THE WORLD'S PROPHETIC WEEKLY

VOLUME 65, toCUMBIR 5 FEBRUARY 191938 2T e FLIGHT

INTERNATIONAL A Japanese tank gingerly feels its way across the flimsy remains of a bridge over a stream A SURVEY OF outside of Shanghai. WORLD EVENTS By the Editor CROWNING WONDER dous possibilities. One has but to con- OF A GOLDEN ,AGE sider for a moment its possible effect, when fully developed, upon the movie ELEVISION has arrived. The ing production is expected soon to bring industry, and, public entertainments in youngest among the arts of entertain- the cost down to the place where every general. It may indeed completely change ment is now past its experimental stage family can afford to buy one. the habits of multitudes, and will surely and is challenging world attention. The secret of the sudden advance lies alter popular conceptions of many In London, England, where perhaps in the invention of the "Emitron" mir- things. the most remarkable development has acle-working camera. This extraordinary Because the eye is pre-eminently the in- taken place, there are now more than xo,- supersensitive instrument translates all tellectual sense, the one most closely as- 000 receiving sets, the number increasing it beholds into electric impulses and for- sociated with the springs of judgment rapidly every month. wards them instantaneously to the cen- and action, because, as we say, "seeing is This means that far more than xo,000 tral transmitting station. believing," television is bound to have people already have front seats at all im- Almost uncanny in its accuracy, it a profound moral significance. Certainly po tant national events while sitting misses not a single detail. Like the eye it will enable us all more accurately 'to quietly by their fireplaces. of the recording angel it registers every weigh the significance of passing events.' For these television enthusiasts not impression. All who love truth will rejoice at its on IT heard the coronation, but saw it Being portable, this camera can be advent, for unless its use is perverted, it wi hout moving out of their armchairs. taken to any public function, and so will disseminate facts rather than fiction And since then they have both heard and bring its "front seat" views to fireside and be the means of bringing millions watchers all over the country. seen the Armistice Day ceremony, the face to face with the realities of life as L d Mayor's Show, the Wimbledon ten- The advent, of this latest child of ap- never before. plied science is pregnant with tremen- ni championship, boxing tournaments, Television is indeed the crowning mar- ca racing, and other spectacular events vel of this age of wonders, and we believe un er the same comfortable conditions. OUR COVER PICTURE that it has arrived as part of the divine ublic enthusiasm for the new wonder program for these last mighty moments Our cover picture this week shows the is spreading through Great Britain as modern and now commonplace methods of time. For what is more needed to q 'ckly as it did for radio itself a few of transportation,—the railroad, the steam- bring about the swift closing of the work ye rs ago, and particularly as it is learned ship, the bus, the automobile, the airplane. of God on the earth than some miracu- Truly we live in a time when the ancient th t the television sets are just as easy to prophecy of the Scriptures is fulfilled, that lous means of bringing to the whole hu- op rate. The only drawback at the' mo- "many shall run to and fro, and knowledge man race unquestionable, overwhelming m nt is the price, which runs from $x59 shall be increased." Daniel 12:4. evidence of His purposes, so that in the to 1600 apiece. However, rapidly increas- final, sudden revelation of the Lord in Page Two SIGNS of the TIMES glory there shall be not one single soul without excuse? "This is the Lord's doing; it is mar- velous in our eyes." Psalm 118:23.

DISARMAMENT TRAGEDY

, - years ago this week we arrived at SIXGeneva, Switzerland, to report the great Disarmament Conference for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Only six years ago! It seems but yester- day. But that second day of February, 1932, was a day never to be forgotten. It marked the beginning of the last great

united effort of the nations to build a INTERNATIONAL dam against the rising tide of interna- New York State tests its new snow-fighting equipment at Lake Placid. This particular machine, it tional ill will and prevent a new flood of is claimed, can move twenty-one cubic yards of snow in thirty-five seconds. armaments from overflowing the world draw the attention of public opinion to good will, proved after many .weary and precipitating another general war. the enormous stakes. . . . Western civ- months of collaboration to be the most Well we remember the speeches of the ilization must look to itself or lapse into dismal and disappointing failure in his- leading national delegates as they chaos." tory. No practical results whatever were pledged their peoples to the cause of One other solemn word we recall came accomplished. Despite all the noble pro- world peace and gave warning of the from Sir John Simon, representing Great fessions of peace, nobody would give way terrible consequences should the con- Britain: in any particular. Each nation was pre- ference fail to attain its purpose. "Many of these conferences have failed pared to disarm if others would do the Those warnings still ring in our ears, before this,- and the consequences of their same, but none would begin, with the louder than ever indeed, because of the failure are written in letters of blood in possible exception of Great Britain, tragic developments that have taken the history of the world. But failure now Which attempted unilateral disarmament pla,ce since they were given. means nothing short of an unmeasured almost to the point of national suicide. Said the late Mr. Arthur Henderson, and immeasurable calamity. We have to And now it is all over and forgotten. then president of the Conference: "If we proceed in our task . . . conscious of the The enthusiasm which for a few short fail, no one can foretell the evil conse- doom which is in store for mankind if weeks reached fever pitch has long since quences that might ensue. But of this we some practical results are not achieved." cooled. Only a few smoking embers re- may be certain: the world would again Looking back over the years that have main of those white-hot fires. be in danger of falling back into the vain passed since these words were uttered, The loudly applauded efforts of the and perilous competition of rapidly ex- we can see how true they were. They eight million women who, in the person panding armaments. That is the inexor- were in fact almost prophetic. The Dis- of Mary A. Dingman, petitioned the able alternative to success." armament Conference, though it was conference saying, "We are weary of the Mussolini himself sent a message to perhaps the most representative gather- unending sacrifices expected Of us for that conference. He said: "Not only the ing of its kind ever convened, and though purposes of destruction; . . . as women, existence of the League of Nations but it commenced its labors in the midst of a as mothers, we demand a solution," were the fate of mankind is at stake. I would spontaneous and unanimous outburst of all in vain. As for the dam that was to be raised At the Northolt, England, Royal Air Force headquarters, a British gunner tests his machine gun from a Hawker Hart plane. against the rising tide of national en- TOPICAL mities and armaments, this, abandoned in despair, has broken in a thousand places, letting the ruinous flood sweep over all the world. The zeal for peace has been succeeded by a frantic race to rearm, so that never before have the nations amassed so many mighty weapons of destruction. When the true history of the world is finally written it may well appear that the failure of the Disarmament Confer- ence was not only "an unmeasured and immeasurable calamity," but one of the supreme tragedies in the sad annals of the human race. Certainly it was one of the great land- marks of time, announcing the approach of the final Armageddon and the end of the world. Page Three

COAL Confirms the Flood

By BENJAMIN Bible story proved true by FRANKLIN amazing evidence gom the coal fields. ALLEN, A. B., LL. B.

ICTURE a mighty mixed mass of the charcoal kiln. Charcoal wood is 770, pages 778, 779.) But these artificial weds, grass, trees, leaves, fruit, seeds, burned in a smothered fire to make char- examples are produced only from wood, m ss, and vegetation of all kinds being coal, or to a condition like coke, as is done pressure, and heat. In the case of a raw s ept and pounded along by surging in the coking of coal. Wood has been coal material all those would be present, w ters overflowinc, the lands in great heated by experiment under high pres- but, in addition, intense and rapid chem- ti es. Watch it dump all of this mass sure with no escape of gases, and a coked ical decomposition and alteration. in o near-by depressions or eddies, where wood almost like coal produced. (Clark, It is likely that the first thing would be it ould sink to the bottom. Now see the "Geo-Chemistry," U. S. G. S. Bulletin a breaking down of the cells and mole- re urn or backward sweep of the tides cules of the vegetation into a viscous, or tidal waves bringing muds, sands, jellylike mass. The formation of rayon cl ys, or other earths from another direc- out of wood is an example— a jelly which ti n, covering the vegetation up imme- is spun out into fine strands and made , di tely. into thread, then cloth. The best evi- s it does in wet or fresh vegetation of dence of this cellular breakdown is the a kind now, when piled up, so chem- thin slatelike layers of the coal, which ic 1 action with increasing heat would apparently resulted, just as in shales, at once begin. from heavy pressures upon soft muds. Think of the material settling down to The Work of the Acids 1/10 or 1/20 of its first thickness! It is easy to see how fine, thin layers would he fresh plant life would yield car- From Alaska is taken this sketch of an anticline, result. In crustal contortions, too, the bo , hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phos- or geologic upfold, showing how mineral matter mass seemed to have flowed in a viscous rus, and many other elements, ready during the formative period was so soft that it form. fo a quick action which could not pos- could be forced out of its seam into the peculiar shape here diagramed. Pressure of 700 pounds to the square si ly be held in check. The land muds inch in oil wells 3,000 feet deep, and as would contain silica, alumina, calcium, high as 2,000 pounds to the square inch so i ium, iron and all metals, magnesia, in wells 7,000 to io,000 feet deep, are the po assiurn, and many others, which regular thing in deep oil fields, such as w. uld also be ready, somewhat in a dis- the North Kettleman Hills Field, Cali- so ed state, to enter into many strong fornia. In many deep oil wells after the co pounds with the decomposing vege- Coal formations such as this show how the whole oil has come through nearly two miles body of the coal-to-be, while both it and its tat on. The ocean water, the ocean sedi- enclosing shales and clays were still plastic, was of pipe it is still nearly boiling hot. m nts, and the ocean life would, where pitched about and mixed with them. pr sent, yield still more active elements The Alkaline Stage in he conflict,—such as calcium, sodium, ch orine, fluorine, sulphur, magnesium, Even the most gigantic deposit of vege- ca on, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, sil- tation would soon exhaust itself in heat ica, phosphorus, arsenic, and hosts of production, and chemical activity would of ers. begin to wane. The alkalies from great elf-generated heat, exerted under lime deposits, above or below, and the gr at pressure, and in confinement, ex- Cross section of a large coal vein in northern large amounts of iron and other minerals France, showing only the coal formation, caused which the flush of vegetable-produced ce t for the amount of gases and heat by much faulting and squeezing while the ma- ab orbed by the surrounding muds terial was still in the plastic stage. acids would collect, would sooner or w. ld soon reduce the vegetation to The above illustrations are reprinted, by permission, later seep in and overcome the acids. so ething between the burnt-out self- from "Coal," by Prof. E. S. Moore, published by Thus the second and final stage would co king or self-burning manure pile and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. be apparently a precipitation or a cur-

"Si ns of the Times," February 1, 1938. Volume 65, No 5. $1.50 a year in the United States. Printed and published weekly (50 issues a year) by the Pacific Press Pub ishing Association at Mountain View, California, qS.A. Entered as second-class matter September 15, 1904, at the post office at Mountain View, California, and Act of March 3. 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage, provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, and authorized September18,1918. Page Four SIGNS of the TIMES cluing of the whole coal-forming mass as made from soft coal by any artificial were largely done just at this brief stage an alkaline precipitant, which all real means. Neither pressure nor heat nor of coal formation. Thus coal deposits coals are to this day. both will do it. The extra pressure and and coal making seem inseparable from It is more than possible, however, that the extra heat appear to have done their mountain making, and both apparently the strong ammoniums produced could, work while the coal was in the brief hot went on at the same time. of themselves, finally cause the coal to act and viscous stage of chemical decompo- Therefore coal not only shows us a as an alkaline precipitant, for the am- sition, which can never be repeated. This Flood of mighty waters in a terrific tidal moniums behave like an alkali. The still indicates that the mountain making, the and ocean-bottom-heaving attack on the mudlike condition of all the layers of the upheaving of the hills, and the under- lands, but it begins to point to the mak- future shales, the future limestones, the ground heating and crustal volcanizing (Continued on page 14) future sandstones, and others would al- al low free seepage of alkali-charged waters throughout thousands of feet of every kind of deposit. The clays and the clay shales, however, would tend to cut off NEWS FLASIIIS circulation. This seepage would be more laterally, from the sides, than up and BRIEF PARAGRAPHS down, because the shales and clays would OF WORLD INTEREST tend to shut off circulation of water and gases upward and downward. By W. L. EMMERSON Today, coal still behaves like an alka- line precipitate because it resists the at- tack of alkaline solvents and is open to • CAUSE OF "The moral chaos," the attack of acids. (Clark, "Geo-Chem- MORAL CHAOS said Father Woodlock istry," U. S. G. S. Bulletin 770, pages 766, in St. Aloysius Church, Oxford, "is the re- 767.) sult of ignorance or rejection of the Chris- tian faith by literally millions of people Difference in Burial and Selection living in England today. The word 'sin' has not merely gone out of fashion; it has Naturally, in the plunging and dis- become meaningless to multitudes living in orderly manner in which all this coal England today, for it involves belief in material was buried, according to our God." theory, some of it would not be buried • POPE AND The high estimate which deeply enough. Some of it would be PRESS the pope places upon the nearly uncovered again by the raging Catholic press is indicated by his words to a waters, and thus would not complete group of Catholic journalists: "You are my the coal-making process. It is well known voice," the pontiff declared. "I do not say that the peat is found less deeply buried, • AFRICAN EUCHA- The first Eucharistic that you make my voice heard, but that generally, than lignite, and lignite less RISTIC CONGRESS Congress to be held really you are my voice itself, for few indeed in Africa took place recently in Tripoli and deeply than brown coal, the latter being would be the number of the children of our was attended by the Governor, Marshal common Father who could learn my wishes the deepest of the three; but generally, Balbo. none of these is buried as deeply as real and thoughts without the aid of the Cath- coal. • REVIVAL "There are signs," says Rev. olic press." COMING McEwan Lawson in Release, As for hard coal (called anthracite) • NEW HOMES An immense effort is be- and graphite, which is still more ad- "that we are becoming aware of the fact that we have been marching along roads FOR OLD ing made to improve the vanced on its way toward complete housing conditions of the poorer classes in transformation to carbon, our Flood which lead to frustration and to death. We are coming to the end of a dreary epoch. the British Isles. The Minister of Health theory of coal easily lends itself to the We are weary of the sterile sands of mere told the London Conference of the National facts. Various degrees of heat developed, disillusionment. Renaissance and revival Federation of Housing Societies recently for coals grade into each other very grad- are coming up over the edge of the world." that 766,000 people had already been moved ually. "It even occurs that a seam will into new and better homes, a number equal be a lignite in one locality, and if fol- • NEW UNITED Major Francis Szalasi, to the population of Manchester. Every lowed up only a few hundred feet, will STATES head of the "National So- month another 24,50o, corresponding to the population of Canterbury, are being trans- turn into a true coal, and perhaps even cialist Race Protection Party" of Hungary, f erred. into a true anthracite, the change being aims at building up the United States of Great Hungary, in which Slovaks from due to some local source of heat, such as • AIR In 1925 the fastest British fikht- a dike." (Price, "New Geology," page Czechoslovakia, Transylvanians from Ru- mania, Croats from Yugoslavia, and Ger- SPEEDS ing planes averaged 155 miles 458.) A dike was once a mass of hot mud mans shall find their home. an hour. By 1932, speeds had increased to or molten lava, which was forced up 240 miles an hour, and next year's types will through a crevice in the surface of the • DUPED BY "The ordinary man and attain a speed of over 300 miles an hour. earth, and now generally stands up as a PROPAGANDA woman in the age in Speeds of 425 to 450 miles an hour may be sharp wall of rock. It is volcanic in its which we move," Winston Churchill as- attained in a few years. origin. serted at the National Book Fair in Lon- • DEATH RATE During the past hundred Hard coal is generally found where don, "has to have a new vigilance and to be alive to new perils, to see that they are HALVED years, declares Sir Arthur there was some upheaval and mountain not being sucked in by propaganda. We MacNalty, the death rate in Britain has making, or a near-volcanic, chemically see whole nations the slaves of propaganda, fallen from 22.4 to 12.1 per 1,000. In the developed heat underground, in addition we see great states in which only one opin- past quartet of a century over 'Po acts af- to theleat generated by the coal-making ion is to be tolerated, which is contrary to fecting public health have been passed, and process itself. But here is a very signifi- the genius of man and the inherent urge of the cost of social services has risen from cant point. Hard coal cannot now be human nature." 3275,000000 to $2,135,000,000. for FEBRUARY 1, 1 9 3 8 Page Five CATASTROPHES of the War in China • Eyewitness of dreadful bombings describes fearful results of modern warfare. A warning to the world.

By H. W. MILLER, M. D.

OR almost a half year now, aerial of money required to bind up nature's largely be set aside in order that men wa fare has been the most striking fea- powers in these bomb parcels, weighing may devote their efforts to increasing tur in the struggle between China and from several hundred pounds to a ton; suffering and destroying life. Living as Jap. n. It seems destined to become not and of the huge planes for carrying the we do in an age of such tremendous pos- onl the most effective agent in both same, many of which are themselves de- sibilities for race betterment, for supreme offe sive and defensive warfare, but also stroyed; but also in the cost of aerial accomplishments, how pitiable that we the reatest peril to human life. defense by antiaircraft guns, erecting of should be rushing toward self-annihila- E pecially when hatred and anger barricades, trenches, and caverns,—ex- tion! mo e men and nations in their conflicts, penditures equally as great. Indeed it This dreadful carnage in the Far East, doe aerial warfare become a most serious seems almost inconceivable that at a time following all the savagery and sorrow of me ace to the civilian populations of the in the history of mankind when there is the war of 1914-18, should be sufficient eart . Terrible consequences have oc- so much need to clothe the naked, feed warning to the world. Yet apparently curr d at the hands of both Chinese and the starving, and care for the sick all heedless of it all it seems again to have Jap nese aviators, resulting in devastat- these agencies of helpfulness should gone mad with militarism. Despite the ing xplosions and huge conflagrations, brin ing terrific catastrophe to the lives Chinese refugees of all ages are being given shelter and food by foreign missionaries after being of ci ilian men, women, and children. In forced to flee for their lives from their bomb-shattered homes in Nantao, before the onward rush one nstance at the beginning of the war of the Japanese toward Nanking. in hanghai, a thousand people were kill and injured by the dropping of a sing e aerial bomb. It would seem that even the elements hay been disturbed by these terrible ex- plos ves released in the air, so that nature has een turned out of its course, and rain and storms have fallen for days and eeks over parts of China at a season whi•h has hitherto been rainless. In the past, humanity has lived in the drea s and fear of the forces of nature,— stor s, lightning, earthquakes, and vol- canit eruptions. But we now live in a day hen mankind is using its intellect and trength to bring into existence fear- ful ew agencies of destruction. A a result of one day's bombing, the peop e and the property of one great city of C Ina, Soochow, were completely wipe out. We ourselves have witnessed the -xplosion of bombs which have start d huge fires, destroying hundreds of horn s and turning thousands of people into oaming refugees, without shelter, without friends or relatives. And all this in th modern world! T e costliness of aerial warfare is also • trem ndous, not only in the huge sums V UNIVERSAL PROM SOIB Page Six SIGNS of the TIMES efforts of the wisest men, it seems helpless world situation: "The nations were ture just quoted states that there will either to prevent war or to settle the dis- angry, and Thy wrath is come, and the come a time when they that destroy the turbing international issues of the day. time of the dead, that they should be earth shall themselves be destroyed. The No satisfactory program has been judged, and that Thou shouldest give re- great God of heaven will take unto Him- worked out whereby nations can live and ward unto Thy servants the prophets, self power, and will reign as Lord of work together in harmony, so every mis- and to the saints, and them that fear lords and King of kings. The Bible de- understanding leads to others until open Thy name, small and great; and should- clares that "He shall rule them with a strife and contention result. est destroy them which destroy the rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter The condition described in the elev- earth." shall they be broken to shivers." Revela- enth chapter of Revelation, eighteenth Yes, the nations are angry and are tion 2:27; 19:15. verse, fittingly represents our present surely destroying the earth. But the scrip- (Continued on page U) _ WHAT the BREWERS FAILED to TELL

HE United Brewers' Industrial Foun- Sydney Smith records the results: "The Tdation, at their first annual convention new beer bill has begun its operations. in Pittsburgh, adopted the Brewers' Code Everybody is drunk. . . . The sovereign of Practice. Copies of this code have been people are in a beastly state." sent presumably into the homes of all recog- The report of the Select Committee of nized leaders of thought and opinion in the the House of Commons appointed to study country. An accompanying letter tells that By GRACE CLIFFORD HOWARD the situation says that the Beer Act, "with- Research Secretary, the code "was developed after a six months' Scientific Temperance Federation. out destroying a single public house, against study of the desires and demands of the which the bill was intended to operate, had added fifty thousand still more baleful American public," and it is a "scientific Eighth during the first half of the sixteenth quantitative and qualitative analysis of houses to the list of temptations so baleful to century, we find an account of "frightful" the people." After a while, Wellington and what the public expects of the industry." It drunkenness on beer. By the latter half of "aligns the industry with the public forces the others changed their minds and plainly the same century, under his daughter, stated that tax-free beer was not a remedy working for moderation, law enforcement, Queen Elizabeth, drunkenness from the and a recognition of the public welfare." for drunkenness. Misery and degradation same cause is noted as one of the most strik- followed in the wake of this Free Beer Act Executed with rare aesthetic skill, the ing and unfortunate characteristics of the format of the code suggests old manuscript and many who were previously sober be- nation. came drunkards. writing, similar to that used by the church About a hundred years later, gin drink- fathers of the Middle Ages. The black and Germany, too, in 185o, endeavored to ing became popular among the English and turn her people from distilled liquors. Beer red inks, with the illuminated lettering on developed to such lengths as time went on the white ground, show an understanding gardens sprang up where the whole family that the thinking people of England real- could congregate, and beer consumption, of the finesse and psychology of advertising, ized that drastic measures should be taken while the statements made in the code even among women and children, increased against it. The Duke of Wellington, Lord rapidly. Yet the distilled liquor sales, which would almost lull the most suspecting into Brougham, and other patriots sponsored an a state of quiescence regarding any possible beer had been introduced to minimize, con- untaxed-beer bill, hoping thereby to wean tinued as before. "The so-called abstinent harmful effect that might arise from beer. the people from gin. Writing in that day, But if all the facts were known, those who movement in the middle of the nineteenth receive this code might not read it so com- century,", says Prof. August Forel, "was placently. What is the other side? THE BREWERS' CODE OF PRACTICE only against distilled liquor and came to THE Brewing Industry of the United States, nothing, or rather, it was drowned in beer." What History Tells About Beer custodian of an art and science practiced since the beginnings of recorded history, supplies a mild beverage to the major part of our popula- "Conformity With Established Laws" Practiced since the beginnings of re- tion. Beer is the bulwark of moderation and corded history, the brewing industry is cus- sobriety. The industry recognizes its direct re- The brewers have pledged themselves to todian of an ancient art and science, the sponsibility to itself and to the nation to conduct conduct their business "in conformity with its operations in accord with the desires and code tells us. Perhaps the brewers would conscience of the American public. Members of established laws in co-operation with the not be pleased to have some of that "re- the United Brewers' Industrial Foundation', in authorities." Does the record show them convention assembled, representing nearly half corded history" regarding beer brought to ,the production of beer and ale in the United to have possessed such characteristics of con- light. We do, indeed, find records about States, mutually and individually pledge them- formity in the past? Perusal of Ernest Gor- beer as far back as the days of Egyptian selves to the following Code of Practice: don's book, "When the Brewer Had the We pledge ourselves, as citizens and as business hieroglyphics. In the tomb of an Egyptian men, to conduct our business in conformity Strangle Hold," will bring to light the at- Pharaoh was found this record:. "Do not `with established laws in co-operation with the tempted boycotting of many big businesses authorities. go into the beer taverns, for unpleasant are We pledge ourselves as scientific brewers to on the part of the brewery interests because the words reported at second hand as hav- maintain exacting high standards in the brew- these same businesses were inimical to the ing and packaging of beer and ale. trade. Boycotting, we believe, is an illegal ing come from your mouth when you did We pledge ourselves, with all thoughtful citizens, not know what you were saying. And if to the promotion of practical moderation and procedure. sobriety. Gordon further enlightens us about the you fall down you may break your bones We pledge our support to the duly constituted and no one will give you a hand. Even your authorities for the elimination of antisocial many schemes to circumvent the law pro- companions in drink will stand up and say, conditions wherever they may surround the sale hibiting ownership of saloons by brewers. of beer to the consumer. `Away with the drunkard." We pledge ourselves morally to support and en- In some places, there was not even any cir- On still another Egyptian tablet the fol- courage the great body of retailers who sell cumventing. He states that in Baltimore, beer as law-abiding citizens and who operate lowing is found: "I have been told that legal, respectable premises. where the Maryland law provided that no you have said to your writing valet that you We pledge ourselves to co-operate with the duly brewer or distiller should engage in the constituted authorities to prevent beer sales to hunt for pleasure, going from inn to inn. minors, or to persons who have drunk to excess. saloon business, 400 saloons were owned by Where will this beer scent lead you? It We pledge ourselves to truth in the advertising of brewers and 40o more were held by them beer. will take you out of your path; it ruins peo- We pledge ourselves faithfully to observe the on long leases. ple; it leads the mind backward." provisions of this Code of Practice, convinced In Washington, D. C., where the law that beer is the nation's bulwark of moderation forbade saloons within 400 feet of church or Skipping a long gap in the history of and sobriety, beer and coming to the days of Henry the (Continued on page 15) for FEBRUARY 1, 1938 Page Seven Ai The Age of MARVELS

E LIVE in an age of marvels. we had to do with our own hands and ever before has life moved so swiftly; our own muscles. We have bored into o , indeed, so comfortably. The poorest the bowels of the earth to release the now enjoy advantages which of yore treasures of coal and gas and oil. The w re denied to the most wealthy. In natural resources which in the wisdom of h mble farmhouses are found devices Providence had remained hidden for so a d conveniences which were unknown many centuries, awaiting their discovery in the palaces of Elizabeth or Charle- by man, are now laid open; and we are m gne. There have indeed been great making abundant and even prodigal use ci ilizations in the past; but never has of them. th re been one which even remotely re- Nor is there any sign that we are losing se I. bled ours in its technique for making our skill or slackening our progress. lif more livable, more enjoyable. Every day we learn of new miracles, new his does not mean, of course, that we discoveries, new inventions. How rap- ar brighter than the men who lived idly has the world changed in the last be ore us. The cranial capacity of the few years! Not long ago Alexander rase has not increased, and every day Woollcott remarked of a young man de I onstrates that our culture and prog- who lived twenty-five years ago, "He's res , wonderful as they are, do not save suffering from an inferiority complex us rom colossal stupidities. But we have but he's never heard of one. He's never ap i lied our intelligence to mechanics and heard of daylight saving. Nor rayon. sci nce as no generation before has ever Nor soviets. Nor jazz. Nor insulin. Nor do e. We have harnessed the giant G-men. Nor broccoli. He's never seen a Ste m and the giant Electricity, so that one-piece bathing suit nor read a gossip the do for us the work which formerly column. He's never heard of a step-in. To furnish electricity, these huge generate plant of the Wilst Eng neers on a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train take a message by short-wave, radio from the con uctor at the other end of the line of cars. This new system of radio communication aboard trains will do away, it is said, with the old-fashioned flag-and-lantern signaling. Nor an inhibition. He's never heard of a radio nor seen a talking picture nor listened to the whir of an electric icebox. He's never seen an animated cartoon nor a cement road nor a neon light. No, nor a filling station. Nor a wrist watch. "He lives in a world quite different from our America of 1937. His very ideas are different. Take two. What does he think a job is? He thinks a job is something any man can get who is willing to work. And a war? Why, war is a practice still carried on only by re- mote, comic opera countries in Central America and the Balkans. "How much he has to learn!" And thus our world speeds on, faster and faster. The records made today shall surely be broken tomorrow. How quickly we move! Mr. J. J. Pelley, presi- dent of the Association of American Railroads, recently declared that "the in- crease in this country in the past five years in the speed of trains operating on the fast schedule is without parallel. INTERNATIONAL Pare Eight SIGNS of the TIMES By GWYNNE DALRYMPLE

facilities which are wholly commendable. tion of our Saviour's teaching on this These beneficial results are especially point will convince any student of the marked in the field of religion. Many Scriptures that Jesus of Nazareth never centuries ago Jesus declared that one of taught, nor ever believed, that all the the signs of His imminent return would world would accept His searching mes- be the proclamation of the gospel to all sage. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the world. Certainly His prophecy is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few being fulfilled in this,generation. Let us there be that find it," was His uncompro- note His words: "This gospel of the mising statement. Matthew 7:14. But kingdom shall be preached in all the while the majority of humanity will not world for a witness unto all nations; and accept His gospel of love and redemp- then shall the end come." Matthew 24:14. tion, involving the forsaking of every sin When we think of civilization as it and a new birth into the kingdom of existed a hundred years ago, with great God, He nevertheless declared that His barriers between East and West, with teaching would be proclaimed to all the little communication between diverse ra- world "for a witness,"—that all might cial groups, with a narrow spirit of pro- know and choose intelligently, before vincialism overclouding the vast major- His return in the clouds of heaven. ity of even those who professed to be An even more explicit prophecy, deal- Christians, we may *ell remark that in ing with modern inventiveness and the these last days more is being done to for- mechanical and scientific triumphs of ward the work of the gospel than ever this age, is found in one of the prophets before. Never were missionary activi- of the Old Testament. "But thou, 0 ties more numerous. And never, we Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the might remark,'were they more needed. book, even to the time of the end: many "But I see no signs of everyone accept- shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall ing the gospel," someone will surely com- be increased." Daniel 12:4. The angel, plain. speaking to the prophet Daniel, here The statement of Jesus in no sense de- says that the prophecies of God's word, clares that everyone will accept the gos- and especially those given to Daniel, pel. Indeed, a frank and candid examina- were to be shut up and sealed "even to PUBLISHERS' PHOTO r00 revolutions a minute within the power Shoals, Alabama. Oldest and youngest railroad engines stand side by side. (Left) The tiny Tom Thumb, first used in 1829, and at that time considered a marvel of speed at ten miles an hour. (Right) The great 3,600 horsepower Diesel locomotive, running on the Baltimore & Ohio at a speed of more than seventy- five miles an hour. More than 400 trains covering in excess of 19,000 miles at the beginning of this year operated on scheduled runs timed at 6o miles an hour or better, compared with 3o regular runs operating for a total distance of x,xoo miles in 1930." On the Dix-Potter run of the Union Pacific Rail- road, in Nebraska, a speed of 120 miles an hour has been attained. An automobile has traveled more than 311 miles an hour; an airplane, more than 450. The world's largest steamship, the "Queen Mary," has crossed the broad expanse of the Atlantic in three days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes. While these records are remarkable, the results may not always be wholesome. The speeded-up tempo of modern life may well be responsible for the increas- ing neuroticism of mankind, and for that bitter unrest and`discontent which seems to be clutching whole populations in its irrevocable grasp. Yet there are other results from our modern inventiveness and our up-to-date UNDERWOOD for FEBRUARY 1, 1938 Page Nine he time of the end;" and as an additional VISITS WITH THE HOMEMAKER ign to point out the time of the end, he eclares that at that era of human history any should run to and fro, and knowl- dge should be increased. This prophecy has received an accurate The ABOMINATION lfillment,—indeed, is receiving its ac- rate fulfillment before our very eyes. I the days when Daniel wrote, it is OW I knew I wasn't one, and I went seeing the place again, my heart was pro- ubtful if a single European or Asiatic N because I didn't want to be one, but I testing, I cannot go with her, not the way the dresses. A funny old hat, a spotty coat, d set eyes on the West coast of Africa came home realizing I was one, after all. a. far south as Cape Palmas or even An abomination, I mean. And that is the probably held together with a safety pin, da S erra Leone, save the Carthaginian navi- whole story in a nutshell, but that you may stockings twisted, and Jane, poor feeble- I' minded Jane, her illegitimate child,—a fact g tor Hann° ; and it was two hundred understand what it is all about, I think I y ars later when Pytheas of Massilia first had better start all over again. not generally known as she had been mar- s. iled through the waters of the English Now I have a habit, which I think is a ried to a good honest man for years and years, and had been to him a faithful wife. C annel and cruised by the shores of the very good habit, of reading in the Bible a Jane now in turn was the mother of an B. Itic. Even so, the reports of these ex- few verses every morning, before I go about illegitimate child. pl rers were dismissed by all thinking the duties of the day. And this morning,— m n as mere exaggeration and fable. The the morning I am going to tell you about,— Just as I opened my mouth to make ex- gr at lands of the Far East—China and I read, "Everyone that is proud in heart is cuses, such as "The family is not at home," Ja an—were to all practical intents un- an abomination to the Lord." Proverbs or, "I ought to be here to see about dinner," 16:5. Then with a clear conscience, I gave k own until Daniel had- rested in his the one word, abomination, seemed to float thanks that that verse did not apply to me, gr ve for eighteen centuries, when Marco before my eyes.. Po o at length brought back to Western and went about the getting of breakfast. No, no, my heart protested, I'm not that. ci lization a report from the realm of It was not until I carried the waste out And because I did not want to be that, I to the chickens that I realized what a beauti- the Great Khan; and two hundred years heard my voice saying, "Yes, I think I can ful morning it was. The air was a little m re elapsed before Columbus laid open manage to go. It was kind of you to ask sharp, but in it was a tantalizing something th great American continents. me. Yes, I'll be ready. No, that's not too —beckoning, calling—which was hard to ow changed is the situation today! early, I can leave dinner in the oven. All resist. I longed to drop all work and run No longer are there vast unexplored areas right. Bye." Then I leaned 'back in my away. Of course that would never do; so I in ither East or West; and the geogra- chair, thinking—thinking about a Man, resolutely turned my back on the alluring ph of the most distant lands is known who, stooping over, wrote some words in out-of-doors, hurried into the house, and the sand. I was also thinking of the words al ost as accurately as our own. And was for some time busy with the over-and- alo g with this examination and verifi- He spoke to the woman, "Neither do I con- over tasks, which are an unescapable part of demn thee." cat n of the facts concerning our little homemaking. eig t-thousand-miles-in-diameter globe, The mother of Jane; queer perhaps, but Now as rest is a part of my daily pro- has ome a wealth of investigation and a hard-working, kindhearted woman. Yes, gram, and I had had a dull headache all rese rch into all the natural wonders of I was going with her regardless of what the morning, I curled up on the couch, the orld,—into chemistry and medicine, anyone said or thought. So I left a note for closed my eyes, and wondered what it astr nomy and physics, psychology and the family, changed my gown, and soon would be like to be able to do all the things mat ematics. How lengthy and how in- was on my way, our destination being an I wanted to do in one day, and not be tired. institution for feeble-minded girls, in the spiri g is the chronicle of the last cen- As usual, just as I was fixed all comfy, a tury inventions! Vulcanized rubber, northern part of the state, located on a bell rang. This time it was the phone, and sightly hill, away out in the country. the s wing machine, the electric locomo- instead of the so often, "Wrong number, After we got our pass, we walked to the tive, the typewriter, celluloid, the tele- excuse it, please," a voice which I had not building to which we had been directed, pho e, the phonograph, electric welding, heard for some weeks asked, "Going to be passing several groups of girls and young the candescent light, the arc lamp, the busy this afternoon?" women, scattered here and there over the foun aM pen, the trolley car, the linotype, "Nothing special," I answered, "why ?" extensive lawns and playgrounds. Some- the onotype, the adding machine, the "I am going to take up a few things to thing, we were told, was the matter with inter al-combustion engine, the motion- Jane," the voice continued. "I heard you all of them, and my heart ached as I pictu e machine, the automobile, the air- say once that years ago you used to visit an watched them. A young woman in one of plane the radio,—all these were un- aunt who lived there. Thought perhaps the swings was singing at the top of her kno , and most of them unthought of, you would like to ride up with me, and see one h ndred years ago. Along with them voice, "Yes, Jesus loves me," over and over the changes that have been made." again. we m y mention other inventions, quite While my lips were saying I would enjoy well nown but not so benevolent,—the As we went up on to the porch, the door armo d warship, the submarine, the ma- was opened by a nurse, who locked it chine un, the depth bomb, the dirigible again after we were inside the small recep- torpe o, smokeless powder, poisonous tion room where Jane was waiting for us, gases. The minute she saw us she began to cry Wi our remarkable inventions, ea- and tremble. Throwing her arms around pablefare a f adding so much to human wel- her mother, she sobbed, "Take me home, d comfort, this world might in- take me home. I cannot stay here. I miss deed b come a paradise, if only universal you and papa so much, take me home, ation and international harmony mamma." co-opecould e attained. But here is our great Although the nurse stood just outside failure. Our progress has been purely the door where she could hear every word, materi 1. Of spiritual advancement there she did not come into the room as the (Continued on page 15) (Continued on page 14) a Ten SIGNS of the TIMES Another installment of Mr. Bellah's "Mine heritage is unto Me as illuminating studies on "Familiar a speckled bird." and Unfamiliar Texts" Jeremiah 12:9.

SPECKLED BIRDS

By CHARLES G. BELLAH

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INE heritage is unto Me as a When Redwald, king of 'L'zreturn only after nightfall- speckled bird, the birds round about are Kent, embraced Christianity, But the Lord has told us that against her." Jeremiah 12:9. In reading he was not sure that Christ we "may be found of Him in this rather strange text, one becomes curi- would prove stronger than peace, without spot, and ous to know why the Lord uses this eom- heathen gods, so he kept two blameless." 2 Peter 3:14. Then parison. In what way are His people like altars in his temple—a lar by and by He will have a speckled birds? Why are all the birds one dedicated to Christ, and a church, "not having spot, or against this one of strange colors? What small one dedicated to pagan wrinkle, or any such thing." are the spots, and what should the color gods. He thought that if Christ Ephesians 5:27. In labor for be to win God's approbation? should ever be overthrown, he the lost, we are to "save with This bird was probably neither black might still claim the protection n fear, pulling them out of the nor white, but black and white. It was of the heathen deities. How fire; hating even the garment the strange speckles that stigmatized her many nominal Christians today have an spotted by the flesh." Jude 23. We are to, among the species. This miserable, mac- altar in reserve, in some corner of the hate the whole garment because of even ulated motley of colors caused all the heart, and are undecided which to fol- one spot. mischief. Evidently it was the unfamil- low! Speckled birds. Spotted people who lived near the ark iar and peculiar color that caused the An old story relates how the beasts in Noah's day found themselves outside feathered tribe to be against her. Doubt- and birds fought; the feathered tribe on when the massive door closed. The less she was the only speckled bird in the one side, and the furry tribe on the other. speckled priests, Hophni and Phinehas, forest. But the leathery-winged bat waited to see were slain when the ark of God was I fear there are many speckled birds in how the struggle would go, before tak- taken by the Philistines. Achan tried the God's flock today. Not altogether good, ing sides. Finally the birds were win- speckled life, and was buried under a and yet not wholly bad. Clean in the ning. The bat wished to join them, stat- heap of stones in the valley of Achor. main, we say, yet corrupt in minor mat- ing that since he had wings, he must be Jonah's mottled half-heartedness landed ters. Neither genuine saints, nor great a bird. But the tide turned, and he went him in the whale's belly. Judas, the sinners. Medium in goodness, and medi- to the other side, stating that since he had speckled disciple, at last dangled at the ocre in badness. Resolving to do well, fur, and four feet, he was an animal. But end of the suicide's rope. Ananias and yet repeatedly doing ill. An otherwise his conduct so displeased everyone that Sapphira tried this mischievous mixture, white life, spotted and spoiled by some neither side would own him, and both and were carried out and buried side by cherished evil habit. cast him out. And ever since, he can side. Ancient Israel had its mixed multitude. Dear reader, when we keep our gar- And since ancient Israel was a type of ments "always white," the promise is, modern Israel, need we be surprised to "Then shalt thou lift up thy face without find the mottled mob today? Time does spot." Ecclesiastes 9:8; Job 11 :15. Re- not seem to terminate the troublesome Life's Poem member that Christ, the "Lamb without tribe. The marriage of Egyptians with LOIS EVANS-HANSEN blemish and without spot," "offered Israelites produced a lot of half-hearted Himself without spot to God." r Peter half-breeds, going halfway in religion, The words that poets use she could not say 1:19; Hebrews 9:14. And He did it for leaving the land of the Pharaohs, yet not To tell the thoughts of, beauty in her mind; us. What are you willing to do for Him? reaching the Land of Promise. The phrases full of power and majesty Her seeking heart could never seem to find. The dress of those in heaven will be When the king of Assyria planted all white. Not even one stain of sin will strangers in Samaria, "they feared the And so she tried, in doing kindly deeds, soil the fair robes of the Yonderland. Lord, and served their own gods." 2 In giving flowers to starved-for-beauty souls, And not only that, but there will be no Kings 17:33. And in the days of Nehe- Or singing, from the fullness of her heart, mourning apparel. No black band on miah, the Jews intermarried with the Or helping others reach their highest goals. the arm, black veil for the face, or black people of Ashdod. And, as a conse She tried, in doing every day these deeds, strip for the hat. Bereavements have been quence, "their children spake half in the To recompense herself for that which she banished, sorrow has been soothed, and speech of Ashdod," and half in the He- had not; tears are dried away. Then, in white brew. Nehemiah 13:24. They blew both God did not give her power to put in words robes, we shall stand without fear before hot and cold, trying to hold on to the The poems that each day she acted out. the great white throne of God, and wor- Lord with one hand and the world with ship the One who has given us of His the other. own spotless purity. Will you be there? for FEBRUARY 1, 1938 Page Eleven 1. To what does the word "millen- "The Lord Himself shall descend ium" refer? LESSON 4 from heaven with a shout, with the voice To the one thousand years of Revela- of the Archangel, and with the trump of CONDUCTED BY on 20. God : and the dead in Christ shall rise first." 1 Thessalonians 4:16. Norm.—The word "millennium" JOHN L. SHULER c rnes from two Latin words, Nom.—As the righteous dead are hich means "one thousand," and annus, raised at the second advent of Christ, this ear." It means one thousand years. THE MILLENNIUM proves that it will be the coming of Christ he word "millennium" itself is not to gather His saints that will mark the f. and in the Bible. But the expression "a last day of this present Christian age, and ousand years," which is equivalent to Since it is the "holy," or the righteous, the beginning of the millennial age, or word "millennium," is used six times who have part in the first resurrection, the one-thousand-year period of Revela- in Revelation 20:2-7. In order to under- it is the wicked who will be raised in the tion zo. The coming of Christ is pre- st nd the millennium, we must first learn second resurrection. By contrast it is im- millennial. w en this one thousand years will begin. plied that unholy and cursed is he that There will be four groups of people to hath part in the second resurrection. be dealt with at the second coming of . How many general resurrec- Christ—the righteous and the wicked tio s are there in God's plan for the 4. When will the rest of the dead or the wicked ones be brought to life? who will have died up to that last day, hu an family? and the righteous and the wicked who arvel not at this: for the hour is "As for the rest of the dead, they did will be living on the earth when Jesus co 'ng, in the which all that are in the not come to life until the thousand years comes. The Scriptures plainly reveal gra es shall hear His voice, and shall were completed." Revelation 20:5, Mof- what will happen to each of these groups co e forth; they that have done good, fatt's translation. at the appearing of Christ. All the right- unt the resurrection of life; and they NOTE.—Since the Scripture expressly eous dead will rise from the grave with tha have done evil, unto the resurrection declares that it is the righteous' who are immortal bodies, while the righteous liv- of mnation." John 5:28, 29. raised in the first resurrection, there is ing will be changed in the twinkling of 3 What class of people will be nobody left to come up in the next resur- an eye from mortality to immortality. rais d in the first resurrection? rection except the wicked. So "the rest of Corinthians 15:51-54. Then both of these the dead" in Revelation 20:5 cannot mean righteous groups are caught up from the essed and holy is he that hath part anybody else except the wicked. These earth to meet the descending Lord in the in th first resurrection." Revelation 20 :6. unrighteous ones are not raised from the air. 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17. N rE.—The very use of the expression, dead until the thousand years are fin- 6. Where will all the righteous go "the rst resurrection," shows that there ished. when Jesus comes? will ae two general resurrections. The millennium then is that one-thou- W en a man points to a certain house sand-year period between the two resur- "If I go and prepare a place for you, I and ays, "There is the first house. I rections. It begins with the raising of the will come again, and receive you unto built,' I understand that somewhere else righteous in the first resurrection and Myself; that where I am, there ye may there must be a second house that he closes with the calling forth of the wicked be also." John 14:3. built. If he had built only one house, he in the second resurrection. Nom.—All the righteous are taken to woul • have said, "There is the house I 5. Do the Scriptures reveal when the prepared mansions in heaven at the built." So this expression, "the first resur- this resurrection of the righteous coming of Jesus. They will reign with rectio ," implies that there will be a sec- which marks the beginning of this Christ in heaven during this one thou- ond r urrection. one thousand years will take place? sand years. This millennial reign of the ALL THE ALL THE RIGHTEOUS w,cRED GH DEAD RAISED lye He 1.113k DEAD RA SED SUR,i'e0 1 scpro, eAr' CST pryo `P` C.C)0%N't 6E) 45ik) 0'1 es> 95` 0 4()t NoV,/;:, u as es 6'4 FS' O

END 1000 YEARS BETWEEN THE TWO RESURRECTIONS • THE OF THE ON DESOLATE EARTH -SATAN ALONE WITH THE WICKED DEAD •• NEW WORLD IN HEAVEN -•• SAINTS ASSIST IN JUDGMENT OF WICKED• EARTH

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saints, with Christ could not possibly be 1' entire period in this dark, desolate, unin- on this earth, because there will not be a TEST QUESTIONS habited earth which is spoken of figura- single righteous person left on the earth When you have mastered this lesson you tively as "the bottomless pit." will know the answers to the following im- I The Scriptures make it clear that the after the one thousand years begin. The portant questions: righteous, spend the millennium in 1. What chapter in the Bible tells about expression "bottomless pit," or, as given the millennium? in the original, "abyssos," or abyss, is used heaven. At the very beginning of this 2. What is the meaning of the word "mil- period they are taken to that heavenly lennium"? to represent the earth in a condition of 3. How many times is this one thousand -1 place that Christ has prepared for them. years mentioned in Revelation 20? utter destruction. We read in Genesis 4. What two texts prove that there will 1:2 that in the beginning, before life 7. What will happen to the living be two general resurrections? existed upon the earth, it "was without wicked when Jesus comes at the be- How can we prove that the resurrec- tion of the righteous will mark the begin- ; form, and void; and darkness was upon ginning of the one thousand years? ning of the millennium and that the resurrec- tion of the wicked will mark its close? the face of the deep." The Greek word "The slain of the Lord shall be at that 6. When will the first resurrection occur? "abyssos," translated in Revelation 2o:1 IV 7. Tell in four sentences what will happen day from one end of the earth even unto to the entire human family when Christ ap- "bottomless pit," is the same word that the other end of the earth: they shall not, pears. 3. How do we know that the millennial - is used in the Septuagint translation of be lamented, neither gathered, nor bur- reign of the Saints with Christ will not, and j- Genesis :2, and which is rendered ied; they shall be dung upon the ground." cannot, be on this earth? 4. By what is the devil bound during the I "deep" in the King James Version. Jeremiah 25:33. one thousand years? 5. What will loose him for a little season 9. Will there be any chance for sin- NoTE.-The living wicked will be at the close? ners to be saved during this one thou- 6. How do we know that the bottomless stricken dead by the consuming fire of pit in which Satan is confined is the deso- sand years when Satan is bound? Christ's glory. 2 Thessalonians 2:7, 8; lated earth? 7. What proves that there will be no 1 "But the rest of the dead lived not Luke 17:26-3o. All the wicked who will second chance for sinners to be saved during have died before Jesus comes will remain the one thousand years? again until the thousand years were fin- 8. What are the five great events that will a ished." Revelation 20:5. dead until the end of the one thousand happen at the close of the millennium? years. Revelation 20:5. 9. How is the earth affected? NOTE.-It will be impossible for any of 8. Who will populate the earth when the I The earth will be uninhabited during last battle takes place? the wicked to hear the gospel and be saved 9. On which side will you be found? the millennium. At the beginning of this 10. How do you plan to spend the millen- during this one thousand years, because period all the righteous are taken to nium? they will all be dead. There is no such 11. How can we tell who is on the Lord's heaven at the coming of Christ. The side today? 1 John 2:3, 4. thing as any second opportunity for any- living wicked will be struck dead by His 12. On whose side must we choose to body during the millennium. All chance stand now, if we are found on God's side in presence, and will lie here unburied on this last great battle? for sinners to be saved is forever closed the earth. The earth will then be emptied NOTE.-For further information concern- shortly before Jesus makes His second ing this subject, read the books, "Return of of its inhabitants, as Isaiah predicted. Jesus," "Our Times and Their Meaning," advent, at the beginning of this one thou- Isaiah 24:1. "Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation," sand years. Revelation 22:11, 12. and "Two Great Prophecies." This one thousand years will be the 10. What change is made in Sa- time of which Jeremiah prophesied, tan's condition at the close of the one when all the cities of the earth had been thousand years? broken down at the presence of the Lord, is everlastingly destroyed. The facts we and the whole land was desolate and have already learned help us to clearly "And when the thousand years are ex- "there was no man." Jeremiah 4:23-27. understand this matter. Christ binds the pired, Satan shall be loosed out of his This will be the time of which Isaiah devil by taking the righteous to heaven prison." Revelation 20:7. wrote when he said the cities would be at His coming and by slaying the living Nom.-At the close of the one thou- "wasted .without inhabitant, and the wicked. This leaves the devil without sand years, Christ, accompanied by His houses without man, and the land be any subjects to work upon. saints, comes to the earth again (Zecha- utterly desolate." Isaiah 6:ii. This During this one thousand years, he riah 14:4, 5) to execute judgment upon dreary desolate earth will be the prison cannot tempt the righteous, because they the wicked (Jude 14, 15) and to prepare in which Satan will be confined during are safe in heaven beyond his reach; he the earth, by a re-creation, for the eternal the one thousand years. The idea that cannot deceive the wicked because they abode of the righteous. The New Jerusa- the millennium will be a great time of are all dead. He is bound during this lem, which is now in the third heaven (2 spiritual revival, peace, and prosperity in the earth is not true, being entirely with- out foundation in the Scriptures. Coming 'Next Week 8. What will be Satan's condition during the one thousand years? In addition to the regular features:

"He laid hold on the dragon, that old Why Does God Permit Suffering) JOHN A. MCMILLAN serpent, which is the devil, and Satan, The answer to an age-old problem and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut The Mystery of the Seven Seals CARLYLE B. HAYNES him up, and set a seal upon him, that he Beginning a series of absorbing articles on one of the most fascinating should deceive the nations no more, till prophecies of the Bible. the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little Shall We Ever See a Crime-Free World R. F. COTTRELL season." Revelation 20:2, 3. Tragic facts about crime in America. Nom.-Something is to happen at the Mothering Men CHARLES G. BELLAH beginning of this one thousand years that will make the devil a prisoner bound What and Where Is HeaVen) JOHN L. SMILER during this period; and at the close of Strength for Every Need 1, LEONORA L. WARRINER this millennium something will happen to loose him for a short season before he for FEBRUARY 1, 1938 Page Thirteen Corinthians 12:1-4; Revelation 2:7), will Coal Confirms the Flood escend to the earth (Revelation 21:2). (Continued from page 5) he wicked dead of all ages will awake ing of the mountains as simultaneous o life in the second resurrection. This Advocating a return to the simple with the Flood. This leads to the con- gospel of Christ. and• a preparation s what looses the devil for a little season, ception that the same earth-crustal con- for His imminent second appearing ecause he immediately resumes his tortions which heaved up the ocean bot- ork of deception upon those resurrected toms may have caused the down sinking EDITOR: ARTHUR S. MAXWELL icked. Once again Satan has subjects to of the lands, at least certain areas, into ASSOCIATE EDITOR: G. DALRYMPLE EDITOR EMERITUS: A. 0. TAIT ork upon. which the raw coal material was 11. As soon as the wicked are dumped. 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FERREN, Circulation Manager attle? causes and action of glacial ice,—all these They will attempt to capture the New and more, when considered as acting at one time and together, form an appar- and men blasphemed God because of J rusalem, the capital of God's kingdom, the plague of the hail; for the plague hich will then be resting upon the earth ently harmonious whole which is com- pelling in its reality. thereof was exceeding great." i a prepared spot. Revelation 21:2; Those of us who have been witnesses echariah 14:1-4. But even in these short studies on coal, has not enough been brought to light to of the results of modern warfare and the 13. What will 'be the outcome of warn humble hearts against modern un- casting down of groups of bombs from titan's final stand against Christ? belief? Shall we not renew our faith in flying planes can to some extent visualize the Bible as the word of God? what a terrible day it will be when, as a "They went up on the breadth of the result of the anger in the heart of nations e. rth, and compassed the camp of the against each other, the Lord will finally s ints about, and the beloved city: and Catastrophes terminate the existence of sin and sin- from God out of heaven, fi e came down (Continued from page 7) ners, and will cause to fall upon all peo- devoured them." Revelation 20:9. a d As to the judgments that the Lord ples as it were a hail of bombs, of huge 14. When this fire has completely will bring upon the nations that have size, so that no place shall escape. d stroyed the devil and all the set out to destroy the earth and its peo- As we think of the terrors of the days icked, and purified the earth from ples, we find them vividly described in before us, how comforting are the prom- si what will the Lord make? the last four verses of the sixteenth chap- ises of divine protection for the redeemed, ter of Revelation: "There were voices, and the knowledge that deliverance from new heaven and a new earth: `I saw a and thunders, and lightnings; and there all evil is coming soon at the second ad- fo the first heaven and the first earth was a great earthquake, such as was not vent of the Lord. It adds fresh signifi- and there was no w -re passed away; since men were upon the earth, so mighty cance to His cheering promise, "Surely I m re sea." Revelation 21:1. an earthquake, and so great. And the come quickly," and causes all His people om.—After sin' and sinners are de- great city was divided into three parts, to utter with renewed earnestness and s oyed by everlasting fire, God will re- and the cities of the nations fell: and devotion, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus." co struct or renew the earth into a per- great Babylon came in remembrance be- Revelation 22:20. fei t, sinl6s Paradise, with the New Jeru- fore God, to give unto her the cup of the sa em for its capital and center. This will wine of the fierceness of His wrath. And be the eternal abode of the saints. Then every island fled away, and the moun- The Abomination th righteous will reign forever on this tains were not found. And there fell (Continued from page 10) ea th under Christ as King of kings. upon men a great hail out of heaven, mother explained to Jane she could not Re elation 21; 22:1-5. every stone about the weight of a talent: take her home until the authorities gave permission. After a little Jane stopped her CUT HERE violent crying; then her mother gave her- the things she had brought with her,— FILL IN MAIL TODAY dresses, a coat, a sweater, stockings and undies, candy, ice cream, and fruit. Circulation Dept., PACIFIC PRESS Date We stayed until visiting hours were over. ountain View, California As I stood near the door waiting for the PLEASE send the SIGNS OF THE TIMES for one mother, who had stepped out to speak to ear to the following address. I enclose $1.5o ($2.00 in Canada and foreign). a nurse, Jane turned her tear-stained face to me, stretched out her stunted, deformed ame hand, and said, "Why do you stand so far ddress away from me? Come closer, come closer." Then my proud heart broke and the tears came. I went closer. I put my arms around

Page Fourteen SIGNS of the TIMES Jane's trembling body, and kissed that tear- inference, a subtle suggestion that the dis- stained face. "Come again,—soon I" she tilling interests have not always adhered sobbed as she laid her head on my shoulder. strictly to truth? But, mind you, even the As I held tight that little form, I prayed brewers do not promise to tell all the truth two prayers: First, that God would be about beer. If they did, they would be The HOUR o f merciful to me a sinner, and second that I obliged to warn the public that, as a French physician, Dr. Bergeron, has stated: "The might be spared to use my pen and voice moderate use of fermented drinks (which DESTINY in helping the public to realize the enormity include beer) carries with it the danger of of its seeming indifference to the preven- immoderate use. The light exhilaration of tion of feeble-minded girls bringing others the brain produced by alcohol is a pleasant of the same kind into the world. Some- sensation which once experienced leads to thing should be done about it soon. a desire for its repetition. Precisely there The ride home in the twilight was very lies the danger, for this light mental excita- quiet. Our hearts were too full for words. tion, not very dangerous in itself, is, after Once ,the mother said softly, as though to all, the first stage of drunkenness, and that herself, "I prayed that Jane would die when stage overstepped, the man, drawn on by an unobserved decline, passes quickly from the baby was born, but it was not to be," occasional intoxication to habitual drunken- then she lapsed into silence again, while I, ness." I—, who that morning had given thanks The brewers state that they are convinced because I knew I was not an abomination, that beer is the nation's "bulwark of model, came home realizing that I was one after ation and sobriety." Cora Frances Stoddard all. W. M. points with certainty to one of the dangers of beer when she states in "Massachusetts' Experience With Exempting Beer" that a Brewers Failed to Tell superintendent of an inebriates' home main- The (Ccnztinued from page 7) tains that "beer was an unqualifiedly hin- school, there were twenty-eight saloons dering cause in the thorough reform of within the proscribed limit. But the inebriates. A large proportion of back- HOUR of brewers assure us that all this is past; they sliders stumble over these light drinks who By GWYNNE DALRYMPLE have given us their pledge that hereafter would hesitate long before they would dare they will be a law-abiding lot. Time will meddle with the stronger liquors." Join to The nations of the East are tell. this statement Dr. Walter Miles' often- aroused. Have you followed The shortest of the eight pledges states quoted assertion that "there is no longer their history for the past few that the brewers pledge themselves to truth room for doubt in reference to the toxic years? Are you following the in the advertising of beer. Is there here, by action of alcoholic beverages as weak as present conflict between Ja- 2.75 per cent by weight; and we cannot pan and China? Have you agree that beer, which today has a higher noticed that alcoholic content than that, is a safe bul- —Japan is intensively building up wark as a national beverage." a military machine strong enough THE SLAVE BOY Some of us still maintain that we prefer to challenge any nation in the WHO BECAME GOVERNOR milk. world? —China—a nation that has been exploited for centuries—is at- L. ONG, long ago, a little boy lived in The Age of Marvels tempting to defend her rights? a tent home with his father. They were' (Continued from page 10) —India is restless? Will a leader sad and lonely, for the little boy's has been, on the part of many millions, arise able to organize India's mil- mother had died. none. Though we live in the twentieth lions into one national unit? The little boy's father told stories,— century, we still think in the eighth —Russia already has built a mili- stories about things that happened and ninth. Hatred and rivalry, ambition tary machine second to none, when he was young, stories about the and the thirst for luxury and cheap pleas- highly trained, and ready for.war? little boy's grandfather and grand- ure, still deform as many lives as ever All these things have a tremen- mother. dous meaning. Do you know what they did in the days of decadent Rome. they portend? Night after night the little boy listened What is the remedy? We know of but to these stories, and he knew that one; and that is the promise of our Sav- every one was true. They seemed The HOUR of DESTINY wonderful to him. iour, "I will come again." John 14:3. Not in our marvelous science, not in our is a well-written presentation of Your boys and girls, too, will surely this subject. In spite of ominous want to listen to these stories. They phenomenal inventiveness, but in the re- signs of approaching war, the will also enjoy the stories about the turn of Jesus is the only hope of salva- author guides the reader to a hap- strange things that happened to this tion. And the very facts that His gospel pier solution, and offers proof for little boy,—how he became a slave, is now being preached to all the world, his conclusions. Your book is then a prophet, then a governor, and ready. You will want to read it. that many are running to and fro, and Order it today. the greatest man in the country. that knowledge is being everywhere in- So be sure to order your copy of "The creased, are signs to warn us that His 96 pages, illustrated. 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JOHN ADAMS: "I have examined all, BENJAMIN HARRISON: "It is out of the as well as my narrow sphere, my strait- word of God that a system has come to ened means, and my busy life would make life sweet. If you blot out your allow me, and the result is, that the Bible statute book, your Constitution, your is the best book in the world." family life, all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left IOHN QUINCY ADAMS: "So great is to bind society together?" my veneration for the Bible that the PATRICK HENRY: "There is a Book earlier my children begin to read it, the worth all other books which were ever more confident will be my hope that printed." they will prove useful citizens to their country, and respectable members of so- What Noted People Have THOMAS H. HUXLEY: "I hold to the ciety." Bible as a great educator. It is an un- Said About the Bible questioned fact that for the last three MATTHEW ARNOLD: "To the Bible centuries this Book has been woven into men will return, and why? Because Compiled by the all that is best and noblest in English they cannot do without it." NEW YORK BIBLE SOCIETY literature and history." EDMUND BURKE: "The Bible is not a ANDREW JACKSON: "That Book is book but a literature and indeed an in- the rock on which the Republic stands." finite collection of the most varied and EUGENE FIELD: "I would not now ex- the most venerable literature." change for any amount of money the ROBERT E. LEE: "The Bible is a bhok acquaintance with the Bible that was in comparison with which all others in THOMAS CARLYLEi "A noble book! drummed into me when a boy." my eyes are of minor importance, and All men's book, the bible. It is our first,' which in all my perplexities and dis- oldest statement of the never-ending JAMES A. FROUDE: "The Bible thor- tresses has never failed to give me light problem—man's destiny and God's ways oughly known is a literature of itself— and strength." with him here on earth." the rarest and richest in all departments ABRAHAM LINCOLN: of thought or imagination which exists." "In regard to the S. T. COLERIDGE: "For more than a great Book I have only to say, it is the thousand years the Bible, collectively CARDINAL GIBBONS: "It is a sacred best Book God has given man. All the taken, has gone hand in hand with civi- duty to hear and devoutly read the word good from the Saviour of the world is lization, science, law—in short, with the of God." communicated in this Book." moral and intellectual cultivation of the WILLIAM GLADSTONE: species, always supporting and often "Of ninety- LUTHER (1483-1546): "Would that this leading the way." five great men I have known, eighty- one Book were in every language, in seven have been followers of the Bible." every land, before the eyes, and in the CALVIN COOLIDGE: "There is no ears and hearts of all men! Scripture J. W. von GOETHE: "It is a belief in the other book with which the Bible can be without any comment is the sun whence Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, compared and no other reading that all teachers receive their light." which has served me as the guide of my means so much to the human race. It is moral and literary life. I have found it WILLIAM McKINLEY: the support of the strong and the con- "The more pro- a capital safely invested, and richly pro- solation of the weak, the dependence of foundly we study this wonderful Book, ductive of interest." organized government and the founda- and the more closely we observe its di- vine precepts, the better citizens we will tion of religion." U. S. GRANT: "Hold fast to the Bible become and the higher will be our des- as the sheet anchor to your liberties, JOSEPH H. CHOATE: "The Bible is the tiny as a nation." write its precepts upon your hearts, and only book for thinkers, readers, scholars, practice them in your lives. To the in- JOHN MILTON: "There are no songs speakers, men, women, and children; if fluence of this Book we are indebted for comparable to the songs of Zion, no ora- we can have only one book, oh save us all progress made in our civilization, tions equal to those of the prophets, and that." and to this we must look as our guide in no politics like those which the Scrip- ERASMUS (1466-1536): "I wish these the future." tures teach." (the Scriptures) were translated into all HORACE GREELEY: "It is impossible to JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: "Its light is languages, so that they might be read mentally or socially enslave a Bible- like the body of heaven in its clearness; and understood, not only by Scots and reading people. The principles of the its vastness like the bosom of the sea; its Irishmen, but also by Turks and Sara- Bible are the groundwork of human variety like scenes of nature." cens—I long that the husbandman freedom." should sing portions of them to himself THEODORE PARKER: "Some thousand as he follows the plow, and that the HENRY HALLAM: "I see that the Bible famous writers come up in this century weaver should hum them to the tune of fits into every fold and crevice of the to be forgotten in the next. But the silver his shuttle, that the traveler should be- human heart. I am a man, and I believe cord of the Bible is not loosed, nor its guile with these stories the tedium of that this is God's book because it is man's golden bowl broken, though time chron- his journey." book." icles his tens of centuries passed by." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "Young man, THOMAS JEFFERSON: "I have always WHAT THE BIBLE "For the proph- my advice to you is, that you cultivate an said, and always will say, that the studi- SAYS ABOUT ITSELF: ecy came not in acquaintance with, and a firm belief in, ous perusal of the Sacred Volume will old time by the will of man: but holy the Holy Scriptures. This is your certain make better citizens, better fathers, and men of God spake as they were moved interest." better husbands." by the Holy Ghost." 2 Peter 1:21.

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