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>ALL NEWS IS GOOD THAT REVEALS THE HAND OF GOD �
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The chief work of the church is the salva-
tion of souls, and not politics. Such was 
the programme which gained for the Rus-
sian Orthodox Church official restoration 
last September. For centuries the Church 
had been part of the State; and its inter-
fering in politics had become so obnox-
ious that the Soviets abolished it, repudi-
ated Christianity, suppressed the Bible, 
established the Society of the Militant 
Godless, and tried to eliminate God Him-
self. But after twenty years of torture, 
imprisonment, ridicule, propaganda, and 
school teaching to stamp out Chris-
tianity, a census showed that over half 
the people openly professed the faith. 
Now the whole anti-Christian effort has 
been called off, and the Church is again 
free. What brought on its terrible perse-
cution? Dabbling in politics. What 
brought persecution to an end? Ceasing 
to interfere in affairs of state. History 
contains many a similar record. 
Christ's commission to His church: 
"Go ye . . . and preach the gospel." Mark 
16:15. 
Twenty-five million is the estimate of 
casualties so far in this war. But we 
point with pride to the marvellous feats 
being performed by our medical men in 
healing horrible wounds and in restoring 
shot-to-pieces bodies to some semblance 
of their pre-battle shape. They are mak-
ing whole men out of half men, putting 
blood and organs into bodies, clothing 
them with skin, giving them new eyes 
for blind ones, making faces for them; 
but best of all they are putting new hearts 
into them—restoring their self-respect. If 
only the Great Physician will be allowed 
to finish the good work— 
"I am come that they might have life, 
and that they might have it more abund-
antly." John io:lo. 
Music as a cure for the mentally ill is 
being tested scientifically. We are liv-
ing in an age of intense nerve strain, 
and insane asylums are overcrowded 
with those who have passed the limits of 
human endurance. Tens of thousands 
of soldiers are being returned from the 
front for no other cause than that they 
are nervously upset. The majority of 
them can be rehabilitated, say the doc- 
tors and psychologists; and the right sort 
of music judiciously applied is a po-
tent remedy. We hear much so-called 
music over the radio that tends to cause 
rather than cure insanity, since it origin-
ated in the wild orgies of the jungle; but 
expert musicians ought to know the 
curative melodies. Music as a nerve 
soother is not new; in fact, it is very old. 
Tom Hancock, father of seven, sees London 
on motor skates invented and made by 
himself. 
We are learning something from the 
ancients. 
When an "evil spirit" was upon King 
Saul of Israel, "David took an harp, and 
played with his hand: so Saul was re-
freshed, and was well, and the evil 
spirit departed from him." I Samuel 16:23. 
The disarmament plan is "full of holes," 
says the editor of Industrial and Engineer- 
ing Chemistry. It anticipates cutting off 
certain aggressive nations from sources of 
essential materials for war, such as oil 
and nitrogen explosives, and thus render-
ing them impotent. But, says the chemist, 
some late inventions and discoveries, such 
as jet propulsion, may soon make these 
supposed essentials obsolete. Already, 
nations isolated from natural stores of 
those materials long counted as necessary 
sinews of war, have found synthetic sub-
stitutes for them, just as they have proved 
that a huge "war chest" is not necessary 
to carry on a protracted conflict. The 
point is well made. The fight is not in 
the materials, but in the hearts of men; 
and a fighter sooner or later finds a 
superior weapon. To deprive an enemy 
of every commodity which he could turn 
to the uses of war, is to deprive him of 
most of the commodities which he needs 
for the use of peace. There is a better 
way to peace than by deprivation. 
"From whence come wars and fightings 
among you? Come they not hence, even 
of your lusts that war in your members?" 
James 4:4. "They that are Christ's have 
crucified the flesh with the affections and 
lusts." Galatians 5:24. 
Vastly greater speed of airplanes will be 
realized if hopeful plans mature. "If 
transatlantic airplane speeds ever reach 
720 miles an hour, the flying time be-
tween the United States and Great 
Britain would be about five hours. Allow-
ing for five hours' difference between 
Eastern Standard and British time, this 
means that a passenger who left London 
at noon would still find it noon when he 
arrived in New York." This would be 
rivalling the pace of the earth's revolu-
tion. Men set no limit on the possibili-
ties ahead in invention—yet they limit 
God. 
"Lift up your eyes on high, and behold 
who hath created these things, that bring-
eth out their host by number: He calleth 
them all by names by the greatness of 
His might, for that He is strong in power: 
not one faileth." Isaiah 40:26. 
No blind worker has ever been involved 
in an industrial accident during forty-
two years of factory work in the New 
Jersey State Institution for the Blind. 
Blind people are much more careful t'han 
those who see. Now many factories are 
experimenting successfully with blind 
workers for certain types of skilled hand 
labour. The sightless are coming into a 
heritage. What hope this holds out for 
the thousands of blinded soldiers return-
ing from the war! 
"I will bring the blind by a way that 
they knew not." Isaiah 42:16. 
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Editor, ROBERT BRUCE THURBER �
JUNE, 1944 No. 6 
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES 
A LEAF OF FULFILLED PROPHECY 
hidric / �
"THIS IS THAT WHICH 
WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET" 
• 
The Archbishop of York, recent visitor to Canada, is shown in Moscow with Patriarch 
Sergei, Head of the Russian Church, which has been granted religious liberty after long 
suppression. 
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN JEOPARDY 
tutions, etc. But in view of the fact that 
in the future such a law may be used, and 
otherwise interpreted by those who would 
persecute minorities when acting in their 
legitimate spheres, we strongly oppose 
the Bill, now being enacted, being pro-
claimed as law, for the following reasons: 
"1. It would appear to abridge the free-
dom of speech and of the press, liberties 
now granted to the people of the Prov-
ince. 
"2. It is so sweeping in its restrictions 
that we fear it would make a breach of 
the law any expression of opinion which 
could be interpreted as discrimination 
against a person of another religion. 
"3. It would appear to preclude any 
religious body from advocacy and defense 
of its belief, if such took the form of 
pointing out what it believes to be er-
rors held by another religious body. 
"4. It appears so vague in meaning and 
so lacking in definition of terms that it 
opens the way for any religious group, 
which happens to be strong in numbers 
or influence, to so interpret the law as 
I
N THE month of March there was in-
troduced into the Ontario Legisla-
ture, "An Act to prevent the Publication 
of Discriminatory Matter Referring to 
Race or Creed." The Bill was introduced 
• 
by the Attorney General, and therefore 
sponsored by the Government in power. 
It is to be known as "The Racial Discrim-
ination Act, 1944" and reads as follows: 
"No person shall,— 
(a) publish or display or cause to be 
published or displayed; or 
(b) permit to be published or dis-
played on lands or premises or in a news-
paper, through a radio broadcasting sta-
tion or by means of any other medium 
which he owns or controls, 
"any notice, sign, symbol, emblem or 
other representation indicating discrim-
ination or an intention to discriminate 
against any person or any class of per-
sons for any purpose because of the race 
or creed of such person or class of per-
sons." (Then follows the usual provi-
sion for penalties and enforcement.) 
Strong protests were made by religious 
bodies and other groups which might be 
seriously affected by such legislation. But, 
with what appeared to be undue haste, 
the Bill was enacted into law and placed 
on the statute books of the Province of 
Ontario. We understand that there was 
only one dissenting voice among the 
legislators. 
To give the reader an idea of the na-
ture of the opposition to this piece of 
legislation, which seems on the surface 
to be quite innocent, we quote from a 
•
letter of protest sent to the Attorney 
General by the body which this magazine 
represents. This was sent after the Bill 
had had its second reading, as soon as we 
were aware of what was pending. We 
may say that an amendment was sug-
gested to the affect that this Act was not 
intended to curtail the personal or re-
ligious freedom of anyone. But the offi-
cial copy of the Act as finally passed does 
4 �
not, to our knowledge, contain any 
amendment. Herewith the protest: 
"We . . . do hereby make representa-
tions of protest against the passage by 
the Ontario Legislature of the bill en-
titled, 'An Act to prevent the Publication 
of Discriminatory Matter Referring to 
Race or Creed.' We are in harmony with 
the intent of the Bill as explained by its 
sponsors; namely, that no undemocratic 
discrimination be shown against certain 
groups and classes in public places, insti- 
JU N E, 1 9 4 4 
to shut off all opposition to its own teach-
ings and propaganda. 
"s. It would appear to infringe on our 
hard-won religious liberty, in that it 
would forbid anyone following the ex-
ample of the Founder of Christianity in 
warning against the errors of misguided 
fanatics. 
"6. It would appear to violate the prin-
ciple of separation of Church and State 
and involve the State in endless law-
suits as between races or sects, compelling 
the civil authorities to define and decide 
concerning the truth or error of religious 
beliefs, thus forcing the State itself to 
discriminate unlawfully. 
"7. Since the Criminal Code already 
provides protection against slander, libel, 
defamation of character, etc., we would 
raise the question of the necessity of the 
proposed law. 
"8. The suggested Amendment to the 
Act seems to us to add very little clarity 
to its meaning and intent, especially since 
the Attorney General, according to re-
port, expresses his opinion that it 'adds 
or subtracts precisely nothing from the 
Act.' 
"In view of the foregoing reasons, we 
urge that the Act, if passed at all, be 
3 
Making patients comfortable inside a "Sparrow" Ambulance Aircraft. 
reworded, at least to the extent of elimina- 
ting the words, 'or creed.' 
Respectfully submitted." 
Ontario legislators were caught off 
guard, we fear. Some powerful group is 
initiating this legislation to serve its 
own ends. Similar bills, with almost 
identical wording, have been proposed in 
the United States Congress again and 
again, but so far they have been blocked. 
Now comes the introduction at Ottawa 
of a bill to the same intent, for the whole 
Dominion. It is a proposed amendment 
to the Criminal Code, and reads: 
"318 A. (i)Everyone who prints, pub-
lishes, issues, circulates, distributes or 
otherwise disseminates any book, news-
paper, periodical, pamphlet, picture, pa-
per, circular, card, letter, writing, print, 
publication or document, or who gives 
utterance in public to, or permits to be 
published, broadcast, or otherwise dis-
seminated, statements or words contain-
ing any material, report or statement of a 
nature intended or likely to expose any 
person or body of persons belonging to 
a certain race or professing a certain 
creed, to hatred, contempt, discrimina-
tion, ridicule, insult or injury on account 
of such race or creed, thereby intending 
to create disharmony, unrest or disorder 
among the people or to incite a breach 
of the peace is guilty of an offence and 
shall be liable, on summary conviction, 
for a first offence, to a penalty not ex-
ceeding two hundred dollars and not less 
than fifty dollars and in default of pay-
ment of such penalty, to a term of im-
prisonment not exceeding two months 
and not less than one month, and for 
every subsequent offence to a penalty 
not exceeding five hundred dollars and 
not less than one hundred and fifty 
dollars, and in default of payment of 
each penalty to a term of imprisonment 
with hard labour not exceeding six 
months and not less than two months." 
We are unalterably opposed to the 
imposition of such drastic legislation up-
on a democratic and freedom-loving peo-
ple. And we voiced our protest in the 
following appeal to the federal authori-
ties: 
"We do herewith respectfully make rep-
resentations of protest against the refer- 
ence to 'creed' in Bill No. 37 which pro-
poses an amendment to the criminal code 
by prohibiting the publication or utter-
ance of discriminatory material involv-
ing 'any person or body of persons be-
longing to a certain race or professing a 
certain creed.' While we are in harmony 
with the intent of the bill insofar as it 
seeks to restrain undemocratic or un-
christian abuse of certain groups, faiths, 
or classes, we, nevertheless, in view of 
the factors hereinafter stated, urge that 
the sponsor or sponsors of the bill with-
draw it; or that, in the event of its being 
submitted for further reading, that the 
Dominion House of Commons prevent its 
passage. The proposed amendment ap-
pears to us to be subversive of the con-
stitutional rights of civil and religious 
liberty for the following reasons: 
"1. In our opinion this proposed 
amendment, if made law, would provoke 
the very disunity it is allegedly designed 
to prevent. 
"2. It would appear to make the con-
scientious expression of opinion, either 
written or oral, whenever such expres-
sion contained an element of careful 
distinguishing or discernment of differ-
ences in belief, a breach of the law punish-
able as a criminal offense and would there-
by constitute an unwarranted infringe-
ment of the rights of conscience and an 
unjustifiable denial of the principles of 
religious liberty. 
"3. Nothwithstanding the proviso of 
subsection (2), it would further appear 
to preclude any religious body from 
promulgating or defending its belief if 
such advocacy of faith publicly differen-
tiated between its own teachings and 
those of other religious bodies. 
"4. We fear that the proposed amend-
ment would pave the way for a popular, 
numerically strong and influential re-
ligious group to, should they so desire, seek 
legal measures of suppressing what they 
may deem to be religious teachings or 
promotion which stand in opposition to 
their own, and in the future so interpret 
and misuse the amendment as to make it 
an instrument for the suppression of 
minority groups. 
"5. It further appears to be a flagrant 
violation of the principle of the separa-
tion of church and state as enunciated by 
the Founder of Christianity and believed 
in by multitudes of law-abiding citizens 
of our nation. It would thus legalize the 
interference of civil authorities in mat-
ters pertaining to the individual con-
science, and in consequence involve the 
state in endless law-suits thus forcing it 
to do the very thing the amendment pur-
portedly seeks to prohibit; namely, to 
unlawfully discriminate between equally 
conscientious persons or bodies. 
"6. Since the criminal code already 
provides protection against slander, libel, 
defamation of character, etc., we would 
respectfully raise the question of the 
necessity of the proposed amendment. 
"7. It appears to be wholly at variance 
with the spirit of the British North 
America Act, and the principles of our 
Canadian Constitution. 
"8. We are of the opinion that the 
amendment would be unenforceable as 
it leaves open to judicial discretion the 
determination of intentions and motives 
which cannot be thus accurately ascer-
tained since factual evidence is not neces-
sarily a true interpreter of intention. 
"9. And further the legislation of un-
enforceable laws breeds disrespect of 
law and fosters increasing lawlessness. 
"For the above and other reasons that 
might be listed herewith, the proposed 
amendment in our opinion constitutes an 
unjustifiable abridgment of our hard-
won liberties of freedom of speech, press, 
and expression, and undemocratic and 
unchristian infringement of the rights of 
conscience. 
Respectfully submitted." 41) 
Let those who prize their God-given 
liberties join us in denouncing such 
threats as this to our liberty of conscience, 
of speech, and of the press. We too are 
opposed to bigotry and intolerance, and 
we have no sympathy with efforts to in-
sult, ridicule, or abuse our fellow men, 
and would insist on the equality of all 
before the law. But these discrimination 
laws, as worded, are subject to gross abuse 
in the hands of enforcement officers and 
judges who might be disposed to carry 
them through to the letter. 
Let us be consistent in our attitudes, 
and grant a broad measure of freedom to 
all men. Let us be alert to these 
beginnings of intolerance, and down 
them whenever they raise their heads. 
Be "as free, and not using your liberty 
for a cloke of maliciousness." i Peter 2:16. 
4 �
SIGNS OF THE TIMES 
An Editorial on 
FREEDOM ea RELIGION 
W
E UNDERSTAND religion to mean 
the urge to adore a higher entity. It 
is inherent in every normal human be-
ing. It inspires him to aspire. It pushes 
him forward and up. Lose religion, lose 
hope; lose hope, lose life. 
Religion is comprehended in a man's 
relationship to his god, whether that god 
be God, Allah, Krishna, Buddha, Shinto, 
the Emperor, Nationalism, the sun, a 
cow, riches, beauty, sex, art, fame, power, 
appetite—or "the unknown god." The 
Hindu is said to have thirty million gods; 
and he is very religious. There is such a 
thing as religion going to "seeds as of 
many." But every man's religion is en-
titled to respect, and protection. 
So the chief persuasive and compelling 
power which affects one's life is one's re-
ligion. It will move him to make sacrifices 
that no other urge will. If he is a man 
of some stability of character and devo-
tion to principle, he will die for his re-
ligion. That is why there has been more 
war and bloodshed for religion than for 
any other one cause. 
Religion in this broad sense does not 
necessarily have any influencing con-
nection with morals, or ethics, or social 
standards, or business methods. It may 
direct and even dominate, all of these; 
but it may also be exercised separately 
from them. It is difficult for the Christian 
religionist, who is being continually ex-
horted to carry out the principles of his 
religion in his everyday life, to appre-
ciate this fact. The truth is, there are a 
billion men of religion on earth who see 
no connection between devoted worship 
at a temple and crooked business at a 
market. To them religion is a thing 
above, and therefore entirely apart from, 
mundane affairs. To them ardent spirit-
uality and ardent spirits may be coupled 
consistently. Yet their conscientious con-
victions are not to be disregarded. When 
it comes to consideration for a man's re-
ligion, it is not so much a question of 
• 
what he believes, as it is of his honesty 
and sincerity in what he believes. Who-
ever or whatever his deity, that god 
is his highest conception of something be-
yond and above him. and, in his judg-
ment, it calls forth the best that is in 
him. Hence that conviction of his has 
a claim on our respect. 
Since religion is the dominating factor 
in human conduct, it is logical to con-
clude that men are more ready to assert 
and to fight for their religious rights 
than for any other prerogatives which 
they assume. They are more likely to 
say of these rights than of any others, 
"It is the business of no one else beside 
myself whom, what, when, or how I 
worship." This aggressive assertion of 
the right to worship as they please stems 
from the natural inclination of a real 
man to achieve, succeed, progress. Let 
no one come between him and his ulti-
mate goal—to become as near like his god 
JUNE, 1944 
Traditional 
victims of 
religious 
persecution, 
the Jews 
hope to 
make Palestine 
a "national 
homeland." 
Here are two 
German Jewisl 
children of the 
"lost generation" 
who have lived 
in Palestine 
a year. 
as possible. For this religious urge leads 
him to discover, or set up as a god, that 
which is, or which he conceives to be, 
higher, or stronger, or wiser, or more 
beautiful, and altogether more desirable 
and admirable than himself. A subject 
adores a ruler, inferiority admires supe-
riority, a gourmand satisfies his appetite 
regardless of consequences—with every 
after dinner nod bowing to his stomach 
god—, and a cultivator worships his bul-
lock, the sun, or the good earth. And 
they will cherish above all else freedom 
to do as their inner urges dictate. 
Woeful, and even tragic, to all con-
cerned are the consequences if any man. 
or religious society, or civil government, 
uses physical force or mental pressure to 
do despite to a man's religious convic-
tions. If wealth is his god, it may be easy 
to change his political convictions, but 
not his dollar chasing. If beauty is his 
chief deity, there may be no difficulty in 
persuading him to spend much of his 
wealth in gratifying his desire for it, but 
you could not make him content with 
ugliness. If God is the greatest object 
of his devotion, it will not require much 
urging to persuade him to surrender all 
he is and has for Him, but it is futile to 
endeavour to force a God-surrendered 
man to godlessness. 
Coercion in religion may be explained. 
but not excused. It is explained by the 
fact that there are varying intelligences 
and spiritual perceptions among men. 
and consequently a man may hold to a 
very inferior and even degrading re-
ligion, and, through ignorance, not real-
ize it. His ignorance may be based on his 
lack of opportunity to learn better, or 
because of his stubborness against chang-
ing the customs and habits inherited 
from generations of ancestors. If for 
the former cause alone, he may be per-
suaded to change his religious beliefs for 
better ones. And instruction and per-
suasion are the legitimate methods for 
his uplifting. 
However, if he is convinced of some-
thing better, convinced but not convic-
ted, and still persists in adhering to his 
inbred religious views, there is a tend-
ency on the part of his would-be uplifters 
—very often springing from unselfish love 
for him—to force him to do that which in 
their estimation is better for him. This 
with the expectation that, under such 
forced experimentation, he will see the 
inferiority of his former religion and 
willingly adopt the latter. For is he not 
like a child in its ignorance; and should 
he not be dealt with as a child, forced to 
obey because he is not capable of under-
standing? Does not the Bible say that 
certain ones must be plucked as brands 
from the burning? 
These arguments look plausible, but 
very seldom do matters work out that way 
in actual experience. After all, a man is 
not a child, no matter how like one he 
may reason and act. He has a man's 
rights. And, too, very often what the 
reformer has to offer in the way of a 
superior religion is not much, if any, 
better for thatparticular man, with his 
background and environment, than the 
religion he already has. 
But even if cases may be found where 
men have adopted a better religion 
through initial methods of physical force, 
financial inducement, social pressure, 
or deception, these do not invalidate the 
principle of freedom in religion being 
the only successful way of winning men 
to higher religious ideals. The few ex-
ceptions are apparent in spite of the 
wrong method being used rather than be-
cause of it. Many years experience in 
working for the betterment of the peo-
ple of India have convinced the writer 
that what one believes religiously must 
be a matter of free choice in response 
to that invitation from a Higher Power 
which is given at least once to every man 
who ever lived. If it is not, that man's 
religion is vain, and it becomes a con-
venience, a club, or a cloak. 
5 
Is It in Keeping with the Character of a Benevolent Heavenly Father to Give His 
Rebellious Children a 
SECOND CHANCE? • 
A MINISTER was once asked, "Do you 
A believe in a second chance for sin-
ners?" His reply was: "I believe in a sec-
ond chance for all mankind. I believe 
man threw away his first chance long ago 
in the Garden of Eden. God in mercy 
offered him a second chance through Cal-
vary. But if the questioner means to ask 
if I believe in a third chance—a chance 
for salvation beyond this present life—
my answer is, No." 
There are those who think otherwise, 
of course. They know that all men do 
not have equal opportunities for learn-
ing the will of God. They understand 
that every man must come up to a cer-
tain standard of righteousness in order 
to be saved. And since all men have not 
an equal chance to learn these truths of 
salvation in this life, they conclude that 
there must be another and more favour-
able chance offered mankind beyond this 
life. That is why some believe in pray-
ing for the dead, and baptism for the 
dead; they think that God gives man a 
second chance after death. Others think 
that it is during the millennium that men 
will have another chance to learn the 
will of God, and that then all men will 
have a better opportunity for salvation. 
But we have something much safer 
than human reasoning on this point. We 
have a letter dictated by the great Judge 
Himself. We call it the Bible. In it we 
may read how God will judge us all. 
In it we may read what the standard of 
His judgment is, and how He will deal 
with all who had no opportunity to learn 
what you and I know about it. Whatever 
men may think, it is God after all who 
will do the judging, so it is best for us to 
take His Word for it. 
All men have light—light as to what 
they ought to do. All men may not have 
equal light, but they have light neverthe-
less. "That was the true light, which 
lighteth every man that cometh into the 
world." John 1:9. This true Light is 
Jesus Christ. It is He who lighteth every 
man that cometh into the world. Then 
Christ has lighted the heathen of Borneo, 
and Africa, and India. He has, at some 
time, shed light into the mind of 
Mahatma Gandhi, the Hindu. At one 
time. Premier Tojo of Japan knew some-
thing of the will of the God of heaven; 
so did Hitler; so did every depraved vil-
lian who has ever trod the earth. The 
apdstle Paul explains how it comes about 
that even the heathen will be justly con-
demned or saved in the day of judgment. 
Goodspeed has translated Paul's language 
into twentieth-century English; I quote 
his translation of Romans 2:14-16: 
By 0. B. GERHART 
"When heathen who have no law instinc-
tively obey what the law demands . . . 
they show that what the law demands is 
written on their hearts, and their con-
sciences will testify for them . . . on that 
day when . . . God through Christ Jesus 
judges what men have kept secret." 
So men who have never heard of the 
Ten Commandments know instinctively 
certain things that law demands. Cer-
tain principles of that law are written on 
the hearts of all men, even the benighted 
heathen. That explains why even the 
savages have tribal laws forbidding mur-
der, theft, and adultery. Those are prin-
ciples of the divine law common to the 
consciences of all men. 
How will God judge men who know 
only such principles of conduct as were 
written in their hearts by nature? Their 
consciences will testify for them on that 
day when God judges what men have 
kept secret. If the savage who instinc-
tively knew he ought not to steal, stole 
notwithstanding, his conscience will tes-
tify in the judgment that he is guilty. He 
need not have known that God forbade 
idolatry or Sabbath-breaking, or other 
things. He is guilty because he rejected 
the light he did have. If, on the other 
hand, this savage resisted the temptation 
to offend his conscience by stealing, kill-
ing, committing adultery, or anything else 
he instinctively knew to be wrong, on the 
day of judgment he will stand acquitted. 
No doubt he never kept God's Sabbath 
day; probably he was a worshipper of 
graven images; he may have done other 
things that you or I could never do and 
be guiltless. But if he was obedient to 
that which he knew in his heart to be 
right, he will be accepted as worthy of 
God's kingdom. Read John 9:41, and see 
if that is not true: "If ye were blind, ye 
should have no sin." That same truth is 
stated in James 4:17: "Therefore to him 
that 'knoweth to do good, and doeth it 
not, to him it is sin." 
The idea that God is going to judge 
every man by a total understanding of 
His will is not according to Scripture. 
The African who knew but twenty or 
thirty per cent of it will enter God's 
kingdom, if he lived up to that, just as 
surely as we who know the full will of God 
and live up to it by His grace. Neverthe-
less, our chances for salvation are much 
greater than his, because our clearer 
revelation of the love of God gives us 
an incentive to obedience that the 
heathen in his ignorance of that love can-
not have. Hence our Lord's command to 
preach the gospel to every creature. 
There is a drawing power in the gospel 
that those who know it not do not ex-
perience. 
Our Lord once made a strong comment 
on this point. It is in Matthew 11:23, 24: 
"And thou Capernaum, which are ex-
alted unto heaven, shall be brought down 
have been done in thee, had been done in 
to hell; for if the mighty works, which 
Sodom, it would have remained until 
this day. But I say unto you, that it 
shall be more tolerable for the land of 
Sodom in the day of judgment, than for 
thee." 
Now Sodom, as you know, was a very 
wicked city. Genesis 13:13 says: "But the 
men of Sodom were wicked and sinners 
before the Lord exceedingly." It was so 
wicked that God destroyed it with a 
super-natural judgment. But Jesus said 
that if the mighty works done in Caper-
naum had been done in Sodom, it would 
have repented, and therefore would not 
have been destroyed. The inhabitants of 
Sodom did not have as much light as 
those of Capernaum, yet they will suffer 
the punishment that will be visited upon 
all unrepentant sinners in the day of 
judgment. They will have no future re-
demption offered them. But their punish-
ment will be more tolerable, that is, more 
bearable, than the punishment meted out 
to the inhabitants of Capernaum in that 
great day. 
So these verses teach that men who 
might have been saved, had they had 
greater light, will be lost because they 
had it not—a very sobering thought to 
those who do not support foreign mis-
sions. They also teach that people who 
are favoured with great light, and who 
ignore it, will suffer far more in the day 
of judgment than the lost heathen. �• 
There is another application of this 
principle that we should make here. 
Sometimes we meet fellow Christians who 
are faced with some duty plainly stated 
in the Bible; but it involves a cross, and 
they think to excuse themselves by say-
ing: "But my father and mother were de-
voted Christians, and they never under-
stood that. I am sure they will be saved, 
so why cannot I, too, go to heaven with-
out doing that:" Any who reason that 
way are forgetting God's standard of 
judgment. Our godly parents may in-
deed find entrance into God's kingdom 
without performing such a command, if 
they had no light on the matter. But 
God will not judge me by the light my 
parents had. Paul puts it very plainly in 
Romans 14: 12: "So then every one of us 
shall give account of himself to God." 
'The disposition to covet the partial dark-
ness of less favoured Christians is in it- 
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES 
There comes 
a time when 
the door to 
eternal life 
through 
salvation 
from sin 
is forever closed 
— and locked. 
God has 
definitely 
revealed 
when that 
time is. 
self a bad sign. It betrays a lack of real 
love for God, and an unfitness for heaven. 
And that is a major cause for the preva-
lent ignorance of the Bible in our own 
country. The majority do not love God, 
therefore they have no desire to know His 
will. Christ stated it this way in John 3: 
19, 20: "Men loved darkness rather than 
light, because their deeds were evil. For 
every one that doeth evil hateth the light, 
neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds 
should be reproved." According to this, 
then, there are those who know not the 
will of God because they do not want to 
know it. They love darkness. They hate 
the light. 
The Jews who crucified Christ were 
apparently in that category, for we read 
in I Corinthians 2:8: "Had they known 
it, they would not have crucified the Lord 
of glory." They crucified the Lord of 
glory because they did not know what 
they were doing. As they were nailing 
the Son of God to the tree, He prayed, 
"Father, forgive them, for they know 
not what they do." But why did they 
not know? Surely they might have known. 
The evidence of Christ's divinity was suf- 
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ficiently manifested on many an occasion. 
But they knew not, because they rejected 
the light. There were reasons why they 
did not want to acknowledge His di-
vinity. They chose darkness, and God 
gave them up to the darkness they had 
chosen. Does any one imagine that be-
cause they knew not, therefore God will 
give them another chance hereafter to 
learn? 
There are multitudes to-clay who know 
not that this world is but a step removed 
from the second coming of Christ. They 
know not the law of God and what it 
requires of them. They are apparently 
as ignorant of the truths of God for our 
time as the heathen that remain in the 
unlightened corners of the earth. You 
see them on every hand. 
God Himself tells us how these will 
fare: "The Lord Jesus shall be revealed 
from heaven with His mighty angels, in 
flaming fire taking vengeance on them 
that know not God, and that obey not 
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who 
shall be punished with everlasting de-
struction from the presence of the Lord, 
and from the glory of His power." II 
Thess. 1:7-9. 
So there we have it from God's own 
Word. Those who know not and who 
obey not the gospel, will have no other 
chance to learn the way of salvation. On 
the contrary, they will be destroyed when 
the great event about which they might 
have known overtakes them. Had they 
really known that the Lord would be 
revealed from heaven in their generation, 
had they understood what that glorious 
coming would mean to all who were not 
ready, surely they would not have closed 
their ears and minds and hearts to it 
all. But, like the Jews who crucified 
Christ. they might have known. The 
Bible was plain enough on the matter. 
There were books and papers and 
preachers and radio sermons enough all 
about them, proclaiming the event and 
the preparation required. 
Just as Christ said it would be, so it 
is. "But as the days of Noe were, so shall 
also the coming of the Son of man be. 
For as in the days that were before the 
flood they were eating and drinking, 
marrying and giving in marriage, until 
the day that Noe entered into the ark, 
and knew not until the flood came and 
took them all away; so shall also the com-
ing of the Son of man be." Matthew 
24:37-39. �
So those antediluvians did 
not know there was a flood coming to des-
troy them. Christ says they knew not 
until the flood came. But why did they 
not know? For one hundred and twenty 
years Noah had been preaching that the 
flood was coming. For many years his 
mammoth boat built on dry land had 
been the laughing stock of his generation. 
Why, then, did they not know? For the 
same reason that the multitudes of out 
day do not know that the second coming 
of Christ is about to shatter all their 
dreams for a long, man-made peace. 
Those people living in the day of the 
Flood found Noah's message decidedly un-
popular and contrary to their plans. 
Hence they knew not. They chose not 
to believe. And certainly the same at-
titude prevails to-day. 
The doctrine that the second coming 
of Christ will introduce a long millen-
nium of tranquillity and happiness for 
sinners who missed the way of righteous-
ness before, is one of the most dangerous 
deceptions abroad to-day. Surely the 
chains of indifference that bind men are 
strong enough as it is, without render-
ing their salvation the more hopeless by 
such anti-Scriptural teaching as that. 
We know there are honest souls in this 
gospel-enlightened land of ours who have 
a very imperfect understanding of the 
will of God. But though they walk in 
darkness on some matters, their behaviour 
was described by Christ in John 3:21: 
"He that doeth truth cometh to the light, 
that his deeds may be made manifest." 
They are seeking to know the will of 
God as it is their privilege to know it in 
these days. 'They are hungering and 
thirsting after righteousness; they are not 
satisfied with the knowledge they have. 
They want more. 
If you are following the will of God to 
the best of your knowledge now, you 
have Christ's promise: "If any man will 
do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, 
whether it be of God." John 7:17. 
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F
OR more than nineteen centuries 
Christians have repeated the Pater-
noster commonly known as the Lord's 
Prayer. The repetition of it has become 
a daily habit in the personal devotions 
of some individuals, and it forms a regu-
lar feature of public worship in some 
churches. 
Strange as it may seem, the recitation 
of the Lord's Prayer has become such a 
matter of routine and formal worship 
that few of those who utter it stop to 
ponder the significance of those beauti-
ful words: "Thy kingdom come. Thy 
will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." 
Matthew 6: to. 
Note the import of those words. They 
are really a prayer for the coming of the 
kingdom of God, and that the time shall 
come when His will shall be done in 
earth as it is in heaven! Think of what 
that means! 
How surprised many of those who re-
cite that prayer so formally and thought-
lessly would be to see that supplication 
answered! Do they truly mean it when 
they say it? Is there down deep in their 
hearts an earnest longing to see the King 
of kings come in His glory? Are they 
preparing themselves to meet Him when 
He shall come? Are they willing to do 
God's will in earth as it is done by those 
who inhabit heaven? 
These questions, friend. are directed 
straight at you! They are put to you to 
make you think seriously, because Jesus 
is coming again. He is coming as "King 
of kings, and Lord of lords." 
The doctrine of the second coming of 
Christ is as old as Christianity itself. The 
second advent of Christ to the earth is 
mentioned more than 20o times in the 
New Testament alone. "The grace of 
God that bringeth salvation hath ap-
peared to all men, teaching us that, 
denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, 
we should live soberly, righteously, and 
godly, in this present world; looking 
for that blessed hope, and the glorious 
appearing of the great God and our 
Saviour Jesus Christ." Titus 2:11-13. 
Yes, the second advent of Jesus Christ 
has been and is the great hope of many 
for final and definite deliverance from 
this world of sin, death, and disappoint-
ment. Back in that antediluvian age 
when "the earth also was corrupt be-
fore God, and the earth was filled with 
violence" (Genesis 6:11), that saintly 
old patriarch "Enoch also, the seventh 
from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, 
Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thou-
sands of His saints, to execute judgment 
upon all." Jude 14,15. 
"Behold, He cometh!" This is the cry 
of hope that all the way down through 
the centuries has been heard among those 
whose simple and trusting faith has laid 
hold of the promises of God. That grand 
old man known in Sacred Writ as "the 
Friend of God" (James 2:23; II Chroni 
des ro:7; Isaiah 41:8), but better known 
to most of us as plain old Abraham, 
"looked for a city which hath founda-
tions, whose builder and maker is God." 
Hebrews 1: to. With that precious 
hope cherished in his breast, he and those 
who shared it with him "all died in faith, 
not having received the promises, but 
having seen them afar off, and were per-
suaded of them, and embraced them, and 
confessed that they were strangers and 
pilgrims on the earth." Hebrews t 1:13. 
Indeed, they looked forward to some-
thing more lasting and durable than the 
present world order, hoping for a king-
dom founded by God and not by man. 
In the hour of intense suffering and 
pain, when a terrible disease held him 
in its clutches, Job uttered these memor-
able words of hope: "Oh that my words 
were now written! oh that, they were 
printed in a book! that they were graven 
with an iron pen and lead in the rock fot 
ever! For I know that my Redeemer 
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; though my 
reins be consumed within me." Job 
19:23-27. 
The longings of Job came true. In 
the Holy Book of God his words have 
been written, penned in many of this 
world's languages and dialects, in order 
that they might bring cheer to others. 
David, the royal poet and musician of 
Israel, was led by divine inspiration to 
treasure for us in sacred song the precious 
hope of the Lord's coming. "Our God 
shall come, and shall not keep silence: 
a fire shall devour before Him, and it 
shall be very tempestuous round about 
Him. He shall call to the heavens from 
above, and to the earth, that He may 
judge His people. Gather My saints to-
gether unto Me; those that have made a 
covenant with Me by sacrifice." Psalm 
50:3-5. 
Many of the Old Testament prophets 
kept this hope burning bright before the 
minds of men in those turbulent times 
when Assyria, Babylon, and Medo-Persia 
rode over the nations in totalitarian ar-
rogance and pride. Typical of those an-
cient prophetic promises of hope is this 
one from Isaiah: "When the enemy shall 
come in like a flood, the Spirit of the 
Lord shall lift up a standard against him. 
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, 
and unto them that turn from transgres-
sion in Jacob, saith the Lord." Isaiah 
59:19,2o. 
Like a golden thread this precious 
hope of the second advent of Christ, 
with the promise of the final restitution 
of all things, is woven throughout the 
fabric of the gospel teaching of the New 
M
i 
Testament. The repentant thief, who • 
otherwise would have been crushed with 
remorse for his own sins and with des-
pair of ever seeing a better day, cried out 
to the crucified Christ who hung beside 
him: "Lord, remember me when Thou 
comest into Thy Kingdom." Luke 23:42 
The petition of that dying man was ans-
wered with the assurance that the Lord 
would remember him and give him a 
place in the coming Paradise. 
The Lord Jesus often referred to His 
coming and the end of the world (Mat-
thew 13:37-43; 47-5o), affirming that "the 
Son of man shall come in the glory of 
His Father with His angels; and then �
• 
He shall reward every man according to 
his works." Matthew 16:27. 
Shortly before His death He was asked 
this significant question: "What shall 
be the sign of Thy coming, and of the 
end of the world?" Matthew 24:3. As 
He narrated the various events that 
would be sure heralds of His second 
advent, He told how there "shall appear 
the sign of the Son of man in heaven: 
and then shall all the tribes of the earth 
mourn, and they shall see the Son of 
man coming in the clouds of heaven with 
power and great glory. And He shall 
send 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." Matthew 
24:30,31. 
Therefore, the hope of the second ad-
vent of Jesus means that the future will 
bring a grand and glorious reunion 
with loved ones who have died in the 
gospel faith. In the hour of bereavement 
this hope has been the comforting balm 
for the hearts of those who have seen 
their loved ones snatched from them by 
the cruel hand of death. For this reason 
the apostle wrote "that ye sorrow not, 
even as others which have no hope." 
I Thessalonians 4:13. And he adds: 
"For the Lord Himself shall descend 
from heaven with a shout, with the voice 
of the Archangel, and with the trump 
of God: and the dead in Christ shall 
rise first: then we which are alive and 
remain shall be caught up together with 
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in 
the air: and so shall we ever be with the 
Lord. Wherefore comfort one another 
with these words." Verses 16-18. 
On the night before His death, the 
Lord's announcement of the fate that 
awaited Him on the morrow brought 
sorrow to His disciples. But He con-
soled them with these very clear and 
There Is Time Yet to Prepare for 
Christ's Return to This Earth, but 
HOW 
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES 
Lambert 
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definite promises: "Let not your heart 
be troubled: ye believe in God, believe 
also in Me. In My Father's house are 
many mansions: if it were not so, I would 
have told you. I go to prepare a place 
for you. And if I go and prepare a place 
for you, I will come again, and receive 
you unto Myself; that where I am, there 
ye may be also." John f4:1-3. 
That place which He went to prepare 
for us among the mansions of God is none 
other than that city for which Abraham 
looked, the metropolis of which the build-
er and maker is God, "for He hath pre-
pared for them a city." Hebrews ii:fo, i6. 
It will be the glorious capital of the com-
ing kingdom of Christ. (Revelation 21.) 
When the Lord had risen from the 
dead, it was the hope of His followers 
that the promised kingdom might be 
restored then to God's people. (Acts 
1:6.) But not so, for the Master must 
needs go back to heaven and to God to 
perform His mediatorial work as our 
great High Priest. (Hebrews 8:1, 2; I 
John 2:1.) "And unto them that look 
for Him shall He appear the second 
time without sin unto salvation." Heb-
rews 9:28. 
When the Lord led His disciples to 
the Mount of Olives and "as far as to 
Bethany" (Luke 24:50), there "He lifted 
up His hands, and blessed them. And 
it came to pass, while He blessed them, 
He was parted from them, and carried up 
into heaven." Verse 51. Thus they saw 
their best Friend depart and leave them 
in this cold, cruel world to live, labour 
and die without His visible presence with 
them. As He went up He knew the feel-
ings of their hearts, and He thought of 
them, for "while they looked steadfastly 
toward heaven as He went up, behold, 
two men stood by them in white apparel; 
which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why 
stand ye gazing up into heaven? this 
same esus, which is taken up from you 
into heaven, shall so come in like man-
ner as ye have seen Him go into heaven." 
Acts is 10-11. 
The New Testament abounds with 
promises of the second advent of Jesus 
Even John, exiled as he was to Patmns—
the Alcatraz or Devil's Island of the 
Roman Empire—because of his testimony 
as a witness of Christ, penned in the 
first chapter of his apocalyptic visions 
these words: "Behold, He cometh with 
clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and 
they also which pierced Him: and all 
kindreds of the earth shall wail because 
of Him." Revelation 1:7. "Behold, the 
Lord cometh!" said Enoch 3,000 years 
before Christ was born. "Behold, He 
cometh!" is the echo by John on Pat-
mos ioo years after the Lord's birth 
among men. And as the aged apostle was 
about to close the book that brings an 
end to the Book of books, the same Lord 
Jesus said: "Surely I come quickly." 
John paused to add: "Amen. Even so, 
come, Lord Jesus." Revelation 22:20. 
Yes, as we trace the precious promise 
of the Lord's second coming, we find 
that it has been the bouying hope of mil- 
lions of the world's honest-hearted peo-
ple. For nineteen centuries millions of 
Christians have prayed in simple faith 
that short prayer which the Lord Jesus 
taught us: "Thy kingdom come. Thy will 
be done on earth, as it is in heaven." 
Let us repeat that petition: "Thy king-
dom come. Thy will be done on earth, 
as it is in heaven." Was there ever a time 
when we might pray that prayer more ap-
propriately than now? Was there ever 
an age when the world needed the second 
advent of Jesus more than it does to-
day? 
There are numerous signs given in the 
prophecies of Holy Writ whereby we 
know that the day of Christ's second com-
ing is nigh. These omens have been and 
will be discussed in detail from time to 
time in this magazine. Among these 
signs are the very things that are happen-
ing on earth to-day. He has said: "When 
these things begin to come to pass, then 
look up, and lift up your heads; for your 
redemption draweth nigh." Luke 21:28. 
"When ye see these things come to pass. 
know that the kingdom of God is nigh at 
hand." Verse 31. 
"Look up, and lift up your heads," 
This is not a time to be downcast, to be 
given to despair, ye Christian people of 
the world! to give yourselves over to 
hopelessness and desperation! Keep your 
chin up, for right must win as suggested 
by the following words from "The Pres-
ent Crisis" written by James Russell 
Lowell: 
"Careless seems the great Avenger; 
history's pages but record 
One death-grapple in the darkness 
'twixt old systems and the Word; 
Truth forever on the scaffold, 
Wrong forever on the throne,—
Yet that scaffold sways the future, 
and, behind the dim unknown, 
Standeth God within the shadow, 
keeping watch above His own." 
The day will soon come when God 
will intervene in the affairs of this sin-
ful world. He will send His Son in the 
clouds of glory to save His own and to 
punish the wicked. Describing that day 
the apostle says: "And the heaven de-
parted as a scroll when it is rolled to-
gether; and every mountain and island 
were moved out of their places. And 
the kings of the earth, and the great men, 
and the rich men, and the chief captains, 
and the mighty men, and every bondman, 
and every free man, hid themselves in 
the dens and in the rocks of the moun-
tains; and said to the mountains and 
rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the 
face of Him that sitteth on the throne, 
and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the 
great day of His wrath is come; and 
who shall be able to stand?" Revelation 
6:14-17. 
Nevertheless, in that day many from 
all nations will look up and say; "Lo, 
this is our God; we have waited for Him, 
and He will save us: this is the Lord; we 
have waited for Him, we will be glad 
and rejoice in His salvation." Isaiah 
25:9. 
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Miller 
The Mount of Olives and Gethsemane, where Jesus suffered agonies to save men 
and to vindicate His Father's Law. 
T
HE wise man, Solomon, says in Eccle-
siastes 12:13-14: "Fear God, and keep 
His commandments: for this is the whole 
duty of man. For God shall bring every 
work into judgment, . . ." I conclude 
from this text that the judgment will be 
based on the Ten-Commandment Law 
of God, as written by the finger of God 
on the tables of stone and handed to 
Moses. 
In view of this, I make bold to say that 
no minister can preach a really effective 
gospel sermon without preaching the Law 
of God. In I Peter the fourth chapter and 
the eleventh verse, we read: "If any man 
speak, let him speak as the oracles of 
God." And we may be sure that God has 
not left us in darkness as to what the 
oracles of God are. Acts 7:38 says: "This 
is he that was in the church in the 
wilderness with the Angel which spake to 
him in the Mount Sinai, and with our 
fathers: who received the lively oracles 
to give unto us." 
Note that these "lively oracles" have to 
do with Mount Sinai. Now, reading 
verse fifty-three of the same chapter in 
Acts: "Who received the Law by the 
disposition of angels." "Yes, the oracles, 
or Ten Commandments, are lively—not 
done away with, nor in any way dead. 
We must resolve, then, that if any man 
speak or preach, he must do so according 
to the Law of God, in following out 
Peter's admonition. Let us now analyse 
a few gospel topics, to ascertain if the 
full gospel of Jesus Christ can be preached 
without in any way touching on the Law 
of God. 
First, the subject of the Love of God. 
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John 3:16 is the great love text of the 
Bible. "For God so loved the world, that 
He gave His only begotten Son, that 
whosoever believeth in Him should not 
perish, but have everlasting life." Paul 
says (Romans 5: 7, 8) that God gave His 
Son, Jesus, while we were yet sinners. 
Now note I John 5:3: "For this is the love 
of God, that we keep His Command-
ments:..." Peter was correct, then, when 
he said that a man who would preach 
upon the subject of the love of God or 
any other subject, should speak as the 
oracles of God, or His Ten-Command-
ment law. 
Let us consider the subject of Faith. In 
Hebrews 11:6 we learn how impossible 
it is to please God without faith. And 
Paul writes in Romans 12:3, that every 
individual is given a measure of faith by 
a fair, impartial God. The apostle Paul 
has more to say on the subject of faith in 
Romans 3:31: "Do we then make void 
the Law through faith? God forbid: Yea, 
we establish the Law." No one can ef-
fectively and fully speak on the subject 
of faith without speaking according to 
the Law of God. 
What relation has the subject of Prayer 
to the Law of God? My first text 
on Prayer is found in Luke 21:36. 
"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, 
..." And good advice it is for these peril-
ous times in which we live. And these 
words are found in I John 3:22: "And 
whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, 
because we keep His Commandments, 
and do those things that are pleasing in 
His sight." Notice those words. We can 
expect God's answer to our prayers when 
we observe His Ten-Commandment Law. 
Solomon says in Proverbs 28:9: "He that 
turneth away his ear from hearing the 
Law, even his prayer shall be an abomina-
tion." Judge from these texts if one can 
ignore God's Law and expect his prayer 
to be heard. 
Our next subject, Eternal Life, should 
be preached according to the oracles of 
God, which are His Ten Command-
ments, His divine, holy, and righteous 
Law. Acts 4:12 states that we have sal-
vation only through Jesus our Saviour. 
In Matthew 19:16-17, the story is told of 
one who came to Jesus asking what he 
should do to have eternal life. That is a 
good question for each one of us to ask. 
What was Jesus' answer to this inquiry? 
"But if thou wilt enter into life, keep 
the Commandments." Here we discover 
Jesus, the Son of God, sent from heaven 
as a Redeemer of sinners, upholding the 
Ten-Commandment Law of God! We 
are told in Hebrews 13:8 that Jesus is 
the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. 
So, if we ask our Lord to-day what we 
must do to have eternal life, He replies, 
"If thou wilt enter into life, keep the 
Commandments." And He also says if • 
we love Him we will keep His com-
mandments. (John 14:15.) 
Many sermons have been based on the 
subject of Sin. We have the very com-
forting assurance in Matthew 1:21 that 
"He shall save His people from their 
sins." Romans 6:23 declares that "the 
wages of sin is death"; so if we wish to 
escape the wages of sin and live eternally, 
we must learn what sin is. We have the 
definition for sin given in I John 3:4: 
"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth 
also the Law: for sin is the transgression 
of the Law." Therefore, I could not make 
war against sin, and at the same time 
make war against the Ten-Command-
ment Law which points out sin. The Law 
acts as a school master "to bring us unto 
Christ, that we might be justified by 
faith." Gal. 3:24. What a close relation- 
SIGNS 0 F THE TIMES 
I Can't Preach 
Without 
Preaching 
THE • 
LAW 
By Lloyd M. Selzer 
ship we find, then, between the Law 
and the plan of salvation from sin! 
A very popular sermon topic is the 
Grace of God. Some people like to 
think of themselves as living, not under 
the law, but under grace. With this in 
mind, let us think for a moment on some 
very familiar verses in the New Testament. 
Paul says in that famous sixth chapter of 
Romans that we "are not under the law 
• 
but under grace." Then notice his line 
of reasoning in the fifteenth verse: "What 
then? shall we sin because we are not 
under the law, but under grace? God 
forbid!" An individual is under the law 
only when he is condemned by the law. 
The man who keeps all the Ten Corn- 
IN GOD'S DIRECTIVES 
FOR THE AFFAIRS OF 
THIS EARTH IT IS 
WELL TO NOTE THE 
PARTS PLAYED BY 
W
HO are the angels? Angels are not 
ghosts, or the spirits of our departed 
loved ones. Before the creation of man, 
ere the entrance of sin and death in this 
universe, we read of their existence and 
their activities. 
They sang together and shouted for joy 
when this world was created. They were 
man's first instructors in paradise; and 
when in disgrace he was driven into ex-
ile, with flaming sword and tireless vigils 
they guarded the way to the tree of life. 
They saw the first infant born on this 
earth, and with amazement and horror 
witnessed the first murder of the ages. 
As man could not have died before his 
creation, so if angels are the spirits of 
dead men, there could have been no 
angels in existence until after man's 
creation and his fall. That angels existed 
prior to the creation of man is proved 
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mandments is not under the Law. If we 
observe the speed law of our province, 
we are not under the law,—no; but if we 
break the speed law, we come under it 
very quickly. So, we are not under the 
law but under grace, because we have ac-
cepted Christ's sacrifice for us, and our 
sins are forgiven. 
And we could go on endlessly, for ac-
cording to our King James' version of the 
Bible, God's holy Law is still standing, 
as majestic and sublime as on the day He 
wrote it with His finger on tables of stone 
and delivered it to His church. If we 
love God, He says we will keep His corn-
mandments, and these commandments 
are not grievous to His faithful children. 
from the fact that during the war in 
heaven, some of their number arrayed 
themselves on the side of right, and under 
the leadership of Michael (Christ) drove 
Satan and his rebel host with shattering 
defeat into darkness and perdition. (See 
Revelation 12:7-9.) These facts prove be-
yond the shadow of a doubt that angels 
are not phantoms or spirits of dead per-
sons. 
Having seen what they are not, let us 
now see what they are. They are real, 
corporeal, personal beings. They were 
created by God, but they are of a higher 
order of existence than man. The Psalm-
ist, speaking of man's creation, said, 
"Thou hast made him a little lower than 
the angels." Psalm 8:5. 
In describing the cherubim, Ezekiel 
said they have "backs," "hands," "feet," 
"sides," "wings." (See Ezekiel, chapter 
ten.) Companies of these angels stood 
guard at the gate of Eden. (Genesis 3:24.) 
Satan, before his explusion from heaven, 
was of the order of cherubim. (See Eze-
kiel 28:14.) Then there are the seraphim, 
—angels with six wings. With two wings 
they veil their faces, with two they cover 
their feet, and with two they fly. (See 
Isaiah 6:2.) These heavenly beings, in 
their orders and excellencies, rule vast 
principalities and powers, in their do- 
minions of glory in heavenly councils. 
They sway the destinies of men and na-
tions. Human eyes have seen them; hu- 
man hands have touched them. They 
have accepted hospitality of men on 
earth. More than once they have entered 
human dwellings and conversed with 
their occupants face to face. 
These celestial beings are agencies in 
the salvation of fallen man. "Are they 
not all ministering spirits, sent forth to 
minister for them who shall be heirs of 
salvation?" Hebrews 1:14. In their lov- 
ing ministry to man, many times their 
voices have been heard in kindly warn-
ings to the servants of God. Not until 
the day breaks and the,shadows flee away 
will he fully revealed the many instances 
of their defence and deliverance of men 
who have lived on this earth. 
With firm yet tender hands two angels 
led the family of Lot from the fiery 
tempest of Sodom and Gomorrah. With 
super-human power an angel shut the 
mighty jaws of hungry lions in the den 
where Daniel was cast. Elisha, the pro-
phet of Israel, and his servant were in 
imminent danger by their enemies who 
closed in around them. But the foe's 
wicked designs were frustrated by an 
invisible host of angels. Heavenly war-
riors in their flaming chariots, drawn by 
steeds of fire, drew up in battle array, 
and drove to defeat the host of Syria. 
Swifter than light in its flight, outdo-
ing the radio in speed of transmission, 
these angels of God are limited in their 
movements only as God Himself limits 
them. Daniel of old uttered a short 
prayer in ancient Babylon. As soon as 
he started praying the angel Gabriel was 
commanded to fly swiftly and give the 
prophet understanding. Quicker than 
light can flash (and light travels at the 
rate of 185,000 miles a second), this 
mightiest of angels darted through space 
rushing by star systems and galaxies; leav-
ing constellations behind, he sped to-
wards a mere speck called "Earth," situ-
ated somewhere in the infinitude of 
space. Before the prophet had finished 
his prayer, Gabriel was there, laying 
hands on Daniel. 
Gabriel seems to have taken special 
interest in doing exploits in emergencies. 
The body of Christ was wrapped in 
death, silent in Joseph's rock-hewn tomb. 
It was well past midnight. The darkest 
period just before the dawn had come. 
The Roman legionnaires were guarding 
the sealed tomb. The hearts of the dis-
ciples were broken with grief. Hell was 
complacent with satisfaction. 
Then from among the millions of 
angels in glory a solitary angel was called. 
It was Gabriel. Approaching the throne 
of God, he received orders to proceed to 
the Earth and call Christ from the tomb. 
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74 ANGELS 
By A. Wellington Clark 
I
HAD known of this young man, off 
and on, from the time he was five 
years old, until the time he went into 110 
World War One, and a few years after; 
but it was not until after that he made 
a special trip to visit me. It was to be a 
surprise visit. 
Fortunately he found me at home, and 
we soon settled down to reminiscing, after 
which we talked of the many things that 
had happened to him since last we met, 
all of which were interesting. However. 
one experience seems to stand out above 
the others, which I would like to tell you 
about. 
It happened while he was putting up 
some ventilator shafts at a large powder 
mill; working where the din was so great 
it was impossible to detect the coming of 
a shower until it burst in all its fury. Be-
cause of the danger of being trapped 
there in a thunder shower, some one from 
below always signaled the men to come 
down. 
Always, but once. The first intima-
tion they had of a shower was a bolt of 
lightning that played round and round 
Five times a day the Moslem prays. Do 
Christians sense the power in prayer? 
SIGNS OF THE TIMES 
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WHY 
By Martha E. Warner 
THE MINISTRY OF 
Question: In a recent article on the 
Judgment you say that Christ entered the 
Holy Sanctuary in the year 1844. Does 
not Paul say that He did this when He 
went back to heaven after His first ad-
vent? 
Answer: A considered reading of Levi-
ticus 4:1-7; 16:30-34; 23:27-32 and 
Hebrews 9 will make the matter clear. 
To sum up the instruction and the argu-
ment: The ancient Israelitish sanctuary 
and its services were a type of the work 
of Christ in heaven while ministering for 
sinful man. The yearly round of services 
in the type corresponded to the whole 
history of the plan of salvation in the 
antitype. The old sanctuary had an outer 
room called the Holy Place, and an in-
ner room called the Most Holy Place, or 
"Holiest of all." With other furniture, 
the outer room contained the altar of 
incense, the inner, "the ark of the cove-
nant." 
All during the yearly round, the priests 
of Israel ministered for the people only 
in the outer room, not entering the inner 
room at all. But on the last day, the Day 
of Atonement, the High Priest alone 
ministered in the inner room, or Most 
Holy Place. Essentially, the daily service 
consisted of the sinner confessing his 
sin and in symbol laying it on an ani-
mal, which was slain and its blood with 
the sin carried into the Holy Place by 
the priest and sprinkled on the altar of 
incense. The sin was thus represented as 
ascending with the incense, and being 
carried over the intervening veil to the 
Most Holy place and resting over the ark. 
And on the Day of Atonement these ac-
cumulated sins in the Most Holy Place 
were represented as being removed (the 
sanctuary was "cleansed". See Daniel 
Never in angelic history had such a com-
mand been given. Vanishing from the 
presence of God, moving on rapid wings, 
Gabriel flew with incredible rapidity to-
wards the Earth. 
The Roman guards saw a point of 
light in the distant heavens; then that 
light became an angel, whose glory 
lighted the sky and eclipsed the bril-
liance of the sun. He rolled the massive 
boulder from the mouth of the grave. 
Awe-stricken, those Romans saw him 
descending the pit, now illuminated by 
the unsurpassed glory. They saw him un-
doing the napkin which bound the face 
of our Redeemer. The clothes, saturated 
with spices and ointments, were removed 
from the lifeless form. Now Gabriel 
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CHRIST IN HEAVEN 
8:14) by the High Priest by virtue of the 
cleansing power of the blood of a goat, 
which represented Christ's blood. 
The Day of Atonement was the type 
of the great judgment day at the end of 
the world. For if an Israelite did not 
have his sins in the Most Holy Place by 
confession and sacrifice, they were not 
forgiven and he was cut off from the 
congregation. To this day the Jews con-
sider the Atonement to involve judgment. 
To correspond to the type of the 
earthly services, Paul shows in Hebrews 
9 that Christ must have entered the 
Holy Place when He ascended on high 
after His resurrection, and ministered 
there till the antitypical Day of Atone-
ment (beginning in 1844 according to 
the prophecy of Daniel 4:14 and 9:24-
26) when He entered the Most Holy 
Place. Thus "once in the end of the 
world" (verses 12 and 26) did He minis-
ter in the Holiest of all, which is the 
judgment. 
We can see that there may be some 
confusion in your mind by the use by 
 
Paul of the words "holy place" in verse.. 
12 and 25, instead of "most holy place". 
But, obviously, he cannot there be refer-
ring to the outer room or holy place; be-
cause he says very definitely that it wa.. 
the room where the High Priest entered 
only "once", and that, as we have seen, 
was the inner room or Most Holy Place. 
There is really no discrepancy here. The 
priests entered through the holy place to 
reach the most holy. It seems to have 
been the custom, when there was no need 
to distinguish between them, to call 
either one, or both together, the holy 
place; as we call the time of one revolu-
tion of the earth a day, and also only 
the light part of it a day. 
emerged from the rocky tomb, and with 
a voice that shook Earth beneath and the 
heavens above, cried, "Son of God, Thy 
Father calls Thee, Come forth." Jesus 
our Lord and Master came from the grave 
a mighty conqueror over death and hell. 
Every one of us who journeys toward 
the kingdom of God has an accompany-
ing angel all the way. (Matthew 18: io; 
Psalm 34: 7.) And when Christ returns 
to earth the second time, He will bring 
the angels with Him; and will send them 
forth over the earth to gather His people 
who have been resurrected at the sound 
of His voice. (Matthew 24: 31; John 5: 
25; I Thessalonians 4:15-17.) Blessed is 
the ministration of angels for those who 
are heirs of salvation. 
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WHEN WE THINK WE 
"0, our God, wilt thou not judge them? 
for we have no might against this great 
company that cometh against us; neither 
know we what to do: but our eyes are 
upon Thee." 
Life's great trials fix our gaze upon 
God. When dark shadows envelop us, 
then we look to God for help. When 
tragedy comes, then we find our solace 
in the "One who cares." 
Jehoshaphat with all Judah stood be-
fore God during one of these dark hours, 
and after requesting God's help he con-
cluded by saying "but our eyes are upon 
thee." 
When their gaze was lifted and fixed 
on the Omnipotent One, when they real-
ized their strength was from the Holy 
One, then trouble ceased. "Hearken . . . 
Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of 
this great multitude; for the battle is 
not yours, but God's. .. Ye shall not need 
to fight in this battle: set yourselves, 
stand ye still, and see the salvation of the 
Lord with you, 0 Judah and Jerusalem: 
fear not nor be dismayed; to-morrow go 
out against them: for the Lord will be 
with you." 
Similar experiences are found through-
out the Word of God. Asa cried and said, 
"Lord it is nothing with thee to help, 
whether with many or with them that 
have no power: help us, 0 Lord our God; 
for we rest on Thee, and in Thy name we 
go against this multitude." II Chron. 
14:11. 
It was after such a complete surrender, 
such a full resignation of human power 
to the power of God that we read in the 
following verse "So the Lord smote the 
Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; 
and the Ethiopians fled." 
The principle of God's power, of God's 
help is very clearly and tersely given by 
the Spirit of God through one called 
Azariah. "The Lord is with you, while 
ye be with Him; and if ye seek Him, He 
will be found of you; but if ye forsake 
Him, He will forsake you." II Chron. 
15 : 2. 
rain, the birds, the flowers, the sunrise, 
the sunset, the trees, and thousands of 
other things which come to us as a gift 
from God, and which we take without 
even a thank you. 
If we begin to learn how to pray to 
God now, before there is a crisis driv-
ing us to prayer, then "the peace of God, 
which passeth all understanding, shall 
keep your hearts and minds through 
Christ Jesus." Phil. 4:7. 
DO NOT NEED GOD 
Too often our eyes are set on God only 
in a time of dire distress or need. He 
promises to be found, but isn't it a dis-
credit to any of us to know that only 
when we are in anguish of heart we turn 
to Him? 
We must learn how to place and keep ' 
our eyes on the Lord. When we drive a 
car through a murky fog on a dark night, 
do we look carefully at the road only 
when we see a bridge loom up ahead or 
when we see a glow approaching? No, 
our eyes are fixed, our gaze is established 
on the road we follow. That is the way 
the Lord would have us travel the sin 
fogged road of life, watching carefully, 
watching Him, for He is "the Way." 
G. Hewlett 
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PRAY? 
through the shaft. He told me how the 
men dropped their tools and scurried 
down as fast as they could. Then came 
the remark I have so of ten thought about. 
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"Truly," he said, "I was scared; scared 
stiff, and if ever I prayed, I prayed then." 
"And do you pray now?" I asked. 
"No," he replied with a laugh. "I 
don't have to; my feet are on the ground 
and I can take care of myself." 
"Someway," I told the young man, 
"someway you remind me of a few lines 
written by John Owen: 
"God and the Doctor we alike adore, 
But only when in danger, not before; 
The danger o'er, both are alike re- 
quited, 
God is forgotten, and the Doctor 
slighted." 
For a minute the young man seemed 
to be thinking, then with a shrug and a 
laugh, he replied, "Maybe so, maybe so. 
But really, as long as a fellow can take 
care of himself, I don't see any sense in 
getting mixed up in religion, so why 
pray?" Then to signify that he had no 
desire to continue the subject, he soon 
took his departure. 
To-day, the conversation comes back 
to me afresh, and as I think about it, it 
seems that the attitude of this young 
man is typical of the attitude of many 
people. 
We know things are bad across the 
waters, but here at home, even in spite of 
the many vacant chairs, life goes on 
about as usual. True, we have to be 
bothered with ration points and coupons; 
and it frets us because we cannot reel off 
as many miles on the speedometer as 
we would like, but even so, no bombs are 
falling on our land. Our cities with their 
priceless treasures are intact; we have 
work, our pay envelopes are filled almost 
to the bursting point, so like the young 
man we say, "Why pray?" and we wonder 
what there is to pray for. 
My dear friend, some clear night, I 
wish you would go outdoors, lift up your 
eyes to the heavens and as you behold 
the myriads of stars all moving in their 
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courses, would not this awe-inspiring 
spectacle, in all its grandeur, answer your 
question, Why pray? 
We pray because there is a God; a 
God who has created all these things; 
a God upon whose word the world hangs, 
"For He spake, and it was done; He com-
manded and it stood fast." Ps. 33:9. We 
pray because there is a God, a God not to 
be forgotten; and as we pray we become 
(hanged, we give up the old life and put 
on the new. 
But when we say we have nothing to 
pray for, it is the same as saying, we do 
not need God, we can get along very well 
without Him so long as our little world 
is all right. Of course if a thunder bolt 
right from the blue hits us, and we are 
facing death, then we pray. 
Oh, if we were not such an ungrateful 
set of people we should find plenty to 
pray for. There is the sunshine, the 
JUNE, 1944 
KEEPING COMFORTABLE 
cg 
WARM • 
WEATHER 
Not only foods into the "frige" to keep them cool, but the right foods into the body 
to keep it cool. 
IT IS not absolutely necessary to go to 
I the mountainside or to take an ocean 
voyage at great expense in order to keep 
comfortable and escape the discomforts 
of warm weather. It is possible to en-
joy a good degree of comfort at home by 
merely making a few changes in the 
habits of life. The one who makes these 
changes may be able to maintain a 
greater degree of comfort at home than 
the one who seeks some high altitude 
and fails to alter his habits of living. 
The human body is a wonderful mech-
anism. It possesses the power of adapt-
ing itself to changes in external tempera. 
ture in such a way that the temperature 
internally remains practically the same, 
regardless of what the external tempera-
ture may be. 
The internal temperature is main- 
tamed by means of the circulatory system. 
The temperature of the liver and of some 
of the deeper muscles in which the great-
est amount of oxidation takes place, 
ranges from 102° to 105°, whereas the 
mucous membrane of the mouth has a 
temperature of about 98.6°, and the tem-
perature of the skin is fully one degree 
lower. 
In cold weather the blood supply to 
the surface is lessened; in warm weather 
the surface blood vessels and capillaries 
dilate, and permit a larger flow of blood 
to the skin for the purpose of cooling. 
This explains the red, flushed faces and 
the swollen hands. The increased 
amount of blood distributed in the sur-
face causes increased evaporation of mois-
ture. On a warm day an adult may give 
off from two to four pints of moisture 
By Daniel H. Kress, M.D. 
every twenty-four hours, and yet not per-
spire perceptibly. If the weather becomes 
very hot, more moisture oozes out, and 
becomes visible on the skin. 
The moisture on the skin answers the 
same purpose as the moist cloth surround-
ing a pitcher of water on a warm day. 
In tropical countries, drinking water is 
usually kept in cloth bags, and hung up 
so that the breeze can get at it. No matter 
how warm the breeze may be, it will aid 
in cooling the contents of the bag. For 
this reason, men and women who do a 
moderate amount of work, and, as a 
result, perspire some, suffer less from heat 
than do those who sit quietly and try to 
keep cool. 
Diet is an important factor in keeping 
cool on a warm day. In cold weather we 
feed our furnaces or stoves in order to 
keep our houses warm. As the weather 
becomes warmer, less fuel is required. 
The human body corresponds to a house. 
It has within it a furnace and an auto-
matic stoker. When impressions of cold 
are made upon the skin, they are com-
municated to the heat-regulating centres 
and a greater amount of fuel is auto-
matically fed to the body furnace, and a 
corresponding increase of heat is pro-
duced. 
In warm weather it is not uncommon 
for people to eat the same kind of food 
and the same quantity that they do in 
cold weather, and then the fans must be 
kept going to keep these poor people 
from burning up. The lack of energy 
experienced during the summer months 
is frequently caused by the clogging of 
the living furnace with clinkers, due to 
an excess of fuel and incomplete oxida-
tion, and not, as is supposed, to too little 
food. In order to feel fit and to keep com-
fortable, it is necessary to eat less. 
In warm weather the digestive organs 
cannot digest the same quantity or quality 
of food that they are capable of digesting 
in cold weather. Wisely, therefore, na-
ture takes away the desire for many of 
the solid foods, and furnishes us with 
greens, vegetables, and fruits in abun-
dance. 
Dogs fed on the same amount of meat 
in warm weather as in cold weather be-
come ill. The cat that catches and eats 
the same number of rats or mice in sum-
mer as in winter develops convulsions. 
Much of the summer sickness is due to 
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES 
the absorption of poisons resulting from 
the decay of unsuitable foods in the 
alimentary canal. Summer diarrhea is 
chiefly due to this. The free use of meat 
is not only unsuitable, but dangerous, 
in hot weather. Foods high in protein, 
, 
such as beans, lentils, and eggs, which 
readily undergo putrifaction, should be 
used sparingly. If possible supply in their 
places ripe olives, nuts, or olive oil, in 
• 
moderation. 
Fruits are, of all foods, the best during 
the summer months. The food elements 
in fruit are served in such a form as to 
require very little effort on the part of 
the digestive organs to prepare them for 
absorption; the acids prevent putrefac-
tion and are aids in the digestion of the 
protein food that it may be necessary to 
eat in addition to the fruit. They also 
contain liquid in the purest form ob-
tainable to supply the needs of the body. 
Supercooked vegetables, such as cabbage, 
ferment readily, and should be used 
sparingly. 
In warm weather the diet should be 
composed almost exclusively of cereals 
and fruits with some additional whole-
some relish. Salads made of lettuce, 
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celery, and tomatoes, with the addition 
of a little lemon juice and olive oil, will 
be found appetizing and healthful. It is 
best to eat foods in as natural a state as 
possible. Should this diet be followed, 
there would be less summer sickness, 
sunstroke would be practically unheard 
of, and the outlay of means to go to a 
cooler climate in order to keep comfort-
able would not be necessary. 
Linen or cotton underwear is prefer-
able to any other, during warm weather. 
Light, thin, and loosely woven inner and 
outer garments are preferable, since they 
allow free access of air to the skin and 
permit evaporation of moisture from it. 
Anger, anxiety, nervousness, worry, all 
intensify the heat. Self-control is a most 
important aid in keeping cool. By plan-
ning beforehand the work of each day, 
and then performing it in a quiet man-
ner, comfort may be experienced even in 
warm weather. Periods of complete re-
laxation should be taken for a few min-
utes at intervals during the day. A few 
minutes of complete relaxation before 
meals will be found beneficial. Do not 
complain of the warmth, or talk about it, 
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us encouraging the mind to dwell up-
n the weather. The heat is felt much 
more if this is done. It is possible to get 
so interested in our work that we cease 
to think of the temperature. The most 
uncomfortable individuals are those 
whose chief aim is to keep comfortable. 
Sweating will do no harm. It is a 
blessing in disguise. There are those who 
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willingly pay two dollars for an electric 
light or Rusian sweat bath, but when 
they can get a good sweat without money 
or without price, they complain of the 
• 
weather. If we would perspire more than 
we do, we would undoubtedly have better 
health. The hard-working man who earns 
his bread by the sweat of his face, will 
have better health and live longer than 
will the one who is seated in his office 
in front of a revolving fan and earns 
his bread by the sweat of his brain. 
JUNE, 1944 
THE DOCTORS ARE TELLING US 
Get acquainted with penicillin, one of 
the most effective of germ killers. It 
can't be produced fast enough to over-
supply the military needs for it; but the 
turn of the home front germs will come. 
* 
* * 
In Chicago last summer, medical ex-
perimenters tried to prove a theory that 
mosquitoes spread infantile paralysis. 
They exposed monkeys to the attacks of 
the insects. But instead of the mosqui-
toes biting the monkeys, the monkeys 
caught and ate the mosquitoes. Which 
reminds us of the beggar in India who, 
when chided for catching lice on his 
body and eating them, replied vehe-
mently, "He eat me; I eat him!" The 
doctors propose to give the mosquitoes 
a chance next summer. But they learned 
something from the monkeys, in the way 
of prevention, even though the simian 
technique did not appeal. 
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Montreal Doctor Harold R. Griffiths 
reports in the Canadian Medical Associa-
tion Journal the discovery of a practical 
use for the drug curare, long known as 
a paste cooked up from plants which 
South American Indians use in blow-
pipes to kill game. It paralyzes the 
muscles. The Doctor uses it successfully 
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Life is pushing us so hard to-day that we at times wish we could get 
away from it all and be a temporary hermit. But we cannot run away from life. 
We can, however, all take the short vacation that is so necessary to good 
health. The ideal vacation, as we picture it in our minds, permits quiet walks 
in peaceful countrysides, sunshine, birds, water, rest. If you can get these, 
and in addition have medical treatments and good food, you have the ideal 
conditions for recovery of health. 
Such are the facilities offered by the Rest Haven •Hospital and Sanitarium. 
The hydrotherapy and electrotherapy treatments are administered by skilled 
technicians, and friendly attendants meet your every wish. 
Early attention to warning symptoms may prevent a chronic invalidism. 
Write to-day for more information. 
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to relax tense tissues for operations, 
when general anesthesia will not accom-
plish this result. 
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Of several hundred women who ap-
plied for examination because they had 
suspicious symptoms and suspected can-
cer, only 111/2 per cent, or slightly more 
than one in ten, actually had the disease. 
Imagine the relief of the other 881/2 per' 
cent who learned that they did not have 
cancer! 
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Scientists are considering a new ex-
planation for the spontaneous outbreaks 
of the flu in remote corners of the earth 
at the same time. It may be, they say, 
that the germs of the disease fly to us 
through interstellar space from Mars, 
Venus, or Jupiter—or come on the me-
teors that strike the earth. A far-fetched 
disease and a far-fetched explanation, 
to be sure. 
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The latest on mashed potatoes is that 
you have to mash them quickly just be-
fore eating if you don't want them to 
lose four per cent of their vitamins. But 
don't let this make you too vitamin 
conscious. 
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Be Careful of Your Health 
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First-Aid Section and Key Colour Sheet ( known as the "red flag") for 
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