The Watchman
December
Magazine
An Interpreter of the Times
True Costs of Crime
Days of These Kings
Jonah’s Tomb and Christ’s
Can the Dead Talk?
“Under the Shadow of the Almighty’’
Adam’s First Sabbath
‘As Stories Go”
TEN CENTS
" 'Twas the night before Christmas"
Photo by Harold M. Lambert
A DAY DF GLAD TIDINGS
By Frank A. Coffin
| HIS is a day of glad tidings. The Man of Galilee, who was bom in a Bethlehem stable nineteen centuries ago, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, whom a Jewish Sanhedrim and a Roman governor slew on Calvary’s cross, but who came forth from the tomb the third day and ascended to heaven—this same Jesus is soon to return to put an end to this world-wide shambles. For that reason our day, like the day when the Man of Galilee was born, is a day of glad tidings.
The world is dark—so dark in this holiday time, but the uplook is bright with hope. God has never abdicated His throne, He has never made humanity His vicegerent. Though the world’s carnage and sorrow would say to us that God has forsaken the earth, yet the fact is that still “the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men.” Daniel 4:25. “But,” says the anguished heart, “why doesn’t God do something? ”
God is about to do something, but when His mercy ceases the wails of guilty humanity will bring no succor. Holy Scripture says, “Behold the Lord cometh out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.” Isaiah 26:21. The Lord says further: “I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
NO ROOM
By Jessie Wilmoue Muktox
‘ ‘ The inn is full! There is no room!
And so they lightly thrust aside The weary pair from Galilee—
What matter where they would abide?
1‘ There is no room! The i n n is full!
And so the wee King Jesus lay In swaddling clothes, His first small bed A manger, filled with wisps of hay.
“ There is no room!” Familiar words That drift across the plodding years. Men's hearts are filled with, all things else— The cares of earth, its hopes, its fears.
Oh, would we only make It im room,
His star of hope might shine again! Above war's tumult we might hear
His “ Peace . . .on earth, . . . good will, to men.”
iniquities ; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.” Isaiah 13: 11. “And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth.” Isaiah 2: 19. The word of God solemnly declares that the Ruler of the universe will “do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, His strange act.” Isaiah 28: 21.
Truly that will be a day of terror to everyone who has not found Christ. There is soon to be a sudden change in God’s dealings with the inhabitants of this earth, and when He begins His “strange work” “none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, what doest thou?” Daniel 4:35. But mercy lingers yet. The closing door is yet ajar.
And so our day is a day of glad tidings. It is a day of warning to the wicked, a day of challenge to the sinful to view themselves in the great mirror of God’s law, and to repent of their evil deeds, finding mercy and pardon in the blood of Christ who died on Calvary for them. Yes, for you, for me He died that “whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3: 16.
No matter what sins a man has committed, no matter how low he has sunk, if he turns to Christ with all his heart, confessing and forsaking his sins, there is pardon and peace for him. But woe to the sinner who stiffens his neck and hardens his heart. God “will not always chide, neither will He keep His anger forever.” Psalm 103: 9. The most solemn language in Holy Scripture is addressed to the world in this present age and generation :
“Because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused My fury to rest upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord God.” Isaiah 24: 13, 14.
The day of retribution upon the shelterless head of the sinner will surely come. And yet “now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” 2 Corinthians 6:2. Tomorrow may be too late. But today is a day of glad tidings, for the door of mercy is still ajar. Though the house be on fire, the way of escape is still open. And the warning sounds, “flee sinner, flee, flee for thy life.” To him who flees from the wrath to come the warning is welcome and his heart is glad.
And this day is a day of glad tidings to the righteous, the Christian, the humble follower of the Man of Calvary. Amid all the turmoil such an one may be tempted to say, “It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept His ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?” Malachi 3: 14.
When all that one holds dear is swept away, when property and loved ones are taken by the storm, one may be tempted to fling faith to the winds of utter despair. But none should forget the words of faithful Job, “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: blessed be the name of the Lord.” Job 1:21.
Every child of God has the right and privilege to stand upon the promises of God’s holy word. He may be assured that (Continued on page IS)
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DECEMBER. 1942 - No. 13
An Interpreter of the Times
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TRUE COSTS OF CRIME
By J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
N THESE days of materialism, we are all prone to look at the cost of crime from a purely monetary standpoint. We are constantly confronted with the realization that crime is costing America a minimum of fifteen billions of dollars each year, and this staggering discovery tends to obscure even greater losses. There are so many other matters of expense, spiritual and physical, that the amount of fifteen billions of dollars is considerably dwarfed as a factor in the true cost of crime.
When we consider that there were in America in 1936, 3,500,000 persons whose chances in life have either been handicapped or absolutely ruined by their attempts to defeat the law, we begin to understand what crime really costs. When we realize that these 3,500,000 persons annually roll up a total of 1,500,000 serious crimes, each one of which affects the victim in some moral, mental, or physical manner, we are shocked even more. Beyond that, we must consider the social and financial wreckage brought upon an entire family when one of its members is sent to prison.
When we are confronted with the fact that the crime army of America includes more than 700,000 boys and girls of less than voting age who, at the very threshold of life, were cut off from worthy careers, then, indeed, the cost of crime is recognized as a ghastly one. But the expense does not end even here. What of the 700,000 mothers who risked their lives to bring these 700,000 boys and girls into the world? These women once held roseate dreams for the future as they carried their babies close to their hearts. They hoped for the time when these boys and girls would grow to stalwart manhood and womanhood, be-
come worthy citizens and a means of protection against the shadowy days of old age.
But all those hopes are false, shattered by the bony, bloodstained monster of crime; dreams of other days have become nightmares. The clank of steel doors, the pacing of armed guards atop prison walls, the weary shuffle of a gray-faced man with a weird cap on his head, traveling that last long mile; the whine of a dynamo, and the executioner standing at the switchblock, that a life may pay for a life—these must be included if we are to realize the real cost of crime. And all good citizens everywhere must dedicate themselves to work for the lessening of a tragedy of moral, mental, financial, and spiritual bankruptcy.
It is necessary, of course, that we continue to look upon the material phases of this problem. We cannot forget that an army of 200,000 persons who will commit murder before they die roams America, and that before they die in or out of prison or in the execution chamber, they will send a total of 300,000 other persons to death by slaying. We must not overlook the fact that the clock upon your desk, the watch in your pocket, the old timepiece upon the wall, all are chronometers of crime; and that for every twenty seconds they operate, a major crime is being committed in some part of the United States.
Between the time the sun rises upon our daily life and the time it sets in the evening,
thirty-five persons, men and women, that day arising with plans and hopes and expectations, will have been murdered. There is a death by criminal violence in the United States every forty-five minutes. We must also remember that the 1,500,000 crimes of which I spoke are not petty infractions of the law, but they are major violations ranging from assault, robbery, and rape to burglary, murder, and that destroyer of public morale, kidnaping. Realizing this situation, we, as good citizens, should constantly carry with us the earnest consideration of what is to be done about it. One of the major efforts must be an attempt to stop crime at its source.
There is no excuse for the fact that 700,000 American boys and girls were enlisted in the army of crime prior to reaching voting age. There is no suitable explanation which the fathers and mothers of America can make for this outrageous situation. They have allowed the reins to slip from their hands; they have allowed their own personal pleasures to become uppermost; they have allowed the spirit of family discipline to become weakened; and they have allowed youth to malinger along roads of life which lead all too often to disillusionment. Parents have become too concerned in enjoying the fleshpots of the age to give proper attention to their offspring.
Discipline must be re-established in the American home. The father who thinks too much about golf to care what his son is doing, the mother who is so eager for bridge that she pretends to believe that her daughter in a parked car beside the roadway is merely indulging in a bit of harmless petting, must recast their ideas or realize that they are unable to govern the human beings for whose existence they are responsible.
And, in addition to criminal wreckage of youth, which lays a heavy enough burden on us all, this parental indifference in America tends to create a weakening even of our political structure. Instigators of subversive activities against our form of government recruit their army of revolt from the ranks of youth. And they win these tragic, misguided young zealots because their parents have been too lazy or too ignorant of existing conditions, or too enamored of false philosophies to attack teachings foreign to our ideals and repugnant to the solid American wisdom and common sense which should exist in every home. No boy or girl will be a recruit to subversive activities against our traditions if he or she has been correctly reared and taught by responsible parents that America can exist only as a community of Godfearing, sober-minded, and liberty-loving free men and women.
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•¥■ Lest war blot out the true Christmas spirit, kindly British hands fashion gifts for London’s evacuated children.
DAYS OF THESE KINGS
By Wesley Amundsen
HE great question that troubles the hearts of men today—hearts that are torn with conflicting emotions, hearts that are filled with fears and oppressed by dark forebodings—is: “What about the future? Will there actually be peace in our time? Will this world be better after it has been purged of evil men who seek to dominate the souls and consciences of others? Is it possible that there will never again be any wars upon the earth, so that our children may grow up without this fear hanging over them continually? Of what can we be certain?”
Someone has said that we cannot be certain of anything except death, as that comes to all men, rich and poor alike. But we are not ready to admit the truth of such a statement for there is something else that is positive and certain, and that is the word of the living God, which abides forever; for “we have a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place.” 2 Peter 1: 19.
“Prophecy, ... as a light,” is shining amidst the darkness of a world in distress. It contains the divine predictions of a God who sees the end from the beginning, and who has never made a false prediction. These revelations are today unfolded before the world, and God says, “Take heed”; but the world passes on.
It is some 2,500 years since the light of prophecy unfolded before that powerful empire-builder, Nebuchadnezzar. Never in the history of the world, before or since, has
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there been such a kingdom as his. But in spite of greatness and beauty, and the apparent security of his kingdom, the king was troubled, and the haunting question arose, “Will my kingdom stand? What will take place when I am gone?”
His thoughts gave rise to a dream in the night season, but when he awakened from his sleep the dream was gone. The impression which it had left, however, was so strong that he demanded that his wise men tell him what the dream was and explain to him its meaning. Of course this was humanly impossible. None of the wise men could meet the king’s demands. So the decree went forth that they should all be killed.
At this time word came to Daniel and his three young companions that they too would suffer death, for they were included with the group of the wise men of the realm. But Daniel requested the privilege of a respite, in order that he might seek God for divine revelation. His request being granted, these four lads set themselves to pray and plead with God for His favor. Then was the secret revealed to Daniel, and he was ready to stand before the king. Listen to his words:
“There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. . . . And He that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.” Daniel 2:28, 29.
After the Lord had revealed the dream to Daniel, the prophet had said: “He
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changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: . . . He revealeth the deep and secret things: He knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with Him.” Verses 21, 22.
It is God alone who can foretell the future; it is He that tells us what shall be in “the latter days.” Kings and rulers are permitted to reign only so long as He suffers them to continue. He sees the condition of things in this world of darkness, and He also sees the light of hope that shines amidst the gloom. We are permitted to see only as His prophetic word gives us light. Therefore men everywhere ought to study, pray for an understanding of, and accept the teachings of, the Holy Scriptures. If they will do this, they will be able to see the purpose of God in the things that perplex them, and find a solution to their problems.
In the dream which Daniel presented to the king there is a record of that which should be in “the latter days.” The image of the dream was that of a man, made up of the various metals,—gold, silver, brass, iron, and clay. Baser and baser became each successive kingdom. Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome, four universal empires, all have gone down to ruin as the prophecy indicated they would. The kingdoms into which Rome was divided, symbolized by the iron mixed with potters’ clay, are present with us to this day. The conclusion of the dream pictured a stone, “cut out without hands,” and it crashed against the image with such tremendous force that the gold, the silver, the brass, the iron, and the clay were ground to powder, and the “wind carried them away.” Then the word says that the stone “filled the whole earth,” thus taking the place of the kingdoms which now possess it.
In his interpretation, the prophet showed that the four metals represent the four universal empires which we have mentioned. He says: “Thou, 0 king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. . . . Thou art this head of gold.” Daniel 2:37, 38. History reveals that Babylon came upon the stage of action about 606 b. c. so it is easy by the study of history to follow on from that point to our time and to see the accuracy of the prediction and the application of the prophecy.
Following Rome, there will never be another world kingdom until the fifth kingdom is established, which is represented by the “stone.” No power on earth can alter this prophecy, none can change it. Armies with tanks and airplanes may put fear into the hearts of men, but God will laugh at them as they endeavor to weld together that which He has said would never again become one under the rule of man. Says the prophet:
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“ Whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken [brittle, margin]. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with miry clay.” Verses 41-43.
History has recorded the breaking up of the Roman Empire. It has also recorded the endeavors on the part of men to unite those parts again. Intermarriage among the crowned heads of Europe was resorted to. Armed force has been tried before, and is being tried now. None have succeeded, none will succeed.
Of the original ten divisions into which Rome was divided, seven still remain in Europe today despite the war which has resulted in the conquest of many other minor nations. Here are the seven, the weak and the strong, the iron and the clay: England, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal.
In spite of the destruction of some weaker nations in Europe, such weak ones as Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland still remain. There may be a curtailment of their freedom, but they are there, standing as witnesses to the “more sure word of prophecy.” France was not completely taken over in the conquest; she still holds a semblance of her authority as a self-governing state.
It is not the prowess of man nor the strength of armies, nor the wisdom of statesmen that have kept Europe from becoming a world empire once more; it is the power of God’s word.
“The word of our God shall stand forever.”
It is “in the days of these kings,” or kingdoms, that the final crash is to come, and the “Stone” will become a mountain and fill the whole earth. It is the kingdom of Christ that is to be set up and reign forever. It comes with-
*¥■ On the wreckage of their own equipment Hitler's Germans crossed the River Don, while Stalin’s Russian planes and artillery took a frightful toll in lives. Mr.
Amundsen, in the accompanying article, shows what will take place in the days of these kings.
out the help of statesmen and military powers; it comes not through plans for social security and social betterment of the peoples. It comes through the preaching of the everlasting gospel, and the second coming of Christ in the clouds of glory.
“In the days of these kings [the remnants of Western Rome] shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed : and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.” Verse 44.
The prophet John saw the completion of this event when he wrote of the coming of the “Stone” in these words: “The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ; and He shall reign forever and ever.” Revelation 11: 15.
Why was king Nebuchadnezzar given such a dream 2,500 years ago? It was that we who live “in the latter days” might have something to which to pin our faith. There can be no denying that the dream has come true in every respect but one, and that is the climactic one, the coming of Christ’s kingdom. The prophet said, “ God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain and the interpretation thereof sure.” Daniel 2: 45.
This is the time when we should be turning our eyes heavenward, a day in which we should study the “sure word of prophecy.” It is the only light that can penetrate the black clouds of evil which engulf the world. God does hold out hope of peace in our day, a peace which will endure as long as God endures. But we must
accept Him, follow Him, love Him with all our hearts, with all our minds, with all our souls, with all our strength, and love our neighbors as we love ourselves. The politics and policies of selfish men can never create a righteous peace. They cannot bring about a change in human hearts.
The sands of time have almost run out; only a few grains remain. The empires of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome cry out from their dusty ruins: “The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure!” The mighty men of old who shook Europe and the world with their armies as they endeavored to weld together that which God said should not cleave, if they could speak to us today would confess, “The word of God standeth sure.”
So in the titanic struggle today, the word of prophecy is more sure and certain than anything else to which we can tie. Christ’s kingdom approaches. The “Stone” is poised and waiting to crash upon the nations of the world. Christ is coming in glory and with povrer, and His kingdom shall reign over all.
The Son of God wrho came to earth to reveal unto us the love of God for the human race; He who dwelt among us, having been made flesh; He who suffered, died, and was raised again for our redemption; He who for 1900 years has been interceding at the Father’s throne in behalf of man, is coming back again as our King.
Are you preparing for an entry into the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ? Are you purifying your life in obedience to the truth? Can you sincerely say from an honest heart, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus”?
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JONAH'S TOMB and CHRIST'S
By Jesse C. Stevens
ROM time to time some one comes forward with a revival of the theory that Christ died by crucifixion at three o’clock in the afternoon of Wednesday instead of Friday, and rose to life seventy-two full hours later around three o’clock on Saturday afternoon. This has been called the seventy-two-hour theory. It is built upon an interpretation of Christ’s words recorded in Matthew 12: 40: “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
The reasons for this theory are an ultraliteral interpretation of Jesus’ words, an entire disregard for the idiomatic language of Bible times, an ignoring of the fact that the Bible is a Jewish, or Eastern, book, and a disregard for all the plain historical facts given by all the gospel writers.
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What are the plain historical facts? First, it is a fact that there wTas but one full day between the day of Jesus’ crucifixion and the day of His resurrection. He died about three o’clock in the afternoon of the day on which He was crucified (Matthew 27: 45-50; Luke 23: 44-49), and rose on the third day thereafter. This fact is stated by all the sacred historians, and by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15: 3, 4: “For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day.” But since the day on which He was crucified was gone, in most part, when He died, and since he rose from the dead on the third day thereafter, there could have been but one full day between the day of His crucifixion and the day of His resurrection. This is an unassailable historical fact of the sacred history of the New Testament.
On the day of His resurrection, two of His disciples, whom Jesus overtook on their way from Jerusalem to Emmaus, being induced by Him to relate the events surrounding His crucifixion, said to Him, “Beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done.” Luke 24:21. Weymouth’s New Testament in Modern Speech translates these words thus: “Yes, and moreover it was day before yesterday that these things happened.” The record shows that this conversation took place on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday. The “day before yesterday” would have been Friday.
Second, it is a fact that Jesus was crucified on the sixth day of the week, Friday. Mark tells us that it was “the day before the Sabbath.” He writes, “And now when the even was come, because it was the
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preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath.” Mark 15:42. The expression “the day before the Sabbath” is translated from the Greek word, Pro-sabbaton. According to all the gospel writers, the Sabbath day mentioned was the day of the week immediately preceding the first day of the week, and immediately following the sixth day, the Pro-sabbaton. (Matthew 28: 1; Mark 16: 1; Luke 23:54-56; John 19: 42; 20: 1.)
Pro-sabbaton was the name by which the sixth day of the week was then known and designated. The Jews had a psalm for each day of the week. In our Authorized Bible Psalm 92 is headed, “A Psalm or Song for the Sabbath Day.” Psalm 93 was the Friday psalm. In the Septuagint translation, made about 277 b. c., and in use in Palestine in Christ’s time, Psalm 93 is titled, “A Song of Praise for the day of the Pro-sabbaton.” Hence this was the name applied to Friday. This is the day of the week on which Jesus was crucified as told by Mark.
All the gospel writers give an additional name to the day of the crucifixion,— “the preparation.” Matthew 27:62 calls it “the day of the preparation.” Mark 15:42 designates it as “the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath.” Luke 23: 54 says, “That day was the preparation and the Sabbath drew on.” John 19:42 speaks of it as “the Jews’ preparation day.”
From early times the Jews were commanded to make the sixth day of the week the preparation day for the Sabbath to follow. Even labor in the preparation of food was to be done on the sixth day of the week. The command was, “On the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and ... he [Moses] said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord; bake that which ye will bake today, and seethe that ye will seethe.” Exodus 16: 5, 23.
In time the sixth day of the week came to be called “the preparation.” The Greek word for “preparation” in the references cited above is Paraskeue, pronounced par-ask-oo-ay. When we nowadays speak of (Continued on page 16)
■¥• The resurrection of Christ. As Jonah spent three days inside the whale, so Christ was three days “in the heart of the earth.” Holy Scripture says the Saviour arose from the dead and came forth from Joseph's new tomb “very early in the morning on the first day of the v:eek Mr. Stevens interestingly discusses the parallel betewen these two events.
NE of the greatest questions puzzling the minds of men and women today is, “What happens to us immediately after death? Where are the dead? Can the dead talk, and if so can they come back and converse with the living? ” There are a great many people who believe that we go to our reward at death. If good, say they, we go to heaven; if wicked, we are consigned to hell. This kind of religion has made infidels of many. So we will examine this question in the light of the Bible in order to find the truth.
The first question for which we shall endeavor to find the answer is, “What is death?” Webster tells us that death is “cessation of life.” Turn with me while we read Romans 6: 23, “The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” In Romans 3:23 we learn that “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” Hence, we must conclude that every person born into this world is subject to death. We are wholly mortal. (See Job 4: 17; 1 Timothy 6: 16; Romans 2: 7.)
James 1: 15 tells us that “sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” At this point we remember the word of the angel Gabriel. Speaking to Joseph, Gabriel said, “Thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins.” Matthew 1: 21. Associating with this text the one found in Luke 19: 10 and the familiar text in John 3: 16, we learn that it was God’s plan not only to save men from sin but from its penalty also.
The plan of salvation, as explained to Adam and Eve, included a resurrection from death, otherwise death would be the end of our existence. As a pledge of this resurrection promise, Christ offered to die in our stead. That this was really understood we read in Job 19:25-27, “For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.”
The second question or problem which we shall consider is, “What is man’s condition in death?” Psalm 6: 5 answers: “In death there is no remembrance of Thee: in the grave who shall give Thee thanks?” We will read with this text another one found in Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, “The living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, . . . also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.” Possibly we should read one other verse right here, the first part of which is very familiar. It is this, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work,nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” Ecclesiastes 9:10.
It is evident from the above Scriptures
■¥■ Is the spirit which hovers over this grief-stricken husband the disembodied soul of his dead wife, or is it an intelli-gency of the spirit world which is deceiving him? Let Mr. Mitchell answer the question in his enlightening article, 11 Can the Dead Talk?”
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that man is wholly mortal, which means that he is subject to death. If man is mortal, he cannot be immortal. We read in 1 Timothy 6: 16 that God only has immortality. Immortality is a gift of God to man, to be given to the over comers at the second coming of Christ. Being subject to death, and death being the cessation of life, we ponder those words, “The dead know not anything.” “In death there is no remembrance of Thee.” And in another text we read, “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.” Psalm 146: 3, 4. Again, in Psalm 115: 17 we read, “The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.” All these scriptures testify that in death there is no knowledge of what is going on. Death brings cessation of life, actions, thought, and knowledge. So we conclude that the dead do not, and are not able to, talk with the living. They are truly dead.
The next problem that we shall study is, “Just what is death?” When Jesus was walking with His disciples beyond Jordan one day, a messenger brought Him word that His friend Lazarus was sick. Jesus said this sickness was for the glory of God. After waiting two days, Jesus with His disciples started to Bethany. Christ spoke of the death of Lazarus as a sleep. Said He,
“Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.” John 11:11. When the disciples chided Him for His thoughtlessness in awaking a sick man, Jesus said plainly, “Lazarus is dead.” John 11: 14. From these verses we conclude that Jesus likened death to sleep.
Read again in Acts 7:60, “And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.” It was the Apostle Luke who wrote the Book of Acts. (Luke was not one of the original twelve apostles, but was made an apostle later.) Luke, with Christ, looked upon this death that we all die as sleep. We read again in Acts 13: 36, “For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.” This was a portion of Paul’s sermon at Antioch. Paul thus tells us that he believes also that this death, common to all, is likened to sleep. Let us turn to the Old Testament. In
1	Kings 2:2, 10 we read, “I go the way of all the earth. ... So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.”
The prophet Nathan was sent to David with this message: “And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shall sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee.”
2	Samuel 7: 12. When Moses committed
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■¥• The transportation difficulties of this Russian farmer are far more serious than utire trouble.'* While his horses wade through ice-covered water up to their noses, this peasant tries to steady his load of forage, which must be transported across an ice-bound river without a bridge.
Prohibitive Taxes on Books
hat the United States Supreme Court grant a rehearing upon its five-to-four decision June 8, holding constitutional city ordinances which impose license taxes upon the sale of printed matter, is the plea contained in a petition filed with that tribunal. In support of the petition the American Newspaper Publishers Association filed a brief with the Supreme Court September 3, in which it is maintained that “any tax or other exaction which falls directly upon the act of circulation is an unconstitutional restraint upon the liberty of the press.”
Counsel for a group of “Jehovah’s Witnesses,” accused of vending religious books and pamphlets in three towns in Alabama, Arkansas, and Arizona without having paid special license fees or taxes, followed the petition for a rehearing. The American Civil Liberties Union also joined in the request for a reconsideration.
As quoted by the New York Times (September 14), the publishers in their brief express the thought that the majority opinion of the Supreme Court “establishes a dangerous precedent for licensing the press by legislative devices which resurrect the evils the First Amendment [freedom of the press] was intended forever to remove.’’’ “The very fact of licensing to engage or continue in the business of publishing or circulating newspapers,” said the brief, “destroys the independence of the press. . . .
“If there is power to impose license taxes as a price for carrying on the operations of the press, then there is nothing to prevent the Legislature from declaring that the business of publishing newspapers is a business to be licensed. And if it can so declare, it can also license the preacher of the gospel and can limit those who can preach, to the destruction of freedom of religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment.”
In this decision upon which a rehearing is asked, two issues seem to be involved, namely, freedom of religion and freedom of the press. It is one thing to print, it is another to publish, for publication includes both printing and circulation. Webster defines the word publish: “To bring before the public, as for sale or distribution; especially to print, or cause to be printed, and to issue from the press, either for sale or general distribution.” This principle, that a piece of printed matter is not published until distribution begins is recognized by the Library of Congress, which issues copyrights only when a copyright application is filed
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naming, not the time of printing, but the time of publication. To interfere with distribution of the products of the press becomes, therefore, as much an interference with the freedom of the press as does the actual stopping of the machinery or the censoring of matter before publication.
But since the books or pamphlets circulated by this sect were of a religious character, there is also involved the question of whether it is constitutional to enact legislation imposing a license fee or tax which interferes with or prevents the dissemination of religious views. In saying this we are not pleading for the religious views of Jehovah’s Witnesses. In fact we think they are seriously mistaken in their interpretation of Scripture. But the question is not whether they are right or wrong in their religious convictions, but whether they have the right under the Constitution to hold those convictions and publish them to others.
The principles of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison are still the principles embodied in the First Amendment to the Federal Constitution. Said Jefferson: “Almighty God hath created the mind free; all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercion on either, as was in His almighty power to do.”—Virginia
Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1785.
Madison stated the matter clearly when he said: “Religion is not in the purview of human government. Religion is essentially distinct from government and exempt from its cognizance. A connection between them is injurious to both.”— Letter to Edward Everett, 1823.
As the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads said in the House of Representatives on March 4 and 5, 1830, in its famous report on Sunday mails:
“Despots may regard their subjects as their property, and usurp the divine prerogative of prescribing their religious faith; but the history of the world furnishes the melancholy demonstration that the disposition of one man to coerce the religious homage of another, springs from an unchastened ambition, rather than a sincere devotion to any religion. , . . The catastrophe of other nations furnished the framers of the Constitution a beacon of awful warning, and they have evinced the greatest possible care in guarding against the same evil. . . . The principles of our government do not recognize in the majority any authority over the minority, except in matters which regard the conduct of man to his fellow man. . . . The Constitution regards the conscience of the Jew as sacred as that of the Christian, and gives no more authority to adopt a measure affecting the conscience of a solitary individual than that of a whole community.”
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Taylor’s Heturn to Rome
hen Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt’s personal representative to the Vatican, made another diplomatic call upon the Pontiff in mid-September, the United States took another step toward official recognition of the papal see. It is well known that the legal procedure of government is built upon precedent, and although Secretary of State Cordell Hull informed the American press that Mr. Taylor would remain at Vatican City for a limited time, yet this new diplomatic contact between the United States Government and the see of Rome can hardly be considered less than half-concealed courtship between the American state and the papal church. “ Efforts were made,” the United Press reported, “to keep Mr. Taylor’s arrival here [at Madrid] a secret.” But, said the United Press, “the newspaper Arriba prominently displayed a Rome dispatch saying Mr. Taylor already had arrived at the Vatican and that Luigi Cardinal Maglione, Papal Secretary of State, had been summoned back from his vacation.”
In February, 1940, when Mr. Taylor was first officially received at the Vatican, the New York Times (February 28) reported that the ceremony “in its outward form . . . did not differ from that for regular ambassadors, except that for the
first time all photographers were allowed to make pictures.” “Instead of a letter of credence,” said the Timest “the new envoy presented a private letter written to him by President Roosevelt, naming him ambassador, and in place of the customary speeches there was only another letter in the President’s handwriting, defining Mr. Taylor’s mission.”
In regard to this form of presentation, the New York Times remarked, “This ingenious solution of the juridical difficulties involved in sending a personal instead of a governmental ambassador is satisfactory to the Vatican, and it is hoped that it will calm criticism in the United States.”
That the Papacy was elated over this tie binding the United States to its diplomatic organization goes without saying. In the exchange of correspondence upon this subject between the Pope and the President, about the time Mr. Taylor was appointed, the pope stated his claim to be *'‘Vicar on earth of the Prince of Peace.” And the question of the recognition of this claim must sooner or later become involved in the official relationship.
Before Mr. Taylor presented his credentials, the question as to whether his appointment was an official or a merely personal one was considered, and a Vatican jurist stated the case thus, as reported in the New York Times for February .14,
1940: “Mr. Taylor will have to present credentials, without which it is not possible to accredit any kind of diplomatic agent, even an extraordinary and a personal one. According to international law, diplomatic agents are named by a sovereign—in this case the head of the [United] States, President Roosevelt—and therefore they have a public character. Hence, the fact that Mr. Taylor has been named personally by President Roosevelt does not distinguish him from other diplomatic agents, who, in representing their states, also represent their sovereigns personally. Since Mr. Roosevelt cannot, as an American citizen, send a representative to a foreign sovereign, he can only send Mr. Taylor here through his position as President of the United States. Diplomatic agents are sent, not by governments, but by sovereigns or heads of states, and the change of government does not necessitate a renewal of the credentials. Only a radical change of regime can bring that about, which means that, from a legal standpoint, Mr. Taylor could remain accredited to the Holy See even after President Roosevelt ceased to be president.”
The passing of two or more years since Mr. Taylor received his appointment does not make this situation the less dangerous to America’s fundamental institutions. As the Watchman Examiner (Baptist) said in its issue of January 11, 1940:
“This arrangement, as cautiously as it is being advanced, is an unmistakable violation of the principle by which the church and the state are to be completely separated. This republic should have no political contact with any religious group. Besides, this inauguration of diplomatic relations is an unmistakable preference for one church group. The White House does not suggest sending an envoy to the Lutherans of the world, the largest Protestant group, nor do we want one. The President does not have a personal representative among the 240,000,000 Mohammedans. Finally, we are distrustful of this arrangement because it may be the beginning of other encroachments and further discrimination. We demand the Government follow the constitutional principles and keep its hands entirely off our religious life.”
The Christian Century, January 3, 1940, said frankly: “To strip away all camouflage, the President has, in reality, established diplomatic relations with the Vatican without legal authority. ... In every respect . . . the dispatch of Mr. Taylor is of ill omen to the neutrality and religious freedom of the United States.”
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<¥• The airci'aft carrier “Lexington” was sunk about eight months ago in the Coral Sea. Here is shown the launching of the new “Lexington” at the Fore River shipyard of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, in Quincy, Massachusetts. Her trim lines indicate that she is even a better vessel than her predecessor.
DECEMBER, 1942
EMPESTS in the Mediterranean are usually very fierce and short. But I want to tell you of a great tempest that lasted for two weeks. The ship of which I speak was not a small one, for including the passengers and the crew there were two hundred seventy persons on board. As the storm increased in fury, all hands did everything that was humanly possible to save the ship. The wooden vessel was leaking badly so that they had to work the pumps night and day. At last having undergirded the ship with rope, and having thrown overboard a part of the cargo, there was nothing more that they could do except to commit their lives into the hands of God.
Most of the passengers upon the ship were prisoners and their guards. They were on their way to Rome, and among them was the Apostle Paul, a minister to the Gentiles, and St. Luke, the beloved physician. You will find a record of their experiences in the Holy Scriptures, in the twenty-seventh chapter of Acts.
At last neither shipmen nor passengers could do more. But the crew believed they were nearing the shore. So they sounded and found they were in twenty fathoms of water, and when they had sounded again they found fifteen fathoms. Then fearing that during the night their ship would be thrown upon rocks and dashed to pieces, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and anxiously, almost impatiently, waited for the day. There was no longer a master and a slave, no longer were there guards and prisoners—they were all men facing death. Each one felt that terror which everyone feels when he sees the grim reaper.
When a man faces death, the great value of human life is made manifest. As we pursue the ordinary walks of life, there may sometimes seem to be no difference between the Christian and the infidel. God sends rain upon both the just and the unjust, and sometimes it almost seems as though the wicked are more privileged than the righteous. But the difference is always to be seen when men are facing terrible tests—when they are facing death. In the fierce crucible of trial the pure gold is clearly distinguished from the dross. At such a time the righteous and the faithless are clearly marked by their conduct.
In Acts 27: 30 you will read that the sailors tried to abandon the ship. They looked for an excuse, and their excuse was that they wanted to drop anchors from the bow. But instead of doing that, they let down the ship’s lifeboat into the sea. It is not necessary to let down a lifeboat in order to throw out an anchor. What the sailors were minded to do was to save their own lives. They cared nothing for the lives of the others in the ship.
You may say that they were heathen, but if you will search your memory a little you will probably discover in your own life or in the lives of your associates the same
“UNDER THE SHADOW of
By Henri Drouault
principle at work. When there is shipwreck, and one’s own life is at stake, honor seems to be of but little or no importance. Everyone wants to save his own life.
But not so the Apostle Paul. He thought not of himself; he thought of all the others. He comforted, he encouraged, and he prayed for them. He prayed to God that the life of each one might be saved, and he received the answer. In the night an angel came to him with the assurance: “Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.” Acts 27: 24.
France; the God-fearing civilians had similar experiences. Five million refugees tramped the roads of France during the German invasion. The roads were constantly machine-gunned by the German airplanes. Among these multitudes were some of our Seventh-day Adventist members. Weeks went by with no news whatever from certain individuals among them, but when at last we did receive word, God had
And now 270 persons were impatiently waiting for the day. In spite of the common danger, the sailors were ready to man the lifeboat and leave the rest to perish. They did not know God. But God was with Paul. Here is a picture of life in the world today. When we are facing the test, either God is with us or God is not with us. In all seriousness let me put the question straight to our hearts—both mine and yours: When the tempest comes upon us, on which side will we find ourselves? You and I may be professing Christians, but that is not sufficient. We may believe ourselves to be very strong, and yet we may not be so. Upon each one of us have been placed two evaluations. One is the evaluation which men place upon us; the other the evaluation which God places upon us, and they may be very different the one from the other. We may be very great in man’s sight, but in God’s sight be as nothing. On the other hand, we may be little in man’s sight, but in the sight of God be very highly esteemed.
The Apostle Paul knew God, and so to the weary and the heartless company he was able to say, “There shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship. . . . And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.” Acts 27: 22, 44.
God has many miraculous ways of protecting His children. During the terrifying experiences in France several of our Seventh-day Adventist church members in the army said their comrades wanted to be near them for protection. They felt that if they could be near these God-fearing men they would have shelter which they could not have otherwise. Several times soldiers said to them, “If we had not been with you, our lives would not have been saved; but because of you our lives have been spared.” In the scriptures we have mentioned we find that the Apostle Paul prayed for his companions on the ship. One of our faithful soldiers, a lieutenant in the army, prayed in the same manner for his men. God saved every one of them. Our heavenly Father can and will answer the prayer of His children who earnestly seek Him.
But it was not only the soldiers who had the privilege of miraculous deliverances in
“My Refuge a
“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust. Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
“Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
* Ruins of Tours, France, after the devastating German bombardment. That life of any sort could exist through this is nothing less than a miracle. But read for yourself the experience narrated by Mr. Drouault.
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been merciful to them; their lives had been spared.
My parents wrote to me from the city of Tours that this constant stream of miserable refugees was passing by their house day and night. Some were in automobiles, some on bicycles, and thousands on foot. When the automobiles arrived at Tours the passengers were sometimes diminished in numbers. All along the road people were digging graves. The appearance of the people at this time was terrible—they appeared more like trapped beasts than
My Fortress”
“ Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
“Because He hath set His love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known My name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him My salvation.”—Psalm 91.
human beings. They trembled at the slightest noise of an airplane motor, thinking the Germans were after them again.
God protected His people on their great trek. In the bombarded fields He also protected them. You have doubtless heard of the whistling bombs. The whistling bombs made such a terrible noise that each person within earshot was sure the bomb was going to fall on his own head. These peculiar bombs were dropped on the people for days, and not only were the bodies of the people crushed and maimed, but their nerves were worn to shreds. Many of them became insane.
One of our members, pastor of the church at Rouen, had the habit, when these bombardments began, of calling his family about him—his wife and little boy. They pressed very close together, put their heads together so that they touched each other, and then they prayed. And this is what they prayed: “Dear God, if it is your will to protect us, and to spare our lives, we will be so happy; but if we must die, let us die together.” God protected them.
While we were still in Collonges we read in the newspaper that the German army was fighting in Tours, that the city had refused to surrender, so that there was fighting in the streets, and the Germans were taking house after house. We heard that the city was completely destroyed, in complete ruins.
My parents lived in that city. For weeks we had no word from them. One day we received a letter which my mother had written. She said, “First, I want to give you the news of the family, and tell you that we are all in good health. At the time of the invasion your aunt tried to leave the city
with several small children. She wanted to take refuge in the country with one of her daughters. But each time they were ready to cross a bridge over the river, the bridge was blown up just before they arrived. The Germans were everywhere along the roads so they had to walk across the fields, and in this way they walked for eight days, sleeping at night in the bushes. Their clothing became torn and their shoes worn out. Finally they decided that the only thing for them to do was to try to return to their house in Tours.
“By that time the Germans were occupying the city. When they saw the children looking so unhappy and sad, they took pity on them and permitted them to enter the city. They are now safe and sound. God has protected them and given them their lives.” And then mother continued:
“As for your father and me, we are still here in the house. We decided that God could protect us here in the home as well as on the road. When the bombardment began we went into the basement, and remained there for forty-eight hours. The bombardment became so intense, and the fires in the city so numerous that the air was almost suffocating. We could hardly breathe. But God protected us. Our house is intact. And your father has even been able to continue with his work, because he refused to leave the city. He made his request to the German officers, and they have permitted him to continue his work.”
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Everywhere God protects His children. No matter what your circumstances, if your heart is right with God and you ask Him to protect you, He will answer your prayers.
I should like for you to read the ninety-first Psalm. It is the Psalm most often read in France since the war began. The experience mentioned by the psalmist was the experience of most of our members in France during 1940.
If God is to protect us, His Spirit must abide in our heart. If our church members in France have been able to pass through such terrible experiences as these, it is because they have become acquainted with God, and by the power of His Holy Spirit have been obedient to Him. Sometimes it is necessary for us to spend days and weeks seeking Jesus. But when we find Him, and the Holy Spirit comes into our hearts, we must be careful not to grieve Him away. No sacrifice is too great to make, that He may abide with us. When the test comes to you, to each one of us, my prayer is that each one may have found Jesus. France had the warning in 1938; you have the warning from Europe. May each one of us know what it is to have the Spirit of the Lord Jesus in the heart. When the tempest comes, may we be able to pass through it. May each one be found now dwelling “in the secret place of the Most High” and in that day be found abiding “under the shadow of the Almighty.”
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DECEMBER, 1942
ADAM’S FIRST SABBATH
By Carlyle B. Haynes
HENEVER we speak of the requirements of God’s word concerning Sabbath observance, the question of the identity of the seventh day of the week is always raised. Inquirers after the truth upon this subject are sure to ask whether it is possible to trace the identical seventh day from creation with certainty that the day called Saturday is the seventh day in unbroken succession from creation.
Men are willing to admit that the seventh day of creation week was set apart as the Sabbath, that it was appointed by God to be observed as a day of rest, and that in the fourth commandment of the Decalogue given on Mount Sinai, men are charged to keep it. But some tell us that since that time there have been a great many changes, and that it is impossible, therefore, to know which day of the week is the seventh day. I once heard a minister preach on the Sabbath question, who, in his sermon, took the position that the reckoning of the days of the week had been changed more than sixteen hundred times during the centuries.
Some who keep Sunday are free to tell us that before Christ the method of reckoning time was inaccurate and incomplete, and resulted in great confusion. We are told that the calendar was inaccurate, in fact, that the inaccuracies of the many calendars, both Jewish and Roman, led to changes, and finally to the establishment of our present calendar; that the changes have
been so many and the inability to keep count of time has been so great, that we are now hopelessly confused and utterly unable to determine which day of the week is the seventh day.
To this question I invite your close study. If God considered the seventh-day Sabbath of such great importance that He placed in the Decalogue a specific command requiring it to be kept, surely He has provided some means whereby men may know which is the seventh day.
There is no question that God does attach great importance to the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath. He speaks of it in the fourth commandment as an Edenic institution. He says men are to keep it because “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.” Exodus 20: 11.
The Sabbath was established, then, in Eden, before man sinned. Twenty-five hundred years later, God came down upon Mount Sinai, and in the hearing of all the people spoke the Ten Commandments, one of which places upon man the obligation to observe the seventh day of the week.
God attached a very definite penalty for disobedience of His law. He tells us in the Bible that “sin is the transgression of the law,” that “the wages of sin is death,” and says further, that if we keep the whole law and yet offend in one point, we are guilty of all, and are punishable with death. It is therefore of supreme importance that we find some way, under God, to observe the law, the fourth commandment with the rest.
Can it be possible that God has attached the penalty of death for the breaking of His law, and then has permitted cir-
*¥■ It was the Saviour's custom to worship in the home of God on the Sabbath day, and in this He set an example for all humanity to follow in His steps.
cumstances to come about so that we can never know whether or not we are observing that law? Would that be reasonable? If God desires that we observe the seventh day, will He not make it possible for us to do so? He certainly will.
Let us go back to the very beginning, to the record of the creation of the world, and let us read in the first chapter of Genesis what the Bible has to say concerning the days of that first week. In the third, fourth, and fifth verses I read: “God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening [that is, the darkness] and the morning [that is, the light] were the first day.” Genesis 1: 3-5.
This scripture shows clearly how much time is included in a day. There is some dispute about it now, as to whether those days were really days of twenty-four hours each, or whether they were thousands of years in length; but no one can read the record closely and find that the days were any longer than these days with which we are familiar. The evening, the dark part, and the morning, the light part, of the daily cycle, are together called a day. The first day was composed of an evening and a morning; it was composed of just two periods, one dark and one light. Put the two parts together, and you have one day of creation.
“The evening and the morning were the first day.” Which portion of the day is mentioned first? The evening, the dark part, is mentioned first because it came first. When the light is completed, the day is ended. In other words, when the sun sets in the west, one day is finished and another at the same moment begins.
We read in the eighth verse that “the evening and the morning were the second day”; in the thirteenth verse we read, “The evening and the morning were the third day”; in verse 19 we read that “the evening and the morning were the fourth day”; verse 23 tells us that “the evening and the morning were the fifth day”; and verse 31 says, “The evening and the morning were the sixth day.” “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.” Genesis 2: 1.
All those days, you will see, were real days such as we have now. The next verse tells us something about the seventh day from the beginning, the day which came after the passing of six evenings and six mornings, six dark parts of a day and six light parts. Concerning that seventh day we read: “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
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blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.” Genesis 2:2, 3.
God did something different on this seventh day from what He did on any other day of creation week. He brought the earth, and the things upon it, into existence on the six days, and on the seventh day He finished His work by resting. Then He sanctified and blessed the seventh day, set it apart, appointed it to be kept. There certainly can be no dispute, no argument at all upon this point. In the beginning God established the seventh day as His blessed, holy rest day. That is clear, is it not?
But there still remains the question, Can we identify that day now? Six thousand years have passed; nations have risen and fallen; generations have come and gone. The world itself was overturned at the time of the Flood. Human handiwork has been broken up again and again. Over large parts of the surface of the world ignorance has reigned. Calendars have come and gone. Here we are, living in the twentieth century of the Christian era. Can we today locate that identical seventh day from creation? If we can, we have found the Sabbath.
All will agree that the seventh day was known by the immediate descendants of Adam. In fact, an institution has come to us in these days,—an institution separate from the Sabbath,—which gives us evidence of a uniformity in the practice of man in counting time from that day to this. That institution is the week.
Other periods of time which have been grouped together and called by certain names, such as the months and years, are marked by definite movements of the celestial bodies. Take the year, for instance.
How is its length determined?—By the movement of the earth in its orbit around the sun in about 36534 days. The lunar month is determined by the movement of the moon. The length of the day is fixed by the revolution of the earth on its axis.
But what movement of any heavenly body determines the length of the week? —None. It is not a natural but a mandatory division of time, and nothing in nature suggests it. No moon circles this earth in seven days, nor does any other planet swing around it in seven days. No heavenly planet, by its movements, so far as we know, groups seven days into a period of time. Where, then, did the world get its week, if not at creation?
In the Encyclopedia Britannica I find this statement:
“The week is a period of seven days, having no reference whatever to the celestial motions,—a circumstance to which it owes its unalterable uniformity. ... It has been employed from time immemorial in almost all Eastern countries; and as it forms neither an aliquot part of the year nor of the lunar month, those who reject the Mosaic recital will be at a loss, as Delambre remarks, to assign it to an origin having much semblance of probability.”—Vol. IV, art. “Calendar,” p. 988, 11th edition.
How will you account for the week? Where did the grouping of seven days find a place in the reckoning of the human family, and for what reason has the week been maintained in nearly all nations throughout all the centuries of human history, with a uniformity which has never been broken?
We can find an answer to this query only in the Sabbath institution. The well-nigh universal recognition of the week is evidence which cannot be disputed. It is
* Divine worship on board the U. S. S. “Arkansas,” at Barcelona, Spain, when the Midshipmen’s Practice Squadron visited that country.
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positive proof that the Sabbath has been known from the very earliest time, for days are grouped into weeks wherever we may go throughout the world, showing that the week dates back to the very earliest years of human history.
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the sin that kept him out of the land of Canaan, God, foretelling his death, said to Moses, “ Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers.” Deuteronomy 31: 16. Both the Old and the New Testament agree in this particular; both Testaments liken death to sleep; that is, this death that we all die, good and bad alike. One further thought: Paul says that it is the sleeping saints that will be resurrected. (See 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-17.)
Our next question is, “ Where do we go at death? ” “Man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?” Job 14: 10. Job answers in verse 12, “So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. O that Thou wouldst hide me in the grave, that Thou wouldst keep me secret, until Thy wrath be passed, that Thou wouldst appoint me a set time, and remember me!” “If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.” Job 17: 13.
In these texts Job first asks, “What shall become of us at death? ” He then proceeds to answer his own question. He himself likens death to sleep, and says that we shall not be awakened out of our sleep until the end of time (till the heavens be no more). He says further that God would hide him in the grave; and in the last verse he definitely says that while he is waiting in sleep, or death, for the resurrection, he will wait in the grave. Place beside this text the one we read a moment ago in Ecclesiastes 9 :10, “There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”
Let us read another text in the Old Testament, this time in Daniel 12:2. Speaking of the morning of the resurrection at the end of the world, Daniel says, “ Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” From these texts we learn that the Old Testament agrees that we stay in the grave from the moment of death, until the morning of the resurrection.
Now let us go to the New Testament. “Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice.” These are words of Jesus
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DECEMBER, 1942	Page THIRTEEN
“AS STORIES GD
JEVERAL years ago some business men, going to their offices in the city on a fast train, were sidetracked at a way station. After a half hour’s waiting they became quite uneasy and said to the conductor, “This is great service you are giving us,” and reminded him of the important appointments they had for that morning in the city. Not wishing to disturb them unduly, the conductor made no reply. They waited another half hour, when a freight train passed them. This was more than they could stand, and they became abusive. After a little the conductor came to them and said, “Gentlemen, there has been a flood down the line, and I was not sure about the bridge ahead of us; so I sidetracked this train and allowed the freight train to go ahead of us to test it. The bridge went down.” One and all of those passengers felt like lifting their hats and thanking the conductor for his foresight and good sense.
Plans carefully worked out are sometimes interfered with by a kind Providence. We •cannot see why. Could we penetrate the future, we would frequently find an explanation. God sees and leads us as we would choose to be led, could we see what He sees.
You have been sidetracked by illness. Naturally you are anxious to get on the main line again as soon as possible. You are uneasy. Do not be in too much of a hurry. Wait until the conductor tells you it is safe to go.
For your encouragement I want to say that in reading about men who have lived to an advanced age I find that at some time in life they were sidetracked by sickness. Luigi Cornaro, who lived past the age of one hundred, was one of these. At the age of forty he was at the point of death. His physician informed him that there was no hope for him. All his relatives had died. He alone at the age of forty was left. He then determined to find out why he was in this condition. He soon discovered the cause. Instead of eating and drinking as before, he limited his daily supply of food. So radical were his reforms that his friends predicted he would surely die of starvation. But he did not. He surprised them all, and at the expiration of one year was enjoying good health.
At the age of fifty, in writing to the physician, he said, “I fully expect to live another quarter of a century.” Time more than fulfilled this prediction. At the age of ninety-six he wrote his biography, which is most interesting literature. He tells us how he enjoyed fife at that advanced age. “I relish an ordinary piece of bread,” he said,
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“better than I formerly enjoyed the most exquisite dainties.” His mind was clearer so that he appreciated the beauties of nature as he never did before. All his senses, he said, continued “perfect.” It was fortunate for him to have been sidetracked early in life.
John Wesley was another sidetracked man.
At the age of forty he was practically an invalid. He began to make some radical changes in his manner of living.
At the age of eighty-two he said, “It is now twelve years since I have experienced any sensation of weariness.”
I, too, was once a sidetracked man. I know something of how it feels. At the close of a lecture in Australia some years ago a lady came to me and said, “Are you Dr. Kress from London?” She had read a report of my death in a London paper. She brought the paper containing my obituary. To me it was interesting reading. In headlines I read: “The voice we once heard we shall hear no more.” It gave a very vivid write-up of all the good I had accomplished and deplored the fact that one so promising should be cut down so early in life. It ended by saying, “The world can ill afford to lose such men.”
It happened in this way: I had been a very sick man. For years I had been burning the candle at both ends. Finally my health failed. I discovered I had a disease which then was recognized as incurable. I fully expected to die, and in fact, came to the place where I wanted to die. I thought that possibly if I lived I might do some wicked thing, and that the Lord knew best; so I felt reconciled.
In this condition of apparent hopelessness, some of my associates felt that the work could not spare me. They wanted to carry out the instruction given in the book of James and have prayer. To this I consented. The result was that I began to improve and made a complete recovery. They did something that I knew nothing about at the time. They sent a cable to America, saying, “Kress dying. Pray.” This message was read before a large meeting, and those assembled had a special season of prayer. As stories go, I suppose
* Almost everybody is sidetracked at some time in his experience, but when a man reads his own obituary, well—but read what Dr. Kress has to say about it.
this one went. Someone said, “Have you heard that Kress is dying?” The next one probably said, “By this time no doubt he is dead,” and so it got into the papers.
My sickness taught me a lesson. While I had been careful in my habits of eating, I worked from morning till night, at my office in the city of London and at the sanitarium out in the country. I edited a health journal, and in addition traveled from place to place giving health lectures. Doing pioneer work, I was working at breakneck speed. Being alone, I felt everything depended upon me. Why at a time when I was so much needed I should be sidetracked, I could not then understand. I now know that it was the best thing that could have happened.
We all need to be sidetracked sometime in life, for we have all “gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way.” We have detoured from the simple life. The sole purpose of the gospel is to lead us back. Few would return if not sidetracked by illness. The Scriptures say, “ Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses. And He led them forth by the right way.” Psalm 107: 6, 7. The psalmist said, “It is good for me that I have been afflicted. . . . Before I was afflicted I went astray.” (Psalm 119:71, 67.)
We are anxious to be healed instantly, but this gets us into trouble sometimes. We should feel more concerned to ascertain and correct the causes of our illness. What is the good of being raised to health and
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then in a short time get back into a similar or worse state? To every healed man the words of Christ should be addressed, “Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee .” John 5: 14.
Sanitariums have been erected for sidetracked men and women. Here they have an opportunity to regain health and at the same time learn how to correct wrong habits of life. You have reason to thank God you are sidetracked. Do not expect a cure without making reforms in your habits of eating and drinking. Make that the important thing while here. Lay aside the cigar and the pipe and the cigarette. Give them up forever.
Some bring their sick stomachs and livers to a sanitarium somewhat as they would take a pair of shoes to a cobbler. They say, “I am here for two weeks. I must then get back to work. I want you to fix me up. Now it is up to you, Doctor.” The doctor cannot cure. The best he can do is to ascertain the causes of disease and point the way back to health. It is up to the patient to walk in it. God alone can heal, but we can remove obstacles, and thus be “ workers together with Him.”
One of the great essentials at our sanitariums is to teach patients, so that when they have regained their health, they will be able, after they leave, to keep what they have gained.
Some time ago I received a letter from a man who forty-five years before was a patient at a sanitarium in Michigan. He went there a discouraged and depressed man—a sidetracked man. At the age of eighty-three he wrote in a clear, distinct hand, “I want to thank you for the divine advice you gave me. I am eighty-three years old. I remember what you said to me. You said, * 1 If you follow the instructions I shall give you, you will live to a good old age.1 It has actually been fulfilled.” Now this man, who felt so hopeless, was in possession of good health, thankful that years ago he was a sidetracked man and came to the sanitarium.
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We can go about the matter of restoring sickly bodies to health with the same confidence gardeners go about their work of restoring sickly plants. Understanding the laws of plant life, they put something that is lacking into the soil, and the plant responds. If we sustain an injury to the hand, we expect it to heal if we keep the parts clean. We unconsciously exercise faith, for we have seen it take place again and again. We can exercise the same faith in health restoration. Nature, if given a chance, will heal injuries sustained through abuse. Prayer has its place; but prayer was never designed to change God’s laws. It was designed to bring us into harmony with His laws, thus enabling Him to do for us what He desires.
Can the Dead Talk?
(Continued from page 13)
found in John 5: 28. It might be well, right here, to recall the raising of Lazarus. Read of this in the eleventh chapter of John. While Jesus stood at the tomb of Lazarus, He gave a practical demonstration of what the resurrection will be in the last days. When He called Lazarus, He did not say, “ Lazarus come down from heaven,” nor “ Lazarus come up from hell.” Christ merely said, after He had had the tomb opened, “Lazarus, come forth.”
Take another text, “Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 0 death, where is thy sting? 0 grave, where is thy victory?” 1 Corinthians 15: 51-55.
Even the devil does not believe that we go to heaven or hell at death. Recall the experience of Jesus and His disciples in the land of the Gergesenes. As Jesus and His disciples stepped from the boat after the stormy night on the lake, they were met by
two men possessed of the devil. They cried out saying, “What have we to do with Thee, Jesus, Thou Son of God? Art Thou come hither to torment us before the time?” Matthew 8:29. Strange,—isn’t it?—that, when even the devils admit that they wait till the day of judgment to be punished, mankind should be led into believing an untruth about life after death!
Now we have examined texts in both the Old and New Testaments, both of which Testaments tell us that the dead stay in the grave until the resurrection. So far then, we have learned that death is a cessation of life. Our life ends when we die. There is no possibility of life or action until the resurrection. Also we have learned that when we die we sleep in the grave until we are called forth by the Great Redeemer.
Now let me submit a proposition for your consideration. If man is immortal, he is not subject to death. If he cannot die, why did Jesus say, “God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life”? John 3: 16. Isn’t it strange that God should promise to give us something that we already have? But stranger yet, when we read in Romans 2:7, that if we seek for immortality God will give it to us. I say stranger yet, to be told to seek for something that we already have. No, we do not have immortality now. God only has it (Continued on page 17)
The DOCTOR REPLIES to HEALTH QUERIES...
Medical and hygienic information of value to the general reader is given here by Owen S. Parrett, M. D. Inquirers may address the doctor in care of this magazine.
Disinfectant
What disinfectant would you advise to keep around the house for minor cuts and skin abrasions? A. B.
I	would not use tincture of iodine as it is rather caustic and may cause irritation of the wound. Milder drugs such as tincture of merthiolate or tincture of metaphen are better, and, in case of a wound liable to be soiled after dressing, the compound tincture of benzoin is excellent.
Goiter
Is iodine helpful in case of goiter and ivill it cure this condition? A. M.
Goiters are not all of the same kind. Small, hard goiters are often more serious than the large deforming types. A rapid heart, nervous tremor of the fingers, tendency to feel too warm and to perspire, together with general nervousness and early fatigue are some of the common symptoms; and in severe cases the eyeballs may protrude noticeably.
In simple oriadenomatous goiter the effect of iodine therapy is often very gratifying, and the iodine need be taken only in
very small amounts such as three or four drops of Lugol’s solution twice daily after meals. So far as a cure is concerned it is too much to expect, although in mild cases it may control the symptoms. Surgery is the best method of cure and is very successful in most cases.
Milk—Raw or Pasteurized?
What are the best kinds of milk to buy for the family? Is raw milk safe? L. B. K.
Raw milk is never really safe. The three conditions that must be guarded against are Bang’s disease, or undulant fever, tuberculosis, and streptococcic infections. Pasteurization seems to effectively safeguard from all of these three dangers. Raw milk, if from certified cows, may be relatively safe, but is not absolutely so, since infections may occur between the tests on cows.
Mastitis affects a large proportion of American cows, and may be a source of sore throats and other streptococcic infections, and this is more difficult to protect against, except by boiling or pasteurization. Pasteurization changes the milk but little. Homogenized milk is a little easier of digestion and tastes a little richer.
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DECEMBER, 1942
Jonah’s Tomb and Christ’s
(Continued from page 6)
Friday, everybody knows reference is to the sixth day of the week. Likewise in Christ’s time, among Greek-speaking Jews, when a day of the week was mentioned by the name of Paraskeue, every one understood it to refer to the sixth day of the week, the day immediately preceding the seventh day of the week, or the Sabbath day. The word Paraskeue, unless it was modified, designated the sixth day of the week just as definitely as our English word Friday does today.
A learned writer says, “Thus, by degrees, Friday, or the Pro-sabbatonf became known as the Paraskeue or Preparation; as Saturday, the day of rest, was known as the Sabbath, all other days being designated only by first, second, third, etc. As the preparation was made in the afternoon preceding, or during that part of it which was known as ‘the evening/ this term was generally applied to it in Hebrew and Chaldee, as by the Germans the day before Sunday is called Sonnabend or Sun-ovening. Thus the sixth day of the week received its current Greek name from its peculiar relations to the Sabbath. Paraskeue became the equivalent to Friday. As remarked by Westcott: ‘Being the preparation for the weekly Sabbath, it was natural that it should become at last the proper name of the day.’”—uThe Life of Our Lord” by Bishop Samuel J. Andrews, page 473.
In modern Greek Paraskeue is the name for Friday. The writer has before him a 1942 Greek calendar. Here is what we
PARASKEYH [Paraskeue]
2
IANOYAPIOY [Janouariou]
Just below this is the same in English:
FRIDAY
2
January
Turning the page we observe that Saturday, January 3, is called Sabbaton which is the same Greek word translated Sabbath in our New Testament:
SABBATON
3
IANOYAPIOY
And in English:
SATURDAY
3
January
In passing it might be mentioned that here is one of many evidences that the identity of the days of the week has not been lost through the years since Christ’s time, although there have been among the nations various yearly calendars wherein dates have been different.
The Gregorian calendar was adopted by a number of Roman Catholic countries in
1582 when ten days (dates) were dropped, and the next day after Thursday, October 4, became Friday, October 15. Greece waited 341 years before adopting this calendar, still holding to the Julian calendar. When in 1923 Greece did adopt the Gregorian calendar, 13 days (dates) had to be omitted, and October 1 became October 14. But during all of this time, 341 years, the days of the week were uniform in both calendars. For example, George Washington was born Friday, February 22, according to the Gregorian calendar, and on February 11, Julian calendar; but it was Friday in both calendars.
It is not only the Greek language that witnesses every week to the identity of the days of the week and of the true Sabbath of the fourth commandment of the Decalogue. In the German language, for example, Mittwoch is the name for Wednesday, meaning the middle of the week, which shows that Sunday is the first day of the week and Saturday is the seventh. Likewise in the Italian language Saturday is called Sabbato. The same is true in many languages. Our Fridays, Saturdays (Sabbaths), and Sundays are in the same weekly succession as were the Friday, Saturday (Sabbath), and Sunday of Passion week.
No one therefore can excuse himself from following the example of the disciples, who “rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment,” on the ground of not being able to ascertain which day of the week is the true Sabbath day.
From the above it appears that in the language of Mark 15: 42, we have a signpost, two arms of which, namely, Pro-sabbaton and Paraskeue, point to the day of the week of Christ’s crucifixion, and that day was Friday.
(Continued next month)
Taylor’s Return to Rome
(Continued from page 9)
and written by the Roman pontiffs upon the question of the primacy and their right to rule the world. It is also generally known that the Papacy is unyieldingly opposed to the American principle of the separation of church and state. One papal statement among others which might be given is found in Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical “ Sapientiae Christianse,” wherein he says that “the political prudence of the pontiff embraces diverse and multiform things; for it is his charge not only to rule the Church, but generally so to regulate the actions of the Christian citizens that these may be in apt conformity to their hope of gaining eternal salvation.”
But what Protestant Christian citizen desires to have his actions regulated by the “political prudence” of the pope? The American Republic long ago renounced
the idea that the powers of government descend through the Pope upon the heads of rulers. Our forefathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that all men are endowed, not by the Church, but “by their Creator,” with the unalienable right of liberty, and that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
The plans which the Roman Catholic Church has in mind for the United States are set forth succinctly by Dr. E. Boyd Barrett, for twenty years a member of the Jesuit order, in his illuminating work, “Rome Stoops to Conquer.” “Officially the Catholic Church sees America,” he says, “in the direst straits in the matter of morals and religion, and sees Catholicism as the only possible way of salvation for the nation. . . . She sees herself as the last defender of true Americanism. . . .
“The Church no longer regards any ‘interfering’ on her part with American manners and customs as un-American. All that she does is, she claims, done in the best interests of America. Her program, a long and varied one, provides for the reform of theatres; the censorship of books and reviews; the prevention of birth control propaganda; the defeat of the eugenics movement; the introduction of religion into the public schools; the obtaining of state aid for sectarian schools; the reform of industrial relations in accordance with papal encyclicals; the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with the Vatican; the acquisition of a more than presidential veto on legislation and on the policy of the Foreign Office, etc. Even these items comprise but a part of the Church’s program. In general that program constitutes the domination, . . . of American thought, manners, and government by the Catholic Church. . . .
“That the Catholic Church is deadly in earnest in campaigning to ‘save America from herself’ cannot be doubted. It is fully in accord with her traditions and her psychology. In whatever country she may be, the moment she feels herself strong enough to dominate thought, conduct, and government, she makes the attempt to do so.”—Pp. 7, 8.
It was on Febraury 11, 1929, that Premier Mussolini and the Papal Secretary of State signed the Italian-Vatican Agreement, and thus poured healing ointment on the deadly wound which was inflicted upon the Papacy in 1798, when the French General Berthier took the pope prisoner. That the Papacy would be restored to power was predicted in the Holy Scriptures in Revelation 13: 3. Soon it will be possible for the church which courts the state to say, “I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.” Revelation 18: 7. But that religion which joins hands with the civil power always persecutes, and persecution invites the retributive judgments of God. (Revelation 18: 8.)
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SOCIAL QUESTIONS ANSWERED ★
By Arthur W. Spalding-----
Can the Dead Talk?
(Continued from page 15)
(1 Timothy 6:16), but He has promised to give it to the saints at the end of the world.
Let me give you another proposition. If the wicked are consigned to hell at death, then Christ must needs have descended into hell for us. This is what the so-called Apostles’ Creed teaches us. “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” Hebrews 2: 9. “And that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again.” 2 Corinthians 5: 15.
From these texts we gather that Christ died for every sinner. But if my sins would damn me eternally in hell, there would be no opportunity for Christ to have ever been released from there, were He to pay the penalty only for the sins of one sinner. I know, some teach that Christ was in hell three days and three nights, but this would not pay the penalty. I merely mention this to show how inconsistent it is with the Bible and with reason, to teach that we go to our reward at death. Remember, if we were to go to our reward at death, Christ would be in hell now and you and I would be without salvation.
This doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and of conscious existence after death, had its origin in the first lie, told by the devil at the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Satan said, “Ye shall not surely die.” This lie has echoed and re-echoed through all the centuries of this earth’s history. Through it, Satan intends to destroy the story of the gospel, to lessen confidence in God, to encourage doubt, and to make sport of the experience of Calvary.
As we study this subject in the light of the word of God, we see the wonderful love and mercy of God extended to the human family snared in sin. “The wages of sin is death,” was a divine fiat. Death follows in the train of sin; there is no escaping it; the penalty must be paid. So as God the Father and God the Son outlined the plan of salvation to Adam and Eve, they were made to understand that this life is but a probationary period in which to perfect character to stand the test of the judgment. They understood that as long as the human family lived in this sinful world, both good and bad would lie down in the sleep of death at the close of their life’s work. The unbeliever has always scoffed at the thought of the resurrection, and even the Apostle Paul was arrested, and later suffered death, because he dared to voice his belief in the resurrection and other kindred truths. Let us remember that God’s ways are always best. Let us search this question more diligently and study it more carefully. Remember, “The truth shall make you free.”
DECEMBER, 1942
War Marriages
Do you advise war marriages? I mean, here am /, a girl eighteen years old, Junior League, getting in the scrap, thinking of WAAC, all that sort of thing. And there is Bob, just turned twentyy sure to be drafted under the new law. And if he goes to Ireland, or Guadalcanal, or some other heathen place, should I remain here as his young wife, or just another girl? Probably you don’t know how young hearts throb, and I may be foolish to ask you; but Bob seems to think my opinion would be worth a good deal more if weighted with your approval.
Probably Bob is right. If I don’t know how young hearts throb, it’s not the fault of a thousand and one youthful cardiac organs palpitating before my eyes. I could even skip a beat myself when requested by Romeo or especially Juliet. The right answer, however, is going to be given not by throbbing hearts but by level heads, and I suspect that Bob’s is a bit more level than yours.
I am not going to say, No, unqualifiedly. Certainly there will be marriages during the war, and there should be. But who should marry?—Not children, not immature youth. Marriage is more than a glamorous adventure compassed by a few days of ecstatic joy. Marriage is a union for life; and life, my girl, is more than brass buttons and the alphabet. Not that I disapprove your gay insouciance. Old heads cannot be put upon young shoulders; and the world is enriched by the swing and swagger of youth as well as by the poise of age. I hope that your high spirits bespeak a courage that will be proof against the griefs of tomorrow.
For, make no mistake, we are in a tragic time. The world is in agony; and “the world” means wives, mothers, sisters, children, as well as men bending against the hail of iron and fire. We have as yet in America little sense of the anguish which for months and years has been the lot of Poland, Norway, France, Britain, Yugoslavia, Greece, Russia, China. It will come to us, God knows in what measure. Your heart perhaps, dear girl, will yet be pierced through and through. There will be war widows, there will be orphans. The present little list of ten thousand or so casualties will be multiplied manyfold. There will be “no house where there was not one dead.” We have to fortify our minds and strengthen our hearts against that day.
There are many girls who think a “war marriage” is insurance against—well, what? Not grief, nor loneliness, nor widowhood, surely. But against that stigmatization of an “unclaimed treasure.” All the best men
are going away; maybe ten maybe twenty per cent of them will never come back; there will be a million or two million girls who will have missed their chance, who will always live under the opprobrium of being old maids. Well, I grant, if there is any stigma in that, a war marriage will insure against it; you can write “Mrs.” instead of “ Miss ” before your name. But some longheaded maidens do not see in that any advantage in the matrimonial market. In any case, it does not bespeak a very comprehensive view of life.
More girls, however, are not thinking at all; they are just “thrilling.” The tempo of life has been stepped up by the drums of war, until the heart throbs are around a hundred and the temperature at fever point. Marriage, legal or natural, is their reaction to the excitement. They have acquired a war complex which is going to write a greater tragedy in the life of the nation than all the Messerschmidts and the Zeros can spell on the battlefield. For the breakdown of moral concepts and conduct in women and children, as well as men, will bring forth after the war a harvest of hell that no law can master.
What has this to do with your question? Just this: it indicates that you may have fever. Not many twenty-year-old boys and eighteen-year-old girls should marry; in my lexicon, none. Their minds and judgments are not mature; they may later lament their decision; the incidence of divorce is far higher in those who marry in their teens than in the twenties. Unless we are to adopt Nazi philosophy and ethics, holding that the chief function of woman is to breed more men for the war machine and that the biological results justify any moral manipulations, we are not impressed by the argument that the birth rate will fall unless there are hasty war marriages. The nation will be better served by one child well bred than by a thousand spawned in passion and reared in neglect.
The bride of a few days, then separated by army orders from her husband for months, perhaps for years, has no normal life within the bounds of social ethics. She cannot receive the attentions of any other man, even if there were enough men to spare. If she becomes a mother, she has an added responsibility which in most cases is not met by her absent husband’s pay, and she is likely forced into war industries or some other employment. In that case her child becomes a member of that tragic army of “doorkey children” now growing hugely before our eyes, whom all the resources of the nursery school and hasty social service cannot relieve. It is true that war is responsible for this disruption and
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confusion of our normal life, and we cannot wholly escape the consequences, but why personally multiply the trouble? You will have problems and sorrows enough without volunteering in the Trouble Battalion.
There will be marriages, and some of them will be wise and desirable; many of them will be foolish and tragic. No one is occult enough to forecast the future in detail, though the palmist and the Spiritist witch will doubtless reap a harvest from credulous souls. The times demand clear heads, straight thinking, self-control. Here and there a Junior Leaguer and a milkmaid will demonstrate their possession of these qualities. They will marshal their physical, mental, and spiritual resources to give due service to their people, their government, and their God, and hold their emotions in control. Such a woman is worth a thousand thoughtless girls who yield themselves to the torrent of erotic impulse. If she has a
beloved man in the army, she will be his inspiration and moral shield quite as much as if she were distantly married to him. And, please God, when the war is over, there will be a happy reunion. In any case she will be a woman. God knows we need women as well as men.
A Day of Glad Tidings
0Continued from page 2)
“the name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous runneth into it and is safe.” Proverbs 18: 10. He may know for himself that “he that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Psalm 91:1. He may himself pass through the awesome experience, “a thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, yet it shall not come nigh thee. Only with
thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.” Verses 6, 7. To such, at no distant day, when woes and troubles multiply, will be addressed the words: “Come my people, enter into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee, hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.” Isaiah 26: 20.
He who knows Christ may be assured that very soon “He that shall come will come and will not tarry.” Hebrews 10: 37. He knows that the tarrying of Christ has been because of the longsuffering of God, who is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance,” and he will not be greatly troubled in heart because God has not yet cut off the wicked in their sins. But he will be of good cheer, understanding full well that very soon, yes, in this our day, the consummation of the great plan of salvation will be seen.
	EVERY SUNDAY			COAST-TO-COAST						Local	
THE	VOICE		OF PROPHECY						Station	Time P.M.	Kc.
								Paris, Texas	KPLT	6: oo	1490
	P. O. Box 55,		Los Angeles, California					Pendleton, Oreg.	KWRC		1230
								Philadelphia, Pa.	WIP	7: 00	610
Network Radio Log				Mutual Broadcasting System				Phoenix, Ariz.	KOY	9: 15	550
		Local				Local		Pine Bluff, Ark.	KOTN	6: 00	1490
		Time				Time		Pittsburgh, Pa.	WCAE	9: 15	1250
	Station	P.M.	Kc.		Station	P.M.	Kc.	Pittsfield, Mass.	WBRK	7: 00	1340
Aberdeen, S. Dak.	KABR	6: oo	1420	Fort Worth, Texas	KFJZ	6: 30	1270	Port Arthur-Beaumont,			
Aberdeen, Wash.	KXRO	9« 15	1340	Fredericksburg, Va.	WFVA	7: 00	1290	Texas	KPAC	6: 00	1250
Abilene, Texas	KRBC	6: oo	1450	Fresno, Calif.	KFRE	9: 15	1340	Portland, Oreg.	KALE	9: i5	1330
Akron, Ohio	WJW	7: oo	1240	Gadsden, Ala. ^	WJBY	6: 00	1240	Portsmouth, Ohio	WPAY	7: 00	1400
Albany, Ga.	WALB	7: 00	1590	Gainesville, Fla.	WRUF	7: 00	850	Poynette-Madison, Wis.	WIBU	6: 00	1240
Albany, N. Y.	WABY	7: 00	1400	Gary, Ind.	WIND	6: 00	560	Price, Utah	KEUB	5 - 00	1450
Albany, Oreg.	KWIL	9: 15	1240	Goldsboro, N. C.	WGBR	7: 00	1400	Providence, R. I.	WEAN	7: 00	790
Albert Lea, Minn.	KATE	6: 00	1450	Grand Forks, N. D.	KILO	6: 00	1440	Provo, Utah	KOVO	5 : 00	1240
Albuquerque, N. Mex.	KOB	10: 00 a.m. 770		Grand Junction, Colo.	KFXJ	5: 00	920	Racine, Wis.	WRJN	6: 00	1400
Amarillo, Texas	KFDA	6: 00	1230	Grand Rapids, Mich.	WLAV	7: 00	1340	Raleigh, N. C.	WRAL	7: 00	1240
Appleton, Wis.	WHBY	6: 00	1230	Great Bend, Kans.	KVGB	6: 00	1400	Redding, Calif.	KVCV	9: 15	1230
Ashland, Wis.	WATW	6: 00	1400	Greenfield, Mass.	WHAI	7: 00	1240	Richmond, Va.	WRNL	7 : 00	910
Astoria, Oreg.	KAST	9: 15	1230	Hagerstown, Md.	WJEJ	7: 00	1240	Riverside, Calif.	KPRO	7: 00	1440
Atlanta, Ga.	WATL	7: 00	1400	Hartford, Conn.	WTHT	7: 00	1230	Roanoke, Va.	WSLS	7: 00	1490
Austin, Texas	KNOW	6: 00	1490	Hazelton, Pa.	WAZL	8: 30	1450	Rochester, N. Y.	WSAY	7: 00	1240
Bakersfield, Calif.	KPMC	9: 15	1600	Holyoke-Springfield,				Rock Island, Moline, 111.-			
Baltimore, Md.	WFBR	7: 00	1300	Mass.	WHYN	7: 00	1400	Davenport, Iowa	WHBF	6: 00	1270
Battle Creek, Mich.	WELL	6: 00	1400	Hot Springs, Ark.	KWFC	6: 00	1340	Rockford, 111.	WROK	6: 00	1440
Big Springs, Texas	KBST	6: 00	1490	Houston, Texas	KXYZ	6: 00	1470	Roseburg, Oreg.	KRNR	9‘. 15	1490
Binghamton, N. Y.	WNBF	7: 00	1490	Indianapolis, Ind.	WIBC	6: 00	1070	Rutland, Vt.	WSYB	7: 00	1380
Birmingham, Ala.	WSGN	6: 00	610	Ironwood, Mich.	WJMS	6: 00	1450	Salisbury, Md.	WBOC	7: 00	1230
Bisbee, Ariz.	KSUN	9: 15	1230	Jackson, Tenn.	WTJS	6: 00	1390	Salisbury, N. C.	WSTP	7: 00	1490
Bismarck-Mandan, N. D.	KGCU	5: 00	1270	Jacksonville, Fla.	WJHP	7: 00	1320	Salt Lake City, Utah	KLO	5 : 00	1430
Boston, Mass.	WNAC	7: 00	1260	Jamestown, N. Dak.	KSJB	6: 00	1400	San Angelo, Texas	KGKL	6: 00	1400
Bridgeport-New Haven,				Janesville, Wis.	WCLO	6: 00	1230	San Antonio, Texas	KABC	6: 00	1450
Conn.	WICC	7: 00	600	Jefferson City, Mo.	KWOS	6: 00	1240	San Bernardino, Calif.	KFXM	9*. 15	1240
Canton, Ohio	WHBC	7:00	1230	Jonesboro, Ark.	KBTM	6: 00	1230	San Diego, Calif.	KGB	9: 15	1360
Centralia-Chehalis, Wash.	KELA	9: 15	1470	Joplin, Mo.	WMBH	6: 30	1450	San Francisco, Calif.	KFRC	9: 15	610
Charleston, W. Va.	WGKV	10: 30	1490	Kansas City, Mo. WHB-KXKX		6: 00	1590	San Luis Obispo, Calif.	KVEC	9: 15	1230
Charlotte, N. C.	WAYS	7: 00	610		KITE	6: 00		Santa Ana, Calif.	KVOE	9: 15	1490
Chattanooga, Tenn.	WDEF	6: 00	1400	Klamath Falls, Oreg.	KFJI	9: 15	1240	Santa Barbara, Calif.	KDB	9: 15	1490
Chicago, 111.	WIND	6: 00	560	Knoxville, Tenn.	WBIR	6: 00	1240	Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.	WOOS		1230
Chico, Calif.	KHSL	9: 15	1290	Laconia, N. H.	WLNH	7: 00	1340	Scranton, Pa.	WARM	7: 00	1400
Cincinnati, Ohio	WKRC	7: 00	550	Lake Worth-Palm Beach,				Seattle, Wash.	KOL	9: 15	1300
Clarksville, Tenn.	WJZM	6: 00	1400	Fla.	WWPG	7: 00	1340	Selma, Ala.	WHBB	6: 00	1490
Cleveland, Ohio	WHK	7: 00	1420	Laredo, Texas	KPAB	6: 00	1490	Sheboygan, Wis.	WHBL	6 : 00	1330
Clovis, N. Mex.	KICA	4: 00	1400	Lewiston-Auburn, Maine	WCOU	7: 00	1240	Sherman-Denison, Texas	KRRV	6: 00	910
Coffeyville, Kans.	KGGF	6: 00	690	Lexington, Ky.	WLAP	6: 00	1450	Sioux City, Iowa	KTRI	6: 00	1450
Columbia, S. C.	WCOS	7: 00	1400	Lincoln, Nebr.	KFOR	6: 00	1240	Spokane, Wash.	KFIO	9: 15	5io
Columbus, Ohio	WHKC	7: 00	640	Little Rock, Ark.	KGHI	6: oo	1230	Springfield, Mass.	WSPR	7: 00	1270
Corpus Christi, Texas	KRIS	10: 00	1360	Longview, Wash.	KWLK	9: 15	1400	Springfield, Mo.	KTTS	6: 00	1400
Dallas, Texas	WRR	6 : 00	1310	Los Angeles, Calif.	KHJ	9: 15	930	St. Louis, Mo.	KWK	6 : 00	1380
Danville, Va.	WBTM	7: 00	1400	Louisville, Ky.	WGRC	6: 00	1400	St. Petersburg-Tampa, Fla. WT5F		7 : 00	1380
Decatur, Ala.	WMSL	6 : 00	1440	Lowell-Lawrence, Mass.	WLLH	7: 00	1400	Steubenville, Ohio	WoTV	7: 00	1340
Denver, Colo.	KFEL	5: 00	950	Macon, Ga.	WBML	7: 00	1240	Syracuse, N. Y.	WAGE	7 : 00	620
Des Moines, Iowa	SKO	6: 00	1460	Marshfield, Oreg.	KOOS	9: 15	1230	Tacoma, Wash.	KMO	9: 15	1360
Detorit, Mich.-Windsor,				Marysville, Calif.	KMYC	9: 15	1450	Temple, Texas	KTEM	6 : 00	1400
Ont., Canada	CKLW	7: 00	800	Memphis, Tenn.	WMPS	6: 00	1460	Texarkana, Texas	KCMC	6: 00	1450
Devils Lake, N. Dak.	KDLR	6: 00	1240	Merced, Calif.	KYOS	9: 15	1080	Tucson, Ariz.	KTUC	9: 15	1400
Dubuque, Iowa	KDTH	6: 00	1370	Midland, Texas	KRLH	6: 00	1230	Tulsa, Okla.	KOME	6: 00	1340
Duluth, Minn.-Superior,				Minneapolis-St. Paul,				Vernon, Texas	KVWC	6: 00	1490
Wis.	WDSM	6: 00	1230	Minn.	WLOL	6: 00	1330	Waco, Texas	WACO	6: 00	1450
Easton, Pa.	WEST	8: 30	1440	Minot, N. Dak.	KLPM	6: 00	1390	Wallace, Idaho	KWAL	9: 15	1450
El Centro, Calif.	KXO	9: 15	1490	Mobile, Ala.	WMOB	6: 00	1230	Washington, D. C.	WOL	7: 00	1260
Elizabeth City, N. C.	WCNC	7: 00	1400	Monterey, Calif.	KDON	9: 15	1240	Waterbury, Conn.	WATR	7: 00	1320
Emporia, Kans.	KTSW	6 : 00	1400	Nashville, Tenn.	WSIX	6: 00	980	Wausau, Wis.	WSAU	6: 00	1400
Eugene, Oreg.	KORE	9: 15	1450	New Bedford, Mass.	WNBH	7: 00	1340	West Point, Ga.	WDAK	6: 00	1340
Eureka, Calif.	KIEM	9: 15	1480	New London, Conn.	WNLC	7: 00	1490	Wichita, Kansas	KFBI	6 : 00	1240
Everett, Wash.	KRKO	9: 15	1400	New Orleans, La.	WNOE	6: 00	1450	Wilkes-Barre, Pa.	WBAX	7: 00	1240
Fall River, Mass.	WSAR	7: 00	1480	New York, N. Y.	WMCA	7:00	570	Willmar, Minn.	KWLM	6 : 00	1340
Fargo-Moorhead, N. Dak	. KVOX	6: 00	1340	Newport News, Va.	WGH	7: 00	1340	Wilmington, N. C.	WMFD	5: 30	1400
Fayetteville, N. C.	WFNC	7: 00	1450	Norfolk-Portsmouth, Va.	WSAP	7: 00		Wilson, N. C.	WGTM	7: 00	1340
Fergus Falls, Minn.	KGDE	6 : 00	1230	Ogden-Salt Lake City,				Winchester, Va.	WINC	5:30	1400
Fitchburg, Mass.	WEIM	7: 00	1340	Utah	KLO	5: 00	1430	Winona, Minn.	KWNO	6: 00	1230
Fond Du Lac, Wis.	KFIZ	6: 00	1450	Oklahoma City, Okla.	KOCY	6: 00	1340	Winston-Salem, N. C.	WAIR	7: 00	1340
Fort Dodge, Iowa	KVFD	6 : 00	1400	Olympia, Wash.	KGY	9: 15	1240	Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.	WFHR	6: 00	1340
Fort Lauderdale-Miami,				Omaha, Nebr.	KBON	6: 00	1490	Worcester, Mass.	WAAB	7: 00	1440
Fla.	WFTL	7: 00	1400	Opelika, Ala.	WJHO	6: 00	1400	Yakima, Wash.	KIT	9: 15	1280
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This is a service department where questions on religion, ethics, and Bible interpretation will be answered. Send questions to the editor.
To be answered, questions must be accompanied by full name and address of the questioner. In publication only initials will be used.
The Christian knows that He who was born in Bethlehem, who died on Calvary, and who ascended to heaven from Olivet, will return in clouds of glory, bringing eternal life to all the obedient. That life will be a life of peace and unending happiness. For every one who makes Christ the arm of his strength “ there will be no more death.” And the time will come when, in ^he earth made new, throughout the ages of eternity there will be no more sorrow, pain, |ior tears.
“God shall wipe away all tears from itheir eyes,” says the Apostle John; “and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
“And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And He said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.” Revelation 21: 4-6.
“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” Revelation 22: 17. Come, now, today, in this day of glad tidings of great joy which are still addressed to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.
Christ’s Flesh
Please explain John 6: 53. J. H. T.
This text reads: “Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.”
But how could His hearers eat His flesh and drink His blood? Evidently there is a parallel to this statement in that wherein Jesus said to Nicodemus, “ Ye must be born again.” John 3:7. It is also like His statement to the woman of Samaria at Jacob’s well, “If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water.” John 4: 10. Again, Jesus’ warning to His disciples against the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, which He explained to mean the doctrines of these men (Matthew 16: 12), also throws light upon the text in question.
In each instance the Saviour is endeavoring to impress a sublime spiritual lesson. Merely hearing about Christ, or merely reading the words of Holy Scripture are not
enough. After hearing, must be believing, and with believing there must be accepting. It is the will of God that all shall be saved. But the human will must act. One may refuse the proffered salvation. Some do not know the gift of God. And some, knowing, do not ask of Him so that He may give them the living water.
Jesus Himself in this same discourse recorded in the sixth chapter of John explains His meaning. Some of His disciples murmured at His words, and said, “This is a hard saying; who can hear it? ” To which He answered, “Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where He was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:61-63.
“The Word was made flesh.” John 1: 14. “He that hath an ear, let him hear.” Revelation 2:29. (Compare Revelation 1:3.) And hearing the word of God, let him believe, receive, obey. Thus may he eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of God.
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I. The new Chinese Ambassador lo the United States, Wei Tao-Ming, and his wife. l)r. Wei. former Chinese Ambassador to Vichy, will replace Dr. Ilu Shih. 2. Miss Mildred 11. McAfee, director of the Women’s Naval Iteserve Corps, is here seen taking the oath of office. Shown, left to right, are: Admiral Ernest J. King, Commandcr-in-Chicf of the U. S. Fleet; Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox: Lieutenant Commander McAfee, tin* “WAVES” Director; and Hear Admiral Randall Jacobs, Chief of the Bureau of Naval Personnel. The ceremony took place in the office of the Secretary of the Navy. .‘1. Mrs. Theodore Douglas Kohinson, widow of the former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and who seventeen years ago christened the old aircraft carrier. “Lexington.” is about to christen the
new “Lexington.” while Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman. U. S. N., Commander of the old “Lexington” looks on. 4. The Dutchess of (Gloucester, sister-in-law of King (George of England, gazes admiringly at the sharpshooter’s medal of Corporal R. W. Wille, of Cranite City, Illinois, during her visit to the Ulster Canteen at Norway House, in London. 5. The Duke of Kent, youngest brother of King Ceorgc, reported killed in an airplane crash. Picture shows the Duke and Dutchess of Kent with their children in a photograph taken August 5 when their youngest son, Michael (George Charles Franklin ishown in his mother's lap), was christened. The other two children here shown are Prince Edward Ceorge Nicolas Paul Patrick, and Princess Alexandra llelene Elizabeth Olga Christahel.