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One of Bernini's sculptures of the early Popes in St. 
Peter's, Rome. 
PETER AND ROME 
4, FOR many years now Italian archxologists have 
been digging beneath the great basilica of St. 
Peter's, in Rome, for confirmatory evidence of 
the tradition that the apostle Peter died a martyr's 
death in the capital of the Roman Empire and 
was buried on this spot, marked by a succession 
of churches, from that of the Christian Emperor 
Constantine to the present sixteenth-century edifice. 
It was at the instigation of Pope Pius XI in 
1939 that the work began, but for ten years it 
was conducted with the greatest secrecy. However, 
in the Holy Year of 1950 Pope Pius XII announ-
ced to the world the discovery of many tomb 
chambers with Christian inscriptions deep down 
beneath the papal altar, proving that the first 
church was indeed erected upon an ancient Chris-
tian cemetery. It was further claimed that the 
tomb of Peter had actually been identified, though 
the name of the apostle had not been found any-
where among the mass of incised scratchings, 
or graffiti, on the tomb walls. 
After Holy Year, Dr. Margherita Guarducci, 
professor of Greek epigraphy at Rome University, 
began a new series of excavations on the small 
group of vaults directly under the apse of Con-
stantine's church, which resulted in the discovery 
of many more graffiti going back from the fourth 
century, when Constantine levelled the site for 
his basilica, to the middle of the second century, 
or not more than eighty or ninety years after the 
reputed death and burial of the apostle. 
Unfortunately, most of these scratchings were 
not in intelligible Greek, but in the form of 
cryptograms, or code symbols, written during the 
days of persecution, like those in the catacombs, 
and it took Dr. Guarducci and her sister Maria 
between five and six years to decipher them. Now, 
in three handsome volumes, entitled, The Graffiti 
Beneath the Confessio of St. Peter, the first 
copies of which were presented in private audience 
to the Pope on March 18th, Dr. Guarducci offers 
the missing evidence which she believes completely 
substantiates the papal tradition. 
On a wall beside the reputed grave of Peter 
she found, many times repeated, the letter P 
scratched above the letter E so as to resemble a 
key. This the professor asserts is the code sign 
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for Peter and can only mean that he was buried 
in the adjoining tomb. 
In confirmation of this she deciphers another 
cryptogram associated with the sign for Peter as 
meaning "Peter is buried here." 
These graffiti, Dr. Guarducci believes, were 
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the scratchings of pilgrims in the middle of the 
second century, indicating that at this early date, 
while some who knew Peter were probably living 
this spot had become a place of pilgrimage. 
In addition to the name of Peter, Dr. Guarducci 
claims also to have found a code letter M. 
indicating that at this date the veneration of Mary, 
the mother of Jesus, was already developing in the 
Christian church in Rome. 
Commenting on these remarkable inscriptions 
and their brilliant decipherment, the Catholic 
Times declares them to be "of the utmost impor-
tance in establishing finally that here, directly 
under the papal altar in St. Peter's, was the tomb 
of the first pope." 
Now if the editor had finished his sentence, 
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"the tomb of the apostle Peter," we would have 
taken no exception to the statement, as most 
Protestants, as well as Catholics, accept 
the assertations of Clement at the end of 
the first century and Ignatius at the begin- 
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ning of the second, that Peter spent his 
last days in Rome and was martyred there. 
But while we are prepared to accept the 
evidence adduced by Dr. Guarducci that 
the church of St. Peter rises over the 
cemetery in which he was probably buried, 
we see nothing in her archaeological 
evidence to strengthen the Catholic claim 
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that Peter was appointed head of the uni-
versal church by Christ, that he set up his 
seat of authority in Rome, that the popes 
elected in apostolic succession since his 
day have passed on his divine authority, 
and that the present Pope John XXIII 
is the undoubted head of the church on 
earth today, and that to him all Christians 
should render allegiance. That is a theo-
logical question entirely separate and dis-
tinct from the historical question of Peter's 
martyrdom in Rome, and for it there is no biblical 
or historical evidence whatever. 
The passage in Matthew's gospel which Roman 
Catholics use as evidence for the primacy of 
Peter and his right to the "keys" of the kingdom 
(Matt. 16:16-19) actually proves neither of these 
claims. For elsewhere we are told that the church 
was founded upon Christ and all the apostles 
(Eph. 2:20) and that the keys were likewise given 
MAY 7, 1959 
to all the apostles in their commission to preach 
the Gospel (Matt. 18:18). Peter certainly made 
no claim to primacy in the gospels or the Acts 
of the Apostles and the apostles never accorded 
him any such exclusive honour. As a matter of fact, 
at the first church council convened in Jerusalem, 
James and not Peter was the chairman. 
Furthermore, even if the biblical case could 
be proved—which it cannot—the historical link 
between Peter and the jurisdiction of the Roman 
church is extremely tenuous. 
While Clement and Ignatius refer to the martyr-
dom of Peter in Rome, neither says anything about 
his holding office in the church there. It was not 
until the end of the second century that Peter's 
name is associated with the church in Rome by 
Hegesippus, and even then it was only as co-
founder with Paul. Hegesippus knows nothing of 
the "primacy" of Peter, nor of Rome as the 
"mother church" of Christendom. 
If it can be proved that the key-like symbol P on 
top of an E actually has reference to the "keys," 
and is mid-second century in date, it would 
certainly indicate that the claim of the bishop of 
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American television. 
Rome to the "keys" is two centuries older than 
was previously thought, for, so far as we have 
known up to the present, Pope Stephen, about 
A.D. 256, was the first to claim privileges as Peter's 
successor, and the first literary reference to the 
"keys" was in a letter of Pope Felix II between 
A.D. 355 and 358. But even so, this new evidence 
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been closely studied and reverently venerated 
by millions in every age since His day. What is 
there then, about Him, which can bring encour-
agement and consolation to us whose sphere 
is humble and whose name is unknown? 
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410 MOST of us live in comparative obscurity. Per-
haps our early opportunities were meagre, or 
')ur later attainments mediocre. So that, in our 
moments of honest introspection, we are forced 
to admit that, by comparison with some whom the 
world counts great, our poor powers are very 
limited, and our developed talents are painfully 
few. We have probably settled it for ourselves, 
long ago, that our names will certainly never shine 
in the halls of human fame. 
How then, can we, in our humble sphere, 
draw appropriate encouragement and inspiration 
from the transcendent experience of Christ? For 
He, very rightly, towers far above all mankind 
in prestige and personality. His every recorded 
word is famous. His life, in all its aspects, has 
FOUR 
YEARS OF OBSCURITY 
Let us not forget His silent years. Let us 
recall that before His short public ministry, 
when His words and works rapidly roused a 
whole nation, winning the life-devotion of 
some, and provoking the bitter enmity of 
others—before that sudden and intense blaze 
of national fame, there were long years of 
quiet waiting, of obscure and patient prepar-
ation. 
Indeed there are, in the later gospel stories, 
certain indications of the quiet faithfulness which 
characterized Jesus as a humble Artisan of Nazar-
eth. The waiting years were not wasted. (When we 
patiently possess our souls until God's good time, 
they never are!) Jesus the village Carpenter, even 
while He wielded the saw and drove the plane, 
was daily increasing "in wisdom and stature, 
and in favour with God and man." Luke 2:52. 
We may be quite sure that His busy workshop was 
also truly a sanctuary. The rough boards and 
timbers would witness many a godly conversation. 
Many a thoughtful customer would be found 
reluctantly leaving, with the Carpenter's faithful 
work in his hand and the Carpenter's faithful 
word deeply enshrined in his heart. 
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INWARD DEVOTION 
"Thy Father seeth in secret," they heard Him 
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say. Therefore, "when thou prayest, . . . shut 
thy door, pray . . . in secret. Thy Father . . . 
shall reward thee openly." Matt. 6:6. 
In other words, real, vital religion, that which 
makes and keeps contact with the eternal Father, 
is not primarily something for outward show, 
but is rather an inward and solitary exercise of 
holy devotion. 
We may well believe that Jesus was speaking 
here, as always, from the depths of His own 
experience with God. Doubtless He was recalling 
the many occasions when His workshop had been 
His sanctuary, or when, among the lonely hills, 
He had kept a quiet rendezvous with His Father. 
Jesus well knew the spiritual strength which 
comes alone from private prayer. He knew that 
only such prayer will produce real faithfulness 
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in obscurity—a firm determination to wage that 
bitter battle with sin, even though few men around 
us seem to know, or care, whether we win or 
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lose. 
There are some good people who have the 
idea that Jesus suddenly, as it were, "blossomed 
into divinity" at the moment of His baptism. But 
before that, although He was ever conscious 
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of a special mission, He had not attained to the 
full divine Sonship as the Only-begotten of God. 
The Bible, however, specifically states that from 
Bethlehem's cradle to Calvary's cross, He was no 
less than the Second Person of the Godhead, and 
as such, was eminently worthy of worship. Indeed, 
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the ringing proclamation was made, even while 
He lay as a helpless Babe on Mary's lap, "Let all 
the angels of God worship Him." Heb. 1:7. 
HIS FATHER'S BUSINESS 
Later, in the early bloom of unblemished boy-
hood, well-beloved of His mother and reputed 
father, liked and admired by His neighbours and 
companions, He was nevertheless keenly aware of 
a primary and unique filial duty to His heavenly 
Father. "I must," He said, on the occasion of the 
only glimpse we have of Him during His silent 
years, "be about My Father's business." Luke 2 :49. 
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We know that "His Father's business" engros-
sed the time and attention of Christ during the 
busy days of His public ministry. It is also evident 
from the Temple incident of His boyhood that 
Jesus was equally engrossed in the same enthral-
ling theme during all the earlier and much longer 
part of His earthly life. In the privacy of the 
Nazareth family circle, or while accomplishing 
the routine tasks of His joinery bench, "His 
Father's business" was always uppermost in His 
mind. It was the secret of His quiet contentment. 
It was the reason why, although becoming increas-
ingly conscious of His latent powers and high 
destiny, Jesus could still wait with calmness and 
meekness of mind until He knew that His hour 
of action had really come. (John 2:4.) 
IN OUR HUMBLE SPHERE 
We should learn, then, that we also can be 
"about our heavenly Father's business" however 
limited our capacity and however humble our 
sphere. A singular devotion to "our Father's 
business" can be just as apparent in the paint-shop, 
or the printing office, or the packing room, as 
in the pulpit. We may be well assured that our 
Lord did good work in wood as well as in soul-
winning. And each activity was intimately in 
connection with "His Father's business." 
Further, during His early years, our Saviour set 
before us all an outstanding example of godly 
submission. He was ever mindful of His heavenly 
Father's claims. In the temple, His attitude toward 
the learned doctors of the law was not one of 
youthful precocity, but of a pleasing deference in 
"both hearing them, and asking questions." Luke 
2 :46. They were deeply impressed by His unusual 
insight, together with His respectful bearing, 
otherwise they would never have permitted Him 
to remain long in their presence. 
Moreover, the youthful Jesus was careful not to 
allow His increasing sense of divine mission, or 
His favourable reception by the high ecclesiastics, 
in any way to influence His proper filial relation-
ship to Joseph and Mary. "He went down with 
them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto 
them." Thus His early attitude of graceful sub-
mission to both divine and rightful human claims, 
enabled Him wondrously to increase "in wisdom 
and stature, and in favour with God and man." 
Luke 2:51, 52. 
Finally, during His "long silent years" the 
Saviour surely impressed upon us the high impor- 
tance of a trusting patience. By far the greater 
part of His earthly life was spent in the dull 
surroundings of an ill-famed village, in circum- 
stances which tended more to stringent poverty 
than to anything approaching worldly prosperity. 
Yet, through it all, because such was His Father's 
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Evolution and the Bible.-9 
Keystone 
Dr. W. Gregory, anatomist and anthropologist of the American Natural 
History Museum, examining some ape skulls. 
The Ascent of Man 
By C. J. 
4 PERHAPS the most seemingly convincing and 
yet insidious aspect of the theory of evolution is 
its application to man himself. "God hath made 
man upright, but he has sought out many inven-
tions." These inventions of men's imaginations 
have given rise to the idea of man's gradual 
climb to perfection by evolution, and so led to 
excusing sin in man as part of his growing pains, 
and exchanging the image of God for that of 
the beasts. 
It is stated that over a period of some 70,000,-
000 years man has developed from a creature 
similar to a modern tree shrew, a tree climbing, 
insect-eating animal about the size of a 
squirrel. This creature in its turn has as its 
ancestors a long line of creatures, starting with 
some unicellular organism, which developed in the 
steamy swamps of the earth many millions of 
years ago, and including fish, amphibians, rep-
tiles, and primitive mammals. 
Well, what evidence do evolutionists present to 
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support this idea? We will examine a number of 
the most important lines of argument. 
First, let us look at what is termed by the evo-
lutionist indirect evidence. 
CLASSIFICATION OF PLANT AND ANIMAL KING- 
DOMS 
It was natural that, as man learned more about 
life on this planet, he should seek to classify his 
knowledge. The Swedish naturalist Carolus Lin-
naeus originated our modern system, and, by the 
way", he was a Creationist, actually believing that 
every species of living thing had been created by 
God at the beginning. So we find now that scien-
tists, building on the work of Linnxus, have class-
ified the world of life into two divisions or groups 
based on similarities of structure and form. First 
of all we have the great division into the two king-
doms of plants and animals. These are then divided 
into main groups called "phyla," the phyla into 
"classes," and the classes into "orders," orders 
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into "families," families into "genera" and genera 
into "species," and oftentimes the species irrto 
"varieties." 
The apparent similarities between man and 
related animals is used as a prop for the theory 
of the evolution of man, and the animals in the 
same "order" as man, or the ones from which 
they believe he has developed, are said to have 
been links in the ascent of man. The group to 
which man is allocated in the Linnfean system 
of classification, is known as the primates. The 
animals of this order have the following char-
acteristics: nails or claws on the sensitive tips 
of fingers and toes, collar bone, eye sockets com-
pletely enclosed by bone, three kinds of relatively 
simple teeth (incisors, canines, and molars), five 
fingers and toes adapted for grasping having 
opposable thumbs and big toes, and mammary 
glands on the chest. 
The primates are divided into two sub-orders 
the Prosimii (which includes the Spectral Tarsier, 
an animal with large eyes found in the Malayan 
islands; the tree shrews, squirrel-like animals 
found in south-east Asia; and the lemurs (found 
in Madagascar and Africa) and Anthropoidea. 
This last sub-order is divided into three super-
families, the Old World monkeys (including the 
baboons, Barbary apes and macaques of Africa 
and Asia), the New World monkeys (of South 
America), e.g., spider monkeys and marmoset 
which, unlike the Old World monkeys, have a 
difference in structure of the nostrils and possess 
prehensile tails) and Hominoidea (in which sub-
order the zoologists place man and the anthropoid 
apes—g or ill a, chimpanzee, orang-utan, and 
gibbon.) 
Now the simplest of the animals in the group 
are the tree shrews and naturally the evolutionist 
suggests that all the members of the order of 
Primates developed from these and are offshoots 
of a line from shrew to man. So, on this wholly 
artificial system of classification, men have endea-
voured to build up their theory of man's evolu-
tion. 
Actually, however, "this argument is rather a 
superficial one. A similar classification could be 
made of many things which are not related organ-
ically. The armed forces of Great Britain could be 
arranged similarly. The ships of the Navy could 
be classified from rowing boats to battleships." 
— T. W. Corren in Evolution the Unproven 
Hypothesis, page 6. 
Classification surely indicates that there is a 
definite plan in creation, and thus there must 
be a Creator. 
MAY 7, 1959 
EMBRYOLOGY AND THE RECAPITULATION THEORY 
Embryology is the study of the developing 
animal before birth. Evolutionists make much of 
the resemblance between the early stages of 
various animals. Every creature is said to climb its 
own ancestral tree during the development of the 
embryo, passing through phases similar to those 
through which its ancestors passed. Thus it is said 
that ontogeny (development of individual) repeats 
phylogeny (evolution of individual). The hypo-
thesis is often referred to as the theory of recapitu-
lation and is given an important place in almost 
every book on the subject of evolution. 
The recapitulation theory was first suggested by 
the German, Ernst Hxckel (1834-1919), a 
disciple of Darwin and "the most arrogant and 
pugnacious of the evolutionists." He said, "So far 
as we men ourselves are concerned, we should 
logically seek our ancestors first among ape-like 
mammals, beyond them among kangaroo-like mar-
supials, still further back among lizard-like 
reptiles, among the more primitive kinds of fish, 
and finally among unicellular aboriginal forms 
generated from dead matter."—Cited in I Looked 
for Adam, by Herbert Wendl, page 291. 
Hxckel sugested that during development the 
human embryo is first one-celled and thus 
resembles the first form of life, a single cell. Later 
it looks like a fish embryo, then like a monkey 
having a short tail and hair, and finally the embryo 
is born without a tail and with short legs somewhat 
like an ape. The truth is that a human embryo 
never resembles a fish, but that embryos of all 
vertebrates at early stages of development are 
somewhat similar. Thus at some stage in develop-
ment, the embryos of a bird, a whale, and a man 
have a superficial resemblance. By the end of the 
second month, however, the human embryo resem-
bles a human being and nothing else. Mere 
resemblances prove nothing at all. Every living 
thing starts as a single cell and a building process 
begins in which one cell becomes two, two become 
four, four, sixteen, etc. In the first stages all are 
naturally alike, but the cells of each species are 
vastly different. 
In early stages of development, rudimentary 
structures appear, and then, in many cases, dis-
appear having served their purpose. Considering 
the great number of processes concerned in 
development, should we be surprised to find super-
ficial resemblances ? The Creator obviously chose 
the most efficient route to achieve somewhat 
different ends, hence the initial resemblances. 
(To be continued.) 
SEVEN 
Newton 
"King of kings and Lord of lords." 
ql IT was not God's original purpose that His 
chosen people should be ruled by an earthly king. 
Only when they began to forsake Him did they 
clamour to be like the nations around them, and 
to be led by an earthly monarch. It was God's 
plan that Israel should be a theocracy, with Him 
at the head, and with judges as regents for Him 
on earth. He was their real King, but they deter-
mined to have their own way, and so God chose 
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Promises of the Coming One.-7 
The Coming 
KING 
By E. B. Phillips, B.D., M.Th. 
for them Saul, a man after their own heart. 
But it was not long before Saul turned away 
from the Lord, and, lifted up by pride, aposta-
tized from the right. Then God, through the 
instrumentality of the prophet Samuel, selected 
another to be their leader, this time a man after 
His own heart--David, the son of Jesse. It was 
David who became the human progenitor of Jesus 
Christ, so that the Messiah came to be spoken of 
as the Son of David. 
MELCHIZEDEK, THE PRIEST-KING 
The priesthood and kingship of Messiah were 
early associated together, and in the book of Heb-
rews Melchizedek who was priest of the Most 
High God, and also king of Salem is set forth as 
a type of Christ. In the original his name reads, 
Melchizedek Melkishalom. Literally this is trans-
lated King of righteousness, King of peace. 
There is repeated reference in the Psalms to "My 
King," words spoken by God the Father with 
regard to the Second Person of the Trinity. 
(Continued on page 16.) 
OUR TIMES 
AROUND THE WORLD WITH 
WORLD-WIDE ADVENT MISSIONS 
Savage fire 
By J. Ernest Edwards 
Pedro AFTER treatment. 
Pedro BEFORE treatment. 
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41 PEDRO, a twelve-year-old boy from Londrina, 
Parana, Brazil, was found in a desperate con-
dition with the terrible skin disease Pemphigus 
Foliaceus, commonly known as Savage Fire. When 
mission workers visited his humble home, they saw 
that his entire body was broken out in blisters, 
which burned unendurably. Its offensive odour 
made it more hideous than leprosy. This tor-
menting disease could reduce Pedro to crouch-
ing helplessness, and then kill him. 
Immediate medical aid was neces-
sary, so a private plane was chartered 
to fly Pedro some 300 miles to the 
hospital in Campo Grande. Dr. Edgar 
Rodrigues, director of this institu-
tion which specializes in its treat-
ment of Savage Fire, writes about 
this boy: "When little Pedro An-
tonio da Silva arrived at our hospital, 
he was completely helpless, and 
unable to rise from his bed. His body 
was a raw mass of open flesh, with 
boils and blisters covering his entire 
body. After a few applications of the 
pitch mixture, f amarsan, he was able to sit up in 
his bed, but when exposed to the rays of the sun 
his suffering was intensified. After four months 
he was able to walk, and even run and play with 
other children of the hospital, and was in fair 
health. Now Pedro is very nearly well, even 
though there is slight pain when the medicine 
is applied. There are no open lesions on his body, 
and he is nearly ready to resume normal life." 
No complete cure has been 
discovered but several therapeu-
tic processes are being carried 
forward. The results have been 
so encouraging that the formula 
is being studied at the National 
Brazilian School of Pharmacy at 
Rio de Janeiro. 
The personal, prayerful in-
terest in the progress of the 
patient, and the encouragement 
of Christian doctors, helps them 
rise above depression. This insti-
tution, one of two of its kind 
in the entire world, has helped 
hundreds of people. Many more 
lives could be saved if the facil-
ities of this small hospital could 
be enlarged. 
ABOVE—Savage Fire causes this . 
crouching posture because of 
cruelly afflicted joints. 
BELOW. — Dr. Edgar Rodrigues 
sees women Pemphigus patients 
at our hospital in Campo Grande, 
Mato Grosso, Brazil. 
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AT OUR YUKA 
LEPER COLONY 
I. View of leper homes. 
2. Satisfied patients. 
3. No hands, no feet—
but a living faith in 
God. 
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AFRICA iS still the land where superstition 
idols are very much in evidence. For hundred 
false hope to cure all his troubles, but vPitho 
We are encouraged to see juju idols surrei 
geria. The picture on the right shows a man wh 
dered all to Christ. This is a great victory, for I 
wrong in the village it will be blamed onto 
Over the years that missions have been op 
upon the rock Christ Jesus. Africans who ha 
preaching to others and, by their personal witn 
you give for the spread of the Gospel, please 
Dead !Bog .We( 
"I WOULD like to tell you my story," said 
ing college at Ihie, Nigeria. "I was trained•to 
I was taken by an old devil priest into the bus 
being but the devil priest. My relatives though 
the arts of witchcraft and devil worship.; 
Then, removing his shirt, he showed me 
the marks of my consecration to the devii. TI 
blade. I was nearly beside myself with pain." 
In a miraculous way God rescued this lad 
him to one of our schools. Now he is in Ithi; 
devil worship, with his heart overflowing wit 
the Gospel to his people. 
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THE influence of our eleven hospitals and I 
far and wide. Dr. Warren Staples, at Muluti 
as "the doctor who makes the blind to see,"., foi 
ract operations. 
Yuka, our newest hospital, is situated among 
the interior of Basutoland. Already our mead) 
quate medical staff dangerously overworked! It 
sick and suffering who come to be healed at 
Dr. R. W. Royer with a little patient at I 
RIGHT.—Dr. Jack Hay operating at Kanye Hospital, 
Bechuanaland. BELOW.—Patients at Heri Hospital. 
;ctis,p,et 
ancient .l awes 
les many lives. In many areas juju groves and 
of years the African has depended upon this 
success. 
ered to the flames every week here in East Ni-
long resisted the Gospel, but at last has surren-
! will receive much opposition. If anything goes 
action. 
.ating, the Gospel has been able to establish many 
accepted Jesus as their personal Saviour are now 
;s, are winning others to the Christian faith. As 
-ay for the church in Africa. W. J. NEWMAN. 
tine3 a Yfteacliet 
. shining-faced, earnest-hearted lad at our train-
.e a devil boy," he said. "At nine years of age 
and for two years I did not see another human 
I was dead. During this time, I was trained in 
is body which was covered with scars. "These are 
de'il priest did it with a fish hook and a razor 
-om the Butches of the devil priest, and brought 
college, freed from the terror and darkness of 
the love of Jesus, and a great passion to take 
E. L. MINcHIN. 
ind See ! 
_irty-six dispensaries in Southern Africa extends 
_ Basutoland, in known among the Bantu tribes 
he has successfully performed hundreds of cata- 
the Lozi people, a very primitive tribe living in 
\hospital facilities have been overtaxed, the inade-
as Blecome a desperate struggle to cope with the 
Yuka. �
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Converted Nigerian juju priest gives up his idols for the Gospel. 
After being carried for six hours along mountain trails, the injured young 
man arrives at Omaura Hospital, New Guinea. 
Dr. J. Hay and dresser Norman Jacob at 
alamulo Hospital, Nyasaland. �
Patient arriving by canoe to Yuka hospital, Barotseland. �
the Tshane dispensary in the Kalahari desert. 
ABOVE.—Nurse P. Beechey in the "recep-
tion room," Heri Hospital, Tanganyika. 
BELOW.—The women's ward 
at Ngoma Hospital, Ruanda. 
This man from the Himalayan Mountains carried his wife on his back for miles. He met 
the Simla Mobile Medical Unit at Kotgan, 150 miles from the Tibetan border. 
En the .97thetan 1Batde,t6 
By E. E. Roenfelt 
TIBET is behind the Bamboo Curtain. But across its borders come 
itinerant bands. As the mobile medical unit from the Simla Sanitarium 
makes its rounds in the foothills of the Himalayas, it often finds such 
groups. Some come miles off the ordinary routes in order to receive 
medical help. 
Recent appointees to this medical centre are Dr. and Mrs. Stanley 
G. Sturges. Dr. Sturges will devote himself to medical work in the 
foothills of the Himalayan Mountains, where he and his assistants 
will make contact, and bring medical help and healing to the many 
Tibetans who move through those mountain areas, and to those who 
regularly reside there. 
At Kalimpong in the Darjeeling district, which is situated in the 
extreme north-east of India near the border of Tibet, are located Allan 
Maberly and several Tibetan assistants. They are ready to enter Tibet 
as soon as the way opens' for them to do so. In the meantime they are 
busily occupied in working not only for the people who inhabit that 
area, but also for the many Tibetans who come down from their moun-
tains across the borders. Much is being done for these people in the 
way of medical work. Christian literature is being distributed among 
them, and this they are carrying with them as they return to their homes. 
Thus the Christian message is 
finding its way into fastnesses 
of the mighty Himalayas. 
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IN addition to the large missionary work of World-Wide 
Advent Missions the Seventh-Day Adventist Church conducts 
a large and ever-growing welfare service to the needy and dis-
tressed in the homelands as well as overseas. 
Shipments of relief clothing for refugees and displaced per-
sons in Europe, for famine stricken areas of Asia, for flood 
victims in Pakistan, for war orphans in Korea, and for other 
needy communities, totalled for 1954 to 1957 over .500 tans. 
In addition, many tons of food were consigned to relieve 
disaster victims in many countries of the world. 
During this four year period, nearly eighteen million articles 
of clothing and bedding were distributed, largely by the women 
of 5,461 Dorcas Welfare Societies. The estimated cash value 
of the food, clothing, arid service given by these centres, of 
which there are eighty in Britain, amounts to about £7,000,000 
annually. �
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far as 100 miles away. 323 major and 954 minor operations were performed during 
the year, and 351 babies were born. 
Seven midwives, four laboratory technicians, and seventeen nurses completed 
their courses. During the year, graduates of the schools were sent to assist in smaller 
units and clinics in Surat, Simla, Ranchi, Nepal, Kalimpong and other places. 
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to perspire as much as we can. We can do little else, but 
with this simple treatment and our faith in God, we hope 
we can pull him round. It is just three weeks ago since 
he was baptized, and determined to follow Christ. 
We have thirty lepers here also whom we are able to 
help. They come to us shockingly covered with sores and 
flies, but now are without sores and very happy as well. 
This medical ministry is indeed a great help to such people. 
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THIRTEEN 
THE LORD'S DAY 
The "Lord's day," is a biblical phrase used by John the 
Revelator when describing his apocalyptic visions. 
"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and 
heard . . . a great voice, . . . saying, I am 
Alpha and Omega. . . . What thou seest, 
write in a book." Rev. 1 :10, 11. 
As one of the disciples, John had had a spiritual training 
in the school of Christ. The descriptive epellation 
"Lord" was one with which he was very familiar. 
"Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved 
[John) saith unto Peter, It is the Lord." 
John 21:7. "Ye call Me Master and Lord: 
. . . so I am." John 13:13. 
Everything associated with their Lord was deer to the 
apostles. His "day" was more precious to John since the 
ascension than ever. That "day" John knew to be the 
Sabbath day because he had heard Jesus Himself 
say sol 
"And He [Jesus] said unto them, The 
Sabbath was made for man, and not man 
for the Sabbath: therefore the Son of man is 
Lord also of the Sabbath." Mark 2 :27, 28. 
The biblical phrase "the Lord's day" is used only of the 
Sabbath day, the seventh day of the week. 
"Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy 
work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of 
the Lord: . . for in six days the Lord 
made heaven and earth, . . . and rested the 
seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the 
Sabbath day and hallowed it." Exod. 20:8-
11 
Here in the heart of the Decalogue, which 
all Christendom accepts as fundamental to the 
faith of the Christian, one finds the origin, as far 
as God is concerned, of the phrase "Lord's day." 
"This is the day which the Lord hath made," the 
commemorative day of His wonderful creation, 
the seventh day of creation's week. Notice par-
ticularly the term "Lord" and how it is used in the 
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language of the fourth commandment. Also note 
the following text: "Turn away thy foot from 
[trampling on) the Sabbath, from doing thy 
pleasure on My holy day." Isa. 58:13. 
It is John who describes so simply and yet so pro-
foundly, the creatorship of Christ; who shows that, in 
reality, it was the "Lord" who made the heavens and 
the earth (just as the fourth commandment states); and 
that it was Jesus, therefore, who introduced the weekly 
cycle, the human division of time, a septenary cycle 
which included the seventh day of rest, or the Sabbath. 
"In the beginning was the Word. . . The 
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among is. 
. . . All things were made by Him." John 
1:1-3, 14. 
When it says, "God blessed the seventh day," 
it refers to Jesus for, "By Him God made the 
worlds;" and to Jesus God says, "Thy throne, 0 
God, is for ever and ever." (See Hebrews 1:1,2, 
8.) 
In all the Bible, one finds that only one day has 
ever been sanctified, set apart, and blessed of God 
for the spiritual benefit of His children. That 
day is the seventh day; that day is the "Lord's day." 
It was John, too, who wrote, some sixty years after the 
ascension of his Lord, when the Christian church was 
well established and fulfilling its great mission: 
"He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth 
not His commandments, is a liar and the 
truth is not in him." 1 John 2 :4. "Sin is 
the transgression of the law." 1 John 3 :4. 
From these passages it is obvious that John 
understood that the commandments represented 
God's standard of righteousness and that the 
fourth commandment required the observance of 
the Sabbath—the real "Lord's day." John knew 
that Jesus had said, "Think not that I am come 
to destroy the law." And Paul added his testimony, 
making it clear that the new covenant faith in no 
sense changed any of God's commands, but rather 
served to "establish" them. (Rom. 3 :31 ; Matt. 
5:17.) 
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Nowhere does John, either in his gospel or in his epistles, 
say anything that would suggest that a change had 
taken place in the practices and precepts of the church 
Christ had founded, and to whose apostles He had given 
an example. And when John wrote his gospel, in describ-
ing the events of Calvary, he uses terms which indicate 
his own (and the church's) understanding of the change-
lessness of the divine plan. Neither he nor the other 
writers use the term "Lord's day" of the day of resur-
rection—all call it merely the first day of the week. 
"The first day of the week corneth Mary 
. . . unto the sepulchre." John 20:1. 
When any event took place on the seventh day 
John calls it, very naturally and properly, the 
Sabbath. (See John 5:9.) The other gospel writers 
make the same distinction. 
Today the phrase "Lord's day" is employed, erroneously, 
by some Christians, of Sunday, the first day of the week. 
They do so in spite of the fact that the Bible gives clear 
indication that the Sabbath of the Lord is the only Sabbath 
God has given to His children whether under the old or 
the new covenants and, as we have seen, the apellation 
"Lord's day" is used only of the Sabbath, the seventh day 
of the week. 
The late Dr. Hook, one-time Vicar of Leeds, 
once observed: "But as to Sunday, we are not able 
to refer to a single passage in all the Scriptures 
of the New Testament in which its observance 
is enjoined. . . . There is no tradition [even] 
that God ordained the first day of the week to be 
a Sabbath." 
The late Professor Gilbert Murray, of Oxford 
University, observed that the use of the Sunday 
as an alternative to the original Sabbath had its 
roots in paganism. He said: "Mithraism [worship 
of the sun-god] imposed on the Christian world 
its own Sun-day in place of the Sabbath." 
Dr. Peter Heyleyn, in his History of the Sab-
bath, observed: "Take which you will, either of 
the Fathers or the Moderns, and we shall find 
no Lord's day instituted by any apostolic mandate, 
no Sabbath set on foot by them upon the first 
day of the week, as some would have it: much 
less than any such ordinance should be hence 
collected, out of the words of the apostle." 
Modern Christians who use the phrase "Lord's day," 
and observe it, may not know that it originated with 
the powers of Rome, both political and Papal. 
In an attempt to transfer the Sabbath from the 
seventh to the first day of the week Constantine, 
the Emperor of Rome, issued the very first decree 
on behalf of Sunday. But that was not until the 
fourth century A.D! This edict of Constantine's 
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aided and abetted Pope Sylvester in the papal 
determination to make their own "Lord's day." 
Eusebius, Bishop of Ca-sarxa, speaking on behalf 
of the Emperor Constantine, Pope Sylvester, and 
himself, said: "All things whatsoever it was duty 
to do on the Sabbath, these we have transferred 
to the Lord's day." 
One hears it said often, and written, even by eminent 
men in Christendom, that the early church used the first 
day of the week as their Sabbath day, and styled it the 
"Lord's day." There is not one reference in support of 
this. Moreover, the New Testament records only one 
meeting that was convened on the first day by the early 
church under the apostlesl 
That one lone first-day gathering is recorded 
in Acts twenty. No reference is made to it being 
the "Lord's day" or that the first day (now called 
Sunday) was replacing the Sabbath. Indeed in the 
same book of Acts there are so many incidents 
cited when the Sabbath is specifically mentioned, 
that one is left in no doubt that the apostles 
continued to observe the Sabbath of the fourth 
commandment, the Sabbath of their Lord. In 
the story of Acts twenty, with the one first-day 
meeting ever recorded, it is very obvious that the 
meeting is recorded not because it was held on the 
first day (for meetings would be held on any day 
of the week), but because of the death of Euty-
chus and the miracle performed by the apostle 
Paul in raising him from the dead. 
It is a grievous thing to attempt to change the 
divine plan of Sabbath observance, and rest such 
a change upon the use, by John, of the phrase, 
"the Lord's day," a phrase which according to 
all the biblical evidence, can only be applied to 
the Sabbath (or seventh) day, known now as 
Saturday. 
Peter and Rome 
(Continued from page 3.) 
does no credit to Rome; rather does it provide 
proof of the very early apostasy of the leaders of 
that church from the true doctrine. And so also 
does the discovery of the letter M in the tombs, 
if this is correctly interpreted as the beginning of 
devotion to Mary, the mother of Jesus, for this 
is equally unbiblical. 
Without doubt, the publication of Dr. Guar-
ducci's discoveries has been cleverly timed to 
reinforce the appeal of Pope John XXIII to the 
separated churches to return to the fold of the 
"mother church" of Peter. But however convin-
cing they may be for the location of the apostle's 
tomb in St. Peter's basilica in Rome, they have 
no bearing whatsoever upon the unbiblical and 
pseudo-historical papal claim to universal spiritual 
jurisdiction over the church of Christ. 
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The "Silent" Years 
(Continued from page 5.) 
will for Him, Jesus was content, industrious, 
happy, and supremely patient. Until His hour 
should come He was quite willing to remain as 
One unknown in Nazareth. 
How often do we tend to fret under the distaste-
ful trials of poverty and obscurity! How much 
do we perhaps wish for wider scope, for more 
ample means, or a more prominent sphere of 
activity! 
But Jesus accomplished "His Father's business" 
in Nazareth as well as in Jerusalem, in the village 
street as well as in the city square. Whatever our 
lifework may be, in that we can be industrious 
for Him. We may "in patience possess our souls" 
until He comes again. (Luke 21:19.) Above all, 
we may daily heed His wise and loving admon-
ition, "Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; 
for' I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall 
find rest." Matt. 11:29. 
The Coming King 
(Continued from page 8.) 
Psalm two, which is Messianic in its utterances, 
describes the futile opposition of earthly rulers 
against heaven, and of the triumph of God's 
plans for this world. Christ is to be the Supreme 
Ruler of mankind. 
Psalm twenty-four speaks of the glory of the 
Redeemer as He enters heaven. This met its ful-
filment when Jesus ascended to heaven after He 
had won the victory in His fight with the devil 
and had arisen from the tomb. 
Christian commentators have always seen in 
Psalm forty-five a prophecy of the grace and 
majesty of Christ's kingdom. His beauty and 
nobility are set forth, and His might as all who 
oppose Him are subdued. His throne is to endure 
for ever for it is founded upon righteousness. 
Isaiah referred to the Lord as King when he 
had his vision of God, as recorded in the sixth 
chapter of his prophecy. He exclaimed, "I have 
seen the King, the Lord of hosts." And in 
chapter thirty-two, he prophesied of a King who 
would "reign in righteousness." 
PILATE'S TESTIMONY TO CHRIST 
One of the most striking prophecies of King 
Jesus is found in Zechariah 9:9: "Rejoice greatly, 
0 daughter of Zion; shout, 0 daughter of Jeru- 
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salem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He 
is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding 
upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass." 
The fulfilment of these words is cited by the 
evangelist Matthew on the occasion of the trium-
phal entry into Jerusalem. Jesus was then 
acclaimed as King, and this was what roused the 
anger of the rulers and stirred them up to arrest 
Him without delay. One of the accusations brought 
against our Lord at His trial was that He had 
said He was a King. When confronted with it, 
He owned that He was indeed a King, so on 
the cross Pilate had the superscription written: 
"This is Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." 
The Jews protested against the wording, urging 
that it be altered to read: "He said He was King 
of the Jews." But Pilate replied, "What I have 
written, I have written." So this remained the 
grand title of the Crucified One. 
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS 
Sinners in derision crowned Jesus with a crown 
of thorns; they bowed the knee to Him in satanic 
mockery, saying, "Hail! King of the Jews." Little 
did they realize that that patient Sufferer one day 
would be acclaimed King by all creation. 
The final triumph of the Man of Sorrows is 
portrayed in the nineteenth chapter of the 
Revelation: "And I saw heaven opened, and 
behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him 
was called Faithful and True, . . . And He hath 
on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, 
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." 
"The day of the Lord" was foretold many times 
by the prophets of old. Men slighted their words 
and persecuted those faithful messengers of 
Jehovah; some were even put to death. But God 
gave warning of the great and terrible day of 
vengeance. We saw from Psalm two, that those 
who oppose the Son will have to face the sore 
displeasure of Almighty God. In these our days 
a similar warning is going forth, "Fear God, 
and give glory to Him; for the hour of His 
judgment is come." Rev. 14:7. 
When our Saviour returns to this earth in 
royal power He will be enthroned as King of the 
whole world. His kingdom will be unique, for 
there will not be one dissentient voice among all 
the myriads of His subjects. Such an ideal con-
dition has never been known yet. In the days of 
the first king of Israel, Saul the son of Kish, 
there were some "sons of Belial" who said they 
would not have him as their ruler. Similarly there 
has never been a kingdom which did not have 
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enemies who plotted its overthrow. But when the 
kingdom of Christ is set up, the saved of every 
nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people will 
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gladly own the sway of Him who sits on the 
throne. In fact, even His defeated enemies will 
confess Him Lord of lords and King of kings. 
But that forced confession will not avail them nor 
save them from their fate. Now is the time to 
yield allegiance to Him in the spiritual kingdom 
of His grace. Only in this life can decisions for 
good be made; after death there will be no 
second chance. Those who die unrepentant will 
rise at the resurrection unchanged in nature. In 
an agony of remorse they will own their folly, 
but as with the antediluvians when the rains began 
to fall, they will find the door of mercy for ever 
closed against them, and they will perish. 
"COME, YE BLESSED" 
To those who have given their hearts to the 
Saviour-King the future holds no fears. They long 
for the day when their Master will return in 
triumph to give rewards to His faithful servants. 
Just prior to His betrayal and crucifixion, Jesus 
spoke of the grand consummation in a parable. 
He likened the final assize to the dividing of the 
sheep from the goats by a shepherd. To those on 
His right hand He will say, "Come, ye blessed of 
My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you 
from the foundation of the world." Such wonder-
ful words of welcome will far more than com-
pensate for anything the Christian has sacrificed or 
suffered in the service of the Master. The glories 
of that blissful state will enrapture the hearts of 
its inhabitants. Well has Isaiah said, "Since the 
beginning of the world men have not heard, nor 
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, 
O God, beside Thee, what He hath prepared for 
him that waiteth for Him." Isa. 64:4. It is indeed 
a glad Gospel that we proclaim, of a King who 
is coming to reign in righteousness, whose domin-
ion is to endure for ever; when the lion shall 
lie down with the lamb and all creation shall 
unite to praise and worship God. May our Lord 
bring us all to that Edenic state. 
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IN South Africa I saw many 
snakes in the Fitzsimons Snake 
Park in Durban. 
But the keeper had to be very 
careful with one snake. It was a 
certain kind of cobra—the 
Ringhal cobra. 
It spits! It spits in your face! 
It is nature's way to ward off 
its enemies. 
Actually its spit is a very fine 
spray which comes out of its 
mouth. It can hit its victim with 
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accuracy up to six feet away. 
The poison which it sprays into 
the eyes can almost blind a 
person, but if it is washed out 
immediately it has no serious 
effect. It is not dangerous to the 
skin, unles there are cuts or open 
wounds. 
The keeper, therefore, wears 
glasses and gloves. 
Sometimes little boys and girls 
copy this nasty trick of spitting 
at other children. I remember a 
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small boy, called Douglas, who 
was playing with his friends. 
They fastened him with a piece 
of rope to a lamp post in the 
street. Then they spat at him. 
Do you know what it did for 
those boys? It lost them one of 
their best friends. Sin blinds 
the eyes of those who should 
love us. 
I think of a Boy, long ago, 
who grew up and when He 
became a Man, those who should 
have been His friends took Him 
one day, and do you know what 
they did? Matthew, His disciple, 
tells us about this sad occasion: 
"Then did they spit in His face 
and buffeted Him; and smote 
Him with the palms of their 
hands." Matt. 26:67. 
Then they fastened Him with 
nails to a big wooden cross and 
crucified Him. Jesus "came to 
His own, and His own received 
Him not." John 1:11. His own 
people, His own friends rejected 
Him because they were jealous 
of Him. He told them about 
their wrong habits. They did not 
like Him because He always told 
the truth. 
Do you know what it did for 
them? They lost the best Friend 
that mankind ever had, Jesus, 
God's only and holy Son. 
Jesus came not to blind men's 
eyes as Satan does. He came to 
open our eyes, that we may 
see the wonderful things des-
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Cherry Tree Farm 
in the old barn," boasted Kay. �
"Yes, but he called it a Polly- 
"Lijah showed it to me." �dish-washer's," chuckled Tim. 
By Ronald James 
THERE was always something 
interesting to see by the brook. 
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Plump water-voles feasted among 
the rushes which grew there. 
Gaily c olou r e d sticklebacks 
darted through its clear waters. 
Dragonflies, their gauze wings 
and metallic-coloured b o d i e s 
glinting in the sunlight, flew 
swiftly above the flowers and 
shrubs which dotted either bank. 
But, best of all, otters were 
sometimes seen disporting in the 
quieter pools. 
Whenever Tim and Kay 
passed the brook, they hoped 
most fervently that they would 
see otters at play. On one par-
ticular morning, no otters were 
on view, but Tim found a moor-
hen's nest in a clump of reeds. It 
had three, big, buff, red-
splotched eggs, w hi c h the 
children admired but did not 
touch. Sometimes birds will 
desert if their eggs are handled. 
"There's a pretty little bird," 
exclaimed Kay, "what is it?" 
The bird was about seven and 
a half inches long, its back and 
head were slate-blue, and its 
breast was a shade of bright 
yellow. The long, slender tail 
proclaimed it a species of wag-
tail. 
"I should think it's a yellow 
wagtail," Tim answered, watch-
ing the bird daintily moving 
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among the stones at the water's 
edge. "No; it's a grey wagtail, 
Tim," said Farmer Jones, join-
ing his children. 
"But it's bright yellow !" Tim 
protested. 
"Yes, it is rather misleading." 
agreed the farmer, "but the 
yellow wagtail, besides being a 
bit smaller has an olive-brown 
back. As you can see, this bird 
has a slate-blue back. Unless 
acquainted with both species, 
it is a very natural error for 
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people to imagine, that a wagtail 
with a yellow breast, is a yellow 
wagtail." 
"I know a pied wagtail's nest 
M AY 7, 1959 
My dear Sunbeams, 
Do you like snakes and reptiles? 
I must say, I find them most 
repulsive myself, but there are 
a great many people who are 
fascinated by them. 
In fact the Bible tells us that 
right in the beginning of this old 
world, Satan, the devil, disguised 
himself as a serpent, in order to 
deceive Adam and Eve, the first 
man and woman, into disobeying 
God. And you will notice if you 
read Genesis chapter three, verse 
four, that to do this, Satan told 
a lie. So every time we tell a lie, 
or deceive in any way, we are 
following the bad example of the 
devil, the greatest deceiver of all; 
and Jesus is grieved. 
Have you heard of the strange 
practice which used to be carried 
out in the courts of Siam, in 
Asia? A person who told a lie was 
ordered by law to have his mouth 
sewn up! Well, that certainly was 
a dreadful punishment, and we are 
very glad that such a practice no 
longer exists today, aren't we? 
Otherwise we should probably see 
many people in such a plight ! 
Here is another story which I 
like much better. There once lived 
in Italy, a poet named Petrarch, 
who was renowned for his truth-
fulness. On a certain day he was 
called to be a witness at a trial. 
(Maybe you know that in such 
cases a witness is asked to declare 
that what he is about to say is 
"the truth, the whole truth, and 
nothing but the truth.") Well, just 
as the officer was about to take the 
oath, the judge rose and said : 
"Never mind, sir. It is not neces-
sary for Petrarch to take the 
oath; for everyone knows that 
he never speaks anything but what 
is true." 
Wouldn't you like to be 
renowned for truthfulness as was 
Petrarch, Sunbeams? I'm sure 
you would. 
Good-bye for now. 
Yours affectionately, 
AUNTIE PAM. 
Results of Competition Nos. 5 & 6 
Prise.usinners.—Elizabeth Timms, 22 
Cricket Road, Cowley, Oxford. Age 13; 
Shirley Davis, 154 Highbury Quadrant, 
Highbury, London, N.5. Age 10. 
Honourable mention.—Carol 
Ellis 
(Bethnal Green); Janice Holder (Brix-
ton); Sylvia Floate (Felixstowe); Rose-
mary Ireland (Reading); Diana Ball 
(Caerlon Village); Thomas Lawson 
(Newcastle); Sheila Stone (Langley); 
Tom Arnold (Enfield); Linda Park 
(Barrow-in-Furness); Martin Glee 
(Cornwall); Stephen Parrott (Mont-
pelier); Kathleen Hudson (Gosforth); 
Linda Bunker (Tavistock); Sylvana 
Di vi to ( Mansfield) ; Kristina Gibbs 
(Boreham Wood); Carole Sneddon 
(Edinburgh, 9); Annette Kirby (Ox-
ford); George Durack (North Kensing-
ton); Ivor Powell (Pontlotty); Diane 
Rogers (Sherwood). 
Those who tried hard.—Anne Dalton 
(Yelverton); Laraine Brand (Ipswich); 
Leslie Fretwell (London, S.E.5); 
Alison Leer (Windsor); Patricia Moore 
(Wokingham); Carol Farrow (Muswell 
Hill); Christine Farrow (Muswell Hill); 
Jennifer Dickie (Manchester); Brenda 
Cuttle (Halifax); Karen Golding 
(Huntingdon); Kenneth Cuttle (Hali-
fax); Ronald Heeley (York); Lester 
Broad (Oxford); Sandra Gregory (Lon-
don, S.E. 17); Ronald Hayes (Langley); 
Keith Webb (Wokingham); Linda 
Andrews (Slough); Susan Barnfather 
(Newcastle); Lynn Kershaw (Bolton); 
Joan Lomas (Oldham); David Allen 
(Stoke-on-Trent); Ann Hetherington 
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THE snows and cold of winter were grad-
ually retreating northward before the steady 
march of the sun. In our household the longer 
and warmer days were not unnoticed, for Vir-
ginia, my wife, was already studying the seed 
catalogue quite frequently. As the tender buds 
began to form on the elm trees she posted her 
order for the various seeds she would need to 
follow her carefully drawn garden plan. 
A week passed. 
At last the glad day arrived. The postman 
delivered the parcel of garden seeds. As Vir-
ginia saw it, the symphony of spring in her 
heart took on a new and higher note. Quickly 
she opened the package and examined each 
packet of seeds carefully. She could see, in her 
mind's eye, row upon row of beautiful garden 
vegetables. 
The soil of the garden plot was prepared by 
digging and raking. Next morning Virginia 
sallied forth from the back door armed with 
hoe, rake, and a box full of seeds. The fragrant 
aroma of the freshly worked earth thrilled her. 
Her step seemed brisker, her hopes mounted 
higher, as she measured off her first row and 
hoed a furrow for the seeds. 
Next she selected a packet of garden seeds 
from the box, opened it, and placed the seeds 
evenly the length of the row. Then she covered 
the seeds with moist earth and moved to the 
next row. 
By Frank Chipperfield 
A week passed, as Virginia kept close watch 
on the area where she had planted the seeds. 
Then one day a shout of joy was heard from 
the garden. With all the bubbling enthusiasm of 
a girl half her age, she informed me that her 
seeds were coming up. Sure enough, the ground 
was cracking everywhere—the garden was com-
ing to life! 
A day passed and a tender young plant 
pushed through the soil, spreading its leaves to 
catch the rays of the sun. 
What was the miracle that had taken place? 
Where did the plants come from? In each little 
seed the Creator, the Life-giver, had placed a 
-germ- of life. When the seed was placed in the 
soil the "germ" was called to life by its environ-
ment and the Giver of life. The sleeping seed 
responded and became a living plant. 
How like seeds are "the dead which die in 
the Lord." The Christian in the grave is life-
less. "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his 
earth ; in that very day his thoughts perish." Psa. 
146:4. His powers, too, are dormant. "For there 
is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wis-
dom, in the grave, whither thou goest." Eccles. 
9.10. But at the second coming of Jesus the 
sleeping righteous will be called forth by the 
Author of life to become living, immortal 
beings. "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.-1 
Thess. 4:16, 17. 
How is it with you? If you should sleep the 
sleep of death ere another day should dawn, 
would you awake to "shame and everlasting 
contempt," or to life everlasting in the land of 
eternal spring? 
God's Springtime 
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