A SURE FAITH IN A SURE FUTURE 
THE WINDS Of FATE 
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
O
NE ship drives east and another drives west 
With the selfsame winds that blow. 
`Tis the set of the sails 
And not the gales 
Which tells us the way to go. 
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate, 
As we voyage along through life: 
'Tis the set of the soul 
That decides its goal, 
I
d not the calm or the strife. 
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"COUCH" OR CROSS �
 
SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT JONAH �
 
"HOLY, HOLY, HOLY!" . . �
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LOVE AND SEX �
 
ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO! �
 
WHAT'S YOUR HURRY? 
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CHRISTIAN BELIEFS IN A SCIENTIFIC AGE . �
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JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE (Bible Study) 
LAWS AND THE LORD'S DAY 
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OTHER FEATURES 
WINDS OF FATE (Poem) 
NEWS AND VIEWS �
 
HOPE ON (Poem) �
 
CONTENTS 
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E. L. SOUTHEY 
W. J. NEWMAN 
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Maxwell 
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Maxwell 
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Maxwell 
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G. �
Elliott 
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J. �
R. �
Lewis 
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M.A., �
Ph.D.,(Lond.) 
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J. A. �
McMillan 
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K. H. Gammon 
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Shay 
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L.R.C.P., �
M.R.C.S. 
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C. �
Mervyn �
Maxwell 
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D Keough 
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Shaw 
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R. �
H. �
Libby 
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W. Wilcox 
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Ronald Freeth 
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PROPER PERSPECTIVE 
T
O assess the theme of a great painting, 
or to judge its artistry and composition, 
there are sure ways of failing. One way 
would be to study it with a powerful 
microscope. Another would be simply to 
focus on a very tiny portion of it with the 
naked eye. 
Like the proverbial quandary victim who 
"cannot see the wood for trees," so it 
is that too microscopic a scrutiny of works 
of art--or of anything else that is sizeable, 
prevents the satisfaction of either seeing or 
evaluating the total thing. 
Rather like the insect parasite nestling 
in the folds of an elephant's horny skin, 
which thought of its gargantuan host not 
as an animal but as a series of mountain 
ranges! 
People are rather like that in relation to 
life. Wrong judgments are bound to happen 
while there is failure—or inability—to take 
a detached and overall view of things. 
Focusing morbidly on, for instance, his 
present reverses, a person is liable to draw 
wrong conclusions, and thereby deepen his 
sense of dissatisfaction, bewilderment, or 
unhappiness. Today's experience is. after 
all, only a bit of life's total pattern. And 
our personal lives are themselves only tiny 
elements in the global pattern which a 
benevolent God is mercifully overruling for 
ultimate good. 
Only a knowledge of Bible truth can 
enable us to see things in proper perspec-
tive. Only awareness of the great prophetic 
pictures of God's Word enables us to 
interpret past and present history in a way 
that makes sense, and which therefore 
brings satisfaction. 
Hence the satisfaction we have in main-
taining the time-honoured purpose of OUR 
TIMES: It is to remind us of the fact that 
in the Bible we have a trustworthy revela-
tion of truth—truth that helps us see 
things, whether personal or otherwise, in 
their proper perspective: truth which throws 
clarifying light on the almost unrestrained 
gallop of modern history: truth which brings 
lasting satisfaction to the mind, and 
abiding joy to the soul. �R.D.V. 
THE BIBLE and • 
OUR TIME S 
A family journal of Christian living dedicated to the proclamation of the 
everlasting Gospel. Presenting the Bible as the Word of God and Jesus Christ 
as our all-sufficient Saviour and coming King 
EDITOR 
 RAYMOND D. VINE 
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BY THE EDITOR 
DISCERNING 
THE TIMES... 
CURRENT EVENTS IN THE LIGHT OF THE BIBLE 
ISRAEL'S VICTORY ASSURED 
A
HEATED battle of words flared 
up as our tourist coach paused 
on the summit of Mount 
Scopus. 
To our right was a thin strip of 
woodland hacked through with 
military trenches. Beyond were the 
Judean hills rising and falling 
toward the deepest spot on earth, 
where the mineral-rich, sterile waters 
of the Dead Sea could just be 
seen. To the left, beyond the Kidron 
Valley was the proud city of 
Jerusalem glowing in the blazing 
March sun. Just beyond us was the 
Allenby military cemetery neatly 
packed with British soldiers killed 
in World War I; and nearby was 
the derelict Hebrew University. 
Where we had paused, a vital 
battle of the incredible "six days' 
war" had raged between Jews and 
Arabs in June 1967. The woodland 
strip looked good except for the 
battle-scarred trees, their top halves 
eerily dangling where trunks had been 
nearly severed by shells. 
Hyam, our Jewish guide, had 
paused to impart details of the 
lightning victory which trebled the 
size of Israel's minuscule country, and 
recovered most of the holy places 
which are perennial tourist attrac-
tions. But spitfire fellow tourists 
asked him to move on. They'd come, 
they said, to see archaeological re-
mains, not to be lectured on Israel's 
military history. It was an immature 
and hurtful attitude. 
Guide Hyam swallowed the sour 
pill with an embarrassed gulp, and 
we headed north for Shechem, Sam-
aria, and Tiberias. 
His encyclopaedic knowledge was 
Old Jerusalem 
from the 
Mount of 
Olives. 
always at our service as in ensuing 
days we visited key places from 
Tel Megiddo in the luxuriant "bread-
basket" of Esdraelon in the north, 
to the dead cities of Shifta, Avdat, 
and Masada in the arid south. He 
knew his Bible, and his history. And 
throughout a memorable tour gave 
ample evidence that his main interest 
was not ancient, but modern Israel. 
Understandably he gloried in his 
compatriots' accomplishments since 
achieving independence in 1948. 
We paused to see and to visit 
many Kibbutzim where young Jewish 
"pioneers" are doing wonders bring-
ing lush fertility to areas that were 
hitherto semi-barren. 
Well south of the thriving city 
of Beersheba, capital of the in-
hospitable Negev Desert, we stopped 
for an iced orangeade beside olive 
groves, orange orchards, and fields 
of waving corn, where once was 
sterile wilderness—thanks to the 
industry of the Beer Parqu'a Kibbutz 
dwellers, and to water piped from 
Galilee in the far north. 
In Jerusalem, Hyam had justifiable 
satisfaction in escorting us to the 
smart modern University buildings, 
the impressive Parliament area, and 
the great arena where Israel's in-
dependence was soon to be celebrated 
in a way that angered the Arabs. 
He insisted on referring to it, in 
revered Biblical language, as "the 
New Jerusalem." 
Despite the sabre-rattling Arabs 
who today, with even deeper hostil-
ity, vow vengeance on upstart Israel, 
Hyam seemed unworried. He felt 
sure that God was in this thing, 
never doubting that his nation's 
status has not changed since Old 
Testament times. He believes them 
still to be God's "chosen race." To 
him, the vigour and success of mod-
ern Jews is a triumph forecast by 
Bible prophecy. 
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And so it is to many Christians 
who study prophecy. 
But herein is a basic error, and 
herein is the main point of this 
editorial. 
True it is that a total, lasting 
victory is promised to Israel. It 
is equally true that theirs is the 
promise of lasting peace and security 
in the New Jerusalem. The error 
is one of identity. Who, in fact, 
are the Israel of prophecy? 
After many centuries of fatherly 
forbearance with the ancient children 
of Israel, God was compelled at 
last to deprive them of their special 
status. Their chilling exclusivism, 
their failure to fulfil their God-
appointed role as the world's enlight-
eners, their arrant pride, and finally 
their resolute rejection of Christ and 
His salvation, disqualified them ir-
revocably from the national purpose 
God had envisaged. All this was 
prophesied clearly enough. Daniel's 
marvellous time-prophecy even re-
veals the specific point in time—A.D. 
34—when their nation's iniquity 
caused the divine axe to fall on them 
as His "chosen." 
Thereafter—and still today—ac-
cording to clear Bible definition, the 
terms "Israelite," "Jew," a n d 
"Abraham's seed," were to be under-
stood in terms of any, whether literal 
Jew or Gentile, who honestly acknow-
ledged Christ Jesus as Lord, Saviour, 
and Guide. 
Though himself a Jew, once en-
joying high rank and great respect, 
the Apostle Paul was inspired to 
remind us that in God's sight he is 
not a Jew who "is one outwardly; ... 
But he is a Jew, which is one in-
wardly; . . . in the spirit." Romans 
2:28. 
Later we are reminded: "They are 
not all Israel, which are of Israel." 
Romans 9:6. And later again, we 
have the wonderful fact that "if 
ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's 
seed [i.e. Israelites or Jews], and 
heirs according to the promise." 
Galatians 3:29. 
This cuts through barriers of race 
and language, and confirms the new, 
international nature of God's new 
"nation" of Israel. 
In a word, all true followers of 
Christ are "Jews"—whether they are 
literal Jews or Gentiles. People who 
have faith in Christ, and adhere to 
his standards—they, and they alone, 
are "Israelites," and "heirs" of the 
promise made to Abraham. Only as 
Left.—Israell soldier at Tel 
Megiddo, overlooking the 
fateful Valley of Esdraelon. 
Below.—Young "pioneer," 
an Irish Jew, at Almagor—a 
place in North Galilee under 
constant Syrian fire until June, 
1967. 
Top.—Sculpture at Arad, over-
looking the Dead See and 
Jordan, symbolic of vigilance, 
defence, Industry, and water 
conservation. 
Below.—The Knesset Parl-
iament Building in Jerusalem. 
this is clearly understood can we 
appreciate the Bible's sweeping 
statement that "all Israel shall be 
saved." Romans 11:26. Not one 
Israelite will be lost, for the simple 
reason that only confirmed and gen-
uine Christians qualify as "Jews" or 
"Israelites" in the sight of God. 
Whatever the rights or wrongs of 
the situation, we have nothing but 
admiration for the vigour and enter-
prise of modern Israel, as we have 
sympathy and goodwill toward the 
aggrieved Arabs. (Certainly Father 
Abraham sowed seeds of bitter and 
lasting contention in producing—
through lack of faith in God—
Ishmael, the Arabs' forebear; then 
later, his legitimate son Isaac, pro-
genitor of the Jewish race.) 
A most significant fact is that 
modern Israel have not the slightest 
leanings toward Christ or Christian-
ity. Sparkling success has confirmed 
in their Judaism those Jews who are 
religiously inclined. The rest are 
irreligious. Which proves that the 
Israeli upsurge is no special prov-
idence of God—as was the ancient 
Exodus, because His special leading 
has always been linked with accept-
ance of His truth. 
Which all adds up to a message 
of stupendous wonder and reassur- 
ance to all who, by becoming 
Christians, thereby assume the spirit-
ual status of true Jews or Israelites. 
All such, together with Abraham, 
will "inherit the promise." And the 
promise to him was that of "a city 
which hath foundations, whose 
Builder and Maker is God." Hebrews 
11:10. 
Inheritance of this city, this New 
Jerusalem, in the day of God, will 
spell ultimate victory and the 
beginning of immortal peace and 
happiness for the "Israel" of God, 
—a prospect that will merge into 
glorious reality when Jesus Christ 
returns in second advent splendour. 
R.D.V. 
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WORLD IN PANIC 
During the recent battle to end the money crisis, official 
supplies of gold fell below danger level. Above picture shows 
what £250,000 in gold bars looks like. 
M
ORE and more frequently the word "panic" 
appears in the press. A few weeks ago there 
was a "gold panic," as big companies and 
wealthy private citizens, fearful that the dollar might 
be devalued, rushed to turn their paper into metal. 
As a result the price of gold rose so high that for 
a while it was feared that the whole international 
monetary system would collapse, with consequent 
ruin for millions. 
"Panic" is often used in connection with city 
riots, describing the state of mind of people who, 
because of many fears, can no longer be reasoned 
with. Motivated only by self-interest, acknowledging 
no restraints, a mob goes on the rampage regardless 
of consequences. 
Panic may be seen, too, in war areas, where 
cities and villages are overrun by troops of one side 
or the other, and thousands of men, women and 
children suddenly become refugees, striving desperately 
to save whatever they can from the world dissolving 
about them. Vietnam, Jordan, Africa, and India, 
have provided tragic examples in recent months. 
Uncertainties of all kinds are piling up, too, in the 
stock market, racial unrest, strikes, elections—and 
such uncertainties lead to fears, and fears to panic. 
Meanwhile scientists tell us that one of the worst 
features of atomic war, now quite generally expected, 
will be the panic of people who remain alive after 
the first bombs have blasted the cities, disrupted 
communications, destroyed food supplies, and inciner-
ated millions. Massive destruction will lead to equally 
massive lawlessness and the wildest human behaviour. 
With unerring prophetic foresight Jesus Christ 
predicted that just such conditions would prevail on 
earth immediately preceding His return. Far from 
describing increasing brotherhood between nations, 
leading to ultimate universal peace and harmony, He 
pictured a situation so serious that reason would 
give place to panic through sudden, overpowering 
fright. 
Replying .to His disciples' eager desire for signs 
that would mark the approach of His return, He 
said "There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, 
while on earth the nations will be in dismay with 
bewilderment at the roar of sea and waves, men 
swooning with panic and foreboding of what is to 
befall the universe. For the orbs of the heavens will 
be shaken, and then they will see the Son of man 
coming in a cloud with power and great glory." 
Luke 21:25-27, Moffatt. 
"And then"—when men are "swooning with panic" 
—or fainting "with terror," as the New English Bible 
renders the phrase—then He will come again. 
Increasing fears, spreading panic, should remind 
us anew, with ever growing emphasis, that the end 
is near, "even at the doors." 
HARVEST OF THE ISLES 
O
N February 13th this year it was our privilege 
to stand by the grave of John I. Tay, in Suva's 
cemetery, Fiji, and honour the memory of this 
missionary pioneer who carried the message of Christ's 
Second Coming to Pitcairn island in 1886 and later 
visited many island groups on the S.S. Pitcairn to 
bring the same life-changing message to them. 
In those days, over eighty years ago, much of 
the South Pacific was unexplored, while many islanders 
were living in primitive savagery and cannibalism. 
Today all this is changed, the transformation having 
been wrought by the preaching of the Gospel of 
Jesus Christ, and in no small degree by the witness 
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Arthur S. Maxwell editor of "Our Times" (then known as 
"Present Truth") from 1920-1936, author of over one hundred 
books, and now editor of "Signs of the Times," stands beside 
the grave, In Fiji, of Pioneer Missionary John I. Tay (1831-1892). 
John Tay was a self-supporting missionary who visited Pitcairn 
Island of "Bounty" fame in 1876 and was instrumental in 
confirming the entire population to the Advent truth of the Bible. 
given by representatives of the great Second Advent 
movement. Seven islands are now totally Seventh-
day Adventist. In the Bismarck Archipelago one out 
of every four inhabitants is a member of this church. 
On the Fiji Islands, not far from John I. Tay's 
grave, stands Fulton Missionary College, a fine, modern, 
educational institution erected specifically to train 
young people from the islands of the South Pacific 
to become witnesses for Christ among their own people. 
We went from Tay's grave to the Fulton chapel 
to speak to the assembled students. It was a never-
to-be-forgotten experience. 
We asked all present to tell us the names of 
the islands from which they had come. Here is the 
result: 
Cook Islands �
2 
Fiji �
116 
Gilbert and Ellice Islands �
9 
New Caledonia �
2 
New Hebrides �
12 
Pitcairn �
3 
Rotuma �
2 
Samoa �
16 
Tonga �
24 
Tahiti �
5 
What a harvest of the isles was this! Many of 
the young men had the typical fuzzy hair and bare 
feet of the islanders; many of the girls' features 
told whence they had come; but their hearts were one 
in Christ, while their single purpose was to return 
to their homelands to spread the advent message among 
their own people. 
Could Missionary John I. Tay have risen from his 
grave to see this great sight, how thrilled he would 
have been! Surely his work was not in vain! Nor 
was that of others who laboured with him in the long 
ago. 
Here before us was a sign of the times of the 
first magnitude. For here was clearest evidence of 
the fulfilment of the words of Jesus: "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. 
Here too we saw the prediction of the apostle 
John coming to pass, when he wrote of seeing the 
Gospel going with the speed of angels to "every nation, 
and kindred, and tongue, and people" in the hour 
of God's judgment Revelation 14:6, 7. 
This harvest of the isles surely proclaims in trumpet 
tones that that hour is here. 
NOT FINISHED YET 
T is finished," said Jesus on the cross; and He was 
I right. He had fulfilled Daniel's prophecy "to 
finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, 
and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring 
in everlasting righteousness" (Daniel 9:24), and this 
would never need to be done again. 
But many people used the same words that day and 
were totally wrong. 
"It is finished," said the soldiers as they reported 
to Pilate. "The prisoner's dead. We pierced His side 
and He won't bother you again." 
"It is finished," said Pilate; "this unpleasant case 
is closed at last." 
"It is finished," said the priests; "thank God we 
are rid of a most troublesome agitator." 
"It is finished," said the disciples; "we trusted 
that He would redeem Israel, and He didn't." 
"It is finished," said the weeping women at the 
cross; "He's gone. We shall never see Him again." 
How wrong they all were! 
Within three days this amazing Person was back 
again, ready for action on an infinitely greater scale 
than before. Up to now He had turned Palestine 
upside down; now He was ready to tackle the world. 
Today, nigh two thousand years later, every 
Christian church, every word of hope on a tombstone, 
declares that He's not finished yet. His cause may 
be in jeopardy; His enemies may still be trying to 
silence Him, but He's counting on having the last 
word; and He'll have it. 
Right now He is planning the greatest move He 
has ever made—none other than His return in majesty 
and power as King of kings and Lord of lords. 
Even after that it will not be true that "it is 
finished," for then will come the endless years of 
glorious reward for those who have loved Him and 
remained faithful to Him in the age-long struggle 
with evil. The Bible says that they will "reign with 
Him for ever and ever." Revelation 22:5. "They shall 
see His face"—always. (Verse 4.) 
Never at some far distant sundown will someone 
say: "It's all over," for it won't be over, ever. The 
rich, abundant life of the redeemed, which Christ 
purchased for them at so great a cost, will never be 
finished. "For the Lamb . . . shall feed them, and 
shall lead them unto living fountains of waters," 
through all eternity. Revelation 7:17. 
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HOW CAN WE FIND DELIVERANCE? 
by G. ELLIOTT 
For the mind depressed with guilt and anxiety there 
is only one genuine solution. It is universally available. 
It Is free. Millions testify that it works. 
F
OR centuries the cross of Christ has been the 
symbol of a restored relationship with God. Its 
teaching has shaped the thought and culture of 
the western world. Today the cross has a rival. It is 
the science of psychology: the study of the pheno-
mena of the human mind. Known, in the remedial 
application of its findings, as psychiatry. 
Accurate assessment of its influence on modern 
society is hardly possible. But a Daily Express 
columnist in America reported: "There are 16,500 
psychiatrists registered in this country. America is 
burning with curiosity about herself, and each day 
lies down on the couch to await another incredible 
revelation." About the same time a famous film 
star whimsically remarked that he appeared in his 
highly lucrative pictures only in order to be able to 
pay his psychiatrist! 
Nevertheless it would be wrong to dismiss the 
whole thing as popular fad, or to suggest that all 
who seek the aid of this new science are unstable. 
It may readily be seen that unless psychology had, 
in fact, unearthed from the mind's strata some basic 
truths on the norm of order and the causation of 
disorder, it could not have made, as in the practice 
of psychiatry it has made, a genuine contribution 
to medical science. Unquestionably in Great Britain 
psychotherapy is officially established as a valued 
branch of medicine. Its practitioners are commonly 
men and women of the highest integrity, and a Diploma 
in Psychological Medicine a coveted degree. 
Comparisons and Contrasts 
But this is not to say that all the claims of 
psychology, as such, have been substantiated. Still 
less that Christian beliefs and values are now out-
moded. Everyone recognizes that human beings are 
peculiarly susceptible to troubles, to the type of 
things from which men and women seek "deliverance." 
Whether this can best be achieved by psychology or 
religion we will discuss. A few comparisons and 
contrasts may help. 
It was Sigmund Freud, a Viennese physician, who 
developed "the investigation of the psychological 
motivation of human behaviour" (the central concept of 
science). He called it psychoanalysis. Its probing may 
uncover an emotionally disturbing experience, either 
forgotten or repressed, perhaps even a guilt "complex" 
in which there is a conflict of ideas, with a resulting 
condition of "neurosis," or even "psychosis." We might 
remark that the Biblical diagnosis of when "the 
whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint" has 
in it rather more of the virtue of simplicity! (Isaiah 
1:5.) 
Psychology rightly affirms that there are "powerful 
strivings deeply hidden in the personality structure." 
The Bible goes further. It classifies them. It tells of 
the urge of carnal instincts on the one hand, and the 
counterworking of the Spirit of God on the other. 
(Galatians 5:17.) Possibly one of the first pieces of 
advice a psychiatrist may give, is: "Face your fears," 
with presumably the dubious advantage of a confronta-
tion with ugly memories hitherto suppressed! Again 
the Word of God is a step ahead. It counsels: "For- 
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getting those things which are behind, and reaching 
forth unto those things which are before, . . . press 
toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of 
God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13, 14. In a very 
real sense, this is love therapy, which eliminates fear 
because "perfect love casteth out fear." I John 4:18. 
Awry on origins 
But it is when it comes to origins that the un-
doubtedly evolutionary contours of psychology present 
a cruder contrast to true, Bible Christianity. References 
to "atavism," "reversion," and to "hereditary and 
environmental factors," are peculiarly unsatisfying to 
one who is conscious of a spiritual need! On the other 
hand, one knows just where one stands with plain 
facts from the Bible. We know, for instance, that man 
was made "in the image of God." Genesis 1:27. That 
man "kept not his first estate," with the result that 
"all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." 
Romans 3:23. While it is true that psychology does 
not (as some imagine) claim that all crime is a form 
of sickness, yet it can neither explain away, nor find 
a remedy for, the problem of evil. 
Flickering torch or shining light? 
In our evaluation of applied psychology we have 
sought to be fair. We admit that it has much that 
is of value to offer. Yet it has nothing that is not, 
either in principle or even more comprehensively, 
already presented in the Word of God! In the Bible 
is available a "deliverance," a salvation of the human 
person, which is absolute. To those who have unwisely 
neglected to avail themselves of this far greater pro-
vision, psychology may perhaps be of temporary benefit. 
But it is one thing to have an old mind patched up 
by a psychiatrist, and altogether another to "be renewed 
in the Spirit of your mind" (Ephesians 4:23) through 
Jesus Christ our Lord! Does it then make sense to 
turn from the blaze of heavenly light to the flickering 
torch of human reason? 
Are the hesitant and often irrelevant utterances 
of a patient lying on a couch comparable to the dig-
nified grandeur of a Christian believer, sincerely kneel-
ing in prayer before his Maker? Psychoanalytical 
probing into the "unconscious" may suggest that one's 
"ego" is the victim of a "fixation"! But how infinitely 
superior is the divine "dividing asunder of soul and 
spirit," with God "discerning the thoughts and intents 
of the heart" (Hebrews 4:12) which can lead to the 
solemn conviction that one needs God! A mere con-
scious awareness of some disturbing shadow from the 
past fades into insignificance before the lasting balm 
of Christ our Saviour, who promised: "Come unto 
Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I 
will give you rest." Matthew 11:28. 
The techniques of psychiatry are no substitute 
for an experience of the saving grace of God! We 
know of at least one Society from which a combination 
of religion and psychiatry is dispensed. We still affirm 
that the basic incompatibility of Christianity and 
psychology can, in their union, be, at best, a loosely-
knit marriage of conscience! Was Sigmund Freud 
crucified for you? Can you find anywhere but in 
the Cross of Christ the sanctified instrument of your 
deliverance from the guilt of sin, or sure relief from 
its haunting memories? In Christ alone "ye shall know 
the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 
8:32. And when you belong to Jesus you know, and 
can never forget that "underneath are the everlasting 
arms." 
NEWS and VIEWS 
SPIRITUAL REVIVAL NEEDED.—In an interview on the 
subject of the much publicized "Poor People's March" 
in Washington, U.S.A., Senator Robert C. Byrd said : 
"I believe it is vital that all Americans strive toward 
better understanding, and that whites and non-whites 
strive mutually to get along with one another. There 
must be mutual respect between the races. 
"People must also face up to the fact that legislation 
cannot confer status on anyone, but that this must be 
earned through effort and proper conduct. Finally, the 
home, the school, and the Church have got to do these 
things: Teach respect for authority and foster the fun-
damental principles of strong patriotism, industriousness, 
desire to earn ones way through honest toil, and a 
genuine belief in God. There must be a spiritual 
recrudescence if we are to save the flesh."—US News and 
World Report, 6/5/68. 
THE PROTESTANT TRUTH SOCIETY recently sent a 
Memorandum on Ecumenism to the Bishops of the Church 
of England. Among other articles listed are the following: 
"4. We believe it is essential to emphasize the three 
great principles rediscovered and reaffirmed at the Reforma-
tion : the supremacy and sufficiency of Holy Scripture 
the right of private judgment; and justification by faith 
only without the deeds of the law. 
"5. We welcome the increased interest of Roman Cath-
olics in the reading and study of the Bible, and the use 
of the vernacular instead of Latin in public services. But 
we see no evidence that the Roman Church's view of 
tradition and the Church, has in any way changed, and 
this is directly opposed to the first two of the great 
principles set out above. And although the mass is now 
in English in this country, the basic errors remain. In 
particular, it is still held and taught that the mass is 
a propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead, a 
repetition of Calvary rather than a remembrance of Christ's 
once-for-all sacrifice there. The cup is still withheld from 
the laity on most occasions. 
"7. Among the fundamental errors which must be 
rejected, or reaffirmed in accordance with the Word of 
God, we would point out the following: "(b) That 
the soul of a Christian is cleansed by the fires of 
purgatory rather than by the blood of the Lord Jesus 
Christ. If the sinner is justified, and stands before a 
holy God in a righteousness not his own [i.e. the imputed 
righteousness of Christ], what need of purgatory? (Articles 
11, 22.) 
"(c) That images of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, and of 
other saints are to be venerated, in defiance of the 
Second Commandment. (Article 22.) 
"(d) That Mary is an advocate and mediatrix, when 
Jesus Christ is the one and only Mediator. 
"(g) That the Bishop of Rome is infallible when speaking 
excathedra, and is defining faith and morals to be 
believed by the whole Church. Christ's vicegerent is not 
the Pope, but the Holy Spirit." (The Churchman's 
Magazine.) 
"OF MAKING MANY BOOKS."—There are over 2,000 
book publishers in Britain, and well over 20,000 new 
titles are published each year. 
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I FIND A BLUE WHALE 
IN KENSINGTON, AND HAVE 
Second 
thoughts 
about 
Jonah 
by JOHN R. LEWIS 
C
ROMWELL Road, S.W., June sunshine hot on 
the pavement, the coolness of the Natural History 
Museum so welcome, and along the galleries to 
see the great Blue Whale. The ninety-foot true life 
model is suspended from the ceiling; it could well be 
the hull of a boat, its eyes projecting like navigation 
lights. The outsize jaws are closed tightly as though 
still holding entombed the runaway prophet, Jonah. 
To the average person, particularly those whose 
only real acquaintance with zoology might be little 
more than a domestic pet, the whale is a fantastic 
creature. Its gigantic size suggests it would have no 
difficulty engulfing Jonah when he was thrown over-
board from a ship during a storm. (Read the dramatic 
record in the Bible's book of Jonah.) 
Many accustomed to buying fish from the fish-
monger's slab might well find it hard to grasp the 
idea that nothing smaller than an LPTB garage is 
big enough to house this great "sea monster." The 
huge lips, nearly twenty feet long, are as rotund as 
18-inch tractor tyres, and could almost serve as a 
black soft cushioned bench on which to seat fifteen 
men in a row. When the great mouth opens, a huge 
twelve-foot high ribbed cavern reveals itself, black 
as the entrance to a tube railway tunnel; and the 
tongue so large that one could rest a mini-car upon 
it. "And what thing so ever cometh within the chaos 
of this monstrous mouth, be it beast, or boat, or 
stone, down it goes incontinently in that great swallow 
of his, and perisheth in the bottomless gulf of his 
pouch." 
Ample room 
In the gallery, whose roof is not reaching the 
height of the whale's flukes, there is a photograph of a 
whale's stomach, exposed. The stomach, cut open, is 
spilling two or three hundredweight of small fish 
on the quay. Room for more than one Jonah. 
The heart of this mammal beats with immense 
velocity. Each stroke pumps twelve gallons of blood 
into the aorta whose bore is the diameter of a main 
water pipe. 
The ponderous tail-flukes of the whale are twenty 
feet from tip to tip, they are like the tail structure 
of a small plane. They can hit the ocean with such a 
crash, that the concussion can be heard some miles 
away, and the force of it can hurl a boat and its 
crew into the air—much as a juggler throws his balls. 
This powerful creature can rush through the 
deep leaving masses of tumultuous white surf in its 
wake. One thinks of Job who must have seen a 
similar sight. "Leviathan . . maketh a path to shine 
after him; one would think the deep to be hoary." 
Job 41:1-34. 
Because the whale is a mammal and not a fish, 
it does not breathe through gills. It has the remarkable 
power of holding its breath for forty-five minutes, 
during which time, the air becomes very hot and 
compressed; so much so, in fact, that when the whale 
surfaces, the air escapes with great force, and condenses 
in the coolness like a great spout of steam from a 
boiler safety valve. It is said that the heat would 
take the skin off a man's arm. 
There are twelve months when the whale carries 
that which is far bigger than a man. The foetus of 
the young whale is only one inch long when gesta-
tion commences, but when the young calf is expelled 
from the mother's body it has reached the length of 
fifteen feet—surely the largest baby to be suckled 
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Model of the Blue Whale 
—the world's largest 
living creature—In the 
Natural History Museum, 
London. It is flanked by 
genuine skeletons of 
whales and models of 
other aquatic mammaIL 
anywhere in the world. True it is, that "God created 
great whales." Genesis 1:21. 
It was a sea-monster such as this that cavorted 
around the tiny storm-tossed boat which was carrying 
Jonah from Joppa to Spain. This frightened prophet 
was escaping from duty in Nineveh whose king, so 
says the bas-reliefs, was in the habit of putting 
a ring through the noses of men he did not like. 
Jonah found a worse fate. He was tossed into the 
sea by the seamen, and falling beneath the green 
troughs of water, was swallowed by the whale. 
Presumed dead by his sea-companions, Jonah was in the 
whale three days, and was then vomited up on the 
beach of Israel. 
A modern Jonah 
Now Jonah is not the only man to have this kind 
of experience. There was James Bartley, whose story 
was narrated in the Home Service some years ago. 
James Bartley, harpooner on the "Star of the East" 
in 1891, told this story to the French Academy of 
Science. "I sighted a sperm whale and took after it 
in a boat, and harpooned the whale. The whale 
smashed the boat and threw the crew into the air. 
I remember very well the moment when the whale threw 
me into the air. Then I was swallowed and found 
myself enclosed in a firm slippery channel whose 
contractions forced me continually downward . . . then 
I found myself in a very large sac. I could still breathe, 
though with much difficulty. The heat was unsupport-
able, and it seemed I was being boiled alive." James 
Bartley lost consciousness. He was recovered some 
hours later during the "carve up," and lived many 
years afterward. 
So in Kensington we stare up at a model of this 
strange creature which featured in one of the Bible's 
strangest stories. We look down upon her from the 
balcony, and reflect on what must be a unique ex-
perience of escape from death by drowning. We think 
of the following verse: 
"God moves in a mysterious way 
His wonders to perform; 
He plants His footsteps in the sea, 
And rides upon the storm." 
Confirmed by Christ 
The words from the Bible come to mind. "As 
Jonah was three days and three nights in the 
whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and 
three nights in the heart of the earth." Matthew 12:40. 
These are words that can only mean that the historical 
Jesus accepted the historical accuracy of the experience 
of the entombed prophet. He drew a comparison 
between the prophet's escape from death in the sea, 
and His own escape from death in the tomb of 
Joseph of Arimathea. Jesus knew that He was to be 
crucified, and buried. He knew beforehand that He 
would be buried from Good Friday until on Easter 
Sunday He would be raised back to life again. And 
that is what came to pass. 
The God of the Christian does not always perform 
"impossible" things; but He has done such things 
very often. So, I repeat, the God of "impossible" 
things delivered a prophet from death in the depths 
of the sea. He brought His own Son back to life 
from the stone-shuttered sepulchre. 
The blue whale of Kensington reminds me that I 
must "be not faithless, but believing." 
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O LY, 
OLY, 
OLY 
summons to appear at the foothills of Sinai, you 
would have assembled with feelings of profound 
respect. What then burst upon your sight and hearing, 
you would have also taken very seriously. The spectacle 
was not for vulgar sightseers. Getting too near was 
at the risk of immediate death. 
The Old Testament Hebrew was, in fact, a long 
time in ridding himself of that holy dread. It seems 
certain that he was never intended to forget it 
entirely. Even a God who loved with everlasting love 
had to be respected—for a man's own sake. He 
could not look on God and live. Only the highest of 
his priests on only one day out of the 360 dared to 
approach that dreadful Presence; then he could only 
tremble forward behind a thick billowing of incense 
and advance on the penances of a nation, beating 
its breast the while, bewailing its errors and sighing 
up a surge of irresistible prayer. If he did forget 
it—as when three over-bold princes dared to challenge 
the authority vested by Jehovah in Moses, the divine 
wrath was liable to burst forth in angry glory before 
the tabernacle. The shaking earth broke open beneath 
them that day, swallowing the unholy rebels up in a 
moment. And there was always the blazing Shekinah 
to remind a man of a God so holy that no man 
must take His name in vain or make light of His 
ethics. 
All the same the ancient Hebrew knew also that 
this mystic, unapproachable Reality was something that 
vitally concerned the well-being and prosperity of a 
man and his people. He was the Friend of the 
nation's ancestor; He had called Abraham from his 
native land with promises that made the heart of 
every man in whom Abraham's blood flowed, leap 
with pride. He had ordered their leader to build the 
tabernacle so that he could dwell among them. He 
had filled their national story with exploits and 
providences that made every Jew rejoice to be a 
A TIMELY AND CHALLENGING MESSAGE • by A. J. WOODFIELD, M.A., Ph.D.(Lond.) 
Although the Christian concept of holy living 
may be marked off by some as old-fashioned, 
impracticable, or unnecessary, the final 
judgment will prove that God's unalterable 
standard of holiness is of universal obligation. 
H
AD you been born a Hebrew of the 15th century 
B.C. you would have taken the words: "Ye 
shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy," 
much differently from the way in which our Englishman 
of the 20th century after Christ, takes them. The main 
difference would have been that you would be taking 
them seriously, very seriously. 
To begin with, forty-five days trek through the 
Sinai desert would hardly have wiped out memories 
of the bitter wail that went up from a thousand 
Egyptian homes when the price of defying the Almighty 
was paid in the blood of the first-born. Nor would you 
have forgotten the terrifying roar of the Red Sea as 
it swept over the flower of the Egyptian army, and the 
ghastly litter of soldier corpses jumbled up with 
broken javelins, wrecked chariots, and caparisoned 
horses strewing the sea-shore. So when you heard the 
General departure from the belief in the absolute nature of 
the moral standard of God's Word Is a basic cause of the 
mounting crime statistics characteristic of our days. 
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worshipper of Jehovah. Even so, there was this great 
gulf between Him and them, for no Hebrew deceived 
himself into thinking of a dead God whose holiness 
was a myth. Any divine manifestation evoked the cry: 
"We shall surely die, because we have seen God." No 
man can boast of a holiness to match God's. 
Terrifying return 
But with the passing of the centuries the dread 
wore off, and by the fifth century before Christ 
even the Hebrew had grown insolent enough to play 
the hypocrite and answer back when reproved. He no 
longer had a Shekinah to terrify him, an invisible 
God seemed by then, as today, comfortably remote. So 
he had to be reminded that the Lord, whom he so 
flouted with his empty rituals, was one day to return 
visibly to His temple. And the return would be terrify-
ing like Sinai—nothing to be taken lightly. "Who 
may abide the day of His coming, for He is like 
a refiner's fire?" thundered Malachi. It would be 
well today if we too, were to remember that the last 
book of Scripture opens the heavens before this 
refining fire. He is there presented as a Warrior, 
with eyes like a flame of fire, clad in a vesture 
red with the blood of the unholy, armed with a sharp 
sword, and treading the nations of rebellion into 
extinction. Such symbols make our fastidious English-
man shudder today and write off "this holy business" 
and its blood images as "a relic of barbarism" "now 
happily far behind in the evolutionary ascent of 
thought." Yet whatever he may think, there is an 
Dependence on the power of God through personal prayer 
and commitment Is the one infallible way to that "holiness 
without which no man shall see God." 
inescapable perseveration about the Psalmist's words: 
"Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. 
A fire shall burn before Him, and it shall be very 
tempestuous round about Him." 
All must stand in His presence 
So if Scripture means anything at all—and it 
does, it outlives the assaults of the ages only because 
it is fraught with a world's destiny—then it means 
that every man must one day stand before the presence 
of this Holy Being. As Paul the apostle put it: every-
one must thus stand "to render an account of the 
deeds done in the body." If the account is full of 
quibbles and excuses, because the accounter knows 
in his heart that his stewardship is feeble and un-
sanctified, it will break down at the last in a 
desperate plea to the rocks to hide him. He will then 
discover—but too late—that "it is a fearful thing to 
fall into the hands of the living God." 
All of which, you might observe, sounds very like 
the old-fashioned hell-fire horrors of yester-year. Nobody 
takes that seriously any more. 
Unfortunately far too few do take holiness seriously 
enough. Many too of those who do, dwell so much 
on love and grace that they forget law and justice. 
As for today's climate of opinion, generated assiduously 
by a vociferous few, it chokes belief in accountability. 
When a wretched young homosexual in 1962 swallowed 
the golden bait to treachery and sold what he could 
of his country's security to her enemies, they soon 
began to sneer at how very well he was doing out of 
his sin. Because his nominal pay as a civil servant 
was less than £700 a year and his costs of trial £500 
they gave him a certificate that let him off. He had 
the certificate before the trial ended, so nobody could 
disagree by telling of all that the Russians had 
been paying him: he was not yet declared guilty. 
Nor could the long-suffering state sell up his goods 
and chattels even though they were suspiciously 
luxurious. One Sunday paper, at the ready for a money-
making scoop, paid him £7,000 for his sordid little 
life story, but not, conveniently, till after the trial was 
all over. So now, while he whittles down his confine-
ment behind prison bars with satisfactory behaviour, 
his £7,000 will be earning a handsome interest, growing, 
somebody estimated, to about £11,000 by 1974. Why 
then worry about being holy, when even at modern 
rates of exchange "he will," as one journalist put 
it, "have done better than Judas." Our twentieth 
century Englishman has inspired a new predicate for 
"the wages of sin." 
Unaltered wages of sin 
But Vassal and his £11,000 notwithstanding, the 
wages of sin is still what it always was. No one 
can play fast and loose with righteousness and feel 
better for it. No one can live life to the full unless 
he lives it in harmony with the principles of decency 
that all of us, in our heart of hearts, know we must 
take seriously! And I have never found a better defini-
tion of these principles than in the ten words that gave 
birth to them, the thunders of the holy God of 
Sinai, and in the winsome firmness of their brilliant 
exposition in that second divine utterance on the 
Palestinian mount. "Playing the Game" and "Doing 
your Bit" are only our modern condensations of 
what God and Christ understand by being "holy" 
and "more righteous than the scribes and Pharisees." 
Whether you call yourself Christian, or Humanist, or 
Agnostic, if you want to live the decent life—as nearly 
everybody in his more responsible moments does—
you will "do unto others as you would that they 
should do to you." If you turn your back on that 
you commit spiritual suicide now and condemn your-
self beforehand at the last bar. 
At the judgment bar 
But what about this having to speak up at the 
bar of Christ's judgment seat and the ensuing reward 
or punishment? Put like this it sounds "crude" and 
superstitious to cavilling ears. Yet if law and order 
are to mean anything at all, there has to be some 
sanction and equity somewhere. How many of us, 
"enlightened" though we be, would do all that our 
authorities tell us if there were no magistrates court 
or H.M. prison system? And how many would really 
respect another man's life and goods if everybody were 
allowed to make free with both and get away with 
it? Nobody takes anarchists seriously; and primitive 
goings on in pre-monarchical Israel, when "every man 
did what was right in his own eyes," were very rough 
by any standard. 
We need, in fact, to take holiness very seriously. 
It not only spells "healthiness" in its original meaning, 
but on obedience to the injunction: "Ye shall be 
holy men unto Me" depends the successful outcome of 
the final confrontation. And that there will be a 
final show-down no one can seriously doubt. Things 
cannot go on as they are now without one. It's all 
very well for humanists and most of us to cash in on 
the nation's reserves of inherited decency and to 
think that this will do without any refurbishing 
from the absolute standards that made the bequest in 
the first place, but that's just not quite good enough. 
Our vague heritage of "playing the game" is the gift of 
God and Christ, it is the golden rule. But the gold is 
debasing. Who ever used to hear of kicking a man 
when he was on the ground? of knocking the old 
and feeble on the head with a cosh? But this and a 
host of other forms of crude, primitive savagery on 
our streets, in our football stands, and around our 
cricket grounds, are filling our papers with the doings 
of "Israel" in its days of anarchy. 
Not for nothing did Christ so strongly repeat 
the ancient precept. The words are different, but 
the meaning is the same: "Be ye therefore perfect, 
even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." 
He did not come to destroy the standard, He came to 
show that it is possible and compulsory. Hard, you 
will say, but isn't anything worth while, hard? And 
doesn't it pay off in the end? Besides, the Standard-
setter is the Standard-bearer, and He will never leave 
a man in the lurch who takes holiness seriously. 
"I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee," He said. 
He also said: "Ask, and it shall be given you." Let 
but the asking and the searching be serious, and the 
account before the Thrice Holy will be perfect. 
"Aim at peace with all men, and a holy 
life, for without that no one will see the 
Lord." Hebrews 12:14, N.E.B. 
LOVE 
LO/E and 
SEX 
The Seventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not commit adultery," was designed to protect 
the marriage bond—a sacred union which assures the most ecstatic joy on the human level, 
and which God intends shall be for life. 
NO. 8 IN THE SERIES 
by J. A. McMILLAN 
S
EX is neither unimportant nor all-important. 
To hear or read some of the modern apostles of 
"free love" one would think that sex was dis-
covered for the first time in the sixties. In fact, such 
people would probably prefer to spell this decade the 
sexties. 
Hardly anyone will quarrel with the argument 
that sex is more exploited in our generation than ever 
before. Everything from a needle to an anchor is 
sold under some "sex-symbol." On the hoardings, in 
magazines, papers, and on T.V. one gets the impression 
that the virtue or value of this or that commodity 
is related to the curves or charms of some beauty 
queen. 
Since we have, for better or for worse, discarded 
the reticence or prudery of our Victorian forefathers, 
it might be as well to clear away a number of the 
misconceptions about sex that persist, even in en-
lightened and sophisticated circles. 
Not an equation 
It is surprising the number of good people who 
believe that sex was the direct result of "Adam's 
fall." In other words, they think that sex and sin 
equate. It would be well therefore to set forth a 
few Biblical facts about man. 
There are two extreme views about the origin 
and nature of man which lead to erroneous conclusions 
about his character and about sex relations. 
The first is the idealistic view, well expressed 
by the poet Wordsworth in his "Ode on the Intimations 
of Immortality." 
"The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, 
Hath had elsewhere its setting, 
And cometh from afar: 
Not in entire forgetfulness, 
And not in utter nakedness, 
But trailing clouds of glory do we come 
From God, who is our home." 
This Platonic view of man that considers him 
almost as pure spirit, enslaved within a prison-house 
of flesh, naturally considers all bodily functions as 
inconsequential, and looks forward to the liberty which 
can come only when we have moved from this 
mortal realm. All the ascetic movements that have 
emerged from time to time throughout the religious 
history of man, have this dual assumption at their 
base. In this view, the spirit is divine, the flesh 
is evil, to be tolerated or endured until death brings 
release. 
At the other extreme is the theory of evolution, 
equally ancient in the speculations of philosophy, 
which views man as laboriously evolving, over eons 
upon eons of time, from the slime of his animal 
ancestry. This view regards all the unpleasant and 
anti-social characteristics of man as the vestigial 
remains of his heritage from "nature red in tooth 
and claw." 
In either of these views, sex is freed from religious 
or moral taboos, and is to be indulged as pleasure 
or as desire dictates. 
In between these two extremes is the Biblical account 
of man's origin. The question is posed in the oldest 
book extant: "What is man, that Thou shouldest 
magnify him?" Job 7:17. This is indeed one of the 
most important questions we can ask. As Pope rightly 
wrote: "The proper study of mankind is man." 
The Genesis record 
What is the two-legged creature who makes tools, 
cooks food, uses speech, writes books, and asks all 
kinds of questions about himself and the world 
and universe? Is he god, or animal, or a mixture of 
both? 
The book of Genesis gives us two accounts of 
man's origin and nature. The first chapter tells us 
that God said: "Let Us make man in Our image, 
after Our Likeness, and let them have dominion." 
Genesis 1:26. 
In the complementary account in chapter two, 
we are told that "the Lord God formed man of the 
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils 
the breath of life; and man became a living soul." 
Genesis 2:7. 
"So God created man in His• own image, in the 
image of God created He him; male and female created 
He them." Genesis 1:27. 
This is the complete Biblical record of man's 
creation. Man is composed of the elements that are 
found in nature, yet he possesses qualities of mind 
that set him apart from the animal creation. He is 
a combination of "spirit, soul, and body" that makes 
one personality. (I Thessalonians 5:23.) 
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Marriage stability and happiness are assured where God and 
His moral standard are given first place. 
"lie fruitful" 
To the first couple created by God "in His own 
image," the Lord gave the following command: 
"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be 
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and 
subdue it: and have dominion." Genesis 1:27, 28. 
This exercise of sex was before any sin had reared 
its head in Eden. It disposes of the prevalent idea 
that sex is sin, and that the procreation of children 
was the primary result of the fall of man. 
Marriage, the union of one man with one woman, 
is the divine ideal set forth in the Scriptures. God 
first created Adam, then He declared: "It is not 
good that man should be alone: I will make him an 
help meet for him." Genesis 2:18. "I will make a 
helper to suit him." (Moffatt.) Jesus quoted with 
approval the ancient record. "Have you never read 
that the Creator made them from the beginning male 
and female?"; and He added, "for this reason a man 
shall leave his father and mother, and be made one 
with his wife; and the two shall become one flesh. 
It follows that they are no longer two individuals: 
they are one flesh. What God has joined together, 
man must not separate." Matthew 19:4-6. N.E.B. 
The conclusion of the Bible is: "Marriage is honour-
able; let us all keep it so, and the marriage-bond 
is inviolate; for God's judgment will fall on forni-
cators and adulterers." Hebrews 13:4, N.E.B. 
Absolute or relative? 
This is a far cry from "the new morality" standards 
of our generation. We have a choice between the 
Freudian and Biblical concepts of man, and our 
attitude to sex and morals will be decided on this 
basis. 
If man is merely a superior and more intelligent 
animal than other beasts of the field, then morals 
and ethics are relative. If man is made in God's 
image, however fallen or mis-shapen he may appear at 
present, then his spiritual and moral standards must 
be absolute, because God-given. 
The pre-marital and extra-marital relations will 
be judged by which of these concepts he accepts. 
Is it harmful, from a psychological point of view, 
to say "no" to our sexual urges? Some say so, but, 
by the same token, would it not be harmful to 
restrain our urges for destructive instincts? One 
wonders how these social theorists would react if 
they were on the receiving end of the cruelties they 
so blandly condone. 
God's clear directive 
The seventh commandment is terse and clear: 
"Thou shalt not commit adultery." Exodus 20:14. 
"Sleeping with someone" (to use the modern euphem-
ism) other than one's wife or husband, is condemned 
and prohibited by this command given by man's 
Creator. It is a protecting hedge around the sanctity of 
sex. 
The Bible uses a number of words to define and 
denote sexual liberties, transgressions, and perver-
sions. These all come under the general prohibition 
of the commandment. The importance attached to this 
commandment is shown by the fact that, in common 
with the first six commandments, it carried the death 
penalty.
viel would it be to ponder the injunctions to 
morality enjoined by both Old and New Testaments. 
"Thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, 
to defile thyself with her." Leviticus 18:20. "But you 
cannot say that our physical body was made for 
sexual promiscuity; it was made for God. . . . Don't 
you realize that when a man joins himself to a 
prostitute he makes with her a physical unity? For 
God says, 'the two shall be one flesh.' . . . Avoid 
sexual looseness like the plague! Every other sin 
that a man commits is done outside his own body, 
but this is an offence against his own body." 1 Corin-
thians 6:13, 15-18, J. B. Phillips. 
Laxity condemned 
Homosexuality is condoned and extolled in both 
low and high places today. Nevertheless, from the 
time of Sodom until now, it has been condemned as 
a perversion. "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as 
with womankind: it is abomination." Leviticus 18:22. 
"Make no mistake: no fornicator or idolater, none 
who are guilty either of adultery or of homosexual 
perversion, . . . will possess the kingdom of God." 
1 Corinthians 6:9, N.E.B. 
Jesus predicted the moral laxity of our times. 
"In the time of the coming of the Son of Man, life 
will be as it was . . . in the days of Lot. . . . That 
is how it will be on the day when the Son of Man is 
revealed." Luke 17:26, 30, J. B. Phillips. 
Sodom, and sodomy are alike condemned in Scrip-
ture. "Sodom and Gomorrah and the adjacent cities 
who, in the same ways as these men today, gave them-
selves up to sexual immorality and perversion, stand 
in their punishment as a permanent warning of the 
fire of judgment." Jude 7, J. B. Phillips. (See 2 Peter 
2:6.) 
"The law of God is not the sterile legalism of 
a divine despot but the gift of a loving and right-
eous Father. As Stuart Barton Babbage has written, 
God's law is (1) a means of preservation that sets a 
bound to the lawlessness of sinful man, (2) a 
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summons to repentance that convicts men of sin, and 
(3) a guide in daily living. While sinful man cannot 
in his own power keep the law, he can by faith 
enter into newness of life in Jesus Christ, who lived 
in perfect obedience to God's commandments."—
Christianity Today, July 21, 1967, page 25. 
Jesus stressed purity of heart and thought. "You 
have heard that it was said to the people in the 
old days, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' But I 
say to you that every man who looks at a woman lust-
fully has already committed adultery with her in 
his heart. 
"Yes, if your right eye leads you astray pluck 
it out and throw it away; it is better for you to 
lose one of your members than that your whole body 
should be thrown onto the rubbish heap." Matthew 
5:27-29. J. B. Phillips. 
Here is the need for a surgical operation. Not 
the physical amputation of the flesh, but the spiritual 
cleansing of the heart, for indeed, "What comes out 
of the mouth has its origins in the heart; . . . wicked 
thoughts, . . . adultery, fornication, . . . these all 
proceed from the heart; and these are the things that 
defile a man." Matthew 15:18-20, N. E. B. 
"The truth is that, although of course we lead 
normal human lives, the battle we are fighting is on 
'-he spiritual level. The very weapons we use are 
of those of human warfare but powerful in God's war- 
ire for the destruction of the enemy's strongholds. 
)ur battle is to bring down every deceptive fantasy 
and every imposing defence that men erect against 
the true knowledge of God. We even fight to capture 
every thought until it acknowledges the authority 
of Christ." 2 Corinthians 10: 3-5, J. B. Phillips. 
In the seventh commandment, God sets up a bene-
volent barrier—a tacit warning of the perils and 
pitfalls that beset the immoral and all who practise 
promiscuity. In the New Covenant that God makes with 
His twice-born children, the Holy Spirit writes His 
law on heart and mind, cleansing the heart and 
bringing the thoughts into harmony with the principles 
of God's kingdom. 
Marriage bond—a symbol 
Within the most intimate relations of the marriage 
bond, God intends unselfish love to prevail. In the 
dependence of each partner on the other lies the 
secret of that divine love that delights to give rather 
than to take. In the care of helpless children, some-
times unruly, and occasionally unlovely and unloving, 
parents have the opportunity of developing a com-
passion and tolerance that has its counterpart in the 
character of the Father of lights. 
That is why Paul likens human married love to 
that which exists between Christ and His Church. It 
is not a legal bond, but a loving bond, that ties 
the two hearts into one, and makes for the sweetest 
and most ecstatic joy in human experience. 
Ponder the ideal and pray for the divine grace 
that alone makes it possible. "Husbands, love your 
wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Him-
self up for it. In loving his wife a man loves 
himself. . . . and that is how Christ treats the 
Church, because it is His body, of which we are living 
parts. Thus it is that (in the words of Scripture) 'a 
man shall leave his father and mother and shall 
be joined to his wife, and the two shall become a 
single body.' It is a great truth that is hidden here. I 
for my part refer it to Christ, and to the Church, 
but it applies also individually: each of you must 
love his wife as his very self; and the woman must 
see to it that she pays her husband all respect." 
Ephesians 5:25, 29-33, N.E.B. 
HOPE ON 
by RONALD FREETH 
H
OPE on, Dear Heart, the dawn is almost nigh 
When thou shalt see thy Saviour in the sky. 
The golden morn is soon about to break. 
Hope on, Dear Heart! 
Toil on, Dear Heart, sweet rest will come at last. 
Your task accomplished, and your burdens past. 
Life's goal achieved, and then a fadeless crown. 
Toil on, Dear Heart! 
Fight on, Dear Heart, though fierce the battle be, 
Soon will resound the shout of victory. 
Welcome the peace when conquered lies the foe. 
Fight on, Dear Heart! 
Pray on, Dear Heart, cease not to watch and pray 
Look e'er to Him, throughout life's little day. 
His help is thine, His Joy, His Power, His grace. 
Pray on, Dear Heart. 
Well done! Dear Heart, thrice nobly didst thou strive, 
Amid the darkness, thou didst keep the flame alive. 
Hear from thy Saviour those sweet words of praise: 
"Well done! Dear Heart." 
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tidence is the greatest abundant
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Christianity. The goal 
of 
 
lif" here, and unending 
fife herealter, 
is not liMited to a privileged 
few. It is 
guaranteed to everyone who simply 
accepts and follows what the Bible 
says. 
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A
COMMON criticism levelled at Christians is that 
they are "so heavenly minded that they are no 
earthly good." 
I'd like to challenge that! In fact, I believe that 
the average Christian has only the haziest notions about 
Heaven—and if you are thinking of the old idea of 
sitting on clouds, playing harps while the queue at 
the gate waits for St. Peter either to let them in or 
send them downstairs, you may be just as surprised 
as Mr. Average Christian to find that all those notions 
are false and are not found anywhere in the Holy 
Bible—which after all is the only authoritative 
reference book that we have on such matters. 
As a matter of fact, most Christians are very much 
"earthly" minded. They are in the world, they live 
here and work here. Like everyone else they earn 
their living, grow up, marry, raise families, grow 
old—yes, and die. But for the Christian that is not 
the end. 
Involved in life 
Now it cannot be claimed that Christians are 
the only moral people, for even in a world of changing 
values there are many people who stay by the un-
changing principles of decency and honesty even 
though they make no profession of Christianity. But 
all true Christians are moral people. Nor can •it be 
said that Christians are the only "do-gooders" around. 
The term "do-gooder" has been laughed at time out 
of number. But when applied to selfless service for 
others from a genuine desire to help where help 
is needed, and not just a fanatical desire to mould 
another's life to one's own standard or to "poke around" 
where one is not welcome—then there is room for 
many more "do-gooders" than there are. The voluntary 
services of the Red Cross, St. John Ambulance, the 
W.V.S., the Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service, 
Hospital Library Service, the Council of Social Service, 
and others, are all examples of the right kind of 
"do-gooders." While no one would be foolish enough 
to claim that all who are included in the list above 
are Christians, yet a very high percentage are. 
What l'am really trying to convey is that Christians 
are involved in life. They are to be found everywhere. 
In all lands, in every stratum of society, in every 
profession, and in every trade, Christians are there. 
Today thousands of Christian doctors, dentists, teachers, 
nurses as well as preachers leave the comforts and 
lucrative prospects of home to work in far-off, exotic 
sounding places, that more often than not turn out to 
be primitive, and unlovely, and where living conditions 
are atrocious. 
Sense of mission 
This involvement with the needs of their fellow-
men is accepted cheerfully, because in serving humanity 
these consecrated men and women know that they 
are doing the will of their God. This sense of service 
and the idea of having a "vocation" or mission in 
life, makes that life so much more meaningful. Not 
for them the humdrum boredom, the lonely unfilled 
hours, that so many people endure. They have no 
need to resort to pills for pep or drink to drown: 
life is so full, so vital, that the perpetual challenge is 
how to get done all that there is to do. 
Perhaps this all makes the Christian seem to 
be a different breed, and in a sense he is different. 
The last to claim superiority, he will, however, admit 
to being a transformed being. Having made this 
statement I must now prove the point and this can 
best be done by quoting from the recognized authority, 
the Bible: "Be ye not conformed to this world: but 
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by K. H. GAMMON 
be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, 
that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, 
and perfect, will of God." Romans 12:2. Another 
reference is found in the Bible book of Philippians: 
"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ 
Jesus who . . . made Himself of no reputation, and 
took on Him the form of a servant . . . He humbled 
Himself and became obedient unto death, even the 
death of the cross." 
Transformed attitudes 
So far we have seen that Christians are ordinary 
people who, because of their contact with Jesus, have 
become extraordinary—because their minds, their 
thinking, and their attitude to life has been changed. 
Just as their attitude to life has been changed 
so has their attitude to death been changed also. 
Many people in their honest moments admit to a fear 
of death, and this fear is based on uncertainty. 
But a Christian is not afraid of death. He sees 
in Jesus Christ the perfect answer to the problem of 
death. 
Jesus died. Of that there can be no doubt. 
"Crucified, dead, and buried"—so says the Creed. 
And so said the great throng that went to Golgotha 
to witness the crucifixion. So said those that took 
His lifeless body down from the cross and laid it 
in the rock-hewn grave. So said the soldiers who 
fixed the seal to the great stone that was rolled into 
place, thus closing the tomb. 
But Jesus rose again from the dead! The grave 
could not hold Him. The seal could not secure Him. 
The grave clothes could not contain Him. He rose 
again from the dead and was alive. 
A guarantee 
Jesus knew that He would live again, and the fact 
of His resurrection is the guarantee of resurrection 
for all those who have died trusting in Him, for 
Jesus said: "Because I live ye shall live also." John 
14:19. So why should Christians be afraid of death? 
The Bible clearly states in 1 Corinthians 15:20-23: 
"Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the 
first-fruits of them that slept . . for as in Adam all 
die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But 
every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; 
afterward they that are Christ's at His coming." 
These scriptures actually tell us when we shall 
be made alive—when we shall experience a resurrec-
tion to everlasting life. It will be "at His [Christ's] 
coming." 
Jesus told His disciples that He would come 
back to this earth and gave them the reason for His 
return. "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe 
in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house 
are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have 
told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I 
go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, 
and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye 
may be also." 
How these words must have returned to the fore-
front of His disciples' thinking when He finally left 
them on the Mount of Olives and returned to Heaven. 
The single Bible record of that event states: "He was 
taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight. 
And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He 
went up, behold, two men stood by them in white 
apparel; which also said. Ye men of Galilee, why 
stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which 
is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like 
manner as, ye have seen Him go into heaven." Acts 
1:11. 
The nature of heaven 
With such a clear statement Christians have good 
reason to be a little "heavenly minded." Their Lord 
ascended to heaven. He said that there are many 
mansions there. He has promised to prepare a place 
there for His followers. More than this, He has 
promised in words so clear and plain that none can 
misunderstand: "I will come again." He has said 
that when He comes, all those who love Him will 
rise in newness of everlasting life and go to be with 
Him—"That where I am, there ye may be also." 
To some people, heaven signifies mansions, golden 
streets, pearly gates, etc. They are not mistaken. But 
heaven is much more than mere "things." It is being 
with Jesus in His home. Heaven is Paradise. Heaven 
is where God's throne is. Heaven is where Jesus 
returned, when He left this earth. Heaven is the 
place from which Jesus will return to this earth again, 
in answer to His promise. Heaven is where Jesus has 
promised to take all His followers that they may be 
where He is. Heaven is the centre of the universe. 
Heaven is where "the eyes of the blind shall be 
opened and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopoed—
the lame man shall leap as an hart and the tongue 
of the dumb sing . . . the redeemed shall walk there. 
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come 
to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy upon their 
heads; and they shall obtain joy and gladness, and 
sorrow and sighing shall flee away." Isaiah 35. A land 
of righteousness and peace, where "there shall be no 
more death, neither crying, neither shall there be any 
more pain for the former things are passed away." 
continued on page 21 
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RE you one of those who jump out of bed in 
the morning, dash into the bathroom for a quick 
bath, skid to the kitchen to gulp a cup of tea, 
run for the car, "step on the gas," and zoom into traffic? 
If you can say No to this query, you are a very 
fortunate person, indeed. For there are literally millions 
who do start the day in this manner. 
There is a safety slogan that warns us to "slow 
down and live." It's a good slogan, too, and even 
better when we apply it to every facet of our lives, 
running away from it. We are like the man who was 
dying of thirst in the desert when he came upon a 
water hole but his gaze was so fixed on a distant 
mirage that he passed right by the oasis where he 
might have filled his bottle. In our mad scramble 
for money and success, which we think will mean 
happiness for us, we pass right by the real source 
of joy, which is with us now, awaiting our notice 
and appreciation—our family, our friends, the miracle 
of God's love for us, the contemplation of beauty, 
by M. SHAY 
TODAY'S 
PURSUIT OF 
SPEED IS SO 
INTENSE THAT IT 
ALMOST 
AMOUNTS TO A 
MANIA. THE 
DANGER IS THAT 
TIME FOR 
THINGS WHICH 
ARE OF PRIMARY 
IMPORTANCE IS 
CROWDED OUT. 
rather than just to our fast driving on the road. How 
many of us nowadays take time to watch a crimson 
sunset fading into twilight, or look up at the heavens 
on a starry night with a feeling of awe and reverence 
for the handiwork of God? How many of us take 
time to enjoy our children, or to teach them to 
appreciate the beauty and grandeur of the world about 
them? 
Most of us are so busy making a living that we 
have no time to live. We rush about, trying to catch 
up with life, trying to do everything at once, and we 
think we are pursuing happiness. In reality, we are 
the pondering of a thought, the wonders of the 
universe. So much is ours now to enjoy if only we 
have eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to understand. 
It seems that every new programme calls for greater 
speed. "Read faster," they say; "use computers to 
calculate faster; talk faster; travel faster; grow up 
faster." Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! is the everyday refrain. 
Why? 
Why must we go rushing through life like a torrent 
down the mountainside, to lose ourselves in a turbulent 
sea of confusion, instead of leisurely rambling like a 
brook through the meadow, lapping up sunshine and 
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Why? 
Why must we miss the worthwhile things—the 
endearing moments with those we love, the privilege 
of guiding our children, the delightful companionship 
of close friends, time for prayer and communion 
with God, and time for pondering? Yet, all these 
things we sacrifice to speed. 
I was waiting my turn at the dentist's recently 
when I noticed a little girl, perhaps eight or nine years 
of age, busily putting together a cut-out puzzle. Properly 
assembled it formed a map of the United States. At 
my smile of approval, she brought it over to me, 
showing me how quickly she could put the pieces in 
their respective places. Over and over she fitted the 
cardboard states neatly together, "quick as a wink." 
But when I asked her the names of the various states, 
she didn't know any of them. Now, I presume that 
this particular cut-out puzzle was intended to be 
educational. If so, this child was missing the point 
completely so far as learning something useful was 
concerned. She had concentrated only on speed. 
This is but a minor incident, but it points out the 
tendency in our modern living. Every year we build 
faster and faster cars; rockets to scorch the heavens; 
planes to fly faster, much faster, than sound. In our 
schools the emphasis too is on speed. Think faster, 
talk faster, read faster, run faster, breathe faster. 
Recently I saw in the morning paper a picture of a 
girl sitting before a machine which she was using to 
increase her reading speed. Through its use, we were 
told, in just a few days, she was able to read two or 
three times faster than before. Nothing was said about 
what she might gain from her reading. Apparently 
speed was the sole objective. 
Motorists zip along the highways so that anyone 
who isn't zipping is in mortal danger of being zipped 
right into the morgue. It used to be that folk travelled 
to see the country. Nowadays, all they see is the white 
line down the centre of the road, and sometimes they 
don't even see that. 
Let's stop tearing through life like a hurricane 
gone wild, making believe we are human rockets. 
What does it matter how fast we go, if we're not 
going anywhere? It doesn't matter how fast we can 
read if we don't understand what we're reading. It 
doesn't matter how fast we can talk if we run our 
words together so nobody can understand what we 
are saying. We speak to be understood; we read to 
learn; we travel to see, to broaden our perspective. 
In embracing the speed mania that is now sweeping 
the country everywhere, we are defeating the chief 
purpose in life. 
We are not being understood; we are not learning; 
we are not seeing, hearing, touching, or appreciating 
life. Let's stop this senseless rushing about and take 
time to live. Let's take time to enjoy our loved ones 
and our friends; time to appreciate beauty and good-
ness; time to think about life and its meaning for us, 
and time to seek the kingdom of heaven within our-
selves. 
Let's take time to be the very best we are capable 
of being, not just sometimes, but day after day, loving 
and kind to our family, neighbourly toward those 
about us. And let's take time to think about the things 
that really matter; to ponder the profound thoughts 
that often lie hidden deep within the mind, waiting 
for an invitation to come out and help us solve our 
problems. 
And, last, but far from least, let's take time to 
pray—plenty of time—for prayer is the gateway 
through which we pass into the presence of God. 
* • * • * • * • * • * • * 
All THIS AND HEAVEN TOO! 
continued from page 19 
"Too good to be true," you say? I can understand 
how you feel but "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, 
neither have entered into the heart of man the things 
which God bath prepared for them that love Him.' 
1 Corinthians 2:9. 
Jesus has promised to prepare such a wonderful 
place for you. "Thank God, the God and Father of 
our Lord Jesus Christ, that in His great mercy we 
men have been born again . . . from the dead! You 
can now hope for a perfect inheritance beyond the 
reach of change and decay, `reserved' in heaven for 
you." 1 Peter 1:3, 4. (Phillips Translation). 
If you want to find real meaning and purpose 
in life—if you want to be freed from fear of the 
future—if you want to make sure of your "reservation," 
the wonderful eternity that Jesus has promised—your 
heavenly inheritance, there is just one thing that must 
be done. That one thing is referred to in the scripture 
quoted above. Have you been born again? Have you 
surrendered your life to Christ? Have you asked that 
your past be forgiven and that your future be guided? 
When you have done this you have this life—and 
heaven too! 
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PAWS GREAT SERMON ON 
A DOCTOR'S VIEWPOINT 
by Dr. L. G. WHITE M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 
IN THE STEPS OF ST. LUKE �
1 
JUDGMENT TO COME 
A tyrant trembled 
as St. Paul fear-
lessly delivered a 
message from God 
which is even more 
needful now than 
ever. 
I
MAGINE yourself in the Roman courtroom in 
Caesarea just over 1900 years ago. The place is 
crowded with Roman soldiers, Jewish rabbis, orators, 
interested civilians, some Christians of the new way, 
probably humble folk, and in the dock the ageing 
apostle Paul. He is awaiting trial before the Roman 
procurator of Judea and Samaria, Marcus Antonius 
Felix. 
This learned Hebrew, once the pride and joy, the 
young and rising star, of the Sanhedrin—their youngest 
elected member and a formidable champion, had, in a 
dramatic moment, left that faith for which all Israel 
stood, and embraced the new way to become its 
most eloquent preacher and missionary. This great 
Christian evangelist had tramped the dusty cobbled 
roads of the Roman empire, and already left his 
mark and influence for all time. New churches had 
been raised under his powerful ministry and now 
he was harried by the still, ecclesiastical caucus of 
Judaism from Jerusalem. St. Luke, that great physician 
from Troas who had shared St. Paul's beliefs and 
hopes, and had weathered the storms with him, now 
stood watching breathlessly as Paul prepared to make 
the speech of his life: 
Events had been dramatic enough already, and 
their importance underlined, as 400 Roman infantry-
men and 70 cavalry had spirited Paul away from 
Jerusalem by night for his own safety. 
Setting for greatest sermon 
But mark this Roman procurator who sweeps his 
way to the judgment seat with his Jewish wife, 
Drusilla, as the centurion barks for attention and 
the crowd rises to its feet. Almost certainly Felix 
had been a slave, and by dint of work, intrigue, force, 
bloodshed, and cruelty had gained his freedom under 
Claudius Caesar. His service for the purple must have 
been distinguished, for not only had his brother Pallas 
become a minister of State, but he himself had 
married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra for his 
first wife, and had been given approval for his 
second marriage—to Drusilla, the youngest daughter 
of Herod Agrippa 1. Through her, he had a fairly 
intimate knowledge of Jewish customs. However, he 
still retained his coarse, cruel, and lustful nature—
so much so, that Tacitus declared: "In the practice 
of all kinds of lust and cruelty he exercised the 
power of a king with the temper of a slave." A nod 
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from him could mean execution on the whim and 
spur of the moment. This then is the scene and 
atmosphere where St. Paul was to preach one of 
the greatest sermons of all time. It stands as the 
model for generations and has a particular application 
to today's scene. 
Note its three-decker platform as "he reasoned of 
righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come.' 
Acts 24:25. 
1. Righteousness. This is not the mere goodness 
as translated by Canon J. B. Phillips, but the divine 
attribute of holiness manifested by a holy God. The 
Old Testament writings are full of it, and its standard 
is infinitely beyond that of Roman law. That age 
of bread and circuses was very like that of today, 
where morality in high places and society had 
collapsed. 
One has only to read of the conditions of Pompeii 
before it was engulfed by Vesuvius' eruption a few 
years after this trial before Felix, to find a parallel with 
this age of bingo and hot-dogs, pop-art and sleep-ins. 
The recent words of Dr. A. C. Craig in this year's 
Lenten talks are worth proclaiming: "This pop-art 
culture is like glistening soap bubbles until they are 
pricked and punctured to their proper nothingness 
by history's next wind." The increase of armed 
robberies in our cultured English heritage makes us 
wonder how much of that Christian heritage of the last 
century now remains. It is rare to hear the voice 
of the preacher proclaiming the Word of God in 
the land. Too often do we have dialogues, discussions, 
and teach-ins. Valerie Pitt has declared that the 
"splendid edifice of Western, or English Christendom 
is a monument to the building capacities of our 
forefathers, but it is a dead city: the inhabitants have 
moved or are moving elsewhere." 
Gutter-level morality 
Where does one look for guidance? To our 
universities? The last debate at the Oxford Union was 
merely an exercise in cheap jokes on the sexual 
level. One was surprised that our intelligensia and 
future leaders of integrity of thought could sink to 
gutter idiom and immoral innuendo. That there has 
been no protest is itself a sad indication of how low 
the general morality has sunk. The last outcry 
against such a public airing of dirty washing only 
produced indignant condemnation of "prude," "puritan," 
—as if clean living and clean talk is something reprehen-
sible. 
Silent universities 
The props of civilization are slipping rapidly and 
being knocked out one by one. We would do well 
to remember Einstein's warning to Germany before 
Hitler: "Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution 
came to Germany, I looked to the universities to 
defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of 
their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the 
universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to 
the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editor-
ials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of free-
dom, but they, like the universities, were silenced in a 
few short weeks. Then I looked to the individual writers 
who had written much and of ten concerning the place 
of freedom in modern life, but they too were mute. 
Only the Church stood squarely across the path of 
Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had 
any special interest in the Church before, but now I 
feel a great affection and admiration because the 
Church alone has had the courage and persistence 
to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. 
I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised 
I now praise unreservedly." Christian Medical Fellow-
ship Letter, No. 27. 
St. Paul was the great champion for Christian 
truth as he stood that day before Felix. 
2. Temperance The second platform in his historic 
sermon was on temperance or self-control. To Felix, that 
glutton of physical lusts and evil habits then sitting on 
the judgment throne, the Christian truth of healthful 
living, the power of the will in controlling the habits of 
the flesh, the necessity of a clean body to contain a clean 
mind for the reception of spiritual truths, came 
as a revelation. Affluence often leads to degeneracy, 
both in individuals as well as in society. 
3. Judgment to come. Paul's third platform was that 
of the Final Judgment—not before the throne of Caesar, 
but before the Bar of God. He was not so much inter-
ested in his own standing at Caesarea as in seizing the 
opportunity of appealing to the darkened mind of Felix. 
The Jewess by his side had been grounded in the 
demands of the Almighty as exemplified in each individ-
ual's accountability on the great Day of Atonement, and 
now Paul took this knowledge, and showed how the 
Law's demands penetrate even into the inner chambers 
of man's thoughts and motives. "The dark passions 
that lie hidden from the sight of men, the jealousy, 
hatred, lust, and ambition, the evil deeds meditated 
upon in the dark recesses of the soul, yet never 
executed for want of opportunity—all these God's 
Law condemns."—Acts of the Apostles, page 424. 
This triple attack on sin and the offer of salvation 
so penetrated the procurator's mind as to make him 
tremble. He became agitated enough to delay the 
vital decision, and to postpone the verdict. 
I imagine that Luke had never before heard the 
religio-medical appeal of such depth. The combination 
of righteousness, self-control, and judgment, leads 
to that act of the will which makes it possible to re-
nounce self, and to subordinate ourselves to God's 
purposes. 
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and searched the sky for one of the earliest sputniks. 
The voice at the newspaper office had told us on 
the phone exactly when it would appear (10.30 p.m.), 
how high in the sky (45 degrees above the hor:zon), 
and the direction in which it would be travelling 
(due south). 
We were ready. At 10.30 p.m. we focused our eyes 45 
degrees above the horizon, facing north-east. Right on 
time, precisely where we were searching, there it 
was. Its light was the same clear colour as the stars 
and of about the same intensity; but it was easy to 
tell the difference. This "star" was moving rapidly, 
and its light was pulsating off and on as it tumbled 
gently in its flight. 
A thrill of excitement went through me. 
As a child I had heard my older brother say that 
a ball could be made to fly clear around the earth 
if only someone could be found to hit it hard enough 
to get it started. I believed him implicitly and 
often turned the idea over in my mind. What a fantastic 
possibility! I can still see an imaginary ball sailing 
out over the corner of our backyard on its way into 
orbit. Of course, I knew such a thing could never 
happen. 
But here it was happening right before my eyes. 
"Glory of Man" 
Then as I looked up into the heavens, watching the 
shining satellite fade into the orange haze above 
Gary and Hammond to the south, the sky seemed 
suddenly to be disturbingly crowded. A Bible verse I 
had recited since childhood raced through my mind: 
"The heavens declare the glory of God" (Psalm 19:1); 
but this time it insisted: "The heavens declare the 
glory of man!" 
The presence of this shiny sputnik seemed a 
profane violation of a fundamental principle. It 
had no right to be there. I had been taught that the 
stars prove the unique power of an omniscient Creator, 
How the latest scientific discoveries prove God's 
existence more convincingly than ever before. 
WAS one of four college teachers on a TV panel 
I 
assigned to discuss the "death of God." 
All at once the professor at my right turned 
to me and asked: "Do you really mean to say that 
the students in your college come out of their labor-
atories still believing in God? Don't you know that 
Copernicus drove God out of the universe four 
hundred years ago?" 
To which I replied: "The students at the college 
where I teach come out of their labs believing in God 
more firmly than when they went in!" 
Science, far from proving God doesn't exist, con-
stantly provides ever greater evidence that He does 
exist. And man, what a God it portrays! 
I'll never forget the night ten years ago when my 
wife and I stood on the Chicago shore of Lake Michigan 
by C. MERVYN MAXWELL 
Professor of Religious and Biblical Languages, Union College 
but here was a new star claiming equal power for man. 
For a fleeting second I felt myself becoming an 
agnostic, an athiest. And then I gave it further 
thought. The Russians had laughed at America's first 
tiny satillite and called it a grapefruit. Here in 
the sky now was one of theirs—and it wasn't much 
larger than a dustbin, not much bigger than one 
of the breakwater rocks lying at my feet on the shore 
of Lake Michigan. Marvellous as it was, this sputnik 
was a very little thing compared with our little 
earth, let alone with the rest of the universe. 
The stars up there—the other stars beyond the 
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sputnik—shine on and on for ever. No astronomer 
has any idea how many there are up there, nor how 
long they've been there. Scientists estimate there are 
at least 200,000,000 stars in our Milky Way galaxy, 
and compute that there are over a billion more such 
galaxies in the whole universe. That is, they used 
to tell us this when they thought the edge of the 
universe was 350,000,000 light-years away. 
Discovery of Quasars 
But in 1963 astronomers found a "quasar" that 
appeared to be emitting radio and light energy 
millions of times more powerful than all the stars in 
our entire Milky Way galaxy put together. They label-
led it "3C273" and identified it with a faint star 
they formerly had supposed belonged to our own 
private galaxy; only now calculations indicated that it 
was a billion light-years away, three times as far from 
a billion island universes can soar through space 
without an infinite Intelligence to guide them! 
"The heavens declare the glory of God"—and man, 
what a God! 
Illogical reasoning 
When an archaeologist finds a primitive stone 
arrowhead buried under river gravel in an abandoned 
cave, he says: "Here is evidence of an ancient civiliza-
tion. Man used to work here!" But when a paleontologist 
finds a complex trilobite fossil exposed in a Cambrian 
rockside, he is prone to say: "Here is evidence that 
there is no God. Complex animal life developed by 
chance." But this is not the kind of reasoning that 
commends itself to everyone, least of all to many 
inquiring teenagers. A survey made as recently as 
1956, after a century of evolutionary instruction (Life, 
October 8, 1965), showed that more than half of all 
Acclaimed as the greatest scientist of all time (left) Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was not only a physical scientist and 
mathematician, but also a keen Bible student and prophetic commentator. Right—Polish astronomer, Nicholaus Copernicus (1473-1543). 
OpposItt—The Filamentary nebula In Cygnus, believed to be a vast galactic system like our own Milky Way. 
us as we had previously supposed was the outer rim 
of the universe. 
Since then Maarten Schmidt has found another 
quasar that may be four to eight billion light-years 
away. Suddenly what we once had thought to be our 
entire universe turns out to be a neighbourhood, a 
housing development, a small suburb of the real 
universe that goes on, perhaps, for ever. 
And what does all this prove about God? 
Not by chance 
Did that Sputnik launch itself into space? Did 
the lunar Surveyors bolt themselves together, blast 
off from their pads, and land within miles of their 
targets on the moon by chance? It took a world-wide 
team of highly-trained men to make them succeed. 
Thus space-age science offers compelling proof of the 
existence of a living God. A space-craft, tiny as it 
is, cannot get into orbit without a living brain to 
plan for it. What nonsense, then, to suppose that 
United States high school students are still unwilling 
to accept evolution as a valid hypothesis. The students 
in my college are not the only ones who can come out 
of a laboratory still believing in God. 
Copernicus "established" God 
And they are right. Copernicus did not drive God 
out of the universe four hundred years ago. If any-
thing, he established Him more certainly than ever 
at His desk. 
Centuries before Copernicus, men believed in the 
limited and disorderly hypothesis of the ancient 
astronomer Claudius Ptolemy, with its "progressions" 
and "retrogressions" and individual planetary "epi-
cycles". Copernicus demonstrated that our solar system 
is far more orderly and considerably more immense 
than Ptolemy had ever dreamed it could be—and 
in the process provided better proof than ever of the 
existence of a Master Intelligence at the control of 
things. Though persecuted by a church which did not 
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understand him, Copernicus continued an admiring 
friend of the Lutheran theologian Osiander; he died 
a Christian still, a firm believer in a living God. 
So also died Isaac Newton, whose name is so often 
cited in proof of the disappearance of God. "God," 
many people say today, "was invented in ancient times 
to fill the gaps in man's knowledge of the universe. 
Now that science has filled most of these gaps with 
well-established theories like Newton's law of gravity, 
we don't need God anymore." 
Newton never understood his work to be a grave-
yard for the Deity. His epoch-making discoveries in 
mathematics and astronomy have earned him praise 
even from Albert Einstein as "this shining spirit," this 
"marvellously inventive . . . genius!"; but Newton gave 
the glory for his achievements to God and crowned 
his years with nearly four hundred thousand hand-
written words on the prophecies of the Bible and on 
his hope in the second coming of Christ. 
Testimony of the 
microscopically small 
Though I am interested in heavenly bodies, micro-
scopic things have always fascinated me far more. In 
my college days the single-celled paramecium, with 
its compliment of minuscule organelles so analagous 
to human organs, was my favourite little animal. 
Recently the T4 bacteriophage virus has taken its 
place in my affections. 
This interesting little creature that destroys bacteria 
in our intestines ("bacteriophage" means "bacterium 
eater") is so precisely architectured that most people 
cannot believe their eyes when they first see a picture 
of one. 
Unbelievable as it is in its appearance, with its 
icosahedral head; its "end plates," and so on, the 
behaviour of the T4 when it confronts a bacterium 
is even more incredible. Its leg-like fibres swing back 
to allow its end plate to contact the "skin" of the 
very much larger bacterial cell. Its springlike sheath 
snaps closed, driving its ribbon of DNA down into 
the heart of the bacterium's protoplasm. Genes in 
the DNA ribbon force amino acids in the host cells 
to reorganize themselves. Within fifteen minutes two 
hundred icosahedral heads have taken shape at inter-
vals along the DNA ribbon; then two hundred collars, 
two hundred cores, two hundred sheaths, two hundred 
end plates, and two hundred sets of leg-like fibres 
gather around them. In less than half an hour the 
bacterium is dead and in its place stand two hundred 
new T4 viruses, fully assembled and ready to start 
the cycle over again in two hundred other bacterial 
cells. 
They did not just "happen" 
This process, incidentally, is taking place in your 
own body at this very moment. Since the time you 
began to read this article you have helped to produce 
countless millions of these amazing viruses. 
To say that the T4 bacteriophage just "happened" 
is like saying that electronic "chips"—those micro-
circuits, complete with diodes, capacitors, and tran-
sistors, which are so widely used in applications from 
hearing aids to space ships—just "happened." If it 
took brains to develop the electronic chip, then there 
is intelligence behind the development of the T4 bacter-
iophage! And what a God this suggests, as much a 
master of the infinitesimally small as of the infinitely 
large! 
Testimony of the human body 
Complex and wonderful as viruses are, the human 
body is, of course, much more so. 
The body of an adult human male contains, on 
the average, sixty billion (60,000,000,000,000) cells. 
Think of it. Counting at top speed for twelve hours 
a day, allowing barely enough time to catch your 
breath, you could scarcely even count to a thousand 
million (1,000,000,000) in thirty years. Merely to enum-
erate the cells in one's own body would require twenty 
thousand life-times. 
And what about the individual cells? On the 
average, each cell contains two hundred billion (200,-
000,000,000,000) molecules. And these molecules, in 
their turn, may contain up to thirty thousand atoms 
each! There are thousands of different kinds of mole-
cules in each body cell, and each minute of his life a 
person produces thousands and thousands of them in 
each of his sixty billion cells. A pretty young student 
may be earning an F in general chemistry and at the 
same time be synthesizing in her body thousands of 
compounds the exact structures of which are unknown 
even to the most brilliant scientist. 
Complex atoms 
And what about the atoms that make up these 
molecules? Democritus said that atoms were simple 
solid bodies, the ultimate building blocks. Thirty 
years ago everyone knew this was wrong; atoms them-
selves are complex units generally thought to be com-
posed of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Today 
scientists claim to have identified some thirty or so 
additional "elementary particles" smaller than atoms—
mu-mesons, antilambda particles, anti-xi-zero particles, 
and many more. 
Perhaps the most mysterious elementary particles 
are the neutrino and its antimatter counterpart, the 
antineutrino. Neutrinos pour into the universe from 
the heart of the sun at such a rate that over a 
hundred billion of them pass through the thick of 
your thumb every second. Nothing stops them. At night, 
when the sun is shining on the opposite side of the 
world, they stream in undiminished number through the 
eight-thousand-mile thickness of the earth and on out 
into space at the speed of light. In the course of a 
lifetime there pass through a person's body a number 
of neutrinos represented by a 10 with twenty-three zeros 
after it, yet only one is likely to interact with you 
and stay by. 
What a universe we live in! Neutrinos at one end 
of the scale of things, and a billion island galaxies 
at the other! What a Master Intelligence must lie 
beyond it all! A loving Intelligence, concerned with 
the very small; a powerful Intelligence, able to accom-
plish whatever He desires. 
The Bible calls this intelligent being God, and 
portrays Him, not cold and heartless, but as truly a 
person as is any human scientist. (For scientists, after 
all, behind their white lab coats, are generally family 
men who know the meaning of love.) Jesus taught 
us to call Him "Father" and to address Him in 
prayer as "our heavenly Father." He invi'ed us to 
believe that He is attentive to our needs and knows 
all there is to know about us and yet still loves us. 
The Bible invites you to "throw the wh)le weight of 
your anxieties upon Him, for you are His personal con-
cern." 1 Peter 5:7, Phillips. No problem is too small 
to bring to the God of the neutrinos, nor too large 
to bring to the God of the island galaxies. 
Man, what a God! 
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STUDY 
by G. D. KEOUGH 
Professor Emeritus 
Bible and Biblical 
Languages, 
Newbold College 
Again, this law of the sanctuary was given to 
Moses. He was its mediator. "For see, saith He, [God], 
that thou {Moses} make all things according to the 
pattern shewed to thee in the mount." Hebrews 
8:5. This was not given directly to Israel; but "was 
ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator." 
Such was not the case in the giving of the Ten 
Commandments, for these were spoken by God directly 
to Israel, "that ye sin not." Exodus 20:20. They were 
written on the tables of stone by the finger of 
God. (Exodus 32:16.) 
Purpose of sanctuary law 
The law of the sanctuary, however, was given 
to reveal to the people God's plan for deaUng with 
sin, and was "a shadow of good things to come." 
Hebrews 10:1. Everyone who sinned, brought his 
offering to the door of the sanctuary, and killed it 
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE 
S
T. PAUL'S treatise on Justification by Faith Alone, 
in his epistle to the Galatians, based though 
it is, entirely on the Old Testament Scriptures, 
has been variously interpreted and much misunderstood. 
Dr. W. Barclay, in his comments on Galatians 
3:19-22, says: "This is one of the most difficult 
passages that Paul ever wrote," and "there are almost 
three hundred different interpretations of it!" 
That is most astonishing, for the words of the 
apostle are clear enough. But commentators have a 
way of assuming a certain limitation to Paul's think-
ing, and then base their interpretations on , their 
own assumptions. 
On Galatians 3:19, for instance, where it is stated 
that the law "was added because of transgressions, 
till the seed should come," they assume that the 
apostle means here exactly what he later wrote in 
Romans 5:20: "The Law entered, that the offence 
might abound." But in Galatians the apostle is 
speaking of a temporary law: "The law was added . . . 
till the seed should come," while in Romans there is no 
suggestion of temporariness. 
In Galatians the law "was added because trans-
gressions" abounded; while in Romans the law entered 
to make the offence abound—which is an entirely 
different purpose, and is the function of an entirely 
different law. 
When Christ the Seed came, He said concerning 
the law "till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one 
tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law, till all 
be fulfilled." Matthew 5:18. Here was an eternal 
law, not some temporary legislation. 
But when Jesus died on Calvary, "the veil of 
the temple was rent in twain from the top to the 
bottom" (Matthew 27:51), an event which signified that 
a law that had run its course was ended. This was 
the law of the sanctuary, the law of sacrifices and 
offerings, the law of priestly mediations that were 
typical laws, that were mere shadows and that could 
not avail anything. (Hebrews 10:1-4.) When the Seed 
came, this law, or ceremonial law, of the sanctuary, 
ended. 
Regarded as "the lather 
of 
the Protestant Reformation" 
Germany's Dr. Martin Luther (1483-1546). 
there. Then the blood was put on the altar, and an 
atonement was made. (Leviticus 17:11.) This, because 
it removed the sinner's guilt, made reconciliation 
between the sinner and God. (Romans 5:10.) The 
priest daily trimmed the seven lamps of the golden 
candlestick (Exodus 27:20, 21), and offered incense 
(Exodus 30:7), and attended to the "bread of the 
presence." (Leviticus 24:5-8.) These typified the work 
of our High Priest in heaven (Hebrews 8:5), and 
were the means provided by God to keep the forg;ven 
sinner from falling back into sin. (Revelation 4:5; 8:3; 
John 6:48). Finally the sin was destroyed. (Leviticus 
16.) 
All this was temporary, "till the Seed [Jesus Christ] 
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should come," for it was not possible that the blood 
of "bulls and of goats should take away sins." (Hebrews 
10:4.) 
The law condemns all men as sinners, (Galatians 
3:22), and there is no way to escape from this con-
demnation other than through the blood of Jesus: 
"through faith in His blood." A man who has broken 
the law—and this includes all, for "all have sinned" 
(Romans 3:10, 23), cannot hope for absolution from 
the law he has transgressed. The law demands complete 
obedience: "Cursed is every one that continues not 
in all things that are written in the book of the law to 
do them" (Galatians 3:10; Deuteronomy 27:26); and 
there is only one way for the sinner to escape—through 
faith in Jesus. 
The law, then, was our "custodian" (R.S.V.), our 
"jailor," till we came to Christ. The King James' 
Version adds the thought that the law was "to lead us" 
unto Christ, and the Revised Version adds. "Till 
Christ came." The Greek says: "till Christ," and the 
context suggests: "till we came to Christ to be justified 
by faith." But now we are justified from sin by 
faith in Jesus we are no longer in the hands of 
the custodian, no longer condemned by the law. 
Not that we are free to break it without condemnation. 
* • * • * • * • * 
Jesus saves from sin, Matthew 1:21, and does not 
grant to those that accept Him a licence to sin. 
Some commentators here introduce the idea of the 
Greek slave, the pedagogue, whose duty it was to 
leead the heir of the house, who is still a minor 
to the teacher, and take him home again. But there 
is no being led to Christ, and taken back home again. 
When the sinner comes to Jesus, his sins are all 
taken away, and he is now a man of faith, and in 
no need of the services of a pedagogue. Faith has 
come, and he is a son, and all the promises are his. 
He is "Abraham's seed," and calls God "Father." All 
the duties and privileges of God's family are his. 
But, as if Paul sees a Jew before him, and 
hears him say: "Well, I am the seed of Abraham," 
Paul replies: "the heir, as long as he is a child, 
differs nothing from a slave, and the only way to 
become a son is by redemption and adoption. Christ 
has redeemed us, and God has adopted us. But before 
that, we were slaves to sin and to the ways of the 
world. Now that we are free, let us remain free. 
It is by faith alone that we are justified. Any attempt 
to please God by observing those laws that were 
shadows will lead only to separation from Christ in 
whom alone is our hope." 
• * • * • * • * 
The FIFTH article 
in the series 
by LESLIE SHAW 
initially teach true Sabbath-keeping. It is interesting 
and important to notice that respect for parents and 
respect for the Sabbath were to be linked together. 
Children often want to do "their own pleasures" 
on the Sabbath, and have to be restrained by firm 
but loving elders. 
The second text, linking the Sabbath with the 
Sanctuary, has particular thought for worship. Respect 
and reverence go hand in hand, and it is quite 
unlikely that any child who does not have a due 
respect for its parents, will have a due respect for 
God. 
LAWS 4ND THE I RD'S D 
"Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, 
and keep My Sabbaths." Leviticus 19:3. 
"Ye shall keep My Sabbaths. and reverence My 
sanctuary: I am the Lord." Leviticus 19:30. 
H
ERE are Scriptures that emphasize the importance 
of Sabbath observance. The first stresses that 
"every" man shall observe the Sabbath. There 
were to be no exceptions. All must enjoy its benefits. 
The legislation was, of course, for the Jew, and 
also for the "stranger within thy gates" that is, for 
all who lived within the bounds of Israel, and came 
under its laws. This does not mean that those who 
were not Jews had no need to keep the Sabbath. The 
Sabbath is part of God's universal moral law. But 
here we are dealing with Israel in particular. The 
Sabbath position is defined in terms of their national 
economy. 
The first of these texts combines Sabbath-keeping 
with parental respect. This is doubtless because Israel 
had nothing comparable to a modern school system, 
and so the main responsibility of training children 
fell upon the parents. They it would be, who would 
Redeemer foreshadowed 
As the nation of Israel became organized, God 
instituted in detail those services which were to set 
forth clearly and fully the method of redemption 
from sin by means of the coming, Promised Redeemer. 
In these was to be seen more clearly how the promise 
to Abraham would be fulfilled: "Through Thy Seed all 
families of the earth shall be blessed." Genesis 12:3; 
13:14-17. Shiloh at first, and later, Jerusalem, was 
intended to become not merely the centre of Irael's 
worship, but the centre of worship for all nations, 
because there alone was salvation in the coming 
Christ truly portrayed. As Israel moved forward in 
faith and obedience, so God would prosper them. And 
as they advanced in prosperity, so the nations of the 
earth would marvel, and would say: "What nation is 
there so great, who bath God so nigh unto them?" 
Deuteronomy 4:7. The Psalmist well understood it, for 
he declared: "God be merciful unto us, and bless us; 
and cause His face to shine upon us; that Thy way 
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No institution is more powerful 
in keeping people mindful of 
God and brotherly in spirit-,•:'. 
 
may be known upon earth', Thy saving health among all 
nations." Psalm 67:1, 2. 
The danger 
In Israel, under Moses, these rituals and ceremonies 
which all pointed clearly to the coming Redeemer 
and also to the method of blood-atonement for 
sin through faith in Him, were greatly multiplied and 
amplified. Now, when this happens, there is a danger 
that the worshippers will lose sight of the substance 
itself, in the pomp and ceremonial of the exterior. 
This was true not only of Him who was foreshadowed 
in the types; It was equally true of the Sabbath itself 
as it stood among numerous ceremonial sabbaths. 
The seventh-day Sabbath was not ceremonial, 
although much of the ceremony and ritual was 
associated with the Sabbath, neither was it a "shadow" 
of anything which was to come. It was a prime institu-
tion given to sinless man in Paradise long before any 
shadows of the Gospel were needed. This we have 
previously seen. The Sabbath will still exist when 
every trace of sin has been removed. When God 
therefore, was legislating through Moses, instituting 
the various special "set feasts" with their annual 
sabbaths which were fixed to set days of the months, 
He also made mention again of the seventh-day sabbath: 
"Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day 
is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall 
do no work therein; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in 
all your dwellings." Lev-
iticus 23:2, 3. That this 
mention of the Sabbath was 
made to differentiate it 
from the other sabbaths that 
are associated with the 
set feasts, and not tied to 
any fixed day of the week 
but to a fixed day of the 
stated month of the Jewish 
y e a r, seems abundantly 
clear, for in the same chap-
ter we read: "These are the 
feasts of the Lord, which ye 
shall proclaim to be holy 
convocations, . . . besides 
the sabbaths of the Lo,rd." 
Leviticus 23:37, 38. 
In other words, while 
t h e Lord's seventh-day 
weekly Sabbath is incorpor-
ated into the religious life 
of Israel, as a part of that 
system, it is not to be 
thought to partake only of 
the character of that system. 
T h e ceremonial system 
was temporary. It was 
instituted only because of 
man's sin, • its object was 
to set forth how a man was 
to be saved through faith 
in Him whom it typified. 
It ceased to exist once He 
had come whom it typified 
—even Jesus Christ. 
In contrast, the weekly 
Sabbath was an integral 
part of that moral law 
the transgression of which is 
sin, and it was its trans-
gression equally with that of the other nine command-
ments, that called forth the expiatory system revealing 
how man could escape the death penalty. 
Why the Sabbath was made 
The Sabbath was made, originally, with the object 
of developing man's spirituality, and preventing his 
becoming too materialistic and unmindful of God. 
It was to serve to retain his loyalty and fidelity to 
God. Therefore, ever afterward, that which would 
serve these purposes would be lawful as a part of 
human conduct on the Sabbath. But in order that 
man might not overstep the mark, God sought to clarify 
what was lawful Sabbath behaviour, and what was 
not. 
Now the priests, in their service for God, had 
many things to do on the Sabbath—in fact they had 
much more to do than on the six week days. (Numbers 
28:2-10.) Concerning this, and to correct Pharisaical 
misunderstanding as to what may and may not be done 
on the Sabbath, Jesus said: "Have ye not read in the 
law, how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the 
temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless." 
Matthew 12:5. 
We are not to misunderstand Christ's words. No-
where in the law, or Old Testament, is it stated that the 
priests "profane the Sabbaths," neither does it say 
that they are "blameless" for so doing. Christ simply 
refers to the fact that on the Sabbaths the priests 
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were involved in more work than on other days. This 
He styles "profaning" the Sabbaths—but in order 
that He should not be misunderstood, He adds that in 
their performance of these duties they were "blameless." 
Therefore what they were doing was not really contrary 
to the commandment. 
So we read in Leviticus 24:5-8: "And thou shalt 
take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: . . . 
and thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, 
upon the pure table before the Lord. And thou shalt 
put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on 
the bread for a memorial, .. . Every Sabbath he shall set 
it in order before the Lord continually." This was a 
priestly Sabbath duty which was not Sabbath dese-
cration. 
The stick-gatherer 
But in contrast with this legislation revealing that 
the priests were invested with the responsibility of 
extra service on the Sabbath day, we should notice 
also the experience of one of the Israelites who took 
upon himself the prerogative of engaging in unnecessary 
labour on the Sabbath day. It is found in Numbers 
15:32-36, and reads as follows: "And while the children 
of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man 
that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day. And they 
that found him gathering sticks brought him unto 
Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And 
they put him in ward, because it was not declared what 
should be done unto him. And the Lord said unto 
Moses, the man shall surely be put to death: all the 
congregation shall stone him with stones without the 
camp. And all the congregation brought him without 
the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as 
the Lord commanded Moses." 
This passage deserves careful thought, for there 
are some portions of it that rarely have received 
attention, apart from the central fact of the stoning 
of the Sabbath-breaker. But first of all, this is the 
only such case we have in the Bible of a man being 
put to death for Sabbath-breaking, although the law 
clearly taught a Sabbath-breaking death penalty. (See 
Exodus 31:13-18; 35:1, 2.) This might appear strange, 
but it is a fact. Now notice where the event took 
place. It was "while the children of Israel were in the 
wilderness." But the deed was not done inside the 
camp ground, for those who found him brought him 
to the congregation inside the camp ground. 
Yet going forth outside the camp ground in itself 
was not wrong, for had it been, then they who found 
him would have been equally in the wrong. It was 
not the taking of the stroll, but what was being done 
while on the stroll that was wrong. God had com-
manded through Moses: "Ye shall kindle no fire 
throughout your habitations upon the Sabbath day," 
Exodus 35:3; and just previously He had said: "Who-
soever doeth work therein shall be put to death." Verse 
2. Yet, in spite of this, when the man was brought to 
Moses and Aaron, and the congregation, they did not 
know what to do with him, and so "put him in ward" 
until the Lord's will was determined concerning him. 
From this we can only conclude that every form of 
Sabbath-breaking was not punished with immediate 
death. The New Testament comment on this enforce-
ment of the death penalty for the infringement of the 
Decalogue laws is: "He that despised Moses' law died 
without mercy under two or three witnesses." Hebrews 
10:28. This story of the stick-gatherer is recorded to 
illustrate the sin of presumption, a deliberate despising 
of the law; but even Moses was uncertain in the 
case, for he knew not the man's heart and thoughts. 
God had to decide this case. 
It is interesting to note that the Jews tried to fix 
on Christ a wilful and determined opposition to the 
Sabbath command as a ground for putting Him to 
death. 
What about us today? 
While we are dealing with this aspect of the 
strict observance of the Sabbath, we might ask, is the 
Sabbath still to be observed as strictly? Are we not 
allowed to kindle a fire in our dwellings? This pro-
hibition against kindling a fire is often appealed to 
as proof that the Sabbath is not now in force today, for 
if it were, those dwelling in cold climates would suffer 
greatly which is contrary to the purpose of God's 
commands. But those who thus argue should realize 
that their argument concerning hardship reveals another 
answer--namely that this law was never meant to be 
applied after Israel departed from the wilderness in 
which fires were definitely unnecessary. That this is not 
a "get-by" answer is demonstrated when we remember 
that the laws concerning the priest's work on the 
Sabbath were not meant to apply after Christ had 
come. If certain sabbatic legislation was of a temporary 
nature, others might also be, and that can be determined 
only by the nature of the legislation itself. This, we 
believe, is true of the law against kindling fires on the 
Sabbath, and, at most could be thought to apply only in 
hot climates even if it were not temporary. However 
we understand this law, the law of necessity, as Christ 
clearly showed, would greatly modify and temper it. 
It was never meant to be a harsh, arbitary exactment, 
but it does show clearly that unnecessary labour upon 
the Sabbath was always to be avoided. 
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continued from opposite page 
Note: Here is the "born-again" miracle—a trans-
formation within human hearts. Old natures changed; 
new natures received. A transfusion of life from God—
a life of joyful, loving obedience to the principles of 
righteousness. 
How does this life principle set to work within us? 
"The spiritual principle of life has set me free, 
in Christ Jesus, from the principle of sin and of 
death. There was something the law could not do, 
because flesh and blood could not lend it the power; 
and this God has done, by sending us His own Son, 
in the fashion of our guilty nature, to make amends 
for our guilt." Romans 8:2, 3, Knox. 
Note.• Sinful man cannot bring himself into harmony 
with the law of life. This Jesus Christ came to do—
to give repenting sinners power to live in harmony 
with the principles of righteousness. He is the life-
power. When He lives in us, God's law will be 
ingrained in our minds and hearts and we shall 
again, by the transforming power of His Spirit, have 
life in Christ—life from God, the Source of life. 
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SOURCE of LIFE 
How did life manifest itself on our planet in the 
beginning? 
"The Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath 
of life; and man became a living soul." Genesis 2:7. 
Note: The Bible declares that God, the Creator, 
is the Source of life. The life we know in this 
world is the gift of Him who created us. Read Genesis 
1 and 2 to learn how this life was provided to both 
plant and animal by the Creator. 
From where did God derive this life which He shares 
with otherr? 
"The Father bath life in Himself." John 5:26. 
How enduring is this Fountain of Life? 
"The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, 
and Lord of lords; who only bath immortality." 
1 Timothy 6:15, 16. 
Note: Isaiah quotes God as saying, "Is there a 
God beside Me? yea, there is no God; I know not 
any." "I am the first, and I am the last; and beside 
Me there is no God." Isaiah 44:8, 6. In Him, the 
Fountain of life, is immortality. He is from eternity 
to eternity, without beginning and without end. 
How are the Father and the Son alike in the posses-
sion of life? 
"For as the Father hath life in Himself; so i:ath 
He given to the Son to have life in Himself." John 
5:26. 
Note: The apostle Paul assures us, "For it pleased 
the Father that in Him [the son] should all fullness 
dwell." Colossians 1:19. 
In what mighty acts did the Son demonstrate His 
inherent power!? 
"By Him were all things created, . . . and by Him 
all things consist." Colossians 1:16, 17. 
Note: "God . . . hath in these last days spoken 
unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of 
all things, by whom also He made the worlds." 
Hebrews 1:1, 2. Genesis 1:26 suggests this joint 
creatorship in the beginning. 
How did Jesus Christ explain the presence of death 
in His created world? 
"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to 
kill, and to destroy; I am come that they might 
have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." 
John 10:10. 
Note: The enemy of God and man brought sin 
and death into this world. Jesus Christ came to 
bring back the lost life, which this enemy, the devil, 
had stolen from the human race. 
When God's Son appeared among men, who did He 
claim to be? 
"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life." John 14:6. 
Why did God send His Son into this world in human 
form? 
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His 
only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him 
should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16. 
Has God provided any other entrance to life than 
through His Son? 
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there 
is none other name under heaven given among men, 
whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12. 
Who will be the recipients of this renewed life from 
God? 
"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and 
they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life." 
John 10:27, 28. 
How is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, further described? 
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God. The same was in 
the beginning with God." "And the Word was made 
flesh, and dwelt among us, . . . full of grace and 
truth." John 1:1, 2, 14. 
Note: The Word of God is here depicted as His 
Son revealed in human form to show lost humanity 
the way of life. He is the embodiment of divine 
truth. He is the Word translated into thought and 
action. He is the enactment of the principles of 
the kingdom of righteousness. (See Hebrews 1:8.) 
What did Jesus say that His words possessed? 
"The words that I speak unto you, they are 
spirit, and they are life." John 6:63. 
In what symbolic words does Jesus call for our 
obedience to His word? 
"Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and 
drink His blood, ye have no life in you." John 6:53. 
Note: Strange words, these! He who lived out 
the will of God among men calls on all to feed upon 
the living Word. Here is a spiritual experience that 
involves receiving into our natures the nature of Christ. 
Only as we partake of His holiness shall we have 
His life. 
What does this "eating and drinking" involve? 
"I will put My laws into their mind, and write 
them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, 
and they shall be to Me a people." Hebrews 8:10. 
continued on opposite page 
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GOD'S WILD LIFE IN BRITAIN 
The harvest mouse 
THE harvest mouse is the second 
smallest animal in Britain. Even 
when fully grown it weighs only 
one-sixth of an ounce, and can quite 
easily sit upon the ears of corn to 
sun itself or while it feeds on the grain. 
Its head and body measure about 24 
inches. It has a naked, scaly tail the 
same length, which is so pliant that 
the mouse can use it as another "foot," 
winding it around grass and corn 
stalks as it climbs them, rather in 
the same way as circus performers climb 
ropes. It is a very pretty mouse, with 
yellowish-red fur above and white 
underparts. The eyes are like black 
beads in its head, with a short blunt 
nose and rounded ears. When hidden 
out of sight among vegetation it makes a 
loud chirping noise, which sometimes 
reveals where it is to its enemies—such 
as weasels, snakes, and hawks. 
In summer both parents make a 
neatly plaited, ball-shaped nest, three to 
four inches in diameter, from woven 
blades of grass, suspended about twelve 
inches from the ground upon several 
by ALAN P. MAJOR 
stalks of corn or tall grass. They also 
go to a lot of trouble to make it 
comfortable as a nursery for their five 
to nine youngsters, lining it, and making 
a bed by splitting corn and grass leaves 
into shorter, softer pieces. 
Not only is the harvest mouse found 
in cornfields, but it lives in orchards, 
pastures, and meadows wherever there 
is tall grass, and in ditches and neglected 
hedgerows. It feeds on grass seeds, grain, 
and insects, too. 
During autumn it makes another 
nest in a dry situation, such as a 
hedge bottom or a disused animal 
burrow in the earth, or it may tunnel 
into a heap of dried bean foliage or 
a hayrick and construct a nest there. 
It then collects grains of corn and seeds 
which it stores in its nest. When the 
weather becames very cold the harvest 
mouse retires into its warm nest home 
to sleep, but it occasionally wakes up 
before springtime arrives, and when it 
does, it feeds on its store of corn, then 
goes back to sleep again until winter 
is gone. 
RULES ARE NOT FOR BREAKING ! 
by ENOLA M. FARGUSSON 
W
HEN I was a teenager, my 
Uncle Henry managed a large 
fruit ranch for the owners, who 
lived many miles away. I spent as 
much time there as possible. 
The ranch was on the edge of the 
desert and had a stable of riding 
horses, a swimming pool, tennis courts, 
and places by the streams for picnicking. 
Aunt Ellen was an excellent hostess, 
and there was always a stream of people 
coming and going. But the event I 
remember best was the annual ranch 
party that happened to come during 
my visit the summer I was fifteen. This 
party was an open house for neighbour- 
ing ranches and townspeople, with food 
and games and lots of talking. 
Uncle Henry turned the pool over 
to the teenage set, and he asked my 
cousins and me to act as hostesses there 
for the day. What fun we had. 
All the boys and girls were friends 
of Betty and Ruth, and I had a nodding 
acquaintance with most of them. There 
was a lot of laughing, talking—fun. 
One tall red-headed boy I noticed 
particularly. Red always seemed to be 
the centre of one group or another, 
and he was always smiling. It was 
quite a while before I realized that 
I had not seen him in the pool. Most 
of the others knew how to swim, so 
I stopped Betty and asked about him. 
"He's new around here," Betty 
replied. "His folks just moved into 
town from a ranch far out on the 
desert. He rides as if he had been born 
on a horse, but maybe he doesn't know 
how to swim." 
Just then a red-topped figure streaked 
past us. "Hey!" Betty called, "It's 
against the rules to run on the deck." 
"Rules are for breaking," Red called 
back, jumping into the shallow end 
of the pool and splashing some smaller 
children sitting near the edge. 
"That's against the rules too," Larry 
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called from behind us. Then he added: 
"Hey, what are you doing down there 
with the babies?" 
Red climbed out and started to walk 
past us. His head was down, and 
suddenly he looked embarrassed. 
Larry grabbed his arm. "Red, do you 
know how to swim?" he asked. 
"How could I have learned to swim 
out where I lived?" Red retorted. 
"Well, then," Larry offered, "we'll 
teach you." 
Larry called a couple of the other boys 
over, and in a little while they had Red 
making awkward strokes around the 
edge of the pool. 
"This is fun," I heard Red say once 
when I walked near. 
"Don't you want to rest awhile? 
You shouldn't get too tired, you know," 
Larry said. 
Red laughed. "Rules again? I've 
started now, and I'm not going to stop 
until I master this thing." 
The afternoon passed quickly. It 
seemed no time at all until Uncle 
Henry came up. 
"We're ready to eat now," he said. 
"You girls clear everyone out of the 
pool area and make sure no one is 
left. Check the showers and these dress-
ing rooms, then lock the gate and 
bring the key to me. When I think it's 
safe to swim again, I'll unlock the 
gate." 
Turning toward the pool and making 
a megaphone of his hands, he shouted: 
"Dinner's ready! Everybody out! First 
come, first served !" 
Leading from the water, Red ran 
toward the gate. 
"Don't run," Uncle Henry called. 
Red turned. "I'm going to be first 
served," he said. We all laughed. 
By the time we got back to the 
house, several people were already eat-
ing. We had stopped on the way and 
were chatting with some of the guests 
when Larry came over. 
"Red wasn't kidding," he said. "He 
was first in line all right." 
"Where is he now?" Ruth asked. 
"He was sitting over there a minute 
ago. He's probably back in line for 
seconds," Larry said. We all laughed, 
then unfortunately we forgot about Red. 
It was almost two hours later when 
Uncle Henry came over and announced 
that the swimming pool would be 
opening again. He looked like the 
Pied Piper leading all of us to the 
pool. 
After swimming around a bit I 
came up out of the water near the 
rope that divided the shallow end from 
the deeper area. About the same time, 
Ruth came up on the other side. Cling-
ing to the rope to keep our balance, we 
stopped to talk for a while. 
Everyone seemed to be having a fine 
time, and we felt good. The party was, 
as usual, going to be a big success. 
Suddenly Ruth's smile froze and her 
face turned white. 
"What is it?" I asked. 
Pointing down to a spot not three 
feet from where we were standing, Ruth 
gasped : "There's someone down there." 
I looked and saw a dim white form 
curled up on the bottom of the pool. 
We shouted for help. Betty ran to get 
Uncle Henry. Excited voices surged 
around us as some of the boys lifted 
Red's limp form out onto the cement. 
Larry started artificial respiration. 
Looking at Ruth and me, he said help-
lessly : "I don't think it's any use. I'm 
afraid he's been down there too long." 
Soon Uncle Henry's worried face was 
bending over Red's body, feeling his 
wrist. "It's too late," he said to Larry 
gently. 
Someone brought a blanket to cover 
the still figure, while Uncle Henry went 
back to the house to call the sheriff and 
to offer what comfort he could to Red's 
parents. 
Soon we could see a line of cars 
moving slowly down the lane toward 
the road. The party was over. 
Later Uncle Henry showed us a 
copy of the sheriff's report. It showed 
that Red had been first in line to get 
his dinner. He had eaten hurriedly, and 
then he had slipped away, apparently 
counting on the fact that, with so many 
around, no one would miss him. He 
had climbed the fence and gone swim-
ming alone. 
He thought he knew better. I had 
heard the boys tell him earlier never 
to go swimming for at least an hour 
after eating, and never to swim alone. 
But Red had a philosophy. 
"Rules are for breaking," he said. 
Red broke one rule too many. 
IS YOUR NAME 
GRACE? 
by G. E. DIGGLE 
G
RACE HORSLEY DARLING was 
a Northumberland girl, born in 
the village of Bamburgh in that 
county. Her father was the lighthouse 
keeper on the Fame Islands, a group 
of rocky islets off the Northumberland 
coast. 
On the night of September 6, 1838, 
a great storm raged in the North Sea. 
The steamship "Forfarshire," bound 
from Hull to Dundee, was driven on 
the rocks about a mile away from 
Longstone, the island of the Fame 
group on which the lighthouse stood. 
Of the sixty-one people on board 
the "Forfarshire," only nine managed 
to scramble on to the rocks as the ship, 
pounded by giant waves, broke up. 
When day broke, Grace and her 
father could see the desperate plight 
of the nine shipwrecked voyagers. 
Grace begged her father to launch a boat 
and go to their rescue. But the light-
house keeper looked at the heavy seas, 
and shook his head sadly. "If only I 
had a man to help me—," he replied, 
looking at Grace, who was a small, 
slight young woman of twenty-two. 
Grace pleaded so hard that, at last, 
with Grace pulling at one oar, and 
her father at another, they made the 
rescue attempt. 
After a nightmare journey, they 
brought to safety the eight men and 
one woman marooned on the rocks. 
Grace became a national heroine. When 
the people of England heard of her 
courage they opened a subscription list, 
and admiring people sent Grace £800. 
The Christians name "Grace," of 
which Grace Darling is the best known 
bearer, comes from the Latin word 
meaning; "Thanks." 
THE CHOIR LEADER 
WHO DISAPPEARED 
by Ernani Smith 
H
AVE you ever met a little boy 
who did not wish that he was 
as tall as his daddy? You know 
that is the ambition of almost all small 
boys. I shall never forget the longing 
of my own little son to be as tall as a 
certain young man of his acquaintance. 
It took more than two yardsticks to 
measure this friend's height. 
I am thinking of a well-known 
choir leader who was only about four 
feet ten inches tall. Although he was 
very short in stature, he was indeed a 
great man in the musical world of his 
day. 
One evening, as he was about to 
direct his choir, he noticed that the 
pulpit behind which he was to stand 
while he led the music was so tall he 
could hardly look over the top of it. He 
asked the caretaker to bring him a box 
to stand on. The caretaker finally arrived 
with a large vinegar barrel, over which 
was draped a dark cloth. On this Mr. 
Choir Leader stood. 
Everything went along beautifully. 
There he stood, beating the time very 
earnestly and enthusiastically, his long 
curly hair swinging back and forth. He 
wished to emphasize a grand swell in 
the music. To do this he gave a little 
jump into the air. When he came down, 
the bottom of the up-turned barrel came 
out, and the choir leader disappeared 
completely out of sight, to the great 
surprise and amusement of his audience 
and choir. 
For a minute he felt very small and 
insignificant down there in that barrel; 
but being a noble man in his mind, he 
would not let a little thing like that 
upset him. He rose to the occasion by 
quickly taking his place in front of the 
pulpit, and finished the evening's enter-
tainment amid the thundering applause 
of that great audience. 
Now, next time you meet a difficult 
situation, don't let it discourage you. 
Just remember the choir leader! 
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nicely you can 
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picture and 
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your name, age, 
and address to 
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My dear Sunbeams, 
In my letter to you in the June issue 
of OUR TIMES, I mentioned many of 
the lovely wild flowers which God 
has given us so freely to enjoy. Since 
then I have been looking around each 
day to see how many other things I 
could see, and hear, which would 
give me enjoyment, and for which I 
could be thankful. Some of them are in 
the list which follows: 
I. Two squirrels chasing each other 
round and round the trunk of a tree. 
2. Rooks cawing and flying around the 
tops of the trees in which their 
nests are swaying in the breeze. 
3. The lovely coloured feathers of a 
pheasant, standing proudly near the 
roadside. 
4. A hare hopping away over the field. 
5. A dainty wagtail, beautifully marked 
in black and white, moving quickly 
over the lawn in search of food. 
6. A baby chuckling in its pram. 
7. The twittering song of the lark as 
it hovered in the sky. 
8. Lambs gambolling in the fields, or 
lying near to their mothers. 
9. Fruit trees covered in pink or white 
blossom. 
If you have been on the look-out 
too, you will be able to add many more 
items, and so I am going to suggest 
that you now read the following poem 
carefully, and then do just as it says, 
and you will be very surprised to find 
how large a list you can make. One 
item you can put down. I will give 
you a few hints, so see if you can 
guess what it is! It is nice to walk 
or play games on and it doesn't hurt 
if you fall on it. It makes a soft bed, 
or a pleasant spot on which to picnic. 
Cows are very fond of it, and its colour 
is very restful to the eyes! 
And now the poem: 
TRY IT! 
by Daisy Stephenson 
List the things you're thankful for, 
Write them in a row; 
Extra paper you will need, 
First thing you know. 
You'll be very much surprised. 
(Another pencil, please!) 
Start with things you love outdoors— 
Roses, birds, and trees. 
Add the sun, the rain, the snow, 
Don't forget the brook; 
Goodness me, before you're through, 
You will fill a book. 
Keep right on and go inside, 
Look around awhile; 
All your playthings, home itself, 
Mother's loving smile. 
Mind you, don't leave out a thing, 
Write it down in ink; 
Every blessing, big and small—
Did I see you blink? 
You can't do it possibly? 
Row on row on row— 
Well, I didn't think you could! 
Aren't you thankful, though? 
Yours affectionately, 
CULAx_9., 
RESULTS OF MARCH COMPETITION 
Prize-winners.—Angela Joy Wood, 41 Mill 
Road. Woodford, Nr. Kettering, Northants. 
Age 11. Linda McMorris, 27 Foyle Crescent. 
Newbuildings P.O. Londonderry, N. Ireland. 
Age 10. 
Honourable Mention.—Charles McMorris 
(Londonderry); Anita Frazer (Downpatrick); 
Anne Crawford (West Moors); Sandra 
Jacques (Birmingham 28) ; Elizabeth Goyder 
(Rawdon); Stephen Benham (Rayleigh); 
Howard Lane (Nottingham); Keith Channon 
(Lincoln); Shirley Spear (Portscatho); Jane 
Warren (Woodford); Sarah Sikes (Port-
scatho) ; Debra Holbutt (Box, Wilts) ; Alec 
Burnett (?); Debbie Sawyer (Woverhampton); 
Gail Lake-Johns (Dawlish); Kevin Jones 
(Wednesfield); Janice Burdick (London S.W. 
4); Peter Soper (Luton); Diana Crouch 
(Guestling Thorne); Linda Brooks (Ciren-
cester); Brenda George (Norwich); Sylvia 
George (Norwich); Karen Abbott (Box); 
Lynn Machen (Dringhouses); Susan Sikes 
(Portscatho) ; Jennifer Sargent (Chelmsford); 
Melanie Pearce (Peckham S.E.13); Joanna 
Hastings (Wembley); Helen Chambers 
(Shrewsbury); Katherine Pearson (Leeds 5); 
Margaret King (Ipswich); Amanda Dobbs 
(Luton); John Kidd (Grantham); Trevor 
Burnett (?); Paul King (Ipswich). 
Thole Who Tried Hard.—Margaret Bacchus 
(Birmingham 8); Barbara Lawrence (?); 
Fiona Thompson (St. Albans); Lynette Jenner 
(Hailsham) ; �
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Janette Upson (Abbots Langley); Kenneth 
Ramage (Edinburgh 9) ; Georgina Wheeler 
(Newark); Paul Burroughes (Norwich) ; 
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2. People pray for me and long for 
my company, but directly I appear 
they hide themselves. 
3. I am blind, but show others the 
way; deaf and dumb, but know how 
to count. 
4. I have four legs and feathers, but 
am neither beast nor bird. 
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