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BINGO FANS OR 
"HEAVEN'S LIEUTENANTS"? 
SWING 
TO RELIGION 
PRESIDENT of the National Association 
of Head Teachers struck a resounding 
blow against the evils of our permissive 
society. The many points he made in-
cluded the following: 
* "Too many parents put their own en-
joyment before responsibility to their 
children." 
* "Not even the best school can take 
the place of a good home." 
* "It is false to say we live in a civilized 
society. I cannot imagine anything more 
uncivilized." 
* "Values are all wrong. Children are 
given attention by the wrong people for 
the wrong reasons. There is lack of 
communication between parents and 
children. There is not enough love of 
the right sort." 
* "It is too easy to give children money 
for the cinema, or allow them to watch 
long hours of unsuitable television, so 
that parents can spend evenings in the 
bingo hall or pubs." 
Comment: It is worth remembering 
that the health and integrity of family life 
directly determine the strength of 
society and of the nation. With TV and 
radio purveying its weekly quota of 
violence and twisted behaviour, making 
no significant effort whatever to ennoble 
"MONKEY SEE, 
MONKEY DO" 
Of course it could be explained away 
as one of those bizarre incidents that 
take place now and again. But who is 
to say it couldn't happen anywhere in 
any home? 
A 15-year-old high school sophomore 
in Virginia, U.S.A., held police at bay 
with a .22-calibre rifle and a .32 calibre 
pistol. The boy fired a fusilade of shots 
at the officers, missing all of them but 
doing extensive damage to cars and 
nearby houses. It took police 40 minutes 
of pleading and a cannister of nausea 
gas to induce him to surrender. 
Why did he do it? Because he had 
seen just such an event portrayed on 
TV the night before. He told police he 
had watched an episode of "Hawaii 
Five-O," in which a boy had drawn 
police to his home and then fired on 
them. 
The U.S. Surgeon General, in an 
unrelated speech last autumn, said: 
"Viewing aggression can instigate sub-
sequent aggression among observers." 
viewers, and tending constantly to erode 
belief in the Bible and its sacred teach-
ings, parents concerned about the 
character of their children face a for-
midable challenge. 
The Bible has lots to say on this—
advice intended to be timeless. God 
designed that parents should teach the 
Moral Law to their children. He said: 
"You must think constantly about these 
commandments. . . . You must teach 
them to your children, and talk about 
them when you are home or out for a 
walk; at bedtime and first thing in the 
morning" (Deuteronomy 6:6, 7; The 
Living Bible). 
Right moral values are even more 
important than academic knowledge or 
political ideals. 
Shakespeare wrote: "The voice of 
parents is the voice of gods, for to 
their children they are heaven's lieu-
tenants." Shakespeare was here pre-
senting the ith)al. Where parents recog-
nize and fulfil such a role, there are no 
generation gaps in the modern sense, 
and families are well integrated. 
Put another way, and in the well-
known words of the "Wayside Pulpit": 
"Families that pray together, stay to-
gether." 
WORLD'S 
OLDEST 
ROCKS? 
Here's one for the scientists: Geol-
ogists have discovered what they think 
may be the earth's oldest rocks, in 
southern Greenland. 
Using data from their strontium- and 
lead-dating process, a team from 
Oxford, England, estimates the granite-
like rocks to be as old as 3,000 million 
years—or about 40 million years older 
than the previous record holders. 
It is interesting that the two different 
dating processes used produced ages 
that were 38 million years apart. The 
scientists, while offering several explan-
ations for the difference, conceded that 
the problem "must await further study," 
allowing that there are still questions 
about currently accepted methods of 
scientific dating. 
No wonder many top scientists still 
believe the truthfulness of the Bible 
record of Creation. 
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Christian litera-
ture sales by Seventh-day Adventists 
totalled over $48 million in 1971, Church 
world headquarters here reports. 
In releasing the figures William A. 
Higgins, associate director of the de-
nomination's publishing department, 
stated that there is a growing interest 
in things religious. Since the American 
Bible Society published in 1966 its 
New Testament version God Speaks to 
Modern Man, some thirty-one million 
copies have been sold. 
"People are more serious-minded," 
Higgins declared. "They are fed up with 
permissiveness, and there is a swing 
to religion. For instance, a book on 
death recently published is almost a 
best-seller." 
Most popular books being sold by 
Adventist publishing houses is a chil-
dren's series of ten volumes called The 
Bible Story. 
Liberty, a magazine of religious free-
dom, which has greatly revised its for-
mat and content under the present 
editor, has seen its circulation zoom 
from 168,000 in 1959 to more than half 
a million. 
Listen, a magazine aimed at prevent-
ing alcohol, tobacco, and drug addic-
tion, through education, circulates 180,-
000 copies each month among high 
school students and other young 
people. Both magazines are aimed at 
the general public. 
The Adventists operate 48 publishing 
houses around the world, including one 
in Britain. Their publications are printed 
in 266 languages. Besides across-the-
counter sales in their Book and Bible 
Houses, scattered in scores of large 
cities around the world, about 6,700 
literature-evangelists visit homes in 
nearly every country with Christian 
books and magazines. They accounted 
for $26.9 million in sales last year. 
Such work goes on regardless of war 
conditions, as in Vietnam, where there 
are currently 74 literature-evangelists. 
A publishing house in Saigon serves 
these Christian salesmen with literature. 
Higgins predicts still greater interest 
in religious publications in days to come. 
PICTURE CREDITS 
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Discerning 
the times... 
CURRENT EVENTS IN THE LIGHT OF THE BIBLE 
BY THE EDITOR 
TRAGIC 
TURNABOUT 
WHAT would be our verdict on anyone 
who found pleasure in falsifying direc-
tions on road signs, removing danger 
notices, putting innocent labels on 
bottles of poison, etc? 
A sick mind, we would say. For the 
safety of society, we would commit such 
a person to an asylum for criminal 
lunatics. 
But on a scale for which history has 
no parallel, and in a way that strikes 
far more deeply and widely than does 
the twisted behaviour of the mentally 
deranged, this very thing is happening 
today—in schools, colleges, universities, 
in Press, on Radio and TV, and via 
every media for public information and 
education. 
Impossible! you say. 
We answer: There was never such a 
time as ours when right things were 
rejected, and wrong things promoted; 
when truth was degraded and error 
enthroned; when the most important 
things were diminished, belittled, or 
denied; while trivial, unimportant, and 
even downright wrong things were 
justified, magnified, publicized, and 
advocated. 
For instance, there has been a posi-
tive swing towards surrender on sex. 
Commandment Seven is dropped. Free 
sex is accepted. And by this we mean 
not just pre-marital, and extra marital, 
but every conceivable misuse of that 
marvellous sex urge which God ordained 
exclusively for procreation, and as a 
means of enriching the marital relation- 
ship. We even hear of "sex" being 
practised by psychiatric "healers" with 
"deprived" patients as a therapeutic 
tool. 
Today, God's Law is "out," while sin 
is "in." "Right behaviour," say the "new 
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moralists," "is determined by the parti-
cular situation at the particular time." 
Such words as: "absolute," "unalter-
able," "unchangeable," are now re-
garded as archaic. They have been cast 
overboard. "Sacrosanct standards" are 
condemned as myths. Today the Bible 
is "out;" while almost any and every 
non-Bible teaching is "in." So success-
fully has the change been achieved 
that even some Church leaders concede 
the view that Hinduism, Islam, Buddh-
ism, Sikhism, etc., are just as valid 
means of achieving heaven, as Chris-
tianity. 
We could list all the major Bible 
doctrines, and show how every one is 
not only attacked and denied, but ousted 
from many a mind by some plausible 
substitute. 
Revolt against Bible teachings is 
responsible for the myth of the alleged 
contrast between the happiness of care-
free pagans and the "frustration" of 
"inhibited Christians." But the fact is 
that society gets more and more unsafe 
and unhappy, as it moves further from 
Christian restraints and true Bible 
principles. On the other hand, millions 
of committed Christians can truly testify 
to an experience of constant satisfac-
tion and joy. 
Philosopher Jung reflected that 
Christianity "was originally accepted ... 
to escape at last from the brutality of 
antiquity. As soon as we discard it 
licentiousness returns." 
OF the tragic turnabout in man's think-
ing and teaching, God said: "Woe unto 
them that call evil good, and good evil. 
. . . Woe unto them that are wise in 
their own eyes, and prudent in their 
own sight" (Isaiah 5:20). 
Speaking of the very Bible teachings 
and laws which today are largely dis-
carded, Jesus said: "Whosoever shall 
break one of these least command-
ments, AND SHALL TEACH MEN SO, 
he shall be called least in the kingdom 
of heaven" (Matthew 5:19). 
The language of the Bible's final 
chapter is equally emphatic: "If any man 
shall take away from the words of the 
book . . . God shall take away his part 
out of the book of life, and out of the 
holy city" (Revelation 22:19). In other 
words, according to God's Holy Book, 
a person who rejects its teachings will 
inevitably incur rejection by God in the 
Final Judgement which all must face 
(2 Corinthians 5:10; Hebrews 9:27). 
Today's widespread rejection of Bible 
truth is a sign of the last days. Denial 
of God's Law, and refusal to accept it 
as an absolute standard, is, according 
to prophecy, one of the most noteworthy 
facts of the world's final feverish 
period prior to Christ's second advent. 
Thank God there are millions whose 
confidence and joy in God's truth is 
unshakeable. They have proved that 
Bible teachings are a sure guarantee of 
present happiness because they answer 
all life's major problems, show the way 
to unity with God through Christ, and 
hence provide assurance of personal 
immortality and bliss to come. 
We like the pronouncement posted 
on the door of his church by a minister 
who deplores today's "tragic turnabout." 
It reads: 
"Whereas some would deny the faith 
of our fathers and destroy the morals 
of our children, 
"Be it hereby known that in this 
church WE STILL BELIEVE IN; 
"GOD who is Spirit, not Spaceman, 
and can be thought of as our Father; 
"SIN, which is disobedience to God's 
will and the Commandments He has 
given; 
"FORGIVENESS through Jesus Christ, 
by which God puts us right; 
"GRACE by which the Holy Spirit 
keeps us right and shows us what to 
do." 
In that so-called "doomsday" towards 
which the world is hastening, the ones 
who will survive and qualify for an 
eternity of total bliss, are briefly de-
scribed by the Bible's prophet as "the 
righteous nation" which not only knows 
the truth but keeps the truth (Isaiah 
26:2).—R.D.V. 
(Why not enjoy the free study courses 
in Bible truth offered by the world's 
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These courses have transformed thou-
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3 
WRECKERS 
Today's films mean more than 
meets the eye. Films are 
powerful mind-benders and 
conscience-killers 
by Colin D. Cook 
M
ANY modern films implant 
certain attitudes to life 
that are destructive. They 
do this deliberately. 
Today's kind of film doesn't 
PLAY at reality. It deals with 
reality in the most realistic and 
forceful way. The days of the old 
Romanticist film are virtually dead 
and gone. An increasing number 
of film directors purposely set out 
to instil a philosophy through the 
film—a philosophy which is mostly 
dangerous and destructive. The 
frightening thing is, that the pub-
lic generally don't realize what's 
going onl 
TREND-SETTERS 
Film Director Robert Altman, 
for example, has just produced the 
film "M*A*S*H"—a humorous sat-
ire against war. Yet he declared 
that his purpose was not to slam 
politics: "I am more concerned 
with behaviour, with THE INSANITY 
OF ORDER.. . ."1 There is a word 
for that in philosophy, the word 
NIHILISM, which is the view that 
there is no real way of knowing 
truth, that existence is basically 
senseless and useless. We shall re-
turn a little later to the film 
"M*A*S*H." 
Fellini of Italy (maker of 
"Satyricon"), Slessinger of Eng-
land, and Bergman of Sweden, are 
three of the outstanding despair-
film makers. Bergman has said that 
he deliberately developed the flow 
of his films to teach the philosophy 
of EXISTENTIALISM (a view 
that states, among other things, 
that man's experience in life is un-
reasonable, irrational, and cannot 
be communicated). In a later film, 
however, he went a step further: 
"The Silence" is a statement of 
utter nihilism. Man has no mean-
ing, no morals, no real will; life 
is chaos.1 
 
But by far the two most impor-
tant film-makers in this respect are 
Jean-Luc Godard (maker of "La 
Chinoise," "Masculine-Feminine," 
"Made in the USA," and "2 or 3 
Things I know about Her"), and 
Michaelangelo Antonioni (maker 
of "L'avventura," "La Notte," 
"Blow Up," "Zabriskie Point"). 
Godard is today a chief pusher of 
REVOLUTION through the film 
medium (we shall refer to his films 
4 
later). Antonioni has been named 
by Esquire magazine as "ONE OF 
THE MOST IMPORTANT PEO-
PLE IN THE WORLD." In a 
list which includes celebrities like 
President Nixon, Pope Paul and 
Leonid Breshnev, Antonioni is 
considered to be one of the 
"people who between 1965 and 
1975 had had (or will have) the 
greatest impact on the world."a 
When you realize that his films 
expose to full view the philosophy 
of NIAILISM and the remedy of 
CLEANSING BY VIOLENCE of 
society's ills, the thought of his 
increasing fame becomes truly 
frightening. 
FANNING THE FLAME OF 
REVOLUTION 
Felix Barker, in the London 
Evening News has noted that the 
cinema is definitely reflecting the 
Protest-Revolution trend in so-
ciety. Take "Zabriskie Point" 
(Antonioni) as an example. It is 
the story of a young man who gets 
caught up in a student revolt. He 
is thought to be to blame for the 
killing of a policeman during the 
riots, and escapes in a "borrowed" 
plane and lands in the desert. 
There he shares his frustrations 
with a girl where they both enjoy 
the freedom from their synthetic 
culture and also have sexual in-
tercourse. Later he takes the plane 
back, only to find himself sur-
rounded by monster-like, siren-
hooting police cars. He is killed, 
almost with the first bullet. 
The girl is depressed and alone. 
She returns to her plush home, 
where her father greets her with 
all the necessary smiles, but none 
of the needed genuine concern. 
He's too busily involved in a new 
take-over bid. The girl drifts out 
of the house and in her imagina-
tion she blows the place sky high 
and walks off into the sunset. 
The story itself is simple: it is 
the setting, dialogue and produc-
tion that make it such a revolu-
tion - fevered film. Society and 
youth are projected as entirely 
alien to each other. Society is 
mechanistic: youth is human. "I 
only work when I want bread 
[money]" says a youth, and im-
mediately the camera fixes on a 
OF SOCIETY 
hoarding depicting a farmer feed-
ing bread to pigs. Students revolt 
and are met by a passionless res-
ponse from the police that they are 
in "violation of section 415 of the 
penal code." 
The girl tells her father that 
she's going off to meditate. 
Typical of his materialism, he 
replies: "What do you do when 
you meditate?" 
A youth asks the proprietor of a 
sandwich bar to "trust him for 
the price of a sandwich," to which 
he replies: "It's not that I can't 
trust you, but if .I trusted you, I'd 
have to trust everybody in the 
whole world"—the whole loveless 
world. 
People are portrayed as being 
of value only as they are of use: 
"You know as well as I do that a 
thing is of value only in propor-
tion to its potential use," says a 
business opponent in a selling 
point made to the girl's father. 
Society is mechanistic. Youth gives 
up the effort to communicate. 
What is Antonioni's solution? 
He has the girl saunter out of the 
house, and standing at a distance 
looking at the grand place nes-
tling in a rock, she blows up the lot 
in her mind's eye. A dozen times 
the scene is repeated. The shots 
are in slow-motion and become 
psychedelic. Then separate views 
are shown of an exploding T.V., a 
stack of sumptuous clothes, lavish 
food, tea parties, piles of books, 
Wonderbread and refrigerators—
the smithereens sail by in weird 
colours as if they were passing 
through volumes of water. And all 
the while, electronic music, pro-
ducing the most discordant and 
shrill sounds fills the ears, like the 
frenzied screams of youth as they 
view the collapse of society. 
THAT IS ANTONIONI'S ANS-
WER TO THE PROBLEM OF 
OUR PLASTIC SOCIETY. DES-
TRUCTION! 
VIOLENCE ADVOCATED 
Other films offer the same nega-
tive solution. "Strawberry State-
ment" intensifies the "awful gulf" 
existing between the two genera-
tions. Strike and revolution are the 
only answer of a despotic corps of 
callous cops to keep things under 
control. 
Similarly the film "If" exhibits 
violence as a cleanser of society 
when Radicalism shoots down Lib-
eralism, by a bullet between the 
eyes of the headmaster. 
The film "M*A*S*H" throws 
out just as damaging a philos-
ophy. Because it is an hilarious 
comedy slamming WAR, many 
people will be taken in by it. For 
the film opposes war, NOT BE-
CAUSE WAR IS AGAINST AN 
ACCEPTED MORAL CODE, 
BUT BECAUSE THERE ARE 
NO MORAL CODES TO GIVE 
ANY PURPOSE TO WAR. WAR 
IS NOT BAD BECAUSE IT OP-
POSES OUR STANDARDS OF 
GOODNESS: IT IS STUPID BE-
CAUSE IT FAILS TO RECOG-
NIZE THAT THERE ARE NO 
STANDARDS WORTH FIGHT-
ING FOR. 
"M*A*S*H" leaves nothing sac-
rosanct. All the "sacred cows"—
morality, Religion, patriotism, med-
icine, respect for women, are 
slaughtered.4 Moral absolutes dis-
appear. 
REVOLUTION URGED 
A trilogy of films was produced 
by Godard in the sixties—"2 or 3 
Things I know About Her," "La 
Chinoise," "Weekend." EACH OF 
THESE WAS BASED UPON 
THE NEED FOR REVOLU-
TION IN SOCIETY. The first, 
focuses on the violated middle 
class who have become pawns in 
the hands of the technocrats. So-
ciety needs turning back to zero 
by revolution. 
The second shows how the 
revolutionaries will triumph over 
the bourgeoisie. 
The final film of the three con-
siders what should replace the 
present culture after it is destroyed. 
The answer is a classless world, 
BANKRUPT OF MORAL ABSOLUTES. 
Barbarism runs rampant. A new 
organization under a hippie chief 
is set up to establish a new ideal. 
SO WE ARE BACK WHERE WE 
STARTED. GODARD'S AN-
SWER IS A NON-ANSWER. 
MORALLY BANKRUPT 
This failure of film-makers to 
give a satisfactory answer to so-
ciety's problems is considered a vir-
tue by Norman Silverstein in 
Films and Filming. He says: "If a 
film ends with a solution to a 
human dilemma, IT IS PROVID-
ING A STRUCTURE THAT IS 
OF NECESSITY FALSE" 15 This 
seems to be the view of most mod-
ern film-makers. 
OUR TIMES and its hundreds 
of affiliated magazines around the 
world, FEEL DUTY-BOUND TO 
SPEAK OUT AGAINST SUCH 
PERNICIOUS ENCITEMENT 
TO DESPAIR AND VIOLENCE. 
It is true that society is rent and 
torn by all manner of ills, BUT 
THIS IS NO REASON TO ADD 
FUEL TO THE FIRE BY OFFER-
ING ONLY SELF-DESTRUC-
TIVE ALTERNATIVES. It is 
true that America is hastening to-
wards revolution, but this is no 
reason for encouraging the hatred 
that already exists either side of 
the generation-gap. NON-
RATIONAL, NIHILISTIC ANS-
WERS END IN NOTHING. 
THEY ARE NO-ANSWERS. 
THE CHRISTIAN ANSWER 
OUR TIMES stands on the side 
of neither the decadent society nor 
the drop-outs. It declares that 
these two alien groups can be rec-
onciled only as they are prepared 
to recognize certain basic truths of 
Christianity and human nature: 
1. That man is a personality, cre- 
ated in the image of a personal 
God. His personality is not to 
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be violated by violence. 
2. That man was created as a ver-
balizer—he speaks and can be 
spoken to. He must use this 
means of communication and 
stop acting as if he were an ir-
rational, non-logical gibbering 
animal, incapable of no other 
form of communication than 
violence. 
3. That man is turned in on him-
self—he has fallen—and is div-
ided against himself and against 
society. The decadence of soc-
iety is therefore, primarily, a 
MORAL decadence. Man must 
put himself right in order to 
put society right. 
4. That the decadence of right-
wing society and the violence of 
the left may be CLEANSED 
and RECONCILED by the re-
newal of personality through 
the power of God in Christ. 
5. That renewed men may thus 
work towards a renewed society 
through the love and the under-
standing that Christ imparts to 
the mind. 
6. That there 
morals—a 
References. 
Time, page 66, May 25, 1970. 
a Francis A. Schaeffer, The God Who Is There, 
page 42, Inter-Varsity, Chicago. 1968. 
s Films and Filming, page 50, June, 1970. 
4 Evening News (London), May 21. 1970. 
Films and Filming, page 104, June, 1970. 
VOICE 
OF 
YOUTH 
WHY I BELIEVE 
THAT JESUS CHRIST 
IS ALIVE TODAY 
WHEN I was small, my mother taught me 
how to pray, and from time to time she 
wrote poems to God about our family. One 
thing I do remember was this little poem 
which she wrote and often recited to us: 
"Dear God, Let me be 
A good Mother to my three; 
May they grow up to be honest and 
true, 
To love me and their Daddy and not 
forget You." 
Somehow, I think that years later, God 
answered my mother's prayer; because when 
I needed Him most, God really helped me 
not to forget Him. 
During my school years I was like many 
other young people—just happy to leave 
school and to experience the thrills that 
adulthood could give. To be honest, I just 
wanted to enjoy myself and to get as much 
as possible out of life. At the age of six-
teen or seventeen the world seemed to be 
one big merry-go-round. I began to love 
the "gay life" more and more: drinking, 
smoking, and dancing became my life. The 
world was made to appear as attractive as 
possible, and I accepted the bait without 
thinking where it would lead me. I can 
honestly say that without the help of Jesus 
Christ I would be off my head, on drugs, 
or perhaps dead. But let me tell you how 
I came to this point and how God led in 
my life. 
I became seriously ill, and for a period 
of two years suffered spasmodic attacks of 
a disease which crippled my arms and legs. 
and which could have left me completely 
helpless. You can imagine how I felt as I 
faced the possibility of being crippled for 
life. In between the attacks I still lived life 
to the full—pop-music formed my escape 
world, and I became more and more in-
fatuated by it. Because of my illness I had 
much more time on my hands; I was work-
ing about twenty hours a week and used 
the money for further enjoyment. 
I must confess that when I became ill I 
prayed to God for help. The way that He 
seemed to answer baffled me, but looking 
back I can see how His hand was leading. 
I was admitted to a hospital where 99% 
of the patients were in wheel chairs, per-
manently crippled from the very disease I 
had. This was virtually the end of the world 
to me. I felt like ending everything. Also 
I felt like cursing God for the terrible 
sights I saw in the hospital: Yet if I could 
have looked into the future, I would have 
praised Him for His providence. 
During my stay in hospital my ideas 
about life changed. In the suffering I saw 
a complete contrast to my life of enjoy-
ment, and for the first time I realized that 
life was a serious matter. At the same time 
the Holy Spirit worked on my mind and 
I began to realize that with the nurses and 
staff there was a way of life which seemed 
to be more satisfying than mine had been. 
All my enjoyment hadn't brought me 
happiness. Also for the first time I met a 
genuine Christian. It was a', wonderful ex-
perience and at the time I really wanted 
to be like this person. 
After leaving hospital my health deterio-
rated and I became more and more de-
pressed, until each day was a burden and all 
I wanted was death. My family and friends 
were very concerned about me, as I never 
went out. I would never speak to any one 
and I just stayed in my room. The greatest 
thing that 'held me back was not my bad 
health or its depressing effect, but the over-
whelming remorse and guilt which I felt 
for my past life. I knew that unless I found 
forgiveness I could never have peace of 
mind. I was controlled by my habits and 
inclinations—I had walked into a trap and 
the more I tried to escape from it the 
tighter it became. I almost gave up hope of 
happiness, but again I remembered the 
Christians I had met during my stay in 
hospital. This thought encouraged my 
prayers which went up to God every night. 
No one ever cries to God in vain, and 
after two years of prayer, a friend invited 
me to some meetings on archaeology. To 
my surprise there was a 'lecture on health 
the same night. It was here that I really 
found Christ and the forgiveness and peace 
of mind which He alone can give. There 
followed many more personal miracles 
which God worked for me. Jesus Christ 
led me in a wonderful way from a life of 
complete despair to one of hope, 'happiness, 
security and faith. The future is now ex-
tremely bright; by His blessings, God has 
more than made up for the years I missed 
through illness. 
I am now studying to be a minister for 
God. I want to bring other young people 
to a knowledge of Christ and enjoy that 
peace which passes all understanding. 
BROTHERHOOD 
by Joyce Frances Carpenter 
Think only thoughts of love today 
With understanding as your guide: 
You'll find you help along their way, 
The weary ones close by your side. 
And breathe out peace to all you meet; 
For many strangers in the street, 
With skins of black, or white, or tan 
Need help from "Brotherhood of Man." 
is a criterion for all 
moral absolute—in 
God. We may judge the right 
and wrong of society, violence 
and revolution by their relation 
to God and the Standards He 
has given in the Bible. 
7. That the FINAL REVOL-
UTION will be accomplished 
by God and not man, when 
God OVERTHROWS THE 
SOCIAL ORDER and recreates 
the world and a society based 
on love and understanding AT 
THE SECOND COMING OF 
CHRIST. 
Revolutionaries should commit 
their cause to Christ and work 
towards that Day by showing the 
way to a renewed personality 
and by attempting to reconcile 
society through the gifts of com-
munication. 
This surely, is the duty of film-
makers. Get to grips with the real 
answers, AND STOP PRODUC-
ING FILMS THAT OFFER NO 
OTHER SOLUTION THAN EX-
TINCTION. 
by 
Carl Fletcher 
6 
e ston 
cry out 
HOW LAW-GIVER HAMMURABI 
PROVES BIBLE TRUTH 
by Charlotte Hastings 
W
HEN in Bablyon my atten-
tion was drawn to a seal of 
Nebuchadnezzar II in the 
paving of the Processional Way; 
and also to another, in re-used 
brickwork, by the famous Ishtar 
Gate. Impressed a thousand years 
earlier, it was of the time of Ham-
murabi, Babylonian king, from the 
first Golden Age and Dynasty. 
Hammurabi is chiefly known for 
his famous Law Code, the original 
of which, in polished, black dio-
rite, is a stele nearly eight foot 
high and is at the Louvre, Paris. 
It was brought there by French 
archaeologist Jacques de Morgan 
from his excavations at Susa, Persia 
[Biblical, Shushan]. One replica 
is in the British Museum. 
Carved on the tapering upper 
part, Hammurabi is portrayed re- 
King Hammurabi of the first Babylonian king-
dom. (c. 1792-1750 B.C.) is here depicted on 
the famous stele on which is inscribed the laws 
he is here seen receiving from the so-called 
sun-god. This legal code is the most important 
single document relating to Babylonian life 
that is known to us. 
ceiving his laws from the en-
throned sun-god, Shamash, in 
whose Temple at Sippar near 
Babylon it once stood, until taken 
as booty by a Persian conqueror. 
It is beautifully engraved in cune-
iform columns, has a eulogistic pro-
logue and epilogue, besides 282 
laws. 
This comprehensive legal code 
(dated 2300 B.c.) of over three and 
a half thousand lines covers every 
aspect of civil rights—for nobility, 
commoners, and slaves. Marital 
responsibilities, divorce, inherit-
ance, debts, disputes concerning 
property, cattle, commerce—what-
ever the issue, obligations and pen-
alties were stated, including death 
sentences for theft, adultery, and 
false accusation. Murder was 
covered by the Law of Retaliation 
by relatives. Unsuccessful oper-
ations risked mutilation of a hand 
for the surgeon, and literarily an 
"eye for an eye" if sight were lost. 
The code is of particular im-
portance because from this secular 
source is confirmed how historic-
ally true is the setting and preva-
lent customs of patriarchal times 
outlined in the Bible. Instances 
such as the manner of contract 
over the purchase of the Cave of 
Machpelah by Abraham; the epi-
sodes between Jacob and Laban re-
garding Laban's daughters Rachel 
and Leah; and the dealings of 
Abraham's wife Sarah with the 
handmaid Hagar, in sending her 
away, are seen to be merciful ac-
cording to Babylonian law, Clause 
146: "If . . . equality is claimed 
with her mistress because she bore 
children, her mistress may not sell 
her, she may mark her with the 
slave-mark, and count her among 
the slaves." 
It was the will of God that a 
man should have only one wife, as 
in the beginning. In calling Abra-
ham from Ur, God was leading 
him away from polytheistic [many 
gods] concepts which had corrup-
ted religion, morals, and legisla-
tion. 
Thus archaeology has com-
pletely disproved the assertions by 
Bible critics—that it was imposs-
ible for Moses to write the highly 
developed system of laws con-
tained in the Bible (Pentateuch). 
Some 400 years after Abraham, 
who was a contemporary of Ham-
murabi, the Book of the Covenant, 
the statutory laws of Israel were 
written by Moses, BUT NOT COPIED 
FROM HAMMURABI. And much 
earlier, similar legal codes have 
now been discovered . . . those of 
Lipit-Ishtar, Nippur; King Bilal-
ama, Eshnunna; and King Ur-
Nammu, Ur. "It seems certain," 
stated archaeologist Sir Charles 
Marsden, "that Hammurabi's laws 
were a codification of the oldest 
and existing laws and customs of 
the Semitic race—the race that 
springs from Noah's son Shem, the 
race to which the Hebrews be-
longed." (The Bible Comes Alive.) 
"In the Babylonian laws there 
is no control of lust, no limitation 
of selfishness through altruism; no-
where the postulate of charity; no-
where the religious motif which 
recognizes sin as the destruction of 
the people, because it is in op-
position to the fear of the Lord." 
(J. Jeremias, in Moses and Ham-
murabi.) 
Re-emphasized through Moses 
at Sinai was the Moral Law of the 
Ten Commandments, written by 
God, the real Law-giver, whose 
basic attribute is love. Only this 
was placed in the Ark of the 
Covenant, beneath the Mercy Seat. 
True loyalty to God will lead us to 
keep His commandments (Exodus 
20:3-17), and thereby fully to re-
spect and honour the rights of our 
fellow men. 
CROSSWORD SOLUTION 
(See page 14.) 
GOD'S WORD 
ACROSS.-1. Gutenberg; 7. Ind; 8. nails; 
10. Eve; 11. lined; 13. sigma; 15. forth; 
18. �
cured; 
20. air; 121. 
Eddas; 
22. 
orb ; 
23. Coverdale. 
DOWN.-2. union; 3. ended; 4. bones; 5. ruing; 
6. Wycliffe; 9. Standard; 12. eat; 44. I.O.th ; 
16. radio; 17. haste ; 18. crowd; 49. rebel. 
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by Richard Vine, M.A. 
R
ECENTLY a young man 
jumped from a New York 
skyscraper because, after 
taking the drug LSD, he thought 
he was a bird, and could fly. We 
would label him a fool, because he 
was out of touch with the facts of 
reality—with the law of gravity, 
and with the hard fact of the pave-
ment hundreds of feet below —
until it was too late. 
The Bible defines a man who 
doesn't believe in God as a FOOL: 
"The fool hath said in his heart, 
There is no God" (Psalm 14:1). 
Why is he a fool? He is out of 
touch with Reality, with the hard 
facts of this world, he is living in 
an imaginary world that does not 
exist, an incomplete world in 
which he, because he excludes God 
from his life, is only a half-man 
himself! 
WHY ARE MODERN PEOPLE SO 
GODLESS? 
We are living in a post-Christian 
age, when the majority no longer 
attend church, and have only a 
hazy idea of God. The laws of the 
land are no longer Christian laws 
—in fact, un-Christian behaviour, 
such as homosexuality, are being 
made legal. How did this process 
of "expunging" God from our 
society begin? 
About 200 years ago, men like 
Locke, Hume, Hobbes, Rousseau 
and Voltaire wanted to find Truth, 
or Reality, the truth about man 
and the world. In their quest they 
said: "We'll start with Man, and 
using our five senses, we'll reach 
out and inquire into the universe. 
We'll use only scientific methods 
to gather our facts. We'll weigh, 
measure, and observe." They went 
on to say that if a thing can't be 
seen or handled or weighed, then 
it doesn't exist. Sounds reasonable? 
The Bible says that God cannot 
be seen by man, for He is invisible. 
The men of the Age of Reason 
promptly assumed "There is no 
God." But instead of being label-
led Fools, they were hailed as the 
heralds of what the history books 
call "The Enlightenment" of the 
1700s. 
PAUL VERSUS "THE AGE OF 
REASON" 
Paul calls such men fools. They 
thought they were being clever 
when they left God out of their 
reckoning. The Greek word in 
Romans 1:21, 22, 25 for Fool is 
"Morones," or Moron. They 
thought man was growing up, be-
ing freed from "superstitions," be-
ing educated. But Paul says that 
as they debased God, man him--
self became debased—not enlight-
ened or exalted. He devotes the 
rest of the chapter (Romans 1) to 
describing the results of first deny-
ing God. This is the reason for our 
lawless, confused, cruel society to-
day—IT HAS TURNED ITS BACK ON 
GOD. Just read verses 24-31--it's 
almost as if you were reading the 
Sunday News of the World. 
We are only now reaping the 
full fruit in our society today of 
the seeds that were sown by the 
men of the "Age of Reason" 200 
years ago, who because they could 
not see Him, avowed: "There is 
no God!" 
CONSEQUENCES OF DENYING THE 
EXISTENCE OF GOD 
1. Having denied God because 
He cannot be seen, they denied 
the reality of angels and devils, 
because they couldn't be seen. 
To believe in them was thought 
"Unscientific." Have you ever 
seen an angel? 
2. If God goes so does His Law—
the Ten Commandments. The 
Commandment which says, 
"Thou shalt not steal" becomes 
irrelevant, if the law and the 
God behind it, do not exist. 
Hence the reason for our pre-
sent crime-wave—in some areas 
it's unsafe to walk in the streets 
alone at night. Especially is the 
crime-wave noticeable in young 
people under the age of 21. 
3. When the Creator-God disap-
pears, in a way, so does man 
himself. He's no longer a full 
man—with a body, mind and 
soul. Diderot wrote in his 
famous Encyclopaedia 
(1752-
1772) under the entry "Man" 
these words: "Man is really only 
an animal—who can SEE any 
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basic differences . . . there is 
no basic difference between 
man, animals, plants and 
things." 
The Theory of Evolution, 
popularized by Charles Darwin 
in 1859 in his book, The Origin 
of Species seemed to give scien-
tific support to this idea of man 
as a super-ape, but nonetheless 
still just another animal, with a 
body that needed clothing and 
feeding, and a brain that needed 
educating, but because it couldn't 
be seen or measured, he had 
no soul. Is it any wonder that 
youngsters, fed on B.B.C. pro-
evolution propaganda in the 
schools programmes, act like 
animals if they believe that's 
just what they are? The theory 
that man is just a super-ape, a 
little less hairy, is taught in 
best-sellers like The Human Zoo 
and The Naked Ape. 
4. Following the idea that things 
which can't be weighed or seen 
or measured do not exist, it is 
denied that man has a SOUL. 
That capacity for reflecting the 
character of God is called soul 
in the Bible. This, we are told 
today, does not exist. Man is no 
more than another animal. 
5. Intangible things like love, loy-
alty, beauty, goodness, faith, 
friendship all disappear from 
man's make-up because they too 
cannot be measured or seen. 
Love disappears for that rea-
son, and we are left with that 
part of love which can be seen 
and experienced, called SEX. 
This is said to be just another 
appetite that must be satisfied. 
Old-fashioned ideas about right 
and wrong, responsibility, the 
Law of God which says "Thou 
shalt not commit adultery" don't 
enter the discussion of sex, be-
cause they can't be observed or 
photographed or weighed. 
6. We are told that as animals, we 
must hunt and be hunted, that 
the fittest (and fiercest) will 
survive. Thus our society is rid-
dled with self-interest, and we 
have lost courtesy and unself-
ishness, and the virtue of put-
ting others first. "The meek," 
said Jesus, not the fierce, "shall 
inherit the earth." 
7. Worst of all, having denied God, 
men today have denied the pos-
sibility of a life hereafter. It 
cannot be proven scientifically, 
they say. Thus, modern novel-
ists like Sartre, and philoso-
phers, and even modern artists, 
like Picasso, are very conscious 
in all they do, of the fact of 
death, but most of them have 
no hope for a life hereafter. 
The result is: MAN WITHOUT 
MORALS. He reasons: "If I live 
a bad life, I die. But if I live a 
good life, still, I will die, so 
why should I bother what sort 
of life I live?" Doesn't this des-
cribe a large segment of our 
generation? 
FOOLS SAYS DAVID, FOOLS SAYS 
PAUL 
Foolish modern men, fancy im-
agining that the God of the Uni-
verse, the Maker of the earth and 
Creator of mankind, can be fitted 
into a test tube! The whole Bible 
approach to truth—moral and 
spiritual truth—is the opposite to 
Man's approach. The Bible reveals 
that the only truth that really 
matters is not found out by man 
equipped with his laboratory and 
telescope. Truth is something that 
has been revealed by God through 
His prophets, and recorded in His 
Word, the Bible. Unless God had 
revealed it, Man would never be 
able to find it out. Such is the 
Christian approach. 
How should we seek God? It is 
by using that faculty we call faith, 
in other words, by believing in 
Someone whom we cannot see. 
Paul writes in the New Testa-
ment: "Without faith it is impos-
sible to please him. For they that 
come unto God must believe that 
he is, and that he is a rewarder 
of those that diligently (not half-
heartedly) seek him" (Hebrews 
11:6). 
What then, can we really know 
about God? Notice these words of 
Jesus Christ to one of His disciples: 
"He that hath seen me hath seen 
the Father" (John 14:9). 
Read also these words of John: 
"That which was from the begin-
ning, which we have heard, which 
we have seen with our eyes, which 
we have looked upon, and our 
hands have handled, of the Word 
of life; . . . That which we have 
seen and heard declare we unto 
you, . . . And these things write 
we unto you, that your joy may be 
full" (1 John 1:1, 2, 4). 
Yes, God has revealed Himself; 
He has revealed the truth, in 
Jesus Christ. 
God is looking for men and wo-
men today who won't be afraid to 
be "fools for Christ." People who 
will bear witness to their friends 
and families to a message which is 
so simple, so direct, and so un-
believable, that at first it seems 
foolishness. (1 Corinthians 1:21.) 
This is the message from a "fool" 
who believes, to a fool who doesn't 
believe: "This God, who made 
you, loves you, and wants you for 
His son or daughter. He wants you 
so much that He died for you on a 
cross. He's waiting now for you, 
preparing a home for you in 
heaven where He lives. And He's 
coming soon, in person, to take 
you to your home so that you can 
enjoy His friendship for ever. 
Won't you accept?" 
(Readers are recommended to 
enrol for one of the several free 
Bible Study Courses offered by the 
Voice of Prophecy Bible School. 
See back cover for details. Act 
now.) 
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peace 
in your 
life 
by E. Pettit 
Full acceptance of Christ is the sure 
means of changing a life of anxiety into 
one of unblemished happiness. Millions 
today have proved it. And remember, 
the peace of society, of the nation, and 
of the world, begins with the peace of 
the individual. 
T DO not want what I have and 
I do not know what I want!" 
So sighed a bearded hippie in 
Los Angeles one day. His com-
plaint seems to echo that of many 
in our affluent society. In the 
midst of plenty we cry for more. 
With shops and stores bulging with 
goods modern man is poverty-
stricken. But it is not material pov-
erty. It is that of the spirit. 
There are millionaires with full 
bank accounts but empty lives. 
Brilliant 'and versatile people 
highly trained to earn a living but 
with no knowledge of how to live. 
So-called successful men who are 
moral and spiritual failures. 
Most people, deep down, feel 
dissatisfied with their lives. So they 
go charging after that "will-o-the-
wisp," material possessions, to fill 
their emptiness. When they have a 
black and white TV they want a 
colour one. They want a bigger 
house, a newer car, a boat, and so 
on. So there is the saying "Keeping 
up with the Joneses!" Someone said 
the other day, "I wish Jones would 
drop dead!" The trouble is Jones 
exists inside us not outside. There 
is something greedy and grasping 
about a certain side of our nature 
that wants more,•more, more. 
Psychologists have tried to ex-
plain why this should be so. Adler 
said that within each human being 
is the hunger to be loved. This 
hunger is frustrated and so comes 
out in various ways. You may have 
the prosperous middle-aged, mid-
dle-class housewife, who is a klep-
tomaniac. By stealing from the 
supermarket she is compensating 
for the lack of love in her life. 
But someone says: "That is all 
very well, but you must make ends 
meet, you must have money!" 
Well as one wit put it, "Money 
will never buy you happiness, it 
will only help you enjoy being 
miserable!" 
No, there is nothing wrong with 
money or wealth as such. The 
Bible says: "The love of money is 
the root of all evil" (1 Timothy 
6:10)—not money itself. 
Julian Huxley once said, there 
is a "God-shaped blank" in each 
human heart. Perhaps he was 
thinking of St. Augustine's state-
ment where he said that: "We have 
no rest until we find our rest in 
Thee." 
If we love wealth selfishly we are 
creating a false god. We are at-
tempting to fill that aching void 
with a material thing. But it cannot 
be done. 
For material possessions can 
never fill this primal need in our 
hearts. 
How true and wise Our Lord's 
words were when He said: "There-
fore take no thought saying, what 
shall we eat? or what shall we 
drink? or where withal shall we 
be clothed? But seek ye first the 
kingdom of God and his righteous-
ness; and all these things shall be 
added unto you" (Matthew 6:31, 
33). There is the true place for 
wealth, not a priority but a 
secondary. It must, therefore, come 
after "God and his righteousness." 
A materialistic manner of life 
does not hold the true secret of 
peace. Modern man has made 
money and power his "gods" rather 
than his servants. They are very 
good servants, but terrible and de-
manding "gods." 
Now there has always been a 
tendency in Christian thinking to 
look upon physical things as 
dangerous, and to preserve the 
spirit it is better to renounce them. 
Hence we veer from one extreme 
to another, from materialism to 
ascetism. The thinking is that if 
true joy and peace cannot be 
found in the pursuit of earthly 
things then there must be a total 
renunciation of all earthly pleas-
ures. 
DID PILLAR CHRISTIANS FIND PEACE? 
One of the most noteworthy 
cases of this was Simon Stylites 
(c 390-459 A.D.) who practised his 
peculiar austerity by living on 
top of a column thirty feet high. 
Every day he would have some 
meagre food and water raised to 
him by a rope and basket. Hun-
dreds followed his example. They 
were known as the "pillar Chris-
tians". Did such men thus find 
peace with God? Henry Chad-
wich observes: "Their recorded 
mortifications make alarming read-
ing. A heavy iron chain as a belt 
was a frequent austerity. A few 
adopted the life of animals and 
fed on grass, living in the open 
air without shade from the sun 
and with the minimum clothing, 
and justifying their method of de-
fying society by claiming to be 
'fools for Christ's sake!' " One 
legend says that after one of these 
hermits had spent thirty years liv-
ing on top of a column he said, 
"God, I have been living on top of 
this pillar for thirty years but I 
do not feel that I have yet found 
you. . . . Where are you God?" 
And God replied, "Down here 
among the people!" 
Our Lord had prayed concern-
ing his disciples: "I do not pray 
that thou shouldst take them out 
of the world, but that thou 
shouldst keep them from the evil 
one" (John 17:15, R.S.V.). Here 
we catch a glimpse of the beauty 
of Biblical Christianity. 
Not materialism or "loving the 
world," nor ascetism or "with-
drawal from the world," BUT BEING 
KEPT FROM EVIL BY THE POWER OF 
GOD IN THE MIDST OF THE WORLD. 
The Christian is to be in the 
world but not of the world. It is 
here that many falter and ask, how 
can this be? How can I meet the 
temptations of the world without 
succumbing to them? 
ENSLAVED 
I once knew a young man who 
was training to be a lawyer. One 
day we were discussing Christian 
living and he said to me, "I just 
cannot live up to your Bible stan-
dards." He was what we call a 
"womaniser." He had a different 
girl each might as well as being en-
gaged to one young lady, and hav-
ing about six others to whom he had 
promised marriage. When I spoke 
to him concerning the high ethical 
standards of the Bible he said, "I 
just could not do it, if I could not 
carry on as I am, life would not be 
worth living!" But he was not 
happy. In fact he was a slave to 
his passion. 
There are many like him, 
though the enslaving sin may be 
different. Maybe they cannot leave 
the bottle alone; or perhaps they 
have an evil temper; they may 
gamble, lie, cheat, steal incessantly 
and obsessionally. 
Some say it is a psychological 
problem. Get them to lie down on 
a couch and talk to a psychiatrist 
and they will get better. Now a 
great deal of good can be accom-
plished by psychiatry. But if we 
feel that the problem can be solely 
dealt with by the psychiatrist's 
couch we make a big mistake. For 
the reason lies deeper still, since 
it is more than a mental problem, it 
is more than a moral problem, it 
is a spiritual one. 
THREE CLUES TO DYNAMIC LIVING 
There are three clues to dis-
cover the secret of inner peace and 
tranquillity, that are given in the 
Bible. If we give due heed to them 
we shall find for ourselves the 
secret of dynamic living. 
The first one is this, that the 
Bible reveals that man is funda-
mentally, intrinsically, and basic-
ally alienated from God, Paul 
speaks very clearly of the condition 
the whole human race is in when 
he wrote: "They are darkened in 
their understanding 
alienated 
from the life of God" (Ephesiaris 
4:18). In the same epistle he speaks 
of man being "by nature, children 
of wrath," and as such have "no 
hope" and are "without God in 
the world" (Ephesians 2:3, 12). 
Man in his original state was 
created to have communion with 
God. He was made to live his life 
with God as the centre of that life. 
When he sinned he rebelled 
against God, thereby displacing 
God as the centre of his being, and 
putting his ego there instead. 
Hence man is ego-centric. 
Any idea of withdrawal from 
the world must be a false way to 
salvation since it is basically ego-
tistic, a desire to save oneself by 
works. 
An understanding of man's Fall 
(Genesis 3) and the Christian doc-
trine of original sin transforms 
man's question: "How shall I save 
myself?" into the question: "Who 
will deliver me?" 
For the Christian there is only 
one ultimate answer: "Thanks be 
to God, through our Lord Jesus 
Christ" (Romans 7:24, 25). 
INWARD EXPERIENCE 
Now we must examine the next 
clue, which is that peace and power 
in one's life does not depend upon 
outward circumstances but is es-
sentially an inward experience. 
Again we quote the word of Jesus: 
"Peace I leave with you; my peace 
I give unto you; not as the world 
gives do I give to you. Let not 
your hearts be troubled or afraid" 
(John 14:27 R.S.V.) To have such 
peace and inner harmony we do 
not have to retreat to a desert is-
land! My young friend who could 
not leave the girls alone, did not 
have to go to that monastery in 
Greece which is located on a tower- 
ing cliff and where no woman has 
set foot for 1,000 years, to get away 
from temptation! Something had 
to happen to him, and has to hap-
pen to us which is internal, not 
external. 
The first step in the reception 
of such peace is to recognize that 
we are empty, we are alienated 
and separated from God, but then 
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T
HE creation account closes 
with the words: "And God 
rested." Not that He was weary 
and needed repose, but rather that 
He rested in the sense in which a 
lawyer rests his case. In other 
words, He ceased from His cre-
ative activity. The Word says that 
"the works were finished from the 
foundation of the world." 
(Hebrews 4:3). 
As a memorial of creation week, 
THE SEVENTH DAY WAS SET APART 
AS HOLY TIME. In it man was com-
manded not to do any work, but 
to observe it in commemoration of 
creation (Exodus 20:11). Had the 
Sabbath thus been observed by all, 
there would never have been any 
idolatry, nor atheism, nor any 
other of the many doctrines that 
deny the sovereignty of God in the 
universe. The Sabbath was to be a 
sign between God and His people 
(Ezekiel 20:20) whereby they 
would know that He was their 
God. 
According to the New Testa-
ment, the Sabbath was observed at 
the time of Christ, for we read that 
the women who prepared spices 
for His burial "rested the Sabbath 
day according to the command-
ment" (Luke 23:56). Also, "when 
the Sabbath was past" they brought 
the spices to the tomb "in the 
morning the first day of the week" 
(Mark 16:1, 2). 
NOT JEWISH 
The Sabbath was not a Jewish 
holiday, for it was established 
2,000 years before there was a Jew. 
It was set up as a perpetual mem-
orial, and we can never do away 
with the fact of creation, which it 
was to memorialize, any more than 
we can change the fact that the 
Magna Carta was sealed on June 
15, 1215. 
How did idolatry begin? We read 
in Romans 1:21-23 that men did 
not glorify God as God. Their 
vain imaginations led them to wor-
ship nature itself. A study of 
ancient religions shows that most 
of them originally had some idea 
of a Supreme Being, although His 
exact relation to the universe was 
not clearly defined. Losing sight of 
the personality of God, men trans-
ferred His attributes to the things 
When 
God 
Rested 
Eighth of a series on Creation 
Week in the light of Modern 
Science and the Word of God. 
by Harold W. Clark 
Professor Emeritus of Biology 
of nature. This departure from 
the fundamental truth led to many 
and devious avenues of error. 
EASTERN PANTHEISM 
In India religious leaders con-
ceived of God as an essence or 
energy pervading all nature. God 
was all in all and in and through 
everything. The sun and moon, 
the winds, the'storms, the animals, 
and all manifestations of nature 
were activated by that universal 
energy. Thus there was left no dis-
tinction between God and the 
manifestation of His power in 
nature. This was pantheism—"all 
God," or God in all. 
The next natural step in the 
development of this philosophy 
was the "establishment" of many 
gods. Losing sight of the separate 
existence of God, and conceiving 
of God as penetrating nature 
everywhere, the ancient leaders of 
religious thought personified the 
various activities of nature and set 
up gods according to their vain 
imaginations, as the Bible puts it. 
HAD THE SABBATH ALWAYS BEEN 
OBSERVED AS A MEMORIAL OF THE 
CREATION OF THE WORLD BY THE 
GREAT JEHOVAH, SUCH IDOLATRY 
WOULD NEVER HAVE COME INTO 
BEING. 
In some ancient countries phil-
osophy took a different turn. Per-
haps the philosophy that has had 
the deepest influence on modern 
thought was that developed in 
Greece by Aristotle, one of the 
greatest of ancient thinkers. 
Aristotle conceived of the world 
as being activated by an inherent 
force or power. All the processes 
of nature were directed by this 
"necessity," which drove them on-
ward. Note this statement regard-
ing the results of this philosophy: 
"As we pass upward from purely 
mechanical changes, to chemical 
changes of quality, and thence to 
organic life, involving growth and 
decay; as, in organisms, we ad-
vance from the vegetative life of 
the plant, to the animal soul, capa-
ble of sensation and motion; and 
from the animal soul to man, from 
sensation to reason: we find each 
step governed by an upward im-
pulse toward the succeeding step, 
which constitutes its perfection, 
. . . the goal toward which it is 
striving."—A. K. Rodgers, A Stu-
dent's History of Philosophy, page 
106. 
According to these ideas, what-
ever god there might have been 
was declared to be simply the ulti-
mate ideal operating through 
nature. Thus Aristotle's philo-
sophy, when carried to its logical 
conclusion, results in materialistic 
evolution. 
IDOLATRY OF EVOLUTION 
Modern evolution, with its em-
phasis on the "laws of nature" as 
the ultimate power activating nat-
ural phenomena, is practically the 
same as the ancient Aristotelian 
philosophy. The great I AM, the 
Creator-God of Genesis, has no 
place in this system of thought. 
But let us leave these abstract 
considerations and note some more 
worth-while points. In the third 
chapter of Genesis, where the ac-
count of man's fall is given, we 
read that the Lord God walked in 
the garden in the cool of the day. 
How beautiful to think of the 
Creator's coming to talk with His 
newly created son and daughter! 
What interest He showed in their 
welfare! Without doubt He in-
structed them in many things. 
Adam and Eve, while fully mature 
individuals, were as yet lacking in 
experience and needed to have 
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Astronomy provides the reason for observing the periods of the day, the month, and the year. 
But the period of the week with its concluding seventh-day Sabbath, has its origin exclusively in 
the Bible record of Creation—eternally enshrined in the Fourth Commandment of God's Moral Law 
(Exodus 20:8-11). 
much information about the world 
about them in order quickly to ad-
just themselves to it. Instead of 
leaving them to discover every-
thing by slow, experimental meth-
ods, their Maker came to aid them 
in acquiring the necessary know-
ledge to make their lives more 
meaningful. 
The first Sabbath must have 
been a wonderful day of explo-
ration and communion. And had 
every succeeding Sabbath since 
then been of the same nature, how 
close to God the human race might 
have remained! Even today Chris-
tians may profit greatly by spend-
ing some time on Sabbath in com-
munion with God through His 
works. On this point we read from 
the writings of one who had a deep 
appreciation of the great lessons 
to be found in nature: 
"Christ's purpose in parable 
teaching was in direct line with the 
purpose of the Sabbath. God gave 
to men the memorial of His cre-
ative power, that they might dis-
cern Him in the works of His 
hand. The Sabbath bids us behold 
in His created works the glory of 
the Creator. . . . On the holy rest 
day, above all other days, we 
should study the messages that God 
has written for us in nature. We 
should study the Saviour's para- 
bles where He spoke them, in the 
fields and groves, under the open 
sky, among the grass and flowers. 
As we come close to the heart of 
nature, Christ makes His presence 
real to us, and speaks to our hearts 
of His peace and love."—Ellen G. 
White, Christ's Object Lessons, 
pages 25, 26. 
"From the solemn roll of 
the deep-toned thunder and old 
ocean's ceaseless roar, to the glad 
songs that make the forests vocal 
with melody, nature's ten thou-
sand voices speak His praise. In 
earth and sea and sky, with their 
marvellous tint and colour, vary-
ing in gorgeous contrast or 
blended in harmony, we behold 
His glory. . . . All the brightness 
and beauty that adoni the earth 
and light up the heavens, speak of 
God."—Ellen G. White, The Min-
istry of Healing, pages 411, 412. 
Those who thus learn to appreci-
ate the handiwork of God assimi-
late lessons that will fit them for 
the hereafter, of which the prophet 
spoke: 
"And it shall come to pass, that 
from one new moon to another, 
and from one Sabbath to another 
shall all flesh come to worship be-
fore me, saith the Lord" (Isaiah 
66:23). 
God's plan for mankind is eter- 
nal. The same memorial of His 
power (the seventh day Sabbath) 
that was given in Eden will re-
main throughout eternity to be a 
constant reminder of His love and 
power. 
Now the most wonderful seven 
days in the history of the earth had 
come to a close. The earth in all its 
pristine beauty stood as a witness 
to the work of an almighty hand. 
Man, the highest of all creation, 
made in the image of God, had 
been given dominion over every-
thing. What a wonderful privilege! 
What a priceless heritage! To be 
able to read and understand the 
thoughts of God in nature—surely 
this was, and still is, the greatest 
heritage man could desire. 
Man has departed far from his 
original state, and nature has sadly 
deteriorated. However, a day is 
coming when all will be restored. 
"For, behold, I create new 
heavens and a new earth. . . . Be 
ye glad and rejoice for ever in 
that which I create" (Isaiah 65:17, 
18). With eager anticipation we 
should look forward to that day. 
It will be well worth bending 
every effort to win an inheritance 
there. 
PEACE IN YOUR LIFE 
<— page 11 
to realize that God still loves us. 
The man who womanises, gambles, 
drinks, or whatever, is really sens-
ing that subconscious need and at-
tempting to fill that emptiness with 
things that are, in fact, destructive. 
What he should do is realize that 
God loves him—yes, God loves him 
as a son! As soon as we realize 
that God loves us and yearns over 
us as a Father no matter what we 
have done or are doing, something 
is going to happen in our lives. 
"When a man saw (and sees) 
the reality, even the enormity, of his 
own sin, and the work of God in 
meeting that sin in Christ, the res-
ponse is one of obedience and sur-
render to a God gracious and 
merciful. A kind of buoyancy is 
born in the human soul, a trust 
and confidence in all God's prom-
ises." Martin Luther and the Birth 
of Protestantism, James Atkinson, 
page 83. 
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Christ Died 
Even for 
Terrorists 
by R. H. Pierson, D.D. 
O
NE December morning in 
1967 I was speaking to a 
group of Viet Cong prisoners 
in a Vietnamese prison camp. The 
front verandah of a Buddhist tem-
ple served as my rostrum. On a 
banner stretched above my head 
were the words of Paul to the 
Philippian jailer: "Believe on the 
Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt 
be saved" (Acts 16:31). 
Before me that morning were 
forty-eight men who some months 
earlier had been plotters, arsonists, 
terrorists, thieves, and murderers. 
Now they were transformed into 
peaceful, �
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Christians. 
They were presenting themselves 
for baptism and membership in 
the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 
Television and radio stations and 
the press heralded their conver-
sion around the world. 
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1. The second book this German printed upon 
his newly invented press was the Bible. 
7. Poetic word for the country in which Ida 
Scudder spread the Word of God. 
8. He who was not willing to believe the word 
of Jesus said, "Unless I see the mark of the 
(5) on His hands . . . I will not believe." 
Ijohn 20 :25, N.E.B.) 
10. One who by mistrusting God's Word brought 
misery to ourplanet (Genesis 3.) 
11. The purses of those prepared to spread the 
"good news" of Christ were not to be (5) 
with money. (Matthew 10 :110.) 
13. 18th letter of the alphabet of the language 
used in the Septuagint Version. 
15. Blessed be the name of the Lord from this 
What power had wrought this 
great change in their lives? Who 
had taken away the burden of 
their guilt and condemnation? In 
short, who had assumed the pen-
alty for their sin and transgression? 
The only possible answer is sim-
ply and certainly Jesus Christ, the 
Man of Calvary. The Apostle Paul 
wrote: "We can see that it was 
while we were powerless to help 
ourselves that Christ died for sin-
ful men" (Romans 5:6, Phillips). 
Christ died for Viet Cong as He 
died for Britons and Americans, 
for sinners from every land. Sin-
ners in every land deserve to die. 
They are marked men. The pen-
alty of death hangs inexorably 
over their heads. That penalty 
must be paid. 
Thank God Paul's words do not 
end there. He also assures the sin-
ner that "the gift of God is eternal 
life through Jesus Christ our Lord" 
(Romans 6:23). 
"The gift of God"-this is what 
the Viet Cong needed. It is what 
you and I need. If we are not to 
die, someone else must be our sub-
stitute and pay the penalty, for 
the claims of God's law must be 
satisfied. 
time (5) and for ever-more. (Psalm 1113 :2, 
A.V.) 
18. Faith in God's Word brings physical healing 
and from that moment he was (5)." 
(Matthew 17:18, N.E.B.) 
20. Those who love God's Word will be caught 
up in clouds "to meet the Lord in the (3)." 
(1 Thessalonians 4:17, A.V.) 
21. Ancient books of old Norse poems. 
22. Globe surmounted by cross symbolizing 
Christ's sovereignty over the world. 
23. He was responsible for publishing the first 
complete English Bible, a copy of which Anne 
Boleyn always kept with her. 
DOWN: 
2. The Authorized Version was issued 8 years 
after the (5) of Scotland and England. 
3. The cry of those who have not listened to 
the Word of God. "The harvest is past, the 
summer is (5), and we are not saved." 
(Jeremiah 8:20, A.V.) 
4. "He keepeth all his (5) : not one of them 
is broken." (Psalm 34:20, A.V.) 
5. Regretting. 
6. The Biblical translation of 1382 is credited 
to this man-the "Morning Star of the 
Reformation." 
9. The middle word of A.S.V. 
12. "To 'him who is victorious I will give the 
right to (3) from the tree of life." (Revelation 
2 :7, N.E.B.) 
14. Formal acknowledgement of debt. 
16. God's Word is now heard through this 
medium. 
Q7. The shepherds "came with (5)" (Luke 2:16, 
A.V.) to worship Him who is the Word. 
18. A'(Jon 
 
mhultlitu:Ici) e. "There was a great (5) and 
they listened eagerly." (Mark 12 :38, N.E.B.) , 
19. -Some there are who (5) against the light 
of day . . . and do not linger in the paths 
of light." (Job 24:13, N.E.B.) 
(Solution on page 7.) 
UurBible 
Teaches... 
The Bible is the inspired Word of God. 
Both Old and New Testaments contain 
an all-sufficient revelation of God's will 
to men and are the only unerring rule 
of faith and practice (2 Timothy 3:15-
17). 
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, pre-existed 
with God the Father, for our sake was 
born of a virgin, lived as a man among 
men, died on the cross as a com-
plete atonement for our sins, rose 
again the third day, and ascended into 
heaven. There He intercedes as "High 
Priest" as the lives of men are called 
into judgement. Through Christ only is 
salvation possible (John 1:1, 14; 
Hebrews 2:9-18; 8:1, 2; 7:25; 4:14-16). 
The second coming of Christ is near. 
This, not man-made forces, will mark 
the end of the world. No man can pre-
dict when this will be but the Church 
believes it is imminent. His coming will 
be literal, physical, visible to all man-
kind (Matthew 24:1-44; Acts 1:6-11; 
Revelation 1:7). 
In death man rests in the grave. He 
simply ceases to live until his restoration 
at the resurrection. In death he is neither 
tormented by the fires of hell nor taken 
to heaven. He knows "not anything" 
(Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6; John 5:28, 29). 
God, through Christ, created the earth 
and all life on it. This life itself did not 
evolve over vast periods of time (John 
1:1-3; Genesis 1). 
The seventh day is the Sabbath. Both 
Old and New Testaments point to the 
sacredness of the seventh day of the 
week, as a memorial to God's creative 
power, a sign of His authority (Genesis 
2:1-3; Exodus 20:8-11; Hebrews 4:1-10). 
The Ten Commandments reveal God's 
will relating to moral conduct. These 
commandments are moral, unchange-
able precepts, binding on all men in 
all ages. Salvation is not by the keeping 
of the law but through Christ only. 
Observance of the law signifies one's 
allegiance to and love for God (Exodus 
20:1-17; Malachi 3:6; 1 John 2:3-7). 
Baptism is by immersion in a Biblical 
figure of the burial of "the old man of 
sin" and a resurrection of "the new 
man" reborn in Christ. Baptism is held 
to be a rite in which only those of 
sufficient maturity to understand its 
meaning should engage (Romans 6: 
1-6; Acts 16:30-33). 
The communion service is regarded as 
partaking symbolically of the body of 
Christ, is open to all who confess Him. 
It is associated with the "ordinance of 
humility," or washing of feet as insti-
tuted by Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 
11:23-29; John 13:5-17). 
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Disobedience - 
and a sore head 
by Miriam Hardinge 
Your Letter 
Dear Sunbeams, 
The following poem is the second of the two 
I received from Clive Southern, one of our 
Southampton Sunbeams. The first was published 
in OUR TIMES No. 10. 
A BOY 
This has been my birthday, 
I'm nine years old today. 
I want to help my Mummy 
In every kind of way. 
I'll help her in the garden 
To dig and sow the seed; 
To cut the grass so very neat 
And all the plants I'll feed. 
Then I will pray to Jesus 
Some kind deed I may do, 
That I may help someone each day 
And all the whole year through. 
I think this is a fine poem, don't you? And 
Clive is letting his light shine as he looks for 
opportunities to do a kindness for someone each 
day. Clive recently won a certificate for his 
piano playing—a surprise gift, he said, for his 
mother's birthday. 
Sunbeam Alison Tweedie wrote to say she 
lives in a very pretty spot near some pinewoods 
where the red squirrels are tame and take nuts 
from your hands. Her letter continued with the 
following amusing story : "A starling, laid an 
egg while it was flying over my next door 
neighbour's garden." Evidently poor Mrs. Starling 
had been disturbed and so her egg landed on the 
hard ground instead of in the nest prepared 
for it. 
Do write and let me know how you make use 
of the summer hours, Sunbeams, so that your 
experiences can be shared. The Sunbeam Band is 
like a large family and I am sure you would 
like the rest of the family to know of any 
exciting or interesting thing that has happened 
to you. 
Yours affectionately, 
RESULTS OF COMPETITION NO. 6 
Prize-winnerr.—Anna Berry, 1.30 Topsham Road, 
Tooting Bec, London S.W.11.7. Age ,15. Davina 
Hawken, "Wensleydale," James Place, Station 
Road, Ulceby, Lincs. Age 7. 
Honourable Mention.—Julia Hawken (Ulceby); 
Kathleen Holden (Wharram-le-Street); Anne 
Dillon (Rainham); Jane Edwards (Grenada): 
Harold Jefferies (London S.W.12); Peter Seater 
(Birmingham 36); Peter Luker (Southampton): 
Gillian Walcott (London N.22); Louise Maybury 
(Waltham Cross) ; Harriet Lazere (Slough); 
Annette Edwards (Grenada); John Secker (Bir-
mingham 36); Julie Meeson (Wolverhampton); 
Susan Miller (Grantham); Carol Barron (Man-
chester 8); Fiona Wood (Binfield); Gavin 
Anthony (Norwich). 
Thole Who Tried Hard.—Tracey 
Alford 
(Exeter) ; Yvette Reddall (Leicester) ; Maria 
Davey (Norwich); Curtis �
tter (Hdersfield); 
David Wilby (Dublin 6)
Wa
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 O'Rourke 
(Oxford) ; Gillian Poyser (Stockport) ; Roland 
Simpson (Preston); Piona MaSoud (Southamp-
ton); Jacqueline Clark (London E.10); Kevin 
Edwards (Croydon); Laila Wilby .(Dublin 6). 
TEXT: "The way of a fool is 
right in his own eyes: but he 
that hearkeneth unto counsel is 
wise." Proverbs 12:15. 
It was the second day of school 
in the brand new building, and as 
usually happens when one goes in-
to a new place, everything was not 
quite ready. The inside of the 
school was all right, but the play-
ground was not finished. It was 
going to be a lovely playground 
when the men were through with 
it, and the boys and girls could 
hardly wait for it to be finished. 
But the teacher warned them, 
"Children, do not play over where 
the men are working. That part 
of the playground will very soon 
be finished, but until it is, please 
keep away." 
"I don't care," said Benny, and 
went right over to the new part of 
the playground. 
A Boy I Know 
I know a boy who has a watch, 
But never thinks to wind it: 
And when he ought to be on time, 
He's always just behind it. 
And when he has a task to do, 
He says, "Wait till tomorrow:" 
And when he cannot find his things, 
He simply says, "I'll borrow." 
That boy may make a businessman-
1 know he wants to do it: 
But he must mend his careless ways, 
Or he will live to rue it. 
That boy must do his work today 
And plan work for tomorrow: 
Good habits, everybody knows, 
Are something boys can't borrow. 
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Auntie Alice, The Stanborough Press Ltd., Alma 
Park, Grantham, Lincs. 
But alas, his foot caught against 
a pile of broken bricks and he 
went sprawling. His head hit the 
ground and blood dropped from 
an ugly wound. One of the teachers 
had to rush him off to the hospi-
tal so that the doctor could put 
stitches into the wound. 
He had been counselled [ad-
vised], but he had not taken the 
counsel and had to suffer for his 
foolishness. 
Are you one of those who take 
counsel? Or do you, like Benny, 
think it is all right to do what you 
want? Why not listen? Teachers, 
parents and counsellors know more 
than you do about dangers —
physical and spiritual. Why not 
listen to them and heed them? If 
you don't you may find yourself in 
trouble, as Benny. did. 
(You may read more about tak-
ing the counsel of the wise, in 
Proverbs 19:18-20.) 
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IMPOSTORS.—"Impostor for impostor 
I prefer the mystic to the scientist—the 
man who at least has the decency to 
call his [claims] a mystery, to him who 
pretends that it is ascertained, weighed, 
measured, analysed fact."—George 
Bernard Shaw (in Otto). 
FRONT PAGE NEWS.—"Religion, far 
from being swallowed up on a techno-
logical, secularized society, is front-page 
news and a multimillion-dollar industry 
when translated into records, theatre 
shows, and films. The sad prospect is 
that so many stop so short of what 
religion (as God meant it to be) could 
really do for them. The immediate thrill, 
the painless commitment, cheap grace, 
and warm feeling is passed off as the 
real and the genuine. 
"Never was a time more ready for 
clear statements regarding the truth 
about God and man. Never were people 
more wistful regarding the quality and 
reality of life. Never has mankind needed 
a clearer demonstration of what God 
meant by a life of faith, by a life that 
always says Yes to whatever God says 
is best."—Dr. H. E. Douglass, D.Th. 
MOST IMPORTANT CREATION.—"We 
are, to a very large extent, what our 
homes make us. There is, therefore, 
nothing so important as the creation of 
a good home and a loving and happy 
family. 
"Home-building is a joint undertaking 
by a man and a woman, . . . each com-
plementary to the other in this splendid 
partnership. In order that they may 
succeed in this delicate and intricate 
work they must have a clear vision of 
what they want to do and how they in-
tend to set about doing it before they 
decide to build a home together. . . . It 
is because they are not giving sufficient 
thought to the preparation that so many 
of the homes that are being built today 
are not standing up to the storms of 
life."—the late Basil J. Henriques, 
C.B.E,. M.A., J.P. 
THE DIFFERENCE.—"After reading the 
doctrines of Plato, Socrates, or Aristotle, 
we feel that the specific difference be-
tween their words and Christ's is the 
difference between an inquiry and a re-
velation."—Joseph Parker. 
OUR TROUBLE.—"We can bounce 
sound and images off a satellite to the 
opposite side of the globe, but we have 
increasing trouble communicating with 
our neighbours."—Film Producer, John 
Taylor. 
THE ONLY MATERIAL.—"Regenerated 
people are the only material out of which 
regenerated society can be built." 
IF ONLY!—"Had the doctrines of Jesus 
been preached always as pure as they 
came from His lips, the whole civilized 
world would now have been Christians." 
—Thomas Jefferson. 
REAL LIFE.—"Life is a matter not of 
conforming to external rules but of be-
ing transformed from within."—J. B. 
Phillips. 
INTO EUROPE?—Commenting on 
Britain's proposed entry into Europe's 
Common Market, Punch Editor William 
Davis wrote: "It is a Europe of expresso 
and frozen fish fingers, a Europe where 
Idealism tends, at best, to be regarded 
as a luxury and, at worst, a waste of 
time." 
REAL LIFE.--"Christianity is not a 
theory or speculation, but a life. not a 
philosophy of life, but a life and a living 
process."—Coleridge. 
FINDING REST.—"Learn of me," says 
the philosopher, "and ye shall find rest-
lessness." "Learn of Me," says Christ, 
"and ye shall find rest."—Drummond. 
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