rule. An education or a philosophy of life
which omits a proper regard for spiritual
truths, and makes man and his interests
the center and circumference of life, is con-
tributing in the final analysis to man’s own
undoing. The world today knows all too
well the significance of science dedicated
to the destruction of man instead of to his
upbuilding.
It 1s not a mere platitude, therefore, to
say that education should be Christian,
not merely secular. There is bound up in
this statement a solemn truth which when
dishonored leads to the direst results, as
the long history of nations and as con-
temporary developments reveal.
Cartoons of World Powers
(Continued from page 15)
It will be well, however, for the thought-
ful reader to remember that while the
practice of almost all Christendom has
been changed in the matter of Sabbath-
keeping from the observance of the seventh
day of the week to that of the first day, in
fulfillment of this prediction, the prophecy
plainly says, “And think to change times
and laws.” And while this power glories
in what it has done, no change has really
been made in the law; for Heaven has
never ratified it. And as long as it remains
a fact that God created the earth in six
days and rested on the seventh day to
commemorate that fact, so long no change
can be made in the memorial day.
4. “Until a time and times and the divid-
ing of time.”—It would only be natural for
the student of this prophecy to be con-
cerned about the future of this power; but
there is some satisfaction in knowing that
it has been limited by divine power. The
above period, which is parallel with what
we know as the Dark Ages, will be found
to represent 1260 years (Revelation 12:
6, 14), as a day stands for a year in
prophecy. (See Numbers 14: 34; Ezekiel
4:6.) This period extended from the year
2338 A.D., when the last of the three horn-
powers was taken out of the way to make
way for the rise of the Bishop of Rome to
power, to the year 1798 a.p., when, by the
order of the French Directory, Pope Pius
VI was taken prisoner in Rome. The aged
pontiff died in exile the next year, and for
two years the papacy was thought by both
friends and foes to be ‘“dead.” But ac-
cording to a prophecy in the Apocalypse
this power was to be revived. History
attests this fact. But verses 11 and 26 of
Daniel 7 indicate that a time of judgment
1s coming when “the burning flame” will
bring an end to the career of this power.
In the meantime the former issues of
Protestantism will no doubt be revived.
The same moral stamina of those olden
days will be needed again. Let us hope
that the God who shortened the days
(Matthew 24:22) for the sake of His
church during the years of the Dark Ages
will again shorten the time for “the elect’s
sake.” There is good promise of this in
Romans 9: 28 where the prophet predicts
a hastening and shortening of the work
of God.
What Does Christ's Birth
Mean?
(Continued from page 3)
question comes, “What do these things
mean? Can there be peace? If so, what will
bring this peace?”
The answer is—the coming of Christ, the
Prince of peace, the Lord of glory, not again
as a child, but as a King. He shall “set up
a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed:
and the kingdom shall not be left to other
people, but it shall break in pieces and
consume all these kingdoms, and it shall
stand forever.” Daniel 2: 44.
The birth of the Christ child is worthy
of our earnest and joyous consideration,
for in 1t God’s love is witnessed and God’s
salvation of man from sin has been made
possible. Through His birth eternal peace
and unending glory shall be the experience
of all who, preparing to meet Him as the
coming King, shall first accept the Christ of
Bethlehem, that later they may welcome
the Christ of glory.
Has Constitutional Gavern-
ment Limits?
(Continued from page 6)
the Bill of Rights, how long will the other
guaranties of inalienable rights remain se-
cure? If the government has a right to
compel its citizens to remain members of
a labor union against their free will, or
suffer the loss of their jobs, it has a similar
right to compel every citizen who is now a
member of a certain church to remain a
member of that church and support that
church against his free will or suffer the
loss of his income and property. If the
government, can deprive its citizens of
their inalienable civil rights, it can like-
wise deny the religious rights guaranteed
under the Constitution.
One of the most alarming features of
some labor unions is that they impose
obligations upon their members which are
paramount to all other obligations which
the individual owes to his government or
to his God. The individual is not only
obliged under oath to surrender his para-
mount duties, fidelity, and allegiance to the
civil government of which he 1s a citizen,
but his duties, fidelity, and allegiance to
God and religion when a conflict arises be-
tween what the labor union requires of
him and what his government or his reli-
gion demands of him. This is very clearly
set forth in the Constitution and Book of
Laws of the International Typographical
Union, Article XII, entitled “Obligations
of Members.” In this Article is set forth
the oath, and it states at the beginning of
the oath:
“Every person admitted as a member
of this union shall subscribe to the follow-
ing obligation,” which is the oath exacted
from every member. The oath is in part
as follows: “I [give name] hereby solemnly
and sincerely swear [or afhirm]| . . . that
my fidelity to the union and my duty to
the members thereof shall in no sense be
interfered with by any allegiance that 1
may now or hereafter owe to any other
organization, social, political, or religious,
secret or otherwise.”
Here 1s a super-organization which sets
forth its obligations as supreme not only
over all earthly governments but above the
claims of God upon the soul of man. There
have been a few monarchs at the head of
earthly governments who attempted to
subordinate the conscience of the individ-
ual in all things to the absolute authority
of their decrees. Nebuchadnezzar, the
great king of Babylon, set up his authority
as supreme in all things both political and
religious. But he failed in coercing the
three Hebrew worthies, whom he cast into
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