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ALL NEWS IS GOOD THAT REVEALS THE HAND OF GOD 
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The Lancaster "Aries," back at its base after a series of flights over the magnetic 
North Pole to collect data for the Empire Air Navigation School. 
One hundred thousand racial Jews are 
members of Christian churches in Canada 
and the United States. Protestant 
churches have 145 ministers of Jewish an-
cestry. One of these is a bishop, and 
seven are professors in Christian colleges. 
If the Jews only knew it, their religious 
system finds its consummation in Christ. 
Eight state legislatures in the United 
States have defeated bills providing for 
anti-discrimination laws. Only two have 
passed them. Voters are learning that 
religious and race concord cannot be 
legislated into people's hearts. 
Canadians killed in the war up to the end 
of November, 1944, were 28,040. Cana-
dians killed by cancer in the same period 
of time were 71,350. So says the Cancer 
Bulletin of the Canadian Society for 
the Control of Cancer. The public is 
shocked by the toll of war, but takes as 
a matter of fact the toll of this dread dis-
ease, which exceeds twice the destruction 
of life. And to think that cancer is a 
preventable malady if taken in time. 
Control, not cure, is the most that can 
be hoped for now. But that there is a 
society, and that there is much money 
being expended, to hold this plague in 
check, is a good omen. All praise to the 
doctors who fight cancer, and who will 
never rest satisfied till they are able to 
cure it. 
The blood of the human body has been 
used figuratively from olden times to in-
dicate personal characteristics. "Blue 
blood," and "Blood will tell," are pro-
verbial among us. The truth is, literally. 
that blue blood, taken commonly as a 
sign of aristocracy, is bad blood showing 
blue through the walls of the veins and of 
the skin. And while blood "tells" some-
thing to the doctors, it tells -absolutely 
nothing of human characteristics, whether 
the person be white or coloured, Caucas-
ian or Mongolian, mild or wild, bond 
or free, brainy or dumb. God scorns 
classes and masses alike. He "hath made 
of one blood all nations of men for to 
dwell on all the face of the earth, and 
hath determined the times before ap-
pointed, and the bounds of their habita-
tion; that they should seek the Lord, 
if haply they might feel after Him, and 
find Him, though He be not far from 
every one of us." Acts 17:26, 27. 
Don't preach hell to the returning service 
men, says an Episcopal bishop, for they 
have just come from that place and do 
not want to be reminded of it. Of course 
we know the thought he intends to con-
vey, and it is a good one. But we are re-
minded of the Bible teaching that a tor-
turing hell is not now in existence and 
none will exist till all men are judged at 
world's end. Few men who suffered a 
semblance of hell on the battle fronts will 
ever return home, for they were expend-
ed. The ones who suffered and saw 
war's awful agony, and are alive to re-
member, may well connect it with divine 
retribution and live in view of the judg-
ment. 
The best climate for efficiency is defined 
by the latest findings to be that in which 
the hottest month of the year shall have 
a mean temperature of no more than 75 
degrees Fahrenheit, and the coldest month 
of the year a mean temperature not below 
freezing. "The largest single area that 
meets the specification is that which in-
cludes the British Isles, France, northern 
Spain, Switzerland, Germany, the Neth-
erlands, Denmark and a strip along the 
southwestern shores of Scandinavia." And 
this is taken as a reason for the high de-
gree of health, prosperity, and intellect-
ual attainment of the peoples who have 
lived in this region. But latest develop-
ments would distinguish these peoples 
also for their warring propensities. There 
can be no question but that climate in-
fluences character; but there is great sat-
isfaction for outlanders in the fact that 
God says, "Look unto me, and be ye 
saved, all the ends of the earth." Isaiah 
4522. There are compensations. 
All South American nations now admit 
the Bible, duty free. There is a reaction 
in Latin-American countries in favour 
of religious liberty. Of all Christian coun-
tries, only Roman Catholic dominated 
Ireland will not permit unrestricted en-
trance of God's word. 
Religious liberty is coming back to Ar-
gentina, according to Methodist Bishop 
Arthur F. Wesley, for 26 years resident in 
that country. The compulsory teaching 
of Roman Catholic doctrine in the pub-
lic schools, started a year ago, was abol-
ished in June, he reported; and restric-
tions on Protestant religious broadcasts 
have been removed. 
Vol. XXV �
Editor, ROBERT BRUCE THURBER �Circulation Manager, C. M. CRAWFORD �
OCTOBER, 1945 �
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES 
A LEAF OF FULFILLED PROPHECY 
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IS THAT WHICH 
WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET" 
England would have met German invasion assault craft by igniting an oil strip off 
shore and searing their advance. 
NOW FOR V-W DAY 
AUGUST 14 goes down in history as the 
day when more people were made happy 
than any other date in the annals of hu-
manity. For it ended an unprecedented 
World War—unparalleled in man-power, 
territory covered, nations involved, weap-
ons used, money spent, and casualties 
suffered. From the violence of exhuber-
ant youth and the hysteria of the nerve-
wracked, to the temperate joy of those 
whom life and losses have subdued, the 
outburst of exhilaration knew no bounds. 
When we say the world is happy we 
do not mean all the world. Would 
that there were no "fly in the oint-
ment." Even a great majority of the 
"enemy" are pleased that their miseries 
are not liable to increase. But the so-
called "war criminals", the hunted and 
haunted, the hundreds of thousands of 
men without a country, the homeless and 
shivering and starving and hopeless, the 
sure victims of the lesser strifes that in- 
evitably follow a great war—all these 
temper our satisfaction with things as 
they are. 
Even as, after the cease-fire in Europe, 
the total conflict was not ended, so now 
there is a greater war ahead. And this 
in spite of the sanguine hopes and reso- 
OCTOBER, 1945 
lute determinations of half a hundred na-
tions that international strife is taboo for-
ever. All the lesser contentions between 
races, nations, and classes, long kept in 
abeyance by the combats in the main 
arena, are now to break forth like ex-
ploding ammunition dumps. 
The Zionist movement is again active, 
to rehabilitate Palestine with Jews and 
to precipitate clashes with a more-than-
ever solidified Arab world. The govern-
ments which have already listened to the 
voice of the people in post-war elections—
Norway, Belgium, Great Britain, to name 
a few—have swung sharply to the left, 
which means socialism if not communism. 
The masses are seizing the reins of power 
from the monied classes, and the latter 
will not give way without a fight. Enorm-
ous population masses are being shifted 
from one country to another, often leav-
ing large, discontented groups as out-
casts in a selfish world. 
Restlessness and desperation character-
ize the world's peoples. Victory has not 
brought peace, since victory for one side 
means defeat for the other. The greatest 
countries in point of population, China 
and India, are irreconcilably divided. An 
independent and united India, Commun- 
ist China, Spain, and Germany, all had 
no part in the San Francisco Charter; 
and they represent over a fourth of the 
world's people. Undoubtedly we face a 
larger and more complicated war brewing 
among bitter and ambitious populations. 
How much we still long for V-W Day, 
Victory over War! But the road to it 
does not lead through international 
agreements and governmental action. It 
leads through individual hearts by prep-
aration for the second coming of Christ, 
the only Prince of peace. Armageddon is 
still ahead, but the Millennium is just 
beyond. 
The Atoms Explode 
THE average man was no more sur-
prised by the destructiveness of the atom-
ic bomb, plumped on Japanese cities to 
hasten surrender, than he was at its actu-
ality. The lay mind got the idea that the 
atom is so infinitesimal and invisible, not 
to say ethereal, a thing that to speak 
of its having power was ridiculous. 
Now we are convinced that the atom, 
or splitting the atom, or whatever they 
do to it, means power, the greatest power, 
yet tapped by man, in the universe. The 
possibility of its power has long been 
known. The chief problem was the mat-
ter of control of that power when it 
would be released. For, uncontrolled, it 
was capable of destroying mankind and 
the world. Now it has been controlled, 
and has been directed to the destruction 
of a part of mankind. 
It is said to be too costly (for over two 
billion dollars was spent in bringing its 
use to the present state of control) to be 
practical for replacement of steam, elec-
tric and hydraulic power in their applica-
tion to the convenience of mankind. But 
the very fact that science has harnessed 
such tremendous energy is a discovery of 
the highest magnitude. 
It is significant that the initial use 
made of this dynamic was destructive of 
property and all classes of people. Some 
take it as prophetic of peace enforced by 
fear of the horrible consequences of a 
war waged with this devastating weapon. 
Others see in it a beginning of man de-
stroying himself. ' 
One conclusion is certain: the secret of 
the atomic bomb cannot be hidden and 
made the sole possession of peace-loving 
nations. Scientific discoveries cannot be 
long suppressed. The Germans were well 
on the way to a similar discovery when 
they were defeated. The Japanese are 
reported to attribute their defeat to 
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"lack of material strength and scientific 
knowledge and equipment." Their loss 
is only 'temporary," they say, with the 
implication that in another generation, 
if not sooner, they will become aggressive 
again and will be well equipped with 
atomic bombs when they are. 
The greatest force in the universe is 
not the atomic bomb, nor any other 
power that will be permitted the hands 
of man. It is the force that prevents the 
misuse of atomic power, or any other. It 
is the persuasive force that changes men's 
hearts so that they will have no desire to 
kill and destroy for any purpose whatso-
ever. It is the force that made Christian-
ity and that creates Christ lives. Strange 
that so few have discovered it, when it 
is available in simple formula to every 
person on earth. 
The words of the prophet are pertinent: 
"The way of peace they know not; and 
there is no judgment in their goings: 
they have made them crooked paths: who-
soever goeth therein shall not know 
peace." Isaiah 59:8. 
Peace—Soft or Hard 
WHILE waiting at my favourite one-
man barber shop for a fellow customer 
to be shorn, we three discussed the vic-
tory and the thing to be dope with the 
enemy. Finally my predecessor in the 
chair delivered himself of this: "If I had 
my way with that guy they call a god, 
his head would come off under a keen 
axe." 
It is not at all surprising that men re-
act in this way after the horrors of the 
war just ended. But some questions arise 
that are difficult to answer satisfactorily 
for a contented conscience. We have 
read at great length about a soft or a 
hard peace, and we confess skepticism on 
some proposals that are being made. 
Who are the guilty, and to what degree 
are they to blame? Is not all fair in war? 
Is any peace-time crime excusable in war? 
Where shall the line be drawn between 
legitimate and criminal killing in war? 
Is military aggression to be penalized and 
economic aggression to be condoned? 
Is one side justified in using certain 
damnable methods and weapons because 
the other side used them first? Are we to 
he excused when we use new lethal weap-
ons simply because they were not known 
before and therefore could not have been 
outlawed by international agreement? 
Should a man do things to save his na-
tion that he would not do to save him-
self? Is a soldier to blame for committing 
revolting acts under orders from his su-
perior? In war, are not all participants 
sharers in guilt, if any? And shall the 
stronger and less guilty be quick and bold 
to punish the weaker and more guilty? 
What is soft or hard peace? 
All these problems, and many more, 
press with disconcerting persistency on 
those who would bring peace and good 
will to the earth. At first thought, we 
are sure we know how to straighten the 
other fellow out, and to mete out justice 
to the hated enemy. But second thoughts 
make us pause. 
We will get nowhere in peacemaking 
by blindly hating and by rushing in to 
wreak vengeance. "Vengeance is mine; I 
will repay, saith the Lord." He also said, 
"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man 
shall his blood be shed." But that places 
a terrific weight of responsibility on hu-
man judges, and we had better move with 
due consideration of it. 
Nations and individuals with a back-
ground of Christianity and civilization 
cannot stoop to virtual annihilation of 
an enemy. We cannot do it and preserve 
our peace of mind. What a mercy that 
there was not committed to us the repul-
sive task of punishing the former two 
heads of Axis governments. Yet the di- 
vine dictum was carried out in that by 
men was their blood shed—their own 
men. Usually, in the end, national as well 
as individual sin destroys itself. 
The Christ way is to destroy an en-
emy by making a friend of him. "Love 
your enemies" has not lost its reasonable-
ness, and power. The Golden Rule has 
not been outdated and outmoded by war. 
Surely, punish the guilty to the limit of 
justice. But passion must not sway the 
judges. We must become "more than 
conquerors" by remembering our own 
shortcomings as we punish the guilty, 
and by winning the good will of all. Only 
thus can we live with ourselves, not to 
speak of living with the present enemy in 
a crushed world. 
vp, 
When State Rules Church 
WE are urged, for the sake of world 
security, to try to understand the Rus-
sians. Their processes of mind are very 
different from ours, and it is difficult to 
fathom the reasons for their attitudes. 
And we suppose they are having just 
as difficult a time in seeing the reason-
ableness of our moves. 
However, to understand them does not 
necessitate agreeing with them. And cer-
tainly we cannot agree with them in their 
stand on the relation of the state to the 
church. As is well known, the prevailing 
religion in Russia is a branch of the Or-
thodox Eastern Church, which has many 
similarities to the Roman Catholic 
Church but has its own head, or patri-
arch. Under the czars the church was 
more or less subservient to the state. 
After the Revolution, Soviet Russia all 
but destroyed the church as an organiza-
tion. Religion was called "the opiate of 
the people", by Lenin, and every effort 
was made to obliterate it. 
But Stalin and his associates came to 
see that heart-religion cannot be de-
stroyed. So they decided to use it for the 
support of their political setup. With-
in recent months the Orthodox faith has 
been restored, and its patriarch recog-
nized. He has sworn loyalty to the govern-
ment, and backs up every move it makes. 
Only thus can the church be recognized; 
that is, by being a propaganda agent of 
the state. 
So there is said to be religious liberty 
in Russia; but, as we understand it, com-
plete freedom of religion for only one 
church which sanctions the govern-
ment's every policy. Of course, this is 
not religious liberty at all according to 
Western ideas, nor according to Scripture 
teaching. A state-ruled church is little 
better, if any, than a church-ruled state. 
Christ took a positive stand against both 
when He said, "Render therefore unto 
Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and 
unto God the things which be God's." 
Luke 2o:25. Thus the Saviour taught 
that religion and government should be 
entirely separated. 
Some have taken this to mean that a 
religious man cannot be a statesman, and 
a statesman cannot be a religious man. 
Prayer at the opening of parliament, the 
quoting of the Bible on state occasions, 
and invoking God for the blessing of the 
nation, all highly commendable proce-
dures, are cited as proof that religion 
and government are not to be kept 
separate. But there is a vast difference 
between church or state ruling each 
other, and either one respecting and ask-
ing the help of the other. The church 
asks for, and has a right to expect, phy-
sical protection in its proper sphere from 
the state. And the state has a right 
to expect goodwill and loyalty from 
the church insofar as government stays 
within its proper sphere. Beyond this. 
for the happiness of both, either cannot 
go. 
The great democracies have proved 
that religion and government, as to rul-
ing power, can be kept totally apart. 
and both prosper exceedingly. It is peril-
ous for either to dominate, or use, the 
other for its own special advancement. 
History attests this fact. Will religion and t 
government ever learn the lesson? 
Two hundred 
miles of pipes 
which were laid 
under the English 
Channel to convey 
oil to the Conti-
nent during the 
Allied attack. 
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES 
The magnificent temple which the Jews built to provide a place for the presence of God. 
74 Peace Were 90d Zeoed 
Its relation to the Place Where Righteous Men Will Live 
By Edwin R. Thiele 
A T the time when the Lord was lead-
ing Israel out of Egypt to establish 
them in the promised land as a separate, 
chosen people for Him, He spoke to 
Moses their leader as follows: "Let them 
make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell 
among them. According to all that I 
shew thee, after the pattern of the taber-
nacle, and the pattern of all the instru-
ments thereof, even so shall ye make it." 
Exodus 25: 8, 9. 
This sanctuary was to be to Israel the 
dwelling place of God. It was there the 
people of Israel would go when they 
wished to meet with their Lord. This 
was God's home. The sanctuary was holy 
to them because it was hallowed by the 
presence of God. Here God met with 
them and spoke to them. Here He re-
vealed to them His plans and His pur-
poses. Here, by means of the various ar-
ticles of furniture and impressive rites and 
ceremonies, He spoke to them His mes-
sages of love and justice, of mercy and 
judgment, of cleansing and forgiveness, 
of life and death, of reward and punish-
ment, of propitiation and sacrifice. 
It was here in the sanctuary that these 
people of Israel became acquainted with 
God. It was here that they learned to 
love Him and fear Him, to trust Him 
and serve Him, to place their hope in 
Him and His promises of mercy and for-
giveness. It was here that Israel learned 
to rise above the material things of 
earth and to dwell in the atmosphere of 
heaven; it was here that they learned 
the folly of placing their trust in worldly 
wealth or power, in the things that are 
rather than in the things that are to be. 
It was here that they had their vision 
lifted far above the paltry things of earth 
and caught sight of the fact that the 
most real and vital fact of the universe 
was God; that the most devastating fact 
of earth was sin and the misery and woe 
it brought in its train; and the most mo-
mentous engagement of all time and 
eternity was that procedure whereby 
man and the world might be cleansed of 
the contamination of sin and be rid of 
all its nefarious consequences. 
The sanctuary was to reveal to man 
the fact that God was holy, pure and 
good; that He was gracious and merciful; 
righteous, just and true; that He was 
both Creator and Redeemer, Judge and 
Saviour, Priest and King. By the sanc-
tuary and its services man was to learn 
how terrible an evil sin actually was; 
how it had its roots in the darkness of 
hades and brought forth the fruits of 
death and of hell. Here man was to learn 
the joys and blessings of righteousness; 
the glorious realities of forgiveness and 
cleansing from sin; the terrible fruitage 
of evil and the wondrous hope of a fu-
ture happy and secure forever from any 
further defilement by sin. 
It was to impress indelibly upon the 
mind of man by a method as unique and 
piquant as God could devise the fact 
that sin meant death; that God had pro-
vided a way whereby the man who would 
might be cleansed from sin and freed 
from death; whereby he who would not 
be cleansed was to suffer judgment and 
the just deserts of his evil; whereby the 
instigator of sin was to bear the full pen-
alty for the woe and tribulation he had 
wrought and wherein the world was to 
be cleansed from its last vestige of evil 
and wrong. 
It was for such a purpose as this that 
God instructed Moses to build the sanc-
tuary with its court and altar of burnt 
offerings and brazen laver for washings; 
its holy place with table of shewbread, 
golden candlestick, and golden altar of 
incense; and its most holy place with the 
ark and mercy seat. Although this sanc-
tuary of the Hebrews was on earth, it 
had its inception in heaven. Made of the 
things of earth, it spoke to man the mes-
sage of God. Made of material things, 
it spoke to man of things of the Spirit. 
"Let them make Me a sanctuary; that I 
may dwell among them." Although it 
was at this sanctuary that the Hebrews 
met with God, they well knew that the 
great Lord of heaven had His dwelling in 
an abode much vaster and more splendid 
than this. "But will God indeed dwell on 
the earth? behold, the heaven and heav-
en of heavens cannot contain Thee; how 
much less this house that I have builded?" 
1 Kings 8:27. 
The Hebrew sanctuary and temple 
were nothing less than miniature repre-
sentations of God's abode in the heav- 
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ens. Their mysterious rites and cere-
monies were simply types and figures 
that man could appreciate and under-
stand of the great activities of God. Thus 
the candlestick in the holy place was a 
symbol of Christ as the light of men. 
The shewbread was a type of Jesus as 
the Bread of life. The incense offered 
daily on the golden altar, with its fra-
grance rising above the curtain between 
the holy and the most holy place and 
entering the chamber which represented 
the dwelling place of God, was a symbol 
of the constant intercession of Jesus be-
fore the Father in behalf of guilty but 
penitent sinners. 
The most holy place was a type of the 
great throne room of God. The cheru-
bim above the mercy seat portrayed the 
great angel host of heaven surrounding 
the throne of God and looking with rev-
erence upon His holy law. The ark con-
taining the ,two tables on which were en-
graved the ten commandments repre-
sented the throne of God, and His rule 
of justice and love as established upon 
His law of righteousness and love. "And 
there," said God, "I will meet with thee, 
and I will commune with thee from above 
the mercy seat, from between the two 
cherubims which are upon the ark of the 
testimony," Exodus 25:22. 
The brazen altar on which were offer-
ed the sacrificial lambs was a type of the 
cross of Christ. The sacrificial offerings 
were nothing else than a portrayal of 
Jesus Himself, the Lamb of God. When 
an individual had sinned he brought his 
offering, placed his hands upon its head 
and confessed his sin, and then slew the 
victim with his own hand. Thus was 
symbolized the fact that it was the sin of 
man that brought Jesus to His death on 
the cross of Calvary. Thus was portrayed 
the fact that the Innocent had died for 
the guilty, and that the guilt of the sin-
ner had been conveyed to Him Who 
knew no sin. 
Day by day went on this sacrificial work 
in the sanctuary, and day by day did 
sinners come to be cleansed of their 
guilty stains, leaving behind them their 
load of sin and guilt, and going forth 
cleansed and forgiven, freed from sin by 
the grace of God. But once each year 
came a very solemn occasion, the great 
annual day of atonement on the tenth 
day of the seventh month, when a cleans-
ing of the sanctuary was to be made. On 
this day Aaron was instructed to bring 
two goats to the tabernacle and to "cast 
lots upon the two goats; one lot for the 
Lord, and the other lot for the scape-
goat." Leviticus 16:8. The Lord's goat 
was then slain and his blood was brought 
"within the veil," and sprinkled upon 
the mercy seat. Leviticus 16:15. Then 
the priest was told to "make an atone-
ment for the holy place, because of the 
uncleanness of the children of Israel, and 
because of their transgressions in all 
their sins." Leviticus 16:16. The same 
procedure was carried out in behalf of 
the altar that was before the Lord, to 
"cleanse it, and hallow it from the un-
cleanness of the children of Israel." Le-
viticus 16:19. 
This annual day of atonement was 
looked upon by the Hebrew people as 
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the great judgment day of God. Upon 
that day God was considered as sitting 
upon His great throne of judgment, hold- 
ing court and trying the case of every 
one who claimed to be a child of His. 
This to the children of Israel was the 
most solemn day of all the year, for that 
was the time when not only the temple 
but every child of God was to be finally 
cleansed and freed from sin. "For on 
that day shall the priest make an atone-
ment for you, to cleanse you, that ye 
may be clean from all your sins before 
the Lord. And he shall make an 
atonement for the holy sanctuary, and 
he shall make an atonement for the 
tabernacle of the congregation, and for 
the altar, and he shall make an atone-
ment for the priests, and for all the peo 
ple of the congregation. And this shall 
be an everlasting statute unto you, to 
make an atonement for the children of 
Israel for all their sins once a year." Le-
viticus 16:3o, 33, 34. Thus was this 
solemn day of atonement a type of the 
great judgment day when finally the 
cases of all the children of God come up 
for review and the final disposition of 
each case is made. 
At that time will the burden of sin 
ultimately be placed upon the one who 
is the instigator of all sin, the one upon 
whom this guilt in all justice belongs. In 
the sanctuary service on the day of atone-
ment it was the scapegoat that was the 
representative of Satan. When Aaron 
had completed his work of cleansing the 
sanctuary he was told to "lay both his 
hands upon the head of the live goat: 
and confess over him all the iniquities of 
the children of Israel, and all their trans-
gressions in all their sins, putting them 
upon the head of the goat, and shall send 
him away by the hand of a fit man into 
the wilderness. And the goat shall bear 
upon him all their iniquities unto a land 
not inhabited: and he shall let go the 
goat in the wilderness." Leviticus 16:21, 
22. Thus were the sins of the righteous 
ultimately conveyed in type to the head 
of Satan, the antitype of the typical 
scapegoat, and thus were God's people 
and the sanctuary cleansed. 
In the New Testament is revealed a 
clearer and more explicit picture of 
this great work of Christ in behalf of sin-
ful man, which in the Old Testament was 
portrayed beforehand by shadows, types 
and symbols. Thus Paul declares: "It 
is not possible that the blood of bulls 
and of goats should take away sins . . . 
But this man, after he had offered one 
sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on 
the right hand of God . . . For Christ 
is not entered into the holy places made 
with hands, which are the figures of the 
true; but into heaven itself, now to ap-
pear in the presence of God for us. . . . 
And as it is appointed unto men once 
to die, but after this the judgment: so 
Christ was once offered to bear the sins 
of many; and unto them that look for 
Him shall He appear the second time 
without sin unto salvation." Hebrews 10: 
4, 12; 9:24, 27, 28. Thus it is that when 
this judgment work is over, He will come 
again "without sin unto salvation" to 
all who accept His grace. 
WHAT IS 
The Answer Vitally Concerns 
Every Soul on Earth 
By R. H. Pierson 
I
F I were to ask you the question, 
Where is Jesus Christ now and what 
work is He doing?" could you answer 
correctly? The fact that Jesus came to 
this earth as a babe in Bethlehem's man-
ger, lived and died and rose again, is 
well known, but we hear little of the 
work Christ is doing for His people now. 
"Behold 1 have graven thee upon the 
palms of My hands; thy walls are contin-
ually before Me." Isaiah 49:16. In these 
words our Lord asserts that upon the 
cross of Calvary He bound Himself to the 
human race so closely that even eternity 
cannot separate Him from those who love 
and accept Him as their Saviour. 
When Jesus left this earth to return to 
His Father's heavenly home He did not 
forget us! He went to continue His work 
on our behalf—now as our High Priest 
and Advocate in the heavenly court room. 
Paul reminds us of this in his epistle to 
the Hebrews: "Seeing then that we have 
a great high priest, that is passed into the 
heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us 
hold fast our profession." Hebrews 4:14. 
Then again in the eighth chapter of 
the same epistle, reading the first two 
verses: "Now of the things which we 
have spoken this is the sum: We have 
such an high priest, who is set on the 
right hand of the throne of the Majesty 
in the heavens; a minister of the sanc-
tuary, and of the true tabernacle, which 
the Lord pitched, and not man." 
In a previous article there has been 
considered in this magazine the sanctu-
ary, or tabernacle, which God instructed 
Moses and the children of Israel to erect 
in the wilderness. Inspiration has de-
clared that "God's way" of saving men 
is symbolized through the various types 
and ceremonies of this church in the 
wilderness. 
Here we consider the great antitypical 
sanctuary in heaven—the pattern after 
which Moses was instructed to build his 
earthly tabernacle. (Exodus 25: 40.) 
Paul, in the New Testament scripture we 
have just quoted, describes it as "the true 
tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and 
not man." In this heavenly sanctuary 
Jesus ministers as our High Priest, the 
apostle further declares. 
The work of the high priests in the 
earthly tabernacle on the day of atone-
ment, or the day of judgment as it was 
known to be, was a type or a symbol of 
the work that Jesus is doing to-day as our 
Advocate and Intercessor in the court 
room above. 
It is interesting to note, however, that 
Jesus was not a priest of the Levitical 
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CHRIST DOING NOW? 
Once He brought water from this well at Nazareth, but now He ministers in the courts 
above. 
line as were the priests of the earthly 
sanctuary. (Hebrews 7:5 and Numbers 
18:23.) Christ came from the tribe of 
Judah—a tribe from which no priests 
came under the Mosaic law. Of this Paul 
writes: "For it is evident that our Lord 
sprang out of Judah; of which tribe Moses 
spake nothing concerning priesthood." 
Hebrews 7:14. 
When Jesus died upon the cross of 
Calvary the ceremonial laws of Moses 
came to an end. These laws that dealt 
with the ceremonies of washing and 
cleansing, holy days and sacrifices—all of 
which but pointed ahead to the life and 
work of Christ and His gospel—passed 
away when all of these types met their 
fulfilment in Jesus, the Lamb of God. 
There no longer being any need to con-
tinue the services in the earthly sanc-
tuary, the Levitical priesthood also came 
to an end. 
"For the priesthood being changed, 
there is made of necessity a change also 
of the law," Paul declares in Hebrews 
7:12. 
Christ could not commence His work 
as our High Priest in the heavenly sanc-
tuary, or court room, until the Levitical 
priesthood had completed its work. Anti- 
type follows and does not parallel the 
type. So when the Aaronic priesthood 
came to an end, Christ became our High 
Priest of a different order. "If therefore 
perfection were by the Levitical priest-
hood. . . . what further need was there 
that another priest should arise after the 
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order of Melchisedec?" 
These words from Hebrews 7:11 give 
us a clue to the order of which Jesus was 
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to become our priest—"after the order of 
Melchisedec." Inspiration continues with 
these words taken from the fifteenth verse 
of the same seventh chapter: "It is yet 
far more evident: for that after the si-
militude of Melchisedec there ariseth an-
other priest." And in Hebrews 5:10 we 
are told plainly that our Lord was "called 
of God an high priest after the order of 
Melchisedec." 
The Holy Scriptures do not tell us 
much about this man Melchisedec. His 
meeting with the patriarch, Abraham, 
is mentioned in Genesis and referred to 
in Hebrews. "And Melchisedec king of 
Salem brought forth bread and wine: 
and he was the priest of the most high 
God. And he blessed him, and said, 
Blessed be Abram of the most high God, 
possessor of heaven and earth." Genesis 
14:18, 19. 
The record continues by stating that 
Abraham gave his tithes to this man of 
God who was both priest and king. 
There is something surprising and 
mysterious about this first appearance of 
Melchisedec, and in the subsequent ref-
erence to him. Here we find him ap-
proaching Abram bearing gifts which re-
mind Christians of the symbols of com-
munion—bread and wine. From this ac-
count of his meeting with the father of 
the faithful, he is unhesitatingly recog-
nized as a person of higher spiritual rank 
than Abraham. 
When the Holy Scriptures state that 
Christ is a priest after the order of Mel-
chisedec as it does in Psalm 11 o:4, it 
doubtless means "in the same manner." 
Neither of them were of the tribe of Levi, 
both were superior to Abraham, both 
were not only priests but kings as well. 
Paul, in further describing Melchisedec, 
calls him a :ling of righteousness, and 
after that also king of Salem, which is 
King of peace; without father, without 
mother, without descent, having neither 
beginning of days, nor end of life; but 
made like unto the Son of God; abideth 
a priest continually." Hebrews 7:2, 3. 
It seems strange that the apostle should 
declare that Melchisedec was "without 
father, without mother, . . . having 
neither beginning of days nor end of 
life." The Syriac translation of this Scrip-
ture makes it more easily understood: 
"Of whom neither his father nor his 
mother are written in the genealogies; 
nor the commencement of his days nor 
the end of his life." 
In other words, Melchisedec did not 
come to the priesthood through birth 
into the tribe of Levi. He had no inheri-
tance in the priesthood. His parentage, 
being unknown, he could not trace his 
pedigree to the tribe of Levi, the family 
of Aaron, and thus prove his right to the 
priestly office. He was made a priest, not 
having been born one. 
Likewise, since Jesus was not born of the 
tribe of priests He too, like Melchisedec, 
was made a priest (Hebrews 7:21, 22) of 
an order that was to last forever. 
(Verse 17.) "Wherefore he is able also to 
save them to the uttermost that come un-
to God by him, seeing he ever liveth to 
make intercession for them." Hebrews 
7:25. 
It is a wonderful thought to remind 
ourselves of the fact that Jesus as our In-
tercessor has been as a man among men 
therefore He can plead our cases sympa-
thetically before the judgment bar of God. 
So we may take courage that One who 
knows all about us and still loves us is 
representing you and me in the great 
judgment work in heaven! He has met 
the same tests and trials and temptations 
that you and I have to meet, so He can 
sympathetically present our cases to the 
Heavenly Judge. How thankful we 
should be for• this assurance! 
Now, before the High Priest of the 
earthly sanctuary could go into the Most 
Holy place to minister as the Interces-
sor of the people on the day of atone-
ment, he must bring a sacrifice. "For every 
high priest is ordained to offer gifts and 
sacrifices." Hebrews 8:3. 
Jesus, too, must commence His work 
as our High Priest with a sacrifice, for 
Paul says in the same verse: "Wherefore 
it is of necessity that this man [speaking 
of Jesus] have somewhat also to offer." 
Jesus is not only our High Priest but 
He is our sacrifice as well. Before taking 
up His priestly work He gave Himself 
upon the cross of Calvary a sacrifice for 
sin! "How much more shall the blood of 
Christ, who through the eternal Spirit 
offered himself without spot to God, 
purge your conscience from dead works 
to serve the living God?" Hebrews 9:14. 
If you and I have been washed in the 
precious blood of Jesus, if every sin is 
confessed and forgiven, then the Saviour 
stands as our Intercessor in the courts 
above. As our High Priest He pleads His 
precious blood on behalf of every re-
pentant sinner. 
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O US, creatures of a day, the workings 
of God may seem haphazard and 
tantalizingly slow. But actually God ac-
complishes His purposes according to a 
pre-arranged plan. 
Take the first advent of Christ as an 
example. The plan that the Son of God 
would give His life to redeem fallen man 
was ratified far back in Eden, before dis-
obedient Adam and Eve were driven out. 
Revelation 13: 8 speaks of "the Lamb 
slain from the foundation of the world." 
And Genesis 3:15 indicates that God told 
them something of this plan at that 
time, too. But, to the generations before 
the cross, He seemed painfully slow in 
fulfilling His promise. Nevertheless, God 
moved exactly on time. The very date 
had been set in the councils of heaven 
when the Son of God was to come to this 
earth as a helpless babe. When that date 
arrived, He came. "When the fulness of 
time was come, God sent forth His Son. 
made of a woman, made under the law, 
to redeem them that were under the law" 
Galatians 4:4, 5. So a time had been 
set for the Son of God to come. And 
He came precisely on time. 
To His mother who shared the secret 
of Jesus' divinity, He must have seemed 
slow to manifest Himself. For thirty 
years He remained obscure, unknown 
outside His own village. And then one 
day He laid down the hammer and hung 
up the saw and made His way to the 
Jordan to be baptized and begin His pub-
lic ministry. But do you know why He 
went to the Jordan on the day that He 
did? Suppose we let Jesus Himself tell us: 
" . . Jesus came into Galilee, preaching 
the gospel of the kingdom of God, and 
saying, The time is fulfilled, and the 
kingdom of God is at hand." Mark 1:14, 
15. Jesus had been waiting, waiting with 
His eye upon His Father's great time-piece. 
And when the clock struck the hour up in 
heaven for the Son to begin His public 
ministry, He was heard preaching down 
here on this earth, "The time is fulfilled." 
Three and one-half years later, when 
His disciples tried to dissuade Him 
from going down to Jerusalem and sub-
jecting Himself to the malice of His 
enemies there, the record states: "And it 
came to pass when the time was come 
that He should be received up, He stead-
fastly set His face to go to Jerusalem. 
"Luke 9:51. The time was approaching 
for Him to close His earthly ministry. 
and He steadfastly set His face to finish 
His mission on time. 
Back in the days of Moses it had been 
revealed that the Lamb of God was to 
die for sinners on the fourteenth day of 
the first month of the Hebrew calendar. 
That day was to be celebrated in honour 
of His death every year until He came. 
That celebration was called the Passover. 
Later on, the prophet Daniel was shown 
the very year in which the true Passover 
Lamb would die. And when the Pass-
over came that year, where do we find 
Christ? Ah, we find Him hanging on the 
cross saying with a loud voice, "It is fin-
ished." And it was finished precisely on 
time. 
The time for the day of God's judg-
ment has also been settled. God "hath 
appointed a day in the which He will 
judge the world." Acts 17:31. And that 
judgment will be visited at the personal 
appearing of the Son of God to this earth 
once more, for, "Behold, I come quickly; 
and My reward is with Me, to give every 
man according as His work shall be." 
Revelation 22:12. So when the Son of 
God comes down here again, that will 
be judgment day for every man, and the 
date for that coming is fixed. It was all 
settled long, long ago. And when heav-
en's clock begins to strike that awful 
hour, the same God who once sent forth 
His Son to be born of a woman, will send 
Him forth again, but this time as King 
of Kings, and Lord of lords. 
"But of that day and hour knoweth 
no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but 
My Father only." Matthew 24:36. So 
the date for Christ's coming in judgment 
cannot be found anywhere in all Scrip-
ture, for God has not revealed it. 
How then shall we understand Revel-
ation 14:7? "Fear God and give glory to 
Him; for the hour of His judgment is 
come: and worship Him that made 
heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the 
fountains of waters." In the first place, 
what need could there be for defining an 
event so thoroughly obvious as the Bible 
teaches the second coming of Christ will 
be? And in the second place, of what 
possible use can it be then to call upon 
sinners to fear God and give Him glory? 
This would be like pleading with the 
murderer, while he is being strapped in 
the electric chair, not to commit murder 
any more. It is too late to admonish sin-
ners when Jesus Christ appears to re-
ward "every man according as his works 
shall be." What then means this solemn 
call, "Fear God and give glory to Him 
for the hour of His judgment is come?" 
Let us turn back to the Old Testament 
type of the judgment. We shall better 
understand the call of Revelation 14:7 
when we study its type. 
Once every year the ancient Hebrews 
were commanded to observe a service 
known variously as the', atonement, or 
the cleansing of the sanctuary. (See Le-
viticus 16.) This service, like every other 
commanded in the law of Moses, was a 
type of some work that Christ was to 
perform for the redemption of man. And 
a study of Leviticus 16 shows it was a 
work of judgment that was then accom-
plished. 
This cleansing of the old sanctuary is 
mentioned and explained in Hebrews 
9:23: "It was needful therefore that the 
copies of things in heaven should be 
cleansed in this way, but that the heav-
enly things themselves should be cleansed 
with more costly sacrifices." (Weymouth's 
Translation.) 
The same God who was particular that 
the ancient Hebrews observe the cleans-
ing of "the copies of things in heaven" 
on a certain date, has revealed that the 
"cleansing of the heavenly things them-
selves" shall likewise begin at a certain 
time. This revelation was given to the 
great "time" prophet, Daniel: "And he 
said unto me, Unto two thousand and 
three hundred days; then shall the sanc-
tuary be cleansed." Daniel 8:14. 
This prophetic announcement could 
not have referred to the copy of the heav- 
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and the same prophecy sets the 
enly sanctuary, for the copy had been 
destroyed by the Babylonian army more 
than fifty years before; it was in ruins 
when Daniel was granted this revelation; 
and, what is more to the point, it was 
still in ruins twenty-three hundred days 
after this prophecy was made. Certainly 
then, it was not the earthly sanctuary 
that was to be cleansed in this prophecy. 
Nor can this prophecy refer to 2300 
twenty-four hour periods, for this is part 
of a great symbolic prophecy, as any 
reader of this chapter will readily ad-
mit. And in symbolic prophecy a day al-
ways stands for a year (See Ezekiel 4:6 
for the rule on this); so, we have here a 
very long time span,—twenty-three hun-
dred years! No wonder the divine inter-
preter sought to post-pone the prophet's 
interest in this sanctuary prophecy by 
saying, "Shut thou up the vision; for it 
shall be for many days." Verse 26. Many 
days indeed, as man reckons time! 
However, the time is very definitely 
stated, and some day these 2300 years 
would end. And when history unrolled 
the year to which this prophecy refers, 
the God who has always acted on time in 
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cross was forecast centuries beforehand; 
exact time of the judgment. 
other matters would again move to per-
form what He declared. When 2300 
years expire, we shall find God at work 
to cleanse "the heavenly things them-
selves;" the day of God's investigative 
judgment will be here, and on earth the 
message will be sounding: "Fear God 
and give glory to Him, for the hour of 
His judgment is come." 
Now from what date shall we start this 
long period of years? Unless God has 
somewhere given us the starting point for 
this period, Daniel 8:14 is a vain proph-
ecy and no revelation at all. But every 
reverent student of the Scriptures knows 
that God does not give empty, meaning-
less prophecies. Somewhere, he is sure, 
God throws light on this time prophecy. 
And sure enough, the answer is found 
in the very next chapter of Daniel's pro-
phecy. That chapter is the only one 
in all the Old Testament that tells us the 
time for the Messiah's appearance, the 
year of His death, and other matters. It 
also tells us the starting point for the 
long period under study in this article: 
"Know therefore and understand, that 
from the going forth of the command- 
ment to restore and build Jerusalem—" 
Here is the starting point for every event 
that is timed in the eighth and ninth 
chapters of Daniel. 
If this decree is preserved for us some-
where, we are well started to an under-
standing of Daniel 8:14. If it is not pre-
served, then this turns out to be a vain 
prophecy after all. But God gives no 
vain prophecies; the decree to restore and 
build Jerusalem is recorded in Ezra 7: 
11-26. 
But when did the decree go forth? Un-
til we can learn that date, we can never 
know even now the meaning of this pro-
phecy about the cleansing of the sanc-
tuary. The limits of this article will not 
allow us to verify the date in the margins 
of our Bibles for this historical decree. 
Let it suffice that we assure the reader 
that the date in the margin here is cor-
rect. It is a date as sure as the stars, for 
it is verified by Ptolemy's Canon, and 
vindicated by several New Testament 
writers and Christ Himself. And that 
great date is B. C. 457! Even the month 
of that year is recorded (See Ezra 7:9.) 
Now let us add 2300 full years to that 
important year, and we come to the year 
when "the heavenly things themselves 
should be cleansed", and the year is A.D. 
1844! 
Does it startle you to realize that for 
more than one hundred years that cleans-
ing has been going on in the sanctuary 
above, that for more than a century the 
solemn service typified in the cleansing 
of the old Mosaic sanctuary has been 
proceeding, and that sooner or later, the 
Judgment will come to your name and 
mine? Does it sober you to realize that 
as the judgment of God shall find us, so 
we shall ever remain? That is the effect 
that God designs this message shall have 
upon us, for is that not the call to mor-
tals now: "Fear God and give glory to 
Him, for the hour of His judgment is 
come?" 
There has never been a date foretold 
in prophecy to which Christ or His peo- 
ple have not given publicity when that 
date arrived. Thus, when the date came 
for Christ's ministry to begin, He called 
attention to it in His preaching; when 
the date for His death drew near, He 
took pains to instruct His disciples that 
that event was dated and foretold. 
When the time for the judgment came, 
God foretold that great publicity would 
be given to that, too. "Every nation, 
kindred, tongue, and people" were to 
hear it. (See Revelation 14:6, 7.) And 
this prophecy of man's activity is being 
as truly fulfilled as has been God's part in 
it. For a little more than one hundred 
years this message has been heard by mil- 
lions. For a few brief months, it was pro-
claimed by representatives of almost all 
the denominations on earth, until the 
churches officially rejected it. Since then, 
this judgment-hour message has been 
confined to the preaching of one lone 
denomination. But under the providence 
of God this single church has become the 
most widely-known Protestant mission 
body on earth. The time is here for the 
heralding of this warning to go, and God 
always moves on time. The hour of 
God's judgment is come! 
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D
URING the last century, much has 
been written concerning the "lost 
ten tribes," and a great deal of research 
has been given to the question of the 
lineage of the royal family of Great 
Britain. As a result of those researches, 
there has grown up a large and influen-
tial organization, known as "The British 
Israel World Federation." This organ-
ization issues large quantities of litera-
ture, setting forth the claim that the 
British Empire and the United States, 
or in one word "Anglp-Saxondom," are 
the descendants of the house of Israel, 
which went into captivity under the As-
syrians about 721 B.C. They resolutely 
deny that the children of Israel who re-
turned to Palestine after the seventy years 
of Babylonian captivity represented the 
whole twelve tribes. In fact, they defin-
itely assert that only the tribes of Judah, 
Benjamin, and the Levites were included 
in the Israelitish population which re-
turned under the leadership of Zerub-
babel, Ezra, and Nehemiah. 
As a proof text that the ten tribes did 
not return to Palestine, Ezekiel 2o:38 is 
quoted. Please carefully note this pro-
phetic statement, for it is most impor-
tant. 
"And I will purge out from among 
you the rebels. . . . I will bring them 
forth out of the country where they 
sojourn, and they shall not enter into 
the land of Israel: and ye shall know 
that I am the Lord." 
Let us analyze this very definite state-
ment made by the prophet Ezekiel. An 
examination of the context makes the 
matter very clear. God is pointing out to 
the elders of the house of Israel, through 
His servant, the wickedness of their na-
tion, which had brought about their 
captivity. Yet He promised to gather 
them "out of the countries wherein ye 
are scattered." Then the Lord further 
promised to "purge out" from among 
them the rebels and the transgressors, 
and to take them out of the country 
where they sojourned; and of these rebels 
and transgressors the Lord said, "they 
shall not enter into the land of Israel." 
It is impossible to mistake the meaning 
of this passage, if we take note of the 
pronouns which are used. "I [first per-
son] will purge out from among you 
[second person] . . . and they [third per-
son] shall not enter into the land of 
Israel: and ye [second person] shall know 
that I am the Lord." 
But let us examine the context a little 
further. It is self-evident that it was the 
Lord's purpose to separate the rebels 
and the transgressors from among the 
house of Israel, and these would not be 
permitted to enter the land of Israel. In 
verses 40-42 we are told that it was God's 
purpose to gather His people Israel out 
of the countries wherein they were scat-
tered, and then this promise is made: 
"And ye shall know that I am the Lord, 
when I shall bring you into the land of 
Israel, into the country for the which 
I lifted up Mine hand to give it to your 
fathers." Could anything be more spe-
cific? Rebellious Israel were not to be 
permitted to return to the Holy Land, 
but a remnant of Israel were to be gath-
ered once more into the Promised Land. 
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Did God fulfil that promise? British 
Israelites declare that these Israelitish 
captives never returned to Palestine, but 
that only "a small remnant of the tribe 
of Judah and Benjamin returned," and 
that "the Jews of to-day are descended 
from this remnant." Over and over again 
it is declared that "none of the ten 
tribes" went back to Palestine, but "went 
on into Asia and Europe." 
Now let us examine what the Bible 
has to say concerning the return of the 
children of Israel to Palestine after the 
seventy years' captivity. 
In the first year of Cyrus, king of 
Persia, he made a proclamation through-
out all his kingdom, saying, "Thus saith 
Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of 
heaven hath given me all the kingdoms 
of the earth; and He hath charged me 
to build Him an house at Jerusalem, 
which is in Judah. Who is there among 
you of all His people? his God be with 
him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, 
which is in Judah, and build the house 
of the Lord God of Israel (He is the 
God,) which is in Jerusalem." Ezra 1:2, 3. 
This proclamation was not made to 
Jews alone, but to all God's people who 
had a mind to assist in the rebuilding 
of the temple. 
Now let us see who responded to this 
appeal. Ezra, the learned Hebrew scribe, 
leaves us in no doubt about this question, 
for he says: "Then rose up the chief of 
the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and 
the priests, and the Levites, with all them 
whose spirit God had raised, to go up 
to build the house of the Lord which is 
in Jerusalem." Ezra 1:5. 
In the second chapter of Ezra is given 
a list of the families who went back to 
Jerusalem, and in the last verse of the 
chapter it is recorded that "the priests, 
and the Levites, and some of the people, 
and the singers, and the porters, and the 
Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and 
all Israel in their cities." Verse 70. 
What can such language mean but 
that representatives of all Israel took 
part in the return to Jerusalem to re-
build the temple? But the British Is-
raelite is quite convinced, in spite of the 
evidence of Ezra, that only Judah, Ben-
jamin, and the priests and Levites took 
part in that return from the captivity. 
And this is one of the texts of Scripture 
which they use to support their idea:— 
"Again the word of the Lord came 
unto me, saying, Son of man, thy breth- 
ren, even thy brethren, the men of thy 
kindred, and all the house of Israel 
wholly, are they unto whom the inhabi-
tants ' of Jerusalem have said, Get you 
far from the Lord: unto us is this land 
given in possession." Ezekiel 11: 1 4, 15. 
"That meant," says the British Israel-
ite, "that the handful of Jews, less than 
5o,000 who returned to Jerusalem, 
thought that all the rest of Israel had 
been cast away, and that they were 
given the land because they were per-
mitted to return."—"The Bible versus 
British Israel Critics," page 19. 
The fallacy of this reasoning will be 
apparent when it is recognized that these 
words were not spoken by "the handful 
of Jews who returned to Jerusalem," as 
is alleged, but by the remnant of rene-
gade Jews who had been left behind by 
Nebuchadnezzar seventy years before 
the termination of the captivity. Our 
friends are quite mistaken in their sup-
position that this part of Ezekiel's proph-
ecy applies to a period after the cap-
tivity, for even a casual reading of the 
chapter makes it self-evident that the 
prophecy refers to the wicked bigotry 
and intolerance exhibited by the Jews in 
Jerusalem, just prior to the overthrow 
of Zedekiah, and the utter destruction 
of the city by Nebuchadnezzar. 
Yet this passage of Scripture is used 
as "clear proof" that "the northern king-
dom of Israel never merged as a whole 
with the Jews." Whoever said that they 
did? What is claimed is that a "rem-
nant" of the northern tribes returned 
with a "remnant" of the tribes of Judah 
and Benjamin at the time Ezra led 
nearly 50,00o captives back to the Holy 
Land; and that all the twelve tribes 
were represented in that company of 
people. 
Anyone acquainted with the Books of 
Ezra and Nehemiah will know that a 
remnant of all Israel participated in the 
return from the seventy years' captivity. 
The decree of Cyrus did not exclude any 
of God's people, but was extended to all 
God's people, "whose spirit God had 
raised to go up to build the house of 
the Lord." That some members of all 
tribes of Israel joined in the work is 
made plain all through the books of 
Ezra and Nehemiah. Let us notice a 
few passages in proof of this contention. 
When the adversaries of Israel came 
to Zerubbabel and offered their assist-
ance, "Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the 
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An Inquiry into the So-called "Lost Tribes" of Israel, and 
Current Claims as to Their Identity in Modern Times. 
(FIRST OF FIVE ARTICLES) 
By A. W. Anderson 
The British Houses of Parliament in London. Has the "lost" been found in this "mother 
of parliaments?" 
rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, 
said unto them, Ye have nothing to do 
with us to build an house unto our God." 
Ezra 4:3. 
After the completion of the temple 
and at the time of its dedication, we 
read that "the children of Israel, the 
priests, and the Levites, and the rest of 
the children of the captivity, kept the 
dedication of this house of God with joy, 
and offered . . . -for a sin offering for 
all Israel, twelve he goats, according to 
the number of the tribes of Israel." 
Ezra 6:16, 17. 
This text of Scripture explodes the 
idea taught by British Israelites that "the 
handful of Jews . . . who returned to 
Jerusalem, thought that all the rest of 
Israel had been cast away," for at the 
dedication of the second temple all the 
twelve tribes were represented, and offer-
ings were made for each and all of the 
twelve tribes. 
Over seventy years after Zerubbabel 
led the first contingent of Israelitish cap-
tives back to Jerusalem, Artaxerxes, the 
king of Persia, issued a decree to Ezra 
OCTOBER, 1945 
the priest, which commences with these 
striking words: "Artaxerxes, king of 
kings, unto Ezra the priest. . . . I make 
a decree, that all they of the people of 
Israel, and of his priests and Levites, 
in my realm, which are minded of their 
own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go 
with thee." Ezra 7:12, 13. 
As this invitation was extended to all 
the people of Israel in the realm of 
Artaxerxes, it certainly included all the 
house of Israel, as well as the house of 
Judah. 
Armed with this decree, Ezra tells us 
that he "gathered together out of Israel 
chief men to go up with" him to Jeru-
salem. Ezra 7:28. On the fourth day 
after their arrival at Jerusalem, this 
second company of captives "offered 
burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, 
twelve bullocks for all Israel." Ezra 8:35. 
If only two tribes were there, why did 
they offer twelve bullocks for all Israel? 
The only natural inference one can draw 
from this statement is that all the twelve 
tribes were represented in the second 
company that went up to Jerusalem with 
Ezra; and we have already seen that all 
the twelve tribes were also represented 
by the first company who went to Jeru-
salem, under the leadership of Zerub-
babel over seventy years before. 
It should be noted that this so-called 
"handful of Jews" were made up very 
largely of men who were devoted to the 
worship of God. They were the men 
who responded to the call of God to 
leave their homes and go to Palestine to 
rebuild the temple of God and reorgan-
ize His worship. Those Israelites who 
stayed in the land of captivity manifested 
little or no concern for the worship of 
God, and because of their defiant and 
rebellious attitude towards the invitation 
of God to return to the promised land, 
God declared through His prophet Eze-
kiel that these "rebels, and them that 
transgressed against" Him, He would 
"bring forth out of the country where 
they sojourn," and He added, "they shall 
not enter into the land of Israel." On 
the other hand God purposed to gather a 
company of people whom He refers to 
as "the house of Israel" into the land of 
Israel. Ezekiel 20:38-42. A part of the 
house of Israel would be gathered by the 
Lord from amongst the heathen where 
they had been scattered, and would re-
turn to the Holy Land, while another 
section of the house of Israel would be 
driven further into the wilds of heathen-
ism and would not be permitted to enter 
into the land of Israel. Yet we are solemn-
ly told by British Israel advocates that 
Ezekiel 20:34, 3l "would seem to imply 
that the departed ten tribes were to be re-
moved from their then habitat, and taken 
to a strange country (wilderness), where 
they would learn to know God."—"The 
Case for British Israel," page 5. 
If the prophet had not continued his 
prophecy beyond verse 34, we might be 
led to accept the above suggestion. But 
he goes on to say that God would "purge 
out" the rebels and the transgressors, 
and would not permit them to enter the 
land of Israel, and that after He had 
brought them into the land of Israel, 
they would know Him to be the God of 
Israel. 
Our friends the British Israelites claim 
descent from the people of the ten tribes 
who refused the call of God through 
Cyrus and Artaxerxes to return to the 
Promised Land. They trace their de- 
scent from the people who rebelled and 
transgressed against God and who re-
fused to listen to the appeals of Zerub- 
babel and Ezra. They regard those 
people who turned their backs upon the 
call of God, and consequently were shut 
out from the blessings of participating 
in the worship of God in the Holy Land 
over four centuries before Christ, as the 
true House of Israel and the progenitors 
of the Anglo-Saxon race. They unhesi-
tatingly declare that the ten tribes never 
came back to Palestine, but only a rem-
nant of the tribes of Judah and Ben-
jamin. 
This idea is refuted by the Books of 
Ezra and Nehemiah, as we have already 
pointed out. It is also refuted in the 
New Testament, as we shall proceed to 
show in a later issue. 
11 
IS 
OLD AGE 
A 
DISEASE 
Some descendants 
of Ponce de Leon 
stand beneath his 
statue at St. Aug-
ustine, Florida. He 
was the famed 
seeker for the 
"fountain of 
youth," but, as 
with all, old age 
claimed him. 
By Dallas Youngs 
H
ERE is a question that has baffled the 
ages. Earth's most profound thinkers 
have devoted years, even lifetimes to the 
solution of this problem—all have failed. 
Ponce de Leon searched for the "foun-
tain of youth," but died a dozen years 
later a disillusioned old man. Since the 
great increase of knowledge in the past 
one hundred years, scientists have ex-
perimented with "monkey glands" in an 
effort to extend life's span, but without 
success. 
Some years ago the New York Times 
carried this pertinent paragraph: "Why 
does our skin shrivel, our vision dim, 
our gait slacken, our hair fall out, our 
hearing dull as we grow old? Why do we 
grow old at all? Is old age a disease? . . . 
Do we wither and die because the en-
vironment gets the better of us—the germs 
that lay us low, the variations in tempera-
ture and moisture to which we adapt 
ourselves only for a time?" 
When a babe is born into the world he 
grows, finally reaching the peak of de-
velopment; then his bodily machine be-
gins to slow up and at last stops. The 
saying, "Once a man, but twice a child" 
is but too true. Life is man's most prized 
and cherished possession, but it is the 
one thing above all others that he is cer-
tain of losing. Despite the fact that we 
are heirs to 6000 years of accumulated 
knowledge and experience, we appear to 
be as far from the solution of death as 
were the antediluvians. 
We know a thousand times more about 
our bodies and how to care for them 
than was known in the Dark Ages, but 
this has not materially affected life's ex-
pectancy. We have great hospitals, 
learned men of medicine and skilful sur-
geons, but still we grow old and at last 
the grave becomes our abode. Sometimes 
an individual succeeds in passing the 
divinely appointed limit of threescore 
and ten, but he is seldom very useful 
after that period. It would seem that 
there exists an inflexible "law of death" 
that demands the reversion of all life 
to the elements from which it sprang. It 
appears that some unseen power draws 
every person over the noontime 'of life 
down into the gradual twilight of the 
setting sun. 
When we look into other parts of God's 
vast universe we see never-dimming glory 
and excellence. The sun blazes on and 
on throughout the centuries in undimin-
ished strength. The earth swings in ma-
jestic circuit around that blazing orb, 
never behind time, never ahead. Then 
we look out into far distant space, and 
see other giant suns shining with the 
same glory and brilliancy as when they 
were seen by the early Egyptian astron-
omers. There are no accidents among the 
heavenly bodies, and no apparent dim-
ming of their great glory. It seems that 
death is foreign to stellar bodies, and 
certainly it is contrary to what we under-
stand of the nature and character of God. 
A noted infidel once said: "If I were 
God, I would make health contagious in- 
stead of sickness." Well, that is the way it 
should be and that, we believe, is the way 
it is where God dwells. There is no 
record that any sick person was ever ex-
posed to Jesus Christ when He was here 
upon earth who did not receive health. 
The woman having a twelve-year sick-
ness touched the hem of His garment and 
was instantly healed. Leprosy fled at His 
touch—the palsied walked at His com-
mand, the blind were made to see and 
the deaf to hear. It is said that in entire 
villages, when Jesus had passed through, 
there was not to be heard a moan of 
pain or a wail of anguish. Since Jesus 
is the great Healer and Life-giver how is 
it that decay and death have reigned on 
this planet for 6000 years? 
God gives us the answer to the whole 
problem in one word, and that word is 
"sin." "Wherefore, as by one man sin 
entered into the world, and death by 
sin; so death passed upon all men, for 
that all have sinned." Romans 5:12. 
Sin is the enemy that causes our skin 
to shrivel, our vision to dim, our gait to 
slacken, our hair to fall out, and our 
hearing to become dull. Sin is the cause, 
not only of human decay and death, but 
of animal and vegetable as well. Had sin 
not entered the world health would 
have been contagious instead of sickness 
and disease. There would have been no 
plagues and epidemics. 
With the destruction of sin will go 
old age and death. With the final end 
of Satan will come the end of the river 
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WHEN DEATH STALKS THE HOSPITAL WARD 
A message 
of comfort 
for sore 
hearts... 
of water of death, and supplanting that 
will flow the "river of water of life" out 
from the throne of God. Sin, which had 
its origin near the throne of God, will 
soon have run its evil course and be de-
stroyed. 
Lucifer was perfect at the time God 
created him. He occupied a lofty posi-
tion among the angels of heaven and 
was very beautiful. As time passed on he 
began to observe his beauty and to con-
sider his exalted position. The more 
he allowed his mind to dwell on these 
things, the more proud and exalted he 
became. He grew dissatisfied with his 
high position and wanted to occupy a 
still higher one. He wanted to be like 
God, or even greater than his Maker. 
Isaiah tells us about it: "How art thou 
fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the 
morning! how art thou cut down to the 
ground, which didst weaken the na-
tions? For thou hast said in thine heart, 
I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my 
throne above the stars of God: I will 
sit also upon the mount of the congre-
gation, in the sides of the North. I will 
ascend above the heights of the clouds; 
I will be like the Most High." Isaiah 14: 
12-14. 
At last, as Lucifer became more and 
more dissatisfied with God's government 
of love, he began to spread his dissatis-
faction among the loyal angels of heaven. 
Up to this time sin in heaven was un-
known and because of Lucifer's position 
as leader of the angelic host he had little 
difficulty in influencing the angels to 
join him in his rebellion against God. 
Revelation 12:4 says that he drew the 
third part of the angels with him. Now 
when this time had been reached in the 
division of the heavenly angels, God put 
an end to it: 
"There was war in heaven: Michael 
[Christ] and His angels fought against 
the dragon; and the dragon fought and 
his angels, and prevailed not; neither was 
their place found any more in heaven. 
And the great dragon was cast out, that 
old serpent, called the devil and Satan, 
which deceiveth the whole world: he was 
cast out into the earth, and his angels 
were cast out with him." Revelation 12: 
7-9. 
Instead of allowing sin to spread all 
over the universe, God checked it and 
confined it to this one planet—the earth. 
About this time God had created Adam 
and Eve here, and had given Adam the 
dominion of the world. That is, He gave 
him the rulership of it. But when Satan 
was confined here, he coveted Adam's po-
sition as ruler and set about to get it. 
Unfortunately, he was all too successful, 
and succeeded in getting Adam to join 
him in his rebellion against God. From 
the time our first parents ate of the for-
bidden fruit the human race has been on 
Satan's side against God. In order to 
help man, God put "enmity" (Genesis 3: 
15) between Satan and man that man 
might have power to resist in some de-
gree the influence of the great adversary. 
God determined that man should not 
be wholly subject to the will of Satan. 
Now individuals, born in sin, may choose 
whom they will serve--whether God or 
the devil. 
OCTOBER, 1945 
Why did God permit Satan to con-
tinue? Why did He not destroy him at 
once when he sinned? The reason is that 
sin was a new thing in the universe of 
God, and the loyal angels and the in-
habitants of the other worlds did not un-
derstand it. They could not tell whether 
Satan's accusations against God's govern-
ment were true or not. God knew it was 
necessary to give sin opportunity to de-
velop, that its terrible character might be 
clearly evident to all. If God had blotted 
Satan out of existence when he sinned in 
heaven, it would not have ended the re-
bellion. There would have remained al-
ways in the minds of the loyal angels a 
doubt that perhaps Satan was right in his 
charges after all. And then from time to 
time as the ages rolled by other rebellions 
would have risen to plague the universe. 
So God in his infinite wisdom confined it 
to one place, and gave it time to show its 
real character, that all the inhabitants 
of the universe might look here and see 
for themselves the outworking of diso-
bedience. 
God dealt with the rebellion in the 
only possible way to insure the peace 
and happiness of the future. This planet 
was made an object lesson that every in- 
What could she do? She was in great 
physical danger, that friend of mine. 
And that was not all. She was a widow, 
and had been since her then teen-age 
daughters were five and seven. For years 
she had been both father and mother to 
them. Now she faced a real crisis. Far 
removed, by miles, from all her kin, 
she was face to face with the very pos-
sible danger of leaving these two girls 
motherless. She had insisted upon know-
ing the facts, and the doctor had reluc-
tantly told her he feared the worst. Criti-
cal surgery, with little in the way of 
promised results, was the only thing held 
out to her. 
Where could she go for comfort and 
strength? Husband dead, father and 
mother long since laid to rest, loving 
brothers and sisters too far away to come 
to her. There was only one thing she 
could do, which, after all, is the very 
best thing anyone in distress can do. She 
went to God. Her story was like this: 
"It seemed to me that Jesus was right 
there in the little corner of that great 
hospital ward. First, I humbly and earn-
estly asked Him to forgive my every sin 
and to cover me with His perfect robe of 
righteousness. Comforting assurance 
filled my heart in answer to this prayer. 
Then it seemed that I could talk to Him 
as to a dear friend. I told Him I couldn't 
see how the girls could get along with- 
habitant of the universe might see the 
heinous character of sin. Then in a 
demonstration of love, God sacrificed His 
Son. Jesus came, lived, suffered and died 
that all who would accept of the prof-
fered plan of salvation might be saved. 
Now we have the promise that afflictions 
shall not rise up again. (Nahum 14) 
That is, after this experiment of sin and 
the final destruction of sin and sinners, 
God's universe will never again be pol-
luted. 
:And not only that, but God has a glor-
ious future planned for those who will 
be true and faithful. Here is what He 
has done and will do for his people: 
"Even when we were dead in sins, hath 
quickened us together with Christ, (by 
grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us 
up together, and make us sit together in 
heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in 
the ages to come He might shew the ex-
ceeding riches of His grace in His kind-
ness toward us through Christ Jesus." 
Ephesians 2:5-7. 
When this time comes, health will be 
contagious, there shall be no more old 
age or death, and joy and happiness will 
reign supreme forevermore. 
out their mother at the most critical age 
in their lives; and, yet, if such were 
within His wisdom, I could trust my chil-
dren to His care. I felt that if I were to 
lay down my burdens, some Christian wo-
man would be raised up who would be a 
better mother than I. After this talk with 
my unseen but very real Friend, a sense 
of enveloping peace and trust such as I 
am unable to describe filled my being, 
such peace as passes understanding. Then 
I went to sleep. 
"The next morning, the day of the op-
eration, nurses marvelled to find me so 
calm and unafraid. Nearly a week after 
surgery, one of the doctors asked me if 
I would not like to know the result of the 
tests. I actually had not given the question 
a thought, so perfect was my confidence 
in God and so strong my belief that, what-
ever way things went, it was within His 
providence and therefore all right with 
me. You see, I had taken my burden to 
the Lord and left it there." 
That friend of mine still lives. The 
two daughters have grown into Christian 
womanhood and have little ones of their 
own. They, too, have learned the secret 
of faith and trust, which is their strength 
and comfort during these troubled years 
while their husbands are in the Service 
overseas. 
Edith Allen 
13 
Give early attention to the condition of the teeth. 
HOW TO ESCAPE DENTURES 
By D. H. Kress, M.D. 
A
SHORT time ago, while making a 
physical examination of a patient, 
I said to her: "Your teeth need atten-
tion." "Yes," she replied, "I know that, 
Doctor, but what remarkably fine teeth 
you have! It pays to live right, doesn't 
it?" I said: "Yes," and the conversation 
there ended. The fact was, all my teeth 
are artificial. The compliment belonged 
to my dentist. It is true, it pays to live 
right, but we must begin to live right 
before we are born, and then after birth 
continue to live right in order to have 
teeth that will serve us well to the age of 
three score years and ten. 
If dental decay were merely a local or 
an oral inconvenience, it would be suf-
ficiently serious to demand attention, 
but there is more involved in it than this. 
When fruit decays on a tree, not the 
fruit, but the tree needs attention. The 
soil is at fault. Some important element 
is lacking—when teeth decay, it is not 
merely the teeth that need attention; 
something is wrong with the food that is 
eaten or with the way it is eaten. The 
bone-forming element is either deficient 
in the foods eaten or if present is not 
utilized. 
There is a general law of nature that 
a member that is not exercised, as an arm 
for instance, becomes weak and in time 
atrophies. Fish, living in dark caves, 
lose their sight, as do certain mice which 
live underground. Teeth that are not 
made use of, in time decay. Chewing 
acts as a massage to the gums and en-
courages the circulation of blood to the 
roots of the teeth. In this way they are 
nourished. 
Some people have discovered that to 
chew gum after meals will in part take 
the place of proper mastication, and 
hence the prevalent practice of gum-
chewing. While gum-chewing is frowned 
down upon by some, chewing gum may 
be allowable so long as we insist upon 
swallowing food without properly chew-
ing it. 
We eat too many soft foods, such as 
soups and puddings. Vegetables, too, are 
served soft and often quite hot. All of 
this tends to bring about disease of the 
gums and will eventually result in af-
fecting the teeth. 
In all countries where meat and sugar 
and white bread form the staple articles 
of food, dental decay prevails. Meat 
and sugar are both deficient in the ma-
terial out of which teeth are built. Aus-
tralians are great meat-eaters. They are 
also fond of sweets and use white bread 
freely. In no country have I found dental 
decay more common than in Australia. 
In Canada, the United States, and Eng-
land, where meat, sugar, and soft, starchy 
foods are also freely used, dental decay 
is common. 
The food which the horse eats contains 
all the elements needed out of which to 
construct strong bones and good teeth. 
Tooth decay is uncommon among horses. 
Not merely does the food they eat con-
tain the needed elements, but mastica-
tion of the food enables them to appro-
priate' these elements. Should the horse, 
instead of being fed on oats, be fed on 
oatmeal mush containing the same ele-
ments, and eat it hot, as we do, tooth de-
cay among horses would in a short time 
become as common as it is among 
mush eaters. In order to develop sound 
teeth we must exercise horse sense and 
masticate our food. 
When animals eat cereals and other 
products of the soil which contain both 
muscle and bone forming elements, the 
meat forming portion is utilized by them 
in building muscle, while the bone form- 
ing element is utilized in the building 
of bones. Meat, therefore, contains the 
muscle forming element, but is lacking in 
the bone forming material, since the bone 
forming material derived from their food 
is stored up in the bones and the teeth 
of the animal. In order to obtain both 
muscle and bone forming material by 
subsisting on animal food, it would be 
necessary to eat the entire creature, mus-
cle, bones, and all, or else suck the arter-
ial blood, which holds these elements in 
solution, as do the carniverous creatures. 
Monkeys and chimpanzees possess re-
markably fine teeth. Some time ago I 
happened to be in a zoo at a time when 
the creatures were being fed by the at-
tendant. I noticed a chimpanzee that re-
ceived special attention. He was sur-
rounded by on-lookers when he was 
handed his meal. The meal consisted of 
whole wheat bread, bananas, and a head 
of lettuce. The big fellow took his food 
and began to eat it with a relish. His 
teeth were fine. He never needed a den-
tist. It was evident that the food which 
he ate contained the bone forming ele-
ments, and proper mastication enabled 
him to appropriate them. 
Civilized man may be benefitted by 
studying the dietetic habits of these crea-
tures whose alimentary tract and teeth 
so closely resemble man's. 
Some years ago, while visiting the is-
land of Fiji, I was entertained by the 
chief. I was surprised to find the remark-
ably fine teeth that these people had. Just 
before I left, the chief broke off a piece 
of sugar cane and tore off the outer 
portion with his teeth. I observed the 
splendid condition his teeth were in. I 
I said, "You have remarkably fine teeth." 
He opened his mouth wide, and every 
tooth was like a pearl. This man never 
used toothpaste or a toothbrush. The 
people subsisted on the food which con-
tained the bone forming element, and by 
proper mastication, they were able to 
utilize it. As a result, they had fine 
teeth. They lived very_ much as did the 
chimpanzee. 
Some years ago Dr. William Wright of 
England, lecturer on anatomy, gave a 
very interesting account, in the Univer-
sity of Birmingham, of the teeth and jaw 
in a collection of human skulls which 
were unearthed in Yorkshire. The most 
notable feature of these skulls was the 
teeth. These were regular, few were miss-
ing, and all were free from disease. It 
is not unusual, he said, to find jaws with 
the teeth in the most perfect condition 
imaginable. How different from the con-
dition of the race occupying those terri-
tories at the present time. 
Wherever we find a race of men retain-
ing primitive milling customs or living 
on whole grain foods, we are apt to 
find teeth which are free from decay. 
The fact that whole wheat bread contains 
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES 
THE DOCTOR ANSWERS HEALTH QUESTIONS 
2no% more phosphate than does white 
bread affords the explanation. 
America has developed the cleverest 
dentists. She also leads the world in the 
manufacture of white flour. The better 
the mill, the whiter the flour: and the 
poorer the teeth, the better the dentist. 
It is not necessary to depend upon the 
modern mills for flour. Each family may 
purchase its own wheat and obtain a 
handmill at small cost with which to 
grind flour. Those who adopt this plan 
will be surprised to find a sweetness in 
their bread that is not present in bread 
made of flour obtained from the grocer, 
which has lost much of its sweetness. A 
double purpose is thus served. Not only 
do we obtain the needed bone-forming 
material, but in this way the satisfaction 
imparted to the palate encourages long-
er retention of such foods in the mouth 
and more thorough mastication. The 
maltose formed by the action of the saliva 
upon the starch aids in dissolving the 
salts present. In the absence of the mal-
tose these salts, even if present, are im-
perfectly utilized. The free use of mushes 
and other pastey foods causes lime starv-
ation and favours tooth decay. Thorough 
mastication encourages free circulation 
of the blood, conveying the needed nu-
trients to the gums and to the teeth, 
making it possible to utilize the bone 
forming elements in the blood in build-
ing up the teeth. The two important fac-
tors in tooth formation and preservation 
are the presence of bone forming mater-
ial in the food and thorough mastication 
of such foods. 
It must be remembered that the stom-
ach is not merely an organ of digestion 
but that it is also a disinfecting chamber. 
The food is designed to remain there a 
sufficient length of time to be disinfected. 
The gastric juice will either destroy or 
inhibit the growth of germs which enter 
with the food. 
Because of improper mastication, which 
is so common, foods are permitted to en- 
ter the stomach which are not prepared 
for it. The mouth should not be regarded 
merely as an opening to get food into the 
stomach. It is an organ of digestion. Food 
should be retained there a sufficient 
length of time to be reduced to a creamy 
consistency before it is permitted to enter 
the stomach. In this way the saliva is 
thoroughly incorporated with it, and it 
is very much easier for the digestion of 
the starch and protein to go on in the 
stomach and intestines. When foods 
are swallowed without proper mastica- 
tion, they act as mechanical irritants, and 
in time will bring about a diseased con- 
dition of the stomach. Such foods pass 
out of the stomach undigested and enter 
the intestinal tract as irritants. This is 
one of the chief causes of ulceration of 
the stomach. In the colon the food still 
continues to act as an irritant, and as a 
result we have the prevalence of colitis. 
Colitis is due chiefly to faulty mastica- 
• 
tion. 
Picture Credits 
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Cover, Harold M. Lambert. 
Pages 2, 3, 4, 11, 14, 16, Miller Services. 
Pages 7 and 12, Kadel and Herbert. 
Page 9, H. Armstrong Roberts. 
OCTOBER, 1945 
By proper mastication we puree the 
food in the mouth, and food that is 
pureed in the mouth is better than food 
that is pureed in the kitchen and then 
swallowed without the saliva being ming-
led with it. In a case of ulcer of the 
stomach or colitis, pureed foods are pre-
scribed to bring about a cure. Prevention, 
however, is better than cure. 
The habit of chewing thoroughly, 
though at first rather difficult, is easily ac-
quired. 'The satisfaction obtained from 
the food depends largely upon the mas-
tication. It is the best safeguard against 
over eating, since the taste buds are lo-
cated in the mouth and not in the stom-
ach. You will observe the Scripture reads 
"who satisfieth thy mouth with good 
things." 
The first part of the digestive process is 
completely under our control. If well 
done, very little disturbance will be ex-
perienced in the stomach or intestines 
later on. 
Attention must also be called to the 
custom of taking hot foods, which by con-
tact with the mucous membrane, lower 
the vitality of the gums and the tonsils, 
and thus pave the way for disease. Hot 
foods and hot drinks are also an active 
cause of cancer of the stomach. No other 
animal aside from civilized man demands 
hot foods or hot drinks. They are also 
free from the diseases of civilized man. 
Hot food and hot drinks, by lowering the 
SPINAL ANESTHETIC 
i was operated on for hernia under a 
spinal anesthetic ten months ago, and wish 
to know about the paralysis which I am 
told sometimes results from a spinal. In 
my case I feel it as it were at the base of 
the spine towards the right, manifested by 
a sharp pain, then numbness down the 
right leg to the small toe. Is the spinal 
dose increased or decreased with age, and 
what may be expected in the way of re-
covery from such a condition? I am be-
tween fifty and sixty years of age. 
The complication you describe would be 
termed a radiculitis (an irritation of the 
spinal nerve roots). Complications of this 
kind, sometimes unfortunately much more 
serious, occur in approximately 5% of 
cases. They are unpredictable. 
The type of anesthetic chosen is depend-
ent upon the age and physical condition of 
the patient. The dose is dependent upon 
the time it is considered that the opera-
tion will take, and is gauged in direct pro-
porton. 
vital resistance of the gums, pave the 
way for the entrance of germs. It is one 
of the causes of the prevalence of pyor-
rhoea. 
Not merely do we need to chew proper-
ly, but we should select only such foods as 
are worth chewing, foods that possess the 
elements out of which teeth are formed. 
We are threatened with becoming a 
toothless race. Children at an early age 
suffer from tooth decay. Eighty per cent 
of those attending our public schools or 
who are of school age are afflicted with 
decayed teeth. Should such a condition 
exist among our colts or calves, farmers 
would make an appeal to the govern-
ment for an appropriation to ascertain 
the causes. They would not rest until the 
condition was corrected. Dentists are 
employed to make routine, periodic ex-
aminations in our schools, and the de-
cayed members are either patched up 
or removed and replaced by artificial 
ones. So parents say, "Why should we 
worry? We have done our duty." We 
have not done our duty until the dietetic 
errors are corrected. If these are not cor-
rected, they will in time, bring about 
not merely dental defects but general 
debility and disease. Dental infection is 
one of the first things thought of where 
the blood gives evidence of a low grade 
infection, and where there exists chron-
ic inflammatory diseases of the nerves. 
Neuritis, arthritis, and myositis, are fre--
quently traceable to tooth infection. 
Aikehead states: "I have never seen one 
of these conditions that did not clear up in 
time." Nerves regenerate at the rate of 
one millimetre a day. Accordingly, it 
might take three years for complete re-
turn to function of the nerves of a leg. 
It is important to eat plenty of fresh 
fruits and vegetables and whole wheat 
bread in order to secure adequate amounts 
of vitamin B in the diet. 
CLIMATE FOR HEART TROUBLE 
What is the best altitude and climate for 
a person with heart trouble to live in? 
While a person becomes physiologically 
adjusted in a matter of days (at most two 
weeks) to different altitudes, it is never-
theless true that many sufferers from 
heart disease and high blood pressure do 
feel much better when at sea level. Ex-
tremes in climate are detrimental. Excessive 
heat is about as badly tolerated as ex-
treme cold. The more equitable tempera-
tures at or near sea level are the best. 
W. H. Roberts M.D. 
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SEND THE EDITOR YOUR QUESTIONS ON HOW TO BE WELL 
In darkest London the devastation that surrounded ST. Paul's called for vengeance. 
"Veacsaace Ta °Mae, „ Saea the 
Vengeance is His because it would be very difficult for me to determine the guilty man 
or nation. I cannot weight justly the background, the circumstances, the viewpoints, and 
the moral standards of the culprit. The Lord takes into account, as I cannot, the fact 
that "he was born there." 
Vengeance is His because I cannot settle on the degree of punishment which is deserved. 
The spirit of vengeance almost invaribly gets out of hand and leads on to violence and 
extremes. Calm, judicial procedure is rarely followed. 
Vengeance is His because in my hands its unrestrained passion sears my soul and leaves 
me hard and unhappy. Usually it must be harboured for a long, time before it can be 
wreaked on its object, and meanwhile I am ruined under its blight. 
Vengeance is His because when I administer it I thereby lower myself to the same level 
as the man whose deeds I hate; and my only excuse is that he committed his offense 
first—a poor reason for doing something dastardly and mean. 
Vengeance is His because, when I work it out in trying to "get even" I inevitably make 
it more than even in my favour. This makes it uneven for the enemy, he in turn tries 
to even it up, and the tit-for-tat never ends. 
Vengeance is His because "just and right is He." He alone can temper justice with mercy 
in just the right proportions. And I would, in my sober moments, want some mercy 
meted out, because I would expect it in the punishment of my own transgressions. "Do as 
you would be done by," has not been repealed. 
"II "qv Nur