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UT the end of all things is at 
hand: be ye therefore sober, and 
watch unto prayer." 1 Peter 4:7. 
This scripture is as up to date as if it 
had been written to-day for our own 
generation. In fact it was "written for 
our admonition, upon whom the ends 
of the world are come." After describ-
ing the disjointed conditions in the 
world, the editor of a popular maga-
zine asked the question, "Is it any 
wonder that people everywhere are 
asking if the end of all things is at 
hand?" He then added, "The world 
may well be sobered by the thought." 
This is true in a special sense, since 
our entrance into the atomic age. 
One of the ancient prophets, whose 
vision overlapped centuries and mil-
lenniums and focused upon our times, 
wrote: "This word from the Eternal 
also came to me: 'Son of man, here is 
the Lord the Eternal's message. . . 
"The hour has come, the hour has 
come, on the four quarters of the land! 
The hour has come for you; I will 
hurl My wrath upon you and punish 
you for your conduct and requite you 
for all your detestable doings. . . . 
[ [Evil on evil! says the Lord the Eter-
nal—it is coming, the hour has come, 
the hour is striking, and striking at 
you, the hour and the end! .. . ]] 
" "Here is the day! It has dawned! 
Your doom appears; your sin has blos-
somed, your pride has budded.... The 
time has come, the day draws near! . . . 
Outside, the sword; inside, pestilence 
and famine! A man in the open coun-
try falls by the sword, a man inside the 
city is consumed by famine and pesti-
lence; and if any survivors escape, 
they shall all be hiding in the hills.... 
Their hands shall all be limp, their 
knees as weak as water; they shall put 
sackcloth round their waist and shave 
their heads, they shall be covered with 
terror, their faces with shame; they 
shall fling their silver into streets and 
loathe their gold with disgust; for on 
the day of the Eternal's anger no silver 
or gold can save them or satisfy their 
appetite. Money has been their ruin 
and their sin. . . . 
" ' "When anguish comes, they shall 
seek peace, and peace there shall be 
none. Disaster on disaster, rumour 
upon rumour! The prophet is de-
prived of vision, the priest is bereft of 
instruction, and aged counsellors have 
not a word to say; the authorities shall 
be wrapt in dismay, and the common 
folk shall be a-tremble." ' " Ezekiel 
7:7-27, Moffatt's translation. 
The great prophetic clock is strik-
ing the last hour. It is "the hour and 
the end." Someone said, "It is five 
minutes to twelve." How timely the 
scriptural admonition to those who 
know the time "that now it is high time 
to awake out of sleep: for now is our 
salvation nearer than when we be-
lieved. The night is far spent, the day 
is at hand: let us therefore cast off the 
works of darkness, and let us put on 
the armour of light." Romans 13:11, 
12. 
What Leaders Are Saying 
Cordell Hull, while Secretary of 
State, made the following statement 
during the World Security Conference 
at Dumbarton Oaks: "I wish I could 
burn this into your minds and memo-
ries for the next fifty years at least. 
That is that the human race at this 
hour, this day, this week, this year, is 
confronted by the gravest crisis in its 
experience." The dean of one of the 
great eastern universities was asked to 
give a picture of the next twenty years. 
He replied: "I see a mad scramble for 
profit, industrial strife, the most dread-
ful we have ever seen—ending in civil 
war." 
Dorothy Thompson declared that 
we have entered "an era of disillusion. 
People feel alarmed and do not know 
exactly why. They are angry without 
knowing why they are angry.... Scien-
tists are alarmed. They rush about 
warning that it is quite possible that 
the world may come to an end. People 
believe them, but it is almost as though 
they did not care much if the world 
came to an end. I never remember any-
thing like this before in America." On 
another occasion she said: "Twenty 
years of observing the wars, miseries, 
and savageries of the twentieth cen-
tury have convinced me that what is 
happening is essentially a moral col-
lapse." 
General Eisenhower said that "un-
less there is a moral regeneration 
throughout the world there is no hope 
for mankind and we will all disappear 
in the dust of an atomic explosion"; 
and Robert M. Hutchins, Chancellor 
of Chicago, after describing the situa-
tion ushered in by the atomic age, asks 
the question: "Is the situation, then. 
hopeless?" He answers: "I think not; 
but the only hope is to increase the 
rate of moral progress tremendously, 
to increase it beyond anything we have 
ever dreamed of, to increase it to an 
extent which itself, at first glance, may 
seem hopeless." This represents a very 
small ray of hope. 
Uncertainties 
Nothing is sure or permanent under 
the reign of sin. President Whale of 
Chestnut College, Cambridge, de-
clared that "to-day we seem certain 
only of uncertainties." It is estimated 
that there have been twenty-two civili-
zations since the beginning of human 
history, and all but seven have disap-
peared. Those still existing seem to be 
crumbling beneath the impact of re-
cent tragic events. The world empires 
of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Greece and 
Rome were in their day the symbols of 
stability and power, and their rulers 
and citizens believed them to be per-
manent. Now they are known only in 
the records of history. 
Archwologists have uncovered what 
were once great, populous and flourish-
ing cities which in their time were the 
centres of pleasure, trade and com-
merce, but are now buried beneath 
the desert sands or hidden by the 
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SIGNS of the TIMES 
By 
Taylor 
G. 
Bunch 
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Signs in the heavens, significant developments among the nations, and calamitous events in 
nature are telling us that we are living in those unusual days just before Jesus returns the 
second time to this earth. 
growth of the jungle, without a sign of 
life. We live in a world of change and 
decay. The poet thus describes the 
constant changes that confront us on 
every turn: 
"Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; 
Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass 
away; 
Change and decay in all around I see; 
0 Thou, who changest not, abide with 
mel" 
Evidences of the End 
The evidences that "the end of all 
things is at hand" are legion. In the 
fifth chapter of James is a picture of 
the present-day struggle between capi-
tal and labour. It is to take place when 
"the coming of the Lord draweth 
nigh." The Wagner Act was passed to 
"end widespread industrial strife" in 
the United States, but the greatly in-
creased number of strikes indicates its 
failure. From an annual average of 
753 strikes involving 297,000 workers 
before the passage of the Act, the rec-
ord has increased to an annual aver-
age of 4,945 strikes involving 4,650,000 
workmen in 1947. The yearly loss of 
time because of strikes has increased 
more than ten times. 
Paul declared that "evil men and se-
ducers shall wax worse and worse, de-
ceiving, and being deceived." Jesus 
said that one of the signs of His return 
would be that "iniquity shall abound" 
or "multiply." He also compared the 
last generation to the days of Noah 
when "the wickedness of man was 
great in the earth" and "every imagi- 
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nation of the thoughts of his heart 
was only evil continually." (See Mat-
thew 24:37, 38; Genesis 6:5.) He also 
likened it to conditions prevailing in 
Sodom and Gomorrha, where the 
wickedness was so great that the soul 
of Lot was vexed from day to day with 
the "filthy conversation" and "unlaw-
ful deeds" of the inhabitants. Their 
sins reached to heaven and their cities 
were destroyed by divine decree. 
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, said 
recently regarding the increase in 
crime especially among the youth of 
the United States: "The fact that 
every 5.7 minutes of day and night 
brings a crime of murder, man-
slaughter, rape or assault to kill is a 
challenge that should be answered by 
concerted action. . . . A general moral 
decadence in the United States is em-
phasized by the arrest in 1946 of 
"For as in the days that 
were before the flood they 
were eating and drinking, 
marrying and giving in mar-
riage, until the day that Noah 
entered into the ark, and knew 
not until the flood came, and 
took them all away; so shall 
also the coming of the Son 
of man be." Matthew 24: 
38, 39. 
108,787 young people under 21 years 
of age for crimes serious enough to 
warrant fingerprinting. 
"These were the youngsters who 
were responsible for 51 per cent of the 
auto thefts, 41 per cent of the burgla-
ries, 28 per cent of the robberies, 27 
per cent of the thefts, 26 per cent of 
the rapes and 18 per cent of the arsons. 
This is a brutal, callous and shameful 
picture. It signifies corruption and re-
flects an utter disregard of human 
rights and human decency." Mr. 
Hoover asks the following thought-
provoking questions: "Can a nation 
exist void of all religious thought and 
action? Can we have internal peace 
without morality? Can we build 
homes without God or have worthy 
parents who know not His teachings? 
Who is the fountainhead of justice, 
equity, truth, goodness and majestic 
integrity? What is the reason for life, 
its aims and its end?" 
Bible prophecy predicts that in the 
last days of the world's history there 
will be "wars and rumours of wars," 
"famines, and pestilences, and earth-
quakes, in divers places," "fearful 
sights and great signs" in the heavens, 
and "signs in the sun, and in the moon, 
and in the stars; and upon the earth 
distress of nations, with perplexity; 
the sea and the waves roaring; men's 
hearts failing them for fear, and for 
looking after those things which are 
coming on the earth: for the powers 
of heaven shall be shaken. And then 
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3 
JUDY STEPS 
By R. E. Finney, Jr. �OUT 
(Continued from the January issue) 
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS 
Cameron Lea, or Cam, was a medical student at Old 
Queens at the outbreak of the late war. immectiately upon 
the invasion of the low countries Cam enlisted and was 
sent to St. Patrick's Hospital to serve his internship. 
There he met Dave and Gus, two serious, religious boys; 
and there he met Judy. Well, it may not have been love at 
first sight, but it was almost. Judy, however, had said she 
would never marry a Protestant, and Cam, a Protestant, 
decided he could never marry a Catholic. Wisely they de-
cided to make a direct appeal to the Bible itself to find out 
why one was a Catholic and the other a Protestant. 
I
JUST wonder what would be the best thing to study 
next with Judy," mused Cam to himself, the day follow-
ing the first study of the Bible he and Judy had had 
together. 
Cameron Lea had always been a purposeful young man 
who made a practice of getting what he wanted. Just now he 
knew definitely what he wanted—that was Judy. The only 
catch in the situation was that this time he did not know 
just how to go about getting it, or her. 
"Say, Gus," Cam addressed himself to his fellow intern, as 
Gus stopped near the table where Cam was eating a lone and 
hasty meal. "Say, Gus, sit down here, will you? Now, what 
would you say is the most vulnerable point in the theology 
of these Catholics, anyway? I know you read the Bible, and 
you certainly are not a Catholic." 
"I don't know that I can answer your question, Cameron. 
At least I don't know what would be the most vulnerable 
point. But, I do know what is one of the key points of their 
doctrine—one of the points that binds Catholics to the 
church most closely, at least." Gus wondered what had in-
spired this sudden interest in theology on Cam's part, but 
wisely refrained from asking questions. 
"You do? What is it? That's exactly what I want to know—
at least it is one of the things I want to know." 
"Why, I think it is their doctrine about the dead, purga-
tory, hell, and all that, don't you?" Gus rejoined soberly. 
"I don't know. I was asking you. What makes you think 
that?" 
"Well, the doctrine of purgatory and prayers for the souls 
of the dead certainly ties them to the church, doesn't it? 
You think it over yourself." Gus could have added a great 
deal more had he felt it prudent to do so. He had learned, 
however, that it is often better to tell less than a person 
wants to know than to overload an enquirer. 
"Thanks, Gus. I'll do it," and Cam abruptly began eating 
his interrupted meal as Gus hurried on to an appointment 
in the pediatrics clinic. 
"Wonder how much he knows about it all," Cam mused 
to himself as he bolted his pie. "Well, he wouldn't have to 
I 
know much to be ahead of me. I suppose I might as well try 
that as any other tack." 
"Judy, I think I have a good suggestion on the subject of 
to-night's study." Cam had just entered the familiar nurses' 
parlour two nights after the first study they had had together. 
He found Judy eager to get on with the task they had as-
signed themselves. 
"What do you think we should read about?" she smiled 
enquiringly. 
"Some things I've always wondered about, personally," 
Cam said diplomatically. "Heaven and hell and purgatory. 
What happens to a man's soul when he dies, and all that." 
"Oh my, that seems so gloomy, doesn't it, Cam? Still, I'd 
like to know what the Bible has to say about those things 
myself. I know when grandma died mamma had ever 
and ever so many masses said for her so that she would get 
out of purgatory right away; although I can't imagine why 
she would ever go there in the first place, she was such a 
good old soul." Judy looked sober indeed, as she thought of 
the possibility of her grandmother having suffered any kind 
of punishment. 
"Well, then, let's find out about it," Cam rejoined cheer-
ily. "Perk up, little girl, we aren't dead yet—in fact I feel as 
if I had just begun to live." Cam's dimple showed in a 
manner that made it very hard for Judy to think of serious 
things. 
"Do you know where to start?" 
"Yes, I believe I do, maybe. I've been thinking about it, 
and I took a peek or two into the concordance." 
"Naturally, I suppose, you started with the word 'dead,' " 
said Judy, as the fire began to throw out a cheery warmth. 
"Yes, I did. And I don't mind telling you that the first 
text I looked up really stopped me cold. Just what it means 
I can't make out. Of course I've always known that when a 
person dies the soul goes right on living. I've always heard 
preachers say that it goes either to heaven or to hell. So this 
text just must need explaining." 
"Well, what is it, anyway? I'm perishing with anticipa-
tion," and Judy poised a pink finger above the edge of the 
Douay Bible she held in her eager hands. 
"0. K., read Ecclesiastes 9:5 and 6." 
" 'For the living know that they shall die, but the dead 
know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: 
for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love also, and 
their hatred, and their envy are all perished, neither have 
they any part in this world, and in the work that is done 
tinder the sun.' Whew! I'll say it needs some explaining. 
Why—why—that would do away with purgatory too, 
wouldn't it? Well, we certainly know that it can't mean 
what it says—you know that." Judy's face was really serious 
now. 
"Right, Judy. I imagine we've just run into one of those 
seeming contradictions that you find in any book occasion-
ally. I'm sure that when we get the other texts together we 
will see where this one fits in all right. Let's try Psalm 115: 
17." 
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Here Judy had a little difficulty, for the numbers of 
the chapters in the Douay Bible are different from those given 
in the Authorized Version, for which Cam's concordance 
was designed. She finally found the text in Psalm 113:17. 
" 'The dead shall not praise Thee, 0 Lord: nor any of 
them that go down to hell.' " 
"I'm not sure that that helps us any—at least the first 
part," mused Cam. 
"Well," rejoined Judy, "you wouldn't expect people in 
hell to praise the Lord, would you?" 
"Am 1 dumb!" exclaimed Cam. "Of course that explains 
it. But I still don't see just what that other verse means. 
It'll ravel itself out, though, if we keep on. Here, try Psalm 
143:3." 
"M-M, let me see. Oh, here it is in Psalm 142. 'For the 
enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my 
life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness 
as those that have been dead of old.' " 
"That's not very conclusive, either, is it? In fact it leans 
the wrong way just like the first one we read. 'He hath made 
me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old.' 
Might be hell, but it couldn't mean heaven. And the trouble 
is, Judy, it just says 'dead' and not the bad dead or the good 
dead." 
"Come to. think about it, Cam, the other text said, 'The 
dead shall not praise Thee,' " added Judy, still disturbed. 
"Well, let's try another one—let's ook at this one in the 
New Testament, Acts 2:29 and 34." 
" 'Ye men, brethren, let me freely speak to you of the pa-
triarch David; that he died, and was buried; and his sepul-
chre is with us to this present day.... For David ascended not 
into heaven; but he himself said: The Lord said to my Lord, 
sit Thou on My right hand. . . " 
"What do you know about that!" cried Cam, almost ex-
asperated. "This gets worse instead of better. 'David ascended 
not into heaven.' Look, Judy, wasn't David a good man in 
his old age?" 
"Why, I always thought so, although I don't know a whole 
lot about it." 
"Well, he was. I know he was. And if he was a good man, 
why wouldn't he have gone to heaven when he died? I'd 
like to know where I could find out. Do you realize that 
every text we have found yet indicates that the dead don't 
go anywhere—and that's preposterous." 
"Well, Cam," answered Judy in soothing tones, "let's 
tackle it from some other angle. Isn't there some other word 
we can think of to look up that will give us the other side 
of the picture?" 
"Maybe so. Let's see—dead—soul—immortal—that's it. 
Immortal, every Christian believes that we are immortal. 
Let's see what the Bible has to say about that. Yes, here it 
is—Immortality.' Look up 1 Timothy 6:15, 16." 
"Here it is: 'Which in His times He shall show who is the 
Blessed and only Mighty, the King of kings, and Lord of 
lords; who only hath immortality, and inhabiteth light in-
accessible, whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be 
honour and empire everlasting. Amen.' " 
"Right in the solar plexus again!" exclaimed Cam. "Did 
you hear that? It says Christ—that's who it is talking about, 
no doubt about that—it says that He is the only one who 
has immortality. Say, am I dreaming all this, or did I dream 
that I have always been told that we had immortal souls?" 
"I've always been dreaming, too, if you have, Cam. I'm 
sure I don't know what to make of it. But let's not give up. 
There must be some more texts about immortality, aren't 
there?" 
"Not as many as you might think, Lady. But look up this 
one: Romans 2:7." 
" `To them indeed, who according to patience in good 
work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life.' 
That doesn't have 'immortality' in it. Oh, I see. 'Incorrup-
tion' must be the word that the Douay Bible uses." 
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"That's right, .but it doesn't say that we have immortality. 
It says that some people—good people, I suppose—seek for 
it. We still are not much better off then, are we?" 
"No, it's true. If people had immortality, naturally, they 
wouldn't have to seek it. Do you find any more?" 
"Yes. Read 1 Corinthians 15:53, 54, please." 
Judy found the text, with some difficulty, but with no 
help, and began, " 'For this corruptible must put on incor-
ruption; and this mortal must put on immortality. And 
when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come 
to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in • 
victory.' " 
"That is just what we got through reading about, isn't it? • 
'Must put on immortality.' You don't put it on if you have . 
it on already, do you? Here, Judy, let me look at the Bible a . 
minute." Cam searched the page earnestly. "Say—look at • 
this: 'In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last 
trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead. shall 
rise again incorruptible: and we shall be changed. For this 
corruptible must put on incorruption; and this mortal 
must put on immortality.' Verses 52, 53. This actually says 
that we put on immortality only at the end of the world, for 
that is when the last trumpet shall sound. I tell you, Judy, 
I never heard anything like this before!" 
"I'm sure I never did, Cam, for you know I've never 
studied the Bible before. All I know is what the Sisters 
taught me in school and what I've heard the Fathers say. 
It's all very bewildering to me." And Judy drew her feet up 
under her and looked like a small girl whose arithmetic 
problems had refused to come out right. 
"I'm beginning to wonder if we are smart enough to figure i 
this out by ourselves. Last time we studied, everything went 
so well that I thought this was going to be easy, but • to-
night—. Let's quit for this evening. My head's in a whirl. 
Every text we've looked up has been just the opposite of 
what I always thought the Bible taught," Cam concluded 
deectedly. 
"Yes, I think we should. But I don't think we ought to 
give up too easily. Maybe if we -rest our minds we will 
be able to think it through more clearly. After all, we know 
that these texts can't mean that people just stop—stop every-
thing when they die." 
"Right, Judy." Cam had lots of bounce, and not a little 
self-confidence, and he smiled down at Judy now. "We've 
just got to find out what is right, haven't we, Judy?" 
"Say, I'm going to have to hurry—Cam will be here any 
minute now, if he has not been delayed," Judy admonished 
herself as she brushed her flowing hair to a coppery sheen 
before doing it into what Cam called an "up-do." She sat 
before a large mirror in the room she shared with another 
of the nurses, a smile playing around her lips as she thought 
of Cam's imminent arrival. 
"Oh, dear. I wonder if we'll have any better luck to-night 
finding what the Bible says about things," she mused as her 
face sobered momentarily. "I think I have an idea that will 
help, though. I wish Cam had left the concordance with me. 
Maybe I could have found out some things by myself." 
It must not be thought by our readers for a moment that 
Judy spent all her time thinking about theological prob-
lems. She was twenty and in love, seriously, for the first 
time, and Cameron Lea, the object of her affections, was , 
just as much in love as she. Judy knew she had never before , 
been so supremely happy, and it was impossible for her •to 
keep her mind on serious things all the time. Still, her being 
in love had a very direct bearing on problems of theology,. 
for 
for she, a Catholic, had made up her mind that she could. 
not—absolutely could not—ever marry a Protestant, and 
Cam was a Protestant. 
"Why couldn't I have fallen in love with a good Catholic • 
boy?" Judy asked herself more than once, at the same time 
 
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Despite the fact that 
Cam was busy with 
his studies and pa-
tients, he still found 
time to study the Bi-
ble with Judy two or 
three evenings each 
week. 
knowing that one doesn't always find it possible to regulate 
the process. 
"Oh, there goes the bell," Judy exclaimed. She gave her 
hair a last critical look in the mirror and darted for the stair-
way. 
"Well, Cam, do you still feel optimistic about our search?" 
she asked anxiously when they were once more seated before 
the open fire. 
"To tell you the honest truth, Judy, I haven't had time to 
think of it. This flu epidemic we've been having in the city 
has kept every one of us on the jump. Some of the cases have 
gone into pneumonia, and in spite of sulfa and penicillin 
we have had a tough time with them. But I am optimistic. 
We've just got to find out the truth, so that we can agree on 
this—haven't we, Judy?" and Cam laid a gentle hand on 
Judy's. 
"Surely, Cam. You do look tired, you poor dear. Maybe 
we'd better not try to study to-night. 
"Oh, yes,—I'm O.K. It's just being on the go that gets 
a fellow fagged a bit. It'll be good to get my mind away from 
pneumonia cases for a while." 
"Well then, Cam, I've been thinking about our difficulty 
and I wonder if we weren't following the wrong line, may-
be. We were just looking up 'immortality and immortal,' 
you know. I wonder if we shouldn't try finding out what the 
Bible says about the soul. We know the soul cannot die, 
after all, and the Bible must say so somewhere." 
"A good idea. Let's get going. 'Soul.' Here's a reference in 
Psalm 89:48," said Cam, consulting the concordance. 
"This must be it in Psalm 88:49, in the Douay Bible. 
'Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that 
shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?' Well, that 
sounds more like what we have been expecting, doesn't it, 
Cam?" 
"Yes, and what a relief. You see, that tells us that when a 
man dies, if he has not lived a good life he goes to hell. That's 
what I have always heard people say. Now let's try Ezekiel 
18:27." 
" 'And when the wicked turneth himself away from his 
wickedness, which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment, 
and justice: he shall save his soul alive.' " 
"That harmonizes pretty well, doesn't it? If a wicked man 
turns good he saves his soul, certainly. I wonder just what 
it means by saying 'He shall save his soul alive,' when we 
know that a soul cannot die?" 
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"Probably just a figure of speech," hazarded Judy. "What 
else do you find there?" 
"Here's another reference to 'soul' in Genesis 2:7." 
"Genesis 2:7—'And the Lord God formed man of the 
slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath 
of life, and man became a living soul.' That's the story of 
the creation of Adam, isn't it?" 
"Yes, Judy. But you know, the wording of that is a bit 
strange. 'Man became a living soul,' it says. Now that's funny, 
isn't it?" 
"Why, what do you mean. Cam?" questioned Judy. 
"Well, probably nothing, but I wonder why it doesn't 
say that God breathed a soul into Adam. Instead, it says He 
breathed the breath of life into him and he became a living 
soul. Sounds almost as if it means that a person and a 'soul' 
are the same thing. Try Proverbs 25:25, please." 
"'As cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good tidings from a 
far country.' What do you get out of that, Cam?" 
"Only that it ties right in with the one in Genesis. Souls 
like I've always heard about wouldn't get thirsty. They're 
just sort of—of—like an invisible butterfly that goes out of 
a person when he dies—a vapourlike essence or something. 
That sort of thing wouldn't get thirsty. But Genesis 2:7 said 
that Adam was a soul, and this text in Proverbs said that 
souls get thirsty. I guess we still are in a fog, Judy. Well, 
you might as well read Ezekiel 18:4. I'm prepared to hear 
anything but what I've expected." 
" 'Behold all souls are Mine: as the soul of the father, so 
also the soul of the son is Mine: the soul that sinneth, the 
same shall die.' Cam, did you hear what it said—did you?" 
Judy cried in amazement. "It says that a soul can die. I just 
don't believe the Bible can be understood, do you?" 
"I'm beginning to wish it couldn't," answered Cam grimly. 
"My trouble seems to be that it is too plain; or at least that 
it too plainly contradicts what I expect it to say. But, after 
all, we agreed to find out what it says, didn't we? Well, let's 
get on with it. Read Revelation 16:3, please." 
"Oh, dear, I'm almost afraid to. 'And the second angel 
poured out his vial upon the sea, and there came blood as 
it were of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.' " 
"How many people live in the sea, Judy? That text is talk-
ing about the fish and all the sea creatures—and it calls 
them souls, for it says that they are going to die." Cameron 
Lea sat back in the easy chair with a resigned expression on 
his face. 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
1- 
"I'll have to confess, Judy, that I felt pretty superior when 
we started this search. I thought, because I had studied the 
Bible a little bit in Sunday school, that I knew a lot more 
about it than you did. But now I am wondering if I know 
anything about it." 
"Well, Cam," answered Judy, "I know that I don't know 
anything about the Bible, only I supposed that what I've 
always heard about these things was true. They must be 
true, after all, or so many people wouldn't believe them." 
"M-m-m. I wouldn't be too sure about that. Popular opin-
ion can be awfully far from the truth. We find that out in 
studying medicine, you know. Let's stop for a little bit and 
think back over what we have found so far. 
"First of all—let me look in my notebook a bit," and Cam 
flipped open a red-covered notebook in which he had been 
carefully tabulating the texts as they had found them. 
"The first thing we found was that apparently when 
people die they don't know anything afterward. 'The dead 
know nothing more,' it says, and 'The dead shall not praise 
Thee,' and 'David ascended not into heaven.' " 
"Yes," interrupted Judy, "and what did we find out about 
immortality?" 
"Simply that the Bible doesn't say anything about people 
having it. It says that Christ 'only hath immortality,' and 
that men seek it. It says that people are going to 'put it on,' 
but there's not one word about anyone having it now." 
"And then, to-night," continued Judy, "we find that peo-
ple are souls, that souls are capable of being thirsty, and 
souls that we thought to be immortal, can die! Cam, we 
surely are in a muddle, aren't we?" 
"You're absolutely right, Judy girl. And do you know 
what I'm going to do? I'm going to stop right now, and not 
look up another single text until I have time to think this 
out when I'm not so dos-tired. Really, I don't know when 
I have had such a hard time trying to see through anything. 
Reminds me of the way I used to get stuck on chemistry 
problems, when I read the instructions wrong and expected 
to get a reaction that couldn't be got with the substances 
that I was working with." 
"Cam, do you think that that could be the trouble with 
us now? I mean, do you think that we are trying to make 
the Bible prove something that we have in our minds, rather 
than what it really teaches?" 
"Well, maybe—no, Judy, surely we can't be entirely 
wrong about all this. I just can't believe it." 
"Let's don't try, then, to-night," said Judy brightly, and 
patted Cam's hand. "I think what you need is about ten 
hours of good solid sleep." And with that, she soon bade 
Cam good-night, as he reluctantly agreed that maybe he 
was tired after all. 
It was the very next day that Judy broke her agreement 
with Cam. Not that she meant to at all, it just happened 
almost without her knowing what she was doing. It was 
about temperature-taking time on the floor and Judy was 
scurrying along the hall with a sheaf of chart-sheets in one 
hand and a bottle of alcohol and a thermometer in the 
other, when, rounding a corner, she almost bumped into 
Father Brien. 
"Oh, sorry, Father," she laughed, thinking how embar-
rassed she would have been if there had actually been a 
collision. 
"How are you, my child—your velocity would hardly 
make it profitable for anyone to collide with you," answered 
the genial priest, smiling broadly. Judy in a crisp nurse's 
uniform merited a smile from anyone. 
"Father Brien—" It slipped out so suddenly that she 
didn't realize what she was doing until it was done. "Do you 
believe in the immortality of the soul?" 
"Do I what?" queried the surprised priest. 
"Do you believe in the immortality of the soul? I mean, 
do you believe that when we die our souls go to a reward of 
some kind—heaven—or—or? You see, I'm sort of in a mix- 
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up about it, and I wondered what you think. Forgive me, 
it I shouldn't have asked." 
"Most certainly I do—I mean I believe in immortality. 
After all, that's the teaching of the Church." Father Brien 
sobered. "If you really are troubled about the possibility 
of anything else, I'll be glad to give you some instruction 
on the matter," he added kindly. 
"I—I—oh, no." Judy thought suddenly of her agreement 
to let the Bible speak for itself. "I'm afraid you're too busy. 
I really shouldn't take up your time with such things." 
"Not at all, not at all. It will be a pleasure—and it is a 
part of my duty to instruct. Come to my office to-morrow 
afternoon at three o'clock. I shall tell Sister Theresa to 
let you off duty at that time," and still smiling, Father 
Brien went on about his duties as Judy stood desperately 
trying to think of some reason why she should not keep the 
appointment. It was of no use, though, for years of obe-
dience could not be denied, and three o'clock the next after-
noon found her timidly entering the priest's office. 
(To be continued next month) 
"s/ 
The World As We See It 
(Continued from page 9) 
there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it 
tendeth to poverty." Proverbs 11:24. 
Here's an act as tasty, surely, in the mouth of the 
world, as the luscious "blue grapes" for which the Dun-
kirk area is famous. We salute the large-hearted citizens 
of this lake-shore city and recommend the emulation of 
their liberality to every other city and community and 
individual. 
A Bushel of Grain 
"A BUSHEL of grain," says the New York Times, "fed 
to livestock produces up to eight pounds of beef, or 
nineteen pounds of pork, or four four-pound chickens, 
or nine dozen eggs. A bushel of grain milled into flour 
and baked into bread produces about sixty-seven loaves 
of bread. A bushel of grain brewed or distilled produces 
about 130 quarts of beer or twenty-seven fifths of whis-
key." 
An analysis of the Times statement of the relative 
uses that may be made of a bushel of grain is most in-
teresting. It will produce eight pounds of beef, nineteen 
pounds of pork, sixteen pounds of chicken, nine dozen 
eggs, 130 quarts of beer, twenty-seven fifths of whiskey; 
or it will produce sixty-seven loaves of bread. It seems 
quite clear that, inasmuch as a pound of grain is practic-
ally the equivalent of a pound of meat in food value, 
the maximum number of lives cannot be saved by first 
converting the grain into meat. We are reminded of the 
fact that when God started the human race off in the 
garden of Eden, He did not give Adam and Eve flesh 
meats as a diet. He gave them fruits, grains and nuts. 
Cain, almost six thousand years ago, posed a question 
in his conversation with God. Said Cain: "Am I my 
brother's keeper?" Cain was not his brother's keeper—
he was a murderer. But the answer is that every right-
eous man is his brother's keeper, and every righteous 
nation is the keeper of other less fortunate nations. 
Let the readers of these lines feel a personal responsi-
bility to send over a package of food. The organization 
known as C. A. R. E. is well equipped to handle your 
shipments—make inquiry at your local post office. 
7 
WORLD 
AS WE SEE IT! 
A Prophetic Interpretation 
of Current Events! 
Palestine Partition 
According to the recommendation of the United 
Nations Organization, separate Jewish and Arab states 
are to be formed. We have cause to wonder now just 
how the country is going to be policed. What nation 
will consent to use its troops for this purpose? If the 
United States Congress votes to send soldiers into the 
Holy Land, then will not Russia demand the same 
privilege? In that event serious complications are cer-
tain to arise. We recollect that the United States 
entered into one partition deal with Russia (the par-
tition of Korea), and has got the worst of it. Russia has 
so manoeuvred that if and when U.S. troops are with-
drawn, Russia will take over. 
It is our view that the solution of the Palestinian 
problem does not lie in partition; nor in the creation 
of a bi-national state with controlled immigration; 
neither in the establishment of a Jewish governed 
Palestine with free immigration. We think that a re-
turn, by the United States, of the open-door immigra-
tion policy—the policy which made a great nation—
would not only solve the Palestine matter, but would 
go far toward the solving of the critical European 
situation also. This could be done without increasing 
the U.S. population more than one per cent. No na-
tion has yet suffered as much as it has benefited by 
throwing its doors open to displaced persons and per-
secuted minorities. Plymouth Rock has become a na-
tional shrine, but the Pilgrims who landed there were, 
from the European point of view, just a minority of 
unwanted non-conformists. 
Both Canada and the United States have undevel- 
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oped agricultural areas that might be made available 
to many of Europe's depressed and dispirited peo-
ples. It would bring new hope and courage to them, 
and they in turn would bring new lifeblood and new 
strength to the benefactory nations. It does not take 
much stretch of imagination to realize that Hitler 
lost the war because he drove from Germany certain 
"unwanted" persons. It was their scientific knowledge 
that placed the atom bomb in the possession of the 
United States. 
A rich farmer was greatly troubled about the 
impoverished condition of a certain neighbourhood 
widow and her children. One night in his family 
devotions he prayed that God would take care of her 
and send her food. As the family arose from prayer his 
young son said, "Father, if I had your corn crib I 
would answer your prayer." Western nations have it 
in their power to solve the Palestinian-European 
problem, and at a fraction of the cost of the Mar-
shall plan. 
There Ought To Be a Law 
CURRENTLY a woman shot and killed her husband 
when he made improper advances toward their ten-
and twelve-year-old daughters. Married for seventeen 
years, the defendant told the jury and a packed court 
a story of fear and terror that caused hardened police 
officers to weep. During the five days of testimony, 
during which the frail little woman broke down 
completely on several occasions and was unable to 
go on, the hushed courtroom audience was heard 
to exclaim, No, no! It can't be true. 
It was the old, old story of brutality and indecency 
induced by whiskey. Week-end sprees were the rule, 
and seventeen years has a lot of week ends. For this 
timid wife and mother they were week ends of fear and 
horror. But she endured them and would have con-
tinued to do so as long as the husband's bestiality 
was directed toward her, but when he insisted upon 
teaching the daughters the "facts of life" she killed 
him. 
The jury acquitted her—called her act "justifiable 
homicide." We don't see how twelve honest jurymen 
could do otherwise. But "there ought to be a law"—
there ought to be a law that would enable this jury 
to sentence the real criminal—the boose-maker and 
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SIGNS of the TIMES 
9 
It is God's design that 
the wealth of the world 
should be used in doing 
good unto our neighbour. 
the boose-seller. Actually it was they who applied the 
intoxicated fist to this inoffensive woman's face and 
the lash to her back. It was they who substituted the 
seventeen years of the fear of death for the life of peace, 
security and joy with her husband and children that 
she had a right to expect at her wedding day. It was 
they who were the causative agents in subjecting 
daughters of tender years to the inflamed passions of 
an alcoholic father. It was they who put a harmless 
wife on trial for her life, and sent a drunken husband 
into the grave without Christ and without hope. 
There ought to be a law—there ought to be a law 
that would prevent the manufacture and sale of that 
which blights hopes, violates the marriage vows, de-
stroys homes, laughs at virtue and the sacredness 
of life. It is time for the righteous people of the Do-
minion to demand that there shall be a law that pro-
hibits—a law with teeth enough in it to end the man-
ufacture and sale of that which destroys both will 
and reason. 
0, yes, at this juncture I can hear someone say—
someone who has not thought it through: "The 
United States tried the prohibition experiment and 
it didn't work." To begin with, it did work. True, it 
did not work as well as it should have, because it was 
not enforced as it should have been. It will now be 
said that the United States could not enforce the anti-
liquor law. How absurd! How ridiculous! Here is a 
government that took millions of men from their 
peaceful pursuits on farms and in factories and offices, 
gave them brutal, enforced training, and took them 
half way around the world to fight a war that they did 
not want to fight. It increased taxes, rationed gasoline, 
sugar, meat, fruits and vegetables—all of this with a 
minimum of complaining and with no thought of re-
bellion on the part of the people. This was done in 
order that the free, democratic way of life might be 
preserved. This was done to repel a foreign foe and 
save the nation. Now it's time to move against an in-
ternal foe that is taking from tens of thousands of 
women and children their natural heritage—freedom 
from fear, security and the right of happiness. 
There ought to be a law. 
Dunkirk 
Dunkirk, New York, a small city of 20,000 situated 
on the south shore of Lake Erie, has given the world 
an object lesson which, if followed, would well-nigh 
put an end to poverty and war. This little city, located 
in the midst of the Concord-grape area, is not funda-
mentally different from scores of other communities. 
Yet the citizens of Dunkirk have manifested the 
"good neighbour" policy as no other city has. 
It all began very casually when some Dunkirkite 
remarked that the city they lived in was named for 
the war-devastated Dunkirque in France. After that 
someone thought it would be pretty wonderful if 
the New World Dunkirk could help the old. This 
provided the leaven. The idea grew and grew until 
a committee was formed which fixed as its goal the 
raising of $2500. When it was all over, almost $100,000 
in cash and goods had been contributed and sent 
overseas. 
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Nor was that all. When this campaign had ended, 
another large-spirited Dunkirkite said, "About one-
fourth of our population are Poles. Why not do some-
thing for Poland too?" So another good work was 
under way. When the Polish relief campaign was 
ended, cash and goods to the amount of $150,000 had 
been sent to help Poland get back on her feet. 
The benevolent spirit that caused a relatively small 
community to contribute $250,000 for the relief of 
the world's unfortunate is the spirit of Christ and of 
Christianity. Magnanimity, goodwill, friendliness, 
love and compassion beget their own kind. The plant 
of peace can grow and flourish in such a soil, and we 
venture to say that if a number of New World cities 
were to follow Dunkirk's example they would con-
tribute more to the world peace in ten months than 
the United Nations delegates will accomplish in ten 
years in the atmosphere of hatred, suspicion and 
jealousy. This writer has tried to visualize the 
changed condition of the world if every city and 
every individual would magnanimously recognize 
that he is "his brother's keeper." Crime, poverty and 
war would, in our opinion, be almost totally erad-
icated. 
When the good-willed people of Dunkirk gave of 
their goods and money to help others, they helped 
themselves. It is always more blessed to give than to 
receive. And despite the fact that $250,000 went out 
of the community, we believe that the community 
as a whole, or a single individual, is not one cent 
poorer to-day. This cannot be proved by any mathe-
matical formula with which we are acquainted, but 
there is a verse in the Bible that gives the answer to 
it: "There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and 
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THIS CLIMACTIC HOUR 
(Continued from page 3) 
shall they see the Son of man coming 
in a cloud with power and great 
glory." (See Matthew 24:3-7; Luke 
21:11, 25-28.) 
Call for Soberness 
"Be ye therefore sober," is the state-
ment in our next text, 1 Peter 4:7. 
"Therefore" means "for this reason," 
because "the end of all things is at 
hand." The editor truthfully said, 
"The world may well be sobered by 
the thought." This fact is enough to 
sober anyone. But the majority are 
not sobered any more than the ante-
diluvians were sobered by the warn-
ings of Noah, or the inhabitants of 
Sodom by the message of Lot. The 
people before the flood scoffed at the 
message and went on "eating and 
drinking" and "marrying and giving 
in marriage" till the crisis came and 
destroyed them, and the warning of 
Lot "seemed as one that mocked." 
Belshazzar, together with his lords 
and his subjects, heeded not the warn-
ings given and died in a drunken 
revelry at the hands of the Persian 
warriors. Voltaire said after the great 
Lisbon earthquake, "Lisbon lies in 
ruins and the people dance in Paris." 
The same will be true in "the time 
of the end." On the verge of the great-
est crisis in human history, which will 
bring the tragic end of "all things" 
earthly, the world will enter an age of 
revelry that will rival the Babylonian 
festival. Ours is the most silly, hilar-
ious, thoughtless, selfish and self-
centred age in the history of mankind. 
Most people have lost all sense of the 
serious. Their motto is, "Let us eat, 
drink, and be merry, for to-morrow 
we die." Ours is an age of amusement-
mad sensation mongers, who have a 
passion for thrills, funnies and fiction. 
It is an age of sham and pretense, of 
the unreal and the artificial. 
Even the average church audience 
is bored with serious, sober, and spirit-
ual persons and sermons. The Bible 
is a solemn book dealing with life-
and-death matters. It contains no jokes 
or comic section. It is popular in sales 
but the most unpopular book when it 
comes to study and practice. It is too 
serious for the modern generation. No 
persons are made permanently sober 
by fright or tragedy. Only a convic-
tion of and preparation for the time 
of the end can produce a sober and 
serious-minded people. We are told 
that those who deny "ungodliness and 
worldly lusts" and "live soberly, right-
eously, and godly, in this present 
world" are those who look "for that 
blessed hope, and the glorious appear-
ing of the great God and our Saviour 
Jesus Christ." Titus 2:12, 13. 
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T
HE Scriptures plainly teach that 
there will be a judgment hour, 
and a judgment-hour message. 
The apostle raw declared, "Gou . . . 
hath appointed a day, in the which He 
will judge the world." Acts 17:30, 31. 
This same apostle, in preaching the 
gospel to Felix, "reasoned of righteous-
ness, temperance, and judgment to 
come." Acts 24:25. 
The Time of the Judgment 
When will the judgment take place? 
It does not occur, as some teach, at 
death; but it will take place in connec-
tion with the closing events of this 
earth's history. Immediately prior to 
the return of Christ, as a part of His 
closing ministry in the heavenly sanc-
tuary, the cases of earth's inhabitants 
will be brought before the heavenly 
tribunal to determine how many have 
availed themselves of the provisions of 
the gospel, and are thus entitled to be-
come subjects of the kingdom of peace. 
This is clearly taught by the prophet 
Daniel: 
"I beheld till the thrones were cast 
down ["placed," R.V.], and the An-
cient of days did sit, whose garment 
was white as snow, and the hair of His 
head like the pure wool: His throne 
was like the fiery flame, and His wheels 
as burning fire. A fiery stream issued 
and came forth from before Him: 
thousand thousands ministered unto 
Him, and ten thousand times ten thou-
sand stood before Him: the judgment 
was set, and the books were opened." 
Daniel 7:9, 10. 
This judgment work, as we have al-
ready learned, is the cleansing of the 
heavenly sanctuary, at the end of the 
2300 days. (Daniel 8:14.) 
When this review of the cases of all 
who have ever lived, is finished, and 
the destiny of all is fixed, then the 
heavenly court confers upon Christ 
the kingdom. (Daniel 7:13, 14.) 
The solemn character, the signifi-
cant import, and the world-wide ex-
tent of this last-day message are clearly 
indicated in the Sacred Record. The 
message is represented under the sym-
bol of flying angels, proclaiming the 
everlasting gospel to every nation, kin-
dred, tongue, and people. It is three-
fold in character. The first angel 
sounds the great keynote; a little later 
a second angel adds his voice to that 
of the first; and then these two are 
joined by a third, the chorus consti-
tuting a mighty threefold warning 
message. This message is recorded in 
Revelation 14:6-14: 
"And I saw another angel fly in the 
midst of heaven, having the everlast-
ing gospel to preach unto them that 
dwell on the earth, and to every na-
tion, and kindred, and tongue, and 
people, saying with a loud voice, 
Fear God, and give glory to Him; 
for the hour of His judgment is come: 
and worship Him that made heaven, 
and earth, and the sea, and the foun-
tains of waters. And there followed 
another angel, saying, Babylon is fall-
en, is fallen, that great city, because 
she made all nations drink of the wine 
of the wrath of her fornication. And 
the third angel followed them, saying 
with a loud voice, If any man worship 
the beast and his image and receive 
his mark in his forehead, or in his 
hand, the same shall drink of the wine 
of the wrath of God, which is poured 
out without mixture into the cup of 
His indignation; and he shall be tor-
mented with fire and brimstone in the 
presence of the holy angels, and in the 
presence of the Lamb: and the smoke 
of their torment ascendeth up for ever 
and ever: and they have no rest day 
nor night, who worship the beast and 
his image, and whosoever receiveth the 
mark of his name. Here is the patience 
of the saints: here are they that keep 
the commandments of God, and the 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
By 
F. M. Wilcox 
A MESSAGE 
of JUDGMENT 
and their works do follow them. And 
I looked, and behold a white cloud, 
and upon the cloud one sat like unto 
the Son of man, having on His head 
a golden crown, and in His hand a 
sharp sickle." 
It serves the purpose of this series 
of articles to consider only the first an-
gel's message. To understand the mes-
sages of the second and third angels, 
they must be studied in connection 
with the prophecy found in the preced-
ing chapter, Revelation 13. Doubtless 
this prophecy and the•second and third 
angels' messages will be discussed by 
some other writer in this journal in the 
near future. 
The judgment here brought to view 
is not the executivejudgment which is 
visited upon the finally impenitent. 
Rather it is what might be designated 
as the investigative judgment, which 
by an examination of the heavenly 
records determines who have availed 
themselves of the merits of Christ's 
priestly ministry in the heavenly sanc-
tuary and are thus entitled to a home 
in the mansions He promised to pre-
pare for them. (John 14:1-3.) 
A Message of Reform 
The judgment-hour message is a 
message of reform. It seeks to awaken 
the professed people of God to their 
great dangers in these last days. And 
this call to reform, to return anew to 
God, to a revival of faith in God and 
His divine revelation, is sorely needed. 
The Reformation of the sixteenth 
century was in the order of God. It was 
a protest against errors of doctrine and 
abuses of ecclesiastical power which 
had plunged the church of Christ into 
a well-nigh hopeless state of apostasy. 
Rejecting tradition and recognizing 
the Bible alone as of supreme author-
ity in all questions of faith and morals, 
the Reformers erected a formidable 
barrier against papal tradition and 
superstition, presenting to the church 
a sure foundation of doctrinal belief 
and religioi8 faith. To the extent that 
the children of the Reformation have 
consistently adhered to the principles 
of the Bible, and the Bible only, as of 
ultimate authority in matters of faith 
and of Christian duty, they have been 
blessed of God and have been pre-
served from falling back into papal 
error. 
But, unfortunately, we are witness-
ing to-day a marked tendency to de-
part from the standards erected by the 
Reformers. Conservatism is giving 
place to liberalism, simplicity to for-
malism. Imposing church edifices, in-
spiring music, attractive ritualistic 
ceremony, are depended upon to draw 
men to the church rather than the 
power of the Spirit and the preaching 
of the Word of God. 
The elements of spiritual disintegra- 
tion are working in the great professed 
church of Christ. Doctrines once 
counted cardinal in Christian faith 
are discredited and oftentimes ridi-
culed by thousands of professed Chris-
tians. The inerrancy of the Scriptures 
is denied. The deity of Christ, His vir-
gin birth, His divine miracles, His vi-
carious death, His resurrection and 
ascension, are counted as mythical 
tales. Belief in the creation of man as 
given in the Bible, has been set aside 
for the seductive theory of evolution. 
The saddest feature of this wide de-
parture from old-time standards is 
found in the fact that the leaders in 
this apostasy are recognized teachers 
of Christian doctrine. Infidelity mas-
querades under the guise of clerical 
orders, and is found more often in the 
pulpit than in the pew. Surely Christ 
is wounded in the house of His 
friends. 
But, thank God, there may still be 
found in every church body the loyal 
and true, men and women who view 
with sadness the blindness which is 
overspreading the church, and who are 
longing and praying for a revival of 
apostolic faith. These devoted Chris-
tian believers will welcome the great 
judgment-hour message, now encir-
cling the world. Of its marked progress 
we quote the following statement from 
the editor of a sister publication in the 
States, by the same name as this jour-
nal: 
"Unbelievable though it may seem 
to some, this second advent movement, 
with ever-increasing momentum, has 
now spread into nearly every corner of 
the globe. During the first hundred 
years of the movement it raised and 
spent upon its missionary enterprises 
more than three hundred million dol-
lars! Further, to hasten completion of 
its world task, it operates fifty-two pub-
lishing houses and branches—printing 
in almost two hundred languages—
whose book and periodical sales ex-
ceed in value nine million dollars an-
nually. In addition, it has established 
a chain of hospitals, sanitariums and 
dispensaries all around the world, 
each unit helping in a practical way 
to bring a knowledge of the love of 
God and His last message of mercy to 
suffering humanity. 
"No one can sincerely consider this 
amazing development without admit-
ting that here indeed is the fulfilment 
of the prophecy of Revelation 14:6-12. 
The three angels' messages are being 
given now. Here before our eyes are 
the people of the prophecy, preaching 
the everlasting gospel in all its beauty 
and fullness; proclaiming that the hour 
of God's judgment has arrived, and 
calling upon people of every tribe and 
tongue to acknowledge Jesus Christ 
as their Creator and Redeemer, their 
Saviour and Friend." 
11 
T. K MARTIN, ARI IST 
"The judgment was set, and the books 
were opened." A more solemn thought was 
never entertained by the mind of man. 
faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from 
heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed 
are the dead which die in the Lord 
frOm henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, 
that they may rest from their labours; 
FEBRUARY, 1948 
T
HOUGHTFUL people have 
come to realize that sinister for-
ces are at work throughout the 
world, undermining the moral and 
ethical foundation of Christian civili-
zation. That these forces are meeting 
with success is revealed by the appall-
ing moral collapse seen in the family, 
the community and the church. Dr. 
Elton Trueblood, professor of philos-
ophy at Earlham College, and a keen 
observer of present-day social and re-
ligious trends, has come to the conclu-
sion that the observance of the ten 
commandments has become a funda-
mental necessity if the Christian way 
of life is to be preserved in the world. 
In his recent book, Foundations for 
Reconstruction, he offers the proposi-
tion that "the only answer to atomic 
powers which have kept the church 
alive and aggressive throughout the 
centuries. The only course open to 
us is a return to the theology of the 
Bible, to the sure foundations of 
God's revealed will toward man as 
taught in the ten commandments. 
In the New Testament the Hebrew 
word torah is translated "law." This 
word is derived from a root meaning 
both "cast" and "teach." In other 
words, the torah, or law, is the embodi-
ment of the standard God has set for 
man, which of necessity must be 
taught, for man's enlightenment. In 
both the Old Testament and the New 
Testament this word is used to refer 
to both the Mosaic legislation and the 
I)ecalogue. Where it is used to refer 
to the ten commandments it has vital 
The NEW TESTAM 
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power is moral power," and he points 
to the ten commandments as the only 
creed in existence that can furnish the 
necessary moral power for our time. 
The ten commandments, or Deca-
logue, are usually regarded as belong-
ing to the Old Testament dispensation. 
They are often referred to as ante-
cjuated Jewish relics having no prac-
tical value for our day. In the face of 
such conceptions it is noteworthy that 
thoughtful people are daring to dis-
regard popular views and to look for 
such abiding principles as are com-
manded in the law of God to form the 
basis for continued life upon earth. 
Perhaps the majority of people in the 
Western Hemisphere are not quite 
prepared to accept the ten command-
ments with such favour. A close-up 
view of the havoc wrought by such an-
tinomian powers as the Nazis and Com-
munists would bring about a sudden 
change of opinion. William C. Bullit, 
a high ranking U.S.A. diplomat in 
several European countries, gave un-
mistakable evidence of his evaluation 
of God's law in a radio speech on 
August 18, 1940. He remarked point-
edly: "When one tries to debunk the 
ten commandments and the sermon 
on the mount, he is paving a road to 
hell." To-day we see that road very 
clearly, and we know that it leads to 
destruction. 
As Christians we are forced to re-
cover again those moral and spiritual 
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meaning for man's salvation. It is 
used in this connection several times 
before Israel came to Sinai. (Exodus 
12:49; 13:9; 16:4.) It is used again in 
reference to the ten commandments 
written on stone tablets. (Exodus 24: 
12.) Jeremiah uses the same term 
when he speaks of the law written on 
the tables of the heart (Jeremiah 31: 
33) under the terms of the new cove-
nant. 
The Hebrew word for "covenant" 
was translated in the Septuagint by a 
Greek word meaning also a will or 
testament. Therefore we have the 
Christian word "testament" in the 
place of "covenant." The blood of 
Jesus is called the blood of the New 
Testament (Matthew 26:28) with di-
rect allusion to Exodus 24, verses 6 to 
8, where the sacrifice is referred to as 
the blood of the covenant. 
The new covenant or New Testa-
ment involves, first, a revelation of the 
law written in the heart; and second, 
it includes the promise of forgiveness. 
(Jeremiah 31:31-34.) This note is 
strongly sounded by the later proph-
ets—Isaiah, especially, proclaimed the 
good news of deliverance. (Isaiah 52: 
7; 61:1.) This is the origin of the 
Christian word "gospel," which means 
good news. (Luke 4:16-21.) 
The law and the gospel go together 
in the New Testament. The law shows 
what God requires and the penalties 
of disobedience; the gospel shows the 
way of deliverance when man has 
failed to meet the requirements. 
The keeping of the law, therefore, 
becomes a part of the New Testament 
religion. While it is true that the New 
Testament puts much more stress 
than the Old Testament does on what 
a man must believe in order to be 
saved, yet saving faith in the New 
Testament is not belief alone; it in-
cludes also commitment and action. 
(James 2:19.) The primary question 
in Biblical religion has always been 
and still is, "What shall I do?" Mark 
10:17. The Lord Jesus in answering 
the question, simply replied, You 
know the commandments! (Mark 10: 
19.) This was Paul's answer also: "By 
the law is the knowledge of sin." Ro-
mans 3:20. Without the law, sin would 
reign unrecognized over men's lives 
and destroy them. 
That is why Jesus said, "Think not 
that I am come to destroy the law, or 
the prophets: I am not come to de-
sti oy, but to fulfil." Matthew 5:17. 
Jesus came to fulfil the law, first, by 
obeying it fully as our great representa-
tive and example. (Matthew 3:15.) 
Second, He came to fulfil the law by ex-
plaining and expanding its meaning, 
as our great teacher. According to 
Christ an angry thought or a bitter 
word violated the sixth commandment, 
and a lustful look violated the seventh. 
He turned the negative of the third 
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into a positive, and made the observ-
ance of the fourth a delight. 
Jesus taught all ten commandments. 
In Matthew 22:37-39 He summarized 
them in two groups: the first four 
commandments, "Thou shalt love the 
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and 
with all thy soul, and with all thy 
mind"; and the last six, "Thou shalt 
love thy neighbour as thyself." Jesus 
placed these two commandments of 
love 'above all the written and oral 
law. For Him the inner disposition 
takes precedence over the act. But, to 
be sure, the right disposition also pro-
duces the right act and is judged ac-
cordingly. Jesus taught a single basic 
attitude, yet that attitude provides a 
positive ethical ideal with implica-
tions affecting vitally every depart-
ment of human conduct. With Him 
mere good intentions in general were 
not enough. The will of God must be 
done in specific situations. He de-
manded fruits meet for repentance. 
The tree is known by its fruits. 
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all the ten commandments specifically 
as well as generally. The first com-
mandment: "Thou shalt worship the 
Lord thy God, and Him only shalt 
thou serve." Matthew 4:10. "Ye can-
not serve God and mammon." Mat-
thew 6:24. The second: "God is a 
Spirit: and they that worship Him 
must worship Him in spirit and in 
truth." John 4:24. The third: "Swear 
not at all; neither by heaven . . . nor 
by the earth." Matthew 5:33-37. The 
fourth, He taught by precept and ex-
ample. It was His custom to go to the 
synagogue to worship on the Sabbath. 
(Luke 4:16.) He did good on the 
Sabbath, making its observance a de-
light. (Luke 6:7-9.) He remembered 
that He had created the Sabbath 
(John 1:1-3; Genesis 2:1-3) for man 
and not man for the Sabbath. (Mark 
2:27, 28.) 
Christ emphasized our duty to keep 
the last six commandments, by quot-
ing them as a group (Matthew 19: 
16-19) , and also by specific reference 
to them separately. The fifth He set up 
as binding over against the tradition 
of the Jews. (Matthew 15:4-9.) The 
sixth He magnified by making anger 
equal to murder (Matthew 5:21, 22) , 
and by enjoining the practice of love 
toward our enemies. (Matthew 5:43, 
44.) Lustful desire He judged as a 
violation of the seventh command-
me n t. (Matthew 5:27, 28.) The 
eighth, ninth, and tenth command-
ments were taught by Christ in His de-
nunciation of the vices which they 
cover. (Matthew 15:19; Mark 7:21-
23.) 
There is no doubt about Christ's 
teaching of the law in the New Testa-
ment. As we examine the record care-
fully we are led to the same conclusion 
that Jesus' listeners at Capernaum 
arrived at. "They were all amazed" 
at His doctrine and authority with 
which He taught. Mark 1:27. 
The apostles also taught the prin-
ciples of the ten commandments. Paul 
repeats what Jesus said about love be-
ing the fulfilling of the law. (Romans 
13:10; Galatians 5:14.) Paul and Bar-
nabas point the people of Lystra away 
from idolatry to the worship of the 
living God (Acts 14:15) , thus teaching 
the first commandment. On Mars' Hill 
Paul stressed the meaning of the 
second commandment by teaching that 
God was not to be likened to images 
made by man's hands (Acts 17:29) , 
and John directly admonished his 
hearers to keep themselves from idols. 
(1 John 5: 21.) 
The third commandment is covered 
by Paul in his instruction to Timothy 
that the name of God is not to be blas-
phemed. (1 Timothy 6:1.) 
Like their Master, the apostles 
taught the fourth, or Sabbath, com-
mandment, by precept and example. 
It was their custom to worship on the 
Sabbath day either at the synagogue 
or in some other place designated for 
that purpose. (Acts 13:14, 15, 42, 44; 
16:13; 17:1, 2.) They taught that Sab-
bath observance consisted in resting 
from labour on the seventh day as God 
rested when the Sabbath was created. 
(Hebrews 4:4-9.) 
The apostles quoted the last six 
commandments in their teaching at 
various times (Ephesians 6:1, 2; Ro-
mans 13:9; James 2:10, 11) , thus giv-
ing every commandment of the law 
due emphasis before the believers. 
Perhaps now we can understand the 
meaning of Christ's words when He 
said: "Whosoever therefore shall break 
one of these least commandments, and 
shall teach men so, he shall be called 
the least in the kingdom of heaven: 
but whosoever shall do and teach 
them, the same shall be called great 
in the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 
5:19. 
Elton Trueblood is right: the ob-
servance of the ten commandments is 
the mandate for our time. Earthly 
governments, religious and social in-
stitutions are crumbling. Everything 
that can be shaken is being shaken. 
But the foundation of God's govern-
ment as revealed in His law remains 
unmoved, for Jesus has said: "Verily I 
say unto you, Till heaven and earth 
pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no 
wise pass from the law, till all be ful-
filled." Matthew 5:18. 
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13 
What the Man on the Street Believes 
More than nine out of ten Americans believe in God, and seven out of ten 
believe in some sort of existence after death. Most of them believe that they are 
happy—only four out of a hundred denied that they were—while almost forty 
out of a hundred believe that they are very happy. More than ten per cent are 
definitely superstitious on some point; they knock on wood, throw salt over 
their shoulders, and shudder when black cats cross their paths. 
Tame Atoms? 
The Atomic Energy Commission announces that it now has a "gentle" atom 
bomb which, while containing enough fissionable material to vapourize its 
surroundings, actually develops heat quietly and under control. The fissionable 
material in use is plutonium. The method of moderating its normally deadly 
fast reactions has not been announced. Even the development of this "tame" 
bomb cost at least one human life, as cautious word has been released that Dr. 
Louis Slotin was the victim of a radiation accident which occurred in May, 
1946, at the Los Alamos Laboratory. 
Race Suicide 
If man does not blow himself into oblivion in an atomic war he may ac-
complish the depopulation of the earth through atomic fission nonetheless. 
Reputable men of science warn that the ability of human beings to reproduce 
may be seriously affected by radiations too small to be otherwise noticeable. 
This effect may not show up in one generation, but may take several generations 
to develop, thus becoming apparent only after it is too late to do anything 
about it. Even the peaceful use of atomic fission may carry this danger with it, 
we are warned. 
Honour to a Mission Doctor 
Physicians and surgeons of eminence recently gathered at a mission hospital 
out in Arizona, forty miles from a paved road, to do honour to a mission doctor. 
"What brings us here," said one of the visiting doctors, "is the deep religious 
and medical convictions of the man, and his immense sense of humanity." 
Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, the mission doctor so honoured, has just finished 
twenty years of mission work among the Navajo Indians. During this time he 
established a 150-bed hospital, a high school, a home economics school, an ice 
plant, a power plant, and a coal mine from which all the mission's fuel is dug. 
School for Crime 
Harry Medos, convicted of killing a police officer in a gun battle in the city 
of Vancouver, British Columbia, was recently executed at Oakalla Prison 
Farm, near Vancouver. Before his death Medos confessed to a minister that 
his criminal career got its motivation from gangster films and cheap detective 
stories. The movies taught him and his accomplices how to rob a bank, he 
said. Medos was twenty years old when executed; a companion, now awaiting 
a like fate. is seventeen. 
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By D. H. Kress, M.D. 
F
ROM my own observation in the 
past fifty years as a physician, I 
have again and again recognized 
the truth in the old German adage, 
"As he eateth so is he." So thoroughly 
am I convinced of this, that in deter-
mining on short acquaintance what a 
man is morally, I place more reliance 
on my knowledge of what he eats and 
what he drinks than upon the way he 
may deport himself while in my pres-
ence. 
Food has as great an influence on 
the morals of an individual as drink 
has. No man can be in health who has 
a sour stomach; and no one can have 
a sour stomach and a sweet, amiable 
disposition at the same time. Man can-
not be at his moral best while the diet 
is wrong. Many more suffer from auto-
intoxication than from intoxication 
due to the use of alcoholic beverages. 
The matter of diet is receiving 
much more attention by the medical 
profession than it did twenty years 
ago. Many of the obscure diseases of 
the past are now recognized to be 
due to dietetic errors and to auto-
intoxication or intestinal infections. 
It is time for those who are engaged 
in the work of moral reform to recog-
nize the intimate relation that exists 
between food and morals. It is neces-
sary to give attention to diet in order 
to promote health, and it is equally 
important to give attention to the 
diet in order to promote good morals. 
When this is appreciated as it should 
and will be, much more will be said 
from Christian pulpits by ministers 
of the gospel in regard to the need of 
eating and drinking to the glory of 
God. 
The impatience of the mother, the 
unreasonable disposition of the father, 
and the rebellious nature of the chil-
dren, frequently find an explanation 
in the food served in the home. To 
find the cause of much of the domestic 
unhappiness that exists to-day, and of 
the frequency of divorce suits, we need 
in many instances merely to go into 
the kitchen or the dining room and 
observe what and how its inmates 
eat. 
In order to improve the peace and 
happiness of our homes, and the spir-
itual condition of the church and the 
community, the preparation of food 
will have to receive consideration. 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
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By H. F. De'Ath 
B
ISHOP BARNES of Birming-
ham, England, in his latest work, 
The Rise of Christianity, takes 
great pains to eliminate "the miracu-
lous element" of the Christian faith, 
which he says "weakens the reliability 
• 
of the Gospel narratives." 
He would cut out the virgin birth, 
the reality of the miracles wrought by 
Jesus and His early disciples, as well 
as the bodily resurrection and ascen-
sion of Christ, and leave the church 
resting on the precarious foundation 
of one who was only "an ethical 
teacher of rare spiritual power." 
So in the place of the New Testa-
ment gospel, the Bishop would offer 
us a "simple, rational, and ethical re-
ligion," very much after that of. Bert-
rand Russell, Mr. Bernard Shaw, or 
the late Mr. H. G. Wells. 
He, however, does not undertake to 
explain why the preaching of Jesus and 
the apostles proved to be so infinitely 
superior to the cold ethical ideals of 
the philosophers and stoics that it com-
pelled listeners to cry out in the agony 
of deep conviction of sin, "Men and 
brethren, what shall we do?" 
Nor does he tell us why the power 
of the Christian gospel was carried 
forward through the centuries in the 
lives of countless men and women; 
while the ethics of pagan philosophers 
• 
faded out and were forgotten. 
Like most rationalistic thinkers and 
men of "science," often "falsely so-
called," the Bishop, it seems, cannot 
bear to hold any belief that cannot be 
grasped by the human mind. Hence he 
has no use for the sacred mysteries of 
the Christian faith as set forth in the 
Scriptures. These must be explained 
away in the light of cold "scientific" 
scrutiny. They were borrowed, he tells 
us, from the many "mystery religions" 
which existed at that time in the pagan 
world. 
Now history does reveal that about 
the days of Constantine the Great, the 
professed Christian church began to 
tolerate in its midst certain pagan 
beliefs and observances. 
The doctrine of the natural immor-
tality of the soul, for example, and the 
consequent belief in survival after 
death, came to be almost universally 
accepted by the church. 
Sunday observance too, long linked 
up with the worship of the sun, 
usurped the seventh-day Sabbath of 
the Scriptures. 
Both Eastern and Western churches 
borrowed and incorporated into their 
worship, rites and mystery ceremonies 
from the temples of the pagan gods, 
• 
traces of which are discernible in the 
ritualistic practices of both Roman and 
Greek Catholic Churches. 
It would therefore be of much more 
• 
service to the Christian religion, if 
Bishop Barnes were to use his voice 
and pen against these unscriptural 
FEBRUARY, 1943 
practices, than to cry down basic 
scriptural truths upon which the true 
Christian faith rests, and by which his 
own church claims to be guided. 
After all, why should Bishop Barnes 
and those in the churches who think 
with him, question the reliability of 
the miraculous and the mysterious 
element, which, according to the Gos-
pel narratives, marked the rise of the 
Christian religion? Even doubting 
Thomas, as he faced and felt his resur-
rected Lord in the flesh, was forced in 
holy wonder to exclaim, "My Lord 
and my God." Was he, after all, de-
ceived? 
If the great and learned apostle Paul 
bowed in glad and humble submission 
to the mystery of the virgin birth and 
bodily resurrection of Jesus from the 
grave, why should Bishop Barnes seek 
to discredit both? Was Paul, the care-
ful, critical scholar, so manifestly cho-
sen of God, mistaken? Did the saints 
and martyrs of old, who were sus-
tained by these very truths, labour 
under delusion? Were the godly men 
who framed the Apostles' Creed, still 
recited every Sunday in Anglican 
churches, poor ignoramuses, who took 
everything for granted? 
Christians who know and believe 
their Bibles will not be slow in an-
swering these queries suggested by the 
Bishop's latest book. They will seek 
"the old paths" with new earnestness. 
They will proclaim with added zeal 
the blessed "mystery of the gospel," 
warning their fellow men against this 
latest ecclesiastical departure from di-
vine truth—this shameful denial of 
"the faith which was once delivered 
unto the saints." 
Nor could the Bishop have launched 
his latest repudiation of basic Chris-
tian belief at a more unfortunate 
time. If ever men and women needed 
faith in the miraculous and mysterious 
power that removes mountains, it is 
now. Impoverished, disillusioned and 
distraught, up against mountains of 
distress and perplexity, they need. 
above all things a living faith that 
moors them to the very throne of God_ 
People not only cry out for literal 
bread. They are starving for that living 
bread which is inseparably bound up 
with a miraculously conceived, resur-
rected and soon-returning Saviour. 
But Bishop Barnes offers them only 
the cold stones of a merely ethical 
teacher. In the place of an inspired. 
Bible, he hands out a few "reliable" 
fragments of the Word of God, which 
have successfully passed his so-called 
"scientific" scrutiny. 
Thus does the Bishop rank himself 
with those who in these last days seek 
to discredit sound doctrine; "having 
a form of godliness, but denying the 
power thereof." 
The counsel of Scripture is clear and 
unmistakable: "From such turn away." 
Jesus counsels us to "ask for the old 
paths, where is the good way, and 
walk therein, and ye shall find rest 
for your souls." Jeremiah 6:16. 
15 
IKE ANSWERS 
rrow bible Answerman 
Send your Bible and religious questions to "The Bible Answerman" 
Box 398, Oshawa, Ontario 
Dear Bible Answerman: It is clear 
to me that the Bible prohibits the use of 
unclean meats, but I would like you to 
give me a list of some animals, fowls and 
fish that are clean and that may be 
eaten. M. T., Man. 
We find the listing of both the clean 
and the unclean animals, birds and 
fish in Leviticus 11. Beginning with 
verse two God says: "These are the 
beasts which ye shall eat among all the 
beasts that are on the earth. Whatso-
ever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-
footed, and cheweth the cud, among 
the beasts, that shall ye eat. Neverthe-
less these shall ye not eat of them that 
chew the cud, or of them that divide 
the hoof: as the camel, because he 
cheweth the cud, but divideth not the 
hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the 
coney, because he cheweth the cud, 
but divideth not the hoof; he is un-
clean unto you. And the hare, because 
he cheweth the cud, but divideth not 
the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And 
the swine, though he divide the hoof, 
and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth 
not the cud; he is unclean to you. Of 
their flesh shall ye not eat, and their 
carcase shall ye not touch; they are 
unclean to you." 
The record goes on and gives us a 
distinction between the clean and the 
unclean fish—those that are fit for food 
and those that are not. "These shall 
ye eat of all that are in the waters: 
whatsoever hath fins and scales in the 
waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, 
them shall ye eat. And all that have 
not fins and scales in the seas, and in 
the rivers, of all that move in the 
waters, and of any living thing which 
is in the waters, they shall be an abom-
ination unto you: they shall be even 
an abomination unto you; ye shall not 
eat of their flesh, but ye shall have 
their carcases in abomination. What-
soever hath no fins nor scales in the 
waters, that shall be an abomination 
unto you." 
At the outset it should be said that 
it is certain that God, in the dividing 
of the clean from the unclean, had 
man's best good in view. When God 
created Adam He gave to him a diet 
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of fruits, grains and nuts—no flesh 
meats. However, after the flood God 
gave His permission to eat of the clean 
animals, fish and fowls. With this per-
mission came a shrinking of man's 
life span to the well-known three score 
and ten. Prior to the flood men lived 
to be eight and nine hundred years 
of age. And even after the flood Abra-
ham lived to be almost two hundred, 
and Moses, who died with unabated 
vigour, reached one hundred and 
twenty. 
Some animals, fish and fowls are pro-
hibited because they do not provide 
man a healthful article of diet. They 
are, as the Bible says, "unclean." They 
are scavengers. Their purpose is to eat 
up the dead and decaying matter of 
the earth, thus making it a more 
healthful place for man to live. Since 
their own dietary habits are unclean 
and unhealthful, it is impossible that 
they should provide in their own car-
casses a healthful diet for the human 
family. 
Both men and animals subsist upon 
that which they eat. What you eat to- 
day is to-morrow walking around and 
talking. We throw our garbage away 
because we regard it, in its decayed 
condition, as unhealthful. Yet in many 
cases this is fed to the hogs, and is 
bought back over the butcher's count-
er in the form of ham and bacon by 
unthinking people. Oysters, eels, et 
cetera, are scavengers by nature and 
feed upon the sewage of cities. Yet 
they are eaten by millions and highly 
regarded as an article of diet. 
Many of the serious diseases that 
afflict the human race are transmitted 
through the consumption of flesh 
meats and meat products. Cancer, tu-
berculosis, trichinosis and undulant 
fever are some of the most common. 
Milk is pasteurized that it may be 
made safe. Animals are tested for 
tuberculosis and Bang's disease; still 
there are multiplied thousands of 
cases of undulant fever and tubercu-
losis transmitted from animals to hu-
man beings each year. There are 
estimated to be 21,000,000 people 
in the United States suffering from 
"pork" disease (trichinosis) . This dis-
ease is incurable and generally un-
recognized because it manifests the 
same symptoms as do many common 
diseases such as neuritis, rheumatism, 
stomach trouble and others. 
In the time following the flood when 
God gave permission to eat of the 
clean meats they were comparatively 
free from disease, but such is not the 
case to-day. Owing to domestication, 
animals have contracted diseases com-
mon to the human race. When their 
flesh is eaten by man they pass back 
to him that which they previously re-
ceived from his hand. 
Dear Bible Answerman: Why should 
we tell Cod our needs when He knows 
them beforehand? J. S., Alta. 
It is very true that God is Omnis-
cient (all wise) , and being so He 
knows our needs before even we are 
conscious of them. It is also true that 
God is a "God of love," and that He 
has made a world-wide provision for 
the care of all His creatures. Despite 
the fact that millions are hungry, the 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
earth produces bountifully — more 
than enough to feed everyone. Sin, 
war, crime and selfishness are as a 
"monkey wrench" in God's provision 
programme. Consequently there arise 
personal needs on the part of almost 
every person, which God invites us to 
bring to Him. Owing to sin man has 
come to have, not only physical needs, 
but also spiritual. 
The reason we are to pray and pre-
sent our petitions to God is not that 
God does not know them already, but 
that we may be benefited. In order 
that man may be saved ultimately, his 
faith and reliance upon the promises 
of God must be strengthened and de-
veloped. This is done by asking and 
receiving. Submission to the will of 
God must be learned. The prayer, 
"Nevertheless not what I will, but 
what Thou wilt" must be prayed from 
the heart. Paul's words to the He-
brews throw some more light on the 
question: "For whom the Lord loveth 
He chasteneth, and scourgeth every 
son whom He receiveth." Hebrews 
12:6. The pathway to heaven, through 
this world of sin, is not rose strewn. To 
prepare a man for the eternal realm 
it is necessary for God to correct and 
discipline him. This is done throwh 
blessings given (prayers answered), 
and blessings withheld or withdrawn 
(prayers answered) . It is written that 
Jesus learned obedience by the things 
He suffered. It is also necessary for us 
to learn obedience. Generally, how-
ever, because of our self-will it is nec-
essary for us to learn it the hard way. 
It would be well for us to keep in 
mind as we give consideration to this 
question that from the viewpoint of 
God, man's salvation is by far the most 
vital thing. It is, in fact, the only 
thing—if failure is met here it is final, 
absolute. If we could see the "end 
from the beginning" as God does, we 
would be more than glad to comply 
with every condition, and meet every 
specification of the divine plan in or-
der to insure our own eternal well-
being. 
Jesus emphasizes in Luke 11:5-10 
the necessity of seeking God earnestly 
for the things we have need of: "And 
He said unto them, Which of you shall 
have a friend, and shall go unto him 
at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, 
lend me three loaves; for a friend of 
mine in his journey is come to me, 
and I have nothing to set before him? 
And he from within shall answer and 
say, Trouble me not: the door is now 
shut, and my children are with me in 
bed; I cannot rise and give thee. I say 
unto you, Though he will not rise and 
give him, because he is his friend, yet 
because of his importunity he will rise 
and give him as many as he needeth. 
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall 
FEBRUARY, 1948 
be given you; seek, and ye shall find; 
knock, and it shall be opened unto 
you." 
Dear Bible Answerman: I would like 
to find out what became of Mary the 
mother of Jesus. 
As Jesus was upon the cross He com-
mitted His mother to the care of the 
apostle John. We read the record of 
this in John 19:25-27: "Now there 
stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, 
and His mother's sister, Mary the wife 
of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. 
When Jesus therefore saw His mother, 
and the disciple standing by, whom 
He loved, He saith unto His mother, 
Woman, behold thy son! Then saith 
He to the disciple, Behold thy mother! 
And from that hour that disciple took 
her unto his own home." 
How long Mary lived or where she 
was buried we are not told. 
Dear Mr. Answerman: In the SIGNS 
OF THE TIMES for September, 1947, 
I noticed the article, "No Tea—No Cof-
fee" written by Daniel H. Kress, M.D., 
in which he says, "Coffee, tea, and cocoa 
in my mind all have the same physio-
logical effect." 
Does that mean we should not drink 
cocoa? What does it contain that clas-
sifies it with tea and coffee? Mrs. A. J., 
Alta. 
The drug theobromine is found in 
cocoa and chocolate. It is the principle 
alkaloid of the cocoa bean, and is 
closely related to caffeine. 
Dear Bible Answerman: You said 
that God never commanded human sacri-
fices. Why did God command the daugh-
ter of Jephthah for a burnt offering? 
Judges 11: 30-40. 
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As we read those verses we do not 
find that God commanded Jephthah 
to offer his daughter as a human sacri-
fice. Jephthah made a rash vow to the 
Lord that in the event that He would 
give him the victory over the Ammon-
ites, he would offer as a sacrifice \ the 
first thing that came out of his door 
when he returned home. 
At first reading it does seem that 
Jephthah sacrificed his daughter as a 
burnt offering, but as we read other 
versions than the King James we get 
a somewhat clearer understanding of 
it. Beginning with the daughter's 
statement I quote from the Douay 
Version: "My father, if thou hast 
opened thy mouth to the Lord, do 
unto me whatsoever thou hast prom-
ised, since the victory hath been 
granted to thee, and revenge of thy 
enemies. And she said to her father: 
Grant me only this which I desire: 
Let me go, that I may go about the 
mountains for two months, and may 
bewail my virginity with my compan-
ions. And he answered her: Go. And 
he sent her away for two months. And 
when she was gone with her comrades 
and companions, she mourned her 
virginity in the mountains. And the 
two months being expired, she re-
turned to her father, and he did to her 
as he had vowed, and she knew no 
man. From thence came a fashion in 
Israel, and a custom has been kept: 
that from year to year the daughters 
of Israel assemble together, and la-
ment the daughter of Jephte the 
Galaadite for four days." 
Jephthah's vow is regarded by most 
commentators as being a vow of con-
secration; that is, whatsoever should 
first meet him according to the con-
dition of the thing. If it were some-
thing that could be offered as a burnt 
offering according to law, then it 
would be offered. On the other hand, 
if it were something that could not be 
offered as a burnt offering, then it 
should be consecrated to the Lord. 
Therefore it is believed that the 
daughter of Jephthah was not slain, 
but consecrated to a perpetual vir-
ginity. 
The bearing of children was much 
coveted by the women of Old Testa-
ment time, because they all cherished 
the hope that from some child of 
theirs, the Saviour of the world might 
be born. Therefore the consecration 
to perpetual virginity of Jephthah's 
daughter constituted, on the part of 
the daughter at least, no inconsider-
able sacrifice. 
While it is true that God sacrificed 
His only-begotten Son, Jesus, for the 
salvation of the race, He never has 
commanded human sacrifices. On the 
other hand He has condemned the 
heathen practice in the strongest 
possible language. 
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R. H. 
Surprising as it may be, our 
right use or misuse of the 
money God gives us proves our 
genuineness as Christians. 
G
OD, the creator of all, is the 
rightful owner of all things. 
Everything belongs to Him by 
right of creation. All is His by emi-
nent domain. This fact He desires to 
impress upon the mind of poor mor-
tal man. And that for a good reason, 
too, since frequently man forgets this 
and assumes the attitude that he owns 
all. 
Nebuchadnezzar of old, ruler of 
ancient Babylon, upon viewing the 
pomp and glory of his palace and 
kingdom, was lifted up in heart, and 
he poured forth these proud words, 
"Is not this great Babylon, that I have 
built for the house of the kingdom by 
the might of my power, and for the 
honour of my majesty?" Daniel 4:30. 
He forced God to remind him that 
there is one in heaven who is the owner 
of all, and Nebuchadnezzar had to be 
humiliated to the dust in order to 
bring him to his senses. (Daniel 5: 
20. 21.) 
Let us notice what the Bible has to 
say about the rightful ownership of 
all things. The psalmist in his day de-
clared, "The earth is the Lord's, and 
the fulness thereof; the world, and 
they that dwell therein." Psalm 24:1. 
Paul also was positive on this matter, 
using almost the same words. (1 Co- 
18 
rinthians 10:26.) And the Lord Him-
self declared, "Whatsoever is under 
the whole heaven is Mine." Job 41:11. 
Again, in Psalm 50:10, He said, 
"Every beast of the forest is Mine, and 
the cattle upon a thousand hills," and 
"all the fowls of the mountains: and 
the wild beasts of the field are Mine." 
And "The silver is Mine, and the gold 
is Mine, saith the Lord of hosts." 
Haggai 2:8. 
In spite of all these utterances there 
are still those like Nebuchadnezzar of 
old who say, "My power and the might 
of mine hand hath gotten me this 
wealth." Deuteronomy 8:17. Such 
should read verse 18 as well, "But thou 
shalt remember the Lord thy God: for 
it is He that giveth thee power to get 
wealth." 
Though God is the creator and 
rightful owner of all, He delights in 
permitting us poor mortals to use all 
for our own enjoyment and His glory. 
At creation God gave possession and 
dominion to the man whom He had 
created. It was not a quitclaim deed, 
but merely the use of God's property. 
(Genesis 1:26, 28; Psalm 115:16.) 
Man should fully sense not only 
God's ownership of all, but also the 
significance of his stewardship, for 
sooner or later he must give account of 
his stewardship. (Luke 16:1, 2; Mat-
thew 25:14.) T. L. Cuyler, D.D., main-
tained this fact when he declared: 
"Christians should regard money as a 
trust. They are stewards of Jesus Christ 
for everything they have, and they 
ought to see His image and superscrip-
tion on every dollar they possess." 
As faithful stewards we are to return 
to the Lord a portion of all our in-
crease. If He permits us to use all that 
rightfully belongs to Him for our own 
comfort and enjoyment, should not 
we repay Him that which He requires 
of us? You may ask, How much is that? 
Let the Bible speak in answer to this 
question. 
Long before there ever was a Jew-
ish nation the Lord's portion, the holy 
tithe, was set apart for the Lord by 
such patriarchs as Abraham and Ja-
cob. They were well aware of this ob-
ligation to God, the creator of all. 
(Genesis 14:17; 28:20-22.) 
You ask, How much is the tithe? 
Again we turn to the Scriptures, this 
time to Hebrews 7:4, where the apostle 
also refers to Abraham's paying tithe 
to Melchizedek, the priest of God. He 
says, "Abraham gave the tenth." Thus 
we see that the tithe is the tenth; that 
is, one-tenth of his profit or increase. 
When Jesus was on earth He fully 
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approved of tithe paying. "Woe unto 
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! 
for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and 
cummin, and have omitted the weight-
ier matters of the law, judgment, 
mercy, and faith: these ought ye to 
have done, and not to leave the other 
undone." Matthew 23:23. 
The Purpose of the Tithe 
The purpose of the tithe is likewise 
plainly set forth in the Scriptures. In 
Numbers 18:21 the Lord explicitly 
states not only who are to be benefited 
by the tithe but also the work they are 
to .perform for God: "I have given the 
children of Levi all the tenth in Israel 
for an inheritance, for their service 
which they serve, even the service of 
the tabernacle of the congregation." 
The apostle Paul refers to the use of 
the tithe as a means of supporting the 
gospel ministry in these words: "If we 
have sown unto you spiritual things, 
is it a great thing if we shall reap your 
carnal things? . . . Do ye not know 
that they which minister about holy 
things live of the things of the temple? 
and they which wait at the altar are 
partakers with the altar? Even so hath 
the Lord ordained that they which 
preach the gospel should live of the 
gospel." 1 Corinthians 9:11-14. More-
over, the ministers who are thus sup-
ported by the tithe are to pay one-tenth 
to the Lord. (Numbers 18:26, 27.) 
Since the tithe is for the purpose of 
sustaining those who devote their time 
and life to the service of the Lord in 
connection with His holy cause, it is 
referred to as "holy." "All the tithe 
of the land, whether of the seed of 
the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is 
the Lord's: it is holy unto the Lord." 
Leviticus 27:30. Thus God reserves 
one-tenth as His share. This we should 
be willing to give to Him for the sup-
port of the ministry. (Leviticus 27: 
32.) 
• 
A Blessing or a Curse 
In the third chapter of Malachi are 
set forth four specific facts worthy of 
• 
our prayerful consideration: 
1. Withholding the tithe—the tenth 
of all our profit and earnings— 
FEBRUARY, 1948 
for our own use is robbing God. 
(Malachi 3:8.) 
2. Such robbery brings heaven's 
curse upon all who engage in 
such practice. (Verse 9.) 
3. Those who faithfully and hon-
estly bring "all the tithes into the 
storehouse" will receive a bless-
ing such as they are not able to 
receive. (Verse 10.) 
4. Faithful tithepayers are also to 
have the full protection of God. 
He will "rebuke the devourer." 
(Verse 11.) 
The apostle Paul, under divine in-
spiration, was most positive on this 
point. He maintained that those who 
pay their tithe faithfully, and give lib-
erally do not grow poor; but to the 
contrary God increases their ability to 
earn and give. (2 Corinthians 9:6-15.) 
This same fact Jesus Himself enun-
ciated in these words: "Give, and it 
shall be given unto you; good measure, 
pressed down, and shaken together, 
and running over, shall men give into 
your bosom. For with the same meas-
ure that ye mete withal it shall be 
measured to you again." Luke 6:38. 
One cannot read these passages with-
out coming to the full conclusion that 
God is willing on His part to fulfil His 
promise. Are you willing on your part? 
Why not now put Him to a test—
prove Him? Others have done it and 
have been fully repaid. 
Living Testimonies 
Jacob in his day took the Lord at 
His word, believed His divine prom-
ises, which God fulfilled during the 
darkest experiences in his life. In this 
connection Jacob declared, "I will 
surely give the tenth unto Thee." 
(Read Genesis 28:10-22.) 
Such testimonies can be multiplied 
thousands of times to-day. One needs 
only to refer to a few such as John 
W a n am ak er , the well-known mer-
chant of Philadelphia. From the very 
beginning of his career as a successful 
merchant he dedicated one-tenth of 
all his increase to the Lord. 
Then there is the distinguished vio-
linist, Fritz Kreisler, who declared, "I 
never look upon the money I earn as 
my own. It is only a fund entrusted to 
my care for proper disbursement." 
Arthur A. Everts of Dallas, Texas, 
at a recent Christian Endeavour Con- 
vention as reported in the El Paso 
Times, stated: "The man who does 
not give his tithe to God . . . and I 
mean actual money—is a God-robber. 
Such a man cannot hope to be success- 
ful and prosperous. This is the reason 
why forty out of every hundred aver- 
age Americans at sixty-five are either 
wholly or partially dependent." Then 
he referred to the Mormons by stat-
ing, "They are tithers, and less than 
nine out of every hundred are broke 
at sixty-five." In speaking of the Sev-
enth-day Adventists he continued by 
saying: "The total for the Seventh-day 
Adventists is less than six out of every 
hundred. They add something to the 
tithe. Out of 352 Seventh-day Advent-
ists in business, only eight went broke 
in seven years, and not one of those 
eight was paying his tithe." 
So we might multiply testimonies 
from secretaries, artists, housewives, 
mechanics, preachers, teachers and 
others. But why let others speak on 
this subject? I myself can bear witness 
that God does fulfil His promise. From 
my earliest recollections I was made 
conscious that the tenth belongs to 
the Lord. Through the years of my 
ministry and in my home I have tried 
faithfully to return to Him His por-
tion. Surely the Lord has fulfilled His 
promise in my behalf. 
Why don't you, my friend, play 
square with God? Give Him a chance! 
"Bring ye all the tithes . . . prove Me 
now . . . if I will not open you the 
windows of heaven, and pour you out 
a blessing, that there shall not be room 
enough to receive it." Malachi 3:10. 
Why not accept this clear-cut chal-
lenge, and see whether the Lord 
means what He says? Many have 
done this and testify that God is 
faithful. 
By 
D. A. Ochs 
1,) 
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Pyorrhea 
Question: What is the best treatment 
for pyorrhea? 
ANSWER: Pyorrhea is thought to 
be caused by prolonged deficiencies 
of vitamins B and C. The only hope 
of arresting the condition is the in-
clusion of adequate amounts of these 
vitamins in the diet. Vitamin B is 
derived from whole-grain cereals, 
nuts, legumes. Good supplementary 
sources are Brewer's yeast and wheat 
germ. Vitamin C is found in fresh 
fruits, especially citrus fruits, also 
greens. Deodorants, such as Vita-Cell, 
are useful. Painful loose teeth may 
call for extraction. 
Pulse Rate 
Question: My pulse is somewhat slow, 
running about fifty-four to fifty-six. What 
is the cause of this, and is it to be con-
sidered dangerous? 
ANSWER: Athletes have normally 
a slow pulse; the heart runs at an 
"economical speed." Ordinarily it 
is a sign of health. 
Sunshine Vitamins 
Question: I understand that certain vita-
mins are transmitted to us through the 
sunshine. In the event that we are unable 
to obtain adequate sunshine, is there any 
other way to obtain these vitamins? 
ANSWER: The estimated daily re-
quirement of vitamin D is 500 units. 
This can be secured in the form of 
cod-liver oil or in capsules. There 
are man y therapeutic ultraviolet 
lamps on the market. New and used 
larger units can be procured from 
manufacturers. 
Tartar on Teeth 
Question: My teeth are dark and have 
tartar that will not brush off. What will 
correct this condition? 
ANSWER: The only remedy seems 
to be a periodic cleaning by a dentist. 
Tartar has to be pried loose. It should 
not be allowed to accumulate, as it 
pushes back the gums and may pre-
dispose to pyorrhea. 
20 
Virus 
Question: Can the virus be seen through 
the microscope, and how does it differ from 
microbes? 
ANSWER: The virus is so small 
that it cannot be seen by the ordi-
nary microscope (it is visible through 
the electron microscope). The virus 
will pass through the Berkfeld clay 
filter; the ordinary bacteria will not. 
Vitamin Dose 
Question: Is there any danger of taking 
too large doses of vitamins? 
ANSWER: It is possible to upset 
the "balance of nature" by taking too 
large a dose, e.g., of a single compo-
nent of the vitamin B complex group, 
thereby increasing requirements for 
the others which are not forthcoming. 
Large doses of a single member of 
vitamin B complex when given intra-
venously have been accompanied by 
allergic reactions which may be se-
vere. Massive doses of vitamin D 
(50,000 units and up) have been at-
tended by "metastatic calcification," 
accumulation of calcium in muscles 
and kidneys, which impairs the func-
tion of the latter. 
Boils 
Question: 
I am troubled continually 
with boils. Is this due to a wrong diet? Are 
there any drugs that will correct this 
condition? 
ANSWER: Diets high in fat and 
in concentrated carbohydrates (can-
dy, etc.) predispose. Boils are best left 
pretty well alone so as not to spread 
the bacteria causing them. Penicillin 
or sulfa drugs are used for larger boils 
or those about the face. Self-treatment 
with the latter is dangerous. 
Stomach Ulcers 
Question: Are amino acids a cure for 
stomach ulcers? 
ANSWER: Amino acids, like the 
proteins from which they are derived 
(as in milk), give the stomach hydro-
chloric acid something to work on 
besides the ulcer, and are useful in 
treatment. They also act as a dietary 
supplement where there has been too 
rigid restriction. They are not a "cure." 
W
HAT the calendar revisionists 
propose, and what they are ask-
ing the United States Congress 
to do, in order to remove the irregu-
larities and inconveniences of the pres- 
ent calendar, will be clearly discerned 
by a careful analysis of the details of 
the project they have submitted. It 
arrives at its apparent improvements 
by the blank-day device, by a 364-day 
year, by equal quarters, by a fixed 
number of working days in each 
month, and the stabilization of holi-
days and birthdays. It has the grave 
fault of breaking the historic week, 
thus disrupting all fixed sacred days. 
Here is the World Calendar: 
It will be observed that this is a 
364-day calendar, beginning every year 
and every quarter with Sunday, end-
ing every year and every quarter with 
Saturday. Its four quarters have an 
equal number of days, ninety-one, each 
containing seventy-e i g h t workdays 
and thirteen Sundays. 
The months are arranged in a pat-
tern of 31-30-30; that is, the first month 
in each quarter, January, April, July 
and October, has thirty-one days; the 
last two months in each quarter have 
thirty days. Every month of the twelve 
has twenty-six workdays, plus Sundays. 
Holidays, birthdays and anniversa-
ries are stabilized and occur every year 
on the same day. That is, the birthday 
of a child born on Wednesday would 
always fall on Wednesday. The recur-
ring anniversaries of weddings would 
always fall on the weekday on which 
the wedding occurred. The fourth of 
July would always occur on Wednes-
day; Christmas on Monday; New 
Year's on Sunday. 
As each year closes, a day is lifted 
out of the count of the days, detached 
from its place in the week, the month, 
and the year, so that the following year 
may begin on Sunday. By this blank-
day device all other days are regular-
ized and the pattern of equal quarters 
is made possible. 
The same blank-day device is used 
twice in leap years, at the end of June 
as well as at the end of December. 
This is the proposal and these are 
the arrangements of the new calendar 
which Congress is asked to put into use 
in 1950. 
This proposal contains many ad-
vantages. But these advantages are 
outweighed by one supreme disad-
vantage. No one will object to a change 
of calendars which provides such ad-
vantages. On the other hand, every-
one ought to object to any change of 
calendars which imposes upon re-
ligion this supreme disadvantage. 
It is not a change of the calendar to 
which objection is made. It is to 
this particular change of the calendar 
which breaks the historic week, and 
thus levels a blow at some of the most 
venerable and cherished practices 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
The World Calendar 
v.. Religious conscience 
and observances of the world's great 
religions. 
The advantages sought in this pro-
posal are in and for the secular realm 
of business. The supreme disadvantage 
is in and against the sacred realm of 
religion. 
This supreme disadvantage is not 
apparent when the proposal is first ex-
amined. Many of its sponsors, support- 
. 
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ers, and advocates either have not 
noticed it, or consider it of little conse-
quence, Its devastating effect upon re-
ligion and religious observances is not 
likely to be discerned by the repre-
sentatives in Congress unless it is 
clearly pointed out. The shattering ef-
fect the blank-day device will have on 
religious practice and belief becomes 
apparent only as an examination is 
made into what this calendar change 
proposes to do in the new reckoning 
of time, the new arrangement of the 
months and weeks and the new count-
ing of the days which it would put 
into effect. 
To obtain the advantages sought 
would require the shuffling of the days 
of the week, the shifting of their names 
about to other days, and their renum-
bering so that they would lose their 
historic, original places in the seven-
day cycle. It is proposed to throw out 
a day every year at the end of Decem-
ber, lift it out of the week altogether, 
and move the following day up to take 
its place, transferring the name of the 
dismissed day to its replacement. The 
days would thus be hopelessly scram-
bled. In leap years this procedure 
would occur twice, at the end of June 
as well as at the end of December. 
Secularizing What God Hallowed 
The faithful religious devotee who 
would cling to his Sabbath, whether 
it be Sunday, Saturday, or the Friday 
of the Moslems, notwithstanding its 
dismissal from its traditional place in 
the week and its renaming, would be 
placed under the extreme disability 
of following his lost day through the 
mazes of a confused week, and observ- 
By 
Carlyle B. Haynes 
FEBRUARY, 1948 
basic institutions of their religious 
faith. 
Under the World Calendar, there-
fore, the Sabbath covered by the Deca-
logue, together with the accepted 
Lord's day of Christendom and the 
Moslem Friday, would all lose their 
fixity, their identity with the seventh, 
first and sixth days of the original, his-
toric week, and be pushed back one 
day each year and two days every 
fourth (leap) year. 
Such a plan, imposed on a world 
scale, might possess certain advantages 
to business. But it is bound to outrage 
the consciences of those who regard 
their fixed weekly holy days as sacred 
institutions, divinely appointed, and 
it would entail grave hardships upon 
those who feel obliged by deep reli-
gious conviction to observe their Sab-
baths on the original, and right, days. 
THE WORLD CALENDAR 
FIRST QUARTER 
JANUARY 
FEBRUARY 
MARCH 
SMTWT FS SMTWTFS,SMTWT FS 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
1 2 34 
1 �
2 
89 1011 121314 56 7 89 1011 3 456 7 8 9 
151617'18192021 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 
22 2324 25 26 27 28 1920 212223 24 25 17 18 19 20 2122 23 
293031 
2627282930 
24252627 282930 
SECOND QUARTER 
APRIL 
MAY 
JUNE 
SMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFS 
1 234 56 7 
1 2 34 
1 2 
89 1011 121314 5 6 7 8 9 1011 34 5 6 7 8 9 
15 1617 18 1920 21 12131415 16 17 18 10 11 1213 14 15 16 
22232425262728 19202122232425 17 1819202122 23 
293031 
2627282930 
24252627282930 
**W 
THIRD QUARTER 
JULY 
AUGUST 
SEPTEMBER 
SMTWT FS SMTWT FS SMTWT F S 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
1 2 34 
1 2 
8 910111213 14 56 7 8 9 1011 3 4 56 7 8 9 
15 16 17 18 1920 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1011 1213 1415 16 
2223242526272819202122 232425 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 
293031 
2627282930 
24252627282930 
FOURTH QUARTER 
OCTOBER 
NOVEMBER 
DECEMBER 
SMT INT FS SMTWT FS SMTWT F S 
1 2 34 56 7 
1 2 3 4 
1 2 
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
151617 18 1920 21 1213 1415 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 
22232425262728 19 2021 22232425 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 
293031 
2627282930 
24252627282930 
* A WORLD HOLIDAY, DECEMBER W, the Year-End Day, an extra Saturday, follows 
December 30 every year. 
** A WORLD HOLIDAY, JUNE W, the Leap-Year Day, another extra Saturday, follows 
June 30 in leap years. 
21 
ing his true and original Sunday, for 
example, when it was called Saturday. 
He would be forced to continue to sub-
ject himself to embarrassment and dif-
ficulty as Sunday was further shifted 
to Friday, Thursday, Wednesday, 
Tuesday and Monday, as it would be 
under the calendar proposals now be-
ing considered. 
This destruction of the existing and 
immemorial periodicity of holy days 
will secularize what God made holy 
and commanded to be observed. This 
is bound to have a demoralizing in-
fluence on the people; to inflict grave 
economic disabilities and loss on those 
who staunchly continue to observe 
their Sabbaths on their original fixed 
days; and do violence to the conscien-
ces of many who, in order to earn a 
livelihood, would feel compefled to 
violate their sacred days which are 
It is not difficult to see 
that certain commercial 
advantages would accrue 
by the use of the world 
calendar, but on the other 
hand the blow to religious 
holy days more than off-
sets the advantages. Af-
ter all, the present calen-
dar is not impossible—
some nations using it 
have become great. 
STAR PHOTO SERVICE 
Yearly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages indicates a significant trend. Will 
present-day democratic nations fall on this point as did Rome and other nations of 
antiquity? 
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OT so long ago, a girl from 
Hamilton, Ontario, was bru-
tally attacked in a tourist cabin 
by three men whom she had met in a 
saloon (now dignified by the title 
"beverage room") . Following a few 
drinks in the establishment, the girl 
was induced to go for a car ride with 
the three men, which ended at a tour-
ist cabin where more drinks were 
served. As a result of a fight which 
broke out there, the young woman 
found herself in a hospital with a bro-
ken jaw, lacerations on her face and 
lips, and body bruises. She knew that 
she had got into trouble, but she did 
not know the location of the cabin, 
or the identity of her assailants. 
Like millions of others, this girl had 
been deceived on a number of points. 
In her particular case, she had been 
deceived into thinking that even a 
moderate use of intoxicants was not 
harmful; that one could pick up de-
sirable companions in a liquor estab-
lishment; that no harm would follow 
accepting a ride with three strangers 
who had liquor not only in themselves, 
but also in one or more bottles which 
they carried with them. 
Yes, millions are being deceived in 
our day in various ways. This fact 
prompts us to consider the origina-
tor of deception as brought to view 
in the Bible. He is none other than the 
devil himself, so earmarked by the Sav-
iour who, while addressing Himself 
to certain deceived Jews of His day, 
said, "Ye are of your father the devil, 
and the lusts of your father ye will 
do. He was a murderer from the be-
ginning, and abode not in the truth, 
because there is no truth in him. When 
he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his 
own: for he is a liar, and the father 
of it." John 8:44. To believe in Christ, 
then, is to believe in His main antag-
onist, the devil. 
This most undesirable character 
and his programme we find further 
revealed in the last part of the Bible, 
in Revelation 12:9: "And the great 
dragon was cast out, that old serpent, 
called the Devil, and Satan, which de-
ceiveth the whole world: he was cast 
out into the earth, and his angels were 
cast out with him." 
The purpose of this article, how-
ever, is not to demonstrate to skeptics 
the fact that the devil exists. Christ 
did that nearly two thousand years 
ago. For up-to-date confirmation, 
should it be desired, one need only 
observe present-day world conditions, 
read newspaper headlines, or listen to 
the radio. In our brief observations, 
we wish to call attention to one par-
ticular product which the devil is 
using successfully in his programme 
of deception. That product is alcohol. 
Alcohol itself deceives. The inspired 
words of Scripture read, "Wine is a 
mocker, strong drink is raging: and 
whosoever is deceived thereby is not 
wise." Proverbs 20:1. Manufacturers 
and distributors of alcoholic bever-
ages, however, do not hesitate to take 
issue with the scriptural declaration 
by pointing out in their advertising 
that men of wisdom, culture and re-
finement, favour certain particular 
brands of whiskey, beer, or wine. Rec-
ords of crimes, broken homes and 
blasted hopes, unmask alcohol as a 
most dangerous deceiver. The writer's 
father, once a prosperous businessman 
whose advice was sought by leading 
citizens of the community and others, 
died a pauper, deceived by alcohol. 
The tragic culmination of this pro-
gramme of deception as it relates to 
the user of alcohol, is brought to view 
in 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10, where the 
definite declaration is made that 
drunkards shall not inherit the king-
dom of God. 
Those engaged in the liquor busi-
ness are also victims of deception. The 
curse of God rests upon both the 
liquor dealer and his business. Con-
sider the words of the ancient prophet 
Habakkuk as recorded in the second 
chapter and fifteenth verse of his book: 
"Woe unto him that giveth his neigh-
bour drink, that puttest thy bottle to 
him, and makest him drunken also." 
The good neighbour does not urge his 
fellow man to use something which 
brings to the surface everything that is 
had in his nature, which ultimately 
leads the victim to eternal destruction. 
Through deceptive advertising, the 
liquor interests to-day are literally put-
ting the bottle to their neighbours' 
lips, thus inviting the curse of a right-
eous God. 
By this type of advertising, the 
liquor dealers are making it appear 
that they are engaged in an honest. 
respectable business. But are they? The 
Bible tells us that they are not. If they 
were, they should be justifiably proud 
of their finished product. What pride 
could one attach to a drunken sot. 
helplessly sprawled out in the gutter? 
The drunkard is finished all right—
finished as far as respectability, sound 
thinking and talking are concerned 
at least. 
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la NOT DECEIVED 
Many beer trucks now have signs on 
them announcing that they also carry 
first-aid equipment. The irony of this! 
As if to say, "We, the manufacturers 
and sellers of the product which is 
transported in this truck, realize that 
when a driver on a highway uses it, he 
will be so deceived thereby that he 
will think himself driving on the right 
side of the highway, when he is over on 
the left; he will think that he is going 
forty miles an hour, when he is actu-
ally going seventy or eighty. Naturally, 
accidents will follow. We want you to 
continue buying and using our prod-
uct, however, and we will do our part 
in helping to bandage you up after 
an accident." 
Billboards sponsored by certain 
brewing interests, urge citizens to con-
serve and preserve game and natural 
beauty. If the purchasers of beer use 
enough of it, they will be brought to 
a condition in which they will fail to 
recognize beauty in anything but a 
filled or partly filled beer bottle. 
Empty whiskey and beer bottles strewn 
along the highways of our fair Do-
minion, certainly do not add to the 
beauty of the landscape. 
That liquor is responsible for an 
alarming number of accidents and trag-
edies, cannot be disputed. In a de-
scription of the burning of the Wine-
coff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, where 
the death toll was the worst in United 
States history, the following significant 
statement appeared: "Whiskey bottles 
by the score were found." 
The skilful, subtle liquor advertis-
ing of our day, is bringing satisfactory 
returns to the dealers in intoxicating 
drinks. The 1946 report of the Do-
minion Bureau of Statistics upon "The 
Control and Sale of Alcoholic Bever-
ages in Canada," shows that there 
has been an enormous increase in the 
consumption of intoxicating beverages 
in Canada during the past twelve 
months. The report reveals that Ca-
nadians are being alcoholized at an 
alarming and increasing rate. In 1946, 
Canadian consumers paid $426,726, 
290 for their liquor. One need not ex-
ercise vivid imagination to realize 
what the direction of this sum into 
beneficial channels of business, would 
mean. It is impossible to buy dry 
goods and wet goods with the same 
dollars. 
In the report we are also told that 
there has been an all-time high of 
convictions for drunkenness in Can-
ada of 46,745, and also an all-time 
high of convictions for offenses against 
liquor acts of 22,237. 
The amount of money spent by Ca-
nadians for liquor in 1946 would have 
provided a $500 pension for every 
person seventy years of age or over, 
and $5 a day for twice as many pa-
tients as were accommodated in all 
the hospitals of Canada. There would 
be enough left to take care of every 
inmate in all mental hospitals and 
every penal institution as well. The 
sale of liquor tends to bring people 
into these various institutions; the 
prohibition of it tends to diminish 
sickness, accidents, and crime. 
The wet forces deceived many into 
thinking that the United States exper-
iment with Prohibition was a failure, 
because it encouraged lawlessness and 
did not stop drinking; therefore they 
said, "The law should be repealed." 
Would it be wise to repeal the laws 
against murder because people still 
murdered one another? Would it not 
be wiser to use a fraction, at least, of 
the money poured into the coffers of 
liquor interests from the well-nigh un-
restricted sale of their products, for 
more efficient and effective enforce-
ment of existing laws? 
This last statement, "well-nigh un-
restricted sale," leads us to a final ob-
servation; namely, that governmental 
leaders are often deceived into think-
ing that by making it as easy as possible 
for people to obtain liquor, the con-
sumption of it will be decreased. An 
effort to put out a fire by pouring 
gasoline on it, emphasizes a similar 
logic. 
In Galatians 6:7 we read, "Be not 
deceived; God is not mocked: for 
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he 
also reap." Sowing with distilled grain 
will produce an inevitable and disas- 
trous harvest. The merciful Christ of 
Calvary, who had to spill His precious 
blood in order that men might be de- 
livered from the deceptions of the 
great deceiver, to-day pleads with 
liquor dealers to leave their nefarious 
businesses, and with the liquor user to 
leave the product alone. 
The Leech and 
the Jackass 
A fable often conveys more 
wisdom than a proposition 
stated in an ordinary way. Here 
is one that registers one hun-
dred per cent. 
A jackass suffering from the 
heat sought relief in a pond. 
A leech attached itself to the 
jackass and proceeded to suck 
blood. 
"Kindly remove yourself," 
said the jackass; "I do not like 
your company." 
"Not so fast, my dear jack-
ass," said the leech; "I have a 
proposition to make that will 
be to our mutual advantage." 
"I do not expect any sensible 
suggestion from you," sneered 
the jackass; "but let me hear 
it." 
"Well, here is the plan: You 
license me to suck your blood; 
for every ten drops that I with-
draw I will pay you back one 
drop as revenue. This will en-
able you to balance your bud-
get and place you on easy 
street." 
"Really," said the jackass, 
"your sagacity astounds me! I 
gladly accept your proposi-
tion." 
An owl, overhearing the con-
versation, remarked: "Only a 
jackass should fall for that 
kind of economics." 
Moral: The idea that it is 
profitable to license the liq-
uor traffic for revenue is the 
absolute in asininity.—Grit. 
By 
C. A. Edwards 
FEBRUARY, 1918 �
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