THE GREATEST lin 
"Here is a man who was born in 
an obscure village, the child of a 
peasant woman. He grew up in 
another obscure village. He worked 
in a carpenter shop until He was 
thirty, and then for three years He 
was an itinerant preacher. He never 
wrote a book. He never had a family. 
He never went to college. He never 
travelled 200 miles from the place 
where He was born. He never did 
one of the things that usually accom-
pany greatness. He had no creden-
tials but Himself. 
"While still a young man, the tide 
of popular opinion turned against 
Him. His friends ran away. One of 
them denied Him. He was turned 
over to His enemies. He went through 
the mockery of a trial. He was nailed 
to a cross between two thieves. 
While He was dying His executioners 
gambled for the only piece of pro-
perty He had on earth—and that was 
His coat. When He was dead, He 
was taken down and laid in a 
borrowed grave through the pity of 
a friend. 
"Since then nineteen centuries 
have come and gone; yet today He 
is the centre-piece of the human 
race, and the leader of the column 
of progress. 
"It is far within the mark to say 
that all the armies that ever marched, 
and all the navies that ever were 
built, and all the parliaments that 
ever sat, and all the kings that ever 
reigned—all of these put together, 
have not affected the life of man 
upon this earth as powerfully as has 
that one solitary life."—Anon. 
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CONTENTS 
F
OR a safe, sane, and 
successful society, there 
is an unfailing recipe. 
It is simple, but effective. 
Millenniums back it was 
declared by God, through a 
man reputed to be the world's 
wisest—a king with thousands 
of wise sayings, or proverbs, 
to his credit. 
• The man was Israel's cele-
brated King Solomon. 
The inspired recipe: 
"Righteousness exalteth a 
nation: but sin is a reproach 
to any people." Proverbs 
14:34. 
Righteousness — or right 
doing — strengthens moral 
fibre, brings inner satisfac-
tion, assures God's blessing, 
and deepens happiness. 
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National �
righteousness �
be- 
gins with �
personal righteous- 
ness. It begins with you and 
me. 
That nation is strongest and 
R. �
E. �
Graham, �
B.A. 
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most significant in God's sight 
J. �
F. �
Coltheart 
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which cares most about prin- 
Mary �
J. �
Vine 
Welter Raymond Beach 
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ciples—good �
principles—the 
D. �
P. �
McClure 
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principles of God which are 
A. �
J. Woodfield, �
M.A., �
Ph.D. 
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revealed �
in �
the �
Bible. 
AGE 
J �
A. �
McMillan 
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A nation favoured with men 
and women who really care 
D. �
C. �
Uffindell, �
B.A. 
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about goodness, �
is a nation 
Ernest �
Cox 
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God will use and prosper. 
Serpouhi Tavoukdjlan 
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It �
is �
equally �
true �
that �
sin 
is �
subversive. �
Its �
effect �
on 
persons �
and �
nations �
is �
de- 
pressing �
and �
disruptive. �
It 
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weakens, �
it destroys morale, 
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it �
nullifies �
any �
sense �
of �
real 
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purpose or destiny. 
"In Britain Now" �
(page 4) 
is �
a �
patriotic focus �
on �
how 
things are, what they should 
Ernest �
Cox 
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be, and their significance. 
EDITORIAL 
IN BRITAIN NOW 
GENERAL ARTICLES 
WHY 
I 
BELIEVE � 
DEAD MEN DO TELL TALES 
NO FANTASY �
 
PRAYER �
 
COURAGEOUS COVENANTERS 
DESIGN BY CHANCE'? 
OLD TESTAMENT PARABLES 
From Prison to Palace �
 
CHRISTIAN BELIEFS IN A SCIENTIFIC 
How Old is the Earth? �
 
OUR FEELINGS AND OUR FAITH �
 
STORY SERIAL: EXILED-4 
Sold to an Arab �
 
REGULAR FEATURES 
PORTENTS �
 
BIBLE QUESTIONS �
 
CHILDREN'S PAGES �
 
THINK ON THESE THINGS 
POEMS 
ZACCHAEUS 
BY THE EDITOR 
DISCERNING 
THE TIMES... 
CURRENT EVENTS IN THE LIGHT OF THE BIBLE 
 
Britain9 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
W
HAT'S wrong with 
Britain? 
Britain, who, with ten-
acity of purpose and cast-iron 
morale not so long ago stood alone 
against one of history's cruellest 
evils, and thus saved the world 
from plunging into a dark age of 
pagan tyranny; 
Britain, whose heroic effort to 
win that "sacred crusade" was 
actually rated at 100%—higher by 
far than that of any other particip-
ating power ; 
Britain, whose civilizing in-
fluence has, during the centuries, 
spread around the world, bringing 
justice, decency, and blessing; 
Britain, whose world-wide em-
pire has assured freedom and 
facility for the spread of God's 
Word and the proclaiming of the 
Gospel of Jesus Christ; 
What, we repeat, is wrong with 
this country of ours? 
Is the claim true which we 
recently read in a foreign religious 
magazine, that Britain is "Europe's 
Sick Man"? That this country is 
demoralized, degenerate, effete, 
self-centred, irresponsible? That it 
accents pleasure and lush living, to 
the exclusion of all else? 
For the past decade and more, 
we have grown used to such claims. 
Far be it from us to renounce 
them—though we are impressed 
that London's "swinging" West 
End, and particularly the Soho area 
where scarcely a Briton is to be 
found, is quite mistakenly assumed 
by overseas observers to be typical 
of the real Britain. 
But undoubtedly much is wrong 
with our country. Let us not 
console ourselves with the thought 
that what applies to us, applies 
maybe more so to other nations. 
Something has happened. The years 
since the war have eroded our 
sense of mission; material pros-
perity has sapped our moral 
stamina; our evaluations have been 
impaired; we have lost 
sight of the things which 
matter most. 
We have come per-
ilously near the pro-
phet's description of 
those upon whom a woe 
is pronounced, because 
they "call evil good, and 
good evil." Isaiah 5:20. 
That society is warped 
which regards "square" 
and "piety" and "good-
ness" as terms of re-
proach ; where "do-
gooders" who are, in 
fact, the very salt of the 
earth, are sometimes 
classified as intolerable 
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busy-bodies. That society is "sick," 
where the philosophy of far too 
many workers is: "Never do owt 
for nowt, and allus do it for tha 
sen." 
True it is that there is a spirit 
of tolerance and friendliness in 
Britain that is not surpassed any-
where else. But there are basic 
evils which should be resisted and 
corrected. The greatest of these 
is our departure from God, from 
the Bible, from the Ten Com-
mandments, from the Christian 
Church. 
It is significant that Britain's 
"golden eras" were both marked 
by nation-wide piety and a whole-
hearted acceptance of the Bible. 
In the time of Queen Elizabeth I, 
Britain "became a people of a 
book, and that book was the Bible. 
It was . . . the one book that was 
familiar to every Englishman; it 
was read at churches and read at 
home, and everywhere its words 
. . . kindled a startling enthusiasm. 
. . . And its effect . . . was simply 
amazing. The whole temper of 
the nation was changed. A new 
conception of life and of man 
superseded the old. A new moral 
and religious impulse spread 
through every class. . . . The whole 
nation became, in fact, a Church." 
—Historian J. R. Green in A Short 
History of the English People. 
People's thoughts and ideals 
were lifted by contemplation of 
God and goodness, through the 
Bible's inspired pages. The whole 
nation was stimulated. Without 
question, "Good Queen Bess's" 
reign which produced such a spate 
of thinkers, adventurers, leaders, 
and writers—including Spenser, 
Marlowe, and Shakespeare, was a 
"golden era." 
The same was true of last 
century. Despite its social blemi-
shes, it was a period of greatness 
and glory. The world-wide Pax 
Britannica was directly related to 
the fact that Britons read the Bible, 
respected its principles, revered 
and worshipped God. Churches 
and chapels were filled. The Bible 
was the central feature in the 
average home. Family worship was 
common, as father led out with 
a Bible reading and prayer. 
But times have changed. 
Even among practising Chri --
ians family religion has declined. 
Generally the fatal mistake is made 
of wrongly assuming the Bible to 
be simply a human book, good, 
but full of contradictions and 
inconsistencies. Its unique inspira-
tion is denied not only by human-
ists, but by many a theologian. The 
Bible's influence has therefore 
waned. With infinitely less truth 
can it be said today that Britons 
are a "people of the Book." 
And we are surely paying the 
price for thus neglecting this in-
spired revelation from the living 
God. Gone is respect for Him and 
for His law. Gone is the encourag-
ing belief in an overruling Provi-
dence. Gone is the moral constraint 
and healthy self-discipline resulting 
from belief in the Final Judgment 
and personal accountability to the 
Supreme Judge. 
No wonder our crime figures 
have rocketed to record heights. 
No wonder millions of homes are 
blighted or broken through moral 
laxity. No wonder our economy is 
sick—for love of God and love 
of neighbour have been eclipsed 
by love of self, and a pursuing of 
interests which are primarily 
centered on self. 
God's message to us is clear. 
To heed and follow it will bring 
personal happiness and assure 
prosperity. The country, and the 
world generally, can be streng-
thened and served in no better way 
than for us as individuals to get 
right and keep right with God. 
The Bible's message is: 
"Hearken diligently unto the voice 
of the Lord thy God, to observe to 
do all His Command-
ments . . the Lord thy 
God will set thee on 
high . . . blessings shall 
come on thee, and over-
take thee, if thou shalt 
hearken unto the voice 
St. Paul's Cathedral, 
London. 
Opposite: MIllbank "Tower" 
beside the River Thames, 
south-west London. 
of the Lord thy God." Deuter-
onomy 28:1-14. 
But "if thou wilt not hearken 
. . . to observe to do all His Com-
mandments . . . all these curses 
shall come. . . . Thou shalt grope 
at noonday, as the blind gropeth 
in darkness, and thou shalt not 
prosper in thy ways: and thou 
shalt be only oppressed, . . . and 
no man shall save thee. Thou shalt 
betroth a wife, and another man 
shall lie with her : thou shalt build 
an house, and thou shalt not dwell 
therein. . . ." Verses 15, et seq. 
True, these reminders were direc-
ted originally to the Jewish people. 
But they embody enduring prin-
ciples which are for every one of 
us. 
To secure real happiness, and 
to contribute most effectively to 
the well-being of the community 
and nation, there is but one way: 
Return to God; cherish and follow 
the wisdom and message of the 
Bible; "love God with all thy 
heart," and "love thy neighbour as 
thyself." Matthew 22:37-39. 
Britain's trouble is, of course, 
the world's trouble. It is, in fact, 
one of the great signs that the 
advent of Christ is at hand.—R.D.V 
• 
MOUNTING WORLD PROBLEMS SOAR EVER NIGHER 
INTO �
REALM OF TOE INSOLUBLE. LEADERS 
AND 
TINK
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ARE BAFFLED, UNABLE TO ENVISAGE 
ANY ULTIMATE 
WAN 
T. BUT THERE %S A SOLUTION 
*NON AS 
TRUSIMORINI AND SURE 
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HE future? It gets a man worried sometimes." 
And he was talking seriously. "If you're 
young," they say: "Your life's before you!" 
But what's life about anyway? True, there aren't 
too many problems yet—but next year, two years 
ahead ? I don't know. And if you are middle-aged, 
then there is the problem of the children's future 
in a world so uncertain and insecure ; there is the 
shadow of redundancy and re-deployment of men 
with all the inevitable consequences on the pattern 
of living. And if you are ageing, you think back 
and recall that twice in your lifetime catastrophe 
has overtaken our world, and a third global conflict 
seems dangerously near at times. But more im-
mediately there is the problem of spinning out 
the pension, and finding the rates, and keeping 
the house in repair, and above all, keeping well. 
Two universal issues 
Life certainly has its personal problems and 
perplexities today, but there are wider issues, too. 
Wherever one moves in the world at present 
two universal issues sound strident warnings to 
mankind. One is that of economic conditions. With 
the rebuilding and restructuring of the post-war 
period came a boom in industrial development and 
investment. There was nothing unusual about this. 
History was following its usual pattern. And the 
anticipated slump that was also traditional, was 
staved off. But for how long? Already the affluent 
society has begun to sense the precarious nature of 
its prosperity. In Britain and West Germany "cut-
backs" have been necessary, and the future is far 
from settled. With rising international tensions and 
multiplied millions necessary for national defence, 
and the prosecution of "local wars," financial stability 
seems increasingly elusive. 
Population explosion 
The other great issue of international consequence 
is the often reported "population explosion." Experts 
consistently warn that unless some immediate and 
dramatic changes occur, life as we know it would 
be impossible within the forseeable future; and 
many sober scientists are prepared to indicate that 
this "future" is in fact less than a hundred years 
away. Their prophecies sound strangely like the 
old preachers who spoke of "the end of the world," 
and like them the scientists are often dubbed 
"calamity howlers," but their forecasts have a 
menacing ring of truthful authority. Will my children 
live to see this prophesied catastrophe? How long 
before I become part of the statistical majority in 
the world who go to bed, if they have one, hungry 
every night? 
Unique third dimension 
Of course, there are still those who would dismiss 
all this talk of problems by affirming that there 
has been an equivalent situation in every age. But 
to accept such assertions is to ignore the significant 
"third dimension" unique to this time, the threat of 
nuclear war. Man has always faced his personal 
problems and his struggle for survival. Most genera-
tions have witnessed wars, but never before has 
man possessed the power to annihilate and obliterate 
his opponents so completely. 
It is nearly two decades since the late Sir Winston 
Churchill declared: "We seem to be moving, drift-
ing, steadily against our will, against the will of 
every race and every people and every class, toward 
some hideous catastrophe. Everybody wishes to stop 
it but they do not know how." And those words 
are just as applicable today. 
Is there a way out? 
Is there then no way out of our present dilemma? 
Must the universe be considered meaningless and 
insentient ? Are we, in the words of the spiritual, 
to see only "the troubles of this life" with which 
we will "soon be done"? 
An increasing number of thinking people would 
repudiate such an approach. To them life has 
become meaningful as they have come to recognize 
that the Bible, the Word of God, clearly and unerr-
ingly describes both their personal experience and 
need, as well as that of the world situation. They 
have accepted further its solution to all the troubles 
of mankind, and in this acceptance they have 
discovered real peace. Now to some, such a claim 
may sound so great as to be in the realm of the 
ridiculous, but in succeeding articles we will seek 
to present the evidence in support of such a position. 
For we too, would be counted among those who 
believe. 
Why politics must fail 
Right now, however, we can anticipate that many 
others will say: "Has he ignored all the other 
possible solutions ? How can he make such a 
sweeping assertion?" No it is not because of an 
ignoring or indifference, but simply an assessing. 
What are the alternatives anyway? Just a few 
months ago we spent a day at the United Nations 
Headquarters in New York. One cannot fail to be 
impressed with the commendable accomplishments 
of various of its divisions especially in the areas of 
health, education and practical training of in-
digenous peoples. But when it comes to the issues 
of world tension politically, it is as if one had turned 
to a different station and frequency. Sincere and 
earnest as are the efforts of many good men, 
political solutions or revolutions• cannot save this 
world from its present chaotic condition. Alluring 
as such plans may seem, they cannot succeed because 
of the very nature of man himself. Mistrust and 
suspicion are an inadequate foundation for plans 
of international goodwill. 
Science is but a tool 
Others would urge that science will find a way. 
Again it is true that science has succeeded in so 
many areas of life, especially in the developments 
of medical diagnosis and treatment. But however 
far we range in scientific discovery and enterprise 
we come back again to man and his reactions, desires, 
and impulses. That which can be used for healing 
can become also a means of destruction. Science is 
but a tool in the hand of man. This is why men 
are fearful. 
World conversion? 
So there are those who look for world conversion, 
a change of heart on the part of the whole human 
family. Thus the cry comes from sincere lips: 
"Preach the Gospel." This is surely part of belief 
but even as we say it and believe it, let us remember 
that such preaching has been going on for nineteen 
centuries, and it is in those lands where the greatest 
opportunities have been afforded religiously that 
the greatest tragedies of conflict have taken place. 
Shifted focus 
And so we come again to our first statement, the 
solution offered in the Bible. This solution shifts 
the focus from man to God. Today, the world has 
become organized around man instead of around 
God. Poor, frail, vacillating man has been elevated 
by his fellowmen to a position for which he was 
never destined, and the woeful results are seen in 
the tears and strains of this generation. 
Some years ago an interesting competition was 
launched. There was just one question: "What can 
we do to make the future bright, satisfying, and 
secure?" There were naturally hundreds of different 
suggestions, but the prize-winning one was con-
tained in two words: "Try Jesus." This is an exact 
summary of the Bible's appeal. 
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The Bible uncompromisingly asserts that man's 
hopeless condition is because of sin; that any 
systems and man-made ideas are thus inadequate 
to deal with the problem ; that man needs help 
outside of himself ; that such salvation is provided 
only by Jesus Christ. 
Hope for the hopeless 
Every so often around these coasts of ours the 
wind rises in strength and whips up the sea to a 
boiling, foaming, seething, death-dealing agent, 
and many a craft after its sailors have wrestled 
for hours begins to founder and sink. The S.O.S. 
is sent out. They have come to the place where 
nothing else can be done, they can no longer help 
themselves. And out from the station speeds a 
lifeboat manned by those gallant, brave men. That 
lifeboat becomes the saviour of those needy sailors. 
Even so do we read in the Bible of Jesus Christ 
coming to seek and to save that which was lost. 
He entered this world, lived and taught here, worked 
amazing miracles, allowed Himself to be killed, 
died and was buried, rose again and went back to 
eternity. But it was not an ordinary life or an 
ordinary death. He died to pay the penalty man 
owed because of sin. "There was none other good 
enough to pay the price of sin." "So," says the 
Bible, "Christ was offered once to bear the burden 
of man's sins, and will appear a second time, sin 
done away, to bring salvation to those who are 
watching for Him." Hebrews 9:28, N.E.B. 
Bible solution embraces past, 
present, and future 
The solution of the Bible deals adequately with 
the past, removing the burden of sin; it provides 
personal power for the present to deal realistically 
and positively with the immediate issues ; and for 
the future it prophesies security by emphasizing 
that God has not lost control of the universe and 
that in His time He will directly intervene in the 
affairs of men for good to those who are willing 
to accept His plans. 
All this demands explanation and we hope in 
future articles to have opportunity to offer this. 
For the moment we can only join our testimony to 
those already given. This is no "fire-escape" religion. 
This is the result of a reasoned approach to the 
issues of life, it is the acceptance of an alternative 
which takes into account that which cannot be 
ultimately avoided or denied—the influence of the 
supernatural. It is avowedly personal, yet so many 
in all walks of life have expressed similar help 
and assurance. It has stood the test of time and 
changing circumstance. It speaks to the mind and 
the heart. It gives both purpose and progress in 
life. It works. And this is one great reason why 
I believe. 
DEAD men 
DO tell tales 
MILLIONS OF CHRISTIANS STILL 
CLAIM: THE BIBLE IS GOD'S BOOK. 
A THOUSAND PROPHECIES 
DECLARE: THEIR CLAIM IS 
COMPLETELY VALID. 
IN THIS IMPRESSIVE ARTICLE, 
PASTOR COLTHEART CONSIDERS 
A FEW OF THE PROPHECIES 
WHICH PROVE THE BIBLE TRUE 
by JOHN F. COLTHEART 
S
OME years ago while the veteran missionary, 
Dr. Taylor, was visiting the Sultan of Turkey, 
it is said that the latter asked Dr. Taylor for 
some reason why he was so sure the Bible was a 
true book. The missionary had given several reasons 
and there the matter was allowed to rest for the 
time being. 
During the afternoon, the Sultan began describing 
to his London visitor some of the thrills of his 
recent lion-hunting expedition to the gaunt ruins of 
old Babylon. He told of the long walk over the 
desert he had each morning and evening because of 
his Arab guide's refusal to camp overnight in the 
ruins. 
Dr. Taylor showed interest and excitement, and 
bringing out his Bible, he read to the astonished 
Sultan words written by the prophet Isaiah some 
2,700 years ago. 
"And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty 
of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God 
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be 
inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from genera-
tion to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch 
tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their 
fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie 
there, . . . in the desolate houses, and dragons in 
their pleasant palaces." Isaiah 13:19-22. 
The world's greatest city 
Babylon was not some declining country village 
when the prophet penned these words, but the 
greatest city that had ever pressed the earth, and 
she still had not reached the zenith of her power. 
Yet this daring prophecy that seemed beyond the 
realm of possibility has been fulfilled in every amaz- 
8 
A fisherman dries his nets amid the ruins of ancient Tyre. 
ing detail as foretold by God's prophet. Even the 
Moslem Sultan recognized the accuracy of the 
prophecy, for had not the Arab guide said to him: 
"No Arab ever spends the night in Babylon." Had 
he not seen the uninhabited desolation of what 
was once proud Babylon, and had he not just 
returned from hunting wild game there—the very 
place the Bible said would be over-run by wild 
animals? As a result of this experience, he began 
a study of the Bible that continued until the time 
of his death. 
Just recently I returned from my second visit to 
this great city of the past. Each time I have seen 
it, I have been tremendously impressed by the very 
evident fulfilment of the Bible prophecies made 
concerning it. As I walked over the mounds and 
through the ruins of old Babylon, the words of the 
prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah seemed to be sounding 
in my ears. Jeremiah wrote: "And Babylon shall 
become heaps . . . an astonishment . . . without 
inhabitant." Jeremiah 51:37. Isaiah wrote how men 
would one day cry in amazement: "How hath . . . 
the golden city ceased?" "And Babylon, the glory of 
kingdoms . . . shall be as when God overthrew 
Sodom. . . . It shall never be inhabited." Isaiah 
14:4 ; 13:19, 20. 
Isaiah 14:23, records the words of God: "I will 
also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools 
of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of 
destruction, saith the Lord of hosts." And as I neared 
the ruins of the famous Hanging Gardens, one of 
the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, a bittern 
was startled out of the rushes of the swamp, and 
flew off over what remained of Belshazzar's banquet 
hall. 
I walked on, lost in the history of the centuries. 
Beside me was the ruined palace where Nebuchad-
nezzar died, where Cyrus and Belshazzar died. And 
here, too, Alexander the Great, that brilliant meteor 
that flashed for such a short time across the darkened 
heaven, succumbed to the effects of his drunken 
debauchery. 
Never again to be inhabited 
"And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms . . . shall 
be as when God overthrew Sodom. . . . It shall 
never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from 
generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian 
pitch tent there." These words kept forcing them-
selves into my mind. How did the prophet know 
that proud Babylon would come to such an 
ignominious end, unless his message came from 
God? Babylon had everything in its favour, and 
yet, true to the Bible prediction, it remains without 
an inhabitant. No Babylonian ever exists today, yet 
the prophet, looking down to our day, could see 
that the nomadic Arabs would still be living long 
after the mighty Babylonians had passed from the 
world's stage. 
Before we dismiss these prophetic predictions 
as merely foretelling the common fate of ancient 
cities, let us recall that many cities contemporary 
with Babylon still survive and flourish. Damascus, 
one of the oldest cities in the world, is still of com-
mercial importance. Sidon, never a large city, still 
survives. Even Jerusalem, which Nebuchadnezzar 
reduced to ruins, still lives. 
Dispute over King Sargon II 
Nineveh "the splendid" was a huge city some sixty 
miles in circumference. Its walls, one hundred feet 
high, were so wide that three chariots could be 
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Bible prophecy said: "Babylon will be induced, and without inhabitant." The desolate mounds of 
rubble which once were "the glory of kingdoms," mutely testify: "God's word Is true." 
driven abreast around them. One thousand towers 
rose in its fortifications. It was the capital of the 
warrior-state of Assyria, mentioned so many times 
in the Bible, and was built on the banks of the 
Tigris, about three hundred miles north of Babylon. 
Khorsabad was the capital of Sargon II the con-
queror of Samaria, and also of his son Sennacherib. 
As I walked round the ruins of Sargon's Palace, I 
thought of the Bible critics, who some years ago 
disputed that a Sargon had ever existed. His name 
occurred only in the Bible and not on existing 
tablets, so very unreasonably they assumed that he 
had never existed. But now his palace has been 
discovered, together with much of his library and 
also personal letters sealed by his own seal. The 
writings of men long dead confirm the accuracy of 
the Bible. Dead men do tell tales. 
The Bible records the campaign of Sennacherib 
against Hezekiah, king of Judah, and tells how 
Hezekiah atempted to buy him off with great 
treasure. 
"Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah 
did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all 
the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. And 
Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in 
the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the 
king's house." 2 Kings 18:13, 15. 
Sennacherib's own tablet, discovered at Nineveh 
says: 
"Because Hezekiah, king of Judah, would not 
submit to my yoke, I came up against him . . . and 
Hezekiah himself I shut up in Jerusalem, his capital 
city, like a bird in a cage. And he sent out to me 
the chiefs and the elders of Jerusalem with thirty 
talents of gold and eight hundred talents of silver, 
and divers treasures, a rich and immense booty." 
The Bible says that Sennacherib was finally 
murdered by his sons. 
"And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in 
the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and 
Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword . . . 
and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead." 
2 Kings 19:36, 37. 
A cylinder acquired in 1810 and now in the 
British Museum states: 
"On the twentieth day of the month Tebet 
[December] Sennacherib, king of Assyria, his sons 
slew him in rebellion." The rebellion, it says, lasted 
until the twenty-eight of Sivan [June] of the next 
year, "when Esarhaddon his son sat on the throne 
of Assyria." 
Dead men do tell tales and their writings on 
the monuments bear out the accuracy of the Bible. 
Price of wickedness 
Because of the tremendous wickedness, and the 
cruelty of her people, God said that proud Nineveh 
would one day become just a place for the grazing 
of flocks. 
"And He will stretch out his hand against the 
north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh 
a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks 
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shall lie down in the midst of her." Zephaniah 
2:13, 14. 
As I stood in the ruins of Kuyunjik, once the 
very heart of old Nineveh, and saw the two huge 
human-headed bulls of the palace gate peering at 
me from their half-excavated position in the mound, 
I thought of the tremendous might and glory of a 
city that "dwelt carelessly," and thought herself 
able to defy the God of Heaven. What a warning 
for our civilization today. And as I turned from the 
mound of the palace, and looked away over the flat 
lands where once the city stood, and where once 
Jonah cried his message street by street, I saw the 
shepherds minding their flocks of sheep right in 
the middle of once-famous Nineveh, just as the 
prophet had foretold. 
Downfall of a famous port 
Of all the places I had looked forward to seeing 
in Bible Lands, Tyre seemed to stand out specially. 
Tyre was a flourishing maritime port in her day. 
The Phoenicians were great sailors, and we also 
credit them with the development of the alphabet. 
The people of Tyre discovered the colour of purple 
that the ladies of our country wear today. 
However, they had a weakness for the worship 
of the god Molech. This was represented as a great 
iron creature about fifteen feet high, with a furnace 
burning in its stomach. Mothers would come and 
cast their babies into the god's outstretched, red-hot 
arms. 
The people were abominable to a surprising 
degree, and when they repeatedly rejected the warn-
ing of God, the prophets predicted the downfall of 
Tyre. Note the unusual aspects of the prophecy. 
"And they shall destroy the wall of Tyrus, and 
break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust 
from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It 
shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the 
midst of the sea. . . . And they shall break down 
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thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses. . . . And 
they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust 
in the midst of the water. And I will make thee 
like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to 
spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for 
I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God." 
Ezekiel 26:4, 5, 12, 14. 
Prophecy fulfilled 
The prophecy said that even the stones and timber 
and dust of the city would be thrown into the sea. 
What conqueror would bother to do that ? Tyre 
had been attacked on several occasions, and the 
inhabitants had always retired to the safety of a 
small island a quarter of a mile off the coast. But 
when Alexander the Great took the city, he deter-
mined to reach the island and annihilate its people. 
He had his army pull down the walls and buildings 
of Tyre and cast them into the sea to construct a 
causeway out to the island. Running short of 
material, he actually ordered his men to dig up the 
earth and scrape the dust of the city. He succeeded, 
and scarcely a Tyrenian lived to tell the story. 
Tyre would never be rebuilt, God said. Three 
times there has been an attempt to build again on 
the old site of Tyre, but each time a supernatural 
happening has put an end to the effort. The new 
town of Tyre is some distance away. In spite of all 
attempts to rebuild it, Tyre still remains a "place 
for the spreading of nets." And today one can still 
see the remains of Alexander's causeway containing 
the giant pillars and stones from the temples, palaces, 
and walls of old Tyre. 
There are about one thousand prophecies in the 
Bible. Of these, nearly all have been fulfilled, and 
the others are in the process of fulfilment. It is 
surely God's Book from Heaven. So long as Babylon 
remains "heaps without inhabitants," so long as 
Tyre remains unbuilt, so long as flocks graze over old 
Nineveh, we can steadfastly place our confidence 
in this wonderful treasure house of truth. 
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I
DON'T know what the world is coming to," 
she said. 
It is a universal confession. 
We should know of course. 
We have been told plainly enough. There is not 
a vestige of a shadow of doubt. Our poor old world 
is coming to its weary, weary end. 
There are many of us, of course, who balk at 
the thought. It is too fantastical. 
A further large proportion openly scoff. "All 
things continue as they were from the beginning," 
they say, themselves thereby fulfilling one of the 
Bible's most significant predictions. (2 Peter 3:4.) 
Others would as it were, prefer to bury their heads 
in the sand, forget it, put it off, let another genera-
tion face it. For if you really believe in the imminent 
coming of the Lord Jesus it makes of such little 
value so many things that have hitherto seemed 
important. 
Whatever our attitude, however, it does not alter 
the fact. 
We may scoff. So did the antediluvians. But the 
flood came. 
We may disbelieve. But so did the disciples when 
the Marys told them the Lord had risen. "Their 
words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed 
them not." Luke 24:11. It was nevertheless a fact, 
the Lord had risen. 
And almost His last words to His disciples were 
a comforting reminder that He would come again 
and receive them unto Himself. (John 14.) Let us 
not be among those who, like the two on the 
Emmaus road, are "slow of heart to believe." 
"Thou shalt see" 
In Numbers 11:23 is the record of some words 
of the Lord to Moses. 
"Thou shalt see," He said, "whether my word 
shall come to pass unto thee or not." 
He is still saying the same today. The puzzling 
part about it is that there should be any who could 
doubt His Word or dare to scoff after now almost 
six thousand years of seeing. No prediction has 
gone unfulfilled. "I am the Lord," He said through 
Ezekiel, "I will speak, and the word that I shall 
speak shall come to pass." Ezekiel 12:25. And 
through all the centuries, not one—not one (and 
they have been multitudinous)—of His prophecies 
has failed. 
We remember His shortened version of the 
history of the nations as recorded in the second 
chapter of Daniel, each empire represented by a 
section of the great image seen by King Nebuchad-
nezzar in his dream. Lest there should be any 
loophole for doubt God gave Daniel further revela-
tions, as also later to the Apostle John, indicating 
in most accurate detail individual characteristics of 
those same great powers. 
When Daniel stood before Nebuchadnezzar, 
however, it was all in the future. 
But not now— 
One by one the great empires have fallen in 
exactly the manner and at the time foretold, and 
such being the case we have no excuse for disbelief 
that what He said regarding our own time is not 
manifestly coming to pass. 
"Wars and rumours of wars," "distress of nations, 
with perplexity: were the nations at any time in 
the world's history ever in a more chaotic condition ? 
But so He said they would be. 
Completely accurate 
Was there ever a more accurate description of 
the social conditions of our time, than that found 
in the third chapter of Paul's second letter to 
Timothy ? "A time of troubles. Men will love 
nothing but money and self ; they will be arrogant, 
boastful, abusive; with no respect for parents, no 
gratitude, no piety, no natural affection ; they will 
be implacable in their hatreds, scandalmongers, in-
temperate and fierce, strangers to all goodness, 
traitors, adventurers, swollen with self-importance. 
. . . Men who put pleasure in the place of God, 
men who preserve the outward form of religion, 
but are a standing denial of its reality." (New 
English Bible.) And this, Paul foretells at God's 
inspiration, is the world's condition in the "final 
age," in "the last days." 
Never until this last century have men known 
so much. From being a rich man's privilege, educa-
tion is now compulsory for the poorest, and only the 
very wily can escape its demands. The mighty atom 
no longer withholds its secrets ; we circle the earth 
in space; we travel faster than sound; we breakfast 
in London and lunch in New York ; seas do not 
impede nor distance hinder immediate, personal 
communication. But so the Word prevised. "Many 
shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be in-
creased." Daniel 12:4. 
But when? In "the time of the end," just prior 
to the setting up of that great Kingdom, also 
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HEAD of GOLD 
BABYLON > 
605-539 B.C. 
BREAST of SILVER 
MEDO-PERSIA 
539-331 B.C. 
THIGHS of BRASS 
GREECE 
331-168 B.C. 
LEGS of IRON 
ROME 
168 B.C.-A.D. 476 
FEET of IRON and CLAY 
DIVIDED NATIONS 
OF EUROPE 
A.D. 476-2nd ADVENT 
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS 
ABOUT THE WORLD'S 
FUTURE MAY SEEM FAN-
TASTIC-BUT THIS DOES 
NOT MATTER. WHAT GOD 
SAYS, HE WILL DO-AND 
THIS INCLUDES THE MOST 
SPECTACULAR EVENT OF 
THE CENTURIES WHICH 
IS ALMOST UPON US 
The PROPHECY of 
DANIEL Chapter Two 
by MARY J. VINE 
portrayed by Daniel, a Kingdom neither Occidental 
nor Oriental, neither white nor coloured, that 
Kingdom that the God of heaven shall set up, 
"which shall never be destroyed, . . . it shall stand 
for ever." Daniel 2:44. 
Successive empires 
Looking at things superficially, of course, the 
scoffers and doubters could perhaps say that they 
have good grounds for their derision and unbelief. 
Babylon, that "head of gold," lasted little more 
than a couple of hundred years. (Amazing, isn't it, 
that Nebuchadnezzar's magnificent city should 
become, even as the Scriptures said, just vast, shape-
less, unsightly heaps, a place where none would even 
pitch their tents—{Isaiah 14:4; Jer. 51:37; Isaiah 
13:201, while his magnificent words of admission 
of Jehovah's supremacy are just as vibrant today as 
when he gave voice to them? [Dan. 4:34-37].) 
Neither did Medo-Persia, the second great king-
dom represented in Nebuchadnezzar's image, last 
any longer—just over two hundred years also; and 
Gree_e, the belly and thighs of brass, had an even 
shorter period of power, something over a hundred 
and sixty years. 
Rome did better. Rome, you will remember, was 
typified by the legs of iron, and Rome held iron 
sway for considerably longer than her predecessors, 
well over six hundred years. 
But that brings us to about A.D. 500 and we 
are now in 1967. Truly, that is a long time compared 
with Babylon's limited period of authority. Almost 
fifteen hundred years as against a meagre double 
century. 
Ah, but so much had to happen during that last 
epoch, that which was symbolized by the feet, part 
iron and part clay. There would be developments 
in every field of activity, but whether we have 
previously realized it or not, the most significant 
would be the carrying of the Gospel to the whole 
world. "This Gospel of the Kingdom shall be 
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preached in all the world for a witness unto all 
nations," Jesus said, "and then shall the end come," 
and only the vast increase of knowledge and 
twentieth century means of communication could 
successfully bring such a vast evangelistic enterprise 
about. (Matthew 24:14.) 
Merciful delay 
On the other hand, if He does seem to delay 
in the establishment of that "everlasting Kingdom," 
even for this the good Word makes the situation 
plain. It is for our sakes. 
"It is of the Lord's mercies," cried Jeremiah, 
"that we are not consumed." Lamentations 3:22. 
God's Word stands. The overcoming of one nation 
by another has scarcely ever meant the extinction of 
the nation brought into subjection. There were Jews 
who even became too comfortable in Babylon, and 
the sorely oppressed peoples of our own era have 
still survived. But none who oppose will be left 
remaining in the great and terrible day of the Lord. 
In the words of Jesus Himself : "The Son of man 
shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather 
out of His kingdom all things that offend, and 
them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a 
furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing 
of teeth." Matthew 13:41. 
But He doesn't want to do it. 
It is not according to His desire and inclination. 
It is to Him "a strange work, a strange act." Isaiah 
28:21. 
Being utterly refused, however, He has no alter-
native. His enemies would only be miserable in His 
Kingdom. But He delays to give them a chance, 
that all may have the utmost opportunity, not because 
He has no such plan. 
Wrote Peter : "The Lord is not slack concerning 
His promise, as some men count slackness; but is 
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should 
perish, but that all should come to repentance." 
2 Peter 3:9. 
Thanks be there will be those in that great and 
awful day of Jesus' coming who have neither jeered 
nor dreaded, but who, on the contrary, have looked 
forward with joy and eager anticipation. "Lo, this 
is our God ;" they will say in the day of His 
appearing, "we have waited for Him, and He will 
save us: this is the Lord ; we have waited for Him, 
we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation." Isaiah 
25 :9. 
May that be our experience, and since we can 
hardly face Him empty-handed, let us, until that 
day, do all that we can to "occupy till He come," 
and finish the work He left for us to do—the 
carrying of the everlasting, enlightening, healing, 
encouraging Gospel into every corner of the earth. 
The River Nith, near Dumfries, Scotland. 
THERE ARE THREE WAYS IN WHICH 
MEN CO-OPERATE WITH GOD : 
THINKING, 
WORKING and 
PRAYING 
by WALTER RAYMOND BEACH 
p
RAYER is absolutely essential to spiritual life. One might be saved and not read the 
Bible: he might be blind or unable to read. One might be saved without going to 
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church: he might be where there is no church, or an invalid who could not attend 
public services. But if we are saved, we must pray. 
Prayer is the cry of the soul to God. It is opening one's heart to God as one opens 
one's heart to a friend. Prayer is adoration, confession, praise, thanksgiving, consecration, 
communion, petition. 
Now, evil makes prayer impossible. The Master mentioned two evils that block 
communion with God: 
1. Impurity ("Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God," Matthew 5:8) and 
2. Vindictiveness, an unbrotherly spirit that will not forgive or seek to be forgiven. Jesus 
made very clear the right procedure: "If you are offering your gift at the altar, and there 
remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the 
altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift." 
Matthew 5:23, 24, R.S.V. 
No one can be wrong with man and right with God. Nor can prayer be made a 
substitute for work. Some try to make prayer a substitute for intelligence and effort. 
There are three chief ways in which men co-operate with God: thinking, working, and 
praying. None of the three can ever take the place of another. Each has its peculiar 
realm. 
Consider what this world would become if everything could be accomplished by 
prayer. What if men could sail their ships as well by prayer alone as by knowledge 
of the science of navigation, could swing their bridges as firmly by petition as by study-
ing engineering laws, could light their houses, send their messages, and work out their 
philosophies by mere entreaty? If a boy asks his father to work out his arithmetic lesson 
because he wishes to be idle, the wise father who loves his boy will not comply. The 
boy's request (prayer) must not be made a substitute for intellectual discipline. God 
surely requires us as individuals and as a race to endure the disciplines of painful 
enterprise and struggle rather than to find easy relief in asking. 
Nor are we to pray because of fear and a desire for God's protection. He will 
protect us as a result of sincere and proper prayer; our motivation, however, must not 
be fear. It must be love and obedience. Some, you see would hang a prayer so to 
speak, around their neck as a charm against possible disaster; but in such petitions 
one may not in any way hallow the name of God, and such prayer may be a travesty. 
The chief aim of prayer is for the suppliant to come so completely into harmony with 
God that God's will becomes his. Then the Suppliant becomes a partner with God and is 
ready to co-operate with Him in whatever God wants. He identifies his will and purpose 
with God's will and purpose. Then God, if need be, can lift his mind from what he prayed 
for to something better. The suppliant will realize that God is working on His plan and 
that all things will work together for good. 
The example of Jesus teaches that we are to pray alone and we are to pray together. 
Jesus dismissed the crowd and went up into the hills to pray alone. He also taught 
His disciples to pray: "Our Father which art in heaven." And He promised: "If two of 
you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in 
heaven." Matthew 18:19, R.S.V. 
Let us pray earnestly. 
"For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and 
gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of 
the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the 
turtle [dove] is heard in our land." Song of Solomon 
2:11, 12. 
S
O reads the text that was chosen by John Welsh 
for his sermon on a memorable occasion. John 
Welsh was the great-grandson of John Knox 
and in Scotland's "Second Reformation" he played 
a leading part as had his ancestor before him. 
This was one of the most remarkable gatherings 
of God's saints of all time. For in the springtime of 
1677, in response to the notices circulated by trusty 
messengers some time before, thousands gathered 
to the appointed place from every point of the 
compass. Here in the quiet surroundings of the 
verdant hills, away from the noisy marts of men, 
these children of God had come to an open-air 
Communion service. They had not trudged so far 
just to escape the noise of the world, but to find 
a secluded spot away from the persecuting troopers 
of King Charles II, who was bent on destroying 
these "rebels"—as the Scottish Covenanters were 
called. They refused to acknowledge the right of 
the king to dictate to their conscience in matters of 
religion, but they upheld the rite of love for their 
Saviour by commemorating His great sacrifice for all. 
Revelation 12:11. Mar. 3, 1685." Mute testimony 
to the faith of two humble men who otherwise 
would be unknown. 
Open-air communion service 
But we must walk on to the beautiful rushing 
falls of the water of Cluden where we turn left, 
and farther along the lane we notice the Hill of 
Skeoch rising on our right. As we tramp up the 
track we come to the hallowed place beside a stream 
in a hollow in the hills. In imagination we can see 
the worshippers taking their places, first in the 
floor of this natural amphitheatre, then sitting in 
ascending rows up the hillside. 
The hill can be seen several miles away and is 
therefore a good vantage point for the watchers 
who are posted on its height. A further ring of 
watchers is posted on neighbouring hills and 
altogether an extensive area is commanded by their 
vigilance. These sentinels are ready to signal danger, 
the very moment the figure of a persecuting trooper 
might appear on the distant edge of the moor. 
It is a calm, clear, sunny day and we listen to 
the congregation singing the opening psalm. The 
climax of the service is, of course, the Communion. 
couRAGEOUS 
cOVENANTERS 
The Scottish Covenanters, at a 
time of cruel persecution under 
the Stuart kings, set an example 
of bravery and loyalty to God, that 
has never been surpassed. Like 
the New Testament Christians, 
their testimony was: "The love of 
Christ constraineth us." 
by D. P. McCLURE 
"Hanged without law" 
Travelling north-westward from Dumfries, we 
pass the church at Irongray where John Welsh had 
been minister until King Charles had ejected the 
clergy. In the field next to the church is an incon-
spicuous grave surrounded by iron railings. We 
feel saddened as we consider the obvious neglect of 
this martyr spot and the lack of thought by so many 
today for any strong Christian principles by which 
to live. Walking past the grazing cows we look 
through the railings and read this inscription: "Here 
lies Edward Gordon and Alexander McCubine, 
martyrs hanged without law by Lagg and Cap. Bruce, 
for adhering to the Word of God, Christ's kingly 
government in His house, and the Covenanted form 
of Reformation against tyranny, perjury and prelacy. 
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The hill of Skeoch, Dumfriesshire. 
We look astonished at the two long tables covered 
with white cloth and arranged in a parallel position 
on the greensward beside the mountain stream. 
Across the upper end of the tables is a shorter one, 
on which is placed the bread and the wine. We 
reflect on the planning and work involved in bring-
ing these things out into the hills. Then we consider 
the still more wonderful and greater planning that 
was done to effect our salvation, and we are truly 
grateful that the Lord allowed no obstacles, not 
even death itself, to stand in His way of bringing 
us life everlasting. 
One of the ministers who officiated, John 
Blackader, has left us an account of the event. We 
read: "There was a rich effusion of the Spirit shed 
abroad in many. . . . The tables were served by 
some gentlemen and persons of the gravest deport-
ment. The communicants entered in at one end, and 
retired at the other, a way being kept clear to take 
their seats again on the hillside. Solemn it was and 
edifying, to see the composure of all present; and 
it was pleasant, as the night fell, to hear their 
melody swelling in full unison along the hill, the 
whole congregation joining with one accord." 
Three thousand at the spiritual feast 
We can readily estimate the crowd assembled here, 
for about 200 were seated at the tables each time 
and sixteen sittings were held. To think that over 
3,000 were able to gather unmolested, surely shows 
that God held back the persecutors' hands that His 
people might be spiritually blessed. In fact, the 
meetings lasted for three days altogether. 
From such spiritual feasts, the people were 
inspired and fortified to maintain their allegiance 
to Christ, to be faithful to their Covenant with 
God and to rally beneath the banner of liberty. 
We too, can gain inspiration and courage as we 
look back at the stand taken, and the consecration 
made, by the Scottish Covenanters 300 years ago. 
The National Covenant was a crucial step in civil, 
as well as religious history for the rights of minori-
ties and of the individual to be respected. It struck 
a blow to tyranny and despotism in any sphere. It 
embodied the ideals of liberty by which we still 
seek to live today, and although the Stuart kings are 
no longer on the throne, we must ever be vigilant to 
see that no other authorities, political or ecclesiastical, 
overstep their bounds regarding our personal loyalty 
to the King of kings. 
The upholding of the Scriptures of the Old and 
New Testaments as the only infallible rule of faith 
and practice was the basis of the Covenanters' 
belief. In their study of the Bible they rose to heights 
of devotion to their Saviour. Some may be inclined 
to think that the rigorous experiences of persecution 
and battle, and the privations on the moorland hills 
would breed a harsh, exacting outlook. But rather 
do we find a sweet intercourse with Heaven which 
is reflected in the writings of these godly servants of 
the Lord. 
He laboured fearlessly till death 
The saintly Samuel Rutherford, minister at 
Anwoth, Galloway, and later a Professor at St. 
Andrews University, knew the love of his Lord. 
In his childhood, when playing with some friends he 
stumbled and fell into a deep well. The frightened 
children ran quickly to tell Samuel's parents, who, 
hurrying back, saw to their amazement that Samuel 
was "sitting on a hillock, a little from the well, all 
wet and cold," but unharmed and safe. When asked 
how he got there, Samuel said: "A bonnie white 
man drew me forth and set me down." With such 
a miraculous deliverance, it is readily seen how this 
child grew to be a stalwart witness to his Saviour's 
love. He wrote: "My blessed Master! My kingly 
King! Let my Lord's name be exalted; and, if He 
will, let my name be ground to pieces, that He may 
be all and in all." 
He laboured fearlessly for Christ and ultimately 
he was marked for execution at the instigation of 
King Charles II. However, when the summons to 
appear on a charge of treason reached him, he was 
on his death-bed. "Tell them," he said, "that I have 
a summons already from a superior Judge and 
judicatory, and I behove to answer my first 
summons." Asked at the close of his life: "What 
think ye now of Christ ?" he replied, "I shall live 
and adore Him. Glory to my Redeemer for ever ! 
Glory shines in Immanuel's land." Such an 
absorption in Christ was the strength of the 
Covenanters, young and old alike, as they faced 
persecution and hardship. 
Youth accepted the challenge 
We are inspired as we consider how youth 
accepted the challenge to testify of their love for 
Christ. Here is a young girl of eighteen, Margaret 
Wilson by name. Both her brother Thomas, aged 
sixteen, and her sister Agnes, aged thirteen, joined 
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H
AVE you ever realized the significance of 
design? Did you know that the age of the 
miraculous did not close with the book of 
Revelation? Last May a woman wrote in a popular 
digest about the millions of birds' eggs, so varied 
in shape and size, incubating in so many different 
nests, some swaying perilously on high in the storm-
tossed branches of elm and oak, others hidden in 
rusting tins in muddy ditches beside sleepy lanes 
or hurrying motorways—all so different, but all 
common in two respects : they were all once a 
gold and crystal cell within a mother's body and 
they were all following an immutable pattern of 
growth that has been handed down unaltered since 
the day the first bird sat on the first egg. And 
every one moved toward a predetermined goal. 
Long before the egg drops into its downy nest, 
when, in fact, the mother is still only a newly 
feathering chick herself, an intricately arranged 
process produces a single cell and begins to increase 
its size and complexity, to wrap and rewrap it in 
layers of yolk, albumen, membrane, and shell. When 
it is complete, some amorous cock bird with his 
courtship dance causes it to break loose and set out 
on its predetermined journey to birth. After the 
mating it proceeds into the oviduct, there to link 
up with a sperm. And so, stage after stage—always 
the same—it goes its way until the moment when, 
like a glistening gem, always in daylight and usually 
between sunrise and noon, it slides into the genial 
warmth of a ready-made nest. 
Birth of a chick 
There the wonderful egg awaits the warmth of its 
mother's body. A breathing pocket develops in its 
blunt end, prepared for the day, two weeks later, 
when a tiny head will need its vital oxygen. As 
soon as the centre of the egg is warm enough, 
things begin to happen again: the cells multiply, 
divide, and redivide. Some become lungs, some 
hearts, some liver, some bone, some eyes, some beak, 
some fluffy down—all interconnected, all different, 
but all so finally adjusted to the rest that they create 
that miracle of integration, a living chick. Then one 
marvellous day, the outside world hears a crack, a 
tiny voice chirps within, and then bits of shell are 
torn apart and knocked away to make way for the 
tiny bird to stumble into the glory of spring. 
I went one day to see round a city newspaper 
works. First I entered the reception office, where, 
as pre-arranged, the charming public relations officer 
met my party. She led us into a corridor, from which 
we branched into various places—offices, a large 
room with desks and men sitting round, papers here, 
there and everywhere, and various other rooms and 
departments. In a glass-partitioned room nearby 
chance 
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ALL FORMS OF LIFE, BREATHTAKING IN 
THEIR COMPLEXITY AND INTELLIGENCE, 
CONSPIRE IN AN ANTHEM OF PRAISE TO 
THE INGENUITY OF AN ALL-POWERFUL 
DESIGNER 
by A. J. WOODFIELD, M.A., Ph.D. 
a wonderful machine was producing photographs 
coming over the air, and telex machines were spell-
ing out the world's news as it was made; in another 
enclosure cunning computors were setting the type 
and working out columns and spaces; somewhere 
else men were sticking cut-outs onto pages intersected 
with ruled lines—it seemed as if a hundred and 
one disjointed things all equally incomplete were 
going on together. Finally, perhaps the most 
spectacular activity of all, the whirl of the press 
room. There enormous rolls of paper, a great 
complication of wheels, rollers, iron frames, ink ; 
and white paper sheeting was going in at one end 
and finished Reading Posts stacking up at the other. 
Impossibilities 
If in my abysmal ignorance I were to take a few 
volts of electricity, some transistors, coils of wire, 
rolls of paper, a razor blade or two, a broken up 
typewriter, machine frames, pens, pencils, and ink, 
and strew them around a factory building, I could 
push and poke them to all eternity and not get a 
single news story printed, let alone 30,000 complete, 
folded papers an hour, all red-hot with the latest 
news. Nor could I take a bit of calcium, a bit of 
carbon, a drop of albumen, and for colouring a 
little vanilla custard powder, tuck them all up 
inside a chocolate Easter egg and by sitting on them 
in a warm feather bed for three weeks, or thirty, turn 
them into a downy Rhode Island chick. 
Ridiculous, you snort, and so it is. But not one 
whit more ridiculous than the folly of a man who 
blinds his eyes to the significance of the marvellous 
patterns that take the dust of the earth and by 
processes more definitely purposive and organized 
than the cleverest computor yet devised, transform 
it into flesh and blood, trees, flowers, fruits, and 
vegetables—life in all its breathtaking complexity 
and intelligence, each form contributing to and 
drawing from the others, all conspiring in an 
anthem of praise to the amazing ingenuity of a 
Designer, whose patterns vary from the sub-
microscopic complexity of the atom to the unimagin-
able glory of the great constellations, galaxies, and 
universes. 
But all my bits and pieces and chocolate Easter 
eggs would never even squeak "He's mental" back at 
me for all my pains. You see, I know nothing of 
newspaper production and even less about concocting 
an egg and producing a chick from it; I know 
neither the right components nor the proper ingred-
ients, and how to create life will for ever baffle me. 
I'm not an intelligent Creator. Even with the 
necessary parts and constituents I could produce 
neither a classified ad. nor a callow wren. You get 
simply nowhere without a Designer who knows 
what He is doing. 
Opened eyes 
When that ancient Edomite sheik, Job, who in the 
bitterness of his afflictions said some pretty wild and 
whirling words about God, had thought upon what 
the theophany had shown him of purposiveness in 
the earth beneath his feet, in the life cycles and 
habits of the mountain goats, wild asses, lions, 
horses, crocodiles and hippopotamuses of the wilds 
around him, and in the changeless stars above him, 
he said in a little, little voice: 
"I know that Thou canst do all things 
and no purpose of Thine can be thwarted." 
Why don't we too, open our eyes just a little bit 
more and come to the same conclusion ? 
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of Scottish martyr, 18-year-old Margaret Wilson, at 
Wigtown, Scotland. 
Below: About to make the supreme sacrifice for her faith, 
Margaret Wilson. 
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her in standing fast for their covenant with Christ 
in opposition to their parents' adherence to 
Episcopacy. These teenagers were outlawed by the 
authorities, and went out to exist in the wild 
mountains, bogs, and caves. Eventually compelled 
by the privations of this exile, the two girls crept 
down into Wigtown, Galloway, to some friends. 
Spies unfortunately discovered them and they were 
thrown into the local prison's "Thieves' Hole" 
with the worst of criminals, for nearly two months. 
Then they were "tried" and condemned—along 
with a widow, Margaret Lachlison—to be "tied to 
palisadoes fixed in the sand, within the flood-mark, 
and there to stand till the flood overflowed them 
and drowned them." The girls' father, Gilbert 
Wilson, eventually was able, by visiting Edinburgh 
and paying £100, to get the release of his youngest 
daughter Agnes, but not of Margaret. 
Drowned in the Solway 
The appointed day arrived, May 11, 1685, and 
the old Margaret and the young Margaret were led 
down the hill, past the church, and on to the sand 
banks where the River Bladnoch empties into the 
Solway Firth. The mud deposits of the last 300 
years have altered the scene somewhat, but it is an 
awesome experience to squelch over the wet, spongy 
ground and stand beside the pillar erected on the 
spot where the younger Margaret was drowned. As 
we look across the water to the solid, lofty mass of 
Ben Cairnsmore of Fleet and consider the rugged, 
invincible faith shown by one so young, it challenges 
us afresh to be loyal to our Redeemer, who gave 
Himself for us ; the Rock of Ages, where only lies 
our strength. 
As we picture the scene, we see that the older 
lady has been placed farther out, that the sight of 
her last struggle may cower the young girl into 
submission. With the tide now engulfing the old 
lady, Margaret Wilson is asked: "What think ye 
of your companion now ?" "What do I see but 
Christ wrestling there," she replies. "Think ye that 
we are the sufferers ? No, it is Christ in us; for He 
sends none a warfare on their own." 
In such a trying hour, with the waters now 
swirling round her feet she takes her Bible and 
reads aloud from the eighth chapter of Romans. 
We can hear the confidence in her voice as she 
comes to the end of the chapter and clearly reads : 
"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, 
nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things 
present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, 
nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us 
from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus 
our Lord." 
The waters rise and Major Winram, having 
second thoughts perhaps, pulls Margaret from the 
tide. Another chance is given for her to take the 
Solemn Oath abjuring the Covenant and "affirm 
and swear . . . that the King's majesty is the only 
supreme governor of this realm, . . . in all causes, 
as well ecclesiastical as civil." Life is surely sweet 
to one so young, and we wait with bated breath 
to hear her answer. But her life will not be saved 
at the loss of her faith in Christ or the stifling of 
her conscience. "I will not take the Oath. I am one 
of Christ's children; let me go." 
The Town's Officer wades through the waters, 
pushing Margaret roughly in front of him and ties 
her to the stake again. "Tak' anither drink, hinny!" 
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he cruelly says, giving her head a push. She is not 
daunted, but lifts her head high, and we hear her 
clear voice singing sweetly from the 25th Psalm, 
verse 7 onward: 
My sins and faults of youth 
do Thou, 0 Lord, forget: 
After Thy mercy think on me, 
and for Thy goodness great. 
The whole paths of the Lord 
are truth and mercy sure, 
To those that do His covenant keep, 
and testimonies pure. 
Soon the hungry waves stifle the voice of faith, 
but her dramatic witness remains in our hearts. 
Peace and joy in Christ 
Do you, dear reader, know the joy of your Lord? 
Have you the peace which only comes from com-
munion with Him? Is your faith a living faith in 
Christ, the Rock of Ages for your soul? 
Jesus is calling with the voice of love; He is 
pleading with tender earnestness for young and old 
alike to yield their lives completely to His control. 
He offers us freedom from the weight of guilt, and 
cleansing by His blood. He promises us the blessings 
of joy and peace in this life, no matter what may 
be our lot, and unending happiness, security and 
love in the life to come. 
The Covenanters were convinced of the blessings 
of Christ's ruling presence in their lives. They had 
rallied to the banner of King Jesus described in 
the chapter with which we commenced this article: 
"His banner over me was love." Song of Solomon 
2:4. Wrote Paul: "The love of Christ constraineth 
us." 2 Corinthians 5:14. 
Let us respond to Christ's loving appeal and give 
our hearts to be His throne. Then day by day our 
joy will be full, and our faith will be strengthened 
to do exploits for Him. 
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"COLD MONSTERS."—Since thrusting itself 
upon us, the Atomic Age has underlined the 
need for international unity. Churchill en-
visaged a united Europe. For years, America 
has done the same, with the natural hope 
that she, the world's super-power, would 
wield a significant influence. Under General 
De Gaulle, France has resisted this idea. 
In line with this, Britain has been excluded 
from the Common Market; and France has 
withdrawn from the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization. De Gaulle's view of the nations 
is that of "cold monsters" seeking only 
national interests. Language and nationality 
continue to be the great divisive factors, 
causing international suspicions and hostili-
ties to persist. These same divisive elements 
also foil Communism's efforts, as evidenced 
by the rift between the two titans, Russia 
and China. The Bible's prophetic word, 
2,500 years ago, said of history's last days, 
that despite attempts to weld the world into 
one, the nations simply "shall not cleave 
one to another." Daniel 2:43. The un-
parallelled hazards of disunity will not be 
overcome until the second coming of 
Christ as King. (Daniel 2:45.) We know that 
the time is ripe for this event. 
THEN AND NOW.—Advocates of the "new 
morality" speak of the "insuperable desire" 
which may "rightly" be satisfied by adultery, 
extra-marital relations, and other irregular 
methods. Commenting in a pastoral letter, 
Dr. Edward Ellis, Bishop of Nottingham 
(R.C.), wrote: "What kind of defence would 
it be for a person to say, 'I had an insuper-
able desire for that painting, that jewellery, 
that money, etc.'? Without hesitation we 
would call such men thieves and frauds." 
Misuse of sex urges, and general permissive-
ness toward such, would, according to 
Christ, be a sure sign of history's closing 
chapter. 
In Luke 17:28, 29, Jesus draws a parallel 
between "the days of Lot" and the last days. 
Lot lived in Sodom, a city noted for its moral 
decline and depravity. Because of this, the 
city was destroyed. 
"As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it 
be in the last days." It is even so today. 
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OLD TESTAMENT PARABLES-3 
The fascinating story of Joseph's meteoric 
rise from a degraded prisoner to Egypt's 
most honoured and famous vizier, proves 
the importance of loyalty to God. But 
Joseph's life was more than an example: 
it was a symbol of facts which are supremely 
important to all mankind 
by J. A. McMILLAN 
T
HE story of Joseph is one of the most fascinat-
ing in the entire Bible. It is rich in its own 
inherent right as the unfolding of a life 
surrendered to God and displaying through all 
its varying circumstances that all things work 
together for them that love God. It is even richer 
when regarded as a type of the coming Messiah, 
for Joseph's experience so closely tallies with that 
of Jesus, that we may safely consider it as a parable 
foreshadowing the experience of the Son of God. 
The richness of Joseph's biography is reflected in 
the words of the dying patriarch, Jacob: 
"A tree of fruit is Joseph 
A fruit tree by a well, 
The branches covering the walls, 
Archers bitterly assail him, 
Shoot at him savagely, 
But his own bow remains steady, 
and he nimbly plies his arms; 
Jacob's Mighty One upholds him, 
Israel's strength sustains him." 
Genesis 49:22-24, Moffatt. 
Dominating principle 
From pit and prison to patronage and palaces, 
Joseph's sudden and dramatic changes still find 
him steady to one dominating principle—he sus-
tained a fixed attitude of surrender to God's will 
and loyalty to His government. 
to 
Joseph starts off with the disadvantage of his 
father's special favour. With ten older brothers in 
the home, Jacob early expressed his partiality for 
Joseph and this aroused the ire of the others. Their 
jealousy was incensed when the boy'artlessly repeated 
to them a dream he had had which plainly indicated 
that, by some mysterious set of circumstances, they 
would offer him obeisance. Even Jacob was irked 
when a further dream involved him in this "bowing 
down" to his son. 
Soon after the recital of these dreams the 
brothers had their chance of revenge. They were in 
Dothan, shepherding their flocks, when Joseph came 
to them. Quickly they plotted to sell him as a slave 
to a passing group of Midianites, who in turn sold 
him to Potiphar, chief executioner at Pharaoh's 
court. (Genesis 37.) 
Joseph was now truly catapulted into that stream 
of circumstances that were to lead him from prison 
to palace. 
Unsullied soul 
From the outset, it is clear that Joseph had given 
his allegiance to Jehovah, his father's God. 
Surrounded by Egyptian idolatry, and courtly im-
morality, Joseph kept his soul unsullied from all 
the corrupting influences around him. The keynote 
of his inward rectitude is reflected in his reply to 
his master's wife, when she repeatedly sought to 
seduce him: "How then can I do this great wicked-
ness, and sin against God." Genesis 39:9. 
Potiphar's wife, enraged that this young slave 
should scorn her, falsely accused him. As a result, 
Joseph was cast into prison. The wheels of provi- 
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dence were turning, and Joseph maintained his 
integrity. The Scripture narrative tersely concludes 
this episode with the words: "But the Lord was 
with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him 
favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison." 
Genesis 39:21. 
Interpreter of dreams 
Another turn of the wheel brings Pharaoh's 
butler and baker to the prison. Joseph interprets 
their dreams, and events verify his interpretation. 
The stage is set for a further dramatic scene. 
Pharaoh had two dreams which both impressed 
him and annoyed him. He sought a meaning, but 
no one was able to explain. Now, two years after 
his restoration to favour, the chief butler remembered 
Joseph and recommended him to Pharaoh. Joseph 
was sent for, and as a result of interpreting the 
dreams wisely, was exalted to the position of Food 
Controller in Egypt, with power and rank second 
only to the Pharaoh. 
Joseph's dreams were now a reality. His brethren, 
and later, his aged father, come bowing low before 
"Zaphnath-paaneah," the "foodman of life." The 
wheel of providence had now brought Joseph to 
eminence in order to prepare the way for future 
generations. 
As Joseph himself bore witness, when revealing 
himself to his brethren: "Now therefore, be not 
grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me 
hither: for God did send me before you to preserve 
life." Genesis 45:5. 
This in brief is the story of Joseph, sketched in 
bold relief within the pages of Holy Writ from 
Genesis, chapters 37 to 50. As Jacob sagely remarked 
on his death-bed: "The blessings of thy father have 
prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors 
unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: 
they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the 
crown of the head of him that was separate from 
his brethren." Genesis 49:26. 
Joseph and Jesus—parallels 
It is easy to relate the experiences of Joseph to 
Jesus without doing any violence to Scripture. It 
should be borne in mind that in applying the broad 
outline of Joseph's experiences to those affecting 
Jesus and our salvation in Him, we have the 
precedent established by Stephen in his illustrious 
sermon before the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. 
Applying the parable, Jesus fulfils in a larger 
dimension, the experiences that befell Joseph. The 
envy of his brethren and the cruel rejection of his 
appeals is written into the Gospel records. It is 
summed up in the poignant words of John: "He 
was in the world, but the world, though it owed 
Joseph's rise to greatness was directly related to the fact that 
he never lost faith In God, or weakened in his determination to 
obey Him. 
its being to Him, did not recognize Him. He entered 
His own realm, and His own would not receive 
Him." John 1:10, 11, N.E.B. (See Acts 7:9; Mark 
15 :10.) 
Our Redeemer's heart-broken lament over 
Jerusalem at the end of His ministry stresses this 
rejection of divine compassion: 
" '0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that murders 
the prophets and stones the messengers sent to her! 
How often have I longed to gather your children, 
as a hen gathers her brood under her wings; but 
you would not let me.' " Matthew 23:37, N.E.B. 
Rejection 
Jesus suffered more anguish than Joseph because 
His heart was more tender and the issues at stake 
were vastly greater. It was for this reason that when 
He came within sight of Jerusalem and thought of 
all that was involved in their rejection of His grace 
and love, He "wept over it, and said, 'If only you 
had known, on this great day, the way that leads to 
peace. But no; it is hidden from your sight . . . 
because you did not recognize God's moment when 
it came.' " Luke 19:41-44, N.E.B. 
But just as Joseph's rejection and imprisonment 
eventually led to his exaltation to the throne of 
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Pharaoh, so the rejection and crucifixion of Jesus 
led to His triumphant resurrection and enthronement 
"at God's right hand." 
Listen as His disciples tell the story: ''The Jesus 
we speak of has been raised by God, as we can all 
bear witness. Exalted thus with God's right hand, 
He received the Holy Spirit from the Father, as was 
promised. . . . Let all Israel then accept as certain 
that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, 
both Lord and Messiah." Acts 2:33-36, N.E.B. 
This was the drift of Stephen's masterly address 
before the Sanhedrin. Joseph and Moses had been 
rejected, but before the people could be delivered, 
they had to submit to the one whom they had 
formerly denied. So Jesus, the One despised and 
rejected, must be accepted as Lord and Christ, if 
we would enjoy deliverance from sin's bondage. 
Faith and obedience 
Consideration of this dual relationship with Jesus 
demands two things from us: faith and obedience. 
We must believe, as Peter believed, that this Jesus 
is "the Christ, the Son of the living God." Matthew 
16:16. Only Joseph could deliver his brethren from 
the prevailing famine that engulfed their homes and 
herds. Similarly, "there is no salvation in anyone 
else at all, for there is no other name ['this Jesus'] 
under heaven granted to men, by which we may 
receive salvation." Acts 4:11, 12, N.E.B. 
And belief is not enough. Faith must produce 
corresponding obedience. Joseph had to be obeyed. 
Moses had to be obeyed. And Jesus "became the 
source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him." 
Hebrews 5:9, N.E.B. 
Many fail on this vital point. They believe in 
Jesus. They profess to accept His teachings and 
love His Gospel. But they do not accept His Lord-
ship. This is a fatal mistake. 
Not everyone will be saved 
"Not everyone who calls me 'Lord, Lord' will 
enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who 
do the will of My heavenly Father. When that day 
comes, many will say to Me, 'Lord, Lord, did we 
not prophesy in Your name, cast out devils in 
Your name, and in Your name perform many 
miracles?' Then I will tell them to their face, 'I 
never knew you: out of My sight, you and your 
wicked ways.' " Matthew 7:21-23, N.E.B. 
Faith and works are inseparable. True faith will 
always produce obedience. "You can't have the one 
without the other." Paul reminds us: "If on your 
lips is the confession 'Jesus is Lord,' and in your 
heart the faith that God raised Him from the dead, 
then you will find salvation. For the faith that leads 
to righteousness is in the heart, and the confession 
that leads to salvation is upon the lips." Romans 
10:9, 10, N.E.B. 
These are some of the lessons brought to us by 
the life and experience of Joseph. His pathway from 
prison to palace was ordained by God, for God 
had sent him "to save your lives by a great 
deliverance." Genesis 45:7. 
On a vastly wider scale, "God sent His Son into 
the world, . . . that through Him the world might 
be saved." John 3:17, N.E.B. And the terms of 
salvation do not alter. Jesus solemnly affirms: "In 
very truth, anyone who gives heed to what I say 
and puts His trust in Him who sent Me has hold 
of eternal life, and does not come up for judgment, 
but has already passed from death to life." John 
5:24, N.E.B. 
When we accept Jesus as Lord and Christ, we 
have solid ground for our faith and divine authority 
for our obedience. Only as we believe and submit 
do we achieve true fellowship and enjoy salvation. 
All this adds up to a wholehearted allegiance. For 
"to all who did receive Him, to those who have 
yielded Him their allegiance, He gave the right to 
become children of God." John 1:12, N.E.B. 
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ZACCHAEUS 
by Ernest Cox 
-Today I must abide at thy house." Luke 19:5. 
hey say the coming King is here, 
Whom some men love, and all 
revere, 
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A King of kindly, tranquil mien, 
And yet majestic; stern and keen 
When wrong is urged, or wealth is more 
Than simple strivings of the poor. 
But stay—a new King means new laws, 
New rates, new and sufficient cause 
To change the officers of state. 
No doubt He'll turn us out, and mate 
With some far enemy of Rome, 
And rob me of my trade and home. 
And yet—He has the look of peace, 
At His approach the murmurs cease, 
They all hang, breathless, on His word, 
He talks of love, and not the sword. 
He blesses children, heals the lame, 
The aged softly breathe His name. 
What now! He stops—and looks this way, 
A wistful look, apt to convey 
That which grand words could never frame, 
There's some mistake! He calls my name? 
What! Mine?—despised, condemned, and 
cursed! 
In all of Israel, deemed the worst! 
It cannot be! Yet does He say: 
"I, at thy house, abide, today." 
At mine?—which all men proudly shun 
And pass by—as they would the scum 
Of earth. Yet does He softly say: 
"At thy house, My friend, I will stay." 
Then welcome Lord, and all the store 
Of my poor, humble board, and more 
Will I most quickly, gladly bring 
To serve Thy need, my Lord, my King. 
I cannot do enough for Thee, 
Since Thou hast done so much for me. 
So spoke Zacchaeus, long ago; 
I know he felt the pain and woe 
Which now I feel; the dark despair 
That brings me down, and holds me there, 
The awful subtlety of sin 
Which mars and rends my soul within. 
He was not worthy (nor am I) 
Yet the great King ne'er passed him by. 
Christ came and conquered; by His might 
Sin was dispelled, the dark was light, 
Despair was vanquished—nevermore 
To reign unchallenged, as before. 
My Lord! I dwell in darkness drear 
I am not worthy—be Thou near! 
No other reason can I plead 
But Thy great love and my deep need. 
Oh, let me hear Thee softly say: 
"I at thy house abide, today!" 
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CHRISTIAN BELIEFS IN A SCIENTIFIC AGE 
by D. C. UFFINDELL, B.A. 
(Concluding article) 
Science has nothing definite to say about 
the age of the earth. The date of the earth's 
origin is not, in fact, susceptible to scientific 
investigation 
(THE Bible assigns an age to the earth since Creation of 
just a few thousand years. The modern theory of Evolution 
demands a vastly longer period—not thousands but hundreds 
of millions of years. Only recently has the theory had the 
backing of scientific dating methods. Pastor Uffindell considers 
the main ones here, and in his previous article. A perfectly 
objective appraisal of them shows that no conclusions can 
honestly be made that would invalidate the Bible story.) 
Salinity method 
A number of methods were rejected solely because 
they indicated an age for the earth far too short to 
accommodate evolution. The progressive increase 
in sea salinity was studied. Assuming the sea was 
once all fresh water the present rate of increase in 
salinity would bring the sea to its present concen-
tration in 20 million years. Of course, there is no 
way of proving the sea was once all fresh water. 
Further, the salinity increase would decrease with 
time as the soil and rocks, washed of their minerals, 
contained ever less salt for the rivers to carry to 
the sea. Thus, because in the past the salinity 
increase must have been greater than today, the 
time required to reach the present state would be 
very much shorter. The effects of a flood would be 
immeasurable, and would further shorten the time 
required, making it exceedingly short. 
Meteoric dust 
The fall of meteoric dust has also been measured, 
and the total annual fall estimated. At its present rate 
of fall it could account for all the iron in the earth's 
crust within a few million years. Yet all the earth's 
iron could not have been acquired this way other-
wise such minerals as nickel, which is very plentiful 
in meteorites, would not be so rare here on the 
earth. This argues for a short age for the earth, 
unacceptable to evolutionary thinking. 
Volcanic action 
Some of the earth's crust is derived from the fall 
of volcanic dust. The present rate of fall would 
provide all of the earth's crust in less time than 
evolution requires, and we know that all the earth's 
crust did not come from this source. Volcanoes also 
release a tremendous amount of water. All the oceans 
of the world could be accounted for in this way 
within a similar period of time. Yet it is exceedingly 
doubtful that all surface water came from this source. 
Believing that comets originated at the same time 
as the earth, a study was made of the length of 
their activity. It was discovered that they disintegrate 
and burn up far too quickly to allow for the long 
ages required for evolution. 
Cave deposits, stalagmites and stalactites, built up 
slowly from the deposition of minerals in dripping 
water, have been thought to provide irrefutable 
evidence of the great age of the earth. Estimates of 
their present growth rates are used to obtain their 
approximate age. It has been proved, however, that 
present growth rates are no criterion for the past. 
In flood conditions, when vast quantities of water 
seep through soil and rocks rich in minerals, the 
growth of such deposits can be quite phenomenal. 
Radioactive dating 
The most important scientific dating methods 
developed so far are the radioactive dating methods. 
Simply described, this is what is done. Radioactive 
Stalactite and stalagmite caverns in the "Bridal Chamber," . 
Congo Caves, Oudtshoorn, Cape of Good Hope. 
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elements, being unstable, decay into other elements 
or isotopes. The end product, or final result of this 
decay, along with what is left of the original 
radioactive element, is extracted from the sample to 
be dated. Both are then measured carefully. Because 
the rate of decay is known, the time taken for any 
proportion of "decayed" material to accumulate 
can be given. This is then called the "age" of the 
sample. 
Unreliable method 
How accurate is this method? Were it safe and 
accurate, the results it produced would agree. This 
is not so. "If we suppose that the mineral sample 
investigated had not changed in the course of time, 
that no losses or additions had occurred, the age 
estimates obtained by these four methods should 
agree. This is but rarely the case, however, and the 
calculation values are therefore called 'apparent ages.' 
They are all used in assessing the most probable 
age.' 
The main reason why this method is unreliable 
is that it is impossible to be sure a sample contains 
only the original amount of radioactive elements 
without additions or losses. The same is true regard- 
ing the end product. In fact, it is known that this 
does often happen. Yet there is no way of dis-
tinguishing the additions from the original elements, 
or from others, there at the beginning and of a 
similar nature, but not derived from radioactive 
decay. The time values provided by this method are 
therefore quite valueless. 
Nothing definite 
The truth is that science has absolutely nothing 
definite to say about the age of the earth. The 
evidence it can provide, indicates that the earth has 
not been existing long enough for evolution to have 
taken place. 
Because the date of earth's origin is not susceptible 
to scientific investigation; because what evidence 
there is, points to a relatively short age for the 
earth ; because the earth could only have come into 
existence by the creative power of God ; because 
He was the only eye-witness of that tremendous 
event; and because the Bible is God's account of the 
origin of our world, we would do well to accept 
what He has said about it. 
• Dating the Past, page 928, by Zenner. 
DO YOU THINK IT IS NECESSARY FOR A CHRISTIAN 
TO GO TO CHURCH? MY BOY-FRIEND SAYS YOU 
CAN BE JUST AS GOOD A CHRISTIAN IF YOU 
STAY AT HOME.—A.N. 
YES, there are some Christian people who don't 
go to church. And the numbers are probably in-
creasing. It's easier to listen in on the radio or 
watch a church service on television. It's more 
comfortable too; no effort is necessary to put one's 
best clothes on, and then walk some distance to a 
building that perhaps seems too large for the 
congregation, too tall for economy in heating, and 
too out of touch with modern life. 
If only these Christians knew the pleasures of 
corporate worship which they are missing. David 
loved to worship. He said: "I was glad when they 
said to me: Let us go into the house of the Lord." 
"My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts 
of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for 
the living God." "For a day in Thy courts is better 
than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in 
the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of 
wickedness." Psa. 122:1 ; 84:2, 10. 
God designed that His house of prayer would be 
a house of prayer for all people (Isa. 56:7) and 
because the coming of the Lord is near "we ought 
to see how each of us may best arouse others to 
love and active goodness, not staying away from 
our meetings, as some do, but rather encouraging 
one another, all the more because you see the Day 
drawing near." Heb. 10:24, 25, N.E.B. 
WHO WAS THE MOTHER OF DAVID THE PSALMIST 
AND KING?—P. 
THE Bible names only one of David's parents, 
his father Jesse. His mother is emblematic of the 
great host of godly mothers whose work will endure 
into eternity while their names are scarcely mentioned 
in the here and now. 
If you have any questions about the Bible, the Church, or 
Christianity which you would like answered In this column; 
or if you have some religious problem to which you would like 
an answer, you are invited to send to: "Bible Questions," 
The Stanborough Press Ltd., Alma Park, Grantham, Lincs. 
(Please include a stamped addressed envelope if you require 
a personal answer.) 
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y
EARS ago, the successful evangelist was also, 
almost invariably, a most determined reviva-
list. He certainly taught his hearers the saving 
truths of the Gospel. He also sought to arouse in 
them a happy confidence in God—a spiritual exult-
ation which would enable them to meet and defeat 
the inevitable counter-onslaughts of the world. 
But in these materialistic times many an earnest 
evangelist is compelled to adopt the lesser role of 
lecturer-cum-film-compere before he dare embark 
upon his proper function of Gospel preacher. He 
well knows that before he can bring about con-
viction of sin and conversion to Christ on the part 
of his hearers, he must first arouse and retain their 
interest by cultural and visual means. Even a high 
Church of England dignitary intimated recently that 
the evangelistic methods of our forebears will not 
suffice today. 
In these circumstances it is hardly surprising that 
the spiritual exultation which accompanied old-time 
revivals is largely lacking now. Indeed, many people 
today, confronted with new claims of Scripture 
truth, may feel that their own emotional response 
is somewhat inadequate. They have heard of the 
joy and peace which should come to the newly-
converted Christian. But they do not feel, as yet, 
that they are beginning to tread that "higher ground" 
of which the hymn-writer so invitingly sings. 
A result of conversion, not a 
prerequisite 
The apostle Paul, however, speaks of this 
spiritual exultation as the maturing result of con-
version, rather than as its essential prerequisite. He 
declares that the effect of the Spirit's abiding with 
the Christian is "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, 
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." 
Galatians 5:22, 23. It is therefore after conversion 
—after we have made a decision henceforth to walk 
obediently according to God's commandments, that 
the Holy Spirit's graces may become fully operative 
in our lives. It is after our conversion to Christ 
that we may expect Him to fill us "with all joy 
and peace in believing . �
. through the power 
of the Holy Ghost." Romans 15:13. 
With this agrees Paul's admonition to the 
Ephesians. For, speaking of Christ, he declares: 
"In whom ye also trusted, after that ye had heard 
the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation : in 
whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed 
with that Holy Spirit of promise." Ephesians 1:13. 
The first simple steps of Christian experience are 
here plainly set forth. To begin with, we hear "the 
Word of truth, the Gospel of our salvation." 
Secondly, we begin to have confidence in what we 
hear, and especially in Him who is Himself "the 
Way, the Truth, and the Life." John 14:6. 
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OUR FEEJ.INGS 
and 
OUR FAITH 
by ERNEST COX 
Feelings of spiritual exultation are good to 
have, but it is a mistake to assume that 
these are essential for conversion. They 
are not a prerequisite, but a result of 
genuine acceptance of Christ as Saviour, 
and of willing obedience to His law 
Thirdly, and as a direct result, we are "sealed" or 
saved for God's coming kingdom by the abiding 
presence of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. It is after 
we have believed, and have acted upon that belief, 
that the fullness of the Saviour's love and joy may 
be ours. (John 15:11; 16:24.) 
Feelings are an unsafe guide 
Thus it is both unsafe and unwise to wait for 
some special feeling of elation to possess us before 
we accept Christ as our Saviour, or before we 
determine henceforth more implicitly to obey Him. 
To be guided entirely by our own feelings in this 
matter is to depend unduly upon that which may 
be most unpredictable and unreliable, and which 
may, at times, have little connection with God's 
-unchanging purpose for our salvation. 
Without question, the attributes of "love, joy, 
and peace" (Galatians 5 :22) are the principal 
components of the mature Christian's experience in 
Christ. The conscious possession of these qualities, 
in ever-increasing measure, makes him sure of his 
Saviour, and of his own calling and election to 
eternal life. (2 Peter 1:10.) 
There must be no conflict 
But love, joy, and peace, as the gracious fruit 
of the Spirit, can never be present to a satisfying 
extent where there is conflict between the Spirit's 
insistent promptings and our own daily conduct. 
Sometimes we hear the quiet, but unmistakable voice 
of conscience within, saying: "This is the way, 
walk ye in it." Isaiah 30:21. But we are determined 
to direct our own steps according to our own in-
clinations, and in pursuance of our own supposed 
well-being. It is then that the Spirit is grieved. 
THE HAPPY PERSON 
An Inspired Analysis 
"HAPPY the man who never goes by the advice of the 
ungodly, who never takes the sinners' road, nor joins the 
company of scoffers, 
"But finds his joy in the Eternal's Law, poring over it day 
and night. 
"He is like a tree planted by a stream, that bears fruit in 
due season, with leaves that never fade; whatever he does, 
he prospers. 
"Not so the ungodly! No, they are like chaff swept away 
by the wind; 
"When judgments come, the ungodly shall not stand, nor 
shall the sinful last in the community of the just. 
"The Eternal cares for the life of the just, but the ungodly 
life shall perish.'' 
Psalm 1 (Moffatt's translation). 
(Ephesians 4:30.) It is then that love, joy, peace, 
and happiness in God diminish, and may disappear 
altogether. 
In these last days especially, when so many on 
every side are unashamedly "lovers of pleasures 
more than lovers of God" (2 Timothy 3:4), the 
devoted Christian may find true and lasting happiness 
in daily doing God's will. He finds God's mind 
plainly revealed in His Word. He feels God's 
Spirit within, constantly and quietly reminding 
him of the light obligations and the multiplied 
blessings of obedience. He can daily echo the words 
of Paul—when the apostle spoke of the peace 
following repentance, and the happiness resulting 
from a knowledge of forgiveness: "We are . . . 
witnesses of these things ; and so also is the Holy 
Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey 
Him." Acts 5:32. 
Very often, unfortunately, people desire to reap 
the blessings of obedience without really rendering 
obedience. But this, of course, is impossible. For 
just as effect invariably follows cause, so the fullness 
of God's blessing can only be ours after we have 
given proof of the fullness of our devotion to Him. 
Joshua "left nothing undone" 
One of the outstanding heroes of the Bible is 
undoubtedly Joshua—Moses' successor in leadership 
—the one chosen by God to bring Israel into posses-
sion of the Promised Land. Joshua was a great 
general because he was a devoted servant. Under 
Moses he had early learned to obey. Indeed, his 
whole life was governed by a ready and complete 
obedience. For the divine record states: "As the 
Lord commanded Moses His servant, so did Moses 
command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing 
undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses." 
Joshua 11:15. 
Although many of God's commands had not been 
given directly to him, but to Moses, his late leader, 
Joshua never thought to make this an excuse either 
for inaction or for self-pleasing independence. "He 
left nothing undone" which he knew was the Lord's 
will. 
We see the results of Joshua's devotion in his 
remarkable conquests. Though the Israelites were 
little used to warfare, Joshua was able to subdue a 
host of formidable foes, and to settle his people 
in their territories. 
"So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all 
the south country, and all the land of Goshen, 
and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of 
Israel, and the valley of the same ; . . . all their 
kings he took, . . . So Joshua took the whole land, 
according to all that the Lord said unto Moses ; 
and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel." 
Joshua 11:16, 17, 23. 
The conquering Christian 
The conquering Christian today is he who "leaves 
nothing undone" of what he knows to be his 
Lord's will. The "Jericho's of popular convention," 
and the "Ai's of evil habit," are soon vanquished 
by his "good fight of faith." 1 Timothy 6:12. 
Finally, we should allow neither elation nor 
depression to affect our faith, especially in these days, 
when, as Paul says, so many are "past feeling" and 
"have given themselves over unto lasciviousness 
{lustfulness), to work all uncleanness with greedi-
ness. But ye have not so learned Christ." Ephesians 
4:19, 20. 
What we have learned of Christ is, that although 
He was "touched with the feeling of" all "our in-
firmities," yet, through it all, His faith and obedience 
never faltered. 
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�
E �Chapter five of her true life story by Serpouhi Tavoukdjian 
THE STORY SO FAR: This true story carries us back fifty years to the time of the First World War. 
The author was born and bred in a happy Christian home in Armenia. Her family, which were wealthy, 
were members of the Seventh-day Adventist church. With war came severe hostility against Christian 
Armenians. Uprooted from their homes, they found themselves joining what proved to be not only a 
march into exile, but for many of them, a march of death. 
M
OTHER'S lips moved in prayer as we strug-
gled ahead, as she pleaded with God to 
keep her faithful to Him, and to keep her 
children faithful in this hour of trial. Of course, 
we had only to drop to our knees at the Moham-
medan call to prayer, and our sufferings would have 
been ended. But we never thought of doing this. 
Another day passed. We came to a Turkish village. 
Mother asked for a blanket to make us a little 
shelter where we might rest, but this was refused. 
She had a few pretty buttons left on her dress, and 
at last the villagers said they would sell us a little 
corn for these buttons. It seemed that we just 
could not take another step, so we tried to hide 
ourselves, and hope they would let us stay for a 
little while. But the village people knew we were 
refugees, so they drove us back to the line with 
sticks and stones, shouting: "Armenian pigs!" 
Then we came to the Orontes River. Water! It 
was wonderful. We drank, and drank, and felt much 
revived. We followed along the bank of this river, 
and then late one afternoon came to the camp. 
Almost the first person we saw was my little brother. 
He was looking for us, but he had not yet found my 
sisters. We left mother and started out together on 
the search. As we ran about, asking everybody: 
"Are the carriages with the sick people here? Where 
are the carriages? Where is the hospital tent ?" 
we fell on the rocks and were torn by thorns, for 
it was an immense camp, and there were many 
people here. 
Finally we found a man we knew, who told us 
where to go, and said he had seen my sisters. We 
went back to mother and hurried to them as fast 
as we could. At last we stood beside them. Will I 
ever forget the pitiful sight? Rebecca, who was just 
fourteen years of age, was in her last hour of life. 
Mother cried out : "0 Rebecca, child, what is the 
matter ?" She opened her big brown eyes and looked 
first at mother and then at me, but she could not 
speak a word to either of us. Soon all was over. 
We had come just in time to see her die. As we 
closed her beautiful eyes and smoothed her hair, 
we wept bitterly. Then my sister, Ahavne, spoke. 
"Do not cry, mother," she said, "we are all going to 
die." But somehow this did not lessen our grief 
nor ease our heartbreak. 
The soldiers would not let us stop to bury Rebecca. 
Mother asked a woman standing near to help us, 
and we managed to carry her to a field not far away, 
and placed her there. We were obliged to leave her 
uncovered, and alone. We could not stop for even a 
prayer. The soldiers drove us on—and on—and on! 
But I am sure our merciful Father looked down 
from heaven and marked her resting place. She never 
denied Him by word or look. If I am faithful, I 
shall meet her again in that resurrection morning 
when Jesus comes to claim His own. 
Once more morning_ came. How could we go? 
But we must! There was no escape, nor rest. The 
carriages did not go farther, so there was no more 
transportation for those who were sick. Ahavne 
was so sick she could hardly lift her head. But she 
was compelled to walk with us. Mother made two 
small bundles of the very few belongings we had 
left, and strapped one on her own back and the 
other on mine. Arasig still carried what was left 
of the tent. Then we got my sister to her feet, 
and she leaned on me as we walked. Mother leaned 
on Arasig, for neither could she walk without help. 
Slowly we followed the moving line of stricken 
humanity. My sister forced herself to walk with 
my feeble help for several miles. But finally she 
dropped down by the roadside. 
Mother begged the soldiers to allow us to stay 
with her the few hours which she could possibly 
live. But they only said: "Go on. Go on!" And guns 
were held ready and straps raised to beat us if we 
dared disobey. Why did they not kill us? That 
would have been too merciful! 
When my sister realized that she must be left 
to die alone, her grief and fright were heartbreaking. 
Terror-stricken, she begged us not to leave her. 
Mother tried to comfort her by saying that we 
would also probably be dead in another day. But 
that was not much help. There was no time for 
prayer or even for a last tender embrace. She waved 
her hand feebly as we looked back. It seemed that 
we simply could not leave her. But there were the 
guns and bayonets and knives and fierce soldiers! 
And so, with tears streaming down our faces and 
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our hearts fairly bursting with grief, we waved back 
to her. The road turned around a foothill and—
that—was—all! 
Only three of us were now left. There were 
more days of weary marching without food and 
little to drink. We were so starved that my little 
brother and I picked corn from the dung of animals 
and begged mother to cook it for us. But when 
she had prepared it, we could not eat it, for we had 
never tasted anything unclean. Then we went back 
to eating grass again, though when it was cooked 
it was bitter as gall. We could hardly force it down. 
And then we came to Hamah. Here we were 
allowed to stop and rest. The camp was made 
outside the city in a great field. And Arabian 
merchants had set up a bazaar, or market, where 
they were selling things to the refugees. There were 
thousands of Armenians in this camp. Few of them 
had anything with which to buy food or clothing. 
But perhaps there was a valuable ring, or a jewelled 
pin, or a small piece of money that had escaped the 
keen eyes of the Turkish soldiers, who had so often 
robbed us. These could change hands here, and a 
miserable existence be more or less prolonged. Why? 
Because the love of life is a fire which burns bright 
in every human heart. We sometimes think we wish 
to die, but when actually face to face with the 
spectre, death, we shudder and turn away. 
As we rested on the ground near the bazaar and 
I saw the food, I begged mother for something 
to eat. 
She said: "I have no money. I cannot buy you 
food." 
"Then sell something," I urged. "Sell your dress. 
0 Mother, please! I am so hungry!" 
A man whom we knew came by while I was 
crying and begging. He had something to do with 
helping in the bazaar. "Serpouhi," he said, "the 
Arab merchants are buying girls. Why don't you 
ask your mother to sell you to an Arab ? Then you 
would have plenty to eat, and also she would have 
money to buy food for herself and your brother." 
I was all excited. "0 Mother, please sell me," 
I begged. "Then we can eat again." 
"Do you want to go with an Arab?" she asked 
me, and there were tears in her eyes. 
"Oh, yes, Mother, I want to go. I want food. I 
am so hungry." 
And so several of the Arabs came and looked at 
me. They examined my teeth, and felt over me. 
There was really nothing left but skin and bones, 
and I had every sign of starvation. All the men who 
came spoke kindly. But finally the kindest one of 
all, an Arab of middle age, offered to give my 
mother a little gold money for me. 
Of course, I was just a little girl, and I was so 
hungry I did not think of anything else. I had not 
dreamed that I must be separated from my mother. 
When the man wanted to take me away, I objected 
strenuously, and insisted that she come also. 
"No, Serpouhi," she told me, with tears streaming 
down her face, "it is you who are bought. The man 
did not buy me. You must go with him. He will be 
kind to you, and will give you food." 
I threw my arms around her neck and cried and 
cried. This was too much! How could I leave my 
dear mother ? Finally my master gently loosed my 
hand and said: "Come with me now. Some other 
day we will return and get your mother." 
I was heartbroken. I kissed her again and again. 
She told me that some day I must come back and 
try to find my father, that I must not forget to pray 
to God in heaven, nor to keep His Sabbath. The 
last thing she said was that we would meet again 
in the new earth. And then the Arab took my hand 
and led me away. 
My mother and brother stood looking! Somehow 
I realized that I would never see them again. But 
I do not think my brother knew what had happened 
—he was so nearly starved. I am sure that neither of 
these dear ones could have lived more than a few 
days longer, even with the food that they were now 
able to buy. Two more lonely, unmarked graves! 
I know not where they are, but God knows. And 
I can trust Him to watch over this precious dust until 
the great resurrection morning dawns. 
My master's name was Allel. He owned a long 
line of camels and donkeys, and he traded in fruits 
and dates and fine flour. He bought me just as he 
was starting for his desert home with his merchan-
dise. Grief at leaving my mother blotted all fears 
of the future from my mind, and when I was placed 
on the back of a camel to ride, I made no objection. 
But the constant swaying motion of that animal is 
like the waves of the sea, and was very sickening 
to me. I did not like it. So when we stopped for 
refreshment, I made signs with my hands—for, of 
course, I could not speak a word of Arabic—and 
asked that I might ride one of the donkeys. When 
the men understood my wishes, they took me down. 
After that I always rode my special donkey. 
These people in the caravan (there were ten or 
fifteen men and several Arab women) were very 
kind to me. They smiled and gave me food. I 
remember especially the dates and sweets. I had 
been hungry for so long that I just smiled back at 
them, since I could not speak, and ate everything 
they offered me. Allel had bought me, not for a 
wife or a slave, but to be his own daughter, since 
his wives were childless. And he proved to be indeed 
a real father to me. 
To be continued 
Reprinted by permission of the Review and Herald Publishing 
Association. 
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3IB 
 
TWO HUNDRED HOOFS AGAINST TWO GIRLS 
A true story • by ROBERT G. NATIUK 
I
F you had fifty head of cattle, 
that would make two hundred 
hoofs, wouldn't it? Of course, 
there may well have been more 
than fifty head, for Mr. Regg kept 
up to one hundred at times, some 
of the most beautiful Aberdeen 
Angus cattle in Ontario, Canada. 
Before I tell you about the two 
girls—their names were Louise and 
Diane—I have to tell you about 
Teddy. 
Teddy was a follower. I suppose 
that's what you would call a dog 
that always walked behind. And 
there wouldn't have been any 
trouble to write about if Teddy 
had been satisfied to be a follower 
all the time. 
Teddy wasn't the handsomest, 
strongest, most-alive dog you ever 
heard of. And if you had looked 
closely into his lustreless eyes, you 
would have noticed that he was 
almost blind. 
Diane—she was the younger girl 
—was a tumbling tomboy, three 
years old, full of bounce, jump, 
climb, and run. 
Right after dinner one day as 
the two girls finished tidying up, 
Diane coaxed Louise: "Please take 
me for a walk." 
Louise was fourteen and liked 
nature hikes. But she also liked to 
tease a little. 
"And why should I take you for 
a walk?" She tried to sound 
irritated. 
Diane brushed the hair out of 
her eyes, jumped out of her chair, 
and gave her big sister a big hug 
to match. 
" 'Cause there are flowers in the 
pasture, and new baby calves. 
Mummy says I can't see them if 
you don't come along." Diane 
tugged at Louise's hand. 
Louise opened the kitchen door. 
"Then what are we waiting for, 
little sis? Beat you to the fence!" 
She pretended to hurry. 
Diane bounded down the steps 
and dashed across the yard to the 
pasture. Louise was right behind 
her, pretending to be running with 
all her might, and making Diane 
giggle happily. 
Old Teddy just creaked slowly 
up till he was in a standing 
position on his favourite sleeping 
place by the porch. He heard the 
girls, and after a long stretch, he 
loped slowly after them. 
"Oh, look!" Diane screamed 
with glee and bounced up and 
down like a rubber ball. "There 
are the baby calves! Oh, they're 
pretty !" 
Several calves were toddling be-
side their mothers. The older cows 
eyed the girls and dog suspiciously. 
The girls were used to the cattle 
and felt no reason to be afraid. 
Then Louise noticed that a few 
seemed unusually restless and were 
wagging their heads. The mother 
cows were watching every move the 
old dog made. 
"I'd better carry you." Louise 
lifted Diane for a piggyback ride. 
Then Louise started walking 
around the herd. But she didn't 
get far! 
A cow started mooing loudly, 
and others joined in. Louise saw 
Teddy walk close to the cows. He 
barked at them throatily. One cow 
staged a mock attack on the old 
dog, running up to him with head 
lowered, and stopping a foot away. 
Suddenly Teddy ran in small 
circles, barking wildly. Perhaps he 
thought the girls were in danger. 
"Stop it, Teddy! Go home!" 
Louise shouted at him, but the dog 
only barked more loudly. 
The cattle began milling around, 
stamping, pawing, mooing. Louise 
dared do nothing until she knew 
what the cattle would do next. 
"Hang on, tight, Diane!" she 
stammered. Diane didn't have to 
be told! 
The dog had circled to the other 
side. .A cow stampeded from the 
herd in a wild frenzy and knocked 
Louise down. Diane went tumbl-
ing! 
Louise rose to her knees only to 
find herself looking almost face 
to face into a wall of snorting, 
wild-eyed beasts that were charging 
toward her like buffaloes on a 
stampede. 
With only a second to act, 
Louise fell down on top of Diane 
and tried to cover the little body 
with her own. 
She had time only to utter a 
prayer, "Jesus, help us! Save us!" 
The thunder of hoofs filled 
Louise's ears, dust blinded her eyes 
and made her cough. She felt the 
ground rumble and quiver under 
her, and she tensed her body for 
the onslaught of the sharp, ham-
mering hoofs. 
But no hoofs touched her. 
Suddenly the t hun der i ng 
stopped! 
Diane was sobbing and trying 
to squirm out from underneath her 
big sister. 
Louise lifted her head and 
looked around slowly. The cattle 
were grazing again. On all sides 
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YOUR LETTER 
My 444 54,4•1•<-44,1M, 
What a lovely lot of entries we had 
for the Christmas painting competition! 
In fact, the results have taken up so 
much space that our letter has almost 
been squeezed off the page. 
However, we were very pleased to 
see so many perky little robins sporting 
cheery waistcoats in every shade of red. 
It was clear to see that you enjoyed 
colouring them, too. 
For our competition this time, we 
have a spring picture. It will remind 
us that March is the month when spring 
actually begins. Take great care over 
neatness, and the choosing of true-to-
life colours. Next time you may be the 
prize-winner! 
Yours affectionately, 
See how nicely you 
can colour this 
picture and send it 
with your name, age, 
and address to 
Auntie Pam, 
The Stanborough Press 
Ltd., Alma Park, 
Grantham, Lincs., 
not later than 
April 10th. 
of the girls, fresh hoof tracks told 
the story. There were hoof marks 
just inches away from where the 
girls' heads had been. And one 
of Louise's shoes was missing, 
apparently knocked off by a hoof. 
Louise got up and lifted her 
sister. She brushed the dust off 
both their clothes. "Diane . . . are 
. . . are you all right?" 
"Ye-es. 'What happened?" Diane 
gazed curiously around. 
Louise looked her sister over, 
then herself. Neither was hurt. 
"They ran right over the top 
of us," Louise said, shaking her 
head in awe. "But an angel must 
have been over us, because we 
didn't get hit once. Jesus protected 
us." 
The two girls started walking 
across the pasture toward home. 
Teddy was behind them again. 
"Where's your shoe?" Diane 
looked at Louise's feet. 
"I couldn't find it," Louise 
answered. 
Jesus knew what was valuable, 
and took good care of His children. 
RESULTS OF DECEMBER COMPETITION 
Prize-winners. — Ian Corbett, 7 Saint 
Barnabas Road, Shinfield Rise, Reading, 
Berks. Age 13. Loraine Diamond, 141 
Oaklands Avenue, Oxhey, Watford, Herts. 
Age 10. 
Honourable Mention. — Denise Saxby 
(York) ; Hilary Meidner (Reading) ; Kathryn 
Stennett �
(Sheffield) ; �
Ghislaine �
Cano 
(Watford) ; Christine Channon (Lincoln) ; 
Roderick Crawford (Dorset) ; Diane Kendall 
(Sunningdale) ; Anita Stevenson (Coventry) ; 
Stephen Manley (Ashford) ; Gaynor Chandler 
(Redhill) ; Rosemary Hamilton (Slamannan) ; 
Derek Burnett (Edinburgh 6) ; Jennifer 
George (S. Lowestoft) ; Joyleen Davis 
(Reading) ; Va 'me Graham (Bracknell) ; 
Sharon Calder (Birmingham 21) ; Lorraine 
Smith (Reading) ; Susan Lusty (Gloucester) ; 
Lora Winton (Crewe) ; Jennifer Aiken 
(Strabane) ; Elaine Goode �
(Grantham) ; 
Christine Baldwin (Watford) ; Beverley 
Bowler (High Wycombe) ; Shirley Stimpson 
(Grantham) ; Deborah Gummer (Basing-
stoke) ; Kevin Keeler (Norwich) ; Anne 
Crawford (West Moors) ; Peter Binder 
(Lincoln) ; Lynne James (Cardiff) ; Yvonne 
Bullion �
(Reading) ; Judith Bromilow 
(Bolton) ; June Edwards (Reading) ; Patricia 
Cook (Reading) ; Thomas Auld ( Limavady) ; 
Alison C. Chandler (Redhill ) ; Valerie Proud 
(Essex) ; Catherine Mettham, (Grantham) ; 
Janice M. Johnston (Staines) ; Linda Baldwin 
(Watford) ; Vivienne Ball (Read ing) ; 
Mary Kelly (Slough) ; Jane Warren (Ketter-
ing) ; Francis Fogarty (Windsor) ; Malcolm 
Coombs (Watford) ; Anita Frazer (Down-
patrick) . 
Those Who Tried Hard.—Anne Zaslawska 
(Reading) ; Sally Hawkins (Worcester) ; Peter 
Smithson (Skegness) ; Carl Smith (Birming-
ham 11) ; John Jones (Swansea) ; Angela 
Colpitts (Slough) ; Robin Kirk (Yarmouth) ; 
Susan Page (Reading) ; Janet Etherington 
(Windsor) ; Christine Allen (Loughborough) ; 
Jill Turner (Reading) ; Elizabeth Yeaman 
(Newcastle) ; Wendy Fell (Stamford) ; Mary 
Fletcher (Nottingham ) ; Linda Walmsley 
(Barrow-on-Humber) ; Gary Todd (Basing. 
stoke) ; Linda Burrows (Grantham) ; Judith 
Lambell (Peckham, S.E.15) ; Susan Jones 
(Luton) ; Suzanne Thomas (Bristol) ; David 
Ward (Slough) ; Elizabeth Goyder (Rawdon) ; 
Constance Golding (Gloucester) ; Theresa 
Lloyd �
(Wimbledon) ; Diane French 
(Norwich) ; April Turner (Basingstoke) ; Billy 
Line (Southampton) ; Valerie Hoyes (Gran-
tham) ; Daniel Southern (Cockenzie) ; Simon 
Renshaw (Grantham) ; Elaine Burgess (New-
port) ; Jimmy Brown (Musselburgh) ; David 
Goyder (Raw don) ; George Chaman 
(Londonderry); Heather Hopwood 
(York); 
Bruce Walles (Reading) ; Sharon Chung 
( London) ; Angela Barham (Watford) ; Karen 
Anderson ( ? ) ; David Hurn (Barnby) ; 
Marion Butler (Slough) ; Susan Horner 
(Bristol) ; Sally Freke (Bristol, 7) ; Manan 
Tittman (Basingstoke) ; Margaret Lambert 
(Reading) ; Gillian Swingler (Woodford) ; 
David Prince �
(Staines) ; Martin Sharp 
(Hornchurch) ; Edna Carr (Reading) ; Sheila 
Iggo ( Humberst one) ; Kerry Horrocks 
( Derby) ; Amanda Ling (Grantham) ; David 
Burgess (Newport) ; Hazel Chapman 
(Norfolk) ; Sharon Methuen (Folkestone) ; 
Sandra Chismon (Basingstoke) ; Margaret 
King (Ipswich) ; Mavis Oliver ( ?) ; John 
Secker (Birmingham, 34) ; Antony Penrose 
(Huddersfield) ; Angela Starling (Norfolk) ; 
Alison Waller (Hull) ; Andrew Radburn 
( Reading) ; Patrick Naylor (Slough) ; Janet 
Kennedy (Manchester, 22) ; Glenn Edgar 
(Suffolk) ; Julie Hillman (Plymouth) ; Carol 
Pendell (Reading) ; Marina Pesaresi (St. 
Annes-on-Sea) ; �
Ian Smith �
(Dewsbury) ; 
Elaine Pyne (Reading) ; Anne Goder 
(Slough) ; Paul Vernon (Taunton) ; Jeanette 
Slaven (S. Reddish) ; Christopher Sparks 
(Trowbridge) ; Peter Goyder (Rawdon) ; 
Dolcna Thompson (Port Elgin) ; Mary 
Burroughes (Norwich) ; Mary Cashin 
(Churchill Gardens). 
33 
"THINK 
ON 
THESE 
THINGS" 
"We frequently meet the argument that we can meet God anywhere, and that we can therefore 
worship anywhere; and, of course, that is true. But the fact remains that there are some things which 
are much more effective when they are done in company with others. It is never quite the same to 
listen to a recording of an orchestra, however outstandingly good it may be, sitting in a room alone, as 
it is to listen to the same orchestra in a crowded concert hall in which one is part of a crowd of people 
all thrilling together to the wonder of the music. . . . We may say we can worship through the radio or 
through the television services. But, to be quite honest, If I listen to such a service, I may well listen 
to it lounging in a chair; . . . The effect . . . is quite definitely not the same as when . �
. done in 
the company of others."—William Barclay, "Life and Message of the Early Church." 
"It is not an unfair statement to say that the Church in the middle of the twentieth century is more 
concerned to try to keep the people It has, than to gather within it the millions who are outside. As his 
biographer, Richard Collier, tells, toward the end of his life, William Booth was increasingly obsessed 
with the work still left undone. Once at the close of a meeting, his aide, Lieut.-Col., William Haines 
exulted: 'Wonderful, General—did you see them? A hundred to the penitent form In ten minutes!' Booth 
was sombre: 'I saw the hundreds going out, having rejected Christ.' He was haunted by the people outside. 
"A Church is either an expanding Church or it Is a dying Church. It is either a missionary Church 
or it is not a Church at all."—"Ibid." 
"A frail little lady continued to work as a seamstress although past the proverbial threescore and 
ten years. Friends marvelled at her quiet endurance. 
"One asked, 'How do you manage to work so hard and steadily?' She replied, 'Sometimes it seems 
hard. Often I get up In the morning feeling so weak and frail. It seems impossible to go through the 
day's work. But, you see, I'm like a tram car before it is connected with the power wire. Upon rising 
in the morning, I connect with power from on high. I pray and put my hand in the Saviour's hand. I feel 
the power of His Spirit passing Into me. Then I go on and do what I have to dot' "—"Bible Expositor 
and Illuminator." 
"I saw God write a gorgeous poem this very morning. With the fresh sunbeam for a pencil, on the 
broad sheet of level snow, the diamond letters were spelled out one by one till the whole was aflame 
with poetry."—Phillips Brooks. 
"Men and women can reach God's Ideal for them it they will take Christ as their helper. Whet 
human wisdom cannot do, His grace will accomplish for those who give themselves to Him In loving trust." 
—Ellen G. White: "The Adventist Home," page 112. 
"Freedom is not something men can give us. God has already given it. But it is something that we 
can easily lose by failing to understand and appreciate it."—Kenneth W. Sollitt: "What to Do With 
Liberty Besides Proclaim It?" "Liberty," July 8, 1964. 
"Do you recall how Michelangelo, the incomparable sculptor, could take a discarded block of marble, 
see in It a perfect image, and then chisel it out? This was something only a Michelangelo could do. 
And it is God alone who Is the Sculptor, the Potter, who sees in your broken life the image of His Son. 
He sees the possibilities and He has provided for that life most terribly broken. God deals in broken 
things, friend, and there is no limit to what He can and will do with the broken life that is given over 
wholly to Him."—Dwight Hervey Small in "The High Cost of Holy Living" (Fleming H. Revell Company). 
"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, 
and to risk his life, in a great cause.''—Theodore Roosevelt. 
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