OSHAWA. Oblr A1730, OiCEIVIS'EA, 
1912 
Canada's Journal of Hope and Health 
This Moral Slump (s.. gages 6, 7) 
Fearful Sights (See pages 8 9.) 
MILLER SERVICES 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE WORLD 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
AS WE SEE IT 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A Prophetic Interpretation of Current Events 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
* The Fall of Kings 
THIRTEEN kings and six emperors 
have left their thrones by compulsion 
or choice since 1910. The last in this 
downward procession is King Farouk of 
Egypt. Only seven rulers remain in all 
Europe; the rulers of England, Sweden, 
Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, 
and Greece. 
The overthrow of rulers began in 1910 
with the dethroning of Manuel II of 
Portugal. Other rulers lost their thrones 
during and following World War I. The 
Czar of Russia was assassinated in 1917. 
In 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany 
fled to Holland, where he spent the re-
mainder of his life in exile. Four years 
later, in 1922, the Greek and Turkish 
monarchies were overthrown. Alfonso 
XIII of Spain left his throne in 1931, 
and in 1934 King Alexander I of Yugo-
slavia was assassinated. King Edward 
abdicated in 1936, and in 1939 King Zog 
I of Albania was driven from his throne. 
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdi-
cated in 1946 in favour of his son Hum-
bert II. Humbert was king but a few 
days when Italy was declared a republic. 
In 1945 King Peter II of Yugoslavia 
lost his throne, and in 1946 young King 
Simeon of Bulgaria was dethroned. Mich-
ael of Rumania was forced from his 
position in 1947, and Queen Wilhel-
mina of Holland abdicated in favour of 
her daughter Juliana in 1948. Leopold 
III of Belgium abdicated in favour of his 
son Baudouin in 1951, and in that same 
year King Abdullah of Jordan was assas-
sinated. King Talal of Jordan has now 
been replaced by his son Hussein. 
Someone has written, "Uneasy lies the 
head that wears the crown." That writer 
could as well have used the word "un-
certain." This points up the fact that 
as far as this world is concerned there is 
no security. War, revolution, politics, 
sickness, disease and death assure con-
tinual change and perpetual insecurity. 
Whether man be king or subject his 
"throne" is insecure. 
But there is a throne that will not 
topple. Wars, revolutions, and uprisings 
never have—and never will—displace the 
king upon this throne. I refer to the 
throne of God, and to the divine Mon-
arch who sits upon it. It is not that effort 
has not been made to do this very thing. 
A high and mighty angel in heaven, 
Lucifer—perhaps the mightiest of them 
all—rebelled, and led in rebellion one-
third of the angels. But in the ensuing 
war Lucifer and his followers were cast 
out of heaven to this earth. 
In it all the throne of God stood. It 
stands today, and will continue to stand 
in all eternity. Here is resident the secu-
rity of the universe. But this has peculiar 
application to earth's inhabitants. We, 
who because of sin suffer insecurity, may 
find it abundantly as we embrace the 
promises of God. 
* Life's Savings 
TOM OLSON tells the story of a man 
and woman who, when they married, 
decided to save for their old age. They 
did this for twenty-five years and found 
that they had laid by $43,500. "We had 
better put this in the bank," said the 
husband, and so it was decided. But un-
fortunately there was a bit of delay, and 
the savings of twenty-five years came up 
missing—burned, it is believed, with 
some trash. 
Some will say at once that they should 
have taken better care of so large a sum. 
Rulers die, abdicate and are dethroned. The 
honour and dignity of the crown provide no 
lasting security. 
Dallas Youngs, Editor 
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MALA K, 07, 
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Some are depending on money to save their 
lives, but others are relying upon Jesus. 
And I'm sure that this unfortunate 
couple will now agree. Hindsight is al-
ways superior to foresight. 
But this matter of "life's savings" 
brings us to the matter of stewardship. 
Stewardship of money and other things 
is one of the great responsibilities of life. 
The Bible talks more about money than 
most people think. Money is power. It is 
able to accomplish, and in the cause of 
God makes possible the proclamation of 
the soul-saving gospel. Money is a part 
of our very lives, because it takes a part 
of our lives to obtain this commodity. 
The time, energy and talent which God 
has given us is translated into money. 
In view of this it is not hard to see why 
God calls upon us to be good and faith-
ful stewards. 
To be a good steward in God's sight 
is to be both honest and liberal. God 
commands the paying of the tithe (a 
tenth). This is the portion that should 
accrue to the divine Landlord. And 
when the tithe is paid it is no expression 
of liberality. The tithepayer is but being 
honest. Because, says God, "the tithe is 
the Lord's." When we pay our house 
rent we have no thought that we are be-
ing liberal with the landlord. We are 
only being honest. God is our heavenly 
Landlord. He provides the earth, the air, 
the sunshine, the rain; He provides our 
bodies, our health and our strength. 
Therefore, He claims the tenth in rec-
ognition of His ownership. 
While the payment of the tithe is a 
matter of honesty, the giving of offerings 
is a matter of liberality. The tithe is a 
divinely specified amount, but the offer- 
DECEMBER, 1952 
ings are dependent upon the liberality 
of the giver. Yet if the offerings are with-
held, God declares that He has been 
robbed. That brings us to the true pur-
pose of life: Is it to serve self or to serve 
God? If we regard it as self service, then 
the obligation of the tithe and the offer-
ings will not be recognized. If we obey 
our obligation of devoting ourselves to 
God, we will consecrate to Him that 
which is His—the tithe and the offer-
ings. 
But while I am writing on the topic 
of "life's savings," I cannot resist the 
temptation of making a play upon 
words, and saying something about "sav-
ing lives"—yours and mine. 
Actually, God has made us the stew-
ards of our own lives. He, at almost in-
comprehensible cost, has provided the 
plan of salvation. All has been perfected. 
Provision has been made that everyone 
may be saved. The invitation has been 
given to come and partake of the water 
of life freely. Therefore, it is now up to 
us—to you and me—to conform to the 
divinely prescribed provisions. That puts 
the responsibility squarely upon every 
individual. 
Of what are we custodians? Our lives 
—our eternal lives. And how much are 
our souls worth? How much would you 
take for yours? Actually now, reader, in 
hard cash, what value do you put on 
your eternal life? Is it worth a million, 
a billion, or more? (Jesus indicates that it 
is worth more than the whole world.) 
Since we are stewards of that which is of 
so great value, should we not take every 
precaution to insure its safekeeping. 
Shall we emulate the carelessness of 
the husband and wife who lost their 
life's savings? Their 435 one-hundred-
dollar bills were burned to ashes, and 
that, according to the Bible, is what is 
finally going to happen to sinners. To 
he safe let us insure the treasure of our 
lives in heaven. Let us make their eter-
nal perpetuance certain by placing them 
under the precious blood of the Man of 
Calvary. 
* Deported 
EVERY once in a while we read of 
some person's being deported. This in-
dicates that that individual is not wanted 
in our nation. There is something about 
him that is objectionable. It may be—
usually is—a matter of disloyalty to our 
government or of illegal entrance into 
the country. Canada does not want men 
who are not loyal citizens—no nation 
does. 
A traitor is a despicable person. He 
betrays his own nation, his own country-
men. He poses as a loyal citizen, but is 
a wolf in sheep's clothing. He is a pro- 
found hyprocrite. Ht' works for the 
enemy against the security of his own 
people. We think of those men who 
gave away atom-bomb secrets that may 
well jeopardize their own country and 
cause the loss of millions of their own 
fellows. We have often wondered about 
the "thought processes" of the person 
who betrays his nation. Just how does 
he justify himself in his act? 
But this matter of loyalty and disloy-
alty is wider in its application than we 
may at first think. This is particularly 
true as it applies to divine-human re-
lationships. Let us consider first the fact 
that God and His government are at 
war with Satan and his government. 
Christians—all peoples—are subjects of 
one government or the other. But there 
are many Christians—men who name the 
name of Christ, who profess to be loyal, 
true followers of Jesus—who are actually 
working for Christ's enemy. What does 
that add up to? Disloyalty. 
Just how may the Christian be disloy-
al, traitorous, to God's government? 
How does disloyalty manifest itself? In 
the Christian's failure to show faith, 
and in his failure to obey God and keep 
His commandments. It is not often rec-
ognized that the matter of obedience to 
the law of God• is the crux of the entire 
matter. It all started in heaven millen-
niums ago. Lucifer, a high and mighty 
angel, would not obey God. He rebelled 
against God's government and set up 
one of his own. The angels of heaven 
cast their lot either on the side of God 
against Lucifer, or on the side of Lucifer 
against God. There was war in heaven. 
Lucifer and his angels lost the war, were 
cast out of heaven to this earth, and th, 
 
rebellion has been carried on here ever 
since. Now humans are involved in the 
controversy, and like the angels, men are 
taking their stand on one side or the 
other. 
Many men and women bearing the 
name of Christ continue in the church, 
but they are actually on the side of the 
enemy. They serve Satan. They are dis-
loyal to God. They are traitors to the 
cause and government they profess to 
support. 
This causes great loss to the kingdom 
of God, but it will cause complete loss 
to the traitors. The time will certainly 
come when these individuals will apply 
for admittance into the kingdom of God, 
but the records will show disloyalty. 
Then they will be "deported" from heav-
en. They must suffer the fires of the last 
day. It takes little imagination to con-
ceive that it will be in that day even as 
Jesus said: "There shall be weeping and 
gnashing of teeth." 
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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY 
GOD'S 
FINGERPOSTS 
F
INGERPOSTS! How important 
they are! How convenient to the 
motorist! Heeding them he can 
travel to the most distant points with 
the greatest of ease. Disregard their 
silent testimony, and he will soon find 
himself in difficulty. 
For all who will observe them God 
has placed fingerposts along this world's 
highway that we might know when we 
are nearing our heavenly home. 
For centuries the waymarks to the 
second advent of Christ were missing, 
but, as the winds of time quickened in 
their rush to eternity, the signs began to 
appear. By a single allusion the church 
of Thyatira (538-1798) was carried for-
ward to its Lord's second advent—"Hold 
fast till I come." Revelation 2:25. The 
Sardis church (1798) was given a fleet-
ing glimpse of another fingerpost to 
glory: "If therefore thou shalt not watch, 
I will come on thee as a thief." Revela-
tion 3:3. But when the church had en-
tered the Philadelphian period of its 
history (1833) she read upon Time's 
fingerpost these unmistakable words, 
"Behold, I come quickly!" Revelation 3: 
11. 
As time slipped by, God placed two 
great fingerposts in the heavens where 
no man could tamper with their vital 
message. On the morning of May 19, 
1780, a band of North American Indians 
were camped in a beautiful forest. The 
sun rose uneventfully, and the Indians 
were about their usual duties. But at 
ten o'clock a strange darkness began to 
settle upon them. The superstitious In-
dians were crippled with fear, for they 
believed some strange god was wreaking 
vengeance upon their sun-god. In terror 
they prayed for their sun-god, but still 
the weird darkness continued through-
out the day. At midnight a new phe- 
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nomenon appeared. Glowing eerily 
through the treetops shone a blood-red 
moon. For hours these simple folk of the 
forest trembled and prayed that their 
sun-god would return and deliver them 
from this great calamity. 
Little more than fifty years later 
another group of North American In-
dians were terrified when they beheld 
the stars hurled like unripened fruit 
from their heavenly places. The falling 
stars on the night of November 12-13, 
1833, not only brought consternation 
and fear to these primitive forest folk, 
but also stirred the hearts of people all 
over North America. Astronomers and 
scientists alike joined in proclaiming it 
a phenomenon never before witnessed 
by the inhabitants of this planet. 
God's Word describes these two un-
paralleled events as two fingerposts that 
He has placed in the heavens to mark 
our way to the Holy City. "I will show 
wonders in heaven above, and signs in 
the earth beneath; . . . the sun shall be 
turned into darkness, and the moon into 
blood, before that great and notable day 
of the Lord come." Acts 2:19, 20. "The 
stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even 
as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, 
when she is shaken of a mighty wind." 
Revelation 6:13. 
Another great fingerpost pointing to 
the end is the rise of a movement with 
a message "to make ready a people pre-
pared for the Lord." Luke 1:17. In all 
parts of the world at the same time God 
called men and women to proclaim the 
advent message that the day of the Lord 
might not overtake the honest in heart 
"as a thief." 1 Thessalonians 5:4. Exactly 
on time, just as God's great prophetic 
clock struck the appointed hour, the 
message began to be proclaimed with 
power! 
Since entering the home stretch of our 
heavenward journey, we have been 
passing history's fingerposts with such 
amazing speed that we are left almost 
breathless. We see God's arrows in ev-
ery newspaper, hear of them on every 
radio programme, see them before us, 
behind us, in fact all around us every 
hour of the day. 
One fingerpost reads: "In the last days 
perilous times shall come. For men shall 
be . . . lovers of pleasures more than 
lovers of God; having a form of godli-
ness, but denying the power thereof." 
2 Timothy 3:1-5. 
In Bombay, India, one morning in 
January, 1939, I was amazed when I 
opened my Times of India—Bombay's 
leading daily paper—and read the follow-
ing report of a commission appointed in 
Britain by two archbishops of the 
Church of England to consider the 
Christian doctrine "with a view to con-
firming or rejecting some of the funda-
mentals of the Christian teachings." "It 
challenges the traditional belief on sev-
eral points. It rejects the infallibility of 
the Bible, saying that its authority must 
not prejudge investigation in any field. 
The report regards the historical evi-
dence for the virgin birth as inconclusive, 
and declares that the literalistic belief in 
the physical resurrection of the dead 
must be rejected. On the other hand, 
it declares that the resurrection of Christ �
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was an event as real and concrete as the 
crucifixion." 
The commission was divided with re-
gard to whether miracles occurred, but 
it agreed that God could work miracles 
if He pleased. The report then said that 
there was no objection to the theory of 
evolution, which can be drawn from the 
creation narratives in Genesis. Educated 
Christians agreed that their mythological 
origin and their value for us was sym-
bolic rather than historical. 
This report represents the teachings 
of Modernism and is indicative of the 
times in which we live. Modernism—dis-
guised evolution—demands that we dis-
card our belief in miracles and that we 
place our faith only in those things 
which we can see or which our natural 
senses discover. 
Such. a course would mean giving up 
Signs of The TIMES 
By 
ROBERT H. 
PIERSON 
BIBLE ANSWERS 
Do you have unanswered Bible ques-
tions? If so, you are invited to send 
them to the EDITOR, Box 398, Oshawa, 
Ontario. 
our faith in the virgin birth, the resur-
rection, and the ascension of Christ, for 
each of these Christian fundamentals 
calls for miracles, the supernatural. Let 
us not be blinded by "higher" criticism 
so called! Man's flaunted boastfulness in 
attempting to match his wisdom with 
Cod's is but a sign of the times in which 
we live. 
Speeding along history's highway we 
glimpse a fingerpost with these three 
words written large upon its arrow point-
ing to the world's end: "Iniquity shall 
abound." Matthew 24:12. We have but 
to look about us to be assured that our 
generation is one of abounding iniquity. 
Drinking, gambling, carousing, marry-
ing and divorcing, killing, robbing, cheat-
ing, swindling, and almost every other 
unmentionable sin belonging to the cate-
gory of Noah's day is luridly depicted 
daily in our newspapers. What does this 
mean? It means we are passing other 
milestones in our journey to the Prom-
ised Land. 
I need not mention another important 
fingerpost now prominently planted in 
practically every nation of the earth. 
This is too obvious, too painfully present 
with us every day to enlarge upon. We 
need but note the wording of its mes-
sage: "Ye shall hear of wars and rumours 
of wars. . . . Nation shall rise against 
nation, and kingdom against kingdom." 
Matthew 24:6, 7. 
There can be no doubt that Jesus is 
to return to this earth soon. Fingerposts 
in the spiritual, physical, political, and 
economic world all combine with in-
creasing certainty to proclaim that the 
end of all things is at hand. Wars and 
rumours of wars, earthquakes and 
storms, the falling of the stars, the dark-
ening of the sun, the increase of knowl-
edge, social hypocrisy, and spiritual de-
clension—all tell their own story of a 
soon-coming Saviour. Christ must come 
to set earth's house in order. 
This being true, there is one great 
vital question that confronts each mem-
ber of the human family. All other ques-
tions pale into insignificance by the side 
of this all-important query with which 
heaven faces man today—Are you, am I, 
ready for the Saviour's appearing? The 
question of making a living is an im-
portant problem which confronts us all. 
The question of keeping well and strong 
is another one of great import. The ques-
tion of living our lives profitably and 
pleasantly is yet another. To some the 
question of providing for old age is a 
perplexing one. But, my friend, real as 
these questions are, and important as 
they may seem, the fact still remains 
that the greatest of all questions con-
fronting you now is: Are you ready to 
meet Jesus? 
DECEMBER, 1952 
When Jesus comes the second time will 
He come openly or secretly? 
Jesus will return openly and visibly 
to all. "Behold, He cometh with clouds; 
and every eye shall see Him." Revela-
tion 1:7. It will be an utter impossibil-
ity for anyone living on the earth to 
fail to see Jesus when He returns. In 
Revelation • 1:16 we are told that Jesus' 
countenance is as the sun shining in 
his strength. Then again we are told-
that when our Lord returns He will 
come in His own glory, the glory of 
the Father, and the glory of all the 
angels. Therefore, just as it is impos-
sible not to see the sun as it shines in 
the heavens, so will it be impossible 
not to see Jesus when He comes the 
second time. 
Jesus Himself said that "as the light-
ning cometh out of the east, and shineth 
even unto the west; so shall also the 
coming of the Son of man be." Mat-
thew 24:27. Clearer, plainer and inde-
scribably more brilliant than the light-
ning's flash will be the appearance of 
Jesus when He returns in all His glory 
to this earth. 
This is an important point of faith—
so important in fact that Jesus gave 
warning against the teaching of His 
"secret" return: "Then if any man shall 
say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or 
there; believe it not. For there shall 
arise false christs, and false prophets, 
and shall show great signs and wonders; 
insomuch that, if it were possible, they 
shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I 
have told you before. Wherefore if they 
shall say unto you, Behold, He is in 
the desert; go not forth: behold, He is 
in the secret chambers; believe it not." 
Matthew 24:23-26. 
What did Jesus teach about divorce? 
Jesus taught us to avoid divorce ex-
cept in the case of infidelity to the 
marriage vows: "It hath been said, 
Whosoever shall put away his wife, 
. . . saving for the cause of fornication, 
causeth her to commit adultery: and 
whosoever shall marry her that is di-
vorced committeth adultery." Matthew 
5:31, 32. 
According to the Bible, divorce may 
not be secured on the multitudinous 
grounds on which it is secured today. 
There is but one cause—adultery. God 
would not have His servant live with 
one who is guilty of this offence. We 
see that from 1 Corinthians 6:15, 16: 
"Know ye not that your bodies are the 
members of Christ? shall I then take 
the members.of Christ, and make them 
the members of an harlot? God forbid. 
What? Know ye not that he which is 
joined to an harlot is one body? for two, 
saith He, shall be one flesh." 
How can I get more faith? 
"Faith cometh by hearing, and hear-
ing by the Word of God." Romans 10: 
17. The way you can get more faith is 
by studying the Bible. The Word of 
God abides within the heart and moti-
vates the life. This serves to establish and 
develop faith. But do not make the mis-
take of reading the Bible only. You must 
practise what you learn, and do what 
Cod requires. The very fact that you 
practise the divine instructions shows 
that you are acquiring more and more 
faith. 
Is it true or not that Christ has power 
to forgive sins the same as the Father? 
It is true: "The Son of man hath 
power upon earth to forgive sins." Luke 
5:24. The ability to forgive sins is pe-
culiar to the divine family. Since Christ 
is a member (the Son of God) of the 
divine family it must follow that He is 
able to forgive men their trespasses even 
as the Father. a 
How many times is the word "immor-
tal" used in the Bible? 
Just once: "Now unto the King eter-
nal, immortal, invisible, the only wise 
God, be honour and glory for ever and 
ever." 1 Timothy 1:17. This word (im-
mortal) with all its far reaching conno-
tations, which is applied so freely to 
man and to the soul of man, is found 
but a single time in the entire Bible, and 
then it is applied to God. God only has 
immortality we are told in 1 Timothy 
6:16. If God "only" has immortality, it 
must follow that "mortal" man does not 
possess it. 
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KEYSTONE VIEW CO. 
THIS MORAL SLUMP 
What Is the Meaning? 
W
E, LIVE in a highly intellectual 
world. Never before has man 
had such a store of knowledge 
or has it ever been so widespread. But 
have human affairs become more stable? 
Do we have a greater security? To these 
questions we answer emphatically, No. 
What then is wrong if knowledge is 
power? Why has life not grown more 
peaceful? Why are men now afflicted 
with so many fears? �
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This is a paradox of our times. Know-
ing better how to be better, we grow 
worse in behaviour. We have the means 
for world-wide brotherhood, but strife 
is more universal and war more terrible 
than in any other period of human his-
tory. It is no wonder that man is torn 
with many fears. Having abandoned 
God for the "deity of science," man with 
all his marvellous power is not to be 
trusted. 
Bertrand Russell in his recently pub-
lished book New Hopes for a Changing 
World states: 
"The present time is one in which 
the prevailing mood is a feeling of im-
potent perplexity." "We have allowed 
ourselves to be hypnotized by our fears." 
"In the modern world, the excess of fear 
above the level which may be called 
rational is more marked than ever be-
fore, because the habit of man persists 
while occasions for fear have greatly 
diminished." 
Long ago Bible prophets depicted such 
a situation as this in the last days. Dan-
iel predicted a great increase of knowl-
edge. (Daniel 12:4.) Christ spoke of the 
increase of fear: 
"There shall be . . . upon the earth 
distress of nations, witbaperplexity; . . . 
men's hearts failing them for fear, and 
for looking after those things which are 
coming on the earth." Luke 21:25, 26. 
The apostle Paul, writing of these 
same times, said: 
"In the last days perilous times shall 
come." 2 Timothy 3:1. 
This picture of increasing knowledge 
and widening fear is contrary to what 
men have been preaching for many 
years. They said, "Let man become bet-
ter educated, better housed, better fed, 
and he will naturally be better." 
The Word of God spoke contrary to 
this, and we see it being fulfilled today. 
The trouble is, man looked upon hu- 
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By 
FREDERICK LEE 
man progress as something mostly mate-
rial. In his haste to make a •new world 
with his new-found powers he forgot 
that man is both flesh and spirit, and 
that when the physical is in control, the 
spiritual languishes. 
This is the trouble with .our genera-
tion. We have made great material prog-
ress, but the spiritual aspects of life. 
which emphasize our duty to God and 
to man, have suffered. 
The decline of morals in society and 
government has been appalling. The 
law of God has been discarded for the 
law of human desires. Andre Gide, 
widely read French scholar, long ago 
advocated the idea that men must be 
free to follow their impulses and gratify 
their personal desires in order to be 
happy. A review of a recently published 
work of Gide entitled The Fruits of the 
Earth said: 
"The shocking message is simply that 
all pleasures are forms of self-realization 
and therefore justified; that pleasure con- 
These "hopeless souls" on 
Skid Row became such 
through a violation of 
God's law, the Ten, Com- 
mandments. 
sists in the physical sensation of the mo-
ment and therefore knows no obligations 
except to the moment."—Book Review 
Section, New York Times, Sept. 25, 
1949. 
This has been the teaching on which 
millions of youth have been reared. The 
tares of sensual license have been sown 
for a generation, and now we are reap-
ing a whirlwind of immorality. 
With God and the moral law relegated 
to the background, man has lost his sense 
of moral responsibility and has aban-
doned himself to his own earthly pas-
sions and evil desires. 
It is no wonder, then, that we find 
shocking corruption in government, 
widespread dishonesty in business, lax-
ity in the relationship between men and 
women, scandal in sports, gambling and 
drunkenness rampant in society, delin-
quency among youth, obscenity in books. 
magazines and the theatre. Man today 
is preoccupied with sex and crime and 
all the unsavoury part of life. 
The Bible aptly describes this moral 
decline in our day. "This know also, 
that in the last days perilous times shall 
come. For men shall be lovers of their 
own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, 
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, un-
thankful, unholy, without natural af-
fection, trucebreakers, false accusers, in-
continent, fierce, despisers of those that 
are good, traitors, heady, highminded, 
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of 
God; having a form of godliness, but 
denying the power thereof: from such 
turn away. . . . But evil men and se-
ducers shall wax worse and worse, de- 
ceiving, and being deceived." 2 Timothy 
3:1-5, 13. 
We talk of a Christian civilization, but 
where are the standards that God pro-
mulgated upon Mt. Sinai and that Christ 
enunciated from the Mount of Blessing? 
Never was there a generation just 
like this. In all its aspects it fulfils the 
words of Scripture. It tells us that 
just before the coming of the Lord Jesus 
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G o d pleads for 
obedience. It 
brings peace and 
tranquillity of 
mind. 
14. IC LAMBERT 
Christ man will attain unto great intel-
lectual powers, but will at the same time 
abandon himself to satisfying the lusts 
of the flesh. Just before God destroyed 
Sodom and Gomorrah, people found 
satisfaction in fulness of bread and abun- 
• 
dance of idleness and a round of drunk-
en pleasure. The people thought only of 
the thrill of the moment and not of the 
coming judgment on the, morrow. So it 
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is today. Christ declared: 
"As it was in the days of Noah, so 
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shall it be also in the days of the Son 
of man. They did eat, they drank, they 
married wives, they were given in mar-
riage, until the day that Noah entered 
into the ark, and the flood came, and 
destroyed them all. Likewise also as it 
was in the days of Lot; they did eat, 
they drank, they bought, they sold, they 
planted, they builded; but the same day 
that Lot went out of Sodom it rained 
fire and brimstone from heaven, and de-
stroyed them all. Even thus shall it be 
in the day when the Son of man is re-
vealed." Luke 17:26-30. 
Yes, this immoral generation is a sign 
of the speeding end of the world. The 
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day of the Lord is near. Christ said of 
this time: "Now learn a parable of the 
fig tree; when his branch is yet tender, 
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and outteth forth leaves, ye know that 
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summer is nigh: so likewise ye, when 
ye shall see all these things, know that it 
is near, even at the doors." Matthew 24: 
32, 33. "When these things begin to 
come to pass, then look up, and lift up 
your heads; for your redemption draw-
eth nigh." Luke 21:28. Then He 
sounded this warning: 
"Therefore be ye also ready: for in 
such an hour as ye think not the Son 
of man cometh." Matthew 24:44. "Take 
heed to yourselves, lest at any time your 
hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, 
and drunkenness, and cares of this life, 
and so that day come upon you un- 
• 
awares. For as a snare shall it come on 
all them that dwell on the face of the 
whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and 
pray always, that ye may be accounted 
worthy to escape all these things that 
shall come to pass, and to stand before 
the Son of man." Luke 21:34-36. 
DECEMBER, 1952 
according to His promise, look for new 
heavens and a new earth, wherein 
dwelleth righteousness." Verse 13. 
Surely we must believe that that hour 
of judgment is not far distant. Some day 
soon God will pour out His wrath upon 
the world. But there is hope for the re-
pentant. We have the promise of a new 
heavens and a new earth, a place where 
those who love righteousness shall dwell 
eternally with their Lord. 
In the light of these things, what shall 
we do? The Bible writer says, "Seeing 
then that all these things shall be dis-
solved, what manner of persons ought 
ye to be in all holy conversation and 
godliness, looking for and hasting unto 
the coming of the day of God. . . . 
"Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye 
look for such things, be diligent that ye 
may be found of Him in peace, without 
spot, and blameless." Verses 12, 14. 
Surely every Christian today should 
be found sighing and crying for the 
abominations that are in the land. He 
should be looking to that day when the 
world shall be cleansed from these 
things. The way to make ready for that 
hour is to have the great standard of 
holy works enshrined within our hearts. 
We should no longer be rebellious to 
the call of God to hearken unto His 
commandments. 
Those who are to be delivered from 
this world at Christ's coming are de-
scribed in these words: "Here is the 
patience of the saints: here are they that 
keep the commandments of God, and 
the faith of Jesus." Revelation 14:12. 
Can you, dear reader, be classified among 
those who keep the commandments of 
God, those ten holy words that were 
promulgated upon Mt. Sinai? 
To the one who asked Him, "Good 
Master, what good thing shall I do, that 
I may have eternal life? ' Christ replied, 
"If thou wilt enter into life, keep the 
commandments." Matthew 19:16, 17. 
The grave moral decline today has 
come about because men have discarded 
God's holy law, the ten commandments. 
Even many Christians have looked upon 
it as a code of another generation that 
does not apply today. But the truth is 
that there can be no peace in the world, 
no order in society, no proper relation-
ship to God and man unless we adhere 
to all the commandments. 
"0 that thou hadst hearkened to My 
commandments!" the Lord pleads, "then 
had thy peace been as a river, and thy 
righteousness as the waves of the sea. 
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It was for this that the Son of God 
came to earth. He lived and died among 
us to show how God's holy standard of 
righteousness should be kept and to help 
us keep it. 'The Bible says: 
"For what the law could not do, in 
that it was weak through the flesh, God 
sending His own Son in the likeness of 
sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin 
in the flesh: that the righteousness of 
the law might be fulfilled in us, who 
walk not after the flesh, but after the 
Spirit." Romans 8:3, 4. 
Yes, you can keep the commandments, 
through faith in Christ, and be prepared 
to meet God. Are you willing to sur-
render your will to Christ and let Him 
write God's law in your heart? That is 
the most important question facing you 
today. May our gracious Lord help you 
to settle it without delay. 
Seven 
God cannot much longer endure this 
lawless and unrighteous generation. He 
has been long-suffering with men but 
we are told through the apostle Peter: 
"But the day of the Lord will come as 
a thief in the night; in the which the 
heavens shall pass away with a great 
noise, and the elements shall melt with 
fervent heat, the earth also and the works 
that are therein shall be burned up." 
2 Peter 3:10. 
"Nevertheless," adds the apostle. "we, 
I
F YOU value peace above all, do not 
miss it—it may never come again," 
exclaimed former Foreign Secretary 
Ernest Bevin of Britain. Bevin raises a 
serious question. Why might not peace 
come again? 
At the World Conference, called for 
the signing of the Japanese peace treaty, 
Gromyko, chief Russian delegate, said 
angrily: "This is not a treaty of peace, 
but a plan for a new war!" 
Thinking men, statesmen and stu-
dents of prophecy, all recognize that, as 
H. G. Wells expressed it, man has come 
to the "end of his tether." There is no 
way out. We have come to an impasse. 
Recognizing that philosophy offers no 
solution, that science has found no 
utopia in its test tube, that education 
suggests no panacea for man's despera-
tion, we turn to the one Source of in-
fallible assistance. 
He added, "There shall be famines, and 
pestilences, and earthquakes." Matthew 
24:6, 7. 
Again He said: "Fearful sights," "up-
on the earth distress of nations, with per-
plexity; . . . men's hearts failing them 
for fear, and for looking after those 
things which are coming on the earth. 
. . . And then shall they see the Son of 
man coming in a cloud with power and 
great glory." Luke 21:11, 25-27. 
These dramatic, distressing, divine 
declarations thrill our spiritual imagi-
nation. They bring us to realize that we 
—in this generation—must see prophecy 
By 
FENTON EDWIN FROOM 
Storms 
In Fiji a hurricane blowing 175 miles 
an hour destroyed well-built homes, 
stores and office buildings as though they 
were match boxes. Ships in the harbour 
were tossed on shore as though they were 
toys. Thousands suffered damage, and 
crops were spoiled by the worst hurri-
cane in Fiji's history. 
On March 22 tornadoes tore through 
Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Arkansas and Missouri, leaving a 
toll of 235 dead, 1,000 injured, and 
property damage running into the mil-
lions. It was a national disaster. Children 
were left orphans and families homeless. 
Whole towns were levelled. Truly there 
is upon the earth "distress," "with per-
plexity." 
We are told that cold air from the 
Arctic and warm air from the Gulf, 
FEARFUL SIGHTS 
A matchless young Carpenter who 
lived one hundred and ninety decades 
ago uttered these impressive words: 
"When these things begin to come to 
pass, then look up, . . . for your redemp-
tion draweth nigh." Luke 21:28. What 
are "these things"? Let us see if they are 
now observable. 
This man, Christ Jesus, urged: "Look 
up, and lift up your heads." Why? Be-
cause, He declared, the end of all 
things would come. He stated, "I will 
come again." The second coming of 
Christ will bring the only permanent 
peace this world will ever know. It is 
the sole hope of the world. But how may 
we know when Christ will return? 
The Saviour, with prophetic eye, fore-
saw the events that would take place just 
before His second coming. "Wars and 
rumours of wars" were predicted, and 
"nation shall rise against nation." Then 
fulfilling with ever-increasing rapidity. 
Are these breath-taking events taking 
place about us? 
Earthquakes 
A few days ago in a single newscast 
the commentator told about an earth-
quake in Sicily, another in Korea and 
a third in the Netherlands East Indies. 
This report was for a twenty-four-hour 
period. On March 4 a terrifying earth-
quake and tidal waves killed at least 
thirty-one persons in northern Japan. 
This quake is said to be "one of the worst 
earthquakes of the century." It was fol-
lowed by blizzards, landslides, floods, 
and fires, leaving 10,000 people home-
less and suffering privation. World con-
ditions seem to have turned topsy-turvy. 
Christ prophesied that nature would go 
on a rampage—"the sea and the waves 
roaring." Luke 21: 25. 
clashing, caused tornadoes in the south 
and blizzards in the northern plains of 
America. Communication lines were 
down, and scores had to be rescued. Cat-
tle were stranded, creating another haz-
ard for survival. Some have wondered if 
atomic reactions have jolted nature out 
of her course! 
Floods 
Not long before this the states of Kan-
sas, Nebraska and Ohio suffered a 
twelve-billion-dollar flood. The after-
math of floods, quakes and storms stag-
gers our imagination unless we witness 
the scene. Truly the Master saw our day 
and observed that "these things" which 
are taking place before our eyes would 
sober men and challenge them to pre-
pare to meet Christ. Signs everywhere 
tell us that He is coming soon. 
Famines 
Arizona has experienced the longest 
drought in modern times. Indians recall 
a time years ago when it did not rain for 
so many seasons that certain sections be-
came lifeless. Truly this is a famine area 
even in prosperous America. Recall the 
divine pronouncement: There shall be 
in the last days—"famines." Matthew 
24:7. 
Reports from New Delhi, India, state 
that rains have failed for the sixth year 
in succession. Cattle are dying and much 
sickness is resulting from famine. Acute 
grain and water shortages have forced 
the movement of cattle to other areas. 
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the government is not in a position to 
supply the increased demands of the rice-
eating peoples of Madras and West 
Bengal. Results of famine cause adults 
and children to suffer from acute swell-
ings due to vitamin deficiencies. 
But the prophet speaks of another 
famine. "Behold, the days come, saith 
the Lord God, that I will send a famine 
in the land, not a famine of bread, nor 
a thirst for water, but of hearing the 
words of the Lord." Amos 8:11. That 
day is coming when men "shall wander 
from sea to sea, and from the north even 
to the east, they shall run to and fro to 
seek the word of the Lord, and shall not 
find it." Verse 12. The famine for food 
and water should challenge us to seek 
for spiritual food and drink that we 
might be prepared for the famine days 
which lie ahead for those who know not 
God. 
Pestilences 
In Fannin County, Texas, some 5,000 
to 8,000 cases of a painful virus disease 
called "Devil's Grip" have appeared. The 
scientific name of the disease is pleuro-
dynia, and its symptoms resemble those 
of polio. The disease is painful for a 
time and then fades away. This pesti-
lence is both annoying and startling. 
Strange is it not, that so many people 
are caught in the "Devil's Grip" through 
sickness or sin! 
Perhaps the most serious pestilence of 
the day is the "foot-and-mouth" disease 
outbreak in Canada's great plains prov-
ince of Saskatchewan. (We recall the 
1947 virus outbreak when 1,000,000 cat-
de in Mexico had to be slaughtered and 
buried.) It was necessary for veterinar- 
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ians to check all the stock. More than 
1,000 cattle, sheep and hogs were herded 
into a twelve-foot pit and shot by Cana-
dian Mounties. Strong measures taken 
to sterilize the area and to eliminate all 
stock with the infection has halted a 
national tragedy. Such a pestilence as 
this, perhaps started by one person, could 
jeopardize all the stock of a nation. 
Another pestilence recently broke out 
in North Korea among the soldiers and 
DECEMBER, 1952 
in Red China. Only meagre information 
is available. 
There is another side we can investi-
gate. We read in 2 Timothy 3:3: "In the 
last days . . . men shall be . . . fierce." 
Biological warfare is an integral plan 
for the future conquest of war. American 
casualties caused by gas during World 
War I were 74,779. Brigadier General 
William M. Creasy, the U. S. Army's 
top biological warfare researcher, said 
recently that an enemy could envelop a 
whole city in a dense smog of disease 
germs loosed from special bombs or 
shells. The result would be death, he 
said, to a high percentage of the city's 
population—victims to this particular 
disease. 
Listen to these sobering words from 
Dr. Gerald Wendt, of the U. S. Chemi-
cal Warfare Service: "A new weapon 
H. M. LAMBERT 
Fires, floods and tornadoes are among the 
"signs" that will mark the "last days." Christ 
foretold the "sea and the waves roaring." All 
nature will go on a rampage just before that 
elem. ,a *Li= I nrei env.," 
more fiendish than the atomic bomb has 
just been made by the U. S. Chemical 
Warfare Service. This poison is so pow-
erful that one ounce is enough to kill 
180,000,000—the entire population of 
the United States and Canada wiped 
out in a single night. There are also new 
biological weapons, so hideous that they 
are beyond the most fantastic imagina-
tion of man." The chemist's words need 
no amplification. 
Fearful Sights 
During the last few months the city 
of Elizabeth, N.J., witnessed the crash-
ing of three airplanes, killing 112 per-
sons. Without question these episodes 
are "fearful sights," as our Lord stated 
would take place. (Luke 21:11.) Just 
a year before within fifteen miles of the 
scene of these crashes, was a tragic_rail-
road accident in which nearly ninety 
persons perished. Again we read of-the 
Dutch plane crashing near Frankfurt, 
Germany, killing forty-four. These are 
isolated cases. What must the horror of 
the battlefield be in prophetic fulfilment 
R. E. FINNEY. JR. 
of the "fearful sights" our Saviour saw 
in vision of our day? 
More and more we observe strange, 
unexplainable fires routing hotel guests 
or patients of institutions, often in the 
middle of the night. Turning to the sea 
—recently ships have broken in two, en-
dangering and losing life. Can there be 
a sane explanation of these "fearful 
sights" other than a recognition that 
they are but the fulfilment of prophecy? 
Hope for Man 
Time or space will not permit us to 
delve into the multitudinous details 
which appear in fulfilling prophecy re-
garding labour troubles, and the burn-
ing passions of men for pleasure and 
crime. Gambling has reached an all-time 
high; alcoholism staggers the imagina-
tion with liquor expenditures of more 
than ten billion dollars in 1950; crime 
now induces teen-agers to sell their souls 
for a mess of dope pottage; and murder 
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newspapers almost daily. 
This recital of current happenings in 
the field of prophetic promise is a sordid 
picture. The outlook is pessimistic and 
almost disheartening. But take courage, 
dear friend. Listen to the words of Jesus: 
"Let not your heart be troubled." John 
14:1. The Saviour looked down to our 
day. He beheld every fearful act in the 
stirring drama between good and evil. 
Jesus is coming soon. He will bring an 
end to sin, sorrow, suffering and want. 
He will usher in a new day of eternal 
gladness. He will bring the solution to 
man's problems. He will provide an 
everlasting home for those who love 
Him. Do you long to see Jesus? Will you 
declare your love for Him and make 
known your desires by exclaiming with 
the apostle John, "Even so, come, Lord 
Jesus"? Revelation 22:20. 
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M
EDICAL science in the past has 
conferred upon people who have 
availed themselves of the new 
knowledge of disease, the prevention of 
infections through vaccines and immuni-
zation. Almost miraculous cures have 
been effected through the use of the 
new and powerful drugs and antibiotics. 
For the future we can promise to those 
individuals who are taking advantage of 
the new knowledge of nutrition, a great-
er stature, a better physique, increased 
resistance to infections, and comparative 
freedom from degenerative diseases. 
These will insert ten or more additional 
years into the mid-span of their lives, 
give an increased vigour and vitality at 
all age levels, and postpone the usual 
signs of senility until the very end of 
their days. 
Medical research made a great contri-
bution to human welfare when it un-
covered evidence that improper food and 
the consequent bad nutrition was the 
real underlying cause of many diseases. 
Sicknesses caused by deficient foodstuff 
were found for the most part to be 
chronic and crippling to both mind and 
body, creating in themselves scores of 
social problems. We are coming to re-
alize that chronic sickness due to faulty 
nutrition is the largest single factor in 
our problem of what to do with our old 
people. If we cannot give our old people 
a continued activity, healthful and pro-
ductive until the end of their existence, 
then the social problems that they create 
may well overwhelm our whole economic 
structure. 
We now know for sure that certain 
diseases are due to certain specific de-
ficiencies in our diet. We are beginning 
to appreciate the fact that millions of our 
people and of our domestic animals are 
suffering from a lack of proper food. 
They are not physically fit. They do not 
exhibit the signs of positive health. 
Many of our people have even come to 
enjoy their bad health. They have no 
Food grown on vita-
min and mineral rich 
land bears an abun-
dant supply of these 
vital necessities to its 
consumer. 
conception whatsoever of how it feels 
to be robust and fit. They have lost so 
much of their natural vitality that they 
have little or no vigour. They lack emo-
tional stability and the powers of con-
centration that go with a brain and a 
nervous system that are functioning 
well. 
Almost all of our vitamins come from 
plants, large or microscopic species. The 
plant when in good health produces an 
adequate amount of the vitamins for its 
health and this in turn gives us optimal 
foodstuffs which, if we do not spoil in 
the harvesting, storing, processing, dis-
tributing, cooking, preparing, or serving, 
will give us all of the essentials that we 
need. Our most precious heritage, there-
fore, is the topsoil from nine to ten inches 
in the crust of the earth from which we 
get our food, our growth and our shelter. 
If we look at the myriad of products 
that are grown and produced from the 
soil as being manufactured by a com-
munity of plants, we come to have a 
different concept of the role that thou-
sands of different kinds of plants play in 
The Underlying 
Cause By JONATHAN FORMAN 
B.A., M.D., F.A.C.A. 
CANADIAN PACIFIC 
RAILWAY 
Animals, living on 
natural, unprocessed 
food, have an ad-
vantage healthwise. 
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our civilization. They form the basis of 
approximately three-fourths of our in-
dustries and urban occupations. 
If we appreciate the fact that these 
plants protect our topsoil we face im-
mediately a score of problems about 
which we know all too little. We face 
the problem of the organization of na-
ture; so we are forced to give up our own 
particular concern about one aspect of 
the wise use of our natural resources 
and think of the problem of conservation 
as a whole. We must recognize that each 
of these particular problems is a part of 
a complex system of interrelations. So 
both the protection of our renewable re-
sources, our food-supply relations, and 
our own personal health are interrelated 
and interwoven. 
The great upswing in the curve of 
population has been due in a large meas- 
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ure to the introduction of a mining type 
of agriculture rather than a sustaining 
programme. Many of our so-called im-
provements in agriculture have really 
been improved methods of mining the 
resources of the topsoil. This is suicidal. 
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We ought to realize that the boasted 
progress of the last two hundred years 
is essentially the rape of the virgin con-
tinent of North America. 
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The pressure from our greatly in- 
creased number is on for more and more 
and more production irrespective of the 
loss of balance between productive re-
sources and the demand. So we move 
at an ever-accelerating rate to the de-
struction of life on this planet—at least 
to the life of the human race. 
Our general education has proved to 
be a miserable failure. The greatest in-
dictment, among the many, that can be 
brought against it is the fact that it has 
not taught us how to live within the 
biological "norm" for man. We have not 
• 
been trained to see our problems both 
personal and social as related to our bio-
logical environment which in turn de- 
pends upon the soil, the water and the 
• 
climate. We must come to appreciate and 
to care for the plants and insects and ani-
mals that must coinhabit this world with 
us if it is to be a healthful place for us 
humans. 
We, of medicine, are perhaps the most 
miseducated of all. We have been pre-
pared vocationally in a very narrow, su-
perficial, compartmentized field of la-
bour. We all tend to look at the 
immediate, to treat it systematically. 
Consequently, it is almost impossible for 
us to see the problem as a whole; to 
see engineering in relation to natural 
sciences, natural sciences in relation to 
social sciences, to see the problems of 
ourselves and our patients in relation to 
population food supply problems, and 
all of these in relation to our natural re-
sources. For us physicians this means 
reverse pathology, social pathology, in-
cluding the problem of population num-
bers and food supply and its relation to 
our renewable resources. 
The inherent quality of food depends 
fundamentally upon the quality of the 
soil upon which it is grown. It is true 
that variety, moisture and other factors 
may prove of even greater importance 
in improving the quality. But the soil 
must have in it in available form all of 
the elements essential for the nourish-
ment of the healthy plant or these will 
be of no avail. 
The quality of the soil is determined 
by the nature of the rock from which it 
was weathered originally, by the amount 
of humus in it, the vegetation that has 
grown upon it through the centuries and, 
above all, by the degree of exploitation 
DECEMBER, 1952 
NEIGHBOURS WORTH HAVING 
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HERE'S my slingshot, Mom?" 
ten-year-old Jack Wilson asked, 
turning the contents of the toy 
drawer upside down. 
"Why do you want it, Son?" Mrs. 
Wilson looked up from her cooking. 
"I must have it," muttered Jack, search-
ing more furiously. "Don't you know 
where it is, Mom? I must hurry. That 
old thing may be after Mrs. Blue right 
now." 
"What's after Mrs. Blue?" 
"That cat those new folks have. I had 
to throw a stone at it, or it would have 
caught her. The woman scolded me." 
"She did?" There was dismay in peace-
loving Mrs. Wilson's tone. "Why didn't 
you explain?" 
"I tried to, but she said, 'Don't throw 
at my cat any more, little boy, or I'll tell 
your mother,' and walked away." 
Mrs. Wilson sat down in real distress. 
"What an introduction to new neigh-
bours! I had so hoped we'd enjoy them 
as much as we did the Jennings." 
"The Jennings thought as much of 
Mrs. Blue as we do," said Jack. 
• "You must not start any warfare with 
a neighbour, Son," Mrs. Wilson said 
decisively. "You leave your slingshot 
here. I value the friendship of my neigh-
bours—" 
"Don't you value Mrs. Blue's friend-
ship?" interrupted Jack hotly. "You 
know she's nested in that apple tree for 
years. The babies are almost ready to 
fly. She trusts us to protect her. 0 Mom, 
we just can't let an old cat—" His voice 
broke and he dashed out by the kitchen 
door. 
Mrs. Wilson stood stirring her cake 
absently. No, they couldn't betray the 
bluebirds, nor the robins, nor dear little 
Jenny Wren, but to have anything but 
harmony with a neighbour was unthink-
able. "I know!" she exclaimed at last. 
"I'll go and ask her to bell her cat." 
That very afternoon she called on her 
new neighbour. 
"She's perfectly delightful," she told 
available to man and other animals. The 
simple inorganic elements of the air and 
the soil are selected and built up by the 
plant into complex, organic compounds 
which then may be further elaborated 
with selection and elimination of ele-
mentary components by the animal into 
blood, bone, and flesh. 
the family at supper. "And the cat, Sun-
shine, is the most beautiful one I ever 
saw. But I failed in my mission," she 
went on dejectedly. "She doesn't want 
to put a bell on her cat." 
"It's going to be war, then," Jack de-
clared angrily. "Her cat's not going to 
kill off the birds if I can help it." 
 
"Just a minute, Son," said his mother. 
"I've invited her for tea, tomorrow. We're 
going to have it in the orchard. You 
know how it is there about five o'clock, 
with the birds starting their evening ves-
pers." 
"Don't think it'll do any good," mut-
tered Jack. 
But he was mistaken. Hardly had tea 
begun, when the guest sat up suddenly. 
"Oh, what was that?" she asked. "It 
looked as if a bit of sky were falling." 
"Mr. Blue," explained her hostess. "He 
and Mrs. Blue keep pretty busy these 
days. Their children are growing so fast 
they are continuously hungry. Yet Mr. 
Blue is bound to find time to indulge in 
a few merry notes." Then she added, 
"How lovely the bluebirds are, aren't 
they? Oh, listen! There is a brown 
thrasher." 
"I never have lived near wild birds," 
the new neighbour said a little later, 
after she had listened enraptured. "I 
think they may prove intensely interest-
ing neighbours." 
 
Presently, she was making a tour of the 
orchard, under Jack's capable leadership. 
She exclaimed with delight over the 
oriole's clever cradle and Jenny Wren's 
snug little wooden house. 
"I'm coming for another lesson in bird-
lore, soon," she said as she took her 
leave. "And I'm going to get Sunshine 
a bell first thing in the morning. Can't 
risk her bothering these lovely tenants of 
yours." 
After she had gone, Mrs. Wilson and 
Jack looked at each other with evident 
satisfaction. 
"We shan't have to fight," said Jack. 
"No," said his mother happily.—Trella 
Dick, in National Kindergarten Associ-
ation. 
Eleven. 
which it has suffered at the hands of man. 
The plants of the earth take from the 
soil the mineral elements that they need, 
plus those that the animals need. The 
thin green carpeting that covers the 
earth stands then as the intermediary by 
which certain elements in the rocks, 
after their conversion to soil, are made 
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Send your health queries to the Doctor's Voice, 
Box 398, Oshawa, Ont. 
Constipation 
Questi•an: I am terribly constipated, 
and am taking pills and medicine 
such as liver pills. Occasionally I make 
some senna tea. Now I am having 
severe heart attacks, palpitation, and 
shortness of breath, and I am won-
dering if the pills I am taking are the 
cause of this. Would you suggest min-
eral oil instead? My age is seventy-
six. 
ANSWER: In general it is felt 
that constipation is not detri-
mental to the general health. 
Not a few laxatives, particularly 
those supposed to act upon the 
liver, contain strychnine, which 
is a poison. Mineral oil robs the 
body of oil-soluble vitamins and 
is not recommended. 
Over-cooking of Cereals 
Question: Can cereals be over-
cooked so that they lose their vita-
min content? Does the cooking of 
cereals make them more digestible? 
ANSWER: Cooking does not 
seriously reduce the vitamin con-
tent of cereals. Also, it renders 
them more digestible. Dry cere-
als are more digestible than 
cooked ones, since the water con-
tent dilutes the digestive juices. 
Zwieback—thoroughly dried 
whole-wheat bread—is most di-
gestible of all. If you eat from 
four to six slices of whole-wheat 
bread daily you can give up 
cereals almost entirely. But if 
you don't eat cereals you should 
see that you get milk every day. 
High Blood Pressure 
Question: My blood pressure keeps 
around 260. I have weak kidneys and 
bladder. What do you advise? 
ANSWER: As one gets older, 
the kidneys lose their power to 
concentrate the urine, which is 
one cause of getting up nights to 
pass water. Women may have 
urinary obstruction due to ureth-
ral stricture, which might aggra-
vate the hypertension. A uri-
nalysis and examination would 
be in order. In severe cases of 
hypertension the "rice diet" has 
merit. It includes boiled or 
steamed rice (without added 
salt, butter, or milk), cooked or 
fresh fruit, fresh tomatoes. It is 
monotonous and one tends to 
lose weight on it, but it will often 
bring the pressure down. 
Humming in Head 
Question: I have had a humming 
noise in my head. An examination of 
my 
heart, including electrocardio-
graph, showed that it is normal. 
What can be the cause? 
ANSWER: There are quite a 
number of things which can 
cause head noises; often it is a 
combination of factors which 
makes diagnosis difficult. The 
inner ear must be affected in 
some way, either through its 
blood supply or its nerve connec-
tions. The blood supply can be 
affected by anaemia, or edema, 
which so frequently accompanies 
upper respiratory infections. 
In the elderly, arteriosclerosis 
may be a factor. The nerve sup-
ply can be adversely influenced 
by a lack of vitamin B (which 
is found in legumes, nuts, whole-
grain products, etc.) or by tox-
ins. Toxins would include the 
nicotine of tobacco, caffeine in 
tea and coffee, and such drugs 
as aspirin, quinine, etc. Nicotine 
also constricts blood vessels, caf-
feine dilates them. The free use 
of salt may cause head noises 
and impaired hearing, in older 
persons particularly. Salt exerts 
osmotic pressure and upsets the 
delicate fluid balance in the var-
ious compartments of the inner 
ear. 
Dizziness 
Question: I am a farmer eighty-
two years old. I have hardening of 
the arteries, and am very dizzy when 
I get up in the morning. My heart is 
not very good. Do you have any sug-
gestions? 
ANSWER: It is possible only 
to deal with general principles 
in a column of this kind. There 
seems to be virtue in a low cho-
lesterol diet; that is, the restric-
tion of animal fats including 
butter and eggs. Three or four 
eggs a week are plenty for one 
with arteriosclerosis. Margarine 
could be used instead of butter. 
You would pro b a b 1 y benefit 
from the restriction of salt, even 
in cooking. Meat and fish are 
high in salt and would be best 
omitted. Salt favours the devel-
opment of edema (dropsy) in 
persons with heart trouble and 
might be a factor in your dizzi-
ness. A physician would have to 
prescribe any specific remedies. 
Bar Bells 
Question: Would it be harmful to 
use aids such as bar bells in body 
building? 
ANSWER: Bar bells and such 
aids are help f u l in muscle 
strengthening. There is danger 
in lifting heavy weights of dam-
aging the intervertebral discs 
with the development of sciatic 
pain later in life. Accordingly, 
my opinion would be that hiking 
and or d i n a r y outdoor work 
would be preferable. 
 
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