion; but 
trust in God. If God will, I will learn this." 
" I'm Sorry " 
(Continued from page 11.) 
3. Confession of sin. Luke 18:13. 
4. Conversion from sin. Isa. 55:7. 
A change of garments 
The prophet Zechariah gives us a beautiful and 
tenderly appealing picture of the results of genuine 
repentance and the possession of a contrite spirit. 
"And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing 
before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing 
at his right hand to resist him." That this is a 
symbolic representation is evident from the fol-
lowing: "Now Joshua was clothed with filthy gar-
ments, and stood before the Lord." Zech. 3:1, 3. 
The garments of the Israelite high priest were called 
"holy garments" that were characterized by "glory 
and . . . beauty." Exod. 28:2. So these "filthy gar-
ments" were symbolic of the "iniquity" of Joshua 
and his people. As he stood in penitence before 
the Lord, the gracious directive was given: "Take 
away the filthy garments from him. And unto him 
He said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to 
pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change 
of raiment." Zech. 3 :4. 
This is a familiar figure of speech that was made 
famous by Isaiah's bold imagery. Listen to his song 
of rejoicing as he describes his joy in the possession 
of sins forgiven and repentance accepted. "I will 
greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful 
in my God; for He hath clothed me with the gar-
ments of salvation; He hath covered me with the 
robe of righteousness." Isa. 61:10. 
So repentance must also embrace this conversion 
from sin, the acceptance of the righteousness of 
Christ in place of our "filthy rags." True repentance 
must not be confused with grovelling remorse. 
This counterfeit never lifts up its head to accept 
the change of raiment. Unlike the prodigal, it 
remains in the far country, filling its belly with the 
husks that the swine did eat; whereas true contrition 
cries out, "I will arise, and go to my Father, and 
will say unto Him, 'Father, I have sinned.' " 
The step-sister of repentance is humility. "Every 
one that is proud in heart is an abomination to 
the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not 
be unpunished." Prov. 16:5. At each step in the 
development of Christian character, repentance and 
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ward the celestial heights. The achievement of the 
Christian ideal is not self-expression or self-im-
provement; but self-crucifixion, so that the character 
of Christ may be attained and His righteousness, 
imputed to us in justification, may be imparted to 
us in sanctification. 
The language of the soul that is truly repentant 
will be, "I have been crucified with Christ; the life 
I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ 
lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived 
by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and 
sacrificed Himself for me." Gal. 2:20, N.E.B. 
" 'Tis not enough to say, 
`I'm sorry,' and repent, 
And then go on from day to day 
Just as we always went. 
Repentance is to leave 
The sins we loved before, 
And show that we in earnest grieve, 
By doing them no more." 
Selected. 
Man's Tradition or God's Truth ? 
(Continued from page 15.) 
Many Protestants, who have never had the op-
portunity really to study the matter, are frequently 
puzzled about the Apocrypha. For Rome often 
daims, in reply to Protestant charges, that only 
her Bible is actually complete. 
The simple truth is that it was not until the con-
vening of the notorious Council of Trent (1545-
1554) that Rome herself decided to accept these 
books as a part of Holy Scripture. This she did in 
spite of the fact that they were repudiated by the 
Jews and were never a part of the Hebrew Scriptures. 
Also they are never quoted by Christ or His apostles, 
and were definitely rejected from the canon by the 
early church. Moreover, even a casual reader would 
soon notice that their general spiritual tone is con-
siderably lower than that of the inspired Scriptures. 
Yet Rome added these books to her Bible. In 
so doing she not only disregarded the Saviour's 
warning about adding to the words of inspiration 
(Rev. 22:18), but she also pronounced an anathema 
against all who would not receive the Apocrypha 
as inspired of God, and necessary to salvation. 
The evangelical Protestant, however, believes that 
the Bible alone, without the addition of the inferior 
Apocrypha, contains God's way of salvation. All 
other traditional teachings, at best, can only serve 
to bolster up an unbiblical system and to promulgate 
dogmas which can find no firm basis in a clear 
"Thus saith the Lord." 
The Bible and the Bible only 
The Bible is God's complete Book. It gives us 
Christ. We need no other revelation of His majestic 
and winsome personality—no other portrayal of 
His saving message than is to be found within its 
sacred pages. 
The Bible shows us ourselves. It vividly and 
faithfully reveals our sinfulness, our helplessness, 
our desperate need of a Saviour. 
The Bible reveals the wondrous love of our heaven-
ly Father. It aids the kindly and persistent minis-
trations of His Holy Spirit toward the goal of our 
salvation. 
God's Word is, therefore, completely adequate 
for all our needs. It points our path directly from 
earth to heaven, and makes unnecessary and super-
fluous the devious by-ways of merely human tradition. 
" I Will Pass Over You " 
(Continued from page 21.) 
The history of the Israelites is rich in types pre-
figuring the experience of the redemption of fallen 
man. We may think of the bondage in Egypt as 
typifying the slavery of sin, in which all men 
are held fast. We are no more able to free ourselves 
than were those bondmen toiling in the hot Egyptian 
sun. We need a Deliverer, no less than they needed 
Moses to deliver them. Those ancient slaves were 
promised deliverance from the destroying angel if 
they sacrificed a lamb and gave evidence of so doing 
by having the entrances to their dwellings marked 
by the shed blood. We, too, must show by our faith 
that a Lamb has been slain for us. Not that we wear 
any outward token, but the change which has re-
sulted in our lives is the witness to all people of our 
death to sin and of our being raised again to walk 
in newness of life. 
The Israelites celebrated their deliverance by an 
annual feast; we meet together at stated times to 
partake of the sacred "Lord's Supper." They made 
themselves to embark on a pilgrimage to a far-
distant, better country; we too are pilgrims and 
strangers, bound for a heavenly land. In their meal 
to celebrate the great occasion bitter herbs were 
eaten; we recall with sadness that it was our sin 
which led to the death of our Saviour. The Christian 
"love-feast" is indeed a blending of sorrowful rem-
embrance and joyful anticipation; as the apostle 
says, "We do show the Lord's death till He come." 
Are your sins "covered"? 
"When I see the blood I will pass over you." 
The Psalmist has put on record the wonderful 
assurance: "Blessed is he whose transgression is 
forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man 
unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in 
whose spirit there is no guile." Psa. 32:1, 2. In 
other words, blessed is the man whose sins and mis-
takes and shortcomings have been "passed over." 
The promise that He will "pass over" us, does not 
mean that God will overlook sin, in the sense that 
an easy-going parent may overlook some misdem-
eanour of a favourite child. God is just and sin can-
not be glossed over. Jesus met the claims of the 
broken law on Calvary and on this basis God can 
be "just, and the Justifier of him which believeth 
in Jesus." Rom. 3:26. "When I see the blood." 
There is the basis of reconciliation. All we have 
to do is to accept the provision already made. 
It is true that we may, and do fall into temptation 
and sin even after we have yielded our lives to the 
Redeemer; but this does not alter the fact that we 
belong to Him—that is, if we hasten to return to 
Him and ask His forgiveness. Whenever we are 
overtaken in a fault, we can claim Exodus 12:13, 
and have our wrong-doing covered by the atoning 
blood. May we trust more implicitly in this wonderful 
atonement. We may sing from our hearts: "Christ 
has for sin atonement made, what a wonderful 
Saviour !" 
Salvation by Chemistry ? 
(Continued from page 9.) 
murder, would not the functions of the church be 
pre-empted by those of the laboratory? Would not 
salvation become a matter of pills and potions 
rather than of personal surrender to Jesus Christ? 
As a matter of fact, only the Creator of the 
human brain knows how to mend it. Scientists may 
devise partial, temporary help by use of chemicals, 
but only God can provide total and permanent 
healing. 
There was profound truth in Christ's counsel to 
Nicodemus, "Unless a person is born from above 
he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3:3 
(Berkeley). Only the inflow of God's Holy Spirit 
into the human brain can transform this infinitely 
complicated mechanism and restore it to its pristine 
purity and power. As the apostle Peter said long 
ago, "Neither is there salvation in any other: for 
there is none other name under heaven given among 
men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12. 
Has God A Special Message 
for Our Time ? 
(Continued from page 26.) 
The third part of God's final message is a solemn 
warning against worshipping "the beast and his 
image" the twin aspects of apostasy in the last days, 
or receiving "his mark." Rev. 14:9. No other mes-
sage in all the Bible is as solemn as this. The most 
solemn warning that will ever fall upon mortal 
ears is the warning against worshipping the beast 
and the receiving of the mark of the beast. 
God says, "If any man" receives the mark of the 
beast, he must drink the unmingled wrath of God. 
When the Flood burst upon the antediluvian world, 
only one thing mattered, whether the people were 
inside the ark or outside. When the final judgments 
of God are poured out upon the earth the Scriptures 
make it quite clear that only one thing will matter, 
whether men have the mark of the beast or the seal 
of the living God referred to in Revelation 7:1-3. 
Whatever the mark of the beast is, it must be some-
thing clear and definite, for God's unmingled wrath 
would not be reserved as a punishment for an un-
known offence. We need have no doubt that, a 
merciful God provides ample means for identifying 
these symbols and God calls us in these last days 
to study His Word and know for ourselves His will 
for our lives that when the Lord Jesus Christ comes 
to save His people, we may be among those who 
are worshipping "Him that made heaven and earth." 
The patience of the saints 
It is because God is "longsuffering . . not wil-
ling that any should perish" (2 Peter 3:9) that 
He is today sending this threefold message to the 
world. It is because He loves you and me that He 
wants us to know and respond to this message. In the 
days of Noah, everyone who obeyed the message of 
God for that hour was saved; everyone who rejected 
or failed to heed the message was lost. Their response 
to the message for the hour determined their sal-
vation. Christ declares that "as the days of Noah 
were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man 
be." Matt. 24:37. When Jesus comes may He 
find us among those who have responded to the 
three angels' messages and of whom it will be said, 
"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they 
that keep the commandments of God, and the faith 
of Jesus." Rev. 14:12. 
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WRITTEN BY INSPIRATION? SOME SAY 
THAT ONLY PART OF IT IS INSPIRED. 
—L.F.T. 
WE have no reason to regard any part of the Bible 
as less inspired than any other part. Concerning 
the Old Testament Scriptures, the Scriptures that 
were in existence in the days of the apostle Paul—
for the New Testament was not written then—we 
read, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God," 
literally, "God breathed." 2 Tim. 3:16. We do not 
understand by this, of course, that every translation 
is inspired, but that the original Scriptures are in-
spired. In Acts 1:16, referring to the Psalms, the 
apostle does not say that they were David's words, 
but "the Holy Spirit spake before by the mouth of 
David." The same thought is expressed in Hebrews 
3 :7 where Peter tells us that "holy men of God 
spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 
2 Peter 1 :21. The apostle Paul says of his own writ-
ings, "Which things also we speak, not in words 
which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit 
teacheth." 1 Cor. 2:13. 
If men were left to judge as to what is inspired 
and what is not inspired, in a little while all the Word 
of God would be set aside and there would be noth-
ing left of the Bible but the covers. Better it is 
to regard the Word even as our Lord Jesus Christ 
did. He quoted from Isaiah and Jeremiah, from the 
Psalms, from Moses; and always He regarded it 
as the Word of God. 
DID JESUS MAKE A COMPLETE ATONE- 
MENT ON THE CROSS?—B.C.H. 
MOST certainly He did. The word "atonement" 
literally means "at-one-ment," or being at one with 
God, with nothing coming between. There was a 
time when man had open communion with his Maker, 
but when sin came there was a separation. "Your 
iniquities have separated between you and your 
God." Jesus came to this earth to make it possible 
for man to be "at one" with God again. His death 
on the cross accomplished this. He was not "stricken, 
smitten of God, and afflicted" because of His own 
sins, for He was sinless, but because He bore our 
sins. As we accept that atoning sacrifice our sins 
are forgiven, and we stand before God as though 
we had never sinned. Sinners saved by grace. What 
a wonderful experience can be ours ! 
PREACHERS TALK A LOT ABOUT SIN. 
WHAT IS SIN ANYWAY?—C.K.T. 
The Bible gives a plain, straightforward answer 
in 1 John 3:4: "Whosoever committeth sin trans-
gresseth also the law; for sin is the transgression of 
the law." 
We must remember that there is a God, and the 
foundation of His government is His law. The law 
is revealed especially in the Ten Commandments. 
The transgression of that law is sin, and "the wages 
of sin is death." Rom 6:23. "All have sinned" (Rom. 
3:23), therefore, the death penalty has come upon 
the whole human race. (Rom 5:12.) But there is 
hope for the whole human family if they will accept 
God's cure and remedy which is found only in Jesus 
Christ, His Son, who died for our sins to pay the 
penalty which justly is ours. This comes through the 
grace of God in Christ, and we accept it by faith. 
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that 
not of yourselves; it is the gift of God." Eph 2:8. 
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OU'RE not going to Sabbath 
school again, surely?" 
Barbara looked at Jean 
in disgust. "Can't you ever have 
the day to enjoy yourself ?" 
Jean flushed. 
"I like going," she answered 
quietly. "I do wish you'd come too, 
Barbara, and see what we do, 
instead of making fun all the time. 
Why not come with me tomor-
row ?" 
"But it's tomorrow that I want 
you to come with me," protested 
Barbara. "I've planned a picnic. 
Daddy says he'll drive us down to 
the beach and fetch us back. Do 
come, Jean." 
"I can't," replied Jean. "It's 
Sabbath, and besides I promised 
to help Miss Cole prepare for the 
class." 
"That sounds exciting, I must 
say," and Barbara turned away 
from her friend in disgust. 
Sabbath came. As they were ar-
ranging a scene to illustrate a 
lesson Miss Cole was giving that 
day, Jean spoke to her about Bar-
bara. 
"She's quite nice really," ex-
plained Jean, afraid that Miss Cole 
would disapprove of her friend. 
"Only her parents never go to 
church, and Barbara doesn't under-
stand what we do in your class." 
Miss Cole looked thoughtful. 
"Perhaps, Jean, Barbara would 
really like to come but doesn't 
want to give in," she said. "Now 
next Sabbath I was going to have 
the class to tea, and afterward go 
for a walk to the little village of 
Godston. It's only a short walk so 
we shall be back in good time. I'll 
go to see Barbara's parents, and 
give her a special invitation to come 
with us." 
Jean waited anxiously to know 
the result of Miss Cole's plan, but 
somehow Barbara seemed to be 
avoiding her. It wasn't until Wed-
nesday that Jean had a chance to 
speak to her. 
"Did you have your picnic?" 
she asked. 
"Yes—it was smashing! I bathed 
twice—you were silly not to come," 
replied Barbara. She paused, then 
added: 
"Your Miss Cole's been to see 
Mother. She wants me to go on 
some hike she's planned. Me hike-
ing !" Barbara laughed. "You know 
how I hate walking." 
"But it's only just over the hill," 
said Jean eagerly. "And we always 
have a gorgeous tea at Miss Cole's. 
She's ever such fun—you'll come, 
won't you?" 
"O.K.," laughed Barbara. "But 
you'll have to carry me home if 
it's a long walk." 
Barbara had given in sooner 
than Jean had expected. Perhaps 
Miss Cole was right, and she really 
had wanted to come all along. 
Jean called for her in good time 
on Sabbath, and as they went along, 
told her more about Miss Cole. 
"She works awfully hard, you 
know, studying at the Agricultural 
College. She's going to India as a 
missionary when she's qualified." 
"But surely missionaries are par-
sons, not lady-farmers," exclaimed 
Barbara. 
Jean laughed. 
"You don't have to be a parson 
to be a missionary," she said. "Miss 
Cole says you have to help people 
to live, as well as tell them about 
Jesus. But here we are." 
Barbara actually seemed nervous 
as they entered the building. Jean 
took her up to Miss Cole who was 
really pleased to see her. 
During the afternoon, Jean 
watched Barbara closely, and no-
ticed that she became more and 
more interested. Miss Cole explain-
ed how God had use for every-
one—she told the story of the Good 
Shepherd, and the man who search-
ed for his lost sheep. 
As she ended with the text from 
Luke, chapter fifteen, verse seven* 
she looked at Jean and Barbara, 
and smiled. 
Tea was a happy time. 
As they walked over the hill 
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afterward, Barbara kept close beside 
Miss Cole, eagerly talking to her. 
On their way home, Barbara 
said: 
"Thanks, Jean. I see now why 
you like going to Sabbath school, 
and I think Miss Cole's smashing! 
I'm coming to her class next week. 
Perhaps I'll be able to get Mum 
and Dad to come with me one day." 
So often in the Bible we read 
of people who had dreams. After-
ward they realize that these dreams 
meant something, and that some 
event was about to take place. 
In other stories we are told of 
men who had visions, and what 
they saw in these visions has been 
written down for us to read. 
See if you can answer the fol-
lowing questions about dreams and 
visions: 
1. Who had brothers who hated 
him because of the dreams he 
related to them ? 
2. Who dreamt of seven fat cattle 
who were eaten up by seven 
thin cattle? 
3. Who had a dream in which he 
asked God to give him a wise 
and understanding heart? 
4. Who in a vision heard the 
BIBLE QUIZ ANSWERS. 
1. Joseph (Gen. 37) ; 2. King Phar- 
aoh (Gen. 40); 3. King Solomon (1 
Kings 3) ; 4. Isaiah (Isa. 6) ; 5. Ezek- 
iel �
(Ezek. 37) ; 6. Nebuchadnezzar 
(Dan. 2) ; 7. Daniel (Dan. 7) ; 8. To 
escape from King Herod who sought 
to kill Baby Jesus (Matt. 2); 9. Pi-
late's wife (Matt. 27 :19) ; 10. Anan-
ias (Acts 9) ; 11. Paul (Acts 16 :9) ; 
12. John (Rev. 1). 
Jean looked at her friend's happy 
face, and suddenly she realized the 
full meaning of the text, for she 
too, was rejoicing. 
(* Luke 15:7 reads: "I say unto 
you, that likewise joy shall be in 
heaven over one sinner that repent-
eth, more than over ninety and 
nine just persons which need no 
repentance.") 
Lord say: "Whom shall I send 
and who will go for Us?"? He 
answered: "Here am I, send 
me." 
5. Which prophet in captivity in 
Babylon had a vision of a 
valley of dry bones which came 
to life? 
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6. Which king was helped by the 
prophet Daniel to understand 
the meaning of his dreams ? 
7. Who had a dream of four 
great beasts coming out of the 
sea, one like a lion, the second 
like a bear, the third like a 
leopard, the fourth a dreadful, 
terrible beast with great iron 
teeth ? 
8. Why was Joseph told in a dream 
to take Mary and the Baby 
Jesus to Egypt? 
9. Who said: "Have nothing to 
do with that just Man, for I 
have suffered many things this 
day in a dream because of 
Him" ? 
10. Who was told in a vision to 
go to the street called Straight 
and inquire for Saul of Tarsus? 
11. Who had a vision of a man of 
Macedonia who said : "Come 
over into Macedonia and help 
us"? 
12. Who heard in a vision a voice 
telling him to write what he 
saw, in a book, and send it to 
the seven churches which were 
in Asia Minor? 
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SPOTLIGHT ON 
BIRDS 
Dem. 1444/1/ 
How are you? I am sorry to 
hear that you have hurt your ankle, 
and that you have to lay up for a 
while. No doubt you are feeling a 
little sorry for yourself, as there 
are not so many things one can 
do when one is unable to move 
around. 
I thought I would write and 
tell you about my feathered friends. 
Every morning they are outside 
the window waiting for me to put 
out the bits of nut that they like 
so well. There are the cheeky spar-
rows, of course. They are wonderful 
little birds. The bigger birds try 
to scare them off, but they are 
back the next minute coming right 
onto the window-sill. 
Sometimes they bring their babies 
with them, and what a job the 
mother bird has to keep them 
satisfied; they set up such a noise, 
and flutter their wings to keep 
themselves upright, and open their 
beaks so wide; yet they look old 
enough to fend for themselves. 
The chaffinches are the next 
most frequent visitors. The male 
is quite a pretty bird, with his 
bronzy red waistcoat, blue-grey 
head, and white bits in his wings. 
His wife is not nearly as bright, 
being only pale beige with white 
in the wings, and sometimes a 
touch of pink on the breast feathers. 
They look so pretty as they fluff 
out in the breeze. 
We have had lovely weather, 
and so we have seen more birds 
about. The friendly robin flies in 
occasionally, and always gives a 
little dipping curtsey before eating, 
as if to say: "Thank you for this. 
It's very kind of you." 
We see many greenfinches. They 
are like small parrots with their 
thick beaks. They are beautifully 
coloured, being a lovely sage green 
and dark grey. As they fly swiftly 
off they look almost yellow. Really 
you would love to see them. Some 
weeks ago we had a family of 
them. There were three babies. 
They looked so sweet in their 
fluffy coats like green swansdown. 
Now and again a starling visits 
us. He is a very pretty bird. His 
coat is one of many colours, and 
glints in the sunlight. I'm sorry 
to say he is very greedy; I'm sure 
he would gobble up all the food if 
left to himself. 
One soon recognizes the birds 
that come, by little odd things. 
One looks a little motheaten, and 
another has bits of white down 
still attached to its legs. It is 
surprising how often the same 
birds return. I suppose their nests 
must be in some nearby tree. 
Well, Dear, I hope that this 
little account of our birds' doings 
will help to cheer you. Of course, 
there are many larger birds on the 
Park which never venture near 
the buildings, except in very cold 
weather. There are the thrushes 
and blackbirds, such lovely song-
sters! And there are wood pigeons 
and woodpeckers. The house mar-
tins come every year, but they are 
too shy to come near the window. 
They are such busy birds, always 
flying around and up to their nest 
YOUR LETTER 
My dear Sunbeams, 
AMONG the other good things to 
read in Our Pages this time, I was 
particularly interested in "Spotlight 
on Birds" and I am sure that you 
too, will find this account of bird 
life as seen from a window, as 
fascinating as I did. 
Much as we enjoy reading nature 
books and stories, it is more fun 
making discoveries ourselves. I won-
der if you noticed any unusual birds 
in your garden this year? If so, do 
write and tell me all about your 
findings. 
I was very intrigued to see that 
a couple of wood pigeons were 
nesting in a neighbour's tree quite 
near to my bedroom window. In 
fact, I had a grandstand view of 
the whole proceedings before the 
owners of the tree were even aware 
that their fine accommodation had 
ben let to such a handsome pair of 
birds ! 
June is a wonderful month for 
being out-of-doors, as the days are 
at their longest at present. Bees, 
and other insects which search for 
honey, are particularly happy now as 
they flit from flower to flower, and 
what a glorious choice is theirs ! 
Honeysuckle, wild roses, forget-me-
nots and the more sophisticated gar-
den flowers perfume the warm air. 
Even the ponds are decorated with 
water-lilies, and bright poppies line 
the roadsides like guardsmen in 
their scarlet coats. 
Puzzle in Triplicate 
As a term of affection I'm very well 
known, 
When describing a price I may bring 
forth a groan. 
Sometimes I am seen in a wild wood-
land place, 
A swift moving creature of beauty 
and grace. 
(The above verse suggests three words 
which share the same pronounciation 
but each has a different meaning. What 
are the words?) 
(Answer below.) 
under the eaves. Then there are 
the little pied wagtails, and the 
ravens and magpies with their 
long black and white tails. This 
place is really a paradise for birds! 
Hoping that you will soon be 
able to get about again, and see 
all these lovely things for your-
self. 
Your loving friend, 
Emily. 
Not only the flowers, but insects 
also are splashing colour around. 
If you look in your gardens or parks 
you are sure to see the Peacock, 
Red Admiral, and Tortoiseshell but-
terflies. They are well worth look-
ing for. 
Looking forward to hearing from 
you, 
Yours affectionately, 
RESULTS OF MARCH COMPETITION 
Price-winners.—Doreen Floate, "Foxgrove 
Lodge," 29 Foxgrove Lane, Felixstowe. 
Age 13; Pamela Motum, "Silvertrees," 46 
Warren Road, Guildford, Surrey. Age 10. 
Honourable Mention.—Alison Crawford 
(Dorset); Angela Herron (Banbridge); 
Robin Gibbs (Theydon Bois); Monica 
Lockton (Derbyshire); Philip Couch (Ips-
wich); Teresa Robbins (Ipswich); Anne 
Holden (Portslade); Kay Littlewood 
(York); Rosemary Agnew (Co. Antrim); 
Lyn Williams (Oxford); Sylvia Glasper 
(Pennywell); Raymond Michael Hall 
(Plymouth); Robin Clee (Royton). 
Those who tried hard.—Marilyn Gibbs 
(Theydon Bois); Hazel Lowe (Sunder. 
land); Jim Thomas (Larne); Diane Bailey 
(St. Annes-on-sea); Susan Buckley (Thun-
dersley); Glenis Stephen (Grimsby); 
Dahlia Percy (Derby); Linda Ann Watts 
(Watford); Robert Amorosa (Slough); 
Marilyn Dunning (Penarth); Stephen 
Gibbs (Theydon Bois); Elizabeth Simmonds 
(South Woodford); Christine Williams 
(Reading); Carol Ann Lowe (Sunderland). 
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MIRROR 
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A very long rope 
IN a sermon on Dr. Robinson's Honest to God, 
reproduced in the British Weekly, Dr. Leonard 
Griffiths says: "We rejoice that the God 'out there' 
has let down a very long rope that reaches from 
heaven to the lowest depths of our misery and sin. 
That is what I find in the 'depth' of my being—not 
God, but misery and sin. So I cling to that rope 
with both hands. God help me if I ever let go." 
Major gambling nation 
HIGHLIGHTING the stupendous sums spent on 
gambling in this country in 1962, Dr. Ellison, 
Bishop of Croydon, comments: "It is clear now that 
Britain is one of the major gambling nations of the 
world—a reputation which shames many of us." 
Nuclear strength 
IN a discussion on nuclear warfare in the Catholic 
Herald, Walter Stein, editor of Nuclear Weapons 
and Christian Conscience, states : "It is estimated 
that the strength of the existing nuclear weapons in 
Europe and the U.S. amounts to more than 30,000 
megatons." 
Not fit to visit other worlds 
IN an article entitled, "Onward Christian Space-
men," in the Air Force and Space Digest, Professor 
C. S. Lewis regretfully remarks : "There is no pleasure 
in looking forward to a meeting between humanity 
and any alien rational species" elsewhere in the 
universe. "We shall enslave, deceive, exploit, or 
exterminate. At the very least we shall corrupt the 
race with our vices and infect it with our diseases. 
We are not yet fit to visit other worlds." 
After nineteen centuries 
AT a press conference in Rome, Roman Catholic 
Archbishop Zoa of Yaounde asserted that after nine-
teen centuries of Christianity 90.8 per cent of Asia 
and 77.6 per cent of Africa were still not Christian, 
and that two-thirds of the world's population had 
not yet heard of Christ. 
Climb out into space 
AMONG future U.S. space flight plans is one in 
which an astronaut in a pressure suit will climb 
out of a two-man capsule hurtling through space. 
The experiment will test the possibility of repairs 
in flight and manual assistance in linking capsules 
in space. 
Friendliness not unity 
SPEAKING to an audience of Methodists, Bishop 
Gallagher of Port Pirie, Australia, warned : "There is 
the danger, of course, that some might interpret this 
friendliness as an indication that unity is just around 
the corner, and a few more friendly talks like this 
one and all will be fixed." 
Catching up Soviet lead 
THUS far the largest object the United States has 
been able to orbit weighed 8,750 pounds, against 
the Soviet's 14,292-pound Sputnik VII. The new 
Saturn booster, however, within six months, may 
be able to place a 33,000-pound satellite in orbit, 
and perhaps get American astronauts to the moon by 
1968. 
Record Scripture distribution 
THE United Bible Societies report a record circu-
lation of 50 million Bibles, New Testaments, and 
Scripture portions in 1962, an increase of 10 million 
over 1961. The greatest increase was in Central and 
South America, where the distribution figures rose 
from 9 million in 1961 to 17 million in 1962. Thirty-
seven languages were added during the year, bringing 
the total to 1,202. 
Moral collapse 
"VIEWING social conditions in England now, I 
see a nation in grave danger of moral collapse," 
said Barrister M. George Poison at a meeting in 
London. He added : "I see no answer apart from a 
recognition of the sovereignty of God in national 
life and a recovery of vital religion, expressing itself 
in belief in God and faith in Christ." 
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