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In the background is the first freight-carrying glider to make the trans-Atlantic flight 
from Canada to Britain. It was towed by an R.A.F. transport aircraft. 
/lave you noticed the expressions 
used 
by the forecasters of events, in the press 
and over the radio, in predicting the 
progress and outcome of the war, and 
the "shape of things to come" in the far 
future? From one reputable and highly-
prized publication we have many such 
expressions as-. "may come", "it is pos-
sible", "should be expected", "fair 
chance", "highly probable", "nobody 
knows yet." In sharp contrast with these, 
note the certainty of language, even with 
reference to events thousands of years in 
advance, of the prophecies of the Bible: 
"shall arise another kingdom interior," 
"fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron", 
"shall the God of heaven set up a king-
dom that shall never be destroyed," "they 
shall be given into his hand until a time 
and times and the dividing of time", 
"the judgment shall sit," and scores of 
others. We couldn't expect anything bet-
ter than guesses from men; bUt why 
depend so much on them, and ignore 
God's certainties? 
"The dream [prophetic] is certain, and 
the interpretation thereof sure." Daniel 
2:45. 
"I am not ashamed of the Good News. 
It is God's power which is at work for the 
salvation of every one who believes." 
Unemployment is to be taboo in the 
post-war world, if we consult the dreams 
of the makers of to-morrow. Right Hon-
ourable Arthur Meighen, former Con-
servative Prime Minister of Canada, 
scoffs at the idea. He says it is as vain 
and senseless as saying that society will 
no longer tolerate disease. He is right, 
chiefly because disease and unemploy-
ment and absenteeism go together, the 
first very often the cause of the others: 
and they arc inevitable in the present 
set-up of society. Happily, and strangely, 
both are being reduced by war; but who 
likes the remedy? Even now, with the 
distressing man-power shortage, there 
are 800.000 unemployed in the United 
States. Like the poor, unemployment is 
ever with us; though the common, ham-
mock variety of laziness is scarce-. But 
there will come a time— 
"I create ... a new earth, ... and they 
shall build houses, ... and plant vine-
yards, ... and long enjoy the work of 
their hands. They shall not labour in 
vain." Isaiah 65:17-23. 
"He has put an end to death and has 
brought Life and Immortality to light 
through the Good News." 
Daily Bible reading is the habit of a 
certain well-known industrialist; and it 
is good news that thousands who never 
diligently read the Bible before are now 
turning to God's word for comfort, sat-
isfaction, and forgetting. Any favourable 
and honest attention to the Book is sure 
to heal and help. We hope the seekers 
for solace get more than a passing sooth-
ing of spirit. Let them go on to obey 
the Bible's injunctions, and experience 
supreme happiness. In short, take heed. 
"Wherewithal shall a young man 
cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto 
according to Thy word." Psalm 119:9. 
"Blind eyes receive sight, and cripples 
walk; lepers are cleansed, and deaf ears 
hear; the dead are raised to life, and the 
poor have the Good News proclaimed 
to them." 
Famine in India is now slaying its tens 
cif thousands. Various reasons are being 
given, and various authorities are being 
blamed, including the government; but 
in fairness these facts should be added: 
The Hindu belief in transmigration of 
souls forbids the taking of any life. Of 
the many pests that flourish, it is esti-
mated that rats alone consume enough 
food to support twenty-four million 
people. With no killing of animals and 
no effort to limit breeding, millions of 
beasts are too poorly nourished to con-
tribute either work or food to their 
owners; yet they eat enough to take food 
from other scores of millions of people. 
Thus ordinarily a third of the popula-
tion is on the verge of starvation, and 
when an unusual situation arises, such 
as war or economic depression, the vast 
underprivileged classes suffer famine. 
More important than their need of 
temporal food is their need of that 
spiritual food which enlightens their 
minds and hearts. 
"Trust in the Lord, and do good; so 
shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily 
thou shalt be fed." Psalm 37:3. 
"Jesus travelled ... teaching ... and pro-
claiming the Good News of the 
Kingdom." 
"This Good News of the Kingdom shall 
be proclaimed throughout the whole 
world to set the evidence before all the 
nations: and then the End will come." 
Editor, ROBERT BRUCE THURBER �
Vol. XXIII �
DECEMBER, 1943 �No. 12 
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A pack flame-thrower in action, ready for invasion. 
THIS IS THAT 
 
A LEAF OF 
FULFILLED 
PROPHECY 
 
"This is that which was spoken by the Prophet" 
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fr is a beautiful spirit that inspires all 
people under Christian influences to 
present gifts to their loved ones at Christ-
mastide. It is Heaven-sent and earth-
blessed. 
It is a noble and generous urge that 
moves us to sacrifice our own comforts 
in dead of winter for the poor, the 
soldiers overseas, the hospitalized, and 
the lonely of heart: We profit immeasur-
ably by sharing. 
But, with the many, the magnanimity 
stops there. We are too easily contented 
with the heart-warmings that accompany 
the passing of gifts. Too often we re-
member the gifts and forget the recipients 
—if we ever knew them. 
Christians are not alone in giving. 
Others have discovered that "it is more 
blessed to give than to receive." Some of 
the most generous donors in the world 
are among the so-called heathen. In 
fact, giving presents is a more common 
practice outside of Christianity than in. 
We may say that much of the giving 
among certain "backward peoples" is for 
personal gain, to achieve "merit." No 
doubt it is; but can many Christians 
boast of any better motive? 
We were shocked not long ago to hear 
the expression, "trading presents." Has 
it come to a marketing proposition? 
There is nothing wrong about trading 
"sight-unseen," but let us not demean the 
word giving by bringing it into that con-
nection. 
The greatest happiness in giving comes 
when the giver gives to those from whom 
he can expect no return but heartfelt 
thanks, as everyone knows who has tried 
it. And to this end he will give to those 
who are most in need of his beneficence. 
That is what God did when "He so 
loved the world that He gave His only-
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth 
in Him should not perish, but have ever-
lasting life." Jesus is the supreme Gift,—
the Gift of gifts. And all who do not 
know Him as a personal Saviour can 
never know the transcendent bliss of 
sacrificial giving. 
Fifteen centuries before it rose, the 
Star of Bethlehem was forecast by a man 
under prophetic inspiration (Numbers 
24:17); and since it shone nineteen 
centuries ago it has been the one ray of 
light for the path of "peace, good will 
to men." 
But the Star of peace, in the Person of 
the Prince of peace, will not reach its 
full glory and bring good will among 
warring nations till He comes the second 
time, to destroy strife forever. 
Christmas looks to the birth of Christ; 
it should also look to the "new birth" 
of tft5 
in our own lives; and to the final end of 
sin and its results. 
In all our giving, may we make fore-
most a generous gift to help proclaim 
the salvation of the Gift of gifts to every 
soul on land and sea. 
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Bigger Jails Needed 
A CENTURY-OLD Sunday law was brought 
into prominence on October to, when 
thirty-three residents of Toronto and the 
farming vicinity were arrested on charges 
of breaking the "Lord's Day" by gather-
ing vegetables on Sunday. The farmers 
were caught short of help in harvesting 
bumper crops for the war effort, and 
appealed to residents of the city to help 
out on the only day of the week these city-
dwellers could get time off from their 
regular work. The response was hearty, 
and a happy harvest was gathered in. 
However, law enforcement officers, if 
they were really devoted to duty—and 
they were—could not let this pass. They 
arrested thirty-three of the thousands of 
farmers and others who worked that day, 
many of whom have worked every Sun-
day for years without being molested, 
and indicted them for "profaning the 
Lord's Day." Explanations were de-
manded by the crestfallen victims, and 
they were informed that a Dominion 
statute enacted in 1845 forbade "week-
day work on Sunday." 
"There won't be jails big enough to 
hold all the farmers who have been work-
ing on Sunday." wailed one agricultural-
ist. He was right; and he might have 
added "all the industrialists, public serv-
ice men, shop-keepers, and servants in 
general." There was a great flurry over 
the whole matter, and much discussion 
in the papers and over farm fences. Com-
mented a modern sponsor of the 
ancient law, a member of the Lord's Day 
Alliance, "Perhaps the prosecutions 
were ill-advised." 
Why "ill-advised"? If a law is just and 
righteous enough to be on the statute 
books, it ought to be obeyed and inforced, 
according to the tenets of good govern-
ment. If it is an "ill-advised" law which 
should have someone's thumb placed 
over it in emergencies, then it ought to be 
repealed. 
Be it said that the only reasons for 
protest of the indictments were that the 
Sunday work was justifiable as a war 
measure. The carrots and celery were 
liable to freeze, and so should be gathered 
in. Last year thousands of bushels of 
produce were lost under similar circum-
stances, etc. Not a voice was raised 
against Sunday laws, or any other kind of 
religious laws on civil statute books, as 
being altogether undemocratic and un-
Christian. So we raise ours. We may 
add that the charges against the carrot-
packets were withdrawn later, and the 
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excitement died. But the issue lives on. 
Sunday is not the "Lord's Day" in the 
religious beliefs of an overwhelming 
majority of the world's peoples, and it 
is not observed as a Sabbath by thou-
sands in the very community where these 
first-day labourers were apprehended. 
Nor is Sunday the Lord's Day according 
to the Bible. Every text that may be 
cited proves that Saturday is the Lord's 
Day. The point is, that since there is a 
wide difference of belief and practice in 
this matter, the Government had better 
not interfere in matters of religion, ex-
cept to protect each and every man in his 
religious practices as long as he does not 
jeopardize the rights of others in theirs. 
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The Hands of Ethiopia 
WHEN the Italian Government took 
over Ethiopia several years ago, the 
Vatican took advantage of the oppor-
tunity to incorporate the semi-Christian 
Copic, or Ethiopian, Church into Roman 
Catholicism. All Protestant mission 
societies were banned. Now that the 
fortunes of war have turned, however, 
and the Emperor has returned to rule, 
Catholic missions in Ethiopia have been 
made impossible by decree. 
Seventh-day Adventist missions are 
among the favoured Protestant bodies 
now operating freely in the country. 
The house-keeper of the royal house-
hold is a missionary of this denomina-
tion; and she has social standing with 
the ruler's family. Our schools and 
medical institutions, long a blessing to 
the people in pre-Italian days, are opened 
again; and insistent calls are coming 
for more teachers and doctors to staff 
them. "This gospel of the kingdom" 
is being proclaimed everywhere. 
"Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her 
hands unto God," was the forecast of the 
Psalmist. Psalm 68:3i. She is doing it 
to-day in fulfillment of that prediction, 
and God is answering the appeal of 
dark Africa. While He cannot approve 
of war among the nations, He causes 
them, as they war, to serve His purpose 
in reaching every people with the news 
of Christ's second coming. 
Jerusalem, Peace Center 
VOICES throughout the world are heart: 
calling for the selection of Jerusalem, 
"City of Peace," as the seat of the inter-
national conference that will endeavour 
to readjust this turbulent world after 
the war. It is a "holy city" to three mono-
theistic faiths—Jews, Christians, Moslems; 
it is centrally located as to the world's 
population; it is geographically strategic; 
and is the boiling point of that world-
shaking agitation concerning the dis-
position of the Jews in post-war planning. 
Jerusalem is the peaceful center of the 
whirlwind of all-pervading war just now; 
but it is a question whether such a center 
is the place from which to settle the dust 
of turmoil after the catastrophe blows 
over. But there can be no question about 
PROPHECY IS A TOUCH OF 
TO-MORROW IN THE EVENTS 
OF TO-DAY 
Jerusalem's location, religious affilia-
tions, and sentimental associations mak-
ing a strong bid for the peace table. 
It is our observation, however, and the 
testimony of history, that the "Holy 
City" has been a place of strife when the 
religionists got together there, unless 
some national or international authority 
quelled the turbulent fanatics. 
Jerusalem as a peace center and a 
gathering place for the nations has no 
place in the plans of God. In fact, by 
His prophet Isaiah He predicted millen-
niums ago that "in the last days" "many 
people shall go and say, Come ye, and 
let us go up to the mountain of the Lord. 
to the house of the God of Jacob; and 
He will teach us of His ways, and we will 
walk in His paths; for out of Zion shall 
go forth the law, and the word of the 
Lord from Jerusalem. And He shall 
judge among the nations, and shall re-
buke many people: and they shall beat 
their swords into plowshares, and their 
spears into pruninghooks: nation shall 
not lift up sword against nation, neither 
shall they learn war any more." Isaiah 
2:3,4. 
How pat is the prophecy to its fulfill-
ment to-day! But God does not seem to 
be favourable to this proposition of 
"many people." For in the sixth verse 
of this prophecy He says by the lips of the 
prophet, "Therefore Thou hast forsaken 
Thy people the house of Jacob, because 
they be replenished from the east." 
The command to learn war no more 
and to beat the weapons of war into the 
tools of peace will not emanate from 
Jerusalem nor any other spot on earth 
where peacemakers may choose to sit and 
make over the world. We are in full 
sympathy with those who spare no effort 
to make a durable peace; but we know 
that men cannot make it; so we do not 
depend on them for our peace. Theirs 
is the kind of peace "the world giveth," 
and it is not Christ's peace, and therefore 
cannot last. John 14:27. 
We may be sure that peace will be 
arrived at and proclaimed from Jeru-
salem; but it will not be the old Jeru-
salem over there in Palestine now, but the 
New Jerusalem in the New Earth that will 
not pass away. 
Church Union 
THE uniting of churches and denomina-
tions is being urgently advocated to 
combat the shortage of preachers be-
cause clergymen are joining the army as 
chaplains, and theological students are 
being called to fight. As well urge that 
Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Hindus. 
Buddhists, and Moslems merge into one 
faith; for the same principle holds good 
everywhere and with all religions. A 
sincere religionist believes what he be-
lieves, and is willing to die for it. He is 
far from even the thought of pitching 
it into a hopper with every other 
religion. Individual freedom in religion 
is still precious to most people. Let lay 
pastors, including women, rise to care 
for the shepherdless flocks. The inex-
perienced are being taught to supply 
other vacancies which war makes. 
One of the latest 
inventions for safety 
when a parachutist 
lands in the sea, is 
this eleven-pound 
collapsed boat of 
rubber-treated 
fabric. It is strapped 
to the pilot as a 
seat pack and is 
instantly inflatable. 
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES 
VANISHING 
LIBERTY 
Are We Fighting Abroad for What 
We Are Losing at Home ? ? 
By A. W. ANDERSON 
G
RADUALLY and almost impercep-
tibly the people in democratic 
countries are being enmeshed in chains 
of compulsion. While here and there- a 
voice may be raised against any further 
encroachments being made into the realm 
of individual rights, most of the people. 
unfortunately, seem to accept the situa-
tion without a protest, and apparently 
are complacently concluding that com-
pulsion has become part of the ordinary 
routine of life, and one of the exigencies 
of war. 
Evidently it has become quite easy to 
persuade the people that it is in their 
own interests to sacrifice individual 
rights for the sake of the community or 
the nation. Since the last Great War 
there has been a definite turning away 
from the tolerant ideas which character-
ized the nineteenth century. The liber-
ties which were so much prized by •our 
grandfathers in the nineteenth century 
are actually coming to be despised by the 
people of this century. Could the general 
public actually realize what this means 
to their future happiness they would arise 
as one man and demand that their indi-
vidual liberties should be respected, both 
by church and state. 
In ancient times individual liberty 
was an unheard of thing; even such a 
profound scholar as Plato advocated 
that those "who would not submit to the 
established religion must die, or suffer 
stripes and bonds, or privation of citizen-
ship, or loss of property, or exile." Until 
the end of the seventeenth century the 
world subscribed to that monstrous 
doctrine. 
"If the law of nature be a law, which 
existed as a system of positive rules at 
some antecedent stage in the progress 
from barbarism, or if it ever was a historic 
fact in any age, then the law of intoler-
ance is part of the law of nature. There is 
no country or age recorded until the sev-
enteenth century, or rather the eighteenth 
century, in which it was not deemed 
the highest wisdom and the most divine 
justice, that he who had satisfied himself 
of the truth of his creed and form of 
worship, and had power over others, 
should insist on these others making 
themselves equally satisfied also; and on 
their professing that they could not or 
would not do so, should burn them 
alive or imprison them, or strip them of 
their property, or deprive them of some 
DECEMBER, 1943 
WINGS FOR 
VICTORY 
May it be a victory 
of enhanced 
freedom for the 
individual 
conscience. 
Miller 
means of happiness and comfort, or 
at least make them in some way feel their 
inferiority for not thinking and believing 
what they were told. 
"It scarcely occurred, even to those who 
had the earliest tincture of civilization. 
that it was possible for two human be-
ings of different faiths to inhabit the 
same country without fighting to the last 
extremity, till the heresy of the weaker 
party should be utterly extinguished. 
That two persons could stand at arms' 
length, each resolute in denying what 
the other affirmed, and each becoming 
the more convinced as the other grew 
more confident that such conviction was 
wrong,—that they could each go about 
his own business without first coming 
to extremities about their opposing 
creeds has been the discovery of a very 
recent age, and attained only after cen-
turies of experience and reflection. 
"All governors confessed to some in-
explicable impulse towards orthodoxy, 
as if some law of moral gravitation drove 
themselves—and yet not without driving 
all others also at the same time—towards 
one and the same central goal. Intoler-
ance or persecution is as clearly the nat-
ural condition of barbarians as toleration 
is that of civilization; but the progress 
from the one to the other has been tortu-
ous, reluctant, and long drawn out."—
"Liberty of the Press, Speech, and Public 
Worship," pp. 515, 516, by James Pater-
son, M.A. 
With the enlightenment that came into 
the eighteenth century it was natural 
that some attention should be given to 
protecting the rights of the individual 
and granting him the privilege of doing 
a little bit of thinking on his own behalf. 
Possibly nothing has ever been done by 
legislators which has resulted in greater 
benefit to the community than the lift-
ing of all restrictive enactments which 
enforced men to think and to worship 
according to certain prescribed ideas. 
A man who is forced to think and to wor-
ship according to some code of fixed rules 
knows nothing of the privileges of free-
dom. While his natural instincts to in-
vestigate new ideas, or to follow any line 
of thought which is contrary to the gen-
erally accepted ideas of his generation, 
are restricted, a man can make little or 
no progress. 
For instance, what incentive was given 
to independent and individual investi-
gations into the laws of nature, by that 
piece of folly which led to the prosecu-
tion of Anaxagoras for saying that "the 
sun was a fiery ball of iron." It was only 
an honest expression of opinion which 
it should have been the right of any man 
to express to others. But in those days 
nobody possessed such rights, and it 
was not until modern times that men had 
the freedom to express their own 
opinions. 
It was not until 1871 that a non-con-
formist could share in all the privileges 
of graduates at the Universities of Oxford 
and Cambridge; and until the repeal of 
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Miller 
Modern soldiers fight for a liberty which the ancients did not know. 
the Test and Corporations Acts in 1828, 
a dissenter could not fill a public office 
under the Crown in Britain. Under the 
.Test Act every civil servant was expected 
to take the sacrament "according to the 
usage of the Church of England, within 
six months after admission to the office." 
This iniquitous Act was the law of Eng-
land for 155 years (1673-1828). Possibly 
no law was ever enacted which produced 
more hypocrisy than the Test Act. Mr. 
Beaufroy. in the British House of Com-
mons. while urging Parliament to repeal 
this Act in 1787, described the legal dis-
abilities of dissenters in these telling 
phrases: 
"They [the Dissenters] could hold no 
commission in the army or navy, no 
civil office, no seat in a corporation, no 
corporate office; they could take no part 
in the direction of the Bank of England, 
of the Indian, or Russian, or South Sea, 
or Turkish companies, though their 
whole fortune might be invested in these 
stocks. Any Dissenter convicted of having 
accepted any of these offices, who still 
refused to qualify by taking the Anglican 
sacrament, was not only liable to a heavy 
fine, with the alternative of imprison-
ment, but was also like the worst of dim-
inals, placed almost beyond the protec-
tion of the law. He was disabled for the 
rest of his life from bringing any action 
in law, from prosecuting any suit in any 
court of equity, from being guardian to 
any child, from being executor, from 
receiving a legacy. In 1745, when the 
enemy was marching into the heart of 
England, and when the Government was 
in the utmost danger, a great body of 
Protestant Dissenters took arms for its 
defence. Their reward was a special Act 
of Grace pardoning them for the offence 
they had committed."—"History of Eng-
land in the Eighteenth Century" by 
Lecky, Vol. 5, p. 155. 
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"Turning to another aspect of the sub-
ject, Beaufroy expatiated with great force 
and eloquence on the extreme profanity 
of these laws. ... 'The Saviour of the 
world instituted the Eucharist in com-
memoration of His death—an event so 
tremendous that afflicted Nature hid 
herself in darkness; but the British Legis-
lature has made it a qualification for 
gauging beer-barrels and soapboilers' 
tubs, for writing Custom House dockets 
and debentures, and for seizing smug-
gled tea.' History furnishes no other ex- 
ample of the Legislature of a country 
deliberately, and by express enactment, 
prostituting the most sacred ordinance of 
their own faith, converting the temple 
into an antechamber to the excise office, 
degrading the altar into a qualification 
desk for tax-gatherers and public extor-
tioners, and pleading as a reason for their 
impious defilement the interests of the 
church."—Id., p. 156. 
In spite of this eloquent appeal Mr. 
Beaufroy failed to secure the repeal of 
this iniquitous law. Some of the leading 
statesmen of England believed that the 
Test Act was "the great bulwark of the 
Constitution." Pitt considered that "to 
allow dissenters to hold office in the civil 
service or the army, or in corporations, 
was the same thing as to allow them to 
subvert the establishment of the country." 
All sorts of extreme measures are found 
necessary by a government upon the out-
break of war. The right of free speech 
and a free press are partially suspended 
for the period of the war, in the interests 
of national security; and even the most 
democratic government in the world is 
led to enforce restrictions upon its sub-
jects which would raise a storm of opposi-
tion in times of peace. The necessity for 
silence on certain subjects on the part 
of talkative persons during war is granted, 
but the difficulty in the whole situation 
lies in the fact that all kinds of minute 
and apparently unnecessary restrictions 
of individual action are enforced by State 
regulations, and each and every individ-
ual is expected to sacrifice his liberty 
for the benefit of the State. But it is a 
fact that when once liberty has been won 
by a people, those people naturally very 
grudgingly yield those liberties to the de-
mands of war, for they know how difficult 
it is to secure the restoration of those 
liberties when the war ceases and peace 
is declared. 
Enjoying as we do universal suffrage. 
it seems incredible that one hundred 
years ago English people who petitioned 
for the right of suffrage for males of legal 
age should be denied by Parliament the 
right to vote for those who were supposed 
to represent their political interests. 
Owing to the fact that about one 
Englishman in three at that time was un-
able to write his own name. the ruling 
(hisses believed it would be a dangerous 
thing to grant universal suffrage because 
of the illiteracy of so many of the people. 
Instead of denying the suffrage to the 
people, the real remedy was to educate 
them, as subsequent developments along 
that line have proved to some degree. 
quarter of a century passed by before 
Disraeli succeeded in extending the fran-
chise to all male householders in towns. 
This privilege was followed almost im-
mediately by the enactment of a com-
pulsory Education Act, and the legal-
ization of Trade Unions. It was not till 
1884. however, that Mr. Gladstone ex-
tended the same suffrage to the country 
districts. 
The nineteenth century saw a mighty 
advance towards liberty. Democracy 
stepped upon the stage of action and 
asserted its right to a voice in national 
affairs,—and won. Yet this twentieth 
century is witnessing a struggle by the 
forces of tyranny to rob us of all the 
privileges that democracy won in the 
nineteenth century. 
We should never forget that ideas 
know no geographical boundaries. An 
idea which is promulgated in one country 
with great persistency soon permeates 
more or less the thoughts of neighbour-
ing peoples. The supreme power of the 
State over the rights of the individual 
is being advocated by Communists, by 
Nazis and Fascists alike, and while in this 
country the teachings of neither Com-
munists, Nazis nor Fascists predominate, 
yet there is a distinct tendency becoming 
manifest amongst us that the state and 
its interests must be paramount above 
the interest of the individual. Expediency 
urges the acceptation of this dangerous 
dogma on account of the emergency we 
are facing. But we should never violate 
a fundamental principle of liberty for the 
sake of expediency. It is very easy for 
us to barter away our liberties which 
have been purchased at infinite cost, 
for social or national security. If our 
social security has to be purchased at the 
cost of our liberty, then that is too great 
a price to pay for social security. 
Unfortunately the people to-day do 
not think very deeply about the situation 
which faces them. They seem content 
to leave public affairs to others. They 
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5. 
are either too indifferent or too indolent 
to give much attention to the possibility 
that chains are being forged which will 
surely destroy their liberties. 
Since the Great War there has been a 
decided drift backwards towards barbar-
ism. This tendency is manifest even in 
literature and in the arts. Mr. M. A. 
Pink, in the book entitled, "The Defence 
of Freedom," points out this tendency 
in the following paragraph: 
"In literature and the arts there is now 
a powerful tendency to abandon logical 
form, and allow free play to the random 
workings of the unconscious. The con-
temporary English poets who, according 
to an influential school of criticism, are 
most significant, despise logical coherence 
and make play with the free association 
of ideas. In their work images and reflec-
tions succeed one another in a psycholog-
ical context which the reader is presum-
ably supposed to be able to penetrate 
by an intuitive sympathy with the sub-
conscious life of the poet. Meaning is 
frequently almost entirely abandoned; 
the poet moves in a realm of mystical 
experience in which communication is 
impossible. Even when individual parts 
a poem are intelligible, the logical 
connections are ommitted so that the 
work as a whole lacks the intellectual 
content hitherto regarded as an essential 
part of a work of literature. The poem 
which is generally claimed as the most 
important production of recent years—
T. S. Eliot's, 'The Waste Land'—defies 
the efforts of even the most friendly crit-
ics to hit upon an agreed explanation of 
what it means." — "The Defence of 
Freedom," pp. so, 31. 
Dr. Edwin S. Slosson refers to the same 
tendency which must be apparent to any 
intelligent observer. He says: 
"In religion we see a strong reac-
tionary movement, affecting in some de-
gree all the various churches. ... Med-
ieval forms and ceremonies are coming 
into the very churches that were origi-
nally established as a protest against them. 
... Intolerance in all forms, racial, sec-
tarian, linguistic, patriotic, becomes daily 
more dominant and bitter.... 
"We become accustomed to censorship 
and the mass suppression of unpopular 
opinions during the war, and the dis- 
position to use such legal and illegal 
means for the repression of undesirable 
views has been growing ever since. The 
most remarkable feature of the situation 
is that there is almost universal acquies- 
cence in restriction of the rights of free 
speech and propaganda for which our 
ancestors fought and suffered martyr-
dom. . . . 
"The call of the wild is drowning the 
appeal of civilization. Back to Barbar- 
ism! is the slogan of the hour. ... Extol 
the physical and ignore the intellectual. 
Spend half a million dollars on a new 
stadium and let the old library go to ruin. 
Abolish compulsory Latin and establish 
compulsory swimming. Patronize foot- 
ball and neglect debating. Up with the 
soldier and down with the savant. Pro-
mote pugilism and suppress pacifism. 
Jazz your music and cube your painting. 
Rough-cast your walls, corrode your 
bricks, deckle your book-edges, worm- 
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hole your furniture, weather-stain your 
woodwork, coarsen your fabrics and de-
form your pottery. . . . Cultivate the 
primitive virtues of personal bravery 
and clan loyalty. Reprove and repress 
the Christian virtues of kindliness and 
universal sympathy." 
With liberty vanishing, the outlook for 
the future appears anything but bright. 
Nevertheless, the menace which threat-
ens democracy is a call to every true demo-
crat to throw away his complacency and 
to arise and defend his inheritance of 
freedom ere it be taken from him. 
The ADVENTURES of DONNY and PATSY 
1 
RUNNING AWAY 
T
HE first thing amiss that Mother no-
ticed was the open door of the re-
frigerator. Wondering a bit, she closed 
it, but not before her eye, in quick in-
ventory, had observed that the pound of 
cheese was gone. That, however, was a 
minor matter; the big question was, 
Where was Donny? Patsy was finishing 
her afternoon nap, and a glance through 
the nursery door showed her pale little 
face peacefully nestled in the pillow. 
Not ten minutes had passed since Mother 
had seen through the rear window Donny 
and his month-older companion, Nancy, 
playing with a fair degree of peace within 
the picketed confines of the back yard. 
Now the yard was empty. 
Mother went to the front door, which 
opened upon the sidewalk of the busy 
street. The clamour of children at play 
rang from pavement and houses along 
the way; but no Donny and no Nancy ap-
peared among them. Mother called to 
some of the children, "Have you seen 
Donny and Nancy?" No, none of them 
had. She hurried down the street, looked 
into the side streets, went back the other 
may to the dangerous intersection where 
the traffic light blinked. No Donny, no 
Nancy. 
She began to make inquiries of the 
passersby, of neighbours sitting on their 
porches. Finally one man said: "Yes, I 
saw two children going down the street 
that way. I noticed them because the 
little boy was carrying a big hunk of 
cheese." But where now? Nowhere in 
sight. A neighbour or two, then more, 
joined in the hunt, but without results. 
Those children couldn't have gone far! 
Extend the search! No results. Call the 
police! So the police were called, and 
presumably the call went out on the air 
to watch for two three-year-olds who bad 
run away. 
An hour, two hours went by with no 
report. Daddy would not be home for 
another two or three hours. Nancy's 
parents came in from the school where 
they were in training. Nancy's mother 
was frantic. "Why didn't you keep watch 
of them? 0 my baby, my baby!" Nancy 's 
father went off searching for clues. Fi-
nally Mother, leaving Patsy in the charge 
of Jane, the maid, took her car and 
went cruising through the town. Nancy's 
father got first results. Ile found his 
little daughter unconcernedly playing 
with some other children in front of the 
fire engine house, a half mile up the 
winding thoroughfare. Where, he asked, 
was Donny? "Oh, he dust got tired and 
goed off," said Nancy. 
The shadows of evening were coming 
on when Mother, slowly cruising anti 
keeping a sharp if hopeless outlook, 
spied a familiar little figure, up near the 
Half-way Stores, weaving a weary, criss-
cross pattern along the walk. She pulled 
to the curb and sprang out. "Donny, 
Donny," she cried, "where are you go-
ing?" 
"Home," said Donny, and freeing him-
self from his mother's embrace, crept 
into the car and curled tip on the seat. 
"Oh, Mother was so worried. Why did 
you run away?" 
"Not wunned away," protested the 
intrepid traveler; "go to 'tore to get 
bwead." 
The mystery of the open door and the 
missing cheese opened up before Moth-
er's understanding. What good was cheese 
without bread? Bread is to, be found 
in stores. The little yard is stuffy, any-
how. Out yonder lies adventure, and a 
prize. Let us fare forth! The process 
of getting bread without money proved 
baffling. Where the cheese had gone not 
even Donny knew; probably it had just 
got tired and gone off. 
But when Daddy came home that 
evening, a triumphant little adventurer 
had a tale to tell, incoherent as to locale 
and details, but exultant as to spirit. 
Out in the great world into which Daddy 
sallied morning by morning, his small 
son had ventured, with none to let or 
hinder, of dangers ignorant, to others' 
fears oblivious, intent only on freedom 
and adventure. 
It was not the last time that Donny 
ran away. The experience had allure; ;t 
developed into a trend. The police grew 
familiar with the tale: someone had 
found a lost small boy, had taken him 
in, was holding him for identification: 
that's Donny! Daddy had sought to 
make the confined space of a back yard 
attractive with a swing, a sandbox, a 
slide; but in time these palled. The maze 
of the city streets was a magnet, and the 
problem of containment was growing 
like the green bay tree. Soon Patsy would 
be taken by the hand and led into for-
bidden parts. A city lot is no sufficient 
place to train children. Was there an 
answer? �Arthur W. Spalding 
7 
S
HORTLY after the first World War, 
Oswald Spengler, a German profes-
sor, wrote a book entitled "The Decline 
of the West." In it is found this striking 
statement: 
"The democratic nations must disap-
pear, because they put their trust in 
illusions of truth and justice. There is 
only one reality in this world—force. If 
you listen closely, you will already hear 
the tramp of the Caesars who are coming 
to take over the world." 
Such a suggestion is nothing new. 
Since Nimrod became a hunter of men, 
Caesars of force have been attempting 
to override truth and justice and to make 
slaves of the people. If Mr. Spengler's 
philosophy had been true, we would not 
be listening for the Caesars to come. 
They would be here. 
Truth and justice are divine principles. 
They are implanted in the hearts of men 
by their Creator and will continually 
assert themselves from generation to 
generation. So the battle between truth 
and deceit, and right against might, goes 
on. 
An assault upon truth and justice is 
not only an attack upon men, it is a 
direct challenge to God Himself, who is 
the fountain of justice and liberty. Those 
who directly or indirectly cast their darts 
against the Omnipotent One, though 
denying His existence, eventually dis-
cover that the forces of right have a 
tremendous power behind them which 
cannot be controlled by the Caesars. 
God sought early to impress upon the 
mir.ds of -rulers that He held a guiding 
hand over the nations. Four thousand 
years ago the children of Israel were 
slaves in the land of Egypt. God fore-
told that at a certain time they would be 
freed from their yoke. 
When the days of their captivity were 
about over, two unarmed men suddenly 
appeared in the court of a haughty 
Pharaoh and demanded that the Israel-
ites be freed. It took more than human 
courage to walk into the presence of an 
irresponsible ancient monarch and de-
liver this order. But they were obeying 
the command of God. 
"Who is the Lord, that I should obey 
His voice to let Israel go?" exclaimed the 
dictator. "I know not the Lord, neither 
will I let Israel go." Exodus 5:2. 
By the hand of Moses and Aaron the 
Lord performed miracles which con-
vinced even that monarch that he was 
dealing with a power superior to his. 
But so long as he sat safely upon the 
throne and no physical force appeared 
to threaten his authority, he continued 
to reject the appeal for their freedom. 
To his surprise some strange armies 
did appear; frogs, lice, flies, and locusts 
marched upon the ruler and his people, 
followed by other plagues. God sought 
to save Pharaoh from destruction, but 
to no avail. He persisted in his defiance 
until the firstborn of the Egyptians were 
slain. The tramp of that Caesar ended 
in the Red Sea. (Exodus lc to, 28.) 
In the days of Nebuchadnezzar, king 
of Babylon, God again spoke in the same 
definite manner. He revealed not only 
that He has a direct supervision over the 
nations of earth, but that He has already 
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laid out the geography of the world, 
for said Moses: 
"When the Most High divided to the 
nations their inheritance, when He sepa-
rated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds 
of the people according to the number of 
the children of Israel." Deut. 32:8. 
Paul, the divine theologian, carries this 
announcement over into the Christian 
dispensation and reveals that it is still 
in force: 
"He caused to spring from one fore-
father people of every race, for them to 
live on the whole surface of the earth 
and marked out for them an appointed 
span of life and the boundaries of their 
homes." Acts 17:26. Weymouth. 
At peace in his beautiful city, Babylon, 
with the world at his feet, Nebuchad- 
nezzar was thinking of the future. What 
would become of his kingdom and glory 
after his death? What would come to 
pass in later days? 
While these and other thoughts were 
in his mind he fell asleep, and God gave 
him a dream. In this vision he saw a 
great image. Its head was of gold, its 
breast and arms of silver, its thighs of 
brass, and its legs of iron. The feet and 
toes were of iron mixed with clay. 
Upon awakening the king immediately 
called in his magicians, astrologers, 
sorcerers, and Chaldeans to tell him the 
dream and its meaning. These so-called 
wise men had a wonderful opportunity 
to write modern history, if their claims 
to foretell the future were true. But 
they miserably failed. They could not 
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achieve world empire. 
CAESARS 
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tell the dream, and of course could not 
give the interpretation. 
The king was obliged to accept help 
from one of his lowly Jewish captives, 
Daniel. (Daniel, chapter 2.) Through 
• 
this prophet of God there was revealed 
an answer to the king's questions. It 
also answered many questions that have 
been asked by rulers since. Said the 
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prophet to Nebuchadnezzar: 
"Thou art this head of gold. And after 
thee shall arise another kingdom inferior 
to thee, and another third kingdom of 
brass, which shall bear rule over all the 
earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be 
strong as iron. . . . And whereas thou 
sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's 
clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall 
be divided." Daniel 2:38-42. 
Here God is seen as the great map-
maker of the world. From gold to chaff 
is His estimate of the nations since Nebu-
chadnezzar's day. Not evolution and 
unity, but division and degeneracy. 
When the Babylon kingdom went down 
it was split into two parts. "Thy king- 
dom is divided and given to the Medes 
and Persians," said the prophet. Daniel 
5:28. 
After the Medo-Persian monarchy ran 
its course it fell into the hands of the 
Grecians. It was then divided into four 
parts. Then followed the iron monarchy 
of Rome. When it decayed and came to 
its end, it was broken into ten parts. 
In the days of these ten parts or kingdoms 
the kingdom of Christ is to be set up. 
Never again were the nations of earth 
to be amalgamated; as iron and clay 
they will not mix. There isn't force in the 
realms of men to bind them together 
into one universal kingdom. Neither 
Vulcan nor Mars can weld the iron and 
clay. 
In the final act of the drama of the 
ages even the ten parts of iron and clay 
will be "broken to pieces together." 
 
(Daniel 2:35.) Crushed by the winds of 
strife and the powerful stone formed 
without hands, they will become as chaff 
of a threshing-floor, and be blown away 
forever. 
The interpretation of this dream is 
concise. It is clear and easy to under; 
 
stand. There are no secrets hidden by 
suave diplomatic language. �
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It has no visible, physical power behind 
it to enforce compliance with its man- 
dates. A few words written
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on paper 
have defied the greatest military, naval, 
and diplomatic powers that men have 
been able to devise and put into 
action for fifteen centuries. It has more 
power and authority than all the arms 
of Europe. 
Multitudes of armed men, streams of 
fiery, crawling monsters, floating arsenals 
and screaming birds of steel are all help-
less before these few words written mil-
lenniums ago. Why? Because the Lord 
of heaven has spoken. "The dream is 
certain, and the interpretation thereof 
sure." Daniel 2:45. 
From time to time ambitious tyrants 
have arisen who sought to set at naught 
God's geography of the nations. They 
planned to build up dynasties and change 
the map to suit themselves. They 
dreamed their own dreams and tried to 
bring them to pass. Charlemagne tried 
it; Charles the Fifth also, and Henry the 
Eighth. 
"Louis XIV was about to obtain the 
control of Europe now sought by Hitler," 
says an editor. " 'He was never nearer 
to success than the spring of 1704. Noth-
ing but the accident of Marlborough's 
genius and some lucky turns of fortune 
in the field that year diverted the path of 
destiny.'—'England Under Queen Anne,' 
by G. M. Trevelyan."—Editorial in Chi-
cago Tribune, April 3, 1942. 
In modern times there was the mili-
tary genius, Napoleon. He too had 
dreams of a great empire: 
"I had the finest army that ever ex-
isted, that of Austerlitz. What more could 
be said? In four days I could have 
reached London. . . . From there I 
would have operated from south to 
north, under the colours of the Republic, 
the European regeneration which later 
I was on the point of affecting from 
north to south, under monarchical forms." 
—"Napoleon, a Diary," by R. M. John-
ston, page 471. 
His great dream of conquest turned 
out to be a nightmare. "The obstacles 
before which I failed did not proceed 
from men but from the elements," he 
reasoned. "In the south it was the sea 
destroyed me; and in the north it was the 
fire of Moscow and the ice of winter; 
so there it is, water, air, fire, all nature 
and nothing but nature."—Ib. 
"God hath chosen the weak things 
of the world to confound the things 
that are mighty." 1 Cor. i:27. The 
tramp of this Caesar ended on the 
island of St. Helena, and not in London. 
The Kaiser of Germany also had a 
dream: "The world domain of my dream," 
he declared, "consists above all in this—
that the new-made German Empire 
should everywhere be regarded with the 
most absolute confidence." — "William 
Hohenzollern," by Emil Ludwig, p. 285. 
"England will be disposed of in two or 
three months," he boastfully claimed in 
'917, to demonstrate that the people 
could have confidence in his empire of 
force. The tramp of this Caesar ended 
at a woodpile in Doom, and not in 
London. 
Perhaps the Kaiser read the words of 
Daniel during his leisure moments in 
Holland, for later on in an interview he 
confessed that "Providence never in-
tended that there should be a world em-
pire." In 1939 he sent his aide to Hitler 
with this message: "You face a disaster 
that may prove greater than that of 1918." 
Several years ago it was claimed by 
Hitler that he would be in London in a 
few months. But many months have 
passed and he is not there. Just where the 
tramp of Caesar will end remains to be 
seen. One editor believes that it will 
end at a graveyard of bones near Arma-
geddon. Time will tell. 
A few words written by an unarmed 
prophet are more powerful than a mil- 
lion swords. "The pen is mightier than 
the sword," when guided by the God of 
heaven. 
"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and 
myself, have founded great empires; but 
upon what do these creations of our gen-
ius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone 
founded His empire upon love, and to 
this day millions would die for Him," 
is the confession of Napoleon. 
Soon the kingdom of Christ will be 
established upon this earth as the prophet 
has said. That is as sure as the fulfill-
ments which have gone before. 
By CLAUDE E. HOLMES 
DECEMBER, 1943 �
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Wounded men of the "Not Forgotten Association" meet at a London garden party. 
Can their fallen comrades, very much in memory, communicate with them? 
7Vfrie rite getwed ea 
SPIRITUALISM? 
CAN THE LIVING TALK WITH THE DEAD? 
T
HE loneliness of a soul bereft of one 
who was the joy and light of life is 
unutterable. The break seems so 
absolutely complete, the awful silence 
• that falls is so terrible, that we can but 
speak with tender sympathy concerning 
those who in such an hour seek comfort 
from any source that claims to put them 
in touch with those they have lost. 
Death has always been a mystery, but 
it has been reserved for this age to probe 
deeper into the mysteries of life and death 
than any other age. But that brings a new 
challenge to the religious world. One of 
the most remarkable features of our time 
is the intense interest manifested by mil-
lions in spiritualism. This greatly stimu-
lated interest in the possibility of com-
municating with the departed has been 
materially increased by the great number 
of deaths which have taken place in recent 
years. The baptism of sorrow occasioned 
by the wholesale slaughter of the first 
World War, and the awful carnage of the 
present world conflict have given spir-
itualism an opportunity of which it has 
taken full advantage. 
In investigating the claims of spiritual-
ism, we are face to face with a long list of 
strange phenomena which present to us 
either the grandest truths which ever came 
to mourning humanity, or the most shame-
less fraud ever perpetrated in the name 
of life's tenderest memories. Which of 
these it is. you shall judge for yourself. 
We shall examine these claims in the 
light of the word of God. We shall seek 
to probe the mystery surrounding the 
scenes of the séance, which are enacted, 
we are told, by the spirits of the dead. 
But first, a few words regarding the 
origin and recent history of spiritualism. 
In its modern form, it started in the year 
1848. There were two sisters in a family 
by the name of Fox, living with their 
parents at Hydesville, New York. They 
constantly heard strange raps and noises. 
They could not understand them. 
Finally, believing that this had some-
thing to do with invisible agencies, the 
girls began to speak, and asked, "Who 
are you? Are you spirits from the other 
world?" At this there was a volley of rap-
ping to tell them "Yes." 
After a while the girls found a way of 
communicating with the spirits. They 
repeated the alphabet, and at certain 
letters the unseen beings replied with a 
rap, until it was possible to spell out a 
whole sentence. And the first sentence 
these spirits spelled out was: "We are 
all your dear friends and relatives." 
Soon other towns heard of these supernat-
ural performances. Later the sisters 
lectured in many places, and spiritual- 
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',tic circles were formed. So rapidly did 
the idea spread that in thirty years spirit-
ualists could be numbered by the million. 
You may never have attended a séance, 
but doubtless you have read descriptions 
of them. With lights lowered, the 
devotees of this cult await with joined 
hands the appearance of the spirit appa- 
rition. Various phenomena and mani-
festations often take place, such as float-
ing musical instruments that play by 
themselves, moving spirit lights that 
shine. Unbidden voices from invisible 
beings, sometimes in harsh, guttural 
sounds, are heard in this eerie atmos-
phere. Maybe there will be automatic 
writing with the planchette, and the 
ouija board. There is also trance speak-
ing and healing, and materialization and 
levitation. Materialization is the appear-
ance of the spirit in visible form, so that 
it resembles in all features a human be-
ing. Levitation is the lifting and moving 
of objects from one place to another by 
an invisible power. 
People have testified that a certain 
noted spiritualist medium named Home, 
went into a trance, and in that state his 
body began to float. His friends met in 
an upper story, eighty-five feet from the 
ground, and watched the floating body. 
They were terrified to see it carried out 
of the window and then brought back 
into the next room through the window 
in that room. 
Some may be skeptical and prepared 
to dismiss the whole thing as hallucina-
tion or mere trickery. And I must admit 
that there is much fake and fraud con- 
stantly being exposed among mediums. 
But the fact remains that, when you 
have subtracted all the trickery and 
deception, there is still a residuum of 
unaccountable phenomena. Some of the 
keenest and most critical minds have 
pronounced these manifestations to be 
genuine demonstrations of the supernat-
ural. Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Arthur 
Conan Doyle, Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, 
and Sir William Crookes are among the 
noted men who from their investigations 
have concluded that the dead are com-
municating with the living. 
It may be thought that because some of 
these prominent men in science have 
thrown in their lot with spiritualism, 
science itself has accepted as authentic 
the claims of spiritualism. Such is not the 
case. Equally great men, such as Sir 
Edwin Ray Lankester, are eager to tell 
the world that they found no cause for 
the acceptance of spiritualism. 
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then it may be possible for the dead to 
communicate with the living through 
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mediums. But if the dead are dead, as 
they appear to be, then the claims of 
spiritualism are false, and whatever causes 
these strange phenomena, it most cer- 
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tainly is not the spirits of the dead. 
Spiritualism, or spiritism, bases its 
claims on three facts: (1) That the dead 
are alive, (2) That they can communicate 
with the living through mediums, (3) 
That the phenomena of the séance can 
be attributed to the spirits of the dead. 
If the first of these claims can be proved 
to be false, then the structure of spiritual-
ism collapses. This is the crux of the 
whole matter! 
Let us begin our investigation in the 
light of the Bible. Note carefully what 
God says: "To the law and to the testi-
mony: if they speak not according to 
this word, it is because there is no light 
in them." Those words occur in a remark-
able passage of Isaiah's prophecy. The 
prophet is dealing with this very question 
of attempted communication with the 
dead by means of mediums. I quote 
from Moffatt's translation: "When they 
• 
tell you to consult mediums and ghosts 
that cheep and gibber in low murmurs, 
ask them if a nation should not rather 
consult its God. Say, 'Why consult the 
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dead on behalf of the living? Consult the 
message and the counsel of God!' " 
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Isaiah 8:19, 2o. There you have Isaiah 
very plainly stating that the living are 
not to seek the dead, but that a nation 
of people must seek their God, and they 
must do it through the "law and the 
testimony"—namely, through the Bible. 
Here is a group of scriptures which 
clearly teach whether or not the dead 
can consciously communicate with the 
living. Read Ecclesiastes 9:5: "The liv-
ing know that they shall die: but the 
dead know not anything, neither have 
they any more a reward: for the memory 
of them is forgotten." The psalmist says of 
man: "His breath goeth forth, he return-
eth to his earth; in that very day his 
thoughts perish." Ps. 146:4. And again 
he declares that "the dead praise not the 
Lord, neither any that go down into 
silence." Ps. 115:17. 
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And to make it doubly clear that the 
dead cannot be called back to appear 
at a séance, read Job 16:22, "When a few 
years are come, then I shall go the way 
whence I shall not return." And again 
in Job 7:8-1o, "The eye of him that hath 
seen me shall see me no more. . . . He 
that goeth down to the grave shall come 
4 �up no more. He shall return no more 
to his house, neither shall his place know 
him any more." 
When the infant son of David, king of 
Israel, was seriously ill and dying, David 
fasted and wept before the Lord in the 
hope that the child might recover. But 
the child died, and when the servants 
told him that his child was dead, to their 
astonishment, instead of fasting and 
DECEMBER, 1943 
weeping any more, he got up and ate and 
anointed himself. They asked him the 
reason. And what did David say? "Now 
he is dead, wherefore should I fast? Can 
I bring him back again? I shall go to 
him, but he shall not return to me." 
2 Sam. 12:23. 
The Scriptures emphatically deny the 
possibility of communication with the 
dead. "But," says someone, "if the dead 
are unconscious and cannot return, who 
or what is it that causes the strange phe-
nomena in the séance? Who are the 
spirits in spiritualism?" 
In answer to that question I do not 
hesitate one moment to declare that the 
agencies parading under the garb of our 
departed friends are none other than evil 
angels cast down from heaven who are 
carrying on their wicked machinations 
against mankind on this earth. I say it 
is demons impersonating the dead in 
order to seduce the living. 
Tear from this modern movement the 
polite mask which it wears, and you will 
see behind that mask the wizened, sharp-
featured, evil face of witchcraft, accursed 
of God. denounced in Scripture, scathed 
by the prophets, opposed by the apostles, 
and only waiting to be cast into the lake 
of fire with its author—the devil. 
If anyone is at all attracted to spiritu-
alism, let me give him a warning out of 
concern for his eternal destiny. The dead 
are dead. Every attempt to get in touch 
with them is sin, and every message from 
the other side finds its origin, not in the 
dear ones you have loved and lost, but 
in demons who impersonate them. 
The Bible is full of condemnation of 
spiritualism. It tells how these evil 
forces, these hosts of unclean spirits, in-
vaded this earth after being cast out of 
heaven: "There was war in heaven: 
Michael and His angels fought against 
the dragon; and the dragon fought and 
his angels, and prevailed not; neither 
was their place found any more in heaven. 
And the great dragon was cast out, that 
old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, 
which deceiveth the whole world; He was 
cast out into the earth, and his angels 
were cast out with him." Rev. 12:7-9. 
These evil spirits have had thousands 
of years of experience in the observation 
of humanity. They know exactly the gul-
lible points of mankind. These demons 
know everything about you and about 
me. It is quite easy for these evil spirits, 
impersonating the dead, to give informa-
tion. But the fact that their disclosures 
often prove correct is no proof of the 
genuineness of spiritualism. 
In the third chapter of Genesis, read 
about the first medium mentioned in the 
Bible. The devil was out to tempt Adam 
and Eve, and to make them fall. There 
was no other human being on earth then. 
They were the only two. So he took the 
body of a serpent, because that was most 
useful for his purpose. That was the 
first séance. The devil, using the serpent 
as a medium, deceived our first parents. 
The results of that first séance brought 
death into the world. And the seances 
of to-day are bringing spiritual and eter-
nal death to those who become the vic-
tims of spiritualism. 
God uttered the most solemn warnings 
to ancient Israel concerning this menace. 
Here are a few of them: "Never go to a 
medium or a wizard, never defile your-
selves by consulting them." Lev. 19:31, 
Moffatt's translation. Therefore, to be a 
spiritualist is to be defiled. Here is an-
other text: "Any person who consults 
a medium or a wizard, deserting Me for 
them. I will set My face against that per-
son and outlaw him from his kinsfolk." 
Lev. 20:6, Moffatt's translation. Thus we 
see that to be a spiritualist is to -incur 
God's excommunication. Again we read: 
"Any man or woman who is a medium or 
a wizard must be put to death." Lev. 20: 
27. 
Defilement, disownment, death! 
That is the verdict of the word of God, 
and His attitude has not changed in the 
slightest degree since those days. 
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By CLIFFORD A. REEVES 
RADIO EVANGELIST 
There is one noteworthy instance in 
the Bible which spiritualists advance as 
a certain proof for the reality of the 
messages from the spirit world. I refer to 
the incident of Saul and the witch of 
Endor, as we have it in i Samuel 28. Saul 
was hard pressed by the Philistines, and 
lie could get no answer from God re-
garding what he should do. Because of 
his disobedience God had forsaken him. 
So he inquired for a woman that had "a 
familiar spirit" or a "spirit guide," as we 
would say in modern parlance. He was 
told that there was one in Endor. He 
went "by night" to consult her, asking 
that she bring up Samuel the prophet, 
that he might inquire of him. 
An apparition appeared to the woman, 
who, in turn, described it to Saul. And 
Saul assumed that it was Samuel. But is 
it reasonable to suppose that God would 
allow a wicked woman to call up His 
servant Samuel from the dead, and make 
the prophet answer Saul's questions, 
when He had Himself positively refused 
to answer Saul? No, it was not Samuel 
with whom Saul had contact that night; 
it was an evil spirit. This is proved by 
the tragic• sequel, for we read that Saul 
lost his kingdom, his throne, and his life. 
And notice the reason: "Saul died for 
his transgression, . . . for asking counsel 
of one that had a familiar spirit." 1 
Chron. o: 13. How true are the words 
of Rudyard Kipling: 
"Oh, the road to Endor is the oldest road 
And the craziest road of all! 
Straight it runs to the witches' abode, 
As it did in the days of Saul, 
And nothing has changed of the sorrow 
in store 
For such as go down on the road to 
Endor!" 
In the book of Acts there is a very strik-
ing example of spirit possession. You 
(Concluded in the January Issue) 
will remember that the apostles, as they 
went to prayer, were followed by a 
young girl who was "possessed with a 
spirit of divination." (The margin 
says "A spirit of Python," referring to 
a huge serpent which, according to fable, 
was famous for predicting future events.) 
She cried, "These men are the servants 
of the Most High God, which show unto 
us the way of salvation." Acts 16:17. 
Nobody could preach a more beautiful 
sermon than that. And sometimes at 
seances beautiful things are said about 
heaven and the love of God, but that 
is no proof that they come from God, 
for evil spirits will say anything to 
deceive. But beautiful words did not 
deceive Paul. He turned and rebuked 
the spirit, and said, "I command thee in 
the name of Jesus Christ to come out of 
her." Acts 16:18. And from that time 
forward the girl was in her sane and nor-
mal condition. 
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SWEETEST 
LOVE STORY 
By R. H. PIERSON 
T IS said there are 31,173 verses in the 
I Holy Scriptures. From all of these 
thousands of truth-filled gems, doubtless 
the best known and possibly the favorite 
verse of all is John 3:16. This verse has 
no doubt led more sinners to the saving 
power of the Lord Jesus Christ than any 
other single passage of Scripture. 
"For God so loved the world that He 
gave His only-begotten Son, that who-
soever believeth in Him should not 
perish, but have everlasting life." 
Sometimes I like to paraphrase these 
wonderful words by reading them like 
this: 
"For God (the greatest giver) so loved 
the world (the mightiest motive) that He 
gave His only-begotten Son (the greatest 
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Surpassing love, 
unequalled in manner 
and degree, is the love 
of Jesus for lost man-
kind. And "we love 
Him, because He first 
loved us." 
gift) that whosoever (the widest invita-
tion) believeth in Him (the easiest es-
cape) should not perish (the greatest 
deliverance) but have everlasting life 
(the most priceless possession)." 
In our consideration of history's sweet-
est love story as set forth in John 3:16 
let us follow the thoughts suggested in 
the paraphrasing. 
First, let us notice who it is that makes 
this wonderful offer of eternal salvation. 
Ah, it is God—the greatest giver of time 
and eternity. The One by whose power 
the Universe consists. The God who 
"laid the foundations of the earth" (Job 
38:4), who "shut up the sea with doors" 
(Job 38:8), who hast "commanded the 
morning ... and caused the dayspring 
to know his place." Job 38:12. There 
can be no question concerning His 
power! Neither should there be any 
uneasiness regarding His ability to make 
good any promise He makes to the chil-
dren of earth. Sometimes you and I make 
promises that, because of circumscribed 
conditions which later arise, we are un-
able to fulfill. But when God, our 
heavenly Father, promises us all of the 
riches of eternal life through His Son 
Jesus, we need not be anxious, for "the 
earth is the Lord's, and the fulness there-
of: the world, and they that dwell there-
in" (Psalm 24:1), and He "is able to do 
exceeding abundantly above all that we 
ask or think." Ephesians 3:20. 
The text reads on, "For God so loved 
the world." What a depth of affection 
lies behind that one syllable "so"! Those 
two little letters seem to plumb the 
depths of an ocean of affection. It is 
manlike to love those who love us. It 
is natural for us to bestow our affections 
upon those who are lovely and those 
who are kind to us and who love us. 
But it is God-like to love those who 
despise us and who go out of their way 
to maltreat us. Just stop and recall the 
circle of your own acquaintances and you 
will think of some unlovely characters 
that naturally you would have difficulty 
in loving. 
Some years ago the then Prince of 
Wales visited a small private hospital 
where thirty-six hopelessly injured and 
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disfigured veterans of World War I were 
being cared for. 
After he had visited and shaken hands 
with twenty-nine of the patients he in-
quired regarding the other seven he had 
not, yet seen. He was told that because 
of their terrible condition he had not 
been shown the rest. He, however, in-
sisted that he greet them all. 
Going up to one of the poor men, so 
badly maimed and so hideously disfigured 
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he scarcely appeared human, the Prince 
stooped and kissed the cheek of the 
broken hero. With tears in his eyes he 
paid tribute to the great sacrifice he had 
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made for his country. 
What grace on the part of the Prince! 
Yet friends, how much greater grace was 
displayed on the part of the Prince of 
princes that He should stoop to the 
ignominy and shame to which He was 
exposed in order to redeem you and mel 
Now, our text speaks of God loving 
the world in general. I like to turn to 
the words of Paul and find a more per-
sonal application of this boundless affec-
tion that flows forth from the Father's 
heart. In Galatians 2:20, Christ is re-
vealed as the one "who loved me, and 
gave Himself for me." Oh yes, my friend, 
I'm glad that God loves the millions of 
earth and that He loves you, but most of 
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all, because there is so much at stake, I 
thank God that He loves me. Had I been 
the only sinner in all of earth's history, 
the Father in heaven loves me enough 
that He gladly would have made the 
sacrifice of His only Son for me! 
"Could we with ink the ocean fill, 
Were the whole world of parchment 
made, 
Were every single stick a quill, 
Were every man a scribe by trade; 
To write the love of God alone 
Would drain the ocean dry; 
Nor could the scroll contain the whole 
Though stretched from sky to sky." 
Love compels one to give! And God's 
great love constrained Him to give 
Heaven's greatest gift—"His only-begot-
ten Son." 
Heaven could not make a lesser gift, 
DECEMBER, 1943 
for Christ was the only One who could 
pay the terrible penalty exacted by sin. 
Without doubt any one of the host of 
heavenly angels would gladly have taken 
their beloved Commander's place. But 
the death of an angel would not 
suffice. An angel might have died, but 
there would have been no resurrection—
no life beyond the tomb. Jesus, being 
equal with God, could lay down His life 
and He could take it up again. (John 
0:18) "For as the Father hath life in 
Himself; so hath He given to the Son to 
have life in Himself." John 5:26. 
. Now let us move along to the next 
portion of our wonderful text. It would 
be easy for us to fill several pages and 
devote our entire discussion to just one 
portion of John 3:16. But we must pass 
on to the next word of our text. 
"For God so loved the world, that He 
gave His only-begotten Son, that whoso-
ever"—whosoever—there, dear reader, is 
your name in the Holy Scriptures! You 
may unhesitatingly put it in there right 
now if you are willing to meet the simple 
condition of believing. Could a wider 
invitation possibly be extended? Who-
soever! Why, that includes every human 
being ever born into this world! And 
it is blessedly true that God has made 
just such liberal provision. Listen to 
His many assurances: In 2 Peter 3:9, 
He says He is "not willing that any 
should perish, but that all should come to 
repentance." And again in 1 Timothy 
2:4, "Who will have all men to be saved." 
Jesus tasted "death for every man." 
So the provision has been made that 
all should be saved. The choice is left 
to the individual! If we are saved it 
will be because we have chosen to be 
saved. If we are lost eternally it will be 
because we have deliberately chosen to 
be lost! "Ho, every one that thirsteth," 
the gospel prophet invites, "come ye to 
the waters, and he that hath no money; 
come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy 
wine and milk without money and with-
out price." Isaiah 55:1. Have you 
accepted this blessed invitation? 
The text reads on, "For God so loved 
the world that He gave His only-begot-
ten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him 
should not perish." 
Here we have the easiest escape. Many 
of the non-Christian religions are built 
upon works. In the Orient I have often 
seen men and women making long and 
tedious journeys to bathe in the river 
Ganges or the Godavary or some other of 
the holy rivers of India. I have seen men 
sitting on beds of sharp spikes where 
they had been sitting for years. I have 
seen the followers of heathen deities 
performing all sorts of works and sub-
jecting their bodies to all kinds of cruel 
tortures in the name of religion. 
But when the convicted Philippian 
jailor cried out to Paul and Silas, "Sirs, 
what must I do to be saved?" the two 
men of God answered simply, "Believe 
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt 
be saved." Acts 16:3o, 31. How easy 
God has made salvation for the sinner! 
No long pilgrimages. No cruel penance! 
All that we can do about our sinful con-
dition is to go to Jesus for cleansing and 
believe that cleansing comes because He 
has promised it. 
Next we come to the most priceless 
possession held out to those who believe 
—everlasting life! Think of it—life with-
out end! When you have lived a thou-
sand years you are still a babe. When 
a thousand millenniums have slipped into 
eternity you are yet a child. Our finite 
minds fail to fathom such calculations. 
Imagine a life that measures with the 
life of God. And the Holy Scriptures 
say: 
"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, 
neither have entered into the heart of 
man, the things which God hath prepared 
for them that love Him." i Corinthians 
2:9. 
As you have read these wonderful assur-
ances contained in one of the Scripture's 
choicest verses, doesn't it make you feel 
that, cost what it may, heaven is cheap 
at any price? And don't you find yourself 
determining in your heart that you will 
respond in a more definite manner to the 
wonderful love of Jesus? 
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The mind is a tyrant over the body of the ambitious man, and often drives it to ill health. 
That Big Boss 
Your MIND and its effect on your BODY 
By W. H. ROBERTS, M.D. 
QUESTION : WHAT IS MIND ? . INSWER : NO MATTER. 
QUESTION : WHAT IS MATTER ? ANSWER : NEVER MIND. 
This is the way the old philosophers put it; but the definitions of mind and 
matter, and their relationships, arc clearer than that. 
rpo have a body functioning so per-
t fectly that when its few simple needs 
are met it never calls attention to its 
own existence—this is health. 
Certainly it would seem that every 
provision has been made that this ideal 
state might be attained. We have a 
superabundance of organs far in excess 
of any normal demand. For example, 
we have two eyes, two cerebral hem- 
When you indulge in a delightful shower, 
leave your troubles with your clothes, 
to be washed away. 
ispheres, two lungs, two kidneys. Un-
impaired organs have tremendous re-
serve energies. It is only as a result of 
wanton excess in exercise, eating, worry-
ing, more rarely over-drinking and in-
dulgence in other harmful habits, that 
we seriously deplete these reserve fac-
tors of safety. 
In this regard the human animal 
does not show the normal intelligence 
of the lower animals. They run the 
race for food and for sport, experience 
the sensation of fatigue, and permit this 
sensation to exercise its function in a 
demand for rest. Whereas, with human 
beings, as William deB. MacNider re-
cently stated before the American College 
of Physicians, "The factors of safety in 
our abundance of tissues are severely 
drawn upon in order to adjust and adapt 
us to an artificial and exorbitant type of 
life which we regard as normal. The 
most difficult life, the most unusual and 
pathological one, is a 'normal' one." 
In the alarming prevalence of disease 
we see the results of the knowledge of 
evil, of having our own way in matters 
pertaining to our habits of living. For-
tunately for us, most of our really vital 
functions are automatic, and in a sense 
reflex in nature. This automatic thought-
fulness of nature is affected through the 
intervention of that part of our nervous 
organization called the automatic or 
vegetative nervous system. 
Pavlov probably did more than any 
other man to enlighten us on these 
matters by his work on "conditioned re-
flexes." He rang a bell whenever he 
fed his dogs. It was not long before a 
copious outpouring of gastric juices could 
be produced by the ringing of the bell, 
even in the absence of food. Similar 
experiments were recently popularized 
in the Life Magazine. Rats whose re-
flexes had been similarly conditioned, 
but who were frustrated in their at-
tempts to carry out their habits of jump-
ing for their food when the bell rang, 
developed neurosthenia. In other words, 
they curled up in a corner, lost their ap-
petites, fur became ruffled and lustre-
less, and for the time being they seemed 
to have lost all interest in living. 
Who can any longer doubt the close 
relationship existing between mind and 
body! Imagine the far-reaching con-
sequences of taking business problems 
to bed, or the indulgence of any but 
happy, cheerful thoughts at the dinner 
table. Doctors claim to have isolated a 
fear-and-worry chemical in the blood 
of persons emotionally upset, which 
is capable of modifying rhythmic con-
tractions of the intestinal muscles of ex-
perimental animals. 
It is now quite obvious that fear, worry, 
anxiety, grief, discontent, remorse, guilt, 
distrust, anger, and all similar emotions 
break down the life forces and invite 
decay and death. 
These automatic reflex systems are rep-
resented in the higher centers of the 
brain. Hence it is possible, aside from 
any other consideration, for a person in 
good health to eat a perfectly good meal, 
and by concentration on his digestive 
apparatus, interfere with its assimila-
tion. Thus many go through life suffer-
ing from digestive disorders entirely 
due to their own abnormal concern over 
the fate of their meals. 
Our habitual thoughts and emotions, 
may have their counterpart in far-reach-
ing, well-beaten nervous pathways which, 
when they become "conditioned reflexes", 
Financial worries belong at the bank, not 
at the dinner table or in bed. 
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may, for the time being at least, get be-
yond our immediate control. Herein 
lies the importance of understanding the 
power of the will. There are certain in-
capacitating diseases which by sheer will 
power it is possible to overcome. There 
are, of course, diseases which are im-
aginary and vanish like snow before the 
warm sunshine when the mind is dis-
abused of their spectre. 
In the former category might be 
classed certain types of migraine or sick 
headaches. In this connection it might 
be well to mention briefly some of the 
symptoms of migraine. A typical attack 
may or may not be preceded by a blur-
ring of vision, numbness, or dizziness, or 
even a feeling of unusual fitness. There 
may be mental dullness and a feeling of 
emotional depression. When the actual 
headache comes on, it may be pounding 
or throbbing in character. At other 
times, it is neuralgic. It gradually in-
creases in severity until the patient 
vomits. Some have only a sudden over-
whelming nausea. 
While migraine often begins in child-
hood, and really is very common (act-
ually about 5o% of the population have 
at one time or another had symptoms 
of migraine), it is inore characteristically 
a disease of the more intelligent and 
successful. This being the case, it is not 
surprising that an attack may be pre-
cipitated by disappointment, fear, anx-
iety, or chagrin, exposure to bright 
light shining in the eyes, fatigue from 
any cause, car sickness, or a dietary in-
discretion. In women it may be asso-
ciated with menstrual disturbances, or 
even a normal menstrual period. Fur-
thermore, it is not surprising that the 
first attack might come on only as the 
result of some prolonged physical ex-
ertion or strenuous mental activity or 
anxiety. Should these causes continue 
to be operative, the attacks would be-
come more and more frequent. Event- 
ually it would take very little to pre-
cipitate an attack. The attack itself 
is considered to be due to either a spasm 
or dilatation of the blood vessels of the 
brain. 
Physiologists have long known that 
when nervous impulses pass over the re- 
flex nerves, a chemical called acetyl- 
choline is formed in small quantities. 
Its action is to cause dilatation of cer- 
tain blood vessels. It is conceivable that 
under exceptional emotional stress, 
when much of nervous energy was being 
dissipated, an abnormal amount of 
acetyl-choline would be liberated and 
cause some of the disagreeable symptoms 
mentioned above. This being the case, 
successful attempts have been made to 
desensitize patients with drugs having 
an action similar to acetyl-choline. 
It has already occurred to you, if you 
suffer from migraine, that you can de- 
sensitize yourself. It is done by being 
temperate in all your habits, by avoiding 
worry, anxiety, discontent, and anger. 
This calls for the exercise of the will, 
for something akin to trust in divine 
power. It may also call for that relaxa- 
tion obtained only by a vacation where 
vacations should be enjoyed—amid the 
pleasant, peaceful scenes of nature. 
I met him striding along the street, 
and he looked to be in fine fettle. This 
was a surprise, for the last time his face 
had been drawn and he had looked wor-
ried. 
"Well, well," came from me. "You 
must be feeling good." 
"Stake all you've got on that," he 
beamed, "I've just come from seeing the 
doctor." 
"Cured you of what ailed you, did he?" 
"Oh no," and his face shaded a little. 
But a renewed smile chased that away; 
and he said over his shoulder as he passed 
on, "I always feel better when I talk to 
the doctor." 
Many of us are like that. We feel bet-
ter when we talk to the doctor. And most 
doctors can turn that trick—if you want 
to call it that. But it isn't trickery. Nor 
is the illness "only in the patient's mind," 
though many a disease starts in the pa-
tient's mind, or spirit, and the physician 
must start there to cure it. 
Certainly some must come away from 
the doctor feeling worse for what he dis-
covered and what he said. But usually 
we feel better. One of the reasons is 
that the doctor tells us what our trouble 
is not. From all we see and hear and 
read about cancer and "heart failure" 
and "stroke," and what this symptom 
and that may mean, we are plagued with 
forebodings—and immediately anything 
we do have gets worse. 
And the doctor knows. Or most of us 
think he knows; so much so that "He's 
the doctor" has become a proverb. He 
makes his mistakes, like other profes-
sional men, and he is less likely to be 
called to account for them because they 
are buried, say the cynics; but the medical 
men do us a world of good. And this 
writer is not one of them, nor a publicity 
man for the men who heal. 
Good old Doc! We lie awake nights 
imagining all sorts of calamities to our 
"innards" till we are sure one foot is in 
the grave and the other is on slippery 
mud at the edge; and then we up and see 
the doctor. He looks at our tongue, shuts 
off our complaints with the thermometer 
in our mouths, feels our pulse, listens to 
our heart, rubs our tummy, takes X rays 
of our machinery, and tells us a few 
simple remedies to apply. 
Then, with a knowing wink and a 
twisted smile, he slaps us, gently, on the 
back, tells us there is nothing functionally 
wrong with us, says we have years ahead 
yet—and bows us out. He has told us the 
truth in a way that we believe it and make 
it a fact. We feel better, and we are 
better. The bill is only an item. 
It pays to see the doctor, particularly 
if he knows the root cause of all disease, 
and the Remedy. 
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Abe Ztnget5 
Once upon a "silent night, holy night" the happy angels sang; 
Only lonely shepherds heard the anthem as from heaven's arch it rang. 
Hushed and weary slept the peaceful herd, 
But the shepherds' eyes were opened wide, their hearts with terror stirred. 
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Fear not, peace, good will to every one, the theme of that blest song, 
Seraph joining cherub in the choir's blissful throng; 
Jesus, Saviour of the world, was born to men that day— 
A tiny stranger in a manger would take their guilt away. 
Sing ye, as angels sang that night so long ago; 
Not alone that He was born, and lived and died because He loved us so. 
Born to men, ah yes; but better far, born in men. 
Born again are we, and though we die mayhap, we live again! 
Sing, all peoples! Vie with angel songs in courts above! 
Ne'er have mortals or immortals seen such matchless love! 
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