gigantic race-war, and genuine race-war
means war to the death.”
While prophecy plainly indicates that
there is a terrible conflict just before
us, no heart need sink in despair. In
God there is hope. Above the winds of
strife and the waves of destruction, He
is watching over His own. Confess your
sins, surrender to Him, and you will
have nothing to fear. Then when the
besom of destruction sweeps over the
world, your heart will be at peace,
knowing that God is near to keep and
to save. Make your peace with God
today, and assure yourselves of His
salvation.
Shall Revolution Bring
Evolution?
(Continued from page 11)
this idol, upon getting this message,
gave him presents worth over ten thou-
sand dollars, but they cannot persuade
him to remain on earth; he must go!
One district near here has already
complied with the law. When the people
heard of the new ruling, they went
first to the temples and took all the gods
to their homes, thinking to protect
and worship them there. The magistrate
sent out word that on a certain day his
soldiers would thoroughly search every
house in the district and every man who
had an idol in his home would be heavily
fined — fined according to the size of
the idol. Upon hearing this, the people
carried all the gods, great and small,
out and dumped them into the river —
hundreds of them, ugly and beautiful,
mud and wood, paper covered and gold
plated — all drowned in the river.
To WHAT WILL CHINA TURN?
HAT effect will this nation-wide
movement have on the moral
awakening of China? ‘That is the ques-
tion Christians are asking now. The
government is destroying their idols and
offering the people nothing in their place.
Evidently this is our day in which to
point these multitudes to the true God—
the great Creator, and to His soon-
coming Son, the world’s only Saviour.
What a pity that so many mission-
aries have nothing better to offer these
people than the vagaries of evolution —
a doctrine that is anti-God, anti-Christ,
anti-Bible; a doctrine that knows no
sin, no fall, no Saviour, no heaven, no
future! Evolution is another sign of the
end. ‘“Because they received not the
love of the truth, that they might he
saved . . . God shall send them strong
delusion, that they should believe a
lie.”” 2 Thessalonians 2: 10, 11. Throw-
ing away her idols, will China turn to
atheism, evolution, or Christ? The
answer largely depends on what you
are doing to bring Christ to this people.
I write from an interior station. Today
I baptized five into the fold of Christ
and the hope of His soon coming. One
was a woman seventy-four years old.
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The water was cold, but before the
crowd of heathen who had assembled
she walked boldly into the river. I
told her not to be afraid of the cold
water. She replied, “The cold water
can’t hurt me, for my heart is hot.”
May God bless her and all others who
turn from dark heathenism to walk in
God’s light. About two weeks ago I
took twelve into the church in another
citv. One was an old man eighty-three
years of age. He was one of the happiest
men I ever met. Within the past six
months we have circulated, with other
literature, a hundred thousand folders
telling briefly that the end of the world
is near, that Christ is soon to return,
and urging the people to come to our
Seventh-day Adventist chapels and
study the Bible that they may be pre-
pared for this greatest of all events
since man sinned and lost Eden.
Because of sin this is a sad world.
This morning I was awakened just at
dawn by a soldier's bugle sounding the
death knell of a criminal. A few seconds
later I heard twelve pistol shots. They
came from just across a pond from our
house. Yesterday two men were shot.
But this morning's tragedy was especially
sad. Shortly after the soldiers had left
the corpse lying upon the ground for
the charitable society to find and bury,
the dead man’s young wife came and
found him. Throwing herself down
beside him she fainted and for hours
lay there with her dead companion
while the unfeeling crowd that passed
looked on. Sin is a terrible thing! Only
the loving Christ can save us from it
and its awful results. Reader, do you
know Jesus? He loves you. He is
soon coming to destroy sin and all who
refuse to part from it. Accept His
offer of mercy and pardon. Rebel not
longer against His love. When you
know Him you will want to do all you
can to save others for whom He gave
His life. Give — self, time, property,
money — for missions.
Digging at Ur
(Continued from page 13)
dence of large population movements
between the Babylonian plains and
Palestine.
Babylonian luxury, too, had found its
way into Canaan, to a degree that the
Bible merely suggests. An Egyptian
king of the time has left a record of the
spoils he took in a foray into Canaan.
He lists inlaid and gilded chairs, golden
scepters, jeweled tent poles, chariots
overlaid with silver and gold, a gold
helmet, richly embroidered robes, and
iron armor with gold inlay. Such a
collection of Oriental articles of luxurious
refinement could not be surpassed, could
in fact be scarcely approached in rich-
ness by robbing all the museums of
the world today. Yet these things came
out of patriarchal Palestine.
Abraham had been called out of
Babylon to escape its contaminating
influences. Now we find him in the
Babylonian frontier communities, in the
midst of the very civilization from i
which he had been taken. Why? Was
it merely to show him the land that his
children would possess some four hun-
dred seventy years later? This is hardly
likely.
Abraham knew why he had been sent
into the Babylonian colonies of Canaan.
Having received the promise that he
was to be the father of the children of
God, and the stem through whom was to
come the Messiah, for the gospel was
given to him, he was sent as a missionary
to the children of sin. He knew the
religion of the people and he spoke their
language. He was in a sense a product
of their culture. He was well fitted to be
the channel through which they were to
receive the word of God. It was through
him that Babylon was given a chance
to repent. But he was not commissioned
to go to the old mother-cities of Baby-
lonia. ‘They were too hardened, too
conservative, too self-sufficient, too
wedded to their idolatry. Instead, he
was sent to the frontiers, whose men had
been broadened and made receptive
by the conditions of frontier life, and
where some, at least, would respond.
PRESTIGE OF THE PATRIARCH
T WAS as a princely pilgrim that
Abraham moved about the promised
land. He made alliances with other
Bedouin princes, shepherd-kings like
himself. His own armed retainers num-
bered more than three hundred when he
rescued Lot by force of arms from the
invading ‘kings. His position in Egypt,
on the occasion of his sojourn there,
was one of equality with the king of the
Arab dynasty then ruling, a Semitic like
himself. Back in Canaan, he proceeded
to the distribution of the land between
himself and Lot as if his position made
consultation with others unnecessary.
As a Bedouin prince, the head of a clan,
his influence seems to have been im-
mense. And he used his prestige and
high position to further his missionary
activities, for we find him commanding
a numerous and ever-increasing house-
hold, many of the members of which were
persons who had attached themselves
to him as the result of their acceptance
of the true God.
But while individuals turned to
Jehovah, the tribes of Canaan continued
to worship the gods of Babylon and their
own. They rejected God’s messenger
and his message. Even the Moabites,
Edomites, Ishmaelites, and Midianites,
relatives and in some cases descendants
of Abraham, fell into idolatry, instead
of remaining true to God and carrying
on in the land the work begun by
Abraham, after the principal branch of
the family had moved into Egypt. And
this principal branch returned, after
nearly five hundred years, as the divinely
appointed excutioners of the inhabitants
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