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tained distressing news : 
"Ruth critically ill. Can-
cer suspected. Surgery today. Come immediately 
if possible." 
With sad hearts two brothers read the message 
and laid plans for the long journey to their home 
town. Could they make it in time? 
As the two young men drove into the hospital 
grounds, they were prepared for any report—
that is, almost any one but the miraculous one that 
greeted them! Instead of finding her at death's 
door as they expected, they found Ruth sitting up 
in bed talking with friends in the room. 
The story was another twentieth-century miracle. 
Man's extremity had indeed become God's oppor-
tunity. Surgeons confirmed the dreaded diagnosis. 
Cancer was found. There was no question about 
it. The malignant growth had made such head-
way that the doctors decided effective removal 
was not possible. 
After coming out from under the anxsthetic, the 
young woman learned her true condition and 
asked for the pastor of her church and the chap-
lain of the hospital to claim the promise of James 
5:14, 15: "Is any sick among you? let him call 
for the elders of the church; and let them pray 
over him, anointing him with oil in the name of 
By Robert H. Pierson 
the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick. 
and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have 
committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." 
While the ministers prayed, Ruth fell asleep. 
As she slept, the Lord worked. Complete healing 
came. The doctors marvelled. The brothers re-
joiced. 
This experience took place in 1929. The young 
lady whose life span was calculated by the doctors 
in terms of days and weeks is still alive—a living 
testimony to the power of God. I know, for I saw 
her recently. She is my sister! 
Because of the miraculous manner in which 
she was healed, Ruth feels—and rightly so—
that she is living on borrowed time. .1 special 
GA-given time. And she is! 
My friend, the truth is that every one of us is 
living on borrowed time! God's great prophetic 
timetable marks well the mileposts of human 
history. One by one each has been passed. Long 
since we have passed the time when the Son of 
God, accompanied by the glorious angelic host, 
should have burst upon this world with exultant 
splendour. 
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In 1959 we are living on borrowed time! Study 
God's timetable for yourself. It never errs. Here 
it is: 
GOD'S TIMETABLE 
Six hundred years before Christ carne to this 
earth as a Babe in Bethlehem's manger, God spoke 
to His prophet Daniel: "But thou, 0 Daniel, 
shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the 
time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and 
knowledge shall be increased." Dan. 12:4. In these 
words the Almighty told His messenger that the 
truths revealed to him in dreams and visions were 
not for his (Daniel's) day, but for a period in 
earth's history known as "the time of the end." 
This was not the end of time, but "the time of the 
end," a period just before the second coming of 
Christ when the profound truths of Daniel's book 
would be unfolded to the world. 
Daniel wrote of the restoration of Jerusalem, 
then in ruins. He declared (Dan. 9:25) that from 
the time of the decree permitting the Jewish people 
to commence their work it would be forty-nine 
years until the restoration would be complete. The 
decree was issued in 457 s.c. by king Artaxerxes 
(Ezra 7:1, 8), and forty-nine years later-408 B.c. 
—right on time, the city's rebuilding was com-
plete. 
The prophet was shown several other waymarks 
closely associated with the life and work of Christ, 
the Messiah. He would be anointed 434 years after 
Jerusalem was restored. (Dan. 9:25.) On time, 
in A.D. 27, Christ was anointed by the Holy 
Spirit at His baptism. (Matt. 3:16.) Three and 
a half years later—"in the midst of the week"—
Christ would be crucified. (Dan. 9:27.) As divine 
prophecy foretold, and profane history records, 
Jusus died in A.D. 31. 
The next milestone on the road to the king-
dom would be the giving of the Gospel to the 
Gentile world after the Jewish rejection. With 
the stoning of Stephen the Jewish cup of 
iniquity was filled, and the disciples 
turned to the Gentiles at the time 
appointed. 
The Saviour Himself spoke of the 
next mile-post, a time of great 
persecution for His people at the 
hands of Rome. (Matt. 24:21.) 
History records the fulfilment of 
the Master's words. 
Then another power—a religio-
political power—would arise and 
hold sway for 1,260 years. During 
this period millions of God's 
people would be put to death. 
(Dan. 7:25.) Bible scholars and historians 
place these days between A.D. 538 and 1798. 
Millions laid down their lives during this period 
of papal supremacy rather than renounce their 
faith in the Word of God as their consciences 
directed. 
The close of the 1,260 years marked the com-
mencement of the time of the end. On time, the 
prophecies of Daniel were unsealed and preached 
with mighty power. Step by step the waymarks of 
prophecy were passed, as God's timetable foretold. 
LAST-DAY SIGNS 
Since the time of the end arrived with the turn 
of the nineteenth century, the other signs of 
Christ's second advent have taken place in rapid 
succession. 
The world has awakened from millenniums of 
slumber with greatly increased knowledge. (Dan. 
12:4.) 
Physical disasters on land and sea have shaken 
the world with unprecedented fury. (Luke 21 :25, 
26.) 
"Wars and rumours of wars" have filled 
human hearts with woe and fear. (Matt. 24:6, 7.) 
The Gospel has gone to practically every nation 
under heaven. (Verse 14.) 
Economically (James 5:1-5), morally (2 Tim. 
3:1-3), and spiritually (verses 4, 5), the stage 
was set for the coming of God's Son and our 
Saviour long ago. 
ARE YOU READY? 
We live today on borrowed time! Why ther 
the delay? 
Peter gives us an inkling. "The Lord is not 
slack concerning His promise, as some men count 
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Dorien Leigh 
This unique sun-dial on the wall of a church near 
Clitheroe, in Lancashire, fitly symbolizes our place in the 
stream of time and in the outworking purposes of God 
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CONSCIENCE? 
Studio Lisa 
The best tonic is a conscience 
void of offence toward God 
and man. 
A DISTRAUGHT mother once communicated to 
me the sad fact that her only son was in the hands 
of the police. He had for some time been com-
mitting crime, and she knew it. When I inter-
viewed him, I was astonished at his unconcern, 
and his repeated declaration, 'My conscience is 
clear!" 
Son of a Christian mother and a worthless 
father, this youth seemed resentful of his parents, 
and used expressions which made one wonder if 
he had, by reading or by contact with someone, 
come under certain dangerous psychological in-
fluences which are destroying the backgrounds of 
Christian beliefs. I suppose that, in technical 
language, his "super ego" had developed internal 
psychic images of his parents in their restrictive 
relationships to the family. Temporarily, at least, 
the man had lost all that sense of responsibility for 
personal sins which Christianity says is the re- 
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suit of belief in a God who holds indi-
viduals accountable for their actions. 
That this young man, long after his 
apprehension for crime, could tell me, 
"My conscience is clear!" bothered me. 
Was he just lying? Was he in a psycho-
pathic state? Did I catch him as his 
Christian backgrounds were being des-
troyed ? 
We do not find the word "conscience" 
in the Old Testament, but its operation 
is clearly seen. "David's heart smote him," 
we read, after he had "cut off Saul's skirt" as Saul 
slept in a cave. (1 Sam. 24:5.) "I have walked 
before Thee in truth and with a perfect heart," 
said the sick King Hezekiah to the Lord. (2 Kings 
20:3.) Such expressions are the equivalent of what 
we call "conscience." 
There are many confused ideas about con-
science, and we find them throughout the literature 
of the ages. One of the chief ideas is that con-
science is a sort of mechanical watchdog in every 
man's soul, telling him automatically what is right 
and what is wrong. If that were so, then the 
heathen and the Christian would have the same 
standards of conduct. This view does not take into 
account all that is comprised in heredity, environ-
ment, education, opportunity, and, above all, 
human response to these things. 
Origen said, "Conscience is the chamber of 
justice;" and Browning wrote, "The great beacon 
Studio Lisa 
We study 
the Bible in 
order to 
inform the 
conscience as 
to what is 
right and 
what is 
wrong in the 
sight of God. 
light God sets in all, the conscience of each 
bosom.' 
How does it happen that this "chamber of 
justice," this "great beacon light" allows a man 
to act a certain way in one country and a different 
way in another ? Why are the practice of torture 
and brainwashing accepted standards in one part 
of the world and viewed with horror in others? 
I once came upon a man in an African village 
beating his wife so savagely with a bunch of 
sticks that the blood ran down her naked body. 
When I remonstrated with him, he said, as 
though incredulous of my innocence, "When a 
woman will not do as she is told, what else is 
there to do?" A year or two later he and his 
wife became Christians. There was no more wife-
beating. Why? 
CONSCIENCE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 
The Greek word for "conscience" (syneidesis) 
means self-knowledge. Its meaning is clear from 
the incident of Christ's treatment of the scribes and 
Pharisees, who brought an adulterous woman to 
Him with the question as to whether He thought 
she should be stoned according to the law of 
Moses. 
"Jesus stooped down, and with His finger 
wrote on the ground." What did He write? I 
think it was a few words that struck home to their 
evil hearts, probably some of the guilty secrets of 
their own lives. Then "they which heard it, being 
convicted by their own conscience, went out one 
by one." John 8 :6, 9. Jesus makes men know them-
selves by His revelation of truth and purity. Then 
they stand before God to be judged by their re-
action to the new revelation in Him. 
The word "conscience" comes to us through a 
Latin word meaning to "know with" (conscientia), 
so conscience to the Christian is not merely "know-
ing," but knowing "with something," or "with 
someone.- An enlightened Christian conscience 
means knowing with Jesus Christ. 
Jesus Christ is condemnation to some and 
salvation to others, because the one class turns 
from Him and will not know the truth (Eph. 4: 
21), while the other follows the light with Him: 
"And this is the condemnation, that light is come 
into the world, and men loved darkness rather 
than light, because their deeds were evil. . . . But 
he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his 
By Harry W. Lowe 
deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought 
in God." John 3:19-21. 
CONSCIENCE AND CONVERSION 
Exhortations to sincerity are characteristic of 
the New Testament. The Holy Spirit knows how 
fickle men are, and how conscience is so frequently 
trifled with, a fact known full well also outside 
the Scriptures. Thus Bulwer Lytton wrote: "The 
conscience is the most elastic material in the 
world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole-
hill, tomorrow it hides a mountain." 
When the apostle John pleaded for sincerity, he 
said: "Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; 
but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know 
that we are of the truth, and shall assure our 
hearts before Him. For if our heart condemn us, 
God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all 
things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, 
then have we confidence toward God." 1 John 
3 :18-20. 
All through the earthly life of Jesus He sought 
to awaken the consciences of men, thereby chang-
ing their conduct. This He did by His positive 
(Continued on page 31.) 
NOT of human origin is the 
doctrine of the atonement. Only 
God could have devised it. As, 
therefore, it is a matter of reve-
lation, it is clear that in forming 
our opinions and convictions about 
the atonement, we must be guided 
by the Scriptures alone. All our 
logic and metaphysics are useless 
here. Our appeal is directly to 
God's Word. 
It is Lot likely that anyone who 
has read the Bible will be inclined 
to deny that in these sacred writ-
ings Jesus Christ is called a 
Saviour, a Redeemer, a Delieverer, 
a Horn of salvation, the Mediator 
between God and man. He is said 
to be the Bread of life, the Tree 
of life, the Water of life. Indeed, 
He is said to be Life itself. "I am the Way, 
the Truth, and the Life." 
Just as clearly do the Scriptures credit our sal-
vation to the death of Christ. They declare that 
He "died for the ungodly;" that "to this end 
Christ both died, and rose, and revived:" that 
Christ "died for our sins:" that believers should 
live "unto Him which died for them:" that He 
"died for us, that . . . we should live together 
with Him." (Rom. 5:6; 14:9; 1 Cor. 15: 3; 
2 Cor. 5:15; 1 Thess. 5:10.) 
OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS HARMONIZE 
There is a striking harmony between the Old 
and New Testaments in their teachings on this 
subject. Isaiah declares of Christ, the suffering 
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On the cross 
Jesus paid 
t h e penalty 
of the broken 
law of God 
and provided 
a ransom for 
the repentant 
sinner. 
Servant: "Surely He bath borne our griefs, and 
carried our sorrows." "He was wounded for 
our transgressions, He was bruised for our 
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was 
upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed." 
"Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin." 
"For the transgression of My people was He 
stricken." "The Lord hath laid on Him the 
iniquity of us all." "He bare the sin of many." 
Isa. 53:4, 5, 10, 8, 6, 12. 
There are two things about sin. One is its 
defilement or pollution. The other is that it merits 
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punishment. Christ took that punishment. He 
"bare our sins in His own body on the tree 
[cross)." 
When the prophet said, "Thou shalt make His 
soul an offering for sin," we know he did not 
refer to sins which Christ had committed, for He 
had committed none. He did no sin. 
OUR SINS, NOT HIS 
Nevertheless, His soul was an offering for sin. 
What sin can be meant but ours? Peter declares 
that "Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the 
just for the unjust." 1 Peter 3:18. Whose sins? 
The sins of the unjust, even of those whom He 
would rescue from a righteous and eternal destruc-
tion. 
Almost every form of language is used in the 
Scriptures to show that the sufferings of Christ 
were vicarious, that is, not for Himself but for 
others. Paul says, "He [God] bath made Him to 
be sin [a sin offering] for us." 2 Cor. 5:21. In 
the same verse it is declared that Christ knew no 
sin. Surely He bore the wrath of God which others 
deserved, the wrath which belonged to us. 
When Peter says that Christ "His own self bare 
our sins in His body on the tree" (1 Peter 2:24), 
what does he mean by such language? 
The expression bearing sin, or bearing iniquity, 
occurs more than thirty times in the Bible. In 
every instance it means "to bear the sufferings or 
penalty or punishment of sin." In Leviticus 5:1, 
God declares that if a man should hear swearing 
and is a witness and does not utter it, he shall "bear 
his iniquity." This means that guilt shall so rest 
on him that he shall be liable, or subject, to 
punishment. 
So also in Leviticus 22:9, God here declares, 
"They shall therefore keep Mine ordinance, lest 
they bear sin for it, and die." And in Ezekiel 23: 
49, God says, "Ye shall bear the sins of your 
idols." Without question the meaning is, You shall 
be held liable to punishment for worshipping false 
gods. 
In Leviticus 24:15 the Lord declares, "Whoso-
ever curseth his God shall bear his sin." In Heb-
rews 9:28 it is said, "Christ was once offered to 
bear the sins of many." In Isaiah 53:11 God says, 
"My righteous Servant . . . shall bear their ini-
quities." Christ endured the wrath of God for us 
and bore the penalty of the law in our stead. 
It is said in Galatians 3:13 that "Christ hath 
redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made 
a curse for us." As we are all transgressors, so we 
are all under the curse. But Christ has redeemed 
us by enduring the penalty of the law, or by being 
made a curse for us, that is, being made a victim, 
one devoted or accursed for us. 
LAMB OF GOD 
In a number of passages Christ is referred to as 
a Lamb, a Lamb slain, a Lamb that takes away 
sin, a Lamb that is worshipped, a Lamb slain from 
the foundation of the world. (See Isaiah 53:7; 
John 1 :29, Acts 8 :32; 1 Peter 1:19; Revelation 
5:8, 12; 13:8.) 
Christ resembled a lamb, of course, in His un-
complaining gentleness and innocence. But in no 
sense did a lamb ever take away sin but by dying 
in the place of the one who offered it as his sacri-
fice. So Christ as a lamb, "the Lamb of God," 
takes away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 
He was slain, not for Himself, but for us. All 
the lambs offered in sacrifice died, the innocent 
for the guilty, the spotless for the polluted. These 
things clearly teach that Christ endured the penalty 
of the law, that He died as a substitute for sinners 
—the just for the unjust. 
The doctrine of the atonement is also taught 
in the Scriptures in connection with the phrase, the 
blood of Christ. This is an expression which has 
come to be most distasteful to some religious 
teachers today. They would have all reference to it 
struck out of our hymns and sermons. 
Nevertheless, it is a wholly Scriptural expression 
and teaching, and it lies at the very heart of the 
work which Christ has accomplished in the salva-
tion of men. No-one who has been truly saved will 
ever be ashamed of the blood atonement. 
THE REDEEMING BLOOD 
The Bible expressly declares that Christ "made 
peace through the blood of His cross" (Col. 1: 
20); that "by His own blood He entered in once 
into the holy place, having obtained eternal 
redemption for us" (Heb. 9:12) ; that His blood 
shall purge our "conscience from dead works to 
serve the living God" (Heb. 9:14) ; that "the 
blood of Jesus Christ . . . cleanseth us from all 
sin" (1 John 1:7); that He bath "redeemed us to 
God by" His blood (Rev. 5 :9) ; and that we "are 
made nigh by the blood of Christ." Eph. 2:13. 
There can be no doubt that the shedding of 
the blood of Christ, His crucifixion on the cross, 
was the greatest crime in history. It is impossible 
that the wickedness of evil men in murdering 
God's own Son could be pleasing to the Father. 
In what sense, then, does Christ's blood cleanse 
us from sin? In what sense can it be accepted by 
Him as the atonement? 
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Christ the King. 
cTh "I AM perplexed," 
said my friend 
Henry, "as I hear 
these various teach-
i n g s concerning 
Christ's second 
coming. Some say 
He comes at 
death. 0 t h e rs 
teach that He comes to 
individuals as the Holy 
Spirit. One group 
asserts that He came in 
the year 1914. Then I 
hear certain preachers 
telling that Christ's appearing will be a 'secret 
rapture.' So I hardly know what to believe." 
Let me tell you how I answered my friend. As 
a Christian I accept the Bible as the supreme 
court of appeal. Reading that Book I find two 
great events mentioned again and again—the first 
and second comings of Christ. 
Evangelist Dwight L. Moody estimated that 
Christ's second coming was referred to more than 
2,000 times, while a writer in the Free Methodist 
Magazine states that it is "mentioned 1,518 times 
in the Bible, and over 300 times in the New Testa-
ment. Such eminent preachers and Bible students 
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as Martin Luther, 
John Knox, John 
Milton, John Wes-
ley, and A. J. Gor-
don possessed a deep 
and abiding faith in the 
return of Christ as the 
sublime a n d glorious 
hope of the church. 
HOPE OF THE CHURCH 
Why should these Chris- 
tian leaders speak and write 
Newton 
with such supreme assurance? 
Because of the united testi-
mony of inspired patriarchs, prophets, and apostles 
such as Enoch, Job, Isaiah, Daniel, Peter, John, and 
Paul. And Jesus Himself comforted His anxious 
disciples with the radiant promise: "Let not your 
heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also 
in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: 
if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to 
prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare 
a place for you, I will come again, and receive 
you unto Myself ; that where I am, there ye may 
be also." John 14:1-3. 
It is true that before our Lord's ascension, He 
assured His disciples that the "Comforter," or 
Holy Spirit, would be sent as His personal repre-
sentative to abide with them constantly. (John 
14:15, 16; Acts 1:4, 5, 8.) This promise was 
remarkably fulfilled at Penecost, and in the signal 
growth and development of the early church. 
But this was not all. As the disciples were 
gathered on the crest of Olivet for the farewell 
benediction, Jesus was parted from them and 
carried upward. Then as the little group gazed 
heavenward to catch the last glimpse of their 
ascending Lord, suddenly two angels stood at their 
side to convey the comforting promise: "Ye men 
of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? 
this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into 
heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have 
seen Him go into heaven." Acts 1:11. 
What could be more definite! Our Lord as-
cended personally and visibly; and, looking for-
ward to the time of His return, the beloved John 
exclaimed, "Behold, He cometh with clouds; and 
every eye shall see Him;" while Jesus Himself 
described the majestic event in these words: "The 
Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the 
holy angels with Him." Rev. 1:7; Matt. 25:31. 
My friend Henry freely admitted that in the 
light of these scriptures it is certain that Christ 
could not have come already, and that His coming 
could not be at death. "But," he asked, "what 
about the so-called secret rapture?" 
NO "SECRET RAPTURE" 
I pointed him to the one and only text in the 
Bible that some think supports this theory. It reads : 
"For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, 
that we which are alive and remain unto the 
coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which 
are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend 
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the 
Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the 
dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are 
alive and remain shall be caught up together with 
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: 
and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 1 Thess. 
4 :15-17. 
Some teach that while an express train is speed-
ing along, the driver, guard, or some passenger 
may be suddenly caught away; or that a group 
of men may be working on a farm or in a factory, 
and one or more of them may be instantaneously 
"raptured." A family may retire for the night and 
in the morning one member will be strangely 
missing. Upon inquiry it will be learned that 
various individuals throughout the country have 
mysteriously disappeared during the night. Ac-
cording to this teaching, all the righteous will 
then be caught up, and all who remain will con-
stitute the multitude of the unsaved. Also, while 
the elect meet their Lord in the air, this teaching 
holds, the antichrist will be revealed to bring 
seven years of appalling tribulation upon the un-
godly. 
"Why seven years?" said Henry. "That," I 
replied, "is passing strange. The prophet Daniel 
outlined a period of seventy prophetic weeks (490 
literal years), sixty-nine of which were to extend 
to Messiah the Prince. Nearly all Bible students 
believe that these sixty-nine weeks (483 literal 
years) extend from 457 B.c. to the time when 
Christ was baptized in A.D. 27. But why anyone 
should arbitrarily break off the last week, the 
seventieth (seven literal years), and place it 
nearly two thousand years later, is difficult to 
understand." 
"Is this actually taught?" said Henry. "I never 
before heard anything more preposterous. What 
does the Bible really teach?" 
In response I proceeded to show that Satan 
is waging fierce warfare against the "remnant" 
church "which keep the commandments of God, 
and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Rev. 12: 
17. This conflict must take place while the elect 
are still on this earth, not after they are trans-
lated. 
The prophet Daniel points forward to "a time 
of trouble such as never was since there was a 
nation," after which will come the announcement, 
"At that time thy people shall be delivered, every-
one that shall be found written in the book." Dan. 
12:1. Also, in speaking of the redeemed, John, 
the prophet of Patmos, declares: "These are they 
which came out of great tribulation, and have 
washed their robes, and made them white in the 
blood of the Lamb." They are not "caught up" 
before the tribulation; but, having passed through 
the terrible ordeal, they will be accorded special 
honour. 
SOON HE WILL RETURN 
Nineteen hundred years ago, our Lord ascended 
to prepare a place for His people; soon He will 
return to consummate His purpose. For nearly six 
thousand years the cold, cheerless grave has closed 
upon its victims with the semblance of an eternal 
prison house; but it cannot hold good men and 
women for ever. All who have sincerely trusted 
in Christ will be resurrected from their dusty 
graves to meet Him and participate in the glad 
homegoing. 
God is love; yet His mercy, perfectly blended 
with justice, can in no wise clear the guilty. Those 
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Growing Up 
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Just as parents wish their children to grow up to 
healthy maturity so God desires that we "grow in 
grace." 
I BELIEVE it was Victor Hugo who once des-
scribed heaven as the place where all the parents 
are young and all the children are small. I can 
see his point. Parenthood has its problems and 
its irritations. A mother's days are made weari-
some by the wants and frequent waywardness of 
little children, and her nights are often made 
wakeful by their illnesses. Yet, although those 
little ones are burdens, they are such lovable 
bundles and such constant sources of surprise and 
joy. Most parents have moods when they look 
back nostalgically to the days when their children 
were little. 
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And yet how brokenhearted parents would be 
if their children did not grow up in body and 
mind. Charles S. Stratton was a very prominent 
figure of a former generation. His name was a 
box-office attraction, and millions paid to see him. 
for he was known as Tom Thumb and was exhib-
ited by P. T. Barnum for years. Nevertheless, how-
ever much curiosity may be aroused by a dwarf 
like Tom Thumb, the sight of a stunted body 
evokes pity. 
And it is even more tragic when a child's mind 
fails to grow. Such extreme cases, thank God, 
are comparatively rare. 
But failure to grow up is not limited to dwarfs 
and mental defectives. Many of us are under-
sized mentally and spiritually and do not know 
it. When a mind stops growing, there is no ache. 
When a conscience stops growing, the person 
often feels better—at least for a time. The pre-
valence of this failure to grow up was shown in 
Professor Overstreet's significant book The Mature 
Mind, written a few years ago. Dr. Overstreet 
pointed out that the differences between goodness 
and badness are largely the distinction between 
maturity and immaturity, and he declared that 
"the chief object of our culture is to help all 
people grow up." 
This reasoning is very much in line with the 
New Testament emphasis on growth. The early 
Christian writers recognized that although the 
efforts to copy Christ's perfection would lead to 
despair, we can grow up toward Him. Hence the 
call to grow up is a recurring motif. And Peter 
closes his second epistle with the injunction, 
"Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our 
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." 
GROWTH IN SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING 
Consider first how a Christian is called to grow 
in mind. This means, for one thing, growing in 
information. If I leave my mind uninformed on 
vital issues, it is a sin. Others may not be suffici-
ently conscious of my ignorance to condemn me 
for it, and I may not be aware of what I am 
missing. But even in the eyes of our statute law, 
ignorance does not excuse our misdeeds or our 
mistakes. If I run through a red light, it does not 
quite satisfy the policeman to say that I 
did not see the signal. 
And in the eyes of Christ the plea of ignorance 
does not exonerate. Recall Jesus' description of the 
last judgment. The King said "to those at His 
left hand, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, . . . 
for I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I 
was thirsty and you gave Me no drink, I was a 
stranger and you did not welcome Me.' . . . Then 
they also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see 
Thee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or 
sick or in prison, and did not minister to Thee?' 
Then He will answer them, 'Truly, . . . as you 
did it no•t to one of the least of these, you did it 
not to Me.' " The condemned were guilty of the 
sin of inattention. They had not noticed the needs 
and implications of the situations around them. 
Christ came to "open the eyes of the blind" 
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not only physically, but also mentally. He rebuked 
those who would not study, saying, "Having eyes 
do you not see, and having ears do you not hear?" 
He came to make us alive to the world around 
us—its people, its needs, its beauty. And not to 
be alive to what we should be aware of, means 
loss to ourselves and to those around us. In fact it 
is a sin against God. 
Some years ago a doctor said to me, "Why 
should I go to church ? I learned the Bible stories 
and the Ten Commandments when I was a boy. 
Why should I go and hear those over again ?" 
Well, of course, we preachers ought to do more 
than retell familiar Bible stories and repeat the 
Ten Commandments. We should do our best to 
apply the timeless truths of Scripture to the 
situations of our times. But think of that sur-
geon's mistaken concept of religion. He assumed 
that there is nothing new to be learned about 
spiritual principles and moral commandments. 
Suppose he took the same attitude toward his own 
profession and said, "I received my M.D. thirty 
years ago. Why should I go to clinics and medical 
conventions and listen to papers ?" 
What we must learn is that we are to keep 
growing in our religion as in our secular work. 
Some people have clear consciences largely be-
cause their heads are empty. They have not 
thought enough to see their short-comings in the 
sight of God. 
GROWTH IN GRACE 
Secondly, if we are to "grow in grace, and 
in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ," we must grow in heart as well as in 
mind. 
About two years ago I stood in the courtroom 
at Nuremberg where the famous trial of the 
German war criminals was held. I tried to pic-
ture Goering and the other Nazi leaders who 
were tried in that court. I thought of them in their 
strutting pomp, and then I looked at the city of 
Nuremberg, crushed and tattered by the devasta-
tion they brought on it. As I pondered the scene, I 
remembered the words of Justice Jackson of the 
United States Supreme Court, who presided at 
that trial. He said, "The most serious crimes 
against civilization can be committed only by the 
educated and technically competent people." 
Those words come back to me now as I hear 
on every side the call for more teaching of science, 
more speed in the making of weapons. We of 
the West think if we can catch up with the 
Russians and get ahead of them, then we can 
tell the Kremlin where to get off. And if we 
keep on with this competitive armament race, we 
shall all get off—off into chaos and destruction. 
But when are we going to grow up enough to 
get on with our fellow-men? Over two thousand 
years ago the prophet Zechariah proclaimed the 
message he heard : "Not by might, nor by power, 
but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." 
We may not all grow up to be what the 
world calls "big men." But we can grow up to 
have big natures in God's sight. So let us "grow 
in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ." 
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(IP IT is often said that the so-called great men 
of the Bible are very poor examples, for they did 
some despicable things even while professing to 
be servants of God. 
"Look at David," they say, "who was called a 
man after God's own heart. He committed adul-
tery with the wife of one of his soldiers who was 
away fighting the king's battles, and then schemed 
to have the man treacherously killed on the battle-
field in an attempt to cover up his sin. Why, he 
was no better than a common murderer, and ought 
to have been hanged." 
No-one denies that David committed this great 
sin, but it was not then that God called him a 
man after His own heart. It was when he was 
first chosen, in the simplicity of his faith in God. 
Yet David did possess, both then and all through 
his life, the virtue most precious in God's sight, 
and most necessary for salvation—a humble and 
contrite heart. In contrast to David's humility was 
the pride of King Saul, who also sinned but did 
not repent and humble himself as did David. 
HOW DAVID FELL 
One contributing cause of David's fall is indi-
cated at the beginning of the chapter that records 
TW ELVE 
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the sad story, second Samuel chapter eleven. David 
had done a great deal of fighting in his early life, 
and during the years of conflict and danger he 
had enjoyed close communion with God, and had 
been guided and delivered and provided for in 
a wonderful way. God had given him victory over 
all his enemies, and now he sat on the throne of 
Israel, prosperous, loved, and at peace. There 
seemed now no need for David to fight, and the re-
cord says that "at the time when kings go forth 
to battle," instead of going himself, he sent his 
army under Captain Joab, with all Israel; "but 
David tarried still at Jerusalem." He was going 
to take things easy, and it seems that one evening 
he was not tired enough to go to sleep. So he 
went for a walk on the roof of his house, with 
restless heart and idle mind, the ideal con-
dition for getting into trouble. 
David was not looking for temptation; it was 
the last thing he expected to find up on the house-
top, but Satan is never slow to take advantage of 
such a situation, and he had arranged very cleverly 
for a woman to be doing her ablutions just at 
that time within view of the king's housetop. 
"And the woman was very beautiful to look upon," 
her charms doubtless enhanced by the soft radiance 
of moonlight. The king was caught completely 
off guard, and so enraptured that all thought of 
right and wrong was swamped by desire. 
So far as David was concerned, seeing the 
woman was accidental, and desiring her perhaps 
only natural; but following up the desire with 
adultery and murder was deliberate, and great 
was the woe that David brought upon himself 
and his house by yielding to the lust of the flesh 
and following on to an even greater sin! 
How Satan must have exulted in his success at 
bringing down to the dust the king of Israel, 
hitherto so good and brave, so much beloved by 
both God and man ; and especially at a time when 
he had risen to the seat of highest honour, and 
was looked to as a symbol of both justice and 
mercy! 
Because of his conspicuous position as king, 
his sinful course gave "great occasion to the 
enemies of the Lord to blaspheme," as they do to 
this day, and the Lord sent Nathan the prophet 
to pronounce His sentence upon David: "Where-
fore hast thou despised the commandment of the 
Lord, to do evil in His sight? Thou has killed 
Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken 
his wife to be thy wife. . . . Now therefore the 
sword shall never depart from thine house; . . . 
and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and 
give them unto thy neighbour . . . for thou didst 
it secretly; but I will do this thing before all 
Israel, and before the sun." 
FORGIVENESS FOR THE CONTRITE 
Immediately the full realization of his sin burst 
upon David, and he confessed at once: "I have 
sinned against the Lord." In his fifty-first psalm, 
David's deep contrition and his plea for forgive-
ness are recorded: "Have mercy upon me, 0 God, 
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. . . wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and 
cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my 
trangression; my sin is ever before me. . . . Create 
in me a clean heart, 0 God; and renew a right 
spirit within me. . . . Restore unto me the joy 
of Thy salvation. . . . Deliver me from blood-
guiltiness, 0 God, Thou God of my salvation." 
David's humble confession and repentance 
brought full forgiveness, according to God's pro-
mise that "if we confess our sins, He is faithful 
and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us 
from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9), but the 
consequences of his sin remained, and peace de-
parted from his house from that time forward. 
It is one of the proofs of the supernatural orgin 
of the Bible that there is no covering up of the 
wrong-doing of its great men. They were great 
only in the sense that they were humble enough 
for God to do great things through them, and 
they took no glory to themselves. They sinned 
greatly, but they also humbled themselves greatly, 
so that God could raise them up and use them 
greatly to His glory. 
The Just for the Unjust 
(Continued from page 7.) 
It cannot be otherwise than that Christ offered 
Himself as a Lamb without spot to God, poured 
out His soul to death, that we might live for 
ever. 
The vicarious nature of Christ's death is made 
very clear in the statements of Scripture. "For the 
transgression of My people was He stricken." 
Isa. 53:8. He "was delivered for our offences." 
Rom. 4:25. He "died for our sins according to the 
Scriptures." 1 Cor. 15:3. He "gave Himself for 
our sins." Gal. 1:4. 
There is no reasonable explanation why Christ 
should have done and suffered these things for 
sin, when He was without sin, except it be as an 
atonement, and a vicarious atonement. 
Moreover, the Scripture leaves us in no doubt 
that Christ's death was a death on behalf of guilty 
men. "This is My body which is given for you." 
Luke 22 :19. "I lay down My life for the sheep." 
John 10:15. "In due time Christ died for the un-
godly." Rom. 5:6. 
Such plain, positive, and solemn passages need 
no explanation. Indeed, there is a danger of 
weakening their force by even attempting an 
explanation. They are enough. They may be 
emphasized however, by the simple question, In 
what conceivable sense could Christ die in our 
place as the Scriptures say He did if it be not as 
a vicarious, atoning sacrifice? 
Where is the fitness of connecting the remission 
of sins in so striking a manner with the person 
and the blood of Jesus Christ unless He is indeed 
the substitute for His people, their Saviour in the 
highest sense ever claimed by the teachings of 
Christianity? 
When Jesus died, the rocks were rent. Our 
hearts must be harder than the rocks if the love 
and death of Christ fails to move them. 
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I want to bring you three simple and yet impor-
tant steps that every Christian should take and 
which, when taken, will bring happiness. 
UNCOVER YOUR SIN 
The first step is to be found in Acts 3:19. 
"Repent ye, therefore, and be converted, that your 
sins may be blotted out, when the times of re-
freshing shall come from the presence of the 
Lord." 
Nothing can bring so much inward misery as 
being haunted with the knowledge that you have 
done wrong. And the greatest hindrance to true 
happiness is the knowledge of sin in the life. Prov-
erbs 28 :13 says : "He that covereth his sins shall 
not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh 
them shall have mercy." 
We should never seek to cover up a sin, for 
sin unconfessed in the life, festers and destroys 
that inner peace of mind so essential to true 
happiness. What is more, sin that is "covered up" 
will ultimately be uncovered by the Lord Himself, 
and will be the means of preventing us from 
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THE greatest desire of the human heart is for 
happiness. Men will go to great lengths to secure 
it; they will spare no expense or personal sacri-
fice to find it. 
There is pleasure in the world outside of Christ, 
but it is temporary and superficial, a surface 
pleasure that does not satisfy the deepest springs 
of the human heart. The only life that can bring 
us true and lasting happiness is the Christian 
life. The Psalmist declares, "Thou wilt show me 
the path of life: in Thy presence is fullness of 
joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for 
evermore." Psa. 16:11. 
There is a difference between the happiness 
found in the world and the happiness that is 
found in Christ. The man outside of Christ sings 
to make himself happy; the Christian sings be-
cause he is happy. True happiness comes from 
within and is spontaneous. The happiness of the 
world is from without, dependent upon circum-
stances and put on or worked up. 
But someone may be led to say, "If Christian-
ity is the source of true happiness, why do not 
more Christians seem happy?" It is a tragic fact 
that there are some Christians who are a very poor 
advertisement for Christianity. What is wrong? 
Why do not more Christians reveal the happiness 
that is their right ? Is the trouble with the Gospel 
or with us? A clue to where the trouble lies is to 
be found in 2 Timothy 3:5: "Having a form of 
godliness, but denying the power thereof." Too 
many men and women who profess the name of 
the Lord are satisfied with mere form and out- 
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These young people 
training f o r Christian 
service reveal in their 
faces that they have 
discovered the secret of 
true happiness. 
sharing in the happiness of eternal life. (Rev. 21: 
27.) The Gospel remedy is to uncover it by re-
pentance and have it completely removed. 
In The Desire of Ages by E. G. White, there is a 
striking statement on page 300: "The Lord can do 
nothing toward the recovery of a man until, con-
vinced of his own weakness, and stripped of all 
self-sufficiency, he yields himself to the control 
of God. Then he can receive the gift that God is 
waiting to bestow." 
In other words, we must first recognize our 
condition, feel our need of a Saviour, and then 
yield to Him. Summed up in one word it is 
"Repent." 
"He that covereth his sins shall not prosper : 
but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall 
have mercy." We don't have to beg God to for-
give our sins; He'll do it the minute we surrender 
ourselves to the Lord Jesus Christ. No matter how 
dark the past may have been, He promises that 
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just 
to forgive us our sins." 1 John 1:9. God cannot 
excuse sin, but He has made provision to for-
give it. This wonderful invitation from a sin-par-
doning Saviour is a sure road to lasting happiness. 
THE MEANING OF CONVERSION 
The second step to true happiness is closely 
connected with and follows the first. Turning 
again to Acts 3 :19 we read, "Repent ye therefore, 
and be converted." Some people like to ask the 
question, "Are you saved ?" The more important 
question which must be settled first is, "Are you 
converted ?" 
Someone may ask, "What is conversion ?" 
Turning to John 1 :12, 13 I read these words, "But 
as many as received Him, to them gave He power 
to become the sons of God, even to them that 
believe on His name: which were born, not of 
blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will 
of man, but of God." 
To accept the Christian life is not merely to 
give intellectual assent with the mind to some 
glorious moral concept. Those who receive "power 
to become the sons of God" are not those who 
just believe on Him with the head, but those 
who "receive Him" into their hearts. It does 
not say, "As many as go to church" will receive 
the "power." Living like Christians and doing 
what Christians do, does not make a Christian. We 
must receive Christ into our hearts. We must be 
able to say with the apostle Paul, "I am crucified 
with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but 
Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now 
live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of 
God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me." 
Gal. 2:20. 
The Saviour Himself endorsed the importance 
of the new birth experience when He said to 
Nicodemus, "Except a man be born again, he 
cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3:3. 
Nicodemus was learned and talented. He was 
cultured, upright, and moral. An orthodox Jew, 
he was irreproachable in outer conduct and yet 
Christ said to him, "Ye must be born again." John 
3:7. 
No doubt Nicodemus was surprised, displeased, 
and startled at the suggestion that he needed a re-
birth. He was no thief, murderer, or adulterer. If 
he had been the woman of Samaria or Matthew 
the tax gatherer, or Zacchxus, he could have under-
stood why Christ should say this. But he was a 
leader of the orthodox church and irreproach-
able in external conduct. That Christ should see 
the need of the new birth in a man like Nicode-
mus is proof that no matter how gifted or moral 
or refined a man may be by nature or by cultiva-
tion, he cannot see the kingdom of God until he 
has experienced the new birth. As there is no other 
way to enter the natural life except by the natural 
birth, so there is no other way to enter the 
spiritual life except by spiritual birth. 
But why should this new birth be so necessary? 
Turning again to John 1:12 we read that "as 
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Loyalty 
I WAS reared in a Christian home 
and attended Sunday school regularly, 
but today, I do not keep Sunday, nor 
do I send my children to Sunday 
school. Strange as it may seem I now 
attend church _with my family on 
Saturday. I want to tell you why it is 
that I have made this change along 
with hundreds of thousands of other 
Christian people. 
I know you believe with me that our Christian 
beliefs must be based upon the Bible and the 
Bible only, so I want to tell you just what the 
Scripture says on this subject. 
In Genesis chapter two we first read about the 
Sabbath ; in verses one to three, we are told: 
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and 
all the host of them. And on the seventh day 
God ended His work which He had made; and 
He rested on the seventh day from all His work 
which He had made: and God blessed the seventh 
day and sanctified it: because that in it He had 
rested from all His work which God created and 
made." From this very clear record, it will be 
noted that the seventh day was "blessed" and 
"sanctified" by God at the creation of our world. 
Hundreds of years later, God gave to Moses 
the Ten Commandments written on two tables of 
stone. I want you to note carefully that the only 
part of the Bible that was written by God and 
handed down from heaven was the Ten Com-
mandments. It seems that His holy Law was so 
important that God would not leave human beings 
to write it as was the case with all other Scrip- 
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God's 
people will be 
found in His sanc-
tuary on His holy day. 
ture. He Himself handed the Ten Command-
ments down to Moses amid a blaze of glory on 
Mount Sinai about 1,500 years before Christ. 
When reading through these Ten Command-
ments you will notice that the fourth command 
reads: "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it 
holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy 
work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the 
Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, 
thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-
servant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor 
thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six 
days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, 
and all that in them is, and rested the seventh 
day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, 
and hallowed it." Exod. 20:8-11. Thus God com-
mands us to keep holy the seventh day in com-
memoration of His mighty creative power in 
making the world. 
It was Christ's custom when upon earth to 
worship God and go to the synogogue on the 
seventh-day Sabbath. He kept the Sabbath of the 
Ten Commandments. In Luke 4:16 we read: 
"And He came to Nazareth, where He had been 
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brought up: and, as His custom was, He went 
into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood 
up for to read." Jesus kept His Father's com-
mandments and therefore He observed the 
seventh-day Sabbath. 
WHICH DAY IS THE SEVENTH? 
Some people have asked me this question, "How 
do we know which day of the week is the seventh 
day? Could it not be that Wednesday or Friday, 
might be the seventh day of the week? 
Every calendar, and there are millions of them, 
tells us that the last day of the week is Saturday, 
and the first day of the week is Sunday. Diction-
aries and encyclopaedias testify that Saturday is 
the seventh day of the week and that Sunday is 
the first. Millions of Protestants and Catholics 
unitedly testify that this is so, and demonstrate 
the same every Easter. All of these Christians 
commemorate on Easter Friday the crucifixion of 
Jesus, and on Easter Sunday, the resurrection of 
the Lord. Now will you notice what the Bible 
says about the day which comes in between these 
two days. 
On Friday, following the crucifixion, the body 
of Jesus was removed from the cross and placed 
inside a certain tomb, as we read in Luke 23:53, 
54: "And he took it down, . . . and laid it in a 
sepulchre . . . wherein never man before was 
laid. And that day was the preparation, and the 
Sabbath drew on." The day following Friday 
is, of course, Saturday, and these verses plainly 
tell us that it is the Sabbath. But further, let us 
notice how the women kept the day following 
the crucifixion day. "And the women also, which 
came with Him from Galilee, followed after, 
and beheld the sepulchre, and how His body 
was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices 
and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day accord-
ing to the Commandment." Verse 55. We can 
have no doubt whatsoever about these verses. 
They plainly tell us that Saturday is the seventh-
day Sabbath of the Ten Commandments and that 
the Christian women of Jesus' day kept it. 
Some people have suggested to me, however, 
that Saturday is the Sabbath of the Old Testament 
and Sunday the Sabbath of the New Testament. 
But, in reply, I would ask this question, "Where 
in the Bible is such teaching to be found ?" If 
God was going to change the Sabbath from Satur-
day to Sunday, then surely Jesus, or one of the 
disciples or writers of the New Testament, would 
have said something about it! Yet the Scripture 
is completely silent about any change; and strange 
as it may sound at first, Sunday sacredness cannot 
be found within the covers of the Bible. 
HOW THE RESURRECTION SHOULD BE HONOURED 
Others have suggested that Sunday is now 
kept in honour of the resurrection. In fact, this 
is quite a common suggestion, but it also is with-
out biblical backing. Nowhere in the Scriptures are 
Christians commanded to observe Sunday in 
honour of the resurrection or any other event. 
The Lord has chosen a ceremony to commemorate 
the resurrection of Jesus and that ceremony is 
baptism. You can search the Bible from beginning 
to end and you will not find a single line author-
izing you to observe Sunday in honour of the 
resurrection. The Scriptures do say, however, and 
very plainly, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep 
it holy. . . . But the seventh day is the Sabbath of 
the Lord thy God." Is there any reason to assume 
that God would have us cease to commemorate 
creation since the resurrection of Christ? The facts 
are that both events are commemorated still, with-
out any "change" of the Sabbath. I would like 
you to notice a very significant statement written 
by the prominent Baptist, Dr. Edward T. Hiscox: 
"There was and is a commandment to keep 
holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was 
not Sunday. It will be said, however and with 
some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was 
transferred from the seventh to the first day of 
the week, with all its duties, privileges, and 
sanctions. Earnestly desiring information on this 
subject, which I have studied for many years, I 
ask, where can the record of such a transaction 
be found ? Not in the New Testament, absolutely 
not. There is no Scriptural evidence of the change 
of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the 
first day of the week." Then further, "To me it 
seems unaccountable that Jesus during three years' 
intercourse with His disciples, often conversing 
with them upon the Sabbath question, discussing 
it in some of its various aspects, freeing it from 
its false glosses, never alluded to any transference 
of the day; also that during forty days of His 
resurrection life, no such thing was intimated." 
Neander is recognized as the greatest of all 
church historians and the following quotation 
is from page 186 of his History of the Christian 
Religion and Church: "The festival of Sunday, 
like all other festivals was only a human ordin-
ance, and it was far from the intention of the 
apostles . . . and the early apostolic church, to 
transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday."—
Translated by H. I. Rose, B.D. 
Years ago Dr. John Cumming, D.D., a Pro-
testant minister, opposed a Roman Catholic lawyer, 
Mr. D. French, in public debate. Dr. Cumming in 
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ing at such a pace that fresh evidence is being 
brought to bear on these concepts almost daily, 
and not all scientists interpret the evidence in the 
same way. In this and the following article we 
will briefly discuss some of the facts which have 
emerged from recent research and try to discover 
what conclusions may logically be drawn from 
them. 
VARIATION DOES OCCUR 
Years ago many critics of the evolution theory 
took their stand on the argument that no species of 
animal could ever acquire or lose any of its char-
acteristics (or, to use a better word, characters) and 
therefore all species were "fixed." Their views, 
supposedly based on the Bible, were in reality 
unbiblical and certainly unscientific, and when 
contrary facts began to come to light many people 
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Highland cattle near 
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ALTHOUGH 
the theory of evo-
lution has been 
subject to constant 
change since the 
days of Darwin 
and Wallace, the 
furore of the late 
nineteenth century 
has died away 
and evolutionary 
orthodoxy has at-
tained a respecta-
bility not unlike 
that of ecumenical 
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Its 
beliefs m a y be 
summed up in a 
statement made a few years ago by Sir Julian 
Huxley: 
"The capacity of living substance for repro-
duction is the expansive driving force of evolu-
tion; mutation provides its raw material ; but 
natural selection determines its direction." 
Nevertheless, it would be incorrect to say that 
all scientists, or even all evolutionists, agree with 
the orthodox "Evolution-by-mutation" view. Re-
search in genetics and related subjects is proceed- 
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at a National Society 
Dahlia Show. 
were inclined to react against the Bible and dis-
card it altogether. It was claimed, for instance, that 
all varieties of animals in existence were sepa-
rately created and immutable, and, as individual 
products of divine creation could never become 
extinct or even change in any way. But the fact 
that the species do vary is now very apparent in 
the races of man, in the various breeds of domes-
tic animals, in the results of hybridization of 
plants and crops ; and there are thousands of 
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examples of species of animals which have become 
extinct. But while variation is an indisputable 
fact, this is not sufficient reason for going to the 
other extreme and assuming that fish grew lungs 
and legs, and apes developed the power of ab-
stract thought in the same way that moths are 
now known in certain circumstances to change the 
patterns on their wings. 
MUTATIONS SELDOM BENEFICIAL 
Most evolutionists now base their theory on 
"chromosome mutations." Mutations are spontan-
eous, random, and quite unpredictable changes in 
the chemical structure of the chromosomes. They 
do not alter the individual in which the mutation 
takes place, but they produce very definite changes 
in the characters of its descendants. In man, 
mutations are very rare indeed, but in fast breed-
ing species like the fruit fly Drosophila they can be 
fairly regularly observed, especially if the flies are 
subjected to mutation-inducing agencies. X-rays, 
for instance, increase the mutation rate by about 
15,000 per cent. 
There is no doubt that chromosome mutations 
are the major source of variation in the world 
today. They have been observed in every species 
of animal that has been raised in sufficient num- 
Another Article in the Series, "The Bible 
and Evolution" 
to correlate exactly a particular bodily function or 
structure with one point (locus) on a particular 
chromosome, for it seems to be that all the 
chromosomes are involved in the control of each 
function and the building of each structure. The 
controlling mechanisms themselves, as well as the 
processes controlled, are co-ordinated with such 
beautiful precision that any damage to the former 
will cause disorganization to the other on a wide 
scale. 
If we define a "good" mutation as one which 
will lead to a definite improvement in the race 
and at the same time produce no harmful effects, 
then we may state categorically that "good" 
mutations simply do not exist, and certainly, none 
have ever been observed. As an American scientist 
recently said, "mutations are pathological ;" they 
are an assault on the power of the organism to 
live. This conclusion is strengthened by the ob-
servation that mutation-inducing agencies—X- 
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bers for scientific examination. In man, mutations 
cause such well-known modifications as Hapsburg 
jaw, night-blindness, club foot, certain types of 
feeble-mindedness, and many others. In plants and 
animals the list may be greatly extended, and it 
includes such phenomena as platinum mink, 
eyeless fruit flies, hornless cattle, short-legged 
sheep, etc. 
Mutations are sometimes useful to mankind, 
examples being seedless grapes, and navel oranges, 
but it is very clear that these mutations are not at 
all beneficial to the plants themselves, as they can-
not now reproduce in the ordinary way and must 
be artificially propagated by grafting into ordin-
ary stock. In a way these two examples are repre-
sentative of all mutations, for the changes are 
invariably degenerative and the benefits quite 
coincidental. 
There are good reasons for this. It is impossible 
By Eric A. Magnusson, B.Sc., Ph.D. 
rays, cosmic rays, mustard gas, etc.—are highly 
injurious to living matter. If it were not for the 
fact that most mutations are "recessive," their 
harmful effects would be more widespread than 
they are. This in itself is a serious difficulty for 
the evolutionary theory, for no such modification 
can be inherited unless the particular chromo-
somes of both parents happen to have mutated at 
the same point. Mutation rates being very low (a 
mutation will occur in one of man's 30,000 genes 
about once in every twenty generations) this is 
not very likely. 
On the other hand, not all mutations are so 
dangerous that the creature dies or is very badly 
NINETEEN 
handicapped. Many thousands of mutant forms 
have been bred in captivity for hundreds of gener-
ations and a similar situation must obviously 
exist in nature. Very, very occasionally a mutation 
occurs that in a certain environment may even 
give the possessor an advantage over other mem-
bers of a species, in spite of the associated dis-
advantages imposed at the same time. The evolu-
tionary significance of such mutations we shall 
discuss in the next article. 
VARIATION ONLY IN NON-ESSENTIALS 
One well-known evolutionist in this country 
has recently attacked with some vehemence the 
current mutation-selection theory of evolution. He 
claims that mutations, while undoubtedly respon-
sible for the minor changes apparent between 
different varieties and even species and gerera, 
cannot possibly account for the larger distinctive 
differences between different families of animals. 
Some of his •reasons are worth noting here. Firstly, 
the vast majority of mutations studied by evolution-
ary geneticists affect only "trivial" or "neutral" 
characters such as colour, texture, etc. But the essen-
tial characters of a species cannot be studied gene-
tically. This point is made clear by Professor 
Cannon's comment that experiments on the evolu-
tion of the vertebrate heart would require that 
forms would have to be produced with an ab-
normal heart or with no heart at all ! He criti-
cizes the evolutionists who assume without evidence 
that "the mechanism by which the colour of the 
human eye is inherited is . . the mechanism by 
which the human eye evolved." 
His second reason is that the very nature of the 
major characters of living creatures precludes 
their appearance as a result of a long series of 
random mutations. 
Thirdly, the evolutionary development of a 
creature depends entirely on the appearance of new 
organs, limbs, functions, etc. These could never 
be produced as a result of mutations which, in all 
our experience, can only act to modify organs that 
already exist. 
It was once suggested that complete chromo-
somal displacements and rearrangements could 
produce real evolutionary variations, which muta-
tions (changes within the chromosomes) could 
not produce, but the theory failed for lack of 
evidence. Of course, no change of either kind 
really explains the initial appearance of the 
chromosomes themselves. Both types of variation 
produce only modifications, depending on pre-
existing chromosomes already capable of that 
high degree of cell "management." Aberrations 
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involving the translocation of complete chromo-
somes do occur, however, and in rare instances 
may be responsible for the appearance of a new 
"species" closely related to, but genetically in-
compatible and sterile with parent forms. This 
happens, for instance, when the parents donate 
an extra set of chromosomes to the offspring, a 
phenomenon known as "polyploidy." But it is 
never seriously suggested that this could be a 
major evolutionary process. 
IMPORTANCE OF CYTOPLASM OVERLOOKED 
Chromosomes are not the only material a new 
creature inherits. The original fertilized cell, be-
fore it starts to multiply, is a complete cell, and 
the importance of the chromosomes should not 
lead us to ignore the rest of it. Although eachi 
cell contains the full complement of chromo-
somes the kind of structure that will develop 
depends also on the rest of the material in that 
cell. 
This places an additional problem in the way 
of evolutionary theory, for not only are there 
distinct differences in the cytoplasms of the cells 
of different species, but there is a complete lack 
of evidence to show how the cytoplasm of one 
species could change into that of another. Evolu-
tionary theory breaks down on the level of the 
single cell as well as that of the whole animal. 
The cells of different species are as distinct as are 
the animals themselves, and no intermediates of 
either have ever been discovered although there 
are well over a million different species in exis-
tence in the world today. 
EVOLUTION'S INEFFECTIVE REPLY 
Before concluding this discussion on variation 
in relation to evolution, we should consider two 
counter-arguments commonly made in support of 
evolution-by-mutation. Evolutionists admit the 
non-existence of "good" mutations. But since a 
large amount of damage to the chromosomes 
would clearly upset the delicately balanced mech-
anism more than a very small change, they 
argue that the good mutations must all be too 
small to observe! But such arguments only add 
further difficulties in other directions, for if muta-
tions were so small, many more of them would be 
required to produce a given improvement, and the 
selection of each would be impossibly slow. 
The second argument is not commonly seen 
in the company of the first. Dobzhansky, the 
famous American geneticist, declares that the 
theory of evolution would be embarrassed if 
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A delightful view of Hampton Court 
Palace, London. 
Jack Scheerboom 
A Visit To God's Palace 
DuAING the year 1957, more than six million 
people visited the ancient castles and houses of 
the great in Great Britain. More than half a 
million paid to see the crown jewels in the Tower 
of London, and nearly half a million more viewed 
the State Apartments at Hampton Court Palace. 
Windsor Castle, the home of her majesty, Queen 
Elizabeth II; Arundel Castle, the home of the 
Dukes of Norfolk; as well as other castles in 
England and Wales, and Holyrood House and 
Edinburgh Castle in Scotland—all had their quota 
of the more than six million interested visitors. 
The numbers increase from year to year and the 
interest is undiminished. 
This interest in the homes of the great, past 
and present, is not confined to Great Britain, but 
is general the world over. Even in democratic 
America, few of the visitors to the Capitol fail to 
pay a visit to Mount Vernon, in neighbouring 
Virginia, to see the home of George Washington, 
the first president of the United States. People 
like to see the living rooms, the bedrooms, and 
the kitchens of the rich and eminent, and especi-
ally of royalty, and are generally impressed with 
the spaciousness of the rooms, their high ceilings, 
and their sumptuous furnishings. Usually little 
is seen in these palaces that throws light on the 
characters of the dignitaries who lived in them, 
or on their special interests in life; yet it is plea-
sant and instructive to be able to visit such stately 
homes, and view the surroundings in which the 
great and honoured have spent, and still spend, 
so much of their lives. 
WHEN GOD'S PALACE WAS BUILT 
God, too, has a palace. In olden times, in the 
days of ancient Israel, God commanded Moses 
to make Him a dwelling place on earth. (Exod. 25 : 
8.) God's throne and dwelling place are, of 
course, in heaven. (Psa. 103:19; 1 Kings 8:39.) 
Jesus Himself taught us to say, "Our Father which 
art in heaven." Matt. 6:9. But He desired to dwell 
with men, and one day He will dwell with them 
again in the earth made new. (Rev. 21 :3.) So 
He gave to Moses a plan of His proposed earthly 
palace, and requested that such a place be erected 
By George D. Keough 
TWENTY-ONE 
in which He might dwell. Evidently He wanted 
the people of the world to visit this palace of His 
(Ezek. 43:7, 10), and He even promised to meet 
the visitors at the door (Exod. 29:43-46) of the 
entrance court. 
God's palace was not so spacious as it was 
sumptuous. There were but two apartments, be-
sides the court, and they were not large as palace 
apartments go. The inner room was fifteen by fif-
teen by fifteen feet while the outer apartment 
was fifteen by thirty by fifteen feet. The walls were 
overlaid with pure gold, and the curtains were 
of fine woven linen, in beautiful colours, blue, 
purple and scarlet; with figures of angels wrought 
in them with thread of gold. It was magnificent. 
The furniture was strange and peculiar, and 
unlike anything seen in earthly palaces. Though 
made largely of gold, it was not luxurious, and 
was intended to reveal God's character. God is 
the Ruler as well as the Creator of the universe, 
and there is no life apart from Him. (Acts 17:28.) 
But the people of this world are in rebellion 
against God. They misunderstand God, and so 
the purpose of His palace was that men, as they 
visited the palace, and examined it carefully, 
might see something of the true character of God, 
and understand His real attitude to them, so that 
they might become reconciled to Him and live. 
In the front part of the court, before the door 
of the palace proper, was an altar of sacrifice. 
This altar of sacrifice revealed the means by 
which men could take their first step toward re-
conciliation and harmony with the King of the 
universe. It revealed God's love to them in His 
willingness, yea, His plan to die for men, to 
expiate Himself man's guilt. Man had sinned 
against God, but God Himself would pay the 
whole penalty of that transgression, and set the 
repentant sinner free from the guilt of sin, and 
from all its consequences. Life and happiness, 
would again prevail, and weariness and pain and 
death would be banished from the earth for ever. 
That was the first message from God to the man 
who accepted His invitation to visit Him in His 
palace on earth, and it was a very encouraging and 
comforting message. Don't you think so? 
When one entered the first apartment of the 
palace proper, one was again struck with the odd-
ness of the furniture. The most familiar-looking 
piece was the golden table with a dozen cakes of 
bread on it, a fine sight for a hungry man! To the 
left was a golden altar, from which ascended 
the smoke of sweet incense, which was burning 
continually and creating a beautiful odour. And 
there, also on the left, on the opposite side of the 
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apartment from the table, was a lovely seven-
branched lampstand, shedding its light over the 
whole room, and as it was reflected from the 
golden walls it looked even brighter. 
Here, by means of these symbols, God pro-
vided three things for the man who had accepted 
His love and sacrifice, and desired to live a life 
of obedience to God in harmony with Him. He 
would find himself weak, and very much in 
need of help from outside himself. His prayers 
for help would ascend up before God as sweet 
incense. (Psa. 141 :2.) God would delight to hear 
him, and to grant his requests, for his prayers 
would be mingled with the merits of the sacrifice 
made on his behalf. (Rev. 8:4.) The Holy Spirit, 
the seven-branched lampstead (Rev. 4:5), would 
illumine his mind, and would shed light on the 
way he should go. (Psa. 27:1; Isa. 30:21.) The 
bread on the table was called, "The Bread of the 
Presence." Jesus said, "I am the Bread of life." 
John 6:48, 50. Then He said, "It is the Spirit that 
quickeneth {gives life). . . . The words that I 
speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are life." 
John 6:63. So the bread typified the presence of 
Christ, and His life-giving Word. By these three 
agencies—by prayer, the illumination of the Spirit, 
and the presence of Jesus in His life-giving Word 
—by this co-operation between the regenerate man 
and God, the sinner would be given complete 
victory over every weakness and temptation and 
be enabled to live a life of triumph to his own 
salvation and God's glory. 
In the inner apartment of God's palace there 
was a golden box in which was the law of love 
(Rom. 13:10), the principle of life (Gal. 3:12), 
and on the lid were two lovely cherubs looking 
down at the law in admiration. Here the high 
priest alone entered once a year only to vindicate 
before the law those who had accepted his atone-
ment. (Heb. 9:5, 7.) 
God's palace, then, was designed to reveal 
God's love, His plan for saving those who, through 
rebellion, were in danger of eternal loss. It is a 
plan conceived and carried out by God alone. He 
has done everything we need, and by our co-
operation He will continue to do what is needed. 
He wants us to know that we need not be lost. 
He wants us to live and be happy, and He has 
done everything possible, even to sacrificing Him-
self, to implement that desire. Shall we not 
accept it? Why should we die? 
It would be good to repeat this visit to God's 
dwelling place, and we can do so though remain-
ing at home, by taking God's Word in our hands, 
and reading His delineation of it. (2 Sam. 14:14.) 
Promises of the Coming One.-3 
 
 
 
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Jacob blesses the children of Joseph. 
IP THE promise made to Abraham, that his seed 
should inherit the land, was limited to those of 
his descendants who should prove worthy. That 
it was not primarily a matter of lineal descent, is 
shown by the fact that of his many sons, only 
Isaac was given the birthright. 
Of the grand-children, the sons of Isaac, it 
was not the first-born who inherited the blessing 
and the privilege of being priest, but the younger, 
Jacob. If the father had had his way, he would 
undoubtedly have given the paternal blessing to 
his favourite, Esau. But the latter, although in 
many respects a man of promise, lacked the es-
sential quality which was required for the leader of 
God's people. He was generous, an outdoor youth, 
a hunter, and one who would appeal to most 
people, even today, as eminently suited to be chief 
of a pastoral nation. 
But here it was that Isaac's wife, Rebekah, 
showed greater insight into the real nature of the 
two boys. While Jacob lacked some of the manly 
characteristics of his brother—he was a plain 
man, with no colourful personality—he had that 
which was missing from his brother's tempera-
ment; he had a desire for the more spiritual things 
of life. He had been told about the wonderful 
promises made by God to his father and grand-
father, and he saw beyond the superficial to what 
was involved in the blessing. He longed for the 
privilege of being the head of the people of 
God, of leading its worship and guiding the tribe 
in righteousness. 
Unhappily, so great was his longing that he 
used deception to attain that good end. Esau 
showed his unworthiness when he bartered his 
birthright for "a mess of pottage." "I am at the 
point of death," he said, "and what good will 
this birthright be to me?" Thus Jacob took a 
mean advantage of his brother. He sinned griev-
ously again when he yielded to his mother's per-
suasion, and tricked his aged father into partaking 
of his venison instead of Esau's, to get the coveted 
inheritance and blessing. We cannot but condemn 
this base deception of his father and cruel de-
frauding of his brother, yet despite these ugly 
traits, the younger son was more fitted for the 
post of honour. Jacob paid bitterly for his wrong-
doing in later life, but he became a changed man, 
so that God could reveal Himself to him "face to 
face," as could not have been the case with the 
generous but ungodly Esau. 
Jacob's name was changed to Israel. From being 
a deceiver and a supplanter, he became "a prince 
with God," one who prevailed with the Eternal. 
Through him, the royal line of descent was carried 
on. 
 
 
By E. B. Phillips, B.D., M.Th. 
 
 
TWENTY-THREE 
NOT JOSEPH BUT JUDAH 
Jacob had twelve sons. His favourite, Joseph, 
was in danger of being spoiled by his doting 
father. But while a youth, he had an experience 
which changed the whole course of his life. He 
was sold into slavery by his envious brothers. In 
more than one way Joseph became a type of Jesus. 
It is probable that Jacob at first wished his favour-
ite, Joseph, to carry on the headship and tradition 
through his children but, in the mysterious pro-
vidence of God, the line was to continue through 
another of his sons. Ephraim, Joseph's younger 
son, did become a leading tribe, but manifested 
serious defects of character. 
Ephraim played such a prominent part in the 
secession that often the northern kingdom is called 
by its name. So, Israel's hopes for the posterity of 
the godly Joseph were doomed to disappointment. 
THE BLESSING OF JUDAH 
In the forty-ninth chapter of Genesis is re-
corded the blessing bestowed upon his sons by the 
dying Jacob. The last words of a man are generally 
treasured, and these sayings of the aged patriarch 
are especially worthy of remembrance, for they 
were not merely the wise utterances of an old man, 
but they were divinely inspired by God. The 
future history of each of his children was de-
lineated in these blessings. Particularly to be noted 
is the prophecy concerning Judah, who was the 
fourth son. What is recorded of him in earlier 
chapters is not very commendable, but as with 
Jacob himself, the passing years wrought im-
provement in his life, and his nobility shines 
forth when the eleven brethren appeared before 
the administrator of Egypt, who, unknown to 
them, was the brother they years before sold into 
slavery. His speech on behalf of his youngest 
brother Benjamin, has been called "one of the 
masterpieces of Hebrew literary composition, one 
of the finest specimens of natural eloquence in 
the world." He was destined to take the lead 
among his brethren, and his tribe was to stand out 
above all the others. 
The aged Jacob must have foreseen this, for he 
prophesies exaltation and kingship for him. He 
was to conquer his enemies, and his brothers were 
to look to him as their captain. In verse nine of 
this chapter Judah is likened to a lion, and that 
king of beasts was henceforth associated with the 
lordly tribe of Judah. 
Verse ten, of chapter forty-nine is prophetic 
in a wonderful way. "The sceptre shall not depart 
from Judah, nor a Law-giver from between his 
feet, until Shiloh come; and unto Him shall the 
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gathering of the people be." We gather from this 
that Judah was to retain the sovereignty until 
"Shiloh" should appear. 
There has been much discussion as to the exact 
meaning of this word. It is derived from a root 
signifying "rest." "Unto Him shall the gathering 
of the people be." Gesenius' Hebrew Lexicon has 
paraphrased the verse thus: "The sceptre shall 
not depart from Judah until tranquillity shall 
come, and the peoples shall obey Him." That is, 
Judah shall not lay down the sceptre of the ruler, 
until his enemies be subdued, and he shall rule 
over many people, an expectation belonging to the 
kingdom of the Messiah, who was to spring from 
the tribe of Judah. 
SHILOH, THE PRINCE OF PEACE 
It is is, however, just as likely that "Shiloh" is 
a proper name, meaning the "tranquil, or peaceful 
One." This aptly describes our Saviour, Jesus 
Christ. It is true that Shiloh came to be used as a 
place name, but if it is so taken here, there is no 
point in the verse as a prophecy. The majority of 
Christian commentators have agreed that the word 
best applies to the only, supreme, peaceful One, 
the Prince of Peace. Jesus was a direct descendant 
of Judah ; the genealogies given in the first chap-
ter of Matthew and the third of Luke, demonstrate 
this fact. It is also true that it was from the tribe 
of Judah that the heroic David sprang, whose 
dynasty continued even beyond the taking away 
of the Jews into Babylonian captivity and their 
return under Cyrus. In fact, Judah was the 
ruling tribe in Israel until the Christian era. 
Perhaps the most appropriate rendering of 
"Shiloh" is, the Rest-giver. This is a link with that 
sublime promise of our Lord, in Matthew 11:28, 
"Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy 
laden, and I will give you rest." 
Whether, therefore, we take this as a synonym 
for peace, or whether we understand it as a proper 
name, as one of the titles of our Lord, we see that 
this tenth verse of Genesis forty-nine is indeed 
Messianic. It was divinely put into Jacob's mouth, 
declaring that the coming Redeemer would be a 
branch out of the stem of Judah, and, in turn, a 
root of the offspring of David. 
This prophecy had a very limited fulfilment 
in Jewish history, but its complete and glorious 
outcome will be ushered in at the second coming 
of the Saviour. Then there will be eternal peace 
and rest, and everlasting joy; in a very real sense 
every man shall dwell under his own vine and fig 
tree, and none shall make them afraid. May our 
dear Lord hasten that triumphant day 
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at ebeath? 
the stock thereof die in the ground ; 
yet through the scent of water it will 
bud, and bring forth boughs like a 
plant. But man dieth, and wasteth 
away : yea, man giveth up the ghost, 
and where is he?" Job 14:7-10. 
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Studio Lisa and J. Scheerboom 
In every age men have been concerned as 
to what happens after death. 
I@ THE question, What happens to man at death? 
has for centuries baffled thinking people. Job, the 
ancient sage, declared, "For there is hope of a 
tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again and 
that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and 
DEATH A SLEEP 
Where is he, indeed? What hap-
pens to a man when he dies? 
One day a close friend of Jesus 
became seriously ill and died. Com-
menting on this to His disciples, the 
Master declared, "Our friend Lazarus 
sleepeth ; but I go, that I may awake 
him out of sleep. Then said His dis-
ciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do 
well. Howbeit J es us spake of his 
death : but they thought that He had 
spoken of taking of rest in sleep. 
Then said Jesus unto them plainly, 
Lazarus is dead." John 11:11-14. To 
the Saviour, death was a sleep. 
If this be the case, where do the 
dead sleep ? Daniel gives the answer, 
"And many of them that sleep in 
the dust of the earth shall awake, 
some to everlasting life, and some to shame and 
everlasting contempt." Dan. 12:2. This makes it 
clear that the dead are asleep in the dust of the 
earth. And here they remain until the resurrection 
morning, when Jesus comes again. 
By William R. Harbour 
TWENTY-FIVE 
What is man's condition in death? Does he 
know what is taking place on the earth? Suppose 
a father dies, and his family lay a wreath on the 
grave in his honour. Later on sickness and 
financial reverses comes to the family. Does the 
man who has passed away know anything about 
what is taking place? Job answers, "His sons come 
to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are 
brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them." 
Job 14:21. 
Why doesn't he know about these things? David 
says, "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the 
son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath 
goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that 
very day his thoughts perish." Psa. 146:3, 4. If a 
man's thoughts perish at death, how much can he 
know after death? Again we are told: "For the 
living know that they shall die: but the dead 
know not any thing, neither have they any more 
a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. 
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, 
is now perished; neither have they any more a 
portion for ever in anything that is done under the 
sun." Eccles. 9:5, 6. If "the dead know not any-
thing," then they are entirely unconscious. 
Some time ago a man was finishing his garage, 
putting the rafters up for the roof. In reaching 
out to nail a board in place, he lost his footing 
and plunged to the cement floor. Striking his 
head on the floor, he was knocked unconscious. 
Nine hours later, in a hospital, he awoke, and, 
dizzily gazing about, asked, "Where am I?" To 
him the passing of nine hours was no more than 
the passing of a second. He had been hammer-
ing away on the roof : then all of a sudden he 
found himself waking up in a hospital bed. The 
shout of alarm, the rush trip to the hospital, and 
the treatment that followed were all unknown 
to him. He had been completely unconscious. Let 
us ask, What would have happened if he had 
never returned to consciousness? Suppose he had 
died at the end of the nine hours? Would it have 
been any different for him? No; according to the 
Bible he would have remained completely uncon-
scious as long as death should last. It is reasonable 
to accept the Bible conclusion, "The dead know 
not anything;" "in that very day his thoughts 
perish." 
When I was a child I asked my great-grand-
mother, "What happens to people when they die?" 
She replied by telling me that they go to heaven 
if they are good and to hell if they are bad. 
Later, when I studied the Bible, I found, to my 
surprise, the Scripture teaching that the dead are 
totally unconscious and that they wait in the grave 
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until the resurrection morning at the second com-
ing of Christ. 
Suppose we make a double check. If anyone 
ever went to heaven at death, surely David did, 
for God said that he was a man after His 
own heart. (Acts 13:22.) But did he? Is David 
in heaven now? In Acts 2:29, 34 we read, "Men 
and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the 
patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, 
and his sepulchre is with us unto this day." "For 
David is not ascended into the heavens: but he 
saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit 
Thou on My right hand." 
This text plainly states that David is not in 
heaven. If he is not there, what about other holy 
men of God who have died in ages past? 
Hebrews eleven tells us about many of God's 
heroes who were righteous because of their faith. 
It lists such men as Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, 
Joseph, and Moses. And then it says, "And these 
all, having obtained a good report through faith, 
received not the promise." Verse 39. None of these 
holy men of old has yet received the promise of 
God's eternal kingdom. 
One might well ask, Why is this so? In verse 
forty we find the answer, "God having provided 
some better thing for us; that they without us 
should not be made perfect." In other words, they 
are waiting for you and me. It is not God's plan 
that men should slip into heaven one by one as 
soon as they die, but rather that all the righteous 
should be raised on the resurrection morning at 
the call of the Life-giver, and then in one great, 
glorious, truimphal entry, march through the gates 
of the Holy City together. 
When will the dead go to the heavenly king-
dom? Our answer is found in 1 Thessalonians 4: 
16, 17, which says, "For the Lord Himself shall 
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice 
of the Archangel and with the trump of God: and 
the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which 
are alive and remain shall be caught up together 
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the 
air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 
When Jesus comes the second time, all those 
who have died with faith in Him as their' Saviour 
will be raised from the tomb and taken to His 
kingdom. At the same time the righteous who 
are alive at His coming will "be caught up" with 
the resurrected saints to meet the Lord, ever to be 
with Him. 
Are you ready for the soon coming of Jesus? 
Won't you give your heart in full and complete 
surrender to Him now? Then when He comes He 
will save you, too. 
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tp I HAVE always been curious about heaven. 
Everyone talks about it and seems to want to go 
there, but no-one has ever seen it or knows what 
it is like. One man explained it like this: "When 
you die you have to go somewhere, and I'd rather 
go to heaven than hell." 
Most people I have talked to think of heaven 
in terms of what they would like it to be. Tired 
people think of heaven as a place of rest. Sick 
people think of heaven as a place of perfect health. 
Lovers of the beautiful long for a paradise of 
beauty. 
Human minds can think of heaven only in terms 
of human enjoyment. We long for peace in a 
world of strife. We crave beauty in a world of 
ugliness. We want our needs and. 
 
longings satisfied. 
I have been interested in heaven 
for a long time because I plan to 
make it my future home. And I have taken 
pains to find out all I can about it. 
HEAVEN ON EARTH 
The Bible makes it very clear that the earth 
was made for man and man for the earth. It is 
human nature to think the grass is greener on the 
other side of the fence or on some other planet 
or star. The real difference is in us, and not in the 
place we occupy. Let us look at the prophecies 
and promises of the Bible in regard to the eternal 
By Leonard C. Lee 
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reward of the righteous. The devil has tried to 
make this world a hell, and God has tried to make 
it a heaven. How will it come out? 
As I have studied the Bible from Genesis to 
Revelation I have come to the conclusion that this 
earth is to be the eternal home of the righteous. 
God has no other plan. The human race and the 
earth were created for each other; they belong 
together. To remove the population to some other 
planet would not solve its problems. 
God has not left us in doubt on this vital 
question. "For thus saith the Lord that created 
the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth 
and made it; He hath established it, He created 
it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited." 
Isa. 45:18. 
It is true that the earth is not much like heaven 
now, but this is man's fault, not God's. If men's 
hearts were to be changed so that they would 
love one another, this earth could become a 
heaven in a very short time. If the billions spent 
on armaments could be spent on better living 
conditions, the earth would seem like heaven. 
And God could transform the earth into a thing 
of beauty with one creative word. 
SUBJECTS OF THE NEW EARTH 
Our heavenly Father is picking out people 
one by one who are willing to let sin be purged 
out of their lives. He needs men and women who 
will be heirs with Christ Jesus. They must be men 
and women saved by the blood of Christ, puri-
fied from disobedience, who can be trusted to in-
habit a perfect world and never start the tragic 
cycle of sin and death again. When He has 
gathered to Himself a renewed people. He will 
renew the earth for their eternal habitation. This 
is what Jesus was talking about when He said, 
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the 
earth." Matt. 5:5. 
The Psalmist mentions the same thing in the 
Old Testament: "For evildoers shall be cut off: 
but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall in-
herit the earth. For yet a little while, and the 
wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently 
consider his place, and it shall not be. But the 
meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight 
themselves in the abundance of peace." Psa. 37: 
9-11. 
God has to deal with sin and blot it out for 
ever before He can make this earth a paradise. 
The real problem has always been in the human 
heart. Those who heed God's pleading voice and 
let Jesus come into their heart, will be fitted to 
live for ever with Jesus. Those who harden their 
TWENTY-EIGHT 
heart and resist His loving call will perish when 
God purifies the earth by fire, just as the wicked 
perished in Noah's day when the earth was puri-
fied by a Flood. 
It is true that the righteous will be taken from 
the earth to dwell with Christ in the Father's 
house for a thousand years while the earth awaits 
its cleansing from the effects of sin, but that will 
be but a brief interlude in the eternal destiny of 
those who choose Jesus. Though they may visit 
other worlds as we visit our neighbours, yet this 
earth will be the eternal abode of those who are 
redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. "Thy people 
also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the 
land for ever." Isa. 60:21. 
We all recognize that the earth as it is now, 
with weeds, disease germs, and deserts, is not 
what God intends for His people. It is not what 
He made in the beginning. Prophecy tells us 
what will be done with it: "For, behold, I create 
new heavens and a new earth: and the former 
shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." 
Isa. 65:17. 
The revelator also caught a vision of what it 
will be like: "And I saw a new heaven and a new 
earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were 
passed away; and there was no more sea." Rev. 
21 :1. 
All through the Bible runs the golden thread 
of hope that the earth, as well as the human 
race, will be redeemed. Jesus said He came "to 
seek and to save that which was lost." Luke 19: 
10. Man had lost his earthly home as well as his 
life and dominion. 
EDEN RESTORED 
Every description of the future home of the 
saved is a description of an earthly scene. The 
Bible speaks of trees and the tree of life. The 
river of life is also mentioned in the last chapter 
of the Bible. This suggests a restoration of the 
Garden of Eden. "And there shall be no more 
curse." Rev. 22:3. That phrase would be mean-
ingless if heaven were anywhere but on earth, 
for this is the only place where the curse has ever 
blighted creation. 
In the prophecy of Isaiah, after the promise of 
a new heaven and a new earth, we are given a 
description of it: "And they shall build houses, 
and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, 
and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and 
another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another 
eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of My 
people, and Mine elect shall long enjoy the work 
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The Bible: Divine or 
Human? 
When man, through sin, lost the privilege of personal 
contact with his Maker, some means had to be devised 
whereby God could communicate necessary revelations 
and counsels for those who desired "to acknowledge 
Him in all their ways." Hence He gave to man His 
Word, the Bible. 
"God, . . . at sundry times and in divers 
manners spake in time past unto the 
fathers." Heb. 1:1. 
At her coronation, the Queen was presented 
with the Bible by the Archbishop of Canterbury 
who declared: "Here is the Royal Law; these 
are the lively oracles of God." 
About forty different people contributed to the com-
piling of the Scriptures, between them providing a com-
plete library of sixty-six books. Every contributor was 
divinely selected and subject to the supervision and 
inspiration of God Himself. 
"Knowing this . . . that no prophecy of the 
Scripture is of any private interpretation . . . 
[lit., of its own unfolding}, but holy men 
spake as they were moved by the Holy 
Ghost." 2 Peter 1 :20, 21. 
"Here is a book coming from all quarters, 
written by men of all classes, scattered through 
a period of fifteen hundred years; and yet this 
book is fitted together as a wondrous and har-
monious whole. One mind inspires the whole 
Book, one voice speaks it all, and it is the voice 
of God."—H. L. Hastings. 
"Though written in three different languages 
in different lands, with diversity of style and by 
men of varying grades of culture . . . there is 
in them great unlikeness both in matter and 
manner of statement; and yet in not one respect 
are their doctrinal and ethical teachings in con-
flict. . . . All the criticism of more than three 
thousand years has failed to point out one im-
portant or irreconcilable contradiction in the testi- 
mony and teachings of those who are farthest 
separated—there is no collision, yet there is no 
collusion."—Dr. A. T. Pierson. 
The Bible is not merely a "good book." It is God's 
Book. It bears the stamp of Divinity. Only God, with 
His attributes of foreknowledge and omniscience, could 
edit and collate all the "copy" provided by the sacred 
writers. 
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of 
God." 2 Tim. 3:16. 
Dr. Pierson once observed : "If God was the 
Master musician planning the whole and arrang-
ing the parts . . . we can understand how Moses' 
grand anthem of Creation glides into Isaiah's 
oratorio of the Messiah, by and by sinks into 
Jeremiah's plaintive wails, swells into Ezekiel's 
awful chorus, changes into Daniel's rapturous 
lyric, and, after the quartet of the Evangelists, 
closes with John's full choir of saints and angels." 
The Bible provides a complete guide to living, such 
as only God could give. It tells man of his origin. 
It tells with complete frankness the story of the disaster 
that overtook the parents of the human family and with 
equal frankness the plan of God to save sinful man 
from sin's dreadful fruitage. 
"In the beginning God created. . . ." Gen. 
1:1. 
"What is man? . . . Thou halt made 
him. . . ." Psa. 8:4, 5. 
"God so loved the world, that He gave His 
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth 
in Him should not perish, but have ever-
lasting life." John 3 :16. 
An outstanding proof of the divine authorship of the 
Bible lies in its wonderful prophecies, which show God's 
awareness of the human need and give assurance of 
His personal supervision and direction. 
"We have also a more sure Word of pro-
phecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take 
heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark 
TWENTY-NINE 
place, until the day dawn, and the Day-star 
arise." 2 Peter 1:19. 
"Behind the dim unknown 
Standeth God amid the shadows 
Keeping watch above His own." 
Outstanding examples of fulfilled prophecies 
include: 
a. Those that predicted the first Advent of 
our Lord; 333 prophecies and references to Christ 
are found in the Old Testament and cited in the 
New Testament, either as fulfilled predictions or 
as previsions applied to Him. Every major circum-
stance of His birth (even the precise year which 
Daniel gave 600 years in advance), His ministry, 
sufferings, and death were accurately predicted, 
fulfilling the Messianic averment of the Psalms : 
"In the volume of the book it is written of Me." 
b. The story of the rise and fall of empires. 
The fact that only three universal empires would 
succeed the Babylonian empire of Daniel's day—
Medo-Persia, Grecia, and Rome—was boldly pre-
dicted; that Rome, in spite of its unparalleled 
strength, would crash and be subdivided into some 
ten smaller kingdoms was also foretold and ful-
filled. (See Daniel 2.) 
c. The predicted end to Egypt's glory. When 
Egypt was in her pride, God decreed: "It shall 
be the basest of kingdoms." And when Egypt 
gloried in a long line of royal rulers God said : 
"There shall be no more a prince of the land." 
Ezek. 29:15; 30:13. 
d. The predicted rise of the Papacy—time, 
character, activities, temporary fall, and subsequent 
rehabilitation. All this, and more, was revealed 
centuries before its appearance. (Dan. 7 and 8; 
Rev. 13 :17, 18.) 
e. The bold time-prophecies-70 weeks, 1,260 
and 2,300 days of prophetic time. (See Daniel 7 
and 8.) 
f. The remarkable prophecy given by Jesus re-
garding the fall of Jerusalem—time, peculiar 
conditions and circumstances, dispersion of the 
Jews, etc. (Matt. 24.) 
g. The many signs, already fulfilled, pointing 
to Christ's second coming. (Matt. 24; 2 Tim. 3: 
2; 2 Peter 3:3, etc.) 
These are some of the fulfilled prophecies 
which provide the acid test to the Divine author-
ship of the Bible and substantiate God's own claim 
to "declare the end from the beginning." As Dr. 
Pierson says : "Prophecies already fulfilled put the 
clear broad seal of God upon the Bible; prophecies 
THIRTY 
unfulfilled, serve to inform our faith as to coming 
developments and project us forward into the 
consummate wonders of the final day of victory." 
If the Bible were merely a human creation, it would 
have passed into obscurity long ago. No book has been 
assailed as much, nor have so many attempts to destroy 
it been made. Yet it is today the world's "best seller" 
and its precious words are published in well over 
1,000 tongues. 
"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My 
words shall not pass away." Matt. 24:35. 
Such destructive critics as Voltaire and Paine, 
who decreed that the Bible would become a for-
gotten book, have themselves—their names, and 
deeds—gone into obscurity. The Bible has proved 
to be like the Irishman's wall. When asked why 
he had built it four feet wide and three feet 
high he replied: "Bedad . . . so that if the 
storm should come and blow it over it will be 
higher afterward than it was before." 
Long before the sciences as we now know them, were 
established, the Bible had revealed many scientific and 
unknown facts centuries before man made his own dis-
coveries. In the realms of astronomy, geology, anatomy, 
natural philosophy, ethnology, physiology, etc., the evi-
dence compels one to acknowledge that this Book is 
divine. 
"In reason's ear they all rejoice, 
And utter forth a glorious voice; 
For ever singing, as they shine, 
The hand that made us is Divine." 
The effect of the Bible, when its counsels and revelations 
are imbibed, is miraculous. It changes lives, transforms 
and elevates the mind, brings hope and consolation both 
in sickness and health. 
"The Word of God is . . . powerful." 
Heb. 4:12. "Thy Word is a lamp unto my 
feet, and a light unto my path." Psa. 119: 
105. "Great peace have they which love Thy 
law." Psa. 119:165. 
The Bible alone, is able to see "beyond the tomb," 
give assurance of resurrection, and confidently portray 
the coming eternal inheritance of saints. 
The dead shall rise (John 5 :28, 29) ; 
1 Cor. 15. "Behold I make all things new." 
Rev. 21 :5. 
"The Bible springs from the eternal depths of 
divine wisdom, love, and grace. It is the transcript 
of the divine mind, the unfolding of the divine 
purpose, the revelation of the divine will. God 
help us to receive it, believe it, and be saved 
through our Lord Jesus Christ." 
Borrowed Time 
(Continued from page 3.) 
slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not 
willing that any should perish, but that all should 
come to repentance." 2 Peter 3 :9. 
Many whom God loves and is anxious to save 
are not ready! Some procrastinate. Some are in-
different. Some, despite danger, persist in a course 
of disobedience. 
These days of borrowed time are indeed a chal-
lenge to our relationship with God. We need to 
cry out with David of old: "Wash me throughly 
from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin." 
"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash 
me, and I shall be whiter than snow." "Create in 
me a clean heart, 0 God ; and renew a right spirit 
within me." Psa. 51:2, 7, 10. We must be right 
with God. We must be living fully in harmony 
with His revealed will. 
How Clear Is Your Conscience? 
(Continued from page 5.) 
teaching of truth. To try to account for conversion 
on purely psychological grounds, by viewing it as 
a violent emotional upheaval, is to miss the point 
that truth embodied in a living Person is the basis 
of new life in God ; and that most true conver-
sions are gradual, quiet, and unaccompanied by 
external excitement. 
After "knowing with" Christ, we "turn and go 
with" Him if our heart is sincere; that is the 
literal meaning of conversion. Then it becomes 
true that "if any man be in Christ, he is a new 
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all 
things are become new." 2 Cor. 5:17. 
CONSEQUENCES OF A GUILTY CONSCIENCE 
I am sure I have met many unbalanced persons 
whose chief cause of breakdown was a persistently 
troubled conscience due to a life of wickedness. 
Many of these violated personalities might well 
have been saved, had they known that right 
relationship with God which assures a clear con-
science and a more fully integrated personality. 
Peter was smitten with keen remorse when 
Christ's prophecy of the disciple's denial smote 
his conscience. (Matt. 26:75.) But he recanted 
and became a balanced personality by faithfulness 
to his Lord. 
Judas, on the other hand, like many before and 
since, persisted in his evil intentions so long and 
went so far, that he violated his conscience and 
was driven to suicide. Note that he "repented 
THIRTY-ONE 
himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of 
silver, . . . saying, I have sinned in that I have be-
trayed the innocent blood." Matt. 27:3, 4. But it 
was too late; Judas committed the unpardonable 
sin, and became a lost man. 
REWARDS OF A GOOD CONSCIENCE 
Conscience is a sensitive thing. "The voice of 
conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle; but 
it is also so clear that it is imposible to mistake," 
wrote Madame de Stael. 
How inspiring it is to think of the apostle Paul, 
who doubtless had many chances to better his lot 
at the expense of his conscience. Yet he uttered 
these statements of triumph: "I thank God, whom 
I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience." 
"Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure con-
science." 2 Tim. 1:3; 1 Tim. 3 :9. 
A Blessed Hope 
(Continued from page 9.) 
who have enjoyed every opportunity to learn the 
truth, yet have rejected it, will not be permitted 
to live for ever. 
According to Scripture, they will be consumed 
with "the brightness of His coming," for it is 
written, "The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from 
heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire 
taking vengeance on them that know not God, and 
that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus 
Christ." 2 Thess. 2:8; 1 :7, 8. To the finally 
impenitent "our God is a consuming fire." 
"I can understand this teaching," observed my 
friend; "it seems consistent; but do we know when 
that great event will take place?" 
Again I turned to the Scriptures and read the 
words of Jesus: "But of that day and hour knoweth 
no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but My 
Father only." Matt. 24:36. In His infinite wisdom 
God withholds the precise day and year of His 
Son's return, and bids us all watch and be ready. 
Turning to my friend, I said: "From all this, 
Henry, you may begin to realize what Christ's 
appearing really means to me. On that wonderful 
morning, many who have slighted God's mercy 
will hysterically call for the rocks and mountains 
to fall on them, to hide them from the face 
of Jesus, while others will look upward with 
calm and steadfast joy, exclaiming: 'Lo, this is 
our God ; we have waited for Him, and He will 
save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for Him, 
we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation." 
Isa. 25:9. (See also Revelation 6:14-17.) 
"Yes," I continued, '"every man that hath this 
hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is 
pure.' 1 John 3 :3. This means that I can no longer 
compromise with evil. In every detail I must 
square my life with the teachings of God's Word. 
It also means that I will do all in my power to tell 
others the glad tidings of a crucified, risen, and 
soon-coming Saviour." 
The Secret of Happiness 
( Continued from page 15.) 
many as received Him, to them gave He power to 
become the sons of God." Before we can live a 
new life for God we must have a new life from 
God. The prophet Jeremiah tells us how futile it 
will be to attempt to live the Christ-like life with-
out the new birth. "Can the Ethiopian change his 
skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also 
do good, that are accustomed to do evil." Jer. 
13:23. 
In Romans 8:7 we find the reason, "Because 
the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is 
not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can 
be." Here we are told that the "carnal heart," 
that is, the unconverted heart, is not willing to 
submit to the law of God. He finds the command-
ments of God irksome to keep and seeks to ex-
cuse himself. A man may be intellectually con-
vinced that the Scriptures are right. When truth 
is presented to him he will know it is the truth, 
and see the logic of it and yet fail to obey the truth. 
But with the new birth there comes a change! 
Listen to the words of the prophet Ezekiel: "A 
new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit 
will I put within you: and I will take away the 
stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an 
heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within 
you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and 
ye shall keep My judgments and do them." Ezek. 
36:26, 27. 
We come now to the third step which the 
Scriptures reveal as necessary in our search for 
true happiness. It logically follows, and it is a very 
natural step to take, once we have taken the first 
two steps. First, we cleared the highway by con-
fessing and forsaking sin. Then we received Christ 
into the heart that had been emptied of self and 
sin. The result of "receiving Him," His "Spirit," 
was the receiving of "power" that would "cause" 
us "to walk in" His "statutes." This response on 
our part is the evidence that we have taken the 
first two steps and is itself the third step to 
happiness—obedience. 
It is a strange fact that though obedience is the 
THIRTY-TWO 
logical and natural result of taking the first two 
steps, many people do not sense its importance. 
The apostle John realized its importance as we 
can see from reading his first epistle: "He that 
saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to 
walk even as He walked." 1 John 2:6. Christ kept 
His Father's commandments. (John 15:10.) They 
were His supreme "delight." Psa. 40:8. And His 
followers "ought to walk as He walked," for it is 
the evidence that we "know" Him. (1 John 2:3, 
4.) Obedience is also the evidence of our love for 
God. John tells us that if we love the Lord we 
will want to keep His commandments. (John 14: 
25, 21, 23, 24.) Our greatest joy will be to do the 
slightest thing that He may ask of us. 
Obedience is also an important ingredient in 
our search for happiness. Christ said, "If ye know 
these things, happy are ye if ye do them." John 
13:17. When God reveals His will for us we can 
never know true happiness until we have respon-
ded to His will. This is borne out in the ex-
perience of the rich young ruler. (Matt. 19:16-
22.) He was an earnest man in search of eternal 
life. When Christ informed him that if he would 
enter into life he must "keep the commandments," 
the young man felt quite sure he was already keep-
ing the commandments. Christ then pointed out 
to him where he was not fully doing this, saying, 
"If thou wilt be perfect. . . ." We are told that 
"he went away sorrowful." This was to be expected 
for when once we know the will of God we can 
only be happy when we "do" it. 
What a tragic story! So near perfection, so 
near real happiness, so near eternal life! Just 
one more step to take, but he failed to take it 
and lost that which he was seeking. It would be 
a tragedy if any of us in our search for happiness 
should come so close to eternal life and then fail 
to take the final step. 
God's Badge of Loyalty 
(Continued from page 17.) 
a masterly fashion defended the Protestant beliefs 
against the Roman Catholic arguments, using the 
Bible, which he said was his "only rule of faith." 
Mr. French discovered an opening in the armour 
of his learned opponent and exposed it with these 
words: 
"Come, my honoured friend, thou who boast-
est that the Bible is the rule of faith, tell me by 
what licence given to thee in that Bible art thou 
empowered to overstep its most solemn laws; to set 
at nought its most peremptory enactments? Show 
me one clear text in the Bible that authorizes, en- 
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joins, or even permits you to keep the Sabbath on a 
Sunday. . . . If with us, my friend, ye celebrate 
the Sunday in adherence to the Catholic tradition, 
ye act according to the apostolic line, and ye are 
not open to delusion; but if ye affect to scorn 
tradition, I turn you to the Bible, and you must 
this day unfold its pages, and prove most clearly 
and systematically from them that ye are not at 
variance with its precepts by keeping the Sabbath 
on the Sunday. But no, my friend, the Bible stares 
you in the face; you are acting in contravention 
to your fundamental •rule." 
Dr. Cumming was unable to find a biblical 
answer to his opponent. 
I keep the seventh day, Saturday, because it 
was made by my Lord, and Christ my example 
observed it Himself while upon this earth. God's 
blessing is upon that day (Gen. 2:3), as all who 
keep it in the true spirit know. Will you not, 
therefore, also say: "I will follow Thee, my 
Saviour" ? 
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Where Is Heaven? 
(Continued from page 28.) 
of their hands. . . . The wolf and the lamb shall 
feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like 
the bullock. . . . They shall not hurt nor destroy 
in all My holy mountain, saith the Lord." Isa. 
65:21, 22, 25. 
Man was made for the earth and the earth for 
man. They belong together. Jesus died to restore 
man's home as well as man's life. When sin is des-
troyed, its awful curse will be removed from the 
earth as well as from the hearts of men. Jesus, 
the last Adam, will set up His kingdom on the 
very earth where the first Adam failed. This once 
lost and dark planet will become the glory spot 
of all creation, and once again the morning stars 
will sing together and all the sons of God shout 
for joy. (See Job 38:7.) 
Fallacies of Evolution 
(Continued from page 20.) 
favourable mutations were to be observed, since 
all possible favourable ones have already been 
incorporated into the species now living and only 
"bad" ones remain. If this were so, then the non-
appearance of "good" mutations anywhere would 
mean that evolution has stopped everywhere—
a conclusion that will not be welcomed by evolu-
tionists who are busily engaged in watching its 
progress in Peppered Moths and Sickle-celled 
negroes. 
Darwin himself recognized what is our main 
conclusion here: "Unless profitable variations do 
occur, natural selection can do nothing." It was 
for this reason that the doctrine of evolution 
came under such heavy fire when the subject of 
genetics began to be investigated around the turn 
of the centrury. Favourable variation which could 
lead to definite evolutionary improvement was 
not then known, and has not been since dis-
covered. 
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of his small home far up in the 
mountains of Peru. There 
wasn't much else he could do. 
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would feel good on his de-
formed body, but why drag him-
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Cirilo had been a cripple for 
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He thought of his neighbours 
and of others who lived on trails 
farther away. "They need to 
know about Jesus," he reasoned. 
"I must tell them. But how can 
I when I cannot walk?" Never-
theless, he asked the man with 
the Bible to leave several copies 
so that he could give them to 
his neighbours and to anyone 
else who might come to visit 
him. 
The stranger—who was now 
a friend—opened his case and 
gave Cirilo Bibles and Gospel 
books. "Cirilo," he said, "you 
must tell all who will listen the 
story of Jesus." 
When the man had gone, 
Cirilo felt he must do more than 
merely wait for people to come. 
"I must go! I must walk on the 
trails with God's Word." 
He pulled himself up on his 
feet—and fell down. This did 
not stop him, however. Little 
by little he forced himself to 
walk. People, watching, said he 
looked as if he were falling 
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A PRAYER 
Jesus, who on earth would gather 
Children unto Thee. 
 
Listen now, and to Thyself, Lord, 
Take even me. 
I am only small and helpless, 
And so very weak, 
But for little lambs, kind Shepherd, 
Thou now dolt seek. 
In Thy loving arms enfold me, 
Hold me near Thy heart; 
From this place of refuge let me 
Never depart. 
Keeo me through my life, I pray Thee, 
Sheltered in Thy breast, 
Till, this world all past, I enter 
Heaven's sweet rest. 
—Gwen Mason. 
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See how nicely 
you can paint 
this picture and 
send it with 
your name, 
ace, and 
address to 
Auntie Pam, 
The Stan-
borough Press 
Ltd., Watford, 
Herts. 
 
 
 
THIRTY-FOUR 
 
 
with each step. But he was able 
to travel, and that's what he 
wanted. What did it matter if 
he walked in a crooked, stum-
bling way? He could go up and 
down the mountain sides to 
where the people lived. Often 
he would look down a thousand 
feet and more beside a trail. 
Often t h e path was slippery 
and dangerous. But alwayl he 
watched for homes where he 
could talk of Jesus and leave a 
Bible. 
Sometimes f a i n t trails led 
where he could not climb. There, 
often, he would find someone 
watching for him. 
"Cirilo! Cirilo Quispe! Do 
you have a Bible for me?" a 
voice would call. "Over the 
mountain they told me someone 
was coming this way with Bibles. 
Do you have one for me?" 
Cirilo's wide smile would 
grow still wider as he leaned 
against a rock beside the trail. 
He had to balance h mself so 
he would not fall as he eased the 
pack from his shoulders. 
-Yes, here is one for you." 
"La Biblia! [The Bible !I 
Now I want one for the man 
who has cared for my sheep 
while I watched the trail for 
you." 
"Rest awhile." Cirilo would 
ease himself down beside the 
trail to sit on a rock, and there 
he would tell the story of Jesus 
to yet another person who had 
never heard it. 
So, day by day, Cirilo Quispe 
walks his slow, crippled way 
along the trails of the Andes 
Mountains of Peru, taking the 
Bible, and the story of Jesus to 
people who have never known 
it before. And he is the happiest 
and his smile is the widest when 
those to whom he tells the story 
learn to love Jesus, too. 
Cherry Tree Farm 
By Ronald James 
FROM the direction of the 
Long Pond came dismal croak- 
ings. 
"Hark! the frogs have ar-
rived," exclaimed Tim to his 
sister Kay. "They come every 
March." 
"Let's go and look at them," 
Kay suggested. 
Together the children ran to 
the water's edge. 
"There's more than ever this 
year," chuckled Tim. 
"Swarms!" Kay agreed."Look, 
there's some spawn. I'm going 
home to get a jar. I want to take 
some to my teacher." 
Off she ran and was soon 
back with an empty jam-jar. 
"You'll have enough to 
supply the entire school," grin-
ned Tim, watching the myriads 
of tiny black eggs, which dotted 
the spawn Kay had collected. 
"Funny when you come to 
think of it. There must be mil-
lions and millions of tadpoles 
hatch out. Well, why don't we 
see millions and millions of 
frogs?" 
"I've never thought about it," 
Kay replied. "It does seem odd.' 
"It jolly well is odd! There 
ought to be frogs everywhere,' 
insisted Tim, warming to his 
theme. "There must be a reason." 
"There are a good many rea-
sons, Tim," chuckled Farmer 
Jones, overhearing his son. 
"Numerous creatures includinp, 
fish, birds, and several species of 
mammals prey on spawn, tad- 
ENSHRINED 
By M. E. BROOKS 
He was just a simple Christian, 
He had no earthly creed: 
But no-one went unaided 
Who came to him in need. 
His boots were patched and shesby, 
His coat was thin and worn 
But his wife knew all the story 
Where his monthly wage had gone. 
Sometimes she remonstrated: 
Should he so generous be 
When many another Christian 
Neer gave so liberally? 
He answered, while a patient smile 
Beamed from his kindly eye: 
"Our Father will reward us 
In His mansions bye and bye." 
 
His death was swift and tragic 
His funeral was obscure, 
But heaven records a noble life 
A life most good and pure. 
You ask: "Is he forgotten?" 
No, as the swift years pass 
He is enshrined in loving hearts, 
And will be to the last. 
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poles, and 
and frogs. This is a good 
thing, because as you have ob-
served, we should be Plagued 
with frogs if all of the eggs 
eventually reached the complete 
stage which Nature intended." 
"Plagued, as Pharaoh was," 
suggested Kay. 
"Exactly!" smiled the farmer. 
"But fortunately only a very 
small percentage of the eggs 
reach maturity." 
LULLABY 
It is now the close of day 
All our toys are put away. 
Stars are large and clear and bright; 
Close your eyes and say good night. 
When the sun comes up so gay, 
Children then again may play. 
Nona K. Duffy. 
The Bible and 
OUR TIMES 
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