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Henry Ford scorns the idea of motor fuel getting scarce or running out entirely. He says we will soon grow our fuel and use fermented potatoes and other vegetable matter to produce alcohol cheaply and in large quantities. The Bible believer is not afraid we will be left without fuel. God has plenty of it stored away in the earth. His concern is the time when fire from heaven will kindle the combustibles in the earth and renovate the planet. Only he who is purified by spiritual fires now will dwell safely “amid devouring burnings.”
If prosperity continues, say the prudent financiers. Prosperity must continue, retort the fond optimists, among them the glib column writers in the newspapers. Since the war is long past, and nations, men, and money are more secure, what else could come but prosperity and peace? But when will men learn that nothing is sure but God’s eternal truth and the divine plan for the future as foretold in Bible prophecy? The tragedies of history have been preceded by great prosperity. God says that disaster lies ahead for this world, as a world. The optimist sees this and prepares to be saved out of it.
The most humane instrument of warfare is poison gas; this is the claim of the chemists in war service. They are booming their trade. They state that the deadliness of newly-discovered gases has been greatly exaggerated, and that the fresh finds are mainly along the line of better means of handling the old gases, and of perfecting better gas masks. Men seek the most humane method of killing when peace reigns, and the most terrible and deadly in time of war. Hatred is never humane, and war is bred of hatred. What tragic child’s play men make of human adjustments when God’s way is abandoned!
Just one hundred years ago the first steam train was run in England. A century is a small fraction of sixty centuries, the age of the world, yet what marvels of progress have come in the last hundred years! Knowledge and invention have worked greater developments in this modern period than in all the other fifty-nine put together. Evolution cannot explain that, for its theoretical growth is gradual and comparatively uniform. Divine prophecy explains the phenomenon; for this is God’s means of carrying His last warning message to all the world in a single generation. It could never have been done in the old ways.
Gassed by his own invention, a scientist in London lay in a state of coma for days, and will probably die. He was experimenting with a poison gas for use in war, and succumbed to its effects when alone in a room with his secret. Not knowing the ingredients of the preparation, the doctors have sought in vain for an antidote. What a picture of militarism doping itself to death with its own inventions to kill others. Yes, and of so-called civilization poisoning itself with the products of its own progress. The means of war never bring peace, only death. Civilization will not save; it destroys. Christ alone brings peace. He saves.
The American people, as well as the United States as a government, are lending enormous sums of money to the world. Loans leave America for Europe and South American countries at the rate of $i 15,000,000 a month. More than $9,500,000,000 are now invested abroad by private individuals and concerns. A man’s heart goes with his treasure. Optimists are saying that nothing could more quickly and surely draw this nation into the League of Nations than that it become involved in the debits and credits of the world’s finances; therefore, since a league of all the world powers is supposed to insure peace, peace is sure to come. While the pessimists are saying that nothing but war can result from being the world’s banker. Both are right, but with bitterness and war the inevitable outcome either way, because the most powerful league cannot make peace. The international vortex is narrowing.
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English is almost universal as a means of human communication. A conservative estimate places the number speaking it at 170,000,000, far more than any other European language. In great centers in Europe it is being taught by radio, and has in many places been made a compulsory modern language in the schools, displacing in large measure French and Latin. The reason is not far for the Christian to seek: The initiative, the modern facilities, the qualities of leadership, the world’s money, all so necessary for carrying God’s last message to the world, are found most extensively in English-speaking countries. This is part of the modern miracle of tongues.
The cradle of the human race was in Europe, not in Asia, asserts Sir Authur Keith, one of the greatest living authorities on the origin of man. This is an interesting denial of the Bible account of man’s beginning, when there was no Europe nor Asia. The scientists will wander all around, if given enough time, till they agree finally with God. We have greater concern in the destiny, rather than the birthplace, of the race. There will be two destinies,— the rebels against God’s truth will be destroyed in the earth, and the children of God will inhabit it again, when there will be no Europe and Asia. This involves the science of salvation, which skeptical science can never know, because it will not.
The monopoly of motion-picture films has its seat at Hollywood, California. Paris sets the style for women’s clothing, and London for men’s wear, but Hollywood dictates what the world shall see on the screen. A tremendous responsibility, for the movies influence young and old for good or bad much more than do clothes. And the money invested in the business makes it the fourth in size of American industries. Yet Hollywood is debauching its mission by sending films of filth to the world. The best in American life is misrepresented, the worst is exalted, religion is derided, and Christian missions are held up to ridicule before the heathen. The devil has gotten first hold on an invention which God inspired that His message of truth might reach the eyes of the world. But God will use it yet.
A prehistoric skull has been found on present-day shoulders. Prof. Raymond Dart, of Capetown University, South Africa, not long ago found the fossil skull of the “ Boskop man,” immediately heralded as another missing link between animals and men. By its size and shape it was proclaimed to be millions of years old. Now the other day a skull almost exactly similar was found on the body of a thirty-year old man who had just died and was being dissected for anatomical study in the medical department of the University. Whereas both finds were widely reported, and the first was taken up by scientists and loudly proclaimed as a fresh proof of evolution, the second is hardly being noticed. Do evolutionary theorists actually want to make the Bible appear to be a lie; and will they ignore or distort facts to do it?
The far-seeing architect sees cities of the future used for business only, all homes being in the country as far out as 200 miles, and business people commuting to town and back in swift air-planes every morning and evening. These great centers are to have sixty-story skyscrapers, four-level streets, traffic and means of communication hidden underground, with steel-girdered buildings absolutely fire and quake proof, pleasure gardens on roofs, and even suburban homes high in the air with gardens beneath on the ground. A plausible dream,— for the rich,— not to mention the majority which will have to drudge in discomfort to keep all this going. Babel went down, Babylon crumbled, Nineveh fell, Sodom melted, Tyre was scraped bare, San Francisco toppled, Tokyo shook to pieces. Will New York and Chicago stand? Let the cities be made as safe as possible; but woe to those who trust in cities for safety, and not in God.
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B| HERE are some problems that from time immemorial the human race has failed to solve. Among these is war. Go back never so far in history, and we cannot escape meeting with the gore of battle, the depredations of conquest, and the fright-i==__J ful aftermath of military conflict.
Along with this insoluble problem of war, there is another problem closely connected with it, indeed, arising out of it, which has likewise baffled the minds of men. It is the problem of peace. When the human species began to fight, it was but natural that it should seek to end the fight and re-establish peace. Man’s better nature has ever taught him that peace is better than war; and so when peace was
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obtained, it was desirable to make it permanent. But, alas, the period of peace was soon broken, and, before men really sensed it, they were again at each other’s throats like wild beasts. War, with all its horrors, held the stage, and the great, international drama went on. Thus the wheel of human events has rolled; first war, then peace; war again, and peace restored; again war, to be followed by a peace leading into war. It has been a (Continued on page 30)
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Gigantic forces Lining up for the
great conflict just ahead
HIS is being written preliminary to the proposed Parliament of Parliaments held in Washington in October. The conference is being held when everything on earth is shaping up to a world crisis. All admit that just ahead of us lies one of two things: either another world war, which will so overshadow the titanic struggle of 1914 and after as to make it look like a mere sparring match; or final and millennial peace. Three controlling factors characterize this Parliament of Parliaments. It is large, it is authoritative, and it is international.
It is international because about thirty nations are expected to send delegates. These will be from such countries as England, her great dominions, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South American nations, and many other countries, including the United States. The forces of the world are now lining up with Bolshevists, evolutionists, anti-Pro-hibitionists, and radicals on one side, who, because of hysterical thinking on both sides, are driving reactionary Fundamentalists, Prohibitionists, and blue-law advocates toward such legislative and political attitudes as threaten the United States with a return to medieval theocracy. I say the United States because it was the grand and unprecedented move of the American Constitution toward a free church in a free state that helped drag the rest of the world from its midnight of church and state union. Should the United States buckle under the weight of this towering principle, what help could be expected from the rest of the world? Is it not, therefore, a dangerous hour to crowd Washington with six hundred delegates with power to vote, only twenty-four of whom are from the United States, and so fill the land with propaganda advocating the viewpoint of countries that have vast majorities and are continually pushing their congresses toward theocratic unions? And especially so when a new and startling push in that direction, as we shall presently see, is appearing in our own beloved land.
There Is Power Here
IT IS authoritative because no one can be a member, much less a delegate, unless he is also a member of a national congress or legislative body. Of the twenty-four American delegates, two are from the American Senate and twenty-two are from the House; those from France must be members either of the French Senate or Chamber of Deputies; those from England, of the House of Lords or the House of Commons. Any nation that belongs to the Interparliamentary Union is entitled to send any or all members of its national congress to sit in the sessions of the coming Parliament of Parliaments, but only the delegates PAGE FOUR
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have power to vote. The delegates are appointed by the presidents of national groups, Hon. Wm. B. McKinley being president of the American group. Because of this it is officially stated that the coming Parliament will be a strong expression of the people’s will in all countries, since the delegates are not appointed by the national bodies where powerful interests and political schemes would dictate in selection of the delegates. Moreover, as the Parliament proposes to handle such weighty problems as abolition of war, disarmament, and the League of Nations, it is expected to be free from the secret intrigues of diplomacy, because the body is not responsible to national governments.
What a tremendous influence for weal or woe, at such an hour as this, will be exerted by this gathering! From the stirring debates and the strong attempts to imprint all with a world viewpoint, the American delegates will return
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The Patriarch of Constantinople, (Greek Catholic Church) surrounded by leading representatives of Christian churches from five different countries. This was taken at Stockholm, Sweden, where recently a great conference gathered to unite Christian effort.
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to their seats in Congress to carry out the resolutions adopted by the Parliament of ParfiamentsL Mo “cover, the American people, as listeners in, wili be mace to un derstand the supreme necessity just now of lining up with the inter-nationalistic program. And when zhis program is backed up by the meeting in Washington n December of the Federal Council of Churches, is it no-: now time lor all to hold tight and not rock the boat? And especially so when the hand of reaction in the United States would be quickly clasped by countries whose popular atmosphere has always been for reaction. Because of Bolshevism the world is greatly alarmed over radicalism, and it should be, because radicalism is a dangerous poison. But beware lest we forget the lessons of the French Revolution, and plunge into reaction which is infinitely worse than radicalism.
A Glimpse Into Prophecy
By comparing
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“beast,” and “image of the beast” found in the book of Revelation, we
see what great dangers lie immeciazely ahead of us in the United States. When it is seen zhat :he great crisis just before the return of Christ is threefold— the driven referring to antichristian war in heazhendom, the beasz referring to antichristian war in Europe relapsed into medievalism, and the image of the beast to antichristian war in a United States gone back on the principles lhat made her great — then great dangers lie ahead for the American people.
It is a mistake to say that the symbol “dragon” in the book of Revelation means only the devil. It is true that on one occasion Satan is representeo js the great dragon, to remind us that after all it is really he who is back or all the varied forms of heaven-daring apostasy. Nevertheless, repeatedly the dragon is listed as one Dower paralleling in evil propensities the beast and the image to the beast. As, for example, “And I saw three unclean spirits hke frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of th e mouth of the beasty and out of the mouth, of the false prophet.” Rev. 16: 13. In at least three ozher places the listing is the same in substance. While the devi’, if course, is back of the •dragon, the beast, and the image of the beast, nevertheless these three mean so many colossal apostasies, which just prior to Christ's coming hold the world in their giip. That they are alive and going concerns when the last trumpet sounds, appears from the text (Rev 16c 13) quoted above, and in verse 15 in which Chrisi declares, “Behold, I come as a thief.”
This is the very danger against which the Bible warns us. With a prophetic instinct that has always rung true, under the symbol of the dragon we are warned against die great final push in pagan nations of that paganism which held and threatened to hold world dominion from earliest times, until in a. d. 507 Clovis broke the onrushing tide of those tribes which swept into the Roman empire and in 508 accepted alliance with the eastern emperor and with the
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pope of Rome, bothofwhom had their dominion threatened ny tiiis food of pagan tribes. Then Scripture, under the symfcol o~“the beast, ’ sounds the alarm against that final push of reaction which signally and for centuries held sway :n European nations under the papacy, crushing out re-igiens liberty and intellectual freedom and, sad to state, was not absent n the medical history of European Protes-zantism. And finally the Bible cries out over and over again with agitated vehemence against the image of the beast,
which is something new, something startlingly dangerous, brought about by the United States copying, or rather falling back into, that medieval darkness symbolized by the beast.
Popular Hysteria
SHx^LL our beloved land repudiate what she so nobly began and what has powerfully molded the world in the progress of freedom? We would not be misunderstood as charging the members of the coming Parliament with reactionary principles or purposes. So far as we know, they are all noble men, animated by high ideals. Bu: the atmosphere of the day is charged with hysteria. Science, falsely so called, has lost her balance anc is rushing with full swing into a world propaganca toward a ruinous philosophy, the religion of a negation, which it seeks to plant in the bosom of schools, of camps, of societies, and o:r congresses. On the other hand, popular religion is a’armed. It sways the masses. Reaction is gathering a cangerc-us momentum, and under such a strain as this it will demand more than ordinary grace for the Farlinment of Parliaments to hold firm against an interrationalistic react onaiy tide. The popular mind sees clearly the issue between radicalism and religion, but it is confused, overwhelmed, anc swept off its feet by reaction. Statesmen of clear insight are relegated to oblivion when they stand up against it.
At Buckhead, Tern. Suncay, August io, Congressman Upshaw warned agams: “a great political merger in which liquor members of both parties should join hands to nominate Nicholas Murray Eut er for president and Clarence Darrorw for vice president.” He further advocated a political merger to face this new political party, both parties new, both making ssues on prohibition and evolution, aiming to controi the executive and legislative power, the one radical, the othe* reactionary. And Congressman Upsi^w for many years has been identified with those popular movements that carry their program into law, if not into ihe Const zution. We are not criticizing Mr. Upshaw, but advancing the information he gives as indicative of the tendencies pointed out above.
Has not die Bible plainly said that as it was in the days of Noah so shall it be in the days just before Christ's return? In the days of Noah die majority was against him; but the majority was wrong. Mere numbers do not count. Reaction has been predicted, a reaction so great that its only remedy lies in Christ's return.
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A U. S bafctlethip coaling up at a beautiful island in tie Sbuti Pacific. A contrast of war and peace.
Locarno and Peace
WILL Locarno come to be a synonym of peace? This peaceful little town on the shores of Lake Maggiore in Switzerland recently witnessed the signing of peace pacts by five European nations which came much nearer than anything since the war to tranquilize international relations on the Continent.
The five powers, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Belgium, guarantee the Rhine frontier between France and Germany. If either of these nations attacks the other, the remaining three powers will aid the defender against the aggressor. Also Germany agrees to make treaties of compulsory arbitration with the other four powers. And further, Germany agrees to join the League of Nations as a major power. There are many complicated details in connection with the various treaties, but these are the chief features.
Comment throughout the world is overwhelmingly joyous over these conciliatory moves on the part of hitherto warring nations. They are hailed as “longsteps toward peace,” “bad prospects for pessimists,” “an end of Franco-German war forever,” “the remaking of Europe,” and “world peace assured.” And well may statesmen be happy over this. The fact that almost heart-breaking and pride-lowering concessions were made on both sides is proof that peace at almost any price short of honor was sincerely desired; and such peace is likely to last.
But hardly has the applause died away before we hear of new alignments and fresh issues. Russia was disdainfully spurned at the conference, and the Soviet cannot safely be left out of any war and peace account. The rumor comes that a united instead of a divided Europe is to oppose America on debt settlements and other economic interests.
The fire-brand question of the rights of the powers in China is being taken up at Peking as these lines are written. The Riflf war goes on, and the Druse attacks are threatening European mandatories in Asia Minor. Greek troops are mobilizing on the Bulgarian frontier because of the shooting of some soldiers. The world powers extinguished their mutual antagonisms for a time, but fires sti:l burn on the outskirts of empires. And it was a fringe-fire which started the conflagration of 1914.
Are we croakers, looking ibr something to bolster up our pessimism in the face of plain evidence of better times?—No, we are shouting ourselves hoarse o/er the Locarno victory. But we have found that such successes lull people to sleep with the assurance
of no more war. God, looking down through -he centuries to our time, predicted, “Pie-pare war, wake up the mighty men,” Joel 3: 9 and also “When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them.” 1 Thess. 5: 3.
We are preparing for peace by preparing ror war; not to take part in the conflict, bur :o be saved out of it. Armageddon is sure to end this world’s history, because God says so. “Put ye on the whole armour of Gcd, that ye may be able to stand.”
Islam Changes
ANY serious change which affects IJL 234,000,000 people in the word, affects the world. The Literary Digest quotes various sources as reporting that the hitherto solidarity of the Mohammedan religion is “breaking up.” There is no question about a remarkable change coming over the Moslem world. Only a few signs need be cited to prove this;
Islam has always meant a union of -e-ligion and the state, with one head. Now we have seen the Caliphate (the head of -e-ligion) abolished; and the age-old capital cf the Turkish Empire and the Mohammedan religion moved from Constantinople. The Koran (the bible of Islam) has beet abandoned as a legal code by Mustafa Kema ,. president of the Turkish republ c, and Christians are admitted to the sacred city of Mecca. The world was at once shocked and amused at the recent wild scramble cf Turkish officials for European and Amer -can hats, caused by the decree that the time-honored little red fez should be abandoned. In to-day’s news we read that a bill is being presented to the Turkish law makers which abolishes the harem and polygamy, gives women equal freedom with*, men, and allows marriage with Christians. Turkey is rapidly adopting nearly ail Western customs.
The Moslem mind is creeping out of its. narrow cell for the first time since the inception of the cult in the brain of the prop he:. Credence is found for any and every nor.-
The opening of the Interparliamentary Union in the House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. A report of the work of this important body will appear it. a forthcoming issue of this magazine.
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take part in them where desirable.” As to prohibition, the Conference was so divided in sentiment that it had to remain neutral, deciding, however, that legislation must reinforce example and education if the liquor evil is checked. As to war, a positive stand was taken against aggressive warfare, and an aggressor nation was defined as one which refuses to arbitrate its differences or follow international laws and agreements.
Coming back to America, we have President Coolidge, speaking before an annual church council in Washington, urging more religion as the only sure cure for the world’s ills. We quote him: “The utmost ingenuity on the part of the public powers will be substantially all wasted in an effort to enforce the law, if there does not exist a strong and vigorous determination on the part of the people to observe the law. Such a determination cannot be produced by the government. My opinion is that it is furnished by religion.”
These significant words from our chief executive emphasize our message in this Magazine. But we would go further to get the real kernel of the situation. Mr. Coolidge intimates that it makes little difference what religious belief a man holds, just so he is religious. We differ, radically. Much of this religion we see to-day is not saving the world, nor can it. This ethical, moral, harmonizeji-with-evolution, Christ-less religion, so much in evidence in the churches and the papers, will never lead people back to respect for law. The pagans of Asia and Africa are intensely religious, and all of them are religious; but look at them. The citizens (Continued on page jp)
Religion Gets Attention
THERE is no doubt that the world as a whole was never quite so religious as it s to-day. Careful observers, both religious and non-religious, are remarking it. The .secular papers, both news and literary, are appropriating wide space to ethical interests n every issue. Religious matter is being syndicated, and is being paid for at rates approaching the remunerations given popular fiction writers. The reading public seem :o want it, else the caterers to public de-
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The buildings housing the Emperial D'et of Japan were recently burned to the ground.
mand would not send it out.
The doings of church bodies and federated bodies are getting more and more space in news reports. The sane and unbiased, though inconclusive, report of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America on the prohibition situation received respectful attention by all classes of people. The churches are having much to say on economic and political Islamic teaching. Thus a wonderful oppor- questions; and the church vote is much zunity is opened up for Christianity to find sought after.
access to hitherto walled-in religionists. And The Stockholm Universal Christian Con-:he missionaries are hastening to make the ference on Life and Work is a case in point, most of the invitation.	E^ery large Christian denomination, except
We need beware, however, of too hasty the Roman Catholic, was represented at conclusions concerning the breaking-up of this unique gathering, even the Greek Islam. A political and social breaking-up is church sending delegates. These 600 men inevitable in the face of contacts and inter- came from thirty-seven nations of the world charfges with ever-progressive modern and stood for 300,000,000 Christians. They ideas. But the Moslem religion as a whole is came together to discuss — not to vote on Far from disintegration yet. Religion will —moral problems, not doctrines, and the Dold together when national patriotism will best of good will prevailed. The relation of separate, and the former is the more potent the Church to industry, drink, and war rorce.	forced most attention. As to industry,
The word of God, in prophetic symbol, man’s stewardship of God’s property was •depicts th apolitical power which has headed emphasized, and this pronouncement made: :he Moslem peoples as drying up.(Rev. 16: “The Christian Church has not by herself 12.) Drying is a slow process. Turkey as a to carry out programs of reform, but to nation will no doubt be removed, as an impart the life-giving spirit to them and obstacle, to allow the Asiatics to come west :o fight at Armageddon. The Moslem religion will remain a powerful force and agency in opposing God in the wind-up of 'he world’s affairs. We will have much more :o say of this in another connection.
The believer in the forecast, “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come” (Matt. 24: 14) knew long ago that Islam must open up, that honest souls within might have the witness of the kingdom. In reality this Deaceful sign of the end is much more sure than the war-filled one.
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The building in Locarno, Switzerland, where ths European nations signed the security pact.
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influence of the questionable American dances and movies frustrates the efforts of Christian missions.
LADY missionary, recently returned from Africa, viewing the changes in America's young womanhood since she had been away, declared that in a!l her escper-.ence with the savages of darkest Congo she had never heard such foolishness and such sens^.ess chatter as she heard after her return to America; 3rd that the savage girls of the tropics would be ashamed :o wear such suggestive costumes as the girls wore here; tha: in their native garb, which in many instances was near the nude, they were more modest in manner and appearance than the girls of America.
Staid old Boston is shocked because it has been discovered that a large number of her university and college students are lining m open immorality, without chaperon-age of any kmd.
FLi Y outh Gone Mad?
The following article, taken from the Way of Faiths of September, 1924, aptly illustrates certain conditions which we see abcu: us, and indicates the concern with which we should regard them.
“The following are a few of the movie headlines clipped from daily papers, wkich show how the young life of America is being trained to-day:
“‘Boy admits rakirg pay checks, emulated movies.’ ‘Auburn court to try fifteen boys. Movies got them into trouble.' ‘Bey seized ror theft says he tried to imitate motion picrure bandit.’ ‘“Girl victim of bug,” say police.’ ‘“Children are movie mad/' Chicago investigators say.’ ‘Boys chloroform woman in4film-stuff burglary.’ ‘Children throw switch to sse a real train wreck.' ‘Victim of boy movie-imititor found dying.’ ‘Three young girls missing, believed bound for Los Angeles to become movie stars.’ ‘Boy shot paying movies.' ‘Boy hanged while playing movies.' ‘Eoy shot coasters; blames movies.'
“There are many other such headlines, indicating the necessity for reform of the screen. Judging from the billboards, the movies are far worse than the theater ever was.” The above is seme indication of conditions as they exist, yet it :akes up but one cause, and gives no idea of the really appal :r_g :ncrease of crime among the youth.
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In later editions of daily papers the following items are only a few among many:
“Boy of thirteen a blackmailer. Howard Nathanson, a thirteen-year-old schoolboy, admitted to the postoffice authorities that he was the author of a dozen blackmail letters received by wealthy residents of Boston, Cambridge, Lynn, and Braintree, Mass., demanding sums of money ranging from $15 to $5000. Nathanson said he had seen the thing done in the movies, and thought he would try it himself.”
“Boy and bride, both nineteen, confess to planning robberies in Hamilton, Ontario.”
“Boy, fourteen, facing the gallows. William Cavalier of Mechanicsburg, Pa., found guilty of murdering his grandmother and stealing $58 from her as she lay dying.”
“Invisible girl thieves, called ‘mice,’ loot Paris hotel rooms without fear of police.”
“Eleven-year-old child taught to shoplift.”
“Ray Snodderly of Wichita, Kansas, confessed taking part in a holdup. The confession was false, Snodderly merely wanting the thrill.”
“Young and pretty girls are used by Irish smugglers to take all kinds of contraband goods into the Irish Free State.”
“Fifteen-year-old Angeline Mannino of Cleveland confesses to the slaying of Tony Valone, saying that the fact that she is a Sicilian demanded it.”
“Sixteen-year-old Dorothy Ellingson, the jazz moth, as she is called, kills her mother, and after confession, begs for swift justice.”
“Long Island maid, Miss Ursula I. Wilson, member of a good family, arrested with two men. She directed activities of band which stole fifty cars.”
A By-product of Environment
SUCH are but a few of the more recent proofs of the truth of the article quoted above. New York City police records prove the extent to which young men and women have become criminals. In a single year there were 580,000 arraignments in magistrates' courts, and 80 per cent of the criminals were from eighteen to twenty-three
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years old. Sixty per cen: werr morally aaid mentall* def-cient, according to the magistrates. Every known crime was charged to them.
It is true that the movies, with their excitement and thrills, lure many immature rrrnds to crime, but often these alone would not produce this result.
Judge Louis Gibbs of the Bronx says:
“Crime is a byproduct of environment. You may go for blocks in the tenement sections of New York, and you will be unable to find a bath, or an apart-ment where there is any privacy. You cannot expect decent people to grow up in a pernicious environment.”
Justice James Cropsey, of the Brooklyn Supreme Court, says: “The vast majority of
youthful offenders committee crime because they had bad associates, and were no: under the proper influences in the years when changing to maturity.”
Judge Crain, of the Court of General Sessions, believes that many young criminals fcave become such oecaase of the desire for easy money — ~hat there are always friends to help these boys and girls spend their loot — and that lack of home and schocl religioiB trair ing keeps rherr. from feeling any qualms of conscience.
Prisons Spread the Evil
MANY, many children in our land have not the opportunity to atrend church cf any kind, or to get even a meager education in public schools, anc all of the conditions mentioned above, including the fiendish lure of the movies, increase criminal tendencies among the young. In many of our larger cities there are organized bands of criminals, and while often they are headed by some expert of mature years, many of the cocls of this expert are youths, both boys and girls, who frequent poo- rooms, caoarets, and cheap theaters; where ev 1 associates abounc.
Many young girls unite with their young men friends n daring holdups, thefts, robberies, and even murders, all for the sake of getting easy money. According to official records, the prisons o: the land are overflowing with youthful criminals. But welfare workers believe that such incarceration only increases the number of young outlaws, because, by communication and association with eacr. other and with those mere hardened in crime, they learn to become worse law-breakers. Auzhorities have the serious question to face of what to dc to better conditiors.
' LASHY night life is liadng j ulttudes of youth to "ailure and crixn^.
Shall they compel attendance at schools where there is religious training? Shall they compel church attendance? Sha 1 they compel attendance at some vocational school, where pupils should be oH^ged to remain until experts consider them safe to mangle with society? Judge McAdoo
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favors the latter plan. Many ideas have been suggested, but what will accomplish results?
Are all of these youthful criminals the children of criminal parents? By no means. Many, in fact the majority, are of parents who are often ignorant of the course their boys and girls are taking, and who would shrink in horror from a like course, even though they themselves are in poverty and the direst need.
Are they all
from the poorer classes? Many are, yet many are not, but are the sons and daughters of the wealthy, looking for a thrill to brighten their cul existence; as witness the case of Loeb and Leopold of Chicago, and the numerous others who harve since followed their example. And many, too many, are -he ch-ldren of the quiet, incustrious, respectable, thrifty, midcle classes, who seek tc emulate the deeds of the wealthy, ar d to enjoy in reality what they enjoy in imagination when viewing the movies. In many instances, sad to say, they are taken to “he pictuies as children by their parents, are allowed tc go alone as they become older, and grow up in the fetid, krid, thrill-developing atmosphere of the unreafity and romance of the silver screen. And in many instances, where there is panenta. restriction, children lie; steal, and run away to carry out their plans to see the movies, openly defying tie requests and commands of their parent
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|UT what do :hese conditions signify? Paul tells us in hi3 letier to Timothy that one of the characteristics of the last days, will be that children will be disobedient to their parents and that they will be lovers of pleasures more than levers of God. Much might have been averted had parents followed the advice of the ancient man of God, who, in speaking of the ccirrr.ancments o: the Lord said, “Thou shait teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in. thine house, and when thou walkest by ihe way. and when thou best down, and when thou risest upf
Muc i might still be accomplished (Cortinued on page 2j)
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PACE NINE
T>oes EVOLUTION Subvert
AM not a theologian, nor the son of a theologian, and I regard a theoretical discussion of theology as, generally speaking, of little profit. I know that mere intellectual assent to a creed, however orthodox, will not save me in the hour of temptation. I have found that “in me, that is, in my elleth no good thing,”1 and that I need a power more than natural, a power that does not reside in me through natural birth and that I cannot supply, to give me the victory over what my conscience tells me is morally wrong. I have found this power. It is not a matter of theory with me. But I have found this power in a Person, and not in a creed. I have found “Christ the power of God,”2 “who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption,”3 and the statement of the apostle Paul has been fulfilled to me: “My God shall supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”4
It was not always thus with me. For long years I tried to make myself a Christian. I had “a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.”5 I tried to conform my life to the example and teaching of Christ. I struggled and strove, but I did not direct my striving and my struggling to the right end. I know that many others are having the same unsatisfying experience that I had, and having found the better way, I greatly desire to help as many others as possible to find it. Furthermore, a teaching is now being pressed upon us, by some who profess to be exponents of the gospel of Christ, that I can readily see would take from me what I prize so highly, and throw me back into my former state of purposeless struggle and constant unrest. I therefore cannot accept this modern interpretation of the Scriptures, which would fill my world with uncertainty, and this modern interpretation of the Christ of the Scriptures, which makes Him the ideal man, but refuses to recognize Him as truly God, as well as truly man. I have learned to revere Jesus of Nazareth as “my Lord and my God,”6 but these advocates of a new philosophy would take away my Lord and leave me to struggle alone, held down by the limitations of an animal heredity and an adverse environment. Against this I must protest.
The Real Issue on Evolution
WHAT is the ultimate meaning of the present agitation over the theory of evolution? If it were a mere academic discussion, confined to the legitimate field of science, I could view it with complacency and wait for the verdict of competent judges. But it is not. The controversy is not between two purely scientific theories as to the origin of the present order of the material universe, but rather between an atheistic philosophy which shuts out a personal Creator from any active intervention in his world, and a Biblical Christianity which provides a supernatural Saviour for us. This is the real issue.
The Christ of the Scriptures is a supernatural Saviour, who “ is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near to God through Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.”7 When the angel announced His birth to the shepherds, he proclaimed the gospel of a supernatural Saviour: “Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the people: for there is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the
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Lord.”8 I need a Saviour. You, my reader, need a Saviour. Just such a Saviour as we need has been provided. “Thou shalt call His name Jesus: for it is He that shall save His people from their sins.”9 “When the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman.”10 “They shall call His name Immanuel; which is, being interpreted, God with us.”11 Any teaching which takes away a supernatural Christ robs me of a real Saviour, and leaves me with “no hope and without God in the world.”12 An evolutionary theory which denies a special creation and refers all to immutable law, affirming that “ all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation,”13 is absolutely subversive of that gospel which presents to us a Person who by a personal and special intervention reverses the law of heredity, changes our environment, and makes us members of the household of God.
In rejecting such claims of science as make creation independent of the constant working of a personal Creator, and explain both man and the universe as the result of certain laws and forces inherent in matter, I am standing for the defense of the gospel as taught in the Scriptures. This I shall now try to make clear by presenting, without any extended argument, the plain teaching of the word of God.
No Baseless Faith
JESUS himself indicated the purpose of the Scriptures when He said, “These are they which bear witness of Me.”14 These writings are given to reveal Christ to us as the Saviour of the world. Their theme is not abstract theology, not a scheme of salvation, but a living Saviour. They discover to us the fact that we are sinners, lost in a wilderness of woe, and then make known to us Him who “came to seek and to save that which was lost.”16 They disclose to us “ the mystery which hath been kept in silence through times eternal,”16 even “the mystery of godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, received up in glory.”17 We are asked to accept the Christ of the Scriptures as our personal Saviour and as the Lord of our lives, and to exercise a faith that involves a complete surrender to His will and a loyal obedience to His commandments; but sufficient evidence is furnished to us as a basis for such a faith. What, then, constitutes the ground of confidence for the absolute committal of ourselves and all our hopes into the hand of the Man of Galilee? The answer in one brief word is, Creation. We ought, then to seek to understand what is bound up in this comprehensive word in its relation to the gospel of salvation.
Note these simple facts: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”18 “God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him.”19 “Thou hast made him but little lower than the angels, and crownest him with glory and honor.”20 “All have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God.”21 The gospel is “the gospel of the glory of the blessed God.”22 “If any man is in Christ, there is a new creation.”23 Thus He who created the heavens and the earth, created man in His own image, but little lower than the angels, and imparted to him some-
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the GOSPEL?
A great Sculptor’s conception of the creation of man as depicted in the Bible. How crudely man’s mind follows God’s.
thing of the glory of His own character. When man under temptation rejected the will of God and God himself, he lost the glory of His character, the image of God. The gospel is the good news that this glory is to be restored through the same process by which it was originally bestowed — creation.
Only a New Creation Can Save
IT IS clear, then, that redemption is a new creation, and that only the God who creates, can redeem, and so we read: “But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and He that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee.”24 Jehovah is an everlasting God, “the Creator of the ends of the earth.”25 “I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel.”26 The Creator of the ends of the earth is the Creator of Israel, and to set aside the Creator of the ends of the earth is to set aside the Creator of Israel. To teach that the creation of the earth and of all upon it, even of man, is the result of the working through countless ages of the forces inherent in matter, apart from the direct action of a personal Creator, denies the fall of man and the entrance of sin; makes the story of creation a mythic account of traditions current before man had arrived at his present stage of intellectual development; and deprives us of the one basis of confidence in a Saviour who recognizes us as lost and intervenes in our behalf. Against this I must protest.
But there is much more involved in the meaning of creation in its relation to the gospel. All revelation of God, whether it be the very essence of His being, or the outworking of His power, is made through the eternal Son,27 who is “the effulgence of His glory, and the very image of His substance,”28 and “through whom also He made the worlds.”29 This mediatorial idea is strongly emphasized
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A Testimony of Personal Experience
in the Scriptures as the essential feature of the gospel, but it has its root in the original creation which is described in the first chapter of Genesis. When the Son of God assumed humanity and was fully revealed as the Saviour of the world, then His relation to the material universe was clearly set forth as the basis of confidence in His person and His work: “All things were made through Him; and without Him was not anything made.”30 There is “one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things.”31 “In Him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through Him, and unto Him; and He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.”32 Thus clearly are we taught that the Son of God, who came to redeem us, was the mediator for the Father in bringing all things into existence and in maintaining all things. “The Spn is the one mediator, acting from and for the divine nature towards all else that is.”
Christ Altogether Necessary
BUT this tremendous fact is revealed in Holy Scripture, not as a contribution in the field of science, but to furnish a basis for confidence in the redeeming work of the Son of God. He who mediated in the original creation is the mediator in the new creation. “ Creation, that palmary and all-inclusive miracle, once admitted as the act of a personal, free-willing God, motived by supreme love as well as executed by supreme wisdom and power, then the revelation of Himself and of His love by the Almighty in the narrower and more intimate sense to and through the hearts and consciences of men, culminating in the supreme revelation of His character in His incarnate Son and in the new creation, of which, as of the old creation, the Son is the head and center, become natural, consistent, and probable.” And so we read: “There is one God, one mediator also between God and men, Himself man, Christ Jesus.”33 “He is the mediator of a new covenant.”34 “Through Him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father.”35
The thought of the new creation in and through Him is equally emphasized: “We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works.”36 “For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.”37 The gospel is, therefore, the good news of a new creation by which the image of God is renewed in man, and man is thus restored to fellowship with God; but this new creation demands a mediator, and this mediator is the same Son of God who mediated in the original creation, and evidence of His ability to mediate in the new creation is found in the fact that He did mediate in the old creation and is still mediating in “upholding all things by the word of His power.”38
I cannot accept that teaching which dispenses with a personal Creator and a personal Mediator in the old creation, and which does not allow any special intervention in the affairs of the universe, for the logical result of such teaching would be the overthrow of the gospel of the new creation upon which I rest my hope of salvation from sin through the intervention of the divine Mediator in my behalf. I urge all who may chance to read what I have written, Do not allow a false inter- {Continued on page 23)
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To Whom It May Be of Interest:
DUCATION is at present ir a state of flux. Motion is necessary to progress, but motion is not necessarily progress. Progress depends ■— though not alone — upon the direction motion taikes. To be orogress, the movement must be in the direction of its goal.
The common crayfish illustrates the point. When it is stepping backward at the rate which is familiar to all boys who frequent country brooks, it is making progress, for it is moving in the direction of its hiding place. When the mollusk on the beach rushes sidewise in its peculiar mode of locomotion, it is making progress, because it is seeking the cover of water or some other retreat.
The saying is trite that improvement or reform moves in zigzag lines. There is only one reason for this; namely, that the leader does no: know exactly where his goal is, but he is, nevertheless, cn the way.
A man can never knew where his goal is till he knows very definitely what it is. And even when he knows what and w here i: is, he is not always sure of tke way there.
The Happy Middle in Educational Method
THE foregoing facts are partially an explanation ot why education is in a state of flux to-day. They are not th e real reasons for it. The American is so energetic in his d eterm.nation to reach something better, that the Britis her, when he visits our land, avers that the American has b ut one slogan: Keen moving. The American passes it back when he tours England, by declaring that the Britisher is so “sot” in his ways that he knows but one slogan: Stand pat. The way through obviously lies between the two.
The real reason why the educational theory of to-day is discarded to-morrow, why the teaching practice of one decade is supplanted by another the next, lies in the fact that we educators are prone to overlook the simplicity of educational principles in the intricacies of our educational
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practice. We lose sight of what the educational goal i^n our effort to find where it is and the way thither. Jp
There was a time when no such thing was in exisjrnce as the school. The children were educated by the parents, in the home. No one knows so well, or should know so well, what the child needs for the fulfillment of his high destiny as a new creature with all the possibilities of life before him, as do the parents. Had parents lived up to their high privileges, and did they so live now, there would be no such thing as the school, in its ordinary sense of an institution to take the place of the parents to train the children till they reach the years of personal accountability and individual independence. It was because of the breakdown in the home that the school came in.
This consideration simplifies the purpose of the school and the fundamental principles underlying the service it is intended to give. In the words of another, “Our ideas of education take too narrow a view and too low a range. There is need of a broader view, of a higher aim.” But the broader view is as simple as it is broad. The needs of human kind from those who have gone before and know the way, are only three: molding of body, of soul, and of spirit; physical, mental, and moral development; training of hand, and head, and heart.
The Greatest Mistake of Educators
TO BE well born physically is a great thing, but to preserve that physical well-being and to develop it is a still greater thing. The heritage of a sound mind is of great value, but to preserve and develop that mind is of greater value. The worth of spiritual endowment from natural parents cannot be expressed in human values, but the preservation and development of such an endowment has eternal consequences.
The greatest mistake that educators make is in confining their attention to the mental, to the neglect of the physical and the spiritual interests of the child. Such a course cannot but result in a one-sided, one-legged education that cannot stand the test of life’s needs. A table cannot stand on one leg. Physically a man may stand on two legs, but educationally he must have three. The old saying is, “A sound mind in a sound body.” The new and the true saying ought to be: “A sound mind and a sound heart in a sound body.” This is the only trinity that will avail for life’s necessities.
It is not fair that some men should do all the physical labor, while others do all the thinking, and still others do all the heart work. Society can be put together in this fashion and exist, but nothing more surely produces and perpetuates the lack of social balance that is obvious on every hand, and nothing multiplies more the number of human derelicts we find along the highway of life, than this very condition of democratic caste that reveals itself in the three strata of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual.
It is a well-known fact that the life of the athlete, who labors hard physically at doing nothing that blesses him-
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self or anybody else, is shortened by his one-sided devotion to the physical — shortened either for efficiency in following his own pursuit, or for life itself, or both. If the professional baseball player stays in the game till he is forty, he is the exception; he is more often out at thirty. Even the farmer, who lives and labors out of doors, does not make or break the record for longevity; he tends to neglect the culture of the mind and the culture of the heart in his absorption in soil culture and the increase of his bank account. Much of the same lack of balance is therefore seen in his development as a man as is found in the athlete and the mechanic, albeit the farmer has the enormous advantage of continual contacf with natural things, freedom from the dissipations incident to the artificial life of the cities, and in point of usefulness to his fellow man he cannot be surpassed.
The Crown Jewel of the Body “^“T"MdE minds of thinking men work too hard.” While 1 the mind is in a sense the crown jewel of the body, its need of the physical and spiritual balance is as great as is the need of the physical for the balance of the mental and the spiritual. There is no greater admitted truth than that the mind reacts on the body, and the body on the mind. Lack of the legitimate exercise of either produces a human monstrosity comparable to the bear of the Scriptures, which is represented as being “lifted up on one side.” If, in the use of the mind for intensive work, the balance of the physical and the spiritual is wanting, men resort to stimulants or to some artificial mode of physical exertion to help them go on in their lop-sided way. Scientific tests have even been made to prove that some stimulant, like coffee or a moderate amount of liquor, is useful and necessary in maintaining efficiency — in mental pursuits of course. This is like playing with fire in a forest or grain field in a rainless summer. So little fire as is found in the glow of a match or in a cigarette stub may produce a conflagration that destroys life and property. Artificial .exercise, like sports and amusements, or even like Walter Camp’s “daily dozen,” cannot begin to produce the wholesome moral, physical, and mental reaction that is found in useful labor with the hands, sweetened always with the sense that it blesses not only the doer but others as well. While any right-minded man appreciates the service done by Walter Camp for those who will not follow the better way, we were all disappointed to see him drop out at the early age of sixty. It is akin to the disappointment we all feel when a genius in music, or poetry, or invention, or industry, or spiritual ministry drops out because of failure to obey the inexorable laws of nature that demand balance in the human system or payment of the penalty.
Character is the Highest
WHILE the mind is the citadel of the body, so to speak, the highest nature of man expresses itself in character. The development of character requires the bringing into play of all the resources of the mind and the body. It is not a thing of the heart only, though it centers and expresses itself there. President Roosevelt uttered a great truth when he said; “People educated in intellect, and not educated in moral®and religion, will become a menace to our nation.”
The old-fashioned steam engine used to have a “governor” on top of the boiler. This consisted of two revolving iron balls so set on a hinge arrangement that the speed of their movement regulated the circumference of their revolution. As the pressure of the steam arose from firing, the DECEMBER, I925
speed of the balls increased, centrifugal force enlarged the circle of their revolution, and the supply of steam to the driving wheel was automatically shut off, so that the machinery would not tear itself to pieces from speed. If the mental machinery is not regulated by some moral force, adjusted to the pressure of the occasion, we get the Leopold-Loeb murder, the Dorothy Ellingson matricide, the traffic in human virtue, the daylight robber, the bootlegger, dishonesty in trade, graft in office, the oppression of the poor, and a long train of evils that emanate from unbalance of character produced by a one-sided or one-legged education.
No greater truth is recorded in the Word of God than “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” While this truth is applicable in an intensive way to the individual, it is no less applicable to the social or the organized group. Of all such groups, there is none to which it applies with greater force than to the organized group we call the school. The seed sown in the responsive soil of the tender heart of a little child brings forth an abundant harvest in middle and old age. More than this, the child is an ever-bearing plant, with the fruitage beginning to appear even at the sowing time.
The church deals with the children and the youth and with the grown-ups at intervals in the week, perhaps. There was once no such separate institution as the church. The moral and spiritual welfare of the children was the concern of the heads of the home. But here again there was a breakdown in carrying the responsibilities of the home, and the church was born to help mend the breach. While its ministry is capable of untold good, yet its service does not begin to be as continuous as that of the school. The teacher takes the place of the parent during nearly half the waking time of the child’s day, and keeps it up for five or six days in the week, and from thirty-six to forty or forty-eight weeks in the year. From the kindergarten to the university, the boys and the girls of the land are under the direct influence of the teacher during the most plastic and susceptible period of the entire life, barring only the mother-influence in the pre-school period.
Three of the millions to be trained in American schools.
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Someone with vision has said: “It is the nicest work ever committed to men and women to deal with youthful minds.” There is only one class of men and women who make it their sole business to deal with youthful minds, and that is the teacher class. The calling of the teacher, therefore, cannot be placed on too high a pedestal of esteem. He cannot exact too much of himself. He has no right to be in the business of teaching unless he has a keen sense of what its exalted demands are.
The High Art of Teaching
IT IS only because of some sense of this kind, growing out of thirty years in the service, that the writer has been impelled to venture this letter to educators. Perhaps he can best clarify himself through a few propositions and questions:
i.	The school is an annex to the home. It is designed to supply the lack of the home teaching, caused by the indifference of parents, or their pre-occupation with other cares or pleasures, or their incapacity to fill the role of teacher to their children.
Question: Cannot the teacher gain the clearest sense of his obligation to the home and to society by recognizing that he must assume, to a great extent, the most vital responsibilities of the home for the welfare of our boys and girls; and this during a large part of the most impressible period of young life?
2.	The teacher need not necessarily be a parent, though, other things being equal, parentage is of unquestionable advantage.
Question a: Should not qualifications for teaching include maturity enough to reveal discernible instincts of the parent, either by nature or by training, or both?
Question b: Is it not a wicked, or at least a decidedly unwise, thing to rule out married women from the teaching profession simply because they are married, and from the sordid motive of providing occupation for a larger number of young people who are not married yet less capable?
3.	If a child is born into anything like normal environment and conditions of home life, its mind and body will develop in fair balance by natural growth and care. If the atmosphere of the home is a spiritual one, the spiritual will blend with the mental and physical development.
Question: Is it right, by either compulsory law or parental choice, to place a child in the formal school, under the artificial conditions of modern school life, before it is eight or ten years of age and has had opportunity to develop its physical strength to the point where it can stand the additional strain of mental application; barring the one contingent that conditions in the home life make it preferable for it to be in the school, even under the artificial conditions off mass instruction and care?
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4.	The educational needs of the normal man coincide with his needs for living a full life. These are threefold in character, and no one of them can be neglected without impairing the functioning of the other two.
Question: Is it logical, or consistent with common sense, to single out one of the three fundamental needs of the child and youth, and stress that in education, while the other two are uncared for?
5.	There are two types of individual that the school produces that are about equally useless so far as serving their own best interests or those of others is concerned. These two are the bookworm, and the one whose education, so-called, has gone to his head—“heady” the Bible calls him, top-heavy we might call the poor chap in common parlance. Neither of these victims is responsible for his misfortune, unless he has been impervious to advice; the teacher is responsible for such a product. A Collier s editorial says: “It is impossible to get at life through books. You must get at books through life.”
Question: How much of the failure of the school to produce what the world needs is owing to the mistaken effort of the teacher to get at life through books ? How much of the headiness of youth which is the dread of home and municipal authorities to-day originates with the bookish and schoolroom methods of the traditional school?
6.	The best remedy ever provided for the ailments common to humanity under the reign of sin, is useful physical labor, balanced by a proper amount of mental and spiritual culture. But the lure of the white collar has captivated our youth, and many parents have no more discernment than to encourage them in it. Before a House Committee in Washington, the manager of an industrial concern made the following report, in substance, on his contact with some young men of a college in the vicinity;
“There are boys at----who
are working their way through college who need money very much, and they cannot go through college unless they earn it. I have offered them jobs breaking stone in a quarry with a sledge hammer, honest enough work, though not exactly compatible with their ideas of their own intellectuality. They were quite strong enough to do it. They were football men who ought to be in training for next fall, and needed just that sort of thing to get them into shape after the hard study of the winter and spring. I also offered them jobs at loading stone into cars. One Italian in our quarry was making $50 and $60 a week, and others $30 or #40. They could make anything they wanted to within their physical ability to do it, and their mental intention of doing it. I could not get one of them to take it, I could get any number of them who would take a $io-a-week job assisting the timekeeper in keeping track of the time.”	(Continued on page33)
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The little red school house is passing. Shall that which replaces it be for better or worse?
Sometimes Qhild J^abor J^aws are Needed at
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aAttorney (general John Q. Sargent tells of his boyhood
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Carefully supervised hand-v^crs £t home is a wonderful character aailder.
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T IS easy enough tc eir.phasize the value of play, and abundant play is needed and should be provided for our children. Some need to learn how to play. But, all play anc no work you know —
Let Donald, Dcrofihy, Mabel, and Merwin learn how to work, ard that it is necessary that they should work; for, all theories of the value of “self-expression” to the contrary notwithstanding, good, old-fashioned work develops character.
There was no doubt of this in the mind of Attorney General John G. Sargent, the tab, guant Vermonter, as he talked to the writer recently cf his early boyhood. In reminiscent mood he said:
“Every boy and girl among^ die boys and girls that I grew up with in those early days had something assigned that had to be done. In fact, a daty to perform was about the first thing that came to us. A boy had his farm chores to do. They were his duties. If he neglected them, he was punished; and if he half did tier*, he had them to do over again. It was the law of our home and all the other homes.
“It didn’t become a matter if punishment, and the boy didn’t have to be nagged all the lime and told to do this and that. To do his work became a part of his nature.
“When I was a boy our wd.-k didn’t seem irksome, because we grew up with it. Any:xxly who does things easily and naturally does ’em that wtLy because he started early with ’em.
“And I suppose it was becaise we were bred to respect our work instead of to hate it tret there wasn’t the craving for amusement that there is no^. It comes back to me now, that the finest amusement of my boyhood was to lie on the floor and read.”
Get Something to Do and Do It
WHETHER one is a Republican or a Democrat, an admirer of the present Attorney General or not, respectful consideration must be given to the theory that steady, adaptable work builds character. Mr. Sargent talked much of it. In answer 10 my question as to what young people ought to do rev, he quickly and unhesitatingly answered: “Get something worth while to do and do it!”
The learning to do sometiing worth while comes only
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through the ability to perform duty regularly, unhesitatingly, and perseveringly;and the foundation for such comes early in life, if it comes at the right time. The virtues of New England are needed to-day as they were needed in the earlier period. They are needed in gospel work, in the home — everywhere that service for others beckons.
In these days the children are too often left without anything to do, for all the work of the house is either done for them by their parents, or there are adults hired for the purpose. A mother said recently after returning from a visit, that “training children has greatly changed in recent years. Ellen learns her children’s lessons, invents plays for them, arranges their rooms after them, picks up what they let fall, puts in order the things they have left in confusion; she does everything for her children but eat for them. Even then she worries if they do not like their food and it isn’t just so.”
How can any normal boy or girl develop imagination, invention, and creative ability if he has nothing that he must do for himself and for others — no regular work expected of him ? Where will he get his training in the need of continuous effort and the value of perseverance?
How to Grow Good Citizens
THE plain-spoken words of the Attorney General are in line with the principles of some of the newest organizations, whose aim is to supply the needs that parents so often overlook. The Junior Achievement League is one of these. O. H. Beson, formerly with the Department of Agriculture, is head of it, and he lays down four fules for “ the growing of good citizens.” The rules are equally applicable to the growing of the good Christians that are needed to shoulder the task of carrying the gospel to the ends of the earth: First, let the child take part in the production of the business of the home.
Second, don’t let your children leave home to do their first work. Show them how to work and earn at home.
Third, teach the child to love his work while he is yet a child by infusing into that work the spirit of contest, challenge, and enthusiasm. This will make work seem like play.
Fourth, make the child’s idle school hours and vacation periods an opportunity for the business of production. Salvage the child’s idle hours and you salvage the child.
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Eden or Sodom?
Evolution and the Bible Are Poles Apart
N OPPONENT of the anti-evolution law murmurs, “Is Tennessee civilized?” and numerous other voices denounce this legislation as an “attempt to fetter the human mind, to block the path to scientific progress, and to turn the world back to the superstitions of the Dark Ages.”
In this argument there is nothing hew. It has an ancient, familiar sound, and appears to be but a paraphrase of the serpent’s words uttered in Eden six thousand years ago: “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? ... Ye shall not durely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” In these words of the tempter is the embryo of all evolutionary philosophy. Our first parents were told that by means of their own investigations and endeavors, they might advance step by step to the exalted sphere of deity itself. Sad to contemplate, the lie was accepted; the camouflage worked; and the sinless pair forsook the tree of life for the lure of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The two systems of thought represented by these trees of the long-lost Paradise are mutually exclusive. No one can, at the same time, eaf and enjoy the fruit of both. Despite the claims of some, no one can truthfully believe in the living God of Inspiration, and in evolution. Do you inquire the reason? Here it is.
Antagonistic Theories
VOLUTION is the so-called scientific formula for banishing God from the universe. It essays to explain how the heavens, the earth, and all living things came into being without a Creator; while the Book declares that “ the worlds were framed by the word of God,” that “He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.” Heb. 11:3; Ps. 33: 9. The former discourses about man’s slow development through millions of years from lower forms of animal life; the other states that “God created man in His own image.” That both of these teachings cannot be true is self-evident.
“ But why is it so important,” asks someone, “ to emphasize the Bible sketch of creation? In common with numerous eminent scholars, I can substitute the evolutionary theory for the opening chapters of Genesis and still have
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faith in the remaining portions of Scripture.” At first thought such a position may appear reasonable, but a little study indicates that this concession compromises every vital truth of Christianity.
Were it true that God did not create man perfect and upright and establish him in Eden as the masterpiece of divine handiwork, were it true that our race has been gradually moving upward toward perfection through countless ages of evolution, then the story of the temptation and fall of our first parents can be only a myth.
Wide World Photos
There are living “ape men” whose skulls resemble those who, from their shape, are said to have been extinct for millions of years.
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Again, if there never was a lost Paradise nor a lost man, what is the meaning of that New Testament statement, “The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost”? In that case, the entire story of redemption, the virgin birth, and of pardon through the Saviour’s blood, is but a stupendous fabrication. Neither in heaven nor in earth could there then be a divine Christ, for, to the evolutionist, He can be no more than a good man. And if only this, why should He deceive His followers by the promise that He would come again to raise the dead and give the faithful of all ages an eternal home in a restored Paradise?
No Sabbath for the Evolutionist
TO THE evolutionist there can be no such thing as a sacred Sabbath day. Note its purpose and significance us stated in the fourth commandment of the great decalogue: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. . . . For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.” If historians should discover that the United States did not become independent of Great Britain by any specific act, on any particular day, or by any patriotic merit of the forefathers, would Americans then benefit by a Fourth of July farce? Even so, if the one supreme reason for instituting the weekly rest — the creation work of six days — is based upon fancy, not fact, why should anyone seek to keep up the pretense of Sabbath observance?
On the other hand, had that blest memorial of creation ever been kept and honored as Jehovah designed, leading mankind to a full appreciation of God’s handiwork, power, and love, it would have stood adown the ages as a mighty bulwark against wickedness and unbelief of every description. Then would there never have been pagan nor idolater, atheist nor infidel, and the Modernist-evolutionary controversy would never have rocked the Christian church.
As evolution comes in, holy wedlock goes out. Like the Sabbath, it comes down to us from the beginning. God himself solemnized the first wedding amid the pristine beauty of the vale of Eden. “For this cause,” in the words of Scripture, “shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wj/e: and they twain shall be one flesh.
. . . What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” Matt. 19: 5, 6.
A Home-Wrecking Philosophy
IN CONTRAST with this, evolutionary lore teaches of the ape-man and the ape-woman, of the cave-man and the cave-woman, and of the marriage relationship somehow finding its place in our present civilization by chance or accident. Regarded only as “a polite conventionality of a transitory age,” numerous “progressives” tell us that, as an institution, marriage has failed, and that some other arrangement like “scientific mating,” “trial marriages,” or “free love,” should be introduced to take its place. Thus evolution lends itself as a subtle tool for home wrecking and licentiousness.
When developed in all its logical fullness, this godless philosophy destroys every moral standard and all sense of personal responsibility. In defense of the university student murderer, “Babe” Leopold of Chicago, Attorney Darrow pointed out that the boy had become enamored by the theories of Nietzsche, and simply endeavored to try them out in real life. Speaking of this “most original philosopher of the last century,” he who is said to have made a “deeper imprint” upon the intellectual culture of his age than any other, Mr. Darrow says:
“He wrote one book called ‘Beyond Good and Evil,’
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which was a criticism of all moral precepts, as we understand them, and a treatise that the intelligent man was beyond good and evil, that the laws for good and the laws for evil did not apply to anybody who approached the superman.”
He further stated that the superman philosophy of Nietzsche “has permeated every college and university of the civilized world.”
A Deadly Doctrine
THE Chicago lads became intoxicated at this fountain, and in their madness killed Bobby Franks. For a generation or more, German youths imbibed this poison, and, obsessed with the idea that they were a nation of Nordic supermen, went forth to subdue or destroy a world.
Tvternational
What efforts men will make to cause the monkey to appear htiman!
Karl Marx elaborated upon the socialistic abstractions of Nietzsche; Lenin and Trotsky endeavored to put these theories into practice; and atheistic, Bolshevik, demoralized, suffering Russia is the reply.
And, more fatal than all else, evolutionary logic declares that neither Loeb, Leopold, the German Kaiser, the anarchist, the communist, the bandit, nor anyone else of this present generation, is personally at fault for what he is or does. Why? Because “some remote ancestor”—man or brute that may have lived a million years ago — “sent down the seed” that corrupts the hearts of men and women to-day. According to this, we should not punish the living, for they are irresponsible; and we cannot punish the fossil dead; what then, shall we do? Truly spoke the late Mr. Bryan in his final valedictory: “That doctrine is as deadly as leprosy.”
It is thus demonstrated that where evolution enters, nothing of real worth in Christianity or civilization remains. The Bible becomes only a faulty, unreliable classic, God a mystic principle, Christ an impostor, prayer a senseless superstition, eternal life a vain hope, the Sabbath an impious fetish, marriage an accident, man himself but a stagecoach for his ancestors, and moral laws and standards for morons only — not for intellectuals and supermen.
From the pernicious fruit of this paganism, we turn away. There stands the tree of life with its goodly record of six thousand years. Much fruit that has been handed out in the name of Christianity has been (Continued on page34)
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AGNOSTICISM’S WAY in
ROM out here in the Gulf of Guinea, latitude 5.21 south and 5.50 west, I look across Africa-ward and think of the pathways of light I have seen the gospel laying over veldt and jungle and mountains.
It was never of the agnostic’s desert path that the Psalmist wrote: “He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.” Ps. 110: 7.
There is no brook in that desert. Dr. J. Douglass Adam some time ago told a story of Professor Huxley, the man who gave the world the modern, polite name for age-old skepticism when he called himself an agnostic, i '“A friend of mine,” said Dr. Adam, “was once on a parliamentary commission with Professor Huxley. They happened to stay at a little country inn over Sunday. Huxley said to my friend:
“‘I suppose you are going to church this morning?*
“‘I am; I always go to church.*
“ ‘ I know you do,* said Huxley, ‘ but suppose this morning you sit down and talk with me about religion -^ simple, experimental religion.*	x
“‘I will,* said my friend, ‘if you mean it.*
“They sat down together, and my friend, out of a deep, rich experience, told him of the cross of Christ and pardoning love; after three hours, tears stood in Huxley’s eyes, and he put out his hand, and said, ‘ If I could only believe that, I would be willing to give my right hand.’ **
The Learned Agnostic and the Savages
BUT out in these dark mission lands, people are believing it. And believing it is actually transforming their lives. The hope of salvation that the gospel brings, the hope of the life to come, has power in it to change this life.
It is the creative power in the loving Word of God that does it. No other book does it. You cannot take a grammar, nor a spelling book, nor a history text into a raw heathen field and do the works that this Bible of ours does.
I know a missionary — one of our own — who went out to an island in the South Pacific. It was the home of savagery. Once when the blood feud was raging, Missionary Parker and his wife barricaded themselves in the little mission house for hours to shut out howling savages.
But gradually the “worship” softened hearts. Boys were learning scripture texts and children were beginning to sing snatches of gospel hymns. A change was setting in.
Just then arrived a college professor from Europe. He was studying ethnology, the science of races and tribes. He was an agnostic. “Don’t pay any attention to what the missionary teaches,” he said to the people. “It is all false. All you need is to follow your own instincts. Do not be led
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Sy William A. Spicer
Paul Thompson
King Kama, once pronounced “the greatest living African,” ciief of Bechuanaland, who died at the age of 95, after being a Christian for three quarters of a century.
away from your tribal customs and the natural refigion of your fathers.”
This ethnical religion bore its fruit. There was a reaction from the mission teaching. Did they not have the better way in their own natures? The tribal instincts, unfettered, rose again to supremacy. The blood feud broke out again. The professor fled to the mission to save his life. Tien for hours the missionary stood between the contending parties, hour after hour pleading, praying, striving to kf-ep the uplifted weapons from striking the first blows; untu as the sun was setting, the victory was gained. (The agncstic left the island.)
But the labor of a year or more had been lost. Again the teaching of the transforming Word was begun. Again at
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SAGE BRUSH and SAND
length it began to soften hearts. And now Christian believers are being baptized, and one-time savages are singing,
“Happy day, happy day,
When Jesus washed my sins away.”
“I Will not Fail”
UP IN Nyasaland, the other day, James, a teacher, told me of a young woman who heard the “teaching” in a village. Her heart was caught by the “ blessed hope.” She joined the Bible class, and her husband beat her. She joined the school and her husband beat her. For two years he beat her to make her give up this hope.
“I will not fail,” she kept saying; “I will not fail.”
After two years she avowed herself a candidate for bap-
Greek.” Rom. i: 16. Its saving grace is for every kindred*
Missionary E. C. Boger had opened a new station in the famous Katanga district of the Congo. Among the natives swarming in to work in and about the mines was a Nyasa boy. The gospel got his heart. The missionary sent to Nyasaland and obtained literature in the boy’s own language. “Now I do believe this truth,” said Jabeze; “for I have read it in my own language.” Missionary Boger told me:
“He worked for a Jew. Jabeze went to his employer and asked for the privilege of keeping the Sabbath.
“‘You keep the Sabbath?’ said the man.
“‘Yes.’
“‘I am a Jew and I ought to keep the Sabbath myself. But I cannot help you.’
“There was a contract, and it is a criminal offense for a native to break it. The boy gave the necessary few weeks’ notice to terminate it.
“Then the employer raised his salary. “‘No,’ said Jabeze.
“Then the employer suggested a part-time arrangement.
“‘No,’ said Jabeze;*I am going to work for Christ my Saviour.’”
And for far less wages than before, Jabeze is working to bring salvation to others. “If Jabeze alone is faithful,” said missionary Boger, “I shall be infinitely repaid for coming to the Congo.”
They listen intently to the preaching of the gospel.
tism and full reception into the church. She told her husband of her determination.
“You can be a Christian,” he said; “I have failed.”
Jabeze, of the Congo
THIS hope of salvation is the very power of God to those that believe. No wonder the Apostle Paul cried out in his letter to the Romans: “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the
Looking unto the Hills
SUPERINTENDENT STOCKEL, of the South Rhodesian missions, told of an old man in Matabeleland who had found this hope of the life to come. He was dying at one of the out-schools.
“Take me out,” the man said. They took him out on the bed, outside the mud hut. “He raised himself up on his hands from the bed,” said the missionary, “and looked northward toward the Zambezi hills. There was his home. The blue hills could barely be seen in the haze of the distance. From the old home hills, the Matabele’s gaze turned to the hills of glory. Lifting himself still higher for an instant, he looked up and said: ‘Jesus will take me when He comes,* and fell back dead.”
This hope of salvation and of the life to come has power to change lives. It is doing it in all the world. There is no help, no comfort, no power in doubt and unbelief. The way of the agnostic is over barren deserts. (Continued on page 33)
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Ewing Galloway
A neighbor of ours.
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;sary td develop the bravery anc stamina of the race.
Eugene J. Hall
Healthy and satisfied ch Id hood spe ls peace the world aroaad.
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M	
Cartcer
Slays Its Tens of Thousands
A Physiologic Sign of the Times
!By Elmer F. Otis, M. D.
Diagnostician, New England Sanitarium and Hospital.
HE cause of degenerative diseases is being searched. Cancer is but one of these. It is the oldest unsolved disease, since leprosy and syphilis are now being successfully handled. Cancer and other rapidly increasing disease conditions have quite another story to tell.
Notable among conquered diseases is diabetes, but not so its first cousin,— Bright’s disease. Even the old-time Bright’s disease already has given place to the modern high-blood-pressure affliction. No other disease, unless it be insanity, is increasing so rapidly.
But cancer is one of the old-time afflictions that has neither modified its manifestations nor its mode of attack. It ravenously infects any living tissue that may be caught in some devitalized state.Whether it be due to hereditary or acquired weaknesses seems to make little difference. The bone or the brain may be affected, though it usually attacks gland structures.
Modern Health Campaigning
A WORK put out by a Committee of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, and fostered by the American Medical Association, tells “What We Know About Cancer.” Rapidly growing tumors are popularly classified as cancers, though the most dangerous form is found in the gland structures of our body.
In a summary of the “estimated annual mortality from cancer” in the continental United States, it is found that about half of the people dying from cancer were afflicted in the digestive organs. About one eighth of the deaths affected the female generative organs, and one tenth were found in the breast. Almost an equal number of people die from cancer of the skin and mouth.
The rate of cancer increase is that of tuberculosis before we placed it under control by our public health activities. This disease has spread with alarming rapidity so that it ranks almost second only to mental diseases. It is running a close race with increasing heart diseases. Before long we shall be speeding along with the chariot-race horses of cancer, mental diseases, and heart affections.
Judging from the social trend and habits of our modern civilization, the race is swift, but the outcome is dubious. Heart diseases and insanity are still leading. The annual increase in the cancer death rate is said to be about five per cent. The recorded cancer death rate has practically
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doubled in this generation. It is not difficult to estimate what its toll will be during the next few years.
Cause of Cancer
CURIOUSLY enough, the exact cause of cancer has not yet been definitely discovered. L ke the organisms producing smallpox, and most of the “epidemic diseases of childhood,” the infecting agents are so small our microscopes are not yet powerful enough to definitely reveal them.
However, it is said “the factor of inhsriiance may, as a rule, be disregarded.” This is for the ample reason that cancer is not inherited so much as developed upon weakened tissues. These may be inherited, but they are usually developed in life from obvious failures tc obey health laws.
In any event, we do know that “one form of cancer after another has been brought in relation tc some form of chronic irritation.” It may be from the p pe of a chronic smoker or the scaldings of the hot drinks of tea topers. It may come from the chronic injury of any healthy tissue. The hereditary factor, as in tuberculosis, seems to follow the bad customs and habits of hygiene indulged in by parents, or a racial susceptibility at most.
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Cancer may reveal itself as an inward and hidden tumor development. It may be seen as a degenerating sore, opening through the skin or membrane surfaces. It also seems to have a connection with certain tissues, producing a degeneration without a tumor mass. Certain of the anemias are classed as “ cancerous degeneration of the blood,’’ and others affect the blood organs.
Other distressing diseases of unknown cause seem also to be of a cancerous nature and course. One very distressing feature of cancer is its way of becoming thoroughly established before showing any special symptoms.
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Danger in Delay N EARLY diagnosis is the all-important essential to a sure cure. In these days
of accurate methods none need be uncertain as to the real trouble. If taken early, the cure — a radical removal — offers assurance of complete success.
The greatest difficulty is that too often it is left till far beyond the initial stages of development. Then it becomes an almost impossible task to uproot the trouble.
Surgery, cautery X-ray, radium, and other measures are used, but none are quite so successful as immediate removal. Like all other degenerative diseases “the more uncertain the diagnosis, the less the probability of a cure.”
With the increasing complexity of the nature of this affliction comes also the added difficulty of curing by unscientific methods. The quackery and experiments on living human beings are marvelous! Only the credulity of human nature to the claims of the mysterious and weird could make people believe such claims as the charlatans put forth. That such an affliction, sapping at the very vitals of humanity, could be handled so recklessly is the marvel of this generation!
Certain less civilized countries would not permit the practice of such crude methods. In any event every doctor is confronted with the terrible situation — that more cancers have been mishandled and come to him late than come for early diagnosis and trea "ent. It may well be repeated that he who is alert and advises the afflicted to seek competent medical advice “ in the early and uncertain stages of the disease, renders the greatest service to his community.”
The rapid spread of cancer, its stealthy tread, and its difficulty of cure, make this the disease most greatly dreaded. The very word	seems to spell fear in the
hearts of mankind. Natives of heathendom handling polluted money from the hands of their lepers seem to abhor them less than a cancerous person here is pitied.
It is also a form of plague disease. Some localities have it sparingly and others are filled with its victims. Women DECEMBER, I925
‘‘When He Qiveth Quietness”
By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle
The troubled nations cry for peace and rest;
But ah, what sound is this which comes afar,—
This sound which shakes eartKs cities on herbreasty From distant north and souths from east to west,— The sound of strife and the alarm of war.
“ Peace, peace! ” men cry; and yet there is no peace; The head is sick, the body bruised and faint;
How shall the burdened nations find release?
When shall the gruesome wars and turmoil cease, And earth no longer voice her wailing plaint?
The bravest hearts “are failing them for fear”;
The fondest hopes but perish at their birth.
0 pitying Christ! hast thou no word of cheer,—
No ray of light to pierce the darkness drear,—
No Balm in Gileadfor the stricken earth?
“No Balm in Gilead?”—yea^ lone,fainting soul. Calm thou this tumult in thy trembling breast;
For He shall still the wildest waves that roll Between thy bark and that far-distant goal;
“ Who can make trouble when He giveth rest? ”
And He shall calm the hearts that trust in Him;
And some sweet day the moans of earth shall cease.
And some sweet day, where once were shadows grimy Shall echo forth the chant of seraphimy—
And He shallcomey— the mighty Prince of Peace.
are afflicted with it more than men of outdoor habits.
Diet largely influences the inroads of cancer upon a community. Much flesh that is eaten is diseased, and some is actually cancerous. No wonder that the relationship between flesh foods and cancer is admitted!
Other habits of modern life are greatly augmenting the death rate from this dread disease. Due to life habits and other factors, the disease is spreading. We should not wonder that this is looked upon by some as an omen of great concern. Many think that unless something radical can be done, there is danger of this becoming a real plague. It also shows that there is a relationship between human habits and the attendant diseases.
Nor may we do things now that were done by our grandparents. Every habit and custom must be brought under more rigid control, so that in the end we can measure up in health and vitality to the standard of our forbears. The times with their habits and customs must be taken into earnest consideration in interpreting the significance of the tremendous increase of insanity, heart diseases, and cancer.
1	Rom. 7: 18
2	1 Cor. 1: 24
3	1 Cor. 1: 30
4	Phil. 4: 19
5	Rom. 10: 2
6	John 20: 28
7	Heb. 7: 25
8	Luke 2: io, n
9	Matt, i: 21
10	Gal. 4: 4
11	Matt, i: 23
12	Eph. 2: 12
13	2 Peter 3: 4
14	John 5:39
15	Luke 19: 10
16	Rom. 16: 25
17	1 Tim. 3: 16
18	Gen. 1: 1
19	Gen. 1: 27
Does Evolution Subvert the Gospel?
(<Continuedfrom page 11) pretation of the revelation of God in creation to rob you of a supernatural Christ who only can mediate the new creation; “for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved.”39
(All texts from American Revised Version)
20	Ps. 8: 5 (margin)
21	Rom. 3: 23
22	1 Tim. 1: 11
23	2 Cor. 5: 17 (margin)
24	Isa. 43: 1 26 Isa. 40: 28
26	Isa. 43: 15
27	Matt. 11: 27
28	Heb. 1:3
29	Heb. 1:2
30	John 1: 3
31	1 Cor. 8: 6
32	Col. i: 16, 17
33	1 Tim. 2: 5
34	Heb. 9: 15
35	Eph. 2: 18
36	Eph. 2: 10
37	Gal. 6: 15 (margin)
38	Heb. 1: 3
39	Acts 4: 12
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If Thou Wilt Enter
Keep th
lOOD Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?” questioned a rich young man one day, as he hastily presented himself to
_______Jesus. As with many now, the
question of entering into the kingdom of heaven was uppermost in this young man’s mind. He wanted life. His riches brought not that supreme satisfaction of heart he had anticipated, there being deep down in his soul a longing for a peace, a comfort, a something, as yet unsatisfied.
44 If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments,” is Jesus’ direct answer to the young man’s direct question.
44 Which?” rejoined the young man; for, as now, there were many commandments in those days that were purely man-made.
44Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honor thy Father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” quoted our Lord and Master Jesus Christ from out of His Father s holy law.
44 All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?” asked this young man by way of justifying himself.
Ah! but had he kept these holy precepts? He thought so. Yet that calm Eye, looking into the very innermost secret of this young man’s soul, detected the plague spot when He very unerringly revealed that the love principle,44 Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” upon which hangs the last six commandments, he had not kept from his youth up.
The Comprehensive Law of Love
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GOD’S law of love was thus severed in the young man’s life, and it was at this one gap in that royal law of life and liberty that the chasm opened into which this young man plunged to his ruin. His Saviour was beside him to reach tmt His hand in rescue, as He did to Peter on the wave, had he appealed in helplessness to Him. But the record says that the young man turned away sorrowful, because he had great possessions. He loved these more than he loved his God, or the eternal life he thought himself to be seeking.
A very important thought runs through this conversation, still applicable to-day. Deep down in many hearts this very same question still springs up,44 What good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?”
Were the question to be appealingly asked of every one crowding the streets of our large cities, or those toiling upon the broad farms, 44 Would you like a home in the kingdom of God?” possibly nine hundred ninety-nine out of every one thousand would readily reply, ‘‘To be sure I would,” and many, no doubt, would add assuredly, “and what is more, I expect one day to enter the kingdom of God.”
Yes? Then know, fellow pilgrim, that the same requirements laid down by the Saviour of men when He made answ^ to the young man of Judea, apply as forcefully to-
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day. “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.”
Do you also say,44 Which ? ” The Author of eternal life still answers by pointing you directly to His Father’s sacred law of ten commandments, “Keep these, My friend, every one, for they lead directly to the city of God — a shining gateway unto life eternal.”
But Prf.achf.rs Set Aside the Law
B-U-T, how can this be?” some one asks, “when nearly every preacher the land teaches that this law of ten commandments is not now in force, that it has been done away in Christ, and that now we enter into life only by believing in Jesus, loving Jesus, without any regard whatsoever to what the law says?”
One who counts herself a devout Christian said essentially these same words to the writer only a few days ago. She went so far as to suggest studying the Bible with me to show me how that now, in this Christian dispensation, we had been delivered from the law through faith in Jesus. As I was willing to study God’s word upon this very important question, she opened her Bible to what was, I judge, her favorite chapter, Romans eight. She began reading, and I listened. Here is what she read:
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. [I italicized this, for these were the words she especially emphasized.] For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:—”
“May I ask you a question?” I ventured to interrupt. “Certainly.”
“What is sin, that God’s Son condemned in the flesh?” She paused, but made no reply only to say, “Let us read on,” evidently somewhat confused by the question. Continuing she read:
“That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us —”
“Pardon me, but to what law do you understand the apostle refers, which contains this ‘righteousness’ to ‘be fulfilled in us’?”
“Please do not interrupt me, we shall see as we read on.” “Very well, read what follows.”
“Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
“What is that you just read?” I was forced to ask. “These carnally minded people are not subject to what?” This was too much. She closed her Bible, thus ending her
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interview. Evidently she had missed through all the years that which her favorite chapter said about the law of God, exalting its righteousness, while pointing us to Jesus as the only way of obtaining it.
The Spirit Frees No One from the Law
EVIDENTLY all this believer in Jesus, as well as thousands of others, had seen in this wonderful eighth chapter of Romans was that people who had the Spirit were freed from keeping the law of God. But this scripture says nothing of the kind. It is talking about those who are in Christ Jesus, that such are freed from the “ condemnation ” of the law — which is sin. And sin to-day as in Jesus’ day, or the apostles’ day, or any other day, is nothing more, nothing less, than the transgression of the law of God. For the beloved disciple John, who all must admit was a Christian, living also in the new Christian dispensation, having been with Jesus and listened to all His teaching during His earthly ministry, wrote: “Whosoever com-mitteth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law” [this very same law, too, out of which Jesus quoted to the rich young Hebrew that day he came to Him asking the way to eternal life]. See I John 3: 4. And the apostle Paul, in Romans eight also makes very plain that he who transgresses the law of God is “carnal,” is at “enmity against God,” for the very scripture this friend so earnestly read to me plainly states that any one who “is not subject to the law of God” is at “enmity against God” And surely no one would contend that any one who wilfully disobeyed even one of the commandments of God, God’s holy law of righteousness, could flatter himself into believing that he is in the Spirit, or that he is “/» Christ Jesus.” What claim would that man or woman have of walking in the Spirit, of being in Christ Jesus, who every week that passed transgressed the seventh commandment by committing adultery? “Preposterous!” you say. And so it is. This scripture says nothing whatsoever about Christ freeing the Christian from keeping the law. On the contrary it shows how the Christian is to come into conformity to the law of God by accepting Christ Jesus, and living out the law of righteousness in Him. In Christ Jesus he is freed from sin, freed from the transgression of his former life. That sinful life is done away — not the law that makes known what that sin is. Christ takes away the sin, and with the sin goes also the “condemnation.” But the law remains, God’s unerring detector of sin in whomsoever transgression is found.
No Governor’s Pardon Annuls State Law
NO STATE governor, in issuing a pardon to a man condemned to die for murder, sets aside that just law by which the judge passed upon this man his sentence of death. The governor simply steps in between the law penalty and the condemned man, to save him from death by his pardon. The law remains to proclaim what this man and every other should do not to come into condemnation.
When Paul penned this favorite chapter that my friend started out to read, he had just finished the preceding one, in which we find this:
“For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good [the law] made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it [sin] might appear [what it is] sin, working death in me by that which is good [the law]; that sin by the commandment [note this, it is only by the com-december, 1925
mandments of God that sin] might become exceeding sinful.” “What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law.” “The commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.”
And why was this? Simply because Paul and you and I transgressed this law which God ordained to us for life. Thus the apostle agrees exactly with what Jesus said, “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.” They were ordained to life for those who keep them, and become the instrument of death only to those who transgress them.
We Are not Saved by our Law Keeping
QEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS do not teach nor be-O lieve that one is saved by one’s own efforts through keeping the commandments. Those who have sinned [and this takes us all in, for all have sinned] must have a Saviour. And Jesus died for our sins. The commandment, ordained unto life, is made weak through our flesh, but strong through Christ’s obedient life in the flesh. No one in his own strength can keep the law of God. Our righteousness is Christ’s, imputed unto us through our faith in Him. It is through His blessed life of obedience in us that we all are brought out from under the “condemnation” of the law into the life of keeping it, which means life through His name. And this is exactly what Jesus was waiting to do for the rich young man of old. He longed to give him Himself, the perfect obedience of His life.
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.” Heb. 13: 8. Did you ever stop to think of the bearing that this text has on the immutability of the law of God? He who walked among men over 1900 years ago as the Son of God, in His last interview with His disciples said, “I have kept My Father’s commandments.” John 15: 10. Think you He who kept every one of these holy commandments then, being the same yesterday, to-day, and forever, would on entering into your heart or mine through the divine Spirit, disregard or set aside as of no importance that law which He died to maintain?
This has a vital connection with obedience to the fourth precept of this same law, which says “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work.” Think you Jesus would set aside this precept were He here on earth to-day, to honor a day as the Sabbath for which there is no divine authority? He could not and still remain the Son of God “yesterday, to-day, and forever.”
“For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law.” Matt. 5: 18.
Let no man deceive you. That blessed law made known to Adam in Eden, reiterated at Sinai, kept by Jesus — He died to exalt and establish it — is still “holy,” “just,” and “good,” and remains the law of God “ordained unto life.” It is to be the law of that eternal kingdom which Christ ushers in when He shall come soon in all His righteousness and glory as King of saints.
He who finds his life warring against any one of those ten commandments, be it the fourth — the Sabbath commandment — or the third, seventh, eighth, or tenth, he is that far out of harmony with that Christ life by which he is to be saved. Such an one would hear Jesus say, were He here in person to-day, “One thing thou lackest,” as He pointed out the plague spot in the heart of the young man of old. For remember His unchangeable word is, “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.”
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OLD DOCTRINE
Determinism Takes Its Stand in Cultured Society
HERE is not the slightest iota of freedom of choice allowed to either the criminal or the normal citizen in his daily conduct,” says Harry Elmer Barnes, Professor of Sociology of Smith College, in Current History Magazine for De-
________ cember, 1924. He continues: “We have given up
the notion of man as a free moral agent and have come to the conclusion that human conduct is the resultant of a vast number of influences, alike hereditary and cultural, which make an action at any time as thoroughly determined as any other natural phenomenon.”
In these words the creed of the determinists is presented to the reading public. Truly it is a strange doctrine, even in this age of strange and fantastic doctrines. But it is not a new one. The Greek myth of the three fates who spun, measured, and cut the life thread, is the ancient embodiment of the same idea. So also is the sentiment of these lines from the Arabian philosopher Omar Khayyam, who says that men are,—
“But helpless pieces of the game He plays Upon this checkerboard of nights and days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays.”
No, determinism is not new, it is merely an old doctrine in a new setting.
Its chief supporters are found among the psychiatrists and criminologists who were retained as council for the defendants in the trial of Leopold and Loeb. Their triumph in that famous legal battle has emboldened them to seek other laurels, and it is a foregone conclusion that the great criminal cases of the future will be fought out between the advocates of this doctrine and their opponents. Already the dean of the determinists, Clarence Darrow, is planning a nation-wide campaign in the interests of this theory that was first given publicity in the trial of the two Chicago boys.
Determinism Analyzed
A BRIEF analysis of determinism shows it to be built upon the following ideas: Man is a creature who begins life with a heritage of assorted characteristics, over whose development or working he may exercise no control. He is placed in an environment which is only partially controllable, the control being subject, not to his will or choice, but to his inherited tendencies. If it so happens that these inherited tendencies are predominantly social and moral, and his environment chances to be favorable to their development, he will, ipso facto, be a good man and a good citizen. if, on the other hand, evil tendencies predominate, and he finds himself in an environment which does not check these tendencies, he will be at their mercy and will therefore be anti-social and criminal. In the words of its own prophets, determinism makes man a mere marionette, controlled and propelled through life by the cords of heredity and environment.
If this be true, then South was wrong when he wrote: “The morality of an action is founded in the freedom which
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is in the agent’s power, having all things ready and requisite to the performance of an action, either to perform it or not to perform it.”
If man is to be denied the power of choice he cannot be held to account for his actions; that which is natural will be right for him, since he can do no other. To set a standard of moral rectitude for such an individual would be mockery.
No Moral Responsibility
WE WOULD ask the determinists: Can a man sin?
Evidently not, if all “human conduct is the resultant of a vast number of influences” over which he has no control. Sin is a transgression of law, but a determinist would be incapable of violating the law of nature which bound him; therefore, not he, but the law of his nature, would be responsible for his acts. No blame could attach to him for his criminal acts, nor could he be praised for what good he might accomplish, since both would be beyond his control.
This is exactly the argument employed by the new psychiatrists in defining the status of the criminal. The individual who has violated the criminal code is not to be punished, he is merely to be segregated for the good of society. Not being responsible for his acts, he has not merited punishment, and should therefore receive none.
In view of the stated facts, one wonders what line of reasoning caused Professor Barnes to pen these words: “It should also be pointed out that the deterministic theory of conduct ... is much more . . . satisfactory than the old free-moral-agent doctrine.” “Pointed out” it may be, but proved it most emphatically is not. Is it satisfactory to conceive of man, endowed as he is with a body and a mind that together constitute the masterpiece of creation, as a puppet, the victim of heredity and the accidents of environment and circumstance? Is it not much more satisfactory to believe that man was created upright and in the image of God, given the power of choice, and admonished by his Creator to choose the right that he may live and prosper? Is it not much more satisfying to believe that man has been placed on a plane of living a little lower than that of the angels, and that, amid all the bufferings of fate and circumstance, he is the captain of his soul, through the exercise of his will? This view gives to man a dignity, a direction, and a power that are denied him by the theory of determinism.
On the Basis of Truth
IN THE last analysis, however, questions are not settled on the basis of their power to satisfy. Not satisfaction, but the testimony of reason and absolute authority is the ultimate test of our position on this question. Let us examine determinism in the light of the greatest authority in the world on the nature of man and his social relations.
The Word of God makes it very clear that there is a definite, revealed law by which man’s thoughts, words,
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and actions are to be measured. It also makes plain the fact that all men have transgressed this law and have therefore had the sentence of death passed upon them. The Scriptures are equally clear in describing a warfare between good and evil, between God and Satan, which is waged in the heart of every human being. Writing on this subject in the seventh chapter of Romans, Paul says: ‘‘I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.” Then he answers his own agonized cry of “Who shall deliver me?” with these triumphant words: “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Thus is revealed the saving and regenerative power of God — redemption and rebirth.
Running like a thread of gold through the Book from Genesis to Revelation is the doctrine of the atonement, stated so beautifully by John: “ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever be-lieveth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Never can the arguments of the determinists rob this amazing gift of its significance. All their finespun theories are as nothing to the revealed Word of Him who is “ the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.” He says that man is a free moral agent, that he has the power of choice, and that life and death hang by that choice. Man may choose to be degraded by his environment or held captive by his inherited weaknesses, or he may choose to rise above the sin and degradation that are the common lot of mankind, and become a child of God. The words of Israel's great lawgiver are as meaningful to-day as when they were given on a hillside in Moab, three thousand years ago: “See I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee.” Deut. 30: 15.
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by the same method, by parents who are themselves acquainted with God’s law, and the results of obeying it. But as it was in the days of Lot, even thus shall it be in the days when the Son of man shall be revealed. The thoughts of men’s hearts will be only evil continually, and their religion will be a form with no power. Children will be neglected, and allowed to go where desire calls.
The greatest bulwark against sin, far greater than school or church or environment, is the home. When this fails, there is little to help, for on every hand the way is open and temptations lure to wickedness and crime. Surely parents need to heed the warning given by the Grand Jury of New York, charging that parents are becoming so occupied with pleasure and business that real parental supervision is dying out.
Parents, the time will come when God will say, “Where is the flock that I have given thee, thy beautiful flock?” What will your answer be? Can you say, “Here am I and those that Thou hast given me”? Or will you be compelled with shame to confess that you have not taught your children God’s law and the natural results that come to those who break that law? Are you yourself a law-breaker? If so, what can you expect from your children? If we sow the wind, we shall surely reap the whirlwind.
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Fill That Woodbox
By Martha E. Warner
AND George added, ‘‘I think I ought to, she’s done so •/jL much for me.” Now George is a small boy exactly six and one half years old. He says he likes me very much, and I really think he does, for whenever he comes to see me, which he does quite frequently, he brings me a little present.
Once it was some sticky candy, wrapped in brown paper and carried in his trousers’ pocket; and once it was a cocoon he had found hanging on some bushes; but this morning when he came, he brought with him a wonderful black cat with a red ribbon around its neck. George made this cat at school, out of wood, and as he gave it to me he said, “Say, did you know that Christmas comes this month?”
After I had assured him I had not forgotten, I asked him what Christmas was all about, anyway, and he promptly replied, “ Why, presents > of course. The more you give, the more you get.”
True, is it not, that many of us, who are years older than George, cling to that same belief? 'SNzgive, but we expect to receive. And yet I know we cannot keep the spirit of Christmas, without giving, for Christ gave. He gave His life for us, and the wonderful story of His renouncing the glories of heaven and the coming to this earth as a helpless babe, is a story which should grip our hearts anew, as we pause at Christmas time to celebrate His birth, and to give our Christmas gifts.
Now George confidentially told me about the gift he was going to present to his mother. He said, “My mother’s present is to be a piece of white paper, with gold stars all around, and on the paper I shall write, ‘Dear Mother: I’m going to fill the woodbox every day, ’thout you telling me. Love, from George.’” And he added, “I think I ought to, she has done so much for me. Why once I tore my pants, my best ones, and when I ’splained to her how it happened, she never scolded, she just said, ‘Axerdents will happen,’ and she fixed them good as new.”
Someway, I’m thinking that scrap of paper, decorated with gold stars, holding the promise written in the sprawling letters, will be very precious to the mother of George. I’m thinking she will prize it above all her other gifts. And I am also thinking that this year, in the manner of giving gifts, we would do well to follow George’s example.
Shall we not write jt out on paper and put gold stars all around it, that we, too, will fill the woodbox every day, without being told?
Shall we not give a little of our time each day to our families, for the purpose of getting acquainted with them.
Shall we not give enough of our time each week to write a letter to the mother, or father, or sister, or brother who is miles away?
Shall we not remember the neighbor who has been shut in for so long a time? A weekly visit from us with a recital of the happenings of the little town, or the reading of a book, would brighten the entire year for him.
Then last, but not least, there is the woodbox to fill for God. My friends, into that box, let us put ourself, our family, our means, our all. We ought to do it, Christ has done so much for us.
Oh, when once we start filling the woodbox, we shall find ways and ways and ways; and the purity, simplicity, and beauty of the Holy Child Jesus shall be poured like a sweet fragrance through our hearts and lives; at Christmas time, and all the time.
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Propaganda
Strong Drink Has no Natural ,
It is Pumped
MAY be a matter of some interest to determine whether the liquor business is organized to con-JLI duct a propaganda of education for the purpose defense and expansion. Do the interests that have large investments in the manufacture and sale of liquor adopt measures intended to increase their business, or are they content to cater to the existing business?
If they content themselves to let the business grow as it will, they differ from those who conduct most other industries. The management of any active industry sets aside an advertising fund to be used in creating a greater demand for its product, so that there may be a steady growth in the output of the concern. Even Mr. Ford, who sells more cars than any other manufacturer, is continually devising means to increase his sales.
In an industry that supplies something universally used, shoes for example, expansion can come only by inducing people to use more shoes, by changes in styles, and the invention of new styles of shoes for new purposes, or by exporting into new countries, or by capturing the trade of other shoe manufacturers.
Do Liquor Men Advertise?
IN INDUSTRIES whose products are used by only part of the population, but where there is a prospect of influencing the people to a more general use, the magazines carry advertisements that cost into the millions of dollars in the aggregate, educating the people into the use of these articles. It was skillful advertising that created the breakfast-food vogue, changed the eating habits of a large part of the population, and incidentally made fortunes for the advertisers. One prominent manufacturer of a coffee substitute made a fortune by extensive advertising that showed the harmfulness of caffeine. But though liquor is not used by all, one sees few liquor advertisements. Even before the Volstead days, such advertisements were comparatively scarce. Are we to conclude that liquor men are indifferent to the advantages of a publicity campaign?
Of one thing we may be confident. Industries that cater to an artificial appetite — the liquor appetite, or the tobacco appetite, for instance — would not be content to forego the advantage to be gained by an advertising cam-
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Wine in the cluster makes “Pussyfoot Johnson.’" smile appreciatively.
Py George Henry Heald, M. D.
paign. They are ever alert, not only to 'essen oppcation to their work, but to create new apse-rites. The robacco business, in order to prosper, must make more smokers, and the liquor business must develop a larger army of drinkers. The raw material is the boys and girls. So we find both tobacco and liquor being introduced into schools.
Such efforts at business expansion are very r.aturally considered by the promoters to be legitimate — as legitimate as it is to create a demand for a breakfast food or a toilet soap. And anything that will accomplish ths result is deemed good business. Yet liquor advertising is not very much in evidence, as compared with -he advert-sing of legitimate products, or as compared with the advertising of cigarettes. “There’s a reason.” Such propaganda is more effective if it is camouflaged as reading matter.
Subtle Propaganda
THE work of winning new recruits to the army of drinkers, of making new friends, of destroying the arguments of enemies, of throwing up a dust to hide certain scientific facts that militate against the use cl liquor, of making a great ado about the invasion of “personal liberty,” of creating a halo and wings, so to speak,, for the liquor business, is likely to be done in other ways than through the channels of regular paid advertising. So the liquor propaganda may appear as newspaper or r^gazine articles or editorials, and it has even appeared in bound books.
The advertising may sometimes take the form cf press-agent work creating a popular enthus asm, as it has done in the case of tobacco. For instance, during the war. there was a wave of sentiment created in favor cf raising funds to send cigarettes to the boys in the trenches; and young women, ostensibly in the field under i religious organization, became the decoys to induce young mer who had never smoked at home to begin the hab t. Is it likely that such propaganda started of itself? It never does in any legitimate business. There are doubtless men who could tell all about how that .campaign for making millions of more smokers was conducted, and how smoking all o-f a sudden became popular with women.
The personnel of the propaganda vurk for l.q-jor may include research men, college professors, medical graduates,
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and any others whose expressed opinion would have weight in creating the belief that indulgence in liquors is harmless or even beneficial The writer recalls an instance where a scientist of considerable eminence, nationally known, broadcast a talk in which he highly praisec the food value and the healthfulness of beer! Practically all he said had appeared in the Brewers’ Year book, and all of them were statements that had been show® to be false, and it is a question whether or not he himself believed them
So, if anything appears in print, or comes over the air in praise of one of the capitalized habitforming narcotics, even if it is vouched for by some man of note (or supposed note) in science, it is well to remember that there are scientists and scientists; and that scientists in their ordinary work are often not paid so well as union bricklayers or union plasterers; and that the temptation to some of them to accept a more lucrative situation in some company that can afford to pay handsomely for a scientific opinion may be more than they can well withstand.
The writer some years ago was surprised to rim across some experimental work fey a scient st, showing that caffeine is not only harmless, but actually beneficial. The mystery cleared up when it was learned chat this scientist had been in the employ of a company which is engaged in the manufacture of enormous quantities of a popular, soda-fountain drink that contains caffeine.
What Changed the American Medical Association?
ONE may well wonder what was the inspiration, working stealthily, to re-form medical opinion, that culminated in the adoption of a resolution by the House of Delegates at the recent annual meeting of the American Medical Association, calling for the removal of the Government restriction on the amount of liquor a physic an may prescribe.
This resolution has a particularly strange sound, in view of the fact that this same body in 19:7 went on record in the following resolution:
“We believe that the use of alcohol as a beverage is detrimental to the human economy, . . . that its use in therapeutics, as a tonic or as a stimulani or as a food, has no scientific basis. . . . Therefore be it resolved, ’ihat the American Medical Association opposes -he use of alcohol as a beverage, and be it further resolved that the use of alcohol as a therapeutic agent [that is, as a medicine] be discouraged.”
This was passed when the nation was fitting itse-f for its part in the great world struggle. As a mar in training for an important athletic event discards everything that is injurious, and attempts by every possible means to get into
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prime condition, so our country, during those strenuous days, made strong efforts to develop the national stamina and morale
Backed by Unlimited Capital
AND so the war-prohibition measure went into effect. Jljl The foregoing resolution was part of the American Medical Association's contribution to that effort at national betterment The public accepted it for fact.
Since the armistice there has been a great slump in ideals and practices, a swing of the pendulum from the spi ri t of self-sacrifice and self-denial for the country’s good, to the extreme of self-indulgence and license, and to an unprecedented lowering of morals, and a cynical disregard for law, even by those who-have sworn to stand for law enforcement. The movement for breaking down the machinery of law enforcement has all the appearance of being engineered by cunning leaders, and of bang backed by almost unlimited capital. And here, as a last straw, we have the American Medical Association virtually saying, “W* didn’t really mean what we said in 1917.”
Now il happens that, in contrast with the language of the recent resolution of the medical body, there is a statement issued in 1919 by the United States Public Health Service, in a book of some 300 pages, “The Prevention of Disease and The Care of the Sick.” Regarding the use of alcohol as a medicine, this book, after showing the fallacy of the arguments that alcohol is a stimulant and a food, and chat it prevents colds, proceeds to show why it is of little value as a medicine:
“Fourth, that it is a medicine. It is seldom necessary to use alcohol for its medicinal effect. In such conditions as tuberculosis, heart disease, and shock, where it was formerly employedy it is now considered '0 be harmful. It is true that it has a certain value in the prostration of acute fevers, where food cannot be admin stered. but even here other measures are preferable. [Italics supplied.] In Guy’s Hospital, London, the cost of alcohol administered to patients has been reduced from 15,660 to $734 per annum. In the United States Public Health Service durirn* the fiscal year 1917 only 89^ gallons of liquor were Bsued to the 29 marine hospitals, in which 11,325 patients were treated.” This is less than one ounce of alcohol for each patient; and the Prohibition act, of which the Med;cal Association complains as restrictive, allows a physician to prescribe sixteen ounces to a patient every ten days. The medical need for alcohol in excess of :his amount doubtless represents the complacent desire of -he physician to cater to the appetites of thirsty patients.	(Continued on page31)
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vicious circle.The tragedy of it is that in this our day, after all the lessons of previous civilizations, war and peace follow the circle just the same. There is no more likelihood, judged by human standards and human experience, of stopping the whirl to-day than there was in the days of Julius Caesar or the time of the Corsican conqueror.
Men Have Ever Longed for Peace
BECAUSE there have been so many serious efforts during the last decades to end war, unless we are very careful,we are prone to think that it is only in recent times that men have turned their backs on war and set themselves toward peace. True it is that recently we have had the Hague Peace Conferences, the League of Nations, and many other international alliances, having as their objective the perpetu-ation of concord among states. But it is also true that from the misty days of the far-off past, humanitarian, altruistic-minded men have had this peace ideal before them.
We think of the leagues among the old Greek states, which drew them together in brotherhood because of a common devotion to a common shrine or oracle. We think of some of the old Roman statesmen who conceived the idea of thzpax Romana to bring amity and universal good will among the various parts of the Roman empire. All during the Middle Ages and up to recent times, this same burden for the world's peace has pressed on great souls. And the problem is still with us, and still unsolved.
Within the past few months forty-one nations have assembled their representatives at Geneva in the endeavor to come to an agreement to control the traffic in arms. Limit the international traffic in implements of war, and it is obvious that it will be more difficult for the nations to plunge into war. This is the way this most recent of all war-curbing conferences seeks to put the brakes on Mars’ war chariot.
The Will for War
WE CAN well sympathize with this effort. If our civilization is to be saved; if we are to be rescued from certain disaster; if we are to avoid that which all world students foresee — universal catastrophe — war must be stopped, put down, crushed. This is at once the world’s simplest and hardest problem. There is no escaping it. Either we must crush war, or war will crush us.
Will depriving the states of the world of war munitions stop war? One of our journals has well answered this question:
“Deprive warlike nations of cannon and rifles, and they would still fight, even though armed with bows, spears, and slings. It is not the ability to secure arms that causes wars, but rather the will for war.” page thirty
This answer goes to the heart of the matter. It is because we sinful human beings have the war spirit right in us, individually, that nations fight. The nation does in a large, public way just what the individuals of the nations do in a small, private way. The state reflects in its actions the actions of each individual citizen. Let the reader consider himself a moment. Is there not going on with unceasing force within his own heart and conscience a struggle as real as conflicts among the nations? We desire to do the right thing, but the evil within us fights against the right im -pulse; and how often does the evil win, and we are morally and spiritually defeated. We have evil habits, over-mastering temptations. We struggle; at times we ar e victorious on the side of right; at times we are overcome by evil.
Listen to the apostle Paul: “For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not. For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practice. But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.” Rom. 7:18-20, A. R. V.
The same sin that causes this struggle in the individual causes struggle among the nations. Our only hope, then, for the permanent eradication of war from among men, and for the permanent paths of peace, is that this will to sin may be taken from our lives; that our human dispositions, our human characters, be changed; yes, our whole physical, moral, and spiritual natures be changed. However,, this cannot be done as things now are in this world. It is patent that there must be a new order brought about among men; we must have an entirely new world wherein dwells righteousness and not evil; we must have new bodies in which there is no hereditary or environmental taint of sin.
Peace Centers in a Person
THIS complete reversal can be brought about in only one way: by the second advent of Jesus Christ and the attendant establishment of the righteous as inhabitants of this earth, purified of the effects of sin. “For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working whereby He is able even to subject all things unto Himself.” Phil. 3: 20, 21, A. R. V. “ For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep. For 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 that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thess. 4: 15-17, A. R. V. “Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be
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They are mounted on the shores of the Hawaiian Islands to guard our Pacific possessions.
Is preparation for war an assurance of peace?
changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.” i Cor. 15: 51-54, A. R. V. “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.” Matt. 5:5.
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away;
. . . and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.”
Rev. 21: 1, 4, A. R. V.
The acceptance of our Saviour Jesus Christ as the one who can cleanse our sins through His own precious blood, and give us that character which will secure for us eternal life, is at once our supremest duty and our supremest privilege. This alone will solve the war and peace problem. There is no other way. Shall we not enroll under the banner of the “Prince of Peace”?
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Liquor Propa-
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Life insurance companies have made extensive studies into the relation between the use of alcohol and the length of life, and have reached some important conclusions. Dr.
Eugene Lyman Fiske, medical director of the Life Extension Institute, a man with extensive life-insurance experience, in an address before the Conference on Social Work held in Toronto in 1924, said:
“With the close of the war, scientific sentiment, and especially medical sentiment, was strongly against alcohol. Laboratory evidence has shown it to be devoid of any stimulating qualities, and it has been classed as a narcotic, habit-forming drug. Statistical evidence derived chiefly from life-insurance sources proved that its circulation even in so-called moderation among large masses of people, increased the death rate of such a group. This was accepted by actuaries, and scientific men generally as conclusive.” Further on, he said, “One of the most dangerous fallacies advanced by this or other scientific men, even by some who DECEMBER, I925
condemn alcohol, is the statement that the amount of alcohol represented by moderate daily indulgence is almost completely oxidized or burned up in the body, and therefore can do no harm.”
Professor Starling, the eminent London physiologist and physician, commenting on the laboratory investigations that showed that alcohol is burned in the body with the production of energy, admitted that alcohol may serve “ as a source of energy which may be used either in maintaining
the heat of the body, or for the production of muscular work,” and then went on to qualify his statement, thus: “But it must be remembered that the work in these experiments was of the simplest possible description, while the alcohol was so administered as to prevent its concentration exceeding at any time a minimal amount. If the alcohol had been given in one dose on an empty stomach and if the work had been of a more arduous character, or had required greater skill in its performance, there is no question that the alcohol would have been found an uneconomical source of energy, not because of the failure to utilize the energy of the alcohol by the contracting muscles, but because the effects of the alcohol on the central nervous system would have interfered with the fine coordination of the actions of the different muscles, and thus necessitated a greater expenditure of energy for the production of the same amount of work.
“Every mountaineer is familiar with the deleterious effects of even small doses of alcohol on his powers of ascending and climbing.”
In other words, the experiments to show that alcohol can be burned in the body with the production of energy were so conducted as to make the experiment a success, even though it did not represent conditions as they occur in actual practice. And from this experiment, the liquor advocates claim that science has proved that alcohol has an actual food value.
There are numerous physicians and laboratory workers who, notwithstanding the testimony of research men, believe that liquor is a benefit. It will be interesting to keep in mind the fact that the interests that are backing the liquor business do their work, not in the open, but through agencies calculated to allay suspicion. In experimenting, motives count for much.
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Haze
and
Tell Place
<By
Caroline Louise Clough
Editor, The Life Boat Magazine
OWN in the very heart of the most congested district of Chicago, where 70,000 people are huddled together in one square mile, there is a little street, only one block long, called
_____Tell Place. We were looking for it
one Sunday afternoon in midsummer. As we turned our car into this street we slowed down, for it was alive with children, and grown people too. The relief at twilight from the intense heat of the midday sun brought the people out from their stifling homes to get a breath of air. As we drove along slowly I thought, How like the famous Henry Street on the East side of New York is this place teeming with humanity! And how much like it in its great call for some one to tell the people howto live,— how to guard the children, and especially the girls, from the evils of the place.
The very name — Tell Place — seemed to bounce back at me as the rubber ball used to bounce from the sicj^ of the house when I was a child. And it is still bounding back. It will not down. Tell Place. Here is a place above all others where we should tell mothers’ daughters of the dangers of life, and of the many snares set everywhere for unwary feet.
“Let’s Risk It”
IT WAS too late to tell one mother how to protect her daughter, for our errand this Sunday afternoon was to find this mother and console her. Her daughter was gone. We stood beside the grave and wept with this mother while her only daughter was laid to rest. The daughter’s schoolmates stood there too, weeping. Some of them knew why poor Hazel (we will call her) had to be laid away. And one of her girl friends thought back to the night when they were coming home from the amusement park and some one stopped them and ofFered to take them home in an automobile. With no carfare in their pockets, the girls thought of those weary miles of walking late at night and the dangers attendant on such a trip, so one said, “Let’s risk it.”
Oh mothers! teach your girls never to “risk it.” There is too much to risk. When your future is at stake,— when your happiness and that of your family is at stake,— when your good name is at stake,— yes, when life itself is at
One Girl and One Street in Chicago
A child of Tell Place.
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stake,— then is not the time to risk it.
Oh that there were more Tell Places!— not a street teeming with sad humanity,— no, but a center of the sort where girls are told of the dangers that beset their feet. Oh that there were more mothers and Christian women to tell their girls!
Tell Place,— the thought of it does not banish with the years the face of Hazel as it comes before me,— the seventeen-year-old girl who had not been told, and who said, “All right, let’s risk it this once,” to her girl friend. Oh the tragedies of life that are not and never can be written down for any human eye to read! Yet such tragedies come, not only to the one who sidesteps, but also to the family. The ones who are closest suffer heartaches so intense that often frail human nature gives way. I remember distinctly one poor girl,— Calla, we called her,— who was not permitted to marry the young man of her choice, a fine, Christian, young fellow in her own church circle. She became discouraged and fell into the society of the sporting world. When she returned from cur Life Boat Rescue Home,— a sad, heartbroken mother herself, she found her own dear mother in a state hospital with her reason entirely gone. Her poor brain could not stand the awful anguish of her daughter’s disgrace.
She Did not Have a Chance
BUT it is not of Calla that I wish to tell you. Hazel grew up in the heart of Chicago where there is every opportunity of enlightenment and education, yet Hazel was in ignorance. Her father, the only member of the family who had principle and lived up to it, passed away while Hazel was still very young. An atheistic step-father came into iheir barren, little home only to add strife, ill feelings, and misunderstandings to the barrenness ..of the place. Hazel, the only girl, a child in her early teens, remained at home while the mother toiled every day for their daily bread. No joys came to Hazel; no one thought of making the home fill the needs of this growing young woman, and she began to look elsewhere for enjoyment, as every girl is apt to do. After it was all over, the heartbroken mother told me that she had tried to get Hazel to go to church, but she would not. “Now,” she said, “I see my mistake. I did not try to make life pleasant for her at home.”
How many mothers fail by neglecting the needs of the social side of their daughters’ lives! How many have said :hat very thing to me, “ I see my mistake now, but it is too ate.” Our children are largely what we make them. They are placed in our hands for training and proper development. We must be faithful stewards.
But about Hazel. She came to our Life Boat Home at Hinsdale, Illinois, utterly discouraged with herself and
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with life in general. No one cared for her, she thought, and never again would there be any place for her to fill in life. She was encouraged by our matron, who told her that we “needed her” to help with the housework, and so she felt that she was really filling a vacancy in the family program. The next morning she knelt with us in prayer for the first time in her young life.
Tragic but Glorious
DAY by day, under the wholesome influence of a Christian home, Hazel was changing. Her letters to her mother were full of her desire to be all she could to the one who loved her most, and she asked forgiveness for her waywardness. Hazel repented of her sins, confessed them before God, and enjoyed the satisfaction of a clear conscience toward Heaven. Often she said, “How happy I am to help somebody here! At home I would not do as my mother wanted me to. I wish I had had the love and interest shown me at home that I have had here. I never would have needed to come here if I had, but I am going home to help my mother and brothers. I want them to learn about this Jesus who has done so much for me.”
One beautiful day near the last of June, Hazel went down into the dark valley of suffering, and during the last few days in which she lived she sought to bring her family and associates to Christ. “ Mother,” she said, “you must be a Christian and lead the boys in the right way. You must be reconciled to Dad. Now is the time.”
The scenes around that bedside are too sacred to ever picture here, but one after another was brought to her side, and each received the word of warning or comfort needed. To us she said,
“ Keep the doors of this Home open to other girls who have fallen by the wayside. They need you.” To her girl friend she said, “Don’t go near those amusement parks, I beg of you.
They are the devil’s own traps to snare young girls. If we had not gone that night I would not be here waiting to die. My Jesus knows it all and He will receive me as His own child.”
To our matron she said, “I’ll not say goodby, just goodnight. I’ll meet you in the resurrection morning.”
Hazel passed away. Her stepfather and her mother had a change of heart, the brothers felt kindlier toward each other, her schoolmates, one and all, went away from Hazel’s grave with a new glimpse of life. Poor Hazel had to go, but we know she is safe, and in the resurrection she will come up among the redeemed, not the stubborn, self-willed girl she was in that little, unattractive home on Tell Place, but she will come forth transformed by the grace of God.
Through telling of her life and death we hope to warn others of the dangers which beset their feet. Not long ago I believed that a girl was safe if she was reared in a Chris-
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tian home, but I have changed my mind. Now I know that no girl is safe who is not herself acquainted with Jesus.
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An Open Letter to Educators
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Question: Who is responsible for the aversion of our youth to-day toward one of the best means ever provided by a kind Providence for the general welfare of His children — useful physical labor?
7.	The seven merits of manual labor, as a part of the education of our children and youth, have been demonstrated beyond a doubt by those who have had the vision and the courage to advocate unpopular truth. These merits are as follows: health, morals, discipline, practical value, social value, soberness, earning value.
Question: Are our boys and girls to blame if they come out of high school, or college, or university with any of these factors that make up character and usefulness conspicuously absent?
8.	In the broken-down state of our homes, and in the artificial conditions prevailing in our schools, the most common substitutes for idleness or for relief from book study
are games and amusements. These run into excesses, absorb an endless amount of time and energy, cultivate an appetite for the thrill and the sensation, and end in nothing more useful than thin smoke, if indeed they do not generate a deadly miasma.
Question: Why lament the records of our criminal courts, the moral lapses of society, and the broken hearts around almost every fireside, so long as our schools and the teachers in them foster the love of the war spirit and the love of pleasures that lead on to folly and ruin; and this while holding in their own hands the mightiest agency ever intrusted to mortal man for cultivating the moral and the manly and the magnificent in our youth — the school?
9.	Nothing cultivates abnormal appetite and reckless conduct in our youth more than to keep their brains at work unduly on the theoretical, the hypothetical, and the speculative. Older men may indulge in these to a certain extent for the sake of advancement, but when men rush into schoolbooks and the schoolroom with their unproved theories, their half-baked hypotheses, and their visionary speculations, only to consign the “generally accepted theory” of to-day into the bottomless discard tomorrow, it is high time that parents, and even the youth themselves, were raising a protest to heaven and to the authorities for deliverance.
Question: Why cannot men who can bridge the yawning chasms where the links are missing in the theory of evolution, employ their ingenuity in bridging the almost bottom-
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less pit that yawns between much of the school stuff that passes for instruction nowadays and the real stuff that makes life worth while, with all its glittering possibilities that lie just ahead of our boys and girls in the flower of their youth?
io.	Whether the reader of this letter is a Christian, or a skeptic, it is the eternal verities that count after all. It makes no difference whether faith extends beyond this mortal career into the life on the other side, or whether it is limited to the brief span of what we call human life, all men have faith, and are responsible for their exercise of it. Life is worth living in harmony with the eternal verities were there no life beyond. The maximum bonum can be achieved only by such harmony. One of the eternal verities is the threefold nature of man, wherever he came from, and whithersoever he is going. Education that does not square with this trinity in the needs of man — the physical, the mental, and the spiritual — and with life’s daily demands for the meeting of these needs, must be set down as a failure. For the needs in education are the needs of life.
Question: Whether you are a Christian, or a skeptic, is it not high time to square with the eternal verities in education; to make sure that every move in educational endeavor is in the direction of the true goal— to repair the breakdown in the home, and to restore to the youth straight and pleasant paths to walk in?
Nothing else will so stabilize the persistent flux, the ceaseless ebb and flow, in educational theory and practice, and anchor our hopes to something as enduring as the hills.
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App1 es of Eden or Sodom?
(Continued from page if)
spurious and unfit, but the genuine product of that tree has in all ages been life-giving and wholesome.
Under its shadow the highest code of morality has been developed; schools, publishing houses, hospitals, and philanthropic societies of many kinds have been established; art, science, invention, and exploration have flourished; civil and religious liberty have come to fruition; womanhood has been honored and emancipated; and all else that is best and noblest in our civilization has come to pass through the influence of the Great Teacher and the Great Book.
Has Hinduism, or Mohammedanism, or Confucianism, or Buddhism, or evolutionary philosophy produced such fruitage? A thousand times not
And more marvelous than all else, the religion of Jesus Christ actually changes the heart of man. A wicked ancestor may have “sent down the seed” that produces a criminal, but God sent down His own Son with power to save unto the uttermost. Through the miracle of the new birth, He reverses the law of heredity, and the slave of sin is transformed into a free child of God. The fruit of the gospel puts a new spring in the step, a new incentive in the mind, a new song in the mouth, and a great peace in the heart. In all continents, nations, and neighborhoods, homes and hearts have been salvaged, renovated, and transformed by the power of an endless life, and myriads of witnesses arise to testify to the fulfillment of the ancient prophecy:
“ So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. . . . Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut oflF.” Isa. 55: 11, 13.
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There are no brooks that way. But the way of Christian faith, rough though it often may be, is a way of refreshing streams running through green pastures.
They are drinking of the brook by the way over in these age-old barrens of heathenism. The Lord is sending “streams in the desert,” according to His promise for the last days. It is good to see these peoples drink till their thirsty souls are alive with joy in God’s saving grace. My heart needs the same. Deeper and yet deeper I drink of the stream of life as I see its transforming power in these jungle wilds.
Many hesitate to make the definite resolution to live a Christian life, because they feel that they have but little power. If God would only fill them with energy, so that they could feel confident of going right through to the end, they would step out, they say. But such persons, though sincere in their statements, have a wrong conception of the Christian life. Would you hesitate to start out on an ocean voyage, because you were informed that there was in the engines only sufficient steam to take you a short distance? Why, no, you say. More fuel can be fed to the engines, and the drafts opened, and thus more power can be generated. So with the journey of life. God gives sufficient power for you to take the initial step. Then it is for you daily to feed the engines of your soul with the word of God, and to blow upon the fire the breath of prayer. Thus you will continue to have power for your journey; for “as thy days, so shall thy strength be.”
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Can we tell just how this can be — how the entire population of a teeming city can be warmed, and furnished with light and energy for all their tasks, by a silent force? No. “Electricity,” says a learned professor, “is the name given to an invisible agent known to us only by the effects which it produces.” But we do not therefore doubt its reality. Then why be so ready to doubt the promise of God to send power sufficient for all our needs, simply because we do not comprehend it? Francis D. Nichol.
What a dismal place this world would be without Christians! It is the spirit of Christianity that makes it livable. Just in that proportion that people manifest this spirit, just to that extent we enjoy the associations of life. The Bible names the fruits of the Spirit of Christ: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness. Which of these could your town or your neighborhood get along without? The trouble with the South Sea Islands and the savage parts of Africa is that these places are without the influence of Christianity — for it isn’t in the heart of man naturally. It must come from the Author of all good, Jesus Christ.
The land where we live is a good land. It is a land of hills and valleys — and the eyes of the Lord God are ever upon it. But that God who is never blind to the needs of His people is also never blind to the neglect of His people. And just as surely as the Lord promised to lay waste the land of Canaan if the children of Israel neglected their duty to Jehovah, just as surely will the Lord look with disapproval on the land of America if her children become so wrapped up in their worship of money and power and the material things of life that they forget duty toward God.
U. V. Wilcox.
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The Book Stands
1.	Now that the judge stands before the door, and Jesus is pulling on the latchstring of current events preparatory to setting up His kingdom, the one great work necessary is to preach, and preach from the Bible.
“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word” 2 Tim. 4:1,2.
2.	And the emphatic reason for such preaching at such a time as this is that there is right now a great turning away from the Word of God throughout all Christendom, and it is cause for alarm.
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears\ and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” Verses 3 and 4.
3.	This condition need not be surprising, for it was foretold long ago for our day.
“ Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from thefaith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils: speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.” 1 Tim. 4: 1, 2.
4.	We can expect on the part of avowed Christian preachers and laymen open and boastful denial of all belief in every one of the fundamentals of Christianity.
“There shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that
bought them [redemption through the blood of Christ], and bring upon themselves swift destruction.” 2 Peter 2: 1.
5.	We may unerringly expect that the old-time warmth of spiritual experience will fall to a chilling temperature, and that wickedness will be exceeding great, all because of departure from the teachings of God’s word.
“Many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” Matt. 24: 11, 12.
6.	But we may also expect that in spite of all the slurs cast at the Bible and its teachings, it will stand the attacks unharmed and unchanged, and those who plant their feet solidly upon its foundations*will win in the battle for truth.
“Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth steady [margin], having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are His.” 2 Tim. 2: 19.
7.	In view of the solemn announcement that closes the canon of Scripture, we shudder to tamper with the Word of God.
“ For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this Book: and if any man shall take away from the words-of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” Rev. 22: 18, 19
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The Identity of Melchizedek
Who was Melchizedek,?
The historical Melchizedek was king of Salem, or Jerusalem, and priest of the Most High God. (Gen. 14: 18.) He was therefore a priest-king, and as such was a type of Christ who is a “priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.’* (Ps. 110:4; Heb. 5:6; 6:20; 7:17-21.) Melchizedek was unique. There are no records of his ancestry, his birth, or his death. (Heb. 7: 1-3.) He had neither predecessor nor successor. His order of priesthood began and ended with him. He was therefore a fitting type of Christ, who also is unique and solitary in his priesthood. (Heb. 7: 23-28.) When His present work as priest in the heavenly sanctuary is over, Christ will receive His kingdom and reign forever in righteousness. (See Zech. 6: 12, 13; 1 Cor. 15: 24-28; Heb. 8: 1,2; Rev. 3: 21.) Speculation beyond the known facts regarding Melchizedek is profitless.
Concerning Lent
Should Christians observe Lent? How did it come into the church? Is it apostolic?
The spring fast of Lent is in no sense an apostolic institution, though it is of great antiquity. In fact, it antedates the Christian era by many centuries, and was borrowed from the original Babylonian custom of the forty-day celebration in the spring of the year for the worship of Astarte. It is still observed by the heathen devil worshipers of Kurdistan and by pagans in Mexico, as well as by the ancient Egyptians in commemoration of Adonis or Osiris.
It was brought as an ecclesiastical institution into the idolatrous church of the early and middle ages to conciliate the pagans they were seeking to win and to stir up the languid devotions of their degenerate communicants. Its introduction into the church was a gradual process, the various steps covering several centuries and its length differing in different places and at different times. It did not exceed three weeks as late as 325 a. d. Later it was thirty-six days. The forty-day length was not made generally operative until the sixth century. It was Hormidas, Bishop of Rome c. 519, who declared it should be observed before Easter. It was with this in view that certain skillful adjustments of the calendar were made by Dionysius a few years later.
So it comes branded as a relic of the grossest corruption, appointed without divine sanction, much less express authority, by the Roman church, which claims authority to herself institute festivals.
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extra-Scriptural feasts which the Jews added to those divine appointments given to Israel, God declared, “Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hateth: they are a trouble unto Me; I am weary to bear them.” Isa. 1: 14. The parallel gives the answer to your first question.
Under Law or Grace
Please explain “not under the lawfbut under grace,” Rom. 6:14, What do the two terms mean?
“Under the law” means under its condemnation because of transgression of the law. (Rom. 3: 19.) By sinning man falls under the penalty of the law as a condemning rule. (Rom. 3:9, 10, also 23.) He is under its curse for breaking it (Deut. 27: 26; Jer. 11: 3,4), the penalty for violation being death (Rom. 3: 23; Eze. 18:4).
“Under grace” means under justification or the favor of Christ. The law cannot set the sinner free. Only through the pardoning grace of Christ can we be brought out from under the curse of the law (Rom. 3: 20-24), Christ being made a curse for us (Gal. 3:13). Forgiven through Christ, man is saved from death. (Eph. 2: 5-8.) /That such a blessed estate in no way releases us from obedience to the law is emphatically stated in Rom. 6: 15: “What then? shall we sin (transgress the law, 1 John 3:4) because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.” When one sins again he comes under the law again.
It is therefore evident there is no change in the law. The change is in the relationship of individuals to the law, and the change from condemnation to justification is wrought wholly through Christ.
Great Men andjTruth
If Seventh-day Adventists have the truth of God for this time, why do not the leading thinkers of the age accept it? Why do not the great Protestant churches embrace it?
In reply, we ask, Why did not the leading minds of Christ’s day accept the message of the Son of God? Was not the question, “Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on Him?” John 7: 48, proof positive to their minds that He was an impostor? Why did not the prominent sects of the Jewish church, which had been the special object of God’s jealous care for many centuries, embrace the message of that herald and forerunner of the Saviour, John the Baptist? Why did not the learned theo logians of the great European universities in Luther’s day receive the God-sent message of the fearless monk of Wittenberg University?
The answer is infolded in the principle: “Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but . . . God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.” 1 Cor. 1: 26, 27.
Scholarly dictums do not alter truth. Ecclesiastical mandates do not change eternal verities, nor is truth determined by majorities. Jesus is the living truth (John 14:6); “Thy word” and “Thy law” are the written truth (John 17: 17; Psalm 119: 142). The church therefore that to-day presents the great doctrines of the Bible, shorn of £he accumulated traditions of ecclesiasti-cism, that proclaims the binding obligations of the law in its entirety, but in harmony and in connection with the saving gospel of the risen Christ, manifestly has the truth of God for the hour.
Forget not that of the Master it was said, “The common people heard Him gladly.” Mark 12: 37.
Numerical Difficulties
Are there many numerical errors in the Bible like 2 Kings 8:26 compared with 2 Chron. 22: 2? How do they effect the inspiration of the Bible ?
The Hebrew language, in which the Old Testament was written, had no numerals; that is, figures, as in English, but used the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the passage in question the character Mem standing for forty was apparently mistaken by the copyist for Kaph with the numerical power of twenty. Another numerical error is in 2 Sam. 8:4 compared with 1 Chron. 18:4, and accounted for by the resemblance between the letters Numn and Zayin representing seven hundred and seven thousand respectively.
A number of alleged contradictions in the ages of the kings, or the lengths of their reigns (in Kings and Chronicles) are explained by the frequent co-regencies of the time, the son being associated on the throne with his father for a period of years before the latter’s death. The manuscripts of the Bible were copied with scrupulous care. The presence of a few unimportant numerical contradictions in no way invalidates the Bible’s claim to inspiration. A divine hand has preserved every essential of the word throughout the ages. The cr&cal hostility of the enemies of the Bible through the centuries has failed to produce evidence of a single error affecting any essential doctrine or fact. No one claims that translations or copies are absolutely inerrant. Our various translations, where freed from these slight errors, are indeed the word of the living God.
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Religion Gets Attention
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of ancient Athens were too religious. “Man is incurably religious,” but naturally he is far from being incurably in touch with a spiritual God. Religion in the broad, shallow sense in which it is commonly used (love, fear, or awe manifested toward some over-ruling power.—Webster) is a salve for the conscience rather than a saviour of the life. “Pure religion ... is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world” James 1:27, a Bible definition much misunderstood. No one can keep himself unspotted by sin without a recognition in the life of the vicarious atonement of Jesus Christ, “who gave himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world.” Gal. 1:4.
We are getting too much religion, and not enough goodness and rectitude. The religious world is “ having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof.” And this is a sign of the times.
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Tolerance
WHAT is the meaning of all this talk about tolerance and intolerance? President Coolidge was acclaimed by nearly all classes as he pleaded for broad tolerance in his Omaha speech. Every radical and liberal finds comfort in it. A popular author writes a book on the subject, which champions everyone who has ever been treated with intolerance. To many people it means that they can go on doing just as they please, as long as they do not commit any overt crime.
We understand tolerance to mean the giving of everyone an equal chance with ourselves to believe and do as he thinks best, without conceding that he has the right to so believe and do, just so long as his liberties do not cause intolerance toward others. No one has a right to make me pay for something I do not get, but I may tolerate such injustice for the sake of peace. No man has a right to hate another, but we can tolerate that; yet cannot tolerate a murder that may grow out of it. To tolerate a thing implies that we believe it is absolutely wrong, but we will make the most of it because someone else just as firmly believes it is absolutely right.
But while we may allow that everyone has a right to his own opinion, yet that does not mean that we think everyone is right in his opinion. And just here is the danger in misunderstanding tolerance. To some it is coming to mean that all religions, all political faiths, all economic policies, are right, but just different.
We can never tolerate wrong in anyone. And while it may not be in our province to correct or punish the person who does it, yet it is our bound duty to condemn and expose it, for the sake of keeping standards of conduct high and pointing out pitfalls into which the innocent might fall.
Let not tolerance be a cloak for anarchy, irreligion, lukewarm attitudes on vital questions, and insidious propaganda to entice and destroy the unwary.
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