we walk, whose results are secured by the
way we live, and whose inner life is a
development by faith and not by sight.
The whole law, the whole duty of
man, the whole philosophy of life can be
read in the counsel: “As ye have there-
fore opportunity, do good unto all men.”
Do the right thing, the kind, the gen-
erous thing, regardless of return, for to
the soul the compensation is in the doiug
of it.
To travel trustingly is a better thing
than to arrive, and true success is in
labor, not in our goals.
The Pope Becomes King -—-
Changes in the Calendar
(Continued from p. 17)
of rest in place of the Sabbath, and now
a further effort to minimize its impor-
tance is being made, though perhaps
ignorantly, by many calendar-reform
advocates. We are made to wonder
if there is anything in names, Sun-day,
Sol (sun) month. Men would make no
difference between the holy and profane,
or common, days of the week. We see
the world drifting into disrespect and
disregard of all sacred things.
Is THERE ANY CONNECTION?
Is there any connection between the
ascendency of the papacy and the
changes in the calendar? At least no
protest against the changes has thus
far come from Catholics, nor from
Protestants who keep Sunday in common
with them. It seems obviously incon-
sistent that those who have based their
reason for Sunday-keeping on the fact
that Christ rose on that day should
favor a reform that would make the
weekly return of that day wander all
over the calendar of days. But of
course men who presume to change
God’s ““time’ once may do it again,
The Roman Church claims to be God’s
representative on earth, and to have
the authority to do anything it pleases
with divine decrees and institutions.
It is a fact that Roman churchmen
have had much to do with changes in the
calendar from the beginning, and this
with full ecclesiastical sanction. The
first to propose the “blank day” idea
and a ‘wandering Sabbath” (also
Sunday) was an Italian priest, the Abbé
Marc Mastrofini, in 1837. This is
stated in a French book published in
1920, written by a Catholic priest,
Abbé Clauve-Bertrand, and which has
the sanction of the Church. Thus
there is no doubt but that the papal
power favors a calendar revision that
would well-nigh bury out of sight
the day of the Sabbath of Jehovah.
There has not been in centuries so bold
and decisive a move to interpose a baff-
ling barrier between God and His sab-
bath-keeping people. As to what all this
may lead we will have more to say later.
Next month a complete survey of calen-
dar revision will appear in our columns.
PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT
Aviation Spreads Her Wings
(Continued from page 5)
that the multitudes of earth would be
literally and actually running ‘“to and
fro.”
Furthermore, this prophecy harmo-
nizes and coincides with numerous other
Bible predictions concerning the physical
world, the political world, and the
religious world, all of which unmis-
takably designate the present as ‘‘the
time of the end.”
Nor are we left in uncertainty as to
the divine providence in these marvelous
developments. Our Saviour declared:
“And this gospel of the kingdom shall
be preached in all the world for a witness
unto all nations; and then shall the end
come.” Matthew 24: 14. In any previous
age, an intellectual or religious move-
ment was compelled of necessity to
travel slowly; but now we behold our
Feature Articles for the
May Watchman
Calendar Reform, by Charles S.
Longacre. Governments and big busi-
ness are beginning to take seriously pro-
posed reforms in our calendar— thirteen
months in the year, blank days, etc.—
and when statesmen and capitalists
sponsor a movement, look for action.
But present plans would profane sacred
time and work hardship on true Chris-
tians.
Death Bed Repentance, by Robert
L. Boothby. Just how bright are the
prospects of a man who turns to God in
his last moments?
Are You Religious? by Charles L.
Paddock. What is religion? And what
does it mean to possess it, and enjoy
the experience?
Headed for Vatican City, by L.
Ervin Wright. The men and the teach-
ings that are bridging the gulf between
Protestantism and Catholicism.
Every Man His Own Doctor, by
Hans S. Anderson, Dietitian. Be a
P.M. D. (doctor of preventive medicine)
with one patient, yourself.
heavenly Father ‘speeding up’ this
old world in order that the gospel may
be quickly carried and that He may
“finish the work and cut it short in
righteousness.” (Romans g: 28.)
HE Saw TreM FLYING
ERE too, is a notable fact. John
the Revelator, exiled on the rocky
isle of Patmos, beheld in vision the
final proclamation of the gospel that
terminates in the glorious second coming
of Christ; and in this wondrous prophecy
the messengers are actually seen “flying
in mid heaven, having eternal good
tidings to proclaim unto them that
dwell on the earth, and unto every
nation and tribe and tongue and people,”
saying with a great voice, “Fear God,
and give Him glory; for the hour of
His judgment is come.” Revelation 14:
6,7, A.R. V.
Already the airplane has been requisi-
tioned by the gospel missionary to
convey him in a few hours over long
distances of jungle wastes that formerly
required weeks of arduous, wearisome
travel. Today, ambassadors for Christ
avail themselves of every modern
facility for rapid transportation and
communication, and look upon all of
these as heaven’s appointed equipment
for finishing the stupendous task com-
mitted to the people of God — the
gospel to all the world in this generation.
Thus may the good tidings of the
kingdom speed forth on the wings of
the wind and on the waves of the ether
till those of every realm and clime
shall hear the message. May the word
of the living God, “newly edged with
power and quickened by the Holy
Spirit,” bring conviction to hearts in
all lands, preparing them for the soon
return of Jesus and the long anticipated
homeland. And as the gospel message
hastens to its triumph throughout the
world, may it likewise triumph in your
heart and mine.
“Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
W hence This Lawlessness?
(Continued from page 7)
the Ten Commandments. The ‘new
commandment’ that we love one another
did not amend the old. It merely in-
dicated a way of obeying it. It is or-
thodox to say that it cannot be amended,
and the commandments will be fruit-
* lessly defied if we make legal offenses
of what are not moral offenses. . . . We
need not trouble ourselves to re-institute
the Ten Commandments. They are
still there, and it is sufficient if we
obey them.”
ExXALT THE LAW
OMEHOW the respect for law must
be established. Somehow the sense
of sin must be revived in the world if
conditions are to be changed. The
great standards of God’s law must be
shaken from the dust into which they
have been thrown, and upreared in
the lives of men.
The most disconcerting fact in the
lawlessness of the hour is that youth
today fill the ranks of criminals. An
analysis recently of 10,000 prisoners in
twelve penitentiaries, showed that sixty
per cent of the prisoners were between
the ages of eighteen and thirty. This
unleashed savagery of youth suddenly
freed from parental and church control
presents the outstanding problem of
this generation and bears ill omen for
the future.
Judges, prosecutors, police chiefs, and
students of criminology agree that re-
spect for law has been swept away,
especially in the large centers of popula-
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