OSHAWA, ONTARIO 
OCTOBER, 1947 
O
N THE campus of a great uni-
versity in England stands a 
sundial of bronze on which is 
engraved, "It's later than you think," 
a daily reminder to passing students 
that time is valuable and is fleeting 
away more rapidly than they realize. 
Time is the stuff life is made of, and 
therefore it must not be wasted. 
During the last few tragic years, 
writers, speakers and statesmen have 
made the message of the sundial fa-
mous. Leaders of men and nations 
have applied the statement to the late-
ness of the hour in human history 
goodman of the house had known in 
what watch the thief would come, he 
would have watched, •ff.d would not 
have suffered his house to be broken 
up. Therefore be ye also ready: for 
in such an hour as ye think not the 
Son of man cometh." Matthew 
24:42-44. 
The prophetic writers of the Old 
Testament also looked forward to our 
day when the clock of time would be 
striking the last hour: "The Eternal's 
great day is near, near, speeding 
apace! The Eternal's bitter day is 
near, rushing on like a warrior!—a 
cries of distressed and frightened men 
in the new age to which we have 
come. Dr. Harold Urey, one of the 
leading scientists in producing the 
atomic bomb, said: "I am a frightened 
man. All the scientists I know are 
frightened men." Later he said, "I 
am still a frightened man. The grav-
ity of the world situation is frighten-
ing beyond words to express. Civiliza-
tion has been brought to the brink of 
the precipice." 
Paul Hutchinson, writing in The 
Christian Century of March 26, 1947, 
spoke of "this terrified and doom- 
IT'S LATE 
with the hope of awakening the hu-
man race to the fact that the sands in 
the hourglass of time are fast running 
out and that the sun is about to set 
on our boasted twentieth-century 
civilization. 
Speaking from Detroit, Michigan, 
over the nation-wide network of the 
Columbia Broadcasting System in con-
nection with the Ford Sunday Eve-
ning Hour on February 8, 1942, Mr. 
W. J. Cameron said: "There is a say-
ing sometimes repeated unanimously 
—'It's later than we think.' In the 
cycle of day and night, in the cycles of 
human affairs, the 'later' it is, the 
'nearer the dawn' it is. The night may 
be farther spent and the morning 
closer at hand than we had believed." 
Mr. Cameron had doubtless been 
reading Romans 13:11, 12: "Live 
thus, realizing the situation, that it is 
now high time to rouse yourselves 
from sleep; for our salvation is now 
nearer than when we first became be-
lievers. The night is far advanced: 
day is about to dawn. Let us there-
fore lay aside the deeds of darkness, 
and put on the armour of light." 
Weymouth. 
Speaking of the same period in hu-
man history and the importance of 
being watchful and ready for the end 
of the night of sin and the dawn of 
eternal day when the Prince of Peace 
returns, Jesus said: "Watch therefore: 
for ye know not what hour your Lord 
doth come. But know this, that if the 
day of wrath, that day, of woe and 
anguish, a day of stress and distress, 
darkness and gloom, . . . a day of 
trumpet-blast and battle-cry against 
towns fortified and ramparts high—
when men must grope like blind men, 
desperately, because against the Eter-
nal they rebelled; . . . for a full end, 
ay a fearful end, will the Eternal make 
of all on earth." Zephaniah 1:14-18, 
Moffatt. 
"The hour has come, the hour has 
come, on the four quarters of the land! 
The hour has come for you. . . . Evil 
on evil! says the Lord the Eternal—
it is coming, the hour has come, the 
hour is striking, and striking at you, 
the hour and the end." Ezekiel 7:2, 
3, 5, 6, 7, Moffatt. This language is 
as striking and up to date as if a mod-
ern prophet had penned these verses 
instead of men who lived twenty-five 
hundred years ago. 
These prophetic utterances sound 
strangely familiar in the light of the 
last few tragic months since we en-
tered the atomic age. They seem to 
produce a re-echo in the pathetic 
"So likewise ye, when ye shall see 
all these things, know that it is near, 
even at the doors. Verily I say unto 
you, This generation shall not pass, 
till all these things be fulfilled." 
Matthew 24:33, 34. 
threatened world" in which there are 
conditions "which should start alarm 
bells ringing in every pulpit and de-
nominational centre." The most out-
standing leaders in world affairs are 
following the scientists in declaring 
that the end of civilization and of the 
world itself is imminent. This is a 
far cry from the former skeptical at-
titude toward even the possibility of 
the end of the world at the second 
advent of Christ. 
The following are only a few of the 
startling statements that leaders are 
making regarding the lateness of the 
hour in the light of the ushering in 
of the atomic age: "The end is not far 
distant," declared Nicholas Murray 
Butler, president of Columbia Uni-
versity. "We are all living on bor-
rowed time," said Gabriel Heater, the 
well-known radio news commentator. 
"Mankind totters on the brink of 
damnation," wrote Dr. C. C. Mor-
rison, editor of The Christian Cen-
tury, and Raymond Swing told his 
radio audience that "we have but four 
or five years left." "Mankind has 
arrived at the crisis of its fate," said 
General Smuts, and "Time is short. 
Survival is at stake," is the closing 
statement in the book, One World 
or None, produced by a group of au-
thors and scientists. 
The British historian, H. G. Wells, 
wrote shortly before his death: "The 
world is at the end of its tether. The 
end of everything we call life is close 
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SIGNS of the TIMES 
JOINT U. S ARMY NAVY TASK FORCE PHOTO 
The Baker Day mushroom as it appeared to the camera in a drone plane almost directly 
overhead at more than 15,000 feet altitude. The cloud was still rolling skyward when this 
photo was made. 
at hand and cannot be evaded. . . . 
There is no way out, or round, or 
through the impasse. It is the end. ... 
A series of events has forced upon the 
intelligent observer the realization 
that the human story has come to an 
end." This tone is far different than 
that which pervaded his Outline of 
History and other earlier writings re-
garding the steady but certain im-
provement of human nature through 
the evolutionary process. His fond 
hopes for man and the world were 
blasted by the explosion of the atom-
ic bomb and the tragic events of re-
cent years. 
Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor of 
the University of Chicago, made the 
shocking statement on September 19, 
1946, that "devoting our educational 
efforts to infants between six and 
twenty-one seems futile" because "the 
world may not last long enough" to 
give them a training. 
The famous clergyman, Dr. Harry 
Emerson Fosdick, writing in The Pul-
pit, for March, 1946, on "Science 
Demands Religion," speaks of the var-
ious stages in the relationship be-
tween science and religion. First, 
science was in bondage to religion. 
Second, science broke free from this 
dogmatic bondage and asserted her 
liberty. Then, although science re-
mained the competitor of religion, 
progressive Christians welcomed the 
truths discovered by science. "Now, 
however, the door opens wide on the 
fourth stage. Science has put into our 
hands power that chills to the mar-
rowbone thoughtful folk around the 
world, power utterly to destroy our- 
selves and our civilization. . . . Now 
a new era begins—science preaching 
like an evangelist, with hell and 
heaven on earth to choose between, 
saying to mankind: Seek wisdom and 
character that can control these pow-
ers for mankind's good. . . . Somehow 
get control of what I am giving you, 
or else ye shall all perish. . . . The sig-
nals of distress are up in every scien-
tific mind I know. S.O.S.1 Ethical con-
trol wanted—a spiritual life and faith 
adequate to master and direct to sav-
ing ends the might our hands have 
seized upon! . . . It is Christ or chaos 
now; Christ, or mankind's suicide." 
These are samples of hundreds of 
similar statements by leaders in the 
modern world who make the front-
page headlines and editorials of the 
daily press and are heard by millions 
over the world-embracing radio net-
works. The world has listened to these 
leaders and has taken their alarm 
messages to heart. The end of the 
world has become a living reality, 
and the hearts of men and women in 
all walks of life are terror stricken. 
The releasing of the mightiest natu-
ral power of the universe has revolu-
tionized men's thinking. The atom 
bomb has exploded the unscriptural 
belief in the natural and inevitable 
development of the human race into 
intellectual and moral super men and 
women. The disillusionment has shat-
tered the hopes and anticipations of 
millions, and they are frightened as 
they contemplate the future. 
Bible Prophecy Fulfilled 
The student of Bible prophecy, 
however, is not afraid. To him the 
dark clouds have a silver lining. On 
one occasion as Jesus was forecasting 
future events, the disciples asked Him 
the question, "Tell us, when shall 
these things be? and what shall be the 
sign of Thy coming, and of the end 
of the world?" The answer of Jesus 
should be required reading for the 
modern generation. Among other 
things He said: "And there shall be 
signs in the sun, and in the moon, and 
in the stars; and upon the earth dis-
tress of nations, with perplexity; the 
sea and the waves roaring; men's 
hearts failing them for fear, and for 
looking after those things which are 
coming on the earth: for the powers 
of heaven shall be shaken. And then 
shall they see the Son of man coming 
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By 
Taylor G. Bunch 
OCTOBER, 1947 �
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A stitch in time, so we are told, will save nine. A warning not to drink, if heeded, will often-
times save that many lives. 
DRINK and DIE 
By 
Samuel 
Campbell 
B.A. 
D
EAR MORTALS: I'm John 
Marrow—John B. Marrow. 
Yes, that "B" could stand for 
bone, because that's about all that's 
left of me now. I'm not what you'd 
call photogenic any longer, am I? 
But I did live! Oh, yes, and only a 
few short summers ago, too! And yet, 
it seems like such a long time ago. I 
just relax here on the purple silk in 
my narrow cell where they laid me, 
and think—think about that swel-
tering, hot night in August, '39—and 
how different things might have been. 
Whew, it was hot that day! A 
scorcher! It was twice as hot inside 
the foundry as it was outside, and out 
there it was ninety in the shade. All 
day long the flames had licked their 
tongues out at me through the fur-
nace doors, and all I could do was 
sweat back, and drink more cokes. I 
was glad when the five-thirty whistle 
blew. I didn't go home for supper 
that night, but I remember piling a 
bunch of the guys in back and driving 
out to the "club," as we called it, a 
beer parlour near the city limits. 
It's funny how the time always 
seems to fly in those places. I must 
have been in there about three hours. 
When I came out, I found myself 
driving alone along the wide four-
lane highway leading away from the 
city. I don't know where my pals 
were. 
I had complete control of the car. 
Besides, there was hardly any traffic 
on the road. My little electric fan was 
working fine, and on the radio, 
Guy Lombardo was playing Carolina 
Moon. Everything was perfect, in-
cluding my reflexes. Huh! Those 
temperance people! Always jabbering 
like a bunch of old women about 
mixing alcohol and gasoline—John 
Barleycorn, and all that stuff. Noth-
ing wrong with my reflexes! Those 
bus drivers! Run you right off the 
road if you're not wide awake. Can't 
they stay on their own side of the 
white line? Hard t'see that white line 
to-night, too. Kinda hazy—must be 
dust on my windshield, 
I 
That white line's a funny business. 
Ever notice that when you're drivin' 
in the summer time? Sorta soothin' 
like, with the heat, 'n' the music, an' 
all; 's like ridin' way out into the 
future. I lit up a Sweet Cap, but 
never finished it. 
I never heard the end of Lombar-
do's piece either; because then it 
happened. I careened crazily off the 
right-hand side of the road, and 
swerved into the ditch. I was still 
ploughing through it at forty-five, 
when I saw the silhouette of a tele-
phone pole cut the moon in half; and 
then the pain came—agonizing pain, 
and the warm, sticky feeling of 
clothes soaked in blood. 
1. Liquor companies spent more 
than one hundred million dol-
lars for advertising in 1945. 
2. One out of every four fatal acci-
dents in 1945 involved a driver 
or a pedestrian who had been 
drinking. 
3. One out of every six drivers in-
volved in fatal accidents in 1945 
had been drinking. 
4. One out of every four adult pe-
destrians killed in 1945 had 
been drinking. 
5. Annual drinking per person has 
increased since 1934 from 10.53 
gallons to 20.25. 
Somehow, I had been thrown clear 
of the wreckage, and I landed in the 
corrugated mud of a new-ploughed 
field. I can't tell you how badly the 
car was smashed, because although I 
turned my head to the noise of a spin-
ning wheel, I saw nothing. I reached 
up to touch my eyelids with my 
fingers. Yes, they were open, but 
still, there was no vision. I was blind! 
In a moment of frustration, I brushed 
my hand over my forehead, and as I 
did so, something sharp sticking out 
cut the palm of my hand. Shocked, 
my arm flopped down, fin-like, to the 
ground. I lay there for an eternity. 
Then I heard voices, the distant 
screaming of a siren, the chirp of a 
cricket in the night—and silence. 
In the hospital, I regained my 
right mind only once to hear the doc-
tor's voice faintly saying, "Prognosis 
negative! Frontal bone pierced by 
sharp steel splinter cutting optic 
nerve and damaging several sensory 
and motor projection areas of the 
cerebral cortex," whatever all that 
means. 
I didn't die right away, that is, 
within a couple of days, or even 
weeks or months. I wish I had. I was 
in an insane asylum for two years. 
But you know, this thing could 
have happened to anybody. I just 
dozed off at the wheel, that's all. 
Just dozed off at the wheel. 
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Hpro•Hi Popp, croVIOP PHOTO 
A quiet country lane. 
with "sunsh;ne 
spread," is symbolic 
If the peace in Christ 
which the Christian 
may enjoy in a 
'roubled world. 
PEACE 
...NOW 
I
T IS no exaggeration to say that 
the work on which we are mak-
ing a start here may be the 
world's last chance. . . . World events 
of unprecedented magnitude both in 
the East and in the West crowd upon 
us every hour." So spoke Mr. An-
thony Eden in his address before the 
United Nations Conference in San 
Francisco, California, in 1945. 
And General Jan Christian Smuts, 
veteran South African statesman, add-
ed: "There can be no doubt any 
more that for us, for the human race, 
the hour has struck. Mankind has 
arrived at the crisis of its fate, the 
fate of its future as a civilized world." 
About two years have rolled by 
since those statements were uttered. 
They have been years that add weight 
to those sobering words. Everywhere 
we find "distress of nations, with per-
plexity," just as God's great bulletin 
has long said there would be at this 
time. God knew all about the sorrow 
and suffering that sin would bring to 
this disobedient world; so, because 
He loves us with an everlasting love, 
He hung upon the walls of time His 
prophetic chart, that through the ages 
men might know what was coming. 
And not only did He hang out these 
danger signals; He also provided 
shelters where all who will may find 
safety. 
Several years ago I visited British 
Honduras. It was shortly after a ter-
rible hurricane had brought death. 
and destruction to that fair land. The 
Weather Bureau had posted warn-
ings of the coming storm in many 
prominent places. But the city of 
Belize was preparing for a great 
fiesta. Very few gave heed to the warn-
ings of the Weather Bureau. Why 
should they? "Why," said the multi-
tude, "we never have had a hurricane, 
and one just can't come here." So they 
thought, and so they turned a deaf 
ear to all appeals to flee to a safe 
place. The great holiday came—and 
so did the storm that the people were 
sure could not come to Belize. It 
found the crowds out seeking pleas-
ure. Thousands perished because they 
believed not, and failed to seek a 
place of safety. 
So amid the storms of these last 
days of sorrow, trouble and perplex-
ity, millions are rushing on in search 
of pleasure or wealth ur fame, refus-
ing to heed God's great bulletin board, 
and refusing to seek shelter in the only 
fortress that can weather the storms in 
which we are living to-day. But the 
blessed fact still is true that "the Lord 
is good, a stronghold in the day of 
trouble; and He knoweth them that 
trust in Him." Nahum 1:7. 
Hear Isaiah cry: "Lift up your 
eyes on high, and behold who hath 
created these things, that bringeth 
out their host by number: He calleth 
them all by names by the greatness 
of His might, for that He is strong 
in power; not one faileth." 
Who is He? Oh, He is your heavenly 
Father, and mine. But although He 
is ruler of the universe, although 
He holds the stars in place, although 
He keeps the planets moving in their 
appointed orbits, "His eye is on the 
sparrow." He gives life to the spire 
of grass under our feet and to the 
bird that sings in the tree. He keeps 
your heart and mine beating from day 
to day. Nothing is too hard for Him, 
nothing too small to receive His 
love and care. He knows all about 
our trials and temptations, and He 
longs to lead us safely home. 
Across the gulf of years since that 
last tearful farewell, I have carried 
with me the treasured memory of my 
dear father. He was my childhood 
chum. As the years passed, I under-
stood more and more fully that he 
was ever striving to shelter his chil-
dren from harm, ever toiling, plan-
ning and sacrificing for their good 
Somehow that precious memory has 
been a great help to me in becoming 
acquainted with my heavenly Father. 
I love to visit with Him on my knees 
and through His Sacred Book; and 
through the years He has become a 
blessed reality to me. As I have come 
to know Him better, I find I trust 
Him more and more fully and enjoy 
sweet peace in the assurance of His 
abiding love. And oh, the rest and 
comfort in knowing that the cruel 
hand of death cannot snatch Him 
from my side! We can trust Him. His 
power can shield us from all harm 
and His wisdom can guide us all the 
way to the heavenly home. 
So what you and I need above all 
else is to know our heavenly Father 
and His Son Jesus Christ, who died 
to save us. For to know them means 
perfect peace amid the troubles of 
these last days. 
By 
Mrs. E. E. Andross 
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D
0 you think a good God would 
damn innocent people who 
don't believe?" queried an infi-
del neighbour one bright morning, 
with a sly look in his eye. 
"God will not be unjust," came the 
reply, "but the question is, Who is in-
nocent? Did you read of the man in 
Florida who watched a small child 
drown in a fish pond, and who was 
charged with murder because he did 
not offer to save its life? Remember 
how he excused himself, saying the 
child was not his responsibility? Did 
you read about it?" 
"Heard it over the radio," came the 
reluctant answer, "but that's differ- 
ent." �
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sage is heeded and men turn to God 
in humility and repentance, the 
threatened judgments are mercifully 
stayed. A noticeable example of this 
is the warning cry sounded through 
the streets of ancient Nineveh by 
Jonah, the run-away prophet. Many 
have looked upon the book of Jonah 
as an interesting fairy tale. No, it is a 
true story. Jesus' own words bear out 
its authenticity, for Jonah's expe-
rience in the whale's belly was typical 
of the Saviour's passing under the 
power of wicked men, His death and 
burial. Yes, Jonah's warning message 
was genuine. It wrought on the part of 
the Ninevites genuine repentance and 
turning to God, and the hand of judg- 
On the occasion when Christ re-
vealed to His disciples the signs to 
precede His second return to earth, 
He declared, "But as the days of Noah 
were, so shall also the coming of the 
Son of man be. For as in the days that 
were before the flood they were eat-
ing and drinking, marrying and giv-
ing in marriage, until the day that 
Noah entered into the ark, and knew 
not until the flood came, and took 
them all away; so shall also the com-
ing of the Son of man be." Matthew 
24:37-39. 
It was not that they were un-
informed. Noah had preached a warn-
ing message for a hundred and 
twenty years. Giving evidence of his 
A MESSAGE... 
FROM NOAH... 
"Not so different. The devil has 
damned the world to destruction, 
and God has provided the only means 
of escape. Can one be innocent who 
stands back idly saying, �
don't be- 
lieve'; failing to be saved himself, and 
at the same time charging God with 
the crime for which the devil is re-
sponsible?" 
Can it be supposed that He whose 
love was so strong as to lead Him to 
take upon Himself the guilt of man, 
and die the cruelest and most igno-
minious death possible of infliction to 
save sinners, could find pleasure in 
their destruction? He affirms, "I have 
no pleasure in the death of the 
wicked; but that the wicked turn from 
his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from 
your evil ways; for why will ye die?" 
Ezekiel 33:11. He even delays His 
promised judgments, for He is "long-
suffering to us-ward, not willing that 
any should perish, but that all should 
come to repentance." 2 Peter 3:9. Hear 
the appeal of the prophet Joel, "Turn 
unto the Lord your God: for He is 
gracious and merciful, slow to anger, 
and of great kindness." Joel 2:13. 
Furthermore, God has pledged 
never to send judgments upon the 
world without warning. "Surely the 
Lord God will do nothing, but He re-
vealeth His secrets unto His servants 
the prophets." Amos 3:7. 
When, because of sin, it is neces-
sary that divine judgments be visited 
upon guilty man, God forewarns of 
impending doom. If the warning mes- 
ment which might have laid proud 
Nineveh low was held back in mercy. 
God had a special message of warn-
ing also for Sodom in the days of Lot. 
But Lot's warnings went unheeded. 
His efforts to save the city from de-
struction were ridiculed and mocked. 
Faithful Lot took with him from the 
sin-hardened city only a part of his 
immediate family—his wife and two 
daughters, but his wife later perished, 
for her heart was still in the city. 
At Christ's first advent, the voice of 
John the Baptist was heard crying in 
the wilderness, "Prepare ye the way 
of the Lord." To him flocked the mul-
titudes, and his stirring message, call-
ing for repentance, shook the nation 
to its very foundation. Only a few, 
however, were moved to genuine re-
pentance. When Christ finally made 
His appearance and was pointed out 
by John as the Lamb of God, how 
few there were ready to accept Him 
as the promised Messiah! 
Let it be noted carefully that in 
every crisis, the truth of God and His 
cry of warning have been unpopular, 
and the majority have turned away 
their ears—deaf to divine appeal. 
In the case of Christ's first appearing, 
it was said, "He came unto His own 
and His own received Him not." 
When Jesus saw the populace turn 
away from Him, their only source of 
life and salvation, He uttered with 
tears, "Ye will not come unto Me that 
ye might have life." This is what 
broke His heart. 
own faith in his preaching, he pre-
pared an ark, and no doubt many 
who were eventually lost assisted 
with its construction. The Spirit of 
God many times impressed their 
hearts with the. truthfulness of 
Noah's message, yet they clung to the 
world, being unwilling to make the 
sacrifice. They feared if they should 
heed the message they would be rid-
iculed by their neighbours. Even re-
ligious leaders branded Noah as a 
fanatic. He was looked upon by 
people in general as a harmless fool. 
Something had gone wrong with his 
mind. Yes, surely he was demented. 
Whoever heard of a flood? The 
thought was preposterous! It had 
never rained. Men of science rea-
soned that such a phenomenon was 
physically impossible. It was so impos-
sible as to be wholly ridiculous, and 
any who thought to join Noah's group 
were soon brought, by popular reason-
ing, to wholly abandon the idea. 
And the world moved ever nearer 
its doom. 
At last occurred what should have 
been considered overwhelming evi-
dence of the divine origin of Noah's 
message. Even the animals came 
flocking to the ark for safety. Then 
God said to Noah, "Come thou and 
all thy house into the ark" (Genesis 
7:1) , and by angel hands the door 
was shut. Little did those on the out-
side realize that already their fate 
was sealed. 
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SIGNS of the TIMES 
And the world moved still nearer 
its doom. 
The days passed as usual. The peo-
ple, when confronted with the 
strange phenomenon of dumb crea-
tures being impelled by unseen agen-
cies to enter Noah's ark, were for a 
time inclined to discredit popular 
philosophy. But they lost their misgiv-
ings, and considered themselves won-
derfully fortunate still to be outside 
the ark. Their fears gradually gave 
way to loud taunts of ridicule. 
Then 
rived. 
The sun did not appear as usual. 
The sky grew dark. Ominous thun-
der was heard, and fierce lightning 
leaped from the heavens, enveloping 
'the earth in sheets of flame. Torrents 
of rain descended from the black and 
angry sky, and rivers of water burst 
forth from the fountains of the deep. 
Loud now are the wails of the lost. 
They beat upon the ark for admit-
tance, declaring their belated faith 
in God's warning message, but it is 
too late. That door which shuts Noah 
and his family safely in, spells doom 
and eternal loss to those outside. 
As it was in the days of Noah, so 
will it be in the days of the world's 
final crisis. God gave a special mes-
sage back there. Is it not reasonable, 
then, to believe that if God had a mes-
sage of warning for the an tedilu-
vians, He will also have one for the 
world in this our day? When the 
world is facing its greatest crisis of 
all time, will God leave it without 
special warning? No, He is the same 
God of mercy as in ages past. He has 
a final message of warning encom-
passing His requirements for judg-
ment-bound men in order that they 
may escape the world's impending 
destruction. Where then is that mes-
sage? It is found, as might be expected, 
in the Revelation, the last book of 
the Bible. It is as follows: 
"And I saw another angel fly in the 
midst of heaven, having the ever-
lasting gospel to preach unto them 
that dwell on the earth, and to every 
nation, and kindred, and tongue, 
and people, saying with a loud voice, 
Fear God, and give glory to Him; for 
the hour of His judgment is come: 
and worship Him that made heaven, 
and earth, and the sea, and the foun-
tains of waters. 
"And there followed another an-
gel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is 
fallen, that great city, because she 
made all nations drink of the wine of 
the wrath of her fornication. 
"And the third angel followed 
them, saying with a loud voice, If any 
man worship the beast and his image, 
and receive his mark in his forehead, 
or in his hand, the same shall drink 
of the wine of the wrath of God, 
which is poured out without mixture 
into the cup of His indignation. . . . 
Here is the patience of the saints: 
here are they that keep the command-
ments of God, and the faith of Je-
sus." Revelation 14:6-12. After the 
message has accomplished its pur-
pose, John declares, "I looked, and 
behold a white cloud, and upon the 
cloud one sat like unto the Son of 
man, having on His head a golden 
crown, and in His hand a sharp 
sickle." Verse 14. 
The harvest of earth is ripe, and 
Jesus with sickle in hand comes to 
reap the harvest. Then there is 
poured out upon those who have not 
heeded the message the "seven last 
plagues." (Revelation 15, 16.) In 
them is contained the unmingled 
wrath of an offended God. No other 
judgments upon wicked men are to 
follow. These are the last. Therefore, 
we may be certain that this consti-
tutes the last message of mercy to 
men. 
We can but touch upon it to-day: 
Observe first of all that it is world-
wide in its scope and goes "to every 
nation, and kindred, and tongue, 
and people." The first angel's mes-
sage of warning speaks doom to the 
theory of evolution, for it calls men 
back to the worship of the God "that 
made heaven, and earth." It also makes 
a solemn announcement, "The hour 
of His judgment is come." 
Please note that the angel does not 
declare, the judgment will come, but 
that it now is come. In other words, 
when the hour strikes for this message 
to be delivered to men, it begins with 
the fearful announcement, the hour 
of God's judgment is come. 
May we know the time when the 
judgment begins? Yes, the very year 
is foretold by an ancient Bible proph-
ecy. 
the world's day of doom ar- 
Noah's 
warning 
message 
provided 
120 years of 
amusement 
for the 
antediluvian 
peoples—
then, the 
flood and 
utter de-
struction. 
By 
E. A. Crane 
OCTOBER, 1947 �
7 
WORLD 
AS WE SEE IT! 
A Prophetic Interpretation 
of Current Events! 
Industry Versus the Workingman 
AFTER more than ten years the government of 
the United States admits that it has not found the 
solution to labour difficulties. It has junked the 
Wagner Act for the same reason that it originally gave 
for passing it—"to end widespread industrial strife." 
And the record seems to bear out the feeling on the 
part of Congress that the measure has failed. From an 
annual average of 753 strikes involving 297,000 
workers before the passage of the Act, the record has 
climbed to an annual average of 4,985 strikes in-
volving 4,650,000 workers in 1946. The annual loss 
of time through strikes has been multiplied more than 
ten times. 
Just now the government of the United States is 
"getting tough" with labour. It is doubtful that this 
will bring about peace, however. We are reminded 
that all the tactics—appeasement, compromise, oppres-
sion—were tried by the same government in dealing 
with the slavery question before the Civil War. One 
statesman of that era spoke of the coming of an "h-re-
pressible conflict." It might seem to-day that the prob-
lem of relations between capital and labour must be 
solved by an irrepressible conflict as well. 
This is born out by Bible prophecy. "Go to now, 
ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall 
come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your 
garments are moth eaten. Your gold and silver is 
cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness 
against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye 
H. AkfrIsl RONG ROl.EHiS 
8 
have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, 
the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your 
fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and 
the cries of them which have reaped are entered into 
the ears of the Lord of sabaoth." James 5:1-4. 
It should be kept in mind, in considering such 
prophecies as these, that these things are not neces-
sarily God's will. It is not His will that the poor be 
oppressed, nor that the rich should be made to "weep 
and howl." These conditions come about, not through 
the guiding of a just God, but through the selfishness 
of man. 
The conditions referred to in the above Bible 
reference were prophesied for the "last days." That 
we are in an age of gigantic industrial strife is itself 
a startling testimony to the fact that we are living in 
the time of fulfilling prophecy. Indeed, only these 
present-day conditions, could fully meet the verity of 
prophecy. 
Such industrial upheavals as we witness to-day could 
not have happened before the industrial revolution, 
itself a subject of prophecy. In the old days of slow 
methods of communication, agrarian civilization and 
hand crafts, such strikes as we have witnessed recently 
would have been impossible. But modern industry 
has become so complicated and integrated, and so 
vast, that strikes take on the aspect of wars against 
civilization itself. 
For instance, we have a steel strike. This shuts down 
the steel mills, but that is only the beginning. Steel is 
used in the manufacture of thousands of articles of 
trade. Directly manufacturers of these articles run out 
of steel, and their shops must close. But that is not all, 
for other industries are dependent upon the finished 
product of those subsidiaries, and directly they are 
embarrassed also. The construction worker cannot 
work for lack of a shovel; the shovel manufacturer 
cannot make him one, for he lacks steel. Only recently 
a whole crop of fruit in Canada very nearly rotted on 
the trees because of a steel strike. Why? Because there 
were no nails available with which to make shipping 
boxes. One of the marvels of Bible prophecy is the 
manner in which God, looking down the centuries, 
could see the meshing of the many factors in the affairs 
of men that would make fulfilment inevitable. 
As another instance of the accuracy of prophecy, 
look at this: "Ye have heaped treasure together for 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
the last days." James 5:3. The same industrialism 
that created labour wars made possible the fulfil-
ment of this part of the prophecy. Thus, when Henry 
Ford died he was said to be not only the richest man 
in the world but probably the richest man who had 
ever lived. Yet in 1900 he did not have enough money 
to buy a thanksgiving turkey! Only modern indus-
trialism could have made this possible. 
What will be the outcome of industrial strife? What 
are Christians to do about it? "Be patient therefore, 
brethren, unto the coming of the Lord." James 5:7. 
There will be no final solution until Jesus comes; 
however, we who are Christians are not to take mat-
ters into our own hands, but to wait for the Lord to 
clear up all these difficulties. 
Moral Depravity Imperils Our Future 
LONDON'S police force is battling against something 
new to England in organized and violent gangsterism, 
according to recent newspaper reports. Figures in 
Canada show that criminality is increasing four times 
as fast as the population. In the United States each 
day there are 18 murders, 31 rapes, 12 negligent man-
slaughters, 163 aggravated assaults, 2,371 larcenies, 
881 burglaries, 662 auto thefts, and 149 robberies, ac-
cording to figures for 1945 issued by the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation. The Bureau further states 
that a large per cent—in some cases nearly half—of 
these crimes are committed by youth under voting 
age. 
To understand the roots of the present situation 
we need to remember that it is not churches and liquor 
that are to be held finally responsible for our present 
state of affairs, but the moral depravity of humanity 
that chooses the evil rather than the good. It seems 
that the race is infected with a moral dry rot that de-
fies eradication because it comes from within. 
This condition of affairs does not come as a sur-
prise to God, nor to His servants who are familiar 
with prophecy. It is in direct fulfilment of Bible proph-
ecy. Said Jesus, "As the days of Noah were, so shall 
also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the 
days that were before the flood they were eating and 
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the 
day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not un-
til the flood came, and took them all away; so shall 
also the coming of the Son of man be." Matthew 24: 
37-39. Of the days of the antediluvians we read, "God 
saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, 
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his 
heart was only evil continually." Genesis 6:5. These 
same prophecies inform us that only at the return of 
Jesus will these dark days come to a final end. 
The Grand Climax of World History 
THE Bible is the story of the plan of salvation, its 
hero is Jesus Christ, Satan is the villain, and the cli-
max is the return of Jesus to redeem the world and 
His own. 
"I believe that God is going to let this world go on 
until everyone is convinced that He should put a 
stop to it," remarked a thinking man not long ago. 
It would seem that that time has about arrived. What 
a tragedy would be the world's if there were no such 
OCTOBER, 1947 
glorious climax to look forward to! With even the 
most resourceful of men bewildered and beaten by 
the earth's tragedies, what a pity if God did not have 
a plan for a way out! 
But God has a plan. "If I go ... I will come again," 
Jesus promised His disciples not long before His 
death, and that promise will be kept. From the date 
of the fall of man until now .that promise has been 
repeated again and again. To the serpent (Satan) in 
the garden of Ede o C.-^,1 said, "I will put enmity be-
tween thee [Satan] anu the woman [humanity], and 
between thy seed and her seed [Christi ; it shall 
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel." 
Genesis 3:15. Here we have the promise of both the 
atonement of Jesus, the "bruising of His heel," and 
the final return and triumph over Satan and sin, the 
"bruising of his head. ' 
It is no inconspicu( ,us doctrine of the Bible, this 
glorious news of the rc turn of the Lord. Twenty-five 
hundred times it is refer red to in all the Bible; three 
hundred eighty in the Nt!.w Testament alone, so that 
one verse in twenty-five c f the New Testament speaks 
of it. 
The great characters of the Bible knew, under-
stood, and believed in this promise. Moses wrote of it 
in his books of the Old Testament, and through him 
the patriarchs spoke of it. 
To Abraham the testimony was given that, "In 
thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." 
Genesis 22:18. That Abraham understood this as a 
promise pertaining to the eventual restoration of 
all things is borne out in Hebrews 1 : o, where we 
are told that "he looked for a city which hath foun-
dations, whose builder and maker is God." The prom-
ises that thrilled the heart of Abraham were 
repeated to Isaac and Jacob. 
Job, in the midst of his great affliction, gave one 
of the greatest testimonies of faith in these promises: 
"For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He 
shall stand at the latter day upon the earth." Job 
19:25. 
David, Israel's greatest poet, sang of this great 
event: "Our God shall come, and shall not keep si-
lence: a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be 
very tempestuous round about Him." Psalm 5o:3. 
These editorials were written by R. E. Finney, Jr.—Editor. 
R. ELDRIDGE, ARTIST 
9 
Following the loss of the garden, the descendants of Adam divided into two 
classes or tribes—the Cainites and the Sethitea. 
S 
S WE noted in our last instalment, 
two distinct tribes developed on 
earth after Cain murdered Abel. 
Cain separated himself from repent-
ant Adam and the sorrowing Eve, and 
turned his back on Eden with its 
cherubim-guarded gates. He went into 
the land of Nod, probably only return-
ing to persuade one of the family to 
become his wife. 
Cain seems to have been of an 
energetic disposition: there was no 
settling down into any cave-man ex-
istence for him. As his family grew 
in numbers he built a "city" for his 
son Enoch, calling it after him: "City 
of Enoch"—doubtless just what we 
would call a village, at first. (Genesis 
4:16, 17.) 
But Cain's descendants were not 
likely to be good men and women 
when they, like him, spurned the love 
of God and endeavoured to forget 
Him. In invention and worldly prog-
ress they made great strides. But in 
wickedness they made great strides 
also. 
One of Cain's descendants was 
Lamech, the first man recorded as 
taking two wives. He may have used 
violence in taking them from their 
former husbands, so that he expected 
revenge from their kinsmen. 
Hear him call his trembling wives, 
Adah and Zillah. 
"Listen, ye wives of Lamech!" he 
said vengefully. "I have slain a young 
man, as Cain did in the long ago. 
But," he declared challengingly, "if 
Cain shall be avenged seven-fold, I 
will be avenged seventy and seven 
times if anyone lays a hand on me!" 
(Genesis 4:19, 24.) 
By these wives he had three clever 
sons, Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-cain. 
Jabal was "the father of such as 
dwell in tents, and of such as have 
cattle." He was the father of ranch-
men and cattle breeders. Evidently the 
demand for hides, meat, wool and 
dairy products had increased with 
the population. 
It is said of Jubal, brother of Jabal, 
that he was "the father of all such as 
handle the harp and organ." Call 
him "the father of instrumental mu-
sic" if you will. 
Possibly Jubal had had the oppor-
tunity of listening to Adam's strong 
voice, as the father of our race sang 
from memory snatches of the melo-
dies which rose from angel voices, 
"the morning stars," at creation. 
Adam had doubtless also joined with 
the angels when they visited and sang 
in the garden of Eden. So Jubal's in-
struments were not likely to be crude 
toys. They would be designed for the 
best of music. 
In imagination walk up broad ave-
nue to the temple grove of the sun 
god, and listen to the temple choir 
with its players on the "pipes of Pan" 
and the stringed instruments such as 
were used in Ur of the Chaldees a 
few centuries later. You may be aston-
ished at the high quality of that me-
lodious, hypnotic music. 
The third son, Tubal-cain, was an 
instructor, or "whetter." That word 
"whetter" gives the idea that there 
were many who already' knew how to 
work in metals, and that Tubal-cain 
was a specialist who could give them 
new and finer points in their art. The 
finds in the ice of Northern Siberia 
indicate that the men of those days 
were clever artisans and artists in 
ornamental work of leather harness 
and its fittings of gold and gleaming 
tin. (See Oriental Watchman, May, 
1940.) 
Could we have been present at one 
of Tubal-cain's practical classes, what 
interesting questions we might have 
heard: 
"How can I make a long, smooth 
opening in this iron axe-head, Tubal-
cain? A round hole allows the shaft 
to break. It is not strong enough." 
"Yes, that's one of the things I 
would like to know, teacher." says 
another pupil. And I would like to 
know how to make a sharp metal edge 
tough, so that hard wood will not 
break off small pieces of it." 
"Tubal-cain, what is the best mix-
ture of copper and tin when I want 
to beat out thin sheets? Your brother 
Jubal wants me to make some fine 
large trumpets for the sun god's 
musical temple service. Is silver bet-
ter?" 
"And how can I make a light iron 
tire for the chariot wheels?" asks 
another. 
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SIGNS of the TIMES 
The THIRD 
APOSTASY 
To all these questions Tubal-cain 
'gives confident, clear answers. This 
son of Lamech the boastful knows 
these things. Ur of the Chaldees and 
ancient Egypt probably had his knowl-
edge and skill passed down to them. 
The Sons of God 
The other tribe, those who were 
loyal to God, brought their sacri-
fices to Eden's cherubim-guarded 
gate, and there received God's bless-
ing. Before long they began to real-
ize that they could call themselves by 
the proud title Sons of God. (See 
Genesis 4:26, margin; 6:2.) 
Of the tribe of "the sons of God" 
Adam was the head, and lived hun-
dreds of years with his people. There 
was the martyr Abel, followed by 
Seth. There was the loving father, 
Enoch, who seems to have learned so 
much of the love of God after he had 
a little son of his own. The Bible says, 
"He walked with God." Enoch, in 
those ancient days, prophesied of the 
coming of the Lord in judgment and 
was finally taken to heaven without 
seeing death. 
Thus the "sons of God" had their 
heroes. They. enjoyed the favour of 
God, and rejoiced to worship Him. 
But then—after centuries of loyalty 
to God—came the great apostasy, 
which swept nearly all the sons of God 
into the service of Satan, and into the 
camp of Cain. It finally brought the 
world into the corruption which re-
sulted in the flood. It was Satan's 
masterpiece. 
Probably it did not seem of much 
importance at first. "The sons of 
God saw the daughters of men that 
they were fair; and they took them 
wives of all which they chose," the 
Bible narrates. (Genesis 6:2.) 
But were not the God-fearing 
women equally fair? They, too, came 
from the same stock, the beautiful 
Eve! 
Yes; but it is easy to guess what 
happened. Over the "daughters of 
men" there had come, without doubt, 
the urge to worldliness, beauty cul-
ture and immodesty. 
So when one of the "sons of God," 
young Adonaison, shall we call him, 
impelled by curiosity, went to explore 
OCTOBER, 1947 
Lucifer was the first apostate. 
Adam and Eve yielded to his soph-
istries. The apostasy of the Seth-
ites prepared the earth for the 
flood. 
the country of the Cainites, he was 
strangely stirred by the appearance 
of the women and girls of that land. 
He noticed how tastefully the hair 
was waved, and how its high lights 
gleamed in the sun. He saw the smil-
ing, welcoming face, so smooth and 
delicately tinted, the rosy lips, the 
darkened eyelids and the shading 
which made the eyes seem so bright. 
He saw the rounded, tapering arms 
and the intriguing bare knee, and 
when one of these sirens drew near, 
his heart skipped faster as he marked 
a fragrance like the flower-scented 
garden of Eden. 
And when this charming creature 
invited him to refresh himself with 
dainty luxuries before he went home, 
he was completely captivated by her 
manifold appeals to his senses. She 
gazed admiringly at his strong limbs, 
and told him he was rightly named 
"Son 9f God" (Adonaison). She gave 
him a draught of wine, which she 
said would make him feel like a god. 
Then another cup. Reason and loyalty 
to his Creator and to his faith were 
pushed from their throne, and he 
joined the ranks of the enemy. 
His example is followed by thou-
sands of other young men. The godly 
women caught this craze for beauty 
to such an extent that worship of God 
By 
Arthur Warren 
was neglected, and His commands 
were forgotten. Lying became "clever 
fibbihg"; stealing, "amusing scroung-
ing"; drunkenness, "a laughable es-
capade"; fornication, "a harmless 
thrill"; divorce, "a. reasonable and 
happy escape from irksome bondage." 
Thus the devil paints sin. The har-
vest came swiftly in drunken brawls, 
savage, revengeful attacks on wife- 
stealers, desertion of innocent chil-
dren, rage that one was duped by an 
empty-headed woman who knew how 
to exploit her artificial charms, fights 
over stolen property, malice, envy, 
backbiting, wild revels, murders, wars, 
and then blaming God for it all. • 
Things went from bad to worse 
until the earth was "filled with vio-
lence" and revelling; until "the wick-
edness of man was great in the earth." 
"Every imagination" of man's heart—
think of it—was "only evil contin-
ually." "The earth was corrupt." 
(Genesis 6:5, 13.) 
Loudly came the cry from the un-
fallen universe, "justice, justice; such 
crimes must be punished! The earth 
is a blot on the universe; Justice, 
justice, wipe out the evildoers!" 
God knew the cry was justified. 
Yet—this was the beautiful earth He 
had planned for the happiness of 
man. How could He bear to destroy 
it? These were the men and women to 
whom he had given great treasures 
of strength, beauty and length of life. 
How could He give them up? 
But He knew that in spite of His 
love the call for justice must be an-
swered. And "it grieved Him at His 
heart," and He sorrowed as a mother 
sorrows over her wayward son. 
At last the message came to Noah, 
faithful man of God: "The wicked-
ness of men has come to the lowest 
depths. I will destroy all men from 
the earth with a great flood. But in 
order that all men may have oppor-
tunity to repent there shall be one 
hundred and twenty years of mercy. 
My Spirit shall strive with them con-
tinually for that period of time. 
"Build thee a great ship that thou 
mayest enter in and be saved, with 
thy family. Take also two of each 
kind of beast and bird, with seven 
pairs of the clean animals, that they 
may start a fresh race after the flood. 
Take food enough for all. 
"To all mankind preach this mes-
sage of justice and mercy: `God will 
destroy all the earth with a gigantic 
flood, and all shall perish except those 
in this great ship. God will preserve 
this through the tempest.' Urge them: 
'Oh, turn from your sins and he 
saved! Come into the ark!' " 
11 
T. K. MARTIN 
IIIIt �
111,U, 
MAN'S 
Accountability 
B
ELIEF in creation places the 
controversial subject, Man's Ac-
countability to God, in its prop-
er perspective. The fact that man 
is a created being places him in the 
relation of creature to the Creator. 
 
Of the two, the Creator, and not the 
creature, has the right to rule. The 
clay does not tell the potter how it is 
to be formed. It is the potter who de 
cides what kind of vessel is to be made 
of the clay. So it is with God and man. 
When God decided to make man He 
also decided what kind of being he 
was to be. 
God had no interest in creating a 
creature in His own image that would 
become a rebellious, hateful being. 
He had set His heart upon a living 
creature in this world that would be 
a perfect reflection of His own will 
and character. With that objective in 
mind, He created man and endowed 
him with all the necessary qualities 
to make him a happy and beautiful 
creature. God gave man all the essen-
tial physical, mental and spiritual 
endowments for his complete and 
harmonious development. The hu-
man heart was filled with the desires 
and ideals of the Creator Himself. A 
relationship between man and the 
Creator was entered upon which was 
designed to bring about an ever clos-
er unity between the two until the 
possibility of separation would be for 
ever removed. 
The principal endowment in this 
connection was freedom of spirit. 
Without this, man would have been 
like any other creature. Without this 
gift there could never have existed 
an intelligent understanding between 
man and God. But in receiving free-
dom of spirit man also became ac-
countable to God. 
This accountability has been the 
subject of contention and the pri-
mary source of difficulty in man's 
long and troubled history upon the 
earth. The soul of man has been the 
prize over which both the power of 
God and the forces of evil have been 
in constant warfare. Man has had to 
decide whom he would serve, and 
then take the consequences of his own 
decision. 
Man, as the "offspring" (Acts 17: 
12 
28) and "workmanship" of God 
(Ephesians 2:10) , was placed in the 
world as a witness and representa-
tive of the Creator. He was created 
for God's own glory. (Isaiah 43:7.) 
His ways were to be directed of God. 
(Isaiah 45:12, 13.) Man was placed 
upon the earth to replenish and in-
habit it. "For thus saith the Lord that 
created the heavens; God Himself 
that formed the earth and made it; 
He hath established it, He created it 
not in vain, He formed it to be in-
habited: I am the Lord; and there 
is none else." Isaiah 45:18. God had 
no other plan than to see the whole 
earth inhabited with the same kind 
of beings that inhabit the countless 
unfallen worlds. The earth was not 
created in vain, or for vanity, or to 
become an experimental station in 
the universe. It was to be a sinless, 
beautiful home inhabited by human 
beings reflecting the perfect will and 
character of God their Father. 
In order to make possible the at-
tainment of such a high ideal, God 
gave man freedom of spirit. This 
made him an individual, a personal-
ity; but it did not make him self-
sustaining. He could only dress and 
keep the garden; God had to plant it 
and cause it to grow and bear fruit. 
Endowed with this freedom of 
spirit, man had to be taught its free 
exercise. It was therefore necessary 
for God to provide some kind of code 
according to which man might live 
and enjoy the benefits of his freedom. 
This God did in giving man the law 
of liberty. This law was a revelation 
of God's will. It was the basis of di-
vine government. If man obeyed it he 
would reap the full benefit of a cre-
ated being designed to glorify his 
Maker. This design, if fully carried 
out, would be the only means of 
making man completely happy. 
This law of liberty defined the 
proper relationship between man and 
God and between man and his tel-
low creatures. This law applied equal-
ly to every individual that would 
be born into the.world. It made every 
human being subject only to the will 
of God. According to this law Adam 
had no authority to bind the will of 
his own son. This prerogative belongs 
There is an innate convic-
tion in the heart of every 
man that one day he will 
be called upon to give an 
account of himself to the 
God of all. The Bible sub-
stantiates this conviction. 
It tells us of angels who 
are busy recording in the 
"books of record" all our 
words and deeds. 
alone to God, for the secrets of the 
human heart are fully known only to 
divine wisdom. It is this quality 
which makes the law the "law of 
liberty." 
God's conception of individual lib-
erty is different from what man often 
conceives this freedom to be. Accord-
ing to God's design, individual liberty 
makes all men equal before God, but 
accountable to God. Man often per-
verts this conception and makes li-
cence out of liberty, and accountabil-
ity to man prior to accountability to 
God. When that is done, God's law is 
broken and calls for punishment. 
When, therefore, God placed the 
first human pair in the garden of 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
ST 
Eden He made every provision for 
their happiness: He gave them a 
beautiful home and authority to live 
and rule in that home; He gave them 
nature's bounties for food, and pro-
vided them with enjoyable activity 
designed to increase their happiness. 
Then "the Lord God commanded the 
man, •saying, Of every tree of the 
garden thou mayest freely eat: but 
of the tree of the knowledge of good 
and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for 
in the day that thou eatest thereof 
thou shalt surely die." Genesis 2:16, 
17. In commanding man God pointed 
out that obedience to the law of 
liberty was the only way to happiness. 
As a creature man was subject to the 
laws of nature and to the moral law. 
Disobedience of either, or both, would 
result in death. 
The great guiding principles of 
this law were clear.ly stated by Jesus 
Christ. When asked which was the 
greatest commandment He answered: 
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 
with all thy heart, and with all thy 
soul, and with all thy mind.... Thou 
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." 
Matthew 22:37, 39. 
Love was the bond of unity be-
tween man and his Maker. Before 
man could break any one of the ten 
commandments, love had to be de-
throned from the heart; and ere man 
could break any one of the last nine 
commandments he had to break the 
first of the ten. 
The first commandment, "Thou 
shalt have no other gods before Me" 
(Exodus 20:3) , is the clearest exist-
ing divine statement of man's ac-
countability to his Maker. As such it 
merits the closest possible attention, 
particularly at this time when there 
exist such powerful detractions bent 
on dividing man's loyalty. This com-
mandment allocates priority to where 
it belongs—to God alone. 
There has been much talk in re-
cent years of other gods: the "Nordic 
god," the "Japanese god," the "white 
man's god," the "American god," etc. 
It was in answer to this kind of divi-
sion of loyalty that Dr. Martin Nie-
moeller took his stand in his sermon, 
"God is my Fiihrer," and conse-
quently found himself a Nazi pris-
oner for seven years. 
The outcome of Nazi rulership is 
a striking example of the difference 
between one and two. In point of 
divine priority there is a greater dif-
ference between one and two than 
there is between two and a million. 
Someone has well stated: "The wor-
ship of God will brook no rivalry." 
Either God really is or He is not. If 
He is not, then the militant atheists 
are justified in their war against the 
God of heaven. If He really is, then 
that fact becomes the most thrilling 
news in the world. 
Man .by virtue of creation is ac-
countable to God. The gift of free-
dom of spirit bestowed upon man 
makes him accountable to God alone, 
and responsible for whatever decision 
he makes either in obedience or in 
disobedience. By virtue of creation, 
too, all men are equally accountable 
to God. The first commandment is 
applicable to all alike regardless of 
race, creed or social standing. No 
man nor state has the right to pre-
scribe the faith of any worshipper. 
The state is evil when it attempts the 
work of the church, and the church 
is evil when it exercises the power of 
the state. 
This truth is strikingly illustrated 
by the story of Naboth's vineyard. 
(1 Kings 21:1-20.) Naboth had a 
vineyard in very close proximity to 
the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria. 
Ahab wanted the vineyard for a 
vegetable garden. He was willing 
either to pay money or to give Na-
both a better vineyard in exchange. 
But it happened that this piece of 
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H. L. Rudy 
OCTOBER, 1947 �
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iT'S LATE 
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in a cloud with power and great glory. 
And when these things begin to come 
to pass, then look up, and lift up your 
heads; for your redemption draweth 
nigh." Luke 21:25-28. 
The outlook is very dark, but the 
uplook is bright. The very events 
which bring distress and perplexity 
and terror to one class, bring hope and 
cheer to the other because they are 
harbingers of a brighter day. The end 
of the world to the righteous is the end 
of the cruel reign of sin and sorrow, 
and the ushering in of a new world 
"wherein dwelleth righteousness." 
The end of the world that comes with 
the second advent of the Prince of 
Peace is an event to be desired by 
those who have transferred their af-
fection, allegiance and citizenship to 
the heavenly realm; but the end of 
the world as pictured by scientists is 
the doctrine of utter despair without 
a single ray of hope. Frightened hu-
manity needs a message of cheer such 
as is revealed in the gospel, the prom-
ises of which culminate in the return 
of our Lord. The Scriptures speak of 
this as "the blessed hope." 
The unprecedented distress and 
perplexity of modern men, whose 
hearts are fainting and failing for fear 
as they contemplate the possibilities 
of the future in an atomic age, with 
evil men in control of organized so-
ciety, demands something beyond hu-
man wisdom, national machinery, or 
even a United Nations organization, 
especially when it has no unity of 
purpose. Man has reached his extrem-
ity. God alone can save the world. 
The return of the Son of God is the 
only cure for the world's ills; the only 
hope for stable government and 
permanent peace. When "the govern-
ment shall be upon His shoulder" we 
are assured that "of the increase of 
His government and peace there shall 
be no end." Isaiah 9:6, 7. 
The message of the sundial, "It's 
later than you think," should cause 
serious thinking on the part of every 
judgment-bound creature. To those 
who seek the only way of escape from 
the impending doom of a lost world 
comes the divine call, "Therefore be 
ye also ready: for in such an hour as 
ye think not the Son of man cometh." 
The encouraging promise is: "Be-
cause you have kept the Word for 
which I suffered, I in turn will keep 
you from that hour of trial which is 
soon coming upon the whole world, to 
put to the test the inhabitants of the 
earth. I am coming quickly: hold fast 
to that which you already possess, so 
that your crown of victory be not 
taken away from you." Revelation 
3:10, 11, Weymouth. 
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H
ERE lies in a horizontal posi-
tion the outside case of Thom-
as Hinde, clock and watch-
maker, who departed this life wound 
up in hope of being taken in hand 
by his Maker, and being thoroughly 
cleaned, repaired, and set going in the 
world to come, on the 15th day of 
August, 1836, in the nineteenth year 
of his age." Thus reads the epitaph 
on a tombstone in Bolsover, England. 
Nor is this necessarily a Roman 
Catholic view of the hereafter. Many 
Protestants have embraced the idea 
that there is a time and place beyond 
this present life for the redemption 
of sinners. Many a Protestant, too, 
thinks of death as the time for this 
soul-cleansing, though he selects 
"limbo" or "paradise" as the place, 
rather than the harsher "purgatory" 
of Catholic theology. A growing mul-
titude, however, are pointing beyond 
the grave altogether, for the ap-
pointed time. These refer to the mil-
lennium as the time for the final 
redemption of sinners, and to the 
resurrection from the dead as the 
gateway to the cleansing time to come, 
when sinners are to have another and 
a better chance for salvation. 
To the average sinner it matters 
little which of these conflicting views 
is the right one. If another chance 
beyond this life is coming, that is 
enough. Let those whose interests run 
that way, debate among themselves as 
to just when and how it will come. 
He will follow the path of least re-
sistance to-day, and will gladly leave 
it to his Maker to clean and repair 
his guilty soul hereafter, and set him 
going in the world to come. Whether 
that is done during his death or after 
his resurrection is of little moment 
to him. He will eat, drink, and be 
merry now, and trouble himself as 
little as possible about the hereafter. 
And why not? Yes, he has a point 
there. Why not? 
But the Scriptures cry a thunder. 
ing "Halt" to every soul who is 
travelling through life with such a 
hope for his hereafter. If men go to 
their graves with this fatal hope, the 
Word of God cannot be blamed, for 
its teaching on this point is unmis-
takable. Let us examine just a few of 
scores of scriptural texts and see what 
God has to say about it. 
"But the fearful, and unbelieving, 
and the abominable, and murderers, 
and whoremongers, and sorcerers, 
and idolaters, and all liars, shall have 
their part in the lake which burneth 
with fire and brimstone: which is the 
second death." Revelation 21:8. Those 
who die the first death with such 
sins against them, must suffer also the 
second death. The declaration here 
is definite, final; it allows of no pro-
bationary period between the funeral 
service and the day of judgment. No 
purgatory, limbo, paradise, or millen-
nium offers sinners a second chance. 
Furthermore, the Scriptures explic-
itly state that there is no opportu-
nity for soul-cleansing after death. 
"They that go down into the pit 
cannot hope for Thy truth." Isaiah 
38:18. Nor can the sinner be at all 
troubled there about his sins, for 
"there the wicked cease from trou-
bling; and there the weary be at rest." 
Job 3:17. 
The reason for the hopelessness of 
salvation or cleansing at death be-
comes obvious from such texts as 
these: "His breath goeth forth; he 
returneth to his earth; in that very 
day his thoughts perish." 
Psalm 
146:4. "The dead know not any 
thing"; "For there is no work, nor de-
vice, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in 
the grave, whither thou goest." Ecclesi-
astes 9:5, 10. "Till the heavens be no 
more, they shall not awake, nor be 
raised out of their sleep." Job 14:12. 
In fact, death is called a sleep fifty-six 
times in the Scriptures. No wonder 
sinners cannot hope for God's truth 
then, nor be troubled about their sins. 
once they are dead! 
However, this death is not the end. 
No. "The hour is coming, in the 
which all that are in the graves shall 
hear His voice, and shall come forth: 
they that have done good, unto the 
resurrection of life; and they that have 
done evil, unto the resurrection of 
damnation." John 5:28, 29. It matters 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
PURGATORY 
A non-Biblical doctrine relegated to the trash can 
The dead that theologians place in heaven, hell or purgatory, the Bible says, "know not 
any thing." Ecclesiastes 9:5. 
not whether they have lived a good 
life or an evil one; the dead shall live 
again. But let this be noted: they come 
forth just as they went down. Those 
who died as evil men come to life as 
evil men once more. Christ says, 
"They that have done evil [come 
forth], unto the resurrection of dam-
nation." The grave has wrought no 
change in their character, or their 
judgment. 
The only time and place of purging 
from sin that men can ever know, 
are the years of this life. These are 
the days of hope for every sinner. 
There are none to follow. How 
solemn the call of God through His 
prophet: "Seek ye the Lord while He 
may be found, call ye upon Him 
while He is near: let the wicked for-
sake his way, and the unrighteous 
man his thoughts; and let him return 
unto the Lord, and He will have mercy 
upon him; and to our God, for He 
OCTOBER, 1947 
will abundantly pardon." Isaiah 55: 
6, 7. To-day, the Lord may be found; 
to-day, He is near. To-day, "if we 
confess our sins, He is faithful and 
just to forgive us our sins, and to 
cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 
1 John 1:9. And when the Lord 
cleanses a man from all unrighteous-
ness, that settles his past. No smudge 
of guilt remains, to be atoned for at 
some future time. There is no occa-
sion for some future purgatory to 
cleanse and repair that man's soul; 
no need for some future probation 
after his resurrection to prepare him 
for heaven. His Saviour took all his 
past guilt away the hour that soul 
confessed his sins. 
Let us picture the sinner who went 
through life hoping to be taken in 
hand by his Maker and purified from 
his guilt hereafter, coming up at the 
resurrection of damnation. • Perhaps 
his last thoughts in this life were a 
tumult of panic as he saw a locomo-
tive or an automobile a second before 
it struck him. A searing blast of pain 
and then . . . a glorious Being sud-
denly appears in the heavens above 
himl 
More than a thousand years have 
passed since he glimpsed that engine 
bearing down upon him, but he 
knows nothing of that. Those cen-
turies are no longer to him than the 
centuries that passed before he was 
born, for "the 'dead know not any 
thing." The timeless pause of death 
now ended, his thoughts take up just 
where they were so violently broken 
off long ago. But they are centred now 
upon the awful sight that greets 
every awakening eye in that solemn 
day. No future probation—no sec-
ond chance! This is the "resurrection 
of damnation"! This is the "day of 
judgment"! 
But how different will be the case 
of sinners who have heeded the 
Spirit's call to repentance in this 
life! "Their last sensation was the 
pang of death, the last thought that 
they were falling beneath the power 
of the grave. When they arise from 
the tomb, their first glad thought will 
be echoed in the triumphal shout, 
'0 death, where is thy sting? 0 grave, 
where is thy victory?' "—Great Con-
troversy, p. 550. 
If Christians would not temporize 
the apostle's repeated declaration 
that death is a sleep (1 Corinthians 
15:18; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-15) , they 
would not misunderstand his "desire 
to depart, and to be with Christ." 
Philippians 1:23. With St. Paul, death 
was simply the experience of depart-
ing, and his next sensation, that of 
being caught up to be with Christ. 
(1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17.) He knew 
of no period of waiting in some limbo 
or purgatory between those two sen-
sations. And, it should be added, 
neither does any other scriptural 
writer. 
How sobering the thought that to-
day hundreds are hearing the last call 
to repentance—the last offer of mercy 
they shall ever hear. They will soon 
be called forth to the "resurrection 
of life" or—to the "resurrection of 
damnation." Why not see to it that 
your sins are all purged to-day? Why 
not see to it now that you will be 
ready in that day to meet Christ in 
peace? 
By 
O. B. Gerhart 
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IKE ANSWERS 
*rota "eible Answerman 
Bible and religious questions to "The Bible Answerman" 
Box 398, Oshawa, Ontario. 
Send your 
Dear Mr. Answerman: When the dis-
ciples prepared the Passover supper for 
the Lord, did they prepare a lamb, and 
did Jesus eat of it? Did Jesus eat meat? 
Mrs. E. M. B., British Columbia. 
Jesus was the antitypical passover 
lamb, and it was at this feast that the 
passover lamb was slain in com-
memoration of the "passing over" of 
the destroying angel. However, we are 
not told at this time that Jesus ate 
meat. Here is the record of it as given 
in Matthew 26:26: 
"And as they were eating, Jesus took 
bread, and blessed it, and brake it, 
and gave it to the disciples, and said, 
Take, eat; this is My body. And 
He took the cup, and gave thanks, 
and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye 
all of it; for this is My blood of the 
new testament, which is shed for many 
for the remission of sins. But I say 
unto you, I will not drink henceforth 
of this fruit of the vine, until that day 
when I drink it new with you in My 
Father's kingdom." 
While it is not clear that Jesus ate 
meat on this particular occasion, it is 
clear that there were times when He 
did eat of it, and also that He pre-
pared it for His disciples. However, 
it should be remembered that He ate 
and prepared only the clean meats 
which were given as a qualified article 
of diet. It should also be remembered 
that God did not in the beginning 
give to Adam and Eve a flesh diet. 
"And God said, Behold, I have given 
you every herb bearing seed, which is 
upon the face of all the earth, and 
every tree, in the which is the fruit of 
a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be 
for meat." 
It was not until after the flood that 
God gave His assent to the eating of 
flesh meats. Therefore it is clear that 
inasmuch as Adam and Eve were a 
perfect creation God would give them 
only a perfect diet'Another instance 
that indicates that meat does not con-
stitute the best diet was God's send-
ing manna to the Israelites when they 
were in the wilderness. After a time 
they tired of this perfect food from 
heaven and began to complain. They 
demanded meat, and wished they were 
back by the flesh pots of Egypt. Finally 
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God heard their murmurings and 
sent them quail. The record is that 
they stuffed themselves and thousands 
died. 
While it is true that the Bible does 
not prohibit the use of clean meats, 
another consideration is that to-day 
animals, fowls, and fish are so badly 
diseased that they constitute, from a 
health viewpoint, an unsafe article of 
diet. Some of the diseases that are 
transmitted through the eating of flesh 
meats are tuberculosis, trichinosis 
and cancer. 
Dear Bible Ammerman: Will you 
please explain what is meant in the 
Bible where it speaks of the law as the 
"law of liberty." 
The passage which contains this 
statement is found in James 1:23-25: 
"For if any be a hearer of the Word, 
and not a doer, he is like unto a man 
beholding his natural face in a glass: 
for he beholdeth himself, and goeth 
his way, and straightway forgetteth 
what manner of man he was. But 
whoso looketh into the perfect law of 
liberty, and continueth therein, he 
being not a forgetful hearer, but a 
doer of the work, this man shall be 
blessed in his deed." 
The law of God, the ten command-
ments, is a law of liberty when it is 
obeyed. It becomes a law of condem-
nation only when it is violated. As 
long as a man obeys the laws of the 
state he is free to go and come at will. 
Many citizens are law abiding to the 
extent that they never, during the 
entire course of life, come under the 
condemnation of the civil laws. They 
never break the laws and are therefore 
never arrested and incarcerated. The 
law of the state is to them a "law of 
liberty." 
It is the same with the law of God. 
Those who obey it are free from it—
it is their law of liberty. On the 
other hand, those who break it are 
under it. They are under its condem-
nation as sinners, and unless they 
repent and obtain forgiveness they 
must suffer the penalty of sin as given 
in Romans 6:23: "For the wages of 
sin is death." But if the sinner will 
repent and turn away from his evil, 
then the latter part of Romans 6:23 
applies: "but the gift of God is 
eternal life through Jesus Christ our 
Lord." 
Dear Mr. Answerman: If Christ was 
crucified on Good Friday and rose from 
the dead the morning after the Sabbath, 
then why isn't Sunday the proper Sab-
bath? C.M., Manitoba. 
It is true that Christ was crucified 
on what we to-day call Good Friday. 
It is also true that He arose from the 
grave on the day following the Sab-
bath day, which would be Sunday. 
Some argue that the fact that Jesus 
resurrection took place on the first 
day of the week makes that day a holy 
day, and a Sabbath day. Nothing 
could be farther from the truth. 
Those who so argue show that they 
have not a true conception of the 
meaning and significance of the Sab-
bath. The seventh day Sabbath is a 
memorial of creation. It is a made day. 
God Himself made it on the seventh 
day following the six days of creation. 
The record is in Genesis 2:1-3: "Thus 
the heavens and the earth were fin-
ished, and all the host of them. And 
on the seventh day God ended His 
work which He had made; and He 
rested on the seventh day from all His 
work which He had made. And God 
blessed the seventh day, and sancti-
fied it: because that in it He had 
rested from all His work which God 
created and made." 
Thus we see that the creation me-
morial rests upon both divine exam- 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
ple and precept. It was the seventh 
day that God made holy. It was the 
seventh day that He sanctified. It was 
the seventh day on which He rested. 
Man cannot bless, sanctify or hallow a 
day and make it a sabbath day; there-
fore no other day than the one God has 
made the Sabbath can be the Sabbath. 
We can see from the declaration of 
Jesus in Matthew 15:9 how futile it is 
for man to attempt to substitute some-
thing in the place of the teaching of 
God: "But in vain they do worship Me, 
teaching for doctrines the command-
ments of men." 
In an effort to justify themselves 
in the observance of a day other than 
the one divinely appointed, men set 
forth many groundless arguments. 
One is that if we start counting at the 
right place we will end up by having 
Sunday the seventh day of the week, 
and therefore that will make it the 
Sabbath day. That reminds me of an 
uncle who took his visiting nephew 
out in the pasture to see the new 
lambs. Said the uncle, "Charles, how 
many legs would that lamb have if 
we --'lied his tail a leg?" Said the boy 
quickly, "He'd have five, Uncle John." 
"No, he wouldn't," replied the uncle, 
"because you couldn't make his tail 
a leg by calling it one." God made the 
lamb's tail, and a tail it will always 
remain. There is no decree or device 
of man that will change it into a leg. 
Just so, God made the seventh day 
the Sabbath day, and no process of 
man will or can change it. We should 
re-read the commandment: 
"Remember the Sabbath day, to 
keep it holy. Six days shalt thou 
labour, and do all thy work: but the 
seventh day is the Sabbath of the 
Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not 
do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor 
thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy 
maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy 
stranger that is within thy gates; 
for in six days the Lord made heaven 
and earth, the sea, and all that in 
them is, and rested the seventh day: 
wherefore the Lord blessed the Sab-
bath day, and hallowed it." 
Dear Bible Answerman: I would like 
to know why sinners are put out of exist-
ence at the second death. 
The Bible describes this as a 
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"strange act" on the part of God. 
However, it is an act of mercy on His 
part. Those who are destroyed in the 
"second death" have committed the 
unpardonable sin—they have passed 
beyond the place where it is possible 
for them to repent and be saved. 
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Therefore the most merciful thing is 
for God to destroy them utterly and 
so cleanse and purify the earth and 
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make it a fit dwelling place for the 
saints throughout eternity. 
OCTOBER, 1947 
A parallel case of this was the con-
dition of men's hearts at the time of 
the flood: "And God saw that the 
wickedness of man was great in the 
earth, and that every imagination of 
the thoughts of his heart was only 
evil continually." Genesis 6:5. 
Other instances of this would be 
the peoples of Sodom and Gomorrah, 
and the Amalekites that Saul de-
stroyed. God is very long-suffering, 
but men do reach the place in their 
sinfulness where they pass the farther-
most limits of God's forbearance, and 
then they must be destroyed utterly. 
Such is the case of the unrepentant 
at the end of the world. 
Dear Bible Answerman: 
Religions 
teachers tell us that when our earthly life 
is finished we go to eternal happiness in 
heaven or to eternal punishment in hell. 
Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10 does not seem to 
read that way. Please tell me which I 
should believe. 
In all instances the Bible is the 
final word of authority, and must be 
believed. Suppose first of all we read 
the above verses: "For the living 
know that they shall die: but the 
dead know not any thing, neither 
have they any more a reward; for the 
memory of them is forgotten. Also 
their love, and their hatred, and 
their envy, is now perished; neither 
have they any more a portion for 
ever in any thing that is done under 
the sun. . . . Whatsoever thy hand 
findeth to do, do it with thy might; 
for there is no work, nor device, nor 
knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, 
whither thou goest." 
It must be admitted that there is 
no indication here of eternal happi-
ness or eternal punishment. "The 
dead know not any thing"; "neither 
have they any more a reward"; "the 
memory of them is forgotten"; and 
"there is no work, nor device, nor 
knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave 
. . ." are inspired declarations that 
indicate a state of non-consciousness 
in death. 
The teaching here is exactly in ac-
cord with that of Jesus just prior to 
the resurrection of Lazarus. In con-
versation with His disciples the Lord 
said: "Our friend Lazarus sleep.11h; 
but I go, that I may awake him out 
of sleep. Then said His disciples, 
Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. 
Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: 
but they thought that He had spoken 
of taking of rest in sleep. Then said 
Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is 
dead." John 11:11-14. 
In the case of Lazarus, as in the 
case of all other dead, he knew noth-
ing at all in the grave—his mind and 
memory did not function. However, 
in his case he was given a special res-
urrection four days after his death; 
but all others who are determined to 
be worthy of eternal life will be given 
part in the great general resurrection 
that will take place when Jesus comes. 
Throughout the Bible death is com-
pared to sleep, as was the death of 
Lazarus. David spoke of it: "Con-
sider and hear me, 0 Lord my God: 
lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the 
sleep of death. Psalm 13:3. Those 
who come out of their graves when 
Jesus comes are said to have been 
asleep: "But I would not have you 
to be ignorant, brethren, concerning 
them which are asleep, that ye sorrow 
not, even as others which have no 
hope. For if we believe that Jesus 
died and rose again, even so them 
also which sleep in Jesus will God 
bring with Him." 1 Thessalonians 
4:13, 14. 
In sound dreamless sleep there is 
no consciousness of the passing of 
time or events. The dead are not in 
paradise, neither are they suffering 
the torments of hell. When it is re- 
membered that the great majority of 
peoples who have occupied the earth 
have been wicked, as well as those 
living at present, it must be a matter 
of considerable comfort to understand 
that they are not now writhing in the 
agonies of hell fire. 
God is just—all will enter into their 
reward at the same time and all will 
enter into their punishment at the 
same time. It would be manifestly un-
fair to burn Cain, the first murderer, 
over five thousand years more for his 
crime than one of our present-day 
killers. 
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H. ARMSTRONG ROBERTS 
5,000,000,000 
on 6,000 
I
N AN editorial which appeared 
in the Washington Post some 
time ago, under the heading "Age 
of the Earth" there appeared the fol-
lowing: 
"An age-old question—the age of 
the earth—has been revived at the 
meeting of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. . . . 
There was no sharp controversy on 
the subject, although estimates of 
time since the earth became a separate 
planet vary from 100,000,000 to 
5,000,000,000 years. The scientists sat 
down and put their calculations to-
gether. All of them admit the prob-
able inaccuracy of present estimates 
and are anxious to work out the most 
correct measure of the globe's senil-
ity that present knowledge permits." 
This problem which has for ages 
perplexed scientists and the world's 
wisest of men, God has revealed to 
babes in Christ, who receive His 
Word, not as the word of man, but as 
the Word of God. All the dependable 
information we can ever obtain of the 
creation of this earth we must of 
necessity obtain from the Creator, 
for He alone knows just when and 
how the earth and the living creatures 
upon it were formed—a record of 
which may be found in His Word. 
Referring to the Bible we read: "By 
the word of the Lord were the heavens 
made; and all the host of them by 
the breath of His mouth. . . . For He 
spake, and it was done; He com-
manded, and it stood fast." Psalm 
33:6, 9. Turning to the book of Gen-
esis we find a clear statement given 
us of the creation of this earth, the 
length of time the Creator took to 
bring it forth, and also the time of its 
creation. We read: 
"In the beginning God created the 
heaven and the earth. And the earth 
was without form, and void; and dark-
ness was upon the face of the deep. 
And the Spirit of God moved upon 
the face of the waters. And God said, 
Let there be light: and there was 
light. And God saw the light, that it 
By D. H. Kress, M.D. 
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was good: and God divided the light 
from the darkness. And God called 
the light Day, and the darkness He 
called Night. And the evening and 
the morning were the first day." Fol-
lowing this we are told what was crea-
ted on the second day, on the third, 
the fourth, and the fifth. On the sixth 
day God, in addressing His Associate 
in the creation, said: "Let us make 
man in our image, after our likeness: 
and let them have dominion. . . . And 
God saw everything that He had made, 
and, behold, it was very good. And the 
evening and the morning were the 
sixth day. Thus the heavens and the 
earth were finished, and all the host of 
them. . . . And He rested on the sev-
enth day from all His work which He 
had made. And God blessed the sev-
enth day, and sanctified it: because 
that in it He had rested from all His 
work which God created and made." 
Chapters 1 and 2. 
This gives a very simple, concise and 
comprehensive description of the 
creation of the earth. It will be ob-
served that the earth and all that 
was therein were formed before man 
Concerning 
the earth the 
Bible records 
that God 
"spake, and it 
Was done; He 
commanded, 
and it stood 
fast." Psalm 
33:9. 
was brought forth. Man was God's 
crowning act of creation, the Crea-
tor's masterpiece, made a little lower 
than the angels and in His own image. 
Since man was not present when the 
earth was made, we cannot look to 
him for dependable information as to 
its creation. We are compelled to go 
to the Creator Himself for this knowl-
edge. It is not by searching that we 
can find out God, and neither by 
scientific research can we obtain a 
true knowledge of creation, or the 
age of the world. There is only one 
way for us to obtain this knowledge, 
and that is given in the words, 
"Through faith we understand that 
the worlds were framed by the word of 
God, so that things which are seen 
were not made of things which do ap-
pear." Hebrews 11:3. Not by search-
ing but by faith this is understood. 
By looking in the margin of our 
Bibles we shall find that the date on 
which this earth was brought into be-
ing is given as 4004 B.C., and since we 
are now living in the year A.D. 1947, 
the age of this earth would be nearly 
six thousand years. 
There is quite a contrast between 
this and the estimates given by scien-
tists. Whom shall we believe, the One 
who made the earth and all things 
that are therein, or men who differ 
in their estimates between one hun-
dred million and five billion years? 
Man cannot, without the aid of God's 
Word, correctly interpret nature. He 
will be inclined to exalt nature and 
its laws above the God of nature. For 
this reason, human ideas in regard to 
science usually contradict the teach-
ing of God's Word. 
T
HERE is growing evidence that 
alcohol is seriously undermining 
the social and economic struc-
ture of the Western democracies. 
Since its sale and use have been "legal-
ized" and "controlled" its consump-
tion has increased by leaps and 
bounds. In England, for instance, 
Jim Coleman of the Toronto Globe 
and Mail has been doing some ex-
ploring and has found practically 
everything except water to be ra-
tioned. He states, "Obviously there is 
a general European plot to cure 
drinkers. Field Marshall Viscount 
Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial 
General Staff, always makes the news 
when he goes abroad as on a recent 
trip to Moscow where, it was predict. 
ed, he would be faced by the usual 
endless Russian toasts. It is, however, 
always noted that he is a teetotaler, 
which would necessitate the exhibi-
tion of nothing stronger than narzon 
or borshom (Russian mineral waters). 
It is estimated that the per capita an-
nual consumption of beer in Austra-
lia is twenty-two gallons, in the United 
States twenty-seven gallons, and in 
England sixty-nine. 
In regard to the prohibition era in 
the United States, it was noted that 
drunkenness very noticeably de-
creased. The per capita drinking in 
the United States at that time was re-
duced from 22.81 gallons a year to 
2.48 gallons. In one year under pro-
hibition the number of women com-
mitted to public or private asylums 
for alcoholism was only four hundred, 
but in 1942 under repeal the number 
rose to 1,856. At the present time the 
American people spend three times 
as. much for cosmetics and two and 
one-half times as much for liquor as 
they do for the education of their 
children; namely, eight billion for in-
toxicants, and three billion for edu-
cation, according to the American 
Business Men's Research Foundation. 
In Los Angeles County the coroner's 
report revealed that blood of 47 per 
cent of 1,050 traffic fatalities showed 
alcohol content. Mayor Fletcher Bow-
ron of Los Angeles proposed a higher 
licence fee for liquor stores and bars 
to underwrite hiring one thousand 
more policemen. 
What is the situation in Canada? 
In British Columbia the Temperance 
League recently strongly advocated 
segregation of sexes, and reduction 
in hours of British Columbia beer par-
lours. Doctor Coburn termed as "silly" 
the argument that if facilities for 
drinking are increased, consumption 
of liquor will decrease, as set forth by 
those who would favour granting 
licences to 490 Vancouver eating 
places. He says, "The records are all 
against this idea. If you increase the 
facilities, more people will drink more 
and you will have added crime and 
lawlessness as a result." He showed 
that in the past twenty-five years there 
had been an increase of 100 per cent 
in the consumption of 
hard liquor; an in-
crease of 144 per cent 
in consumption of 
beer; and an increase 
of 146 per cent in the 
number of convictions 
for drunkenness. 
The people of Greater Victoria 
alone spent $4,296,011 on liquor 
during the fiscal year which ended 
March 31, 1947. The liquor bill for 
the entire province, spent by 549,913 
individual permit holders, was $38,-
743,455, which represents almost forty 
dollars for every man, woman and 
child in the province, according to 
figures in the twenty-fifth annual re-
port of the Liquor Control Board. 
The amount spent is an increase of 
$9,385,075 over the total spent dur-
ing the preceding twelve months, al-
though there were 77,582 less permit 
holders. The provincial government 
took a net profit of $10,997,780; the 
federal government got $7,141,660. 
Alberta's drink bill in 1937 was 
$11,006,096; in 1945 it was $26,424,-
294. To make it more convenient for 
customers, it is now possible to order 
beer over the telephone. 
According to one of the leading 
Winnipeg.papers of April 3, 1947, we 
find that similar conditions prevail 
in Manitoba. A speaker in the Legis-
lature was of the opinion that "more 
beer can be sold under the present 
system than in any other way." He 
strangely enough argued that to help 
remedy the situation, alcohol should 
be sold in restaurants, holding up as 
an ideal the British pub system. 
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North Americans of 
the insidious water-
drinking habit." He 
was convinced that 
"the caterers, restau-
rateurs and publicans 
of Great Britain are 
bound by a secret solemn oath to 
save North Americans from ruining 
their digestive organs," and he adds, 
"The Europeans desire the North 
Americans to remain as healthy as 
the other peoples of the world. They 
envisage the physical collapse which 
may follow if an entire continent con- 
tinues to rust its entrails with copious 
libations of cold water." It is true 
that in the Middle Ages it wab safer 
to drink light wines and tea rather 
than polluted water, but now we 
should reap the benefits of scientific 
progress healthwise. It was estimated 
that for the year 1943-44 the inhabit-
ants of Great Britain spent more 
for liquor than they asked as a loan 
from the United States in 1946 to 
assure "British economic survival." 
There are a few bright spots in the 
picture. In March, 1947, Viscountess 
Snowden, widow of the former Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, said that 
when she lived at 11 Downing Street 
she organized its entertainments for 
more than two years without offering 
any alcohol to guests. She "never ob-
served any reluctance of guests to 
come, or any absence of liveliness and 
good cheer when they did. No young 
man or woman staggered down those 
steps in a semi-helpless condition, as 
I have seen so many do at weddings 
where drink flowed freely." 
Viscountess Snowden admitted that 
"moderate drinkers were entirely es-
timable people, good citizens and 
kind parents. Some were delightful 
people of great charm," but she con-
cluded that those who had fallen by 
the way were originally only moderate 
OCTOBER, 1947 
TOUCH NOT 
By 
W. H. Roberts, M.D. 
TASTE NOT 
HANDLE NOT 
DOCTOR'S 
VOICE t; 
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One can but hope that the people 
of Canada will become aroused to 
the dangers of the developing situa-
tion with regard to the infiltrations 
of the brewers and distillers. It should 
be mentioned also that the roots of 
intemperance are often found in the 
most respectable homes, and include 
over-indulgence in appetite in any 
form, eating between meals, the use 
of tea and coffee, the free use of spi-
ces, condiments, and flesh foods, and 
the use of tobacco. The battle will 
have to be fought on many fronts. As 
far as liquor itself is concerned, the 
only safe rule is to "touch not, taste 
not, handle not." The day when the 
moderate drinker can no longer con- 
trol his appetite for liquor, comes 
upon him totally unawares, and may 
hardly be known even to his family 
and intimate associates. It comes as 
a "thief in the night." 
MAN'S ACCOUNTABILITY 
(Continued from page 13) 
ground was an inheritance, and Na-
both could not conscientiously part 
with it for any price. This troubled 
Ahab so much that he refused to eat. 
Then his wife Jezebel came to his aid, 
as shrewd wives often do. She suc-
ceeded in bringing an evil charge 
against Naboth, who finally paid for 
his conviction with his life. Then 
Ahab got the vineyard. As soon as 
this wicked but powerful king had 
taken possession of the vineyard, God 
sent Elijah the Tishbite to convey 
a message of judgment from heaven 
to Ahab. The Lord said through His 
servant: "I have found thee." "In the 
place where dogs licked the blood of 
Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, 
even thine." 
In certain respects there was no 
doubt a difference between Naboth 
and Ahab. Ahab had more wealth, 
authority and social influence than 
Naboth, but he had no prior right to 
force the conscience and will of Na-
both. However, in point of freedom of 
spirit they were both equal before 
God. 
The first commandment is, there-
fore, the one rule that makes all men 
equally accountable to God, and 
equally responsible for the worship 
of any other god. The primary and 
true relationship between man and 
God, then, is man's recognition of 
God as the Creator and the alloca-
tion of his supreme loyalty to God 
alone. "He that cometh to God must 
believe that He is, and that He is a 
rewarder of them that diligently 
seek Him." Hebrews 11:6. 
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Styes 
Question: Please tell me what causes 
styes. 
ANSWER: Styes are caused by an 
infection of any one of the sebaceous 
glands along the margin of the eye-
lids. Not infrequently infection is 
transferred from a boil or some other 
skin infection by rubbing the eyes. 
Vitamins A and B deficiency may 
predispose, also undue fatigue and in-
sufficient sleep. 
Undulant Fever 
Question: My blood test for undulant 
fever is positive. I feel weak and run 
down, and I am very nervous. Please 
advise me as to the cause and cure of 
undulant fever. 
ANSWER: The cause is an infection 
usually contracted as the result of 
using unpasteurized dairy products. 
Occasionally it is caused by handling 
infected meat. Veterinarians contract 
the disease through contact with cat-
tle that have had Bang's disease or 
"infectious abortions." Cures have 
been reported following the adminis-
tration of sulfa drugs and streptomy-
cin, but these are by no means spe-
cific. Vaccine therapy is still thought 
to be useful, also fever therapy. The 
disease often spontaneously burns 
itself out in a matter of two or three 
months. 
Colitis 
Question: I am suffering from colitis. 
Will you please advise me as to diet and 
treatment. 
ANSWER: True ulcerative colitis is 
thought to be due to an enteritis or 
bowel infection by usual bowel patho-
gens, being followed by a superim-
posed infection by common bacteria. 
During exacerbations there is passage 
of both blood and mucus in the stools. 
Diet is then restricted to bland and 
even pureed foods. Vitamins are help-
ful, particularly vitamin B, one of the 
best natural sources of which is liver 
extract (injectable). The "colitis" rep-
resented by spastic and atonic con- 
stipation occasionally interspersed 
with frequent bowel movements when 
one is tired or nervous does not repre-
sent a true inflammation of the bow-
els. However, elimination of coarse 
vegetables such as cabbage, Brussels 
sprouts, turnips, parsnips, onions, ber-
ries with seeds, and skins of fruits, is 
helpful. Meat, spices, condiments, tea, 
coffee and tobacco are contraincli-
cated. In both instances rest and free-
dom from worry and anxiety are 
essential. 
Nervousness 
Question: I am extremely nervous. Do 
you think vitamins and electrotherapy 
treatments are helpful? 
ANSWER: It is thought that a young 
healthy person whose diet is adequate 
and properly cooked gets all the vita-
mins and minerals he needs. If one, 
because of dietary deficiency in the 
past, has lost the ability to tolerate 
essential foods or to absorb adequate 
amounts of vitamins, then it would 
seem that multiple vitamin prepara-
tions or specific vitamins required 
would be advisable in order to at-
tempt at least to attain maximal 
health. Outdoor exercise, hot and cold 
showers in the morning, a warm bath 
in the evening, elimination of stimu-
lants such as tea, coffee and tobacco, 
avoidance of novels, particularly the 
mystery type, and competitive sports 
would seem to be indicated. If sun 
bathing is not practicable, then ultra- 
violet therapy would be helpful. Other 
forms of electrotherapy would not 
seem to be indicated. 
Halitosis 
Question: I am a young person but suffer 
from unpleasant breath in the morning. I 
have had my tonsils removed, and my teeth 
are said to be in good condition. Can you 
advise me what to do? 
ANSWER: Overeating, particularly 
of fats, and when one is tired or emo-
tionally disturbed, is the most rea-
sonable theory. The idea is that in-
completely metabolized fats which 
become rancid are exhaled on the 
breath. The remedy is obvious. 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
Europe's "waste places" testify to the horrors and destructiveness of total war. Has Europe 
learned her lesson? Will she become united? 
U. S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 
21 
A
FEW days after the Moscow 
Conference broke up with 
nothing done toward the solu-
tion of Europe's tragic problems, the 
Royal Albert Hall in London was 
packed from floor to ceiling to hear 
Britain's war-time Prime Minister 
follow up his American and Zurich 
speeches with yet another appeal for 
a "United Europe." 
He told his vast audience that 
when he was a child he had been 
taught that there was a "Continent" 
of Europe. Now, however, it had be-
come the custom of the professional 
geographers to talk of this region as 
merely "a peninsula of the Asiatic 
land mass." This conception he found 
"arid and uninspiring." He refused 
to accept the idea that Europe was 
finished. Rather, he believed, it had 
yet a great destiny to fulfil, in com-
pany with the United States, the Brit-
ish Empire, and the Soviet Union, as 
one of the four pillars of world peace. 
"Here," he said, "is the fairest, most 
temperate, most fertile area of the 
globe. The influence and the power 
of Europe and Christendom have for 
centuries shaped and directed the 
course of history. . . . Religion, law, 
learning, art, science, industry, 
throughout the world all bear, in so 
many lands, under every sky and in 
every clime, the stamp of European 
origin, or trace of European influ-
ence." 
But now, through the devastation of 
fratricidal war, it has become a "rub-
ble heap, a charnel house, a breeding 
ground of pestilence and hate." 
"Has Europe's mission come to an 
end?" he asked. "Has she nothing to 
give to the world but the contagion 
of the Black Death? . . . This is the 
hour of choice and surely the choice 
is plain. . . . This is the supreme op-
portunity, and if it be cast away, no 
one can predict that it will ever re-
turn or what the resulting catastrophe 
will be." 
To the student of prophecy this ap-
peal and the growing approval which 
the conception of a "United Europe" 
is receiving from many quarters is 
significant, for it cannot but call to 
mind the great prophetic utterances 
of Daniel in the Old Testament and 
John the revelator in the New as to 
the place of Europe in the events of 
the end of time. 
In the second chapter of Daniel the 
great dream-image shown to Nebu-
chadnezzar revealed in a most marvel-
lous way how the course of empires 
would move west from ancient Baby-
lon; how as a result of the breakup 
of the "iron monarchy" of Rome, the 
diverse nations of Europe would arise, 
and how, despite all attempts to unite 
the separated nations, they would 
"not cleave one to another." Nearly a. 
OCTOBER, 1947 
millennium and a half of European 
history has served only to bear out 
the absolute accuracy of that inspired 
forecast. 
In one way we may take encourage-
ment from this prophecy, for as no 
past aspirant to European hegemony 
has realized his ambitions, it is equally 
certain that no present or future one 
will ever succeed. 
At the same time it may be asked 
whether it also means that the peo-
ples of Europe can never be brought 
together in friendly association among 
themselves for peace and mutual se-
curity. 
Here John the revelator supple-
ments what Daniel explained five 
hundred years before to the overlord 
of Babylon. In the seventeenth chap-
ter of his prophecy John declared 
that in the latter days these erstwhile 
quarrelling nations would actually 
become of "one mind." Revelation 
17:13. They would seemingly have 
learned their lesson through centu-
ries of bitterness and calamity and 
would at last "agree," as John ex-
presses it a few verses farther on. 
(Verse 17.) 
Reading this, the altruistic advo-
cates of European union might well 
be stimulated to pursue their worthy 
aim with increased zeal. But before 
hastening back to their task they 
should note that this agreement be-
tween the nations of the Roman earth 
is achieved only at a "price." 
Let us read the prophecy. "These 
[the nations of Roman Europe] have 
one mind, and shall give their power 
and strength unto the beast." 
There, as Hamlet would say, is "the 
rub." For, according to the revelator, 
the "voluntary association" of the na-
tions of Roman Europe will be 
achieved only by a common appeal 
to "the beast," which, as the antece-
dent prophecies clearly indicate, is 
none other than the religio-political 
organization of Rome. In other words, 
in order to secure Europe against any 
totalitarian aggression from beyond 
its frontiers, the constituent nations 
will place themselves unwittingly un-
der the aegis of a totalitarianism with-
in their midst. 
The result of this misguided step is 
made clear by John. "The beast that 
thou sawest was [in the Europe of the 
Middle Ages], and is not [in her cat-
astrophic fall at the end of the 
eighteenth century]; and shall ascend 
out of the bottomless pit [of world 
confusion and calamity], and go into 
perdition: and they that dwell on the 
earth shall wonder, whose names were 
not written in the book of life." 
Verse 8. 
That is to say, the last-day "union" 
movement predicted by John, in pro-
tecting Europe from bondage from 
without, will precipitate the revival 
of that other bondage within, from 
which it escaped a century and a half 
ago when Europe emerged from the 
"Dark Ages." 
WHAT of EUROPE? 
By W. L. Emmerson 
The SIGNIFICANT 
FOURTH 
A
N IMPORTANT prophetic 
message of Sabbath restoration 
is that regarding the sealing of 
the servants of God with His seal just 
before Christ's second coming. The 
prophecy is given in Revelation 7:1-3: 
"After these things I saw four angels 
standing on the four corners of the 
earth, holding the four winds of the 
earth, that the wind should not blow 
on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on 
any tree. And I saw another angel as-
cending from the east, having the 
seal of the living God: and he cried 
with a loud voice to the four angels, 
to whom it was given to hurt the 
earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not 
the earth, neither the sea, nor the 
trees, till we have sealed the servants 
of our God in their foreheads." Wind, 
in prophecy, represents war, strife, 
and bloodshed, as may be seen from 
the following scripture: "A great 
whirlwind shall be raised up from 
the coasts of the earth. And the slain 
of the Lord shall be at that day from 
one end of the earth even unto the 
other." Jeremiah 25:32, 33. During 
the last days angels hold the winds of 
strife until the servants of God are 
sealed. How important must be this 
sealing work! 
God's Seal 
Seals are used in connection with 
certain legal documents, and espe-
cially with governmental laws. God's 
law has a seal as we have already seen 
in Isaiah 8:11, 16. According to the 
prophecy of Revelation 7:3, the serv-
ants of God are to be sealed "in their 
foreheads," representing their minds. 
The knowledge of God s seal is to be 
restored to His people on earth, that 
they might accept and keep it. 
The seal of a lawmaker contains 
three things: First, his personal name; 
second, his official title, which reveals 
his authority; and third, a description 
of the territory over which the law is 
to prevail, which reveals the extent 
of his dominion. As an example, we 
find these three essentials on the seal 
of Great Britain as follows: GEORGE 
VI, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, 
IRELAND AND THE BRITISH DO-
MINIONS. Here we find his name, 
GEORGE VI; next his official title, 
KING; and last the extent of his do- 
minions, GREAT BRITAIN, IRE-
LAND AND THE BRITISH DO-
MINIONS. • 
Likewise the seal of God must con-
tain these three essentials in order 
for it to be genuine. It must contain 
His name, His title of authority, and 
the extent of His dominion. The only 
part of God's law which contains the 
three essentials of a genuine seal is 
the fourth commandment. Thus the 
Sabbath commandment contains 
God's seal. His name is THE LORD, 
for He plainly declares, "I am the 
Lord: that is My name." "My name 
is The Lord." Isaiah 42:8; Jeremiah 
16:21. His title of authority is re-
vealed in the fact that He "made 
heaven and earth"; that is, He is the 
CREATOR. The extent of His rule 
is made known as "HEAVEN AND 
EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL 
THAT IN THEM IS." Exodus 20:8-
11. Thus the Sabbath commandment, 
containing all three parts of a genuine 
seal, contains the seal of the living 
God. 
The seal of God was removed from 
His law by the Catholic Church. But-
ler's Catechism gives the fourth com-
mandment as the third, and in only 
eight words: "Remember that thou 
keep holy the Sabbath day." God's 
name, "The Lord," has been left out. 
God's title of authority, His creator-
ship of heaven and earth, has been 
left out. The extent of God's domin-
ion, "heaven and earth, the sea, and 
all that in them is," has been left out. 
Even the exact day of the week, "the 
seventh day," has been left out, so 
that it is impossible to know which 
day to keep as the Sabbath. 
The Law of God as Changed 
by the Catholic Church 
I 
I am the Lord thy God: thou shalt 
not have strange gods before Me. 
II 
Thou shalt not take the name of the 
Lord thy God in vain. 
By 
John W. Halliday 
III 
Remember that thou keep holy the 
Sabbath day. 
IV 
Honour thy father and thy mother. 
V 
Thou shalt not kill. 
VI 
Thou shalt not commit adultery. 
VII 
Thou shalt not steal. 
VIII 
Thou shalt not bear false witness 
against thy neighbour. 
IX 
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's 
wife. 
X 
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's 
goods. 
(See Butler's Catechism, p. 28, edition of 
1877, published by Hoffman Bros., Mil-
waukee, Wis., U.S.A.) 
There is a vast difference between 
the indefinite Catholic command-
ment, "Remember that thou keep 
holy the Sabbath day," and God's 
Sabbath commandment, as may be 
seen by comparing the two: 
"Remember the Sabbath day, to 
keep it holy. Six days shalt thou la-
bour, and do all thy work: but the 
seventh day is the Sabbath of the 
Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not 
do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor 
thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy 
maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy 
stranger that is within thy gates: 
for in six days the Lord made heaven 
and earth, the sea, and all that in 
them is, and rested the seventh day: 
wherefore the Lord blessed the Sab-
bath day, and hallowed it." Exodus 
20:8-11. 
There are many promises made to 
the overcomer. How abundant is the 
heavenly Father's promise: "He that 
overcometh shall inherit all things; 
and I will be his God, and he shall 
be My son." Revelation 21:7. A prom-
ise of Jesus is that He will share with 
the overcomer His own personal re-
ward, for He declares, "To him that 
overcometh will I grant to sit with 
Me in My throne, even as I also over-
came, and am set down with My 
Father in His throne." Revelation 
3:21. . 
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THOU shalt have no other 
gods before Me. 
11 
Thou shalt not make unto 
thee any graven image, or an 
likeness of anything that is i 
heaven above, or that is in th 
earth beneath, or that is in th 
water under the earth: tho 
shalt not bow down thyself to 
them, nor serve them : for I the 
Lord thy God am a jealous 
God, visiting the iniquity of 
the fathers upon the children 
unto the third and fourth gen-
eration of them that hate Me; 
and showing mercy unto thou-
sands of them that love Me, 
and keep My commandments. 
111 
Thou shalt not take the 
name of the Lord thy God in 
vain; for the Lord will not hold 
him guiltless that taketh His 
name in vain. 
IV 
Remember the Sabbath 
day, to keep it holy. Six days 
shalt thou labour, and do all 
thy work : but the seventh day 
is the Sabbath of the Lord thy 
God: in it thou shalt not do 
any work, thou, nor thy son, 
nor thy daughter, thy 
servant, nor thy maidser 
nor thy cattle, nor thy stra er 
that is within thy gates : f in 
six days the Lord made heaven 
arid earth, the sea, and all that 
in them is, and rested the 
seventh day: wherefore the 
Lord blessed the Sabbath day, 
and hallowed it. 
V 
Honour thy father and thy 
mother : that thy days may be 
long upon the land which the. 
 
Lord thy God giveth thee. 
VI 
Thou shalt not kill. 
VII �
• 
Thou shalt not commit 
adultery. 
VIII 
Thou shalt not steal. 
IX 
Thou shalt not bear false 
witness against thy neighbour. , 
Thou shalt not covet thy 
neighbour's house, thou shalt • - 
not covet thy neighbour's wife,. 
nor his manservant, nor his, • 
maidservant, nor his ox, nor 
his ass, nor anything that is 
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H. ARMSTRONG ROBERTS 
Inthe Saviour's miracle of feeding the five 
thousand is illustrated the working of God's power in the production of the harvest. Jesus 
draws aside the veil from the world of nature, and reveals the creative energy that is 
constantly exercised for our good. In multiplying the seed cast into the ground, He who 
multiplied the loaves is working a miracle every day. It is by a miracle that He con-
stantly feeds millions from earth's harvest fields. Men are called upon to co-operate with 
Him in the care of the grain and the preparation of the loaf, and because of this they lose 
sight of the divine agency. The working of His power is ascribed to natural causes or to 
human instrumentality, and too often His gifts are perverted to selfish uses, and made 
a curse instead of a blessing. God is seeking to change all this. He desires that our dull 
senses shall be quickened to discern His merciful kindness, that His gifts may be to us 
the blessing that He intended." — Education, pp. 107, io8. 
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