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Again: Our Attitude Toward Catholics and Catholicism
IN OUR January number there appeared on this page an editorial entitled, “Our Catholic Brothers.’’ Some of our Protestant friends have felt to criticize us for conceding too much to Roman Catholics, and for a seeming compromise of our well-known position toward papal belief and practice. We have nothing to retract from what we meant by the statements in that editorial; but since our intent has been misunderstood, an explanation is due our readers.
Let it be known that the editor has not changed his attitude one particle toward Catholicism, nor is The Watchman Magazine showing a change of front on this question. This may be attested by articles that have recently appeared, and others that will soon appear, in our pages.
The editorial was written for the purpose of proving to Catholics that the publishers of this magazine and the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, which it represents, are not blindly prejudiced against individual Catholics and everything Catholic just because it is Catholic—as we are often accused of being —simply because we oppose the papal system and its anti-Biblical beliefs and practices. The most effective way to prove absence of unfair bias is to give credit where credit is due. Hence our liberal statements.
We speak of Catholics as brothers in the sense that all mankind are our brothers. Thousands of sincere adherents of Rome will yet come out of that church, as many are now doing every year, and join us in our message. As it is not ours to know who will come out, we treat all individual Catholics in the most friendly and winning way. We are brothers to every sincere Catholic; we are decidedly not brother to Catholic dogma.
We mentioned several characteristics about Catholics and their work that excited our wonder, even our admiration. But admiration of skill and zeal and methods of work does not presuppose approval of
basic principles and general practices. This we made very plain in another paragraph. We are one with the apostle John, writer of the Apocalypse, in our amazement at this great church power. He “wondered with great admiration” (“amazement,” Syriac translation, Revelation 17: 6), and prophesied of the people of our times that “all the world wondered” (Revelation 13:3). But we are also one with the Revelator John in depicting this ecclesiastical power as blaspheming God, and making war with the saints of God, and persecuting them to death. (Revelation 12: 17; 13: 6, 7, 15.)
Perhaps greatest exception was taken to our observation that “their very numbers entitle the adherents of the Roman Church to a respectful hearing and more than tolerant consideration.” We did not mean by “more than tolerant” that we approve of more things Catholic than we did before. We had in mind Webster’s definition of “tolerate,” “to allow or permit negatively, ... to put up with.” In this very commonly understood sense we do not tolerate Catholics, any more than we want them to tolerate us. We “more than tolerate,” we grant them equal rights with ourselves in the belief and practice of their religion. In a democracy where the religious rights of even small minorities are sacredly guarded, surely every church is entitled to rights of worship, and not merely to be “put up with” because it seems best in order to keep the peace or because'we dare'not do otherwise.
We shall endeavor in all our writing to adhere strictly to Bible truth as the Spirit ofi-God interprets it to us, and shall constantly pray that we may never take either a too severe or a too liberal attitude toward those who differ with us in religion, that no honest soul may be turned out of the way. We make a sharp distinction in our dealing between principles and men. We have no quarrel with Catholics as men; but we will earnestly oppose erroneous papal principles.
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Aviation Spreads Her Wings
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A statue fifty feet High to immortalize the great Atlantic flight of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
Man first “flew ’ a short twenty-five years ago. Flying is safer today than earth transportation, in proportion to the number who go by air. Air-mindedness as a sign of the times
AN has ever yearned to fly. From the days of Icarus in legendary Greece, mythology and history have been strewn with the wreckage of futile attempts to conquer the air. In his “Book of Days,” Mr. Chambers tells the quaint story of a certain ancient abbot of Scotland “who took in hand to fly with wings. . . . He caused to be made a pair of wings of feathers, which being fastened upon him, he flew off the Castle wall of Sterling, but shortlie he fell to the ground and brak his thee-bone. But the blame thereof he ascribed to [the fact] that there was some hen feathers in the wings, which yearned for and coveted the barnyard and not the sky.” The author tells us that a later attempt by a convict of Paris ended similarly, yet without serious injury.
Mr. Chambers concludes his account of attempts to fly with this comment: “A more extended know1-edge of the laws of gravity and the relations between us and the atmosphere surrounding our globe has April, 1929
\By Roy F. Cottrell
induced us to discard all such attempts at emulating the powers of the feathered tribes of creation as chimerical. ... It is very significant that while in all other means of locomotion we have made such rapid strides within the last hundred years, the science of aeronautics has advanced little beyond the point which it attained in the days of our grandfathers.”
These words ^ere written only thirty years ago, a few years before modern aviation began with the successful flight of the Wright brothers. When tidings of the Wright brothers’ exploit reached the news agencies of the great cities, editors and reporters were decidedly reluctant to risk their reputation for veracity by publishing the report. ,
For two years at Dayton, Ohio, and two more years at Kitty Hawk, N. C., a straggling remote fishing village on the Atlantic coast, Wilbur and
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Orville Wright had been conducting their experiments. And, let it be known, their success was “not the lucky outcome of haphazard tinkering and carpentering by two simple mechanics who knew nothing of science and engineering, but of hard-headed, practical research, much of it conducted with measuring instruments in a wind-tunnel to test the truth of theories and formulae that represented the accumulated dreaming, studying, and experimenting of centuries, and that proved to be wrong for the most part.”
Learning from the Birds
THEN they set out to learn what the Bible calls “the way of an eagle in the air,” and in motorless biplanes, or gliders, took at least 2,000 air trips to attain poise and skill in the art of balancing and navigating. They also learned that a plane must be constructed with a definite center of gravity, and with each wing separately adjustable to be raised, lowered, or inclined as the moment’s need may dictate. Then they were ready to build and install the motor.
Finally, with everything in readiness, on the morning of Dec. 17, 1903, they signaled the crew of a near-by life-saving station as spectators, started the motor, taxied down the little runway, and flew 120 feet in twelve seconds. The fourth flight on that same eventful day lasted fifty-nine seconds and covered a distance of 852 feet. Epoch-making as it really was, the Wright brothers declared it to be “a flight very modest compared with that of birds.”
Subsequently, when a newspaper reporter coined the name “birdmen,” applying it to the Wrights, he little realized its fitness. In the beginning, the Creator understood the requisites for flying and had produced living airplanes in countless numbers and multiplicity of models, yet all operating upon the same general principle. This principle the brothers from Dayton were the first to “discover”; and although it is a far cry from the crude, frail little craft of Kitty Hawk to the mighty monoplane of today, the fundamentals of construction are the same. With but few exceptions the refinements and improvements have altered the contour and construction to conform more and more to the semblance of a bird with graceful wings and bluff, breastlike, well-rounded bodies tapering off gracefully toward the rudder or tail. Science has shown that, millenniums before man learned to fly, the Omnipotent constructed the best design for parting the air smoothly and attaining the highest speeds.
Twenty-Five Years of Marvels
IN THIS marvelous quarter of a century since aviation had its birth, what splendid achievement has been made! Birdmen have crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific, have circumnavigated the globe, have “flown over the icy Arctic in the teeth of a gale that would have dismayed the crew of a whaler,” and are today battling their way to triumph in the frozen regions about the south pole; they have remained aloft for six and a fourth days to establish an endurance record, and are now talking of non-
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After twenty-five years a monument to the first successful flight of an airplane was dedicated at Kitty Hawk, N. C., the scene of the feat. At the left of the tablet stands Orville Wright, who, with his brother Wilbur, made the now-famous attempts
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stop flights around the world.
Throughout the nations there are now 73,-300 miles of air lanes, 15,-667 of these being in the United States. Uncle Sam’s 22 postal and commercial routes bring direct service to 103 of our great cities, representing nearly a third of our population, and carry eight tons of mail daily.
To facilitate night travel along the completed airways, mighty beacons are located every ten miles along the path on the highest obtainable elevations. The lights swing in a circle, making six revolutions a minute, and radiate beams of light that can be seen for fifty miles in a clear atmosphere. Under favorable conditions, several of these beacons may be seen at once, and the heart of the skyrider is cheered as he looks ahead to the illuminated pathway. The lights are automatically adjusted to go on at sunset and off at sunrise, and if a bulb burns out it is instantly replaced without the aid of human hand.
Concerning our future in the air, we find that pioneers and engineering experts in aeronautics, famous fliers and commanders of huge dirigibles, and heads of vast airway systems — men of many nations throughout the world — generally concur that aviation is but in its infancy. Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison asserts that the airplane is “destined to play an increasingly prominent part in national and international transportation.” Rear Admiral Moffett observes that “the field for expansion is practically unlimited,” and that erelong he expects to see aviation “as standardized as railroad lines of today”; while De Havilland, the aircraft designer, predicts that “we are rapidly approaching the day when flying will be the safest and most universal method of travel.”
Leviathans of the Air
“T AM sure,” writes the president of an aircraft JL company, “that in a comparatively few years we will look back with curiosity at the type and size of even the largest and most powerful of present-day transports.” Another aviation expert declares that planes “carrying 50 to 100 or more passengers, with excellent accommodations, will certainly appear very soon,” while another looks forward to providing aprie, 1929
space for as many as fifty passengers in each wing. In Colonel Lindbergh’s dip into the not-distant future, he visions air transportation connecting all the important centers of the world. And now, for a final word in this little symposium from aviation authorities, we turn to Commander R. E. Byrd, now flying, or perchance traveling by dog sledge, about the ice fields of the Antarctic.
He says: “That work which the Wrights started has been carried forward gloriously, and the limit is not yet approached. Speeds of 300 miles an hour will be exceeded, safety through design and greater strength will be an obvious result, and loads will be carried which have not yet been anticipated. The day is quickly coming when planes will crisscross the country, bringing harmony of national thought to other countries that may make understanding and friendship a substitute for war. When that time comes, the ocean will be bridged by large multi-motored planes navigated as safely as liners and the world will shrink to a point where men must be brothers or bring upon themselves disaster.”
Foresight and Fulfillment
THERE is yet another highly significant aspect.
We open the grand old Book to this ancient prophecy and read: “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Daniel 12:4.
For twenty-three centuries after those words were penned, the world jogged on in the same old ruts and at about the same old pace that it had traveled since the days of Noah and Abraham. Then suddenly and miraculously the mind of man was energized to investigate, to invent, and to discover; and lo, a new intellectual and industrial era dawned! First the hidden powers of steam, then the marvels of electricity, physics, chemistry, and other sciences were unfolded, until almost every line of thought and activity was completely revolutionized.
Daniel did not write those words by chance. The infinite God gave him a vision of the future, revealing to him that at “the time of the end” knowledge would be “increased,” and (Continued on page 28)
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The Los Angeles, great American dirigible, on a flying jaunt over New York City
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New York police officials burning a million dollars’ worth of narcotic drugs, the cause and accompaniment of much of the crime of our times
Whence All This Lawlessness?
Our great cities are at last thoroughly aroused over the tidal wave of crime, and are taking drastic steps to call a halt on the gunmen who hold them up and the grafters who pilfer their treasuries. It will be well to gofar enough back to quell the wind that raised the wave.
V'ERY one who cares about his country, and seriously contemplates the crime conditions and the flagrant wantonness of conduct so prevalent in the world and especially in this country, must recognize that there is great need of a careful analysis of the problem and an immediate remedial measure designed to restore respect for statute law, regard for conscience, and reverence for the moral and spiritual laws of God. Surely the time has come for some prophet of thunder to sound forth his warnings in no uncertain terms; for the confusions and the perils of our day prophesy darkly, not only for American ideals, but for the ideals of all righteousness. Unless there is a rebuilding of the dikes that have gone down before the swelling tide of crime and vice, our civilization is confessedly on a very precarious foundation.
When we search for the sources of this problem, we find the primary causes residing in man himself — causes for crime are as old as the human race. Killing, stealing, and other crimes result from selfishness not yet brought under control. Because of sin, there is in man a sheaf of tendencies that break out in various forms of misbehavior, unless the individual has undergone a divine transformation that brings his life henceforth under the yoke of obedience to a higher law, even the law of God.
The world has gone wrong because it has been led
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to disrespect the divine law. One of the most quoted — and also misquoted — proverbs of wise King Solomon says, “Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint/’ Proverbs 29: 18, A. R. V. What is the vision to which he refers and which has ceased before men? The rest of the text explains: “Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” The vision, then, is the authority of the law, and the conclusion of the wise man is that when the law of God is taken away from before men’s eyes and hearts, there is a certain casting off of restraint that follows.
Uncontrollable barbarian instincts, the backwash of the war, injustice in industrial conditions, the lack of, or the breaking down of, home authority and training, may be presented as immediate and clear-cut causes for the present wave of lawlessness; but these are only secondary to the primary cause, which is fundamental; namely, the disregard for the law of God.
Disregard for the law of God by both the clergy and the laity has preceded present-day lawlessness and has resulted therein. Following this disregard and disrespect for the authority of God and its resulting lawlessness, there have come the most gigantic assaults in the world’s history upon the word of God. Tradition and fiction have taken the
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place of law and revelation in the church, and the cause of the resultant breakdown of conditions cannot be stated more clearly than by the prophet Jeremiah: “The Lord saith, . . . They have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, neither walked therein; but have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim.” Jeremiah 9: 13, 14.
A Darkened Conscience
THE carnal or natural mind under sin, “is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” (Romans 8: 7.) The spirit of Christ, which is the spirit of obedience and righteousness, must be implanted deep in the hearts of men, if conditions are ever bettered. The church must now elevate her “divine creed,” the Ten Commandments, and no longer present to men a washed-out and colorless form of religion. God’s law has been cast out by the church, when God intended it should go hand in hand with the gospel message of salvation from sin, “for sin is the transgression of the law.”
(1 John 3:4.) The apostle Paul stated the case correctly when he wrote,
“God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:3, 4.
The struggle of the ages under the reign of sin has been between man’s misguided conscience and the perfect will of God. One of the greatest miracles of the gospel is that of getting man to surrender to the fact that through sin his understanding of what constitutes sin has been darkened. His conscience no longer can be his sole guide. Most professed Christians do not have a well-defined sense of what sin is. The lines of demarcation have been well-nigh obliterated. Sin does not appear to be sin. (Romans 7: 13.) Therefore, man abides content in a wrong idea of right and wrong. His deeds are evil; and he will not come to the light, lest he should know concerning that evil more than he wishes to know. He depends on a deluded conscience, the result of the fall, and therefore is not led by his conscience to the standards that God has set up.
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The law of God was originally given that sin might appear to be sin to those with “darkened understanding.” Sin has injured the human family most by taking from men the capacity to know how much they are injured. It has undermined man’s constitution, and yet leads him to boast of unfailing health; it has beggared him, and tells him he is rich; it has stripped him, and makes him glory in his robes. Man is so diseased that he fancies his disease to be health, and judges healthy men to be under wild delusions. He loves the enemy that destroys him. In this it resembles slavery. Satan has thrown out of gear the balances by which one discerns between good and evil, and God himself is not known in His true character.
One noted pastor describes conditions this way: “Many people today have a mushy idea of God. If they have left any faith at all in God, they think
of Him as sort of a good-natured old grandmother spoiling and pampering the children. What the human race needs today, more than anything else, is a revival of the right sort of preaching — preaching that will give God’s messages, rather than man’s guesses, to the people. The source of all the disorders of today — the wars, the Bolshevism, the strife between capital and labor, the riots and the bloodshed, the vice and the crime — all of these things have come about because men have lost their faith in God and in His truth.
The Best Medicine
AND they have lost ^ faith because the pulpit has not been on its job, has not done its duty. The best medicine that these modern diseases could have would be the fearless proclamation of the old-fashioned teaching of the Bible. If we could hear every pulpit in the land thundering these plain' truths of God’s word, and calling the people back to the great simplicities of life, it would do more to better modern conditions than all our reform measures and all the forces of our statesmanship combined.”
The Wall Street Journal hits the nail on the head in the following pungent statement: “There is one code and constitution, with some thousands of years’ continuous test, which has never been repealed or even amended. This is called {Continued on page 28)
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Wide World Photos
An English judge on his way to court, Crime is less in England, partly because justice is more sure and swift
Qhina is about to
Move the World
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The rising generation in China faces the future hopefully
HINA is the land of unchallenged superlatives—the greatest population and man power, and the greatest virility, in the world; the oldest existent national civilization and the widest cultural influence. And it is the greatest interrogation point on the international horizon of current and future affairs of both the East and the West.
This latter point is well pictured in a recent cartoon from an Italian paper reproduced in the Literary Digest of Nov. 3, 1928. It pictures a Chinaman of distraught countenance with his hair standing on end in the form of a great question mark, with the inscription, “The pigtail is gone, but China’s future still keeps Chinese h ir on end.” And we shall see that China’s future is destined to keep the hair of the rest of the world more or less on end!
Just now China’s great problem is what to do with 2,200,000 soldiers who are left on its hands at the end of the recent war. “ If these millions are merely turned loose, they must starve or turn bandits, and become a scourge to the country; yet there is not PAGE EIGHT
That Chinese Puzzle is about to be solved. The marvelous possibilities wrapped up in the new giant republic of the Orient, and what their fulfillment means to us of the West in the immediate future
ByJohn L. Shuler
enough revenue to support them in idleness or use them in roadbuilding. European disarmament is a child’s problem beside China’s, and while European disarmament keeps the nations guessing in their pursuit of a will-o’-the-wisp, it has been cynically said the problem of disarmament in China is a Chinese puzzle that baffles not only China but staggers the rest of the world. ”
There are greater potential possibilities wrapped up in the destiny of China than in any other country in the world. The Chinese constitute the largest homogeneous mass in the world’s history. They number more than a quarter of the population of the globe. If time should continue to the year 2000, it is estimated that they will have increased from four hundred and twenty-seven million to eight hundred million souls.
Their great numbers are all the more significant in view of the fact that they are a homogeneous people. Wherever they migrate, they retain their characteristics. They are never swallowed up. They absorb others. Every year about a quarter of a
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million Chinese emigrate to Malaysia. A hundred thousand or more shift from North China to Manchuria and Mongolia. The political control of these territories may be temporarily in other hands, but they are being peopled with Chinese.
The classic culture of China has dominated Asia for twenty centuries. The basis of Japanese culture is thoroughly and absolutely Chinese. The Chinese people, though today ignorant and illiterate, are a people of great potential mentality.
Physically the Chinese are the most virile mass in the world. They have more endurance. They have less “nerves.” They undergo without serious or long-standing results operations that would either kill the Occidental or lay him up indefinitely. They stand high fevers and recover from blood poisonings of which white men die. Instances are recorded where peasants from the fields, unaccustomed to running, have carried chairs and burdens of one hundred and ten pounds each forty miles across two mountain ranges, between sunrise and sunset.
Brazil has no coal. China has ten thousand million tons of both hard and soft coal, which are just beginning to be touched. There are hard and soft coal in every province in China. There is a sufficient supply of all the useful metals. According to Julean Arnold, our commercial attach^ at Peking, the Chinese consume one ton of coal to every twenty-three persons, whereas in the United States six tons are set to work to a person.
Third, China’s rivers have never yet been utilized for motive power. The unused water of the Yangtse-kiang would do what the Mississippi and all the rivers of the Atlantic seaboard do for the mills of the United States. The Yangtse has the most densely populated river valley in the world, and it lies directly in one of the great east-west trading routes of the present and of the future.
The man power of China is virile, industrious, and full of a native capacity for understanding mechanics. Instances are recorded of the skill of Chinese workmen without experience who have repaired bicycles and manufactured ball bearings. They have reproduced all manner of Western machines. A foreman in a Shanghai shipyard that was building thirty million dollars’ worth of ships for American interests, said that Chinese mechanics, while slower than English and American workmen, had an industrial capacity that was 80 per cent of what the Western nations had developed in a hundred years.
Give this people the use of steel and coal and motive power, and China becomes the greatest potential industrial country of the earth. She already exports nearly as much silk as Japan, and probably makes more than Japan for her home consumption.
Napoleon on China
A CENTURY ago Napoleon said, “When China is moved, she will move the world.” Think of the dreadful possibilities involved when this nation, with 62,000,000 men of military age, is armed with modern weapons of destruction! And China’s millions today are seething with hatred against the nations of the West.
China is one of “ the kings from the sun rising,” who in the final movements of earth’s history will come to participate in that greatest conflict of all — the Armageddon war of the great day of God. (Revelation 16: 12-16.) (Continued on page 31) page nine
Factors in China’s Importance
IT IS becoming plainer every day that the Chinese are a mass of people who must be reckoned with in world affairs. Twenty years ago John Hay said: “The storm-center of the world has gradually shifted to China. . . . Whoever understands that mighty empire socially, politically, economically, religiously, has a key to world politics for the next five centuries.” It has been well pointed out that it is not her people alone who will make China the dominant factor in world life tomorrow. Three things about China’s wealth must be remembered: First, a fifth of her arable land is untilled.
Even so, her land base is large enough to feed her own people permanently, provided she retains the art of intensive agriculture. She has not a science of agriculture, but during forty centuries the Chinese have learned how to grow more food for longer periods on the same land, without exhausting the soil, than any other people. As China expands westward towards Europe she will, even with another four hundred million people, still be self-contained.
Second, China has, with the possible exception of Africa, the largest undeveloped natural resources in the world. She has not so much iron as Brazil, but APRIL, 1929
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An American sailor gives a Chinese beggar a coin. America has done much to help China to its feet as a self-respecting nation
Shall
Revolution
Bring
Evolution?
In the Far East?
How a missionary buried in far inland China sees the trend of the latest developments in the land of the	“Christian
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NUMBER of years ago, while in the States on furlough, I heard the Hon. W. J. Bryan give his far-famed lecture against evolution. He began by saying, “Three assertions from the first book of the Bible, from the very first chapter of the Bible, prove evolution false.” His whole lecture was based on these three principles: “In the beginning God,” “after his kind,” and “God created man in His own image. ” Genesis i: i, 24, 27. During the lecture he turned to me and asked, “Do missionaries in China ever save any heathen by teaching them that ‘nmonkey-doctrine’?” I answered “No!”
Well do I remember his vivid word picture of evolution’s attempt to explain how man as he evolved from a monkey lost the overabundance of hair once possessed by his monkey ancestors. Said he, “Evolution teaches that the females of the species developed a liking for the males with the least hair. Probably in ‘leap years’ these lady monkeys mated only with the males who had little hair, and thus after a millennium of ages they bred off the hair.” And then he added with a twinkle in his eye, “Females have changed since then. A bald-headed man doesn’t stand any chance now!”
But, you ask, what has this to do with the awakening of the heathen — one of the most significant signs of our times? You shall know presently.
The late Doctor Sun Yat-sen has been called the
Old China looks askance at the innovations of late years, but the old must be thrust aside
George Washington of China. His was the great mind behind the Chinese revolution. His was the force that established a republic out of the world’s oldest monarchy. Since his death a few years ago his body has been in a wonderful bronze coffin in old Peking. Recently a committe has been appointed to bring his remains to the new capital, Nanking, where his loyal followers have erected a grand monument in his honor.
Dr. Sun Uses Evolution
DR. SUN was also a great writer. He published several books explaining his idea of government, and just before he died he uttered his parting will and testament, which was to govern his party’s future actions. At every meeting of the Kuomin-t ng, the members stand a few moments in silence before the picture of their worthy leader, and then recite his last will and testament.
All his followers have pledged themselves to carry out his wishes stated in his book “The Three People’s Principles.” Some time ago I read the English translation of this interesting work, and you may
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imagine my surprise when I found that Dr. Sun had used this monkey story to exalt the Chinese race. His thought is as follows: “The world’s great scholars accept and teach evolution as an explanation of the present order of things. Man was once a monkey. Through endless ages this animal has evolved to the stage where he always walks upright, is educated and civilized, has no tail, and but little hair on his body. The Chinese have less hair on their bodies than any other race of people on the globe, which proves that the Chinese have evolved up the scale of civilization and evolution higher than any other people.” Wonderful argument, isn’t it! Are the white teachers of evolution ready to accept this logical statement of their hypothesis?
Ponder this conclusion and this question. It shows to what lengths a sinner will go in self-exaltation. He would reverse the true order. Instead of a man in God’s image, he has made for himself a god in man’s image.
Nevertheless, the amazing changes taking place in China today are of supreme interest to the thoughtful Bible student.
They are not the result of evolution, but the direct fulfilment of prophecy.
One of China’s daily papers recently had a cartoon picturing a wheelbarrow beside an aeroplane that had been flown from Canton to Peking, on to Mukden and back to Shanghai.
It was named “The Spirit of Canton.” Under the cartoon were the words,
“The evolution of the old wheelbarrow.” But this is not evolution. To be evolution the wheelbarrow must of itself evolve into an aeroplane.
How many years would a Chinese ricksha have to stand by the roadside before it would evolve into an automobile?
All this great advancement in our day is but the fulfillment of a prophecy given through Daniel nearly twenty-five hundred years ago: At “the time of the end, many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Daniel 12:4. The prophet Joel tells us that just before the coming of the Lord, the so-called heathen will be awakened from their age-long slumber. Study Joel 3: 9-16. Those of us who have been in China twenty years or longer stand amazed at the rapid development taking place before our eyes. April. 1929
These once-called heathen lands are fulfilling prophecy and rapidly getting ready to take their full share in the soon-coming, world-wide struggle that terminates in the “battle of that great day of God Almighty” at Armageddon, when the “kings [kingdoms] of the East” will be there. (Revelation 16: 12, 14, 16.)
Craze for Modern Ways
WE WILL not stop to mention her army of over two million men, but pass on to other items that prove, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that China has awakened. A regular craze has taken possession of her to build modern cities along Western lines. Everywhere buildings are being torn down, streets widened, motor-bus lines started, water systems installed and electric light and power plants erected. Throughout the interior a network of wide motor roads are being built. Where a year ago it took
two weeks to go in a slow boat, one can go now in ten hours by automobile. All this will hasten the giving of the last gospel message to this enormous country.
Every large city has its daily newspaper. Mammoth wireless stations are planned, for, and loans are to be secured with which to build railroads. Unequal treaties are being discarded and new ones on an equal basis are being made. China is determined to take her place in the sun.
But to the missionary the most interesting change of all is the recent order for the destruction of all the idols and images throughout the country. Fortune-tellers are forbidden to practice. Many of the people, especially the priests, are very rebellious at such a law; but the powers that be seem fully determined to enforce it. The idol temples are to be sold for other and more useful purposes. The section where we live has been given two months in which to complete the task. In a district where I was yesterday the most famous idol in the city seat, through its attendant priest, this word to the people, “This world is getting ‘ wicked-to-death.’ I cannot stay longer on this planet. I can do you no more good. I am going back to heaven.” Devotees of {Continued on page J2)
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The tomb of Confucius, whose sage wisdom was for centuries China’s guide
The Archeologists are
DIGGING AT UR
and unearthing most interesting relics of the center of ancient moon-worship and the first home of Abraham, the Friend of God. Here is a fresh insight into the place in world affairs filled by the former Hebrew patriarch9 and a study of the spiritual interpretation of history. (Second in a series)
S|N THE preceding study was described the origin of Babylon, the arch-enemy of God throughout the ages of human history, the actual, and later symbolic, kingdom of Satan. In this study we are to discover • the rise of the opposing force in the great human drama, the origin of the nation of the people of God. The outstanding facts of history and its critical moments always center in individual men. In the beginning of Babylon Nimrod confronts us. In this case it is Abraham, the father of the faithful, the man selected by God to be the parent of a nation enjoying in a special way the favor of Divinity, and symbolizing in history the kingdom of God, Jerusalem, of which the faithful of all time are the citizens.
We first hear of Abraham at Ur, a Chaldean city on or near the Persian Gulf. Recent excavations at Ur and other cities in the vicinity have thrown a bright light on the Babylonia of Abraham’s time. Archeology has shown us a teeming population, and a well-organized society, feudal in character.
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In this society we find clearly differentiated classes, slaves, artisans, tenant-farmers, landed gentry, and in the cities the merchant princes, nobles, and at the top the king. The state was a city gathered about a temple. The king was the high priest. Therefore religion was the basis of Babylonian politics, the bond of civic unity, the ground of political rights and authority.
Everywhere was wealth and luxury to stagger the imagination, but all of it in the hands of the upper classes. Still, social lines were not closely drawn. A slave could earn wages, buy property, and even his freedom, and he was barred from no position to which his ability might entitle him. Women could hold property as well as men.
An elaborate postal system linked all the centers of Babylonian culture from the Mediterranean, through the Fertile Crescent, around the Arabian Desert, and down to the gulf.
Such was the society of which the family of
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Excavations in Mesopotamia to bring to light the palace of the kings of Kish
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The method of inscribing the cuneiform characters on clay tablets in ancient Babylonian times
Terah was a part, in Ur, the city of the Moon-god. It seems that this family had a knowledge of the true God, but so fully was the worship of the patro i god of the city interwoven with civic duties and service, and even with the activities of the marketplace, that idolatry had corrupted their religion.
One son of the family, however, was cast in finer mold than the rest. In him God saw such possibilities that he selected him to be the founder of a great nation. But before he would be fit for this honor he had to be separated from the idolatrous metropolitan associations of Chaldea. And he had to stay separated throughout his entire life, for the same reason. “Get thee out of thy country,” God directed him, “and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee.” And the record states, “By faith, Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.”
Abraham’s Migration
CCONCERNING this memorable trek we are > likely to deceive ourselves. It was not a solitary journey over unpeopled plains into a half-peopled Canaan. On the contrary, Abraham followed the great high road which passed through Haran, then around the Fertile Crescent into Canaan. And Canaan, at the time, seems to have been supporting large Babylonian colonies. On this trade artery April, 1929
there was doubtless a great deal of commercial travel north and south between Haran and the two population centers of Babylonia and Canaan. Haran served as a sort of clearing house, or board of trade, for this commerce. It was here that Abraham stopped until after his father’s death.
When the leadership of the family and the numerous household that the patriarchs gathered around them had fallen to him, Abraham set out for Canaan. At Shechem, in his camp in the oak grove of Mamre, he was given the promise: “Unto thy seed will I give this land.” Later the bounds of the gift were more definitely named, from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates. As he looked over this land the heart of Abraham must have thrilled at the prospect of posse sion. It was a beautiful land. A land of ‘ brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil, olives, and honey.” Yet the survey was disappointing in a sense. The country was swarming with Canaanites.
Babylonian Frontiers
THE Tell-el-Amarna letters of the eighteenth-dynasty kings of Egypt reveal a commercial and political activity, and a degree of culture and diffusion of learning, in Canaan that is startling. Here are letters from all classes of people, from prince and artisan, from merchant and slave. And these letters are written in the difficult Babylonian cuneiform, which required schools and years of patient study for its acquisition. This use of the cuneiform is an evidence of the great influence of Babylonian culture upon Canaan, and of the advancement that the people had made under it. It is also evi- {Continued on page 32)
The various forms of “pens” used in writing characters on clay tablets. These are now in the Field Museum, Chicago
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The Law That Governs Heaven
The fundamental principles underlying God's dealings with men now
®7 John W. Westphal
saying that the government of God in heaven is also based on certain, definite principles. All government and authority are from God. “The powers that be are ordained of God.” We have a right, then, to expect that His government above all others be founded on clearly understandable and known principles. Unlike our own man-made constitutions, which are necessarily imperfect because their authors could not see to forestall difficulties and provide for emergencies, and consequently the laws they made need amendments and additions, the fundamental law of God’s government, whatever it may be, cannot admit of changes or amendments. To call it in question in any of its principles or requirements, is to challenge both the riches of His wisdom and knowledge and His unqualifiedly just and righteous character.
Reflection of Himself
OVERNMENTS are based on certain principles. These principles vary according to the ideas and character of the founders of the governments. They are known and recognized by both rulers and subjects, or administrators and citizens.
These principles are expressed in constitutions, written as in the United States, or unwritten as in England.
They form the fundamental laws of the governments, and every requirement, whether great or small, is supposed to be in harmony with them.
In some countries the will of the ruler is absolute and supreme. Of such governments there are happily few today.
In such cases the ruler is the embodiment of the governing principles.
The principles that took form in the American Constitution were announced in the Declaration of Independence.
They are the ideas and ideals that dominated the hearts and minds of the founders of our government and reveal their political characters. It is these same ideals that we have enjoyed for upwards of a century and a half, and for which we have contended.
The Stars and Stripes are their symbol. The Magna Charta, wrested from the unwilling King John at Runnymede, embodied the principles for which Britain has stood ever since. As a result the Union Jack has signified liberty and justice to millions. Some other countries have been less fortunate in their fundamental principles, but whether good or bad they have reflected the political character of their founders and rulers. So even the absolute monarchy might be either good or bad according to the character of its head and his counselors. A government without the recognition of some governing principles is inconceivable. It would be “an-archy” —“no government,” the meaning of that word.
If this last statement be true, then it goes without
AS IN earthly govern-l ments, the principles of the government of Diety must reflect the character and attributes of its author. As this is the place where all His creatures come in direct contact with Him, it must also be the place where the beauty of His nature will be especially revealed. Here they will have to know God as He really is.
Many attributes of God are mentioned in the sacred Scriptures, but there is one that stands out clear and distinct among all the rest as being the very embodiment of God: “God is love.” This was not a new thing, first made known in gospel times. It was then made manifest only in a new way. It is an attribute that could not be hid; to hide it, He must hide Himself. It must dominate every other attribute that He has ever exercised or ever will exercise, for He “cannot deny Himself.” Every act or word of our God can be the expression of love only. This necessarily must be the outstanding principle of His kingdom.
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This, however, does not mean that it is a onesided affair — God ruling in love. To this love there must be a response in love on the part of the ruled. It is not enough that He love us; we must also love Him. Without this, there could be no satisfaction in it to Him or to us. Unrequited love means misery. Without mutual love the kingdom of God could not be “righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.’’ Imagine the condition of a family without a reciprocated love between parents and children and between brothers and sisters, and you have a faint picture of the kingdom of heaven for eternity without a hearty reciprocated love.
The principles of the kingdom of God are therefore, both on the part of the king and the subject, a condition of the heart before there can be a command or an act of obedience. Both must be an outflow of love. God sees primarily not overt acts, but the cherished, hidden principles that underlie them. The acts are but the symptoms of moral health or disease. It is here seen that God’s government is not political but moral, not physical but spiritual, not of compulsion but of attraction. It is not conquered by the sword, but by the adoption of the evil principle of non-love. It was thus that Satan conquered the world when he gained access to, and changed the principles that God had implanted in, the hearts of Adam and Eve.
The Nature of Love
BUT this love is not simply a sentiment. It exacts and its yields. It recognizes righteousness and justice, demands them, and complies with them. It is not averse to instruction, direction, and if need be, correction. To it, wholesome commands are not a yoke or a cross, but mercies and privileges. It is not self-sufficient, trusting simply to one’s inherent goodness. Even before sin entered, before the heart was corrupted, when our first parents were under the impulse of their primitive love, it needed to be, and was, tested in the demand made upon them not to partake of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Is there any reason to believe that APRIL,, 1929
throughout the universe the responsible inhabitants were not similarly tested? And if they needed it, we, who are sinners by nature, who have hearts naturally “deceitful above all things and desperately wicked,” who are still within the reach of the serpent who tempted Eve, need it now. Sentimental love is not sufficient; it must be practical, self-denying — a love of service, helpfulness, and willing, glad obedience.
As the principles of liberty, as proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, were amplified and took form in the American Constitution, so the
principles of love controlling the government of God have taken definite form, first in the two great commandments of the law: “Thou shalt love the Lord with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind,” and “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” But these were a condensed form of a more detailed expression elsewhere:	“On
these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets.” Matthew 22: 37-40, A. R. V. The “prophets” were but an application of the principles of the law to the experiences of Israel, so that in this connection it is necessary only to give consideration to the law.
What is meant by the law of God? To this question there is only one answer — it is the ten commandments. In the Old Testament and in the New, they are the law of God par excellence. They are distinguished from all else by the fact of their proclamation amid the most imposing scene this world has ever witnessed — spoken by the lips of the Infinite One in the midst of thunders and lightnings, of smoke and a quaking earth, to a trembling congregation of near three million souls. This law was not only written but graven in stone by the finger of God, not once, but twice, and then placed in the sacred ark, which all were forbidden to touch or even look upon, which in turn was put in the Holy of Holies. Above it, upon the mercy seat, was manifested the shekinah of God’s glory. Both Jew and Christian have done well in giving it the (Cont. on page jj)
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‘Rejoice, O £arth!
By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle
Rejoice, 0 Earth, for the day will come When thy bloody wars shall cease,
When thy land shall rest ’neath the banners fair Of the glorious Prince of peace.
Rejoice, rejoice, for the long, long night Shall cease with the coming day,
And Right shall sit on the throne of Might Forever and for aye.
Then the desert drear shall be glad for thee — The wilderness dark with gloom —
And the saints shall stand on the crystal sea, And the rose and the lily bloom.
Make strong the hands that are feeble now,
And the hearts that are faint and weak,
Raise up the forms that in weakness bow,
And the glorious tidings speak.
Soon, soon shall the lame man leap as an hart, And the tongue of the dumb shall sing, From the parched ground shall the waters start, A nd streams from the desert spring.
And the ransomed blest shall return, and come To the hills of Zion fair,
And the Master's heart shall be satisfied, When we meet Him over there.
The POPE BECOMES KING—
THE beginning of 1929 sees an event and an agitation — both of momentous significance — that affect every religious believer on earth. The one has received far-reaching publicity throughout the civilized world; the other, as yet, is passing almost unnoticed. We will comment on each separately, and possibly find some connection between them.
King Pius
On February 11 a parcel of ground, 105 acres in extent, one sixth of a square mile, in the city of Rome, Italy, changed owners — and rulers. But the stir created in the religious world and in international relationship by this deal is far out of proportion to the size of the land involved. It marked the end of a sixty-year feud between the government of Italy and the Roman Catholic Church; the definite granting of civil power to the Church by Italy, and in principle by all other governments on earth; the tacit acknowledgment on the part of secular government that civil power should never have been taken away from the Church, and that the Church has a right to, and needs, the civil arm to enforce its religious decrees and practices on all people.
The contract signed by Mussolini, Italian premier, and Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state, provides that the pope shall henceforth have absolute civil sway over the “City of the Vatican,” as it is to be named; and also for the payment to the Hierarchy by Italy of about $87,000,000 as a settlement for the financial loss the Church is estimated to have sustained by the taking away of its temporal power in 1870. The Catholic religion is to be the state religion of the nation, the canon law of the Church is to prevail throughout the country. In matrimony, and such other vital matters, the secular power will enforce the decisions of the ecclesiastical authority. The contract is fully settled, except that the signatures of pope and king are to be affixed in April.
By the press the event is hailed as the “most brilliant exploit” of the careers of both pope and premier. Both Church and State are elated over it, for now each has prospects of its fondest ambitions being fulfilled. Catholics throughout the world show glee; and few Protestants see in it any particular significance, or danger to religious liberty.
The whole matter of church and state union, with the church power in the ascendency, is fraught with tremendous
significance to professed Christians of America and the world. Italy is not alone involved, for the vaunting ambitions of Mussolini run far afield, and Catholic contact and influence are almost universal in Christendom. Rome is everywhere and always the same, and what is considered good for one country must be thought good for all. And the royal road to this goal of forcing men to be religious — and religious in a certain way — appears through the League of Nations and the World Court. Already the pope is being mentioned for membership in that great federation and tribunal and now no technical obstacle can be placed in the way. We see in this the probability of the pope’s being selected as the supreme arbiter of the nations, if the nations cannot reach, as they have not reached', an agreement for peace among themselves. Let Rome once get the upper hand with the civil powers, and the long-cherished and openly-avowed intention of the papacy to make the world Catholic will achieve success. And where moral suasion fails, the secular power will be called upon to force compliance by police power. Then woe to any religionist who dares to disagree with the church and to practice his convictions!
The Roman Church contends for the necessity of civil jurisdiction, be it ever so small. The Church, it is said, being universal and having adherents within the jurisdictions of all states, its seat must not be within the geographical boundaries of any state, in order that it may not be influenced or interfered with by any one power, or even suspicioned of any partiality. This has a ring of plausibility. But how does the church remove itself from the world by taking over the very civil power which characterizes the world in contradistinction to the church? It would not need civil power if it retained divine power, its rightful prerogative. The church and the world are to be separate as concerns spiritual and temporal things, not geographically. The Master made it plain that His followers would be in the world, yet not of it.
It is noteworthy that the newspaper headlines reporting this agreement carried such sentiments as “The Festering Wound Healed.” And, after the signing, the pope came forth and for the first time “blessed the world,” as if he could not have blessed it before. But the headline writers knew nothing about
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The  News  Interpreted
CHANGES in the CALENDAR
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the Bible prophecy of nineteen centuries ago that this power of the papacy would be “wounded to death,” and that the “deadly wound,” would be “healed.” Nor were they aware that the same divine prediction said that “all the world wondered.” Well, all the world did wonder, and was amazed — and blessed. We will go more deeply into the interpretation of these problems and their fulfillment, in future numbers of The Watchman. See Revelation 13:3.
The “Wandering Sabbath”
Changes are being proposed in the calendar now used by all civilized peoples. These proposals, if carried into effect, will work for good or ill to business, government, international relationship, even religion. While the whole matter has not yet received wide publicity and general understanding, it is sure to be a paramount issue before the world ere long. At the present time the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives is considering a Joint Resolution that embodies these changes, and that advocates our sending a commission from this country to Europe to join an
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international conference on the question. The League of Nations, we understand, is sponsoring united action for some sort of calendar simplification.
In short, the plan provides for thirteen months in the year, the extra one to be named Sol and to come between June and July, with four seven-day weeks in each month. This would make 364 days. But as there are 365 X days in the year, the extra full day would be a “blank day” each year, not counted in the regular calendar, but made a holiday. And the extra one-fourth day would be taken care of by adding another “blank day” every four years. Every first day of the month would come on Sunday, and every last day on Saturday. The thirteenth would always come on Friday. And it is hoped that all holidays could be made to occur on Mondays, to make long week-ends.
The world’s method and order of reckoning time has often been changed by governments. The Julian calendar of Roman times was a great improvement over what preceded it; and the Gregorian calendar, which we now have, materially improved on that of Julius Caesar. There can be no question but that the proposed changes now before the world would greatly facilitate commerce, and social and governmental affairs, and would mean a great convenience and saving in banking and business circles. Heretofore there has been more serious consideration given them in Europe than in America. They are backed by such great organizations as the International Chamber of Commerce and the International Astronomical Union. Mr.
Eastman, of “Kodak” fame, and many prominent business men, are using their influence to urge the reform.
The Watchman takes a firm stand against this change.
We are in full accord with calendar simplification, but this is the first time in history that a general calendar has been proposed that would do away
with the regular weekly cycle of days that has existed uninterrupted, we believe, since creation. The God-given Sabbath that we keep, Saturday the seventh day, is based on the week. God commanded a particular day, the seventh day, exactly every seventh day reckoned from creation; but the present reform would make such a Sabbath come on a different day of the week every year, because of the “blank day,” and thus make a “wandering Sabbath,” which is not according to God’s command at all.
Regardless of whether or not our calendar reforming friends agree with us in this, we, in common with all seventh-day keepers, including millions of orthodox Jews, have a right to our conscientious convictions and religious practices in the matter. And to make the Sabbath come on a different day of the week each year would very evidently work cruelty and hardship on Sabbatarians who are working for employers who have adopted the reform, and on Sabbath-keeping children who attend the public schools. We could not conform, because our very faith is based on the fundamental idea that “we ought to obey God rather than men.” The seventh-day Sabbath is a sign between God and His people (Ezekiel 20: 12, 20), and every modem tendency, under the instigation of Satan, the enemy of God, is to obliterate this sign. It has been done in the institution of Sunday as a day (Continued on page 28)
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jfTTTIET us this month discuss one of the great UMil coun^es °f the earth, partly European, I partly Asiatic, actually more Oriental than Occidental—Russia. The land of the Soviets TW presents one of the most complex situations " in world affairs today. If any area has been the theater for the play and counterplay of modern political, social, and industrial actors, it is that which confines the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics with its one hundred nationalities. When we realize that the schools of this great country are compelled to have textbooks in more than sixty languages to convey their instruction, we get some idea of the great problems the more than one hundred forty millions of these people have to meet. When we realize that Russia comprehends between one sixth and one seventh of the land area of our sphere, and that it is possible to travel nearly six thousand miles in one direction from Moscow, the Bolshevik capital, and still be in Russia, we get some idea of the vastness of its territory. As G. Bromley Oxnam further brings out in his “Russian Impressions,” Russia “is a land of incalculable natural wealth, great forests, untold mineral values, immense fisheries, and extensive agricultural areas. Before the Revolution Russia led the world in the production of rye and platinum. She was second in oil, wheat, and railway mileage, third in cattle, fourth in iron, and sixth in coal.” — Page 8.
Long Struggle against Tyranny
PERHAPS in no country of the world have the people had to battle harder and longer against tyranny and ruthless oppression than in the realms of the former Czars. We think of Catherine Breshkov-sky, “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution,” herself of noble lineage, who spent nearly thirty years in Romanoff prisons and knew the terro s of Siberia. We think of Tolstoy, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, who in the form of fiction poured out their protests against the wrongs of an autocratic regime. It is said that the Czarina wrote to the Czar, in those trying days before his abdication, urging him to be strong, saying, “Russia loves to feel the whip.” And in commenting on this, Oxnam well says: “Loving it or not, it is certain the people felt it for many weary centuries.” Not only did the poor peasants and workers feel the Czarist tyranny. Even the privileged classes, the nobles and officials, lived under the fear of it, not knowing but that the very members of their households were part of the dread secret police, ever ready to start the accused and condemned on the road to Siberian exile.
In Daniel 2 it will be recalled that in the feet and toes of that image which aptly represents in prophetic vision the history of the world from Daniel’s day to the ushering in of the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ at the second advent, there was mixed the iron and the clay. Many Bible students affirm, with good reason, that the fact that the clay came at the very end of the image strikingly suggests the rule of the people which is so distinctly the political and PAGE EIGHTEEN
By Ewing Galloway, N. Y.
Among other reforms, Russia “sister to the ox.” A street see:
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in experimenting with extreme reform. Th whether or not it will follow the lead. 1
nationalistic characteristic of recent years — years just before the return of Jesus. Certain it is that in the case of Russia we see mingled the factors of the “iron” of an imperialistic Czarism and the “clay” of the aroused populace of that vast country demanding their 1 ights and proper place.
It is this absolute despotism of the Czarist regime that presents us with the first great cause of the Bolshevist revolution. Abhorring all reform, the leaders of Czarism believed in and employed terrorism to prevent it. When force failed to crush the rising demands of the masses, war was fomented with other nations so that the attention of the people should be turned from reform to conquest. Patriotism was used to serve the unworthy ends of upholding in power a wicked system. It was not simply the “lust to kill”
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emancipate women from being Poland, near neighbor of Russia
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mly watches the experiment and deliberates y of letting loose. The outcome is in sight.
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that prompted the bomb throwing of other days in Russia. Rightly or wrongly, it was felt that a desperate situation demanded desperate measures. It was the embittered memories of a cruel despotism that prompted the Bolsheviki to permit the hated statue of Alexander III to remain in the square opposite the railroad station in Leningrad, and to inscribe upon it: “The Scarecrow. My son and my father were executed and now disgrace has overtaken me even after death; I stand here like a brazen scarecrow for the land that has shaken off forever the yoke of autocracy.”
This basic cause, the tyranny and oppression of the Romanoffs, is well known to most of us as what April, 1929
precipitated the Red Regime in Russia; but we are not so familiar, perhaps, with other major causes. In prerevolutionary days Russia was a semi-feudal country, but during the last years of the nineteenth century her leaders endeavored to develop industry. The result was that during that time Russia began to acquire the character of a capitalistic country. In agriculture, capitalistic methods of production took on an increased force; in industry, modern development went forward surprisingly. Out of this came the second cause of the Revolution, the growth of industrialism controlled by a foreign investing class, seeking a high return on the capital invested and uninterested in Russian politics, c oupled w7ith an exploited, highly class-conscious, and concentrated group of workers that grew to think in revolutionary terms and that considered its mission that of leading the unorganized peasant masses.
Amazing Industrial Development
BECAUSE most of us have perhaps thought only of Russia in terms of agriculture, let us consider some facts as to its remarkable industrial development in recent decades. Between 1885 and 1897 the town population increased 33.8 per cent. During the same period the ertire population increased hut 15.2 per cent. This reveals that the city population was really increasing three times as fast as the rural. In 1888 Russia produced 40,000,000 poods (a pood is about 36 pounds) of cast iron. By 1898 the production had trebled, and by 1900 it was actually six times greater than in 1888. Between 1895 and 1900, to compare the rapidity of Russian growth with that of other industrial nations, Great Britain increased her cast-iron production 13 per cent, France 58 per cent, Germany 61 per cent, the United States 76 per cent, while Russia’s increase was 220 per cent. We see the same amazing growth in railway extension. During the last five years of the nineteenth century Russia averaged annually an increase of 2812 versts (a verst is about two thirds of a mile). Germany during the period of its most rapid railway extension increased only half as much.
Turning to the workers’ side of this cause, while Russia is not, strictly speaking, an industrial nation, yet her industrial life has been highly concentrated. Quoting again from Oxnam: ‘ ‘ The workers in industry comprised less than 10 per cent of the population, but because of the high degree of industrial concentration resulting from the construction of large factories, this group became class-conscious and be came convinced that its mission was to lead the peasant class in the struggle for emancipation. It is with considerable surprise that the American learns that there were actually more workers in Russia employed in factories of one thousand or more operatives than in the United States. The United States had three times the number of industrial operatives in 1914 that Russia possessed, but less operatives in large factories. In that year there were 1,-255,00 such workers in fac- (Continued on page jj)
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Cigarettes or Sweets?
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He smoked fifty cigars in twelve hours, so that the effects of tobacco on the human system may be tested
Is there anything to choose between them for the making of healthy bodies and trim figures?
N THE past few years there has arisen among our young women a real craze to excel each other in producing trim, slender bodies and spindle legs, similar to those exhibited in the various journals and in the show windows of the downtown shops. This has led many to deny themselves suitable foods, and to smoke cigarettes. Great injury has already resulted from this fad. For instance, while the mortality from tuberculosis has been reduced over sixty per cent during the past quarter of a century in general, it has recently been found to be on the increase again among young women between the ages of eighteen and twenty-fQur. This has created some alarm among medical and health officials.
Leading medical authorities have called attention in medical journals to this increase, and have attributed it chiefly to body starvation, to improperly protected limbs in cold weather, and to the increase in the use of cigarettes. A warning has been given to young women of the folly of pursuing such a course, and of the evils that must inevitably result from it if persisted in.
Now there appears on the scene a concern with cleverly written advertisements appealing to our young women to keep trim and slender by smoking their favorite cigarette. “Reach for a cigarette instead of a sweet,” is their slogan.
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DANIEL H. KRESS, M. D.
But the candy interests have taken a direct exception to their claim, and are in a most emphatic manner protesting against such a procedure. A real battle is now on between these two competitors. This controversy will undoubtedly be the means of bringing before the world, and especially the young women, some scientific facts pertaining to the cigarette that will be illuminating.
The tobacco people advertise three claims for their products: that a trim, slender figure can be easily acquired by smoking cigarettes instead of dieting; that prominent athletes know that cigarettes steady their nerves and women are just finding out how good it is to “enjoy a companionable smoke” with their men relatives; and that authorities are unanimous in their charge that too many fattening sweets are eaten by the American people, and in their place they advise us to substitute the cigarette.
While it is true that 11 too many fattening sweets are harmful,” and undoubtedly too many of such are eaten by the American people, no serious objection can be offered to their moderate use. This much cannot be said in favor of any brand of cigarette. While sweets are not the most desirable foods, nevertheless they are foods. Tobacco is not a food in any form. It is a poison, only a poison,
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and it is treated by the system as any other poison would be. Nicotine is a habit-forming drug, and nothing can be said in its favor that cannot be said in favor of morphine or any other habit forming drug.
Happy Reducing
TO KEEP the body trim and in a healthy condition, it is necessary to give attention to the diet, to exercise, and to proper hours of rest and sleep. The tobacco “ad” seems to make light of this. It claims, “No longer need you face rigid requirements of harsh dieting methods.” All that is needed is to banish fattening sweets, and light a cigarette. This statement is unscientific and misleading to young women whose chief aim is to meet the popular standard of trimness. It is a misrepresentation of scientific facts, and contrary to business ethics.
The second claim is that “many prominent athletes testify that cigarettes steady their nerves and do not harm their physical condition.” The fact is that every athlete of any note in America or any other country knows full well that cigarettes are the enemy of athletics, that instead of steadying the nerves they cause nervousness, and ultimately will make nervous wrecks of their users. For this reason cigarette smokers are not in demand on baseball or football teams. Young men like “Lindy,”
‘ Bobby” Jones and others who excel in their professions, do not smoke.
Several years ago a new superintendent of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis requested the government to appoint a commission of scientific men to ascertain whether there were adequate reasons for the existence of a rule against smoking by the younger men, a regulation that, it seems, had been almost entirely ignored. A number of smokers and non-smokers were tested for muscle strength, heart strength, and capacity for study. The average results ob'ained were decidedly in favor of the non-users of tobacco. To verify the results, tobacco was then withheld from those tested who had used it, and after sufficient time they were again tested, with the result that muscle strength, heart power, and capacity for study had all increased. The rule against tobacco was then enforced, and the use of tobacco was also afterward prohibited at the military academy at West Point, with the result that some classes of disease diminished April, 1929
one half. Later, when a change of officers was made, the use of tobacco was again permitted for one year. Doctor Gorgas, then medical inspector of the navy, in referring to this period, said; “It showed such unmistakable results that all the officers who favored the use of tobacco confessed that the experiment had proved a failure.” Doctor Larned, in his report to the surgeon general, said, “Unquestionably the most important matter in relation to the health of the students of the academy is that of the use of tobacco. As my last official utterance, I have urged upon the superintendent the truth of which five years’ experience as health officer of this station has satisfied me, that the future health and usefulness of the lads educated at this school require the absolute interdiction of tobacco. In this opinion I am sustained by my colleagues and all authorities in military and civil life whose views I have been able to learn.”
Every observing teacher in our public schools knows the effect cigarette smoking has upon boys and girls. They know that smoking does not steady their nerves. They know that it makes youth unsteady and nervous and unable to apply the mind to study. Te idlers will tell you that these youth are the boys and girls who drop out of school. The fact is, these are the boys and girls who later help to fill our reform schools and prisons.
Fruit of the Smokes
AT THE Whittier Reform School, California, l Dr. Coffin, who had been connected with it for a number of years, informed me that ninety-eight out of every one hundred boys that passed through that school were cigarette smokers, and ninety-five out of each hundred were cigarette fiends. The boys who fail in school have as little disposition to work as they have to study; naturally they associate with their kind. This leads to the pool room, to gambling, and to crime. In the ten-year-old who smokes we usually have the criminal in the making; in the daring desperado we have the finished product of the cigarette. It is not merely a criminal tendency that the practice develops. It develops an actual derangement of the brain cells, and in many cases produces an actual insanity. The practice produces irresponsible beings, with no (1Continued on page 34)
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Henry Bern, who is president of the “tobacco society for voice culture.” He says smoking is a medicine and not a pleasure
Did Christ Die on the Cross?
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The hand of Christ, to be part of a huge statue of Jesus to be placed on a mountain overlooking Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ANY and varied are the charges brought against Seventh-day Adventists, some of which are unworthy of notice. But here comes one apparently in the form of an editorial in a purportedly Protestant journal published in Burma (the clipping not revealing, we regret, its name or the issue in which it was published that exact citation may be given) that passes all usual limitations, entering a field all its own by denying the sacrificial offering of the Lord Jesus Christ, which truth lays the very foundation of the plan of salvation for the redemption of a lost race. From a jumble of charges brought against the faith and doctrines held by Seventh-day Adventists, in the attempt to belittle and malign this people, we take the following excerpt:
“The Adventists have mixed a legalistic, ‘water-regene at ion’ notion of wh t salvation is with the fallacy of ‘soul-sleeping,’ no pork eating, righteousness, and seventh-dayism, and have thus concocted a conglomeration of Christianity-heathenism-in-fidelity that makes real, good, personal redemption an exceedingly difficult matter. Their claim that PAGE TWENTY-TWO
<iAn amazing charge and its answer
\By Tyler E. Bowen
Christ was not conscious between the crucifixion and His resurrection casts such reflection upon their faith in His deity that it almost denies to them the right to be called Christians.”
What an amazing charge! Had the writer no Bible, no “Thus saith the Lord” to consult to learn “what is truth” we should think little of these arraignments. But with an open Bible at hand, it truly is amazing how one professing belief in God’s plan of salvation for lost man can make such a charge against a people who believe that Christ died to save sinners.
What if Jhsus Died Not
AND did Jesus really not die on Calvary’s hill, ^ as this writer would have men believe, because He belonged to the Deity? When Jesus cried out, “It is finished,” and then “bowed His head, and gave up the ghost” (John 19: 30), are we to understand this language to mean that He did not really die at all, but merely took this way of being released from His earthly body, so that moment He could go back to glory to be with His Father? If so, then your hope of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth as your personal Saviour is vain, and with all the rest of us you are doomed to perish in your sins.
Listen to the prophet Isaiah’s testimony as to what our salvation cost Heaven. In that chapter devoted to the portrayal of the experiences to come to the Son of God when He should be manifested in the flesh, the prophet foretells it would take the soul —the life — of the Son of God to pay the great debt sin had imposed:
“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord [the Father] hath laid on Him [the Son] the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of My people was He stricken. And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when Thou shalt make His soul an offering for siny He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
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and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.” Isaiah 53:6-10.
All this was literally fulfilled in the arrest, trial, crucifixion, death, and resurrection of the Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And bear in mind that here it is d stinctly proclaimed that the soul of the Son of God was to be made an offering for sin — your sins, mine, and those of every other lost son and daughter of Adam. And further, had not the Son of God been willing thus to die, cease to live, perish as .man must have perished in that eternal death separation from God, He could not have tasted death for every man.
“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels by [margin] the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” Hebrews 2:9.
When Jesus took our place, all our sins were made to meet upon Him (see Isaiah 53:6, margin), our guilt became His, innocent as He was, and our death stroke fell upon Him. Paul put it this way: “For He [the Father] hath made Him [His Son] to be sin for us, who knew no sin [that is, Jesus]; that we [who knew no righteousness] might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21.
Ah, yes! Blessed truth that it is, Jesus Christ, He who had gone about healing the sick, casting out devils, raising the dead to life, actually died on the cross at Golgotha. Nowhere was He to be found in all the great universe of God except in that new tomb of Joseph’s. All Heaven marveled how He, the very Author of life, He, by whom and for whom the Father had created all things, could thus for us yield up that precious life! But He did; bowing His head, He died. And then loving hands laid Him away in the rock-hewn tomb, where early that first-day morning a mighty angel from heaven was sent by the Father (for He knew where His Son was) to call forth the blessed Prince of life out of the clutch of Satan’s death power, back to life in all its blessed fullness. And just this actually took place, or our salvation is nothing more than a myth, as the apostle Paul so forcefully states it. Listen to his inspired testimony:
Paul Believed He Died
“ \ JOW if Christ be preached that He rose from the dead [and how could He have risen from the dead if He did not actually go down into death, did not die?]t how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain [likewise every other preacher’s preaching], and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ: whom He raised not up, if so be the dead rise not.” Then to further emphasize that Christ died and rose (Continued on page 34) April, 1929
Cows and Humans
By Martha E. Warner
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Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.
IF HUMANS had the sense of a-----------, but there,
that’s not the way I wanted to begin; now I will have to go back and explain.
Yesterday morning, being warm and sunshiny, and part of a beautiful May Day, the cows, twenty-two in all, mother cows and grandmother cows, were for the first time this year turned out to pasture.
I paused in the midst of breakfast-getting to watch them, as they tossed up their heads, kicked up their heels, and clumsily cavorted around the field. Silly old things, I opined; they do not realize how ridiculous they look. And then, as I resumed my work, it came to me quite clearly that some humans acted quite as ridiculous.
There are mothers and grandmothers who for years have lived within the confines of their homes, rearing their families during days and years that have been hard and long and dark. At times they have lifted up their eyes and peered through the bars at the alluring world. They have even gone so far as to contemplate breaking down the barriers, in an effort to gain the freedom they fondly imagined so desirable; but always something held them back — a baby’s croupy cry in the night; a child tugging at their skirts; a boy’s cry of “Mother, where are you?” as he came home from school.
Oh, the strength of these great little things, which have held them fast at home, through the long years of winter! But it is over now; like a troubled dream it has faded away, and spring has taken its place. As they lift up their heads and inhale the fragrance of the beautiful May-Day morning they cannot resist the urge of it; and so with a rush, they are off through the bars, and soon are lost in the crowd of silly, cavorting women. Women who smoke and drink and swear. Women who are tagging after, or being tagged by, equally silly, cavorting men. Women who prefer companionate marriage to permanent marriage. Women who are seeking freedom.
The antics of these once staid and sober humans are much like the antics of the staid old cows; but there is a difference in the attitude of the offspring towards their elders, for the little bossy cares not how its mother behaves, or what becomes (Continued on page35)
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Whence Sunday-keeping?
A probe into the origin ofjirst-day observance
©y William H. Branson
HE Sabbath has never been changed from Saturday the seventh day to Sunday the first day upon divine authority. God would not thus alter His laws.
Solomon declares: “I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before Him.” Ecclesiastes 3: 14.
And David, speaking for God concerning Christ says: “Also I will make Him My firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. If His children forsake My law, and walk not in My judgments; if they break My statutes, and keep not My commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. . . . My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips.” Psalm 89: 27, 30-34.
Then Christ declares: “And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.” Luke 16:17.
Law Establishes the Gospel
PAUL corroborates these statements by saying that the law is not made void by the gospel, but rather established. (Romans 3:31.) A careful search of the entire Bible reveals no hint that God has ever altered any one of the Ten Commandments. Men, without Bible authority, have tampered with the law of the Most High God by substituting Sunday for Saturday. History states that the change began to be made by some during the early centuries after Christ. But the first law for Sunday was made by Constantine in the year a. d. 321. The Bible contains no law enforcing Sunday, the first day. Neither Christ nor the apostles ever observed it, and it must therefore forever rest upon a human ordinance only.
That the Sabbath was not changed by Christ, or His apostles, many eminent Protestants agree. Thus Luther Lee, D. D., says: “There is no express commandment for observing the first day.”
Lyman Abbott said: “The current notion that Christ and His apostles authoritatively substituted the first day for the seventh is absolutely without any authority.” —Editorial in the Christian Union, June 26,1890.
Dr. Edward T. Hiscock, author of the “Baptist Church Manual,” asserts: “There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week.” Section 10, of the “Augsburg Confession of Faith,” a Lutheran document, as quoted in Cox’s PAGE TWENTY-FOUR
“Sabbath Manual,” reads as follows: “The observance of the Lord’s day (Sunday) is founded not on any command of God, but on the authority of the Church.”
In Rose’s Translation of Augustus Neander’s “History of the Christian Religion and Church,” on page 186, is this statement: “The festival of Sunday was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish a divine command in this respect; far from them, and from the early apostolic church, to transfer the law of the Sabbath to Sunday.”
Even after the observance of Sunday began, the Sabbath was still kept as before. Listen to the historian Coleman: “The last day of the week was strictly kept in connection with that of the first day for a long time after the overthrow of the temple and its worship. Down even to the fifth century the observance of the Jewish Sabbath was continued in the Christian church.”—11 Ancient Christianity Exemplified,” chapter 26, section 2.
In the same chapter, he also says: “During the early ages of the church, it [Sunday] was never entitled ‘the Sabbath,’ this word being confined to the seventh day of the week.”
From “A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities,” we read: “The notion of a formal substitution by apostolic authority of the Lord’s day for the Jewish Sabbath, and the transference to it, perhaps in a spiritualized form, of the Sabbatical obligation established by the promulgation of the fourth commandment, has no basis whatever, either in Holy Scripture, or in Christian antiquity.”—“A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities,” Smith and Cheethamt art. “Sabbath,” p. 182 j. London: John Murray, 1880.
Dr. Peter Heylyn, remarks: “Take which you will, either the Fathers or the moderns, and we shall find no Lord’s day instituted by any apostolical mandate; no Sabbath set on foot by them upon the first day of the week.”—“History of the Sabbath,” Dr. Peter Heylyn (Church of England), part 2, chapter 1.
A Cloud of Witnesses
THE Rev. Dr. Dale says: “It is quite clear that, however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath. . . . The Sabbath was founded on a specific, divine command. We can plead no such command for the observance of Sunday. . . . There is not a single sentence in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday.”—“ The Ten Commandments, ” R. W.
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Dale, D. C. {Congregationalist),	rod, 107. London:
Hodder and Stoughton.
'Also Canon Eyton declares: “There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday. . . . The observance of Ash Wednesday or Lent stands on exactly the same footing as the observance of Sunday. . . . Into the rest of Sunday no divine law enters.”—“ The Ten Commandments, ” Canon Eyton {Church of England). London: Thubner and Co.
The Rev. Isaac Williams states: “And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day. . . . The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but the church, has enjoined it.”—“Plain Sermons on the Catechism,” Rev. Isaac Williams, B. D. {Church of England), Vol. 1, p. 334. London: Longmans and Co.
The “Methodist Episcopal Theological Compend,” page 180, says: “It is true there is no positive command for infant baptism, nor is there any for keeping holy the first day of the week.”
Albert Barnes, the great Presbyterian commentator, makes the statement: “No precept for it is found in the New Testament.”
The first recorded instance of Sunday observance that has any claim to be considered genuine is mentioned by Justin Martyr, a. d. 140, when some Christians met and read the writings of the apostles. He does not even intimate, however, that this day has any divine authority, either from Christ or from His apostles. It was about this time that the great apostasy set in that is foretold in Acts 20: 29, 30; 2 Timothy 4:3, 4; and 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4.
Remodeling Apostolic Christianity
THE pagan Romans who nominally accepted Christianity, generally remained unchanged at heart. The “mystery of iniquity” was working and they began to remodel the religion of the apostles. A Baptist historian says: “Toward the latter end of the second century, most of the churches assumed a new form; the first simplicity disappeared; insensibly, as the old disciples retired to their graves, their children came forward and new-molded the cause.”—“Ecclesiastical Researches,” chapter 6, page 31.
Since the converted pagan had heretofore held Sunday as a feast day in honor of the sun god, they now brought it into the church. Morer, a leading church historian, says that “the Christians thought fit to keep the same day, and the same name of it, that they might not appear causelessly peevish, and by that means hinder the conversion of the gentiles.”—“Dialogues on the Lord's Day," pp. 22,
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The old Chamber’s Encyclopedia, in its article, “Sabbath,” says: “By none of the Fathers before April, 1920
the fourth century is it [the first day of "the week] identified with the Sabbath; nor is the duty of observing it grounded by them either on the fourth commandment or on the precept or example of Christ or His apostles.
“Unquestionably the first law, either ecclesiastical or civil, by which the Sabbatical observance of that day is known to have been ordained, is the edict of Constantine, 321 a. d., of which the-follow-ing is a translation:
The Famous Edict
1ET all judges, inhabitants of the cities,^,and artificers, rest on the venerable day of the sun. But in the country, husbandmen may freely and lawfully apply to the business of agriculture; since it oftens happens that the sowing of corn and the planting of vines cannot be so advantageously performed on any other day.’
“But it was not until the year 538 that abstinence from agricultural labor was recommended, rather than enjoined, by an ecclesiastical authority [the third Council of Orleans], and this expressly that the people might have more leisure to go to church and say their prayers.”
In its article “Sunday,” the “Encyclopedia Britannica,” says: “It was Constantine who first made a law for the proper observance of Sunday; and who, according to Eusebius, appointed that it should be regularly celebrated throughout the Roman Empire.”
The “Encyclopedia Britannica” further declares: “The earliest recognition of the observance of Sunday as a legal duty is a constitution of Constantine in 321 a. d., enacting that all courts of justice, inhabitants of towns, and workshops were to be at rest on Sunday (venerabili die solis), with an exception in favor of those engaged in agricultural labor.”—“Encyclopedia Britannica," Volume XXVI, nth edition, article “Sunday," p. 95.
Robert Cox says: “He [Grotius] refers to Eusebius for procf that Constantine, besides issuing his well-known edict that labor should be suspended on Sunday, enacted that the people should be brought before the law courts on the seventh day of the week, which also, he adds, was long observed by the primitive Christians as a day for religious meetings. . . . And this, says he, ‘refutes those who think that the Lord’s day [Sunday] was substituted for the Sabbath — a thing nowhere mentioned either by Christ or His apostles.’”—Hugo Grotius (<d. 1645), “Opera Omnia Theologica." London: 1679; cited in “The Literature of the Sabbath Question," Robert Cox, Vol. 1, p. 223. Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, 1865.
Professor Webster states: “This legislation by Constantine probably bore no relation to Christianity; it appears, on the contrary, that the emperor, in his capacity of Pontifex Maximus, was only adding the day of the sun, the worship of which was then firmly established in the {Continued on page 34)
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The Crime Mind— Is It Truly Educated?
By Frank Edgar Hinkley
ARDLY a day passes in which our news sources do not chronicle some event in which the fair flower of youth and maidenhood are featured in hideous revels of crime and debauchery, where respectability and intellectual refinement are coupled with degeneracy and moral depravity, and where honored name and ancestry are mingled with dishonor and contempt.
This mingling of criminal tendencies with high intellectual gifts is the strangest and saddest problem of ethics.
We charge these conditions to gross principles of error, to certain flagrant concepts of life that outrage all our sense of propriety and decency, to evolutionary teachings, to materialism, rationalism, and atheism; but we should never forget — and let it be engraven upon our consciences as with a pen of fire — that when true principles are perverted, when they are misdirected or disregarded, they in turn become sources of error with power to deceive and mislead.
There is no question whatever regarding the nature of the malevolent teaching that is flooding the world with deception and error; and where so much seed is being sown, a bountiful harvest cannot fail to be the result; but these things seem to be the outgrowth of a soil that has become degraded through lack of cultivation rather than the original cause of its contamination.
In the culture of the soil, neglect is as fatal as incorrect tillage, and in our failure to see the relationship between the cultivation of the soil and that of the soul, in our neglect to attend to our own little plot of ground, we have flung wide the door for every foul plant of a degenerate nature.
Through neglect to discipline and cultivate this more important part of our being—the soul—because of our strenuous efforts to secure intellectual culture, we have allowed the powers of an evil nature to gain the ascendency, suffered the immense faculties of the soul to become so debased and to sink to such a state of depravity that even respectability, cultured antecedents, and high intellectual attainments fail as barriers to keep men and women from committing acts that shock the moral community and threaten to engulf our modern civilization.
The Governing Power in Man “T>Y A misconception of the true J3 nature and object of education, many have been led into serious and even fatal error.” Such a mistake consists in deferring to the base estimate of the street of what constitutes a success; and, in our eagerness to secure intel-PAGE TWENTY-SIX
lectual culture, failing to recognize the presence of the soul as the seat of power and influence.
The whole order of the day is to cultivate with accuracy the senses and the understanding, through reason and material evidence, leaving the inner faculties to chance and eventual degeneracy.
For generations men have glorified the training of the intellectual powers at the expense of the inner life, until the latter has come to be regarded as of inferior significance.
“Any effort that exalts intellectual culture above moral training is misdirected.” Why? Because the inner self is the controlling factor back of our mental nature. It is the master of the intellect and the will; the power that animates and uses all the other powers that man has inherited; the one that is always effective in revealing just what we are, regardless of what we may profess to be. In our intercourse with others, it is not the outer man that we respect, however richly endowed in mental attainments, but the soul whose organ he is.
An Outside Without an Inside
BUT in exalting intellectual culture, we have been endeavoring to reverse the order of nature, trying to get an outside that has no inside, an end without a means, an effect without a cause. We have forgotten that man is a species of plant, a product of the ground, which grows like the palm from within outward. We, however, have been employing ends for means, effects for causes. One educator terms it, “heaping knowledge upon the student like hay,” giving him a diploma, and telling him to get out and “stack it himself.”
Now character is not veneer, something put on from the outside. It is not reputation. It is what a man really is, the seal of individuality impressed by nature, education, or habit, upon the soul.
To discipline and develop this inner nature should be the true objective of all education and of every individual, since character alone is the natural means for acquiring all other ends. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
The only remedy, then, for the gross deformity in the world, and for the mistake in our educational system, is a return to nature’s methods and to nature’s God, for the establishment of true principles and for an understanding of correct motives.
This is the reproductive principle governing all life, natural or spiritual; and in fulfilling this law, man is
ever seeking to embody every faculty, every thought, and every emotion of his inner life in appropriate events, seeking to reproduce what has been formed, what is lived within. Just as the plant at the moment of germination struggles up to the light, so every thought that arises from within aims to pass out into action, bearing fruit after the nature of the inner life.
Soul Determines Its Environment
ALL literature writes the character of . him who produces it. Monuments, paintings, and conversation portray the secret forces and operations of the human soul. This is the reason why intellecual talents and refined antecedents impose so little restraint to frustrate the results growing out of a corrupt nature, through the operation of this principle of our being. We obey this law unconsciously because it is a part of our nature, and history is the unerring record of its achievements. Strictly speaking, there is no history; it is all biography.
A perfect equity adjusts its balance in every part of life. The condition of the soul within determines what the outer circumstances shall be. The specific events may follow late, may be spread over a long period of years; but they follow none the less surely because they accompany it, as the fruit accompanies the seed.
We can no more halve things and get an intellectual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that has no outside. For as the effect always inheres in the cause, the end pre-exists in the means, and the fruit in the seed, so the outer world of circumstances shapes itself to the inner world of being, out of which circumstances grow.
Perhaps no one knows better than the intelligent missionary who has labored in heathen lands that circumstances grow out of man’s inner nature; for he will have observed that when a native is soundly converted, successive events at once take place in his outer circumstances corresponding to the changes in his inner state. When he commences to clean up and take an interest in the comfort of his wife and children, the missionary knows that an inner change is taking place, for the proof is before his face. These evidences may not be as marked among civilized people, but the test is the same.
This is not saying, however, that all of life’s experiences are of our own making. While “to a great degree the experiences of life are the fruition of our own thoughts and deeds,” we should recognize that events and circumstances created by other lives come into and affect our own. There are also unseen powers of darkness that affect events, as in the case of Job.
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But only those things which God permits through the outworking of His infinite laws are allowed to come to us for purposes of mercy.
The Redemption of the Soul
WHAT, then, is the conclusion to be drawn from these observations? — That the restoration of the world should be sought in the redemption of the soul. If we would save our own children, save the fair flower of young manhood and womanhood of our land, we must first redeem our own souls. We must first have these eternal principles of truth and righteousness engraven and inwrought in the innermost chambers of the soul before we can effectually teach them, before we can expect a change in the outer conditions; for only that which we live within can we reproduce in others.
Nature was not only to reveal the infinite perfection of the character of God, but through it man was to discover himself. Its laws and operations would reveal to his understanding his own powers, and through them the means for his own development, that he might more and more reflect the divine attributes.
But when sin entered, nature in its pristine beauty and perfection could not then reveal to him a knowledge of himself; so we read that the ground was cursed for man’s sake. It seems evident that God permitted Satan and his angels to work out their own evil characteristics of degeneracy in the earth, through this same law of life.
Where once was revealed only the character of God,— “merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,” — now is also revealed the nature and character of Satan, that in its changed condition we might read the sad picture of the human soul in its fallen state, the outer creation being given for understanding the changes of the inner creation, and furnishing us with language for describing them. Since nature is the result of law in action in the mind of the Infinite, all subsequent events and circumstances would be the results of the same law growing out of finite natures.
When man first rebelled against the divine law, the inferior creatures were in rebellion against his rule, a change in his outer circumstances corresponding to his inner condition. “Thus the Lord in His great mercy, would show men the sacredness of His law, and lead them, by their own experiences, to see the danger of setting it aside even in the slightest degree.”
In this stupendous revelation of the effect of law governing the infinite character of God, is unfolded a principle too little regarded or even understood; namely, that through material objects only may character be expressed, only through these visible facts can we understand what inner thought and
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emotion represent. To be sure, words convey meaning, but only as they have been previously associated with visible objects; and if we trace words to their roots we find them grounded in natural facts. But even so, language is wholly inadequate to convey the meaning and transcendent beauty of a noble character. We may use all the words at our command and then fail utterly in describing innocency, but let the image of a little child or a lamb leap to our minds and we have a meaning that words are powerless to express.
This being true, and God having endowed both animate and inanimate nature with these living qualities of character, what untold beauty and meaning is to be discovered in the unfathomable depths and heights of God’s great universe! What glories of character are to be found in the heavens above, and in the earth beneath, and in the waters under the earth! And for human beings to manifest these attributes of the great Creator, language alone is powerless to reveal properties that took nothing less than the entire universe to portray.
This Priceless Gift
HENCE God has endowed humanity with an immensity of being called the soul, a vast capacity for knowing and reflecting Him, that we may discover and manifest His character through living it.
The philosophy of centuries has not searched the chambers of the soul, and neglect of this priceless gift constitutes the crime of this generation. Like the man with the one talent, we have buried the most important endowment that we possess, ahd charge God with being a hard and unjust taskmaster.
Since the outer creation is given for understanding the beings and changes of the inner creation, we have here an infallible means for interpreting the times in which we are living. The soul, without God, has become debased and corrupted. Despoiled of its ability to reflect truth, virtue, and purity, it propagates its own evil characteristics of error, vice, and immorality. All that we do is tinged with the manners of the soul, and before there can be any real progress, we must regain the mastery of self.
This is the paramount duty that today confronts both teachers and students alike. The “strong man” must be bound before we can “spoil his house.” We must gain control of self through co-operating with the Saviour of men, in whom is “the law of the spirit of life” working upon human souls through the exhibition of His mercy and abundant grace, to free them “from the law of sin and death.” Thus degenerate nature, deprived of activity, dies, and new life and power spring into being.
The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion cannot fail of securing this goal of a noble character, whose gain in rectitude means no loss through defrauding of other faculties.
This is our appointed work, the greatest that man can ever be engaged in; and in the doing of it the whole universe, and the conditions and work growing out of man’s relationship to it, exist for him as a means to this end.
When used in this way there is no penalty attached to gain in rectitude, no tax on growth of wisdom and virtue, because the soul is not a compensation but a life; but if we reverse this divine order and make the end the means for obtaining some external good — things comprehended by the senses — if we concentrate our minds on results, on things to be done, on some end to be reached, and not on the life to be lived and for the sake of which the things are to be done, then we pay the penalty that every benefit received demands, and which it is impossible for us to evade.
We have sought intellectual greatness, desired position and power, little realizing that no permanent good, no enduring fame, can come to us except as we attend to that plot of ground which has been given us to till; and the results are seen in low moral standards and a poor and flickering inner life. The fire on the altar has become dim, and w,e grope our way in darkness.
It is emphatically true that whatever we may be engaged in, however sacred or large the enterprise may be, if pursued for itself as an end, it will at last become a hissing and a reproach; but if followed as a means for developing these inner faculties, then we are employing natural ways of arriving at an end that we have aimed for, but have not yet reached.
WE OVERRATE the importance of actions, have great anxiety about results, or ends to be reached, pay immense attention to effects, to the mere experiences themselves. We have described them, advised them, prayed for them, done everything but find out what causes them, when in reality we have nothing to do with the administration of events; our business is in looking after and caring for the means. God looks after the results, and He has quite other ways of making known who is wise, true, and benevolent than anything we may subscribe to—other means for inspiring activity and enthusiasm than any of these things that our senses can grasp. It is low merit that can be enumerated, and we should fear when our friends say we have done well.
“In our life work we know not which shall prosper, this or that. This is not a question for us to settle. We are to do our work, and leave the results with God.”
Let us retrace our steps to the path whose true compensation is in the way
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we walk, whose results are secured by the way we live, and whose inner life is a development by faith and not by sight.
The whole law, the whole duty of man, the whole philosophy of life can be read in the counsel: “As ye have therefore opportunity, do good unto all men.” Do the right thing, the kind, the generous thing, regardless of return, for to the soul the compensation is in the doing of it.
To travel trustingly is a better thing than to arrive, and true success is in labor, not in our goals.
The Pope Becomes King — Changes in the Calendar
{Continued front p. if) of rest in place of the Sabbath, and now a further effort to minimize its importance is being made, though perhaps ignorantly, by many calendar-reform advocates. We are made to wonder if there is anything in names, Sun-day, Sol (sun) month. Men would make no difference between the holy and profane, or common, days of the week. We see the world drifting into disrespect and disregard of all sacred things.
Is There Any Connection?
Is there any connection between the ascendency of the papacy and the changes in the calendar? At least no protest against the changes has thus far come from Catholics, nor from Protestants who keep Sunday in common with them. It seems obviously inconsistent that those who have based their reason for Sunday-keeping on the fact that Christ rose on that day should favor a reform that would make the weekly return of that day wander all over the calendar of days. But of course men who presume to change God’s “time” once may do it again. The Roman Church claims to be God’s representative on earth, and to have the authority to do anything it pleases with divine decrees and institutions.
It is a fact that Roman churchmen have had much to do with changes in the calendar from the beginning, and this with full ecclesiastical sanction. The first to propose the “blank day” idea and a “wandering Sabbath” (also Sunday) was an Italian priest, the Abbe Marc Mastrofini, in 1837. This is stated in a French book published in 1920, written by a Catholic priest, Abb6 Clauve-Bertrand, and which has the sanction of the Church. Thus there is no doubt but that the papal power favors a calendar revision that would well-nigh bury out of sight the day of the Sabbath of Jehovah. There has not been in centuries so bold and decisive a move to interpose a baffling barrier between God and His sabbath-keeping people. As to what all this may lead we will have more to say later. Next month a complete survey of calendar revision will appear in our columns.
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Aviation Spreads Her Wings
{Continued from page 5) that the multitudes of earth would be literally and actually running “to and fro.”
Furthermore, this prophecy harmonizes and coincides with numerous other Bible predictions concerning the physical world, the political world, and the religious world, all of which unmistakably designate the present as “the time of the end.”
Nor are we left in uncertainty as to the divine providence in these marvelous developments. Our Saviour declared: “And this gospel 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. In any previous age, an intellectual or religious movement was compelled of necessity to travel slowly; but now we behold our
Feature Articles for the
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Calendar Reform, by Charles S. Longacre. Governments and big business are beginning to take seriously proposed reforms in our calendar—thirteen months in the year, blank days, etc.— and when statesmen and capitalists sponsor a movement, look for action. But present plans would profane sacred time and work hardship on true Christians.
Death Bed Repentance, by Robert L. Boothby. Just how bright are the prospects of a man who turns to God in his last moments?
Are You Religious? by Charles L. Paddock. What is religion? And what does it mean to possess it, and enjoy the experience?
Headed for Vatican City, by L. Ervin Wright. The men and the teachings that are bridging the gulf between Protestantism and Catholicism.
Every Man His Own Doctor, by Hans S. Anderson, Dietitian. Be a P. M. D. (doctor of preventive medicine) with one patient, yourself.
heavenly Father “speeding up” this old world in order that the gospel may be quickly carried and that He may “finish the work and cut it short in righteousness.” (Romans 9:28.)
He Saw Them Flying
HERE too, is a notable fact. John the Revelator, exiled on the rocky isle of Patmos, beheld in vision the final proclamation of the gospel that terminates in the glorious second coming of Christ; and in this wondrous prophecy the messengers are actually seen “flying in mid heaven, having eternal good tidings to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every
nation and tribe and tongue and people,” saying with a great voice, “Fear God, and give Him glory; for the hour of His judgment is come.” Revelation 14: 6, 7, A. R. V.
Already the airplane has been requisitioned by the gospel missionary to convey him in a few hours over long distances of jungle wastes that formerly required weeks of arduous, wearisome travel. Today, ambassadors for Christ avail themselves of every modern facility for rapid transportation and communication, and look upon all of these as heaven’s appointed equipment for finishing the stupendous task committed to the people of God — the gospel to all the world in this generation.
Thus may the good tidings of the kingdom speed forth on the wings of the wind and on the waves of the ether till those of every realm and clime shall hear the message. May the word of the living God, “newly edged with power and quickened by the Holy Spirit,V bring conviction to hearts in all lands, preparing them for the soon return of Jesus and the long anticipated homeland. And as the gospel message hastens to its triumph throughout the world, may it likewise triumph in your heart and mine.
“Even so, come, Lord Jesus. ”
Whence This Lawlessness?
{Continued from page 7) the Ten Commandments. The 'new commandment’ that we love one another did not amend the old. It merely indicated a way of obeying it. It is orthodox to say that it cannot be amended, and the commandments will be fruitlessly defied if we make legal offenses of what are not moral offenses. ... We need not trouble ourselves to re-institute the Ten Commandments. They are still there, and it is sufficient if we obey them.”
Exalt the Law
SOMEHOW the respect for law must be established. Somehow the sense of sin must be revived in the world if conditions are to be changed. The great standards of God’s law must be shaken from the dust into which they have been thrown, and upreared in the lives of men.
The most disconcerting fact in the lawlessness of the hour is that youth today fill the ranks of criminals. An analysis recently of 10,000 prisoners in twelve penitentiaries, showed that sixty per cent of the prisoners were between the ages of eighteen and thirty. This unleashed savagery of youth suddenly freed from parental and church control presents the outstanding problem of this generation and bears ill omen for the future.
Judges, prosecutors, police chiefs, and students of criminology agree that respect for law has been swept away, especially in the large centers of popula-
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Things! “The desire to acquire new things," says Percivall White, writing in the North American Review, “in its more radical forms is a revolt against law and order, and against civilization itself." It is a revolt against God, too; “for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." Luke 12: 15.
That civilized man’s diet is the cause of his ills is the conclusion of Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane from observations among the sturdy races of the Himalaya foothills and of other regions whose diet contains the “roughage" that stimulates the gastro-intestinal tract and prevents self-poisoning. The natural grains, nuts, and fruits given by the Creator to be the food of man (Genesis 1: 29) are still the best food, proved by the agreement of science with the word of God.
The fourth non-stop flight across North America was recently completed by Captain Frank Hawks and his mechanic Oscar E. Grubb, in 18 hours, 21 minutes, and 59 seconds, bettering Arthur Goebel’s record by 36 minutes and one second. The flight was a heroic struggle against bad weather and proves what can be done under difficulties. Everywhere we look we find speed, speed — the spirit of the age, foretold by the infallible eye of divine prophecy as the spirit of the days just before Jesus comes again.
“So far as concerns the major group of animals, the creationists seem to have the better of the argument. There is not the slightest evidence that any one of the major groups arose from any other. Each is a special animal, complex, related more or less closely to all the rest, and appearing, therefore, as a special and distinct creation." These are not the words of a “feeble-minded" opponent of evolution, but of Dr. Austin H. Clark, Harvard graduate, member of the staff of the Smithsonian Institute, Fellow Royal Geographical Society, author of many scientific books and articles.
Fordlandia is a new town rising in the jungles of the Amazon valley, where the Ford Motor Company is opening up a tract for the raising of rubber. This center of business and scientific efficiency is really a wonder in the jungle, but there are greater. The men who have planted this civilized community in the wilderness are already themselves civilized. The missionaries who proclaim the soon return of Jesus are going into the headwaters of the Amazon and taking the degraded, cannibalistic, devil-worshiping Indians, and in a few months seeing them transformed through the gospel into clean, clothed, industrious Christian people, agriculturalists, living in neat houses, learning to read and write. The “gospel of modern business" imports its devotees into the jungle; “this gospel of the kingdom" transports the lowest savages into a Christian life that fits them for heaven.
The Pathfinder, popular news weekly, makes the statement that the recent concord between Italy and the Pope, solving the “Roman Question" came “like lightning out of a clear sky." It did, indeed, but only to those who thought the sky was clear because they had not been watching it. As a matter of fact, the finger of divine prophecy had been writing across the sky of nearly two thousand years that what happened on February n was coming (see Revelation 13: 3), and all who had eyes might have seen. Also for more than fifty years the people who are carrying God’s last message to the world have been saying by voice and pen to all the world that papal supremacy was to be restored, and all who have ears might have heard. But it came a surprise to the many, a long foreseen certainty to the few. So the soon coming of Christ will seem to be without warning to those who have dulled their senses against warning. (2 Thessalonians 5: 1-6.)
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An aid to crime is one of the chief uses of the automobile, but radio is to be used to combat crime. A bill before the Massachusetts legislature would require every city and town police headquarters in the state to install a receiving set to pick up warnings of moves of criminals. Police information could thus be sent out much faster than can now be done by long-distance telephone, and the escape of criminals in fast motorcars be hindered. We rejoice in any use of modern inventions to make it harder to break the laws.
The outstanding issue before the American people today is respect for and observance of law, says a prominent Methodist bishop. And the most important issue in the world today to every individual is his relation to the law of God. We are living when the great message symbolized by the angel of Revelation 14:9-12 is going to the world, to bring out a people who keep all the commandments of God. Happy is he who obeys not only the laws of the land but the law of God; for he shall own the earth when the lawless have been destroyed out of it.
Modern Russia, says a teacher of Columbia University, “is a social laboratory of the world, a tremendous experiment in human social science." He referred especially to Russian experiments in trial marriage, divorce at will, no distinction between the legal wife and her children and the unmarried companion and hers. The pity of it is that Russia is not the first laboratory in which experiments in human souls and bodies have been carried on, to the irreparable damage of the precious fabrics experimented upon. The law of God is the safeguard of the race.
A proposed new Bible would omit Numbers and Leviticus, containing the Mosaic law. To many readers those books which set forth the tabernacle service seem utterly removed from modern life. In reality nothing in the Bible but the cross is nearer; for the tabernacle and its service are the object lesson on earth of what Christ has been doing in heaven since His ascension; and according to the prophecy of Daniel 8: 14 we are living in the end of the antitypical day of atonement, and our High Priest is about to come forth from His intercession to execute judgment on the earth. The symbolic system of the tabernacle is the key to the understanding of the Bible and its prophecies.
Radio beacons, electric sirens, and automatic lights have not put lighthouses and their keepers out of their job; nor have the thrills all disappeared under modern conditions. Nearly 6,000 persons are employed by the United States in the safety and rescue work on its coast. The old figures of speech that compare Christians to lifesavers, lifeboat men, or lighthouse keepers working to rescue those perishing in the storms of life have lost none of their innate truth. Spiritual storms are increasing, not diminishing, in these last days; and the lost, not believing their dangers, resist rescue. But it was never more necessary than now to “throw out the lifeline," and “let the lower lights be burning."
Half of the money that was contributed for charity in the United States in 1927 went for religious purposes. To be exact, over forty-eight per cent of the enormous total given, $2,219,700,000, was donated for religion. The average family contribution for the year was $85.85, from which $41.41 went to religion, $9.87 for organized charities within the United States, $8.15 for foreign relief, $7.79 for health work, $7.13 for education, $.98 for fine arts, and $.73 for play and recreation purposes. This liberal share to religion means to us that God is moving upon men to advance the interests of His kingdom, that the world many have every opportunity to know Christ and the news of His second coming to earth.
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This is a service department where questions pertaining to the Bible and its interpretation are answered for WATCHMAN readers. Anyone is free to address questions to the Editor, who puts himself under obligation to answer here only those that will be of general interest to our readers. Others may be answered by letter. Inquirers must give name and address, but these will not be printed.
Millennial Dawn
Who is Judge Rutherford, and what sect does he represent?
Mr. Rutherford is the leading exponent of the doctrine commonly called Millennial Dawn, first advocated in modem form by “Pastor” Russell, now dead. The doctrine lays stress on a millennium here on earth when Christ comes, during which nearly all sinners who have not accepted Christ is this life will have a second chance, and gradually Christ will win over the rebellious. This doctrine is not Biblical.
Prophecy and Free Will
If God prophesies that a man will do a certain thing, is not the man compelled to do it; and where is his free will?
This question arises from a misconception of what prophecy is. Forecasting is not saying that a thing must come to pass, but is simply stating that it will. Because we human beings cannot ourselves prophesy reliably, it is difficult for us to understand the nature of prophecy as related to predestination. We must bear in mind that the event determines the prophecy, not the prophecy the event. An event does not come to pass because it is prophesied, but it is prophesied because it will come to pass. There is a great difference. The divine prophetic eye sees a thing as if it had already occurred; and surely a man must take the responsibility for what he has already done.
Seeing God in the Flesh
Please explain Job 19:25, 26, where Job said he would see God in his flesh.
Job is here speaking of the “latter day,” the day of the resurrection of the dead, when Christ returns to earth the second time. (See 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-17.) This statement of Job’s is one of the strongest proofs in the Bible that the dead lie in their graves (“worms destroy this body”) till the raising of the dead at the last day. Then, according to 1 Corinthians 15: 51-54, their bodies will be restored from dust to flesh, but flesh with an immortal bloom. As Christ descends from heaven with all His holy angels (Matthew 25:31), He will send them forth to gather together unto Him (Matthew 24:31) all who have just been resurrected by the sound of His voice (John 5:28, 29). Among that glorious and happy company who shall welcome their Redeemer will be Job in his flesh; that is, the real body of Job will be there, not a spirit. He will be the same as he was before he died, except that his body will be without sin and disease (incorruptible) and their results, death.
4‘Worm** of Mark 9: 44
Is it true that the “worm” of Mark 9:44, 46, 48 is not a real worm, but the gnawing of the conscience of those who are being tomented forever and ever?
The original of “worm” is skolex, and means a literal worm of some kind, and is not used as a figure of the conscience. If “worm” in this text were figurative, then “fire,” by analogy, must also be figurative, a conclusion that the eternal-torment advocates are not willing to draw. Either both are symbols or both are real. The allusion that Christ makes here was familiar to the Jews. (See Isaiah 66: 24.) Greenfield, in his “New Testament Lexicon,” says that the expression “hell fire” comes from the word “Gehenna, the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, once celebrated for the horrid worship of Moloch, and afterward polluted with every species of filth, as well as the carcasses of animals and dead bodies of malefactors; to consume which, in order to avert the pestilence which such a mass of corruption would occasion, constant fires were kept burning.” In other words, a public dump, wher fires and worms destroyed dead bodies, not tormented living beings.
tion. Besides this, gun play in road houses and raids by the police are no longer exciting incidents. Society has been caught unprepared and finds itself weakened by lax courts, disrupted police forces, politics-ridden executives, and a morale broken by wealth, ease, and idleness.
The modern criminal regards himself as a business man and his crime as an industry. He in no way resembles his prototype of a decade ago. The roughly clad, freight-riding burglar of that period regarded himself as a criminal. If captured, he expected a maximum of punishment and a minimum of sympathy. He claimed no rights. He dared not bargain with the authorities. But times have changed. Because of lax law enforcement, the automobile and other improved transportation facilities, dishonest office-holders, and myriads of similar causes, the criminal element today is so firmly established, so thoroughly organized, that open bargaining is one of the least of the resultant evils.
To the one, however, who is keeping his eyes on the trend of events, arid likewise has knowledge of the statements of Scripture that refer to our day, these things are not strange. He knows that the Word of Truth has not pointed out that righteousness and peace would cover the earth just before the second appearance of Christ. In pointing out these things, Christ himself referred to the conditions that prevailed in Noah’s day just before the flood as being the same conditions that would prevail in the world just before His second coming. (Luke 17:26-30.) These conditions would, according to Christ, constitute a great sign of the coming end of the reign of sin, pointing His listeners to scenes of great lawlessness, corruption, and a world filled with violence.
As It Was
THE utterances of the Scriptures regarding the days of Noah are most expressive, and reveal that because mankind was so vile and wicked, so degraded and corrupt, God was obliged to bring the race to an end. They show also that after God’s faithful servant had warned his fellow men for a full generation, the Deluge came suddenly and even then unexpectedly.
Noah’s day, as ours, was most remarkable for the widespread lawlessness that abounded and the violence with which the men of his day committed their criminal acts. Heart-sickening were the facts of the records of Noah’s day. Alike heart-sickening are the facts disclosed by the criminal records of our day when men and women, boys, and even young girls, have become habitual criminals, and are so lawless and vicious as to commit the foulest crimes in broad daylight. No one can read the daily newspaper and not realize that Christ’s great sign of His soon appear-THE WATCHMAN MAGAZINE
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ance is blazoned on every page. Lawlessness is rampant everywhere and, in spite of the most gigantic efforts of mankind to stem the flood, the embankments of law and order are steadily giving way before the overwhelming tide of crime and wickedness of every sort that marks this generation as the last.
Are you ready for such a change as the second coming of Jesus Christ will bring to this world? Have you enthroned Him in your heart and life, and become a willing subject to all His commands? This is the hour of preparation. Now is the accepted time. Come while mercy yet lingers over this corrupt and doomed generation.
Move the World
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This prophecy does not specifically define how the lines of conflict will be drawn in that final struggle. It does not say it will be the East against the West or that the Occident and the Orient will contend for the mastery of the world. But it does make it plain that it will be the arising of complications in the Near East that will lead to the greatest war of all ages in that section of the world, and that the powers of the Far East will drive westward to take a hand in that struggle. And this should cause us to watch very carefully the trend of events in the East.
Are there signs of coming conflict in the East? Students of Eastern affairs plainly tell us that this awakening of the East means an unparalleled world war between the white and colored races, between the East and the West.
Sir Cyprian Bridge, a British admiral, declares: “There is only one problem, and it is the problem of the coming conflict between the two halves of the human race, the white and the colored; it will be in the Pacific. In this conflict, Asia can draw upon about one thousand millions of colored people, as against some five hundred millions of white people. ”
The Literary Digest once said that a “war looms ominously on the Asiatic horizon — a war so appalling in its scope and consequences that even the World War would he dwarfed by comparison. ”
The Crisis of the Ages
IOTHROP STODDARD in his book, “The Rising Tide of Color” says: “We stand at a crisis — the supreme crisis of the ages. . . . Some sort of provisional understanding must be arrived at between the white world and renascent Asia. We whites will have to abandon our tacit assumption of permanent domination over Asia, while the Asiatics will have to forego their dreams of migration to white lands. . . . Unless some such understanding is arrived at, the world will drift into a
Exceesive bathing and cold baths. Is
there any danger of bathing too much? If so, why? What are the benefits and methods of cold baths? M. L. J.
There is danger of too much bathing, if it means a daily hot soap bath, because the hot soapy water removes the natural oil of the skin, tending to make it harsh and scaly, and the heat disorders circulation and lowers vitality. If you wish the pleasure of a daily bath let it be only at the temperature of 90-98 F and follow it by the application of some suitable oil or massage cream. But it is better to take a cleansing bath twice a week.
But the daily cold bath, preferably in the morning, is a genuine pleasure after the habit has become established by will power, and is unsurpassed as a natural stimulant, tonic, and defense against colds. The greatest benefit is derived from the cold spray or plunge, but these are forms to become accustomed to. The beginner does well to start with the less harsh method of the cold rub with wet hand, wash cloth, or sponge, followed by brisk towel rubbing. To be of benefit the cold bath must produce a quick response and warm glow. If chilling follows, discontinue the cold bath. Every warm bath, without exception, should be followed by the cold sponge as a preventive of colds.
Inoculation for influenza.— Is there any inoculation to prevent influenza? How can one avoid taking the “flu”? I. M. S.
Medical science has not yet discovered any serum or antitoxin that when injected will confer immunity against this disease. Security from contracting influenza is best assured: First, by avoiding all unnecessary contact with individuals who have the disease or are suffering from acute colds. Second, by the daily use of a cleansing nasal spray and throat gargle. Salt and soda, a teaspoonful of each to a pint of warm water, will suffice. One may use instead Listerine, Dobell’s solution, Lavoris, etc., diluted one half with water. Third, by keeping one’s physical resistance high by a well-balanced program of health habits, including an abundance of sleep, fresh air, daily physical exercise, alkalinizing diet — essentially fruits and vegetables — and a daily bath and efficient bowel elimination.
Sties.— I have one sty after another. What can I do to prevent them? Outline treatment. A. B. F.
Sties are most commonly caused by eyestrain, such as need of glasses, but unhealthy conditions of the whole system such as dyspepsia or constipation are only a little less frequent causes. Unless you are sure your system is in good condition, free from retained poisons, you should work to remove these causes before beginning the use of glasses. But it is unwise to allow a condition of frequent sties to go long without consulting a good eye specialist.
For treatment, apply hot compresses to the eyes several times a day. These should not be by the usual wool fomentation cloths, but small pieces of cotton cloth, gauze, or cheese cloth folded several times. As soon as a yellow spot is seen in the sty, remove the pus by pulling out the eyelash in the center of the sty or opening with a needle sterilized by passing the point through the flame of a lamp or a match.
Stupes.— What is a stupe? What is its purpose and how shoidd it be applied? M. H. M.
A stupe is a fomentation — a local application of moist heat by means of cloths wrung from hot water — to which some medicine has been added. Turpentine, mustard, or menthol are some times applied in this way as counterirritants in bad throat and lung conditions. There is great danger that such substances so applied will blister the skin, and hence stupes are not recommended unless very carefully given. The general method of applying stupes is to wring a gauze or muslin compress from a cup of hot water to which has been added the medicine in amount as prescribed. Spread on the surface to be treated and cover with a regular fomentation, which must not be very hot.
Ingrowing toenails.— Are roomy shoes a sure cure for ingrowing toenails? O. T. P.
Ingrowing toenails are due to pressure from ill-fitting shoes. Wear a straight-inner-line shoe with plenty of room for the toes. Cut the offending nail straight across instead of in the usual rounded fashion. Press a bit of cotton daily under the corner of the ingrowing nail, and it will gradually become raised to proper position.
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gigantic race-ivar, and genuine race-war means war to the death.”
While prophecy plainly indicates that there is a terrible conflict just before us, no heart need sink in despair. In God there is hope. Above the winds of strife and the waves of destruction, He is watching over His own. Confess your sins, surrender to Him, and you will have nothing to fear. Then when the besom of destruction sweeps over the world, your heart will be at peace, knowing that God is near to keep and to save. Make your peace with God today, and assure yourselves of His salvation.
Shall Revolution Bring Evolution?
{Continued from page u) this idol, upon getting this message, gave him presents worth over ten thousand dollars, but they cannot persuade him to remain on earth; he must go!
One district near here has already complied with the law. When the people heard of the new ruling, they went first to the temples and took all the gods to their homes, thinking to protect and worship them there. The magistrate sent out word that on a certain day his soldiers would thoroughly search every house in the district and every man who had an idol in his home would be heavily fined — fined according to the size of the idol. Upon hearing this, the people carried all the gods, great and small, out and dumped them into the river — hundreds of them, ugly and beautiful, mud and wood, paper covered and gold plated — all drowned in the river.
To What Will China Turn?
WHAT effect will this nation-wide movement have on the moral awakening of China? That is the Question Christians are asking now. The government is destroying their idols and offering the people nothing in their place. Evidently this is our day in which to point these multitudes to the true God— the great Creator, and to His sooncoming Son, the world’s only Saviour.
What a pity that so many missionaries have nothing better to offer these people than the vagaries of evolution — a doctrine that is anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-Bible; a doctrine that knows no sin, no fall, no Saviour, no heaven, no future! Evolution is another sign of the end. “Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved . . . God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.” 2 Thessalonians 2: 10, 11. Throwing away her idols, will China turn to atheism, evolution, or Christ? The answer largely depends on what you are doing to bring Christ to this people.
I write from an interior station. Today I baptized five into the fold of Christ and the hope of His soon coming. One was a woman seventy-four years old.
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The water was cold, but before the crowd of heathen who had assembled she walked boldly into the river. I told her not to be afraid of the cold water. She replied, “The cold water can’t hurt me, for my heart is hot.” May God bless her and all others who turn from dark heathenism to walk in God’s light. About two weeks ago I took twelve into the church in another city. One was an old man eighty-three years of age. He was one of the happiest men I ever met. Within the past six months we have circulated, with other literature, a hundred thousand folders telling briefly that the end of the world is near, that Christ is soon to return, and urging the people to come to our Seventh-day Adventist chapels and study the Bible that they may be prepared for this greatest of all events since man sinned and lost Eden.
Because of sin this is a sad world. This morning I was awakened just at dawn by a soldier’s bugle sounding the death knell of a criminal. A few seconds later I heard twelve pistol shots. They came from just across a pond from our house. Yesterday two men were shot. But this morning’s tragedy was especially sad. Shortly after the soldiers had left the corpse lying upon the ground for the charitable society to find and bury, the dead man’s young wife came and found him. Throwing herself down beside him she fainted and for hours lay there with her dead companion while the unfeeling crowd that passed looked on. Sin is a terrible thing! Only the loving Christ can save us from it and its awful results. Reader, do you know Jesus? He loves you. He is soon coming to destroy sin and all who refuse to part from it. Accept His offer of mercy and pardon. Rebel not longer against His love. When you know Him you will want to do all you can to save others for whom He gave His life. Give — self, time, property, money — for missions.
Digging at Ur
{Continued from page 13) dence of large population movements between the Babylonian plains and Palestine.
Babylonian luxury, too, had found its way into Canaan, to a degree that the Bible merely suggests. An Egyptian king of the time has left a record of the spoils he took in a foray into Canaan. He lists inlaid and gilded chairs, golden scepters, jeweled tent poles, chariots overlaid with silver and gold, a gold helmet, richly embroidered robes, and iron armor with gold inlay. Such a collection of Oriental articles of luxurious refinement could not be surpassed, could in fact be scarcely approached in richness by robbing all the museums of the world today. Yet these things came out of patriarchal Palestine.
Abraham had been called out of
Babylon to escape its contaminating influences. Now we find him in the Babylonian frontier communities, in the midst of the very civilization from which he had been taken. Why? Was it merely to show him the land that his children would possess some four hundred seventy years later? This is hardly likely. *
Abraham knew why he had been sent into the Babylonian colonies of Canaan. Having received the promise that he was to be the father of the children of God, and the stem through whom was to come the Messiah, for the gospel was given to him, he was sent as a missionary to the children of sin. He knew the religion of the people and he spoke their language. He was in a sense a product of their culture. He was well fitted to be the channel through which they were to receive the word of God. It was through him that Babylon was given a chance to repent. But he was not commissioned to go to the old mother-cities of Babylonia. They were too hardened, too conservative, too self-sufficient, too wedded to their idolatry. Instead, he was sent to the frontiers, whose men had been broadened and made receptive by the conditions of frontier life, and where some, at least, would respond.
Prestige of the Patriarch
IT WAS as a princely pilgrim that Abraham moved about the promised land. He made alliances with other Bedouin princes, shepherd-kings like himself. His own armed retainers numbered more than three hundred when he rescued Lot by force of arms from the invading kings. His position in Egypt, on the occasion of his sojourn there, was one of equality with the king of the Arab dynasty then ruling, a Semitic like himself. Back in Canaan, he proceeded to the distribution of the land between himself and Lot as if his position made consultation with others unnecessary. As a Bedouin prince, the head of a clan, his influence seems to have been immense. And he used his prestige and high position to further his missionary activities, for we find him commanding a numerous and ever-increasing household, many of the members of which were persons who had attached themselves to him as the result of their acceptance of the true God.
But while individuals turned to Jehovah, the tribes of Canaan continued to worship the gods of Babylon and their own. They rejected God’s messenger and his message. Even the Moabites, Edomites, Ishmaelites, and Midianites, relatives and in some cases descendants of Abraham, fell into idolatry, instead of remaining true to God and carrying on in the land the work begun by Abraham, after the principal branch of the family had moved into Egypt. And this principal branch returned, after nearly five hundred years, as the divinely appointed excutioners of the inhabitants THE WATCHMAN MAGAZINE
of Canaan, their own relatives included, who had turned their backs upon their opportunity.
The foreknowledge of that return to possess the land reconciled the Bedouin prince to his wandering life, and his vision of a still greater day kept him faithful to Jehovah. “For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” And of all the inhabitants of this city he is the spiritual father. For, “if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.”
We have now seen the origins of Babylon and of the people who are to possess Jerusalem. These are the first two high points in our search for the hand of God in history. It remains to follow the struggles through the ages of the two cities and the two forces, and to note the occasions when Jerusalem comes into missionary contact with Babylon, until we see the final triumph of the city of God.
The Law That Governs Heaven
{Continued from page 15) feeble honor of inscribing it on charts and church walls, teaching it in Sunday school lessons and church catechisms.
And its position in the ark, beneath the mercy seat — what was meant by this? The mercy seat represented the throne of God’s grace in heaven. As the law engraven on the tables of stone was beneath the mercy seat, so the throne of God in the heavens has for its foundation the sacred principles expressed in this law. It is the fundamental law of His kingdom. Its holy principles must be maintained or else His character must be compromised and disgraced and His government of love, and righteousness must fall. It is significant, therefore, that the Saviour said: “It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.” Luke 16: 17, A. R. V. Long indeed should pause the puny hand of man before irreverently touching this sacred oracle or lightly regarding any of its requirements.
Antedated Sinai
BEFORE we leave this part of the subject let us consider a few texts more. “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.” Psalm 97:2, A. R. V. Righteousness is not what each may imagine it to be, each to apply it according to his private conceptions and conveniences. God has not left it to man to determine the nature and extent of his obligations or of our Father’s requirements. “Forever, O Jehovah, Thy word is settled in heaven.” Psalm 119: 89, A. R. V. “Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Thy law is truth.” Verse 142, A. R. V. “All Thy commandments are righteousness.” Verse 172, A. R. V. That we might be able to stand before APRIL, 1929
God, Christ came that the “ordinance [margin, requirement; King James Version, righteousness] of the law might be fulfilled in us. ” Romans 8:4, A. R. V. The law then is the foundation of God’s throne. Justice also is its foundation, we are told. Justice relates to the administration of law. In short then, righteousness, the law of God, is the detailed expression and requirement of love and justice, its just, impartial administration upon which the integrity of the government of God is staked.
The law then antedated Sinai. Its principles are eternal, for they have their origin in the nature of the Eternal One. We have no record, it is true, of when it was previously given. We know nothing of the circumstances or spectacle that may have accompanied it, nor do we know its exact form of expression, but we do have a record of the recognition of the principles. No one failed to recognize the evil of the first murder and the sin of Cain’s lie to cover it. Jacob was conscious of his guilt in deceiving his father and wronging his brother. Joseph knew well the wickedness of adultery when he said, “How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?” Reuben knew the wrong his brethren were committing against Joseph for he said to them, “ Do not sin against the child.”
Nor was this knowledge of evil simply intuition, a matter of conscience. God had communicated His will to them definitely and in detail. This is clearly indicated in His statement to Israel when they sinned against Him in a matter of a law not definitely recorded: “How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws?” Exodus 16: 28. And long before this the Lord had said concerning Abraham: “Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept my charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.” Genesis 26: 5. With these requirements of God the people were definitely acquainted, else they could not be held responsible. As the United States Constitution contains nothing that was not contained in principle in the Declaration of Independence, so these laws as the ancients received them and Israel knew them contained nothing that was not in love. As the meaning of the Declaration of Independence would not have been understood without its enlargement and application in the Constitution, so love needed its principles made clear in God’s fundamental law.
Written in Our Natures
GOD does write His law on the hearts of His children. He had written it on Adam’s and Eve’s hearts, for they were made upright. God’s love was shed abroad there. But they were deceived. How could they know it was a deception? Not by the feelings of their hearts. Under the temptation, these led Eve astray. There was just one way — by the
commandments God had given. It was by these, the commandments of God, that Christ recognized the nature and source of His temptation in the wilderness. These experiences and a multitude more have not been recorded without a purpose for us.
Is it not significant, too, that the only principle of the law that perhaps we might not have some conception of without definite instruction is the only one that is specifically mentioned at the very beginning? I refer to the fourth commandment, relating to the Sabbath. In Genesis 2: 1-3 we are told of the institution of the Sabbath as the crowning act in the work of creation. It has come to man as a natural heritage through the fact, and as a result, of his creation, therefore it is a moral obligation, and properly belongs to the fundamental principles governing man. And as if there was a special significance attached to it, the Lord mentioned the desecration of it as an evidence or indication of the thought that Israel did not recognize the claims of the whole law upon them. For when, before the proclamation of the law from Sinai, some went out to gather manna on the Sabbath, the Lord reproved them, saying, “How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws” It is therefore very clear why the Lawgiver should place the commandment relating to the Sabbath in the very midst of His fundamental law, in detail, and the reason given for it as we find in no other commandment.
What meaning is attached to the declaration of the wise man when he said: “This is the end of the matter; all hath been heard: Fear God, and keep His commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” Ecclesiastes 12: 13, A. R. V.
Russia Leads the Way
{Continued from page 19) tories employing one thousand or more in the United States, while in Russia there were 1,300,000, not including miners. Forty-three and eight-tenths per cent of Russian workers were employed in the big factories. But 20.5 per cent of American workers labor in large establishments. There were actually more workers in factories employing five thousand in Russia than in industrial Germany. This industrial group, class-conscious, developing organization, became a fertile field for the revolutionary propaganda of direct action. It used its industrial power to secure not only industrial concessions but political change. If the figure 100 is used to indicate the number of strikes in Russia between 1900 and 1910, and we compare Russia with America, our figure would be 35, and that of Germany 17. Here, therefore, is a second great causal factor: a nation in transition from semi-feudal-PAGE THIRTY-THREE
ism to capitalism, with its capitalist class foreign and politically weak, and its working class highly concentrated, fairly well organized, becoming increasingly revolutionary, and convinced it was commissioned to act as the vanguard in the coming conflict.” Ibid, pp. 23, 24.
Land Hunger
WE SHALL close this article with the third major cause that led to the Bolshevik revolution. It was the land hunger of the peasants. In spite of Alexander’s decree emancipating the serfs, it must be borne in mind that serfdom was practically re-established by the economic pressure resulting from the necessity of paying taxes and redemption fees, the lack of sufficient land, and certain other legalistic and administrative measures, such as the passport system and collective responsibility as to taxes. The Russian peasant has ever held, rightly or wrongly, that the land belonged to him. Therefore, when he was denied this which he insisted was his, it gave an added urge toward revolution, to be made more acute and bitterly chronic when he did not receive enough land and his landlord oppressed him. Not to burden the reader with too much detail, the issue of this hard lot of the peasant in the possession of land supposed to be his resulted in his being compelled to sell out his holdings to the large, wealthy landowners, and to work either in the country as a hired hand at insufficient wages or in the towns and villages as laborer or artisan.
As we think of the whole situation in Russia as it was before 1917, we cannot fail to think of the prophecy of James 5: 1-6, A. R. V. Certain it is that Russia affords a striking example of the Scriptural statement: “Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out.” The more striking thing is that this was to occur “in the last days.” Whether Russia finds its place in the general fulfillment of James’ prediction, I shall let the reader judge for himself.
Cigarettes or Sweets?
{Continued from page 21) sense of the seriousness of the offenses they commit.
Dr. C. G. Davis, one of America’s most noted medical authorities of his day, seeing the tendency of American life several years ago, said: “Western civilization is gradually but surely drifting into a condition of degeneracy. Out of this army of degenerates come the vicious, the criminal, and the insane. Practically speaking, mankind is becoming alcohol and tobacco mad. The nervous system is crumbling owing to saturation with alcohol and nicotine.” The Hon. Herbert Hoover,S our new president, a short time agof in a letter to Mr. Coolidge, said: “There is no agency in the world today that is so
seriously affecting the health, efficiency, education, and character of our boys and girls as the cigarette habit, yet very little attention is paid to it. Nearly every delinquent boy is a cigarette smoker, which certainly has much to do with it. Cigarettes are a source of crime. To neglect crime at its source is a shortsighted policy unworthy of a nation of our intelligence.”
It is a short-sighted policy to permit sixteen millions of dollars a year to be spent in advertizing a product that tends to make criminals of our youth.
Japan is awake to this evil. In introducing a bill into the parliament of Japan several years ago, the Hon. Nemoto said: “If we expect to make this nation superior to the nations of Europe and America, we must not allow our youth in common schools who are to become the fathers and mothers of our country in the near future, to smoke. ” This bill passed the house by a unanimous vote and became a law of that country.
China is awake to this evil. The Peiping municipal government recently issued a series of regulations prohibiting the youths under twenty years of age from smoking. Posters with this proclamation printed in full may be seen posted all over the city. There is a fine of $5 for each offense unless the culprit is less than 13 years old, in which case the parents are warned and fined.
Slower Than the Heathen
AMERICA seems slow to learn. It is . bad enough for our young men to smoke, but God pity our country, or any other country, when both the young men and the young women take up this habit. It will result in the production of a class of beings inferior physically, mentally, and morally. Dr. Richardson in his book on “Diseases of Modem Life ” said: “ If a community of youths of both sexes, whose progenitors were finely formed and powerful, were trained to the early practice of smoking, and if marriage were confined to smokers, an apparently new and physically inferior race of men and women would be bred.” There is no scientist or observing man or woman today who could take an exception to this statement. Recognizing it, parents do not wish their boys, and much less their girls, to smoke cigarettes; and yet in face of all this, such “ads” as the one that forms the basis of this article are allowed to appear in our daily papers. These “ads” tend to mislead our innocent boys and girls. It is the young women and girls the tobacco trade is after now.
United States Surgeon General Hugh Cumming, referring to the practice of women smoking, said some time ago: “If American women generally contract the habit, as reports now indicate they are doing, the entire American nation will suffer. The physical tone of the nation will be lowered. This is one of
the most evil influences in American life today. The habit harms a woman more than it does a man.”
Does it not seem strange, in view of all this, that the tobacco concerns should be permitted to advertize their products in such a glaring and pernicious manner as they do? It seems to me the time has fully come for parents to protest against this thing, and say they will tolerate it no longer. The time has arrived for laws to be enacted forbidding the insertion of cigarette or tobacco “ads” in our papers or upon the bill boards so apparent everywhere. I fully believe the time is not far in the future when this will be done. The future wellbeing of our nation will demand it.
Whence Sunday-Keeping?
{Continued from page 25)
Roman Empire, to the other ferial days of the sacred calendar.”—“Rest Days,” Professor Hutton Webster, Ph. D. {University of Nebraska), p. 122. New York: Macmillan and Company, iqi6.
“What began, however, as a pagan ordinance, ended as a Christian regulation; and a long series of imperial decrees, during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries, enjoined with increasing stringency abstinence from labor on Sunday.”—Id., p. 270.
The Rev. A. Stanley declares: “The retention of the old pagan name, ‘Dies Solis,’ or ‘Sunday,’ for the weekly Christian festival, is, in great measure, owing to the union of pagan and Christian sentiment with which the first day of the week was recommended by Constantine to his subjects, pagan and Christian alike, as the ‘venerable day of the sun.* .... It was his mode of harmonizing the discordant religions of the empire under one common institution.”—“Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church,” Arthur Penrhyn Stanley D. D., Lecture 6, par. 15, p. 184. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884.
Thus it is made clear that the change from Saturday, the seventh day, to Sunday, the first day, was made solely upon human authority, and is nowhere sanctioned in the word of God. Shall we as Christians continue to teach for doctrines the commandments of men, or shall we return to the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and live in obedience to His expressed will?
Did Christ Die on the Cross?
{Continued from page 23) again, he repeats: “For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep [in death] in Christ are perished.” 1 Corinthians 15:12-18.
How plain, how convincing this scripture makes it that Jesus died, was buried, and was brought back to life again; that He paid the awful debt of sin in
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giving His own precious life to redeem lost sinners! The man who denies this casts from under his feet the very foundation hope of his salvation. One thing we know, after more than forty-five years* association with Seventh-day Adventists, this act of infidelity cannot truthfully be charged against them. And, further, no people can more fully believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ than they.
Ah! This is the amazing truth that filled all heaven with wonder, not that the Son of God should live, but, instead, that He wduld yield up His life to die on Calvary’s cross. But He had a divine-infinite purpose in doing so. He accomplished by this death the salvation of repentant sinners; He forever sealed the perpetuity of the law of God; He sealed the doom of him who rebelled in heaven against the authority of God, originating sin; He united all the loyal hosts of unfallen worlds in a deeper love for, and adoration of, God, the Father, exposing the falsehood of Satan who had long charged that God was a tyrant, an arbitrary ruler, unwilling to sacrifice Himself for the good of His subjects — all this was accomplished that day when Jesus the divine-human Son of God bowed His head and died on Calvary.
Cows and Humans
{Continued from page 23) of her; but the little boys and girls, and the big boys and girls, care, and care mightily, how their mothers behave.
It is pitiful to hear a child plead with her mother to keep her long, lovely hair, while she sobbingly insists '‘that a mother can’t be a mother, when her hair is bobbed.”
It is pitiful when a child cries herself sick because mother pets a certain young man when father is away.
It is pitiful to note the hard look that comes into the eyes of a sixteen-year-old daughter, as she see her mother out driving with a man other than a member of the family, and hear her exclaim: “I hope they’ll have an accident, and she will get arrested! She can go with him but she can’t stay with us.”
The silly old cows who are today cavorting around in the pasture, tomorrow will be staid and sober and respectable. And now to get back to what I started to say in the beginning.
If humans had the sense of a cow, they, too, would settle down, and on the morrow be staid, sober, respectable mothers; and if these same humans had sanctified common sense they would not be cavorting around in the world at all; they would today be mothers of whom their children could be justly proud.
“ My mother is the measuring rod Put in my hands by hands of God, For me to measure all things by.
If this or that is not as high As mother — then I pass it by.
“My mother is the measuring rod Put in my faltering hands by God.”
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