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By 
Robert H. Pierson 
O
UT of the past there comes 
to us the allegory of a certain 
selfish rich man. All that the 
carnal heart could desire was his. His 
wardrobes were filled with the most 
expensive apparel money could buy. 
Always his table groaned beneath the 
weight of his well-stocked larder's 
most choice delicacies. 
The coffers of his treasury over-
flowed with gold and precious stones. 
Everything with which he was sur-
rounded, his apparently limitless re-
sources, his round of amusements, the 
praise and flattery of his friends, but 
ministered to his own selfish enjoy-
ment. 
So engrossed was he in the business 
of making money and in enjoying the 
society of his friends that he had no 
time for the God who had blessed 
him with all these earthly possessions. 
Neither could he spare time or 
thought for the alleviation of the suf-
ferings of some of his less fortunate 
fellow townsmen who languished in 
poverty and distress. 
Just outside the palatial gates of 
this rich man's compound lay a poor 
beggar. Ragged and filthy, this miser-
able emaciated derelict, covered with 
foul-smelling ulcers, pitifully held out 
his bony hand to receive a few coppers 
from compassionate passers-by. 
Each time the man of wealth would 
depart from his mansion the poor 
beggar would raise himself, hopefully 
pleading for help. But the rich man 
looked at him disdainfully and ever 
refused to help him. 
Months and years slipped by. The 
hapless mendicant suffered untold dis-
tress day after day, but he quietly 
and patiently endured it all. In the 
course of time, according to the story-
teller, the beggar died and was buried. 
There was no one to mourn his pass-
ing; but because he had faithfully 
borne all his tribulations and trials 
the allegory pictures him as being 
carried by the angels into a place 
known as Abraham's bosom. 
Shortly afterward the rich man, too, 
went the way of all flesh and was 
buried amid great pomp and cere-
mony. Because of his selfish and heart-
less existence, the man of wealth is 
pictured as being plunged into the 
fiery torments of hell. 
Making possible communication be-
tween the abode of bliss and the realm 
of the damned, the metaphoric ac-
count pictures the rich man appeal-
ing to the beggar for relief. Pitifully 
he cries out for just a sip of cool wa-
ter to moisten his parched tongue. 
But the keeper of Abraham's bosom 
is reported as replying, "Son, remem-
ber that thou in thy lifetime receiv-
edst thy good things, and likewise 
Lazarus evil things: but now he is 
comforted, and thou art tormented." 
Luke 16:25. 
The rich man had spent his life in 
self-pleasing. He had had no time for 
God. In his natural life there had 
been no provision made for eternity. 
In the story he is pictured on the other 
side of the great beyond seeking the 
propitiation he should have earnestly 
sought before he passed the portals of 
the tomb. Alas, he found he had de-
layed too long his appeal for clem-
ency. When the curtains of death had 
been drawn across the pathway of his 
unregenerate life, his eternal destiny 
had been forever sealed. 
Bible students who read this will 
immediately recognize this allegory 
as one of the parables of our Lord. 
Jesus often spoke in parables in order 
that His listeners might not fail to 
comprehend the deep spiritual truth 
He desired to impart. 
The word "parable" comes from the 
Greek word parabolay, which means 
"to throw alongside of." A parable is 
a story thrown alongside of a great 
spiritual truth in order to make it 
so plain and simple that all may un-
derstand. 
The parable of the rich man and 
Lazarus is a story that the Saviour has 
thrown alongside of a great spiritual 
truth, the import of which He would 
have none of us fail to grasp. 
Some seek to give this parable an 
application utterly foreign to the 
truth the Saviour wished to convey 
to His hearers. Such individuals 
would seek to persuade us that on 
this occasion Jesus was emphasizing 
the conscious state of the dead. They 
would have us believe that heaven 
and hell are in such close proximity 
that the saved and the damned may 
speak across the great abyss through-
out eternity. 
Such a position cannot be harmo-
nized with the overwhelming evidence 
in God's Word that death is an un-
conscious sleep. 
"Consider and hear me, 0 Lord my 
God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep 
the sleep of death." Psalm 13:3. 
"The living know that they shall 
die: but the dead know not any thing, 
neither have they any more a reward; 
for the memory of them is forgotten. 
. . . Whatsoever thy hand findeth to 
do, do it with thy might; for there is 
no work, nor device, nor knowledge, 
nor wisdom, in the grave, whither 
thou goest." Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10. 
"These things said He: and after 
that He saith unto them, Our friend 
Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may 
awake him out of sleep. Then said 
His disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he 
shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of 
his death: but they thought that He 
had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. 
Then said Jesus unto them plainly, 
Lazarus is dead." John 11:11-14. 
The Bible teaches that for the right-
eous this sleep of death shall be in-
terrupted, not in Abraham's bosom, 
but when the Saviour shall appear at 
His second advent. He will take His 
own to the mansions He has gone to 
prepare for them far from the gates 
of hell. 
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H ARMSTRONG ROBERTS 
It was the accepted belief in Christ's time that riches were an evidence of divine favour. 
Likewise it was believed that poverty and adversity indicated Heaven's displeasure. 
"The Lord Himself shall descend 
From heaven with a shout, with the 
voice of the Archangel, and with the 
trump of God: and the dead in Christ 
shall rise first: then we which are alive 
and remain shall be caught up to- 
gether with them in the clouds, to 
meet the Lord in the air: and so shall 
we ever be with the Lord." 1 Thessa-
lonians 4:16, 17. 
"Behold, I show you a mystery; We 
shall not all sleep, but we shall all be 
changed, in a moment, in the twin-
kling of an eye, at the last trump: for 
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead 
shall be raised incorruptible, and we 
shall be changed. For this corruptible 
must put on incorruption, and this 
mortal must put on immortality. So 
DECEMBER,1947 
when this corruptible shall have put 
on incorruption, and this mortal shall 
have put on immortality, then shall 
be brought to pass the saying that is 
written, Death is swallowed up in 
victory." 1 Corinthians 15:51-54. 
In the parable of the rich man and 
Lazarus, Christ was not seeking to 
straighten out the theology of His 
audience on the question of life after 
death. His was a more urgent mes-
sage! 
The lesson Christ desired His hear-
ers—and all generations of procrasti-
nators—to understand, was that it is 
impossible for men to secure the salva-
tion of their souls after death. 
Our Lord in referring to the saved 
and the lost tells us in the figurative 
conversation of the rich man and 
Lazarus that there is a great gulf fixed 
between the two by death "so that 
they which would pass from hence to 
you cannot; neither can they pass to 
us, that would come from thence." 
Luke 16:26. 
In these words the Saviour repre-
sented the hopelessness of looking for 
a second probation. This life is the 
only time given to man in which to 
prepare for eternity. 
Is it not a solemnizing thought to 
realize that now—yes, right now—
we are determining our eternal des-
tiny? Every day we are building into 
our characters those stones that shall 
either stand or crumble in the day of 
judgment. When our eyes close in 
death, then ends our opportunity for 
salvation. Our records as they stand at 
that moment must be met at the judg-
ment bar of God. 
"It is appointed unto men once to 
die, but after this the judgment." 
Hebrews 9:27. 
It is little wonder that over and 
over in the Holy Scriptures we are ad-
monished to prepare now for eter-
nity. Hear these words of God as re-
corded by the psalmist: 
"To-day if ye will hear His voice, 
harden not your heart." Psalm 95:7, 8. 
Will you not respond now—right 
now, and give yourself to the Saviour 
who gave His all for you? 
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BOSOM 
THE EXPLANATION OF AN 
ANCIENT ALLEGORY 
JUDY STEPS 
By R. E. Finney, jr. 
With this issue of the SIGNS we begin the serial, Judy Steps Out. 
by one of Canada's foremost writers. At the conclusion of the 
serial this material %vill he available in hook form.—Ed. 
C
,-kMERON LEA—Doctor Cameron Lea it would be 
someday he hoped—thrust his hands deep into his 
trousers pockets in exasperation. "Hitler would have 
to pull something like this, just as I'm getting into the groove 
here in school. I knew Chamberlain was making a monkey 
of himself and a donkey of all the rest of us with all that rot 
at Munich. Why—why can't Hitler and the rest of his gang 
settle down and be contented without trying to run the 
whole world? I'd like to—to—!" And Cameron Lea pulled 
at the embryo moustache adorning his upper lip, his black 
eyes snapping. 
"Easy now, Laddie, e-easy. If you could handle Hitler all 
by yourself I reckon you'd do it and all of us'd be happy. 
but you can't and there's no use blowing a fuse over it." 
This from Malcolm McDonough, lean, sandy-haired room-
mate of Lea's. Never excited, Mac was the correct antidote 
for Cam's volatile nature. He never hurried and never wor-
ried and no one could fluster him. 
"But Mac," Cam's voice almost squeaked as emotion still 
gripped him, "but Mac, look what it's going to do to us 
fellows; the army and all that. We'll have to go—all of us. 
Dad would disown any son of his who failed to answer the 
colours. I've seen it coming, and in spite of telling myself that 
it wouldn't happen, I've known all along what I'd do. And 
fop that matter, I'll wager that you have too." 
"Yes, suppose I have." Mac looked over the top of the 
newspaper that carried the bold black headlines that star-
tled all of Canada with the news that again Germany was 
on the march for the second time in three decades; that 
again her borders had been crossed by her own troops bent 
on invasion and conquest. "But," Mac continued, still un-
ruffled and apparently at ease. "there's no use in getting all 
worked up about it this evening. Let's wait and see what we 
ought to do. Maybe, after all, the government would just as 
soon have us finish our medical course if we want to. Looks 
as though there are going to be plenty of doctors needed—at 
least if it's anything like the last time." 
"Sure. 'Let's wait and see—let's wait and see.' you 
haggis-eating Scotsman." But Cam dropped into a chair 
and grinned in spite of himself, relaxing. "Oh. I know 
you're right, but I do wish we could have grown up and 
gotten through school without quite so many 'alarums and 
excursions' off stage." 
Yes, the war drums were beating in Europe again. It was 
autumn, and nothing more serious than exams, foot ball. and 
hockey should have been troubling the minds of the medi-
cal students at Old Queens. And for a time it seemed as 
though Mac had been right—more right than he knew—
about waiting to see, for all that winter the armies in Europe 
seemed stalemated and people began to talk about the "sitz-
krieg," and even London relaxed a bit and debated if this 
were not going to be a rather quiet war after all—as if 
there ever had been such a thing. 
OUT 
"Come on, fellows, time to relax," exclaimed Cain one 
early spring evening as he closed the big "Gray's Anatomy,. 
which he had been earnestly poring over, with a bang that 
would have startled anyone less phlegmatic than Mac. In 
response Mac looked up from his studying, slowly closed his 
book, stretched a bit, and pulled himself to his feet. 
"0. K., Little Man, let's go." 
The boys in the particular boarding house to which Can) 
and Mac belonged had long before inaugurated a custom 
to which every one of them adhered with almost religious 
regard. At 10:30 each weekday evening they gathered in 
the parlour of the rambling mansion which they called home. 
to listen to a programme of murder mysteries on the radio. 
When this ritual had been started it is doubtful if any of 
them could tell. However, for most of them it was seldom 
interrupted—even cramming for exams did not often inter-
fere with it. 
So it was that very shortly the old parlour was filled with 
its regular circle of medical students; some sitting on the 
comfortable Chesterfield, some in the easy chairs scattered 
about the spacious room, and a circle of them sitting on the 
floor immediately in front of the radio—Mac always accused 
Cam of trying to get one ear inside the grill that covered the 
loudspeaker. The lights were snapped off—a regular part 
of the ritual—and the programme began. 
The evening's play was the usual sort of thing. The body 
had been discovered, clues pointed to practically all the 
principals, and the master detective was hot on the trail. 
 
Suddenly in the middle of a word, the programme stopped 
and a different voice broke in. 
"We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast to bring 
you a special news bulletin. Word has just been received via 
London short-wave radio that at approximately four o'clock 
this morning the German Army invaded Holland by land 
and air. Panzer divisions are already well inside the frontier 
and are racing across the flat fields toward the interior. 
breaking the way for the infantry which is rapidly follow 
ing. Ground movements are being covered by an immense 
umbrella of fighter planes, and Stuka dive bombers are ac-
companying the panzers to soften resistance on the ground. 
 
Several important airfields are reportedly already in the 
hands of German paratroopers who struck almost at the 
precise instant of the land invasion. Disquieting reports of 
fifth column activity about the airports of the larger cities 
have been received. Further reports will be brought you as 
dispatches are received. Keep your radio tuned to this sta 
tion for later bulletins." 
Immediately the big room was in an uproar. The mystery 
play was resumed, but no one listened to it, and presently 
someone turned the volume control, leaving just enough so 
that further news bulletins could be intercepted. Again the 
academic routine of the Queens medical students was dis-
rupted by thoughts of war. 
And, as the whole world knows now, war had begun in 
dead earnest. Holland was quickly overrun. Norway and 
Denmark were forced to bow to the Nazi might. Belgium 
was subjugated and the battle for France was begun as tin 
whole world hung with hated breath upon the news of the 
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Cam looks toward the west and interneship in St. Patrick's hospital. 
However, he did not foresee all that lay before him there. 
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Mac and Cameron Lea no longer wondered what to do. 
They applied for immediate enlistment. At the end of the 
year their medical course was speeded up, and in 1943 they 
both formally joined the Canadian Army—still medical men, 
and still under special training 'for the job the government 
desperately needed them to do. 
Months flew by, and it was the spring of 1944. Graduation 
time had come for Cameron Lea and Malcolm MacDonough, 
and a bit of sorrow too along with the happiness of getting 
through with classes, for they were to be separated for their 
interneships. Mac was to go east, and Cam was westward 
bound to one of the large hospitals of the west-coast ports. 
"Well—so long, Mac." 
"So long, Cam. Take it easy." 
There was much that each of them had intended to say 
to the other, but somehow now neither of them could 
think how to say it. After all, the years they had roomed 
together perhaps made anything more unnecessary. And 
besides, there were lumps in their throats that made talking 
difficult. Good-bye these days might mean forever—there 
were other students who had gone and would never come 
back. 
So, there was just a quick hard handclasp, and with a wave 
of the hand Cameron Lea swung himself aboard the train 
that was to take him west, glad that the parting was over. 
Cam lay on the narrow bed in his room at the end of his 
DECEMBER,1947 
first day at St. Patrick's hospital, .:reviewing) the day's ex-
periences. "Pretty good looking bunch of chaps," he said 
to himself of the ten internes of whom he found himself 
one. "I'm glad to be here—a good big hospital—should 
learn a lot." Fatigue won a brief struggle with Cam's will 
power, and he was asleep. 
"Have a slice of ham—do," urged Cameron Lea as he 
handed a platter of fragrant slices across the table to the 
young Catholic interne facing him. 
"Can it, Lea. I'll take some halibut, though, if you don't 
mind." 
It was Friday again. In fact a number of Fridays had come 
and gone at. St. Patrick's, and the ten internes had begun to 
get well acquainted. Well acquainted enough, indeed, so 
that Cam, who loved to tease, had begun to quietly persecute 
the Catholic internes. Just why he did so it is doubtful if 
he himself knew. Perhaps it was because the huge Catholic 
hospital made him feel that he was a part of a small mi-
nority group and that he had to assert himself. He was not 
alone in his campaign, moreover, for several of the other 
Protestant boys enthusiastically joined him, That is, with 
the exception of two who had taken their medical training 
somewhere down. in California. They were quiet lads who 
mostly went their own way. They said little but were well 
trained and very much in earnest about making good at St. 
Patrick's. 
Cam passed the halibut with a sly smile and noticed with 
satisfaction that the receiver was slightly red about the ears. 
"Is it a venial sin or a mortal sin to eat meat on Fridays, I 
wonder?" he said aloud to himself, as a final barb to be 
left rankling in the mind of his victim. With that he applied 
himself to his plate, and the meal was allowed to go on in 
peace. 
There were other issues that arose in the minds of the 
Protestant internes between themselves and their Catholic 
companions. Certain of these had to do with their work as 
budding physicians, but in spite of them the general atmos-
phere continued to be one of mutual tolerance. There was 
a more or less constant interchange of jibes at one another, 
but these were seldom intended to really hurt. 
It was not long, however, before Cameron Lea—Doctor 
Cameron Lea, as he was always called nowt--noticed that 
the two students from California did not join in the verbal 
sniping that went on between the rest of the Protestant 
and Catholic internes. Perhaps this was because, as Cam 
began to notice, they themselves exhibited certain peculiari- 
ties of conduct. �
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They didn't smoke. It didn't take Lea long to find out, 
for he was a chain smoker himself and often offered a ciga-
rette to one of the boys before he thought. Later he did it 
just as he offered meat to the Catholic boys on Friday. Some 
of their other peculiarities he was longer in ,finding out. 
Sometimes the whole group would stage a pitched battle, 
verbally. During these encounters emotions ,sometimes ran 
high and considerable heat was generated. Questions and 
challenges flew thick and fast, but the two boys •from Cali-
fornia never took an offensive part. If questions were asked, 
they answered their questioners readily and there let the 
matter rest. Eventually, they became a source of. some won-
derment to Cam, who naturally found it difficult to under-
stand anyone who did not love a scrap. 
Perhaps it was because of his curiosity that Cam took to 
dropping around, rather frequently, to the room which Dave 
and Gus, the two aforementioned verbal' non-combatants, 
shared. He found them to be more than ordinarily friendly, 
and during off periods in the evening the three spent much 
time in discussing medicine, the differences in the training 
they had received in their respective colleges and matters 
pertaining to love and life in general, as young men are 
prone to do. Occasionally religion entered into these dis-
cussions. Generally the subject was brought up by Cam, who 
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would voice his irritation at something that had ruffled him 
about the conduct of the Catholic hospital in which they 
found themselves. 
There was always a Bible, generally two of them, on the 
table in the room that the two shared, and they looked well 
worn. On one particular occasion as Cam was chatting with 
Dave and Gus, he noticed, accompanying the two Bibles 
on the table, a thick, heavy-looking book handsomely bound 
in red and gold. 
"What's this," he said, idly picking it up and turning it 
over in his hands, "another of your Yankee medical text-
books?" 
"Why, no," answered Dave, a short, stocky, dark-haired 
lad, the more quick spoken of the roommates, "it's a sort 
of religious history. Very interesting, too, I think. I've just 
been looking up a reference in it." 
"Hm—plenty of it, I'd say," mused Cam, turning it this 
way and that and allowing it to fall open at an occasional 
page. "Does look rather interesting." 
"Take it along and read it, if you like," Gus suggested, 
without betraying his satisfaction that the book had caught 
the attention of their visitor. 
" 'The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan,"' 
Cam read aloud from the title page. "Yes, I believe I'll give 
it a look, if you don't mind. I'm on nights now, and I might 
as well be reading something worth while. Might do me some 
good—who knows? Well, be seeing you," and Cam left 
Dave and Gus, with the thick red book under his arm. 
One reads rapidly and well by the time he gets through 
a modern course in a medical college, and the size and weight 
of the book he had borrowed from Gus did not perturb Cam 
in the least. So it was that before the first night's duty was 
over he had found enough time to burrow deep into the 
opening chapters. 
The early part of the book was a history of the dawn of 
the Protestant Reformation with some discussion of the cor-
rupt conditions then prevailing in some quarters within the 
Catholic Church. As he read, Cam became more and more 
interested in this angle of the book. 
"Ha!" he said to himself. "Wait till I get a chance to tell 
my fine fish-eating Catholic friends about some of this stuff. 
Just wait!" 
Perhaps it was because of this attitude of mind, or per-
haps it was because Cam's own religious welfare never 
troubled him, that the message of the book did not impress 
him other than in an occasional academic sense. Cam had 
grown up in the United Church of Canada, and his parents 
were as strict as the Scotch can be about things of a religious 
nature. His salvation, therefore, had never troubled him; 
he had taken it for granted along with his early member-
ship in the church of his parents. 
At any rate the two boys from California were disap-
pointed if they had hoped that the reading of the book 
would work any transformation in the life of Cameron Lea. 
He returned the book after a couple of weeks, merely re-
marking that he had enjoyed it and thought it well written 
and worth while. Dave and Gus probed no deeper than that 
into Cam's opinion of what he had read. They had long 
before learned that it is not always wise to press the issue 
in things religious. Besides, they quite naturally felt them-
selves apart in this great hospital, run and dominated by a 
group of an alien religion, and they were, as a consequence, 
more than usually timid about advancing their religious 
views. 
"Well, he said he enjoyed it, anyway." This from Dave, 
as he voiced their mutual disappointment that nothing more 
had been forthcoming from the usually volatile Cam. 
"Yes. It's a start. After all, we had no right to expect much 
more. If he's honest, there'll be a way yet to get him inter-
ested." Gus was always quietly optimistic about everything. 
Just now he was more optimistic than usual, for it was only 
a matter of weeks until he was to be married to a sweet-faced 
nurse whose picture adorned his study table, and who was 
to come up from California in the very near future. Looking 
at the portrait on the table, it was impossible for Gus to 
take a gloomy view of any part of the future just now. Dave, 
too, had a pretty definite heart interest, and he and Gus 
agreed that life for young M.D.'s was pretty wonderful, and 
viewed the future—even though it was wartime—with con-
fidence. Just how cataclysmic and disruptive love can be, 
neither of them could have told Cam at that moment—even 
if he had asked him. 
As for Cam, if he had had any very serious thought about 
the book he had just read, it would doubtless have been 
shattered into fragments anyway; for it was the very next 
day that it happened. 
"It" or rather she, came into the picture just as Cam with 
another of his interne friends was leaving the door to the 
surgery to go across the areaway for lunch. Thy met her, 
a bright spot of colour in the gloomy hallway, just inside the 
door. Cam had a recollection of a heart-shaped face sur-
rounding big greenish-blue eyes, a small trim figure, and the 
whole ensemble topped off by a fetching hair-do composed 
of hair of a vividly red hue. 
"Z-z-z! Did you see what I saw?" This from Cam. 
"Not bad—not bad at all. Wonder where she came from?" 
"Where she's going is what I'm interested in. Well, I de-
clare I thought sure the sun was shining for a moment." 
Cam grinned as he ducked his head and began to run to get 
in out of the steady rain that was spattering the areaway. 
Nor was Cam's first impression an illusion, as he discovered 
to his profound satisfaction the next day, when he found 
the red hair atop a queenly bearing clad in a nurse's uni-
form. "Now I know why some patients never want to get 
well," he murmured to himself as he hastily tried to think 
of some excuse for speaking to the vision. 
He was too slow, however, and she was around a corner 
of the hall before he found his usually too-ready tongue. 
This situation was not allowed to continue. She had to 
eat, he told himself, and making full use of his license as an 
interne, he penetrated the nurses' dining hall, and there 
he found his quarry. 
Doctor Cameron Lea himself was worth a second look 
from the feminine viewpoint, and more than one R.N. and 
nurse aid had sighed a bit inwardly at sight of his crisp wavy 
hair, his snapping black eyes, and his trim military bearing. 
It may well be supposed that the ever glamorous officer's 
uniform that he wore contributed to the over-all effect. 
Be that as it may, it was not hard for Cam to find a way to 
an introduction to the object of his fancy, whose name he 
found was Judy. From the introduction it was only a step 
to a proposal of an evening of dancing, which was accepted; 
although if Judy were afflicted by any palpitation of the 
heart, no one could have told it. 
(To be continued next month) 
SOW 
Speed 
(Continued from page 9) 
However, when it comes to advanced speeds we are 
convinced that God still has the monopoly. Impressive 
as 640 miles an hour may be, yet the earth turns lei-
surely on its axis at the rate of 1000 miles an hour. But 
when it comes to its journey around the sun, the earth 
gets more in earnest and travels at the approximate rate 
of 62,500 miles an hour, which would be in excess of 
1000 miles a minute. 
Arcturus is one of the giants of space; in fact so great 
is his size that we would have to multiply our own sun 
by 1000 to make it as large as Arcturus. Yet despite his 
size this speed demon rushes through space at 257 miles 
a second, or 15,420 miles a minute. 
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DIET 
and 
APPENDICITIS 
A
CENTURY ago appendicitis 
was practically unknown in 
medical literature, but at the 
present time the name is a household 
word in civilized countries. Its rapid 
increase in modern times is due pri-
marily to digestive disturbances which 
result from errors in diet. 
By some the appendix is regarded 
as a useless and even a dangerous or-
gan. Dr. James Brunet, clinical tutor 
in the medical wards of the Royal In-
firmary, Edinburgh, Scotland, mid: 
"Some maintain that the appendix 
should be removed from every infant, 
and that this operation, like vaccina-
tion, should be made compulsory." 
Many would gladly dispense with 
the organ, could they do so without 
submitting to surgery. 
Appendicitis, as its name implies, 
is an inflammatory process of the ap-
pendix. This inflammation first in-
volves the enlarged portion of the 
colon known as the cxcum. The dis-
ease is accompanied by local pain on 
the right side near the groin, and is 
frequently associated with a rise of 
temperature, and as the disease ad-
vances there may be vomiting or 
nausea. 
Doctor Strassburger has shown that 
in men who subsist upon ordinary 
meat and fish foods, which readily 
undergo putrefactive changes, mi-
crobes may increase in the colon at 
the rate of trillions every twenty-four 
hours. While these microbes are not al-
ways dangerous, the colon forms a 
fertile breeding place for them. 
Professor Metchnikoff said: "The 
colon especially favours decay of food, 
as it seems to be the rendezvous of an 
innumerable host of microbes." He 
concluded that "man is very, very far 
from being perfectly constructed." 
The difficulty lies NOT in man's con-
struction. By improperly masticating 
By 
D. H. Kress, M.D. 
"Beloved, 1 wish above 
all things that thou may-
est prosper and be in 
health . . ." 3 John 2. 
God has outlined, in the 
Bible, the best and most 
healthful diet for man. 
food, by using wrong combinations of 
foods, by eating foods which readily 
undergo decay, or by eating irritating 
substances such as pepper, mustard, 
pickles, etc., we cause the alimentary 
canal to become inflamed and diseased, 
allowing the mouth of the appendix 
to open and permit particles of food 
to enter. 
Normally, nature has made provi-
sion to discourage the growth of germs 
of disease in the alimentary canal. The 
stomach, when in normal condition, 
instead of forming a culture bed for 
germs, is capable of destroying germs 
of disease. One of the reasons why this 
portion of the alimentary canal is en-
larged is that food may be retained 
there sufficiently long to undergo dis-
infection. The stomach, from pro-
longed abuse, may no longer be able 
to secrete the normal amount of acid; 
then its natural moisture and warmth 
will favour the development and 
growth of microbes. Especially are 
foods which readily undergo decay, 
such as veal, oysters, fish, and other 
flesh foods, a source of danger in such 
a case. Foods which in warm weather 
readily undergo decay on the outside 
and have to be kept on ice, undergo 
the same change within. 
The dog and other flesh-eating ani-
mals are provided with a very highly 
acid gastric juice, and a short, smooth, 
alimentary canal, and no appendix, 
the colon itself being smooth; thus 
the flesh they eat is rapidly passed 
along and expelled. 
Man, instead of having a canal three 
or four times the length of the body, 
as is the case with the flesh-eating crea-
tures, has an alimentary canal from ten 
to twelve times the length of his body. 
Instead of having a smooth, appendix-
less colon, he possesses a large, saccula-
ted, and capacious colon. The pro-
longed retention naturally favours 
putrefaction. 
Hufeland, an eminent German 
physiologist, many years ago made the 
statement in his work, "The Art of 
Prolonging Life," that "in order to 
prolong life, we should use vegetable 
rather than flesh foods, as animal foods 
are more apt to undergo putrefac-
tion, while substances of the vegetable 
kingdom contain acid principles that 
retard our mortal enemy—putrefac-
tion." 
Doctor Chauvel, when Medical In-
spector of the French Army, studied 
the causes of appendicitis in the mili-
tary hospitals. The French Army in 
Africa included 14,000 Europeans and 
17,000 natives, in five years from 1898 
to 1902. Out of 14,000 French and 
Europeans 137 cases of appendicitis 
developed; while in the same time, out 
of 17,000 natives there were but thir-
teen cases. Doctor Chauvel ascribed 
the difference wholly to the difference 
in food. The native Algerians were 
sober; they ate a few varieties of food 
and were vegetarians. 
Other observers have signalized this 
rarity of appendicitis among vegetar-
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WORLD 
AS WE SEE IT! 
A Prophetic Interpretation 
of Current Events! 
Palestine 
PALESTINE is a midget country the importance of 
which in world affairs is and always has been out of 
all proportion to its landed area. As far as acreage is 
concerned, it is not impressive. Its soil is not particu-
larly fertile; it does not contain great forests, neither 
does it have rich deposits of coal or iron. Yet it takes 
a major disaster to crowd Palestinian news off the 
front pages of the daily newspapers. 
One thing that enhances the importance of this 
narrow strip of land lying at the east end of the Medi-
terranean Sea is the fact that it is strategically located—
it is at the centre of the world—it is the hub of the 
continents. An examination of a world map will show 
that Palestine is the hub, with three spokes of the 
wheel running out to the perimeter. Africa and South 
America extend to the southwest, Asia to the east, 
and Europe and North America to the northwest. 
When God placed Abraham in the land of Canaan 
He did so because it was at that time the centre of the 
Old Testament world. It is no less so to-day. The 
Israelites were located in this strategic position that 
they might be bearers of the knowledge of the true 
God to the peoples of their generations. The civili- 
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nation of the Nile valley and the civilization of the 
Euphrates valley as they engaged in war or commerce 
must of necessity pass through Palestine. While it is 
true that they largely failed God in His purpose for 
them, it is nevertheless a fact that He designed that 
they should be a nation of "priests" to surrounding 
nations. 
Palestine is the birthplace of the world's three 
great religions, Judaism, Christianity and Moham-
medanism. The "holy places" of all three lie within 
its boundaries, and particularly within the city of 
Jerusalem. The land is revered by the Jew because 
it was here that God revealed Himself in ancient times 
to the prophets. It was here that Abraham built the 
altar preparatory to offering his son Isaac. David 
reigned at Jerusalem; and Solomon built the great 
temple there about 1000 B.C. The land is revered by 
the Christian because of the life and work of Jesus. 
He was born in Bethlehem, reared in Nazareth. 
taught and performed miracles throughout the length 
and breadth of the land, and was crucified, buried 
and resurrected at Jerusalem. The land is sacred to 
the Mohammedan because of the life and work of 
Mahomet. It is said that it was in the vicinity of Jeru-
salem that Mahomet tied his horse when he ascended 
to heaven. There are more than enough conflicting 
religious interests and animosities in the "Holy Land" 
to incite the so-called "holy war." 
The Holy Land is to-day populated by Jews and 
Arabs and is under the rule of Great Britain. There 
are about two Arabs to one Jew. The Jews and Arabs 
who are contending for the land have a single an-
cestry—they are Shemites, springing from Shem, the 
son of Noah. Of their more recent ancestry, however, 
the Jews are the descendants of the twelve sons of 
Jacob, and the Arabs are the descendants of Ishmael, 
the sons of Keturah, and the Edomites who sprang 
from Esau. The history and manner of life of the 
Arabians fulfil in a very marked manner the words 
of God to Hagar concerning Ishmael: "The angel 
of the Lord said unto her [Hagar], I will multiply 
thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for 
multitude. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, 
Behold thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and 
shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord bath 
heard thy affliction. And he will be a wild man; his 
hand will be against every man, and every man's hand 
against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all 
his brethren." Genesis 16:10-12. 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
The Jews, looking back, regard Palestine as their 
ancestral home, given of God to Abraham and in-
habited by his descendants for two thousand years. 
The Arabs regard it as theirs by right of conquest and 
possession. The British regard the control of the land 
as vital to the economic interests of the Empire, and 
are in a squeeze between the Jews, who demand un-
limited immigration, and the Arabs, who demand 
that the Jews shall not be admitted. 
The current history of the ancient land of the 
prophets is being written in the blood of Jews, Arabs 
and British. Every day ends with a record of terrorist 
group activities, of bombings, of machine gunning, 
of reprisals and counter-reprisals. The "Holy" Land 
is a "troubled" land with the promise of continued and 
greater trouble. This is the land upon which God has 
in prophecy placed His finger as the site of the battle 
of Armageddon, the concluding conflict of earth. 
Movies 
WE FEEL disposed to challenge the conclusions of a 
survey made some time ago of non-movie goers. It 
is said that if a person does not go to the movies he is 
either physically or mentally abnormal. Listing is 
made of five classes as follows: 
"1. Sufferers from such physical defects as poor 
sight and bad hearing. 
"2. Oligophrenics, who have difficulty in linking 
two or three ideas at once and who feel ill at ease 
watching a plot that is at all complicated. 
"3. Claustrophobics, who fear dark, closely packed 
places. 
"4. Supra-normal persons—otherwise known as 
high-brows—who look down on films. 
"5. Those who can't afford to buy tickets." 
We believe there is another class, a class who are 
physically and mentally sound and who have the 
money to buy tickets, but who do not go to the movies 
because they do not wish to pollute their minds with 
the brutality and suggestive immorality prevalent in 
most films. We believe there are a great many Chris-
tian men and women who do not frequent motion-. 
picture houses because they seek to carry out in their 
lives the instruction of Philippians 4:8: 
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, 
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are 
just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things 
are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if 
there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think 
on these things." 
Again the Good Book tells us that as a man thinketh 
in his heart so is he. It is not at all difficult to recognize 
the accuracy of this declaration. The eyes are the 
avenue to the soul, and care should be exercised that 
we look upon those things which will edify and not 
corrupt. We believe that films depicting bedroom 
scenes, nude actresses, murder, rape, love triangles, 
idealized prostitutes, robbery, adultery, seductions, 
abductions, kidnappings and suicides tend to unfit 
one for the holy atmosphere of heaven. 
A thought is sown and an act is reaped. Many 
,couthful criminals testify that they got their first 
ideas of crime from the movie. And they got not only 
the idea there, but in many cases the technique as well. 
It is impossible to tell how many robberies, murders 
DECEMBER,1947 
and sex crimes have been influenced by thrill and 
horror films. Dr. Edgar Dale found that out of 500 
pictures, 82 per cent dealt with the three major 
themes of crime, sex and love. 
The Child Welfare of the League of Nations ana-
lyzed 250 American films and found in them 176 
thieves, 97 murders, 51 cases of adultery, 19 seduc-
tions, 22 abductions, 45 suicides, 35 drunkards and 
25 prostitutes. 
The Chicago Censorship Board took out of 788 
films: 1,811 scenes of assault with guns, with intent 
to kill; 175 scenes of assault with knives; 231 scenes 
of hanging; 757 scenes of attack on women for im-
moral purposes; 929 scenes of nudity and semi-nudity 
and 21 jail breakings. 
Space prohibits the recital of more condemning 
facts. But in the light of these things we submit that 
there is a sixth class who do not view the films. A class 
of perfectly normal people—people who treasure 
purity of mind and heart—people who are heaven 
bound—people who refuse to "defile themselves" with 
the offerings of the silver screen. 
Speed 
SPEED, speed and more speed is the order of these 
present days. New records are being set on the land, 
on the water and in the air. Just recently the jet-
propelled D-558 Skystreak flew to a new world record 
at Muroc, California. The Skystreak averaged 640.7 
miles an hour and in so doing wrested the record from 
Great Britain, where it had been held since 1923. 
Without doubt Britain will endeavour to recover 
this record. 
Six hundred and forty miles an hour is close to the 
speed of sound. Mr. Pride, chief of the bureau of 
aeronautics, said that "the Navy has no expectation 
that the Skystreak can reach the speed of sound, . . . 
but believes information gained from its performance 
will enable experts to design planes to go through the 
sound range." 
Mr. John Cobb, London fur broker and racing-car 
driver, has driven the Railton Special on the Bonne-
ville Salt Flats in Utah at a speed in excess of 400 
miles an hour. Sir Malcolm Campbell will attempt 
to reach 150 miles an hour on the water in his jet-
propelled Bluebird II. 
We stand a little in awe of such speeds. Of course 
our admiration is excited by the men and machines 
that set these heretofore unbelievable records. God 
gave to man a walking speed of four to eight miles an 
hour, and a running speed somewhat in excess of that. 
It was not until the advent of the train, the automo-
bile and the airplane that man was able to exceed to 
any great extent his own power of locomotion. 
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Daniel, the Hebrew captive boy, interpreted the king's dream and revealed unto the aston- 
ished monarch more than 2500 years of the world's history before it transpired. 
G
OD, in the divine order of 
things, gave to an oriental mon-
arch a dream which reached 
from his day to this. King Nebuchad-
nezzar of Babylon, who lived 600 
B.C., was honoured as few men have 
been honoured. As this rugged old 
warrior slept one night, God gave 
him a dream depicting the rise and 
fall of empires stretching centuries, 
even millenniums, into the future. 
When the King awakened he was 
profoundly impressed with the im-
portance of the dream, but worst of 
all, he could not recall a single de-
tail of it. He called in his wise men, 
but they were unable to help him. 
Finally Daniel, a young Hebrew slave, 
volunteered to tell Nebuchadnezzar 
what he had dreamed—and not only 
that, but also to tell him what it meant 
besides. Said Daniel: 
"Thou, 0 king, sawest, and behold a 
great image. This great image, whose 
brightness was excellent, stood before 
thee; and the form thereof was terrible. 
This image's head was of fine gold, his 
breast and his arms of silver, his belly 
and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, 
his feet part of iron and part of clay. 
Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out 
without hands, which smote the image 
upon his feet that were of iron and day, 
and brake them to pieces. Then was the 
iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and 
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the gold, broken to pieces together, and 
became like the chaff of the summer 
threshing floors; and the wind carried 
them away, that no place was found for 
them: and the stone that smote the im-
age became a great mountain, and filled 
the whole earth." Daniel 2:31-35. 
After telling the king his dream. 
the young man proceeded to give the 
interpretation in strikingly graphic 
language. He declared: 
"This is the dream; and we will tell the 
interpretation thereof before the king .... 
Thou art this head of gold. And after 
thee shall arise another kingdom . . . and 
another third kingdom of brass �
And 
the fourth kingdom shall be strong as 
iron." Verses 36-40. 
Yes, as Daniel said, the dream was 
certain and the interpretation thereof 
sure. With accuracy have the great 
kingdoms of earth arisen just as the 
prophet declared, and in just the ex-
act order shown the king. Babylon, 
Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome suc-
cessively ruled the world. Then came 
the division of "the old iron mon-
archy of Rome" into the ten parts. 
And where are we living now, in this 
outline of earth's history? Clearly, in 
the feet of the image. This will, then, 
be a point of special interest to us. 
That its significance and importance 
may be realized, let me quote the ex-
act words of the prophecy: 
"And whereas thou sawest the feet and 
toes, part of potters' clay, and part of 
iron, the kingdom shall be divided.. . 
And as the toes of the feet were part of 
iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom 
shall be partly strong, and partly broken. 
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with 
miry clay, they shall mingle themselves 
with the seed of men: but they shall not 
cleave one to another, even as iron is not 
mixed with clay." Verses 41-43. 
The mixture of iron and clay 
clearly indicates conditions altogether 
different from those which prevailed 
in the consolidated kingdoms of gold, 
silver, brass and iron. And just such 
a difference do we find; for instead of 
one consolidated, united kingdom, as 
heretofore, the feet are divided into 
various kingdoms, fragments of the 
once mighty iron monarchy of Rome. 
Under modern names we know some 
of these kingdoms as England, Ger-
many, France, Italy, Austria, etc. At 
various times great generals of the 
past have made repeated efforts to 
consolidate the kingdoms of Europe 
once more under one great head. 
Charlemagne tried it. Louis XVI 
tried it. A century and a halt ago Na-
poleon was making a herculean effort 
with his powerful armies to unite Eur-
ope under one flag. But each and 
every effort to this end has failed. 
Why? Four short words give the 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
4 
answer. "They shall not cleave." These 
few brief words of Inspiration have 
been stronger than the combined ar-
mies and purposes of the greatest 
leaders of Europe since the dividing 
of the Roman Empire. 
Not only have the efforts of war to 
consolidate the governments of Eu-
rope failed, but another and different 
effort as indicated in the prophecy, 
also first cousins of each other, all five 
being grandsons of Christian IX of 
Denmark. 
"The oldest son of the late Queen 
Victoria of England became Edward 
VII of England. The oldest daughter 
of Queen Victoria, Princess Victoria, 
married Emperor Frederick of Ger-
many, and became the mother of the 
Emperor William of Germany. 
or, as in two instances, brother and 
sister."—Our Lord's Return, pp. 26, 
27. 
And so it goes. Truly they have 
"mingled themselves with the seed of 
men," and yet how utterly have they 
failed to "cleave together." Wonder-
ful fulfilment, isn't it, of the dream 
of the king and its interpretation by 
the prophet of God? The dream has 
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SEES BEYOND 1947 
has also failed: "They shall mingle 
themselves with the seed of men: but 
they shall not cleave one to another." 
The mingling together of the "seed 
of men" would indicate intermarriage 
and the ties of blood relationship. To 
what extent has this phase of the pro-
phetic interpretation of the king's 
dream been fulfilled? 
These relationships are very inter-
esting: 
"The late Christian IX of Den. 
mark had six children, three sons and 
three daughters. His eldest son suc-
ceeded his father on the throne of 
Denmark as Frederick VIII. His eldest 
daughter married Edward, Prince of 
Wales, and became Queen Mother 
Alexandra of England. The second 
son, Prince William, was elected King 
of Greece, known as George V of 
Greece, and was assassinated during 
the late war between the Balkan states 
and Turkey. The second daughter 
married Czar Alexander of Russia, 
and became the Empress Dowager 
Dagmar of Russia. 
"Thus the Empress Dowager Dag-
mar of Russia and Queen Mother Al-
exandra of England were sisters. 
"Frederick VIII of Denmark had 
been succeeded on the throne by his 
eldest son, who was Christian X of 
Denmark. His second son, Prince 
Charles, was elected as king of Nor-
way, where he reigned as Haakon 
VII. Thus the kings of Norway and 
Denmark were brothers. 
"The son of the Empress Dowager 
Dagmar was the Czar Nicholas II of 
Russia; a son of Queen Mother Alex- 
andra was George V of England; and 
a son of George V of Greece was Con- 
stantine X of Greece. Thus the king 
of England and the rulers of Russia 
and Greece were first cousins of the 
kings of Norway and Denmark, and 
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"Thus the king of England and em-
peror of Germany were first cousins, 
both being grandchildren of Queen 
Victoria. 
"A sister of Emperor William of 
Germany, Princess Sophia, married 
Constantine X of Greece. Therefore 
the queen of Greece and the emperor 
of Germany were first cousins of 
the king of England. And, be it re-
membered, Constantine, the king of 
Greece, as well as his wife, was also a 
first cousin of the king of England. 
"Czar Nicholas II married Princess 
Alix of Germany, a first cousin of both 
King George of England and Em-
peror William of Germany, being 
also a grandchild of Queen Victoria. 
Haakon VII of Norway married Prin-
cess Maude of England, a sister of 
King George of England. Hence the 
czarina of Russia, the queen of Nor-
way, and the queen of Greece were 
all first cousins, being grandchildren 
of Queen Victoria, while the queen 
of Norway and the king of England 
were brother and sister. The emperor 
of Germany and Sophia of Greece 
were also brother and sister. 
"Nor is this all. The queen mother 
of Spain was an archduchess of Aus-
tria. And King Alfonso XIII married 
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Alfred R. Ogden 
Princess Ena, another granddaughter 
of Queen Victoria, and therefore the 
king of England, the emperor of Ger-
many, the queen of Greece, the czar-
ina of Russia, the queen of Spain, and 
the queen of Norway were all grand-
children of the late Queen Victoria, 
being either first cousins of each other, 
been in process of fulfilment for 
nearly three thousand years, but the 
end is not yet. While we are living in 
the days of "these kings," the most 
important part of the dream is yet 
to be fulfilled. Since all the past has 
been so accurately and definitely ful-
filled, may we not as truly expect the 
final and complete fulfilment of the 
last part of the dream? What remains? 
What comes next? 
"In the days of these kings [the nations 
that came out of the Roman Empire] 
shall the God of heaven set up a king-
dom, which shall never be destroyed: and 
the kingdom shall not be left to other 
people, but it shall break in pieces and 
consume all these kingdoms, and it shall 
stand forever. Forasmuch as thou sawest 
that the stone was cut out of the moun-
tain without hands, and that it brake in 
pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the sil-
ver, and the gold; the great God hath 
made known to the king what shall come 
to pass hereafter: and the dream is cer-
tain, and the interpretation thereof sure." 
Verses 44, 45. 
Every imaginable form of human 
government has been tried by man 
through the ages for the betterment 
of the human family, but none has 
succeeded in bringing lasting peace 
and happiness to the nations of earth. 
The time is here, according to the 
prophecy of Daniel, when the great 
God of heaven Himself is going to take 
the affairs of earth into His own hand. 
The Prince of Peace—Jesus Christ—
is about to be given the kingship. 
(See Isaiah 9:6, 7.) And that kingdom 
shall never be destroyed. The stone—
Christ—is soon to come back to earth 
to usher in a better condition than 
has hitherto existed since the fall of 
man and the entrance of sin into our 
world. "He hath on His vesture 
and on His thigh a name written, 
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF 
LORDS." Revelation 19:16. 
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ESUS CHRIST is the great cen-
tral figure in the work of re- 
demption. In every 'age He has 
been the one and only hope of nun 
from the thi-aldom of sin, from the 
otherwise inevitable destiny of eternal 
death. The disobedience of our first 
parents left the human family without 
hope. The divine sentence had been 
pronounced, and in the natural order 
of events its execution would be car-
ried out. But a compassionate Re-
deemer, long before the creation of 
the world, had foreseen man's dire 
extremity, and in the councils of eter-
nity the plan of salvation had been 
devised. To the father of the race 
there is given the promise of a Saviour. 
Addressing the great deceiver as 
represented by the serpent, the Cre-
ator declares: "I will put enmity 
between thee and the woman, and be-
tween thy seed and her seed; it shall 
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise 
His heel." Genesis 3:15. Here is the 
first recorded promise of the Saviour 
of mankind. But succeeding pages of 
the Divine Record teem with the re-
iteration of this promise, and reveal 
the manner in which Adam and his 
posterity might avail themselves of the 
gracious provisions of God's mercy, 
and find restoration to a state of 
purity and to their Eden possession. 
From this time forward the worship 
of God was to be expressed by a 
system of types and sacrificial offerings 
prefiguring the promised seed of the 
woman. Abel in his worship brought 
of the firstlings of his flock, showing 
by the shedding of blood his faith in 
a coming Redeemer. All through the 
patriarchal age we find reference to 
a sacrificial system of. worship, where-
by these ancient men of God demon-
strated their faith in the Saviour to 
come. In this period every man stood 
as the priest of his own household, 
and upon him the ministry of this 
service devolved. 
In the calling of Israel out of Egypt, 
God chose a particular tribe—the 
tribe of Levi—to minister before Him 
in sacred service; but He limited the 
priesthood to one family, that of 
Aaron. He also instituted a formal 
service suited to the needs of the na-
tion. One of the first directions given 
to Moses was, "Let them make Me a 
sanctuary; that I may dwell among 
them." Exodus 25:8. 
In its construction this sanctuary 
was made of upright boards, covered 
with gold, with a roof of various cover-
ings to protect it from the elements. 
It was divided into two apartments, 
separated by a curtain called the 
"second veil." A similar veil, or cur-
tain, constituted the door of the first 
apartment. 
The first apartment of the sanctuary 
contained, in the way of furniture, a 
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golden candlestick with seven bowls, 
or lamps, a table of shewbread, and 
an altar of incense. The second apart-
ment of the sanctuary contained what 
was called the "ark of the covenant." 
The ark took its name from the law 
of God, which, written on tables of 
stone, was deposited in this recepta-
cle. The top of the ark constituted the 
mercy seat. On either end of the mer-
cy seat was there the image of an 
angel, their wings overspreading the 
mercy seat. Here under these over-
spreading wings was manifested the 
holy Shekinah, representing the pres-
ence of Jehovah. (See Hebrews 9:1-4.) 
Into the first apartment the priests 
entered daily to perform the regular 
service. The second apartment was 
entered but once a year, and then only 
by the high priest. (Hebrews 9:6, 7.) 
Surrounding the tabernacle was a 
court, which was enclosed by hang-
ings or curtains. In this stood the altar 
of burnt offering. Upon the altar were 
offered the sacrifices made by fire, and 
upon the horns of the altar the blood 
of the victims was sprinkled. 
The Sanctuary Service for Sin 
The daily service of the sanctuary 
consisted of a burnt offering morning 
and evening for the entire nation, the 
burning of incense upon the altar of 
incense, and such offerings as individ-
uals brought in expiation of their 
sins. These offerings were to he with-
out blemish, typifying Christ, the per-
fect sacrifice, to whom the penitent 
in faith looked forward. 
The repentant sinner brought his 
offering to the door of the sanctuary. 
He placed his hands on its head, con-
fessing over it his sins, thus in figure 
transferring them to the victim. With 
his own hand he then took the life of 
his offering. In some offerings the 
blood was taken by the priest, carried 
into the sanctuary, and sprinkled be-
fore the veil behind which was the 
mercy seat. This service involved a con-
fession that the penitent had violated 
the law of God contained in the ark, 
and a plea for mercy and divine grace 
from God, whose presence was repre-
sented by the holy Shekinah. (Exo-
dus 1 to 4.) In other offerings the blood 
was not carried into the sanctuary. 
but the flesh of the offering was eaten 
by the priest in the court of the taber-
nacle. (Leviticus 6:26.) 
By these services the sins of the 
penitent were transferred in figure, 
either by the blood of the animal of 
by its flesh, into the sanctuary. This 
daily transfer of sin defiled the sanc-
tuary, and necessitated its cleansing, 
not from physical impurity, but from 
sin. The cleansing was a yearly serv-
ice, performed on the tenth day of the• 
seventh month, and was for the pur-
pose of removing the sins from the 
sanctuary. 
For this service Aaron brought two 
kids to the door of the tabernacle. 
Casting lots, he chose one kid for 
the Lord and the other for Azazel, or 
the scapegoat. The goat on which the 
Lord's lot fell was then slain, and his 
blood was carried into the second 
apartment of the sanctuary, and sprin-
kled upon the mercy seat and before 
the mercy seat. (Leviticus 16:5, 15.) 
We read further of the work of the 
priest in this work of cleansing: 
"He shall make an atonement for 
the holy place, because of the unclean- 
ness of the children of Israel, and be-
cause of their transgressions in all 
their sins: and so shall he do for the 
tabernacle of the congregation, that 
remaineth among them in the midst 
of their uncleanness." "Aaron shall 
lay both his hands upon the head of 
the live goat, and confess over him all 
the iniquities of the children of Israel, 
and all their transgressions in all their 
sins, putting them upon the head of 
the goat, and shall send him away by 
the hand of a fit man into the wilder-
ness: and the goat shall bear upon him 
all their iniquities unto a land not 
inhabited: and he shall let go the goat 
in the wilderness." Leviticus 16:16, 
21, 22. 
This day of atonement was a day 
of prayer and humiliation. In deep 
heart-searching, Israel confessed their 
sins and sought pardon and recon-
ciliation. It was in reality a day of 
judgment, for he who did not take 
part in this solemn work of separating 
from sin, was cut off from his people. 
(Leviticus 16:29-31; 23:28, 29.) • 
What was the meaning of the daily 
and yearly service carried on in the 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
CHRIST ea T 
R H. 
For fifteen centuries the typical lamb was offered, but at last the day came when Christ, 
the true Lamb of God, offered Himself as the propitiation for men's sins. 
PE aid 
ANT/TYPE 
earthly sanctuary? What was its sig-
nificance? It was typical of the work of 
Christ in the heavenly temple above. 
The earthly tabernacle was a type of 
the true tabernacle pitched by God 
and not by man. (Hebrews 8:2.) The 
blood of the sacrificial offerings was 
a type of the precious blood of Christ 
shed for the salvation of the human 
family. (Hebrews 9:12.) The priests 
in the earthly sanctuary service served 
unto the example of heavenly things, 
representing the work of Christ, the 
great high priest. (Hebrews 8:5.) And 
even the articles of furniture in 
the first and second apartments of the 
earthly sanctuary were typical of the 
same articles found in the heavenly 
temple. (See Revelation 4:5; 8:3; 
11:19.) 
The daily and yearly service of the 
earthly sanctuary was typical of the 
priestly ministry of Christ in the 
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heavenly temple. (Hebrews 9:11, 12.) 
In the earthly service the sins were 
transferred to the sanctuary in figure. 
In the heavenly temple they are trans-
ferred in fact, and an account is kept 
of them in the books of record. The 
blood of bulls and goats could not 
take away sin. Sin could be forgiven 
in the old dispensation, even as now, 
only through the blood of Christ. 
(Hebrews 9:8-14.) Then the penitent 
looked forward to a Saviour to come, 
and expressed his faith in Christ's 
atoning sacrifice by the shedding of 
the blood of his sacrifice. Now we look 
back to Calvary, expressing our faith 
by the ordinances of baptism and com-
munion. The priests of old offered 
daily and yearly sacrifices. The sacri-
fice of Christ was once for all. (He-
brews 9:25, 26.) 
The cleansing of the earthly sanc-
tuary was a type of a similar work to 
be done in the heavenly sanctuary at 
the close of Christ's ministry. 
"It was therefore necessary that the 
patterns of things in the heavens 
should be purified with these; but the 
heavenly things themselves with better 
sacrifices than these." Hebrews 9:23. 
This cleansing, as in the case of the 
typical cleansing, is not from physical 
impurity, but a cleansing of the 
heavenly temple records from sin. 
And as in the case of the earthly serv-
ice, the cleansing is a work of judg-
ment, an examination of the record 
of men's lives to determine who have 
availed themselves of the provisions 
of God's grace, and are thus entitled 
to have their sins blotted out. This 
work of judgment is definitely coupled 
by the apostle with the work of cleans-
ing. (Hebrews 9:23-28.) If it be ob-
jected that a judgment is not neces-
sary for the information of Him who 
knows the end from the beginning, the 
answer is that the judgment is not for 
the information of God but that the 
myriads of created intelligences tak-
ing part in the judgment may know 
that God is just, and that no mistakes 
have been made. It is followed by that 
acclaim of praise foretold in Revela-
tion 15:3: "Great and marvellous are 
Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just 
and true are Thy ways, Thou King of 
saints." 
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TRUST and OBEY 
T
HE Bible declares concerning 
Christ's second coming, "The 
Lord Jesus shall be revealed 
from heaven with His mighty angels, 
in flaming fire taking vengeance on 
them that know not God [that keep 
not His commandments], and that 
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus 
Christ [that keep not His faith]," 
"whom the Lord shall consume with 
the spirit of His mouth, and shall de-
stroy with the brightness of His com-
ing." 2 Thessalonians 1:7, 8; 2:8. What 
a terrible end for those who might 
easily have been saved, for Jesus says, 
"My yoke is easy, and My burden is 
light." Matthew 11:30. The last gen-
eration is about to be destroyed in the 
near future by the "flaming fire" of 
the coming of Christ in consuming 
glory. Some anxiously ask, "What 
shall I do?" The answer, given so 
long beforehand through prophecy, is, 
"Here are they that keep the com-
mandments of God, and the faith of 
Jesus." Revelation 14:12. 
Full Salvation by Faith in Jesus 
Some long to keep God's command-
ments, but as they have not had a 
good Christian experience, they trem-
ble in the balance of obedience. 
Others are willing to obey, but as they 
have had no experience at all as 
Christians, they also tremble in the 
balance. Every such hesitating one can 
be of good courage and do as so many 
others have done, grasp by a simple 
yet firm faith the salvation so fully 
and freely offered through Jesus in 
Isaiah 53:5: "He was wounded for 
our transgressions, He was bruised for 
our iniquities: the chastisement of our 
peace was upon Him; and with His 
stripes we are healed." This will bring 
to them a thorough Christian expe-
rience with abundant power to obey. 
One longing searcher after salvation, 
after reading these wonderful words, 
exclaimed: "Now I have found it! 
Here is healing for my sin-sick soul! 
Blessed be His name, I am healed!" 
Another earnest seeker, a dying sea 
captain, asked for his name to be read 
into this precious scripture, which was 
done: "He was wounded for John 
Coutts' transgressions, He was bruised 
for John Coutts' iniquities: the chas-
tisement of John Coutts' peace was 
upon Him; and with His stripes John 
Coutts is healed." As the dying man 
grasped firmly by faith this great sal-
vation it became a fact. He was bless-
edly saved, dying happy in his Sav-
iour's love. So if you are still without 
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the salvation that Jesus has so fully 
and freely provided, 0 dear reader, 
"Why should you do without Him? 
It is not yet too late; 
He has not closed the day of grace, 
He has not shut the gate. 
He calls youl Hush! He calls you: 
He would not have you go 
Another step without Him, 
Because He loves you so." 
Then if you are still without the 
full salvation of Jesus will you not 
stretch every nerve to grasp it by an 
unswerving, resistless faith, saying 
with all your heart, "I do accept it! I 
have found it! Blessed be His name, 
I am healed! He was wounded for 
my transgressions, He was bruised for 
my iniquities: the chastisement of my 
peace was upon Him; and with His 
stripes I am healed." 
The True Sabbath of Jesus 
To the honest in heart who have 
given careful consideration to the var-
ious scriptural relationships that ex-
ist between Jesus and the Sabbath, 
the truth stands out as clearly as if 
the Saviour stood before them as He 
appeared on earth, with His counte-
nance lighted up by the glory of God, 
His look of compassion blessing the 
soul, His sympathetic voice a comfort 
to the heart, His tender tones and 
weighty words bringing deep convic-
tion of the truth, as though He were 
thus answering some longing inquir-
er: 
"Does not the Bible reveal the fact 
that in close unity with My Father as 
His only begotten Son, I established 
the Sabbath at the close of creation, 
to be kept as long as man should dwell 
on the earth? As thy divine Teacher 
did I not show when on earth that all 
My Father's commandments are to be 
kept by My followers if they would in-
herit eternal life? Was I not faithful 
on earth in giving My own perfect ex-
ample of Sabbath keeping as a carpen-
ter, during My ministry, and in rest-
ing on the Sabbath in the tomb after 
finishing the work of redemption on 
the cross? Should not My perfect ex-
ample be followed by thee? 
"During all the New Testament pe-
riod was I not honoured by the keep-
ing of the Sabbath by the apostles and 
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John W. Halliday 
believers for all My work of salvation 
in their behalf, My sinless life on 
earth, My death for their sake on the 
cross, My resurrection, My work in 
heaven in presenting their prayers be-
fore God? Was not the day thus kept 
the Sabbath of the fourth command-
ment, the seventh day of the week, 
and should not the seventh day there-
fore still be observed as the Sabbath? 
Although My followers in the early' 
Christian centuries lost the purity of 
the faith and the knowledge of the 
true Sabbath, is not the Sabbath 
commandment still binding in My 
Father's sight and Mine, and is it 
not still binding upon thee to-day? 
"According to prophecy, is not the 
Sabbath now being divinely restored 
to My followers on earth, and are not 
the blessings great and many that 
rest upon those who faithfully keep 
it? Is not the Sabbath the seal of 
My Father's creative power, and au-
thority, and rulership, and is it not 
now being divinely restored to His un-
changeable law and to His children 
on earth? Did I not richly sustain 
Sabbath-keepers in Old and New Tes-
tament times, have I not done so ever 
since, and would I not thus as richly 
sustain thee also under all circum-
stances in its keeping?" 
The Matchless Love of the Crucified 
Saviour 
"The scenes of Calvary call for the 
deepest emotions. Upon this subject 
you will be excusable if you manifest 
enthusiasm. That Christ, so excellent. 
so innocent, should suffer such a pain-
ful death, bearing the weight of the 
sins of the world, our thoughts and 
imagination can never fully reach, so 
that we can comprehend the length, 
the breadth, the height, and the 
depth, of such amazing love. The con-
templation of the matchless love of 
the Saviour, should fill and absorb 
the mind, touch and melt the soul, re-
fine and elevate the affections, and 
completely transform the whole char-
acter."—The Sufferings of Christ, p. 
42. 
The Saviour's sufferings on the 
cross became so great that His physi-
cal nature could endure no more and 
His heart burst asunder. So we read, 
"Jesus, when He had cried again with 
a loud voice, yielded up the ghost." 
Matthew 27:50. Thus it has been truly 
written: 
"It was not the spear thrust, it was 
not the pain of the cross, that caused 
the death of Jesus. That cry, uttered 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
s 
'with a loud voice,' at the moment of 
death, the stream of blood and water 
that flowed from His side, declared 
that He died of a broken heart. His 
heart was broken by mental anguish. 
He was slain by the sin of the world." 
—The Desire of Ages, p. 772. 
It is recorded that when the body 
of Jesus was laid in the sepulchre, 
"the Sabbath drew on." Luke 23:54. 
Jesus said regarding His life before 
He was crucified, "I have power to 
lay it down, and I have power to take 
it again." John 10:18. He said also 
through David, in foretelling His rest 
after death, "My flesh also shall rest 
in hope. For Thou wilt not leave My 
soul in hell; neither wilt Thou suf-
fer Thine Holy One to see corrup-
tion." Psalm 16:9, 10. It is therefore 
quite clear that our divine Redeemer 
did indeed rest in the quietness of the 
tomb from His agonizing work of re-
demption on the cross, as He lay with 
His nail-pierced hands folded in peace 
over His broken heart, faithful still, 
in death as in life, to His Father's and 
His own sacred Sabbath! So through 
its peaceful hours He had 
Rest for His nail-pierced hands, 
Rest for His thorn-pierced brow, 
Rest for His anguished, broken heart, 
Rest from all suff'ring now! 
Following Jesus Fully 
"When My heart was broken at 
death over the sins of the world, was 
it not broken for thee, that thou 
mightest be forgiven and cleansed and 
made strong to keep God's command-
ments? I Myself kept the Sabbath, up-
held it by My teaching, and rested 
on it in the tomb after paying the ut-
termost price on the cross to redeem 
thee! Wilt thou not keep it with Me 
as thy great Helper? If thou wilt I 
will ever strengthen thee in its keep-
ing, for I suffered much that I might 
do so! 'If thou wilt enter into life, 
keep the commandments.' I have 
kept My Father's commandments.' 
'Follow Me.' And then, if thou shalt 
'ask anything in My name, I will 
do it.' Oh, wilt thou not thus fully 
follow Me?" 
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All nature and nature's 
creatures, except man, 
trust and obey God. Only 
man, God's crowning work 
of creation, to whom He 
gave the power of choice, 
is distrustful. 
"They crowned Him with thorns, 
He was beaten with stripe's; 
He was smitten and nailed to the tree, 
But the pain in His heart 
Was the hardest to bear, 
The heart that was broken for me!" 
The Father above unites with the 
appeal of Jesus the fervent authority 
of His Sabbath commandment: "Re-
member the Sabbath day, to keep it 
holy. . . . But the seventh day is the 
Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Exodus 
20:8-10. With what deep assurance He 
promises to provide for those who 
obey and keep His holy day: "If thou 
turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, 
. . . I will cause thee to ride upon the 
high places of the earth, and feed 
thee." Isaiah 58:13, 14. How tenderly 
He waits and longs to cleanse from all 
past sins, so that nothing shall stand 
in the way of obedience: "Come now, 
. . . though your sins be as scarlet, 
they shall be as white as snow." Isaiah 
1:18. What wondrous strength and 
steadfastness He promises to those 
thus cleansed: "I am thy God: I will 
strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; 
yea, I will uphold thee." Isaiah 41:10. 
After you ascend in glory with Jesus 
to heaven, and pass through the 
pearly portals of His holy city, so ex-
cellent in beauty, whose walls are of 
jasper and whose streets are of pure 
gold, and are presented by Him "fault- 
less" before the throne of God with 
"exceeding joy" (Jude 24) , what rap-
turous joy will overflow from the 
Father's heart as He beholds you won-
drously saved in the innumerable 
multitude of the ransomed, and with 
what unspeakable joy He will fulfil 
His wonderful promise, "He will re-
joice over thee with joy; . . . He will 
joy over thee with singing." Zephaniah 
3:17. And as you behold your beloved 
Redeemer with "many crowns" (Rev-
elation 19:12) upon His royal brow, 
His whole being outshining with re-
splendent glory, the wounds of the 
cross especially glorified, and His 
countenance radiant with inexpress-
ible love, with what happiness you 
also will "rejoice with joy unspeak-
able and full of glory" (1 Peter 
1:8) as you make richest melody with 
harp and voice in sounding forth His 
highest praise, with words as full of 
grateful love and fervent devotion as 
are these that follow: 
"Crown Him the Lord of love! 
Behold His hands and side, 
Those wounds, yet visible above, 
In beauty glorified. 
"All hail! Redeemer, hail! 
For Thou hast died for me; 
Thy praise shall never, never fail 
Throughout eternity." 
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IKE ANSWERS 
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Send your 
Dear Bible Answerman: In a discussion 
the other day the question came up in 
regard to the devil. One lady asked the 
question, "Where did the devil come 
from?" Since no one could give a satis-
factory answer from the Bible, I said I 
would send the question to your column. 
W.W.D., Sask. 
It is certain that this being who 
set himself up in opposition against 
God had a very definite origin. How-
ever, it is a sad fact, that although 
the Bible renders a clear answer to the 
question, many people are not ac-
quainted with it. We learn from Isaiah 
14:12-14 that Satan's name was not 
always Satan. The time was when he 
was a high and exalted angel in heaven 
by the name of Lucifer: "How art thou 
fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of 
the morning! how art thou cut down 
to the ground, which didst weaken the 
nations! For thou hast said in thine 
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will 
exalt my throne above the stars of 
God: I will sit also upon the mount 
of the congregation, in the sides of the 
north: I will ascend above the heights 
of the clouds; I will be like the Most 
High." 
It is believed that Lucifer stood next 
to the throne of God, probably occu-
pying a position next to that of God's 
Son. In the passing of time he became 
dissatisfied with his appointed posi-
tion, and, as we see from the Scrip-
ture, sought to exalt himself above 
God and His throne. The result of 
this self-exaltation was disastrous 
for Lucifer, for millions of heaven's 
angels, and for the human race. As 
Lucifer placed himself in rebellion 
against God and His government he 
influenced many of the loyal angels 
to join him. Revelation 12:7-9 gives 
us the record of what occurred next. 
"And there was war in heaven: 
Michael and His angels fought against 
the dragon; and the dragon fought 
and his angels, and prevailed not; 
neither was their place found any 
more in heaven. And the great dragon 
was cast out, that old serpent, called 
the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth 
the whole world: he was cast out into 
the earth, and his angels were cast out 
with him." 
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Upon being cast out of heaven to 
the earth Lucifer, or Satan, set about 
obtaining the dominion of the earth 
which God had given to Adam. At 
the time of creation God gave to Adam 
the dominion, or kingship, of the 
whole world. It was the divine plan 
that as the earth was populated Adam 
was to be the ruler. However, in 
order to test the loyalty of Adam 
and his wife, God prohibited the pair 
from eating of the fruit of one particu-
lar tree that grew in the midst of the 
garden of Eden. It was upon this point 
that Satan succeeded in accomplish-
ing their disaffection. We read about 
it in Genesis 3:1-6. 
"Now the serpent was more subtil 
than any beast of the field which the 
Lord God had made. And he said unto 
the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye 
shall not eat of every tree of the gar-
den? And the woman said unto the 
serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the 
trees of the garden: but of the fruit 
of the tree which is in the midst of the 
garden, God hath said, Ye shall not 
eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest 
ye die. And the serpent said unto the 
woman, Ye shall not surely die: for 
God doth know that in the day ye eat 
thereof, then your eyes shall be 
opened, and ye shall be as gods, know- 
ing good and evil. And when the 
woman saw that the tree was good for 
food, and that it was pleasant to the 
eyes, and a tree to be desired to make 
one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, 
and did eat, and gave also unto her 
husband with her; and he did eat." 
From that time to this the rebellion 
started so long ago in heaven itself 
has been carried on here on the earth, 
and every person is either on God's 
side against Satan, or on Satan's• side 
against God. Rather than have the 
human race alienated forever, God 
sent Jesus, His only Son, to give His 
life and so to provide a means where-
by man, if he would, might be saved. 
And in addition to that we have the 
promise of the ultimate destruction 
of Satan, the great rebel of the uni-
verse. This is clear from Revelation 
20:10: "The Devil that deceived them 
was cast into the lake of fire and brim-
stone. . . ." And also from Ezekiel 
28:18, 19: "Thou bast defiled thy 
sanctuaries by the multitude of thine 
iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traf-
fic; therefore will I bring forth a fire 
from the midst of thee, it shall devour 
thee, and I will bring thee to ashes 
upon the earth in the sight of all them 
that behold thee. All they that know 
thee among the people shall be aston-
ished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, 
and never shalt thou be any more." 
Dear Bible Ammerman: Revelation 6: 
9-11 seems to teach the conscious state of 
the dead. May I have an interpretation 
of this difficult passage? 
The verses in question are those 
which have to do with the opening 
of the fifth seal. There are seven seals 
in all, and each one covers a particular 
period of time. Perhaps I should quote 
verses 9-11: "When he had opened 
the fifth seal, I saw under the altar 
the souls of them that were slain for 
the Word of God, and for the testi-
mony which they held: and they cried 
with a loud voice, saying, How long, 
0 Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not 
judge and avenge our blood on them 
that dwell on the earth? And white 
robes were given unto every one of 
them; and it was said unto them, that 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
they should rest yet for a little season, 
until their fellow servants also and 
their brethren, that should be killed 
as they were, should be fulfilled." 
These verses are generally used to 
support the proposition of the con-
scious state of the dead. These souls 
are placed under the altar in heaven, 
according to the prevailing view. How-
ever, this cannot be correct because 
we do not read in the Bible of an altar 
of sacrifice in heaven. The only altar 
spoken of there is the altar of incense. 
Neither can we conceive that God 
would shut up souls in heaven under 
an altar. According to the represen-
tation the souls under the altar cry 
out to God for vengeance. They seem 
to be obsessed with the idea that God 
must punish their enemies. They cry 
unto Him day and night to do it. We 
cannot conceive that anyone placed in 
the glorious and joyous atmosphere 
of heaven could be so minded. 
It is evident that these souls are not 
under an altar in heaven. We must 
not forget that the Bible is written in 
the kind of language that all of us use 
every day. We use figures of speech 
continually and have no difficulty in 
understanding one another. We say, 
"The kettle boils," when as a matter 
of fact it is the water that boils. Again 
someone says, "She gave him her hand 
in marriage," but we understand that 
the bridegroom got more than the 
bride's hand. In this case personifi-
cation is used. Webster defines per-
sonification as a figure of speech which 
represents inanimate objects as en-
dowed with personal attributes. The 
Bible commonly uses personification, 
as in James 5:4: "The hire of the 
labourers who have reaped down your 
fields, . . . crieth: and the cries of 
them which have reaped are entered 
into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth." 
We have another instance in Habak-
kuk 2:11: "For the stone shall cry out 
of the wall, and the beam out of the 
timber shall answer it." And still an-
other is found in Genesis 4:9, 10, 
where the blood of Abel is said to cry 
from the ground. 
The martyred dead of all ages lie 
here upon the earth, and they are 
said to cry out to God for vengeance 
even as did the blood of Abel. Albert 
Barnes states it as follows: "We are 
not to suppose that this literally, 
occurred, and that John actually saw 
ihe souls of the martyrs beneath the 
altar—for the whole representation, 
is symbolical; nor are we to suppose 
that the injured and the wronged in 
heaven actually pray for vengeance 
on those who wronged them, or that 
the redeemed in heaven will continue 
to pray with reference to things on 
earth; but it may be fairly inferred 
from this that there will be as real a 
remembrance of the wrongs of the 
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persecuted, the injured, and the op-
pressed, as if such prayer were offered 
there; and that the oppressor has as 
much to dread from the divine ven-
geance as if those whom he has injured 
should cry in heaven to God who hears 
prayer, and who takes vengeance." —
Notes on Revelation 6 as quoted in 
Daniel and the Revelation by Uriah 
Smith, p. 411. 
Dear Bible Anawerman: Please inter-
pret Hebrews 4:8, 9. Quebec. 
Hebrews 4:8, 9 tells us this: "For 
if Jesus had given them rest, then 
would He not afterward have spoken 
of another day. There remaineth 
therefore a rest to the people of God." 
The first eleven verses of Hebrews 
4 are devoted to the matter of Sabbath 
rest, in which the physical and mental 
rest of the Sabbath are used to illus-
trate the spiritual rest that comes to 
the sinner who has come to Christ. 
However, in connection with the 
teaching in these verses of the spiritual 
rest that the sinner may find in 
Christ, there is much said in support 
of the observance of the Sabbath day. 
There are those who declare that 
Jesus changed the day of rest and wor-
ship from Saturday the seventh day 
to Sunday the first day of the week. 
But if He did, why does the apostle 
say here, "would He not afterward 
have spoken of another day?" It is 
altogether unreasonable to tell us 
that Christ made such an important 
change and forgot to say anything 
about it. This matter should be set-
tled in every candid mind by the next 
statement, "There remaineth there-
fore a rest to the people of God." Jesus 
did not make a change, therefore the 
Sabbath remains, and the obligation 
remains. 
The marginal reading of verse nine 
seeks to clarify even further the state-
ment, "There remaineth therefore a 
rest ["keeping of a Sabbath," margin] 
to the people of God." 
The seventh day Sabbath is a fact 
of creation—just as much a fact of 
creation as man himself. On each of 
the creation days God brought the 
earth into a more perfect state. On the 
sixth day He made the animals and 
man, and on the seventh day He made 
the Sabbath day. True, He did not 
make it by working on it—He made it 
by resting on it, and so gave a divine 
example. The seventh-day Sabbath is 
therefore the "birthday of the world," 
and is as much a part of the planned 
creation as is the earth and all its crea-
tures. It must forever remain a fact of 
time that God rested on the seventh 
day. Of course Jesus did not speak of 
"another day." 
Dear Mr. Answerman: Please tell me 
how I can recognize the false prophets 
and false teachers which are spoken of 
in 2 Peter 2:1. G.A.B., Que. 
Satan has seen to it that there has 
always been false prophets and teach-
ers. It is his method of deceiving and 
destroying men and women. Prior to 
and during the time of Christ's minis-
try Satan had brought in the false 
doctrine that when the Messiah came 
He would set up a temporal kingdom 
and would greatly exalt the Jewish 
nation. It was commonly believed 
that He would break off the yoke of 
Roman bondage. The leading Jews 
believed this, and the disciples, de-
spite the fact that Jesus told them 
over and over again that such was not 
the case, also believed it. The very 
night in which Jesus was arrested the 
disciples were quarrelling about who 
should be the greatest in the kingdom. 
Judas sold Christ to the Jews with the 
idea of forcing the issue and compel-
ling Christ to assert His power and 
establish the earthly kingdom they 
expected Him to set up at that time. 
But despite the fact that everybody 
believed the Messiah would establish 
a temporal kingdom it was a false doc-
trine, it was not according to the Bi-
ble, and the kingdom was therefore 
not set up. 
The question is, "How can these 
false teachers be detected?" God gives 
the answer in the Bible, and if we will 
take careful heed to it we will never 
be deceived. The rule is found in 
Isaiah 8:20: "To the law and to the 
testimony: if they speak not accord-
ing to this Word, it is because there 
is no light in them." God's Word con-
tains all the light and truth necessary 
to salvation. It declares the truth on 
every point of doctrine to-day, even 
as it did in Old Testament times on 
the point of Christ's spiritual king-
dom. It is only necessary that we study 
and search the Scriptures until we 
know what they teach, then we may 
be sure that all which does not co-
incide with them is spurious. 
17 
Wandering 
Protestants 
By 
H. F. De'Ath 
S
OME time ago the Archbishop of 
the Church of England, the 
Cardinal of the Roman Church 
in England, and the President of the 
Federation of Free Churches agreed 
on "ten points" on which these three 
representative bodies in Christendom 
could unite and work together. 
Stirred by this influential lead, the 
combined churches of these bodies in 
Buxton, England, formed a repre-
sentative Christian Council, which 
has proved, according to its honorary 
secretary, Sidney F. Wicks, a signal 
success. 
The council, it seems, comprises six 
Anglicans, six Roman Catholics, and 
six Free Churchmen. "Our modest 
constitution," writes Mr. Wicks in the 
British Weekly, "simply stated that 
the purpose of the council was to pro-
vide a means of consultation on mat-
ters of common concern, to be a body 
which could appeal, and be appealed 
to, as representative of Christian opin-
ion (i.e., on Christian social ethics) in 
Buxton, and to take joint action." 
As to the practical achievements 
of this council, Mr. Wicks continues: 
"What we have done, first on the 
council, one-third of which is com-
posed of clergy and ministers, and 
then in conferences, is to cultivate the 
habit of comradeship." (Italics his.) 
"The council," he proceeds, "has 
made the delightfully surprising dis-
covery that men and women of radi-
cally differing views and habits of wor-
ship are our brothers and sisters in 
thought, word and deed when it 
comes to the discussion of the social 
implications of our divine Lord." 
As far as it really goes, we cannot 
but appreciate this gratifying result. 
But why call it a "surprising discov-
ery"? The fact is, it is neither "sur-
prising" nor new, except, perhaps, in 
the experience of Mr. Wicks and his 
friends. Everyone knows that our 
British House of Commons, which for 
decades now has embraced men of all 
religious persuasions, has long dem-
onstrated this comradeship. Even the 
Jew and the rationalist are not ex-
cluded from this long established leg-
islative fraternity. 
The very laws of our land are the 
fruit of this comradeship. Much of 
our poor law reform was initiated by 
Quaker Christians. Our social insur-
ance and health schemes have been 
carried through by the burning zeal 
of men of all shades of religious opin-
ion. Justice may be obtained in our 
law courts because Christian men of 
all sections were determined that it 
should be so. Freedom to exercise 
one's individual religious convictions 
has been secured for all by the untir-
ing efforts of broad-minded statesmen 
of various religious persuasions. 
Our local governing bodies, too, 
have long since found in their midst 
this comradeship among men and 
women of differing religions. A mayor 
or alderman may be a churchman, a 
nonconformist, or a Roman Catholic, 
yet preserve quite amicable relations 
with the members of a corporation 
who represent many religious beliefs. 
Hence, so far as the Protestant 
churches are concerned, it seems to 
us much more desirable that they 
bend their zeal to proclaiming much 
needed Protestant truth rather than 
dissipate their energies in trying to do 
what the secular authorities have al-
ready done so much better than the 
churches could hope to do, and with 
much less risk of compromising in-
dividual faith. 
Whatever the Anglicans and non-
conformist members of such councils 
expect to achieve by this procedure, 
there can be no doubt at all as to the 
aims of the Roman Catholic mem-
bers. They are pledged, above all 
things, to advance the interests of 
their own church by every means pos-
sible. To them the mere comradeship 
engendered by association with other 
members of the council is not impor-
tant, except as it may contribute to 
the winning of adherents to their own 
faith. Ever since the Catholic Emanci-
pation, when Cardinal Wiseman 
adroitly cultivated the friendship of 
the leaders of the Oxford movement 
in the Church of England, which 
eventually carried John Henry New-
man and others to Rome, both clergy 
and laity of the Roman Church have 
planned and worked assiduously to 
beguile the confused and scattered 
sheep of Protestantism into the Ro-
man fold. 
With Protestantism all but dead, 
and Anglican and Free churches in 
a state of disintegration, Rome knows 
how propitious the present situation 
is for an advance all along the line. 
With their loose doctrinal standards, 
latitudinarian ideas, and lack of mis-
sionary zeal, the non-Roman churches 
are no match for the proud, prosper-
ous, ambitious, uncompromising, and 
superbly organized Church of Rome; 
so that, in large numbers weak and 
wavering Protestants are being swept 
into the fold of the universal "Vicar 
of Christ." 
In spite of his exuberant delight in 
his newly discovered comradeship be-
tween the council's representatives, 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
The Bible provides safe 
anchorage in this tumul-
tuous world. It is a rev-
elation of Christ, the Rock 
of our salvation. 
Mr. Wicks admits "that the differ-
ences between the three main 
branches of Christianity in Britain 
are profound." And they certainly 
are. Between real, live, intelligent, 
uncorrupted Protestantism and Ro-
man Catholicism there is indeed a 
wide gulf. But unfortunately such 
Protestantism is rare to-day. Modern 
scientists and novelists have so left 
their corrupting mark on the Prot-
estant churches as to destroy for them 
the very foundations of the old faith. 
Hence, demoralized Protestant flocks 
become an easy prey to the persistent 
pi opaganda of Rome, who is taking 
every advantage of the present con-
fused situation in the religious world. 
By seeking a sort of shallow unity 
with Rome, the Reformed churches 
are not only digging their own graves, 
but are aiding in the admittedly rapid 
expansion of the Roman comunity in 
this once Protestant land of ours. 
So instead of trying to bridge "the 
abysmal dividing gaps" between their 
own churches and Rome, responsible 
Anglican and Free Church leaders 
would be much better advised to "ask 
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74 V. eet de Sem 
By W. L. Emmerson 
W
ITHOUT doubt, one of the 
most significant developments 
in the past few years has been 
the moving of the United States to the 
forefront among world powers. 
At a "Peace Aims" Conference in 
London during the war, Barbara 
Ward of the Economist predicted: 
"The United States with its vast 
economic resources will be, at the end 
of the war, the dominant power in 
world affairs. It will be so powerful 
and its influence so paramount, that 
any view that the United States may 
have . . . will have not only to be 
seriously considered, but in very fact 
it will be the dominant view." 
To-day we can see that her fore-
cast was in no way an exaggeration 
or over-statement. Mr. Churchill in 
the House of Commons has acknowl-
edged that the United States "stands 
at the moment at the summit of the 
world"; and Mr. Truman, without 
any intention of boasting, has re-
minded the people of the United States 
that "we have emerged from this war 
the most powerful nation in the 
world—the most powerful nation, per-
haps, in all history." 
This phenomenal advancement of 
the United States has come as no sur-
prise to students of Bible prophecy, 
for a century ago, while the United 
States was still a minor power, many 
were convinced that this nation was 
none other than the second "beast" in 
the thirteenth chapter of Revelation, 
which was to rise outside the territory 
of the Roman earth (the Old World) , 
at first with the appearance of a 
"lamb," but at the last it would 
"speak as a dragon" and "cause the 
earth" to submit to its directions. 
At the end of the First World War 
the United States had the power to 
impose its will on the nations, but it 
lacked the desire so to do, and with-
drew, after the signing of the peace 
treaties, into its traditional isolation. 
Now, however, following the Sec- 
ond World War not only has it in-
comparably more power, but it clearly 
intends to use it according to the con-
victions of its statesmen for the reori-
entation of a war-devastated world. 
When the international relief or-
ganization of UNRRA closed up its 
work, the United States made it evi-
dent that future assistance to other na-
tions would be conditional upon their 
promotion of the democratic way of 
life as understood by the Western 
world. 
A few months ago the United States 
became further involved in European 
and world affairs when it made large 
loans to Greece and Turkey for the 
defence of the frontiers of Western de-
mocracy. 
As step by step America is moving 
away from the Monroe Doctrine of 
isolation to the Truman Doctrine 
of world responsibility, the "price" of 
American assistance is being increas-
ingly stressed. 
The United States 
capitol building. This 
nation will, according 
to prophecy, play 
a prominent part in 
the concluding acts 
of earth's history. 
r. 
DOCTORS t4 
VOICE 
4- 4: C
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, 
• 44 
Mr. Stassen, who recently toured 
Europe to acquaint himself with 
Europe's needs, for example, would 
make it a condition, according to the 
Economist, that countries accepting 
American aid should make no further 
"socialist experiments" which would 
carry them farther away from the 
American conception of political and 
economic freedom. 
The Economist goes on to say that 
the United States is likely to meet "for- 
midable difficulties" in halting policy 
in some European countries, but it 
urges: 
"If the difficulties in the way are 
simply unreasonable recalcitrance of 
the Europeans, let the United States 
use its great power to knock their 
heads together and impose agreement; 
there are plenty of Europeans who 
would welcome American 'dictation' 
if it were for a good cause." 
Now this is not a political journal, 
and it is quite outside our province 
to be on one side or the other in either 
national or international politics. 
What does call for comment, however, 
is the fact that there are influential 
voices in America urging "dictation," 
and there are equally influential 
voices in Europe inviting it. 
In the prophecy referred to prev-
iously we are told that this lamb-
dragon beast will ultimately cause "the 
earth and them which dwell therein 
to worship the first beast, whose deadly 
wound was healed" (Revelation 
13:12) , meaning, of course, the Ro-
man ecclesiastical system, wounded to 
death in the revolutionary days at the 
end of the eighteenth century, but due 
to "ascend out of the bottomless pit" 
of world chaos in the last days. (Rey - 
elation 17:8.) 
It is well known that Catholic-
supported "Christian Democratic" 
parties are in power or near to power 
an many of the countries of Western 
Europe, and we know also that the 
voice of Rome has become increasingly 
vocal in America in recent years. One 
cannot therefore fail to see the possi-
bility, in the world's deepening crisis, 
of events moving toward the fulfilment 
of this specification of the prophecy. 
The protagonists of Rome plan the 
capture of the executive power in 
the New World and the use of the 
might of America for pro-Roman ends 
with the encouragement of pro-Roman 
political parties in the countries of 
Western Europe. 
These trends in both the Old World 
and the New surely proclaim in no un-
certain tones the imminence of the 
"crisis at the close" and emphasize 
the appeal of the apostle Peter, "Be 
diligent [literally "hasten"] that ye 
may be found of Him in peace, with-
out spot, and blameless." 2 Peter 3:14. 
20 
Cancer 
Question: Is cancer caused by a germ or 
a condition, and is it regarded as con-
tagious? 
ANSWER: Cancer is not considered 
to be contagious in the ordinary sense 
of the word. Its incidence in man and 
wife is slightly higher than would sta-
tistically be expected, but this is prob-
ably due to common habits of life and 
diet. Ageing, endocrine factors, chron-
ic irritations and vitamin deficiencies 
seem to be predisposing factors. Fil-
trable viruses (ultramicroscopic 
germs) are considered by some to be 
the cause. This has not yet been con-
firmed. 
Catarrh 
Question: Will you please give me a 
satisfactory treatment for catarrh? 
ANSWER: Postnasal discharge is 
often the accompaniment of fatigue, 
worry and anxiety. There is also a 
marked individual variation in the 
amount of mucus secreted by the 
glands in the nose and sinuses. Elderly 
people, whose mucous membranes of 
the nose shrink, have increased mucus 
due to the irritation of inadequately 
moistened air. However, if an acute 
sinus infection has passed into the 
chronic stage and there is purulent 
nasal discharge, then steam baths, hot 
and cold showers, and/or short wave 
therapy locally are of value. 
Coated Tongue 
Question: Is there any significance to a 
heavily coated tongue, especially in the 
morning? I have heard that this indicates 
an upset stomach. Is this true? 
ANSWER: Overeating, particularly 
late in the evening, and undue fatigue 
may precipitate, perhaps also consti-
pation. If there is an associated halito-
sis it is considered to be due to too 
much fat in the diet, some of the 
improperly metabolized fatty acids 
which have become rancid being ex-
haled on the breath. 
Shock Treatment 
Question: Is the shock treatment thought 
to be of value in the treatment of mental 
cases? 
ANSWER: Shock treatment causes 
retrograde amnesia; that is, recent 
worries and aggravations are forgot-
ten long enough for the patient to get 
out of a certain mental rut. Some 
neurologists question the advisability 
of using a method of treatment that 
might possibly injure the brain. How-
ever, its advantages are considered 
to outweigh any possible disadvanta-
ges in acute mental episodes in young 
adolescents and in otherwise healthy 
individuals under fifty. If circumstan-
ces that precipitated the attack, such 
as worry, anxiety, financial difficulties, 
wrong habits, insecurity, etc., cannot 
be eliminated from the patient's en-
vironment then there is always the 
likelihood that he will drift back into 
his original condition. In this case the 
patient has the additional worry that 
the shock treatment has hurt him. 
On the other hand, some patients who 
have been helped by shock treatments 
are anxious to get further treatment 
when their anxieties are getting the 
better of them. 
Insomnia 
Question: Will you please give me some 
suggestions that will help me to sleep at 
night. I feel unable to compose my mind 
when I retire, and therefore I am unable 
to get to sleep. 
ANSWER: A proper amount of phys-
ical exercise during the day, light sup-
per, relaxing social activities in the 
evening, a good conscience, avoidance 
of stimulants such as tea and coffee, 
benzedrine, etc., a firm resolve not to 
worry about the future beyond the 
point of calm foresight and planning, 
are of course fundamental. A con-
scious effort to go to sleep defeats its 
own purpose. On the other hand, a 
conscious effort to relax may be help-
ful. Doctor Jacobson's "You Must Re-
lax" has some good ideas. 
SIGNS of the TIMES 
DIET AND APPENDICITIS 
(Continued from page 7) 
tans. Doctor Snyder, who for ten years 
was connected with the court of the 
shah of Persia, had during that entire 
time, he said, treated only five cases of 
appendicitis, and three of these were 
Europeans who happened to be in the 
country. He attributed the rarity of ap-
pendicitis to the fact that "abstinence 
from pork is obligatory, and the meat 
of cattle is almost unknown." 
Doctor Championnierre, a noted 
French authority, quoted a physician 
who had practised medicine in Brit-
tany for a number of years, and who 
during that time had seen only three 
cases of appendicitis, as saying: "In the 
religious communities where the use of 
meat is forbidden, appendicitis is 
practically unknown." 
With this agrees the statement of 
Doctor McCarrison, a British surgeon, 
who, for a period of years, was located 
in a part of India remote from West-
ern civilization. He performed more 
than four thousand surgical opera-
tions. "AMONG THEM WAS NOT 
ONE CASE OF APPENDICITIS OR 
CANCER." These people live, he 
says, on "the unsophisticated foods of 
nature—milk, eggs, grains, fruits, and 
vegetables." 
Meat-eating is not the sole cause of 
this disease, for where meat forms a 
staple food, fats and sugar are also 
freely used. These also readily undergo 
fermentation, and produce abnormal 
and irritating acids. Sweets, puddings. 
pies, and ice cream undoubtedly are 
causes of appendicitis. By cutting 
down on our meat bill and consuming 
less fats and sweets, we can lessen ap-
pendicitis. 
Appendicitis frequently appears in 
those whose habits are sedentary, who 
are deprived of physical exercise and 
out-of-door life. The abdominal mus-
cles of the sedentary person become 
relaxed, the organs to which they 
form a natural support drop one 
upon the other. This crowding to-
gether of these abdominal organs 
interferes with the free circulation 
of blood through them, and pre-
vents the food residue from being 
passed normally along the colon for 
expulsion, and constipation results. 
Naturally, the colon and appendix 
are more likely to become diseased. De-
velopment of the abdominal muscles 
by appropriate exercises is important. 
"Whether therefore ye eat, or 
drink, or whatsoever ye do, do 
all to the glory of God." I Cor- 
inthians 10:3 I. 
Viectierite 
By 
Mary Hunter Moore 
G
OD has a thousand ways to care 
for us that we may not expect— 
this thought was in a devotional 
book I had been reading. It set me 
pondering over some remarkable pro- 
vidences I had known in my own and 
my friends' lives. God never fails those 
who trust in Him. He has endless ways 
and means. One of the most unex-
pected means of answered prayer was 
Spot. 
Spot appeared one night when my 
friend's life was in danger. Her hus-
band had become involved with dis-
reputable people, one of whom de-
veloped a great hatred for his wife, 
who was a faithful, praying Christian. 
One night about dusk she received 
an anonymous telephone call. A 
coarse voice said, "Listen, kid, I'm 
giving you just two hours to get out 
of town, if you know what is good for 
you." 
She had good reason to suspect who 
was speaking, even though the voice 
was altered. She said no word in an-
swer, nor did she change her course 
of action for the night. She was alone. 
her husband being away somewhere 
with his evil companions. She went 
about her evening household tasks 
and went to bed as usual, praying 
earnestly, as she always did, for her 
husband's salvation. She felt herself 
safe in God's care. 
Her bedroom was on the ground 
floor, the window opening about a 
yard above the ground and close to 
the driveway that ran back to the 
garage. 
During the night nothing happened, 
and she heard nothing unusual, with 
one exception. In the darkness a 
large dog stationed himself on guard 
under her window, and at frequent 
intervals during the night he growled 
fiercely. He did not leave his post all 
night, but he growled so savagely as 
to awaken a friend in a house two 
doors away. This friend knew the gen-
eral circumstances of the praying wife. 
but did not know of the threat made 
at sunset the day before. The next 
morning she said to her neighbour, 
"There was a dog guarding you last 
night. Were you in some special 
danger?" 
She was much startled when she 
was told the whole story—yet not the 
whole story, for only the dog and the 
guardian angels knew what evil 
lurked in that darkness. 
The morning revealed the dog as a 
beautiful big part-chow who was at 
once devoted to her and became a 
a loved member of the household. 
Are 
JESUS . . . OUR ATTORNEY 
(Continued from page 23) 
grinding at the mill; the one shall be 
taken, and the other left." Matthew 
24:40, 41. 
Multitudes of earth are unaware 
that while they are engaged in the 
ordinary pursuits of life, all unbe-
known to them probation's hours will 
end forever. The eternal destiny of 
all will be decided before Jesus re-
turns. (Revelation 22:11, 12.) Could 
men realize this as it is, how many idle 
words would die on the lips unsaid! 
How many ungodly acts would be left 
undone! How we would flee to Christ 
to plead our cause, that we might re-
ceive grace and strength to help in 
time of need. (Hebrews 4:13-16.) 
Soon our Saviour, whose life upon 
Calvary's cross was crushed out by the 
weight of the sins of the world, will 
bear forth from heaven's temple the 
accumulated sins blotted from the 
books of record. Soon, as in the typi-
cal sanctuary service, Christ will place 
upon the head of Satan his share of 
sin's responsibility. Satan sees his end 
approaching. He believes and trem-
bles as Christ's priestly ministry nears 
its completion. He therefore intensi-
fies his efforts to keep people uncon-
scious of what is taking place in 
heaven, in order that probation may 
end with their sins unconfessed; that 
they may suffer the full consequence 
of their own sins, and thus Satan's 
punishment to that degree be lessened. 
More than a hundred years have 
passed into eternity since the procla-
mation of God's last message declaring, 
"The hour of His judgment is come." 
Let us by this appeal be admonished 
to study His Word that we may learn 
the standard by which we will be 
judged, and be found clothed with the 
garment of Christ's righteousness 
when our names are called in heaven. 
WANDERING 
PROTESTANTS 
(Continued from page 19) 
for the old paths," and, with convic-
tion, seek to lead their forlorn flocks 
back to "the faith which was once 
delivered unto the saints," concerning 
which the Bible alone is the sure and 
safe guide. 
DECEMBER,194 7 �
21 
JESUS... 
OUR ATTORNEY 
C
URIOUS spectators crowded the 
courtroom where John Ingles, 
a well-known and genial busi-
nessman, was being tried for the 
murder of Patrolman O'Mallory. Sym-
pathetic witnesses vouched for his 
Integrity. But they could produce no 
definite evidence to establish his 
claim of being absent from the scene 
at the time of murder. At last the pros-
ecuting attorney brought forward his 
final witness, a frowzy-haired, middle-
aged woman, owner of the barroom 
where the crime was committed. Be-
fore a tense court she calmly scruti-
nized Ingles, and identified him as the 
perpetrator of the deed. The jury's 
verdict was guilty, and the judge, 
with noticeable signs of uncertainty, 
sentenced him to life imprisonment. 
Eleven years later, friends of the con-
demned man produced evidence estab-
lishing, without question, his inno-
cence, and he was freed. 
The trial and execution of sentence 
upon John Ingles illustrates both by 
comparison and by contrast the judg-
ment of God. By way of comparison 
it should be observed that the judg-
ment consisted of two parts: first, the 
investigative phase; second, the ex-
ecutive, or the meting out of punish-
ment in proportion to the degree of 
guilt established during investigation. 
The words of Jesus, "Behold, I come 
quickly, and My reward is with Me. 
to give every man according as his 
work shall be" (Revelation 22:12) . 
indicate clearly that prior to the Sav-
iour's return an investigation takes 
place in heaven to determine who 
among the living, and who among the 
dead, are fit subjects for His kingdom. 
(1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17.) 
In striking contrast, however, with 
the mistaken judgment in the trial of 
John Ingles, are the trials conducted 
in the court where God presides. 
Let us become acquainted with the 
participants in heaven's court. An-
gels will play an active part. Said 
the inspired apostle, "We are made a 
spectacle unto the world, and to 
angels." 1 Corinthians 4:9. How few 
of us are aware of the presence of 
these invisible beings—God's secret-
service agents—who keep record of all 
we do and say. Angels of God are called 
ministering spirits, and are "sent forth 
to minister for them who shall be heirs 
of salvation." Hebrews 1:14. An angel 
is appointed to guard each child of 
God. Of this provision Jesus said, "In 
heaven their angels do always behold 
the face of My Father." Matthew 18: 
10. Angelic records are accurate and 
will be accepted in the court of God 
as true. (Hebrews 2:1, 2.) 
Concerning the One who offers His 
service as our Representative, John 
declared, "If any man sin, we have an 
Advocate with the Father, Jesus 
Christ the righteous." 1 John 2:1. He 
is righteous—sinless—yet not unac-
quainted with our struggles with temp-
tation and sin, having been "touched 
with the feeling of our infirmities." 
Hebrews 4:15. He assures us, "Who-
soever therefore shall confess Me be-
fore men, him will I confess also be-
fore My Father which is in heaven." 
Matthew 10:32. 
The Judge of that court will not 
pass unjust sentence. He is the Father 
of all, the Author of the universe. 
His judgment will be fair, for of Him 
Jesus said. "The Father Himself loy-
eth you." John 16:27. Some look with 
dread and fear upon God the Father, 
little realizing that He loves the right-
eous even as He loves His own Son. 
(john 17:23.) In both the Judge and 
the Advocate of that court, "mercy 
and truth arc met together; righteous-
ness and peace have kissed each 
other." Psalm 85:10. 
The most holy apartment of the 
heavenly sanctuary was to be entered 
for cleansing "but once in the end of 
By 
E. A. Crane 
the world" (in the year 1844) . Heb-
rews 9:26. John the Revelator de-
scribed this scene in Revelation 11:19: 
"The temple of God was opened in 
heaven, and there was seen in His tem-
ple the ark of His testament: and there 
were lightnings, and voices, and thun-
derings." These words briefly picture 
the beginning of the judgment of God 
as witnessed by John in holy vision. 
The prophet Daniel describes the 
procedure with greater detail. He de-
clares: "I beheld till the thrones were 
cast down [or placed], and the An-
cient of days did sit, whose garment 
was white as snow, and the hair of His 
head like the pure wool: His throne 
was like the fiery flame, and His wheels 
as burning fire. A fiery stream issued 
and came forth from before Him: 
thousand thousands ministered unto 
Him, and ten thousand times ten 
thousand stood before Him: the judg-
ment was set, and the books were 
opened. . . . I saw in the night visions, 
and, behold, one like the Son of man 
came . . . to the Ancient of days, and 
they brought Him near before Him." 
Daniel 7: 9, 10, 13. 
Here is the judgment that began in 
1844. God the Father, the Ancient 
of days, is judge upon the throne. 
Around Him are gathered countless 
millions of angelic witnesses. The Son 
of God, our High Priest and Advo-
cate, comes near to plead the cause of 
those who have engaged Him for that 
purpose. The judgment is set, and the 
books are opened. Angel records re-
veal with unfailing accuracy every 
word and act, whether good or evil, 
of every soul who has named the name 
of Christ. (See Matthew 12:36, 37; 
Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14.) 
This investigative judgment con-
cerns only those who have professed 
Christ. Peter said of it, "The time is 
come that judgment must begin at 
the house of God [the church]: and 
if it first begin at us, what shall the 
end be of them that obey not the 
gospel of God?" 1 Peter 4:17. The 
righteous only, have, by confession of 
sin and by faith in the blood of Jesus. 
sent their sins beforehand to judg-
ment. (1 Timothy 5:24.) The sins of 
all others will follow after and accom-
plish their condemnation. The un-
godly will be judged out of the books. 
but not at this time. John declares. 
"I saw the dead, small and great, stand 
before God; and the books were 
opened: and another book was opened, 
which is the book of life: and the dead 
were judged out of those things which 
were written in the books, according 
to their works." Revelation 20:12. 
There are few living who would 
22 �
SICNS of the TIMES 
Thou shalt have tin other gods 
b,-fore Me. 
11 
Thou shalt not snake unto 
thee any graven image, or any 
likeness of anything 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 fa-
thers upon the children unto the 
third and fourth generation of 
them that hate Me; and showing 
mercy unto thousands of them 
that love Me, and keep My com-
mandments. 
111 
Thou shalt not take the name, 
of the Lord thy God in vain; for 
the Lord will not hold him guilt-
less that taketh His name in 
vain. 
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Remember the Sabbath day. 
to keep it holy. Six days shalt 
thou labour, and do all thy 
work: but the seventh day is 
the Sabbath of the Lord thy 
God: in it thou shalt not do any 
work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy 
daughter, thy 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 dm. and hallowed it. 
Honour thy father and thy 
mother: that thy days may be 
long upon the land which the 
Lord the God giveth thee. 
Thou shalt out commit arlid 
terv. 
Thou shalt not steal 
Thou shalt not bear false wit-
ness against thy neighbour. 
Thou shalt not covet thy 
neighbour's house, thou shalt not 
covet thy neighbour's wife, nor 
his manservant, nor his maid-
servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, 
nor anything that is thy neigh-
bour's. 
RUSSELL HARLAN ARTIST 
Not only is the hour of God's judgment come, but the ten-commandment law is the standard 
of that judgment. Every person will be measured by God's eternal principles of right. 
not blush with shame should the se-
cret deeds of their lives be brought to 
light. How solemn is the thought 
that all things are naked and open 
before the eyes of Him with whom 
we have to do. (Hebrews 4:13.) Little 
wonder that Felix trembled as he 
was led by Paul's logic to under-
stand that every deed of his life must 
▪ be met again in judgment. Those 
things which men have thought to be 
▪ hidden forever, of which no other 
human being may be conscious, arc 
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faithfully chronicled by angel hands in 
the record books of heaven. 
In this judgment, either the record 
of a man's sin, or his name, will be 
blotted out of the heavenly ledger. 
Said Jesus to His disciples, "Rejoice, 
because your names are written in 
heaven." Luke 10: 20. Truly, this is 
cause for rejoicing. How terrible, in-
deed, are the consequences of having 
one's name stricken from the book of 
life; yet to those only who overcome, 
is given the promise, "The same shall 
be clothed in white raiment; and I 
will not blot out his name out of the 
book of life." Revelation 3:5. Of all 
others it will be said, "Let them be 
blotted out of the book of the living, 
and not be written with the right-
eous." Psalm 69:28. 
If we confess our sins, the unfailing 
promise is that they will be forgiven. 
(1 John 1:9.) The blotting out of sin 
does not take place, however, at the 
moment of forgiveness, as the follow-
ing clearly reveals: "Repent ye there-
fore, and be converted, that your sins 
may be blotted out, when the times of 
refreshing shall come from the pres-
ence of the Lord; and He shall send 
Jesus Christ." Acts 3:19, 20. Peter 
looked forward to the time when sins 
would be blotted out—a time of re-
freshing—just before the return of 
Jesus. 
Picture in your mind the court in 
heaven, where the destiny of every 
soul is being weighed in the balance 
of justice. The books are opened. The 
great Judge sits upon His throne. 
Around Him are gathered the flaming 
angels who have kept the records, and 
Jesus, the High Priest, stands at the 
Father's right hand. 
When the books were opened, as 
we have learned took place in 1844, 
the name and the record of the father 
of the human family appeared to 
view. Adam, no doubt, bitterly repent-
ed of his sin, and by faith in the blood 
of the promised Messiah, found for-
giveness. His angel, who penned the 
word "forgiven" upon his record, is 
there as witness. Jesus, by whose blood 
Adam's sin and guilt were transferred 
to the sanctuary, now steps forward 
to plead the cause of His client. Hold-
ing up His hands, still bearing the 
nail scars, He says, "Father, I died for 
that man. Through faith in Me, his 
sins were forgiven. I ask now that his 
sins be blotted out." 
Unutterable joy and gladness sweep 
the court of heaven as Adam's sins are 
blotted from the book, to be remem-
bered no more forever. (Isaiah 43:25; 
Psalm 103:12.) The retention of his 
name in the Lamb's book of life, 
numbers him as a redeemed subject 
of Christ's eternal kingdom of glory. 
The page is turned; Cain's name 
and record appear. He allowed the 
days of his life to pass without making 
provision for Christ to plead his cause 
in the judgment. And now sadness 
fills heaven as the Judge orders his 
name stricken from the book. 
Thus, down through the ages the 
cases of all are studied, and no error 
enters into the procedure of heaven's 
court. The judgment, beginning with 
the dead, must one day, without fail, 
pass to the living. Continually, names 
are being accepted and names are be-
ing rejected. This is what Jesus meant 
when He said, "Then shall two be in 
the field; the one shall be taken, and 
the other left. Two women shall be 
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InHis Word, God has committed to 
men the knowledge necessary for salvation. The Holy Scriptures are to be accepted as 
an authoritative, infallible revelation of His will. They are the standard of character, 
the revealer of doctrines and the test of experience. 'Every scripture inspired of God 
is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in 
righteousness; that the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every 
good work.' 2 Timothy 3:16,17. Revised Version." — The Great Controversy, by E 
G. White, p. vn 
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