OSHAWA, ONTARIO JULY, �
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HERE are two proposals in the 
United States Congress seeking 
enactment into law which are cal-
culated to split the historic week. If 
either one goes into effect the world 
of religion will be split and devastated, 
just as the whole world has been 
shocked by the splitting of the atom. 
It is seriously proposed to bring 
an end to the solemn observance of 
the sacred days of the great religions 
of the world, Protestantism, Catholi-
cism, Judaism and Mohammedanism. 
If either of these bills is made ef-
fective it will bring an end to Sunday 
and Sunday observance with the year 
1950, shifting its observance to Satur-
day during 1951, to Friday and Thurs-
day in 1952, to Wednesday in 1953, 
to Tuesday in 1954, and to Monday 
in 1955. Good Friday will be pushed 
back to Thursday, and Ash Wednes- 
day to Tuesday. The proposal con-
tained in one of these bills has also 
been placed on the agenda of the Eco-
nomic and Social Council of the 
United Nations. 
These bills, H. R. 1242 and H. R. 
1345, and this proposal before the Eco-
nomic and Social Council constitute 
a mortal blow at religion, all religion, 
your religion, my religion, whether 
you are Protestant, Catholic or Jew. 
Under these proposals the Bible 
Sabbath, the accepted Lord's day of 
Christendom, and the Moslem Friday, 
would lose their fixity and be pushed 
back one day each year and two days 
every fourth (leap) year. 
Such a plan imposed on a world-
wide scale might be of financial bene-
fit to big business. But it would out-
rage the consciences of those who 
regard the fixed weekly Sabbath as a 
sacred institution, divinely appointed, 
and would entail grave hardship on 
those who felt obliged to keep their 
Sabbath on the right day. 
This attack on religion is not an 
open one. It is not likely an inten-
tional one. These bills have a com-
pletely innocent appearance. They 
propose taking only a very simple step. 
They ask the United States to 
adopt and put into effect on January 
1, 1950, a new calendar. They ask the 
President to recommend this new cal-
endar to the United Nations for its 
approval and adoption, to be made 
effective by all nations of the whole 
world on the same day, January 1, 
1950. 
No reason for alarm appears in 
that. Religious people have no cause 
to object to calendar reform. Calen-
dars have been changed before with- 
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Vol. XXVII �
Editor, DALLAS YOUNGS �
Circela,ion Manager, C. M. CRAWFORD �
JULY, 1947 �
No. 7 
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out injury to religion and religious ob-
servance. There is nothing to frighten 
any religionist in a change of calen-
dars in itself. These bills in Congress 
cover proposals which contain real ad-
vantages. All religionists would be 
gratified if those advantages could be 
obtained. 
It is not to a change of calendar in 
itself to which objection is made. It 
is to this particular change of calen-
dar which levels a blow at some of the 
most venerable practices of the world's 
great religions. These bills in Con-
gress and this proposal before the 
United Nations contain several ad-
vantages. But these advantages afe 
nullified, outweighed, by one su-
preme disadvantage. The advantages 
are in and for the secular realm of 
business. The disadvantage is in and 
against the sacred realm of religion. 
This supreme disadvantage is not 
apparent on the face of the proposals. 
Their sponsors and supporters and ad-
vocates in most cases have not noticed 
it, or considered it of little conse-
quence. The shattering effect it would 
have on religion becomes apparent 
only as an examination is made into 
what this calendar change proposes 
to do in the new reckoning of time, 
the new arrangement of the months 
and weeks, the new counting of the 
days which it would put into effect. 
To obtain the advantages sought 
would require a shuffling of the days 
of the week, the shifting of their 
names about to other days, and their 
renumbering so that they would lose 
their original historic place in the 
seven-day week. Every year at the end 
of December it is proposed to throw 
out a day, lift it out of the week alto-
gether, and move the following day 
up to take its place, transferring the 
name of the dismissed day to its re-
placement, and thus hopelessly scram-
bling the days. In leap years this pro-
cedure would occur twice, at the end 
of June as well as at the end of De-
cember. 
The effect on religion and its great 
solemn days of memorial, its sacred 
anniversaries, its days of holiness and 
commemoration, would be positively 
devastating. 
JULY, 1947 
The faithful religious devotee who 
would cling to his Sabbath notwith-
standing its dismissal from its tradi-
tional place in the week and its re-
naming, would be placed under the 
extreme disability of following his 
lost day through the mazes of a con-
fused week, and observing his true 
and original Sunday, for example, 
when it was called Saturday. He would 
be forced to continue to subject him-
self to embarrassment and difficulty 
as Sunday was further shifted to Fri-
day, Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday 
and Monday, as it would be under the 
calendar proposals now under discus-
sion. 
This destruction of the existing and 
immemorial periodicity of the Sab-
bath—the holiest and most hallowing 
institution on earth—will secularize 
what God made holy. This is bound 
to have a demoralizing influence on 
the people, inflict grave economic dis-
abilities and losses on those who 
staunchly continue to observe their 
Sabbath on the day hallowed loy the 
Creator, and do violence to the con-
sciences of many who, in order to 
earn a livelihood, would feel com-
pelled to violate the Sabbath, which 
is a basic institution of their religious 
faith. 
The device proposed in revising 
the calendar is new. It has never be-
fore been used. Calendars have been 
changed, but never before in the way 
now proposed. But this new device is 
the only way the advantages sought 
can be obtained. And so, regardless of 
its sinister effect on the venerated ob-
servances of religion, and in order to 
obtain purely secular advantages, 
calendar reformers have ventured to 
propose it. 
They say nothing about its effect on 
religion, however, in their publicity, 
in their material of propaganda, or in 
the legislative proposals they have 
framed. They speak only of the secular 
advantages to be obtained in the fields 
of business, banking, commerce, 
industry, manufacturing, transporta-
tion, accounting, comparative statis-
tics. They say nothing of the enor-
mous disadvantage of their proposal 
in the realm of religion. No one would 
ever learn from their analyses of cal-
endar reform, or from the proposals 
themselves, of the grave injury religion 
would s -ffer if these proposals became 
effective. 
The device, never used before, by 
which the advantages to business are 
to be obtained, is the breaking, the dis-
rupting, of the immemorial, historic 
week, the original, never altered group-
ing of the days in cycles of seven. 
From the beginning of time as the 
years have passed in their stately 
march into the receding centuries and 
millenniums many changes have oc-
curred. Empires and kingdoms and dy-
nasties have risen and fallen. Men 
have reckoned their time in many 
ways. Calendars have changed, always 
heretofore for the better. But in all 
previous calendar changes the weekly 
cycle has remained constant, unchang-
ing. The week, the original grouping 
of days by divine arrangement into 
groups of seven, what the Encyclopte-
dia Britannica calls the "unalterable 
uniformity" of the septenary cycle, 
has never been changed through all 
recorded time. 
What the breaking of the week will 
do in the devastating and shattering 
effect it will have on religion and its 
solemn and divine observances should 
be understood by all. 
We know the stupendous effect on 
the world of the splitting of the atom. 
Comparable only to that development 
will be the effect on religion of the 
splitting of the week. 
How deplorable beyond all words 
is a proposal which will bring CP2av-
age and disruption in human relation-
ships at a time when what the world 
most needs is unity! 
But just as men in the discovery and 
use of atomic energy found a way to 
blow the world to pieces at the precise 
time when they most needed to find 
a way to hold it together, so the spon- 
sors of these calendar revision propos-
als have discovered a way to blast the 
world wide open in destructive con-
troversy at the exact time when it 
needs most to learn how to alleviate 
and eliminate divisive and controver-
sial developments, to cement human 
relationships, and to bring peace to a 
broken world. 
The proposal of a calendar change 
just now is a major disservice to the 
whole race of men. Every person in 
the Dominion of Canada should pro-
test against this calendar revision 
scheme that breaks the week, by writ- 
ing to the Canadian representative on 
the Economic and Social Council of 
the United Nations, Dr. George F. 
Davidson. He can be addressed in 
care of United Nations, Lake Suc-
cess, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. 
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REL ICIOUS NEWS PNOTC 
S
PIRITUAL blackouts sometimes 
occur in the lives of even good 
Christians. How often they occur 
may never be known, because the 
Christian warrior seldom speaks of 
them. They are not fatal. Individuals 
adept in experiencing the blackout al- 
ways turn to God immediately. This 
is the first rule to follow when passing 
through this period of spiritual dark-
ness. The second rule is to wait pa-
tiently. The third rule is be active in 
the duties at hand. 
Veterans of the spiritual blackout 
say that it is a harrowing experience. 
The past one seems to be small. The 
present one seems grave and hopeless. 
This feeling is easily understood when 
it is known that at the time of the 
blackout the rules do not seem to 
work. Nevertheless, when the blackout 
is past, it is then seen that the rules, 
if followed, are effective. Thus confi-
dence is gained as a preparation for 
the next experience. The blackouts 
seem to be so enlarged at the time, 
and so small when they are past, 
that explanation of them is apt not 
to be objective. 
One feels while passing through a 
blackout phase of a Christian expe-
rience, that so discouraging a feeling 
should not be shared with others. Sub-
sequent joy that the clouds have given 
way to the sun does not always bring 
audible rejoicing. Sometimes the after-
math brings shame that so insignifi-
cant a thing would bring so much 
worry. 
The first spiritual blackout prob-
ably happens like this: A Mr. Green, 
we'll say, is converted to Christ. The 
precious Saviour has become very real 
to him. His new-found joy is beyond 
expression. Then one day, for no un-
derstandable reason, he doesn't feel 
the same. There is no feeling of ha-
tred for Christ, yet not the usual, posi-
tive urge of love for Him. The winds 
of his spiritual emotions are a dead 
calm. Alarmed at what he thinks is 
the loss of his former experience in 
Christ, he finds this first blackout most 
distressing. Blessed is he if at this time, 
a veteran Christian becomes his friend 
and helper. 
What takes place between God and 
a man in a spiritual blackout is, I be-
lieve, one of the most beautiful and 
encouraging experiences of the Chris-
tian. It is easy enough to serve God 
when one feels like it, but when the 
driving emotion to serve Him seems 
to have gone, what then will the Chris-
tian do? The will then becomes the 
determining factor. And in the final 
analysis it is the will that determines 
the outcome. 
God wants your will. He cannot 
take it from you. He waits until you 
give it to Him. When you do, your 
During periods of 
trial and tempta-
tion, the wise Chris-
tian will reach for 
the Bible. It has 
power to strengthen 
and fortify and keep 
from sin. 
will becomes one with His will. This 
is the secret of a happy, peaceful life. 
Anything less leads to death. When 
your life is thus protected, every cloud 
becomes a blessing. Before Jesus ut-
tered that despairing cry, "My God, 
My God, why hast Thou forsaken 
Me?" (Matthew 27:46) He prayed, 
"0 My Father, if this cup may not pass 
away from Me, except I drink it, Thy 
will be done." 
The champions of Christ are tested 
on this point. Job said, "Though He 
slay me, yet will I trust in Him." Job 
13:15. Near the end of his life, Paul 
submitted, "I am now ready to be of-
fered." Isaiah instructed, "If ye be 
willing and obedient, ye shall eat the 
good of the land." David pleaded, 
"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be 
clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter 
than snow." Psalm 51:7. 
I remember one of my own spiritual 
blackouts. I must have written my 
father when I was in the midst of it, 
for he answered the letter quickly. 
"Dear Herbert: 
"That was a good fat letter, and we 
read it with great interest. But it was 
lean in faith. Why, Son, we would 
gather from part of your letter that 
God had left heaven, that all your 
folks were dead, that the college was 
about to close up, and that God's 
work on earth was no more. That must 
have been one of your blue moments, 
and I hope it won't come again. You 
will look back at it sometime and 
laugh at your fears. Do the best you 
can, Son, and don't worry. For the 
present and recent past, haven't things 
worked out for you wonderfully 
well? . . . Read the 'precious chapters' 
in your experience, and leave the 
rest with God. . . . 
"Affectionately, 
"Father." 
To talk with a friend about the 
dark moments of your life is not an 
admission of failure. There is a way 
out of the darkness. Your friend, or 
loved one in the family, may be able 
to help you. But above all else, speak 
to God about it. 
By 
Herbert R. Thurber 
Spiritual Blackouts 
SIGNS of (hr TIMES 
SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 
Only faith and trust in Christ and His promises will give us a "hopeful outlook" upon 
the future. 
"NO FURTHER OUTLOOK" 
I
N THE almost unparalleled 
weather conditions which Britaip 
endured during the months of 
February and March, the meteorolo-
gical experts at one period came to the 
place where they dared not venture 
any prediction. They had forecast the 
end of the snow, and more snow 
came. They prophesied a thaw, and 
the words froze, as it were, on their 
lips. 
In impotence and despair the only 
bulletin they could issue was, "No 
further outlook." 
There is, we feel, a significance in 
that fateful bulletin outside the do-
main of climate and weather, for not 
only the meteorological experts, but 
those also who observe the social and 
political weather conditions, have 
come to the same pass of perplexity 
and paralysis in their endeavours to 
outline the future of mankind. 
For decades the nineteenth century 
secular prophets confidently drew pen 
pictures of the wonderful world which 
they believed was emerging—a world 
in which poverty and want would he 
no more, in which disease would have 
been conquered, and from which strife 
between classes and among nations 
would have been totally eliminated. 
But two world wars have proved 
these forecasters tragically wrong, and 
to-day many are frankly confessing 
that the world situation is so uncer-
tain that "np further outlook" can 
be issued. 
In one of his last utterances, the late 
Mr. H. G. Wells declared: 
"We seem to be living at present, 
not in a civilization that is fixed and 
working out its inevitable destiny, but 
in a civilization that is very rapidly 
going to pieces. . . . The world is vis-
ibly collapsing as we talk here. There 
is something tumbling down, some-
thing breaking, something going out. 
and it is impossible to guess how far 
this ruin may extend." 
Still more recently, Bishop Neill, 
in an address at Oxford University, 
described the modern temper when he 
said: 
"The atomic bomb at Hiroshima 
exploded also in men's minds, leav-
ing them stunned and shaken, with a 
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W. L. Emmerson 
desire to be left alone and not really 
wanting to be made to think." 
The world to-day has come to the 
last-day impasse foretold by Jesus, 
when the hearts of men would be 
"failing them for fear, and for looking 
after those things which are coming 
on the earth." Luke 21:26. 
But while Jesus declared that man-
kind in its alienation from God would 
come to the place where there would 
be "no further outlook," He went on 
to assure those whose hearts would be 
"toward God" in that future day that 
if they would "look up" they would 
behold their redemption drawing 
nigh. 
There might be no "outlook" for a 
doomed world, but the "uplook" 
would inspire confidence and cour-
age, for they would see "the Son of 
man coming in a cloud with power 
and great glory." Luke 21:27. 
The kingdoms of earth might, to 
use a Churchillian phrase, be "clatter-
ing down," but upon their ruins to be 
upbuilt is the kingdom of our "Lord, 
and of His Christ." 
With this divine assurance we 
would encourage those whose hearts, 
in the world's most tragic hour, are 
sick with fear as they read the dread 
bulletins of statesmen, economists, so-
cialists, and scientists. 
"Look up, and lift up your heads; 
for your redemption draweth 
Luke 21:28. The Deliverer is on His 
wayl 
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HAT comfort and joy the 
knowledge of Christ's return 
in triumphant glory has 
brought to His followers in the midst 
of life's cares and trials! What fore-
gleams of heaven's supernal glory 
have flooded their minds and hearts 
as they have longed for His soon ap-
pearing! What earnestness of purpose 
and energizing zeal have come to them 
in their eagerness to prepare for that 
glorious climax of earth's history! 
What certainty there is in the fact 
that Christ endured the cross of Cal-
vary in order that His beloved fol-
lowers might enter into His unspeak-
able joy and blessing and eternal 
riches at His coming in overwhelming 
power and outshining glory! 
ruptible." 1 Corinthians 15:51, 52. 
And Paul declares emphatically re-
garding the resurrection of the right-
eous, "If the dead rise not, then is not 
Christ raised." Therefore "they also 
which are fallen asleep in Christ are 
perished." Verses 16, 18. 
Christ Comes to Restore and Reward 
From the first offer of salvation in 
Eden, prophecies have been given of 
the restoration of all that was lost. 
Thus we have the inspiring scripture, 
"He shall send Jesus Christ, which be-
fore was preached unto you: whom 
the heaven must receive until the 
times of restitution of all things, which 
God hath spoken by the mouth of all 
His holy prophets since the world be- 
for He will come not only in His own 
glory but in His Father's glory, and 
in the glory of the holy angels. (Luke 
9:26.) Thus the Saviour makes it very 
clear that His coming will be visible 
to all, an awe-inspiring sight! 
When Jesus ascended to heaven, 
angels in the form of men gave to His 
disciples a description of the manner 
in which He will return: "While they 
looked stedfastly toward heaven as 
He went up, behold, two men stood by 
them in white apparel; which also 
said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye 
gazing up into heaven? this same 
Jesus, which is taken up from you into 
heaven, shall so come in like manner 
as ye have seen Him go into heaven." 
Acts 1:10, 11. A cloud received Christ. 
BE YE ALSO 
READY 
Jesus earnestly declared before His 
death, "I go to prepare a place for 
you. . . . I will come again, and re-
ceive you unto Myself; that where I 
am, there ye may be also." John 14:2, 
3. With great definiteness, therefore, 
Christ's return is stated elsewhere in 
the Scriptures: "Unto them that look 
for Him shall He appear the second 
time without sin unto salvation." He-
brews 9:28. When Christ appears, 
most of His followers will be in their 
graves. But He will call them forth, 
to be gathered from all corners of the 
earth by His angel helpers. Thus Paul 
writes: "The Lord Himself shall des-
cend from heaven with a shout, with 
the voice of the Archangel, and with 
the trump of God: and the dead in 
Christ shall rise first." 1 Thessalonians 
4:16. The living righteous, when Jesus 
comes, will be caught up with the 
resurrected saints to be with Him, 
for Paul says further: "Then we which 
are alive and remain shall be caught 
up together with them in the clouds, 
to meet the Lord in the air: and so 
shall we ever be with the Lord." Verse 
17. Then will be fulfilled the faithful 
promise, "We shall not all sleep, but 
we shall all be changed, in a moment, 
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last 
trump: for the trumpet shall sound, 
and the dead shall be raised incor- 
gan." Acts 3:20, 21. Jesus will reward 
His followers when He comes again, 
for He said: "The Son of man shall 
come in the glory of His Father with 
His angels; and then He shall reward 
every man according to his works." 
Matthew 16:27. 
The Manner of Christ's Coining 
The coming of Christ will be 
plainly visible to all the inhabitants 
of the earth. Jesus said, "As the light-
ning cometh out of the east, and shin-
eth even unto the west; so shall also 
the coming of the Son of man be." 
"All the tribes of the earth . . . shall 
see the Son of man coming in the 
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John W. Halliday 
clouds of heaven with power and great 
glory." Matthew 24:27, 30. This is the 
very opposite of a secret coming. All, 
both good and bad, will see Him com-
ing. All upon the earth will behold 
Him, in glory surpassing the light-
ning. The whole heavens will be 
ablaze with the glory attending Him, 
He will return in the same way. Thus 
we have the additional scripture, "Be-
hold, He cometh with clouds; and 
every eye shall see Him." Revelation 
1:7. 
God's justice demands that the 
righteous of earlier generations be 
not rewarded sooner than those of 
later generations, "God having pro-
vided some better thing for us, that 
they without us should not be made 
perfect." Hebrews 11:40. All are re 
warded when Christ comes. 
Strong Christian leaders have ear-
nestly upheld God's great plan of 
Christ's second coming. Calvin urged 
believers "not to hesitate, ardently 
desiring the day of Christ's coming." 
Baxter said, "The thoughts of the 
coming of the Lord are most sweet 
and joyous to me." John Knox de-
clared, "We know that He shall re-
turn." And Dwight L. Moody called 
the second coming of Jesus Christ, 
"This precious doctrine." No wonder 
there are found high up in the dome 
of the capitol at Washington these 
striking words of Tennyson: "One 
God, one law, one element, and one 
far-off divine event, to which the 
whole creation moves." That sub-
lime, climaxing event is "the glo-
rious appearing of the great God and 
our Saviour Jesus Christ." Titus 2: 
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SIGNS of the TIMES 
The most important event of the future is not the development of atomic power, or even 
the next war, but the second coming of Christ from heaven in power and great glory. It is 
the hope of all ages. 
13. And how wonderful will be the 
scene as the Saviour leaves heaven, 
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attended by the radiant glory of all 
the angelic host, a wondrous diadem 
of exceeding beauty and glory resting 
upon His sacred brow, His counte-
nance outshining the dazzling bright-
ness of the noonday sun, and His ves-
ture flashing forth His mighty name, 
"KING OF KINGS, AND LORD 
OF LORDS." Revelation 19:16. 
Preparing for Christ's Appearing 
The Bible says, "The earth shall 
wax old." Isaiah 51:6. We are there-
fore living near the end of all things 
of this world. Thus the duty of pre- 
.. 
paring for Christ's coming is urgent. 
Before the flood Enoch prophesied, 
"Behold, the Lord cometh." Jude 14. 
In the fiftieth psalm we read, "Our 
▪ 
God shall come." Isaiah declared, 
"Behold, the Lord God will come." 
Isaiah 40:10. The New Testament 
has three hundred eighteen referen-
ces to Christ's future coming. Peter 
says, "The Chief Shepherd shall ap-
pear." 1 Peter 5:4. And John pleads, 
"Come, Lord Jesus." Revelation 22: 
20. Terror will seize the unprepared 
when Jesus comes, for it is recorded, 
"When the Lord Jesus shall be re-
vealed from heaven with His mighty 
angels, in flaming fire taking ven-
geance on them that know not God, 
and that obey not the gospel of our 
Lord Jesus Christ." 2 Thessalonians 
1:7, 8. An awful death awaits those 
who are unready in that great day. 
Yet Christ died for the ungodly. 
How could He bear to suffer for their 
sins? We read, "Who for the joy that 
was set before Him endured the 
cross." Hebrews 12:2. Jesus knew of 
the wonderful joy awaiting Him and 
the redeemed. He had dwelt in the 
midst of heaven's glory, in the midst 
of His Father's love, as well as in all 
the bitterness of the cross and its ter-
rible anguish. He had the promise 
of the glory and joy to come at last, 
for His redeemed ones as well as for 
Himself. 
"The guilt of every descendant of 
Adam was pressing upon His heart. 
The wrath of God against sin, the 
terrible manifestation of His dis-
pleasure because of iniquity, filled 
the soul of His Son with consterna-
tion. . . . With the terrible weight of 
guilt He bears, He cannot see the 
Father's reconciling face. The with-
drawal of the divine countenance 
from the Saviour in this hour of su-
preme anguish pierced His heart with 
a sorrow that can never be fully un-
derstood by man."—The Desire of 
Ages, pp. 752, 753. 
With what earnestness Jesus Him-
self, even in heaven above, is looking 
forward to His second coming, for 
the Inspired Record tells us that since 
ascending to heaven and sitting down 
"on the right hand of God," He has 
been "henceforth expecting till His 
enemies be made His footstool." 
Hebrews 10:12, 13. No wonder, there-
fore, that He has urged His followers 
also to expect, to watch and wait for 
His coming, in harmony with His 
words, "Watch therefore: for ye 
know not what hour your Lord 
doth come. . . . Therefore be ye also 
ready: for in such an hour as ye think 
not the Son of man cometh." Mat-
thew 24:42, 44. 
As trials and troubles thicken 
around us to-day, by His Spirit the 
Saviour is bending with utmost ten-
derness over those who have a knowl-
edge of His coming, and with deepest 
longing seeks to make them ready 
for His wondrous appearing. And 
as you read these words do you not 
realize His tender yearning to have 
you follow Him fully, "henceforth 
expecting" His glorious coming, 
watching and waiting and ready, as 
He impresses upon your mind and 
heart the truth of the following words? 
"For thee I trod the bitter way, 
For thee I gave My life away, 
And drank the gall thy debt to pay, 
Follow Me, follow Me, follow 
Me." 
Realizing the depth of love in the 
compassionate entreaty of your lov-
ing Saviour, if you are not ready to 
meet Him will you not breathe the 
heartfelt response into His listening 
ears, "Yes, dear Lord Jesus, I will fol-
low Thee in 'henceforth expecting' 
Thy coming, watching and waiting 
and ready for Thy most glorious ap-
pearing!" 
JULY, 1947 
i
iTODAY and 
To Gamble or 
Not to Gamble 
IF WE were to be guided by the wide-
spread prevalence of the practice, our 
proposition should be stated in the af- 
firmative. As far as our information 
goes, no country or people is free 
from gambling. We have heard it 
stated, too, on occasion in support of 
an argument, that a hundred million 
people can't be wrong. But somehow 
we wonder if a practice is made right 
because the majority of people follow 
it. 
Gambling in all its phases is Ameri-
ca's fastest growing business. Gam-
bling devices flourish in almost every 
city and town, and at every crossroads. 
Baseball and football pools, dice 
games, roulette, bingo, cards, race-
track betting, together with other 
forms of chance taking, legal and il-
legal, have a take of billions of dollars 
yearly. 
We receive the information, that 
fifteen billion dollars is spent in one 
year in gambling on sports. This ex-
ceeds by six times the amount spent 
on education. Fifteen billion dollars 
is an astronomical amount of money 
even in these days of astronomical fig-
ures. It would save tens of thousands 
of lives and relieve untold suffering 
in this anguished world of ours. It 
would provide millions for new and 
enlarged educational institutions. 
Still other millions might be used to 
increase the salary of underpaid teach-
ers. 
In consideration of the subject, we 
would like to ask what we believe to 
be a fair question. What benefit ac-
crues to a nation or an individual that 
engages in gambling? Is the nation en-
riched, and is national security en-
hanced? We believe not. Is the indi-
vidual enriched, and is the position of 
him and his family made more secure? 
We think that this is not generally 
the case. For everyone that wins a 
sweepstake there must be thousands 
and millions that lose. Does it provide 
a healthful form of recreation and in-
crease the happiness of the partici-
pant? We judge by the number of sui- 
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cides that it does not provide this bene-
fit. 
It does, on the other hand, corrupt 
recreation and sports. There is scarcely 
a sport to-day that has not been 
touched by the unhealthful hand of 
gambling. All too often we learn of 
basketball players throwing the game, 
or baseball or football players who 
were offered bribes and did not report 
them. Not only does it corrupt the 
sport it touches, but it corrupts to a 
greater or lesser degree the individual 
who engages in it. 
Gambling is a fascinating thing. It 
grips the player as a narcotic. The man 
who is losing always thinks he will 
win on the next throw of the dice, 
the next turn of the wheel, or the 
next deal of the cards. When he 
is winning he can't recognize the right 
place to stop until he starts losing and 
ends up without the contents of his 
pay envelope. The gambler, as the 
drunkard, will pawn his jewellery, his 
clothes; will borrow from his friends 
or steal to get a little more money for a 
few more throws of the dice. As we 
size it up, no one wins in the ultimate. 
The gambler who wins at one game is 
a sucker for another gambling racket 
that fascinates him. The man who wins 
at cards will lose his winnings on the 
horses. The gaming-house proprietor 
may lose his take in the stock market. 
In the end no one wins—everybody 
loses except the devil, who counts his 
victims by the tens and hundreds of 
thousands. 
Is gambling morally wrong—is it 
sinful? We believe it is because it is 
an effort to get something for nothing 
—an effort to get wealth without work. 
When the human race plunged into 
sin God commanded a work sentence. 
This is found in Genesis 3:19: "In the 
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, 
till thou return unto the ground." 
Under the circumstances of sin this 
was the greatest blessing that God 
could confer upon the fallen race. Ac-
cording to the work sentence, it takes 
a certain amount of work to get a cer-
tain amount of gain. Gambling is a 
violation of this principle, in that it 
attempts to get gain without work. 
There is but one way to eradicate 
the intoxicating fever of gambling 
from the blood stream, and that is 
through divine aid. 
Let the heart be surrendered to Him 
who is all powerful, and He will take 
away the gaming lust and make a "new 
creature" of the gambler. 
Quackery 
THE word springs from "quack-
salver," one who deals in salves and 
boasts of the efficacy of his prescrip-
tions. Were we to define one who prac-
tises quackery as an impostor and a 
humbug we would hit the nail right 
on the head according to Webster. 
Not many of us but have, at one 
time or another, given our honest 
money to some charlatan for some 
salve, or ointment, or linament for 
which extraordinary merit was 
claimed, only to discover that our 
money was "water down the drain." 
Nor is quackery confined to salves and 
linaments. There is hardly a profes-
sion that does not have its humbugs. 
How many have bought a "Jerry 
Built" house, only to find that the 
builder had added a dishonest profit! 
Oh, yes, to be sure, the house looked 
all right to the inexperienced pur-
chaser. It was, in fact, quite flatter-
ing in appearance. But it was in the 
hidden places that the builder had cut 
expenses in labour, and substituted 
inferior materials. In a few years 
this began to appear in the cost of up-
keep. 
Generally, however, when the term 
is used it is applied to the medical pro-
fession. While it is true that medicine 
has its "quacks," and many have lost 
their lives at their hands, yet it is a 
pity that such a noble profession must 
suffer in reputation because of the 
few dishonest practitioners. 
Without doubt the most serious and 
far-reaching of all is religious quack-
ery. Now as in Bible times, "pre-
tenders to knowledge" rise up and 
draw a following to themselves. Some 
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TOMORROW 
interpret the Scriptures erroneously 
because of ignorance—others because 
the Scriptures command that which 
they do not wish to believe and do. 
One case in point would be the doc-
trine of baptism. Several different 
methods of administering this impor-
tant ordinance are in vogue. All of 
these cannot be in harmony with the 
Biblical teaching on the point, for we 
are told in Ephesians 4:5 that there is 
"One Lord, one faith, ONE BAP-
TISM." It is not our purpose here to 
enter into a dissertation as to the cor-
rect mode of baptism, although we 
are convinced that the Bible reveals 
the proper form, and also that it is 
a doctrine imperative to salvation. 
Another important teaching of the 
New Testament is the second coming 
of Christ. Both Christ and His follow-
ers set it forth in clearness more than 
three hundred times. The writer of 
Revelation says that Jesus will come 
"with clouds; and every eye shall see 
Him." Revelation 1:7. The writer of 
Acts sets forth the fact that "this same 
Jesus, which is taken up from you 
into heaven, shall so come in LIKE 
MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM 
GO." Acts 1:11. Jesus Himself, after 
telling of some of the ways in which 
He would not come, made this clear 
statement: "For as the lightning corn-
eth out of the east, and shineth even 
unto the west; so shall also the coming 
of the Son of man be." Matthew 24:27. 
Yet notwithstanding these plain dec-
larations there are those who go about 
saying that Christ has come already. 
Yes, they say that more than thirty 
years ago the Lord came secretly and 
set up His kingdom and is now get-
ting ready to take over. At that time, 
too, so we are told, He bound the devil. 
It should be noted that since the pre-
sumed "binding of Satan" there have 
been the two worst wars in the annals 
of history. Most of us feel, I think, that 
if Satan is bound now we would not 
relish being here when he is lose. 
And so we could go on. Time and 
space would fail us to write of purga-
tory, prayers for the dead, the confes-
sional, the doctrine of the soul, the 
teaching of the state of the dead and 
eternal punishment. 
What may be done that we shall 
not be defrauded by the quacks—com-
mercial and religious? Speaking com-
mercially, we would advise careful 
examination and consideration of 
every commodity you propose to buy. 
Speaking religiously, we would advise 
careful examination and considera-
tion of every point of faith and doc-
trine before it is received—and that 
in the light of the Bible itself. 
The Dardanelles 
MOMENTOUS political decisions are 
being made these days. The decision 
of Britain to pull out of Greece and to 
invite the United States to take over, 
we believe to be a major one. For a 
hundred years Turkey has been called 
the sick man of the East, and has 
maintained his position astride the 
strategic straits by virtue of the sup-
port of stronger nations—notably 
Great Britain. 
Since the close of the war England 
has extended help to Greece in men 
and money in an effort to stabilize the 
Grecian government, thus providing 
a political buffer to the expansionist 
tendencies of the Russian bear, who 
casts a covetous eye upon the warm 
Mediterranean waters. Britain's de-
cision to reduce her army from 15,000 
to 3,000 was motivated by acute do-
mestic conditions. Information was 
passed to the United States that Bri-
tain could no longer hold the fort, and 
that Uncle Sam had better take over 
or Russia would. 
The Dardanelles is a narrow strip of 
water about thirty-five miles long join-
ing the Black and Mediterranean 
seas. It separates Europe and Asia. 
Since the days of Peter the Great, Rus-
sia has had plans for possessing the 
straits. Gigantic as Russia is, she does 
not possess a warm-water port. Con-
trol of this narrow strip of water would 
open up to the northern nation trade 
routes to the Orient. However, the 
Mediterranean has been Britain's life 
line for centuries. We say again that 
momentous decisions are being made 
these days. 
When the matter of the Darda-
nelles comes before the public eye, we 
are reminded of the prediction of the 
ancient prophet Daniel. Daniel's 
prophecies are notable for their ac-
curacy. Speaking of Turkey as the 
"king of the north" he says, "But ti-
dings out of the east and out of the 
north shall trouble him: therefore he 
shall go forth with great fury to de-
stroy, and utterly to make away many. 
And he shall plant the tabernacles of 
his palace between the seas in the 
glorious holy mountain; yet he shall 
come to his end, and none shall help 
him." Daniel 11:44, 45. 
It appears certain, according to the 
prophet, that Turkey will be dis-
turbed by tidings of invasion out of 
the east and the north. Turkey will 
go forth to resist the invasion, and 
will during this time move his seat of 
government to Jerusalem, which is lo-
cated "between the seas [the Dead 
and the Mediterranean] in the glori-
ous holy mountain." But the signifi-
cant thing is that Turkey comes to his 
end and none helps him. This indi-
cates that Turkey has in the past re-
ceived help—which is true. However, 
in this instance no nation is in a po-
sition to help. We should not close 
this editorial without giving the next 
event in the divine prediction. 
"And at that time shall Michael 
stand up, the great prince which 
standeth for the children of thy peo-
ple: and there shall be a time of 
trouble, such as never was since there 
was a nation even to that same time: 
and at that time thy people shall be 
delivered, every one that shall be 
found written in the book." Daniel 
12:1. 
The divine prediction is 
▪ 
that when trouble comes 
out of the north Turkey 
will move her capital to the 
Holy Land to the place 
"between the seas in the 
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glorious holy mountain." 
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BIBLE ANSWERS 
(Continued from page 17) 
QUESTION: What part do the angels 
have in the second coming of Christ? 
ANSWER: The angels act an impor-
tant part when Christ comes. They are 
the reapers of the human harvest of 
the righteous. The Bible tells us 
plainly that the harvest is at the end 
of the world and that the reapers are 
the angels. When Jesus comes with 
literally clouds of these glorious, 
bright, shining celestial beings, the 
first thing He does is to open the graves 
of the righteous dead and call them 
forth clothed with immortality. Then 
the angels are sent to the east, west, 
north and south to gather these resur-
rected ones and take them to Jesus. 
This is just one of the details of the 
completeness of the resurrection pic-
ture. You see, at this time there is 
great confusion. All nature is upset; 
there are great earthquakes. The 
wicked, unable to face Jesus, call out 
for the rocks and mountains to fall 
on them and hide them from His 
face. It is in the midst of all this con-
fusion and catastrophe that the right-
eous dead come forth from their 
graves. And the fact that God has 
commissioned an angel to be at each 
grave-side shows the loving care that 
God bestows upon His own. 
It is comforting to think that the 
first one we shall see on the morning 
of the resurrection will be that guard-
ian angel who has been with us all 
through life, and who has protected 
us from dangers both physical and 
spiritual. The angel catches its up and 
presents us to Jesus in the air. Then 
the righteous are taken to heaven, 
where Jesus is now preparing man-
sions for them. "Let not your heart 
be troubled: ye believe in God, be-
lieve also in Me. In My Father's 
house are many mansions: if it were 
not so, I would have told you. I 
go to prepare a place for you. And if 
I go and prepare a place for you, I 
will come again, and receive you unto 
Myself; that where I am, there ye may 
be also." John 14:1-3. "And I John 
saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, com-
ing down from God out of heaven, 
prepared as a bride adorned for her 
husband. . . . And He carried me away 
in the spirit to a great and high moun-
tain, and shewed me that great city, 
the holy Jerusalem, descending out of 
heaven from God." Revelation 21:2, 
10. 
At present the angels are carrying 
on a very important part of the plan 
of salvation. Hebrews 1:14 tells us 
about it: "Are they not all minister-
ing spirits, sent forth to minister for 
them who shall be heirs of salvation?" 
A
CCORDING to a statistical au-
thority, nervous diseases are in-
creasing among men. This is 
said to be the outcome of the ever-in-
creasing strain of modern life. The dif-
ficulty of getting congenial employ-
ment and of keeping it, and the 
uncertainty of trade conditions cause 
the burden of life to rest heavily upon 
the responsible head of the house-
hold. 
In these precarious days many are 
obliged to take jobs for which they 
are not specially fitted, and which in-
deed may be positively irksome to 
them. Thus the nervous system is 
placed under an added strain. Only 
a very favoured few are in a position 
to choose work that is congenial and 
healthful, and which falls within the 
limits of their natural capacity and 
temperament. 
Nerve Strain of Brain Workers 
Not long before the Titanic went 
down in mid-ocean, a leading article 
appeared in The Review of Reviews, 
written by its founder, Mr. W. T. 
Stead, in which he said he seldom 
spoke in public on account of the nerv-
ous strain it entailed. He was fortu-
nate in being able to relieve himself 
of that strain, and to carry forward 
his work satisfactorily as a great pub-
licist through the medium of his pen, 
and by private contact. 
I believe it was Bishop Creighton 
who felt so keenly the nerve strain of 
public life that when he got home 
after fulfilling an important preach-
ing engagement he would literally 
dance round the room with the chil-
dren, so great was his sense of relief. 
The general public usually does 
not appreciate how great the tax is 
upon the nervous strength of those 
who are called regularly to act in any 
public capacity. The statesman, the 
legislator, the lawyer, the clergyman, 
the missioner, are all under constant 
nervous strain as they seek to win the 
favour, the support, or the allegiance 
of those who are disposed to listen to 
them. 
The Case of Lenin 
James Maxton, M.P., in his compre-
hensive life of Lenin, tells of the 
enormous drain on the nervous sys-
tem which his hero underwent as he 
prepared to engineer the gigantic 
Russian revolution. Day and night 
Lenin worked and planned with quiet 
concentration and intensity of pur-
pose. More than once, when she saw 
signs of his breaking under the strain, 
his ever-watchful wife and co-worker 
would almost drag her husband away 
from the incessant round of commit-
tees, consultations and interviews, and 
take him off into the country, where 
for a month or so they would cycle to-
gether along the quiet country lanes 
and talk leisurely over their plans. 
Had it not been for these frequent 
breaks, it is certain he never would 
THOSE 
have lived to achieve his object. For 
scarcely had he accomplished it, when 
the first stroke of illness descended 
upon him. Bravely and determinedly, 
he fought against it for his life. But 
he made only a very brief and partial 
recovery, for within another year or so, 
the second and third strokes took him 
off in his early fifties, the victim of an 
enormously overtaxed nervous sys-
tem. 
Other Typical Cases 
Often men are able to pull them-
selves up in time to avoid serious 
breakdown. Such are indeed wise and 
fortunate. It was Sir Philip Gibbs, 
the well-known traveller and writer, 
who said that he had undertaken two 
lecture tours in America, but that 
he would on no account risk a third. 
Literally rushed across that continent 
from one crowded lecture hall to an-
other, Sir Philip declared that the 
strongest constitution may come as 
near a complete breakdown as it is 
possible to imagine. 
Many a man might be saved from 
disaster if only he could or would 
halt at the right time, seek necessary 
advice, and take suitable treatment, 
combined with rest and change. 
Not long ago a prominent public 
giant boasted of his capacity for work. 
Very soon after, the press announced 
his complete breakdown. After a pre-
scribed six months' rest, he started 
work again, and sustained a more 
serious relapse, from which he eventu-
ally died. It was then revealed that 
from the beginning of his career he 
had resisted all appeals from his 
friends to take reasonable rest and 
recreation. Six days a week, he stub- 
By H. F. De'Ath 
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SIGNS of the TIMES 
bornly held, were not sufficient for him 
in which to work. He must work 
seven. Recreation was a wicked waste 
of time; almost, in fact, an evidence 
of laziness. Thus he headed for disas-
ter, which came all too suddenly, and 
NERVES 
took him in the prime of life from a 
cause that sadly needed his services. 
A relative of mine, who served on 
the diaconate of a large church, once 
told me very regretfully how scorn-
fully impatient and unsympathetic 
he was when ministers who served his 
church sought the diaconate's permis-
sion for a season of rest on account 
of acute nervous strain. This relative 
held a good government post, from 
which he was able to retire on pension 
in early middle life. Being a student, 
with modest public gifts, and reli-
giously inclined, he became honorary 
pastor of a small branch church in 
connection with his particular de• 
nomination. After he had had about 
three years of this kind of work, the 
writer visited him at his home. "I 
wish," he said, in course of conversa-
tion, "I had been more considerate 
with those ministers who asked for 
some relief from the strain of their 
work. I know now, to my cost, some-
thing of what they were passing 
through. If I could meet them again 
I would offer them my sincere and 
humble regrets." 
Other Men's Jobs Viewed from 
the Outside 
It is so easy for most of us, lacking 
the necessary experience, to offer su-
perficial and uninformed criticism, 
where understanding and generous 
practical sympathy are needed. 
Looked at from the outside, other 
men's jobs may appear easy. But very 
few tasks are as easy as they look. 
Work performed with apparent ease 
is usually of the kind that has cost 
the worker untold drudgery and nerve-
wracking concentration. That very 
ease with which a task appears to have 
been accomplished, may be the very 
measure of an almost superhuman ef-
fort to control the nerve strain in-
volved. 
Nor does it help the overwrought 
and nerve-depressed to point, by way 
JULY, 1947 
The stress and strain of 
this modern, twentieth-
century living creates 
taut nerves that were un-
known in the more lei-
surely times of our grand- 
fathers. 
of example, to those who have ac-
complished prodigious feats of labour, 
without apparent strain. Such an at-
titude takes no account of widely dif-
fering individual temperaments and 
constitutions. Scarcely any two are 
exactly alike. How a Wesley could 
keep in harness until he was eighty-
seven, and a Spurgeon break down 
and die in his fifties, cannot be satis-
factorily explained. A Campbell Mor-
gan may be "going strong" in his 
seventies, while his ministerial col-
league, Hubert Simpson, is virtually 
out of action in his early fifties. A 
Lloyd George may keep fresh, active 
and vigorous when well past the al-
lotted span, while many of his earlier 
colleagues in public life who seemed 
to accomplish much less, passed away 
long before they reached it. Moody, 
the great American missioner, died 
HAROLD M. LAMBERT 
when he had barely passed sixty, while 
Gipsy Smith, the well-known British 
missioner,, seems to be in his prime 
in his middle seventies. 
Doubtless, if it were possible for 
men to perform tasks only in keeping 
with their individual capacity, consti-
tution, and temperament, nervous 
diseases of every kind would very soon 
decline. But we live in a topsy-turvey 
unideal world, which is full of anom-
alies. So the best we can do is to seek 
to keep our own lives, and the lives of 
others, so far as lies in our power to do 
so, as healthfully balanced as possible. 
And, too, let us not forget the con-
fidence and assurance of our religious 
faith and experience. Christ is an 
ever-present help in time of need. He 
will come into the heart and life bring-
ing help, hope and comfort for the 
future. 
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W
HOEVER heard of a man be-
ing dragged into court and 
charged with the crime of of-
fering assistance to a suffering neigh-
bour? The judge would enquire, 
Where is the law forbidding help to 
the needy? and would dismiss the case 
as unworthy of consideration. 
However, we regret to say there is 
one such case on record. The Son of 
God, who went about doing good—
healing and blessing humanity—was 
declared a criminal because, by His 
acts of mercy, He attracted the multi-
tudes to Himself, and consequently 
away from the bigoted, pharisaical 
leaders of His day. Yet, even in this 
case, evidence was misconstrued, and 
in His farcical trial it was declared, 
"We have a law, and by our law He 
ought to die." His condemnation 
namely, the law of God written upon 
tables of stone, and contained in the 
ark in the most holy apartment. It 
was found to be, as the character of 
Jehovah, perfect, eternal and un- 
changeable — demanding �
absolute 
righteousness. (See Psalm 19:7; 111:7, 
8.) Its transgression constituted sin, 
and sin's wage was death. (Romans 
7:7; Ezekiel 18:4.) Revolving about 
the law and based upon its high and 
lofty claims were other laws, transi-
tory in nature, to govern Israel in their 
ceremonial activities which prefigured 
the coming of One whose righteous-
ness alone would enable them to 
measure up to the demands made. 
The question now to be settled is, 
Where may we find that law? Since 
all things pertaining to the earthly 
sanctuary have their antitype in the 
mother: that thy days may be long 
upon the land which the Lord thy 
God giveth thee. 
6. "Thou shalt not kill. 
7. "Thou shalt not commit adul-
tery. 
8. "Thou shalt not steal. 
9. "Thou shalt not bear false wit-
ness against thy neighbour. 
10. "Thou shalt not covet thy 
neighbour's house, thou shalt not 
covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his 
manservant, nor his maidservant, nor 
his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that 
is thy neighbour's." 
In order that there be no mistake 
that this law was the one placed in 
the ark, let us notice several texts. 
"And the Lord said unto Moses, 
Come up to Me into the mount, and 
be there: and I will give thee tables of 
GOD'S YARDSTICK 
could not have been secured had not 
His accusers falsely charged Him with 
law-breaking. 
It is evident then that law must be 
the basis of judgment. It is also the 
foundation of all legitimate govern-
ment. The strength of a government 
is in its law. The strength of a law is 
in the enforcement of its penalties. 
As in the legitimate governments of 
earth, so in the government of God, 
law is the standard of judgment. 
Living as we are in the time of 
God's judgment, it becomes supremely 
important that we familiarize our-
selves with the standard by which we 
are to be judged. This work should be 
done calmly, with deliberation, and 
in the fear of God, lest our souls he 
lost eternally. 
When the judgment-hour message 
began to go to the world a few 
months prior to 1844, men had their 
attention drawn to the study of the 
sanctuary, and discovered that its anti-
typical cleansing, divinely predicted 
to begin on that date, involved an in-
vestigative judgment. No study of the 
sanctuary, however, could be com-
plete without consideration of that 
which is its very heart and centre; 
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E. A. Crane 
heavenly, we may be certain that its 
law is an exact transcript of the one 
in heaven's temple by which we are 
to be judged. It is found in Exodus 
the twentieth chapter, verses three to 
seventeen, and reads this way. 
1. "Thou shalt have no other gods 
before Me. • 
2. "Thou shalt not make unto thee 
any graven image, or any likeness of 
any thing that is in heaven above, or 
that is in the earth beneath, or that is 
in the water under the earth: thou 
shalt not bow down thyself to them, 
nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God 
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity 
of the fathers upon the children unto 
the third and fourth generation of 
them that hate Me; and shewing 
'mercy unto thousands of them that 
love Me and keep My commandments. 
3. "Thou shalt not take the name 
of the Lord thy God in vain; for the 
Lord will not hold him guiltless that 
taketh His name in vain. 
4. "Remember the Sabbath day, to 
keep it holy. Six days shalt thou la-
bour, and do all thy work: but the 
seventh day is the Sabbath of the 
Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do 
any work, thou, nor thy son, nor 
thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy 
maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy 
stranger that is within thy gates: for 
in six days the Lord made heaven and 
earth, the sea, and all that in them is, 
and rested the seventh day: wherefore 
the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and 
hallowed it. 
5. "Honour thy father and thy 
stone, and a law, and commandments 
which I have written; that thou may- 
est teach them." Exodus 24:12. Of this 
Moses declared, "The tables were 
written on both their sides: on the 
one side and on the other were they 
written. And the tables were the work 
of God, and the writing was the writ-
ing of God, graven upon the tables." 
Exodus 32:15, 16. 
As Moses came down the mountain 
and discovered idolatry in the camp of 
Israel, he cast the tables to the ground 
and broke them. (Deuteronomy 9:17.) 
And the Lord spoke unto him again 
saying, "Hew thee two tables of stone 
like unto the first, and come up unto 
Me into the mount. . . . And I will 
write on the tables the words that were 
in the first tables which thou brakest, 
and thou shalt put them in the ark. 
. . . And He wrote on the tables, 
according to the first writing, the ten 
commandments, which the Lord spake 
unto you in the mount. . . . and the 
Lord gave them unto me. And I 
turned myself, and came down from 
the mount, and put the tables in the 
ark which I had made; and there they 
be . as the Lord commanded me." 
Deuteronomy 10:1-5. 
There can be no mistake that the 
above ten-commandment law was the 
one contained in the ark. It is designa-
ted as the law of God, and is the only 
portion of the Bible said to have been 
written with the finger of God. In con-
tradistinction to this law, there is 
the law of Moses, composed of ordi-
nances and ceremonies, written in a 
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SIGNS of the TIMES 
Any day may be measuring day at home, but God has appointed a "day" of judgment, 
and His law, the ten commandments, is the standard. 
truth is not in him." 1 John 3:4; 2:4. 
He is in agreement with the apostle 
Paul, who declares, "The law is holy, 
and the commandment holy, and just, 
and good." "I had not known sin, but 
by the law; for I had not known lust, 
except the law had said, Thou shalt 
not covet." "For the wages of sin is 
death; but the gift of God is eternal 
life through Jesus Christ our Lord." 
Romans 7:12, 7; 6:23. There can be 
no doubt as to which law the apostle 
has in mind. It's the law which says, 
"Thou shalt not covet." 
James compares the law to a mirror, 
and adds, "Whoso looketh into the 
perfect law of liberty, and continueth 
therein, he being not a forgetful 
hearer, but a doer of the work, this 
man shall be blessed in his deed." 
"Whosoever shall keep the whole law, 
and yet offend in one point, he is 
guilty of all." James 1:25; 2:10. He 
speaks of it as the "royal law accord-
ing to the Scripture." Verse 8. The 
only Scripture in existence in his day 
was the Old Testament portion, and 
the royal law could be none other than 
the law of Him who is the rightful 
King of the universe. 
Israel covenanted with God to keep 
His law, but failed because in their 
own strength this was impossible. 
They did not lay hold, by faith, upon 
the provision of Christ's help, though 
it was even then abundantly available. 
They went about to establish, by good 
works, their own righteousness, in-
stead of depending upon Him whose 
righteousness alone could enable them 
to meet the demands of the law. (Ro-
mans 10:1-4.) 
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book by the hand of Moses, and kept, 
not in the ark proper, but in the side 
of the ark. (Deuteronomy 31:24, 25.) 
These two laws should never be con-
fused. Let it be remembered that the 
law of God—the ten commandments— 
is not concerned with sacrificial cere-
monies and ordinances. The hand-
writing of ordinances (Moses' law) , 
and the ceremonies pointing to the 
promised Messiah, came to their end 
when Christ died upon the cross, as 
signified by the rending of the temple 
vail from top to bottom. (Matthew 
27:51; Colossians 2:14.) 
But, sayi one, was not the ten-com-
mandment law given for Israel alone? 
No, every precept of that law was un-
derstood by God's people before 
Israel's time. Adam violated the law, 
but Abraham, on the other hand, 
obeyed it. (Romans 5:13, 14; Genesis 
26:5.) 
The law of God covers in its scope 
man's full duty to God and to his fel-
low men. Love to God and love to 
man is the fulfilling of the law. Upon 
these two supreme laws hang the ten 
commandments as well as all the du-
ties imposed by prophets of old. (Mat- 
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thew 22:37-40.) Look the ten com-
mandments over carefully. Notice how 
the first four precepts proclaim our 
duty to God. If we love Him su-
premely we will certainly strive to 
keep them. The last six outline our 
duty to man. If we truly love our 
neighbour as ourselves, we will have 
respect for those commands which 
guard his welfare. Take another care-
ful look at the law. Are there to be 
found in it any injunctions with which 
we can legitimately find fault? The 
answer must be in the negative. What 
a different world this would be if men 
everywhere had respect for, and 
obeyed God's holy law! 
But, wait, I hear you say, Are you 
sure that it was not this law which was 
done away with at the cross? If it were, 
I 
don't you think Jesus would have told 
us? or the apostles, at least, have men-
tioned it? Listen to the words of Jesus: 
"Think not that I am come to destroy 
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the law, or the prophets: I am not 
come to destroy, but to fulfil. For 
verily I say unto you, Till heaven and 
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall 
in no wise pass from the law, till all 
be fulfilled." Matthew 5:17, 18. To 
fulfil the requirements of law means 
that the law shall be kept. Has heaven 
or earth yet passed away? Then not a 
jot or tittle of God's law has been set 
aside. 
John, the beloved disciple, says, 
"Whosoever committeth sin transgres-
seth also the law: for sin is the trans-
gression of the law." "He that saith, 
I know Him, and keepeth not His 
commandments, is a liar, and the 
JULY, 1947 
The Great Upheaval at Creation 
The first movement was on the third 
day of creation. 
The world had been without form 
and void, with darkness over the face 
of the deep. But on the first day, says �
 
By 
Arthur Warren 
Many to-day are stumbling where 
Israel of old stumbled—on the rocks 
of unbelief. Jesus says to us as He said 
to them, "I will put My laws into 
their mind, and write them in their 
hearts: and I will be to them a God, 
and they shall be to Me a people." 
Hebrews 8:10. (See also Jeremiah 
31:33.) This, however, the Lord can-
not do without our whole-hearted con-
sent and co-operation. How few to-
day are even a little concerned with 
what He is so anxious to do for us! 
By the indwelling presence of His 
Spirit; by faith in His righteousness 
to cover failures of the past, and to 
furnish grace for help in time of pres-
ent need, we enable Him to write the 
principles of His holy law upon the 
fleshy tables of the heart. It was the 
apostle Paul who said, "I am crucified 
with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet 
not I, but Christ liveth in me." Gala-
tians 2:20. When we have this blessed 
experience we will find delight in 
keeping the law of God. It will then 
cease to be a law of negation, and will 
become to us a law of delight and lib-
erty. 
James set it forth this way, "So speak 
ye, and so do, as they that shall be 
judged by the law of liberty." James 
2:12. Lest some might, even yet, fail 
to understand which law he means, 
he adds, "For that law which said 
[margin], Do not commit adultery, 
said also, Do not kill. Now if thou 
commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, 
thou art become a transgressor of the 
law." Verse 11. 
Reader, now as always, the trans-
gression of that law is sin, and the 
wages of sin is death. (Romans 6:23.) 
That law has never been set aside. It 
"stands fast forever," and in this, the 
antitypical day of atonement—God's 
appointed day of judgment—we will 
be judged by the great original which 
is kept in the sanctuary above, beyond 
the reach of those who despise its 
claims and who would seek to do it 
violence. We are admonished, "Let us 
hear the conclusion of the whole mat-
ter: Fear God, and keep His command-
ments: for this is the whole duty of 
man. For God shall bring every work 
into judgment, with every secret 
thing, whether it be good, or whether 
it be evil." Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14. 
0, Sinner Friend, have you been 
content and satisfied with self? Look 
again into the mirror of God's holy 
law, see yourself as you appear in God's 
sight, then flee to Christ for divine 
help, before the precious hours of 
mercy shall have passed forever be-
yond recall. 
Y
ES, the Bible makes geology 
amazingly simple. In fact, to 
those who have tried to study 
conventional geology or listened to 
broadcasts for children on this sub-
ject, the reading of the Bible story 
seems like coming out of a Burmese 
jungle into the clear light of day. It 
is a revelation from God—the words 
of an eyewitness, the Lord Jesus 
Christ. 
According to the Scriptures there 
have been just three gigantic move-
ments of the world's crust. Here they 
are: 
First Movement: At creation God 
commanded the dry land to appear 
out of the ocean. 
Second Movement: When the great 
Deluge came, in Noah's time, the 
"fountains of the great deep" were 
opened, and the land sank beneath 
the water. Valleys, hills and moun-
tains sank, and were covered by the 
raging billows. The Deluge was a 
world catastrophe. 
Third Movement: At the end of 
the Deluge the land was heaved up 
and the water receded into seas and 
oceans. Our present mountains and 
hills had their mighty bulks forced 
up at that time. 
Since the Deluge, natural causes 
have been at work, making minor 
changes in the earth's surface—ocean 
waves, storms, wind, frost, landslides, 
volcanoes and earthquakes. There 
have been some comparatively small 
subsidences and upheavals of the 
earth. And that is all. 
Great Light on Earth's Early Days 
Now, with the Bible, we can look 
at these three great movements more 
in detail. See how wonderfully they 
explain the discoveries of the geolo-
gists. See what a fascinating and dra-
matic story they tell, when inter-
preted by the Bible, of the men and 
women of earth's earliest days, and 
their surroundings. 
the Scripture, God commanded: 
"Let there be light." 
And behold, there was light! 
Then, at the word of God, the 
earth began its rotation, giving day 
and night. Following this, God sep-
arated the waters by a firmament, so 
that the waters below were apart 
from those above. Evidently the wa-
ters on high made a complete envel-
ope of water vapour high above the 
earth but completely surrounding it. 
Such an envelope seems to surround 
our neighbouring twin planet, Ve-
nus. 
Before God caused the dry land to 
appear on the third day the world 
was a vast, shoreless sea, where a ship 
could have sailed twenty-five thousand 
miles without seeing land. But God's 
voice rang out: "Let the dry land ap-
pear." Genesis 1:9. 
Then—could we have seen that 
spectacular transformation—what ex-
cited voices would have been raised! 
"See, there is an island rising out 
of the water! And another! And an-
other! See, higher, higher, HIGH-
ER—oh, there are many hundreds of 
them!" 
"Islands?" questions another voice. 
"Why, they are mountains—and 
hills—. See that mass of gleaming 
white quartz! Hear the roar of that 
rending, heaving granite! See that 
basalt rising! Is it hard, or soft with 
heat?" 
And now the valleys appear—full 
of water swirling down to the sea. 
Why, we are watching continents—
a new world rising out of the deep. 
What geological work was done in 
the earth's crust that day! 
The New-born World 
Great rivers remained, some of 
which bore names given to rivers long 
afterwards—the Euphrates, the Tig-
ris and the Nile. Lovely lakes mir-
rored the sky above. Vast under-
ground reservoirs were formed known 
as "the fountains of the great deep." 
Genesis 7:11. 
EARTH'S 
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SIGNS of the TIMES 
There is no reason to believe that 
the useful and beautiful metals or 
precious stones were hidden deep in 
the earth at that time. Gleaming ledges 
of iron, copper and tin probably 
showed on the earth's surface. The 
beauty of gold and silver, the spar-
kling diamond, the onyx, the purple 
of the amethyst, the rich red glow of 
rubies, the radiant green of the emer-
ald, the beautiful blue of lapis lazuli 
and sapphire adorned the earth be-
fore sin entered. 
A Wonderful Vegetation Appears 
Not long was the newly risen earth 
sodden and barren. The same day 
God clothed the hills with rich and 
stance, closely resembling stone."—
Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 90. These 
are found to-day in fossil form, turned 
sometimes to jasper. In the coal 
seams of to-day are found the fossil-
ized remains of those forests of old, 
often with lumps of primeval iron 
lying near by. 
On the fourth day the sun and the 
moon appeared. The sun, the greater 
light, was to rule the day, while the 
moon, the lesser light, was to rule the 
night. 
On the fifth day the fishes of the 
sea and the birds of the air came into 
being. Early on the sixth day the an-
imals were created, and the lowing of 
cattle and the bleating of sheep were 
heard. 
intelligence who could share his joys 
and enter into his thoughts. 
Man, clothed with light and glory, 
and made in the image of God, could 
not find full and lasting companion-
ship in the animals, beautiful and in-
telligent though they might be. 
So while Adam slept, from his flesh 
and bones God created the beautiful 
Eve. (Genesis 2:18.) When Adam 
opened his eyes and saw her, his whole 
being went out to her in tender love 
and in gratitude to God for His great 
goodness. The music of her voice 
thrilled him with happiness as they 
walked in the garden together. 
This wonderful garden was to be 
their home—God's bridal gift to them. 
How their hearts sang for joy as the 
EARLIEST DAYS 
•varied soils, and then caused to grow 
grass, green herbs, wheat and other 
grain, fruit trees, ornamental trees, 
and trees of the finest timber. Thorns 
and thistles were not to be seen in 
those golden days. 
As a well-known writer describes 
it: "The hills were crowned with ma-
jestic trees supporting the fruit-laden 
branches of the vine. The vast, gar-
den-like plains were clothed with ver-
dure, and sweet with the fragrance of 
a thousand flowers. The fruits of the 
earth were in great variety, and al-
most without limit. The trees far sur-
passed in size, beauty, and perfect pro-
portion, any now to be found; their 
wood was of fine grain and hard sub- 
Man was created also on the sixth 
day. (Genesis 1:26, 27.) God formed 
him of the dust of the earth, and 
then breathed into his nostrils the 
breath of life, and man became a liv-
ing soul. The first thing man felt was 
the breath of his Creator. The first 
face he saw was the face of the God of 
love. 
God placed Adam in a beautiful 
garden which was to be his home. 
Here animals of strength and beauty 
passed before him, and to all of them 
Adam gave names. 
But among all these animals, inter-
esting though they might be, he 
found no congenial, loving compan-
ion of his own nature; none of like 
Sabbath, the memorial of creation, 
began! 
What a blessed Sabbath that was! 
Angels and humans sang together on 
that "birthday of the world," the day. 
when first the completed creation ap-
peared. It was the first of many joyful 
Sabbaths spent with God and the 
angels in Eden. 
And the great Creator, viewing His 
handiwork for the happiness of man-
kind, pronounced it "very good." 
His writing in the rocks, in the soils. 
in the trees, and over the whole world 
was "God is love." 
This is the message we can read as 
we gaze on the beautiful and precious 
stones, or when we build with the 
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In the early days of earth's history God placed Adam and Eve in a beautiful garden. Had they not 
sinned, it was God's plan that as they multiplied the entire earth would become a "Garden of Eden." 
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That is to say, a person is under grace 
who has been pardoned of the Lord, 
a thing which he does not at all merit. 
A person is said to be under grace 
when he has repented of his sins and 
confessed them to the Lord and ob-
tained forgiveness. 
On the other hand, a person is un-
der the law when he breaks the law. 
This is true of the law of God or of 
the laws of the land. A person may 
live as a law-abiding citizen for many 
years, but then after that, if he robs 
or kills his fellow men, he immediately 
comes "under the law." He is now 
counted to be a criminal. He is ar-
rested and thrown into jail awaiting 
trial. Whereas in his law-abiding days 
he was "free from the law" because of 
the fact that he obeyed the law—now 
he is under the law because of the 
fact that he violated it. 
If we carry the case a bit further we 
can see the workings of grace. Sup-
pose the man is tried, found guilty and 
sentenced to life imprisonment. And 
then suppose further that after he has 
served twenty years the governor 
pardons him. He walks out of the 
prison a free man, under the gover-
nor's grace. He does not merit the 
pardon—it is all a matter of grace. 
But the pardoned man who is now 
under grace must not suppose that he 
QUESTION: Why do intelligent peo-
ple go through life as atheists in the 
midst of the teachings of Christ? 
ANSWER: This is a question that 
must be answered in the light of the 
general problem of sin. It is a sad fact, 
indeed, that the devil has power to de-
ceive the minds of men and women 
to-day just the same as he did in the 
days of Adam and Eve. God had, in 
the garden of Eden, made every pro-
vision for. the well-being of the man 
and the woman He had created—but 
they didn't believe that. They thought 
God was holding something back that 
was for their best good. They failed 
to trust the Lord fully, and this led 
to their sin. Just so at present, Satan 
is able to lead some people to disbe-
lieve the existence of a Supreme Be-
ing. Second Corinthians 4:4 gives us 
a clear answer: "In whom the god of 
this world [Satan] hath blinded the 
minds of them which believe not, lest 
the light of the glorious gospel of 
Christ, who is the image of God, 
should shine unto them." 
Under the blinding influence of 
Satan, the atheist is unable to see the 
Creator manifested in the wonderful 
works of nature. His mind is closed 
to the fact that God is revealed in the 
Bible. And as far as he is concerned 
he does not recognize the providen-
tial mercies and the providing care of 
God exercised over all His creatures. 
God, who is a lover of liberty, gives 
every person the right to believe or 
not to believe. He will not make the 
atheist an automaton; nor will He 
coerce him into believing. However, 
He will bring circumstances to pass 
that will compel the atheist to stop 
and think. He will bestow and re-
move blessings. He will send the Holy 
Spirit to plead with his heart. He will 
leave no stone unturned in His effort 
to save the atheist by bringing him to 
a state of belief. I am confident that in 
the kingdom many former atheists 
will owe their salvation to God's per-
severing mercies. 
QUESTION: When is a person under 
grace and when is he under the law? 
ANSWER: Grace is defined to mean 
"unmerited favour" or "pardon." 
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can again break the law since he is 
under grace. If he transgresses the law 
of the land again, then he again 
comes under the law and is subject to 
arrest, trial and imprisonment. The 
same is true of the sinner who has 
been pardoned and is under grace. If 
he again transgresses the law of God, 
then he again comes under it and 
must repent and obtain pardon. 
The Bible answer as found in Ro-
mans 6:15 is clear and forceful: "What 
then? shall we sin, because we are not 
under the law, but under grace? GOD 
FORBID." 
QUESTION: Will you explain, please, 
what the soul really is? 
ANSWER: We had better start with 
Genesis 2:7: "And the Lord God 
formed man of the dust of the ground, 
and breathed into his nostrils the 
breath of life; and man became a liv-
ing soul." 
In this the creation of the first man, 
God formed his body of the dust of 
the ground, or of the elements of the 
earth. But he was lifeless. His heart 
did not beat, and he possessed no in-
telligence. In order to cause him to 
live, God stepped on the starter, as we 
would say in the case of an automo-
bile. God breathed into Adam's nos-
trils the breath of life. That is the 
same breath of life that we all breathe 
in and out of our nostrils continu-
ally—without which we could not live, 
move or have our being. 
We see, then, that the soul is the 
product of something. It is the prod-
uct of the joining together of the 
body and the breath of life. This can 
be illustrated by the electric-light 
bulb. Let the bulb represent the body 
of Adam. Let the electricity represent 
the breath of life. Join the two to-
gether and you have light. In other 
words, the light is the product of join-
ing together the bulb and the electric 
current. When they are separated the 
light is non-existent. 
Just so in the case of the soul. It is 
the life or intelligence of man that is 
the product of the joining together of 
the body and the breath of life. This 
was true of Adam, and it is true of 
every babe that is born. The first con- 
SIGNS-of the TIMES 
cern of the attending physician at 
childbirth is to see to it that the baby 
starts breathing—starts drawing into 
its nostrils the breath of life. If it fails 
in this, it cannot live. 
QUESTION: I have heard that sin is 
"missing the mark." Is this true? Can 
we really know what sin is? 
ANSWER: Sin undoubtedly is missing 
the mark all right; but that does not 
adequately define it. We might ask, 
"What mark?" On the other hand, 
the Lord in 1 John 3:4 gave us a very 
straight-from-the-shoulder definition: 
"Whosoever committeth sin transgres-
seth also the law: for sin is the trans-
gression of the law." That is to say, if 
a man transgresses or breaks any one of 
the ten commandments—it doesn't 
make any difference which one—then 
he is a sinner. In other words, lying is 
sin, stealing is sin, adultery is sin, 
swearing is sin, Sabbath breaking is 
sin, and so on throughout all the 
ten. 
Romans 3:20 tells us that by the 
law is the knowledge of sin. We could 
not know what sin is but by the law. 
This is set forth in Romans 7:7: 
"What shall we say then? Is the law 
sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known 
sin, but by the law: for I had not 
known lust, except the law had said, 
Thou shalt not covet." 
Jesus, when upon earth, clarified 
the fact that sin is the transgression of 
the law. On one occasion the ruling 
Jews brought to Jesus a woman taken 
in adultery. There was no question 
about her guilt—she was taken in the 
act. The Jews wanted Jesus to tell 
them whether to stone her or not. The 
Lord stooped down and wrote in the 
sand the sins of all those hypocritical 
pretenders to piety, and they began to 
leave. When they were all gone Jesus 
asked the woman where her accusers 
were, and if any man condemned her. 
She replied, "No man, Lord." Then 
"Jesus said unto her, Neither do I 
condemn thee: go, AND SIN NO 
MORE." John 8:3-11. 
The woman had broken the seventh 
commandment, and Jesus' parting 
word to her was that she "sin no 
more." 
QUESTION: Is it better, when trying 
to be a Christian, to resist the temptation, 
or is it better to try if possible to get 
away from it? 
ANSWER: I think I can best answer 
that question by an illustration. In 
a certain town there was a young man 
of promising talents, but a young 
man who had spent his time in drink-
ing and dissipation. It came to pass 
that he was converted and was given 
some very good advice by the old 
deacon of the church. The old deacon, 
who had an eye over the flock, observed 
that whenever the young man came to 
JULY, 1947 
town he hitched his horses to the same 
old hitching post in front of the sa-
loon; so one day having a favourable 
opportunity he said to him: 
"Don, you know I'm a great deal 
older than you are and have had a lot 
more experience in life, and I'd like 
to give you just a little word of advice. 
If you're going to keep on being a 
Christian, then change your hitching 
post." I suppose in these days of auto-
mobiles we would have to say, 
"change your parking place," but it 
all means the same thing. It isn't of 
much use to pray, "Lead us not into 
temptation" if we deliberately turn 
our faces and feet toward sin and the 
places of sin. 
Temptations may be resisted successfully 
only through the mighty power of the Man 
of the Cross. 
Those who decide to be Christians 
just cannot keep on going to the same 
old places they visited in the days of 
sin. There must be a change. The old 
habits of life, the old sinful practices 
must be broken. New habits of right-
eousness must replace the sinful. And 
in many cases new friends must be 
made. So the first thing the new Chris-
tian should write down in the memo-
randa of his mind is that he cannot 
engage in the practices that the world 
engages in. You cannot serve God and 
mammon. It is much easier to resist 
taking a drink on the outside of the 
saloon than it is on the inside. It is 
much easier to avoid the temptation 
to steal if you do not put yourself in 
the way of the thing you desire. How-
ever, there may be instances in which 
it is impossible to remove the tempta-
tion, or to remove one's self from it. 
In such cases the Lord may be de-
pended upon to give the victory. 
QUESTION: Will you please give an 
exposition of 1 Corinthians 2:9? 
ANSWER: The verse in question 
states this: "But as it is written, Eye 
hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither 
have entered into the heart of man, 
the things which God hath prepared 
for them that love Him." 
This carries us over into the days 
of eternity—over into the days when 
sin, sorrow, sickness and death are no 
more—when they will seem only as 
a bad dream that is gone forever. Life 
is man's most cherished possession. 
When we come to the hour of death 
almost any possession will be gladly 
surrendered for just a few more years 
of precious life. So this is the first 
great gift that God will bestow upon 
man—He will give him immortal, 
eternal, never-ending life. Never 
again will he suffer aches or pains, or 
be overcome by his ancient enemy—
death. 
But in addition to the boon of ever-
lasting life God will provide for the 
redeemed happiness and joy that no 
eye has ever beheld, no ear has ever 
heard, and no mind has ever im-
agined. God does not even try to tell 
us about them. He knows we could 
not understand that which we have 
not seen, heard or experienced. He 
gives us a little hint in Ephesians 2:4-
8: "But God, who is rich in mercy, for 
His great love wherewith He loved us, 
even when we were dead in sins, hath 
quickened us together with Christ, 
(by grace ye are saved;) and hath 
raised us up together, and made us 
sit together in heavenly places in 
Christ Jesus: that in the AGES TO 
COME HE MIGHT SHEW THE 
EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS 
GRACE IN HIS KINDNESS TO, 
WARD US THROUGH CHRIST 
JESUS." 
QUESTION: Do you think it possible 
to be a Christian, and not attend church? 
ANSWER: Yes, I think it possible un-
der certain conditions. If one is an 
invalid or has the care of an invalid, 
I can readily see that church attend-
ance would not be possible. There may 
be other circumstances which would 
keep one away from church tempo-
rarily or regularly. However, I would 
not by these statements lessen in any 
degree the responsibility of regular 
church attendance. 
The Lord tells us of this necessity 
in Hebrews 10:25: "Not forsaking the 
assembling of ourselves together, as 
the manner of some is; but exhorting-
one another: and so much the more 
as ye see the day approaching." 
Church is the place where spiritual 
food and drink may be obtained from 
the sermon, the Sabbath-school les-
son and by association with other 
Christians. 
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MORE DEADLY 
T
HERE are many who believe 
that the atomic bomb constitutes 
the greatest menace to mankind, 
threatening the very destruction of 
the civilized world. Others believe that 
Communism is the world's greatest 
menace. But the recent discovery of 
the potential power inherent in the 
atom can be used for the betterment of 
society when applied to practical ends 
instead of destructive purposes. There-
fore all nations are anxious that this 
new discovery of the splitting of the 
atom shall be applied in a practical 
way for the mutual benefit of all man-
kind. 
All governments are employing 
every means at their command to have 
the atomic bomb outlawed in times of 
war, the same as they have outlawed 
the use of poisonous gases as a lawful 
means of carrying on war against an 
enemy. At present the atomic bomb 
constitutes only a potential power to 
destroy, but is being held in abeyance. 
Our scientists are advocating that the 
secret of splitting the atom be applied 
to practical ends in life. As long as 
this governmental attitude prevails, 
the power inherent in the atom does 
not constitute an actual menace to so-
ciety. 
But there is another menace in our 
midst, the potential power of which 
is being used not for the betterment of 
society but for its destruction. This is 
the liquor menace. All our great his-
torians are agreed that intoxicating 
beverages have been the agency which 
has caused the downfall and ruin of 
all the great nations now passed into 
oblivion. Many of the civilizations of 
the past which were built up by fru-
gality, industry, culture, sobriety, and 
self-restraint, were completely ruined 
and obliterated through dissipation, 
self-indulgence, and an uncontrolled 
appetite for intoxicating beverages. 
These so enfeebled, enervated, and 
weakened the human race that it was 
incapable of preserving its moral vir-
tues and its ability to defend itself 
against powerful enemies. Liquor has 
been the greatest liability of civiliza-
tion and also the greatest handicap 
to progress, peace, and prosperity. 
More battles have been lost because of 
drink than through any other demor- 
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alizing factor. No practice so deterior-
ates and paralyzes the physical, men-
tal, and moral powers of a soldier, and 
lowers his efficiency and reliability, 
as does excessive indulgence in liquor. 
Any nation that debauches its mili-
tary forces and its youth with liquor 
destroys its own future. Likewise, a 
nation that wastes its money annually 
by the billions of dollars in the pur-
chase of intoxicating beverages will 
not be able to endure if pitted against 
a nation that practises sobriety and 
economy for the sake of self-preserva-
tion. 
Why do we legislate against the 
promiscuous use of narcotic drugs, 
deadly poisons, dangerous weapons, 
and things that vitally affect the gen-
eral welfare of society, while we shut 
our eyes to the perils which under-
mine our health, vitality, stability, and 
efficiency? Why do we allow the 
liquor-mongers, devoid of concern for 
anything except their own pocket-
books, to deceive us with their propa-
ganda? While legislation does not 
prohibit murder, theft, nor rape, pro-
hibitive and punitive legislation does 
have a tendency to minimize these 
evils. In the same way, prohibitive laws 
against the sale of liquor have a tend-
ency to minimize its deleterious ef-
fects. 
After the enaction of the prohibi-
tion law, during the first ten years, 
from 1921 to 1931, every one of the 
sixty Neal Cure institutes, and every 
one of the ninety-eight Keeley Cure in-
stitutes, with the exception of the par-
ent institute at Dwight, Illinois, had 
to close its doors for lack of drunkards 
to cure. For a period of fifty-seven 
years prior to the enactment of na-
tional prohibition, the Keeley Cure 
institutes had an annual average of 
10,526 alcoholic patients, but during 
the second year of national prohibi-
tion they treated only 180 such pa-
tients. Colonel Davis, head of the Sal-
vation Army in Chicago, reported 
By 
C. S. Longacre 
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• 
THAN BOMBS 
that the year before national prohi-
bition became effective, his organiza-
tion cared for over 10,000 alcoholics 
in their mission homes in Chicago. 
Yet the year after national prohibi-
tion went into effect in Chicago, the 
number of alcoholics who needed 
attention in their mission homes had 
been reduced to less than one per cent 
of the number they had had to treat 
the previous year. 
While prohibitive legislation is not 
a cure-all for drunkenness, yet statis-
tics and court records bear witness to 
the fact that such legislation has thus 
far proved to be the most effective 
remedy to minimize drunkenness, and 
to allay other evils that flow from 
liquor traffic. 
All kinds of remedies are being sug-
gested to minimize the disastrous ef-
fects of the liquor traffic. Some main-
tain that alcoholism is a disease, just 
like cancer, tuberculosis, or any other 
chronic disease. Therefore the habit-
ual drunkard should be treated as a 
sick person and sent to a clinic or hos-
pital for medical treatment, instead 
of being dealt with as a criminal, fined 
and sent to prison for his abnormal 
conduct. Some hold that a drunkard 
who is a slave to excessive drinking is 
abnormal, and has no control over his 
will power and is not responsible for 
his conduct. They state that he is in-
curable so far as medical aid is con-
cerned, and therefore is dangerous to 
society. Consequently, he should be 
treated as are all abnormal persons 
who are not responsible for their con-
duct. 
Sickness is not the cause of alcohol-
ism, but alcoholism is responsible, di-
rectly and indirectly, for many dis-
eases. A noted medical authority, 
head of the Mental Hygiene Division 
of the United States Health Service. 
published the statement that about ten 
per cent of the mortality of the coun-
try is due to alcoholism, and that ap-
proximately ten per cent of the pa-
tients in mental hospitals are admitted 
for alcoholic psychosis. Those in 
charge of alcoholic and penal institu-
tions maintain that from forty to fifty 
per cent of the chronic alcoholics un-
der their care are so far gone that 
they do not want any medical aid or 
help from any source to overcome the 
drinking habit. They are hopeless, in-
curable cases, and would sell their 
only suit of clothes or barter the only 
morsel of food they possess for drink. 
Since they are beyond the reach of 
medical help or the restraints of law, 
only the miraculous grace of God can 
transform them, if they will by faith 
lay hold of the arm of God. 
We must attempt to reach and edu-
cate the youth before they become al- 
Year by year, even in times of war, alcohol causes more deaths. We bemoan war and try to prevent its recurrence; yet at the same time 
allow our government to license a more deadly evil. 
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coholics. After a person has become 
an alcoholic, it is practically impos-
sible to interest him in the subject of 
health, efficiency, success, and high 
and noble ideals in life. We must 
tackle the problem in the grass-roots 
among the youth in our grade and 
high schools, and give them the hy-
gienic and scientific facts about 
healthful living and the handicaps to 
health and success in life. 
The distillers and brewers are con-
centrating their efforts on exploiting 
the youth. They say to those who write 
up the advertisements of their wares 
on billboards, for the radio, and in the 
magazines: "Don't waste any time on 
middle agers, but concentrate on the 
American youth." For more than a 
decade the liquor advertisements 
have sought to build a new drinking 
clientele from among the American 
youth, the women, and our military 
forces. 
On the other hand, we have estab-
lished medical clinics for the middle-
aged, hopeless derelicts. Instead of em-
ploying preventive means, we make 
laws to legalize and protect the liquor 
traffic, and then vote large appropria-
tions to alleviate the suffering and the 
damages produced by this nefarious 
trade. Instead of building safeguards 
at the brink of the highway along a 
steep precipice, we erect a medical 
clinic at the base of the precipice to 
care for the victims of the liquor traf-
fic. 
The liquor dealers never learn any 
lessons from their mistakes and abuses 
of the past. The dollar before their 
eyes blinds them to all the evil conse-
quences accruing from their vicious 
business. Neither does the habitual, 
chronic alcoholic learn any lessons 
from the heart-rending, devasting ex-
periences of other drunkards, who 
have made a wreck of life. The habit-
ual drinkers are a helpless group of 
puppets, who started their downward 
career by thinking it was smart and 
broad-minded to drink the social 
glass. Nearly all habitual drinkers ad-
mit that they started with the social 
cocktail, or that they were led astray 
by the slogan of the smart set: "All the 
others are doing it." 
It is easy to lose the human attribute 
of self-control that distinguishes a hu-
man being from an animal. The 
chronic alcoholic, who may have once 
possessed the manly quality of self-
control, has so seriously impaired and 
injured his brain and nerves, through 
indulgence in alcoholic beverages, 
that his alcoholized nervous system 
and paralyzed will power no longer 
co-ordinate. His muscle functions are 
uncontrolled, and his human mechan-
ism is running wild. 
The time to prevent becoming a 
20 
chronic alcoholic is to refuse the first 
social glass, when it is offered, and not 
adopt the slogan: "All the others are 
doing it." The time to educate people 
concerning the dangers of alcoholism 
is before they pass into the danger zone 
of alcoholic habits that are practically 
impossible to break. If we allow the 
liquor mongers to exploit our youth, 
our women, and our military forces, 
without teaching them the scientific 
facts about the harmful effects of 
liquor upon the human mechanism—
the brain and the will power—we 
will seal the doom of all drinkers and 
invoke retributive judgments upon 
our own heads. 
If we neglect our youth, we destroy 
our future greatness. If king Alcohol 
is allowed to reign undisturbed upon 
the throne, and permitted to exploit 
and debauch our young people under 
the sanctions of law, there is no hope 
for the redemption of this sin-cursed 
earth. The grapes of wrath will be 
ripe for the press, and God Himself 
will tread the winepress in the final 
day of judgment that awaits this sin-
ful world. She is not only drunken on 
the wine of Babylon, the great, but 
on the wine cup of self-indulgence 
under the influence of the demon of 
drink. 
Just such a fate awaits this world in 
the last day, according to the pro-
phetic statement of Christ, the Saviour 
of the world, who said: 
'`As it was in the days of Noah, so 
shall it be also in the days of the Son 
of man. They did eat, they drank, 
they married wives, they were given in 
marriage, until the day that Noah en- 
tered into the ark, and the flood came, 
and destroyed them all. Likewise also 
as it was in the days of Lot; they did 
eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, 
they planted, they builded; but the 
same day that Lot went out of Sodom 
it trained fire and brimstone from' 
heaven, and destroyed them all. Even 
thus shall it be in the day when the 
Son of man is revealed." Luke 
17:26-30. 
VACATIONS 
(Continued from page 21) 
restraint can be thrown off and the 
time can be spent in eating, drinking 
and making merry. Some take an 
ocean voyage on the supposition that 
they will be greatly benefited. They 
meet with disappointment, because it 
is difficult to obtain suitable food. 
It would be well, before determin-
ing where to spend the vacation, to 
have a medical examination. Several 
years ago one of the leading business-
men of the city came for treatment. 
He said, "Doctor, I have a bad cold 
that I cannot shake off. You treated 
one of my friends and knocked the 
cold out of him in one treatment. I 
want the same heroic treatment." I 
recognized that what he complained 
of was not an ordinary cold, so I said 
to him, "I shall have to look you over 
first." I did so and found it was not a 
cold he had, but a congested condi-
tion of the lungs due to heart failure. 
I advised him to go home and go to 
bed and keep quiet for a few weeks, 
and get in touch with his doctor, that 
it was rest he needed, and not vigor-
ous treatment. He improved, and some 
time later he came again for advice. 
Several of his acquaintances had 
planned a trip to Europe, and he had 
promised to go with them and have a 
good time. I advised him not to go, 
but in spite of my advice, he was per-
suaded to go. He managed to return, 
but was in a serious condition, and 
a few days afterward he died. It would 
not have been well for him to spend 
his vacation in high altitude on ac-
count of his heart condition. 
I recall the case of another man who 
was advised to take an ocean trip to 
regain his health. He did, but on his 
return he was in a worse condition 
nervously and mentally than he was 
when he started. He came for an ex-
amination. I found what he was in 
need of was good nourishing, whole-
some food. This he failed to get on his 
trip. 
Like a beautiful isle, in a troubled sea, 
All covered with trees and flowers, 
Bringing health and rest to you and me, 
Through its heaven-sent healing powers. 
Therefore when we plan our vaca-
tion we should give study to getting 
the good, wholesome food necessary to 
strengthen and build the body. We 
should not only plan a safe vacation, 
but should plan one that really re-
creates and restores the vital forces of 
the body. When we return we should 
not be in such an exhausted physical 
state that we need a vacation to re-
cover from the vacation. Let us give 
careful heed to the words of the Mas-
ter Teacher to "Come . . . apart into a 
desert [quiet] place, and rest a while." 
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W
E HAVE reached the period of 
the year when many are think-
ing about taking a vacation, 
and how and where to spend it. The 
word vacation means a stated interval 
in a round of duties, or employment, 
as for rest and recreation. When the 
seventy who were sent out upon their 
mission by Christ returned and with 
great joy related their experiences, and 
how even the devils were subject to 
them in His name, Jcsus evidently 
recognized that they were in need of 
taking a brief period for relaxation. 
"Come . . . apart into a desert place, 
and rest a while," He said to them. 
They were not to regard this as time 
wasted, but rather to look upon it as 
an opportunity to permit the ex-
hausted brain cells to store up a new 
supply of energy granules, that they 
might be able to do better and more 
acceptable service. 
The brain needs rest in order to 
think calmly and plan safely. Moses, 
that great leader of men who was 
spoken of by inspiration as "the 
meekest" man upon earth in his day, 
from overwork, when having to face 
a most perplexing problem, lost his 
patience, became angry, and "spake 
unadvisedly with his lips," a thing 
which he regretted the remainder of 
his days. This emphasizes the impor-
tance of occasionally going some place 
where we can have the benefit of com- 
plete relaxation, contemplation and 
prayer. And especially is this the case 
of those who are leaders of men and 
who have perplexing problems to 
meet which require calm thinking and 
planning. It was in this way Enoch 
walked with God and became a sub-
ject for translation. The importance 
 
 
It is well said that "an 
ounce of prevention 
is worth a pound of 
cure." A few weeks 
or even a few days 
spent in the moun-
tains will sometimes 
prevent a serious ill- 
ness. 
VACATIONS 
of coming apart for rest and recreation 
for those who are engaged in work 
which requires continuous mental tax-
ation is not appreciated as it should be. 
We are inclined to feel that the work 
we are doing is so important that we 
cannot be spared. This is a mistake. 
Many a man and many a woman has 
become a nervous, if not a mental sub-
ject, by neglecting periods of rest and 
recreation. It was while the interest 
was at its height, and it appeared as 
though the work could not spare them, 
that the disciples of Christ were ad-
vised not to permit their minds to be 
kept on such a continuous strain, but 
to come apart for a short period of 
rest. 
A vacation is a brief interval taken 
JULY, 1917 
from routine work for rest and recre-
ation. That word recreation means to 
re-create, or to make anew. After such 
a vacation a person is better fitted 
for service and able to do better work. 
It is not time lost. 
Some time ago I had under my care 
a prominent educator who had under 
him a number of teachers. After 
spending a couple of weeks, he con-
cluded it was time to get back to his 
work. His associates, learning of this, 
came to me and said, "By no means 
let him return; he has been so critical 
and impatient of late that he is wholly 
unfitted for his work. Keep him there 
a little longer." When we get to the 
place where we become irritable and 
think everything and everybody is 
wrong, the chances are the trouble is 
not on the outside. The trouble lies 
within. 
The result of a well-spent vacation 
means a return to work feeling more 
fit in every respect. There are few va-
cationists who have this experience. 
As a rule, after the vacation is over 
they feel less fit. Some look forward 
to the vacation as a period when all 
(Continued on page 20) 
By 
Daniel H. Kress, M.D., 
Neurologist 
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CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS 
Many things trouble mind and heart, but Christ's Word to us is one of peace. 
Aiat 
Tlioaded 
R
EFERRING to an article he 
wrote back in 1938, Win-
ston Churchill, in the Reader's 
Digest for March, 1947, said: "I de-
scribed the unhappy and dangerous 
plight of the Continent, torn by an-
cient quarrels, stirred by modern na-
tionalism, divided by tariff walls, 
overshadowed by the Hitler-Mussolini 
Axis, exhausted by one great war and 
oppressed by fear of another. . . . 
Within eighteen months Europe was 
plunged in a war more awful in its 
devastation than any ever waged by 
man, and—more than that—the Euro-
pean quarrel again involved the 
whole world." Then he added this dis-
quieting sentence: "Certainly, the 
scene we survey to-day bears many un-
comfortable resemblances to that of 
1938." 
God has warned us that just such 
troubles would come. In fact, the 
Bible has hung before us many pro-
phetic pictures of the times in which 
we are living; and to-day the student 
of prophecy sees current events and 
world conditions fit into those pro-
phetic pictures with minute exactness. 
"Behold," cried Isaiah, "their valiant 
ones shall cry without: the ambassa-
dors of peace shall weep bitterly." 
Isaiah 33:7. Jesus, in speaking of these 
last days, drew this picture: "Men's 
hearts failing them for fear, and for 
looking after those things which are 
coming on the earth." Luke 21:26. 
Yes, everywhere hearts are sad and 
sick. Each night groans with uncer-
tainties; and each day trembles with 
fears of coming events. There is great 
distress and perplexity among na-
tions because of open foes without 
and hidden foes within. Surely, if 
God ever could countenance worry, 
it would be in extraordinarily distres-
sing times such as those which engulf 
us. But He does not, for His grace is 
sufficient for every experience that 
can come to mortal man. It is still 
true as Isaiah said: "Thou wilt keep 
him in perfect peace, whose mind is 
stayed on Thee: because he trusteth 
in Thee." Isaiah 26:3. 
So when speaking of the sorrow and 
suffering and woe that sin would bring 
into this world, Jesus said, "See that 
ye be not troubled." He longs for this 
poor distraught world to have "the 
peace . . . which passeth all under-
standing." And He still calls for men 
and women to prove that the religion 
By 
Mrs. E. E. Andross 
of Jesus Christ brings peace to 
troubled hearts and keeps them se-
renely quiet and trustful amid storms 
that are destroying the earth. 
During the dark days of the Refor-
mation of the sixteenth century, 
Luther and his friend Melanchthon 
often sang, "A mighty fortress is our 
God." They knew that the mighty 
fortress of which the forty-sixth 
psalm speaks is, indeed, "a bulwark 
never failing." 
In September, 1930, a very destruc-
tive hurricane swept over Santo Do-
mingo. We prayed earnestly for the 
Lord to protect our fellow mission-
aries there. Soon after the storm 
abated, the official record was 3,000 
killed and 20,000 injured. Nearly 
every building in the capital was 
either seriously damaged or entirely 
destroyed. Our mission building there 
was of six-inch re-inforced concrete. 
In it lived our missionaries—six adults 
and six children. They fled from one 
part of it to another as it crumbled 
before the onslaught of the storm. The 
walls collapsed around them. Zinc 
roofs and other debris flew over their 
heads. The rain came down upon 
them in torrents. "The shrieking of 
the wind," wrote one of the workers. 
"as it howled around us seemed like a 
host of demons bent on our destruc-
tion." 
But the story does not end there. 
Against that dark background was 
painted a beautiful picture of that 
"peace . . . which passeth all under-
standing," for those missionaries 
dwelt "in the secret place of the Most 
High." "However," continued the 
letter, "we could feel the presence of 
holy angels sent to protect us, and 
with trusting faith we united in 
prayer and sang praises to Him who 
had done so much for us." 
That beautiful lesson in sweet 
peace and perfect trust has been a 
help to me all these years. We admire 
such faith and trust. We long to pos-
sess them. But what is the secret? How 
may you and I have them? We are 
told that Luther confessed that unless 
he studied his Bible daily, meditated 
on Christ, and prayed earnestly, his 
heart became "dead and cold, full of 
dark hard thoughts of God and of 
dreary tormenting doubts and fears." 
Yes, Luther found the secret of be- 
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takes a liitlepeace. 
little quiet, 
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ing a happy possessor of that wonder-
ful peace which the world can neither 
give nor take away. He learned that 
to have it he must keep in touch with 
heaven. So must we. Therein lies the 
secret. I was made to realize that mo e 
fully one day when I was visiting the 
control house near the Pacific end of 
the Panama Canal. "Mr. Kaiser," I 
asked, "what would you do if one of 
those huge machines down in the tun-
nel should break?" "Oh, that is not 
our big problem," he hastened to ex-
plain. "Our big problem," he con- 
tinued, "is to keep the insects from 
gnawing the insulation off the elec-
tric wires and thus breaking the con-
nection between the control house and 
the large machines below." Without 
that connection no ship could be lifted 
to the higher level and pass on in its 
course through the canal. 
So it is in life. We cannot possibly 
be lifted into that mighty fortress of 
which Luther sang if we fail to estab-
lish unbroken connection with 
heaven. We must not let the destruc-
tive insects of little sins gnaw off the 
insulation and thus break the connec-
tion, for never did men need that 
mighty fortress more than we need it 
to-day. There is safety only with God. 
He is our only refuge in this atomic 
age! And thank God, if we keep the 
connection unbroken we shall be safe. 
Earnest prayer and diligent Bible 
study with sincere desire to know 
and to do God's will preserves the 
connection, while faith turns the 
lever that supplies the divine power 
for lifting you and me into that 
mighty fortress which no storm can 
overthrow and no foe can scale. Hav-
ing provided this wonderful way of es-
cape, the Saviour calls down to us liv-
ing in these serious times: "See that 
ye be not troubled." 
EARTH'S EARLIEST DAYS 
(Continued from page 15) 
granite, the basalt and the limestone, 
or use the varied metals of the earth 
in the common utensils of the home. 
What abundant provision the Creator 
made for our every need. Truly God 
is love! 
Like Heavea on Earth 
Blissful days in the garden of Eden 
followed the week of creation. With 
God and angels as teachers and com-
panions; with access to the tree of life, 
continually eating of that which 
would give eternal life—what glad 
prospects lay before our first parents! 
What wonderful fruit trees were 
growing there! And of every one of 
them they could eat freely. 
No—there was just one which God 
reserved as His own property, the tree 
of the knowledge of good and evil. 
They were not to eat of this. If they 
disobeyed, death would surely fall 
upon them and all the human race. 
(Genesis 2: 16, 17.) 
This tree, then, was "the Loyalty 
Tree." It was God's "flag." To pull 
its fruit would be like ripping down 
the Union Jack from Buckingham 
Palace. The tree was a test of their 
loyalty to God. 
It is not likely that they yielded to 
temptation for months, perhaps years. 
How could they! The garden was so 
large and so full of beautiful wonders, 
the company of each other so delight-
some and satisfying, the fellowship of 
their Creator and His angels so up-
lifting, their teaching so marvellous, 
God's warnings so fresh in the mind—
how could they dream of diso-
bedience? 
The Fatal Disloyalty 
But one day crushing disaster came. 
To Adam's consternation and distress, 
Eve, all aglow, came to him with the 
forbidden fruit in her hand, and with 
a story of a beautiful winged serpent 
who had told her they would have 
the thrill of feeling like gods if they 
ate of it. She felt some of this thrill 
already! (Genesis 3:1-6.) 
But "Adam was not deceived." 
(I Timothy 2:14.) With sickening de-
spair he realized that Eve had been 
caught in the toils of the enemy. She 
had thrown off her loyalty to God; 
she had distrusted Him, disbelieved 
Him, disobeyed Him—and believed, 
obeyed and trusted His great enemy. 
Eve must die! 
But how could he live without her? 
Eve, who had been his delight! Could 
he bear to be parted from her? 
Impossible! 
"No, I will die with her!" he re-
solved. Hurriedly he took the fruit 
from her hand and ate the cursed 
thing. 
But now they became conscious that 
the light and glory which had clothed 
them—the sign of their innocence—
was fading away. They felt a chill in 
the air, and hurriedly fashioned rude 
garments of leaves to replace the glory 
of God. 
Then the voice of God was heard in 
the garden, and in the presence of 
their Creator the whole sorrowful 
story was out. But not with penitence, 
alas! But with self-vindication and 
covert insinuation that really God was 
responsible. 
Farewell, Eden! 
So began the new, sad era of sin. 
They must leave the garden, said God, 
lest they should continue to eat of the 
tree of life, and thus let sin go on for 
ever. (Genesis 3:24.) If they were still 
permitted to eat that fruit they, nor 
their descendants, would never die, 
however much they increased in wick-
edness and cruelty. 
No, they must leave the tree of life! 
Now the ground was cursed for 
Adam's sake. For his sake—so that he 
would be saved from that life of in-
dolence which makes sin so easy. It 
should now bring forth thorns and 
thistles and weeds of all kinds. 
But—and this promise filled them 
with hope—one glad day should come 
a Restorer, one of the woman's seed, 
who would crush the serpent's head, 
and the reign of sin, and open Eden's 
gates again. 
So, though as yet they knew not the 
Restorer's name, a song came into 
their hearts when time had softened 
the blow. And if we could have whis-
pered the name of "Jesus" to them, 
we might have heard a joyful melody 
of hope. 
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