OSHAWA, ONTARIO MARCH, 1949 
Canadian 
H. M. LAMBERT 
The way of the transgressor is hard, as many a youth has learned to his lifelong sorrow. 
I 
DON'T care if you won't give me 
permission — I'm going anyway!" 
"But, Joe, I've explained that 
we're reviewing some very important 
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material and that finals are just five 
days off. If you miss this review I'm 
sure that you will not pass your finals. 
You know your daily grades have been 
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far from good. No, I'm sorry, I cannot 
give you permission to miss school." 
"Well, I've told you. I'm going, any-
way!" 
Joe stomped defiantly out of the 
room and homeward. A slow student, 
be had a hard time making his grades 
at best. Now, just at the end of the 
year's work, he wished to indulge in 
an unnecessary trip with his father. 
No argument nor lack of explicit per-
mission could dissuade him, I feared. 
The next day my fears were justified 
by his absence. 
Final examination day arrived and 
passed by. The next day found Joe 
standing by my desk after all the other 
students had left. 
"I want to know what my final 
grade in math is —" he said belliger-
ently. 
"You have no grade, Joe. I told you 
that you should not skip your review; 
therefore I refuse to grade your paper. 
You had no right to take the exami-
nation." 
I shall not take time to describe 
fully the scene that followed as Joe 
blustered, threatened, raged and fi-
nally pleaded and wept for mercy. 
Actually, I knew that there was no 
use in grading Joe's examination 
paper; with no more preparation than 
he had made, he would inevitably fail. 
I refused to allow him to run contrary 
to the rules of the school, and I doubt 
if he has ever fully forgiven me for not 
letting him do as he pleased. 
You see Joe had never learned to 
obey anyone. He could not even rule 
himself and refused to let anyone else 
rule him. Long years of foolish indul-
gence by easy-going parents had made 
lawlessness a part of his nature. I felt 
sorry for him and determined that 
this once, at least, he should learn 
that there are laws that cannot be 
broken without paying the penalty. 
However, I feared that it was too late 
to do him any good. 
Joe was not happy. No lawless per-
son can be, for he will continually 
find himself at cross purposes with the 
world and those about him. When-
ever he could not have his way, and 
who can in this life, he would lose his 
temper and have a tantrum. The re-
sult of this was either a fight with his 
playmates, or ridicule which he could 
not endure, and the situation would 
end in sullen rage or tears. 
Law and order are a necessity that 
is vital to the world, to the nation, to 
the individual — and to the universe. 
God is a God of law. "Let all things 
be done decently and in order," said 
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Editor, DALLAS YOUNGS �
Circulation Manager, C. A. EDWARDS
No. 3 
MARCH, 1949 
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SIGNS of the TIMES 
THERE OUGHT TO BE 
A LAW �
- A Youth's Feature 
the apostle Paul, "for God is not the 
author of confusion." 
Where man has not had complete 
control, you will find law everywhere 
in the universe. We are familiar with 
it in astronomy, one of the most ex-
act sciences, which shows us the intri-
cate order in the celestial universe and 
constantly finds itself dealing with 
beautifully interlocking laws. 
Law is as apparent in the world 
around us. You can consider the tables 
of atomic weights used in chemistry 
and physics that are so exact that men 
were able to predict the discovery of 
certain of the elements long before 
they were found. Not only was the dis-
covery predicted, but of course the 
nature of the new elements could also 
be predicted with reasonable accuracy. 
We need not go into anything so 
technical, however, for a stroll around 
the garden will bear this out just as 
well. Let us stop, for example, at this 
apple tree and see what we can find 
out. Notice the twigs on the branches 
and the way the leaves grow in spiral 
formation around them. See — the 
sixth leaf will always grow exactly 
over the 'first one. If you examine all 
the leaves on all the apple trees in the 
orchard you will find that this is al-
ways so. The apple trees are law abid-
ing. 
Here's a row of corn. Suppose we 
pick a few ears and see what we find. 
Count the number of rows on those 
ears. Some may have one number, 
others other numbers, but all the num-
bers will be even. You will never, never 
find an ear of corn with an odd num-
ber of rows. There is law manifested 
here. This law of even numbers will 
be found operating elsewhere. On a 
striped watermelon you will always 
find an even number of stripes. Every 
orange you ever peel will be found 
to be made up of an even number of 
segments. The heads of wheat, rye, 
oats and barley will be found to con-
tain an even number of kernels. Some- 
where, sometime, Someone — the 
great Architect and Lawgiver — laid 
down laws governing these things. 
Look at this bean patch with its 
▪ beans growing on poles. Notice the di- 
rection of the spiraling tendrils. Every 
one grows from left to right, invariably 
— you will never find any growing dif- 
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ferently. In a hop field you would find 
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the growth just the opposite, from 
right to left. 
It would seem, sometimes, that the 
MARCH, 1949 
only lawless thing on earth is man. If 
that is so, it need not be, for God has 
laws for men too. At the beginning of 
the earth's history we find that the 
Creator placed Adam under the do-
minion of His great moral code. God 
created the Sabbath and set it apart 
as sanctified. As we read through the 
early chapters of the Bible we find evi-
dence that all of the ten command-
ments were known from the begin-
ning. Man should have ordered his 
existence according to them; in so do-
ing he would have found happiness 
and security. 
Only God could have devised so 
perfect and so brief a code of behav-
iour that would fit the needs of all 
kinds of men in all ages. The wise man 
spoke the truth in Ecclesiastes when 
he said, "Let us hear the conclusion 
of the whole matter: Fear God, and 
keep His commandments: for this is 
the whole duty of man." Ecclesiastes 
12:18. 
As we consider the commandments 
we find that this is so. Consider them 
for a moment. "No other gods before 
Me. Thou shalt not make unto thee 
any graven image. . . . Thou shalt 
not take the name of the Lord thy 
God in vain. . . . Six days shalt thou 
labour, and do all thy work: but the 
seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord 
thy God: in it thou shalt not do any 
work." 
These first four of the command-
ments have to do with our duty to-
ward God, and they are all inclusive 
in their import. They rule out pagan-
ism with its many gods and idol wor- 
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R. E. Finney, Jr. 
ship. They rule out the profaning of 
the name of God and teach us true 
reverence, which includes obedience 
on the part of all who identify them-
selves as followers of God. The Sab-
bath commandment insures for us 
time to invite our souls in worship of 
God, to remember His place as Cre-
ator in the universe, lifting us above 
materialism and mistaken ideas about 
the progressive goodness of the uni-
verse. No one who keeps the Sabbath 
in the true sense of the word will be 
misled by materialistic or evolution-
ary philosophy. God will be kept in 
the foreground of his thinking as Cre-
ator, King and Judge. 
But, you ask, what will the law do 
for me? If you want to be a truly great 
person you must first learn to be law-
abiding — to discipline your mind 
and body. This is necessary if you are 
to climb the heights. That humility, 
that regard for others, that true cour-
tesy, that mark the great among us, 
spring from the taproots of the law of 
God. 
"The law of the Lord is perfect, con-
verting the soul: the testimony of the 
Lord is sure, making wise the simple," 
exclaimed the psalmist, who knew the 
law well. A thousand years later the 
great apostle Paul agreed that "the 
law is holy, and the commandment 
holy, and just, and good." Romans 
7:12. 
This perfect code will exist through-
out all eternity. The prophet John, 
writing the closing chapter of the 
book of Revelation, and of the Bible, 
said, "Blessed are they that do His 
commandments, that they may have 
right to the tree of life, and may enter 
in through the gates into the city." 
Revelation 22:14. Someone has said 
that even God could not rule the uni-
verse without the ten commandments, 
and we agree reverently that this is so.. 
It is no accident that almost every 
great Protestant denomination and 
the Roman Catholic Church agree in 
principle that the law of God must be 
kept to-day, for all realize that without 
the solid foundation of the Decalogue 
there could be no real religion. 
Why is it then that we to-day—aft-
er millenniums of teaching the law—
are living in a most lawless age? What 
has undermined the authority of the 
great Code? Has the law proved to be 
a failure, so far as guiding the world 
is concerned, or have men just agreed 
in concert to disregard it? There must 
be a reason for the situation in which 
we find ourselves to-day. What is it? 
Perhaps we should look into this as 
we go along with our studies together. 
In the meantime — go to the Bible 
and read the law thoughtfully again. 
Be willing to humble yourself and to 
bring your life into harmony with it. 
Then read Christ's magnification of 
the law in the sermon on the mount, 
recorded in Matthew 5. When you, 
with the help of God, bring your life 
and thinking into harmony with His 
divine precepts, you are on the road 
to true greatness. 
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W
HAT subject are you present-
ing to-night?" inquired Mrs. 
Flynn of her husband as they 
started out to keep their appointment 
with Mr. and Mrs. Saunders and their 
friends. 
"The importance of sound doc-
trine," he replied. "As we start out to 
study the Bible I think it is vital that 
we get a thorough understanding of 
the necessity of knowing the truth. 
You know how it is — if a person does 
not start right there is not much chance 
of his ending up right." 
"Yes, I know," responded Mrs. 
Flynn, "and I imagine that those peo-
ple are going to have plenty of ques-
tions as soon as they get a little better 
acquainted." 
"It's my guess that you have hit the 
nail right on the head," replied Pastor 
Flynn. "We may have some preachers, 
priests and rabbis in this before we 
get through. But we don't have to 
worry about that — the Bible has the 
answers and it is irrefutable." 
"Good evening, Pastor and Mrs. 
Flynn," greeted Mrs. Saunders. "We 
are all waiting for you." 
"That is heartening," replied Pas-
tor Flynn as he greeted the young 
married folk who were assembled in 
the Saunders' spacious and comfort-
able living room. "I am glad to see 
that you have brought your Bibles; so 
if you don't mind, suppose we start 
right in. I have chosen as the subject 
of our study to-night 'The Significance 
of Sound Doctrine.' You may recall 
that last Wednesday night I made the 
statement that the doctrines of the 
Bible constitute the bony skeleton of 
our spiritual body, or the foundation 
and framework of our spiritual house. 
Therefore, in order to have a strong 
spiritual body it is necessary to have 
sound and true doctrines. No one 
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would think of building a house upon 
an unstable foundation, or with defec-
tive framework; yet that is exactly what 
is done in the spiritual house, when 
we believe and accept unsound doc-
trines. Sound doctrine is a must to the 
person seeking eternal life. 
"The Bible contains a great many 
doctrines or teachings of truth, such as 
the second coming of Christ, health-
ful living, the millennium, the state 
of man in death. All these give form 
and shape to the spiritual body, just 
as the bones of our physical bodies 
give form and shape and make move-
ment possible." 
"If I remember correctly," said Mrs. 
Saunders, "the speaker at our church 
last Sunday said that Jesus' teaching 
was so different that the people were 
astonished." 
"He was probably making reference 
to Matthew 7:28, 29," replied Pastor 
Flynn: " 'It came to pass, when Jesus 
had ended these sayings, the people 
were astonished at His doctrine: for 
He taught them as one having au-
thority, and not as the scribes.' 
"In Jesus' day the scribes and Phari-
sees had departed so far from the truth 
of the Old Testament Scriptures that 
the teachings of Jesus were new and 
strange to them. There was a marked 
contrast between Jesus' doctrines and 
those of the priests and rabbis. Jesus 
presented the truths of God's Word 
in such a way that the common people 
heard Him gladly. They were de-
lighted with its beauty and simplicity. 
It made sense to their minds and they 
began to see the love of God revealed 
in the plan of salvation. They said 
that never man spake like this Man." 
"I don't believe that it actually 
makes any difference what you be-
lieve as long as you are sincere," said 
Mrs. Hoover, who had been somewhat 
influenced by her husband's unbe-
lief. 
"I have a quotation here from the 
New Testament that has bearing on 
that," replied Pastor Flynn: 'God hath 
from the beginning chosen you to sal-
vation through sanctification of the 
Spirit and belief of the truth.' 2 Thes-
salonians 2:13. 
"We are saved through a 'belief of 
the truth.' Jesus said in another place, 
'I am the way, the truth, and the life.' 
One writer in writing on this point 
says: 'No one would think of saying 
it matters not what god one worships, 
so long as he is sincere, any more than 
he would think of saying it matters 
not what one eats or drinks, so long as 
he relishes what he eats and drinks; or 
what road he travels, so long as he 
thinks he is on the right road. Sincerity 
is a virtue; but it is not the test of 
sound doctrine. God wills that we 
shall know the truth, and He has made 
provision whereby we may know what 
is truth.' — Bible Readings for the 
Home Circle, 1922 ed., p. 127. 
"Bossuet said: 'Truth is a queen who 
has her eternal throne in heaven, and 
her seat of empire in the heart of God.' 
And it was Bunyan who said: 'Old 
truths are always new to us, if they 
come with the smell of heaven upon 
them.' " 
"I can see that it takes more than 
just a sincere belief regarding some 
point to make it the truth. It has to 
be truth to begin with," spoke up Mr. 
Ryan. "Reverend Flynn is right about 
that, but the thing I would like to 
know is this: With all the different 
religious beliefs, how can we be cer-
tain that our doctrine is sound?" 
"I shall have to answer that with 
three or four texts from the Bible. The 
first one is 1 Corinthians 2:13. 'Which 
things also we speak, not in the words 
which man's wisdom teacheth, but 
which the Holy Ghost teacheth; com-
paring spiritual things with spiritual.' 
" 'Whom shall He teach knowledge? 
and whom shall He make to under-
stand doctrine? . . . For precept must 
be upon precept, precept upon pre-
cept; line upon line, line upon line; 
here a little, and there a little.' Isaiah 
28:9, 10. 
" 'Prove all things; hold fast that 
which is good.' 1 Thessalonians 5:21. 
" 'To the law and to the testimony: 
if they speak not according to this 
Word, it is because there is no light in 
them.' Isaiah 8:20. 
"The question about the large num-
ber of religious beliefs is one that is 
certain to come up in a group of this 
kind, and I am glad that Mr. Ryan has 
raised it. The large number of 
churches that exist are but the out-
come of God's having given to man 
the freedom of his convictions. God 
grants freedom of religion to every per- 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
Sound 
Doctrine 
By Dallas Youngs 
NOTE TO READER: After you have carefully read and studied Pastor Flynn's 
Bible lesson, turn to page 18 and see if you can answer the questions of the 
Bible Quiz. This is your Bible comprehension test. 
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son, but He calls upon us to investi-
gate, to 'prove all things' and to find 
out what is truth and what is not. The 
way to do this is to examine every point 
of religious teaching by the Bible. If 
it squares by God's Word it is sound. 
Or, as God puts it, 'If they speak not 
according to this Word, it is because 
there is no light in them.' 
"Naturally, this must be a gradual 
process. It takes time to examine a 
large number of religious teachings. 
Our spiritual structure is built up 'pre-
cept upon precept; line upon line, . . . 
here a little, and there a little.' It is 
necessary that we compare 'spiritual 
things with spiritual'; that is, that we 
compare one verse in the Bible with 
others that teach upon the same sub-
ject, in order that we may get all the 
different angles and phases of that par-
ticular topic. And when that is done, 
then we can be sure that we have the 
full Bible teaching and that our doc-
trine is absolutely sound. 
"It is really not as complex a mat-
ter as it may seem at first thought. Sup-
pose we consider the Bible as God's 
weighing machine or measuring de-
vice by which the seeker after truth 
may weigh every point of his faith. 
Take it point by point and weigh it by 
the ten commandments and the testi-
mony (the rest of God's Word) . This 
will prove the soundness of it. If it is 
not according to standard it should be 
abandoned at once." 
"I am wondering," said Mr. Saun-
ders, "about all the religious ideas 
that are floating around that are not 
in accordance with the Bible. Why is 
it that now-a-days so many people 
have such strange and weird religious 
views?" 
"I think that 1 Timothy 4:1 will 
answer your question pretty well, Mr. 
Saunders: 'Now the Spirit speaketh 
expressly, that in the latter times some 
shall depart from the faith, giving 
heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines 
of devils.' 
"It is necessary for us to remember 
that Satan has his own doctrines now, 
even as he had in the Garden of Eden, 
which he uses for the purpose of de-
ceiving people. The fact is, Satan has 
counterfeited every doctrine of the 
Bible, and that is why God calls upon 
us to 'prove all things.' 
"If Satan succeeds in deceiving you 
and causes you to be lost through his 
false doctrines, that from his point of 
view is very good, but from your point 
of view it will be stark tragedy. It is 
likewise tragedy from God's point of 
view, because Christ died to no pur-
pose for everyone who is finally lost." 
"Why is it that everyone does not 
like sound doctrine?" asked Mrs. Ryan. 
"The reason is found in 2 Timothy 
4:3, 4: 'The time will come when they 
will not endure sound doctrine; but 
after their own lusts shall they heap 
MARCH, 1949 
to themselves teachers, having itching 
ears; and they shall turn away their 
ears from the truth, and shall be 
turned unto fables.' 
"Some people wish they could get 
on an escalator and ride to heaven. 
They would like to enjoy the pleasures 
of the world and get to heaven too. 
Therefore they prefer unsound doc-
trine, which is sometimes more pleas-
ing. But to follow unsound doctrine 
is disastrous, as we see from these 
quotations: 'Who concerning the truth 
have erred, saying that the resurrec-
tion is past already; and overthrow the 
faith of some.' 2 Timothy 2:18. in 
vain they do worship Me, teaching for 
doctrines the commandments of men.' 
Matthew 15:9. 
"The 'commandments of men' that 
replace the 'doctrines of God' are false, 
unsound and unreliable. They are 
'vain' worship. God makes this further 
strong comment in Proverbs 28:9: 'He 
that turneth away his ear from hearing 
the law, even his prayer shall be abom-
ination.' An abomination is something 
that God hates, something that He 
cannot endure. God cannot endure 
the prayers of a man who won't hear 
it 
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its manufacturers hope to perfect cameras capable of practically instantaneous 
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doing this job has been announced as yet. 
Behind the Atomic Curtain 
A "nuclear rocket" is the description furnished by an Oak Ridge engineer 
of a power plant for atomic-powered aircraft. The theory is 99 per cent perfected, 
it is claimed, and is now in the practical engineering state. It was recently hinted, 
also, that a practical atomic power plant is a near possibility. This might be 
furnished to users in the form of some sort of material that could be rendered 
radioactive by being placed in a uranium pile. It might be much safer to use 
than uranium, since it is possible to produce isotopes that do not emit the 
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No Response 
Handcuffs which Harry Houdini, greatest escape artist of his day, said he 
would unlock after his death if it were possible for him to return from "the 
beyond" are still locked. Recently thirteen magicians gathered in Springfield, 
Mass., to make one last attempt to make contact with Houdini. The attempt 
failed. 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
His law. And if that manpersists in 
being a hypocrite, 2 Thessalonians 2: 
10-12 tells us what will happen to 
him: 'Because they received not the 
love of the truth, that they might he 
saved. And for this cause God shall 
send them strong delusion, that they 
should believe a lie: that they all 
might be damned who believed not 
the truth.' " 
"Now that you have told us what 
happens to those who do not seek for 
sound doctrine, I am• wondering if 
you can tell us what happens to those 
who do," asked Mr. Goldstein. "Does 
God make any promise to those who 
are willing to know and follow the 
doctrine?" 
"Yes, He certainly does," smiled 
Pastor Flynn. "I read it from John 7: 
17: 'If any man will do His will, he 
shall know of the doctrine.' A man 
may make mistakes, but if he has a 
willing heart and mind, it is in the 
sight of God of great value. We each 
need a willing heart to do God's will, 
and when we have that, God will teach 
us good, true, sound doctrine. 
"Now I think that since our time 
is gone we will close our study for to-
night, and Mrs. Flynn and I shall look 
forward to seeing all of you again 
next Wednesday evening," said Pas-
tor Flynn as he closed his Bible. 
"I certainly have enjoyed the study 
this evening, and I am sure I speak 
for everyone," said Mrs. Saunders. "I 
never realized before that the matter 
of what one believes is so important 
to being saved. I am going to see to it 
from now on that the things I believe 
are according to the Bible. I don't 
want my prayers to be an abomination 
to God." 
"\ATell, I'll have to agree with Mrs. 
Saunders," observed Mr. Hoover, the 
unbeliever. "I enjoyed the evening too. 
However, while I haven't said any-
thing to-night, I can't say that I agree 
with everything. I hope you won't 
mind if I ask some questions that may 
prove embarrassing." 
"Not at all," responded Pastor Flynn 
heartily. "The asking of questions is 
a right that I give to every one of you. 
All that I ask is that you keep to the 
subject which we are studying. I'll be 
looking for your embarrassing ques-
tions, Mr. Hoover, and try to be pre-
pared for them," he smiled. 
"It is just wonderful for you and 
Reverend Flynn to study with us each 
week," said Mrs. Saunders, slipping 
her arm around Mrs. Flynn. "We shall 
be looking for you next Wednesday 
night." 
"It is a pleasure for us to come," re-
sponded Mrs. Flynn warmly. 
Now that you have read and studied the 
lesson on Sound Doctrine, turn to page 18 
and fill in the answers to Pastor Flynn's 
Bible Quiz. 
B. PLOCKHORST, ARTIST 
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NSPEAKABLE in its wondrous 
height, its exceeding depth, its 
vast breadth, and its amazing 
length, is God's love for the lost. The 
perfume of the flowers, the sweet 
songs of the birds, the rich foliage of 
the landscape, and the beauty of the 
clouds, all testify to our heavenly 
Father's love. But the most wonder-
ful manifestation of His divine love 
is seen in His efforts to save the 
lost through the gift of His only-
begotten Son. 
"Such love is without a parallel. 
Children of the heavenly King! Pre-
cious promise! Theme for the most 
profound meditation! The matchless 
love of God for a world that did not 
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love Him! The thought has a subdu-
ing power upon the soul, and brings 
the mind into captivity to the will 
of God. The more we study the 
divine character in the light of the 
cross, the more we see mercy, tender-
ness, and forgiveness blended with 
equity and justice, and the more 
clearly we discern innumerable evi-
dences of a love that is infinite, and 
a tender pity surpassing a mother's 
yearning sympathy for her wayward 
child."—Steps to Christ, pp. 17, 18. 
The condition of man's divine ac-
ceptance is revealed by Jesus, who 
said: "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, 
Except a man be born again, he 
cannot see the kingdom of God." 
"Marvel not that I said unto thee, 
Ye must be born again." John 3:3, 7. 
The new birth is a great mystery to 
many, so the question in their minds 
is, What does it mean to be born 
again? It means that every one who 
is unsaved must become transformed 
in heart and soul by being made into 
a holy being, righteous in heart and 
heavenly in spirit. 
Now arises another question in 
many longing hearts, How can I ob- 
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tain this new birth? Jesus made 
known the way when He said, "Ask, 
and it shall be given you; seek, and 
ye shall find; knock, and it shall be 
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opened unto you: for every one that 
asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh 
findeth; and to him that knocketh 
MARCH, 1949 
it shall be opened." Matthew 7:7, 8. 
The Saviour makes it clear, however, 
that the praying one is to ask in faith, 
believing that the new birth asked 
for has been given to him in answer 
to his prayer, for He says in another 
scripture, "What things soever ye 
desire, when ye pray, believe that ye 
receive them, and ye shall have 
them." Mark 11:24. So now the way 
is made plain. We are to ask God 
for the new birth to take place within 
us, and then believe that He has 
granted our prayer. Then we are to 
believe, "I am born again, I am made 
new through Jesus, I am now a true 
child of God." 
How near Jesus comes by His tender 
Spirit to those who strive to follow His 
teaching! With what tenderness of 
sympathy He bends over the straying, 
seeking to turn their feet into the 
heavenly pathway. How compassion-
ately He helps them to see that they 
can be born again, for He died on the 
cross for their sins to make it possible. 
How very pityingly He helps the con-
trite ones to pray humbly and earnest-
ly for the new birth, and to grasp its 
reality by steadfastly believing then 
that it has been given to them, that it 
is an accomplished fact. And how ear-
nestly He moves them to pray: "Heav-
enly Father, I come humbly before 
Thee, claiming the promises Thou 
hast made through Jesus, pleading to 
be born again into Thy heavenly 
kingdom as a true and humble child 
of Thine, to live through Jesus a new 
and holy life." How fully then faith 
is awakened to grasp the fulfilment 
of God's wonderful promises by 
steadfastly believing that through the 
presence and power of Jesus, they will 
be wondrously kept moment by mo-
ment and day by day. 
"Dying with Jesus, by death reckoned 
mine, 
Living with Jesus, a new life divine, 
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine. 
Moment by moment, 0 Lord, I am 
Thine." 
Then as the days come and go in 
their new and heavenly life, as they 
realize that Jesus is ever by their 
side, comforting and keeping them 
moment by moment, sharing every 
trial, bearing with them every 
burden, and ever sustaining them 
and leading them on to victory in 
their most trying moments, how re-
joicingly they sing His praise: 
"Never a trial that He is not there, 
Never a burden that He cloth not hear, 
Never a sorrow that He doth not share, 
Moment by moment I'm under His 
care." 
Having the peace of God inter-
woven in all their daily life, they 
realize how sweet and abiding, how 
restful and heavenly is this wonder-
ful peace, "which passeth all under-
standing" that their heavenly Father 
sends down from heaven upon them, 
His dear children on earth, that 
awakens in their grateful hearts the 
responsive appreciation: 
"Peace, peace, sweet peace, 
Wonderful gift from above; 
0, wonderful, wonderful peace, 
Sweet peace, the gift of God's 
love." 
"God so loved the world, that He gave His 
only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth 
in Him should not perish, but have ever-
lasting life." John 3:16. The compassionate 
love manifested by Jesus during His min-
istry is but a revelation of the unparalleled 
love of God. 
VAOa-ow/acted 
Adam 
By John W. Halliday 
WORLD 
AS WE SEE IT! 
A Prophetic Interpretation 
of Current Events! 
Bang's Disease of Hogs 
TILE following three paragraphs are the three open-
ing paragraphs of a long article appearing in the 
Washington Farmer on "Bang's Disease of Hogs." 
"Millions of people in the United States believe 
that as long as they drink pasteurized milk they are 
protected against undulant fever. They have been led 
to understand that this serious disease originates 
only from cows infected with bovine brucellosis or 
Bang's abortion disease. 
"The far greater danger of contracting undulant 
fever from other sources has been almost completely 
ignored in public health programmes. Swine, too, 
can transmit their form of the disease to humans. So 
can goats. Yet these sources of infection go virtually 
unchecked. 
"Medical and veterinary research men have known 
for years that in many areas cases of undulant fever 
traceable to swine brucellosis outnumber those caused 
by the bovine type. They also are more serious. Swine 
brucellosis is transmitted by handling hogs or raw 
pork, especially pork chops. The disease organism 
enters through breaks or cuts in the skin. Packing-
house employees and butchers are high on the list of 
victims of this form of the disease. Farm people in 
STAR NEWSPAPER SERVICE 
Although a prize winner, this hog may have Bang's disease or some 
other deadly disease. Untold thousands of people would have 
benefited by following God's advice. 
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hog areas also rank high."—The Washington Farmer, 
October 3, 1946. 
We have given this long quotation on the editorial 
page of the Canadian SIGNS OF THE TIMES for two 
reasons. One is the hope that some reader of these 
words may be hereby warned and saved from the 
sufferings entailed by this disease, and the other is 
to show that God knew what He was doing when He 
prohibited the use of swine's flesh as food for humans. 
In the eleventh chapter of Leviticus God gives a 
list of the clean animals, birds and fish which may 
be eaten, and the unclean which may not be eaten. 
It is evident to the student of this chapter that God 
did not make His prohibitions arbitrarily, but that 
He had man's good in mind when He said: "And the 
swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-
footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to 
you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their car-
cass shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you." 
Verses 7, 8. 
In His plan of things God made some animals, 
fish and birds to be scavengers of the earth, sea and 
sky. That is to say that it was God's design that these 
should consume the refuse of the earth in order that 
it might be a more healthful place for man to live; 
however, because of the fact that these scavenger 
creatures feed upon that which is dead and diseased, 
their own flesh becomes diseased. Then if man vio-
lates the divine prohibition and eats of the flesh of 
the scavenger animals, the disease may be easily trans-
mitted to him. 
It should be noted that God forbids the touching 
of the swine's carcass, and with that thought in mind 
I wish to call attention to the quotation which states 
that the disease is contracted by farm people, packing-
house employees and butchers who handle the carcass 
of the hog. 
Hemisphere Defence 
LAST November the gigantic U. S. fleet held ma-
nomvers off the coast of Newfoundland and discovered 
that the new-type submarine could sink surface ves-
sels without being detected and destroyed. In both 
world wars the submarine came within a hair's 
breadth of winning the conflict for the central powers. 
In the early months of World War II millions of tons 
of shipping was lost. However, improved detecting 
devices and airplane and battleship escort turned the 
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U. S. ARMY PHOTO 
What defence have we against guided missiles loaded with atomic 
charges or deadly bacteria? 
tide, and the submarines of that time were virtually 
forced from the seas. But with the capitulation of 
Germany it was found that she had developed an im-
proved type of undersea vessel which, had Hitler been 
able to develop it earlier, might perhaps have won the 
war. 
Of course Germany is defeated and there is no im-
mediate cause for alarm from that score, but unfor-
tunately when the Russians took Berlin they captured 
a number of these new-type submarines, and the con-
viction in military circles is that at the present time 
Russia has a fleet of the new sea menaces of no mean 
proportions. 
With new-type submarines, guided missiles, jet 
planes and atomic bombs it is evident that next time 
we will have a new-type war. And from the gigantic 
budgets that are being spent by the nations for new-
type armaments, weapons and installations it is clear 
that the next war is in the making. 
The thing that makes for amazement, however, is 
the accuracy with which Bible writers of 2,000 or 
more years ago described the conditions of our present 
time. The following predictions are to the point: 
"And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see 
that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come 
to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise 
against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and 
there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earth-
quakes, in divers places." Matthew 24:6, 7. 
"Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking 
after those things which are coming on the earth: for 
the powers of heaven shall be shaken." Luke 21:26. 
• 
"And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great 
prince which standeth for the children of thy people: 
and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was 
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since there was a nation even to that same time: and 
at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one 
that shall be found written in the book." Daniel 12:1. 
War has come to be recognized as an inevitable 
evil that plagues the earth especially in the last days 
of its history. The Bible does not declare for war, but 
it foretells its coming. In fact we are told that the 
battle of Armageddon will mark the close of the 
earth's history. While man cannot at present escape 
from this war-plagued earth, he can complete arrange-
ments with Jesus Christ, the King of the world to 
come, for citizenship in the eternal kingdom of peace. 
Entertainment Versus Religion 
WE UNDERSTAND that one of the great American 
broadcasting systems, the C.B.C., has by an income 
tax dodge figured out a way to reduce the taxes of its 
high-salaried stars and comedians from a high of from 
75 to 80 per cent to something like 25 per cent as 
figured on capital gain. If we have heard correctly, 
this has lured Jack Benny and the Amos and Andy 
shows from the National Broadcasting Company to 
the C.B.C. 
We hear, also, that those who have their millions in-
vested in radio are losing sleep on account of the rapid 
development of television. However, we suppose that 
television will follow in the footprints of radio as far 
as entertainment is concerned. Yes, we know that ra-
dio men would tell us immediately that the comedy 
and drama shows pull a larger listening audience. We 
are not prepared to dispute that — it is likely true. 
Nevertheless we are convinced that there are thousands 
upon thousands of silent radios across the continent 
because of the fact that the owners are wholly fed up 
with the afternoon soap operas, evening pranksters, 
jokesters, cowboy songsters and comedians and the 
sensational announcer. 
We expect that the Hooper rating for Toscanini, 
the Westminster Choir, the Voice of Prophecy or the 
Luthern Hour would not be as high as that of Amos 
and Andy — at least not at first. Then, too, there is 
this consideration: radio on the whole has aimed its 
programme at just a little above the moronic level. It 
would take the expenditure of some time, effort and 
money to cultivate the latent appetite in hundreds of 
thousands of people to enjoy a higher type of cultural 
and spiritual programme. 
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T
OO many in their religious life 
are depending upon a formal pro-
fession without an active, living 
experience. They are members of the 
church, but their neighbours and even 
close associates do not recognize them 
as Christians. This is well illustrated 
in this experience related by G. Camp-
bell Morgan: 
"Some years ago I was at work in 
Hull, England. God was giving us 
gracious seasons of refreshing, and a 
man came to me one night and said: 
" 'Do you know, the strangest thing 
has happened to me!' 
"Said I: 'What has happened?' 
"He said: 'I am a cabinetmaker. 
I work at a bench, and another man 
works by my side. He has worked by 
my side for five years. I thought I 
would like to get him to come to some 
of these meetings, and this morning I 
summoned up my courage and said 
to him, "Charlie, I want you to come 
along to-night to some meetings we 
are having down in Wilberforce Hall." 
He looked at me and said, "You don't 
mean to say you are a Christian," and 
I answered, "Yes, I am." "Well," he 
said, "so am I." ' 
"This man said to me: 'Wasn't it 
funny?' 
'Funny!' I said, 'No. Is he here? 
for if so, both you and he want to get 
down here and start. You never have 
been born again.' " 
Surely in such experience there is 
no growth, and cannot be until there 
comes a resurrection from dead works 
to a new life in Christ Jesus. 
And one who is truly a Christian 
will reflect the life of Christ in his 
association with others. This is viv-
idly brought to view in the following 
incident: 
"Biographers of Fenelon tell us that 
he lived in such intimate fellowship 
with God that his very face shone. 
Lord Petersborough, a skeptic, was 
obliged to spend the night with him at 
an inn. In the morning he rushed 
away, saying, 'If I stay another night 
with that man, I shall be a Christian 
in spite of myself.' Someone else said of 
him, 'His manners were full of grace, 
his voice full of love, and his face full 
of glory.' " — Elisha Safford. 
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Sanctification 
This growth in grace will constitute 
the process of sanctification, of which 
the apostle Paul writes: 
"The very God of peace sanctify 
you wholly; and I pray God your 
whole spirit and soul and body be 
preserved blameless unto the coming 
of our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Thessa-
lonians 5:23. 
"Sanctification is not the work of a 
moment, an hour, a day, but of a life-
time. It is not gained by a happy flight 
of feeling, but is the result of con-
stantly dying to sin, and constantly 
living for Christ. Wrongs cannot be 
righted nor reformations wrought in 
the character by feeble, intermittent 
efforts. It is only by long, persevering 
effort, sore discipline, and stern con-
flict, that we shall overcome. We know 
By 
F. M. Wilcox 
not one day how strong will be our 
conflict the next. So long as Satan 
reigns, we shall have self to subdue, 
besetting sins to overcome; so long as 
life shall last, there will be no stopping 
place, no point which we can reach 
and say, I have fully attained. Sancti-
fication is the result of lifelong obe-
dience." 
Daily Consecration 
In the Christian warfare there must 
be a daily consecration to the work 
and service of God. Christ taught, "If 
any man will come after Me, let him 
deny himself, and take up his cross 
daily, and follow Me." Luke 9:23. 
This daily consecration was char-
acteristic of the life of John Wesley. 
He was asked one day by one of his 
parishioners: 
" `Do you not sometimes feel an awe 
at the thought of dying?' 
" 'No,' he replied, `if I knew for cer-
tain that I was going to die to-morrow 
night, I should do just exactly what I 
am going to do. I am going to preach 
at Gloucester this afternoon and this 
evening; and I shall go to lodge with 
friend Smith. I shall stay up with him 
till ten o'clock, and then I shall go to 
bed; and I shall be up at five, and ride 
over to Tewkesbury, and I shall preach 
there, and shall go to friend Jones' for 
the night, and I shall go to bed at ten 
o'clock, and whether I live or die, it 
does not matter at all to me, for if I 
die I shall die in the Lord. That is 
what I am going to do, whether I live 
or die.' " 
Failure in living the victorious life 
usually comes from one of two causes. 
Either the disciple fails to make a 
complete consecration in the begin-
ning of his experience, or if he does 
make that consecration, he later re-
moves from the altar that which he has 
placed thereon. This is oftentimes 
done because one fails to realize what 
is involved in complete surrender. As 
he gives himself to the Lord, the true 
disciple at the outset places all upon 
the altar, and then day by day as new 
experiences come into his life, as he is 
tested and tried, he places upon the al-
tar every particular and individual 
consideration. In other words, he keeps 
his consecration up to date — one day 
at a time. 
What Consecration Involves 
What does consecration really in-
volve? It means a full consecration —
yes, giving all of self. The following 
illustrations afford examples from 
practical life experience: 
"Baron von Welz, who renounced 
his title and estates and went as a mis-
sionary to Dutch Guiana, where he 
filled a lonely grave, said as he gave up 
his title: 'What to me is the title "well-
born," when I am born again in 
Christ? What to me is the title "lord," 
when I desire to be a servant of 
Christ? What is it to me to be called 
"Your Grace," when I have need of 
God's grace, help, and succour? All 
these vanities I will away with, and all 
else I will lay at the feet of Jesus, my 
dearest Lord, that I may have no hin-
drance in serving Him aright.' " — 
Onward. 
"When the people of Collatia 
would surrender to Rome, they were 
asked, 'Do you deliver up yourselves, 
the Collatine people, your city, your 
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• 
EWING GALLOWAY 
The habit of morning and evening consecration of self to God, formed early in life, will 
pay big dividends in eternity. 
friends, your water, your bounds, your 
temples, your utensils, all things that 
are yours, both human and divine, 
into the hands of the Roman people?' 
They replied, 'We deliver up all,' and 
were received." 
To a fulness of consecration which 
does indeed include all, the Master 
Himself bears this witness: 
"He that loveth father or mother 
more than Me is not worthy of Me: 
and he that loveth son or daughter 
more than Me is not worthy of Me. 
And he that taketh not his cross, and 
followeth after Me, is not worthy of 
Me." Matthew 10:37, 38. 
"Then said Jesus unto His disciples, 
If any man will come after Me, let 
him deny himself, and take up his 
cross, and follow Me. For whosoever 
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will save his life shall lose it: and who-
soever will lose his life for My sake 
shall find it. For what is a man prof-
ited, if he shall gain the whole world, 
and lose his own soul? or what shall a 
man give in exchange for his soul?" 
Matthew 16:24-26. 
Many hark back to the day of their 
conversion to tell how God met with 
them, and of the blessedness of their 
experience. They are able to recall 
the exact day and hour and the par-
ticular place of their conversion. That 
is well and good, but the Lord desires 
to give to His children a growing ex-
perience, a brighter to-day than yester-
day, a present experience more blessed 
than the experience of the conversion 
years ago. How shall this daily conse-
cration be made? 
Abiding in Christ 
The consecrated life does not repre-
sent a fitful, changeable experience. It 
is marked by a spirit of constancy and 
stability. There is an abiding in 
Christ. This is beautifully expressed 
by our Lord in John 15:4, 5: 
"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the 
branch cannot bear fruit of itself, ex-
cept it abide in the vine; no more can 
ye, except ye abide in Me. I am the 
vine, ye are the branches: he that abid-
eth in Me„ and I in him, the same 
bringeth forth much fruit: for without 
Me ye can do nothing." 
And the test of this abiding experi-
ence is found in obedience to Christ's 
commandments. 
"If ye keep My commandments, ye 
shall abide in My love; even as I have 
kept My Father's commandments, and 
abide in His love." Verse 10. 
We received Christ by surrender, by 
confessing and forsaking sin, by conse-
cration of our all upon the altar, by 
receiving in faith the promises of His 
Word. By continued surrender, by 
confession of sin when sin is com-
mitted, by daily consecration, by the 
exercise of constant faith — in these 
ways we are to walk in Him. 
"As ye have therefore received 
Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in 
Him: rooted and built up in Him, and 
stablished in the faith, as ye have been 
taught, abounding therein with 
thanksgiving." Colossians 2:6, 7. 
"Consecration must be to us a def-
inite act. Whitefield made it so when, 
in his ordination service, he said, 'I 
call heaven and earth to witness that 
when the bishop laid his hands upon 
me, I gave myself up to be a martyr 
for Him who hung upon the cross for 
me. I have thrown myself blindfolded 
and without reserve into His almighty 
hands.' We must not be content with a 
general desire or a longing for it. It 
matters little when, where, or how we 
do it, publicly or privately, by speech 
or writing; but it must be a definite 
act." 
The test of consecration will be 
found in the experience of everyday 
living. The surrender of one's own 
way in the home, the visit to the needy 
in the midst of busy cares, the denial 
of some longed-for luxury in order to 
devote the price thereof to the work 
of Christ, faithfulness in rendering 
to God His own in tithes and offerings, 
provisions for the assistance of the 
poor and needy, observance of the Sab-
bath institution, faithfulness in sup-
porting the church services and ac-
tivities, the study of the Word of God 
to learn more perfectly the way of life, 
communion in prayer with Christ the 
Lord, labour for those outside the 
fold of the True Shepherd — in these 
and other ways will be practically ex-
emplified the consecrated life. 
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H M. LAMPERT 
Nations are in a state of chaos, men's hearts are failing them for fear, grave perplexity and 
doubts assail the world's leading statesmen. Yet, an acceptance of Christ and the principles 
of His government of love and peace would completely alter this distressing picture. 
CHRIST an CHAOS 
W
ITH each passing year the con-
viction is deepening in the 
minds of leaders everywhere 
that the future holds out little or no 
hope without divine intervention. It 
is either Christ or chaos, and there is 
no other alternative. The human fam-
ily must decide between the sover-
eignty of Jesus Christ or utter chaos, 
avid that decision must be made soon 
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or mankind will have filled up the cup 
of iniquity and it will be too late. 
Of ancient Israel it is said: "But they 
mocked the messengers of God, and 
despised His words, and misused His 
prophets, until the wrath of the Lord 
arose against His people, till there was 
no remedy." 2 Chronicles 36:16. Is 
the present generation rushing head-
long toward the same fate? There is a 
limit to the forbearance of a long-
suffering God beyond which man can-
not go with impunity. 
These are days of rapid movements 
when events transpire with a sort of 
lightning-like rapidity. Louis Mum-
ford said that one thousand years of 
history swept by during the decade be-
tween 1930 and 1940. If that be true 
then another thousand years have gone 
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by during the eight years since. The 
:statement of Lloyd George is still up 
to date. He said: "There are times in 
history when the world spins so leis-
urely along its destined course that it 
seems for centuries to be at a stand-
still. There are also times when it 
runs along at a giddy pace covering 
the track of centuries in a year. These 
are the times we are living in now." 
Let us place on the witness stand 
some of the recognized leaders of the 
modern world and listen to their tes-
timonies regarding the present situa-
tion and the prospects for the future. 
These men and women are not ex-
tremists or given to exaggeration, but 
are conservative thinkers with their 
feet on the ground. One of Europe's 
historians declared that "we are headed 
toward chaos," and the dean of an East-
ern university on being asked for his 
opinion regarding the post-war world, 
said: "I see a mad scramble for profit, 
industrial strife, the most dreadful we 
have ever seen, ending in civil war." 
Every person hopes such a prophecy 
will fail. 
A recent writer declared that during 
the next few years the race of men 
will have to make a choice "which shall 
determine the destiny of the world, 
either forward to such transcendent 
achievement as shall usher in the king-
dom of God on earth, or downward to 
the bottomless abyss of moral chaos 
and ruin." Reinhold Neibuhr, the 
noted New York theologian, speaking 
before the World Council of Churches 
Assembly in Amsterdam last August, 
likened our civilization to Sodom and 
Gomorrha "where no saving remnant 
was found." He said: "Our choices 
have become terribly circumscribed. 
Must we finally choose between atomic 
annihilation and subjection to uni-
versal tyranny?" 
the antediluvians so that they forgot 
their Maker. Can any one fail to see 
the analogy? 
The danger of impending catastro-
phe has been increased a thousand-
fold since our entrance into the atomic 
age. The United States government 
Official Report on Atomic Energy con-
tains this statement: "A weapon has 
been developed that is potentially de-
structive beyond the wildest night-
mares of the imagination." A scientist 
declared that an atomic war would 
leave the world depopulated except 
for a few miserable men and women 
hiding away in the swamps and caves 
of the earth. 
Bernard Baruch in his opening ad-
dress as chairman of the Atomic Com-
mission of the United Nations on June 
14, 1946, said: "We are here to make 
a choice between the quick and the 
dead. This is our business. If we fail, 
then we have damned every man to 
be the slave of fear. Let us not deceive 
ourselves; we must elect world peace 
or world destruction. Science has torn 
from nature a secret so vast in its po-
tentialities that our minds cower from 
the terror it creates." 
Never before did haunting fear so 
grip the human family as at the pres-
ent time, and of all men the scientists 
are the most frightened because they 
realize more fully than do others the 
meaning of the use of "the basic power 
of the universe" as a means of destruc-
tion in war. Dr. Harold C. Urey, one 
of the scientists who produced the 
atomic bomb, declared that he was 
frightened as were all the other scien-
tists. 
"This is a world of frightened men," 
said Paul Hutchinson, editor of the 
Christian Century, in an article in the 
Atlantic Monthly of September 18, 
1947. "Let's be honest about this," 
he said, for "we are all frightened. The 
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Taylor G. Bunch 
physicists are frightened — perhaps 
more frightened than anyone else. The 
bacteriologists are frightened, as they 
showed when their International Con-
gress for Microbiology, meeting in 
Copenhagen in July, petitioned the 
governments, please, please, PLEASE, 
not to resort to bacteriological war-
fare. The politicians are frightened. 
The common people everywhere are 
frightened. . . . This is a world of 
discouraged men." 
This reminds us of the statement 
of Jesus that just before His return 
there would be "upon the earth dis-
tress of nations, with perplexity; the 
sea and the waves roaring; men's 
hearts failing them for fear, and for 
looking after those things which are 
coming on the earth: for the powers 
of heaven shall be shaken." See Luke 
21:25, 26. Some believe that the latter 
statement has reference to the use of 
atomic energy, which is called "the 
basic power of the universe." Is not 
this prediction meeting a striking ful-
filment in our day? Never was fear so 
rampant in the world as now. 
The Only Hope 
The picture is indeed very dark. 
However, there is a ray of hope. There 
is an alternative. It is Jesus Christ and 
His gospel. All sorts of experiments 
have been made and have failed. It is 
time to give Christ a chance. Dr. Wil-
liam Temple, the late Archbishop of 
Canterbury, said that "this world can 
be saved by one way only, and that is 
worship," in other words, a turning 
to God. 
General Eisenhower said that "un-
less there is a moral regeneration 
throughout the world there is no hope 
for mankind and we will all disappear 
in an atomic explosion." The editor 
of the Daily Mirror said that "only a 
religious revival on a universal scale 
can save the world from a hopeless 
stampede into chaos." There is need 
of some modern Jonahs to visit our 
great modern Ninevehs with a mes-
sage calling for a great revival as the 
only means of avoiding destruction, or 
a message similar to that of Jesus when 
He said, "Except ye repent, ye shall 
all likewise perish." 
Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor of 
the University of Chicago, in an article 
on "The Atomic Bomb Versus Civili-
zation," said: "There is no defence 
against the atomic bomb. . . . Missiles 
can now be guided to their targets by 
radio; and rockets can be fired from 
airplanes which are beyond the range 
of defensive instruments. . . . At the 
present time we would have to go 
down about half a mile to be safe from 
the explosion and the rays, and would 
have to go deeper as more powerful 
bombs are developed. And when we 
had gone underground we should run 
the risk of starvation and suffocation 
through the destruction of our systems 
of communication and ventilation.... 
"Atomic war will be the most hor-
rible we have known, and both the vic-
tor and the vanquished will lose it.... 
The new weapon puts a premium on 
military surprise, on attack without 
a declaration of war. It puts a pre-
mium on sabotage and fifth column 
work, on hostile operations within a 
country with which you are nominally 
at peace.... It produces a world which 
must live in perpetual fear." 
Then the great educator asks and 
answers the following question: "Is 
the situation, then, altogether hope- 
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Like Days of Noah 
Another speaker at this great church 
gathering of 1,500 representatives of 
135 denominations from forty differ-
ent countries likened the assembly to 
Noah's ark, because "the rains have 
descended and the floods have risen 
and the foundations of old securities 
are inundated." In other words, the 
deluge is here and chaos covers the 
face of the earth. 
Jesus, the greatest of all prophets, 
also likened our generation to the days 
of Noah when "the earth . . . was 
corrupt before God," and "was filled 
with violence," and "the wickedness 
of man was great in the earth," so that 
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"every imagination of the thoughts of 
his heart was only evil continually." 
(See Genesis 6:1-12.) We are told that 
eating and drinking, buying and sell-
. 
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ing, planting and building, and marry- 
ing and giving in marriage was the 
all-absorbing passion of the souls of 
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less? I think not; but the only hope is 
to increase the rate of moral progress 
tremendously, to increase it beyond 
anything we have ever dreamed of, to 
increase it to an extent which itself, 
at first glance, may seem hopeless." 
This is certainly an almost hopeless 
hope. Of course a mighty revival of 
apostolic godliness on a universal scale 
would change the situation, but will 
such a revival take place? Many feel 
that it is more than we can expect in 
the light of the present world situa-
tion. 
But will the world end in an atomic 
explosion? Is that to be the sad fate 
of the human race? The Scriptures 
do speak of "the end of the world." 
Jesus closes the great commission with 
the promise, "Lo, I am with you al-
way, even unto the end of the world." 
The apostle Peter wrote, "But the end 
of all things is at hand: be ye there-
fore sober, and watch unto prayer." 
I Peter 4:7. The disciples asked Jesus 
the question, "What shall be the sign 
of Thy coming, and of the end of the 
world?" and His answer is the great 
prophecy recorded in Matthew 24, 
Mark 13, and Luke 21. "And this gos-
pel of the kingdom shall be preached 
in all the world for a witness unto all 
nations; and then shall the end come." 
Matthew 24:14. 
"The end of the world" has become 
a very familiar expression because of 
its frequent use by writers, speakers 
and scientists during recent months. 
"We must either do something to pre-
vent another war or face the end of the 
world," said a scientist in an address 
to a state teacher's convention. The 
president of a great university said that 
"the end cannot be far distant," and 
a well-known radio news commenta-
tor declared that "we have only four 
or five years left." 
H. G. Wells, in his last book, Mind 
at the End of Its Tether, said: "The 
world is at the end of its tether. . . . 
The end of everything we call life is 
close at hand and cannot be evaded. 
The writer is convinced that there is 
no way out or around or through the 
impasse. It is the end." The noted 
British historian describes our civili-
zation as "a convoy lost in darkness 
on an unknown rocky coast, with quar-
reling pirates in the chartroom and 
savages clambering up the sides of the 
ships to plunder or to do evil as the 
whim may take them." 
But what is meant by the Biblical 
expression, "the end of the world"? 
How will the world end? What is it 
that will be brought to an end? What 
mighty changes does this event rep-
resent? 'What will follow? Is it a 
gloomy, or a cheerful prospect? Should 
we face it with terror or courage? 
with fear or hope? with pessimism or 
optimism? Be sure to read next month's 
article, "Toward Darkness or Dawn." 
14 
ITHOUT question the virgin 
Mary, mother of our Lord 
Jesus, stands out in sacred his-
tory as being truly favoured of God. 
Did not the angel of heaven himself 
say, "Hail, thou that art highly 
favoured, the Lord is with thee: 
blessed art thou among women"? 
Luke 1:28. And did not the Holy 
S p i r i t move Mary's lips to say, 
"Behold, from henceforth all genera-
tions shall call me blessed"? Luke 1: 
48. The question is, then, Just how 
far should we go in our respect or 
reverence for the one whom Heaven 
chose to be the mother of our Lord? 
Referring to the last-quoted in-
spired words, the Douay Version of 
the Holy Bible says in a footnote: 
"These words are a prediction of that 
honour which the church in all ages 
should pay to the Blessed Virgin. Let 
Protestants examine whether they are 
any way concerned in this prophecy." 
Concerned? Yes, vitally. Honour? 
By all means. Should we not honour 
one whom God hath honoured? Does 
God intend, however, that we should 
go beyond honour and ascribe to this 
f ellow mortal certain miraculous 
powers and mediatory influence about 
which Holy Writ remains silent? 
It is indeed interesting to peruse 
some of the sources from which these 
doctrines of the Immaculate Concep-
tion and the super physical powers 
that have been bestowed upon the 
mortal Mary have sprung. Just where• 
shall we turn for such authority? To 
the Word of God? No! Here we 
should search in vain. Where, then, 
shall we turn? To tradition! Yes, here 
we read: 
"Have all mankind contracted the 
guilt and stain of original sin? 
"All mankind have contracted the 
guilt and stain of original sin, except 
the Blessed Virgin, who, through the 
merits of her Divine Son, was con-
ceived without the least guilt or stain 
of original sin. 
"What is this privilege of the Bles-
sed Virgin called? 
"This privilege of the Blessed Vir-
gin is called the Immaculate Concep-
tion. This . . . means that when God 
created her soul He did not allow it 
to be stained with original sin. She is 
the only one of the human race since 
the fall of our first parents who has 
escaped this penalty."—The Cate-
chism Simply Explained, by H. Canon 
Cafferata, p. 59. Burns Oates and 
Washburne Ltd., London. 
Following this is an interesting 
exegesis on Genesis 3:15 in which it 
is confidently stated, "Everyone now 
knows that the seed here spoken of is 
Christ, and consequently that the 
individual woman whose immediate 
seed He was to be is the Virgin Mary." 
—Ibid., p. 60. 
From whence did such a doctrine 
originate? Turn to The Apocryphal 
New Testament, printed for William 
Hone, Ludgate Hill, London, 1820, 
by the New Temple Press, lA Nor-
bury Crescent, S. W. Here we find, 
according to its introductory page. 
"all the Gospels, Epistles, and other 
pieces now extant, attributed in the 
first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His 
apostles and their companions, and 
not included in the New Testament 
by its compilers." Among this com-
pilation of spurious gospels, long 
since rejected by the compilers of the 
Holy Bible, we find burning brightly 
the doctrine of the Immaculate Con-
ception. 
The first book of this collection, en-
titled The Gospel of the Birth of 
Mary, contains a vivid and detailed 
account of the birth of the one who 
should later become the mother of 
Jesus. This account agrees with the 
Gospel writer Luke, that "the blessed 
and ever glorious Virgin Mary, sprung 
from the royal race and family of 
David." Mary 1:1. It continues with 
an interesting, if somewhat un-
authorized, narrative of how Joachim 
and Anna, the parents of Mary, lived 
long in disgrace because they had no 
children. This ignominy was climaxed 
when Issachar, the high priest in those 
days, publicly chided Joachim after 
this manner: "Why he, who had no 
children, would presume to appear 
among those who had?" adding that 
"his offerings could never be accept-
able to God, who was judged by Him 
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The IMMACULATE 
CONCEPTION 
By Robert H. Pierson 
"She shall bring forth a Son, and thou shalt call His name 
Jesus: for He shall save His people from their sins." 
Matthew 1:21. 
unworthy to have children." Mary 1: 
9. Joachim was "much confounded 
wit the shame of such reproach" 
(Verse 11) , and wanted to stay away 
from his neighbours and friends lest 
they also should reproach him. 
Then, the spurious record declares, 
an angel came to Joachim and 
promised that his childless state 
should be changed. 
"But if reason will not convince you 
of the truth of my words, that there 
are frequent conceptions in advanced 
years, and that those who were barren 
have brought forth to their great 
surprise; therefore Anna your wife 
shall bring you a daughter and you 
shall call her name Mary; she shall, 
according to your vow, be devoted to 
the Lord from her infancy, and be 
filled with the Holy Ghost from her 
mother's womb: she shall neither eat 
nor drink anything which is unclean, 
nor shall her conversation be without 
among the common people, but in the 
temple of the Lord; that so she might 
not fall under any slander or suspi-
cion of what is bad. So in the process 
of her years, as she shall be in a mirac-
ulous manner born to one that was 
barren, so she shall, while yet a virgin, 
in a way unparalleled, bring forth the 
Son of the Most High God, who shall 
be called Jesus, and, according to the 
significance of His name, be the 
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Saviour of all nations." Mary 2:9-12. 
Anna also was assured that Mary, 
her daughter-to-be, should be born in 
a miraculous manner, "being an un-
paralleled instance without any pollu-
tion or defilement." Rejoicing, the 
parents returned to their home, and 
then follows the simple statement of 
Mary's birth: 
"So Anna conceived, and brought 
forth a daughter, and, according to 
the angel's command, the parents did 
call her name Mary." Verse 11. 
Not alone in this book of The 
Gospel of the Birth of Mary does one 
find abundant evidence confirming 
the doctrine of the Immaculate Con-
ception, but also in another apoc-
ryphal book known as the Protevenge-
lion, or, An Historical Account of the 
Birth of Christ, and the Perpetual 
Virgin Mary, His Mother, by James, 
the Lesser, Cousin and Brother of the 
Lord Jesus, Chief Apostle and First 
Bishop of the Christians in Jerusalem. 
Here an even more detailed account 
of the Immaculate Conception is re-
corded. 
From such writings as those men-
tioned and from numerous other 
traditional sources have sprung the 
fanciful philosophies of men which 
have been absorbed by some branches 
of the Christian church. 
Mary, favoured woman that she 
was, still was very much of this world. 
There is nothing recorded in Canonic 
Scripture that would lead us to 
believe that her birth and life, aside 
from her miraculous bringing forth of 
our Lord Jesus, was out of the ordi-
nary. That she was born in sin, the 
same as every other individual since 
the fall of man, we must conclude. 
In recording Jesus' birth in Gala-
tians 4:4, Paul uses no qualifying 
adjectives to describe the mother of 
our Lord: "But when the fulness of 
the time was come, God sent forth His 
Son, made of a woman, made under 
the law"—"made of a woman, made 
under the law." 
"Howbeit in vain do they worship 
Me, teaching for doctrines the com-
mandments of men. For laying aside 
the commandment of God, ye hold the 
tradition of men. . . . Full well ye 
reject the commandment of God, that 
ye may keep your own tradition." 
Mark 7:7-9. 
Honour Mary? By all means we 
should honour the one whom Heaven 
selected to be the mother of our 
Saviour. But honour her as we would 
honour other great women—for what 
she was—a good, virtuous faithful 
woman, not as one born in a different 
sinless manner from all of her sisters 
and therefore worthy not only of our 
honour but also of our worship. 
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IBLE ANSWER 
irrota bible Answerman 
Send your Bible and religious questions to "The Bible Answerman" 
Box 398, Oshawa, Ontario 
Dear Mr. Answerman: What are some 
of the events that will transpire before 
and after the millennium? 
"And the sixth angel poured out his 
vial upon the great river Euphrates; 
and the water thereof was dried up, 
that the way of the kings of the East 
might be prepared. And I saw three 
unclean spirits like frogs come out of 
the mouth of the dragon, and out of 
the mouth of the beast, and out of the 
mouth of the false prophet. For they 
are the spirits of devils, working mir-
acles, which go forth unto the kings 
of the earth and of the whole world, 
to gather them to the battle of that 
great day of God Almighty.... And he 
gathered them together into a place 
called in the Hebrew tongue Arma-
geddon." Revelation 16:12-14, 16. 
As this conflict rages Jesus comes 
and brings it to an end. The wicked 
living are destroyed by the brightness 
of His coming, and the righteous liv-
ing are translated and taken to heaven 
together with the resurrected right-
eous. That depopulates the earth of 
every living human being. Only Satan 
and his followers are left here in this 
shambles of an earth during the 1,000-
year period. 
At the end of the millennium, Christ 
and all the redeemed saints return to 
this earth. At this time Jesus fulfils 
His promise to raise the rest of the 
dead from their graves. The "rest of 
the dead" are and can be only the 
wicked dead. They come forth with 
all their lusts and passions just as they 
went down into their graves. At the 
time of the saints' return the New 
Jerusalem comes down from God out 
of heaven to this earth, and the resur-
rected wicked meet their end as they 
go up to capture this great golden 
prize. This is described for us in Reve-
lation 20: 
"But the rest of the dead lived not 
again until the thousand years were 
finished. . . . And when the thousand 
years are expired, Satan shall be loosed 
out of his prison, and shall go out to 
deceive the nations which are in the 
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four quarters of the earth, Gog and 
Magog, to gather them together to 
battle: the number of whom is as the 
sand of the sea. And they went up on 
the breadth of the earth, and com-
passed the camp of the saints about, 
and the beloved city: and fire came 
down from God out of heaven, and 
devoured them." Verses 5, 7-9. 
Dear Bible Answerman: You teach 
that the earth was created in six literal 
days—presumably out of nothing. ("He 
spake, and it was done.") How do you 
explain, then, the fact that in order for 
the great Deluge to accomplish, at God's 
command, the destruction of every living 
thing except the ark and its inhabitants, 
it took such a comparatively long period 
of time? 
Is there the possibility that the seven 
days of the first week were not literal 
twenty-four-hour days? 
We think that there was not the re-
motest possibility that the six days of 
creation were anything other than lit-
eral twenty-four-hour days. It must be 
readily admitted that the period of the 
earth's destruction was longer than 
the period of its creation; but we are 
unable to see that that fact has any 
bearing at all on the matter of crea- 
don. If man wishes to employ many 
artisans and labourers and erect a 
house in a given period of time, and 
then, if it does not please him, take 
ten times as long to tear it down, 
surely he is within his prerogatives. 
God has the right to do as He pleases 
with His own. However, we must re-
member that before the flood the 
earth was covered with a dense and 
rank vegetation. It was the action of 
the water that uprooted those mighty 
trees and washed them together in 
great areas. Likewise it was the action 
of the water that covered this stacked-
up vegetation with soft mud. Layer 
after layer of vegetation and mud was 
laid down on top of each other by the 
surging action of the waters. In the 
process of time the vegetation became 
coal and the mud became rock and 
shale. 
The theory that the days of creation 
were long, indefinite periods of time 
doesn't have a leg to stand on. It is 
enunciated by those who do not have 
faith enough to accept the Biblical 
declaration that God created the 
world in six days and rested on the 
seventh. 
Dear Bible Answerman: According to 
Leviticus 10:9, do you think Aaron used 
to drink wine and strong drink at times 
when he was not directly occupied with 
the tabernacle service? 
This is an interesting question in 
that it shows that some people are 
reading their Bibles and thinking 
about what they read. Leviticus 10:9 
says this: "Do not drink wine nor 
strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with 
thee, when ye go into the tabernacle 
of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall 
be a statute for ever throughout your 
generations." 
I would not understand from this 
that the drinking of alcoholic bever-
ages was approved at any time, but I 
would understand that there was a 
special prohibition against it at the 
time of the tabernacle service. As far 
as I am acquainted we have no record 
showing that Aaron at any time used 
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wine or strong drink. We do know that 
his two sons violated the instructions 
of this verse, and because of their be-
fuddled state of mind offered "strange 
fire" before the Lord, and the result 
▪ was that the Lord slew them instantly. 
It is possible that these two young 
men started out by drinking at times 
when they were not directly occupied 
• 
with the tabernacle services, but the 
use of alcohol is a habit that grows, 
and soon gets out of control. The tend-
ency is to drink just a little more, and 
the first thing the imbiber knows, he 
is drunk, and has offered "strange 
fire," or in present-day offences, he has 
given way to some form of lust, or has 
killed someone with gun or automo-
bile. 
No! I don't believe that Leviticus 
10:9 can be interpreted as a permit 
from God to use wine or strong drink 
when off duty. 
The ceremonial law was transitory 
in its nature and came to an end at the 
cross. It was a remedial system that 
was "added because of transgression" 
until the time when Christ would 
come. Had the moral law never been 
broken the ceremonial law would 
never have been necessary. At best it 
was only a temporary measure that 
told a sinner what to do in case he 
broke the moral law. In the event an 
Israelite broke the ten commandments, 
the ceremonial law instructed him to 
bring a lamb, without spot or blemish, 
to the door of the tabernacle and to 
lay his hands on the animal's head, 
confessing the sin which he had com-
mitted. Then he was required to take 
the life of the lamb with his own hand. 
Thus the sinner's sin was transferred 
from himself to the innocent victim 
which was a type of Christ. 
However, when Christ the Lamb of 
God came and gave His life for the 
sins of the whole world, type met anti-
type, shadow met substance, and the 
type and the shadow ceased to exist. 
When Christ died on the cross the 
veil of the temple was rent from the 
top to the bottom: "Behold, the veil of 
the temple was rent from the top to 
the bottom; and the earth did quake, 
and the rocks rent." The supernatural 
rending of the veil indicated that the 
temple service had come to its end. 
"Then said He, Lo, I come to do 
Thy will, 0 God. He taketh away the 
first, that He may establish the sec-
ond." Hebrews 10:9. 
Dr. Albert Barnes makes the follow-
ing comments on this verse: "The 
• 
word first here refers to sacrifices and 
offerings. He takes them away; that is, 
He shows that they are of no value in 
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removing sin. He states their inefficacy, 
and declares His purpose to abolish 
them. `That He may establish the sec-
ond' — to wit, the doing of the will 
of God.... If they had been efficacious, 
there would have been no need of His 
coming to make an atonement." 
The Jews, following the death of 
Christ, did not recognize the fact that 
the sacrificial system had come to its 
end, and continued to offer sacrifices 
as before. Even the Christian Jews did 
not recognize this significant fact. 
They wanted to continue the animal 
sacrifices. They had difficulty in real-
izing that Jesus was the antitype of all 
animal sacrifices. 
It was necessary, therefore, for the 
apostle Paul to use some strong lan-
guage • in clarifying this matter. In 
writing to the Colossians he said: "Let 
no man therefore judge you in meat, or 
in drink, or in respect of an holyday, 
or of the new moon, or of the sabbath 
days [yearly, ceremonial sabbaths of 
which there were seven]: which are a 
shadow of things to come; but the 
body is of Christ." Colossians 2:16, 17. 
However, when it came to the moral 
law there was no change. The ten 
commandments are principles of right-
eousness which cannot be altered or 
abolished. Christ in speaking to this 
point said: "Think not that I am come 
to destroy the law, or the prophets: I 
am not come to destroy, but to ful-
fil." Matthew 5:17. 
John Wesley comments as follows: 
"The moral law contained in the ten 
commandments, and enforced by the 
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prophets, He did not take away. It was 
not the design of His coming to revoke 
any part of this. . ... Every part of 
this law must remain in force upon 
all mankind and in all ages, as not 
depending either on time or place, 
or any other circumstance liable to 
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Dear Bible Answerman: Will the Jews 
establish a national home in Palestine? 
J. M., Regina. 
The following prophecies say that 
they will not: "And thou, profane 
wicked prince of Israel, whose day is 
come, when iniquity shall have an end, 
thus saith the Lord God; Remove the 
diadem, and take off the crown: this 
shall not be the same: exalt him that 
is low, and abase him that is high. I 
will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: 
and it shall be no more, until He come 
whose right it is; and I will give it 
Him." Ezekiel 21:25-27. 
"Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a. 
potter's earthen bottle, and take of the 
ancients of the people, and of the an-
cients of the priests; and go forth unto 
the valley of the son of Hinom, which 
is by the entry of the east gate, and pro-
claim there the words that I shall tell 
thee. . . . Then thou shalt break the 
bottle in the sight of the men that go 
with thee, and shalt say unto them, 
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even so 
will I break this people and this city, 
as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that 
cannot be made whole again." Jere-
miah 19:1, 2, 10, 11. 
"And when He saw a fig tree in the 
way, He came to it, and found nothing 
thereon, but leaves only, and said unto 
it, Let no fruit grow on thee hence-
forward for ever. And presently the fig 
tree withered away." Matthew 21:19, 
God said that He would overturn 
the throne of Israel, and that it should 
be no more till He (Christ) come 
whose it was, and He would give it to 
Him. Then, again, under the figure 
of a potter's earthen vessel the nation 
is broken and it is said that it cannot 
be made whole. The fig tree which 
Jesus cursed represented the Jewish 
nation. The sentence was that the tree 
bear no fruit forever. It withered and 
died. 
Dear Bible Answerman: Should we or 
should we not speak to a sister in Christ 
if we see her doing worldly things that 
child of God should not do? 
It would be all right to speak to the 
erring sister after you have prayed 
about it if you can do it tactfully in 
love, and if you are sure you are not 
doing the same or worse things your-
self. 
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Dear Mr. Answer-man: Are we still un-
der the ceremonial laws of Moses, or did 
the death of Christ on the cross abolish 
these? 0. K. C. 
Sound Doctrine 
(After you have carefully studied the lesson, see if you can answer 
the questions of Pastor Flynn's Bible Quiz.) 
J. To what may the doctrines of the Bible be compared? �
 
2. Draw a line through the false statements: 
a. If a man is sincere he can be saved no matter what he believes. 
b. It is possible to have a strong body with defective bones. 
c. Jesus was a teacher of true and sound doctrine. 
d. To get the truth we should compare one verse with another in the Bible. 
e. If a preacher, priest or friend says a thing is true, that makes it true. 
3. Fill in the following blanks: 
a. " 
�
• hold fast that which is good." 
b. "For � must be upon 
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T
HE great prophet Isaiah once 
wrote: "But they [Israel's re-
ligious leaders] also have erred 
through wine, and through strong 
drink are out of the way; the priest 
and the prophet have erred through 
strong drink, they are swallowed up 
of wine, they are out of the way 
through strong drink; they err in vi-
sion, they stumble in judgment. For all 
tables are full of vomit and filthiness, 
so that there is no place clean." 
The full impact of these vatical 
words was driven home with pile-
driver force the other night when a 
little, old, blind woman, dressed in 
black, groped her way into a street car. 
I had never seen her before. She was 
frail; and she was drunk. Her white 
hair was dishevelled, and her eyes 
were misty and red. They stared un-
seeingly from their sockets, sunk deep 
in a sallow, wrinkled face. One glove 
was on, but the wizened hand that 
clung to the white cane was bare. She 
was so tiny and helpless that I wanted 
to protect her; but, being human, the 
loathsome smell of second-hand beer 
made me hold her in contempt. I won-
dered just how much longer society 
intends to hobble along on the crutch 
of alcohol. 
In the United States alone (there 
are no exact figures for Canada) , there 
are between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 
people of all classes, races, and re-
ligious affiliations who are ill with a 
disease called alcoholism—a conta-
gious disease as deadly as tuberculosis 
and as cankerous as cancer with its 
mere 500,000 known cases. Still, mod-
ern preventive medicine, as a body, 
and the general public have failed to 
give their scientific experience and 
wholehearted support to its prevention 
and cure — for it can be cured; and 
better still, it can be prevented! Every 
member of Alcoholics Anonymous 
stands as a living testimonial. 
Since this illness is on a global scale, 
would it be precocious at this date to 
suggest that national sanitariums "for 
the prevention and cure of alcoholism" 
be established throughout the nations 
of the world? Would it be out of place 
to suggest that the best brains preven-
tive medicine can spare be assigned to 
use their specialized knowledge and 
scientific equipment to help the "alco-
holic sick" rehabilitate themselves; to 
help them throw away, first, the bottle, 
and then their inner inadequacies, 
emotional disturbances, fears and neu-
roses, and finally emerge as normal, 
healthy, useful citizens? 
In Canada, this may sound like a 
very timid kitten mewing in the face 
of a roaring lion, for only a few months 
ago a survey was made of Canadians 
in all walks of life, and seventy-five 
out of every one hundred men inter-
viewed voted for the manufacture and 
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there a � 
4. Give the first three words of Bossuet's statement: �
 
5. How does the Bible become God's weighing machine? �
 
6. Whose doctrine is the doctrine of the Bible? 
7. Underline the correct statements: 
a. We should prove the soundness of our doctrine by our relatives, the barber, 
by the law and the Bible, the preacher, the priest. 
b. Satan's doctrines are good, true, counterfeit, designed to save. 
8. Who said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life"? �
 
9. What is "vain" worship said to be to God? 
10. What is one tragic result of clinging to false doctrine? �
 
11. How do some people ''wish they could get to heaven"? �
 
12. Write false or true after each statement: 
a. God loves the prayer of the one who refuses to hear His law. �
 
b. Strong delusion comes to those who reject God's truth. �
 
c. If a man is willing he shall know of the doctrine. 
d. God approves those who substitute error for truth. �
 
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By Samuel Campbell, B.A. 
is a mocker, strong drink is raging: 
and whosoever is deceived thereby is 
not wise." Proverbs 20:1. God's fol-
lowers are admonished to "be not 
among winebibbers." 
The befuddled state of mind of the 
winebibber provides the ideal set-up 
for Satan—ideal in that the drunkard 
has little ability to discern between 
right and wrong, and is therefore 
easily moved along the path of sin 
and destruction. 
TM sin of evil influence is not one of the lesser sins for which governmental leaders will 
have to give an account to God in the day of judgment. If it were not for the example of 
those in high places and the easy accessibility of alcoholic beverages we conceive that 
there would be very much less drunkenness. 
EWING GALLOWAY 
SIN IN HIGH 
sale of spirits. The great majority 
were disgusted with the "indignant 
bleatings of the puppy-dog antialco-
holists."In "Toronto, the good," one 
city newspaper published the follow-
ing headlines on the same page: 
"CONTROLLERS TOLD GENER-
AL HOSPITALS WILL HAVE TO 
CLOSE UP UNLESS CITY PAYS 
DEFICITS" 
"1947 ONTARIO LIQUOR CON-
TROL BOARD SALES CLOSE TO 
$155,500,000" 
These glaring facts, and more, would 
tend to discourage the fainthearted, 
and make them lose confidence in 
human nature. But to those with a 
will, they clearly indicate that an in-
tense educational programme, di-
rected particularly at the younger gen-
eration before they are engulfed by 
the older and "superior" alcoholic 
culture, must co-operate with the fac-
ulties of preventive medicine. 
Perhaps this venture of applying the 
concept of preventive medicine in al-
coholism may sound incredible to you. 
It is far more than just a dream to a 
group of people working quietly in 
• 
e Laboratory of Applied Physiology 
at Yale University. In British Colum-
bia the government has set aside a 
part of its $1,000,000 a month liquor 
• 
profits for the purpose of conducting 
an alcoholic educational programme 
in the high schools. Alcoholic educa-
tion in British Columbia is in but its 
primary stage. However, we hope that 
it is a step in the right direction, and 
that British Columbia and all Canada 
will go on and totally eradicate the 
curse from the Dominion. 
The haughty sheep doctors scoffed 
at the humble Louis Pasteur and his 
inoculation stuff. To-day, because of 
him, no child needs to die of diph-
theria. Once, the streets of Europe 
reeked putrid with the victims of the 
Black Death. To-day, the plague has 
disappeared from the face of the earth. 
In the 1890's, typhoid fever was ramp-
ant. To-day, many a young doctor 
graduates without seeing a single case. 
STOP AND THINK! You can't 
cure a headache by taking an aspirin 
if its cause lies in the digestive tract. 
Let's work on the cause of the disease! 
STOP AND THINK AGAIN! You 
cannot go to heaven as a drunkard. 
The pearly gates of the New Jeru-
salem are slammed shut in the face of 
everyone who persists in the habit of 
intemperance. 
The Bible clearly presents the 
divine attitude toward the indul-
gence of alcoholic beverages: "Wine 
MARCH, 1949 
DOCTOR'S 
VOICE 
Send your health 
queries to the Doc-
tor's Voice, Box 398, 
Oshawa, Ont. 
Asthma 
Question: 
What is the treatment of 
asthma? 
ANSWER: In younger individuals 
asthma is usually due to allergy to 
house dust, pollens, or such things as 
wool, feathers, cats, dogs, etc. The 
exact cause can be determined by 
skin tests or other methods. The 
offender can be avoided or the pa-
tient may be desensitized against the 
same by a series of injections. For 
the acute attack adrenalin by in-
halation or by injection usually gives 
dramatic relief. Ephedrine orally or 
by inhalation is sometimes substi-
tuted. These should be given under 
medical supervision. Nicotinic acid, 
a vitamin B derivative, is sometimes 
useful. The asthmatic patient should 
take "asthma" exercises daily, accord-
ing to Dr. Frank Krusen of the Mayo 
Clinic. These consist of: 1. Abdomi-
nal breathing—when this is done cor-
rectly the upper abdomen protrudes 
on inspiration and is withdrawn on 
expiration and the chest itself is kept 
at rest. 2. Slumping in a chair on ex-
halation and inhaling while the up-
right position is being assumed. 3. 
With the arms behind the neck 
(neck rest position) rotate the el-
bows, inhaling while the arms are 
going out, and exhaling while the 
arms are coming in. 4. The same 
exercise with the arms fully extended 
is helpful. Side bending and deep 
breathing are also recommended. It 
is important to keep the house scru-
pulously clean. Persons over fifty 
years of age who develop asthma are 
usually suspected of having heart 
trouble, and the treatment is modi-
fied accordingly, main emphasis be-
ing placed on rest. Persons suffering 
from asthma benefit from exercises 
which may be done while in health as 
well as during attacks. During the 
attack itself it is important not to 
over-expand the lungs. With pressure 
against the sides of the chest or with 
the use of a belt encircling the lower 
chest, inhalation is carried out 
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against slight pressure, with side 
pressure (by hands or belt) aiding 
expiration. This prevents emphy-
sema, which if fully developed may 
produce chronic invalidism, the mus-
cle tissue in the lung being over-
stretched. 
Valvular Heart Disease 
Question: Is it possible to "outgrow" 
valvular heart disease? 
ANSWER: Heart murmurs, while 
often indicative of valvular heart 
disease, may be due either entirely or 
partly to anmia, which when cor-
rected may cause heart sounds to 
return to normal. Also dilatations of 
the heart following recent rheumatic 
activity, or prolonged emotional or 
physical strain, will usually subside 
under proper conditions. To this ex-
tent it is possible to "outgrow" val-
vular heart disease. A certain amount 
of scarring, of course, remains. In any 
case, it has been shown that patients 
with rheumatic heart disease do bet-
ter if kept under regular medical 
supervision. 
Low Acidity 
Question: What foods should be eaten 
when a person has no acid shown by gas-
tric analysis? 
ANSWER: Some persons with low 
acidity have impaired digestion and 
flatulence after meals, particularly if 
they have eaten coarse vegetables or 
excess of protein foods. These persons 
especially should eat only a few 
varieties at a meal, and avoid eating 
when overfatigued or late in the eve-
ning. Four ounces of grapefruit juice 
or two ounces of lemon juice at a 
meal will substitute for the usual 
amount of dilute hydrochloric acid 
taken. Distention of the stomach may 
occur as a result of eating fruit and 
coarse vegetables at the same meal. 
The fruit tends to ferment during the 
delayed digestion of the vegetables. 
Animal protein increases putrefaction 
in the intestines. 
O
NE realizes instinctively that 
noise decreases efficiency if it is. 
excessive. Lord Horder's state-
ment that "responsible medical opin-
ion holds that apart from the effect 
on sleep and rest, noise can have disas- 
trous influences on the nervous system 
and may reduce the efficiency of 
workers," needs little comment. Indus- 
trial concerns are doing everything 
possible to reduce this hazard; busi- 
ness firms are providing booths for 
their stenographers and other office 
workers. 
Fatigue comes on later and efficiency 
is increased in certain specialized work 
if the worker sits rather than stands 
where it is possible to do so. Clothing 
plays a part. In enclosed spaces where 
heat is intense and humidity high, as 
in a boiler room, men work more 
efficiently with the minimum of cloth-
ing, preferably stripped to the waist. 
Under ordinary circumstances, as 
when working outdoors in temperate 
climate, men stripped to the waist do 
not work as efficiently as men wearing 
shirts, because of the distractions of 
insects, scratches, et cetera. In the 
desert, where humidity is low and heat 
intense, moderate clothing picks up 
sweat and increases area of evapora-
tion, thus aiding dissipation of body 
heat. Hence it acts as an insulator 
against the heat. 
If the working days are Monday 
through Saturday, peak efficiency is 
attained on Tuesday. This does not 
infer that week-ends have been mis-
spent but that some skills are a little 
rusty. As the week wears on, efficiency 
declines owing to fatigue. As far as the 
individual day is concerned, efficiency 
is always less after the noonday meal 
than before. At the beginning of the 
week efficiency is attained around 
noon. From day to day maximum 
efficiency is attained at an earlier and 
earlier hour, and finally on the last 
day is at its peak first thing in the 
morning, owing to early onset of 
fatigue. Fatigue is the greatest prob-
lem where jobs are repetitive, as in an 
assembly line; work is monotonous, 
and incentive other than a financial 
one is not always the greatest. Planned 
rest periods and yearly vacations in-
crease efficiency. The taking of a rest 
when one feels like doing so is not 
nearly so effective as a planned rest 
period. 
The fact that everyone needs one 
day in seven to recuperate from phys-
ical labour is well recognized. One day 
in the week spent contemplating and 
enjoying the works of the Creator and 
in public worship is well snent. The 
physical and spiritual uplift are lost 
if the day is used to catch up on work 
around the home or at the office or 
shop. Man's attainments are no higher 
than his ideals, and one day a week is 
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needed to lift his mind above the 
material things of man's creation. 
Breakfast and eating habits gener-
ally are important. The "high carbohy- 
drate" breakfast with perhaps white 
toast, coffee and a glass of fruit juice 
results in quick energy all right, the 
blood sugar reaching a high level 
around ten o'clock. By eleven, how-
ever, the blood sugar falls to an ab-
normally low level with resultant 
fatigue, jitteriness, and tendency to 
dizziness which may be serious in dan-
gerous occupations. Most industrial 
accidents on this account occur be-
tween 10 and 11 A. M. One third of the 
daily requirement of protein should 
be eaten at breakfast for sustained 
energy, and one third of the daily re-
quirement of fat for those extra cal-
ories and to slow down the emptying 
time of the stomach. A proper break-
fast would include two or three slices 
of whole-wheat bread, cereal, milk, 
fresh and cooked fruit, and one egg a 
day or perhaps better, three or four a 
week. Someone has said that breakfast 
should be an institution where, inci-
dentally, family worship is not neg-
lected. The noon meal should likewise 
be substantial, and the evening meal 
light inasmuch as energy requirements 
in the evening are usually minimal. 
If one's greatest efficiency is attained 
in the morning then important things 
should receive early attention. Morn-
ing devotions should not be neglected. 
It is said of Luther that before the 
Diet of Worms he spent several of the 
"best hours" of the day in prayer. His 
wonderful defence of the gospel on 
this occasion was the result. We read 
of Christ that He arose a great while 
before it was day and went unto a 
mountain to pray. Where mental work 
is concerned and routine matters must 
be dealt with it has been found that it 
is best to get the easy things out of the 
way first while the mind is fresh, be- 
cause when fatigue sets in, even easy 
things become hard to do. Incident-
ally, it has been well said that "the 
work of the day should not be pro-
longed into the evening hours." The 
evenings are better spent in recre-
ation, social activity and cultural pur-
suits. 
The greater the mental activity the 
more important is the need for a pro- 
portionate increase in physical exer- 
cise. Ideally, sedentary workers should 
have several hours of physical exercise 
daily, such as walking, gardening or 
other useful manual work. The right 
mental attitude makes work a pleasure 
and a satisfaction rather than a mere 
drudgery. The step is light rather than 
heavy; the posture erect rather than 
drooped. Bodily organs are unhin- 
dered in their work, and respond to 
the exhilaration of spirit. As the 
French say, "We are happy because 
we smile; not, we smile because we are 
MARCH, 1949 
happy." A change of pace allows for 
quick recuperation of exhausted ener-
gies. This is where the ability to relax 
comes in; it should be cultivated. 
Chronic fatigue of unusual degree 
should not be ignored. It can be a 
symptom of many organic illnesses in-
cluding heart disease, tuberculosis, 
glandular deficiencies (especially thy-
roid) , anaemia, vitamin deficiencies, 
the use of stimulants (which would in-
clude tea, coffee, cola drinks, tobacco, 
benzedrine, etc.) , and others. 
Most persons can actually accom-
plish much more than they do within 
regular working hours. It has been 
found that the average worker sets a 
relatively slow pace for himself and 
wastes many movements. More careful 
use of the priceless talent of time 
Any unusual or prolonged 
period of fatigue should be 
recognized as a danger sig-
nal. Something is wrong 
with the body machine, and 
a thorough check-up by a 
competent physician is the 
part of wisdom. 
FATIGUE 
amid 
INEFFICIENCY 
By W. H. Roberts, M.D. 
would permit greater numbers to en-
joy things that are thought to be ac-
cessible only to the privileged classes 
and gentlemen of leisure. 
"Inactivity is a fruitful cause of 
disease. Exercise quickens and equal-
izes the circulation of the blood, but 
in idleness the blood does not circu-
late freely, and the changes in it, so 
necessary to life and health, do not 
take place. The skin, too, becomes in-
active. Impurities are not expelled as 
they would be if the circulation had 
been quickened by vigorous exercise, 
the skin kept in a healthy condition, 
and the lungs fed with plenty of pure, 
fresh air. This state of the system 
throws a double burden on the excre-
tory organs, and disease is the result." 
—Ministry of Healing, p. 238. 
ANNIE 
LAWSON'S 
PRAYERS 
By Mary C. Murdoch 
What Has Gone Before 
Peter Lawson was ashamed of his weakness 
for drink, and sought to hide it from Annie, 
his young wife. But when Peter was brought 
home in a drunken stupor Annie was terri-
fied for fear little Jimmie would follow his 
father's example. In the years that passed An-
nie was drawn close to God. Jimmie grew to 
manhood torn between the influence of his 
father and of his mother. At length he is con-
verted and devotes himself to God in serving 
the cause of temperance. 
D
URING the years that Jimmie 
and his father farmed around 
Dauphin they amassed their 
share of wealth. Their herds of cattle 
spread over the prairies for miles 
around. Although Peter enjoyed his 
prosperity, yet his riches had not 
brought to him the satisfaction he had 
anticipated. Deep down in his heart 
he had an unutterable longing for 
something he did not possess. 
Lately he had become very restless 
and at times melancholy. He seemed 
unable to find peace of mind. All 
Annie's efforts to cheer him were in 
vain. He was fast losing all interest in 
everything. One day while she was out 
in the yard he suddenly turned to her 
with a look of utter hopelessness and 
said, "Annie, I'm going to end it all. 
I'm just a burden to both you and 
myself. I'm going to end it all." 
"0 Peter," she cried, "I've prayed 
for you all these years. I cannot give 
you up." 
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"Then pray for me now," wailed 
Peter. "Pray for me now." So together 
they knelt down beside the barn while 
Annie prayed as she had never prayed 
before. 
At last Peter had turned to the right 
source for help, and God, whose arm 
is ever stretched out to save, rescued 
him from destruction. Just as soon as 
Peter was willing to come to God, the 
forces of darkness were driven back 
and peace came to his troubled mind 
and heart. With the peace that passeth 
understanding came the assurance of 
sins forgiven. How precious were the 
promises, "Though your sins be as 
scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." 
Isaiah 1:18. "Let the wicked forsake 
his way, and the unrighteous man his 
thoughts: and let him return unto the 
Lord, and He will have mercy upon 
him; and . . . He will abundantly 
pardon." Isaiah 55:7. "For God so 
loved the world, that He gave His only-
begotten Son, that whosoever believ-
eth in Him should not perish, but 
have everlasting life." John 3:16. Peter 
could never comprehend the unfath-
omable love of God, who had accepted 
him after he had spent the best years 
of his life in serving Satan. 
Some time later when Jimmie was 
away on business he received a tele-
gram from his mother advising him to 
come home immediately. His father 
had taken dangerously ill. Jimmie 
hastened to his bedside and found him 
in a very weak condition, but still re-
joicing in the Lord. "You have been a 
good son to me, Jimmie, a much better 
son than I have been a father. I've 
wasted the best years of my life, but 
the wonderful mercy and love of God 
have saved me for eternity. Jimmie, 
you have a sincere Christian mother. 
Always be true to your mother's God." 
Later he asked Jimmie to send for 
William and James. These were two 
neighbour boys in whom Peter had 
taken a special interest. He knew they 
were heading in the wrong direction 
and he wanted to warn them against 
seeking after the fleeting pleasures of 
this world. As he told them of the 
miserable failure he had made of his 
life, because of his unwillingness to 
let God help him, they were visibly 
moved. The testimony of this one-
time drunkard made a lasting impres-
sion upon those wayward boys. The 
record of his unhappy past impressed 
them with the truth that "the way of 
transgressors is hard." Proverbs 13:15. 
Just a little while before Father 
Lawson passed away, he repeated part 
of the well-known hymn: 
"On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, 
And cast a wishful eye 
To Canaan's fair and happy land, 
Where my possessions lie." 
In his eagerness to be reassured, 
Jimmie bent over and asked, "Are 
your possessions there, father?" "Yes, 
0, yes, Jimmie, and we are going to 
meet again over there. We are going 
to meet again in heaven." 
"We will rest in the fair and happy land, 
Just across on the evergreen shore; 
Sing the song of Moses and the Lamb by 
and by, 
And dwell with Jesus ever more." 
Mrs. Lawson and Jimmie moved to 
town after Peter's death. Jimmie sold 
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Jimmie thought he knew 
the Bible, but Mr. Wood, 
the tailor, showed him 
some things that revolu-
tionized his entire life. 
the farm and returned to his trade, and 
it was not long until he had built up 
a successful and prosperous business. 
Jimmie's prospects seemed bright in-
deed, when suddenly, as a bolt from 
the blue, all was blasted. The fire 
alarm rang out early one morning and 
Jimmie was startled to learn that a 
nearby hotel block was already en- 
• 
veloped in flames. As he was a member 
of the emergency fire brigade he hastily 
donned his uniform and rushed to the 
scene. However, despite the heroic 
fight put forth, it was soon evident 
that all further efforts to quench the 
flames were useless. The roaring of the 
fire mingled with the shrieks of the 
women caused panic. All was confu-
sion, but Jimmie must dare one more 
rescue — a child was still in the burn-
ing building. As our young hero strug-
gled toward the exit with the child he 
felt himself being overpowered by the 
flames and smoke; then all was blank. 
It was three days before he regained 
consciousness, and his condition was 
most critical during the months that 
followed. An eminent specialist was 
called from New York to perform a 
most delicate operation on his damaged 
lungs. This brought relief to some ex-
tent, but recovery was slow. Almost a 
year passed before he was able to leave 
the hospital on a stretcher. The doc-
tors thought that a higher altitude 
• 
might help. In time he was able to get 
• 
around with the aid of crutches. 
As the months passed Jimmie was 
tempted to become somewhat discour-
aged as he thought of his weak and 
• 
helpless condition, but not often, for 
his mother was continually encourag-
ing him. She knew that "all things 
work together for good to them that 
love God." Although it was hard for 
her to see how this trial could ever 
work out for good, yet she continued 
to trust where she could not trace. 
One morning when Jimmie was out 
in the garden his attention was di-
rected to a well-dressed man walking 
briskly down the road. He was carry-
ing a Bible and a hymnbook. Jimmie, 
somewhat puzzled, inquired of his 
neighbour across the way as to who 
this man was. 
"Oh, that is Wood, the tailor," he 
said. "He is going to church. " 
Jimmie, confused for the moment, 
replied, "But this isn't Sunday." 
"No, I know it isn't, but Wood keeps 
Saturday for Sunday. He believes Sat-
urday is the Sabbath." 
"Well, what else does he believe?" 
asked Jimmie in astonishment. 
"Oh, he believes in justification by 
faith, in Christ's soon coming, in bap-
tism by immersion, but he doesn't be-
lieve in the doctrine of eternal punish- 
* 
ment for the wicked," replied his 
neighbour. 
Jimmie's interest was immediately 
aroused, for the subject of eternal 
MARCH, 1949 
torment was a matter to which he had 
in the past given considerable thought. 
"I'm going to investigate this," he 
said. 
At this Neighbour Johnson put his 
hand on Jimmie's shoulder and warned 
him to have nothing to do with those 
people. "You need have no fear for 
me,' said Jimmie. "These people will 
never get me unless by the Bible." 
Ever since Jimmie had become well 
enough to do so, he had passed much 
time on Sundays visiting different 
churches. He liked to investigate the 
tenets of their faith and discuss their 
different beliefs. Often he would talk 
with his mother and ask her what she 
thought about certain views. Always 
she would say, "Let us take the Bible 
as it reads, and ask God to guide us." 
By comparing scripture with scripture 
they had come to some very definite 
conclusions concerning certain points 
of doctrine. 
They could not reconcile the love 
of God as taught in the Bible with the 
theory of eternal torment. The Bible 
set forth the proposition that the wages 
of sin is death (Romans 6:23) , not 
life in the flames of fire. Then again 
in Psalm 37:10, 20 they read, "Yet a 
little while, and the wicked shall not 
be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider 
his place, and it shall not be." "The 
wicked shall perish, . . . into smoke 
shall they consume away." "They shall 
be devoured as stubble fully dry." Na-
hum 1:10. Jimmie had been subjected 
to the pains of fire for just a few brief 
minutes. Now the thought that any-
one would be committed to an eter-
nally burning hell was to him unbear-
able. Then, too, Jimmie had often 
been disturbed as he had tried to rec-
oncile the punishment of the wicked 
with the fact of a future resurrection 
and judgment. "If the wicked," he ar-
gued, "have already been consigned to 
the flames, then what need is there of 
a future resurrection and judgment?" 
So it was not surprising that his atten-
tion had focussed upon Mr. Johnson's 
statements of the beliefs of the young 
man whom he had seen on his way to 
church. 
When Mr. Wood returned from 
church, Jimmie, eager to make his ac- 
quaintance, went to meet him. After 
introducing himself he went on to ex- 
plain how his curiosity had been a- 
roused that morning as he had seen 
him carrying his Bible. "I understand 
that you keep Saturday for Sunday. 
Is that so?" 
"Well, not exactly," replied Mr. 
Wood. "I do observe Saturday, the 
seventh day of the week, as the Sabbath 
of the fourth commandment. You see, 
Mr. Lawson, I believe that the blessing 
pronounced on the Sabbath by God at 
creation has never been removed." 
"You are in business, Mr. Wood. Is 
your shop open to-day?" 
"Oh, no, Mr. Lawson. None of my 
men are working to-day." 
"Well," said Jimmie, "I certainly ad-
mire your sacrifice. You certainly prac 
tice your religion, but I think you are 
very much mistaken in holding to the 
seventh day, for we surely know now 
that Sunday is the Sabbath." 
Mr. Wood looked earnestly at Jim-
mie and said, "Mr. Lawson, if you 
can show me anywhere in the Bible 
that the first day of the week is com-
manded to be observed as the Sabbath 
I will never keep the seventh day 
again." 
"Well," replied Jimmie confidently, 
"I'll soon show you that. I'll look up 
the references." 
Mr. Wood did not seem over enthu-
siastic on hearing this, but nevertheless 
extended a cordial invitation to Jim-
mie to come over to his house for a 
visit, and suggested that he come the 
next day. 
Jimmie replied that Sunday was an 
especially busy day for him. He taught 
the Bible class in the Methodist 
Church; he was the superintendent 
of the City Mission, and in the eve-
ning he always attended the Salvation 
Army meetings. But sometimes be-
tween four and five in the afternoon 
he was free. So he agreed to a visit 
then. 
Jimmie felt that Mr. Wood was sin-
cere in what he believed, and this made 
him all the more eager to set him 
straight. That evening in his own room 
Jimmie searched his Bible, but was 
unable to find the definite information 
he had expected. After looking up the 
various references he discovered that 
the word Sunday was not even men-
tioned in the Bible. So taking down 
his Webster's dictionary he was some-
what dismayed to find that Sunday 
was defined as being "the venerable 
day of the sun." There were a few 
references to the first day, but they 
did not furnish him with the proof 
he had expected to find. However, the 
appointed hour found him at Mr. 
Wood's home. 
Jimmie, desirous that no time be 
lost in man's theories and interpre-
tations, hastened to say that he stood 
for the Bible and the Bible only. 
"I've been studying the beliefs of 
various denominations," he added. "I 
don't care what name a denomination 
chooses to call itself — if it sticks to 
the Bible, it's all right, but if it cuts 
out any part of the Bible, I can't go 
along with it." Jimmie was pleased 
with Mr. Wood's evident approval and 
ready acquiescence. The conversation 
that followed proved interesting, and 
Jimmie stayed a lot longer than he 
had anticipated. The fact is, he learned 
things from Mr. Wood that bade fair 
to revolutionize his whole life. 
(To be continued) 
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