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Current Events in the Light of the Bible 
BY THE EDITOR 
The "Least Read Best 
Seller " 
it THE Bible has been called the "least read 
best seller," and it is with the object of getting 
the message of the Bible over to a generation 
this is increasingly neglecting it, that so many 
individual scholars and representative c h u r c h 
groups during the past half century have set 
their hands to the preparation of new versions 
of the Scriptures. 
Actually, during the past few weeks two new 
Bibles have been announced. 
After more than ten years' work by a panel 
chosen by a Joint Church Committee on the 
Translation of the Bible, the University Presses of 
Oxford and Cambridge report that a completely 
new translation of the New Testament will be 
published in March next year. Other panels are 
working on the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, 
but it will probably be several years before their 
work is finished. It is, however, most appropriate 
that the New Testament portion will be ready 
in time for the three hundred and fiftieth an-
niversary of the Authorized Version of 1611, 
which will be celebrated in 1961. 
The essential difference between this new version 
and its predecessors, the English and American 
Revised Versions and the American Revised Stan-
dard Version, is that it will not be a "revision" 
of the Authorized Version in any sense, but an 
entirely new rendering from the original tongues, 
in modern English, for which reason it is to be 
called, The New English Bible. 
There are, of course, some people who have an 
immediate prejudice against new translations of 
the Bible, whether they are the work of individual 
scholars or widely representative church groups 
as in the case of this latest version, but such an 
attitude is quite wrong. 
The inspired Word of God consists in the 
revelation originally communicated through the 
divinely-chosen penmen, but as we have none of 
their actual writings, we must depend for our 
knowledge of that revelation upon copies of the 
Scriptures handed down through the centuries. 
Any help, therefore, which we can get from 
ancient manuscripts which have come to light in 
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recent years, and the constantly increasing know-
ledge of biblical Hebrew and the Greek of the 
first century A.D., from contemporary documents, 
is obviously of the greatest value in getting nearer 
and nearer to the inspired originals. New trans-
lations incorporating such knowledge, are thus en-
tirely justified and are to be welcomed. 
Furthermore, as the E n g 1 is h language has 
changed considerably during the past three and 
a half centuries, and many words used by the 
translators of 1611 have altered their meaning 
or become obsolete, versions rendered in the 
modern English idiom will greatly assist in making 
the Bible more understandable to our generation. 
It is, of course unlikely that any new version 
of the Scriptures will ever supersede the Authorized 
Version for devotional exercise and public reading 
in church because it was produced in probably the 
finest period in the history of the English language 
and reflects supremely the spiritual fervour of the 
great Reformation movement, but new translations 
in the everyday language of our time can certainly 
make a great contribution in communicating the 
Word of God to modern man. In addition to 
which, the fruits of the latest scholarship may 
often throw new and vivid light upon some of 
the great themes and words of Scripture. 
Very different, however, is our reaction to an-
other type of Bible prepared for our modern 
generation of which the latest represen-
tative is the recently published Essential 
Bible by the Rev. Joseph McCulloch, 
rector of the church of St. Mary-le-Bow 
in London. 
Proceeding on the assumption that "a 
great many of the million words which 
comprise the whole Bible are simply 
superfluous," he has cut out about 750,000 
of them and reorganized the remaining 
250,000 in what he believes to be an 
orderly and attractive presentation of the 
message of the Bible. 
With a great many other Christian 
people we must take very strong ex-
ception to Mr. McCulloch's assertion that 
three-quarters of the Bible can be dis-
pensed with without any real loss. Indeed, 
in view of the fact that in both the Old 
and New Testaments we are categorically 
warned against adding or detracting from 
the revelation of God, it is surely the 
height of temerity to suggest that any 
of the Bible is superfluous. And when 
one notes that one of Mr. McCulloch's 
most startling decisions has been to cut 
out the Ten Commandments he is cer- 
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tainly understating Christian reaction when he says, 
"I may have trouble over this omission." 
An examination of his reasons for this one 
deletion is sufficient to show how dangerous it is 
for anyone to try to "improve" the Bible in this 
way. 
"I have excluded the commandments," he says, 
"because they are negative and the essential Chris-
tian message is positive." If Mr. McCulloch gave 
but a little study to the subject of law he would 
realize that the most precise manner of describing 
the moral area in which a man may freely move 
is by defining the bounds which he must not pass. 
Consequently, though expressed negatively, God 
could not, in His "ten words," have defined man's 
responsibilities to Himself and to his fellow-men 
more positively, as Jesus Himself showed in His 
exposition of the commandments on the Mount 
in Galilee. 
Continuing his explanation Mr. McCulloch went 
on to say of the Ten Commandments, "They are 
a moral code supplied at a particular time." But 
if they were of such a temporary nature how have 
they come to be the foundation of the social 
legislation of every civilized community through-
out the world ? Surely this is an evidence that they 
are divine principles of timeless value. 
In this connection it is significant that at the 
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By P. H. Stearman 
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HE body of Jesus lately taken from the cross 
lay cold and still in the unused tomb of 
Joseph of Arimath.Ta. The Jewish leaders 
who had manipulated His trial and subsequent 
crucifixion were more restless now than when 
Jesus had stood trial in Pilate's judgment-hall. 
They came again to Pilate and requested that 
the tomb of Jesus might be guarded, "lest His 
disciples come by night, and steal Him away, and 
say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so 
the last error shall be worse than the first." 
Matt. 27 :64. 
The word they sought was given by Pilate, the 
Roman procurator, "Take a guard of soldiers," 
he said, "go and make it as secure as you can." 
Matt. 27:65, Moffatt. 
A hundred soldiers under the command of a 
centurion took up their positions around the tomb 
across the mouth of which a great stone had been 
rolled, and secured with cords bearing the Roman 
seal. Unseen by human eyes an additional force 
of Satan's minions stood guard also, fully deter-
mined that Jesus the Messiah should never come 
forth. 
But at the exact moment indicated by heaven's 
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time-table an angel from heaven under the ex-
press command of God appeared in transcendent 
brilliance and splendour. "For fear of him the 
sentries shook and became like dead men." Matt. 
28:4, Moffatt. The unseen host, too, scattered 
and fled from the scene as the angel moved the 
great stone by a touch of his finger, and standing 
at the entrance to the cave called, "Son of God, 
come forth, Thy Father calls Thee." 
In answer to His Father's summons, Jesus 
stepped forth from the rent sepulchre proclaiming 
in voice and act, "I am the Resurrection, and 
the Life." John 11:25. "Immediately thereafter 
the earth quaked; the rocks split; the tombs 
opened; and many of God's people who were 
asleep in death awoke. And coming out of their 
tombs after Christ's resurrection they entered the 
holy city and showed themselves to many." Matt. 
27:51-53, Weymouth. 
Gibraltar of faith 
To Christians this is the most momentous fact 
in history. Scholars have called it "the Gibraltar 
of Christian evidences," for this event assured 
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men and angels of the ultimate success of God's 
plan to redeem a race of lost men. 
The earliest prophets had foretold of the coming 
of One who would conquer death. One thousand 
years before Christ, David had prophesied, 
"Neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to 
see corruption." Psa. 16:10. Isaiah, too, under 
divine inspiration, had prophesied of the hope of 
a resurrection when he declared, "Thy dead men 
shall live, together with my dead body shall 
they arise." Isa. 26:19. 
On a number of occasions the Pharisees had 
stubbornly refused to accept the miracles which 
Jesus had performed as signs of His divine 
sonship. "Teacher," they asked, "we would like 
to have some sign from You." "It is an evil 
and disloyal generation that craves a sign," Jesus 
answered "but no sign will be given to it except 
the sign of the prophet Jonah; for as Jonah was 
three days and three nights in the belly of the 
whale, so the Son of man will be three days and 
three nights in the heart of the earth." Matt. 
12:39, 40, Moffatt. 
How ironical! The sign which the Pharisees 
requested so suavely was the event they would 
fight hardest to prevent a few months later. 
Ironical, too, that the efforts of the Jewish au-
thorities to prevent the resurrection resulted 
merely in furnishing the strongest evidence and 
most certain proof of it. 
As the Roman soldiers recovered from their 
terrifying experience and returned to the city to 
tell of it, they were met by the Pharisees and 
given a lying rumour to circulate. "Say ye, His 
disciples came by night, and stole Him away 
while we slept." Many an Israelite must have 
questioned how so large a body of sentries would 
dare to sleep on duty, 
and then, having been 
asleep, could have 
known that it was the 
disciples who had stolen 
the body of Jesus. 
Power for 
witness 
But though the man 
in the street was uncer-
tain as to what he might 
believe, the faith of the 
disciples in the resur-
rection was unshakable. 
Their Master had 
proved beyond all doubt 
that death could never 
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hold Him. The disciples were henceforth changed 
men, and possessed by the "power of the resur-
rection" they in turn went forth to change the 
world. 
As Jesus ascended up into heaven and a cloud 
received Him out of their sight, the disciples 
knew that He had ascended to God to act as 
Mediator before His Father and they looked 
forward to the promised day when Jesus would 
return through the clouds of heaven to take His 
people to Himself. "The dead in Christ shall 
rise, . . ." declared the apostle Paul, and "we which 
are alive and remain shall be caught up together 
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the 
air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 
1 Thess. 4:16, 17. 
The resurrection hope 
The disciples understood this great fact and 
proclaimed it from city to city. Their burning 
message captured the hearts of men everywhere. 
John, the last of the New Testament writers, 
was privileged in his ninetieth year to look into 
heaven itself. In his vision he saw a glorified 
Jesus whose "head and hair were white as wool, 
white as snow ; His eyes flashed like fire, His 
feet glowed like finely burnished bronze, His 
voice sounded like many waves." Rev. 1:14, 15, 
Moffatt. As John "fell at His feet as dead," Jesus 
placed His hand upon him saying, "Fear not; 
I am the first and the last, and the living One; 
and I was dead, and, behold, I am alive for ever-
more; and have the keys of death and Hades." 
Rev. 1:17, 18, Alford. 
To John, the exiled disciple, living on the island 
of Patmos, these words must have been sweet 
indeed. To all Chris-
tians down through the 
centuries this knowledge 
has brought fresh 
courage and new re-
solve. To us, who live 
just before the great 
event of Jesus' regal 
return to earth the 
words still ring clearly 
above all dissenting 
voices, "I am the Resur-
rection and the Life: he 
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The resurrection of Jesus 
is our assurance of life 
beyond the tomb. 
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By G. E. Marshall 
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N A Scottish cotton factory, a 
tall lad nineteen years of age 
stands at his spinning jenny 
with eyes fixed on an object perhaps 
never before or since seen on a 
spinning jenny. This object is a book. 
The pulsations of the spinning jenny 
make the book vibrate, and the roaring 
machines make the floor tremble. No 
place in the world could be less like a 
reading room. But this boy is getting 
more out of his book than many a student 
in college. For this penniless boy was 
obsessed with the idea of going to savage 
people, living in undiscovered parts of the world, 
with the Gospel of healing for body and spirit. 
Yet so successful was he in the achievement of 
his purpose in meeting the needs of suffering 
humanity that when he died in Ulala in the 
interior of Africa his body was brought all the 
way back to England to be laid in Westminster 
Abbey like that of a great conqueror of old. 
David Livingstone was born on March 19, 
1813, at Blantyre, about seven miles from Glasgow 
in Scotland. The home in which David grew up, 
says Dr. Blaikie, "was bright and happy, and 
presented a remarkable example of all the domestic 
virtues." He was the second son in a family of 
five boys and two girls. As a mere child he had 
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Under this monument in central Africa the heart of 
David Livingstone lies buried. (Inset) The spot where 
Livingstone and Stanley met. 
to help with the housework, but though he did 
his share of sweeping and scrubbing the floors, 
he found time to explore the neighourhood for 
miles around, and indulge his passion for collecting 
flowers and shells. 
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When only ten years of age David began to 
earn his own living in the Blantyre cotton mill. 
With his first week's wages he bought himself 
a Latin grammar, and such good use did he make 
of it that at the age of sixteen he could read 
Virgil and Horace with ease. 
His work at the Blantyre mill began at 6 a.m. 
and, with intervals for food, went on till 8 p.m., yet 
after a hasty meal he went to an evening school 
until ten o'clock, and even after that he seldom 
put away his books before his mother came at 
midnight and packed him off to bed. In his 
Missionary Travels he says: "I read everything 
I could lay my hands on except novels. Scientific 
works and books of travel were my special de-
light." 
Vision of medical missions 
In the year 1836 Livingstone entered Glasgow 
University and devoted himself to the study of 
medicine and theology in the firm conviction 
that he could best serve the world as a medical 
missionary. 
He owed his immediate call to Africa to the 
counsel and inspiration of Dr. Robert Moffat, who 
made his acquaintance at Mrs. Sewell's boarding 
house in Aldersgate Street, London. "He asked 
me," wrote Dr. Moffat, "whether I thought he 
would do for Africa." Moffat was able to reply 
that he thought he would. 
On November 20, 1840, David Livingstone 
was ordained a missionary and on December 8th 
he sailed in the ship George for South Africa. 
After arriving at Cape Town he made his way 
over the very rough country to Kuruman some 
700 miles to the north but not until several 
months after his arrival there did he receive his 
instructions from the London Missionary Society. 
A well-known incident of Livingstone's first 
years in Africa was his encounter with the lion 
at Mabotsa, when his left shoulder bone was 
severely crushed and his arm was maimed for 
life. The false joint in the crushed arm was the 
mark by which his body was identified when it 
was brought home in 1874. In a letter to his father 
on his recovery he wrote: "I ought to praise 
Him who delivered me from so great a danger. 
hope I shall never forget His mercy." 
The young missionary lived as a bachelor in 
Africa for four years. Then in 1844, beneath one 
of the fruit trees at Kununan, he proposed to 
Dr. Moffat's eldest daughter, Mary, and his 
marriage was celebrated a few months later. 
Mrs. Livingstone became known to the natives 
as Ma' Robert, or mother of Robert, from the 
name of her eldest son. This child eventually 
went to America where he joined the Federal 
Army. He was wounded in battle, and died in 
a hospital in North Carolina in 1865. 
Opening an unknown continent 
Livingstone's career as an explorer began in 
1849, with the discovery of Lake Ngami. His 
record as a geographer is thus summed up by 
Dr. Blaikie: "He travelled 29,000 miles in Africa, 
and added to the known part of the globe about 
a million square miles, He discovered Lakes 
Ngami, Shirwa, Nyassa, Moero, and Bangweolo, 
the Upper Zambesi, and many other rivers, made 
known the wonderful Victoria Falls. . . . He was 
the first European to traverse the whole length 
of Lake Tanganyika, and to give it its true orien-
tation, . . . and through no fault of his own 
just missed the information that would have set 
at rest all his surmises about the source of the 
Nile." 
And the wonder is that all his great achieve-
ments for humanity, in exploration and in bring-
ing relief to suffering humanity were crowded into 
a space of little more than twenty years. 
In 1850 he wrote to his brother Charles, "God 
had an only Son, and He was a Missionary and 
a Physican. A poor, poor imitation of Him I 
am, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live, 
in it I wish to die." 
It was sixteen years after leaving his homeland 
that Livingstone made his first memorable visit 
to England. Many honours were conferred upon 
him. On February 13, 1858 he was presented 
to Queen Victoria. The Queen conversed with him 
for about half an hour on the subject of his travels, 
and Dr. Livingstone told her that he would now 
be able to say to the natives that he had seen his 
Chief. He told her that the Africans were in the 
habit of inquiring whether his Chief was wealthy, 
and when he assured them that she was very 
wealthy, they would ask how many cows she had 
got, a question at which the Queen laughed 
heartily. 
Amid all these honours Livingstone remained 
the same simple, true hearted Christian missionary, 
and he had been home for only four months 
when he set out again on his mission of love 
and mercy on March 10, 1858. Although we are 
not able to record large churches today bearing 
his name, yet it was to a great degree through 
his inspiration that the great modern missionary 
movement was to develop. Africa before this time 
had been largely an ‘unknown continent. It had 
not heard the message of the Bible since the 
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what these Scriptures exactly mean for we cannot 
conceive of a personality whose being is "fire." 
We may understandably ask, What is this fiery 
appearance which is attached to the divine majesty? 
Is it real fire, or only the dazzling appearance 
of His person ? It is better n©t to try to reason 
this out, but rather to let the Scriptures give 
their own answer, and then to accept it in godly 
fear. Note the following inspired declarations : 
"And the Light of Israel shall be for a fire, 
and His Holy One for a flame." "With the 
breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked." 
Isa. 11:4. "The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from 
heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire 
taking vengeance on them that know not God : 
. . . who shall be punished with everlasting des-
truction from the glory of His power." 2 Thess. 
1 :7-9. "Shall destroy with the brightness of His 
corning." 2 Thess. 2:8. 
When we consider these Scriptures and let 
them have their due weight, we may be sure 
that the fire is real, and that it will do its ap-
pointed work, destroying all traces of sin and 
sinners, but, thank God, not destroying any that 
have, through the grace of Christ and His in-
dwelling Spirit, developed characters that are 
imperishable! "The sinners in Zion are afraid; 
fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who 
among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? 
who among us shall dwell with the everlasting 
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N PREVIOUS articles we have set forth the 
helplessness of man to create a better and 
perfect world. We have shown that the 
divine solution is the Gospel of Christ which 
culminates in His personal return in power and 
glory at the climax of history. Now we want to 
set forth the consistent teaching of the Scriptures, 
both the Old and New Testaments, as to how 
Christ will come again. 
A consuming fire 
The Scripture says, "Our God is a consuming 
fire" (Heb. 12:29), and it further asks, "Who 
among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? 
who among us shall dwell with the everlasting 
burnings?" Isa. 33:14. 
It may be difficult for us to understand just 
burnings? He that walketh righteously, and 
speaketh uprightly; . . . that stoppeth his ears 
from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from 
seeing evil." Like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-
nego, those who have Christlike characters will 
withstand the fire and not be hurt by it. But 
everyone who will not allow the "Spirit of judg-
ment and . . . and the Spirit of burning" (Isa. 
4:4), to do its appointed purging work, which is 
to cleanse away all filth, all unrighteousness, will 
eventually be completely burned up by that holy 
fire. 
Overpoweringly visible 
Will the coming of the Lord Jesus the second 
time to this earth then be visible? Yes, indeed, 
overpoweringly visible! "As the lightning cometh 
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out of the east, and shineth 
even unto the west; so shall 
also the coming of the Son of 
man be." "For as the lighten-
ing, that lighteneth out of the 
one part of heaven, shineth 
unto the other part under 
heaven ; so shall also the Son of 
man be in His day." Matt. 
24:27; Luke 17 :24. 
Jesus had previously been 
warning His disciples against 
belief in any declaration that 
Christ had come secretly in this 
place or that place on the 
earth. In contrast with the sup-
posed appearances of the false 
christs will be the advent of the 
true Christ, who, as the all 
powerful God, King of kings, 
and Lord of lords, will openly 
manifest Himself to all from 
the heavens (1 Thess. 4:15-
17), even as the sun is mani-
fested to all. "The mighty God, 
even the Lord [Jehovah), bath 
spoken, and called the earth 
from the rising of the sun unto 
the going down thereof." Psa. 
50:1 As the earth rotates on 
its own axis, and daily brings 
the sun to view in what is 
called the "sunrise," just so, to 
them "that fear My name shall 
the Sun of righteousness arise 
When Jesus came the 
was veiled to humanity, 
with healing in His wings.,' �
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Mal. 4:2. From the heavens the 
brightness, splendour, and surpassing glory of 
Christ will be revealed, and "all flesh shall see 
it together" "when He shall come in His own 
glory, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels." 
Luke 9:26. 
Unimaginable glory 
How great will that glory be! Ah! mortals have 
never before beheld the like. The glory of God the 
Father, a glory so great, so intense, so bright and 
vivid "that no man can approach unto" it, will be 
added to the equal glory which Christ Himself 
possesses of His own right, that glory of which 
He prayed, "0 Father, glorify Thou Me with 
Thine own self with the glory which I had 
[shared) with Thee before the world was" (John 
17:5), and all the borrowed glory of the mighty 
angelic throng, not one of whom will be missing 
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on that day. (Matt. 25:31.) 
Man cannot comprehend such 
a sight. The light of the sun 
will fade into utter insignifi-
cance. Did not the glory of one 
angel completely overpower and 
overwhelm the soldier watchers 
at the tomb of Christ? (Matt. 
28:3, 4.) Then what will it be 
when ten thousand times ttm 
thousand a n d thousands o f 
thousands of angels flood the 
sky with their light as they de-
scend to this earth together? 
Therefore let no-one contra-
dict the Scriptures which dis-
tinctly tell us that when Jesus 
comes the second time "every 
eye shall see Him" (Rev. 1:7). 
even the eyes of all the dead 
who shall come forth from their 
graves to see His glory. (John 
5:28, 29.) For did not even 
the ancient patriarch Job d-
clare: "I know that my Re-
deemer liveth, and that He 
shall stand at the latter day 
upon the earth: and though 
after my skin worms destroy 
this body, yet in my flesh shall 
I see God ; whom I shall see 
for myself, and mine eyes shall 
behold and not another." Job 
19:25-27. 
So listen not to those who 
argue that because God is spirit, 
and because Christ now par-
takes of His nature we shall not see Him visibly 
again. Specious arguments are no answer to the 
plain, forthright, unquivocal statements of Holy 
Writ. Listen not to those who declare that Christ's 
coming for His church will be so secret that the 
world will go on not knowing it has taken place. 
Christ's coming will affect everyone, both the 
righteous and the wicked. "He shall send forth 
His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and 
they shall gather together His elect from the four 
winds, from one end of heaven to the other." 
"And in the time of harvest I will say to the 
reapers [the angels], Gather ye together first the 
to-es [the wicked), and bind them in bundles to 
burn them : but gather the wheat [the righteous) 
into My barn." Matt. 24:31; 13:30. 
In that harvest day, which is the end of the 
world, the fate of all will be decided for eternity. 
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first time His glory 
but when He returns 
kings and Lord of 
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the Isle 
John dra 
vision of 
of God 
days of 
hi, 
In the eighteenth century, 
John Wesley rescued the 
church from deadly formalism 
and tens of thousands from a 
Christless life. Yet, like the 
earlier reformers, he and his 
associates were accused of 
preaching heresy. He replied : 
"Some allege that the doc-
trines of these men are false, 
erroneous and enthusiastic; 
that they are new and un-
heard of till of late. . . . This 
whole pretence has been cut 
up by the roots, it having 
been shown at large that every 
branch of this doctrine is 
the plain doctrine of Scrip-
ture."—Wesley's Works, Vol. 
3, pages 152, 153. 
From these examples an im- 
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N OUR last article we considered the basic 
doctrines of the apostolic church. Now we 
must try to identify the true church of this 
present age. True, Christ has His sincere followers 
in all communions, including the Roman Catholic 
and Greek Orthodox Churches, but we believe 
these will eventually be gathered out into His 
remnant church of the last days which will re-
produce in its entirety the apostolic pattern and 
proclaim what Peter called "the present truth." 
2 Peter 1:12. 
John Milton (1608-74) once delivered these 
eloquent words in the House of Commons : "Truth 
indeed came once into the world with her divine 
Master, and was a perfect shape, most glorious 
to look upon ; but when He ascended, and His 
apostles after Him were laid asleep, then straight 
arose a wicked race of deceivers, who took the 
virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thou-
sand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. 
From that time ever since, the sad friends of 
Truth, such as durst appear . . . went up and 
down, gathering up limb by limb still as they 
could find them. We have not found them all, 
Lords and Commons, nor ever shall do, till her 
Master's second coming; He shall bring together 
every joint and member, and shall mould them 
into an immortal feature of loveliness and per-
fection." 
Milton rightly recognized that following the 
papal apostasy and the Dark Ages, increasing 
rays of truth would be recovered to the church. 
This is in harmony with the principle enunciated 
by Solomon: "But the path of the righteous is 
as the shining light, that shineth more and more 
unto the perfect day." Prov. 4:18, R.V. 
Assembling the °'pieces" of truth 
Luther recovered the Scriptures from the dusty 
shelves of monasteries and museums and from them 
he restored the doctrine of justification by faith. 
As Philip Schaff says of the Reformation of the 
sixteenth century : "It went, through the inter-
vening ages of ecclesiasticism, back to the fountain-
head of Christianity itself, as it came from the 
lips of the Son of God and His inspired apostles." 
—A History of the Creeds of Christendom, page 
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portant truth emerges. In the divine economy, it is 
not church organization that comes first, followed 
by the ministry of the Word. God works in exactly 
the opposite way. In all ages, His method has been, 
"And the word of the Lord came unto Samuel," 
to Isaiah, Jeremiah, John the Baptist, Augustine, 
Luther, Wesley, etc. And it has ever been the 
proclamation of this Word which has gathered out 
and gathered together the true people of God. 
The "final" Gospel 
A thoughtful study of God's Word and "the 
signs of the times" leads to the certain conclusion 
that we are living in "the last days." There is 
a growing conviction in the hearts of Bible 
Christians of all denominations that the coming of 
Christ is imminent. Before the first advent of our 
Lord, prophecy predicted the 
coming of a "voice of one 
that crieth, Prepare ye in the 
wilderness the way of the 
Lord." Isa. 40:3, R.V. John 
the Baptist knew that his 
message was the fulfilment 
of that prophecy. (John 1: 
22, 23.) Similarly with the 
second advent, the Scriptures 
foretell the proclamation of 
a special preparatory • mes-
sage to precede the return of 
the Saviour. 
John was privileged to 
"see" this final Gospel mes-
sage under the symbol of an 
angel flying "in the midst of 
heaven" being "proclaimed 
unto them that dwell on the 
earth, and unto every nation 
and tribe and tongue and 
people." Rev. 14:6, R.V. Sir 
Isaac Newt o n, the great 
scientist yet humble Chris-
tian, wrote concerning this 
prophecy: "An angel must 
fly through the midst of 
heaven with the everlasting 
Gospel to preach to all 
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nations, before Babylon falls, and the Son of 
man reaps His harvest. . . . 'Tis therefore a 
part of the prophecy, that it should not be under-
stood before the last age of the world; and there-
fore it makes for the credit of the prophecy, that 
it is not yet understood [in 1733]. But if the 
last age, the age of opening these things, be now 
approaching, as by the great success of late Inter-
preters it seems to be, we have more encourage-
ment than ever to look into these things."—Obser-
vations Upon the Apocalypse of St. John, page 
305. 
Newton was correct in his observation. During 
the past 127 years, the messages of Revelation 
14:6-12 have actually been reaching out to all the 
nations and tribes of the earth, and today there 
are few habitable parts of the world that have not 
heard at least something of this "everlasting 
Gospel." 
It is of supreme importance to recognize that 
this final message is to prepare a people to meet 
the Lord when He returns. As Knox expresses it 
in his translation of Revelation 14:6: "I saw, 
too, another angel flying in mid-heaven, carrying 
with him a final Gospel to preach to all those 
who dwell on the earth, to every race and tribe, 
and language and people." 
A final Gospel or the "everlasting Gospel" in 
its last-day setting must be preached by a final 
or last-day church. Such a church would be in 
reality "the remnant of her seed." Rev. 12:17. Can 
we then identify this "remnant" of the church of 
the ages which is entrusted with this "final 
Gospel" in its last-day setting? 
God's last-day church 
Two marks of the remnant are emphasized by 
John in Revelation 12:17. The people who com-
pose the remnant church "keep the commandments 
of God, and hold the testimony of Jesus." (R.V.) 
This is repeated when John describes the messages 
proclaimed by the remnant. He says of the fruitage 
of those messages : "Here is the patience of the 
saints, they that keep the commandments of God, 
and the faith of Jesus." Rev. 14:12, R.V. 
These, we noticed, were the marks of the apos-
tolic church. The remnant, then, will be identified 
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Patmos, 
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the last 
earth's 
y, 
with the early church in its adherence to the faith 
of Jesus and its observance of the commandments 
of God. Such is the claim made, in all humility, 
by the Seventh-Day Adventist church. Let us 
examine this claim. 
True to the prophecy the Seventh-Day Adventist 
church arose out of the great second advent re-
vival which reached its climax in the autumn of 
1844. In the confusion that gripped the general 
body of ardent Adventists when their expectations 
of Christ's immediate appearing were disappointed, 
a small group of Bible students began to discover 
important truths that had been neglected by the 
church for centuries. They gathered into one con-
sistent body of doctrine, truths that had been 
scattered among the various denominations of 
Christendom. The "pieces" of truth envisioned by 
John Milton began to fit together into a con-
sistent, co-ordinated whole. Experimental religion 
from the Methodists, baptism from the Baptists, 
the deity and atoning sacrifice of Christ, and 
the inspiration and authority of the Scriptures 
from the main stream of Protestant Christianity, 
and the seventh-day Sabbath from the Seventh-
day Baptists. All these, supported by ample biblical 
evidence, convinced them that God was calling 
them to witness for Him "to every nation, kindred, 
tongue, and people. 
Truth for the times 
At the very time when the church was facing 
and generally succumbing to the theory of evolu-
tion, the Advent movement began proclaiming, 
"Fear God, and give glory to Him, . . . and 
worship Him that made the heaven and the earth 
and sea and fountains of waters." Rev. 14:7, R.V. 
And since the Sabbath was instituted by God as 
a memorial of His creative work, those who kept 
the Sabbath were in a singularly strong position 
to combat evolutionary thinking. (Gen. 2:1-3; 
Exod. 20:8-11; 31:16, 17; Heb. 4:3, 4.) So while 
the ministerial ranks of Protestantism became 
riddled with modernism and evolutionary 
philosophy, the growing Adventist ministry held 
fast to the faith and teachings of the Scriptures. 
Another false phenomenon that arose around 
this specific time was the Spiritist movement. In 
1844 and 1848 the Fox sisters started a rapping 
"game," with some unseen visitant that steadily 
grew into the present world-embracing Spiritist 
pandemic. How timely, therefore, was the Ad-
ventist insistence on the biblical position that 
"the dead know not anything, neither have they 
any more a reward; for the memory of them 
is forgotten. As well their love, as their hatred 
and their envy, is now perished; neither have 
they any more a portion for ever in anything 
that is done under the sun." Eccles. 9:5, 6, R.V. 
"They that do His commandments" 
The Adventist message is equally timely when 
lawlessness is increasing everywhere in its em-
phasis on the keeping of God's commandments. 
Our Lord foresaw the unpredicted lawlessness 
of the last days and gave this admonition: "Be-
cause there shall be a general disregard of God's 
law, the love of the many shall grow cold." 
Matt. 24:12, Weymouth. On the other hand, the 
last beatitude of the Bible reads, "Blessed are 
they that do His commandments, that they may 
have right to the tree of life, and may enter in 
through the gates into the city." Rev. 22:14. 
The Revised Version of this passage reads, 
"Blessed are they that wash their robes." The 
evidence of the ancient manuscripts and patristic 
quotations seems evenly divided on this text, but 
both variants are scripturally sound for no-one 
will enter heaven who has not washed his robes 
and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 
(Rev. 7:14.) Our title to heaven and immortality 
is grounded on the atoning sacrifice of God's 
Son. However, when we surrender our hearts to 
Jesus and own allegiance to Him, then we find 
ourselves in covenant relation with God through 
Christ. Then it is that the Holy Spirit writes 
God's law upon our minds and hearts, subduing 
the natural desires, changing our carnal nature, 
and transforming us from the children of dis-
obedience into loving and obedient children of 
God. (Heb. 8:8-12; Rom. 8:1-4; 2 Cor. 3:3; 
1 John 3:3-6; 5:2-4.) There is thus no conflict 
between God's law and God's grace; both are 
aspects of the divine nature. They have been co-
existent from eternity. So the Adventist sings with 
deep conviction: 
Give me the BIble, holy message shining, 
Thy light shall guide me in the narrow way; 
Precept and promise, law and love combining, 
Till night shall vanish in eternal day. 
Priscilla J. Owens 
Such is the spirit and power of the everlasting 
Gospel which is now being heralded by voice and 
pen over hill and dale, in the great cities, and 
across the oceans. It sweeps onward with irresis-
tible force, because its people have a rendezvous 
with destiny. Such are the marks of the remnant, 
which, under God, will see the work of God 
finished and the kingdom ushered in. 
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Of the many aspects of our Lord's earthly 
ministry foreshadowed by Moses and the Old 
Testament prophets, was that of Prophet. 
"The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a 
Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy 
brethren, like unto me; unto Him shall ye 
hearken." Deut. 18:15, 18. 
The Samaritan woman and the people who heard 
Jesus teaching in the Temple, recognized in Him 
the fulfilment of Moses' assurance. 
"Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet." John 
4:19. 
"Many of the people . . . when they heard 
. . . said: Of a truth this is the Prophet." 
John 7:40. 
One of the greatest of the prophecies of Jesus 
concerned the Jews, the people through whom 
Christ came, and their beloved city, Jerusalem. 
"He came unto His own, and His own received 
Him not." John 1:11. 
"0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem . . . your house is 
left unto you desolate." Matt. 23:37, 38. 
NOTE. — The importance and comprehensiveness 
of our Lord's great prophecy is seen when one 
realizes, as Dr. A. T. Pierson pointed out, that 
"from this prophecy [as found in Matthew 24, 
Mark 13 and Luke 21] may be demonstrated and 
vindicated the existence of God, His moral govern-
ment, His general and special providence, the 
divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, and the 
divine character and mission of Christ." 
The details of this prophecy were so many and 
so intimate as to preclude the possibility of either 
forgery or collusion, charges often levelled by the 
critics. 
NoTE.—One computer has found in this discourse 
no less than twenty-five prophecies. 
By S. G. Hyde 
The authors of the gospels wrote their records 
well before the year of Jerusalem's downfall (in 
A.D. 70). Matthew wrote his some thirty years 
before the event, while Mark and Luke wrote 
between seven and three years before. 
NOTE.—The one gospel writer who does not 
mention this remarkable story was John. He wrote 
his gospel some twenty-five years after the fall 
of Jerusalem. Had he included a report of the 
tragedy-to-be its prophetic nature would have been 
rightly assailed by the critics. To avoid this John 
was directed by the Holy Spirit to make no re-
ference to it at all. 
That this prophecy of our Lord was fulfilled as 
predicted, was vouched for by three creditable 
historians. 
(a) Josephus—himself a Jew and an enemy of 
the Christian faith. He was actually an eyewitness 
of the tragedy and his account of it was approved 
by the destroyer, Titus. 
(b) Tacitus—a pagan and a Roman historian 
who served as a "war-correspondent" for the 
Roman invaders. 
(c) Gibbon—the English historian, "prince of 
sceptics" who, nevertheless, admits the facts which 
fulfilled, accurately, our Lord's predictions. 
NOTE.—We recall the words of Jesus: "Now I 
tell you before it come, that, when it is come to 
pass, ye may believe." 
Of the many detailed features of Christ's great 
prophecy we will briefly give special consideration 
to the following: 
1. The appearance of false christs 
2. The development of calamities 
3. Persecution 
4. Jerusalem encompassed by armies 
5. The trenching of the city 
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6. The razing of the city 
7. The promise of immunity to the Christians 
8. The time-factor 
False Christs 
"There shall arise false Christs . . . and shall 
show great signs and wonders." Matt. 24:24. 
Josephus tells of one called Theudas who pro-
mised to part the waters of the Jordan, as did 
Elijah, "and by such speeches deceived many." 
Many false Messiahs appeared, among them being 
the Samaritan, Simon Magus. 
Calamities 
"There shall be famines, and pestilences, and 
earthquakes." Matt. 24:7. 
Though peace reigned while Jesus was on the 
earth, the situation quickly changed following His 
ascension. Josephus records that the "country was 
soon filled with violence;" extensive famines oc-
curred in Judea, Italy, and Rome itself ; earth-
quakes, one in Judea of great severity, were ex-
perienced within the intervening years before the 
fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. 
Persecution 
They shall "deliver you up to be afflicted, and 
shall kill you: and ye shall be hated. . . . 
Many shall be offended, . . . and hate one 
another." Matt. 24:9, 10. 
Immediately after Pentecost, the newly formed 
church was subjected to severe persecution. Saul of 
Tarsus, before his conversion, was one of many 
who "made havoc" of the church. Peter and John, 
Paul and Silas all suffered. Stephen became the 
first of the martyrs ; only John, among the apostles, 
seems to have died a natural death. Nero's per-
secutions of the Christians just before the fall of 
Jerusalem are among the blackest ever inflicted. 
Jerusalem Encompassed 
"He beheld the city {Jerusalem), and wept 
over it, saying, . �
. The days shall come 
. . . thine enemies shall . . . compass thee 
round, and keep thee in on every side." Luke 
19:41, 43. 
Josephus describes the execution of a plan of 
Titus to encompass the walls of Jerusalem with 
a wall five miles in circumference, including 
thirteen military towers. This was achieved in 
the incredibly short time of ten days, thus com-
pletely surrounding the city with the armies of 
Rome. 
The Entrenchment 
"The days shall come upon thee, that thine 
enemies shall cast a trench about thee." Luke 
19:43. 
Jerusalem was surrounded by valleys t h a t 
formed a natural trench. To build an artificial one 
seemed useless. But against the advice of his 
commanders, Titus, in addition to the wall, built 
a trench around the whole five miles. Josephus 
describes this in detail. 
The Razing of the City 
"They shall not leave in thee one stone upon 
another . . . they shall lay thee even with 
the ground." Luke 19:44. 
The destruction of 1,130,000 Jews with a 
further 97,000 taken prisoners might have been 
conquest enough. But the order was made by Titus, 
"Raze the very foundations!" Even sewers and 
aqueducts were uncovered. And so our Lord's 
precise words, "Lay thee even with the ground," 
were fulfilled. The temple itself suffered the 
same fate. In Matthew 24:1, 2, .we read of our 
Lord and the disciples surveying the temple and 
noting the massive stones. Said Jesus, "There 
shall not be left here one stone upon another." 
And thus it happened! 
Immunity to the Christians 
"There shall not an hair of your head perish." 
Luke 21:18. 
Jesus had spoken of the flight of His people 
and told them to pray that they would not have 
to flee "on the Sabbath" or "in the winter." Matt. 
24:20. After beginning the siege, the armies 
suddenly ceased their activity and withdrew. That 
short space of time, known by Jesus years before, 
gave the Christians their opportunity. Historians 
tell us that every one escaped, taking refuge in the 
mountains of Pella. 
The Time Factor 
"This generation shall not pass, till all these 
things be fufillled." Matt. 24:34. 
The primary fulfilment of this time-prophecy 
was in the circumstances of Jerusalem's destruction. 
Less than forty years after our Lord's ascension, 
the tragedy occurred and the generation to which 
Jesus spoke saw the events fulfilled in detail. 
NOTE.—Of the tragic happenings to the Jews and 
their city Jesus had said, "These be the days of 
vengeance." Luke 21:22. Observes Dr. Pierson: 
"Can any candid mind consider the crime of the 
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Jews [against the Lord) and the calamities that 
followed exactly in accord with the prophetic pre-
dictions, and see in these marvellous correspon-
dence no sign that God had their sin in mind in 
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bringing on that very generation such pathetic 
but poetic retribution? . . . Jesus claimed divine 
Sonship and Messiahship; and to verify His claim 
uttered a prophecy so minute that no chance coin-
cidence can explain it. How may we evade con-
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Missions 
(Continued from page 7.) 
Ethiopian had taken it to his country after meeting 
the evangelist Phillip. Livingstone took it into 
the very heart of Africa. His favourite Bible 
hero was Moses and we may well think of him 
as a modern Moses, setting forth with the rod of 
God in his hand to deliver the enslaved children 
of Africa. 
Sought and found by Stanley 
On October 28, 1871, when Livingstone's 
physical resources were almost exhausted, Henry 
M. Stanley came as an angel of deliverance. Sent 
out by the New York Herald Stanley gave Living-
stone literally a new lease of life. He brought 
him tonics which his mind and body desperately 
needed. The letters from home, the long talks 
with the man who had travelled so far to find 
him seemed to cut through a curtain which had 
been separating him from the rest of the world. 
Livingstone's sense of gratitude was genuine 
and profound. "He laid all he had at my service," 
he wrote, "divided his clothes into two heaps, and 
pressed one heap upon me, then his medicine 
box, then his goods and everything he had, and 
to coax my appetite often cooked dainty dishes 
with his own hand. . . . He came with true 
American generosity. The tears often started into 
my eyes on every fresh proof of kindness." 
Livingstone's last words to a white man were to 
Stanley on his departure. "I am grateful to you 
for what you have done for me. God guide you 
safe home, and bless you, my friend." 
The end of the road 
On April 29th the last mile of the 29,000 
covered by Livingstone came to an end. He had 
been carried in much suffering and pain to the 
village of Ilala. Here a hut had been prepared 
for him and a bed made with branches covered 
with dried grass. Dismissing his servants he re-
tired for the night with just one lone watcher 
by him. Before morning broke Susi in alarm gave 
the news that their master had fallen asleep in 
death. The dim candle light revealed the motion-
less form of Livingstone by his bedside in the 
attitude of prayer. His last thought and plea was 
for the deliverance of Africa. 
The natives bereft so suddenly of their faithful 
leader began the journey over the same route 
which Stanley had taken with his company. It 
was a thousand miles to the sea but Susi and 
Chuma determined that whatever might come, 
they would see that the body of their master 
received safe passage to his home country. 
On April 18, 1874, Livingstone was buried in 
Westminster Abbey but through the symbolic act 
of Susi and Chuma and Jacob Wainwright his 
heart remained in Ilala in his beloved Africa. 
Inscribed on his tomb in Westminster Abbey 
are his own words: "All I can say in my solitude 
is, may Heaven's rich blessing come down on 
every one—American, English, or Turk—who will 
help to heal the open sore of the world." And 
much of the modern missionary impetus of our 
day stems from the time when men's hearts were 
touched by the devotion and sacrifice of this one 
single light of God. 
The " Least Read Best Seller " 
(Continued from page 3.) 
very time Mr. McCulloch's Bible, with the com-
mandments cut out, appeared, the Bishop of Car-
lisle was declaring in the Carlisle Diocesan News: 
"I am firmly of the opinion that one reason why 
there is so much confusion about moral standards 
is due to the fact that the Church has allowed 
the Ten Commandments to be pushed too far back 
in her teaching, and almost neglected." 
Mr. McCulloch's final reason for his decision 
is this, "Moral codes are merely crutches, some-
thing to be discarded when people finally under-
stand the Christian way of recreating mankind." 
Here the apostle Paul rises up in protest. "Do 
we then make void the law through faith?" he 
asks in his epistle to the Romans. No indeed, he 
replies, "we establish the law." 
The complete baselessness of Mr. McCulloch's 
reasons for omitting the Ten Commandments 
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from his Essential Bible must surely make us sus-
picious of all his other judgments. 
The fact is we cannot do without any of the 
Bible. There has always been "present truth" which 
was particularly relevant in different ages of the 
history of the world and the church, and there 
is "present truth" in the Scriptures which is 
particularly relevant to our day, but the whole 
Bible is a heritage for us "upon whom the ends 
of the world are come," and we need its every 
word. 
To deepen our understanding of it the aid of 
every modern translation of the Scriptures is wel-
come, but for man-devised "Essential Bibles" we 
can have no use at all. 
The Power of the Resurrection 
(Continued from page 5.) 
that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet 
shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth 
in Me shall never die." 
Quiet *mod 
JUST A MEMORY 
STANLEY COMBRIDGE 
How Will Christ Come ? 
(Continued from page 9.) 
It will be either, "Come, ye blessed of My Father, 
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the 
foundation of the world," or "Depart from Me, 
ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the 
devil and his angels." Matt. 25 :34, 41. 
So the great and vital question for you and 
for me is: "Seeing that all these things shall be 
dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to 
be in all holy conversation and godliness ?" 2 
Peter 3:11, 12. Jesus said, "Blessed are the 
pure in heart: for they shall see God." God is 
looking for godliness, god-likeness in all His 
creatures. It is Christ's purpose that we shall all 
be transformed into the divine "image, from glory 
to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 2 
Cor. 3:18. This involves surrender to God that 
He may work in us His will and His good 
pleasure. 
May God grant then that we all with our "loins 
girded about" and our "lights burning" may 
be "like unto men that wait for their Lord when 
He will return from the wedding; that when He 
cometh and knocketh" we "may be ready" to 
"open unto Him immediately." 
If we are able to do this He will reciprocate 
by opening heaven to us, and receiving us to 
Himself for ever. 
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It smoothed the wrinkles from my face 
With glad surprise. 
'Twas just the pressure of a hand 
From someone dear, 
But oh, it lifted up my heart 
And gave me cheer. 
So let me speak the kindly word 
And give the passing smile; 
The hand-clasp true will I extend — 
For it is well worth while. 
"TWENTY PER CENT CHANCE" 
IN AN interview with Marguerite Higgins of 
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who played a vital part in the development of 
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OPERATION MAGELLAN 
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NEW AVENUES OF EVANGELISM 
fp IN HIS report to the annual meeting of the 
British and Foreign Bible Society, Dr. W. J. Platt 
mentioned that in India the publication of the 
Gospel story, a chapter a day, in a dozen vernacular 
newspapers, as an advertisement, had made a 
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MODERN TEMPLES AND THEIR GODS 
41 "IT Is not only Christians who feel repelled 
by the latest products of this civilization, with its 
mass media, its shallowness, its worship of these 
twin household gods, the Tele and the Disc, its 
devotion to the great temples of this new culture, 
the cinemas," said Professor J. E. Fenn, Moderator 
of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian 
Church of England at the annual meeting in 
London. 
"Aldous Huxley, J. B. Priestley, and an array 
of younger writers have already sounded the 
alarm. What is at stake may quite possibly be the 
survival of human nature itself, as rational and 
free." 
BIGGEST SCAVENGER 
Oil "MAN," declared Dr. Stanley Jeffs of Man-
chester at the Royal Society of Health Congress, 
"is the biggest scavenger on God's earth, so much 
so that he eats the scavengers, the pig and the 
tuna fish." He declared that many modern diseases 
are the result of faulty eating. 
LOST CITIES FOUND? 
DR. RALPH BANEY, an American archxologist, 
with his three-member team of "skin divers," 
claims to have located the two lost biblical cities 
of Sodom and Gomorrah on the bed of the 
Dead Sea in the neighbourhood of the Lisan 
Peninsula of Jordan. 
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to remind her to put on her 
coat. Mary hurried out of the 
classroom, and walked so fast 
that Doris soon dropped back 
to walk with some other girls. 
"I'll go right home and pray 
that I'll win the contest before 
anyone else does. The prize is 
to be announced tomorrow," 
Mary said to herself. "I am 
quite sure there were 5,623 
beans in that jar in Hansen's 
As dawns the hallowed morn, 
Our souls awake to praise, 
This is the day the Lord hath 
made, 
It is the Sabbath day. 
What happy, peaceful thought! 
May we rejoice, and say: 
"God bless our going out and 
in," 
In all we do this day. 
Whate'er our calling be, 
To preach or teach Thy Word; 
May we be filled with power 
divine, 
To do Thy service, Lord. 
Thy little lambs await, 
The truths Thy Word imparts: 
Oh, grant them wisdom from on 
high, 
And understanding hearts. 
Our praises reach Thy throne, 
Thine ever-listening ear; 
Yet we rejoice to know that 
Thou 
Art ever present here. 
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market, but I'll tell the Lord 
about it and tell Him how much 
I want the pencil box, so that 
I'll have something nicer than 
Joan or anybody." 
Mary went right to her room 
and knelt by her bedside. She 
promised the Lord that she 
would be especially good if He 
would see to it that she won 
the contest. 
The next day Mary squirmed 
and fidgeted all day in school. 
The minute she was dismissed 
she snatched her coat and ran 
to Hansen's market, where the 
winner's name was to be posted 
at three o'clock. 
Surely there was some mistake. 
She had prayed, but the name 
was not hers ! 
Tears came as she slowly 
walked into the shop to ask Mr. 
Hansen whether it was true that 
she had not won. She ducked 
her head to dab at her eyes 
with her mittens, and bumped 
headlong into a somewhat ragged 
girl, a little older than Mary, 
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who was coming out—carrying 
the prize pencil box. Mary 
turned and ran for home. 
Her mother came from the 
kitchen as Mary flung herself on 
the living-room couch, sobbing. 
"Darling, whatever is the mat-
ter ?" her mother asked as she 
cradled her daughter in her arms. 
"I didn't win the bean prize, 
and I prayed about it, too," Mary 
wailed, burying her face in her 
mother's soft sweater. 
"Did you pray only for your 
own selfish wish to come true?" 
her mother asked. 
Mary thought a m o m e n t. 
Then she cried, "0 Mother I 
was selfish. I wanted to show off. 
The girl who won it really 
needed it much more than I did. 
The next time I want something 
badly," she said more cheerfully, 
"I will work hard, but I will 
not expect the Lord to favour 
me when I don't deserve it." 
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THE ELUSIVE SUBMARINE 
By C. E. Sutton 
IT WAS breakfast time. Bobby 
took up his spoon, and with a 
determined look on his face, he 
set to work on his plate of 
cereals. His brother and sister, 
Sue and Billy, looked at each 
other, and burst out laughing. 
They knew Bobby hated 
cereals for breakfast, and he was 
only wading manfully through 
the packet to try to find the 
elusive submarine! It should have 
been there—a free gift wrapped 
in a neat cellophane wrapper, at 
the top of the packet—but it was 
not ! 
"Oh, well," said Mummy en-
couragingly, "it will surely be at 
the bottom." So Bobby per-
severed each day, still hoping. 
Billy and Sue who also had 
packets of cereal, each had a 
submarine. 
Mummy bought a packet 
specially for Bobby, but he had 
been unfortunate so far. Just 
imagine how he felt when, at the 
end of the week, his packet was 
finished, and there still was no 
submarine. Hoping nobody 
noticed, he wiped away his tears 
on the edge of the table cloth. 
But Mummy guessed, and 
said: "Well, I think it's just 
unfortunate! I shall mention it 
to the shop-keeper." 
Billy and Sue said, "Cheer 
up, Bobby! You can borrow 
ours." 
But that was not the same at 
all, and it was a sad little boy 
that set off for school, lagging 
far behind the others. 
He did not feel like wading 
through another packet of cereal, 
for he really hated it; so now 
he would never have his precious 
submarine. 
When Mummy went to the 
shop she told the shop-girl about 
it. The shop-girl was very sympa-
thetic, but said mistakes were 
sometimes made, and she was 
sorry she couldn't help. 
Luckily, a lady standing by, 
heard the sad story, and deter-
mined that it should have a 
happy ending. She said : "I have 
a submarine in my packet, and 
having no children of my own 
I should be only too pleased if 
you would give it to your little 
boy." 
Now this story ended happily. 
But disappointments are often 
hard to bear, and do not always 
have a happy ending. Perhaps we 
THE MASTER'S RETURN 
If the Master should come today 
Would I join Him in the skies? 
Or would I be left behind alone, 
Filled with a dread surprise? 
He has said, "Be ready!" and yet 
—and yet— 
If the Master came today, 
Would I be ready to welcome Him 
As He came along the way? 
O heart of mine, be earnest now, 
And work for your Lord today, 
Lest He know you not, in that won-
drous hour 
When He comes along the way. 
— Lilian G. Heard. 
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have worked hard to pass an 
exam, or set our heart on win-
ning a prize, or being accepted 
for a special career, and we fail 
and have to bear our bitter 
disappointment. 
Jesus knew about disappoint:-
ment, too, so He will know just 
how we feel. We must not give 
up in despair, but courageously 
try again. 
Results of Competition No. 7. 
Prize-winners.—Eric O. Lowe, "Way-
side," Bryniau P 1 a c e, Llandudno 
Caerns. Age 15. Janet Williams, 16 
Kynaston Crescent, Codsall, Nr. Wolver-
hampton, Staffs. Age 11. 
Honourable Mention. — Jean Winter 
(Enfield); Mervyn Brown (Garston); 
Susan Floate (Felixstowe); Heather 
Stainton (Potters Bar); Sylvia Floate 
(Felixstowe); Eva Atkinson (Ponte-
fract); Phillip Emm (Watford); Doreen 
Floate (Felixstowe); Lesley West 
(Fleet); Nigel Emm (Watford); Dawn 
Ann Hole (Looe); Shirley Newton 
(Stamford Bridge); Robin Clee (Corn-
wall). 
Those who tried hard.—Roland Small 
(London); Martin Clee (St. Agnes); 
Robert Ison (Swaffham); Janet Blyth 
(L i n c o l n); Susan Collette Whent 
(Chelmsford); Andrew Ruddick (En-
field); Lynda Robertson (Plymouth); 
Judith Fox (Skegness); Llewellen Evans 
(Ipswich); Ronald Evans (Codsall); 
Marilyn Green (Bilbrook); John Page 
(Radford); Diane Young (Dringhouses); 
Graham Hardy (Chaddesden); Anthea 
Haugh (Worsley); Lorraine McFarlane 
(Jamestown); Brian Henderson (James-
town); Ian McLaren (Renfrewshire); 
Sheila Holmes (Bethnal Green); Chris-
tine Smith (Jamaica); Diane Palmer 
(Lowestoft). 
Copyright Acknowledgements 
Cover Picture, Leslie Sansom; page 2, 
Religious News Service; page 3, Oxford 
University Press; page 4, by J. K. 
Thompson, Newton; page 5, by Carl 
Bloch, Camera Clix; page 6. Keystone 
and S. P. Ltd.; page 8. R. & H.; page 
9, Newton; pages 10, 11, Newton and 
Studio Lisa; page 20, by J. Hofmann, 
Hanfstaengl. 
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OW much did Jesus love this world of 
men 
Who fell in sin and could not rise again? 
I'll tell you just how much His heart divine 
From long ago has loved your soul and mine. 
He loved enough to kneel on bended knee 
Within a garden called Gethsemane; 
To pray alone long after set of sun, 
And say through drops of blood, "Thy will 
be done." 
He loved enough to quiet human fear 
When cries of angry men were drawing near; 
And knowing well the evil meant by this, 
He let a man betray Him with a kiss. 
He loved enough to bear with dignity 
The cruellest stripes an' bitter mockery; 
And when His brow with thorns was scarred 
and torn, 
He patiently endured the pain and scorn. 
HOW 
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And when He fell beneath a cross of wrath, 
He struggled on, to walk a blooay path 
Up to a hill where He would be alone. 
Forsaken and rejected by His own. 
He loved enough to let the nails pierce through 
Those hands that could but deeds of kindness 
do; 
And while He bore the whole world's guilt and 
care, 
His heart was crushed with grief too great to 
bear. 
He gave forgiveness with His failing breath, 
And finally poured His soul out unto death. 
This is how much He loved the sinner's soul: 
Enough to spend Himself to make us whole. 
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